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HOW WE ROLL: At the 20th Ward, 9th Division, polling place near Temple, more than 100 provisional paper ballots were collected from those not found in voting books.

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BLOCK THE VOTE As the celebration fades, concerns about polling problems across Philly remain. By Daniel Denvir, Isaiah Thompson & Samantha Melamed

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uestions — those raised some time ago about Gov. Mitt Romney’s tax returns, for an old-fashioned example — have a habit of fading away as bigger news comes along.

This edition of Naked City will go to press while much of Philadelphia is still hung over from celebrating President Obama’s re-election on Tuesday night. But an easy win for Pennsylvania Democrats could also mean that the watchful gazes that fixed on Philadelphia’s election will be gone — and maybe too soon.

The victory, it turns out, came despite widespread Election Day disorder in Philly. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of voters across the city, both newly registered and veteran, were not found on the voter rolls and were forced to cast provisional paper ballots that may not be counted. “Their names are not in the books,” said Gwen Howard, a clerk who has worked the 32nd Ward, 15th Division, for years. “Something different. Some have [registration] cards and are not in the books. And you know they come every four years. ...They were pretty upset.”

Across the state, confusion over the suspended voter-ID laws alongside misleading robocalls and chain text messages prompted complaints. But incomplete voter rolls and provisional ballots wreaked

havoc in precincts across Philly. At some polling places, it was just a handful of provisional ballots; at others it was 100 or more, in some cases representing as much as 20 percent of participating voters at a given division. Just about every judge of elections City Paper spoke with said they’d had to deal with provisionals, and that it had never, to their knowledge, come up at the polling place before.

New or newly relocated voters were the most impacted. Caitlin Conyngham, 27, for example, says she updated her registration after moving, but was rejected because of what the City Commissioners, the elected officials who manage city elections, described as a clerical error: Her street name had been entered into the computer system, by hand, incorrectly. She appealed and was sent a voter registration card, issued Oct. 22.

“I went today to go vote and I was not on the roll at all,” says Conyngham, who votes at West Philadelphia High School. “They had to call the city, and I spoke with someone from [Commissioner] Stephanie Singer’s office. She said, ‘This is really strange. I have you as a registered voter … but you don’t have a polling place attached to your name.’”

Voters like Jesse Seitel, 27, who cast a provisional ballot at 52nd and Willow, were angry. “I had the registration that had been sent to me, and it had my name and street address on it. I got there, and my name wasn’t in the book. It was total bullshit.”

Councilwoman Maria Quiñones-Sánchez reported similar problems in the city’s 43rd Ward, including six divisions being

“Their names are not in the voting rolls.”

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✚ THE DOC IS IN Amid the fury and fray of this electoral moment, it’s worth remembering that small elections — you know, the ones that 80 percent of you don’t bother to vote in — matter, too. Take, for example, the 2011 Philadelphia primary election, in which more seats on Philly’s City Council were up for grabs than had been for years. Into that election was injected a gigantic pile of money and influence by John “Johnny Doc” Dougherty, business manager of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 98 and overall Philly union boss. Doc bet on several races and won most of them, helping to secure, via his influence, the election of former IBEW political manager Bobby Henon to the city’s 6th Councilmanic District and helping install 5th District Councilman Darrell Clarke into the presidency of City Council.

That success might be starting to pay off, and one neat demonstration is a bill, introduced by Henon in October, that could have major implications for (especially non-union) contractors in Philadelphia. The bill, 120776 — co-sponsored by Clarke — substantially adds to the city’s laws governing contractors, imposing new requirements over permits and workplace information and also imposing new, substantial enforcement penalties.

Henon told City Paper that the bill is aimed at targeting an “underground economy” of unlicensed, tax-dodging and rule-breaking construction contractors.Though Henon

noted that his bill had already been in the works, he acknowledged City Controller Alan Butkovitz’s announcement last month of an audit of illegal construction activities in North Philly as an example of why the bill was needed. Last summer, this reporter

wrote about rampant and seemingly illegal construction practices near Temple University (Cover Story, “Land Grab,” June 28, 2012).

While reporting, I came across IBEW members protesting several non-union construction projects.

Among the provisions in this proposed law: a requirement that contractors post lists of “all subcontractors of any tier”; a clause that holds “any contractor or subcontractor who hires independent contractors that have not paid any fees or taxes required to be paid to the City … liable for the payment of such fees and taxes”; and a provision that allows the city’s Department of Licenses and Inspections to “seize any vehicles, equipment or tools used at a work site by any person or business entity working as an unlicensed contractor in violation of this Section.”

L&I officials declined to comment, as did the mayor’s spokesman, Mark McDonald, who said that the administration will present any opinions on the bill as testimony in Council. Henon expects hearings in November.

—Isaiah Thompson

✚ CLASS PRESIDENTS Here’s one way to infer that the kids at J.R. Masterman, known as Philadelphia’s premier public high school, are your classic overachievers: When Steve Gilligan’s two advanced-placement government classes were told to pick sides for the school’s 14th mock debate, both classes chose Team Romney (a dispute resolved, in the end, by a coin toss). Everyone wanted the challenge of trying to sway a liberal student body, explains Johana Barxha, 17, treasurer for the Romney campaign. “And we got some really great results,” she says. “Some of our polls have shown a 12 >>> continued on page 9

CAT POWER ³ IN RECENT YEARS, conservative hysteria has homed in on the bad things Democrats (those who happen to be black) will allegedly do to win elections. That is, voter fraud — or if that fails, intimidation.

So, on Election Day, media outlets from around the country stopped by the polling place at 13th Street and Fairmount Avenue in search of New Black Panther Party members causing trouble. Rumors of such intimidation made national headlines in 2008; on Tuesday, their alleged return made the front page of Fox News’ website. But what reporters found was Jerry Jackson, a party member and 14th Ward Democratic committeeman, handing out sample ballots and holding the door for elderly voters.

“I don’t have no comment,” said Jackson. “You ain’t going to get a rise out of me.” A police civil affairs officer sat in an unmarked car. Nothing, he said, was going on. And 14th Ward Democratic vice-chair Willie Brown agreed: “That stuff happened in ’08 and they keep harping on it.” The many media visits were the only source of intimidation he worried about. “It causes a problem when people come in to vote and there are people standing there with cameras,” he said. “That’s why the police are here.”

Conservative groups like True the Vote have continued to rail about “the obvious voter intimidation” perpetrated by the Panthers four years ago. But even that incident was not so obvious. Two party members had briefly stood outside the polling place, one carrying a nightstick. But no victims were ever put forward. Jackson will likely be back in 2014. And so, maybe, will Fox News.

—Daniel Denvir

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ELECTION CYCLE ³ ONCE UPON A TIME in the land of Phila-

delphia, elections were controlled by three wizards (City Commissioners, technically) of great political might. Chief among them was wizardess Marge, of the powerful House of Tartaglione, and those she did not love lived in the shadow of her wrath.

Good-government groups were mocked. Reporters were cast aside — or, in one case, threatened with the proverbial knuckle sandwich. Elections were largely the province of those within castle walls, and woe unto the hapless voter who tried to cross its frothy moat.

But then, things changed: In the May Democratic primary last year, upstart ward leader Stephanie Singer defeated Tartaglione handily, abruptly ending decades of political entrenchment. In November, upstart Republican Al Schmidt upended another impressively long run, by City Commissioner Joe Duda. Suddenly, two of the three people entrusted with Philly’s elections were returning calls, advocating for reforms and opening their arms to the unwashed masses of reporters and watchdogs with pesky questions about the administration of democracy. So it seemed. But lately, it’s hard to tell whether this fairy tale is linear or circular.

For weeks, groups monitoring this election — notably, Committee of Seventy and the Advancement Project — have been raising questions to the City Commissioners about their progress in clearing a 28,000-strong (as of Oct. 24) backlog of unprocessed voter applications. But as press releases alerting the public to this backlog began to appear, the collective shoulder of our commissioners grew noticeably colder. A letter from Seventy received no reply. And in the days following the commissioners’ self-imposed Oct. 28 deadline to clear the backlog, this reporter’s attempts to learn whether that goal had been met were rebuffed: Commissioners Singer and Anthony Clark did not respond to queries; Schmidt took a call but offered no numbers. Then, at a (postponed) meeting Nov. 2, the commissioners announced the backlog was cleared. When Seventy’s Ellen Kaplan asked whether voters whose applications had been rejected would receive notification in time, she received no proper answer.

It’s a contrast to the good vibes that surrounded the election of these commissioners. Sure, reporters and good-government types tend to get aggressive.

But asking hard questions is their job — just as it’s the job of the commissioners to answer those questions for as long as the watchdogs, the reporters and the good people of Philadelphia ask them. ✚ Man Overboard! greets the unwashed masses at isa-

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moved, she said, without notice to voters.

Volunteers for her office were out until 11 p.m.

Monday informing voters of the change.

Polling places near Temple and the University of Pennsylvania, especially, saw problems.

Judge of elections Christine Abbot in Ward 27, Division 3 (near Penn), said that more than 100 voters, largely students, cast provisional ballots.

“I personally worry that [the ballots] will get tossed,” Abbot told City Paper, blaming the mess on the ouster of controversial Commission chair Marge Tartaglione. “I think it might be related to the fact that Marge Tartaglione was scooted out of there. ...The new commissioner, Stephanie Singer, is a very nice person, but innocent to the reality of the city.”

Good-government watchdog the Committee of Seventy had raised concerns in recent weeks that the City Commissioners were not processing last-minute voter registrations quickly enough.

Seventy president Zack Stalberg wrote in a letter that up to 20,000 registrations were still unprocessed in mid-October, “raising the possibility that potential voters will not be registered — or know whether they are registered — in time to vote on Election Day.” But it wasn’t just new voters, and it wasn’t just college areas. Heather Kelly, 34, has been judge of elections at the Northeast’s 66th Ward, 46th Division, since she was 18 years old, and she’s never seen an election like this one. Longtime voters, people she’d seen year after year, had suddenly vanished from the poll books. She said calls to the City Commissioners’ office and Committee of Seventy didn’t provide much help.

“One in particular is a police officer that’s been up here for 10 years. I know him, I see him every day, and he had his driver’s license here. But he’s not in my book.” He was told to go vote at his address from 10 years back. Same with an elderly woman, whose sister appeared in the book while she did not. Her old polling place was on South Seventh Street. “I don’t like sending people down there. And they’re older women,” Kelly said. All told, she said, more than 20 people had left without voting; a few submitted provisional ballots but were warned they likely wouldn’t count.

Precincts scattered across the city went through far more provisional ballots than anyone can remember ever being needed in the past; normally, each division is given 75. A Pennsylvania Public Interest Research Group staffer, Vanessa Wright, monitoring a 20th Ward polling place near Temple at 10th and Oxford (100-plus provisionals cast), told CP she watched as the division ran out of paper ballots: Fifteen people waited an hour for more to arrive.

She was concerned that first-time voters would be demoralized.

And provisional ballots are not always counted.

Out of 20,284 provisional ballots cast statewide during the 2008 general election, more than half were ultimately rejected, according to data provided by the Pennsylvania Secretary of State

that did not include numbers from Philly and two other counties. Provisional ballots are not counted until days after the election, at which point officials check each ballot and decide whether it is valid.

The City Commissioners down-played the problem to media and the election court, and Common Pleas Court Judge Pamela Pryor Dembe rejected a request from Organizing for America, the grassroots arm of the Democratic National Committee, to order the commissioners to deliver extra provisional ballots to polling places.

Of the three City Commissioners, Al Schmidt was the only one (not for the first time) to return City Paper’s request for comment. Schmidt acknowledged a deluge of complaints, but emphasized that he and his

“I worry the ballots will get tossed.” staff were responding throughout — and said that many of the complaints he received disappeared upon investigation.

When he assembled a list of 10 polling places where voters hadn’t appeared on lists, he said, five election judges reported either having had the “supplemental” books in which later registrations had been kept all along or “couldn’t find them, but did before they called.” Of the next three of the remaining five, “The response was, ‘What are you talking about?’ And then, ‘We didn’t see them at first, but now we have them.’”

“We’re like a fire department,” said Schmidt. “We have to put out actual fires, and when we have a few actual fires and a thousand false alarms, we have to respond to every alarm.”

Given City Paper’s and watchdogs’ findings from polling places across the city, CP asked Schmidt whether he was aware of any systemic problem. The answer was “No.” (editorial@citypaper.net)

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percent increase for the Romney campaign.”

The goal, says Gilligan, “is to increase voter efficacy and fight apathy … so that when they do hit 18 they feel they can help direct what government does.” The effort used to be supported by a program of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, but that funding has dried up.

Which leaves Gilligan and, of course, the students running the show. “I haven’t slept much in the past couple weeks,” admits Natashia De Lamo, 17, clutching a wireless headset. The campaign manager for the Obama effort describes her job as “going around with our candidate, being his mother and secretary,” while pushing social media and marketing efforts. De Lamo says she’s learned some vital lessons about the teenage constituency. Chief among them: “The way to get students to listen to you is to buy them food. So for every item of food you give out, you have to have facts attached to them.” An event called Guac with Barack went over particularly well.

Before the surrogate nominees faced off, Mayor Michael Nutter took the stage to encourage civic

engagement. He mentioned the likelihood of getting actual “information from this debate” (as opposed, apparently, to the ones involving the actual candidates). Republican Councilman David Oh also addressed students, rummaging through his wallet for the totem of his membership in American adult society — “it’s not a tattoo, it’s not a gun … it’s a voter-registration card.”

So does all this make an impact on how young people vote? “I’ve been brainwashed by the Romney campaign,” admitted one student who had been working for the Republican camp and found the message, at least for the moment, compelling. The student, however, didn’t want to be identified as a potential

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BEST-PLACE SCENARIOS Our story about a legal appeal filed to stop a settlement allowing people with intellectual disabilities to move out of state institutions into small group homes [“Segregation Anxiety,” Samantha Melamed, Oct. 25, 2012] received several responses supporting each side of the debate. Julie Huso, executive director of VOR, an organization that advocates for a full range of residential options for people with disabilities — and which participated as amicus curiae in the appeal — wrote in an email: “There simply can be no comparison between a White Haven Center resident, whose cognitive ability equals an infant, and Jean Searle, who was inappropriately institutionalized 30 years ago and has since received support and has been working as a receptionist. Would society demand that an infant has the right to live in an apartment and work in an office? Of course not. Yet that is what [institution] closure advocates and the state call for in a legal settlement that will displace hundreds of fragile people. Citizens are encouraged to trust that dedicated families — not advocates or government lawyers — know best.”

Citypaper.net commenter Jordan Gwendolyn Davis started by noting, “I have a sister with microencephaly who, like [the sister of Carl Solano, who was quoted in the story], has the mental capacity of a 1-year-old. … While cases in which functional level is extremely limited may warrant placement in [state-run Intermediate Care Facilities], it should be ONLY a last resort.

Community-based care needs to be encouraged and grown, the investment would save a lot of money for the state, and it would help those with disabilities to live fulfilling lives without having to

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TO HAIR IS HUMAN Last week’s “Queer Bait” column in which Liberty Bears president Thom Caggiano offered some advice for snagging a bear daddy [“Bear Necessities,” Josh Middleton, Oct. 25, 2012] prompted online commenter JudeThom to offer several opinions: “Manscaping is fussywussy and girlish. When straight men shave their legs, the gods barf. A little cologne is nice and a little underarm ‘natural’ smell is even nicer. No man should ever shave his chest, and the only men who shave off all their pubic hair do that to take the attention away from their small endowment. In-shape bears are best, but bears with huge stomachs are, well, lower-tier bears.”

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George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights Professor of Africana Studies Dorothy Roberts, an acclaimed scholar of race, gender, and the law, joined the University of Pennsylvania as its 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor. Her pathbreaking work in law and public policy focuses on urgent contemporary issues in health, social justice, and bioethics, especially as they impact the lives of women, children, and African-Americans. Her major books include Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-ďŹ rst Century (2011), Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare (2002), and Killing the Black Body: Race Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (1997). Professor Roberts is the author of more than 80 scholarly articles and book chapters, as well as a co-editor of six books on such topics as constitutional law and women and the law.

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³ HEY, HOCKEY PUCK.Whether you grew up

in the early ’70s or hung with your pot-smoking, jersey-wearing weirdo older bro in that Yes-postercovered basement of yours, the legend of the Broad Street Bullies loomed large. They were toothless, angry Canadian men stuck in ’70s Philadelphia who bloodied up other Canuck immigrants from otherAmerican cities. On ice. Anyhow, Flyers goalie Bernie Parent could have been elected mayor after his BSBs won their second consecutive Stanley Cup in 1975. He lived to tell the tale (to Stan Hochman), and together they’ll unleash Unmasked: Bernie Parent and the Broad Street Bullies at the Free Library Nov. 14. Everybody’s getting a free Jumbo Jack — you know, spiritually speaking. ³ That note from last week where Greater Philadelphia Film Org doyenne Sharon Pinkenson and I gave up the goods on Paranoia’s offices setting up shop in town is now followed by rumbles that its director and cast will begin the good work of cinematic espionage the first week of December. Don’t blink.

They might not be here longer than two weeks. ³ In additional film news, that soon-to-start Jersey Boys movie musical, with director Jon Favreau (Swingers,Iron Man) telling the tale of homegrown Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, is now in turnaround from its studio, Warner Bros.,according to Variety.Which means, for now, it’s fucked. ³Are you The Next Food Network Star? Don’t be such a precocious braggart. Just get your ass to the open casting call at 10 a.m. on Nov. 8 at Loews Hotel and show some personality. ³After one track early in the summer (“And the Birds”) and precious few live shows. Philly’s one-time Mazarin main man Quentin Stolzfus has truly pulled his musical career out of the deep freeze with his new act Light Heat’s icy second song, “Dance the Cosmos Light.” An album is due for early 2013, recorded in part at Alec Ounsworth’s Conshohocken studio. ³ Joe Volpe is going to host your wedding, your office party and your bar and bat mitzvah whether you like it or not.

The Cescaphe Ballroom owner/catering operator — who holds keys on The Atrium at the Curtis Center, Tendenza near the Piazza at Schmidt’s and Vie at 600 N. Broad — took over Sixth and Chestnut’s legendary Down Town Club on the Public Ledger Building’s 11th floor. New cocktail areas and floor renovations are the first phase of reconstruction for Volpe, who’ll have his Down Town Club running by March. The Chicken Dance starts here. ³With mere moments left on their 15 minutes of fame, the Jersey Shore crew will do something selfless: They’ll host Nov. 15’s benefit on MTV for the Seaside Heights victims of Hurricane Sandy with Architecture for Humanity in the house. ³ Do your GTL at citypaper.net/criticalmass. (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)

INVISIBLE YORICK: David Howet and Todd Scofield as Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis in the oversimplified and overblown Freud’s Last Session.

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ANNA OMG A dying Freud has less depth than a famecrazed teenage pyromaniac. ³ ARDEN THEATRE COMPANY

If asked to come up with a definition of play-writing chutzpah, I could do no better than this: Bring together two of the 20th century’s greatest intellectuals. (They didn’t actually meet, but never mind.) Compose an imagined, lively conversation between them about nothing less than life, death and the nature of belief. And make it a 75 minute one-act.

Unfortunately, this is not a hypothetical. In Mark St. Germain’s Freud’s Last Session, we meet the father of psychoanalysis in his London home. It’s September 1939; Germany’s invasion of Poland is a matter of international urgency and Britain has declared war that very day. But octogenarian expatriate Sigmund Freud, stricken with cancer, is more preoccupied with his own mortality. Freud is intrigued by the ideas of C. S. Lewis, the novelist, essayist and Oxford don, and invites the younger man over for a conversation. (This encounter is entirely St. Germain’s invention, though most of the rest of the script is historically accurate.)

If you’re familiar with the two figures, you already know that sparks will fly. Freud was a staunch atheist, though not humorless on the subject. Lewis was a nonbeliever for much of his life, but had recently embraced Christianity with the fervor sometimes seen in

adult converts. As one might expect, the conversation often veers into questions of God, Christianity and existence.

Well, here’s my theater critic’s belief system: God is in the details.

In this show, He manifests Himself chiefly in David P. Gordon’s marvelous set, a scrupulous recreation of Freud’s study filled with enough tchotchkes to keep Antiques Roadshow on the air till the next millennium. (I’d move in tomorrow if I could.)

If only the rest were on that level. It isn’t.

St. Germain imagines the dialogue between two titanic thinkers in a way that only a hack writer could, turning it into a stream of platitudes and cute aphorisms. (“The greatest problem with Christianity is Christians,” says Lewis, in typical St. Germain style.) Lest the mood get too somber, there are a few fart jokes and some sexual innuendo (the latter not quite sophisticated enough to qualify as double entendre — I’d give it a 1.5 at best). At its worst, Last Session veers into the kind of cranky-sitcom-character depiction more suited to I’m Not Rappaport. Sadly, it’s precisely at these moments that the audience seems most entertained.

Arden’s production doesn’t overcome the script — it sinks to the same level. David Howey’s heavily accented Freud nails every punch line. Though the character is 83 years old and riddled with cancer — in reality, Freud died only weeks after the play is set — Howey has enough showman’s energy to light London through the

Not quite a double entendre — I’d give it a 1.5 at best.

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Replacing their notoriously smoothed-out 2002 DVD with a vastly improved Blu-ray, Paramount’s new Sunset Boulevard restores Billy Wilder’s Gothic drama to its natural state. Wilder’s poisonpen letter to Hollywood is in many ways the first metafilm, casting washed-up silent-film star Gloria Swanson as a washed-up silentfilm star, and Buster Keaton and Cecil B. DeMille as themselves.

Anchored by William Holden’s bitterly sardonic turn as a faltering screenwriter, the film gave Wilder a chance to indulge the high style of silent cinema and savage the industry’s habit of eating its own. It’s as close as the director of Double Indemnity and Some Like It Hot ever got to a horror movie.

—Sam Adams

Eric Bibb is a North American folk/blues

picker/singer who makes his home in Europe and travels the world picking and singing, which is how he met Malian griot Habib Koité. Brothers in Bamako (Stony Plain) is an audio snapshot of their friendship, and you can’t help but grin from the first track, Bibb’s praise song, “On My Way to Bamako,” anticipating a trip to Mali to visit his friend’s family. It suggests Mississippi John Hurt with Koité’s guitar showering cascades of kora-evoking —Mary Armstrong high notes here and there.

³ pop/witchcraft ³ pop Taylor Swift is (feeling) 22 and playing dress-up. Her fourth

album tries on Unforgettable Fire-with-banjos anthemics; a couple slices of prime, Max Martin-guided girl-pop; a yawny Snow Patrol duet-ballad; even T-Swizz-goes-dubstep (for a few seconds). Red (Big Machine) is too long by half, bogged down by weepy strummers that are neither as catchy nor as personal as the ones she wrote at 15 (and it misses a fine opportunity to rhyme “stay stay stay” with “OK, Tay-Tay”), but it skirts — at all costs — the mortal —K. Ross Hoffman pop sin of being boring.

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We’ve had more Kate Bush-alikes than you can wave a wand at but none has matched the art-pop faerie queen’s emotional complexity and sonic expanse quite like Bat for Lashes’ Natasha Khan. The Haunted Man (Capitol) finds Khan and a cast of dozens enacting an opulent pageant of windswept pagan rituals, dark electro-gilded reveries and heart-stoppingly majestic ballads; it’s a big-screen sweep that’s at once a richly wrought and seductively intimate.

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Goes for broke from minute one.

Struckmann’s Iago dripped with evil. ³ IT WOULD NOT be unfair to call me a Luddite.

I use an amplifier that is powered by vacuum tubes. I regularly listen to LPs. I was one of the last people on earth to get an iPod. And I just got to a Metropolitan Opera high-def simulcast for the first time since they started nine years ago, for the Oct. 27 matinee broadcast of Verdi’s penultimate opera, Otello.

There are a number of venues in the Philadelphia area to catch a Met simulcast; I chose the Riverview on South Columbus Boulevard, where I encountered a nearly full house, but still managed to find a seat in the center, about a third of the way back.

Technically, the production was excellent, with truly dazzling imagery and decent sound. The performance itself was fully up to the world-class standards of the Met, with superb singing from the three principals, including Johan Botha as Otello, Renée Fleming in her signature role of Desdemona and a new name for me, Falk Struckmann, as the snarling Iago.

The acting ability of the stars, which, in the opera world, is traditionally secondary to the singing, is fully exposed once an actor’s head is rendered 10 feet wide. Thus, we got Botha’s stiff gestures and constant googly eyes, and Fleming’s under-characterization. But then there was Struckmann, delivering a thunderous rendition of Iago, dripping with evil, and exhibiting fine natural acting talent, including convincing facial gestures that utterly realized the potential of high-def broadcasting.

There were some quirks of the production that bothered me. The direction was unnecessarily fussy, with too much camera movement. And I’ve never liked mid-performance interviews, which take the performers out of character. Heck, I don’t even approve of curtain calls until the end of the opera. But this is probably a minority view, as many have enjoyed the behind-the-scenes views in these broadcasts.

I will certainly return, as the $25 ticket is a fraction of what the real deal costs, and the Met is the best in the business. I might even bring my lunch, as many do, while the theater management politely waives their rules. It would be nice, though, if the median age of the audience dipped below 60. I could swear the couple behind me were eating chopped-liver sandwiches. (p_burwasser@citypaper.net)

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TAKING A SIT: In Skyfall, Daniel Craig makes up for his lackluster go at James Bond in 2008’s Quantum Solace, nearly nullifying the existence of that sack-o’potatoes sophomore slumpfest.

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[ A- ] CASINO ROYALE MARKED the first time we laid eyes on this generation’s 007, but Sam Mendes is the only director in Daniel Craig’s topsy-turvy tenure to make sure we’ve been properly introduced. Helming the most essential chapter of the modern James Bond era, Mendes’ uncharacteristic swing in the big-budget-action ring is tempered by exacting amounts of contemporary context, with enough glances back to satisfy the few Fleming purists rumored to exist in the wild. While 2008’s Quantum of Solace bungled the icy tidings Craig offered in his inaugural Bond movie, Skyfall nearly nullifies the existence of that sack-o’-potatoes sophomore slumpfest. Mendes goes for broke from minute one, initiating us into the chase as Bond and babely agent Eve (Naomie Harris) pursue chaos-bringer Patrice (Ola Rapace) through the alleys of Istanbul. Patrice has gotten hold of a drive containing the identities of every undercover MI6 agent in the world, intel the ever-dissatisfied M (Judi Dench) would like to have back. Stuff gets hairy and Bond goes missing, only to surface in London half-drunk on the eve of a pace-shifting event that forces MI6 onto “war footing,” taking up residence in an abandoned subterranean bunker. Physically hampered by his boozing and screwing, Bond fails the screenings required for him to re-enter active duty, but M games the paperwork to get him on the case. Clues lead him to Shanghai and Macau (both gorgeously captured by Mendes) en route to a face-toface with the juiciest Bond villain this side of Odd Job: Silva (Javier Bardem).While well-paced, Skyfall falters when it tries to convince us that the public has the clout to hold an agency like MI6 accountable for its sins. Such clandestine orgs will always be fueled by secrecy, which Mendes remembers in his overhauls of time-tested double-0 tropes. Craig’s job description hasn’t changed, but he’s been visibly invigorated by his new coworkers. —Drew Lazor

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Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m all too accustomed to staid, serious, artsy theater, and occasionally crave a loud, silly, kick-ass play â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s outrageously in-your-face subversive, so much the better. Azuka Theatre Companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s premiere of JC Leeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pookie Goes Grenading scratches my itch.

Mary Tuomanen â&#x20AC;&#x201D; who was an intriguing, intelligent Hamlet for Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre last year â&#x20AC;&#x201D; plays 14-year-

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old Camden brat Pookie, whose hyperactive mind (illustrated by pink-blonde hair shooting from her head like crackling electricity) conceives an action movie starring herself. With the help of â&#x20AC;&#x153;BFF for Fâ&#x20AC;? Dynamo (Eric Scotolati), she aims to make capital-A Art that explains teen angst through her doughnut metaphor: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The hole prevents it from being whole.â&#x20AC;? Deep.

Pookie is a dervish of naive sexuality, glib pop-culture references and angry Twitter-fed politics. Haggard guidance counselor Mr. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ragsâ&#x20AC;? Ragonesse (Brian McCann) actually listens to her, resulting in Pookieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bouncing-off-the-walls declaration of love. Sad-sack hip-hop wannabe Dynamo, meanwhile, rejected by every girl in school, offers himself to â&#x20AC;&#x153;popular, hot and really, really coolâ&#x20AC;? gay athlete Benny (Jamison Foreman), recruiting him for the project.

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PATTERN MIXING: Mary Tuomanen wears a whole lot of pink as the titular hyperactive 14-year-old in Pookie Goes Grenading.

But all hell breaks loose when Pookie takes â&#x20AC;&#x153;you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make art without fireâ&#x20AC;? literally, burning down the school auditorium with the titular weapons-grade explosives, then going fugitive with Mr. Rags as hostage. Joined on the lam by ultimate techie Greta (Brandi Burgess), her troupe presents her movie as a play that will â&#x20AC;&#x153;kick people in their heart-balls.â&#x20AC;?

All this hyperactivity doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t overshadow the clever wordplay and incisive ideas about sexuality, celebrity and art in director Kevin Glaccumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s colorful production. Costume designer Maggie Baker celebrates the depths of the color pink, scenic designer Roman Tatarowicz turns torturous student desks into sculpture, lighting designer Shelley Hicklin makes everything pop and sound designer Daniel Perelstein cranks up the rock. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everyone wants to be the idea of an actor,â&#x20AC;? laments Mr. Rags about the kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; fantasies of stardom. Will fame trump art?

Pookie answers with a fast, fun and refreshing adventure. Through Nov. 18, $18-$27, Off-Broad Street Theater, 1636 Sansom St., 215-563-1100, azukatheatre.org.

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But nearly every element in Ian Merrill Peakesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; production feels cranked-up. There are hardly any moments when the characters relax and suggest the natural rhythm of conversation â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and, more critically, the thoughtful reflection these topics deserve. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s far too much shouting for the intimate setting of the Ardenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Arcadia Stage, and in what proves an apt metaphor for the whole production, the lighting is too bright, banishing any sense of shadow or mystery. Gordonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lovely room deserves better.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strange how theaters seem to work in parallel sometimes: The Arden gives us this Borscht Belt psychoanalysis at the same that, across town, Philadelphia Theatre Companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Stars of David gives us the Jewish experience with rim shots from the Upper West Side. Has Center City suddenly become the Catskills resort comedy circuit? Maybe next season, the two companies should collaborate on Moses and Monotheism: The Musical.

Through Dec. 23, $36-$48, Arden Theatre, 40 N. Second St., 215922-1122, ardentheatre.org.

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³ IT’S EASY ENOUGH to see Edie Middlestein — 62 pounds when we meet her as a 5-year-old soothed out of a tantrum by a hunk of rye bread, 340 pounds of elderly diabetic at the height of the novel that bears her family name — as a grotesque, a compilation of every joke about Jewish grandmothers and food packed into a single frame.

After all, Jami Attenberg’s The Middlesteins (Oct. 23, Grand Central) begins with Edie’s parents’ belief that “food was made of love, and was what made love, and they could never deny themselves a bite of anything they desired.”

By the time she’s at her heaviest, her weight exerts the kind of gravitational pull that knocks the rest of her family off its axis. Her husband Richard abruptly leaves her, saying he can’t keep watching her kill herself while simultaneously drawing their adult children into her dangerous orbit; neurotic, defensive schoolteacher Robin drinks more and sulks, while the ordinarily content Benny’s hair falls out in clumps. The Middlesteins are a family in extremity, and Attenberg has assembled the ingredients for a certain kind of middle-American dysfunctional-family dramedy.

So it’s surprising when Edie’s daughter-in-law Rachelle goes into her own tailspin, jealously managing her family’s diet and, for herself, focusing “on cutting her food into the tiniest of squares, which she could then chew thoughtfully and slowly, as if she were savoring every vitamin, as if she could feel each bite extending her life span” — a reaction that looks no less obsessive and damaging than Edie’s overeating. Attenberg sidesteps the easy jokes (well, most of them; there is the carefully drilled hip-hop dance number Benny’s twins perform at their b’nai mitzvah against the backdrop of a chocolate fountain), but even as her characters stretch to extremes, The Middlesteins resists reducing even its least-complex characters to simple moral dilemmas.

And that’s not the easiest thing to do — at least not judging from James Meek’s oddly divided The Heart Broke In (Oct. 2, Farrar, Straus & Giroux). The story of Bec and Alex’s relationship starts sweet and charming, enlivened by details like Alex’s inability to focus — his ability as a geneticist stems from his failure as a musician to gain the “temporary personality of the unself-

conscious artist he hoped for” because his drumming was just “an elaborate form of fidgeting.”

As their romance grows, their world expands, with professional success and family tragedy and a desire for children introducing themes of science against morality, and celebrity against privacy.

But grafted uncomfortably onto the unfolding romance is the story of Bec’s brother Ritchie, a former rock star caught with a 16-year-old contestant on his variety show and now being blackmailed by a priggish tabloid editor who used to date his sister.

Where Bec flits between science and story in a way that enlightens both, Meek uses Ritchie to ramp up conflict artificially, imposing characters and dilemmas on his fragile cast to heighten their struggles into moral extremes.

This is unfortunate, because the

Blackmailed by a tabloid editor. best parts of his book happen in the sweet, moderate parts when the heat and the pressure are off.

And there’s no reason to strap that kind of question-begging armature around a novel: Plenty of moral danger can be wrung out of even a two- or three-person cast.

Kathleen Alcott’s short, intense novel in vignettes, The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets (Sept.

11, Other Press), restricts itself almost entirely to the relationship between brothers James and Jackson and narrator Ida, raised closely by their respective single parents, through the disintegration of Jackson and Ida’s love affair as adults. Alcott’s writing is chilly and minimal, deadpan and precise, charting Ida’s failure “to merge with a bloodstream not mine.” And the love triangle she describes, among children who “had found adulthood long before their peers” and the younger brother who watches from his own bed across the room, is both delicate and deeply, incestuously creepy. (j_bauer@citypaper.net)

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THE HOUSE I LIVE IN|B+ In The House I Live In, documentarian Eugene Jarecki leaves no stone unturned in his attempt to reveal the misguided and destructive aspects of the 40-year War on Drugs. No viewpoint goes unscrutinized — be it from a convict, local sheriff, Ivy League professor, 19th-century historian or a gang of police officers from COPS. Topping off this eclectic talking-head lineup is The Wire creator David Simon, whose wise assessments drive the bulk of the doc.

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A LATE QUARTET|C Perhaps better suited to the stage than screen, A Late Quartet is a chamber drama about four classical musicians hitting a roadblock in their professional and personal lives. The film, directed and co-written by Yaron Zilberman, features wonderful music and two strong performances — by the alwaysreliable Philip Seymour Hoffman and Christopher Walken — as well as snippets of art (Rembrandt), dance (flamenco) and song (opera). But A Late Quartet is really focused on permutations of its square. When Peter (Walken) struggles with the onset of Parkinson’s, the members of the quartet must reevaluate their lives and careers. For second violinist Robert (Hoffman), it means asking to alternate first chair with the egotistic Daniel (Mark Ivanir); his new assertiveness causes a rift in his marriage to violist Juliette (Catherine Keener). A subplot has the couple’s daughter Alexandra (Imogen Poots), herself a budding musician, taking lessons with Daniel — and taking him to bed, too. But the plot contrivances have such little feeling. While Peter makes a great speech about his meeting with Pablo Casals and Robert makes some important points about love and marriage, most of the dramatic moments ring false. Daniel’s relationship with Alexandra may be realistic, but it’s unconvincing. Likewise, an argument between Juliette and Alexandra feels forced.

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The Flat is a straightforward doc about Israeli filmmaker Arnon Goldfinger’s discovery of his grandparents’ secret friendship with a Nazi official. After Goldfinger’s grandmother passes away, he and his family begin clearing out her Tel Aviv apartment, where they find Nazi propaganda and correspondence with an SS officer. Although the work sets up an intriguing mystery, it struggles to keep the viewers’ attention, namely because most of Goldfinger’s discoveries and speculations seem like they’d be more interesting to family members. The most engaging moments surface when the director’s mother and the daughter of the Nazi official express a lack of interest in their parents’ friendship. Goldfinger’s mom seems indifferent, claiming the past is in the past, and the daughter of the official denies her father was a member of the SS — even after Goldfinger shows her a handwritten letter that proves it.

The doc is held up by subtle moments like these, but even the strongest points get lost among tedious family anecdotes and a meandering narrative that simply fails to pull the film together. —Catherine Haas (Ritz Five)

over murder investigation, a prison system that prioritizes (and profits from) retribution over reform and the target that the War on Drugs places on America’s lower classes.

Jarecki’s poignant direction imbues his narrative with emotive grace — frequent intercutting to addicts’ and inmates’ home videos and claustrophobic closeups of interviewees create a personal tone that makes the injustices seen onscreen affect the audience as much as the subjects.

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mind and body, and Robert, Daniel and Juliette betraying each other — but these ideas are sadly underexamined.

—Gary M. Kramer (Ritz Five)

SKYFALL|ARead Drew Lazor’s review on p. 19.

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THIS MUST BE THE PLACE|B Indie to the point of near-parody, Paolo Sorrentino’s exploration of fathers, sons, fame and guilt seems like the right type of on-paper vehicle for 2012’s softer, gentler Sean Penn. Bonus, then, that it involves him dressing like a left-out-in-the-sun Robert Smith and shuffling around like your oddball great-uncle who’s had two hip replacements. If this sounds achingly weird, it is, but it’s sneaky-charming in the right places and surprisingly insightful about the nature of modern America. The reclusive frontman of a defunct band now married to a plucky firefighter (Frances McDormand), Cheyenne (Penn) leads a posh-but-humdrum life in Dublin, wanting for nothing but missing something. He’s forced to address his life stuck in neutral upon the death of his long-estranged dad, a Holocaust survivor to whom he hadn’t spoke in decades. Uncovering, through famed Nazi hunter Mordecai Midler (Judd Hirsch), that his father came close to locating the man who persecuted him at Auschwitz, eyeliner-caked Cheyenne canvasses the States, following clues that lead him to one momentous interaction with “normal” folk after another.

It’s easy to lump Sorrentino’s film, named for the Talking Heads classic (David Byrne cameos), into the “oddball finding himself” canon, but there’s a little more meat to the proceedings than that. Thank Penn, whose stark, respectful acceptance of numerous bit-char-

acter soliloquies mirrors our own open ingestion of the material. Apparently it’s possible for a 52-year-old man in full-on Cure makeup to avoid drawing focus. —Drew Lazor (Ritz at the Bourse)

WUTHERING HEIGHTS|C+ Director Andrea Arnold’s take on the sole novel published by Emily Brontë relies so much on style that it fails to do justice to the story's tragic love affair. This is most noticeable during the closing scenes, where the stunted and sloppy acting detracts from the cinematography — the one aspect of the film that actually manages to hit all the right marks. Arnold is able to create an inspired, palpable atmosphere, thanks in part to her decision to forego the use of music throughout.

Instead of drowning out her gorgeous handheld shots of the foggy moors with melody, you hear wind whipping through a horse’s mane, dogs barking and insects crawling through mud puddles. The raw and dreamlike quality created through this cacophony of ambient sound is quelled, however, by “The Enemy,” an original (and alltoo-modern) tune by Mumford & Sons that works fine on its own but comes as an unwelcome surprise here.

This is only one of the many small mistakes that contribute to Arnold’s unsuccessful attempt to lend this story fresh perspective. —CH (Ritz at the Bourse)

FIRSTGLANCE FILM FESTIVAL ANNUNCIO |B+ Geekadelphia contributor Dan Tabor and Steven Denisevicz’s Annuncio is a stylized thriller about a strangler who kills young girls to feel alive, and a young woman who’s also searching to

fill a void. Employing shaky handheld shots with rapid editing offers a subjective look into the brain of the killer, but often borders on being sloppy. And while the strangler’s character is chilling and effective, the woman’s motives aren’t clear enough to support the narrative. —CH (Sun., Nov. 11, 3:45 p.m., with Junior and Kinderblock 66: Return to Buchenwald. All films screen at the Franklin Institute, 222 N. 20th St., $8-$12 per screening or $75 for an all-access pass. For more information, go to firstglancefilms.com.)

DESTINED |C+ A lady with a glowing eyeball can predict the future, but taking her advice usually ends in disaster. Produced in the 215, Destined follows a successful businessman as he tries to uncover the motives behind his wife’s suspicious behavior. The short has a few artistic long shots, but overall remains straightforward in its camera work, focusing on predictable narrative twists and turns. A promising story is hurt by amateur acting. —CH (Sat., Nov. 10, 2 p.m., with My Ruined Life, Refresh and From Philadelphia to Fallujah)

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FOLLOWING CHASE |BA young soldier follows fellow officer Chase on his first mission, which is met by flying bullets and exciting plot twists. Unfortunately, an ear-grating musical score mars local director Greg Koorhan’s short, and kills any potential for suspense. —Andrew Wimer (Sat., Nov. 10, 8 p.m., with Massimo, Leak and The Kill Hole) FROM PHILADELPHIA TO FALLUJAH |B+ David Hammelburg’s documentary on 2001 Army-Navy football players — which gets its Philly premiere at this year’s FirstGlance Festival — pushes no boundaries but satisfies with a thoughtful examination of three vets in the decade following 9/11.

While more constructive criticism of U.S. military affairs in the Middle East would have been welcome, the compelling stories of loss keep the story powerful and the boo-hoos coming. —AW (Sat., Nov. 10, 2 p.m., with My Ruined Life, Refresh, and Destined) LOVELY IN AKRON |C+

ENVY |C+ The protagonist (Emily Letts), a mousy young woman with a jerk boyfriend, wakes up with male genitals that cause her to want to punch people and watch porn instead of go to work. The boyfriend (Stephen Medvidick) is so cartoonish in his hatred of women that it’s a surprise he’s not wearing a dirty undershirt and screaming “make me a sandwich.” Philly-bred director Tara Hall’s Envy wants to make a point about misogyny but ends up reinforcing the stale stereotypes it tries to confront.

—Elizabeth Gunto (Sat., Nov. 10, 3:45 p.m., with Thumb Snatchers from the

Director Scott Taylor helmed this three-minute music video for Pittsburgh four-piece pop group The Van Allen Belt. The flashy cinematography is a visual treat, but the accompanying bland electropop tune will make your ears bleed. —AW (Fri., Nov. 9, 8 p.m., with Drop Dead Gorgeous, First Match, When You Find Me, and The Normals)

RUNNER |B Director Nic Reader and producer James Madison (heh) teamed with Brewerytown's Expressway Productions for this slick mini-western that takes a few pointers from No Country for Old Men.A mysterious, tough-talking cowboy (played by the hunky Nick Torrens) shows up in a piss-ant Texas town and raises just enough stink to put the local sheriff on his trail. A few gunshots, a robbed convenient store and a cute little hostage later, however, the old lawmaker realizes he just may be following the wrong lead. The 15 minutes go by too fast, thanks to a talented cast, superb camera work and ... did I mention the hot cowboy? —Josh Middleton (Sat., Nov. 10, 5:45 p.m., with Tracer Gun and Shouting Secrets) STEVE PHOENIX: THE UNTOLD STORY |B Writer/director and Philly native Bill Haley’s Steve Phoenix: The Untold Story recounts the hapless misadventures of aspiring investigative journal-

MY RUINED LIFE A haiku: Usually our haikus are snarky but we like this web series.

(Not reviewed) (Sat., Nov. 10, 2 p.m., with Refresh, From Philadelphia to Fallujah and Destined)

ist Jack Sparks (Josh Lamon), whose mundane Fishtown existence is flipped after his image shows up on a series of cleverly vandalized billboards. Steve Phoenix is strongest — and funniest

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Pericles on 31st Street (1962, U.S., 60 min.): This Sam Peckinpah-directed work — based on the novel by Harry Mark Petrakis — appeared on 1960s anthology series The Dick Powell Show. The Man with Two Heads (1972, U.K., 80 min.): Andy Milligan wrote and directed this “chaotic, angry and insane” take on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Thu., Nov. 8, 8 p.m., free.

BRYN MAWR FILM INSTITUTE 824 W. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr, 610-527-9898, brynmawrfilm.org.

Looney Tunes Shorts: “Greedy for Tweety” and Five More (1950s,

U.S., 45 min.): Wile E. Coyote, Sylvester and other famously tenacious screwballs learn the cost of greed the hard (and hilarious) way. Sat., Nov. 10, 11 a.m., $5. Tombstone (1993, U.S., 130 min.): Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer saddle up in this retelling of the famed gunfight at the OK Corral.

Wed., Nov. 14, 7:30 p.m., $10.

Asian Arts Initiative, 1219 Vine St., 215-557-0455, kinowatt.wordpress. com. The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee Scratch Perry (2008, U.S., 95 min.): Ethan Higbee and Adam Bhala Lough’s doc chronicles the life of the reggae legend. For more information, read Shaun Brady’s pick on p. 28. Tue., Nov. 13, 7 p.m., $8.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE Ambler Theatre, 108 E. Butler Ave., Ambler, 215-345-7855, amblertheater. org, mc3.edu. Five-Day Film Festival (2012, U.S.,): Local filmmakers screen their diverse five-minute final products, which they had just five days to write, shoot and edit. Thu., Nov. 8, 7:30 p.m., free.

Mathieu Kassovitz’s unflinching look at the oppressive conditions in the Parisian slum-suburbs. Tue., Nov. 13, 5:30 p.m., free.

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SECRET CINEMA The Trestle Inn, 339 N. 11th St., 267239-0290, secretcinema.com. Exotica Music Films (120 min.): A collection of vintage, super-rare music films from across the globe, in their original 16mm format. Wed., Nov. 14, 8 p.m., $7.

WOODMERE ART MUSEUM 9201 Germantown Ave., 215-247-0476, woodmereartmuseum.org. Gunga Din (1939, U.S., 117 min.): Take that, political correctness! An adaptation of Kipling’s tale about British soldiers fighting a cult of Indian savages. Tue., Nov. 13, 7 p.m., $5.

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PRAIRIE HOME COMPANIONS: Black Prairie plays MilkBoy Philly tonight.

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love and musical rapture on the same pedestal, approaching both like the sweet, painful mysteries they are. But just as often, Tornfelt lets her violin do the talking — along with Chris Funk’s Dobro, Jenny ConleeDrizos’ accordion and all kinds of strings and percussion — and it’s on lively instrumental tunes like “Dirty River Stomp” and “Taraf” that Black Prairie’s reverent twist on sounds from the American South and Eastern Europe is most engaging.

While their real roots are in Portland — Colin Meloy’s the only Decemberist absent from the album — the band’s joyous genre-spanning is authentic.

—M.J. Fine

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✚ BLACK PRAIRIE Annalisa Tornfelt’s got a supple, yearning voice that enriches every song she sings on Black Prairie’s second album, A Tear in the Eye Is a Wound in the Heart (Sugar Hill). “How You Ruin Me” and “Richard Manuel” put romantic

looks on stage, because her performances become gigantic in my memory. The longtime People’s Light company member shines in Theatre Horizon’s Pretty Fire, a solo memoir by Charlayne Woodard detailing a childhood of highs (music, family life, shenanigans) and lows (premature birth, racism, sexual assault), told passionately by Simpson on the brandnew Theatre Horizon stage in director James Ijames’ lean, smart production. Pretty Fire typifies Horizon’s brave choices: Inaugurating the cozy 120-seat theater with a breezy musical revue would be safe and easy, but artistic director Erin Reilly aspires to much more.

—Mark Cofta

Thu., Nov. 8, 9 p.m., $10-$12, with Casey Neill, MilkBoy Philly, 1100 Chestnut St., 215-925-MILK, milkboyphilly.com.

Through Nov. 18, $25-$31, Theatre Horizon, 401 DeKalb St., Norristown, 610-283-2230, theatrehorizon.org.

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I’m always surprised by how small actress Cathy Simpson

One of this city’s greatest advocates of free jazz and

atonal sounds across sonic boundaries came to the game late. After spending his early adulthood teaching, saxophonist/composer Jack Wright left academics to preach radical politics before returning to the musical training of his youth.

Determined to live freely, he bought a beat-up house on the cusp of Northern Liberties, called its improvisational coinhabitants and their raucous, randomly held events “Spring Garden Music” and began releasing albums such as Free Life, Singing, Thaw and Rattle OK through his own label in 1982. Thirty years later, Wright is still bleating happily, still making albums (and surging roars against my pillow came out in June) and blasting off. Wright celebrates his 70th birthday tonight at Highwire Gallery by honking his horn freely and with gusto, as he always has. Bring cake.

—A.D. Amorosi Thu., Nov. 8, 7:30 p.m., $6-$8, Highwire Gallery, 2040 Frankford Ave., museumfire.com/events.

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✚ THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY: A THEATRICAL RESPONSE Though Forearmed Productions’ Republican Theater Festival (Nov. 12-14) has received the most attention, the controversial evening of original one-act plays conceived by innovative director Cara Bluin is just one piece of Plays & Players’ election-month programming. On Saturday night (Nov. 10), Howard Zinn’s Voices of a People’s History of the United States looks back through the stories of ordinary people participating in American politics. Already well received in Norristown and Camden, this collaboration with Iron Age Theatre celebrates hard-won progress, a welcome antidote to the election cycle. If reality, past or present, is just too overwhelming, consider outright fantasy with Presidents Who Kick A$$ (Nov. 15-18), the latest comics-in-performance piece from Superheroes Who

Are Super! Republicans may not work with Obama — but Spider-Man will.

—Mark Cofta Through Nov. 18, $15-$30, Plays & Players, 1714 Delancey St., 800-5954849, playsandplayers.org.

FRIDAY

11.9 [ film ]

✚ VIDEO PIRATES A hearty, uneasy chuckle — that’s the typical response to the parodic, ’80s-style bad-trip trippiness exuded by Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! on Adult Swim. Video Pirates creator Eric Bresler cleverly distills the formula by taking thousands of those same hilariously evil VHS oddities, and then meshing them together into storylines. The resulting

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Dylan Thomas Peer Fri., Nov. 9, 8 p.m., $7, with We Hate Movies, PhilaMOCA, 531 N. 12th St., 267-519-9651, video-pirates.com, philamoca.org.

The music of Cold Specks â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 24year-old Canadian songstress Al Spx (not her real name, either) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; feels as remote and, well, cold as her native Etobicoke sounds like it must be. (Actually, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a part of Toronto.) I Predict a Graceful Expulsion (Mute) embodies the epic, enigmatic weight of its quasi-biblical title: a collection of sparse, dark, modern-yet-timeless folk hymns, rife with a bluesy fervency thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at once shadowy and soothing, thanks mostly to Spxâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s astonishing, craggily soulful voice. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the sort of startling, ear-turning sound that might prompt the coinage of entire new genre contrivances like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gothspelâ&#x20AC;? (or Spxâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own description, â&#x20AC;&#x153;doom soulâ&#x20AC;?) if that didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel so point-

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;K. Ross Hoffman Fri., Nov. 9, 8 p.m., $10, with Bad Braids, First Unitarian Church Side Chapel, 2125 Chestnut St., 866-4687619, r5productions.com.

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â&#x153;&#x161; FRED VAN HOVE The name Fred Van Hove is not spoken as often or in as rabidly reverent tones as those of Peter BrĂśtzmann, Evan Parker or Han Bennink. But it was Van Hove who attacked the piano keys alongside those free-jazz pioneers on BrĂśtzmannâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legendary 1968 recording Machine Gun, which led the charge into a more visceral, intense brand of improvisation. Van Hove spent the early 1970s in a trio with BrĂśtzmann and Bennink

before dedicating himself to nurturing the creative music scene in his native Belgium.

In the ensuing years he performed with legends like Steve Lacy and Albert Mangelsdorff, but largely fell to the periphery of free-music consciousness due to his lack of touring.

This Ars Nova Workshop performance is therefore an extremely rare and valuable opportunity to witness one of the musicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s progenitors in a solo setting.

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â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Shaun Brady Sat., Nov. 10, 8 p.m., $15, Philadelphia Art Alliance, 251 S. 18th St., arsnovaworkshop.com.

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ling group — includes raffle prizes, house DJ Seanicus and a contest for best 1980s costume, so dig out the jelly shoes and cans of Aqua Net. —Elizabeth Gunto Sat., Nov. 10, 7:30 p.m., $25-$30, First Baptist Church of Philadelphia, 123 S. 17th St., 267-587-7158, artcy.org/ events.html.

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discovered that over the years of crowds demanding peppy dances, they had considerably upped the tempo from the originals. But Getz/Gilberto casts a spell, says Haddad: “The vibe puts you into almost a sacred trance.” Minas has vowed to revert to the original settings, if only for one night.

Joined by brothers Alejandro and Leonardo Lucini on drums and bass, and Andrew Neu on sax, they will interpret the whole album, interwoven with a few of their originals.

—Mary Armstrong Sun., Nov. 11, 8 p.m., $20, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400, worldcafelive.com.

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It’s going on 30 years since Orlando Haddad and Patricia King, the core of Minas, settled down in leafy Lansdowne.

Without them and their bottomless well of Brazilian music, one wonders what Philly’s robust scene would look like today. Not that Minas are homebodies. Name a part of the world and Haddad has a touring anecdote for it. And during their travels they’ve found that 1964’s Getz/Gilberto — which introduced the world to songs like “Girl from Ipanema” — is pretty much universally beloved. Recently revisiting saxophonist Stan Getz and Brazilian guitarist João Gilberto’s classic, Minas

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✚ SKETCHFEST It’s been a brutal election season. Are we ready to laugh again? Hope so, because in Philly, November is comedy month. Coming on the heels of the Improv Festival, the annual Philly Sketchfest will celebrate the art of the written comedic word with local acts like Animosity Pierre, Camp Woods and the Mask &

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³ ASS AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE Q: I’m a 41-year-old single straight man.

Growing up, when I would go to my doctor, the nurses took my temperature rectally until I was 13, which was humiliating but sexually arousing at the same time, and the experience has really stuck with me. I need to find a woman who will accept me and genuinely enjoy taking my temperature this way routinely as part of an ongoing relationship.

Any ideas?

A: You’re not alone. While there’s still a notion in our culture that a man enjoying anal penetration is a sign of latent homosexuality or femininity, tons of straight dudes out there are realizing sexual pleasure is acceptable and positive regardless of the body part it’s coming from. And, as a parallel, lots of women get off on giving a man pleasure and being in control, whether that comes from giving the most amazing blowjob on Earth or tickling his prostate with a thermometer.

If you’re comfortable putting yourself out there, kink-specific dating sites that help hook up people with complementary fetishes might be a good place to start looking. If you don’t have a computer or are determined to find someone in the general dating pool through trial and error, it’ll likely be a longer process. While a good percentage of modern gals are up for anal play, the numbers in your favor get slimmer if you ask for it on the first date — so slow your roll. If you demonstrate to a partner that you care about her and her own desires rather than viewing her primarily as a thermometer-holder, she’s much more likely to pull that naughty-nurse Halloween costume out of the closet.

Have a question for our sexpert? Email her (anonymously!) at megan. augustin@citypaper.net.

Meg Augustin is a freelance journalist with a master’s in human sexuality education.

Wig Club — as well as some groups coming in from NYC, like MacCloskey & Myers and Desperate Times. Don’t miss Tuesday’s Dirtiest Sketch in Philadelphia competition.

Will The Feeko Brothers take first place for the third consecutive year?

TUESDAY

11.13 [ film/reggae ]

—Nikki Black

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Mon.-Sat., Nov. 12-17, $10-$15 ($70 for a full week of shows), Independence Foundation Black Box, 1412 Chestnut St., 267-441-4780, phlcomedy.com.

Every musical genre has its creation myth, but few art forms are as distinctly

—Shaun Brady Tue., Nov. 13, 7 p.m., $5-$8, Asian Arts Initiative, 1219 Vine St., kinowatt. wordpress.com.

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—Patrick Rapa Wed., Nov. 14, 8 p.m., $8, with Company, Company, Chelsea Q. Mitchell and The Suicide Magnets, North Star Bar, 2639 Poplar St., 215787-0488, northstarbar.com.

✚ HUMAN SPIRIT Though no one tends to get shot over it, the East Coast/ West Coast divide in jazz is as distinct as it is in hip-hop.

From the vantage point of New York, Los Angeles and the Bay Area have thriving scenes but are still viewed as outliers, which makes the Pacific Northwest a virtual wilderness. Still, rumblings have begun to emerge from the Seattle area in recent years that indicate a cadre of musicians who shouldn’t be ignored. Human Spirit gathers three of them — trumpeter Thomas Marriott, saxophonist Mark Taylor and drummer Matt Jorgensen — under one umbrella, dedicated to playing a fiery, hard-driving brand of West Coast hard-bop. And just to erase those territo-

rial boundaries, the band is completed by Philly pianist Orrin Evans and prolific New York bassist Essiet Essiet (bicoastal himself, having grown up in Portland).

—Shaun Brady Wed., Nov. 14, 7 p.m., $12, Chris’ Jazz Café, 1421 Sansom St., 215-568-3131, chrisjazzcafe.com.

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li Kulp’s furniture is sitting in the dark in New York. The movers hired to truck it down the Jersey Turnpike to his new digs cancelled, powerless as the island Kulp called home before agreeing to relocate to Philly to become the executive chef of Ellen Yin’s 15-year-old Old City bistro, Fork. But for Kulp, who’s endured a nightly PHLMore on: NYC commute for the past two months, a naked apartment is better than no apartment at all.

“I knew I wouldn’t feel totally comfortable till I got Eli in an apartment,” Yin laughs. I hope it’s less an apartment than a minimum-security prison; Kulp, former chef de cuisine of Manhattan media darling Torrisi Italian Specialties, is such a good get I want to make absolutely certain he’s not going to slink back to New York one night when none of us is looking.

To be fair, Kulp came here totally of his own volition, attracted to our fair town’s immense livability — and the opportunity to totally

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remake an iconic restaurant. “We weren’t really planning on leaving New York,” Kulp says. “I knew for me to come to Philly, it had to be a scenario I really wanted to be in.”

Yin gave him that scenario on a silver platter, and for its 15th birthday, Fork got one of the country’s brightest young culinary talents. She refreshed the dining room for his arrival, switching out cloths for manlier wood-topped tables, removing banquettes and commissioning two murals from artist and longtime staffer Anthony DeMelas. Palms still skim the ceiling and bar, where I fell for the vegetal nature of a sparkling-wine aperitif dosed with celery water, verjus and artichoke-y Cynar and which still holds the monopoly on urbane city drinking, but the restaurant vibes with a new freshness that matches the food.

The glowing open kitchen (Philadelphia’s first, by the way) has been reconfigured to Kulp’s specifications. Yin is committed, and so is her new chef. It shows in his wily, energetic, precisely executed plates, the best and most relevant Fork has MORE FOOD AND served in 15 years of business.

DRINK COVERAGE But perfect? No. Chopped raw surf clam AT C I T Y P A P E R . N E T / sloshing about in its briny shell was a bit M E A LT I C K E T. like seawater-flavored mouthwash, and the pastrami spices seemed to have fallen out of the roulade of lamb neck like change in the washing machine. But even those dishes had redeeming elements, like hot pops of apple and horseradish in the former and pungent sauerkraut and a fine lamb rib chop in the latter.

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chon Bakery (Artisan, Oct. 23), weighs about as much as two 5-pound bags of flour. It’s a beautiful monster of a baking book that brings together recipes from the five locations of his patisseriesboulangeries in California, Las Vegas and New York.

And while in stature alone the book might be initially intimidating, Keller and his collaborators, pastry chef Sebastien Rouxel and head bread baker Matthew McDonald, have assembled a guide that sets those with a passion on a path to elegant and expertly crafted breads, candies, pastries and desserts.

Chatting with Keller and Rouxel makes it clear that Bouchon is not for reluctant bakers. When asked about the fear of baking that plagues so many, Keller responds, “People are afraid of food. I don’t understand that. It’s the one thing that gives us nourishment. It’s the one thing that we can really share with others that we love, a tool for seduction.

It’s so dynamic and affords you so many opportunities to do so many different things with so many people, and they’re afraid of it.”

As you might imagine, Keller was never afraid of food.

“Baking falls under the same umbrella as all of it,” he says. “People are afraid of food in general, so they’re afraid of baking. Baking is one of those things that brings so much pleasure to any age group. It’s eggs and butter and flour and sugar, right? Fruit and chocolate and coffee and vanilla, all of those wonderful things that we really love.”

Keller and Rouxel agree that if the desire is there, the best place to begin is someplace simple: a pecan sandy, a poppy-seed muffin — something where the failure factor is minimal. “The more you’re successful, the more encouraging it is,” Keller says.

“Courage and success breed confidence.”

The recipes within Bouchon are organized to do just that, beginning with cookies and muffins and then moving on to more involved endeavors like croissants and baguettes as well as sugary confections like pâtes de fruits and marshmallows.

While all the recipes are laid out in a way that breaks them down into plain-English steps with plenty of gorgeous process photos for guidance, the one thing that sets Bouchon apart is that Keller and company insist on measuring by weight and not volume. This oft-overlooked technique makes for a far more exacting and successful finished product, whether it’s something as simple as a sugar-coated shortbread or a daintily footed macaron. (caroline@citypaper.net)

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finesse. Lemon puree, dehydrated black-olive â&#x20AC;&#x153;dirtâ&#x20AC;? and potato coins recast familiar ingredients in unfamiliar forms for a lucky, leggy octopus tentacle. Pickled aji dulce chiles warmed quail-stuffed quail lying over a triple pumpkin salad of toasted seeds, charred pickled flesh and splashes of nutty oil. Chicken nuggets reached their crispy, sweet-and-sour apex in Kulpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kitchen. He sousvides, rice-flour-batters, fries, glazes and piles thighs over brutally, awesomely spicy mustard for a McDonaldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;smeets-Michelin snack.

A plate dubbed â&#x20AC;&#x153;the rootsâ&#x20AC;? was a congress of cooked and raw vegetables freshly liberated from soil: carrots, parsnips, sweet potatoes and a pair of butter-roasted sunchokes masquerading as truffles in black-trumpet-mushroom powder. A faintly sweet white whip of almonds and celery root surfed the inside of the bowl. Translucent petals of fresh pear added a whisper of sweetness.

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Innocuous? Well, yes. But Kulp yanks the mild white bass out of its Mediterranean comfort zone and plunks it down in a wild, lip-puckering tamarind curry brewed with a Bengali merchantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trove of spices. Unusual accoutrements (crunchy, dime-sized arborio rice cakes, wilted spinach and tangy artichoke hearts) enhanced the fish, which arrived under a tailored slice of housemade toast, the answer to the menuâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mysterious â&#x20AC;&#x153;en crouteâ&#x20AC;? clue.

Phrases in quotations like that pepper Kulpâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s menu, framing enigmas like â&#x20AC;&#x153;guitarâ&#x20AC;? spaghetti and hanger steak with â&#x20AC;&#x153;baked potato.â&#x20AC;? Fortunately, the staff proved wellversed in the changes, especially Danielle Jamrozy, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just about everything you could ask for in a server. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Let me know if you have any questions,â&#x20AC;? she told me after setting down a bourbon cocktail with Fernet and Peychaudâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot to talk about on this menu.â&#x20AC;? She ainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t kidding.

Jamrozy steered me toward the â&#x20AC;&#x153;house menuâ&#x20AC;? tasting, the best way to experience the new Fork. From the full menu, you choose a starter, a pasta for the table â&#x20AC;&#x201D; get the nutty-sweet Sicilian-pistachio agnolotti topped with braised rabbit and breadcrumbs â&#x20AC;&#x201D; an entree and one of pastry chef Jonathan Salibaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vivacious desserts.

Bittersweet chocolate poufs with spicy fig ice cream and deconstructed Honeycrisp apple pie with pastry shards and frozen blue-cheese nougat could not have been more perfect.

At $65 a head, the prix-fixe beats the a la carte prices and includes the thoughtful little extras that make a meal feel like dinner out: amuse bouches like classed-up Whiz-filled soft pretzels, fun bread pairings â&#x20AC;&#x201D; deliinspired pumpernickel with birch-beer butter! â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and tiny doughnuts in lieu of petit fours. Dollars to, well, doughnuts, these are the details youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll take away from Fork, an establishment that with one swift personnel change has gone from a very good restaurant to a very important restaurant. With Kulp in the kitchen, Fork now joins the torchbearers of the new modern era in Philadelphia dining. Now someone get this man an armchair. (adam.erace@citypaper.net)

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[ i love you, i hate you ] To place your FREE ad (100 word limit) ³ email lovehate@citypaper.net AT LAST You finally took my advice and stopped messing around with the next door neighbor...I told you before that it just wasn’t worth all the bullshit that you were putting into it and I know that you were not going to leave your wife for me so I just gave up and finally decided to go with the other neighbor you shouldn’t be upset because you have your wife she will never be as good as I am in bed but at least you can go home to her see her on a daily basis and bullshit around with her as you did me. I just don’t understand why did it have to end like this. I was comfortable sharing you with your wife. Now you are gone I guess I have to move on with my life again. PS: The other neighbor goes down way better than you...so that definitely means that I am never going back to you again.

to myself this bitch is the most shady that I have ever ran across in a long time. Then your friends were standing on the corner yelling at people get into a cab and I thought to myself what kind of shit is that then you were calling yourself asking about what they do and how they do it! You cunt mind your fucking business and you know that this shit aint got nothing to do with you and I am still confussed over the fact that you just sat there and lied to my face. Don’t you think that I was going to know the real truth you are a fucking ugly faced loser and hater. You and your click and go jump off a fucking roof. Don’t you know everyone is just tired of you already.

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To the girl on the bus you knew you were a big bitch that is why you took the two seats and people were standing there anxious to sit and you were just there taking up space. I don’t think that it was fair for you to have an attitude and think that someone owed you something because your ass was fat. It is your decision to be fat and that is nobody else’s choice but your own. And you sitting there eating chips and other snacks wasn’t making any more sense because nobody told you to chew with your fucking mouth closed. I hope that I don’t see you tomorrow on the bus again because honestly I didn’t eat any dinner after seeing your fat ass divour 2 fucking burgers at one time then had a big cooler of soda to wash it down. I wouldn’t want to be your stomach! You should be ashamed of yourself you yucky bitch!

You fake ass bitch who the fuck do you think that you are? I can’t stand you...Remember bitch I am the one doing you a fucking favor you aren’t doing nothing for me. Point blank you always seem like you are having issues when it comes time to pay your fucking tab. Just pay your tab and just move the fuck on with your life you are making this shit so fucking hard where it doesn’t have to be. I am tired of playing games over and over with you like we are in some type of fucking jungle gym with the kids. I am not a child, far from being a child so get it together and do the right fucking thing or honestly I will stop being nice to you and then you will be mad and I really will not care after that.

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I enjoyed you spending a night that you spent the night I look forward to many more nights like that... you really surprised me. I wish that we could of had sex or something but I know that you were tired and I was tired so it wouldn’t of made any sense to sit there and do that when we both would not have enjoyed it. You just don’t know what you mean to me and I love you so much. I just want us to be happy and not argue as much about small things...you mean so much to me. I love your brown eyes..the way you touch me is so exciting...you turn me on so much...I hope that we can work on our relationship.

LIFE ISN’T THAT BAD I saw you and we spoke...you told me that things were bad...I told you things could be worst. Why not celebrate life for what it is...it really could be worst than what it is...there are people out there doing worst than what we are, you should be thankful that you have a job, friends that care and a vehicle.

Not everyone has that and wants that. I enjoy talking to you but sometimes you seem like you are a straight up downer and nobody I mean nobody likes a downer. Try to take one day at a time life the alcoholics do! We all have to do what we have to do and make sacrifies if necessary. Good luck to you because when I saw you I thought to myself. He is going to need all the help in the world.

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time. Now it’s 2012 and you never even call me, just to see what’s up like you used to, you never invite me to hang out with you. We kinda took a break from each other and when I got a hold of you again, all of a sudden you’re in a fuckking studio rapping with all these guys that hate you. They turned you into one of those jerks guys that use girls for sex and rap about them in all your songs. Then right after we had sex you fucking tell me that you;re still in love with your ex-girlfriend, like I give a fuck. If you want her, go get her...but don’t have me chasing you all this time if all you wanted was some ass. You can get that anywhere, but the only difference is you won’t share the feelings with that person that we did together as friends. Another difference is, I won’t give you a life supply of AIDS, because I’m not a dirty whore like those other cows. And if you never call me again, then I guess this is good-bye.

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protesting the wonderful coffee shop on the street.

You know that most people who refuse your handout protesting non-union labor despise you. You see we are actually on our way to work. We are not trying to game the system into overpaying for our services, or worse, expecting to get paid for work we don’t perform. I do not hate you. Rather I pity you.

LIke the majestic dinasaurs who could not adapt to new realities and became extinct, so you have outlived your once important reign in the American workforce and will also become extinct. Please leave the sidewalks to people who are actually going

It’s funny how people always say that if you make a guy chase you he will want you more...I beg to differ, seeing the fact that I have tried with you too many times before and it always fails. And now, being a woman, I think back at how I would stand on the sideline at C.Y. and watch you work your magic ondumb slutty little bitches who didn’t know what they were getting into. I never regret anything that I do, and if I could turn back time I would do things just the same...But one thing I would change slightly is the way I let you chase me for so long without telling you how I actually felt this whole

around Pine and Spruce..I never knew true happiness until I met you and my love only continues to grow stronger but let’s face it you need to change or it’s over. It’s bad enough that you do this occasionally during the daytime, but all night right in front of a sign that says “no parking any time” is just insulting. What’s more insulting is the parking folks does nothing about this even though they could make a mint off of you daily. It makes me think you two are having an illicit affair like nasty two-faced b-words.

It is because you all live in rich neighboorhoods like Rittenhouse that you think that you have special priviledges because in my neighboorhood we have what we called “tickets” for which we pay what are called “fines” for parking in traffic lanes or any place that isn’t a parking space or in a parking space on street sweeping day. What makes you special?

What is it about bicycles that makes no one take us seriously as a leginimate form of traffic? We get two decent eat-west lanes through Center City and you insensitive bastards won’t let us have them. All of the other streets in the city aren’t enough for you?

You need to own it that make impossible demands and don’t consider my needs. This has got to change or we are going to have a serious conversation ending with me telling you that you were terrible in bed, your breath and hair are awful, I can’t stand your mother, you need to lose some weight and I slept with all of your friends behind your back. -A Cyclist ✚ ADS ALSO APPEAR AT CITYPAPER.NET/lovehate. City Paper has the right to re-publish “I Love You, I Hate You”™ ads at the publisher’s discretion. This includes re-purposing the ads for online publication, or for any other ancillary publishing projects.

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“Vertigo” singer Grand Ole ___

54 Like days of yore 55 Singer Mitchell 58 Idiot who drove his car into two feet of mud?

62 Farm beasts 63 Run-DMC’s sneaker of choice 64 Actor Hakeem ___-Kazim of 24 65 No, to Nijinsky 66 Woke up after passing out 67 Slip up

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Adoptions PREGNANT? CONSIDERING ADOPTION?

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Help Wanted – Regional GROOMER - NEW STORE

Pet Supplies Plus is growing.

Style the best looking pet in the neighborhood. Join the team as a Groomer at America’s favorite neighborhood pet store opening soon in Warrington, PA. Groomer opportunities include: ** Sign-on bonus for experienced groomers ** Supplies and state of the art equipment provided ** Excellent pay and benefits (for qualifying Associates) ** Career advancement opportunities POSITION REQUIREMENTS · 1 yr.related experience preferred · High school diploma or GED · Ability to lift up to 50 pounds For IMMEDIATE CONSIDERATION - apply online at PetSuppliesPlus.com

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Computer Skills/Job Readiness Instr uctor need for inmate training program in Philadelphia. Must have 3 years related training experience. M-F, 8am-4pm, excellent benefits! Send resume to jobs@jevs.org use “CS” in subject line or fax resume to (215)-255-4791. EOE

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Apartments for Rent NORTHERN LIBERTIES

2 bdrm trinity at 944 A. N. Orianna St. AC, HW flrs, WD hookup, intercom, fireplace. $950+ utils.

Call Bob: 215-520-1232

Two Bedrooms CHESTNUT HILL GEM

HUGE 2 BR apt; New Kit/Bath; W/D in apt; Easy walk to shops, R-7, R-8 trains to CC. Pet friendly. Non-smoking. $1200+gas 267-266-0115

Homes 3RD & JACKSON

Wonderful area, All New Hardwood, Carpet, Granite, C/A Finished Basement, $1050 Per month. Call 215-292-2176.

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Please Call 215-292-2176.

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Bedroom Set 5 pc. brand new $325.

All sizes, Del. Avail. 215-355-3878

BRAZILIAN FLOORING 3/4", beautiful, $2.75 sf (215) 365-5826 CABINETS KITCHEN SOLID WOOD Brand new soft close/dovetail drawers Crown Molding 25 Colors, Never Installed!

Cost $5,300. Sell $1,590. 610-952-0033 CASINO Style Roulette Table and wheel/with chairs.$2,500 (609)317-0378.

Diabetic Test Strips needed pay up to $15/box. Most brands. Call 610-453-2525 Pinball, shuffle bowling alleys, arcade video games, jukeboxes 215.783.0823

BD a Memory Foam Mattress/BoxsprIng Brand New Queen cost $1400, sell $299; King cost $1700 sell $399. 610-952-0033

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

DRUMS - Slingerland 4 pc. Circa. 1960, walnut finish, cases included. $700. Call 215-742-5092

33 & 45 Records Absolute Higher $

* * * 215-200-0902 * * *

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

jobs

2013 Hot Tub/Spa. Brand New! 6 person w/lounger, color lights, 30 jets, stone cabinet. Cover. Never installed. Cost $6K. Ask $2,750. Will deliver. 610-952-0033.

Eagles SBL swap, your sec. 107 or 108 row 1 pair, for my sec 124 row 1 aisle pair + cash, Call 609-685-2100

Drivers Needed

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

33&45 RECORDS HIGHER $ REALLY PAID

** Bob 610-532-9408 ***

Philadelphia

Professional Transportation, Inc. is seeking local drivers for passenger vans in the Philadelphia, PA area.

Drug screen, driving record and criminal background check required.

EOE 1-800-471-2440, ext. 1 www.professionaltransportationinc.com

American Bulldog Pups, NKC, Champ lines, shots/wrmd, $500. (443)502-2820

American Staffordshire Terrier Puppies full shots $300obo Edgar 267-716-0071 Beagle Puppies Pure-bred, Shts, Wrmd, Lancaster, $350.00. 717-629-6439

DACHSHUND PUPPIES & DORKIE PUPPIES M&F, shots, $375. 609-828-1519

600 Wynnewood Rd. 1BR/1BA $700 Fixed rate for 6 years. A/C, ceiling fans, 1st floor. Call (215) 747-5097 60xx Market St 2BR Cpt, new kit, avail immed. 215-768-1300 62nd & Market 2BR/1BA $600 LR, DR. Avail now. Call (215) 820-3607 Cobbs Creek Vic. 1br $575+utils. quiet, newly renov, large rooms, conv. to public trans., all colleges & Center City, 1 mo. rent & sec. Call 215-880-0612

West Phila 1BR Please call 215-219-9552

50th & Baltimore Vic 1br/1ba $650 Clean, neat, close to trans,267.258.8387 Doberman Pups, s & w, very cute,champ lines , $1100 F, $1000 M, 717-629-3726 English Bulldog Puppies starting at $1295. AKC & ACA www.NationalBulldogs.com ENGLISH BULLDOG PUPS AKC Champion bloodlines, parents on premises. 8 weeks old, shots & wormed. $1,800. 267-320-5444

English Bulldog Pups, Male & Female ACA, $1000. Call (717) 572-9602 German Shepherds- 11 weeks old, pure breed, house broken, Call (302)465-3672

LABRADOODLES pups, blacks & chocolates, M & F, 1st shots, ready now, born, 9/8/12. Call 484-880-0759 Labrador Retriever Puppies ready to go to your loving home Nov. 20th. Contact Tiffany 215-391-6335. AKC Registered.

MASTIFF PUPS - Home / Family raised, large boned. $850/ea. 609-224-0929

PIT BULL PUPS - Colby and red noses, parents on premises, $200. 215-535-8120 Pomeranian pups, beautiful, M/F, shots, guaranteed, $300+. (610)662-7397

PUGGLES - Adorable! Waiting for a loving home! Guranteed to bring you hours of fun and companionship. Health certified, pictures available, $300. 570-345-2529 Dnolt@emypeople.net Shar Pei 7 PURE BREED CHINESE SHAR PEI PUPPIES 215-802-9923

Sheltie/Germ. Shep. mix pups, hlth guar., extra cute, $125 (610)593-1391 ext. 3 Shih Tzu Pup - Health guar., reg., black & white F, $399. (302) 897-9779 Yorkie Pup, AKC, Male paper trained, 9 weeks, $700. Call (610)331-8233 Yorkie Puppies - AKC reg. vet checked, home raised, $650. Call 215-490-2243 Yorkie pups, M/F, Teacups, shots & wormed, Call 484-868-8450 Yorkishire Terrier pups, AKC, very small, ready 10/20, Call (717)278-0932 Yorkshire Terrier, AKC, 1M & 2F, 12 wks, www.biewerterrier.com 215-355-5123

Generous Reward!

LOST DOG, small black & white Male Shih tzu near 71st & City Line.

Owner grieving. 215-477-7813

20xx N. 62nd 1BR $700 nice block, 1st, last & sec. (215) 878-5056 65xx W. Girard 2BR $750+ sec dep, w/w crpts, W/D. 856-906-5216

11xx E. Tioga 1br Please call (267) 205-3238

58XX N. Camac

42xx Frankford Ave 1br $475+utils 3rd flr, also 2nd flr., Efficiency, $425/mo., 1st, last & security. Call 215-559-9289 4500 Frankford Ave. Effic. $490 2nd floor, no pets. Call 215-289-2973 4812 Oxford Ave 1br $565 +utils $1130 move-in. Call 267-255-6322 52XX Burton St. 2br/1ba $585 Modern kitchen, nice loc. 215-514-0653

1BR $580+utils 2BR $700+utils Renovated, 267.271.6601 or 215.416.2757 5xx W Eleanor St. 1BR/1BA $550 util.

LR Lr kit. spacious. $1100 to move in. avail now. near trans. 267-338-6078.

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

22xx West Indiana 2b/1ba $575 +util nice apt! frig-d/w. 215-275-2460

1 BR & 2 BR Apts $725-$835 spacious, great loc., upgraded, heat incl, PHA vouchers accepted 215-966-9371 239 Seymour Efficiency $450 1br $560$700, incl. heat & water.610-287-9857 4617 Wayne Large Efficiency $480 heat & hot wtr inc. EIK, 267-756-0130 5321 Wayne Ave. Efficiency $550 1br $600 2br $725 Avail Now. 215-776-6277 Chelten & Chew Studio $450 lg, nwly ren, nw paint, rugs 267.625.0066 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 Penn St. 1Br $575+electric newly remodeled. avail now 215.783.3418

Balwynne Park 2br/1ba $845/mo+utils new kit, hwds, W/D, gar. 610-659-0969 Balwynne Park 2br $810+ 1st flr, w/d, garage. Call 610-649-3836 Balwynne Park 2BR $850+utils W/D, C/A, W/W. Call 215-219-6409

26xx N. 33rd St. 1 BR call Ms. Green, 215-520-9800

63xx Gardenia St 1br $650/mo newly renov, 1 car gar, EIK 267.335.4080 7500 Germantown Av 1&2BR Gardentype! Special! Newly dec, d/w, g/d w/w, a/c, laundry & cable on prem, pet friendly, Off-street prkg 215-275-1457/233-3322

$625

30xx Broad St. Efficiency $500+ utils 1st, last & security dep. 267-975-8521

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

77xx Woolston Ave 19150 2br/1ba $785 duplex 2nd flr, w/w crpt, garage, washer/ dryer, basement storage 215-901-4700 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

9xx Lehigh Ave 1br Efficiency $400+util 1st/last/sec. 3rd flr walkup (267)255.2174 Temple Hosp area 1-2 br $575 water incl Broad & Allegheny. Call (215)336-4299

66 St - 1 & 2 B R . Handicap access.

Ht/wtr/gas incl! Sec8ok 215-768-8243

$600+utils

5132 C St. 2BR/1BA $750+utils New carpets, paint, 1st floor, priv. ent.

1st, last & sec. dep. Call 215-870-3796 58xx Reach St. 1BR/1BA $650 Newly remodeled, Call 267-439-8425 Academy & Grant 2BR $790+ 2nd floor, wall-to-wall carpets, C/A, off street parking. Call 856-346-0747 Bustleton & Grant 2br Condo $895 prvt balcony w/garden view 215.943.0370 Mayfair 2br $825+utils newly renov, with laundry, 215-205-6800 Morrell Park Duplex 2BR, W/D, Priv prkg/yrd. $900 water incl 267-566-2253 Philmont 2BR duplex 1st flr $850+ C/A, bsmnt, w/w, garage, (215)752-1091

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

11xx N. 55TH ST. BRAND NEW BUILDING Single rms $400. Rms w/ bath $500.

Double rms $600. Fully furnished w/ full size beds, fridge, & dresser. SSI/SSD/VA, Payee services, Public assist. ok. Also SW, S., W., N., & Frankford. 267-707-6129 16th & Lehigh, 21st & York, 22nd & Allegheny - $325/mo. SSI ok. 215-485-8815 19th & Erie Av priv ent new paint use of kit ww $120wk $290mv in 267-997-5212 23rd & Montgomery - newly renov, furn, SSI OK. $90+/week. Call (267) 784-2578 2764 N. Hemberger St., Rooms for rent, starting $300/mo. 267-257-3610 30xx Aramingo Ave. $100/week, private bath, w/d, SSI ok, 215-920-6394

52nd & Race; 55th & Lansdowne, 13th & York, 29th & Cumberland, 215-290-8702 54th & Market priv ent new paint use of kit ww $120wk $290mv in 267-997-5212 59th St S., furn rm, near El, a/c, fridge, $100/week, $100 security. 215-472-8119 652 Brooklyn $125 week, $375 to move in Furn w/refridg, no kitch 215-892-7198

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CHOW PUPS : CKC reg., S & W, Different colors, $500. (717) 203-3764

5803 Haverford 2br $600+utils 1st floor, lrg kit., priv ent. 215-878-4195

45xx Old York Rd 1BR $585+utils Large, 1st,last & security 215-791-2125

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AKC BOXER - Male 13wk old blk/wht mrkg shots/wormed $500 717-629-7207

52nd and Parkside 2br apt $600+ utils also 3rd floor Studio available $500+ utils, 1 mo. rent & sec dep. 215-284-7944

West Phila 1br, 2br & 3br Near new El transp. 484-358-0761

pets/livestock

Persian Kittens, white, beautiful pure breds $350 & adults (215)765-8434

Northern Liberties 3BR $1400 Parking spot & heat included. RPM TriState Area, 610-497-2700 www.rpmtristatearea.com

Parkside / N. Phila Area 1br- 6br $700$1,600. Newly renov, new kitch. & bath, hdwd flrs, Section 8 OK. 267-324-3197

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

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homes apartment for rent marketplace A1 Nice, well maintained rms, N. & W. Phila. Starting @ $125/wk 610.667.9675

BROAD ST. AREA-rms starting at $95 & up No drugs Other loc avl. 215-252-2839 Frankford, nice rm in apt, near bus & El, $300 sec, $90/wk & up. 215-526-1455 Germantown $100-$125/wk Furnished Use of house. Call 267-266-1156 Germantown $350-$400 single occupant, clean rms 267-276-2153 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

resorts/rent

20th & Diamond, 5BR/1.5BA $1,200.

Beautiful, washer/dryer, modern kitchen.

Sec 8 ok! Email johnb@compassnorth.us

Upper Darby - 69xx Rufkin Ln. 3BR/1BA Sec. 8 ok. Call Tom at 215-439-3598 or Minh at 610-812-0635

2943 West Harper 2BR/1BA $1200 gas, elec not incl. C/A, Call (610) 348-6121

Upper Darby nr 69th term. 3br $800+ close to trans/shopping (215)872-6395

19th and Mifflin 2br/1ba $590 Townhouse, magnificent, everything new, rent/option, Call 215-292-2176

27xx Earp St. 2BR $675+ utils newly renov,must see, 267-588-5403 3rd & Jackson 2br/1ba $1300 All new townhouse, hardwood, granite kitchen. Call 215-292-2176

22xx S. 71st 3br/1ba $800+utils EIK, enclosed porch, great neighbor hood, "The Landlord that Cares" Tasha 267.584.5964, Mark 610.764.9739 52xx Upland St. 3br/1ba $725/mo. nice updated house, w/d, (215)500-7610

Germantown,furn rms, renovated, share kitch & ba, $500-$650mo. 215-514-3960 3931 Brown St. 1br/1ba $500/mo.

NO DRUGS! 2nd flr Call 267-259-0430 GERMANTOWN: furn rooms everything incl., cable ready $425/mo. 267.467.4595 Mt Airy, 61xx Chew Ave, Univ City, 41xx Popular $85-$125/wk, 215-242-9124 Mt. Airy, rooms with private bath $155-$200/week. 215-630-7639 Near Broad & Roosevelt Blvd. FREE ROOM RENT Nov! Pay $530 DEC. 1. only 1 person! Need SEC. DEP. AL 267-235-6555

3xx N. 62nd 4br/2ba $1,100 Spac. w/d, near transp. 267.239.7087

8 bdrm/10 bath LUXURY VILLA RENTAL Beachfront, fully staffed, great amenities, incl private pool, Dominican Republic , starting from $1870 per night. Online @ www.villa- castellamonte.com/pa for a $500 discount offer! (702)900-3121

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

Make your tablet screen a whole lot brighter.

Jaguar 2003 S Type with sunroof, like new, original miles. $7985. 215-922-5342

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

SL500 2005 $35,000 White/Beige interior, 25,000 miles, excellent condition. Call 610-458-0179

30th & Girard 3BR/1BA $980 LR, DR, spacious kitch., backyard, near downtown & art museum. 215-289-2973

Corvette 1982 $4500 OBO 79K original miles, good running condition, needs work. Call 609-760-5949.

NORTH PHILADELPHIA 3br/1ba Remod home, Sect. 8 OK. 215-548-9666

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NEWLY RENOVATED NORTH PHILLY ROOMS! Must see! NEW carpet, NEW walls, NEW EVERYTHING! Fit for a King! $75&up/wk. Three weeks to move in.

Won’t last! Call today! 267-973-2284

Nice luxury rooms for rent. Avail. immed. Call Norman at 267-240-6805 North Phila: $90-$125/wk, newly renov., use of kitch, no drugs. Call 215-704-0312 North Philadelphia $350-$550 Lg rm w/half bath, priv. entr. Call 267-414-4819 North Phila. - Rooms $400/mo. 1st mo. free to qualified applicants. Single occupancy. Applic. fee $40. 215-510-0928 North Phila. small, med or large rms based on single occup. $350, $400 & $450. 215-913-1485 or 267-312-1499

N. PHILA CLEAN ROOMS, $380/mo, Use of Kitchen. , SSI OK. 215-455-2233 N Phila Furn, Priv Ent $75 & up No drugs, SSI ok. 215.763.5565

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

50xx N. 16th Street 3BR/1.5BA 215- 284-3410

$850 JUNK CARS WANTED 24/7 REMOVAL. Call 267-377-3088

2xx W. Fisher Ave. 4BR/1.5BA $1100 plus utilis. Reno, W/D, Sec 8 ok, hardwood floors, please call 609-851-0925

38xx Delhi St. 3BR/1BA $700 uti. bsment, bckyard LR DR KIT $1750 to move in avail now. sec 8 0k 267-338-6078.

28 Manheim St. 2br $700 new renov, close to transp. 215-495-7191 6224 Clearview 3BR/1BA $875+utils Remod. W/D. Sec 8 ok! 215-499-2364 Chelten & Baynton 4br/1ba $595+utils $1,750 to move in. Call 215-701-7076

xx E. Montana 3br $825+ newly updated, Call 215-839-6468

N. Phila Furn Rms SS & vets welcome. No drugs, $100 & up, 267-595-4414 N. Phila Vanpelt St. Spacious, Renov, $85-$125 week, call 267-471-8171

48xx Gransback 3br 19xx W. Godfrey 3br section 8 ok, Call 267-968-0211

SW Phila: 65th & Lindbergh, 29th and Cumberland, private bath $550/month. Call 267-528-9250

72xx Glenloch St. 3BR/1BA $800/mo.

Hdwd flrs downstairs, nice, clean house.

2mo. sec. dep. Credit check. 215.432.8339

SW PHILA: large fully furnished rooms, $100/wk, $300 move in. (267) 257-6327 University City Rooms & Apts for Rent 215-382-2588 W. Phila Furn Rms, SS & Vets welcome, No drugs, $100/wk & up 267-586-6502 W Phila & G-town: Newly ren lg, lux rms /apts. very peaceful SSI ok, 267-241-0149

Clifton Heights - Westbrook Park 3BR/1BA $1,100mo. Call 610-858-1870 Darlington Woods Townhomes, 2br/2.5ba, LR w/FP, DR, kitch, deck, W/D, no pets/smoke, avail Nov 15th. $1,500. workout/tennis/pool area. 610-459-0544

Chevy 2000 Handicapped Equipped Luxury Hightop Conv Van (new body style) a/c, full pwr, few orig mi, mag whls, like new quick sale, $7950. 215.928.9632

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

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