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Protesters interrupt a town-hall-style meeting with Gov. Corbett at the Art Museum. That’s when the governor turns on his water jets and fracks his way out of there.

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A flight attendant says she forgot a loaded gun was in her handbag when she attempted to go through security at Philly International Airport. Intercepted al-Qaeda memo: “OK. Just walking right in with a gun doesn’t work. Good to know.”

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A police officer accidentally fires the gun while examining it. Intercepted al-Qaeda memo: “If we wait long enough, maybe they will wipe themselves out.”

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Germany accuses an 87-year-old Northeast Philly man of committing war crimes while serving as an SS guard at Auschwitz.The whole neighborhood agrees: Oktoberfest is going to suck this year.

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The city tells Point Breeze business owner Ori Feibush his cleaned-up lot can remain as it is until it’s sold. Anonymous declares victory, goes downstairs for grilled cheese with the crusts cut off.

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Forty-five cops, firefighters and corrections officers receive Awards of Valor at the National Liberty Museum. Which is nice, because usually you have to be a museum member to get one.

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A beagle named Brandi survives a 70-foot drop off the Burlington Bristol Bridge. But the second drop does the trick.

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Amtrak begins testing its trains at speeds of 165 mph. This kills many beagles.

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Fugitive blogger Joshua Scott Albert turns himself in. And is treated with the respect and care afforded to all citizens not yet convicted of a crime.

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Artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s “Open Air” light installation over the Parkway debuts despite protests from activists about light pollution and birds getting disoriented. PennDOT crews begin plowing blind bird carcasses off the Parkway. Couple dozen dead beagles in there, too.

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NOT COO Environmentalists win a round in the fight over pigeon-shooting — or do they? By Samantha Melamed

n crisp fall weekends on the banks of the Delaware River in Bensalem, sportsmen gather at the Philadelphia Gun Club and enjoy an activity their forebears have shared for 135 years: Releasing pigeons into the air, and then shooting them dead. For at least two dozen of those years, animal-rights activists have been trying — and, generally, failing — to stop them. Now, a settlement with an environmental group could put a wrinkle in a practice so far untouched by lawsuits, animal-cruelty citations, public-shaming campaigns and legislative efforts. Or, then again, it might not. In March, the Delaware Riverkeeper Network sued the gun club in federal court, demanding it get a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit from the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) for the privilege of dumping shot, casings and carcasses into the water. Last week, the club agreed to a settlement: apply for the permit and pay the Riverkeeper’s $15,000 in legal costs. “Today is a good day — the River’s voice has been heard!” Riverkeeper Maya Van Rossum said in a statement. John Judge, a lawyer for the club, saw it differently: “This was a nuisance settlement … a cost-effective resolution.” After all, in the scope of the “nuisances” the club has faced over the years, $15,000 was a small price. Chief among those nuisances is Showing Animals

Respect and Kindness (SHARK), a national group with a penchant for taking boats out on the river to film pigeon shoots and recover wounded birds. Steve Hindi, who heads SHARK, says he’s also begun sending video cameras on remote-controlled aircraft above the clubs, though sportsmen have, at times, taken aim at the drones. Not all confrontations are by proxy. Hindi says sportsmen have responded less than genteelly, “pulling guns on us, hitting us with their vehicles.” (Hindi has, in turn, has been accused of hitting a gun club member with binoculars.) But what happens behind closed doors infuriates him most: “Those Philadelphia Gun Club folks have got a lot of money and a lot of political pull, and they’ve used it.” That’s the only way he can explain the fact that, despite numerous citations against the Bucks County club and another in Berks County by court-appointed Humane Society police officer Johnna Seeton for failing to euthanize wounded birds, district attorneys in both counties haven’t prosecuted. Seeton sued the Berks County DA to force him to act, but recently lost in a 4-3 vote in Commonwealth Court; she’s appealed to the state Supreme Court. Until then, Seeton is trying to get a bill passed to ban the shoots. So far she has been outgunned. “Legislators … have said to me, ‘The time will come,’” she says. “I thought, ‘Why can’t it be now?’” For her part, Van Rossum tells CP, if the DEP doesn’t act, she will. “[Shooting over the river is] totally inappropriate. If the DEP makes a decision … we don’t think fully complies with the law, then we are fully prepared to challenge the DEP’s decision.” (samantha@citypaper.net)

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✚ STRIKE FORCE With about as little fanfare as when it began, the Great Philadelphia Public Defender Boycott of 2012 is about to end.The rebellion began in June, when the Defender Association of

Philadelphia, an independent nonprofit that holds a contract with the city to defend indigent clients, declared that as of July it would no longer staff three courtrooms in the city’s Criminal Justice Center. That forced the city to hire (more expensive) court-appointed private attorneys as replacements and threw the court, by various accounts, into a state of disruption: Instead of a single public defender being able to oversee cases in a single courtroom, judges and court staff were forced to keep track of perhaps a dozen attorneys scurrying around the building. Accusations followed: Public defenders who contacted City Paper worried that clients weren’t getting the quality of representation they deserved; court-appointed attorneys shot back that the Defender Association had abandoned its post and that the city’s habit of untimely payment for their services put them in a bind, too. The reason for the boycott was simple. Although you might not have gleaned it from a glowing Daily News article about assistant district attorneys who work night jobs to pad their incomes — which didn’t mention the simultaneous defenders’ boycott over wages, or the fact, as reported by the Inquirer, that public defenders with seven years on the job make around $13,500 less than similarly experienced district attorneys — the Defender Association hasn’t gotten a raise from the city in five years. Its staffing had fallen to unsustainable levels, says First Assistant Defender Charles Cunningham, and its attrition rate

— driven, Cunningham says, in part by the promise of no raises for attorneys who stick around — meant things were only getting worse. But, says Cunningham, the city and the Defender Association have reached an agreement: The city will kick in enough funding to restore eight positions and, by the end of October, the defenders will be back in the courtrooms. It does not appear to be much of a cause for celebration. “The attrition is occurring at a rate that is frankly frightening,” Cunningham says. “There need to be qualified people on both sides of the equation.” —Isaiah Thompson

✚ HELL ON WHEELS Fans of public art in Philadelphia will recall that the Glob — not to be confused with the subject of a horror movie set in the suburb of Phoenixville — is the ambivalent nickname given to the droplet of public sculpture beneath Claes Oldenburg’s “Paint Torch” at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. It also has become the site of showdowns between guards and various skateboarders and bike riders, a PAFA rep said Tuesday — even after PAFA spent $10,000 to re-orient the Glob to a less inviting position:“The riders would get violent and threaten security officers when they were asked not to ride on the Glob.” The occasion for airing such gripes was a City Council committee hearing on a bill that would hike punishments for riding over public art and memorials up to a maximum $2,000 in fines and 90 days in jail. Councilman David Oh introduced the bill after skaters damaged the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. But Josh Nims, an advocate for skateboarders, said $2,000 seemed steep. “Skateboarding in the urban environment isn’t >>> continued on page 8

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PLAIN ENGLISH ³ PHILLY IS IN the midst of a heated conflict over the future of public education, and everyone is watching to see what new Superintendent William Hite will do. After months of misleading language from politicians and shadowy groups that have taken up the city’s schools as their cause, we desperately need an honest broker. The doublespeak began in April, with the release of Boston Consulting Group’s (BCG) “blueprint” for restructuring the school district, closing dozens of schools, potentially privatizing those that remained, breaking unions and decimating district headquarters.The plan projected that charters would teach 40 percent of students by 2017. Chief Recovery Officer Thomas Knudsen presented the plan in corporate speak: “portfolios,” “right-sizing,” “entrepreneurialism” and, of course, “competition.” This summer, the rhetoric continued with a “school choice” fundraising campaign by the Philadelphia School Partnership (PSP), which framed the debate as about more “high-performing seats” and fewer “low-performing seats.” Their program individualizes the solutions to public education’s ills — and sidelines communities that want to turn their schools around. On Monday, PSP finally made a donation to a public school, after months of heavy criticism. Education reformers, flush with corporate and foundation dollars, have changed the terms of the debate, pitting “bad teachers” against “bad parents.” And Mayor Nutter has helped trivialize it, calling questions about the blueprint “esoteric debates that ultimately don’t mean anything.” These are the standard talking points. And they’re misleading. There is a serious difference of opinion, and major political forces are colliding. It does Philadelphians a disservice to pretend otherwise. Last Saturday, 300 teachers, students and community members gathered at a Kensington high school to develop an alternative to the BCG plan. They highlight the flip side of the school district’s message, asserting that charter schools are contributing to the fiscal crisis; that they lack oversight despite rampant corruption; and that they fail to outperform public schools even while erecting illegal barriers to student entry. To swing the pendulum, the movement to save public schools must unite the community to fight for fair funding and real schooling — and against poverty, segregation and the conversion of schools into test-prep boot camps. The striking teachers in Chicago made those demands in clear language, and advocates here need to do the same. ✚ Send feedback to daniel.denvir@citypaper.net.

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✚ a million stories necessarily a malicious act,” he said. “You’re not always conscious of what that piece of granite on the sidewalk means.” Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell took it a step further, calling the $2,000 fine “another tax.” The current maximum penalty is $300, which apparently isn’t a sufficient deterrent — though councilmembers admitted that may be mostly because current laws aren’t enforced. Blackwell was even less pleased with the associated jail time: “To say you’re not going to arrest children does not in any way alleviate any of my concerns. It’s insulting.” The bill passed out of committee over her objections — and in spite of her comments that Council does, after all, have larger matters to attend to. “This is not how we should spend our time.” —Samantha Melamed

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Over the past few years, psychedelics have been making their way onto elite college and medical campuses — and not just in the form of the occasional LSD bust. Psilocybin cancer projects at Johns Hopkins and New York University, based on a psychoactive substance found in some mushrooms, have shown success in improving patients’ moods, while other researchers have found ecstasy may calm anxiety among terminally ill patients. Combined, such efforts have sparked fresh interest in the formerly taboo hallucinogens, which were banned in the U.S. in the 1960s. This weekend, some of the brightest minds in mind-altering substances will meet at Penn for the first-ever Psychedemia conference, an interdisciplinary meeting including psychiatrists, sociologists, biochemists, anthropologists and journalists. A group of students organized the conference, running Sept. 27-30. Student organizer Matt Young figures an Ivy League host will boost credibility. “Academia, university culture, is how things gain legitimacy,” he says. But the study of psychedelics is “a loaded subject. There’s a momentum of history behind just the word ‘psychedelic’ — certain images and

ideas come to mind. Those images don’t necessarily reflect the work that’s being done today.” Not that Young shies away from those images: The conference includes an exhibition of trippy “visionary” art, and some presenters’ bios feature endeavors such as “solo vision fasts.”

Jonathan Moreno, a professor of medical ethics and science history at Penn who’s working on a book about the “human potential movement” of the 1960s, says students don’t see any of that as detracting from the conference’s rigor. “I think it’s a generational change. The stigma of much of this is associated with people like [Harvard psychologist] Timothy Leary, and it became a kind of a front in the ’60s culture war, where people were blaming hallucinogens for lots of suicides,” he says. “I think we’re in a better position now to see what good can come out of [psychedelics] than we were 40 years ago.” —S.M.

✚ SCREEN SAVER “Rittenhouse Philadelphia’s Last Cinema Goes Dark,” the press release screamed: San-Mor, which owns the stale-popcorn-scented shoebox better known as the Roxy, had terminated the lease of longtime operator Bernard Nearey, and the theater could close on Nov. 7. But then again, this is show biz: A little extra drama is to be expected. John Ciccone — who

bought the theater four years ago and also owns the Adrienne Theater (just across from the Roxy on the recently trendy 2000 block of Sansom Street) — amends that news to tell CP that if the theater “goes dark,” it will just be for the time it takes to renovate it. “What I do know is, it will remain a movie house.”

As it stands, the Roxy is the last place in Center City to see

“This is how things gain legitimacy.” first-run mainstream movies, even if audiences do gripe about the broken seats. It’s also a beleaguered emblem of how hard it is to keep a movie theater open in Center City. Ciccone, who just spent $1.15 million on improvements to the Adrienne, admits major upgrades are in order. “Film is on the threshold of a new era. Everything is going digital,” he says. He’s looking for an operator with the capital to purchase digital projectors at $100,000 a pop. But he says, unlike other theaters, he wants to hang on to his film projectors, too. He thinks he’ll be able to show mainstream movies, indie films and the high-profile art films that normally go exclusively to the Ritz. If all that sounds like a tall order, well, Ciccone says he’ll run the place himself if need be. But

he wants to get small producers, directors and distributors involved in creating a true “community theater.” —S.M.

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But the tranquil atmosphere belies more than a decade of turmoil at the temple, where merging Vietnamese Buddhist practices with the very different realities of life in the United States has been a messy process — one mired in disputes and litigation. Over the years, the temple community seems to have discovered that the type of institution they knew back in Vietnam — a topdown temple hierarchy helmed by a head monk, or abbot — might be something that just isn’t possible to replicate in this traffic-clogged corner of South Philadelphia. Things at Bo De Temple came to a head last year. On July 30, 2011, police arrived to evict visiting monks and temple co-founder Thoa Thi Tran from the building. Temple leaders alleged that Tran had conspired with monks affiliated with the Vietnamese American Unified Buddhist Congress (VAUBC), a national organization, to

steal Bo De. Tran had transferred the temple’s deed from Philadelphia’s Asian American Buddhist Association (AABA), which had long controlled the temple, to the VAUBC on April 27, 2011. In court, they claimed the temple had agreed to cede the property in exchange for the VAUBC sending a new abbot to preside over the temple. The aftermath of the dispute, which cut a deep rift into this 700-strong temple community, still weighs heavily. Keeping the faith among Vietnamese immigrants — and it’s a large group: greater Philly is home to around 25,422 Vietnamese-born people, the region’s fifth-largest immigrant population according to 2010 census data — remains the foremost challenge. Tran, for one, has washed her hands of the whole thing. “I do not want to be reminded about the dispute,” she told me. “Our religion teaches us to accept all situations that >>> continued on page 14

ABOVE: A girl hangs out in a downstairs cultural center and classroom at Bo De Temple. LEFT: Men pray in the temple’s main sanctuary.

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oung Vietnamese Americans study Buddhist holy texts and their parents’ native language on a Sunday morning at temple. They kneel, bow their heads and chant. “The first generation is like that,” says Edward Nguyen, a board member at Bo De Temple and owner of Little Saigon restaurant in Upper Darby. “They stick together. Many generations later? We don’t know.” Nguyen leads me on a tour of the temple at the corner of Washington Avenue and 13th Street, voice booming. A 1.4-ton bronze bell stands against the wall, imported from Vietnam. Around the corner, baseball-card-sized photos of the community’s deceased, including the white faces of men who fought for the U.S. Army in Vietnam, line the wall above an offering of sticky rice, tofu, broccoli and tea. Food for the living is served downstairs.

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RIGHT: An ornate bell (top) and a large cylindrical drum (below), both purchased from Vietnam, are used to open ceremonies.

are given to us. ‘Nhuòng nhin’ and ‘nhân’ are the two words Buddhism teaches me. It means to compromise and be patient.” ON JAN. 5, 1995, the AABA bought the building that houses Bo De Temple from the Philadelphia Clef Club of the Performing Arts, which was founded in 1966 by members of the black musicians union Local 274, which included John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie and Nina Simone among its members. The trouble started almost immediately. On March 3, 1995, a mentally ill homeless man named Lan Ngoc Nguyen (no relation to Edward Nguyen) walked into the Philadelphia Police Department’s 3rd District headquarters covered in blood. “I want to report a homicide,” he told police. Nguyen had walked eight blocks from the Bo De Temple, where he had stabbed a monk named Thich Hanh Man 36 times. Man, who had helped found Bo De, allowed Nguyen to live in the temple, where he fed him and provided him with religious instruction. It was a bizarre news story: Lan Ngoc Nguyen told police that members of a Chinese street gang called the Flying Dragons had informed him that Man had raped his sister. (The woman in question turned out not to be his sister and denied having been raped.) Nguyen said he was also inspired by an Inquirer story about a sexual-harassment suit filed by DJ Lady Love against radio legend Jerry Blavat. After the crime-scene tape was cleared away, the temple faced a straightforward

but vexing task: naming a new head monk. So in 1997, the temple joined the VAUBC. But temple president Tam Tran (no relation to Thoa Thi Tran) says the temple’s relationship with the VAUBC began to sour in 2007, when the organization failed to assist them in a legal dispute. And eventually someone — maybe Thoa Thi Tran, maybe VAUBC brass — got the idea to transfer the property ownership. The AABA filed a lawsuit to recover the property last year. But that July, VAUBC monks allegedly locked out temple members and hired guards to block access. The VAUBC, citing the 1995 murder, contended that when the temple was closed at night, “the monks locked the doors from the inside so no one could rob or harm them.” While the two parties wrangled in court, the fight continued inside the temple. The VAUBC alleged that AABA members “interrupted Defendants’ peaceful religious ceremonies, shouted at Defendants’ Monks, called them names, threatened them, and stopped the services.” Police were called to the scene four times. On Aug. 25, 2011, Judge Paul Panepinto set out a schedule, allotting each group specific times at the temple. “It’s not a religious matter,” says Tam Tran. “It’s a matter of ownership.” In the end, the AABA prevailed in court. But to this day, no one can quite explain what started it all. Tam Tran speculates that Thoa Thi Tran may have had reason to be angry. After serving as temple president for 16 years, he says, she was asked to step aside. Tam Tran was elected president in March >>> continued on page 16

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2010. So maybe Thoa Thi Tran simply didn’t want to cede control: “They call her iron lady,” he says. “She likes to be in charge of everything.” VAUBC president Tich Vien Ly says it was all just an internal schism within the Bo De community. Members divided into “two groups, [and] one group want[ed] to donate the temple to Congress. And one group didn’t want to offer that temple to the Congress. We don’t need any temple because we have a lot of temples. We don’t have enough Buddhist monks to help them.” The echoes of this conflict reach far beyond South Philadelphia. Tam Tran sees a pattern in the behavior of the VAUBC, which is still fighting for control of the Pho Quang Temple in Salt Lake City. As with Bo De, the deed was transferred to VAUBC’s name; and, as happened here, some congregants were locked out last October.

“This may be [about] money,” says Hoa Vo, a leader of Pho Quang. But it’s also about “religious abuse. … A lot of Buddhists often look at the monk, and trust.” Tam Tran points out that Thich Chanh Lac, a highly placed monk in the VAUBC who was involved in the Philly legal dispute, has seen his reputation tarnished. In 1999, Lac was charged with sexually assaulting two teenage sisters at his Denver temple, though charges were dropped because of insufficient evidence. His supporters, though, countered the accusations with a smear campaign, accusing the girls of being agents in a communist plot to discredit and kill Lac. The girls’ family later won a $4.8 million defamation settlement against the temple. “He’s a special one,” Tam Tran jokes. But accusations of communist sympathies in the Vietnamese-American

community are no laughing matter. “If someone in our free community becomes labeled a communist, it’s very dangerous,” he says. Such accusations have led to protests and even assassinations. And it’s hard to separate religion and politics: The VAUBC is the U.S. branch of an outspoken religious group that’s been outlawed by the communist government in Vietnam. At Bo De, though, peace seems to have finally arrived. Monks from a nearby temple visit occasionally for ceremonial purposes. But the door is closed to a new abbot. “We’re still scared of the monks that come here,” Tam Tran says. “Now the congregation runs the temple.” VAUBC president Thich Vien Ly agrees: “We learn from experience about the problem. We don’t accept any offer [of] property to the Congress no more.” (daniel.denvir@citypaper.net) ABOVE: An offering of home-cooked Vietnamese food is laid out on an altar. LEFT: The ground floor of the temple serves as a community and cultural center.

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12TH STREET GYM: FITNESS IS ALL WET! As they say, there are many ways to skin a cat — including when it comes to the challenge of getting and staying fit! Effective exercise isn’t about treadmills and weightlifting. People of all ages can benefit from water-based exercise.The popular image may be little old ladies in bathing caps moving slowly, but in reality all populations can find a challenge and get in better health in the pool! It’s true that the older demographic often seeks a “kinder, gentler” style of exercise because, as the body gets older, the types of exercises that we do need sometimes require being easier on the bones, joints and muscles. Swimming laps or taking a cardio-oriented water aerobics class works the cardiovascular system, but by simply adding hand paddles, the workout also becomes an upper-body resistance workout. If you want more resistance, you can use aqua dumbbells, noodles or hand paddles for upper-body training, or water rings for lower-body training. You can get the benefits of both without causing stress on your joints. Studies have shown that working out in the water also helps keep blood pressure down because the body’s cooling system is not being taxed — yet another

benefit to exercising in the water. Water workouts can be ideal for people with any form of orthopedic injury, including back problems, lower torso injuries or people new to fitness or just coming back to a program of conditioning, cardio exercise and toning. There are plenty of enjoyable water sports, as well, that can be used to help build the body. Sports such as water polo, water soccer and water volleyball, while competitive and fun, are very good for building muscle. The great thing about aqua fitness is that it tends to use the whole body as you train and exercise. Bodybuilding in traditional fashion usually requires exercises involving free weights and machines that focus on a primary and secondary muscle structure. For instance, when you do curls with either a dumbbell or a barbell, you are using the resistance of the weight to strengthen the bicep as you curl the weight up, and you are stressing the triceps as you lower the weight back down. Two muscles are exercised, and unhealthy strain is placed on the back muscles that support the exercise, as there is little to no support behind it. The same exact exercise done under water with far less weight is more effective and safer: The back is reinforced by the water itself, and you can use far less weight. Less weight means less pressure on the back, because of the resistance of the water it re-

ally exercises the muscle. In the water, all of the back muscles and abdominal muscles are utilized, as well, so you get a far more effective workout. The deeper you stand in the water during exercise, the more intense your workout. You can elevate the intensity even more by doing the workout in depths above your head with or without a floatation device. For children of all ages, playing in the water and learning how to swim have the same benefits as water exercise does for adults. It helps them build strong bones and muscles and allows the body to be active while protecting the joints and bones, which, for children, have not yet fully developed. Children who participate in water activities gain an appreciation for an active lifestyle, which is so important in this age of computer games. In addition, children who learn to swim gain a sense of accomplishment that helps develop a confidence in themselves that they will carry with them into other learning and playing activities. For the young, old and in between, water is our friend whether for sport, play, fitness or fun. C’mon in — water really is your friend! Judy Hershman is a Registered Personal Trainer and Senior Aqua Instructor at the 12th Street Gym. Judy is also Co-Owner of Kids On 12th, Center City’s

largest and most creative children’s health and fitness center co-located with the 12th Street Gym in a spectacular new state-of-the-art facility. For more info on Judy and more than 30 other top trainers at 12th Street Gym, go to 12streetgym.com.

THE BOUARI CLINIC Looking for a new-fashioned approach to RAPID weight loss? Introducing the Bouari Clinic, the newest weight-loss protocol to hit the Philadelphia region. If you need to shape up fast, there are other ways to reach your goals other than the painfully slow diet and exercise. The Bouari Protocol (physician-supervised) program is unlike other diet programs and weight-loss plans because it provides proprietary products, but the main ingredient is a small dose that will trigger the brain to releasing about 2,000 calories of fat off your body every day. Think about it: 2,000 calories of FAT off your body every day! The brain’s metabolism regulating systems think that reduced calorie intake means famine, so it compensates by storing more food energy as >> CONTINUED ON PAGE 20

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body fat. With most weight-loss methods, your brain fights you every step of the way and unfortunately you lose lean muscle mass and NOT fat. The Bouari Protocol is scientifically designed to combat the physiological causes of hunger and cravings so patients report little to no hunger, hence stabilizing blood sugar levels through a combination of factors. This is primarily through the nutritional content of the program and its proprietary supplements. This Protocol is a RAPID fat-loss diet with patients reportedly losing 1 pound a day of fat! Is this safe? If a patient loses fat and not lean muscle mass, then this is not only very safe but highly beneficial. The slower you lose weight, the more you delay the improvements in your health! Excess weight is simply a health risk. Most people aren’t successful on their own because of vast misinformation about dieting, and the generations of incorrect education among healthcare professionals. They simply do NOT address the metabolic factors that prevent weight loss. The Bouari Protocol has done the research and created a proven and reliable system for success. What do Bouari patients eat? Hundreds of different foods are allowed on the diet: protein, fruits and vegetables (natural and organic are highly recommended); and foods you can prepare yourself so that you keep the weight off forever. In regard to other weight-loss programs, the Bouari Protocol is an affordable and highly recommended program among health-care professionals. For more information on the Bouari Clinic’s program and services, visit philaslim.com.

PERSONAL GROWTH GROUPS: LEARN HOW TO BRING MORE A.I.R. INTO YOUR LIFE A: Awareness of your whole being. This includes awareness of body, mind and spirit.

Mindfulness Meditation can assist you to be more mindful to improve your self-awareness to know yourself, live better, be authentic and have greater well-being. I: Interaction and building support with others. It means reaching out for positive communication, dialogue and mutual support — giving and receiving honest and fair feedback to each other in a Personal Growth Group. R: Responsibility to oneself and others. In order to care for others, you need to love yourself. Having positive self-regard is an important value in human relations. Loving oneself is good, but not being overly self-absorbed. To know oneself fully as a complete human being means to be aware of and in touch with one’s whole organismic being. This involves being aware of your sensations, feelings, thoughts, unique personality style, individuality, behavior and spirit. Call Joe De Paula at 267-761-8762 for details.

PHILADELPHIA INSTITUTE FOR INDIVIDUAL RELATIONAL & SEX THERAPY Philadelphia Institute for Individual Relational & Sex Therapy (PhIIRST) is a counseling, therapy and training center dedicated to helping people work through life’s unique challenges. We are a practice of highly trained and specialized therapists dedicated to helping people gain greater insight and create greater joy in their lives. We provide services for individuals, families and all types of relationships. Psychotherapy can be useful for many interpersonal and intrapersonal problems. We offer services to individuals, people who are married or have partners, those living together, considering future commitments, and those who are currently dating. We also provide couples therapy to people who are no longer together but wish to resolve their issues in order to co-parent or to resume their relationship. We know that life’s challenges can often be >> CONTINUED ON PAGE 22

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Airport isn’t just for waiting, yelling about waiting and accidentally shooting off guns. If city, interstate and civil aeronautics officials have their way, the PIA will get a glittering redesign sooner rather than later, with noteworthy names like Jose Garces acting as consultants. One fun rumor is of a collaboration with Philadelphia Music Alliance to decorate all airport entrances with photos of local music greats. The Alliance’s Broad Street Walk of Fame and its gold stars may also be part of the new design. Sounds swank if it happens, but I’ll miss stepping on Hall & Oates. ³ Philly expatriate Christian Meoli is a one-man film industry. He can act, in upcoming flicks such as Treachery, Dirty People and Should’ve Been Romeo, can screen them at his Hollywood theater Arena Screen, and can represent them, too, as his Voltaire Media company is doing with the shot-throughout-Philly flick Deer Crossing, which came out this week. Look for the upcoming Deer Crossing 2: The Legend of Carvin County to star Meoli as well. He says so. ³Two things you need to know about Philly/Jersey rockabilly garage outfit Low Cut Connie before they play North Star Sept. 27 for the Call Me Sylvia album release party: They’re in Rolling Stone magazine this week (on page 76) and Little Steven’sassistantCraig Snyder is now the band’s manager. ³ Last year I told you how Middle Eastern marvel Bitar’s, (10th and Federal) narrowly avoided relocating due to the shouts of the locals (the neighborhood’s Lebanese community and beyond). All summer, there’s been scuttlebutt that Bitar’s has a slew of plans in the works, including reviving its wholesale grocery business and expanding and sprucing up the dining area with atmospheric touches and indigenous art. Expect extended hours for its growing eat-in and take-home crowd, too. ³ Producer Gary Dann isn’t just the local guy behind Cee Knowledge and Bulletproof Tigers recordings. A year ago, he told me he was opening a studio in Fishtown and that this city needed a comfortable, dynamic recording space. Now, the Boom Room is celebrating its first birthday on Sept. 29. Camp Lo, The W.E. (the latest project of singer Jaguar Wright) and rapper Kuf Knotz lead the charge and blow up the balloons. ³ Look, Bernie Nearey and I have had not-such-pleasant words to say to each other, but I’m disappointed to hear his 15-year run with the Roxy Theatre at 20th and Sansom, Philly’s last independently owned cinema, will end when his lease is up in November. Here’s hoping that property owner John Ciccone will stick to his promise to turn the Roxy into an art-house and repertory screening room after renovations. ³ More falafel at citypaper. net/criticalmass. (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)

BAD-TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL: Maia DeSanti as the somewhat terrifying Angel and Aubrey Deeker as AIDS-stricken prophet Prior in the Wilma’s Angels in America, Part II: Perestroika. ALEXANDER IZILIAEV

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A TOUCH OF THE DIVINE The Great Work ends in a terrific conclusion to Angels in America. By David Fox The Great Question before us is: Are we doomed? The Great Question before us is: Will the Past release us? The Great Question before us is: Can we Change? In Time?

o begins Perestroika, the second part of Tony Kushner’s massive, brilliant Angels in America. By the final curtain, four hours later (yes, four hours), we won’t really have answers — how could we? — but oh my, what we’ve experienced. And about one thing I am absolutely certain: Blanka Zizka’s production of Angels at the Wilma is one of the triumphant events in my 20-plus years of Philadelphia theatergoing. Before moving to the details of Perestroika, a recap of the first half, Millennium Approaches, which closed the Wilma’s last season, is in order. (Note: A few performances of Millennium will be offered this season, along with two marathon performances of both plays. These are likely to sell out — the wise will book early.) Part I of Angels explores the connected lives of two couples living in New York in the mid-1980s. Joe and Harper are recently married Mormons, transplanted from Utah. Joe is a closeted lawyer being groomed by his mentor, Roy Cohen (a conservative power player in the Rosenbergs’ espionage trial and the McCarthy hearings), for a seemingly limitless political future in the Republican Party; Harper is a pill-popping neurotic, with inner voices that regularly tell her

everything is not OK. Louis and Prior are gay partners facing seemingly impossible odds — the AIDS epidemic is now at full throttle. Indeed, early in the play, Prior himself is diagnosed with the disease. In the unforgettable final moments of Millennium, an Angel visits Prior and declares him her new prophet. Perestroika picks up where Millennium left off, with what for many in the audience will be a happy surprise: Despite the appearance of the Angel, Prior is very much alive — not well, but alive and fighting. (In 1986, when the play is set — and even in 1992, when it was written — his diagnosis was very much a death sentence. At the time, Prior’s survival seemed like a flight of fantasy or, perhaps even more, like authorial wish fulfillment.) But Prior has been profoundly changed by the visitation. His anointment by the Angel has given Prior a prophet’s visions and galvanized him as an activist. In shifting the central emphasis in Perestroika to Prior, Kushner moves us into a sprawling, chaotic social and political maelstrom. The personal narratives so central to Millennium now take a backseat to something grander and more spiritual, as the play’s opening questions suggest. We follow two new couples, Joe and Louis (now improbably together) and Harper and Hannah, Joe’s tough-as-leather mother, who reluctantly appoints herself the guardian of her abandoned, off-hermeds daughter-in-law. And we watch, with vengeful glee tempered only slightly by guilt, the final agonizing hours of Roy Cohen — who turns out to be closeted and also to have AIDS. But in Perestroika,

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[ pale, geometric constellations crisscross the sky] ³ rock/world

The great saxophonist Sam Rivers, who passed away last December, would have turned 89 this week. Reunion: Live in New York (Pi) is a resurrection in more ways than one: It not only commemorates Rivers’ birthdate but also marks the 2007 reunion of his trio with bassist Dave Holland and drummer Barry Altschul. Despite not having played together in 25 years, the three picked up exactly where they left off, generating two discs’ worth of compelling, vital improvisation. —Shaun Brady

In the “revolution you can dance to” department, it doesn’t get much livelier than Firewater’s topical, tropical International Orange (Bloodshot). Recorded in Istanbul and Tel Aviv amid the Arab Spring uprisings and pulsing with a boundary-defying mix of ska, maqsoum, mambo, rebetiko and good old punk rock, this album is built to ignite all forms of incendiary social movement. Tod A and his troupe have been infusing their party-hearty indie-punk with worldly cabaret since well before the Balkan-rock boom, but this might just be their finest and —K. Ross Hoffman fieriest manifesto yet.

³ jazz Italian guitarist Marco Cappelli left the classical world years ago to take up with the NYC improvised-music scene. The irreverence of Downtown counterparts like Marc Ribot seems to have rubbed off on Cappelli’s Italian Surf Academy, whose debut, The American Dream (Mode), blends Dick Dale and Ennio Morricone with free-jazz abstraction. The disc features expansively edgy takes on several mondo-Italian soundtrack classics (and one U.S. —Shaun Brady ringer, a cover of “Secret Agent Man”).

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seeing? When we know our perceptions are being messed with — as when we’re confronted with optical illusions. And who’s a master of the visual messaround? Philly’s own Edna Andrade (1917-2008), currently celebrated in “Color Motion,” a dazzling, eyeball-jiggling exhibit at The Print Center. With a background in design as well as fine art, Andrade embraced then-commercial screenprinting’s flat, even application of ink and color as she began exploring print and embracing op art (a cousin of pop art that incorporates optical illusion into the aesthetic, tweaking the connection between the eye and the brain) in the 1960s. Color Motion (1965) and Black Diamond (1967) warp in and out of the paper’s plane, while Gemini’s (1966) pinwheels, shown above, seem to spin on colored axles. The Print Center amps up the visual overload by hanging Andrade’s prints on walls patterned with the artist’s motifs — the work of Philly’s Anona Studio, which specializes in print designs for fashion. It’s a clever nod to Andrade’s background in design, and her prints really pop against the bright graphics. Just as the prints’ precision and manipulation of visual processing grow alienating, relief comes in the form of some small works and printed fabric. One tiny, grid-based drawing stands as an intimate look atAndrade’s process. A few feet away, a fall of blue fabric in a sinuous pattern softens and humanizes, a nice antidote all that ruler-straight geometry. Things get weird again as Andrade explores the aesthetics of psychedelia — 1972’s Hot Clouds layers a circle of magenta and orange-red against a flat cerulean background. A pale, geometric constellation crisscrosses the globe, starbursting over orange, then magenta. The eye traces vertex to vertex, square over square, until — circuits blown — it’s time to go back to the everyday. (alison.dell@citypaper.net) ✚ “Color Motion,” through Nov. 17, free, The Print Center, 1614 Latimer St., 215-735-6090, printcenter.org.

Chbosky’s 1999 pop novel, the one that a dozen years ago seemed like the skeleton key to every hyperbolized shackle adolescence slapped on my wrist. It’s overwrought and pandering. Its privileged players are self-obsessed, unappreciative of everything they have. Armed with all that retrospective salt, I was poised to hate the film adaptation of the pubescent phenomenon, written and directed by Chbosky himself. Then it punched me in the throat. Free from epistolary format, Perks on screen unspools at a lush, unrushed rate. Wounded by the suicide of his only friend, bookish Charlie (Logan Lerman) dreads his ascension into high school. He finds release in literature, fed to him by a prescient teacher (Paul Rudd), eventually latching on to Sam (Emma Watson) and Patrick (Ezra Miller), step-sibling classmates who embrace their off-kilter social standing. Outlandish Patrick, nailed by Miller in the movie’s standout performance, is gay, carrying out a dangerous secret relationship with a star athlete (Johnny Simmons). Sam, meanwhile, is empathetic to everyone but herself, tangling with unhealthy relationships in a manifestation of one of the book’s most loaded lines (“We accept the love we think we deserve”). If all this sounds insufferably sodden, that’s because it is. But Chbosky’s ability to embolden the quiet moments that only sound loud to ears of a certain age has been purified by live action. Charlie’s plummet and tentative redemption run the angst gamut so conspicuously that it’s easy to snicker when he famously declares that he feels “infinite.” But all you’ve got to do is make a conscious effort to remember that you were once 16, emo and awful to feel the same, at least for a mixtape minute. —Drew Lazor

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Jenkins), where he falls for a mature-beyond-her-years sophomore (Elizabeth Olsen), mentors a troubled loner (John Magaro) and collides with an icy, jaded literature teacher (Allison Janney). As a filmmaker, Radnor definitely has a talent for surrounding himself with gifted character actors who almost manage to convince the audience to admire his self-absorbed man-children. Otherwise, everything he’s learned as a director seems to come directly from the “just get it on camera” school of television, as does his wince-inducing tendency to conjure one-note characters like Zac Efron’s magical stoner. Radnor obviously aspires to Woody Allen, but endless scenes of people whining at each other and cheesy montages set to classical music make Allen’s achievements look even more stunning by comparison. “The world’s dirty secret,” Jenkins offers at one point, is that “nobody feels like an adult.” Unfortunately, Radnor feels compelled to spill those beans in the most ponderous fashion. —Shaun Brady (Ritz Five)

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University of Pennsylvania, 401 Fisher-Bennett Hall, 3340 Walnut St., cinemastudies.sas.penn.edu. From Hollywood to Nuremberg: John Ford, Samuel Fuller, George

LEBOWSKI FEST TLA, 334 South St., 215-922-1011, tlaphilly.com, lebowskifest.com. A screening of The Big Lebowski (1998, U.S., 117 min.) featuring a Walter and Maude costume contest, trivia and a performance by three-dude “hillbilly porno” band Mr. Fuzzy and the Barbarian. Fri., Sept. 28, 7 p.m., $10-$15.

MOSAIC AT THE MOVIES Temple University, 821 Anderson Hall, 2129 N. Broad St., temple.edu. XXY (2007, U.S., 91 min.): An intersex teenager struggles to come of age in an unsympathetic world. Tue., Oct. 2, 5:30 p.m., free.

Stevens (2012, U.S., 52 min.): A look at three famous Hollywood directors’ documentation of Nazi concentration camps during World War II. Thu., Sept. 27, 5:30 p.m., free.

PHILAMOCA 531 N. 12th St., 267-519-9651, philamoca.org. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, U.S., 108 min.): XVSK performs a live score to the disjointed tale of two lovers who attempt to permanently forget one another. Sun., Sept. 30, 7 p.m., $10.

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The title of The Books’ last album, 2010’s The Way Out, proved to be prophetic when the duo called it quits earlier this year. On the self-titled relaunch/ debut of his self-titled project, guitarist Nick Zammuto does sound as if he’s emerging into a more open space. His former duo’s penchant for foundsound collage is intact, but it’s integrated into a more fully human sound, sharing space on equal terms with acoustic as well as electronic instruments and a joyously eclectic pop sound. The opening fanfare, “Yay,” dissects Zammuto’s voice

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APPLES TO APPLES Philadelphia Brewing Company gets into the cider game just in time for fall. By Caroline Russock

hen it’s time to cross over from the hefeweizens and saisons of summer, cold-weather pours tend to get mired in the murky depths of love-’em-or-hate-’em pumpkin beers, malty Oktoberfests and syrupy spiced Christmas ales. Fortunately for those who prefer a crisper autumnal alternative, Philadelphia Brewing Company has released Commonwealth More on: Traditional Dry Cider, a tart apple brew that will begin bottling next month. The cider has been in the works for a while, and a recent expansion up at the Kensington brewery allowed for PBC honcho William Barton to begin trucking in the juice. And where does the juice come from? Though PBC has plans for sourcing locally, it’s currently being brought in from Oregon. According to the PBC folks, last year was one of the worst in recent history for Pennsylvania and New York apple production, making pricing prohibitive, at least for now. Ideas for seasonal, local runs of ciders are being tossed around. According to PBC co-owner Nancy Barton, Apple Pucker flavors are not what they’re going for. “Our cider is dry and tart,” she explains. “Not Jolly Rancher-sweet, like a lot of American ciders

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³ CULINARILY SPEAKING, PHILLY has always grown its own talent, and proudly so. Young chefs rise through the ranks, flourishing in this we-don’tneed-nobody-else vacuum of verve and grit. But as the national spotlight has found our city, so have chefs, emigrating from everywhere from Napa Valley to the Five Boroughs. “The biggest draw to Philly for me definitely is that the chef scene is very supportive,” says Le Virtu’s Joe Cicala, who decamped here after cooking in some of D.C.’s and New York’s finest Italian restaurants. “It seems everyone wants everyone else to succeed, and as a young chef, I feel that I can make a name for myself on my own terms.” Cicala is part of the circa-2010 first wave of immigration, which also includes Mike Santoro, another D.C. defector. He was chef de cuisine at Washington’s Blue Duck Tavern before opening Talula’s Garden and, a year later, his own place, The Mildred. Josh Lawler’s story is similar: He put Dan Barber’s Blue Hill at Stone Barns in his rearview to launch the intimate The Farm and Fisherman. Vernick Food & Drink’s Greg Vernick, longtime lieutenant of Jean-Georges Vongerichten, hails from Cherry Hill. Karen Urie Shields, partner of John Shields, has family in West Chester; it’s one of the reasons the couple relocated here from Virginia’s acclaimed Town House. The Shields are planning a Philly project for 2013, as is Center City-bred Chicago transplant Joncarl Lachman. “I’m ready to come home and make my mark,” says Lachman, whose Dutch BYOB Winkel is on deck for January. Some of these new chefs aren’t new at all, like Christopher Lee, who left Striped Bass in 2006 for Gilt in New York, where he earned two Michelin stars; he’s back to transform Salt & Pepper. Others, like Le Bec’s Walter Abrams and Fork’s new chef, Eli Kulp, have never cooked here, but have fallen under the city’s unusual spell. “My wife and I started looking around the city and saw how livable it is,” says Kulp, who left New York darling Torrisi Italian Specialties. “Every chef I met was so happy here. It was such a positive vibe.” That vibe is likely what lured Peter Serpico, former director of operations for David Chang’s Momofuku Empire, to town. In December, he’ll bring this percolating trend to a boil with Serpico, a Starr-backed South Streeter with 52 first-come, first-served seats. Serpico, who nabbed two Michelin stars while cooking at Momofuku Ko, has been cited saying he moved to Philly for a better “quality of life.” With Serpico and comrades shaking up the status quo, no doubt ours is also about to improve, too. (adam.erace@citypaper.net)

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ered-tablecloth places in South Philly, Mr. Joeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cafe sets itself apart not just with staggering portion size (and complimentary wine), but with home-cooked fare that tastes, well, like someone cooked it â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or, more specifically, someoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nonna. All meals are capped off with an oversized slice of cake from Termini Brothers. 1514 S. Eighth St., 215-334-1414. 4 Âł Georgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sandwich Shop | Most folks head over

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Owning and operating a motor vehicle affords us numerous conveniences. It also comes with unavoidable frustrations that all car-owners share together, one of the lamest of which is traffic. Like death and taxes, everyone experiences it, and it sucks for everyone. Everyone. So when you empathtically blast your car horn at an accident, at a constuction site, when cars ahead of you are slowing down so that they don’t run over a bicyclist, when there’s an unaccompanied blind person carefully crossing the street, when a person in a wheelchair needs to be mechanically lowered off of a bus, as if there’s anything anybody can do about the situation, as if your own frustration is more important than everybody else’s...w...t...fuuuuuuck!? But what am I going to do, honk back? Try to give your stupid ass a lecture in traffic? I hope you all have a nightmare: thousands of horns bleating terrrible intervals at metalfest volumes directly into your stupid skull until it cracks and oozes your selfish shit-for-brains. Have it until you learn to act like the car-owning-and-operating adults you are. Hugs, Shnak. :)

You are a worthless boyfriend...an even worthless father...the reason I include you in anything is because this saves me the trouble in getting with you later on about child support..trust me I really do wanna file the papers on you...and in the future I see that it is coming real soon. You need to grow the fuck up stop sucking on your mother’s titties and be a man that you claim to be..real men work, take care of their kids and provide for their wife or mother of their child. You are a waste of skin.

GUY STANDING You know you looked so weird asking the guy about

like someone owes you something...you need to do things for yourself and stop acting as if I owe you personally millions and millions of dollars. Why do you play with my mind...and the stupid part is that I let you do it over and over again...why do you keep playing with my mind...we would get along so much better if you stop playing...learn to love me already...

SO FUCKING SELFISH You kept telling me over and over that I was selfish and you know as well as I do that it isn’t me...that is all...I really don’t know what else to say to you or to add to you all your games and nonsense...your mom is a evil pig and you know she is...I want to slap

YOU ARE CRAZY Take your medicine already...what the fuck people act as if they don’t have any sense anymore...or they think that you are fucking crazy yourself... then you wanna pretend and say Oh I love you... if you love me act like you fucking love me...do the right fucking thing already...when I love someone I love them...I do what I can for that person then after that it is on them to do what they need to do... everything shouldn’t be on me...which it is right now...I am tired of it...stand up...do the right thing... and take some responsibility for your actions...

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DEAR SUITS Your mothers should have taught you to dress by now...it’s like colors with like colors. If you’re wearing a black, dark blue or grey suit, you wear black shoes. If you are wearing brown or tan, you wear brown shoes. Honey, never wear brown shoes with any shade of black...you look like fools.

YOU’LL NOT BE MISSED To all the mannerless scumbag customers those of you who never say hello and instead just bark your order at me, those who never say thank you or please those who never hand me your money and instead put your car/cash/change on the counter as if I am worthless than the scum on your precious iPad., those who leave trash anywhere because it just shows how much class you really have. Do all of the working class a favor and kill yourself immediately. You will not be missed.

DUMB SALON FOLKS

Hey dude...you sat and gave me too much information...I could believe what you were telling me about not being attracted to your wife...why the fuck did you marry that bitch if you aren’t attracted to her? Then again why the fuck did she marry your sorry ass..you make me sick most men seem like they aren’t sure of what they want..you need to make up your mind instead of telling me how attracted you are to someone else.

If you continue to pour your heart out to someone and still no good attention what the fuck are you supposed to do...well...I am going to either cheat on your stupid ass or I am going to walk away...I am choosing to walk away..I am just tired of your needy ass...everytime you turn around you need something...what about my fucking needs I need shit too..how about some fucking attention that doesn’t involve me giving you something...you are a true user and guess what you have met your match...

made me smile over and over...you always seem to make me sick too at the wrong time! Why are you cheating on me with her...then you think that I don’t know...I know everything..she has my phone number and she better be glad I don’t have her number to make a long story short...I am going to be the one that end up on top of the situation. All the shit that you left over my house please believe it will belong to me sooner than you think.

Goddammit Dude! Couldda been awesome, but you’re rebounding ass is all on the bouncey, bounce and so fuck it. Honestly, you fucking suck. And granted, I might have been all too willing to invite you home, but that’s because you were fucking hot and drunk. SO SHIT! I can’t blame you but fuck you, you suck. OKAY? Good luck finding someone as fuckin awesome as I am, cuz I know Imma find someone to be awesome with so poo poo on you, have fun doing your taxes..you fucking dick.

FREAKY BUS DUDE

WHAT ELSE IS THERE

YOU ALWAYS

COULDDA BEEN AWESOME

Where you come from? So I know that I can’t name names on here or it will be edited out so here it goes...you stupid folks are rude and plain ole’ crude...your not professional at all...do you even know the products that you have in your small salon..I would never let you touch my fucking hair.. good luck with keeping open! I hope someone sets your place on fire or you just don’t get any business. Imma keep saying it to myself and maybe just maybe it will happen..I will not buy anymore products from you folks..I will, trust me I will find another outlet for my products!

now here you go telling my girlfriend all this shit.. I denied it...now the ball is in your court and there is nothing you can do about it but just leave me alone...I fucking used you...deal with it.

YUCKY CHICK

the Iphone 5 you stupid ass you probably couldn’t afford it anyway..then you scared him, he probably thought that you were going to rob him or something...I noticed how the guy stepped away he really was afraid...get yourself together and stop talking to random people...your frightening as it is...I hope you get smacked in your face by someone soon and real soon.

I NEED YOU When you were in your situation...you needed me and I was there for you...you need to stop acting

her teeth clean...lol...yeah that shit is funny...too funny...trust and know in my heart that I am that selfish bitch...you need to watch yourself because I don’t forget...

THAT DICKSUCK Hey girl...where did you get those fucking lips...you made me come and now you are mad because I will not speak to you...yeah you know that it is true.. you keep on telling me over and over that you love me and I told you before that it is only about me and my receiving oral sex you were happy with that...

Hey girl on the bus...yeah you stinky ass fat bitch... why would you sit next to me and then when it is time to get off the bus you act as if you don’t want to get the hell up! Get up already!! I am trying to get myself to work...then you gonna stand by the front door acting as if you were a size 0 not moving just standing there taking up space..you stinking bitch. I hope I don’t see you tomorrow or I am going to push you out of the way and continue about my business.

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9th/Spring Garden 2br $1200 Large, clean, hdwd flrs & crpt, A/C, fridge, w/d, security system. 610-304-0087

Mid-size construction mgmt co., seeks an admin. assistant. Duties incl. general clical, receptionis & project based work. Must project a profess’l co. image through inperson & phone interaction. Excellent benefits. Email resume to jobpost131@yahoo.com

KAWAI GRAND PIANO Model KG 2C, excellent cond., tuned to A440 concert pitch, appraised at $8,600 asking $5,500. Call 609-265-1762 for appointment. PIANO Yamaha 42" console w/ bench, 5 yrs old, mahogany case, sacrifice $1350. 1 owner, free deliver 215-266-7273

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Rosewood 1br $650+utils large, c/a, 1 mo. dep. & sec 917-650-6855

1200 Block of Wagner Ave 1BR/1BA $575 215-437-7980

46xx Old York Rd. 2BR/1BA $630+utils Duplex apt., 1st floor, tree lined porch, close to transp., yard. Call 267-264-9593

5th & Godfrey Lg 1BR Must see. Sec 8 ok. Call (267) 254-8446

W. Phila 2, 3 & 4br apts Avail Now Move in Special! 215-386-4791 or 4792

3730 N Bouvier St. Efficiency $550 newly remodeled kitchen, 215-275-5637

45xx Walnut St. 1BR $850+utils large apt, hwd flrs, LR, DR (215) 820-0342

3xx W. Schoolhouse lg 1 BR $750+ 1st fl, priv yard, w/d hkup, 267-688-7397 76xx Forest Ave. 3BR/2.5BA $1,350 1st/last/1mo. sec. Call 267-250-3583 Wayne Junction Studio apt $500+elec. $1000 to move in, w/w, (215)765-5578

15xx N 55th St. 2br $700+ utils carpets, intercom, 2nd flr. 215-477-4029 219 N. 63rd St 1BR $600+ utils 1st flr, $25 application fee 215-906-5654 N. 63rd St. 1BR newly renov., ready now. 267-991-2078 Studio 1, 2 & 3br Apts $650-$895 www.perutoproperties.com 215.740.4900

21xx Chelten Ave. 1BR $550+elec newly renov. 215.284.5394 617.947.2196 81xx Rugby St. 2br/1ba $775+utils 2nd flr, hwd flrs, kitch & LR, 215.868.2751

8200 Mansfield Ave. 2br $825/mo. Attached garage, WW carpet. Call 215275-3774

11xx N. 55TH ST. $300 SPECIAL MOVEIN TO THOSE WHO QUALIFY! CALL FOR DETAILS! CALL 267-707-6129

Cedarbrook & Vernon Rd 2br $775+utils new wall/wall carpet, ceiling fans, garage, laundry facilities, Call (215) 836-7471

11xx N. 55TH ST. Rooms with Bath $500. CALL FOR DETAILS 267-707-6129

10xx Medary Ave. 2BR Hdwd flrs, newpaint, pvt ent. A must C! 267.331.9255

13th/Erie furn rms $85 & up/week Priv. ent, single occupancy 215-514-7143 153X W. ERIE AVE $400 incl utils, cable, internet, kitc access 215-720-1658

19xx Erie Ave, luxury rm, xtra clean, ideal for seniors, $85/wk SSI ok. 215-920-6394 27xx Frankford Ave. 2br $595+ 1st flr., yard, no drugs. 215-941-3000

20th & Allegheny: Furn. Luxury Rooms. Free utils, cable, iweb. 267-331-5382 22nd & Hunting Park lrg rm, new renov., wall/wall, furn. $100/wk. 215-570-0301

4630 Penn St 1br & effic. $525 & $425 w/w, close to transp. 267-235-5952 4645 Penn St. Lg 1BR $595. gas/wtr inc., Priv. deck 215-781-8072 Blvd. & Front St. 1br $580 LR, kitchen, no pets. Call 267-979-0413 Frankford & Oxford 1BR $600 Also Efficiency, $500, utilities included We speak Spanish. 215-620-6261

Griscomb St. 2br $875 w/d, fridge, Sec 8 ok, call 215-632-5763

47xx Longshore Ave 2 BR $700-$750+ 1 mo sec.+ last mo rent, Refrigerator, storage 215- 824-3010; 215-833-5888 5300 Tabor Ave. 2BR/1BA $750 Water & gas incl. 2nd flr., 215-718-5858 5xx Gilham 1Br $495+ utils Lawndale,2nd fl,credit chk 267-977-5639 Bustleton & Haldeman 2br Condo $895 prvt balcony w/garden view 215.943.0370 Byberry & Philmont 2br/2ba $1,150 + elec. Heat & hot water incl. Just redone. Avail. immed. Call 215-669-8688

Lawndale 1br & Studio $575+/mo. balc, A/C, AARP Discount. 609-408-9298 MAYFAIR - 64XX MARSDEN 2BR $675+utls, credit check 215-869-2397

53xx Girard Ave: Large clean rooms $100-$110/week. Call (215) 917-1091 55/Thompson deluxe quiet furn $110wk priv ent $200 sec 215-572- 8833 56xx Morton St: Quiet victorian row house, newly renov., near trans., $125/wk, $300 sec., 1st week rent req. Call Mrs. Mac at 267-351-5547 652 Brooklyn, $125 week. $375 to move in. Furn w/refrige, no kitch 215-781-8049

Sharon Hill 1 BR $625 heat incl newly renovated, off street parking, credit application req. Avail. now. 484-716-0232

UPPER DARBY New renov 2br $800+utils 1st, last & current mo due. 610-202-9292

Palmyra 2br/1ba $975 1.5 mth sec. Gar. 856-340-9864

Cherry Hill Studio $985 utils incl large, great loc., priv. deck, 856.397.0674

Broad & Allegheny RMs rent $400-$450 & 26 CB Moore. Furnished 267-978-1487 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 Frankford, nice rm in apt, near bus & El, $300 sec, $90/wk & up. 215-526-1455

16xx Wilton 3br/1ba $800+utils Garage, Open Front Porch "The Landlord that Cares" Tasha 267.584.5964, Mark 610.764.9739 1xx S. 58th St. 4br $775+utils 11xx S. 56th St. 3br $685+utils 1st, last & security req. (215) 242-6910 52xx Upland St. 3br/1ba $725/mo. nice updated house, w/d, (215)500-7610 60xx Buist Ave. 3br/1ba $800 1 & 1/2 mo. sec. dep., renovated, LR, DR, kitchen, 1 car garage, 215-828-6651 65xx Allman St. 3br $750/mo. New remod, come see! 215-463-2403

65xx Saybrook Ave. 3Br newly renovated, Sec 8 ok 267-467-0140 68xx Guyer 3br $800 26xx Hobson 3br $800 64xx Grays 3br $750 Call Roxie, 267-902-6031 SW PHILA 2BR/ 1BA $650 + utils. Modern. Section 8 ok. 215-726-8817

53xx Magnolia 3br/1ba $850 Sec 8 ok, 215-748-2610, 215-779-0352

18xx Roselyn St. 2 Br new renov. duplex, Sec 8 ok 267.467.0140

21xx Elkhart St 3br/1ba $795+utils Section 8 ok, very large. 215-338-2608 25xx Tulip St 2br/1ba $975+utils 31xx Janney St 2br/1ba $700+utils $35 app. fee, 1st, last, sec., 215-264-3859

36xx Jasper St 2br $650 +utils nw paint, clean throughout 215-327-2292

Oxford Circle 4BR/1BA $1,200 Newly Renovated. Section 8 welcome. 267-227-0216

11xx S. Peach St. 3br/1ba $800 Renovated. Call 267-784-4500 3931 Brown St. 1br/1ba $500/mo. NO DRUGS! 2nd flr Call 267-259-0430 3Br Houses Sec. 8 Welcome Beautifully renovated. Call (267) 981-2718

11xx E Sanger 3br/1ba $900 Rear yard + deck. Call 215-601-5182 1 Vandike 3BR/1BA $900 Renov., hdwd flrs., garage. 917-379-7302 Lawncrest 3BR $875+utils 2 month security, garage. 267-287-3175

57xx Arch St. 4br/2ba $985 super large, w/hdwd flrs, 215-409-8383 61xx Walnut 3br $850 Nice, ww carpet, (610)790-3510

Darby 3br/1ba $950+utils prch,yd,close shop & transp 610.696.2022 Darby 3br $900+ utils Sec 8 ok. Avail. now. Call (610) 394-0768 Media 107 Dundee Mews 3br/2.5ba $2,200. Finished attic / bsmnt, 14 min. to Philadelphia, Call 347-702-4001 UPPER DARBY 2BR $825 1 car gar, deck and 1m free. 610-659-5627 Upper Darby 3BR/1BA $800 good cond., close to train. 484-270-8639

Haverford Ave 3br/2ba $950+utils huge house, 1mo. rent & sec 917.650.6855 West Phila. 2br/1ba $700/mo. 1st & last, 1mo. sec. Call 267-977-0947 W. & SW Phila 1br-3br Apts & Houses, $600-$800. 1st/last/sec. 215-878-2857

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TC 2005 $6,500 91k miles, black. Call 215-537-4969

4XX CHURCH ST, ROYERSFORD 3BR 1BA. NEW Upgrades. $1500/ mo. Rent to own! 215-720-1658

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

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

Cobalt 2006 $6,500 41k miles, gold. Call 215-888-3703

TRAILBLAZER LT 2004 $8,500 Fully loaded, exc cond, 215-675-2285

A1 PRICES FOR JUNK CARS FREE TOW ING , Call (215) 726-9053 ACCORD LX V6 2004 $5999 126k, very gd cnd, records (609)481-7454

LS460 2009 $38,500 Nav. pack., 57K miles, 215-362-1217

TOYOTA â&#x20AC;&#x2122;02 Highlander $7200/obo Beige exterior and beige leather interior. V6 engine, 4WD, CD player, cruise control, heated seats, sunroof. 138,000 miles. Still drives well. 267-408-0107

low cost cars & trucks BUICK CENTURY LS 1998 $1,450 4 door, loaded, CD, clean. 215-280-4825 CADILLAC FLEETWOOD BROUGHAM 1981 $1500/OBO. (215)943-4489 Chrysler 300M 2004 $4500 new insp., new parts, blue (267)241-6845 Dodge Stratus SXT 2006 $4,200 78K pwr win/locks CD cln 215.850.5702

HONDA ACCORD EX 1999 $4,100/OBO Auto., 125+K, excel. cond. 610-585-0510

Ford 2000 Handicapped Equipped Luxury Hightop Conv Van (new body style) a/c, full pwr, orig mi, running boards, prem tires, mag whls, like new quick private sale, $3,975. 215-928-9632

NISSAN ALTIMA GXE 2000 $2,150 4 door, 155K miles, 215-806-0449

Ford F-150 XLT 2002 New body style, 4 wheel drive, extended cab, new tires, orig miles, sac $4,985. Call 215-922-2165

VOLVO S70 1999 $3495 4 door, loaded, clean, runs great, inspection 5/13, must sell, 215-927-9722

JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE 2000 $3000obo runs great, insp. 267-441-4612 MERCEDES BENZ 300 Turbo Diesel 1982 $1,950, good condition, new inspection. CHEVY ASTRO VAN EXT 1992 $1,500. Good cond., new insp. 610-809-6497

Saturn Ion 2003 $3,495 90k, auto, gorgeous 610-524-8835

Germantown Area: NICE, Cozy Rooms Private entry, no drugs (267)988-5890 Mt Airy, 61xx Chew Ave, Univ City, 41xx Popular $85-$125/wk, 215-242-9124 Near Broad & Roosevelt Blvd. FREE RENT NOW-PAY OCT. 1st. CLEAN furn. rooms. 1 person ONLY! AL 267-235-6555

NICETOWN furnished, private entrance, Call 215-324-1079 N. Phila. $100/wk Clean, near trans. use kitchen. 215-206-3832 or 610-348-0121 N Phila Furn, Priv Ent $75 & up : No drugs, SSI ok. available now 215.763.5565 N Phila Sr. citizen, single occ. $100 wk utils included. Call 267-385-5932 N. & W Phila rooms, Single Occupancy, no smoking, $100/wk. 267-339-9839 Olney and N Phila. $85 and up furn, kit privs, coin-op, crpt. 516-527-0186 OLNEY Room $75/ wk. 2 weeks security. No drugs. 215-455-2055 Overbrook newly renovated home, room with priv bath, w/d, 215-879-2570 SW Phila: 65th & Lindbergh, private bath $550/month. Call 215-290-8702 SW Phila. - Elmwood: Nice room, use of entire house. Call 267-972-7242 W. Germantown Rooms for rent starting at $425/mo, $100 security fee, easy move-in. Call Theresa at (215) 740-0554

206 N. Simpson Street 3br/1ba $895 www.perutoproperties.com 215.740.4900 56xx Haddington Ln. 3Br/1.5Ba $900 modern, fin bmnt, backyard 215-879-1962

25xx N. Gratz St. 3br/1ba $695/mo. A/C, wash. Credit check. (215) 425-3696 2600 Block of N Bouvier 3br $650+ Mv-in rdy! Sec-8-OK. 267-600-7826

27th & Somerset 3Br/1Ba $700 Newly renovated. Call fast 215-650-3898

11XX W. VENANGO new renov 2BR. 1st, last+1 mo sec. $650/mo 215-228-7543

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2xx W Sheldon St 3br Row home $750 spacious, fin bsmt, bkyard 267-345-3752

18xx W Pacific 4br/2ba $1350+utils Section 8 ok. Call 215-836-0720 19xx W. Airdrie 3BR / 1 Full BA $700 move in ready, Sec 8 ok 215-278-0988 38xx Archer St. 3br/1ba $825 plus utilities, very nice rehab, hrdwd flrs, shows very well, act now! (215)651-7435 4455 N. Gratz St. 3br/1ba $700 1st, last, and security. 267-581-8393

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FRONT & NEDRO 3BR $900 W/W, bkyd, ceramic tile, new kit, employment & credit check 267-879-1750

325 E. Cliveden St. 3br/1ba $1175+util Call Erik 215.744.5750 or 215.510.0034

A1 Nice, well maintained rms, N. & W. Phila. Starting @ $125/wk 610.667.9675

NE clean, safe, secure, newly renovated nicely furnished, A/C, cable, wi-fi, washer, dryer, please call (215)645-4962

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

12xx S Bonsall St 3br $725+utils 19xx W. Brunner St. 2br $750 1st, last, sec., sec. system. 215-483-4344 bsmnt, bkyd, W/D hookup 267-236-4517 2018 Gerritt St 2br $725+utils new renov, hw & ceramic flr,215.477.4029

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2435 W. Jefferson St. Rooms: $400/mo. Move in fee: $600. Call 215-913-8659

44xx N. 7th St. 3br/1.5ba $775 Newly renovated, hardwood floors, finished basement. Call 570-234-6728

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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

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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

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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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