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A flight from Philly to Dallas is grounded when area resident Kenneth W. Smith allegedly calls in a fake bomb threat and has a friend’s ex-boyfriend, Christopher Shell, detained. Sorry, Smith. No conjugal visits in the friendzone.
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Shell is released and allowed to fly, but is arrested in Dallas because of outstanding warrants. “You’re probably wondering how we managed to clear this guy to fly without finding out he was wanted,” says TSA agent Handsy Love. “Sometimes you can’t think your way through a problem, you have to feel it. We felt that man all over. We want to feel everybody.”
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Wharton grad Damon Hamilton and his R&B ensemble score a YouTube hit with their “Gangnam Style” parody called “Obama Style.” Thus making him the most successful Wharton grad in years.
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Harrah’s casino in Chester files a complaint against Chaka “Chip” Fattah Jr., after the son of the U.S. rep bounces checks. Daily News Headline Bot 1000 fails to title this story “Chaka Con.” DailyNews Headline Bot 1000 throws himself into a trash truck.
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Rumors spread online that somebody is ripping up Toynbee tiles, possibly to sell them. “TOYNBEE IDEA IN KUBRICK’S 2001,” says a spokestile, adding: “RESURRECT DEAD ON PLANET JUPITER.”
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Travel and Leisure magazine names the Mütter Museum’s gift shop one of the best in the world. If you’re looking for an aftermarket colon.
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Celebrity boxing promoter Damon Feldman will take Michael Lohan to court on the TV show Judge Alex. And with any luck, the whole fucking courtroom will just sink right into the earth.
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EVASIVE MANEUVERS How lax charter-school policies and welfare-system loopholes allowed a serial entrepreneur with questionable tactics to slip through the cracks. By Jake Blumgart and Samantha Melamed
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rom the start, Anita DeFrancesco realized that working for K-12 Staffing — a company that placed substitute teachers in local charter schools — was unlike any job she’d held before. It wasn’t normal, she says, that the company asked for, but never followed up on obtaining, her state-required child-abuse-history clearance, criminal background check or FBI clearance before sending her to fill in at New Media Technology Charter School in Mount Airy last December. It wasn’t normal that — despite submitting multiple invoices — she was never paid for her work, around $550. And it definitely wasn’t normal when, this spring, K-12 Staffing’s website went dark and its Facebook page vanished. “When they called and asked if I could sub [in December], I thought: ‘Aren’t they going to ask about my child-[abuse] clearance, aren’t they going to ask me about my FBI report?’” DeFrancesco says. “But I figured … ‘She needs me and I have to go.’ I was teaching with all these [documents] in my pocket, and they didn’t even check them. But what if the wrong person got hired?” It turns out that DeFrancesco had wandered into the middle of a tangled network of seemingly fly-by-night businesses serving
an array of vulnerable populations in Philadelphia — day care, substitute-teacher staffing and personal-care homes for people with schizophrenia, AIDS, physical disabilities and cancer — all affiliated with the same owner, a woman named Wakeeta Rowe. Operating under at least 12 corporate names, Rowe has racked up more than 25 lawsuits for unpaid wages, rent and taxes, and has been evicted from numerous properties where she ran businesses including personal-care homes, apparently shuffling residents from one living situation to the next as rents went unpaid. Taken together, the court documents and plaintiffs’ accounts paint a picture of an operation that was able to navigate the cracks in the education and public-welfare systems — working hand-inhand with charter schools and the welfare system, while evading bill collectors, avoiding government licensing bodies and creating potentially dangerous situations for those in its care. Rowe and her supporters offer a markedly different portrait. “I guess you can see she’s an entrepreneur, she always been, had one or two businesses going,” says Lisa Rowe, her sister. Among those businesses, according to the eviction filings, were a bookstore, a coffee shop and a day care called the Kiddie Kollege Academy. George Khalil rented Rowe the Kiddie Kollege property, on the 2000 block of South Hemberger Street. He says she ran a day care from around 2006 to 2009, during which time he sued to evict her twice: “Right after the [first] court date she pays, and then she doesn’t pay
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✚ A BITTER ANNIVERSARY Sunshine illuminates the well-kept rowhouse block in West Philly’s Mill Creek neighborhood. It’s recess at James Rhoads Elementary School, and kids are outside hula-hooping, jumping rope and playing football. A crossing guard rests on a stoop. At LPC Grocery, men in line discuss their lottery success. “I hit for 27 and for 25 in the span of two months,” one brags. But it was just about a year ago that two men walked into this store, then known as Porfi’s Grocery or, sometimes, Lenora’s, and shot owner Porfirio Nuñez, his wife, Carmen, and his sister Lina Sanchez to death.
Lina’s son Javish Sanchez, 29 years old when his mother was killed, stands behind the counter today.“I’ve [told people] that I’m 100 percent good. But I’ve noticed that I need help,” he admits. “There’s too much violence going on in my head right now — I guess, hate, because somebody got rid of my family.” Sanchez, who has worked at the store for three years, is pleased that the men who allegedly murdered his family members, Ibrahim Muhammed and Nalik Shariff Scott, have been arrested and charged. But it was hard to come back to work in the very place his mother was killed.“When I took the bodies home and then came back to open the gates up, it was bad.” After the murders, the business was sold to his sister’s ex-husband. Dante, 23, hanging out on his bike nearby, says he still doesn’t understand why the killers shot not only the man but the two women. And all for what, $500? “That’s corny. When you do good, bad stuff still happens,” he says. “They was like family to this whole neighborhood.” The market is now named LPC in honor of the victims: Lina, Porfirio, Carmen. The counter’s bullet-
proof glass is lined with their photos. At least 252 people have been murdered in Philly this year. There are dozens of stories of loss trailing behind every murder, and the media can tell only a few. And months and years later, when the cameras and reporters have moved on, the lives of friends and family continue — with gaping holes.—Daniel Denvir
✚ RESERVOIR DIGS “This is the first we’ve heard about the creation of a park,” said one alarmed attendee at an Upper Roxborough public meeting the other night, pronouncing “park” as if it were some other four-letter word. The Natural Lands Trust (NLT) hosted the meeting to discuss plans for the Upper Roxborough Reservoir, decommissioned a half-century ago and now home to varied wildlife, including birds and deer. The tiny toads famous for their annual migration are, each spring, reservoir-bound. The Philadelphia Water Department (PWD) is now undertaking storm-water management efforts at the reservoir. Previously, rainwater would run down from the reservoir’s rim, flooding streets and houses. PWD is building a depressed gully to catch the runoff. When the project is complete, the NLT will create improvements to make the reservoir’s interior more inviting and park-like. Which is exactly what some residents oppose. “I don’t want any more people here,” said Kyle Morris, after NLT’s Peter Williamson mentioned possibilities such as benches, tables, attractive fencing and a walkway traversing the reservoir. Judy Stepenaskie was involved in defending the reservoir in 1998, when the Eagles were considering the site for a practice >>> continued on page 12
REMAINS OF THE DAY ³ UNTIL LAST WEEKEND, the Shrine of St. John Neumann — with its bones, teeth and skull fragments — basically had a lock on Philly’s holy-relic market. But that was before the Worldwide Buddha Relic Tour rolled in to Chua Bo De Temple at 13th and Washington, drawing, organizer Lam Nguyen estimates, more than 2,000 visitors. At an opening ceremony Friday evening, mid-level Vietnamese-American dignitaries (e.g., the education commissioner of Pennsauken, N.J.) gave lengthy speeches in Vietnamese before worshippers clad in gray, temple-issue robes. A corps of Tibetan monks had traveled from Maryland; their representative, a tall, Caucasian man in saffron robes, told the crowd, “I won’t give you any special teachings today, because all that’s available on the Internet, or websites or YouTube or whatever.” In any case, the main attraction was the chance to get a blessing over the relics, crystals obtained from the ashes of cremated Buddhist masters and dispatched on a 65-country tour by the Maitreya Project. Guests stood at a respectful distance from the ostentatious display of relics in jars and boxes, below a golden Buddha shaded by a double parasol. Barbara Shivelhood of Northeast Philly had waited in line for hours to see the relics while visiting Iowa a few weeks ago, and was back for more. “It was just an incredible experience,” she recalls. “I actually felt a tingling sensation in my head.” Nguyen agrees: “You feel something amazing.” But as the event began, Tom Thoren of South Philly (who says he is “not Buddhist, but Buddhist-leaning”) was rather Buddha-like in his outlook. “It’s just: Whatever happens, happens.” —Samantha Melamed
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ROUGH JUSTICE ³ THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA is set to execute Terrance Williams on Oct. 3. In January of 1984, at age 17, Williams stabbed to death 50year-old Herbert Hamilton of West Philadelphia. That June, a few months after Williams turned 18, he beat Amos Norwood, 56, to death with a tire iron and set fire to the body. Williams was convicted of third-degree murder for killing Hamilton and murder in the first degree for killing Norwood. But circumstances around the killings might give pause to even a fervent capital-punishment supporter: Both Norwood and Hamilton, according to a clemency petition submitted by Williams’ lawyers, sexually abused the teenager, who suffered his first rape at age 6. The petition alleges that Norwood, a man in charge of altar boys at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Germantown, had violently raped Williams the night before he took revenge, and that Hamilton attempted to force Williams to pose for nude photos before Williams stabbed him to death. The petition lays out a heartrending story: Williams was safe nowhere during his childhood. A middle-school teacher raped him. At home, his mother and stepfather meted out frequent, severe beatings. Sent to juvenile detention for burglary at age 16, he was raped by two older boys. No one helped him. He tried to live a normal life, dating and playing sports. Alone, he used a knife to cut his skin until it bled. The jury that sentenced Williams never heard about any of this, thanks to flawed legal representation. Several jurors have since said that they would not have voted for death if they had known. Pennsylvania has not executed a prisoner in 13 years, and it is astonishing that Gov. Tom Corbett might execute Williams, especially given the public fury over sexual abuses by Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky and by Philly Catholic priests. Norwood and Hamilton did not deserve to be killed for their alleged crimes, but neither does Williams. The Pennsylvania Board of Pardons, Philly District Attorney Seth Williams and Corbett should heed the growing call to investigate commuting Williams’ sentence to life without possibility of parole. Corbett has expressed a desire to downsize our bloated prison state, which eagerly punishes those shaped by social and personal evils while doing little to rehabilitate them. He should take this chance to make a down payment on his pledge for reform; even Norwood’s widow wants him to. And if Williams’ story is true and he’s no longer a threat, he should be released from prison: He’s suffered enough. ✚ Visit terrywilliamsclemency.com to add your voice in
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nothing. And she changes the phone number every time. Every time a different phone number.” But there was, at least, a permit to run a day care out of that property. Her personal-care homes — run under the various names of Philacare, Venango Care Centers Inc., Penn Social Services and Rowe & Associates — aren’t licensed with the state Department of Public Welfare (DPW) at all. Rowe and her sister say the homes and their workers have all necessary licenses, though they would not specify which licenses or the locations of the homes. Rowe says none of her Philadelphia houses have more than three residents; DPW licenses and oversees only homes with four or more residents. Landlords, however, say it was evident there were more people living there — and sometimes in unwholesome conditions. For one, Willie Seward sued to evict Philacare and Rowe from his rental property, a threebedroom house at 1512 W. Venango St., last September, complaining that she had racked up $2,615 in unpaid rent, gas and water bills. According to Seward, she had four or five people living at the house, and put the gas and electric bills under the names of her tenants. Just before the lock-out date, “She moved them on to another house. She found herself another sucker,” he says. “They stayed places about six months and then she gotta go because the landlord evicted her.” He says he was angry about his money, but worried about the residents. “They were kind of disabled, disorientated — they wasn’t normal people, they had a sickness,” he says. He wondered: Where would they end up? It turns out they ended up — at least for several months — at the rental property of another landlord (who asked not to be named), a four-bedroom house in West Oak Lane. This time, Rowe was calling her company Rowe & Associates. “She explained she runs personal-care homes for various older folks who have been adjudicated medically disabled,” says the landlord. Rowe told him she had four charges she needed to place, though he saw more residents living in the house and still receives mail (“real” mail, he says: bank statements and doctor’s bills, not junk mail) for at least six residents. Rowe’s payments were late every month, then they stopped. He claims Rowe owed close to $4,000 by the time she was evicted. Worse, he says, someone apparently tampered with the gas meter, prompting Philadelphia Gas Works to remove it. It wasn’t replaced until after she moved out. “Those poor people lived without hot water, a stove or heat in the house, just in squalor, from late March through late May, when the final person got moved out,” he says. When he stopped by, he would see a few elderly people sitting on plastic lawn chairs in the living room, watching a TV on a milk crate. Later, he was concerned enough by what he saw while cleaning up — signs that a resident had been sleeping on sheets on the floor with scraps of carpet padding for a blanket — that he called the Social Security
Administration to complain. But nothing apparently came of it. And it turns out that, as a charter-school contractor, Rowe was able to operate with a similar degree of latitude. Based on lawsuits, her various staffing agencies — Rowe & Associates, Educational Staffing Network, Educational Staffing Services and Childcare Staffing Network — sent teachers to Delaware Valley Charter High School, Sankofa Academy Charter in West Chester, Mariana Bracetti Academy Charter School and New Media Technology Charter School, and others. Addison Vawters, who taught at New Media for K-12 Staffing, worked 30 days over the course of about two months beginning Sept. 26, 2011. But he never saw a paycheck. Once, in November, Rowe paid him $800 in cash, sig-
He worried about the residents. nificantly less than half of what he was owed. “But that never happened again,” he says. Vawters also says that K-12 Staffing gave him assignments for a full month prior to receiving his criminal background check, which was delayed in the mail. Due to a DPW error, his child-abuse-history clearance didn’t get to him until after he had stopped working with K-12. Rowe disputes that: “Every teacher presented the necessary clearances within the state’s 30 days deadline! A criminal check is conducted immediately, same day with our account with the PA State Police,” she wrote via email to City Paper. However, the state allows provisional hiring only if the teacher isn’t left alone with children (which Vawters and DeFrancesco say they were). Moreover, Rowe claims that she was scammed — on one end by charters that didn’t pay, and on the other by subs who overinvoiced her. She says New Media >>> continued on page 12
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“It was misdirection, like talking to a politician or a lawyer.” Technology in July finally squared its account with her for services rendered last school year, and her “goal is to pay the few teachers awaiting payment.” As for the other schools, she wrote: “We are also the victim! … The marietta bruschetta [sic] charter school did not pay for services of 1 substitute teacher for approx 9 days. The sankofa charter school has never paid an invoice for 1 substitute teacher for approx 1 month of teaching services. Both schools has never paid or responded to a payment plan option.” No one at New Media or Sankofa responded to multiple interview requests. Ron O’Shea, a K-12 Staffing sub at Sankofa, says he never received what the agency owed him, but after he complained Sankofa began paying him directly. Walter Akens, administrative assistant at Mariana Bracetti, says, “To our knowledge, K-12 Staffing never sent us an invoice nor … anything about a payment plan.” Rowe says she invited the unpaid teachers “to join us in taking legal action as co-plaintiffs, and none agreed.” But neither Vawters nor DeFrancesco received any such letter. O’Shea says Rowe did give him a chance to join legal action against Sankofa, but he declined. “I asked [Rowe] very specifically what was going on, and it was just misdirection, like talking to a politician or a lawyer or something,”
O’Shea says. As to the consequences of all this, they’ve been seemingly limited. Many of the civil lawsuits against her were dismissed because it proved impossible to locate and serve Rowe. And those who sought to garnish funds from her known bank accounts usually found themselves out of luck, since the accounts had been emptied. Meanwhile, Philacare’s website is still live, though a DPW spokesperson tells CP the department will investigate. And Lisa Rowe says she’s running her own substitute-teacher-placement business this school year. She would not divulge the name of that business, but she says she has four or five client schools lined up. That leaves landlords like Khalil, who says he was out more than $5,000, plenty agitated — but seemingly out of luck. “I need my money,” he says. “If you find her, let me know.” (editorial@citypaper.net)
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“Obviously the padlock was no good: I just kicked it in.” facility. “The goal of saving the reservoir was keeping it a wildlife area,” she explained. Other developers have also eyed the site over the years, and that anxiety lingers. Williamson pointed out that the city is spending millions — “so that [developer John] Westrum will have a nice place to put his houses,” someone interrupted. Actually, the city excavation “pretty much removes [the site] from developers’ eyes,” Upper Roxborough Civic Association president Bob Turino tells CP. Via fliers and meetings, he’s tried to explain that. “But,” he says, “I guess people just don’t pay attention.” —Theresa Everline
✚ GREEN AND BLUE For 15 years, gardeners on Thompson and Leopard streets in Fishtown have been maintaining a semiforgotten plot of land: the parking lot of an old dairy that had been fenced in with chain link and barbed wire and filled to the brim with trash. With the owner’s permission, they cleared the lot to make way for the Leopard Street Garden, landscaping, laying a brick path and putting up a fence. The agreement with owner Dave Andrews was, says
gardener Kristie Landry: “We’ll let you use it until we’re ready to use it ourselves.” Still, no one expected things to end as abruptly as they did.
One day, neighbors saw surveyors. The next, Landry spotted a prospective buyer, and he wasn’t just looking around. “He kicked in the gate on the garden fence! I walked over and said, ‘Would you want me to unlock the padlock?’ And he said, ‘Well, obviously the padlock is no good, because I just kicked it in.’” Andrews told her he had a tentative agreement of sale with the buyer (Landry didn’t catch his name and a call to Andrews went unreturned). But now, neighbors aren’t too happy with the proposed development. At a recent Fishtown Neighbors Association meeting, they voted 42-34 against the plan, for 12 units on four lots. But that’s no comfort to the gardeners. Not long ago, a backhoe came by and tore up the place. —Samantha Melamed
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³ WITH FASHION’S NIGHT Out and The Philadelphia Collection 2012,this town’s sartorial splendor is in full bloom. Let us not forget, though, who first brought runway style and sass to this city: Sharon Phillips Waxman and Phashion Phest. Waxman was curating extravaganzas when all y’all were still wearing Norma Kamali shoulder pads. “I was definitely wearing Kamali pads, too,” laughs Waxman. “I had a Kamali black dress, a black-andred-checked jumpsuit and a red parachute coat that I adored.” Waxman’s 19th Phashion Phest, on Sept. 19 in the rotunda area of the Shops at Liberty Place, will be a theatrical affair inspired by the Parisian music hall Folies Bergére, and filled with new participants such as Philly’s André Richard Salon and nationally heralded designers LELE,Lobo Mau,Mariel RojoandSecret Bohemia. Rather than scoff at the new kids on the block like the city-run Philadelphia Collection and New York spinoff Fashion’s Night Out, Waxman welcomes the competition. “I think it’s wonderful that there are so many fashion-related events planned for this month. The Philadelphia Collection markets all of these individual events under one umbrella, giving both long-established events like Phashion Phest and newly created events a unified presence.” Whee. ³ Jose Garces is a busy man. Not only did he and his missus visit Paris recently, the trip apparently was a revelation — his upcoming boutique restaurant on the first floor of the Kimmel is rumored to be leaning toward French-inspired cuisine.And there’s the Chef Jose and Dr. Beatriz Garces Family Foundation launch in October. Before that, though, Garces and his grassland pal Alex McCracken host a Meet the Maker dinner at the Cira Center’s JG Domestic on Sept. 13. When McCracken, already an established organic farmer in Bucks County, heard back in 2010 that Garces had bought nearby Luna Farm, now the source of much of the vaunted local produce at JG Domestic and other Garces restaurants, he got bold. “A lot of friends and associates were talking about contacting Jose to grow food for him, so I thought, ‘Why let them have all the fun, I’m going to contact Jose, too!’” recalls McCracken, who got Luna’s managing gig just weeks after meeting the Iron Chef, who at the time had zero farming experience. “It’s been fun teaching him how different of a profession farming is from virtually anything else; no matter how long you’ve been doing it, there is always more to learn if you keep your eyes open,” says McCracken. Garces stays out of McCracken’s way, but lends a hand in the field when necessary. Betcha McCracken stays out of the kitchen when JG chefs have a go at Luna’s crops this Thursday. ³ If you’ve got a passion for fashion, there’s more Icepack at citypaper.net/criticalmass. (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)
BUS A MOVE: (L-R) Backseat Conceptions creators Doug Sakmann, Nick Esposito and Zafer Ulkucu stand in front of their newly remodeled production RV, which at any given time could be getting splashed by a gang of bikini-clad extras. MATT GODFREY
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dozen years ago, three budding filmmakers — Zafer Ulkucu, Doug Sakmann and Nick Esposito — boarded a yellow school bus en route to the Vans Warped Tour in Los Angeles. Their task was simple: to promote the hell out of Citizen Toxie: Toxic Avenger IV, the latest superhero comedy flick by Troma Entertainment. They achieved their goal with flying colors by coordinating “the craziest nightclub-variety-show lunacy that exists,” Esposito says with a giant smile, but more than that, the experience showed them that — with each other’s help — they could make their own filmmaking dreams a reality without having to lean on an already-established company. “We realized we could either keep using our resources for Troma and they could continue to own everything we create, or we could start doing it ourselves,” explains Sakmann. The trio decided to forge their own path, and in 2002 Backseat Conceptions was established in the Sewing Factory Lofts on North Fifth Street in Kensington. From there they built a streamlined setup that allowed them to dabble in a variety of different film and promotions-related projects — from putting on live shows and spearheading photo shoots to film and television production. Ten years later, the guys have “aged into our experience level,” Esposito says. “We were actually very capable [10 years ago], but
we were young … and in a shitty address.” Philly has given them the opportunity to add a long list of accomplishments to their group résumé, including seven years running the Backseat Film Festival and three years curating punk shows and other events at the popular but, sadly, now-defunct 941 Theater. They’ve also branched out nationally by offering behind-thescenes services to other film crews — whether it’s completely staffing a set or filling the gaps where other companies were lacking. “If [a production company] needs 40 extras on short notice, walkie talkies, prop firearms, craft services … any of the things that productions always need at the last minute, we are the guys who can get it fast,” says Esposito. Backseat was also approached recently to take over a complicated musicvideo shoot for Minneapolis five-piece rock group Motion City Soundtrack, because “they tried to do it [on their own] and failed,” Sakmann says. Saves like this have contributed to their rising status as film-industry fix-it guys. And they’ve recently started getting noticed by major outlets. They’re currently working on two shows for the Discovery Network that they can’t talk about yet, and for the past three years have snagged consistent gigs in reality TV — shows like Wreck Chasers on the Discovery Channel and the Travel Channel’s Paranormal Challenge. But with all their work for other people, they still find time to
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[ charming, bedheaded, maturity-stunted ] ³ tex/mex
I Know What Love Isn’t (Secretly Canadian) is as witty and devastating as its title — everything you could hope for from a Jens Lekman (post-)breakup album. There may be more perfectly formed moments — the previously-aired “… Cowboy Boots” and “Every Little Hair …” remain sparsely immaculate — but none shines brighter than its centerpiece/microcosm, “The World Moves On,” a breathless dash from infatuation to heartache to resignation. Lesson learned: “You don’t get over a broken heart, you just —K. Ross Hoffman learn to carry it gracefully.”
Texas Towns & Tex-Mex Sounds (Smithsonian Folkways) evokes outdoor dances where cowboy and conjunto mix fluently, places like Poteet or Seguin. The Texmaniacs have been doing that for years. Max Baca is a hero of conjunto bajo sexto, but he never misses an opportunity to point out he has recorded with everybody from the Stones on down. David Farías, the accordion man, has stuck closer to conjunto, and he sure can sell a sweet song. —Mary Armstrong
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biz career that more than lives up to his nickname’s nickname — Feist, Peaches, gag-rap, Guinness records … oh, just Google him — but you’ll hear precisely none of that on Solo Piano II (Gentle Threat). Per its title and its 2004 predecessor, there’s nothing here but some thoroughly pleasant ivory-tinkling — gentle yet playful, more meditative than virtuosic. It’s romantic but not overly effusive, not unlike a slightly jazzier Satie. —K. Ross Hoffman
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³ jazz Classical musicians often have a hard time transitioning to jazz improv, but François Houle moves between the two with compelling flexibility. The Canadian clarinetist surrounds himself with some of modern jazz’s most gifted players on Genera (Songlines), including cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum, drummer Harris Eisenstadt and French pianist Benoît Delbecq, a frequent duo partner. The band also includes the remarkable Swiss trombonist Samuel Blaser, who recently moved in the opposite direction, exploring early music in evocative jazz renditions. —Shaun Brady
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times, chances are you’ve already crossed paths with some version of Sleepwalk With Me. The seriocomic adventures of an aspiring standup comedian avoiding commitment to his girlfriend, Abby, while coming to terms with a dangerous sleep disorder have already been the subject of a book, a comedy album, an off-Broadway one-man show and a bunch of segments on This American Life and The Moth. Barring a video game, the feature-length movie is likely Birbiglia’s last shot at mining this particular vein of comedy gold. Perhaps it’s because of that extended, multimedia gestation period that the low-budget Sleepwalk With Me movie — cowritten and produced by Ira Glass — works so well. Birbiglia plays the suspiciously identicalin-every-way Matt Pandamiglio, a charming, bedheaded, maturity-stunted rookie comedian who talks to the camera about trying to launch his career while ignoring his bigger issues. For one thing, there’s the reverse rom-com arc he’s going through with his dynamite longtime girlfriend Abby (Lauren Ambrose). For another, there are those increasingly dangerous sleepwalking episodes (shown in hilarious and surreal Walter Mitty-esque dream sequences) that often leave him bleeding and bewildered. Along the way, the movie has some smart things to say about the delusional life of the road-warrior comic, driving lonely miles to tell the same jokes to halfempty rooms for low pay. A number of Birbiglia’s comedy peers — David Wain, Jesse Klein, Marc Maron, Wyatt Cenac, Kristen Schaal — score a little screen time, but nobody steals a scene like Carol Kane, who plays Matt’s mom with warm, tipsy grace. —Patrick Rapa
teenager growing up in Buenos Aires when she first thought of helping to guide musicians from the conservatory to the professional world. It took her more than 30 years before she founded Astral Artists. It began 20 years ago this fall, a humble opening season featuring four recitals. Last year, Astral’s musicians performed at over 170 engagements. There is remarkable quality in all that quantity. Astral employs a rigorous audition process, with a panel of top-flight artists making the calls. The young performers come from the elite schools from across the country, and so are accustomed to the rigors of upper echelon music-making. That does not always mean that they have the business sense, or appreciation of marketing, to survive in what can be a cut-throat world. Wilson says that “the musicians need to have the motivation, discipline, stamina and determination to work alongside our team, and trust that our advice is for their benefit.” Having watched many of the Astral crew take wing over the years, it is easy to imagine that sheer musical ability is only one of the qualities that Astral looks for. I’ve known several of them, including the basso extraordinaire Eric Owens, violinist Soovin Kim, flutist Mimi Stillman and the cult-favorite pianist Simone Dinnerstein. They are all wonderfully compelling artists, but in addition, radiate a personal charisma that takes their art to a higher level. Every Astral season boasts yet another crop of similarly endowed bright-eyed youngsters. It is that shiny joyfulness that consistently provides the touch of magic that enlivens Astral concerts. I get the same thrill at Curtis orchestra concerts; those kids do not have the wisdom and cohesion of the Philadelphia Orchestra, but there is a vital spark that the more seasoned players have left behind. Astral does double duty by providing a venue for that unique energy, and also working behind the scenes in nurturing nascent professional careers. Why didn’t someone think of this before? (p_burwasser@citypaper.net)
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“We started our company on a bus and 10 years later we’re still working from one.” tackle close-to-home projects, like the producing and special-effects work they did for the most recent films by local director Adam Ahlbrandt, The Cemetery and Cross Bearer. The latter, a horror flick about a “religious maniac hell-bent on purifying the Earth of its sins through murder and destruction,” is screening this weekend at the Prince Music Theater. This summer, Sakmann returned to the Warped Tour in L.A. to film the third (and allegedly final) installment of their decade-long Punk Rock Holocaust series, which is scheduled for release early next year. Once again, he arrived there via the group’s school bus, which in 2011 was transformed into a fully equipped mobile production facility. “We started our company on a bus, and 10 years later we’re still working from one,” says Sakmann. But they’ve “used the knowledge accumulated over the last 10 years to make it 100 times better.” Now covered in a coat of black paint (“it looks like a prison bus”) and decked out with a control room and a main cabin large enough to hold an eight-piece band, the vehicle is not only a reminder of how far they’ve come since their
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humbler beginnings, but a way to keep them connected as they continue to truck around the country. “We can pull the bus up, plug it in and it’s a self-sustaining environment,” he says. “We can basically take Backseat Conceptions anywhere and still feel right at home.” (editorial@citypaper.net) ✚ Cross Bearer screens Sat., Sept. 15, 7 p.m., free, Prince Music Theater, 1412 Chestnut St., 215-569-9700, backseatconceptions.com.
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Water’s 30-day “On the Motorcycle Castle” tour. “I hope that if we keep playing more legit venues we can still play house shows — I’d really miss them if we stopped. Living rooms are more fun, but I guess momentum’s building since we’re being offered bigger gigs.” Until settling in Philadelphia seven years ago, VanVliet led a wandering life. “I was born in California, then I moved around a Fletcher VanVliet of lot, so I don’t really know where I’m On the Water from,” he says. “I was born into an existential crisis, I guess. My dad loved to travel around and go on adventures, so we did a lot of road-tripping together. Philadelphia is, by far, the place I’ve lived the longest.” This feeling of perpetual drifting thrives on Anchor, the EP On the Water self-released last November. Like the debut fulllength they’ll release early next year, Anchor was recorded at Northwest Philly’s Sex Dungeon Studios. The band had already been playing the EP’s five songs for years when they started to record, so they banged it out in two days. “I wish everything in life was as easy as Anchor,” says VanVliet. After a convulsion of acoustic instruments on “Goldfish,” twangy banjo, toy piano and soft strings cuddle up to VanVliet’s haunted growls. “Some unseen torrent is punishing me/ I’ve grown to love this burden/ the thrill of drowning in the change,” he sings. Next comes “Elephant’s Memory,” a tune about losing at
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s is customary in West Philly, I drunkenly stumbled into a house party last winter. About 30 people were packed into the cozy living room, forming a tight semicircle around a large band. Some musicians stood on the floor, and, due to the cramped space, a few played from the staircase. The music was warm and earnest, temporarily rescuing me from whiskey oblivion. I couldn’t see the singer, but above the fiddle, accordion and clanking percussion, I heard a gravelly, Tom Waits-y voice howling about running loose on the streets and raising all sorts of drunken hell. The songs — a combination of rowdy sing-alongs and intimate ballads — reminded me of two other Philadelphia bands, Man Man and Dr. Dog (another West Philly group that started out in very similar living rooms). The band was On the Water, an eight-piece folk collective led by 25-year-old songwriter Fletcher VanVliet (formerly of Da Comrade!). He’s played under the name On the Water (a loose translation of the Dutch name VanVliet) for about four years with a steadily growing lineup of musicians, mostly at DIY house and basement shows. But recently, On the Water has started performing at bigger local venues, like Johnny Brenda’s, where this Wednesday they’ll open for the folk/bluegrass group Frontier Ruckus. “We love being right in people’s faces, with no microphones, surrounded by wild friends,” says VanVliet, talking on the phone the day after a gig in Kalamazoo, Mich., last night’s stop on On the
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love, aimlessly traveling and the death of a good friend. Despite the bleak themes, VanVliet’s songwriting never wallows in trite ennui, but celebrates the beauty hidden within miserable experiences. “Sign me up, I’ll be the fool who keeps on digging,” confirm the gang vocals of the chorus, jubilantly searching for that everelusive object. Anchor’s final song, “Farmhouse,” starts with the band members cracking jokes for a full minute. (“The anticipation’s fucking killing me,” says banjoist Sean Cox.) And then comes a slow-building, melancholic song about the nagging desire to return to that mythic time right before everything went to shit. “So why can’t we let ourselves begin again?” VanVliet asks as the music fades. “It’s impossible, that’s why not,” laughs VanVliet. “I think I’m only happy in retrospect. I can’t live backwards — I can only write backwards. I keep trying, though. I’m a stubborn man.” (editorial@citypaper.net) ✚ Wed., Sept. 19, 9 p.m., $10, with Frontier Ruckus and Chamberlin, Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 215-739-9684, johnnybrendas.com.
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From the get-go, Robert Miller (Richard Gere) looks like the newest model from the Gordon Gekko mold. One by one, Arbitrage presents the identifying traits: First comes Miller’s sharply tailored gray suit, then the young trophy mistress and, most crucially, the egregious fraud that hedge-fund manager Miller has been perpetuating. The similarities stop there, because helmer Nicholas Jarecki wisely takes this psychological drama elsewhere. Traces of Hollywood’s typically moralistic formula remain.What makes Arbitrage feel novel is the movie’s nonjudgmental take on its protagonist’s misdeeds. As Miller’s wrongdoings pile up, he never stops to squirm. Lying handily to his wife (Susan Sarandon) poses no problem. Neither does risking the future of his unwitting daughter (Brit Marling) with Madoff-style deception. The only hint of remorse comes when the financier drives his paramour into a lethal car wreck, but it quickly fades as Miller decides to cover up the accident. Jarecki’s slick script keeps Miller’s intertwined dramas in check as pressure continues to build. Meanwhile, Gere’s charisma is on full display, making his character remarkably difficult to root against. Since Gere’s stolid expression betrays no inner anxiety and the script never pauses for reflection, the audience becomes increasingly complicit in Miller’s immoral crimes. The resulting discomfort is what gives this thriller a pleasantly energizing pulse. —Michael Gold (Ritz at the Bourse)
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SLEEPWALK WITH ME |A Read Patrick Rapa’s review on p. 39 (Ritz at the Bourse)
CONTINUING BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD|B Beasts of the Southern Wild is a gorgeous thing, set in an impoverished Southern area called the Bathtub. It’s there that a spirited 6-year-old named Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis) makes her home in a tree-bound trailer, connected by zip line to one occupied by her alcoholic father (Dwight Henry). Captured on Super 16mm, the film’s images are warm and earthy, the colors rich and saturated as if the print had been dug up from a particularly loamy patch of ground. But the beauty is troubling — not simply because it runs the risk of aestheticizing rural poverty, but because director Benh Zeitlin and his collaborators seem heedless of the possibility. Beasts is a movie eminently worth seeing, but surrendering to its spell is as dangerous as trusting in government-built levees. —Sam Adams (Ritz Five) THE CAMPAIGN|C Billionaire tastemakers the Motch Brothers (John Lithgow and Dan Aykroyd) grow tired of Congressman Cam Brady (Will Ferrell) after he makes another misstep on the campaign trail, so they dump him and tap the inexperienced Marty Huggins (Zach Galifianakis) to run against him. Ferrell’s turn as Brady is essentially his standard
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THE IMPOSTER|B+ Director Bart Layton’s debut featurelength documentary tells the story of Frédéric Bourdin, the mad Frenchman who assumed the identity of a missing boy from San Antonio, Texas, in the late 1990s. In the beginning of the film, Layton paints a picture of “Bourdin the culprit,” using firsthand accounts of the
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levels, but it’s LaBeouf’s chip-on-theshoulder seizing of the put-upon little brother, so eager to prove he’s as gallant as the siblings he’ll always rank below, that makes the most of this stylish opportunity. —DL (Pearl, UA Grant)
French party monster Ludo (Jean Dujardin) — until, in the astonishing opening to French director Guillaume Canet’s latest, he’s plowed over by a truck while taking a late-night joyride on his scooter. While Ludo’s laid up in the hospital, the poor lad’s friends carelessly go ahead with a planned vacation. But the trip quickly turns into a nightmare when revealed secrets afford the travelers a one-way ticket to crazy town. Unfortunately, most of the other character threads are lame-o, causing the bulk of the film to drag. The flick is saved, however, when bad news from home reaches the group, a discovery that pulls everyone together and humanizes these otherwise frigid bourgeoisie. —Andrew Wimer (Ritz Five)
LITTLE WHITE LIES|B All seems A-OK in the life of young
THE POSSESSION|C Wading through a messy divorce in
ROBOT AND FRANK|BFrank Langella plays as the eponymous retired jewel thief who receives a robot from his son, Hunter (James Marsden). Frank initially despises the bot, but eventually the machine becomes not only his pal but an accomplice in one last small-scale heist. The concepts of augmented reality, parental relationships and the philosophy of a robot’s very existence are all touched upon in a manner suited to a story that does its best to tie the plotline’s threads together, with questionable results. “I don’t want to talk about how you don’t exist,” Frank tells the robot. “It’s making me uncomfortable.” —Jodi Bosin (Ritz Five)
visually stunning Baraka with this five-year- and 25-country-spanning cinematic journey that gets its name from a Sanskrit term for the cycle of birth, death and rebirth. In 102 minutes, the ambitious filmmaker attempts an all-encompassing look at humankind in the 21st century
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Jamie Travis’ comedy begins with Lauren (Lauren Miller) getting the breakup shaft from her smarmy Kendoll boyfriend Charlie. Stuck with no place to stay, Lauren falls back on gay-BFF Jesse (Justin Long), who, playing rent-control yenta, sets Lauren up with another evictee named Katie (Ari Graynor). Though the women hate each other due to an awful urine-soaked incident in college, each grows to tolerate and eventually love the other, culminating in propartnership “1-900-MMM-HMMM,” a dirty-talk line that rakes in more cash than they could have imagined. The movie’s best moments come when the ladies sully their receivers, but everyone stumbles once a few petty grievances jeopardize their bond. —Drew Lazor (Ritz Five)
The uninitiated baby in a family with white lightning coursing through its veins, Jack Bondurant (Shia LaBeouf) wants to be bad, so he dips his ladle into a rushing river of cash by fostering sales relationships with big-city gangsters. There are fistfights and shootouts and brutal knifings galore as Jack and his brothers defend their turf from mob goons. It’s the brothers and their very real, very strained connections that temper the radioactive testosterone
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The premise of Celeste and Jesse Forever — a couple working to make sure their divorce doesn’t ruin their friendship — follows optimistic pair Celeste (writer Rashida Jones) and Jesse (Andy Samberg), who are still living together six months after their separation. Things go swimmingly until Jesse starts dating a former onenight stand, forcing a rebound-driven Celeste to go on a slew of uncomfortable, half-hearted first dates. It’s hilariously touching to watch her trying to hold on to her dignity, whether she’s passed out at a pool party or giving a tear-jerking speech at her best friend’s wedding. We feel for her, though the film’s ending winds up feeling too tidy for all the emotional sturm und drang. —Frida Garza (Ritz at the Bourse)
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upstate New York, college basketball coach Clyde (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) struggles to maintain a cordial relationship with his already-dating ex (Kyra Sedgwick) for the sake of his sensitive daughters, Hannah and Emily (Madison Davenport and Natasha Calis). Things progress decently enough, but that’s before Emily visits a yard sale and picks up an odd wooden box, its cryptic contents immediately becoming a harbinger for weird insect invasions and weirder behavioral changes in Clyde’s sweetheart youngest. The film’s body of scares is more ambitious than your average PG-13 frightener (wait for the MRI scene), doing producer Sam Raimi proud. But too many scenes are telegraphed too far in advance. You’ll smile and nod your head more than slide down in your seat. —DL (Pearl, UA 69th Street, UA Grant, UA Riverview)
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manic man-baby crammed into the frame of his old Bush impersonation from SNL. Galifianakis’ Huggins is lispy, but not quite limp-wristed, and actually an ideal foil to Ferrell’s man-possessed routine. Despite revolving around an election, there are no discernible party lines. Rather, one character or the other is simply painted like a dick whenever a difference needs to be conveyed. While few will probably go into The Campaign expecting highbrow social commentary, this disappoints on the simple scale as well. —Chris Brown (Roxy)
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through a 70mm mélange of sweeping, awe-inspiring visuals that successfully represent both the beauty of life and the society-murdering effects of materialism, capitalism and industrialization. Where Samsara is a bit lacking, however, is in a sense of hope for humanity’s wayward fate — shots of Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath and a closing view of an endless, empty desert seem to imply we’ve gone too far. But, then again, maybe that’s the point. —AW (Ritz East)
SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN|BThe story, an incredible one, is that of Sixto Rodriguez, a Detroit singersongwriter who made two albums of introspective, psychedelic soul music: Cold Fact and Coming From Reality. Two decades later, long after Rodriguez dropped out of sight and possibly died, those unknown albums were embraced by the South African freedom movement, becoming the soundtrack of a struggle half a world away and elevating him to the status of an absent figurehead. Director Malik Bendjelloul is so insistent about the story’s extraordinary nature that you can’t help but wonder if he’s cooking the books, a suspicion that pays off when a late-film twist reveals he’s essentially been leading his audience astray. Pulling drama out of the material is one thing, but ginning it up wholesale blurs the line between storytelling and simple fraud. —SA (Ritz Five)
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to save his life. Then he discovers an un-bylined novel of great lyricism inside a beat-up attaché he purchased in Paris. Jansen gets it published and immediately becomes the babe of the literary world — all before the book’s true creator (Jeremy Irons,
Philly-born screenwriters Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal’s tale begins with pompous author Clay Hammond (Dennis Quaid) reading from his book, which shares a title with the movie; the best-seller haunts floundering writer Rory Jansen (Bradley Cooper), who can’t sell a manuscript
billed as "The Old Man") emerges from obscurity to claim what’s his. The Words is loud when it should be subtle and vague when it should be direct. Anyone hoping for Klugman and Sternthal to lash together their trio of narrative playthings will be disappointed to watch them float off like poorly tended helium balloons. —DL (Pearl, UA 69th Street, UA Grant, UA Riverview)
✚ REPERTORY FILM AMBLER THEATER 108 E. Butler Ave., Ambler, 215-3457855, amblertheater.org. Great Expectations (1946, U.K, 118 min.): Young Pip cashes in when a rich relative dies. But now he has to navigate the upper class. Wed., Sept. 19, 7:30 p.m., $9.75.
ANDREW’S VIDEO VAULT Rotunda, 4010 Walnut St., armcinema25.com. First, Dementia (1955, U.S., 56 min.): A young woman wanders silently through nightmarish
slums. Then, Freud (1962, U.S., 120 min.): Sigmund Freud’s life from 1885 to 1890, detailing his discovery of the Oedipus complex and the subconscious. Thu., Sept. 13, 8 p.m., free.
THE BALCONY 1003 Arch St., 215-922-6888, thetroc. com. Jawbreaker (1999, U.S., 87 min.): What to do when your kidnapped prom queen chokes on a jawbreaker? Mon., Sept. 17, 8 p.m., $3. The Rise and Fall of the Clash (2012, U.S., 90 min.): This much-anticipated Philly premiere will be followed by a Q&A with director Danny Garcia and a performance by local Clash-inspired rockers The High Five and Blayer Pointdujour & the Rockers Galore. Tue., Sept. 18, 7 p.m., $10.
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min.): See Ambler Theater listing for description. Thu., Sept. 13, 7:30 p.m., $9.75. Big Night (1996, U.S., 107 min.): Ambitious Italian-immigrant siblings try to save a failing restaurant by preparing a grand meal for Louis Prima. Wed., Sept. 19, 5:45 p.m., $9.75.
FRIENDS OF THE PHILADELPHIA CITY INSTITUTE LIBRARY Free Library, Philadelphia City Institute Branch, 1905 Locust St., 215685-6621, freelibrary.org. Diva (1982, France, 118 min.): This film — about a famous singer whose bootlegged recording is used to solve a crime — stars Philadelphia soprano Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez (pictured below), who studied at the Curtis
824 W. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr, 610-527-9898, brynmawrfilm.org. Awakenings (1990, U.S., 121 min.): Controversy ensues when a neurologist announces his plan to awaken catatonic epidemic survivors with an experimental drug. Tue., Sept. 18, 7:30 p.m., $10.
MOSAIC AT THE MOVIES Anderson Hall, Temple University, 2129 N. Broad St., temple.edu. Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter (1999, U.S., 91 min.): Fred A. Leuchter, developer of a more-efficient electric chair, watches his life and fortune crumble after he testifies as a Holocaust denier. Tue., Sept. 18, 5:30 p.m., free.
COLONIAL THEATRE 227 Bridge St., Phoenixville, 610917-1228, thecolonialtheatre.com. The Killers (1946, U.S., 103 min.): An insurance investigator defies orders to solve a gas station attendant’s murder. Sun., Sept. 16, 2 p.m., $8. They Call It Myanmar: Lifting the Curtain
(2012, U.S., 84 min.): Robert H. Lieberman’s gorgeously shot documentary offers a rare glimpse at “the second most isolated country on the planet.” Sun., Sept. 16, 4:30 p.m., $8.
Institute of Music and the Academy of Vocal Arts and worked at the Free Library. Wed., Sept. 19, 2 p.m., free.
INTERNATIONAL HOUSE 3701 Chestnut St., 215-387-5125, ihousephilly.org. The Love Parade (1929, U.S., 107 min.): In this early talkie, Count Renard quickly discovers it kind of bites to be bullheaded Queen Louise’s husband and consort. Thu., Sept. 13, 7 p.m., $9. The Thief of Mir-
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✚ PEKAR’S ISRAEL/ IN HIS STUDIO Two exhibitions at the Gershman Y offer behind-the-scenes insight into late, legendary artists. In the Borowsky Gallery, there’s JT Waldman’s exhibit “Pekar’s Israel” — inspired by Not the Israel My Parents
Promised Me, a memoir by the late Harvey Pekar. Waldman, who illustrated this posthumously published graphic novel by the underground comics icon behind American Splendor, will discuss his experiences working with the man as well as the historical and mythological implications in depicting the Jewish homeland. Meanwhile, in the Open Lens Gallery, photographer Laurie Lambrecht offers a peek into the studio of legendary pop artist Roy Lichtenstein. —Brittany Thomas Opening reception and talk, Thu., Sept. 13, 6-8 p.m., exhibits through Nov. 18, Galleries at The Gershman Y, 401 South Broad St., 215-545-4400, gershmany.org.
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✚ DRAGONETTE Like on-the-comeup mixtape rappers brandishing improbable, aspirational boasts about their success, Toronto electro-poppers Dragonette
have basically been fronting as world-beating superstars since their 2005 debut EP. Despite a string of surefire shoulda-been radio-killers, however, they’ve somehow managed to remain incongruously small-time, particularly here in these unexcited States. Bodyparts’ (Dragonette/Universal) sample lyric/hook/casually offhand assertion of all-around awesomeness “I only live in this city ’cause this city can’t live without me” could (but probably won’t) change all that. Nothing pops quite as hard as early singles like “Take It Like a Man,” and there’s no wrenching slow jam to match the still-devastating “Easy.” But Martina Sorbara still has the sass and style of a spikier, less-bananas Gwen Stefani, and — call it wishful mixing — the whole thing just sounds absolutely massive. —K. Ross Hoffman Thu., Sept. 13, 9 p.m., $15-$17, with The Knocks, Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St., 215-232-2100, utphilly.com.
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✚ WHY?
✚ ARIEL PINK’S HAUNTED GRAFFITI
✚ LENI STERN AFRICAN TRIO
The brown-acid pop of Ariel Pink often earns the “bedroom music” tag, but even in a slick studio, the anything-goes quality carries through. His latest, Mature Themes (4AD), is his most streamlined, but that’s no match for his saccharine I-wantyou-baby love songs and creepy Manson-in-L.A. vibes. It’s a darkly magical place where Pink can sing about schnitzel and Kinski yet still find room to cover obscure, heartfelt tracks from the late ’70s.
Guitarist Leni Stern has never been easy to pin down. After touring Europe at the head of her own radical theater company as a teenager, she switched gears and enrolled at Berklee College of Music in Boston — ostensibly to study film scoring, though she wound up playing jazz alongside the likes of Paul Motian, Bill Frisell and Wayne Krantz. Though she never abandoned her jazz leanings (or collaborators), she gradually integrated singer-songwriter elements into her repertoire. Her latest CD, Sabani, mines both of those veins with a more recent twist — African elements culled from several journeys into West Af-
9.14 9.15 9.16 Yoni Wolf, the primary mouthpiece of WHY?, is the driest, whitest MC since Beck pulled his foot out from the grave. In the past decade, he and his multi-instrumentalist brother Josiah have built a sturdy, chamber-rap orchestra to lift up his glum, caustic humor and nerdy, romantic longings. And now WHY?’s hitting its stride with the recent Sod in the Seed EP and the upcoming full-length Mumps, Etc. This is strung-out hip-hop for people who buy every Pet Sounds reissue. —A.D. Amorosi Fri., Sept. 14, 8:30 p.m., $15, with Serengeti and Doseone, Union Transfer, 1024 Spring Garden St., 215232-2100, utphilly.com.
—Caroline Russock Sat., Sept. 15, 9 p.m., $16-$18, with Phédre and Bodyguard, Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St., 215232-2100, utphilly.com.
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✚ ANAÏS MITCHELL Vermont-born songwriter
parables of family, struggle, death and self-discovery set in a hardscrabble pastoral America that feels at once long past and all too present. —K. Ross Hoffman Sun., Sept. 16, 7:30 p.m., $29.50$49.50, with Bon Iver, Mann Center, 5201 Parkside Ave., 215-893-1999, manncenter.org.
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✚ MOUNT EERIE
✚ CORIN TUCKER BAND
Phil Elverum didn’t just spend two solitary years turning an aged, de-sanctified church in Washington state into his re-
cording studio: He built himself a hollow, hallowed aesthetic to go with it. The proof is in Mount Eerie’s two self-released albums this year, Clear Moon and Ocean Roar. While the former is a spacey, dreamlike work dedicated to all things homey, the latter — just out this month — is a slow, nightmarish album about being cast aside, physically and spiritually, that references doom metal and cheap Krautrock while providing a framework for Elverum’s tender, trembling vocals. Opening for Mount Eerie is Philly’s Far Out Fangtooth, the toast of latter-day Siltbreeze label noise and haze. —A.D. Amorosi Mon., Sept. 17, 8:30 p.m., $12, with Far Out Fangtooth and Ever Ending Kicks, First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St., 215-821-7575, r5productions.com.
Don’t get me wrong: When Corin Tucker returned to music with her namesake band in 2010, four years after SleaterKinney’s last show, it was gratifying to hear her thrilling vibrato in action again. But despite the occasional rocker, 1,000 Years suggested the righteous anger and angst we’d come to expect from Tucker had taken a backseat to more domestic concerns. With Kill My Blues (out Sept. 18 on Kill Rock Stars), she lays JOHN CLARK
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with unreleased material: Heat Lightning exudes warmth, with Hood ruminating on the places once filled by family, the elders who’ve passed on and the youngsters back home. Kelly Hogan even stops by for “Come Back Little Star,” an elegy for Vic Chesnutt that’s marrow-deep. And this show should be even better than July’s; with Hope For Agoldensummer on hand, an extra helping of soul is guaranteed.
Anaïs Mitchell featured Justin Vernon in her 2010 “folk opera” Hadestown, casting the Bon Iver warbler as Orpheus to her Eurydice. Now he’s returning the favor by covering her tunes and enlisting her to open his current tour. It’s a move that, by rights, should help expand her audience beyond the core of folkies and Ani-philes (DiFranco being her other major high-profile booster), much as she’s been pushing the conventional parameters of modern folk with her epic, allegorical themes and, most recently, producer Todd Sickafoose’s lush, impressionistic arrangements. (Joanna Newsom is a convenient if imprecise reference point on both counts, as well as for her striking, deceptively girlish voice.) If Young Man in America (Wilderland) isn’t as expressly conceptual as its predecessor, it’s nearly as ambitious and, in its way, just as steeped in mythology; rife with J AY S A N S O N E
—Shaun Brady
On “Leaving Time,” from Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance (ATO), Patterson Hood aims to comfort his kids before he goes on the road yet again. Their pain is palpable, but we’ve been the beneficiaries of their daddy’s frequent touring. Though the album comes out this week, you may have heard half its songs in July, when Hood and his Downtown Rumblers played the XPoNential Festival. You can’t blame them for stocking their summer set
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those fears to rest and buries them under a mountain of twisty guitars and danceable drums. Whatever you love about Tucker, you’ll find it here: “Joey” shows off that soaring voice, “Neskowin” taps a rich vein of teenage energy, and with “Groundhog Day,” the erstwhile riot grrrl gives us one of the most unabashedly feminist, fist-pumping tunes in
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way too long. —M.J. Fine Tue., Sept. 18, 8 p.m., $12, with Trophy Wife, Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 215-739-9684, johnnybrendas.com.
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✚ PRETTY MONSTERS The bassoon is one of those instruments whose existence away from the orchestra seems limited to unwilling kids halfheartedly practicing for school recitals. Katherine Young is determined to save the instrument from its own neglected reputation, and the self-titled debut of her quartet Pretty Monsters is all the convincing anyone should need. Along with guitarist Owen Stewart-Robertson, violinist Erica Dicker and punk-jazz drummer Mike Pride displaying his most restrained aggression, Young offers material that ranges from severe chamber pieces to grinding sludge to stark pointillism. Aided by an arsenal of electronics, the group displays a diverse array of devastating approaches. Young, after all, has learned from some pretty outré masters, including jazz
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Keira Knightley once compared performing live theater with “sex with an orgasm at the end of it” — and several shows at this year’s Live Arts and Philly Fringe festival go beyond her metaphor. Here are three shows that have us all hot and bothered: In B. Someday’s 3 Wishes, Michelle Pauls plays powerful exec Cornella Jansen, who grants her lowly, horny plumber three wishes. (We’ll give you three guesses what he begs for.) Sexy Moment: “Cornella must learn to pleasure herself … in public. There’s a super-funny sexy scene on a park bench where [the plumber] watches,” says Pauls. Sept. 13-23, $10, Walking Fish Theatre, 2509 Frankford Ave. Set in a pub, Jacqueline Goldfinger’s Raw Stitch (pictured) follows eight ladies as they take turns dishing about their raunchiest sexual escapades. They cover everything from chicken molestation to how fun a guy’s load can be. Sexy Moment: A lesbian demonstrates how to give oral on a sweet, juicy peach. Sept. 14-22, $12 (admission includes condoms, dental dams and a can of PBR), Quig’s Pub at Plays and Players Theatre, 1714 Delancey Place, third floor. With a set like a Euro bordello, Secret Order of the Libertines’“poetry whores” seduce patrons into musty corners to talk about freedom through erotic expression in this interactive experience. Sexy Moment: Audience members will be seductively blindfolded upon arrival. It’s mandatory, but feel free to bring your own mask. Sept. 15-20, $25, Grasso’s Magic Theatre, 103 Callowhill St. ³ Tickets can be purchased at 919 N. Fifth St., 215-413-1318, or online at livearts-fringe.ticketleap.com. (megan.augustin@citypaper.net)
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innovator Anthony Braxton and members of industrial pioneers Faust and Einstürzende Neubauten, and combined the harshest beauties of both in her own sound. —Shaun Brady Wed., Sept. 19, 8 p.m., free, Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St., arsnovaworkshop.com.
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✚ JOY IN PEOPLE Every Jeremy Deller exhibition packs a populist punch. In 2004, he used working-class Brits to recreate the Battle of Orgreave, the 1984 skirmish between police and picketing miners. More recently, he restructured a parade float into a working café modeled and named after famous Manchester hotspot Valerie’s Snack Bar. American museumgoers can now sip some tea in this makeshift venue as a retrospective showcasing
Deller’s 20 years of collaborative, multimedia art comes to Philly. The London-born artist’s major works — photos, posters, sound installations and more — will be on display during this career retrospective, including material from Our Hobby Is Depeche Mode, a documentary which celebrates fans of the synth-pop pioneers. Inclusivity is the theme here; those sick of art-world insularity should find joy in “Joy in People.” —Michael Blancato Opening reception Wed., Sept. 19, 6:30 p.m., exhibit through Dec. 30, free, Institute of Contemporary Art, 118 S. 36th St., 215-898-7108, icaphila.org.
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THE GRAND SCHEME The new Le Bec aims high and mostly succeeds, but the devil is in the details. By Adam Erace LE BEC FIN | 1523 Walnut St., 215-567-1000, lebecfin.com. Lunch
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efore I’d even laid eyes on le new Le Bec Fin, gold-plated bastion of manners and class, I made an egregious faux pas. No, I didn’t wear a white jacket after Labor Day. Worse: I called and asked for Nic. Nic is Nicolas Fanucci, former French Laundry capo, current Le Bec Fin owner and emcee. (That’s Nicolas with a silent S, thank you very much). When I asked for “Nic” — the way his name’s been printed here and More on: there in the local media since his arrival in March — the woman on the other end of the line rebuffed me like a soccer mom whose daughter Kirsten had just been called “Kristen”: “His name is Nicola. Nic. Uh. Lah.” I imaged Fanucci, chef Walter Abrams (another Laundry import) and the staff of Le Bec Fin 2.0 gathered around immersion circulators in the freshly upgraded kitchen, getting instructed like a counterterrorism unit on a name-correction campaign. If the image seems silly, rest assured that it seemed silly to me, too — especially at choice moments during my eight-course, $150 meal
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at this star-seeker. When sea grit gave the scallop course an unwelcome crunch, for example, or when a stowaway bone announced itself in rabbit merguez. Clearly, there are more pressing issues than how Mr. Fanucci should be addressed. With Le Bec’s team-service approach, every single dining-room staffer should know every single item on each plate; they don’t. More than once, kitchen chatter overwhelmed dining-room music, and courses came at too quick a clip, especially once we’d segued from savory to cheese and dessert and the staff began clearing candles and flowers and changing the linens. As the evening’s last reservation, I felt myself being scooted along like a kid late for school. I downed a $19 glass of honeyed muscat like SunnyD, crammed some lovely cassis macarons in my mug like a handful of Chex, and left. Arrival to departure: two hours. To me, that seems about an hour short of where an eight-course meal at a restaurant of this caliber should be. In today’s era of warp-speed on-demand dining, three-hour meals are nearly extinct. So it’s the rare estabMORE FOOD AND lishment like Le Bec Fin that’s tasked with DRINK COVERAGE the twofold challenge of lavishing us with AT C I T Y P A P E R . N E T / what so few of us have, time, and providing M E A LT I C K E T. food that captivates. In my experience, the restaurant failed on the first part of that challenge and performed better, but far from perfectly, on the second. The sand and bone were careless mistakes, but didn’t smack so hard as the brazenly boring middle courses in my tasting, each consisting of a beautifully cooked piece of protein (lamb loin, poularde) with pretty veggies — something we can get at [insert any of >>> continued on page 60
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er. But the folks behind Dirt Candy, a Manhattan vegetarian restaurant, have written just that. Chef Amanda Cohen, with artist Ryan Dunleavy and Cohen’s husband Grady Hendrix, published Dirt Candy: A Cookbook (Clarkson Potter, Aug. 21), an action-packed graphic novel/cookbook hybrid. Dirt Candy tells the story of the restaurant’s opening, introducing Cohen’s kitchen crew and their philosophies and sharing a cavalcade of recipes along with tales of the highs and lows of Cohen’s professional life. Driving the careening narrative is Cohen’s ego, popping up throughout, taking on avatars of a crazed monkey, a Zen panda and her own 5-year-old self. This description might conjure cutesy images, but don’t be fooled. Cohen is angsty, full of blazing energy ripping across the pages. Knives flash, eyes bulge and anthropomorphized food is slashed and splattered. In one scene, Cohen kicks the shit out of a boring salad. As bizarre as these moments are, her unpredictability is fun, causing chapters to fly by as you explore the recesses of the chef’s stress-addled mind. As for the recipes, Dirt Candy is not for novices. Almost all the dishes involve several time-consuming components and architectural platings. Simple-sounding recipes like fennel salad (with fennel-seed dressing, candied-grapefruit pops and grilled-cheese croutons) are dense with instructions. Garnishes and add-ons are labeled as “optional” — but then there’s Cohen glaring at you from the page, silently judging whether your “kitchen fu” is too weak. Tons of the techniques highlighted are really cool: reducing, ribbon-frying and dehydrating. But at times, the recipes seem to punish the vegetables even as they celebrate them. There is inarguable finesse backing up Cohen’s concepts, but also a coldness, as if vegetables are a nemesis that must be brutally conquered. Her complex veg-wrangling just seems like too much. Maybe her approach is better for winter, when sad supermarket produce begs for a dominatrix-style smothering in Cohen’s favorite flavor fetishes: fat, salt, wine and sugar. For those weary of the sorts of cookbooks with beautiful people in impossible kitchens and diffused-focus photos of perfectly rustic plates, the cartoon violence and incessant sass of Dirt Candy comes as a relief. Don’t expect to be coddled or cozy in Cohen’s kitchen — it’s a fiercely delicious, adrenaline-addicted, chaotic whirlwind of a place. (editorial@citypaper.net)
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CHEMISTRY Our chemistry is great. One of the things I love about you is that you’re a great communicator-you say what you feel. For instance, we were having a great time and then you said, “What that your finger in my anus?” And I, not being the best communicator, said, “Maybe.” And you said, “Don’t do that again.” “Okay.” And I haven’t. See? Good chemistry. But you also confuse me. So we’re having a great time and my thumb (note: not a finger) gets close to resting on your anus and you say, “Oh that feels good!” Hmm? Whoo hoo? The next time, thumb moves close again, same response. And then the next time suddenly I’m a bad guy. I can’t help but feel that we need to talk more.
to mess around with the items, everyone is in complete shock, the bus driver does NOTHING, and these guys are acting like its another day in the city riding the bus and shooting up. Do something or get pricked? I decided to watch. As I get off the bus they are wrapping the rope around their arms. This is beyond disgusting, in public? on a bus? with children nearby? Yea they may have been tweaked out of their minds but this is truly immoral. Definitely warms my heart knowing that my taxes are going towards their horrific habit and 10 points for septa for letting this shit go on in their transport equipment. Why the fuck do I have to pay $83 fucking dollars a month to have the “honor” of wit-
to each other and we get along nicely, so what the hell? I say we “go for it.” Ever since the first time we walked home from Wawa together, I knew you were the “one.” You deserve better...don’t make me put your sweet ass over my knee to convince you. HAHA! Funny+Beautiful = My heart hasn’t beat at a normal pace since I’ve known you.
face...it makes no sense that shit keeps going on and fucking on with you...I had the nerve not to be able to sleep last night...I was worried about the bullshit with facing and dealing with you! I am so glad I didn’t have to deal with you! So glad, so fucking happy!
LAST I CHECKED...
Grow some fucking balls already! I am not understanding what the fuck you are doing in this relationship. This is our relationship right... well if it is act like it is stand up for your fucking girlfriend and damn get your fucking balls the hell back already! Nobody was or is asking you to be against the bitch just stand up for yourself and me and get things together! You really need a fucking reality check because I really don’t fucking need your ass as a headache!
The last time I had checked I was grown...you stupid bitch are you mad because things aren’t going your way! I wanna slap the bullshit out of you in a terrible way! I hate that funny acting shit...
THAT CHICK IS A WEIRDO You stupid bitch are you crazy or deranged or something what is wrong with you! Then you constantly are afraid..I thought we went over this before stay the fuck home! You stupid bitch sitting in the fucking bathroom shitting then you walk out of the room and not wash your hands. I hate you... no wonder you were in that incident...Go get some dick...I dare you!
DUMB CUNT How fucking dare you brush your stupid weave having too much makeup wearing stupid ass near me when you knew that you weren’t getting off the train! I wanted to slap the shit out of you. Then you had a fucking leopard print bag and fucking a flower dress you stupid ass who fucking wears some shit like that? I hope that I don’t see your stupid ass on the fucking train again, because you make me fucking sick! Don’t you know it is too early in the fucking morning to be acting like a jackass! Get a fucking life!
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YOU PLAYED YOURSELF
When I told you to take your time it really didn’t need any comment from you after that...I was giving your fat ass enough time to fucking waddle in the room to have a sit. I can’t stand you and I know that you can’t stand me...I want to slap the shit out of you in your face and then starve your fat ass to death...everytime I see you I just want to slap you...your sense of humor is moreless on your side because you look funny! Not on my side because I am confident and I can actually get off the couch!
You played your fat ass once again...I was just waiting to see what the fuck you were going to do and you did exactly what I thought you were going to do, you called your son and probably cried and said why didn’t she come over! Who gives a fuck! I definitely don’t and I want to stay far away from you as possible. Those games you played you can keep them games for someone else. Game time is over honey! Try playing those games with a child. I am nobody’s child.
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YOU TRYING IT nessing this on public transportation while these guys ride for free and abuse the privilege their “unfortunate financial situation” has placed them. Get a fucking job asshole...Fuck this shit.
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LOVELY DAY This was a lovely day! I am and was and still is so fucking happy! I definitely didn’t need to see your fucking face this morning! I am tired of seeing your
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You are absolutely the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen, seeing you is like candy coated valium for my eyes. And not only that, you’re also the funniest. You may not believe me when I tell you “I’m going to marry you someday,” but it’s true, just give me my shot and you’ll see how happy I can make you. Shit, I adore you, we look good next
you treat your kids like shit your not going to treat me like that...I don’t have time for the games...then what do you think that you are going to turn your fucking son against me? I don’t give a fuck about that just like I don’t give a fuck about you either. You need to let him live his life and grow...time to grow the fuck up! Nobody is getting any younger and Lord knows you certainly aren’t...eat a dick fat cow!
Hey wanna-be who the fuck do you think that you are trying to blast someone on fucking facebook! You talking all that shit on there...what I have been meaning to tell you bitch...don’t bite the fucking hands that have fed your stupid ass! How are you going to complain anyway about anything because you are, a lazy bitch..then you a fucking bum bitch with no gear still wearing those old ass fucking white sneakers! You a bum and you fucking mad because you are a bum!
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Hey girl dare you come down to my job after she told you everything was already taken care of! Then you are gonna sit in the fucking doorway high as a fucking kite and look at me and say how you been I looked at you and wanted to slap the shit out of you! Then you started stuttering and shaking and shit I thought you were going to pass the fuck out! And if you did! Oh there would of been hell to pay because you shouldn’t of been at my place of employment in the fucking beginning.
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You know I used to be a fan of the “people” in this city but what I just witnessed has sent that straight to hell. I get on the bus after class and see two emiciated men sitting in the front row who happen to be old enough to receive bus welfare to ride for free as I see them sticking those cards back into their wallets, I sit two rows behind them. Sitting next to them are elderly people and a mother with her young child. As the ride progresses emaciated man #1 removes a plastic soup container from his bag and begins looking through it. Begins to take out alcohol wipes, a lot of them, then rope, then a couple bags with some black shit in them (see where this is going?) and last but not least 2 dirty fucking needles and puts one in his mouth and the second to emaciated man #2. They proceed
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Hey you drunk ass bitch I see you boat hoppin on a marina like you some maritime hoe. Get you own boat. First off you have a nappy weave hair do so dark to match that bruise that you probably got from drinking so much. Your forsaken liver. Why don’t you go to AA and pour yourself some apple juice your liquor lover. I hate the smell of your vodka breath and you so loud. Everyone can hear you so do us all a favor and shut the fuck up.
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merchandise market BRAZILIAN FLOORING 3/4", beautiful, $2.75 sf (215) 365-5826 CABINETS SOLID MAPLE Brand new soft close/dovetail. Fits 10’x10’ kitchen. More cabinets if needed. Cost $6,400. Sell $1,595. 610-952-0033
Pinball, shuffle bowling alleys, arcade video games, jukeboxes 215.783.0823 ROYAL DAULTON "Prelude" China for 12. 105 pieces in mint cond, incl soup, 7 oval and square serving pieces, teapot, sugar, creamer. Incl 12 Crystal glasses. Priced to sell. $975/all. Can email pics. Great wedding gift. Call Cell 610-698-0185 lv msg BD a Memory Foam Mattress/BoxsprIng Brand New Queen cost $1400, sell $299; King cost $1700 sell $399. 610-952-0033
Diabetic Test Strips needed pay up to $15/box. Most brands. Call 610-453-2525 LUNCH CART FOR SALE $20K, Please call 856-761-2668.
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SOUTH WEST PHILLY PHILLY BOYZ APPLIANCE 4325 FRANKFORD AVE 6347 WOODLAND (215) 743-4429 (215) 729-9984
APPLIANCE FACTORY Dining Rm set beaut., classy, glass top tbl w/8 blk wood chrs. Brand new in pkg $700/bo 267-338-8495; 215-457-6437 BED: New Queen Pillow Top Set $150 . twin, full, king avail. Del avl 215-355-3878 Bedroom Set 5 pc. brand new $399 All sizes, Del. Avail. 215-355-3878
GOLDEN RETRIEVER PUPS - B o r n 7/17/12, parents AKC & Penn. Certified, 1st shots & wormed, socialized & happy, $750/ea. Ready 9/11. Call (610) 209-0248 Great Dane Puppies: AKC, brindle colored, $1,000/ea. Call 302-379-3423
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2012 Hot Tub/Spa. Brand New! 6 person w/lounger, color lights, 30 jets, stone cabinet. Cover. Never installed. Cost $6K. Ask $2,750. Will deliver. 610-952-0033.
Maine Coon CFA Kittens and young adults. Health Guar. $450 484-631-5129
GREAT DANE PUPS AKC, shots / wormed, vet checked. $600. Call 609-364-1903
Ragdoll Kittens: Beautiful, guaranteed, home raised. Call 610-731-0907
Havanese Pups AKC, home raised. 262-993-0460, www.noahslittleark.com
(2) Eagles Season Tickets: 8 games, Sec 132. Row 24. $2,400. 609-685-2100 Eagles Seas Tix (3): Sect. 243, 30 yard. Best Offer. Pos. avail. 215-990-0486
Siamese Kittens m/f applehead, purebred, Health Guar. $300+ 610-692-6408
Jack Russel Pups, born 6/27, 2 females, 4 males, vet checked, shots, wormed, $200/ea. 717-598-3261 or 610-857-5049
33&45 RECORDS HIGHER $ REALLY PAID
Bandog Pit/Cane Corsa mix. F & M, 12 wks, small fee. 215-254-0562
Lab Pups 100% GUAR. READY NOW, MUST COME SEE!!! 215-768-4344
BOXER, ACA, female, spayed, 20 month old brindle, $500 obo, 717-875-0283
Labradoodle puppies, Apricot, reds and black, Shots, Health Guaranteed. $600 484-678-5129
BOXER, ACA, female, spayed, 20 month old brindle, $500 obo, 717-875-0283
Old English Bulldog Pup - 1 female, 16 weeks, CKC, $700. Call 484-266-8488
Cane Corso Pups, black and blue, cropped & docked, $650. Call 267-339-9265 Cavalier Puppies - (215) 538-2179 www.willowspringcavaliers.com CHIHUAHUA Puppy, male, 6 weeks old, brown and white, $250. 215-425-1897 D oberman Pinscher Pups! ACA Tails docked. Shots &amp; wormed. Ready 9/1. Asking $700. 717-407-5177. ENGLISH BULLDOGS AKC, champ blood lines, wrinkles+, health guar, vet check, shots/worm. $1,800. (484)319-0571
E nglish Bulldogs Pups - AKC reg., 8 weeks old. Call 609-440-5153
German Shepherd pups, AKC, blk & tan, vet chkd, all shots, $595. (717)768-8185
PITBULL PUPPIES, Blue, $650-$800, 267-688-6450
Golden Ret. Pups - AKC, champ lines, 1st shots, adorable. $625 for females, $550 for males. Call 610-286-5373
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Walnut St 2br $700 + utilities renov, 215-471-1365; 215-663-0128
Physician Asst. / Nurse Practitioner
Montgomery County
PrimeCare Medical is seeking a FT or PT Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner to work in the medical department at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility. Excellent salary and benefits. 1 year experience required. Contact Human Resources at 1-800-245-7277 or Fax resumes: 717-651-1865. EOE. Ref #678.
Pit Bull Pups - Blue, UKC regis., with cut ears, S/W. $500/obo. 302-275-8792 Shih Tzu, ACA, M $350, No Sunday calls. 717-368-7760 SHIH TZU PUPS - M/F, gold/white, ready for loving home. Call 267-797-0579 SHNORKIE PUPPIES 215-946-3166
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Parkville, Maryland
Klein’s ShopRite, a major supermar ket retailer in the Baltimore, Maryland area, is currently seeking candi dates for the position of Store Direc tor. Candidates must have previous store management experience with a major supermarket corporation. We offer a highly competitive benefit package and salary is commensurate with experience. If you are a proven leader in the supermarket industry and would like to be considered for this opportunity: Please email your resume to : colleen.kelly@wakefern.com
Accounting, full charge, exp’d, desires P/T permanent. ref’s. 610-494-5778 HOME HEALTH AIDE des. pos. Exp’d & reliable. Live in/live out for elderly care & companionship. Great comm. skills, exc prof’l. & personal refs, valid drivers lic., own car. (267)918-0760
20xx N. 62nd 1BR $700 2BR $850 nice block, 1st, last & sec. (215) 878-5056 65xx W. Girard 2BR $775+ sec dep, w/w crpt, W/D 856-906-5216 Studio 1, 2 & 3br Apts $650-$895 www.perutoproperties.com 215.740.4900
Balwynne Park 2br $810+ 1st flr, w/d, garage, C/A. 610-649-3836 Balwynne Park 2BR $850+utils W/D, C/A, W/W. Call 484-351-8633
70xx Greenway Ave. 2BR $825 incls. heat & water, fridge. 267-600-9569
51XX Parkside Ave. 1BR $635 Bkyd, across from park. 215-879-0248
1428 N. 53rd St. Effic. $450 Lg. bedroom and kitch. 267-978-1519 38xx Poplar St. 2BR/1BA $550-$575 Newly renovated. Call 267-235-2879
26xx Lehigh Ave 4br/1ba $650 2nd and 3rd floor combo, $1300 move-in. Call 215-225-5900 31st & Lehigh 1 BR $550+util 1st floor, $1650 move in .215-424-3419
49th & Market 1br $575 nwly renov., lrg apt, yard, 215-559-9289
60th & Market 2BR Apt Must see, 215-885-1700
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33rd & Baring St. 1Br $725+utils furnished, updated, 2nd flr, old home, near Drexel Univ., quiet area, (215) 386-4138 49th & Florence 2BR $675 open porch,1st flr, new renov215.472.3514
65xx Grays Ave 1BR $550 Very nice area. For appointment to view please call 610-322-3416
53xx Walnut St. 2br $650+utils 1st mo & 2mo sec, w/w cpt 215.668.3591
Full Time, must be experienced, Carl’s Shoes. 856-235-6223
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1100 S 58th St. Studio, 1BR & 2BR Apts heat/hw incl., lic #362013 215-744-9077
53xx Haverford Ave 4br $900 New reno, spacious BR, hrdw flrs. (215)820-9249
Dr. Sonnheim, 856-981-3397
YORKIE PUPPIES - Shots, wormed, papers. Call 215-966-9311
GENEROUS REWARD!
Broad & Ritner 1br/1ba $800+ 1st floor, yard, hardwood floors, washer/ dryer on premesis, Call (215)913-9866
52xx Penns Grove 2BR $650/mo. Tenant pays utils. 2 month sec. dep. Available now. Call 267-972-8618
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LOST DOG , Small black & white Male SHIH-TZU near 71st & City Line. Owner grieving. 215-477-7813
912 Snyder Ave 2BR/1BA $1,150, 1st Fl Apt, Patio, Basement, W/D, C/A, Heat, Hardwood Floors, Call: 1(877)-848-8874
512 N. 54th St. 1br $600/mo + elec. New carpet., all electric. 267-709-2704
Coins, Currency, Gold, Toys,
Welsh Corgi Pups: ACA, vet checked, family raised, $500. 610-273-3275
22nd & Reed 2BR $625 + utils newly renov, 1st/last/sec, 267-588-5403
1900 S. 65th St. 2BR Apt Newly renov, Lic #400451, 215.744.9077
Books -Trains -Magazines -Toys Dolls - Model Kits 610-689-8476
I Buy Anything Old...Except People! antiques-collectables, Al 215-698-0787 JUNK CARS WANTED We buy Junk Cars. Up to $300 215-888-8662 Lionel/Am Flyer/Trains/Hot Whls $$$$ Aurora TJet/AFX Toy Cars 215-396-1903
18th & Snyder 1br $700 incl ht, hot wtr 2nd flr, all new, very clean (215)206-0046
12xx Wilton 2BR $660+utils 1st floor, $1,980 move in, 215-365-4567
Trains, Hummels, Sports Cards. Call the Local Higher Buyer, 7 Dys/Wk
German Shepherd, pups AKC, ready 9/8, s/w, vet chkd, $600, 717-687-7218 German Shepperd pups, ACA reg., health gaur. $475, 610-913-0393
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Washer and Dryer delivered for only $179 while supplies last
Philadelphia’s Largest Appliance Outlets
USED HP LaserJet 2100 printers, B & W, great cond. $80 + ship. 609-602-3790
Please be aware Possession of exotic/wild animals may be restricted in some areas.
WASHERS • DRYERS REFRIGERATORS STOVES (Gas or Elect)
63rd St 1br/1ba $500-$550 2 available, call 267-467-0394 880 N 41st 2BR $750 utils incl 2 month sec + 1 month rent 215-713-7216 882 N 41st small 1BR $575 2 month sec + 1 month rent 215-713-7216
Cobbs Creek Vicinity 1br $625+util quiet, newly renov, large rooms, EIK, conv. to public trans, all Univs & CC, 1 mo. rent & sec, Call 215-880-0612
N. Paxon 2BR & 3BR $650-$800 newly renov., hdwd flrs, 215-748-0850 Parkside/N. Phila Area 2br & 3br $900$1100. Newly renov, new kitch. & bath, hdwd flrs, Section 8 OK. 267-324-3197
1,2, 3, 4 Bedroom FURNISHED APTS LAUNDRY-PARKING 215-223-7000 12xx W Allegheny 2-3br Apts large, new renov, c/a, hdwd 267.784.7038 1515 W Lehigh Ave 1Br $550+elec $1650 move-in. Call 267-596-2270
Brewerytown 2Br $750 bi-level. Also Studio $550. 267.240.2474 BROAD St Efficiencies $575 On campus, furnished/unfurnished, utils incl, newly renov. Call John at 215-236-1612 or 302-345-6334
4th and Tabor 2BR/1BA $715+ 2nd floor, balcony. Call 215-783-4736 5253 West Ford Rd 2BR $700 2nd flr, $2,100 to move in, 215-455-8962 5849 N. Camac 1BR $600+utils renovated, 267.271.6601 or 215.416.2757 5926 N Broad St. 1br $600 heat incl. tenant pays cooking gas & elec., 1st, last & sec. 3rd flr, 215-572-6648, 9am-5pm. 8th & Rockland 1Br $700 1st floor, enclosed porch, bsmt, 1 month sec., 1 month rent, Call 215-219-9191 Upper Olney 5729-31 N. 3rd St 1BR/1BA Newly remodeled; 24hr. security $585 incl gas & water 215-914-0859
42xx Germantown 1br 15xx W. Erie 1br Please call 267.230.2600
$550. $600
1 BR & 2 BR Apts $725-$835 spacious, great loc., upgraded, heat incl, PHA vouchers accepted 215-966-9371
5220 Wayne Ave. Studio on site lndry, 215-744-9077, Lic# 507568 5321 Wayne Ave. Efficiency $550 1br $625. 2br $725. 215-776-6277 602 E. Price St. 1BR/1BA $600 Spac 2nd flr, no pets. Easy access to public transp. 215-784-0123 Germantown 1Br & 2Br $700-$750 modern, quiet neighborhood, close to transporation. Call (215)740-0309
Wayne & Manheim St. Effic. $420+ 1st flr., rear apt., elec. only. 267.262.7469
63xx Gardenia St 1br $650/mo newly renov, 1 car gar, EIK 267.335.4080 7500Germant’wn Av 1&2 BR Gardentype! FALL 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 Cedarbrook & Vernon Rd 2br $775+utils new wall/wall carpet, ceiling fans, garage, laundry facilities, Call (215)836-7471
Broad & Cheltenham vic 2br $740+util 2nd flr, Lg kit, LR, Must see! 215.850.1649 E. Oaklane: 66th Ave cozy 1BR ground floor apt. Call 215-651-3333
$575
1x K & A 1BR newly renov., Must See 215-885-1700
4670 Griscom 1BR & 2BR Newly renov, Lic #397063, 215.744.9077
58xx Reach St. 1BR/1BA $650 Sec. 8 not accepted. Call 267-439-8425 5xx Gilham 1Br $575+ utils Lawndale,2nd fl,credit chk 267-977-5639 6812 Ditman St. 1 BR prkg,lndry fac.Lic# 212751. 215-744-9077 ACADEMY/KNIGHTS 2br $825+utils 2nd flr, garage, bsmt, air. 267-342-1993 Adams and Frankford 1br $525 + elec. Large, newly renovated, must see. Call 215-570-0301
Bustleton & Haldeman 2br Condo $895 prvt balcony w/garden view 215.943.0370 MAYFAIR 2br $625 pay gas & electric. 267-456-8383 MAYFAIR - 64XX MARSDEN 2BR $695+utls, credit check 215-869-2402
Morrell & Frankford 1BR $650+utils 1st flr duplex, yard, private parking, special discount w/good credit. 215.493.2227
Oxford Circle clean 2BR newly renov., must see! 267-254-8446
BreweryTown/Temple U: Luxury furn. rms, priv ent., no smoking 267-240-2474 Broad & Erie, share kit & bath $105 & up NO DRUGS 215.228.6078 or 215.229.0556 Broad & Olney lg deluxe furn room priv ent $145 wk. Sec $200. 215-572-8833 BROAD St: Move in Special $190, Large cln furnished rms,w/w crpt,215-681-3896 C & Roosevelt Blvd. rm priv house, conv to shops, trans. & Temple Univ. $100/wk, $400 move-in. 856-217-2477 after 10am Darby area. N/S, $500/mo, furn., cable & utils incl, use of house 484-469-0753 Frankford, nice rm in apt, near bus & El, $300 sec, $90/wk & up. 215-526-1455 Frankford rms $95/wk; effic. $585/mo. conv to trans. sec dep req. 215-432-5637 Germantown $85-$100/wk Newly renov. Available. Call 215-205-2452 Germantown Area: NICE, Cozy Rooms Private entry, no drugs (267)988-5890 Hunting Park: Furn. Luxury Rooms. Free utils, cable, A/C. Call 267-331-5382 Mt Airy, 61xx Chew Ave, Univ City, 41xx Popular $85-$125/wk, 215-242-9124 Nicetown - Erie & 6th, furn., utils. incl., kitch. use, $550/mo +dep. 215-225-1077 North Broad st., $450/mon lrg rm, 3 windows, carpet, 215-600-5654 North Philly NEWLY RENOV ROOMS New kitchen, bath, & rooms. Very nice, clean hse. $85/wk & up. 267-973-2284 N. Philadelphia, $85-$100/ week, 1 plus 1 Needed, 215-669-0912 N Phila Furn, Priv Ent $75 & up : No drugs, SSI ok. available now 215.763.5565 Nr. Broad & Roosevelt Blvd. FREE RENT Sept. & Oct. FURN ROOMS $530 FOR 1 PERSON ONLY! AL: 267-235-6555 South Phila., 1200 S. 26th: newly renov, spacious, prvt. kitchen. 215-467-5687 South West Phila Newly remodeled rooms, $325/mo. Call 267-591-6058 SW Phila - Newly renov, close to trans. $100/wk 1st wk FREE, 267-628-7454 W. Phila. - Rooms & efficincies. Near trans. $90/week. Call 215-317-5872
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Buick Lesabre 1997 $2,950 Inspec., new radials, clean. 610-667-4829 17xx 65th Ave. 3br row $950+utils Renov., ajpropertymgt.com. 215.205.4620 57xx N. 20th St 3BR/1BA $1,051 Plus Sec. 8 ok Ready Now!!! 215-275-2912. 6700 block of Ogontz Ave. 3br/1ba LR and DR. Please call (267)257-8771
BUICK LeSABRE 2001 $2,650 Insp., good. cond. 1 owner. 215-687-8130 CADILLAC SEVILLE STS 1999 $4400 Exc cond silver ext, loaded 215-357-9507 Chevy Traile Blazer LTZ 2004 $4250 Silver. black leather, CD, 267-592-0448 CHRYSLER LHS 1994 $1350 all pwr, 96K. new inspctn 215-620-9383
1306 S. 48th 3BR $800 enlosed porch, bkyd, appls, renovated, tenant pays utils, sec 8 ok 267-228-4538 20xx Emily St. 3br/1ba $775+util $2,325 move in. Call 215-365-4567 54xx Pine St. 2br $750 renov, Section 8 ok 267-230-2600 58xx Fernwood St. 3br/1ba $950/mo + utilities, inc garage, 215-740-3820
60xx Buist Ave. 3br/1ba $800 1 & 1/2 mo. sec. dep., renovated, LR, DR, kitchen, 1 car garage, 215-828-6651 65th & Chester 3BR Must see, sec 8 ok! 215-885-1700 65xx Allman St. 3br $800/mo. New remod, come see! 215-463-2403 66xx Elmwood Ave. 3BR/1BA $875+U New 1st/lst + dep. 267-909-0116 Sec 8
8xx S. 56th St. 4br $850+utils $2000 to move in. Call 484-433-5764 Elmwood / Woodland Ave 3br $800 + gas /electric, $2400 move-in, clean, spacious, porch front, hardwood floors, modern, kitchen + bath, we love Section 8 vouchers, no security required. More homes available citywide. 215-659-5348
15xx N. 55th St. 4br/1.5ba $1400 section 8 ok, hardwood floors, large kitch, newly remodeled, 215-828-4804 49xx Westminster Ave 3BR/1BA new renov, carpet, Sec 8 ok 215.356.2434 59xx Locust St. 3BR/1.5BA beautiful, renov., Sec 8 OK 215-609-5207 Cedar Ave vicinity 3br/1ba $850+utils nice home, w/d, fenced yd 215.620.7433 W. & SW Phila 1br-3br Apts & Houses, $600-$800. 1st/last/sec. 215-878-2857
206 N. Simpson Street 3br/1ba $850 www.perutoproperties.com 215.740.4900
16xx N 26th St. 3BR 1.5BA newly renov.$675+utils. 215-236-2456 16xx W. Lehigh Ave. 1 BR $600 Like new, Call 267-979-4577 22xx CLEVELAND 2br $650 16XX French. 3br. $750. 15XX York. 4br, 2ba. Sec 8 OK. 267-230-2600 2600 Block of N Bouvier 3br home front patio, living room, dining room, kitchen, backyard, wall to wall carpet, ceiling fans, fridge, move-in ready, Section 8 ok, 267-600-7826 28xx N Taney Phila. 3BR $800 plus util Newly renovated row home. You have to look at this! Contact Raz 267-977-1221. 31xx N. Percy St 3BR new renov, rear yd, Sec 8 ok215.356.2434
Lawncrest: 5xx Anchor St. 3Br/1Ba Section 8 ok. Call 215-407-2559
29XX WEIKEL ST. 3BR refrig, yard, bsmt, $775+ 267-645-9421 Port Richmond 2BR/1BA $750 Freshly renov., Section 8 ok, rear yard. Call Tony (215) 681-8018 leave message.
20xx Orthodox spacious 3BR/1.5BA renovated, Section 8 OK. 267-230-2600 34xx G St. 4Br/1ba $995 huge, newly renovated, new carpets throughout, newer kitch, 215-651-2027 39xx Carol St. 2br renov, hrdwflr, Sec 8 OK. 267-230-2600 46XX WORTH 4BR Refrig, Yard, New paint/carpet $850+. 267-645-9421. 48xx MULBERRY, 3BR, refrig, bsmt, yard $800+. 267-645-9421
Cowden St. twin TH 3br/2.5ba $1025+ all appl’s, cent./air, gas heat, w/w, fenced yard, no pets, near trans (215)638-3677 E. Cheltenham 2BR/1BA $700 Ranch house, newly renov. 917-379-7302 MAYFAIR 3br/1ba $875+utils washer/dryer hookups. Call 215-300-9313 ROCKLAND & B ST row hse, 3BR, 2 full ba, no sect 8 $850+all utils 267-312-7100
Sicklerville- Camden 856- 979-4098
4BR 2BA $550
Pedricktown 3BR/1.5BA $1300+. Basement Laundry 856-466-4002.
automotive FORD F-150 ’01 XLT Crew Cab, 4 WD, auto, loaded. $6,500. 609-364-4360
Lexus RX 330, 2004, asking $13,500 Dark gray, light gray interior, excellent condition, garage kept, (610)291-1657
Corolla 2005 $5500 178k miles, 215-971-5489, 267-241-5268
Cash paid on the spot for unwanted vehicles, 24/7 pick up, 215-288-9500
Junk Cars & Trucks Wanted,
off Aramingo 1br/1ba TH $900 w/d, d/w, yard, near 95. (856)266-0111
Cherry Hill Studio $985 utils incl great location, private deck 856.397.0674
908 N. 29th St lrg 4BR close to Girard College 215-744-9077
56xx Chew Ave. 3br /1ba $900 nwly ren, porch, sec 8 ok 215.410.8753
JUNK CARS WANTED 24/7 REMOVAL. Call 267-377-3088
A1 PRICES FOR JUNK CARS FREE TOW ING , Call (215) 726-9053
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Sharon Hill 1 BR $625 heat incl newly renovated, off st, parking, credit application req. Avail. now. 484-716-0232
FORD ESCORT ZX2 1998 $1,250 2 DR, Auto, Loaded, Clean, 215-280-4825
6045 Hegerman St. 3BR/1.5BA $925 Modern kitchen, garbage disposal, dishwasher, laundry, gar. Greg 215-327-0303
$400, Call 856-365-2021
19xx W. Airdrie 3BR / 1 Full BA $850 cpt, nr schl/trans, Sec 8 ok 215-278-0988 35xx N. 21st St. 6 br/2.5 ba $1400 Spac. w/d, g/d, near trans, 267.239.7087 44xx N 7th St. 3br/1.5ba $750 newly renovated, work history required, $2250 move in required, 570-234-6728
DODGE CHARGER 2007 NISSAN ALTIMA 2006 take over pyments, $349mo 215.516.9998
Ford Explorer XLT 1996 $950 All pwr., cold a/c, 4wd. (215) 620-9383 FORD WINDSTAR 2002 $3,995 Gar. kept, like new. Call 610-420-9406 HONDA ACCORD EX 1999 $4,300/OBO Auto., 125+K, excel. cond. 610-585-0510 Mitsubishi Galant ES 2001 $1,650 4DR, Auto, Loaded, Clean, 215-280-4825 Toyota Corolla DX 1992 $950. Auto, A/C, 4 cylind, insp. (215)620-9383 Volvo 850 1994 $950 auto, a/c, 4 door, insp. (215)620-9383 VOLVO STATION WAGON 2001 $4,995 Gar. kept, like new. Call 610-420-3388 VOLVO V70 R AWD TURBO 1999 $2575 Wagon, 1 ownr, lthr, 3 CD. 267-592-0448
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4645 Penn St. 1BR $650. newly renov gas/wtr inc 215-781-8072
A1 Nice, well maintained rms, N. & W. Phila. Starting @ $125/wk 610.667.9675 ALLEGHENY $90/wk. $270 sec dep Nr EL train, furn, quiet. 609-703-4266
Spencer St. 3br/1ba $850 nice location, Sec 8 ok, 215.779.0352
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239 Seymour Efficiency $500 1br $560 includes heat & water. Call 610-287-9857
11xx N. 55TH ST. BRAND NEW BUILDING Single rms $400. Rms w/ bath $500. Rms come fully furnished w/ full size beds, fridge, & dresser. SSI/SSD/VA, Payee services, Public assistance ok. Also SW, S., W., N., & Frankford. 267-707-6129 1xx N Millick pvt home,use of Kit & ba No sec/last mo. $350/mo. 215-834-6473 22nd & Hunting Park lrg rm, new renov., wall/wall, furn. $100/wk. 215-570-0301 24xx N 10th rooms $300 to move in $100/wk Call Greg 215-668-3990 3130 N. 22ND ST $100/wk newly renovated room, 267-235-1166 33rd St. & Ridge Ave. $100-125/week. Lge renov. furn. rooms near Fairmount Park & bus depot. 215-317-2708. 53xx N. Broad St. Room & Effic. Full size fridge, 27" TV, A/C.267.496.6448 55/Thompson lg deluxe quiet furn $110$130wk priv ent $200 sec 215-572- 8833 5743 Cedar: LOOK nice rooms for rent, w/access to entire house 215-863-1235 880 N. 41st, room @ $425/month shared kitchen & bath, 215-713-7216
13xx Stanley St. 2br/1ba yard, porch, conv. location., avail. now 267-574-4163 14xx S. Marston St. 3br/1ba $750 sec 8 ok, nw carpets, bsmt 267-970-8632 15xx Napa 3br $775 Section 8 OK. 267-230-2600 15xx S Stanley 3br $675 1 car garage, Call 215-833-6673 31xx Dickinson 3BR $700+utils $2,100 move-in fee. Call 267-249-6645 South Philly 2BR & 3BR Also rooms avail. Call 215-863-7360
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JUST WHAT YOU’RE LOOKING FOR!!! WITH OVER 50 YEARS IN THE REAL ESTATE BUSINESS, NO ONE KNOWS CENTER CITY BETTER THAN THE TEAM AT MICHAEL SINGER REAL ESTATE.
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If you are looking for a Philadelphia apartment in a GREAT LOCATION, call Michael Singer Real Estate, the company that offers you an unparalleled combination of knowledge, selection and service.
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RESERVE COMING SPRING 2013 NOW BE AMONG THE FIRST TO RESERVE AN APARTMENT IN THE RITTENHOUSE NEIGHBORHOOD’S NEWEST ADDRESS – 1605 SANSOM The Sansom, opening in Spring 2013, offers a unique combination of value, amenities and access. Located just 3 blocks from Rittenhouse Square, The Sansom will offer: BUILDING FEATURES Private Lobby 24/7 Doorman Large Residents’ Lounge State-of-the-Art Fitness Center Rooftop Terrace with City Views
UNIT FEATURES Studio, 1 and 2 Bedrooms Available Granite Countertops w/Stainless Steel Appliances Central Heating and Air Large Closets Hardwood Floors
1605 Sansom Street Philadelphia PA 19103
THE-SANSOM.COM 610 529 4444
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COMING SPRING 2013
CITY LIVING... NEIGHBORHOOD FEEL. The Granary features 227 luxury apartments in one of the city’s most desirable neighborhoods. Just off the Ben Franklin Parkway, The Granary will offer: BUILDING FEATURES On-Site Underground Parking Luxury Lobby with Two Story Green Wall and Lounge 5,000 sq. ft. Club Room w/ Pool Table, Kitchen and Terrace 24/7 Doorman/Concierge WiFi Throughout Large Residents’ Lounge State-of-the-Art Fitness Center Pet Friendly Business Center with Conference Room
UNIT FEATURES 1 and 2 Bedrooms Available Granite Countertops w/Stainless Steel Appliances Central Heating and Air Hardwood Floors Walk-in Closets In-unit Washers and Dryers Balconies City Views
610 529 4444 20th and Callowhill Philadelphia PA 19130
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With parking and retail located right in the building, it might be tempting to never leave your new home at The Granary. But, considering that some of your neighbors include Whole Foods, the Philadelphia Sports Club and The Barnes Museum, we suspect you’ll overcome that temptation.
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Sales Event Sept. 14, 15, & 16
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Call 215.844.8888 Or Email tchristian@westrum.com
Located at Schoolhouse Ln. & Ridge Ave. Mon, Thurs - Sat: 11 AM - 5 PM Tues, Wed: 2-7 Sun: 12 PM – 5 PM
Townhomes starting at $269,990 10-year real estate tax abatement – You pay approx. $375 per year** FHA-Approved Community!
WESTRUM.COM *See Sales Manager for Details.Valued from to $2,500 to $12,500. Varies on Select Homes. **City of Philadelphia 10-Year Real Estate Tax Abatement.
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Cozy, light-filled Center City home located just blocks from Fitler Square, Graduate Hospital and beautiful Rittenhouse Square, arguably one of Philadelphia's most prestigious urban areas. Walk to delightful bistros, gourmet food shops, friendly cafes, fine restaurants, and local pubs. This trinity is set back off the street in a sunny courtyard, perfect for the individual seeking the excitement of an urban lifestyle while offering the respite of secure, private living. The small but well-organized floor plan includes beautiful hardwood floors and a brick fireplace. No condo fees!
133 N. Bread St., 1H, The National, Old City- $420,000 This one-of-a-kind, bi-level,condo with its own private entrance, feels like a townhouse but benefits from secure condo living. It features zero maintenance, a tax abatement, private courtyard, play area, beautiful landscaping, and underground garage parking. The National is located in Old City, a popular, established neighborhood known for the finest boutique shopping, sought after art galleries, night life, and superb dining options. Quiet Bread St is tucked away from the buzz, surrounded by beautiful historical & architectural gems.
This 3-year old, 18' wide property was designed by an architect for modern and convenient living. Find 10' ceilings, a 12 foot kitchen island that seats 6 and 2 car parking. Features a trex roof deck, a garden in front, & patio out back w/planters. Quick walk to all the bars, shops and nightlife Fishtown has to offer. 7 yrs left on the tax abatement.
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2314 E. Sergeant St., Fishtown- $375,000
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FREE DRINKING SMARTPHONE APP!!!
City Paper is very pleased to bring you our very first smartphone app! Just go to www.citypaper.net and click our martini glass icon to find out more, or type in ‘Happy Hours in the app store, android marketplace, or blackberry app world. Click the orange martini icon and get drinking. No matter where you go or when you go, you can find the nearest happy hours to you with a single click! You can even sort through bars by preference or neighborhood.
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200+ steel boned corsets in stock size S-8XL Rubber-Leather-KiltsMore by 26 designers. PASSIONAL Boutique 704 S. 5th St. Noon-10PM, 7 days a week www.passionalboutique.com
HAPPY HOUR AT THE ABBAYE $2 OFF ALL DRAFTS $3 WELL DRINKS $5 HAPPY HOUR MENU Only at the Abbaye 637 N. 3rd Street (215) 627-6711 www.THEABBAYE.net
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DAYDREAMS IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THE SEXIEST BEER PONG LEAGUE IN PHILLY! STARTING IN OCTOBER TEAMS OF TWO GET FREE BEER, FREE ADMISSION, NIGHTLY PRIZES, AND THE CHANCE TO WIN THE GRAND PRIZE OF $1000, ALL WHILST SURROUNDED BY PHILLY’S HOTTEST ALL NUDE GIRLS! Go to www.daydreams.us or to facebook.com/daydreamsphilly to find out more!
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