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[ - 5] A grand jury report finds that a former Department of Health inspector failed to investigate Kermit Gosnell’s abortion clinic after the deaths of two women. Or, you know, before.
[ + 1 ] A Penn study shows that 12 congrega-
tions throughout Philly bring $50,577,098 in annual economic benefits. Long story short: A whole bunch of Wharton kids are buying churches for their thesis projects.
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Incoming Daily News editor Larry Platt says the newspaper’s mission will be “People, Power and Gossip.” “And Also My Balls.”
[ + 1 ] Superintendent Arlene Ackerman picks 18
more city schools to be transformed into “Renaissance Schools.” Says Ackerman, “These are institutions that have reduced their Bubonic Plague deaths to meet No Child Left Behind’s adequacy requirements. Students will now be weaned off Geocentrism and alchemy.”
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police districts don’t adhere to their own policies for filing complaints against cops, and sometimes even deny people from filing them. “Good story,” says editor Platt. “But it needs more balls.”
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Stomp dancers do a surprise performance atReading Terminal Market.As in:“Surprise! It’s 1995 again.”
[ + 1 ] Ride the Ducks promises to implement new
safety procedures if allowed back in the city. OK, question: Does it still involve driving a WWII truck into a river?
[ + 1 ] A man testifies in an assault case from
his hospital bed at Albert Einstein Medical Center. “Your honor, everyone in this court room can see that this man is lying,” says the defense. Adding, “down.”
[ + 1 ] Former Gov. Ed Rendell and Buzz Bissinger
become columnists for the Daily News. Bissinger to get unprecedented access to the next cubicle over, as a heroic ex-mayor attempts to turn a struggling newspaper around while writing about, like, football or whatever.
This week’s total: -5 | Last week’s total: 5
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AFTER ANNA What exactly does a City Council president do? By Isaiah Thompson
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ust over a week ago, 2nd District Councilwoman Anna Verna announced that after 36 years on City Council, 11 of those as its first female president, she will not seek re-election. That means Council will have a new president — and that, in turn, could mean a lot of things. Or, possibly, not much at all. The power of the position of City Council president is, essentially, twofold. The president has the authority to assign legislation to committees of his or her choice and generally get bills on or off the agenda. It doesn’t sound so exciting, maybe, until a president can’t seem to find that little ordinance you needed passed. And then there’s the money. Council gets a little more than $16 million for its operating costs from the city — no tiny sum — and that money is administered by the Council president. Little differences in how it gets divvied up make big differences to Council members: A tad extra moolah might pay for a better computer, a fancier office party or even a whole job, say, for a beloved constituent. The Council president holds a small lever, perhaps, but keeps it wedged beneath a highly interested group of people. The position is as big or as little a deal as the president makes it. Former Mayor John Street’s Council presidency was, famously, of the big-deal variety. Street did not just run the body; he ruled it with an iron fist. Defy his agenda (as did then-Councilman Michael
Nutter) and you felt his wrath. For Street, the entire body was a means to an end. Council was his poker chip. Councilwoman Verna, on the other hand, played it cool. Her years as president have been characterized, insiders say, by a shift away from the drama of inter-Council warfare and the systems of punishment and reward that kept Council members glued to their leader. Each model has its merits — and drawbacks. Under Verna’s equitable reign, newer Council members probably had an easier time pursuing their agendas and finding a place at the table. But equity comes at a cost. Over the past few years, for example, the very fact that Council members have felt comfortable doing as they please has led to a series of unnervingly long delays in Council’s most important job: passing the city’s budget. The atmosphere also allowed for stonewalling on difficult votes by Council members worried about their image. Council wound up rejecting Nutter’s sweetened-beverage tax because it was too controversial, then rejected raising property taxes enough to make up for the difference in revenue, then finally shrugged and left the mayor with a hole to fill — not exactly a model of coordination. What kind of president will we see next? The presumed frontrunners are Councilman Darrell Clarke and Councilwoman Marian B.Tasco. But lips are tight. It’s too early to make enemies, and with four seats suddenly wide open, we might see not a trickle of new blood in Council but something more like a pipe bursting. If there’s one way for newbies to get traction fast, it’s helping elect a president. (isaiah.thompson@citypaper.net)
Verna,on the other hand, played it cool.
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✚ AH, DEMOCRACY! It’s now been two months since Philadelphia City Council agreed to allow public comments during its weekly meetings. The new openmic invitation is a welcome step toward sunshine, but with that light comes a responsibility to follow Council code: First, keep comments to three minutes. Second, remember that comments are limited to “the bills or resolutions that are on Council’s calendar.” It’s been an experiment in democracy with experimental results. At last week’s meeting, for example, the three-minute rule was bludgeoned repeatedly when activists opposing drilling in the Marcellus Shale spoke on a resolution against proceeding without more research. For one speaker after another, the three-minute mark would pass, and amplif iers below the ceiling would offer a brief staccato buzzing to stop them. About 30 seconds later, a sustaining electronic horn would sound. The speakers remained undaunted. Then came resistance to Rule No. 2, when a South Philadelphia businessman attempted to address a recently passed garbage fee — a topic which was not, Council President Anna Verna pointed out, on the agenda. “If you don’t come to look into my problem, it’s your problem,” the man replied, adding: “You’re a disgrace!” For her part, Verna remained unfazed and ready for the next speak—Matt Stroud er, as always.
✚ LEAD BY EXAMPLE Robin Mack-Ward, a friend of this writer, is a levelheaded type: easygoing, calm, methodical and tidy. But this week she finally flipped, when she discovered Monday that the sidewalk wrapping around
the park outside of Christ Church, at Second and Market, still had not been shoveled. This was no petty fury: For one thing, MackWard has a disability that makes it precarious to walk even that short a stretch of icy sidewalk — the only unshoveled section of Market for several blocks, with the exception, CP found, of the check-cashing joint between Third and Fourth. But she also points out that the property owners really should know better: They are, after all, the government. Extending from the west and north edges of the park to the corner of Second and Market (and including the curb cutouts, also piled with snow), this stretch of sidewalk is the responsibility of the U.S. National Park Service, which maintains all of Independence Mall. Almost every time it snows, says Mack-Ward, this sidewalk gets overlooked, and getting to work becomes a hazard. By Monday, the snow had remained unshoveled for five days. In that time, Mack-Ward had reported the sidewalk on seeclickfix.com. (The city’s 311 service wrote that it would issue a fine, but “A fine doesn’t do me any good,” she notes. “Plus, wouldn’t they just pay it with our taxes?”) She also e-mailed the Old City District and the Old City Civic Association, called U.S. Park Service headquarters and wrote every one of Philly’s 17 Council members. Not a single Council member replied, she says. On Monday afternoon, City Paper began calling, as well — and on Tuesday, while headed to CP headquarters (just south of Second and Market), we beheld an amazing sight: a clear sidewalk, clear curb cutouts and a U.S. Park Service-emblazoned plow, finishing the job. “I hope they continue this,” says an appeased-for-now Mack-Ward. “And that every time it snows we don’t have to raise hell to get them to follow the code. ”Acting Park superintendent B.J. Dunn acknowledged “a flurry of calls” and told CP on Tuesday that “we’ve — Isaiah Thompson been reviewing internal operations.”
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DESK DUTY ³ THERE WAS NO shortage of questions posed
last week in this column and in this author’s cover story, “Why Is Harry Bennett Dead?,” about a 53year-old veteran with a history of mental illness, who was Tasered, shot and, according to separate eyewitness accounts, dragged by the ankles, still living, down a set of concrete steps by police officers — even as medics were on the scene. What are we to make of discrepancies between witness and police accounts — particularly, that Bennett, contrary to police assertions, was all but paralyzed when he was shot, and that he never “charged” anyone as police later said? And why, if the officer involved had been “placed on desk duty pending the outcome of an investigation,” as police told reporters, did he appear in a December news article in which a North Philadelphia woman alleges being wrongfully Tasered four times by this same officer? The investigation, you see, is still “open” — albeit six months later and despite the fact that most witnesses CP met say they haven’t been contacted. So what happened to the “pending the outcome of an investigation” part? This week, Police Lt. Raymond Evers confirmed to CP that the officer was back on the street on Sept. 15, 2010 — six weeks after Bennett was shot. The practice of actually keeping officers on desk duty pending an investigation into their conduct was changed under former Police Commissioner John Timoney. Now, officers are placed on desk duty for as short a time as five days, says Evers. Then, after a “preliminary” investigation by the police Shooting Team, and at the discretion of the district captain, they may return to the street while the DA and Internal Affairs investigations proceed. The police have legit reasons for wanting it this way: The DA’s office has been notoriously slow to close these cases. Two years would be a lot of desk duty for an officer just doing his job. But while DA Seth Williams’ office has moved quickly on a small number of high-profile cases, it’s not clear much has changed for the cases that don’t get media attention, like the six-months-and-counting case of Harry Bennett and many others. The police can get around the wait, returning officers to the street at their own discretion — even though officers won’t have been investigated by any independent body before doing so. But no such expedited service exists for the families waiting, and waiting, and waiting for answers. If the police aren’t on desk duty, the DA had better be. ✚ Isaiah Thompson is on desk duty himself. E-mail him at isaiah.thompson@citypaper.net.
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she yearned to get rid of the pushy, protruding, unstable side of herself, and so she held still. And after a bit it all went numb and she didn’t feel anything at all. “OK, that’s it, you’re done,” the grinder said, and the spoon rushed back upstairs, feeling lighter both physically and emotionally. She was so excited to test her new stability that she laid herself on the table and tried rocking back and forth. Nothing. She was as sturdy as any steak knife; not about to go flipping through the air. She was so relieved she fell asleep right there on the table.
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the teaspoon felt herself being lifted up by the grandmother, and dipped into the sugar bowl. This was the test of her new self. And she passed! She slipped into the heap of sugar without pushing aside any grains at all. But her success — and her happiness — was short-lived. As she was lifted up, she felt all the crystals slide through her; she couldn’t hold on to any of them. Then she was dunked into the teacup and stirred around, but the liquid hardly made a ripple, let alone an eddy. What was going on?! She felt herself being lifted out of the cup and carried into the kitchen and then thrown onto the countertop as the grandmother dug in the silverware drawer for another spoon, and took it back into the dining room. The teaspoon shook herself, bewildered. She pulled
herself up in front of the toaster and looked at her reflection in its chrome side. She saw a thin metal rim around where her scoop used to be, with nothing inside of it but air. And as she turned back and forth in front of the toaster she realized what she had done. She saw that her negative side and her positive side were just two halves of the same shape, and that by getting rid of one she had destroyed the other. She was crushed. What good was a spoon without a scoop? Was a spoon really still a spoon if she wasn’t able to lift and hold things? No. She decided she wasn’t. And what was left for a spoon who wasn’t a spoon? Nothing. She decided to end it all. She dragged herself over to the sink, looked down at the tub of hot, soapy water sitting there, and she hurled herself into it. No sooner had she hit the bottom then she was fished out by the father of the house, who was doing the breakfast dishes. She felt herself lifted up in front of his face, and turned back and forth.And then she felt a light breeze blowing through her, and out in front of her appeared a shiny, thin, delicate bubble that floated away over the sink, and then bumped into the wall, and popped. She found herself being dropped into a cup, with some soapy water poured on top, and handed to the man’s young son. He carried her out into the sunshine, and held her up in the bright air, and blew. And from the empty space within her came streams of shining bubbles that floated up and out into the world. Q
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convex surface was creating counter-eddies that canceled out all the good eddies from her concave side. And the final straw came when she was set before the young son of the house and he accidentally put his water glass down on her edge and she flipped up and sailed end over end across the table and landed in the grandmother’s mashed potatoes. How undignified and decidedly un-dainty. So she went to the steak knife and said, “You were right! What can I do? How do I get rid of this awful protrusion?” “Well,” he answered, “every now and then I get taken down to the basement to get sharpened. There’s a grinder down there, and I suppose he’d be able to remove that hump of yours for you.” So that night she crept down to the basement, found the grinder and asked him to help her. He said, “I will, if you could help me. I’m in desperate need of some oil.” So the spoon found the tin of oil, pried off the lid, and scooped out some of the liquid. Then she returned to the grinder and poured it exactly where it was needed. “Hah!” she thought. “Let’s see the steak knife do that!” “Ahh, thank you,” said the grinder, “I feel much better! Now, I think I can get rid of your hump, but you’ll have to hold still. It may hurt a bit.” She nodded bravely, and moved closer, and he began to grind away the metal on her reverse side. It did hurt. Incredibly. And she flinched at the sight of those little specks of silver flying off all around her. But
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³ YOU CAN TELL a lot about somebody by what they’re looking forward to. Are you a Wing Bowl guy, frothing at the mouth for Feb. 4’s bash at the WFC? Step away from the column. Are you anticipating this season’s rush of Oscar parties with dramatic themes and costume plans? Grab an aperitif and I’ll meet you at Dorian’s Parlor soon after. ³ First we told you Avram Hornik’s Four Corners Inc. had purchased the closed Spaghetti Warehouse to open his heart’s desire: a new concert venue. Then we Meal Ticket-ed that Hornik’s bud R5’s Sean Agnew was part of the deal as a co-PLCB licensee. Did this mean R5 would drop its other venues to concentrate on this one? Agnew wouldn’t/couldn’t say much as he’ll be out of the country until April. So what of reports from the usual suspects that it’ll be called Union Transfer and co-run by Bowery Presents (a booking name bandied about when Hornik was sniffing around the Jumbo in Fish-Kenzo) with a September opening? Agnew says that, as far as R5 is concerned, there’s nothing concrete: “I promise that any reports involving R5 are pure speculation based on numerous what-ifs.” ³ Victoria Spaeth is a Spaeth cadet, and we mean that as a deep compliment. The soulful folkie is dropping her eponymous, contagious CD at the Balcony Feb. 9 with Alexis Golden Lover and Jeremy Dyen on the bill. ³ Joe Grasso is excited. Not just because the Walnut Street Capital honcho’s long-awaited new restaurant at 15th and Sansom, American Oak,should open by March. Grasso’s also got a new culinary director/executive chef for the Oak as well as his hip steakhouse Union Trust — author/television personality Tony Aiazzi. Plus UT’s beverage director, Xavier Mariezcurrena , has become the creative director of both enterprises, soon to be named under one umbrella (“But not branded or anything like that,” laughs Grasso). Stay tuned. ³ Oh, Germantown Avenue, we love that you’re making a comeback. What used to be the North by Northwest live music club has turned into the funky but chic 7165 Lounge. And the old-man bar The Venetian Social Club, started in 1924 by Italian craftsmen (8030 Germantown), is hosting bands like pop’s best buds The Donuts on Feb. 5. If you don’t dig J. Bearclaw and the ’Nuts’ usual antics, you can bowl. ³ If it ain’t Diplo’s Mad Decent or Downtown coming to haunt Philly’s discophonic dreams, it’s the Vice label. This month, we’ve got an act/album called WIN WIN with Devlin and XXXchange of Spank Rock notoriety who has done remixes for Thom Yorke and Björk when he wasn’t busy pushing Spank to finish his next CD. The eponymous jimmyjawn guest-stars Spank, Andrew W.K. and Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor.Brutal. ³ More Ice at citypaper.net/criticalmass. (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)
Billboard, by Erin Murray, oil on MDF panel, part of the exhibit “Architecture Parlante” at Fishtown’s Slingluff Gallery.
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³ MARGINAL UTILITY A gallery recently didn’t show Jayson Scott Musson’s video series because it used the word “nigger” too much. Before that, Musson made a piece that imagined a new reality TV show, Find the White Neighborhood, which would drop contestants into a black community, and then challenge them to find their way out. He’s not for everyone. But in “Neotony /// The Hard Sell,” the inflammatory, oft-misunderstood artist’s gone too far: Musson has disrespected the beloved TV character ALF, by placing a bone through his nose à la the Tea Party posters of President Obama. We’ll stop there, for fear of spoiling the exhibit’s shock value. Opening reception Fri., Feb. 4, 6-11 p.m., free, through March 27, 319 N. 11th St., second floor, 917-355-4487, marginalutility.org.
³ THE SLINGLUFF GALLERY Erin Murray used to hate Northeast Philly. But one day, the postwar homes along Harbison Avenue suddenly had charm. She was swept up by how they don’t try to hide what they are: “They’re the result of having to make a lot of housing with not a lot of money. It’s humbling, and the houses look humble,” she says. There’s a term for such expressive buildings: “Architecture Parlante,” also the title of Murray’s exhibit made up of oil paintings and charcoal drawings of the local, often agrestic, built environment. A term that’s rarely been used since the ’40s, architecture parlante usu-
ally refers to structures that obviously reveal themselves, like a doughnut shop shaped like a doughnut. But Murray’s buildings adumbrate their purpose. Take Yokefellow, an oil painting of what is technically a church, but what actually looks like a glorified shed. This structure tells us that it’s young and tacky, unfathomably far from the holy places that inspired Michelangelo. Likewise, Billboard (pictured) shows an empty commercial property, notable for its poor paint job and graffiti — sending a clear message to passers-by. “These buildings are inconsequential,” Murray says, “and by painting them and using this vernacular to talk about them, I can make them more important than they are.” Opening reception Sat., Feb. 5, 6-9 p.m., free, through Feb. 28, 11 W. Girard Ave., 215-3071550, slingluffgallery.com.
Insulting ALF? Too far.
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There’s a saying about music journalism: “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” For her “Rock, Paper, February” exhibit with paper artist Breana Copeland, Lisa Murphy tackles a similar challenge — sculpting about music. Moved by her two favorite composers, Donizetti and Mozart, Murphy creates architectural wooden sculptures depicting everything from banal doors to shuttle launchers. There’s a delightful Bruno Ernst-like quality to her work, even though it’s 3-D. “What’s interesting to me about opera,” Murphy says of her unlikely muse, “is that it’s all of the different arts combined.” Opening reception Thu., Feb. 3, 6-10 p.m., free, through Feb. 17, 172 W. Montgomery Ave., 703-975-0287. (holly.otterbein@citypaper.net)
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Discovery is hardly the 24/7 all-science-lectures channel I pretended it was while convincing my mom we should get cable, but it is pretty illuminating, you know, for television. My current microobsession is Gold Rush Alaska, a hilarious/devastating sociological terrarium wherein hardworking stiffs go for broke while battling the elements, bad luck and their own resilient incompetence in pursuit of glitter-size specks of gold dust. I hope they find it. If they don’t, that’ll be good, too. —Patrick Rapa
Outside, the third outing from Minnesotan alt-rock fundamentalists Tapes ’n Tapes, effects a much-needed correction to a topsy-turvy career arc. Early victims of blog-buzz boom-and-bust backlash, TNT veered from a hype-stormsparking self-issued debut to a slumpish, shrugged-at follow-up on a big-league indie. Back on the band’s own Ibid imprint, Outside has its share of blandly comfy indie facelessness, but it’s also got some crunchy bits, yelpy vocals and, in its better moments, enough soul, punk and rhythm to remind us why it’s —K. Ross Hoffman called rock ’n’ roll in the first place.
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In a stereotypical world, football and gay men don’t go hand in hand. But the truth is, homos can “hut-hut” and yell at TVs with the best of ’em. For those who dig it, the LGBTQ-friendly Greater Philadelphia Flag Football League is throwing a Super Bowl viewing party at International House Sunday (Feb. 6, phillyflagfootball.com). Expect nibbles, an open bar and plenty of buff dudes — on and off the screen. —Josh Middleton
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[ B ] CSI VETERAN RICHARD J. LEWIS makes the jump to features with the sprawling story of Barney Panofsky (Paul Giamatti), a hack TV producer who’s an intellectual and romantic on the side. Spanning several decades, from Barney’s bohemian youth in Rome to his bachelor dotage, the movie, adapted from Mordecai Richler’s novel, is pushed forward by his succession of revolving-door marriages, first to an abusive, suicidal poet (Rachelle Lefevre), then a high-maintenance socialite (Minnie Driver). Not until he meets wife No. 3 (Rosamund Pike) at the reception for his marriage to wife No. 2 does Barney get his first taste of bona fide love. Lewis and screenwriter Michael Konyves drop the annotated autobiography framework of Richler’s novel, rendering the title unintelligible, but retain traces of a murder mystery that sits ill at ease with the movie’s essentially melodramatic aims. Whether Barney killed his friend Boogie (Scott Speedman) — or whether he is dead at all — remains an open question until the final moments, when Barney’s fading memory allows a moment of revelation. By then, the question seems practically academic, mainly a distraction from the rocky relationship between Barney and the love of his life. Barney’s Version isn’t a film so much as a series of episodes, without much beyond plot to tie them together. But watching Giamatti and Pike chart their relationship’s ups and downs is a rich and worthwhile pursuit, if not one sufficient to fill the movie’s running time. Pike, whose most memorable appearances have been in British costume dramas, is subtly but utterly transformed, radiating a matterof-fact intellectual intensity that never quite showed in Doom, and Giamatti conveys a sense of the weight of time passed, abetted by remarkably subtle makeup work. Even though it’s based on a fictional autobiography, Barney’s Version has the shapelessness of a real biopic. It’s an as-told-to in search of a disciplined ghostwriter. —Sam Adams
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ALMOST LOVER: In Barney’s Version, Paul Giamatti stars as TV producer Barney Panofsky, whose succession of revolving-door marriages comes to define him.
To know the Little Mushroom is to love him deeply.
³ reading/signing Best known for fiction-memoir mashups (see The Woman Warrior), Maxine Hong Kingston — who speaks at the Free Library tonight (Feb. 3, freelibrary.org) — is one hell of a crossover artist. Her latest, I Love a Broad Margin to My Life (Knopf, Jan. 18), is inspired by her father, who wrote in the wide sidebars in his volumes of Chinese literature. But there’s so much of America here, too: She’s Walt Whitman in her advocacy for peace, Patti Smith in her formation of new, vibrant mythologies. So is Kingston a future-forward punk or a mystic-leaning naturalist? Maybe a little of both.
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Speaking of It Girls — where Sundance is concerned, a contractual obligation — this year’s most deserving candidate was Elizabeth Olsen, who held down the lead in the single-shot horror Silent House and the post-cult decompression drama Martha Marcy May Marlene. That Olsen is the younger sibling to tween dynasts Mary-Kate and Ashley accounts for the initial interest, but before long people were talking about her supremely self-possessed and layered performances and not her bloodline. With clockwork regularity, the festival’s hothouse atmosphere turns minor mediocrities into fleeting sensations, a fate that this year befell Drake Doremus’ long-distance tearjerker Like Crazy. Starring the ever-colorless Anton Yelchin and a tightly wound Felicity Jones, the movie charts the seesawing progress of a transAtlantic romance imperiled by the vagaries of student visas and work permits. Doremus, who previously directed the directionless Douchebag, drew inspiration from his own relationship, which accounts perhaps for the shapeless literal-mindedness with which the film transcribes the pair’s back-and-forth pas de deux. But his leads can’t convey the depth of feeling necessary to make the
tedious up-down worth staying involved with. Nonetheless, Like Crazy nabbed a $4 million distribution deal and the festival’s Grand Jury Prize, as well as acting honors for Jones. (Considering that Martha Marcy May Marlene was in competition, Olsen wuz robbed.) Miranda July’s days as a Sundance sensation may be behind her, but The Future was a singularly impressive second act. Building on the perilously precious but miraculously inoffensive tone of Me and You and Everyone We Know, July brought adult concerns and a dash of libido to the story of a thirtysomething couple (July and Hamish Linklater) uncomfortably confronting the rest of their lives. You’d be forgiven for pulling the rip cord the second you learn that the film is narrated by a croaky-voiced cat, but after The Future it’s clear that July’s ingenuousness is polemical and not naïve; she’s forcing you to drop your defenses rather than taking refuge in nonexistent innocence. The post-screening discussion was dominated by viewers asking July to clarify this or that point, but she wisely refrained. The questions she doesn’t answer are the ones most worth asking. (s_adams@citypaper.net)
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✚ CONTINUING ANOTHER YEAR|B+ In Mike Leigh’s dusky film, Tom (Jim Broadbent) and Gerri (Ruth Sheen) are a couple growing old with grace. Not so Gerri’s co-worker Mary (Lesley Manville), an emotional wreck who goes from optimistic delusion to hysterical despair over the course of the movie. Their relationship is complicated by Mary’s crush on the couple’s son (Oliver Maltman). As is Leigh’s habit, the roles were developed by the actors from scratch, which results in uncommonly rich and layered characterizations. Another Year is one of Leigh’s most openly philosophical movies, pondering the questions that come with advancing age and the farreaching consequences of decisions made in even the most ordinary circumstances. —S.A. (Ritz East)
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Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu is well rid of screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga (Amores Perros, Babel), whose penchant for converging storylines has long passed the point of parody. But he’s still looking for a replacement, and judging from Biutiful, the team of Armando Bo and Nicolás Giacobone isn’t it. There’s not much to fault in the camera work, or in Javier Bardem’s sensitively bearish performance. But the film is saddled with such an undigested pile of bad ideas that nothing short of a miracle could have redeemed it. Bardem plays an impoverished father of two who deals drugs and works as a spirit medium to make ends meet — and who has terminal cancer — a MadLibs collision of miserabilist tropes that never congeals into a sensible story. The movie is so well assembled it almost fools you into thinking there’s something profound beneath its surface, but there’s no way to get under without going through. —Sam Adams (Ritz Five)
Molland (Aberdeen, Zero Kelvin), Stellan Skarsgård plays a tight-lipped convict re-entering the world, unsure whether he’d rather still be inside. The film’s tone is mordant and ineffably Scandinavian, a kind of soft-pedaled grotesquerie best expressed in the boneless slump of a secretary’s shoulders in the garage where Skarsgård gets his first job. As he tracks down traces of his former life, reconnecting with his ex-wife and the small-time crooks who helped him land behind bars, Skarsgård remains nearly impassive; he’s too shell-shocked for much to register, moving as if he’s some Ice Age creature insufficiently thawed. Molland’s direction is calculated to a fault, almost stifling; at times, it feels like you’re still in prison with his protagonist. But Skarsgård’s performance is a tragicomic wonder, and a rare chance for him to show his gifts at feature length. —S.A. (Ritz at the Bourse)
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THE FIGHTER|B+ While the true story of “Irish” Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg) has the makings of a Rocky-style “triumph of the human spirit,” David O. Russell finds plenty of fodder for his more caustic imaginings in Ward’s family. The most monumental obstacles Ward confronts come out of being born into a large clan intent on undercutting any chance of success in the name of a delusional family honor. Russell succumbs to a penchant for cheap caricature, never deciding between black comedy or hardscrabble drama. But he wisely keeps the direct brutality within the messiness of life outside the ring. —Shaun Brady (UA Riverview)
THE GREEN HORNET|BSeth Rogen is Britt Reid, spoiled son of a cold L.A. newspaper magnate (Tom Wilkinson), forced to take responsibility for a media empire when his dad is felled in a freak accident. Somehow, this turns into a cue for him to team up with science-genius houseboy/barista Kato (Taiwanese superstar actor/singer Jay Chou, in his first Hollywood role) to form a crime-fighting duo posing as the new kids on the underworld block. As a whole Hornet is a flabby, overlong vehicle that’s too concerned with emboldening Rogen’s shtick to focus on its real breakout strength, the surprising and charming Chou. —Drew Lazor (UA 69th St., UA Riverview) THE ILLUSIONIST|D Rewritten from an unfilmed script by the late master, Sylvain Chomet’s animated movie follows a bumbling conjurer named Tatischeff (Jacques Tati’s real surname), an artiste whose skills are rapidly becoming obsolete. The pet themes that run through great Tati films like M. Hulot’s Holiday, Mon Oncle and Play Time are stated plainly enough, but Chomet’s clumsy fumbling is no substitute for Tati’s bittersweet deftness. Tati’s fond mourning for the past is balanced by his fascination with the artifacts of modernity, but Chomet is merely nostalgic. —S.A. (Ritz at the Bourse)
THE MECHANIC|D Those with a hard-on for Jason Statham will be hugely disappointed by this flaccid remake of the 1972 Charles Bronson vehicle. As assassin for hire Arthur Bishop, Statham’s best moments are in the first 10 minutes: He efficiently executes an execution, and he takes his shirt off — twice. But Statham’s magnetism is so completely absent here, fans will feel betrayed like the various double-crossed characters. They may even want revenge. —Gary M. Kramer (UA Riverview) THE RITE|D Colin O’Donoghue stars as Michael Kovak, who enrolls in seminary school with no intention of actually following through to the priesthood. Seeing promise in this faithless would-be priest, Michael’s Father Superior (Toby Jones) sends him to summer exorcism school in Rome. Naturally, Michael’s atheism is challenged by his experiences, particularly with Anthony Hopkins’ daffy, distracted mentor, but how can he be said to find faith when he’s offered such incontrovertible proof? Faced with such shallow arguments, director Mikael Håfström loads his cast with heavyweights (Ciarán Hinds also appears), none of whom can mask the fact that this is low-level genre fare in fancy duds. —S.B. (Roxy, UA 69th St., UA Riverview)
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The atmosphere Sofia Coppola creates in her fourth feature is so lovely, it’s a shame when it’s roiled by the encroachment of plot. Action star Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff) is going nowhere fast, marinating in creature comforts as the life slowly seeps out of him. He’s briefly engaged in fleeting moments with his daughter (Elle Fanning), whom he brings along on a trip to a baffling Italian awards ceremony, but mostly he just lets time pass. Coppola breaks Somewhere’s spell in its final reel, grafting on a heavy-handed ending overburdened with sophomore symbolism. Like her protagonist, she knows the best places to hang out, but not where to go from there. —S.A. (Ritz at the Bourse)
As the soon-to-be George VI, Colin Firth is a reluctant royal with a stutter that acts up around his domineering father. It grows bad enough for him to seek help from an offbeat Australian, Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush); Speech boils down to a series of confrontations between patient and therapist. Rush’s flamboyance is tempered by Firth’s muted sorrow, and his character’s gradual opening gives Firth a chance to push past the boundaries of his own interiority. —S.A. (Ritz Five, UA 69th St.)
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CHESTNUT HILL FILM GROUP Free Library, Chestnut Hill Branch, 8711 Germantown Ave., 215-685-9290, freelibrary.org. Wages of Fear (1953, France, 131 min.): Two gents are asked to transport an explosive cargo of nitroglycerin over a bumpy road — without the proper safety equipment. Tue., Feb. 8, 7:30 p.m., free.
DOCK STREET BREWERY & RESTAURANT 701 S. 50th St., 215-726-2337, dockstreetbeer.com. Sexy Beast (2000, U.K., 89 min.): Ben Kingsley portrays a gangster who recruits a retired “safecracker” for one final job, but things wind up getting all screwy. Tue., Feb. 8, 8:30 p.m., free.
INTERNATIONAL HOUSE 3701 Chestnut St., 866-468-7619, ihousephilly.org. Our Beloved Month of August (2008, Portugal/ France, 147 min.): A father, daughter and nephew share adventures during Portugal’s most exciting month of the year. Sat., Feb. 5, 7 p.m., $8. Iran: Voices of the Unheard (2009, Canada, 68 min.): The story of Iranian secularists is revealed through three characters from different social, economic and educational backgrounds. Wed., Feb. 9, 7 p.m., $8.
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✚ ACRES OF DIAMONDS
Thu., Feb. 3, 8 p.m., $5, with The Orchid and Bells Bells Bells, Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St., 866-7778932, kungfunecktie.com.
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✚ NOCTURNE “Fifteen years ago I killed my sister,” Adam Rapp’s eerie drama begins. Flashpoint Theatre Co. chose Nocturne, explains director Meghann Williams, to fit this season’s theme, “to be alone” (bookended by last fall’s stirring Run Mourner Run and May’s local première of Quiara Alegria Hudes’ 26 Miles). Starring Kevin Meehan as all five characters in a family
—Mark Cofta Through Feb. 26, $10-$25, Second Stage at the Adrienne, 2030 Sansom St., 215665-9720, flashpointtheatre.org.
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✚ ROBYN Equal parts Euro-pop fembot and sage, empathetic confidante (check the knowing, compassionate “Call Your Girlfriend”), with a Prince-channeling dirty mind and a tender, beating heart full of love, Sweden’s self-proclaimed “scientifically advanced hot mama” just might
be the most badass person on the planet right now. Never mind her deadly dance moves and fashion sense; she delivered one of last year’s most lethal performances doing little more than eating a banana onstage at the Trocadero. What’s been aptly called her “Magic 2010” also saw her drop two all-killer mini-LPs and a full-length that felt like a ready-made Greatest Hits. Fingers crossed she keeps that roll going and we don’t have to wait another five years between albums; either way, she’s earned this victory lap. All hail! —K. Ross Hoffman Thu., Feb. 3, 7:30 p.m., $25-$32.70, with Diamond Rings and Natalia Kills, Electric Factory, 421 N. Seventh St., 610-784-5400, electricfactory.info.
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✚ LEMMY After the bombs drop, as one Motörhead fan says, the only things left living will be “cockroaches and Lemmy.” Or, as Dave Grohl succinctly puts
it, “Fuck Keith Richards.” In other words, Lemmy Kilmister may be the ultimate rock ’n’ roll survivor, bulldozing audiences for damn near 40 years fueled by Marlboros, Jack and Coke, and speed. Anyone familiar with Lemmy’s famously craggy visage knows that any film with him as a subject is of necessity warts and all, and the Ace of Spades himself makes no apologies for his unchanged lifestyle — there’s no Behind the Music redemption tale here, but neither are there the tales of garish Dionysian excess that precipitate so many musical falls. The film offers a bit of history, tracing his trek from roadie (and occasional partner-in-acid) for Jimi Hendrix through space-rock icons Hawkwind to his 35-year history with Motörhead, and offers awed testimonials from Metallica, Slash, Alice Cooper, Ozzy and plenty of others. Documentarians Greg Olliver and Wes Orshoski find him living in a cluttered L.A. apartment crammed with
WWII memorabilia (shots of swastika-covered walls are followed by Lemmy shrugging off Nazi accusations in typical, who-gives-a-shit laconic style). There’s almost a poignant portrait of loneliness here, a life revolving around touring or sitting at the bar of the Rainbow Bar and Grill, but Kilmister’s hide is a little too leathery for emotion to overwhelm. Lemmy is simply a living, breathing heavymetal Mount Rushmore, an unchanging monument to the restorative powers of rocking your ass off night after night. —Shaun Brady Thu., Feb. 3, 8:30 p.m., $8, Trocadero, 1003 Arch St., 800-745-3000, thetroc.com.
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✚ BOBBY ZANKEL The early weeks of a new year are always a time for reminiscing, and Bobby Zankel has taken advantage of several recent performances to cast the collective eyes of his stellar big
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consumed by tragedy, Nocturne is an “absolutely gorgeous, if difficult and jarring” drama about “what grief can do to people if left unintended.” It’s also “very Flashpoint,” Williams says — “this intangible thing I can’t quite define — usually if there’s an apocalypse of some sort, or twisted sadness tinged with the tiniest thread of hope, or if someone dies.” So it seems, “very Flashpoint” also means “very good.”
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Acres of Diamonds seems the product of a bygone era. The vulnerability of its self-titled EP, released last summer on Bandcamp, can be chilling; its swell-to-hope crescendos, breathtaking. It might not be fashionable, but that’s not the point; when was the last time you heard music this honest?
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band backward. Holding down its regular first-Thursday spot at Tritone, his Warriors of the Wonderful Sound will perform material from throughout the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first decade as it heads into its 10th anniversary, which will follow last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rudresh Mahanthappa residency with another by composer-saxophonist Steve Coleman. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve also been dedicating time to commemorate the local jazz luminaries lost over the last 12 months, pianist Sid Simmons and drummer Edgar Bateman both being close collaborators and mentors to Zankel. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Shaun Brady Thu., Feb. 3, 9 p.m., $10, Tritone, 1508 South St., 215-545-0475, tritonebar.com.
the Fall concerto sounds pretty good these days. Vivaldi is especially vivacious when heard on original baroque instruments, as will be the case for this concert, featuring an array of fine local soloists. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Peter Burwasser
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series includes a class on hatmaking, a chance for kids to make repurposed valentines, and a chat about the histori-
Fri., Feb. 4, 8 p.m., $20-$60, Kimmel Center, 300 S. Broad St., 215-893-1999, voxamadeus.org.
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â&#x153;&#x161; PHILADELPHIA TATTOO ARTS CONVENTION Get your ink on: More than 200 of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best tattoo-slingers will gather this weekend for three days of seminars, art galleries and auctions focused
cal use of color in society. The classes vary in duration â&#x20AC;&#x201D; from one hour to five â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but all offer plenty of time to set your inner upcycler free. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Eric Schuman
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on the world of body art. Besides watching artists do their thing during live tattooing contests, look out for performances by Olde City Sideshow, suspension gurus Crash, and even take a daring twirl on the mechanical bull â&#x20AC;&#x201D; as long youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re willing to show off your tats by riding in a bikini. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Emad Khalil Fri.-Sun., Feb. 4-6, various times, $20 (per day)-$40 (weekend pass), Sheraton Philadelphia City Center Hotel, 201 N. 17th St., 800-541-8239, tattooedkingpin.com.
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Edward Maeder doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make something out of nothing â&#x20AC;&#x201D; he makes something out of something else. Using discarded paper goods, he crafts delicate models of 18th-century frocks. But in addition to creating some of the most fragile dresses youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll ever see, Maeder teaches workshops on how to use found items in clothing design. This
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â&#x153;&#x161; MONOTONIX This roving trio of Tel Aviv troublemakers dishes out some agreeably sloppy, spirited grunge-punk on its albums, like the just-released, Steve Albini-produced Not Yet (Drag City). But theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve really made a name for themselves with their live shows, wreaking a kind of havoc it can be difficult to make sense of from mere hearsay. Their increasingly notorious performances, which rarely take place on an actual stage, typically involve near-constant crowd-surfing (of the whole band, including the drum set), with burly, Zappa-haired ringleader Ami Shalev climbing on everything in sight, as well as E M I LY S AVA G E
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BREADWINNER: Finishing the Corner’s rich grilled cheese — stuffed with Sottocenere, black truffle and braised, pulled short rib — is a challenge indeed. NEAL SANTOS
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RIGHT ANGLES Well-shaken cocktails and creative comfort food meet and greet at the Corner. By Adam Erace
THE CORNER | 102 S. 13th St., 215-735-7500, thephillycorner.com. Dinner served Mon.-Wed., 5-10 p.m.; Thu.-Sat., 5-11:30 p.m.; late-night menu Thu.-Sat., 11:30 p.m.-1 a.m.; bar till 2 a.m.; closed Sun. Appetizers, $8-$14; sandwiches, $9-$14; entrées, $12-$18; desserts, $9.
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n 2008, about the time the Phillies were making the push to the pennant, I had my first Aviation at Apothecary. Steamy summer night. Swanky rooftop deck. The vibe was as slick as the condensation beading up along the glass. At the time, Apothecary was in limited company of places pouring proper cocktails. These More on: days, Luxardo maraschino and creme de violette, two of the Aviation’s principal elements, are common behind any cocktail bar that wants to be taken seriously. (Even Continental has an Aviation on its drink list.) But the bar at 13th and Drury — even though it’s now known as the Corner — still shakes the best. With a tight menu of fashionably laborious libations, the Corner hasn’t forsaken Apothecary’s spirit. Though the original marble bar downstairs has been turned into a gleaming open kitchen and 10- to 12-seat chef ’s counter, the second-story bar
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of South Street businesses — Pumpkin BYOB, Pumpkin Café and Pumpkin Market — is in the midst of mini-evolution, growing and contracting at the same time. The couple has left the Café (1609 South St.) due to a disagreement with their landlord. Luckily, they were able to shift it across the street to the Market (1610 South St.), which now boasts a tightened selection of local groceries in addition to the Café’s soups, sandwiches and ready-made dishes. While both Moroney and Bor wish it hadn’t happened this way, they’re rolling with it, and “want to continue to be a force in the neighborhood,” according to Bor. And recent changes at their restaurant (1713 South St.), which opened in 2004, are bolstering that plan — they’ve brought in Bucks County native Christopher Kearse, who’s put in work at Chicago’s Tru,Alinea and Charlie Trotter’s, the French Laundry in Napa, and Lacroix and Blackfish locally, to run the day-to-day of the BYO. It’s still very much Moroney’s restaurant, but Pumpkin is unique in that the typical hierarchy of the back-of-the-house doesn’t exist here. “It’s not totalitarian,” says Moroney. “If you have a strong kitchen, you let people do what they can do.” That’s precisely the approach Moroney’s been taking with Kearse. The two chefs’ styles could not be more disparate. Moroney sees his plates as “clean, functional [and] not terribly artistic,” while Kearse, who’s built a modern-cookery skill set from past gigs, is as detail-oriented as they come, arming himself with tweezers and squeeze bottles to piece together his playful presentations. “Familiar flavors, done differently” is how Kearse describes his approach. A winter salad is built up with a menagerie of raw, cooked and pickled veggies, paired with pumpernickel “soil” and walnut purée created with agar-agar, a thickening algae extract. Quail comes with a gel of wine, mulling spices and cherries (another agar production) and dehydrated chestnuts, scattered across the plate in fastidious cairns.Kearse knows that some diners can be reluctant to embrace these techniques, which is why he strives to catch a “balance between creativity and respecting the ingredients.” Though Kearse wrote the whole of Pumpkin’s winter menu, expect more collaboration between him and Moroney moving forward. “You’re not yet seeing exactly what he can do,” says Moroney of Kearse. “Only the beginnings of it.” (drew.lazor@citypaper.net)
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[ i love you, i hate you ] ASS-WIPE To the #1 douchebag guy on the 67 (quintessential middle aged guy whose “deaf” wit massive headphones) was talking s**t on my awesome bus driver again! Unnecessary comments about my guy packing in the people. The Doucher stated “I don’t know why he keeps letting more people on & packing them in; It’s a safety hazard” (said it at least 2x during the 20 minute ride). Now my thoughts were 1: Who wants to be standing out in the FUCKING snow and have ur bus driver just drive past you? and 2: I’m sure our guy knows the maximum occupancy because he’s been doing it since what ‘87? and 3: How often do you hear on the news “TRAGIC ACCIDENT On the Septa Bus when people were packed too tightly that there as a fall and many bones were broken” WTF? Sincerely, -Disgruntled 67 passenger
food. It was cold and disgusting. The lady was really nice and she asked me to come back to see her again. I wonder why she told me that, was it because she knew her food was disgusting. If you find somewhere that you love to eat stick to it! Don’t try anything new unless you really know for sure that the food is of some good! I made a big mistake and I don’t think that I will do that again. Sorry but, I can’t wait to shit this stuff the fuck out!
DON’T PLAY I am tired of the shit that you do! What the fuck do you want to do with this relationship? If I say that
filth you are. As I said before, nobody likes you and you’re surely destined to spend the rest of your life alone and unhappy. I’ll never forget the look on your old horse face when you told me how you enjoy making other people miserable because you’re miserable. How sick. Did you ever think maybe you’re so miserable because you’re an old, lazy, self centered, smelly, racist bitch. You claim to have friends but none of them would step foot in that cesspit apartment. You say you’re a dog trainer but your own dog, Shits and pisses all over the place. Your own brother won’t have anything to do with you. And your so-called fiancée only sees
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Hey, you. Yeah, you. I’m talking to the simpletons who continually come into the shop while there is a fucking blizzard going on outside. A blizzard. It’s a porn shop, not a supermarket. You’re not buying anything essential like milk or fucking rock salt. You’re buying something that you can get for free if you have an internet connection. Is sliding off the road into a ditch while your wife slaves over a hot stove and your ugly kids scream and slap their feces on the wall the way you want to die? With nothing but a cum stain in your boxers and a 16-hour all anal dvd playing on the television in the headrest?
Fellas and Ladies who gives a fuck if you are being cool or not because you aren’t wearing enough clothes, you know that I am tired of seeing the shit and I don’t understand. These bitches are showing ass all over the place and it is digusting then they have this thin ass dirty scarf around their necks and they are pretending to be cool and is not! I know you aren’t fucking warm, why play the gam that you are? I think that it is pathetic. nonsense. You look like fools! Where the fuck are the parents when these kids are getting dressed in the morning? Wow! I wish if I had kids I would catch my child outside with nothing the fuck on! His or her ass would belong to me!
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Out of desperacy I went to the gallery market east after my pedicure and got some food. I know that I can’t say the name of the place but it was horrible
I love your pointy nose, hazel eyes, pale skin and beautiful smile. You are the best husband I could ever ask for and I’m so lucky to be your wife. You are there for me through good and bad. I don’t know what I would do without you. You rule my world K-dog!!!
Why would you do this to me? Tell me all the things I want to hear almost two years later. Pour your heart out to me.Why couldn’t you have done this 2 years ago. Now I have this life, a good one I might add, and you come back into it with undying I love yous and promises for a different future. Im supposed to forgive you, leave my life on the other side of the world and come back to you. You’re right. I’ll never love anyone the way I loved you. It’s impossible. That doesn’t mean we are meant for one another. Things happen people change, grow and move on. I need you to let go of this crazy cosmic hold you have on me so I can be happy. 7,028 miles away and yet I can still feel you. God, I hate you! But I will never stop loving you.
Has it really been a year? Philly, I’m in love with you and I plan to stay with you for a long time. You’ve become my home and I couldn’t be more happy! I love your colorful rowhouses, your delightful accents, your snark and grit and unexpected hospitality. I like that your sewers smell where I live and where all the rich people live, and that I can spend all day biking around you and not get tired of it. And could I have asked for a more beautiful city, full of sycamores and princesstrees? Thanks for making a New England girl feel welcome. I’m yours forevermore! ALL MY LOVE xoxo
DISGUSTING FOOD!
LIKE WOW, K-DOG
NEVER GONNA STOP
BE MY VALENTINE
You sit there and lie to my face and try to make like it was other people. You’re a typical heep backstabbing jerkoff. I’ve done so much for you and this business but continue to get the big F you because it’s convientant for you. I can’t wait to watch you go down in flames. Your day will come. You have no friends and never will because you put money before everything else and justify it by saying oh well it’s just business. You think you know everything and you don’t know shit. Your never at there place except for a few hours a day and your the laziest employee we have. Somehow you run this place. Your just lucky the owners are out of town. Next time you lie to my face please don’t act like we’re friends. We aren’t and haven’t been since you took control of our place of work.
and would be materialistic like me! I can’t help it! Every time I look at your picture I think about you on top of me giving me all that dick! I just love you and yeah I am ready to make that leap into have your child! Let’s be together!
I don’t want to be bothered with the shit anymore, I am looking like the bad guy but at this moment I really don’t care anymore because it is what it is! Who do you think that you really are because I thought your were my support, I thought that you and I were an item that would never die! But, I guess I thought wrong! But, it really doesn’t mean shit! No worries alright and stop leaving little notes near my home asking my neighbors have they saw me and stuff. Just stay away! If we are going to be together let’s do it, if not, just move on alirhgt. I think that is the best way!
FIFTHY PSYCHO Hey! In case I wasn’t clear enough before I just want to reiterate what a worthless piece of insane
you twice a month, and is NOT leaving his wife to marry YOU. You don’t have PTSD from watching your mom that’s called GUILT for all the sick shit you say about her. Maybe you should stop! Why don’t you go work on all that and whatever the hell else is wrong with you and stop texting, emailing, threatening and being an all around douche. Also, taking a shower more than once every two weeks would probably help you more than you know.
I hate you I just wanted to say and to everyone that is reading this that did something to someone you are probably guilty of feeling my hatred! This one is for all of you! I hate phony people. You just seem as though every time I see you your kissing someone’s ass and it is very exhausting and I am tired of seeing it and hearing it! You are an asshole, and I can’t believe that you lasted so long. Just because you are cool with management doesn’t mean that you are exempt from doing what you need to get done! Nobody is going to protect you from the bullshit that you keep throwing out! I think that it is pathetic! Who do you really thing you are? Grow some fucking balls already or grown a pussy!
I LOVE YOU I told you that I loved you and you looked at me with such excitement in your eyes and I just wanted us to be happy that is why I told you that! You and me make such a good couple. I want to have your baby! He would look like the both of us,
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Cash for Comics: 1940-1970’s Collectors Welcome. 215-510-4372 Collectible - Last Edition of Philadelphia Bulletin $300 USD. 703-892-7164 DEPT. 56. 76 orig. boxes, all Dickens Village, pre-1996. Orig cost over $2900. All or part, no sale under $300. prices neg., Call 610-688-6097
BRAZILIAN FLOORING 3/4", beautiful, $2.25 sf (215)365-5826
Cyclotronic Electric Machinery, project in $6 million, (215)335-1745
CABINETS Glazed maple, brand new, never installed, solid wood/dovetail. Crown molding. Can add or subtract to fit kit. Cost $6400 Sell $1595 610-952-0033 POOL TABLE Gorgeous 8’ solid wood 1" slate, lthr pckts, dec legs & access/ Nvr used, $4500, Sell $1495. 610-476-8889 VENDING MACHINES, Cold Drink/Snack combo, well established maunfacturer, new in box bargain, (610)322-2712
BED A brand new Queen pillow top mattress set w/warr. $249; Full $229; King $349. Memory Foam $295. 215-752-0911
BED: Brand New Queen Pillowtop Mattress Set w/warr, In plastic. $175; Twin $140; 3 pc King $265; Full set $155. Memory foams avl. Del. avl 215-355-3878 Bedroom 6pc Queen Cherry or Oak $425. 5pc Sleigh $950. 215-752-0911 Bedroom Set brand new queen 5 pc esp. brown $489. Del Avail 215-355-3878
Quaker Made Cabinets, Vanities, Appliances for Sale $4500/bo 856.428.1816
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856-952-5039 PIANO, Yamaha U1, 48" upright acoustic., black, mint condition. Can deliver $4,900/best offer. Call 610-334-4648
WANTED: EAGLES SBL’S true Eagles fan, Call 610-586-6981
33 & 45 Records Absolute Higher $
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BD MATTRESS Luxury Firm w/box sprIng Brand New Queen cost $1400, sell $299; King cost $1700 sell $399. 610-952-0033
BDRM SET: Solid Cherry Sleigh Bed, Dresser, Mirror, Chest, & 2 Nite Stands. High Quality. One month old, Must sell. Cost $6000 ask. $1500. 610-952-0033
SUPER BOWL TIX WANTED
Lionel/Am Flyer/Trains/Hot Whls $$$$ Aurora TJet/AFX Toy Cars 215-396-1903 SAXOPHONES & WWII Uniforms, swords & related items 609.581.8290
Fur Coat, Silver fox, Mannequin use only sz 12-13, FULL length $1100 267.756.0933
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33&45 Records Higher $ Really Paid
apartment marketplace Front St / Northern Liberties (2) 2br, (2) 1br bi-level, deck, oak kitch, hdwd, w/d, $1150-$1350. Call (215)879-5300
16XX N 17th St. 1BR/1BA $550 $1650 To Move in. Temple University area- Mr. Brooks 215-763-4122
* * Bob 610-532-9408 * BUYING EAGLES SBL’s WANTED - CASH PD
CALL 215-669-1924K BUYING PHILLIES TICKETS
Seasons & Partial Plans 856-207-3932. tobiasscot@gmail.com Phils @ Pittsburgh. 6/3-6/5, bus, hotel, 2 games, $299 pp/quad. $100/deposit required, Call 267-597-8174
Super Bowl/Phillies Tix Wanted Call 215-915-3621
Antique & Collectable Buyer, Coins, Gold, Costume Jewelry, Military, Toy Cars, Dolls, Trains, Barbie Cleanouts Will Travel
Ronnie, 267.825.8525
Books -Trains -Magazines -Toys Dolls - Model Kits 610-689-8476 Cameras, Clocks, Toys, Radios, Dolls, Porcelain, Magazines, Military I Buy Anything Old..Except People! Call Al 215-698-0787
Health Aide, In Home for elderly man. 6 days/wk. 7:30am-6pm. Some exp necessary working w/elderly, (267)934-4121 Home Healthcare Provider Seeking a mature indiv w/exp to live w/ eldery female patient in exchange for free rent, share utils & small sal. Great for a person on a fixed income, (410)693-3711
Live in Nanny/Housekeeper, Horsham, PA. No smoking/alcohol (267)575.0823
Coins, Currency, Gold, Toys,
13xx S 22nd St. 2br $725+utils newly renov, hwd flrs, w/d 856.906.5216 15th & Snyder Studio Sec 8 ok newly renov, must see. 215-885-1700 1615 Snyder Ave 3br $850+util 2nd flr, ba, kit, lr. 215-397-8625 9th & Snyder 2BR $750+utils lrg liv rm, backyd space 610.608.6983 Joe
12xx W Belmont 2br $550 renovated, section 8 ok, (215)424-2785
Trains, Hummels, Sports Cards. Call the Local Higher Buyer, 7 Dys/Wk
Dr. Sonnheim, 856-981-3397
Gentleman w/Truck Desires Work Moving & Junk Removal. 215-878-7055
3958 Poplar St. 1br $550+utils large clean apt, no drugs, 267-259-0430
Diabetic Test Strips Unused. I beat all competitions prices. I pickup215.525.5022 $$$ Cash Paid Now $$$
Heating & Plumbing person des pos. No job too big or small, John 215.232.9751
41xx Girard 2br $650+utils large apt, 2 mo. security, 215-870-7966
Golden Retriever pups, AKC, vet checked $475. (717)656-2007 HAVANESE PUPPIES 262-993-0460 www.noahslittleark.com JACK RUSSELL TERRIER Pups, Males, shorties, ready to go! $275 215-529-5989 JUG PUPPIES: On Sale Now! Adorable, family raised, shots, $200. 717-656-7688 Papillon pups, shots, wormed, M & F $350 & up. Call 609-994-6180 Pit Bull Blue pups, ch. lines, very bully, $600-$800. 856-524-8385 POMERANIAN PUPS (3/4 breed), M, cute & playful, $375. Call 267-902-9934
Rottweiller Puppy: ACA, male, shots, wormed, $600, cash only, 717-513-7842 Scottie pup female, rare Wheatin, AKC, family raised, $895. (610)705-3322 SHAR PEI - AKC, 3 M, 1 Fem, lilac, shots, ready to go, Eric, $1100, 609-351-6671 SHIH TZU PUPPIES, AKC, 12 weeks, 2-5 lbs, parents on premises, 609-413-5727 SHIH TZU PUPPIES - M/F, AKC Pedigree, 1st shots, vet checked, Happy, healthy pups, 609-576-9014 Shih Tzu pups, 10 weeks, ACA, 3M, gold & white $450. (610)584-5516 SHORKIE PUPPIES - Reg., 1 male, 2 female, small dog, $600, 302-897-8650 Welsh Corgi pups, vet checked, family raised, ACA, $600. (610)273-3275 YELLOW LAB PUPS - AKC, 8 wks, shots, vet chkd, $450, ready now, 856.256.7570 Yellow Labrador Retriever ACA strong wide heads home raised $450 717-381-5026 YORKIE PUPS, toys, males, shots/ wormed, etc. $450 each. (856)563-0351 Yorkies: 3 M, 12 weeks, will be small, P.O.P, $700-$800, 302-482-2111
everything pets pets/livestock Please be aware Possession of exotic/wild animals may be restricted in some areas.
COCKATOO, Rose breasted, 8mo., hand fed baby w/cage $1500. 856.417.3490
CFA CAT SHOW: 1 Day Only, Sat Jan. 29th. 9am-4pm. Come see all the beautiful cats at Leesport Farmer’s Market. Rt 61, or check the website: cfa.com Siamese CFA, 8 weeks, 1st shots, M $200, F $250. Call 610-301-8090
AKITA, Registered, rare white, 3M, 2F, $700, will hold for deposit (267)344-6152
American Bulldog born 12/17/10 $600 NKC REG + SHOTS pure breed family pets jmasters0w7@gmail.com 610-656-1475 American Pit Bull Xtra Lg Pups & Adults UKC, Champ bloodline, Call Mike 215-407-9458; www.blueprintbullies.com
Beagle Pups,AKC,show chmp line, beautiful pups! F $450, M $350 215-256-1575 Bernese Mountain dog puppies for sale $1200 please call 717-413-9093 Bernese Mountain pups, 5F, ACA, family farm pet, $1200. (717)413-1433 Bichon-Poo Pups: very cute, must see, 1st shots, vet chkd, $450, 609-504-1064 BICHON PUPPIES 2 months old, parents on site. Call 267-285-3929 Bordeaux/Eng. Bulldog Mixes: $850, Ready Feb 14, 717.445.0620 or 445-0606 BOXER PUPPIES - AKC, white, 1 male, 1 female,ready now $650/ea. 717.606.3020 BOXER Pups, AKC, brindle, 3M, 1F vet checked, well socialized, great temprement, parents on site 484-574-0752
English Bulldog Pups, Male & Female, parents on premises, papers, shots, vet certified, Call 215-696-5832
CANE CORSO PUPPIES - Must Go! P.O.P., Blues & Tans, great temperament, $450-$650/obo, (215)869-8686
English Bulldogs,ACA, home raised,shots, vet chkd, ready now, $1500 610.587.8088
CANE CORSO Pups & Adults: papers, shots, M& F, start @ $250. 267.902.9934
ENGLISH MASTIFFS - West Minister champ bloodln, $1800 neg, 610.802.3258
Cavalier King Charles Spaniels Puppies, Retired Adults & Rescues $500-$1800, 215-538-2179
French Mastiff 10 weeks, 5F, 1M, shots, wormed, $1100. will deliver 910.467.6985
Chesapeake Bay Retriever Pups, AKC, $500, champ, fam raised, (410)482-7376 COCKAPOO PUPPY, Male, 10 weeks, vet checked, wormed, 215-989-1506 COLLIES - Excellent quality, AKC, blue, tri & sable. Millville, NJ, (856)825-4856 DACHSHUND - 9 weeks, 3 Female, 2 Male, $250. 267-265-6190 DACHSHUND PUPS - Shots & Wormed, REDUCED $250 & up, 609-517-4368 Doberman Pinscher pups, AKC, black & rust Males, $800. (302)286-7560 ENGLISH BULLDOG: AKC, 13 weeks, 1 M, 1 F, $1850/ea., serious only 267.294.4323
German Shepherd. 2 yr F, housebroken, moving must sell $500. (484)574.7178 GERMAN SHEPHERD Pup, Black, European Bloodline, AKC, $1200, 856-745-3180 German Shepherd Pups: Large Boned. Parents on prem. Good with kids. www.jolindys.com. (610)495-7247 German Shepherd Pups: Large Boned. Parents on prem. Good with kids. www.jolindys.com. (610)495-7247 Goldendoodles, Labradoodles, Bernedoodles: Designer pups, health guar. $300-$1200. 484-678-6696 Golden Retriever pups, AKC, family raised, vet checked, shots, wormed, M $500, F - $550. (717)442-8583 lv. msg
Poodles, Silver Toy Boys, AKC parents, vet cert., home raised, no papers. $500-$600. (609)267-6909 PUG PUPPIES - AKC, vet chkd, s/w, family raised, M & F $400. (717)644.4840 Puppies for sale. 10 year guarantee. www.betterbreedersusa.com Rottweiler Puppies AKC, health guaranteed, shots/wormed, family raised, $450. 717-598-9230
4832 Cedar Ave. lg Studio $525+ utils 2 BR, 3rd flr, $750+ utils, newly renovated, Call 215-765-5008 4xx S. 62nd St 1br $600+utils $1800 mvn, 2br also avail. 267-972-9693 50th & Race Vic 2 BR $695+ $1200 to move in, Call 610-772-4373 52nd & Parkside 2 BR $650+utils 3rd flr & studios from $500. 215.284.7944
1411 N. 76th St. 2 BR Condo $875 nw rugs, windws, w/d, prkg 215.740.4900 7400-7700 Brockton 1-2 BR $595-$875 www.perutoproperties.com 215.740.4900 7700 Brockton Rd 1br $695 golf course, c/a, prkg, w/d 215.740.4900
Balwynne Park 2BR $840+ W/D, C/A, W/W, Garage. 484-351-8633
Bryn Mawr Av., 1 BRs, hdwd flrs, $625725+ cook gas & elect. 215-247-0670.
1539 W. Wingohocking St. 1 BR $575 1st & last, cable, w/d. 267-304-1387 18xx N. 27th St. 1 BR $550 huge LR, electric incl, 267-258-0770 18xx Venango Effic $125/wk;2 BR $700 +utils,lndry on site,Avl Feb 1 267.339.1662 20xx N. 20th St. 2 BR $560+ elec/gas 2 floor. 215-681-6967 2538 N 15th 2 BR $600 35xx 11th St. Studio $450 Avail immed, Section 8 ok, 215-680-2538 33rd Street 2 BR $650 & up newly renov, near Univ 215.227.0700, 9-5 Allegheney Ave 2br $550+utils room $70 new kitch & paint, nr trans, 215-990-9709
1145 W. Venango St. 1br $600 hdwd flrs, new kit/bath. 215-519-7336 1, 2, 3, 4 Bedroom FURNISHED APTS LAUNDRY - PARKING 215-223-7000
1200 Blk Wagner Ave 1BR/1BA $575 Carpt BR, Hrdwd flrs, Bk yrd and porch Wtr incl in rent. 215-437-7980 45xx Old York Rd lg 1 BR $560+ elec 1st, last+ sec, $1680 mve in, 215-791-2125 48xx Carlisle 1br/1ba $575+utils beautiful, new renov,lrg bkyd, front porch, avail immed. $1725 mvn. 267-591-0021 Boulevard & Broad Vic. 1Br $500+utils spacious, renovated. 215-782-8007
N. FAIRHILL St 1br $600 w/d inc, newly renovated. 267-716-3662 The Julien Apts- 5600 Ogontz Ave Studio, 1Br& 2Br-Bright & Spacious Apts. 1st Month Free to Qualified Applicants Students,Senior Citizens&Sec 8 Welcome! Call or Come In M-F 9-5pm 215.276.5600
3730 N Bouvier St. 1br &2br $500- $550 1st flr, nwly remod, sec dep 215-275-5637 Hunting Park 1 BR $550 3rd flr, kitch, $1650 move in 215.232.0939
DOMINO LN 1 & 2 BR $745-$875 Renov, prkng, DW, near shopping & dining, mve-in special, 1st mo free. 215.500.7808 Manyunk Ave. 2 BR $995+ utils hrdwd flrs,c/a, w/d,no pets, 267.315.3095
66xx Cornellius St. 1Br/1Ba $625 newly renov, close to transp, 2 months rent & 1 mon security, 267-981-1018 67xx Blakemore St 1br $650+ modern, remodeled, no pets 215.477.8769 79xx Lowber St. 2br $775+utils 1st flr, d/w, w/d, gar, yd, (215)410-6907 CHESTNUT HILL 5br/2.5ba $1500 + sec & utils, . Sect. 8 OK. 215-224-6566 Cliveden St,1 BR/tile BA $565+ g/d, a/c, reno,off st,no pet,fridge 215.782.8030
6751 N. 13th St Eff $490 2br $595 cln,good location,new paint 215.316.7117 69th & Ogontz Area lg 2BR $700/mo Tastefully renovated, w/w carpet, spacious kitchen w/ oak cabinets, ceiling fans, tile bath, mini blinds, laundry. Call 215-242-1204 or 215-820-5957 Broad & Cheltnhm 1br $650 Studio $550 Quiet, Balcony, SEPTA (215)717-8245 East Oak Lane 4Br/2Ba $975+utils & Sec Sect. 8 OK. 215-224-6566 GERMANTOWN 2br/1Ba apt $700 2114 E. Chelten Ave Open kit & Living area & common fenced in yard. 1st mo rent & 1 mo sec req’d. (water incl). Avail now. Call 215-287-7773 to set up appt.
FRANKFORD 1 BR $450 newly renovated, + electric, 215.624.7100
4645 Penn St. 1BR $550 newly renov. Gas and water inc. 215-781-8072 4675 Frankford Ave 3 BR Sec 8 Ok newly renov, must see, 215-885-1700 4821 Griscom 1 BR $555 $1110 mve in, w/w, heat inc,267.255.6322 4840 Oxford Ave Studio, 1br & 2br apts Ldry,24/7 cam 267.767.6959 lic# 214340 Orthodox & Leiper 1 BR $580 2nd floor, clean, priv ent 215-289-2973
59xx Hegerman 2br $650+ priv prkg, laund rm, storage 215.626.4339 60xx Torresdale Ave 1br $550-$600 Sec 8 & Handicap welcome.267-992-3233 6812 Ditman St. Large 1BR prkg, lndry fac. 267.767.6959 Lic# 212751 Bells Corner 3BR/2BA $925+utils duplex, 2nd floor, credit check, Sec. 8 Ok. Call 215-673-2949 Fox Chase 2BR/1BA $850 Newly remodeled 1st floor duplex. Inside access to basement laundry area with washer & dryer. 3 blocks away from train station. 267-977-3337 LAWNCREST 19120 1 BR $600 fully renovated, 215-852-9738
Bala Cynwyd 2 BR/1 BA $1050 spacious 1st floor triplex, w/d, d/w, lovely area, 215-820-0442 or 215-740-8069
16xx Orthodox St, $120/wk, furnished, deposit required, Call 215-743-9950 16xx Swain st - Rooms for rent $100. a week or $400.a month (215) 609-8706 call for details 22nd & Dauphin rooms for rent $75$100. $300 to move in. 267-304-0018 22nd & Hunting Park, renov, lrg rm, furn $85-$95 wk 2nd week free! 215.960.1600 2500 W Lehigh: Studio,Prvt Kit/BA/Entr, $130/wk. $390 mv-in, Al 267-250-0761 26TH & YORK, large furn room for rent $300 move in. (267)632-9285 29xx OXFORD St. - Large Rooms $75 & up. SSI ok. Call 215-240-9499 3754 N 15th St Lg furnished rm, $90/wk + sec, No drugs, near trans 215-209-9046 38xx N. 15th: lg furn rm, shared kit/ba, $100/wk, $300 sec, 267-809-7866 39xx Baring St., quiet, lg, renov, furn, kitch , a/c, $100/wk & up (215)713.0271 41xx Poplar Ave, W Phila; 2xx Melville, Univ City. $85-$100/wk. 215-242-9124 42xx Frankford $450 2nd Flr room pvt entr, kit and Ba, clean. 215-289-2973 4500 N. 17th St. $350/ mo. new luxury room for rent. Hank 267-974-9271 4th & Diamond bed refrig micro. priv kit $135/wk $275 move in. 267-650-8427 507 E. Walnut Lane - Room for rent, $125/wk, utils included. 215-760-0206 53xx N Broad, lrg furn rooms, w/w carpet,TV, a/c, refrigerator. 267.496.6448 58th & Kingsessing 25th & Clearfield 8th & Luzern Front & Lehigh Share kiten & bath, $350 & up No sec dep, SSI OK. 215-758-7572 60th & Race, 13th & York, 21st & McKean, 15th & Clearfield 267.506.4006 65th & Kingsessing, 61st & Girard, Rooms & Efficiencies. (215)726-1811 Broad & Olney deluxe furn rms priv ent. $110 & $145/wk Sec $200. 215-572-8833 Camden NJ: Quiet furnished room in single home use of kitchen, $125/week, 2 weeks rent & 2 weeks security. Call (215)549-2404. C.B. Moore & 24th clean, single occpant, income verif $450/mo RJ 215-730-1613 Darby area furn. N/S, $450/mo cable & utils inc, use of house, 484-469-0753 E & Allegheny furn rm bed refrig micro $100/wk $225 move-in. 215-416-6538 Frankford, furn, no drugs, near El, room in apt, $85/wk+ $250 sec. 215-526-1455 Frankford Rooms for Rent: shared kitchen & bath, single occupant, $440/mo, includes all utils, mini fridge, 215.913.6615 Germantown: 5549 Bloyd St, $75$125/wk, shared bath, 215-324-1655 Germantown, Clean furn. rooms, some with private baths. Call Jeff 215-805-3823 Germantown: lg Room, $120/wk, shared kitchen & ba, $360 move in 215-849-5861 G-town & Oaklane, furnished rooms, $100-$125/wk,use of house 215.280.4675 Kensington 25xx Frankford Ave. furn, prvt bth & kit. $450. pvt kit, share bth $395. Single occupancy. 267-968-7043 LaSalle Area: Large furnished room w/ cooking, $110/wk. 215-219-3411 MT. AIRY (Best Area) $120/week. SSI ok, 215-730-8956
Temple area: Lambert St., use of kitch & ba, near trans, $125/wk 215.765.9500 W. & N. Phila. nice rooms, well maint, kitchen privileges, utils incl 215-350-6626 W. Phila 57th St lrg rms, $100-$125/wk, newly renovated, (267)591-8577 W. Phila & Roxborough, large rms, $135$150/wk, $300 move in. 215.432.6038
homes for rent 14xx S. 21 St. 3 BR/1.5 BA $870+ utils new kitchen, full basement, 267.331.0854 18xx Sigel 3br $595+ handyman special rent/own 215.783.0148 24th & Federal Vic 3BR $700+ utils nice block, 215-339-4041 24xx S Beulah St. 2br/1ba $700+utils fresh paint, hdwd flrs, 267-243-4515 26xx Wilder St. 3Br new renov, hw flrs, recessed lighting, tiled bath, new kitch, Sec 8 ok. 215-397-7908 27th & Reed 3 BR Sec 8 ok new renov, must see. 215-885-1700
Brookhaven 2BR/1.5 BA $1250 Cambridge Square Twnhse. 215-353-1919 HOMES FOR RENT start’g @ $800+ Many to choose from. Mazer 215-242-3221
20xx E. Rittenhouse St. 2 BR/1 BA $750 exc move in cond, Sec 8 ok, 267.544.9221
30xx A St. 2br $600+ porch, new w/w carpet. 215-836-1960 6xx E Wensley 2br $625 $1875 move in, sec 8 ok, (215)559-9289 6XX E. WISHART 3BR $625 + utils. New paint. 267-645-9421 8xx Willard St. 3BR/1BA $685/month newly renovated. Call (609)871-2866 Jasper St Big 3 BR $750+utils porch, DW, garbage disposal, security, close church & Tioga station 201.321.0543
25XX Tulip St 2 Br/1Ba $900 freshly painted, new carpets throughout, new kit & bath. 215-676-3934 54xx Akron St. 3br/1ba $825+ utils 2 month sec. (215)888-3010
28xx Ryerson Pl. 2 BR $750 Duplex, 2nd flr, incl water, W/W carpets, garage, big bkyard, no pets 267.784.2809 42xx Castor 3 BR/1 BA $875+ 2 mo sec,1 mo rent., Mr Tan, 267.287.3175 Holmesburg 3br/1ba $1100/mo just renov, beautiful house. 267-337-3923 Knights & Fairdale 3Br $1550+utilities W/D, refrige, nice yard, off street parking. Call 215-632-5829 Mayfair 3br/1ba $1000/mo just renov, beautiful house. 267-337-3923 Mayfair 3br/2.5ba $1,300+utils walk-out bsmt, w/d, No smkg/pets, short/ long term, no garage 215-947-2805 til 8p Mayfair lrg 3BR $950+utils porch, backyard, carpet. 215-704-4427 MESA 3 BR $910 quiet,renov,gar., appliances 347.206.0512 OXFORD CIRCLE 3 BR/1 BA $875+ garage, no pets, Call 215-750-3612
Darby near Main St. 3br/1ba $950+util 1st/last & sec, Sec 8 ok, (610)394-0768 Highland Park, U.D. 3 BR/1 BA $1050 spacious, nice bsmnt, 610-405-2849 Upper Darby 3br/1ba $1175 finished bsmt & 2br $850. (610)642-5655
Blue Bell 3br/2.5ba Condo + loft $2000 like new, new appliances, private brick patio, Call 610-608-8102
Somerdale 4 BR/1.5 BA $1740+ central air, garage, yard, family room, dining room, laundry, 856-346-0747
resorts/rent Stone Harbor Beach Block 1 & 2 BR apt Air, W/D, avail. wkly., great loc. 215-8053119 pebblesguesthouse@gmail.com
Ocean City : Bright spacious duplex, a/c, parking, 2 units, 1 BR: Season - $7950, 1/2 season - $4250. 1 BR w/ loft: Season $9000; 1/2 season -$4650, 609.398.1348 Stone Harbor Beach Block 8BR/5BA Sleeps 24, all ammens, avail. wkly, 215805-3119 pebblesguesthouse@gmail.com
Saw Creek, Stream Front, 3br/2ba sleeps 8, lots amens, Weekends & Weeks, 2/12 & 2/21 and more. 609-587-9493
commercial industrial NE 2 car garage, non-commercial, 88xx Cottage St. $200/mo. 215-335-3615
56xx Thomas Ave. 3br $850 washer & dryer included, (215)313-2084 60xx Reinhard St. 3 BR frnt prch & bk yd, Sec 8 ok. 215.356.2434
3xx S. 58th St. 3BR Sec 8 OK, 732-267-2190 or 215-839-9211 5260 Addison 3 BR $750 completely remodeled, 610-405-1322 58XX BELMAR Terr Lrg 3BR, New paint, Refrig, porch, yard $725+, 267-645-9421 6xx Brooklyn 3br/1.5ba $875+utils W/D, front & back yards. 215-294-0087 West Phila 3 BR $750-$925 1st & last mo rent, 1 mo sec 215.878.2857 WEST PHILA 3 BR newly renovated, Section 8 and all rental programs welcome. Call (484)614-6043
24XX TORONTO Lrg 3BR, New paint, Refrig, porch, yard $750+, 267-645-9421 27xx N 25th St. 3br/1ba $800 w/w crpt, a/c, sec alarm (215)744-8338 28xx Ringgold 3br $700+utils renovated, Sec 8 OK (215)424-2785
27xx W Thompson 2BR $650+utils mod BA & kit,bkyd,nr trans, 215.765.9500
66XX Lotus Rd 3BR/1BA $1050 Fin Bse garg hardwd flrs $1050 plus elect & water. Call 215-324-4424 9am-5pm
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1356/1362 E Rittenhouse 1br $550 & 2br $650, newly renov, new appls, gorgeous apt, must see!! 215-200-5286
2xx W Coulter St. 4br/1ba $850+util w/d, 1st & last mo. rent. (267)549-4690 507 E. Walnut Lane cute 1br Efficiency $575mo. newly renovated (215)760.0206 5220 Wayne Ave. Studio & 1br newly renov 267.767.6959 Lic# 507568 5321 Wayne Ave Efficiency $550 1 BR, $600. 2-3br $700. (215)776-6277 6329 Morton St. 1BR/1BA $550/mo Harvey 267-236-5572
Collingdale 1br/1ba $675+utils balcony, w/d hkup in unit 610-622-4425 Lansdowne spacious 1Br $725+utils close to trans (610)772.4509 or 284-1323 Wallingford 2Br $1020/mo w/w, d/w, g/d, bsmt, pool (484)995.2009
Roxborough 3BR/1 Full & 2 1/2 BA $1500 7309 Valley Ave.. Spacious. Tenant pays utilities. 610-497-2700
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N.E. Phila room for rent Furn. Near trans. Quiet. 267-499-6600 North Phila Furnished Room, $400/mo cable ready, Call 215-207-3008 North Phila, West Phila & Logan- Private entr, $70-$125/wk + APT, 609-877-0375 N. Phila, 18xx W. Berks St., Furn Rooms, privte entry, $75-$85 wk. 2 weeks rent + 2 weeks sec. $300 or $340 to move in. No cooking. Call John (215)236-8518 N Phila, 24xx Bancroft, nice size rooms, no security deposit, 215-852-2965 N. Phila. Furn, Priv Ent $80 & up, SSI ok Near trans. Avail Immed. 215-763-5565 N. Phila Sr. citizen, furn, single occup $100wk util inc,no smoking 267.385.5932 PARKSIDE $115-125 Newly renov. $250 move in. 856-813-0992 ROOMS for the Big Game 10mi away $200/nite-min 4 nites 713-501-9425 South Phila $500/mo. 1st Week Free Furn, spacious, incls utils 267.600.2887 SW-N-W Move-in Special!$90-$150/wk clean rms, use of kitch, SSI 215-220-8877 SW Phila: Furnished, near transportation, $120/wk. 267-237-0203
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1BR & 2BR Apts $690-$815 spacious, great loc., upgraded, heat incl, PHA vouchers accepted 215-966-9371 236 W WALNUT LN effic/1br fr $540 SPECIAL-$99 Sec Deposit! HISTORIC
Lawndale 2br $725+utils 2nd flr, w/d, d/w, c/a (215)342-2140 NORTH EAST 2BR apt $850, new kitchen & appliancess. Good credit a must. Call David Foster 215.849.1111, 215.927.6832
422 Stanford Road 4Br/2Ba $2,200 mo Large Family Rm w/fplc & sklights. Full fin bsmt w/lg screen projection TV. Private backyard w/patio. Upgrades throughout. 267-934-7487
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BMW 328I 1996 $2875 5 spd,75K, nice,insp, rns grt 215.303.5109
Landrover Discovery LE 1998 $1995 auto, sunroof, gorgeous 610-524-8835
Cadillac Deville 2001 $3,000 great condition, loaded. 215-389-4310
Lincoln Towncar 1995 $1800 runs great,remote start,insp 267.271.2962
CHEV Venture Extd 1999 $3,400/obo Looks/runs great, 1 owner, new inspection, new tires, 111K, 610-836-2260
Mazda 626 LX 1995 $1250 all pwr,no rust/dent,rns exc 215.620.9383
CHEVY 2000 Astro Deluxe Cargo Van A/C, auto, fully equipped, ladder racks plus bins, original miles, garage kept, lite commercial, superbuy! $3985, Also, CHEVY 2000 Deluxe 3/4 Ton Express 2500 work van w/ ladder rack+ shelving, V8, auto trans, orig mi, garage kept, lite commercial, really nice, $3985. My new trucks have arrived, Cathy, 215-922-6113 Chrysler Sebring 2004 $4000 81k mi., loaded, sunroof 215-850-5702
Chrysler Town Country 2006 $10,600 insp,fully loaded, 70K miles, 215.400.1568 CHRY Town & Country 2005 $10,150 Silver, 52,453 mi. 215-873-4611
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Taurus SES 2002 $5300 mint inside/out, only 69k. (215)668-0226 AUDI AWD A4 ’99 Great cond; 150K Ford F250 XLT 4x4 Ext Cab $4500 mi; $4,500 negotiable 484-574-8590 136k mi., Heavy Duty, 215-397-8625
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Mercury Grand Marquis Brougham 2001 $4975 Luxury 4 dr, top of the line, special sound system + custom wheels, owner sacrifice, quick sale. Mary 215-922-2165 Mercury Sable GS 1998 $1,150 all pwr,no rust/dent,rns exc215.620.9383 MERCURY SABLE LS 1999 $3575 75k, lthr, mnrf, lks/runs grt 267-815-8888 Nissan Pathfinder 1997 $2995 4x4, sunroof, gorgeous, 610-524-8835 Plymouth Acclaim 1993 $1600 new insp, very clean, call (215)920-0929 PontiacSunfire SE Coupe 2005 $2875 gold, loaded, alloys, wings, 267.592.0448 Toyota Camry LE 1993 $1150 all pwr, no rust/dents, 4 cyl 215.620.9383
Ford Crown Victoria 1999 $1,500/obo Ex state police, white, 167k,215-880-2277
Toyota Tercel 1996 $1,000 4 cylinder, auto, needs TLC 267-825-2315
FORD EXPLORER SPORT 1999 $2450 4x4, 2 door, loaded, nice. 215-518-8808
Volvo S70 T5 Turbo 1998 $2475 blk, lthr, mnrf, 16’’ alloys, 267.592.0448
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F/T P/T Earn $ 2,000- $3,000 per Month, Business minded! contact:Terrance 267-7500987 Antique Furniture,
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