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The proposed “Turn Around, Don’t Drown” bill would require Pennsylvania residents who need to be rescued from their cars dur­ ing floods to pay a fine.You may know it by its other name,“Save Money, Drown.”

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The Inquirer and Daily News move to their new offices in the Gallery at Eighth and Mar­ ket.Meet all your favorite columnists at the custom T­shirt kiosk.

[ - 3 ] Former head of the Barnes Foundation Kim­

berly Camp hints that the museum’s sup­ posedfinancialwoeswerearusetofacilitate the move. “My assumption,” says Camp, “is that everybody will be like ‘bygones,’ because what’s done is done and who even cares anymore?”

[ - 1 ] Rumor spreads that Mayor Nutter ordered a

local fire station not to give water to Occupy protesters. And you know who told Nutter to do that? The Fed. neal santos

[ - 1 ] Deputy Mayor Richard Negrin denied the

rumor viaTwitter in a way that still seemed evasive and unclear to some.“U guyz! Nutzy ws just joking abt wanting OccPhilly peeps 2 die of agonizing thirst!! #notjoking #justjok­ ing #4real #notreally #mmmhippiejerky.”

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[ - 1 ] Jocelyn Kirsch — the ex­Drexel student

who made headlines in 2007 as half of the “Bonnie and Clyde”identity­stealing couple — is arrested in California for shoplifting.

“You guys know I killed people,right?”says the ghost of Bonnie.“I was awesome.”

[ + 1 ] Desiree Peterkin­Bell,one of Mayor Nutter’s

top aides,leaves to take a job with President Obama’s re­election campaign.On the con­ dition that she never again drink water.

[ - 4 ] A South Philly man sets his neighbor’scat on fire,then holds his kids hostage in a seven­ hour standoff. “We would like resolve this peacefully,” says police negotiator with a bullhorn. “Unless you’re the one who defaced the Rizzo mural, in which case you will be beaten to death.”

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Neighbors gather in lawn chairs to watch the standoff as vendors sell crabs and the Salvation Army hands out Gatorade.“Glad I’m not a crab,” says charred­cat ghost.

This week’s total: -9 | Last week’s total: -4

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Goodbye to all that With the closure of Philadelphia’s largest men’s shelter, Center City’s homeless run out of options. By Samantha Melamed

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n June 28, John Williams, 32, sat on a folding chair on a dusty North Broad Street sidewalk, watching workers load file boxes and a few scarred pieces of furniture into a moving truck on the final day of operations at the Ridge Center, the city’s largest homeless shelter for men and one of few options close to Center City.

Williams, wearing socks jammed into flip-flops and a flashy stud earring, said he wasn’t exactly sorry to see the disembowelment of Ridge, where he disliked bunking 10 or more to a room. yet he expects that moving will make his efforts to scramble out of what he hopes is a brief brush with homelessness just a little more difficult.

That’s because the Ridge homeless are being relocated to the Station House at 2601 N. Broad St. “It’s a bit [of a] way out. All of my affairs are down here,” said Williams, whose hopes are staked on admittance to Ready, Willing & Able, a program based at 12th and Bainbridge streets. “From here to South Philadelphia, that’s not bad. But if I have to walk from [North Philly], that will be hard.”

The city had announced it would introduce a series of new, smaller men’s shelters to replace Ridge. But so far, the only proffered alternative is the Station House, with about 100 beds. Ridge — which will reportedly make way for a Stephen Starr commissary — had previously housed more than 300 men; it was down to 66 as of June 27.

Nick lordi, who heads the men’s ministry at the Sunday Breakfast Rescue Mission at 302 N. 13th St. — where the 30-day shelter program runs at 90 percent of capacity in summer and is full autumn through spring — says his breakfast crowd doubled the first day after Ridge closed. Since then, things have leveled off, but the day center has been unusually packed. Whether that’s due to a heat wave or Ridge closing, he doesn’t know. What he does know is, as Ridge has been scaling back, “I have seen more of guys staying here for 30 days and not knowing where else to go, so then asking for extensions to stay here longer or going into a park to sleep.”

Dainette Mintz, director of the city’s Office of Supportive Housing, says her office hasn’t registered any such change. “We’ve continued to have our same amount of vacancies,” she says. “We’ve had capacity issues for years; we haven’t seen it particularly exacerbated by Ridge closing.”

But one homeless-services provider said the outcome is simple: “People who come in here and say, ‘We want placement in a Center City shelter,’ there’s no way to accommodate those kinds of requests.”

Anthony Jackson, 30, has been homeless since April; he sleeps on the street, he says, both because it’s important for him to be in Center City, near job opportunities, and because shelter intake lines are just too long. until last week, he went to Ridge for meals and to shower. He says he doesn’t have another place to shower as of yet.

Williams, on the other hand, said he believes staying in a shelter is crucial. “living on the street, you can’t get nothing accomplished.” (samantha@citypaper.net)

“They don’t know where else to go.”

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can’t stand the heat?

It was, as our dear readers may have noticed, hot this weekend.

Exceedingly hot. the kind of hot that kills people. last July, the Philadelphia Medical Examiner blamed six deaths on an eight-day heat wave. The first heat-related fatality in Philadelphia this year came in May, when an 87-year-old man died while weeding his tomatoes in a heat index of 95 degrees.

No weekend deaths had been reported by Monday — which is great news, especially since excessive heat days and heat-related deaths are only going to increase. That’s according to a recent report: “Killer Summer Heat: Projected Death Toll from Rising Temperatures in America Due to Climate Change.” The study by the National Resources Defense Council makes the case (backed by peer-reviewed research) that american cities will see more excessive-heat days in coming years. Philadelphia, according to the report, currently has an average of six “excessive heat event days” annually; the number is expected to grow to a whopping 54 days by 2045-’55. The consequent death toll, the report predicts, would be an extra four heat-related deaths per year in Philadelphia.

Nationwide, the report predicts a doubling of heat-related deaths by the time this reporter is hoping to be peacefully weeding his own tomatoes without making the evening news.

Readers will probably be less than shocked to learn that, in its conclusion, the report suggests we all support federal efforts to reduce carbon emissions.

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hot this weekend. And so, when the city tweeted, in the withering mire of Sunday afternoon, a list of city “cooling centers,” it occurred to Naked City that it might be interesting to go check one out, see who was hanging there and soak up some taxpayer-funded a/c. Only it wasn’t quite that simple.

The link, tweeted by @philadelphiagov, led to the web page of the Managing Director’s Office of Emergency Management, which contained sundry information about heat, heat warnings and what to do when it gets hot — but no list of cooling centers.

There was, however, an interactive map, which after some muddled required installations of plug-ins, revealed the cooling-center locations — mostly branches of the Free library that theoretically offer extended hours during heat warnings.

The library’s blog did list 14 branches as cooling centers — however, only one was open on Saturday and none at all on Sunday, the day of the tweet in question, despite the fact that an excessive-heat warning remained in effect.

An email to the city’s Managing Director’s Office on Monday revealed that the MDO and its Office of Emergency Preparedness, which in theory oversee such things, don’t, in fact, direct the cooling-center operations — or apparently even keep track of them. Asked whether cooling centers had been open this weekend, the MDO’s Joan Przybylowicz said her office didn’t know. They “may open” during an excessive-heat warning, and the city “may request that the Free library extend hours,” but that it’s up to the Free library and its branches to figure out. (The MDO doesn’t fund these emergency heat measures.) The MDO, she explained, “doesn’t have the ability to manage a list that would change every day. ... We don’t keep track of which libraries or older adult centers extend their hours for every excessive heat warning.”

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in the computer room at the Pennsylvania Prison Society. After all, it was the final week of Philly ReNew — a 12-week job-readiness program for fathers transitioning out of prison — and the men needed every minute to polish their résumés and file job applications.

By last Friday, the small but effective re-entry program — one of the only ones in the city that did not discriminate based on type of criminal record — had vanished. Its $600,000 budget, through the state Department of Public Welfare, had been eliminated.

Angel Benitez, a Reading, Pa., man with eight children, wasn’t sure what to do next. He’s lived in a halfway house in Feltonville for the past two months while going through the ReNew program.

One thing’s clear, though: “I’m going to have to keep job-searching. I can’t stop. It’s just going to get a little harder, but I’m not going to give up on myself.”

He said the program has given him confidence.

He keeps a daily journal — a requirement of the program, and one met with surprising enthusiasm — and it’s packed with statements of gratitude. For the first time in his life, at age 39, he has a résumé to show prospective employers. “[ReNew] helped me to conduct myself as a grown man, as a real man.”

Pamela Superville, the Prison Society’s program manager for re-entry services (who herself is now out of a job), said those stories are common. Philly’s overall recidivism rate is around 60 percent, she said; the rate is 28 percent to 30 percent among Philly ReNew’s more than 400 graduates.

“I have 30 or 40 applications on my desk,” she said last week. “Fathers are banging down the door, saying, ‘I see what you’re doing. I see my brother, my father, my friends coming back with jobs. And if you don’t help us, what are we going to do?’”

She said graduates go on to community colleges, to welding shops, to entry-level supermarket jobs that are triumphs for those who’ve never held jobs before. Superville was worried about the men being dropped mid-program; she was scrambling to place them with other agencies, or at least to secure them monthlong SEPTA passes to get them to job interviews.

Ann Schwartzman, policy director at the Prison Society, was worried it wouldn’t be enough — especially in the face of all the other cuts to social safety nets happening at the same time.

“It’s leaving very vulnerable people without any lifeline. And when you talk about public safety, that’s a dangerous way to start the summer.”

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n mid-may, Jeremy Nowak joined School Reform Commission chairman Pedro Ramos and pro-charter-school activists at a long meeting to discuss a big problem: They were losing the media war to opponents of the plan, released three weeks earlier, to dismantle the Philadelphia School District and potentially put public schools under private management. Nowak, who took over as chief executive of the William Penn Foundation in June 2011, was very much invested in the planâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s success. The foundation had given $1.45 million directly â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and helped obtain at least $1.2 million more â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to pay the Boston Consulting Group to develop a so-called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Blueprintâ&#x20AC;? for restructuring the troubled district.

But while the SRC, Republican Gov. Tom Corbett and Boston Consulting were all targets of protestersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ire, Nowakâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s role was discussed by just a few. And then only in whispers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s taking an activist approach to being president of the foundation, and he has an agenda,â&#x20AC;? says one observer of city schools who, like many interviewed for this story, spoke only on condition of anonymity. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is a shadow school district thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s being bankrolled by people who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even live in the city.â&#x20AC;?

Conversations with sources, along with documents obtained by City Paper, portray an expanding network of pro-charter-school organizations close to, and in many cases funded by, William Penn, coordinating with the state-controlled School District to map out the future of Philly public education. It is now clear that Nowak, a major charter-school supporter and longtime force in Philadelphia, had taken the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most powerful foundation in an aggressively political direction.

Nowak didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stop at shepherding funds toward the creation of the Blueprint. He also became a staunch supporter of it â&#x20AC;&#x201D; making it, if nothing else, perhaps the best-funded public-relations disaster in Philly history.

The May working-group meeting indicates the scope of his involvement, according to one account: Nowak was frustrated that charter-school parents werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t speaking out in favor, while Ramos complained of a guerrilla dissident movement inside School District headquarters. By this time, William Penn had turned to Sage Communications to prepare a public-relations campaign. Sageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sharon Gallagher worked with the pro-charter Philadelphia School Partnership (PSP) on the media training of Ramos, PSD chief recovery officer Thomas Knudsen and SRC member Feather Houstoun (who, as it happens, is Nowakâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more mild-mannered predecessor at William Penn). For this meeting, Nowak also called in Tierney Communications chief executive Mary Stengel Austen, a â&#x20AC;&#x153;crisis specialist,â&#x20AC;?

One grOup that may benefit from this evolution: The Philadelphia School Partnership (PSP), a 2-year-old procharter organization that is expected to receive a $15 million William Penn grant. PSP has become a chief William Penn lieutenant in a pro-school-privatization network that reaches across, and channels money through, the city, state and nation.

PSP also has a number of wealthy board members with pro-voucher leanings who contributed to the Boston contract. To that end, real estate developer Michael Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill contributed $100,000, according to the Philadelphia Public School Notebook. And an undisclosed amount was donated by Janine Yass, wife of conservative Bala Cynwyd hedge-fund manager Jeffrey Yass, among the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most high-profile voucher supporters. That money and more was funneled through the United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania, which has been a major recipient of William Penn largesse and had the ideal apolitical reputation to serve as a conduit.

ÂľB63G 6/D3 <= /11=C< B/07:7BG E6/BA=3D3@ Âś Yet despite millions of dollars in funding and United Way cover, the working group felt under siege. Ramos, participants in the May meeting lamented, was the SRCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lone effective messenger; Wendell Pritchett was disengaged, while Lorene Carey appeared hesitant. Joseph Dworetzky, who had voted against a slew of charter renewals at the previous weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s SRC meeting (and continues to do so), was of particular concern. The Districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s executive staff were doing a bad job convincing the public: Knudsen failed when it came to public relations.

So while Ramos lobbied Republican legislators for new union-busting powers, the PSP was talking to Craig Wallace, state director of Students First, a national â&#x20AC;&#x153;school choiceâ&#x20AC;? organization. Taking the lead in William Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s campaign to promote â&#x20AC;&#x153;school choiceâ&#x20AC;? in Philadelphia, PSP was also working to expand a formidable statewide network. On May 7, it assisted in the launch of PennCAN, the state affiliate of the national reform group 50CAN. PennCAN embraces privatization more explicitly than PSP does, supporting an expansion of the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC), a voucher-like program that pays corporations back via tax credits for privateschool-tuition donations. But the organizations work hand-in-glove: PennCAN executive director Jonathan Cetel works out of PSPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Philadelphia office.And that office is a hive of pro-charter activity, where PSP worked with the KIPP charter-school network to mobilize charter parents to support Mayor Michael Nutterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ultimately failed effort >>> continued on page 10

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Jeremy nOwak is a big guy with a bulldogâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bearing. Profoundly unruffled, he tilts his smooth, shiny head back as he ponders his vast new realm. It stretches from William Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Center City office out through the Delaware and Susquehanna watersheds. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Those two watersheds together,â&#x20AC;? he explains, â&#x20AC;&#x153;feed water for 20 to 25 million people.â&#x20AC;?

Watersheds, along with education and culture, are William Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s three new grant-making areas. Concerns range from the renewal of the federal Clean Water Act to natural-gas drilling.

Closer to home, the foundation has funded the creation of an expanding regional trail system along the Schuylkill, Delaware and Cooper rivers and Pennypack and Wissahickon creeks.

For these investments, Nowak is demanding results that match William Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s growing stature in the universe of Philly philanthropy. Communications mogul Gerry Lenfest (whose foundation gave $250,000 for the Boston contract) is spending down his enormous wealth, and the Pew and Annenberg foundations have moved their attention and even their offices out of town.

The once-avowedly liberal and soft-spoken William Penn Foundation, long in the shadows of Pew and Annenberg, is now Philadelphiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest locally focused foundation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Annenberg moved to the other coast,â&#x20AC;? says Nowak. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pew â&#x20AC;Ś theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re much more national, and even global. And so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really great for us to stay here, as local. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a Philly guy. So Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m really happy about that.â&#x20AC;?

Founded in 1945 as the Phoebe Waterman Foundation, William Penn was, like other major 20th-century foundations, made by industrial wealth. Otto and Phoebe Haas made a fortune from Rohm & Haas Company, the Philadelphia chemical giant that in 2009 merged with Dow. Nowak, who indeed pronounces â&#x20AC;&#x153;woodershedâ&#x20AC;? like a true Philadelphian, says that he will soon launch a program to encourage a new generation of Philadelphia wealth â&#x20AC;&#x201D; accrued in financial services, real estate and technology â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to start spending that money here. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family money out there,â&#x20AC;? he says, and â&#x20AC;&#x153;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new money.â&#x20AC;?

William Penn â&#x20AC;&#x153;may have been fourth or fifth on the list 10 or 12 years ago. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re now first on the list. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to be first on the list. We want five other guys our size.â&#x20AC;?

That new money, generated in the service economy from Silicon Valley to Wall Street, has already funded a sea change in national philanthropy. And three major new-money foundations â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Bill and Melinda Gates, Eli and Edythe Broad and the Walton Family foundations â&#x20AC;&#x201D; have, like Nowak, focused their largesse on remaking American public education. Over the past decade, the big three have established themselves as the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most important education funders, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve become among its most powerful policy makers, too. They set an agenda: in support of charter schools and high-stakes standardized tests. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They are imposing all of these steps to supposedly hold teachers accountable, but in the meantime the people who are coming up with the metrics and the management techniques have no public accountability whatsoever,â&#x20AC;? says Alice Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connor, a professor at University of California-Santa Barbara who studies philanthropy and public education. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really, really scary.â&#x20AC;?

So how deep does the influence of these foundations run in our public education systems? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s almost too far to plumb. Considered alongside the network of well-funded conservative organizations that openly seek to privatize public-education, it could be overwhelming.

Locally, the Nowak- and Ramos-led working group discussed the two final superintendent candidates â&#x20AC;&#x201D; weeks before they were announced to the public. Both would have seemed to be politically suitable, being graduates of the Broad Foundationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pro-corporate-reform Superintendents Academy. Ramos assured Nowak that a promising black candidate was a finalist. That candidate might have been William R. Hite Jr., whose hiring was announced last Friday.

At the heart of all this is a seemingly well-intentioned but secretively coordinated call for â&#x20AC;&#x153;quality educationâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a phrase that seems, increasingly, to be code for corporate school reform. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Those stuck in the charter-v.-district debate,â&#x20AC;? says Nowak, â&#x20AC;&#x153;are stuck in a past that simply doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t meet our studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; needs.â&#x20AC;?

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The group that gathered in May identified two key opponents: Labor unions and the black middle class, the latter led by the Rev. Alyn E. Waller of Germantownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church.

The unionized teachers were a particularly formidable â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and expected â&#x20AC;&#x201D; source of opposition.

Ramos planned to reopen the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers (PFT) contract after the July 1 budget deadline, and the group discussed a multifaceted plan to defeat them. While Ramos had asked the Chamber of Commerce to bankroll a lobbying campaign, Nowak felt the chamber was not pulling its weight and wanted it to pay for public relations. But the lobbying, whoever ultimately paid for it, fell apart once infuriated Philadelphia Democrats discovered that Ramos had bypassed them and directly appealed to Republicans for new union-busting powers.

The public-relations objectives outlined at the May meeting were not all achieved â&#x20AC;&#x201D; yet the Blueprint proposal lives on. Critically, perhaps the most important player didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come from within the district administration, city government or the state. Rather, Nowak â&#x20AC;&#x201D; from his 11th-floor office in Logan Square, at the helm of a $1.9 billion foundation increasingly shaped in his image â&#x20AC;&#x201D; has been in many ways charting the course.

Behind the scenes, he has had a hand in not only the Blueprint, but the recent superintendent search, dealings with unions and the advancement of a pro-charter, even pro-voucher, agenda.

And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just the schools. Long before Nowakâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s arrival, William Penn had funded urban planning, news media and environmental and community-organizing groups in the city. Now, via the checks he writes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and the apparent political calculus behind them â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Nowak has become one of the most influential Philadelphians most Philadelphians donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know.

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to secure $94 million in additional school funding. PSP also contracted Bellevue Communications to place an Inquirer op-ed for executive director Mark Gleason. The op-ed, â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Silent Majority for Philadelphia School Choice,â&#x20AC;? controversially imagined what one mother he observed on the subway, presumably low income and black, might be thinking about school choice.

PSPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s board of directors, representing a whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s who of local nonprofit and corporate elites, is a potent force. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a source of vast funds to be channeled toward education policy. For example, one board member is communications executive Chris Bravacos, who leads the pro-voucher REACH Alliance and Bravo Foundation. The latter is a conduit for corporate donations to EITC; a recent New York Times investigation found evidence that middlemen like Bravo coordinate private-school donations with politicians whom they also lobby.

As WilliAm Penn funds an emerging corporate education-reform network, it may soon cut funding to activist organizations critical of privatization. Philadelphia Student Union, Youth United for Change and the Education Law Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cross City Campaign â&#x20AC;&#x153;were told that the type of work we have funded them to do in the past was not likely to be a focus under our new strategic plan,â&#x20AC;?

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Action United has already been told that it will likely not have funding renewed for its parent-organizing work in Philadelphia and schools-focused organizing in Chester.

Activists grew more alarmed in March, when Candace Bell,William Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s education program officer and a major player in building Phillyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s community-education-organizing network, departed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you take the amount of money that William Penn was investing in parent and student organizing, and you take that out of the equation at a time when there is huge upheaval and change being proposed for the public schools â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that is really scary,â&#x20AC;? says Action United executive director Craig Robbins. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What [Nowakâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s] done is said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just not going to fund community organizing; weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to fund a consulting >>> continued on page 12

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group.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a huge change in how youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to prioritize where your money goes.â&#x20AC;? Activists still hope to meet the foundationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strategic planâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s emphasis on â&#x20AC;&#x153;closing the achievement gap for low-income children in Philadelphia.â&#x20AC;?

But â&#x20AC;&#x153;closing the achievement gapâ&#x20AC;? is a nebulous term that, in corporate education-reform circles, often serves as a euphemism for expanding private management and boosting high-stakes testing.

William Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s previous â&#x20AC;&#x153;Children, Youth and Familiesâ&#x20AC;? grant-making area included supporting â&#x20AC;&#x153;more effective and equitable education policies.â&#x20AC;? That funding area has apparently been cut.

At A 2008 conference at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, where Nowak chairs the board, he complained that â&#x20AC;&#x153;conventional philanthropy has been slow to respondâ&#x20AC;? by getting involved in overhauling school management. That will likely not be the case at William Penn. Nowak hired Boston Consultant Group from the corporate world, instead of education researchers, because he believes that education, more than anything, needs a management fix. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is an operations problem,â&#x20AC;? he tells CP, â&#x20AC;&#x153;more than an education problem from some perspective.â&#x20AC;?

Nowak has long had this perspective. The Reinvestment Fund (TRF), the community investment giant that Nowak co-founded in 1985, has made more than $235 million in loans to charters. Nowak served as the first board chairman at Mastery Charter Schools, whichwas involved in the Blueprintâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rollout and is poised to expand its influence over Philly schools.

The model that Nowak pioneered at TRF is now, at William Penn, set to use old money to fund a new philanthropy: a combination of the liberal foundation eraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s insistence on appealing to non-ideological pragmatism to shape government policy and the conservative foundationsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; skepticism of (though not outright hostility to) government in favor of the free market.

Venture capitalism has now spawned venture philanthropy â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and so accountability, according to Nowak, is about measuring how grantees provide returns on the foundationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s goals instead of how they meet their own. In Philly education, that new philanthropy now has two central components: the William Penn-funded Blueprint and the Great Schools Compact, a Gates-funded program to â&#x20AC;&#x153;expand the availability and types of high-quality options and to dramatically reduce the number of chronically underperforming schools.â&#x20AC;?

An application authored by PSP, dated May 1, requested $7 million from Gates to fund the Compact and lauded William Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s support for what it called a â&#x20AC;&#x153;dramatic bid to increase the number of high-performing schools in the city.â&#x20AC;? Gates has so far provided $100,000 to the Compact. The initially innocuous program has since become a lightning rod for criticism. Philadelphia Federation of Teachers president Jerry Jordan calls the Compactâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;good seatsâ&#x20AC;? versus â&#x20AC;&#x153;bad seatsâ&#x20AC;? rhetoric mere subterfuge to expand the number of charters and close district schools.

Indeed, PSPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grant application expresses a desire to give charter advocates direct control over School District operations, requesting $800,000 to fund a more charter-friendly District Charter Office. The grant says nothing about holding city charters, many of which have been under investigation for corruption and fiscal malfeasance, accountable. Notably, the grant says the Blueprint â&#x20AC;&#x153;calls for,â&#x20AC;? and not just projects, â&#x20AC;&#x153;increasing chartersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; share of public-school enrollment to 40 percent by 2017.â&#x20AC;?

PhilAdelPhiA, by mAny accounts, desperately needs a shake-up â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and some say Nowak is the one to do it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a huge personality,â&#x20AC;? says one knowledgeable source. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nice, in a way, because Philadelphia lacks those people who are willing to have a fight.â&#x20AC;? Nowak is consistently described as â&#x20AC;&#x153;brilliantâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;data-drivenâ&#x20AC;? by Philadelphians working in journalism, government and nonprofits.

He is also described as opinionated and blunt. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A straight talker,â&#x20AC;? says Congreso de Latinos Unidos chief executive Cynthia Figueroa, who spoke favorably of Nowak. â&#x20AC;&#x153;No nonsense.â&#x20AC;?

And if one measure of a manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s power is the number of people who are afraid to speak about him on the record, Nowak, in this reporterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s experience, is one of this cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most powerful individuals.

Yet Nowakâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s role could become more visible. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think Jeremy really wants to reshape the role and the image of the organization,â&#x20AC;? says one observer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be a more aggressive and activist organization.â&#x20AC;? The Haas family, this observer says, is on board. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The real test over the long term is whether theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll stay on board with what will essentially be a more in-your-face set of activities. â&#x20AC;Ś Up until now, the family has been viewed as being on the careful side.â&#x20AC;?

Nowak, according to sources, has a deep skepticism of government â&#x20AC;&#x201D; somewhat understandable in a city and state whose lawmakers are regularly sent off to prison for corruption and where citizens suffer daily abuses of a groaning and increasingly defunded bureaucracy. And as government spending dwindles, foundations like William Penn are asked to make up the shortfall. But the dependence on foundation dollars raises difficult questions about the implications of unelected entities funding and setting priorities for core democratic institutions like education â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and, crucially, for the reporters charged with holding the powerful accountable. William Penn, as most reporters but few citizens know, already funds most corners of Philly journalism. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a brave new world for journalism,â&#x20AC;? says Inquirer architecture and planning critic Inga Saffron.â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great that these organizations are generous, but at the same time we have to be alert to their agenda.â&#x20AC;?

David Haas, still on the William Penn board but no longer its chair, has a particular enthusiasm for journalism. Pre-Nowak, William Penn spent $2.4 million to create the Philadelphia Public

Interest Information Network at Temple University, a still-in-development project that has elicited both excitement and confusion among local reporters.

Nowak, for his part, says that he puts an emphasis on game-changing investigative reporting.

Along with funding a new plan for the Delaware River waterfront, the foundation has heavily funded PlanPhilly, a journalism outfit that covered that plan, and other development and public-space issues. And it has funded â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and will now de-fund â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Our Money, a joint project by WHYY and the Daily News focusing on government matters.

WHYY, which has received $1.24 million from William Penn since 2006, is an object lesson on how donors can appear to influence journalism. The Scattergood Foundation funds a beat at WHYY covering behavioral health. Three of 11 total reporters are dedicated to health and sciences, more than to state or local government; and WHYYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Health and Science Advisory Committee includes many donors and underwriters.

Yet aside from a few shining examples â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the multistation collaboration StateImpact covering natural-gas drilling and the soon-to-be-cut Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Our Money â&#x20AC;&#x201D; WHYY

ÂľE3 6/D3 B= 03 /:3@B B= B637@ /53<2/ Âś does not pursue much in the way of investigative journalism. Nowak says heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s told WHYY brass that â&#x20AC;&#x153;we, meaning the foundation, like and care about deep, highquality content.â&#x20AC;? So itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s possible that William Penn could drive WHYY to dedicate more staffers to investigative reporting.

But foundations, from William Penn in Philly to Gates on the national level, are themselves subject to little critical media coverage. A study by the conservative American Enterprise Institute, found â&#x20AC;&#x153;13 positive articlesâ&#x20AC;? on education-funding foundations â&#x20AC;&#x153;for every critical account.â&#x20AC;?

And Nowakâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s commitment to investigative journalism has been tested when it comes to continuing support for the Notebook. At times, Nowak has criticized the paper. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have pushed them on what I think sometimes is a lack of, you know, that they need to give multiple sides,â&#x20AC;? he says. But he insists he is not looking to shut down a critical outlet. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been something that the foundation has supported, something that the foundation is proud of. â&#x20AC;Ś You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to agree with everything somebody does.â&#x20AC;?

Indeed, Nowak gave a long and candid interview with the education-reporting outfit the Notebook on the Boston Consulting funding and hasâ&#x20AC;&#x153;advocated for the Notebook with other funders,â&#x20AC;? including major national grant-makers.

The advertising revenue that was long the lifeblood of newspapers has evaporated, and government funding for core public goods like education has suffered for decades. Foundations like William Penn, to the relief of many, are stepping into this void. But Jeremy Nowak, like many Philadelphians, has an agenda â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and unlike most Philadelphians, he has an enormous sum of money at his disposal with which to pursue it. (daniel.denvir@citypaper.net)

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³ WHEN WORD HIT that Beanie Sigel — still

the hardest rapper in Philly — was hooking up with local label manipulator Chris Schwartz, ears pricked up. Sigel never stopped being formidable even when fortunes grew smaller and jail time loomed larger. His lean, mean MC style can be heard on a recently released mixtape (Broad Street Empire Vol. 1: Lost Files) then on an EMIdistributed full-length this summer (the album, titled This Time or The Classic,to be released Aug. 14). Schwartz is known for Ruffhouse Records and its legendary decade (’89-’99) of smashes with Lauryn Hill, the unrelated Cypress Hill and beyond. After that came RuffNation. The big Schwartz news is that he’s been quietly gathering old business associates from both of his past labels for what could be a Ruff-Something-or-Other 3.0.

Let’s see if he picks on the prettier Nicolo brother (of the Butcher Bros. production team) to aid him in his quest. (I’ll leave y’all to decide whether Joe or Phil is looking cuter of late.) ³ West Chester chef Dan Funk, come on down! The Food Network producers of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives dined at Funk’s Social Lounge two Tuesdays ago, dug the Cajun fare and are looking to bring host Guy Fieri in for a taping in August (he will already be in the We-Chest for an appearance on QVC). Funk and Fieri will meet in NYC to hammer out the details of their spicy date. ³ Anyone going to one of Mr. Kim Kardashian (Kanye West)’s two shows at Revel in Atlantic City will be able to sample the hotel/casino’s new four-tier nightclub HQ, though only one or two of the levels will be open this weekend — the whole hot spot won’t grand-open until September. A slate of top-notch DJs like Calvin Harris, Chromeo and A-Trak will be hitting HQ’s boards before autumn. ³ The layman might not know him, but Philly scribes and film professionals alike have recognized Allied-THA promo maven Nick Tarnowski as a man who steers the ship and guides the timetable. Sadly, he’s leaving town to become director of Allied-THA’s Denver office (the company now has offices worldwide). In a note to his constituents, Nick recalled eight happy years of screenings and stunts. “Hell, I once put the Phanatic in a chair hooked up to balloons and sent him over 100 feet into the air,” said Tarnowski. “How many people can say that?” How many people can say that their stunts were sometimes better than the movies they were promoting, too?

Thanks, Nick. ³Whether you’re listening to Geator Gold AM, gambling at SugarHouse or heading to the Shore (maybe Margate), make sure you stop your car and shout a belated “happy birthday” to the Boss with the Hot Sauce, Jerry Blavat, who just turned 72 July 3. (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)

CAN DO: Kim Alsbrooks’ miniature portraits painted on beer cans are on display with other found-object-based art at Snyderman-Works Gallery.

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³ SNYDERMAN-WORKS GALLERY The best time to find trash, Kim Alsbrooks says, is right after New Year’s.

She goes to the drag known as “Two Street” (aka Second Street) in South Philly, the site of the Mummers’ after-party.

Along with booze-soaked feathers and crushed sequins, the streets are lined with her preferred garbage: smashed aluminum cans.

Alsbrooks paints tiny, delicate portraits of aristocratic men and women onto Colt 45, Olde English and Arizona Iced Tea cans, crushed flat as coins by a penny press. Displayed in the group show “Recovered Delights,” her oil works poke fun at — and holes in — the “finer” things in life.

“It’s a joke,” she says. “It makes fun of all the things that are held up in society.”

That includes politicians, rich folks, revered families and classical art. The juxtaposition of a traditional portrait of an 18th-century gentleman and a cruddy beer can raises all sorts of questions about class, art and beauty. The pieces can also give you a good dose of cognitive dissonance.

“With the juxtaposition of the portraits from museums, once painted on ivory, now on flattened trash of beer cans and fast food, the artist sets out to even the playing field, challenging the perception of the social elite in today’s society,” explains Alsbrooks in

a statement.

Alsbrooks, a Philly-based, West-Prize-winning artist, is joined by other found-object virtuosos like Randall Cleaver, Judith Hoyt and Bill Reid. The works include playful porcelain masks, colorful sculptures made of coffee filters and serious examinations of childhood. Through Aug. 15, opening Fri., July 6, 5:30 p.m., 303 Cherry St., 215-238-9576, snyderman-works.com.

³ THE EL BAR Why is the El Bar, a Fishtown dive that’s almost always wall-towall busy, holding a First Friday reception?

Because the people wanted it, says manager Jasper Del Carlino. Every First Friday, patrons would ask why the bar didn’t join the party.

“But I myself am very interested in art, too,” says Del Carlino. “It’s not necessarily for business.”

Earle Johnson, an El Bar bouncer, is displaying mixed-media works at “ART SHOW.” Using spray paint, acrylic and clips from magazines, he creates graffiti-like images of tribesmen, astronauts and otherworldly creatures. The works are spontaneous and chaotic.

“I never really start a painting with an end game in mind,” says Johnson. “I let it talk to me while I work.”

Proceeds from the show will go to help a fellow bouncer, Tommy, who just survived a motorcycle accident and now has steep medi-

Delicate, aristocratic portraits on crushed beer cans.

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Long a leading contender for Great Lost Punk Album, the self-titled first and only album by San Francisco’s Avengers languished in legal limbo for nearly two decades. Even when the band, which famously opened for the Sex Pistols at their final show, semireunited, they could sell only collections of demos and live tracks.

Finally returned to the land of the living courtesy of singer Penelope Houston’s Water imprint, The Avengers pairs the original 14 tracks — themselves a posthumous roundups of various singles — with selections from the also-ran collections that once stood in its stead.

Somewhere between conceptual group art project and mixtape-by-commission, The Cinematic Orchestra Presents In Motion #1 (Ninja Tune) was conceived as

a suite of alternate scores for short avantgarde films, but it’s equally intriguing — and simply gorgeous — in its own purely auditory right: a collection of seven expansive, genially subdued modern classical compositions (by four different artists) with leanings toward jazz, minimalism, folk and electronica. It’s lush enough to linger in the background, but with enough harmonic sophistica—K. Ross Hoffman tion and bite to reward closer attention.

³ roots West Philadelphia Orchestra is the ensemble local roots-music

geeks point to with pride at music cons or fests. Let other towns brag about their specialists; we have a band that plays it all. Or can, when they feel like quoting a little something unrelated in the middle of a Balkan or other Eastern-Euro-derived composition, as on the new Live at the Tritone.The members’ jazz and classical training shines through, and the hours of powering klezmer dances are audible. Put —Mary Armstrong this one on and create a new folk dance.

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³ pop Every bit as fun and frivolous as their name suggests, Daydream Vacation is the Sweden-to-Seattle superhero team-up of Asya (from tween-sensation sister act Smoosh) and DIY electro guy Dave Einmo (aka Head Like a Kite). The self-released Dare Seize the Fire — arriving just in time for summer — gets her spunky indie-rock peanut butter all over his twitchy dance chocolate on a set of homemade funk and party pop that blends Mates of State’s irrepressible boy-girl bubbliness with The Sounds’ grown-and-sexy synth-rock fizz. —K. Ross Hoffman

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THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN [ A- ] PLENTY OF CHEMICALS were required to scrub the successful Spider-Man

Genuine adolescent connectivity.

STILL STANDING ³ THE DB’S SURFACED in the early ’80s with

a pair of records, beloved by jangle-pop fans and ignored by everyone else, that featured Peter Holsapple and Chris Stamey splitting songwriting and singing duties while drummer Will Rigby and bassist Gene Holder kept things moving with their fresh, nimble rhythms. But Stamey quit the band after that, leaving Holsapple in charge for a couple more albums before everyone found gigs elsewhere.

Devoted fans might have tracked down two posthumous releases of dB’s demos and two CDs that Holsapple and Stamey put out as a duo in ’92 and 2009, but though the band has played together from time to time, rumors of a full-on reunion album had seemed like idle talk.

Until last month, that is, when Falling off the Sky (Bar/None) appeared. It’s a winner, with Holsapple’s power-pop prowess coming to the fore on “That Time Is Gone” and “World to Cry,” and Stamey’s synthesis of oddness and sophistication in full bloom on “Collide-oOo-Scope.” Even Rigby takes a turn at the mic, wheezing like a geezer on “Write Back,” which turns out to be the record’s catchiest tune.

They don’t sound like the twentysomethings they were in their heyday, and they sure don’t sound like the current crop, but the dB’s prove that indie-rock lifers aren’t ready to be eulogized.

Still, first-wave fans are likely to prefer the early stuff, if only because they’ve spent more time and money on it. More than 30 years after the dB’s debuted with 1981’s Stands for Decibels, it’s hard to believe that no American label would touch them.

They grew up in North Carolina and were based in New York, but their U.S. fans had to buy records imported from England to hear the poppy “Black and White” and “The Fight,” both by Holsapple, or Stamey’s wiry “Espionage.” It was a different time then; indeed, the dB’s helped build the underground music infrastructure, along with compatriots like R.E.M. (with whom they toured) and Mitch Easter.

In retrospect, it all sounds so good, so normal — and, unlike ’82’s Repercussion, mostly free of the decade’s cheesier production flourishes — that you can only be grateful that the men who made it are still on the job. (m_fine@citypaper.net)

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PARKER POSING: With help from his cast of young, resilient stars, director Marc Webb tackles this redux challenge in a way that makes the decades-old Spidey story seem new again.

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franchise down to its bare-white-room bones; consider Marc Webb’s involvement a solvent, dissolving all the pasted-down expository flyers and lingering stylistic debris Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire left behind. Thanks in strong part to his young, resilient stars, the (500) Days of Summer director fields a formidable redux challenge with grace, connecting with the source material in such a sincere manner that it makes one of the oldest origin stories in all of comics seem fresh. With no real comparative meat available before or during Maguire’s ’02-to-’07 run, it was impossible to grasp the doofy pie-on-a-windowsill particulars of his portrayal of the tormented masked webslinger.

Greetings, Andrew Garfield — his Social Network turn as Eduardo Saverin showed us he can glower with the best of them, and the nonverbal tics he brings to standoffish teen science whiz Peter Parker are key to his on-the-button handling of Spidey’s daylight persona. He’s coming from a different place, too: Uncle Ben and Aunt May (Martin Sheen and Sally Field) don’t accomplish much as his worried guardians in leafy Queens, but Peter’s parents (Campbell Scott and Embeth Davidtz) are poured legit screen juice.The babe’s the thing, though: Stomping on a forgettable Spider-Man 3 performance by Bryce Dallas Howard, Emma Stone is sharp as OG love interest Gwen Stacy, and though the interplay between her and Peter starts off sluggish, it quickly buds into genuine adolescent connectivity. Peter, as we know, gains his arachno-bilities after being snacked on by a radioactive spider, and Webb does incredible FX work splitting the difference between Parker’s vintage ink-andpaper poses and his modern, athletic navigation of his Manhattan playground. More than a few have questioned the relevance of this reboot, but there’s ample promise caught in Webb’s web. —Drew Lazor

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A broken heart is responsible for the transformation from fashion photography to abstract. cal bills. Through July 31, opening Fri., July 6, 8 p.m., 1356 N. Front St., 215-634-6430.

³ CURATED GOODS In Sophie Xu’s second exhibit at Curated Goods, she strays from her past in fashion photography, full of pretty little things and sparkly landscapes. She is now focusing on abstract images, bold colors and captivating light patterns in “Drowninsanity.” The photographs are more nuanced and mature, though they retain a charming cuteness.

Xu says a broken heart is responsible for the transformation. “I was going through relationship problems with my boyfriend,” she says. “I tend to bottle up my feelings, and I let it out on the camera.”

Xu’s best pieces are her most mysterious, like the primary-red photograph (shown, right) that could be anything from a close-up of carpet to NASA’s image of the day. Or an abstract, red-and-blue image of condensation on a window.

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TO ROME WITH LOVE|C+ In England, Woody Allen found murderous intent behind the locals’ impeccable manners; in Spain, he responded to fiery passions; and in Paris, he basked in nostalgia for the city’s storied past. The latest stop on Allen’s Grand Tour is Italy, but this time all we get are a few pretty postcards with amusing sentiments inscribed on the back, as if he didn’t venture further than the Trevi Fountain before returning to his hotel room to watch Fellini films. To Rome With Love interweaves four separate stories, each with its own Woody surrogate: Allen himself assumes the role of an opera director who discovers a prodigy who can sing only in the shower; Alec Baldwin meets a young man (Jesse Eisenberg) who reminds him of his younger self; Roberto Benigni plays an office drone who inexplicably becomes a paparazzi-pursued superstar; and Alessandro Tiberi is a young newlywed forced to pass off Penélope Cruz as his missing wife. There’s not much to these stories beyond those slight summations; the Benigni episode is a trite satire on celebrity culture, while the Cruz segment is soufflé-light farce. The Eisenberg story is familiar territory, with neurotic twentysomethings seducing each other with talk of Rilke and Kierkegaard,

CONTINUING ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER|BBased on the 2010 book by Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter delivers precisely what it promises.

It starts with Lincoln (Benjamin Walker) as an Illinois railsplitter of humble means. After mysterious man of leisure Henry Sturgess (Dominic Cooper) saves his life from a bloodsucker, Honest Abe insists he be trained in the fine art of creature combat so he can get his vengeance on the vamp (Marton Csokas) responsible for murdering his mother.

Lincoln’s lasting influence as far as winning the Civil War and ending slavery is handled cartoonishly, which is probably a good thing — those flummoxed by the sheer existence of this shameless-but-satisfying bit of pop-history revisionism would probably scream even louder if those aspects were presented with anything but a smirk. —Drew Lazor BRAVE|B+ Merida (voiced by Kelly Macdonald) is a 10th-century Scottish princess with flaming hair and a temper to match, which means that when her mother (Emma Thompson) announces she’s to be married to a neighboring clan’s son, she objects on the strongest possible terms.

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but Allen increasingly seems to cast young people based on whoever came up last in his Netflix queue. Ellen Page is an odd choice for a femme fatale exuding an irresistible “sexual vibe,” a part for which frequent Woody muse Scarlett Johansson would have been better suited. The film feels like a sketchbook, with amusing premises padded out by so much doodling in the margins. —Shaun Brady

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absent from the film’s more calculated sequences, and the outdoor setting gives the movie’s spacious 3D a chance to shine. The filmmakers find a look closer to stop-motion puppetry than not-quite-there humanism; Merida’s curly hair looks, delightfully, as if it’s made from pipe cleaners and snarled yarn. It may be closer to Tangled than WALL-E, but that merely means emulating one form of greatness rather than another.

—Sam Adams

DNA” reveal and subsequent redemption could unfold in 20 minutes. Instead, it takes two hours. The exploration of this family’s messy ties is all too neat and overworked, preventing the movie from reaching true tear-jerking potential. Still, sentimental moments push through the Hollywood patina. A solid cast elicits bona fide emotion from a by-the-book script without indulging in too much schmaltz. If only the superfluously delayed climax followed suit. —Michael Gold

MAGIC MIKE|AFor most of Magic Mike’s first hour, “women, money and a good time” is enough. The barely clothed dance numbers carry none of the ugly baggage that would weigh down a movie about female strippers, especially since Reid Carolin’s script studiously avoids any mention of steroids, speed or eating disorders. They’d only kill the buzz. Until the other shoe drops, Magic Mike is pure, giddy enjoyment, put together with the offhand skill of a slumming master. The latter stages are a letdown, not just because the high is followed by the inevitable hangover but because Steven Soderbergh and Carolin assert the decline rather than build up to it. It seems to have less to do with 21st-century economics than an unspoken and unexamined assumption that taking your clothes off for a living will rot your soul. —SA

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PEOPLE LIKE US|BWhen self-obsessed Sam (Chris Pine) is tasked with delivering $150,000 to a half-sister he didn’t know existed, he selfishly holds onto the dough, stalking down-on-her-luck sibling Frankie (Elizabeth Banks) and her troubled son until he sees fit to reveal the truth of their shared parentage. This “we share

Mark Duplass’ eccentric loner Kenneth claims to have a time machine at the ready, and he wants to revisit the day he blames for his own downfall.

He places a classified ad that’s discovered by a magazine reporter (Jake M. Johnson), who sees an easy subject for a mocking article. Intern Darius (Aubrey Plaza) tags along, though her above-it-all cynicism soon begins to peel away as she falls for Kenneth and uncovers her own emotional scars.

Ultimately, the subplot involving Johnson feels half-hearted, and the stereotype-bending central characters are surrounded by actual, lazy stereotypes. By the time Kenneth unveils his time machine, neither an ending of the time machine working or it not working would be particularly satisfying, and the questions left unanswered aren’t compensated for by the offbeat but slight romance. —SB

SEEKING A FRIEND FOR THE END OF THE WORLD|C Saddled with the knowledge that Earth will be decimated by an enormous asteroid in a few weeks’ time, Dodge’s (Steve Carell) adult friends start going nuts, feeding their children hard liquor, shooting heroin and screwing anyone who estab-

lishes eye contact with them. Dodge, meanwhile, continues going about his humdrum day-to-day, even after his miserable wife walks out on him.

Enter Dodge’s flighty neighbor Penny (Keira Knightley), a vinyl-worshiping wispy-girl archetype who agrees to accompany him on a journey to find his high-school sweetheart. The inexorable trudge toward Judgment Day and the bacchanal it births is an interesting backdrop for what’s essentially a road-trip rom-com, but the two leads are mapped out to uninventive extremes. Dodge has heavy daddy issues! Penny can’t commit!

This is why they are the way they are!

With the planet’s fate already sealed, who cares? —DL

TED|B An outcast in suburban Boston, young John Bennett (Mark Wahlberg) wishes upon a star that his stuffed bear Ted would come to life.

His dream comes true and the toy becomes an instant celeb, charming America right up to the moment no one gives a shit anymore. Decades later, the bear and 35-year-old John, dating sweet Lori (Mila Kunis) and working a glum job as a rental-car agent, are still inseparable, sharing an affinity for wake-and-bakes, Flash Gordon and clinging desperately to irresponsibility. Predictably, the ingrained slacker habits drive a wedge between John and Lori, forcing him to reassess his relationship with the only real friend he’s ever had. Wahlberg and director Seth MacFarlane, both New Englanders, capitalize on the inherent detestability of name-brand Massholes, playing up the heavy drinking and “R”-shunning accent to max comedic effect.

The polarizing Peter Griffin-style asides and negligibly funny running

gags overseason the storytelling, but complementary supporting-cast performances keep things from getting too fratty. —DL

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THE AWESOME FEST Various locations, theawesomefest. com. Stripes (1981, U.S., 106 min.): Two losers join the Army and end up heroes, defying all sense of reason.

Thu., July 5, 8:30 p.m., free. The Pact (2012, U.S., 89 min.): Ghosts come out of the closet when two sisters mourn the loss of their mother. Sat., July 7, 8:30 p.m., free.

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Brazil (1985, U.S., 138 min.): A bureaucrat is mistaken for a terrorist in an absurdly comedic dystopia. Fri., July 6, 11:30 p.m., $7. The 39 Steps (1935, U.K., 86 min.): Spies, murder, secret agents and screaming blondes.

Oh, Hitchcock. Tue., July 10, 7 p.m., $10. The Apartment (1960, U.S., 125 min.): An intrepid clerk vies for a promotion by letting his bosses use his apartment for a little extramarital action. Wed., July 11, 7 p.m., $10.

INTERNATIONAL HOUSE 3701 Chestnut St., 215-387-5125, ihousephilly.org. Jordan Belson: Films Sacred and Profane (various years, U.S., 68 min.): A collection of Belson’s “cosmic,” experimental 16mm film shorts. Fri., July 6, 7 p.m., $9. We Can’t Go Home Again (2011, U.S., 95 min.): The late Nicholas Ray guides his students through the creation of a communal film to capture the progress of human life. Read more on p. 22.

Sat., July 7, 5 p.m., $9. Bigger than Life (1956, U.S., 90 min.): Everybody’s favorite suburban teacher learns experimental drugs are bad. Sat., July 7, 7 p.m., $9.

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF JEWISH AMERICAN HISTORY 101 S. Independence Mall East, 215-923-3811, nmajh.org. Marjorie Morningstar (1958, U.S., 128 min.): A well-to-do New York Jew falls in love with a man ashamed of his Hasidic roots. Wed., July 11, 7 p.m., $10.

CINEMA 16:9 35 N. Lansdowne Ave., Lansdowne, 484-461-7676, cinema169.com. Five Deadly Venoms (1967, U.S., 80 min.): A martial artist follows the words of his dying master to track down five mysterious former students. Tue., July 10, 7:30 p.m., $5.

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—Mark Cofta Through Aug. 12, $20-$32, Hedgerow Theatre, 64 Rose Valley Rd., Rose Valley, 610-565-4211, hedgerowtheatre.org.

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Naughty innuendo and doorslamming silliness return to the Hedgerow stage with their 11th annual Ray Cooney farce, Not Now, Darling. The 1967 comedy was co-written with John Chapman, who also collaborated on Cooney’s Move

✚ ROBYN Most pop stars like to fancy themselves misunderstood, but the unrepentant Robyn might be the most flummoxing songstress of them all for uninitiated Statesiders. Just

—Drew Lazor Thu., July 5, 10 p.m., $10-$12, with Dave P and DJ Rokk, Voyeur, 1221 Saint James St., 215-735-5772, voyeurnightclub.com.

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✚ NATIONAL HOT DOG MONTH ART SHOW As an illustrator and occasional food blogger, Hawk Krall has a thing for hot dogs: The man has produced Serious Eats’ Hot Dog of the Week column for the past three years.

So it seems fitting that Philly’s own gourmet hot-dog stop, Hot Diggity, once again finds room on its walls for Krall’s wiener work, since it’s Hot Dog Month and all. Asked to explain his fixation, Krall says, “Hot dogs, especially the culture surrounding them, interest me as a stubbornly regional and independent thing.”

—Frida Garza Through July 31, free, Hot Diggity, 630 South St., 267-886-9253, thehotdiggity.com.

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✚ SCISSOR SISTERS A decade on from their debut single, Jake Shears

and company are a veritable pop institution, dependably delivering an inimitable, well-oiled blend of retro-kitsch fabulosity and good-natured raunch with a winking cleverness that verges on pure nerdity. (Last time they played Philly, Ana Matronic started spouting her favorite Ben Franklin Fun Facts.) Even the bevy of fashionable collaborators they’ve enlisted for their fourth LP (Diplo, Azealia Banks, Calvin Harris, Boys Noize, Pharrell Williams) does little to modernize or deflect their perennially out-of-step reliance on the most dubious of ’70s and ’80s sources: garish glam balladry, sudsy yacht-pop and gobs of cheeseball electro-disco. And if Magic Hour (Polydor) isn’t quite the tour de force that 2010’s smutty, club-focused Night Work was — for one thing, it lacks that album’s united conceptual (ahem) thrust — it’s still a dazzling affair, balancing the usual spandex-clad floor-fillers with surprising amount of sen-

timentality, plus (in Matronic’s delirious “Let’s Have a Kiki”) at least one highly obligatory drag anthem in the making.

—K. Ross Hoffman Thu., July 5, 8:30 p.m., $27-$37.35, with Rye Rye, Electric Factory, 421 N. Seventh St., 215-627-1332, electricfactory.info.

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✚ KEVIN BLEYER As every American who’s ever taken the time to watch our government in (in)action knows, our more perfect union was founded on a profoundly imperfect document. As Kevin Bleyer points out, the Constitution itself points out on page one its nature as the result of an uncomfortable compromise.

So, figuring out that “We the People” necessarily includes him, the Daily Show writer takes on the task of rewriting it. Me the People delves into the eccentric history of our founding document, like a revision of Richard Beeman’s Plain, Honest Men with more punch lines.

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look at the Twitter trepidation that unfolded after she smashed it as a musical guest on SNL in late 2011. (Picture thousands of 140-character variations on “Who the fuck IS this lady and WHY is she wearing platform Timberlands?!”) Yes, the Swedish spitfire, who’ll commandeer Voyeur’s decks with partner DJ Rokk after opening for Coldplay at Wells Fargo Thursday night, is most identifiable as that “Show Me Love” girl who dresses like an interplanetary bail bondsman, but she’s extremely important on the contemporary dance-pop spectrum due to her sincerity. Though she’s sadly not dropped an album since 2010’s dance-floor master class Body Talk, her music is groove-heavy and anthemic because grooveheavy and anthemic is fun, not because of some manufactured outcast-complex codependency a la Gaga.

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Over Mrs. Markham, My Giddy Aunt and There Goes the Bride; don’t the titles alone promise fun? As usual, the laughs stem from a married man’s efforts to bed a mistress without his wife, or her husband, finding out. Actors Susan Wefel and Zoran Kovcic, maintaining their perfect records of Cooney appearances, are joined by John D. Smitherman, David Polgar and Rebecca Cureton, with Jared Reed directing his seventh in the series — which is on track to continue through all of Cooney’s plays by 2031.

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The book finds Bleyer lunching with Antonin Scalia and doing intensive research like watching National Treasure on the Megabus. Along the way he takes field trips to Greece, the National Archives and Philly’s own Founding Fathers tourist sites. He’ll return to the Constitution Center to discuss the book (and, presumably, to apologize for implying that the place is kinda tacky).

healthy bite out of Samiam.

Let’s also give a nod to the Get Up Kids generation for all the sincere and angsty vocal eruptions. Which is to say Ma Jolie did its homework and does pop-punk right. Coursing with adrenaline (but rarely drunk on testosterone), they machinegun through their self-released full-length debut, …Compared to Giants, like proud flag bearers. They’re music fans, like you.

—Patrick Rapa

—Shaun Brady Thu., July 5, 6 p.m., $5, National Constitution Center, 525 Arch St., 215409-6700, constitutioncenter.org.

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Fri., July 6, 7 p.m., $10, with Lemuria and NONA, The Barbary, 951 N. Frankford Ave., 866-468-7619, r5productions.com.

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✚ MA JOLIE This Philly four-piece is upfront about its ’90s post-punk influences: They plucked those catchy, caffeinated hooks from Superchunk; the neck-wrenching chord changes take a

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Get with it.

—Gair “Dev79” Marking

his throwback approach being a “gimmick.” It just doesn’t get any more genuine and bona fide than this cat, even if (or precisely because) it doesn’t take much more than a squint to believe it’s Hank Williams himself crooning these blues.

Nor is there anything the least bit stale or sawdusty in the way he freshens up sounds that by rights ought to be woefully anachronistic; his most recent LP, Viper of Melody (Bloodshot), which is slathered up and down with sweet ’n’ slinky steelguitar solos, finds the Texan troubadour tackling such timelessly topical pursuits as “Working at Working,” “Driving My Young Life Away” and “Throwin’ Away My Money,” which ring just as relevant in 2012 as they would’ve in 1932.

—K. Ross Hoffman Sat., July 7, 8 p.m., $10-$14, with Ten Foot Polecats, King Sickabilly and his Full Moon Boys and Coffin Fly, The Legendary Dobbs, 304 South St., 215501-7288, dobbsphilly.com.

Sat., July 7, 9 p.m., free, M Room, 15 W. Girard Ave., 215-739-5577, mroomphilly.com.

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✚ NICHOLAS RAY’S BIGGER THAN LIFE “Cinema,” wrote Jean-Luc Godard, “is Nicholas Ray.” Few of Ray’s movies prove the point as eloquently as Bigger Than Life, screening Saturday at International House as part of a brief tribute. Driven mad by a “miracle drug,” James Mason’s small-town schoolteacher morphs into a home-grown fascist, a megalomaniac with a zero-tolerance policy for deviations from the norm. It’s a frightening, deeply subversive portrait of 1950s conformity, approached from a more intriguing angle than Ray’s Rebel Without a Cause. Screening before it is We Can’t Go Home Again, a personal essay/class project made with his students

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—Sam adams Sat., July 7, 7 p.m., $9, International House, 3701 Chestnut St., 215-3875125, ihousephilly.org.

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LittLe WorLds Béla Bartók composed the 150-plus pieces known as Mikrokosmos as, essentially, piano lessons, études offering progressively more-daunting technical challenges. The six volumes have become a key part of the classical repertoire in classrooms and on stage, but little Worlds has little interest in showing off its virtuosity.

The trio of trombonist Rick Parker, guitarist Ryan Mackstaller and drummer Tim Kuhl came together from NyC’s jazz, rock and experimental music scenes and have reimagined Bartók’s lessons as a knifeedged songbook. Precision is replaced by swells of electric sound, the maestro’s miniature melodies suddenly unraveling in wiry, jagged lines or drifting into dreamy airspace. Given his own penchant for appropriation and transformation, Bartók himself would no doubt have approved.

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—Jodi Bosin Sun., July 8, 7 a.m., Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2600 Ben Franklin Pkwy., thecolorrun.com.

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eddie PaLmieri Eddie Palmieri’s parents arrived in the u.S. a full decade before he was born, but he’s been retracing their voyage from Puerto Rico to the South Bronx for more than 75 years.

A true pioneer of latin jazz and salsa, Palmieri has never struggled to fuse styles; his love for the likes of Art Tatum and Bud Powell is simply expressed with the accents of his upbringing and the

—Shaun Brady Sat., July 7, 8 p.m., $5, with The Horrible Department, Highwire Gallery, 2040 Frankford Ave., museumfire.com/events.

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the CoLor run It’s too late to run in this strange little race, but you’ll probably have more fun on the sidelines anyway. Dressed in all white, runners are pelted along the 5K course — up Kelly Drive and back, with the finish line at the Art Museum — with handfuls of colorful pigment dust reminiscent of the powder thrown at the Indian festival Holi; they cross the finish line looking like they’ve been assaulted by a neon-loving Jackson Pollock.

The boathouse banks or museum steps should provide a

rhythmic force of his first gig, playing timbales in his uncle’s orchestra. Palmieri celebrated his 50th anniversary last year, marking not his entry into the business but the founding of Conjunto la Perfecta, the innovative orchestra that was his first of many brilliant jazz/latin hybrids. He’ll lead his working septet as part of Camden’s Sunset Jazz series.

—Shaun Brady Tue., July 10, 8 p.m., free, Wiggins Waterfront Park, foot of Mickle Blvd., Camden, N.J., 856-216-2170, ccparks.com.

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HOMECOMING KING After crisscrossing the globe, Greg Vernick settles down in Rittenhouse. Lucky us.

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ong before opening the best new restaurant in Philadelphia, Vernick Food & Drink, Greg Vernick was a boy in Cherry Hill.

“My mom owned a restaurant in Haddonfield,” he says. “The bus stopped right in front of it, and I’d go there after school. That’s where my childhood took place.”

Vernick went to college in Boston for frontof-the-house education, then to the Culinary More on: Institute of America for back. He cooked at New York’s Per Se for not quite a year before joining Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s team, first at Perry Street in the West Village, then at the eponymous Jean Georges on Central Park, where he worked his way up to sous chef. When Vongerichten wanted to do a restaurant in Vancouver, the megawatt chef tapped Vernick to open it.

“When I got back to New York, they had filled my job as a sous,” Vernick says. “They told me, ‘We want you to go back out on the road and open up more restaurants for us. The next job is the Middle East.’”

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This is how Vernick found himself in Doha and Dubai and Tokyo — his girlfriend, now wife, Julie, along for the ride. “I traveled 125 days that year, opened eight or nine restaurants” — but he’s not bragging. “Coming back to Philly was always the goal. My family is here, I was born here, we want to start a family here.”

Lucky us. An iridescent red anthill of tuna tartare, the amuse bouche one night at Vernick, cemented my gratitude. At face, there was nothing revolutionary about the glistening bite, except perhaps how it came to be: “Each night, every cook at every station has a chance to invent an amuse before staff meal,” Vernick explains.

“At 4:30, they present with their version and [the best one] will turn up at the tables.”

Love that. This amuse was his sous chef’s handiwork, composed of ingredients that are hardly out-there: quality yellowfin, minced fine; lime zest, sour and perfumed; salt; and a sliver of finger chili pickled in a mellow Champagne vinegar brine. But the calibration of the flavors was that of a Ferrari engine, precise and thrilling.

Yeah, it was gonna to be a good meal.

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drop to drink” is a scenario that those who work in restaurants are all too familiar with: surrounded by fully stocked walk-ins and plates of food being sent out all night long, but never a chance to sit down and enjoy any of it. That is, until after service.

Hunkering down to an after-hours burger or family-style Chinese spread is just the kind of thing that keeps service-industry folks going. Curious to see where the city’s best late-night eats happen, we tapped some of our favorite chefs and asked them to share their preferred post-service spots.

Scott Schroeder of South Philly Taproom and American Sardine Bar will have you know that he doesn’t like to eat too late out of concern for his girlish figure, but when pressed, he’ll go for the oysters and a Parliament Burger at Pub and Kitchen (1946 Lombard St., serving until 1 a.m.).

Brad Spence knows how to keep his crew happy.

After Amis shuts down for the evening, the kitchen heads to Tai Lake (134 N. 10th St., serving until 3 a.m.) in Chinatown for whole Dungeness crab with minced pork and steamed frog with lotus leaves.

Tai Lake also has a fan in Rittenhouse Tavern chef and Le Bec vet Nicholas Elmi, who goes for the tropical mai tais and cool jellyfish salad.

After a busy night at Osteria, Jeff Michaud stays in the hood, heading over to Silk City (435 Spring Garden St., serving until 1 a.m.) to unwind al fresco in their beer garden with a cold one and some moonlight bar bites.

Down at Le Virtù, Joe Cicala has loads of latenight options nearby. Some nights call for fried chicken from South Philly Taproom (1509 Mifflin St., serving until 1 a.m.), while other nights he has one of his cooks call for Pueblan delivery (en espanol, por favor, so as to not get “gringoed”).

Not willing to reveal the number for his secret late-night service, Cicala did tell us that these guys deliver food and booze all over the city, all night long.

Occasionally Cicala will call in a favor to Passyunk neighbor George Sabatino, asking him to keep the kitchen open a little later for some Stateside (1536 E. Passyunk Ave., limited menu until 1 a.m.) action.

And if you’re in the market for a perfectly mediumrare burger at 2 a.m., Cicala tells us that Grace Tavern (2229 Grays Ferry Ave., serving until 2 a.m.) is the place to get it. (caroline@citypaper.net)

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Down below, the chefs in the open kitchen (open, but hidden, through a corridor behind the concrete, U-shaped bar) sent up success after success. Metropolitan sourdough, cut thick like a lumberjack might slice his morning bread and charred well on a grill whose lava rocks mimic cult Japanese charcoal bintochan, form the foundation for the menuâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trendy selection of â&#x20AC;&#x153;toasts.â&#x20AC;? Their mere presence might be faddish, but thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing fleeting about the true, earnest flavors I discovered in their toppings: creamy steamed morels painted with Meyer-lemon glaze; fat, pickled cherries bleeding onto fromage blanc; beef tenderloin tartare so silky Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m tempted to invoke the often ill-advised â&#x20AC;&#x153;mouthfeelâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; e.g., the mouthfeel of this tartare is off the fucking chain. And in each bite, a heartbeat of smoke and crunch, the sturdy framework that supports all the other flavors and asks for none of the glory. Sorry to blow up your spot, humble bread.

Less deferential is the vainglorious uni-and-eggs appetizer, the one everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s talking about, the one quickly becoming the signature dish at Vernick. Unapologetically rich, umami loiters in every corner of the curvaceous white bowls in which these soft, creamy eggs and raw sea-urchin roe are heaped. A faint marine flavor echoed through, hypnotic; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the eggs more than the uni, shirred with shrimp-shell butter. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d mention mouthfeel again had I not already spent my yearly allowance.

I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t love a bowl of baby artichokes steamed and sauced in sun-dried-tomato vinaigrette (uncharacteristically underseasoned) or a special featuring whole grilled shad roe sack with bacon and a weak carrot rĂŠmoulade, but against the triumphs that preceded and followed, they were quickly dismissed. Roasted in the wood-burning oven, a whole dorade swam right into the winnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s circle, its uncommon soft skeleton allowing the chefs to debone while leaving the head-to-tail look intact, a cool trick.

Charred gem lettuce, blistered shishito peppers and butts of fresh lemon and lime surrounded the beautifully cooked fish; they not only made delicious complements â&#x20AC;&#x201D; I loved the citrus cousins, mutually exclusive in most cuisines, reunited and Vernickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ballsiness to just fucking put them there on the plate, man â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but together possessed a je ne sais quoi that felt so strongly, uniquely American to me.

With Le VirtĂš pastry chef Angela Ranalli â&#x20AC;&#x201D; â&#x20AC;&#x153;I begged them to have herâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; on desserts, you know the finish is going to be strong. Gooey blueberries flowed from a pie-dough crumble in one, staining dreamy vanilla gelato capped with bright lemon curd. Roasted peaches fruited up another, a grilled olive-oil cake that felt right in Ranalliâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sweet-savory Italian wheelhouse. If thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a criticism of the desserts, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a bit oversized.

Split them and direct the savings to the smart wine list (home to not one but three rosĂŠs by the glass), and join me in welcoming Greg Vernick â&#x20AC;&#x201D; finally â&#x20AC;&#x201D; home. (adam.erace@citypaper.net)

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[ i love you, i hate you ] CITY SIDEWALKS ARE NOT YOUR TOILET Hey...I get it. You went out this weekend and got white girl wasted. It happens to the best of us. But unless you are 16 years old, drinking behind your high school from a 40 of “Old E,” there is no reason for you all to be so lackadaisical about where you puke. Be an adult and either puke in an appropriate receptacle (ie. a toilet/trash can/your boyfriend or girlfriend’s mouth, etc...), or maybe don’t drink yourself to the point of having to expel your Red Zone chicken fingers on the sidewalk. Monday morning, getting to work in Old City is like a game of hopscotch where the punishment is as dire as falling into the “Bog of Eternal Stench,” only the Goblin King isn’t around with his cod piece, and you are more likely to see Hoggle and Ludo still roaming about from the night before. The smell of vomit on my shoes will more than likely follow me around at work all day. And honestly, if I didn’t do the crime, I shouldn’t have to pay the time. I will be more than happy to walk around smelling like the good time I had the evening before, but unfortunately, I have a job and can’t go out and get wasted on a Sunday night. I know, so lame to have priorities, but us people with college degrees (who are not borderline alcoholics) tend to have those.

So please, for the sake of the already putrid air we breathe in this city, and for the sake of my Jimmy Choos, STOP FUCKING THROWING UP ON THE SIDEWALKS!

weekend plans with a girl. We do have things we do in preparation.

LOVE OF RETURN I love knowing that time has made us solid, stronger, bold and brought us even closer to each other. Some people just click from the start but for you and for me. This is a real split in a clit that are meant to happen. Something have to do with passion in the Heat. I will let go of the fight and let go of wannabe a winner. The answer is yes to be fair but true love needs it own time to find itself ( are you the one?). They say, he says, she-he says,

NOW ROTTING IN PHILLY You know I thought it was you up there who was rotting away w/ you and your immature, insecure mind but as the days drag on and I sit alone in my bedroom, eating vanilla peanut butter ice cream and suboxone, drowning in my self-loathing, I realize, I am rotting away in this poor sad city, I use to always say “ Fuck Boston” in jest to you but oh how I was wrong, I’d much rather be there w/ you now than anywhere, I miss you. I miss you like a junkie like myself misses the spoon, but I miss you more.

I’m hurting here Caitlin, like you have no idea. I had such plans for us but those plans are just silly

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Pit Bull owners: I know, I know, they’re really nice and misunderstood and they’re SOOOOO gentle. I didn’t ask. I don’t care. Whatever. I’m not buying your calendar because I frankly don’t think they’re that cute. I just prefer other dogs with longer snouts. I’m sorry that my preference isn’t going to save a life, and I know that if I don’t adopt one they’re going to put them down. I’m sorry. I wouldn’t buy a car I don’t want because if I don’t buy it they’ll throw it in the junkyard and I’m not going to buy a dog just to save one.

Jesus.

I really, really wish this stupid, ignorant BITCH sitting next to me would just shut the fuck up already. To the woman (yeah, nice fucking ankle-length summer dress you loud-ass bitch) on the train with the stupid, fake-ass looking box-shaped gold purse: Why won’t you shut up already? I’m tired of all these assholes who get on the train and pollute the air incessantly with their obnoxiously loud, mundane cell-phone bullshit. I’m trying to listen to some Alice in Chains over here.

Who steals a plant?! Who. Steals. A. Fucking.

Plant. Really?! My husband warned me not to put it out front, but naive, trusting little me thought he was just being cynical. That plant was a goingaway gift from the disabled seniors at my former workplace, and I just wanted to make my city a little more beautiful by sharing it. Now I’ve learned my lesson. You should feel proud. You’ve made the city a little uglier, the world a little worse, and me a little more cynical. How does it feel to have accomplished something? Just remember, karma’s a bitch, asshole.

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DEAR NIGHTTIME HIBISCUS THIEF,

“THANKS FOR GIVING THIS LOVE A CHANCE...”

You wrote that in the adorable Valentine’s Day card you snuck into my bed. Now only a few short months later we’re coming up on our year and a half-anniversary. While it’s not exactly one year or two, it’s certainly still occasion to celebrate, considering no one expected it to last that long. Truthfully, 18 months and it’s barely felt like minutes, an emotional whirlwind of ups and downs, peppered with deeply personal moments and furious bouts of uncontrollable lust. 18 months, sweetheart.

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LDBC: LONG DISTANCE BOOTY CALL Listen, I am more than happy to be your booty call/ fuck buddy/friend with benefits, but with all things there is an etiquette you must follow. Even more so for people that live quite a distance from one another. For instance, if Saturday is the day you wish to be balls deep inside me, do not text me at 3:00 a.m. Saturday morning and expect me to drop everything to await your arrival inside me. Also, do not try and flip the script and want me to make the effort to get to you. I am not the one who initiated this late night tryst/rendezvous. Therefore, if you want it you are going to have to put out the work to get it. I mean, come on, I am already a sure thing and giving it up to you with no effort on your part.

1- because we have chemistry in the sack, and 2- because I am bored. The least you could do is get in the fucking car and get to my house. However, I digress, the point is moot considering that you broke protocol by not planning ahead. Everyone knows the last day to make weekend plans (or a long- distance booty call) is Wednesday... Thursday at the latest. You know it takes 10 hours before any sexy time can happen after a wax. If it was a normal booty call, then by all means, call at 3 in the morning and I’ll see you in 10 minutes. But otherwise, fellas, Thursday is the last day to make

parent, meaningless babble intended to steer away from the lustful cravings. More nervous laughter. Later you’d show me around town with fantasies boiling, trying to decide if you should make your move, shaking at the vision of surrendering yourself, or licking your chops and dominating me instead. Would we reach a point of wet, strong, animalistic fucking until we were raw and weak in the knees, or would we just say goodbye?

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what the heck is not end of the world yet nothing is forever. He-she says, never give up on anybody you love. Miracles happen every day. Enjoy your present moment exploring yourself in the sun and shove a cold popsicle stick in your ass then jump in the pool. Tell me how do you feel ? LOL you are completely neurotic I hate you I love you and I missed you.

MISSING YOU, LHASAPOO We shared a brief moment in the park, but I was too shy. And your mom was with you. I’m all alone in the woods, a dog without a bone. Please come back to where we met on Algon Ave. I want to get to know you better. Please say yes. - @ PPwolfdog

old notions now. So I’m sorry about your cousin but I was just scared (she didn’t pick up for 2 days and I flipped but her cousin died). What hurts is you don’t even have the heart to say goodbye. So goodbye, my Boston creampie.

ONE MORE TIME I get goosebumps everytime I imagine taking you up on your offer— you giving me a new notion of sticky buns. I want to know more, all the dirty details of what you’d be willing to do. I see us at a café table sharing tales and revisiting stories; coyly dismissing a random sexy, suggestive comment, but that already flowing blood would start circulating more rapidly and collecting in all the important parts. There would then be trans-

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I Buy Anything Old...Except People! antiques-collectables, Al 215-370-4202 JUNK CARS WANTED Up to $300 for Junk Cars 215-888-8662 Lionel/Am Flyer/Trains/Hot Whls $$$$ Aurora TJet/AFX Toy Cars 215-396-1903 SAXOPHONES, WWII, SWORDS, related items, Lenny3619@aol 609.581.8290

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apartment marketplace 10th & Snyder 2BR 1st flr $1100+ C/A, W/D, marble bth, jacuzzi, bsmnt, hdwd flrs, garden patio. (215)463-7374 North Liberties 2BR/1.5BA $995+ hdwd flrs, new construction 215.917.8835 Spring Garden 2-4BR apts $800-$1200 close trans,Musuem, Temple215.617.2524

15th & Snyder 2br Must see! Sec 8 OK. Call 215-885-1700 15xx 9th St. Near Italian Market 2br modern, heat incl, no pets, 856-858-4830

S. 57th St. updated 3BR $750 2nd flr, new renov, Sec 8 ok 267.902.9269

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CAREGIVER Male Aid NEEDED: Live in, for quadriplegic male, live in, part time, exp. required, private home 215-752-7397 Housekeeper needed, P/T, F/T 5 yrs exp, car, bkgd check, Overbrook,215-290-2100 Housekeeper wanted, years of exp., reliable transportation required, great pay Call (215)870-3388

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62nd & Vine (2) 1Br apts $650+utils duplex, newly renovated. 215-758-7572

1X N. FARSON ST, studio apt . Refrig, new paint/carpet, $400+. 267-645-9421

Parkside Area 1- 6BR starting @ $700.

Newly renov, new kit & bath, hdwd flrs, Section 8 OK. 267-324-3197

40th & Cambridge 2br $645/mo. free utils, Call or text Scott 215-222-2435 40xx Aspen 3-4BR/2BA 3BR $895 215-409-8383

$750/$850

41st & Girard mod. 1BR $525-$595+ w/ backyard, South Phila, 2 & 3Br homes. $625-$675. Call 215-431-6677

5300 Chestnut St. 2br Section 8 ok. Call 267-237-3260

Parkside area 1BR & 2BR $700-$900 hdwd flrs, new construction, PHA, Sec 8 ok, 1 block from Park. (215)791-2722

132 N 50th St 2BR $750 2nd flr, newly renov, 267-255-1895

57th & Thomas 1BR $565 Furn. Avail. immed. Call 267-266-3661

4714 Warrington Ave 1Br $775 1st foolr bi-level, newly renov., W/D, hdwd floors, dishwasher. 215-939-8678

5810 Chesnut St. 4BR/1BA $850 Newly renovated, W/D hookups, rear shed, Open House Sunday July 1th 2pm3pm. Call Mr. Burgis at 215-327-1030 Noon - 5pm only.

15xx N 55th St. 2br $700+ utils carpets, intercom, 2nd flr. 215-477-4029

58th & Lansdowne 2BR $600+utils Fresh paint. Avail Immed. 610-864-6315

Various 1 & 2 BR Apts $750-$895 www.perutoproperties.com 215.740.4900

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Tractor trailer driver, min 2 yrs exp required, must have clean class A CDL license, tri-state region, benefits avail. Call (631)752-9853

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Standard Poodle Puppies - AKC, champ. bloodlines, health guar, 610-621-2894 www.hohlfamilypoodles.com West Highland Terrier Pups, health guarantee $600 M, $650 F. 717-201-4951 Yorkie, AKC, male Tea Cup, all shots, home raised, Call 484-868-8450 Yorkie Mix M&F, vet check, S/W, health guarantee $475/negotiable 856.563.0351 Yorkie Pups, 8 weeks, 2 males, 1 female, $600. Call 267-345-6954 Yorkie pups, AKC, very small, 3-5lbs, ready June 9, Call 717-278-0932

1BR Apts starting at $600 $1,800 move-in. Liv rm. 267-972-9693

A Green Bay, WI based OTR refrigerated carrier is accepting applications.

Owner Operators pulling company trailers averaged $185,000 / year.

Company Drivers averaged $67,670 / year & 1/3 of our drivers averaged over $70,400.00 plus excellent benefits -Must have a valid Class "A" CDL. -Must have 1 yr verifiable OTR work history.

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Strong Communication skills & background in business & real estate development required. B.A. in Business Administration, Marketing, Urban Planning, or a related field preferred.

F/T with benefits. Send resume and salary requirements by 4:00 PM, July 20, 2012 c/o City Administrator Karl Kinkler, P.O. Box 180, 33 Delaware St., Woodbury, NJ 08096.

Electronic submissions to kkinkler@woodbury.nj.us

Burlington County, NJ

based recycling operations seek experienced candidate to manage facility and equipment maintenance operations. Optimal candidate will have 5 years mgmt/supervisory and direct industrial maintenance experience including conveyors, balers, hydraulics, electrical motors and control panel repair and maintenance.

Send resume along with salary requirements to OTC of Burlington County, 130 Hancock Lane, Mt. Holly, NJ 08060 Attn: Human Resources Dept. or email to rrjobs@otcbc.org EOE/M/W/D/V

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BALWYNNE PARK 2br $820+ 1st flr, w/d, garage, C/A. 610-649-3836 Balwynne Park 2BR $850+utils W/D, C/A, W/W. Call 484-351-8633

53xx Arlington St. 2 BR duplex $725 separate entr, avail 7/1. 610_476_6383

Brewerytown: 29th/Jefferson 2br $1150 must see, sec 8 ok, (267)702-5403 Glennwood & 18th 2BR $600+utils Call after 10am 267-934-1643

Quentin St 2br $950+utils 850 square feet, new carpet, newer kitchen, fresh paint, off street parking, close to transportation, laundry hookup, no pets, convenient to Center City.

Call Dan 215-483-0882

MT. AIRY 1BR $850 + in resotored mansion with fireplace, central air, W/D, off street parking, Call Al Jefferson, 215-849-4343

4714 N. 11th St. 2br $725 washer/dryer, backyard, (267)228-3775 6021 N. Park Ave 1 BR $600+ 1 month & security. (215)480-6460 DO YOU HAVE A SECTION 8 VOUCHER? Apts in Germantown and Olney- SPECIALS 1bdr&2bdr- GAS, WATER, HEAT FREE! Quiet, New Renov, Safe Living Community Call to schedule appt- 215.276.5600 OLNEY 1br apts $550-$650 1st floor with kitchen, LR, DR, bath 2nd flr with kitch, LR & BA, 610-394-8888

46TH & WOODLAND furnished rooms, $375-$475, near transp. (215)954-9437 51st & Brown, furn room, SSI/SSD OK, $200/bi-wkly. Call 215-327-5511 51st & Chester, 55th & Girard, 25th & Clearfield, Hunting Park & Castor Ave, Share Kitch. & Bath, $375 & up, No sec dep, SSI OK. 215-758-7572 55th/Thompson furn lg room $125wk, priv ent, $200 sec 215-572- 8833 623 N 54th St. Rooms for Rent $100/wk, $400/mo. SSI Welcome. 215-205-3261

26xx E Somerset 1br $625+elec xtra lrg, close to trans, CC 215-518-6631

1017 Arrott St. Large 1Br nwly rehabbed, lic. 564844 215.744.9077 4630 Penn St 1br & 2br $500-$625 w/w, close to transp. 267-235-5952 4840 Oxford Ave Studio & 1Br Ldry, 24/7 cam lic# 214340 215.744.9077 ORTHODOX ST vic Efficiency betw $500 & 550/mo. 267-581-1331 267-206-2701 Oxford & Lieper Efficiency $490/mo.

2nd flr, near transp. Call 215-289-2973

2217 E. Cumberland Studio Newly renov. 215-744-9077 lic# 356258

5xx Gilham 1Br $575+ utils Lawndale,2nd fl,credit chk 267-977-5639 6812 Ditman St. 1 BR prkg,lndry fac.Lic# 212751. 215-744-9077 Academy & Grant 2BR $810+ 1st flr, renov, c/a,off st prkg856.346.0747 Bustleton & Haldeman 2br Condo $925 prvt balcony w/garden view 215.943.0370 C & Blvd.

1 BR $600+ utils 1st, last & sec, N/S. Call 215-329-4793

6th & Erie vicinity $350/mo + $100 security deposit. Call 215-626-8518 880 N. 41st, room @ $425/month shared kitchen & bath, 215-713-7216

S. 23rd St. 2br $750 nwly renov, 1st, last & sec. 215-424-2357

16XX S Conestoga, 3br hse, refrig, new paint/crpt yd pch $750+ 267-645-9421 1919 S. Ithan St. 3BR/1BA $800 + water Available July 5th. Call 267-992-2967 52xx Warrington Av 3BR/1BA $800 plus all utilities/porch,w/w carpet, ceiling fans.

Avail 7/1 call 215-260-1014 (1st,last,sec) 57xx Florence 3BR Newly renov. Sec. 8 OK. 215-605-6095 7110 Pascal Ave 5BR house $1250+utils modern, Sec. 8 approved. 215-726-8817

2Br & 3Br Houses Sec. 8 welcome beautifully renovated, (267)981-2718 49XX Hoop St 3br $800 renovated. $2,400 move in.

Call 610-772-4373

ALLEGHENY $90/wk. $270 sec dep Nr L train, furn, quiet. 609-703-4266 Broad & Allegheny large rm, $100/wk, all utils incl. kit. use. (215)475-0484

707 N. 42nd St. 6 BR/2 BA Renovated, Sect. 8 ok, (718)679-7753

Broad & Somerville clean, furn, newly decorated, near transp. 215-455-7488 Camden,furn rm, use of kitch & ba, $125 /wk. 1 mo rent & 1 wk sec. 215-927-1370 DREXEL HILL: Cozy furn. room includes bed, TV, A/C, utils. $450/mo., $225 Sec. Dep. John 610.259.7039

Frankford, nice rm in apt, near bus & El, $300 sec, $90/wk & up. 215-526-1455

56xx Haddington Ln. 3Br/1.5Ba $900 modern, fin bmnt, backyard 215.879.1962

Edgemore Rd 3br/2ba $1050+utils refinished bsmnt, quiet street, hdwd flrs, new crpts, dishwasher, 215-879-1071

53xx Wayne Ave 2BR $695+utils spacious, renovated, w/Dining room 1 month sec, 1 month rent. 267-253-6532

11xx N. 55TH ST. BRAND NEW BUILDING Single rooms $400. Double rooms $600.

Rooms w/ bath & kitchen $600. Rooms come fully furnished w/ full size beds, fridge, and dresser. SSI/SSD/VA, Public assistance, & home plans ok. Also SW, W., N., S. Phila, Frankford 267-707-6129 16th & Lehigh, 21st & York, 22nd & Allegheny - $325/mo. SSI ok. 215-485-8815 16th & Susquehanna, room for rent, SSI OK, $100/week. (267)736-8375 21st & Erie, large room, new renov., wall/wall, furn. $100/wk. 215-570-0301 2764 N. Hemberger St., Rooms for rent, starting $350/mo. 267-257-3610 28xx N. 25th St, Clean House, Spacious rms, kitchen, liv rm access, 267-977-3914 28xx N 27th St: Furnished rooms, utils included, $100/wk, SSI ok, 267-819-5683 30xx N. 16th furn. room, $65-$110/wk, near Temple Med & transp 267-595-3596

Upper Darby 3br Townhome. 856-296-0067

Oceanview, NJ (Shore) 2006, 39 ft Park Model, 3 season rm. many extras, must see, $40k/obo. for pics (267)784-5933

$900+utils

resorts/rent BrierCrest Lake view 5BR sleeps 12. Saw Creek stream front 3BR sleeps 8 A/C Weeks and/or weekends, 609-587-9493

automotive 750LI 2007 $31,500/obo loaded, exc cond, 42k mi, 484-580-8071

FORD F-150 4x4 Ext. Cab ’07 $15k 70k, very good cond, 610-842-3638

FORD F-350 HD 4x4 ’08 $28,500 turbo diesel, dually, 61k, 215-757-1747

OLDSMOBILE CUTLASS SUPREME 1972 Runs great, relatively low miles.

Call for more info: 215-676-3223

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

Junk Cars & Trucks Wanted,

COBALT SS 2009 $16,995 28,000 miles, adult owned, 2 door, great condition. Any questions 856-701-6854

$400, Call 856-365-2021

E 150 Passanger Van 2002 $6,500/obo runs great, insp., 111K mi. 215-528-4352

Accord LX 2008 asking $12,000 58K, auto, 4 dr, royal blue. 267-528-6704

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

CADILLAC LIMOS ’03 & ’04 White, great condition, very low mileage, used for funerals only. Price neg for quick sale. Serious inquiries please call 215-915-4015

Jaguar 2003 2.5 X Type with sunroof, like new, original miles $6,985 215-928-9632

Germantown: Apsley St. Rms $140/wk Private bath, share kitchen 267-338-9870 Germantown Area: NICE, Cozy Rooms Private entry, no drugs (267)988-5890 Germantown, furn., good loc. clean, quiet reasonable, call 12-8p. 215-849-8994

23xx Colorado 3br $600/mo. newly renovated, Call (267)269-5349 25xx Seltzer St 2 BR $625+ utils newly renov, new kitch/tile. 267-471-8171 30xx W. Colona 3Br/1Ba $700/mo new renov,Sec 8 ok, no pets 215.559.9289

GTN & West Phila $375-$400 furnished, 1 occupant. Call 267-276-2153 Lansdowne Ave. room $450/mo utils inc., cable inc. N/S 484-469-0753

55xx Ardleigh 3BR/1BA Modern Kitch. New Carpets. 215-514-7143

Mt Airy, 61xx Chew Ave, Univ City, 2xx Melville, $85-$125/wk, 215-242-9124 North Phila: $90-$125/wk, newly renov., use of kitch, private entry 215-704-0312 N. Phila, 18xx W. Berks St., Furn Rooms, privte entry, $75/wk. 2 weeks rent ($150) + 2 weeks sec ($150) = $300 to move in.

No cooking. Call John (215)236-8518 N. Phila, Apts & Rooms avail. Utils included. 443-205-5700 or 215-500-2967 N Phila Furn, Priv Ent $75 & up . No drugs, SSI ok. available now 215.763.5565

Near Cheltenham Mall 3br/1ba $1300+ utils, newly remod, garage, 267-218-1543

23XX N. FAWN St 3BR hse, refrig, new paint/hw flrs, $825+. 267-645-9421 32xx N Philip 3br/1ba $690+utils wall/wall carpets, porch. 215-836-1960 Hart Lane 2BR $585+utils fenced backyd, 3 mo mvn 215-514-0653

Olney & N. Phila. Furn rms cpt, nr trans, kit, coin W/D, $55 & up. 516-527-0186 PARKSIDE $115-$125 clean rooms. $250 move in. Call 856-813-0992 Penrose & SW Rooms: $75 & up SSI & Disability ok. (302)391-0490 Richmond Furn room, use of kitch, $100/wk 215-634-1139 leave message S. Phila: 20th & Emily, room for rent, SSI OK, $100/week. (267)736-8375 SW Phila area, $400-$500/mo, full kit, 2 full bath, SSI/SSD OK. 215-917-9369 SW Phila - Newly renov, close to trans. $100/wk 1st wk FREE, 267-628-7454 W. Phila: 57th & Wyalusing, room for rent, SSI OK, $100/week. (267)736-8375

W. Phila beautiful, newly renov., $100$125/wk. internet ready, 267-258-8727

W. Phila. unfurnished, $400-$425/mo, 2 mo needed , Call Kenny 302-724-2017

1651 Granite St 3 BR/1BA $875+ remod, A/C, W/D, Sec 8 OK. 215.499.2364 25xx Frankford 2Br $680/mo. small yard, Call 215-289-2973 50XX Jackson, lge 3br hse, refrig, new paint/crpt yd bsmt $865+ 267-645-9421

E-500 2003 $10,000 138,000 miles, grey black interior, garage kept, very good condition. 267-423-6564

low cost cars & trucks Buick Lesabre 1997 $2,250 Inspec., new radials, clean. 610-667-4829 Chevy Blazer LS Sport Ed. 1998 $1750 4x4, 4 dr, V6, loaded, nice 215-847-7346 Chevy Impala 2004 $2495 LT2, AC, CD, cranberry. 267-592-0448 Chrysler Town & Country LX 2005 $2295 stow and go, CD, alarm. 267-592-0448 Ford Escort LX 1997 $1100 auto, A/C, 79K, runs new 215-620-9383 Ford Taurus GL 1997 $1,450 4 door, loaded, clean, cass. 215-518-8808 Ford Taurus SES 2000 $2250 gold, V6, lthr, alloys, A/C 267-592-0448 Jeep Grand Cherokee 1996 $1650 4x4, loaded, clean, CD, 215-280-4825 Lincoln Continental 2000 Lux S/R, 4 dr, orig mi, well maint, special car 4 particular buyer$4950/best offer 215.629.0630

Darby 3BR $1200 just renovated, hdwd flrs, new kitch & bath, Sec 8 OK. (267)716-8526 DARBY 3 BR/1BA twin $945+ utils close to transp, Sec 8 ok. 610-529-3531

Lincoln TownCar 1999 $3995 78K mi, white w/ blue rag top, very good cond., new tries & battery, all tan leather int., PS, overdrive. Call 610-356-5537 Plymouth Grand Voyagour LE 1990 $1,150 all pwrs, 3.3, insp, runs new 215.620.9383 RECESSION SPECIALS!!!

Lexus ES300 ’93 RIMS, S/R, 128K $1999 Ford Expedition E.B. ’98DVD, 3row$1999 Ford Taurus ’03 122K, nds nothing $2222 Merc Sable ’01 tint, 170K, 100% $1750 Grand Marquis ’97 rims, sys, TV’s $2750 Buick Rendevouz’04LOADED 140K$3999 All below KBB, wont last (215)520-7890 TOYOTA COROLLA 1998 $3,100 106k, Blue, auto, exc cond 215-900-6299 VW JETTA GT 1998 $1650 5 spd, AC, sun roof, 35MPG. 215.620.9383 WINNEBAGO 1977 $2650 69k, good condition. 610-667-4829

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42xx Passmore 3br/1ba beautiful, renov., sec 8 ok, 215-609-5207 4635 Ditman 4br/2ba great location, nice yard, 267-257-0144 8767 Glenloch 3 br/1.5 ba $1000+utils 2mo sec. W/D, gar, pkg, yd 215-888-3010

9xx Carver St. 3BR $850+utils move in special, avail now, 267-357-7892

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Upper Darby 1br & 2br $620-$765+utils lrg bdrms & Liv rm, updated appl’s, new HW flr., close to transp. 610-842-5996

RIDLEY TWP AVAIL 7/1 3BR Twin $1295 Newly remodeled, hardwood floors, wshr/ dryer incl. CALL NOW 610-563-5806

Germantown $110/wk Newly renov. available. Call 215-205-2452

OLNEY Fisher & Franklin, room for rent, SSI OK, $100/week. (267)736-8375 1 BR & 2 BR Apts $725-$835 spacious, great loc., upgraded, heat incl, PHA vouchers accepted 215-966-9371 2xx Abbottsford 2Br $695+ 1st/last/security. Call (215)455-1220 47xx Wayne small & lrg 1Br units $575$650. great transp 610-287-9857 5201 Wayne Ave. Studio & 1BR On site Lndry 215.744.9077 Lic# 311890 5321 Wayne Ave. Efficiency $550 1br $600. Avail Now. 215-776-6277 5321 Wayne Ave. Efficiency $550 1br $600 Avail Now. 215-776-6277

Darby New 3br/1.5ba $1100/mo. everything new, finished bsmt, backyrd, possible rent to own. 267-808-9792

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38xx N. 15th: Lg furn rm, shared kit/ba, $105/wk, $300 sec, 267-809-7866

66th & Broad, furnished rooms with cable, $450/mo. Call 215-768-2466

1414 W. 71st Ave 1BR $600 2BR $800 Utilities included. Close to transportation & shopping. Call 215-574-2111 2xx W Grange Ave. 1br $595+utils 1,2, 3, 4 Bedroom FURNISHED APTS beautiful, priv. entrance, 215-805-6455 LAUNDRY-PARKING 215-223-7000 East Oaklane 2BR/1BA $600 12xx W Allegheny effic. $425 2 Month sec + utils. 215-224-6566 Newly renovated, Call 215-221-6542 E & W. Oaklane 2BR $650 1515 W Lehigh Ave 1Br $575+elec new paint, top floor apt. 215.651.3333 $1700 move-in. 267-596-2270 19xx Fontain St 3br $400/mo. per rm free net/cable, W/D 267-253-1508

1621 W Loudon 2br $600 newly renov, close to trans 267.625.3414 1x Broad St. & Windrim 1br apt Must see! Sec. 8 ok. 215-885-1700 4521 N. Broad small 1br $525/mo. $775 move-in, Call 267-595-5089

33rd St & Ridge Ave $100-125/wk . Large renovated furnished rooms near Fairmount Park & bus depot 215.317.2708

14xx S. Etting 3 BR $675+utils.

28th & Reed $2025move-in 215.365.4567 16XX S Etting, 3br hse, refrig, n e w paint/crpt yd pch $775+ 267-645-9421

MARAUDER 2003 $10,000 black, 89K miles. Call 215-783-6166

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16xx Huntingdon Studio apt $400+utils $1200 move in. Call 215-559-9289 25th & Girard Ave Lrg Efficy $150/wk $750 req. utils incl, rms avl 609.880.3795 25xx N 16th 1br $500 newly renov, 1st mo. & sec. 215-954-5332

Knox St. 1BR $650 W. Haines St. 2BR $795 new renov., near transp. (267)716-8526 Logan, Mt. Airy & Germantown: 1 & 2 BR Starting at $625, newly renov., beautiful apts, close to transp. Call 215-740-8049

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WATKINâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S DRINKERY

Happy hour everyday even weekends - from 5-7.

1/2 price on all 6 taps!

Check out our upstairs game room with pool, darts, and some classic arcade games.

On the corner of 10th & Watkins Streets in South Philly.

HIGHTAIL IT

HAPPY HOUR!

EVERY MON THRU FRI

5 to 7

at PM

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3 Blocks from Union Transfer | 501 North 13th St. | 215.238.1818 | theprohibitiontaproom.com