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The 76ers hold an online poll to determine their new mascot; fans can pick either a dog, a moose or Ben Franklin. Choose carefully, as the winner will also be the starting center.

[ + 1 ] The tower at City Hall reopens to tours for

the first time since a crack was discovered in the structure in September. Turns out Occupy poop makes for a strong sealant.

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Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi announces via Facebook that he won’t seek the GOP nomination to run against Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Casey next year. Would you like to hide this person?

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A Kensington woman is charged with animal cruelty for abandoning her horse in an empty lot. Which explains the long face.

[ + 3 ] Temple Hospital has hired a new transplant

surgeon and has applied to reactivate its heart and lung transplant programs. Careful, they snuck a rider in there for reanimating corpses.

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[ + 1 ] The Daily News runs a cover story on a

property tax assessor, dubbing him “the scariest man in town.” “Oh, I can beat that,” says the clown in the crawlspace over your bedroom.

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The U.S. Postal Service is rumored to be considering closing several large processing centers in the area. “Don’t worry, we’re not closing anything down,” says Postmaster General, “at least not until the rain lets up.”

[ + 1 ] Poet CA Conrad, enraged that Philly Mag

listed the Mummers as something to the city should get rid of, shows up at the magazine’s office and is forcibly removed by security. Excited to meet an actual reader, Philly Mag throws a “We’re Relevant!” soiree at Maggiano’s. Dave Schratwieser celebrity bartends!

[ -1 ]

The Wall Street Journal calls Philadelphia a “destination of choice” for people looking to file frivolous lawsuits. At first we were like :) but then we were like :(. Oh look, our sad face has a mole, you guys.

[ + 2 ] An unidentified man dressed as Santa Claus hands out $100 bills totaling some $20,000 in Reading. It was Santa Claus.

This week’s total: -4 | Last week’s total: 0

EVAN M. LOPEZ

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BIG EAST Redevelopment plans could gentrify Market East, long Philly’s poor, black downtown. By Daniel Denvir

arket East, the shopping district stretching from City Hall to Independence Mall, is best known for its hodgepodge of discount clothing emporiums, “we buy gold” shops and vacant buildings, all set to the soundtrack of the music blaring from storefront speakers. Over the years, there have been many attempts to gentrify this neighborhood — and so far, all have failed. But now, a makeover seems imminent. Mayor Michael Nutter and Center City District want new hotels, fancy restaurants and less bus traffic. Yet the small businesses that line Market and Chestnut streets, mainly serving a low-income, black clientele, say they haven’t been included in the planning. “What can [I] think of it?” said Funky Big and Tall owner Gurion, when asked what he thought of redevelopment plans. Like many, he didn’t want to give his last name. “[I’ve] got no choice. You’ve got big guys and small guys. Big guys make the decisions for the small guys.” After years of false starts, change is now coming fast. Last month, The Inquirer and Daily News announced they will relocate to the vacant Strawbridge & Clothier department store at Eighth and Market (with $2.9 million in city financing). This summer, Nutter signed a bill (introduced by outgoing City Councilman and billboard enthusiast Frank DiCicco) to create an outdoor advertising district

in Market East to replace the grit with Times Square-style glitter. Philadelphia Real Estate Investment Trust is planning to renovate and upgrade the Gallery Mall, and a 2009 city plan — now finally coming to fruition — calls for the redevelopment of the south side of the street’s 1100 block. The rumor is it will be anchored by a Target. Gurion and the manager of the nearby discount store Gallo Clothing both said the block’s landlord, Girard Estate, has switched all tenants to month-to-month leases in anticipation of an eviction. Girard Estate referred questions to SRS Real Estate, which administers those leases; SRS did not respond to a request for comment. “Yeah, we’re scared,” said the manager of Gallo Clothing, where women, mostly black, shuffled through the aisles. Across the street, members of the cultlike Upper Darby-based Israelite School of Universal Practical Knowledge, dressed in fatigues and medieval tunics, shouted their homily against whites, Africans, Jews and Muslims to a small cluster of onlookers. Nearby street vendors selling watches and apparel did not want to speak to City Paper. The homeless, drug users, ranting cults, vacant storefronts, off-brand shopping: Reports and news articles about Market East tend to describe the area as “in decline,” the “hole in the doughnut” between more touristy and upscale sections of downtown. But the area is more than that: It’s working-class, black Center City. As Yale sociologist Elijah Anderson puts it in Cosmopolitan Canopy, his spring 2011 book about the neighborhood, the Gallery

“Big guys make decisions for the small guys.”

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✚ LAND TRUST Early this spring, South Philly residents Mark Berman and Jessica Calter grew tired of looking at the overgrown, trash-strewn lots at the corner of Fourth and Manton streets — a former pocket park from the 1960s — and decided to take action. They went through the proper channels: consulting with Councilman Frank DiCicco’s office, partnering with the city’s Parks and Recreation Department, fliering the neighborhood, and gathering a group of about 15 neighbors, who’ve spent every Tuesday night since June clearing debris, cleaning and planting a garden. Berman was pretty confident: “When you see on the city plan that it’s a park, and the Parks Department tells you that it is a park, is there any reason to doubt it?” Turns out there was, as neighbors learned in November, when they spotted surveyors in what had become their neighborhood gathering place. On investigation, they found that the

land had been sold at public auction, that a developer was planning a residential structure and that the sale could close any day. Even as the community had been removing debris, an ordinance in City Council — introduced by DiCicco himself — was clearing the way for the land’s sale. Neighbors hastily changed their holiday party this past Sunday to a rally, and gathered 300 signatures on a petition. But it may be too late. Mike DiBerardinis, deputy mayor in charge of parks, says one problem was that his staff was working off a parks inventory from 2001, before the property was relinquished as surplus land. And Nick Schmanek, director of constituent services for DiCicco, says the reason for the apparent conflict out of his office was that the group had originally requested use of 1216

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✚ POWER STRUGGLE It’s a time for out-of-the-box thinking in Harrisburg: redistricting time, when the legislature redraws districts (for the state House and Senate, and for the U.S. House of Representatives) to reflect population shifts. It’s also, naturally, a moment of partisan tension. State Rep. Babette Josephs (D-Phila) is accusing right-wing Rep. Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler) and state House Majority Leader Mike Turzai (R-Allegheny) of “push[ing] through a congressional map that the public will have little to no time to examine or [comment on].... This is not democracy. It is dictatorship.” Indeed, the redistricting bill, as of press time, had basically no content. Just sentences like “The First District is composed of a portion of this Commonwealth.” After the census, Pennsylvania lost a U.S. House seat. Republicans want to ensure that seat ends up belonging to a Democrat — probably by merging two Democratic Pittsburgh>>> continued on page 9

IRIS MARIE BLOOM

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³ A JOURNALIST-TURNED-activist, Bloom started the grassroots group Protecting Our Waters to fight shale gas drilling in the region. We checked in with her after the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) canceled a vital Nov. 21 vote that would have cleared the way for fracking upriver. City Paper: How did you become a fracking activist? Iris Marie Bloom: I first learned about these issues in May of 2009, and I became

so alarmed so quickly that I wrote about 40 or 50 articles in a row for University City Review. But it became clear that writing was not enough, so I began to blog about it, to be an educator and founded Protecting Our Waters in fall 2009. So it’s been two years of overt activism. CP: What’s your take on the DRBC vote postponement?

West Philadelphia resident; founder, Protecting Our Waters

IMB: It’s a really huge victory. It was very much against the odds. Everyone, including at some points ourselves, believed the vote would happen and that it would go against us, but the fact that we kept pushing on five to 10 different fronts at all times, that’s what I credit our victory to. It’s the use of multiple tactics, the cultivating of a really broad base, getting unions, faith-based communities, physicians, scientists, students, businesses all involved, so it’s not just the usual suspects. … But all victories are temporary. This will come back. DRBC will try to have another vote at some point. And if it took 75,000 people to turn it around this time, it’s going to take >>> continued on page 9

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DRAWING CONCLUSIONS Our Comics Issue [Dec. 1] was a disappointment to citypaper.net commenter mdschill, who wrote: “Eight comics? … There were 12 comics in last year’s print issue, and 11 in 2009. I would love to see a comics issue with, I dunno, eight PAGES of comics.” But the cover illustration by the great Art Baxter, who served as our judge, earned the praise of commenter monet: “Great cover! Best in years!” FRACKING’S REALITY Speaking of comics, the panel we printed spoofing old-school tourist postcards [“Greetings from Fracksylvania,” Elan Weissman, Nov. 24] didn’t sit well with Seth Steinbacher, who emailed: “The map shows Philly, Scranton and Pittsburgh but leaves a big white blank space in the middle of the state. … Your paper suffers from a similar myopia — in all of your discussion of the pros and cons, you’ve neglected to go to the epicenter of fracking and see things for yourself. Go to Williamsport, drive up Route 15 South and smell for yourself what burn-off from a gas well stinks like. Talk to locals who’ve seen their businesses boom. Then interview those who can’t afford to rent or buy in their own hometown because prices have skyrocketed since every available property gets snatched up by gas men.” AND OCCUPY’S REALITY Our Naked City blog post quoting Occupy Philly protesters regarding what really happened during their eviction from Dilworth Plaza [“Hundreds gather for Occupy phase two,” Samantha Melamed, Nov. 30] received kudos.A reader named Marshall wrote, “I was very happy to see someone write about how the city’s portrayal that this was a peaceful eviction by the police force is false.” Likewise, Viktoria wrote, “Thank you SO MUCH for the honest coverage of the Occupy Philly meeting yesterday, as well as highlighting the police brutality that occurred that mainstream news sources are ignoring.” NOTHING TO AD Our Naked City blog post about the reaction to City Council’s ordinance allowing digital wraps at the foot of the Ben Franklin Bridge [“SCRUB: Neighborhood groups will sue if mayor signs controversial signage legislation,” Samantha Melamed, Dec. 2] caused commenter nala to note: “This is what outsized representation can get you if you are dirty rich. We have to change Councilmanic Prerogative and that tradition of ‘we’ve always done it this way!’” ✚ We welcome and encourage your feedback. Mail letters to Feedback, City Paper, 123 Chestnut St., 3rd Floor, Phila., PA 19106. E-mail editorial@citypaper.net or comment online at citypaper.net. Submissions may be edited for clarity and space.

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S. Fourth St., which is just one part of the park, not the adjoining lots (405-411 Manton St.) that are now in the process of being sold. (Community members dispute that.) Still, Schmanek says DiCicco is attempting to stop the sale, “but there’s no guarantee that he’s going to be successful.” DiBerardinis says he understands the community’s frustration, but he does see a silver lining.“It’s essentially a positive thing to have this land that was up until a few years ago worthless to be now seen as valuable. It’s a good sign — but we have to manage it right.”

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is a “destination and hangout for ghetto residents who choose to leave their own neighborhoods each day and come downtown to interact with others,” including a “virtual senior center” of elderly black men in the food court. “It is a very reasonable place to sit and relax,” Anderson told CP. “On hot days, it’s cool. On cold days, it’s warm. You can see your friends there. Get coffee. And it’s all relatively safe compared to the streets of North Philly.” In an interview with KYW, Center City District president Paul Levy complained about the area’s ambiance, saying his first priority is “just making sure that basic codes are enforced, so there are not blaring speakers coming out of the store windows.” He compared it unfavorably to the “successful retail on 13th Street, where people are sitting out at cafes … walking in and out of the stores. That’s the sort of experience we want to have on Market East.” Though low-income shoppers would not be able to afford the sort of expensive restaurants that populate the now-gentrified Gayborhood corridor, Levy insists a redeveloped Market East will welcome the whole city. “The Reading Terminal Market is proof that well-managed retail centers can serve people of all incomes and backgrounds,” Levy told CP. Although no one has asked for their opinion, many small businesses do want a more high-end Market East. Darryl King, manager of the two-story Sound of Market record store, summed up his feelings about the district in one word: “Dismal. It’s the plight you’re seeing in a lot of cities,” he said. Throughout Philadelphia, developers perceive the city’s widespread poverty as an obstacle to upmarket development. But sensitivity to race and class rarely make it into the developer’s lexicon. “A lot of these people read race right out of everything,” said Anderson. “They pretend it doesn’t exist.” Even the Gallery, when it was built in 1977, was designed as an urban mall that would win back shoppers from the booming suburbs. But its department stores and those nearby, once cathedrals of consumption for the growing city of the early and mid-20th century mostly closed in recent decades, unable to stem the middle-class suburban exodus. Many of the area’s current small businesses were opened from the 1980s on. Repeated and failed efforts at redevelopment include turning Chestnut Street into a pedestrian mall in the 1970s, to near disastrous effect. A decade ago, the city tried to lure a Disney theme park to Eighth and Market — and was left with estimated tens of millions of dollars in lost public monies and a gaping pit in the ground dubbed the “Disney Hole.” More recently, Foxwoods considered opening a casino in Chinatown, in the Gallery and then in Strawbridge’s before the effort imploded under financial duress and neighborhood protests. Now, though, things are different. The newspapers’ relocation and the new advertising district — which requires sign owners to invest in improving their properties — could be “the trigger” for longdelayed redevelopment, according to Philadelphia

City Planning Commission chairman Alan Greenberger, who is also the city’s Deputy Mayor for Economic Development. Greenberger, like Levy, insisted there will be room for low-income shoppers: “You have what started out as not highend, but in the initial days, a very middle-of-the-road shopping center. … It has become a shopping area of choice for people from poorer areas of city because they can get there on transit. Ultimately, I don’t think you fight that. It’s a good thing, and people are entitled to it.” Yet, when asked why small businesses had not been included in the planning, he suggested they didn’t have a long-term stake in the area: Redevelopment will increase rents, drawing in new stores — and pricing out the old. “The market typically

“Developers pretend race doesn’t exist.” responds,” he said. Small business owners, who describe themselves as good corporate citizens on the block, see it differently. “I know all of the business owners, and none of them have been consulted,” said a man named Adam, whose family owns the Stereo Sound on Market Street. They complain about things that all small businesses complain about: too little parking, too much bureaucracy — and why aren’t there Christmas lights up on Market Street? And they, too, complain about the homeless people and drug addicts. “First, they need to get rid of the methadone clinic,” said Jeanine, who has owned Philly’s Gold for the past 15 years. “That’s number one. All day long, it’s the walking dead out here.” “The small business owners are how they get the money to rebuild,” she added. “Those are our tax dollars. They should educate us to their game plan.” (daniel.denvir@citypaper.net)

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area districts. Redistricting of state House and Senate districts is further along. The Legislative Reapportionment Commission, made up of two leaders from each party and, in this case, a Republican judge appointed by the Supreme Court as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;neutralâ&#x20AC;? tiebreaker, has already approved a (Republican-penned) draft. One Republican district was shaped like the letter â&#x20AC;&#x153;Câ&#x20AC;? in a naked effort to avoid Democratic areas of bankrupt Harrisburg. But then, redistricting is always a political process, says Franklin and Marshall College political scientist Terry Madonna. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is about power. This is not a civics lesson. This is a civics lesson in the use of power: How about that?â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Daniel Denvir

â&#x153;&#x161; GET OUT OF TOWN Philadelphia magazine certainly aims to please a high-end suburban readership (Top Doctors, Top Dentists, Top Homes!). But they have perhaps never pissed off city-dwellers as much as

when they decided to include the Mummers on their â&#x20AC;&#x153;10 Things We Need To Get Rid Ofâ&#x20AC;? list â&#x20AC;&#x201D; part of Decemberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mindnumbing List Issue. CA Conrad, the award-winning Philadelphia-loving, proudly queer working-class poet, was furious: He criticized them on their Facebook page (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Your magazine proves more and more that you are ONLY FOR Phillieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s [sic] 1%!â&#x20AC;?), and was blocked (â&#x20AC;&#x153;I SWEAR TO GOD THE MOMENT YOU BLOCK ME IS THE MOMENT I APPEAR AT YOUR OFFICE â&#x20AC;Ś AND BRING STRING BANDS!â&#x20AC;?). He then showed up to their office (sans string band) and was escorted out by security after demanding to speak to an editor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a working-class town, Philly,â&#x20AC;? Conrad wrote on his blog. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This city does not belong to the rich.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Daniel Denvir

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racy and a terrible insult to the environment. Those bills arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t law yet, so we have a little window of time. What we would really like to see is a statewide moratorium. â&#x20AC;Ś But in a state dominated by Gov. Corbett and the deep pockets of the drilling industry, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very hard to get a moratorium passed.

CP: So it could just be delaying the inevitable? IMB: What weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re hoping is that Gov. Markell of

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Delaware will stay true to his word. What he said was what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been saying all along, which is that we need to have a cumulative impact study before we even start making the rules. No study, no rules, no frack. And if he stays true to that, then the delay will be at least a year. And what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re finding is with every delay, more scientific evidence emerges of just how serious the public health implications of fracking really are.

be done? IMB: Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m very determined. And I would say Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m about as optimistic as I was before the DRBC victory. Because before the DRBC victory, people kept saying, â&#x20AC;&#x153;You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a chance, do you?â&#x20AC;? And I said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Well, we have a sliver of a whisper of a ghost of a chance.â&#x20AC;? So I think now we have a whisper of a chance. And because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so important, because animals are going to die, people are going to die and our climate is going to move faster and faster toward real global scorching, I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stop.

CP: What about the fracking laws within

Pennsylvania? IMB: On the same day we found out about the

DRBC victory, we had a major defeat statewide, by way of a bill called SB1100/HB1950, which takes away the right of municipalities throughout Pennsylvania to limit gas drilling by using zoning. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a terrible slap in the face for democ-

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Samantha Melamed

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VISUAL AID A funding crunch could doom a beloved jobtraining program for former prisoners and people on probation. By Cassie Owens

n late November, the city’s Mural Arts Program (MAP) unveiled a new mural facing the second-floor elevators of the Philadelphia District Attorney’s office. Titled “Community, Fidelity, Integrity,” the work includes the DA’s oath of office and flat-screens displaying photos of community events, framed by a colorful archway and images of city neighborhoods and residents. The piece was dedicated as a gesture of appreciation to the DA’s staff. But the source of the gesture is a curious one: It was painted and installed by prisoners and ex-offenders, through Restorative Justice, an MAP-run initiative that brings art into the conversation on rehabilitation. Now, due to a funding crunch, that conversation could be abbreviated. Restorative Justice, which began informally within county and state prisons more than a decade ago and expanded to a formal department of MAP in 2006, seeks to combat recidivism through hands-on training as well as art-making. The Guild, a job-readiness program that’s part of Restorative Justice and operates through the Philly prison system and Youth Violence Reduction Partnership, helps ex-offenders and people on probation become proficient in carpentry, landscaping and more. They attend workshops on résumé building, participate in yoga classes and poetry readings, and train in technical and artistic aspects of mural-making. But about three-quarters of the Guild’s $600,000 annual budget currently comes from a $1.4 million, three-year Byrne Stimulus

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District Attorney Seth Williams at the dedication of a new mural.

Grant, administered by the U.S. Department of Justice through the city of Philadelphia. Mural Arts is ineligible to reapply for that onetime award — and, according to Restorative Justice director Robyn Buseman, has yet to find sponsorship to compensate for the grant, which will terminate this coming August. “Wherever our program matches the funding needs [of a grantor], we’re applying,” Buseman says. “But currently we have no grant applications outstanding.” Buseman says that the city has been proactive in helping MAP seek funding to continue the initiative, but whether any city funds will be devoted to the program won’t be clear until Philadelphia’s budget is finalized in the spring. While Restorative Justice does collect around $150,000 from the Philadelphia prison system to support its work with inmates, if Mural Arts fails to find new sponsors, the Guild program — which serves those outside prison — could be gutted. That would be devastating for Restorative Justice, which boasts a recidivism rate of 14 percent, more than 40 percentage points below the national average. It would also be a blow to MAP, given that Restorative Justice has a

hand in at least 25 to 30 murals each year. And that doesn’t factor in the program’s less tangible impacts experienced by Guild graduates like Salon Smith, who worked on the mural at the DA’s office. “I get to use public art to express a feeling or an emotion … it gives me that voice,” Smith says. “As long I have that voice to speak, maybe I can help someone into the next level.” Restorative Justice has also served as a conduit for understanding — as was the case in the creation of “Community, Fidelity, Integrity,” which was created with input from DA staff. District Attorney Seth Williams sees the project, and potential future collaborations, as avenues for transforming attitudes. “What I’ve really learned is that reducing crime is really more of a cultural issue, and we can affect the hearts and minds of people through art much more than the threat of a 20-year sentence,” he says. There is wall space for future mural projects within the District Attorney Office’s satellite Community Action Centers. Whether there will be funds to complete those projects is less certain. (cassie.owens@citypaper.net)

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Our books columnist throws unanimity to the wind. BY JUSTIN BAUER

t was not a great year for consensus. There’s no Stieg Larsson to anchor the best-seller lists, and nothing like Freedom to suck the hot air out of a room. This can make things difficult if you’re just looking for something to wrap up for your maiden aunt with all the cats. But it’s great for listmakers and critics, and for the blizzard that’s probably right around the corner. Here are 10 books to be excited about at the end of this year, and seven reasons why.

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THERE’S NO REASON TO BE ASHAMED OF READING GENRE FICTION ANYMORE One of the things that e-readers were supposed to do was pump up sales of books that would otherwise be marginalized — romance novels, horror stories, things you don’t want anyone to glimpse the spine of on your bookshelf. But with Lev Grossman’s The Magician King (Viking, Aug. 9) delivering a sequel that betters the wised-up pleasures of its predecessor, and with Colson Whitehead’s Zone One (Doubleday, Oct. 18) following the trend of serious novelists working with material traditionally considered beneath them, wizards and zombies don’t cause much embarrassment anymore. The best trick Grossman has up his sleeve comes from the way he treats fantasy — his complex, thorny characters give the kid stuff second and third dimensions. Whitehead’s novel, on the other hand, distills the social commentary that’s already coded into zombie stories to an individual, existential chill.

THE INTENTIONALLY DIFFICULT STUFF PAYS BACK THE INVESTMENT Jesse Ball’s The Curfew (Vintage, June 14) and Scott Sparling’s Wire to Wire (Tin House, June 1) are entirely different kinds of experiments, with Ball minimal and symbolic and Sparling expansive, digressive and fractured. Sparling plays with narrative and memory and unreliable perceptions of time, but it’s the pileup of sensory details that makes his debut novel so tangible. The Curfew displays Ball’s characteristic balance of precision

and vagueness, but with the emotional immediacy and clarity his previous work — and most experimental writing — lacks.

RECYCLED BEATS BRAND-NEW Irmgard Keun’s After Midnight (Melville House, May 31), translated by Anthea Bell, is sharp and biting and affecting. It paints a better picture of pre-war, post-Weimar Germany than most historical novels, featuring a narrator who’s recognizable and relatable even as she shows ordinary Germans’ tolerance, and even embrace, of the tension and contradictions of life under the Nazi party. Keun’s slim, focused novel is so bright and fresh, it’s easy to forget the book was written in 1937 and in exile.

THICKER, AND WISER, THAN WATER When Eli Sisters takes pains, at the opening of Patrick deWitt’s The Sisters Brothers (Ecco, May 3), to make it clear he feels sympathy for his new horse after being compelled to whip him, “which some men do not mind doing and which in fact some enjoy doing, but which I did not like to do,” he marks his story as a peculiar kind of Western. It’s actually Eli’s concern for clarity (and hygiene) that makes DeWitt’s bloody story more than a period lark. Donald Ray Pollock, on the other hand, delights in the murky swamp of sex and death at the boundaries of the Southern Gothic; his very unclear glee animates his bloody, icky The Devil All the Time (Doubleday, July 12). continued on page 20

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BQ MANY HAPPY RETURNS Stocking full of regretsies? Put these on your 2012 wish list. Romney, Bachmann, Gingrich or … uh … Taft? Suppose for a moment that when the 6-foot, 300-pound William Howard Taft, 27th president of the United States, lost his re-election campaign in 1912, he didn’t go on to become chief justice or fight prohibition as head of the American Bar Association. Imagine instead that out of defeat or embarrassment or plain ol’ sleepiness, he just took a little 99-year catnap. In Jason Heller’s new novel, Taft 2012 (Quirk, Jan. 17), Big Bill’s back and ready to win back the hearts of American voters. In line with typical Quirkian revisionist-historical plotlines, Taft is his usual conservative Republican self — but he’s also fascinated by flavored water, the perpetuity of baseball and the existence of “dignified vaudeville” WKRP in Cincinnati. Oh, and he has a Twitter account (@taft2012 if you care to follow). No zombies to speak of here, but plenty of silly revelations and hypothetical political in-fighting to convince you that, given the real-life alternatives, Taft wouldn’t be so bad. Taking a macro approach to America’s urban farming movement, Breaking Through Concrete (University of California, Jan. 30) puts the spotlight on 12 organizations that have gone from small-biz gardener to city-agriculture revolutionary. The vibrant, gorgeously photographed volume shares myriad green-thumbed success stories, from a Seattle community garden program to a farm therapy program in Santa Cruz, from a Brooklyn rooftop garden to an agriculture school for inner-city Detroit teens. Philadelphia’s Greensgrow Farms gets a shout-out, too, for its pursuit of a low-income CSA that would support Fishtown’s diverse immigrant population. Laced among Concrete’s dozen stories are helpful how-tos, on everything from raising urban livestock and building a green roof to the tedious process of changing zoning codes, should you be ready to turn your urban-farming dream into an economically fruitful reality. From the department of Perfect Hipster Stocking Stuffers, Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume I (It Books, Dec. 6) has fallen off the gift-guide radar. Maybe because it’s so adorkably wee, best-of compilers refuse to take it seriously. But they are foolish! Through a collaboration with hitrecord.org, Gordon-Levitt’s first crop of readersubmitted, illustration-focused stories (volumes 2 and 3 are forthcoming) is often magical and never laborious: Stories max out at a sweet sentence or two (see: “King Midas often wondered what would happen if he touched himself”; “The outsider stood beside/ The little low tide, as it dried/ And he sighed as he decided, ‘We’d be better off inside’”). Buy it for your brooding-artist cousin, but then selfishly decide to keep it for yourself. —Carolyn Huckabay

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BQ telling images: “Skin cancer pocks like small clusters of stars, sprained knees like forks of lightning, dislocated shoulders like the torch-lit rooms of ancient houses.”

JOHN IRVING, AND PROBABLY TOM WOLFE, CAN FINALLY RETIRE Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding (Little, Brown, Sept. 27) is, by necessity, expansive: It’s a novel about NCAA Division III baseball, which would be dreadfully boring if it didn’t reach for a larger significance. In Harbach’s case, he combines the best mythical aspects of the sports novel and the wry humor of the campus novel with stylized realism and gemütlichkeit for a big, humane comic novel. More importantly, though, Fielding is a sports novel that doesn’t just channel the heroism and sacrifice of the player, but celebrates the faith and dedication of the fan.

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Kevin Brockmeier’s The Illumination (Pantheon, Feb. 1) has the kind of high-concept setup you’d expect from something made-for-TV, and a complicated chain of coincidence and circumstance linking six narrators together. By rights, the strain

of keeping all that scaffolding together should end in collapse, but the book’s central conceit — the Illumination itself, an unexplained and maybe inexplicable phenomenon that causes pain to register visibly, as shining light — allows Brockmeier to show off a range of distinct, assured variations on pain, isolation and suffering, punctuated by clear,

And also a hell-themed amusement park, a teenage girl who dates ghosts, and the long, sad history of the Everglades. The most remarkable thing about Karen Russell’s Swamplandia! (Knopf, Feb. 1) isn’t the outlandish details, or the suspense and terror she builds up around 13-year-old Ava’s search to rescue her older sister. Russell’s talent lies in the level of images and sentences, where everything’s humid, overripe, threateningly atrophied — stranger and stronger the closer you look at it. (j_bauer@citypaper.net)

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³ WHEN TOMMY HILL died Sunday after being

shot outside an East Mount Airy bar, Philly’s hip-hop roots came sprouting. Hill grew up hard in North Philly’s Richard Allen projects. That’s where his rap act RAM Squad got its name (Richard Allen Mob), vicious éclat and gangsta swagger. They released 1998’s Thee Album Regardless through their own Bankroll Entertainment and joined with Universal for R.andom A.ccess M.oney, but he couldn’t escape his drug-dealing past. Hill was arrested in the mid-2000s for selling crack. Famously, he got his career started with help from Joey Merlino, and had found himself the target of feds who pushed Hill to rat on dealer compatriots. Yet he tried to get his life together with music production offices outside Philly’s city limits.“When it came to promoting artists or events, Tommy was one of the best in town,” says Bernie Resnick,Hill’s longtime attorney. (Resnick is facing loss with the passing of his father, who died weeks ago. Condolences.) “He moved in many circles and was as comfortable hanging on the stoop of a North Philly row house as he was the boardroom of a major entertainment company.” ³ I grew up in a Polish neighborhood so I can assure you the very best of paloozas is a Latkepalooza. On Dec. 11 at the Gershman Y’s Hamilton Hall you can tuck into the delicate oily potato pancake graced by grated garlic, onion or both. Tashan, Delicatessen and Federal Donuts will tell you whether the latkes are sweet, savory or straight. ³ So far, Philly Live’s 55,000-square-foot stripmall complex (poor old Spectrum) has, as its best acquisition, a Professional Bull Riders Restaurant with a mechanical bull. Hmmph. ³ MilkBoy Philly hosts a bon voyage for Stephan Hayes — The Good Problems boss who bravely became a he after long being a she — and Mike “Slo-Mo” Brenner,Dec. 9. Hayes is heading to China, where his lady love teaches, for seven months. Brenner’s going to Calcutta, India, to study with Debashish Bhattacharya, a master Hindustani slide guitarist. ³ In the everything-old-is-new department, there’s Pine Bros. Cough Drops, a Philly brand born in 1870 at Eighth and Walnut when J. Herman Pine’s glycerine tablets became softish and sweet. In 1930, Pine sold out to Life Savers Co.,who resold it in the ’70s, and the brand dwindled. Now the drop is the property of 3 Sisters Home Products, aka Victoria Knight-McDowell,the creator/ex-owner of Airborne tablets, and her Princeton, N.J.-born hubby Thomas John Rider McDowell (screenwriter/director of The Mercy Man and Whacked). Pine Bros. is rebranding with the help of rockabilly ads and live events around the country. Look for the Pinemobile Dec. 16-17 in South Philly. ³ More Ice drops at citypaper.net/criticalmass, honey. (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)

LORD OF THE RINGERS: For HiFi Disco’s debut, Bruce Reinfeld enlisted Brian Christinzio, Patrick Berkery and other notables from the Philly music scene.

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SPARED NO EXPENSE HiFi Disco’s Bruce Reinfeld on dropping cash and kicking ass. By A.D. Amorosi

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’m not a poor artist or musician,” says Bruce Reinfeld. Now that’s not something you hear every day, much less from a Northern Liberties-based photographer and guitarist. Reinfeld has a thriving small business — High Fidelity Distribution Co. — through which he sells hand-colored blackand-white photos done in 35mm and 120mm formats. “Analog style for a digital world” is the philosophy behind his un-staged photographs that capture the mundane he’s come across while traveling the country. He also sells his High Fidelity T-shirts, coasters and tiles (notably to stars like Dave Grohl and Drew Barrymore) as well as a “Jews Kick Ass” series of goods featuring big-name Abraham-ic celebs such as Jesus and Bob Dylan. “As crucial as music is to me — I picked up the camera at the same time I picked up the guitar — art pays the bills,” he says. “I see musician friends and their struggles and decided that I can’t do it like that ever again where I just rely on trying to sell my songs. Too painful.” Throughout the ’90s, the UArts grad led the power-popping Polar Creep. Now, under the name HiFi Disco, Reinfeld’s set to release Analog Style for a Digital World, a debut album of full-bodied pop. And since he’s no starving artist, he didn’t get stingy when he went into the studio. Specifically, he went to Miner Street Studio, where

revered producer Brian McTear set him up before a wall of sound and a moody Murderer’s Row of locals such as Jealous Type bassist Tommy Ciccone, Bigger Lovers drummer Patrick Berkery and B-3 organist Brian Christinzio, better known as B.C. Camplight. The oddball effort has a Tchad Blake vibe (think mid-period Crowded House and Elvis Costello) with a dense, murky ambience and cranky, popping melodies. “I think there’s beauty and sadness in my art,” says Reinfeld. “McTear coaxed it out of me. Brian has the ability to make each song have a life of its own while keeping an overall tone to the project.” There’s something off-kilter to this album that you can’t quite put your finger on. “Analog Style for a Digital World is, like my photographs, all pretty colors that cover up what lies beneath the surface.” Reinfeld’s no Thurston Howell III (Thurston Moore, maybe). But he does schedule his touring art exhibitions so he can snowboard in Tahoe (“I’ve logged 200,000 highway miles in the past five years”) and run a High Fidelity retail store in New York City. Still, it’s the lonely isolation of traveling for the last halfdecade that drives Analog Style. “I really have waited a long time for these songs — for them to run through my system and be ripe enough to write down, to get them recorded in the proper manner,” he says. (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)

“I picked up the camera at the same time I picked up the guitar.”

HiFi Disco plays Thu., Dec. 8, 9:30 p.m., $10, with Pete Donnelly and Outside the Box, MilkBoy Philly, 1100 Chestnut St., 215-925-MILK, milkboyphilly.com.

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Like Mudhoney before them — and Crazy Horse before them — Philly trio Tin Horses uses punk-filtered Americana to tell rough, raspy tales of dependency (“Amphetamine”) and desperation (the brilliant, six-minute, elegiac glazer “You Took Care of Me While I Was Dyin”). But for as much as Tin Horses — who play Kung Fu Necktie tonight (Dec. 8, kungfunecktie.com) — thematically reside in the lowlands, a strong undercurrent of optimism runs across their debut, American Radiance (released independently back in March). The turning point is “What Keeps You Goin,” where singerguitarist Kiel Everett sings, “You never did stop dreaming when life had lost its charms.” Times may be hard, but even broken people —John Vettese can find a reason to believe.

The Roots’ masterful new undun (Def Jam) — their 16th, and a concept album to boot — is a somber, subtle, emotional journey, with Black Thought as our guide. His rhymes narrate the life and times of Redford Stephens, a Philadelphia youth whose life spirals downward as he enters the drug game. According to ?uestlove, The Wire served as inspiration, and that makes sense: undun delivers an incredibly complex portrait of crime and poverty. —Cassie Owens

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Skip the liner notes to Ximena Sariñana’s self-titled first English-language recording (Warner Bros.) and you’d never guess these originals were written and sung in her second language. The songs are catchy, from beginning to end, completely contemporary in their phrasing and use of synthesized beats which serve the music rather than subjugating it. The vocals can be childlike and gleeful: “I got the wrong miracle/ oh yes it’s true/ the wrong miracle/ all I wanted was you.”

Just past everybody’s Best Album of the Year deadline, here come The Black Keys with El Camino (Nonesuch), possibly their catchiest, danciest, lushest release yet. Their ferocious drums/bluesy guitar duo days long outgrown, Akron’s finest now make generous use of synths, backup singers, handclaps, funk grooves and “Billie Jean” beats, and it’s fun as —Patrick Rapa hell. Coulda been a contender.

—Mary Armstrong

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This is a collection of mainly 19th-century four-hand piano waltzes, rendered with poetic expression on an exquisite French piano built in 1892. Contemporary composer Wolfgang Rihm stitches them together with new music.

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Local composer Jeremy Gill writes music that evokes the ancient power of the art, in the manner of his teacher, George Crumb, as in the piano work Book of Hours. He can also conjure the great German lieder tradition, as in Helian. LESLIE HOWARD Rachmaninoff Sonatas 1&2 ( M E L B A )

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and she wears a pink tutu to her ballet lessons. As she steps and twirls, the camera observes the 6-year-old closely, her face composed, each foot carefully placed. Jeanne’s (Malonn Lévana) 10-year-old sister, Laure Michaël (Zoé Héran), prefers blue. Chronicling their family’s move to an apartment in the Marne Valley, outside Paris, Céline Sciamma’s film presents the sisters’ relationship and changing circumstances from their perspectives: As their parents chat in the kitchen, the camera remains low. It’s summertime, and their mother is distractedly pregnant, so the girls are left to find their way around their new neighborhood. When Laure meets Lisa (Jeanne Disson), who mistakes her for a boy, Laure takes on the new role without thinking it through. She renames herself Michaël and, over the rest of the summer, sees how different life is for boys: They can take their shirts off, play soccer, flirt with girls. Laure can’t anticipate how complicated her secret will become, that she can’t bring Lisa home to meet her parents or tell Jeanne where she’s gone during the day. When Jeanne does get wind of what’s going on, the sisters hang on to the secret, exploring the possibilities of boyness and how it frames experience and expectations. It’s this relationship that shapes the film, as parents become upset and other children feel betrayed. Even as Laure is “found out,” the film doesn’t resolve the dilemma of gender she’s stumbled on. How do mothers and fathers make decisions based on gender? How is a 10-yearold girl similar to or different from her 6-year-old sister? How do friends assess each other? It’s a terrific set of questions, and Tomboy lets you imagine your own answers. —Cindy Fuchs

Hamelin, a longtime Philly resident now in Boston, has been writing music for years, but this is the first album solely devoted to his work. It is not surprising, but it is fantastic; dense, lush, extraordinary textures, and played with his usual wizardry.

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MALE MERGE: In Céline Sciamma’s film, Zoé Héran plays a 10-year-old girl who spends a summer exploring the possibilities of boyness.

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IRELAND!/ UNITED KINGDOM! ³ CONCEPT ALBUMS RUN the gamut from the truly suck-ass (such as Styx’s Kilroy Was Here and Kiss’ The Elder), to the fairly decent (like The Who Sell Out), to the hilarious (Frank Zappa’s Joe’s Garage and The Coolies’ Doug, for example), to the great (like … OK, there’s never really been a great concept album). But, at least, now there is a really, really good one out there: VNV Nation’s Automatic. If you’re not familiar with British/Irish electro/synth band VNV Nation, that’s most likely because you’re overly familiar with fixed-wheel bikes, ironic thick-rimmed glasses, and LCD Soundsystem (on vinyl). If this is indeed the case, maybe it would be a good idea if you stepped into the other room and quietly fucked yourself to death while the grown-ups discuss music. The concept behind Automatic is that of “future-retro,” an explanation that doesn’t help one bit, so let’s try this: Imagine if Fritz Lang built a time machine, traveled to the future, and asked VNV Nation to contribute to the

soundtrack to Metropolis. Now imagine a nude, reanimated Mother Theresa fighting off cybernetic bears with laser cannon. As with VNV’s last release, Of Faith, Power and Glory, not every song on Automatic clicks, but the ones that do — “Space & Time,” “Control,” “Resolution” and “Radio” — get the job done.

It ain’t perfect, but these are guys who gave us “Chrome,” “Nemesis,” “Art of Conflict” and, of course, “Illusion” — the only song that can make the eyes of every Rivethead within 20 miles misty; the least we can do is to cut ’em a tiny fuckin’ break. (r_anonymous@citypaper.net)

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SIGISWALD KUIJKEN/ LA PETITE BANDE Bach Brandenberg Concertos (ACCENT)

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Entrancing music for percussion and computer effects, exactingly performed by composer Chris Brown and percussionist William Winant. Think Steve Reich on Quaaludes. LEON KIRCHNER Music for Orchestra ( A L B A N Y )

The late Leon Kirchner was an American master, and his tough but beautifully wellcrafted orchestra music is a special treat. He is the soloist in his own Piano Concerto here, from a historic 1956 recording. (p_burwasser@citypaper.net)

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lose weight? Maybe it’s the hair — so let’s hop right in. ³ Laurel & Hardy: The Essential Collection

Not complete, owing to pesky rights issues, but an overflowing cornucopia of fine messes, starring some of the precious few performers to successfully bridge the silent and sound eras. Comprising more than 50 films spread over 10 discs in new transfers that enthusiasts say best all previous editions, it’s an embarrassment of riches. You’ll have to hunt for commentary tracks by Dick Van Dyke and Jerry Lewis as well as L&H historians, but there’s plenty of motivation to browse around. ³ Friday Night Lights After the wife and I fin-

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collection does for the USSR what Treasures does for the U.S., presenting the long-overdue debuts of movies by Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov, among many others. Turksib and Salt for Svanetia were key texts for British and American documentarians who preferred to tell stories in poetry rather than prose, while Esther Shub’s The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty has a solid claim on creating the found-footage doc. They’re works of astonishing beauty as well as profound historical import, and they’ve been out of circulation long enough to surprise all but the most devout cinephile. (s_adams@citypaper.net) Read an extended version of Discworld at citypaper.net/movies.

umn top to bottom solely with offerings from the Criterion collection, but let’s zero in on two especially epochal releases. The first collects the slim but essential body of work left by Jean Vigo, an anarchic poet who died at the age of 29. The 44-minute Zéro de conduite is his masterwork, a portrait of a boys’-school revolt that becomes a protest against sense itself, but the feature-length L’Atalante is nearly its equal. The story of a tattooed barge captain’s first days afloat with his new wife is a light-fingered precursor to Eraserhead, with newly-

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ished The Wire earlier this year — don’t judge — I asked my virtual friends what series we should watch next. I knew the result almost as soon as I posted the question, and sure enough, FNL was the hands-down winner. (Then we went ahead and watched The Good Wife, just for kicks.) Although it hasn’t quite scaled The Wire’s august heights, there’s no recent show that’s prompted such uniform praise, from gridiron fans as well as those who can’t tell a flea flicker from a punt return. Universal’s slim set, about the size of a good Russian novel, goes soup to nuts on the TV series expansion of Buzz Bissinger’s nonfiction book. Lord knows pre-professional football could use all the good press it can get.

The success of the National Film Preservation Foundation’s Treasures series is one of few signs that humanity isn’t sliding into the abyss. The typically overstuffed fifth installment focuses on images of the American West, ranging from documentaries to Tom Mix shorts, all drawn from the four decades before World War II. Although it’s creaky in places, Thomas Ince’s Last of the Line (Pride of Race) takes a surprisingly pro-Indian stance on westward expansion, even if it does cast the distinctly nonnative Sessue Hayakawa as its tribal lead. As always, the NFPF’s presentation is impeccable, drawn from carefully preserved prints and including new musical scores, commentaries and written essays that make for hours of engrossing study.

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wed anxieties represented by multiplying cats rather than slimy freak-babies. Meanwhile, Krzysztof Kieslowski’s crowning achievement hardly lacks for good press, but Criterion’s typically flawless editions of Blue, White and Red make you ache anew for an artist of Kieslowski’s ambition and moral insight.

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Inverting the privation of his striking debut, Hunger, Steve McQueen’s second feature is about an appetite indulged rather than suppressed. Michael Fassbender, whose stock has risen dramatically since playing an emaciated hunger striker for McQueen, here takes on the role of Brandon Sullivan, a cocksure Manhattan executive whose serial sport-fucking quickly reveals itself as an insatiable compulsion. As Brandon carries on with casual pickups, prostitutes and online pros, the movie itself risks falling prey to the monotony of addiction. Notwithstanding Sean Bobbitt’s cinematography, which aligns Fassbender’s impressive physique with the city’s glistening glass and steel, the encounters grow repetitive and numbing; if the object is to make beautiful people having sex boring, it works. Brandon’s rhythm is upset when his younger sister (Carey Mulligan) turns up in his apartment, desperate for both financial and moral support. She’s ostensibly an aspiring singer, although her maudlin rendition of “New York, New York” is amateurish and onthe-nose. McQueen has a weakness for pushing his points too hard, until they detach from the narrative and become freestanding works of their own. An extended brothersister tête-à-tête illuminated only by a flat-screen TV playing public-domain cartoons feels more like it belongs in the Whitney Biennial than the middle of a film. Late in Shame, McQueen and co-writer Abi Morgan tilt the story on its side, revealing Brandon’s addiction as a mere symp-

tom of a deeper rot, one that, for once, McQueen merely implies rather than pounding into the ground. McQueen has a keen eye and great taste in actors, but he tends to underline his ideas rather than developing them. There’s brilliance in Shame, but it’s dulled by repetition. —Sam Adams (Ritz Five)

THE SITTER Read Drew Lazor’s review at citypaper.net/movies. (Pearl, UA Riverview)

TOMBOY|A Read Cindy Fuchs’ review on p. 27. (Ritz at the Bourse)

A WARRIOR’S HEART|D Aimed (we hope) at tweens, this inspirational sports drama will arouse mostly yawns — and perhaps those smitten with hunky star Kellan Lutz. Playing a teen, the 26-year-old has a few sweaty shirtless scenes that display his impressive six-pack, but never his acting skills. Although he vents his rage as Conor, a high school lacrosse player with an attitude problem, the lame script gives Lutz’s character nothing but clichés to spout. After losing his father, Conor is unable to “suck it up” and manage his temper. Eventually, with the help of American Indian Sgt. Maj. Duke Wayne (Adam Beach), Conor learns humility, teamwork, discipline and respect (see: Miyagi, Mr.). Conor eventually competes in a Big Game against his old school for the National Championships. (No surprise how that turns out.) A Warrior’s Heart would be passable if it had some heart, but this soulless enterprise features only cardboard characters. In addition to the one-dimensional (save for his aforementioned six-pack) Conor, the film makes both his coach (William Mapother) and his love

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Although it’s laced with understated humor, The Descendants is Alexander Payne’s first “serious” film, which is more a matter of tone than thematic heft. George Clooney’s performance is almost entirely inward-focused, a study in slowly thawing withdrawal; it’s a cousin to his turn in last year’s The American, only without the art-house abstraction. There’s perhaps a bit too much self-conscious maturity here; Payne’s exploring new territory, but it also feels like he’s holding himself back, attempting to evolve through repression. The film could have been livelier without straying too far from its commendable nuance. —S.A. (Ritz East)

MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE|B+ Elizabeth Olsen makes a striking debut in Sean Durkin’s movie about a young woman decompressing from her time in a nebulously defined cult. The details of the group to which she belonged are left vague, but whatever beliefs they might espouse are less important than the sense of belonging. Whatever’s happened to her, she’s damaged beyond all but extensive repair, and it’s not clear what it will take for her to mend. —S.A. (Ritz Five)

MELANCHOLIA|B+ If Antichrist was Lars von Trier’s anguished depiction of his own crippling depression, which was so severe he couldn’t hold a camera steady for years, Melancholia is a coolly fatalistic reconciliation that not only accepts but embraces his illness. While it’s not as clinically detached as Dogville, Melancholia has a bloodless beauty, not unlike its pale-skinned heroine. The movie doesn’t stint on its planetsize central metaphor, building to a climax that puts the scope of modern

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HUGO|B+ Martin Scorsese’s latest is fated to be described endlessly as “a love letter to film,” and while his passion for cinema has never been more evident, Hugo isn’t as gushingly romantic in its overtures to the medium as some swooning mash note. Instead,

J. EDGAR|C Clint Eastwood’s penchant for sweeping out the dusty corners of bygone eras is done no favors by his bundling of the private J. Edgar Hoover, more myopic than biopic. Leonardo DiCaprio’s Hoover is a twitchy, odious caricature; while screenwriter Dustin Lance Black does well parsing the man’s much-dissected preferences, stoking real human warmth between Hoover and his suspected lover, these moments are infrequent, as Eastwood is too fixated on his jumping-bean narrative to think about whether we care about the people who comprise it. —Drew Lazor (Ritz Five) P H I L A D E L P H I A C I T Y PA P E R | D E C E M B E R 8 - D E C E M B E R 1 4 , 2 0 1 1 | C I T Y PA P E R . N E T |

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“Driven by a brilliant, ferocious performance by Michael Fassbender, ‘Shame’ is a real walk on the wild side. A cinematic jolt that is bracing to experience.”

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his depiction of filmmaking pioneer Georges Méliès is an effusion of uncontrolled passion and paralyzing heartbreak, a late-night missive scrawled in the heat of emotion and destined to be wadded up and tossed away in the morning light. Adapting Brian Selznick’s novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Scorsese has found a means to fully express his irrational and overwhelming adoration of the silver screen, and in a children’s film no less. But there is an undeniable magic to the worshipful re-creations of Méliès’ productions, and an electric wonder when these still-entrancing films jostle their way onto a screen usually reserved for only the modernest of spectacles. —Shaun Brady (Pearl, UA Riverview)

“Draws comparisons to Bertolucci’s Marlon Brando classic ‘Last Tango in Paris.’”

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movie theaters to vigorous use. But for a movie about losing control, Melancholia sometimes exercises too much of it. —S.A. (Ritz at the Bourse)

THE MUPPETS|C+ Growing up in a small town called Smalltown, Gary (Jason Segel) and Walter (voiced by Peter Linz) are inseparable — that’s because the human/puppet twosome are brothers who’ve conveniently bonded over their love of The Muppet Show since childhood. Making Walter a Muppet is an easy way to give Gary and main squeeze Mary (Amy Adams) a foot in the door once the trio travels to California to tour the dilapidated Muppet Studio, which they learn is scheduled to be demolished by evil oil exec Tex Richman (Chris Cooper, having fun). The problem is that Walter is lame and annoying, a clueless, codependent

whiner who’s a total hindrance on his brother’s relationship, his sole purpose being coaxing elder statesman Kermit (Steve Whitmire) into getting the gang back together for a benefit show to save the bricks. Yes, puppets can be unlikable. I was surprised, too. —D.L. (Pearl, UA Riverview)

THE SKIN I LIVE IN|AAntonio Banderas plays Robert Ledgard, a cosmetic surgeon obsessed with creating a more durable synthetic replacement for human skin. His guinea pig is a woman (Elena Anaya) who lives locked in an upstairs room in his massive house, her body covered by a form-fitting suit and her face encased in a translucent mask. Watching her exterior tells us little; it’s the way the pieces fit together that reveals. The Skin I Live In is Pedro Almodóvar’s best film in more than

a decade, supremely confident and deeply unsettling, with a climactic twist that all but requires repeat viewing. —S.A. (Ritz at the Bourse)

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108 E. Butler Ave., Ambler, 215-3457855, amblertheater.org. Home Alone (1990, U.S., 103 min.): Gimme a break, aftershave is not that bad. Sat., Dec. 10, 11 a.m., $4, free with toy donation.

William Way Community Center, 1215 Spruce, 215-732-2220, genderreelfest. com. Flow Affair (2010, U.S., 85 min.): A doc about the “flagging and fanning” craze that lit up NYC’s gay dancefloors in the 1970s. The screening is accompanied by a Q&A with director Wolfgang Busch and a performance by Flokaz. Fri., Dec. 9, 7 p.m., $10.

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The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St., armcinema25.com. A back-to-back screening of Funeral Procession of Roses (1969, Japan, 107 min.) and The Embryo Hunts in Secret (1966, Japan, 72 min.). Thu., Dec. 8, 8 p.m., free.

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BALCONY 1003 Arch St., 215-922-6888, thetroc. com. The Hangover Part II (2011, U.S., 102 min.): “When a monkey nibbles on a penis, it’s funny in any language.” Mon., Dec. 12, 8 p.m., $3.

BRYN MAWR FILM INSTITUTE 824 W. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr, 610-527-9898, brynmawrfilm.org. Red Desert (1964, Italy, 120 min.): A cooped-up housewife can barely disguise her case of the crazies. Tue., Dec. 13, 7 p.m., $10.

COLONIAL THEATRE 227 Bridge St., Phoenixville, 610-9171228, thecolonialtheatre.com. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946, U.S., 130 min.): “There must be some easier way for me to get my wings.” Wed., Dec. 14, 7:30 p.m., $8.

3701 Chestnut St., 215-387-5125, ihousephilly.org. World on a Wire (1973, Germany, 212 min.): Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s sci-fi flick about paranoia. Thu., Dec. 8, 7 p.m., $9.

7141 Germantown Ave., regrettablesincerity.com. 8 Million Ways to Die (1986, U.S., 115 min.): A detective loses his mind when he’s forced to shoot a criminal. Thu., Dec. 8, 7 p.m., $7.

PHILADELPHIA FILM SOCIETY Balcony at the Troc, 1003 Arch St., 215922-6888, filmadelphia.org. Bloody Christmas Series:A yuletide double-header featuring Hobo with a Shotgun (2011, Canada, 86 min.) and Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010, U.S., 89 min.). Tue., Dec. 13, 8 p.m., $3.

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³ THE DILDO CRUSADES EDITOR’S NOTE: We’re pleased to welcome Meg Augustin’s monthly column about sex in the 215. Despite being one of life’s driving forces, sexuality is inevitably surrounded by controversy. Jill McDevittlearned that the hard way. In 2008, when the West Chester-based sexologist opened Feminique Boutique — a retail sex shop and educational center — she was barraged by conformist community-leading naysayers. “A property owner wouldn’t rent a storefront to me, the borough wouldn’t issue a business permit, I couldn’t find a lawyer to represent me, credit card processors wouldn’t work with me, advertisers wouldn’t run ads, a local politician made campaign promises to close my store and finally, a neighboring Catholic church made legal challenges to close me down,” she says about the back-and-forth shit storm that inspired a nationwide conversation about society’s archaic “crusade against sex.” All the juicy details are chronicled in McDevitt’s new book, Fighting the Crusade Against Sex: Being Sex-Positive in a Sex-Negative World (Open Door, Nov. 6). The volume reads like a memoir, offering candid details about the sexual escapades that inspired her to become a sexologist, as well as information about her path to becoming the only woman in the world with three degrees in sexuality. But the most gratifying part is the account of her victory over the fuddy-dud, sex-negative forces that wanted to 86 her sexybusiness venture. She’s able to keep the vibe frank and entertaining while providing an eye-opening analysis about the stifling issues many of us still harbor about sexuality — think Sex and the City meets the Kinsey Reports. $16.95, available at Feminique Boutique, 104 N. Church St., 610-551-3262, feminiqueboutique.com. Check Critical Mass (citypaper.net/criticalmass) next week to win a copy of McDevitt’s book. (megan.augustin@citypaper.net)

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Kris | Kristian Leuzzi, who owns Stogie Joe’s (1801 E. Passyunk Ave.), revamped his white-tablecloth restaurant on 11th Street (closed since ’09) into Kris, a casual neighborhood operation. There’s room for 50 inside, with seating spread out between a bar (they’re liquor-licensed) and rear dining room. Chef Gregory Dooner’s food reflects South Philly roots (tripe and veal parm; potato gnocchi) with some nonItalian touches (hummus with charred artichokes; speck-stuffed rainbow trout). They’re opening daily for dinner, with weekend brunch coming after the new year. 1100 Federal St., 215-468-0104.

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In Riva | What was Franco’s Trattoria is being transformed by developer Mark Sherman into In Riva, a Southern Italian trattoria. Chef is Arthur Cavaliere, a well-traveled Philly native who last cooked in the city as chef de cuisine at Stephen Starr’s Parc. Much of the food at In Riva, a reference to the restaurant’s proximity to the Schuylkill, will be prepped in a wood-burning oven. Should be opening before the new year. 4116 Ridge Ave., in-riva.com. Brick American Eatery | Seafood specialist Mike Stollenwerk is in the process of moving his restaurant Fish from the G-Ho area to 13th and Locust, but once that relocation is complete, he won’t let go of the Lombard Street space — instead, he’ll renovate it to make way for Brick, a modestly priced bistro. There will be meats aplenty on the menu. Look out for a January debut. 1708 Lombard St. ³ LITTLE VITTLES

Grill Fish Café (814 S. 47th St.), from Benny Lai of Vietnam,will open Jan. 14. ³ Lemon Hill is the name of the upcoming Fairmount collab (747 N. 25th St.) between Supper’s Mitch Prensky and Franklin Mortgage’s Mike Welsh. Got A Tip? Please send restaurant news to drew.lazor@ citypaper.net or call 215-735-8444, ext. 218.

STEW OVER IT: The cooking at Fairmount’s Isabel is inconsistent, but the kitchen’s pozole, accompanied by the traditional condiment plate, is an absolute winner. NEAL SANTOS

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t’s hard to get mad at two adorable little girls, even when the one’s father, Van Chau, and the other’s uncle, Michael Poole, have served you a plank of boneless, skinless chicken breast as firm and dry as petrified wood. The princesses are both named Isabel, nameMore on: sakes for Chau and Poole’s two-month-old “Mexi-Cali” concept in the sunken street-level conservatory of the 2601 Parkway condo tower. The Fairmount BYOB’s website unfolds with a snapshot of the girls, a pair of beaming brunette besties with blue and magenta bows in their hair and the Center City skyline in their rearview. Chau and Poole could be serving thumbtack tacos and it would still be hard to beef with a restaurant whose mascots are just so goshdarn cute. Chef Jesus Plascencia, on the other hand, has no Isabels in his arsenal. So my gripes with the “drunken” chicken can be directed to the man responsible for the bland disaster. The “drunken” comes from the flambé of tequila that finishes the pan-seared bird, though it could also represent the state you should probably be in to consume it. I managed just a few bites of the overcooked breast in a

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watery pasilla-tomato sauce, about the quality you’d get from a chicken entreé on an economy-class flight. I expect better from Plascencia, a veteran of Tequila’s in its heydey, and from Chau and Poole, whose other restaurant, Trio, has been Fairmount’s go-to Asian BYO for years. Before Trio opened, the ’hood had been starved for a joint of its kind. The smart partners saw the need and filled it. With Isabel, they’re doing the same. “People in Fairmount have been dying for Mexican,” Poole says. To those who are that badly deprived of south-of-the-border sabor, I guess that chicken tastes pretty good. The bird was not the only flub. The beef empanadas were as greasy as melted Chap Stick, and the tortilla soup was nearly as insipid as the chicken’s sauce. Bits of boiled duck got lost in the quesadilla’s gobs of Chihuahua cheese. The MORE FOOD AND guacamole needed more acid and less pastDRINK COVERAGE due cilantro. Who’s cooking these weak AT C I T Y P A P E R . N E T / renditions of Mexican greats, a native of M E A LT I C K E T. Guadalajara or a white boy in Milwaukee? Things weren’t looking good. For a while there, it seemed like Isabel’s most appealing features might be the enduringly warm service and the views. Tall windows surround the tidy terra-cotta-colored dining room on two sides, and just across stately Pennsylvania Avenue, the Art Museum rises like a castle in an enchanted forest. The restaurant rocks a sylvan warmth inside, too, with potted palms and flowers rustling in the deep window ledges. Mosaic tiles, tattooed blue and gold, encrust faux-finished columns, opposite a curving glass-block wall that curtains Isabel off from the lobby of the condos. The open kitchen anchors the sunny room, furnished with a >>> continued on adjacent page

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Mon., Dec. 12, 6:30-9 p.m., free ³ Andrew Gerson of Strada Pasta and other Philly mobile food entrepreneurs are in the process of founding an association to represent local street-food vendors. The primary goal of Monday’s meeting will be to establish the bylaws and mission statement for the org, which will provide a communal voice among food truck owners. Other topics of discussion will include the establishment of commissary kitchens, zoning hurdles and the city’s prohibitive streets list. Skyline Room, Free Library, Central Branch, 1901 Vine St., 215-480-7606, stradapasta@gmail.com. Sixpoint Beer Brunch at Garces Trading Co. Sat.-

Sun., Dec. 10-11, pay as you go ³ Sixpoint caps off its week of Philly events with this two-day brunch residency at GTC. In May, the Brooklyn brewery made a version of its Otis Oatmeal Stout flavored with Jose Garces’ Reserva coffee for an event at Chifa; that beer, along with other Sixpoint offerings, will be paired with brunch dishes on a custom menu. Garces Trading Co., 1111 Locust St., 215-574-1099, garcestradingcompany.com. Festivus Menu at Square 1682 Through Sat., Dec. 10, $30 ³ Popularized by Seinfeld, the anti-holiday of Festivus was founded to combat the rampant commercialism of the Christmas season. Though the feast day is technically Dec. 23, Square 1682 chef Guillermo Tellez is offering a three-course Festivus tasting through Saturday. Dishes include roasted turkey and wild rice soup; “traditional Festivus meatloaf ”; “Festivus Pole Pound Cake” for dessert; and Rock and Rye cider. No word on whether you must defeat Tellez in the Feats of Strength before eating. Square 1682, Hotel Palomar, 121 S. 17th St., 215-563-5008, square1682.com. The Italian World of Wine at Wine School of Philadelphia Sat., Dec. 10, 6:30-8:30 p.m., $54.98-$68.72

³ Fall in at the Wine School’s tony Rittenhouse digs for this evening focusing on Italian wines made off Italian soil. Taught once a year, the class offers the opportunity to taste Italian wines cultivated in France, Argentina, America and elsewhere. If you’re unable to snag seats, follow the Wine School on Twitter (@wineschool) for an opportunity to win tickets. Wine School of Philadelphia, 127 S. 22nd St., 215-965-1514, vinology.com. —Drew Lazor

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Spread out over two Point Breeze floors, American Sardine Bar (from the owner of South Philly Tap Room) pours 16 crafts on draft and serves a sandwich-centric menu from SPTR’s Scott Schroeder. Down some Sixpoint, Bell’s or PBC while grubbing out on Jewish chicken noodle soup, fry-layered Pittsburgh cheesesteaks, vegan falafel and their signature mini sardine sandwiches (two bucks a pop). Open daily, 11 a.m.-2 a.m.; food till 1 a.m. nightly. 1801 Federal St., 215-334-BEER, americansardinebar.com.

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Jonathan Adams (Pub & Kitchen) and his longtime friend Damien Pileggi are on the streets with a truck serving the Rival Bros coffee they roast themselves. The four-wheeled café, which serves drinks and sells beans by the bag, operates weekdays from 7 to 10:30 a.m. at LOVE Park and bounces around in the afternoon (they’re fond of 33rd and Arch). Follow them on Twitter (@rivalbroscoffee) the latest locales. LOVE Park, 1500 Arch St., rivalbroscoffee.com.

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The Italian yogurt brand Yogorino, which opened its first American stand-alone operation in Rittenhouse in 2009, has expanded with a second location in Center City. In addition to their soft-serve probiotic-blessed specialty, this shop is serving a rotating lineup of its own gelati and sorbetti. Open Sun.-Thu., 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Fri.Sat., 11 a.m.-11 p.m. 1205 Walnut St., 215-238-2669, yogorino.com.

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Chinatown ain’t exactly hurting for duck houses, but more cannot hurt. M Kee serves up a big menu of noodles (soups, Hong Kongstyle, pan-fried, etc.), plus congee, rice dishes, hot pots and a small selection of General Tso-approved Chinese/American choices, which they counter by offering edgier fare like snails, frogs and tripe. 1002 Race St., 215-238-8883.

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Fond with her fiancé, Lee Styer, now has her own workspace on East Passyunk. Belle Cakery, down the block from the couple’s BYO, serves as the pastry chef’s personal sweets atelier, as well as a café for coffee and treats for sitting in or taking out. Prawlucki’s Frenchifed specialties include tortes, cakes, truffles and all sorts of cookies, tarts and pastries. Open Tue.-Sun., noon-9 p.m. 1437 E. Passyunk Ave., 215-271-2299, bellecakery.com.

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merchandise market Autographed Guitar Collection, must sell. Stones, Zeppelin, Beatles, others. Appraised over $2500 each. asking $450/ea. with COA, call for pics 215-798-0789

Desktops/Laptops & Repairs/ Upgrades Net ready. DVD/RW. $150. 215.292.4145

CABINETS SOLID MAPLE Brand new soft close/dovetail. Crown molding. Can add or subtract to fit kitchen Cost $6400. Sell $1595. 610-952-0033

4PC SECTIONAL LEATHER SOFA - Light peach, 3 tbls, $600/obo. 609-605-3074

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BDRM SET: Solid Cherry Sleigh Bed, Dresser, Mirror, Chest & Night Stand High Quality. Brand new. Must sell. Cost $6000 Ask. $1200. 610-952-0033 BED A brand new Queen pillow top mattress set w/warr. $229; Full $220; King $299. Memory Foam $295. 215-752-0911

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24x52 Swimming pool, still in boxes, never used. $1300. 856-470-6508 Hot Tub 2011 6 person, 7ft. w/lounger Factory warranty & cover. Still in wrapper. Cost $6000; Sell $2500. 610-952-0033

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

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AMERICAN BULLDOG- 10 WKS, S/W, will hold til xmas. $800. 267-257-5388 AMERICAN BULLDOG PUPS: NKC Registered. Shots and wormed. $600/ea. Call 610-551-2673 AMERICAN BULLIES - UKC & ABKC New breed! Shots, wormed, vet checked. $500/OBO. Call 717-529-3715

BEAGLES - AKC, 13in. tri-colored all shots, $150. Call 215-547-6314 Bichon/Pom and full Pom - M & F papers & shots, ready now and for Christ mas. Call for details (856) 742-9361 Boston Terrier pups, ACA, 1M, 2F, $550. very cute, family raised, (610)593-9800 Cavalier King Charles M/F, 5 year guarantee. 610-800-1970 or 610-485-4020 Cocker Spaniel pups, short nosed, vet checked, shots, F- $350. (267)242.3408 ENGLISH BULLDOG PUPPIES ACA reg., shots/wormed, cute $1100 717-445-7484 English Bulldog Puppies, AKC, family raised, health certificate, 6 females $2200, ready on 11/27. 570-922-4287 English Bulldog Pups 4M & 1F 9 wks. Champ bldln vet ckd $2200 610.287.9680 English Bulldog Pups - ACA, health certified, pretty markings, lot’s of wrinkles, $1,450 and up. Call 717-629-8137 English Bulldog Pups AKC, M & F, S/W, health certified, papers, 856-906-6478 English Bulldog Pups, parents on premises, papers, shots, de-wormed, vet certified, Call 215-696-5832 (Bensalem)

French Bulldog puppies, AKC, ready end of Dec., M & F, vet checked, first shots, dewormed, Call (570)386-4310

German Shepherd Puppies. ACA reg., farm raised, $599 Cash only 717.529.3830 German Shepherd Pups, AKC, 9F/2M, rdy 12/6, parents on site. $400. 215.338.2617 German Shepherd pups, Blk & Tan, s/w, farm raised, $375, 717-295-4844 (ext. 9) Golden Lab pups, very cute, family raised, 7M, 2F, $400. (610)593-9800 Golden Retriever AKC, OFA, CERF, Shots wrmd Guarantee 856-472-3747 www.autumngoldenretrievers.com

Golden Retriever Please visit our site at www.hazymorningkennels.com! Puppies go to their new homes with AKC registration, microchipped, shots, and dewormed. Golden Retriever Puppies, AKC reg., shots, wormed, very cute. Call 717-629-3726

Rottweiler 17 week old, male, Rottweiler Puppy $525 AKC registered. Vet check, shots and wormed. Raised with kids. 717-278-4127 Rottweiler Puppies - AKC/ACA reg., shots, wormed, balck & Mahagony, vet checked. 570-765-5097 / 570-837-2355 Shorkie-Tzu Pups , starting at $400, Financing avl, cash discount. Ready in time for Christmas! Call 484-955-6378 Yellow Labrador Retrievers - AKC reg., good quality, vet checked, family raised, M $650, F $750. Call 717-933-4037

Yorkie Pups, AKC, M&F, tiny and cute, great family pet. Call (610)789-8897 YORKSHIRE, M, F, w/ papers, 1st shots & wormed. rdy 12/15, $700. 856-426-3206

CANE CORSO PUPS- ICCF registered. $750. 609-977-3996

Havanese Pups AKC Registered, parents on site, health guaranteed, $800-$1500. Please Call 484-678-6696

MALTICHONS Pups ICA, 14 wks, S/W, ready now. $300. 609-744-8026 MINI GOLDENDOODLE Pups f1b, vet checked, 1 year guarantee. 717-355-5577 PAPILLION Pups, AKC, M&F, Family Raised, First Shots, Dew Claws, Ready 12/12. Parents on Prem 610-791-3488

Diva Dog Grooming Salon, 1107 Cottman Ave. Affordable Dog & Cat grooming/ sitting, book your holiday appointment now! Starting @ $35. (215)983-0480

PITBULL F 12 wks, blue, $300. Puppies $200 and up. Call 215-254-0562 Pit Bull PUPS $175 w/papers, 1st shots, 3f; 5m 215-939-3427

Pitbull pups, UKC reg, solid blue, 5 F, quality breeding, first shots/wormed, $300-$500 215-820-3135 PITBULLS young adults, adoption fees, start $40 w/ shots. 215-254-0562

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Coins, MACHINIST TOOLS, Militaria, Swords, Watches, Jewelry 215-742-6438 Diabetic Test Strips, $$ Cash Paid $$ Nicotine patches, gum. For highest prices & pick-up, Call 215-395-7100. 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 Nazi/German/Japan War Stuff, helmets flags, uniforms, anything. (609)707.9933 SAXOPHONES, WWII, SWORDS, related items, Lenny3619@aol 609.581.8290

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8TH & KATER 2br/1ba $995+utils. Large well kept apt, 609-965-5338

Yorkie-Chon & Mal-Shi male puppies, 2 year health guar., $225. (610)913-0393

Golden Retriever Pups AKC, lite color, Vet checked, $450. Call (717)259-9459 Golden Retriever Pups, AKC, vet check, S/W, ready 12/31, $425. 717-442-5657

PHILLIES Full or Partial Season Tickets wanted. Call 215-915-3621

29th St. 4Br/2Ba $1775+ Lrg Vict. brownstone, kitchen w/ appliances, lndy area, side yard. 215-321-0395

15xx S. 18TH St. 3BR $800 + 1st, last & sec, large yard, 215-470-4420 Italian Market Area 2BR $750 Small rear yard, 1st floor. (610) 608-6983 S. 19th St 2BR w/w, no pets, section 8 ok 267-738-8473

10xx S. 52nd St. lrg 3 BR laundry room, Section 8 ok. 215-727-0431 1848 S. 54th St 2Br $625-$650 512 N. 54th St. 2Br $625-$650 1st & 2nd flrs 267.709.2704 267.912.5942 22xx S. 63rd 2br $700 2nd floor, spacious apt (610)812-6352 27xx Doltan Place 2br $750+util 1 month security, renov. (610)586-3725 57xx ASHLAND ST lg 1 BR, 1st fl, hw flrs, new paint, refrig. $525 +. 267-645-9421 5xx N. 57th St. 1 & 2BRs $550/$575 52xx Rodman 1BR $575 Water included. Call 267-292-5274 6431 Saybrook 2Br $675/mo newly remod, ready now. 407-304-0434 6581 Windsor Ave 2 BR $650 + utils. 1st floor, 1st/last & sec, 215.820.4288

13xx N 61st St 1br $525+utils 1st, last & sec., w/w carpet 267.278.1492 1XX FARSON ST. Lge 1BR 1st flr apt, refrig, new paint, yd $535+ 267-645-9421 40th & Cambridge 1BR $545/mo. Free utils, 3 mo mv in,Scott: 215.222.2435 50th & Haverford 1BR $560 & up Lg kitch & bath, sec+rent.215-747-4049 52nd & Parkside studio $495+ electric 2nd flr, $990 move-in. 215-284-7944 52xx Walnut St 1BR $560/mo. 1 mo. sec. + 1st mo. rent. (610) 505-1637 57xx Girard Ave 1br $600+ elec modern, nr trans, Sec 8 ok, 215-868-0481 59XX CHESTNUT ST. 1BR 2nd flr. $550+. 1 mo rent/1 mo sec. 215-471-0324 Cobbs Creek 2Br $745 heat incl 2nd flr, crpt, close to transp. 215.806.7816 N. Ruby St. 1BR $450+utils 1st & 2nd floor, freshly painted, Call (610)622-7528 between 8am-5pm PARKSIDE AREA 1BR- 5 BR starting @ $700. Newly renov, new kit & bath, hdwd flrs, Section 8 OK. Call 267-324-3197 Walnut St 2br $695+ utils. renov, 215-471-1365; 215-663-0128 WP 1br $550/MO on S. 54th St. 215-760-2345 W. Phila 3 & 4 br Bi-Levels Avail Now 1st Mo. Rent Special 215.386.4791 or 4792

132 N. 50th St. 2BR $750+utils Newly renovated, w/ yard, 267-255-1895

65th & Lebanon 1BR $750+ 1st flr, hdwd flrs, sec. 8 ok. 610.649.9009 City Line Area 2br Apts beautiful, Discount Special, 215.681.1723 Various 1, 2 & 3 BR Apts $595-$895 www.perutoproperties.com 215.740.4900

16xx W Huntingdon efficiency $400+ut $1200 move in, no pets 215-559-9289 1826 Ridge Ave. Lg. 3BR Section 8 OK Must See. Call 215-885-1700 1933 N Judson St 1br & 2br $500 & up new renovated, avail asap. 215-768-8410 20xx N. 20th St. 2br $565+ utils 1 month rent + 1 mo. sec. 215-681-6967 2xx E Albanus 1BR $590+ utils 2 mo sec. h/w flrs, w/d, new paint. Beautiful apt. Call 215-820-2219 leave mess. 34XX West Allegheny 2br $600 1st mo. rent/1 mo sec. 267-254-3092 Broad & Alleghany 2Br/2Ba $650+utils bi-level, quiet secure bldg. 267-258-2635 TIOGA 3br $550-650 Rental Special! 215-992-9478

11xx Lehigh Effic. $600+utils. 2mo. sec., near transp. Call 215-280-2513 1,2, 3, 4 Bedroom FURNISHED APTS LAUNDRY-PARKING 215-223-7000 3244 N. 15th St. 1BR $550+utils. 1st flr, nr hospital & transp. 215.229.4250

14xx Rockland 1br Efficiency $485+utils wall/wall carpets, 3rd flrs (215) 329-3013 5000 N. 8th St. 1 BR 1 BA $600+ elec 1st Floor apartment. Call 267-816-6907.

1xx E. Wyoming Ave. Effic. $475 + elec. New renov, 1st flr. Must See 215.552.5200 3rd & Chew vicinity 1br $550+utils extra large, w/w carpeting 215-287-2044 5458 N 5th St. 2BR $590 newly renov, avail ASAP, 215-768-8410 Residential Life LLC-Julien/Eli Court Apts Convenient Living near LaSalle Uni. Starting-Stud$450, 1bdr$575, 2bdr$775 Gas,Water,Heat Free-Move In Specials Call to schedule appt- 215.276.5600

1 BR & 2 BR Apts $715-$835 spacious, great loc., upgraded, heat incl, PHA vouchers accepted 215-966-9371 607 E. Church Lane 1BR & 2BR apts. nr LaSalle Univ,215.744.9077 lic# 494336 KNOX ST 2br $700+utils 2 mo dep, 1 mo rent. 267-338-9870 SW G’town Effic. & 1BR $460-$720 + utils. Good transp. Call 610-287-9857 The Fieldview Apts: 705-15 Church Ln Spacious Apts near LaSalle University SECT 8 WELCOMED, Near Septa/Grocery Gas, Water, Heat Free-Move In Specials Call for immediate Leasing 215.276.5600

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

16xx Roumfort Rd. 1BR $650+utils. Call 267-872-2472 63xx W. Sharpnack 2BR $850+ Beautiful home, 1st floor, W/W, central heat / A/C, W/D hookups, fridge. Pet firendly. Call (267) 879-8897

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

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19xx E Orleans 2br $595 1st floor, available now. 267-968-7043

20xx Orthodox 1br $600 & 2br $675 Section 8 OK. Call (267)230-2600 42xx Salem St. Efficiency $475/mo. 2nd Flr, near transp. Call 215-289-2973 4675 Frankford Ave. 3BR Section 8 OK Large apt. Must See. Call 215-885-1700 46xx Hawthorne St 3br $795+utils private entrance yard, bsmt 215.805.6455 46xx Mulberry St. 2br $565+utils 1st flr, $1695 req., sec 8 ok 215-268-6972 46xx Penn St Efficiency $400 Newly remod, good cond. 215-436-5072

1412 Princeton Ave. 1BR,1BA $825/mo. All util incl. No smoke/pets. 267.970.9106 33xx Red Lion Rd 2br/2ba $875+utils Nwly renov, strge, nr trans. 646.696.6020 877 Brill St. 3BR/1.5BA $850+utils finished bsmt. 267-632-4580 Bustleton 2br/1ba $850+ 2nd flr duplex, new paint, carpets, a/c, garb. disp., deck, ceil. fans 215-354-0069

Bustleton & Tomlinson 2BR $650-$750 +utils, W/D, pets ok. Call 267-338-6696

Glenview St. 2 BR $775 w/d, d/w, C/A, new w/w, eanr Cottman Mall. 610-864-7783 or 215-858-1164

Rhawn & Ditman 2 BR/2 BA $800 w/d, a/c, balcony, carpet, 609-828-2220 TORRESDALE & LEVICK ROW HOUSE 3BR 1BA $850 + Utils. 267-312-7100 Welsh/Blvd 2BR/1BA 2nd fl Duplex $775 19xx Beyer Ave. Call David 215-480-0645

CROYDON 1br/1ba $950+utils Living rm, kitchen, cable ready, patio deck, new appliances incl microwave, W/D, AC. Laminate flooring, off street parking, 4 blocks from train station. (215)785-6628

WARMINSTER Lg 1-2-3 BR Sect. 8 OK $99 MOVE IN ON 1 & 2 BR!! HURRY! Pets & smoking ok. We work with credit problems. Call for Details: 215-443-9500

71xx Clinton Rd 1BR $575mo W/garage. Utils not incl. 267-307-6802. E. Landsdowne 1br $675+utils private parking, near trans 610-636-4104

Springfield area 2BR $925/mo. + utils Ultra modern duplex, new everything, C/A, patio, 2 car parking, laundry & storage rooms. Call 610-328-1418

Collegeville rooms for rent, mature, need car. 610-272-6399 daytime Frankford area rooms $110 to $115/wk per person, Sec. dep. req. 215-432-5637 Frankford, furnished, no drugs, near El, $85/wk & up + $300 sec. 215-526-1455 Germantown: Apsley St. rooms $125/wk shared kitchen & bath, 267-338-9870 Germantown Area: NICE, Cozy Rooms Private entry, no drugs (215)548-6083 GERMANTOWN: furn rooms everything inc. $425/mo,Seniors welc. 267.467.4595 GERMANTOWN: room available, West Logan St., Call (215)205-2452 Germantown & The Blvd. Rooms: $100/up & 1BR, 215-669-4530 or 215-778-2265 Hunting Park: Furn. Luxury Rooms. Free utils, cable, internet. 267-331-5382 Hunting Park, Kensington, Germantown, Olney, NE, W, S & SW Phila, Mt. Airy, $85-$125/wk. SSI ok. Call (215) 668-4812

Kensington & Ontario - Clean, furnished, $300/mo. leave message. 215-868-9705

A1 Nice, well maintained rms, N & W Phila. Starting @ $115/wk 610.667.9675 ALLEGHENY $90/wk, $270 sec dep Near L train, furn, quiet. 609-703-4266 Brewery Town/Temple U Area: Luxury rooms/apts, furnished, 267-240-2474 Broad & Allegheny, furn rms, bed, fridge, micro $85/wk, $225 mvn. 215-416-6538 Broad & Hunting Park - $110/week, clean, near transportation. 215-206-3832

15xx So. Corlies St fully renov 3BR, W/D hkup, bsmt, hw flrs Sec8ok 215-768-8243 16xx Taney St. 3BR $675/mo. 15xx Hollywood 3BR $775/mo. Basement, yard. Call 267-292-5274 19xx S. Croskey St. 3Br $850 newly renovated, Sec 8 OK 215-305-8008 27xx Earp St. 2BR/1BA $650/mo. 1st/last/& 1mo. advance. 267-588-5403 4xx McClellan St 3Br Sec 8 OK renovated, W/D, fridge, 215-748-3076 4xx Sigel St 3br/1ba $775 all newly renov., Sec 8 ok 215-492-9686 Conestoga 3br hdwd flrs, section 8 ok 267-738-8473

13xx Wilton 3BR $750 renov, all crpt, W/D hk-up 267.230.2600 55xx Upland St. 2br $675 + utils Nw cpt, renv, fridge, mv in 267.784.8274 59xx Trinity 3Br $800+utils 63xx Theodore 2Br $750+utils "The Landlord That Cares" Tasha 267.584.5964, Mark 610.764.9739 8xx S. 57th St. 3br/1ba $850+utils Newly renovated. Call 267-292-5274

N Broad; 26th/C. B. Moore, remod furn, utils inc, $400-$450/mo, 267-978-1487 NE PHILADELPHIA kitchen & utils incld, $125/wk. + $125 deposit. 215-501-0771 North 57th St. $125/wk. Very lrg, newly renov., furn. 215.921.1266 North Phila furn rooms w/bathroom, $400/mo., call LB 267-808-7513 North Phila. - Rooms for rent $360 - $450/mo. 215-913-1485 or 267-312-1499 NORTH PHILLY /2 LOCATIONS /ROOMS 4 RENT $400/MONTH $500 to MOVE IN 267-516-7917

N. Phila. 3008 N. Woodstock furn rms, W/D, crpt, kitch. $85 & up. 516-527-0186 N. Philadelphia - 39xx Smedley $100/week. (267)581-8990 N Phila Furn, Priv Ent $75 & up . No drugs or alcohol. SSI ok. 215-763-5565 N. Phila: Newly renovated, private entry use of kitch $90-$125/wk 267.702.8688 N. Phila room for rent $100/wk, $400 move in. (215)485-1369

49XX Reno St 3br newly remodeled front porch, Sec 8 OK, Call 215-356-2434.

WEST PHILADELPHIA: large furnished rooms for rent, newly renovated, $100/week. SSI ok. Call 215-510-0928

West & SW Philadelphia $125-$150 priv rm & ba, clean & new. 215-939-5854

xxx Paxon St. Rooms for rent. $80. per week. $320 per month. 267-648-6074

Frankford 3BR/1BA $1150+utils W/D, crpt, fridge, Sec 8 OK 215-632-5763

20xx Pratt St. 3br Section 8 approved, 215-205-9910

5272 Glenloch 2BR $750+utils. Living room, basement, A/C, section 8 ok. Call (267) 808-8432

CA area 1845 Wishart 2BR $575+utils Newly renovated, 2mo dep. 267.226.9709

Northwood 3 BR $850 lg Victorian twin, fireplace, 215-289-9642

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

48XX North Howard Street 2BR 1BA $675. Awesome kitchen! Must see! New paint entire home. 484-716-4639. Delphine St. 4br/1.5ba twin Alcott St. 3br/1ba newly renov., section 8 ok 215.681.7690

43xx N. 8th St. 4BR, 2 Full BA Newly renovated, W/D, porch, large yard. Section 8 ok. Call 215-432-3040

Darby Modern 3BR $900+ utils. Sec 8 ok. Avail. now. Call (610) 394-0768

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

A1 PRICES FOR JUNK CARS FREE TOW ING , Call (215) 726-9053

Suzuki M109 R ’08 Like New-Silver ONLY 189mi $9,499 many extras 609-320-3416

low cost cars & trucks Acura Legend 1991 $1900 164k, 4 door, strong engine 856.296.4484 Chevy Corvette Coupe 1985 $4900 garage kept, runs great, (267)600-8962 Chevy Impala 2003 $3250 V6, gold, 72K, clean, rns exc267.592.0448 DODGE CHARGER 2008 $3500 take over my payments at $350/month any credit approved, (610)734-0100

DODGE DURANGO SLT 1999 $3,000 121,000 miles, clean. Call 610-587-3116 Dodge Shadow 1999 $2900 50k, 4 cylinder, clean, insp 215.813.0897

FORD TAURUS GL 1997 $1,150 All power, clean, runs exc, 215-620-9383

Upper Darby 2BR $950/mo. section 8 ok, close to trans 610.459.3990

Plymouth Neon 1997 $2500/obo 79k, auto, 4 cyl., reliable 215-886-0695

Upper Darby 4br Row $900 3br row $800. Call 484-270-8639

Pontiac Boneville SE 1993 $995 all power, clean, inspected 215-620-9383 Pontiac Grand AM SE 1996 $1350 4 dr, auto, loaded, clean, 215-518-8808

Upper Darby 7122 Stockley Rd 2br $850 wall/wall. 610-316-8426, 610-352-8887

66xx Opal St. 3Br/1Ba new carpets. Sec 8 ok 215-740-4629 Pennsfield St. 2BR/1BA $800 LR, DR, full kitchen. Call 215-635-1436

$300 & UP FOR JUNK CARS CALL 215-722-2111

Ford Explorer XLT Sport 2001 $2750 2 Dr, 4x4, loaded, clean. 215-518-8808

49xx Wakefield St. 2BR/1B $650+ 1 month rent; 1 month sec. 267-474-0827

100 Parker Ave 3br/3ba $1999 new TH, gar., deck, w/d, (215)630-9220

SNOWMOBILE PACKAGE: (2) POLARIS & enclosed trailer, low miles. (215)547-2552

8xx Scattergood 3br $750+utils 6xx Anchor St 3br $800+utils Call 215-725-7079

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

W. Phila Furn Rms, SS & Vets welcome, No drugs, $100/wk & up 267-586-6502 Wynnefield: 21xx Wanamaker St. $100/week. (215) 879-0248

21xx Orthodox St. 3br/1ba $800+utils renovated, yard, hdwd flrs 267-253-7764

Broad & Lehigh 2BR & 3BR $750+ newly renovated, Sec. 8 ok,215-463-6366

Wissahickon/Germantown, fully furn. rms from $100-$125/wk., (215) 294-7888 W. Oaklane/Germantown big rooms, $125/wk, fridge & micro 267-625-6189

12xx Adams Ave. large 3br $725/mo. 46xx Melrose 2br $700/mo. 2 months security required 267.307.6964

Parkwood 3br/1.5ba $1175 c/a, w/d, no pets, garage 267-984-1412

SW Phila room 58th & Beaumont newly renov. $120 week. 347-262-3485 SW Phila Rooms for rent. $120 per week. Please call (215)901-7210

Toyota Luxury Solara convertible 2002 a/c, full pwr, orig miles, gas saver, well maint, sacrifice $6,950/bo 215-922-2165

MAYFAIR 3BR/2.5BA $1200+ close to shops/tran, n/s, n/p 215.694.4089

Temp Hosp area 4br sngl fam Avail Now 1st Mo. Rent Special 215.386.4791 or 4792

ACCORD LX 2009 $13,900 4 dr, automatic, 29k miles, 302-584-0631

7xx E Allegheny large 3br/1.5ba $750+ w/w carpet. Call 215-836-1960

25xx N Gratz St 3br/1ba $699+utils washer, lrg kitch, sec 8 ok (215)425-3696 29xx N Lambert 3br $900+utils w/w cpt, sec. 8 ok, no pets 215-559-9289

ROOMS FOR RENT All areas, $75$125/wk. SSI ok. Call (610)668-1614

SW: $100-$125/wk. clean, use of kitchen. Call 610-348-0121 or 267-804-0101

20xx Somerset 3BR $650+utils fenced backyd, 3 mo mvn 215-514-0653

7354 Rugby St & 6550 Woodstock St $900/mo. Call 610-608-0418

Olney large room, all utilities included, $120/week. Call 215-307-9230

South Phila, 26 Oakford, $85-$95/week Please Call (267) 997-8142

18XX E. Cornwall St. 2BR $850/mo. Newly renovated, fenced in yd, close to schools & transp., W/D, fridge. Section 8 approved. Call 215-932-7190

9xx N. 66th St Lg 3br beauty $800 +2 mo sec, new kit & bath. 215.833.2547 OVERBROOK PARK 2 3BR’s $1150/$1200 Call 610-642-5655

N Phila/W Phila/Logan,pvt ent,$75-$110 wk, pvt BA/kit, $140 wk 609-877-0375

Rooms For Rent: Clean newly renovated large rooms. Near trans. $350 & up. All utils incl. Call 267-236-1432 SSI OK

BMW 323 I, 2001, 4 dr w/ S/R, auto full pwrs, a/c, M3 rally whls + low profile tires, really nice, $6950. 215-922-5342

Upper Darby Lg. 3BR $1050 + utils. Excel. cond. sec 8 ok, 610-284-5631

Gloucester Twp. small 2Br $1000+ utils renov., avail immed. 856-803-0366

SAAB 93 2001 $3800 Good miles!! Great car. Ford Probe 1996 $2500 ONLY 18k orig. miles, runs like brand new Mitsubishi Montero Sport 2000 $2800 4WD, excellent snow car (267)377-3088

Volvo S70 GLT Turbo 2000 $2,650 1 owner, lthr, moonroof, CD 267.592.0448

UPPER DARBY Efficiency $495 Newly renovated, ceiling fans, full ba, conv. transp./shop. Call 610-358-2438

Broad & Olney deluxe furn priv ent $115 wk, 4 free wks, Sec $200. 215-572-8833

8xx N. Taney 3Br $1,580 new kitchen, sun room, lovely garden, hardwood flrs, near park, gas heat & central air. Call 610-212-5920

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Cottman Ave Vic 2br $755 incl. water 1st flr, w/w carpets. Call 267-251-5675

Broad & Lehigh vic., large furnished rooms for rent, newly renovated, $100/week. SSI ok. Call 215-510-0928

N. PHILA: 2BR $480/mo. 1Br $380/mo. private entrance 215-287-2424 30th & Allegheny Large, beautiful, newly renov., starting $300/mo 267-997-0907 30th & Lehigh: huge room, $120/week, $360 move in. Call 215-983-6144 34xx N. 18th small, clean, quiet room, $380/mo. Call 267-670-2662 3754 N. 15th St Lg furnished rm, $90/wk + sec, no drugs, near trans 215-209-9046 45xx N 17th St, brand nw luxury rms, single occupant $375mo, 267-751-9020 46TH & WOODLAND furnished rooms, $475, near transportation. (215)954-9437 50th & W. Girard Ave rooms, $400/mo. Spacious, cable ready (215)609-6741 54th & Catharine: lrg, clean, furnished, $475. Free utils & laundry. 215-528-1058 55th/Thompson furn $115/$135wk, priv ent, 4 free wks $200 sec 215-572- 8833 56th & Lansdowne clean room $125 wk, $375 move in. 267-251-0382 56xx Warrington Ave,cln & quiet,no drugs, $200/bi-wkly, $400/mo 215-668-3591 5th & Wyoming Newly renovated, furnished, $85/week. Must See! 215-552-5200 61xx Chew Ave, Mt. Airy, W Phila, Popular , $85-$100/wk. 215-242-9124 6th & Erie vicinity $400/mo +$100 security deposit. Call (215)207-8151 7xx W. Ruscomb, nice room, quiet block, shared kit/ba, $100/wk. 267-259-4477 880 N. 41st, room @ $425/month shared kitchen & bath, 215-300-9382

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33xx Livingston St 2br $850+ very clean, w/d, fridge, refs 215.694.6969

13TH & YORK, 51ST & BROWN, C. & Allegheny, SSI OK, 215-290-8702 13xx W. Silver, share kitchen & bath, huge furn room. $400/mo 267-258-0770 14xx N 53rd St. Room, Shared kitchen & bath, $90/wk. 215-868-0481 16th & Lehigh, 21st & York, 22nd & Allegheny - $325/mo. SSI ok. 215-485-8815 17th & Erie/15th & Lehigh: Furnished Rooms $100/wk. SSI ok 267-690-0204 18xx N 27th St Rooms $500- $600+dep, Lg clean, furn’d room, comm. kit, all utils incl, easy access to trans, 267-809-3809 22nd & Allegheny , $85/week, share kitchen & bath, SSI OK, 267-973-0397 23rd & Hunting Park. 3 large furn., newly renov., $85-$110/wk. Call 215-960-1600 23xx N. 17th - Rooms, use of kitch/ba, $95/wk, 215-651-6564 24th & Allegheny: $100-$125/weekly, $225 move-in, close to transp., SSI OK, no drugs. (267)257-7436 24th & Allegheny Clean Rms, $125/wk. $375 move-in, 267-251-0382 24xx Turner St. Rooms $400/Mo. SSI OK. 215-519-5437 2648 N. Bancroft - room $375/mo, utils included. 267-257-3610 26th/Cecil B Moore lg furn bed frig micro $105wk, $225 move in 215-765-5578 29th & Allegheny area nice clean rooms. $75 - $100 per week. 267-338-9757 29th & Cumberland, furn. rooms, share kitchen and BA, SSI OK. 267-528-9250 29th & Ridge $125-$130/wk. furn, new renov, proof of income req 267-702-7914

29XX WEIKEL ST. Lge 3BR house, W/D, refrig, yd, bsmt, $795+ 267-645-9421 31xx Aramingo 3br $850+ porch, recently remodeled 215.570.2407

Castor & Hunting Park Ave, 25th & Clearfield, 55th & Girard. Share Kitch. & Bath, $350 & up No sec dep, SSI OK. 2br Apt at 49th & Kingsessing 215.469.1285

21xx Stenton Ave 1BR $550+utils 1st floor, newly renovated, w/w carpet 2 mon sec + 1 mon rent. 215-224-2953

65xx Fairhill St. 1br $575+elec newly renov., 1st, last & sec. 215-817-0101

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