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A: Eating is properly is the most important part of Bodybuilding. Remember diet is 80% of the battle. So you have to make sure your diet is loaded with all essential Vitamins, Protein and minerals. If you want to grow more muscle and recover than eating properly is the only way to get and to maintain good health and for recovery, because if there is no recovery there will be no gains! It is important to make sure you take in enough protein because that is the ingredient that helps repair muscle tissue after exercise, helps recovery and the most important it helps you grow more lean Muscle Mass.
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Bill, could you tell our readers about the importance of the Philadelphia region to you? A: First I have to say I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t realize how close Philadelphia was to Atlantic City, about 45 minutes. I live in North Jersey which is about two hours from Atlantic City. I promote another show in Allentown, Pennsylvania called the Bill Grant-Sportsfest Classic which my head Judge Todd Howe is helping me promote my current show in Atlantic City along with Danny Trammell of FIT Gym, both of which are from Philadelphia. FIT Gym is also a sponsor of this event. They educated me about how close Philadelphia was to Atlantic City. Philadelphia also has a lot of sports fans and Bodybuilding enthusiasts who really support Bodybuilding. So strategically if you are doing an event in Atlantic City, Philadelphia with all the great gyms and fans of Bodybuilding, stands to reason that you would spend some time in Philadelphia to promote your event. I also have to tell you those Philly Cheese Steak Sandwiches will keep you coming back time and time again. Philadelphia is truly the City of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Brotherly Loveâ&#x20AC;?.
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A: The road to being a Mr, America and Mr. World was not a smooth one for me but the journey has been Fantastic. The Opportunity to Live the Dream. I started lifting Weights Seriously when I was 14 years old that was in 1960. When I was 14 I was the smallest kid in my High School weighing only 110lbs soaking wet and standing only 4â&#x20AC;&#x2122;9â&#x20AC;?. Back then I used to read the popular comic books such as Superman, Batman etc. and I used to collect those books. Well in the back of the books they had ads about Charles Atlas. Yes Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; m that kid who kicked the chair when he looked in the mirror at that skinny looking physique. Of course I sent in for them. I followed them to the letter but not much progress was made. I was so tired of being picked on and having my sisters and my friend around the corner from me ďŹ ght my battles. I can remember when I went to the movies to see my ďŹ rst Bodybuilding movie starring none other than the Great Steve Reeves in the movie Hercules. This guy was awesome and inspiring that I just had to get a body like that. I doubled my efforts to getting myself more muscles on this skinny frame. I think I have to let everyone know that back in the day we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a lot of gyms and the good Clubs where way out of my price range. I used to train where ever I could, in my Bedroom, in the basement, in backyards, attics. Training on wooden benches leg pressing on wooden Leg presses. I did what ever took to get there. I remember joining the YMCA back in the day the membership was only $25.00 a year very affordable for me at the time. Fast forwarding I can remember when I met the guy who I have to say really changed my life. His name was Randy Coyle. He took me under his wing and boy did I start growing muscle. I have to say this guy was way ahead of his time as far as bodybuilding was concerned. Because at this point I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really gain mush weight. Under Randyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s guidance I gained about 25lbs in about 4 months what a banner time for me. I have to say the rest was History.
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t’s not our usual policy to comment on the doings of Philadelphia Weekly — for much the same reason you don’t punch a guy in a wheelchair — but we’re going to make an exception: We can’t stop staring at last week’s cover image. Yeah, we know, that’s exactly what they want. Sex sells, sexual “oddities” more so, and the stock image that graced PW’s cover — the back of a man’s hairy legs with a delicate thong dangling around his ankles and red kitten heels on his feet as he stands in front of a urinal — exists only to grab our eyes. Same with the cutesy headline, “Sex Marks the Spot.” From the street, should you have peered into PW’s yellow honor boxes, you might have thought their cover story is about the sex lives of drag queens, or unprotected sex in bathroom stalls, or transvestite prostitution, or something. And that’s the point. The story itself is considerably less salacious: PennDOT no longer requires transgendered persons to undergo sex-reassignment surgery to change their gender on driver’s licenses and ID cards. It’s a fine read. And we’ll assume writer Randy LoBasso had nothing to do with this cover image: First, because this thing strikes us as one of those 11th-hour calls that happen when poor planning, bad judgment and blown budgets meet; and more importantly, if LoBasso has done even a bit of research on trans issues — and the story suggests he has — he knows that the words transsexual, transgender and transvestite are not interchangeable. In case you don’t know: A transvestite is a cross-
dresser; a transgendered person does not identify with his or her born gender; and a transsexual person is a transgendered person who has undergone gender-reassignment surgery. PW’s image is of a transvestite; the story is about transgendered people. They’re not the same.Also, a male-to-female transgendered person, someone who identifies as a woman despite being born with a penis, might wear a thong and heels, sure, but she would also likely shave her legs and use a women’s bathroom. To be technical, she would also pee sitting down. But illogic aside, what’s infuriating is how lazy this image is — and the fact that the media too frequently take the easy road when covering LGBTQ issues. Here PW has reduced the very complicated, often painful social, psychological and emotional issues of gender identity to a visual joke about where one puts one’s dick. It’s completely thoughtless; we can only imagine how members of this already marginalized group must feel when they see this schlock. People all too often assume that all trans people are prostitutes, anyway. This cover only feeds the ignorance and perpetuates the stereotypes. Of course, PW has been all about the frat-boy yuks lately: Their mentions of the bars black people shouldn’t go into and the column about getting a handjob in a Chinatown massage parlor come to mind. Trust us, guys, we get it: Times are tough in this business, and the temptation to discard whatever shreds of dignity you have left to get a few extra clicks on your website is ever-present. And yeah, we admit, we, too, can be potty-mouthed, and, yes, we’ve surely offended our share of people (though we’d like to think there’s usually a point to our provocation beyond comment-baiting).
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But, listen, PW, you’re supposed to be agitating in the public interest, not crafting in-jokes for the Friday-night bong circle. Especially when you’re dealing with issues as misunderstood as LGBTQ, and in light of that Rutgers freshman who was outed on the Internet and took his own life on Sept. 22, a few days before you went to press. You know that gay and lesbian and bi and trans kids are still being picked on — and still dying — simply because of who they are. They deserve more than the lowest common denominator, more than having their struggles treated as a petty visual guffaw because you’re too cheap and/or uncreative to draw attention through anything other than an appeal to our basest instincts. Have some respect for that. This isn’t a fucking game.
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lets local governments charge 12 1/2 cents per page to allow the public to look at — just freaking look at — their records. Want to scope out, say, the city’s contracts with its unions, or maybe the Internal Affairs files of dirty cops? Bring your checkbook:Those things can run into the hundreds of pages. Now, there are parts of S.B. 1469 that aren’t terrifying, like a provision that would require governments to hand over their records in the format requested — always e-mail! — and another that expands access to documents drafted for public meetings.But the rest of it is noxious, and needs to go: The last thing this state needs is a weakened public records law. Then there’s House Bill 1667, another affront to the Right-toKnow law. This proposal would exempt government employees’ home addresses and dates of birth from public records. Why would the media need to see people’s addresses or DOBs? To steal identities, of course. Just kidding: They’re actually crucial in sorting out people with the same names. As Deborah Musselman, director of government affairs at PNA, explains, “Eliminating these identifiers from public view could result in an innocent person being wrongly associated with criminal case records.” You’ll be shocked, no doubt, to learn that there hasn’t been a single public meeting about either of these bills. And that’s pretty much the epitome of a non-open government, right?
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GOVERNMENT IN THE SUNSHINE Last we checked, fire departments were part of the government, meaning their records are our — as in, the public’s — records. And yet, on Tuesday the state Senate passed S.B. 1469 — unanimously, and without debate — exempting fire and rescue company records from disclosure under Pennsylvania’s Right-to-Know Act. Funny enough, this proposal, now headed to the state House, coincides nicely with the Philly Fire Department’s recent rolling brownouts and budget cuts — which some have blamed on the death of a 12-year-old autistic boy, among other troubles. Just when we need more oversight of a government agency, the state is wrestling it from us. Perfect timing, right? There’s more: S.B. 1469 narrows the availability of the records maintained by government contractors that are performing, you know, work for the government. (The Pennsylvania Newspaper Association says that making this information available is “a major reason” why it considered the 2008 Right-to-Know law “an improve-
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Iv and his friends traded insults with a man on their block, they punched and stabbed him — though Iv didn’t do the stabbing — and ended up sending the man to the hospital. Iv was found guilty of aggravated assault, simple assault, criminal conspiracy and recklessly endangering another person, and served six years in prison. He doesn’t regret getting caught, but he does believe his crime should be viewed in a larger context; many Cambodian refugees grew up in poor, urban areas rife with crime and racial tension. “They put us right here in the hut, the ’hood,” he says. “But if I hadn’t been locked up, I would be in a worse situation. I haven’t been in trouble since.” Indeed, by most accounts, he’s wrestled down the elusive American dream: He earned his GED and a degree in fiber optics, opened his own business, and has a fiancee and two young children. “For kids, he’s a great example of someone who’s been able to reform,” says Kiernan. He probably won’t be for long: Iv is currently shackled in the York County Detention Center, awaiting deportation to Cambodia, a country he hasn’t seen since he was a toddler. That’s because in 1996, Congress passed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility and the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty acts, which made deportation mandatory for any immigrant who commits an “aggravated felony,” an opaque term that includes everything from non-violent drug offenses to tax evasion. (Prior to ’96, refugees and other legal immigrants were deportable only if they committed a crime with a sentence of five years or more.) The laws also rendered non-citizen immigrants ineligible for both forgiveness and individual consideration before the court, effectively disintegrating their right to due process. These laws went into effect two years before Iv committed his crime, but even then, Cambodians interviewed for the piece say few knew a guilty conviction could one day lead to deportation. After all,
“For kids, he’s a great example.”
took office, Cambodians thought things would be different. His campaign rhetoric boasted of “comprehensive immigration reform,” and he vowed to “reunite families” and allow “undocumented immigrants who are in good standing to pay a fine, learn English ... [and] become citizens.” Most of all, Obama gave Cambodians the impression that he would address immigration humanely — and they felt that, as refugees, this applied to them directly. By their count, the opposite happened. Since 2002, when Cambodia began accepting U.S. deportees again, 288 CambodianAmericans have been deported. (Though that may seem infinitessimal compared to, say, the 1.6 million Mexicans who’ve been deported during the same time, the total number of Cambodians in the U.S. is 247,000, whereas there are about 31 million Mexicans here.) ICE says that it has deported 30 Cambodian-Americans thus far in 2010, which puts it on pace to eclipse at least six of the last nine years. But by the end of 2010, that number may be exponentially higher: ICE’s data only captures deportees whose arrival in their native country has been confirmed, a process that sometimes takes months. Additionally, officials from the Cambodian consulate recently interviewed more than 200 Cambodian-Americans from around the nation in the York County Detention Center to gauge if they were eligible for deportation, activists say; previously, the highest number interviewed at a single time was 75, in 2006. >>> continued on page 12
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THE LAW IS THE LAW: Like Mout Iv, Chally Dang is also awaiting deportation in York, Pa., because of a past felony conviction. His son Marley, 3, is pictured here at an Aug. 30 rally at Independence Mall. VYREAK SOVANN
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In Philadelphia, where many Cambodians feel they’ve gotten off somewhat easy throughout the past decade in contrast to “Khmerican” hubs like Long Beach, Calif., immigration enforcement has especially increased. Most years, maybe one or two Cambodians were deported from the city — last year, none were — but seven have already been booted in 2010, and that doesn’t count Iv and at least four other local men awaiting deportation in York County. According to ICE, it’s nothing personal: Under Obama’s presidency, deportation of all populations is up in a major way. The department expects to deport 400,000 immigrants this fiscal year — that’s 10 percent more than the Bush administration deported in 2008, and 25 percent more than it did in 2007. Out of those, nearly half will be “criminal aliens,” as ICE refers to legal and illegal immigrants who have been convicted of crimes — also a record number. “There used to be a small trickle of deportations each year. I haven’t seen Cambodians getting rounded up in these substantial numbers until now,” says Steve Morley, Iv’s lawyer. “My guess is the current administration thinks it can sell immigration reform if it shows it can be aggressive in other areas, like deporting criminals.” Indeed, ridding the nation of criminals sounds like a lofty idea. But perhaps it’s not that simple. The vast majority of Cambodian refugees being deported are convicted criminals, and many transgressed as youth. Kiernan argues that because these refugees lived through the harrowing Khmer Rouge regime, “You had parents with very serious [post-traumatic stress disorder] who couldn’t be the parents they needed to be for their children, which is why a lot of the kids got involved in gang activity. Not to mention, they were settled into these neighborhoods that were already very troubled.” Says David Seng, a Cambodian activist and refugee who came here as a child, “America set up no support system for us. You started school in the U.S., you got beat up and chased around and looked at differently. So you grouped up to protect yourself. That led to gangs.” He adds that because the Khmer Rouge killed off so many men and intellectuals, countless Cambodian refugees grew up with single, poor mothers who barely spoke English.
Add up these compounding handicaps, and Cambodian-Americans have become “the greatest failure of the refugee program in this country,” Lavinia Limon, executive director of the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, told The New York Times in 2003. Compared to other refugee populations, they routinely come in last in social indicators like income level, literacy and employment. Many immigrant activists fault the U.S. for first admitting these refugees to broadcast the horrors of Communism, and then abandoning them after a brief, halfhearted introduction to a foreign land. Conservative groups, of course, see it differently. “We’re tired of America being blamed for everything,” says William Gheen, president of Americans for Legal Immigration.“The most important factor are the victims of these crimes: American citizens. Legal immigrants are our guests in America, and they need to abide by the law, or get removed.” But for local Cambodian-Americans, the fact that after all they’ve suffered, more of their mothers, sons and neighbors are now being deported — especially under an administration they believed in — “feels like death,” says Ria Cruz of Olney, whose husband, Chally Dang, is awaiting deportation in York.
“Abide by the law or get removed.”
³ FOR YEARS, THE Cambodian community held out for a law that
would exempt refugees from deportation — especially those who came here as children, committed a crime and then rehabilitated — to no avail. Now they’re just hoping for due process. But even that seems like a long shot. Under the 1996 laws, criminal refugees are not eligible for an individualized hearing before an immigration court, even with a recent Supreme Court ruling in their favor. This March, the court declared in Padilla v. Kentucky that lawyers must warn their clients that a guilty plea could lead to deportation. Immigration attorneys argue that prior to ’96, lawyers of Cambodian refugees couldn’t have possibly done this; in fact, until Cambodia began admitting deportees again in 2002, many lawyers were still giving inadequate advice. The ruling has done little for immigrants, however. Take Hov Ly Kol, a 35-year-old Cambodian who’s called South Philly home with his
single mother since he was 10. In August, he was deported for robbery charges to which he pleaded guilty in 1995. Since he was released in 2007, he’s “totally rehabilitated … . He [got] involved with volunteering with kids, tried to tell them not to make his mistakes,” says Seng. Kol’s lawyer fought for a stay of removal on the basis of Padilla v. Kentucky, among other rulings, but could barely get in touch with her client. According to Kol’s family, he was transferred to six different detention centers — from York, Pa., to Tacoma, Wash. — in the few weeks leading up to his Aug. 31 deportation. U.S. Rep. Bob Brady even lobbied for Kol, writing in a letter to ICE: “Due to … Padilla v. Kentucky, it is possible that Mr. Kol is eligible to file to reopen the criminal matter that serves as the basis for his order of deportation … [I] strongly encourage that steps be taken so as to preserve Mr. Kol’s right to due process of law. This would include staying his deportation for a reasonable period of time.” Even then, it wasn’t. “There needs to be a review mechanism,” says Morley, “where people like [Iv] can show that they’ve learned their lesson and have been good men not just for a few months, but for years and years after being released.” Perhaps because local Cambodians are beginning to see events that initially felt like victories — Padilla v. Kentucky, Obama’s presidency, the empathy of a local congressman — as defeats on time-release, they believe the worst is yet to come. They look at the current administration’s recordhigh expectations for deportations, and feel at once targeted and forgotten — even like the sacrificial lamb for immigration reform. “They want criminal aliens, and these guys are on supervised release, so they have easy access to them. All they have to do is wait until they check in for the month,” says Kiernan, adding, “The issue of Southeast Asians being deported just continuously falls off the table, even among other advocates.” If the community is right about the months to come, perhaps the biggest tragedy won’t be that more people like Iv will be gone, but what their loss will do to the generation after them. It’s hard not to see their absence as a reflection of their own fatherless childhoods, and what that has led to. At a protest outside Touch Up Barbershop this September, community members decried Iv’s imminent deportation, and passed around a box for his family, for which he is the sole provider. “Try to give some money,” a man yelled into a speakerphone. “They need it.” (holly.otterbein@citypaper.net)
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³ SOME THINGS GO down and you don’t mind. Walgreens on South got gutted quicker than Mason Verger in a field of hogs. Kendra Wilkinson shouldn’t let doors thwack her ass en route outtatown. If Foxwoods don’t sign with Harrah’s for financing, the South Philly casino idea may be finito, Benito. ³ Some stuff, though, you don’t want to go. After three-plus years, Junior and lil’ Dave’s Basement Soul — Headhouse’s hottest house jam — heads into hiatus. “We’ve had a great run at Xochitl,” writes Junior. “Time for a change.” Philly’s most clinically cool saloon, Apothecary/APO, said so long, too. ³The grand old Spice House — South Philly’s mega-pepper wholesaler as well as the home to Wharton Tract (aka Paul Pirozzi)’s fully stocked analog recording studio — has to leave its 11th Street spot because the property owner screwed up taxes. “True,” says Darren Morze, Spice studio engineer. “Paul worked out a deal with the landlord so he can keep the studio open for another six months while he finds a new location. Hooray. More condos.” The Spice Corner on Ninth, which sells Paul’s spices, will keep the cayenne blowing. ³ I fall in love with Kraftwork’s food, and chef Michael Thomas leaves for One Shot Coffee (come December) at George and North American. I’ll drown my sorrows in K-work’s absinthe-and-Grey Goose cocktail. ³ Distrito’s Tim Spinner left his post with Jose Garces to open his own cantina — Feliz — in Fort Washington (huh?) at the old Alison Two (oh), also scheduled for December. Whatamigonnaeat? ³ Chocolates. You wouldn’t think Wilhelmina models and cocoa sweets would work in tandem, but here we’re celebrating the beginning of Philadelphia Fashion Week with the lasses and chocolatier Max Brenner at theMaxpad Oct 8.Ask MB about the spicy Drunken Punken Nog — a hit o’ the Rittenhouse Row Fall Gathering.³ Philly OG Schoolly D makes an appearance in The Boombox Project, writer Lyle Owerko’s coffeetable book, courtesy an anecdote from Big Audio Dynamite’s Don Letts.Apparently when Schoolly toured internationally with BAD,management had to buy an extra plane ticket for his boom box, t’was so big. ³ For those wowed/cowed by thespian Scott Greer’s stranglehold on Philadelphia theater, there’ll be no breathing room: Greer is Peachum in the Terrence J. Nolan-directed Arden production of The Threepenny Opera with Anthony Lawton, Mary Martello and Amanda Schoonover starting now. ³I’ll rave and slave over the powerfully hungry voice of Kate Foust and her k.d. lang-meets-XTClike Lady till I die. You will, too, when they drop their eponymous debut and play Time(13th and Sansom) on Oct 7. More. Soon. ³ Stranger Ice formations at citypaper.net/criticalmass. (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)
TAG, YOU’RE IT: “Illuminating Graffiti” offers a glimpse at the art form’s rarely seen, often clandestine process of creation. (More DesignPhiladelphia coverage on p. 24.) THE HACKTORY
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hiladelphia has a storied, if controversial, graffiti past — from Cornbread’s pioneering scrawls in the ’60s to Steve Powers’ charming, uplifting “Love Letter” Mural Arts Project series finished last winter. It’s a history filled with tension and compromise between what is considered graffiti and mural, vandalism and art. To celebrate the medium, the Hacktory is partnering with UArts’ College of Media and Communication for “Illuminating Graffiti,” a project that embraces video and laser technology. “We do love art, especially public art. At the Hacktory, we’re interested in using technology to stretch art forms,” says Georgia Guthrie, Hacktory director. “We don’t condone vandalism, but [we] think graffiti is a valid art form, and want to find ways to appreciate it.” “Illuminating Graffiti,” part of this year’s DesignPhiladelphia, is a two-pronged multimedia affair involving projection onto buildings from The Design Lot across from the Kimmel Center. The first part includes three video projections of individual graffiti writers meant to look as though they are working side-by-side. The writers — who have also worked on murals — collaborated via Wiki page, e-mail and phone to pool ideas for common themes, color and letter forms, and then filmed themselves at their respective locations: two in Philadelphia, one in Oakland, Calif. The videos offer a glimpse at the rarely seen, clandestine process of creating graffiti,
not just its ephemeral aftermath. “It’s backing up that most graffiti is this temporary thing,” says project co-manager Jake Wells. “It’s not a just a visual thing, it’s also an act. It happens and then it’s gone.” Then, organizers will turn over the spray can, so to speak, to audience members. Except instead of paint, the medium is laser technology. Hacktory staff downloaded open-source computer software that employs a video camera, projector and laser pointer to create the essence of drawing graffiti on a building. The program even features a “drips mode” with adjustable settings to control how runny the faux paint will appear. “I think everyone who’s seen graffiti would love to one day paint their name really big,” says Guthrie. “And you may never do that, but with a laser you can. It won’t stay there, but it’s still really fun.” Plus,“Illuminating Graffiti” brings to the fore one of the city’s long-standing subcultural practices. “Some argue that graffiti was born here — modern-day graffiti, the concept of a ‘tag,’” says Wells. It also sheds light on conflicted views of the Philadelphia AntiGraffiti Network, established in 1984, which created the spin-off Mural Arts Program. Some still take issue with PAGN’s policy of power-washing or painting over graffiti-laden walls. “It’s nice that they make murals now, but it feels like they took a lot away from the graffiti,” says Wells. “I feel there’s a lot that could be given back to the graffiti community.” (editorial@citypaper.net) ✚ Thu., Oct. 7, 8-10 p.m., free, The Design Lot, 313 S. Broad St., thehacktory.org.
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If you haven’t seen The Social Network, the moody electronic soundtrack will clue you in that it isn’t some happy-go-lucky flick about Facebooking. A collaboration between Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, the score has a minimal, sometimes ominous feel. And there are peppier, take-the-edge-off moments — like the Atarisounding “In Motion,” and the guitar-riddled “A Familiar Taste” — that would fit a relaxing night at home as easily as a montage of —Josh Middleton web-entrepreneurs screwing each other over.
Stuart Murdoch’s best song in a decade opens Belle and Sebastian’s new album, and that pretty much sets you up for disappointment as Write About Love unfolds. That snappy drumbeat, the familiar-yet-classic guitar arpeggio, Sarah Martin’s pillowy vocals, the playful lyrics: “We’ve been going transcontinental/ Got no car, we just take a rental.” I’ve been singing “I Didn’t See It Coming” in my head since the song’s variety show-ish video premiered on YouTube this summer. And, yes, there are plenty of delightful retro-pop moments throughout the record. But I never get to them. I keep hitting replay, again and again. —John Vettese
³ silkscreen/sickness For the last three post-seasons, I’d managed to resist snatching up every clever Phillies T-shirt — even the Matt Stairs Moon Shot — to hit the Internet. This year, I caved. In the last week I shopping-carted Chooch and Chong from barktees.com. Then the Jimmy Rollins/Black Flag and Powered by Howard shirts over at birdlandphiladelphia. com. And I’ve got my itchy clicking finger hovering over the cotton ode to Halladay’s “funner” quote. I should stop, right? —Brian Howard
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³ reading/signing Extraordinary Renditions (Coffee House Press), the debut novel from Philly native/onetime CP scribe Andrew Ervin, is not about America’s misdeeds in the war on terror, not explicitly. The cleverly constructed tale tells of Lajos Harkályi, a Jewish violin prodigy who escaped Budapest during WWII. Decades later, he returns as a famous composer to perform his new opera — and to visit his niece, a translator at one of the U.S.’s infamous black sites. It’s smart, moving and hits the sweet spot between political intrigue and musical inspiration. Expect similar vibes at its release party Saturday at Manayunk’s new Spiral Bookcase (Oct. 9, thespiralbookcase.com), where Rodney —Brian Howard Anonymous’ 25 Cromwell Street will perform.
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IT’S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY
A catastrophic botch, facile, disappointing and sporadically hateful.
THEY’RE COMING TO TAKE ME AWAY: Even Zach Galifianakis’ ubiquity can’t save It’s Kind of a Funny Story.
maintaining a singular vision, few bands beat Built to Spill.Doug Martsch and company have melded with Caustic Resin, traded songs with twee queen Amelia Fletcher, turned in a raging 20-minute cover of Neil Young’s “Cortez the Killer” and paid homage to reggae stalwarts The Gladiators. Martsch’s latest extracurricular activity finds inspiration closer to home. Recording as the Electronic Anthology Project, he and Built to Spill bassist Brett Nelson have converted one song from each BtS full-length into moody, muted synth-pop using only keyboards, drum machines and Martsch’s high-pitched voice.The packaging’s generic and the track names have been disguised with anagrams of their original titles, but the result’s surprisingly true in spirit and execution. “I Would Hurt a Fly,” a guitarand-cello-courtship-cum-freakout from 1997’s Perfect from Now On,becomes “What If Your Dull,” a hypnotic lullaby; “I Dim Our Angst in Agony,” with its racing beats and squiggly synth lines, sands off the edges of “Goin’ Against Your Mind,” from 2006’s You in Reverse, without destroying its structural integrity. EAP may be a goof, but the affectionate performances keep it from being a joke. Not that Built to Spill has had any trouble being taken seriously. It’s unusual for an act that’s barely cracked the Top 50 to remain on a major label indefinitely, but they’ve been on Warner Bros. since 1995 with few gaps in recording and touring. From all indications, Martsch is free to make the records he wants, and each performs better than the last. Take 1999’s Keep It Like a Secret.Martsch’s lyrics are sharp, cryptic treatises on common sense, capped by “You Were Right,” a litany of rock wisdom. It’s his guitar, though, that determines whether a song needs to be four minutes or eight. In the ’90s, it was OK to be poppy and sloppy, but BtS was always tighter than its peers. Only a tragically short attention span could make the sprawl of “Broken Chairs” sound anything but spellbinding or the circular “Time Trap” feel less than vital. Stick with them, and they’ll stick with you. (m_fine@citypaper.net) ✚ Built to Spill plays the Troc Oct. 7.
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Kind of a Funny Story, but it’s less funny than cautionary: Respected indie filmmakers with a niche in social-realist drama try their hand at winsome comedy, fall flat on their critically acclaimed faces. Perhaps a hospital’s psychiatric wing wasn’t the best setting in which to experiment with self-aware cutaways and pop-culture parodies a decade past their sell-by dates (seriously? Cribs?), but it’s not the location that kills them so much as their utter tone deafness. Whether it’s the product of insincerity or ineptness, their feeble attempt at following in the footsteps of Juno and 500 Days of Summer — i.e. a Fox Searchlight special — is a catastrophic botch, facile, disappointing and sporadically hateful. The tragedy, admittedly a minor one, is that there’s a decent movie hidden among the jokey cutaways, one in which a suicidal teen (Keir Gilchrist) checks himself in for observation and finds he’s less crazy than he’d like to think. The ubiquitous Zach Galifianakis radiates bearish melancholy as a more experienced inpatient whose wry façade doesn’t hide his deeper woe, and perhaps isn’t really meant to. Emma Roberts is Gilchrist’s on-ward love interest, one who’s actually tried the extreme measures Gilchrist only dreams about. There’s enough texture in the characters’ experiences to suggest Boden and Fleck have done their research, but that only emphasizes the film’s headlong flight from whatever transient reality it manages to establish. By the time the cast slaps on glittery eye shadow and lip-synchs to “Under Pressure,” your head will be buried too deep in your hands to see what happens next — that is, if you haven’t fled the theater already. —Sam Adams
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³ EMOTIONALLY STUNTED CHILDHOOD, drug addiction, chronic masturbation, severely limited empathy: Serge Carrefax, hero of Tom McCarthy’s C (Knopf, Sept. 7), suffers from serious defects of character. The most significant of these boils down to a lack of perspective: “He sees things flat; he paints things flat. Objects, figures, landscapes: flat.” C wants to be a historical novel, the kind of book that presents a moment in the past as crucial in creating the present. But Serge’s flatness is fatal, since history, no less than fantasy, requires the novelist to animate an almost entirely foreign world. Motivations might vary, but the constructed world — which differentiates historical novel and straight history — usually extends beyond simple exoticism to uncovering forgotten stories, reinterpreting common knowledge, even grounding an allegory. But the novelist’s history remains beholden to the present. The obtuseness that allows Serge to ignore his teenage sister’s pregnancy and misinterpret her suicide resists any impulse to make sense of his experiences which range from privileged spa-bound invalid to WWI flying ace to Bloomsbury decadent to radio technician in colonial Egypt. McCarthy clearly finds damaged, limited characters fascinating, but the randomness of Serge’s progress seems synthetic, an excuse for the novelist to explore imagery and pathologies. The only time Serge breaks through this airlessness is in wartime, when he’s far enough above the ground that everything looks two-dimensional anyway. Strangely enough, Nigel Farndale’s Pvt. Andrew Kennedy pulls from the same stock of wartime incidents as McCarthy, from the general horrors of trench warfare, all mud and lice and disease, to the specifics of prison tunnels and firing squads. Andrew’s war, like Serge’s, is the best part of Farndale’s The Blasphemer (Crown, Aug. 17), but it plays a much different role with a clearer connection to the present. The blasphemer of the title is Andrew’s present-day great-grandson Daniel, a committed atheist who chooses to save himself before the mother of his child when their plane goes down off the Galapagos. Daniel struggles with what he perceives as his cowardice, especially as set against the three generations of veterans from which he’s descended.
The Blasphemer is as warmly conventional as C is standoffish, with the pacing and short alternating-perspective chapters of a thriller. Even its flaws, like Daniel’s inexplicably villainous Catholic colleague, are familiar. That familiarity domesticates Farndale’s history, making it easily functional and legible. Maxine Brown, on the other hand, should be familiar. As the center of Rick Bass’ Nashville Chrome (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Sept. 14), Maxine, playing music with her siblings as The Browns, comes out of rural Arkansas and moves from regional shows like the Louisiana Hayride on to national radio and television. Bass excels at capturing the source of country music, as it moves out of the woods and hardens into an industry. His description of their father’s sawmill, where the siblings learn to harmonize from the overtones
Bass plants the seeds of uncertainty. of a tempered saw blade, is characteristically beautiful: “The little sawmill was perched at the edge of the dark woods, resting atop the rich soil, with the workers gnawing their way slowly into the old forest. … There were still panthers in the swamps and bears in the mountains, or what passed for mountains in those old worndown hills.” The Eden that Bass invokes here, with its simple clauses and easy repetition, shows the source of this music, in the land, the men who work on it, the shared poverty of the Depression; but he also plants the seeds of doubt and uncertainty, and implies that this might be a minor, flawed paradise, a salt-sown garden. This history is subtle; it’s not the synthetic panorama McCarthy lays out, but is instead organic, eager to follow a particular forgotten story to excavate a taproot of American music, and the soil from which it’s grown. (editorial@citypaper.net)
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UNDERGROUND PHILADELPHIA
Everyone gets a little spooked when the subway comes to a halt in the middle of a dark tunnel, but you’d be cool as a cat if you knew what was actually happening down there. In that murky, possibly rat-infested abyss exists a thriving railway system that keeps our good city on the move. The Preservation Alliance leads Underground Philadelphia: Subways, Railways & Stations Walking Tour, which takes place on foot and in the confines of a modern trolley, from 30th Street Station to Market East. Along the way guests can absorb information about each station and the various subway lines as they cruise the underground concourse. (A video installation curated by Marianne Bernstein and featuring works by such artists as David Kessler — whose work is pictured — complements the tour.) Let’s just say SEPTA never felt this good, and probably never will again. —Josh Middleton Sat., Oct. 9, 3 p.m., $10 (registration required), 30th St. Station, 2900 Arch St., 215-546-1146, preservationalliance.com.
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The City of Philadelphia Commerce Department and the Community Design Collaborative believe spruced-up storefronts lead to spruced-up profits. To help spread their philosophy, and to give local establishments an incentive to enhance their façades, they’ve teamed up to formulate the Citywide Storefront Challenge. Event Organizer Karen Fegely says 57 newly renovated businesses, including Le Virtù, Earth Bread + Brewery (pictured, above) and West Philadelphia’s Lovers & Madmen Coffee Lounge have entered the competition in the hopes of taking home one of the eight awards recognizing achievement in design. She hopes the contest will inspire other businesses to get in on the restoration action because of the impact it can ultimately have beyond the storefront windows. “Commercial corridors are a vital part of our neighborhoods,” she says, “and improving them is not only good for business but for the residential community.”
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It’s no secret that we overuse plastic bags. At best, we recycle or store them in our closets for years; at worst, they make their way into our oceans, strangling and choking innocent creatures of the sea. Enter FABLASTIC: Upcycled, a workshop series coordinated by nonprofit MYX: Multicultural Youth eXchange and Old City contemporary furniture purveyor Minima in which Philadelphians can weave new life into their old bags instead of chucking them in the trash. (Participants are asked to bring in up to 10 bags each.) In the end, local weaver Janell Wysock will combine their work to create a large tapestry for display at City Hall. Says MYX Executive Director Josette Bonafino: “I think this project will, in fact, change minds on plastic bag usage once people absorb the statistics and get a grip on how truly damaging plastic bags are to animals and the environment.” Think of it this way: You’ll learn how to make totes and wallets that take hundreds of years to wear out. —Julia Askenase Opening night Fri., Oct. 8, 6-9 p.m., free; weaving workshops Oct. 9 and 16, noon-5 p.m., and Oct. 12-15, 4-6 p.m., free; Minima, 118 N. Third St., 215-922-5465, designphiladelphia.org.
—Julia Askenase Thu., Oct. 14, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Art Institute of Philadelphia, 1622 Chestnut St., eighth floor, 215-567-7080, artinstitutes. edu/philadelphia.
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Ellen Lupton wrote her 2004 guidebookThinking With Type out of desperation: She simply couldn’t find a book that met her teaching needs for design courses at the Maryland Institute College of Art. A true do-it-yourselfer, Lupton went ahead and wrote a thorough, yet quick and highly readable, primer on the creation and usage of typography. Filled with definitions, “type crime” warnings and visual examples that range from Renaissance text to a McSweeney’s lit-journal cover, the book’s even doses of theory, history and modern practice serve both newbies and experienced designers alike.While visiting Philly, Lupton will do a presentation about and signing of the book’s expanded second edition, featuring 48 new pages of design savoir-faire.
To have a little fun with the concept of eyeglass design, Margot & Camille Optique owner Valerie Vittu is asking folks to create an imaginative pair of frames with nothing but a handful of striped and sparkly pipe cleaners. Sound kooky? She hopes so. Throughout the month, each masterpiece will be displayed in her artsy, Old City boutique so customers can stop by to vote for their favorite. The victor, who will be announced just in time for Halloween, will receive a slick pair of shades by French eyeglass designer Lafont. Vittu says the contest is open to kids and adults of all skill levels, but they should come prepared to let their creativity run wild. “There’s something exciting when you create something,” she says in her adorable French accent, “and you don’t have to be a virtuoso to make glasses out of pipe cleaners.” —Josh Middleton Oct. 7-17, 2-6 p.m., $5 (workshop registration required), Margot & Camille Optique, 47 N. Third St., 215-923-0508.
In their joint show at AxD, local artists Nancy Sophy and Christine Stoughton explore through several mediums — like sculpture, printmaking and oil drawing — what’s most erratic and captivating about natural and found materials. Understated and softly beautiful in color and form, the delicate works of “Passing Evidence” manage to reveal much about process, from Sophy’s efforts at manipulating unpigmented natural oils and light to Stoughton’s maneuvering of twigs, branches and paper pulp (pictured). “The images are intended to describe intangible subjects as clear, succinct visual expressions,” says Sophy of her work. What these works may lack in traditional subject matter, they more than make up for in evocative representations of change and the ephemeral quality of naturally existing beauty. —Julia Askenase Opening reception Fri., Oct. 8, 5-8 p.m., free; exhibit through Nov. 6; AxD Gallery, 265 S. 10th St., 215-627-6250, a-xd.com/gallery.
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GHETTOPHYSICS|D Somewhere in William H. Arntz and E. Raymond Brown’s follow-up to 2004’s What the Bleep Do We Know? is a salient (if obvious) point about the victim/victimizer power dynamic, how we’re each capable of playing the pimp or the ho at any given moment in modern society. Unfortunately, GhettoPhysics: Will the Real Pimps and Hos Please Stand Up! is mostly a lot of dazzling bullshit. Skits, animation, lightning-quick edits, dozens of talking-head interviews, musical montages, quick snippets of explosions and news broadcasts — it all gets thrown at us, often with only the faintest hint of context, while Brown schools us on the military industrial complex, big pharma, the Roman Megapimp Empire, etc. Everybody from Cornel West to Normal Lear to Cynthia McKinney to KRS-One comes off looking stupid trying to insert deeper philosophical ideas into the otherwise confused and shallow discussions. GhettoPhysics is not the edgy, groundbreaking documentary/positive-energy propaganda film it wants to be. It’s more like the 90-minute trailer for that movie. —Patrick Rapa (UA Riverview) IT’S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY|D+ Read Sam Adams’ review on p. 21. (Ritz at the Bourse)
LAST TRAIN HOME|A+ “When we are home, we won’t even know what to say to the kids.” As Chen Suqin imagines the holiday visit she and her husband, Zhang Changhua, will make in a few days, she’s hardly happy. Sixteen years ago, the couple left Huilong Village, Sichuan Province, to find work at a sewing factory in the city. As they head home — along with some 130 million other
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migrant workers during the Chinese New Year — they ponder their decision so long ago. Lixin Fan’s remarkable film also shows the effects on their children, especially their increasingly rebellious daughter, 17-year-old Qin. The sheer scope of their journey is indicated in stunning wide images: Crowds of thousands of travelers mill and push at the train station, carrying pink and blue umbrellas or huge, colorful plastic sacks of belongings as they head back to the countryside each new year for their brief days off work. The film notes this is “the world’s largest human migration,” the annual repetition underscoring the essential heartache. The Zhangs provide for intimate, harrowing stories, with Qin quitting school to work in a factory where she finds solace in a new hairstyle and roommates. During a family gathering, Qin’s resentment erupts as the camera rolls: She and her father come to blows. “You want to film the real me? This is the real me,” Qin tells the camera. The shards of fallout shape the final scenes, as family members go in different directions. But there are other costs, too. Contemplating Qin’s new job serving drinks in a bar, you can’t help but worry for her. You’re also thinking about the potential repercussions of being filmed, being so self-aware at such a difficult time. —Cindy Fuchs (Ritz at the Bourse)
LIFE AS WE KNOW IT|CIt’s 2007, and perky control freak Holly (Katherine Heigl) meets gruff dude-bro Messer (Josh Duhamel) through their coupled-up friends. It doesn’t work out, because Messer rides a motorcycle and Holly drives a SmartCar, and she thinks he’s an asshole, and he thinks she’s a prude. (Yes, and yes.) Flash forward a few years: The couple who tried to set them up have tragically died in a car accident. In a stupendously illogical twist of matchmaking-from-the-grave, Holly and Messer are bequeathed their toddler, whom they immediately try to pawn off on anyone with two arms. When that
BURIED|AAwaking inside a wooden box under several feet of Iraqi sand, Ryan Reynolds’ government contractor is stuck in a dead-end situation he doesn’t understand and can’t get out of — a tidy
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EASY A|BOlive Penderghast (Emma Stone) is a high school Hester Prynne, except her lascivious sex life was just a rumor she started to get a pestering friend off her back. The essence of Mean Girls shows up everywhere — from the auburnhaired heroine and her prissy blonde
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metaphor for U.S. involvement in the region. Reynolds never leaves the box, and neither do we; the movie employs the tools at hand, mainly a cell phone and a lighter, to explore Reynolds’ increasingly dire situation. Digging him out is no one’s top priority; he’s collateral damage, even though he’s still alive. Buried is tad too gimmicky to take entirely straight, loaded up with red herrings that leave you both anticipating and dreading some half-clever twist, but it plays fair, and nasty, in the end. —S.A. (Rave)
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doesn’t work, they kiss the single lives they once knew goodbye, and enter the kind of forced baby-makes-three relationship that’s built to fail — except in romantic comedies. Just as icy as the icing on her character’s gourmet cakes (an uptight pastry chef? How unusual), Heigl sucks the life out of a role that has potential — a young, single, selfinvolved woman gains a daughter and is faced with the prospect of putting another human first for the first time. But as Duhamel idles in the background, drinking beer and watching sports and playing the tired frat-boy-turned-actually-OK-dad role as adequately as can be expected, Heigl’s all surface, and it’s hard to tell whether to blame her script or her. Petty narcissism hogs a spotlight that would be better pointed toward the well-being of the kid, and even when Holly and Messer engage in the kind of early-parenthood activities one might look back on fondly (recording a first step; cleaning up a gross diaper), there’s little joy to be found. Perhaps in the hands of cleverer writers and a female lead who actually gives a damn, Life As We Know It might’ve been something worth knowing. —Carolyn Huckabay (UA Grant, UA Main St., UA Riverview)
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A haiku: Guess who’s back! Why it’s a psycho killer that you never heard of yet. (Not reviewed) (Pearl, UA Grant, UA Main St., UA Riverview)
SECRETARIAT A haiku: They used to whip me to make me run. So I ran. Now I’m ghost horse glue. (Not reviewed) (UA Grant, UA Riverview)
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By the forcefully lowered standards of Woody Allen’s recent work, this wicked and winsome comedy is a mitigated pleasure: inconsequential, occasionally mean-spirited, but sharply acted and well shot by Vilmos Zsigmond. Two married couples — long-married Anthony Hopkins and Gemma Jones, their daughter Naomi Watts and husband Josh Brolin — are destabilized by their inability to live in the present tense. (Notwithstanding the title, sometimes it’s the past rather than the future that gets them into trouble.) The two pairs quickly become four as Hopkins dumps his wife for a younger and more mercenary model (Lucy Punch), struggling author Brolin takes up with the comely classical guitarist across the way (Freida Pinto), Watts pursues the unhappily married head of the art gallery where she works (Antonio Banderas) and Jones falls for an owlish occultist (Roger Ashton-Griffiths) who needs to
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The brutal, brutalizing cinema of Gaspar Noé would seem to have deadended with Irreversible, a movie that centered around a rape conducted in excruciating real time. But Noé pushes the needles further into the red with Enter the Void, a postmortem hallucination whose pulsating cascade is likely to induce seizures even in the non-epileptic. Shot almost entirely from the P.O.V. of a callow American killed in a drug bust, the film floats through the neon miasma of Tokyo like a woozy ghost, seeking out the seedy milieux Noé loves so much. —S.A. (Ritz at the Bourse)
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The house is ablaze for a few minutes before a lone figure suddenly bursts out of a second-floor window, rolls down the slanted porch roof and runs, clothes still burning, away from the scene. This enigmatic opening image promises a secret that will inevitably be revealed — which seems sort of a shame, as Felix Bush (Robert Duvall), squirrels himself away from the world for 40 years in order to keep it. A near-death experience convinces the Tennessee hermit to throw himself a funeral while he’s still around to enjoy it, and as he reintegrates into society, his terse utterances show the toll of his solitude. —Shaun Brady (Ritz Five)
JACK GOES BOATING|B Philip Seymour Hoffman’s directorial debut looks like a study in the comings and goings of relationships. We first meet Jack in his bed, on his back, alone. He’s a limo driver whose dream is to work for the MTA. He spends most of his time with a couple who set him up with one of their colleagues, Connie (Amy Ryan). Meeting her sends Jack into a trajectory of self-improvement, which makes Jack Goes Boating feel like a long-overdue coming-of-age story. And while relationships drive the movie’s actions, it’s the sweeping, wide shots of Jack in New York City that deliver the most feeling. —Juliana Reyes (Ritz at the Bourse) LEGEND OF THE GUARDIANS: THE OWLS OF GA’HOOLE|CFilled to the sorcerous brim with slapdash My First Tolkien characters, gratuitous CGI and more aurally paralyzing fantasy names than a caffeine-addled Dungeons & Dragons session, Legend of the Guardians just too much of too many things at one time. This barrage-of-stimuli approach usually works for director Zack Snyder — see nerd-drool entries like 300 and Watchmen — but in the case of this animated adaptation of Kathryn Lasky’s children’s book series, it’s downright stultifying. —Drew Lazor (Pearl, UA Grant, UA Riverview)
LET ME IN|B Matt Reeves’ English-language remake of Let the Right One In is utterly superfluous but basically harmless. The Road’s Kodi Smit-McPhee and Kick-Ass’ Chloë Moretz fill the roles of a shy young boy and his mysteri-
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ous new neighbor. They’re both lonely souls, but as it turns out, the sorrow of a child of divorce is not so different from the ageless angst of a preteen vampire. A change in setting (to Los Alamos, 1983) adds a hint of social context, but the do-over is largely a wash. It neither adds nor subtracts. —S.A. (Pearl, UA Grant, UA Riverview)
MADEMOISELLE CHAMBON|B+ Jean (Vincent Lindon) is a mason with a perfectly happy life — which is precisely what makes his sudden attraction to his son’s teacher (Sandrine Kiberlain) so difficult and unexpected. Jean is called in for a parent-teacher conference, where he walks in on the willowy Veronique Chambon practicing violin. It’s this surprising intrusion of grace into his banal everyday that sparks Jean’s imagination, but it’s when he hears her actually play that something stirs inside that he hadn’t known existed. —S.B. (Ritz Five) MY DOG TULIP|A Charming in the best possible way, Paul Fierlinger and Sandra Fierlinger’s animated feature follows the deeply felt relationship with a man and his dog. Based on J.R. Ackerley’s 1956 memoir, the film includes his wry observations (voice of Christopher Plummer), delighted and bemused by Tulip, his devoted “Alsatian bitch.” The movie isn’t raunchy, really, but frank and clever and loving, as Ackerley details Tulip’s idiosyncrasies and bodily functions, her loyalty and empathy. —C.F. (Ritz at the Bourse)
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BRYN MAWR FILM INSTITUTE 824 W. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr, 610-527-9898, brynmawrfilm.org. The Fly (1986, U.S., 96 min.): Jeff Goldblum plus housefly equals...? Tue., Oct. 12, 7:30 p.m., $5-$10. Virgin (2003, U.S. 114 min.): Can the whole Virgin Mary, it-just-appeared thing work for a modern girl? Wed., Oct. 13, 7:30 p.m., $5-$7.
COLONIAL THEATRE 227 Bridge St., Phoenixville, 610917-1228, thecolonialtheatre.com. The Monster Squad (1987, U.S., 82 min.): Dracula and his monster cronies invade the suburbs in their quest to conquer the planet. Fri., Oct. 8, 10 p.m., $5-$8. Silent Comedy Classics The Theatre Organ Society of the Delaware Valley presents a collection of silent films starring classic Hollywood yuk-yuks, with live organ accompaniment. Sun., Oct. 10, 4 p.m., $5-$10. The Seventh Victim (1943, U.S., 71 min.): While searching for her sister, Mary Gibson has a run-in with
FREE LIBRARY 8711 Germantown Ave., Chestnut Hill, 215-685-9290, freelibrary.org. Chestnut Hill Film Group presents Downhill Racer (1969, U.S., 101 min.): Robert Redford portrays a calculating skier who cheats his way to the Olympics. Tue., Oct. 12, 7:30 p.m., free.
Facebook has come to define our current hyper-self-aware historical moment while distilling it through a hall of digital meta-mirrors. Hard to believe, then, that seven years ago the now-ubiquitous site was little more than a gleam in a few social misfits’ eyes. The Social Network watches the growth of Facebook from the inside, but ends up being less about one specific phenomenon than the minor tremors that ripple outward into world-altering quakes. Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) envisions Facebook as replicating “the entire social experience of college” online, and The Social Network posits that the Digital Age has become Revenge of the Nerds, writ large. —S.B. (Pearl, UA Grant, UA Main St., UA Riverview)
704 South St., 215-413-0999, woodenshoebooks.com. Riding the Rails (1997, U.S. 72 min.): A doc about Great Depression-era rail-riding free spirits. Sun., Oct. 10, 7:30-9 p.m., free.
IBRAHIM THEATER 3701 Chestnut St., 215-895-6543, ihousephilly.org. Passage (2001, Morocco, 11 min.): Shirin Neshat’s panoramic shots depict humans involved in funerary rituals. A Door to the Sky (1989, Morocco, 107 min.): A young Muslim woman defies tradition when she sets up a spiritual shelter for women. Thu., Oct. 7, 7 p.m., $5-$8.
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Even if you haven’t read Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel, it’s clear that Mark Romanek’s adaptation of Never Let Me Go springs from the same authorial well as The Remains of the Day. Although it’s set in a dystopian past, at a British boarding school where children are raised like farm animals, the tone is melancholy rather than alarmist; it’s as if Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield and Keira Knightley were engaged in solving some playful mystery rather than unraveling the inhumane secret of their confined existence. It’s easy enough to sink your teeth into the inevitable love triangle as calculating Knightley steals unstable Garfield away from nurturing Mulligan, but the story never drops anchor in the real world. —S.A. (Ritz Five)
WAITING FOR “SUPERMAN”|B+ Davis Guggenheim offers an impassioned argument against the neglect of the U.S. education system in his latest film, and while it inevitably recycles W’s famous “Childrens do learn” gaffe, Waiting for “Superman” is hardly partisan. He not only lodges complaints about the status quo, but actually offers a number of solutions. But if the more politically strident viewer could argue against the onslaught of statistics, talking heads and animated vignettes, Guggenheim has a secret weapon in five students, mostly from underserved neighborhoods, left utterly abandoned to uncertain futures. —S.B. (Ritz East)
1003 Arch St., 215-922-6888, thetroc. com. They Live (1988, U.S., 93 min.): “I take these glasses off, she looks like a regular person, doesn’t she? Put ’em back on — formaldehyde face!” Mon., Oct. 11, 8 p.m., $3.
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THE TOWN|B Ever since The Departed, Boston has become the capital of cinematic crime. That’s been especially advantageous to the career of Ben Affleck, who directs himself in this adaptation of Chuck Hogan’s novel Prince of Thieves. Unfortunately he hands himself the thankless challenge of finding life in another criminal with a heart of gold, agreeing to one last job before turning his life around. Affleck plays a second-generation thief, the sensitive mastermind behind his team’s heists. He keeps the momentum taut, building to a climax at Fenway Park, but the story lacks the depth of his directorial debut. —S.B. (Pearl, Roxy, UA Grant, UA Main St.,UA Riverview)
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10.07 [ rock/pop ]
✚ SCOUT NIBLETT When you’re ready to take a break from straight-out-of-thegarage eardrum shredders and experimental man-machine hybrids, Scout Niblett’s a powerful reminder that sometimes the most terrifying sound is
that of one woman alone with her thoughts and a guitar. Electrified or acoustic, she burns a hole in your skull. —M.J. Fine Thu., Oct. 7, 9 p.m., $10, with Holy Sons and Ladies Auxiliary, M Room, 15 W. Girard Ave., 215-739-5577, themanhattanroom.com.
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the visiting pros, or whip up a treat on the blender bike, which creates enough energy to make a smoothie as you pedal along. Talk about instant gratification. —Daniella Wexler Thu.-Sun., Oct. 7-10, $150, Dhyana West Philadelphia, 3945 Chestnut St., 215-496-0770, dhyana-yoga.com.
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Calling all downward-doggers: Dhyana Yoga is hosting Philly’s first-ever yoga festival, a fourday bonanza featuring teachers from all over the country. “It’s like Lollapalooza for yoga,” says Dhyana proprietor Dhyana D’Amato. The fest, at Dhyana’s West Philly outpost, opens with a blessing of the space from Shaman Ray Crist and includes workshops like Jedi training, belly dancing and avatar yoga in blacklight. At night, when you’re ready to put your muscles at ease, you can kick back to acrobatic, hoop and dance performances by some of
She may look like Dame Edna’s younger sister, but Miss Richfield 1981 brings something to the table that purple-haired broad usually shies away from: heavily implied raunch and a lot more gab about the gays. Modeled after a former beauty queen from Minnesota, Miss R. has traveled the country dishing out fashion advice to audience members in need, but now she’s ready to trade her signature style material in for something more political. In her latest act, “Asians and Homos and Jews … Oh My!,”
she’s dishing and singing everything beltway — from Cheney to Palin and Iran to her ambition to become Obama’s new “Czar of Tolerance.” And what’s the first thing she’d do in that position? “Steal a towel from the White House restroom,” she says. “I mean, put that thing on eBay and retire.” —Josh Middleton Thu.-Sat., Oct. 7-9, 8 p.m., $28-$30, Society Hill Playhouse, 507 S. Eighth St., 800-838-3006, brownpapertickets.com.
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✚ WINDOWS & MIRRORS Zaher Wahab, an anthropology professor at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Ore., asked Afghan children to sketch their daily lives. The results, along with 45 memorial panels, comprise this traveling exhibit that’s meant as a response to the gross undercoverage of the Afghan death
toll since 2001. “We feel like we need to activate people to put pressure to bring the war to a close,” says event coordinator Mary Zerkel. “We don’t think that people know how much is going on and there have been no really good mechanisms for counting civilian casualties.” Amid the grim realities the exhibit inevitably presents, there’s solace to be found in local muralist Ann Northrup’s light, hopeful image of an Afghani girl flying a kite. —Daniella Wexler Opening reception Thu., Oct. 7, 7-9 p.m., free, exhibit through Nov. 7, Arch Street Meeting House, 320 Arch St., 215-6272667, afsc.org.
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✚ WOMEN DIRECTORS Film culture tends to thrive under repressive conditions, so it should come as no surprise that North Africa and the Middle East seem to turn out more strong female filmmakers than the “liberated” West. Culled
from two traveling exhibitions by Swarthmore prof Patricia White, I-House’s eight-film program is highlighted by the local première of Women Without Men, the feature debut of visual artist Shirin Neshat (whose stunning 2001 short, Passage, is also included). But even without being able to screen the entire series, it’s hard to imagine there will be any film as fascinating or as challenging — both for its elliptical, free-associative narrative as well as the somewhat degraded condition of extant prints — as author/filmmaker Assia Djebar’s 1977 La Nouba des femmes de Mont-Chenoua. Following the structure of the nuba, a traditional song form, the film is a complex mix of fiction, documentary, essay and travelogue depicting the way older Algerian women pass on the country’s history in stories, songs and the lines of their faces. A hypnotic intermingling of reality, memory and dream, La Nouba is at once mythic and modern, personal and historical,
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—Shaun Brady Thu.-Sat., Oct. 7-9, $8, International House, Ibrahim Theater, 3701 Chestnut St., 215-387-5125, ihousephilly.org.
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✚ SLUTEVER “What the fuck is up? What the fuck.” Far as lyrical refrains go, you don’t get much blunter than that. But it nails the whole frustrated post-adolescent thing. New Philly scuzzbutt punk duo Slutever deals in rejection, animosity and general antsiness in a similar, right-to-the-damn-point style throughout its debut EP, Sorry I’m Not Sorry.It’s drummy, buzzy, nasal, noisy and provocative, exactly like it should be. —John Vettese Fri., Oct. 8, 6 p.m., $7, with The Hot Toddies, When I Was 12 and Westward Drive, The Fire, 412 W. Girard Ave., 267-671-9298, iourecords.com/thefire.
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✚ CAMP TABU If your idea of a good weekend involves lots of belly laughs,
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kick it off at Alejandro Morales and Christine Meehan’s newest comedy showcase, Camp Tabu. Morales says he started the event as a way to highlight some of the city’s fresh-faced comics, but the lineup isn’t limited to up-and-comers. Performing this week alongside 2010 Gayborhood Games Outstanding Comedian Di Hargrove is performance artist Jaime Fountaine and vocalist Chad D. “We’re bringing different kinds of comic styles together,” says Morales. “So the show’s not limited to just one kind of performance.”
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—Keith Collins Fri., Oct. 8, 8 p.m., $5, Tabu Lounge, 200 S. 12th St., 215-964-9675, tabuphilly.com.
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✚ SUNNY ALI AND THE KID Having made ears bleed and feet dash to the back of the room in noise-punk trio POPO, Hassan Ali must’ve felt like
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proving that, y’know, he writes songs, too. His current project, Sunny Ali and the Kid, carries over his old band’s minimal roomtoney vibe, but notches back the overdrive, giving his Wild-West musical motifs and disaffected observations room to breathe. Stream the punchy Try Harder EP at sunnyaliandthekid.bandcamp.com and ponder how much it sounds like a why’d-it-never-happen collabo between Mark E. Smith and Roger Miller. Then grab some spurs and suspenders and head for the Tritone. —John Vettese Sat., Oct. 9, 9:30 p.m., $7, with Prowler and The Chance, Tritone, 1508 South St., 215-545-0475, tritonebar.com.
That might imply light listening, but duoJalal — Kathryn Lockwood (viola) and Yousif Sheronick (dumbek, cajón, riq) — play with the energy and drive of a crowd of musicians. Named after the Sufi poet Jalal Rumi, clearly there is Middle Eastern inspiration here, but lovers of European music of the Middle Ages will also be haunted by vaguely familiar sounds. When Sheronick takes a solo on cajón, Afro-Cuban patterns weave themselves seamlessly into the melody. —Mary Armstrong Sat., Oct. 9, 8 p.m., $16-$20, PSALM Salon, 5841 Overbrook Ave., 215-4777578, psalmsalon.com.
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✚ PIERCED ARROWS Pierced Arrows sounds an awful lot like Dead Moon, and that is excellent. No matter what they’re calling their band, wily indie vets Fred and Toody Coles make raw, heavy, honest, gutty rock ’n’ roll like nobody else (still) out there. —Patrick Rapa
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good conversation and enough stimulation to leave you full and fatigued. So if pub crawls succeed in introducing folks to new places to get hammered, why not organize a similar event for some of the city’s best book nooks? Enter the West Philadelphia Book Crawl, a twohour adventure including stops at Bindlestiff Books, The Last Word and A House of Our Own before winding up at Penn Book Center. Like a night of barhopping, the crawl is as much about the places you’ll visit as booklovers you’ll meet along the way. Give your iPad a rest and take part in what organizer Matt Jakubowski calls the “face-toface part of book culture: shaking hands, exchanging books, laughing and arguing.” —Eric Schuman Sat., Oct. 9, 11 a.m., free, Bindlestiff Books, 4530 Baltimore Ave., 215-2222432, bindlestiffbooks.com.
[ world/folk ]
✚ DUOJALAL Just a violin and a hand drum?
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form a thoughtful, not unbeautiful survey of burnished architectural drones, ruggedly prismatic buzzsaw interplay and drab, metronomic krautpunk, emanating from the blazed-out shells of would-be pop songs. There are pleasures to be gleaned here — in artfully deliberate layers of textural distress, in stray, resplendent shards of tunefulness — it might just take a bit of work to get there. But hey: That never hurt anybody. —K. Ross Hoffman Sun., Oct. 10, 9 p.m., $10, with DD/ MM/YYYY, Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 877-435-9849, johnnybrendas.com.
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✚ GORILLAZ If you want to market your sound as the future of pop, you probably shouldn’t partner up with Internet Explorer. Musically, though, Damon Albarn knows how to run a virtual
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✚ WOMEN There’s a distinct whiff of irony about this Calgary band’s name (the group consists of
band, rousing the Gorillaz name from hibernation every few years with new collaborators and a catchy new vibe. There’s no telling who will be partially obscured by a big screen at the Susqy this weekend, but Albarn’s recently been seen with Bobby Womack, Mick Jones and Paul Simonon (The Clash), Little Dragon, De La Soul and —Patrick Rapa so on. Sun., Oct. 10, 7:30 p.m., $61.75$113.40, Susquehanna Bank Center, 1 Harbour Blvd., Camden, N.J., 800745-3000, livenation.com.
four Y-chromosomes who make some awfully male-associated sounds) but there’s nary a trace of humor, or even lightness, in what they do. Their new album is Public Strain (Jagjaguwar), whose title suggests the kind of grave, sober-minded dedication they bring to their business of high guitar art, and its contents
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✚ WPRB MEMBERSHIP DRIVE Yeah, it broadcasts from the campus of Princeton University, and it’s got All Ascot Radio as its unofficial battle cry, but WPRB is really a nonprofit, member-supported station.
—Patrick Rapa
[ festival ]
Come be out and proud at OutFest Philly’s “claim to fame of pride events,” according to Philly Pride Director Fanny Price. In its 14th year, OutFest, the first and biggest National Coming Out Day in the world, will have 130 vendors — 90 of which will be local organizations. It’s an old-fashioned block party, a networking opportunity, an awards ceremony and a sporting event (don’t miss the high-heel race or the penis-shaped bagel eating contest) all over the Gayborhood. OutFest couldn’t have come at a better time, Price says in reference to Tyler Clementi, the bullied gay teen who recently committed suicide: “It’s one
—Juliana Reyes Sun., Oct. 10, noon-7 p.m., free, 13th and Locust streets, phillypride.org.
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him missing/ When I was 16, he jumped off a building.” This is like music for hospitals, which sounds like a total drag; but trust me, listening is a transformative journey. Played in the First Unitarian’s intimate chapel space, it’ll ring true and profound.
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—John Vettese
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✚ PERFUME GENIUS Mike Hadreas might have made the perfect rainy-day album. Listen on headphones to Learning (Matador), his debut under the name Perfume Genius, and you’re whisked away to a world of mysterious, echoing corridors. The voices of hundreds pop out from behind shuttered doors and around corners, entreating you to stay a while and hear their moving story, listen to their beautiful piano, feel their pain. You indulge them, but move on since so many more are calling. “He made me a tape of Joy Division/ He told me there was part of
Mon., Oct. 11, 7:30 p.m., $10, with Sebastian Blanck, First Unitarian Side Chapel, 2125 Chestnut St., 877435-9849, r5productions.com.
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MS. FREEZE ³ YOU PUT ALCOHOL within a bar spoon’s reach of gelato and they’re gonna shack up — especially when they’re encouraged to make sweet, jigger-measured love by a mixmaster matchmaker like Katie Loeb. The longtime Philly bartender, currently running the show at Oyster House, just launched a new cocktail list at Capogiro’s UPenn location, and every drink features scoops of the famed gelateria’s products as a main ingredient. Loeb came on at CapoPenn in June, after management conceded that the liquor license at the year-old shop (the only one of four locations to serve alcohol) was being underused. “People weren’t really getting my menu,” says Capogiro owner Stephanie Reitano, fond of bitter Italian spirits like Campari and Aperol. “It just wasn’t translating very well with the students.” The selection before Loeb’s consultation skewed mostly Italian — a Venetian-style Spritz, a Negroni. While some of those drinks are still available, Loeb’s new list expands the small bar’s options considerably, playing with classic recipes, drink-your-dessert shooters and resurgent tiki cocktails. A solid place to start is with gin. In the “Ice on the Wings,” Loeb’s version of an Aviation, gin, maraschino liqueur and Creme de Violette are blended with Capo’s lemon sorbetto in place of citrus for a chilly take on the cocktail-geek stalwart. The “Mr. Disney,” Loeb’s Corpse Reviver No. 2, also relies on lemon sorbetto as a base for gin, Lillet, triple sec and a hit of locally distilled Vieux Carré absinthe. Polynesian tiki-style cocktails — no, none are lit on fire to order — also have a big place on CapoPenn’s new drink list, which tops out at $10. Blended pineapple and lime sorbetti lighten up the rum bases of luau drinks like the Bahama Mama and the Mai Tai; there’s even a Pina Colada, sweetened with coconut milk and coconut gelato. Loeb is a serious bartender, which means these are serious drinks. But she’s still managed to work in some sweet, lighthearted options — think shots like the MacGuyver (Bailey’s, Kahlua, hazelnut gelato) and sippers mimicking desserts like Key Lime Pie (white rum, Tuaca and a lime cordial with lime sorbetto and fior di latte gelato). “She’s a zealot when it comes to drinks,” says Reitano of Loeb, “and that fits in perfectly with how we want to do things.” (drew.lazor@citypaper.net) ✚ Capogiro UPenn, The Radian, 3925 Walnut St., 215222-0252, capogirogelato.com.
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LAGOS, a CC Jewelry designer is seeking a Bench Jeweler/ Polishing Tech. Responsible for the high quality finishing and repair of designer jewelry in keeping with LAGOS quality and craftsmanship. Proficient in finishing, sizing, setting and other basic repairs of Sterling Silver, 18K Gold and precious and semi-precious gemstone jewelry. Must have expertise in Sterling Silver and 18K Gold, ring sizing, solder and laser welding and stone setting. Knowledge of the jewelry manufacturing process. Experience with high end designer jewelry. Hard working and quality conscious. Excellent communication skills. Ability to function in a fast paced environment. Entrepreneurial spirit. Minimum three years experience in jewelry industry as a jeweler or polisher. Willing to work overtime as needed and/or requested by supervisor. Bench and tools provided.
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Please send resumes with SALARY REQUIREMENTS, to employment@lagos.com or fax to 215-965-2209. No phone calls please.
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Looking for experienced service technician. Must have experience with washer, dryers, stoves, etc. Reliable transportation and tools. Pay will be based on experience. If interested please contact 267687-8520 or e-mail resume to jonathonfitzgerald40@ gmail.com $$$ HELP WANTED $$$
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DISTRIBUTORS WANTED: Looking to own your own business? Marlow Candy & Nut Company is searching for distributors. Call 800-2312018 www.marlowcandyandnut.com. HELP WANTED
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Land/ Lots for Sale LAND FOR SALE
Central Montana Ponderosa Pine Ranch 22 Acres-Beautiful Views County Road & Utilities- $24,900. 160-500 Acres Starting @ $800/acre. Beautiful trees, ponds, & views. The best elk & deer hunting statewide. Call 888361-3006 or visit www.WesternSkiesLand.com. LAND FOR SALE
Potter County-4 acres with Pine Creek and Route 6 frontage near Galeton. Wooded flat, standard in ground perc approved, utilities, $59,900. Owner financing. 800-6688679.
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$1700/mo. Full Reno. light filled. Central Location. SS Appl. Grnt Cntrtps. DW/GD/ Micro. W/D. Lg. Deck. HW Fls. Custom Built-ins. Expsd Brick, Expsd Beams. Steel Railings. CH/AC. Avail. anytime. michael.nmb@comcast.net
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Beautiful Art Deco High-rise 1Bdrm Apt, Desk Attendant, HW Flrs, Updated Kitch, Onsite Laundry, Intercom Entry, Amazing Location! Avail Dec. From $1080/Mo. 215-7358030. Lic #219789. 15TH/SPRUCE
HUGE 1bdrm in Beautiful Brownstone, Great Location, Hi Ceilings, 2 Deco FP, HW Flrs, Updated Kitchen, Onsite Laundry, AC, Intercom Entry, Pet Friendly. $1340/Mo. 215735-8030. Lic # 380139
Large Yard Call Mary 215-882-3888
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PENTHOUSE Avail! One of a kind spacious bi-level penthouse in historic Art Deco HighRise, 3bdrms/ 3 Full Baths/ 2 half baths, 4 Lrg Terraces w/Amazing City Views, Entertainment Rm w/ Wet Bar, New Kitch w/ Granite Countertops, W/D, CA, Vaulted Ceilings, HW Flrs. $3900/Mo. 215-735-8030 . Lic #219789. RITTENHOUSE SQUARE
Enormous 3bdrm w/ 2 Full Baths in Beautiful Historic Brownstone, Full Size Washer/ Dryer in Apt, HW Flrs, 2 Decorative Fireplaces, Hi Ceilings, Newly Remodeled Kitchen w/ Granite Countertop, Separate Dining Rm, Living Rm, & Family Rm, A/C, Spacious Rooms, Terrific Location! $2799/Mo. 215-735-8030. #216850
Roommates ROOM FOR RENT
Room For Rent W/TV, W/D, Full Use of Kitchen and Bathroom! $70 Wk and Up. Call 267-4960065
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Two Bedrooms ITALIAN MARKET AREA (GREAT FIND! & GREAT DEAL!)
2 bd, modern 3rd floor, hardwood floors, garbage/disposal, intercom private mailbox, 3 blocks from the Italian Market, ACME, Bank, Post Office, Passyunk Shopping Center close by. Rent $900 w/heat included. 215-755-4856. PENNSPORT
Moyamensing & Moore 2 bedroom, 1 bath Fresh paint, New carpet New washer/dryer, Fridge
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1001 Great location a block away from Italian Market. Walking distance to Center City. 215-755-4856. (Store front can get used as Shop, Beauty Salon, etc.) LAND LIQUIDATION
20 Acres $0 Down $99/mo. ONLY $12,900 near growing EL Paso, Texas, Guaranteed Owner Financing, NO CREDIT CHECKS! Money back Guarantee. FREE Map/Pictures. 800755-8953www.sunsetranches. com.
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