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Organizers of the Philadelphia International Cycling Championship announce they’ll cancel this year’s event due to increased cost of city services. “Hey,” Camden whispers. “What would you say if I told you I knew a place with no city services at all?”

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campaign to allow federal prisoners access to fresh fruit and vegetables. “Like melons with files in them, and gunapples, and bombnanas.”

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Rapper Meek Mill sues the city for wrongful imprisonment and for posting images of his arrest on Instagram. “There are other filters besides 1977 and Toaster,” argues Mill. “Try Inkwell! Try Lo-fi! Not everything needs to look all sun-dappled and timeworn and shit.”

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The Eagles’ Trent Cole, an avid hunter, won’t sign autographs at a Harrisburg gun show because of show organizers’ decision to ban certain assault weapons. Remember: Football players often suffer concussions that can lead to cognitive impairment. Oh, and despite all that, they’re still allowed to purchase assault weapons.

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A high-rise fire in West Philadelphia that displaced 100 residents was caused by a blown transformer. “Worth it,” says Optimus Prime. Emergency workers in Bucks County rescue a woman trapped under a horse that fell on her and died. “He’s basically a hero,” says a fellow horse, speaking on condition of anonymity. “It’s something we all talk about. And he did it. That dude is a fucking legend.” A bomb squad determines that a suspicious box found in the Northeast was only an old stereo speaker. “Nah, that was just me,” says noted Decepticon Soundwave. “I’m into some pretty weird shit. Thanks again, Disposal Bot!”

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dent Obama’s children, Mayor Nutter and New Jersey Rep. Jon Runyan speak out against it. Both are shot at by Trent Cole.

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MAN ON A PLEDGE Gov. Tom “No New Taxes” Corbett stares into a bottomless revenue gap. By Daniel Denvir

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t’s been barely a week since our (increasingly unpopular) state legislature inaugurated its new session, and it’s apparent that our (similarly unpopular) governor, Tom Corbett, has a problem. In the two years since Corbett took office, he and the legislature dominated by his Republican Party have cut $1 billion from public schools and higher education, eviscerated the social safety net for the poor and disabled, passed a voter-ID law geared to suppress urban and nonwhite votes and restricted abortion rights — when those legislators were not busy being prosecuted for corruption or spending taxpayer dollars on lavish per diems. This year’s debates will center on less-sexy but equally weighty matters: transportation funding and public-employee pensions. The governor faces the daunting task of finding billions of dollars for needed repairs to the state’s roads, bridges and mass transit (case in point, Philadelphians: SEPTA) and figuring out a politically palatable solution to an estimated $41 billion shortfall in state workers’ pension funds — all while keeping faith with a “no new taxes” pledge that he, like many other Republicans, has made to Washington, D.C., conservative power broker Grover Norquist. Critics of Corbett say that to tackle those big issues, something has to give. “He owes it to the people of Pennsylvania to say, ‘You know what, we’re going to do what’s best for the state, not what’s

best for Grover Norquist,’” says Democratic state Sen. Daylin Leach. Corbett, whose office did not respond to an interview request, signed that pledge to burnish his conservative credentials during his 2010 primary race against Tea Party favorite Sam Rohrer. Recently, Corbett assured reporters that he would keep his pledge. But his approach to funding critical bridge, road and mass-transit projects could test that promise. He is reportedly set to announce a transportation plan based on eliminating the $1.25-a-gallon cap on a tax paid by gasoline wholesalers called the Oil Company Franchise Tax. While there is widespread support for tackling transportation repairs, funding them by allowing this tax to rise — if not by actively raising the tax — would appear to violate the spirit of the Norquist pledge. Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform told reporters as much. Corbett has downplayed that. That Corbett now apparently finds himself in this uncomfortable position — of parsing the nuances of his pledge to appease all sides — may point to a shift in the climate in Harrisburg. One indication of that shift: More divisive ideas on transportation — like Republican House Majority Leader Mike Turzai’s proposal to address funding for roads and bridges separately from mass transit, which would pit rural legislators against suburban and urban delegations — now seem like non-starters. “If the Republicans would agree, they could do anything they want,” says Franklin & Marshall political scientist Terry Madonna. But such agreement will be hard-won. Democrats picked up three

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✚ BROTHERLY LOVE On May 12 of last year, a 22-year-old woman named Melanie

“If someone meant so much to you and something like this happened to them, keep fighting.” —Samantha Melamed

Colon was found shot to death in Juniata Park. The same

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week, a 52-year-old woman named Lavonne Thrones-Johnson was discovered beaten to death in her apartment. Both were brutal murders of women from North Philly. Both were missed by family members who raised the alarm. Both cases remain unsolved and under investigation by police. But Colon’s case over the subsequent eight months has been the subject of features in the Inquirer, Daily News, Metro, CBS 3 and WHYY among others. Johnson’s death ranked seven sentences in the Daily News crime blotter. Unfortunately, not every murder victim can have an advocate as tireless as Melanie Colon’s kid brother. Ralphiee Colon, 18 and still in high school, is leaving no media outlet uncalled, no flier unposted in hopes that someone, somewhere, knows something.A Facebook page he made for Melanie has nearly 7,000 likes. “I just don’t want her case to get cold,” he says. “I think me talking about it a lot will make someone talk. … Someone killed my sister. She didn’t take a gun and shoot herself six times. I’m going to find out who. Until we get justice, I can’t stop.” Melanie was last seen with a friend, Reynaldo Torres; Torres has not been seen since. In a city where the homicide clearance rate is 70 percent, and many unsolved cases fade away in silence, Ralphiee says he has no choice but to keep making noise. Next up: Love Park on Feb. 14 for an anti-violence event with One Billion Rising. To Ralphiee, this kind of tenacity just makes sense. He’s befriended the similarly outspoken family of Franchesca Alvarado, a North Philly woman who’s been missing since March. He hopes other victims’ families will follow their lead.

Spell-check. It has saved many a student from the wrath of teachers. Could it save the Republic from gun-snatchin’ liberals? Organizers of a gun-rights demonstration at the State Capitol over the weekend, wary of public-relations faux pas, seemed to think so. Guns Across America, which contends that wide availability of firearms leads to less crime, urged followers to look the part: Don’t wear camouflage, spell-check those signs and no rifles. “They wanted to promote kind of, like, ‘everyday folks’ dressed in their normal clothes,” says Mike Novak, a volunteer with the group’s Pennsylvania chapter. “We aren’t a bunch of weirdos.” It didn’t go over well with some protesters, who saw it as infringing on their Second Amendment rights. “All of us aren’t in camo, running through the woods, causing problems,” says organizer Ryan Wallace, from the Northeast. Bickering ensued on social media. Guns Across America dropped its request to lose the camo. Both sides hugged it out and claimed a successful rally. Likewise, a Pennsylvania Firearms Owners Association web forum was alight with plans for a Jan. 23 protest by PA Responsible Citizens to showcase “responsible and ordinary” gun owners. That was set to coincide with a rally by anti-gun-violence group CeaseFire PA — which itself is calling for responsible “common-sense reforms.” Shira Goodman, executive director of CeaseFire PA, says she hopes gun advocates’ shift goes beyond aesthetics, to real consideration of issues like requiring reporting of lost or stolen guns. “There are things in our agenda that responsible, law-abiding gun owners … should be able to get behind.” —Dan Kelley

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SOIL IN TROUBLE ³ URBAN FARMERS and gardeners appear to have narrowly escaped damage from a bill, set to pass out of City Council today, that would have made outlaws of them — if they weren’t already. The measure, introduced by Councilman Brian O’Neill, would have forced gardeners to apply to the city’s zoning board for relatively tough-to-obtain special exceptions to tend plots in commercial districts. “It could potentially put about 20 percent of existing gardens in jeopardy,” says Amy Laura Cahn, who runs the Garden Justice Legal Initiative out of the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia. O’Neill has, PlanPhillyreported on Tuesday, agreed to remove the gardens and farm markets from the zoning legislation. O’Neill didn’t respond to a request for comment. Meanwhile, other facets of the legislation appear likely to stay. They have drawn little public scrutiny, possibly because they — unlike the city’s vocal urban-agriculture community — don’t have a savvy, outspoken lobby. Under the bill, personal-care homes that house people with disabilities and the elderly would be prohibited from commercial corridors. So would single-room-occupancy housing — the type of housing that may not stimulate property values but is often all Philly’s poorest residents can afford. Another facet of the bill would impose restrictions on multi-family residential above commercial uses, a shift that “will greatly dampen the vitality of commercial corridors,” Eva Gladstein, until recently the deputy executive director at the City Planning Commission, wrote in a memo to Council staff. Gladstein cited numerous such structures already in existence in vibrant commercial corridors throughout the city. The debate does, however, serve to shed light on the legal status of urban gardening in what Mayor Nutter has said he hopes will be the greenest city in the nation. One of several ironies in this debate is that many of the gardeners protesting the bill are technically renegades already. After all, for decades, being an urban farmer in Philadelphia has often meant flouting the law: squatting on abandoned lots, and running afoul of a zoning code that made no provision for community gardens and farms. Those rogue gardeners have finally had a chance to get right with the city over the past year: A progressive new zoning code made the green spaces by-right uses of land in many cases, and a new vacant-land policy from the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority (PRA) provided for more generous, five-year urban-agriculture and com>>> continued on page 9

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Senate seats in November. The Republicans’ narrowed majority will force them to rely more heavily on moderate Republicans from the southeast — the sort of Republicans most likely to oppose ideological crusades and cuts to education and the safety net. The governor’s political peril is also evident in the public-employee pension funding crisis that has only grown worse over the past two years. Navigating between conservatives who want to dismantle pensions and unions that will fight to protect members’ retirement security, Corbett has so far avoided the type of controversial, union-busting tactics seen in Wisconsin and Ohio. That has saved him time and political capital — but it has also rankled conservatives itching for such a fight. “The state doesn’t have a revenue problem; it has a spending problem,” says Jay Ostrich, spokesperson for the conservative Commonwealth Foundation. “This will ultimately require the governor and legislature to show the courage and finally deal with the unaffordable costs associated with unsustainable and underfunded public pensions, skyrocketing health-care costs, fraud, waste and abuse in welfare, and other sacred cows of big-government proponents like public-employee unions.” Pennsylvania, like many governments, did not pay necessary funds into its pension system during the heady Wall Street boom years when returns were high. As a result, it suffered big-time when the market crashed. Pension critics on the right argue that public employees should have retirement plans more like the less-secure 401(k) defined-contribution funds that are commonplace in the private sector. “We’re trying to run a 21st-century payout system under a 20th-century payout system,” says Republican House Finance Committee chairman Kerry Benninghoff. “We’ve got a lot of people that still think they should be able to retire at 50. … Everybody’s going to have to give.” The liberal Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, however, points out that it was the state government, and not workers, that failed to pay its designated share. Conservatives are taking advantage of the crisis, they say, to weaken worker benefits. “The discussion is really [more] about an ideological attack on worker benefits than it is about dealing with a short-term budget problem,” says the center’s executive director Sharon Ward. A 2010 state law reduced benefits for public employees hired after Dec. 31, 2010. But that did nothing to pay off the outstanding debt to current workers and retirees, and the courts might well block any attempted changes to current employees’ benefits. How and when that debt might be paid remains an open question. One way it’s not likely to be paid off: through more budget cuts. Corbett delivers his third budget address on Feb. 5. Even Corbett’s budget secretary has acknowledged that wringing out further savings from education and social services would be undesirable. After all, Corbett’s first two years were defined by major cuts to education, health care and programs for the poor and disabled. angering many throughout the state.

One decision still on the line is whether Corbett will accept or reject Obamacare’s expansion of Medicaid, which, though primarily federally funded, might cost Pennsylvania taxpayers down the line. The U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding most of the Affordable Care Act struck down a provision requiring states to expand Medicaid. But the governor faces strong pressure not only from health-care advocates, but also from hospitals that will depend on government insurance of Pennsylvania’s 613,000 uninsured adults as a cushion against the law’s costs. State tax revenue is up somewhat in recent months, but not enough to cover pressing spending needs. Pennsylvania continues to lean on casino gambling (including a possible second Philly casino) to gener-

“Everybody will have to give.” ate revenue. Corbett is also pushing privatization — of liquor stores and of the state lottery. Meanwhile, automatic cuts from Congress’ postponed “fiscal cliff ” could cost the state an estimated $300 million. Progressives say that Corbett’s no-new-taxes ideology has left cash on the table, and critics continue to demand the closing of tax loopholes that allow corporations to use Delaware as a tax haven, costing Pennsylvania an estimated $400 million a year or more. In his first year in office, Corbett fought against imposing a severance tax on natural-gas drillers, ultimately settling for an “impact fee” that is one of the lowest in the nation. Conservative momentum is slowing. But for progressives, the best-case scenario may be defending a status quo that for Philly — a city with spiking poverty, persistent violent crime and desperately underfunded schools — is unacceptable. (daniel.denvir@citypaper.net)

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munity-garden agreements. “The City supports the use of vacant land for urban agriculture that improves the quality of life,� the PRA explained in a report. In other words, years of gardeners acting as stewards of land that had been illegal dumps and open-air drug markets were about to pay off. “We’re just at the point of coming up with solutions, and now the city may go and restrict the use,� Cahn said, before news of O’Neill’s amendment. “This really sends projects back out into limbo at the very moment they were coming into compliance.� To gardeners, then, this legislation represented one arm of city government working at cross purposes with another. Elizabeth Grimaldi of the Village of Arts and Humanities, which runs an urban farm and 14 art parks in North Philly, says her organization owns about 60 parcels; other land it cares for belongs to city agencies or negligent private owners. Grimaldi says she and the city are on the same page: They want what’s best for the community. “We’re not building gardens to stand in the way of development.� In the past she’s had gardens on public land destroyed to make way for housing. “If it’s a temporary solution, it’s a temporary solution. So if the city is going to seize the land anyway, a permit is not going to stop or help anyone. My question is, why add this extra layer of bureaucracy?� Over in Kensington, the Norris Square Neighborhood Project (NSNP) would have needed special exceptions for plots in each of its six gardens. It’s an unwelcome twist for an organization that’s been widely touted as a success story, and a key factor in the turnaround of a blighted, drug-infested area. “It’s a viable commercial area in part because of our gardens,� says Megan Barnes, interim director. NSNP owns about half of its 66 lots; it’s trying to acquire the rest, which are mostly city-owned. Robyn Mello, who works with Historic Fair Hill and the grassroots group Philly Food Forests, says her gardens “basically have permission from the neighborhood.� Some also have agreements with the city. Mello says residents often ask her for guidance on developing gardens in their neighborhoods. “Do I think there’s development pressure in those places? No, I do not,� she says. “This is not about permanence or stealing away usable land; it’s about using land that would not be usable otherwise.� Cahn says even Council members seemed confused by the law — and the various amendments being circulated and proposed seem to speak to that.As they get back to business, she adds,“I would hope that there’s an opportunity to evaluate the specific uses with a little more care.�

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hyrie Brown, a seventh-grade student at L.P. Hill School in Strawberry Mansion, had an asthma attack at school in September. Unfortunately, the school nurse, who splits time between Hill and other school postings, didn’t happen to be in that day.“The secretary didn’t know how to give Khyrie his asthma pump,” says his mother, Dawn Hawkins. “I had to end up calling an ambulance to take him to the emergency ward, due to him not having a school nurse.” Brown is only one player in the Philadelphia School District’s ongoing game of school-nurse roulette. In 2011, the district cut 101 school nurses. As of this school year, only 84 of 363 district schools have a full-time nurse; the other 103 nurses split their time between two, three or even four schools. The city’s student-to-nurse ratio is pushing the state limit of 1,500:1. Nurses say some schools are falling out of compliance with state-mandated record-keeping on required immunizations and physicals as a result. It’s a crisis in the making, according to parents and nurses, who protested each Wednesday for 22 weeks outside School District headquarters last year. Efforts in Harrisburg and Philadelphia to moderate the cuts’ impact have focused on transferring duties to schools’ non-nursing staff or emphasizing preventive care outside the school — proposals nurses describe as ranging from ineffective to outright harmful. Now, with all eyes on the progress of a plan to close one out of six district schools, how and whether the school-nurse shortage will be addressed remains even less certain. Near-calamities like Brown’s have hit medically vulnerable students across the city. Cathy Roccia Meier’s son is a special-needs student at the Science Leadership Academy, a magnet school in Center City that has a nurse two days a week. On a day the nurse was present, her son was taken out of school for a infection and hospitalized. If not for the nurse,

she says, “we might not have been able to save his leg.” Maureen Fratantoni is the president of the Home and School Council at the Nebinger School in Bella Vista. More than 30 of Nebinger’s 275 students have autism-spectrum disorders, but a nurse is there only one day a week. On one occasion, Fratantoni’s son, who is on the autism spectrum and has ADHD, had to be treated by an instructional aide for a nosebleed. “She said he wouldn’t let [her] stop the bleeding,” she says. “What if it was bleeding profusely?” Part-time nurses face the challenge of coordinating medications and care with principals, teachers and secretaries. In one case, says a nurse who didn’t want to be named, a principal simply sends kids home if they’re sick. Keeping in contact with parents has also become more challenging. “The telephone numbers are ever-changing,” says Ann Keenan, who works at two schools in South Philly and a third in Manayunk. For unreachable parents, “there is no plan for illness.” Some schools are falling behind on state-mandated health-care requirements, says one nurse. She says fewer than half of the sixth-graders under her watch have had physicals, which the state requires on entrance to grade school and again in sixth and ninth grades. “You may have children in your midst who have severe chronic illness that you don’t know about,” she says. What’s more, records for required immunizations are incomplete. Legislative responses from Harrisburg have raised more concerns. The state Senate in 2011 toyed with allowing noncertified nurses to serve in schools; following protests by nurses, the bill died in committee. Nancy Kaminski, legislative director for the Pennsylvania Association of School Nurses and Practitioners, expects a separate bill, which would allow nonmedical staff to administer insulin and glycogen to diabetic students, to re-emerge this year. >>> continued on adjacent page

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City Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell, who heads Council’s Education Committee, has been looking to hospitals, community health centers and universities to help mitigate the impact. “We can try to make available what the city has, the different health centers,� she says. She has worked with the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia to procure a six-figure grant. “I don’t know how we’re going to use it yet,� she says — but likely not to rehire laid-off nurses. District spokesperson Fernando Gallard, like Blackwell, says students will need to look to primary-care providers or city health clinics as a first resort for tests and screenings. But he doesn’t anticipate further cuts to the nursing staff. “We have cut to the bone,� he says. Some nurses, though, say the district is not taking them seriously. Peg Devine, the nursing representative on the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers executive board, points out that School District health director Tracey Williams isn’t trained as a nurse. The plan to turn around Philly schools drawn up by the Boston Consulting Group purports to streamline nursing services under a shared-service organization that “would manage both contracts of specialists and allocation across schools.� Such a structure typically removes employees from site-specific posts and deploys them according to the needs of “consumers,� in this case students. Gallard couldn’t speak to the possibility of subcontracting or shared-service reorganization, or to what might happen to nursing positions if dozens of schools are closed next year. Superintendent William Hite’s more recent Action Plan 1.0 makes no mention whatsoever of nurses — or guidance counselors or psychologists, for that matter. One group that is calling for more access to nurses, social workers, guidance counselors and psychologists is the community- and parent-run Philadelphia Coalition Advocating for Public Schools. Those parents, after all, have already seen the impacts of the nursing shortage — consequences that have little to do with the School District’s bottom line, but a great deal to do with the children it’s supposed to be protecting. (editorial@citypaper.net)

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Doo. Today, he retains that drowsy, approachable demeanor, greeting fans who approach him with a warm, “Put ’er there!” Remnants of Hodgson’s standup act survived in the show’s “invention exchanges,” sketch interludes in which captives and mad-scientist captors traded prop-comedy concoctions. But the bulk of each episode was built around a movie — creaky horror programmers from the ’50s, seedy biker flicks from the ’70s, Japanese giantmonster rampages, eccentric Russian fairy tales — shown in near entirety with superimposed sil-

“AT THE HEART OF IT, YOU’RE A COMPANION, AND NO ONE WANTS TO SPEND TIME WITH A DICK.” whether it’s funny or not.’ I really took that to heart. He was right: I was lucky to be autonomous, and I wasn’t enough of an actor to be on a sitcom. I’d have a crisis if they had me do stuff I didn’t feel good about.” After a brief respite in Minneapolis, Hodgson pulled together a group of local standups and writers to form the core of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Hodgson presided over the show with a stoned-sounding affability, like a ’50s kiddie-show host crossed with Shaggy from Scooby-

houettes of Joel and his sidekicks making jokes. Only some of the cracks were at the movie’s expense; often, they let the pop-culture references fly fast and furious, cramming a line from Shakespeare next to a Star Trek quote, followed by a snippet of musical theater. The “boy and his ’bots” premise was partially inspired by the 1972 film Silent Running, which involved Bruce Dern stranded in space with only robots as companions. While he’s not surprised that the concept of movie riffing has taken off in

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hose are some of the lessons that Hodgson tried to impart to the students in his movie-riffing course. While he currently has no plans to offer the course at Bucks a second time, he is doing an abbreviated version at one-day seminars across the country. The other factor he stresses is collaboration, saying, “It just looks wrong when one person riffs on a movie. You go, ‘Couldn’t you get it together? Don’t you have any friends?’ The thing that’s nice about doing it with people is it shouldn’t be stressful; it needs to be fun.” MST3K was fun for Hodgson for about five years. At that point, planning began for the feature-film version of the show and, Hodgson says, producer Jim Mallon suddenly asserted control as director of the movie, with Hodgson relegated to associate-producer status. “I didn’t feel that reflected my position with the show,” he said. “So one thing led to another, and the next thing I knew, I was leaving. I knew that it was very dangerous for Jim and I to be fighting. It would wreck the show, and I didn’t want that to happen. I remember not knowing what to do, and >>> CONTINUED ON PAGE 14

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the DNA of MST.” During that initial West Coast stint, Hodgson performed his friendly, prop-heavy standup act on Letterman and Saturday Night Live, and appeared on an HBO “Young Comedians Special” hosted by John Candy alongside other up-and-comers like Bill Maher and Paula Poundstone. But after three years, he found himself out of options. “When I was doing Saturday Night Live,” he recalled, “Joe Piscopo came up to me and goes, ‘Man, you’re so lucky you get to do your own stuff. I have to do this

MST3K’s wake, Hodgson is disappointed that most efforts since lack framing devices. “I really thought that Mystery Science Theater was a workbook to show you how to do movie riffing,” he explained. “I did expect people to do it, but I also expected them to come up with themes. When I teach my class, I make them have to come up with a reason why they’re having to watch a bad movie. Otherwise, if you’re watching a movie and making fun of it, you’re just an asshole.” There are those who feel that way even about MST3K: Fans of B movies, classic horror and scifi and exploitation films have often taken offense at the show’s mockery. But Hodgson insists that it’s always come from a place of genuine affection. “It’s really hard to make even a bad movie,” he said. “It takes years, and it can consume people’s lives. So it would be completely wrong to take a position, like, ‘These people suck because their movie didn’t turn out, and we’re here to serve justice.’ If you detest the movie and have disdain and contempt for the people who made it, it’s not sustainable. At the heart of it, you’re a companion — and no one wants to spend time with a dick.”

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then I thought of the King Solomon story about the baby and said, ‘I know what to do: I’m going to walk away.’ It was a huge personal tragedy for me, and I’m still kind of twitchy about it.” Hodgson returned to Hollywood, where he spent a dozen years developing ideas that mostly came to nothing — innovative DIY pilot concepts that felt like Ernie Kovacs in the era of Seinfeld. “It was like being a concept-car designer in Detroit,” he said. “I was designing the car of the future that they would never make, but it was fun to look at in a car show.” Eventually, Hodgson decided the problem was in the way that he defined himself. Having created MST3K, he thought, “I’m the guy who creates new comedic art forms.” After more than a decade attempting to replicate that success, he gained a new perspective. “I started to relax and thought, ‘Why do I feel like I have to do it again? I already did it once, and that’s one more cult-hit show than most people.’ So, finally, after doing that and getting exhausted, I went, ‘I guess I’m the guy who invented movie riffing. And that’s fine.’ But I had to go through that to be able to appreciate and be content with it.” Hodgson finally left L.A. for the much more peaceful lifestyle of small-town Pennsylvania.

IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT PAST: (from left) Crow T. Robot, Joel Hodgson and Tom Servo from the old days on the Satellite of Love.

(He’d rather not say exactly which small town — even though “one of the few perks of being a cult celebrity is nobody knows who you are,” the other side of the coin is that “you don’t have enough money to insulate yourself from people who want to show up at your house.”) He works as “creative lead for media” for aerospace company Cannae, which makes engines for satellites — yes, the man behind Gizmonics Institute and the Satellite of Love is now crafting brand identities for actual satellites. In 2007, Hodgson reunited with several

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other MST3K original-cast alumni to form Cinematic Titanic, which brought movie riffing to a live-concert setting. The group, which also features Trace Beaulieu, Frank Conniff, J. Elvis Weinstein and Mary Jo Pehl, will embark on another tour this year, while Hodgson hopes to present “Riffing Myself” in more venues across the country. “Cinematic Titanic has been so important because I’d never met any of the people who liked Mystery Science Theater,” Hodgson explained. “Doing it again and putting faces to the people who liked the show, seeing the humanity of it, has really helped me understand it. I was that kid who used to watch eight hours of TV a day, and I’m starting to get what it must be like for people who really love Mystery Science Theater, that satisfying experience that you rely on a little bit.” (s_brady@citypaper.net) ✚ “Riffing Myself,” Sun., Jan. 27, 4 p.m., $22.50-$39.50, The Trocadero, 1003 Arch St., 215-922-6888, thetroc.com.

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³ NOBODY LIKES EVERY Philly tradition (cheesesteaks, mumming in blackface, etc.), but I think we can all agree that the Academy Ball and Concert is a good thing. Jan. 26 marks the 56th such event celebrating the 156-year-old Academy of Music (the Ball itself is at the Bellevue, with the Central Committee for the Philly Orchestra pre-Ball bash at Tiffany & Co.). You get to wear white ties and tuxes. Hugh Jackman sings Peter Allen songs. What’s the downside, I ask? Zip. So what’s new? In celebration of the first Academy Anniversary concert, where maestro Eugene Ormandy shared the podium with host Danny Kaye, look for a possible surprise bit between Jackman and conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Plus, the president’s reception is going to be even bigger and will take place throughout the Academy (rather than just in the ballroom), to allow for a more open feel and a greater number of attendees. Bully. ➤ We’re big fans of both neuroti-comic Marc Maron’s WTF podcast and Dave Grohl. So imagine our surprise when the two got together on WTF and talked up Philly’s noise-pop act Bleeding Rainbow.Double WTF. ➤ Last Friday, right before one of promoter Boy Wonder’s Hype presentations at Level Room (on the hell-side of Market Street), the club shut down the show. Sorry, Wonder. Sorry, Reckless Dodgers and all the other bands on the bill. We’ve been hearing that Level’s owners aren’t happy with the bookers they’ve brought in (not necessarily just Wonder) and are cutting back on the number of shows they’ll allow. But no, the Level space is by no means for sale. Yet. ➤ Before he becomes the savior of Sixth and South with his newest chef Peter Serpico (at Momofuku, looking at a late March/April opening), Stephen Starr has a lovely introduction planned. Serpico is set to cook with chef Chris Painter at Il Pittore, the Sansom Street Italian eatery Painter co-owns with Starr, on Feb. 19. The collaborative dinner should be worth the wait and the cost. ➤ I’m not long on jams, neither the preserves nor the lengthy wanks of Grateful Dead manqués. Thankfully, Philly’s Joe D’Amico has always been tasteful during his jam-rock excursions, Brothers Past or the rootsy Mason Porter. D’Amico’s got a solo LP, A Short Time’s a Long Time, that he’ll play for you at Kung Fu Necktie Jan. 24. He’ll keep things brief. ➤ I may have occasional issues with local bicyclists (don’t ride on sidewalks, you fux), but that doesn’t mean I want y’all down-in-themouth over Lance Armstrong or that the Philly International Cycling Championship just got cancelled. Chin up, cyclers. During the Naked Bike Ride, just pedal faster. ➤ True your tires at citypaper.net/criticalmass. (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)

WHAT ARE YOU DOING, DAVE? THIS IS HIGHLY IRREGULAR: Nightlands plays Kung Fu Necktie on Saturday. CATHARINE MALONEY

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STRANGE MATTERS Into the weeds with pop experimentalist Dave Hartley of Nightlands. By Shaun Brady

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s a member of The War on Drugs, Dave Hartley is a rock ’n’ roll bass player. As Nightlands, his solo side project, Hartley is Doctor Frankenstein, concocting mutant forms of pop music in his secret lair (well, his house in Fishtown). War on Drugs frontman Adam Granduciel is “a true artist,” says Hartley. “I don’t consider myself to be an artist. I’m more of a scientist who wants to create art through experiments.” The sci-fi bent of Hartley’s music is evident from the cover of Nightlands’ sophomore CD, Oak Island (Secretly Canadian): Hartley gazes out, his body painted silver, dappled by sun in a wooded spot like an alien just arrived on earth and studying his surroundings from a secluded vantage. The album’s retro-futuristic sound is at once nostalgic and venturesome; the fact that Hartley recently performed an alternate soundtrack to Stanley Kubrick’s speculative head trip 2001: A Space Odyssey is entirely in keeping with the songs’ suggestion of a future glimpsed from a lost past. The son of a genetic engineer, Hartley is a self-professed fan of “hard sci-fi.” (“2001 is the holy grail because they were painstakingly accurate with the information on space travel, as opposed to Star Trek, which is interesting but if you dig beneath the surface it’s just fake.”) Lyrically, Oak Island deals with the stuff of most pop songs — relationships, love stories, interpersonal conflicts.

But musically, that material is run through Hartley’s laboratory, where the DNA of Brian Wilson is spliced with Scott Walker, ELO with Eno, and Alan Parsons with Herb Alpert. “I want to make really strange pop music,” Hartley says. “I like stuff that’s catchy but gets to that place in an abstract or oblique way. I want to go as far in the weeds as you can go to find this new place.” Oak Island is full of a shimmering optimism, a bittersweet but ultimately hopeful wistfulness. It was largely written as it was recorded, in short bursts during pauses in The War on Drugs’ relentless touring schedule. Members of that band and other Philly notables — Brian “B.C. Camplight” Christinzio, Dr. Dog’s Eric Slick — were recruited on various occasions to contribute. “I don’t demo songs,” Hartley says. “A lot of people face infinite decisions and it’s paralyzing. I learned to get over some of my demons by committing early. I build a skeleton randomly and just start decorating it. A lot of times I’ll record a song and then I’ll have to learn how to play it.” He’s been brushing up on the songs from Oak Island for this weekend’s record-release show at Kung Fu Necktie. In addition, he’ll soon be going back into the studio with The War on Drugs and hopes to reprise his 2001 performance. He recently sang as part of the annual concert by the ragtag choral group The Silver Ages, and has recorded with the likes of Sharon Van Etten and Sondre Lerche; earlier this month, he got a last-minute call to back up John Cale at an appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

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Following her tour-de-force a cappella rendering of The Who Sell Out in 2005, L.A. music-biz fixture Petra Haden gets back to the vocal multi-tracking reinterpretation game with Petra Goes to the Movies (Anti), featuring her one-woman choral renderings of film music both iconic (Psycho, Goldfinger, Superman) and otherwise. The novelty factor is obviously high, but this is also carefully crafted, surprisingly affecting music; gorgeously lush, with a wide-ranging emotional potency, although a few rather sudsy “vocal” numbers somewhat diminish the effect. —K. Ross Hoffman

³ country Dale Watson’s new El Rancho Azul (Red House) is all originals

rendered by his touring band The Lonestars, so the sound is roadhouse-tight and sassy. Just like the lyrics, which are inspired by wild crowds and apocryphal bar fights at the rancho. Swing dancers will jump up to the rockabilly “Give More Kisses”; belt-buckle polishers will dig “Daughter’s Wedding Song” for its sweet words, Watson’s heartbreaking voice and the equally soft steel and fiddle. Just like the club, El Rancho Azul has all kinds. —Mary Armstrong

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³ country/roots/bluegrass Love a rich, deep country voice? Then John Driskell Hopkins is your man. You might already know him from his bass work with the Zac Brown Band. Daylight (self-released) has some material in common with ZBB, but is even more rootsy, thanks to the bluegrass band Balsam Ridge’s involvement on every track. Resonator guitar heads are going wild over “Runaway Train,” with Jerry Douglas sitting in. Banjo innovator Tony Trischka guests on the title cut. “Nothing” is a ZBB favorite improved by just one singer telling the sad tale and bluegrass urging it along. —Mary Armstrong

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³ NESTLED IN THE top right corner of an ichthyology display in the Academy of Natural Sciences’ 200th anniversary exhibit is a jar containing a fish with some literary distinction: It was caught by Ernest Hemingway. But nothing marks the albacore tuna, or Thunnus alalunga,as any different from the specimens surrounding it. Compared to the “Freshwater Vampire Fish Skull” below it, it’s downright nondescript — without staff help, it would have been incredibly difficult to find the fish at all. Hemingway is mentioned only in the small print of a diagram accompanying the display, and there, only parenthetically. The no-frills presentation makes sense given its provenance, though, and not just because of Hemingway’s writing style. When Academy managing director Charles M.B. Cadwalader wrote Hemingway, an Academy member, in 1934 to ask for help with ichthyology research, he wasn’t writing to the literary celebrity. Hemingway was a skilled fisherman familiar with the Gulf Stream, which contained the large game fish the Academy was looking to categorize — particularly marlins. Hemingway hosted Cadwalader and head ichthyologist Henry Fowler on his beloved boat Pilar that summer (hauling in a 12-foot marlin in their presence) and sent specimens like Thunnus alalunga to the Academy for a year after. Later, Fowler was able to revise the taxonomy of North Atlantic marlins, and named a scorpionfish Neomerinthe hemingwayi. But fishing was, to Hemingway, a private affair. As he famously wrote in a newspaper piece, “Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.” The tuna’s quiet, unobtrusive presence — placed, as it is, significantly above eye level — seems appropriate. Forget looking over his shoulder; you’ll have to crane your neck just to catch a glimpse. (jessica.bergman@citypaper.net)

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by his admirers, as a torturer of audiences, director Michael Haneke wants no surprises as to where Amour, the story of an elderly couple coping with one’s debilitating illness, is headed. Within a few minutes of the lights going down, we’ve seen Anne’s (Emmanuel Riva) stiffened corpse lying on a bed in the apartment she shares with husband Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant), although the latter is nowhere to be found. Death is, after all, life’s one sure thing — no point in pretending it’s not coming for all of us. The manner of that death, and its preamble, is what’s left to fill in. After its elegiac opening, Amour rewinds to a time just before Riva has what looks like a stroke, an event that transforms their relationship from loving companions to caretaker and patient. As Anne regresses into helplessness, Georges nurses her with fierce devotion. Their daughter (Isabelle Huppert) is rebuffed and professional help denied in favor of the most intimate kind of end. To use a word invariably associated with Haneke, there’s a certain coldness in the way he depicts the end of life, but it’s the coldness of a loving teacher, forcing us to gaze on what, if we’re lucky enough, will be our own end. (As Louis CK puts it, dying alongside someone you’ve loved for decades is the best-case scenario.) There’s pathos mixed with panic in Riva’s performance, but Trintignant’s is in some ways the richer, combining immense tenderness with unbounded anger, parallel sentiments that eventually collide. Fair warning: Amour is not an easy movie to watch. But it’s a profoundly moving one and as close to uninflected sentiment as Haneke is ever likely to get. The underlying rigor of his more challenging films is still there, although Funny Games fans have predictably accused him of losing his edge. But instead of shoving us in the back, Haneke takes us by the hand, down a road we may not want to tread but have no choice. —Sam Adams

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An unpredictable, hard-to-quantify New Yorker with strong sonic ties to the UK bass scene, Drew Lustman downplays his dubstep-derived tics in favor of more overtly jazzy, house-based smoothness on his third LP as FaltyDL. Belying its title but befitting its cheerily colorful cover art, Hardcourage (Ninja Tune) is heavily melodic but light on its feet, sustaining a rosy, twinkling softness even while stepping up the syncopation for subtle twists on glitchy electro and vocal-flecked tech-soul, plus some deep, plush funk that could pass for prime late’90s chillout. —K. Ross Hoffman

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“That darkness provides a contrast.” As we wrap up our interview at Loco Pez, however, Hartley has other issues in mind — he’s occupied the number two, three and five rankings on the Fishtown taco joint’s Spider-Man pinball machine (initials WOD) and is vying for the top spot. Pinball is one of his passions, as is basketball, his encyclopedic knowledge of which he shows off in a sports column for WXPN’s blog The Key. A man of obviously eclectic tastes, Hartley reserves his deepest admiration for off-kilter geniuses like Brian Wilson, whose music “you can play for anybody and they’ll love it, but they’ll think these dudes are fucking crazy or they’ve gone off to this really strange island. Brian Wilson is a total freak, but you could play the Beach Boys for a 2-year-old and watch them dance around. That’s my goal.” If getting to that point requires going a little crazy, well, Hartley already has that part down. Nightlands’ 2010 debut, Forget the Mantra, was a direct reflection of Hartley’s mental-health issues, battles with panic attacks and anxiety disorder. “The first record was really hard for me to do,” he says. “I became suicidal and depressed and went into therapy, which I don’t think a lot of people have the balls to do. I never could have stepped on stage and performed my own songs without medication, to be totally honest. I can’t relate to people who haven’t tasted despair. That darkness provides a contrast and helps you appreciate how fucked up and temporary life is. In a way, I’m weirdly thankful for all of it.” (s_brady@citypaper.net) ✚ Sat., Jan. 26, 7:30 p.m., $10, Kung Fu Necktie, 1250

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ingly rustic Irish cottage, delicately curved with a sweep suggesting spirituality, are the first of many moments of sly humor in Lantern Theater Company’s superb production of The Beauty Queen of Leenane. Playwright Martin McDonagh’s predilection for extreme violence — as illustrated by his multiple-dismemberment comedy The Lieutenant of Inishmore, his gun-heavy films In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths and his Oscar-winning short Six Shooter — can sometimes overshadow his other calling card: quirky small-town characters, as seen in A Skull in Connemara and The Lonesome West (both are companion pieces to Beauty Queen and have been produced in recent Lantern seasons). These two aspects of McDonagh’s writing converged in 1996 for Beauty Queen, his first big success. With delicious, utterly believable rural Irish accents (thanks in part to dialect coach Marla Burkholder), Mary Martello (above) and Megan Bellwoar play a mother and daughter trapped together and torturing each other as only family can. Martello’s 70-year-old Mag plays dumb and helpless, forcing her daughter, Bellwoar’s weary 40year-old virgin Maureen, to wait on her. The minutiae of daily life become weapons of war: Maureen stocks the house with Kimberleys, a brand of biscuits neither of them likes, just to frustrate Mag’s desire for a treat. When Mag complains about the tea and porridge Maureen prepares, Maureen ritualistically dumps them down the drain. Even setting the radio volume becomes a titanic struggle. For the most part, though, they maintain a faint aura of civility; neither is willing or able to shatter their stalemate, though the battle is never-ending. In Bellwoar’s and Martello’s nuanced performances, the devious intentions lurking behind benign, everyday behavior are hilariously and chillingly revealed. At some points, Mag might particularly stir our sympathy, since Maureen is so often impatient with her whining — but then Martello reveals the wheels turning slyly in the old woman’s head as she concocts another passive-aggressive attack. So then maybe we feel more for Maureen, whose impatience is understandable — until we see how she purposely provokes her mother. The actresses

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and their characters are evenly matched, all the more so because neither fights for anything but the other’s continued misery. Maggie Baker’s costumes subtly define these two, and Shon Causer’s eerie lighting accents their struggles effectively. I didn’t admire the production’s many delicate touches during the performance, though — I was just too caught up in the story. Two brothers become catalysts and collateral damage in the family conflict. Sean Lally plays jittery dimwit Ray, whose admiration of Mag’s stout fireplace poker evokes Chekhov’s maxim: “If in Act I you have a pistol hanging on the wall, then it must fire in the last act.” (Though Chekhov never had as much devious, chatty fun with a pistol as McDonagh does with Ray’s exuberant admiration for that damn poker.) Ray’s brother Pato (Charlie DelMarcelle, in a heartbreakingly sincere performance) becomes Maureen’s shining hope and long-overdue opportunity for escape, but circumstances — chiefly Mag and Maureen’s shocking brutality toward each other, which finally explodes into McDonagh’s trademark explicitly creepy violence — tragically confounds their dreams. There’s humor here, though the suspense and shocks of Kathryn MacMillan’s production ultimately strangle our laughs. But rather than the comic and the horrific contradicting one another, they build together. Beauty Queen provides true horror. There’s none of film’s ridiculous splatter-gore, startling camera tricks or cartoonishly onedimensional portrayals of evil. There’s just the genuine terror of being trapped with one’s mortal enemy, frightened and alone, with existence at stake. MacMillan and her terrific cast perform this not like a genre piece, but as the masterful human drama it is. Beauty Queen isn’t easy to take — and it’s not to be missed. (m_cofta@citypaper.net)

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QUARTET | B Dustin Hoffman has taken his sweet time about turning to film directing, and the 75-year-old actor’s first feature, Quartet, shows little burning desire to make a cinematic statement. It’s more of a lark, a gentle and sweet portrait of musical performers in their final act. Adapted from Ronald Harwood’s play and set at a home for retired classical musicians, Quartet is in many ways a pretext to assemble a passel of British veterans and let them play — and when that group includes Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon and Tom Courtenay, who are we to decline? It’s an openly slight film, centered around the buildup to the retirement home’s annual benefit concert: Without a banner year, the home may have to close, and the only way to guarantee a smash is for Smith’s newly arrived diva to reconcile with her long-estranged colleagues. But even the actors take their conflicts seriously only up to a point; these are sparring rounds, not title bouts. Even so,

CONTINUING BROKEN CITY A haiku: The Gladiator and Marky Mark run around shooting shit, and shit. (Not reviewed) (AMC Loews Cherry Hill, Franklin Mills, Rave, UA Grant, UA Riverview)

DJANGO UNCHAINED | C+ For half its (substantial) length, Django Unchained dithers and doodles, introducing Christoph Waltz as a roving bounty hunter and Jaime Foxx as the titular slave he frees to help him track down his prey. The farting around stops, by design, with the introduction of Leonardo DiCaprio’s daintily brutal slavemaster, but when he has a runaway slave ripped into pieces, the movie splits, too. Although there’s plenty of gunplay, including the juiciest bullet hits in recent memory, Django’s highlight is a tense negotiation between Waltz and DiCaprio, with Foxx’s enslaved bride (Kerry Washington) as the object of sale. Quentin Tarantino doesn’t shirk from the ugliness of slavery, casting Samuel L. Jackson as a sadistic house negro who delights in doing his master’s work, but his confrontations are toothless. —SA (AMC Loews Cherry Hill, Franklin Mills, Pearl, Rave, UA Grant, UA Riverview) GANGSTER SQUAD | BLike a high-gloss video game stretched to fit a featurelength canvas, Ruben Fleischer’s Gangster Squad is heavy on the fireworks and light on the consequences, its association with real-life lowlifes and the white hats who

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want them cuffed more incidental than historical. Though racketeerrun 1949 Los Angeles is a gift-bowed setting for a director as visually minded as Fleischer (Zombieland), this tale of an off-the-books police force tasked with taking down snarling kingpin Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) is shaded more like Sin City than L.A. Confidential, with aesthetically perfect sets that lurch off the screen and a square-jawed, comic-book approach to good and evil. Built atop muscly noir dialogue as thick as the neckties worn by the single-minded shooters on both sides, it’s a triumph of style that’s short on substance. One of a few LAPD officers not intimidated or bribed by criminals, war hero Sgt. John O’Mara (Josh Brolin) is secretly recruited by police chief Bill Parker (Nick Nolte) to piece together a band of can’t-be-bought brothers to get results however they can, no badges flashed. Recruiting a crew of skilled shooters (Robert Patrick, Michael Peña, Giovanni Ribisi, Anthony Mackie) that also includes his womanizing buddy Sgt. Jerry Wooters (Ryan Gosling, having fun with period haberdashery and noir accents), O’Mara begins ripping through L.A.’s underworld holdings with his squad, including Wooters’ work on Cohen’s best girl Grace (Emma Stone). There are fistfights and car chases and shootouts and wistful references to the ugliness of war galore as the team inches closer to toppling Cohen’s Left Coast empire, but the dynamic between the do-gooders always seems surface and flimsy. A hesitant undertone pervades both the players (Peña, misplaced; Stone, miscast) and the game. All the suits are impeccably pressed, but it’s tough to tell if any of the bodies inside are warm. —Drew Lazor (AMC Loews Cherry Hill, Franklin Mills, Pearl, Rave, UA Grant, UA Riverview)

LUV | BSheldon Candis’ saga of expedited manhood is an imperfectly spun tale, but its two massive, impressive lead performances will catch eyes. LUV is the director’s semi-autobiographical stab at recounting his boyhood relationship with his uncle, whose willingness to share life lessons overshadowed his criminal reputation. Playing hooky from school at the behest of smooth-talking Vincent (Common), 11-year-old Woody (powerful newcomer Michael Rainey Jr.) kicks around Charm City with his mother’s brother, a former drug-game general fresh off an eight-year bid and anxious to go straight. After buying Woody a beautiful custom suit, a symbol that becomes more than sartorial as the movie plays out, Vincent’s application for a loan to finance a restaurant along Canton Harbor is shot down. It forces him to take his nephew on an unexpected tour of the life he used to live, entering into a treacherous two-step with Fish (Dennis Haysbert) and Arthur (Danny Glover), a pair of brothers who used to employ Vincent — and had more than a little to do with his incarceration. Candis navigates his hometown of Baltimore, a town so cinematically associated with the institutional failure of David Simon’s canon, with refreshing familiarity, jumping from public landmarks to private residences with a native confidence. But it’s Vincent and Woody, whose relationship is the unflappable reference point for the film’s dissection of surrogate fatherhood, who tighten up the slack produced by the script’s more obtuse asides. It’s an airtight role for Common, allowed to flex beyond the limiting rapper-first/ actor-second mold, and an auspicious beginning for young Rainey, whose fragile reactivity makes up for the

film’s klutzier moments. The onscreen strokes Candis throws around are often too broad to stick, but when they do, they stay put. —DL (AMC Loews Cherry Hill, Franklin Mills)

MAMA | C Guillermo del Toro signed on to produce Mama based on director Andrés Muschietti’s three-minute short film — a quick, sharp stab of terror following two young girls running from a twisted, ghostly figure. Unfortunately, Muschietti decided to expand the short to feature length by surrounding it with context borrowed from countless other horror films and fairy tales, and essentially laid multiple variations of the short end-to-end with ever-diminishing rewards. He does manage another intriguing three minutes at the outset: An agitated man returns home, having just shot and killed his business partners and estranged wife, to collect his daughters and make his escape. A plunge off an icy mountain road lands the family at a dilapidated cottage, where the girls are discovered five years later in a feral state. They’re adopted by their uncle (Game of Thrones’ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and his punk-rocker girlfriend (Jessica Chastain, in the type of role she’s not likely to take on again anytime soon), but it seems they’d already been adopted by an overprotective spirit. There’s a story to be told here about adjusting to parenthood, but first-time director Muschietti lacks the nuance to handle Chastain’s progression from apathy to Mama Grizzly. The story simply unfolds in the most rudimentary spook-show fashion, wrapping up with a happily ever after that would only hold up in a storybook.—SB (AMC Loews Cherry Hill, Franklin Mills, Pearl, Rave, UA Grant, UA Riverview)

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INTERNATIONAL HOUSE 3701 Chestnut St. 215-387-5125, ihousephilly.org. Django (1966, U.S., 87 min.): The inspiration for many Tarantino flicks, most notably the recent Django Unchained, this spaghetti Western has Django caught in a feud between the KKK and a gang of Mexican bandits. Thu., Jan. 24, 7 p.m., $9. Teza (2008, Ethiopia/Germany, 140 min.): After studying medicine in Germany, a young Ethiopian doctor returns home to a country in political turmoil. Director Haile Gerima in attendance. Fri., Jan. 25, 8 p.m., $10. L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema The last installment of

this monthlong series of features and shorts related to a group of African and African-American students (including Haile Gerima) who entered UCLA’s film program in the ’60s and created a mostly unheralded decades-long film dynasty. Sat., Jan. 26, 8 p.m., $9. The Linguists (2008, U.S., 64 min.): An examination of language extinction as told by two linguists travelling around the world to find those still speaking three dying languages. Tue., Jan. 29, 7 p.m., free (reservations required). Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble (1972, France, 110 min.): A brutally honest

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✚ FEMI KUTI & THE POSITIVE FORCE Following in his father’s footsteps has meant more to Femi Kuti than simply continuing to evolve Fela’s Afrobeat sound. His inheritance includes a political mission, which Femi, now 50, carries forward on his latest, No Place for My Dream. Backed by the lean, tautly expressive sound of his band, the Positive Force, Kuti rails against injustice and poverty on songs like “No Work No Job No Money” and “Politics Na Big Bizness.” The lyrics are more impassioned than insightful, but, delivered in Kuti’s urgent rasp and fueled by the driving sound of the lithely funky Positive Force, they achieve the pulse-raising infectiousness of

Thu., Jan. 24, 8 p.m., $25-$38, with DJ Ruder1, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400, worldcafelive.com.

Williams, Mary Lee Bednarak, Lenny Haas and Leah Walton — and Martha Graham Cracker, Pig Iron co-founder Dito van Reigersberg’s outrageous drag alter ego, hosting the event. —Mark Cofta

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✚ THE BAD SEED Philly’s adventurous Mauckingbird Theatre Company, which explores classics “through a gay lens,” presents a staged reading of Maxwell Anderson’s cult classic The Bad Seed as their sixthseason fundraiser. Bad Seed’s proceeds will help mount this summer’s The Importance of Being Earnest, but it’s an exciting event in itself, a rarely seen play (a Broadway hit before the 1956 film) with a first-rate cast led by Amanda Schoonover as the titular amoral child plus Cheryl

Fri.-Sun., Jan. 25-27, $10-$15, OffBroad Street Theater, 1636 Sansom St., 215-923-8909, mauckingbird.org.

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✚ WOLF-IN-SKINS NYC downtown darling Christopher Williams makes mythical works that can feel both historical and futuristic. They’re curious creations that combine ancient stories with experimental dance, music and poetry — oh, and let’s not forget the puppets. To say the guy busts genres in an understatement. He’s an artistic alchemist who crafts intricate otherworldly pieces that delve deep into ritual and spiritual realms. There’s a quality of commedia dell’arte to some of his material, but really, you haven’t seen, or heard, anything quite like what

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A wolf with crazed red eyes, mouth agape, teeth ready to rip, a slab of LSD on its tongue. That’s the cover art for Primitive Blast (Tee Pee), the latest album by Los Angeles band The Shrine. It should give you an idea of what’s inside: sick, dumb,

—Elliott Sharp

man and Alex Timbers’ Tony-, Outer Critics Circle- and Drama Desk-award-winning musical about our seventh president receives a raw and raucous production from artistic director Daniel Student. Joe Sabatino’s Jackson, who “makes Jefferson look like a pussy,” rides a wave of anti-Washington populism and demonization of Native Americans from the Tennessee frontier to the White House, where he’s undermined by politicians (eerily portrayed as a cabal reminiscent of Batman villains) and his own overblown ego. The hilarious parallels to modern politics — Jackson promises to “take our country back” just like today’s Tea Partiers — explode in a suitably loud rock score led by music director Jamison Foreman that makes Jackson a hard-to-like but undeniably magnetic amalgamation of Bruce Springsteen and Freddie Mercury. As the title promises, blood spurts freely, but the real thrill is the contemporary deconstruction of American politics, which haven’t evolved

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✚ TWO MAN ADVANTAGE Hockey’s back, and so is Two Man Advantage. For 15 years, these Long Island hardcore hockey punks have been ripping through anthems about collecting penalty minutes and flagging down the beer guy. The lead singer’s an Islanders fan who goes by Drunk Bastard. —Brian Wilensky

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✚ RED BARAAT Percussionist Sunny Jain emerged in the mid-2000s as a member of the loose-knit crop of South-Asian-American jazz musicians that also included Vijay Iyer and Rudresh Mahanthappa. But where most of his compatriots have followed a path of increasing complexity with their Indian-jazz hybrids, Jain opted to have fun with his. He ERIN PATRICE OBRIEN

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to be the Jefferson Wheelchair Band.” Exchanging notes during the A’s rehearsals, DiFonzo (who’s busy rushing to release his album instruMENTAL “in time to sell three copies at the show”) was crazily enthusiastic about what the band can still accomplish; “We sound like ourselves and look like our grandparents.”

founded Red Baraat in 2008 as a mash-up of bhangra, funk, jazz and brass band music. The ensemble plays party music that bridges Bollywood and Brooklyn, played by members of the borough’s thriving young jazz scene. Manning the dhol, an Indian double-headed drum, Jain is a

hyperactive master of ceremonies, encouraging — at times almost demanding — that audiences more accustomed to sitting back and watching get up and dance.

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—Shaun Brady Sat., Jan. 26, 8 p.m., $20-$45, Annenberg Center, 3680 Walnut St., 215-898-3900, annenbergcenter.org.

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✚ CHRISTOPHER OWENS On the slight, winsome Lysandre (Fat Possum), San Francisco flower child Christopher Owens emerges from the dissolution of his beloved Girls last year — an unfortunate breakup that was, however, well-timed to avoid any Lena Dunham-related confusion — with a fresh start echoing the slightly daffy, adventurous spirit of many a classic-rock-era solo debut. Recasting the ’60s-indebted stylistic diversity of Girls’ great Father, Son, Holy Ghost on a more intimate scale, and slathering on the paisleydappled flutes and saxophones, Owens doesn’t stray

far from his typical palette of heart-tugging acoustic ballads and bouncy rockers. While the songs do form a loosely narrative (just your typical wide-eyed rock ’n’ roll coming-of-age love story) complete with recurring musical motifs, the bigger aesthetic risks are less conceptual than tonal — particularly on overtly precious fare like the self-directed pep talk “Love Is in the Ear of the Listener,” the irrepressibly smiley “New York City” and cornball lite-reggae interlude “Riviera Rock.” —K. Ross Hoffman Sat., Jan. 26, 9 p.m., $15, Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St., 215-232-2100, utphilly.com.

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—Peter Burwasser Sun., Jan. 27, 2:30 p.m.; Mon., Jan. 28, 7:30 p.m.; $24-$81, Kimmel Center, 300 S. Broad St., 215-545-1739, chamberorchestra.org, kimmelcenter.org.

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✚ PALLBEARER “Foreigner,” the opening track of Pallbearer’s 2012 debut Sorrow & Extinction, is the best song about the uncertainty of embarking into unknown lands on a mission of extraordinary importance since Led Zeppelin’s “No Quarter.” In roughly 12 minutes, the Arkansas doommetal quartet tells an expansive and heroic tale about crossing into potentially hostile and uninviting territory. The song starts with soft but stalwart acoustic-guitar lines that evolve into dense electric Sabbath sludge as our protagonist confronts extreme darkness, and his fear of becoming a conduit for the Ancients. (I don’t even know what this means, but it’s compelling and gorgeous.) “Lost within the shade, I call out for a helping hand,” sings Brett Campbell during the seat-grippingly vivid finale. Will the towering beings that haunt him now help him? What’s even happening here? I dunno. Go ask Campbell after the show.

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Prokofiev is the modernist on this program, but he is represented by a selection consciously modeled on 18thcentury forms — his sprightly Symphony No. 1. The rest of the material is real old-timey, including a Romantic doublebass concerto by Bottesini (featuring Joseph Conyers), an early Schubert symphony and the delightful “Italian Serenade” from Hugo Wolf. The crackerjack Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, an invaluable local musical resource, will be led by a guest conductor, the terrific Kansas City Symphony boss and proud Curtis alum Michael Stern.

twosome Purity Ring, whose slinky, surreally intoxicating confections draw equally on glitch, R&B and hip-hop (q.v. their recent collaborations with Danny Brown).

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BATTER UP RUE 52 | 503 S. 52nd St., 215-476-9835,

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³ ON THE FORUM/cyber-asylum Philadelphia Speaks, a post titled “Yupsters take 52nd Street” discusses the opening of Rue 52, the new coffeeand-crepes operation across the way from Malcolm X Park in West Philly. The conversation, of course, turns from the caffeine station to gentrification and what the nascent signs of rebirth on this once-thriving, now-dilapidated commercial corridor portend. Writes one Doubting Thomas: “Does anyone seriously believe 52nd Street is going to be gentrified anytime within the next 25 years?” Mahari Bailey does. “A coffee shop is one of the symbols of revitalization,” says Bailey, an attorneycum-developer whose real-estate boutique owns Rue as well as a few other spots along 52nd. “We started with one building, a hair salon. Now the café. And we have a pet store coming. We want to rebuild the area and bring it back to what it once was.” He’s betting West Philly has an appetite for crepes. On a recent cold, gray morning, customers trickled in like coffee through a drip. Most grabbed bananas, muffins and joe to go from the long glass-and-wood counter up front, waiting out the less-than-snappy staff on mod sofas. In the rear dining room furnished with arty French movie posters and European-fit tables and chairs, one guy wearing burgundy scrubs and a cappuccino mustache ate a crepe. Despite Rue’s thematic Francophilia (hours listed bilingually, a Tumblr billed “nouvelles”), the crêpes are not so true to form, based on the same batter for both sweet and savory versions and overstuffed to American portions. That said, crêpes are like pizza in that even an average one is still pretty great, and Rue’s proved no exception. The classic trifecta of Nutella, bananas and strawberries (the Ben Franklin) absolves all wrongdoing in its warm, gooey embrace. Apples and caramel had the same effect, and were surprisingly less sweet than you’d think. For the South Street Special, shavings of ham laid down with cheddar and chipotle mayo, a double dose of smokiness that cut through the unstoppable ooze of melted cheese. The chicken, tomato and honey-mustard Cosby had the same cheddar overload, a fact less troubling than the crepe’s spongy, precooked protein strips, a win for Jim Perdue and a loss for the rest of us. Rue might have glitches, but Bailey has faith in 52nd Street. (adam.erace@citypaper.net)

WITH A SMILE: Maylia Widjojo serves a rice plate at Hardena/ Waroeng Surabaya. NEAL SANTOS

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SOUTH BY SOUTHEAST The flavors of Cambodia and Indonesia are soaring in South Philly. By Caroline Russock

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ith Korean kimchi and karaoke complexes in Olney, the piroshki parlors of Port Richmond, storefronts on Fifth Street serving up comida criolla, pho palaces on Washington and Ethiopian eateries in Cedar Park, our fair city has no shortage of exotic enclaves for enticing ethnic eats. Deep South Philly — once exclusively the land of red-gravy joints and hoagie havens — is shaping up to be one of Philly’s most fascinating dining destinations, with loads of offerings from the large immigrant More on: communities from Southeast Asian locales like Vietnam, Indonesia and Cambodia. By now most of us are well versed in the ways of banh mi (the Vietnamese hoagie) and goi cuon (summer rolls), so this brief tour covers some of the less familiar cuisines found south of Washington. On an unassuming Point Breeze corner sits Hardena/Waroeng Surabaya (1754 S. Hicks St.), a turquoise, marigold and lime steam-table restaurant serving Indonesian food like no other place in town. In this family-run spot, $7 gets you a rice plate piled high with three options from a rotating selection. This often includes tender, coconut-milk-braised collard greens; a gamey (in the best possible way) lamb-and-goat stew; and kering kentang, a texturally intriguing mix of deep-fried shoestring potatoes and teeny-tiny,

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super-crunchy anchovies, all served with a fiery side of sambal. Other equally appealing options include shatteringly crisp ginger fried chicken and rujak cing, a peanut-sauced fruit salad topped with airy shrimp crackers. The women behind the counter at Hardena inevitably greet guests with a sincere smile and are more than willing to walk the uninitiated through the menu. Right around the corner is Cafe Pendawa Lima (1529 Morris St.), which is not a cafe at all. The sign out front reads “MoneyGram,” and while you might be able to transfer funds here, the real draw is a vibrant selection of takeout Indonesian fare. A long table running through the center of the shop is loaded with golden fritters of corn and baby shrimp and samosa-like pockets stuffed with peas, carrots and egg. Venture a bit further back and you’re met with stacks of ready-to-go meals in plastic containers. If you’re not fluent in Indonesian, the item descriptions aren’t MORE FOOD AND going to help much, but a recent trip turned DRINK COVERAGE up a colorful jewel box of nasi campur AT C I T Y P A P E R . N E T / (mixed rice) with sweet braised pork, chiliM E A LT I C K E T. tossed diced potatoes and a soy-boiled egg. Head east on Morris and you’ll hit Khmer Kitchen (1700 S. Sixth St.), Inquirer critic Craig LaBan’s recent Cambodian darling. Try one of the complex stews like sah-law ka-koe, a deep-yellow mix of pumpkin, papaya and pork belly. The more adventurous can ask about off-the-menu options, which on a recent visit turned up a dish of beautifully stir-fried eggplant and ground pork. And if you happen to have an affinity for flavors that are, let’s say, out there, go for the nyum sahdau, a salad of bitter melon leaves, toasted peanuts, chicken, cucumber, mint and tamarind. (caroline@citypaper.net)

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200 Furley St. 1br/1ba $575 1st, last, sec, newly reno. (267) 249-9432 5458 N 5th St. 2BR $590 newly renov, avail now, 215-768-8410 5501 7th & Tabor Rd 1BR $630+util 2nd flr. Avail Feb 1st. (215)224.7542 5846 N. Marvine 2br $700+utils renovated, close to trans (215)480-6460 5853 N. Camac 1BR $660+utils 2BR $700+utils Renov., 267-271-6601 or 215-416-2757

4662 Penn St. 1br & 2br $500 & $625 w/w, close to transp. Call 267-235-5952 5037 Hawthorne 1BR/1BA $565 $1130 to move in. 267-255-6322 Frankford Apt/Effic./Rooms, nr bus & El, $300 sec, $90 wk & up 215.526.1455

4800 Rorer 1br/1ba $650 + utils. Free Wi-Fi. Call 215-906-7013 6200 block of Kindred 2BR $700+utils 2nd floor. Call 267-975-8521

59xx Broad St. 1 and 2BR $700-$800 plus utils, w/w, 3mo sec. 267-718-4306 60XX Warnock 1 BR $595+ nr Fernrock Train Station,215-276-8534

6325 Calvert St. 2BR/1BA $700 Completely renovated. 646-322-4109

36xx N. 19th St. Efficiency $400+util 36xx N. 19th St. 2BR $625+ util 3rd and 1st flr, 1st, last, sec 215-873-3542

Fox Chase - Chandler 2BR $825 2nd flr w/d hkup,bsmt stor 215.785.0819

58xx Girard Ave. 2BR/1BA $800 Overlooking park. Section 8 ok. Call 302-312-6081

PHILMONT HEIGHTS 2BR $825+utils 2nd floor, new kitch, fridge, W/D, w/w & paint, garage. Call 267-467-1596

Fox Chase 1br/1ba $675+utils 2nd flr, new: kitchen, bath, crpt & paint. a/c, garbage disposal, 215-354-0069

Philmont 2BR duplex 1st flr $850+ C/A bsmnt,w/w, garage 215-752-1091

Bradenton FL, 1BR Condo $900/mo Winter season, turn key, great location, clean, new rug and fridge. (610)997-0249

18th & Ontario priv ent new paint use of kit ww $120wk $290mv in 267-997-5212 2435 W. Jefferson St. Rooms: $375/mo. Move in fee: $565. Call 215-913-8659 25th & Clearfield, Hunting Park & Castor, 55th & Media, 15th & Federal. Share Kitch. & Bath, $350 & up, no securi ty deposit, SSI OK. Call 215-758-7572

4508 N. Broad St. Rooms: $375/mo. Move in fee: $565. Call 215-913-8659 5743 Cedar: LOOK nice rooms for rent, w/access to entire house 215-863-1235 652 Brooklyn St. furn, fridge, $125 wk; $375 move in. no kitchen. 215-892-7198 Allegheny $90/wk. $270 sec dep. Near EL train, furn, quiet. Call 609-703-4266 Broad & Erie - Pvt. kitc & bath, $135/wk. $300 move-in. 215.416.6538

East Oaklane - Female Rooming House. Clean, spacious BR avail. 267-235-8707

Frankford 4356 Josephine St. $100/wk. Access to whole house. 215-760-0206 FRANKFORD / NORTHEAST , Newly renov, nicely furnished, A/C, W/D, cable, clean, safe & secure. Call (267) 253-7764

Germantown: Apsley St. Rms $140/wk share kitchen, pvt. bath. 267-338-9870

Germantown, furn rms, renovated, share kitch&ba, $125+/wk 215-514-3960

MT. AIRY (Best Area) $135/wk SSI ok. Cable. Call 215-730-8956 Mt. Airy spacious rooms, $400/mo., kitch. use, $25 application (215)924-3292

Nice luxury furn. rooms for rent. Avail. immed. Call Norman at 267-240-6805 North Phila - Rooms for rent, SSI ok, utils. incl. Call 267-702-7927 N. Phila: clean, modern rms, use of kit, no drugs,reasonable rent. 215-232-2268 N. Phila. furnished room. Washer/dryer available. $75& up. Call 347-430-0939 N. Phila Vanpelt St. Spacious, Renov, $85-$125 wk. Call 267-581-5754 N. Philly $100/wk share ba mw/frig in rm SSI ok. Call 267-516-6235 SOUTHWEST / WEST Newly renov, nicely furnished, A/C, W/D, cable, clean, safe & secure. Call (267) 253-7764

SW Phila. Medium & Small Rooms, clean, kitchen. 610-348-0121 or 215-475-6973

Tioga - Room for Rent $350 Settled Person, No Drugs 215-740-5172

10xx Ithan 3br/1ba $800+utils Enclosed porch/bk yrd, great neighbor hood, "The Landlord that Cares" Mark 610.764.9739 Tasha 267.584.5964 15xx S. Lindenwood St. 3BR/1BA $700 util. w/wcrpt, w/d hookup, pub trans, 1st mo + 2 mos sec. Loretta 267- 872-4067 26xx S. Bonaffon Upscale 3BR $825+ Must see! Please call 215-365-4567 60xx S. Trinity 3br $725 1st, last, sec. Avail. Feb 1st. 215-365-4567 64xx Glenmore St 2br $700 luxury, new kitch & ba, ceramic tile, hdwd flrs thout, reces lighting (215)989-9553 65xx Allman St. 3br $750/mo. New remod, come see! 215-463-2403 Elmwood Area 3BR/1BA $750+utils Modern house, sec. 8 ok. 215.726.8817 S. 52nd St. 5BR/2BA $1400 S. 56th St. 2BR/1BA $750 Nice, Section 8 ok. Call 267-918-2684

1552 N. Allison 3BR/1BA $750 Recently renovated. W/D. 267-716-3662 276 S. Felton St. 3br/1ba $800/mo hardwood flrs, w/d, bsmt, bk yrd, new paint and windows. 267-977-6537 2BR & 3BR Houses Sec. 8 Welcome Beautifully renovated Call (267)981-2718

5836 Fernwood Ave. 3BR/1.5BA $1050 1 car garage. Call 215-784-9952 59xx W. Girard Ave. 4br/2ba with den $950/mo Great shape, very large, handicap accessible. 215-409-8383 60xx Vine St. 3br, 1ba $800. Hdwd flrs, Sec. 8 OK (215)748-2349 6xx S. 59th St. 3BR $925+utils Fantastic new bathroom and kitchen 1st, last and sec. Call 215-365-4567 West Phila 2BR $750 1st/last/sec 267.226.6088 215.200.8585

980 N. 66th Street 3br/1.5ba $995 www.perutoproperties.com 215.740.4900

Wynnefield 4BR/2BA $1300/mo Tile and hardwd flr, working fireplace, off street parking, avail March 1st. Call Otis 267-303-6981

3219 N. Bambrey 3BR/1BA $650 2mo. sec. 1mo. rent. Close to shopping, transp., & schools. 215-924-3292 BREWERYTOWN 27th & Girard Lg 2br, rear yard, Sec 8 OK will accept 1 & 2Br vouchers $700/mo 215-681-8018 N. Phila 3BR/1BA Nice house for rent. (215)530-0988

5TH & WYOMING 3BR new kitc, hw flrs, pch $825+ utls John K 215-264-5924

4316 Dexter St. 4BR/2BA $1700 Corner lot, w/d, new carp. (609)214-4353

118 E. Springer St 3BR/1BA $850 Freshly Painted/New Flooring. Sec. 8 is welc. Private Bckyrd. 215-500-9390

7969 Williams Ave. 3BR/1BA $1000 Sec 8 ok. $1500 sec. dep. 215.886.1074

31xx Mercer St. 3br $925+ clean, w/d, fridge, refs 215.694.6969

53xx James 2br Nicely updated 267-307-6964

$775

1845 Wishart St. 2BR $675+Sec. 2652 N. 16th St. 3BR $775+Sec. Call 267-226-9709 548 Anchor St.

3br $875 2br $800 Newely renov. Sec. 8 ok. 267-991-2825 Mayfair: 71XX Marsden St. Large 3BR/1BA $950/mo. Just renovated. Hardwood floors. Upgraded bathroom and kitchen. Dry basement with laundry hookups. 1 car garage. Close to schools and transportation. Available immediately. Call Alex for appointment 215-947-6446

TACONY 2br/1.5ba $950 Appli New reno Sec 8 ok 267-337-3923

Collindale - 416 Pusey Ave. 3.5BR/2BA $1100/mo. Call 484-431-2429 Darby, 128 N 7th St. 3br/1ba $850 1 car garage, sec 8 ok, (610)550-1212 Upper Darby Lg. 2BR $850 + utils. Excel. cond. sec 8 ok, 610-284-5631

NORRISTOWN 800 blk Haws Ave 3BR, porch, yard, clean, sec 8 ok! $1200. Mr James 215-766-1795

$400, Call 856-365-2021

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low cost cars & trucks Buick LeSabre 1990 $1995 64,000 orig. miles. (610) 667-4829 Buick Rendezvous CXL 2002 $3,650 All power, runs great. 610-348-3228 Chevy Cav, cp 2002 $1900 PA insp, 4 cyl, auto, 610-203-6561 Chrysler Sebring Convert. 2004 $4,495 90K, touring, gorgeous. 610-524-8835 Chrysler Town & Country 2000 $2500 Mini-van, good cond. 484-804-3011 Dodge Grand Caravan Sport 2001 $2,870. Runs great. Call 610-348-3228 $3,995 Dodge Neon SXT 2003 2.0L, engine, 4 cyl., auto. 215-677-6135 Ford F150 4x4 XLT 2001 $3500 V8 extended cab clean 215-840-4860 FORD TAURUS 1999 $3,300 Excellent condition. 610-872-0236 Ford Taurus SEL 2003 $3,150 Sunroof leather loaded 215-840-4860 Honda Accord LX 2000 $3,695 100K, auto, gorgeous. 610-524-8835 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE 1999 $4,800 123K, V-8, Exc Cond, New INSP, Batt, Gd Tires. Call 215-262-5500 Lincoln 2001 Luxery 4 door, like new, garage kept, $3,975 My new car has arrived! Call Lynn at 215-922-6113 Mercury Grand Marquis GS 1999 $3,500 Loaded, excel. cond. Call 215-389-4310 Mercury Sable LS 2003 Sport 4 door, w/ vinyl roof + sun roof, like new, Must sacrifice! $3,650. 215-922-5342

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1638 Ferry Ave. 2BR/1BA $950 Sec 8 ok. Close to bus stop. 5 min walk from Ferry Ave speed line. 856-793-8875

automotive Buick LeSabre 2004 $5,950 White, 90K, loaded. 215-237-010 9

Dodge Caliber SXT 2007 $6,350 Red, power wind/locks. 215-237-010 9 Lexus 2008 ES350 $19,750 41k miles, no smoke, no pets, garage kept, 1 priv owner. Maroon with beige int. Please call (215)968-4757

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Lexus Hybrid GS450 2007 $29,000 Mint condition, 56k miles. 610-299-5198 Mercedes E320 2002 4 door, station wagon w/ sun roof, like new new body style $6,950. Mary 215-627-1814 Nissan Maxima 2001 Luxery 4 door w/ spoiler, full power, AC, original miles like new, $6,950. 215-922-2165

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SW Phila - Newly renov, close to trans. $100/wk 1st wk FREE, 267-628-7454

1628 S. 18th St. 6 bedrooms 2 bath Laundry room, hrdwd flr (215)760-5230 19th and Mifflin 2br/1ba $590 TH, magnificent, everything new, rent / own. Call 215-292-2176 20xx S. Norwood St. 1BR $550+elec. Duplex, hdwd flrs. Call 610-202-9833 2308 Ellsworth St. 4br/2ba $1300+utils credit check. 215.878.9309 3rd 3br $650 Brand new townhouse South Phila, rent or own. Call 215-292-2176

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WEST/SOUTHWEST Newly renov, nicely furnished, A/C, W/D, cable, clean, safe & secure. Call (267) 253-7764 W. Oaklane/Germantown nice size rooms, $100-$125/wk. 267-625-6189 W. PHILA - $380/mo. incls. utilities, mircowave & fridge. 215-901-4943 W Phila & G-town: Newly ren lg, lux rms /apts very peaceful SSI ok, 267.255.8665 W. Phila - Roommate needed. $100/wk. Call or text 267-403-9388

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