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UFO near the airport. And dreaming about a train going through a tunnel. And thinking about boobs.

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A small number of Philly cops moonlight as Olde City Paranormal, a group that investigates ghosts. And sometimes roughs them up a little.

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According to a Daily News article, Olde City Paranormal has recorded disembodied voices saying, “Mommy, I’m here” and “F--- you!” And sometimes: “I’m not disembodied, I’m your child. I’m right here. Can you take off that dumb fucking proton pack and drive me to soccer practice?”

[ + 1 ] Camden officials say they will not remove

the hand-painted crosses that have been placed in front of Camden City Hall to mourn the city’s rising homicide toll. “Hell, we’d put a giant mural of Mohammed out there if we thought it would help,” they say. “For the record: We know it would not.”

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[ + 1 ] Mayor Nutter denies rumors that he would

leave to take a job in the Obama administration. Also claims he’d refuse the cash if he won the lottery, turn down a ride in a spaceship if one landed at his house and that he absolutely doesn’t want the last piece of pizza because, no, you go ahead.

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Around 330 workers at the Hostess plant in Northeast Philly walk off the job as part of a national bakers’ union strike. Informed that squeezing corn-syrup-and-palm-oil slurry into the shape of a cupcake doesn’t constitute “baking,” they soon slump back to their posts.

[ + 3 ] Two gunmen who hold up a Rite Aid in the

Northeast are caught, thanks to a GPS tracking device in one of the stolen pill bottles. “Lucky for you guys I can’t get anywhere without my Garmin,” an anthropomorphic bottle of Advil Liqui-Gels tells police. “Now do me a favor? Don’t tell those Olde City Paranormal dudes about me? I’ve been through enough.”

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ERRORS OF COMMISSION? Al Schmidt and Stephanie Singer both ran last year as pro-reform candidates for the City Commissioners office, which runs elections. Last week, after problems at the polls, he helped unseat her as the office’s chairwoman. NEAL SANTOS

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A PROVISIONAL WHODUNIT Finding lots of explanations but no real answers for Philly’s Election Day chaos. By Isaiah Thompson

J

ustino Navarro knows his division. As Democratic committeeman for the Spring Garden neighborhood’s 8th Ward, 26th Division, that’s his job. Before elections, he and his helpers go door to door checking the names on the list, making sure voters will show up to vote. During elections, he hangs out at the division’s polling place and makes sure everything goes smoothly. This Election Day, Navarro says, things did not go smoothly. Sixty of the 938 people who showed up to vote, he says, arrived only to discover their names weren’t listed in the poll books. Things like this happen in every election — polling places get moved, people go to the wrong ones — but not, Navarro says, like this. Navarro began looking for patterns among those whose names had gone missing. Many, he found, were newly registered voters or new to his division. Several, using smartphones, showed him that their names appeared on the state’s SURE voter-registration database as registered at that location. But some cases defied that trend: There was an elderly man who Navarro knew voted in every election and who had lived in the same place for years. He wasn’t on the list, either. “This man, he takes voting very seriously, you know?” Navarro recalls. “He was very upset.” Navarro wasn’t the only one reporting such problems — similar

concerns were being echoed around the city. “Something was wrong,” Navarro says. “And my concern is that somebody get to the bottom of this.” This Sunday, word came from City Commissioner Al Schmidt — one of the three elected officials who oversee elections in Philadelphia — that some 27,000 people were forced to vote by provisional ballot in last week’s election, just less than double the 2008 figure.The numbers seem to confirm what voting-rights advocates, election monitors and this paper had been reporting — and election officials had been denying — for a week: Something, somewhere, went very wrong on Election Day. The questions that haven’t been answered yet are: What went wrong, and why? It’s shaping up to be quite the whodunit. The City Commissioners have promised to investigate. But they aren’t the only ones looking for answers — and, if the last few weeks are any indication, that’s probably a good thing. There are, after all, many suspects in this mystery, and the Commissioners are among them. The backlog: Just after the Oct. 3 voter-registration deadline, the City Commissioners announced that they had a backlog of tens of thousands of registration applications. Concerns that registrations wouldn’t be processed in a timely manner were raised by watchdog groups, but were largely brushed aside. On Nov. 1, just five days before the election, the commissioners announced the backlog was gone — good news that somewhat glossed over

There are, after all, many suspects.

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✚ TALKING TURKEY It was a bit early for Thanksgiving dinner — being only Nov. 11 — but no one at Old Pine Community Center in Society Hill seemed to mind. It did, all things considered, compare favorably to fleeing for your life. The guests were about 180 refugees from some of the more war-torn parts of the world, like Sudan, and from places where human rights are not to be taken for granted, like Nepal, Bhutan and Myanmar. The community center, in collaboration with immigrant service organization HIAS Pennsylvania and the Society Hill Synagogue, had invited them for the customary holiday meal. For many, it was their first Thanksgiving. Asadick Emo, for one, was ready to embrace the tradition. A 22year-old refugee from Sudan who lived in a camp in Kenya for six years, he’s more than ready to leave the past behind. “You don’t feel free there,” he said of his time in the camp. “You feel like someone’s always going to attack you. … It is not a good place.” Emo, who has been in the U.S. since February, prefers to think of his future: He’s finishing high school and hopes to become a doctor. Halfway through the dinner, one of the coordinators called for a moment of silence and gratitude. “We have each other. … Many of you have new lives.” While some in the room did not understand her speech — about half the guests spoke no English — the sentiment was widely shared. “All people will be your friends here,” said Bsakta Gurung, a refugee from Nepal who immigrated with his wife, daughters and grandchildren five years ago. But for others, this optimism is tempered by the restrictions that come with living in a new country. “We have a saying about the U.S.A.: ‘U Start Again,’” said Madhav Sherma, a refugee from

Bhutan who spent 20 years in a camp in Nepal. He left behind a job as a professor. It will be five years before he can become a citizen in America; he can never return to Bhutan, where his citizenship was stripped and he is now considered an “anti-national.” “Not having a citizenship right is, I think, as bad as death,” Sherma said. “That’s why we are hopeful that, after five years in America, our people will be able to get their citizenship, will be able to exercise their freedom and liberty and right.” —Anna Merriman

✚ OBJECTIVIST LESSONS Nearly two out of three young voters in Pennsylvania backed President Obama on Nov. 6. But very few of them, it seemed, were at the University of Pennsylvania’s Irvine Auditorium last weekend for the Students for Liberty Philadelphia Regional Conference — a gathering of budding Libertarians from across the tri-state area. Summing up the prevailing sentiment, one grim-faced woman admitted, “I’ve been feeling, ever since the election, just despairing. I feel like there’s no way to stop this downfall.” She wondered aloud if secession might be an option. “There’s always Montana,” a student called out hopefully. “Texas is close to seceding,” someone else muttered. Ed Hudgins — Ayn Rand acolyte, advocacy director at the Atlas Society and one of Washington’s foremost Libertarian commentators — assured students, in disappointed tones, that this was not possible. Nonetheless, he said, “America is in a civil war … between the makers and the takers.” Hudgins’ seminar was appealingly entitled “Fighting for Freedom Against a Re-Elected Obama.” Over one hour, he laid out the situation for a crowd of about 50 students: America is on the verge of ruin. >>> continued on page 10

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SOME LIKE IT HUT: A cross section of Andy Walker and Andy Heiser's “Renewed Urban Studio Tent” at Mount Airy Art Garage.

³ ON THE GORGEOUS DAY that was Sunday, about 15 people showed up at the Mount Airy Art Garage for a panel discussion on the intersection of art and urban renewal. To wit: Can art solve social problems? Can it spur economic development? At the least, it can clean up a sidewalk. Artists Andy Walker and Andy Heiser proved that with their “Renewed Urban Studio Tent,” a Quonset-hut-like structure that’s been built in several iterations out of recycled and found materials. The artists are making a point: “You can build a house using what we all throw away,” said Walker. Passersby created collages for the walls, often using materials lying around the project’s site — broken earbuds, plastic bottles — so that, as Heiser noted, the process cleans the space. Other panelists included artist Dre Urhahn and Mural Arts’ Shari Hersh, who are working on a project called Philly Painting. The project, painting bright stripes of color on buildings along Germantown Avenue, has employed about a dozen local people and created a sense of possibility. But what about its larger hope of economic stimulation? Hersh suggested a difference might be noticeable on the corridor “five years from now.” So far, it has prompted the creation of a business association. Audience members were sympathetic, offering other ways art can have civic impacts. Gary Steuer, the city’s chief cultural officer, noted increased rates of college graduates staying in the city — although the direct connection to art wasn’t clear. “The hope is,” said Hersh of Philly Painting, “it will create other transformations.” —Theresa Everline

By Daniel Denvir

HOUSE RULES ³ AFTER THE ELECTION, Speaker John Boeh-

ner boasted that, Republicans having maintained a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, there is “no mandate for raising tax rates.” But it appears that a majority of Americans did not vote for divided government. Rather, the right stole the House — and did so quite legally, through gerrymandering. In 2010, Republicans took control of a record number of state governments just in time for the every-10-years redrawing of congressional district maps; they, naturally, drew them in their own favor. Pennsylvania’s (still not-quite-final) congressional election results are sobering: 2,702,901 Pennsylvanians voted to send Democrats to the House, and 2,627,031 voted for Republicans; yet an astonishing 13 of 18 Pennsylvania U.S. House seats were won by Republicans. In other words, Democrats won 50.7 percent of the House vote in Pennsylvania, but just 27.7 percent of House seats. The way an increasingly Democratic state that has stopped swinging right in presidential elections continues to send an overwhelmingly Republican congressional delegation to Washington is through gerrymandering. It is a form of disenfranchisement. Look at one such cartographic monstrosity: Republican Rep. Patrick Meehan’s surreally contorted 7th District is one of the most gerrymandered in the country.This anti-democratic Republican advantage is now locked in for 10 long years. And it’s a nationwide phenomenon: Democrats appear to have won about 48.8 percent of the popular House vote, edging out Republicans by three-hundredths of a percentage point, the Washington Post reported. This stratagem is far from peculiar to Republicans. Democrats would have done the same. Decennial redistricting is when politicians choose their voters, and both parties seize the opportunity. Republicans, who also retained control of both chambers of the General Assembly in this election, gerrymandered state districts, too. This locks in Republican control of state government; it also installs a sort of metagerrymandering, whereby gerrymandered state districts make it more likely that Republicans will control the legislature again in 2020, when they can gerrymander House districts once more. This should be a scandal, like the winner of the presidential popular vote losing thanks to the electoral college. But election-reform issues, unfortunately, are boring — and political leaders aren’t taking the lead. Just because gerrymandering is the oldest game in American politics doesn’t mean we shouldn’t change the rules. ✚ Send feedback to daniel.denvir@citypaper.net.

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important details, like how voters would be notified as to whether their registrations were complete. Normally, the commissioners alert people who have submitted incomplete registrations by mail, giving them a chance to correct them; less than a week before the election, there was no time for that. Angela Lee, who registered voters for the Pennsylvania Public Interest Research Group, says, “A lot of the students we registered didn’t get their voter-registration card in time,” even though her group filed registrations directly with the City Commissioners on a daily basis. Schmidt, who has fielded most of the questions about the backlog, assured reporters that every properly filed registration was processed and printed in the poll books — either in the main book, printed two weeks before the election, or in a supplemental book printed on the Friday before the election. But Schmidt is relying on staff reports until the commissioners complete their own investigation. And while elections may or may not have been run “capably” — as a news report by the Inquirer stated in a bizarrely opinionated moment on Sunday — we can’t know before that investigation is complete. Assuming the registrations were processed, the delay caused by the backlog raises some possibilities: If we assume, as Schmidt has asserted, that some election officials didn’t know about or neglected to check the supplemental books — and if there were more names than usual in those books — that might have contributed to more provisional ballots being cast. But the explanation seems unlikely, or at least incomplete. Navarro, for example, took great offense at the implication that election judges were partly to blame: “I can only speak for [my] division, but they checked every page of both books and the names weren’t there.” Voter error: On the same day that Schmidt announced the number of provisional ballots that had been cast, he offered the Inquirer a few explanations, including the possibility that people had gone to the wrong polling places. One-third of all divisions in the city, he noted, had been moved since 2008. But this doesn’t explain why election watchdogs, as well as this paper, received dozens if not hundreds of reports of voters who confirmed their polling locations in the state’s database. And the fact that so many students, many voting for the first time, were forced to cast provisional ballots — 766 of 6,061 voters in eight divisions near Temple University, according to Lee — doesn’t lend much credence to this theory. If their polling places had moved since ’08, first-time voters wouldn’t know the difference. Mystery purge? None of the possibilities offered by the City Commissioners explains why residents who’ve voted for decades would have suddenly been removed from polling books, as Navarro and others report. Navarro suspects that some sort of “purge” occurred before the election. Asked if she knew if such a purge had occurred, City Commissioner Stephanie Singer said no. Glitches and hitches: There remains the possibility that discrepancies originated from a technological glitch, as Schmidt suggested to the Inquirer, on the part of the third-party company

that prints the poll books. It’s also possible the problem originated in the state’s database — not at the Commissioners office. But the latter theory is questionable: Voters and watchdogs that spoke with CP reported no cases in which the database was incorrect. There’s also the possibility that a move by the City Commissioners earlier this year to eliminate “voter slips” contributed to the high number of provisional ballots. The slips, a semi-formal alternative to provisional ballots that allowed people to vote on machines even if their names weren’t in the books, were identified by Schmidt, in a report earlier this year, as having possibly contributed to voting irregularities. So, whodunit? We just don’t know. And we might not for some time: Schmidt and

“The names weren’t there.” Singer have both promised to investigate. But the two are in the midst of a political feud since Schmidt organized Singer’s ouster as chair of the City Commissioners the day after the election, and the public can expect little cooperation between the two. If Commissioner Anthony Clark, who has never returned an email or phone call from City Paper, is preparing to play a pivotal role in the investigation, he has not so indicated. Watchdog groups, meanwhile, are watching — warily. “They need to make a dispassionate investigation and not prejudge the outcome,” says Ellen Kaplan of the Committee of Seventy. Marian Schneider, of the Advancement Project, was unsatisfied by Schmidt’s suggestions that the problems might be attributable largely to errors by voters and election boards. “I don’t agree with that,” says Schneider. “There’s plenty of blame to go around.” (isaiah.thompson@citypaper.net)

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Between the “environmental nuts,â€? the Mayor Bloombergs of the world (one day we’ll “have a fiveday waiting period to buy a Twinkieâ€?) and the Nov. 6 win for those in favor of “looting the rich,â€? Hudgins said, one thing is clear: “The American ethos is changing.â€? Too many people are “moral children ‌ addicted to government,â€? he said; or, as former Gov. Mitt Romney famously pointed out, 47 percent of us are moochers. Those seated in the well-appointed conference room of the Ivy League university presumably considered themselves to be among what Hudgins called the “few productive people who are left.â€? He told them that they shouldn’t have to justify themselves or feel bound, under any circumstances, to consider the greater good over their own. Temple University senior Mitchell Frizzell, for one, found Hudgins’ talk “refreshing.â€? He said his parents, who hauled themselves up from working-class beginnings, taught him that you have to help yourself to get ahead. He said he doesn’t see why the government should intervene. His fellow Temple Students for Liberty member Aleksandr Fisher agreed. And yet, he just might have been the only guy in the room who was happy with the presidential election results. Fisher, whose family immigrated from the former Soviet Union, said history shows us that collapse is what breeds reform: “I believe [Obama’s] economic policies will lead to total ruin. But it paves the way for liberty to emerge from the fire, from the ruins. That’s the only way I see anything changing.â€? —Samantha Melamed

✚ NO-FLY ZONE Over the past few weeks, word that City Council is looking to make changes to Philly’s brand-new zoning code has trickled down to civic associations around the city — and not all of them are pleased. One of the changes comes in the form of Council President Darrell Clarke’s Bill 120656, which would, in certain instances, increase builders’ requirements to provide parking if a building had two or more residential units and decrease the permitted density (that is, the number of units allowed on a given lot size). The community zoning advocates’ worries? That developers will shy away from their neighborhoods, that it’s too soon to tamper with the zoning code (now just a couple months old) and that the number of building proposals that have to go through the red tape of obtaining special zoning variances will go way up. “That people in civic associations are objecting should tell you something, because it would give us more power,� says David Goldfarb, who is the zoning chairman for East Passyunk Crossing Civic (but is only speaking for himself). “This is contrary to most of the city that’s already built, which is something that zoning should never be.� First District Councilman Mark Squilla acknowledges that he’s heard critiques of the

proposed legislation from zoning groups in Queen Village, Bella Vista, Northern Liberties, Fishtown and Pennsport (i.e., most of his district). For one, the Fishtown Neighbors Association wrote to City Council last Friday asking that the bill be killed. Jordan Rushie, of the group’s zoning committee, says the new zoning code had helped reduce the “overwhelming� number of zoning variances being sought in the neighborhood; he sees the bill as likely to reverse that trend and trigger issues along Frankford and Girard avenues. “This bill represents poor urban planning and a devotion to an autocentric environment that is not appropriate to an urban neighborhood like ours,� he adds. Inquirer architecture critic Inga Saffron suggested last

“Liberty will emerge from the ruins.� week that the legislation was meant to stanch the flood of student housing being built around Temple University, in Clarke’s district. But Squilla says he and Clarke have discussed possible amendments, which would relax but not eliminate the parking requirements. “We’re trying to find a happy compromise between the gist of the zoning-code reform and some of the communities who have concerns about lack of parking,� he says. However, he disagreed that meddling with the new zoning code so early in the process was problematic. “The administration already started the process during what they called the technical amendments. We knew all along once this happened that there would be changes to it as more and more people started understanding the impact of the new zoning code, and I predict even more changes would go in as we —S.M. move forward.�

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GET THE PARTY STARTED With small gains in the state Senate, Philly Democrats see big opportunities. By Samantha Melamed

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or the last couple years, being a Philadelphia Democrat in Harrisburg has been a rather disheartening proposition. Gov. Tom Corbett, it was well known, set the legislative agenda; the Republicans who controlled the House and Senate followed it. The landscape, after last week’s election, might not appear much changed: The GOP ceded no seats in the House, retaining 112 to the Democrats’ 91, and gave up just three Senate seats, meaning it now has a 27-23 advantage over Senate Democrats. However, Philly senators believe those three seats could mean a drastic transformation in tone for the next two years. “When we go to the table to negotiate, that gives us incredible leverage,� says Democratic Whip Sen. Anthony Williams, noting that certain votes require two-thirds approval in the Senate. “It’s a big deal, even though we’re not quite in the majority yet.� Sen. Larry Farnese sees the election — the gains for Democrats in the state Senate and their wins in statewide row offices — as a referendum on Corbett and the Republican legislature. “The people of Pennsylvania loudly said they no longer want to see the extreme, right-wing agenda,� he says. He’s hopeful that Corbett, himself up for re-election in two years, will heed the results as a call for moderation on social issues and painful budget cuts. “That really sets a tone for Democrats to be able to push back and get a lot of our own agenda passed,� Farnese says.

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And what, exactly, might that agenda entail? “There are things that we all agree on,� Williams says, “and jobs is at the top of that list.� He says that would include a more robust Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program, which provides matching funds for things like housing developments and supermarkets but has been scaled down since Corbett took office. Farnese mentions a renewal of (environmentally controversial) Delaware River dredging and progress on the massive, long-awaited Southport Marine Terminal. Sen. Shirley Kitchen says she’s looking at renewing programs like an Energy Coordinating Agency weatherization-training project that had lost funding, and helping more homeowners access basic-systems-repair loans. Sen. Mike Stack says he’s focused on long-overdue infrastructure funding, which would generate “hundreds of thousands of jobs.� And those are just the economic issues. Also on the table for this session, at least for Farnese: closing the “Florida loophole� on gun purchases, protecting women’s access to health care and clearing the way for same-sex civil unions. Whether these progressive efforts will advance is another question, given Republicans’ firm grip on the state House. “There are two ways this could go: It could go toward moderation or it could go toward gridlock,� Stack says. Still, he’s optimistic that GOP moderates, who were “rolled over� for the past two years, could regain their voice: “The one that’s going to have the hardest time is Gov. Corbett, because he’s going to be out there on the far right, and I think the Senate will move to the center.� As to the long-term impact of this election, the debate lingers. Williams sees a “Democrat trend line� of gains ahead. But John Kennedy, a political scientist at West Chester University, is dubious:

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“It’s very similar to when you look back to 1994 [when Republicans picked up many seats]. The Democrats dug a big hole for themselves in ’94, and it took them over a decade to get out of it. They got out of it and then, with one bad year in 2010, they’re back in a big hole.� It could be another epic climb. On the other hand, Kennedy says, the new outlook “puts a lot of pressure on a number of Republican senators who are going to be up for re-election in 2014,� including several in Philly’s suburbs. That’s because just a few Republicans stepping out of line could derail hotly debated legislation, like privatizing liquor sales or enacting schoolvoucher programs. However, the new state Senate district maps — now in the hands of the state Supreme Court — won’t likely help Democrats any. “Some of our seats that are strong Democratic seats right now could be crippled,� Farnese admits. “I’m optimistic about what’s going to happen in two years, but I realize that we could be in a position where we’re not only trying to gain some seats, but we will also be vigorously defending some seats.� (samantha@citypaper.net)

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REBEL SPIRITS ³ GIN IS NOT a spirit that inspires ambivalence.

Julia Child once said that she owed her longevity to a steady diet of gin and red meat, and W.C. Fields made a habit of never drinking anything stronger — at least, not before breakfast. Of course, there are those folks who feel that the juniper-scented spirit reeks of Pine-Sol. If you fall into that camp, it might be wise to stop reading now, since we’re about to introduce a gin that’s packed with all sorts of piney-wonderful aromatics. Pittsburgh-based Wigle Whiskey, a newcomer on the Pennsylvania craft-spirits scene, has just rolled out Wigle’s Ginever, a pre-Prohibition-style gin — or really jenever.Jenever is the juniper-scented Dutch precursor to gin, originally crafted, as so many spirits are, for medicinal purposes. For Wigle’s modern-day take on jenever, they swap out the traditional neutral vodka base for a triple-distilled blend of organic rye and malted barley, and then infuse it with a floral bouquet of juniper, lavender, cardamom and cubeb berries, peppery little fruits grown in Java and Sumatra. It’s a super-clean gin with a supple body richer than most, one that gin diehards would have no problem sipping on the rocks, taking in the palate of the bright botanicals. And it’s those botanicals that make a mean martini with just a quick rinse of vermouth and a twist. Which brings to mind another damned fine gin quote from Noel Coward: “A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.” So what’s with the Wigle name? Well, that’s a story that goes back to pre-Prohibition times, just like the Ginever recipe. According to local lore, Philip Wigle (or Vigol, depending on whom you talk to) was a distiller who ran into some trouble with the tax man and was sentenced to death by noose (hence Wigle’s rope logo). His passion for whiskey-making and his steadfast decision not to pay new taxes on his wares earned him a tragic spot as a hero in the George Washington-era Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania. In addition to the Ginever, Wigle’s also makes White Rye Whiskey, White Wheat Whiskey, Aged Whiskey, 95% Rye and DIY barrel-aging kits. If you find yourself in the Pittsburgh area, you can stop by the distillery for a tour and a tasting. Wigle Ginever will surely be making its way east sometime in the near future and will also soon be available online through the PLCB website, finewineandgoodspirits.com. (caroline@citypaper.net)

STACKED DECK: Apple Tree chevre, sweet almonds and pumpkin-seed oil top a round of roasted butternut squash. NEAL SANTOS

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ong before food geeks aged sauerkraut in bourbon barrels and tended kombucha cultures like pets, Jonathan Myerow trademarked fermentation as his buzzword. It’s been eight years since he founded “fermentation café” Tria, the three-matchsticks-sized wine, beer and cheese bars he runs with partner Michael McCaulley. It’s been probably half as long since I’d been to the Rittenhouse flagship. I found Tria much as I’d left it, cozy as a closet More on: full of winter coats, a tunnel of jostling conversation and tinkling logo-etched stemware. While I’d been away, it seemed no one else had, least of all Alfredo Lorenzo, who’s been in charge of the kitchen since day one. His realm is less a kitchen than a cubbyhole equipped with a miniature oven and panini press (alas, the smoked-mozzarella, cheddar and fontina grilled cheese was flabby and one-note). With such little room, chef Patrick Vacca preps much of the menu at Tria’s deep South Philly commissary. There he roasts butternut squash with maple and thyme and crafts naturally cased sausages with local lamb, for example, to be trucked up to Rittenhouse.

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³ IF YOU WANT to get hold of Arden Theatre’s

artistic director Terry Nolen this week, bug off. After welcoming musical actors like Jeff Coon (currently in the Walnut Street Theatre’s The Music Man) and Anne Frey (who now owns the booze boite 1 Tippling Place) back to the Arden for the theater’s 25th-anniversary concert, Nolen is off to Russia. Nothing too heavy, mind you: He’s just doing an Anton Pavlovich Chekhov project with the esteemed Trinity Repertory Company of Providence, R.I., and its artistic director Curt Columbus, a fluent Russian speaker who has translated Chekhov plays like The Seagull, Uncle Vanya and The Cherry Orchard into book form. Columbus is working on a new translation of Three Sisters with Nolen (with funding by the Pew grant folk) to be presented at the Arden next season.“We’ll cast folks a year and a half ahead of time, spend time workshopping it this summer — figure the exact style, bring in master teachers to work with us — and we’ll do it at as either a co-production with Trinity Rep or just use some of its members,” says Nolen. “We’re also mounting a parallel production for fall 2014 at Trinity.” Nolen’s got nine days in Russia, working with the treasured Moscow Art Theater staff and additional Chekhov experts. Do not ask him to bring you back nesting dolls. ³ If you haven’t run across my favorite local photo blogger — streetgazing.com’s Reuben “Big Rube” Harley — you ain’t walking. The big man captures round-the-way fashion for the Daily News on the regular. But on Nov. 16 he’s pulling out all stops for an exhibition of his photo work, “Lips & Heels,” at the free monthly After Dark event at Replica Creative (33 S. 18th St.). Go. There. ³ Oi, guvvner: Foodie/boozy eyes in Old City are focused on the one time Swanky Bubbles space on Front Street becoming a Brit-themed pub, The Victoria Freehouse, by early 2013. But don’t miss what’s happening on Chestnut near Second: Rumor has it that Triumph Brewery may be selling all or part of its operation. According to one recently-let-loose lass,Triumph’s new management has been dismissing workers in anticipation of changes. Or maybe they’re just pissed that Obama won the election and are fearful for the nest eggs. With Triumph’s neighbor Reserve Steakhouse having just bit the dust, that’ll be one barren block if the rumor holds true. ³ News to use for area ukulele enthusiasts: Not only has The Donuts’ offshoot Philadelphia Ukulele Orchestra lost its local handle (they’re just Ukulele Orchestra now), it’s gained a new member: Beretta 76 guitarist/studio operator Pete Rydberg picked up a uke while producing the orchestra’s debut album. Cheers. ³ All let-loose lasses are invited to citypaper.net/criticalmass. (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)

MY AIM IS TRUE: Kyle Simmons is readying three more EPs for self-release by year’s end. MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG

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BOOG VARIATIONS The insanely prolific Philly singer-songwriter just can’t stop. By Michael Alan Goldberg

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yle Simmons, who records and performs solo under the name boog, sings like he’s really seen some shit. Like he’s ridden the rails, been to the depths. Like he’s a scarred veteran of the emotional wars, a man who’s at home only on the rippedvinyl upholstery of the back booth of some grim dive, taking stock of decades gone with clenched-jaw regret unsoothed by bottomless whiskey and smokes slowly choking him to death. His is an unruly, off-kilter baritone. Oddly accented, it delivers strange phrasings and enunciations as it veers from low, skulking growl to bugged-out bellow or gasp. This kind of voice can’t be easy to corral, or even to believe in. Seems like it’d take a singer ages to muster the confidence to offer it up to the listening public. Which makes it all the harder to fathom that Simmons is only 22. “Yeah, I’ve gotten the ‘old soul’ thing for a while now,” he says with an easygoing drawl. “I do kinda feel like I’ve been in the world forever, been through some stuff. It gets to you sometimes. Sometimes it’s really hard to relate to the people around you. Everyone’s, like, ‘You’re so young, you’re 21, 22, whatever — just be that. But I can’t be that, and if I was just that, I probably wouldn’t be doing this.” On a frigid Saturday evening, Simmons ducks into the lobby of

Temple’s “1300” dorm building. He’s friendly, fresh-faced, smartly attired, quick to smile, not sullen or morose. It’s difficult to reconcile this guy and that demented-sounding voice (the disparity’s not Rick Astley-weird, but close). Still, there’s an ache below the surface. 1300’s a meaningful place for him — it’s where, four years ago, things started to fall apart and come together all at the same time. Things went south not long after Simmons enrolled at Temple in 2008 as a Greek and Roman classics major. A selfdescribed “floater” and lone wolf from Pottstown, Simmons felt alienated from his peers, miserable, insecure, desperate to hide out and find refuge in his songwriting. “I used to play the guitar in the elevator on Friday nights when everyone else went out,” he recalls. “I just wanted to be left alone, do my own thing.” Still, if he had a hard time connecting with people, at 18 he was already a remarkably prolific musician. He’d recorded six albums on his own and had dozens more songs in varying stages of completion. And he wasn’t exactly a recluse: Since age 13 he’d been a regular on the open-mic circuit in the ’burbs — at Steel City Coffeehouse in Phoenixville, Burlap and Bean in Newtown Square, MilkBoy in Ardmore — honing that “weird bastard child of a voice,” as Simmons puts it, shaped from years of singing along to Tom Waits, Nick Cave and Elvis Costello. He played his first Philly show as boog (a nickname given to him at birth by his father) at

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With a spaciousness and sophistication recalling fellow 2011 breakout producer Nicolas Jaar, Andy Stott’s Luxury Problems (Modern Love) would make a fine coffee-table soundtrack. But its grayscale expanse also invites deeper, not-so-easy listening, evoking a burntout, post-industrial landscape with slabs of foreboding, low-BPM house, torpid dub techno, ambient field recordings and a stray drum ’n’ bass detour. The chill is tempered, just slightly, by the vocal presence of Alison Skidmore (Stott’s former piano teacher), ranging from sultry to airily operatic, and from forlorn solitude to thrumming, Julianna Barwick-like layering. —K. Ross Hoffman

As Stephen Wade explains in the 44page booklet accompanying his new Banjo Diary (Smithsonian Folkways), this is a fond remembrance of his teachers and their teachers and others along the way who helped form the subtitle, Lessons from Tradition. Mike Craver, playwright and former pianist with the Red Clay Ramblers, adds a theatrical touch to pieces like “Alabama Jubilee/Down Yonder” and “Cotton Eyed Joe,” even some pump organ to set a properly somber mood on a few, including “Home Sweet Home.” —Mary Armstrong

³ soul/funk/brazilian With Nobody Can Live Forever: The Existential Soul of Tim Maia, Luaka Bop Records pays tribute to a Brazilian icon who was

his country’s answer to Sly Stone in more ways than one. (Well, with acid instead of cocaine.) Culled from his extensive 1970s output but leaning heavily on the two-volume Racional — cult albums in a very literal sense, recorded while Maia was deep into the Rational Culture sect — this comp is bursting with Tropicalia-infused soul and searing organ-led funk, sung (in both English and Portuguese) with varying —K. Ross Hoffman degrees of coherence but infectious sincerity.

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guitars and shouty choruses, it’s at least a jolt of caffeinated powerpunk. They play Johnny Brenda’s on Sunday (Nov. 18, johnnybren—Patrick Rapa das.com).

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had best not look too closely at how they are made. But Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner’s Lincoln pays no heed to the old saw, devoting the bulk of its brisk two-anda-half hours to the machinations behind the passage of the constitutional amendment outlawing slavery. Daniel Day-Lewis’ Great Emancipator is not a stentorian orator but a sly, self-amusing raconteur, an expert horse trader who doles out patronage jobs in exchange for congressional yeas: in short, a politician. Opening with a black soldier (David Oyelowo) reciting the Gettysburg Address, the movie weaves sometimes unsteadily between myth and man. Kushner’s characterization is drawn in part from Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Team of Rivals, but owes as much to the Oval Office’s current occupant, another Illinois lawyer who has pursued grand aims and settled for incomplete victories. The role of disillusioned liberal goes to Tommy Lee Jones’ Thaddeus Stevens, who believes that the end of slavery should be accompanied by black suffrage. Forced to mollify his party’s ideological purists while dragging dissenters across the aisle, Lincoln employs every means at his disposal, including some that tarnish his copper-bright image. Lincoln’s suspension of habeas corpus rates only fleeting mention, but he does engage in some lawyerly word-splitting to hide the fact that a Confederate delegation is already heading north to negotiate the South’s surrender. As always, Spielberg has a tendency to underline twice when once would do, but Day-Lewis runs with the movie’s pedantic bent, enhancing one argument with a Euclidean theorem. The painstaking detail that goes into tracking the amendment’s path toward approval is at its core an impassioned defense of representative democracy, with all its flaws intact. It’s like the most eloquent episode of Schoolhouse Rock ever made. —Sam Adams

³ MAYBE TRAVELLING in the passenger seat of a car on a bright day, you squeeze your eyes shut against the glare of a persistent sunbeam. Behind your eyelids, fiery spaces flare — green, gold or magenta reactions to the very thing you are trying to shut out. Your brain tries to map this non-stimulus into a space — but where are you, really? In “This is Elsewhere” at Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia painter Jackie Tileston presents a compelling suite of canvases that hover in the space between landscape and abstraction. Veering between delicate shimmer, razor precision, gestural brushstrokes and photo transfer, the paintings work because of Tileston’s ability to forge extreme tension between disparate elements and marks in each work. The paintings feature atmospheric, iridescent backgrounds with blooming clouds of dry pigment, defining a strange tableau in which, as the artist wrote for a previous exhibition, “the real, imaginary, and symbolic form a hybrid space.” These colors, shimmering and lush, evoke Redon’s turn-of-the-century paintings and pastels, or JMW Turner’s seascapes as much as the Monet field paintings that she points to as an influence on this body of work. The paintings do read as opulent — yet it’s clear that the painter is after something more. Against the lush backgrounds, flat graphic or gestural applications of enamel invoke mandala, and halfrevealed photo transfers reflect the carousel of places Tileston’s lived. Her paintings seize many spaces, both cultural and visual, and force them together within the picture plane. For example, in Indeterminate Navigation Space (above), a deliberately incongruous jagged rainbow meanders across a blue, green and gold supernova. Its hard edges and angles flatten the image, but when it’s broken by an iridescent spill of blue

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Lickety Split on South Street the night before his freshman move-in day at Temple. A few gigs at M Room, Danger Danger and Kung Fu Necktie followed. But even artistically, Simmons had a hard time fitting in — he was too much of a “guy with acoustic guitar” to play indierock bills, too weird to play milquetoast singersongwritery bills. “I was kind of the black sheep of the Philadelphia folk scene,” he says. “People told me I was doing things all wrong, and I felt like everyone was knitting together to recycle the same ideas and spew out the same thing and I had more to offer than that. I was pretty sour grapes about it for a little bit.” But he pushed on. Studies took a backseat to days and nights spent walking all over the city, observing people, scribbling lyrics in his notebook, creating mythologies and merging them with his own troubled times and relationships, then coming back to 1300 to add melodies to his emerging first-person narratives. “That’s always what’s made me the happiest,” he says. He’s still hyper-aware of his surroundings and the people who flit in and out of them. As we head out of the building to take a walk around campus, a pretty girl with Doc Martens and a Black Flag four-bar tattoo on her hand approaches Simmons and asks for a light. As she struggles to strike a match in the wind, Simmons eyes her not with lust, but in a way that suggests she’ll end up in one of his songs someday. After three difficult semesters at Temple and in the local music scene, Simmons finally quit school, and the city, at the end of 2009. He moved back in with his parents, got a warehouse job, focused all his energies on boog, only rarely played Philly for a couple of years. “I totally retreated,” he says. “I had to figure out who I was and feel better about what I was doing, because this is my calling.” Several more albums and EPs quickly tumbled out. Most, like last year’s excellent self-titled LP, were just his voice and an aggressively strummed guitar. This year’s Regency EP is an anomaly — a reverby, rough-and-tumble electric/bass/drums affair. He’s readying three more EPs for self-release by year’s end; one of them’s entirely a cappella. His compositions are invariably intense; sometimes as angry as a swatted hornet, other times as pained as a bird with a broken wing. Inside his story-songs, lovers leave, dreams are deferred, promises go unfulfilled, guilt and spite are persistent companions. Sometimes the imagery’s fanciful: “I won’t just weave the rugs on which you walk/ I would dye the fabric myself with all the blood-colored flowers I can find.” Other times, reality intrudes: “I’m soaked to the socks/ I punch a broken clock/ Check stock and break down boxes/ Character, character, I have that in spades.” This year, the struggle finally seems to be paying off. Simmons pulled off a well-received twomonth national tour of tiny venues at the end of the summer on a shoestring budget — he didn’t go broke until one of the final dates, in New

Orleans, and fans there bought enough of his CDs to pay for the gas to get home. Along the way he did a Daytrotter session, too, which has already helped raise his profile. Simmons thought about moving to Chicago or Seattle and starting over. But he’s feeling better about life here. He wants to connect with Philly again. “I love this area,” he insists. “The city was really pivotal for the things I wrote. A lot came out of here and shaped my perspective, even when it was really hard. I’ve been through a lot for the little sliver of something that I have, and I want to fight for more.” Simmons may feel like an old soul, but he’s really still a young’n, and the future looks bright. (editorial@citypaper.net) ✚ Boog plays Sat., Nov. 17, 9:30 p.m.,

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✚ MATTHEW DEAR Emerging inconclusively from the grime and sleaze of 2010’s nightmarish Black City, Matthew Dear blazes a funny kind of light on the brand new Beams (Ghostly International), circling back to the elliptically alluring avant-pop of 2007’s Asa Breed while sinking ever deeper into mechanistic murk and terse, Talking Heads-y art-funk. The onetime microhouse poster boy’s fifth full-length opens in aberrantly sunny fashion: a burbling pseudo-tropical groove, complete with samba whistles. But just as you’re thinking he could probably give this a few tweaks, sell it to Rihanna or somebody and retire early, in comes that ineffable, deadeyed monotone — Dear’s distinctive double-tracked creepy crooning — intoning characteristically inscrutable-yet-unsettling couplets, as if to assert that he will hardly be relinquishing it anytime soon. —K. Ross Hoffman Fri., Nov. 16, 9 p.m., $10-$15, with Light Asylum, Voyeur, 1221 St. James St., 215735-5772, igetrvng.com.

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X-Acto knife dissections of contemporaryart periodical Artforum. paint, we’re back in the depths again. In Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions,delicate red and white enameled patterns emerge from a roiling tumult of gold, blue and white, somehow both holding their own against and defining the chaos of the rest of the canvas. It might be tempting to lump Tileston’s work together with Matthew Ritchie’s Particle Gardens, Franz Ackermann’s Mental Maps, Ati Maier’s airbrushed roller-coaster cosmologies or Roberto Matta’s Inscapes, but Tileston reserves an ethereal, tightly reined chaos in these works that is purely her own. Considering these works is like walking into a painterly badlands, with one part of each painting’s surface remaining visually suspended (either via the use of shapes with sharply defined edges or different materials like enamel) while everything around it crumbles into chaos. While not exactly landscape, Tileston’s work undeniably has a spatial, topographic element, and Christine Pfister, who runs Pentimenti, has cleverly paired it with a sister show — “Unsolicited,” Francesca Pastine’s X-Acto dissections of contemporary-art periodical Artforum. Artforum, if you’re not familiar, is kind of like the art-world Vogue, in that its editorial pages of writing and photo spreads are at least matched in number by tons of gorgeous, luxe-y advertisements in brilliant colors. Pastine’s “excavations” take advantage of the magazine’s square format and high-production-value colors: She fans out pages beyond the glossy’s border and razors away some colored layers of pages to reveal others underneath. The thick, cut-paper layers, stacked into topographic masses, are a clear complement to Tileston’s paintings. Pastine’s cutaways interact with the magazines’ cover images, which the artist considers a “unsolicited collaboration” between herself, the magazine and the artist featured on the cover. Unlike the found-book interventions of Ishmael Randall Weeks, these works don’t feel like a meditation on geography, architecture, colonization or political space. Rather, Pastine’s altered magazines feel like a fun diorama/valentine to the art world — an externally localized topographic fun-fair that pairs well with Tileston’s introverted universes. (alison.dell@citypaper.net) ✚ Through Dec. 15, Jackie Tileston, This is Elsewhere and Francesca Pastine, Unsolicited, Pentimenti Gallery, 145 N. Second St., 215-625-9990, pentimenti.com.

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A COMPULSIVE LIAR ³ SOMETIMES THE LOW road is best.

The folks at Lantern Theater have turned their attention to 16thcentury master playwright Pierre Corneille, whose verse tragedies (especially the epic Le Cid) are monuments of the classical French repertoire. But Lantern has chosen one of his comedies, in a freewheeling adaptation by American David Ives. From the opening moment of Le Menteur (literally translated here as The Liar), as doleful servant Cliton (brilliantly played by Dave Johnson) admonishes, in a perfect couplet, a lady in the audience to stop eating her bean burrito, you know the evening will be anything but highfalutin. I suppose there are a few overserious blowhards who will sneer at Ives’ version, which retains Corneille’s plot and period setting, emphasizes comic ribaldry and tonally is sometimes about as Corneille as Kansas in August (sorry). But for most of us, The Liar — executed at Lantern with maximum joie de vivre — is an evening of joyful bliss. The play’s plot can’t exactly be summarized. (1. I still can’t figure it all out; 2. It doesn’t matter; and 3. It’s better as a delightful surprise.) I’ll just say that Dorante is a swashbuckling ladies’ man who simply can’t tell the truth. About anything. Courting two beautiful Parisian women — Clarice and Lucrece — he confuses the two and manages to embroil himself in a series of impossible situations. (All of this under the disapproving-yet-admiring eye of Cliton, the aforementioned servant.) Also in on the spectacle are Geronte, Dorante’s dullard father; Alcippe, a dashingly fatuous

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rival for the ladies; and not one, but two saucy maids — twins. So there are good comic bones, but the reason it all works so well here starts with Ives’ adaptation. The playwright has the extraordinary ability to be both uptown and downtown. He quotes Shakespeare, then seconds later is firmly immersed in contemporary colloquialisms. He can pun in Franglais (“Champs-Élysées, my friend, lies that-a-way/ Unless the Louvre has mouvred since yesterday”). And, best of all, he manages to make almost everything sound risqué — wait till you hear Dorante mention the Pont Neuf; of course, it’s a bridge spanning the Seine, but in the mouth of actor Aubie Merrylees, it sounds exceedingly raunchy. Which leads us to the other winning element here: the acting. Some of Lantern’s biggest past successes have involved putting comic actors into classic plays, and The Liar is a triumph in that mold. Start with Merrylees — the young actor has given fine performances before, but here is a breakout star. He has absolutely everything going for him — a sweetly funny face that looks

simultaneously scheming and bemused, great physical dexterity and a funky vocal delivery that manages to sneer at almost everything while remaining utterly lovable. Dave Johnson has the perfect hangdog manner for the beleaguered Cliton and Jake Blouch as Alcippe manages to be silly and dashing at the same time. The women’s roles aren’t as richly written, but Emily Rogge is a snarky delight as both maids and Sarah Gliko and Emilie Krause do well with Clarice and Lucrece, and all this comes together under Kathryn MacMillan’s skillful direction. Two small caveats: Funny as the show is, two-and-a-half hours is long, and I wish the physical production had a bit more of the comic verve we see in the acting. (I had hoped something zany and magical would happen with the imposing chateau at the rear of the set, but it provides only a handsome backdrop.) But these are minor quibbles. The Liar is an absolutely delightful evening. The low road, maybe — a good time, absolutely. (d_fox@citypaper.net) ✚ Through Dec. 2, $30-$38, St. Stephen’s Theater, 19

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BROOKLYN CASTLE|AWhile this inspiring documentary about a New York City middle school of chess champions emphasizes the need for and benefits of after-school programs, it’s the five immensely likable kids the film focuses on that make the case. Rochelle, 13, is the queen — the highest-ranking player in the school who aspires to become the first female African-American master. Pobo, 12, is the leader and politician, uniting the team in matches and against budget cuts. Alexis, 12, hopes to use chess to fulfill his immigrant parents’ hopes for a better life for him. Patrick, an 11-yearold newcomer, struggles with ADHD when trying to stay several steps ahead of the game. And the talented young Justus, 11 — who has since become the youngest AfricanAmerican chess master ever — is already grappling with the heartbreak of a loss. Brooklyn Castle allows viewers to watch these students struggle not just at their sport, but with life — the life-changing battery of tests that determine whether a student qualifies to attend one of the city’s competitive specialized high schools is just as compelling (and nerve-wracking) as the tense, high-stakes tournaments. This emotionally rousing film is a real crowd-pleaser. Checkmate. —Gary M. Kramer (Ritz at the Bourse)

LINCOLN|B+ Read Sam Adams’ review on p. 29. (Ritz Five, UA Grant) A ROYAL AFFAIR|B+ A Royal Affair’s compelling writing and fine actors help set this based-on-a-true-story romantic period piece apart from its contemporaries. Queen Caroline of Denmark (Alicia Vikander) is married to the mentally ill King Christian

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VII (Mikkel Følsgaard), who has a penchant for acting. She falls in love with her physician (Mads Mikkelsen) and the two plot to start a revolution by persuading the king to approach his leadership as he would a part in a play, having him memorize the speeches they write. Naturally, the affair is revealed, and their brief romance starts to unravel. Unlike recent royal-court dramas Young Victoria and The Other Boleyn Girl, A Royal Affair doesn’t rely too much on ostentatious camerawork and overly dramatic writing. Instead, director Nikolaj Arcel focuses on story and characters, garnering a true and deserved empathy for its players — especially Følsgaard’s enigmatic king, whose utter madness and disregard of reality don’t come across as exaggerated, but pathetic and innocent. It’s because of these nuanced performances and the film’s thoughtful writing that it manages to thrive despite an ending that starts to wear out its welcome. —Catherine Haas (Ritz Five)

SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK|B Based on a novel by local author Matthew Quick, the locally shot Silver Linings Playbook mixes the style of David O. Russell’s The Fighter with the antic performance style of I Heart Huckabees, a combination designed to leave viewers as crazed as Bradley Cooper’s unhinged lead. On provisional release from a mental hospital after administering a beatdown to his estranged wife’s lover, Cooper moves back with his mother (Jacki Weaver) and father (Robert De Niro), the latter a fanatical Eagles fan with the bookmaker’s debt to prove it. Cooper’s jittery mannerisms quickly wear thin, but he’s balanced by a policeman’s widow (Jennifer Lawrence) whose no-nonsense bluntness brings him back to Earth. The movie settles into a well-worn rut once the two start training for a ballroom-dance contest, cruising toward a resolution it never earns, but it tries so hard to please it almost can’t help

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THE FLAT|BThe 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. The doc is held up by subtle moments like these, but even the strongest points get lost among tedious family anec-

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. His research exposes a police force that places drug-busting 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. —Christian Graham (Ritz at the Bourse)

THE MAN WITH THE IRON FISTS|B No one doubts RZA’s encyclopedic passion for chop-socky cinema, but the Wu-Tang mastermind’s obsession doesn’t fully translate in his sincere, silly and sloppy directorial debut. The artist serves as narrator and star, a metal worker driven to feudal China via a Blaxploitation-style freed-slave storyline. Building weapons for

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Also directing, Ben Affleck takes the lead as a CIA ex-filtration expert whose job is to smuggle a half-dozen American embassy workers out of locked-down Tehran in 1979, a largely unknown offshoot of the contemporary hostage crisis. The plan is for Affleck to enter the country as the second-rung producer of a Hollywood sci-fi movie looking to shoot in Iran, a ruse that involves generating ample publicity for the bogus production. There are soft in-jokes about the parallel

but these ideas are sadly underexamined. —GMK (Ritz Five)

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Shown in competition at Cannes in 1971, Ted Kotcheff’s journey into the Australian outback’s heart of darkness was a flop on its initial release and nearly disappeared altogether, restored only when a print marked for destruction was discovered in a Pittsburgh warehouse. It’s ironically fitting that Wake in Fright went through hell, since the film submits schoolteacher John Grant (Gary Bond) to his own No Exit, trapping him in a remote city populated with almost exclusively male inhabitants who enjoy drink, violence and little else. Bundanyabba (or “The Yabba,” as it’s known to the natives) is meant to be a pit stop on Bond’s trip to the big city, but when he ill-advisedly bets his bankroll in an attempt to free himself from the “bonded slave[ry] of the education department,” he ends up skint, face-down and naked on his hotel bed as if he’s been violated. Over the course of several days — although it might be years — he spirals downward on a tide of cheap lager, circling the drain with an alcoholic doctor (Donald Pleasance), whose addiction barely rates notice in the Yabba. Although the film brings to mind Straw Dogs and Deliverance, the mood is closer to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre with a touch of Buñuel’s Exterminating Angel — a surreal horror in which the only devils are the kangaroos whose eyes flash red in the headlights before they’re run over for sport. Many reissues claim the mantle of lost masterpiece, but Wake in Fright is the genuine article. —SA (Ritz at the Bourse)

When classical musician Peter (Christopher Walken) struggles with the onset of Parkinson’s, the other members of his quartet must re-evaluate their lives and careers. For second violinist Robert (Philip Seymour 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). 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. The film is all about betrayal

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FLIGHT|C+ Even juiced to the gills, Denzel Washington is still a hotshot flyer, as becomes clear when he hits a massive storm and goes into a nosedive. By turning the plane upside-down, he’s able to check his speed and save most of the passengers’ lives, but the ensuing investigation and media attempts to crown him a hero threaten to expose his addiction. Director Robert Zemeckis doesn’t seem fully engaged with the story, however, and it eventually degenerates into a 12-step recovery brochure. —SA ( Pearl, UA 69th Street, UA Grant)

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various death squads and slowly saving shillings to flee with his lady (Jamie Chung), the Blacksmith is soon wrapped up in a multi-clan struggle over a haul of government gold, with preposterous characters complicating the proceedings. RZA can’t seem to settle on a pugilistic identity for Fists, resulting in action that’s often more disjointed than exhilarating. While there’s plenty of campy gore to satisfy that set of appetites, many sequences feature a flat mix of fancy FX work with herky-jerk editing paying homage to the Shaw Brothers era. It doesn’t have to be one or the other, but an experienced director would’ve braided these disparate styles more skillfully. —Drew Lazor (Pearl, UA 69th Street, UA Grant)

aspirations are put on hold when he discovers he was switched at birth with Palestinian Yacine Al Bezaaz (Mehdi Dehbi). Suddenly, the teens are forced to come to terms with the heritage to which they feel they truly belong. The film’s elegant cinematography and earnest performances can’t quite make up for a script that offers little more than a provocative “what if ” scenario. Perhaps this was Levy’s intention — diluting, even trivializing, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to emphasize the needless trials placed on intercultural relations. Unfortunately, few trials actually materialize in the story, and even the film’s climax dissolves without much consequence. —CG (Ritz at the Bourse)

(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. 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 co-workers. —DL (Pearl, Tuttleman IMAX, UA 69th Street, UA Grant)

THE OTHER SON|BLorraine Levy’s The Other Son opens with Joseph Silberg (Jules Sitruk), an Israeli student whose rock-star

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The reclusive frontman of a defunct band now married to a plucky firefighter (Frances McDormand),

Cheyenne (Sean Penn, dressing like a left-out-in-the-sun Robert Smith) 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 spoken in decades. It’s easy to lump Paolo Sorrentino’s film 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 bitcharacter soliloquies mirrors our own open ingestion of the material. —DL (Ritz at the Bourse)

WRECK-IT RALPH|B “Smooth and unsurprising” about covers Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph as a whole, which is far more engaging in its small details than its broad strokes. But Ralph (voiced by John C. Reilly) is

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COLONIAL THEATRE 227 Bridge St., Phoenixville, 610917-1228, thecolonialtheatre.com. White Fang (1991, U.S., 107 min.): A young Ethan Hawke stars as a gold hunter who rescues a mistreated wolf-dog. Sat., Nov. 17, 2 p.m., $8. Young Frankenstein (1974, U.S., 106 min.): A hilarious and earnest spoof of classic horror films by comedic auteur Mel Brooks. Sun., Nov. 18, 2 p.m., $8. Death Rides a Horse (1967, Italy, 114 min.): A man seeks revenge on the robbers who murdered his family. Fri., Nov. 16, 9:45 p.m., $8. Beats, a Tribe Called Quest (2011, U.S., 97

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min.): This doc offers an up-close-andpersonal look at the innovative hiphop group. Sun., Nov. 18, 4:30 p.m., $8.

ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE such a lovable lug, if one whose bouts of ill temper have unusually destructive consequences, that his bid for acceptance lacks depth; it only requires others to change, not him. He’s a sad sack, not a misunderstood monster. Like Brave, the movie rings a few welcome changes on the Disney-princess mythos, but it still feels like a game you’ve played before. —SA (Pearl, UA 69th Street, UA Grant)

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org. The World Is a Ballet (2006, Burkina Faso, 90 min.): After her husband dies on their honeymoon, a singer is driven insane with the suspicion her groom is still alive. Director Issa Traoré de Brahima will speak after the screening. Thu., Nov. 15, 6 p.m., $8.

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REPERTORY FILM AMBLER THEATER 108 E. Butler Ave., Ambler, 215-3457855, amblertheater.org. Film 101: Inside the Coen Brothers’ Miller’s Crossing : Longtime City Paper film critic Sam Adams leads a discussion on the Coen Brothers’ Prohibition portrait of scrapping mobs in the Windy City. Thu., Nov. 15, 7:30 p.m., $9.75.

Gibble Auditorium, Esbenshade Hall, 1 Alpha Drive, Elizabethtown, 717-361-1000, etown.edu. Smoke Signals (1998, U.S., 89 min.): A young American Indian takes a road trip to retrieve the ashes of the man who once saved him from a fire. Mon., Nov. 19, 7 p.m., free.

INTERNATIONAL HOUSE 3701 Chestnut St., 215-387-5125, ihousephilly.org. This double feature includes I Hate To Lose (1977, Canada, 57 min.), a doc recounting Quebec’s 1976 election, and Persistent and Finagling (1971, Canada, 57 min.), which follows a group of Montreal women working to raise airpollution awareness. Thu., Nov. 15, 7 p.m., $9. Stranger Than Paradise (1984, U.S., 89 min.): Jim Jarmusch’s sparse black-and-white flick about a young New Yorker who’s paid a surprise visit by his Hungarian cousin. Sat., Nov. 17, 7 p.m., $9.

THE BALCONY 1003 Arch St., 215-922-6888, thetroc. com. The Goonies (1985, U.S., 114 min.): After finding a mysterious treasure map, a crew of misfits sets out on an adventure. Mon., Nov. 19, 8 p.m., $3.

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—A.D. Amorosi Thu., Nov. 15, free before 11 p.m., Rumor, 1500 Sansom St., 215-9880777, rumorphilly.com.

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✚ DAN DEACON Baltimore experimentalist/ performance art puppet-master/beardo kewpie Dan Deacon has a rep as the king of the electronic candy store, spinning all manner of sugar-synthesized pop treats into crazy-dance-

able shout-along anthems. America (Domino), Deacon’s latest, changes the script a bit, probing the insane contradictions inherent in these United States. While more serious in subject (it was inspired by Deacon’s 2007 European tour and undeniable sense of his own American-ness), the album is rife, as always, with throbbing beats, spiraling samples and stroboscopic melodies. From the swelling ebullience of “True Thrush” to the more ruminative swaths of “USA,” a meditation in four pulsing movements, the stuff America is made of will make you think and make you move, possibly at the same time. —Brian Howard

produce a mini-festival of a playwright’s work. Fevre Dreams’ recent Beyond Therapy, Temple University’s The Marriage of Bette and Boo, and New City Stage Company’s upcoming Bob Cratchit constitute a nifty Christopher Durang celebration. The best script is the Obiewinning Bette and Boo, a sweetly demented comedy about two kids in love tested by their dysfunctional families. Barrymore Award winner Dan Kern leads a Temple cast featuring local professional-actors-turnedgrad-students Leah Walton, Julie Czarnecki and Charlie DelMarcelle, talents that make this revival a must-see. —Mark Cofta

Thu., Nov. 15, 8:30 p.m., $13-$15, with Height With Friends, Chester Endersby Gwazda and Alan Resnick, Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St., 215232-2100, utphilly.com.

Through Dec. 1, $20, Randall Theater, Temple University, 1301 W. Norris St., 215-204-1122, templetheaters. ticketleap.com.

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berg Center’s Dance Celebration, Randy Swartz is known for heaping compliments on the acts he brings in. But Swartz is extra effusive when talking about Spellbound Dance Company. “They’re absolutely magnificent. Exceptional,” he says of the Italian troupe, now making its first tour of North America. “A wonderful crossover between contemporary dance and ballet. They’re sleek, they’re fantastic looking, refreshing, and yet you can see all the beauty and musicality of classical ballet,” he continues. Spellbound’s artistic director, Mauro Astolfi, is having a bit of a Philly moment — BalletX presented a new work by him last week, and with this run we get to see two more of his rich and expressive pieces, this time performed by his own formidable company. —Deni Kasrel Thu.-Sat., Nov. 15-17, $20-$55, Annenberg Center, 3680 Walnut St., 215-898-3900, pennpresents.org.

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✚ METZ Like Philly’s unstoppable Pissed Jeans, Toronto threepiece Metz is a Sub Pop-inked, sludgy landmine of a band that specializes in taking the unholy menace of The Jesus Lizard and the reckless abandon of the Stooges and running through scuzz-covered walls of noise with them. There’s an exhilarating brutality in the way Metz terrorizes its own instruments, and in howler-inchief Alex Edkins’ gleeful annihilation of his own larynx, but there’s also room for the tinkle of piano keys here and the shake of a tambourine there, and — in the end — hooks, however misanthropic and bludgeoned. This show won’t

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Long before there was laptopping or up-mashing, there was Robbie Tronco spinning Messina Hall teen dances in South Philly with two turntables and a cheap mixer. He diced and sliced slabs of house, new wave and disco with the precision of

a brain surgeon. He added big beats to any music — country hucklebucks, swing numbers, Mummers cuts — and made them into magical mixes. He went from down south to up north, spun at Revival and Shampoo and mixed for FM dance stations without quite becoming a brand name. Now, for his 50th birthday, local spinners Nigel Richards and Eddie Tully stage a tribute party with Tronco as guest and DJ. I hate the club he’s playing, but I love the guy. Be there.

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with his tender voice and bittersweet emotions. Prophet (Barsuk), the band’s recently released second album, is dramatic and sonically ambitious — a place where church-lobby piano, forlorn Hammondorgan buzz and chamber orchestra delicacy give way

Once the workshop of the world, Philadelphia’s main manufacturing these days involves turning factories and warehouses into luxury lofts. Bucking this nationwide trend of industrial decline, the people behind The Head & The Hand Press saw an opportunity for a locally based publishing house where writers are treated as artisans, while their books are given respect as handcrafted treasures. “We’ve seen a movement where people want to be connected to not just what they buy, but who they buy from,” says founder Nic Esposito. tying his project to Philadelphia’s past with a Kickstarter-funded writers workshop on Frankford Avenue. The Head & The Hand Press will celebrate its launch this Friday with a night of storytelling and music. —Andrew Wimer

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to distorted electronics and Jonny Greenwood-style guitar freakouts. Brought to the stage, Knopf ’s proven himself a more-than-able conductor devoted to re-creating the intricacies without sucking out the feeling and soul. —Michael Alan Goldberg Sat., Nov. 17, 9 p.m., $14, with Helio Sequence and Hurray for Earth, Underground Arts at the Wolf Building, 340 N. 12th St., undergroundarts.org.

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✚ LIVE CINEMA: MANON DE BOER It’s sheer coincidence that the Art Museum’s new “Live Cinema” exhibition opens mere weeks after the death of Sylvia Kristel from throat and lung cancer. But that fact lends an especial poignancy to the images of the still-striking Emmanuelle actress silently smoking that frame director Manon de Boer’s Super-8 portrait, Sylvia Kristel — Paris. Boer’s camera roams the streets of Paris while Kristel, off-camera, twice recounts her history in the city, a distinctly 1970s saga of affairs with producers and co-stars. The film is one-third of a trilogy with two other cinematic landscapes-asportraits that pair disembodied narrators with a floating sense of place. Resonating Surfaces features psychoanalyst Suely Rolnik recounting her relationships with Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari and the influence of her move from Brazil to Paris; and Think About Wood, Think About Metal glides over close-ups of an array of instruments as percussionist Robyn Schulkowsky discusses her challenges as a female avant-

Starting her professional life as a video director for the explosive Lil B gave San Francisco MC Kreayshawn a feel for what a comic-book persona could do for a wackpop hip-hop career. So she made a few mixtapes, recorded one massive dippy summer hit (“Gucci Gucci”) and, by September 2012, dropped Somethin ’Bout Kreay (Sony), her debut full-length. The self-described leader of the “White Girl Mob” goes about the business of smoking weed, cutting off cocks and burning down houses (the last attack tastelessly referencing Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, but tasteless is the point) with deep grooves, quirky electro and indecently catchy melodies as her guide. Somethin isn’t perfect. Her auto-tuned deadpan doesn’t work. Nor does her attempt to be a rousing girl-anthem author à la Katy Perry on “Summertime.” But when she’s Millie Jackson nasty, Kreay can be sassy and contagious. —A.D. Amorosi Sat., Nov. 17, 8:30 p.m., $22, Electric Factory, 421 N. Seventh St., 215-6271332, electricfactory.info.

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✚ TWEED RIDE The time for grooming your mustache, dusting off your fanciest hat and polishing your monocle is nigh. Knickerbockers and berets will abound in the Philadelphia Tweed Ride, returning now for a fifth year. This unhurried jaunt through the city invites cyclists to don their finest 19th-century attire and compete for a variety of prizes, including “Most Dapper Chap,” “Most Snappy Lass” and, for the first time, “Most Picturesque Picnic.” In addition to looking sartorially distinguished, participating riders are asked to donate a

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Brent Knopf ’s departure last year from inventive Portland indie-rock outfit Menomena was less than amicable and a long time in the making, due in no small part to his growing enthusiasm for side project Ramona Falls. As captain of this ship, Knopf ’s retained his ear for plush, impeccably constructed art-rock with tons of moving parts and bells and whistles that, rather than distract, travel in symphony

Nov. 17-Feb. 10, free with museum admission of $20, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2600 Ben Franklin Pkwy., 215-763-8100, philamuseum.org.

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—Peter Burwasser Tue., Nov. 20, 8 p.m., $24, American Philosophical Society, 427 Chestnut St., 215-569-8080, pcmsconcerts.org.

—Michael Pelusi Mon., Nov. 19, 7:30 p.m., $45-$89.50, with Mark Knopfler, Wells Fargo Center, 3601 S. Broad St., 800-2984200, wellsfargocenterphilly.com.

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✚ HITRECORD

—Christian Graham Mon, Nov. 19, 9 p.m., $19.50-$39.50, Merriam Theater, 250 S. Broad St., 215-893-1999, kimmelcenter.org.

TUESDAY

11.20 [ classical ]

✚ SEYMOUR LIPKIN

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✚ FRANCOIS ZAYAS By the time he arrived in Philly six years ago, Francois Zayas had already spent more than a decade touring in a variety of groups, from jazz to hip-hop to rock — and that’s between his performances with the National Symphonic Orchestra of Cuba. The percussionist and composer was last seen on stage at the Painted Bride’s “Fresh Cut from the Vine” concert in a tentet of fellow local rising stars. But he’ll perform his own music, which combines his Afro-Cuban roots with modern jazz, at this Jazz Bridge-hosted performance with his quartet featuring pianist John Stenger, saxophonist Victor North and bassist Madison Rast. Zayas is also responsible for the arrangements of Billie Holiday’s music for singer Venissa Santí’s latest project, Big Stuff: AfroCuban Holiday, which captures the legendary vocalist’s haunted soul in roiling, angular reimaginings. The fact that his collaborators are also locals could result in a surprise detour into that material as well. —Shaun Brady Wed., Nov. 21, 7:30 p.m., $5-$10, Unitarian Universalist Church of Delaware County, 145 Rose Tree Rd., Media, jazzbridge.org.

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[ i love you, i hate you ] To place your FREE ad (100 word limit) ³ email lovehate@citypaper.net ALMOST OVER I can’t believe that i am knowing you for another birthday of mine. Honestly it is really special to me because i just want us to be happy. I know constantly that we are learning each other..I don’t mind but I still say in my mind...are we going to last..I want us to last honestly i do..then you said to me the other day...this is almost over...then you never made reference to what you were talking about. Can’t you tell if someone is using you. I know that you are just in your own world not knowing if you and I are going to be together but it is up to you to figure that out...I am in your corner and always will be. i can’t wait to kiss your face and being in your company so our almost over faze is just about there. We fucking made it through all the bullshit. I love you forever!

me that just sexual attraction/satisfaction. I truly wish it didn’t have to be this way.

FOR WAITRESS lady of last week. Hello, ma’am, I hope that right this second you have ease and comfort in your body, and that a windfall of money comes your way so that you may not have to kill your body nor your mind anymore by having to wait on people or anything, in order to pay your bills and stay alive. Great blessings to you right now and ever more. May none of us ever again find ourselves or someone. We love in your shoes, when we are disabled and/or elderly. A good day to you, ma’am. -A.

love with you because you gave me him, that touch, your holding me and making me feel like I am the only woman in existance is all that I will ever need.

I CAN’T BELIEVE it’s been over four years since you left. It’s such a cliche but time really does seem to fly. I’m sorry you haven’t been here to witness our daughter’s amazing metamorphosis. When you left this earth, our little girl was an overweight, insecure, miserably unhappy 18 year old- angry at us, herself, and life in general. She picked UNH against your wishes, but it must have been the proper choice because the person that graduated from there in May has

You ugly fake ass bitch what the fuck were you staring at me for...was it because I looked warm and you didn’t...was it because you were just ugly... I should of went over to the door and slapped the shit out of you..how dare you just stare at someone...if you were into girls that is one thing but I wasn’t interested in you in no way shape or form. Then your teeth were all fucked up and everything you looking around with your spring jacket on...bitch go shopping and get your gear up! I am not you and you wanna be me! I hope I see you tomorrow so I can slap that wig thing off your head whatever it was...

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Hey honey...I was so happy when I talked to you on the bus the other day. You told me that your birthday was 2 Monday’s from now and I just wanted to say happy birthday right now. I am surely going to be thinking about you because my birthday was the same day. I hope that you enjoy your 50th birthday and I hope that I see you again. It was cool to know that someone shared the same day. We probably have the same personality and everything. Your girlfriend and my boyfriend should consider themselves lucky to have us. We are the true Scorpios of them all! Have a good one Tony!

Hey cutie...I think you told me your name was Jason...you are so cute...I can’t wait to see you again and i hope that you come back to our office. I loved the way that we talked and it was cool and you weren’t shy about anything. I hope that you get a permanent job with UPS because I never see you before and i know that you are new. so whatever you need I am here for you and if you need a hug or something . I really would love to provide that for you. I hope to see you again.

EIGHTEEN I forgot who I was when I accepted your request to get inside me....Now I have no clue where we stand as friends because you used to be a totally different person when we were younger. When we first met, you wanted me all to yourself. And now that we shared your bed romantically (not really romantic) you have yet to even see how I am and now I am growing tired of you. You confuse me now because you send me mixed messages like saying that you want someone to be here for you then you tell me that you don’t want a relationship...what do you expect me to say after that? Should I ask you to tell me your true feelings towards me from the beginning, or should I just stop talking to you? Even if that isn’t what I want but I want what is best for you even if you pay me no mind for the rest of your life...I love you, always have loved you. And I didn’t want it to be this way but we can’t take it back, we can’t take back what we did, it just happened. SO the next time we talk, if we ever do talk again, I will either make you uncomfortable by asking you to make a choice-to still remain friends with me or ruin our 5 years of knowing each other or I will just do nothing because you feel nothing more for

ily have one more fucking time to call my phones and ask me where your sibling is, how the fuck do I supposed to know where he is at all times. I think that it is bullshit that you got him the job where he is at but then you wanna keep tabs on him like he a child or something. Bitch get your ass together and stop with the nonsense. I am getting my phone numbers changed and when I do what the fuck are you going to do then to find him? How about leave a fucking message on his voicemail and then if he wants to be bothered he will call you back! Now doesn’t that sound like it makes sense.

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I AM SO IN LOVE You came into my life for a reason...let’s try to figure that out together. I wanna be with you and you only...you make me so fucking happy! Some people would be really jealous of our love that is why I don’t tell too many people about our love. You fill me up so much that I wanna just jump for joy and just be with you all day and everyday. I knew when I met you on the bus that it was going to be you me and our son. He is my pride and joy and I miss him every time that he is away. He reminds me of you so much. A small version of you. I just can’t believe how much he has grown into a little you. I am so in

blossomed into a stunning young woman. She’s dropped 100 pounds, graduated with high honors, and struck out on her own in Boston, of all places. For the first time in her life she seems happy with her situation, her future, and most importantly, herself. We (YOU) must have done something right after all, because our beautiful young daughter is in a great place right now. Kudos to you, as belated as they may be.

Hey old man...you know what I know that you and that old woman of yours were fucking in my hallway area because I heard her yelping in the hallway and then I stuck my head out of my apartment door and I seen her bent over the staircase and your old wrinkled ass trying to get your old ass dick inside...I guess that you forgot that you have to move back and forth. You seem like you wanted more. I tell you what...if you knock on my door again I will throw some hot fucking water on you so fast...then if the cops come to my door asking me why I did what I did I am going to say that you flashed me over and over which you have done. Get yourself a fuck toy or something because that old lady looked like she just couldn’t take it and neither could my eyes.

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Adoptions PREGNANT? CONSIDERING ADOPTION?

Successful educated woman seeks to adopt and needs your help! Will be a loving FULL-TIME mom. Expenses paid. Lisa 1-888977-2931.

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Special Price! $45/hr. Call

(215)-873-4835. 1218 Chestnut St. WE BUY VINYL LP COLLECTIONS

C a s h Pa i d . We P i ck U p. We buy Rock, Jazz, Blues, Reggae, Modern Composers, World Music. Contact 212-591-2105 / starr y@ starrynightrecords.com

HELP WANTED DRIVER

Drivers-A. Duie Pyle Needs Owner Operators Regional Truckload Operations. HOME EVERY WEEKEND! o/o Average $1.84/Mile. Steady, Year-Round Work. Requires CDL-A, 2Yrs. Exp. Call Dan: 877-910-7711 www.DriveForPyle.com HELP WANTED DRIVER

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Help Wanted – General ACTORS/MOVIE EXTRAS

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HELP WANTED!!

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Browse hundreds of online listings with photos and maps. Find your roommate with a click of the mouse! V i s i t : h t t p : / / w w w. R o o m mates.com.

Rental Wanted APARTMENT WANTED FOR MYSELF!

I am currently looking in Center City a one or two bedroom, efficiency or studio 1st floor Older male. Ask for Christian 267-5927181.

NORTHERN LIBERTIES

2 bdrm trinity at 944 A. N. Orianna St. AC, HW flrs, WD hookup, intercom, fireplace. $950+ utils. Call Bob: 215520-1232

HELP WANTED DRIVER

Gordon Trucking, Inc. CDLA Drivers Needed! ...$1,500 SIGN ON BONUS...Refrigerated fleet & Great Miles! Pay Incentive * Benefits! Recruiters available 7 days/wk! EOE 866-554-7856.

wood, Carpet, Granite, C/A Finished Basement, $1050 Per month. Call 215-2922176.

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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 Hard-

Homes for Sale FARMHOUSE FEEL!

3 Bed 2.5 bathroom townhome located in Haverford! Mod Kit w/Granite countertops, Central Air, Large Yard, great cul-de-sac location. Contact Annette 610-3293755.

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Coins, Currency, Gold, Toys, LOST - WHITE GOLD WEDDING BAND Lost Halloween, Colman Terrace vicinity contact 609-731-6446. Thank you

33&45 RECORDS HIGHER $ REALLY PAID

** Bob 610-532-9408 ***

33 & 45 Records Absolute Higher $

BRAZILIAN FLOORING 3/4", beautiful, $2.75 sf (215) 365-5826 Diabetic Test Strips needed pay up to $15/box. Most brands. Call 610-453-2525

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

PIANO - Kimball Spinet 38in. high, natural wood & bench $625/obo 215.266.7273

LG 32" TV, new in box. Cost $299.95 Asking $225. Call 267-528-1974

BED: New Queen Pillow Top Set $150 . twin, full, king avail. Del avl 215-355-3878 Bedroom Set 5 pc. brand new $325. All sizes, Del. Avail. 215-355-3878

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

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

AKITA AKC Males Born 9/27 1st Shots, Wormed, Healthy 856-368-9123.

American Bulldog pups, NKC reg., M & F, 1st shots, $500. Call (609) 963-5629 Brittany Spaniel puppies, AKC, orange & liver colors avail., 2 males, (215)257-5147 CHINESE SHARPE pure, M, 18 mos, black, crate trained, $175. 215-254-0560

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

Doberman Pups, s & w, very cute,champ lines , $1100 F, $1000 M, 717-629-3726

English Bulldog Pups - Shots, vet pedigree, reg, dewormed. Call 215-696-5832 ENGLISH BULLDOGS - AKC, brindle/fawn, family raised $1,450. Call (717) 445-6089

German Shepherd Dog Puppies Parents on premises with papers 267-977-3491. GERMAN SHEPHERD - F, 10 mos, crate trained, watchdog. $350. 215-254-0560 German Shepherd Pups, AKC, Ready 12/6, parents on site. $400. 215.338.2617

German Shep pups, 4 females, 3 males, very cute, ready now! $400 717-951-8320

LAB pups, black, AKC reg., 11 weeks old 1st shots , $500. Call 856-562-7781

LABRADOODLE PUPS - Sale 1 male, 4 female, 1st shots & wormed. Ready to go! $500. Call 484-880-0759 Pekingese Pups 8wks M&F vet checked 1st shots AKC avail. $550. 215-579-1922 Pitbull Pups - ADBA reg, 10 weeks, 3 shots & wormed, $400. 215-834-1247 Pomeranian pups, beautiful, M/F, shots, guaranteed, $300+. (610)662-7397 Rottweiler pups, AKC, shots, wormed, vet checked, $425. (717)529-3772 ext. 1 Toy Chihuahua male, 2 month, black/ brown, $500, 215-425-1897 Westies, M & F, adorable, shots, wormed, home raised, (484)868-8452 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 PUPS AKC FEMALES GO FOR $1000 EACH AND MALES $950 EACH. CALL JOANNE 856-498-5412

Generous Reward!

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

jobs Veterinary Technician

I Buy Anything Old...Except People! antiques-collectables, Al 215-698-0787 JUNK CARS WANTED We buy Junk Cars. Up to $300 215-888-8662 Lionel/Am Flyer/Trains/Hot Whls $$$$ Aurora TJet/AFX Toy Cars 215-396-1903

Gospel play "Love Songs Wasn’t make U Cry" role avaIl, plez call 215-834-0028

apartment marketplace 19th & Dickinson Effic. $450+elec. newly renov., wall to wall. 215-570-0301

BRYN MAWR

Veterinary Hospital is seeking an experienced Veterinary Technician. We are a busy small animal practice focused on excellent client relations and quality medicine. Competitive salary based upon experience. If you are a team player who is interested in a fast paced environment, please fax resume to 610-527-3070

Chief Engineer or Maint. Mgr Philadelphia

Resp. for performing, managing and supervising all maint opers in the hotel and bldg. Maintaining bldg equip and fire prevention equipment; Training, hiring and supervising maint staff; Preventative maint of equipment and building. Min. of 3 yrs exp. in a hotel or related field. Must have a broad base of exp. in several areas such as electrical, carpentry, plumbing, HVAC, preventative maint, painting, etc. HVAC exp must include certification. Hands-on-mgr with good organizational and communication skills. Submit cover letter & resume to: zcohen@clubquarters.com

SHIPYARD RIGGERS Norfolk, VA

Welco Craftsmen, Inc. Must have OSHA-10 card Rapid Gate Pass or TWIC card Certs for crane signal person And Rigger Level - 1 NO FELONIES OUTSIDE MACHINISTS Must have OSHA-10 card And Rapid Gate Pass 800-485-5221 228-327-0735

1100 S 58th St. Studio, 1BR & 2BR Apts heat/hw incl., lic #362013 215-525-5800 58xx Theodore St. 1br/1ba $525 + utils modern duplex, w2w carp, 215-840-6018

512 N. 54th St. 1br $600 New carpets. 267-709-2704 / 912-5942 52nd and Parkside 2br apt $600+ utils also 3rd floor Studio available $500+ utils, 1 mo. rent & sec dep. 215-284-7944

59xx Haberford Ave. 2BR $675 New reno, full bsmt, bk yrd. 215-847-2218

apartment marketplace 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

56th & Lebanon, 2BR apt, $700 1st flr, LR, Kit, ba, front porch, Please call 215-477-1037

+ util.

3208 W Cecil B Moore Ave 2br $600 freshly painted, 1 & 1/2 month sec. dep. & 1st month rent req. Call 215-828-6651 35xx N. 11th St Studio $440+utils newly remodeled, call (215)917-1091 5017 Whitaker Ave. 1BR $565+ elec. & gas, 2mo. sec. dep., h/w flrs, just painted, pvt. entrance. Call 215-820-2219 Allegheny/Broad Sts. k1BR/BA $500 215-229-9808 No pets

1,2, 3, 4 Bedroom FURNISHED APTS LAUNDRY-PARKING 215-223-7000 21st & Susqehanna 2br $650 hdwd floors. Call (267) 694-0591 Cecil B Moore & 20th 3br apts. $900 4br apts. $1200 Newly renovated. Call 215-520-7752 Temple Hosp area 1-2 br $575 water incl Broad & Allegheny. Call (215)336-4299

Walnut St 2br $670 + utilities renov, 215-471-1365; 215-663-0128 West Phila Studio Please call 215-219-9552

W. Phila/Parkside 1br $550+utils furnished ground floor, in beautifully restored row house, high beamed ceilings, orig. plank floors, gas FP, ample free parking on street, trolley & 38/40 bus stop in front. for rent by owner, (917)445-4149

47xx Woodland, 3rd fl 1BR One mo free $700/1 person + heat & util. Non smk/drug, good credit 215-222-6060 landservants@landservants.com

11xx Rockland St. 2br/1ba $650+utils Newly renovated. Call (215)906-7574

15xx Grange 2br $690 Fresh paint, carpets. 267-230-2600

5846 N. Marvine 2br $700+utils renovated, close to trans (215)480-6460 5853 N. Camac 2BR $700+utils granite kit, 267.407.6768 or 215.416.2757 Upper Olney 5729-31 N. 3rd St. 1BR/1BA Newly renovated $585 incl. gas & water 24hr security. Must see! 215-914-0859.

UNIVERSITY CITY 1br/1ba $700/mo 1st floor. Utilities separate. 267-872-9871

5220 Wayne Ave. Studio, 1Br on site lndry, 215-525-5800 , Lic# 507568 607 E. Church Lane 1BR & 2BR nr LaSalle Univ,215.744.9077 lic#494336 6261 E. Wister St. Effic. $500 + elec. $1500 move-in. Call 215-290-3192 Wayne & Manheim St. 2BR/1BA $710+ Very spacious, 2nd floor. (215) 783-4736

72xx Devon St. 1BR $700+ utils garage, yard, prvt entr, 1 block away, R7, Regional Rail, 12/1, 215.913.5121

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

Phila. 2BR newly renovated apartments $600-$675. 215-869-8943 Studio aprts also available. Call for more info.

4400 Frankford Ave. 1BR & 2BR $500 1mo. security deposit. Call 215-760-9248 4500 Frankford Ave. Effic. $490 2nd floor, no pets. Call 215-289-2973 52XX Burton St. 2br/1ba $585 Modern kitchen, nice loc. 215-514-0653

15xx Adams Ave. 1BR $490+elec. large, newly renov. 215-570-0301 48xx Longshore 1br $595 incl. heat 44xx Aberdale 2br $700+utils 1st, last & security, Call (215)287-2044 53xx Akron 1 BR $650+ elec 2nd flr, 1st & last to move in, 215.651.1140

7233 Oxford Ave. 1BR/1BA $600+utils 2nd floor, priv. entry, newly remodeled. Good credit, 1st, last, sec. 215-828-6304 Academy & Grant 2BR $790+ 2nd floor, wall-to-wall carpets, C/A, off street parking. Call 856-346-0747

12xx E. CHELTEN AVE. 1br $585 & 2br, $610. + elec. Call 215-778-3326 20xx N. 62nd 1BR $700 nice block, 1st, last & sec. (215) 878-5056 2xx N. 64th St. 1BR newly renovated, new carpet, fresh paint. private entr., close to transp., sect. 8 and vouchers accepted. Call 609-502-1416 2xx N 65th St 3br $950 heat/hot wtr inc 2 mo sec. priv entry, off street prkg, w/w carpet, large yard 215-477-9236

Studio 1, 2 & 3br Apts $650-$895 www.perutoproperties.com 215.740.4900

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 46xx Wayne Ave. 3br $750 Fresh paint, carpets. W/D. 267-230-2600

Algon & Rhawn 3br/2ba $950+utils 2nd floor duplex, Call (215)400-0377 Bustleton & Grant 2br Condo $895 prvt balcony w/garden view 215.943.0370 Philmont 2BR duplex 1st flr $850+ C/A, bsmnt, w/w, garage, (215)752-1091 RHAWN & BLVD. 2BR/1BA $800 c/a & ht, w/d, d/w, w/w, (267) 972-8411 Rhawnhurst 1br $630+utils Great apt., close to everything, storage, w/d hookup, Call (267) 767-9289

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German Shepherds- 11 weeks old, pure breed, house broken, Call (302)465-3672

Golden Retriever, AKC, 8 wks old, dam & sire on prem. Call Vi (609) 412-0049 Golden Retriever AKC reg Puppies $750 family rsd, hlth grntee 717-368-0244

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

Dr. Sonnheim, 856-981-3397

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* * * 215-200-0902 * * *

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

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apartment marketplace HOLLAND - 171 Sunbury Ct. 1BR/1BA $950+utils. Spacious, DR, LR, den, patio, W/D. Avail. 12/1. Call 267-980-5352

Yeadon 1br $690 + utils Section 8 ok. Call 610-212-7156.

514 N. Paxon 3br/1ba Section 8 accepted. Call 267-625-9466

11xx N. 55TH ST. BRAND NEW BUILDING Single rms $400. Rms w/ bath & kitchen $600. fully furnished w/ full size beds, fridge, & dresser. SSI/SSD/VA, Payee services, Public assistance ok. Also SW, S., W., N., & Frankford. 267-707-6129 1940 W. VENANGO - 1 Room. No Cooking, $100/wk. (215)225-2067 2435 W. Jefferson St. Rooms: $400/mo. Move in fee: $600. Call 215-913-8659 30xx Aramingo Ave. $100/week, private bath, w/d, SSI ok, 215-920-6394 3754 N. 15th St Lg furnished rm, $90/wk + sec, no drugs, near trans 215-209-9046 4508 N. Broad St. Rooms: $380/mo. Move in fee: $570. Call 215-913-8659 55/Thompson deluxe quiet furn $110wk priv ent $200 sec 215-572- 8833 56xx Wyalusing large clean rooms, $100-$110/wk. Call (215)917-1091 58 Chestnut St., $400, furn. room, $200 sec. dep. Call 267-296-0340 59th St S., furn rm, near El, a/c, fridge, $100/week, $100 security. 215-472-8119 61st & Walnut - New Rooms To Rent $400 to move in. Call (267) 257-5815

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Brewerytown: Move in Special luxury rms, $400 mo SSI welcome 267.632.3286 Broad & Hunting Park - $110/week, clean, near transportation. 215-206-3832

Broad & Hunting Park & all other areas $75-$125/wk. Newly renov., great transp., SSI OK. Call 267-588-5517 Broad & Lehigh - Rooms $400/mo. 1 week free move-in special! 215.510.0928 Broad & Olney lg deluxe furn room priv ent $145 wk. Sec $200. 215-572-8833 Frankford, nice rm in apt, near bus & El, $300 sec, $90/wk & up. 215-526-1455 Germantown $110/wk Newly renov. available. Call 215-205-2452 GERMANTOWN $420/mo. close to transp. Call 215-549-8859 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 G-town Area, 1xx Hansberry St., furn, nice block, $100-$125/wk 215-667-3801 LaSalle Area with Cooking $259 Move-in Special. 215-219-3411 Mt. Airy, 17xx Washington Lane, near transp., conv. shopping, use of kitchen, utilities incl., (215)450-9353 Near Broad & Roosevelt Blvd. FREE NOV. ROOM RENT. Pay $530 Dec. 1st. ONLY 1 person. & Sec. Dep. AL: 267-235-6555 NICETOWN furnished, private entrance, Please Call 215-324-1079 N. PHILADELPHIA includes gas, elec, W/D, crpt, $110/wk. Call 267-342-1226 N Phila Furn, Priv Ent $75 & up No drugs, SSI ok. 215.763.5565 Overbrook $450/mo, Must see, immediate move in 267-721-7345 Overbrook newly renovated home, room with priv bath, w/d, 215-879-2570 Philadelphia - 3130 N. 22nd St. Renev., kit & util use, $100/wk. Call 267-235-1166 South Phila., 1200 S. 26th: newly renov, spacious, prvt. kitchen. 215-303-4092 S. Phila - Clean Kitchen & Bath Drug Free! $95 - $120/wk. 267-972-9067 SW Phila rm for rent $250 move in, share kit & bth. Call 267-251-2749

W. Germantown rooms for rent starting at $425/mo, $100 security fee, easy move-in. Call Theresa at (215) 740-0554 W. PHILADELPHIA room for rent $650 includes cable/all utils. furn., sheets/towels. 267-816-6302 W Phila & G-town: Newly ren lg, lux rms /apts. very peaceful SSI ok, 267-241-0149

homes for rent 5th & Washington Ave New Luxury 2BR from $1500-1800, 3BR from $1900-$2000. Mins from Center City, fireplace, elevator, granite counter tops, hardwood floors, 30’ ceilings and a roof top deck overlooking city skyline. Call Chris at 215-432-2326.

908 N. 29th St lrg 4BR close to Girard College 215-525-5800

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

22xx Warton St. 3br $850 Fresh paint carpet sec 8 ok 267.230.2600 3rd & Jackson 2br/1ba $1,050 All new townhouse, hardwood, granite kitchen. Call 215-292-2176

12xx S. 54th St. 3BR $685+utils 2 mos sec. + 1st mo. 215-242-6910 58xx Belmar St. 3br renov, Hrdwd flr, Sec 8 ok 267-230-2600 6173 Yocum St. 3BR House Sec 8 ok. Must See 215-885-1700

8xx S. 56th St. 4br $850+utils $1,700 to move in. Call 484-433-5764

Elmwood area 2/3br modern, sec. 8 ok, Call 215-726-8817

52xx Kershaw St. 3BR/1BA $725 Recently renovated. Call 215-740-9080 58XX WALTON ST - 3BR, h/w flrs, porch, Avail now $700+ 215-680-7011 61XX Pine St. 3br $795 + utils. 1st/last/1mo sec. Call 215-789-1758 6xx Conestoga 2br $650+utils clean, updated, w/w crpt, 215-688-7104

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

1336 N. Dover St. 3BR/1BA $750+utils Newly renov., must see! 215-888-7555 30th & Allegheny 3 BR/1 BA $750 enclosed porch, good cond, 215-456-9512 N. Philadelphia 3br/1ba $500/mo + utils porch, row house, sec req. Call 610534-3145 or 215-964-1643

Tioga Section 1 room $400/mo. Bath & share kit. util incl. 215-881-5032

50xx N Sydenham 3br/1.5ba $850/mo 2 month sec, 1 month rent (215)620-4708

33XX N. Phillip St. 3BR/1BA $750 Very nice home, well maintained 215-682-9370

Nicetown Section 8 OK 5BR/2BA $1,200 Germantown Southwest 215-939-3890

Wayne Junction vic 2br, 3br, 4br & 5br Please Call 215-324-7514

1xx Coulter 4br/1ba $850+utils spacious, full bsmt, call 267-250-9822

53xx Magnolia 3br/1ba $800 20xx Spencer St. 3br/1ba $800 Sec 8 ok,215-779-0352 or 215-748-2610 Chelten & Baynton 4br/1ba $595+utils $1,750 to move in. Call 215-701-7076

automotive Buick Roadmaster ’96 Classic collectors edition 9 pass. station wagon, extremely rare, like new best offer 215-922-6113

1xx W. Weaver 4br Newly renov, c/a, sec. 8 ok. 215.669.1304 206 E. Upsal St. 3 BR/1 BA $1100 bsmnt,1 car garage,drvwy, 267-872-1164

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

31xx G st. 3br/2ba $750 new paint, new flooring, 215-833-6673

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

16xx Filmore St. 3br Newly renov, sec. 8 ok. 215-669-1304

4737 Levick St. 3BR/1BA $850 Month Spacious First Floor - Not Sec.8 Aproved ID and $30 Application Call 267-419-8206 60xx Large St. 3BR $895+ finished basement, move in special, available immediately, (215)783-0175 9xx Anchor 3BR $800+utils 3xx Roselyn 3BR $750+utils Call 215-459-3564

Juniata: 40xx Claridge 3br $875+utils 1st, last & sec., sect. 8 ok, 267-722-8545 Mayfair 3br $950 + Comp. Ren. row Sec 8 OK. 215-364-0217 N.E. Phila. 2BR/2.5BA $1,295. A MUST SEE!!! WONT LAST!! NEWLY REMODELED RIVERS BEND CONDO GREAT LOCATION!!! 267-261-3435

Ford E350 2003 - Super Duty, 18 pass mini bus, new premium tires, SS wheels, orig mi, like new. B/O. Call 215-627-1814 Ford F-150 XLT 2000 Delux Stepside 4 wheel drive, extended cab, every extra, one of a kind, $5,950. 215-922-5342

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

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

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

Sharon Hill 2br $825 No pets, renovated, 1 mo. security, 1 mo rent, near bus & train 610-586-5562

Bridgeport 4BR/1BA $1,450+utils Sec 8 ok (610)454-9471 / (484)612-2366

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

low cost cars & trucks Buick Lesabre 1997 $2,600 Inspec., new radials, clean. 610-667-4829 Cadillac DeVille 2005 $3,975 White, leather, CD, clean. 267-592-0448 Chevy Astro Van 1994 $1250 Auto., 123k, new insp, 215-620-9383 Chevy Blazer LS 2000 $2,800/OBO 4 door, 4x4, 160K miles, new insp., almost new cond., may trade. Call 267-975-4483 Chevy Caprice Classic Wagon 1993 $1250 all pwr, 1 owner, runs exc., 215-620-9383 Chrysler 300M 2002 $2,695 Mint, leather, moon roof. 267-592-0448 Ford Taurus 2003 $3100 107k mi, clean, runs great, 215.906.8841

Ford Taurus 2006 $4900 new tires, clean, 64k mi., 215-850-0061 MERCURY COUGAR XR7 1997 $3,200obo all pwr AC Radio Alarm system NJ inspect good to 5/14, 104k mi, V6, 215-334-7717

Mitsubishi Galant ES 1997 $1,250 4 door, loaded, clean, CD. 215-518-8808 NISSAN ALTIMA GXE 2000 $2,050 negotiable, 4 dr, 158k mi., 215-806-0449 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera 1993 $995 Auto, heat, insp, runs exc. 215-620-9383 Volkswagen Jetta 2002 $2299 Runs great, 85K miles, rebuilt engine, priced to sell. Call 215-927-9722

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Old Chubb Scottish Ale, Victory Ranch IPA, Boxcar Pumkin Ale, Dark Horse Cezanne, and Full Pint Weizenbock! All that and more at Watkins this week! Watkins Drinkery Corner of 10th & Watkins streets, South Philly 215-339-0175 Serving 20 oz Drafts, NOT 16. SIZE DOES MATTER. 704 Chestnut Street 215-592-9533 www.LasVegasLounge.com

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23: MAN IN BLACK Johnny Cash Tribute Band @Twin Bar, Glouchester City, NJ 28: Inner City Roadhouse Nite w/ Mental Magic by Lucas! @ Bob + Barbara’s, 15& South Listen Tues’s: 1pm @103.3fm & WPRB.com

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