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While on a fishing trip on the Amazon, Phillies pitcher Roy Halladay rescues a man who was attacked by an anaconda. Then Brad Lidge shows up and throws the guy right down the snake’s throat.
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A new plan would make Pennsylvania residents under 60 with more than $2,000 in savings ineligible for food stamps. It was proposed by Rep. Snidely F. Whiplash of Diealready County after his “Drop ’Em on an Ice Floe” idea was trounced on the floor.
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Tasers were added to the Philly police arsenal to reduce the need for guns — but as Taser use grows, the number of police shootings holds steady. By Isaiah Thompson
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A 4-pound, $2 million ruby sculpted to look like the Liberty Bell is stolen from a Wilmington jewelry store. National Treasure 3 is going to suck.
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Men’s Health and Women’s Health magazines put out their annual lists of the 100 best U.S. cities, and rate Philadelphia at the bottom — numbers 98 and 97, respectively.“Well, I rather like it,” says genderless carcinogenic cloud.
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wo years ago this month, the Philadelphia Police Department announced that it was purchasing 1,000 new Tasers for its officers. It was part of an effort, outlined by Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey shortly after he was appointed by Mayor Michael Nutter, to reduce the use of lethal force by police officers, especially when dealing with the mentally ill. By fall 2010, as this author reported at the time, Taser use had roughly tripled, but the use of guns by police officers hadn’t gone down. In fact, it had gone up, even though the number of incidents of gun use — the number of times officers had to pull their guns — stayed roughly the same. The Philadelphia Police, it seemed at the time, weren’t using Tasers instead of guns — they were simply Tasering more people in addition to those they shot at. And, according to police data obtained by City Paper, that trend has continued through 2011: Taser use has now quadrupled since 2008, without any decrease in the number of gunshots fired by officers. Between January and October 2008 — the first year that Ramsey oversaw the department — Philadelphia Police fired 174 gunshots in 36 incidents and used Tasers 126 times. Over
the same period in 2009, Taser use overtook gun use — but not because gun use went down. That year, police fired 254 gunshots in 55 incidents and used Tasers 290 times. Taser use, in other words, had doubled. And the rate kept increasing through 2010 when, over the same period of time, police fired almost exactly the same number of gunshots (256 versus 254), while Taser use went from 290 incidents in 2009 to 426 incidents in 2010, about a 50 percent increase on top of the previous year’s 130 percent increase. 2011 was no different: By the end of October (an arbitrary date, but one CP has been using as a basis of comparison for several years) Taser use had once again increased, this time from about 480 discharges (in those 426 incidents) in 2010 to nearly 550 in 2011, an increase of 15 percent, while the number of gunshots fired by police — again — showed no corresponding decrease. One explanation could be that there are simply more incidents requiring Taser use — but while some crime has risen over the past few years, there are no statistics bearing out an increase of comparable proportions. Homicides in 2011, for example, were slightly down from 2008, about 2 percent. That gives some weight to another obvious explanation: that the more Tasers police get, the more they are used. According to one report obtained by CP last year, police were equipped with 227 Tasers in 2008. By 2010, that number had jumped to 712. As the number of Tasers issued to police roughly
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✚ SIGNS AND OMENS “No one is saying we should put a billboard on top of Billy Penn’s hat,” newly anointed City Council President Darrell Clarke insisted during his inaugural speech this month. What he was saying, though, was advertising on city property is coming, and fast. Clarke had already introduced a bill outlining as much — defying convention by doing it at Council’s final session in December — and plans to re-introduce it, probably when the new Council gets down to business on Jan. 26. It’s not the first time Clarke floated a bill to put ads on public buildings. But this time, he seems determined. In fact, the scheme is just one of seven revenue-generating and cost-reducing ideas, worth more than $40 million, that he’s come up with, including asset sales, the creation of development districts where blighted property can be sold below market value, and the leasing of street parking to car-share services. “We’re trying to pursue every last one of them,” says William Carter, Clarke’s director of legislative affairs. Clarke “recognizes a need to generate revenue without going into people’s pockets and raising taxes.” Still, billboards — particularly ones that bypass zoning — are a tough sell. For one thing, while Philly just got a new zoning code in December, the signage rules to accompany it are still being drafted, notes Stephanie Kindt of SCRUB: Public Voice for Public Space, an anti-blight group. “Now, we’re basically wiping [those rules] away for city property. It just doesn’t jibe with planning principles,” she says. Eva Gladstein of the Zoning Code Commission says the group hasn’t yet reviewed how the plan might mesh with its own proposal. For another, even if Clarke’s effort does ameliorate tax strains, the impact on property values could be significant. A recent
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✚ GREEN MONSTER There are plenty of divisive topics in Philly; the overall positive nature of trees would not appear to be one of them. After all, Philly is working to increase its canopy cover to 30 percent by 2025, and a Wharton study found a tree within 50 feet can increase housing value by 9 percent. But in Fishtown, it’s a different story — one with deep, er, roots.“People who have lived in the neighborhood a long time, it’s like a nightmare,” says Karen Rouse, a 21-year resident. “That tree fear comes in.” Rouse was speaking at a meeting to discuss design plans for the Columbia Avenue Connector, one of a series of access streets included in a newly minted master plan for the Delaware River waterfront. There, landscape architect Bryan Hanes was unveiling a proposal that included public art, a “wampum belt” design embedded into the street itself and, yes, lots of trees. Even more controversial, where trees wouldn’t fit on the slim sidewalks, Hanes suggested putting them in the parking lanes, removing a handful of parking spots to make way for the greenery. The idea didn’t go over well. “I’m pro-tree; I’m also pro my car not getting broken into,” said Morgan James, who worried he’d have >>> continued on page 6
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violence in the Philly School District. City Paper: One of your responsibilities is overseeing a school violence-reporting
hotline. Is promoting that a top priority right now? Kelley Hodge: It is the priority for me right now. I can only do my job as well as the
information I receive. … A new memorandum of understanding that was enacted in August between the School District and law enforcement officials solidified an agreement as to how incidents were to be handled and reported. That has also improved the situation a great deal and has centralized things. But it’s too early for me to say whether there’s under-reporting or misreporting. CP: Based on what you’ve observed so far, how is school violence changing? KH: What is trending right now is probably the bullying and harassment. What … maybe didn’t exist before the dawn of MySpace, Facebook, YouTube and cell phones, is the bullying gets exacerbated or emphasized by the fact that it can be instantaneously shared in public. Many of the reports I see are this constant harassment. CP: Being new — and a state, not city, employee — must present challenges. Mount Airy resident, former assistant chief of the Philly District Attorney’s Juvenile Unit
KH: I feel lucky that I’ve walked into this job at a time [of change] … I’m not the only new face; I’m one of a few new faces, and we’re all trying to figure out if there’s a better —Samantha Melamed way to improve the climate and culture within the district.
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SECONDHAND SANTORUM ³ RICK SANTORUM, RIDING high after Iowa, says he “won Pennsylvania” by winning over “the same people that President Obama talked about, who cling to their guns and their Bibles.” But in 2006 he lost his Senate seat here, too — and by a 17-point margin, among the widest in recent history. Since then, it seems not much has changed. Santorum infamously compared homosexuality to “man on dog” relations, and called defending straight marriage “the ultimate homeland security issue.” Last week, New Hampshire students jeered him for comparing homosexuality to polygamy. That’s his common-man touch, I suppose. Santorum likes to distinguish himself from the corporate Mitt Romney, touting his working-class, grandson-of-a-coal-miner roots, and condemning Obama for “destroying the work ethic with the narcotic of government dependency.” Yet like so many haters of government, Santorum is happy to cash in on Uncle Sam himself. As The New York Times put it, Santorum “wasted little time fashioning a lucrative post-government career based largely on income from businesses that had benefited from his work in Congress.” Santorum made $1.3 million in consulting fees from January 2010 to August 2011. His past as a zealous advocate for drilling and mining dovetailed into later work for Consol Energy Inc. In the Senate, Santorum also worked hard to deliver Medicare dollars to the Pennsylvania-based Universal Health Services. He joined Universal’s board after leaving office and made $395,000. Santorum’s campaign insists there was no payfor-play: He helped so many people that he couldn’t have helped any special interests in particular. “Almost anywhere he went,” professed one aide, “there’s somebody who benefited from his legislation.” He must have spread the love far and wide: In 2006, Santorum received more money from lobbyists than any other congressional candidate. A true creature of Washington, he spent $2 million on his Virginia home. While he lived near D.C., a Pennsylvania school district paid for his kids to attend a cyber charter — though he had lambasted his 1990 opponent for living in Virginia. Romney will likely soon cap the Santorum surge. But Iowa’s delight at secondhand Santorum is a reminder that too many accept his outrageous lie that gays threaten our way of life, while the corporate America he shills for offshores factories, lowers wages and busts unions. ✚ Send feedback to daniel.denvir@citypaper.net.
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IN NEED OF REPAIRS Two stories brought out the frustration felt about the subjects. A look at the extra burden that school redistricting is placing on parents making choices about where to send their children [News, “Urban Studies,” Samantha Melamed, Jan. 5, 2012] received this citypaper.net comment from Tyrone Biggums: “The [school district] is a mess. Only the wealthy can move to a neighborhood to get their pups in a good elementary school. Shame.” Meanwhile, a story about the devastating effects of federal-funding cuts on low-income homeowners [News, “Cut to the Bone,” Daniel Denvir, Dec. 29, 2011] caused commenter Ritaf to declare, “The system is broken. The city is beyond repair.And the leaders only care about re-election.” OCCUPY BELLIGERENCE In the Naked City blog post “Hundreds Show Up to Picket Winter Classic” [Samantha Melamed, Jan. 3, 2012], Melamed wrote that Occupy Philly “appeared to be missing” and jokingly wondered if they were hung over. This did not go over well. Commenter Pnsayko thanked Melamed for covering the topic of workplace justice but then wrote, “I don’t respect your shallow comment toward Occupy Philly. ... The comment demonstrated both your poor taste as well as lack of journalistic skill. There were many OP participants in attendance. I think it only be right if a formal correction be made as well as an apology for your birth on this planet.” Well, um, wow. MAJORS AND MINORS Our chronicle of Philly’s worst media moments of 2011 [News,
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He wants to bring grassroots muscle to the voucher lobby. to park on an isolated block. Residents suggested planters, living walls, images of trees — anything but the green monsters themselves. Hanes and the Delaware River Waterfront Corp., which hired him, will have to finalize plans by March, to keep pace with roadwork on I-95. Neighbors just hope by then they’ll have turned over a new leaf. —Samantha Melamed
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The Friday-afternoon press conference was almost over, and students, parents and teachers had absorbed the news: four Catholic high schools and 45 grade schools run by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia will be shuttered or consolidated. Then Archbishop Charles Chaput reached for the microphone one last time. “If we had had vouchers in place 15 years ago we probably wouldn’t be closing these schools,” he concluded. “We think vouchers is a social-justice issue.” As protesters citywide condemn the closures, Chaput is hoping for an all-too-worldly assist in the form of a government bailout: school vouchers. That means taxpayer money for private-
school tuition. He called on parents to lobby the legislature, adding grassroots muscle to a campaign bankrolled largely by hedge-fund millionaires. A Pew study found Philly’s Catholic school enrollment has declined 37 percent over the past decade, in part thanks to competition from charter schools. That’s ironic, given that charters and vouchers are two wings of the same “education reform” movement that seeks to turn public education dollars over to private management. Vouchers have a mediocre track record. Nonetheless, Chaput’s “social-justice issue” promises to drain tens of millions of dollars from a shrinking state education budget. But if the Pennsylvania voucher legislation passes, a legal test
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tripled, so did the number of times police used them — again, with no reduction in gun use. These findings come at a time of increasing scrutiny of — and increasing controversy over — the use of Tasers as a substitute for “lethal force.” Many in Philadelphia will remember the 2010 incident in which a 17-year-old Phillies fan ran out onto the field of Citizens Bank Park and — despite showing no sign that he posed a physical threat to anyone — was Tasered by a Philadelphia Police officer. The episode drew many a yuk from local press [“Tasers: They’re not just for zapping crazy Phillies fans anymore,” Daily News, Dec. 28, 2011], but drew serious criticism from the Philadelphia Inquirer’s editorial board, which noted: “Tasers should be reserved for situations where someone is threatening harm to a police officer or bystander,” and “the high-voltage stun guns are controversial due to the deaths of some Tasered suspects.” But the increasing use of the weapons has drawn little other scrutiny in Philadelphia, despite questionable Taser use in several high-profile incidents. Take the July 2010 Tasering of Harry Bennett, a 53-year-old veteran with a history of mental illness. Police discharged Tasers at him several times when they discovered Bennett wielding a knife and acting erratically. Police said the Tasers didn’t work and that Bennett “charged,” prompting officer Philip Sprague to shoot him dead. But several witnesses who lived next door and across the street told CP that Bennett had indeed been immediately stunned by the Taser and was on the ground, in a state of shock when he was — needlessly, they say — killed. Bennett’s family says he posed no threat and could have been talked down.
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Three months later, 18-year-old Patrick Johnson, described as severely mentally ill by his parents, died after being Tasered by a police officer. He had “lunged” at the officer, police said, while holding “sticks or tree branches.” The list goes on: In December 2010, 33-year-old mother Naimah Jones screamed at a man looking in the windows of her van, in which her children were seated. The man turned out to be an undercover cop: Philip Sprague, in fact, the same officer who fatally shot Bennett. Several witnesses claim that Sprague attacked Jones, at one point choking her with his hands. All accounts agree on one thing: Jones was Tasered repeatedly. That September, several Kensington residents complained to the Daily News of a “team of rogue 26th District cops” who had been “harassing” them. One resident said that when she complained of damage sustained to her car when an officer swung a
baton at one of her neighbors and missed, “another officer allegedly pointed a Taser at her face and called her a ‘bitch.’” Taser deaths around the country have put the weapons under increasing scrutiny, especially when it comes to domestic policing. Last December the blog Electronic Village, which monitors Taserrelated deaths, claimed that it had documented 515 such U.S. deaths since 2001. The human rights group Amnesty International has called on governments to limit or halt Taser use altogether. In a 2008 study, the group found that more than 10 percent of weapons studied delivered a bigger shock than manufacturers stated was possible. In 90 percent of the deaths, the victims were unarmed. And in many cases, victims were passive, making the use of the weapons an “unnecessary and disproportionate use of force which can sometimes amount to torture.” They concluded that Tasers are “potentially lethal” — and that’s proving at this point to be a statement more of fact than opinion. (isaiah.thompson@citypaper.net)
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In the past week, a peculiar series of billboards have started to pop up around Philadelphia. They offer no logos, no phone numbers or website addresses, no text whatsoever; if you didn’t know the billboards were displaying the photography of Zoe Strauss, or that they were a piece of her exhibit opening at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on Jan. 14, you might be a bit perplexed. At 10th and Reed, the closely cropped face of a stern, middle-aged woman keeps a watchful eye over the intersection; it’s Strauss’ 2001 photograph Antoinette Conti, a loving portrait of one of her neighbors in South Philadelphia. Another billboard sits directly behind a BP station in Oxford Circle, with one image stretching across two side-by-side billboards; it shows the sunset over a body of water casting an iridescent auburn glow. That color
engaged in this anti-marketing campaign is pretty beautiful.” That these billboards don’t point back to the exhibit directly (or at all) makes sense for a photographer like Strauss. Her modus operandi has long been taking art out of the museums, out of the galleries, and bringing it to the public on their home turf. That was the guiding philosophy behind her lauded Under I-95 project, which concluded in 2010 after a decade of showcasing her photography from the support beams of the interstate where it cuts along Front and Mifflin — and selling prints for an affordable $5 a pop. This philosophy carries forward into “Zoe Strauss: Ten Years” (which runs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art through April 22). The exhibit inside is joined by projections of its images on the building’s façade, and the billboards around the city. “I love the museum,” Strauss explains. “It’s important to me person-
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ally; it’s an important civic space. But often there’s a fairly distinct divide … based on a lot of things. A lot of it is admission, and that’s a real barrier. And then also general access. For me, it was very important to have the exhibition have a kind of barrier reduction, a kind of translucence or transcendence.” While Strauss is clearly most comfortable when her work is free of the sanctity (or is it stringency?) of the art world, she’s no stranger to showing her photographs in formal settings. The PMA is just the latest institution to embrace her work, which has been shown locally at the Woodmere Art Museum and the Institute of Contemporary Art; nationally at New York’s Bruce Silverstein Gallery, and Columbus, Ohio’s Wexner Center for the Arts; and internationally at Prague’s Etc. Galerie. The publication of her 2008 book America — a nod to Robert Frank’s CONTINUED ON PAGE 12
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comes from the oil slick coating the water; it’s an image Strauss shot of the Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Chatting at the museum last week, Strauss is still in ecstatic disbelief that she’s been able to showcase her art at this massive level. She says the immediate enthusiasm for the project from billboard landlords at Clear Channel was both a surprise and a thrill. At first, they offered 40 unused sites that would each host one of her photographs for a month — not a small number by any stretch. As the project moved forward, she says they kept offering more. By the time they are all unveiled, 54 billboards will pepper the city skyline. “It was crazy!” Strauss exclaims. “I mean, those guys think all the time about signage and the way things are presented, and both selling billboards and what the billboards are selling. So the fact that they’re so actively
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seminal The Americans, taking a similar but updated mission — bolstered Strauss’ profile, but Under I-95 remains her signature effort to date. She saw a challenge in addressing it while preparing for “Ten Years.” She wasn’t interested in attempting to directly replicate the highway pillars in the museum’s Prints and Portraits Gallery, she says, but she does hope to talk about the way that installation existed in that space and then “create a different narrative in this space.” One where “moving in any direction, you still get the same experience.” This experience comes from the juxtapositions Strauss creates in presenting her work. Her photos can be grouped, with a minimum of short-selling, into three categories. First, there are observational images of text that’s both playful (the bright-yellow road marker along the Atlantic City Expressway that reads, simply, “Stay Alive”) and poignant (“Mom Were OK” scrawled in paint on the side of a hurricane-ravaged apartment building in Biloxi, Miss.). Then there are the mercurial abstracts, like her 2009 image Nick’s Pizza, Philadelphia, a green cousin to William Eggleston’s The Red Ceiling. Finally, there are the portraits that garner Strauss the greatest amount of attention. Candid and striking, they can often be discomforting, depending on the subject. In America, some images portrayed residents of South Philadelphia and Camden smoking crack, photographed at intensely close range. The book’s publication in 2008 was nearly delayed because a China-based printing company contracted by her publisher refused to print two full-frontal nude photographs of male subjects.
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“There’s approximately 150 million men in the United States and I’m going to venture a guess that the great majority of them have penises,” Strauss blogged at the time. “But the
on a ship-shaped inflatable slide, or South Philly (Mattress Flip Front), of two children bounding acrobatically on discarded cushions and box springs stacked on a sidewalk. Most significant are her intimate, compassionate portraits of everyday people — some are her neighbors, others complete strangers, young and old alike — rendered glamorous by her lens. At the museum, Strauss has created a densely arranged display. Rather than a typical museum photo exhibit — showing off a few dozen photographs spaced evenly apart, presented as what she disdainfully calls “precious objects” — “Ten Years” groups about 150 of her images tightly together, ranging in size from 6 inches by 9 inches to 30 by 40. This forces visitors to put a little work into viewing her show, rather than passively taking it in. “Sometimes people may have to get up close to an image that isn’t necessarily one they want to get close to in order to see the smaller image,” Strauss says. “Occasionally, you’re going to have to back up to see the full image. Behind you, there will be imag-
There’s an undeniable element of shock to her work. three penises that were visible in the book were three too many for the printer. … The ordering was laid out in a way so that each photo weighed a lot, and the two nude photos are very, very important in the creation of a narrative about America.” There is an undeniable element of shock to Strauss’ work. But if that was all there was, her art would not be so widely revered. Other portraits strike a tone of wonderment and magic: Titanic, a whimsical shot of a child
es you don’t notice.” Strauss allows her audience little breathing room — that comes at the end, she laughs. For her, art lies in editing as much as photographing. “It was never figuring out a way to force making an image,” she says. “It was the way the images presented themselves.” (john.vettese@citypaper.net) “Zoe Strauss: Ten Years” runs Jan. 14-April 22, $16, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2600 Ben Franklin Parkway, 215-569-8080, philamuseum.org.
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SECOND SEASON ARTS The series will consist of new pieces penned by local experimental composer/bass clarinetist Gene Coleman, with whom both have worked; Johnny DeBlase, bassist for Zevious and Millevoi’s bandmate in the punk/jazz power trio Many Arms; and Dave Soldier, the eclectic composer behind the Thai Elephant Orchestra and the Brainwave Music Project, who also happens to be Blacksberg’s cousin. The premiere of Coleman’s piece is slated for an April concert of music based on the ideas of Buckminster Fuller. This Saturday at the Rotunda, however, Blacksberg and Millevoi will premiere one of their own compositions, “So Timid Persons Can Kill Their Own Fowl.” The show immediately follows a trip to San Francisco to work with legendary Art Ensemble of Chicago cofounder Roscoe Mitchell on a new commission for Archer Spade and multireedist Drew Cecatto. The trio played arrangements of Mitchell’s music on an Ars Nova Workshop-presented concert.
Blacksberg’s hectic touring schedule with klezmer ensembles both traditional and modern has infused his jazz work, particularly in Electric Simcha. Archer Spade takes its name from another duo’s partnership (one that ended badly), the detective agency from The Maltese Falcon.A strain of dark Americana referenced in Archer Spade’s music, a sort of cosmic neo-noir, makes the name appropriate — a postmodern glance back at hard-boiled gumshoes and theremin-scored space operas. “We’re going for this kind of alternate Americana,” Millevoi explains. “A noir- and sci-fi-influenced avant-garde sound. We’re taking Twilight Zone music, digging Bernard Herrmann, and reimagining it for what we do.” Given those elements, Soldier was an obvious choice for the commissioning series beyond the blood relations. “Dave is one of the most creative and wide-ranging individuals in music,” Blacksberg says. “Who else has done all the weirdo things that he’s done? But
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“We’re going for this kind of alternate Americana.” Dan Blacksberg and Nick Millevoi are already planning their dramatic musical breakup. Well, imagining it, at least. According to their official bio, the trombonist and guitarist have been performing together in different contexts for “more than a decade.” Granted, that timeline counts their joint tenure in the Masterman High School jazz band as a “collaboration,” but they laugh that off as harmless résumé padding. Such a lengthy musical and personal relationship demands a VH1-worthy demise, and the two gamely spin possible ends over breakfast in West Philly. One scenario: Millevoi quits Blacksberg’s Hasidic punk band Electric Simcha and starts his own all-gentile rival. Such a poetic split may be awaiting them in the distant future, but for now, their duo Archer Spade is barely more than a year old, and they’re eagerly embarking on a new and promising phase. Their Archer Spade Commissioning Series, currently entering its final days as a Kickstarter campaign, is raising funds to pay commissions to three composers who are writing music for their trombone/guitar duo, tailored specifically to the unique sound environment that Blacksberg and Millevoi have conjured together over that decade-plus (more or less). “Musically, there are ideas that have emerged since we’ve worked together on this project that really connect us to these composers,” Blacksberg says. “On the other side of it is the community aspect: We know these composers, and we’re sure that they’ll know how to write for us and will challenge us in ways that we’re into.” THE COMMISSIONERS: Nick Millevoi (left) and Dan Blacksberg started a Kickstarter campaign to commission music tailored to their unique sound.
After the show, Millevoi recalls, Mitchell said, “This sounded great, but it’s not tailored to you. I should do one of these for you guys.” Thus far, Archer Spade’s repertoire has consisted almost entirely of music written collaboratively by Blacksberg and Millevoi, made up of sound- and texture-based instructions assembled from their own singular vocabularies. The goal now is to take their work further into the realm of contemporary classical music and create, as Millevoi says, “something completely uninfluenced by punk rock.” The punk influence has emerged heavily throughout the pair’s intertwined careers. Their first proper collaboration was in Millevoi’s free jazz/country band Circles, and they co-founded the avantfunk group Racketshop, influenced by Ornette Coleman’s Prime Time band and the late-’80s work of guitarist Joe Morris. Millevoi has tendencies toward an ax-shredding brand of jazz, while
he’s also an American composer in the spirit of Aaron Copland, drawing on Mark Twain for influence.” DeBlase, who has already written one piece for the Archer Spade book, and Coleman were natural options considering their long histories with the pair. “We’ve both worked a lot individually and together with Gene,” Blacksberg says of Coleman. “Some of our pieces are influenced by the way he structures sounds into compositions, and we wanted to get more into that.” “Contemporary classical music is all textural based,” Blackberg continues, “but it’s also so European. Archer Spade is a weird and completely natural way for us to access that sound world with some associations that are fun and are silly when you compare it to European art music — but it still comes out as art music.” (s_brady@citypaper.net) Sat., Jan. 14, 8 p.m., free, The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St., therotunda.org.
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BLACK KEYS After rocking out to El Camino, I no longer doubt the Akron duo-plus can rock a place as big as the WFC. But do I want to see them there? Undecided at press time. March 10, Wells Fargo Center, livenation.com. DR. DOG A double shot of these indiejam Philly favorites. March 24-25, Electric Factory. FIRST AID KIT This sisterly Swedish duo writes rootsy Led Zep-style folk epics. Their Game of Thrones-y second album, The Lion’s Roar, drops soon. March 31, Union Transfer. WILD FLAG City Paper called their selftitled debut the best album of 2011, and we stand by it. It’s not like that time we acted like Vampire Weekend was so great. That was just a phase. April 3, Trocadero.
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TALIB KWELI/RES Guess that whole Black Star reboot is gonna be a slow build. For now we get Talib solo, dropping Brooklyn conspiracy hip-hop you can groove to. Get there early for Philly soul-rocker Res. Jan. 19, World Café Live, worldcafelive.com. MAN MAN Philly’s stompy cabarockers didn’t get the hometown love they deserved for last year’s Life Fantastic. It mighta been their best yet. This show’s a good chance to grab Honus Honus by the white pants, run our fingers through his luxurious mustache and swear we’ll never take him for granted again. Jan. 21, Union Transfer, utphilly.com.
barely ironic return to prominence. Maybe Bruce, Eddie and the rest are ready for a Some Kind of Monster/Osbournes/Anvil moment. Surely they’ve earned a one-off gag in a Funny or Die vid at least? Jan. 26, Susquehanna Bank Center, livenation.com. AIMEE MANN You may be surprised to learn that Aimee Mann, known for her guest appearances on Portlandia and all those comedy podcasts, is also a pretty decent singersongwriter. Jan. 26, World Café Live.
JEFF MANGUM Move along. This is the most sold-out show of all time. Jan. 25, Irvine Auditorium, r5productions.com.
SUGAR TOWN’S 11TH ANNIVERSARY With Tritone changing hands — and Sara Sherr moving Sugar Town to Kung Fu Necktie in February — this is a fine time to say goodbye to the place and hello to the fine female rockers in The Shondes, Lust2Love (a Go-Go’s tribute band), Butterscotch Grimm and Jurassic Shark (a Girls Rock Philly group). Raise a glass to the memory of Rick D while you’re there, too. Jan. 28, Tritone, tritonebar.com.
MEGADETH Seems like every other metal mainstay has mined its iron man status for a
DIE ANTWOORD Do you enjoy choppy aggro/po-mo South African weirdo-rap? Not
sure, are you? Feb. 9, Trocadero, thetroc.com. SHARON VAN ETTEN One day you’ll kick yourself for not catching the lovelorn Brooklyn singer-songwriter back when she played places this small. Feb. 10, Johnny Brenda’s, johnnybrendas.com. UMPHREY’S MCGEE In the words of Peter Laviolette: Show me some jam. Feb.11, Electric Factory, electricfactory.info. SLOW CLUB It’s about time this adorable Brit-folk duo came around to perform Paradise for us live. I’m tired of pressing play. Feb. 15, Johnny Brenda’s. SAUL WILLIAMS Nobody seems to be poetry slamming anymore, but hip-hopping wordsmith Saul Williams still has something to say. His latest album, Volcanic Sunlight,just dropped a couple months ago. Feb. 22, World Café Live.
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VAN CHAMPION: Sharon Van Etten plays Johnny Brenda‘s Feb. 10.
MAGNETIC FIELDS Stephin Merritt and co. come to town to celebrate the release of their new album, Love at the Bottom of the Sea.Actually “celebrate” is overselling it. Let’s say “begrudgingly acknowledge.” March 7, Union Transfer.
FIVE ACTS: CHRONICLES OF DISSENT The manifestolike poster for “Chronicles” — funded by the deep pockets of the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative — introduces topics of CONTINUED ON PAGE 18
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A SENSE OF PLACE Lots of fiber shows this spring will respond to the international biennial FiberPhiladelphia 2012. Bruce Hoffman, who for some years organized huge, stunning encyclopedic shows around this event for Snyderman-Works Gallery, has crafted a provocative, smaller-themed show this year for the Art Alliance. Artists Marian Bijlenga, Marcia Docter, Pat Hickman, Ke-Sook Lee, Amy Orr, Wendeanne Ke’aka Stitt, Barbara Lee Smith and Bhakti Ziek address a broad spectrum of materials, techniques and ideas. Feb.2-April 21, Philadelphia Art Alliance, philartalliance.org.
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sion and tactile experience before we are taught the “real” value of things. March 8–April 21, Rebekah Templeton, rebekahtempleton.com.
enter a space of happiness and joy. … I honor with love and respect the tree that produces each block I carve.” Lush, sensual and elegantly composed in line and form, her images share a Japanese printmaker’s appreciation of everyday life. Through Feb. 16, Villanova University Art Gallery, artgallery.villanova.edu.
FRANCISCO MELA AND CUBAN SAFARI The explosive drummer showcases his rhythmic versatility with this ensemble, combining jazz complexity with infectious grooves from his native Cuba. Jan. 21, Chris’ Jazz Café, chrisjazzcafe.com. CHUCHO VALDÉS AND THE AFRO-CUBAN JAZZ MESSENGERS The legendary Cuban pianist, founder of the pioneering Latin
VAN GOGH UP CLOSE No one ever says, “I don’t know anything about art but I know what I like” at a van Gogh show. Nature imagery with a Japanese flavor dominates some 40 works drawn from the artist’s final, most productive, years. Get your tickets early. This is sure to be mobbed. Feb. 1-May 6, Philadelphia Museum of Art, philamuseum.org. CHINESE NEW YEAR CELEBRATION It’s the auspicious year of the Water Dragon and time for the Penn Museum’s 31st New Year celebration. Diverse demonstrations and activities (including music, dance and martial arts) will culminate in a lavish Lion Dance parade. Check out the museum’s spectacular carved Chinese crystal, enameled dog cage and big pieces of furniture. Feb. 4, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, penn.museum. TYLER KLINE There’s something simultaneously garbage-y and gorgeous about Tyler Kline’s sculptures made of aluminum foil: tortuously organic and very simple. Dreamlike, they evoke a kind of infantile acceptance of vi-
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CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE & THE THELONIUS MONK ALL STAR SEXTET A generationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leading bassist pays homage to Monk. March 23, Chrisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Jazz CafĂŠ. STEVEN BERNSTEINâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S MTO The puckish slide trumpeter plays the music of Sly Stone with his big band. April 13, Painted Bride. ENDANGERED BLOOD Four of Brooklynâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s finest, originally formed to raise money for saxophonist Andrew Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Angeloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s medical bills. April 14, Maas Building, arsnovaworkshop.org. KURT ELLING The perennially cool vocalist takes on the Sinatra songbook. April 28, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.
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tural crossroads. Feb. 4, Montgomery County Community College, mc3.edu. EDDIE PALMIERI LATIN JAZZ BAND One of the mainstays of Latin jazz celebrates his 75th birthday. Feb. 4, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, annenbergcenter.org. NICHOLAS PAYTON Trumpeter and provocateur Payton demonstrates his definition of jazz, something heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been extremely outspoken about of late. Feb. 11, Chrisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Jazz CafĂŠ.
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SECOND SEASON ARTS JACK MCTAMNEY Remember “Mr. Ford?” We named it one of the Songs of the Year over on Critical Mass. The ToneBenders were so proud of bandmate Jack they are backing him in a concert-length set of nothing but originals. Feb. 3, Dawson Street Pub, dawsonstreetpub.com.
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RUTHIE FOSTER WITH PAUL THORN The new CD has Foster moving far from her drum-and-voice roots and deep into the studio. But how can you argue with “If I Had a Hammer” sung contemporary with a sax counterpoint of “Chain Gang?” March 8, World Café Live.
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BEAUSOLEIL These are guys who rocked Cajun just enough for the uninitiated to be intrigued, but not so much that trad lovers wondered what they were listening to. They have been setting the standard for decades. Feb. 23, World Café Live.
JOHNNY RAWLS His latest CD title neatly defines him: Memphis Still Got Soul. No lie. March 10, Twisted Tail, thetwistedtail.com. Junk
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MASTERS OF TRADITION Ambassadors from the County Cork festival of the same name, Masters of Tradition make the true stuff, complete with an old tongue singer in Iarla Ó Lionnáird. April 15, Annenberg Center.
IVAN GOFF The pre-show lecture about how the West of Ireland saved Irish pipes from extinction may not be your dish of tea, but Goff’s piping will surely convince you that the saving was a good thing. Feb. 18, Commodore Barry Club, philadelphiaceiligroup.org.
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traditions. The pure drop for sure. March 11, Crossroads Concerts, Calvary Center, crossroadsconcerts.org. GUY DAVIS An extraordinary opportunity to introduce the kids to country blues, fancy finger-picking, folk songs and stories by one of the best. March 17, World Café Live. SWEETBACK SISTERS They tore up the place last year with funny songs, honky tonk and swinging. March 22, World Café Live.
and music by six companies: Alchemy Dance Company, DDL Dance Works, Infatuation Dance Company, RenZoku Dance Works, Somatic Movers and Tangle Movement Arts. Jan. 13, Performance Garage, ruddydance.org. BRIAN SANDERS’ JUNK MOMIX, Koresh, Junk, Cirque du Soleil and Pilobolus will do their thing, but this Snowball event is as much party as performance. Everything Sanders does is inventive and fun. Jan. 21, Hamilton Hall, briansandersjunk.com. INBAL PINTO & CO. Oyster, the master work of Israeli Inbal Pinto and the Avshalom Pollak Dance Company, turns the stage into a wonderland of wandering circus performers, poetry, ballet, modern dance, comedy and mime. Expect the surreal. Feb.9-11, Annenberg Center, annenbergcenter.org. PENNSYLVANIA BALLET’S MESSIAH Yes, Handel’s glorious music has been made a ballet with choreography from Robert Weiss (former PAB artistic director, now with the Carolina Ballet). The music soars, the audience sings, and the dancers float on the music. March 8-17, CONTINUED ON PAGE 26
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SECOND SEASON ARTS Academy of Music, paballet.org. BALLETX More new work from one of the most intriguing experimental troupes in the city. Includes a world premiere by Jodie Gates (formerly of Penn Ballet, now doing experimental dance in Southern California), Largo
new work by the always stimulating Steve Mackey. Feb. 12-13, Kimmel Center, chamberorchestra.org. THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC This will be a homecoming of sorts for the principal performers, conductor Alan Gilbert and mezzosoprano Joyce DiDonato, both Philly schooled. She solos in “Les Nuits D’Été, by Berlioz. The evening also features new music from Stephen Stucky, and a warhorse from Mussorgsky. Feb. 24, Kimmel Center, kimmelcenter.org. NETWORK FOR NEW MUSIC, WITH THE
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PENNSYLVANIA BALLET’S PETER PAN Featuring choreography (and spectacular flying sequences) by Trey McIntyre and music by Sir Edward Elgar. A ballet for young, old and in between. May 2-13, Academy of Music.
MENDELSSOHN CLUB SINGERS Jan Krzywicki is not exactly a household name, but the Temple U. music professor consistently writes some of the most beautiful and compelling work on the local new music scene. He will have a new chamber work, including voices, in a program of poetry-inspired pieces, including more new music from Cynthia Folio and Thomas Whitman. Feb. 26, Independence Seaport Museum, pcmsconcerts.org. JERUSALEM STRING QUARTET The powerful string quartets of Dmitri Shostakovich may well be the finest contribution to the idiom since Beethoven. This superb young ensemble
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ACADEMY OF VOCAL ARTS: VERDI’S OBERTO A Romeo and Juliet-type tale is the basis for the rarely performed first opera from the musical theatrical genius from Parma. This will be a concert version, but with full orchestra. Jan. 26-27, Kimmel Center, avaopera.org.
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ORCHESTRA 2001: VOICES FROM THE HEARTLAND This concert showcases the titular concluding seventh part of George Crumb’s singular take on the American songbook, including what should be a very special version of “On Top of Old Smoky.” The concert also continues O2001’s season-long tribute to Pierre Boulez, as well as a local premiere from the dazzling Louis Andriessen. Jan. 28, Trinity Center, orchestra2001.org.
presents three of them on a single program. March 14, Independence Seaport Museum.
CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF PHILADELPHIA The sublime late-in-life Clarinet Concerto of Mozart is indisputably the greatest work written for that instrument. Hearing it played by the wonderful Anthony McGill should be a special treat. Dirk Brossé will also conduct the overture to Don Giovanni and a
THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA The acclaimed conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen is also a fine composer, and will lead his Violin Concerto, to be played by Leila Josefowicz, in a program that also includes masterpieces by Bartók and Debussy. March 29-31, Kimmel Center, philorch.org.
OPERA COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA: HENZE’S ELEGY FOR YOUNG LOVERS This 1961 chamber opera features a haunting story worthy of Ibsen, set to the extraordinarily rich music of a true modern master. Sung in English translation for this Philadelphia premiere.March 14, 16 and 18, Kimmel Center, operaphila.org.
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³ THIS WEEK, IT’S Zoe Strauss’ world and
we’re just living in it with barely any room for our furniture. My old pal’s photographic exhibition opens at the Art Museum with a sold-out dance party where surely her brother Cosmo Baker will make an appearance. There’s a Zoe Strauss photo on the billboard on the corner where I walk my dog, another where I take my dry cleaning and one on nearly every block. More on her on p. 11. Mazel. ➤ Speaking of “mazel” (Andy Cohen’s catchphrase), did anyone catch ?uestlove during Cohen’s Watch What Happens on Bravo TV when the drummer called out Tina Fey — with whom he shares a hometown and a network — for not being nice to his Roots? “Fellow Philadelphians, we bond with each other and it’s been hard to bond with her,” said Questo days before she and War on Drugs are set to appear on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.This is tastier than Ahmir’s Michele Bachmann “Lyin’ Ass Bitch” scandal. ➤We have no idea what Shola Olunloyo thought about last week’s for-now closing of Tony Rim’s Raw at the Piazza (the notorious space his Speck Food + Winewas to have occupied until landlord Bart Blatstein showed him the door). Ask Shola, if you see him while on duty for “stir-fry menu development” at the still-readying honeygrow eatery — Justin Rosenberg’s takeover of ye old Pita Pit on the ground floor of The Oakwood — coming this spring to Ionic and 16th. Olunloyo recently consulted during the opening of Birra on East Passyunk. ➤ All that weirdness with Kung Fu Necktie’s liquor license? (The Fishtown bar’s been BYOB-ing it, and all your fave KFN on-floor and bartending pals started popping up at Milkboy, among other places.) Well, it’s over. Drink up. ➤ What’s going on with Second and Chestnut’s Zento sushi spot moving into the neighboring Grey Social Lounge spot? The one-time BYOB (still open at its old address) is advertising a sake bar. Did Grey have to leave in a hurry? ➤While we’re in that neighborhood, the downstairs Beneluxx Belgian brew hut on Third between Market and Chestnut (the same owners as Eulogy) was supposed to start hosting live semi-acoustic shows until the venue slowed its roll and cancelled the gig. We hope nothing is amiss with the Old City classic. Don’t shutter. Give it one more try. ➤ Producer/director Mike Nise, of WPHL-17 Dancin’ on Air fame, says he’s looking to revive DOA in late February, if the stars are Nisely aligned. ➤ One of my dearest old friends, Tim Bowen,passed away on Monday. He was a painter and musician (Boneheads,Crystal Ball Breakers) since the days of the Hot Club and Bar Noir which he helped build and book. More recently, Bowen opened and closed his own gallery on Fourth, Falling Cow. More at citypaper.net/criticalmass. (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)
STARE OFF: The cast of Carnage is superbly on point, especially Jodie Foster, who performs her most precise work in decades.
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WILD THINGS Roman Polanski’s latest shines a light on humanity’s uncontrollable crazy side. By Sam Adams
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hildren aren’t born innocent so much as they are unformed; like Adam and Eve before the fall, they live in a world where good and evil are meaningless. Raising them from that state means confronting the fact that before the blessings of civilization take hold, we are all animals, and no amount of good breeding can far suppress our bestial nature. The children in Roman Polanski’s Carnage are mostly unseen, barring the playground preface that’s filmed in wordless long shot, like a nature documentary. But the standoff between a single boy and a group of his would-be friends is both the movie’s pretext and its subtext. The blow that knocks out one boy’s teeth necessitates a meeting between both sets of parents, with the perpetrator’s wealthy father and mother, Alan and Nancy Cowan (Christoph Waltz and Kate Winslet), dropping in on the Brooklyn digs of the victim’s liberal mom and dad, Penelope and Michael Longstreet (Jodie Foster and John C. Reilly). And it also serves as a reminder that, even though the only casualty of the verbal sparring match that follows is an insistently buzzing BlackBerry, the desire to draw blood is no less acute. Carnage opens at what ought to be the end, with the Longstreets’
printer ejecting a typewritten accord between the two parties. But though the Cowans quickly make for the elevators, they never get farther than the hallways. On stage, where the material originated as Yasmina Reza’s play God of Carnage, their inability to leave was a theatrical necessity, but on film, it takes on an existential cast. They’re boxed in like the dinner guests in Buñuel’s The Exterminating Angel, or the madwoman in Polanski’s Repulsion, prisoners of their own nature. Even before Michael says, with a hint of forced joviality, “We’re all decent people,” it’s obvious that it’s only a matter of time before the gloves come off, with Alan and Penelope in opposing corners. The predictable downslide into animal behavior is the movie’s greatest weakness, an attempt to pass off sophomore cynicism as anthropological insight. But Polanski is in expert form, infusing the material with impish glee and executing it with breathless velocity. He knows it’s a zesty snack rather than a hearty meal. Like Robert Altman, or Louis Malle’s Vanya on 42nd Street, Polanski retains the physical confines of the play but smashes through the proscenium, setting his camera loose inside the apartment. Rather than “opening it up” as is the hack’s wisdom, he films it from the inside out. Although Reilly’s part is underwritten and therefore haphazardly played, the rest of the movie’s cast is superbly on point, especially Foster, who does her best, most precise work in decades. Carnage promises no great revelations, but it drives home an oft-observed truth with wit and style. It’s thin, but then so is a knife between your ribs. (s_adams@citypaper.net)
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Three masters of expansive improvising vocabulary meet up on Live in LA (Clean Feed). Trumpeter Bobby Bradford was an early collaborator with Ornette Coleman and a vital if often undersung player in the early days of free jazz; bassist Mark Dresser is an avantmusic stalwart, with long associations with Anthony Braxton and Gerry Hemingway. The least-known of the three, trombonist Glenn Ferris toured in one of Frank Zappa’s more jazz-centric ensembles before resettling in France. The three range over a vast terrain of jazz styles on this spacious and intimate set. —Shaun Brady
The nimble banjo fingers and earthyboozy voices of Michigan’s Greensky Bluegrass make righteous time machines, but it’s not always some prewar Appalachian porch they lead you to. On their latest, Handguns (Big Blue Zoo), they use a moody delay effect to drop you off in some paranoid Mike + the Mechanics dystopia, and a dobro to take you up-country. Greensky Bluegrass plays World Café Live —Patrick Rapa on Wednesday (worldcafelive.org).
³ jazz One of the final releases featuring Paul Motian, who died last November, brings the legendary drummer full circle. Alongside pianist Chick Corea and bassist Eddie Gomez, he revisits the music of Bill Evans, in whose landmark trio Motian came to prominence, during a two-week stint at the Blue Note in May 2010. None of the triomates has ever been interested in repeating himself, let alone anyone else, and Further Explorations (Concord Jazz) finds the three stretching out on a repertoire of Evans compositions, favorite standards and originals by all three that allow this to become a trib—Shaun Brady ute in spirit rather than a slavish homage.
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³ reunion rock So Captain Bob’s back with his old drinking buddies, dropping their fi all over the place and kicking out the demented, fragmented postage-stamp jams just like they used ta. Let’s Go Eat the Factory (GBV Inc.) — Guided by Voices’ first outing in eight years and this “classic” lineup’s first in twice that — is 21 sloppy, scuzzy rock-doodles in 42 minutes, unquestionably recapturing the feel, and much of the fun, of their mid-’90s heyday. Sure, it’s closer to the mildly turgid Under the Bushes Under the Stars than the inane brilliance of Alien Lanes, but it’ll do. —K. Ross Hoffman
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A tedious golden-years melodrama.
DUCHESS OF MERYL: Despite a spot-on impersonation, the film’s misguided script offers Streep no opportunity to provide the type of below-the-surface insight that would qualify her portrayal as a full-fledged performance.
It’s a love letter to Philly composers. ³ THIS IS A fine time for a Philadelphian to get into classical music, thanks to a spate of excellent new recordings from composers and musicians of local interest. The Albany label is especially committed to promulgating new music; Jeremy Gill’s terrific new album of music for solo piano and for voice and piano was on my top 10 list for 2011, and Jan Krzywicki has an omnibus of fascinating chamber music that has just been released. Another good friend to living composers is the relatively new Innova label. The recent double CD set Odyssey, featuring flutist Mimi Stillman and pianist Charles Abramovic, is a veritable love letter to Philadelphia composers, including 11 works from eminent artists who either live in the area or have close associations. The variety of styles speaks to a diversity of expression in the classical music world that is probably unprecedented in history, ranging from lyrical neo-Romanticism to folk and jazz influences, and a healthy dollop of good old modernistic dissonance. The set also represents a high mark in the career of one of our city’s most talented and hardworking music pros. Those, like myself, who have followed Stillman over the years will trace their first encounters with her music-making when she was a teenage prodigy. (She entered Curtis at the age of 12 to study with the legendary Julius Baker, and was the youngest wind player in the school’s history.) The famously vivacious Stillman has made a lot of friends over the years, and seems to have stayed connected to all of them. Curtis remains a rich trove of collaborators, including her partner for this project, the superb Abramovic, and Philadelphia Orchestra cellist Yumi Kendall, the trio that was the original core membership of the Dolce Suono Ensemble, which Stillman founded in 2005. Dolce Suono has become increasingly innovative, culminating in the past two seasons with the ambitious and acclaimed “Mahler 100/Schoenberg 60 Project.” The Curtis connection extends to the composers that Stillman champions and now, with increasing regularity, commissions, including a bunch on the double CD: David Ludwig, Richard Danielpour, Zhou Tian, Michael Djupstrom, Daniel Kellogg; the list is probably incomplete. This wonderful set and the Mahler/Schoenberg project might be a career capper for some. But I’m pretty sure that the still youthful Stillman is just getting started. (p_burwasser@citypaper.net)
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her twilight years is a lovely enough sentiment and something of a contrast to her armor-clad public image, but somehow it, and not her history-shaping tenure as prime minister, has become the central focus of Phyllida Lloyd’s misguided biopic. Meryl Streep’s impression of Thatcher is predictably uncanny, but the familiar Thatcher is left as a series of noble head-held-high poses broken up by the occasional ferocious outburst; the script gives her no opportunity to provide the type of belowthe-surface insight that would qualify it as a full-fledged performance. An outsized percentage of screen time is handed over to the modern-day Thatcher, depicted as a doddering old woman slipping into senility while a vision of the late Denis Thatcher (Jim Broadbent) appears to dote and hector her. A slipup while signing copies of her autobiography leads to a series of flashbacks, but each brief glimpse of the past is hurried through, the whole film edited like a trailer for itself. The IRA is reduced to a couple of things blowing up, the end of the Cold War to news footage of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Falklands to a strategy meeting — but the elderly Thatcher’s struggle with sorting through her husband’s old shoes is given monumental status. Which might have worked if there were a unique love story to tell, but the Thatchers’ courtship is rushed as carelessly as every other aspect of her storied life as the framing story runs away with the film. Lloyd musters up enough fiery debate moments along the way to suggest something about Thatcher’s early struggles with male-dominated politics hardening into a bitter iron-handedness, but the main thrust remains a fairly tedious golden-years melodrama. Count it somewhere just under Pierce Brosnan’s singing voice on the list of the Mamma Mia! director’s most inexplicable decisions. —Shaun Brady
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Âł IN EIGHT NARRATIVE works on paper and two dioramas, Marilyn Holsing takes Marie Antoinette as her heroine. Partially detaching the young queen from history, she adds her own flourishes to two elements of the royal story: a relatively carefree childhood in a largish comfortable Austrian family and the adult Marie Antoinetteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s experiment with an idyllic Versailles residence. Le hameau de la reine (the queenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hamlet) was a tiny, functional â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in a Disneyland way â&#x20AC;&#x201D; farm village with sheep, chickens, a dairy and gardens, modeled on similar playgrounds belonging to other aristocrats. At le hameau, the queen tried to escape ponderous court protocol and recapture a natural innocence. One of Holsingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important motifs is the lack of solitude or privacy even in this bucolic setting, a sense that one is always the object of observation, imitation, gossip and sometimes ridicule. Holsing sets aside many 18th-century artistic conventions, particularly the springtime colors associated with the queen and contemporaneous painters such as Fragonard or Boucher. She does, however, embrace the Rococo fetish for representing adults as children. Holsingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Marie and a bevy of nearly identical girlfriends â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or maids â&#x20AC;&#x201D; wear not the confections of Rose Bertin (the historical queenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dressmaker) but dresses that Little Orphan Annie could have appreciated. With tiny, clumsy hands and feet, the multiple girlish figures in frozen postures are reminiscent of Henry Dargerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Vivian Girls, although their gestures are more theatrical. For the first seven years of her marriage, Marie Antoinette failed in the chief duty of a queen. She could not conceive because her husband, whose main interest was making locks, did not know enough about sex. Finally, her brother came for a visit and explained things to the king. When she built le hameau, though, Marie was a mother, certainly influenced by Jean-Jacques Rousseauâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s philosophy advocating a more informal, natural
environment for children. In â&#x20AC;&#x153;Young Marie Repairs a Rent,â&#x20AC;? the girl queen is alone, seated on a fallen limb. A piglet drapes over her lap as she embroiders its ear, perhaps a play on the aphorism about a silk purse and a sowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ear. In another picture, she builds a sheep pen â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in the shape of a skep, a straw beehive â&#x20AC;&#x201D; from enormous pearls. These fantastical activities underline the artificiality of the life of the queen and the exotic ambiguity of nature as she experienced it. Departing from Holsingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s earlier treatments of Marie Antoinette, these paintings are monochrome, executed on cutout medallions of dark burnt-umber paper in the profound obscuring shadow of time or memory. The generally unframed oval picture areas are bordered with convincing representations of pleated ruffles or ribbons. In narrow, lighter but still quite dark blues or greens and browns, illusionistic tapestry threads effectively represent figures with parallel brushstrokes of Flashe and acrylic. Typical Rococo themes of lighthearted love are not to be found in these dark schoolgirl narratives. The love of nature is here â&#x20AC;&#x201D; although it is a dark, almost stormy, romantic vision of twisting tree limbs and windswept skies. The two most ambitious works in the show are dioramas presented in the darkened vault area of the gallery. Working in a scale similar to that of the flat paintings, with layers of mostly cut paper, Holsing constructs scenes of trees, bushes, plants and figures. Lit by an ominous, almost lurid light, these tableux are brought to life through projections of the shadows of birds in flight and sound fragments of bird calls and distant voices speaking conversational phrases in French. Holsingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s choice of paper to construct a world could speak to the hopeful, almost willed fragility of civilizations, the treachery and storms waiting around the corner. (r_rice@citypaper.net)
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There are equal parts faith and heart in this enjoyable comedic drama co-starring Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton as rivals in a church choir, but it’s the music that makes Joyful Noise truly sing. The plot, about a Pacashau, Ga. gospel group trying to win a national competition, is just an excuse to hang songs on, but oh, what heavenly music. Writer/director Todd Graff (Camp, Bandslam) judiciously incorporates catchy pop tunes by artists like Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney to make everyone — the characters and the audience — want to get up and shout. The songs are infectious, but the much-hyped star power is off-kilter. Parton, who’s all down-home grit and charm, is underused, save for a lovely duet. Joyful Noise is Queen Latifah’s show all the way. Her poignant ballad, “Fix
Me Jesus,” testifies to her character’s troubles, and her speeches — tender for her Asperger’s-afflicted son Walter (South Jersey’s Dexter Darden) and tough-loving for her teenage daughter Olivia (Keke Palmer) — are showstoppers. However, there is too much time spent on the romantic trials between Olivia and Parton’s lustful grandson Randy (Jeremy Jordan), and Graff never resists an obvious joke. At least the messages about finding one’s strength and pride aren’t too preachy. Joyful Noise isn’t great cinema, but it’s going to make one helluva Broadway musical. —Gary M. Kramer (Pearl, UA Grant, UA Riverview)
PARIAH|BIf there were a competition for distilling the Sundance Film Festival aesthetic into a single film, you could do worse than putting your money on Pariah. A semi-autobiographical debut feature about a young African-American lesbian’s struggle with her own sexuality and her family’s acceptance, rendered in oversaturated colors and shaky handheld camera work — it’s the über-Sundance experience, and while that often implies it's predictable, there are rewards in its telling and, especially, its performances. Adepero Oduye is captivating as Alike, a straight-A 17year-old whose closeted existence is becoming a strain on her personal and family life. Writer/director Dee Rees chooses to tell her story on an intimate scale, aiming for street-level grit but stylizing it to a glossy sheen. She succeeds at depicting the fragile world of a teenager, where the dangers are miniscule in the grand scheme but ever-threatening through their own eyes. Alike juggles the flush of first love with the omnipresent horror of discovery, wordlessly switching from baseball cap drag to the little-girl pinks chosen by her suspicious mother (Kim Wayans), expressing not only her reluctance but the shame of her dual
A Dangerous Method is squarely in David Cronenberg's wheelhouse. But perhaps because his interests are so tangibly present in the script, he brings little to the proceedings himself. Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud's back-and-forth is meant to form the basis for psychoanalysis, establishing a definitive link between physical ailments and mental disorders. It's one of the most important intellectual developments of the 20th century, so why does the film feel so studied and lifeless? Cronenberg's not phoning it in, exactly, but he hangs back, never asserting himself, as if the movie doesn't need his help. For all its highbrow trappings, the script is short on detail, failing to delineate or expand upon what feel like idle conversations rather than world-shaking conflicts. It's a movie of ideas, but there aren't nearly enough of them. —Sam Adams (Ritz Five)
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William Brent Bell’s pile of faux found footage follows the European trip of Isabella, a young American visiting her mother Maria, who’s been locked in an asylum since murdering three clergy members stateside. With a skeptical documentarian in tow, Isabella recruits two rogue exorcists who try to free her mother from the chains that bind her. Bell does manage to crank out a few thick-tension scenes, but is so focused on his characters’ irrelevant emotional baggage that he forgets foul-mouthed demons are more interesting than neurotic humans. A lazy, dissatisfying ending is the cruddy cherry on top. —Drew Lazor (Pearl, UA Grant, UA Riverview)
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THE MEEP PROJECT Simpatico Theatre Project expands its two-play season to include workshopping a new play for all ages, Ed Swidley’s The mEEp pROject. A teacher as well as an accomplished actor, Swidley hatched the idea while giving kids “lessons on
full-bodied, imaginative movement.” His meeps are vaguely human, curious, energetic creatures who communicate through gesture and, occasionally, the word “mEEp.” Swidley calls the play “an opportunity for professional theater artists to throw themselves into the creation of theater with the innocent abandon that young actors do when they first get the bug to ‘put on a play.’”
the piano, banging out tunes by Ludwig van, as well as some ditties from Haydn, Sousa and Manilow. Yes, as in Barry. The only other performer, Katherine Pecevich, plays the stage manager — as well as Janis Joplin, Mozart, Napoleon and Beethoven’s Jewish mother. —Peter Burwasser Jan. 12-29, $35-$47, Kimmel Center, 260 S. Broad St., 215-731-3333, kimmelcenter.org.
—Mark Cofta Jan. 12-22, $10-$15, Simpatico Theatre Project, Walnut Street Theatre Studio 5, 825 Walnut St., 215-4230254, simpaticotheatre.org.
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LUDWIG LIVE! It’s an old truism that Beethoven, the legendary improviser, would have made a great jazz pianist. But a lounge lizard? That’s the idea behind this new musical comedy conceived by and starring pianist Charles Lindberg, who will sit, properly bewigged, at
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EARLY ANIMATION In the earliest days of cinema, the medium itself was a shiny new plaything, inspiring filmmakers to whimsical experiments in order to figure out just what this thing could do. Animation was always a part of that exploration; at the same time Georges Méliès was turning reality insideout, animators like Winsor McCay and Émile Cohl were breathing life into two-dimensional drawings. I-House
gathers eight examples from the movies’ first few decades on this program, including cartoonist McCay’s pioneering Gertie the Dinosaur from 1914 and French animator Cohl’s even earlier A Love Affair in Toyland (1908). Three of Walt Disney’s landmark films are featured, including the death knell for silent film, Steamboat Willie. Slapstick characters Felix the Cat and Mutt and Jeff also make appearances, but the program concludes with an unfortunately little-followed alternative for grown-up audiences, one of German director Lotte Reiniger’s exquisite silhouette films. —Shaun Brady Thu., Jan. 12, 7 p.m., $7-$9, International House, 3701 Chestnut St., 215-387-5125, ihousephilly.org.
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SCRATCH NIGHT Before Nick Stuccio buys a zoo, I mean, a restaubar/performance space on Delaware
Ave., he and the Fringe peeps will take advantage of that Live Arts Brewery spot in Northern Liberties for several socially interactive programs between artists and audiences. Best casein-point is the monthly Scratch Night, a salon environment funded by John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s Knight Arts Challenge, where crossgenre performers and directors make new works based heavily on improvisation. First up are Jeffrey Stanley and Justin Jain. Jain is from Philly’s alternacomic team Berserker Residents (The Lapsburgh Layover, The Annihilation Point); his notyet-finished Bedtime Stories for Special Boys looks at gay male identity with the help of kids’ stories and his pals’ personal narratives. Luckily, his Boys include James and the Giant Peach’s James Ijames, SoLow Fest creator Thomas Choinacky and the Wilma Theater cabaret’s favorite genderfuck John Jarboe (he does a mean Edith Piaf). Stanley, meanwhile, is set to unveil a revamped bit
of last year’s Fringe’s bleak comic event Beautiful Zion: A Book of the Dead. Family misery, alcoholism and diving into the spirit world — I’m there. —A.D. Amorosi Thu., Jan. 12, 7 p.m., free, with Jeffrey Stanley and Justin Jain, Live Arts Studio, 919 N. Fifth St., 215-413-9006, livearts-fringe.org.
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Fold-Ins. Mary-Lou Weisman’s biography, illustrated by the 90year-old artist in his recognizably exuberant style, takes the opposite approach, unfolding Jaffee’s story to reveal a wealth of details hidden by the cleverness and wiseacre warmth of his artwork. Al Jaffee’s Mad Life (It Books) traces the cartoonist’s hardscrabble youth, born in Savannah, Ga., but torn from the comforts of America by his erratic mother’s irrational desire to return home to her
The mere mention of the name Bill Clinton conjures all manner of tawdry details, and other would-be occupants of the White House have topped even that (read: John Edwards, Newt Gingrich). New York Times Washington correspondent Jodi Kantor has covered the first family since 2007, penning articles on the Obamas’ marriage, their child-rearing approach, and Michelle Obama’s slave ancestry. Her new book, The Obamas (Little, Brown, Jan. 10), delves even deeper into the details of their family life, juggling domestic responsibilities with the pressures of the campaign trail and the demands of the nation’s highest office. —Shaun Brady Wed., Jan. 18, 6:30 p.m., $10, National Constitution Center, 525 Arch St., 215409-6700, constitutioncenter.org.
village in Lithuania. Cartoons remain Jaffee’s lifeline, from care packages of Sunday funnies mailed religiously by his father from the States straight through to his more than half a century at MAD, where he continues to provide Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions and the occasional zany invention that seems like it should already exist. —Shaun Brady
IN THE FOOTPRINT: THE BATTLE OVER ATLANTIC YARDS A love for labor drove American theater in the 1930s (a la playwright Clifford Odets) and the Brits of the 1950s (think John Osborne) with scripts devoted to hardball union discussions, social woes and wages. Making it musical is now the job of
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JODI KANTOR As far as his political opponents are willing to reach to paint Barack Obama as the profoundest evil that’s ever paced the LORI ANDREWS
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The Civilians, a self-described “investigative theater company” dedicated to documentary-style theater. In the Footprint: The Battle Over Atlantic Yards, written and directed by Steven Cosson with songs by Chestnut Hills Michael Friedman, looks at the history of the controversial Brooklyn railyards project and how it’s continued to cause positive and negative reactions throughout that blue-collar area.
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backlash to the summer of chillwave has come and gone, perhaps everyone can calm down a bit and enjoy some good homegrown vibes care of one Andrew Balasia. Under the studio
moniker Gracie, he specializes in bubbling beds of synthesizer overtop gently rustling electropop beats. Compared to his contemporaries in openers Pressed And, who are kinda lost in an opiate haze of static and echo, this stuff has clarity, punch and a pulse … but you won’t exactly dance to it. Probably you’ll sway. Mostly you’ll dig. —John Vettese Wed., Jan. 18, 7:30 p.m., $5, with Pressed And, Bermuda Bonnie and Bananas Symphony, Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St., kungfunecktie.com.
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NEW DANCE FESTIVAL Founded in 2003, Melanie Stewart’s nEW Dance Festival isn’t so new any more, but that hasn’t dulled its experimental edge. This year she’s turned the reins over to her company, Melanie Stewart Dance Theatre, who’ve assembled a smart showcase of emerging local talent, including choreographers Beau Hancock and Daniele Strawmyre and dancers Jung-eun Kim and Jodi Obeid. If these names seem new … that’s the idea. —Janet Anderson Jan. 18-22, $10-$15, Painted Bride Art Center, 230 Vine St., 215-925-9914, paintedbride.org.
—A.D. Amorosi Jan. 18-29, $27-$30, Annenberg Center, 3680 Walnut St., 215-898-3900, annenbergcenter.org.
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Federal Donuts (1219 S. Second St.) is responding to consistent demand by rolling out a second fried chicken service on weekends. They typically begin serving their birds every day at noon; they’ll continue with that policy with the addition of a 5 p.m. service on Saturdays and Sundays. They’ll start handing out numbers about 15 minutes in advance and will begin taking orders promptly at 5; once every half bird, whole bird and order of wings (six or 12) is spoken for, they’re all done. Got A Tip? Please send restaurant news to drew.lazor@ citypaper.net or call 215-735-8444, ext. 218.
HOLY PASTA: Joseph Scarpone’s heavenly ricotta gnocchi are melt-on-the-tongue soft and airy. NEAL SANTOS
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e’re running a little behind” is not the way anyone wants to be greeted at a restaurant. Not when you have a reservation. Not when you’ve barely eaten all day. Not when you have the patience of a colicky infant and the appetite of a hippopotamus. Inside Ulivo, chef Joseph Scarpone’s new tratMore on: toria, the diners didn’t appear in any rush to quit the cozy BYOB for the dark, frosty city on the other side of the door. Suuuuure, open that second bottle of Brunello, babe. Waitress! Another round of coffee. I hunkered down for the long haul at a chair by the coat rack, unable to blame the ripened, well-heeled crowd. The big café windows, the bubbly atmosphere, the lushly textured walls and pressed-copper ceiling freshened with bright white paint ... Scarpone has turned chachy Trattoria alla Costiera into a crisp, understated stage for his crisp, understated cooking. Now if only I could get some of that cooking, something Scarpone disciples have clamored for since he closed Sovalo in 2008.
The minutes moved like molasses, but very out of character, I didn’t mind all that much, a testament to Ulivo’s staff. They iced our wine and brought us glasses of theirs. They were effusively apologetic, and had called before we’d arrived to see if we wanted to come a bit later, a thoughtful courtesy even if I missed the message. They comped dessert and told us they would do so before we even sat down, the manager admitting, “It’s ridiculous that you’ve been waiting this long.” It was ridiculous, but the disarmingly sweet GM’s lack of bullshit made it much less annoying. She must be taking cues from her boss, whose new effort exudes an easy maturity that leaves little room for ego or parlor tricks. “[At Sovalo] I was trying to make a name for myself, chasing someone or something to get recognition,” says Scarpone, who wears an Ulivo T-shirt in the kitchen instead of chef’s MORE FOOD AND whites. “Here, I don’t feel that pressure. I DRINK COVERAGE feel a lot more free and a lot more clear.” AT C I T Y P A P E R . N E T / Sounds like a Drake song. Oh yeah, that’s M E A LT I C K E T. right, Joe’s doing Joe. And the results are something to write about, like wedges of balsamic- and brown butter-roasted red pear over risotto enriched with musky guanciale and leeks. Unassisted, the rice was a smooth customer, sensuous and fluid, but the pear elevated it to art. Beneath caramelized outsides were reservoirs of brisk, fresh fruitiness that lightened the risotto’s mood like a moment of levity in a sumptuous drama. Without the pear, I wouldn’t have been able to eat the whole plate. What? I’d barely eaten all day, remember? The pear was but one beguiling little twist tucked into
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Scarpone’s menu like a stylish handkerchief. While his recipes are straightforward, these flourishes prevent Ulivo from feeling cheap and predictable — in other words, like 95 percent of the Italian BYOBs in this town. Balanced arrangements like smoky speck with vivid pickled fennel, onion, almonds and Meyer lemon don’t shout or make a scene. Instead they say: Yo, I’m here, I’m relevant, you’ll figure it out eventually. As people recognize Ulivo’s worth in the coming months, expect to hear a lot about Scarpone’s gnocchi. These ricotta gumdrops are legit, so soft and airy they melt on the tongue like Holy Communion. Greened with sautéed spinach and truffled, the pasta had a light coating of beurre blanc, a blasphemous but harmonious French gloss on an Italian favorite. Another pasta, a thick, rigatoni-like noodle called ceppo, sought inspiration from North Africa with crumbles of spicy merguez stowing away in its hollow tubes. Wilted leaves of curly red mustard rode through the ceppo, too, a nod to Scarpone’s former home, Napa, where “wild mustard grows all over the Valley floor.” Bucolic images like that don’t grow on trees in Philadelphia. Maybe in Manayunk, where Scarpone spent the last few years setting up Agiato with the Belvedere Restaurant Group. But that relationship soured like milk left out on a summer day, and Scarpone found himself starting all over again. Once he located the space, he expected to set up Ulivo pretty quickly. He did not expect “how many people were waiting for me to come back,” he says. “We got this flood of old Sovalo customers right away, and they’re still coming.” So are new ones like me, and we’re getting charmed by the woodsy pork chop (brined, marinated, grilled and served with balsamic-glazed cipollini onions) and tender octopus (twisting through potatoes, sopressata and arugula dressed with blood orange). The friendly prices don’t hurt, either. Ulivo does have its flaws. The side of teeny Brussels sprouts was mushy, and the potatoes in the octopus salad had no personality. (Boiling them might be traditional, but roasting — and salt — would add flavor and texture.) I really enjoyed the elements of the ceppo, but without a unifying sauce, it seemed a little dry and disparate. A dense, delectable spice cake deserved better than its sticky apple marmalade, jelly with the texture of sun-warmed gummy bears. If Ulivo wants to hang with the city’s best Italian restaurants, production of certain items should happen in-house. Scarpone, not Capogiro, should be making the sorbetti and gelati. Scarpone, not D’Artagnan, should be making the merguez. Since Sovalo’s heyday, stuff like that has become the rule rather than the exception. All that will come eventually. (So will Sunday brunch.) At just two months in, Ulivo is already ticking along with impressive polish and sense. You might have to wait for the food, but you’ll be happy when you get it. (adam.erace@citypaper.net)
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13, noon, pay as you go ³ The Grey Lodge will hold the 26th installment of Friday the Firkinteenth in honor of the superstitious “holiday.” They’ll have 26 cask beers on hand, including Dogfish Head 75 Minute IPA, Old Speckled Hen, Flying Fish Scarlet Fever and Sly Fox Robbie Burns Scottish Ale. They’ll tap seven firkins at a time and the event will go until all 26 are kicked. Grey Lodge Pub, 6235 Frankford Ave., 215-856-3591, greylodge.com. Battle Royal: Breweries of New York at The Institute Sat. Jan 14, 2-10 p.m., pay as you go ³ For its
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[ i love you, i hate you ] A GOOD ESCAPE I don’t know how many times I tell myself. That I need to escape from the bullshit that is going on around me. Just seems like every open door is some stupid things going on people whispering like bitches and the gossiping like fools. People stop worrying about what someone else is doing and worry about what the fuck you supposed to do. Everything is not your concern. I really hate a phony person, unfortunately I am fucking surrounded with it, where does it fucking end!
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is alright, that shit is getting a little too much for any of us in the circle to understand and handle. Just know that if you cheat we are going to be somewhere looking right at you and there isn’t going to be anything that you can do about it but get caught. Oh by the way, your wife did stop having sex with you, was that strange to you? Oh and that piece of shit woman that you said you were sleeping with, I heard this from another party, well she has herpes! Ha! Ha! Now what? I can’t wait until your wife serves the dirvorce papers next week because you fucked up! Fellas, what looks good is not always good, think before you cheat there is always a big consequence.
around and nobody is your friend. I know I am not. If I had it my way I would not say anything to you at all. I just don’t understand your position. You are a old dude, you have a wife and some kids, so why the need for you to feel everyone needs you around or wants you around. Honestly, you need so sex from the Mrs. and to get a fucking grip on yourself.
JUST ONE SMACK! Here I am laying in the bed and I kept thinking to myself, why is it time to get the fuck up already. I really don’t want to get up and deal with your nonsense. Ever since you came into my life I have been
We have had a few arguments and now it is time to let down the guards. You make me so fucking sick sometimes. I don’t understand what the situation is going to become if you keep letting people come between us. I think when I met you I made a big mistake because you honestly don’t respect me and I can see that you don’t respect yourself. You started yelling and stuff which really didn’t make any sense. I hope that we can get past this...but if we don’t that is fine, as I mentioned before, I can do bad by my damn self.
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CARING IS OPTIONAL You immediately jump on another person’s side when you think that I am wrong. I am supposed to be your girlfriend. I don’t care what the situation is I am still supposed to be your girlfriend. You supposed to have my back like I have your back. If I tell you something why are you assuming that I am lying. Why should I have to lie about anything. I don’t need anyone to pay my bills or my friends bills or anything of that sort. If you broke up it really wouldn’t bother me like I thought it would. I know now that you aren’t the one for me. I feel like cheating and that is coming on real soon.
TAKING TIME FOR MYSELF I listen to everything that you are saying and watch everything that you do and honestly I am tired of it and I think that you know that I am. I was doing things for you and I know now that it is time for me to focus on myself again. I am tired of trying to help people that don’t want to help themselves. You are as lazy as it comes. And it doesn’t make any sense that you are that fucking lazy but that is cool. Like I wrote to you before in another letter if you aren’t the man for me step the fuck aside so the right man can come into my life. I know that he is out there looking for me.
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I was already seated, you and another male companion were coming down the aisle headed to your seats. You both began pontificating about poor bag placement in the overhead compartments. You were real loud and self-righteous about it too, like we all needed to learn a lesson from your little show. I’m not defending the stupidity of our society. However, all you accomplished with your disproportionate response was making yourselves look like hypercritical & pompous tools. Ones who can’t overlook routine misgivings of others which don’t directly affect you. I hope you don’t assume that the person seated directly below an overhead bin is necessarily the owner of the bag in said bin. For the record, I put mine under the seat in front of me. The best advice I can give you two is don’t live your lives like George Costanza. Go get laid once in a while.
You walk around like you got your ass on your shoulder do you think that people want to be in your company! I can’t stand a miserable person and you are one of them! How dare you when I call you to ask you something you get all touchy you stupid ass! You make me sick and you think that you are the only one that is busting your ass! You can kiss my ass cause I know that I am doing what I need to get things done in my relationship and outside of my relationship. No worries, I will be flying high again real soon. Then we will see who the fuck is smiling then. Could it be me?
You are the best puppy at the bar. We used to fight over bones, but now we share a food dish. It took a long time for us to get used to each other but now we’re a pack. i will miss you but the kitty you gave me is a good replacement. I am so happy for you I’m sure you’ll be great at your new job! Just don’t bark too much! Congratulations, Cow Cow
You keep telling us that you aren’t cheating on your wife, you know that we know different. It isn’t fair that you keep doing this dumb shit to your wife. Then the fucked up part is that your wife had the nerve to ask me were you cheating. I said to her to ask you, you are her husband. And then the truth finally came out. That you were. I can’t stand the fact that you are doing what you want to do behind your wife’s back and then we have to make sure that she
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That was the best lunch that I had with you...You made me feel so special just holding my hand and being with me! I am totally in love with you and I know that you love me. I really know that you love me. I am so happy that I met you, and even happier when I lay my head down at night next to you! OMG I love you...I don’t know how else to say it but I am definitely where I need to be as far as relationship. You make me feel happier than I have ever been. I love you so, so much. When I see you I will pinch your cheek, then you will really know who wrote this.
you mentioned that my eyes turn colors also. Nobody ever knew that they did when my moods change. But, I look forward to many, many more years with you. I do hope and pray. I do believe that you are my last relationship. I hope and pray.
YOU ARE SCARED? JEALOUSY ON ANOTHER LEVEL Why are you so jealous? You have me already, we are together everyday and night. I talk to you on the phone all day at work. You come to my job every single day. You text me when I’m out of your sight or you can’t reach me. In the middle of the night I need to use the bathroom, you wake up and ask if I’m ok... damn! just relax I am suffocating. I am two minutes from exiting the relationship. You hate to see me interacting with the opposite sex. You get angry and lose it! please relax.
JUST A WEIRD PERSON You are a weirdo, I just don’t understand how you think you know that already. You are not a young man, why are you trying to fit in? Nobody wants you
feeling like smacking the shit out of your loud face! Why can’t you shut the hell up sometimes, nobody cares about your life you know that, I sure don’t but I hear you and I say to myself does this person really has this much time on their hands to talk all day... and when they talk it is nothing coming out their mouth but bullshit!
MY SEXY BOYFRIEND Don’t seem like if I am mad at you that it last for a long time. I love that fact that we do get along and do things together. Thank you for allowing me to pick you up on the “G” bus. I am so grateful for Sept. 15, 2011. That day will forever be our day and it will always make me smile, knowing I have a sexy ballplayer with hazel eyes. I thought that was cute that
I don’t understand when Chuck asked you a question you couldn’t give him a single answer you had to beat around the fucking bush and pretend that you are answering the question and I didn’t understand what the big deal was. It was only about the fucking movies. Like did you want to go, honestly I don’t want you to go. I am really afraid that if I see you I would punch you in the face. Please stay away from me and Chuck if you know better you will keep her away from me! I demand that you keep her away from me!
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BD Mattress memory foam w/box sprIng Brand New Queen cost $1400, sell $299; King cost $1700 sell $399. 610-952-0033
Diabetic Test Strips, $$ Cash Paid $$ Nicotine patches, gum. For highest prices & pick-up, Call 215-395-7100.
American Flyer * Lionel * Marx * Marklin electric train sets & accessories wanted, also Aurora Slot Cars. Call (609)694-4287
Erasmo M. Colon, my father came from, Puerto Rico during the early ’50’s, he used to live in 256 W. Westmoreland St. If you know his whereabouts call 551-574-9370.
Looking for JEAN CAMACHO
She has a daughter named Zoe & a son Eddie.Missing you & trying to find you. Call Betty Kuebler 215-659-7795
everything pets pets/livestock Please be aware Possession of exotic/wild animals may be restricted in some areas.
Ragdoll Kittens: Beautiful, guaranteed, home raised. Call 610-731-0907 Siamese Kittens m/f applehead, purebred, Health Guar. $300+ 610-692-6408
Bernedoodle Pups for sale. Cross between Bernese Mountain dog/standard poodle. 8 weeks old, 1st shots, wormed. Family raised. No shed, non allergy $800. 717-891-5719. BERNESE MOUNTAIN PUPS AKC, beautiful, friendly and intelligent, make excellent family pets, $900. Order by 1/18 and get 10% off. Call (610)932-6164 Ext 1. Chihuahua mix pups, 3 M, 1 F. $200. 1 M, 3 months old, $400. 215-425-1897 DACHSHUNDS PUPPIES - Females, males. $400/ea. Call 267-506-4061 Doberman puppy female, AKC, S/W Call (609)221-6601 or (856)468-2077 English Bull Dog Pups AKC, M & F, parents, champion sired, health cert., S/W. 484-319-0571 also stud service English Bulldog Pups, all colors, vet cert., papers, shots. 215-696-5832 (Bensalem)
jobs
I Buy Anything Old...Except People! antiques-collectables, Al 215-698-0787
CALL 215-669-1924
BRAZILIAN FLOORING 3/4", beautiful, $2.75 sf (215) 365-5826
Books -Trains -Magazines -Toys Dolls - Model Kits 610-689-8476
German Shepherd Dog Czech Imported Parents imported by me. 5 males/4 females. Exc family pets/working dogs. $1000. 215-498-1863 German Shepherd Pups - AKC. lg boned, champ pedigree. Call 609-351-3205 Golden-doodles, F1 & F1B, parents on premices, health guarantee, $500-$1000 . Call (484)678.6696 Golden Retriever Pups: AKC, adorable, fam. raised $575M, $650F. 610.286.5373 Golden Retriever Pups AKC, M & F, family raised, 1st shots, $750. 302-757-0963. Great Dane Puppies ready for a loving home!! $750 (609)335-9963 Havanese Pups AKC Registered, parents on site, health guaranteed, $800-$1500. Please Call 484-678-6696 JACK RUSSELL TERRIER PUPS - Males, females, shorties, ready to go. $275. Call 267-242-9234 LAB PUPS - AKC, black, chocolate, yellow, $500/ea. Call 856-562-7781
Assistant Demolition Estimator Pilesgrove, NJ
Leading Demolition Contractor. Demolition experience preferred. Must have strong math/analytical skills & computer skills. Competitive salary & benefits. Apply at 426 Swedesboro Rd. Pilesgrove, NJ. Fax resume to (856)769-5639 or apply online at w w w .r e p ie rs o n .c o m Women & Minorities encouraged to apply. EOE
Demolition Project Manager Pilesgrove, NJ
Leading Demolition Contractor. Min 3 yrs Demolition exp. pref. Must have strong math/analytical & computer skills. Competitive salary & benefits. Apply at 426 Swedesboro Rd. Pilesgrove, NJ. Fax resume to (856)769-5639 or apply online at w w w .r e p ie rs o n .c o m Women & Minorities encouraged to apply. EOE
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Pomeranian AKC Pups family raised vet checked, shots & wormed 8 weeks old. 717-572-9872 or 717-336-3495 Pomeranian pups small, beautiful, papers, shots, vet checked $350. 856-816-3385 POODLE PUPPIES: Standard, home raised, 2 brown, 1 white, 2 cream, all Males, $400. Call 610-489-3781
Housekeeper / Aide: Sun, 7a-3p, Must be exp’d driver w/valid driver’s license, refs req’d, non-smoking home. $12/hr Background chk, Langhorne, PA. 215-970-5190
PUG PUPS AKC: Exc. companions for old or young, M $450 F $550. 717-354-6582 Puli Grt Fam Pet. Hypoallerg, both M&F, blk or wht, 1st shots, avail 1/17. $1000$1200. 410.596.4777
SHIH-TZU - 6 months old & 1 year old Blue Pit Bull. 215-528-5000 Shih Tzu Home Raised Male Pups $600 Vet checked 1st Shots 1 856-767-2367 SIBERIAN HUSKY PUPPIES - Farm raised, shots, dewormed, extra cute. $400/ea. Call 610-593-1391 ext: 3
LAB pups, AKC, choc., English & champ lines, parents on prem. excellent temperament, health guar., $800. 717-354-2674
YELLOW LAB PUPS - ACA, broad heads, stocky build, shots & wormed, $300. Call 717-442-0853
Labra-Doodle pups, F1, Adorable, Vet chkd, shots & wormed. Family raised $800. 717-927-9483 or 717-968-8475 PEKINGESE PUPS M & F, $295-$495. 1 white male - $995. 267-243-9526 Pit Bull pups, 4F, 8 wks, S/W, ADBA, Jeep/ Redboy, $400. (215)834-1247 Pit Bull Pups 9 wks $300-M, $350 -F NE Phila. Call 215-668-7051
YORKIEPOO PUPPIES - 2 F/ 1 M, shots & wormed, health checked. $475/ea. Ready now! Call 610-857-5049
Yorkie pups: home raised, pure bred, starting $550. Call 215-490-2243 Yorkie Pups, small, AKC, shots, home raised, $850/obo. (856)218-8883 YORKSHIRE, M pups w/papers, 1st shots & wormed, ready, $350. 856-426-3206
Available to provide Elderly Care, childcare, housekeeping. 267-423-2290
apartment marketplace 20xx Brandywine 1br $900+utils spacious 3rd flr, avail now 610-908-9330
1100 S 58th St. Studio, 1br & 2br apts newly renov, lic #362013 215-744-9077 12xx S. 52nd St. 2br $725+utils hdwd flrs, near transp., 267-808-3347
apartment marketplace 60xx Larchwood 1 BR $625 ht & hot wtr inc, exc con 215.747.9429 64th & Woodland 2br 2nd flr $850 sec 8 ok, w/d in unit 267-882-5999 67xx Guyer Ave. 1br $700+elec Renovated, duplex, w/w (215)407-1395 Airport Area nice 2BR $795+ duplex, a/c, gar, bsmt. Call 856-346-0747
40th & Cambridge 1BR & 2BR $535 renov., 1st, last & sec., Scott 215.222.2435 4122-24 Ogden St. 1br $550 Effic. $400 New renov; N. Phila - Temple, 4520 N. Broad 1BR $600. New renov 215-849-1111 52nd/Parkside 2br $650+ utils large, newly renov, w/w. 215-552-5200 53rd & Media 1 BR $550+ utils cozy 1st flr, 1st/last/sec, 267-349-4910 540 N. 52nd St. 1 BR Newly renov. 215.744.9077 lic# 333911 5xx N 58th 1br $650+utils 3rd floor, section 8 ok. 215-868-0481 N 61st 1BR $600 Heat & water incl, 2nd flr, $1200 move-in, Call in evening 610-259-5746 Parkside Ave Studio $550+elec spacious, $1100 move in, 215-219-1715 Walnut St 2br $695+ utils. renov, 215-471-1365; 215-663-0128 W. Phila 3 & 4 br Bi-Levels Avail Now 1st Mo. Rent Special 215.386.4791 or 4792
129 N 50th St efficiency $450 3 month move-in. Call267-255-1895 50th & Baltimore Vic 1BR & Efficiency Clean & convenient to trans,215.748.4848
63rd & Girard 2br $700+utils 3rd floor, 1st, last & sec., 610-348-1196 7xx N. 63rd St. 2BR $650+elec. 1st flr, 3mo. rent move-in. 267-979-6262 Various 1, 2 & 3 BR Apts $725-$895 www.perutoproperties.com 215.740.4900
Balwynne Park 2 BR $850+ W/D, C/A, W/W, Garage. 484-351-8633
18xx Venango 2br $650+utils 2nd flr, near Temp Hosp. 267-339-1662 1933 N Judson St 2br $600 new renovated, avail asap. 215-768-8410 30xx Broad St. Efficiency $475+ utils 1 mo. rent, 1 mo. sec, 267-975-8521 3214 N. Broad 1BR $600+utils 3rd flr, near transp,new reno 215.748.1383 35xx N. 11th St 1Br $440+utils newly remod., Call 215-917-1091
1,2, 3, 4 Bedroom FURNISHED APTS LAUNDRY-PARKING 215-223-7000 4520-22 N. Broad 1Br & 2Br $600-$650 large, newly renovated. Call 215-849-1111
Broad/Loudon 2br $650+ large, newly renov, w/w. 215-552-5200
5800 Mascher 1 br $600/mo. Sep. utils. Rental history. 267-777-3223 60XX Warnock 1 BR $595+ near Fernrock Train Station,215-276-8534 6th & Olney 1br $650+utils clean, exc trans, app. fee (267)414-7442
25th & Girard Lg Effic $500+utils Nice size & clean, 215-765-2195
46xx Greene St. 1br $575 xtra lrg & 1 lrg rm $110/wk 267.307.2738 5201 Wayne Ave. Studio & 1Br apts On site Lndry 215.744.9077 Lic# 311890 5220 Wayne Ave. Studio & 1 BR newly rehab, 215-744-9077, Lic# 507568 5321 Wayne Ave. Efficiency $550 1BR $625 Avail Now. Call 215-776-6277 6314 Musgrave St 2BR/1BA $695 heat/water incl., HCV-Sect.8 appvd, steps to bus/train, eat-in kit 215-913-2789 63xx Magnolia St 1BR $665+utils 1st flr., w/w carpets, EIK, W/D hookups, garage. Call 610-547-7355 Greene or Seymour Sts. 1br units $560$685+util. Great location. 610.287.9857 W. Washington Ln 1br $660+ gas/elec. lovely, large apt, Call 215-276-8661
Cliveden St. 1 br/1ba $585+ gar dis.,a/c,ren,off st,no pets 215.782.8030 GREENE & HARVEY - WINTER SPECIAL! Lux. Garden type 1BR’s Newly dec, w/w, g/d, a/c, cable ready, Laundry/off st prkg. Nr trans 215-275-1457 215-233-3322
6157 1/2 Old York Rd 2BR $700+utils 1st flr, 2mo sec+ 1mo rent. 215-498-7886 71xx Ogontz Ave 2Br $900 newly renovated, hdwd flrs, spacious living room, tiled kitchen. Call 646-316-8331 Broad & Cheltenham vic. 2br $740+utils 69xx N Broad, 2nd flr, Lrg kitch & LR, Must see! 215-586-9383 or 215-850-1649
13xx E. Luzerne St 2br duplex $900 newly reno, Sec 8 approved 267.467.0140 1501 Orthodox studio newly renov, lic # 309723, 215-744-9077 42xx Frankford 1Br $550/mo. liv rm, kitchen, no pets. 215-289-2973
4657 Penn St. 1br $565+elec $1130 move-in. Call 267-255-6322
A1 Nice, well maintained rms, N. & W. Phila. Starting @ $125/wk 610.667.9675
4670 Griscom Studio Newly renov, Lic #397063, 215.744.9077
Broad & Lehigh - Fully furn rooms for rent, quiet block. Call 267-386-6641
49xx Oxford Ave 2br $650 washer/dry in basement. 215-744-8990
35xx RYAN AVE 1br 2nd flr $700+ Cottman & Frankford Vic. 267-736-9862 4647 Adams Ave Studio apt. Newly renov. 215-744-9077 lic#433314 4740 Frankford Ave. Studio $475+elec. 67 Haribson Ave. 2BR $725+elec. & gas Call 215-669-7166 or 267-970-2269
Castor & Hunting Park Clearfield, 55th & Girard, Share Kitch. & Bath, $350 dep, SSI OK. 2br Apt Kingsessing. 215-758-7572
Ave, 25th & 62nd & Arch & up No sec at 60th &
Frankford, furnished, near bus & El, $85/wk & up + $295 sec. 215-526-1455 Germantown Area: NICE, Cozy Rooms Private entry, no drugs (215)548-6083 Germantown, room $125/week, non-smoker, 215-869-6429
6812 Ditman St. 1 BR prkg,lndry fac.Lic# 212751 215-744-9077
Hunting Park, Kensington, Germantown, Olney, NE, W, S & SW Phila, Mt. Airy, $85-$125/wk. SSI ok. Call (215) 668-4812
887 Marcella 3br/1ba $850+utils No pets. Call 267-632-4580
KENSINGTON, Clean Furnished Rooms, $300-$400, 856-465-6807
Academy & Grant 2BR $775+ 2nd flr,w/w, c/a,off st prkg 856.346.0747 Bridge St Terminal Efficiency & 1br Also more apts other areas. 267.671.7848 FOX CHASE Duplex 2br $750 2nd flr, No smoking/pets. 215-882-4478 Fox Chase: Hasbrook 2br $900 water incl. 1st flr, W/D hkup, gar 215-785-0819 FRANKFORD & WELSH dplx 2BR 2nd flr, renov’d W/D, $750 + utils 267-312-7100 Philmont 2BR duplex, 2nd flr $820+ C/A, bsmnt, w/w, garage, (215)752-1091 TACONY 1BR $425+utils across from train station 215-355-3548 TORRESDALE & LEVICK ROW HOUSE 3BR 1BA $850 + Utils. 267-312-7100
Upper Darby 1BR $595 incls heat, 1st flr, pkng. 610-513-1393
Lansdowne Studio $600 utils incl w/d, no smoking. Call 484-469-0753 MT. AIRY (Best Area) $125/week. Furnished. SSI ok. Call 215-730-8956 Mt. Airy: Rooms w/private bath, micro., fridge, $140/wk. Call 215-809-9655 Near Broad & Roosevelt Blvd FREE RENT 1st Month for furnished ROOMS. MOVE-IN on SECURITY DEPOSIT & APPLICATION/ BACKGROUND CHECK FEE. Special: deduct $50 from ROOM rent for 4 mos. Original ROOMS rate are $500$550. ROOMS are sized for ONE (1) PERSON ONLY. Call: 267-235-6555 www.safehavenhomesllc.net N. PHILA: 1000 E. Oakland share kitchen and bath. $430/mo. Call 215-287-2424 N. Phila 3008 N Woodstock Furn rms cpt, nr trans, kit, w/d $85+ 516.527.0186 N. PHILADELPHIA includes gas, elec, w/d, crpt, $325-$450/mo 267-342-1226 N. Philly - NEW ROOMS NEWLY RENOV $80-$100/wk. $160-$200/move-in 267973-2284
Oaklane /Philadelphia area. $75 week No smoking. Please call 215-927-4434 King of Prussia 2BR $1,175+utils lrg kitch, C/A, nice property 610.265.1568
Richmond room, use of kitch, nr transp. Seniors welcome/SSI ok 215-634-1139 SW Phila., $110-$125/wk, $300 move-in special, all utilities incl. (267)249-9405
21xx S Frazier, renov, furn, crpt w/fridge & kitch use. $125/wk. (267)306.0345 22nd/HUNTING PARK $85-$110/wk furn renov, lg rm, 2nd wk free. 215-960-1600 24th & Allegheny: $100-$125/weekly, $350 move-in, close to transp., SSI OK, no drugs. Call (267) 257-7436
2764 N. Hemberger St., Rooms for rent, starting $350/mo. 267-257-3610 28xx N 27th St: Furnished rooms, utils included, $100/wk, SSI ok, 267-819-5683 30th & Lehigh: huge room, $120/week, $360 move in. Call 215-983-6144 34th and Baring Room for rent. Nice rm w/ DirecTV. Use of kit. 215-620-3846 42xx Paul St. furn $120/week + 2 week deposit, 609-617-8639, 856-464-0933 43rd & Wallace, unfurnished, $90/wk, incl. utils, $360 move in. 267-357-5216
SW Philadelphia $125-$150 priv rm & ba, clean & new. 215-939-5854
SW Phila furn rooms, private home, no smoking, seniors welcome, 267.249.0663 SW Phila - Newly renov, close to trans. $100/wk 1st wk FREE, 267-628-7454 Temple area rooms, 36xx N. 21st, $500$550/mo. cable avail. (267)597-9085 TIOGA: Vic of Broad & Erie. Rms for rent, Seniors Welcome. $100/wk 215-226-0321 Univ City/West Phila Nice Rooms & Apts for rent, Mrs. Savage 267-581-5870 Walnut Lane - furnished rooms, utils included, $125/wk, 215-760-0206
W. PHILA - 1 medium clean rm, priv entr, nr gd transp. Call 215-494-8794.
60xx Ogontz Ave 3br utilties not incl. Sec 8 OK 215-848-5072
1xx W. Lippincott 3BR/2BA front porch, newly remodeled, rear yard, Section 8 OK. 215-356-2434 2719 Webb St. 2br/1ba $775+utils Newly Renov, 215-744-5750/510-0034 28xx Emerald St 4br/1ba $850+utils Section 8 ok, very large. 215-338-2608 29XX WEIKEL ST. Lge 3BR house, W/D, refrig, yd, bsmt, $775+ 267-645-9421 31XX WEIKEL ST. Lge 2BR house, W/D, refrig, yd, bsmt, $725+ 267-645-9421 33xx Livingston St 2br $850+ very clean, w/d, fridge, refs 215.694.6969 Agate & Clearfield 2BR $800+utils $1,800 move in, backyard, basement, refridgerator, W/D. Call 215-205-3185
1330 N. Wanamaker 3BR $850 New renov., 3mo. move-in. 267.255.1895 14xx N. 62 St. 3BR $700 mo. Total rehab, new kitchen, bath. Exit Benchmark Rlty. Greg 215-427-2970 x104 2xx N. Vodges St. 4br/1.5ba $1,200 newly reno, Sec 8 approved 267.467.0140 53xx W. Oxford St. 3br/1ba $1,100 newly reno, sec 8 approved 267.467.0140 58XX BELMAR Terr Lrg 3BR, New paint, Refrig, yard, bsmt $800+, 267-645-9421 59xx Delancey 3br Section 8 OK. Call (215)848-5072 W. Phila 1br-4br Apts & Houses, $700$975. 1st/last/sec. 215-878-2857
13xx N. Robinson 3br/1ba $800+ utils newly renov, 215-744-5750/510-0034
150 W. Wyoming 2BR/1BA $550+ $75/mo. heat. $1875 move-in. Newly renov. No evictions. Open house, Sun 1/9, 1p-4p. Call 201-871-0856 1857 E. Wensley 3BR/1BA $725 Gorgeous & renovated. Call 917-699-9941 27xx N. Opal 2br/1ba $625+utils 1st/last/sec. Clean, LR, DR, rear yard, front porch, basement. Call 215-329-1249
28xx Bambrey St 2br $650+utils newly renovated, Call 267-601-6420
Temp Hosp area 4br sngl fam Avail Now 1st Mo. Rent Special 215.386.4791 or 4792
7th & Olney 3Br/1Ba $850 nr trans, students welcome267.978.9998 Tioga St. 2BR/2BA $850 Great for students-Newly renovated house for rent $850. 267-971-3768
20xx Rowan 3br modern kitchen & bath, W/W carpet, Sect 8 OK. Call 215-474-7678 35xx 11th St. 4br/2ba $800-$900 w/d, fridge, renovated, 215-983-7691 7xx W Luzerne St. 3br $750/mo. newly renov, section 8 ok. 215.494.8378 Hunting Prk: 13xx Kerbaugh St. 3BR-1BA $800 fully loaded kitchen kitchen, call for more information! 267-408-5951
9xx Farson St 3br/1ba $680+util renovated, 1st, last & sec. (267)746-1224
11 xx Anchor S t Lg 3BR hse new carpet/paint bsmt yd $875+ 267-645-9421 18xx Clarence St. 2br $750+utils nice block, near transp. 267-357-7892
31xx F St. Cozy 3BR $700 Newly renov,new kit/crpts 267-601-6420 32xx Keim 2br $700+ renov., porchfront, sec 8 ok 267.348.9990 32XX Rorer St. 3BR/1BA $725 & util. Newly remodeled 3 bed home with many quality improvements throughout & spacious rooms. Washer & Dryer & new kitchen. 1st, last, & 2 security deposits move you in! Mr. Scott (267) 258-7637 *Folks ready to move asap ! 7xx E Allegheny large 3br/1.5ba $750+ w/w carpets. Call 215-836-1960
18xx Fillmore 3BR/1Ba $695+utils nice row, ready for move-in 215-680-1413 2010 W. Hagert 3BR, 1BA $800/mo. North / Frankford. Sec 8 ok. 215.479.5508 42xx Romain 3BR/1BA $750+utils renov, porchfront, sec 8 ok 267.348.9990
20xx Pratt St. 3br Section 8 approved, 215-205-9910 48xx Franklyn St. 4br/2ba newly renov, Section 8 ok, 267-255-6286 60xx Lawndale St. 3br $900 avail now, grt loc, wont last 610.710.1986 66xx Vandike 3br/1.5ba $900+utils newly renov., credit check 215-498-1807 67XX Kindred St Lge 3BR house, refrig. W&D, yard, bsmt $925 + 267-645-9421 Front & Wyoming 2br $680 LR, DR, porch, no pets, call 215-289-2973 MAYFAIR 3 BR $1050+ utils gas heat, renovated, call 215-421-9606 MAYFAIR 3br/2.5ba $1200+utils close trans/shops, full bsmt 215-694-4089 Parkwood Manor 3Br/1Ba $1,350 full bsmnt, appl’s, backyd 267-205-4209
ANDALUSIA 3br/2ba $2650/mo Unique opportunity to live on 100 acre historic estate, late 19th century ranch style bungalow, short commute to Phila & NY. Please Call (215)639-2078 ANDALUSIA 3br+Loft/2.5ba $2500/mo Delaware Riverfront, Unique opportunity to live on 100 acre historic estate, late 19th century reconverted stable, short commute to Phila. & NY. (215)639-2078
Collindale 4BR $1350/mo lrg property, avail immed. 610.710.1986 Upper Darby 3Br/1Ba Row $850+utils garage, backyard, Call (610)202-9292
W. Phila - Furnished & Renov. $125/wk. 267-770-6723; 267-258-8727
750i Sport 2006 $23,995/obo blk/blk, 71k, CPO warranty 610-573-8585 $300 & UP FOR JUNK CARS CALL 215-722-2111 FORD 2001 Luxury COACHMAN Hightop Conv. Van, orig mi, every extra, like new, Sr. citizen,sac today $5,975 215.922.2165
Junk Cars & Trucks Wanted,
CR-V LX AWD 2001 $6,000 exc cond, 113k mi, insp 8/12, 215.301.9794
JUNK CARS WANTED 24/7 REMOVAL. Call 267-377-3088
S63 AMG 2009 $85,000 518 horsepower, 45k miles, arctic white w/full black AMG leather, 20 inch AMG rims with new Michelins, tinted windows, absolutely stunning, original list $136,000, sell for $85k, Call Dave 410-822-9500
A1 PRICES FOR JUNK CARS FREE TOW ING , Call (215) 726-9053
5xx E Walnut Lane 3br/1ba $700+utils ready for occupancy, 215-224-2953
Norristown: Arch & Miner 3BR/1.5BA $850. backyard (267)259-8449
$400, Call 856-365-2021
Maxima SE 2004 $10,900 4 dr, 43k, loaded, 5 spd, (215)465-7868
FORD F-350 XL Super Duty ’04 $21,500 60k miles, white, power stroke, V8 turbo diesel, good cond., loaded (215)788-3383 GMC 3500 Bucket Van 1997 $7,400/bo 40ft bucket, mount. shelves 856.379.1875
low cost cars & trucks CAD Coupe de Elegance 1979 $4950 super mint condition, 610-667-4829 Cadillac Catera 2001 $2900 runs/looks great, 138k mi. (267)592-0478 Cadillac Catera 2001 Economy Sports Edition 4 door, sunroof, original miles, like new $3985. Call Carol 215-928-9632
Chevrolet Impala LS 2002 $2950 runs/looks great, (267)592-0478 Chevy Blazer LT 2000 $3,400/obo 132K miles, 4WD, good cond., runs well, beige metallic, with Carfax (215)901-5742
Chrysler Town & Country 2000 $2700 runs/looks great, 110k mi. (267)592-0478 Dodge Shadow sedan 1993 $1,550 91k, insp., excellent, 610-667-4829
Ford Taurus 1997 $1,000 all pwrs, runs, needs work. 267-902-9934 Ford Windstar LX 2001 $1750 4 dr, loaded, clean, 7 pass, 215-518-8808 Lincoln TownCar 1988 $2,750/obo 100k, Grt cond, must sell 267.650.2548 OLDSMOBILE 1988 $2,800/OBO Black classic, garage kept, 1 owner, 78K miles, runs perfect, auto., A/C, new tires, brakes, tune-up and inspec.267-250-1542 Saturn SL1 Sedan 1998 $1100 4cyl, auto, heat, new insp. 215-620-9383 Volvo V70 XC Sta. Wagon 1999 $1850 AWD, rf ski rack, runs lks gd 609.221.7427
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61xx Chew Ave, Mt. Airy, W Phila, Popular , $85-$100/wk. 215-242-9124 8th & Erie Area, single occupancy, $300/mo. $350 move-in 215-626-2658
BUICK LeSABRE 1940 Less than 3,000 miles. Call 215-672-3585
SW: Elmwood Area 3BR modern, Section 8 approved 215.726.8817
SW Philadelphia Room for rent. $250 move in, share kit & bath. 267-251-2749
West, SW & NE Phila., Germantown $85-$125/wk. SSI ok. Call (215) 602-2252 51xx Race St. - Furn. room, clean & quiet. Single occupancy, no drugs or smoking. $400/mo. & up. SSI ok. Call 267.847.0681
14xx S. Vodges St 3br/1ba $700/mo newly renovated, 215-758-7572 14xx Vodges 3BR, 1BA $800+utils Large open front porch, rear yard. "The Landlord That Cares" Tasha 267.584.5964, Mark 610.764.9739 65xx Paschall Ave 3BR/1BA $750+ renov enc porch w/w yard 215-469-0746
MT AIRY 1BR $725+utils duplex, 2nd flr. 215-572-5189
Toyota Luxury Solara convertible 2002 a/c, full pwr, orig miles, gas saver, well maint, sacrifice $5,950. 215-922-2165
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ARDMORE 3BR/2BA $1,390 17 E. Lancaster Ave. Central Air, Washer, Dryer, Dishwasher. On block of train station. 610-245-3229
15xx Corilen St. 3BR Beautiful, newly renovated house, section 8 ok. Please call 267-455-3273 4xx Sigel St 3br/1ba $725 newly renov., Sec 8 ok 215-492-9686
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33xx Chippendale St. 1BR $750 Mayfair West, spacious, incls heat, water, W/D, no pets. Crd chk. 215-501-0129
Broad & Olney deluxe furn priv ent $115 wk, 4 free wks, Sec $200. 215-572-8833
870 N. Stillman 2BR/1BA $1200+util Restored Townhouse, W/D. 215-725-1055 8xx N. Taney 3Br/1Ba $1,480 AC, H/W fl., W/D, new kitch 610.212.5920
37xx Cresson St. 2br $925 rear deck, hwd flr, avail now267.968.7043
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