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D.A. Seth Williams rails against the city’s recent incidents of ignorance and senseless violence on Good Day Philadelphia. “You know, you’re right,” says local violent ignoramus. “This has been a real wake-up call for me.”

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Retired porn star Jenna Jameson will be a Wingette at the 20th Wing Bowl. It will be the most disgusting experience of her life.

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A rotting, stinking whale carcass washes up in Ocean City. “Ha ha, very funny. Now somebody help me up,” says Snooki.

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Nighttime sports radio host Tom Byrne is arrested for beating a cab driver while attempting to duck a fare because he’s “a celebrity.” This is the first we’ve heard of you, douche.

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A special committee charged with overhauling the city’s criminal justice system considers bringing back private bail bonders. “I recommend you at least try it. I was in Private Ball Bonders 3 and had a blast,” says Jenna Jameson. “In my face. And my hair. It was jizz.”

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Alums of Monsignor Bonner and Archbishop Prendergast High School raise more than $1 million to attempt to keep the school open despite the Archdiosese’s plan to phase it out. “Is that a lot?” asks the Pope, sitting on a $31 million throne atop a $22 million rug and smoking $14 million cigarettes. “P.S.: Don’t forget to tithe. God says.”

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Foul fumes force the evacuation of 20 homes in North Philly. “I’m lost,” says Snooki.

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The Philly School District names a “chief recovery officer” to help cut $61 million from the budget by June. His mission? Bring back Arlene Ackerman, hold her upside down and shake.

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Scientists say the Corbett administration is cutting funding to scientific research relating to the environmental impact of fracking. “Hey, I’m also forcing children to go hungry and launching an assault on the rights of women,” says Corbett. “Why you gotta focus on the fracking?”

[ - 10] Longtime Phillies announcer Andy Musser passes away.

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UNDER INSPECTION: Josette Clark has spent a year trying to open her West Philly day care, and met with numerous challenges. NEAL SANTOS

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LEARNING CURVE Mayor Nutter made reforming L&I a top priority — so why do child-care providers say navigating the department has only gotten more difficult? By Samantha Melamed

ast June, Josette Clark held an open house for her brand-new West Philadelphia child-care center, The Creation Station Day Care & Preschool: three colorful rooms stocked with cribs, toys, strollers and kid-size plastic chairs and tables. The event was a success, reaping a thick pile of applications from parents. But nearly seven months later, The Creation Station has yet to open. Instead, Clark has spent the better part of a year navigating the Kafkaesque tangles of city bureaucracy, an especially daunting task for a first-time business owner — and one that, until about a year ago, had been facilitated by a child-care liaison within Philly’s Department of Licenses & Inspections (L&I). Since that position was eliminated, would-be entrepreneurs like Clark have been feeling the loss of institutional knowledge and of a dedicated point-person to provide information and field questions. “They want us to bring revenue into the city and they want us to create jobs. I have a million job applications,” says Clark, who stops by daily at 6 a.m. to roll up the grate before heading off to the temp job she’s had to take. “Safety is key, and I understand that you have to go with policy and procedure. … But it’s just delay, delay, delay.” Opening any business in Philadelphia is a challenge, but for

child-care providers it’s uniquely difficult, says Rasheedah Phillips, who runs the Child Care Law Project at Community Legal Services. That’s because many applicants are new to business or even newly emerged from poverty; it’s also because regulations on child-care are especially onerous, since children’s welfare is at stake. But child-care providers and advocates say poor communication by city and state agencies has made matters worse. Christie Balka, director of advocacy at Public Citizens for Children and Youth (PCCY), sees it as a consequence of a statewide push for smaller government: “When the Nutter administration came in, they were sensitive to a lot of complaints in general about [L&I], that it was a bloated bureaucracy and a patronage machine, and they reorganized. … The jury’s still out as to whether that’s working.” The process — and the headache — begins with a mandatory, state-run orientation session, held at various locations around the state. Getting into the monthly Philadelphia orientation requires commitment, and a swift finger on the redial button.“I had been trying for four months [before I got a slot],” recalls Natasha Turner, who was hoping to have her Graduate Hospital day-care center, The Learning Train Academy, open by now. “Finally, I started calling at like 7:45 a.m. … I would just let [the phone] ring and ring.” Despite overcrowding, the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare isn’t planning to add more orientation sessions, spokeswoman Anne Bale says. “The good news is that people in

“Safety is key, but it’s just delay, delay, delay.”

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✚ CITY LIGHTS A week ago, a Kensington property owner who shall, for now at least, go unnamed, came up with what should have been a simple solution to a complicated problem facing him and his neighbors. The problem: rampant, open-air drug dealing up and down the street, near his place by the Allegheny el station. The attempted solution: floodlights — eight of them, aimed straight at the heart of the activity.

“It was like a baseball field!” he says of the night he turned them on. “Neighbors were calling me, like ‘This is awesome!’” On his way out of the neighborhood that evening, though, he noticed something: A few of the lights were out. Maybe, he mused, there had been an electrical problem. It was just after 9 p.m. that night when his phone rang. There had been a fire, explained a neighbor, in a recently vacated row home just a few doors down from where the lights had been mounted. He returned to find all eight floodlights smashed. The fire is still officially under investigation, but its meaning, he says, is obvious. It was a message aimed at neighbors — maybe aimed directly at him — that even passive interventions in the area’s drug trade will not be tolerated. Meanwhile, the resident has started to focus less on floodlights and more on what he sees as the bigger underlying problem in the area — blight — and has a message of his own. It’s directed, with increasing volume, at the city’s Department of Licenses & Inspections, which last year announced a new initiative to go after the owners of blighted and vacant properties — like the ones being utilized by drug dealers. The department recently sent an inspector to tour the area and record violations.

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On Dec. 23, 2009, Ed Coffin was passing out animal-rights leaflets in front of the Whole Foods on South Street — to tell people, he explains to City Paper, “that ‘humane’ slaughter is an oxymoron.” While he was certainly annoying, at least to the management, he wasn’t doing anything illegal — and yet he was shooed away by the supermarket, scolded by police and eventually arrested and held for two hours. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed suit. Instead of facing the issue in court, the City of Philadelphia is paying Coffin $15,000 to go away. This is nothing new. The ACLU alleges Philadelphia police frequently make illegal arrests at protests, and claims officers are not provided with First Amendment training. Which is why the ACLU filed suit, and the city ended up making Coffin an offer he couldn’t refuse. “It’s basically the city’s way to shut down the conversation,” says ACLU attorney Mary Catherine Roper. Neither the city nor Whole Foods responded to requests for comment.

“Using arson is a pretty serious tactic.”

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ROSEMARY REEVES ³ FROM 1958 TO ’67, Reeves grew up in Liddonfield, the housing project that’s now a

vast, empty field on the edge of Upper Holmesburg. She blogs about the bad old days. E VA N M . L O P E Z

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City Paper: What’s it like to go back there now? Rosemary Reeves: It does look beautiful, like a park in the middle of the city. However, they have fenced it in, and the fence reminded me of the fence around the project … [and the] rivalry between the projects and the homeowners. … There was a story about a golfer who would play golf right in the middle of the children’s baseball game. They would ask him, “Why … break up our game like that?” And he said, “I’m a taxpayer and my taxes pay for your parents to live here, so I can do whatever I want.” CP: What do you hope readers of PublicHousingStories.com will take away? RR: When a lot of people think of Liddonfield, they only think of the crime and drugs in its recent history. They forget that there was a time when housing projects were a comfortable place for low-income families. … Most of us were very happy, and we didn’t even really know we were poor until we ventured outside the projects. CP: What kind of response have you had?

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RR: Heartfelt comments, thanking me for keeping the memory of Liddonfield alive. … [Before], I didn’t talk about my housing project background. … In America, people are very reluctant to talk about social class. Now, with the Occupy movement, it’s the first —Samantha Melamed time Americans are really talking about income disparity.

editor of a fundamentalist Christian journal, The Family in America — resigned his post as an adviser to Pennsylvania’s Department of Public Welfare (DPW) last week, the bulk of the public mockery was directed at Patterson’s assertion that, since semen has salutary psychological effects on women, they shouldn’t bother using contraception. But equally striking is his commitment to shredding the protections of our already tattered social safety net. In the journal, he called the anti-poverty programs of Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society “more of a quagmire than Vietnam ever was.” Patterson was fired, but Gov. Tom Corbett has heeded his advice, freeing the poor from the curse of government cheese and access to abortion. Poor people, says DPW, with more than $2,000 in assets — excluding cars and houses, but including savings — will no longer be eligible for food stamps. DPW also cut more than 88,000 Pennsylvania children from Medicaid rolls since August. Meanwhile, a new law governing clinics will likely make abortions more expensive and further out of reach. The politics of poverty have long been bound up in sexual morality, the poor chided for dangerously unbridled fertility. Patterson — a man who spends a lot of time worrying about the “destructive social pathologies let loose by the sexual and feminist revolutions” and quoting Teddy Roosevelt’s prescription that “woman must be the housewife”— is concerned that women aren’t having enough babies, at least not in wedlock. His theory: Liberal elites peddling contraception and abortion, and playing daddy with food stamps and welfare dollars, have directed too much life-giving man elixir away from the healthful confines of the traditional family. Welfare programs, he says, have caused more “material hardship” than “slavery and segregation.” Patterson’s assertion that people are poor because they are not married, and that they are not married because the government gives them too much free shit, might sound crazy, but his views represent conservative orthodoxy. Rick Santorum, too, insists that marriage prevents poverty. Newt Gingrich implies poverty is the government’s fault when he repeatedly calls Obama “the food stamp president.” Government, you see, has caused so many problems for poor people in Pennsylvania. Corbett’s plan, in the midst of the Great Recession, is to let God sort them out. With unemployment high and poverty rates through the roof, even the mightiest deity will certainly have his or her hands full. ✚ Send feedback to daniel.denvir@citypaper.net

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Enforcement, he believes, could change the neighborhood: “Using arson to send a message is a pretty serious tactic,” he wrote recently in a letter to L&I officials, “but it won’t deter me or my neighbors from being the change we wish to see here.”

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;To close a struggling street is too risky.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;They may be happy to pay $15,000 every time we file a case to make this go away,â&#x20AC;? says Roper. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not going away because police officers keep doing it.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Daniel Denvir

â&#x153;&#x161; STREET SMARTS As fourth-generation owner of Cohen & Co. Hardware on East Passyunk Avenue, Mitchell Cohen has seen South Street fall, rise and â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in recent years â&#x20AC;&#x201D; fall again. One thing he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think will improve matters is turning his short block of Passyunk into a pedestrian plaza, as is currently proposed by the city and the South Street Headhouse District. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m for beautification, but to close an already struggling street â&#x20AC;Ś is a little too risky,â&#x20AC;? Cohen says. Trucks wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be able to turn, he warns; homeless people might congregate on the benches. Sure, the blockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cafes and bars will benefit from outdoor seating, but what about the hardware store, the dry cleaner? Pocket and pop-up parks, a new focus for Philly within the past few years, may

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â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but are they good for business? Well, yeah â&#x20AC;&#x201D; at least Green Line CafĂŠ co-owner Douglas Witmer thinks so. A parklet outside his business last year was so successful, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s asked the city to bring it back again this summer. And Prema Gupta of the University City District, which has also won city grants to install two pedestrian plazas this year, says so far responses have been positive. Still, Andrew Stober of the Mayorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office of Transportation and Utilities acknowledges the Passyunk plan is â&#x20AC;&#x153;the boldest change of a street useâ&#x20AC;? that has been proposed. The city has been meeting privately with businesses and will hold community meetings before installing the plazas. And since theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re being done as one-year pilots â&#x20AC;&#x201D; not by ordinance â&#x20AC;&#x201D; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all temporary for now. Stober says his team is working to address all the businessesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; concerns, but Cohen isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sold. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If was a different street with different establishments on it,â&#x20AC;? he says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;then it might work.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Samantha Melamed

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rancisville is being sold by real estate agents as Fairmount, and we take issue with that,” Penelope Giles, executive director of the Francisville Neighborhood Development Corporation, recently told a meeting of about 15 neighborhood residents all nodding in agreement. “We need to put Francisville back on the map.” The gathering was dubbed a “branding and image meeting,” a first step toward the creation of the “image, colors, motto, flags, and marketing materials” that could make the area known to potential new residents and businesses, as well as those pesky real estate agents who mislabel the area, conveniently erring toward the names of more affluent neighborhoods. Funding for the branding campaign is coming out of a $450,000 Wells Fargo Regional Foundation grant, which will also go toward creating a business association and a business/developer orientation packet. Francisville runs from Fairmount Avenue to Girard Avenue, with Eastern State Penitentiary on its western border and Broad Street on the east. The fact that its boundaries need to be defined here is a symptom of the problem the meeting addressed: A lot of people frankly have not heard of Francisville. But changing that won’t necessarily be easy. “They’re in competition with perception and with all the other neighborhoods that are trying to do the same thing,” says La Salle University associate professor of communication Michael Smith (who wasn’t familiar with Francisville). The fact that Northern Liberties was mentioned at the branding meeting as a model

doesn’t surprise Smith: “Northern Liberties is sort of the nirvana for neighborhood development efforts, but you can’t replicate that” if there’s no splashy equivalent of the Piazza. “Despite [Francisville’s] goal to be seen as a distinct neighborhood,” Smith posits, “it may have to ‘piggyback’ off of the amenities offered by the North Broad developments” that are in the works. Neighborhood branding or rebranding is nothing new. Does Philly have a Loft District? Or South of South? Take the current moniker for South 13th Street, once considered a dodgy area. “I can tell you that the impulse behind ‘Midtown Village’ was 100 percent commercial — and that it was the second attempt to give the area in question a name,” explains Sandy Smith, a journalist and blogger who lived in Wash West for more than 25 years. The first shot at a name, by the way, was B3, which stood for “Blocks Below Broad,” and which was quickly thrown onto the refuse pile of bad ideas. Then there’s University City, a name that didn’t exist until the 1960s. One person involved in that designation, Lois Bye Funderburg, described its creation in a 1997 issue of The Pennsylvania Gazette:“West Philadelphia was such a huge place, and we were

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trying to develop a market in these big Victorian houses around the university, to encourage faculty to move back into a diversified neighborhood.” The effort wasn’t without opponents. A few years ago around 47th and Baltimore, stickers showed up that said: “This is West Philly. University City is just a marketing scheme.” “Normally, this kind of [branding] effort is associated with development corporations and the process of gentrification,” says Rosemary Wakeman, director of the urban studies program at Fordham University. She notes that designations of cultural or arts districts often serve the same purpose: “People coming in want to protect their investment.” Sometimes it works, she says, but “sometimes it’s quite a different thing for the people who live there, who understand their neighborhood in a certain way.” Granted, Francisville is trying to assert its identity, not change it. But is that possible if the ultimate mission is to attract new residents and more development? As Wakeman explains, when a neighborhood fiddles with its identity, “There are social consequences and economic consequences.” (theresa.everline@citypaper.net)

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Southeastern Pennsylvania that are not able to get into one of those trainings, they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to stick to Southeastern Pennsylvania,â&#x20AC;? she adds. The next-closest session is in Harrisburg, a fourhour, round-trip drive. After that hurdle, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s zoning, building inspections, health inspections and fire safety approvals. For Clark, all this amounted to a race against dwindling savings. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sunk around $200,000 in into her lease, renovations and then re-renovations, to follow what she says are confusing building codes. She claims she had trouble getting straight answers from L&I on what was required. Maura Kennedy, a spokesperson for L&I, says that information is readily available online â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and that removing the liaison was part of a shift toward accessibility and transparency. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everyone in the department, supervisors and inspectors, now have this knowledge [about child-care regulations],â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a good business practice â&#x20AC;Ś to just have one person with the knowledge to do a job.â&#x20AC;? The advantages of generalizing inspection skills are evident in some instances. For example, at one time the owner of an apartment building with a ground-floor coffee shop that hosts live music events would have had to work with three different inspectors. Now, one inspector can do the job. But in the case of child-care inspections, advocates say that specialized knowledge had been helpful. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of child-care providers have felt acutely the absence of one person in L&I who they can call to answer questions and who will walk them through the process,â&#x20AC;? says Balka. Now, she worries attempts at government streamlining could backfire. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If [applicants] get frustrated, they open up anyway as unlicensed child-care providers, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not safe for kids.â&#x20AC;? Clark is definitely frustrated. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just when I thought I was completed in June, [L&I told me], â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;No, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not complete.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? The problem: The inspector noticed that, in the second restroom Clark had installed, the drainpipes were laid with PVC (illegal in Philadelphia but nowhere else in Pennsylvania, thanks to the powerful plumbersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; union). The pipes would need to be re-laid. In September, she says the inspector returned, only to tell her that bathroom also needed to be wheelchair accessible. In November, the inspector approved the bathroom finally â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but added that an exterior light also needed to be installed. (L&I has records only of the September visits.) L&I isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the only obstacle. There are health inspections (Clark says her inspector missed two appointments before showing up). And thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s zoning, which according to a 2005 PCCY report adds $4,140 to the cost of opening a child-care center in Philly. (The new zoning code is expected to help by allowing child-care centers to open by right in some locations, though more restrictive regulations remain in sections of the Northeast.) Phillips, the legal advocate, says many problems arise from navigating that maze of red tape. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s miscommunication between departments. There are inconsistent regulations. There

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Shops of Mayfair are outdated regulations on the books. Misunderstandings around what a provider is or isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t supposed to have can lead to all sort of havoc. â&#x20AC;Ś People are asked to make upgrades that arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessary,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The reason why they had that liaison in the first place is because the process is so daunting.â&#x20AC;? Even little mistakes can be costly and time-consuming. Turner says she submitted floor plans for the first floor and basement with her application, but failed to actually specify that the basement would be used. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had to pay another $125 just for them to add the word basement onto the same use permit,â&#x20AC;? she says. And even when she does get answers, she worries they may not be right. Take the expensive three-compartment commercial sink sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been told she needs

Attempts to streamline L&I could backfire. to install in her day care: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Some people within L&I say I need the sink. Some people say I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.â&#x20AC;? Even Phillips gets confused. She recently spent three weeks bouncing between departments â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Streets, Zoning, L&I â&#x20AC;&#x201D; just trying to help a child-care provider get the OK for a new sign. Marion Brown, who runs the One Stop Shop for Child Care Licensing Information in Philadelphia, a program of the Neighborhood Interfaith Movement, says things have become more challenging â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but she doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t doubt that the inspectors are doing their best. For people like Turner and Clark, though, that offers scant comfort. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m regretting deciding to open a day-care center in Philadelphia,â&#x20AC;? Turner says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I actually live in Delaware County, but I thought it would be better to open in Philadelphia, because I know a lot of people in Philly need affordable child care. Now Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m regretting this decision.â&#x20AC;? (samantha@citypaper.net)

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form? If you think it’s exclusionary to call it Black American Music, then you were never really playing jazz. But I understand where anything black, to people who are not black, is exclusionary if they’re not comfortable in their own skin.” The abandonment of jazz by AfricanAmerican listeners is not a new complaint for Evans. He made inroads to remedying the issue in his own East Mount Airy neighborhood, running a jam session at the bar Reuben’s Marc for nearly two years that had a jazz trio as its backbone but invited soul and hip-hop artists to share the bandstand. To that point, Evans has posed this hypothetical: If a jazz festival was happening around the corner, what images come into your mind? Who is on the bandstand, what is the atmosphere like, how is the crowd reacting? Now imagine instead a Black American Music festival.

14-year-old upstart hanging around Ortlieb’s Jazzhaus to glean the wisdom of his jazz elders, he ran into the late, great drummer Edgar Bateman one day. “How you doing?” Bateman asked the youngster. “I’m hangin’ in there,” Evans replied. “He pulled me aside and went off,” Evans recalls. “He started telling me the history of lynching and told me to always say, ‘I’m blessed’ or ‘I’m doing well.’ I understood where he was coming from and what it meant to him.” He pauses for a moment before continuing. “I still say I’m hangin’ in there.” (s_brady@citypaper.net) O Orrin Evans plays a Valentine’s Wine and Jazz Dinner on Tue., Feb. 14, 7 p.m., $63-$65, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400, worldcafelive. com; and Fri., Feb. 24, 8 and 10 p.m., $15, Chris’ Jazz Café, 1421 Sansom St., 215-568-3131, chrisjazzcafe. com; orrinevans.org.

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“You’d be surprised — actually, I don’t think you’d be surprised what the answers were,” he says. “As a musician I thought, which festival do I want to be a part of? Because the second one sounded much more hip. Not because of the genre of music or the beats being played, just because of what people perceived beforehand. The misperception is that this music isn’t sexy, isn’t fun, and it’s all of that with the right combination of people.” Positing a BAM festival, Evans runs down a potential lineup that includes Greg Osby, The Roots, Lalah Hathaway, Chris Potter, Ari Hoenig and himself — white and black, jazz, hip-hop and neo-soul, running the gamut of what BAM could mean. Which also points out a central contradiction in the movement: If the goal is to replace jazz, BAM is far too broad a term; if BAM is a marketing tool meant to unite jazz with its musical siblings like R&B and hip-hop, then you’d still need a new name for The Genre Formerly Known As Jazz. “I’m not claiming to know the answer,” Evans says. “I’m willing to try some different shit.” As for the practicality of renaming a genre with such a lengthy and deep history, Evans points to the creation of neo-soul in recent years. But he realizes the uphill struggle such a change faces, recounting a story: As a

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his gigs. “This is my personal crusade: to gain more African-American listeners,” he admits. “People say, ‘How is that name gonna do it?’ I don’t know. But what I do know is this name isn’t working. We can’t deny that this is black American music, and maybe if we embrace that more, these other things will come into place.” Of course, any attempt to attract listeners of one color runs the risk of putting other colors on edge. “I want people in the club who look like me,” Evans explains, “but I’ve never said, ‘I want people in the club who look like me only.’ The ‘B’ is the big issue. ‘B’ is not an issue for me, because that’s how I was raised, and because I’m not trying to gain more white listeners. I’m sorry, I got a lot of them motherfuckers — and I love ’em all. But I would love to look out into the audience and see that my family came. And I honestly believe, and I could be proven wrong, that BAM might be a step in that direction.” Still, in a country constantly reopening the wounds of its racial past, injecting the subject into the very name of a genre of music could result in alienating audiences, no matter the intention. But Evans asks, “Why is it exclusionary when we all know and we all recognize that jazz is an African-American art

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ing a life of victory and potency only to watch it crumble because of one’s own hubris, one’s own willful ignorance. But that’s Joe Paterno for you. And his legacy and the legacy of all sportsmanship will forever be trashed. Sorry. To paraphrase Pete Townshend: It’s all wasted. ³ Give The Discount Heroes credit. My guess is that the Philly band renowned for its dippy crude humor has been around for at least a decade in some form or another. But you don’t get points for hanging on. TDH has actually found its groove and a sense of Weezer-like musicality and lyricism beyond the yuks. Maturity, even. That’s how Connie’s Ric Rac-er Frankie Tartaglia,Rob Ogus and Ron Bauman got to their first full-length (Rock It! Science), a full band with real players (including a paisan named Angelo), a production deal (Sine Entertainment Group) and a CD-release party at Dobbs on Jan. 27. Ta da. ³ Speaking of deals, Philly theater director and Sylvia PlatypusfrontwomanJanet Bresslerjust signed on the line-which-is-dotted a publishing contract with Crucial Music.That’s a big deal when you consider that Crucial specializes in music pre-cleared for film and video, with placements in network shows like Hung,Prime Suspect and Parenthood.Congratulate her yourself when you go to the revival of her Fringe Festhit, Le Mirage/Dead City Philly: A Rock Opera at the Rotunda, Feb. 2. ³ I Married a Mobster, the Discovery Channel show that welcomed Philly actress, singer and now Fox 29 American Idol correspondent Erika Schiff to its bosom last year, just came calling on our fair city again to tape Ruthann Seccio.She’s a onetime gal-pal to Philly mob boss Ralph Natale, who himself is looking to tell his story in print. No air date for the Mob-bed up program. ³ Look out Philly film fans. There’ll be a new screen in town if rumor holds true, one where new films, repertory films and cult classics were famous before there were cults: Theater of the Living Arts.The former home to projectionist Ray Murray (now TLA Films CEO who has nothing to do with the Live Nation concert venue), filmmakers like John Waters (his Divine-led crew made live appearances along with screening stuff like Pink Flamingos) and the Ramones’ Rock ’n’ Roll High School should be opening a full-size screen soon. Its possible first cinematic escapade? Wouldn’t a midnight showing of Rocky Horror Picture Show be nice? I’ll bring the rice. ³ Speaking of rice, my two fav-o-rite smart food people, Levittown’s Aki Kamozawa and H. Alexander Talbot of molecular gastronomical Ideas in Food book-n-blog fame, will be at COOK Jan. 25. Ask them dumb questions just to make them mad. ³ Then leave me dumb comments at citypaper.net/criticalmass. (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)

SMART HEART: Blanton turned fans into investors for her latest album. BOBBY BONESY

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THE CHASER Carsie Blanton throws herself at kind strangers and low-down dirty men for the new Idiot Heart. By M.J. Fine

arsie Blanton has a vision for her first tour with a full band. “I wanna be the girl in a beautiful dress with, like, a bunch of handsome men in suits behind her,” she says. “Kind of classic, like the big band days. I wanna be like Billie Holiday. But healthier. No heroin addiction.” As visions go, it’s relatively realistic. With her mass of curls, coy vocal delivery and dancer’s physique, Blanton is a reliably charming performer, and she’s told her four-man band to dress to the nines. But here she is, a few weeks before playing five East Coast shows to herald the release of Idiot Heart, and she’s not looking so healthy. Venturing out to B2 on Passyunk after a bout with the flu, the singer-songwriter gamely discusses her new record and her new economic model over the din of old Madonna tunes and a screechy espresso machine. Another sort of unhealthiness is evident on Blanton’s third full-length album. Idiot Heart is full of fast-talking men who are quick to walk away and swivel-hipped women who keep chasing the last thing they need. Love gone wrong’s nothing new for the characters in her songs. But where the dreamers on 2005’s Ain’t So Green drown their disappointments in tasteful jazz pop and the mismatched lovers on 2009’s Buoy work out their kinks on the

dancefloor, these idiots’ caustic lines are things that might ring in your ear after yet another unsatisfying night in a noisy bar. “Well, it doesn’t take a lot to get you started/ And I don’t know how to turn you back off,” Blanton sings on the title track. “I guess there ain’t no rest for the idiot-hearted/ Until your heart finally stops.” Cue Rob Hyman’s jumpy organ. Idiot Heart lets no one off the hook — not the control freaks, and not their misused misses. “I try to write about it from both perspectives, which is that, yes, there’s this powerful, abusive man,” Blanton says, “but there’s also this woman who’s seeking that kind of relationship. And continually seeking it, over and over again, as I think a lot of us do.” Though the Luray, Va., native now lives in South Philly with her longtime boyfriend, she went farther south to delve into the darker side of love. In May, she wrapped up songwriting in New Orleans; in July, she headed to Oliver Wood’s studio in Atlanta, where they cut the basic tracks live. But what happened in between was just as important: In June, Blanton — unlike so many of the women in her songs — wised up. She stopped chasing record labels that were unwilling to commit and instead found backers she didn’t have to beg. “I wrote a letter to my fans, saying, ‘If you want to invest in my next record, send me an email.’ And I got a huge response. I was really surprised. The full budget was $30,000 from start to finish, and I ended up asking six investors for $5,000 each, and they did

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Hardly the James Blake also-ran that early reports suggested, Londoner Jamie Woon — whose stunning debut, Mirrorwriting, is finally available Stateside, via Verse — also traffics in nocturnal, atmospheric, angel-voiced quasi-dubstep pillow-pop. But if Blake’s a rarefied, avant garde-leaning choirboy, Woon’s more of a suave quiet-storm heartthrob, with a silky, smoldering tenor. His chilled, elegantly funky mod-garage grooves should be as appealing to Seal and Maxwell fans as to followers of Junior Boys, Burial (who contributes production here), or the xx. —K. Ross Hoffman

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for poignant moments on Grey’s Anatomy (and that “Dear Sophie” Chrome commercial I just welled up watching), is back with her fifth album of artificedefying songcraft. Human Again (Cabin 24) is Michaelson at the top of her game — eschewing metaphor, laying it all bare and letting the tears fall where they may — but with a darker bent than we’ve heard in the past. Meanings are never far from the surface, but that’s the key this particular brand of soundtrack-friendly emotional voyeurism. —Brian Howard It’s not her job to be clever.

³ folk/pop/rock After their 2010 debut, velvet-voiced Swedish youngsters Klara and Johanna Söderberg drew the eye of some larger-than-life cred brokers — Jack White and Conor Oberst among them — so it’s something of a relief that First Aid Kit’s follow-up is simply a lusher, lovelier sequel. Produced by Mike Mogis of Bright Eyes, The Lion’s Roar (just released in the U.S. on Redeye) makes judicious use of strings and handclaps to add some whimsy to all their countrified Led Zep/Heart drama. —Patrick Rapa

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A SEPARATION

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sible to hear a hush? Based on the opening-night audience’s reaction to RUBBERBANDance Group’s performance of Gravity of Center at the Annenberg Center last week, the answer is yes. Midway through, the crowd was so spellbound there was a palpable quiet in the air. Viewers were rapt, myself included. Gravity of Center’s choreographer Victor Quijada (also RBDG’s founder) has fashioned a manner of dance that’s exquisitely fluid and entrancing. His fundamental technique draws strongly from hip-hop, an urban street dance style full of bravado. He softens hip-hop’s edges by deconstructing and then mashing it up with ballet and contemporary dance. With this work, he also infuses smooth sleightof-hand dexterity: Dancers’ bodies drape and roll over one another like liquid. Limbs slip in and out of a partner’s grasp with supreme suppleness. It’s like live-action trick photography, but the trick is simply that these dancers are immensely agile. Gravity of Center presents recurring scenarios where performers seek, struggle, love and contemplate, alone and in assorted ensembles. The inspiration — we are told in program notes — comes from “social issues stemming from the contrast between abundance and scarcity.” Maybe you see that, or perhaps you read it on a more basic human level. The performers serve as both expressive individuals and archetypes; blurred lines are Quijada’s trademark. Deft lighting plus an atmospheric score help RBDG really up its game here. Still, portions of the piece are redundant, and there’s a part near the end where the action suggests the work is over, but turns out, not exactly. A few judicious nips and tucks would help Gravity of Center hold all the way through. Jan. 19, Annenberg Center. —Deni Kasrel

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[ A- ] ASGHAR FARHADI’S UNDERSTATED feature spins a tale of domestic discord into a wide-reaching examination of Iranian society, leaving viewers with profound, subliminally administered insight. Nader (Peyman Moadi) and Simin (Leila Hatami) are a married middle-class couple split over the issue of whether or not to move abroad. She argues that only a foreign upbringing would allow their daughter to realize her potential; he wants to stay put and care for his ailing father. Nader hires the poor and desperate Razieh (Sareh Bayat) to nurse him, but when Nader returns to find his neglected father hanging half-off his sickbed, he vents his outrage and pent-up frustration by shoving Razieh out the door. She subsequently miscarries, and the violence of his actions becomes the subject of a criminal investigation that throws the disparity between their families into stark relief. Razieh’s husband, an unemployed cobbler, becomes nearly mad with rage, and the turmoil taxes Nader and Simin’s already frayed marriage. Farhadi’s carefully devised tale brushes up against scores of pregnant themes, from parental responsibility to the future of Iran, but they’re worked so deftly into the mix that A Separation never devolves into a message movie. Naturalism is too weak a word to encompass the achievement — it’s a neo-realist equivalent of the Grand Unified Theory. You get the sense that any family, properly observed, could serve a similar function. The movie’s drab style isn’t on par with its substance, but it furthers the sense of a life captured with casual precision, by a camera that’s always in the right place. Although Farhadi never coaxes his cast, which includes several seasoned actors rarely seen on these shores, toward histrionics, the film functions as a highly effective melodrama, accruing a tragic sense of inevitability as it moves toward its melancholy conclusion. His characters are deliberately ordinary, but their stories take on the weight of myth. —Sam Adams

Nearly mad with rage.

HOOD TIMES: While it never becomes a message movie, A Separation provides a wide-reaching examination of a discordant Iranian society.

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Jamonera | Valerie Safran and Marcie Turney have completed their conversion of Bindi into Jamonera, a sleek Spanish wine bar. The couple’s journeys through Spain inspired the menu, organized into tapas, charcuterie and cheese, toasts, salads/vegetables, mid-size and large-size categories. Dishes like crispy Calasparra rice and grilled octopus over crunchy bonito aioli are accompanied by a beverage program heavy on sherries, from crystalline fino to punchy Pedro Ximenez. 105 S. 13th St., 215-922-6061, jamonerarestaurant.com. Zento Contemporary | Sam Ho has moved Zento three doors down to the former home of Grey Social. Now partnered with Grey’s Darin Picorella, the new-look restaurant boasts two floors and a liquor license, which will allow them to serve sake, shochu, wine, beer and cocktails. The kitchen’s waiting on its exhaust hood; once that comes, the menu will expand to feature new hot dishes, including several types of ramen. In fact, Ho and Picorella say they’re currently scouting locations for a separate concept called Ramen Room. 138 Chestnut St., 215-9259998, zentocontemporary.com. Maui’s Dog House | Mike and Liz D’Antuono’s Wildwood-based hot doggery has opened a city outpost in the Bellevue. They’re serving more than 20 dressed-up wieners, including the Cardiac (bacon and cheddar) and the Sacrilegious (spicy beef chili, onions, spicy mustard, kraut cooked in beer). Maui’s is open Monday to Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Food Court at the Bellevue, 200 S. Broad St., 215735-1533, mauisdoghouse.com. ³ LITTLE VITTLES

Well-loved bakery Artisan Boulanger Patissier is relocating from 12th and Morris to 1218 Mifflin. Move should be completed by April. Got A Tip? Please send restaurant news to drew.lazor@ citypaper.net or call 215-735-8444, ext. 218.

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VEDGE OF GLORY Rich Landau and Kate Jacoby change the vegan cooking conversation. By Adam Erace VEDGE | 1221 Locust St., 215-320-7500, vedgerestaurant.com. Dinner

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edge is a vegan restaurant. Please study that sentence and study it good. I will not say it again. Here’s what else I won’t say in this review. I won’t say, with a carnivore’s incredulity, how satisfying Rich Landau and Kate Jacoby’s cooking is. I won’t say, “You’ll never miss the meat!” More on: although that’s very true, thanks to tactical deployments of tamari, kombu, smoked mustard, fish-free Worcestershire and other umami-rich weapons. I won’t say Vedge is a great vegan restaurant. Because it’s not. It’s a great restaurant, period. “At Horizons, nobody saw us as a restaurant that cooked vegetables,” Landau says of the spot he and Jacoby ran for five years prior to opening Vedge. They were “a restaurant that cooked protein” — tofu and seitan and tempeh, foods the modern meatless have relied upon to mimic steak and tuna and pork. Not that there’s anything wrong with tofu. At Vedge, Landau marinates and grills blocks of bean curd as lovingly as if they

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were Wagyu rib eyes, rouging their white planes with incendiary Korean gochujang glaze. Posed over edamame hummus and garnished with a smart, smoked tofu-skin crackling, it was one of my favorite dishes at Vedge, but it’s actually a carry-over from Horizons, the main difference being that, “Back then, it was fun to say we were mimicking salmon.” At Vedge, Landau and Jacoby are content to let tofu be tofu. The larger focus at Vedge is vegetables, beautiful vegetables, from the humblest rutabaga to the fanciest radish. Find the former roasted and sliced thin as carpaccio, an earthy-sweet place mat for Dijon vinaigrette-dressed designer greens, pistachios and chewy farro. The latter appeared in a dish called, fittingly enough, “Fancy Radishes,” comprising no less than five heirloom firecrackers, some as dark as ink (Spanish black), others pink as punch (watermelon). Wrapped in nori, whittled into noodles, raw, roasted, even “half-roasted” and dusted MORE FOOD AND in wasabi powder, this vivid, jewel-toned DRINK COVERAGE composition saw them all, arranged in a AT C I T Y P A P E R . N E T / row and leaning against one another like M E A LT I C K E T. cousins posing for a family picture. “There are people coming into Vedge that would have never set foot in Horizons,” says Landau. They’re coming all right, eaters from either school, filling this elevated brownstone to capacity. Home to Deux Cheminées for nearly 20 years, this series of cozy connected parlors constitutes Vedge’s historically registered address, owned by the judge who married Landau and Jacoby in 2004. Her Honor approached the couple once, then again after a plan to install Il Pittore fell >>> continued on adjacent page

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Vedge isn’t a great vegan restaurant. It’s a great restaurant period.

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through. With Nomad Pizza (now slated for Seventh Street) salivating over the Horizons space, Landau and Jacoby decided to make their move. Mullioned windows, widemouthed fireplaces and walnut wainscoting give the space colonial gravitas, while Landau and Jacoby’s contemporary touches lighten and brighten — glass-shade chandeliers, long runs of white marble and shelving behind the vegetable bar, an open kitchen where shaved Brussels sprouts, roasted maitakes, crispy cauliflower lashed with black vinegar and kimchi and other temptations on the daily “Dirt List” are prepared. If you see fingerlings, get them! Landau cooked mine like tostones: roasting, smashing and flashfrying. Crunchy and buttery, the addicting spuds came cloaked in tangy Worcestershire “mayo,” creating a flavor profile remarkably reminiscent of fish and chips. Though all the “Plates” are about the same size, dishes get hotter, heartier and more entrée-like in composition as you continue down Vedge’s menu. The gochujang tofu, for example, and green harissa-ed hearts of palm crêpes in a pool of curried yellow lentils. Aromas of jasmine, hickory and mesquite ushered the supple eggplant braciole stuffed with smoked cauliflower and rice, finished with olive bagna cauda, roasted grape tomatoes, salsa verde and delightful fresh green chickpeas. I really needed that excitement in a watery chowder highlighting hon-shimeji mushrooms, proof that even Landau, however inadvertently, can enforce negative stereotypes about vegan cooking. While he hoped to accentuate the fungi’s clamlike flavor in this dubious, saffron-scented homage to coastal seafood stews, the result was just really bland. (It’s since been retooled.) Other offenses were minor by comparison. I found huge vegetables and little joy in the pickle plate. Jacoby’s ice creams, though astoundingly silky, needed some sugar: The root beer was too savory, the popcorn too salty, the stout too bitter. I liked the “burnt-wood” flavor — it’s made by cold-smoking the ice cream base — best as the filling for a hazelnut tuille lined in spiced chocolate, Vedge’s vegan take on the Choco Taco. Jacoby has since traded the Taco for apple-pie fritters, but not to worry, as an even better dessert graces Vedge’s menu: cheesecake. The wee white puck on a cinnamon graham base won me over with its mild sweetness, soft-serve consistency and bold use of citrus. A dab of electric Meyer lemon marmalade. Supremes of scarlet blood orange. Clementine juice dribbled on the plate, a wheel of it dehydrated into a tasty chip. Here’s the part where I admit what a bad researcher I am. While I knew Vedge was a vegetarian restaurant, it wasn’t until interviewing Landau and Jacoby that I realized it was vegan, as well. The cheesecake fooled me, and while that isn’t the intention here, it’s doesn’t make the masquerade any less impressive. (adam.erace@citypaper.net)

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KENNETH (THE GUY THAT SPEWS LIES) You always wanted to read about yourself in this section of the paper so I hope you like this letter. I like how you made me feel like an idiot for thinking we were separating for different paths when in all actuality it was because you didn’t want me to

how you honored that. I hope she knows that the last weekend I saw you was the weekend I was in a car accident and I really needed you. That you can’t help but let whiny whores clog up your phone and your messages. That you might be going out and doing things now but that will fade as soon as you get comfortable. That you pledged your “love” to multiple women. That you’re dirty. That you always think you’re “right”. That you’re rude and constantly talk over people. That you are all about yourself and no one else. That you are cheater and a tiger can’t change it’s strips. And most importantly, you are a glorious liar. I can’t wait until karma bites you in the ass. Sincerely, Monica (the woman you claimed to love and wanted to spend the rest of your life with)

off, you look like Hot Topic threw up on you. Why you feel the need to put 58 pounds of makeup on, complete with fake eyelashes, just to get cigarettes from the corner store is beyond me. Get over yourself. Second, you’ve always been a manipulative and selfish person. Always going after the dudes I tell you I’m into. Then you tell them that I’m insane, talking me down to make you look better. Cute, considering I’m not the one with self-inflicted cuts and burns all up and down my arms and legs. The only reason these guys end up getting with you is because your legs are like a fucking Wawa..opened 24/7. You think that I’m trying to ruin your life? Pshhh..you do that all on your own, darling. Third, I could be a spiteful bitch and tell your boyfriend about all the dudes you

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THAT DEMONS WALK AMONG US...I met you when we were young. I saw your pain and understood your pathology. I was able to help. You took advantage of my situation and roped me in. We had a daughter, you regressed to your childhood persona. I left you but not my baby girl. You made her a pawn in your mission of vengeance. I have spent the last 15 years making sure that she didn’t grow up to be another you, just as you became a more evil person than your mother. She isn’t, and you will soon experience karma kicking you directly in the face. I cant think of a single person that will attend your funeral. You remain forever pathetic. Eat shit and die.

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I am sorry that I hit you...I really am...and when my back starts to hurt I think about being thrown off the bed and I wonder to myself that I was so glad that I didn’t really get hurt at your expense. I know that I need anger classes but it wouldn’t hurt if you went to those classes also. I hope you enjoy your time apart from me. I know I need a breather.

PROFESSIONALS NEED ART Old City First Friday, you are a shell of what you used to be. Gone are the crazy jazz musicians, social diversity and free-flowing wine. Flat art priced for unhappy millionaires does not enhance culture and phony shop employees can keep their free gifts (gifts given for very disingenuous reasons). I have feelings, a heart and a brain. You think you can buy me? Obviously not, or you wouldn’t treat me like groupie trying to get your autograph when I tell you I’m broke. Good nature itself can’t fill our void on such a non-festive night. Work is work. Work it. You’ll always have your struggling yuppy friends to interupt our conversation and humiliate me for hah hah’s. That shall soothe the suffering desperate babbling bullshit that is you. You have no use for, and are not worthy of, the energy I give free of charge. I’d rather remember First Friday for what it [was], not what it’s [become].

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Really know what the fuck I am going through.... you run from house to house smoking and shit.. then your crappy- ass friends come around and you act like a whole new person. What the fuck is up with that...I am not understanding what you are thinking about...sometimes you seem like you love me but other times you seem like you don’t want to be with me...please make up your mind and tell me how you truly feel.

know you were cheating on me. Last year you were begging to marry me, find our own place, and start planning our future and all I asked was for you to wait until I was finished my degree. This year you are taking corny lovey dovey pictures with another woman who interestingly popped up on your Facebook before we confusingly broke up. We were together for six years and apparently that meant nothing to you. You couldn’t wait to hop into a new relationship (and apparently she couldn’t wait to hop in your pants). I gave up so much for you. I forgave you for all your faults because I loved you. You knew you meant the world to me and this is

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BRAZILIAN FLOORING 3/4", beautiful, $2.75 sf (215) 365-5826 CABINETS SOLID MAPLE Brand new soft close/dovetail. Crown molding. Can add or subtract to fit kitchen Cost $6400. Sell $1595. 610-952-0033 RUG (ORIENTAL) 8x12, wool, hand knotted, like new, $500. (302)778-0885

everything pets Golden Retriever Pups AKC, fam. raised, 1st shots, ready now $750. 302.757.0963. Golden Retriever Pups. AKC. Shts/Wrmd Family Raised, Ready Now! 610-754-8814 Golden Retriever Pups AKC, Vet Checked, Wormed, Shots, Family Raised, Please be aware Possession of exotic/wild animals may Excellent bloodlines 717-329-3357 be restricted in some areas. Jack Russell Terrier pups Male & female, ready to go. $275. 215-529-5989 LAB pups, AKC, choc., English & champ lines, parents on prem. excellent temperaIndian Ringneck & Golden Capped ment, health guar., $500. 717-354-2674 Jenday Conure. $500 (610)587-7449 Lab Pups, reg., shots, wormed, very cute. Ready now! Call 717-629-3726 Labrador Retrievers English Style Ragdoll Kittens: Beautiful, guaranteed, (Yellow)- AKC reg., family raised, home raised. $500. Call 610-731-0907 shots/wormed, $475. Call (717)933-4037 Labrador Retriever Yellow & Black akc lab puppies shots & wormed. Great family pets. $395. 717-587-2425 Boxer Puppies - AKC, papers, champion bloodlines, 10 weeks old, Maltese Pups, AKC Reg., p.o.p., health $800/ea. Call 302-420-2440 guar, babymaltese.com 610-405-2379 Cane Corso puppies, adorable, Maltese Tiny, no shed. $650F/ $550M. must see, $250. call 215-422-2844 Vet ck shts, dewormed Ann 215.704.7844 CAVALIER KING CHARLES PUPS PAPILLON puppy, wormed, Blenheim, 4M, ACA, $700. 215-353-2303 shots, vet checked, family raised, $480. 610-273-9195 Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Puppies available, Call 215-538-2179 PEKINGESE PUPS M & F, $295 - $495. Chihuahua -maltese mix, home raised, Adorable & Beautiful. Call 267-243-9526 shots, wormed $300. 484-557-1391 PITBULL Pups, m/f, s/w, ADBA, 10wks-4mo. $325./$375. 215-834-1247 Poodle AKC champion Miniature Poodle pups $1200. Vet ck shots blk m/f. Cockapoo puppies, buff, tan, 2M, 2F 215-536-5516 Shih-Tzu/Bichon mix pups, colorful, 4M, 2F, vet checked, shots, wormed, ready to Poodle Puppies: Standard, home raised, go, $400/each. (717)721-8127 1 black female $500, Males: 2 brown, 1 Doberman Pups: AKC, ch bldlins, rdy 1/30 cream, 1 white. $400. 610-489-3781 5M, 1F. dogwooddobes.com 215.791.4663 POODLE Standard, AKC, champ lines, hohlfamilypoodles.com 610.621.2894 DOBERMANS: Free (on contract) & up to $1500. Call 856-491-7929 ROTTWEILLER PUPS AKC, S/W, vet checked, ready now, $600. 717-413-5883 English Bull Dog Pups AKC, M & F, WEIMARANER PUPS M/F, gray/blue, parents, champion sired, health cert., reg., health guar., exc litter. 570.589.1465 S/W. 484-319-0571 also stud service English Bulldog Pups, all colors, vet cert., Welsh Springer Spaniel AKC, Male pups 10 weeks, s/w, $1000. 215-588-0660 papers, shots. 215-696-5832 (Bensalem) West Highland 2 adorable Westie female FOX TERRIERS: Toy ready to go, puppies. $650. 814-443-3106 8 weeks old $325. Call 717-768-0745 German Shepherd Pups - AKC. lg boned, YELLOW LAB PUPS - ACA, broad heads, stocky build, shots & wormed, $350. Call champ pedigree. Call 609-351-3205 717-442-0853 Goldendoodles $275 and Labradoodles $240. farm raised, shots, wormed, 10 Yorkie male pups: home raised, pure bred, starting $550. Call 215-490-2243 weeks. Call 717-687-0574 Ext. 2 Yorkie Pups, small, AKC, shots, home Golden-Doodles,Standard & Mini, F1, raised, $850/obo. (856)218-8883 parents on premises, health guarantee, $500-$1000. Call (484)678-6696 GOLDEN RETRIEVER PUPS AKC, 2 males, family raised, 1st shots, ready now, $450. LOST: LONG HAIRED BLACK MALE CATlost far NE. 215-908-4411 REWARD. Call 717-442-8913

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BD Mattress memory foam w/box sprIng Brand New Queen cost $1400, sell $299; King cost $1700 sell $399. 610-952-0033

BDRM SET: Solid Cherry Sleigh Bed, Dresser, Mirror, Chest & Night Stand High Quality. Brand new. Must sell. Cost $6000 Ask. $1200. 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 Bed Queen Pillow top matt set $229; King $299 mem foam $295. 215-752-0911 Bedroom Set brand new queen 5 pc esp. brown $489. Del Avail 215-355-3878 NEW Mattress Sets, $99: TWIN, FULL, QUEEN, Delivery Available 215-307-1950 SOFA, LOVE SEAT, MICROFIBER Chocolate. Can del. $550. 215-752-0911

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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 Wanted Mack Trucks, any type, dumps, CH, CL, RD, DM. Call 301-964-7790

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65th & Dorel 1st flr. 1BR $625/mo. 65th & Dorel 2nd flr. 1BR $600/mo. W/W carpets. Call 215-356-8717 Airport Area nice 2BR $795+ duplex, a/c, gar, bsmt. Call 856-346-0747

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Housekeeper, errands, PT-FT, 5 yrs exp, refs,car,bkgd chk,Overbrook,215.290.2100 HOUSEKEEPER live-in/out, daily household maintenance, driving, health experience & references. Call 610-645-6000 or email: smkhousekeeper@gmail.com

apartment marketplace 254 S 16th St. Lg Effic. $860 Heat included. Laundry rm. 215-732-6348 Locust at Broad Lux studio Condo $990 incl util, gym, C/A, wifi, d/w 856.234.6491

Art Museum Large 1br $750 +utils ground lvl, off st prkg, patio 215-321-0395 BRAND NEW RENOV. N. PHILLY APTS 3BR-$700/mth $1400/mi. 2Br-$650/ mth $1300/mi.Call 267-973-2284.

1500 Chestnut 1br & 2br $2200-$3200 +elec deluxe, 24hr concierg, 215.238.1134

16th & McKean 1br/1ba $650+elec 1 mo+2 sec, refs, no pets. (267)230-0171

13xx S. Melville St. 2br $795+util Near transportation. 484-410-4831

25 S. 60th St 1br $550+utilities incl. 18xx Susquehana Studio $450+utils close to transportation, 215-765-9590 59xx Carpenter St 2 BR $750+ dplx w/ 6 rooms,prvt porch, 215.747.8505

12xx N. 55th St. 2br $625 Eff $400 Newly renovated 215-290-8638 40th & Cambridge 1BR & 2BR $535 renov., 1st, last & sec., Scott 215.222.2435 4206 Viola St. 2BR/1Ba $700 backyard & basement. Call 215-809-9553 49th & Lancaster 2BR/1.5BA $650+util 1.5 mo. sec., no pets, (267)583-7561 52nd/Parkside 2br $650+ utils large, newly renov, w/w. 215-552-5200 53rd & Chestnut 2br $625+utils 2 month dep., 1st flr, w/w. 215-365-0135 5438 Walnut St. Lg. 2BR $725/mo. Basement. Call Kimberly (267) 968-0178 9xx N 42nd St. 1 & 2 BR $640-$680 utils incl, kitch, bath. Students Welc., reasonable offers considered, 856-627-8240 Larchwood Ave Spacious 1.5BR $650 kitchen, liv room, hdwd flrs 215-877-1097 PARKSIDE AREA 1BR&5 BR starting @ $700. Newly renov, new kit & bath, hdwd flrs, Section 8 OK. Call 267-324-3197 S. 54th St. 1br $550/mo close to transp, fresh paint 267-339-5394

219 N. 63rd St 1BR $550+ utils 1st flr, $30 application fee 215-906-5654 59xx Haverford Ave. 1br $590+utils lg apt, 1st, last & security. (732)598-6876 73xx Ruskin Rd. 2br $760+utils 1st flr., renov, w/d, garage (215)888-7491 Various 1, 2 & 3 BR Apts $725-$895 www.perutoproperties.com 215.740.4900

11xx Lehigh 1BR $550 Near Temple U & subway. 215-280-2513 16th & Lehigh 1BR $575 spacious, EIK, heat included, 1 month sec, 1 month rent. 267-253-6532 1826 Ridge Ave. Lg. 3BR Section 8 OK Must See. Call 215-885-1700 18xx Venango 2br $650+utils 2nd flr, near Temp Hosp. 267-339-1662 24xx N. 29th St. 2br $525+utils newly renovated, carpet, new kitchen, fridge, stove included. 267-249-6645 25xx N. 31st St. 2br $600+utils newly renovated, Call (215)228-4095 3214 N. Broad 1BR $600+utils 3rd flr, near transp,new reno 215.748.1383 35xx N. 11th St 1Br $460+utils newly renovated, (215)917-1091

1,2, 3, 4 Bedroom FURNISHED APTS LAUNDRY-PARKING 215-223-7000 12xx W Allegheny Effic. $425, 2br $625 Newly renovated, 215-221-6542

17th & Ontario 2BR $650 2 months security. Call 215-290-8702

46xx Broad St. 2br $775+utils 1st, last, sec 215.329.2863 / 215.229.2433 LOGAN 2br $640 mo. renov, 1st, last & sec. req 267-984-8522

1xx E. Wyoming Ave. Effic. $475 + elec. New renov, 1st flr. Must See 215.552.5200 5849 N. Camac 1BR $650+utils Sec 8 OK 267-271-6601 or 215-416-2757 5th & Chew 2BR $725+utils 2nd flr, w/w, GD, Sec 8 OK. 215-322-8784 60XX Warnock 1 BR $595+ near Fernrock Train Station,215-276-8534

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$695 / 2BR - REDUCED PRICE!!! This property will not last long-schedule your appointment today! •Move in Immed •Must pass credit app ALL YOU NEED... •2 Yrs Employment •No past evictions 1st come 1st served basis ! SORRY! NO SECTION 8 or PHA VOUCHER RESIDENCE FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL 215-927-3010 Mon-Thurs 9am-2pm Eli Ct.-1418 Conlyn/Julien- 5600 Ogontz Convenient Living near LaSalle University Stud. 450-$575 1br 575-$675 2br $775 Gas, Water, Heat Free- SEC 8 WELCOME Call to schedule appt @ 215-276-5600

13xx Hunting Park Ave 1BR/1BA $400+ util. 2nd Fl rear sep shower. $1200 req. to move in. Call 215-919-8700 22xx W. Tioga 1br $550 2br $775 Newly renov, 215.229.2433; 215.329.2863 Broad & Hunting Park 2br $725+utils 3rd flr, nwly renov. & 1st flr 1br, newly renov. priv. entry $685+ut (215)559-5039

25th & Girard Lg Effic $500+utils Nice size & clean, 215-765-2195

233 E. Price St. 1BR $650+ util 1st floor, heat included, 1mo. rent, 1mo. sec., credit check. 215-681-7606 & 7072 4617 Wayne 1br $450 ht & hot wtr inc. EIK, 267-600-6894 or 215-416-2757 46xx Green St. 1BR $560+util clean, move in $1,060. 267-333-9600 46xx Wayne Ave. 3br $700 fresh paint, w/d, crptd flrs 267-230-2600 5220 Wayne Ave. Studio & 1 BR newly rehab, 215-744-9077, Lic# 507568 Fieldview Apts-705 E. Church Lane Penn Lee Court- 557 E. Church Lane Studio 575-$600, 1br700-$750, 2br $850 Gas, Water, Heat Free- SEC. 8 WELCOME Call to schedule appt @ 215-276-5600

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8xx N. Taney 3Br/1Ba $1,380 ac, hdwd fl, w/d, new kitch 610-212-5920 Greene or Seymour Sts. 1br units $560$685+util. Great location. 610.287.9857 Knox St. 1BR $650 W. Haines St. 2BR $750 new renov., near transp. (267)716-8526

W. Washington Ln 1br $660+ gas/elec. lovely, large apt, Call 215-276-8661

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

ARDMORE LARGE 2BR 2BA $1,285 c/a FOOTSTEPS FROM R5 TRAIN full size washer/ dryer in apt 856-220-0876

63xx W. Sharpnack 2BR $850+ Beautiful home, 1st floor, W/W, central heat / A/C, W/D hookups, fridge. Pet friendly. Call (267) 879-8897 7500 Germantwn Av 1&2 BR Gardentype! Winter Special! Newly dec, d/w, g/d w/w, hw, a/c, w/d, cable, pet friendly, free park’g. 215-275-1457/233-3322 76xx Rugby St. 1br $595+utils mod dplx, w/w cpt, garage, 215.840.6018 Green Tree Apts-330 West Johnson St. Modern & Quiet Living in West Mt. Airy Starting-1BR $700-$750 & 2BR $900 Gas,Water,Heat Free-Move In Specials Call to schedule appt. 215-276-5600

2114 E Chelten Ave 2BR 1BA $700 available Open kitchen and living area and common fenced in yard. First month rent and one month security required (water included). Available now. Call 215-287-7773 to set up an appt 66th & Broad 2Br $925+utilities close to transp. & schools. 215-888-9018

Mt. Laurel 2br/2.5ba Condo $1400+utils garage, LR, DR, A/C, exclusive area, 8 miles from Center City. (609)713-4448

12th/Erie, furn, fridge, micro, no drugs, $90wk, $270 sec dep (609) 703-4266 20th & Miflin 1 lge rm $450, 1 smaller rm $375, all utils incl. 267-339-2888 28th & York shared kit/bath, $95/week. 267-816-3058 28xx N 27th St: Furnished rooms, utils included, $100/wk, SSI ok, 267-819-5683 42xx Frankford, $490/mo 2nd Flr rm, private entr, kit & Ba, clean 215-289-2973 42xx Paul St. furn $120/week + 2 week deposit, 609-617-8639, 856-464-0933 5th & Wyoming Newly renovated, furnished, $85/week. Must See! 215-552-5200 7th/INDIANA $400/Mo Call 267-979-7081

6751 N 13th 1-2br $495 -$595 new paint & carpet, Call 267-968-7043 A1 Nice, well maintained rms, N. & W. Phila. Starting @ $125/wk 610.667.9675

17xx Orthodox 2br $700+utils newly renov, 2nd flr, call 215-919-1516 4645 Penn St. 1BR $600. newly renov gas/wtr inc 215-781-8072 46xx Hawthorne St 3br $775+utils private entrance yard, bsmt 215.805.6455 Frankford & Oxford 1BR $600 Also Efficiency, $500, Utilities included We speak Spanish, 215-620-6261

Broad and Allegheny Priv ent, fresh paint, use of kit, w/w carpet, great loc! $110/wk $270/move in 267-997-5212

Broad & Olney deluxe furn priv ent $115 wk, 4 free wks, Sec $200. 215-572-8833 Broad & Somerville clean, furn, newly decorated, near transp. 215-455-7488 Broad & W.Moreland Newly remodeled, furnished rooms, utils incl 267-978-1487

28xx Ryerson 2br duplex $800 2nd floor, bsmt, gar, yard, 267-784-2809

Frankford, furnished, near bus & El, $85/wk & up + $295 sec. 215-526-1455

3324 Willit 2Br/2Ba $830 2nd flr, security deposit. 215-880-3116

Germantown Area: NICE, Cozy Rooms Private entry, no drugs (215)548-6083

4740 Frankford Ave. Studio $475+elec. Call 215-669-7166 or 267-970-2269 Academy & Grant 2BR $775+ 2nd flr,w/w, c/a,off st prkg 856.346.0747 Blvd & Pratt 1BR $590 2nd flr, clean, no pets, 215-289-2973 Fox Chase: Hasbrook 2br $900 water incl. 1st flr, W/D hkup, gar 215-785-0819

G-town, furn., good location clean/quiet reasonable, call 12-8pm. 215-849-8994

Lansdowne Room $600 utils & cable included, w/d, no smoking. 484-469-0753 LaSalle Univ. Area Renov ROOM FOR RENT, hw flrs, 1.5 Shared ba, full shared kitc, Patio $500mo inc utils 215-850-6618

NORTHEAST 2br $850 2nd floor, garage. No pets, no smoking. Section 8 ok. 215-637-4302

NE PHILADELPHIA furnished room, $125/wk, $125 depoisit. 215-501-0771

Red Lion/Verree Road Vic, Duplex 1 lrg master BR suite, $695+utils. available 2/1. Call (215)808-8863

Wissonoming Efficiency $475+utils spacious, EIK, separate BR, 610-454-0307

N. Phila 3008 N Woodstock Furn rms cpt, nr trans, kit, w/d $85+ 516.527.0186 N Phila Furn, Priv Ent $75 & up . No drugs, SSI ok. available now 215.763.5565 Richmond room, use of kitch, nr transp. Seniors welcome/SSI ok 215-634-1139 South Phila, Fully furn, new luxury rooms Bedding, refrig, microwave, ceiling fans, recessed lighting, bath in rooms, $100-$150 weekly. Call (267)304-1227

42xx Wallace St 2br Newly renov. Sect 8 OK (267)528-4121 52xx Rodman St 3BR $775 hd flrs, lg LR, mirrors, Sec 8 267.401.9727 53xx W. Oxford St. 3br/1ba $1,100 newly reno, sec 8 approved 267.467.0140 58xx Christian 4BR/1Ba $975 61xx Larchwood 3BR/1Ba $900 Rent to own $5000 needed. 215.602.2252 62xx Hazel Ave. 3BR $800+utils. Must see! Call 215-264-3538

50xx Larchwood 4BR $1,100 nice location, avail 2/1. 610-710-1986

2010 W. Hagert 3br/1ba $700/mo. Newly renovated, Sec 8 ok. 215.479.5508 22xx Cleveland 2BR $650 water incl Freshly painted, Call (267)230-2600 44xx N. Cleveland 3BR $700 newly renovated, carpet, paint, nice small backyard, good block. 267-249-6645 N Phila. 3br house $750 newly renov. 1br apts. (215)219-9257

24xx North 18th St. 4BR/1.5BA $1250 newly renovated house features kitch w/ cherrywood cabinetry incl refrigerator, gas stove, dishwasher, microwave & garbage disposal. central air & heat. carpeted w attractive tile. all connections in place. online ad. call (215)840-5827.

W. Phila - Furnished & Renov. $125/wk. Call 267-847-6104

W. Phila-Nr El, use of house. $110/wk. Share cable. Call (215)470-2418

1xx Linton St. 3BR/1BA new carpets, Sec 8 ok. 215-740-4629 92 W Champlost St. 3BR/1BA $850 Plus Exc cond new paint/carpets garage no pets Jimmy 215-920-8397 cell

40xx Darien 3BR renov, hdwd flrs, Sec 8 OK 267-230-2600

56XX Heiskell St. 2BR/1BA $650/mo $2000 to move in. Call Duane for appt. 267-879-0117 56xx Stokes St. 4br front porch, newly renovated, rear yard, section 8 ok, 215-356-2434 64xx Lambert 3 BR $850 Renovated, w/d hookup, 267-230-2600

58xx Stockton Rd. 3br $875+utils hardwood floors, garage, 215-805-2821 Godfrey Ave. 3br/1.5ba $875+utils w/w cpt, fin bsmt, garage (267)808-5551

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

Jaguar 2001 3.0S Type with sunroof, comparable to new, few orig. mi, corporate disposal, $5985. 215-928-9632

12xx Alcott St. 3br/1ba $900 remodeled, bsmt, garage 267-784-2809

Town Car 2003 $8,000 very low miles, sunroof, heated seats, 5 disc changer, leather int. (215)687-3608

13xx E. Luzerne St 2br duplex $900 newly reno, Sec 8 approved 267.467.0140 14xx Vankirk St. 3BR $800 mo. Rehab Exit Benchmark Rlty 215-668-3990 20xx Pratt St. 3br Section 8 approved, 215-205-9910 60xx Lawndale St. 3br $900 avail now, grt loc, wont last 610.710.1986

Ford F150 2002 $7000/obo runs grt, nw batt., 82k, pwr, 215.338.2027

S63 AMG 2009 $75,000 518 horsepower, 45k miles, arctic white w/full black AMG leather, 20 inch AMG rims with new Michelins, a b s o lu te ly stunning, original list $136,000, sell for $75K, Call Dave 410-822-9500 wkdays; 410-310-0859 eve’s & wkends

887 Marcella 3br/1ba $850+utils No pets. Please Call 267-632-4580 MAYFAIR 3 BR $1050+ utils gas heat, renovated, call 215-421-9606 Mayfair 3BR/1BA $920 util Bright Renovated house, 1 flr pergo, CA, fin basmnt, garage. Call 267-261-7018

MAYFAIR 3br/2.5ba $1150+utils close trans/shops, full bsmt 215-694-4089 Oxford Circle 3BR/1BA $800/mo. W/D, w/w carpets. Call 267-579-7069

Sable SE 2004 $6,200 51K, gray, insp, lthr, loaded, 215-287-3799

SENTRA 2001 Best Offer car runs, new insp. & parts. 215-927-2817

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

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

Darby: 3xx Greenway Ave. 3br Available immediately, call 215-219-5172 Upper Darby 2br/1ba $725+utils newly renov., new carpet 610-772-4184

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

Upper Darby 4br Row $950 good cond, w/w carpet. (484)270-8639 A1 PRICES FOR JUNK CARS FREE TOW ING , Call (215) 726-9053 Sicklerville, NJ 3BR/1.5BA $1575 Wilton’s Corner Twnhse. EIK, Finished Basement, Deck, Pool 856-885-6720

resorts/rent OCEAN CITY 3 BR Apts sleeps 6. 2nd flr, 1st half season or season rental. 3rd flr, 2nd half season. (215)317-6379

N. MYRTLE BEACH, SC 2br/2ba condo Across Street from Beach, 800 sq. ft., 2 balconies, 3 TVs, DVD/VCR, weekly rentals, $500-$700. (410)697-3396

commercial industrial Restaurant 4 rent $2200/Mo + puchase of equip. Approx 1600SF, full kit, tables. Fit out w/ glassware, pots & pans already completed. Prkg for 30 cars. Exc loc. 1601 Chapel Av, Cherry Hill NJ. 856-663-4110

automotive 528i 1998 $6,550/bo fully loaded, MUST SELL!!! 267-650-2548

Ford F 250 XLT Super Duty ’02 $11,500 4WD, bedliner, 54k, extras, 610.279.7895 FORD F-350 XL Super Duty ’04 $21,500 60k miles, white, power stroke, V8 turbo diesel, good cond., loaded (215)788-3383

low cost cars & trucks Buick LeSabre 1993 $1,250 all pwr, 3800motor,rns new 215.620.9383 CAD Coupe de Elegance 1979 $3950 super mint condition, 610-667-4829 Chevy Caprice Classic Wagon 1994 $1,350 no rust/dents,1 own,rns new215.620.9383 Chevy Corvette 1990 $4900/firm 31k, auto, red, needs TLC,(609)344-0141 Dodge Durango SLT 2000 $2950 4x4, 7 pass, loaded. nice, 215.847.7346 Dodge Stratus SE 2000 $1,850 4 door, auto, loaded, clean. 215-518-8808 Ford Explorer XLT 1997 $1,750 4x4, loaded, clean, CD. 215-518-8808 Mazda 626 2000 $4290 leather, sunroof, 77k, 267-602-4091 Nissan Sentra 4 cyl. 1994 $1350 4dr,auto,ac,34mpg,new insp215.620.9383 Pontiac Grand Prix GT 2004 $4200 gold, CD, wing, alarm, clean267.592.0448

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

SW: Elmwood Area 3BR modern, Section 8 approved 215.726.8817

Hunting Park: Furn. Luxury Rooms. Free utils, cable & internet. 267-331-5382

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

Philmont 2BR duplex, 2nd flr $820+ C/A, bsmnt, w/w, garage, (215)752-1091

53xx Willows 3br $825 carpet flrs, Section 8 ok 267-230-2600 56xx Thomas Ave 3BR $900 W/D, finished basement, 267-593-1187 60xx Pine St. lrg 4BR front porch, modern kitchen and bath, ceramic tile, carpet, Sec 8 ok. 877-371-7368 67xx Paschall Ave. 3BR/1BA $800 Hardwood floors. Enclosed porch. Apt. (Same Address) 1BR/1BA $600 Everything is brand new. 267-979-3994

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Broad & Allegheney rms, kitchen use $90/wk. $370 move in. (267)338-9345

435 Dudley St. 2BR $850 Small backyard. Sec. 8 ok. 917.667.4101 4xx McClellan St. 3BR/1BA $1100 Fridge, W/D, sec 8 ok. Call 215-748-3076

18xx East Thayer St 2br New paint & carpet. 215-327-2292

Odyssey EXL 2008 $17,000 loaded, white, tan leather, 83K mi, 1 owner, non-smoker, garaged, exc cond., needs very minor body work. (610)489-9195

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4309 Tower St 2BR/1BA $1250 2 blks to Main St., d/w, w/d, c/a, g/d, deck, yard. No pets. Call. 215-518-1275

912 New Market 2BR $1,650 great location, great house.215.816.7200

1xx W. Lippincott 3BR/2BA front porch, newly remodeled, rear yard, Section 8 OK. 215-356-2434

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