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Mayor Michael Nutter institutes earlier curfews and increased police patrols in response to recent attacks by large groups of violent teens. “I have no qualms about sucker-punching women in the face under the cowardly cover of a roving mob, but OK, Mister Mayor, I will go to sleep when it’s bedtime.”

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Beanie Sigel pleads guilty to tax evasion and faces up to three years in prison. Dude’s just like Al Capone, if Al Capone wasn’t a gangster.

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Nutter also addressed the black youths involved in the attacks, saying, “You have damaged your own race,” and telling them to pull up their pants and not wear hoodies in the summer. Then he thanked his new speech writer, Bill Cosby.

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The so-called “hipster bandit” — known for his skinny jeans and Vans — pleads guilty to robbing a frozen yogurt shop and a Pizza Hut in Montgomery County. Meh. DM us when he knocks over a farmto-table co-op or an artisanal cheese maker.

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Motorola unveils the “police car of the future” at a trade show at the Convention Center, featuring voice-activated sirens, lights and gun rack. We’ll settle for a present-day model with tranq-gun turrets and a child-size cattle-catcher. The two Bucks County women who founded the “Kitchen Table Patriots” group have become “darlings of the Tea Party movement,” appearing on stage with Michele Bachmann. They’re also pretty well-liked at firing ranges and whatever the opposite of Mensa meetings are.

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The city’s youth commission taps hiphoppers like Izzo Ya’Know and DJ Damage to help spread the anti-violence message. They are quickly beaten to death with bricks.

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A mom reports a Northeast Philly day care to DHS after her son was bitten several times by another child. Nutter announces the institution of a 2:30 p.m. toddler curfew until further notice.

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THE NAY-SAYER Meet the controversial geologist who says natural gas isn’t making money. By Isaiah Thompson

aking people like you is one way to get famous; making people hate you is another. If geologist Arthur Berman is getting well known, it’s via the latter route. For several years, Berman, a Houston-based petroleum geologist who worked for two decades for Amoco Corp. before starting his own consulting business and blog (Petroleum Truth Report), has been espousing a point of view that runs in stark contrast to conventional wisdom and challenges the very bedrock of America’s energy future: that energy companies are overblowing the profitability of natural gas. Berman’s voice has been a relatively small one in the wilderness, known mostly to industry insiders — until just over a month ago, when The New York Times published an article titled “Insiders Sound An Alarm Amid A Natural Gas Rush.” The article cited the emails of various gas- and energy-industry insiders who, sometimes using eye-catching words such as “Enron” and “Ponzi scheme,” questioned whether the profits from gas being drilled in “shale” formations in Texas and in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale even cover the costs of drilling for it. Most of the emails were anonymous. Berman was one of only two named sources. The article caused quite the stir. Natural gas has gone from making up just 2 percent of U.S. energy in 2000 to 23 percent last

year, gaining some powerful allies along the way. It’s relatively inexpensive — at the moment, at least — and it burns cleaner than coal (though there’s debate over how much the processes used to produce it reduce that environmental edge). Plus, it’s domestic: We don’t need any Middle East countries to sell it to us. Right now, federal and state lawmakers are considering various plans to increase subsidies for gas; in March, President Obama endorsed the plan of gas magnate T. Boone Pickens to convert heavy U.S. vehicles to run on natural gas, not diesel. And so confident is Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett in the industry’s long-term viability in the state that he, rather famously, has refused to tax it. No surprise, then, that the Times article was rebutted with vengence. Gas industry officials derided it, and the Times’ own public editor called the article undersourced and unbalanced. (Times editor Richard Berke has defended the reporting.) John Hanger, former secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (now an environmental consultant), called the article “baloney” on CNBC. These critiques largely hinged around a single, powerful point: If shale gas isn’t worth money, multinational corporations wouldn’t be pouring billions of dollars into drilling it. “Obviously, Mr. Berman is a fringe figure within the gas industry,” Hanger told City Paper this week. “He’s either a genius or a fool … . I’m betting a fool.” CP spoke with Berman this week in an attempt to get the bottom

“He’s either a genius or a fool.”

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� A SHAMEFUL REALITY Two new studies show that Greater Philly is one of the country’s most separate and unequal when it comes to neighborhoods and schools for blacks, whites, Hispanics and Asians. “Philadelphia’s black population, and particularly its affluent black population, lives in much poorer neighborhoods than comparable whites because they are so highly segregated by race,” the studies’ author, Brown University sociologist John Logan, wrote in an email to City Paper. “In these ways Philadelphia is like a number of older and larger metro areas in the Northeast and Midwest where the historical legacy of segregation in central cities from before the civil rights era seems to be locked into place and continues to be reproduced even as minorities begin to move to the suburbs.” The region’s blacks are exposed to poverty at a rate nearly three times higher than whites — the third-highest rate in the country. The average black person lives in a neighborhood with a 24.8 percent poverty rate, compared to just 8.4 percent for whites. And the Philly area has by far the most extreme gap between Hispanic and white exposure to poverty. Hispanics are more than three times more likely to live in impoverished communities, with an average poverty rate of 25.4 percent. And we have the second-highest ratio of Asian to white exposure to poverty: Asians are more than 1.5 times as exposed, living in neighborhoods with a 13.4 percent poverty rate. Finally, the area has the largest performance gap between black and white schools nationwide, as measured by elementary school reading scores. The average black kid attends a school that scores below the 21st percentile, while the average white’s school

scores in the 66th. The same goes for Hispanics and whites: We’re No. 1, with Hispanics attending schools that are 3.28 times worse than those whites attend. In 2011, we still need to be reminded that separate (Lower —Daniel Denvir Merion and North Philly) means unequal.

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� PUMP IT UP The recent news that the Philadelphia Live Arts & Philly Fringe hope to move their headquarters made us curious about the building they’re eyeing: the cool red-brick structure at Race Street and Columbus Boulevard across from the new Race Street Pier. “This building helped prevent the city from having a major downtown fire in the last 100 years,” local historian Harry Kyriakodis explained the other day as he stood outside. Kyriakodis’ new book, Philadelphia’s Lost Waterfront (The History Press, July 22), talks about the former water-pumping station, built in 1904. Back then, lots of manufacturing was happening in a very congested Center City, and fire insurance was at a premium. So the city created an underground pipe system with enough pressure to shoot water several stories high. That explains the words “High Pressure Fire Service” that adorn the building. Besides office space, the renovations would include a theater and a gastropub. But when the city posted a link to its Facebook page about this plan, a commenter was quick to write that the area “certainly doesn’t need any more bars.” Given the zoning restriction that makes it difficult to open bars and restaurants in Old City north of Market, if the festival people do buy the building, they might need to put out other fires — of the resident-objection sort. —Theresa Everline

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bought it: Mayor Michael Nutter, at last, had become the hard-ass we in the media are always complaining he should be. Each time, after failing to pass a soda tax, and a plastic bag ban, and then a soda tax again; after waffling on the “Holiday Village” debacle or any other number of less-than-heroic-seeming appearances on the great stage of public life — each time, I say, we the media lampooned the guy. But not on Monday — not after Nutter delivered a sermon to his church about the evils of flash-mobbery and made the seemingly risque comment that the (all or mostly black) teens participating in such mayhem were doing “damage to your own race” — a comment greeted with applause by his fellow congregants, themselves black. Nutter, whatever his foibles, is a role model for youth in this city, especially black youth, and has a right to state his feelings. But mistake it not: His “hard-ass” remarks were hardly risky — as evidenced not only by the support of his religious community but by the enthusiasm of news media like the Daily News, which awarded the mayor its cover the next morning, on which he appeared, in contrast to recent images, to be tough, angry and thoroughly mayoral next to his own quote. Eagerly throwing confetti at this parade were the usual critics of black youth and, often, of Nutter himself such as Daily News columnist Christine Flowers, known for her own oh-so-risky stances against “thugs” and such, as well as, no doubt, a certain avid reader of this column who feels the media and elected officials often shy away from talking about race (I think he’s sometimes right). It’s a Kumbaya moment! All of us — white and black, left and right, politician and media alike — together at last as we mobilize to exorcize the flash mob demon from our fair city. But what is this problem, really? It’s not, after all, youth; nor is it black youth nor black parents, as evidenced (as if it needed to be) by the shared disgust with youth violence of the many members of Nutter’s own community. It’s a whole mini-generation of children who may be failing us, but whom we’ve also failed back — who grow up in neighborhoods we wouldn’t visit; who face absentee parents, foster homes, homelessness and violence we’d never allow to touch our own; and who we’re all apparently ready to begin putting in jail. Nutter won no special accolades (except from Inquirer columnist Annette John Hall) for another remark: that “This is a challenge to all of us,” even if it was, quietly, his toughest quote yet.

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of what, exactly, he’s saying. At the heart of his critique of shale gas drilling’s profitability are two main points. The first is that drilling companies have understated their expenses and overstated their profits to the public. At the beginning of the natural gas boom, first in shales in Texas, most recently in the Marcellus Shale, natural gas was valued at about $7 or $8 per thousand cubic feet. But amid the economic chaos of 2008, that price dropped by half. That hasn’t stopped energy companies, big and small, from investing in shale gas — notably in the Marcellus Shale, where more than 2,400 wells have been drilled since 2010 alone. And as Hanger and an M.I.T. study group have pointed out, the volume of gas being produced across the country from shale drilling has increased enormously. “I get that, and that’s great,” says Berman, “but my question is, is anybody making money on the stuff?” Companies like Range Resources and Chesapeake Energy have touted the big money to be made in shale drilling. But according to Berman’s calculations, such companies are barely breaking even — indeed, sometimes losing money — at current prices (just last week, the Securities & Exchange Commission subpoenaed financial files from several gas-related energy companies). Should prices increase, that might change the profit margins. But this would disrupt the other narrative of natural gas: that it will remain cheap enough to become a major part of the U.S. energy future and might therefore deserve government subsidy or support. Why would drillers even bother to drill if they weren’t making money now? One reason, says Berman, is land: Many of the land leases signed by gas companies contain clauses that revert the land back to the owner if gas production stops or doesn’t begin: “But once you have production … you can hold that lease forever,” says Berman. Indeed, Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon told the Inquirer in May 2010, “Half of our drilling is kind of nonvoluntary in the sense that we’re drilling to hold leases, not drilling because we think $4 is a great gas price.” That might not thrill landowners or the environmentally minded, many of whom already believe that Corbett and his predecessor Ed Rendell have allowed too much drilling for environmental watchdogs to keep an eye on. Which brings us to Berman’s second argument: that gas wells are drying up faster than gas companies admit. Using data from thousands of wells in Texas, Berman argues that, contrary to industry models, wells do not, after a number of years, “flatten out” and produce a steady output but instead continue to decline until they aren’t profitable anymore. Less gas, he says, will mean more wells, which in turn means “the drilling never stops,” says Berman. “Our findings say … that the wells decline so fast that you never stop drilling. You have to continue at the rate you’re drilling now.” Berman’s assertions have not, to be sure, gone

unchallenged. Some of the critiques have been technical: a rebuttal by investment advisor Tudor, Pickering, and Holt rejects the model for declining gas production. The online industry magazine, The Oil Drum, has offered a summary on its website of various technical critiques, positive and negative, of Berman’s work. Other attacks have verged on the personal: Berman has been accused of serving those who’ve bet against gas in markets, including the Middlefield Group, a Canadabased financial firm that pays Berman a quarterly stipend. A letter posted online by George Mason University fellow Jon Entine goes so far as to question whether (but stops just short of suggesting that) Berman and/or Middlefield conspired to “short” stocks ahead of the Times

“The wells decine so fast that you never stop drilling.” article. (Berman hotly denies this, saying “I don’t give investment advice,” that his work for Middlefield is “entirely appropriate and aboveboard,” and “I don’t own any stock.”) But the larger criticism is that Berman and the Times are missing the big picture: that shale gas is abundant and its role shaping America’s energy future is inevitable. Ironically, Berman doesn’t really disagree. While those opposed to fracking and drilling in the Marcellus Shale have pointed to the Times article and Berman’s findings as more evidence of its risks, they won’t find an anti-gas crusader in this geologist. “I’m very much a part of the natural gas industry, and very much a supporter,” Berman asserts. “Everyone knows that coal has issues. … Even if [gas] isn’t profitable, we need the energy.” (isaiah.thompson@citypaper.net)

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SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH PHILLY’S MIXTAPE MESSIAH DOESN’T MISS A BEAT. BY A.D. AMOROSI Twitterers follow him by the hundreds of thousands. A half-million have watched him on YouTube. Mixtape buyers love him. He’s got 14 of them on the market. “More, maybe,” says Meek Mill. “I lost count.” He’s been called hip-hop’s first social media superstar, a viral Internet icon who works the web like rappers of yore worked two turntables and a microphone. Still, one of the greatest measures of the 24-

year-old Philadelphia MC’s success has been on the stage. Take Powerhouse, Power 99-FM’s annual radio concert bash at Wells Fargo Center. Every time Mill plays it, he draws more applause than its stars. Drake, Jay-Z, Nicki Minaj — all have played Powerhouse. Meek Mill ruled. “He’s been opening up for Powerhouse for the last three years and he gets the same reception,” says Cosmic Kev, the Power 99 DJ who broke Mill big when he dropped 2007’s “In My Bag” into his radio shows. Like many in Philly, Kev had known about Mill’s rep for freestyling, fast beats and hummable melody forever. “Meek’s been around for 10 years, yet for the last four he’s been doing

it,” says Kev. “Each song gets catchier. And bigger. That’s with no major label or backing involved.” That’s all changing, now that Miami-based hip-hop kingpin Rick Ross has signed him to his Maybach Music division of Warner Bros. The first fruits of their labor, the MMG Presents: Self Made, Vol. 1 compilation, featuring Mill cuts like “Ima Boss” and “Tupac Back,” came out in May. There are more collaborations with the label boss in the mix, as well. “My thought process for choosing the selected few for MMG was about moving forward with those who I feel had the potential to blossom into some of the best artists of this time,” says Ross. “I got that feeling from watching Meek on his come-up in Philly.”

/// THAT AND “IN MY BAG” is how the on-air DJ got the radio station to push the Meek agenda. Station execs saw him live and wanted audiences to hear more of him. Will Smith’s ex-bodyguard-turned-promoter, Charlie Mack, caught wind and became Mill’s manager. “Charlie steered me for a minute,” notes Mill, who says their parting was amicable. Mack introduced Mill to MC/label owner/actor T.I., who was ready to sign him to his Grand Hustle/Atlantic imprint when Mill got arrested on gun charges in 2008 and wound up at a State Road correctional facility for eight months. “Not knowing when you’re coming home was the worst feeling,” says Mill, whose only comfort while in jail was that his mixtapes were getting downloaded and his songs were getting played. He learned his lesson: “Don’t take anything for

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/// MILL CUT OFF his braids once he got out of prison in 2009. He wanted a fresh start. Plus, at the pace he intended on going, he wouldn’t have time to keep getting his hair braided. He dropped five mixtapes in one 12-month period and several singles such as “Rozay Red,” a tune he intuitively tweeted a request for Miami-based Ross to join him on. Ross went for it, showed up at a Fourth of July party for Mill’s mom, and from there a friendship developed. “Growing over the last 10 years in my own career, I feel like I’ve got a certain perspective when it comes to artistry, and Meek is one of those who I feel like I can make incredible music and, ultimately, history with,” says Ross. “I’m a fan of Meek.” So are the active-wear folk at Villa and Ecko Unlimited, who have entered into a deal to make and distribute Mill’s Dream Chasers athletic T-shirt line. The people at the North Carolinabased Rap Snacks brand are fans, as well; they are in development for honey-hot flavored potato chips with his name attached. “My face’ll be on the bag. It’s not like I’m helping the chef or anything,” says Mill lightheartedly. For now, Mill is concentrating on getting the Malcolm X-inspired “By Any Means” video off the ground and his family off the streets. “I love living where I do in North Philly, but I want to be the best at everything I can be and never settle for less. I don’t want to be the guy who just stayed in the neighborhood and did nothing with it. I want to represent the hood and go worldwide. I’d even like to stay here. But you know how Rick Ross grew up in Miami and still lives there but only in a nicer spot? I’d like a nicer spot.” (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)

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with up-tempo beats. “The Fresh Prince could do it, freestyle like mad and make songs you’d remember,” recalls Kev. Starting around 2004, Mill’s friends began videotaping his street performances and putting them up on YouTube and onto DVDs with titles like Head Shot. “I didn’t even realize they were putting them up. Suddenly I’d have people telling me they saw me,” says Mill, who didn’t even know how to upload videos at the time. He got onto MySpace and began pumping his music there because it was “the only thing I had — free promotion.” And of course there were the mixtapes. “I used to go to Target, buy $50 worth of blank CDs, then hand them out. People would burn them or download them, then spread them.” By 2009 he joined Twitter, and has posted more than 20,000 tweets to 10 times as many followers. He was a viral revolutionary of nu-rap. “It’s not just about how many hits you can get and how many Facebook likes you get,” says Cosmic Kev. “It’s the live game, too.”

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usual for Meek Mill. “I just want to be the best I can be,” he says during a quiet time between filming a video for MMG’s “By Any Means” at his 31st and Diamond stomping grounds and heading to Camden to open a show for Lil Wayne. The kid born Robert Rahmeek Williams didn’t exclusively think about rapping while attending Frederick Douglass Elementary or jumping between his parents’ separate residences. His mom, Cathy, lived in North Philly, near 23rd and Birch, and his dad, Robert Parker, lived South at 18th and Catharine. “One minute a skateboarder, next a basketballer or a boxer,” says Mill. “You want to be something.” Crediting the influence of his “heroes” such as his father, a part-time musician who was killed during a robbery, and his uncle, Grandmaster Nell of Philly’s Punk Funk Nation, meant that hip-hop was a pre-eminent force in Mill’s life. “I got into their music at age 6 or 7. It was constant.” Meek started rapping at 12 and got known quickly for his battle verses and freestyles. He looked up to Philly’s own Beanie Sigel, Freeway and The Roots’ Black Thought. “They opened the door,” says Mill. By age 14 he hooked up with several North Philly MC and DJ cliques where recording techniques came down to hooking up a microphone into a tiny stereo tape recorder and blowing. But Mill didn’t stay a part of any crew. Blame ambition. “Everybody doesn’t work at the same pace or happen to have the same drive,” he says. “I was pressing it, taking it seriously.” Mill began developing a style. Lyrically, there was violence and bad times, the usual mean-streets stuff, but there was hopefulness and fanciful diversions like diamonds and fine wine, too. The words weren’t merely about rap’s fascination with consumerism. It was all about a way out. “I’m always chasing my dreams,” he says. Beyond the lyrics, though, was Mill’s music, melodies that filled early mixtapes like Best of Meek Mill Part 1, The Real Me and the 2007 start of his highly notable Flamerz series, of which there are currently five. The songs were catchy as hell. “Philly has outstanding rappers, but the difference between Meek and a lot of locals is that he knows how to make a song,” says Cosmic Kev, who compares Mill’s case to the difference between ballers in the N1 leagues and NBA pros. “The N1 cats are talented and can do tricks, but as far as the NBA goes, they can’t make that transition,” says the DJ. “Mill is NBA-worthy.” Mill is a master of both sides — the street and the stadium. He could freestyle for an hour and come up with a dozen memorable musical hooks

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³ EVER HIT A Philly movie screening preview and think, “Who the hell runs these things?” Well, the “who” just got smaller. Longtime competitors Allied Integrated Marketing and Terry Hines & Associates merged on Aug. 8 and will all be housed in Allied’s offices at Two Commerce Square. ³ Why is Audrey Claire Taichman waiting until Sept. 6 to open her ready-to-go kitchen boite/culinary boutique Cook at 20th and Rittenhouse (featuring “many of Philly food’s major players”) when she started taking online reservations for programming yesterday, Aug. 10? She says it stems from having auctioned off the “first classes” at Cook during the Ball on the Square for big money and that the winners all agreed Sept. 6 was the best date. Opening by committee — I love it. ³ Manager and all-around nice guy Mark Schulz is now executive director at the Philadelphia chapter of the Recording Academy, again. “It’s a return performance, so to speak,” says the local Grammy man, who was in that position from 1999 until after the last Philadelphia Chapter Academy Honors in 2006.Welcome back. ³ Who doesn’t love a good new brunch spot? While the Rittenhouse area’s a.kitchen at AKA gears up for Saturday and Sunday brunches with stuff like corn frittatas with chorizo and green chilies, Cuba Libre in Old City gets hotter still with a 10th anniversary celebratory brunch — double the chorizo and throw in a pear mojito or three. ³ University of the Arts news: Remember I mentioned how 1812 Productions’ Jen Childs (BFA, class of ’90) got a $138,000 Pew grant? It’s for a two-year Women and Comedy Project, combining storytelling, music and clowning. Meanwhile Lukas Poost (BFA, ’11) just got the green ogre role in the national tour of Broadway’s Shrek: The Musical, starting this autumn. ³ Rumor has it that Joe Grasso’s longon-hold Rumor club on 15th Street is opening within the first few days of September. No word yet if the upstairs White Oak restaurant will follow soon after. ³ Philly’s poetic balladeer Andrew Lipke gets dark and thematic on winged stringed apocalyptic The Plague and has finally set a date for the muchanticipated project: Sept. 6. The album is up digitally at andrewlipke.com. ³ Liberties Walk West just got a little Homeslice (1030 N. American) now that ex-club promoter Jack “Boogi” Stroman and DJ Ari Saxe have taken over the address from the girls at A Full Plate and will serve what promises to be a mostly organic (not junk food) menu. That means they’re doing pizza sauce sweetened with roasted carrots instead of sugar, with crusts in white and wheat versions. If they spin and flip their dough like they did records, Homeslice’ll be popping fresh. ³ The Icepack goodness is baked in at citypaper. net/criticalmass. (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)

BUDDY COMEDY: As part of the two-week GayFest!, Dave Ebersole presents a staged reading of Living Space, about a gay man and his hetero bestie. JESSICA KOURKOUNIS

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ISN’T IT BROMANTIC? Philly director Dave Ebersole confronts his skepticism about straight/gay friendships — and makes a new pal in the process. By Josh Middleton

n our post-Entourage universe, it’s no longer strange to see a couple of dudes hugging it out. But there is one form of male bonding that still manages to raise eyebrows: friendships between gay and straight men. That’s the idea that struck local director Dave Ebersole when he sat down to write his second play, Living Space, in late 2009. He always had hetero guy friends as a kid, but being immersed in theater since graduating from Temple in 2005, Ebersole started to feel separated from the more masculine corners of society. “My interactions with them started to feel superficial and uncomfortable,” he says. “I started to feel like they were always judging me.” So, like any good therapist would advise, he decided to face his fears head-on. The strategy? To write a play using himself as inspiration for a character who longs to experience an intimate connection with a guy who swings for the other team. Crafting that persona was easy, but, as a playwright who develops characters based on the people around him, Ebersole had trouble concocting a realistic — well — straight man. Enter Jay Mazzola, a lady-loving co-worker who also happens to be an actor. “I started talking to him one day and — bang — I went

home and wrote three scenes.” Ebersole says Mazzola became actively involved with the project, offering tidbits that allowed him to piece together a more genuine character — and “helping me get sports references right,” he laughs. As a result, Living Space not only delves into an issue many gay men can relate to, but also produced the very friendship he had been searching for. “It became prophetic,” he says. “[My lack of straight friends] was starting to become a real issue for me but it’s not anymore, which is the happy ending of it.” Like any new play, Living Space must undergo a series of readings before being done up in full-production glory. So far, Ebersole’s shared the piece only with groups of friends at his Landsdowne condo, but soon he’ll present a staged reading at the two-week GayFest!, where he and Mazzola will perform the principal roles under the direction of Rhonda Goldstein. With only two plays under his belt, the 32-year-old already understands that his best work comes from stepping outside his — and his audience’s — comfort zone. “A lot of times people stick to what they know, and that’s boring to me — you don’t learn anything,” he says. “I like putting two points of view together to see what they make. It’s usually really good stuff.” (josh.middleton@citypaper.net)

“I felt like they were always judging me.”

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Bainbridge St., 215-627-1088, quinceproductions.com. For more information on this year’s GayFest! lineup, flip to Queer Bait on p. 29.

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Any band who trades in this sort of sewage-dark, rabid-fangs-bared post-industrial menace and calls itself Bestial Mouths doesn’t traffic much in irony. Which, considering that the L.A. trio’s debut, Hissing Veil (DAIS), is almost self-parodically bleak, means you should listen to this album the way you’d greet a wild bear: Curl into a ball and hope it leaves you relatively unmauled. The late Poly Styrene must be looking down in snarling approval at Lynette Cerezo’s spine-jarring howl, which tears through a wasteland of pummeling drums and demolition-derby keyboards that threaten to collapse or implode or just plain threaten. BM plays the Head—Shaun Brady House on Saturday (headhousephilly.com).

Orkest (Atlantic Jaxx) — wherein a 70-strong Dutch symphony takes on the U.K. maximalist-house duo’s catalog — is basically ludicrous, both in concept and ultra-bombastic execution. In other words, roughly par for the Jaxxian course; but surprisingly fun even by that token, especially when spotlighting the group’s forays into swing, samba, Balkan and Middle Eastern music. Who knew “Where’s Your Head At?” could benefit from a good harpsichord solo? —K. Ross Hoffman

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You may have seen Cumberland River on Justified, but the lush harmonies and instrumental hotness on The Life We Live (Rural Rhythm) were not contrived for the screen. These Harlan County, Ky., natives cut right to the heart, whether led by a typical bluegrass tenor or the exceptional baritone: coal mining, romantic crossroads, leaving home and wishing you hadn’t, the traditional murder tales with roots stretching back to the British Isles. These songs celebrate life in acoustic harmony.

finds the inscrutable dubstepper squeezing 16 fleeting tracks into 35 minutes riddled with frustratingly premature fades and abrupt breaks. He makes the seconds count, though: Dedication offers enough evocation and invention, pathos and dread — bleary 8-bit bleeps, burnt-out riddims, spectral alien ambience — that it could have been just as satisfying and intrigu—K. Ross Hoffman ing at twice this length.

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³ ALTHOUGH NOT AS famous as Warner Sallman’s 1941 Head of Christ, which sold more than 500 million copies, Rembrandt van Rijn’s characterization of Jesus in prints and paintings is instantly recognizable. From Jesus’ somber, soft gaze to his coarse, homely garments to the warm, earthy palette and atmospheric “tobacco juice” shadows, these images comprise an enduring cliché in Christian religious art. But it’s certainly not the first. To create the Jesus that is now so familiar, Rembrandt (1606-1669) rewrote rigid conventions. Early in his career, the artist had adhered to the Christian tradition reflecting an allegedly contemporaneous written description (Jesus had hair the color of a “ripe hazelnut”) and a couple of miraculous imprints of Jesus’ face on pieces of cloth. (The Shroud of Turin, though, was not welldocumented in Rembrandt’s day.) For Christians familiar with the Old Testament, there has always been something problematic about “graven images” of God, but when the image was not created by the human hand, it seemed “true” and authoritative. In canonical 17th-century imagery, Jesus was a handsome blond fellow, a bit like the classical god Apollo (a link that goes back to the Catacombs, by the way). In his 30s and 40s, Rembrandt lived in a Jewish neighborhood in Amsterdam. A series of oil studies of a young man, perhaps a neighbor, is the basis of the face of Jesus that would remain fairly consistent for the rest of the artist’s life. The studies represent a specific individual glancing to one side in a thought>>> continued on page 19

MEAN GIRLS: A gaggle of bitchy white women, presided over by Bryce Dallas Howard (center), is the misguided source of The Help’s evil.

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cognitive dissonance of entrusting black maids with the raising of white children and the maintenance of white homes while denying their humanity in all other ways, so The Help maintains an air of glossy nobility, sanctifying every one of its characters for their courage while shielding its eyes from hard truths at every turn. The strengths that Tate Taylor’s adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s massive best-seller does have can be found almost entirely in its cast. Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer are especially strong as the two maids who risk their livelihoods and most likely their lives to help a would-be journalist (Emma Stone) write the story of the black help in Jackson, Miss., from their own perspective. For all of its Oprah’s Book Clubbiness, the source novel at least maintained that very real threat of violence and abuse that any AfricanAmerican faced by stepping out of line — lines constantly redefined by their angry and frustrated white neighbors and employers. Taylor places his emphasis squarely on crowd-pleasing, alternating scenes of quiet, dignified suffering with those silly racist, rich white folk showing their true colors, or awwwinspiring moments of cute tots, neglected by their real mothers but doted on by their nannies. Its prevailing mood is self-congratulatory, tsk-tsk-ing bigotry from the safe haven of its own more enlightened era. While Davis and Spencer do much to flesh out their characters, the reassuringly blithe hate of the white women for whom they work is far less fully realized. Under the iron fist of “ladies who lunch” dictator Hilly Holbrook (Bryce Dallas Howard), The Help’s evil isn’t so much the prevailing racism in Jackson but a cartoonish gaggle of mean girls. The film reduces the civil rights struggle to the comeuppance of one uppity social climber, patronizingly serving a single stick figure her (literal) just desserts. —Shaun Brady

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Paw-Paw’s presence is a deliberate strategy. the virtual world only abets an innate desire to step back from the real world, or else the habits it instills are so seductive that merely logging off is not enough to break the habit. That’s where Paw-Paw comes in. The fact that the movie’s voice of reason, even wisdom, belongs to a pair of disembodied paws and a gravelly voice (July’s, of course) that describes purring as “the sound that means ‘I am cat who is belonging to you’” is a deliberate strategy to pierce the audience’s shell, not an act of juvenile wish-fulfillment. Her naïveté is polemical, not passive. Even so, The Future is deceptively simple, the richness of its insights apparent only after it’s spent weeks germinating in the recesses of your mind. Head-on, it will elude your grasp. (s_adams@citypaper.net)

ful attitude, as if he were listening intently. He is younger and less commanding than the traditional Christ. This version, probably the first based on a Jewish person, appears in two of Rembrandt’s best known religious works, Supper at Emmaus and The Hundred Guilder Print, both of which are featured in this show. Swathes of gold, gemstones, rich brocaded fabrics, crowns and choirs of angels — in pictures or as realities — have no place in the art and churches of Protestant Amsterdam. Individuals might purchase paintings or prints like Rembrandt’s, but even in a private home, elaborate or showy religious paraphernalia was considered unacceptable. This emphatic simplicity seems to suit Rembrandt. It enhances the directness and accessibility of his work. The artist gives no occasion for the viewer to be more engaged by his subject’s clothing than by his being. His strength is to show people at their most psychologically naked moments. As time passed, Rembrandt infused his storytelling with an understated characterization of Jesus as a presence, a stillness. In contrast to the more dramatic earlier 1634 version of Supper at Emmaus, in the second, better-known version (1648), Jesus is the calm center of the drama. Printmaking was an ideal medium for Rembrandt. His structuring of compositions in terms of light and dark is always satisfying. The dramatic contrast between highlight and shadow in images of Christ becomes a metaphor for Christ as the light of the world. All is in darkness without the illumination he brings. A little film in the exhibition demonstrates some techniques of etching and shows how Rembrandt’s selective wiping of a plate resulted in unique variations in the finished prints. It’s intriguing to notice how the sketchy early states of prints — made when the artist was still working on them — are sometimes more vigorous and pleasing to the contemporary eye than the finished ones. A particular highlight of the show is Rembrandt’s 1634-35 chalk sketch of Leonardo’s Last Supper (1495-98), made from an engraving of the mural. Here is the consummate artist at work: analyzing light and composition and narrative with powerful economy. (r_rice@citypaper.net)

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iranda July’s second feature is narrated by a cat named Paw-Paw. Still with me? The rap on July’s first film, Me and You and Everyone We Know, was that it was insufferably twee, a stylized simulacrum wrapped in an airless shell. The Future — which follows Paw-Paw’s opening monologue in which a young couple, Sophie (July) and Jason (Hamish Linklater), pretend to stop time by freezing in place — almost begs to be written off the same way. Making matters worse, the movie’s overarching subject is that Sophie and Jason, despite being in their mid-30s, are almost pathologically averse to commitment. Adopting a wounded cat is about all the responsibility they can handle, a burden they contemplate by marking off calendar days as Paw-Paw’s homecoming draws closer. It sounds, frighteningly enough, like some appalling hybrid of Napoleon Dynamite and Knocked Up, but July’s approach to arrested development has the feel of a personal face-off rather than generational comment or answersong riposte. Sophie and Jason’s trepidation may have roots in absurdity, but its aftershocks are tangible, even as they pierce the boundaries of strict reality. With adulthood, or at least a sliver thereof, imminent, Sophie and Jason take plot strides toward reinvention. They quit their dead-end jobs — she teaches dance to children, he works tech support out of their small apartment — and take up more meaningful pursuits. But within a few days, their plans have unraveled. Rather than canvassing for an environmental charity, Jason starts scouting deals in the Pennysaver, passing days in the company of a widower (Joe Putterlik) with a knack for appliance repair. Sophie’s monthlong art project,

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creating a new dance for each pre-Paw-Paw day, founders as she shrinks away from her webcam’s unblinking eye, terrified to cast her awkward movements into a sea of athletic YouTube gyrations. Instead, she starts up an affair with a suburban single father (David Warshofsky), as if trying to jump into adult life at the deep end. The Internet plays only a small role in The Future, as the medium by which Sophie measures herself and Jason does his disembodied work — and then only until Sophie abruptly cancels their service in an attempt to set them free. But even once she’s cut their umbilical DSL, the two can’t quite seem to connect. In their first scene, Sophie and Jason sit at opposite ends of a couch with their laptops open, facing but not seeing each other; later, she calls a stranger whose number she happens on by chance, and yells out her window to determine if he’s within shouting distance. Either

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LIFE, ABOVE ALL|B Given that the movie is set in a country with the highest rate of HIV infection in the world, it’s puzzling that the characters in South Africa’s Life, Above All take longer to register the virus’s presence than the audience watching them. As soon as the infant sister of 12-year-old Chanda (Khomotso Manyaka) dies, and certainly once we see the first flecks of thrush on her stepfather’s lips, the conclusion seems inescapable — but her mother either can’t or won’t face the possibility, and the people of their small village seem determined to look the other way. It takes half the movie before euphemisms like “depression” and “the bug” give way to its proper name. It’s a vivid portrait of the toxic combination of primitive superstition and official corruption that allows the epidemic to flourish, and a poignant humanist parable about undeserving outcasts. It also feels as if it’s made entirely for

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John Michael McDonagh, brother of lauded playwright and In Bruges director Martin McDonagh, takes a whole-hog approach to exploiting the provincial reputation of the Irish in his directorial debut, following the amoral exploits of Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson), an acid-dropping, hooker-hiring, socially stunted police officer who could very well be the last clean cop on the Emerald Isle. After discovering a dead body in Gaelic-speaking Connemara, Boyle soon learns that the murder brushes up against a large-scale drug-smuggling operation, its Irish outpost run by philosophically adept criminals Francis Sheehy (Liam Cunningham) and Clive Cornell (the inescapable Mark Strong). When reserved African-American FBI agent Wendell Everett (Don Cheadle)

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ships over to Ireland to investigate, McDonagh reacts with all the subtlety of a famished Rottweiler tossed a raw porterhouse, capitalizing on each and every cringe-inducing ethnic donnybrook. (“I’m Irish, sir,” Boyle informs Everett when he’s rebuked for an off-color skin-color remark. “Racism is part of my culture.”) That’s all easy money, but what makes The Guard such a watchable black comedy, aside from its grinningly McQueen-like pace, is Gleeson’s serrated performance, at once childlike, cold and chummy. “I can’t tell if you’re really motherfucking dumb or really motherfucking smart,” Everett admits to Boyle after the Irishman digs up a major lead in their case. Neither can we, and that’s why we want him on our side. —Drew Lazor (Ritz Five)

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� CONTINUING BEATS RHYMES & LIFE: THE TRAVELS OF A TRIBE CALLED QUEST | B+ As a native New Yorker and a devout hip-hop head, Michael Rapaport could’ve easily set his Big Apple Rap Masturba-Tron™ to auto-jerk and let it run for the duration of his documentary on A Tribe Called Quest. But it turns out the actor and first-time director’s admiration for the influential ’90s act doesn’t cloud his sometimes-klutzy but altogether sincere and captivating examination of Tribe’s innovation — and eventual implosion. —D.L. (Ritz at the Bourse)

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America centers on sickly Steve Rogers (Chris Evans), a wannabe enlistee who possesses the fight and valor of a supersoldier but none of the physical attributes to make him an asset to the Allies. Enter the avuncular Dr. Abraham Erskine (Stanley Tucci), who injects Rogers with a serum that swells him up from shrimp to shield-chucking specimen. Though there’s more than a little setup for the impending Avengers franchise, Captain America works as standalone entertainment due to its sincerity — it never attempts to overreach. —D.L. (Pearl, UA 69th St., UA Riverview)

THE CHANGE-UP|CDirector David Dobkin, who’s already done outrageous bromance (Wedding Crashers) and high-concept train wrecks (Fred Claus, Shanghai Knights), squanders the rapport of Jason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds on gross-out gags involving pregnancy sex, sleazy porno shoots and diarrhea. The body-switching premise is at the center of the problem: Bateman’s strength is in well-timed straight-man reactions, and possessed by Reynolds he suddenly has to become a fast-talking, smug douchebag. Reynolds excels at douchebaggery, but here he mainly knits his brow and looks embarrassed. Both have obvious fun playing against type, and the film’s best moments seem like playful ad-libbing, but given how loathsome each character is, the final moral redemptions feel unearned and, worse, unfunny. —S.B. (UA 69th St., UA Riverview)

COWBOYS & ALIENS|C+ Cowboys & Aliens is cheesy, formulaic and at times utterly nonsensical. But it’s so comfortable in its corny-blockbuster clothes that it’s pointless to wag a finger at its contrivances. The lead

cowboy in question is Jake Lonergan (top-ranked butterface Daniel Craig), a coach-robbin’ bandit who wakes up an amnesiac in the middle of the dirt, a strange metallic device locked onto his wrist. Making his way into town, he’s soon reminded of his outlaw status, sealed in a stagecoach bound for federal lockup — until a human-snatching gang of E.T. flying machines inadvertently busts him loose. With every instance of painful dialogue or logiclacking plot development tempered by snarling CGI space monsters and idyllic desert topography getting freaking blown up by lasers, Cowboys & Aliens is mindless summer fare at its sunniest. —D.L. (UA Riverview)

CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE.|BAs mom and dad Steve Carell and Julianne Moore head toward divorce, their son (Jonah Bobo) nurses a fierce crush on his baby sitter (Analeigh Tipton), who is herself hot for Carell. Newly single Carell takes tips from seasoned pickup artist Ryan Gosling, who takes pity on the hapless older man but falls prey to Cupid’s wiles once the uncommonly resistant Emma Stone comes into the picture. Intertwining love plots go back at least as far as Restoration comedy, but the script peddles shopworn adages instead of hard-earned truths. Each story feels like something that happened to a friend of a friend, just far enough removed to feel naggingly out of whack. —S.A. (Roxy, UA Riverview)

FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS|BYes, Friends with Benefits is basically a mirror image of No Strings Attached. But what elevates the second go’round is the chemistry between Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis, a natural

ease that went missing when prankster-douche Ashton Kutcher and icyhot Natalie Portman flopped around in bed together. Watching these two un-self-consciously explore sexual boundaries is a fun way to spend a couple of hours. —Carolyn Huckabay (Pearl, UA Riverview)

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2|B+ With our hero (Daniel Radcliffe) on a frantic search for the last of Lord Voldemort’s (Ralph Fiennes) Horcruxes, most Part 2 scenes are building blocks for the climactic Battle of Hogwarts, where the two factions finally dance. Though there are snack-size portions of the youthful, magic-charged mischief that four-time Potter director David Yates is so good at staging, there’s simply no time for Harry to sulk — Yates is too busy marching the kids through the thickets of death, remorse and salvation. —D.L. (Roxy, UA Riverview)

HORRIBLE BOSSES|C+ Jason Bateman, Jason Sudekis and Charlie Day plot to permanently dispose of their, let’s say, unpleasant supervisors, in Seth Gordon’s feature debut. As they proceed with a plan to criss-cross murders, there’s a lot of low-stakes humor, occasionally brought off by a mostly ingratiating cast. Day brings the film to a shuddering halt every time he leaps into his falsetto shtick, which is roughly every 90 seconds. It’s hard to remember the last time an actor so over-estimated his onscreen charisma. —S.A. (UA Riverview) MIDNIGHT IN PARIS|B+ No filmmaker has been so selfaware and yet so trapped by his own neuroses as Woody Allen. Midnight

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in Paris is his latest auto-diagnosis, recognizing his chronic discontent and romanticization of an ideal other time, other place. That would be 1920s Paris, which screenwriter Gil (Owen Wilson) pines for as his own gilded age. Despite his role as chronicler of modern intellectual life, Allen has never shied away from leavening his films with fantasy, and the latest iteration results in his best film in recent memory. —S.B. (Ritz Five)

PASSIONE!: A MUSICAL ADVENTURE|C+ Naples, declares John Turturro at the start of his film, “has survived earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, foreign invasions, crime, corruption, poverty, neglect. But at the same time, it has continuously produced an avalanche of music, throughout the ages.” This mix of enthusiasm and awkwardness is an apt introduction to the film, which offers one passionate performance after another. The songs in this movie rehearse the subject matter for which Italy is so well known: is sex. It doesn’t dig into causes and backgrounds, psychologies or ideologies. Instead, it offers performance as such, flamboyant and banal, often at the same time. —C.F. (Ritz at the Bourse)

POINT BLANK|BGilles Lelouche plays a nurse whose pregnant wife is kidnapped and held for ransom after he interrupts an assassination attempt on patient Roschdy Zem, himself wanted for the murder of a wealthy businessman. Lelouche’s task is to take out Zem himself, but instead the two form an

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THE SMURFS|F The Smurfs, brought to the screen by Raja Gosnell, possibly the most shamelessly idea-free director working today, transports a handful of the little blue buggers to Central Park to complicate — but really, enlighten

In most ways, the terrain of Azazel Jacobs’ fourth feature is familiar: It’s a movie about a high school misfit (Jacob Wysocki) who’s taken under the wing of an eccentric principal (John C. Reilly) and finds common cause with a sullen burnout (Bridger Zadina) and a pretty blond girl (Olivia Crocicchia) who’s ostracized for giving in to a boy’s sexual demands. But there’s a vein of unpredictability running through the film, a sense of the way we construct ritual out of the flotsam of everyday life. It’s like a compressed parable of the teenage years, sometimes dazzling in its emotional sweep — and yet another reason to keep a close eye on Jacobs. —S.A. (Ritz at the Bourse)

TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON|D Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) hunts for his first job in D.C., with his Autobot buddies Optimus Prime and Bumblebee doing contract work for the government. Soon, it’s revealed that the Space Race was a competition to see who would be the first to investigate a precious-cargo-carrying Cybertron spaceship that crash-landed on the lunar surface. The war that ensues would forgive all the preceding idiocy if they actually focused on the Transformers kicking the crap out of each other for once. —D.L. (Pearl, UA 69th St., UA Riverview)

THE TREE OF LIFE|ATerrence Malick’s phenomenal, phenomenological The Tree of Life tells the story of Jack, whose father (Brad Pitt) drills his three sons ceaselessly on his version of proper behavior. His wife (Jessica Chastain) is a less defined presence, powerfully emotive but hazily sketched. The opening narration lays out a struggle between the principles of grace (formative, forgiving, divine) and nature (earthly, destructive), attributes which sync loosely with the parents themselves. Malick’s reach extends far beyond the confines of time and place, to the edges of the universe and the dawn of life. There hasn’t been anything like The Tree of Life in years, and until

� REPERTORY FILM ANDREW’S VIDEO VAULT The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St., armcinema25.com. A back-to-back screening of Popeye (1980, U.S., 114 min.), starring Robin Williams in his first lead role, and Querelle (1982, U.S., 108 min.), the film adaptation of Jean Genet’s 1953 novel Querelle de Brest. Thu., Aug. 11, 8 p.m., free.

AWESOME FEST Piazza at Schmidts, Second and Hancock streets, theawesomefest.com. Senna (2010, U.K., 106 min.) A documentary about Brazilian Formula One race car driver Ayrton Senna, who won three F1 world championships before his untimely death at age 34. Sun., Aug. 14, 8 p.m., free.

THE BALCONY 1003 Arch St., 215-922-6888, thetroc. org. Your Highness (2011, U.S., 102 min.): Prince Fabious embarks on a search for his kidnapped bride, with his clumsy brother Thadeous in tow. James Franco and Natalie Portman star. Mon., Aug. 15, 8 p.m., $3.

INDIE FILM SERIES Headhouse Market, Second between Pine and Lombard streets, 215-6257988, southstreet.com. The Happening (2008, U.S., 91 min.): M. Night Shyamalan’s thriller about people turning suicidal in gruesome fashion. Wed., Aug. 17, 8 p.m., free.

INTERNATIONAL HOUSE 3701 Chestnut St., 215-387-5125, ihousephilly.org. The Point (1971, U.S., 74 min.): Ringo Starr narrates this animated version of Harry Nilsson’s album of the same name. Wed., Aug. 17, 8:30 p.m., free.

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FOR THE BIRDS Rotisseur’s roast chicken puts other Philly poultry to pasture. By Adam Erace ROTISSEUR | 102 S. 21st St., 215-496-9494, rotisseur.net. Open Mon.-

Fri, noon-10 p.m. Chicken, $4-$14; sides, $2.50-$5.

hen the wisp of a counter clerk at Rotisseur asked what sides I wanted, I don’t think she was expecting me to reply, “All of them.” “All of them?” she echoed. “All of them,” I confirmed, and she was off, moving down a buffet of countryfied fixins like an assembly-line teamster, filling ecochic Bio-Pak takeout boxes full of potato salad, citrus-y fennel slaw, mac ’n’ cheese and more. Just beyond, owner Aaron Matzkin cut up two More on: gorgeous, golden chickens as quickly as an experienced criminal dismembering a body to dump in the Everglades. “Did you want the side of corn muffins, too?” the cashier called across the sleek glass partition dividing the kitchen from its 18seat, white-and-yellow dining room. “All of them.” Sides are a big part of the chicken-dinner experience at this bright Rittenhouse rotisserie, a business inspired by Matzkin’s post-collegiate, “starving-artist” years in L.A. “I found myself eat-

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ing at a couple rotisserie places a few times a week,” says the Philly native, born and raised in Powelton Village. “They were reasonably priced, and there were always leftovers that were great the next day.” When he returned to Philly, he wondered, “Why is this not here?” So he partnered with longtime buddy Dean Kitagawa to open Rotisseur in a former dress shop near 21st and Sansom. Kitagawa is no longer involved in the business, and since his departure, chef Geoff Boehme, a veteran of Bar Ferdinand, has come on board to take some of the cooking duties off Matzkin’s never-formallytrained hands. Akiko Moorman, former Speck sous chef, is also loosely involved in Rotisseur as Matzkin’s recipe consigliere. Those corn muffins are hers — she used to bake them for family meal at Etats-Unis in New York — just tweaked with a swirl of honey and Matzkin’s housemade corn milk. Southerners would likely turn up their noses at the moist, fluffy interiMORE FOOD AND ors and lingering sweetness, but this is DRINK COVERAGE Philadelphia, and we Yankees don’t know AT C I T Y P A P E R . N E T / any better. M E A LT I C K E T. The muffins are one of about 10 sides that Rotisseur has on tap any given day. Some, like the peach cobbler and watermelon salad, are seasonal choices that rotate among mainstays. At only $2.50 for a small side and $5 for a large, you should follow my lead and order them all, even if only half of them are worth writing home about. Among the winners, the resounding favorite was the beyondbelief-buttery roasted potatoes. Rich and golden as pirate doubloons, >>> continued page 34

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CLUCK OF THE DRAW: Rotisseur’s bangin’ birds come from Senat Poultry, a purveyor that deals in hormone- and antibiotic-free chickens raised the right way in Lancaster.

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Not in an Nosferatu kind of way. Not in a rufflyshirted, kinda-homoerotic Lestat kind of way. And definitely not in an “I sparkle in sunlight and am incapable of enunciating” kind of way. None of that. The other morning, before I even got out of bed, I decided I needed dinuguan. A Filipino stew, dinuguan is something I grew up eating — not every day, but occasionally, when my Aunt Epy or my grandmother would cook up a pot. Why does such a sporadically served dish stay suspended in my mind, so much so that my subconscious bossed me into cooking some? Well, the name dinuguan derives from the Tagalog word “dugo,” or blood — the key ingredient in this pot is drained from the veins of swine. As a young’un I was always curious about dinuguan, which resembles wet concrete with cubed pork in it. That “wow, I’m eating something that is really, really gray” feeling is hammered home by the fact that its traditional accompaniments are either white rice or puto, a white rice cake. The chalky, mineralistic flavor of the stew (from both the blood and minced pork liver, which I use) is cut by another vital staple of the Filipino kitchen — vinegar. Hungry? “It is surprisingly accessible and easy to like,” write Amy Besa and Romy Dorotan, whose 2006 book Memories of Philippine Kitchens is my Pinoy cooking bible. “When done properly and skillfully, the dinuguan is absolutely delicious.” I’d never made it before, so I prepared myself for what might result from an improper and less-than-skillful attempt. I combined elements of four different recipes to produce my dinuguan. The early steps — cubing up pork butt, aromatizing ginger, garlic, bay leaf and lemongrass, covering everything with liquid and setting it over low heat — were nearly boring. Then came the funcooker: As the ingredients that don’t scare children bubbled away in a pot, I began mincing the hell out of close to a pound of pork liver, getting it pulpy enough to be whisked into a cup of pasteurized pork’s blood generously given to me by Jonathan Adams of Pub & Kitchen. I dipped my fingertips into it and had some internal monologue like Dexter, and then I dumped it all into the pot. Nothing at first. But then blackened mini-clouds began rising, insidious plumes of blood and guts like I’d just struck oil in the middle of a chicken-stock ocean. It smelled exactly like I remembered it. And 45-ish minutes later, it tasted exactly like it, too. (drew.lazor@citypaper.net)

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the spuds are confit-ed in the magical chicken fat collected in the rotisserie and rendered from trimmings. Serious. Crisp little assorted pickles (okra, green tomato, cucumber) rang with tang, as did the bright salad of shaved pickled fennel, apple slices and orange segments turned in a sophisticated tarragon vinaigrette. I also loved the combo of summery succotash, sweet corn, sautéed zucchini, roasted red onions and blanched lima beans all mingling like guests at a perfectly seasoned pool party. Not so hot were the potato salad (due to an off-kilter ratio of boiled tater to housemade aioli) and kale chips that would disintegrate in a stiff breeze. The mac ’n’ cheese’s five-queso blend is top-secret, but what the penne really needed was some not-so-secret salt. Under a limp, rolled-out topping, the apple cobbler was weirdly sour. Wish I could tell you about the walnut-pesto pasta salad, but in her scooping-and-boxing, double-checking frenzy, the clerk forgot that one. It was only after I got home that I realized it was on the bill. But good or bad, the sides are just that. At Rotisseur, the bird’s the word. Matzkin taste-tested specimens from 15 providers before settling on the one that would grace his French-engineered Rotisol rotisserie (“the preferred choice of Parisian bistros”). The best bird hailed from Senat Poultry, a halal operation so clear-conscious they’ve put pictures of their Paterson, N.J., slaughterhouse on their website and invite y’all to come down for a visit now, ya hear! A co-op of Amish farmers raises Senat’s chickens without hormones and antibiotics in Lancaster, where the free-roaming roasters develop the all-important “fatty skin” that turns to sheets of crackly gold leaf in the blazing rotisserie oven. The chickens arrive at Rotisseur, where they’re cleaned up and submerged in a brine seasoned with a “secret Japanese ingredient” we can only suspect are the tears of Hideki Matsui. Soaked overnight, the birds are glazed, salt-rubbed and slid onto spits in the rotisserie, which can accommodate 35 3-pounders at a time. Exactly one hour later, they’re perfect, all moist, tender, intensely chicken-y meat enrobed in yards of crispy skin. Absolutely perfect. No wonder Rotisseur rolls through 200 of them a week. Rotisseur sells its chickens by the quarter ($4 to $5), half ($8) and whole ($14), or as meals with two sides ($7 or $11.50). Packed into the environmentally friendly equivalent of a Dunkin’ Munchkins box, my twin whole birds with the full fixins roster fed four people for about $20 a head. And there was plenty left over. So order generously; as Matzkin learned in L.A., chicken is always better the next day. (adam.erace@citypaper.net)

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Pennsylvania Dutch Festival at Reading Terminal Market Thu.-Sat., Aug. 11-13, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. ³ The Center City District and Reading Terminal Market host the 22nd annual Pennsylvania Dutch Festival in Center Court, where all things Penn Dutch, homemade, handcrafted and sure-to-be delicious will be served and sold. Images of fudge, brittle, pot roast and doughnuts can’t help but dance in our heads. In addition, they’ll have bluegrass bands, buggy rides and petting zoos unleashed outdoors on Arch Street Saturday. Reading Terminal Market, 12th and Arch streets, 215-922-2317, readingterminalmarket.org. Kevin Sbraga Dinner at Le Bec-Fin Mon., Aug. 15, 5:30-9:30 p.m., $95 ³ Next week, soon-to-be Philly restaurant owner Kevin Sbraga heads into Georges Perrier’s kitchen to prepares the menu dégustation for one night only. The six-course meal will feature smoked salmon with an everything bagel crust, goat cheese gnocchi with shrimp, rouget “a la plancha,” roasted squab breast, flavors of tiramisu, and (what’s dessert without a little bubbly?) Champagne-poached summer peaches with almond sorbet and leche fritta. While LBF isn’t typically BYO, all restaurant-goers have the option to bag it that evening. Le Bec-Fin, 1523 Walnut St., 215-567-1000, lebecfin.com. Devil’s Den Pucker Up Sourfest Sat.-Fri., Aug. 13-19,

pay as you go ³ Purse those pouters and join owner Erin Wallace at Devil’s Den for her third annual Sourfest, where the draft lines are dedicated to all things tart. They’re pouring beers like Allagash Confluence and Cantillon Kriek Lambic. They’ll have a sour selection of bottles, as well, like Rodenbach Vintage and Stillwater Saison, and special thematic plates to pair (think sauerbraten or pan-roasted duck with dry cherry gastrique). Wallace will also offer smaller tasting portions to enjoy at sweeter prices. Devil’s Den, 1148 S. 11th St., 215-3390855, devilsdenphilly.com. Basque Happy Hour at Tinto Tuesdays starting August

16, 5-7 p.m., pay as you go ³ Jose Garces is introducing a new happy hour at Tinto — for $2, snack on pintxo (tapas) like baby artichoke, pulpo and Portuguese sardines, as well as montadito (open-faced sandwiches) that include short rib and duck confit. You’ll also be able to sip on $5 specialty cocktails, $4 wines, half-price sangria and $2 drafts. Tinto, 114 S. 20th St., 215-665-9150, tintorestaurant.com. —Nicole Rossi

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REVOLUTION HOUSE

The Snow White Diner at Second and Market never looked like it was gonna go anywhere — that’s why the dramatic overhaul that’s produced Revolution House is nearly unbelievable. Owned by Luca Sena of Ristorante Panorama and partner John Poulos, Revolution is a handsome, saloon-y bilevel space, complete with multiple bars and a patio roof deck, specializing in Euroinfluenced American cuisine and Neapolitan-style wood-fired pizzas. In a nod to its diner roots, the House is serving breakfast, lunch and dinner, opening at 8 a.m. daily. 200 Market St., 215-625-4566.

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Vittorio Assaf and Fabio Granato, who already have eight Serafinas, have taken over two levels of the 10 Rittenhouse building for this cheery 174-seater, which also features space for outdoor dining. The focal point of the kitchen is the wood-burning oven on the ground level, where pizzaioli crank out heat-blistered pies, as well as seafood, poultry and other meat items. The restaurant also boasts a café, offering coffee, pastries and sandwiches from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. The main restaurant’s open daily from 11:30 a.m. to midnight. 10 Rittenhouse, 130 S. 18th St., 215-977-7718, serafinarestaurant. com/serafina/philadelphia.html.

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Famous for its intoxicatingly delicious cheese-on-bottom, sauceon-top square pizzas, the Santucci clan has opened its first-ever South Philly location in at 10th and Christian. This branch offers more than just pies: The sit-down is also featuring starters, salads, sandwiches, meatballs and even Sunday brunch. Open Mon.-Thu., 10 a.m.-10 p.m.; Fri.-Sat., 10 a.m.11 p.m.; Sun., 9 a.m.-9 p.m. 901 S. 10th St., 215-825-5304.

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Debra Ciasullo, husband David Hentz (the chef) and partner John Byrne have opened this casual neighborhood spot, pouring eight drafts and cracking upward of 20 brews in cans behind the bar. The beer goes along with Hentz’s pubby menu. His signature item? “Thanksgiving Balls,” turkey, mashed potatoes and stuffing, rolled into a sphere, breaded/fried and served with gravy and cranberry. Open Tue.-Sun., 4 p.m.-2 a.m. 702 N. Second St., 267-6394565, blindpigphilly.com.

Longtime friends Matt Anderson, Keith Garabedian, Sean Kendall and Tom Zmijewski have opened a hot dog emporium on South Street, a place where snappy Sabrett’s franks come dressed to the natural-casing nines in every scratchmade topping imaginable. Wieners here (all $6 or less) include “The Windy City” (Chicago-style, with celery salt, a pickle spear and “electric relish”) and “The Big Kahuna” (pineapple salsa, guava mustard, habanero aioli). Fresh-cut fries with dipping sauces, too. Open Mon.-Thu., 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Fri.Sat., 11 a.m.-2 a.m.; Sun., 10 a.m.-7 p.m. 630 South St., 267-886-9253, thehotdiggity.com.

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Clark Gilbert, who sold his Main Line BYO Gemelli, has resurrected the name and concept in a larger, liquor-licensed space in Manayunk. Gilbert is still offering his brand of Provence-inflected Italian food — see his escargot with cannellini beans, grated pasta and arugula butter; or cannelloni with pork belly and a lobster-cardamom jus. GoM is open nightly for dinner, with lunch served 11 to 3 Saturday and Sunday. 4161 Main St., 215487-1230, gemellionmain.com.

At this friendly Thai BYOB (the name’s native tongue for “hello”), chef/owner Tony Inchote, along with his wife, Noy, serve a traditional menu, built around the always-popular curries as well plenty of seafood, noodle and rice plates. Check them out for lunch, where you can get a soup, salad or app and entrée for the ludicrously cheap price of $9.95. Open Mon.Thu., 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Fri., 11 a.m.11 p.m.; Sat., 4-11 p.m.; Sun., 4-10 p.m. 1501 South St., 215-790-1299.

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Cash for Comics: 1940-1970’s Collectors Welcome. 215-510-4372

Arcade video games pinball machine jukebox. Trade for printing or new windows tntquality@aol.com 215.783.0823 BRAZILIAN FLOORING 3/4", beautiful, $2.50s sf (215)365-5826 CABINETS GLAZED CHERRY Brand new, solid wood/dovetail. Crown molding. Can add or subtract to fit kitchen Cost $6400. Sell $1595. 610-952-0033 PARKER for sale, again. Apprsd $1,500, Sell $1,000. Ad: only 1 wk, 609-456-9779 POOL TABLE Gorgeous 8’ solid wood 1" slate, lthr pckts, dec legs & access/ Nvr used, $4500, Sell $1495. 610-476-8889

BD MATTRESS Luxury Firm w/box sprIng Brand New Queen cost $1400, sell $299; King cost $1700 sell $399. 610-952-0033

BDRM SET: Solid Cherry Sleigh Bed, Dresser, Mirror, Chest, & 2 Nite Stands. High Quality. One month old, Must sell. Cost $6000 ask. $1500. 610-952-0033

EAGLES TICKETS for sale, uppers, lowers & hot ones, individual games or full season books available. Books come with playoff rights. (310)667-0083

BED A brand new Queen pillow top mattress set w/warr. $229; Full $220; King $299. Memory Foam $295. 215-752-0911

PHILLIES Tickets for sale, in field boxes only. Individual games or packages available. Uppers & Lowers for all postseason games. (310)667-0083

Maytag Prtble Dshwshr,’09, barely usd, Wht butcher blk top $200. 609-351-1973 New Mattress Sets $99, Twin, Full or Queen. Delivery avail, 215-307-1950 Red microfiber couch with Sofa Bed for Sale $300.00 obo call 267-210-8835

Hot Tub 2011 model 6 person Still in wrapper. Fully loaded w/warr. & cover Cost $6000 Sell $2750 610-952-0033

Selling Eagles Tickets: 4 Season Tickets Sect 117 Row 6, great seats! 610-358-3115

WANTED: EAGLES SEASON TICKETS. Top $ paid. Call 800-786-8425

33&45 Records Higher $ Really Paid

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Books -Trains -Magazines -Toys Dolls - Model Kits 610-689-8476

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African Grey Talks well, includes cage, Asking $600. 215-679-5313

Maine Coon Kittens, CFA, vet checked, shots, $350, (610)631-0230

AMERICAN BULLDOG PUPS, 4 M, 3 F, 267.408.2092 phillyamericanbulldog.com Beagle pups, AKC, 4F, 1M, $300. shots & wormed, Call 215-287-3766 Beagle Pups AKC, shots, wormed, vet certified. Call 215-547-6314 Border Collie Puppies ABCA Reg., shots, wormed, vet checked, p.o.p. 267.471.8573 Boston Terrier $725 Brn/wht Fem prbrd. 8 wks. Shots. Ped/AKC. 856-889-3632 Boxer Babies AKC Home raised/Trained (not in kennel) w/parents. 717-278-6190 BOXER pups, ACA black & white, s & w, health checked, $450. 717-354-5771 BULL TERRIER PUPS: 12 wks, reg., shots & wormed, must see! $600, 215.329.8526 CANE CORSO: 7 month Female, trained, housebroken, Call 267-351-1270

Cane Corso Puppies ACA, family raised, shots/wormed, $800+ (717)768-3464 Cane Corso pups, male & female, black & blue, parents on premises, 267-339-9265 Cane Corso pups, reg, vet checked, 1 M & 1 F, fawn. $500/obo 215.360.4727 Cavalier king charles pups, ACA tri color M’s, fam raised, vet chkd (717)335-3792 Cavalier King Charles Spaniels Pups, Retired Adults & Rescues, New Litters Avail, $800-$1500, 215-538-2179 COCKAPOO pups, 8 weeks vet checked, shots, wormed, $400, 215-989-1506 COCKER SPANIEL Pups, vet checked, 1st shots, M/F $350. (267)242-3408 COTON DE TULEAR PUPPIES: Adorable, Home bred, non-allergetic/shedding, 215-840-0101; www.looeycoton.com DACHSHUNDS (MINI) short haired males & females, $300. 267-506-4061 English Bulldog pups AKC, champion bloodline, family raised, vet checked, $1,600. Call (717)445-9158 German Shepherd Female Pups Purebred 8 wks 1st shots $500. 609-858-1807 German Shepherd Pups AKC, 10 weeks, champion parents, excellent temperament, fable females, 610-845-7022 German Shep Pups: ACA, s/w, nice guard dog,nice markings $395 717.442.5261

GOLDEN RETRIEVER PUPPIES - AKC, born 6/3/11, $850, 267-328-7247

Golden Retriever Pups AKC. M & F, family raised, $550. Call 302-757-0963

GOLDEN RETRIEVER PUPS - Farm raised, S/W, ready 8/22, $300, 717-445-0699 HAVANESE Pups, AKC, non allergic, 4M, 3F, ready for new homes 302-492-3216 Irish Setter pups, AKC, vet chkd, shots, parents our pets, $700+. (302)328-1720 JACK RUSSELL TERRIER Pups, shorties, M/F, ready to go, $200. 215-529-5989 Japanese Chin pups, champ bloodlines, AKC, home raised. Call (610)777-5876 Lab Puppies - 10 wks, 3 black females, 1 chocolate male, vet checked, shots, parents on site, $395. (717)327-5696 L AB PUPS 100% GUAR READY NOW MUST COME SEE!!!! $400. 215-768-4344 Lab pups, Choc., AKC, M & F, wormed & dew claws, $550. (609)220-1818 LAB PUPS shots, wormed, vet checked, family raised, $500. Call (717)445-6168 LABRADOR RETRIEVER Puppies - AKC $395 USD. 717-587-2425 LAB (Silver) pups, AKC, family raised, shots, wormed, $700. 609-352-6102 LHASA APSO PUPPIES AKC, CH. line, no shed, vet check, health gaur 610.703.7382 MALTESE PUP - Registered, All white, Female, Ready to go! 267-882-6265 MALTESE Pups, 3 Males, AKC, healthy, ready now, call 215-519-6591 Maltese Quality AKC 2 female puppies $899.00. 717-573-2257

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Diabetic Test Strips! $$ Cash Paid $$ Local pick-up, Call Martin 856-882-9015 DIABETIC TEST STRIPS & NICOTENE PATCHES/GUM. BUYING. Highest Prices. for pickup Call 215-525-5022 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, SWORDS, related items, Lenny3619@aol 609.581.8290

15’ Fiberglass, 70’s Beatle Falcon, needs TLC,good trailer, make offer 610.566.9152

apartment marketplace 13xx Locust Studio $1050 all utils inc. fully furnished,cable, gym, 973-768-5362

Society Hill Towers Studio $1250/mo River view, cable, gar, pool, 215-922-6747 Maltipoo-Pom, 10 weeks, vet checked, 1st shot, wormed, $400. (215)384-4063 MINI SCHNAUZER - 12 weeks, 1st and 2nd shots + rabies, and wormed, males $375, females $425. 610-960-5471

PIT BULL PUPS, beautiful blues available, serious inquiries only. 267-320-5063 Pittbull Dachshund mix fem, chocolate, 14 mo, housebroken, $200. 215.254.0562 Pittbulls females only, blue, blue nose, 1520 mo, adoption, small fee. 215.254.0562 Pomeranian pups, ACA, 8 weeks, parti, 2F, 1M, $700. Call (856)759-3384 POODLES Std, AKC, blk, M/F, champ parents, shots, ready now. 856-304-7487 Schnauzer mix pups, M $350, F $375, No Sunday calls. 717-368-7760 Shih Tzu, ACA, M $350, F $375, No Sunday calls. 717-368-7760 Shih Tzu/Yorkie Mix Puppies, just gorgeous, vet shots, call 610-497-3093 Terrier mix 10wk rescue puppies $250 vet ref req 609-214-1611 UTD/Wormed Whippet Pups, AKC, champion sired, beautifully marked, (609)882-0436 YORKIE PUPPIES: home raised, AKC reg. Starting at $650, 215-490-2243 YORKIES - reg. Toy Teacup, AKC, Teddy bear faces. $1200. 302-697-3515

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12xx S. 17th 2br $585+ new paint & carpet, call 610-710-1986 14xx S. 5th St small new apt $525 utils included, avail now, 267-972-5055 22nd & Reed 2 BR $625+ utils newly renov, 1st/last/sec, 215-549-2701

22nd & Washington Studio $645 new kitch, bath & hdwd flrs, 215.292.2176 7xx S 22nd St 1Br $650+utils. avail Sept. 1, Quiet, sec. gate215.370.2898 Near Broad Street 2 BR Efficiency & 1BR other areas 267.671.7848

1100 S 58th St. Studio, 1br & 2br apts newly renov, lic #362013 267-767-6959 13xx S. 51st St. 1 BR $550+ utils new reno,2mo rent,1mo sec,267.254.3092 25 S 60th St 1BR $600 heat included, 215-765-9590 2xx S. 50th St. luxury 2 BR $785+utils 1st flr, newly renovated, (267)243-3518 50th & Baltimore 1BR $550+utils 3rd flr, 3 mo. deposit (215)237-4737 54xx Kingsessing Ave 1br $500 heat & hot water inc. newly painted, hardwood floors, 2nd floor, Call (215)729-5760 55XX S. Gross Ave 2br $650 close to trans. lrg LR. 610-534-4521 5630 Ridgewood St 1st & 2nd fl apts, 1br ea, LR, kit, ba, $600+ each 215-852-5948

apartment marketplace 64th & Woodland 2br 1st flr $750 2nd flr 2br +w/d $800. (215)382-2232 7xx S 51st St. 2 BR/2 BA $725+elec w/w carpet, Section 8 ok (610)812-6352 Paschall Ave 2 & 3 BR $700 & $800 267-251-2749

17xx N 42nd Efficency & 2br $350-$500 newly renov,1mo rent & sec 267.235.2879 41st & Girard mod. 1 & 2 BR $525-$595+ 3 BR homes, S. Phila $625, 215-431-6677 52nd & Spruce 1br, 2nd fl $500+utils nwly renov, $1000 move in 215.460.2387 55xx Girard Ave. 2 BR $750+ utils $2250 move in, Must See! 215-284-7944 55xx Pine St. 3Br/1.5Ba Reasonable Rent new renov, Sec 8 OK 215.747.4893, 9-7p 59xx Belmar Terrace 1 BR $550+ utils LR, kitch, BA, $1100 mve in, 267.210.3899 61st/Chestnut Vic 2 BR $650+util Spacious, 2nd flr, balcony. 215-796-3944 63rd St Efficiency $450 62nd St.: 1 BR, $550, 215-840-7472 Cobbs Creek Vicinity 1 BR quiet, newly renov, large rooms, EIK, $675+utils, conv to public trans, all Univs & CC, 1 mo rent & sec, 215-880-0612 PARKSIDE AREA 1, 3 & 5 BR starting @ $700. Newly renovated, new kitc & bath, Section 8 OK. 267-324-3197 Walnut St 1br $550+utils 2br $695+utils renovated, 215-471-1365; 215-663-0128

Golf View Apts nw carpets 1br/1ba $725 www.perutoproperties.com 215.740.4900 N 64th & 55th St. Studio, 1br & 2br $450- $650, 2 mo. sec. req., incl water, spacious, 1st flr units avail. 215-473-2136 Various 1, 2 & 3 BR Apts $625-$850 www.perutoproperties.com 215.740.4900

FAIRMOUNT TERRACE APTS. great specials, bring ad for $250 off (215)477-6814

16xx N. Corlies St. 1BR/1BA $435/mo starter apartment 215-514-7143 17xx N 23rd St. Studio $420 incl utils newly renov kitch & ba, (267)597-7742 19th & Ontario 1br $600+utils newly renovated, Call 609-877-8746 22xx Lambert St 1br & 2br $550-$625 +elec., Call 267-336-7253 2747 Germantown Ave 1 BR $550 Like new, call Henry, 267-974-9271

2858 N 26th St 1 & 2 BR $475 & $525 heat included,Call 215-878-7661 30xx Broad St. Efficiency $475+ utils 1 mo. rent, 1 mo. sec, 267-975-8521

34xx W Allegheney 1br $575+utils modern apt, 1st, last & sec 267-254-3092

1, 2, 3, 4 Bedroom FURNISHED APTS LAUNDRY - PARKING 215-223-7000

BROAD ST.(On campus) STUDENT APTS (1, 2, 3 BR), $595+/pp, w/d, 215-431-6677

12th & Louden 1 & 2 BR $575-$650 1st/last/sec, avl now. 267.254.6108 lv msg CAMAC ST. 2BR $550 2nd floor, 4 rooms, carpet & window treatments, back yard, (267)608-0182

Residential Life: Studio, 1Br & 2Br apts Spacious & Bright Apts near LaSalle Univ. Regional Leasing Office-5600 Ogontz Ave Call or Come in M-F 9a-5p 215.276.5600 1st Month Free to Qualified Applicants

37XX N Sydenham St Effic. $475 & Utils. Temple University area. 1 mo. rent & 2 mos sec. App. Fee 215-879-9101

1 BR & 2 BR Apts $705-$835 spacious, great loc., upgraded, heat incl, PHA vouchers accepted 215-966-9371 1br $600/mo. & Rooms $100/wk available now. Call 267-549-4690 5220 Wayne Ave. Studio, 1 BR & 2 BR newly rehab, 267.767.6959, Lic# 507568 52xx Greene St 1 BR+ den $700+util country setting, great trans, 610.287.9857

4309 Tower St 2BR/1BA $1350 2 blocks to Main Street, d/w, w/d, c/a, g/d, deck, yard. Available September. No pets. 215-518-1275

2103 Chelten 1 & 2 BR $655 & $775 completely renovated, call 215-284-5394 W. Mt Airy: 142 W. Sharpnack 1br $595+ 3rd flr, w/d, fridge 215-849-6205

2217 E. Cumberland 2 BR Newly renov. 267-767-6959 lic# 356258

12xx Elbridge Street 1br $600 +util. newly remod. Call 866-344-9741 1320 Orthodox St. 1 BR $550+ gas/elec & heat, call 908-656-0633 1320 Orthodox St. Studio, 3 flr $450+ gas/elec & heat, call 908-656-0633 35xx RYAN AVE 1br 2nd flr $650+ Cottman & Frankford Vic. 267-736-9862 4055 Comley St 2 BR $675 newly renovated, Call 646-322-4109 52xx Jackson 1 BR $650 lg 2nd floor, balcony, 267-230-2600

64xx Marsden 1&2Br Apts $575-$675 Call for info (609)440-8633 Lawndale 1br from $595+utils patio, private parking, a/c, 609-408-9298

Mayfair 1 BR, 2nd flr $650+ utils washer/dryer, no pets, 215-946-7079 Philmont 2Br duplex $820+ C/A, bsmnt, yard, 2nd flr. (215)752-1091

Warminster 2Br/1Ba $995+utils new kitchen, bath & carpet. 215-694-7510

WARMINSTER Lg 2 BR $799/mo or $899 with FIRST MONTH FREE!! Pets & smoking ok. We work with credit problems. Call for details. Other unit sizes available, call 215-443-9500

Collingdale 2br $700+utils Lansdowne 2br $780+utils modern, w/d hkup in unit 610-622-4425 DARBY 7xx Pine St. 1br $480/mo Beautiful large studio apt, newly renovated, wall-to-wall carpet. 610-517-7951

62nd St: W. Phila - Furnished & Renov. $125/wk. 267-770-6723; 267-258-8727 652 Brooklyn, $125 week. $375 to move in. Furn w/refrige, no kitch 215-781-8049 728 S. Warnock St. clean desirable rm 3rd floor front All util inc. 215-549-4279

A1 Nice, well maintained rms, N & W Phila. Starting @ $115/wk 215.858.9898 Broad & Allegheny small rooms, $90/wk Sec dep to move in. 267-770-2600 Broad & Erie,$110-$120/wk+ sec,single, furn,c/a, ideal for Seniors, 215-880-1799 Broad & Olney deluxe furn rms priv ent. $110 & $145/wk Sec $200. 215-572-8833 Darby area N/S, fully furn, $450/mo cable & utils inc, use of house 484.469.0753 Delaware Co. Newly renov, close to trans. $100/wk 1st wk FREE 267.628.7454 East Mt. Airy, fully furn rm, microwave and refrige, TV, close to public trans, near the Shops at Lasalle $110wk 215.438.5309 Germantown Area: NICE, Cozy Rooms Private entry, no drugs (215)548-6083

Germantown fully furn, newly built rms cable, use of house,laundry 215-391-8132 Hunting Pk, Kensington, Oak Lane, Olney, W. Phila, S. Phila, NE Phila. $85$125/wk. Great loc. SSI ok. 215-668-4812 Cheltenham 3br/2ba $1245 incl heat Kensington, Frankford Ave, prvt rm $325, 1st floor, laundry, deck, storage, large prvt rm w/ kit & BA $425, 267-968-7043 backyard, available 8/15. 215-796-0899 LaSalle Univ. Area: Renovated, Corner unit, HW floors, 1.5BA, 2floors, full kitchen, Patio, 215-850-6618. VENTOR CITY 3 BR/2 BA $1100+ utils Mt Airy: Rooms w/priv bath 2nd flr dplx, new crpt, w/d, 267.253.7082 215-801-0215

Wayne (Glen Hardie) 1br Condo $990 Large, avail immediately 610.265.3438

homes for rent 14xx S. Marston 3 BR $800+elec/gas $2400 move in, SEC. 8 OK, 267.978.8480 15xx S. Stillman 2 BR $725+ utils credit check, call 215-878-9309 16xx Latona St. 3br/1ba $850+utils 2story, modern kitch, yard (267)918-8092

21xx Opal St 3br/1ba $800+utils eat in kitch, w/w carpet 267-258-5971

19xx. Salfords 2Br $650 $1650 move-in. Call 267-292-5274 55xx Webster St. 4Br $1,200 Section 8 ready, Call 267-292-5274 60xx Regent St. 3br/1ba $750+utils section 8 ok, bsmt, yard, 215-806-7078 8xx S Alden-57th/Balt big 3br $800 +util open front porch, backyard, great street, "The Landlord that Cares" Tasha 267.584.5964, Mark 610.764.9739

14xx N. 53rd St 3BR/1.5BA $690+utils $2070 move in, 215.242.3520, 9a-6p only. 17xx N 59th St. 3 BR $875 2 mo rent,1 mo sec, gd refs, 215.748.4059 1xx N. Ruby 3Br/2Ba $925 mod, close transp, Sec 8 ok 215-868-0481 24 North Farson Street SECTION 8 OK, 3 Bed, 1 Bath $895, 215-479-5508 3xxx N. 62nd 4 BR spacious 3 story, w/d, Julia, 267.239.7087 50th & Haverford 4BR $1050+ utils Brand new, Section 8 ok, 610-649-9009 52nd & Haverford 3br $750+utils hdwd flrs, w/d, no pets, (267)258-0759 56xx Christian St. 3br/1ba $800+utils 3 month req. to move in (215)248-0547 60th & Race 3 BR $750 newly decorated, (215)747-8150

OVERBROOK PARK 3 BR $1075 Call: 215-909-4118 Parma Rd. 3br/2ba $1200 renovated, hdwd flrs, garage215.356.2434

27xx Seltzer 2 BR $700+ utils very cln, prch frnt, Sec 8 ok,610-761-0665 30th & Girard 2 BR/2 BA Sec. 8 ok just 1 block from Westrum Development, rear yard, totally renovated, 215-681-8018 33xx Mutter St. 2 BR/1 BA $600+ utils fin bsmnt, avail. immed., 215-687-5905 Chadwick St. 2 BR $650 Section 8 ok, 215-858-7240

44xx N. Franklin St. 3 BR $750 Section 8 ok, newly renov, 215-206-3478

52xx Rubicam St. 2br/1ba $800+utils newly renov, small kitchen 215-843-2005

14xx E Weaver St. 3BR $1200 +utils w/w, A/C, mod kit/BA, gar, clean bsmnt, quiet block,$3600 move in, 215-758-7129

55xx Blakemore 3Br $750+ encl porch, rear yd, sec 8 ok 267.992.3233

Agate & Clearfield 2BR $800+utils back yard, basement, $1600 required to move in, Call 215-205-3185

E Lippincott 3BR $650 Complete renov,avl immed, 267.808.9792

20xx E Madison St 4BR 1BA Sec 8 no pets yd prch oil 215-539-7866 34xx G St. 3Br/1Ba $750 Sec 8 OK, 2BR voucher OK. 215-680-5666 7xx E Allegheny large 2br/1.5ba $700+ 215-836-1960 8xx E. Willard St. 3BR/1BA $685/mo 1st/last/security, Sec 8 OK 609-871-2866

43xx Leiper 3 BR $550/mo+ fridge incl, oil heat. 215-839-6468

4742 Loring St. 3 BR completely renov, Sec 8 ok, 917-667-4101 49xx Knorr St. 4br/1ba $795+utils rear yard, no pets, EIK. Call 215-343-7490 50xx Ditman 4 BR Section 8 approved, 215-205-9910

MT. EPHRAIM 2 BR $1495 Liv,Din, Kit, Fin Bsmt, w/d, yd, shed. some utils, 3 season rm, avail now 856.546.6114

resorts/sale Barnegat Light, Long Beach Island, NJ Oceanfront 3BR $1,999,500 Call 973-9199530 or 973-476-6673

resorts/rent N. Wildwood 2+br apts from $99/night 2 blocks to bch/boardwalk 609.729.0561 Ocean City,NJ 3Br/1.5Ba $400 9/109/17,patio, 2 blks to beach, 609.364.6329 STONE HARBOR, NJ immaculate ranch, reduced week of 8/13 (215)233-3672 WILDWOOD clean 2-3br, low rates Wkly Cable, pkg, nr beach 609-522-7678

N Wildwood 3br/2ba $1600 8/27-9/3 Beachfront condo, w/d, great views, private deck, parking for 2, (609)523-1385 Ocean City, NJ Beachfront 4BR REDUCED 9/3 $2250 609-938-0387 Ocean City : sunny, spacious dplx, central A/C, parking, 1 BR: now to Labor Day: $2750; 9/5-10/5: $1850, 732-995-3926 Wildwood Crest 4BR weekly (reduced) No Pets, Close To Beach, 877-207-2743 WILDWOOD, NJ: RUS MAR MOTEL steps to beach, pet friendly, ocean views, renovated rooms. 609-522-0101

5xx E. Godfrey Ave 3br/1ba $1300/mo new kitchen & upgrades, large front & rear yard, pool, pool table. (215)742-5822 63XX Ditman St. 3BR/1.5BA $890 +util Mayfair. Just Renovated h/w floors finished basement 732-438-0711 Fishtown (Riverside) 3br/2ba $1200+ laundry rm, modern house, updated kitch, also Bridesburg $1000 (267)266-2514

DOUGLASSVILLE 4 BR/2 BA $2000+utils 2 car garage,circular drvwy 610.952.5666

Darby, PA 3 small BR/1BA $775+utils 1.5 mo. sec., w/w, a/c, nice bkyd, thourough background check 610-864-4443 Upper Darby 3-4 BR $1050+ utils corner row,fin bsmnt,ex con,610.284.5631

Ocean City, MD , condo sleeps 6, 9/310, $2000. Call for details (717)669-5233

commercial industrial NE PHILADELPHIA $200/mo Call 215-331-9897 W. Mount Airy - Johnson Street Garage 86 W Johnson St. Approx 7500 sqf garage area. Approx. 3500 sqf fenced-in parking. For info call A Jefferson, 215-849-4343

14xx W. 71st Ave 1 BR $625 utilities included, close to transporation and shopping. Call 215-574-2111 1501 W. 66th Ave. 1Br w/w wash/dry, mod. kit & bath. $550+. 215-514-7143

13xx E. Luzerne St 2br duplex $900 complete renov, sec 8 ok 267-467-0140 16xx Allengrove St 1br/1ba $725 EIK, w/d, f/bsmt, r/yrd 215-868-2890 20xx Orthodox 1 br $550 spacious, Sec 8 OK. (267)230-2600 3500 Frankford Ave 2br $550 Sec 8 bsmt brkf bar no pets 215.335.3615 4810 Oxford Ave. 1br $565+utils 2nd floor, $1130 move-in. 267-255-6322

11xx N 55th St Single rms, $400, rms w/BA $500, rms w/ BA & kitch $600. Full size bed, dresser, fridge, SSI/SSD ok W, SW, N. Phila & Frankford 267.707.6129 16th & Lehigh, 21st & York, 22nd & Allegheny - $325/mo. SSI ok. 215-485-8815 2213 W Huntingdon, Studio, pvt BA, Ent & Kit $130/wk, $390 mv in, 267.250.0761 22nd & Dauphin rooms for rent $75$100. $300 to move in. 267-972-2874 22nd & Hunting Park, renov, lrg rm, furn $85-$95 wk 2nd week free 215.960.1600 23xx Lehigh, $320-$360/mo, kitch priv., income verif./ref’s req. 267-456-3786 2420 N CHADWICK ST Newly renovated rooms, $85/wk 484-885-6903 24th & Lehigh: Nice, clean Furn rms, $325/mo, SSI ok. No drugs. 215-768-2466 2648 N. Bancroft - room $400/mo, utils incl. 267-257-3610 27xx N. Oxford St, 29th & Lehigh, newly renovated, shared kitchen & bath, $95$100/wk 267-816-3058 28xx N 27th St.: Furnished room, utils included, $100/wk, SSI ok, 267-819-5683 29th & Allegheny area nice clean rooms. $75 - $100 per week. 267-338-9757 30xx N. 16th St. room, frige, microwave, bed, $65-$110/wk, near Temple Med. Schl, public transp. & plaza. 267-333-6315 41xx Old York Rd., lg furn rms, nwly ren, w/w $85-$100/wk, must see 215-552-5200 43 N. 63rd St. Furnished room. $100/wk, use of kitchen, call 215-472-2067 45th & Lancaster; 63rd & Market; 52nd & Race;29th & Cumberland. 215.290.8702 52nd/Westminster: Near transportation $100+/week, 215-748-7077 55th/Thompson furn $115 wk frig micro priv ent $200 security 215-572-8833 56th & Locust: rooms, $400-$450/mo., kitchen privelages must see 484.231.1509 61xx Chew Ave, Mt. Airy, 2xx Melville, Univ City, $85-$100/wk. 215-242-9124 6255 Limekiln Pike - Rooms for Rent Call 215-549-2111, between 9-9

3350 Smedley St. 3BR/1BA $750+ basement, porch, yard. Call 215-917-0020

Glenside 2 BR $1150 tiny, turn of century twnhse, across from park & Twnp. pool, near library, shops & train. center hall, liv. rm, din. rm, powder rm, 2nd flr: 2 bdrms, full bathroom, central a/c, bsmnt, no pets, 215-233-5426

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53xx Knox St. 3 BR $800-$1000 all utils incl, avail immed. 267-393-3553 5X West Pomona St 1br $625/mo 1st floor apt + yard, wall to wall carpet, Available immediately, $1250 move in req. Call 267-549-8946 GREENE & HARVEY -SUMMER SPECIAL! Lux. 1BR’S Newly dec, w/w, g/d, a/c, ca ble ready, Laundry/Beauty parlor/off st prkg. 215-275-1457 215-233-3322 Mt. Airy & Germantown: 1 & 2 BR Starting at $625, newly renov., beautiful apts, close to trans. Call 215-740-8049 Rubicam St 1 BR/1 BA $650+ $400 sec, lg porch, bk yard, 267.207.1013 The Fieldview Apts: 705-15 Church Ln Comfortable Living- Historic Germantown 1br $750, 2br $850 Gas,Water,Heat Free Close to Septa,Grocery,Eatery & LaSalle U. Call for appt. 215-276-5600 M-F 9-5

67xx Woolston Ave 1br $525+utils w/w crpt, private entry, move in cond, avail now, $1050 move in 215-758-7129 71st & Broad St 1BR $625+utils $1000 rent rebate, w/w cpt 267.592.1547

EAST OAK LANE-Furn rm - share house, $450/mo Inc util,sec req’d: 215-549-0634

NICETOWN 38xx N 19th St. single occupant, Large, clean room, w/cable, fridge, $110+/week. Call 215-225-5680 NORTH PHILLY Rms for Rent $400/mo or $100/wk. 1 month to move in. 267-265-6817 N. Phila: clean, modern rms, use of kit, no drugs,reasonable rent.215.232.2268 N Phila Sr. citizen, single occ. $125 wk util inc, no smoking/drinking267.385.5932 Pennsville, NJ - 1 room, w/ meals & car for $1/mo. Driver’s license & light home cleaning required, 856-514-3218 SW: 60th & Chester, newly renov, vry cln,$125/wk, $250 move in, 267.456.2808 SW, N, W Move-in Special! $60-$115/wk room sharing avail, SSI ok (215)220-8877 SW Philadelphia Room for rent. $250 move in, share kit & bath. 267-251-2749 SW Phila: Rooms, $90-$120/wk, private fridge & microwave incl, 610-717-2450 West and SW Philadelphia $100-150 priv rm & ba, clean & new. 267-597-1536 W. Phila 57th St: lg, furn, newly renov $100-$125/wk, call Ashley, 215.971.0061 W Phila - medium clean room & efficiency avail. priv entrance 215-494-8794

Collegeville 3br/2.5ba twnhse $1350+ no smoking/pets, all appl’s 215-527-5031

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15xx Thompson St2 BR $800 Cozy on award winning block of home owners, tastefully renovated, convenient transportation, close to main campus, secure, w/w, modern open kitchen. Call 215-242-1204 or 267-250-9822 17th & Ontario 1br $550 2 months security, Call 215-290-8702

16xx Elaine St. 2 BR $650 new paint, great location, 610-710-1986 17xx Roselyn St large 2BR $700+utils 2mo sec+1mo rent,avail now609.220.6113 21st & Chelten 2br $595+utils $1190 to move in. 215-429-9098 2xx W. Grange 3 BR/1.5 BA $745+ utils, beautiful apt, yard, 215-805-6455 55xx Blakemore 2Br $650+ storage, rear yd, sec 8 ok 267.992.3233 66th Ave near Broad 1br $550 Near trans., avail. immed. 215-990-9709 66th & Broad 1 BR $675+ elec no smoking, no drugs, call 215-224-4644

LaSalle Univ/Einstein Hospital area 3BR twin $900 plus util 267-663-9487 kmgprez007@gmail.com

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7xx W Rockland 4br/1.5ba $1100 fully renov, sec 8 ok. 267-467-0140

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automotive Riviera 1999 $8600 gar kept, exc cond, 86k mi, 856-853-9219

Impala LT 3.5 2006 $13,500 25k, garage kept, silver (215)413-7157 Trailblazer SS 2006 $18,900 priced for quick sale, 37k,1 ownr,blk, AWD, new tires, GM warranty. 904-553-8972

MERCEDES BENZ ML 320 2001 4 door with sunroof, super mint cond, well maintained, garage kept, woman driver, must sac TODAY $7950. 215-928-9632 S430 2002 $18,500 FIRM 63k miles, extended warranty, clean, White w/ Beige interior. 609-668-8300

AURORA V6-3.5 2001 $5950 excellent condition, all options including moon roof & Onstar. Good runner, gives 29-30 mpg hgwy, call evenings in Dover, DE, 302-535-0873, leave message.

Mercury Cougar 1970 $20,000 restored, matching #’s, nice 215.781.5940 Plymouth Barracuda 1968 $7000/obo Model S, V8, 8 & 3/4 Possi 215-781-5940

Corvette Classic 1989 $14,000 44K miles, white exterior, red interior, clean, auto trans, 5.7 ltr, Sony sound disc player, leather, all power, sport chrome wheels, runs & looks new. Call between 3pm-9pm only (215)913-2933 CORVETTE Conv. 1987 $11,900 obo Red, 28k mi., exc cond. 856-227-7881

MAGNUM RT 2005 $13,900 fully loaded, Hemi engine, new tires, 65k miles, too many extras to list! Must see, reasonable offers accepted, 856.627.8274

Explorer XLT 4x4 2009 $19,500 29k, tints, custom stereo (610)458-0179

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CHEVY Van 1990 $1650 good cond, 137K, Inspected 215-657-6737 Ford Crown Victoria 1998 $1,600/obo new inspection, runs great (267)745-4152 Ford Explorer XLT 1999 $1750 4dr, loaded, 4x4, clean, 215.518.8808 Ford Taurus GL 1994 $1600 1 owner, 124k miles, well maintained, good condition, runs great, (610)715-2354 Ford Taurus GL 1997 $1350 auto, cold ac, needs nothing 215.620.9383

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MITSUBISHI Eclipse Conv. 2001 $4650 Spyder 5 spd,vry good cond 610.818.7447

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