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Federal housing authorities are considering several options that would give them more power over the Philadelphia Housing Authority. “You know what?” says PHA, hung over in the waiting room at the clinic, scrolling through its text messages in an attempt to piece together the night before. “It probably is time we had a few boundaries.”
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Tony Luke opens a cheesesteak shop in Bahrain.“I just heard the name on the news and was like, ‘Hey all those people partying in the streets look hungry!’ What? No, I didn’t catch what the story was about. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to Libya, where I believe there’s some sort of Mardi Gras situation going on.”
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FROM THE BAR: Attorney Leon King is representing Fiso Lounge owner Frank Funaro in his suit against the city. MARK STEHLE
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few weeks ago, news broke that the FBI is investigating a possible extortion racket that may extend to the Philadelphia Police Department, the Department of Licenses & Inspection, tow truck companies, strip clubs and a beer distributor believed to be tied to a longtime city employee. So far, the only solid details that have emerged center around an alleged scheme in which bar and restaurant owners were told to purchase beer from Chappy’s Beer Butts and Bets, a South Philly distributor, to “curry favor” with L&I. No charges have been filed; but on Feb. 17, Dominic Verdi, an L&I deputy commissioner on the city’s Nuisance Task Force — and, according to a Fox 29 report, a part-owner of Chappy’s — was demoted and then abruptly resigned after more than 35 years with the department, adding to the speculation that this investigation is farreaching. A lawsuit expected to be filed this week, which City Paper has obtained an advanced copy of, will likely fuel that speculation. In the complaint, Frank Funaro, owner of South Street club Fiso Lounge, claims to have been the victim of harassment by police officers, state police and L&I workers, including Verdi himself, in retaliation for reporting bad police behavior and because he failed to purchase beer from Chappy’s. The suit, filed by attorney and former Prison Commissioner Leon King (now running for Common Pleas
judge), names more than 40 public officials. It also reveals that city officials had been told about the alleged activities of Verdi and others more than a year ago. Funaro’s allegations are, of course, only allegations, but they raise questions about how many people are involved in whatever it is, exactly, that the feds are investigating — and who knew about it. Funaro’s troubles began, he alleges, in 2008, after he hired a few police officers to work a private security detail at his bar. When some of them began acting rude to customers, he complained to their district captain as well as to City Council President Anna Verna’s office. That, alleges Funaro, is when the retribution began. On May 10, 2009, the lawsuit says, Fiso Lounge was visited by a group of “numerous heavilyarmed police officers and other officials” from the city’s multiagency Nuisance Task Force — includingVerdi. Funaro said the officials “used loud profanity” and “banged their nightsticks on tables … and otherwise terrified and scared customers” before ordering the club closed for fire safety and electrical issues. Funaro says he quickly fixed the problems. A few weeks later, he was nonetheless served with a ceaseoperations order by L&I. Funaro appealed, and the L&I Review Board sustained his appeal in June 2009, overturning the order. Shortly thereafter, on July 11, 2009, Funaro says, Nuisance Task Force members came back with Kenneth Gassman, an L&I employee later indicted for an extortion scheme. This time, police and other city officials allegedly pepper-sprayed customers, broke
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According to a group of riled-up Democratic committee people, getting a letter to Congressman Bob Brady can be hard — especially if he doesn’t like what it has to say. Gloria Gilman, a Center City lawyer, sent him a dispatch on Jan. 26, signed by her and 13 other Democratic leaders, demanding that the Democratic City Committee, which Brady heads, meet with them to discuss how the party has “failed to honor the will of the voters.” The letter was returned, with the word “Refused” scrawled by hand across it. Gilman sent City Paper a photograph. Even without opening it, Brady might have had a sneaking suspicion about what criticisms the letter contained. Back in August 2010, Gilman sent a similar dispatch to Brady — this time signed by more than 40 Democratic committee people and activists — that accused party leaders of acting “in bad faith” to unseat committee person Tracey Gordon, who was elected to the 40th Ward in Southwest Philly during May’s primary but then immediately kicked out by the ward leader [“When Elections Don’t Matter,” News, Holly Otterbein, July 9, 2010]. By the Democratic City Committee’s own admission, they didn’t let her in, in part, because she wanted to shake up the party. “If ward leaders remove all committee people who are in dissent, the voices of many people in the minority will be forever silenced,” Gilman wrote then. Whether that letter was opened, she doesn’t know. Brady never got back to her — or, as of press time, CP.
Michael Ta’Bon spent the entire month of February sitting in an outdoor prison cell he fashioned himself along West Hunting Park Avenue. The 36-year-old ex-con and multiple felon — who’s racked up convictions mostly for robbery, assault and firearms violations — hopes his stunt will send a message to kids, dissuading them from the path he once chose. His self-imposed public confinement was supposed to end, along with the month of February, on Monday. But on a drizzling, miserable Feb. 28 around 7 p.m., he told CP that he now planned to stay in “prison” for an extra five days — to serve a “parole violation,” he explained, which he had imposed on himself. The reason? A few weeks ago, Ta’Bon briefly escaped from his homemade jail to attend Mayor Michael Nutter’s speech to the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce — an event to which he was not invited — with a cadre of fellow ex-cons. The group entered the room and, despite being asked to leave, attempted to stage a “silent protest” of what they see as insufficient action on the part of the mayor’s administration to help ex-cons back into society. “Not only did you not have permission to leave your cell, but you were not invited to this ‘invitation only’ affair,” he reprimanded himself in writing. He also self-imposed parole violations for participating in a march against juvenile prisons and another march protesting questions about felony status on job applications. The lesson for the kids: “even when you think there’s a light at the end, they can still lock you back up.” Ta’Bon’s “prison” stint is now set to end Sat., March 5, at 3 p.m. —Matt Stroud
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—Holly Otterbein ✚ Correction: Last week, CP incorrectly stated that the Newbold Neighbors was not a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, citing an outdated reference on the group’s website. In fact, the group is a nonprofit. We regret the error.
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³ OF THE GREAT classical arts — lute strumming, urn decorating and so forth — it’s the fine art of oratory that most rouses Man Overboard! The carefully crafted speech, the finely honed argument, that’s the stuff! And what oratory we had this week, as the House Gaming Oversight Committee heard testimony on a bill that would allow the revoked Foxwoods Casino license to be re-bid statewide. Alan Greenberger, chairman of the city’s Planning Commission, made known the city’s readiness for a second casino. Asked if crime has been an issue at SugarHouse, Greenberger reported that police told him “there have been no serious issues at all [at] the SugarHouse Casino.” And what about “a noted pistol-whipping incident in the parking lot?” asked Committee chair Rep. Curt Schroder (R-Chester).“There was that one incident,” Greenberger replied, “and there do not seem to be any others.”Actually, the Inquirer reported that three criminal incidents at SugarHouse had preceded the pistol-whipping, and City Paper found its numbers wrong, too:When writer Holly Otterbein checked last November, police had reported 22 incidents. Then there was Philly lawyer James DiVergilis, who testified to the benefits of bringing a second casino to Philadelphia because of, he explained, its “ethniticities.” Yes: eth-ni-ti-ci-ties — a word a lesser man might have pronounced in four syllables — specifically,“the Slavic community and the Asians.” When Rep. John Lawrence (R-Delaware) said he found “the profiling and targeting of particular ethnic groups extremely disturbing,” DiVergilis answered sagely: “I agree with you.” Less cunning was the heartfelt testimony of Paul Boni, a board member of Stop Predatory Gambling, who used an oldie but goodie: the rhetorical question. Explaining his own opposition to “convenience” casinos everywhere, Boni said: “I’ll put it to you in the form a question:What percentage of the revenue of Pennsylvania casinos is coming from gambling addicts and problem gamblers?” It’s a question, as Boni pointed out, whose answer is known to the casinos: He noted that a Parx president bragged at an industry conference that most of the people in his database — anyone with a “loyalty card,” that is — came three or four nights a week. “That’s 200 days a year,” Boni said. And yet it’s a question for which the legislators before him had no answer. Maybe they should get one. ✚ Yon Isaiah Thompson has a lean and hungry look. Write
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the DJ’s equipment and confiscated the cell phone of a customer filming the raid. CP could find no record of violations or citations issued against Fiso Lounge in July. Calls to Verdi and a police officer allegedly involved were not returned. Sometime in the middle of all this, Funaro says a fellow bar owner advised him to buy beer from Chappy’s. Funaro says he was even given a phone number for Greg Quigley — according to The Philadelphia Inquirer, a partner at Chappy’s who pled guilty to a perjury charge related to an organizedcrime gambling scheme — in order to “set this fix.” At this point, he says, Funaro hired attorney King, who proceeded to alert public officials of the alleged extortion racket. On Feb. 3, 2010 King detailed the alleged scheme in a letter to the heads of the Police, L&I, the Managing Director, the Inspector General, Deputy Mayor for Safety and Law departments. “The Nuisance Task Force has been abusing [their] authority,” he wrote. “From what I can tell, the abuse is long-standing and widespread.” King named names, including Verdi’s. City Paper contacted those city agencies and asked if they took any action. Inspector General Amy Kurland says she was aware of a related federal investigation at the time and referred the letter to the FBI and the
U.S. Attorney’s Office. Mayoral spokesman Mark McDonald, commenting on behalf of all the other city agencies King contacted, says the city referred King’s letter to the “appropriate authorities” but declined to specify which. Police spokesman Lt. Ray Evers will not comment on open investigations. The story gets more convoluted. In 2010, Funaro’s bar was raided again, this time by state police, and Funaro was charged with three counts of serving alcohol to minors. Funaro says this, too, was part of a conspiracy: He claims to have been apprised of the raid, and asked for a bribe by state police. State Police Sgt. William LaTorre calls assertions of wrongdoing by state police “incorrect.” King says his client’s case shows the city failing to take action: “The only reason Dominic Verdi was demoted is because the feds stepped in.” (holly.otterbein@citypaper.net)
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✚ Kurt Vile and the Violators play Fri., March 4, 7 p.m., free, AKA Records, 27 N. Second St., 215-
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“I know this record has broader appeal, and if that means I’m pissing some people off who thought I was, like, their lo-fi savior or something, I don’t know … ” Kurt Vile lets the thought trail off. He’s sitting on a short stone wall around the corner from his NoLibs trinity, smoking a cigarette and paying no mind to the quickening pace of an afternoon rain shower. The lo-fi gripe is particularly vexing. “It just doesn’t make any sense. If you want to have a musical career, you keep getting better,” he reasons. “What, am I gonna make this sound shitty?” His new album, Smoke Ring For My Halo, is due out next week on Matador. Where some of his earlier releases reveled in their mysterious, overcast sound, this new one’s noticeably crisper, with a few more mellow moments. Instead of charging out of the gate with a big rock number — as he did on his 2008 breakthrough, Constant Hitmaker, and his 2009 Matador debut, Childish Prodigy — Halo opens with the blissful and textured “Baby’s Arms.” The benefits of proper studio recording are all over this song: articulated acoustic guitar, beatific female backing vocals, a lone tambourine chiming in from another galaxy. “The album’s not even out yet, and once it leaked some people just gave a review after hearing it twice and said, ‘Oh, he just has these personal lyrics and there’s no hooks, and it’s totally clean, and the dirtiness was part of his charm.’” Vile sounds a little pissed, a little exasperated, but mostly his usual philosophical self. “Did Bob Dylan have hooks? I don’t know. What is a hook, exactly?” If a hook is some sticky guitar lick you hear long after the song is over, or a lyric you find yourself singing in your downtime, then Halo’s got hooks. “Puppet to the Man” is Exhibit A, a desperate and bluesy rocker that builds a bridge out of a murmur and digs into the listener with quick, bleak lyrics. “This one goes out to all those who want the rat to survive,” he sings with a swagger, his voice reverberating as if off canyon walls. “Of course by this I am alluding I want him to die.” Vile’s an upbeat guy — and he’s quick to say life is really good right now — but he does agree that Halo’s got a cynical undercurrent. See lines like “Society is my friend, it makes me lie down in a cold bloodbath” and “My best friend’s long gone but I got runner-ups.” More than ever, Vile’s getting good mileage out of his sometimes sparse lyrics, and he was pleased enough to include them with the album, a first for him. Back in 2009, City Paper named Vile Philly Artist of the Year, but his biggest moments have come since then: His personal life has seen the birth of a daughter and, thanks to the success of Childish Prodigy,a downpayment on a house. Career-wise, he’s soaring, too. He and his tight band of Violators have opened for Panda Bear, Pavement, The Black Keys and Big Star. They’ve played All Tomorrow’s Parties and the big Matador 21 showcase; future ATP and Primavera festival gigs are booked, as is the band’s first proper European tour. Vile’s also sat in for eight tracks on J. Mascis’ new record, and will support the Dinosaur Jr. frontman on his upcoming U.S. solo tour. And by then the record will be out, officially. His request to the skeptic or the casual fan? Give Halo a serious shot. You’ll find the hooks. “I’m an obsessive listener so that probably has something to do with it,” he sums up, the rain beading up on his sweater. “Maybe with my music you have to listen a little closer.”
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As album titles go, Avant Gold is pretty on-the-nose for a band like Ryat. Their sound is a rare alloy indeed, part melodic hitmaking material, part some other wonderfully bizarre thing less easily mined and identified. The Bucks County-born duo — singer/programmer Christina Ryat and guitarist Tim Conley — have played in some curious circles. With Calvin G. Weston and King Britt, Ryat has manipulated her soulful voice via pedals and loops. “Place in My Heart,” her collaboration with Taylor McFerrin, will be featured on the latter’s forthcoming record for the Brainfeeder label. Conley, meanwhile, has improvised with some of Philly’s wilder fusion-based ensembles: Grimace Federation, PhillyBloco and Ocean Exposition. She has the pipes and the pop chops. Both are sharp multi-instrumentalists. Together they could play it straight, but they choose not to. What other new band would dare steal thunder from its first proper album with a concurrently released alternate version? (See: Avant Gold Remixed.) “We so believe in the album and how it turned out — which was a total experiment — that having the remixes out now is like having another taste and perspective available,” says Conley. He breaks down the most intense track on Avant Gold,“Not for this Lifetime,” with pleasure.“It has it all,” he rhapsodizes.“The compositional elements, progressions, all the instruments that weave in and out. That highlights Christina’s vocals so many different ways all in one song. She holds so much dynamics and character in her voice. She can be soft and mysterious, then use the other side of her range, belting and powerful.” Ryat in turn compliments Conley’s improvisational largesse and his quickness to experiment with time signatures and effects processing to create something fresh. “Tim’s unafraid to take musical jumps and challenge himself,” she says. “We are the seam to each other’s chaos.” That said, Ryat left her previous collaboration with Conley — in the experimental/jungle five-piece As Human (Kilo) — a couple years ago to re-create herself as the vocal queen and poetic lyricist of electro-improvisational soul, like Björk without the Icelandic howls. “This whole sound was an evolution of me experimenting with production in my home studio, having fun messing with sound,” she says. “I didn’t leave my bedroom for almost a whole year. When I came out I wanted to figure out how to perform the ideas live by myself with looping mechanism and software.” In a way, Ryat’s work is a less politicized version of what M.I.A. or even Ursula Rucker does. She’s happy to have left the organic-acoustic vibe behind. “The world is in sync with that,” she says. “My favorite thing to do in the world is to improvise within a written song — that’s the jazz player in me — and to experiment with sound.” Even with other people, as it turns out; since Conley re-joined the Ryat act in the last 18 months, he’s only made things more vibrant and synth-onic, on disc and on stage. “Honestly, we played hot potato with our three laptops for two weeks at a cabin in upstate New York, and boom, Avant Gold was written,” Ryat says with a smile. “We all chopped up and wrote drum parts, synth sections. Tim stapled it together with guitar and I stapled it with layers and layers upon vocals, but for the most part we all played and wrote everything by passing the potato. It’s so fun. It’s like kids in a candy store and we get all the candy. But sometimes it can be too much and we do get stomach aches.”
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“Our problem is we have too many songs,” says Tim Meskers. “Which kind of is a good problem to have.” Don’t get the wrong idea. Brown Recluse’s soft-spoken singer-guitarist doesn’t overwhelm people with his prolific writing — he’s not Daniel Johnston — but the Philly five-piece is dropping two releases this winter. Its official full-length debut, Evening Tapestry, gets a physical release March 15 on Slumberland Records. The companion, Panoptic Mirror Maze,has been a free download on Brown Recluse’s Bandcamp page since January. Meskers says the band needed both collections to get their current ideas off the shelf and into the world. The works are intertwined — the title of Tapestry is taken from a song on Panoptic, and themes of tombs and death echo across the two. There’s also a sonic link: humming organs, bright horns and jangly acoustic guitars that were all recorded while the band was shut in at the South Philadelphia house shared by Meskers and keyboardist Mark Saddlemire during the snowpocalypse of February 2010. “We spent 14 hours that day recording stuff,” says singer-guitarist Herbie Shellenberger. “Everything from distorted bongos to backup vocals.” The long block of home-studio time was indispensable, since the arrangements planned were practically orchestral in scope. Meskers calls the process “meticulous”; lengthy conversations about minutiae such as tape echo and reverb took place before they pressed record (and after). “They would really push me to try different things,” adds Shellenberger. “For other bands I’ve been in, it’s very one and done.” Brown Recluse’s previous EPs, The Soft Skin (2009) and Black Sunday (released under the moniker Brown Recluse Sings in 2008), are breezy pop in a retro ’60s fashion, the stuff of Belle and Sebastian and The Essex Green. Slumberland honcho Mike Schulman says he was immediately attracted to their style when Shellenberger slipped him a demo at Pi Lam in 2009. “It referred back to a lot of music I like — Curt Boettcher’s sunshine pop, and Margo Guryan, obviously — but it doesn’t sound like them exactly,” he says. “That’s hard to do, especially for a young band.” The new releases take that existing variety and expound on it. Tapestry’s single, “Impressions of a City Morning,” is a bouncy romp that’s probably the most akin to Brown Recluse songs of yore (like “Contour and Context” or “Margo, Left in Bed”). Brushstick beats skip along, acoustic guitars race after, Meskers and Shellenberger harmonize, horns enter in the distance. On Panoptic,“Memory Museum” moves in a similar fashion, with its opening fanfare and staccato guitar accents. But the snappy pitter-patter of “Monday Moon” on Tapestry shows a more synthpop side to Brown Recluse, equaled by the fractured raygun beeps and feisty organ on Panoptic’s “Skeletons.” Atmospheric keyboard notes meet ’50s slow dance sounds on “Statue Garden.” Most unexpected is how macabre both collections get: A harpsichord lurches across “Mirror Mansion,” while “Wax Fangs” sets a slow, spooky mood. “Paisley Tears,” Tapestry’s penultimate number, is the most dramatic shift in that direction, where uneasy wah-pedal guitar, theremin, a minor-key arpeggio and eerie strings drift down a haunted stream. After all the boundary-pushing and mood-swinging, Meskers says he’s inspired to take things further still. “I think the new stuff I’m working on for Brown Recluse is a little more dark,” he says. “It’s not going to be as sunshine poppy.”
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Until it’s over, you don’t realize how long the clip was. “It must be the devil. It must be the devil… OOOWOW! OOOWOW! Yeh! Devil! Yeh! Devil!” Two tracks into his solo debut, Winston’s Appeal,Philadelphia rapper Curly Castro (born Kinte McDaniel) interrupts the flow with one minute and 29 seconds of spoken word. Tweaked synthesizers and riding beats swap out for Amiri Baraka reciting “Dope.” The 1980 poem is a stunning, relentless and utterly captivating indictment of blame displacement by a racist society (“Caint be Vorster, Caint be apartheid, Caint be imperialism, Jimmy Carter wouldn’t lie”). As Castro says over dinner at Tritone earlier this month, “It hits everything perfectly. You can’t deny it — you might just have to listen in silence ’cause you might be ashamed that all this stuff is actually true.” Sampling it, however, is a total artistic curveball, a challenge to throw at listeners. Castro sees it the other way. “In groups I did before, sometimes we had pop sensibilities and you don’t want to offend this, that and the third,” says the MC, once a side player in the defunct crew Bohemian Fifth. “Sometimes certain references I used to make weren’t immediately recognizable. “But I feel like in my solo ventures, that’s what I’m supposed to do,” he continues. “I’m supposed to make these terms recognizable. I’m supposed to make people know who Fred Hampton is, I’m supposed to make people know who Bobby Seale is, who Sonia Sanchez is. Or Amiri Baraka is.” Castro came to hip-hop 10 years ago while studying poetry at Temple under Sanchez. Some friends began performing as Nemesis, and he came on board as their hype man — a role he later relished in Natural Burners and Bo 5th. But as those groups dissolved, Castro kept rapping and writing, developing his skills to do more than just bring the party. Today he cuts a charismatic figure next to Zilla Rocca (née Stephen Zales) in emergent noir-hop act 5 O’Clock Shadowboxers. But on Winston’s Appeal, Castro takes the spotlight, delivering his treatise on society’s ills and the music industry’s ills, mixing a bit of autobiography into a punchy antithesis of your conventional rap record. The dense commentary of “Moses” is reminiscent of outspoken artists like Saul Williams or The Coup. The personal scope of “Flatbush & Church” (a telling of Castro’s Brooklyn roots) and unabashed criticism of “Eulogy to L” (based around a mutated Atmosphere sample) recalls KRS-One. Half of “The Preamble” is a two-minute clip of the black Civil War soldiers in the film Glory bonding and singing campfire spirituals before battle. The Baraka clip returns again, on “My Blood Runs Rebel,” for a minute and nine seconds this time, a heady complement to Castro’s rhyme “This is for the heavy-handed, the heavy readers/ Not those elitists, just true seekers.” Rocca, who sequenced the album and produced several tracks, admits the dense samples made him uneasy. “Consciously it’s such a dope record,” Rocca says. “But I was like, I don’t know if people are ready to deal with it.” But as it shook out, he continues, the samples lend Winston’s Appeal variety, as well as thoughtful depth — different tracks for different mood. With so much in the pot, Rocca concludes, you never get tired of hearing Castro rap. Castro smiles knowingly — this was his plan. “I’m not ashamed to say I’m a rapper, but sometimes, rap is boring,” Castro says. “Sometimes you just oversaturate your listener. The way I set the album up, it allows people to take a breath, but not an intellectual pause.”
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³ “As the band played on, the pasta began to encompass an ever-widening area that soon left Revival’s dance floor (and patrons) resembling the aftermath of a spaghetti holocaust.” —Frank Blank on The Serial Killers, July 15, 1988 ³ “Any college-educated kid, like Garrett, who insists on singing with the slurred creole of elderly sharecroppers needs to be slapped silly.” —Roni Sarig on G. Love, Nov. 9, 1995 ³ “Nearly everyone was seated quietly save for a young blind man who stood up waving his long metal cane in the air, assuming, perhaps, that everyone else was doing something similarly rowdy.” —Margit Detweiler on Liz Phair opening for Alanis Morissette at the First Union Center, Feb. 18, 1999
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he Philadelphia music scene is a beast. It’s given to mutation and stagnancy, as adept at wallowing in its own filth as it is at striking out to affirm its primacy. Our bands are prone to breakups and lineup-shuffling. Our MCs take forever to get to the recording studio. Our sound is unclear: Are we a dirty West Philly punk town? A slick Kenzo street cipher town? A NoLibs indie-pop town? We’re all of those at once, and it can be tough to get a handle on — for the outside looking in as much as the inside looking around. So, this imperfect thing, nebulous, divided in its purpose and desires, ugly, untamed — it’s not easy to love, is it? But if you do love it, or at least want to, then we’re kindred spirits, brothers and sisters in arms, good listeners. And I’m glad you’re here, reading this. Because sometimes, when we leave the office late and step out onto Second Street, where High Life D-bags yell at Ed Hardywearing A-holes and the Black Eyed Peas is blaring from rolled-down windows, well, it tests the faith of an alt-weekly. Philly’s a big tent, and there’s plenty of room for all of us, but that overlarge dude punching — yes, punching — that overlarge sports utility vehicle is probably not going to read an article in City Paper on Curly Castro, or Ryat, or whoever, and make a mental note to see those artists perform live. This newspaper was into music since before its debut issue, back when it was called the XPN Express and served as a newsletter for Philadelphia’s esteemed triple-A radio station. When it finally became City Paper, in November 1981, some of the groundwork was laid: Mary Armstrong, still our roots writer, got her first byline in issue one. Peter Burwasser, our classical music expert to this day, showed up in issue two. (Raise a glass to them: a fine shiraz for him, a goblet of tequila for the lady.) When somebody brought up this CP30 idea — a few issues scattered throughout 2011 wherein we briefly, humbly, acknowledge this newspaper’s three decades in the biz — I started going
through the archives to get a sense of Philly music-scene history. Back in the late ’80s and early ’90s, City Paper’s resident rock writer, Frank Blank, started every column with a “Howdy, folks!” From that, you might glean that the city and the paper were in the midst of some curiously genial epoch, where upbeat vibes and goodwill ruled. Not so. Blank often used his space as a soapbox: “Can there ever again be a dangerous new music that has an effect not only on music but on society as well?” he wrote in 1989. “Or is rock now faced with endless variations of what has happened before? I’d like to think there’s something big about to happen, something that will either thrill people or repel them the way great rock music should — and it should sound like nothing heard before.” So, yeah, music editors at alt-weeklies are sorta given to these little moments of existential doubt. Nirvana’s Nevermind came out two years after Blank wrote those lines, and while his initial reaction was lukewarm (he later predicted the band’s 1991 gig at Dobbs would be a “swell thing”), I hope it gave him solace that good music can, indeed, still make shifts in the cosmos. At least, momentarily. For me, I’m seeing those shifts in little doses, in the new Kurt Vile CD, or watching some band I never heard before give it all they’ve got at Sugar Town. And will this band stick around, make an album, ignite some inferno of society-changing music that even the truck-punchers of Old City will have to acknowledge? Who knows. Let’s just keep listening. (pat@citypaper.net)
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³ “Value-for-money advocates might note the differential between the $27.75 ticket price and the band’s well-under-an-hour set (as an hourly wage that puts them not too far below The Rolling Stones, for whom they recently opened a handful of shows), but the evidence is that The Strokes were giving it all they had — which is to say in the year and a half since they were playing for free every week at The Five Spot, they’ve managed to add about four songs to their set.” —Sam Adams, Oct. 10, 2002 ³ “Event staff were free to turn their energy to other pursuits, such as confiscating drugs and heaving paraphernalia over the back wall of the Tweeter Center in what is certainly for Camden potheads the equivalent of catching a Sammy Sosa home-run ball outside of Wrigley.” —Jesse Delaney on the Y100 Feztival, June 5, 2003 ³ “Stevie Nicks plays air guitar like she’s never seen a real one up close.” —M.J. Fine, Oct. 2, 2003 ³ “Hey, how about we all take a trip to Ozzfest together next year? We’ll sell you a ticket for only $65, which is the price on the ticket (a novel idea we hope will catch on). We’ll have to leave our backpacks and water bottles and umbrellas and medicines at the gate, but warm beer is available at any of 100 identical kiosks! We’ll just sprawl out on the dirt and listen to, like, Slayer or some shit echo off the concrete walls. At noon, if we promise not to get too rowdy — don’t want to angry up those yellowjacketed guards — we can even traipse over to a side stage and watch some 19-year-old drunken fuckface throw up on the hot blacktop. Who’s in?” —Patrick Rapa, Dec. 23, 2004
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NOV. 11, 2004 ³ Blood Brothers: The Dead Milkmen return to pay tribute to the late Dave Schulthise. By Patrick Rapa | Then: Following the suicide of bassist Dave Blood, Philly’s esteemed punk jesters reunited for two sold-out nights of rocking and remembering at the Troc. Now: It took a little while, but these tribute shows planted the seed for a full-scale Dead Milkmen comeback, with multiple shows and an album of new music, The King in Yellow, due out in the spring. Meanwhile, singer-keyboardist Rodney Anonymous writes Aid or Invade, a monthly music/humor column in City Paper.
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Philly’s top indie-rock producer Brian McTear meets yet another challenge — his first solo album. By Brian Howard Then: At the time, McTear was a lauded producer (having recorded albums by Matt Pond PA, Mazarin, The Capitol Years, The Burning Brides, etc., at his Miner Street Studios), but his career as a singer and songwriter was just getting started, with the release of the Bitter Bitter Weeks’ eponymous debut album. Now: The last BBW album came out in ’07, but McTear says he’s writing songs for the new one (“look out for it in 2015!”). In the meantime, he’s still producing, and running Weathervane, his nonprofit music org.
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t the turn of the millennium, few local bands got more love When The Bigger Lovers started recordfrom City Paper than The Bigger Lovers. Their debut, How ing the songs with Tony Goddess of Papas I Learned to Stop Worrying, garnered a 1,071-word feature, Fritas in May 2005, six months before and it landed on a few key critics’ Top 15 lists at the end of 2001. their farewell show, they couldn’t have Their shows might not have been packed, but most of CP’s editorial predicted it would serve as their capstone staff would be in attendance. six years later. Four years and two albums later, the foursome packed it in “I think we just wanted an excuse to with what singer-bassist Scott Jefferson recalls as “only finish up what we started with Tony,” the best show ever.” says Jefferson. “Over the last five years, After the breakup, Jefferson moved on to Missing I’ve probably listened to those unfinished Palmer West; singer-guitarist Bret Tobias played tracks more than the CDs.” drums in B.C. Camplight for a bit; guitarist Ed When the band revisited the tracks in Hogarty kept going with Audible; and drummer Berkery’s basement last October, they were Patrick Berkery worked with The Pernice Brothers, in good shape. “All they really needed were Danielson and about a million other bands. vocals and a few tambourine hits, and it all Now they’re relearning their old songs for a blowfell together pretty easily,” says Tobias. “I’m out at Johnny Brenda’s to celebrate the remastered as proud of those tracks as anything we recorded. The fact that ‘Little Giant’ hasn’t How I Learned to Stop Worrying and the release of the gotten any sort of traction Little Giant maxi single, which gathers four “HONEY IN THE HIVE, is tough to swallow.” long-lost songs and a remix. T H E L O V E R S ’ S PA R K L I N G Though he’s more dad “We were always really proud of Worrying, but SECOND ALBUM, HAS than rocker these days, the original version was pretty shoddy,” Tobias THE INTIMACY OF MUSIC Tobias admits that The says. “It was mastered badly and was out of circuT H AT W A S M A D E W H I L E N O O N E WA S L I S T E N I N G , Bigger Lovers still hold lation within weeks of its release. We wanted to AND THE CONFIDENCE a claim on his heart. But give it the treatment it never received.” T O S U G G E S T T H AT don’t hold your breath for To that end, they’ve made it easier to find than it T H E Y ’ D B E T T E R S TA R T. ” a full-fledged reunion. The was the first time around — listen on Bandcamp —Sam Adams, guys missed each other at your leisure. (For those who view scarcity as Sept. 5, 2002 and the supportive scene, an asset, the 180-gram vinyl release, on the band’s but they have no nostalgia for sleeping own Miles Above imprint, is limited to 500 copies.) “All the label drama — which was significant and expensive on floors, long nights of driving and — went down before its original release, so we were free and clear to wrecked vans. reissue it without any hassles,” Tobias says. “We’ve agreed to do things if they’re Good thing, because power-pop nuggets like “Forever Is Not So either (1) highly profitable or (2) shitloads Long” and “Threadbare” deserve more than obscurity. Tobias agrees. of fun,” Tobias says. “So, no, there’s prob“They stand up pretty well, though I have to chuckle about how ably no future for us.” ridiculously negative some of the songs are,” he says. “Not sure what (m_fine@citypaper.net) my problem was.” ✚ The Bigger Lovers play Sat., March 12, 9 p.m., Little Giant only adds to the band’s reputation. The title track is $10-$12, with Dennis Diken with Bell Sound, crisp and sardonic, while “It’s All About Regret” is among the most Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 877-4359849, johnnybrendas.com. bittersweet entries in a discography filled with them. NEAL SANTOS
Their Roots: With a new album and bigger beats, can The Roots combine hip-hop ingenuity with mainstream success? By Neil Gladstone | Then: “The driving, trip-hop of Illadelph Halflife is such a far cry from the live interplay of Do You Want More?!!!??, critics will be forced either to praise The Roots for their inventiveness or admonish the album as an attempt at more mainstream rap.” This was the first of five-and-counting City Paper cover appearances by Philly’s flagship hip-hop band. Now: No one knows what became of this little novelty act.
Little pop giants The Bigger Lovers reunite to set the record straight. By M.J. Fine
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APRIL 4, 1996 ³ Tales of the Chickenbutt Bandit: The saga of the drugged-out guitarist who pulled 16 Center City armed robberies. By Howard Altman and Neil Gladstone | Then: Gary Kozlowski’s on-again, off-again punk band, Chickenbutt, was a fixture on the Philly punk scene in the ’80s and ’90s — until he was arrested after holding up a head shop at 20th and Walnut. This story recounted the reputedly gifted guitarist’s battles with heroin addiction and desperate crime spree across Center City with a semi-automatic pellet gun. “I was a gentleman bandit,” Kozlowski said in a jailhouse interview. “I was always very nice to these people. And the pellet gun was unloaded, except for the day I got caught.” Now: In prison since 1996, Kozlowski will be released to a halfway house March 22 and is hoping to make music again, according to a Facebook fan page.
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³ IN HANNAH PITTARD’S The Fates Will Find Their Way (Ecco, Jan. 25), we meet adolescent Trey Stephens, who, in 25 years’ time, ends up in jail for seducing an old friend’s underage daughter. In The Sweet Relief of Missing Children (Norton, Feb. 28), Sarah Braunstein introduces us to a peeping tom, then an adoptive mother guiltily aroused by her teenage son’s erection, then an obedient 12year-old who can’t stop talking to strangers. The difference between these books, at least when it comes to the damaged and the unsavory, is of extent rather than kind. After all, both hinge on children who go missing. For Pittard, it’s Nora Lindell, a red-haired, goldenskinned high school junior who disappears on Halloween. For Braunstein, it seems like half her cast acts out a cascading multigenerational procession of recurring runaways and kidnappings, each one its own variation on themes of flight, abandonment and theft. Despite this obvious kinship, these two debut novels diverge almost completely in how they build themselves around an absent, vanished center. Pittard’s striking beginning — she opens by sending word of Nora’s disappearance via a neighborhood phone tree — comes less from the situation than from the voice she delivers it in: an abstracted, omniscient first-person plural, a “we” that represents the collective of Nora’s male classmates. It’s distancing, mildly creepy, thoroughly voyeuristic — and as the obsessive “we” telling the story begins to speculate about what actually happened to Nora, whether she left or disappeared, Pittard uses that pronoun to implicate her readers in that speculation, that uncertainty. For Braunstein, the loss of a child is obviously terrifying but also immediately liberating. (One runaway daughter’s mother thinks, against her will, that “the last 16 years had been a figment, and this was her real life, alone, hers and Hank’s, that she’d >>> continued on page 20
With Time, by Gail Cunningham, cyanotype, part of the exhibit “Blueprint Series: The City Collected” at Bambi Gallery.
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³ BAMBI GALLERY Candace Karch, the owner of Bambi Gallery, “won’t talk shit” on Tower Investments, the developers behind the Piazza at Schmidts, but it doesn’t sound like they’ll necessarily be exes who are friends. After the gallery’s sprinkler system went off for no reason, twice — once on Dominic Episcopo’s meaty photographs — Karch “took this as an omen” and will be shutting her doors at the end of March. The gallery, of course, is going out with a rose-colored bang. Karch promises a huge First Friday party, featuring exhibits by Sienna Freeman and Gail Cunningham. Freeman’s collages in “Broken Mirror” are heavy, pretty things. Fusing together drawings, photographs and other materials, she creates jumbled images of women that probe society’s beauty standards and sexuality. Cunningham, meanwhile, uses cyanotypes — an old-school printing process that architects once used to make blueprints — to forge depictions of Philadelphia’s neighborhoods and built environment. Her works from “Blueprint Series: The City Recollected,” like Freeman’s, are cunningly mashed-together. They each depict actual buildings throughout the city, but they’re regrouped, and then made to look like a single entity: “One combines two buildings from Rittenhouse and Kensington,” she says, “and another has a big, grand building from the Powelton neighborhood mixed with another up in Kensington.” Opening reception Fri., March 4, 6-10 p.m., free, through March 27, 1001 N. Second St., 267-319-1374, bambiproject.com.
³ ARTSPACE LIBERTI When Rubens Ghenov began painting scholarly items like bookshelves and records, he had no idea he was following in the tradition of “chaekkori,” Korean paintings that depict an academic’s objects. “I was floored,” he says. “I had never heard of chaekkori.” Whereas chaekkori often display brushes, scrolls and other geekery, Ghenov’s imaginary scholar holds onto fictional samba records, busts of the first Brazilian emperor, astronaut helmets and teapots. According to Ghenov, the strange, fragmented tale these objects tell reflects his Brazilian upbringing: “Storytelling is a huge part of my family,” he says. “The stories that get passed down are constantly being reinvented, revitalized and recontextualized.” Opening reception Fri., March 4, 6:30-9:30 p.m., free, through April 24, 2424 E. York St., artspaceliberti.blogspot.com.
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³ AND THEN THERE’S … Learn about Petty’s Island, the bizarre piece of land between N.J. and Philly that’s owned by Hugo Chavez, home to endangered bald eagles, and coveted by environmentalists and developers, at the Slought Foundation’s film series. Opening reception Thu., March 3, 6:30-8 p.m., free, through March 19, 4017 Walnut St., 215-7014627, slought.org. … Desert Island, a beloved comic book store in Brooklyn, is coming down to Space 1026, and bringing four artists with it. Opening reception Fri., March 4, 7-10 p.m., free, through March 25, 1026 Arch St., second floor, 215-574-7630, space1026.com. (holly.otterbein@citypaper.net)
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If you can’t be in the French Quarter for Mardi Gras, you can still throw some beads around in Philly — all while racking up change for charity. The Epilepsy Foundation of Eastern Pennsylvania hosts their fourth annual Mardi Gras Gala Friday (March 4, efepa.org), featuring music by Tribeca Grand and N’Awlins-style libations and grub. Proceeds benefit epilepsy awareness programs and Camp Achieve, a summer camp for kids with epileptic and seizure disorders. Topless flashers can’t top that. —Bianca Brown
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seriously. Director of Mayhem/accordionist Ben Laden wins the prize this year in terms of miles traveled to make the group’s annual Mardi Gras throwdown, Tuesday at World Café Live (March 8, worldcafelive.com): He’s coming all the way from Israel to get down with his crew of revelers. The lineup’s ever-changing, but the Bohos’ sounds — and their costumes — will be reliably rowdy.
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³ workshop ³ swanky soiree Fat Tuesday wasn’t always about boobies and beer bongs. Indie event promoter Vintage Muse, which hosts monthly theme parties across the city, classes up a generally wastoid holiday with Friday’s New Orleans: 1920s Mardi Gras at the M Room (March 4, vintagemuse.tumblr.com). Expect live music, burlesque performances, craft tables, Mummers and more — plus a $2 discount for vintage attire. And no, a shirt made of plastic beads and Scotch tape doesn’t count. —Carolyn Huckabay
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For party stores across the country, Mardi Gras is a cash cow. And while prefab garlands and paper plates are festive enough, when it comes to masks, there’s no substitute for DIY. Bring the kids and revisit your own macaroni-and-glue days at PAFA’s mask-making workshop this Sunday (March 6, pafa.org/faa). Sequins, beads, feathers and other supplies are provided, but it’s up to you to mold these pieces into something befitting Fat Tuesday. —Eric Schuman
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THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU
Fate as the ultimate bureaucracy.
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³ AMONG THE EIGHT plays that comprise Philadelphia’s ongoing Irish Theatre Festival, three are by Martin McDonagh. It’s a special distinction that signals McDonagh has risen to the top of the heap. His distinctive mix of dark humor, full-throttle violence and folksiness side-by-side with contemporary politics feels right for our disjointed world. And though a couple of McDonagh’s more recent plays are not set in Ireland, there remains something profoundly Irish about his sensibility and style. It would be difficult to imagine anything more Irish than Lieutenant of Inishmore,which may also be McDonagh’s most commercially successful play. In a tiny cottage in small village, Donny mourns the demise of Wee Thomas, the house cat he cares for but is really the special pride of Donny’s son, Padraic. But his grief is tempered with fear — Padraic, a guntoting member of the Irish National Liberation Army, is easily capable of eye-for-an-eye comeuppance, and is likely to unleash unbridled rage at whoever did away with the poor little kitty. It’s not easy to describe Lieutenant,which demands to be seen with all the surprises left intact. So let’s leave it at this: The play explores an event and its retribution in a world where family, friendship and world politics are bloody battlegrounds. Lieutenant is often hilarious, and it’s also shockingly gory. McDonagh revels in Tarantino-like excesses, but the real brilliance of his work lies in the character writing.These are more than comic archetypes:They are complex people who are at once kindhearted and cruel, and whose beliefs — religious, nationalistic, personal — run deep. The specifics of Irish politics may be hard for us to follow, but McDonagh has something very powerful to say about terrorism that transcends any one culture. The current production at Theatre Exile,often skillfully directed (by Matt Pfeiffer) and clearly pleasing its audience, doesn’t quite pack its potential punch. A couple of critical performances are more workmanlike than incendiary, and in general the focus is on comedy without always finding the frightening fervor at the core. Elena Bossler, who plays Mairead, the play’s only female character, comes closest — when she intones sad Irish political ballads, there’s a wildness in her eyes that’s gripping and scary. Much of the action is also played far upstage, which reduces the in-your-face-ness. For those who haven’t seen the play, this production captures the comedy — but the fear factor and the deeper undertones aren’t etched as sharply as they could be. Through March 13, $25-$32, Plays & Players Theatre, 1714 Delancey St., 215-218-4022, theatreexile.org. —David Anthony Fox
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[ C+ ] PHILIP K. DICK’S FANS have learned to brace themselves at the release of each new adaptation, always hoping for a Blade Runner but always primed for the blasphemies of a Paycheck.The latest plunge into the author’s paranoid imaginings starts out promisingly, with senatorial hopeful David Norris’ (Matt Damon) life being manipulated by a shadowy cabal of fedora-clad functionaries. Writer-director George Nolfi approaches these superhuman beings with a wry sense of humor: Though they’re apparently immortal and hold the fate of humanity in their schematic notebooks, they approach their task with the weary drudgery of office drones — fate as the ultimate bureaucracy. Their work typically takes place beyond the notice of their subjects, but their plans for David’s life go awry when he falls in love with Elise (Emily Blunt), a ballet dancer meant to reignite his political aspirations and then disappear. The love story is an audience-coddling addition to the original story, a motivation that would be as good as any other if left as a basic MacGuffin, but Nolfi allows it to consume the film. Soon enough, the speculations on fate and free will, articulated most obviously by a glowering Terence Stamp as Damon’s most persistent antagonist, give way to extravagant outpourings of emotion and endless chase scenes in service of overripe melodrama. Where Nolfi goes most awry is in never adequately explaining why David and Elise must be kept apart; the speculative side of Dick’s fiction is shrugged off for a because-we-told-you belligerence as obstinate as the feuding families of Verona. We understand that David is destined for a greatness threatened by domestic bliss (Elise’s destiny is only ever defined in relation to his, of course), but what that means to the grand design is left frustratingly vague. The Godhead in charge of all this supernatural busywork is ultimately deflated into little more than hazy, sentimental New Age hokum. —Shaun Brady
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but previously uneventful life. She jokes at first that her family has always thought she might be a poet, because “I like flowers and say odd things.” But Lee’s poetry is less prosaic, and more terrible, than she can at first imagine. —Sam Adams (Ritz at the Bourse)
RANGO|A+ Faced with a saloon full of suspicious townsfolk, the stranger Rango (Johnny Depp) does what any chameleon would do: He fits in. He slurps his gut-burning cactus juice, he makes up a story about killing seven brothers with one bullet. He even changes color. His listeners — a crowd of moles, rats, rabbits, toads and other Mojave desert denizens — are rapt: They’re desperate for a hero, water and faith. And this lizard is a great storyteller. Rather than walking through easy-target pop culture references, Rango absorbs, embraces and pays heartfelt homage to some exceedingly classic sources, from Depp’s own Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas to Chinatown. If Rango resembles Eastwood, then the lady, Beans (Isla Fisher), recalls every tough chick of the Old West, from Annie Oakley to Jean Arthur to Claudia Cardinale. The villain, an aging turtle (Ned Beatty) in a wheelchair, becomes Chinatown’s John Huston as Noah Cross. Gazing out on a water-pumping facility under construction, he informs his guest that he’s looking at “The future, Mr. Rango, the future.” Here, as in Roman Polanski’s definitive noir, water and wealth are conjoined, as is the desert and L.A. — which come together in the dreammaking industry that is the future and our ongoing present. —C.F. (Pearl, UA 69th St., UA Grant, UA Riverview)
TAKE ME HOME TONIGHT Read Ryan Carey’s review at citypaper.net/movies. (UA Riverview)
✚ CONTINUING BARNEY’S VERSION|B C.S.I. vet Richard J. Lewis makes the jump to features with the sprawling story of Barney Panofsky (Paul Giamatti), a hack TV producer who’s a romantic on the side. Spanning several decades, the movie is pushed forward by his revolving-door marriages, first to a suicidal poet, then a high-maintenance socialite. Not until he meets wife No. 3 (Rosamund Pike) does Barney get his first taste of bona fide love. Barney’s Version isn’t a film so much as a series of episodes, but watching Giamatti and Pike chart their relationship is a worthwhile pursuit. —S.A. (Ritz Five) BIG MOMMAS: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON A haiku: Dear Martin Lawrence, Uh. You know you can say no once in a while, right? (Not reviewed) (Pearl, UA 69th St., UA Riverview)
BIUTIFUL|BAlejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu is still looking for a replacement for Guillermo Arriaga (Amores Perros, Babel), and judging from Biutiful, the team of Armando Bo and Nicolás Giacobone isn’t it. The film is saddled with such an undigested pile of bad ideas that nothing short of a miracle could have redeemed it. Javier Bardem plays an impoverished father of two who deals drugs and works as a spirit medium to make ends meet — it’s a MadLibs collision of miserabilist tropes that never congeals
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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. —S.A. (Ritz Five)
BLACK SWAN|AAlthough it’s set in the world of ballet, Darren Aronofsky’s movie hits a pitch that would normally be called operatic. Natalie Portman is provisionally cast in her first lead, but she needs to prove she can dance both white and black swan in Swan Lake. Portman nails the glacial perfection of the first, but it takes bad girl Mila Kunis to get her in touch with her dark side. As Portman’s transformation progresses, Aronofsky makes over her body, as well; she decomposes and renews in a manner worthy of a Cronenberg heroine. The trouble is, Portman’s role too closely matches her own limitations as an actor. —S.A. (Ritz East) DRIVE ANGRY|B Again with the Nic Cage conundrum. Is he so shrewd and wondrous as he can appear, in movies ranging from
Vampire’s Kiss to Adaptation? Or is he affected by the dreck he’s in, as you’re tempted to think after Captain Corelli’s Mandolin? Questions of quality don’t apply much to Cage, as he ever manages two stunts at once — brilliantly adapting to his surroundings but also transcending them. The action in Patrick Lussier’s saga of hell on Earth is mindless (cars explode a lot), the 3D is creative, and Cage is “angry, with attitude,” and forever “out of place.” That’s it exactly, and exactly why you love Nic Cage, again. —C.F. (Pearl, UA 69th St., UA Riverview)
HALL PASS|BThe Farrelly brothers do pure stupidity very well (see: Dumb and Dumber), but what happens when they try to offer human heart in addition to empty head? In the case of Hall Pass, hearty laughs were neck-and-neck with serious groans. Genuine up-close moments briefly obscured the greater absurdity of the plot. And while at the end of the day, there just wasn’t enough going on to make this a truly memorable film, Hall Pass will probably rank just shy of There’s Something About Mary in the hierarchy of the Farrelly canon. —Ryan Carey (Pearl, Roxy, UA 69th St., UA Riverview)
I AM NUMBER FOUR|C+ On his pretty surface, John Smith (Alex Pettyfer) is as generic as his name. But he has a secret, revealed almost immediately: He’s an alien from another planet, with a pack of baddies trying to kill him. John’s supposed to keep a low profile among humans, though this is difficult when his legs and arms begin to glow without warning. The story is surely familiar (see: Superman), but he’s helped in this movie version by the fact that his mentor is played by Timothy Olyphant, who brings welcome wit and sarcasm. —C.F. (Pearl, UA 69th St., UA Riverview)
THE KING’S SPEECH|B+ 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)
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replaced by an impostor and pursued by sinister killers. The intriguing premise sets up a mystery that is disappointingly solved not by revelation but by violent confrontations, with a final reveal that might not come as much of a surprise even if it wasn’t a variation of the twist du jour for several other recent films (The Tourist comes to mind). It does at least throw Frank Langella and Bruno Ganz together for a single scene, which tilts the acting balance back from January Jones’ blank-eyed emptiness. —Shaun Brady (Pearl, Roxy, UA 69th St., UA Riverview)
REPERTORY FILM THE BALCONY 1003 Arch St., 215-922-6888, thetroc. com. Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985, U.S., 90 min.): “Go ahead and scream your head off. We’re miles from where anyone can hear you.” Mon., March 7, 8 p.m., $3.
DICKINSON COLLEGE Carlisle Theatre, 44 W. High St., Carlisle, Pa., 717-243-5121, dickinson. edu. Win, Win (2011, U.S., 106 min.): A sneak peek of Paul Giamatti’s latest work about a part-time wrestling coach who tries to finagle a winning wrestler onto his crappy team. Screenwriter Joe Tiboni will speak after the screening. Fri., March 4, 8 p.m., free.
GLITTER CITY AND LIVE NUDE PRODUCTIONS The Balcony, 1003 Arch St., 215-9226888, thetroc.com. Destroy All Monsters A spattering of horror flicks on the big screen, with interspersed performances by Mikey Primadonna, DJ ’Rags and Cryptkeeper 5. Fri., March 4, 9:30 p.m., $10.
MUGSHOTS COFFEEHOUSE AND CAFE 2100 Fairmount Ave., 267-514-7145, mugshotscoffeehouse.com. March of the Penguins (2005, France, 80 min.): There they go a-waddling, hoorah, hoorah. Fri., March 4, 7 p.m., free. Food, Inc. (2008, U.S., 94 min.): Robert Kenner’s doc puts the bite down on the corporate-controlled food industry. Mon., March 7, 7 p.m., free.
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or no, members still eased into jam sessions. Dom Flemons in particular seemed to be everywhere at all hours, playing and singing with manic glee. —Mary Armstrong
sky’s film version, either. “That wasn’t a ballet documentary,” Kaiser says. “It was a piece of cinema.” So you mean not all ballerinas stab each other with nail files? —Janet Anderson
Thu., March 3, 8 p.m., $16-$19, with Birdie Busch and The Great Unknown, TLA, 334 South St., 215-922-1011, livenation.com.
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“It’s an original production, not a traditional Swan Lake,” says artistic director Roy Kaiser of the Pennsylvania Ballet’s version of the classic. Originally created and choreographed by New York City Ballet’s Christopher Wheeldon in 2004, this Swan takes the story out of the woods and into 19th-century Paris. “What I wanted was a production that fit the size and personalities of Pennsylvania Ballet,” Kaiser explains, “not a ballet for 80 or 90 dancers, but for 40.” And it’s nothing like Darren Aronof-
Philadelphia native Nicky Silver’s 1993 comedy Pterodactyls is, in the author’s own words, an AIDS play. “But clearly,” he writes in the introduction of his collection Etiquette and Vitriol, “it’s also about family, death, marriage, parents, children, fear, love, class, economics, the end of our species and, of course, denial.” New City Stage Co.’s production, directed by Brenna Geffers, features a great cast: Barrymore Award-winners Cheryl Williams, Bruce Graham and Jered McLenigan, plus
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✚ CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS That recent Grammy win should tell you: The Carolina Chocolate Drops’ enthusiasm for Southern traditional African-American music is irresistible. At this year’s Folk Alliance, despite playing the largest available halls, they still had people queued up outside, hoping a spot would open up. That conference is the Drops’ natural home, where last year they commenced jamming with the Luminiscent Orchestrii and went on to do an EP of their combined musical inspirations. Grammy
Kevin Meehan (Flashpoint’s Nocturne) and Ginger Dayle, as a Main Line family coming apart at the seams. It’s about dinosaurs, both literal and figurative, just before the meteor hits — and it’s very, very funny. —Mark Cofta Through March 27, $5-$30, New City Stage Co. at the Adrienne, 2030 Sansom St., 215-563-7500, newcitystage.org.
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It’s safe to say the exhilarating colors and whimsical reveries of Marc Chagall’s modern-folkloric art stand perfectly well on their own. But Philadelphia Museum of
scenes of Jewish life that was rapidly disappearing, but also updating it with Cubism and other trends in modern art.”
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Art curator Michael Taylor’s spring exhibit places the Russian-born artist alongside his coterie of Eastern European émigrés, many of whom shared this pivotal Parisian moment under one roof. “Paris Through the Window: Marc Chagall and His Circle” focuses on the artists who populated the three-story Montparnasse live-work space, La Ruche (“the beehive”), which became a breeding ground for modern immigrant art in a then-religiously tolerant Paris. “I think you would have to fast-forward to the 1960s to find a similar communal atmosphere,” says Taylor, whose show features some 70 paintings and sculptures from Chagall and peers like Amedeo Modigliani, Jacques Lipchitz and Chaim Soutine. Most prominent on display, though, is the hybrid nature of Chagall’s early work. “Even when he’s in Paris, he’s really painting his hometown,” says Taylor. “While everyone else was painting landscapes and still lifes, he was painting
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GO FISH ³ THERE’S A DELIGHTFUL Philly-centric current running though The Fishmonger’s Apprentice (Quarry Books, Jan. 1), a dense and downright engrossing tool that should appeal to hardcore home filleters, or even just the casually fin-curious. Author and chef Aliza Green, noted for her work in the Inquirer and her numerous cookbooks on top of her behind-the-line contributions to Philly’s original restaurant renaissance, brings several local culinary luminaries to the table here, including photographer Steve Legato, Oyster House’s David Mink and Samuel D’Angelo of wholesaler Samuels & Son, who pens the foreword. The familiar names augment a book that combines education and practical technique with deep veins of industryinsider insight. Apprentice starts off small — explaining how to select the best whole fish, how to store it and how to keep it safe to consume — and builds from there, combining seafood techniques useful in everyday cooking (removing pinbones, cleaning squid) with those that might be applicable only on pro prep tables or in ambitious home kitchens. (Would you like to know how to slice up a live geoduck, or break down a swordfish collar bigger than your dog? Here’s how!) Accompanying Green’s stepby-steps are dozens of Legato’s crisp, gorgeous full-color shots. Though this guide is largely instructional (“Select a lively lobster that wiggles its claws, trying its best to grab onto you”), Green breaks up her didactic sections with interesting Q&A features highlighting the personalities behind the curtain. Oyster House’s Mink reveals the ordering and storing process behind his restaurant’s bivalves. Michael McNicholas, who works quality control for Japanese superfreezer Uoriki Fresh, breaks down the dangers of treating fish with carbon monoxide to help it maintain its luster (the practice is illegal pretty much everywhere — except the United States). Brooks Takenaka, who runs the large-scale United Fishing Agency seafood auction in Hawaii, elaborates on the eating traditions of his home state, where residents consume seafood at a rate of three times the national average. Chris Leftwich, chief inspector of the delightfully named Worshipful Company of Fishmongers’, discusses the challenges of overseeing Billingsgate Market, the largest inland fish hub in all of the U.K. These insights make Green’s book much more than a cut-and-dried technical resource. (drew.lazor@citypaper.net)
ALL IN THE NAME: The specialty at Manakeesh Café & Bakery is the manakeesh, a Lebanese flatbread sandwich that can be filled with meat, cheese, fruit or vegetables. NEAL SANTOS
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NOT JUST (LEBANESE) PIZZA Herbal teas, exotic cookies and community spirit percolate at Manakeesh. By Adam Erace
MANAKEESH CAFÉ AND BAKERY | 4420 Walnut St., 215-921-2135,
manakeeshcafe.com. Open Mon.-Thu., 7 a.m.-8:30 p.m.; Fri., 7 a.m.-9:30 p.m.; Sat., 8 a.m.-9:30 p.m.; Sun., 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Starters, $1.25-$12; manakeesh, $2.75-$6.75; sweets, $1.50-$11.
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he rotund teapot arrived on a shiny tray set with gold-rimmed glasses, which chattered as a smiling woman in a patterned head scarf placed it on the carved-wood table. I regarded the vessel: More on: old and potbellied and bronze, not unlike someone you’d see on the beach in Margate. The pot belongs to Manakeesh, the gregarious Lebanese café/bakery housed in a historical bank building at 45th and Walnut. During brunch hours, the joint is slammed, so if you must rub the teapot’s body, maybe wait until a sleepier weekday, when an erupting genie wouldn’t cause nearly the commotion. Three wishes didn’t come with my order, but the fragrant black tea steeped with mint wasn’t a half-bad consolation. Had a benevolent djinn emerged from the swan-necked spout, though, I’d certainly wish for a duplicate Manakeesh closer to my ’hood.
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Owned by Temple doc Wissam Chatila and named for the Lebanese flatbread “pizza” in which chef Wissam Zayat specializes, Manakeesh has everything you want in a neighborhood café. It’s cheap and friendly; the La Colombe is hot and fresh; and it serves a higher purpose for the community. Since opening in January, the place has attracted local families, ethnic-food fiends and savvy undergrads, but also the young and hungry members of West Philly’s entrenched Muslim community. (The building is owned by the same company that owns the mosque across the street.) More than half the women here at any given time sport scarves. Brand-conscious princes tap their iPhones while waiting, as East African dudes hold court over coffee. Even the owners’ kids are here, helping out and being cute behind the counter where their parents can keep an eye on them. The sense of community is tangible. That the manakeesh, fired in an oven lined with gas flames, are so perfectly snackable is only the icing on this enterprise. “In Lebanon, manaMORE FOOD AND keesh are eaten for breakfast,” explains DRINK COVERAGE manager Abd Ghazzawi. Along with the AT C I T Y P A P E R . N E T / lahm bajeen (spiced ground lamb) flatM E A LT I C K E T. bread, “the cheese and the za’atar are the most traditional types. … All the other ones we added. Manakeesh is essentially a sandwich, so we can try whatever we want.” Whatever Ghazzawi and Zayat want might include goofs like a gloopy “Shawarma” — the marinated pre-cut sirloin was halal but hellacious, buried under silly quantities of tomato, raw onion, parsley and tahini — but also smart riffs like the “Kafta.” Inspired by the skewered, grilled Mid-East meatballs, Zayat weaves clove, >>> continued on next page
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were one of the best things to ever happen to me, which is probably kind of sad. You made me want to be a better person. I really believed we would last. Eventually you burnt out. Apparently I was too much for you, or maybe you were just never that into me. I sincerely hope that you find what you’re looking for one day, I mean that from the bottom of my heart.
STUPID ASS! I hate seeing you in the mornings! On the G bus there is this young guy with this book bag! Ok! He is rather large young man. He always gets on
BEST FOR LAST Pebbles, you are my world. My sun, moon and stars. You are the best woman a guy could ask for. Kind, loyal, loving, beautiful, intelligent. I want to grow old with you and make fun of your gray hair. Youll always be my ducky. Your Aiden. Bonnie and Clyde. Mom and dad.
YOU ARE CUTE BUT...
- you never used it anyways! Fuck Off And Die a Million Times! - The Empress of Her Own Universe
QUESTION? Why is they close schools for a few inches of snow it wasn’t that bad a week ago! Make them come to school these kids need a education not extra days off from school! They need to make these teachers do some work and go back to the good old days and pull a yard stick out and beat some asses!
SORRY I TOLD YOU I just needed you to know. It’s been almost a year and I still can’t get you out of my head. You
the bus with his bookbag strapped to his back and I am constantly wondering what the fuck is his problem! Take you fat ass and sit down up front and take your fucking book bag off already! It doesn’t make any sense that you try to fit in that small space knowing you can fit. That shit is annoying! Do us all a fat favor, take your bookbag off, go sit the fuck down and get yourself together! Damn already!
YOU NEED A FUCKING PERM! Oh my goodness when I see your head I really want to tackle you and put a serious perm in your hair. I hate seeing your dumb ass dragging your feet in the office and your hair all fucked up! You wake up and look in the mirror and looked fucked up but still go outside what kind of shit is that? I hate seeing you and I stare at you so long because I hate you and I don’t even know you!
THE EL ON FRIDAY! I guided you in, and I didn’t even know I believed in love at first sight. You were taken; then I was taken. Now you’re taken again. It doesn’t matter. We have Fridays. I live for Fridays. Can’t wait for Fidays. Am heartbroken on Fridays, but it’s
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Good riddance to absolute spineless thoughtless and douchetarded trash. I gave you TWO fucking chances and you wasted my time both times. that’s what I get for picking through someone elses scraps. What the hell was I thinking? oh right, I thought I had to settle for some idiot manchild who couldn’t handle a real woman! the sad part is you don’t even care enough about yourself to do any better - but that’s not my problem! as far as I’m concerned I’m better off
I know we must part in this bittersweet way, but trust and believe that I am going to start our new life, and although it pains me to leave the air I breathe , my heart in this city (which also has my heart) you can be certain that I am working for us and to get where we need to be. In a few short weeks we’ll be reunited and living our lives, sunny Florida with palm trees and sand and a beautiful place to live. Baby I am working for you and us and now PLEASE HAVE FAITH IN ME. You will be with me no matter what,I dont give a fuck what negativity you project, I will follow through .....see u in Florida when you step off that plane I will see the most beautiful woman with rays of light coming off her and into my arms for good forever. then well start a troop of rotten lil bastard fuck kids.
We talked about our lives together the other day on the phone. You asked me why did I start crying. Why did you think that I was crying. I was crying because I do love you and I try to put other people in your place but it doesn’t make me happy. Well maybe it does for the time being and then I move on to something else. It really doesn’t matter to me what is going to happen in my future because I know that it is going to be with you! We will be together just give me some time because I still have those pictures in my head. When I saw what I saw..I completely wanted to die! You just don’t know. I wish that you did! But, we shall see what our future holds alright.
I hate you. I really, really hate your pathetic ass. The thing that I hate most is the time and energy I put into wanting this relationship to work. This entire time you have been playing me like a fool and now I’m stuck seeing your ass daily. I can’t wait to have you out of my life for good. You are an arrogant liar that deserves to rot in the hell you have created for me and others around you. Funny how everywhere you live or people that have gotten close to you seem to disappear. Or for whatever reason, you have a fall out with them that is ALWAYS their fault. Never yours cause you “keep it funky”. Oh please, you are so clueless to life. The only thing you have any idea about is how to manipulate and lie. Eventually your chain of fools will break. You have nothing to fall back on. Even your mother would think twice before taking you in. So, when I see your homeless ass on the street, don’t even think to ask me for a favor. You are a pathetic fuck, a pathetic man and a pathetic excuse for a human being. I can’t wait to hear of your death and the only thing that would make it better is if it occurred at my hands. Bastard.
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HEY BASTARD!
Manager guy, so we spend months flirting and talking about the boundaries that should be broken between us.. then when I leave you tell me how much you want to but can’t because of who’d find out...NOW 2 months later- after I’ve already gotten over the fact that ill never ... you drunk text me talking about how much you want me and you could be the best I’ve ever had? seriously? look.. the sooner the SOBER you can realize what the fuck you want. let me know.
worth it. Forgive my pig-headedness. I can’t quit—you are the one.
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I hate the sound of your name, and the fake smiles that come across our faces when we pass each other by. I hate that you ask me how I have been, as if you have any fucking concern for my well being, you don’t even care about your own. I hate that I never told you that I loved you, because I wouldn’t admit it to myself. I hate that in my 21 years of existence I have never felt as much pain as I did when you withdrew yourself from my life. Oh well, fuck it all. It was good seeing you on valentines day, maybe in another few months I’ll be graced with you presence again.
without you...I was too good for you, and its not like you were interesting enough to keep up with me. I meet more and more awesome people all the time that make your role in my life less and less significant. plus the sex was so mediocre - why did I bother? thanks for the free dinner, that was just about the only thing you were good for - have fun with those townie kareoke whores, I hear they are suckers for little boys with daddy issues. as for me, this was but a minor detour in my glorious path toward a worthy and righteous soulmate. I look forward to forgetting you! PS - Delete my number from your phone, asshole
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The Liberty Region of the International Student Exchange Program (ISE) is looking for good host families for our high school students (14-18) coming to the U.S. to attend high school in August, 2011 for a semester or a full school year. Must pass a background check, provide warm meals each day, a clean quiet bedroom for sleep and study. Most of all to open your heart to LOVE AND CARE FOR THEM WHILE THEY ARE HERE. They have their own Spending Money and full Insurance. If interested in learning more , contact Char- District Mgr. at 877-373-7007 or by email at: isecz@yahoo.com. WE ARE NON-PROFIT AND HOST FAMILIES “DO NOT GET PAID” DOS LAW.
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SPRING GARDEN Antique & Vintage
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Sat, March 5th & April 2nd Indoors At 9th & Spring Garden Streets Center City Phila 8AM til 4PM
Featuring Antiques, Collectibles, Vintage Furniture,Jewelry, Clothing, Glassware, Primitives, Pottery, Mid-Century, Retro & Much More! Free Parking, Free Admission, ATM, Food Court, Handicap Accessible!
More Info: 215-625-FLEA (3532) For Our Entire Spring/Summer Schedule Log onto
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BACKYARD, BASEMENT, AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY. $1000 A MONTH + UTILITIES. CLOSE TO CENTER CITY & OLD CITY. 215-498-2383.
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and friendly. LGBT welcome. Pets are a maybe. Looking for cour teous adults who keep things clean, respect the neighborhood and love South Philly. House includes a big kitchen with dishwasher, (comparatively) large backyard, and basement storage. Current roommates have lived here for 3+ years. Sublet for at least 6 months and could turn into long-term with lease signing. Asking for first month + deposit.
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Nudist magazines. Adults only. nudistmags4sale at operamail.com
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Philadelphia Comic Book Convention Thousands & Thousands of comic books from 1940’s to present, Dealers from 5 states, admission $3 per person, Bring this ad for (1) free admission. Visit www.philadelphiacomic-con.com Sun. 2/27 10am-4pm , Ramada, Phila Airport, 76 Industrial Hwy (Rt 291) Essington, PA 19029. For info call (856)217-5737
Desktops/Laptops & Repairs/ Upgrades net ready. Incl MS Ofc,$175 (215)292.4145
BRAZILIAN FLOORING 3/4", beautiful, $2.25 sf (215)365-5826 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
3pc liv rm, sofa, loveseat & chair, and 2 tables, excel cond., $350. 215-343-2203 BD MATTRESS Luxury Firm w/box sprIng Brand New Queen cost $1400, sell $299; King cost $1700 sell $399. 610-952-0033
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Please be aware Possession of exotic/wild animals may be restricted in some areas.
RAGDOLLCAT, 1.5 year old male, bi-color, S/W. $300. (215)945-7277
A1 Pit Bull, male, 19 weeks, white, shots, dewormed, $200, 215-254-0562 Airedale Terrier Pups AKC Family raised vet chkd. Rdy to go. $400 484-623-4267 Alaskan Malamute pups, AKC, Giant, $800+ icewindfarm.com (908)797.8200 American Pit Bull Xtra Lg Pups & Adults UKC, Champ bloodline, Call Mike 215-407-9458; www.blueprintbullies.com
Australian Shepherd born 11/15/10, black, tri Female, AKC, 856-546-1835 BEAGLE Pups, AKC, show champion line, shots, wormed, fem. $500, 215-256-1575 Boston Terrier Pup, M, 2mo. old, family raised, vet chkd, $700/b.o. 267.902.9934
Boxer pups, AKC, fawn, shots, wormed, family raised, $600. (610)286-6225
BULL MASTIFF PUPPIES - Must go. Beautiful AKC. 5 mo, fawn, black mask, shots/wormed $400-$600 267.888.1796
CANE CORSO - Female, blue, shots & wormed, $600 (267)902-9934 Cane Corso Pups: 7 weeks old for sale 3F, 7M. $900. 215-301-5255. Cane Corso pups, reg, blue brindle,blue, M/F, p.o.p., $400-$500. 215-360-4727 Cavalier King Charles pups, ACA, vet checked, family owned litter, $775. For pics or info call (717)824-2089 Cavalier King Charles Spaniels Puppies, Retired Adults & Rescues $600-$1800, 215-538-2179
Chesapeake Bay Retriever Pups, AKC, $500, champ, fam raised, (410)482-7376 Chihuahua Puppy: $450 267-879-1321
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 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 NEW Mattress Sets $125, Twin Full or Queen, Delivery Available 215-307-1950 Sectional ’L’ shaped with matching ottomon. 6 color avl $599. 215-752-0911 SOFA & LOVESEAT: Thomasville, Ivory Jaquard, like new $700. (215)852-6484
Hot Tub Brand new 7’ Never hooked up! Fully loaded w/factory warr. & cover Cost $4000. Ask $1950. 610-952-0033
German Shep. Pups, AKC, Euro, vet chk s/w, pictures avail, $500 (717)529-2457 Goldendoodles Paper trained, home raised, great with kids, shots. Vet recommended. 610-799-0612 Golden Retriever Pups AKC Registered, Mt. Holly NJ. $700 mkrassan@comcast.net
Golden Retriever pups, AKC, vet chkd, shots wormed, $650 (610)273.2430 ext 3 Great Dane AKC $1200, Fawn/Brindle. Parents on premises. 302-764-3184 HAVANESE PUPPIES 262-993-0460 www.noahslittleark.com JAPANESE CHIN PUP, F, AKC, shots & wormed, ready 3/12, $450. 717-786-4348 Lab pups AKC,OFA,champ, 1 blk, 1 ylw M very smart, hlth guar,s/w, (717)989.1807
Doberman Pinscher Pups: AKC Family raised, champion bloodlines. Ready now. 443-802-8958.
Lab pups, AKC, yellow, 1M, 1F, vet checked, wormed, $400. (717)468-9558
Doberman Pups: AKC, BIG Price Reduction! dogwooddobes.com 215-791-4663
Lab Pups - AKC, Yellow, health guaranteed, Ready now, $450. (814)441-2142
ENGLISH MASTIFF, Male, 1.5 year old, farm raised, $600. (717)989-5620
Lab Pups yellow AKC Beautiful Litter,vet chkd,s/w, hlth cert $450. 717-471-4261
German Shepherd Pups: $500. ACA, Health G’ntee, farm raised. 717-733-2117.
MALTESE PUP - All white, Female, 3 months, Ready to go! 267-882-6265
German Shepherd pups, AKC, F, parents Hip certified, $1000. (856)299-3809
Maltese pups, AKC, Ready to go. Call 856-875-6707
German Shepherd pups AKC, health guar, family raised, $500, 610-593-7482
MINIATURE PEKINGESE 2YR M. PUPS 8 wks M. All Shots. Trained. 267-351-1270
German Shepherd Pups AKC s/w vet chk fam raised, ready now $700, 717.687.7218
Mix breed Pups: long haired white $150 each ready Wed. Mar. 2nd (267)977-3793
GERMAN SHEPHERD pups, farm raised, shots & wormed, $325. 717-687-5236
Olde Enlgish Bulldog pups vet chkd, raised w/kids $800-$1000, 570.366.1188
BUYING EAGLES SBL’s WANTED - CASH PD
CALL 215-669-1924K BUYING PHILLIES TICKETS
Seasons & Partial Plans 856-207-3932. tobiasscot@gmail.com Eagles SBL’s for Sale, lower level, 35+ yd line $25k/best offer 610.357.2500 WANTED: EAGLES SBL’S true Eagles fan, Call 610-586-6981
JUNK CARS WANTED Up to $250 for Junk Cars 215-888-8662 Lionel/Am Flyer/Trains/Hot Whls $$$$ Aurora TJet/AFX Toy Cars 215-396-1903 SAXOPHONES & WWII Uniforms, swords & related items 609.581.8290
jobs Gentleman w/Truck Desires Work Moving & Junk Removal. 215-878-7055 If you need tutoring for any subject 610-464-9292 clearly give # twice
apartment marketplace GRAD HOSP great 2br+den twhm $1575+ exposd brick,patio,all amens 610.581.7769
339 Christian St 1 BR+ den $900+ utils Avail immediately, 215-917-8835
Independence Place 3br/2ba Condo $3200+util available as of mid May, high floor, facing river, all modern convenien ces incl a/c, all appl’s, w/d 267.250.6827
33&45 Records Higher $ Really Paid
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Antique & Collectable Buyer, Coins, Gold, Costume Jewelry, Military, Toy Cars, Dolls, Trains, Barbie Cleanouts Will Travel
Ronnie, 267.825.8525
Books -Trains -Magazines -Toys Dolls - Model Kits 610-689-8476
1216 Federal St. 2Br/1Ba $900 W/D, backyard, hdwd flrs. 215-280-8005 20xx Christian St. Studio $650+ elec fridge & micro, private yard 856.629.9529 29xx S. 15th St 1 BR $775+ utils 2nd flr, convenient loc, 215-661-9079
54xx Woodland Newly Renovated.
1 BR $600+ 610-717-2450
Cameras, Clocks, Toys, Radios, Dolls, Porcelain, Magazines, Military I Buy Anything Old..Except People! Call Al 215-698-0787
52nd & Parkside 2br $650+utils large, newly renov, w/w, 215.552.5200
Coins, Currency, Gold, Toys,
52nd & Spruce 1br, 2nd fl $600+utils newly renov, $1200 move in 215.460.2387
Trains, Hummels, Sports Cards. Call the Local Higher Buyer, 7 Dys/Wk
Dr. Sonnheim, 856-981-3397
Diabetic Test Strips! $$ Cash Paid $$ Most types, Up to $10/box. Local pickup, Call Martin: 856-882-9015 Diabetic Test Strips Unused. I beat all competition’s prices.I pickup215.525.5022 $$$ Cash Paid Now $$$
55th & Baltimore 2 & 3 BR $650-$700 Near transp & college (917)435-0014
apartment marketplace 61st and Arch 3BR $750/mth. Newly renovated Avail.now 215-881-6730 Cobbs Creek Vic 1br (3 rms) $595+utils newly remodeled, Lrg BR, Lrg LR & Lrg EIK, close to public trans 215-880-0612 Parkside Area 1br, 2br& 5br $700-$1700 newly renovated, hardwood floors, new appliances. Section 8 OK. 267-324-3197
50th & Baltimore Vic 1BR & Efficiency Clean & convenient to trans,215.748.4848 Powelton Village Effic. $520; 1br $640 + util, 1st flr, gd trnsp, 3 mo adv, gd credit, negot. No Drugs/Smoking 215-222-6060
20xx N. 62nd lg 1 BR/1 BA $650+ elec 3rd flr,nice blk,1st,last & sec,215.878.5056 62XX W JEFFERSON 2BR w/w crpt, newly renov, (215)375-0132 7212 Haverford Ave 1br $750 2br $850 free heat & h/w, w/d, a/c 215-740-4900
Balwynne Pk 2 BR $795+ 2nd flr duplex, w/d, garage 610-649-3836
18xx Venango Effic $125/wk & 2br $700 +utils, close to Temp Hosp 267-339-1662 23xx N 17th St Efficiency $445+ elec 1 mo. rent + 1 mo. sec. 215-681-6967 23xx N 18th St. 2 BR $600+ utils 2 mon sec + 1 mon rent, 215-548-5938 30xx Broad St. Efficiency $475+ utils 1 mo. rent, 1 mo. sec, 267-975-8521 57xx N Park Ave 2br $750/mo. incl gas w/w, deck, renov, 3rd flr 267-977-5194 Strawberry Mansion 1BR newly renovated, home: 215-430-0737 or cell: 267-210-2891
1, 2, 3, 4 Bedroom FURNISHED APTS LAUNDRY - PARKING 215-223-7000
16xx SUSQUEHANA Ave (4) Lg 1br $550+ Hardwood Floors, New Kitchen, Bathroom & HVAC. (215)844-1103 33xx N. 15th ST 3br 1ba/ 3br 2ba Shared. $1350/$500per 267-226-2097
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
57th & Market 1 BR $690 3rd flr, w/w, all utils incl, 267-716-0030 59xx Walnut St lg 1 BR $675+ elec $2025 mvn,2 BR also avail. 267-972-9693 60xx Washington Ave 1BR $625+util modern,near trans,Sec 8 ok, 215.868.0481
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 Apts. Close to transp 215-849-7260
401 W Walnut Lane 1BR/1BA $650 lg closets, updated kit, w/w carpet, elevator, laundry on site, off st park 215-8431392 linda@youcanmovehere.com Studio $525 www.youcanmovehere.com
5220 Wayne Ave. Studio & 1br newly renov 267.767.6959 Lic# 507568
75xx Thouron 1BR $700 renov, exc cond, very nice 856-524-9002
DOMINO LN 1 & 2 BR $745-$875 Renov, prkng, DW, near shopping & dining, mve-in special, 1st mo free. 215.500.7808
16xx Murdoch Rd 2 BR $730+ utils no smoking, w/d, near trans, 215.327.2510 63xx Gardenia St. 1 BR $575+ utils modern 2nd flr duplex, 215-675-2502 63xx Germantown Ave 2br $675/mo Lrg, low utils, w/w cpt, yrd, 215-681-3896 Mt. Pleasant 2br $750+utils also 1 Br, $700/mo. renov, 1 mo sec + 1 mo rent (215)472.6147
Wadsworth & Cheltenham area 1br/1ba LR, kitch, 1st flr, Call 215-233-1410 Washington Ln & Ardleigh 2 BR $800+ all utils, off st parking, convenient trans., beautiful park view, 215-849-4826
21st & 66th Ave 1 BR $595+ utils 1st fl, 3 mo mv-in, refs 215.424.1363 aft 6 61xx Old York Rd. 2BR $750+ utils total renov,new kit,must see 215.276.1045 6751 N. 13th St 2br $595 cln,good location,new paint 215.316.7117 Broad Oaks 1br & 2br lndry rm, Discount Special! 215.681.1723 E Oak Lane 2 BR $925+utils near transport. & schools, 215-668-0676 RENOVATED Apts in WEST OAK LANE Clean, Quiet, Upgraded 267-888-8030
4711 Leiper St. 1 BR renovated, lic#493309 (267)767-6959 4840 Oxford Ave Studio, 1br & 2br apts Ldry,24/7 cam 267.767.6959 lic# 214340 Frankford & Oxford 1 BR $580 Util incl’d.We speak Spanish 215.620.6261
1025 Fanshawe spacious 2Br $725 2nd floor, liv rm, din rm, A/C, new: refrige, carpet, bath rm & W/D. 215-882-3084
11xx Cottman Ave Efficiency $495 good loc, clean, new paint, 215.626.4339 3xx W Byberry Rd. 2 BR $1100 newly renovated condo,215-805-1794 Castor Ave Vic. lg 1 BR $695 19111 zip code, w/ amenities, Sec 8 approved, credit & employment verification applies, Contact Russ, 267-249-9982
Grant & Academy 2br/1ba $725+utils 2nd flr, w/d, off st. prkg (267)688-5252
Lawndale 1 & 2 BR $695 & $775+utils ground flr, a/c, avl immed 609.408.9298 Mayfair 2 BR $700+utils Very clean. No pets. Water included Credit check. 215-333-0458 1 BR $450+ utils Call 215-752-2611
Cheltenham 1br $749 includes h/w, Beautiful apt, great schools & close to pub trans (215)395-6607 Cheltenham 2 BR $900+utils Jefferson St. 2nd flr, deck, stove, refrigerator, DW, W/D. central air, heat, driveway, 2 mo sec + rent. 215-840-3586, 9a-5p
Kensington 25xx Frankford Ave. furn, prvt bth & kit. $450. pvt kit, share bth $395. Single occupancy. 267-968-7043 King of Prussia, retired woman on disability seeks roommate to share 2BR/2BA Apt, $400/mo. 484-831-5081 North Phila Furnished Rm, Large $400, Huntingdon Valley 2BR $1050+ utils Small $300. cable ready, 267-499-7056 large Liv Rm, Din rm, lrg deck off BR, off NORTH PHILA. Room for rent, cable ready. St. prk, w/d, recent renov. 267-266-6003 Call 910-305-4971 King of Prussia: Glenhardie Condos 1 BR N Phila Furn, Priv Ent $80 & up, SSI & Vets $895 includes heat, 610-701-9315 ok, nr trans. Avl Immed. 215-763-5565 Willow Grove nice 1BR $750+utils & sec. private balcony, small dining rm, EIK, nice N. Phila & Germantown Rooms $95/wk + $100 dep. $195 move in, 267-549-4690 size living rm, No pets. (215)646-7982 S. Phila Furn Rms SS & vets welcome. No drugs, $125 & up, 215.478.2912 SW, N, W Move-in Special! $60-$115/wk 12th & Rush St.: fully furnished room for room sharing avail, SSI ok (215)220-8877 rent, 215-316-1843 SW Phila., $110-$125/wk, $300 move-in 13th/Erie furn’d rms $95/week special, all utilities incl. (484)620-7182 Priv. ent, single occupancy 215-514-7143 Temple U/Brewery Town Area: Luxury 13XX. Jerome St. & Broad St. Rooms rooms, furnished, utils incl., 267.240.2474 $500-550 1st Month FREE RENT. Incl. Utilities, Cable TV, Bed, Desk, Microwave, W. Germantown Rooms for rent starting at $450/mo, $100 security fee, easy Dresser, Closet, 27 in. TruFlat TV, frig, move-in. Call Theresa (215)740-0554 security cameras. One person ONLY! W. & N. Phila. nice rooms, well maint, Proof of income a MUST! kitchen privileges, utils incl 215-350-6626 safehavenhomesllc@hotmail.com Safe Haven Homes, LLC W. Phila Furn Rms, SS & Vets welcome, 856-723-6811/856-422-0128 No drugs, $125 & up 267-586-6502 1545 S. 30th St. furn, fridge, no kitchen, $125/wk, $375 move in. (215)781-8049 22nd & Hunting Park, renov, lrg rm, furn $85-$95 wk 2nd week free! 215.960.1600 22xx Lehigh Ave $100-$110, furn, shared kit & ba, no sec 302-507-8050 25th & Allegheny, $350 - $400/mo, SSI ok, 215-237-7916 23rd & Morris lg 2 BR $675 28xx N 27th St.: Furnished room, utils newly renovated, must see! included, $100/wk, SSI ok, 267-819-5683 1st/last & 1 mo security, (215)549-2701 29th & LEHIGH - Rooms for Rent Call 215-549-2111, between 9-9 40XX HAVERFORD AVE. Seniors Place 55xx Poplar St. 3BR/1.5BA $725 Rooms from $400/mo. 215-349-6624 Spacious, bkyd., near trans, 856.294.9514 53xx Girard Ave: Large clean rooms 63xx Buist 3Br/1Ba $775+utils $90-$110/week. Call (215)917-1091 open front porch, fenced backyard, EIK, 55th/Thompson furn rm $110 wk deluxe, priv ent. $200 sec. 215-572-8833 newly renov. "The Landlord that Cares" Tasha 267.584.5964, Mark 610.764.9739 58xx Chestnut St., furnished room, use of kitchen, $80/week, 267-432-6615
homes for rent
60th & Race, 13th & York, 21st & McKean, 15th & Clearfield 267.506.4006
65xx Gesner St. Nice Rooms for Rent $100-$125/wk, 267-738-0834 9th & Lindley also Broad & Hunting Park $105/wk, $250 move in. 215-206-3832
A1 Quality well maintained Rooms Univ City, N & W Phila $125/wk 610.667.0101 All Areas: Furnished Rooms $125/wk No Crdit Ck, move in today 267-499-6847 Allegheny, near L train, furn, quiet, $90/week, $270 sec dep (609) 703-4266 Brewerytown: Move in Special luxury rms, $400 mo SSI welcome 267.632.3286 Broad & Olney deluxe furn rms priv ent. $110 & $145/wk Sec $200. 215-572-8833 BROAD St: Move in Special $190, Large cln furnished rms,w/w crpt,215-681-3896 C.B. Moore & 24th clean, single occpant, income verif $450/mo RJ 215-730-1613 C & Roosevelt Blvd. rm priv house, cable, conv to shops, trans. & Temple Univ. $100wk,$400 mv in. 856.217.2477 aft 2p Fairmount: clean, modern rms, use of kit,no drugs,reasonable rent.215.232.2268 Frankford area $95/wk and up newly renov. Sec dep req. 215-432-5637 Frankford, furn, no drugs, near El, room in apt, $85/wk+ $250 sec. 215-526-1455
14xx N. Felton St 3br/1ba newly painted, sec 8 ok 610-497-2700 4xx Simpson 5 BR $1000 1st/last & 1 month security,215-729-4856 59th & Haverford Vic. 3 BR $650 modern kitch/BA,credit chk, 215.365.8770 6xx Brooklyn 3br/1.5ba $800+utils W/D, front & back yards. 215-294-0087 N. Ruby St. 3 BR $750+ utils complete renov,frt prch, yd, 215.242.9313
Overbrook Park 3br/1.5ba $1200 new renov, nice kitch, a/c 215-669-9417
52XX Pennsgrove St. 3BR/1BA 215-834-9055
W. Bristol & Broad St 4br/1ba $950+util totally renovated, sec 8 ok 215-971-4145
Ogontz Ave 3Br/1Ba $825 new renov., encl. porch, garage, Sec. 8 OK, income verif. & ref’s, avail. 609.605.2922
18xx Waterloo 1 BR+den $575+ utils yard, wall to wall, 215-836-1960 30xx Joyce St. 3 BR $725+ utils All appls, Ready March. 1, 215-796-8715 6xx E Thayer St 1br & 2br Section 8 Ok 215-839-9211 or 732-267-2190 8xx E. Cornwall 3 BR $700+ utils nr G/A,1st mo & sec,crd chk 215.242.8459
31xx N Bambrey St 2br $700 luxury, new kitch & ba, ceramic tile, hdwd flrs, recessed lighting, (215)989-9553
35xx N. Sydenham St. 4br/1.5ba avail for students & sec 8. 215-783-0328
Deluxe 528i 1998 $5950 4dr w/sunroof, simply exquisite, orig miles, all extras, regularly serviced, meticulous senior sacrifice, 215-629-0630
Century 2005 $5700 9,000 miles, loaded, clean. 215-850-0061
CHEVY Tahoe 1999 $7500 110K mi, lthr, 4WD, all pwr, 267-243-2399
Cayman S 2006 $39,900 blk/blk, 16k, nav sys, loaded 215.620.6857
FORESTER XT Limited 2009 $23,750 28,000 miles, still under new car warranty. 609-465-6554
Rabbit 2.5L 2008 $13,000 Blk, 5spd, 2dr, 22k, alloys (215)909-0946
PONTIAC SAFARI 1989 BEST OFFER CLASSIC, 4 DOOR, 9 PASSENGER STATION WAGON with SIMULATED WOOD PANELING, PERHAPS THE FINEST AVAILABLE, DISTRESS SALE, Call 215-922-5342
$ CASH FOR JUNK CARS $ $100-$400. CALL 267-241-3041
Defender 1994 $22,300 mint cond., 125K miles, 215-523-9979 4760 Marple St. 3 BR row $900 bsmnt, garage, Sec. 8 ok, 917-667-4101 61xx Loretto 3BR/2.5BA $1100 w/ finished basement, Call 215-601-5182 East Cheltenham St 2br/1ba $700 large kitch,front & bk yard 917-379-7302 Holmesburg 3br/1ba $1200/mo just renov, beautiful house. 267-337-3923 Knorr St. 4Br/1.5Ba $1,000 Large EIK, big back yard. 917-379-7302 Oxford Circle 9xx Granite 3br/1ba $800 beautiful, hardwood flrs, lrg EIK, 1 car garage, 1st, last, 1 mo sec (267) 981-1183.
South of New Hope 2 BR $1600 Historic, finished attic, w/d, plowing/lawn included, 5 miles to I-95, 215-862-9568
Brookhaven 2BR/1.5 BA $1300 Cambridge Square Twnhse. 215-353-1919 Chester 2BR House $550 Upper Darby 2BR Apt $750 Sec. 8 welcome Call Bola 610-772-3220 UPPER DARBY 3BR row $895 plus utils. Nice home with porch and fenced yard. Move in today! Call ’G’ 267-872-4709
Chrysler Town Country 2006 $9250 insp,fully loaded, 70K miles 215.400.1568 LX 570 2009 $55,000 top of the line, fully loaded, blk, 19k miles, CL02327@msn.com (781)293-4793
Blue Bell PA 2br/2ba twnhse $1245+util large, w/d, bsmt, fireplace (714)434-1009
Voorhees 2 BR/2.5 BA $1450 mins from Virtua Voorhees, 856.346.1996
resorts/rent N Wildwood Studio Seasonal Rental, w/pool. 610-517-2831 OCEAN CITY 3 BR Half or Full Season Near beach, ocean view, furnished, 2nd floor, A/C, w/d, d/w, tv, 215.317.6379
Brigantine beautiful 2nd flr, 1blk to bch, c/a, w/d, yard, prking, clean, 5.29 to 8.28, $15,500. www.BrigB.com 856-217-0025 Wildwood Crest Rental $1,650 week 3 BR, 2BA, 3 blocks from beach. AC, internet, satellite, 609-915-5341.
Brier Crest: 5 BR, sleeps 12, lake view. Saw Creek, Stream Front, 3br/2ba slps 8, ctrl a/c, lots amens, Weekends & Wks, 4/24, 5/30, 6/12 (Race), 609-587-9493
BOCA RATON, FL - Gorgeous 2br/2ba VILLA. $2500/mo. All One Story. Fully Furn. Pool, Tennis, Golf. Community w/ Gatehouse. Avail. March & April (781)760-0008
A1 PRICES FOR JUNK CARS FREE TOW ING , Call (215) 726-9053
CLS 500 2006 $36,500/best offer blk, 42k, mint, warr, 1 ownr 609.206.8427 E 550 2010 $55,000 3K miles, loaded including panoramic roof, garage kept. Call (610)636-8558, daily
ALL CA$H Today All Cycles & ATVs 215-639-3100 www.eastcoastcycle.com
low cost cars & trucks Audi A4 1999 $4000 AWD,green,great con,150K 484.574.8590 Buick LeSabre 1998 $4,300 65K, mint, 1 owner, 4 door. 609-352-2723 Chevrolet Lumina 1997 $2200/OBO 62k mis, loaded, runs great 215-934-6364 Chevy Caprice Classic 1995 $2500 4dr, auto, clean, runs new 215.620.9383
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29xx N. Judson St. 2br $600 good cond, 1st/last & sec, (267)246-7017 2nd & Diamond 2br $730+util really nice, newly renov, 215-365-4567
$10,500obo
Dodge Durango SLT + 2000 $4999 obo gar kpt, high miles, all pwr, 215-677-6135 Ford E-150 1998 $2500 Econoline Van. obo 610-639-4710 Ford Escort ZX2 1998 $1495 200k, auto, snrf, gorgeous, 610-524-8835 Honda Accord LX 1998 $3090 sunroof, runs great, insp. 215-432-4580 Lincoln Towncar Cartier 1997 $3590 leather, sunroof, low miles, 215-432-4580
LINC Town Car Exec 2000 $5000/obo 161K mi, clean, exc cond, 215-919-6629 Mercedes Benz 320 1995 $1950 auto, all pwrs, cln, runs ex, 215.620.9383 MERC Sable 1997 $1700obo Runs Good. 215-917-2262 Nissan Maxima SE 2001 $4295 auto, sunroof, gorgeous 610-524-8835 Olds Aurora 2001 $3,900 94K, new AC & battery, lthr 610.534.9483 Pontiac Bonneville 1997 $2950 140k, loaded, leather, sunrf 267.784.9284 TOYOTA CAMRY V6 1995 $1800 obo rns strong,nds exhaust,221K 610.348.1202 Toyota Carolla LE 1999 $4500 68K, 4 cyl, auto, new insp.610-203-6561 VOLKSWAGON JETTA 2003 $4200/obo good cond, 102,000 mi, sunroof. 215-848-4272 or 215-900-0524
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Germantown Area - Nice Cozy Rooms Private entry, no drugs. (215)548-6083 Hunting Pk Fully Furnished Luxury Rms. Free utils & cable. Avail now 267.331.5382 Island Ave Area: Nice rooms, $100+/wk, near transportation. (215)796-0383
A6 S Line 2004 95,000 mi, 302-607-4099
Versa (Sedan) 2010 $9800 15k, exc cond, factory warr. 215-533-7655
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4642 PENN ST. Efficiency $435-$675 w/w, close to transp. 267-235-5952
Germantown 3br $750 & 5br $1200 available Late March (610)287-9857
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63xx Morton St 1br $550+utils 3rd floor, section 8 ok, 215-432-5047
Wallingford Luxury 1br+den $849+utils Crum Creek Valley condo, a/c, w/d, pool, tennis, no pets, sec. sys. (267)253-6739
15xx Ruscomb St 3 BR/1 BA $850+utils porch, rear deck, Sec 8 OK 267-992-3233
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