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At press time, Occupy Philly has cost the city $164,000 in police overtime. “This is also what democracy looks like,” says cop, checking his account balance.

[ + 3 ] PECO says its prices will likely drop soon.

Along with the quality of the electricity, no doubt.

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Ryan Howard tears his Achilles tendon as he grounds out to end the Phillies playoff hopes. “It’s like a, uh, similac for dere whole season,” observes first-time/longtime Roy from Roxborough. “Or maybe it’s more of a microplasm?”

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Casey Anthony wears a Phillies cap in a videotaped deposition. “Such actions are not without consequences,” rasps Cygnus, the mighty God of Balance in the universe.

“That is why I required a tendon.”

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Republican Frank Rizzo Jr. is stripped of his job as minority whip in City Council. “I expected this from Brian O’Neill. He’s the most petty guy I ever met,” Rizzo says. “And I know Vince Fumo.”

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Mayor Michael Nutter appoints novelist Lorene Cary to the School Reform Commission. “My first duty is to determine the exact price of a child,” says Cary. “I’m thinking, like, eight grand.”

Suburban police report a rise in thieves stealing air conditioners for their copper tubing.

You guys know about pennies?

[ + 1 ] Flyers fans spend four hours tearing apart a

giant ice statue in search of tickets hidden inside. “Maybe I shouldn’t have done that right before the game on Sunday. I’m just really Flyered up,” says Michael Vick. “I still can’t believe we got Jagr. So weird.”

[ + 1 ] SEPTA will soon choose a company to insti-

tute a “smart card” system. All you have to do is stick it down your pants and it can tell what gender you are.

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The city reduces the number of traffic lanes on JFK Boulevard and Market Street to test out dedicated bike lanes. “Alas, this was the act that brought about the end of all human life,” say the future ghosts floating above the charred, pockmarked remains of the planet. “If only we’d listened to the warnings of the prophet Stu Bykofsky.”

This week’s total: -11 | Last week’s total: -8

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OPPOSITES ATTRACT The mayor and Occupy Philly say let’s just be friends. (For now.) By Isaiah Thompson

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ast Thursday, more than 100 Occupy Philly demonstrators gathered on Dilworth Plaza outside City Hall for a “general assembly,” a meeting to which all are invited and in which all may vote. The decision on the table was whether to meet the city’s only demand: that the group apply for a permit.

Standing inconspicuously among the dreadlocked twentysomethings, young families, union members and students — there to argue that government is acting in the interest of the wealthiest few at the cost of the struggling many — was Mark McDonald, press secretary and general spokesman for Mayor Michael Nutter. He didn’t exactly look like an official stand-in for “The Man,” and displayed none of the stiffness you might expect from a bureaucratic lamb among wolves. Later, curious about the details of the meeting, he hesitated briefly in front of the poster-strewn Occupy Philly information table. “I guess they won’t bite my head off,” he opined to City Paper before marching up to it.

It was a moment that captured the unique tenor of Occupy Philly, so far a gentle contrast to the demonstration’s counterparts elsewhere. At Occupy Wall Street, members were pepper-sprayed and arrested en masse by New York Police with the unapologetic assent of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. And Tuesday saw the arrests of protesters in Boston and Washington, D.C. Occupy Philly,

on the other hand, has seen no arrests, no confrontations and, so far, no opposition from the city.

It’s not clear how long the good vibes will last. For one thing, some but not all of the protesters still intend to engage in less peaceable direct actions that might get them arrested. For another, while the city has allowed the protesters to set up camp on Dilworth Plaza, the entire facility is scheduled to be closed for renovations by lessee Center City District as soon as early or mid-November.

“The Occupy Philly leaders were informed of this from the get-go,” McDonald said. “They know the deal. They will not be allowed to stay.”

In the meantime, without an ostensible enemy to rally against, the main conundrum facing the protesters — and the city, for that matter — is figuring out how, exactly, they want to proceed.

To that end, the group has been holding two general assembly meetings a day, every day, prompting the Inquirer to joke that “one thing the Occupy protesters have in common with the corporate America they despise is the penchant for meetings.” Occupy Philly meetings are long, tedious and sometimes maddeningly repetitive — but also profoundly democratic — affairs, in which one of the highest concentrations of opinionated people you’re likely to find have come, night after night, after hours of fierce debate, to something close to consensus. Each proposal is introduced by a working group and opened to clarifying questions, then concerns, then amendments, then a nonbinding straw poll, then finally a vote (passage requires not total consensus but an

“They know they will not be allowed to stay.”

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✚ SICK AND TIRED Last Sunday afternoon was cloudless across Philadelphia — except, that is, in Fishtown, where black smoke hung over a tire-strewn lot on Beach Street, near the Delaware River. It was the third fire in about five weeks on the overgrown property, which has become a dumping ground for more than 5,000 old tires.

“The site has been a nightmare for us to deal with,” admits Floyd Pennal, security manager at Glasgow Inc., the Glenside construction company that owns the property.

Firefighters spent two hours Sunday afternoon quenching the latest blaze, and the state Department of Environmental Protection and Philadelphia’s Department of Licenses & Inspection are investigating the case. Pennal says that Glasgow — which plans to clean up and re-secure the site — has also received notification of a police investigation.

But tire dumping remains rampant in the Lower Northeast.

Port Richmond old-timers still remember back to 1996, when another tire heap under I-95 caught fire, closing the interstate for a week. “It’s a major problem in our neighborhood, the dumping of tires, especially along the viaduct and under I-95,” says Sandy Salzman, executive director of the New Kensington Community Development Corp. The group’s volunteers first discovered the tire cache during a roundup this summer, when they also collected 1,600 tires from other dumping sites around the neighborhood. (The city pays them 50 cents per tire — and local organizations can count on picking up enough tires for the annual cleanups to be significant fundraisers.) “We need to figure out a better way to recycle tires so that they can be used for other

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✚ WIDE OF THE MARK Two recent gun-related pieces by this author (A Million Stories, “Loaded Questions,” and Man Overboard!, “Gun Occupied,” Sept.

22) contained, as many readers kindly pointed out, several errors.

In referring to the case of a man reclaiming from police possession an AK-47, which had been stolen from his car, I wrote that the gun “was registered” to him; as Pennsylvania has no gun registry, I should have said he had legal ownership of the weapon.

I wrote that “AK-47s and Glocks are just as legal in this state as small handguns,” when, in fact, the Glock is a small semi-automatic handgun. And I referred to laws that “treat a pistol and submachine gun alike” — using the latter phrase with more poetry than accuracy: submachine guns, which are fully automatic, have stricter federal requirements. The point of the stories — that the wide accessibility of dangerously powerful semi-automatic weapons might not be worth the risk it poses to the public — was not helped by these factual errors.

—Isaiah Thompson

RAY KRONE ³ IN 1992, RAY KRONE of York, Pa., was sentenced to death for the first-degree mur-

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der and kidnapping of a waitress at a Phoenix, Ariz., bar where he was a regular. In 2002, after 10 years in prison, he was exonerated through DNA testing. At the time, Krone was the 100th person to be exonerated from death row since 1973.

City Paper: Can you describe life on death row?

Ray Krone: Well, you can start by talking about the higher level of isolation; most

people don’t like being kept away from other people. You’re fed through a slot. You’re living like an animal in a cage. You’re really lucky if you have a window. I spent three years without sunlight on my skin. The other side is that you’re going to be executed in the name of justice. Knowing that that’s your fate day in and day out, there are not words possible to explain that torture.

CP: The same government-funded prisoner re-entry programs available to parol-

Director of communications and training at Witness to Innocence; death penalty opponent

ees are not always offered to exonerated prisoners. What services did you wish were available to you?

RK: Because there are such poor medical health programs in prisons, there needs to be immediate medical evaluation after release, both physical and mental. Think about the mental trauma you go through when you’re submitted to that type of torture — all those things need to be addressed early. I was lucky I had family to come back to. I had a leg up, so to speak, to get established again. Many don’t. >>> continued on page 9

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KING, SIZED UP Our cover story about Paul Levy, president and CEO of the Center City District [“The King of Center City,” Isaiah Thompson, Oct. 6, 2011], received numerous responses at citypaper.net. Commenter mr5hole wrote: “The real story here is why we need a CCD in the first place! Business owners already pay BPT, NPT and U&O taxes. Any wonder why the CCD is viewed by business owners as just another shakedown? The significance of the work performed by the CCD really came to light when Center City was overrun with flash mobs (multiple). At least the streets were clean — or were they?”

A commenter going by economics added: “Paul Levy: the king of stealing normal Philadelphians’ taxes and giving them out to his friends via public projects. … Paul Levy is the transplant’s friend, robbing the rest of the city to help himself under the guise of ‘helping us all’ via some bull that assisting a bunch of NYC carpetbaggers is helping the rest of the city that rots further every day.”

But cityman1985 responded: “You really think NYC folks are flocking to Philadelphia for our public parks? It is more that smart Philadelphians are graduating each year and immediately moving out of our city to NYC. Let’s make this city great by building amenities, keeping the streets clean and minimizing urban blight. … You can keep on hating while Paul continues making the city better.”

SWING STATE Regarding the story about the unpaid $50,000 that Westrum Development Co. pledged to an East Falls playground [“No Pay to Play,” Theresa Everline, Sept. 29], bobcitydoc joked, “Seems if the mayor can work the phones for a few days to raise close to half a million dollars to fire someone, he should be able to come up with 50K for a playground with a mere text.”

Meanwhile, bleudogman observed:“I understand the point of this article and East Falls Community Council’s frustration (which I’d prefer to see as disappointment). However, I don’t think community groups ought to support a developer in front of the zoning board because they were going to get money out of it for their project. ‘They’ve gotten nothing but our support.’ This isn’t supposed to be for sale. I’m just sayin’.”

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things inexpensively, because the cost to the neighborhood is extraordinary,” she adds.

East Kensington resident Christopher Sawyer has been organizing neighbors to file complaints with the city as well as the Environmental Protection Agency, arguing the site is a fire and health hazard, given the proliferation of mosquitoes. In the meantime, he says, the tire lot remains Fishtown’s own trash Taj Mahal.

“If you wander in there you discover, ‘Holy crap, it’s a lot worse than it looks like from the street,’” he says. “It really is impressive.”

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overwhelming super-majority of raised hands). It’s grueling, but it’s democracy at its rawest.

Even the simplest of issues — like the permitting question — are subjected to this test. And the decision to apply for a permit turned out not to be a simple one. Some questioned why a permit was needed at all. “We have a constitutional right to be here!” was a common refrain. “I worry what this will mean for our brothers and sisters occupying other cities, who do not have a permit,” shouted someone, each phrase repeated in chant by the crowd in a collective “people’s mic” for easier hearing (it works).

There was no question that a city permit would solve various logistic difficulties: With it, the city would provide an electrical hookup (the group had so far been powered by a few car batteries); it would assuage those who wanted to remain but didn’t want to go to jail; and it would prevent other groups (like, as was rumored, Tea Partiers) from nabbing the space out from under them.

But it carried a symbolic weight. It was, for better or worse, a concession to the city — and that alone, some members of the group argued, made it worth refusing.

The vote would take two days, eventually ending in a nearunanimous decision to apply for a city permit. Other cities have since made similarly welcoming gestures to local occupations; in New York, Bloomberg has notably reversed his initial vocal opposition to Occupy Wall Street, suddenly inviting the protesters to stay as long as the weather allows.

For his part, Nutter seems to have deployed a brilliant, radical strategy: listening.

During the epic, hours-long permit debate, McDonald — the eyes and ears, after all, of the elected CEO of the city of Philadelphia — actually seemed to be enjoying himself. Asked about the progress of negotiations at one point, he simply shrugged. “They have to decide it themselves; we respect that,” he said, and went back to watching. (isaiah.thompson@citypaper.net)

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“We’ve lost 10, 15, sometimes 20 years of our lives.”

CP: Do you feel you’ve seen progress?

RK: There are commissions studying wrongful con-

victions now in states. And when the public media catches wind of this, they often arise and say, “You

—Francesca Crozier-Fitzgerald

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CP: What has your experience taught you about the U.S. legal system?

RK: It was just one of those things that I never thought about because I didn’t think it would ever affect me. I didn’t think about justice. Our legal system is not about truth and fairness but about the certain individuals, state representatives, prosecutors, who are concerned instead with promoting their career. I don’t hate the system, I want the system to fix itself. You would think it should be a moral issue, but it’s a political issue. Prosecutors don’t want to be weak or soft.

For example, it was really shocking and disappointing when I realized that prosecutors will lie and others will raise their right hand and not tell the truth. I realized, you’re better off having done something and knowing how to defend yourself than being innocent and trusting that your innocence will save you. That is when you’re most vulnerable.

need to do something about this.”

It definitely takes the civilian population to bring that out, and the media has to be fair in their reporting. Once the public is roused, maybe state representatives won’t care so much about their re-election.

I have faith — and history. It’s shown: There used to be slavery, and there was even a war about that, but things do change and we look back and say, “What the hell were we thinking?” but it did change. You can only bang your head against the wall so much, you know?

We all have our anger — we’ve lost 10, 15, sometimes 20 years of our lives — but to find something positive in public awareness is encouraging. Sometimes it’s small stuff, but it’s still forward movement. With new exonerations happening — if not weekly, monthly — it’s not going to go away. We’re still here.

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NOTHIN’ BUT NET Two Temple law students launch a site that brings together the legal and sports worlds.

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here’s a reason why a highly publicized trial or a nail-biter of a sports game captures the imagination: It has something to do with the dramatic arc, the definitive conclusion, the promise of clear winners and losers. Take our inability to look away from the Phillies’ season-ending slide or, say, the Casey Anthony trial.

Now two recovering journalists enrolled in the Beasley School of Law at Temple University are bringing the two worlds together.

Steve Silver and Ben McKenna have married their longtime passion for sports with their newfound interest in law to launch TheLegalBlitz.com.

Since debuting the sports-law site and blog in June, there’s been a bounty of material: major recurring topics like lockouts and recruiting scandals, as well as smaller curiosities. For example, after the Flyers’ Wayne Simmonds recently made an alleged homophobic slur, he didn’t get fined — but the incident contributed to a trendy sportslaw conversation: Do professional athletes have First Amendment rights? As it turns out, based on signed contracts, they don’t.

“You may be prominent,” says Silver, “but you can’t say whatever you want.” For TheLegalBlitz.com, Silver posted a Q&A with Eric P. Robinson, a First Amendment expert at University of NevadaReno, who explained how sports teams are private employers with the right to chastise employees for offensive speech. “In the NFL, [Commissioner] Roger Goodell is the boss,” Silver says. “It’s a private league, and you don’t have to play in that league.”

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Nonetheless, McKenna smirks when pointing out the obvious: “There’s a whole population of players who will say the first stupid thing that comes into their mind.”

When Silver first suggested the idea for the site, McKenna thought, “‘What will the blog be about — every footballer who gets a DUI?’ We’ve learned that the possibilities are endless.” Other topics the site tackles include antitrust cases, labor negotiations and congressional testimony. “It’s the nature of what sports has become,” Silver says.

“America loves litigation, and now it affects sports on a daily basis.”

A recent two-part video series with Temple Law professor David Post centers on a class-action suit filed by former NCAA players, who want to reclaim rights to their likenesses as used in video games and promotions. “We try really hard not to tap Temple professors, but there are times when we have the perfect person,” Silver says.

There are other sports-law blogs, but they’re mostly the domain of individual professors or are otherwise university-affiliated, or

they’re one sports agent’s opinions. Uniquely, TheLegalBlitz.com remains objective and enlists authorities to clarify legal points. The people they interview, notes Silver, “are the experts, and what they say matters.”

Their journalism training — Silver was a sports writer and broadcaster, while McKenna was a morning-show producer — has informed their approach. “We’re not typical of a blog or bloggers,” Silver says. “Most want to type and scream.” Plus, Silver says, picking the brains of experts supplements class material. “And let’s face it, no partner in a law firm is going to aggressively call back any law student,” he says. “With this, I have a legitimate reason to bother them.”

The two connected at Temple’s orientation: “If you have a journalism background, the first thing you talk about is layoffs,” McKenna says. “If you’re a guy, the first thing you talk about is sports.” Now TheLegalBlitz.com is nearing its 10,000th hit, and Silver and McKenna are recruiting other law students to help beef up content.

What if the two ever found themselves in a legal dispute? McKenna jests: “If he wants to sue me for the site, he can have it.” (editorial@citypaper.net)

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I first met Jimmy Amadie in November 2007 when I interviewed him for DownBeat magazine. I had heard about his remarkable story, but things changed when I had the opportunity to hear Amadie himself

tell it. This gregarious, gentle-seeming septuagenarian still has the temper and spirit of a North Philly scrapper. He’ll embrace you like his oldest and dearest friend when you walk in the door, and just as soon throw a chokehold around your neck to demonstrate that while his hands may be sore, he’s anything but weak.

I’ve had a few opportunities to write about Amadie since then, including penning the liner notes to his 2010 CD Kindred Spirits, which featured jazz greats Lee Konitz, Joe Lovano and Lew Tabackin guesting with Amadie’s usual recording trio of drummer Bill Goodwin and either Steve Gilmore and Tony Merino on bass. But after our first meeting, I knew I wanted to capture this unique character on screen and began working sporadically on a

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boxer, as well as a baseball and football player. To this day, he repeatedly wishes that his lung cancer, diagnosed four years ago, would take human form and fight him like a man. “I’ll kill the motherfucker” is a virtual mantra for Amadie, one that it would be foolish to doubt.

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TENDONITIS ALL BUT DECIMATED HIS CAREER. CANCER RAVAGED HIS HEALTH. BUT LEGENDARY PIANIST JIMMY AMADIE ISN’T DONE YET.

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Amadie tells his story this way: Fifty years ago, God introduced him to Benny Golson, Phil Woods, Lee Konitz, Randy Brecker — all of the greats he’s since recorded with. “I got a big smile on my face,” he continues. “And God says, ‘What are you smiling at, Amadie?’ I said, ‘Well, I’m going to be able to play with all these great players.’ And He says, ‘No. All people aren’t created equal. I made them special. I didn’t make you one of those.’ I said, ‘What do you mean, God?’ He said, ‘They can communicate and play with each other through their whole lives. But you can’t contact them for 50 years.’ I said, ‘Why 50 years?’ And God said, ‘Because it’s going to take you that long to catch up.’”

One night in 1967, Amadie sat at the piano bench for the Billy Duke Big Band at Henry’s in Cherry Hill, N.J. “There were some great players in that band,” he recalls.

“We had guys in our band from the Woody Herman band, Count Basie’s band, guys who played with Benny Goodman. It was fabulous. And that was the last time I played. I played a B flat minor 7 chord and both index fingers collapsed at the same time. That was it.”

Amadie attributes his condition to his excessive practice routine, which often saw him glued to the piano for upward of 10 hours at a time. When injuries put an end to his youthful athletic endeavors (caused, again, by his penchant for overdoing things), he took to the piano with the same rigor and zeal.

“I’m just an average talent,” he shrugs. “No question about it. None. But I did something about it. I practiced. I blew my chops because nobody can practice 10, 12, 15 hours. But if I would have done less, I never would have learned. If that was the price of learning, it was worth it. I’d rather fight the champ and lose.”

At first it seemed the daunting schedule was paying off. Amadie found himself playing alongside bebop trumpet legend Red Rodney and saxophonist/bandleader Charlie Ventura, accompanying Mel Tormé and joining the ranks of Woody Herman’s famous Herd. But that night at Henry’s was the musical equivalent of a head-on collision with a brick wall.

Over the next 30 years, Amadie underwent several surgeries as well as regular cortisone injections in both hands. He also continued practicing, for hours per day — but only in his head, not at the keyboard. “How do you learn when you can’t practice? I play in my head. When you’re young and you need an answer, you go to somebody else.

When I need to learn something, I go to myself.”

He also turned to teaching, writing two books on his methods (Jazz Improv: How To Play It and Teach It! and Harmonic Foundation for Jazz & Popular Music) that are still in use today. Students who have passed through his house include guitar great Kurt Rosenwinkel, pianist/producer John di Martino and Danny Miller, executive producer for NPR’s Fresh Air. It was Miller who encouraged Amadie to begin recording in the mid-’90s, when he had reached a point where he could play for up to five minutes at a time. “They operated on my hands seven or eight times, and they helped me to heal,” Amadie says. “So I’m 60 years old and I realize that if I died today, nobody would know who I am. That’s when I started to record.”

The 13 songs on Amadie’s solo debut CD, Always With Me, were recorded at 16-week intervals, giving his hands the months in between each track to heal. After a second solo release, he felt the urge to collaborate and set his mind to recording a trio album.

But he did it the hard way, performing his parts the same way as he had his solo sessions, then handing the tapes to his rhythm section to match.

“It sounded like a challenge,” drummer Bill Goodwin told me in 2007. “Those become fewer and more far between as you get older. It was hard to do, but Jimmy’s such a

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The main lesson I learned from those experiences is to never doubt Amadie’s indomitable will. I’ve seen him in pain and in poor health (not that he’d ever admit to that), but wholly able to ignore his own suffering and make wonderful music. I have no doubt the same will be true of Friday’s performance. “I’m gonna see the devil that night,” Amadie says. “But I assure you that I’m not giving up anything. I’m going to try to make as much music as possible.”

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The Philadelphia-based Rock School for Dance Education, is seeking a Comptroller. The Comptroller is responsible for all financial activities for the organization; monitoring, reporting, forecasting and managing the finance department staff. The Comptroller, with the school’s accountant and independent audit firm, is responsible for the organization’s compliance with GAAP. The Comptroller will also be the primary interface with the Board on financial matters.

A qualified candidate has a CPA or Master’s degree in accounting, or related field, and a minimum of 8 years of relevant financial experience, preferably non-profit. The candidate must have strong analytical and communication skills.

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³ BEFORE YOU FORGET how bad you felt last

weekend, allow me to remind you. But with a solution. See, when the Phillies won the pennant a few years back, they were ragtag nobodies. Nobodies make great worker bees. They try harder. Flash forward a minute and the World Series victors were Philadelphia celebrities (who isn’t at this point?) who made their own charity balls, threw their own cheesy nightclub parties and appeared in Entourage during its lamest season. Now I like fun as much as the next guy. I stake my life upon the rock of fun. But these players lost their concentration, their hunger, their guts. It’s time to get back to the game, gentlemen, and not the games. Carry on. ³ Bring your home movies to PhillyCAM’s 699 Ranstead St. offices on Oct. 15 before 2 p.m. so that the Philadelphia Film Archivists Collective can screen them there that afternoon as part of Home Movie Day.³Tchotchke of the week: Screw the Broadcast Beer. David Dye’s 20th anniversary of World Café at WXPN has a limited-edition collector’s-grade vinyl double LP featuring 20 memorable moments, with cool cover art designed by painter/art pop songwriter Joseph Arthur. The LP is immediately available to those who pledge to become a WXPN member.

It’ll hit select retailers later. ³ Heather Coutts,aka Anastasia Beaverhausen, celebrates five years of being the queen of the Liberty City Kings Drag and Burlesque with an anniversary bash/2012 calendar release Oct. 15 at William Way (13th and Spruce). Wear a costume, get in cheaper. ³ What we learned from the Running of the Punxweekend other than that South Street’s Tattooed Mom’s is still a hole — I mean that kindly, too — is that Palmyra DelRan of The Friggs and Dave Goerk of Bunnydrums are rumored to be the big new couple where the Class of ’79 is concerned. Aw. ³ Last week, Icepack dropped news that go-go-centric whiskey bar Trestle Inn on 11th Street was having soft openings this week while waiting on its liquor license. Now, we got the word that they’ll open grandly with a pre-Halloween bash Oct. 29. Boo. ³ Flying Kite reported that MilkBoy Recording signed a letter of intent to take over Larry Gold’s The Studio on North Seventh Street. Good. Wait.

Didn’t engineer Solomon Silber sign one last year?

Maybe he’ll be part of the MilkBoy deal if it definitely happens. Plus I’m hearing that MilkBoy is sniffing around Stephen Starr’s Frankford Hall stage near Johnny Brenda’s. Maybe they just like the giant pretzels. ³ Anyone looking to taste a gander at new chef Aaron Bellizzi’s menu at the garden greens of M Restaurant should hit Philly Mag’s Luxury series dinner at Morris House on Oct. 18.

Yummy. ³ As always, Icepack gets Illustrated at citypaper.net/criticalmass. (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)

TRANSPORTOPIA: 30th Street Station gets boldly reimagined for “Gray Area,” a panel presentation on preservation and forward progression.

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LIVING THE DREAM Design can change more than the look of your living room. By Meg Augustin

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t’s in architecture, furniture — even your toothbrush. Yet conversations about design rarely move beyond aesthetics. This year, DesignPhiladelphia (Oct. 13-23) is about more than just good looks: Design can affect our quality of life, political and social aspirations, our future and our past. “Good design creates an experience,” says festival creator Hilary Jay. “It changes behavior, gives you something you didn’t even know you wanted.”

³ NOT A VACANT LOT Good design requires imagination and innovation, but it also ought to make use of what’s already there. This Marianne Bernstein/ UPenn design collaboration will transform a vacant Center City space into a vibrant social hub, a melting pot of live performances, landscape design and video projections. It’ll also shed light on Philly’s pervasive vacancy problem — an underuse of more than 40,000 empty lots. Oct. 19-23, free, 313 S. Broad St., designphiladelphia.org.

³ BETTERBLOCKSPHILLY If Bernstein’s project turns nothing into something, BetterBlocksPhilly turns something into something greater. Engaging city residents to work with one another to beautify their streets, this series

of temporary exhibits, pedestrian and bicycle paths, streetscapes and community events in Graduate Hospital gives residents and business owners the power of transformation. Oct. 14-23, free, 17th to 18th streets from Christian to Catharine, betterblocksphilly.org.

³ BARBARA HUELAT Imagining hospitals as more than white-walled holding cells for the sick, Barbara Huelat has created dynamic spaces that are pleasant for patients and providers. “Health-care design must focus on our human qualities,” she says. “We are a part of nature, [so] we respond positively to elements of nature.” As part of the DuPont Corian Dialogues on Design series, Huelat will present ideas on color, lighting, music, and design’s relationship to healing.

Organic Insight of Healing Environments, Tue., Oct. 18, 5:30 p.m., free, Marketplace Design Center, 2400 Market St.

“We are a part of nature.”

³ GRAY AREA: PROVOCATIONS FOR THE FUTURE OF PRESERVATION

Even when it moves on a forward trajectory, design must make a connection to the past. Preserving architectural and design heritage is a special concern in a city as historically rich as Philadelphia. This panel presentation will shed light on design preservation as it relates to economic limitations, technological changes and the environment — all of which will influence the way citizens interact with historical spaces and ever-changing cityscapes. Wed., Oct. 19, 5:30 p.m., free, Center for Architecture, 1218 Arch St., grayarea.eventbrite.com. (meg.augustin@citypaper.net)

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Patton Oswalt opens his fifth full-length on dangerous ground — with a bit about being a dad and the glories of sweatpants. The only thing more groan-inducing than dad-rock is fatherhood-comedy, but paternity hasn’t dulled Oswalt’s wit. He blasts through Finest Hour (Comedy Central) skewering everything from religion (“Jesus’ superpowers… are just so random”) to Hollywood stereotypes (“I want to be the first dumb gay best friend in the history of cinema”).

There’s plenty on parenting (on a stripper who does standup: “Her dad must have fucked her in a Garfield mask”), and it’s among Finest Hour’s edgiest.

—Brian Howard

Back home they call them Grupo Vocal Desandann, but on tour these 10 singers — who play the Painted Bride on Sunday (Oct. 16, paintedbride.org) — have opted for the more explanatory Creole Choir of Cuba.

The brand-new Tande-La (Real World) captures their voices-and-percussion sound live in the studio, thrilling in their power and complexity. In Creole, French and Spanish, the songs all echo of Africa, from antiquity to a sweet bolero, with only clave and no guitar. Choir directors will —Mary Armstrong borrow these arrangements wholesale.

³ reissues Van Dyke Parks’ Arrangements, Vol. 1 (Bananastan), a handpicked collection of little-heard ’60s and ’70s chestnuts, is a fittingly spectacular showcase for a legend who’s worked with everyone from Brian Wilson to U2 to Joanna Newsom to, apparently, Skrillex. But it’s also a totally cracking mixtape: delightfully eclectic, a truly pan-American patchwork of styles — and full of surprises (psychedelic country-gospel from Arlo Guthrie, off-color calypso from Bonnie Raitt, stone-cold funk from Little Feat), all with Parks’ playful, colorful, jauntily baroque orchestrations.

—K. Ross Hoffman

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³ björk She may never recapture the uncompromising artiness and pop accessibility which blessed her ’90s peak, but the music on Biophilia (One Little Indian), Björk’s often arresting, occasionally impenetrable sixth (proper) full-length — in danger of being overshadowed by the album’s ambitious app-based accessorizing — reveals that, when she wants to, she’s still able to engage as well as merely dazzle, through concise melodicism, sheer sonic prettiness and the occasional badass drill’n’bass freakout.

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FOOTLOOSE

Glorified karaoke with a bit more grit.

“She’s for the artists, for giving artists a place.” ³ OVER THE PHONE last week, Sande Webster confirmed that on Sat., Oct. 8, her eponymous gallery would be closing its doors on more than four decades as one of the city’s premier art spaces. (Several of Webster’s friends say she claims she hasn’t sold any art for the last three months, a striking deviation from the norm.) Sande Webster Gallery (SWG) pioneered the exhibition of photography and materials-based art including glass, ceramics and fiber locally in a fine arts context; yet what Webster is best known for is championing black artists, including Sam Gilliam, Ron Tarver, Nannette Clark, Syd Carpenter, Barkley Hendricks and James Brantley.

“I’m of a generation where an African-American couldn’t get a show in a Philadelphia gallery,” recalls abstract painter Moe Brooker. “Sande opened up opportunities and helped a number of painters, myself included, to get exposure.”

“Sande’s was probably the only gallery in the city that was taking on African-American work” in the 1980s, says photographer Donald Camp. “People were just embarrassingly racist. She gave me a break and I stayed with her for years.”

Abstractionist Charles Burwell, a member of influential black artist collective Recherché, who had his first commercial gallery show with Webster in 1984, describes SWG as “a venue where the dealer was interested in the quality of the work more than anything else.”

Shelley Spector, who showed her assemblage sculpture and other work with Webster for many years, describes her as an original. “My personal memory of when we first started working together is that she came to my studio and my work made her cry. She was touched so deeply, it was really a special moment for me.” Spector calls Webster “a very important voice for not just black artists but for local artists in general. She’s passionate about art.

She’s for the artists, for giving artists a place.”

Webster’s silvery blond curls and baby blues won’t be entirely absent from the Philadelphia scene; she already has plans to continue consulting from her home and collaborating with organizations around the city. Still, considering SWG’s importance to so many careers, it’s no surprise that these artists’ reflections sound like an elegy. “She’s trying to keep a stiff upper lip, but she’s taking it hard,” says Brooker. “She will be missed, I can tell you. There’s going to be an emptiness, a hole.” (r_rice@citypaper.net)

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EVERYBODY CUT: Director Craig Brewer brings a sweatier, sultrier Southern-fried feel to this unnecessary but harmless remake of a sorta-classic.

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[ C+ ] THERE ARE TWO types of cover songs: those that completely rethink the original, placing a melody or lyric in an entirely new context to transform, update or even parody; and those that are glorified karaoke, delivering the exact same piece of music with a slightly more modern beat. Craig Brewer’s unnecessary but harmless Footloose is the latter. New faces, a touch more grit, but essentially the same old song.

Which is kind of odd, given that outside of seeing a fresh-faced Kevin Bacon dance his frustrations away or a slim Chris Penn move awkwardly to Deniece Williams, the 1984 version isn’t all that revered. It’s far less the source of nostalgic memories than the endless string of music videos that it spawned, which seemed to take up at least half of MTV’s daily programming that year. In fact, rewatching the original recently for the first time in at least 20 years, I was shocked to discover that Bacon’s gymnastic warehouse dance was accompanied not by Kenny Loggin’s insipidly infectious theme song but to an anonymous track by forgotten Aussie rock band Moving Pictures. Loggins’ theme song is back to open Brewer’s version, as are all of the other hits from the original, most in cover versions that are as hands-off toward their sources as Footloose version 2.0 is to its. Kenny Wormald’s Ren McCormack pumps Quiet Riot out of his yellow VW Bug via iPod, which feels more like a concession to the modern day than any original intent. Brewer does bring a sweatier, sultrier Southern-fried feel to the film, and doesn’t condescend to the hokey storyline or its ’80s origins. So if you want to see a film about fun-loving kids fighting the powers that want to stop them from dancing — Dennis Quaid is fine in place of John Lithgow as the overprotective preacher, though it would have been more fun to see Bacon in the role — you’ll get what you’re looking for here. And just like the generation before, you’ll have its songs stuck in your head for the foreseeable future. —Shaun Brady

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Âł ITâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S AUGUST IN Osage County, Oklahoma â&#x20AC;&#x201D; hotter than hell and, for the Weston clan, twice as horrible. Although the patriarch, Beverly (a poet and college professor), and his wife, Violet (who is anything but shrinking), have been married for decades, their existence is plagued by drug addiction (her), alcoholism (him), and what Tennessee Williams would call â&#x20AC;&#x153;deliberate cruelty.â&#x20AC;? Then there are the Westonsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; three adult daughters, misery cases all. Tracy Lettsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; extraordinary play is the blackest comedy Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen in years. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also the funniest. August: Osage County is not for the faint of heart (nor, with its paint-peeling language and sexual themes, for children) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but this fine production at the Arden Theatre Co. is highly recommended for anyone who wants to rejoice in the creative energy of American theater.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll never forget my introduction to August on Broadway. The play, which premièred brilliantly at Chicagoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Steppenwolf Theatre, was imported to New York and on the verge of opening when a stagehand strike threatened to close the show before it even began. The crisis was narrowly averted, and surely that resurrection lent additional glamour to those first performances.

Nonetheless, the palpable sense of audience enthusiasm was something very special. The final moments of Act 2, a virtuoso family dinner scene, were greeted with cheers â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and just as the lights dimmed for Act 3, there was more cheering still. Here was an audience that has already been sitting for two hours â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and could scarcely wait to see what the final hour would bring.

August captured the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and five major Tonys, but there were naysayers. To be fair, Lettsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; script isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t flawless. If we take as points of comparison Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Long Dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Journey Into Night, two very different plays that might be seen as influences, August lacks some of their grand vision. A couple of poetic reveries about America feel stilted and overreaching. On the other hand, the very fact that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re making comparisons with two of the greatest works of the 20th century should tell

you something. At a time when new plays were shrinking to 90minute, four-character microdramas, Letts delivered a riveting, fully orchestrated, threeact, 13-character saga where everyone has an individual voice. More than anything else, the cheers I heard that night in New York recognized the sheer power and pleasure weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d almost forgotten could be part of the play-going experience.

And Letts unerringly captures the collision of love and hate that colors family relationships through many generations.

Of course, for all those reasons and more, August is not easy to do. The Arden and director Terry Nolen have clearly lavished love and significant resources on the project, and it shows. August is beautifully designed and staged (and how wonderful to see this large piece in a relatively intimate space!), and, most importantly, the ensemble of actors is a veritable whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s-who of Phillyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s finest. Even among these A-listers, a few performers should be singled out. Mary Martello, Paul Nolan, Anthony Lawton and Charlie DelMarcelle â&#x20AC;&#x201D; they are as good as good gets. (May I just say how lucky we are to have Martello, who goes from strength to strength, on our stages?) As Violet and Barbara, we have two fine actresses â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Carla Belver and Grace Gonglewski â&#x20AC;&#x201D; who are translucently vulnerable in everything they do. This has a mixed effect here: In the plus column, it deepens the sense of humanness at the heart of August, but it also reins in some of the viciousness the play calls for.

In general, as accomplished as Nolenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s production is, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an element of sheer outrageousness thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not quite there yet.

But the overwhelming message is every bit as cheer-worthy as it was in New York. Through Oct. 30, $34-$45, Arden Theatre Co., 40 N. Second St., 215-922-1122, ardentheatre.org. (d_fox@citypaper.net)

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She’d just released Leave the Earth Behind with her band, Box Five, their true first full CD complete with string orchestra, woodwinds, French horns, her softly silken vocals and some oddly punkish interludes. Now possessed of purple hair (“like, brightas-hell purple,” she shouts), Bichner returns to the scene of her first chamber-pop crimes for a night of Poe-inspired madness with local like-minded souls Andrew Lipke and Alexandra Day. Poe’s poetry has had a huge impact on Bichner’s lyric-writing.

“I’ve long been enthralled by his ability to employ disciplined, airtight rhythms and rhyme-schemes upon his verses yet still have them drip with beauty and depth,” she says. “It’s almost contradictory that a short written work constricted by so many structural rules can breathe, let alone tug at one’s heartstrings.” Bichner illustrates this by noting that part of the lyric structure for the lighthearted Box Five tune “Set Me Straight” was inspired by Poe’s somber, sorrowful “Ulalume.” She’s dazzled by how powerful it was to repeat a phrase with only slightly different wording in the line which follows it (“Our talk had been serious and sober/ But our thoughts they were palsied and sere/ Our memories were

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treacherous and sere”) and illustrates how minutely a specific phrase can be fine-tuned to everso-slightly change its meaning.

Quoth “Set Me Straight”: “I got a message from the other side/ Proclaiming you would be the one for me / Insisting you’d yet prove the one for me.”

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“What was it like coming back to America after fighting in Vietnam?” asks an off-screen narrator. A 22-year-old black man nods and begins to talk, his weary expression suggesting this is a question he’s prepared to answer, but one he dreads. “It’s almost the same as when I left,” he begins. “I say this because when a man goes to fight for his country and then comes back over here and almost have to fight for his life in certain parts of the country, get ridiculed and discriminated, you know, and be less than a man. I don’t think it’s right.” It’s 1967. This early scene in Göran Olsson’s terrific documentary lays out its premise, that the Black Power Movement, building and then suppressed from 1967 to 1975, emerged out of needs to resist injury and endure trauma, and also to make visible what was going on in America, what remained unknown to people who didn’t have to know. The film features interviews with civil rights figures like Stokely Carmichael and Angela Davis, as well as today’s activists (Talib Kweli, ?uestlove), tracing how the Panthers resisted oppression and also built a lasting sense of community. Looking back, it looks forward, observing from the outside what’s going on inside. —Cindy Fuchs (Ritz at the Bourse)

BLACKTHORN|B+ “The land where I live is a good one, quiet and peaceful,” Butch Cassidy (Sam Shepard) writes in a letter to his son.

“But it’s not home.” And with that, in 1927, some 20 years after his reported demise in Bolivia, the old man embarks

on another journey, trying to reach something like that home he yearns for. The essentially receding nature of his goal — Butch being an outlaw and all — is the not-so-subtle focus of Mateo Gil’s film. Part nostalgic, part rhapsodic, it follows Butch’s travels with the Sundance Kid; in the present day, Butch has another young partner, Eduardo (Eduardo Noriega), on whom he stumbles in the desert. The self-described Spaniard leads Butch to $50,000 he says he’s stolen from a silver mine owner. The film is beautiful: long stretches of land and sun and mountains, and Shepard’s face. You can guess early on that betrayals are in store, several costing the lives of Bolivian Indians. The gringo Butch remains legendary, despite or because of his death; yet in his old age even he begins to see that times have changed. When he and the Kid were at large, Butch reminisces, “There was room for everybody. Then the railroad came in, the big ranchers, and everything changed. It turned into kind of a war and we ended up on the losing end of the stick.” He’s still angry, even as he’s also weary and old. And what he says sounds a little like Occupy Wall Street. —C.F. (Ritz Five)

FOOTLOOSE|C+ Read Shaun Brady’s review on p. 19. (Pearl, UA 69th St., UA Grant, UA Riverview)

THE THING Read Patrick Rapa’s review at citypaper.net/movies. (Pearl, UA 69th St., UA Grant, UA Riverview)

TOAST|CRead Drew Lazor’s review on p. 34. (Ritz at the Bourse) TRESPASS|DNicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman make for an unlikely

DOLPHIN TALE | B+ Pearl, UA Grant, UA 69th St., UA Riverview

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Steven Soderbergh’s vision of a viral apocalypse is torture porn for germophobes, alternating shots of sweaty sufferers with doorknobs carrying their contagion. If anyone is immune from this population-decimating sick, however, it must be Soderbergh, as his clinical, antiseptic direction barely allows anything to live, be it bacteria or human emotion. Only Matt Damon, as Gwyneth Paltrow’s immune husband, wrestles the film back to the human level, the only show of grief or emotion amidst the worldwide panic.

Otherwise, it’s a procedural in the most literal sense. —S.B. (Roxy, UA Riverview)

DETECTIVE DEE AND THE MYSTERY OF THE PHANTOM FLAME|AThe time is 689 A.D., and Empress Wu (Carina Lau), China’s first female ruler, is awaiting her coronation. While Detective Dee (Andy Lau) objected to a woman assuming power, he has since been released from prison to figure out why folks are spontaneously bursting into flames. Dee is a keen observer, following everyone’s motivations — even those of his plucky bleach-blond sidekick, Officer Pei (Deng Chao), who could be behind the “spooky pandemonium.” Detective Dee may rely too much on CGI, but it is so damn entertaining that viewers won’t mind. —Gary M. Kramer (Ritz East)

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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 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 actioner). —D.L. (Pearl, Roxy, UA 69th St., UA Grant, UA Riverview)

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Jonathan Levine’s new film is being touted as 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. But 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,

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couple (and nothing that happens onscreen changes that), but they do share one thing in common: One of the lowest points on each of their respective filmographies came as a result of working with Joel Schumacher. (That would be 8mm for Cage and Batman Forever for Kidman, if you’re keeping score.) Trespass makes them all two for two, as it would easily be one of the worst films either of them have made if it weren’t so utterly forgettable. Cage repeatedly bounced back and forth between playing his role, that of the leader of the gang who takes him and his family hostage, and walking off the film altogether — and his ambiguity shows.

He can’t even seem to muster the eccentric tics that mark his laziest work beyond a penchant for sniffling when he’s yelling — which is most of the time. Kidman is asked to do little more than scream, though that’s a more demanding task than it sounds given the increasing immobility of her face. The script is a series of reveals, secrets told mostly by characters spouting reams of dialogue through gritted teeth while in physically compromising positions. To call them “twists” would be undeservingly generous, however; the only real mystery is how any of this moved beyond a direct-to-DVD production for a Shannon Tweed type. —Shaun Brady (AMC Cherry Hill)

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THE IDES OF MARCH|B Talking fast and spinning faster, Stephen Myers (Ryan Gosling) is real up-and-comer, press secretary to Mike Morris (George Clooney), the liberal Pennsylvania governor vying for the Democratic presidential nomination.

But he doesn’t just view the job as a career ladder with a built-in paycheck — he really believes Morris will truly improve peoples’ lives once he moves into the White House. But that doesn’t mean he’s guileless — since no one in the game can stay clean for long, Myers is soon painted into a nasty corner.

As director, Clooney starts and ends The Ides of March with impressive precision, bottling the brawniest chunk of Myers’ trajectory without burning minutes on his rise or eventual fall.

(Because everyone falls.) —Drew Lazor (Ritz Five, UA Grant)

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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, but Joseph Gordon-Levitt evens out the film’s uneasiest tonal shifts, conveying a range of warring emotions from rage to frustration to incomprehension.

—S.B. (UA Riverview)

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a post-9/11 movie stripped from its cultural context, and possibly stronger for it. The subject, as tipped by the titular Gerard Manley Hopkins poem, is the corrosive power of unfocused grief, which falls on Anna Paquinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Manhattan high school student after she contributes to a fatal bus accident.

Lonergan tracks the tragedyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ripples, filtered with occasionally infuriating accuracy through the prism of a bright, sullen teenager. Perhaps the most eloquent, unnerving shots are of crowds tripping in slow motion along the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sidewalks, or of skyscrapers looming overhead, silent monuments to the slim but ineradicable possibility of a sudden end. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Sam Adams (Ritz East)

MONEYBALL|B Brad Pitt plays Aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 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.

Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re concerned with an idea, not a game, which makes the film compelling even to non-fans. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;S.B. (UA 69th St., UA Grant, UA Riverview)

REAL STEEL|CBy the year 2020, according to Real Steel, human boxers will be replaced by pugilistic robots engineered to provide fans with maxed-out levels

of mechanized carnage. But Shawn Levyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Super Bowl advertisement of a movie, a roughshod cocktail of fatherson melodrama and sporting theatrics, also asserts that shameless commercialism will remain a huge part of the on-canvas experience in the future, if the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brazen handling of product placement is any indication. The actual fight sequences, a mix of CGI, animatronics and real-life consulting from boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard, are an honest blast, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to get riled up for the theatrics with innumerable Hewlett-Packard and Budweiser brand drops sliming across the screen. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;D.L. (Pearl, UA 69th St., UA Grant, UA Riverview)

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Movies ought to be reality-based, and in 2011, conventional hetero relationships are no longer the only option worth pursuing. That said, Weekend isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a gay movie the way The Birdcage is, but a romantic drama about two polar opposites who fall into a fast-paced relationship. Russell (Tom Cullen) is reserved and quiet, looking for that special someone, while Glen (Chris New) is more boisterous and friend-with-benefits-seeking. Weekend is no race against the clock, but it raises the question: How much impact can someone have

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INTERNATIONAL HOUSE 3701 Chestnut St., 215-387-5125, ihousephilly.org. Nosferatu (1922, Germany, 94 min.): The worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first vampire flick set to musical accompaniment by pianist Brendan Cooney and others. Wed., Oct. 15, 8 p.m., $10.

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UPenn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 3260 South St. 215898-4000, the secretcinema.com. The Thief of Baghdad (1924, U.S., 106 min.): An Arabian thief must conquer a series of tests to win over the princess he loves. Wed., Oct. 19, 6 p.m., $10.

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✚ TRENTEMØLLER Denmark’s Anders Trentemøller, who seems to plot his career moves with a long-range vision and sense of leisure that parallel the expansiveness, patience and precision of his musical craft, has been in the electronic-music game for well over a decade, though he’s only seen fit to release two albums

—K. Ross Hoffman Thu., Oct. 13, 7 p.m., $20-$29, with Pex/Playloop DJs, TLA, 334 South St., 215-922-1011, livenation.com.

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✚ JOHN LITHGOW The subtitle of John Lithgow’s memoir, Drama: An Actor’s Education (Harper, Sept. 27), could just as easily have been An Actor’s Life, but it’s all the same thing: Every experience, onstage and off, amounts

to schooling for a fledgling thespian. Very few of Lithgow’s most familiar roles rate a mention here, as the focus is firmly on the stage, obviously the actor’s first love (and besides, one thing he’s clearly learned from his film career is to save something for the sequel).

Much of the actual drama of the book is Oedipal, as Lithgow is introduced to the theater’s charms and hardships via his father’s quixotic career as an actor/producer/would-be impresario. The tale begins with the final lesson passed from Lithgow père to fils, as the now-successful actor is reintroduced to the simple art of storytelling while caring for his aging parents, then traces his rather more complicated relationship with its practice in a voice that reads as unmistakably Lithgovian (he coins the term himself).

—Shaun Brady Thu., Oct. 13, 7:30 p.m., $6 simulcast (auditorium seating sold out), Free Library, Central Branch, 1901 Vine St., 215-567-4341, freelibrary.org.

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The Abandoned Lullaby — a heady stew of dank, dusty funk grooves, snarling guitar licks, off-kilter folk and psychedelic soul — drops this week as the label’s third album release.

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✚ RJD2/ICEBIRD Ohio native, Philly denizen and mind-bogglingly sick quadruple-turntable whiz Ramble John Krohn hasn’t made a whole lot of waves in a while — even if being tapped for the Mad Men theme music certainly upped his profile (and paycheck) a few good notches — but he made a sturdy, workmanlike return to albumrocking form on last year’s The Colossus, his first effort for his own RJ’s Electrical Connections imprint. One of that disc’s highlights, “Crumbs Off the Table,” featured the vocal talents of local soul brother Aaron Livingston, and the pair has re-teamed as Icebird, a duo whose first full-length

Fri., Oct. 14, 8:30 p.m., $15-$17, all ages, with Lushlife, Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St., 877-4359849, utphilly.com.

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✚ QUEER LITERARY FESTIVAL Along with Giovanni’s Room, Mount Airy’s Big Blue Marble Bookstore is Philly’s go-to spot for LGBTQ-focused literature.

And this weekend the largely local base of queer writers, poets and scholars who contribute to its impressive collection are descending on the premises to share their work and lead workshops. Set your gaydar to a Leeway Foundation-grantee-led discussion about the correlation between writing and social change; learn how the written

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More spiritual than spooky, Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice is an inspired choice for the Halloween season. Though dealing with death — newlywed Eurydice wakes up in the Greek mythological Underworld, where she meets her deceased father

Through Nov. 12, $20, Curio Theatre Co. at the Calvary Center, 4740 Baltimore Ave., 215-525-1350, curiotheatre.org.

in all that time: 2006’s The Last Resort, a milestone of moody, stylish downtempo minimalism, and last year’s Into the Great Wide Yonder, a defiantly odd detour into surf rock, shoegazey ambience and lavish cinemascapes. Meanwhile, he’s at least as well known for his remixes — some recent examples of which, for Franz Ferdinand, Efterklang and Modeselektor, among others, are compiled on the new Remixed/Reworked (In My Room) — and for his flashy, full-band live shows.

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— Ruhl’s 2007 play is surprisingly funny and uplifting. At Curio, artistic director Paul Kuhn plays father to real-life daughter Tessa and also is designing the set, which must separate hell from Earth and provide rain in an elevator.

Kuhn’s past set designs, all lowbudget yet innovative, have been simply astounding, and Eurydice promises to inspire his best yet.

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—Josh Middleton Fri.-Sun., Oct. 14-16, various times, free, Big Blue Marble Bookstore, 551 Carpenter Lane, 215-844-1870, bigbluemarblebooks.com.

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(Thrill Jockey), singer/guitarist Sidi Touré took advantage of that resource in a process surely as old as music itself: playing and drinking tea.

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Each song was the result of a two-day visit: on the first, Touré and his guest played and then, over a glass of tea, decided on a song. The following day, they recorded it. All of this took place in Touré’s sister’s house. He’ll be on less familiar turf during this, his first U.S. tour.

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That would certainly include Mozart’s Requiem, the final, and incomplete, work from the master and namesake of this group. Requiem has become hugely popular recently, for good reason; there is no more incisive and haunting writing for voice and orchestra. The concert will be a sort of Mozart mini-festival, filled out with the lovely Flute Concerto in D, and the sublime Piano Concerto No. 23, a work as sunny as Requiem is dark. Vox Ama Deus music director Valentin Radu (pictured) will conduct and play the solo piano part.

—Peter Burwasser Fri., Oct. 14, 8 p.m., $20-$60, Kimmel Center, 300 S. Broad St., 215-893-1999, kimmelcenter.org, voxamadeus.org.

Sun., Oct. 16, 7:30 p.m., $10-$30, Calvary United Methodist Church, 801 S. 48th St., 215-729-1028, crossroadsconcerts.org.

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✚ SIDI TOURÉ Given the consistently stunning musical talent being exported from Mali, there’s surely no shortage of talent in the West African country. For his second album, Sahel Folk

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✚ WILD FLAG On paper, Wild Flag is some kind of crazy, otherworldly Dream Team. You’ve got your Mary Timony, the magical mistress behind Helium.

There’s Janet Weiss, the Rolex-quality timekeeper from

By now you’re probably sick of ’80s hits made to illustrate emotional plot points in films and TV shows. Fuck Glee.

But if you can stand one more round of “Don’t Stop Believing,” make it the 2006 musical with a book from playwright

make it Disney-fied, to which the rockers cry out “We Built This City,” “We’re Not Gonna Take It” and “Cum on Feel the Noize.” Stupid, right? I love it. But see it on stage before the image of Tom Cruise in long locks is burned into your rocker retina.

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—A.D. Amorosi Oct. 18-23, $25-$110, Merriam Theater, 250 S. Broad St., 215-731-3333, kimmelcenter.org/broadway.

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“This project was in the works for a while — since Ali and I came up with the concept at a coffee shop on a cold, dreary February morning,” says BUS STOP boutique owner Elena Brennan. She’s talking about her latest artistic endeavor: Faces of Philly,a look book collaboration with Arcadia Boutique owner Ali McCloud that features photos of customers modeling current fall fashions. According to Brennan, the two business owners came up with the idea last February and have been working on it ever since. And what better time to introduce the pocket-size beauty than during DesignPhiladelphia?

Separately, the two have been involved with the 11-day design festival before. In 2009, BUS STOP hosted a workshop on eco-friendly footwear, while Arcadia presented a show titled “So Re Fa,” short for what her boutique specializes in: socially responsible fashion. The companies have a history of collaboration, too. Last year both were involved with Earthly Beauties, a two-night local fashion show and shopping event. And most recently they hit their stride with a no-duh-why-didn’t-we-think-of-this-sooner moment that involved BUS STOP opening a pop-up shop in Arcadia.

Considering the convenience of having a head-to-toe wardrobe at your fingertips, Brennan and McCloud decided to continue the pop-up shop through their DesignPhiladelphia reception at Arcadia’s NoLibs flagship shop. The look book is free with every purchase that evening, so I suggest indulging yourself in a darling and wildly feminine Lauren Moffatt dress, or go super bold with a new pair of chunky and daring Jeffrey Campbell heels. Either way, you’ll be an adorable and ready-for-fall spawn of DesignPhiladelphia.

Thu., Oct. 20, 6-9 p.m., free, Arcadia Boutique, 819 N. Second St., 215-6678099, busstopboutique.com. (julia.west@citypaper.net)

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as the Spells) perform vocal and guitar pyrotechnics on upbeat anthems like “Romance,” midtempo grinders like “Glass Tambourine” and old-school shout-alongs like “Racehorse.”

At this year’s SXSW, the quartet was the in-demand band, packing scheduled showcases and impromptu daytime gigs alike. Don’t sleep on this.

—Brian Howard Wed., Oct. 19, 8 p.m., $15, with Eleanor Friedberger, Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St., 877-435-9849, utphilly.com.

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For every gorgeous story of triumph and failure and redemption and oysters spun on an edible loom (Gabrielle Hamilton’s Blood, Bones & Butter; Jon Reiner’s The Man Who Couldn’t Eat), there are 10 tomes scribbled by self-involved foodie douchebags who think everyone should give a shit about the time their Bengali housekeeper slipped them a thimble of saffron when they were 11. No one cares. And while plenty loved about British food writer Nigel Slater’s 2003 hit Toast: The Story of a Boy’s Hunger, S.J. Clarkson’s film version doesn’t give the bestselling food author and TV personality’s heartstringstwiddling life much of a chance.

Starting with Slater’s childhood in Wolverhampton, Toast establishes its protagonist’s inquisitive nature early, as 9-year-old Nigel, neatly portrayed by Oscar Kennedy, begs his can-boiling mother (Victoria Hamilton) and frosty dad (Ken Stott) to show a little ambition in the kitchen. As fumbly as mum might be behind the stove, both mother and son treasure these times as bonding moments; epicurean advancement is low on the list for his parents, however, due to his mother’s debilitating asthma.While he emits sensual moans while poring over cookbooks beneath the sheets, mum struggles for every breath. She passes away suddenly and leaves Nigel with a broken father and no partner in culinary crime.

“Normal families are totally overrated,” Nigel’s boyhood friend reassures him as he laments the sudden ubiquity of Mrs. Potter (Helena Bonham Carter), a housecleaner who earns his father’s affections via short skirts and killer lemon meringue.

“You’ll probably grow up to be interesting.” And while he does — teenage Nigel (Freddie Highmore) blossoms as a cook, blowing away his home-ec classes and putting the competitive Mrs. Potter on her heels — Toast itself does not, cramming an hour’s worth of personal, sexual and culinary discovery into its last 15 minutes. Slater is often praised for his warmth and approachability, virtues this rushed take on his life do not possess. (drew.lazor@citypaper.net) ✚ Toast opens Friday at Ritz at the Bourse.

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s Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway can tell you, Chinatown can be a bitch. Admittedly, their reasons are different from mine, which tend toward the temporary paralysis that’s often a symptom of dining in this vexing warren of noodle shops, pho parlors and duck houses. The countless eateries, lined spineMore on: to-spine like books on a library shelf, is a game of culinary Minesweeper. Some are transcendent, some are shitty and the majority dwell in the limbo between. Experimentation is risky business in Chinatown, which is why I wind up at the same places (Shiao Lan Kung, Nan Zhou) over and over again.

So it was with great trepidation I entered Red Kings, sandwiched on Race between pastry and beauty supply shops. This unassuming storefront looks no different from its neighbors: crimson awning, neon “open” sign, posters of bubble tea and dumplings tacked to the plate-glass window. But what would await on the other side of the door? Moving Chinese cooking or sweet, sticky

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I knew the answer when the spunky waitress gently rebuffed my order for kung pao frog: “I’m sorry, no frog right now.” She pointed down the street. “The frog store is closed already.”

My hopes for kung pao Kermit were dashed, but my hopes for Red Kings were heartened. Buying live frogs to order from the Chinese fishmonger down the street says something about the restaurant’s commitment to freshness. And that’s no easy task with a menu of Kings’ length; there are 202 items, an encyclopedia of Cantonese, Shanghainese, Sichuan and Thai recipes. Navigating the tome takes time, but the cheerful staff is patient. Our frogdenying waitress lavished us with attention, taking the group through a verbal tour of her favorites.

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Shaved into long, wavy noodles, the double-cooked pork tangled with tender wok-fried greens. Crisp, greaseless scallion pancakes were addictive Chinese snack food of the highest esteem. Piquant >>> continued on page 36

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1100 S 58th St. Studio, 1br & 2br apts newly renov, lic #362013 215.744.9077 1900 S. 65th St. 2BR Apt Newly renov, Lic #400451, 215.744.9077 54xx Baltimore Ave 2BR $675 121 N. Lindenwood 3BR House $775 Near transportation. Call 215-921-8313

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everything pets 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 Doberman Pups, blacks & reds, cropped, $650 & up, vet cert. 856-491-7929 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) English Springer Spaniel 610-235-6446 salernoenglishspringerspaniels.com French Bulldog 14 week Male, AKC, shots, wormed, microchipped, family raised, all white. $1500.(215)307-7984 German Shepherd Puppies mom and dad on premises registered. (215)989-3712 German Shepperd 90%, fem., 5 mo, sable, shots, very smart, $150. 215-254-0562 GOLDEN RETRIEVER PUPS - AKC, 6 Male, 1 Female, $2000, 856-834-6578 Golden Retriever Pups Reg., vet checked, 1 F, 1 M, $550. 570-205-0011 Great Dane pups, AKC Fawn & Brindle colored, $1200. 302-379-3423 ITALIAN MASTIFF CANE CORSO PUPS, ICCF Reg., very cute, family raised, $400.

Call (717)940-9445 Japanese Chin Pups $650 Reading area Champ lines. 610-777-5876 LAB PUPS: AKC, 1st shots, wormed, 9 wks, $700. 609.932.6574; 856.629.3098

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apartment marketplace 12xx Airdrie St. 2 BR $650 spacious rooms, updated kitchen, conv loc, 267-872-4709 or 267-304-3220 17th & Ontario 1BR $550 29th & Cumberland Efficiency $575 2 months security, Call 215-290-8702 23xx N 17th St 1br Efficiency $475+elec $1425 move in, Eat in kitch. 215.651.6564

10xx Duncannon 2 BR $680+ utils LR, kitch, BA, 1st/last/sec, 267.205.3238 12xx Rockland 1br Efficiency $485 wall/wall carpet, Call (215)329-3013 51xx N. Camac 2BR 1BA $650 + Large, renov. Call 215-839-3271

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

1 BR & 2 BR Apts $715-$835 spacious, great loc., upgraded, heat incl, PHA vouchers accepted 215-966-9371 1xx E. Herman St 1BR $575 water incl. 267-269-4338. 9am-5pm only 5220 Wayne Ave. Studio, 1 BR & 2 BR newly rehab, 267.767.6959, Lic# 507568 607 E. Church Lane 1BR & 2BR apts. nr LaSalle Univ,215.744.9077 lic# 494336 Bellfield & Cosgrove 2br $700+utils 2nd flr, avail immed. Call 267-971-3768 E Penn St. (Lasalle area) 1Br $750+elec tile ba, jacuzzi, mod. kit, dishwasher, garb. disp., walk-in closet, deck 215-848-5513 Knox St. 1, 2 & 4br units $650 -$1200 newly renovated, 267-716-8526 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 Washington & Green lovely 1 BR $595+ cooking gas/electric, call 215-276-8661 xx W LOGAN St Studio $500+ utils 2nd flr, clean, $1500 move in 215.471.1742

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

2xx Rosemary Lane 2BR $850+ elec hardwood floors, Call (215)849-8390 66xx Greene St. 2br $800 heat incl.

3rd flr, w/w carpet, new: kitchen floor & bathrm, avail 11/1 or after (215)432-7311 81xx Rugby St. 2br/1ba $750+utils 2nd flr, hwd flrs, kitch & LR, 215.868.2751 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 W. 71st Ave 1 BR $625 utilities included, close to transporation and shopping. Call 215-574-2111 2xxx Middleton 2BR $650+utils Newly renovated, Section 8 approved, near transp. Available now 215-680-2538 61xx Old York Rd. 2br $750+utils newly renovated, (215)549-2546

4840 Oxford Ave Studio, 1br & 2br apts Ldry,24/7 cam lic# 214340 215.744.9077

Harrison St. Studio $450 & 1br $525+utils 215.983.1026, 267.596.3625 Margaret St. 1 BR $595+ utils beautiful, newly remodeled, 215-526-1455

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 48xx Longshore 1br $595 incl. heat private yard (215)287-2044 4921 Darrah St. 1BR $550+utils Living room. (267)808-8432 83xx Frankford Ave 1BR $550 Newly renov, near shopping & public transportation, I-95. Call 215-310-9610 Academy & Grant 2BR $760+ 2nd flr,w/w, c/a,off st prkg 856.346.0747 Academy & Knights 2Br $850+utils No pets. Newly decorated. 267-342-1993 Mayfair 4318 Princeton 1 BR $540+util credit check, parking, 215-498-1807 Philmont 2BR duplex, 2nd flr $820+ C/A, bsmnt, yard, garage, (215)752-1091

WARMINSTER Lg 1-2-3 BR Sect. 8 OK Great Move-in Specials!!

Pets & smoking ok.

We work with credit problems.

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E. Landsdowne 1br $695+utils private parking, near trans 610-636-4104

20th & Girard, furnished room, $100/wk, $250 move-in. 267-608-9138 23xx N. 17th & 21xx N. 28th - rooms, use of kitch/ba, $95/wk, 215-651-6564 2764 N. Hemberger St., Rooms for rent, starting $400/mo. 267-257-3610 27xx N. Oxford St, $90-$100/week, more locations available. 267-816-3058 28xx N 27th St: Furnished rooms, utils included, $100/wk, SSI ok, 267-819-5683 29xx 7th St. & 16xx Orthodox St. Rooms, $100-$125/wk, 215-500-5734 30th & Dauphin vic rooms 267-975-4602 or 215-763-6951

34th & Baring: Room with DirecTV Use of kitchen. Call 215-620-3846 42xx Frankford, $450/mo 2nd Flr rm, private entr, kit & Ba, clean 267-979-0413 4500 N. 17th St. $350/mo. new luxury room, Free Cable! Eric, 215-900-6481 45xx Frankford Av $400-450mo, SSI ok, microwave, fridge no drugs 267.670.6689 53xx N Broad, furn efficiency, a/c, 2TVs, etc. also single rm avl, 267.496.6448 54th & Catharine: lrg, clean, furnished, $475. Free utils & laundry. 215-528-1058 55th/Thompson furn $115/$135 wk frig micro priv ent $200 sec. 215-572-8833 56xx Wyalusing large clean rooms, $90-$110/wk. Call (215)917-1091 60xx Vine St, $115/week, 2 week security, cable tv, Please Call Gee 267-767-4496 61st/Race St. Priv entrance, fresh paint use of kitchen, w/w carpet, great loc! $440/mo. $490 move in. 267-997-5212

A1 Nice, well maintained rms, N & W Phila. Starting @ $115/wk 610.667.9675 AFFORDABLE ELEGANCE - Large rms for rent in the Strawberry Mansion area, fully furn w/priv ba, & everything new. Ranging from $125-$150 weekly, Only those that want the best need call owner, Bobby (267)471.0501 (Drug free environment) Broad & Erie, $120/week +sec., single, furn,c/a, ideal for Seniors, 215-880-1799 Broad & Lehigh - Fully Furn rooms for rent, quiet block, Call 215-360-5533 Broad & Olney deluxe furn rms priv ent. $110 & $145/wk Sec $200. 215-572-8833

Cheltenham Village $500mo.+ sec. refs.

Share bath, kitch., laundry. Utils & internet incl. near transp. Call 267-414-7123.

Frankford, room in apt, furn, no drugs, near El, $85/wk+ $300 sec. 215-526-1455 Germantown 2nd floor 1 large room Germantown 3rd floor 2BR apt.

Utilities included on both. 267-577-2502 Germantown/Lehigh, Efficiency, pvt entr, BA & kitch, $150/wk, 267-939-2351 G-town, furn., good location clean/quiet reasonable, call 12-8pm. 215-849-8994 Hunting Park (between Temple & Einstein Hospitals) Fully Furnished Luxury Rms. Free utils, cable, wi-fi 267-331-5382 KENSINGTON, Clean Furnished Rooms, $300-$400, 856-465-6807 LaSalle Univ. Area Renov ROOM FOR RENT, hw flrs, 1.5 Shared ba, full shared kitc, Patio $500mo inc utils 215-850-6618 Mt. Airy, furn. rms, $115-$125wk. cable /all utils incl., priv. home 215-275-9174

Near Broad & Rt. 1 - 1ST MONTH FREE! Vets Welcomed! Our rooms ($530$560) are fully furnished within a quiet home setting. To qualify: Must be for 1 person, PROOF OF INCOME. For info: www.safehavenhomesllc.net 267-235-6555 / 856-723-6811 NE PHILADELPHIA kitchen & utils incld, $125/wk.+ $125 deposit. 215-501-0771 N Phila Sr. citizen, single occ. $125 wk util inc, no smoking/drinking267.385.5932 N Phila/W Phila/Logan,pvt ent,$75-$110 wk, pvt BA/kit, $140 wk 609-877-0375 Penrose & SW Rooms: $75 & up SSI & Disability ok. (267)784-0302 SW Philadelphia Room for rent. $250 move in, share kit & bath. 267-251-2749 SW Phila. furn room for rent $110$130/wk, priv. bath, cable, free Showtime, $440-$520 move-in. 856-405-1610 Temple off campus rooms $350-$450 Available immediately. 267-240-6805 Tioga/Temple Hospital Area: large,clean rooms for rent, no drugs. 215-225-4109 TIOGA - Vic of Broad & Erie. Rooms for rent, Seniors Welcome. 215-226-0321 W. Phila 57th St lg furn, nwly ren. $100-$125wk, Ashley 215-921-1266 W Phila & G-town: newly ren lg, lux rms /apts., ALL utils incl, SSI ok 267.577.6665 W. Phila-Nr El, use of house. $110/wk.

Share cable. Call (215)470-2418

homes for rent 10th/Oregon Ave 3br/ 2 story $950 furn bsmt,gd nghbrhd 215.386.5067/828.7645 2055 Mercy St 3 BR/1 BA $775+utils renovated row house, yard, 856.803.6369 21xx S. 21st 4br/1ba $900+ newly renovated, full bsmt, 215-275-7477 903 S. 20th St. 2BR/2.5BA $2300 Open House Sun. Oct 9, 12-3PM New Luxury bi-level Condo. Marble Hrdwd

2xx N. EDGEWOOD St. 3BR/1BA $800 newly remod, w/w carpet 215.989.1225 2xx Peach St. 3br/1ba $875+utils 1 mo rent & sec, cred. check 215.878.9309 3931 Brown St. 1 BR apt $525/mo.

NO DRUGS! Call 267-259-0430 3xx N. Salford 3BR/1BA $750 newly renov., Sec 8 OK. 848-525-9759 5121 Springfield Ave. 1 BR $525 2nd floor, rear. Call 215-765-5008 59th & Market 3br/1.1ba $750+util credit check, renovated. 215-464-9371

26xx Carroll St. 3br $800 25xx Gross St. 2br $700 64xx Grays Ave. 3br $800 Call Tom, 610-724-2196 64xx S. Grays Ave 4Br/2Ba $900+utils "The Landlord That Cares" Tasha 267.584.5964, Mark 610.764.9739 62nd & Woodland Av Nice 3BR $775/mo Util xtra. LR, DR, EI kit, front porch, rear yard. Avail. immed. 215 877-3142

65xx Gesner St. 3 BR $725 close to trans, Sec 8 ok, 267-738-0834 73xx Dicks Ave. 3 BR $900+utils hdwd flrs, prkg, sec 8 ok 215-901-3324 Springfield Ave 1br $500 & 2br $600 Water included, must see! 610-986-3776

5xx Vankirk 3 BR $800+ utils 14xx Higbee 3 BR $800+ utils 59xx Castor Ave 3 BR $900+ utils Call 215-725-7079 74xx Brous Ave. 3br/3ba $1500+utils all amenities, 1st, last & dep 609.617.8639

62nd & Master 2br $700+utils Please Call (610)667-9675 6xx N. 42nd St. 3 BR back yard, Section 8 ok, 215-356-2434 W. Phila 1br-4br Apts & Houses, $700$975. 1st/last/sec. 215-878-2857

910 Kenmore Rd. 3BR $1,000+utils beautiful hdwd flrs throughout, garage, new kitchen, back deck w/ grill & patio furniture incl., avail. immed 610-896-5152

21xx N Dover 2 BR $675 lg bdrms, w/w, yard,Sec8 ok 215.813.2549 25xx N Gratz St 3br/1ba $699+utils washer, lrg kitch, sec 8 ok (215)425-3696

Castor Gardens Area 3 BR Sect. 8 approved, call 267-939-6965 Knorr St. 4 BR/1.5 BA $1000 newly renovated, lrg. yard 917-379-7302

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

1953 Brunner St. 2br $700+utils fully renovated, new carpets, basement, washer/dryer, (267)320-9681

8xx N. 50th St. 3br Sec 8 OK. 215-848-5072

$775

3xx W Berkley St. 3br section 8 ok, 1 blk to Wayne 215.848.5072

55xx Bloyd st.

2br $725+utils renovated, $2175 move in, 215-962-4277 Pulaski Ave 3BR/1.5BA $1150+utils Nwly Renovated Sect 8 ok. 215-939-3745

North Woods 3BR $1,000+utils.

North Woods 5BR $1,395+utils.

2mo. sec. +1st mo. rent. Call 215.350.2338

66xx N 20th St. 3br/1ba $900+utils newly renov, nice block, ref’s a must, Call Kathy (215)275-3774 71xx Woolston Ave 3br/1ba $1000 sec. section 8 ok, 215-740-4629

19xx E. Venango St. 3BR/1BA House$725 Util. 609-410-0427-Avail Nov.1 30xx D Street 2 BR $585 good location,1st/last & sec 215.514.0653

12xx Adams Ave. 2BR $675 lrg EIK, 2 mo security, 267-307-6964 Ditman St. 1 BR cottage $700+utils w/d, fridge, yard, Sec 8 ok, 215-632-5763 Juniata: 42xx Maywood 3br $900+utils sec 8 ok, avail. immed. (267)467-4322

20xx Knorr St. 3BR $1300 new crpt installed, ceiling fans, fin bsmt, 2 mins to mall, nr transp, (609) 230-9900 2 & 3BR houses available immediately.

1st/last/1 month security. 215-500-6004

$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

1985 MCI Diesel 47 passenger Bus $25k inspected, Payment plan available, 2 yrs groceries for free. 917-216-8379

Parkwood 3br/1.5ba $1150 c/a, w/d, no pets, garage 267-984-1412 H. D. Iron 883 Sport 2011 $6999 only 495 mi., brand new cnd 215.966.9162

Broomall 2BR/1BA Remodeled Single Family Ranch. Hrdwd flrs, fncd yrd, nw roof. w/d, new appliances. (302)420-1125

Darby 3br/1ba $1000 newly renov, section 8 ok 610-284-4982 UPPER DARBY 3BR/1.5BA $1,095+utils UPPER DARBY 2BR / 1BA $795+utils 1st house has C/A and all appliances.

Both have a finished basement, no pets.

Call 610-891-6532 Upper Darby 4br/2.5ba $950+utils brick, single, custom kitch., fireplace, LR, washer/dryer, patio, call 215-429-4403

Chev Silverado 2001 luxury Z71 4x4 pkg, w/ 5 pass. ext. cab, really exceptional, unusual oppt’y $6985. & Dodge 2000 Dakota, deluxe 5 pass. ext. cab 4x4 SLT, like new, quick prvt sale $5985 215.629.0630 Chevy Luxury Extended Van ’08 $6985 Light Commercial, looks as if never driven, (opportunity of a lifetime) Chevy 2002 Box Truck, super clean, fully equipped, $5985. coroprate disposal, 215-627-1814

low cost cars & trucks AUDI Allroad 2001 $3500 good condition, clean 215-290-8895

Upper Darby Lg. 3BR $1050 + utils.

Excel. cond., Call 610-284-5631 WOODLYN 3BR $975+ utils large brick twin, Ridley schools,encl porch, bsmnt, yrd, conv to 95/476, 215.379.8839

4xx Roxborough Ave 4br/1.5ba $1200+ fenced yard, available now 215-482-3172

57xx N Woodstock St 3br/1ba $800+util mod kit, mod ba, hw flr 215-514-7143

S-80T6 2000 $5,500 great condition, navy with gray interior, new brakes & tires. 267-566-0316

Lawndale: 3xx Deveraux 3Br/1.5Ba $950 W/D incl., private rear prkg 215-301-4554

221 S. 5th St 3BR/1BA $915 *Newly Renovated* to move in! Available Now! $2,745. (484) 278-1672.

18xx E Westmoreland 3 BR/1 BA $750 new paint, newer carpet, 215-833-6673 15xx S. Lindenwood St. 4BR/1BA $775 util House -3 br, 1 bth w/1 add. bdr in fin. bsmnt. Frnt prch. sm yard, laun. conn, new windows. Close to schools, shops and pub. trans.. 1st mos. rent 2 mos. sec. dep. to move in. Credit Check req. Call Loretta 267-872-4067

40XX Higbee 3BR/1BA $900/mth util.

Renovated, spacious, new hardwood floors thru out the house. Full clean basement, Garage, Enclosed heated porch.

Central Air. Kids friendly one way street near the park. Three months to move in.

Call 267-423-2144

Elkins Park 2br/1ba Single Rancher $1300+utils a/c, cln bsmt (215)275.3774 Plymouth Hill Condos 2 BR/2 BA $1575 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 Haddonfield area 4br/2ba $1775+utils brick cape, 1/8 mile to 295, EIK, LR/DR, fam. room., all appl’s, 3 zone gas heat, a/c, fenced back yard, N/S, 609.499.2625

Chrysler 300M 2000 $2,850 3.5V6, lthr, CD, chrome. 267-592-0448 Dodge Intrepid 1995 $1950 all pwr, 73K, needs no work 215.620.9383 Dodge Intrepid 2002 $3200 4Dr, A/C, insp, new tires. 484-390-3966 FORD E-250 Cargo Van 1998 $1950 149k, racks, shelves, white 856-577-6463 Ford F150 1997 $3800 Good condition. 877-576-3163 ext 1 Ford Taurus’02 wgn loaded 156K Chev Malibu’99 loaded 134K PLY Breeze’99 124K Ford Explorer’00 4x4 120K Sam, 856-831-7412

$2495 $2100 $2300 $3200

Ford Taurus GL 1997 asking $1,450 4 door, loaded, clean, Cass. 215-518-8808 Honda Accord 1996 $1700 160k, runs gd, needs brakes 215.342.2974 Hyundai Elantra 2001 $2500 manual, insp., cold air, 215-813-0897

Jaguar S Type 2004 $7985 Economy 3.0, 4 door, sunroof, simply Exquisite, few original miles, 215.928.9632

Jeep Wrangler 1998 $4800 Red, new top, tires, 4x4. 484-390-3966 NAPLES Tennis Resort Top location, 2nd flr totally redone, 2br/2ba Condo overlooking pool, avail Oct. 15-Jan 31 & April 1-Aug 15 . Barbara (610)772-4403

automotive

Mercury Grand Marquis 1997 $1400 Runs good, fair cond. 877-576-3163 ext 1 Nissan Altima GXE 1997 $2500 93k, silver, insp, excellent 215-900-6299 Olds Alero/Grand AM 2002 $2450 4 dr, loaded, moonroof, nice 215.847.7346 Olds Intrique/Grand Prix 1999 $1650 4 door, loaded, clean, CD. 215-518-8808 Plymouth Voyager LE 1991 $1,450 auto, AC, 49K mi, insp. 215-620-9383 Saturn SL1 1994 $995 5 spd., a/c, 34mpg, run new 215.620.9383

CTS 2006 $15,500 like nw, only 23k, exc cnd (610)645-0740

Volvo S80 T6 Turbo 2000 $2875 V6, lthr, moonrf., CD, alarm267-592-0448

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