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[ + 3 ] Mayor Nutter says he’s looking into opportunities to make use of North Broad Street’s famous Divine Lorraine building. “Know what? I’m gonna buy a camera, and take pictures of it. Has anybody thought of doing that yet?”

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Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown proposes generating revenue by selling ads on school buses. “Also, please start referring to me by my new name, WhisperQuiet Maytag Dishmaster.”

[ + 4 ] A North Philly pastor makes “Wanted”

posters with Lil Wayne’s picture on them, saying the rapper’s violent, misogynist lyrics are poisoning the community. Bell Curve is pretty sure the reverend is right, but, holy shit, we want a poster so bad.

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With contract negotiations moving slowly, SEPTA police announce they may go on strike. Just to be clear: You guys are saying that, at present, you are on duty, trying to prevent acts of violence and theft on the trolleys, buses and trains, and have been for some time? Jezebel.com names Philadelphia the 14th best city in the United States for lesbians, whileLuckymagazine ranks Philly the U.S.’s 14th best city for shopping. In case you’re curious: There are no listicles in Lucky Lesbian magazine.

[ + 1 ] Attorney and mummer George Badey III is

running for U.S. House representative in the 7th Congressional District. He makes the announcement atop an appallingly antiquated cowboys-and-Indians float while stumbling through a string-band version of Will Smith’s “Wild, Wild West.” Also, he’s drunk and high. And there’s makeup and vomit in his beard. And his campaign manager is a busted-up hooker. And something smells like pee. Old pee.

[ + 2 ] Drexel announces a $97 million student

housing and retail project on Chestnut Street. “We’re turning the Divine Lorraine into a laser-tag arena,” says Temple.

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The Philadelphia Passion loses the Lingerie Football League championship game to the Los Angeles Temptation. Guess they just wanted it more.

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FOOD FIGHT With the Barnes about to open, more restrictive feeding policies could mean trouble for the Parkway’s homeless. By Isaiah Thompson

dvocates for the homeless are worried that the city is preparing to crack down on the homeless population that live and hang out on Benjamin Franklin Parkway. City officials insist they’re looking out for the safety of everyone. If that sounds like a familiar story, it should. Every few years, the same narrative seems to surface: The Parkway is finally about to become a sparkling jewel of Philly tourism and civic pride (this time with the opening of the relocated Barnes Foundation), but first something’s got to be done about the homeless situation and the people who fuel it by providing meals. Former Mayors Ed Rendell and John Street, former Councilman Frank DiCicco and Center City District chief executive Paul Levy have all tried at various points to discourage the practice — and all have so far failed. Now the Nutter administration seems to be taking up the cause. A few weeks ago, the Department of Health distributed fliers inviting those who serve food outside to attend a meeting of the Board of Health, which promulgates rules governing food safety. The board, according to Health Department spokesman Jeff Moran, is “taking a look at what regulations might be applied” to food distribution to ensure safe food practices. The Health Department, says Commissioner Donald Schwarz, is “interested in

helping to assure that those who are hungry and are getting fed are safer, and that those who are feeding are aware of safe procedures.” Some homeless advocates, however, see another attempted crackdown on the horizon. A coalition of Parkway food distributors released a statement on Wednesday saying new regulations would constitute “unnecessary obstacles between hungry people and free meals.” Not everyone sees the situation as cut and dry, though. “I think what they’re trying to do is to come up with a mechanism for [regulating] who’s serving meals out there and whether they’re healthy, and I can respect that,” says Pastor Brian Jenkins. His church, Chosen 300 Ministries, runs an indoor meal program and also delivers meals outside once a week. But historically, he says, “the city has not been friendly to those who feed [people] on the streets. So the response often is, ‘They’re trying to shut us down!’” Pastor Bill Golderer of Broad Street Ministry, a Center City church that offers homeless services, is conflicted. On the one hand, he says, “Those people are hungry. If the city’s going to crack down, what’s the alternative?” On the other, he points out that the meals — often sub-par food served in sub-par conditions — aren’t much of a solution either. Broad Street Ministry recently spent nearly half a million dollars on an industrial kitchen; Golderer wants to see his program expand, and possibly offer a better alternative to the menu on the Parkway. “I’m trying to muster resources right now to contribute something that is dignifying and gives a sense that people are valuable.” (isaiah.thompson@citypaper.net)

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✚ POLITICAL WON’T Deciding which candidate to support for Pennsylvania’s General Assembly? You may want to hold off.After all, even our legislators seem thrown by the redistricting battle still coursing through the legal system. “We’re in uncharted territory,” state Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi recently told reporters. Voting districts statewide were sent into flux last week when the Pennsylvania Supreme Court rejected the GOP-designed redistricting map and suggested a return to 2001 voting lines. Pileggi sued to delay the primaries so a new map could be drawn; that suit, in turn, is opposed by Senate Minority Leader Jay Costa and House Minority Leader Frank Dermody. If those should fail, advocacy groups like LatinoLines have their own legal actions in play. Right in the middle of this Harrisburg power struggle is a 29-yearold piano teacher named Amanda Holt. (The court opinion grandly refers to a redistricting proposal crafted by the Upper Macungie woman as “the Holt plan.”) It began as a point of curiosity. “I couldn’t figure out why my friends and I, and people living in close proximity, even within the same township, were living in different districts,” Holt says. “Trying to answer that question launched me into the redistricting process.” The answer: There was no reason. Even she, an amateur, could come up with a plan that met the state’s constitutional mandates without carving up municipalities. Holt took her plan to the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia. “At first, I was a little skeptical,” admits attorney Michael Churchill, but he soon realized Holt was right. “The only question was whether the courts were going to rely on outdated precedents or the need for political conformity, and fortunately they didn’t.”

✚ UNDERGROUND RAILROAD However fraught it may be, it’s only natural that Philadelphia — run through by the Reading Viaduct, a gracefully rusting rail trestle that’s been proposed as the site of an elevated urban park — would suffer a touch of High Line envy. But last weekend, a few dozen city officials, advocacy types and urban planners, led by a local group called VIADUCTgreene, were headed not above ground, but below.They were traipsing through the other reach of the viaduct, which stretches west from Broad Street to Fairmount Park along the old City Branch of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. It’s like Philly’s collective cellar — cool, gloomy and cluttered with detritus. But unlike the elevated 9th Street Branch, still in the hands of Reading International, the City Branch is owned by SEPTA. Byron Comati, SEPTA’s director of strategic planning, says, “If we can repurpose it, then it becomes a maintainable asset.” The idea was planted when Paul vanMeter, a landscape gardener with a passion for Philly’s industrial history, began researching the line — and, with co-founder Liz Maillie, decided to seek out the entrance. Instead of rubble, says vanMeter, they saw Philly's “next great civic space.” It was love at first sight. Still, as in any great love story, there’s a conflict.This one is between two visions — the longer-established Reading Viaduct Project plan to begin work on the elevated branch right away, and VIADUCTgreene’s dream of an international ideas competition for the entire, three-mile space. Reconciling those visions remains a challenge. Murmurs vanMeter: “Politics, politics. You —Samantha Melamed do what you can do, when you can do it.”

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UPS AND DOWNS ³ RECENTLY, HALL MONITOR attended the kickoff meeting for the Kensington neighborhood initiative of Philly Rising, a program run out of the city managing director’s office. The meeting, held at the McPherson Square branch of the Free Library, drew a few curious stragglers from another meeting that had just ended, about the cleanup of the nearby “Needle Park.” But the remainder of the audience was primarily other city officials. The “crowd” was asked a simple question: “What are some of the issues facing your community?” Did I mention this was Kensington? Kensington, of the open-air drug markets? Kensington, of the violent crime and high murder rates? Kensington, the red-lined experiment in urban decay? “Drugs,” volunteered someone. “Vacant lots,” said another. “The banks won’t lend to us to buy property here,” said yet another. “Violence.” “Litter.” “Lack of jobs.” The answers were transcribed in permanent marker to an oversized sheet of paper. But how that piece of paper — and how the mayor’s Philly Rising program — will make much of a difference isn’t so clear. The program, first announced at the start of last year, operates with a $450,000 budget that employs seven people to plant the seeds of change in neighborhoods by bringing together community groups and resources. So far, it’s in eight neighborhoods. In each, similar lists have been distilled into a few highly visible achievements: a cleanup day at 27th Street and Lehigh Avenue; the establishment of a computer lab in Hartranft; a music-production program for kids in Point Breeze. It’s either an unfortunate coincidence or a sardonic joke — probably the former — that the initials for Philly Rising are “P.R.” But don’t blame Hall Monitor for pointing it out. Last week, theDaily News credited managing director Rich Negrin — featured clutching a broom on the front page — with transforming Philly Rising from a “pilot program to a citywide movement.” And the administration itself has Facebooked and tweeted Philly Rising (#phillyrising!) to high heaven, touting it here as a clean-up plan, there as a crime-fighting plan and generally as a game-changing neighborhoods program. The cleanups and computer labs are worthy projects, and no one minds the city’s parachuting in with goodies. But it’s hard to see how seven people, enumerating decades-old problems in permanent ink for tiny audiences, constitute the kind of neighborhoods program — much less the kind of “movement” — these people are waiting for. ✚ Send feedback to isaiah.thompson@citypaper.net.

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³ FASHION WEEK IS near — time to spruce up. If you’re the type who thinks you can never have enough shoes, you’re likely to believe that you can never have enough room to buy more shoes. That’s why British-born Elena Brennan is moving her Bus Stop Boutique from 750 S. Fourth St. to the larger, glassier front of 727 S. Fourth St., a few months shy of the store’s fifth anniversary. Look for the new Bus Stop to open around Valentine’s Day. ³ Also making a move away from its original address is the sassy Sazz Vintage Clothing. Currently holed up at 38 N. Third St., owner Amanda Saslow is prepping an address nearer her high-end men’s clothing shop, Briar Vintage (62 N. Third St.). ³ Lone Justice made one decent kinda-sweet ’80s cow-punk album that Chris Malcarney (The Donuts) and friends in Slo-Mo, Beretta76, John Train and Nixon’s Head recall fondly. How fondly? Enough that they formed cLone Justice and spent months rehearsing for one show (at Milkboy Philly this Friday), at which they’ll perform that album in its entirety. This might seem like inside baseball, but it’s a good nine innings we’re talking about. ³ After 18 years of representing Tony Luke Jr., GT Marketing — Tyler Ward and George Polgar’s PR duo — have backed off the pork. It has nothing to do with Luke losing a hundred pounds or hanging out at Wing Bowl as captain of Team Kobayashi (both he and Takeru Kobayashi donated cash to Philabundance), they say; George, Tyler and Ray Rastelli, (CEO/owner of Rastelli Foods, which controls Luke’s brands) have been discussing the move for a year. “Working with Tony Jr. has been a blast,” says Polgar. “Personally, Tony Jr. and I are brothers in spirit and always worked hard together. Like brothers, we were never concerned that open, sometimes heated differences of opinion would shake the rock-solid bonds between us.” Ultimately, George and Tyler decided that following Luke into his diverse business and creative endeavors would leave them less time to devote to other clients (like Munish Narula’s Tashan and Tiffin projects), their grandkids and their sailing trips. Don’t mess with GT’s boat, yo. ³As if Chris Benedetto Madak had any more room to go further out, the man behind Philly’s eerily experimental Bee Mask (to say nothing of his equally avant-garde Deception Island label) heads into the sonic abyss at the AUX space at Vox Populi Gallery Feb. 10. ³ I’m not going to guide you in making plans for Valentine’s Day. Get in love. Stay in love. Eat. But Il Portico,the royal oldschool Tuscan-Italian restaurant at 1519 Walnut St., is launching a dining/dancing program that happens to start on V-Day. There’ll be DJs to start, with Latin jazz and live bands to follow. I heart that. ³There’s more to heart at citypaper.net/criticalmass. (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)

TAILGATING: Hyped as the best Sundance debut in decades, Beasts of the Southern Wild recalls squalid living conditions in a post-Katrina New Orleans.

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POWER PLAYS Hot-topic-ridden films had this year’s Sundance all abuzz. By Sam Adams

he Sundance Film Festival likes to say it’s all about the films, but as with any institution, it’s also about power. Careers are born there, deals made and stars ignited in a rush of excitement that often proves impossible to recapture. The big news at this year’s festival was the near-unanimous swell of praise for the virtually unknown filmmakers behind Beasts of the Southern Wild, a handmade fable about life in a flood-ravaged community called the Bathtub, whose impoverished heroine, played by 8year-old Quvenzhané Wallis when she was 6, and her father live in trailers perched in the branches of trees and connected by a ragged rope line. The setting is transparently post-Katrina New Orleans, but director Benh Zeitlin and the rest of his Court 13 collective cast the devastation as a primal upheaval — signified by the rampaging husks of massive boar-like creatures — rather than the result of human neglect. There’s a genuinely visionary aesthetic at work, particularly in the junk-heap contraptions Wallis and her father use to stay above water, but it’s coupled with an untroubled aestheticization of rural poverty. (That Court 13 is named for a Wesleyan squash court doesn’t exactly help.) Critics hailed the film as the best Sundance debut in years, if not decades, and a backlash promptly followed, but without jumping on either bandwagon I’d say it’s a film that merits re-watching and more

careful scrutiny than Sundance’s hothouse environment permits. The festival’s opening-night centerpiece, Lauren Greenfield’s documentary The Queen of Versailles, fenced with similar issues, albeit from the opposite end of the economic spectrum. Greenfield’s subject is Jacqueline Siegel, a working-class beauty queen married to timeshare mogul David Siegel. Like so many Americans, including those who’ve made no-money-down investments in Siegel’s resorts, the Siegels are leveraged to the hilt, so when the economic crisis hits, they’re totally unprepared for the credit freeze. The Vegas skyscraper that was to be the crown jewel of Siegel’s empire is shuttered before it’s open, and the 90,000-square-foot home that was to be the world’s largest private dwelling is stalled as a halfbuilt shell. By focusing on Jackie rather than her prickly, short-tempered husband, Greenfield elicits surprising sympathy for her 1 percent protagonists, although at the price of severely limiting the film’s scope. Siegel talks about the crushing decision to lay off 5,000 workers, but they remain numbers on a balance sheet. Watching the movie a few rows in front of U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, and next to a gregarious board member who called former 49ers quarterback Steve Young “a good friend,” I couldn’t help but wonder how many in the audience would fill in the backstory behind Siegel’s ill-gotten gains, and how many merely feel his gold-plated pain. One of Sundance’s most provocative films, if not its most fully realized, Craig Zobel’s Compliance took its cues from a real-life incident in which a caller posing as a police detective induced a

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It’s hard to imagine a more utterly perfect project for über-cinematic, über-Frenchy space-cadets Air than soundtracking George Méliès’ 1902 classic Trip To the Moon — of newfound Hugo-related fame. This is a duo, remember, who actually named their debut album Moon Safari.While it may not reach those heights, Le Voyage Dans Le Lune (Astralwerks) is some of their oddest and most readily enjoyable work in a while, indulging their habitual proggy ’70s jones but ditching the lightweight pop of their last few records for something a bit more cosmic and freaky. —K. Ross Hoffman

Portland duo Lilacs & Champagne conjure a heady fragrance on their selftitled debut (Mexican Summer), like a musty old perfume whose sweetness gets queasy as it lingers. Settling in the space between RJD2’s monster-movie trip-hop, Malachai’s cut-and-paste freakshow psych-rock and the recycled-kitsch downtempo of Quiet Village, L&C weave all manner of exhumed dollar-bin artifacts into a swampy, surreal mood record that muddles the distinction between chilling out and just plain chilling. —K. Ross Hoffman

³ electro-folk/pop After gloomgazing gorgeously on her debut, Welsh wunderwraith Cate Le Bon sets sail for smoother waters on CYRK (Control Group), but the shadows still loom: Synths plow churchily, basses buzz, angelic vocals delay and drop. Piano keys tumble in a lumbering cascade on “Through the Mill.” On the moodily waltzing “Julia,” a single stuttering note repeats like Morse code from a ship about to wreck. Le Bon crashes Kung Fu Necktie on Saturday (Feb. —Patrick Rapa 11, kungfunecktie.com).

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³ drums/vocals In the Yard, the self-released second weirdo percussion-and-voice effort from Neal Morgan (drummer for Joanna Newsom and Bill Callahan), has more in common with the tribal grooves and self-sampling of tUnE-YarDs than the hippie circle at your local Occupy outpost. About half the album is driven by propulsive and/or improvised drumming (check “Fathers Day”); the other by vocal explorations (like the echoing “On a Cut Hill”). Permeated with haunting hooting and arrhythmic polyrhythms, the proceedings are disorienting — but enjoyably so. —Brian Howard

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woman for whom Britain’s King Edward VIII gave up his throne. The American-born socialite was an ambitious Anglophile who thrived among the Brits in their motherland, starting with her time living with a second husband in Mayfair. She was a stately, stylish woman (though not tremendously attractive), celebrated for her witty banter and obsessed over by at least one royal. Upon starting her romance with the king, Simpson forever became notorious, a misunderstood lightning rod of controversy until her death. Fascinating, yes. But that doesn’t mean Madonna needed to make this film, let alone one that looks like a Calvin Klein commercial and sounds like a glum after-school special. Still, for all its awkward dialogue (penned by Madonna and Truth or Dare director Alek Keshishian) and visual clichés filled with diffused lighting, the stylized flick features several interesting riffs on the existence of fairy-tale romance. The two-tiered tale takes the viewer from Simpson’s (Andrea Riseborough) life in pre-World War II England to a late20th-century Simpson fan, whose first name is also Wally (Abbie Cornish), on the eve of Sotheby’s auction of Wallis and Edward (hence W.E.) memorabilia. Though plagued by stilted lines, the actresses of W.E. do a handsome job essaying the soon-to-be Duchess of Windsor and the modern New Yorker obsessed with her namesake. Both women are fond of pedestal bathtubs, form-fitting designer dresses and were married to first husbands who used their wives as punching bags. While a fragile Wally reserves her strength (and smiles, for God’s sake) for the end of the film and a relationship with a working-class Sotheby’s guard living in Brooklyn, Riseborough is a twitchy joy to watch as she takes the woman-who-couldn’t-be-queen from confidently poised to unraveled. She single-handedly gives this film much-needed electricity. Everything else is mostly W.E.A.K. —A.D. Amorosi

Debussy heard the sounds of the gamelan in Paris, and became the first traditional Western composer to incorporate Asian harmonies and rhythms. And it seems like it’s taken that long for a true synthesis of the cultures to occur. There has been a fascinating ping-pong game of influences since Debussy, with a generation of Asian composers as influenced by his work as by their own traditions (Toru Takemitsu being the most notable example). Then there’s the wrenching evolution of the Chinese new-music world, severely impacted by Communist culture commissars — most notoriously during the Cultural Revolution of the late ’60s, when intellectuals and artists were forced to abandon or radically alter their work. The generation that survived has approached new music timidly, producing interesting but tradition-based material. This past Saturday’s concert by the Prism Quartet — four newly commissioned works by Chineseborn composers — presented a boldly confident direction, with a strong and cohesive blend of international affects. The brilliant catalyst for the composers was a joint venture of the Philadelphiabased saxophone quartet and the ensemble Music From China, consisting of four ancient instruments — erhu, pipa, yangqin and sheng — as well a percussionist who bridged both worlds. The four new works were distinctive, united by the composers’ complete exploitation of the enormous array of timbres that this remarkable collection of instruments afforded them. Fang Man, whose work has been heard in Philadelphia before, expressed her desire to use all tools placed before her without sounding hackneyed. She succeeded with a work of oozing, ethereal texture, complete with whispery tones from the reed players. Lei Liang, too, stretched out a large canvas of many colors. In all of the music, a buoyant sense of rhythm carried the material along, with a distinctive jazzy flavor prominent in Huang Ruo’s work. Bright Sheng, who was born in Shanghai in 1955, is the elder statesman of the four, and his music, if a bit more reticent than his young colleagues, was expressed with more confidence and panache. Again, I was reminded of American jazz, and especially that great amalgamator of musics of the world, Ornette Coleman. Feb. 4, First Unitarian Church. (p_burwasser@citypaper.net)

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FIBER OPTICS ³ A SORT OF bull’s-eye marks the center of “A Sense of Place” at the Art Alliance — Pat Hickman’s wall-filling installation Circumambulate, concentric circles like rings echoing out from a stone dropped in water. These are delineated by jagged “river teeth” (spiky, water-worn branches) encased in parchment-like pig gut. The gut dries taut, crisp and translucent, and in some places the pieces of wood are replaced by empty shells of gut, like giant cicada casings. Seven distinct visions of location complement Hickman’s. Curator Bruce Hoffman says the show, one of 40 organized for the important biennial FiberPhiladelphia, explores ways we think about place. Is it landscape? Is it historical? Is it home? On the “home” front, Amy Orr’s witty but disturbingly topical House of Cards is, as the title suggests, a doll-sized house made of plastic credit cards. This detailed and substantial dollhouse, with a lawn of green cards and exterior walls of white ones, is open on one side to reveal individually furnished rooms and their inhabitants. A transcendental and more visually traditional representation of nature is found in atmospheric landscapes by Barbara Lee Smith, collaged from painted textiles and completed with decorative stitching. Smith’s painterly, meticulous execution and rich sense of color is an almost shocking contrast to Ke-Sook Lee’s neighboring installation of a hammock made from the green rags of Army nurses’ uniforms used in Vietnam, materials found at an Army surplus store. Though Lee has heavily altered them, each remains a record of the

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individual wearer’s experiences. Green Hammock is a reference to Lee’s own experience as a child in Korea during the Korean War, and the tiny bits of material suspended from fragile threads speak of instability and the impossibility of relaxation. Like Smith, Wendeanne Ke’aka Stitt pieces and quilts fabric in an essentially two-dimensional approach. Her work is also serene, but the similarity ends there. Stitt uses Hawaiian kappa (bark cloth) and works from a Hawaiian tradition of geometric abstraction and contrasting lights and darks, making for an individual, non-rectangular shape on the wall. Dutch artist Marian Bijlenga’s pieces aggregate multiple perimeters. Here, delicate, hairy, bracelet-like shapes with auras of fragile thread fringe vaguely resemble long, thin centipedes biting their tails. Mounted slightly away from the wall, each casts a precise, mirror-like shadow, describing a thicker hollow line. Charming and undemanding in presence, they could suggest cells or bubbles in water. Marcia Docter’s dense, demanding and brilliantly colored em-

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³ A CENTRAL PARK The behind-the-scenes action around Bruce Norris’ Clybourne Park, an ingenious homage to Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 drama A Raisin in the Sun, has been drama-filled, to say the least. In February of 2010, Clybourne’s New York premiere got the kind of rave reviews that usually guarantee a quick transfer to Broadway. But the play took a long, circuitous route to get there, stopping through London, where a new production got yet more critical praise and an Olivier Award, and picking up the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for drama. And the Broadway production planned for this spring nearly fell apart last week when producer Scott Rudin, feuding with Norris over an HBO adaptation of the novel The Corrections, withdrew his backing. Luckily, Philadelphia audiences needn’t concern themselves with any of this. They can see Clybourne right here at the Arden in a superlative production likely to equal any to come. Norris’ inspiration, A Raisin in the Sun, follows a black family in post-war Chicago as they attempt to buy a home in the white neighborhood of Clybourne Park. Norris keeps the first act of Clybourne in the same era, as Norris recruits a minor character from Raisin to refocus from the perspective of the white home sellers. Act 2 moves forward to 2009, when Clybourne Park is majority black; it’s now a white family trying to overcome a fusillade of criticism over their attempts to either (from their point of view) buy and remodel that same house or (from the point of view of a neighborhood organization) kick off an avalanche of gentrification. The seven actors in the first act return as different characters in the second, underscoring

’BOURNE IDENTITY: (L-R) Steve Pacek, Erika Rose and Josh Tower.

our mounting sense that the more things change, the more they stay (fundamentally) the same. Norris’s command of structure and detail is dazzling, and he’s equally virtuosic in the volleys of acerbic dialogue. Things reach a fever pitch in Act 2, when one character — stupidly, but (probably) without malice — tells an off-color joke that unleashes torrents of suppressed hostility from everyone. The audience doesn’t know whether to laugh or cringe. This is Clybourne at its best, and in these moments it feels like an important play indeed. Yet when Norris attempts to deal with his topics more seriously, the results can sometimes be half-baked. Several subplots are underdeveloped, and a thuddingly obvious metaphor involving a trunk should not have made it past the first draft. Norris’s admiration for Hansberry is clear, but he could have learned something valuable from her directness. I saw the much-ballyhooed London production of Clybourne, which was often brilliant, but (perhaps inevitably) failed to capture the

broideries stand out as incredibly labor-intensive even in a collection of fiber and textile artwork, a field noted for obsessive attention to detail. Kabuki theatre and comic books are two of her influences, and Docter sometimes spells out the thoughts of the characters she’s appropriated via dense embroidery in caustic language: “Don’t Fuck with Me; I Have PMS and I Am Armed” with an image of the Statue of Liberty, for example. Bhakti Ziek’s use of language is contrastingly poetic — place names like “Philadelphia” and “Takoma Park” are sometimes almost immersed (though still perfectly legible) in her sparkling, beautiful jacquard surfaces, giving the viewer the option of appreciating her work with the left or the right brain. The temporal references in this show are as varied as the sense of place: historic, traditional, contemporary and seasonal. Putting it all together, though, when you have the time, the Art Alliance is the place to see memorable and important fiber work. (r_rice@citypaper.net) ✚ “A Sense of Place,” through April 21, Philadelphia Art Alliance, 251 S. 18th St., 215-545-4302, philartalliance.org.

distinctive American regional feel. At the Arden, director Ed Sobel nails the idiom with a more relaxed and naturalistic production. It’s a smart approach — if a few moments of high comedy don’t zing quite as much as they might, there are significant gains in the quieter moments. All seven actors are excellent individually and collectively — Ian Merrill Peakes and David Ingram especially shine — and design work is first-rate. In all, this Clybourne is a splendid followup to the Arden’s August: Osage County, and a vibrant testimonial to the continuing health of our American theater. Through March 25, $29-$45, Arden Theatre, 40 N. Second St., 215-922-1122, ardentheatre.org. (d_fox@citypaper.net)

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isn’t nearly so probing, but it’s got an amazing story to tell, about two obscure albums by a Detroit musician known as Rodriguez that inexplicably became a touchstone of the South African freedom movement. The film spends far too much time building up to a twist that will be common knowledge by the time it opens, and it mostly repackages others’ investigations rather than doing its own, but at least it spreads the word about some unjustly overlooked tunes. (s_adams@citypaper.net)

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Nomad Pizza| Tom Grim and Stalin Bedon will debut their second Nomad Pizza, in the former Horizons, on Friday, Feb. 10. The partners, who already run one restaurant in Hopewell, N.J., in addition to an oven-outfitted REO Speedwagon, are sticklers about the quality of their ingredients, sourcing everything organic (down to Parm and pepperoni) with a heavy local focus. Their pizza menu, comprising more than 10 wood-fired pies, is joined by a selection of apps and salads, plus wine and craft beer lists. 611 S. Seventh St., 215-238-0900, nomadpizzaco.com. Paris Wine Bar | Terry Berch McNally has opened this Gallic-themed wine bar in the space adjacent to her stalwart London Grill. (London, France — eh, eh?) Though the décor and revamped menu are French-leaning (eat chef Michael McNally’s grilled calf’s liver or cassoulet), the wine here, served via draft system, comes exclusively from Pennsylvania. Producers in Lehigh, Berks, York and Chester counties are kegging their juice for Paris, which in turn offers pours at killer prices ($6.50 to $9.50). The wine bar launches tonight with live jazz; it’ll operate Thursday to Sunday from 4 to midnight. 2303 Fairmount Ave., 215-978-4545, londongrill. com/paris. Bierstube Tsingtau | Mike Naessens of Eulogy (136 Chestnut St.) has converted Old City Asian Bistro into a German beer bar, serving a unique Eurofied draft list and traditional food from chef Richard DiPietro (knockwurst, Wiener schnitzel, etc.). If you’re wondering where Tsingtau, an archaic spelling for the Chinese city of Tsingtao (a la the beer), comes into play, the plan is for the space to reflect the pre-World War II German occupation of the seaport town (heady, I know). Thus, the still-inthe-works bottom level will be Asian-themed. 206 Market St., 215-922-2958, mybierstube.com. Got A Tip? Please send restaurant news to drew.lazor@ citypaper.net or call 215-735-8444, ext. 218.

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Bakeshop Thu., Feb. 9, Sat., Feb. 11 and Tue., Feb. 14, 79 p.m., $55/couple Âł Do something different with your Valentine this year â&#x20AC;&#x201D; bake a cake! Whipped is holding three couples-friendly baking/decorating classes in the next week. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll provide light refreshments, and you get to take home your handiwork (chocolate, vanilla or red velvet) after learning how make it all pretty. Reservations are required, and the classes are 21-plus. Whipped Bakeshop, 636 Belgrade St., 215-592-5449, whippedbakeshop.com.

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[ i love you, i hate you ] BAD WEEKEND WTF...I can’t believe all the bullshit that went on this weekend...I can’t believe all the stupid shit that I had to be involved with...you knew in your heart that I was having a bad week and you turn around and do more stupid shit! I don’t understand it. We really need to sit down and figure out what we are doing because this definitely isn’t a relationship!

BLACKBERRY BITCH! You dumb bitch...how can you stand there and play with your cell phone and the light is red and then the light turns green knowing that you are holding up the fucking traffic with the people behind you...next time I should of pushed you in the street and pray that your phone would of cracked when you fell in the street you big dummy!

things to worry about...and case in point who does bet on the game if you don’t have a sure thing...big dummies....let’s get ready for the baseball season then football again...then you fools can get your hopes up high again....

get this done. Try to do what you have to do to get money, people are tied of hearing excuses. I am still not understanding how you borrow and never pay back! There is no more fucking money to be given to you or anyone else.

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Thank you for allowing me to come into your life... you seem like we both are adjusting to everything. Do you want to talk to the neighbors about helping you move your things....you need to move your stuff so that I can move on with myself. I know that I will be sad in the beginning but it will not last long...I will

I am not trying to be hateful but I am starting to hate you...your every being you everything...I hate how you treat me...how you think that you are just so important than everyone else. I hate to tell you but you aren’t. Honestly, I just wanted sex from you....but that even wasn’t worth all the trouble. I don’t know

CROWDED TRAIN Alright lady you know that you are fat why the fuck are you trying to get on the crowded train knowing that there is no fucking room for you on the train. Then you stepped on this lady’s foot and shit and the lady looked at you because you never said excuse me about anything. I hate when the train is crowded like that....if you know you are going to be late for wherever you are going you need to leave early so you will not be late instead of doing stupid shit like this...

WHAT IS LOVE? Love should be happy and good times...I don’t know what it is with you but you are not showing me any love! Why will you not go away and do what you need to do with whomever...it is over between you and me...my feelings are so hurt behind some of the things that you do...and I can’t get you out of my mind sometimes but I am trying...day by day it is something...the sooner that you are gone the better off I will be...

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You just don’t know how much restraint I had to show when you called me....I am not understanding what the whole thing was about...then you called yourself asking my opinion and then cut me off like you know every fucking thing...if you know everything why the fuck do you waste my time and your own asking me stupid questions....do us all a favor act your age you’re not young anymore and I think it scares the fuck out of you!

WHO ARE YOU? You changed so fast on me...it didn’t make any sense...and I knew that this was going to happen... that is why I asked you when we started the whole thing...were you going to change on me...but little do you know..I have some big surprises coming your way...you aren’t going to like them but I could care less! I hope that you are happy with yourself because like I said before if we were to break up it would be your fault...and that it is...your fault.

I LOVED YOU Looking out the window made me think about the good times when I first met you! It was almost love at first sight, where is the love? Then I saw you and the girl next door huddled up and kissing on the couch... trust me we saw you....and you know I saw you....who do you think that you are crushing someone’s heart the way that you do? Let’s forget that the love even existed.

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IS THIS NORMAL? You share your number with an old acquaintance, he knows kids play with the apps on your phone, next thing you know you daughter is acting weird. Then you find out why the weirdo called you and left a message of him having sex on your messages. Not ONCE but THREE times.

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matter? I was stuck in line at the store for two hours when really we were someplace else. Did it hurt me? Yes, but not as much as it did someone that looks up to you who’s plans didn’t come to be that special day. When one travels for work and they say how lonely the night is in the hotel room. I sit and read the emails you are sending out looking for someone to spend the night with. I was able to see all of this on the laptop you forgot to log out of at home. You run into old friends and when asked about the events of the evening you clam they “found to you” (out of all of the hotels they just “knew” you were staying at that hotel. Really?) What do you think the odds of that are? You say you avoided them as they knocked on your door. Months down the road the facts are said without thinking as we chat on a long drive. I had known for months what the truth was. A friend had come to me and wanted me to know as they didn’t want me to be hurt and thought I may be letting myself be used. You go away and say you are staying here when really you are staying someplace quite different. For as good as you are at lying and covering your tracks it was like you wanted me to know. Maybe you just wanted to rub my face in it a little? Did it hurt, yes every time you did it

bounce back! Some things must come to a end and this is the time!

THINGS WERE GREAT!

I feel like a kid in the candy shop! You make me wanna jump on your ass! I love you so much...you make me just melt everytime I think and look at you...where have you been all my life. What does this mean with you and I...I wanna spend time with you... I just want you....Do you still want to be with me? I just want to know where do we go from here!

I don’t know what the hell happened...but things started getting all fucked up for no reason at all! My theory is this...if you cut off the lines of communication and start lying about every little thing in the world then why have a relationship..this is not a relationship it is just bullshit built on dumbshit! You need to make a decision what you are going to do because I am at that point whereas I am fucking done!

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TOO BAD!

People were really worked up over the NYGiants winning ...get over it....there are so many other

Why are you trying to get all this money from everyone. It is too bad that you don’t have the finances to

what your deal is but...you need to get it together and realize what you have before you...because I have just about had it with everything involving you and your problems.

WHERE’S THE TRUST You and I often talk of ownership, ownership for the things we do in our day-to-day lives. Things we say and do are looked at by more than we may know and in time the things we do may come back to haunt us. It may have been meaningless at the time, not once thinking that down the road all of the little things that we have done could all come together one day and hurt the ones we clam to love. Why not change the story just a little doesn’t seam like it would matter that much. Who is going to know, what does it

How dare you call me old and you still play pinochle! What the fuck is that....you make me sick even when we fucked you rolled over and started snoring like a banche’ or some other animal! I just don’t understand what that is about...then you tell me that you line-dance. OK! I am way younger than you but you act way older than me...let me just fuck and we don’t have to talk!

YOUR DEAL? I am not understanding what your deal is...you still think that you shit don’t stink...you make me want to not speak to you....what is the connection between us? You just want to end this already...I am ready to cheat on you...are you ready for me to do that? I am really ready for this shit to be over! Grow up already and grow some balls! ✚ To place your FREE ad (100 word limit), go to citypaper.net/ILUIHU and follow the prompts. ADS ALSO APPEAR AT CITYPAPER.NET/lovehate. City Paper has the right to re-publish “I Love You, I Hate You”™ ads at the publisher’s discretion. This includes re-purposing the ads for online publication, or for any other ancillary publishing projects.

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everything pets pets/livestock Please be aware Possession of exotic/wild animals may be restricted in some areas.

Maine Coon Kittens, CFA reg., M/F multiple colors. (215)438-8759 Ragdoll Kittens: Beautiful, guaranteed, home raised. $500. Call 610-731-0907

American Pit Bull terrier pups, 1M, 5F, red/red nose, UKC/ADBA reg., 100% Camelot Bloodlines, $600. (215)681-1855

Beagle Pups, AKC, show champion line, pop, only male pups, $450. 215-256-1575 Bernese Mountain Dog pups, AKC, 8 wks, family raised $1400. 610-857-2453 Bichon-Poo puppies. Ready for Valentines day! $500 w/1st shots. 609-504-1064 Bull Terrier Pups $1300 AKC 6F 1M Taking dep. 609-892-4546 609-892-5593 CANE CORSO puppies, adorable, must see, $250. call 215-422-2844 Cane Corso Pups Contact Heavenly Hound. 215-252-4367 CAVALIER KING CHARLES PUPS Blenheim, 4M, ACA, $700. 215-353-2303 Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Puppies available, Call 215-538-2179

C hihuahua pups, home rsd., shots and wormed $300. Call 484-557-1391 Doberman pups black & rust $1100 & up adrkdobermans.com 856-491-7929 English Bulldog AKC REG. 6 females, 2 males. Champ lines $2200 610-888-4390 English Bulldog pups, ACA, $1350. 3M, 1F, ready Feb 7th, 717-445-0606 ENGLISH BULL DOG PUPS grandparents and parents on premise, shots, papers. Call 215-696-5832 ENGLISH BULLDOG PUPS - Very very very cute, family raised, more wrinkles than you can count. Very friendly, $1750/ea. Call 717-354-4212 English Mastiff pups, AKC, 6M, 1F, $1500. Call Rob (717)587-7076 German Shepherd pups, AKC, family raised, shots, wormed $550. 610.913.0138 German Shepherd Pups - AKC. lg boned, champ pedigree. Call 609-351-3205

German Shepherd pups, champion AKC, beautiful, smart, healthy, family raised, $800. Ready Feb 10th. (215)529-7935 Golden-Doodles,Standard & Mini, F1, parents on premises, health guarantee, $500-$1000. Call (484)678-6696 Golden Retriever 5 y/o Golden Retriever female in heat looking for a mate. tonilome@yahoo.com Golden Retriever Pups: AKC, adorable, champ line $525 M, $575 F. 610.286.5373 Golden Retriever Pups AKC, M&F, vet check, home raised, $595 267-980-8027 Golden Retriever Pups,AKC,Vet’d,S/W,Family Raised with kids, 610-754-8814

Gordon Setter pups, great family companion /excellent bird dogs 570.662.2167 LAB pups, AKC, choc., English & champ lines, parents on prem. excellent temperament, health guar., $500. 717-354-2674 Maltese Pups, AKC Reg., p.o.p., health guar, babymaltese.com 610-405-2379 PEKINGESE PUPS M & F, $295 - $495. Adorable & Beautiful. Call 267-243-9526 Pit Bull, male, 1 year old, Remy line, UKC, $1500/obo. Call (215)917-6362 PITBULL Pups, M/F, S/W, ADBA, registered, colors vary, $400. 215-834-1247 Pit Bull Terrier Razor/Bully 8 Wks $200 267-407-4752; 267-407-4795 W.Philly Poodle puppies (Standard) black or white, big, beautiful, parents on premesis, $500. Call Bev (267)709-0234 Poodle Puppies: Standard, home raised, 1 black female $500, Males: 2 brown, 1 cream, 1 white. $400. 610-489-3781 Poodle Standard AKC Champion Sired Apricot Female Standards 610-621-2894

5304 Angora Terr 2BR $790+utils 119 S. 60th St. 3BR $790+utils Also house available. Call 267-298-6832

58th & Springfield Effic’y $450 + elec. new renov, w/w, 2nd flr. 215-570-0301 62xx Webster St 2br $675+utils basement, new kitchen & bathroom, close to park, avail immediately. 610-310-8559

6431 Saybrook 1br Call Shawn 407-304-0434

67xx Guyer Ave. 1br $700+elec Renovated, duplex, w/w (215)407-1395

13xx S. 58th 1BR & 2BR $625-$700 heat & water incl. 215-921-2769 1BR & 2BR Apts Available $650 & up newly renovated, must see 215-284-7944 1xx N. 54th St. 3br/1ba $750+utilities. Credit check, 215-464-9371 40th & Cambridge 1BR & 2BR $535 free utils, liv rm, kitch, Scott 215.222.2435 52nd/Parkside 2br $650+ utils large, newly renov, w/w. 215-570-0301 540 N. 52nd St. 1 BR Newly renov. 215.744.9077 lic# 333911 60XX Market St. 2BR $700 Avail immed. Plenty of windows, 2nd flr. Section 8 OK. No pets. 267-296-9298

938 N 48th St 1 BR $400+ utils 3 months rent to move in (215)223-7547

Plymouth Meeting, PA

ECRI Institute, is seeking a Medical Editor to ensure that content posted to the National Guideline Clearinghouse Website is accurate and complete. This position is primarily responsible for reviewing content for accuracy and completeness and fixing any errors prior to Web publication. Other duties may include text abstraction and review, Website quality checks, and other projectrelated tasks. Requirements: Master’s degree in English, communications, or related field with 2-3 years of copyediting experience in medical publication environment. For additional details and to apply directly online, please go to https://careers.ecri.org. EOE/AA

Financial Representative

Mount Laurel, New Jersey

Are you looking for independence, leadership, impact upon others and unlimited earning potential with a FORTUNE 500 financial service firm? Northwestern Mutual - The Mid Atlantic Financial Group is currently interviewing entrepreneurial, highly motivated individuals seeking a career in the financial service industry. Please contact Trisha Perna for more information at phone: 856-810-3281 or email: trisha.perna@nmfn.com themidatlanticfinancialgroup.com

Executive Director Ambler, PA area

Director of Human Resources New Hope-Solebury District

Outstanding opportunity to lead in a premier school district. BA degree and PHR/SPHR cert. req.; MA degree in HR Mgmt or MBA preferred; + 10 years H.R. experience. Apply at: www.nhsd.org/humanresources /jobpostings.html. by 2/20/12.

Non-profit looking for an Executive Director to run day to day operations. Responsibilities include collection & distribution of food, clothes & financial assistance to local people in need. Skills in Grant writing a must. Please send resume to Ron Maltin PO Box 591, Gwynedd Valley, PA 19437.

Regional Business Development Representative Berwyn, PA

SCOTTISH TERRIER Pups, AKC, M & F, rare wheaton, $795. Call 610-705-3322

Shih Tzu/Bichon Puppies, 9 weeks old, shots, wormed, vet checked, family raised, $400. Call (717)721-8127 SHIH TZU PUPS ACA, 11 weeks, $950. Call 215-752-1393 WEIMARANER PUPS M/F, gray/blue, reg., health guar., exc litter. 570.589.1465

$575/mo

jobs Medical Editor

Coins, Currency, Gold, Toys,

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

13xx S 22nd St. 2br $775+utils recent reno, hwd flrs, w/d 856-906-5216 19xx S. 5th St 3br $675 1st floor, Section 8 Ok, 215-539-7866

WANTED: EAGLES SBL’S True Eagles fan, Call 610-586-6981

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apartment marketplace

HVAC Installers

Essington/Lester area,

Residential installations, existing housing, gov. project, prev. wage rate ($70.38/hr.), EOE. Call 315-420-1986 or Fax to 315-471-8807

American Freedom Assurance, Inc., a national title agency headquartered in Berwyn, PA, is seeking a highly motivated sales individual for its Business Development Team for the Northeast Region. Travel required. Two years sales experience preferred. AFA offers a competitive compensation package. Email resumes: hr@afatitle.com or fax to 610-441-7560. AFA is an EOE.

N. Dewey St. 3Br, sep utils, $800/mo 2 mo security+1 mo rent to move in. (484)278-4025 Parkside A rea 1Br, 2Br & 4Br starting @ $700. Newly renov, new kit & bath, hdwd flrs, Section 8 OK. 267-324-3197 XX South 62nd St. 3BR $900 Newly reno’d, hdwd flrs, eat-in kit, pantry, sep. bsmt. Sec. 8 OK. 267-296-9298

503 N. 63rd St. 2br $750+utils very lg, 2nd fl, 1st mo., sec. 917-650-6855 Various 1, 2 & 3 BR Apts $725-$895 www.perutoproperties.com 215.740.4900

40XX Balwynne Park 2BR $925. + util Newly Renovated. All New Appliances, Windows, Doors, Fixtures, Floors, Paint and MORE! Move in IMMEDIATELY! CREDIT CHECK. Contact 215-939-6952

1826 Ridge Ave. Lg. 3BR Section 8 OK Must See. Call 215-885-1700 19xx N 32nd St. 2br $725+elec. brand new, c/a, $2175 req., 215-322-2375 24xx N. 29th St. 2br $525 newly renovated, carpet, new kitchen, fridge, stove included. 267-249-6645 2xx E Albanus 1BR $590+ utils 3 mo sec. h/w flrs, w/d, new paint. Beautiful apt. Call 215-820-2219 leave mess.

3214 N. Broad 1BR $600+utils 3rd flr, near transp,new reno 215.748.1383

35xx N 23rd Efficiency $525+ utils fresh paint, all electric, call 215-324-7514

35xx N. Randolph St 1br $500 security deposit, 55+. 215-223-4777 North Phila 5BR’s starting @ $1600. Newly renov, S/S, W/D, hdwd flrs, carpeted Br’s, Section 8 OK. Call 267-324-3197

apartment marketplace 1,2, 3, 4 Bedroom FURNISHED APTS LAUNDRY-PARKING 215-223-7000 12xx Airdrie St. 2 BR $650 spacious rooms, updated kitchen, conv lo cation, 267-872-4709 or 267-304-3220 26xx Cecil B. Moore 1Br/1.5Ba $750 yard. Also 1 studio $595. (267)240-2474 38xx N. 15th new 1Br $550+utils 2nd fl, beautiful, renov, n/s, 267.809.7866

5849 N. Camac 1BR $650+utils Sec 8 OK 267-271-6601 or 215-416-2757 60XX Warnock 1 BR $595+ near Fernrock Train Station,215-276-8534 62XX N. BROAD 2BR 2ND FLOOR $695 +Utilities. MOVE IN SPECIAL 215-927-3010 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

22xx W. Tioga 1br $550 2br $775 Newly renov, 215.229.2433; 215.329.2863

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 Germantown Historic Apts 1,2&3 bdrm apts from $650 C/A, D/W, balconies, laundry hookups, lg windows, on site maintenance. PHA and Students welcomed. 215-843-5344 Wayne & Manheim Efficiency $425+ 2nd flr, nice efficiency. 215-783-4736

16xx Elaine 1br $680+utils mod. kitch, w/d, storage, 267-357-0250 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

MAYFAIR 2BR/2BA $700 1st fl w/access to bsmt. All new Kitchen, DW, GD, Rugs. W/D incld. Trans, parks and schools nearby. First/Last/Sec. Utilities separate except water. Credit Report Required (within 30-60 days old) 856-755-0385 Philmont 2BR duplex, 2nd flr $820+ C/A, bsmnt, w/w, garage, (215)752-1091 Red Lion/Verree Road Vic. Duplex 1 lrg BR $685+utils. Call (215)808-8863

Wissinoming 1BR $565+utils 1st fl, w/d, 1st, last & sec. 267-456-9118

WARMINSTER Lg 1-2-3 BR Sect. 8 OK 2 MONTHS FREE RENT!!! HURRY!! Pets & smoking ok. We work with credit problems. Call for Details: 215-443-9500

DOWNINGTOWN 2br $1050 lg deck, gar, w/d in unit 215-778-0344

Upper Darby 2br $755+utils large bedrooms & Liv rm, updated appliances, close to transp. 610-842-5996

ROSLYN 2BR/1.5BA $875+utils LR, eat in kit, w/w crpt, d/w, refrig, garb. disp., w/d, c/a, gas ht., small patio, pvt. prkg, no pets, avail 3/1/12 (215)643-0325

Voorhees 2Br/2Ba $1095+utils 1st flr, new refurb, frige, DW, garbage disp., W/D Cent. AC, gas heating, hot water, exc. schls, close all amenities & high speed lines 856.627.6043/ 856.366.0105

NE Phila 3br $300 utils inc. home to share, seeking single, sane yy occupant, drug/drama free. 215-839-2337

11xx N. 55th St Single rooms $400. Double rooms & rooms w/ bath $500. Full size bed, dresser, fridge, SSI/SSD/VA & Public assistance ok. also SW, West, North Phila, Frankford 267-707-6129 13th/Erie furn rms $90 & up/week Priv. ent, single occupancy 215-514-7143 16th/Hunting Park. Furn. rms, share kit &BA $125/wk $375 move in 215.669.3143 18xx W. Ontario St. - shared kitch, clean environment, $400/mo, 215-287-2424 20th & Erie, brand new furnished rooms $100-$120/week, SSI OK, (267)690-0204 22nd & Allegheny , $85/week, share kitchen & bath, SSI OK, 267-973-0397 22nd & Hunting Park, renov, lrg rm, furn $85-$95 wk 2nd week free! 215.960.1600 23xx Lehigh, $320-$360/mo, kitch priv., income verif./ref’s req. 267-456-3786

A1 Nice, well maintained rms, N. & W. Phila. Starting @ $125/wk 610.667.9675 Broad & Hunting Pk, lrg, newly renov., furnished $100/wk, must see (215)570-0301 Broad & Olney deluxe furn priv ent $115 wk, 4 free wks, Sec $200. 215-572-8833 Broad St. & Roosevelt Blvd Rooms-FREE RENT for FEB. Furnished modernly decorated ROOMS discounted for next 6 mos at $450-$500/mo. Rooms sized for one (1) occupant. Verfiable income a MUST. Visitus:WWW.SAFEHAVENHOMESLLC.NET Contact Al: 267-235-6555 Castor & Hunting Park Ave, 55th & Girard, 15th & Federal, 23rd & LeHigh Share Kitch. & Bath, $350 & up No sec dep, SSI OK. 2br Apt at 49th & Kingsessing. 215-758-7572 Frankford area rooms $95 to $115/wk per person, Sec. dep. req. 215-432-5637 Frankford, furnished, near bus & El, $85/wk & up + $295 sec. 215-526-1455 Germantown: Apsley St. Rms $140/wk Private bath, share kitchen 267-338-9870 Germantown Area: NICE, Cozy Rooms Private entry, no drugs (215)548-6083 Haverford Ave: Clean newly renovated large rooms. Near public trans. $350 Call Now, won’t last! 267-436-1432. SSI OK 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 215-602-2252 Hunting Park/Logan area $110 /week. Lrg rms, share kit/BA. 215-668-6826 Lansdowne - Furn’d, private bath, share kitch & w/d $495+ 1/2 elec. 215-729-1160 Mt. Airy/NE, Veterans welcome, photo ID and DD 214 form req. 267-595-5792 North Phila. furnished rooms. $400 $600 to move in. 302-345-3964 North Phila. small, med or large rms based on single occup. $350 to $450 215-913-1485 or 267-312-1499 North Phila., west side of Allegheny, SSI & VA welcome, $400/mo. (267)242-5554 N. Phila 1936 Napa, 3 rooms available, each $100/wk. 267-231-2276 N. Phila: Brewerytown, Room for Rent furnished room, Call (267)978-5575 N. Philadelphia, 3 large rooms for rent, SSI ok, $350/mo, (215)900-4957

N Phila Furn, Priv Ent $75 & up . No drugs, SSI ok. available now 215.763.5565 N. Phila: Newly renovated, private entry use of kitch $90-$125/wk (215)704-0312 N. Phila Rooms for rent $85-$100/week plus 1 month sec. Call 215-669-0912 N. Phila., several rooms, $400 & up/mo. move-in today. Call 267-684-8272 N Phila Sr. citizen, single occ. $125 wk util inc, no smoking/drinking267.385.5932

homes for rent 8xx N. Taney 3br/1ba $1,280 ac, hwd fl, 610.212.5920 or 267.997.4072

17xx S Ringgold 3BR/1BA $825 Sec 8 OK. Kitchen updated. Convenient loc. 215-228-1060 18xx S 21st Street Big 3BR/1BA $850 Sec 8 OK. Kitchen updated. Laundry. 215-228-1060 26xx Gerritt St. 2br sec 8 ok, amazing house, 732-814-6511 6xx Watkins 3br/1ba $795 nwly ren., sec. 8 ok, no pets 215.539.7866 Broad & Jackson 1BR $800 beautiful Apt. Call (215)450-3781

11XX S 56th St. 3BR/1 Full BA $800 plus utils. Living room, dining room, kitchen w/refrigerator, open floor plan. Full basement, front porch and rear yard. Sec 8 OK. Call 215-317-5131. Ask for Arnez 53xx Lindberg 3br $750 19xx S 65th 3br $700 Elegant house, recent renov 610.534.4521 60xx Christian St. 2br $850 backyard, $2550 move-in. 267-972-9693 Pemberton St. (Blt ave 56th st) 3BR, F/ Kit,Dngrm,Lvgrm,Bthrm,New crpt,Bsmnt, Wtr Incl Cnt: Mr. McDowell 347-650-5713 SW (Elmwood Area) 3br house modern, Section 8 welcome 215.726.8817

3931 Brown St. Efficiency $475/mo. NO DRUGS! Call 267-259-0430 5404 Delancey 2BR $700+ utils gd cond, 1st/last & sec 267-968-6131 54xx Locust St. 4br $875 $2250 to move in. 302-345-3964 6xx Moss St 3br $1050 1st, last & 1/2 mo rent req., 267-973-4635 W. Phila 1br-4br Apts & Houses, $700$900. 1st/last/sec. 215-878-2857

12xx N. 64th 3 BR $1,200+ utils Newly renovated, garage 610-649-4981 13xx N. Robinson 3br/1ba $800+ utils newly renov, 215-744-5750/510-0034

12xx N. Taylor 3BR/1BA $750 new kitchen, Section 8 OK. 267-209-0010

39xx N. 7th St. 3BR Call 267-255-3137

$800

52xx Knox St. 4br/1ba $1100+utils available immed, sec 8 ok, 267-230-0513 56xx Stokes St. 4br front porch, newly renovated, rear yard, section 8 ok, 215-356-2434

5xx E Penn St 3br/1ba $775+utils 1st, last, sec, newly ren (267)249-9432

xx Montana 3br/1ba $875+ fridge included. Call 215-839-6468

DISCOVERY SE 2004 $8,950 4 dr w/ 2 sunroosf, all extras, few orig mi, regulary serviced, woman driver, must sacrifice below book value. 215-627-1814

$350 & up, cash paid on the spot for unwanted vehicles. Proof of ownership req. Call for immed. pickup 215-758-6634

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

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

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

66xx Opal Street 3BR/1BA new carpets, Sect 8 ok. 215-740-4629

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

2719 Webb St. 2br/1ba $775+utils Newly Renov, 215-744-5750/510-0034

18xx Clarence St. 2br $750+utils nice block, near transp. 267-357-7892 7xx E Allegheny large 2br/1.5ba $700+ newly renovated, 215-836-1960

13xx Gillingham 2br newly renov., sec 8 ok, 267.467.0200 18xx Fillmore 3BR/1Ba $675+utils nice row, ready for move-in 215-680-1413

5xxx Pennway St. 2BR $875+utils garage, 2mo sec req Call Tan267.287.3175 887 Marcella 3br/1ba $850+utils No pets. Please Call 267-632-4580 89xx Revere St. 1br $700 parking, Laundry, renovated 215-601-5182

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

FORD F-350 XL Super Duty ’04 $21,500 60k miles, white, power stroke, V8 turbo diesel, good cond., loaded (215)788-3383 ISUZU 18ft Cargo Box 2007 $10,800 model #N4R-54, a/c, power windows, turbo diesel, 150k miles, (609)954-1924

low cost cars & trucks Cadillac 1999 Sedan Deville $3675 Lux 4 dr, a/c, full pwr, orig pampered mi, woman driver, Call Carol 215-922-5342 Chevy 1996 Lux hightop Conv. van (new body style) AC, full pwr, TV, bar, perfect cond, quick priv sale, $3450 215.922.5342

Chevy Cavalier 2002 $1,750 2 door, auto, loaded, clean.215-518-8808

8xx Brill St. 3br newly renov, Section 8 ok, 267-255-6286

Chevy Impala 2002 $3,800/obo Buick Park Ave 1999 $3,000/obo great shape. Call: (267)441-4612

MAYFAIR 3br/2.5ba $1150+utils close trans/shops, full bsmt 215-694-4089

Dodge Durango 2001 $4550/obo runs & looks exc, must sell 267.650.2548 Dodge Durango SLT 2000 $2750 4x4, 7 pass, loaded. nice, 215.847.7346

Dresher Woods 2br/2.5ba TH $1400 2 story, security, sprinkler, fireplace, all appliances, no pets, (215)938-7140 Oreland Single Family 4BR/2BA $1,700 House beautiful hardwood floor, new kitch, new bath, nice yard, 215-740-7276 Plymouth Meeting 3BR/2BA ,$1200 Hardwood and carpet, nice porch, patio, basement, gas heat, 215-740-7276

Williamstowne/Monroe 3-5 Br $1700 detached garage & shop, 917-653-0272

automotive 530xi 2006 Priced to Sell low miles, every extra imaginable, perfect condition, bluetooth, GPS (215)896-5373

Dodge 2003 New Body Style Luxury Hightop Conversion Van, orig. mi., very nice, S/S mags, custom wood trim, like new, sac. today $7,950. 215-922-2165

Dodge Stratus SE 2004 $2450 4 door, loaded, clean, CD. 215-947-9840 Ford Explorer Limited 4WD 1994 $1,450 auto,all pwrs,4.0 V6,rns exc 215.620.9383 HONDA ACCORD LX Coupe ’97 $2800 PA insp., 4 cyl, auto, loaded 610-203-6561 Mazda 626 2000 $4290 leather, sunroof, 77k, 267-602-4091 Mercedes 320E 1995 $2950 auto, all power, sunroof, leather, 1 owner, 132k, clean, runs new, 215-620-9383

RECESSION SPECIALS!!! Dodge Ram ’97 8ft bed, beast $2222 Cadillac Escalade ’99 4x4, nice $3333 Cadillac STS ’99 blk, blk, blk, mint $2999 Nissan Altima ’03 stick, w/rims $2750 Ford Taurus ’02 115k, lthr, mint $2500 Pontiac Grand Am ’03 CD, 4 door $2999 All below KBB, wont last (215)520-7890

SUNFIRE SE 2005 $4,950 PW, PL, 30 mpg, 68k, mint, 215-237-0109 Toyota Corolla 1992 $1,250 5spd, 4cyl, 34mpg, runs nw 215.620.9383 VW Beetle GLS 2000 $3,495 5 speed, sunroof, gorgeous 610-524-8835 VW Passat GLS Wagon 1999 $1,995 200K, sunroof, gorgeous. (610)524-8835

14xx W. 71st Ave 1 BR $625 utilities included, close to transporation and shopping. Call 215-574-2111 1xx W Grange Ave 1 BR $595+ utils beautiful, nice location, 215-805-6455 2nd & Godfrey 1br $650+utils Nwly renovated, conv. loc. 267-229-4267 66 S t- Studio & 1BR MOVE IN SPECIALS! heat/wtr/gas inc Sec8ok 215-768-8243 Fern Rock Transp Center 2br $725+ 1st floor, available now. (215)620-4538

E. Roosevelt near C St. 2BR $750 Carpeted, no pets. Plenty of closets. Sec. 8 OK. Close to shopping. 267-296-9298

29th & Allegheny Large, beautiful, newly renov., $350-$400/month 267-997-0907 41XX Ogden St. 3BR/1BA $125 per week; Utilities incld. $300 Move in; furnished or unfurnished 267-446-4209 4223 Lancaster Ave, Clean room near transportation. 267-738-6201 43rd & Wallace, unfurnished, $90/wk, incl. utils, $360 move in. 267-357-5216 46TH & WOODLAND furnished rooms, $375, near transportation. (215)954-9437 48th & Lancaster; C & Allegheny; 55th & Lansdowne; 13th & York. 215-290-8702 53xx N Broad, lrg furn rooms, w/w carpet,TV, a/c, refrigerator. 267.496.6448 53xx Walton St. - rooms, $100-$125/wk. kitchen & bath, income ver. 215-264-3538 60th & Race, 21st & Tasker, 53rd & Chester, room, $350. Call 267.592.7228 61xx Chew Ave, Mt. Airy, W Phila, Popular , $85-$100/wk. 215-242-9124

1953 Brunner St. 2br $650+utils fully renovated, new carpets, basement, washer/dryer, Call (267)320-9681

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2xx Seymour & Greene 1br units $545$685+util. Great transp. 610-287-9857 46xx Green St. XL 1BR $560+utils w/w crpt, $1,060 move-in. 267-333-9600 4941 Rubicam St. Big 2Br & 3Br porch, backyard, quiet. (215)833-4297 5030 Green St. 2BR $575 Tenant pays utilities. Call 267-625-6189 5201 Wayne Ave. Studio & 1Br apts On site Lndry 215.744.9077 Lic# 311890 5220 Wayne Ave. Studio & 1 BR on site lndry, 215-744-9077, Lic# 507568 5321 Wayne Ave. Efficiency $550 1st month + security, 215-776-6277 607 E. Church Lane 1BR & 2BR apts. nr LaSalle Univ,215.744.9077 lic# 494336

4647 Adams Ave Studio apt. Newly renov. 215-744-9077 lic#433314 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 Castor & Devereaux 1BR $675+utils newly rehabbed apt. Call (215)820-5788

25xx Oxford St 6BR/2BA $500 215-703-8596 2648 N. Bancroft - room $375/mo, utils included. 267-257-3610

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