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Residents in Camden say a new crop of young prostitutes has begun working there. But the way they say it, it kinda sounds like advertising.

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A water main bursts in Old City, spilling 5 or 6 million gallons of water. And for one glorious afternoon, the neighborhood doesn’t smell like Snooki barf.

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A Former Philly police detective admits he ran a ring importing steroids and humangrowth hormones from Europe and China and selling them in the city. “COP NEED TO GET STRONGER,” explains Sgt. Roy Rage of the Ethnic Parades and Festivals Unit.

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The teacher at Charles Carroll High School who compared her student’s Mitt Romney shirt to a KKK shirt reads a letter apologizing and saying she intended the comment to be lighthearted. Then she goes into a bit on the lighter side of genital mutilation. Ouch!

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After a Haverford child’s trombone is stolen, the Philadelphia Orchestra steps up to buy a replacement. Then folds.

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A video posted online of an arrest on South Street during Oktoberfest shows a drunk man slapping a cop who then spears him in the face with a baton several times. “COP DEFENDING SELF,” explains Sgt. Rage.

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West Chester woman Naomi Riches sues Casey Anthony for $3 billion, claiming Anthony is part of a conspiracy to film her, make her famous and kill her. Only about a third of that sounds likely.

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Finding a free HPV vaccine isn’t easy, especially for males. A new city program could change that — if only anyone knew about it.

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owered by millions of dollars in big-pharma marketing in recent years, HPV — the human papillomavirus, most commonly associated with causing cervical cancer — has jumped to the forefront of public-health concerns for young women. Vaccines are distributed at doctors’ offices and at little or no cost at community health centers and Planned Parenthood, and women under 27 are urged to partake. For young men, though, it’s a different story. Access to the vaccine has been relatively limited — as I found out the hard way — and its importance has been under-recognized. But the city of Philadelphia is taking steps to change that with “3 for Me,” a recently launched city vaccine program for teens. It could be a game-changer, especially for men — if only anyone knew about it. One of the challenges facing such programs is the widespread misconception that HPV is only a women’s disease. After all, working against it is a powerful target-marketing effort. It doesn’t help that one of the two vaccines, Cervarix, has a very pointed name, and is, in fact, approved only for women. Yet HPV can cause, among other ailments, anal and oral cancers in people of both genders; according to the Centers for Disease

Control, men are more than four times as likely to contract the latter. It can also cause genital warts and, more rarely, penile cancer. You can see why I would want the three-shot vaccine. But my doctor, like many others in the area, doesn’t offer it to men. Neither, I learned, did Planned Parenthood in Center City. (They do now, and Planned Parenthood Southeastern Pennsylvania plans to offer HPV vaccinations for men at all of their locations soon.) My lengthy search eventually took me to the LGBT-oriented Mazzoni Center, where I finally got my shots. All that is more research than most people are likely willing to do, says Donna L. Brian, clinical director for Health Connection, one of five health centers the Public Health Management Corporation (PHMC) runs in the city. “It’s probably only been two or three men who actually come in asking for it,” she says. “Much more often we have to tell them about it.” The city, to its credit, seems to recognize the universality of HPV’s threat. “3 for Me” aims to get young people ages 13 to 18 vaccinated. Neither doctor nor parental approval is required; insurance is also not necessary. All a teen has to do is go to 3formephilly.org and sign up for an appointment at Health Center One (1400 Lombard St.) or Health Center 10 (2230 Cottman Ave.). Once there, a “3 for Me” project manager explains HPV and the vaccine to the teen and administers the first of three shots to be given over a six-month period. Easy. The “3 for Me” website discusses all the dangers of HPV, not

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just cervical cancer. It prominently features images of young men as well as women, as does the literature on display at Health Center One. If only the pharma companies had started this way: Merck’s early campaigns for Gardasil focused entirely on the cervicalcancer threat, and barely mentioned men at all. While there are more than 130 strains of HPV, only a handful pose a real risk if contracted. Most people’s immune systems defeat even the most noxious strains before they can do any damage. The initial lack of interest in marketing HPV vaccines to half the population stems in part from America’s long-standing awkwardness about all things coital. In a study published in 2007, CDC researchers warned of “STD-associated stigma” and advised against focusing on HPV’s mode of transmission in the interest of promoting vaccination. One way to play down the sexually transmitted nature of HPV was to market the vaccine solely to women as a “cervical-cancer vaccine.” (That’s Cervarix’s technically inaccurate slogan: There is no vaccination against cancer.) Many men still don’t realize the vaccine could protect them. “My girlfriend got [the vaccine], but I didn’t think it was available for men,” says Andrew, a 26-year-old Philadelphia resident who preferred that his last name not be used. “I thought HPV was just one thing and people told me, you know, casually, at parties, that I probably already had it because I’m 26 and I’ve been sexually active for a while. And I thought there was no point in getting vaccinated against something I already have.” While HPV vaccinations are FDA-approved for people between the ages of 9 and 26, research suggests effectiveness at any age,

even for those who have been previously infected. If your body fights off HPV, you can still contract it again, and if you are currently infected by one strain, Gardasil still protects against the others, including four of the virus’ nastiest varieties. The vaccines are available at many of Philadelphia’s 30 nonprofit health clinics, including all of those run by PHMC. And community health centers offer the shots for free, thanks to two federal programs: Vaccines for Adults at Risk (VFAAR) and Vaccines for Children (VFC), which “3 for Me” branches off from. But VFAAR’s free HPV vaccines aren’t available for those older than 26, and most insurance will not cover the shots past that age, either. The earlier someone gets the shots the better, and that’s where the outreach to teenagers in the “3 for Me” campaign comes in. These vaccines are available to insured and uninsured alike. But those patients covered by Medicaid and private insurance who do not already use a health center as a primary care provider should check if their doctor offers the HPV vaccine for men. If not, the patient will have to make the health center their primary provider to get the vaccine. Hopefully, “3 for Me” will attract attention, but it hasn’t been promoted much outside of some doctors’ offices. So far, just 54 patients have been immunized through the program. “The campaign is a small grass-roots campaign aimed at at-risk teens. It is not a media campaign of any scale,” says Jeff Moran, spokesman for the Philadelphia Department of Health. But promotion is critical: As of now, only 1 percent of American males are vaccinated. (editorial@citypaper.net)

“‘3 for Me’ is not a media campaign.”

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APP HAPPY ³ LAST WEEK, the cover of the Daily News — a space reserved for those the paper deems the bad or good guys of the week — featured a smiling 6th District Councilman Bobby Henon, below the triumphant headline, “Lowlife Neighbors? There’s an App for That!” The article was about the continuing popularity of a mobile application, unveiled by Henon last spring, that lets residents report nuisance properties. At a time when the city’s promised 311 app was notoriously bogged down by delays, Henon’s version appeared out of nowhere — giving the impression that all we needed to fix this city was a little councilmanic gumption. But Henon’s app is not, despite last week’s glowing profile, the citywide fix-it you might have thought. The app doesn’t, for example, actually report anything to the city. The information is collected by Henon’s office and entered, by hand, into the city’s 311 system — something residents could have done by phone and can now do themselves using the city’s (finally delivered and pretty good) 311 app. Henon’s app mostly lets you run the problem by Henon, as he readily acknowledges. When you use it, he says, “You get the TLC from the 6th.” It did seemingly help embarrass the city into hurrying up on its own app. And therein lies a lesson we might want to remember as we rocket into our wired municipal future: Council members play an important role in pushing the city to improve its technology — but they are not the city. They are full of good ideas, but they are not technologists. Take another of Henon’s accomplishments: “Bobby TV,” on which the councilman made available archived web videos of Council hearings. It was a great constituent service — but hasn’t been updated since June. Hey: It wasn’t Henon’s job to archive the videos in the first place; the city, which contracts Channel 64, should do it. But someone with clout needs to push for it. Last week, Councilman Bill Green introduced a bill requiring that the city make its websites compatible with Internet browsers other than Internet Explorer, the third-most-popular browser in use. Asked about his strategy, Green was blunt: “The quickest way to make the city move on stuff is to introduce legislation, so I did.” It’s a kind of acknowledgment of the fact that, ultimately, it’s the city’s job to oversee this stuff, and Council’s job to nudge — and that there’s a difference between making a headline and solving a problem. ✚ While the Man Overboard! app is in beta, send feed-

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EVER GREEN A tiny patch of garden in South Kensington serves both old-timers and newcomers as common ground. By Samantha Melamed

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Cliff Brown, Kim Giannone and Natania Schaumburg at Kensington’s La Finquita.

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ere’s a bittersweet Kensington fairy tale that’s become all too familiar: A derelict factory burns to the ground; a community garden springs up in its place. That is not, however, exactly the story of La Finquita (translation: “The Little Farmâ€?), a garden on the gritty corner of Lawrence and Master streets. The plot starts that way, with a tire factory engulfed by a blaze and area do-gooders — in this case, a local organization called the Catholic Worker — rallying to clear the debris. But the real miracle of La Finquita, as it wraps up its most productive growing season ever, is that it’s now on its third life, providing an intergenerational touchstone that’s helped unite this unevenly gentrifying neighborhood in surprising ways. “In another 20 years, when I die, this place will still be here,â€? insists Luis “Papoâ€? SaldaĂąa, a gregarious 62-year-old Puerto Rican immigrant who, with his neighbors, took over tending to La Finquita in 1994 after the Catholic Worker let it go to seed. But a few years back, the farm’s fate was less certain. Most of the gardeners who had worked there with SaldaĂąa had moved away, lost interest or died. SaldaĂąa’s stepfather, gardener Danny Rodriguez, was in his 80s, and SaldaĂąa was getting older, too. His arthritis was slowing him down, and it didn’t help that he was sleeping outside most nights. “I was an alcoholic, so I wasn’t allowed in the house,â€? he says. He’d stay out, tending the garden and drinking beer and rum he hid among the tomato plants and peach trees. But the garden was getting away from him. “It was like a jungle.â€? People started calling it “the post-apocalyptic garden.â€? Then, SaldaĂąa happened to meet Cliff Brown, who was poking around a vacant lot nearby. SaldaĂąa had been offering plots to any takers, and told Brown that for $1.60 — the price of a key — he could have one, too. By this spring, Brown, 29, and a number of other young relative newcomers to the neighborhood were farming plots, clearing out common areas, painting a mural and building a patio and a tool shed. South Kensington Community Partners (SKCP) got involved, as did the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. This summer, the newly

fortified La Finquita launched a weekly farmstand, selling carrots and tomatoes as well as obscure greens like purslane and vit. “It also provides really low-cost produce and information about produce to people in our community who wouldn’t find out about it anywhere else,� says farmer Kim Giannone. “Our customers aren’t going to Whole Foods and shopping for radicchio.� The infusion of energy has brought major changes: Natania Schaumburg of SKCP tapped social media to help La Finquita win a $15,000 Gardens for Good grant from Nature’s Path and Organic Gardening magazine this summer, as well as support from the microgranting group Philly Stake. She’s hoping to use some of the money to build a much-needed irrigation system. The garden is also hosting more events, planning kids’ education programs

The garden is now on its third life. and, this Saturday, will hold a Halloween party and fundraiser. Progress aside, the largest challenge still lies ahead. Despite three decades of occupancy by gardeners, the land remains deeded to Pyramid Tire & Rubber Co., though it hasn’t paid taxes in more than 30 years. Schaumburg is working to obtain the title, but doesn’t expect it will be easy. Despite the transformation, SaldaĂąa, for one, isn’t worried about passing control of the garden on to the next generation. He likes watching the octogenarians, hipsters, young Christians and others mingle symbiotically. “We don’t want all [yuppies] in the garden. We want country, we want redneck, we want ghetto, we want young people. We want all people,â€? he says. “That’s what makes a family.â€? (samantha@citypaper.net) ✚ Sat., Oct. 20, Pumpkin Party (for

kids), noon-3 p.m., free; Freaky Fundraiser, 8 p.m.-midnight, $10, 428 W. Master St., facebook.com/lafinquitask.

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A FATE WORSE THAN DEBT Our story about Philadelphia Courts’ campaign to collect decades-old criminal debts and the threats to jail debtors [“Resurrect Debt,” Daniel Denvir, Oct. 4, 2012] got citypaper.net commentator Frank Black riled up: “These dinks show the regression of the Democratic Party: extract money from those who don’t have it is a core conservative principle. Nutter and the court administrators should spend 30 days in their new, illegal, debtors prison. But commenter samac had a different take: “This is the sort of boondoggle that occurs when you let Philly machine hacks run things. You want a simple solution? Bring back bail bondsmen. The Democrats got rid of them in the 1970s to curry favor with the criminal vote, which based on this [story] is about 400K of Philly’s 1.5 million people. Though I have to say, if they include old unpaid parking tickets, I am in the 400K. Never paid a penny in parking tickets when the Dems ran the PPA. Ah, those were the days.”

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TECHNICALLY SPEAKING A post on our Naked City blog about Councilman Bill Green’s bill to require all city websites to be compatible with various Internet browsers [“Councilman Green to City: Internet Explorer Only? Really?,” Isaiah Thompson, Oct. 11, 2012] evoked this droll observation from Phillysphinest: “The [city’s] EContracts website uses Comic Sans. I mean, come on.” BUILDING A CASE A Naked City blog post about the City’s Controller’s efforts to rein in out-of-control development around Temple [“City Controller to Slam TempleArea Developers?,” Isaiah Thompson, Oct. 9, 2012] made commenter samac break out the sarcasm: “Obviously a special investigation is needed to determine why the hell anyone would ever invest in North Philly. They must be dealing crack or something. Yes, someone needs to fix that problem of too much investment. Thank God for Philly politicians and their L&I lapdogs sticking their hands out at every sign of progress. No-show union jobs in lieu of cash contribution will be deemed acceptable payment.” THIS IS NOT A TEST And responding to a Naked City blog post on the state Department of Education reducing the number of grade levels in charter schools that need to meet testing goals, in what seems like an effort to make them look better than public schools [“PA Makes It Easier for Charters to Pass State Tests,” Daniel Denvir, Oct.8, 2012], Democracyined wrote: “Just another way for the Secretary of Education to cheat on the test and game the system. What a disgrace.” ✚ We welcome and encourage your feedback. Mail letters to Feedback, City Paper, 123 Chestnut St., 3rd Floor, Phila., PA 19106. E-mail editorial@citypaper.net or comment online at citypaper.net. Submissions may be edited for clarity and space.

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move the fountain that can be seen through the window behind it. New Yorker art critic Calvin Tomkins has quoted Robert Rauschenberg as saying, “Many paintings try to place you somewhere else, but The Large Glass doesn’t do that. It involves you with yourself and with the room you’re in, and it seems to require a kind of alertness on your part. It is very much in the present tense.” More than half a century after Rauschenberg first stood in that gallery in the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) on his first visit to see the Glass, the artwork remains in the present tense both in itself and in the impact it has had on the shape of modern art. As PMA curator Carlos Basualdo says,“The Philadelphia Museum of Art was central to the encounter between some of the most important artists in the 20th century. That encounter had ripples, and we’re still part of those ripples today.”

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arcel Duchamp’s The Large Glass, with its arrangement of oil, varnish, foil, wire and dust on two glass panels, has long been renowned as a masterwork that demands to be looked through as well as looked at. But earlier this month at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, you couldn’t do either. That’s because the 9-foot-tall pane — full title: The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass) — was shrouded in opaque plastic, its famously spider-webbing cracks echoed by the crisscrossing strips of brown packing tape clasping it protectively tight. The rest of the gallery was emptied of its treasure trove of Duchamp works and ephemera, but it’s as unimaginable to think of moving the Glass itself as it would be to

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Those ripples are the focus of the museum’s groundbreaking exhibition “Dancing Around the Bride” (opening Oct. 30), which explores the influence of Duchamp on four of the 20th century’s most influential artists: composer John Cage, choreographer Merce Cunningham and visual artists Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. The work of all four will soon populate the Duchamp gallery and its surrounding spaces; French artist Philippe Parreno has designed a soundscape involving Cage’s music to fill the galleries, while a dance floor in the gallery space will host periodic performances of Cunningham’s choreography. In conjunction with the exhibition, performing-arts organization Bowerbird is presentingCage: Beyond Silence,a festival in honor of the composer’s centenary that will stretch into the new year with performances at the museum and other venues. The Philadelphia Museum of Art — or any major, mainstream cultural institution — seems an unlikely convergence point for such forward-thinking artists. They famously lived, met and conversed in New York’s avant-garde galleries; they philosophized at North Carolina’s Black Mountain College. But, especially for Rauschenberg and Johns, who were still at formative junctures in their careers, the ability to visit Duchamp’s work at our city’s museum afforded them a glimpse of an alternative to the more conservative art establishment of the late 1950s. As Cage biographer Kay Larson puts it, “Philadelphia became this major stop on the art information highway because of the Duchamp exhibition.” “There wasn’t a lot of work that these younger artists could see in a systematic way outside of certain gallery exhibitions and works that were in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York,” says Paul B. Franklin, who assists the Duchamp family in managing the artist’s estate and is editor-in-chief of the journal Étant donné Marcel Duchamp.“Without the Arensberg collection in Philadelphia, these four artists would be functioning like a lot of European artists did before them and after them, through reproductions. They were lucky; they didn’t have to do that. They all made pilgrimages to Philadelphia at some time or other.” The “Arensberg collection” is that of art collectors Walter and Louise Arensberg, who were lifelong patrons of Duchamp. Many of his most significant works were among the more than 1,100 items that the Arensbergs donated to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1950. Duchamp himself served as a scout for the couple and eventually oversaw the original installation of the collection. The museum wasn’t necessarily the most likely home for the collection, as curator Basualdo admits. “Philadelphia was and in many ways still is a relatively conservative environment. But while Fiske Kimball, who was the director at the time, might not have completely understood what modern art was, he understood its importance.” Kimball was the museum’s director when it opened the doors of its now-iconic Parkway home. An architectural historian by trade, he played a key role in the renovation of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, an activity that may have indirectly led to his grudging acceptance of modern art — due to an unlikely connection with Jefferson. That link came in the person of painter and collector Albert Gallatin. One of the “Park Avenue Cubists,” Gallatin in the late 1920s opened the Gallery of Living Art at New York University, a school founded in part by his namesake great-grandfather. It was the country’s first public collection devoted entirely to contemporary art, preceding MoMA by two years. When NYU decided to repurpose the space in 1942, Gallatin moved his collection to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. “I don’t know how much of a sensibility Kimball had for modern art,” Basualdo says. “But he thought that the Albert Gallatin collection would be accepted because of who [Gallatin] was — he was a patrician.” He was also the great-grandson of a man who, besides helping found NYU, had served as secretary of the treasury under Jefferson — a direct relationship that

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Merce Cunningham in his dance Walkaround Time (1968), with set by Jasper Johns.

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may have served to quell any unease that a Jeffersonian scholar like Kimball might have felt about the contents of Gallatin’s collection. And once that collection had found its new home, Gallatin connected Kimball with the Arensbergs. When Rauschenberg and Johns visited the museum in the late 1950s, The Large Glass would have been surrounded by other works from the Arensberg collection; the gallery was at that time named for them. (It is now officially named for late museum director Anne d’Harnoncourt but better known as the Duchamp gallery, for obvious reasons.) The view through the Glass at the time was of a door leading onto the exterior balcony, which was replaced by a window when air conditioning was installed in 1976. The impetus for the trip was an early Johns and Rauschenberg show at a New York gallery, after which one prominent critic referred to John’s Flag as “neo-Dada.” Being largely unacquainted with actual Dada, Johns decided to see it firsthand in Philadelphia, Rauschenberg in tow. With the work significantly less glassedoff inside vitrines than it would be today, Rauschenberg seized the opportunity to try to steal one of the marble cubes from Duchamp’s birdcage piece Why Not Sneeze, Rose Sélavy? A museum guard famously scolded him, “Don’t you know you’re not supposed to touch that crap?” The visit would also have been inspired by Cage, who was already becoming a mentor to both men and who had already become acquainted with Duchamp in the early 1940s. Cage had seen much of the older artist’s work at the Arensberg’s Los Angeles home. Duchamp’s appreciation for found objects and acceptance of chance into his work appealed to Cage. The

composer was already making tentative advances along those lines when he was introduced to Duchamp, who helped to deepen a musical philosophy that would expand even further once Cage began to study Zen Buddhism. “Duchamp himself is widely thought to have been a Zen master, whether he actually was a Zen master or not,” says Larson, author of Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism and the Inner Life of Artists. “Cage was creating a kind of dialogue that was based both on Duchamp and on Zen, and he became the axis around which these artists were focused.” Few artists have proved so profoundly influential to other artists across such a wide variety of disciplines. And with Duchamp, his influence comes not via a new technique or a particular approach that disciples can adopt. Instead, there are direct references to Duchamp riddled throughout other artists’ works, most vividly in Cunningham’s Walkaround Time,a dance piece inspired by The Large Glass,with sets by Johns (these will be part of the PMA’s exhibition). But Duchamp’s most lasting contribution is far less tangible. The word that most often arises is permission:The mere existence of Duchamp’s work gave Cage permission to pursue his most radical ideas, and Cage in turn gave that permission to artists such as Rauschenberg and Johns and composers like Morton Feldman. It pointed offhandedly, playfully, in the vague directions that would lead to Cage’s and Cunningham’s use of chance operations, to Rauschenberg’s employment of found objects in his combines, to Johns’ reconfigurations of pop iconography. “These four artists used the ideas that Duchamp’s work ignited in them individually to do something different,” says

Franklin. “None of them copied Duchamp. He’s a central inspiration, but they’re not doing what we call appropriation. And that’s what I think makes their work so powerful.” Artists continue to accept that permission today, but without the advantage these artists had of getting know Duchamp the man, who died in 1968. Cage and Cunningham met Duchamp in the early 1940s, and 20 years later Cage renewed the friendship through the pretense of chess lessons — Duchamp’s main interest later in life. Rauschenberg and Johns made contact soon after their first venture to the PMA. As Franklin explains, Duchamp’s personality made almost as profound an impact on his disciples as did his work: “He was a father figure, but without all of the entanglements that a family romance has. We’re dealing with four gay men with this intransigently heterosexual guy with a fantastic sense of humor that’s often imbued with bawdy sexual innuendo. But they can totally get along because Duchamp remained completely nonjudgmental. They never had to reject the father.” They also all came to share in having their work misunderstood. In the popular imagination, Duchamp is merely a provocateur who signed a urinal and called it art, Cage a clown who sits at a piano in silence, Johns an uninspired painter of flags. Worse yet, modern artists continue to look at their work from a similarly narrow vantage point, leading to uninspired echoes glutting gallery walls. “If you reduce Duchamp just to the idea of the readymades,” Franklin says of Duchamp’s found objects, “he becomes a sort of lazy philosopher who just had one idea that he kept replaying over and over again. And unfortunately, that’s the way a lot

“Cage was creating a dialogue based both on Duchamp and on Zen.” of contemporary artists misconstrue Duchamp. That was not the case for these men in the ’50s and ’60s at all.” With all but Johns having since passed away, “Dancing Around the Bride” may provide the closest approximation of these artists’ dialogues that can be reconstructed today. “We’re trying to put the art back into its context and into those conversations from which it emerged,” Basualdo says. “Art is immersed in a very diverse system of values having to do with the lives of the artists, their conversations, and other forms of exchanges, and an antiquarian show would not be in the spirit of this art. We need to make the viewer feel that this history is happening for her or for him, now. This is about the past, but it’s about a past that is never fully past, a past that is still present.” The Large Glass will likely never move from its current position, a curious sense of permanence for a work that contains within it such a sense of transparency, and which has inspired so much creation that has at its heart elements of impermanence — Cage’s chance-driven compositions, Cunningham’s spontaneously crafted dances. It remains as silently, compellingly enigmatic as it has for decades, its very impenetrability serving to generate the types of questions that spark artists to find their own answers. “The Large Glass and the work of Duchamp have a way of becoming part of your life — not just a part of your life but an integral part of your life,” Basualdo says. “I believe that artists still find that kinship with Duchamp. He was so radically independent and autonomous and free that he remains attractive for younger people. Art is profoundly about freedom and profoundly about the expression of the possibility of freedom, and I think Duchamp in the 20th century incarnates that very strongly.” (s_brady@citypaper.net) ✚ “Dancing Around the Bride: Cage, Cunningham, Johns, Rauschenberg and Duchamp” runs

Oct. 30-Jan. 21, 2013, $20, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, 215-763-8100, philamuseum.org.

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HOPELESS ROMANTICS: Luther’s debut, Let’s Get You Somewhere Else, was produced by Pete Steinkopf of Bouncing Souls.

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uring an interview back in 1967, Pete Townshend invented the term “power pop” while trying to describe the rush of sweet, catchy, melodious rock ’n’ roll he heard coming from his British contemporaries. It was a sound to which The Who was adding a tough punk edge and cleverly complex lyricism. From there we got “hard power pop” — a gruffer, scruffier subgenre and though the Brits did it best through the new wave ’70s, the sound became a U.S. band brand with the roughly charming Raspberries. The Colonies solidified their position when The Replacements sang about waitresses in the sky with weird harmonies and crunchy guitars. Later came Guided by Voices, and so on. Now, with Let’s Get You Somewhere Else, you can count South Philly’s Luther as worthy heirs to the lineage. Just out on Chunksaah Records, the band’s debut album abounds with ebullience and wise-ass lyrics to go with a host of memorable melodies. And it’s got a great pedigree. Produced by Bouncing Souls guitarist Pete Steinkopf and mastered by Nick Zampiello and Rob Gonnella (they mix for Against Me!), Let’s Get You Somewhere Else has no choice but to be a new power-pop classic. “Jimmy Eat World is a really heavy van-listening band,” says Nick Harris, the singer/guitarist who, along with guitarist/singer

Phil Warner, writes the skeleton framework to each Luther tune. “I’m a huge Guided by Voices fan, too. Their records are a huge deal to me, especially Isolation Drills and Universal Truths and Cycles. Plus, I think we all grew up listening to music that can be loosely classified as ‘punk’ for the most part. I don’t exclusively listen to the Ramones or the Misfits anymore, but it would be erroneous to say that those bands had zero impact on the way the music we write sounds.” Luther started 20 months ago, its members having previous experience in acoustic projects and thrash-punk acts. “Luther sorta picked up where all of our past bands collectively left off,” says Harris. Bassist Greg Karlowitsch traces the band’s creation back a decade. “Nick, Andy [Clarke, drummer] and I met in school,” he says of the trio’s days at Steinert High in Hamilton, N.J. “Nick and Andy played in pop-punk bands while I played in metal and hardcore punk acts. There were never really any rivalries because of the difference in genres. We would occasionally play shows together and it would be quite awesome.” By the time each future Luther-an moved to Philadelphia, the guys kept bumping into each other at shows and through mutual punk friends. This led to friendship, which led to the band, which led to their debut EP, Siblings & Sevens, released last year. “We’re family at this point,” says Harris of his constantly touring

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Specter, or go on about what a fighter he was for his constituency (shifting as it did at times throughout his political career) and for his own life as non-Hodgkins lymphoma wracked his lanky frame. This Iceman grew up watching Specter on the nightly news and on the streets campaigning in person. He always seemed to be campaigning, even when sitting still. I remember his gusto-filled runs for mayor and governor, his vigorous attacks on various political figures looking for their place in the sun. I watched him, in his latter days, do standup comedy on a few occasions, and thought if only he’d started his life as a comic earlier, he would have taken to it with the same zeal — and success — he had as one of this state’s boldest political forces. He will be missed. ³ Here’s a story I’ll be hot to discuss as it develops: Chef Mark Ellis from Bacchus Market & Catering at 2300 Spruce started running test-kitchen tastings last weekend at the Power Plant in Old City. Color us impressed. ³ Perhaps you’re not up for the historical import of the new “American Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition” exhibition at the National Constitution Center. Perhaps you, as Icepack readers, would rather just think about drinking heavily and dressing up. OK, then: Oct. 18’s Bootleggers Ball is for you, my tipplers and Lindy Hoppers. (There will be dance instructors.) ³ Baptist Preacher/Drugbunny John Cecil Price is having his birthday celebration Oct. 22 with a rare live-music night at National Mechanics, with ex-Lady (but all woman) Kate Foust and all-man Thom McCarthy amongst the revelers. ³ It’ll never be Daffy’s, the justclosed Quonset hut where fun fashion met value, but we’ll have to try it out: Marshall’s opens at 1044 Market St. on Oct. 18. Here’s hoping they at least sell Paul Smith socks. ³ If you press jackweeds think you’re going to bug Live Nation’s Jim Sutcliffe for tickets this week, you’ve got another thing coming. My good friend James will be busy getting married to his longtime love, Angela Cordovano. Mazel tov. ³ Bugging you now because it will sell out: East Passyunk’s Le Virtù is holding its Autunno alle Brace Oct. 29, with food from the Abruzzo-focused restaurant’s master chef Joe Cicala, his neighbor George Sabatino (Stateside) and Scott Schroeder (American Sardine Bar). Since these guys have held everything from daylong La Parnadas to outdoor pig roasts with fire pits and liberal amounts of beer (causing me to rave about them in print and to anyone within chewing distance), Autunno alle Brace is a must. ³ More musts at citypaper. net/criticalmass. (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)

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“You spend enough time locked in a box with someone, you know… .” band. “You spend enough time locked in a box with someone, you know. … We got into a van wreck about a year ago in Chicago that really set us back. The van was totaled, people were in the hospital and we had to cancel the rest of a tour — a bad scene, really. “You know what, though? When all was said and done we ended up way closer than we all were before the van busted up,” he figures. Harris documented the crash and its aftereffects in “The Concrete Sound,” a standout track on Let’s Get You Somewhere Else. The rest of the album features stories of wronged romance, like “Backyard Fence Appeal” (“Ah, that’s the all-too-familiar story of boy meets girl then boy falls for girl but misses and smashes his face off the concrete leaving his whole projected world shattered, along with his teeth,” says Harris) and lost friendships, like “An American Gothic” (“No matter how close, you have to accept that connections with certain people have expiration dates,” according, again, to Harris).

Let’s Get You Somewhere Else’s most anthemic songs speak to both the pangs of being young at heart and the sense of calm humility that only maturity can bring. While “A Quiet Stretch of Weather” is Harris’ catchiest, fastest, “kiss-my-assand-go-fuck-yourself ” song, “The Farmer and Her Wife” is a cool plea for patience. “Patience with people, and yourself,” says Harris. “I think that in today’s world of instant gratification, which I’m definitely guilty of being used to, the art of being able to work and wait for something, or in this case someone, has been completely lost. I miss it.” With the release of Let’s Get You Somewhere Else and a busy tour schedule with The Bouncing Souls, Luther may not have to wait for any sort of gratification. (a_amorosi@citypaper.net) ✚ Fri., Oct. 19, 8 p.m., $8, with Static Radio NJ, The Arteries, Scarier Area and Idiot Kid, The Fire, 412 W. Girard Ave., 267-671-9298, iourecords.com/thefire.

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The question is: “Is it great art?� giant pies. Mark Essen’s Jetpack Basketball strays from an 8-bitlike two-player basketball game by introducing the element of jetpacks and a psychedelic and ambient noise landscape. Others are less familiar: Hannah Epstein’s The Immoral Ms. Conduct is like a chooseyour-own-adventure book about a ladies’ prison, and Lindsay Grace’s Big Huggin’, the tour de force of the exhibition, has players hugging a real-life teddy bear to make a bear onscreen jump. “Is it art?� The more appropriate question here is “Is it great art?� The answer to that would be “no� — perhaps because the means of creating the first great videogame work of art do not currently exist. But the answer to the questions “Did you have fun?� and “Did you learn something?� would be a resounding “yes.� ✚ Through Oct. 27, free, Little Berlin,

2430 Coral St., littleberlin.org. Games are open to the public Saturdays noon-5 p.m. and by appointment by emailing berlin.little@gmail.com. Workshop: Sat., Oct. 20., 2-4 p.m.

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... No one in or out of the field has ever been able to cite a game worthy of comparison with the great dramatists, poets, filmmakers, novelists and composers. That a game can aspire to artistic importance as a visual experience, I accept. But for most gamers, video games represent a loss of those precious hours we have available to make ourselves more cultured, civilized and empathetic. —Roger Ebert Âł THE QUESTION “Is it art?â€? has been mostly moot ever since philosopher and Nation critic Arthur Danto gave us an institutional definition in the ’60s. Art is art if: It is in something that calls itself an art gallery, made by someone who calls himself or herself an artist or proclaimed art by someone connected to the art industry. Still, whenever a new medium arises, some always feel the need to debate its claim to the title. Moondust, widely considered the first “art video game,â€? came out for the Commodore 64 in 1983. Yet nearly three decades later, acceptance of the medium’s possibilities beyond empty entertainment has only recently hit the mainstream. Just last year, the National Endowment for the Arts expanded its allowable projects to include “interactive gamesâ€? and the Supreme Court ruled that video games were protected speech, just like other forms of art. What’s interesting about “Punk Arcadeâ€? at Little Berlin, then, is not that this is some sort of bold statement about whether video games qualify as art. There are no manifestoes tacked to the wall among the seven DIY games in the traveling exhibit. “Punk Arcadeâ€? seems to start by assuming that particular argument is beside the point. On to the next step: growing the medium and making it more accessible to potential artists. This is done explicitly via workshops over the exhibit’s run for rookie programmers, but each game also sends a more subtle message of “Hey, this is possible!â€? just by existing. For the most part, these games run on standard home computers; they’re given the silhouette of traditional arcade games by large housings cut out of cardboard. Co-curators Lee Tusman and Sarah Brin chose the pieces to showcase the range of creative work and background in the indie video-game community. Anna Anthropy’s Keep Me Occupied requires

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two players to work together to ascend a building, with each game affecting all those that follow it — it makes perfect sense that the game was created for Occupy Oakland. Anthropy has been creating games for longer than Cassie Creighton, another artist in “Punk Arcade,� has been alive. Last year, when Cassie was 5, she and her dad Ryan (who programmed it, admittedly) teamed up to make Sissy’s Magical Ponycorn Adventure from Cassie’s ideas, crayon drawings and voice recordings at a weekend “game jam.� Some games seem familar — Jan Willem Nijman’s Tennes, projected on a wall, recalls 8-bit tennis matches. Steven Lavelle’s You Can Jump It 3D differs from many car-driving games only in that you are jumping over

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twists and turns along the way that surprise and draw us in both emotionally and intellectually. The writers Brian Yorkey (book and lyrics) and Tom Kitt (music) have an ear for how young people speak and think, so moments like Natalie’s song, “Superboy and the Invisible Girl,� feel truly genuine. The score itself is varied, often lovely and sometimes powerful (occasionally both). But neither script nor score bring us deeply enough into the Goodmans’ world of inner demons. Diana in particular seems far more on-the-edge than anything we hear in her songs. (Dark moods are routinely evoked by electric guitar and drums, which made me smile — I guess rock ’n’ roll is the devil’s music, after all.) Ultimately, Normal leaves much of the character-defining work to the performers. This is probably a good time to mention Alice Ripley, who created the role of Diana and played it for a celebrated stretch on and off Broadway, and whose iconic performance remains for many inseparable from the show. Ripley is a compelling, highly idiosyncratic actress whose high-wire virtuoso vocalism was thrilling, by all accounts. But her performances became increasingly erratic over her two-year run as Diana — some nights, she seemed several continents away from normal. That’s certainly not the case with Kristine Fraelich, whose performance of Diana is a model of vocal control. Each note is placed perfectly, and there’s nothing in the difficult score that seems to tax her. If anything, she sounds fresher at the end than she does

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MAD SCENES Âł IN A MOMENT, I’ll get to the business at hand — the Arden’s fine, visually stunning production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Next to Normal. But first, please allow me to vent. May we have a universal moratorium on heaping accolades on new musicals for bravely tackling difficult subject matter? It’s 2012, people. Stephen Sondheim has made an almost 60-year career of it, and he and his works are hardly the first. How about Show Boat, which in 1927 took on racism and family upheaval with a richly complex score? Or, closer to Normal’s turf, Oklahoma! (1943), in which Jud Fry’s mental illness is astonishingly captured in the song “Lonely Room,â€? which for me remains the most brilliantly disquieting two-and-a-half minutes of theater ever. And if we include opera as musical theater, well, mad scenes were regularly employed to showcase a heroine’s mental descent. Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor (one of many possible examples) fiendishly presses every tool of a soprano’s vocal arsenal into service over 20 electrifying minutes. So instead of pulling out terms like “groundbreaking innovationâ€? to describe Normal — a 2008 musical that deals forthrightly with bipolar disorder and the dysfunction it causes in the Goodman family (mentally ill wife Diana, husband Dan and their two teenage children, Gabe and Natalie) — let’s ask a better question. Just how good is it? The answer is mixed. Normal is finely plotted, with some

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at the beginning. But though such bluechip, effortless-feeling vocals are generally welcome in musicals, here, Fraelich, an appealing but placid actress, doesn’t suggest the scope of Diana’s pain. “I miss the mountains,� she sings plaintively — appropriate, as her performance needs more peaks and valleys. Among the other cast members, Rachel Camp is especially winning as Natalie, but across the board there should be more underlying tension. On the other hand, the musical values are universally strong, and Terrence J. Nolen’s sleek, minimalist production gets Normal exactly right, with video projections (by Jorge Cousineau) that are astonishingly apt and interesting. (It may seem like a backhanded compliment to praise the visuals in a musical, but there you are.) There’s much to admire in Normal, which is served honorably at the Arden. But if you really want to see how sparks can fly at the intersection of musical theater and psychodrama, check out Lucia di Lammermoor — now that’s brave. (d_fox@citypaper.net) ✚ Through Nov. 4, $36-$48, Arden Theatre, 40 N.

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toward light. Each individual scenario was so measured that in isolation you might think nothing much was happening, but the multitude of different activities created a kinetic energy, and moving back and forth between the settings, it was clear how things were constantly changing. As the evening wore on, the illumination in the tents and the shadows of the performers grew more pronounced against the darkening sky — an eerie, mysterious effect. To someone standing in the center of the lot and reviewing the full scene, the domed tents felt like beacons, calling for attention while also shedding light on performers dancing in the open air. Although this piece was an artful contemplative installation featuring abstract tableaus, children were as spellbound as the dance connoisseurs — their curiosities piqued by this fascinating environmental wonderland, parked for just one special night in the middle of an inner-city block. (d_kasrel@citypaper.net)

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Performance Practice’s SoMoS transformed a parking lot in the North Philly barrio into an inspired performance installation on the somewhat counterintuitive theme of nature. The scent of sage permeated the air, and soundscapes of wind blowing and water flowing were punctuated by the occasional plane flying overhead and cars humming down nearby streets. At sunset, the lot began to fill with people, including many families with young children, who milled about a fanciful scene dotted with geodesic-dome tents. But there was no moment when everyone was corralled to a specific place to sit and watch the performance. Viewers were free to wander and experience the scene as they wished, as a dozen or so slow, graceful dancers inside and outside the tents manipulated and balanced large tree branches. This was the grand finale of Temple professor Soto’s seven-year experimental Branch Dance series. Most of the prior dozens of performances had occurred in natural settings — in the woods of Fairmount Park, on the banks of the Wissahickon, in the snow, in a storm. But for last Friday’s culmination, Soto chose a different sort of setting: the parking lot at Fifth and Huntingdon that will soon become the new home of community center Taller Puertorriqueùo. The night brought a bit of nature into the gritty city. Video projected onto a large screen and the fabric of the tents enveloped the performance in natural imagery of different seasons.Autumn was present outdoors in the reality of the nippy weather and on video projected on a large screen, while the three tents represented summer, winter and spring. Viewers could settle into seating areas outside each tent, circle around to watch the shadows the dancers inside cast onto the translucent tent walls, or head inside for a closer view. Inside, the summer tent had the feel of a beach, and the sound of the sea rolling to and from the shore. Kids were drawn here not just because it was strewn with beach balls, but for the tent’s focal point: a woman dressed as a mermaid, lying in the center as if she’d just washed ashore. Children became part of the performance as they rolled the balls around her. Occasionally the mermaid would

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kick up her tail or stir to tap on balls that came her way. It was convincing enough: One child was overheard asking her parent, “Is that a real mermaid?� The spring tent sported a fresh grassy floor for a duet, and a peaceful calm suffused both spring and winter areas. If you hung around a bit, it rubbed off on your own state of mind; focusing on a specific scenario for a while proved an intimate meditative experience. The exceptionally slow movements of the dancers — the speed of their gestures was reminiscent of Japanese Butoh dancing, but without the psychology or makeup — compelled you to focus on the tiny details of how they carefully twisted and bent their bodies around branches and one another, much like a tree bends in the wind, a plant wraps around a pole or a flower opens

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ayans Schmayans. Smart money says there will indeed be a world to wake up to on Dec. 22. Still, if the “Greater Filmadelphia” selections at this year’s Philadelphia Film Festival are any indication, local filmmakers aren’t taking chances. Should the apocalypse arrive this holiday season, Temple grad Shane Bissett doesn’t want it to go out with only a bloated Roland Emmerich blockbuster to mark the occasion. “Shamefully, the only movie I can think of that celebrates Dec. 21, 2012, is that John Cusack movie.” Bissett says. “I thought this might be a nice other 2012 movie.” Bissett’s feature debut, This Time Tomorrow, follows a couple who spend the day together wandering Philly, just in case that ancient calendar got it right. The Richard Linklater-inspired film (it could have been called Before Armageddon) uses the planet’s impending doom as a backdrop for an intimate character study. “The main character is someone who just bleeds regret,” Bissett says. “I can only predict what Dec. 21 might be like, and in my opinion it’s going to be like a heightened New Year’s Eve. I don’t think the world will end in less than two months, but I do think there will be some kind of energy in the air. So for the characters it’s more of an excuse.” Documentarians Don Argott and Sheena M. Joyce, the duo behind the Barnes doc The Art of the Steal, had to completely rethink their latest film The Atomic States of America, when a nearapocalypse hit during filming. “We started making the film in 2010,” Argott says. “And we started remaking it on March 12, 2011.” That was the day after Japan was struck by the earthquake and tsunami that incited the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Suddenly, the duo’s doc about the dangers of nuclear power facilities was tragically more relevant. “Nuclear energy is big and intimidating and sounds scary, and we had to make it accessible and interesting and give it an urgency,” Joyce says. “We wanted to spark a dialogue about whether or not man can responsibly harness the atom. Fukushima reframed the dialogue.”

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For Jenny Deller, it was the harsh reality of a longer-term global disaster that inspired her debut, Future Weather.After reading an article about global warming in the New Yorker, she combined her ecological concerns with a story she was writing about a mother-daughter relationship. “This was before An Inconvenient Truth came out,” Deller recalls, “so nobody was really talking about it in the media. That terrified me, and I instantly connected to it as more than just an environmental issue. It’s a human issue and a moral issue, and I think that desire to start a conversation influenced me to connect it to this screenplay.” Deller advanced her message behind the scenes, employing as many sustainable methods in the production as possible. She

“It’s a human issue and a moral issue.” shot at the Schuylkill Center and the Pennypack Environmental Center to recreate her native southern Illinois just outside Philadelphia. She also partnered with sustainable businesses like Philly Compost, which disposed of the crew’s food waste for composting. “I always struggle with whether we should be trying to do more,” Deller says. “But in the end the things that we did meshed well with the high-stress, next-to-impossible task of making a low-budget film.” (s_brady@citypaper.net) ✚ This Time Tomorrow: Oct. 21, 2:50

p.m., Prince Music Theater; Oct. 22, 5:20 p.m., Rave. | The Atomic States of America: Oct. 25, 12:15 p.m., Ritz East; Sat., Oct. 27, 5:10 p.m., Prince. | Future Weather: Oct. 22, 7:35 p.m., Oct. 25, 5 p.m., Prince; Oct. 26, 4:45 p.m., Ritz East.

✚ FILM FEST INFO The Philadelphia Film Festival runs Oct. 18-28 at various locations. More info at filmadelphia.org.

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black-and-white. From casting to rehearsals to vignettes from the actors’ lives as “ceiling starers,” the film deliberately, deftly blurs fiction and reality. Caesar is best, however, when it goes off script and the play’s themes of betrayal and murder — and its cries for freedom — are allowed to resonate with the criminals’ own experiences. These moments show the transformative power of theater on the inmates’ lives. And the final line about the power of art is as forceful as the performance of Salvatore Striano as Brutus. —GMK

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³ THE EVERYTHING WILL BE OK TRILOGY | A

Were he not a solo animator who works principally in the medium of stick figures, Don Hertzfeldt would unquestionably be recognized as one of the most brilliant, soul-searching American filmmakers of his generation. The trilogy — which includes the titular short, It’s Such a Beautiful Day and I Am So Proud of You — is his magnum opus (at least to date), charting the main character’s physical and mental deterioration with terrifying humor and a wide variety of handmade special effects. On its own, each short is a masterpiece; their collective intensity is such that they’ll be scraping brains off the ceiling. —Sam Adams

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Oct. 19, 5 p.m., and Oct. 25, 10:15 p.m., Prince Music Theater; Oct. 23, 5 p.m., Rave.

Oct. 24, 5:30 p.m., and Oct. 27, noon, Prince Music Theater.

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³ CAESAR MUST DIE | B+

While this inspiring documentary about a New York City middle school of chess champions emphasizes the need for and benefits of after-school programs, it’s the five immensely likable kids the film focuses on that make the case. Rochelle, 13, is the queen — the highest-ranking player in the school who aspires to become

This gripping, multi-layered semi-documentary follows a production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, as performed by a cast of inmates of Rome’s maximum-security Rebibbia prison. Directed by Italian masters Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, the film opens with the final production, then flashes to the beginning in luminous

Oct. 20, 8 p.m., Ritz East; Oct. 21, 1:15 p.m., and Oct. 23, 10:30 p.m., Prince Music Theater.

³ HERE AND THERE | B+ Writer/director Antonio Méndez Esparza’s Here and There is a stunning debut. The film opens with Pedro (Pedro de los Santos) reuniting with his family in a Mexican mountain town after years of working in America. This remarkable, unsentimental drama — told from the Mexican side of the border — beautifully captures the rhythm of Pedro’s life and the dynamics of his close-knit family. The bonds between Pedro, his wife and his daughters are so real, viewers feel like eavesdroppers. Esparza’s accomplished film consists of a series of long, mostly static shots — the camera moves only briefly. But this approach, complemented by the absorbing narrative, allows viewers to become actively engaged in the characters’ lives — and their despair >>> continued on page 26

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A not-uninteresting drama about the importance of family and the idea of home, Alaskaland begins with troubled Nigerian teen Chukwuma “Chuck” (Alex Ubokudom) inadvertently causing the death of his parents on his younger sister Chidinma’s (Chioma Dunkley) birthday in snowy Fairbanks. The main narrative picks up two years later, when Chidinma reunites with her brother. The siblings slowly forge a new bond that strengthens when Chidinma gets into trouble herself. Alaskaland is handsomely filmed, and Philly writer/director Chinonye Chukwu provides some insight into African diasporic culture in Alaska, but the toothin narrative and earnest performances detract from the film’s overall potency. —Gary M. Kramer

the first female African-American master. Pobo, 12, is the leader and politician, uniting the team in matches and against budget cuts. Alexis, 12, hopes to use chess to fulfill his immigrant parents’ hopes for a better life for him. Patrick, an 11-year-old newcomer, struggles with ADHD when trying to stay several steps ahead of the game. And the talented young Justus, 11 — who has since become the youngest African-American chess master ever — is already grappling with the heartbreak of a loss. Brooklyn Castle allows viewers to watch these students struggle not just at their sport, but with life — the life-changing battery of tests that determine whether a student qualifies to attend one of the city’s competitive specialized high schools is just as compelling (and nerve-wracking) as the tense, high-stakes tournaments. This emotionally rousing film is a real crowd-pleaser. Checkmate. —GMK

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American Indians and the Holocaust to the faking of the moon landing. While the outlandish ideas by these tiresome blowhards are amusing for a moment, long (and long-winded) segments diagram the path of Danny’s Big Wheel, show the film projected simultaneously forward and backward, and indicate subliminal images — without any payoff. There is shockingly little meaning here, and it is not compellingly presented. Go see The Shining (also playing during the festival) and puzzle out its mysteries for yourself instead. —GMK

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Oct. 21, 4:40 p.m., Ritz East; Oct. 22, 7:30 p.m., Rave.

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Miguel Gomes’ nigh-indescribable Tabu as inventive as it is perplexing.

Miguel Gomes’ nigh-indescribable cine-thing is as inventive as it is perplexing. Its first section, which charts the relationship between a Lisbon woman and her elderly, paranoid neighbor, is distended and inert. But it paves the way for a brilliant second act, in which the old woman’s childhood memories of life in colonized Africa are replayed as a silent-film reverie. Exploring the allure of silent romance without The Artist’s knowing wink, Gomes engineers an alchemical fusion between history and the present. —SA

Based on a novel by one-time Collingswood resident Matthew Quick, the locally shot Silver Linings Playbook mixes the style of David O. Russell’s The Fighter with the antic performance style of I Heart Huckabees, a combination designed to leave viewers as crazed as Bradley Cooper’s unhinged lead. On provisional release from a mental hospital, he moves back in with his parents — including Robert De Niro as a dad with a long history of making unwise bets on Eagles games — and takes up with policeman’s widow Jennifer Lawrence, who ropes him into training for a ballroom-dancing contest. The film is clever and cute and never lets you forget it, but is still winning in spite of it —SA

Oct. 22, 7:15 p.m. and Oct. 27, noon, Ritz at the Bourse.

Oct. 18, 8 p.m., Annenberg Center.

— right up to the quietly powerful ending. —GMK

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³ TABU | B+

³ ROOM 237 | D+ With some nifty editing of Stanley Kubrick’s work, Room 237 presents various idiosyncratic and idiotic theories about the meanings — real or imagined — of The Shining. But this documentary/diatribe quickly becomes more irritating than enlightening. Five crackpots offer their analyses of how Kubrick’s film was actually a comment on everything from the genocide of

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PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4 A haiku: OK, at this point we’re siding with you guys, ghosts. Kill that family. (Not reviewed) (Pearl, UA 69th Street, UA Grant, UA Riverview)

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CONTINUING 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 Af-

Disney goes dark in this Gothic, animated 3-D delight by the ever-imaginative Tim Burton. The story quickly establishes the close bond between Victor and his dog Sparky. When the pooch unexpectedly bites the dust, the bereft child is struck with the idea to reanimate his pet, and he does so in a virtuoso sequence à la Frankenstein. While the reignited Sparky isn’t seamless — some of his body parts tend to fall off — Frankenweenie is a solidly conceived blend of humor and horror that balances dry jokes with some unsettling jolts. —Gary M. Kramer (Pearl, UA 69th Street, UA Grant, UA Main Street, UA Riverview)

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

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fleck 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: 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 Grant)

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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 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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THE PAPERBOY |CYou’ve got to hand it to Lee Daniels: He knows how to keep things interesting. 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 Daniels 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 Daniels 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 fiancé (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 (Ritz Five)

THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER |A Wounded by the suicide of his only friend, bookish Charlie (Logan Lerman) dreads his ascension into high school. He finds release in literature, fed to him by a prescient teacher (Paul Rudd), eventually latching on to Sam (Emma Watson) and Patrick (Ezra Miller), step-sibling classmates who embrace their off-kilter social

standing. Outlandish Patrick, nailed by Miller in the movie’s standout performance, is gay, carrying out a dangerous secret relationship with a star athlete (Johnny Simmons). Sam, meanwhile, is empathetic to everyone but herself, tangling with unhealthy relationships in a manifestation of one of the film’s book inspiration’s most loaded lines (“We accept the love we think we deserve”). If all this sounds insufferably sodden, that’s because it is. But writer/director Stephen Chbosky’s ability to embolden the quiet moments that only sound loud to ears of a certain age has been purified by live action. Charlie’s plummet and tentative redemption run the angst gamut so conspicuously that it’s easy to snicker when he famously declares that he feels

“infinite.” But all you’ve got to do is make a conscious effort to remember that you were once 16, emo and awful, to feel the same, at least for a mixtape minute. —Drew Lazor (Ritz Five)

SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN|BThe story, an incredible one, is that of Sixto Rodriguez, a Detroit singersongwriter who made two albums of introspective, psychedelic soul music: Cold Fact and Coming From Reality. Two decades later, long after Rodriguez dropped out of sight and possibly died, those unknown albums

were embraced by the South African freedom movement, becoming the soundtrack of a struggle half a world away and elevating him to the status of an absent figurehead. Director Malik Bendjelloul is so insistent about the story’s extraordinary nature that you can’t help but wonder if he’s cooking the books, a suspicion that pays off when a late-film twist reveals he’s essentially been leading his audience astray. Pulling drama out of the material is one thing, but ginning it up wholesale blurs the line between storytelling and simple fraud. —SA (Ritz Five)

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SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS |BThe 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

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. —DL (Pearl, UA Riverview)

SINISTER |BI’ve never been the type to shield my eyes during a horror flick, but that may have put me at a disadvantage while watching Sinister. While Scott Derrickson’s film is little more than a mildly effective, utterly predictable mash-up of The Ring and The Shining, Christopher Young’s score creates a consistently unsettling atmosphere that almost manages to disguise the shortcomings of the visuals that it’s meant to support. Young,

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BRYN MAWR FILM INSTITUTE 824 W. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr, 610-527-9898, brynmawrfilm.org. The NeverEnding Story (1984, West Germany/U.S., 102 min.): A bullied young boy is drawn into the pages of a mystical book, and sets out to save the land of Fantasia. Sat., Oct. 20, 11 a.m., $5. Serenity (2005, U.S., 119 min.): In Joss Whedon’s extension of Firefly, the rebellious crew of a spaceship protects a fugitive from a totalitarian military. Fri., Oct. 19, 11:30 p.m., $7. The Seventh Companion (1968, U.S.S.R., 89 min.): Just after the Russian revolution, a lawyer in the Tzar’s army tries to prove his innocence after losing everything after being falsely accused and arrested. Tue., Oct. 23, noon, $7. Trial on the Road (1971, U.S.S.R, 96 min.): A Russian soldier must prove his loyalty after defecting to the Nazis, then switching back. Tue., Oct. 23, 5:30 p.m., $10. The Tingler (1959, U.S., 82 min.): Vincent Price stars as a pathologist convinced that people have a creature inside of them that is provoked by fear and suppressed by screaming. How to test this theory? Well, it involves a deaf and mute girl and some LSD. Wed., Oct. 24, 7:30 p.m., $10.

CIRCLE OF HOPE 1125 S. Broad St., second floor, 215468-2726, circleofhope.net. The Interrupters (2011, U.S., 125 min.): Steve James’ powerful documentary follows three members of Ceasefire, a group of former gang members who try to keep the peace on Chicago’s South Side by “interrupting” situations before they go from angry to violent. Tue., Oct. 23, 7:30 p.m., free.

FRIENDS OF THE PHILADELPHIA CITY INSTITUTE LIBRARY Free Library, Philadelphia City Institute Branch, 1905 Locust St., 215685-6621, freelibrary.org. In Which We Serve (1942, U.K., 115 min.): Noël Coward stars in this dramatic film, directed by David Lean, as the captain of a British naval ship. Wed., Oct. 24, 2 p.m., free.

HOLLABACKPHILLY William Way Community Center, 1315 Spruce St., 215-732-2220, waygay. org, philly.ihollaback.org. Not My Life (2011, U.S., 83 min.): A disturbing doc that looks at the realities of human trafficking and modern slavery through compelling testimonies from survivors. Thu., Oct. 18, 6 p.m., free.

PHILAMOCA 531 N. 12th St., 267-519-9651, philamoca.org. Shooting Wall Presents: Views From the Underground: A collection of six short independent films by local filmmakers. Mon., Oct. 22, 7 p.m., free. Nosferatu (1922, Germany, 94 min.): The German Expressionist silent classic gets a live musical score by Not-So-Silent Cinema. (See p. 30 for more info.) Fri., Oct. 19, 7:30 p.m., 9:45 p.m., and Sun., Oct. 21, 4 p.m.; $10-$12.

PHILLYCAM 699 Ranstead St., 215-385-0496, phillycam.org. Home Movie Day: In its sixth year, this screening is open to anyone with 16mm, 8mm or Super-8 films in the attic. Bring your own, or just experience a strange, intimate look at the lives of others. Sat., Oct. 20, 6 p.m., free.

4012 Walnut St., 215-386-9800, ravemotionpictures.com, fathomevents. com. Another spooky double feature.

THE TRESTLE INN 339 N. 11th St., 267-239-0290, thetrestleinn.com. Wouldn’t you know it — another double feature! Dawn of the Dead (1978, U.S., 126 min.): Zombies and a deadly gang of bikers threaten a group of Philadelphians hiding out in a shopping mall after society falls apart. Halloween (1978, U.S., 91 min.): Jamie Lee Curtis stars in her breakout performance as Laurie, the babysitter on the run from Michael Myers. Sun., Oct. 21, 11 a.m., no cover.

WOODMERE 9201 Germantown Ave., 215-2470476, woodmereartmuseum.org. Gambit (1966, U.S., 109 min.): A cat thief enlists the help of a dancer to execute the perfect heist. Tue., Oct. 23, 7 p.m., $5.

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3260 South St., 215-898-2680, penn. museum. Apocalypse Film Series This installment: Zombies! The double feature starts with comedy

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COLONIAL THEATRE 227 Bridge St., Phoenixville, 610-9171228, thecolonialtheatre.com. Where the Wild Things Are (2009, U.S., 101 min.): After being sent to bed without dinner, Max creates his own world where wild beasts crown him

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20 E. State St., Doylestown, 215-3456789, countytheater.org. B.Y.O.M. (Bring Your Own Movie): Local filmmakers are invited to bring a copy of their films to be shown on a big screen and briefly discussed. Wed., Oct. 24, 7:30 p.m., free.

min.): To get his ex back and prove his self-worth, put-upon Shaun tries to be a hero when zombies attack. Then there’s the more straightforward Night of the Living Dead (1968, U.S., 96 min.): Radiation causes corpses to rise from the grave and prey on a group of people who’ve taken refuge in a farmhouse. Wed., Oct. 24, 7:30 p.m., donation.

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1003 Arch St., 215-922-6888, thetroc. com. Moonrise Kingdom (2012, U.S., 94 min.): Wes Anderson’s most recent pastel-colored comedy follows two young runaways who will stop at nothing to be together — set to a great soundtrack, of course. Mon., Oct. 22, 8 p.m., $3.

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TAKEN 2|C 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 humantrafficker population with his bare hands? Neeson's second spin as an unbreakable (retired) CIA neck-snapper, overseen by slick action specialist Olivier Megaton (Transporter 3, Colombiana), has all the gunfights and auto chases your adrenaline-addled heart desires, but it's missing the dogged undercurrent that made the 2008 original so magnetic. —DL (Pearl, Rave, UA 69th Street, UA Grant, UA Main Street, UA Riverview)

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king after he claims he can solve all of their problems in this live-action adaptation of the classic children’s book. Sat., Oct. 20, 2 p.m., $5.

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of the Delta blues in this music doc, followed by a session with the filmmakers. Fri., Oct. 19, 7 p.m., free with RSVP at xpn.org. Hyenas (1992, Senegal/France, 110 min.): A wealthy woman returns to the impoverished village of her birth with an unexpected proposal. Tue., Oct. 23, 8 p.m., $8.

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still best known for the demonically seductive music-box orchestrations of Hellraiser, concocts something altogether different here, a seamless blend of score and sound design that resembles a dubstep remix of the howls of the damned. The electronically-deranged mélange of disembodied voices, static, shrieks and thumps is disturbing and disorienting, suggesting mysteries that the story fails to deliver on. That story involves Ethan Hawke as a true-crime author who moves into the crime scene he’s investigating, only to discover a box of Super-8 home movies documenting a series of disturbing murders. The not-unpromising premise is let down by a demonic presence who looks like the singer from a black metal band lurking in the suburbs and a bunch of

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✚ GUTENBERG! THE MUSICAL! This theatrical whirlwind imagines two hapless writers pitching their show to Broadway producers, simultaneously providing a musical-theater dramaturgy tutorial while proudly sharing the worst

example of the form ever. Their historical fiction — “Fiction that’s true,” they note — tells a ridiculously twisted version of printing-press inventor Johannes Gutenberg’s story. Though set circa 1450, they add Holocaust allusions “because it makes the show important,” and the local Germans speak in “old-timey” Cockney accents. The scribes play all the roles, identifying characters with labeled caps (“Beef Fat Trimmer” steals some scenes) and also using caps as props (“rats,” “feces” — hey, it’s the Middle Ages). Better even than real writers Scott Brown and Anthony King’s inspired lunacy are Tony Braithwaite and Steve Pacek’s hyperactive performances, supported by hilariously reluctant accompanist Sonny Leo and smartly directed by Tom Quinn at Souderton’s Montgomery Theater, where Gutenberg! has played the past month. This not-to-be-missed co-production moves to Ambler’s Act II Playhouse (where Braithwaite

is artistic director) this week. —Mark Cofta Through Nov. 4, $15-$38, Act II Playhouse, 56 E. Butler Ave., Ambler, 215-654-0200, act2playhouse.org.

seems perfect for a story set in a rigid religious environment. —Mark Cofta Through Nov. 10, $10-$20, Calvary Center, 4740 Baltimore Ave., 215-5251350, curiotheatre.org.

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✚ THE RUNNER STUMBLES New productions bring forgotten plays into the present and make them relevant to fresh audiences. Just look at Milan Stitt’s hit 1976 drama The Runner Stumbles, finally revived to great acclaim offBroadway last season, and now by West Philly’s Curio Theatre Company. Based on a centuryold Michigan case, the action sounds contemporary: a priest played by Steve Carpenter is accused of murdering a nun (Isa St. Clair, terrific in last season’s The Tempest), who was also his lover. “It’s a play about a crisis of faith,” director Gay Carducci explains, “with a hint of mystery.” Curio’s home in the former Calvary Church chapel

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fully half of the band’s 10 members, and while its title is an apt idiom for our instant-gratification search-engine culture (see “Disgrace Note,” which scans like a Wikipedia page on suicides by creative curmudgeons set to verse), they generally operate at a deliberate, oldfashioned pace that invites and occasions some welcome mental readjustments.

he was in real life. Before Bela Lugosi (and everybody after) stamped vampires as charming seducers, there was Schreck doing it straight-up creepy and repulsive. Boston composer Brendan Cooney wrote a score for an assortment of instruments (accordions and an upright bass among them) to amp up the Gothic European aesthetic of Nosferatu.

—K. Ross Hoffman

—Catherine Haas

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Fri., Oct. 19, 10:30 p.m., $10, Tin Angel, 20 S. Second St., 215-928-0770, tinangel.com.

✚ CUDDLE MAGIC

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Semi-local acoustic chamber ensemble Cuddle Magic manage the neat trick of being utterly adorable in a way that doesn’t make you take their warmly cerebral, obliquely poignant classical-jazz-folk-pop sound — they don’t exactly play any of these kinds of music, but they don’t exactly not play them, either — any less seriously. Their third full-length, Info Nympho (Fyo), includes compositions by

✚ NOSFERATU Not-So-Silent Cinema’s goal is to bring classic silent movies to life with live musical accompaniments. Nosferatu is not only a visual masterpiece, but it also manages to be insanely creepy, even 90 years after its release. You can thank Max Schreck for that; director F.W. Murnau cast his Count Orlok based on how “strikingly ugly”

Fri., Oct. 19, 7:30 and 9:45 p.m.; Sun., Oct. 21, 4 p.m.; $10-$12, PhilaMOCA, 531 N. 12th St., 267-519-9651, philamoca.org.

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10.20 [ rock/pop/eclectic ]

✚ EDIBLE ONION FEST Edible Onion records has a habit of collecting artists who

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hand-designed tapes, records and CDs that sidestep the drums/guitar/bass format in favor of harps, synthesizers and harmoniums. Benjamin Schurr (pictured), for example, shifts between hushed tones and shouts as he explores sexual shame and decaying human connections. At this Saturday’s Edible Onion Fest, expect a full night of music that pushes you to imagine a genre-free utopia. —Elizabeth Gunto

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use quiet vocals and unorthodox instruments to illustrate the most devastating junctures in the human experience. For the last six years, the Philadelphia-based label has released

In January 2011, a Toronto police officer said, “Women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized.” In June 2011, the editor of Philadelphia’s online Broad Street Review, Dan Rottenberg, posted an article stating that men cannot control their sexual appetites and that women who dress provocatively or trust their male friends have brought sexual assault upon themselves. That August, hundreds of Philadelphians responded to these ideas and the society that condones them with SlutWalk Philadelphia, one of many marches across the United States and Canada. People of all sexual orientations, religions, ages and races came to stand against sexual assault and the attitude that justifies sexual violence and shames victims. —Elizabeth Gunto Sat., Oct. 20, 11 a.m., free, Clark Park, 43rd Street and Baltimore Avenue, slutwalkphiladelphia.com.

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✚ THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW WITH PUPPETS

✚ R.L. STINE / JUSTIN CRONIN

—Dylan Peer Sat.-Sun., Oct. 20-21, 8 p.m., $15, Vox Populi AUX Space, 319 N. 11th St., 215-238-1236, touchmephilly. wordpress.com.

Sat., Oct. 20, 2 p.m., free, Free Library of Philadelphia, Central Branch, 1901 Vine St., 215-686-5322, freelibrary.org.

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✚ MENDELSSOHN CLUB The Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul is one of Philadelphia’s most loved structures. The looming marble-andgranite space should, in theory, be a terrible place to hear music, with the sound bouncing around everywhere. But composer Robert Moran, working with the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, makes this aural lemon into lemonade. The Basilica actually has a seven-second reverb, and Moran works this into the score of Angele Dei. It is a big work, with two choirs spaced at opposite ends of the sanctuary, plus an orchestra and, of course, the pipe organ. The actual performance re-

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new novel, Red Rain, ushers in a new era of Stine-induced terror intended for adult victims. On Saturday, the overlord of evil will read and sign his new book alongside Justin Cronin, author of The Passage and The Twelve.

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There’s a light, over at the … Sesame Place? Director Amanda Sylvester, Sean Glass and Gloaming Productions — the minds who brought you this summer’s Hungry: the Musical, about an invasion of flesh-eating alien plants — have put a new spin on Richard O’Brien’s campy cult classic. Taking inspiration from sources like Siouxsie Sioux and Man Ray, this production of Rocky Horror is a darker, new-wave adaptation of the original, with 100 percent more puppets. See Frank and company like never before in what promises to be one of a select few live performances of Rocky Horror featuring titillating humanon-puppet action this Halloween season.

A master of horror and the author of the best-selling Goosebumps books, R.L. Stine (pictured) froze the blood of ’80s and ’90s babies with his maniacal, twisted tales. Stay Out of the Basement (1992) single-handedly caused a generation of petrified children to beg their parents to go down the stairs first. His

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Kimbra is every bit as much of a pop chameleon as her duetpartner and fellow Antipodean Gotye, whose “Somebody That I Used to Know” has served as her international calling card. The quiet intensity she deployed so effectively on that song, however, is markedly little in evidence on Vows (Warner Bros.), which instead flits from sound to sound, alternately

recalling Janelle Monáe, Feist (the domestically inclined doo-wop of “Settle Down” is basically an even scattier “Mushaboom”) and sunshinepop glitter-princesses like Lenka or The Bird and the Bee’s Inara George. She’s not afraid to layer on the Disneyfied sonic excess — strings and chimes, harpsichords and xylophones, funhouse samples and backing vocals galore — and her approach to retro (frequent injections of swing, soul and ’60s pop) is more glitzy Broadway revival than historical re-enactment. Plus, she’s got both the gump-

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tion to cover Nina Simone and the poise (and voice) to pull it off. —K. Ross Hoffman Sun., Oct. 21, 7 p.m., $16-$22.50, TLA, 334 South St., 800-745-3000, livenation.com.

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10.22 [ rock/pop ]

✚ KING TUFF If you’re having trouble keeping up with Ty Segall’s prodigious output in 2012, there’s another acclaimed garagerocker worth checking out. King Tuff shares with Segall a love for frayed-guitar fuzz, tinny, trebly production values and Stooges-like abandon. On his self-titled Sub Pop release, King Tuff channels ’70s-rockradio ear candy like Cheap Trick and Wings with songs like “Anthem” and “Swamp of Love.” The hooks come fast and furious throughout the album, and the homemade sound and nasal, adolescent vocals help him avoid the queasier sides of rock posturing. But there’s no mistaking his commitment, whether he’s getting philosophical on “Unusual World” or noisily enigmatic on “Stranger.” —Michael Pelusi Mon., Oct. 22, 9 p.m., $10-$12, with The Intelligence and Poor Moon, Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 877435-9849, johnnybrendas.com.

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✚ COM TRUISE / BONDE DO ROLE Princeton, N.J.’s Seth Haley

posthumous recognition of Jiri Zizka, who co-founded Wilma Theater and died earlier this year. Too many goodbyes for one night. —A.D. Amorosi

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— EDM heads call him Com Truise (pictured) — has spent his career running from drum ’n’ bass grooves and toward slow-motion soul and mangled but melodic lo-fi pop. His bold, synthy, souped-up arrangements and fluid, catchy melodies are warped and grimy, and there’s not enough to go around — just 2011’s Galactic Melt and 2012’s In Decay (both on Ghostly International) and that’s it. Opening for Truise at

[ film ] the TLA on Monday are Diplo’s best pals from Brazil, the hyperkinetic Bonde do Role, whose bracing Baile funk has been replaced on their newest album, Tropical/Bacanal (Mad Decent), with something stewing and simmering. Singer Laura Taylor still acts like a coked-up Energizer Bunny; this time out, she’s just talking slower. —A.D. Amorosi Mon., Oct. 22, 7 p.m., $12-$14, TLA, 334 South St., 800-745-3000, livenation.com.

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It’s a strange month for Philadelphia theater beyond the stage. Along with this week’s Barrymore Awards being the last gasp of the Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia, the Inquirer’s theater staffer Howard Shapiro took a buyout and left the paper. Each will be missed. In the post-TAGP era, its sponsored Barrymores’ nomination process has become an email gift rather than a ceremonial medallion. Still, that won’t mean there’ll be a complete lack of pomp and circumstance when it comes to celebrating excellence in local theater. Now called Theater Philadelphia, the event announces the cash winners of The Brown Martin Philadelphia Award (for diversity shown by companies) and the F. Otto Haas Award (for emerging artists). Most poignant will be the night’s

Though his career spans nearly half a century, director Aleksei Guerman can count only six films to his name. The spaces in between are filled by battles with Soviet censors and long spans where those films sat on shelves, gathering dust, awaiting the attention (or, more importantly, the lack of attention) of a less repressive regime. Still, those half-dozen titles are enough to merit Guerman a place in the pantheon beside his more renowned countryman Andrei Tarkovsky. In conjunction with Bryn Mawr College’s Russian Department, Bryn Mawr Film Institute will screen four of Guerman’s directorial efforts, along with The Fall of Otrar, a historical epic he co-wrote and produced. Stocked with compromised characters, the series includes My Friend Ivan Lapshin (1986), a tragicomic tale of a journalist and a provincial police captain, and Trial on the Road (1971), about a Nazi collaborator out to prove his patriotism. —Shaun Brady Oct. 23-Nov. 6, $7, Bryn Mawr Film Institute, 824 W. Lancaster Ave., 610527-9898, brynmawrfilm.org.

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✚ THE SEA AND CAKE/MATTHEW FRIEDBERGER On parts of Runner (Thrill Jockey), their ninth LP in

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almost 20 years, The Sea and Cake hew closer to the conventional indie-rock/post-punk archetype than ever before, augmenting their typical cleanly fluid structures with almost shoegazy guitar noise — without ever ceasing to sound entirely like themselves. Their labelmate and fellow Chicagoan Matthew Friedberger (pictured; best known as a Fiery Furnaces) is as erratic and willfully difficult as they are affably dependable; he, by contrast, has released nine or 10 LPs in the last two years (!), the latest of which, Matricidal Sons of Bitches, stretches four mostly

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creaky old jazz and misterioso beat-box ballroom, it’s expectedly quirk-heavy, but surprisingly listenable. It’d work equally well as a soundtrack for a comically heroic silent film or for cleaning your cuckoo-clock collection. —K. Ross Hoffman Tue., Oct. 23, 8:30 p.m., $15, Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St., 215-232-2100, utphilly.com.

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✚ FRANKENSTEIN/ BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein are Universal Studios’ twin towers of terror. While Bela Lugosi’s Dracula

Monster’s hand). Yet where dialogue is concerned, Bride is the sharper of the pair due in part to Ernest Thesiger’s overly florid reading of the wily Doctor Pretorius character and the monster’s own last line. It’s a killer. —A.D. Amorosi

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—Dylan Peer Wed., Oct. 24, 8 p.m., $12-$15, Silk City Lounge, 435 Spring Garden St., 215-592-8838, silkcityphilly.com.

✚ ODDISEE Since getting his start at DJ Jazzy Jeff ’s A Touch of Jazz studio a decade ago, Oddisee has developed a knack for hip-hop beat production reminiscent of pioneers like 9th Wonder and Pete Rock. Atypical of most producers-turnedrappers, Oddisee displays a Zen-like cohesion in his verses despite some complex rhyme schemes on his long-time-coming solo debut, People Hear What They See. And he’s got something to say; the battle horns blare on “American

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heavy boots to the thrashing of his long arms, meant menace. His sunken cheeks (created when Karloff removed his partial bridgework) somehow portrayed the loneliness of a lost soul and lent poignancy to the misunderstood abomination. Directed by legendary esthete James Whale and wittily scripted in part by Philadelphia’s John Lloyd Balderston, both films feature scenes and scripts risky for the time (Dr. Frankenstein’s line “Now I know what it’s like to be God” was cut from the first movie, along with the drowning of a young girl at the

Greed” as he disembowels our sick society: “Laws invented by those who break it/ I bend ’em I’m painted as so heinous/ by these hypocrites who feel offended.” Pointed stuff. The only question is, will you hear it the way Oddisee sees it?

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BIG TIME ³ FOR FOUR DAYS in October, New York City turns into a veritable mecca for food-world celeb sightings. The New York City Wine & Food Festival attracts chefs from all over along with familiar faces from every hour of the Food Network’s schedule and Bravo’s Top Cheftestants. Each day of the fest is jam-packed with events ranging from roasts (this year Anthony Bourdain was on the chopping block) to seminars (think wine and sandwich pairings) to huge tasting events where chefs bring out their best for single-subject taste-athons featuring burgers, meatballs or tacos. Plenty of Philadelphia-area chefs made the trek to get in on last week’s festival action. Pub and Kitchen’s Jonathan Adams set up shop atTacos & Tequila, a blowout night hosted by Bobby Flay. This night of a million tortillas consisted of more than 30 tables of chefs plating up all manner of tacos. For a little taste of home,Adams imported corn tortillas from Italian Market tortilleria San Roman and topped them with coffee-braised beef short ribs, tart pickled cabbage, squeaky crumbles of queso fresco and piri piri hot sauce. Later that night, Philadelphia’s own seemingly unstoppable Iron Chef Jose Garces joined the rest of the Iron Chefs for an evening that was more cocktail party than cutthroat competition, even though Alton Brown was on hand to MC. After a week’s worth of events promoting The Latin Road Home (Lake Isle Press), Garces was relaxed and in top form plating a posole from his new cookbook. It was a comforting take on the pozolerías staple made with a seafood stock and hearty nuggets of hominy. Perhaps more comforting was Garces’ takeaway from the evening: “Everyone in the crowd seemed to really be enjoying themselves and it was great to be with all the other Iron Chefs, under one roof, as I’m a fan of their culinary prowess.” With our city’s history of sandwich glory, it was heartening to see Charlie Compagnucci competing at the Sandwich Showdown. Managing Pat’s Steaks for 10 years gives you some serious sandwich cred. Whereas most of the other showdowners were breaking out more cerebral sandwiches, Compagnucci kept it close to home with rib eye on a semolina roll crowned with browned onions, amped-up Whiz from a can and a subtle drizzle of truffle oil, finished with a serve-yourself station of housemade pickles and cherry peppers. In the midst of a sea of reimagined bahn mis and sliders, seeing folks hunched over in the old cheesesteak lean showed that Philly was well represented. (caroline@citypaper.net)

WORTH CELEBRATING: Cambridge’s potato and onion pierogies are finished with a bright drizzle of balsamic. NEAL SANTOS

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EVOLVING CREDIT The stripped-down former Tritone spot makes way for the Cambridge, a near-winner in need of a few tweaks. By Adam Erace THE CAMBRIDGE | 1508 South St., 267-455-0647, cambridgeonsouth. com. Open Mon.-Sat., 4 p.m.-2 a.m.; Sun., 11:30 a.m.-2 a.m. Appetizers, $8$13; entrees, $11-$21; desserts, $6-$7.

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t was 10:30 p.m. at the Cambridge, and my ass was asleep. Not my ass metaphorically, like how you might sigh, “My ass is dragging,” after running a 5K or spending the morning at traffic court. No, my actual ass. In lieu of chairs, elfin wood-andiron stools are arrayed about the loud, shadowy footprint of the old Tritone. They were built of reclaimed material by a carpenter friend of the More on: Cambridge’s (and Hawthorne’s) owners, Chris Fetfatzes and Heather Annechiarico, and they’re about as comfortable as sitting on a wooden mushroom. They look handsome, but so do a lot of serial killers. Fortunately, I and countless other numb-butt customers in the Cambridge’s 10 weeks of business have suffered so you don’t have to. “New chairs are being delivered today,” Annechiarico told me when we talked; the point of the stools, she explained, was to nurture a casual, communal vibe. “We wanted to make this a gathering space where people would be able to crowd around tables.”

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It’s a fair explanation, but a moot one. The stools are gone. So why would I even bring them up? To illustrate (and applaud) Fetfatzes and Annechiarico for hearing their customers’ complaints and, more importantly, doing something about them. (There are restaurateurs with bigger egos and bigger pockets who would have told all our asses to just fuck off.) Their adaptability is a skill that will serve them well in the coming months, as the Cambridge, though not without its charms, still has things that need changing. The noise, to start. Even with South Street siphoning off some of the sound through the open front windows, it was nearly as excruciating as the seating. The willowy club kids, fantasy-football-league members, hardcore beer geeks and bro-ish stockbrokers comprising the Cambridge’s clientele had devolved to straight-out screaming as their preferred form of communication in the 45-seat dining room. Blame the hard, sound-repelling surfaces: crusty brick, pockmarked plaster and original wood, the unforgiving underwear Fetfatzes exposed during his (un)renovation of MORE FOOD AND Tritone. He “stripped everything to the DRINK COVERAGE plywood” and seemed to stop there, leavAT C I T Y P A P E R . N E T / ing a dark, shadowy shell that, despite the M E A LT I C K E T. new reclaimed-wood furniture, flea-market fixtures and vintage apothecary jars, looks less like the intended “rustic farmhouse” and more like a decaying barn. Beers took long. Food took longer. A shame, because both the Cambridge’s bar and the kitchen delivered during my visit, with dry, fizzy cider and tart cranberry lambic from the 24-deep draught system complementing sharable plates like housemade pierogies, poutine and pork belly with pickled fennel from chefs Matthew >>> continued on adjacent page

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Plank (a Hawthorne’s transfer) and Jason VanderVossen. Grilled and pulled dark-meat chicken was charged with black pepper and lemon zest for one of several rotating fillings for those pierogies. The seasoned meat joined mashed potatoes and onions before being stuffed into sour-cream dough; crispy, buttery and drizzled with sticky balsamic, the pierogies might not win a Polish granny’s approval in Port Richmond, but on this revitalized stretch of South Street, they’re something to celebrate. Huge whole wings got brined in hot sauce for 48 hours, braised and fried for a reverse Buffalo situation where the heat hid sneakily under the chicken’s crisp, salty exterior. Carrot-and-cucumber slaw sat on the side, crunchy, cool and creamed with blue cheese. A peach and pecan salad arrived missing pecans, a silly oversight, but the fruit, macerated in vanilla liqueur and lavender then grilled, provided a last glimpse of summer, sweet and smoky against bitter frisee, tangy herbed goat cheese and sharp sherry-shallot vinaigrette. Keeping the ingredients seasonal, VanderVossen, who serves as the Cambridge’s exec with Plank back at Hawthorne’s, has since scrapped it for a salad of butternut squash, celeriac and other root vegetables. Here’s hoping no one forgets the lentil vinaigrette, though I wouldn’t mind if someone spaced on the tough, measly hanger steak perched over a thicket of crunchy, well-seasoned fries in the Cambridge’s chimichurri-splashed take on steak frites. Save your appetite for the “silver platter” fried chicken — but not because of the actual chicken. Brined, soaked in a mix of hot sauce and cream, floured, fried and fried again, it was a fine specimen full of glistening, juicy meat, but the choice to not break down this half-bird into leg, breast and thigh made it difficult to eat and minimized the surface area of thick, zesty crust. Sides to the rescue! The vinegary collards, angry jalapeño cornbread and big bowl of gooey, barbecue-y smoked-Gouda mac-n-cheese made this platter worth its (told in advance) 30-minute wait. Desserts, oddly, also took forever — and they didn’t come with a warning like the fried chicken. But oh, man, the Black Forest cheesecake. You wouldn’t necessarily expect the Cambridge to have such a virtuous sweets program, but that wedge of tangy chocolate-cream-cheese custard trimmed in a coco-lime crust and topped with fat, dark, saucy cherries proved otherwise. Furnished with salted pecan brittle and ripe blackberries, cool bars of Creamsicle semifreddo didn’t offer quite the thrill of the cheesecake, but got devoured just as well. Maybe it wasn’t the stool that had my ass numb, but the week’s worth of calories I consumed instead? Either way, I won’t have to worry about it next time I come to the Cambridge. I’m looking forward to a soft place to sit, wings, smoky macaroni, cheesecake and beer. But the thing I’m most looking forward to is seeing how Fetfatzes and Annechiarico develop into the role of budding restauranteurs. They’ve got one success, Hawthorne’s, in their pocket. With time and tweaks, the Cambridge could be their second. (adam.erace@citypaper.net)

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STEP BACK I seriously think that we need to take a fucking step back from this so-called relationship, honestly because the shit if fucking tired...I am tired of your lazy ass not doing anything...you just seem like you are all in it for yourself, you just keep proving it time and time again and I at my wits-end because I have to do what is right for my child. You need to find someone that is on your level, we can’t force this relationship to exist it is time for us to take a step back. I will be talking to you about it soon if you don’t read the paper.

GOT SOAP? Hey Bitch...are you allergic to soap or something..I keep catching you in the ladies room not washing your hands with soap...not water...who washes their hands with fucking water..that isn’t doing anything. You stupid bitch why the fuck do you think when you guys order food I am never in there getting any food because I know that you were in there touching something. You are not going to fucking kill me like you think that you are...there are too many things out there to fuck with you like that...I hope that the next time you can at least pretend to wash your hands with soap.

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merchandise market White Kitchen Cabinets, $30 ea. 24 inch Gas Stoves, $60 ea. John 267-207-1212

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.

Bedroom Set 5 pc. brand new $325. All sizes, Del. Avail. 215-355-3878

WANTED EAGLES SBL’s Top dollar paid ! 610-586-5500 WANTED: Rights to Phillies tickets, lower level Hall of Fame Diamond Club. Discrete purchase. Call 609-896-3666

33&45 RECORDS HIGHER $ REALLY PAID 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 Pinball, shuffle bowling alleys, arcade video games, jukeboxes 215.783.0823

Bd a Queen Pillow top matt set $169; King $269 mem foam $249. 215-752-0911 BED: New Queen Pillow Top Set $150 . twin, full, king avail. Del avl 215-355-3878

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

** Bob 610-532-9408 ***

PIANO - Kimball Spinet 38in. high, natural wood, $625/OBO. Call 215-266-7273

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.

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Books -Trains -Magazines -Toys Dolls - Model Kits 610-639-0563 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

3/4 Maine Coon Kittens - Assorted colors, healthey, shots and wormed, vacc., $175. Call 484-357-4885

Kittens: Persian, Himilayan, CFA, all shots, PKD negative, $850. 717-865-6148

American Bulldog/Pit Mix Pups - M & F. Born 8/10/12. $150/ea. 215-768-0926 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 $500/OBO. Family raised. Call 717-529-3715 Bandog pups, 9 weeks old, 1st shots, de-wormed ,must see, 267-322-9474 Basset Hound puppies in Chester Co PA. Family raised. $690. 610-400-3103 Cairn Terrier & West Highland White Terrier Puppies starting at $385 www.LancasterPuppies.com

Caregiver looking for work. assisting sick & elderly, ref’s & car. 215-485-7460 LPN of 21 years looking for extra work. (2 daughters in college) flexible daytime or evening hours, any field ok. All inquiries will be considered. Cathy 267-241-1563

Chihuahua Puppies Starting at $225 www.LancasterPuppies.com Cockapoo Pups - 8 weeks, 4 males, 2 females, excellent health, vet checked., non shedding. $500. Call 610-593-5044 COLLIES PUPS or ADULTS - Excellent quality. Millville, NJ (856) 825-4856 DACHSHUNDS 4 months old males/ females, standard, black, paperwork/1st shots, $200. Call 267-238-7327

NEO.MASTIFF AKC, stud, proven, black, large, lots of wrinkles. Call 609-674-2409

Eng. Bulldog pups, AKC, beautiful markings, health guar, $1750. (717)351-0046 ENGLISH BULLDOG PUPS AKC/ACA, Champion bloodlines, parents on premises. 8 weeks old, shots & wormed. $1800 and up. 267-320-5444 English Bulldog Pups - Shots, vet pedigree, reg, dewormed. Call 215-696-5832 ENGLISH BULL TERRIER PUPS - 6 wks, 1M/3F dewormed, $700. 215-518-0045 German Shepherd AKC Champ lines, ready to go, 9 wks, 484-401-6194 German Shepherd Puppies 8 wks European Working Lines (609)839-2979 GERMAN SHEPHERD pups, AKC, European bloodline, 10 weeks, shots, wormed, vet checked, $450. (717)529-6444 German Shepherd Pups, blk + tan, vet chkd, fam. raised, $450. 717-239-9448 Golden Ret. Pups - AKC, champ lines, adorable. $500/F, $400/M. 610.286.5373 GOLDEN RETRIEVER PUPS - AKC reg., Penn Hip cert., parents, 1st shots/W, vet records. $750. 3 M. avail. 610-209-0248

Poodle Standard Puppies. blacks & reds, AKC, home raised, well socialized, shots, ready to go, Call 610-757-1021

LAB pups, AKC reg., 8 weeks old 1st shots , $600. Call 856-562-7781 LABRADOR PUPPIES, sired by a champion, OFA/PennHip/CERF 215-287-7558

Pek-a-Pom pups, 7 weeks, little toys, 1st shots, champ lines, 856-514-3442

PITBULL PUPS - 10 weeks, also male 9mo. house trained, $150/ea. 215-254-0562 POMERANIANS - 8 weeks, vet checked, shots, wormed, no papers, $250. No texting, call only (215) 292-6352

SHIH TZU Male - Puppy, 12 weeks ACA registered, brown / white, 267-797-0579 Standard Poodle Pups-AKC Red and Apricot males. Champ sired. Family raised, health guaranteed. www.hohlfamilypoodles.com 610-621-2894. Toy Poodle Puppies akc reg. 13 wks vet checked 1st shots $800. 570-743-1920 Welsh Corgi (Pembroke) Puppies $399$800 www.LancasterPuppies.com WELSH CORGI PUPPIES - ACA reg., shots, wormed, vet checked, very cute and friendly, $650/ea. Call 717-442-4938

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622 N. Hancock 2br $1200 courtyard, wood & tile floors, central air, w/d, dishwasher, call (215)879-5300

1200 South 21st St. 1br/1ba $600 Move in $1800. w/w crpt. 215-472-5193 18xx S. 22nd 2br $700 2nd flr., 1mo. sec. 215-463-2403

65xx Grays Ave 1BR $550 Very nice area. For appointment to view please call 610-322-3416 S. 57th St. 3BR $765 1st flr, newly renov., 267-902-9269

Cobbs Creek Vicinity 1br $575+util quiet, newly renov, large rooms, conv. to public trans., all colleges & Center City, 1 mo. rent & sec, Call 215-880-0612

34xx W. Alleghany Ave. 1br $575 Really nice, 1st, last, 1 month security. Please call 267-254-3092

Parkside / N. Phila Area 1br- 6br $700$1,600. Newly renov, new kitch. & bath, hdwd flrs, Section 8 OK. 267-324-3197 Walnut St 2br $670 + utilities renov, 215-471-1365; 215-663-0128

3837 N. Darien St. 3BR/1BA $700 Affordable housing, close to transportation. Call (215) 990-0303

West Phila 1br, 2br Nr new El transp. 484-358-0761 W. Phila 2, 3 & 4br apts Avail Now Move in Special! 215-386-4791 or 4792

15xx N 55th St. 2br $700+ utils carpets, intercom, 2nd flr. 215-477-4029 2xx N 65th St 3br $1000 heat/hot wtr inc 2 mo sec. priv entry, off street prkg, w/w carpet, large yard 215-477-9236 65xx W. Girard 2BR $750+ sec dep, w/w crpts, W/D. 856-906-5216 Studio 1, 2 & 3br Apts $650-$895 www.perutoproperties.com 215.740.4900

Balwynne Park 2br $810+ 1st flr, w/d, garage. Call 610-649-3836

39XX Lankenau 2BR/1BA $850 Credit check, by train & mrkt, off st. parking w/d, secure prop MUST SEE! 215-680-6508 52** West Berks Street (Wynnefield) 1BR 1BA $725 215-200-9705 56xx Lebanon Ave. 2br $700+utils newly renovated, large kitchen, hdwd floors, near transp. Call (215)473-2336

Fairmount Terrace Apts 3601 Conshohocken Ave. Studio, 1br & 2br, Open Sun. 0ct. 14, 9a-2p OR Call Amanda for appt. 215-477-6814 WYNNEFIELD 1BR/1BA $850+ elec Dining/Office + LR, A/C, 1.5 Blks from City Ave. on 54th St., 1st. flr, designer decorated, off st. prkg. 610-517-4822

Wynnefield One bedroom spacious apts 1BR 1BA $725 215-906-4898

Yorkishire Terrier pups, AKC, very small, ready 10/20, Call (717)278-0932

41st & Girard Ave 1br & 2br $500-$600 +utils, free heat, 2nd/3rd flr 215.387.2782 4xx N. 52nd St. 1BR 3rd flr., newly renov. Call (484) 483-8710 54xx Cedar Ave 2br $725+utils modern, section 8 ok. 215-868-0481 58xx Addison 3br/1ba $775+utils 1st, last & security dep. needed, available immediately, Call (484)485-7985

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60xx Larchwood 1br apt $650 heat, hot water included 215.747.9429

2726 N. 13th St. 1BR/1BA $500/mo 3rd Flr Apt Security Deposit Required. 610-564-7842. 31st & Lehigh 1 BR $555+utils 2nd floor, $1665 move in. 215-424-3419

Yorkie Pup - AKC, reg. Male, vet checked, home raised, $550. Call 215-490-2243 Yorkie/Terrier pups 100% Pure bred, AKC, gorgeous, shots. Call 610-497-3093

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

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

37xx N. 16th St 1BR $650+elect. Near Temple Hospital. Call 267-339-1662

Allegheny/Broad Sts. 1BR/1BA $500 Furnished and Unfurnished Apartments 215-229-9808

1,2, 3, 4 Bedroom FURNISHED APTS LAUNDRY-PARKING 215-223-7000

21xx Uber St. Luxury Studio $700/mo cent. air, $800 move in 267-240-6805

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 Temple Hosp area 1-2 br $575 water incl Broad & Allegheny. Call (215)336-4299

Temple U Campus - Suites Available $600 & up. Furnished & Unfurnished, Utilities included, Call John at 215-236-1612 or 302-345-6334

11xx Rockland St. 2br/1ba $650+utils Newly renovated. Call 215-906-7574 1200 Block of Wagner Avenue 1BR, hrdwood flrs. Bk/frt porch, bk yard. Wtr incl in rent. $575 per mo. 215-437-7980

45xx Old York Rd 1BR $585+utils Lrg, 1st,last & sec. Sec. 8 ok 215.791.2125

3xx E Olney Ave 2br $725+ 1st flr, clean, 1st,last & sec. 215-919-0859 4th & Chew 1BR/1BA $650 New kitchen & paint. Call 215-439-8883 59xx Old York Rd 1BR $625+utils 3rd flr, w/w, g/d, tile kitch 215-224-1010

23xx N 17th St Efficiency $450+elec large, 1 mo rent, 1 mo sec. 215-681-6967

60XX Warnock 1 BR $595+ near Fernrock Train Station,215-276-8534

24xx N. 30th St. 3BR/1BA $700/mo Bi-level, newly renovated, 1st/last/sec. Call Tony at 215-650-7378 2501 N. Garnet St. 1br $600 free heat 1 mo sec, 1 mo rent, Call 267-584-8451

Church Lane Court-600 Church Lane Fieldview Apt-705 Church Lane Julien-5600 Ogontz/Eli Ct.1418 Conlyn Studio, 1bdr & 2bdr -From$450-$850 Move in specials-215-276-5600

42xx Germantown 1br 15xx W. Erie 1br Please call 267.230.2600

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CANE CORSO PUPPIES - Blues, blacks, males, females, ready, 1st shots, $700$900. Call 267.627.2740 or 215.500.3391 Cavalier Spaniel Puppies! BEAUTIFUL Pure Bred , Family Raised, 9wks old M/F Located in North Delaware 703-431-1284

Domestic Help Salem Cty NJ $400/mo Share home, meals & car in exchange for housework & driving 856-514-3218 HOME HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS wanted to reside with elderly female. Exp’d. req’d. Free rent & utilities. For more information call 410-693-3711 NANNY- for 3 girls - Atlantic City area, housekeeping, non-smokg home, Sun & Mon off, live-in exp. & 2 ref’s req.d, starting at $450/wk. Call (856)287-4820

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apartment marketplace 339 E Wister St 1BR $570/mo newly renov., near LaSalle 215-828- 5494 339 E Wister St clean room for rent, ready to move in, $100 wk 215-828- 5494 4617 Wayne Large Efficiency $480 heat & hot wtr inc. EIK, 267-756-0130 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 6035 Germantown Ave 1BR $585 elec. Heat included Open house Sat 12-2pm 215-571-9314 621-23 E. Chelten Ave. 1 BR $515-$535+ utils, 2nd flr, includes fridge, close to transp. Call 215-849-6205 DO YOU HAVE A SECTION 8 VOUCHER? Apts in Germantown and Olney- SPECIALS 1bdr&2bdr- GAS, WATER, HEAT FREE! Quiet, New Renov, Safe Living Community Call to schedule appt- 215.276.5600 Wayne & Manheim St. 1BR $525 3rd flr., plus gas & elec. Call 215.783.4736 Wayne & Manheim St. 2BR/1BA $710+ Large, 2nd floor. Call (215)783-4736

1301 E. Johnson 2BR/1BA $850+utils Newly renovated. Call 215-879-2982 63xx Gardenia St 1br $650/mo newly renov, 1 car gar, EIK 267.335.4080 82xx Mansfield Ave. 2br $825/mo. 1st floor, attached garage, wall-to-wall carpets. Call 215-275-3774 Green Tree Apts-330 West Johnson St. Modern & Quiet Living in West Mt. Airy Starting-1BR $700-$750 & 2BR $900 Gas,Water,Heat Free-Move In Specials Call to schedule appt. 215-276-5600 Mount Airy Section 1BR/1BA $600 215-771-2068

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1414 W. 71st Ave 1br $600 Utils incl. Close to trans & shopping. 215-574-2111 19xx Medary St 1br $650 +utils spacious, renov, nr trans 215-807-9179 57xx N 20th St 1BR, 1.5BA Olney Apt $575/mo util. *SPECIAL* $350 - 1st Mo Rent - Call 267-536-9844

61xx Old York Rd 2BR $750 nwly renovated, large BR’s, 610-613-4497 63xx N. 10th St. 2 BR $700+utils near Fernrock Sta. 215-548-5953 Lv Msg

6750 Old York Rd. 2BR/1BA Newly renovated, wall/wall, modern kitch & bath, section 8 ok. Call 215-474-7678 City Line Area 2BR Apts beautiful, discount special, 215-681-1723 E. Oaklane: 66th Ave. 1BR, $575 2BR, $650. Call 215-651-3333

1647 Bridge St. 1BR/1BA $565 + utils. 2nd floor. Call 267-255-6322 4630 Penn St 1br & effic. $500 & $425 w/w, close to transp. 267-235-5952 4645 Penn St. Lg 1BR $595. gas/wtr inc., Priv. deck 215-781-8072 4840 Oxford Ave Studio, 1Br, 2Br Ldry, 24/7 cam lic# 214340 215.744.9077

Juniata 8xx Foulkrod 1br $475+util 2 month sec. req., Call Tan 267-699-8802 Philmont 2BR duplex 1st flr $850+ C/A, bsmnt, w/w, garage, (215)752-1091 Rhawnhurst 1br $625+utils Great apt., close to everything, storage, w/d hookup, Call (267)767-9289

Bensalem 1br $800 + utils C/A, W/D, renov. 215-669-8688

46 Township Line Rd #128 1BR/1BA $875 Community pool, close to public transportation. 215-793-0633 7416 Alma St. Rhwanhurst 1BR/1BA $655/mo new carperts & floor. . incl. gas heat/wtr. T&L Realty 215.914.0859

Norristown: Sweede & Jacoby 1br $780 renovated, 1st flr, bkyard (267)259-8449 Pottstown 2BR / 1BA $600 New carpet, W/D in unit. Call Caitlan at 917-406-2868

Cherry Hill Studio $950 utils incl large, great loc., priv. deck, 856.397.0674

123 N. Avolyn Ave 2BR/1BA $1,100 plus utilities. HW Flrs, Tiles, & Cabinets, and laundry Room 856-287-8010

20th & Allegheny: Furn. Luxury Rooms. Free utils, cable, iweb. 267-331-5382 22nd & Hunting Park lrg rm, new renov., wall/wall, furn. $100/wk. 215-570-0301 22nd & Tioga priv ent new paint use of kit ww $120wk $290mv in 267-997-5212 22xx Fontain St. Ave, $425-$550/mo. SSI OK. call 267-670-6689 2435 W. Jefferson St. Rooms: $400/mo. Move in fee: $600. Call 215-913-8659 28xx N 27th St: Furnished rooms, utils included, $100/wk, SSI ok, 267-702-7927 30xx Aramingo Ave. $100/week, private bath, w/d, SSI ok, 215-920-6394 4223 Lancaster Ave, Clean room near transportation. Call 267-738-6201 4900 MARVINE ST: $110/wk, kitchen priv., no smoking/drugs. 215-457-7526 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 56xx Morton St: Quiet victorian row house, newly renov., near trans., $125/wk, $300 sec., 1st week rent req. Call Mrs. Mac at 267-351-5547 57xx Baltimore Ave. Ages 55+ living, fully furnished, C/A. $125/wk. 484-250-3259 AFFORDABLE ELEGANCE - Large rms for rent in the Strawberry Mansion area, fully furn w/priv ba, clean, well-kept. Ranging from $125-$150 weekly, Only those that want the best need call owner, Bobby (267)471.0501 (Drug free environment) Brewerytown: Move in Special luxury rms, $350 mo SSI welcome 267.632.3286

58xx Reach St. 1BR/1BA $650 Newly remodeled, Call 267-439-8425 65XX Algon Ave. 2br/1ba $750+utils. Renovated, 2nd flr. 215-805-2373

Broad & Allegheny RMs rent $400-$450 & 26 CB Moore. Furnished 267.978.1487 Broad & Erie, share kit & bath $105 & up NO DRUGS 215.228.6078 or 215.229.0556 Broad & Olney lg deluxe furn room priv ent $145 wk. Sec $200. 215-572-8833 Erie Ave. Vic., furn, fridge, micro, quiet, $90wk, $270 sec dep (609) 703-4266

72xx Oxford Ave. 1BR/1BA $600+utils 2nd floor, seperate entrance, newly remodeled. Good credit. 215-828-6304 Academy & Red Lion lrg 2BR $795 Incl. water, no steps, C/A. 267-981-6052 Bustleton & Haldeman 2br Condo $895 prvt balcony w/garden view 215.943.0370 Cottman Ave Vic 2br $695+utils wall/wall carpets. Call 267-251-5675

FRANKFORD, Near El: furnished rooms $75/wk , 1 wk security & 1 wk rent. no drugs, no pets. Call 267-981-4472 Germantown 1041 E. Price St. $100/wk. Access to whole house . 215-760-0206 Germantown $110/wk Newly renov. available. Call 215-205-2452 Germantown Area: NICE, Cozy Rooms Private entry, no drugs (267)988-5890

Germantown, furn., good loc. clean, quiet reasonable, call 12-8p. 215-849-8994

Germantown,furn rms, renovated, share kitch & BA, $125/wk. 215-514-3960 Logan & West Oaklane Rooms $125/wk. Call after 3pm 267-707-0226 North Phila $90/wk, $360 move in Furnished room. 215-303-8655 N Phila Furn, Priv Ent $90 & up : No drugs, SSI ok. 215.817.0893, 215.763.5565 Olney and N Phila. $90 and up furn, kit privs, coin-op, crpt. 516-527-0186 Overbrook newly renovated home, room with priv bath, w/d, 215-879-2570 SW,N, W Move-in Special! $90-$125/wk Clean furn. rooms. SSI ok. 215-220-8877

SW Phila room 58th & Beaumont newly renov. $120 week. 347-262-3485

homes for rent 1537 S. Taney St. 3BR $775/mo 1st month FREE for a lease till 4/1/14! Updated 3 bed row home with fenced backyard! Huge rooms! Carpet floors! W/D hook-ups in basement! Near I-76 & 29 bus. Pet friendly. Your Local Leasing Company. Call 877-473-6821/ (484) 474-0242 19th 2br/1ba $470 Townhouse, magnificent, everything new, rent / own, Call 215-292-2176 2018 Gerritt St 2br $725+utils new renov, hw & ceramic flr,215.477.4029 20xx S. Norwood St. 3BR modern kitchen & bath, just remodeled, Washer/ dryer, Air Cond., section 8 ok, Please call 215-432-3040

Bella Vista 2BR/1.5BA $1495/mo A/C, W/D, D/W, lrg yrd, near Center City, Whole Foods and Park. 215-923-3247

58xx Belmar St. 3br renov, Hrdwd flr, Sec 8 ok 267-230-2600 6173 Yocum St. 3BR House Sec 8 ok. Must See 215-885-1700 63xx Theodore 2BR $625 Avail. now, 3mos. needed. 215-821-8858 63xx Wheeler St 3br/1ba $900 19xx S. Salford 2br/1ba $650 Wheeler newly renov. Call 267-292-5274 66xx Elmwood Ave. 3BR/1BA $875+U New 1st/last + dep. 267-909-0116 Sec 8 Elmwood area 3br $850+ utils Sec 8 welcome, 215-726-8817 Ruby St. 4br/1ba $950+utils 53rd St. 3br/2full ba $840+utils "The Landlord that Cares" Tasha 267.584.5964, Mark 610.764.9739

3931 Brown St. 1br/1ba $500/mo. NO DRUGS! 2nd flr Call 267-259-0430 3x N. Hirst St. 3BR Fresh paint & carpets 484-358-0761 57xx Arch St. 3br/2ba $895 Super large w/ den, hdwd flrs, great shape. Call 215-409-8383 59xx Irving St. 3br/1ba $800/mo sec 8 ok 215-792-6620

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

15xx N. 28th St Recent rehab.

4BR/2BA $875/mo 215-519-5437

15xx N. Hollywood St. 3BR/1BA $700 Newly renov., 3mo security. 267.549.1586 16XX French. 3br. $750. 15XX York. 4br, 2ba. Sec 8 OK. 267-230-2600

24xx N Gratz 3br $625 nwly renov., w/d, no pets, 215-559-9289 24xx Turner St. 5BR/2BA $850/mo Recent rehab. 215-519-5437

25xx Gordon St. 3br/1ba newly renovated ready now 267.303.0634 3835 N. Percy 3BR/1BA $600 Newly renov. Call (267) 269-5349 6xx N. Pallas 3br/1.5ba $850 Nr Drexel, Students welc, 267-292-5274

UPPER DARBY 3br/1ba 875+utils small front porch, rear prkg 610.909.8957 Upper Darby 3BR/2BA $1,350 114 North Cedar Lane. Updated row home. Bamboo hardwood floors. Fully loaded kitchen. Finished walk-out basement. Offstreet parking. Near Rt 3. Pet friendly. Your Local Leasing Company. Call (877) 473-6821; 484-474-0829

SL500 2005 $39,500 White/Beige interior, 25,000 miles, excellent condition. Call 610-458-0179

SL500 2006 $41,500 Loaded, glass top, keyless go, garage kept, 45k mi., ext. warr., 215-801-0225

Rosewood 1br $600+utils large, c/a, 1 mo. dep. & sec 917-650-6855

2xx Linton St. 3BR $900 W/W carpets, backyard, ceramic tile, new kitchen. Call 267-879-1750 2xx W Sheldon St 3br Row home $750 spacious, fin bsmt, bkyard (215)327-1789 5417 N. 6th St. 3br $1250 fully renov, yd, enclosed porch, new kitchen & bathroom, sec. 8 ok (347)204-4884 Lawncrest: 5xx Anchor St 3br/1ba Section 8 ok. Call 215-407-2559 Rising Sun & Blvd 2br $750 nwly renov., porch, crpt (215)677-1888

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

Gloucester City 3br/1ba $1400+utils renovated, c/a, appl’s incl. (609)272-1234

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FERNOCK 2br/1ba $725 duplex, balc, W/D, storage. 215-848-1505

13 xx Narrandasett 3br/2ba $800/mo. Near Awsbury Pk. Call 267-973-1961. 6224 Clearview 3br/1ba $875+utils Remod., w/d. Sec 8 ok, 215-499-2364

85xx Forest Ave. 3BR $1,100 + utils 1st mo., last mo, sec. dep. (267)549-5897

62xx N Lambert St 3BR $850 includes porch, big yard, newly renovated, Section 8 ok. Call 609-486-6261

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

2, 3br Voucher: Section 8 Welcome 21xx E. Stella, renovated, W/D, nr New Elem Schl. $800/mo. Call 215-206-4582 Frankford & Allegheny vic. 3br $750+ remod., hdwd flrs, Call (215)570-2407

Corolla LE 2010 $13,500 41k miles, red, exc. cond, (412)298-0921

Quattro 84 2007 $11,000 100,000 miles. Call 215-964-5221

750 iL 2000 $7,500/or best offer Silver/black leather, 12 cyl. auto, Absolute MINT cond, Call Jim 215-850-1362

Saloon 4 Door 1950 $22,000/obo beautiful, in Philadelphia (702)622-8966

Fleetwood PROVIDENCE 2008 black and white 22500mi $82,000 267-209-3432

Chevy 2002 Deluxe - Contractors, HiCube, commercial cutaway box truck step van, new body style, a/c, full pwr, like new, quick pvt sale. B/O. 215-627-1814

Ford F-250 XLT 1997 $7,500/obo Super cab, 4x4, loaded, 115K, tow pack., int. trailer brakes & winch + 215.801.0225

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

Junk Cars & Trucks Wanted,

DeVille 2005 $6,900 Silver with grey top, loaded, immaculate, 105K. Call 484-266-0902

$400, Call 856-365-2021

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

SRX 2012 $29,900 firm Front wheel drive, silver, base model, excel. cond., 7,900 miles. (610) 348-0823

460L 4 door sedan 2007 $35k 42k miles, black on black, fully loaded, garage kept, V8, 380 Horsepower, Bethany Beach DE, Robert 302-537-2275

GMC 2000 SAVANNA LUXURY HIGH TOP CONVERSION VAN, Perhaps The Finest Available, Simply Exquisite, Senior Must Sacrifice Today, $6950. Considerably Less Than Book Value. Call 215-629-0630

C St. 2BR House $570 nice backyard, bsmt. Call 215-764-7783 LS460 2009 $38,500 Navig. package, 57K miles, 215-362-1217 39xx Coral St. 2BR/1BA 19xx Orthodox St. 3BR/2BA 2xx Orthodox St. 4BR/2BA Section 8 OK. 267-230-2600 45xx Ditman 3BR Section 8 welcome. Avail. now, large backyard, close to transp. 267-595-5792

46xx Edmond St. 3br $750 basement, section 8 ok, 215-783-2526

9xx Anchor 3BR $800+utils 14xx Lardner 3BR $800+utils Call 215-459-3564 9xx Granite St. 3BR Section 8 OK. Call 267-587-7290 Juniata 42xx Castor Ave. 3br $875+util 1xx Spencer St. 3br $875+util 2 month sec. req., Call Tan 267-699-8802 MAYFAIR 3BR $1050+utils W/D, fridge incl., sec. 8 ok. 215-421-9606 Mayfair 3br/1.5ba $1000+ util best location, Large St. & Cottman Ave., basement, garage, 973-477-4935 MAYFAIR 3br/1ba $830+utils Call 215-300-9313 Oxford Circle 3br/1.5ba $850+ finished basement, call 267-632-4580

Conshohocken 3BR 2.5Bth. Off street parking. $1895 Don 215-485-0215

Media 107 Dundee Mews 3br/2.5ba TH $1990/mo. Finished attic/bsmnt, 40 min. to Philadelphia, Call 347-702-4001

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

S500 2002 $16,500 Blue / beige int., 81K mi., orig. owner, garaged, all service records, mint, must be seen! Call 610-660-4208

Yamaha V Star Classic (650)2003 $3000 9700 miles, garage kept, well maintained, current inspection, includes helmet, large rain suit, tank bag. Call 610-642-6236

low cost cars & trucks BUICK LESABRE 1997 $1450 4dr, loaded, clean. 215-847-7346 Buick Lesabre 1997 $2,800 Inspec., new radials, clean. 610-667-4829 Cadillac Cpe Deville 1978 $5000 73k, super mint, 610-667-4829 Dodge Caravan 1996 $1350 Auto, AC, insp., runs new 215.620.9383 Dodge Cargo Van 1999 $1995 Runs like new only 75K mi. 215-947-9840 Dodge Intrepid 1994 $750 all pwr., 126K, runs excel. 215.620.9383 Ford Crown Vic LX 1998 $4250 one owner, 43k miles, insp 10/13, show room condition 610-277-8484 Ford F-150 XLT 2002 New body style, 4 wheel drive, extended cab, new tires, orig miles, sac $4,985. Call 215-922-2165

Ford Focus ZTS 2000 $750 5 spd, loaded, nds clutch. 215-947-9840 Ford Focus ZX4 2005 $4,900 81k miles, black, sun roof, 215-715-4647

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 Hyundai Sonata 1995 $750 75K mi, runs gd, nds work.215-947-9840 LAND ROVER DISCOVERY SE 2000 4 dr w/2 sun-roofs, orig. mi, sacrifice below KBB $4,985 215-627-1814 Lincoln Towncar 2000 $4000 Exec Series, 88k, Moving! 215-632-5713 LINCOLN TOWN CAR 2003 $3600 Executive Series, 240k miles. Call 610284-0313 Plymouth Neon 1998 $995 4dr, auto, AC, 36MPG. 215.620.9383 Subaru Legacy SW 1997 $2,900 97K, stk, AWD, Exc. cond. 215-830-8881 Toyota Corolla 2005 $4,900 178k miles, 215-971-5489, 267-241-5268 Volkswagen Passat Turbo 1998 $2995 1 owner, 96k, sunroof. 610-692-3361 Volvo 850 Station Wagon 1995 $1250 3rd seat, auto, a/c, runs nw, 215.620.9383

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Halloween Bicycle Sale!

October 27th - November 3rd Everything in both locations at least 10% off! Firehouse Bicycles - 701 S. 50th St. Wolf Cycles - 4311 Lancaster Ave. www.firehousebicycles.com

Building Blocks to Total Fitness 12 Years of experience. Offering personal fitness training, nutrition counseling, and flexibility training. Specialize in osteoporosis, injuries, special needs. In home or at 12th Street Gym. MCKFitness@yahoo.com

FREE DRINKING SMARTPHONE APP!!!

City Paper is very pleased to bring you our very first smartphone app! Just go to www.citypaper.net and click our martini glass icon to find out more, or type in ‘Happy Hours in the app store, android marketplace, or blackberry app world. Click the orange martini icon and get drinking. No matter where you go or when you go, you can find the nearest happy hours to you with a single click! You can even sort through bars by preference or neighborhood.

I BUY RECORDS, CD’S, DVD’S

TOP PRICES PAID. No collection too small or large! We buy everything! Call Jon at 215-805-8001 or e-mail dingo15@hotmail.com

STUDY GUITAR W/ THE BEST David Joel Guitar Studio All Styles All Levels. Former Berklee faculty member. Masters Degree with 27 yrs. teaching experience. 215.831.8640 www.myphillyguitarlessons.com

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$2 OFF ALL DRAFTS $3 WELL DRINKS $5 HAPPY HOUR MENU Only at the Abbaye 637 N. 3rd Street (215) 627-6711 www.THEABBAYE.net

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The BIZARRE BAZAAR Is a Freaky Flea Market!

KENSINGTON HAPPY MEAL! EVERY DAY UNTIL 7PM 2 ALL BEEF HOT DOGS A PBR POUNDER A BAG OF CHIPS AND A TOY ALL FOR $5

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Healthy, College Educated Men 18-39 ~ $150/Sample WWW.123DONATE.COM

LUNCH Sat 11-4 SUN BRUNCH 10:30-3:30

SOURPUSS T’s, Bags, Accessories. Goofy Gifts for ur Cool Pals! (and Vice Versa )! It’s FUN! The ODDITORIUM is COMING! 720 sth 5th, Noon to 7+, Thur-Mon

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PHILADELPHIA EDDIES 621 South 4th St. Tattoo Haven (MIDDLE of Tattoo Row) 215-922-7384 open 7 DAYS

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Enroll Now Adult & Children Music Lessons Christmas Layaway Available Full Line of Instruments School Rental Instruments We Repair All Instruments We Match Competitors Prices KING’S MUSIC 1828 East Passyunk Ave. Phila Pa 19148 215-344-1799 www.jkingsmusic.com

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