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[ + 8] The Phillies reach 100 wins, the first time

since 1977. And what happened back then? We won the World Series, right?

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Philly-born actress Kim Delaney is escorted off the stage while giving an incoherent speech at the National Constitution Center. She later makes a tearful apology to a plaster likeness of Button Gwinnett.

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According to CBS3, half of the twentysomethings in Philly are unemployed. And all were unaware there are people on television whose job it is to read the news out loud.

[ + 3] Temple University is awarded $700,000

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in federal grants to create an “urban apps and maps studio.” And now all of the city’s twentysomethings are employed.

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An employee of a catering company stabs a co-worker in the leg at the National Constitution Center. Then Kim Delaney stabs them both.

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The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board says a new casino could be built in West Philly or on City Avenue. “What about near my child’s school?” Yep, very possible. “Or my own backyard?” Wouldn’t rule it out.

[ + 1] Green Party candidate for sheriff Cheri Hon-

kala stage dives during a Dead Milkmen show. On horseback. Hundreds were trampled. It was sick.

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While playing a preseason game in Ontario, somebody throws a banana at AfricanCanadian Flyers winger Wayne Simmonds in an apparent racist attack. It’s this kind of asinine behavior that gives sports fans a bad name. Wayne Simmonds, Bell Curve would like to award you its prestigious Liberty Medal in recognition of the hardships you endure as a black player in the NHL.

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Four days later, Simmonds is accused of calling Rangers player Sean Avery a homophobic slur after the incident was caught by television cameras. Oh for fuck’s sake, dude. You, uh, still got that medal handy?

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According to his lawyer,Vince Fumo’s health is deteriorating in prison, as evidenced by weight gain, unkempt hair and depression. Finally, sir, you are one of us.

This week’s total: -7 | Last week’s total: -3

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NO PAY TO PLAY Years ago, a developer pledged money for an East Falls playground. So where’s the cash? By Theresa Everline

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estled next to the Schuylkill about five miles northwest of Center City, East Falls has many nice amenities. But something the neighborhood doesn’t have is a playground. One is on the way — actually, it’s been in the works for a half-dozen years — and hopefully, when a playground finally gets constructed, it will be a joyous little place. But the road getting there has been bumpy. Back in 2006, the Inquirer reported on a community tussle over the initial choice by the playground committee of East Falls Community Council (EFCC) for the site of the slides and swings. About two years ago, a new location was determined: As committee member and East Falls Development Corp. executive director Gina Snyder puts it, a “flag was planted” with a decision to put the playground at Inn Yard Park, a slip of green between Ridge Avenue and Kelly Drive. But how to pay for it? Councilman Curtis Jones helped. “He put in as much capital funding as he could,” says Jones’ communications director, Michelle Wilson. That amounted to $100,000. The whole time, though, EFCC has been counting on up to $50,000 in matching funds pledged for the project by Westrum Development Co., which has been building a development of townhouses in the neighborhood called Hilltop at Falls Ridge. “We pledged money as part of the overall approval process,” explains CEO John Westrum.

As is often the case with proposed businesses or developments, the neighborhood association gets involved in a give-and-take with the business owner. The community can’t necessarily block a proposal, but its input gets strong consideration when the city makes zoning and permitting decisions. For the Hilltop project, the process included community requests dealing with such things as traffic control. When Westrum made alterations to the plan, “We supported their changes when they went back to the zoning board,” says Meg Greenfield, EFCC’s first vice president. “They’ve gotten nothing but our support.” As for the playground, “We did not ask for the money until we had a plan and site,” says Greenfield. “It’s come time for Westrum to pay up.” But that isn’t happening. “The world’s a completely different place now economically” than it was in 2006, says Westrum. The pledge was based on sales of the townhouses, which are still being built in phases. “We’re behind where we want to be,” Westrum admits. “It’s just taken longer than we had hoped.” Not surprisingly, the company’s marketing paints a different picture, with a January 2011 press release titled “Hilltop at Falls Ridge Is Selling Strong!” Greenfield says her Westrum contact has blamed the lender for the delay. “If the bank is discouraging them from funding this, the bank is discouraging [fulfilling] a contract,” she notes. The Development Corp.’s Snyder sees one way out for Westrum: “The hope is that he’ll finish the Hilltop.” Willing to float the idea of a lawsuit, Greenfield is more blunt: “It’s time to pay the piper.” (theresa.everline@citypaper.net)

“They’ve gotten nothing but our support.”

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✚ NOT-STRAIGHT SHOOTING This has been a busy week for gay rights legislation in Pennsylvania: inheritance rights, gay marriage and protection from discrimination have all been addressed. The general public — yes, even in Pennsylvania — supports most gay rights, including a remarkable 50 percent who favor same-sex nuptials. But the Republicans who control the governor’s mansion and state legislature disagree. Indeed, as we noted a few months back in a cover story [“Right Makes Might,” Daniel Denvir, July 28, 2011], far-right state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe is now a major power in Harrisburg, anchoring the right wing of a fantastically conservative GOP caucus. As a reminder, here’s a description of Metcalfe from the story: “He opposed Philly’s program to market the city to gay tourists, saying that tax dollars should not be used to ‘promote immoral behaviors’; he tried to cut state funding to universities such as Temple because they offer domestic-partner benefits; he sued a gay New Hope couple for attempting (and failing) to get a marriage license; and he opposed Domestic Violence Awareness Month, calling it part of ‘the homosexual agenda’ to support a ‘sinful lifestyle’ because it recognized male victims of rape.” But as state Sen. Daylin Leach recently told the Daily News, the political shift is generational — and thus inevitable. “Every day a supporter of equality is born,” he said, “and an opponent of equality goes to heaven.” Here are the sorts of protections future legislation is likely to enact. Rep. Dan Frankel (D-Allegheny) has reintroduced legislation that would add “sexual orientation” and “gender identity or expression” to the state’s nondiscrimination law. Metcalfe objected,

telling the Inquirer that “Rep. Frankel’s obsession with putting sexual behavior into law is offensive to people.” Metcalfe, of

course, harbored no such obsessions when he introduced a constitutional amendment to bar gay marriage. He doesn’t even really think about gay dudes. Really, almost never. State Rep. Babette Josephs has introduced legislation that would include domestic partners along with married couples on the list of people exempt from paying state inheritance taxes. Josephs’ bill would be somewhat moot, however, if gay marriage were legalized. So Josephs also introduced legislation to legalize gay marriage. —Daniel Denvir

✚ SCENES FROM REDISTRICTING Things are not always what they seem in City Council. Last Thursday, the body met and, with little fanfare and — seemingly — little trouble, gave final approval to a new redistricting plan for the city. Behind the smooth-looking vote, though, things have been somewhat rocky. The week before, Council held a marathon, daylong session — most of it behind closed doors and in tight huddles on the Council floor, all during an official “recess” in activity — on two different redistricting proposals. One was proposed by a working group appointed by Council President Anna Verna; the other was offered up by Council members Frank DiCicco and Jim Kenney. The difference, ostensibly, was the placement of a single ward: the politically volatile 56th, which no councilperson seems to want in his or her district. The working group’s plan split that >>> continued on page 10

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FOLLOW THEIR LEAK Our story regarding the unrepaired leaks in a Section 8 apartment complex [“Attention Deficit,” Daniel Denvir, Sept. 22] received several citypaper.net comments. Remyy wrote: “I have worked with Section 8 tenants for a long time. What I’ve observed is a symbiotic relationship. The tenants get a place to stay and have something to complain about without attempting to ever better their conditions, and the owners receive the subsidized guaranteed money every month for providing substandard housing. I have no doubt the house has been leaking for years. But the tenants have done nothing about it, and the one guy is a selfproclaimed ‘handyman,’ for heck’s sake.” Dctophilly countered: “As a landlord, it’s my responsibility to make repairs so that tenants are provided a safe and livable environment. [The handyman] probably isn’t allowed to make the repairs. I mean, tenants have to get clearance to even paint their walls.” “Like I’m supposed to feel sorry for Section 8 people,” wrote Danny C. “Try getting a problem Section 8 tenant evicted.They have a million and one rights and the taxpaying homeowners who have to deal with them have slim to none.” Suzy Subways noted, “It’s become commonplace to blame poor people for the conditions they live in. … Right-wing think tanks have been pounding us with the idea that poor folks are lazy and deserve their suffering. Meanwhile, the same think tanks have persuaded government to hand over our tax dollars to private companies, like these landlords, that get away with humiliating their tenants.” DOUBLE SPACED The story about an art project based on the practice of saving parking spaces with things like chairs or recycling bins [“Save Situation,” Lee Stabert, Sept. 15] was dismissed by commenter UncleStosh:“This in no way is art. First of all, it doesn’t happen all over the city. There is a class association with the practice. It also happens only in neighborhoods that at least at some point were mostly populated by a single ethnic group, where the neighborhood really is almost a private enclave, at least to the people who live there. It’s their turf. Lastly, the threat is real, not implied. If you move the cone, sawhorse or cinder block, you will return to a damaged car. In no way does this facile attempt at exploring a very complex subject amount to art.”

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✚ ERIC SCHNEIDER ³ VIOLENT CRIME NATIONWIDE fell 6 percent

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City Paper: Is this a war-on-drugs success story? Eric Schneider: It was not the spread of crack

per se that drove up crime rates. Homicide rates increased in the 1980s because of the competitive nature of crack cocaine markets. Once markets became organized, there was less need to kill rivals, hence declining homicide rates beginning around 1991-92. Policing has very little to do with crime, in my opinion. CP: It’s a recession. Why aren’t there more crimes? ES: The lowest crime rates in the U.S. occurred dur-

ing the Great Depression. Shared misery does not drive crime up; inequality and the perception that some are illegitimately doing better than others might. So I might expect an increase in crime postrecession, Once some people start doing better, the ones left behind will likely get more antsy. CP: Some conservatives like to argue that impris-

oning more people per capita than any other nation keeps us safer. ES: It makes intuitive sense that people in prison can’t molest citizens, but much of the “three strikes”-type legislation was passed after violent crime had already started to decline. People are now getting out of prison and emerging into a stagnant economy, yet we have not seen a significant increase in crime. In other words, if all this were so simple, we wouldn’t be having a conversation about it! —Daniel Denvir

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The dais was empty. “Let’s just call a vote.” It was a joke. Sort of. ward between the 10th District, represented by Councilman Brian O’Neill (a Republican), and the 6th District, likely to be represented this January by Democratic candidate Bobby Henon. The Kenney/DiCicco plan gave the entire 56th to O’Neill. The difference, realistically, was more complicated. Pushing hard for the working group’s plan was Council Majority Leader Marian B. Tasco, who hopes to become Council president next year. Fomenting support for the alternative plan was Councilman Darrell Clarke, Tasco’s presumed rival. The machinations were many and complex (see our Naked City blog at citypaper.net for a longer account), but Tasco’s aim was to spare O’Neill half the 56th and, presumably, secure his vote for her presidency. Clarke’s aim was to upstage her — either by delivering for O’Neill himself or by keeping the 56th away from Henon, whose own campaign enjoyed the support of union boss John Dougherty and former Mayor John Street, both of whom backed several candidates who pledged not to vote for a “DROP-enrolled Council president” — i.e., Tasco. The simple redistricting vote

had become, in other words, a kind of royal rumble. At one point, while much of the room had emptied, Kenney turned to Clarke and nodded at the empty dais, from which the president presides. “Are you de facto leadership?” he asked, addressing the fact that, absent the president and the majority leader, Clarke was, technically, in charge. “Let’s just call a vote.” It was a joke — sort of. Clarke looked from him to the dais and back again: “You talking about something freaky?” he asked, chuckling. Such dramatics proved unnecessary. While both plans would pass the eventual vote, it was clear by just before last week’s second vote that Tasco’s favored bill was dead on arrival. “I think the Kenney/DiCicco plan will probably prevail,” Tasco told City Paper just before it did, in fact, prevail.“And I think people are happy with that. … Let’s not use the word happy.” —Isaiah Thompson

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“I DON’T LIVE WITH REGRET, THOUGH, BECAUSE I’M HERE.” But when it comes to visibility, Ingram’s already several steps ahead of the game. As a member of the Ryan White Planning Council, she reviews local statistical data and helps allocate funds for the cause. She is chaplain of the Lutheran Youth Organization, where she teaches area youngsters about the importance of making responsible sexual decisions. And she’s frequently asked to share her story in different congregations throughout the region — an experience that she admits usually leaves her feeling “exhausted” and “vulnerable.” “When [the speaking engagements] are over, when I’m walking to my car … it’s just a lonely feeling,” she says. “I know I’ve done a good thing, but I always ask myself, ‘Why me?’ ‘How come I can’t get a break?’” So what’s her answer? “Because I made the wrong choices.” On some accounts, though, it seems like she has gotten a break. Thanks to medication, her HIV test results have come back undetected for the past nine years. She has an upstanding career and three healthy, well-adjusted children. But this kind of thinking, she says, is one of the biggest misconceptions in an age when new life-saving HIV meds make it seem like you can pop a pill and be OK. “It’s still a big deal,” she says, pointing out the draining regimen of medication she takes every day — currently a four-pill HIV cocktail and numerous others to offset serious side effects like diabetes II and high blood pressure. “I may seem fine now, but it’s a constant concern,” she says. “I don’t live with regret, though, because I’m here. I know that everything I’ve gone through is to get me here — to be helpful for somebody else.” (josh.middleton@citypaper.net)

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³ IN 1990, Aspects of Love was Andrew Lloyd

Webber’s Broadway follow-up to Phantom of the Opera.I don’t need to tell you it fell short of that juggernaut, and Aspects is rarely revived. So it’s a treat to see it stylishly mounted at the Walnut, where it proves something of a guilty pleasure. Aspects is less grand romance than kinky bodiceripper. In a French regional theater, pretty actress Rose Vibert is appearing in The Master Builder. (She seems a little slutty for Ibsen, but never mind.) Dashing young Alex Dillingham sees Rose perform, falls madly in love with her, and they run off to his Uncle George’s villa in the Pyrenees. It’s 1947, but if you’re imagining postwar austerity, think again. Life is caviar, glamorous locations and lots of sex. Yet Rose likes old Uncle George at least as much as she likes Alex, who goes off to war in Malaya. (Act 1 curtain.) In Act 2, Rose is starring in A Month in the Country.(She’s also too slutty for Turgenev, but never mind.) She reunites with Alex backstage, and brings him home. Oh, George is there, too. (It’s 13 years later, so everybody’s older, but not really wiser, and certainly no less sexually overwrought. If I had more space, I’d tell you about the smoldering Italian mistress.) Now there’s also a beautiful 15-year-old daughter on the scene, and … well, let’s just say it’s all either very sophisticated, or very Woody/Soon-Yi creepy. Judge for yourselves. Of course, Aspects’ money shot isn’t its story, nor Don Black and Charles Hart’s lyrics (summary: Love is complicated). It’s all about the score. Webber plays his trump card at the beginning with “Love Changes Everything,” the kind of climactic, effulgent ballad he does best, and if the rest of the throughcomposed work doesn’t deliver on the same level, it’s always tuneful and lush. Think of Aspects as the musical equivalent of the Olive Garden’s neverending pasta bowl — more quantity than quality, but still yummy. Through Oct. 23, $10-$75, Walnut Street Theatre, 825 Walnut St., 215-574-3555, walnutstreettheatre.org. (d_fox@citypaper.net)

SACRED SIX: Inis Nua Theatre Co.’s Tom Reing (left) and Azuka Theatre’s Kevin Glaccum are part of the Off-Broad Street Consortium, whose six member troupes are soon to be headquartered at First Baptist Church in Center City. NEAL SANTOS

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BUILT TO LAST Young Philly theater companies in need of a place to call home take matters into their own hands. By Mark Cofta

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he economy stagnates, unemployment increases, and government, corporate and foundation arts funding shrinks, while our leaders focus on mutual destruction in the next election. Not a great time to open a new theater space, right? “The planets really aligned on this one,” Azuka Theatre artistic director Kevin Glaccum explains of the kitschily named OffBroad Street Consortium — a group of six small professional theater companies, including Azuka, 11th Hour Theatre Co., Brat Productions, EgoPo Classic Theater, Inis Nua Theatre Co. and Mauckingbird Theatre Co. — and its rise from a humble idea to an ideal home. Glaccum says Off-Broad Street was formed “basically to do marketing” for the six homeless but increasingly successful companies, which all hire union actors, raking in rave reviews and Barrymore Award nominations. Then last spring, A. Robert Jaeger of Partners for Sacred Places, which matches arts organizations with churches looking for partners, contacted the Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia. Were any of the Alliance’s 140 member companies looking for space? Soon, the match was made: First Baptist Church at 17th and Sansom streets will convert a large, high-ceiling room into a 100-

seat theater, and all six companies will have office space in the building. In October, Azuka makes the first move, baptizing the as-yet-unnamed space with Jordan Harrison’s Act a Lady (Nov. 320), followed by local playwright Genne Murphy’s Hope Street and Other Lonely Places in March. “We’re first, so we go in and face all the kinks,” jokes Glaccum. “I’m so excited, I’m probably overlooking how horrific the move will be.” For Azuka and the Consortium’s other companies, First Baptist ends “the amount of time, energy and agita I spend looking for space,” Glaccum says. No more rushing back and forth from the office to the rented theater; no more audiences showing up at their office thinking the business address is the performance venue. “It will be like a big headquarters,” Glaccum gushes, “a base of operations for all of us.” First Baptist has been “unbelievably wonderful to deal with,” Glaccum adds. Like Partners for Sacred Places’ other Center City successes, namely First Unitarian Church and the Broad Street Ministry, they’ve realized that hosting arts events generates not only income, but renewed community participation. First Baptist, Glaccum adds, has already suggested creating a separate theater entrance on Sansom Street — tangible evidence of a long-term commitment. Norristown’s Theatre Horizon is likewise growing, earning nine Barrymore Award nominations for last year’s hit The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. The company, founded by

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Emanating wintry calm and sober, classically restrained elegance; using a palette that feels even more spare and restricted than it actually is — glacially patient, cavernously reverberant piano; spartan, poignant cello; judiciously sparing percussion; and achingly delicate, boyishly whispered vocals, often harmonized and layered to exquisite effect — Somerville, Mass.’ Gem Club have birthed a starkly simple but deeply affecting debut LP in Breakers (Hardly Art), one which bears an almost uncanny likeness to Sufjan Stevens at his softest and most heartbreakingly sincere. —K. Ross Hoffman

Minnesota-by-way-of-Tumblr duo Elite Gymnastics — rare Stateside inhabitants of that fertile breeding ground of Balearic dance beats and indie-pop sweetness (plus a healthy dollop of new-age kitsch) pioneered by St. Etienne and lately colonized by Swedes like Air France (both bands are seemingly referenced in the title of their “Minneapolis Belongs to You”) — get viscerally physical on Ruin (Acephale), which consolidates a pair of web-issued mirror-image EPs. One side’s glitzy, jungle-tinged breakbeats are sanded down and repurposed for side two’s lumberous, mood-enhancing slow jams. —K. Ross Hoffman

³ folk/pop/rock After winning and wooing with 2009’s Yeah So, lovely British duo Slow Club has returned with something darker and deeper in Paradise (Moshi Moshi). The peppy doom of the old stuff like “Because We’re Dead” has given way to “If We’re Still Alive” and other worried, uncute rock songs that charm as they unsettle and seem to contemplate regret in every verse. Turns out there are fears worse than death. —Patrick Rapa

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³ rock/pop “In Your Dreams,” the opening track on Dark Dark Dark’s sophomore LP, Wild Go, barges into the ear with an abrupt lunge of accordion and percussion, clearing a path for Nona Marie Invie’s winsome voice. The Minneapolis chamber-pop sextet is at its best in such disarming moments, exposing a raw, earnest quality in its melancholy ballads and Balkan carnival accents. Those tendencies can also topple over into preciosity, but overall its strange charms compensate for any maudlin misstep. DDD plays World Café Live on Friday (Sept. 30, worldcafelive.com). —Shaun Brady

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He hasn’t had time for regret.

WHAT’S THE BUZZ?: Joseph Gordon-Levitt displays emotional range in 50/50, while Seth Rogen’s slacker sidekick is nothing but static.

LIGHT HEARTED ³ IF YOU WERE a tween in the mid-’80s and you loved to sing into your hairbrush, you had your pick of pop idols. But if you wanted to sing and make coy faces while playing air guitar, your role models were seriously limited. Thank God for The Bangles,who gave you three options: girly-voiced Susanna Hoffs; slightly cynical Vicki Peterson; or tough but vulnerable bassist Michael Steele. (If you wanted to sing and hit the skins at the same time, you could look to drummer Debbi Peterson, but I don’t remember anyone fighting over her role at slumber parties.) The Bangles hit the TLA on Saturday to support Sweetheart of the Sun,their first album in eight years and their first since Steele retired. Sweetheart’s blend of shimmery psychedelica and fuzzy garage rock is unlikely to inspire today’s tweens, but it’s a swell addition to The Bangles’ discography, with plenty of pleasing harmonies and chiming guitars. While Hoffs still coos like a kid on “Under a Cloud,” she’s acquired an appealing rasp that adds some depth. “Circles in the Sky,” Vicki Peterson’s stab at romance, suggests she should stick to cynicism, while sister Debbi ably fills the kiss-off slot with “Ball N Chain.” The gaudy solo betrays the song’s age — it dates to the early ’90s — but if you’ve been meaning to dust off the old air guitar, here’s your excuse. If you last listened to Different Light in your slumber-party days, here’s a refresher:The Bangles’ second album is the one with the biggest hits. “Manic Monday,” “Walk Like an Egyptian” and, to a lesser extent, “If She Knew What She Wants” have done the most to cast the band as fun and flighty gals. But though those tunes — all written by outsiders and all sung by Hoffs or the ensemble — have lingered on the airwaves, it’s the spare “Following” that carries the most weight. Steele’s portrait of romantic obsession — which relies on her bruised voice, acoustic guitar, atmospheric synths and just a hint of the harmonies that buoy the rest of the record — is the one that separates those who like music from those who can’t live without it. (m_fine@citypaper.net) ✚ The Bangles play Sat., Oct. 1, at the TLA.

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you know that 50/50 is a “cancer comedy” from the Apatow camp that basically consists of Seth Rogen reacting to his best friend’s potentially fatal condition with hilarious one-liners riddled with pop culture references. Except that, in the parlance of the impersonal, antiseptic hospital rooms and offices where Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Adam spends much of the film, that description is a false diagnosis. Will Reiser’s script, based on his own experience as a young cancer survivor, takes a more nuanced approach, perfectly willing to find comedy in a horrible situation but equally unafraid of venturing into downright sentimental territory. It lunges too far in each direction at times, finding easy humor in the distracted mien of Adam’s doctor or falling back on indie-rock-scored montages for weepy reflection. But Gordon-Levitt evens out the film’s uneasiest tonal shifts, conveying a range of warring emotions from rage to frustration to incomprehension. Adam is still working out what his life is, juggling unsteady relationships with mother, girlfriend, best friend, job, when he suddenly discovers that it might be coming to an abrupt end. He can’t even look back on a life of wasted opportunities because he hasn’t had time to form regrets yet. The disease doesn’t make Adam’s life messy, just messier. He’s virtually living with a girlfriend (Bryce Dallas Howard, cornering the market in insincere beauties) who’s obviously wrong for him, working for a Seattle public-radio station where his efforts are unappreciated, and spending the bulk of his time with his responsibility-immune best friend (Rogen, playing the slacker sidekick role he should have graduated from by now). Anna Kendrick enters his life as a novice shrink so green as to still be reciting textbook entries whole cloth and experimenting awkwardly with reassuring gestures, charming enough to give him another messy reason to live. —Shaun Brady

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“Being a theater company on the run is not the best way to produce art.â€? Erin Reilly and director Matt Decker, is outgrowing its rented space for performances, offices and a dynamic education program at Norristown’s Montgomery County Cultural Center, where another small professional theater, Iron Age, also resides. They looked one block up DeKalb Street, now dubbed “Arts Hill,â€? found an empty shell waiting for a tenant, and have already raised $525,000 of the $750,000 needed to transform it into a 120-seat theater and the office, rehearsal, classroom, technical and storage space they need. “If you want to get something done,â€? says Reilly, “you just have to do it. ‌ Being a theater company on the run is not the best way to produce art. We’ve performed in seven different venues in our seven years; this will be a big leap forward.â€? She’s hopeful that this season — including Decker’s acclaimed production of Kimberly Akimbo (through Oct. 2), a new Christmas show in December and How I Learned to Drive in April 2012 — will be Theatre Horizons’ last at the Center Theatre. An additional benefit, both Reilly and Glaccum point out, is that the spaces they once rented will host other up-andcoming companies. Collaborators more than competitors, all seven companies nurture young talent. “We’re a launching pad for a new generation of actors and designers,â€? says Reilly. Horizon and the Off-Broad Street Consortium join other young companies growing in their own spaces, like West Philly’s Curio Theatre Co. at Calvary Church; Flashpoint Theatre Co., which manages Second Stage at the Adrienne and produces a three-play season there; and B. Someday Productions, which runs Fishtown’s Walking Fish Theatre. Against what seem like tough economic odds, small theaters in Philadelphia are booming. Meanwhile, job creation and growth stall in the for-profit sector. “This is what artists do so brilliantly,â€? says Reilly. “You can’t sit on your resources. You have to take risks.â€? (m_cofta@citypaper.net)

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Festival in October. Michael Glawogger’s documentaries have the graphic strength of abstract art, but Whores’ Glory balances the broad strokes with humanizing detail. A triptych surveying the skin trade in Bangkok, Bangladesh and Reynosa, Mexico, the film functions as a mirror image of Glawogger’s Workingman’s Death, in which male manual laborers subject their bodies to a different kind of grind. Set in a Parisian brothel at the dawn of the 20th century, Bertrand A Dangerous Method Bonello’s House of Tolerance circles an ensemble of high-class whores, catering to a clientele that encompasses aristocrats and industrial magnates. Danger still lurks, as a violent incident makes cringingly clear, but there’s a strange sort of intimacy, as well, even if it’s merely transactional. Speaking of transactions, Jennifer Westfeldt and Adam Scott forge a doozy in Friends with Kids, pacting to conceive and raise a child while remaining sexually single. It’s a goofy premise, but Westfeldt, who also wrote and directed, turns it toward pressing and painful questions about midlife anxiety and baby fever. That goes double for The Oranges, in which the lives of neighboring suburban families are upended when dad Hugh Laurie starts an affair with his best friend’s daughter (Leighton Meester). Despite the whiff of American Beauty, the film’s assault on conformist malaise is refreshingly uncynical. Most of the old hands fumbled the ball: Francis Ford Coppola’s

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mixing personal tragedy and Edgar Allan Poe in the mind of a sozzled horror hack (Val Kilmer). The film is functionally unreleasable, although Coppola’s plan to tour with it, Kevin Smith-style, should bring in the crowds. William Friedkin’s Killer Joe, however, is one of his best, a deliriously unhinged and yet perfectly calculated provocation. Reteaming with Bug playwright Tracy Letts, the film limns a seedy white-trash family who hire dirty cop Matthew McConaughey to bump off dad’s ex-wife so they can cash in her life insurance. McConaughey oozes easygoing menace, and Thomas Haden Church is equal parts moron and monster as the father who pimps out his jailbait daughter (Juno Temple) as an advance on the hit man’s fee. The film’s gleefully depraved climax had the audience gasping, not all with pleasure, but I was grinning like a fool; it was my last night in town, and the festival had delivered the perfect going-away present. (s_adams@citypaper.net) ✚ More from TIFF at citypaper.net/movies

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Dream House A haiku: Who killed those people? Was it butterface James bond? All signs point to yes. (Not reviewed) (Pearl, UA Riverview)

Happy, Happy|B the first 10 minutes of this ironically titled Norwegian comedy features several hilariously offensive exchanges — about subjects as touchy as adoption, slavery and AIDS. As Sigve (Henrik rafaelsen) and elisabeth (maibritt Saerens) get to know their new neighbors, eirik (Joachim rafaelsen) and Kaja (Agnes Kittelsen), considerable inappropriate behavior occurs. After an uncomfortable “couples game,� Kaja gives Sigve a blowjob — which soon escalates into a full-blown extramarital affair. then eirik makes an inappropriate pass. especially horrific is the master/slave “game� played between one couple’s son and the other’s adopted African child. In an effort to reduce their pain, the characters humiliate each other — which is what makes this shrewd film so darkly humorous. When elisabeth prompts Kaja to perform a solo of “Amazing Grace� in the local choir, is she being sincere or sinister? the fact that everyone is so clearly ashamed and unhappy is hardly revealing. but the excellent cast — particularly the sublime Kittelsen — makes viewers care about these screwed-up characters. As the quartet of desperate adults scramble to find happiness, a barbershop quartet punctuates the action with catchy songs. It’s a nice, perhaps inconsequential touch, in a nice and perhaps inconsequential film. —Gary M. Kramer (Ritz at the Bourse)

macHiNe GuN preacHer|D pitched somewhere between Hotel Rwanda and Rambo, Machine Gun Preacher tells the true story of Sam childers, a junkie biker ex-con turned contractor, preacher and defender of children in Sudan. It’s an unlikely story, as childers’ actions find him maneuvering as many moral minefields as literal ones as he hurls himself into a civil war halfway across the world with the uncomplicated fervor of the born-again, forsaking criminal violence for righteous violence in the name of protecting defenseless children. Unfortunately, director marc Forster typically operates only at a single speed: overwrought. Scenes don’t so much cut together as butt up against one another. Sam stabbing a hitchhiker in a strobe-light frenzy is suddenly usurped by him vomiting and pleading for help; his baptism, construction of a new church, and decision to become a missionary in Africa follow with bludgeoning force. Gerard butler bulldozes his way through the role, showing the character’s intensity but never hinting at any deeper motives. the question of childers’ tactics is raised only by the man himself, in actual footage that plays out over the end credits. “If a madman or terrorist stole your child,� he poses to critics, “would it matter how I got them back?� It’s somewhat chilling that he asks this question rhetorically; it’s worse that the film asks it not at all. —Shaun Brady (Ritz East) restless|C calling Gus Van Sant “unpredictable� is only sometimes a compliment. Granted, it’s a rare quality in any filmmaker that you truly have no idea what they’ll come up with next, but in Van Sant’s case you’re too often left wondering why he decided to come up with it. His latest, Restless, comes off like a hack studio exec’s dream remake of Harold and

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DriVe|AIn Danish director Nicolas Winding refn’s Drive, a film every bit as brusque and spare as its title, ryan Gosling plays a Hollywood stunt driver by day, wheelman for hire by night. Gosling wears the stoicism of the steve mcQueen or clint eastwood action hero like the expressionless masks he dons to mimic the film stars he doubles while driving, a man not only without a name but without an inner life. He stares out at the city while a hokey song about being a hero serenades him on the soundtrack, though refn isn’t interested in parody or even homage as much as dissection. —S.B. (Pearl, UA Riverview)

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the setup is straight out of slasher 101: A group of clean-cut teens head out into the woods to camp at the site of a long-forgotten massacre. en route, they have a run-in with a pair of creepy hillbillies, presaging more horrifying encounters to come … only when Dale (tyler Labine) approaches the group, laughing maniacally and wielding a scythe, it’s only because he’s kinda nervous around girls. eli craig’s horror-comedy, which from this point on switches protagonists to its title rednecks rather than the considerably more unpleasant city kids, kicks off winningly enough with a clever premise: rewrite the standard summer camp brutality as a farcical series of misunderstandings (albeit gorily fatal ones). Dale and tucker (Alan tudyk)

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Maude: “oK, kid hangs out at funerals, but can we make the old broad a cute young blonde? she can still die, just make it a disease so people can cry at the end. And how about adding a ghost for the kid to talk to?” Jason Lew’s script may not be that cynical, but that doesn’t excuse its ample borrowings and emotional manipulations. Wes Anderson’s own debts to Harold and Maude are well-documented, but Lew and, unfathomably, Van sant simply rehash both, piling on quirks from the archaic names (Henry Hopper’s funeral-addicted enoch and mia Wasikowksa’s dying Annabel) to the cat stevens song on the soundtrack. And that’s without mentioning the dead WWII kamikaze pilot (ryo Kase) who serves as enoch’s confidante. Restless is shameless in both its blatant thefts and its maudlin sensibility, but thankfully that shouldn’t point the way to where Van sant will head next. —S.B. (Ritz Five)

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are just a pair of not-so-bright buddies out for a fishing weekend at their rundown vacation home, and can’t be blamed for all these teens who somehow keep impaling themselves on tree branches and hurling themselves into wood chippers in the harmless country boys’ presence. the problem, like most of the slasher flicks it parodies, is that the film is after that point basically a series of variations on a theme, with only the one joke up its dismembered sleeve. craig too often defaults to his leads’ cuddly niceness rather than actual comedy, no matter how many times he drenches them in arterial spray. —S.B. (Ritz at the Bourse)

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exploits of Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson), an acid-dropping, hookerhiring, socially stunted police officer who could very well be the last clean cop on the Emerald Isle. 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. —Drew Lazor (Ritz Five)

KILLER ELITE|BThough its gaudy trailer might have you believe Gary McKendry simply persuaded Jason Statham, Clive Owen and Robert De Niro to knee each other in the ribs while “Rock You Like a Hurricane” blasts from a battery-powered boombox, Killer Elite is actually an intricate sociopolitical thriller. Set in the early ’80s, the movie follows the perpetually scowling Danny (Statham), the archetypal

best-in-the-biz “cleaner” haunted by his past sins and looking for a way out. The script is cocky and gratuitous, but McKendry deserves much credit for his spirited action staging and tireless, stylish adherence to the technological limitations of the period (you’ve never seen this many pay phone calls in a modern action movie). —D.L. (Pearl, Roxy, UA Riverview)

part thanks to the smart script by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin, who create a tense story while perversely turning their backs on the action on the field to stare at computer screens and spreadsheets. They’re concerned with an idea, not a game, which makes the film compelling even to non-fans. —S.B. (UA Riverview)

SHOLEM ALEICHEM: LAUGHING IN THE DARKNESS|B+

MONEYBALL|B Brad Pitt plays A’s general manager Billy Beane, a failed player who seeks a measure of redemption by turning his struggling, downmarket ballclub around. He sees potential in the statistical analysis offered by Yale economics grad Peter Brand (Jonah Hill), which makes for an odd, parallel-universe sports story where the bean counters and upper management are the good guys. It works in no small

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Writer Sholem Aleichem (born Solomon Rabinovich) used Yiddish to create, convey and preserve a culture, chronicling Eastern European Jewry even as it was in “great upheaval.” Joseph Dorman’s documentary recalls that effort, and contextualizes it within Aleichem’s own tumultuous life. While most Jewish writers in the early 20th century were using Hebrew, Aleichem’s decision to write in Yiddish was a function of both class and culture: He meant to tell the stories of the common man. Using photographs and interviews, the film concludes that Aleichem’s work

was “exploring one question: how to be Jews in a modern world,” noting it’s a question that remains unanswered. —Cindy Fuchs (Ritz at the Bourse)

✚ REPERTORY FILM THE BALCONY 1003 Arch St., 215-922-6888, thetroc. com. Jurassic Park (1993, U.S., 127 min.): “That is one big pile of shit.” Mon., Oct. 3, 8 p.m., $3.

BRYN MAWR FILM INSTITUTE 824 W. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr, 610-527-9898, brynmawrfilm.org. The Goonies (1985, U.S., 88 min.): “We had our hands on the future, but we gave it up just to save our own lives.” Sat., Oct. 1, 11 a.m., $10.

CHESTNUT HILL FILM GROUP Free Library, Chestnut Hill Branch, 8711 Germantown Ave., 215-248-0977, armcinema25.com. Cry Wolf (1947,

A ROMANTIC LARK ABOUT OPTIMISM AND” INFIDELITY. There are moments of pure joy.

–Betsy Sharkey, LOS ANGELES TIMES

U.S., 83 min.): A widow suspects her brother-in-laws had a hand in killing her hubs. Tue., Oct. 4, 7:30 p.m., free.

CINEMA SPEAKEASY L’Etage, 624 S. Sixth St., 215-5920656, pifva.org. A Termite TV Journey: Experimental and activist video group Termite TV shares excerpts from its early film collection. Tue., Oct. 4, 7 p.m., free.

INTERNATIONAL HOUSE 3701 Chestnut St., 215-387-5125, ihousephilly.org. The Phantom of the Operator (2004, Canada, 66 min.): The female operator’s often-overlooked role in the emergence of global communication is spotlighted in this collection of found footage by Caroline Martel. Wed., Oct. 5, 7 p.m., $9.

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–Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

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7141 Germantown Ave., regrettablesincerity.com. City of Hope (1991, U.S., 129 min.): Following myriad characters involved in the demolition of a city landmark. Thu., Sept. 29, 7 p.m., $7.

“THE COOLEST MOVIE AROUND.”

“ This disarmingly fresh bittersweet comedy marks Sewitsky as a director to watch.”

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invites you to join Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez at a special meet and greet to celebrate the release of Monday, October 3 • 7:00PM-8:00PM 3641 Horizon Blvd. • Bensalem • Receive a special autographed poster from the new film • Pick up passes to an advance screening of the film No purchase necessary. While supplies last. Tickets and autographs will be issued on a first-come, first-served basis. Talent will sign autographs while time permits only. An autograph is not guaranteed. Talent appearance is subject to change. One ticket (admitting two)/one autograph per person, no exceptions. Ticket does not guarantee seating. This screening is overbooked to ensure a full house. You are encouraged to arrive early to reserve your seat. Employees of Philadelphia City Paper, Walmart, PDA, LLC, and their affiliates are not eligible. This film is rated PG-13.

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ZOINKS!: Spooky Dog and the Teen-Age Gang Mysteries, starring drag diva Brittany Lynn (second from left), begins tomorrow night at Allens Lane Art Center. TRAVIS WHITAKER

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stone-visaged mistress of the damned, Bristol/Berlin-based political journalist Annika Henderson teamed last year with Portishead mood-maestro Geoff Barrow (and his on-the-side Kraut-fit, Beak>) for a frosty but beguiling, appealingly lowstakes self-titled debut (Stones Throw), which wrangled a well-picked assortment of unsuspecting throwback covers (Dylan, Kinks, Skeeter Davis, Yoko Ono) into its sparse, spooky, post-punk-infused dubscape. Look out: Halloween’s coming early this year.

—Patrick Rapa

Fri., Sept. 30, 9 p.m., $10-$12, Making Time with Factory Floor, Dirty Beaches and Moon Women, Voyeur, 1221 St. James St., igetrvng.com.

Sept. 30-Oct. 15, various times, $18-$20, Allens Lane Art Center, 601 W. Allens Lane, 215-248-0546, allenslane.org.

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✚ SPOOKY DOG AND THE TEEN-AGE GANG MYSTERIES

✚ PYRO BACK 2 SCHOOL PARTY

Fri., Sept. 30, 9 p.m., $7, with Death Rattle, Nervous Breakdowns and The Nectarines, Tritone, 1508 South St., 215-545-0475, tritonebar.com.

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✚ ANIKA ✚ MEDDLESOME Singing — nay; bleakly, MEDDLESOME Teutonically intoning — like MEDDLESOME BELLS an unholy cross between Nico, Dark, artsy, bluesy, catchy, Med-

The Slits’ Ari Up and a grim,

—K. Ross Hoffman

Allens Lane Theater’s campy, quirky Scooby-Doo! parody explores the mysteries that the

cartoon never seemed to address: Why was Shaggy always tripping out, and what made Scooby snacks so yummy? Did the Daphne-Shaggy-Fred love triangle ever get in the way of ghost hunting? And what team did Velma play for — do we even have to ask? Names have been changed, but the references are crystal clear. Daphne — er, Tiffany — will be played by famed drag artist Brittany Lynn, and theatergoers can expect impromptu dance and audience participation (you might want to leave the kids at home). Spooky snacks not included. —Cassie Owens

Ring in the new academic year at the first-ever PYRO Back 2 School college party. The steamy 18-and-up affair will

feature a contest to find the city’s “hottest college jock” and a special performance by drag diva Miss Debbie Queen. Arrive in school colors for discounted admission; proceeds go to Pennsylvania Student Equality Coalition (PSEC), a youth advocacy group composed of LGBTQ student organizations from Temple, Drexel, Villanova and UPenn. —Brandon Baker Fri., Sept. 30, 9 p.m.-2 a.m., $5-$10, iCandy Nightclub, 254 S. 12th St., clubicandy.com.

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✚ POGO If you went nuts for the clever cutting and mashing of Pretty Lights and Girl Talk at POPPED! last weekend, you should make this rare gig by Australian VJ/DJ Pogo a priority. You might not know that name, but you’ve probably seen his masterful pop purées on YouTube. He’s the guy who took Disney’s Alice in Wonderland

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I groaned out loud when I heard that Idoler Justin Guarini would play shifty lawyer Billy Flynn in Media Theatre’s production of Chicago, but he’s not all pop and ’fro: The formerly frizzy runner-up earned raves on Broadway in American

Through Nov. 6, $27-$49, Media Theatre, 104 E. State St., Media, 610891-0100, mediatheatre.org.

dlesome Meddlesome Meddlesome Bells are so spellbindingly nuts it’s hard to pin them down. It’s a confounding stew: Tiny Tim, Man Man, Dead Moon, Sabbath, Silver Jews, Alice in Chains, The Black Keys, Johnny Cash, x’s x’s — everything comes bubbling up out of the cauldron. The guitars get doomy right before a resilient chorus. The voices wail like the damned but you can sing along no prob. Their sound is filthy and alluring, drunk on absinthe and exhaust. One of the most excitingly weird rock bands to come out of this town in a long time. They play Sugar Town on Friday.

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Idiot and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. More exciting for local theatergoers is director Jennie Eisenhower, a two-time Barrymore winner as a musical theater actress, plus powerful performer Demetria Joyce Bailey, Barrymorenominated for portraying Ethel Waters in His Eye Is on the Sparrow, as prison matron Mama Morton.

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FOR YOUR CHANCE TO WIN A PASS, GO TO THE CONTEST PAGE ONLINE AT:

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✚ 24 HOUR COMICS DAY

³ BACK TO EARTH We’re still feeling a little hung over from the high-energy buzz of the Philadelphia Collection and FBH Philly Fashion Week. While the real go-getters among us may already be champing at the bit to get their hands on this season’s newest iterations of scarves and sweaters, we’re not quite ready to bundle up. We’re slowing our roll and saying adios to summer with this wave of nature-centric handmade jewelry from the locals. Sherry Tinsman Trunk Show Sat., Oct. 1, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., free, James A. Michener Museum, 138 S. Pine St., Doylestown, 215-340-9800, michenermuseum.org.³ Like many artists, Sherry Tinsman lists nature as one of her biggest inspirations. The influence is clear with the metal flowers (pictured) she creates, but there are subtler echoes of the natural world hiding beneath the surface, too. The soft ripples in the chain of a necklace are like an ocean wave, the rough surface of a pendant reminiscent of tree bark. All this, plus the mesmerizing spiral theme that comes up in several pieces cast in metal, makes for a fine tug-of-war between dainty and rugged. Tinsman’s whimsical work gives away her free-bird spirit, too. “I seldom draw my ideas on paper. Instead, I draw with my torch,” she says. “In doing so, I give myself the freedom to take the silver beyond its limits and see what happens.” Zivile Pupinyte Sat.-Sun., Oct. 1-2, noon-6 p.m., free, Gravers Lane Gallery, 8405 Germantown Ave., 215-247-1603, philaopenstudios.com. ³ From subtle to undeniable, here’s a jewelry designer whose work is typically drenched in natural influences — from plants to wood to bits of shell. Yet her newest line, Screwed Forever, squashes those delicate ideas and opts instead for something harder. Get a peek at Pupinyte’s edgier designs during Philadelphia Open Studio Tours,and you’ll find sleek lines paired with bolts and screws presented as stunning accessories. (julia.west@citypaper.net) Have an upcoming shopping event? Give it here. E-mail listings@citypaper.net.

The national now-21-year-old event is fun to watch. But these bastards aren’t kidding around, so don’t try talking to them. —A.D. Amorosi Sat., Oct. 1, noon, free, Atomic City Comics, 640 South St., 215-625-9613.

12 hours, covering Old City, Society Hill, both sides of Broad and the Parkway. Broken into four three-hour segments, the tour gives walkers the option to take part in individual sections or rock out the entire 200-site 12-hour tour. —Meg Augustin

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✚ 12-HOUR PHILLY TOUR

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✚ RIVERCITY FESTIVAL The day may begin with a 5K run through the Fishtown, but the fourth annual RiverCity Festival is mostly about hanging out. The West Philadelphia Orchestra (pictured) will provide the soundtrack while youngsters frolic through

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Film Project), Kelly Phillips of the Philly Comix Jam, Shawn Dubin of the Dreary and Naughty series, and organizer Pete Stathis, writer/artist of the graphic novel series Evenfall. Stathis is the one to beat, as he’s won this challenge previously by finishing in just 23-and-a-half hours. Show-off.

Walkscore.com recently rated Center City the fifth most walkable city in the U.S., thanks to our easy-to-follow street grid, beautiful and varied architecture and plethora of well-maintained urban parks. To celebrate the accolade, the Association of Philadelphia Tour Guides is putting together the mother of all walking tours. The River to River, Vine to Pine, Rain or Shine tour spans

Sat., Oct. 1, 8 a.m.–8 p.m., free, various locations, ushistory.org/greattour/ index.htm.

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The 24 Hour Comics Day ain’t no Philly standup marathon. It’s an all-day drawing bash where Philly’s finest sketchers go eye-to-eye and pad-to-pad to win this caffeinated cartoonist’s crown by doing what they usually do very slowly: Craft a graphic 24-page comic book from scratch. The local competitors are known to all who love Philly comics: dark muralist Raphael Tiberino, Awakening Comics creator Steven Peters, Peekaboo Revue maven Scott Johnston (who has a real leg up as the occasional boss of the local up-all-night 48 Hour

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Fri., Sept. 30, 9 p.m., $13-$15, with That 1 Guy, Blockley Pourhouse, 3801 Chestnut St., 877-435-9849, theblockley.com.

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and collaged it into a blissful burst of audiovisual trip-hop with incomprehensible nonlyrics and beats clipped right from the source, with no additives. It’s as mesmerizing to listen to as it is to watch, and all his stuff is made the same way — built from unlikely and vigorously copyright-protected sources like Up, Hook, Mary Poppins and Terminator 2.And you never know when somebody’s going to send him a cease and desist, making his pay-what-you-will MP3s a precious thrill whenever they appear.

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—Meg Augustin

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✚ THE HORRORS

—Chris Brown Sat., Oct. 1, noon-5 p.m., free, Penn Treaty Park, 1199 N. Delaware Ave., rivercityfestival.org.

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Johnny Brenda’s, Kraftwork and the Barbary to compete against one another for mere shits and giggles. Oh, Fishtown.

Only three albums into a career chock-a-block with the kind of eagerly adulatory buzz that makes the U.K. music press (most notably, NME) come across rather like an adorably over-excitable young child, this conspicuously chameleonic, style-savvy Essex fivesome had already worked its way

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fare while still retaining some sense of cultural loyalty. Stick around afterward for some true cultural adaptation — in the form of culinary samplings.

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inflatable obstacle courses and moon bounces. Brisket and ribs will be available via new kid in town Bubba’s BBQ, and the vegan-inclined will be covered by Port Richmond’s Hinge Café. This year’s edition also boasts the first-ever RiverCity Volleyball Tournament, allowing local bars like Frankford Hall,

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✚ CULTURAL ADAPTATION FILM SERIES

—K. Ross Hoffman Sun., Oct. 2, 8 p.m., $18-$34, with The Stepkids, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400, worldcafelive.com.

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The word “culture” may conjure thoughts of colorful Indian saris, ancient foreign languages, African ritual dances or long-held traditions of far-off places. Yet culture is less a static portrait of a people and more a malleable, adaptable form of identity. In celebration of this idea, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology is hosting a film series on cultural adaptation. Running throughout the 2011-12 academic year, the series features a new film every month, each focusing on a different cultural story and followed by a short presentation by a related speaker. For October, Jane Kauer, an expert on food and culture in Penn’s anthropology department, will present an episode of writer/director Cheuk Kwan’s series on Chinese restaurants. Present in almost every country across the globe, the Chinese restaurant adapts Chinese culinary customs to local tastes and

through snarling garage-punk, Goth-damaged post-punk, shoegaze and more (not to mention the far-flung genre dabbling of the band’s side project activity). This summer’s Skying (XL) finds them again expanding their parameters (and their hitherto rather monochromatic palette) for an atmospheric set of gleaming, nuanced, grandly tuneful and loosely psychedelic synth-rock echoing the dreamily lush 1980s “new pop” of bands like Simple Minds and the glammy swagger of early Brit-pop.

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come from a dinged-up cast-iron pan in the lardcovered kitchen of a kindly black grandmother in the American South, not out the back of an unremarkably decorated Pakistani restaurant in West Philly. But everyone who’s tried the Lahori Chargha from Wah-Gi-Wah swears it’s The Truth. I am one of these people. The small halal eatery, which Atif Khan, a native of the food-obsessed Pakistani city of Lahore, opened last year, trades in Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Indian specialties, many recognizable — chicken tikka, kebabs, curries, steaming-hot naan so delicate it should be the official bread of the antigravity industry. But it’s chef Abdul Saboor’s chicken that’s turned the most non-native heads. “American people — they love it,” says Khan. “I didn’t expect it.” Unlike traditional brined-and-battered fried chicken, Lahori Chargha is carefully rubbed and left to marinate for six to eight hours before hitting the fryer — think of it as South Asian jerk. Saboor starts with whole chickens that weigh about 3 pounds, carving dramatic scores in the breasts and butterflying out the legs to speed up both the marinating and the cooking. Then, like a thorough masseur, he works each bird over with a special paste that combines flavors such as cumin, chili powder, salt and crushed garlic, all mixed with a little oil and lemon juice to help it catch. Each chicken (just 12 bucks a pop!) is fried to order, and arrives on a white plate scattered with cilantro and red onion about 20 minutes after you say the word. Breast side up, the bird’s legs and wings come outstretched in an awkward sort of perpetual free-fall pose, like the dude who gets booted into that big pit in 300.The servers provide a fork and a serrated knife, but all you really need is your fingers — the scores, in addition to helping the marinade infiltrate all those hard-to-reach places, make for breezy meat-ripping. It’s probably the most spice-symphonic food I’ve eaten solely with my hands, a nearly citric start that leads into waves of cumin punch and friendly chili heat. It’s difficult to stop once you start. Wah-Gi-Wah honors extra-spicy requests, as well; if it gets too fiery for you, shovel down some rice or dunk your next bite in the minty, garlicky yogurt dip served on the side of nearly every dish. “Breaded fried chicken is everywhere,” says Khan, who, believe it not, owned a Crown franchise before opening Wah-Gi-Wah. “The difference here is I give the taste from my city.” (drew.lazor@citypaper.net) ✚ Wah-Gi-Wah, 4447 Chestnut St., 215-921-5597.

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n a fall Friday night as crisp and clear as spring water, a crowd gathered on the 1500 block of South Street. Not for Bob & Barbara’s, nor for a show at Tritone. Not even for a flash mob. Right on the corner, in digs that used to house Pico de More on: Gallo, curry hounds had claimed all 34 seats of Sawatdee, the new Thai venture that replaced Pico in July. Outside, hopefuls waited on standby, peering ruefully through the electric-green BYOB’s storefront windows like old ladies staking out hot slots. Sawatdee (“hello” in Thai) is the brainchild of Tou “Tony” Inchote, who first visited Philadelphia on his honeymoon in 1994; a year later, he came back for good. Trained at his family’s restaurant in Bangkok, the longtime chef has spent the past 16 years cooking at local restaurants (Nan, Susanna Foo, Twenty Manning, Friday Saturday Sunday, Dmitri’s). With Sawatdee, he’s finally added owner to his résumé. It’s taken only a few months for Sawatdee to gain traction in the

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neighborhood, judging by the crowds. And I have some good news for them: I will not be trying to steal their spot. I didn’t start out feeling this way. In fact, during one lunchtime visit, I was just like those peeping toms, on the outside looking in, eager to eat there. Having shown up at 10:50 a.m. for lunch, I found Sawatdee’s door locked, and so I rapped on the window to get the attention of a staff member seated at a table engrossed in his Mac. Huffy, the guy poked his head out the back and curtly informed me the restaurant would open at 11. He shut the door, locked it and went back to his computer. I didn’t mind waiting, but I did mind the dickish attitude. That’s not hospitality, and certainly not Thai hospitality, which prides itself on making strangers feel welcome. But the encounter didn’t sour me on Sawatdee. The frustratingly inconsistent food did. World-weary Philadelphia tongues MORE FOOD AND lament our city’s lack of good Thai food, DRINK COVERAGE which is bullshit. There’s legit Thai food AT C I T Y P A P E R . N E T / here if you know where to look; it just so M E A LT I C K E T. happens that most spots inspired by the Land of a Thousand Smiles spin from the same turntables, all playing an endless muddled megamix of familiar recipes safely watered down for a farang clientele. Sawatdee is one of these places, where you have to ask for chopsticks and plead for spice. On the other hand, Sawatdee is also fast, affordable and mostly decent. It’s just your friendly neighborhood Thai joint, and so what if the curries are made from store-bought pastes. Just like at your friendly neighborhood pizzeria and your friendly neighborhood Chinese place, convenience often trumps excellence. >>> continued on page 36

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Hybrid short hairs - Himalayans & others 215-696-5832 Kittens CFA, Persians, Himalayans, peke face,shots,health cert $650. 717.865.6148

AMERICAN BULLDOG Pups: 7 left, NKC/UKC, Parents on site, $1000. Taking deposits, call to reserve: 610-551-2673 AUSTRALIAN Shepherd Pups - beautiful, AKC, ch. parents, hlth guar, 215-482-6553 BASSET HOUND PUPS in SE PA $475 Home raised 610-400-3103 Beagle Pups AKC, hunting/field trial lines, vet checked, all current vaccinations, started scent training 215-547-6314 BEAGLE PUPS AKC, S/W, great pets & hunters, $200-$250. (856)649-6175 Cane Corso, F, 8 mo. Oldie Bulldoggie, 15 wks, 1 M, 1 F. Pitt Bully M, 8 mo., blue. Also Pitts 8 wks, small fee. 215-254-0562 CANE CORSO PUPS: 5 months old, shots & wormed, 267-240-8435 Cane Corso Pups, blue, 170 lb sire, parents on premesis, 267-588-8638 Cavalier King Charles Spaniels Pups AKC Champion Lines, New Litters Avail $800-$1500, 215-538-2179

CAVANESE - CAVALIER K C S crossed with Havanese. Adorable little furballs. $900 and up. Havanese Pup pies waiting list. Call 215-538-2179 CHIHUAHUAS - Very affectionate & adorable, w/ papers, 8 wks. 215-739-0155 COCKER SPANIEL Pups, Home Raised, Champion bloodlines. 856-299-0451 COLLIES - good w/ kids, vet exams, AKC beauties. SW, Blue, Tri, 856-825-4856 DOBERMAN PUPS: AKC Great temperament, extra large, M & F, shots, wormed, tails, dews & ears done robinswoodkennels.com (609)296-3627 Doberman Pups AKC, s/w, M & F, tails done, fawn, red, blk & tan 717-808-3632 ENGLISH BULLDOG PUPS, AKC, Females, white and brindle, raised with TLC, $1,400. Call (717)445-6089 English Bulldog Pups, parents on premises, papers, shots, de-wormed, vet certified, Call 215-696-5832 (Bensalem) French Bulldog 12 week Male, AKC, shots, wormed, microchipped, family raised, all white. $1800.(215)307.7984 GERMAN SHEPHERD AKC Pups - European bloodlines, shots and wormed, both parents are OFA hip certified, Black, Black and Tan, Sable. $800 females. $900 males. 717-529-6213 German Shepherd Puppies $500. AKC, 1st shots, Vet checked, 856-952-7697. German Shepherd Puppies mom and dad on premises registered (215)989-3712 GERMAN SHEPHERD Pups - farm raised, shots & wormed, $325. 717-687-5236 Great Dane AKC Registered Puppies, Fawns and Brindles, over 20 years raising Danes. $1200 each. 302-379-3423 Havanese Puppies, AKC Hypo-allergenic, great personalities, Health Guaranteed. $1500. 484-678-6696

HAVANESE pups: ACA, shots & wormed, M & F, parents on premises, 5 AKC champions in pedigree. $800. 610-932-3110

Italian Mastiff 7 mo. F, reg., parents on prem. gd w/kids, $1000. (570)617-4880 Japanese Chins, AKC, black/white Fem., 2 years, Male 1 year for sale. Sable Male, Red Female for adoption. (610)838-7221

Mini Schnauzer 10wks, shots, wormed, salt & pepper M & F, $375. 610-446-3211 NEAPOLITAN MASTIFF Pup, Male, 12 wks, shots, papers, $900, 215-882-4270 NEWFOUNDLAND PUPS - AKC, ready Oct 22, $1500, 304-727-2387 www.newfoundland.northforklabradors.com Olde English Bulldogge pups: $800 & English Mastiff pups $900. Family raised, vet checked, ready 717-445-5086

Pek-a-Poos, furball, love muffins, cream color,12 wks, 3F, 3M, $400, 215.747.3636 Pekingese Puppies M & F Beautiful Babies, available NOW $295. 267-243-9526. Pit Bull Pups, ADBA, M/F, s/w, 9wks, Redboy/Jocko x Bolio, $600. 215.834.1247 PITBULL Pups, red nosed, w/ papers, $300, 215-528-0869 Pit Bull Terrier BLUE PITBULLS - $400 TO $300 215-303-5262 Pit Bull Terrier Red Devil Pits $500 M- F worm, shots, reg $500 firm 609.287.1647 POODLE PUPPIES: Standard, 3 cream sisters, 7 & 1/2 mos. Home raised, must go! $400/OBO. Call 610.489.3781

POODLES Std, AKC, blk, M/F, champ parents, shots, ready now. 856-304-7487 SHIH TZU POO ADORABLE PUPS M. $300 Fem $400 Shts &wormed. 267-344-9429 WHOODLE PUPS - Wheaten Terrier Hybrids, M/F, $475-$600, 610-248-3241 YORKIE PUPPIES - AKC, Male, 10 weeks, shots & wormed, $650, 302-697-3515 YORKIE PUPPIES: home raised, AKC reg. Starting at $650, 215-490-2243 YORKIE PUPS: ACA, cute, friendly, ready now, $395. Call 717-283-6783

BED: Brand New Queen Pillowtop Mattress Set w/warr, In plastic. $175; Twin $140; 3 pc King $265; Full set $155. Memory foams avl. Del. avl 215-355-3878

Hot Tub 2011 6 person, 7ft. w/lounger waterfall, LED color lights, Never installed. Factory warranty & cover. Still in wrapper. Cost $7000; Sell $2995. 610-952-0033

All Phillies Post-season home games & All Eagles home games. Upper lvls & lower lvls, call for pricing, 305-370-2033 BUYING EAGLES SBL’s & TICKETS

CALL 215-669-1924

EAGLES TIX FOR SALE - Low Rows, 2nd level. Season/single games, $950 for season, Call 267-975-4379

jobs

PARKSIDE AREA 1BR- 5 BR starting @ $700. Newly renov, new kit & bath, hdwd flrs, Section 8 OK. 267-324-3197

Housekeeper, errands, PT-FT, 5 yrs exp, refs,car,bkgd chk,Overbrook,215.290.2100

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33&45 RECORDS HIGHER $ REALLY PAID

** Bob 610-532-9408 ***

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

Coins, Currency, Gold, Toys,

Trains, Hummels, Sports Cards. Call the Local Higher Buyer, 7 Dys/Wk

Walnut St 1br $550 incl heat 2br $695+ utils, renov, 215-471-1365; 215-663-0128 W. Phila 3 & 4 br apts Avail Now 1st Mo. Rent Special 215.386.4791 or 4792

Gentleman w/Truck Desires Work Moving & Junk Removal. 215-878-7055

apartment marketplace

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

33 & 45 Records Absolute Higher $

apartment marketplace

130 N. 50th St. 3BR $750+ Newly renovated. Call 267-255-1895

8xx N 63rd 1 BR $625+ elec modern, laminate floors, ceiling fans, fridge, near transportation, 610-623-2035

Golf View Apts nw carpets 1br/1ba $695 www.perutoproperties.com 215.740.4900 Various 1, 2 & 3 BR Apts $595-$850 www.perutoproperties.com 215.740.4900

12xx S. 17th 2br $585+ new paint & carpet, call 610-710-1986 15xx 9th St. 2BR Heat incl new w/w crpt, no pets. (856)858-4830 28xx Wharton 2 BR $625 newly renovated, 1st floor. 215-582-8686

Balwynne Park 2 BR $840+ W/D, C/A, W/W, Garage. 484-351-8633

18xx N 23rd St. 1 & 2 BR $550 & $750 newly renovated, no pets, 267-979-8936

1100 S 58th St. Studio, 1br & 2br apts newly renov, lic #362013 267-767-6959

32xx W Huntingdon 2 BR $700 +utils large 2nd floor, hardwood, 1st/last & 1 month sec. 215-463-2403

21xx S. 65th St 2br $600+ utils nwly painted, 2nd flr duplex 215.551.2322

36xx Old York Rd. 2 BR $590 1st flr, 1st/2nd/1 mo sec., 267-255-1895

Dr. Sonnheim, 856-981-3397

64th & Greenway sm. studio $395+elec 1st floor, private entrance. 215-821-8858

Diabetic Test Strips! $$ Cash Paid $$ Local pick-up, Call Martin 856-882-9015 Diabetic Test Strips needed pay up to $10/box. Most brands. Call 610-453-2525 I Buy Anything Old...Except People! antiques-collectables, Al 215-698-0787 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

9xx S 58th St lg 2 BR $600+ utils fresh paint, section 8 ok, 215-416-5862

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

SW Philadelphia 1 BR $650 utilities included, 2nd floor, 267-312-3608

12xx W Allegheny 2 BR $625+util Newly renovated, 215-221-6542

personals Starting a new Opera Club. Opera by Spanish, German, Italian, Russian, and Czech, composers will be listened to and discussed. The setting will be informal. Wine and cheese will be served. Large format TV and an excellent stereo system and DVD/Blue Ray. If interested please call 610-358-9952

WILL PAY YOU!!

If you remember Danny’s Pub, Jumps Inn or Dirty Dancing at Richmond & Allegheny. 215-859-8354

2345 N. 17th St. 1 BR $500 hdwd flrs, new remod. 215-868-8349 13XX N. 60 th 1st fl, 1rm, kitc, bath, yd. $475+ 2mos sec/1mo rent 215-878-1160 1420 N 52nd St. 2 BR $700+utils triplex, very clean, private entry, security doors, 2 blocks from mall, 267-588-1777

48xx Walnut St. 3 BR $695 fully renov, hrdwd flrs, 866-832-6319 x3 5100 Spruce St. 2 BR $700+ lg, hrdwd floors, elec heat, 267-255-8372 52nd & Parkside 2 BR $650+ utils 3rd flr,also 1Br & Studio avl,215.284.7944

Temp. Hosp area 3 & 4br apts Avail Now 1st Mo. Rent Special 215.386.4791 or 4792

10th & Lindley area 1br heat/water incl. spacious, 1st, last sec. req. 267.226.7651 20xx Newcomb St. 2 BR $675+ utils modern, w/w carpet, 215-228-5555 50xx N 10th St. 2br $585+elec large apt, 1st, last & security 215.791.2125 Old York Rd & Broad 1 BR $500+ utils newly renovated lg apt, 215-743-5725

53rd & Media 1 BR $525+ utils cozy 1st flr, 1st/last/sec, (215)473-0231 61xx Locust 1 BR $525+elec/gas 1st fl,EIK,bk yd, 2 mo. sec., 267-496-0730

5xx B St. 2BR $700+ utils nwly renov., section 8 ok,

63rd & Race 1br Studio $500+utils newly renovated, (215)827-9171

6021 N. Park Ave 1 BR $595+ 2 months & security. (215)480-6460

Belmont Ave Efficiency $525+ elec $1050 mve in,cats welcome 215.779.0363

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 Section 8, Students & Seniors Welcome.

Hegerman St. 1 BR/1 BA $625 Fully Renovated. Call 215-852-9738 Margaret St. 1 BR $595+ utils beautiful, newly remodeled, 215-526-1455 1 BR & 2 BR Apts $715-$835 spacious, great loc., upgraded, heat incl, PHA vouchers accepted 215-966-9371 4617 Wayne Ave 1br $450 incl. heat & hot water, large renovated eat-in kitchen. Call 215-303-3605 or 215-416-2757

5201 Wayne Ave. Studio & 1Br apts On site Lndry 267.767.6959 Lic# 311890 5220 Wayne Ave. Studio, 1 BR & 2 BR newly rehab, 267.767.6959, Lic# 507568 5321 Wayne Ave Efficiency $550 1 mo. + sec, avail now (215)776-6277 Chelten Ave 621-23 E, 1 BR $485-$515+ utils, hrdwd flrs, lg BR’s w/ walk in closets, transportation at door,215-849-6205 Germantown 2 BR $650 close to Lasalle Univ., newly renovated with room rental options, 215-206-2863 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

DOMINO LN 1 & 2 BR $745-$875 Renov, prkng, DW, near shopping & dining, mve-in special, 1st mo free. 215-966-9371

16xx Ivy Hill Rd. Efficiency $520 Sept rent free, $1560 mvn. 610-636-5804 63xx Ross St. 2 BR $950 w/d, d/w, appls, den, patio, 215-205-8631 79xx Lowber St. 2 BR $775+ utils 2nd floor, d/w, laundry, 215-410-6907 GREENE & HARVEY - FALL 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

14xx 69th Ave. 1BR $550 + utils & 1mo. sec. Call Gene at 215-525-6315 14xx W. 71st Ave 1 BR $625 utilities included, close to transporation and shopping. Call 215-574-2111

17th & Grange 1 lg BR $600 2 sm BR $700,2 lg BR $800 215.473.8049 2xx W. Grange 3br/1.5ba $745+utils 1br/1ba $565+utils beautiful apt, yard, 215-805-6455

61xx Old York Rd. 2br $800+utils newly renovated, (215)549-2546 6251 N. 15th 2Br/1Ba $800+ near trans, 2+1, Sec 8 ok. (267)901-2450 66 St vic - S tudio $560;1BR $775; 2BR $895 ht/wtr/gas inc Sec8 215-768-8243 6751 N 13th 1-2br $495 -$595 new paint & carpet, Call 215-316-7117 6802 N. Bouvier St. 1br $585+utils 1st floor, off street parking 267-625-6189 7050 Broad St. 1BR $600+utils very clean, 2nd floor, Call (267) 333-2593

1507 Foulkrod (2) 1 BR $600 1st & 2nd flr,215.778.0977 267.496.9252 4630 PENN ST. 1BR $525 w/w, close to transp. 267-235-5952

BRISTOL BOROUGH 2BR $950+ 2nd floor, duplex, private entrance. Call after 5pm, 267-338-6866 Morrisville 1br $860 heat/hot water inc 2nd flr, off-st. parking, a/c, no pets, yard, close to Rt 1, I-95, turnpike 215.736.8864

WARMINSTER Lg 1-2-3 BR Sect. 8 OK Great Move-in Specials!! Pets & smoking ok. We work with credit problems. Other unit sizes available. Call for Details: 215-443-9500

COLLINGDALE Efficiency $525 1br $600 heat & water incl., Call Dan 610-789-3765 Drexel Hill Large Efficiency near all transport., heat & water included, day 610-259-2379, eve 215-331-6947 Lansdowne 2 BR $775+utils fresh paint, central air & heat, W/D hookup, car park, storage avl, 610-626-2208 Sharon Hill 1 BR $625 heat incl newly renovated, off st, parking, credit application required, 484-716-0232

Penn Valley 1 BR/1 BA $1100 Tower at Oakhill , includes all utilities & amenities, available immed 610.296.5766

Mt. Laurel 2br/2.5ba Condo $1500+ut garage, LR, DR, a/c, exclusive area, 8 miles from Center City. (609)713-4448

Art Museum Lrg Vict. house, 4 large br, kit w/all appl’s, $463/mo +. 215-321-0395

11xx N 55th St Single rms, $400, rooms w/ bath, $500. Full size bed, dresser, fridge, SSI/SSD/VA & Public assistance ok. W, SW, N. Phila. call 267-707-6129 12th/Erie, furn, fridge, micro, no drugs, $90wk, $270 sec dep (609) 703-4266 22nd & Hunting Park, renov, lrg rm, furn $85-$95 wk 2nd week free 215.960.1600 22nd/Tioga St.; Private entrance, use of kitchen, w/w, freshly painted. $440/mo. $490 move in. 267-997-5212 33xx 22nd St. 2nd floor, shared bath, private kitchen, $400/mo. 267.258.8478 34th & Baring: room with DirecTV Use of kitchen, 215-620-3846

FRANKFORD, Near El: furnished rooms $75/wk , 1 week security & 1 week rent. no drugs, no pets. Call 267-981-4472 Frankford, room in apt, furn, no drugs, near El, $85/wk+ $300 sec. 215-526-1455 GERMANTOWN: 113 West Logan rooms available $100-$110 week, fridge and microwave, private entry & bath, newly renovated. Call 215-205-2452 GERMANTOWN $150/wk, 1st flr, furn, private bath & kitchen. 215-783-4736 Germantown Area: NICE, Cozy Rooms Private entry, no drugs (215)548-6083 Germantown Rms, $120/wk utils inc, shared kit/ba, $500 move in 215.849.5861 Hunting Park: Fully Furn Luxury Rms. Free utils/cable, Call 267-331-5382 Kensington, Frankford Ave, private room $325-$375 (prvt kitch) 267-968-7043 LaSalle Univ. Area Renov ROOM FOR RENT, hw flrs, 1.5 Shared ba, full shared kitc, Patio $500mo inc utils 215-850-6618 Logan furnished rooms, shared BA & kitch, drug & alcohol free. 267.226.7651 Logan/Hunting Park, Rooms $75-$125/weekly. Call 215-359-5522 MT. AIRY (Best Area) $135/week. SSI ok, 215-730-8956 Mt. Airy room, private entry & bath, nice area, $450/mo. 215-224-8496 NE PHILADELPHIA kitchen & utils incld, $125/wk.+ $125 deposit. 215-501-0771 NE Philadelphia - room for rent, $450/mo, 215-743-1609 Nicetown: Furn. room, SSI & retired welcome, $400/mo. avail 9/14 215-833-5858 N. PHILADELPHIA Includes gas, elec, W/D, crpt, $325-$450/mo 267-342-1226 N Phila Furn, Priv Ent $75 & up . near transp, no drugs or alcohol 215-763-5565 N. PHILA: room for rent, $375/mo. priv. ent. share kitchen/ba. 215-287-2424 N. Phila: W. Venango St. - Large Rm for rent $500/month, (347)902-0656 Richmond room, use of kitch, nr transp. Seniors welcome/SSI ok 215-634-1139 SW: $100-$125/wk. clean, near transp., use of kitchen. 215-941-3904 SW Phila: large room in private house, free parking, no pets, security, references, $170/wk, private bath, 215-724-4567 SW Phila - Newly renov, close to trans. $100/wk 1st wk FREE, 267-628-7454

Temple area, lg furn, shared kit/ba, cable, priv ent $100-$130/wk. 215.852.3915

1918 S. Front St. 3BR/2BA $1,500 610-497-2700,pets welcome, full listing www.rpmtristatearea.com

2055 Mercy St 3 BR/1 BA $775+utils renovated row house, yard, 856.803.6369

68xx N Bouvier St. 3br/1ba $950 newly remodeled, clean, (609)417-6907 86xx Thouron 3BR $1050 corner prop,grt loc,avail now610.710.1986 Stenton & Ogontz vic 3br $700+utils renov., bsmt, back yard (267)231-2256

20xx Simpson 3 BR $725/mo renov, hdwd flr, Sec. 8 ok, 215-424-2785 69xx Lindbergh lrg 3Br $975+utils newly renov., premiere street in SW Phila. "The Landlord That Cares" Tasha 267.584.5964, Mark 610.764.9739

32xx Keim 2BR $700+ 18xx E. Wensley 2BR $700+ Section 8 welcome. Call 267-348-9990 35xx Braddock St, 19134 PHA SEC 8 OK 2 br, 1 ba, 1 blk from public transp, front porch, back yard, washer, dryer, refrig. $700/month, plus util. 215-946-6000

15xx Redfield St. 2BR $750 water incl 1st/last/security, no pets. (215)260-6511 38xx W. Girard Ave 5 BR/2 BA $1000 rear deck, $3000 move in, 215-365-4567 50xx Haverford Ave 3 BR/1.5 BA $825+ 2 mo. sec. & utils, 6 rooms, 215-747-2528 6xx N. 42nd St. 3 BR back yard, Section 8 ok, 215-356-2434

3xx N 64th St 3 BR $1000 $3000 mve in,1 & 2 BR avl, 267.972.9693 910 Kenmore Rd. 3Br $1,200+utils beautiful hdwd flrs throughout, garage, new kitchen, back deck w/ grill & patio furniture incl., avail. immed 610-896-5152

17xx Marston St. 3 BR newly reno,washer,Sec 8 ok,215.247.0500 23xx Cleveland St 3BR $750+utils Newly renovated, Section 8 approved, Available immediately, (215)680-2538

26xx N. 24th St. 3br/1ba $700+utils newly renovated, (215)669-0843 28xx Ringgold 3br $725+utils renov, w/w crpt, Sec 8 OK (215)424-2785 Strawberry Mansion 2 BR house $650 Also, 1 BR apt 2nd floor $625 1st/last & 1 mo. security. 215-253-0020

Broad & Diamond 2 BR $750+ newly renovated, Sec. 8 ok,215-463-6366

51xx 10th St. 2 BR $625+ utils modern, w/w carpet, 215-228-5555

53XX DARRAH ST. 3BR/1BA $750 spacious, nice blk, sec 8 ok 856.237.3244

4xx Miller 2br $785 quiet street, avail 10/1. 610-710-1986

40xx Howland St. 3 BR/1 BA $875+utils 2 mo sec, contact Mr Tan, 267-287-3175 480X N.Howard St. 2BR/1BA $695 Must see!! 484-716-4639. Well kept. New roof, ktch cabinets, windows. Near transp. 60xx Lawndale St. 3br $900 avail 10/1, grt loc, wont last 610.710.1986 Castor Gardens Big 3BR/1.5BA $900+ garage, basement, no pets, 215-750-3612 MAYFAIR 3br/2.5ba $1200+utils full-walk out bsmt, w/d, close to shops & trans, no smkg/pets 215.947.2805 til 8pm Oxford Circle 3 BR/2 BA $975 no pets, Section 8 ok, 215-757-4260 Oxford Circle 3 BR $895+utils 2BR apt $595+, renovated 609-226-0623

ANDALUSIA 3br/2ba $2650/mo Unique opportunity to live on 100 acre historic estate, late 19th century ranch sytle bungalow, short commute to Phila & NY. Please Call (215)639-2078 ANDALUSIA 4 br/2.5 ba $2500/mo Delaware Riverfront, Unique opportunity to live on 100 acre historic estate, late 19th century reconverted stable, short commute to Phila. & NY. (215)639-2078 Bristol PA 2nd Ave. Levittown PA Harvest Rd. Serious Tenant Buyers. Good Bad & Ugly Credit. Rent to own 215-995-2212

COLLINGDALE 3 BR/1 BA $800+ utils $1200 security, avl now, 610-353-6705 Upper Darby 3 BR/1.5 BA finished basement, nice loc, 610-517-1273

4415 N. Orianna St. 3 BR/1.5 BA $750+ remod, w/d,fridge, Sec 8 ok 215.499.2364

20xx Rowan 3 BR newly renovated, w/w, modern kitchen & bath, Section 8 accepted, 215-474-7678

37xx Cresson St. 2br $925 rear deck, hwd flr, avail 10/1 610.710.1986

Plymouth Hill Condos 2 BR/2 BA $1700 inclusive, 666 W. Germantown Pike. 2 balconies, pool, rec. room, 215-696-5832

Camden 22xx Baird Blvd 3br 1.5ba $1200 garage, renov, sec 8 ok. (609)868-3023 Cherry Hill: Garden State Dr. 3br $3000 furn., family rm & dance rm 609.868.3023

DODGE 2003 Luxury Hightop Ram 7 passenger conversion van, few original mi, perhaps the finest avail., Sr. Citizen, must sacrifice TODAY $6985. (215)922-2165

Explorer XLT 4x4 2009 $18,500 30k, tints, custom stereo (610)458-0179

Grand Marquis Broughm 2004, 4 door with formal roof, custom wheels, few original miles, special car for particular buyer $7985, Call Mary, 215-922-5342

G6 GT Coupe 2006 $7,900/obo tint, lthr, great cond, 70K. 267-632-4238

CARGOTRAILER: 2002 Pace Cargosport 8x18ft, VG cond. $3800. (609)314-8002

$300 & Up For Junk Cars Call 215-722-2111

JUNK CARS & TRUCKS

$200 Cash & Up (267)241-3041

Junk Cars & Trucks Wanted, $400, Call 856-365-2021

JUNK CARS WANTED 24/7 REMOVAL. Call 267-377-3088

FORD 2003 Windstar, luxury sliding doors, few original miles, garage kept, quick private sale, $6950, 215-922-2165

low cost cars & trucks CADILLAC El Dorado 1981 $3995 Ltd Edt, 44k orig, orig ownr, 610.578.4130 Chevy Blazer LS 4x4 1998 $4999 new insp/tire,lo mi,gorgeous215.601.6665 CHEVY Caprice Classic 1992 $1950 4 dr, auto, 123k, new insp, 215-620-9383 Ford Bronco XLT 4WD 1994 $1550 all powers, CD, runs excel, 215-620-9383 Ford Escort 1999 $1850 4 door, cold a/c, auto 609-221-7427 FORD MUSTANG GT 1992 $4999 obo Cobra setup & mods, 5 spd, 267.288.3719 FORD Taurus SES 2002 $2475 lthr, 3rd seat, CD, alarm, 267-592-0448 FORD WINDSTAR LX 2002 $4290 70k original mi, xx clean, 215-432-4580 GMC Jimmy SLS 1996 $1650 2 door, 4x4, loaded, cln, 215-947-9840 Honda Accord EX 1995 $2200/obo 125K mi, green, tan interior 267.970.2623 HYUNDAI Accent GT 1997 $1650 auto, a/c,4 cyl,34mpg, 70k 215-620-9383 Jaguar Sovereign 1991 $2200/OBO 4dr, fair cond., green ext. 267-292-2717 LINCOLN LS 2004 $4475 V6, blue, lthr,mnrf, 17" 267-592-0448 Mercury Grand Marquis GS 2001 $3995 90K, loaded, gorgeous. (610)524-8835 Mitsubish Galante DE 1997 $1450 4 door, auto, loaded, clean. 215-280-4825 MITSUBISHI Galant 2002 $2200/obo loaded, runs great, clean 267-441-4612 MITSUBISHI Spyder 2001 $4300 runs exc, 5 speed, lthr inter, 267.679.2599 Olds Alero/Grand AM 2000 asking $1,650 2 door, V6, loaded, clean, 215-518-8808 OLDS Cutlass Sierra SL 1995 $1350 4 dr, all pwrs, new motor, 215-620-9383 Plymouth Breeze 1998 $1590 4 cyl, auto, air, insp, 267-602-4091 PLYMOUTH GRAND VOYAGER $2,100 106K, excel. cond. Call 267-456-2808 Toyota Camry LE 2001 $4500 180k, AT, PW. Call 860-796-8833

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4840 Oxford Ave Studio, 1br & 2br apts Ldry,24/7 cam lic# 214340 267.767.6959

Mayfair 4318 Princeton 1 BR $540+util credit check, parking, 215-498-1807 Oxford Circle 2 BR/1 BA $650+ utils 1st floor duplex, no pets, 215-343-7490 Philmont 2BR duplex, 2nd flr $820+ C/A, bsmnt, yard, garage, (215)752-1091

55th/Thompson furn $115/$135 wk frig micro priv ent $200 sec. 215-572-8833 58xx Chestnut St., furnished room, use of kitchen, $70-$85/wk, 267-432-6615 60th & Chester Ave. $125/week Newly renov., very clean, 267.456.2808 60XX Delancey St, $110/wk, Furnished. Call 610-587-3245 6xx Sickles St. - room for rent, use of kit & liv. rm, cable, $450/mo, 215-878-7928 BROAD AND ROOSEVELT VIC . 1ST MONTH FREE! ONLY SECURITY DEP Fully furnished rooms avail for rent start ing at $530 includes all utilities with ca ble. Rooms sized for one person. Employ ment /criminal check a must. For info: www.safehavenhomesllc.net or Call 267-235-6555 Broad & Hunting Park - $110/week, clean, near transportation. 215-206-3832 Broad & Hunting Park, lg furn room, newly renov, must see, $100/wk, 215-552-5200 Broad & Olney deluxe furn rms priv ent. $110 & $145/wk Sec $200. 215-572-8833 DREXEL HILL - $500/mo, share kitchen & bath in single home, 610-842-6909 Frankford area rm $85 to $105/wk. clean, no drugs Sec dep req 215-432-5637

67xx N Broad St. 5 BR/2.5 BA $1500+ utils, Section 8 ok, 215-224-6566

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Rex & Crefield 2 Br $2900 Furnished or $2500 Unfurnished , all utils incl. Architecturally dramatic bi-lvl, palladian window, 2500 sq. ft., hdwd flrs, 2 car parking, (215)869-8015

10xx Fanshawe St. 2br/1ba $700+dep liv & din room, kitchen, 215-327-6743 1613 Dyre St 1 BR $500+elec 2nd flr,nr trans,mve in cond 215-637-1786 301 W Byberry 2br/2 full ba condo $998 open flr plan, patio w/storage, lg bkyd, w/d, d/w,pool,tennis court, 973.876.9645 4647 Adams Ave Studio, 1br & 2br apts Newly renov. 267-767-6959 lic#433314 Academy & Grant 2BR $760+ 2nd flr,w/w, c/a,off st prkg 856.346.0747 Academy Rd. 1 BR $800 private w/d, d/w, close to I-95 & train. Security + reference check. 267-716-5733 Castor Gardens 1BR & 2Br Apts starting $650. Call (215)342-2140 Mon-Fri

4xx E Walnut Ln, nice lrg rms w/wood floors, $100/wk & up (267)912-9644

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2003 luxury PT Cruiser Limited- 4 door with simulated wood paneling, few original miles, still as new, garage kept, quick private sale, $6950 215-629-0630

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4xx W Penn St. 1br $600+utils renov, $1800move in 215.322.2375, 9a-9p

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

2539 W. Nicholas St. 2BR/1BA 610-742-2804

50 Montana St. 3BR $1050+utils Newly renov., close to schools, transp., & shops, sec. 8 ok. Must See! 215.849.3758 W. Duval St. 6 BR/2 BA $1500+utils Section 8 ok, 215-224-6566

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