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A Port Richmond teen says her geometry teacher at Charles Carroll High School mocked her for wearing a Mitt Romney campaign shirt, comparing it to wearing a KKK shirt. “I don’t know what chapter you belong to,” says girl, “but we usually wear robes and hoods to the rallies.”

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Pennsylvania House candidate Dave Kralle lambasts Carroll High and posts a protest flier on his site that says, “We have been told there isn’t a single American flag at the school and the Pledge is NEVER recited.” Whew. We were worried only the liberal side would end up looking like ignorant, knee-jerking shitheads in this whole mess.

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Commissioner Ramsey says Lt. Jonathan Josey will be fired for punching a woman, Aida Guzman, at the Puerto Rican Day Parade. That’s what happens when you assault somebody. You lose your job.

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The Fraternal Order of Police says the decision to fire Josey “sends a bad message.” Bell Curve has determined that the message is “don’t punch people in the face,” and it’s a pretty good one.

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Mayor Nutter apologizes to Aida Guzman. “I can’t see anything because my eyes are swollen shut,” she says, “but I’d like to thank Kermit the Frog for his concern.”

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Latrice Bryant, aide to Councilman W. Wilson Goode Jr., posts on Facebook that she was on a toilet at a Germantown nightclub when a woman burst into her stall and attacked her. Bryant later admits the whole thing was a euphemism for Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

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Bryant brags about fighting the woman off, saying, “I pounded her face with my fist … booka … booka … booka.” Another euphemism, sadly. IBS affects some 25 to 45 million people nationwide.

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Mayor Nutter criticizes Mitt Romney for lying in the first presidential debate. “I can’t see anything because my Klan hood doesn’t fit right,” says Romney, “but Kermie can go fuck himself. I’m definitely shutting down PBS now.”

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ENEMIES OF THE SKATE A brief history of skateboarders’ skirmishes with City Hall. By Isaiah Thompson

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ast Thursday, the hallowed chamber of Philadelphia’s City Council was visited by an unusual demographic: skateboarders. They were there to present testimony against new regulations, proposed by At-Large Councilman David Oh, that would have expanded anti-skateboarding rules to include “any publicly accessible outdoor artwork or memorial,” and would have increased the fines for such activity from $300 to $2,000 and “imprisonment for up to 90 days.” The opponents drew a series of approving roars from the audience as, one after another, they attacked Oh’s regulations for being unnecessary, vague and unfairly punitive. After various sympathetic remarks from several other Council members, the bill was held and the day — if not the war — was won by the skateboarders. It isn’t every day that an outpouring of public testimony stops a bill in its tracks, but the history of attempts by city officials to regulate skateboarding — and of efforts by skateboarders to resist those regulations — is a long (if not always glorious) one. Let’s review. August 1996: A year after a skateboarding park opens in FDR Park, city controller Jonathan Saidel publishes a scathing “audit” of illegal — but largely ignored — skateboarding in Love Park. He suggests police confiscate boards when they issue tickets.

June 2000: Councilman Michael Nutter proposes a bill that would ban skateboarding on all public property and allow the seizure of skateboards from violators. He gets support from a Council committee — but not from Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell, who says Love Park “is a microcosm of who we are.” In response, skaters organize as the Skater’s Defense Lobby (it will have various names over the years), led by skater and law student Joshua Nims, who calls Nutter’s bill “using legislation as a baseball bat to kill a fly.” September 2000: Nutter’s bill, delayed amid controversy,

finally passes 14-3, with Blackwell still opposed and joined by Council members Rick Mariano and David Cohen. But a series of profound ironies follows: That September sees the release of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2, in which Love Park is a playable level. In December, newspapers report that ESPN’s X Games will come to Philly — but that its sponsors are upset that the games won’t be taking place in Love Park.

“A microcosm of who we are.”

April 2002: Skaters and the John Street administration go head to head when the mayor cracks down on skateboarding and introduces a nearly $1 million renovation plan for Love Park to make it less attractive to skaters. A Street spokesman says the administration will find skaters a new site, possibly on the Schuylkill behind the Art Museum. But in May the Fairmount Park Commission quickly nixes the idea, offering nothing in its place. >>> continued on page 8


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✚ VISUAL AID It’s opening night of the exhibition, and artist Rayne Parker-Jones is posing for photos in front of her work, a semi-abstract battle of darkness against light. At 16, she’s seen a way too much of the dark stuff: Her parents were both killed before she was 14, and she herself was shot in the leg while walking home from a park. But with a grin, the West Oak Lane resident and aspiring nurse says she can envision a day when it’s all sunshine. The exhibition in question is the Anti-Violence Partnership’s first-ever show of art therapy by children and teens, all victims of the surging violence that Philly, despite a variety of lawenforcement efforts, can’t seem to curb. Deb Spungen, who founded the partnership in 1980, two years after her daughter was murdered, says that — unfortunately, and for the first time ever — the partnership now has a several-months-long waiting list for children’s therapy. Its major source of funding, a Victims of Crime Act grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, was cut by 20 percent this year with little advance notice, meaning the partnership has had to operate leaner than ever. As a result, the therapists are now mostly part-time, says executive director Julie Rausch. But that’s a good thing, actually, since “this is an area that’s susceptible to vicarious traumatization.” One therapist had to quit after suffering chronic nightmares. The partnership keeps staffers at the Medical Examiner’s office, where family members go to identify bodies; at the District Attorney’s office; and at the Criminal Justice Center, where they try to be there for families at preliminary hearings in every

murder case in the city — a tall order this year.

With the exhibition — running through Oct. 18 at Art Sanctuary (628 S. 16th St., artsanctuary.org) — they’re hoping to boost awareness. Art therapy isn’t the only means they use, says therapist Rebecca Selvin, but it’s helpful, especially for kids. “Trauma is stored on the right side of your brain,” she says. That’s also where pictures and emotions reside; words keep to the left. “Particularly for children who don’t have the means to create words, creating art gives them access to heal through the right side.” The works, some hopeful and others heartbreaking, were created especially for the exhibit. Though board member Anthony Johnson considers the exhibition a success, he’s not sure it will be an annual thing. “It’s fun for the kids to create the art, but it can be really traumatic. So I’m not sure how often we can ask them to do that.” —Samantha Melamed

✚ A GHOST OF A CHANCE On June 30, after five years of changing the lives of hundreds of fathers trying to make their way after getting out of prison, the freshly de-funded Pennsylvania Prison Society’s Philly ReNew parenting and job-readiness program shut its doors. Then, a funny thing happened: For a little while, at least, despite the lack of a money lifeline, it kept on working. Behind the program’s zombie effectiveness: a man named LaMonte Williams, who was hired by the Prison Society just two weeks before the program disappeared. He stayed on as a volunteer, doing his damnedest to make sure every one of the men left hanging after the program was eliminated from the state >>> continued on page 10

Philadelphia, 2012 ALAN BARR

By Daniel Denvir

BEING JUDGED ³ PENNSYLVANIANS LIKE GOV. Tom Corbett

less with each passing opinion poll, but they won’t get a chance to vote him out of office until 2014. Right now, however, state courts are causing Republicans — who also control the state House and Senate — serial headaches. Most recently, Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson issued an injunction blocking the state’s voter-ID law from going into effect for the upcoming presidential election. Simpson initially gave voter ID his blessing, but a split state Supreme Court ordered him to take another look to ensure the law would cause no voter disenfranchisement. The high court was somewhat split along party lines — but that’s not to say any of the justices wanted to let the law stand.The split was between a majority that basically forced Simpson to stay the law and two dissenting liberals who wanted the court to issue the injunction right there. The same goes for the state’s Marcellus Shale law, which prohibits localities from regulating natural-gas drilling within their borders. In July, a Commonwealth Court panel ruled 4-3 that the provisions overriding “local zoning and environmental laws” were unconstitutional. Corbett appealed that ruling to the Supreme Court. The same is happening with state legislative redistricting, the every-10-years process by which district boundaries are redrawn using new census numbers. It is always a nakedly political process, with parties warping districts to maximize their potential electoral success. But in January, the state Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that the Republican-drawn plan unconstitutionally chopped up towns and counties. In September, the redistricting commission gave the Court a new map. That case is pending. “I think you are seeing the results of Republican overreach,” says Muhlenberg College political science professor Christopher Borick. “In almost all of the areas that the court has been asked to weigh in on, the GOP has taken some fairly extreme policy positions that even Republican-leaning courts may see as going too far.” The courts have yet another chance to block extremism: Corbett has also eliminated $205-amonth General Assistance cash welfare for the most disadvantaged Pennsylvanians, including disabled people. Three poor and disabled people are challenging that law, which also restricts other safety-net programs, saying it was passed in a way that violates the state constitution. Voters may have elected Republicans to control Harrisburg, but they didn’t give them license to violate the law. ✚ Send feedback to daniel.denvir@citypaper.net.

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May 2003: Longstanding skater

opposition to city regulations gains new momentum when the issue gets caught in the gravitational pull of a mayoral election. Republican mayoral nominee Sam Katz declares his intention to lift the ban on skating in Love Park — which, it turns out, $1 million in renovations later, still has enticing steps and ledges. “If we can’t keep young people here, there won’t be a tax base,” Katz proclaims alongside none other than 95-year-old former city planner Ed Bacon, who, amazingly, declares that Philadelphia “will never live down the inhumanity” of kicking the skaters out. July 2003: Momentum for the skaters’

return to Love Park builds when Council members Rick Mariano, Blondell Reynolds Brown, Marian Tasco and Frank Rizzo commend efforts by the newly named Skater’s Advocacy Network to come up with a plan for Love Park. City officials balk. In August, Mayor Street announces plans (again) for a skate park along the Schuylkill.

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March 2004: The city implants metal “cleats” on Dilworth Plaza railings and benches to prevent skateboarding. May 2004: A California sneaker company offers $1 million to the city if it ends the ban on skating in Love Park. Street administration officials decline. One year later, plans for a new skatepark on the Schuylkill, eventually named Paine’s Park, are unveiled. The estimated cost is $2 million. It will grow to more than $4 million. October 2012: More than a decade

since skaters were kicked out of Love Park, the mythical Paine’s Park lives — mainly on franklinspaine.com, where supporters are encouraged to donate to the Franklin’s Paine Skatepark Fund, volunteer and support a proposed skate park on the Schuylkill designed by Brian Nugent and Anthony Bracali. At long last, earlier this month, the Fund and Schuylkill Banks announced a groundbreaking ceremony for Paine’s Park on Oct. 12. “We are very excited,” the press release said, “to announce that the long wait ... is almost over!” (isaiah.thompson@citypaper.net)


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budget got a job placement and the support he needed. Working his connections, Williams helped 17 men land 18 jobs — 10 full time, and eight part time — in warehouses, restaurants, retail stores and factories. But last month, the inevitable happened: Williams landed a new job himself — which means even the ghost of Philly ReNew is now, pending the deus ex machina of a new funding, laid to rest. “It’s going to be challenging for them being that I’m not here,” Williams admits. “The reason why they were able to get jobs so quickly is because I found out what their skills are, and then I matched them with employers. That makes the process a lot easier.” One person who benefited was Isean McNeil, 36, who until last year never had a job in his life. Today, he says, everything has changed. “I was really tired of the whole prison situation,” McNeil explains. So he got focused, and with help from Philly ReNew, got a job at Boston Market. He also works part time with Shalom Inc., counseling kids at Philly’s Juvenile Treatment Court. He’s beginning to think big: an associate’s degree and then a master’s in social work. Same with Ikeem McFadden of Kensington, who has a 1-year-old daughter and a mom with multiple sclerosis to support. The Prison Society helped him get motivated, build his confidence: “I got a chance to be a person involved in society instead of being looked at as a criminal.” He’s become more strategic about his career, too. He now looks at his gig at Dunkin’ Donuts as his “bridge job. Now that I’m working, I feel pretty —S.M. good about me getting another job.”

✚ A GREAT WTINESS FOR LIFE A crowd of more than 100 recently crammed the second-floor ballroom of the William Way LGBT Community Center to celebrate the life of John Bell, a longtime leader of the rowdy AIDS activist group ACT UP and an employee of the AIDS service organization Philadelphia FIGHT. “It’s not too many built like that, straight up,” says 55-year-old Samuel Morales, a student in the first session of TEACH Outside, a FIGHT program Bell co-founded to help HIV-positive ex-offenders navigate the outside and stay healthy. Morales now teaches the Spanishlanguage version of the TEACH course. HIV-positive people walking out the prison gates often had Bell’s cell phone number in their hands. And that phone, friends say, was never off. “I would not be alive today had it not been for John Bell,” says AIDS activist Waheedah Shabazz-El. “I am a person of faith and I do believe that God works through people. And in June of 2003, God came to me in the person of John Bell. And I knew it had to be God, because it takes God to save lives, and that’s what John did. And I said that he saved my life

because of where he found me. Because I was in a prison.” Bell introduced Shabazz-El to FIGHT and ACT UP. “This man showed up. He was an official visitor. I thought he was my lawyer,” she said, prompting laughs. “Until he started talking about AIDS. And then he told me that he had came in to tell me that I wasn’t going to die because he had been living with AIDS for 20 years.” Former Philadelphia Prison Commissioner Leon King credits Bell and other ACT UP members for pushing him to bring condoms and rapid HIV testing to inmates. King recalls Bell insisting that he take a photograph with him — in uniform. King asked why. “He said, ‘Well, it’s very important that the inmates see the commissioner touching an exoffender who has HIV, so they

“It’s not too many who are built like that, straight up.” all know it’s OK.’ That blew me away.” Bell worked for Amtrak in Washington, D.C., after fighting in Vietnam. Hooked on heroin, he contracted HIV. He made his way to Philly, where he got clean and met his partner, Gloria Prusakowski. Rev. Dr. Ernest McNear of the True Gospel Tabernacle, a Pentecostal church in South Philadelphia, calls Bell “a great witness for life.” McNear, a former heroin addict and prisoner, is, just like Bell was, not only a teacher but a true living example. John Bell, a prominent member of one of Philadelphia’s most hell-raising movements, died at age 64. In a community that once witnessed too many premature funerals, there are far fewer today

because of people like him. —Daniel Denvir


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different choices on tap, including many exciting new offerings from local breweries, a selection of seasonal festbiers and pumpkin ales, and even several gluten-free options In order to enjoy the beer offerings, guests age 21 and older must purchase a Beer Bracelet, available for $15 online at bloktoberfestphilly. com or $20 at the event.

FOOD: This year, Bloktoberfest will feature

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stages. And as always, taking in the many musical performances at Bloktoberfest is completely free.

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MUSIC: A great block party calls for

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³ IT HAD TO come sooner or later; even the largest of bookstores die away like orchids after a funeral. But seeing the sociocultural center of old lit Philly — Robin’s Books on 13th Street — get its death warrant was a swift kick in the city’s collective cerebellum (shopping will go on until December at incrementally reduced rates). Along with its Moonstone Arts Center, Robin’s was the one place to stop and think on a constantly buzzing Midtown block. But who the hell is bothering to think anymore, right? I’ll always remember Larry Robin’s shop as the place I saw Maya Angelou read (several times) and bought French film magazines with their covers cut and every City Lights volume there ever was. ³ Used to be, every time I drove by 22nd and Catharine, I’d see the butcher-block paper that covered the corner’s shop windows had yellowed a bit more, and I’d worry that second Ultimo Coffee would never open. Surprise. The tall coffee shop opened on Monday and will house Counter Intelligence upstairs, a learning center for caffeinated seminars and labs. ³ If you make it down to the Diamond State to see Calexico’s Free At Noon WXPN show at World Café Live’sWilmington outpost, say hello to the venue’s new marketing coordinator. That’s Brittany Noonan, a lass indie-Delawarians know from WSTW-FM. ³ The rumors are true about another Philly-filmed collaboration between director David O. Russell and actor Bradley Cooper (who’ve already teamed up for Silver Linings Playbook, due out in November). The Hollywood Reporter confirms what Cooper said during the August premiere screening of The Words at The Prince: “We’ll be back filming in Philly before spring 2013.” Coop was talking about the D.O.R. flick once-titled American Bullshit that is now due to start filming in Philly in February 2013 with co-stars Jeremy Renner, Amy Adams and the Batman, Christian Bale. ³ It’s Thursday morning and Who Wants To Be a Millionaire wants you. There’s a casting call, noon-7 p.m., Oct. 11, at the Convention Center. Be 18+. Check millionairetv.com. Give me a cut if you got your audition notice here. ³ With the passing of lyricist Hal David, I’ve broken down a bit and have been reminiscing about the classic AM pop songs he made with Burt Bacharach and some of the acts that made them dynamic. Like The 5th Dimension, who, along with recording hits with Jimmy Webb (like “Up, Up and Away”), made a smash of the Bacharach/David track “One Less Bell to Answer.” Lead singer Florence LaRue and the rest of T5D play the Sellersville Theater Oct. 14. ³ Raindrops keep fallin’ on my head at citypaper. net/criticalmass. (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)

JESSE’S (A) GIRL: Melanie Julian as the eponymous outlaw in EgoPo’s all-female production of The Assassination of Jesse James. JENNA KUERZI

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UNSAVORY CHARACTERS Bandits, terrorists, assassins and retail managers storm Philly stages. ³ THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES The ensemble-created The Assassination of Jesse James, directed by Brenna Geffers, explores the myth and matter of the famous bank robber (1847-1882) in a broadly theatrical style with a twist: James, his gang and his pursuers are all played by women (costumed with veracity by Natalia de la Torre), adding another interpretive layer to the tale of America’s first celebrity outlaw. Melanie Julian makes James a brooding loner, both inspired and repulsed by his hero “Bloody Bill” Anderson, whose executions of Union prisoners James witnessed as a teenager serving in his Confederate guerilla force. Amanda Schoonover plays James’ wife Zee, and also an infiltrator scheming to capture the famous killer. Kate Brennan’s Charlie Ford is torn between loyalty to James and obligation to her callow brother Robert, played by Colleen Hughes, and Maria Konstantinidis serves admirably in multiple roles and leads the show’s singing. All are detailed, genuine portrayals, all the more impressive for the skill with which the actors transform into a rich variety of supporting characters. Geffers’ fascinating production maintains a documentary feel. The ensemble often steps out of character to quote direct sources, establishing how James’ exploits were immediately fictionalized

(his Robin Hood reputation was pure invention) via the propaganda war he waged to justify his bloody crimes. This production tries to cut away the legend. The gang’s pangs of conscience, the bleakness of life on the run and an unromantic portrayal of violence counter the allure of the grinning, boyish outlaw that’s James’ legacy. When James says, “I don’t know how to be a-feared,” it’s not with the jaw-clenched, squinting certainty of a typical male action hero; in Julian’s complex portrayal, it’s a realization of limitations. It’s oversimplifying to credit femininity for this humanizing approach, but our awareness of girls pretending to be boys who want to be men highlights the play’s anti-myth insights. Jesse James offers an entertaining glimpse of late-19th-century culture and its relevance to modern issues of celebrity and “reality.” The play’s dark epilogue explaining the survivors’ fates shows that no one associated with James could maintain, let alone profit from, his mythical status for long. Through Oct. 28, $25-$50, Plays & Players Theater, 1714 Delancey Pl., 267-273-1414, egopo.org.

A contrast to boyish outlaw allure.

—Mark Cofta

³ A SLOW AIR The starkness of Meghan Jones’ scenic design — steel support beams, a suggested airport runway, battered bar furniture — doesn’t hint at the rich, intimate family story that develops in Scottish playwright David Harrower’s A Slow Air.The bleak picture, completed by a video screen showing distant planes slowly crossing blue skies, >>> continued on page 26


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There aren’t many septuagenarians telling off fast-talking “boys” with “come-hither stares” or warning women that she’ll steal their men in her smooth-riding Cadillac. Thank goodness no one told Wanda Jackson.The once and future rockabilly queen — who’ll be 75 next week — reaffirms her crown on Unfinished Business (Sugar Hill), a ripping set of rock ’n’ roll chestnuts, classy country stylings and a heartfelt touch of gospel. Jackson plays Sellersville Theater Tuesday and World Café Live in Wilmington next Thursday.

San Francisco’s Ty Segall is on fire with Twins (Drag City), his third album of 2012. The guitar action’s razor-sharp on the pinhead anthem “You’re the Doctor” and the Stooges-groove of “Love Fuzz,” both showing his consistently sticky hooks sticking even stickier. If Segall starts a rock ’n’ roll cult — which he kinda does on the psychedelically operatic “The Hill” — I’m hopping the next bus to Fog City. —Elliott Sharp

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³ country/western swing The Time Jumpers are Nashville’s A-Team. Singer Vince Gill, pedal-steel tastemaker Paul Franklin, fiddler Larry Franklin and good ol’ “Ranger Doug” of Riders in the Sky — they’re just a few of the players who gather on Mondays at Music City’s iconic Station Inn purely for the pleasure of jamming with other superlative players. Real honky-tonk like Gill’s original “The Woman of My Dreams” and genuine western swing like Franklin’s “Texoma Bound” make the Jumpers’ self-titled collection (Rounder) a can’t-miss for those who appreciate virtuosic hillbilly jazz. —Mary Armstrong

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debut (Ribbon) — which opens with two of the year’s catchiest rock singles — sounds a bit like XTC and Hot Chip on holiday in the highlands with Super Furry Animals and Tunng, all singing and dancing round about the campfire. Yep, it’s another bunch of U.K. art-school lads (Scotsmen, in this case) having their wiry, whimsical way with us, mingling pastoral folk and fizzy pop into a patchwork of their own design, replete with woodsy harmonies, bleeping synths and peppery acoustic riffs. Jolly good show, Djangos, —K. Ross Hoffman jolly good.

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NOT BASED ON THE NOVEL BY SAPPHIRE: Lee Daniels follows up Precious with Nicole Kidman giving an air-blowjob.

Music Makers was a bold experiment. ³ EVERY MUSICAL GENRE has a community. The most visible segment consists of the players, followed by the fans. But then there are the instrument makers and purveyors, the publicists, the folks who sell the tickets, the venues and their staffs and last, and probably least, the critics. Last week, the classical-music world in Philadelphia lost someone who managed to play a number of these roles at different stages of her career, and some of them simultaneously. I first met Jane Lenel when she was one of the main sources for string-instrument rentals for Philadelphia school students, when my then-8year-old son needed a fiddle. A few years later, I noticed a curious publication in the magazine rack at Tower Records called Philadelphia Music Makers, edited by none other than Jane, and our paths crossed again. In short order, I became one of her scribes, and then an editor myself. Music Makers was a wonderful source of stories about a wide swath of musical Philadelphia. Through her urging and imagination, I met and wrote about not only amazing young classical musicians such as then-Curtis student Yuja Wang, now a worldwide sensation, or her famous teacher, Gary Graffman, but also such characters as a man who built a wooden pipe organ by hand in his Germantown apartment (John Kaye Gottschall) and a walking, playing bagpipe encyclopedia by the name of Charlie Rutan. As anyone struggling with print journalism these days knows all too well, putting out a magazine is increasingly difficult. Music Makers struggled even from the start, so Jane started sponsoring benefit concerts, and soon enough, we were in the live music business. Her connections led to exceptional events that were reasonably well attended, intimate chamber-music concerts in the truest sense. But it was not enough, and Jane’s bold experiment ended in 2009, almost a decade after it began. This was but a chapter in a rich life. Jane was also a writer and a fine violinist. For those who knew her, it seems almost superfluous to add that she was a vibrant, generous, smart and warm-spirited human being. Her life was a model of how one person can engage the world of art in an all-encompassing way, and although her friends will miss her greatly, she remains an inspiration on so many fronts. (p_burwasser@citypaper.net)

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A combination of backwater film noir and artsy sexploitation, the Philly native’s third feature — and followup to 2009 Best Picture nominee Precious — is certainly engrossing. That’s a good way to describe Nicole Kidman urinating on Zac Efron, right? And that is hardly The Paperboy’s strangest or most grotesque scene. And therein lies the problem. At some point — perhaps it’s when Kidman brings a bedraggled, handcuffed John Cusack to orgasm by pretending to fellate him from across the room (don’t worry, she gets off, too) — it sinks in that Lee has tossed coherent storytelling aside in favor of shock value and aestheticized trashiness. The result is a film that’s somehow both overworked and underdone, with a plot best described as a hot mess. Emphasis on the heat. It’s the sweaty, sticky summer of 1969 in a Florida swamp town, and Lee uses sultry hues to create an atmosphere ripe with tension, magnifying the lust and racial rifts that motivate his characters. It’s an ideal visual backdrop for the mystery thriller supposedly at the movie’s heart. Big-time journalist Ward Jansen (Matthew McConaughey) returns to his hometown to investigate the murder of the town’s sheriff. Needing an errand boy, Ward enlists little brother Jack (Efron), a listless college dropout living at home. Rounding out the crew is trashy, oversexed Charlotte (Kidman), who hopes the group can help free her accused-murderer fiance (Cusack). The story is meaty, and the actors do their best to summon some gravitas, but Daniels is far too eager to drop the plot to shoehorn in one more shocking sex act or shot of Efron running around in his tighty-whities. —Michael Gold

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forces us to consider how the story of estranged brother and sister, Athol (Brian McCann) and Morna (Emma Gibson), relates to larger issues in director Tom Reing’s production with Inis Nua. The personal tale is satisfying enough, really. Gibson and McCann are fascinating as the middle-aged sibs (with convincingly thick Glaswegian accents) making moves toward reconnecting after 14 years. The catalyst is Morna’s son, who makes a clumsy attempt to bring his mother and uncle together on his 21st birthday, and as the reunion approaches, the monologues begin to merge as the suspense mounts. Harrower, introduced to local audiences through Theatre Exile’s gripping productions of his equally challenging Blackbird and Knives in Hens, unspools their intersecting tales in a series of alternating monologues over a sleek 75 minutes. If you’re wondering where the planes come in, this is all tied to the failed terrorist attack on the Glasgow Airport on June 30, 2007, when two men drove a Jeep packed with explosives through the doors. (In Harrower’s world, the would-be terrorists lived in Athol’s neighborhood.) Actual TV news reports from the attack, projected on the back screen, occasionally punctuate scenes. What’s disturbing about them is how undisturbing they are; more than a decade after 9/11, we’re far too accustomed to how TV news portrays violence and its aftermath. The global issues resulting in the terrorist attack don’t dovetail exactly with the family split, but that makes its own point: Life, unlike most fiction, doesn’t make obvious connections between interpersonal and international situations. But juxtaposing them forces us to mull the parallels. Through Oct. 21, $20-$25, Off-Broad Street Theater, 1636 Sansom St., 215-454-9776, inisnuatheatre.org. —Mark Cofta

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³ RFK The past 30 years have seen a fall in Kennedy stock. The family that once represented heroism and sacrifice tends to be portrayed now as a collection of power- and sex-hungry vulgarians — from Camelot to “came a lot,” as it were. So it’s heartening to see a positive spin in Jack Holmes’ small-scale, touching one-man play RFK. It’s possible that people under 50 won’t instantly know that RFK is JFK’s younger brother, Robert Francis Kennedy. A quick bio: As his brother’s attorney general, RFK famously cracked down on organized crime and enforced civil rights. After John Kennedy’s death, he won a seat in the Senate and became a presidential front-runner himself in 1968, but was assassinated the night he won the California primary. Historical monodramas are, for me, a tough sell. Almost always, they oversimplify and overpraise. And what is an actor to do when playing someone who is instantly recognizable? RFK mostly avoids these potential pitfalls. Russ Widdall’s no ringer for Robert Kennedy, but he’s a fine actor who clearly connects with the character. He’s mastered the accent and vocal mannerisms, and looks just enough like Kennedy that it’s not jarring to see him next to actual newsreel footage (one of the many forms of period media employed in a sort of recurring collage by director Ginger Dayle — ideally, this conceit would be more seamlessly executed, but somehow the almost-homemade quality emphasizes the humanity behind the whole enterprise). Robert Kennedy was a controversial figure, dogged by allegations of high-handed manipulation. But the person we see here is an enormously likeable, deeply principled man who continually worked to prove himself worthy of his family name. (A trope in RFK is that the Kennedys overlooked and underestimated this middle child.) It’s fair to say the show is pretty much a love letter to its subject, but what makes it work is that it’s at least as much about the political turmoil he lived through — and fought to change — as it is about the man himself. Vietnam and civil rights are front and center, as they should be. RFK will be self-recommending to many people, but I hope some younger audiences get there, too. The show — and RFK

WATER CRUELER: Catherine Palfenier and Kevin Bergen in A Bright New Boise. KATHRYN RAINES

himself — deserves it. Through Oct. 21, $24-$26, The Adrienne, 2030 Sansom St., 215-563-7500, newcitystage.org. —David Anthony Fox

³ A BRIGHT NEW BOISE We know right away that the title of Samuel D. Hunter’s 2011 Obie Award-winning play A Bright New Boise is ironic — the play is set in a bleakly recognizable box-store employee break room, where beleaguered Hobby Lobby manager Pauline (Catherine Palfenier) interviews shy, older Will (Kevin Bergen) for a minimumwage retail job. It’s 38 hours a week (which is part-time, two hours shy of full-time and benefits). Yes, in director Jill Harrison’s terrific production, we’re in a uniquely American hell. The audience — sitting on opposite sides of Ian Guzzone’s wonderfully terrible little room, fluorescent-lit by David Todaro — soon sees that Hunter has plans beyond depicting minimum-wage misery. When Will’s small talk with surly teen coworker Alex (Aubie Merrylees) falters, he blurts out that he is Alex’s father. “You’d better not need a kidney,” the kid sneers. Will arrives penniless, but with baggage: He’s a survivor of the New Life Fellowship, which preached end times until scandal destroyed them. Will still believes, writing Rapture fiction on his blog. Alex’s adoptive brother Leroy (Robert Carlton) tries to drive Will away — “This is me deliberately making you uncomfortable,” he glowers — while shy reader Anna (Jessica DalCanton) finds Will’s hobby alluring. All seek something to believe in: Leroy trusts his feeble art, Anna wants a man, Pauline’s god is a profitable store, Alex needs family. Father and son make lurching progress as Will, in Bergen’s masterfully understated performance, struggles to maintain his battered religious identity despite his new world’s temptations — particularly the heartbreakingly lonely Anna. “One day, none of this will matter,” Will insists, but he begins to hope for more. Hunter’s ending surprises with its suddenness — it shocked me, I think, because I was so invested in the characters and not ready to let them go — but an incisive script and the cast’s fine performances help us realize that providing no easy answers is sometimes the right answer. Through Oct. 21, $10-$22, Walnut Street Theatre, Independence Studio on 3, 825 Walnut St., 215-423-0254, simpatico—Mark Cofta theatre.org.

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Orchards School for Troubled Teens, the setting of Dan Josefson’s That’s Not a Feeling (Oct. 2, Soho), has in common with The Bradley School of Bronwen Hruska’s Accelerated (Oct. 2, Pegasus), where every pupil reads well past grade level. The rural isolation of Roaring Orchards seems worlds away from Bradley’s Upper East Side; the defeated, largely absent parents who send their children off to Josefson’s therapeutic boarding school couldn’t behave more differently from the overinvolved parents on Bradley’s pushy, entitled alumni board. The upshot, of course, is that these schools aren’t all that different. The dark secret at the heart of Bradley’s success is pharmaceutical, a cabinet in the basement filled with the same stuff a place like Roaring Orchards doesn’t bother to hide — Ritalin, Adderall and lithium. And if the external specifics of Feeling’s comic coming-of-age story contrast with thriller-flavored Accelerated’s parental nightmare, both books share specific anxieties: authority and its arbitrary exercise, and the ways apparently free choices trap you into unwilling consent. In Feeling, Roaring Orchards is an ideal place for authority anxieties; when difficult, suicidal Benjamin is dropped off there (for a tour, his parents tell him), its headmaster and founder is withdrawing into illness, leaving behind a structure of rules nobody understands. Benjamin’s struggle to navigate the emotionalgrowth-education mushiness of the system is clever, but it’s also comfortable, drawing on a vocabulary of recovery memoirs and cuckoo’s nests. So when Gary, one of the low-functioning New Boys, starts making up stories about his sex addiction in order to move forward in “the process,” the outlandishness of his farm-animal stories is amusing, but there’s no shock in the symbiosis between cynical patient and needy therapist. Where Josefson surprises, however, is in his earnestness. There’s Tidbit, one of the Alternative Girls (better than New, but not a Regular Kid) whose frustration with not being able to move forward under Roaring Orchards’ arbitrary rules keeps her lashing out; there’s Ellie, one of the Dorm Parents who is doubtful at best about the system, but who immediately lapses into passive-aggres-

sive jargon about feelings when her boyfriend hits a rough patch. In fact, it’s poor, trapped Ellie who best resembles the characters in Accelerated, a smoother, tighter, more carefully plotted exorcism of the same anxieties. Accelerated sticks close to a set of parents whose primaryschool kids are experiencing the first pressures to perform, but they’re shown to be just as thoroughly cowed and co-opted as any Roaring Orchards inmate. Hruska shows us Bradley mainly through the eyes of tabloid editor Sean Benning, beholden to his estranged wife’s father for his son’s tuition and pressured to pursue any advantage — including evaluating and medicating Toby for ADHD despite not seeing any symptoms himself. Sean’s sister jokes: “His

Ritalin, Adderall and lithium. advanced artwork is taking time from his advanced math, so they’d like to give him extra help and maybe throw in some study drugs to get him up to speed.” After a classmate succumbs to a “peanut allergy” and Toby collapses, Sean begins to tease out a conspiracy and Accelerated takes on the outlines of a thriller. That structure is fortunate, even if it leads to a couple of cardboard villains and a quick, pat ending. A more characterdriven story might have forced Accelerated to confront Sean’s inconsistencies, and, well, the sex. (Not only does he sleep with his estranged wife and his son’s teacher, but Accelerated opens, bizarrely, with a tryst with the mother of one of his son’s classmates in a fundraising-party bathroom — a weird choice for an introduction.) Instead, Accelerated shows how Sean is manipulated, via false choices that play on his insecurities, into surrendering his sense of what’s right for his family. (j_bauer@citypaper.net)


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ARGO |B+ Forty years ago, Argo would have been an easy film to overrate; now, the reverse is true. Over the course of three films, Ben Affleck has emerged as an exceptionally solid, resolutely unspectacular director, the kind whose level of understated craft should be a requirement rather than an aspiration. Things being as they are, however, Argo is an unexpected treat, a cracking true(ish) story whose cast is replete with great character actors: Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Alan Arkin, Victor Garber, Zeljko Ivanek, Titus Welliver, Chris Messina, Bob Gunton and Richard Kind, and that’s just for starters. Affleck takes the lead as a CIA ex-filtration expert whose job is to smuggle a half-dozen American embassy workers out of locked-down Tehran in 1979, a largely unknown offshoot of the contemporary hostage crisis. The plan — an absurdity arrived at after anything more plausible has fallen through — is for Affleck to enter the country as the second-rung producer of a Hollywood sci-fi movie looking to shoot in Iran, and the rest of the Americans to pose as the film’s crew, a ruse that involves generating ample publicity for the bogus production. There are soft in-jokes about the parallel prevalence of bullshit in the movie industry and covert intelligence, lots of scenes with men in pointy-collared shirts and scruffy beards involved in tense dialogue exchanges — nothing earth-shattering, but enough for a high-level diversion of a kind presently all too rare. Divorce it from awards-season hype, and Argo holds up fine: There’s no need to pretend it’s something it’s not, when what it is works just fine. —Sam Adams (UA 69th Street, UA Riverview) ATLAS SHRUGGED: PART 2 A haiku: It’s like Jesus said:

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HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE |A The height of the AIDS crisis coincided with the rise of camcorder culture, and its epicenter was in Greenwich Village, heavily populated by artists and media-savvy young people. As a result, the struggle for political acknowledgement and solutions was recorded in-depth, as reflected by David France’s essential documentary tracing the efforts of ACT UP and its offshoot organization, TAG. Using no narration and the bare minimum of onscreen text — largely limited to a year-by-year tally of the disease’s mounting death toll — France lets the story unfold through contemporary footage, giving the scramble to procure recognition, treatment and effective drugs a real-time urgency. This approach virtually erases the viewer’s hindsight, affording each victory and loss a vivid, in-the-moment suspense. It also allows the villains of the piece, in particular George H.W. Bush and Jesse Helms, to condemn themselves with their own repulsive words. In the end, the sparing use of modern-day talking heads suddenly gives way to a silent montage of the survivors. The effect is incredibly moving. The loss of those we’ve watched over the past two hours — those whose faces don’t reappear — resonates profoundly. It also serves, as suggested by the instruction-manual title, as a primer for political action, demonstrating the change that a motivated and (mostly) united community can effect. —Shaun Brady (Ritz at the Bourse) MIDDLE OF NOWHERE A haiku: Congrats on finding yourself a new lover while your husband’s in jail! (Not reviewed) (UA Riverview)


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Set in a present not far from our own, Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) labors as a “looper,” a glassy-eyed mafia grunt specializing in the offing of anonymous transgressors banished from the future and sent back 30 years for disposal. To limit liability, the employing syndicate, run by the oddly kind Abe (Jeff Daniels), periodically shoots back decades-weathered versions of the loopers themselves, stamping a non-negotiable expiration date on its freelancers. When Joe, already mired in existential woe over the finality of his career, comes face-to-face with his own creased visage (Bruce Willis), he hesitates just long enough for the more experienced, more dangerous version of himself to flee. Falling in with a single mother (Emily Blunt) and her captivating, frightening son (Pierce Gagnon), Young Joe tracks Old Joe’s movements and vice versa, each killer hacking brush to escape from his impossible situation. So few dystopian setups dodge the derivative, and director Rian Johnson’s isn’t perfect, but Looper, is more clever

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Having adopted a Chinese baby girl herself, director Linda Goldstein Knowlton decided to make a doc following four teenage girls who had also been adopted from China — refugees, essentially, of the infamous One Child Policy — and raised in America. On the surface, Somewhere Between is disarmingly touching and positive, but it barely touches on the issues these surprisingly well-adjusted teens are dealing with. The adoptive parents, for instance, remain largely unseen and unheard. That is, until an

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The second collaboration between Irish rapscallions Martin McDonagh and Colin Farrell rides a more absurd route than 2008’s In Bruges, but the director’s affinity for throwaway violence, blunted female characters and the psychologically impotent men who love/hate them is as alive as ever. Like McDonagh’s debut, Seven Psychopaths tangles up the criminal world with the cinematic — but the director doesn’t intend to prove the two have anything in common. Rather, the creative-class freedom of an alcoholic screenwriter’s day-to-day life permits the plot to lumber in any direction it pleases, with varying results. Working on a freewheeling script that attempts to Tarantino-glue a crew of murderers together, Marty (Farrell) is struggling with his craft, to the frustration of his girl (Abbie Cornish) and amusement of his oddball bud Billy (Sam Rockwell), who makes rent with partner Hans (Christopher Walken) kidnapping dogs and returning them for reward cash. The pair has crosshairs placed on their heads after nabbing a shih tzu belonging to gangster Charlie (Woody Harrelson), but this isn’t a typical locked-and-loaded caper comedy. About an hour in, McDonagh gets smart, braiding together Marty’s scribblings with new and existing characters in a burly swing for the postmodern fences. At its most congruous, the trickery works, especially thanks to Rockwell and a jamming Tom Waits, who are let off the leash and told to run. But McDonagh’s cutesy passes at the audience beget a leaden byproduct: plot points that are more sneering than steering. The fence-free setup is truly anything goes, but that doesn’t mean everything should. —Drew Lazor (Pearl, UA Riverview)

awkward scene where one girl meets her birth parents and her adoptive mother bluntly asks, “So, who abandoned her?” It’s the film’s provocative moment, and a glimpse into the depths Knowlton left unexplored. —Catherine Haas (Ritz at the Bourse)

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THE MASTER |AOne night, in a toxic haze, World War II sailor Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix) wanders onto a yacht chartered by Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman), the guru behind a nebulous self-help movement called The Cause. Dodd insists that humankind is a breed apart from the animal kingdom, but Freddie is all urges. In the first scene, as word of the armistice filters in, he and his fellow sailors fashion a woman’s body out of wet sand to celebrate, and until the movie’s final scene, that’s as close as Freddie comes to getting his end wet. Whether he’s striking out or pushing away, he remains unsatisfied, which may be a deliberate metaphor for

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how The Master leaves us. Phoenix’s performance is a guttural wonder, and Hoffman seems to have found a whole new register for his voice, but as Freddie drifts into and finally out of Dodd’s orbit, director Paul Thomas

Anderson seems like a chess player toying with a mid-level piece, shifting him around the board without a strategy in place. The Master is less than the sum of its parts, but, oh, what parts they are. —SA (Ritz Five)

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If you remember anything from the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, it’s probably America’s basketball “dream team.” But a couple notches down on the medal podium was the “other” dream team, superstars from basketball-obsessed (who knew?) Lithuania, carrying all the aspirations of their newly liberated republic on their shoulders. In the underdog-loving, longshot-favoring world of sports documentaries, one can generally expect the most unlikely victors — if given enough camera time — to overcome the odds. The Other Dream Team, the first full-length feature by writer-director Marius Markevicius, faces the challenge of breaking new ground while traveling that welltrodden path. But even robbed of suspense, the Lithuanians’ journey to somewhere improbably near the top makes for a compelling tale: a wild ride that wanders far afield from the basketball court, into life under communist Soviet occupation. —Samantha Melamed (Ritz at the Bourse)

824 W. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr, 610-527-9898, brynmawrfilm.org. Pete’s Dragon (1977, U.S., 128 min.): This family musical uses both live-action and animation to tell the story of a young orphan and his dragon friend. Sat., Oct. 13, 11 a.m., $5. A League of Their Own (1992, U.S., 128 min.): A dramatized retelling of the ups and downs of America’s first professional women’s baseball league. No crying permitted. Tue., Oct. 16, 7:30 p.m., free. State of the Union (1948, U.S., 124 min.): Frank Capra’s sole MGM effort showcases Spencer Tracy as an industrialist whose campaign for president places a heavy burden on his relationship with his wife (Katharine Hepburn). Wed., Oct. 17, 7 p.m., $10.

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Liam Neeson was the first and only reason Taken was such a sleeper — who the hell expected Michael Collins to loosen his necktie and pulverize three-quarters of the Albanian human-trafficker population with his bare hands? Neeson's second spin as an unbreakable (retired) CIA necksnapper, overseen by slick action specialist Olivier Megaton (Transporter 3, Colombiana), has all the gunfights and auto chases your adrenalineaddled heart desires, but it's missing the dogged undercurrent that made the 2008 original so magnetic. —DL (Pearl, UA 69th Street, UA Riverview)

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✚ REPERTORY FILM AMBLER THEATER 108 E. Butler Ave., Ambler, 215-3457855, amblertheater.org. Film 101: Inside the Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men (2007, U.S., 122 min.): Prof. Maurizio Giammarco of Temple University leads a discussion on the Coens’ 2007 hit about a hunter on the run from a local sheriff and psychotic killer. Watch the movie first; select clips will be examined at the event. Thu., Oct. 11, 7:30 p.m., $9.75.

THE BALCONY 1003 Arch St., 215-922-6888, thetroc. com. Prometheus (2012, U.S., 124 min.): Ridley Scott’s “quasi-prequel” to the Alien franchise follows the crew of the titular spaceship in their over-zealous and under-thought journey to meet their maker. Mon., Oct. 15, 8 p.m., $3.

COLONIAL THEATRE 227 Bridge St., Phoenixville, 610917-1228, thecolonialtheatre.com. First Friday Fright Night screening Halloween III: Season of the Witch

(1982, U.S., 98 min.): The underrated misfit in the Halloween franchise trades in Michael Myers for a sinister mask-maker, whose cursed creations kill the children who don them. Fri., Oct. 12, 9:45 p.m., $8. Scopitone Party! (U.S./Europe, 120 min.): A Secret Cinema screening of rare American- and European-produced ’60s music films, intended for the French “Scopitone” jukeboxes (distant ancestors of MTV). Sun., Oct. 14, 2 p.m., $8.

COUNTY THEATER 20 E. State St., Doylestown, 215-3456789, countytheater.org. Barton Fink (1991, U.S, 116 min.): The Coens’ surrealist noir examines a praised playwright turned reluctant screenwriter in his struggle to produce a successful script while facing down disillusionment, murder and the Hollywood studio system. Wed., Oct. 17, 7:30 p.m., $9.75. 2012 Bucks Fever FilmFest: Screening of the festivals’ winning short entries from local filmmakers — students and professionals alike. Sun., Oct. 14, 7 p.m., $10.

FREEDOM THEATRE 1346 N. Broad St., 215-765-2793, freedomtheatre.org. Radio personality Tim Greene (Radio-One Philly, WPHI) and local filmmaker Ayanna McMillan present a double feature screening of their recent work. Supa Kidz (2012, U.S.) and The Re-Programmers (2012, U.S.) highlight good-clean-fun stories of inner-city kids teaming up to rid their streets of crime and drugs. In addition to the screening, Greene will host a free “Actors Workshop” for young artists aspiring to careers in the entertainment business. Sun., Oct. 14, 4 p.m., free.

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MOSAIC AT THE MOVIES Temple University, 821 Anderson Hall, 114 W. Berks St., temple.edu. Fat Girl (2001, France, 86 min.): A not-so-typical family vacation flick (well, maybe more so in the French art-house world); while traveling with their parents along the seaside, sisters Anaïs and Elena share differing views on their respective virginities. When they cross paths with Fernando, their abstract opinions are made flesh. Tue., Oct. 16, 5:30 p.m., free.

RAVE MOTION PICTURES 4012 Walnut St., 215-386-9800, ravemotionpictures.com. Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre: All’s Well That Ends Well (U.K., 138 min.): Special one-night-only screening of the Shakespeare’s Globe troupe, performing the Bard’s famed problem play. Thu., Oct. 11, 6:45 p.m., $12.50.

THE ROTUNDA 4014 Walnut St., 215-573-3234, therotunda.org. Get your freak on in this double feature of silent cult gems from sideshow auteur Tod Browning. The Unknown (1927, U.S., 63 min.): A fugitive-turned-carny (Lon Chaney) contends with his strongman peer for the heart of Nanon (Joan Crawford), the sexually frustrated daughter of the circus owner. The Unholy Three (1925, U.S., 86 min.): Lon Chaney returns, this time as a ventriloquist who escapes the circus life with his muscle-man and mini-man brethren to start a life a crime. Each film will feature live music accompaniment from shoegaze/folk-punk locals Lincoln vs. The Moon. Thu., Oct. 11, 8 p.m., free.

WOODMERE ART MUSEUM 9201 Germantown Ave., 215-2470476, woodmereartmuseum.org. Our Man in Havana (1959, 111 min.): Alec Guinness stars as a vacuumcleaner salesman turned British spy. Tue., Oct. 16, 7 p.m., $5.

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—Jessica Bergman Through Oct. 14, various times, various locations, events.designphiladelphia.org.

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✚ DESIGNPHILADELPHIA

✚ THE MOUNTAIN GOATS

Now in its eighth year, DesignPhiladelphia seeks to highlight the ways design can innovate, problem-solve and elevate everyday life, bringing together more than 400 creatives from fashion, architecture, film, mu-

John Darnielle’s 14th-ish Mountain Goats album bursts open with surging strums, seething intensity and a lyric — “Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive” — that grits teeth in the face of near-unendurable

—K. Ross Hoffman Thu., Oct. 11, 7 p.m., $18-$24.50, with Matthew E. White, TLA, 334 South St., 215-922-1011, livenation.com.

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✚ LAR LUBOVITCH DANCE COMPANY Led by its namesake master choreographer, the troupe delivers lush, effervescent movement — a lively start to Dance Celebration’s 30th season. Besides the concert dance stage, Lubovitch has created choreography for Olympic ice skaters and Broadway, so he knows how to play to a crowd. He’s a dance architect driven by musical choices, which tend toward sophisticated sonics. This program features North Star, first performed in 1978, and one of the first dances set to the music of Philip Glass, as well as Crisis Variations, done to the music of contemporary composer Yevgeniy Sharlat. The latter was awarded the 2012 Prix Benois de la Danse for Choreography at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, which just goes to show, after four decades, Lubovitch remains at

the top of his game. —Deni Kasrel Thu.-Sat., Oct. 11-13, $20-$55, Annenberg Center, 3680 Walnut St., 215-898-3900, pennpresents.org.

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✚ PIFFARO Piffaro concerts are exceptionally delightful musical experiences, but it’s also fun just to see their exotic-looking old instruments in action. The acclaimed Philadelphia-based Renaissance band certainly has a flair for drama. This concert features the debut of their new baby, a six-foot-long shawm, a popular Renaissance woodwind. The works they will play reflect the surprising range of music that was to be heard in 16th-

century Germany, for audiences both royal and common, secular and ecclesiastical. —Peter Burwasser Fri., Oct. 12, 8 p.m., Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, 8855 Germantown Ave.; Sat., Oct. 13, 8 p.m., Trinity Center for Urban Life, 22nd and Spruce streets; $15-$40, 215-2358469, piffaroplaza.com.

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✚ CALEXICO The big story with Calexico’s seventh proper full-length is that Joey Burns and John Convertino decamped from their longtime home base of Tucson to record in New Orleans; specifically, the sleepy West Bank neighborhood that gives the album its name. It’s good copy, but Algiers (Anti-) turns out to have almost no audible connection to the City that Care Forgot. In fact, it’s just as steeped in the romance and mystery of the Southwest as anything they’ve done — moody, slow-rolling desert rock laced with Norteño, mariachi

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circumstances. It’s characteristic almost to the point of self-parody, instantly recalling the raw urgency of classic MG anthems like “This Year,” and it’s potent as hell. The rest of Transcendental Youth (Merge) follows suit, rife with the darkness and desperation that is Darnielle’s richest métier — though the characters given voice in these songs, mostly sufferers of some form of mental illness, are particularly troubled even by his standards. The proceedings are augmented (or perhaps tempered) by several sumptuous, chorale-like horn charts penned by Richmond, Va.’s Matthew E. White, who’ll be on hand tonight to share some of the gentle, devotional folk-soul epics from his debut, Big Inner (Spacebomb/Hometapes) — an unlikely intermingling of Van Dyke Parks, Curtis Mayfield and Spiritualized — which occupies almost precisely the opposite end of the emotional spectrum.

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ral arts and other disciplines. In partnership with UArts, the citywide festival hosts more than 100 events in interesting locations, from churches to a botanic garden to a community-built pop-up playground. Examine Jordan Elise Perme’s charmingly macabre faux-taxidermy sculptures at Horrible Adorables, watch models travel by tricycle at the CandyCoated Trunk Show, screenprint T-shirts with Common Press leaders at Printing in the Open and more.


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and dusky, dusty blues. —K. Ross Hoffman Fri., Oct. 12, 9 p.m., $20, with Dodos, Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St., 215-232-2100, utphilly.com.

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✚ MATIAS AGUAYO Born in South America but raised in Germany, producer/DJ Matias Aguayo of the Cómeme imprint is known for taking the sounds of Latin America and flipping them into modern dancefloor anthems. His legendary DJ sets include a mélange of influences: house, kwaito, techno, cumbia and more, with occasional live singing and percussion thrown in for good measure. Bottom Power booked this tropicalia blend alongside its resident DJs: Russel Alexander, Dave Tidey and Tony Modica. Sure to be a fun and funky night that will expand your musical palate. —Gair “dev79” Marking Fri., Oct. 12, 10 p.m.-2 a.m., $5, Ruby Lounge, 1221 St. James St., 215-7355772, voyeurnightclub.com.

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✚ SOMOS Choreographer Merián Soto worries about “planetary crises of imagination,” and she’s doing her part to thwart it with SoMoS, a high-sensory work presented in an outdoor parking lot in North Philly’s barrio. The lot takes up a full city block, and Soto’s filling it with geodesic tents, projected images, soundscapes and performers who dance with branches. It’s a culmination of a series of branch dances, which previously occurred in natural settings. With this finale, Soto aims to show us that creativity and wonderment can happen anywhere. SoMoS is massive and immersive, and docents will be on hand to help you find your way around. Feel free to get up close to the dancers and wander about the space however you like. This is going to be a very cool event. —Deni Kasrel Fri., Oct. 12, 7:15 and 9 p.m., free, 2600-2624 N. Fifth St., 484-431-4503, meriansoto.com.

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✚ BLEEDING RAINBOW After chugging along as Read-

ing Rainbow, Philly’s minimalist noise choir got some cease-anddesist flak from PBS. Hence the name change. The roster got a shake-up, too, with bassist/singer Sarah Everton (formerly the drummer) and guitarist/vocalist Rob Garcia enlisting new axe man Al Creedon and drummer Greg Frantz for a version of Bleeding Rainbow that’s harder but more dreamily psychedelic. On their new 7-inch, “Drift Away,” the girl-boy harmonies are front and center. Two more singles will follow, leading up to Yeah Right, the new full-length scheduled to drop in January. You can’t stop the Bleeding. —A.D. Amorosi Fri., Oct. 12, 9:15 p.m., $10, with FarOut Fangtooth and Heavy Medical, Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 215-739-9684, johnnybrendas.com.

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✚ PAUL GEREMIA It’s not your imagination: Paul Geremia really has been playing the blues on the coffeehouse circuit since the ’60s. It started with the Newport Folk Festival in his native Rhode Island in 1963. “I saw [Mississippi] John Hurt in a workshop,” he recalls, “and the next year was really big for the blues at Newport — Sleepy John Estes, Yank Rachell, Skip James.” Geremia watched hard whenever he could. “I couldn’t afford even a $10 lesson with the old guys like

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Q: I’ve recently gone out on a couple of dates with a guy in a wheelchair. I really like him and am very attracted to him. I’d like to move forward, but don’t know how, or if it’s even possible. What do I do or say? A: It’s only human to feel uncomfortable talking about another person’s disability — society teaches us at an early age that it’s not polite to stare or ask intrusive questions. But if he’s been in a wheelchair for more than a couple hours, we pretty much guarantee that he’s had a lot of experience answering awkward questions. Remember, this probably isn’t an easy topic for him to bring up, either. (“Hey, great second date — I can still have sex, by the way.”) So just … ask! It sounds like you’re worried that he’ll say he can’t get or sustain an erection, or that he has no sensation below his waist. First, despite popular perception, not all disabled individuals are completely without feeling or motion in their affected limbs. Ask and he may give you some idea of what he can feel and do. He may have full sensation and can get hard like no other, in which case ride that chair (or bed, or shower stall)! Second: Sex and pleasure — even penetration — aren’t only possible in the presence of an erection. Your friend may have different erotic zones, possibly the area right above his disability, which may have increased sensitivity. The authors of The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability — a book you should put on your Kindle right now — make the good point that the process of figuring out what works for both of you can be really fun, as you get to explore new positions, toys and sensations.And while you’re doing a little research, check out the documentary (Sex)abled: Disability Uncensored for a more personal take on the topic. (Check out a clip at citypaper. net/criticalmass.) (megan.augustin@citypaper.net) Meg Augustin is a freelance journalist with a master’s in human sexuality education.

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some of the others could,” but by 1966, Geremia had taught himself enough to charm audiences at the Second Fret and the Main Point. He hadn’t intended the blues to be his only career, but what day job could compete? All this time, the recipe remains the same. “I still play a combo of old blues and originals. I get as much pleasure out of playing the traditional stuff as I do the originals,” he says. “I never know what I’m going to do, I just get on the stage and play what I feel like playing.” —Mary Armstrong Fri., Oct. 12, 8 p.m., $20-$25, Psalm Salon, 5841 Overbrook Ave., 215-4777578, psalmsalon.com.

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✚ JOE MORRIS/ WILLIAM PARKER/ MARCO ENEIDI Guitarist Joe Morris and bassist William Parker have long been two of the most original and influential voices on their respective instruments, and in some cases on each other’s — both have served as bassist in various incarnations of pianist Matthew Shipp’s groups. Their recent release Altitude, a trio date with drummer Gerald Cleaver, finds them chasing and entangling

each other, an unquenchable font of elusive invention. For this appearance in the new performance series curated by local experimental duo Archer Spade, they’ll be joined by Bay Area saxophonist Marco Eneidi. Something of a wild card, Eneidi is lesser-known than his triomates, having been present on the burgeoning early ’80s New York scene alongside Parker but gone for the West Coast before it reached its full fruition. —Shaun Brady Sat., Oct. 13, 8 p.m., $12, with Blacksberg/Engle/Millevoi/Szekely, Studio 34, 4522 Baltimore Ave., studio34yoga.com.

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✚ THE END OF TIME The Mayan calendar is running


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out and we’re all gonna be dead soon, probably. That’s why the University of Pennsylvania Center for Ancient Studies is riding out the clock with The End of Time symposium. The keynote speaker is Dr. Elaine Pagels, author of Revelations: Visions, Prophecy and Politics in the Book of Revelation, wherein she breaks down the Bible’s horrific predictions and relates them back to the time the book was written — about the year 90. Other speakers throughout the day will discuss Mayan, Incan, Aztec and medieval end-time scenarios. The symposium is free, so if all the doomsayers were wrong, it’s not the end of the world.

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their debut albums beginning to end, the resurrected Swans have shown no interest in nostalgia. What’s surprising is the fact that after a decade and a half of dormancy, founder/ mainstay Michael Gira and company have returned with two of their most vital and harrowing albums. The latest, The Seer, opens with the bleakly brutal 20-minute howl of “The Apostate,” and those who make it through emerge with another hour and a half of transcendent austerity yet to go. —Shaun Brady

—Nikki Black Sat., Oct. 13, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., free, Penn Museum, 3260 South St., 215-8984000, penn.museum.

Sat., Oct. 13, 9 p.m., $20, with A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St., 215-232-2100, utphilly.com.

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It seems like virtually every band that ever had a video on 120 Minutes has reunited in the past few years. But unlike all of those acts slogging around the country reviving

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Where are all the socially conscious, politically aware, multiracial prog-rocking rap acts with a sense of humor in 2012? Well, for the most part there’s kinda-sorta only been one: Denver’s Flobots. Started by a bunch of elementary-school pals in love with Common (yay) and Rage Against the Machine (ugh), the Colorado live-band hip-hop outfit self-released EPs and dropped full albums on the majors until winding up somewhere in between in 2012 with its newest album dropped on the Shanachie label. The recently released The Circle in the Square finds the Flobots MCs yakking heavy-handedly about the ever-present ordeal in the Middle East, even-handedly about the Occupy movement and with wry warmth and sensitivity when it comes to human rights. —A.D. Amorosi Wed., Oct. 17, 9 p.m., $14-$16, MilkBoy Philly, 1100 Chestnut St., 215-925MILK, milkboyphilly.com.

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been around forever. It just feels like it. Mercer’s always-been-here vibe crescendoes during weekend brunch, when locals in their Sunday best (Eagles jerseys) fill the retro-looking counter’s black-padded swivel stools and cheery waitresses proffer “eggs Flo” (Florentine) with piping joe. It’s hard to believe this spot just opened in 2000. A certain Mrs. Mroz ran a variety store and soda fountain in Mercer’s digs back when brothers Tom and Bobby Woltjen were growing up in Port Richmond. Bobby acquired the building in 1995, and with Tom, a union carpenter, turned the space into an ice-cream counter and coffee shop. They brewed La Colombe and made breakfast sandwiches on Le Bus bagels, way ahead of the gentrification curve. Dina Woltjen (née Taconelli — yes, thatTacconelli), Tom’s wife, made roast pork and beef in the back, and, as Tom says, “In another year or so, we were blowing out the walls and putting in a full kitchen. We grew and grew and grew.” Grew the business, that is, not the cafe’s actual footprint, a cozy 49 seats. The Woltjen family packs ’em in for breakfast and lunch daily, but Mercer Cafe never feels too crowded, and the endearing staff, run by Tom and Dina’s daughter, Liza, is never far away with fresh coffee, syrup and smiles. Chefs Rob Lapelle and Jason Masino tackle the quick-coming tickets with aplomb. Sure, the baby spinach on my eggs Flo arrived half wilted and half raw, but the hollandaise flowed like honey and the eggs were perfectly poached. Tender asparagus and hunks of crab filled a hearty omelet veined with house-made pesto. Lavished in thick whorls, Nutella added its nutty chocolate power to high pillows of challah French toast dotted with strawberries. Mercer gets so much right. Bacon is thick. Home fries are crisp. But the greatest victory here is the cream chipped beef. “It’s my father’s recipe,” says Tom. “It’s got three ingredients: butter, heavy cream and beef.” Had he told me it was made exclusively of butter, I would have believed him. The S.O.S. bled liquid gold, conveying a richness that wouldn’t quit. This is not only the best chipped beef in the city, but probably in the world. Most restaurants have to clock 100 years to earn a claim like that. Not Mercer. But I’m betting it’s got a century in its future. I’ll be sure to send in my grandkids. And have them tell Liza hello. (adam.erace@citypaper.net)


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GOLDEN RETRIEVER PUPS - AKC reg., Penn Hip cert., parents, 1st shots/W, vet records. $750. 3 M. avail. 610-209-0248 JACK RUSSEL / TOY FOX TERRIER Cross Puppies - Very cute and playful! Farm raised. Ready now for $225. 610.273.9098

Keeshond schrocks Pups AKC shots & wormed. 12 wks old. $600. 443-480-1332 Kittens: Persian, Himilayan, CFA, all shots, PKD negative, $850. 717-865-6148

American Bulldog pups, NKC reg., M & F, 1st shots, $1200. Call (609)963-5629 AMERICAN BULLY Pups ABKC, Registered, shots, wormed, vet checked. Nice markings. Starting price $650. Family raised. Call 717-529-3715

BORDER TERRIER PUPPIES - Males, home raised, house broken. Call 717-921-8617

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Boston Terrier Puppies starting at $400 www.LancasterPuppies.com

BOXER PUPPIES - AKC, vet checked, shots, dew clawed, $850. 717-933-4160 Cavalier Spaniel 3 YEAR OLD TRI-COLOR MALE $500. 215-549-7004

Labradoodle Mini pups, black, avail. Oct 2nd. M $700, F $850. (717)587-4186

LABRADOR PUPPIES, sired by a champion, OFA/PennHip/CERF 215-287-7558 PITBULL FEM - 8 mo, Blk & wht, Fem 6 mo brown. $75 ea. 215-254-0562 Poodle MINI AKC CH SIRE BEAUTIFUL BLK FM pup VET CERT $950. 215.536.5516 Rottweiler German pups, AKC, shots, tails clipped, 4F/4M $550. 267-270-5529 Rottweiler Pups AKC,Hme-Rais’d, health records, puppy kits,friendly, 717-271-8766 Rottweiler pups, AKC, shots, wormed, vet checked, very playful, farm raised with children, $800. (717)529-3772 ext. 1

Rottweiler pups, exc. lines, M $900, F $800, ready now, Daniel 717-989-3320

Shih Tzu 10 week Male Shih tzu $350 obo. 215-806-3051 DOBERMAN PUPS - Rare blue, AKC, int. champ blood, exc. pedigree given w/ pup, tails and dews done, home rasied, parents on prem. $700/ea. Call 302-328-4055

English Bulldog pups, AKC, shots, wormed, & vet, $2000 & $3000. 267-567-3667

German Shepherd mix pups, vet chkd, shots, wormed, good temperment, black, tan w/white, ready 9/27, Female $200, Male $250. 717-548-4644 ext. 1 GERMAN SHEPHERD pups, AKC, European bloodline, 10 weeks, shots, wormed, vet checked, $450. (717)529-6444

Shih Tzu Pups - Health guar., reg., rare blue & white M, $480. (302) 897-9779 SHIH TZU PUPS - M/F, gold / white,playful, loving pups. 267-797-0579 St. Bernard AKC $500 2 males. family raised Parents on Prem. all shots/ vet exam, call 856-451-5920 ask for Sam West Highland Terrier Puppies for Sale! Ready for their new homes today! see them at www.LancasterPuppies.com

Yorkie Pup - AKC, reg. Male, vet checked, home raised, $550. Call 215-490-2243 Yorkie Pups, AKC, M&F, tiny and cute, great family pet. $850. (610)331-8233

GERMAN SHEPHERD Wht male 8mo, frndly, crate trained. $350. 215-254-0562 GERMAN SHORT HAIR POINTER Pup AKC, 1 Male, 9 weeks old. $500. 215-331-1460 or 215-301-5447

Golden Ret. Pups - AKC, champ lines, adorable. $500/F, $400/M. 610.286.5373

Coins, Currency, Gold, Toys,

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

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BRAZILIAN FLOORING 3/4", beautiful, $2.75 sf (215) 365-5826 CABINETS SOLID MAPLE Brand new soft close/dovetail drawers Crown Molding. 25 colors. Overstocked. Cost $5,300. Sell $1,590. 610-952-0033 CHECK CASHING BOOTH 6 steel panels, 8 ft tall. 5 w/ windows. 4 mesh panels. 4 drawers, counters, & two doors. $9000 obo 610-356-2291 or 610-742-9977 Diabetic Test Strips needed pay up to $15/box. Most brands. Call 610-453-2525 Pinball, shuffle bowling alleys, arcade video games, jukeboxes 215.783.0823

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

BD a memory foam mattress/boxsprIng brand new queen cost $1400, sell $299; king cost $1700 sell $399. 6 1 0 - 9 5 2 0033. Beautiful New Cherry Sleigh Bed, all sizes. Cost $2,100. Sell $199. 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

3rd & Chestnut 1br $950+utils 2nd floor, very private, (609)214-0577

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LOST DOG, small black & white Male Shih tzu near 71st & City Line. Owner grieving. 215-477-7813

Equipment from four dental suits. Midmark chairs, casework and more! Excellent condition. Call 814-591-1236

School Police hat w/badge missing, please return to Washington HS, Officer Thurmond.

2013 Hot Tub/Spa. Brand New! 6 person w/lounger, color lights, 7 ft, Waterfall. Cover. Never installed. Cost $6,400. Ask $2,950. Can deliver. 610-952-0033.

SPA: 6 person, like nw + deck, accessories, cost $6700, sell $3995. 215.206.5979

LOCUST/22nd Bi-Level $1360 utils incl. 2 FP’s, jacuzzi, mod. kit., granite tops & s/s appliances, priv. yard, 215-567-7169

15th and Snyder Studio Apt newly renov. Must See 215-885-1700 18xx S. 22nd 2br $700 2nd flr., 1mo. sec. 215-463-2403

70xx Greenway Ave. 2BR $775 incls. heat & water, fridge. 267-600-9569 S. 57th St. 3BR $765 1st flr, newly renov., 267-902-9269 SW Phila. 19143 1br $600 heat, elec, water incl, 267-432-9259

63rd & Girard 2br $700+utils 3rd floor, 1st, last & sec. 610-348-1196

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8xx N 64th 2br $765+utils newly renov, ceramic tile kit & ba, new: crpts, stove & 2 ceil. fans, 267-258-3543 8xx Wynnewood 1Br $700+utils 1mo. sec. 2mo. rent. Call 610-368-4779 Studio 1, 2 & 3br Apts $650-$895 www.perutoproperties.com 215.740.4900

2640 Daphne Rd. 2BR/1BA $850 Hdwd flrs, garage, W/D. 215-833-3920

Books -Trains -Magazines -Toys Dolls - Model Kits 610-689-8476

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65xx W. Girard 2BR $750+ sec dep, w/w crpts, W/D. 856-906-5216

58th & Cobbs Creek 2 BR $630+ utils newly renovated. Call 215-695-5194

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Parkside / N. Phila Area 1br- 6br $700$1,600. Newly renov, new kitch. & bath, hdwd flrs, Section 8 OK. 267-324-3197 W. Phila 2, 3 & 4br apts Avail Now Move in Special! 215-386-4791 or 4792

1100 S 58th St. Studio, 1BR & 2BR Apts heat/hw incl., lic #362013 215-744-9077 1900 S. 65th St. 2BR Apt Newly renov, Lic #400451, 215.744.9077

1501 Belmont 1br/1ba $675+elec Patio, modern, close to transportation and park. Good references. Call 215-459-9035 2xx N. 59th St. 1BR $600 Utils incl. + cable. (267) 269-5349 41st & Girard/Parkside Nice 1 & 2BR’s $525-$595+. Call 215-431-6677 49th & Arch 1br $575+utils nwly renov, w/w, avail now 215.748.0850 512 N. 54th St. 1br $600 Kitchen. 267-709-2704 or 267-912-5942 58th & Lansdowne 2BR $600+utils Fresh paint. Avail Immed. 610-864-6315 58xx Addison 3br/1ba $780+utils 1st, last & security dep. needed, available immediately, Call (484)485-7985

WANTED: Rights to Phillies tickets, lower level Hall of Fame Diamond Club. Discrete purchase. Call 609-896-3666

Cobbs Creek Vicinity 1br $595+util quiet, newly renov, large rooms, EIK, conv. to public trans., all colleges & Center City, 1 mo. rent & sec, Call 215-880-0612

3940 Lankenau Ave. 2BR/1BA, $825+ utilis W/D, C/A, W/W. 267-307-1379 Balwynne Park 2br $810+ 1st flr, w/d, garage. Call 610-649-3836 Balwynne Park 2BR $850+utils W/D, C/A, W/W. Call 215-219-6409

BOSE 901 V1 series speakers, with eq. and metal stands, excellent condition, $350. 215-639-7646

WANTED EAGLES SBL’s Top dollar paid ! 610-586-5500

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49th & Florence 2BR $675 open porch,1st flr, new renov215.472.3514

LAB pups, AKC reg., 8 weeks old 1st shots , $600. Call 856-562-7781

CHIHUAHUA pup, 1 M, 3 mo. old, house trained, $250 & 1M Chihuahua pup, 6 wks old, blk & brown $400. 215-425-1897

COLLIES PUPS or ADULTS - Excellent quality. Millville, NJ (856) 825-4856

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Fairmount Terrace Apts 3601 Conshohocken Ave. Studio, 1br & 2br, Open Sun. 0ct. 14, 9a-2p OR Call Amanda for appt. 215-477-6814

1500 N. 27th St. 2BR/1BA $750 Split level, hdwd flrs. Call 267-971-4291 1641 W Lehigh Ave. 1BR All Util Incld Newly renov. 215-744-9077, Lic #374062 25xx N 33rd St 2br $400+utils LR, kitch & bath. 215-225-9314 31st & Lehigh 1 BR $555+utils 2nd floor, $1665 move in. 215-424-3419 3208 W Cecil B Moore Ave 2br $575 freshly painted, 1 & 1/2 months security dep & 1st month rent req. 215-828-6651

1,2, 3, 4 Bedroom FURNISHED APTS LAUNDRY-PARKING 215-223-7000 16th & Cecil B Moore 3br/1ba $1200/mo renov., hdwd flrs, w/d, c/a. 267-971-4291 BROAD ST. Efficiencies $575 On campus, furnished/unfurnished, utils incl, newly renov. Call John at 215-236-1612 or 302-345-6334

N. Bouvier St. 1br/1ba $600 N. Bouvier St. 4br/2ba $900 Fully ren., everything new, beautiful block, close to Temple Hosp. 732-993-3634

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

Camac St. 1br Apts. $475-$575 wall/wall carpets. Call (215) 329-3013

213 E Sheldon St 1BR 1BA, $700/mo 1st/ last/sec. Utils incl. 267-971-8514 58XX N. Camac 1BR $580+utils 2BR $700+utils Renovated, 267.271.6601 or 215.416.2757

2xx W Haines 2br $475+utils LR, kitch & bath. 215-225-9314 4617 Wayne Large Efficiency $480 heat & hot wtr inc. EIK, 267-756-0130 4617 Wayne Large Efficiency $480 heat & hot wtr inc. EIK. 267-756-0130 5030 Greene St. 1BR $500 Tenant pays utilities. Call 267-625-6189 5220 Wayne Ave. Studio, 1Br on site lndry, 215-744-9077, Lic# 507568 56xx Sprague St. 1BR $500+utils newly renovated, call 215-260-6511 607 E. Church Lane 1BR nr LaSalle Univ,215.744.9077 lic#494336 6261 E. Wister St. Effic. $550 1mo. rent + 1mo. sec. Call 215-290-3192 Logan, Mt. Airy & Germantown: 1 & 2 BR Starting at $675, newly renov., beautiful apts, close to transp. Call 215-740-8049

1300 block E Johnson St 2br/1ba $775 2 months security + 1st month’s rent. Duplex apartment, newly decorated, refrigerator, wall to wall carpet, attached garage, Call 215-224-2953 67xx Blakemore St. 1BR $700 1st floor. Call 267-255-1895 82xx Mansfield Ave. 2br $825/mo. 1st floor, attached garage, wall-to-wall carpets. Call 215-275-3774 Mt. Pleasant 2br $750+utils 2nd flr, bsmt storage, close to trans. & business dist, 1 mo rent, sec. 215.472.6147 Vernon Rd Sprague 1br $625 $640 2nd floor $640, newly renovated, Call 610-941-1543

1414 W. 71st Ave 1br $600 Utils incl. Close to trans & shopping. 215-574-2111 65xx Fairhill St. 1br $575+utils newly renov., 1st, last & sec. 215-817-0101


908 N. 29th St lrg 4BR close to Girard College 215-744-9077 City Line Area 2BR Apts beautiful, discount special, 215-681-1723

Godfrey Ave. & 18th 2Br/1Ba $700 + elec. & gas. Newly painted. No pets. Rear parking. Fridge incl. Call 302-464-2563

28xx Frankford Ave 1br Call 856-235-8905

$500

25th & Clearfield, Hunting Park & Castor, 55th & Gerard, 15th & Federal, 1BR apt at 62nd & Vine. Share Kitch. & Bath, $350 & up, no securi ty deposit, SSI OK . Call 215-758-7572

28xx N 27th St: Furnished rooms, utils included, $100/wk, SSI ok, 267-702-7927 29xx N. 7th St. Rooms, $100-$125/wk or $400/month. Call 267-581-1331

16xx Wakeling 3BR $800+utils Hdwd flrs., renov. Call 215-284-5394

4400 Frankford Ave. 1BR & 2BR $500 1mo. security deposit. Call 215-760-9248 4670 Griscom St. 2BR Newly renov, Lic #397063, 215.744.9077 4840 Oxford Ave Studio, 1Br, 2Br Ldry, 24/7 cam lic# 214340 215.744.9077 ORTHODOX ST VIC Apts. & Rooms between $400 & $550/mo. 267-581-1331 Oxford Circle 1br $580 LR, kitchen, no pets. Call 267-979-0413

58xx Reach St. 1BR/1BA $650 Newly remodeled, Call 267-439-8425 ACADEMY/KNIGHTS 2br $825+utils 2nd flr, garage, bsmt, air. 267-342-1993 Bustleton & Haldeman 2br Condo $895 prvt balcony w/garden view 215.943.0370

Lawndale 1br & Studio starting @ $575 balcony, A/C, SPECIALS! 609-408-9298 Philmont 2BR duplex 1st flr $850+ C/A, bsmnt, w/w, garage, (215)752-1091

53xx N. Broad St. Room Full size bed, fridge, 27" TV, A/C. Call 267-49-6448 55/Thompson deluxe quiet furn $110wk priv ent $200 sec 215-572- 8833 5th and Wyoming. Large, newly renovated, W/W, furn. $95/wk 215-570-0301 6255 Limekiln Pike $125/week Room for rent. 215-549-2111 652 Brooklyn $125 week, $375 to move in Furn w/refridg, no kitch 215-892-7198 Broad & Olney lg deluxe furn room priv ent $145 wk. Sec $200. 215-572-8833 C & Roosevelt Blvd. Room in priv house, share bath, no kitchen, $100/wk, $400 move-in. 856-217-2477 after 10am

Germantown $100-$125/wk Furnished Use of house. Call 267-266-1156 Germantown Area: NICE, Cozy Rooms Private entry, no drugs (267)988-5890 Germantown,furn rms, renovated, share kitch & BA, $125/wk. 215-514-3960 Germantown & North Phila $350-$400 single occupant, clean rms 267-276-2153 Logan/WP/NP private entry, furnished, $85-$115/wk. also effic’y. 609-526-5411

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

Norristown: Sweede & Jacoby 1br $780 renovated, 1st flr, bkyard (267)259-8449

MT. AIRY (Best Area) $130 & $140/wk Cable, SSI ok. Call 215-730-8956 NEW N. PHILLY ROOMS ONLY $75/WK FOR BRAND NEW RENOVATED ROOMS IN N. PHILLY CALL 267-973-2284 NICE CLEAN ROOMS 1750 N 25TH ST. $85WK/$325MO & UP, $100SEC, SHARED KIT/BTH, NO PETS 215.839.5188

N Phila - sr. citizen, single occ. $125/wk utils & cable TV, internet. 267-385-5932 Palm Beach - Ambassador Hotel. Charming Ocean Front retreat. 1, 2 & 3 Bdrm. Apts., Studios w/ balc, Salon, Spa, Pilates, Gym, Cabanas, Valet. Minutes to golf, tennis, marine sports and shopping. Specials on extended stays. 561-5822511. www.ambassadorpb.com

South Phila, 26 Oakford, $340$380/month. Please Call (267) 997-8142 South Phila furn room, fridge, renovated, no drugs. 215-465-3080 SW,N, W Move-in Special! $90-$125/wk Clean furn. rooms. SSI ok. 215-220-8877 SW Phila 6529 Linmore: Rms, incl cable & a/c, use entire house, kitch, LR, DR, absolutely No drugs/alcohol (267)228-4538

11xx N. 55TH ST. BRAND NEW BUILDING Single rms $400. Rms w/ bath & kitchen $600. 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 19xx Erie Ave, luxury rm, xtra clean, ideal for seniors, $85/wk SSI ok. 215-920-6394 20th & Allegheny: Furn. Luxury Rooms. Free utils, cable, iweb. 267-331-5382 20xx S. 60th $450mo. renov., incl. utils, close to trolley 11 & 13, 267.266.4904 22nd & Hunting Park lrg rm, new renov., wall/wall, furn. $100/wk. 215-570-0301 22nd & Lehigh Priv kit/ba. $150/wk $450 move in. No Drugs! (215)531-4852 22xx Frankford Ave $425-$550 SSI OK. 267-670-6689

SW Phila - Newly renov, close to trans. $100/wk 1st wk FREE, 267-628-7454 Temple area rooms, 36xx N. 21st, $450$550/mo. Cable avail. (267) 597-9085 TIOGA: Vic of Broad & Erie. Rms for rent, Seniors Welcome. $100/wk 215-226-0321 University City Rooms & Apts for Rent 215-382-2588

West Oaklane - Broad & 66th Ave. Furn. $175/wk. Utils. incld. Call 267-872-6649 WEST OAKLANE rooms for rent $450 furnished with cable. Call 215-847-9503

Norristown: Arch & Miner 3br/1.5ba $900. renovated, back yd (267)259-8449

Nazareth 3BR/2.5BA Twh $1550+dep Redclf, bsmt, 1 car car 1 yr lease cr & empl chk Avl Oct 1. 732-710-2553/ narenkis@hotmail.com

$400, Call 856-365-2021

GMC 2000 Savanna Luxury Hi-Top Conversion Van Excptnlly well maintd Sr Citizen Must Sacrifice $6975 215-627-1814

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

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

Cash paid on the spot for unwanted vehicles, 24/7 pick up, 215-288-9500

low cost cars & trucks Buick Luxury Riveria Coupe 1996 $3985 Last of the classics one of a kind. Please call 215-922-2165

Cadillac Coupe de Ville 1989 $1150 New insp., 106K, runs new. 215-620-9383 Chevy Brougham 1989 clean, classic, (484)574-1650

$1575

Dodge Stratus SE 2000 $1450 4dr., loaded, clean, 215-280-4825 Ford Expedition 2001 $3,900 Eddie Bauer, 4x4, loaded. 215-840-4860

Ford Freestar Van 2004 $4,500/OBO Good cond., auto., dual A/C, power windows/locks, cruise, keyless, V6, ABS, stereo CD, DVD enter. sys. 609.792.7032 Mazda Millennium 2002 $2,850 Gold, leather, CD , clean. 267.592.0448 MERCURY SABLE LS 2003 $2,475 Low miles, 1 owner, clean. 267.592.0448 Plymouth Grand Voyager SE 2000 $1950 All pwr, 1 owner, runs new 215.620.9383 Saturn SL1 1999 $1100 4 door, 5 speed, a/c, 38mpg 215.620.9383

Haddonfield 4br/3ba $2295+utils quiet area, EIK, deck, call (856)428-8447

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206 N. Simpson Street 3br/1ba $895 www.perutoproperties.com 215.740.4900

24xx N Gratz 3br $625 nwly renov., w/d, no pets, 215-559-9289

33rd near Cumberland 2br $800+utils newly renov., w/w carpets, 267-825-7132

Rising Sun & Blvd 2br $795 porch front, gas ht, yard (215)677-1888

BrierCrest 5BR sleeps 12. Saw Creek 3BR sleeps 8. Fall Special! Weeks and/or weekends. Call 609-587-9493

LOCUST LAKE 3BR/2BA $400-$625 Chalet, sleeps 9, minutes to casino & ski resorts. Call 609-722-1264

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18xx W Pacific 4br/2ba Section 8 ok. Must See! 215-836-0720 39xx Delhi St. 3BR/1BA $750/mo. porch, yard. Call Carol at 610-872-1797

750 iL 2000 $8000 Sacrifice Silver/black leather, 12 cyl. auto, Absolute MINT cond, Call Jim 215-850-1362

Broad & Roosevelt 2BR & 3BR $700+ new renov., new carpet & kitch w/granite counter tops, Sec. 8 ok 215-463-6366

CORVETTE 1980 $15,500 OBO 350 auto, t-tops. 50K mi. 610-662-6323

4xx E. Penn St. 2br/1ba $800/mo. Call 267-625-9466 or 484-557-2369 6224 Clearview 3br/1ba $875 + utils Remod., w/d. Sec 8 ok, 215-499-2364

Civic EX 2005 $8199 4 dr, auto, VG cond, 117k, (609)386-9168

62xx N Norwood St. 3br/1ba $700+utils 1 mo. rent & sec., yard, EIK, 215.924.1910

CIVIC LX 2006 $9,900 74k miles, Atomic Blue, Excellent Condition, Call 215-872-4510

68xx Woolston Ave. 3br $825+utils newly renov., updated kitch & bathroom, hdwd floors, Call (609)702-8383

Jaguar 2003 2.5 X Type with sunroof, like new, original miles $5,985 215-928-9632

36xx Jasper St 2br $650 +utils nw paint, clean throughout 215-327-2292 LS460 2009 $38,500 Navig. package, 57K miles, 215-362-1217 FRANKFORD 2BR/1BA $695 Freshly renov., section 8 ok, rear yard. Call Tony (215) 681-8018 leave message.

21xx Shallcross 2br $775 w/w crpt, washer/dryer, 215-356-8717 5xx Rosalie 3BR $750+utils 40xx Maywood 3BR $750+utils Call 215-459-3564 9xx Granite St. 4br Section 8 OK. 267-587-7290 Adams Ave and Levick St 3br/1ba $875 Row Home. Call 267-991-2825

Camry LE 2006 $6950 loaded, 140k, 1 owner, 215-237-0109

21’ 2004 SUNLINE: Full kitchen & bath, awning & more, $7k/obo. (610)532-7243

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11xx S. Peach St. 3br/1ba $775 renovated, bk yard, bsmnt, 267-767-1794 1310 N 54th 4br/1.5ba $900 1st flr powder rm, yd, bsmt 267.767.1794 1335 N. Wanamaker St. 3BR/1BA $850 1st, last, 1mo. sec. req’d. 267-255-1895 15xx N. 55th St. 4br/1.5ba $1400 section 8 ok, hardwood floors, large kitch, newly remodeled, avail now 215.828.4804 21xx Cemetery Ave. 4br/1ba $875+utils Beautifully remodeled. Call 215-962-4277 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 429 N. 59th St. 3BR/1BA $850 1st, last, 1mo. sec. req’d. 267-255-1895 5xx N. Paxon St. 3br/1ba $800/mo. Call 267-625-9466 or 484-557-2369

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73xx Sycamore Ave. 1br/1ba $800/mo. Call 267-625-9466 or 484-557-2369

Mt Airy, 61xx Chew Ave, Univ City, 41xx Popular $85-$125/wk, 215-242-9124

1414 S. 56th St. 3BR/1BA $950 3mo. sec. req’d. Garage. 267-255-1895 Elmwood area 3br $850+ utils Sec 8 welcome, 215-726-8817

Clifton Heights 3br/2ba $1400 newly renov. Townhouse, finished bsmt, nice neighborhood, Call (484)716-8823 Darby 3br/1ba $950+utils prch,yd,close shop & transp 610.696.2022 Media 107 Dundee Mews 3br/2.5ba TH $1990/mo. Finished attic/bsmnt, 40 min. to Philadelphia, Call 347-702-4001 Upper Darby 4-5br $1295+utils lg kit & LR, deck, porch, w/d hkup, hwd flr, close to major highway, 610-842-5996

Ford E350 2003 - Super Duty, 18 pass mini bus, new premium tires, SS wheels, orig mi, like new. B/O. 215-627-1814

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52nd & Race; 55th & Lansdowne, 48th & Lancaster, SSI welcome, 215-290-8702

15XX ETTING ST 3 BR w/w, porch Avail now! $650+. 215-680-7011

Cottman & Mayfair 3br/1ba $980+utils finished basement, garage, new: kitchen, bathroom, carpet, Call 732-438-0711 MAYFAIR 3BR $1050+ utils w/d, refrigerator incl., 215-421-9606 Mayfair 42xx Sheffield 3br/1.5ba $1095+ Twin, garage, sec 8 ok (215) 801-1304

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