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Mayor Nutter vows to go after people who owe the city property taxes, saying, “We’re going to chase their little asses down as hard as possible.” Big-butted tax scofflaws breathe a sigh of relief.
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Nutter’s new plan calls for the city to hire 55 people and spend $40 million to pursue the half-billion dollars owed to the city in back taxes. “We’re gonna bill their tiny heinies good!” says Nutter.
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The first episode of the Philly-set Do No Harm earned the worst ratings ever for a scripted show on a major network. Maybe we do no wanna watch a show with a typo in the title.
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Reporters from NewsWorks contact Bart Blatstein about unpaid taxes on a property in the Piazza, and he promptly pays up. Then an Inky reporter follows him to a restaurant and is, like, “You tipped only 16 percent,” so Blatstein throws in another dollar. Later, somebody from the Metro reminds Blatstein to bring his own bags when he goes grocery shopping. And just yesterday, a PhillyMag intern was dispatched to make sure Blatstein was properly bundled up for the weather.
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The “More Park, Less Way” plan will aim to improve the Parkway’s green spaces and eliminate parking on Eakins Oval. It should also plan on having to explain its name all the time. District Attorney Seth Williams publicly asks Mark Zuckerberg to take down a Facebook page allegedly used by a Philadelphia man to call for the killing of a witness in an illegal-gun-purchasing case. Zuckerberg quietly takes Williams off the grid forever.
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In an advice column for Philly.com, former Flyers goaltender Bernie Parent encourages readers to embrace their inner wolves and “stay horny.” In column two, he reveals his trick for drinking beer with his penis.
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Newsroom employees at the Inquirer and Daily News agree to pay cuts in exchange for a promise of job security. And free scratchy lottery tickets. And semi-annual fiddle contests against the Devil.
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STAGE COMBAT A messy strike yields a first-ever contract for newly unionized Philadelphia Theatre Company stagehands. By Emily Guendelsberger
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abor strikes tend to be extraordinarily high-stakes pieces of street theater. So it’s not surprising that a recent strike by 27 stagehands at Broad Street’s Suzanne Roberts Theatre very nearly upstaged what was occurring within. On the sidewalk, the Philadelphia Theatre Company (PTC) workers, brand new to the world of organized labor, found themselves picketing, distributing fliers with a managing director’s personal cell number and inflating the type of ulcer-bellied giant rat that even building-trades unions have lately been dismissing as too aggressive. Onstage, things were just as awkward: Unable to find strikebreakers willing to work the sound and light boards despite recruiting from as far away as New York and Delaware, PTC had hired actress Cathy Simpson to sit on a folding chair at the edge of the stage and supply dramatic readings of cues like, “Thunder and lightning! CRACK!” A small insert in the program thanked audiences for “using your imagination.” The messy, months-long conflict between PTC and International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) Local 8 was finally resolved last Friday. But the dispute leaves some enduring questions about PTC — the most recent and perhaps most vulnerable company to upgrade to a shiny new stage during the pre-recession
regional-theater boom — and its plans for the future. The stagehands’ decision to unionize last July was sparked, in part, by worry that their jobs would be outsourced to college kids. “They hired an intern on top of the intern that we normally have — that was a loss of a job,” says lighting supervisor Alyssandra Docherty. PTC recognized the union in September, but negotiations got stuck on how many interns could be hired, and a strike began in January. The conflict sometimes felt like a tug-of-war with the ghost of Martin Luther King Jr. as the rope. The clash of Kings was inevitable given the production in question: The Mountaintop, Katori Hall’s imagining of King’s final night at the Lorraine Motel. One of the last straws was that PTC wouldn’t recognize Martin Luther King Day (along with Christmas Eve and others) as a time-and-a-half holiday. On opening night, the union held an assembly at City Hall to “lock arms together (as did Dr. King and the striking sanitation workers of Memphis)” and march to Suzanne Roberts Theatre, according to a press release. Producing artistic director Sara Garonzik countered with a statement of her own: “While we are honoring the legacy about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who urged cooperation and consensus, the union is unsuccessfully attempting to disrupt this production.” But understanding why both sides believed King would have backed them helps explain why it took months of negotiations and two weeks of picketing to forge a contract between the nonprofit and its stagehands. King championed underdogs — and that’s how
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✚ ODD JOB Last week, Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown admitted to numerous city election-law violations and agreed to a record-setting $48,834 in fines and repayments. As for the alleged mastermind of the fraud — Brown’s former campaign manager, John D. McDaniel — he lost his job with the city. Why McDaniel had that $87,125-a-year job in the first place is a far more intriguing topic. McDaniel, a resident of the Overbrook Park section who is known as a political operative with ties to the Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 322, has held patronage jobs under both former Mayor John Street and Mayor Nutter. Despite accusations that he stole $13,000 from a nonprofit during his tenure with the Street administration, Nutter hired McDaniel as a “volunteer coordinator” at the airport last year. The airport’s website indicates that he recruited 22 new volunteers before his dismissal in the wake of the Brown scandal. Administration spokesman Mark McDonald says the mayor wanted to give McDaniel, who worked on Nutter’s re-election campaign, “a second chance.” “[Nutter] knows the guy,” says McDonald. “The mayor met with him and talked about the problems he’d had … and they discussed the allegation that he’d stolen money. That was dealt with.” Simply getting a crack at an airport job would be one thing, but McDaniel received extraordinary treatment. City officials indicate that not only was McDaniel’s position created specifically for him, but that the mayor also worked out a complex funding arrangement on his behalf. Despite nominally working for the airport, McDaniel’s patron-
age position was created within the Managing Director’s Office (MDO), a city executive branch that includes 289 mayoral appointments and other workers from various city departments who are exempt from civil-service-exam rules. McDaniel’s hiring would have pushed the airport staff beyond the allowable limit of civil-service-exempted employees, a rule designed to curb patronage appointments. So Nutter instead created the position within the MDO, shifting money from airport proceeds, known as the Aviation Fund, to fund McDaniel’s salary. “He was the only MDO employee that was fully funded by the Aviation Fund,” says Andrew Stober, chief of staff for the Mayor’s Office of Transportation and Utilities. He acknowledges that only the mayor would have the authority to arrange such a deal. Perhaps the greatest mystery of the internecine Brown/ McDaniel saga is why a little-known political player with a checkered past (who, incidentally, owes the city $6,495.91 in back property taxes and has two liens on his property) was afforded such treatment. One possible explanation stems from McDaniel’s other role in the Brown settlement. He was implicated in accepting campaign contributions on behalf of Brown in excess of Philadelphia’s legal limit. These donations came from the enormous Progressive Agenda PAC, which was apparently run solely by McDaniel and funded almost entirely by local labor unions — and by the Nutter campaign. —Ryan Briggs
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FEINTING SPELL ³ REPUBLICAN GOV. TOM CORBETT is
suddenly concerned that most Pennsylvanians don’t like him. The former prosecutor faces a bid for re-election in 2014, and a poll last week pegged his approval rating at just 36 percent. It’s a basic math problem. And so on Tuesday, the governor who presided over massive cuts to education and the safety net proposed a budget that aims, for once, to avoid angering most Pennsylvanians. There is $90 million in new schools spending and a direly needed $5 billion over five years for roads and transit. The latter will be largely paid for by lifting a cap on taxes paid by gas distributors. But when it comes to the modest education-spending boost, Corbett’s newfound generosity includes a major caveat. The funds won’t come through if legislators refuse to push new state and school employees into lesssecure 401(k) retirement plans and lower payouts to current employees. The idea is that Democrats, who have largely stood against recent cuts, will be held responsible for blocking pension reform and thus depriving schools of funds. It’s a cynical move, and Corbett, who has presided over the pell-mell expansion of charter and voucher-like policies that cannibalize school funding, is likely overestimating its craftiness. Similarly, Corbett is proposing a $1 billion increase in education spending over four years — but only if the legislature agrees to privatize state liquor stores. Conveniently, this is a nonstarter for most Democrats (and many Republicans). “We didn’t create our success by raising taxes,” Corbett said Tuesday. “We created it by expanding opportunities.” The success might be elusive, but the opportunism is clear. In 2010, spooked by Sam Rohrer’s Tea-Party-infused primary challenge, Corbett signed conservative Washington, D.C., power broker Grover Norquist’s “no new taxes” pledge. He has since refused to impose a significant tax on the state’s natural-gas industry or to block companies from exploiting costly tax loopholes in Delaware. But the political center of gravity has slipped out from under the governor’s feet, and he is now tasked to square a political circle. Corbett, famously caricatured by the Daily News as Pennsylvania’s Tin Man, made a laudable proposal to spend $20 million to reduce the waiting list for services for people with intellectual disabilities. But he also said he’d reject Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion to 613,000 uninsured adults in the state. Last November’s election marked Pennsylvania’s clear rejection of the Tea Party agenda. He fails to understand this reality at his political peril. ✚ Send feedback to daniel.denvir@citypaper.net
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both sides see themselves. The stagehands have the more obvious claim to underdog status, as mostly part-timers stringing together gigs at multiple theaters and making between $16 and $19 an hour at PTC. But the union they joined is less of an underdog. Previously, it represented stagehands of large commercial theaters like the Walnut Street Theater, Kimmel Center and Academy of Music. PTC isn’t in that league. It’s a nonprofit regional theater dedicated to local premieres — a noble pursuit, but not as profitable as, say, Jersey Boys. Garonzik and PTC board president Priscilla Luce argued in an Inquirer op-ed that the union was seeking a “contract comparable to those of organizations that have more than seven times our seating capacity.” Garonzik is accustomed to her role as head of a “small nonprofit.” She led PTC back to solid ground after the company’s 1989 season had to be cancelled because it had six-figure deficits. In a 1990 Inquirer piece on the resurrection, she’s quoted: “We will never borrow again.” But $25 million theaters don’t build themselves — particularly when they break ground in 2006, at the height of the real-estate bubble. PTC’s previous home, Plays & Players, was rundown and not wheelchair-friendly; aging theatergoers were cancelling subscriptions. A new space seemed essential for survival. And so, while much of the funding came from grants and donors such as Suzanne Roberts, PTC borrowed to build. More unlucky timing: Suzanne Roberts Theatre opened as the recession set in. PTC’s tax filings show deficits that jump from $40,000 over the 2007-’08 season to more than $2.5 million for their first season at Suzanne Roberts, and more than $1.5 million in each of the past two seasons. These deficits were expected, says Garonzik. “The move to the new space represented a shift from renting a theater only when we needed it to owning and operating a building year-round,” she says. She foresees breaking even this year. Garonzik also blames “the recession” — though the Wilma and Arden theaters, both nonprofits in the same weight class as PTC, were in the black last year. This history may shed some light on the exasperated tone of PTC statements like: The company “is working to meet the financial challenges it faces. … [The strike] did nothing to change these facts.” But such statements, in turn, did nothing to ease the impact of the strike, evident in the public reaction to PTC’s jury-rigged staging of The Mountaintop. Aside from one short write-up on philly.com, the play went unreviewed. And at a Wednesday matinee, City Paper watched 10 patrons take a refund and leave. That’s a loss of $460 — “More than they would have paid the entire crew to work this show,” estimated a frustrated Uel Bergey, an electrician. (Garonzik says PTC issued about $5,000 in refunds.) Meanwhile, the dispute got personal. “The people in the office have been told not to speak with us,” said Bergey. As of that matinee, Garonzik hadn’t attended the negotiations and was communicating mostly by chilly press releases. The union began
parking the rat outside the homes of board members and giving out those handbills with a director’s cell-phone number. But in person, the stagehands just seemed to miss their jobs. At that matinee, Bergey, Docherty and a few others were passing out handbills when a PTC employee came out to say hello, looking as if he were biting back the words “before you catch your death.” The greeting became a group hug. “You are my grandchildren! Do you know how distressing this is?” PTC is like a family, he explained; he’s sure his “kids” didn’t come up with the idea of printing a personal cell-phone number. “It doesn’t sound like them.” “That was my decision,” confirms Mike Barnes, the IATSE Local 8 rep. When asked why, he pulls a Willie Sutton, dryly saying, “That’s the best way to
PTC issued $5,000 in refunds. get ahold of a person.” He says it wasn’t just to turn up the pressure — he genuinely thought better communication was the answer. After all, both sides claimed they simply wanted to put conditions that had been standard for the last 20 years in writing. They just remembered those 20 years differently. That may explain why the strike was resolved the first time both Garonzik and stagehands met face to face. “She came into the room and confirmed a lot of the past practices that we’ve been asking for,” said Docherty. It still took 11 hours for lawyers to reach a compromise, involving health-care contributions and limits on interns. Docherty is back at work. But for continuity, her original lighting design for The Mountaintop will never be seen. The end of the play will continue to be a woman on a folding chair saying, “Blackout. End of play.” (emilyg@citypaper.net)
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from Congressman Chaka Fattah’s son, Brown was back at work, having put the repeated violations of city and state election laws behind her. One might be inclined to think that the councilwoman’s settlement with the city Board of Ethics, well, settled things. But, according to the good-government group Committee of Seventy, “Blondie” (as she is known to friends) could still face serious criminal charges. “If the omissions on her financial disclosure forms were intentional, that is a state crime,” says Seventy’s Zack Stalberg. “But the most troubling thing is the repayment of that loan. That money was the campaign’s money, not her money. When you pay for personal expenses with campaign funds, it is theft.” In short, Brown not only faces potential criminal prosecution from state or local authorities, but even possible jail time. But who will file charges, and when, is a different matter. Neither state Attorney General Kathleen Kane nor Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams, both Democrats, would likely be excited by the prospect of carrying out a messy, politically tinged execution of a fellow party member.
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spite of Williams’ campaign pledge to crack down on corruption, Williams’ friendship with Brown will likely give him cover to recuse himself from prosecution, as it did in state Rep. Cherelle Parker’s recent DUI case. Both Kane’s and Williams’ offices declined to comment. Both may simply be waiting to see if the IRS and federal attorneys will step in and do the job for them, if Brown didn’t pay required taxes on the gifts. Still, Stahlberg says, “I would think there would need to be more dollar value … for the feds to get involved in a tax-fraud charge.” However, many are speculating that Brown’s indiscretions, initially revealed amid the FBI’s investigation into Chaka “Chip” Fattah Jr.’s ties to an educational firm that received millions in city school district funds, could be just the tip of the iceberg. That investigation is still ongoing; what it might turn up — and how that might affect Brown — remains unknown. —R.B.
✚ SHAKEDOWN STREET Lately, forces in Philly government have been struggling to clarify the role of residents in zoning battles. One thing they didn’t factor in: What if builders are willing to pay off neighbors to get out of the way? Eugene Bukh, owner of PP Development, found himself in just that position recently. Owners of properties backing onto a lot at 17th and South streets weren’t happy that he planned to build a four-story structure with a 7-Eleven virtually attached to the backs of their homes — or that the city’s Zoning Board of Adjustment approved the plan. Resident Doug Risen, for one, says the building would “cripple” his property’s value,
not to mention his views.
So he asked Bukh to make it up to him and his neighbors — with a cool $225,000. In return, they’d drop an appeal against the project in court. Risen sees this as merely negotiating to mitigate a harm. Bukh has a different point of view: “Did I feel like they were extorting me? 110 percent, yes.”
Still, Bukh was game. He told Risen: “I’ll make you a fair offer. Let’s get the properties appraised today, and when it’s built let’s get them reappraised. If the property value decreases, I’ll pay each of you the value it decreased. And if your property value increases, then you pay me.” Neighbors rejected that. Instead, they asked him to build six stories and give them a condo. When that didn’t work for him, they threw out the $225,000 figure. Bukh says he was willing to give
“Did I feel extorted? Yes.” them $150,000, for expediency’s sake. “I had everything ready to go; they pretty much threw a wrench in the deal.”
Whether appeasing neighbors with a few thousand dollars is common practice in Philly, neither Risen or Bukh could say (the negotiations came to light only after a blog, Philadelinquency, posted their email chain). But the issue arose recently around a proposed digital billboard on the Electric Factory building, where the owner offered to share revenues with nearby schools after five other tries at legalizing the sign failed. Risen, who lost his first appeal and will now take the case to Commonwealth Court, says he’d rather not have the payout; he’d prefer that zoning rules be enforced. “People who buy next to vacant lots, other than the zoning code there’s nothing to tell them what’s going to be there,” he says. “We want the city
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“Friendly.” “Funny.” “Active.” “Back in elementary school,” he continues,“people had to write down three nice things about everyone else in the class and read them out loud. I’d always get ‘funny.’ But I got sick of it. If someone got ‘attractive’ every time, they’d probably wish others would care more about their personality. No matter what you get, you always want something else.”
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that is Honeys. Their third release on Sub Pop is all about distorted, chiseled power riffs and skull-hammering beats. From the post-My War sludge of “Chain Worker” to the stampeding hardcore of “Health Plan” to the grunge-nodding howls of “Male Gaze,” it’s the band’s most diverse offering yet. Upon diving into Pissed Jeans’ unrelentingly vindictive discography, and especially after witnessing the band’s notoriously rumbustious, oftentimes dangerous live performances, it’s understandable how someone could think the four members are insane nihilists devoted solely to the destruction of all things civilized and sacred. Understandable, sure. But false. Korvette (vocals), Brad Fry (guitar), Randy >>> continued on page 16
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hese thoughts are inspired by “Cafeteria Food,” a song from Korvette’s band Pissed Jeans’ new album, Honeys.An office worker sits quietly at his cubicle anticipating the death of his “project manager” and a “big-time broker.” But this acrimonious man is no lunatic. He would never consider murdering those he loathes. His plan is far more challenging, exhausting — more human. He’s waiting for his asshole colleagues to die from natural causes, a process that could take many, many years. He’s counting down the days. And when the day finally comes, and they’re dead, he feels like he won the Super Bowl. He feels like Jesus Christ. He wishes he had his tap shoes on so he could sneak into the bathroom and do a little happy dance while his co-workers squeeze out phony tears in the lunchroom. Tonight, he’ll sleep better than he’s slept in forever. At the Royal, I ask Korvette to describe himself in three words. A mischievous grin forms on his face, and he answers within seconds, enunciating each word perfectly with brief pauses in between.
“I JUST QUIETLY, PATIENTLY HOPE FOR THE WORST.”
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“Everyone has someone they really despise,” surmises Matt Korvette between bites of a vegan sloppy-joe sandwich at the Royal Tavern. “I’ll never stab anyone in the face, but I’ll be happy when someone I hate dies from cancer. I just quietly, patiently hope for the worst.”
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find a sitter to watch two kids instead of one.” “My only real fear,” he confesses, “is that one day I’ll have to tell my kids what the name of my band is.”
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orvette, Fry and Huth grew up in Nazareth, Pa. Fry and Huth attended the same daycare center and have known each other since they were 2 years old. They met Korvette when the three attended Nazareth High School, quickly bonding over hardcore and punk music. “They were very creative even back then,” recalls Korvette. “I remember their individualism and their fashion — band T-shirts, homemade punk clothes — because they stood out visually. I was trying to do the same thing, so I looked up to them. They were going to fire halls to see hardcore shows a few years ahead of me and were involved in a subculture that I didn’t grasp at the time.” Fry and Huth had already been playing in bands, but the first one
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Huth (bass) and Sean McGuinness (drums) are four of the friendliest people I’ve ever met. When Korvette arrives late to dinner, he apologizes profusely while holding the pub door open for me. A gentleman! The next morning, he makes an additional apology via email. Such civility! They’re all in their early 30s, with full-time jobs. McGuinness has worked at Resurrection Ale House since it opened in 2009. Huth has been bartending at the Khyber since 2005. Fry, the only one who doesn’t reside in Philadelphia, lives and works in Bethlehem. “I work for a company that contracts out accounts-receivable stuff,” he says. “I supervise 15 people older than me, and all the typical office stereotypes you can think of apply.” Korvette’s situation’s a bit more complicated. Unlike the others, he’s not sure any of his co-workers know he’s in Pissed Jeans. On the record, all he’s willing to say is: “I work in insurance,” the job’s “pretty mundane” and he was hired within two weeks of graduating from college. He’s had the same job for 10 years; he doesn’t talk about Pissed Jeans at work.
They’re all homeowners now, and either married or in deeply committed relationships. When McGuinness refers to his girlfriend as his “girlfriend,” he comments on how insufficient the title feels. “It’s stupid to call her that,” he says. “She’s so much more than my girlfriend.” Huth says something similar. Fry and Korvette are both married. Finally, the big one. With the first arrival in 2011, they all became fathers within one year of each other. Korvette, Huth and McGuinness have sons; Fry, the first to have a child, has a daughter. And just a few weeks ago, Fry learned that his wife’s pregnant again. When we spoke, it was before he’d told his bandmates the news. He said he was nervous, but not as much as the first time, since now it’s something they’ve all been through together once already. “Still, it’s gonna be crazy,” admits Fry. “We have this album coming out and tours coming up. ... But, like everything else with Pissed Jeans, we’ll make it work somehow. It won’t hinder the band, but it will be harder for me and my wife. If we ever want to go do anything, now we have to
they started with Korvette was the Ultimate Warriors, a project that combined powerviolence and wrestling-inspired theatricality. The Warriors released seven 7-inches and one LP titled Our Gimmick Is Wrestling. On YouTube, there’s a 22-second clip from a gig where Fry and Korvette thrash around while wearing wrestling masks. Next came the Gatecrashers, with Korvette, Fry, Huth and drummer Tim Wynarczuk, who also played in the Warriors. (The Warriors’ first drummer was Daughn Gibson, the recent Sub Pop-signed artist whose debut album was released last year on Korvette’s label, White Denim.) The Crashers played only about 25 shows but released a few singles, splits and EPs, plus one full-length called The Gatecrashers Are a Bunch of Motherfuckers. Then, in 2003, Pissed Jeans was born. The original lineup was Korvette, Fry, Dave Rosenstrauss (bass) and Wynarczuk.The initial goal, Korvette says, was to “maybe put out a 7-inch.” But in 2005, the band released >>> continued on page 18
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its debut album, Shallow. “We didn’t want to worry about notes and riffs and technical proficiency,” Korvette claims. “We wanted it to be personality-driven; we wanted the personality to ooze out.” This mission was accomplished on the first track, “I’m Sick,” where Korvette excellently articulates the misanthropic agony of the Everyman that’s now become his signature. “I’ve got a fever,” he groans over sludgy riffs and crippling feedback. “I’ve got a runny nose!” The song concludes with him calling in sick to work. Right after Shallow, Pissed Jeans hired a new drummer, Sean McGuinness, who grew up in Ardmore and had known the others for several years through mutual hardcore connections. He joined just in time, because the buzz Shallow received led to Sub Pop offering them a record deal. “I was in South Philly, hanging at Beautiful World Syndicate,” recalls McGuinness. “Korvette called me and said Sub Pop wanted to do a record. I couldn’t believe it. Man, what a sick club to be in! When Sub Pop calls, you don’t hold out for another offer, so we took it.” Hope for Men, Pissed Jeans’ Sub Pop debut full-length, was released in 2007. Soon after, Huth — from the Nazareth High, Warriors and Crashers days — joined the band on bass. King of Jeans came two years later. And, next week, Honeys. “I’ve known these guys almost my entire life,” says Huth. “But I can’t believe I’ve been in the Jeans for five years. We’re all fathers now, and we’re all so busy outside of the band. I don’t even think all four of our
“We never wanted to quit our jobs,” confirms Korvette. “We’ve always had our heads on too straight for that. Working is what we all do, because we all like living comfortably. I was raised to believe that I have to work, and I have to act civilized while I do it. But I want to have fun, too. For some people, that might mean cooking or checking their fantasy-football stats, but for me it’s always been music. Pissed Jeans involves work, but it’s mostly for fun.” In fact, everyone in Pissed Jeans agrees that having kids has brought the band closer together. “We’re all less of dicks now,” says Korvette. “Having kids has made us more loving, tender individuals. Taking care of a tiny being brings out the humanity in you. And since we’re all experiencing this together, we don’t have to be insecure about feeling this love.” Hearing this makes me wish I had a time machine so I could go back in time to Nazareth High and tell these young punks what their lives would look like in 2013. I’d tell them they’d one day be tender individuals who aren’t insecure about feeling love. They’d never believe me. After puking a little bit in their mouths, they’d probably punch me in the face and pin me in less than 30 seconds, the way the Ultimate Warrior did to the Honky Tonk Man back at SummerSlam I.
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t Grace Tavern on a recent Thursday afternoon, McGuinness is sitting at a table drinking a beer. He’s chatting with a waitress friend while his son bounces on his knee. The kid’s name is Iggy, inspired, in part, by punk icon Iggy Pop. As we talk,
“WHEN SUB POP CALLS, YOU DON’T HOLD OUT FOR ANOTHER OFFER.” kids have been in the same room.” “Life just goes by so fast,” he says.
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hen I meet Korvette, Fry, Huth and McGuinness at Space 1026, a location of the music video for Honeys’ first single, “Bathroom Laugher” (which debuts on Spin.com Feb. 12), it’s the rare occasion of them all being together outside of band practice. The kids aren’t to blame. Sure, they make touring a bit more difficult, but Pissed Jeans have never been known to hit the road for months on end. Keep in mind, this is a band that hasn’t released an album in nearly four years. Prior to fatherhood, they all had full-time jobs and other commitments, and the band was never the No. 1 priority for anyone. It was always something that came after everything else. “Whether we were 14 or in our 30s, we never thought of bands as something we’d ever do for money,” Fry says. “I have this fear of not having the security of a real job, and I think all of us feel that way. Pissed Jeans has always been just one part of our lives.” “We all have families, and that’s our main thing,” adds Huth. “Pissed Jeans couldn’t work any other way. Our outside lives have always taken precedence over the band.”
Iggy keeps grabbing a plastic mustard container and throwing it under the table. McGuinness picks it up. Iggy does it again. And again. And again. Each time he does it, Iggy smiles at me, as if to say, “I want you to know that I am having a total blast fucking with my dad right now.” “You all right, big guy?” McGuinness asks Iggy. “He’s normally a chill guy. As long as he has food, he’s good.” McGuinness gives Iggy a French fry. Of all the Pissed Jeans, McGuinness is the most outgoing. When Huth and I talk over a few slices of pizza, he seems ready to leave the second he sits down. Fry isn’t shy, but his nervous energy makes him do things like talk nonstop for 25 minutes about the evolution of his guitar playing. Korvette is confident and friendly, but also shrewd, as if he has an identity to protect, which he does. “We all have very different personalities,” McGuinness confirms. “But the first time we played together, it just clicked.” He puts down his cheeseburger and snaps his fingers three times. Snap. Snap. Snap. “And we probably all get something different out of Pissed Jeans, too,” he says. “I can’t speak for everyone, but, for me, it’s great to hit that deep >>> continued on page 20
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³ BACK WHEN PHILLY’S Fringe youngins were still sucking on teats, Greg Giovanni made avant-garde inroads in the local scene with Big Mess Theatre. Starting in 1988, Big Mess was where drag-centric, gender-babbling sexuality and twisted adult-themed takes on classic literature met uncomfortably with a boozy glam-cabaret soundtrack. It might seem strange, then, that Giovanni’s newest major work, A Minor Cycle (Feb. 8 and 9, Painted Bride), is a kids’ thing. But Giovanni believes that Big Mess’ finest work was for children. “I always considered Taking Tiger Mountain, our Eno-inspired show, a kids’ thing,” says Giovanni. “My 10-year-old nephew had to explain it to my parents. It was very funny watching him, he got more out of it than most adults, I think. Then again, kids have more depth than we give them credit for. Besides, I never grew up. I’m doing the same thing I’ve always done minus the drag queens, strippers and cursing.” Giovanni’s new take on children’s tales benefits from his last two decades spent honing skills in expressionist Japanese Noh theater practices. A Minor Cycle isn’t just Noh. There are puppets and Kabuki in there, too. “It sprung from my imagination,” says Giovanni. “I can say that the pieces are slow but short.The music is funny. It’s traditional but weird. And there’s a giant chicken and a dragon! What could be more fun?” ³ When the Cuban coffee shop/avant-jazz venue Café Clave (4305 Locust St.) closed in December, my Latin heart broke into a million pieces. Now, I see on the West Philly Local that area couple Yasser Aiq and Kate Steenstra have taken over the space, renamed it Café Renata and will fill it with Clave-esque drinks and nibbles. Could live music be far off? ³ Feb. 9 is all about Jane, the killer lesbian-centric film being produced by onetime City Paper mad-man-turned-actor Sonny Vellozzi and director/writer Sean McKnight. Those two — along with producing partner Robert Bizik and star Victoria Gates — will hold an LGBT-focused fundraiser/fashion show/dance party at 2 p.m. at the William Way Center (1315 Spruce St.) to snag completion funds. More fun than Kickstarter, I assure you. ³ Blogger/restaurateur Harry Spivak and his brother/chef Jon have opened an outpost of Chive Cafe & Cateringatthe loud-ass rock palace Electric Factory. Chive opened its first spot at Peddler’s Village in Bucks County in 2012. The Electric Chive is all about personal pizzas and handmade sausage sandwiches. ³A sad farewell to Edmond J. Tayoun — brother to Jimmy and dad to Joe, William, Ed and the late Michael. This Tayoun, who died Jan. 30, was co-owner of the Middle East Restaurant, an entertainment hub that this city still misses. ³ More Icepack at citypaper.net/criticalmass. (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)
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³ HONGTAO ZHOU’S ART is on fire. In the literal, touch-it-and-you’ll
blister sense. His sculpture Burniture, consisting of two wax chairs that can be set aflame like candles, is part of the Philadelphia Art Alliance’s new exhibit “The Tool at Hand,” which has its opening reception this week. This touring exhibit was sparked in March of 2011 when Ethan Lasser, then curator of Milwaukee’s Chipstone Foundation, challenged 16 artists to create a work of art using only one tool. Other artists, whose pieces can be seen alongside Burniture, chose saws, hammers and even dental drills. Zhou chose perhaps the most obvious tool of all: his hands. With these (and the hands of several friends), Zhou sculpted 15 pounds of white wax into twin chairs, which, unable to resist the pun, he then dubbed Burniture. The wax chairs have wicks buried in their seats and stiles; when lit, the chairs burn like candles — literal hot seats. When the wicks are extinguished, the melting, dripping wax hardens into paradoxically frozen-looking stalactites, a visual tension that interests Zhou. “These small wicks are burning down the ‘coldness’ of the icy-look-
ing wax chairs,” he explains on his website. “Cold chairs generate ‘hot’ seats, baking, melting and disappearing.” The piece is intentionally ephemeral; eventually, the chairs will weaken to the point of collapse in a manner reminiscent of some of Zhou’s past work in a different medium. The straightforwardly titled Ice and Snow Furniture, created atop Wisconsin’s frozen Lake Mendota in 2009, consisted of snow-sculpted chairs, tables and even bowls from which visitors were encouraged to eat ice cream. When the weather changed, the furniture melted back into the lake — completing, in Zhou’s words, “their beautiful green life cycle.” Another Zhou installation, Snow Furniture Dancing, also had an environmental bent. Created in January 2010 for the Milwaukee Art Museum’s inaugural “Green Furniture” show, these slowly melting pieces were meant to convey a sense of the impending crisis of climate change — a crisis which Zhou believed threatened not only “the current industrial world,” but “human civilization” itself. Burniture is less explicitly green, though as it travels across the country to destinations such as Portland and Houston with the rest of “The Tool at Hand,” its wax will melt away to reveal a twig skeleton. Its transience, though, is meant less to address a deteriorating earth than the inherent impermanence of our own lives.“It is just a matter of time,” Zhou writes. “Burn the ice, burn our seats, burn us.” (jessica.bergman@citypaper.net)
Reminiscent of his past work with ice.
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[ running a foot race with a freight train ] ³ blues/folk
With an impossibly twee moniker — When Nalda Became Punk — and a genre-legendary producer (Ian Catt) and label (Shelflife) behind their debut album, this Galician duo have a rock-solid indie-pop pedigree. A Farewell to Youth, therefore, offers plenty of delights but few surprises, except perhaps its refusal to prioritize either guitars or synthesizers, opting instead for both, full throttle. It festoons its classically cuddly melodies with both jangles and twinkles, gleefully scrappy power-chord churning and go-for-broke drum machines. “I wanna build a factory of happiness,” croons Elena Sestelo; she’s got her foundation already set. —K. Ross Hoffman
The live-blues corner of the ’60s folk revival — people like Tom Rush or tradition-bearers like Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee — has been in danger of drying up. Charlie Parr’s self-released Barnswallow, recorded live in one or two takes, recalls those guys and others, like Koerner, Ray and Glover. National guitar, the funkiest of the resonator family, buzzes and growls beneath Parr’s singing while Dave Hundreiser’s mouth harp screams like a wounded animal, alternately running and charging. Mikkel Beckmen’s extraordinary percussion on washboard and other improvised items urges the music forward. Listening to the three together feels like running a footrace with a freight train. —Mary Armstrong
³ dvd/blu-ray John Ford’s How Green Was My Valley (20th Century Fox) is best remembered as the film that beat Citizen Kane in 1941, but the satin gleam of its images, explicitly framed as memories of a Welsh childhood, makes its Best Picture win seem less like a glaring injustice and more like a defensible choice. —Sam Adams
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HOP ON OP It’s a terrific formula, and bodes well for attracting a newer, younger audience.
Anyone still sighing softly over the dissolution of English pastoralists The Clientele will find no shortage of solace in The House at Sea (Merge), the second full-length fruit of Alasdair MacLean’s partnership with sprightly Spanish-born sweetie Lupe Núñez-Fernández (of Pipas) as Amor de Días. It’s a fuller effort than their debut, with stronger, more varied songwriting applied to the same gracefully insubstantial palette of mood and memory, lush with wispy nylon-string guitars, whispery —K. Ross Hoffman vocals and a sun-faded, bossa-based lilt.
in Philadelphia. Luciano Pavarotti was here, singing at the Academy of Music and hosting his vocal competition. The great soprano Jessye Norman made her American opera debut in a stunning double bill of Stravinsky and Purcell. Big and innovative productions of offbeat repertoire, including Death in Venice and Boris Godunov, graced the stage of the grand old lady of Broad Street. Problem was, nobody had actually figured out how to pay for it all. By the time Robert Driver took over the Opera Company of Philadelphia in 1991, the institution teetered on an artistic fiscal cliff. Driver regrouped, putting the budget on a diet and offering a steady stream of play-it-safe material that readily filled the seats. It worked, and today OCP is again a robust and vital element in this city’s cultural life. Driver, while still involved in production work (he is an acclaimed stage director), has handed over leadership to David Devan, and next season, that transition enters a new phase with a re-branding of OCP, both aesthetically and literally, as the company is renamed Opera Philadelphia. Devan has officially been the general director for two years, and has skillfully steered the company back to a more adventuresome style while retaining Driver’s prudent management sense. It is a terrific formula, and bodes well for attracting a newer and younger audience. The signature program for this new direction has been the Aurora Series at the Perelman, which has included a highly successful co-production with the Curtis Opera Theatre, and has presented engaging, even edgy new works as well as modern classics from Berg and Henze. In the first season of Opera Philadelphia, some of that small-stage spunkiness migrates up to Broad and Locust with a new production of Ainadamar, Osvaldo Golijov’s take on the life and work of the great Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, who was murdered by the Fascists in 1936. And for a taste of the future, check out the East Coast premiere this week of Silent Night, by Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell, set in the trenches of World War I. You may just want to come back for more. (p_burwasser@citypaper.net)
SIDE EFFECTS [ B+] JUDGING SOLELY BY his last two projects, the tone-deaf actioner Haywire and
the charming, formless Magic Mike, it’d be fair to assume a Steven Soderbergh thriller centered on trendy antidepressants might spill out messier than a capless Zoloft bottle fumbled in the dark. But it’s the classical, sleuthy structure of Side Effects and the fact that Big Pharma finger-wagging is minimized in favor of personal and psychological malice that bolster the film’s old-school, who’s-conning-whom value. It works out well that a movie so calculated in its discussion of consequences begins in a place built for them: prison. Emily Taylor (Rooney Mara), possessing all the confidence of a wounded bird, timidly awaits the release of her husband, Martin (Channing Tatum), who was locked up for insider trading. Transitioning back to civilian life is hard for Martin, but things seem infinitely tougher for his wife, who can’t shake the cloud of anxiety fogging up their marriage. Admitted to the ER after ramming her car into a parking-garage wall, Emily meets Dr. Jonathan Banks (Jude Law), who asks all the right questions about her purported suicide attempt. Agreeing to discharge his new patient if she begins scheduling therapy sessions with him, Banks jumps at the chance to participate in a handsomely paid trial for Ablixa, a flashy new drug he prescribes Emily after standard meds don’t work: “It makes it easier to be who you are.” But what if you’re a murderer? Soderbergh slips in far too many twists and surprises to discuss without major spoilage, so just know that Scott Z. Burns’ script becomes more unpredictable as it broadens. Law’s scrappy street smarts invoke Hitchcock’s strongest Grant and Stewart roles, and this dogged likeability helps his face-offs with Emily and her chilly former care provider (Catherine Zeta-Jones) catch fire. The circumstances turn muddy and implausible by the end, but getting there’s a damn good time. —Drew Lazor
A classical, sleuthy who’s-conning-whom.
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WRESTLING WITH ART A talk with the curator of “Catch as Catch Can.” By Alison Dell
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century ago this month, Cubist painter Francis Picabia and his then-wife Gabrielle were out to dinner with a friend, when, according to Gabrielle, the trio “became fascinated with an enormous and fearsome Chinese wrestler seated next to them.” They decided to follow him, and ended up at a bout of “catch-as-catch-can” wrestling — a bare-hands, full-contact, no-holdsbarred form, sort of like MMA’s nastier grandfather. Picabia juxtaposed memories of that fight with those of a rehearsing dancer in his lively abstract painting Catch as Catch Can (1913), now in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, but rarely exhibited. One hundred years later, this abstract jewel is the centerpiece of an eponymous show at Locks Gallery, opening this Wednesday. Curated by Fionn Meade (back in Philly after 2009’s “Bivouac” at Vox), Picabia’s abstract rendering of the memory of bodies in motion is pitted against contemporary works that grapple with the medium of painting and its subjects.
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cheek element? Or the idea of undermining or shattering a medium, as Picabia was doing in his early explorations of Cubism and Dada? FM: Many of the most interesting artists then and now have had a wry, yet beholden relationship toward painting and its terms, bringing painting into contact with performance, graphic design, poetry, film and sculpture, but without letting go of the investment in painting’s conventions. Picabia is one of the most forceful artists ever in this regard, embracing a “no-holdsbarred” attitude toward reinventing genre, medium and persona via available means — while also making entirely seductive, beautiful paintings. His genius resided exactly in the back-and-forth nature of this comic seriousness. CP: There’s a duality between
wrestling and dance in the Picabia painting. Can you give an example of either a wrestling or a dance aspect of the show? FM: There are many. Shahryar Nashat’s film Modern Body Comedy, 2006, brings a mix of silent film and martial arts alive in the slapstick embrace of doppelganger-like characters, while Tom Burr’s monochrome fabric painting has a straightjacket, clasped feeling of dancing alone.
City Paper: What attracted you to Picabia’s
painting?
CP: The pieces in your show
Fionn Meade: It’s an under-theorized and over-
reference and play with painting conventions, even if they’re carried out in other media. What’s one of your favorite non-painting painting examples in the show? FM: Michaela Eichwald’s resin cast sculptures come to mind. One features a many-colored, semitransparent hand reaching up and out toward the viewer even as the large-scale painting nearby holds a maelstrom of acrylic, oil, crayon and lacquer lacerations and bruises. The relationship is extremely corporeal yet overtly abstract. It writhes with life and experience. A lot like the show. (alison.dell@citypaper.net)
looked major work of its time. It embraces a lyricism in color and rhythmic abstraction while also embedding poetic commentary in the title phrase scratched at the top and the scrambling of the words étoile (star) and danse (dance) below. Made up of ambivalence and surety both, it’s declaration and revision, simultaneity and a marking of a particular time and place. The playful stance of this work follows from the succès de scandale of the Armory Show that opened mid-February 1913 in New York, introducing both Duchamp and Picabia’s work, among others, to U.S. audiences. This show enacts a dialogue between a signature work from that time and contemporary works that animate a similarly restless, gestural spirit. CP: Catch-as-catch-can wrestling was brutally serious, but still involved conscious performance. Were you interested in that tongue-in-
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LA-LA STILL MEANS I LOVE YOU Philly soul architect William Hart of the Delfonics wants to blow your mind one more time. By A.D. Amorosi
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here are several misleading elements concerning Adrian Younge Presents the Delfonics, a new album being released on the WaxPoetics label on March 12. Let’s start with who’s presenting who, here. Younge is a thirtysomething L.A.-based producer. The Delfonics are one of the biggest vocal groups of all time who, with arranger/producer/songwriter Thom Bell, helped create the lushly orchestrated, heavily harmonized soul sound for which this city became known. “La-La Means I Love You,” “Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind This Time)” and “Ready or Not Here I Come (Can’t Hide From Love)” — these songs are universally cherished for their heaven-high vocals and dreamy sentimentality. Hiphop’s finest have sampled them. Quentin Tarantino sets scenes to them. “We are the sound of love,” says 68-year-old William Hart, Delfonics’ founder, lead singer and co-writer of its catalog of hits. “My songs had to be clean and had to mean something, always,” he says in a deep baritone wildly different than his signature high vocals. “Still do.” Sitting in his home in Wyncote, Pa., Hart points out the other misnomer in the new title. While multi-instrumentalist/producer Younge provides the new album with an eerily sparse sound unfa-
miliar to Delfonics fans, the vocals are Hart’s alone. After 47 years in the Delfonics biz, this is Hart’s major-label solo debut. “I own the name ‘Delfonics.’ Older people know me. This new sound is just to shock them into reality,” he chuckles. Hart recalls how one of his influences, Smokey Robinson, pursued solo stature. “Even he had to get people used to ‘Smokey and the Miracles’ before he could be just ‘Smokey.’ That’s me now. Boom.” William Hart By singing solo, Hart is fulfilling his dad’s dream, something that started when the family lived at Second and New in Kensington (“the city’s funnest neighborhood”), where William ran produce from the wharf with his brother Wilbert. “My dad always wanted me to sing solo,” says Hart. “But back in the day, the fun thing to do was have a group.” Young Hart liked the idea of putting his head and voice together with brother Wilbert and their friends. “We were Philly’s answer to the Temptations. That was a good idea, right?” Fast-forward to the present and you find, for such a clean, Godfearing writer — “there’s no sex in our songs, just the suggestion,” Hart says — the head Delfonic is cool with MCs as coarse as Notorious B.I.G. and Wu-Tang Clan sampling his hits. “Ever go to Starbucks and get a nice black cup of coffee? You put a little cream in it, then a little more, there’s a pleasant taste. Then that taste takes over. When rappers use my songs, they’re taking advantage of that cleanliness, sweetness and creaminess.” Hart’s sense of his own sweetness and elegance, to say nothing of his natural curiosity, is what made him take up Younge’s offer to
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collaborate back in 2011. Younge, a musicmaker used to modernizing vintage-soul sounds (see his blaxploitative soundtrack to the Adult Swim show Black Dynamite), met Hart through a mutual music-industry friend, who got the two together on the phone. No sound files were exchanged; just one phone call and Hart flew to L.A. to work with Younge. It was blind faith on Hart’s part, a “gut feeling,” he says, that made him want to start work immediately. As soon as he arrived at Younge’s fully stocked retrophonic studio, he commenced co-writing 13 new songs with Younge, like the sparsely arranged “Stop and Look (And You Have Found Love)” as well as “Lovers Melody,” the latter track surprising for its introduction of Hart’s baritone voice into his music. “It’s called range,” says Hart with a chuckle. “And it’s all natural. People hear this new album and they can’t believe that I can still sing as high as I always did. They think Adrian sampled me from the old days. It’s all real. And like everything else in my life, it’s a gift from God for which I am grateful.” (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)
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WEST OF MEMPHIS|B+ Is West of Memphis necessary? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the first question that inevitably greets this Peter Jackson-produced, Amy Bergdirected doc about the miscarriage of justice that landed a trio of heavy-metal-looking Arkansas teens in prison for 18 years for the murders of three young boys. The story, after all, has been already exhaustively and definitively chronicled in a trilogy by filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, without whose HBO-aired Paradise Lost trilogy the West Memphis 3 would still be anonymous inmates â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or dead. But the films actually work in parallel â&#x20AC;&#x201D; where Paradise Lost mounted an impassioned defense of its subjects, West of Memphis is more prosecution, aiming its scrutiny at the stepfather of one of the murdered boys. Jackson and his partner, Fran Walsh, helped finance a re-examination of evidence in the case by experts who help to discredit the original investigation as riddled with incompetence, dishonesty and prejudice. The film is both a forensic procedural and a victory lap, with testimonials from the supporters who worked to bring attention to the case, including celebrity advocates like Eddie Vedder and Henry Rollins. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unfortunate that Jackson appears on camera disparaging the Paradise Lost filmmakers for their misguided focus on another, more outlandish stepfather as a suspect â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the director fails to mention Berlinger and Sinofskyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lack of blockbuster-trilogy funding or that without them he would likely never have heard of the case. But the happy ending is so long overdue that it can stand to be told more than once. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;SB (Ritz at the Bourse)
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ZERO DARK THIRTY|B+ Pre-release controversy aside, the scenes in which presumed Islamic terrorists are subjected to waterboarding and hung in stress positions occupy only a tiny fraction of Zero Dark Thirty, and information thus extracted is one small stone on the path that eventually leads the CIA “targeter” played by Jessica Chastain to Osama bin Laden. Like filmmakers Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal, the film has a disturbing moral blankness at its core. Framed as a factual account, even if Chastain’s Maya is pseudonymous, the film climaxes with the raid on bin Laden’s compound, the longest sustained departure from its protagonist’s POV and a troubling sop to action-movie enthusiasts. —SA (Loews Cherry Hill, Rave, Rave, UA Grant, UA Main Street, UA Riverview)
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Given that vampires have become tween-dream fodder and zombies are now ubiquitous in popular culture, it was inevitable that we’d end up with a zom-rom-com sooner rather than later. Jonathan Levine’s adaptation of Isaac Marion’s novel Warm Bodies hits all the right YA-horror notes: resourceful heroine, unthreateningly dreamy hero conflicted over his braineating tendencies, disciplinarian dad, absent mom and a more-evil breed of zombies to root against. It’s never
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Daniel Day-Lewis’ Great Emancipator is not a stentorian orator but a sly, self-amusing raconteur, an expert horse trader who doles out patronage jobs in exchange for congressional yeas. Forced to mollify his party’s purists while dragging dissenters across the aisle, Lincoln employs every means at his disposal, including some that tarnish his copper-bright image. As always, Steven Spielberg has a tendency to underline twice when once would do, but Day-Lewis runs with the movie’s pedantic bent, enhancing one argument with a Euclidean theorem. The painstaking tracking of the 13th Amendment’s path to approval is at its core an impassioned defense of representative democracy, with all its flaws. It’s like the most eloquent episode of Schoolhouse Rock ever made. —SA (AMC Loews Cherry Hill, Ritz Five)
The two standouts in this year’s field of five sift through the strain of growing up in a world tarnished by war, and both assert that the most glamorous path is rarely the right one. In “Asad,” writer/director Bryan Buckley leads a cast of real-life Somali refugees in the lively tale of the precocious title boy, torn between joining his friends on pirate skiffs or following in the footsteps of poor-but-proud fisherman Erasto. Filmed on location in Kabul, Sam French’s “Buzkashi Boys” is the most visually beautiful of the nominees, detailing the dreams of two youths whose fates already seem to be sealed. Shawn Christensen stars in his own “Curfew,” following his suicidal character’s unexpected New York City day with his incisive niece. Matthias Schoenaerts, the gifted star of foreign standout Rust and Bone (see below), brings a distinct energy to “Death of a Shadow,” an imaginative, steampunk-influenced tale of a World War I soldier wedged between life and death. The most problematic of the nominees might be Yan England’s “Henry,” which explores age and loss but squanders an early sense of intrigue. —Drew Lazor (Ritz at the Bourse)
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a cast replete with great character actors: Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Alan Arkin, etc. Affleck takes the lead as a CIA ex-filtration expert trying to smuggle a half-dozen American embassy workers out of locked-down Tehran in 1979 posing as a second-rung producer of a sci-fi movie looking to shoot in Iran. The rest of the Americans will pose as the film’s crew, a ruse that involves generating ample publicity for the bogus production. There are soft in-jokes about the parallel prevalence of bullshit in the movie industry and covert intelligence, lots of scenes with men in pointy-collared shirts and scruffy beards involved in tense dialogue exchanges — nothing earth-shattering, but divorce it from awards-season hype, and Argo holds up just fine. —Sam Adams (AMC Loews Cherry Hill, Ritz Five)
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GREAT SCOT: Inis Nua’s production of My Romantic History continues at Off-Broad Street Theatre through Feb. 24. KATIE REING
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✚ MY ROMANTIC HISTORY
Through Feb. 24, $20-$25, Off-Broad Street Theatre, 1636 Sansom St., 215454-9776, inisnuatheatre.org.
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✚ FATHER JOHN D’AMICO It’s not every priest who can administer the gospel of the good groove. Then again, it’s not every jazz pianist and organist who cares about the sick and
—A.D. Amorosi Thu., Feb. 7, 7 p.m., $10, Chris’ Jazz Cafe, 1421 Sansom St., 215-568-3131, chrisjazzcafe.com.
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trademark combo of eye-popping visual projections, dynamic dance and aerial movement. The company is all about going full throttle with athleticism; its dancers make the most of that unusually shaped backdrop as they hang, hurl, slither and bounce in adrenaline-packed sequences. That energy, plus the seamless way performers move in and out of the imagery to create stunning optical illusions, will make ya go, “Wow!” —Deni Kasrel Thu.-Sat., Feb. 7-9, $20-$55, Annenberg Center, 3680 Walnut St., 215-898-3900, pennpresents.org.
✚ MOTIONHOUSE Motionhouse is really big in England, and now it’s out to make a splash across the pond with its first North American tour. The company touches down in Philly with Scattered, a full-length work that takes on the theme of water in its various forms, from the restless ocean to frozen landscape. Performed on a steep, curved wall, Scattered presents Motionhouse’s
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✚ AESOP ROCK Aesop Rock’s ultra-dense,
symbol-strewn, sesquipedalian raps aren’t for everyone, and even his truest heads may be thankful he takes some space between releases. But the halfdecade gap before last summer’s Skelethon was a rough one. It was evidently even rougher for Aes himself, however; he spent it contending with divorce, a close friend’s death and the apparent dissolution of longtime label Def Jux. All of this gets excavated, in typically allusive, semi-absurdist stream-of-(self)consciousness fashion, atop a truckload of menacingly potent firework drum breaks. All ostensibly mature, mortal concerns get juxtaposed with (and filtered through) a recurrent focus on the smart-alecky melodrama of impish, Calvin-and-Hobbesstyle kidhood: dorky haircuts, Roman candles, homemade mummies, godlike donuts, carving “Zoso” into a school desk and a particularly epic account of refusing to eat one’s green beans. The hyperbolic verbosity on display here is unusually semi-scrutable, yielding his
simultaneously funniest and most poignant work to date. —K. Ross Hoffman Fri., Feb. 8, 8:30 p.m., $17-$19, with Busdriver, Rob Sonic and DJ Big Wiz, Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St., 215-232-2100, utphilly.com.
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✚ A MINOR CYCLE: FIVE LITTLE PLAYS IN ONE STARRY NIGHT “When I was a kid I liked the sad stories and the scary stories,” says Greg Giovanni. That gives you a clue as to what’s in store when a guy who’s a known provocateur presents a show based on children’s stories. Needless to say, it ain’t all sweetness and light. Certain parts of A Minor Cycle: Five Little Plays in One Starry Night are chilling and unnerving; yet Giovanni says the full program, which runs two-plus hours, is really quite sentimental. The tales, performed in traditional Japanese theater forms — Noh, Kyogen, Kabuki
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the imprisoned. Philly’s “Father John” D’Amico cares. Though under-recorded (Darius Walk, Live at the Painted Bride, Street Blues), D’Amico is best known for his blazingly inventive Brubeck-like blues runs before stalwart rhythm masters (bassist Kenny Davis, drummer Gregory McDonald), not to mention the voices of Etta Jones and Lionel Hampton. Amen to that.
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dealing with lust and loneliness. Director Tom Reing’s cast includes Jenna Horton, Emilie Krause and Aubie Merrylees, who graduated to adult roles with his star turn in Lantern’s The Liar last fall. Inis Nua has a great record of discoveries; rather than reviving the classics of Irish, Scottish, Welsh and English dramatic literature, they find challenging new plays that combine the islands’ storytelling traditions with contemporary themes and settings — and their renditions of the region’s many colorful accents are always rich and accurate.
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³ ROOST FOR THE SKY Date: Jan. 13, 2013, 2:29 p.m. Location: 51st and Chester, Farm 51 The Story: When I’m not roaming the streets making photographs for City Paper,I’m at home, usually with my partner, Andrew, tending to a menagerie of chickens, dogs, cats, rabbits and bees. With the help of friends, neighbors and family, we’ve transformed two formerly vacant and trash-strewn lots into a garden through the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s City Harvest program. This image is the silhouette of a red sex-link (also called Red Stars) hen perched on a sign facing the sky. Though the winter months mean no plant growth, there’s still plenty of life with the numerous critters wandering about, digging for worms and leaving little trails of poop to get stuck in your boots. Farm life in the city can be a little too real sometimes, and not as romantic as it might seem from pretty pictures with filters from a cell phone. (neal.santos@citypaper.net) Follow Neal Santos and City Paper on Instagram @nealsantos and @phillycitypaper.
and bunraku — feature a slew of gorgeous, fantastical costumes. “The whole idea of Japanese theater is that you relax. You sit there and let it happen to you, and you go places that you never really get to go to on Western theater. I think it’s a little bit like taking drugs: ‘Have we been sitting here for three hours or three days? I don’t know.’” —Deni Kasrel Fri.-Sat., Feb. 8-9, 8 p.m., $25-$30, Painted Bride Art Center, 230 Vine St., 215-925-9914, paintedbride.org.
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✚ POPULAR SCIENCE After a successful string of
parties, the Popular Science camp has decided to put their regular events on hiatus. This Friday will be the second-tolast of their Fishtown-rocking parties, at least for the time being. The Pop Scientists are known for their eclectic, forward-moving and heady mix of electronics and vibes, so make sure you get over there and give the residents/curators a high five as they welcome Brooklyn’s rising talent Jacob 2-2 and video projectionist Richard Loftus. —Gair “Dev79” Marking Fri., Feb. 8, 11 p.m., free, with Grimace Federation, Sonkin and Astrospec, Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St., 215-291-4919, kungfunecktie.com.
2.9 [ country ]
—Mary Armstrong Sat., Feb. 9, 7:30 and 10 p.m., $20, with Travis Linville, Tin Angel, 20 S. Second St., 215-928-0978, tinangel.com.
old college pal, Catherine Tung, on drums and vocals — just released its raw, lovely debut Reasons to Live (Don Giovanni). The F.U. side chapel seems like a sedate little room for such a big, gutsy sound; let’s see if you can stay seated. —Patrick Rapa Sat., Feb. 9, 7:30 p.m., $8-$10, with Attia Taylor, First Unitarian Church Side Chapel, 2125 Chestnut St., 866468-7619, r5productions.com.
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✚ HILLY EYE Brooklyn guitarist/violinist Amy Klein was always the secret swagger behind Titus Andronicus, injecting a bit of rock-star bravado into all that righteous sweat-punk. She did some chamber-pop solo stuff in her pre-Titus days, and now, having left the boys behind a couple years ago, is taking things in a new direction entirely: seriously noisy, occasionally shoegazey, totally psyched out. Her new duo Hilly Eye — Klein on guitars and vocals and her
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Though you might not hear it on commercial country stations, there is a long tradition of bending the twang to irony and sarcasm (see Kinky Friedman) and just plain silliness (Google Roger Miller or Grandpa Jones). Hayes Carll is the darling of Americana in general and songwriters in particular for keeping the snickers coming. True, he does write some of those songs of pain and confession that tick off all his sorry habits — coupled with the wonder and gratitude that somebody is still willing to have him, of course. But what Carll does best is write funny. Sometimes that means John Prine-ish irreverence, though tracks like “She Left Me for Jesus” tend to take it a little further. His duet with Cary Ann Hearst, “Another Like You” — from 2011’s KMAG
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YOYO (& Other American Stories) — plays out like a verbal duel-turned-hookup that proves once again, with enough lubrication poured on, opposites do attract: “You’re probably a Democrat.” “Well, what the hell is wrong with that?” “Nothing, if you’re Taliban.” Word is Carll is polishing up material for a new album on this acoustic tour, so prepare for fresh yuks.
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✚ TORO Y MOI Chazwick Bundick gets pegged as a shape-shifter, his releases indexed via such-and-such stylistic dalliance du jour. But the tonal throughline of his output as Toro Y Moi easily overshad-
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to leave open the possibility of discovery. “Each moment of utterance is the true one,” Ashbery once wrote. “Likewise, none are true.” His 27th collection, Quick Question, was just released last December, and although he doesn’t like the sound of his own voice, he’ll be reading — sans inflection — Monday evening at Kelly Writers House.
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and Steve Wright, will perform some of the best entries with all the rancor or romantic fervor they deserve. Look out for drink specials provided by Philadelphia Distilling, Yards and Bacardi.
Mon., Feb. 11, 6:30 p.m., free with reservation, Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, 215-573-9749, writing. upenn.edu.
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ing his own poetry, he was “beset by the idea that it could have been written any other way.” Perhaps that’s why he reads as plainly as possible,
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SNACK TIME: Samosa and salad chaats at Mood Cafe. NEAL SANTOS
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CHIT-CHAAT Head west for South Asian snacks. By Caroline Russock
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uch like sticky boxes of General Tso’s chicken and rubbery pre-fab California rolls, Indian cuisine more often than not gets lost in translation. The culprits are $8.95 all-you-can-eat steam-table buffets that serve up heavy plates of tomato-pasty chicken tikka masala and palak paneer made from past-its-prime spinach. Heading west on Baltimore Avenue and leaving the steam tables out of the equation altogether is a good plan for experiencing real deal — i.e. chaat, the blanket term for an Indian and Pakistani street food that’s downright fascinating. This savory snack traditionally served by roadside vendors is something along the lines of More on: South Asian nachos — sub out chips for a bed of lentil-and-chickpea-flour crackers and potatoes topped with vibrant chutneys, fresh and dried fruit, nuts, seeds, tangy yogurt, fresh cilantro and red onions. Hasan Bukari is the man who brought this intriguing street food to West Philly. Originally a Brooklyn restaurateur, Bukari opened Desi Village restaurants in King of Prussia and on Baltimore Avenue before venturing into the world of street food. “Nobody knows about chaat,” he thought. “Let me take a chance.” Opened in 2010, Desi Chaat House, (501 S. 42nd St.) was an
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immediate success. It serves up a menu of familiar items such as potato-and-pea-filled samosas and biryanis along with all sorts of chaats, including the Kashmiri (layered with fried noodles, potatoes, cashews and melon seeds) and the Shahi (strewn with almonds and pistachios). Desi Chaat House also offers up vada pav, or Indian burgers: patties of spiced potato and chickpea tucked into buns slider-style. There’s also pav bhaaji, slices of buttered, toasted pav (think burger bun) with a slow-burning cauliflower, carrot and tomato curry sauce for dipping. Lassis are available to cool the heat along with faluda, a floral rose-syrup drink. Scoops of ice cream in flavors like kulfi (sweet milk) and paan (betel leaf) are available. The menu at Desi Chaat House has fun with this versatile snack, taking it in unorthodox directions, like a Mexican chaat once on the menu that brought tortilla chips and sweet corn into the mix. Last year Bukari expanded his South Asian snack empire with another Baltimore Avenue corner spot, Mood Cafe (4618 Baltimore Ave.). The original plan was to MORE FOOD AND specialize in coffee, but Bukari quickly DRINK COVERAGE found out that it was his lassis that were AT C I T Y P A P E R . N E T / in demand. Going beyond the usual M E A LT I C K E T. mango and salty flavors, the chalkboard menu at Mood displays 25 varieties ranging from coconut and kiwi to cardamom, pomegranate and rose. In the cafe’s early days, Bukari received a Yelp review complaining about Mood not offering vegan lassis and he decided to take a chance. He experimented with almond milk and had his 10-year-old daughter draw up a sign reading “Mood Cafe now serving vegan lassis.” The orders came flooding in, as did the five-star reviews. >>> continued on page 46
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CELERY ROOT ³ EDITOR’S NOTE: Each month, Adam Erace picks a crop that’s in season locally rightthisveryminute and asks some of the city’s best chefs how they’re preparing it. At Fork in Old City, chef Eli Kulp does a dish called The Roots, a composition of cooked and raw veggies with a clever name and camera-ready looks. Beige is beautiful here, with formerly dirt-caked cousins polished like precious stones so that their tones of ivory, eggshell, buttermilk and brown glitter and glow. Carrots and sweet potatoes rivet the eye with bursts of orange, like colored pillows in a white-on-white Miami hotel room. Start eating and you can pick out the Jerusalem artichokes, the turnips, the slice of fresh pear — but off to the side, spread around the inside of the bowl like icing, is a puree whose beguiling flavor evades easy identification: faintly sweet like a parsnip, but earthy like a sunchoke. I eat for a living and couldn’t pinpoint the flavor the first time I ordered this excellent salad. It was like I was doing the blindfolded ingredient challenge on Top Chef . “Celery root,” the bartender told me, and the a-ha lightbulb went off. Of course it was celery root, an elusive vegetable that’s like the friend of a friend whose name we never remember. And how can we? Apium graveolens var. rapaceum goes by many calling cards: Its more common name, celeriac, sounds less like a vegetable and more like a communicable disease (“Celeriac Outbreak in Uganda!”). It’s also known as knob celery, turnip-root celery and, my preference, celery root. I like that last one even if it’s something of a misnomer; this gnarled, hairy bulb is the root of bitter cutting celery, not the celery typically found alongside Buffalo wings, and is cultivated exclusively for its enlarged hyptoctyl, or underground stem. “I like celery root because it’s not as delicate as celery, but can still be classy with the right care,” says Stateside’s George Sabatino, who is adding a ginger-and-orange-glazed celery-root-and-turnip dish to his winter menu, garnished with grated beet and rosemary-coconut froth. At Fork, Kulp blends almonds into The Roots’ celery-root puree “because the flavors go great together.” Some are also roasted and added to the salad. “Nothing really groundbreaking,” he says. Maybe not, but a flavor this captivating and complex needs little improvement. Only a proper introduction. (adam.erace@citypaper.net)
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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nobody knows about chaat,â&#x20AC;? he thought. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Let me take a chance.â&#x20AC;? When Bukariâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clientele asked for chaats to be added to the menu of Mood, he obliged, bringing in Mumbai bhel poori, with puffed rice and sweet-tart tamarind sauce, along with chicken and beef chaats as well as salad chaat, a leafy version that incorporates all of the flavor components in a lighter manner. In addition to the laundry list of lassis, Bukari offers Thumbs Up, cane-sugar-sweetened cola thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Indiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s answer to Coca-Cola, and Limca, a lemon-lime soda, both served in thick, glass bottles that have seen plenty of wear. Sweets come in the form of syrupy and spongy galub juman, milky rasmalai and bright-orange carrot halwa. Hearkening back to the steam-table stigma of Indian cuisine, the hot dishes at Mood have nothing to do with the stuff found at the standard all-you-can-eat buffet. Bukari has introduced dishes from his native Lahore that have more to do with the flavors found in Pakistani homes than the butter- and cream-heavy quasi-Indian dishes most commonly found in the U.S. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a rich and gamey lamb khunna, a black channa malasa with nutty little chickpeas and yogurt-simmered chicken nihari curry, all served with aromatic spiced rice. According to Bukari, what distinguishes Pakistani cooking from your run-of-the-mill Indian-restaurant cooking is the fact that there are fewer vegetarians in Pakistan â&#x20AC;&#x201D; because though most Indian restaurants in the U.S. offer meat on the menu, oftentimes those manning the kitchen adhere to a meat-free diet. Bukari is quick to point out that there are plenty of places in the city that advertise as serving Indian and Pakistani food, but few that specialize in the latter. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s likely the impetus behind his next project. The small menu of hot dishes at Mood Cafe is a preview of a Pakistani restaurant heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s planning on opening on the corner of 48th and Pine. The idea is to highlight the native foods of Lahore, particularly multilayered biryanis and clay-oven-roasted meats. Taking a chance seems to be the theme is Bukariâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s career, from making the move from a bustling New York restaurant to Philadelphia, to debuting a never-beforeseen street snack. This chance-taking has resulted in some of the most enticing bites in the city. (caroline@citypaper.net)
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³ THE WEEK IN EATS 961 Beer at Garrett Hill Ale House Thu., Feb. 7, 6
p.m., pay as you go ³ Even the most devoted beer geeks might be hard-pressed to name any Lebanese craft brewers — there’s just one, and it’s making its Philadelphiaarea debut tonight. 961 Beer, named for the international calling code for Lebanon, was founded seven years ago by former investment banker Mazen Hajjar. Tonight, he’s bringing a handful of his signature brews to Bryn Mawr, including his award-winning lager and his Lebanese pale ale, an interpretation of an English-style IPA flavored with thyme, sumac, chamomile, sage and mint. Garrett Hill Ale House, 157 Garrett Ave., Bryn Mawr, 610-5190500, garretthillalehouse.com.
PSPCA Puppy Love Valentine’s Party Tue., Feb. 12,
6:30 p.m., $40 ³ Get the true love of your life (the furry one) all dressed up and get a jump start on Valentine’s Day with a love letter to shelter pups, hosted by Smokin’ Betty’s and Devil’s Alley. Bring your dog or fly solo — there will be adoptable pets in attendance and plenty of treats for humans and canines alike. The host restaurants will put out a spread of comfort-food appetizers including several slider varieties, while Ms. Goody Cupcake will come stocked with cupcakes for you and “banana mutt” muffins for your four-legged date. In addition to benefitting the Pennsylvania SPCA, your ticket price nets you drinks from the full bar, a doggie swag bag, a turn in the doggie photo booth, live music and more. 23rd Street Armory, 22 S. 23rd St., pspca.org. (carly@citypaper.net)
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Sun-Thurs 11am to midnight • Fri & Sat 11am to 2am •216 South Street • 215.922.2266
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Chinatown Flower Market Sat., Feb. 9, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. ³ Chinese New Year officially begins on Feb. 10, and the Flower Market (now in its second year) at 10th Street Plaza is the perfect place to get all the supplies and gifts you’ll need to ring in the Year of the Snake. Among an abundance of fresh-cut flowers, red envelopes and paper lanterns handmade by the seniors at nearby On Lok House, you’ll find gifts that symbolize luck and prosperity for the new year. Check out the gift baskets that mix a wealth of gold-wrapped chocolates with White Rabbit candies, or you can opt for trays of candied plums and crystallized ginger. The Foo and Sugar Philly trucks will be on hand to supply treats to munch on while you browse. 10th and Vine streets., chinatown-pcdc.org/cny-2013.
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your junk and muddy boots, even right after I’ve just cleaned the floor. Spill your beer, eat like a slob and get shit all over the kitchen counter. I’m sick of being your fucking maid. If Mom and I didn’t clean up after you this place would be a shit hole. Get your act together, you’re not a college kid, you’re a sad old man. Life is more than booze and weed, try and get a job like the rest of us.
RICH CHOCOLATE I’ve nicknamed you “Rich Chocolate” because your skin is so beautifully deep brown. Whenever I get on that 10 trolley and see you inner sex
tired of you just telling lie after the other. Day in and day out. Then you are gonna sit there and tell me that you are broke! How are you fucking broke and you buy weed everyday just to function. What type of idiot needs weed to function. You are a fucking loser but tell your story to someone who gives a damn.
SHUT THE FUCK UP Why is your family always talking about me they need to get a life, your sister should be fucking her husband instead of worrying about you and me. Your dad needs to sit his old ass down and suck a dick. They are retared and
To the couple that lives at Eulogy: please stop. You have a home spend some time there. You are not the only regulars that frequent the bar but soon you will be because you’re driving everyone away. Warning to anyone that plans to go grab a beer at Eulogy sit at the end of the bar near the kitchen or head upstairs. Husbands a drunk ass and she’s a self consumed overhearing buzz kill. GO AWAY, WE WANT THE BAR BACK. STOP SCREAMING.
faces. Keep eating organic food and drinking $8 lattes you pathetic fucks. You too pathetic to hate & good luck selling your overpriced houses. Oh and there is a term for you tattooed neck idiots-POSEURS!!!!
WEIRDO READER Who writes a letter in to a place just to tell them that they spelled something wrong. You fucking idiot. Who gives a fuck the whole reason, the whole purpose is to get a point across. Nobody wants to hear your nonsense. Damn sure don’t want to hear that something is spelled incorrect. It is called a fucking mistake. I know you have made those! Say you haven’t and I know you are a fucking lyer. Go eat a dick and stop fucking complaining. There are more things that are more important to complain about...
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Hey dude you are a fucking jerk! Why get on public transportation and complain that it is fucking crowded. You made yourself look like an asshole and I know that you felt like one when nobody was giving into your bullshit. First of all it was too-too fucking early in the damn a.m. I wish that you and the sub-suverniet female that got on with you never got on the bus. She looked miserable and you are just a plain old asshole. Everyone was happy as hell when you got off the bus.
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WHITE-STUFF Nasty bitch you told me that you were coughing up white shit! You know you need to be slapped in your fucking face...you know what that shit is and I know what it is...how dare you even tell me that shit anyway. Did you go to the hospital? No, because you were being fucking nasty and digusing. I know that you are carrying something then you gonna tell me all the young guys want you....nobody wants your ass..I know they don’t!
FOOLISH BOY! You are a foolish person and I just can’t get enough of you! I love you and I am trying to locate you, if you see this can you contact me as soon as possible! I know that you read this section and I am grateful for that. I want you to come over to my house and just do what you have to do to me! I really miss you and I can’t wait to see you.
WOMEN PLAYING GAMES
FREE LOADER You cheap ass piece of shit relative why don’t you stay your cheap ass in Denver and stop coming to Philly looking for places to stay in a hotel that should tell you to stay your ass home. This is the second time coming to Philly now I gotta sit here you talk and stop me from doing what I have to do. This is your last time. If you don’t have the money stay where you are.
YOU SAY YOU LOVE ME You don’t love me...I know you don’t if you did you would of did the right thing by your family. You call me your family. Then why do you do what you want..without any regard. I feel sorry for our child. I want him to have everything. I look at his pictures and I hope for a better future. I love you but I think you are the most selfish person that I know. I really hate being around you moreless don’t even want to make love to you. Can’t you tell the way I lay there and just look at you without any excitement. I hope one day you will wake up and see who really cares about you. I sincerely do. I just hope you get yourself together soon.
FUCKING PEDDLE BIKERS! To all you fucking peddle bikers! UP and down fishtown area, TEMPLE area and all over the goddam city!! I really hope someone gets a serious case of roadrage and hunts you down one by one!!! I’m that guy that throws anything hard in my car at you, flips you the finger and spills soda out the window while passing you by!!
I WISH...YOU WERE AROUND Not trying to bring up the past but...I miss you and I wish that you were still around. I wanna ask you a favor but I don’t want to disturb you.... we have a distance between us right now and it would look stupid of me to try to contact you. I hope you are fine...I wanna let you know that I miss your sex...I miss everything. I just hope soon that I can get you out of my head.
kitten soundtrack starts blasting in my head. Sometimes I catch eye contact from you in your mirror and I fight the urge to break out into a grin. You might have noticed that I don’t look away so fast anymore. I hope you see this and I also hope you realize that this was meant for you. If you do maybe you should say hi one day.
LAZY DRUNK ASSHOLE
SAVE IT
You don’t pay Mom a dime towards the bills. All you fucking care about is yourself. your beer and your pot. You shit up the house with all
Nobody wants to hear your excuses you are the worst person that may be walking the face of the earth. Why are you so fucking needy? I am so
your sister acts like she is fucking you, she must be because she acts like she’s your girlfriend. Basically I want all your family to go to hell and burn because if they knew how they sound then they would shut the fuck up. Your family is FBI they are noisy as hell.
SICK OF SEEING I am sick of seeing 130lbs, bearded, glasses wearing hipsters wearing the same pants & shoes. You know nothing about music, film, or art but have that condescending smirk on your
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You piece of shit stroke ass grandmother. Thank you for wasting my time now that I want to see you and fuck you , you are nowhere to be found and when you wanna tell me about...your lame ass problems and I don’t care about your problems...I just wanna fuck you stupid ass little title bitch. Thanks for wasting a year of my life!
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merchandise market Laptops Net Ready, MS Office, Wireless From $145. Call 610-453-2525
33 & 45 Records Absolute Higher $
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Books -Trains -Magazines -Toys Dolls - Model Kits 610-639-0563
Coins, Currency, Gold, Toys,
Trains, Hummels, Sports Cards. Call the Local Higher Buyer, 7 Dys/Wk BRAZILIAN FLOORING 3/4", beautiful, $2.75 sf (215) 365-5826 CABINETS KITCHEN SOLID WOOD Brand new soft close/dovetail drawers Crown Molding 25 Colors, Never Installed! Cost $5,300. Sell $1,590. 610-952-0033 Diabetic Test Strips Needed pay up to $25/box. Most brands. 610-453-2525
BD a Memory Foam Mattress/Bx spring Brand New Queen cost $1400, sell $299; King cost $1700 sell $399 610-952-0033
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Dr. Sonnheim, 856-981-3397
I Buy Anything Old...Except People! antiques-collectables, Al 215-698-0787 I Buy Guitars & All Musical Instruments-609-457-5501 Rob JUNK CARS WANTED We buy Junk Cars. Up to $300 215-888-8662 Lionel/Am Flyer/Trains/Hot Whls $$$$ Aurora TJet/AFX Toy Car 215-396-1903 Motorola i-890 cell phone in working condition. Call 267-784-5019
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POWER WHEELCHAIR - Mr. Mobility, 3 yrs old. Asking $3,400. 856-691-8396
33&45 RECORDS HIGHER $ Really Paid
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HOUSEKEEPER desires pos. working with elderly. Avl Mon-Fri. Phila, NYC & Wash, DC. Exp. & refs. 267-348-5611 Woman des pos cleaning, laundry, pet care and companion. 267-586-6739
everything pets pets/livestock Please be aware Possession of exotic/wild animals may be restricted in some areas.
Ragdoll Kittens: Beautiful, guaranteed, home raised. $500. Call 610-731-0907
Alaskan Malamute AKC GIANT PUPPIES $1000 2 MALE- 2 FEMALE 215-297-8185. AMERICAN BULLDOG PUP 5 m, Vet ck. NKC, Reg, $600. 267-408-2092 Chow-Chow Male Pup ACA Home rsd, parents on prem, shots/wormed. Very friendly and lovable. Call (717)556-0915 COCKER SPANIEL PUPPIES ACA, $400.00 717-259-8479 English Bulldog Pups - 8wks, vet pedigree, reg, dewormed. Call 215-696-5832 German Shepherd Pups Solid White! 8 wks Health guar $850 609-858-1807
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GOLDEN RETRIEVERS - ACA, vet checked, $550. Call 717-587-5392 Labrador Retriever Ylw Blck Lab Pups AKC, Vet ckd, S/W. Mom is family pet. Rdy for 4ever homes $550 717-823-2523. Newfoundland AKC Registered Puppies $1500 M & F Ready 2/21/2012 Reserve yours now! Call 717-768-7651 Pekingese Pups 16 wks 3M shots vet checked $395 Beautiful! 215-579-1922 ROTTWEILER PUPS - German bloodline, health guarantee 717-768-8157 SHELTIE Pups, Sable and white merles. AKC, blue eyes. Call (856)863-4135 WESTIES: Registered, home raised, M’s & F’s shots, wormed, 484-868-8452 YELLOW LAB PUPS - ACA, broad heads, stocky build, shots & wormed, $500. Also American bull dog pups 717-442-0853 Yorkie Puppies - A KC reg. vet checked home raised, $650. Call 215-490-2243 Yorkishire Terrier pups, AKC, very small, ready now, Call (717)278-0932 YORK-SHON PUPS - Shots, vet checked, $375/each 717-933-9739
Counselor - Drug & Alcohol
apartment marketplace 65th & Chester Large 1 BR apt. Pets ok. Fenced in back yard. $500/m, $1000 move-in. Avail now. Tasha 267-584-5964
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Kitchens, Baths, Siding, Windows, Doors & MORE CLOSERS WANTED PLENTY OF LEADS Phila, Suburbs & S. Jersey 215-634-7800 856-829-8229
apartment marketplace Bella Vista 1BR $950 Beautiful, refs req’d. 215-450-3781
13xx S 22nd St. 2br $725+utils recent reno, hwd flrs, w/d 856-906-5216 17xx South 19th St. 2BR/1BA wall 2 wall carpets, eat in kitchen, backyard, Sec. 8 ok. 267-738-8473
7xx S. 18th St efficiency $575 eat in kitchen, heat incl, (609)315.2895 Broad & Snyder Ave. 1BR $850 Beautiful, refs req’d. 215-450-3781 S 16th St. Efficiency $475+utils 3rd floor, 1st, last, sec. 267-235-6670
1249 N. 60th St. 1BR $525 + elec. 2nd flr, gd loc, near trans., 215-224-9529
1BR $660+utils 2BR $700+utils Renov., 267-271-6601 or 215-416-2757
60XX Warnock 1 BR $595+ nr Fernrock Train Station,215-276-8534 Broad & Olney lrg 1BR Nice Must see Sec.8 ok 267-254-8446
42xx Otter St 1br $525 +lg effic. $1575 to move in. Please call (267)402-8836
51st Race 1BR $550+ utils mod kit bth ww ac, 1st/last/sec. 215.474.7332 51xx Hazel Av 2BR mod kit, bth ww, ac 650+util 1st/last/sec 215.474.7332 61st/Chestnut Vic 2 BR $650+util Spacious, 2nd flr, balcony. 215-796-3944 Parkside Area 1br- 4br $700-$1,600 Newly renov, new kitch. & bath, hdwd flrs, Section 8 OK. Call 267-324-3197
1xx Hansberry St 1br $525+utils 2nd flr $1575 req sec 8 ok 215-268-6047 2xx W. Duval 2BR $700 2nd flr, newly renov, d/w 216-225-9304
Balwynne Park 2BR $850+utils W/D, C/A, W/W. Call 215-219-6409
$675
19xx N 32nd St. 2br $725+elec. brand new, c/a, $2175 req., 215-322-2375 20th & Ontario Lrg 1br $525 available immediately (267) 312-5957 21XX ONTARIO 2 BR $650 3 flr, new windows & paint. 267-625-0066 29xx West Susquehanna 3br/1ba $690 utils, full bsmt. Call 215-778-3326 N. Philadelphia 2BR $550 Newly renov. Call 267-444-5274
1,2, 3, 4 Bedroom FURNISHED APTS LAUNDRY-PARKING 215-223-7000
4616 N. 11th St. 1BR/1BA $550 1mo., rent, 1mo. sec., newly renov., backyard. 215-924-6473 or 215-548-8354
4500 Frankford Ave. 1BR $580 LR, kitch., no pets. Call 215-289-2973 46xx Penn St 1 BR $550 heat / hot water incl. Call 215-436-5072
53xx Akron 1 BR $650+ elec 2nd flr, 1st & last to move in, 215.651.1140 6200 block of Kindred 2BR $700+utils 2nd floor. Call 267-975-8521
Bustleton & Grant nice 2br $895 prvt balcony w/garden view 215.943.0370 Oxford Circle 1BR/1.5BA $629+ 1st Flr, new w/w, priv bsmt. 215-681-1160 PHILMONT HEIGHTS 2BR $825+utils 2nd floor, new kitch, fridge, W/D, w/w & paint, garage. Call 267-467-1596
4xx W. Penn St. 1br $625+utils Renov., $1875 move-in. 215-322-2375
6261 E. Wister St. Effic. $500 + elec. $1000 move-in. Call 215-290-3192
Apartment Homes $625-$995 www.perutoproperties.com 215.740.4900
5332 W. Stiles St. 2BR/1BA 609-892-7591
1 BR & 2 BR Apts $735-$835 spacious, great loc., upgraded, heat incl, PHA vouchers accepted 215-966-9371
4xx W. Queen Ln. 3BR/1BA $750 + util 1st flr, nice. Call 215-783-4736
UNIVERSITY CITY 2BR $725 New reno. Call 267-596-9283
18xx Glenwood 1 BR $535+utils 1st flr duplex, $1605 mvn. 215-878-9309
56xx Thomas Ave. 1BR $575 + utils Warm & cozy, move-in cond., 2nd flr., $1,500 moves you in. Call 610-584-5862
5853 N. Camac
$750 63xx Ross St. 2BR/1BA newly renov., 1st mo. $99. 215-260-6511 Seymour or Greene 1br $585- $700 incl. heat & water Call 610-287-9857
West Falls Schoolhouse Ln. Extra large 2br, open porch, $1,150 and extra large 1br $850. (215) 848-0682
66xx Ridge Extra large 2br/2ba $1050 Newy renovated. Call (215) 848-0682
386 E. Upsal 2Br $675/mo 1st flr, w/w cpt, newly remod kitch, accepting applications now. 215-288-3095
69xx Ardleigh 2 BR $950 great loc, gar, w/d, d/w 215-514-3960
7500 GTN AV Garden type 1&2BR! Spring Special ! Newly dec, d/w, g/d w/w, a/c, lndry/cable on prem, off st prkg. Pets!215-275-1457/233-3322
65xx Fairhill St. 1br $575+utils newly renov., 1st, last & sec 215-817-0101
19xx Berkshire 1BR/1BA $525+ Credit Check. Call 215-203-4120
WALLINGFORD Very spacious 2nd floor Duplex. Lg Living Rm w/working FirePlace. Washer/D, Dish/W, Frig. A/C, New carpet and Paint. 2 Lg closets off Larger BR. Private entrance steps away from off St prking. Electric Heat $860 utilities. 610-874-3863.
11xx N. 55TH ST. BRAND NEW BUILDING Single rms $400, double rooms $600. Rms with bath $500, Rms with bath and kitch $600. Fully furnished w/ full size beds, fridge, & dresser. Couples welcome! SSI/SSD/VA, Payee services, Public assis tance ok. Also SW, S., W., N., and Frankford. Please call 267-707-6129 12xx Huntingdon Room: Near Transp $90wk $360 move in 267-266-5201 153X W ERIE Av $450 inc utils, cable, internet, kitc access 215-695-3005
22nd & Allegheny, $85/week, share kitchen & bath, SSI OK, 267-973-0397 2435 W. Jefferson St. Rooms: $375/mo. Move in fee: $565. Call 215-913-8659 24th & Lehigh: Nice, clean Furn rms, $350/mo, SSI ok. No drugs 215-768-2466 25th & Clearfield, 55th & Media, 1BR apt 60th and Kingsessing Ave. Share Kitch. & Bath, $350 & up, no securi ty deposit, SSI OK. Call 267-888-1754 4508 N. Broad St. Rooms: $375/mo. Move in fee: $565. Call 215-913-8659 53xx Girard Ave: Large clean rooms $100-$110/week. Call (215) 917-1091 56th and Lansdowne $125/wk $500/mo. Clean rms 267-251-0382 880 N. 41st, room @ $425/month shared kitchen & bath, 215-713-7216
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2018 Gerritt St 2br $725+utils Nw renov., hw & ceramic flr 215.477.4029
2BR & 3BR Houses Sec. 8 Welcome
980 N. 66th Street 3br/1.5ba $995 www.perutoproperties.com 215.740.4900
1200 W. Seltzer St. 3BR Outside porch. Call 215-593-4259
$650
18xx N 23rd 4br/1ba $850 Also, rooms avail for $135/wk renovated, must see, 267-584-7481 22xx First St. 2BR/1BA $700 Newly renov. Sec 8 ok. 215-492-9686 23xx N. 18th St. Lrg 4br/1ba Newly updated, Hardwood flrs, ceramic tiles kitchen and bath. Sec 8 ok. Please call 1-877-371-7368 23xx N. 31st St. 3BR $775 Ready to move-in. Call (267)414-7442 23xx N Gratz St 3br $675+utils $2025 to move in. Call 267-591-0021 BREWERYTOWN 27th & Girard Lg 2br, rear yard, Sec 8 OK will accept 1 & 2Br vouchers $700/mo 215-681-8018
LOGAN-4BR twin house + 3BR row. Rent - Sec 8 ok! 267-312-9977.
NORRISTOWN 800 blk Haws Ave 3BR, porch, yard, clean, sec 8 ok! $1200. Mr James 215-766-1795
Pureland 3BR/1.5BA $1250+utils. Laundry rm, bsmnt, C/A. 856-466-4002
resorts/rent BrierCrest 5BR slps 12. Saw Creek 3BR slps 8. 1/25, 2/1, 2/8, 2/15, 2/18 2/22, 3/1 and 3/8. Wknd/Wks 609-587-9493
automotive Acura 3.2TL Type S 2003 $5,500 Mint, 1 owner, new trans., tires, & inspc., all pwrs, needs no work. 215-620-9383 Chevy 2003 Silver Auto. Extended cab. Deluxe pickup truck. Fully equip. light commercial use. (Not exaggerated) Like new. $6985. 215-922-5342 Lexus Hybrid GS450 2007 $29,000 Mint condition, 56k miles. 610-299-5198 Toyota Camry XLE 2002 $6500/OBO V6, 164K, excel. cond. 610-348-9188
Junk Cars & Trucks Wanted, $400, Call 856-365-2021
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V I C I N I T Y O F B ROA D & SPRING GARDEN STREET. WA L K T O H A N H E M A N HOSPITAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGE STREETS AND ALL CENTER CITY ATTRACTIONS. 5 MIN. RIDE TO TEMPLE UNIVERSITY. BRAND NEW APARTMENTS, BEAUTIFUL MODERN INTERIOR. STARTING AT $1,500+GAS & ELECTRIC. AVAILABLE NOW! 215-535-8316. 27XX EARP STREET
Newly Remodeled 2 Bedroom Home Near Univ of Penn. Washer/Dryer, Fridge, New: Kitchen, Bath, Hardwood Floors. $850/month. Call Pete: 267-307-0371
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Near Univ of Penn, Newly remodeled 2 bedroom home, Washer/Dryer, Fridge, New: Kitchen, Bath, Hardwood
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Office/ Retail COMMERCIAL OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT
319 North 11th Street 1st Floor, 4,500 Sq. Ft., Private Entrance AC, Gas Heat, 4 Executive Offices, 2 Secretarial Offices, Meeting Room + Kitchen Area, Parking Available. $4,600/mo. For more info call: 215-8821187 or email: arrowsew@ aol.com
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2xx W. Queen Lane 6BR/3BA $1350+ new kit/ba Application req 215-514-7143 5030 Tacoma St. 2BR/1BA $690+ util. House. LR, DR, KIT, SM YARD, & W/D HOOK-UP. Avail Immed. 215-432-7959.
Buick Century Custom 2000 $4995 Silver, 83,000 pampered mi, dealer maintained, very good cond. 610-356-0167
MOUNT AIRY 3BR $985 + utils Lease month to month. 215-769-2961
Chevy Astro 2003 Mini cargo van Fully equip, AC, light commercial $3985 Corporate deposit 215-922-5342
Cadillac DeVille DTS 2002 $2975 Black, 17in. chrome, roof 267-592-0448
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18xx E. Wishart St 3BR/1BA $700 Newly renov., 3mo security. 267.549.1586
Chrysler Town & Country 2000 $1500 Mini-van, good cond. 484-804-3011 FORD TAURUS 1999 $3,300 Excellent condition. 610-872-0236 Ford Taurus GL 1995 $1150 all pwrs., needs no work , 215.620.9383
WORK FOR CLEAN ENERGY MAKE UP TO $15-$20/HOUR We need outgoing and motivated staff to encourage consumers to switch from dirty utilities, like coal, to 100% clean energy.
Plymouth Grand Voyager SE 1998 $1350 all pwrs, new insp, run nu. 215-620-9383
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Pontiac Aztec Sport 2005 $3850 Black, leather, chrome 267-592-0448
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VOLVO V70 1999 $2,400 177K mi. looks & runs great. 610.613.7421
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27xx Mower St. 4BR/2.5BA $1400 + utils. 2 mo. sec. dep. 267-243-9229 4828 Grandsback 3br Section 8 ok. Call 267-968-0211 6637 Oakland St. 3BR/1.5BA $990 at Oxford Circle. 917-359-3206
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Frankford 4br/2ba Sec 8 ok (215)322-6086
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Beautifully renovated Call (267)981-2718
34 N Redfield St. 3br/1ba $950 New reno, sec. 8 ok. Call (215)748-3076 59xx Irving St. 3br/1ba $800/mo Sec 8 & Subsidies OK 215-792-6620 West Phila 2BR $750 1st/last/sec 267.226.6088 215.200.8585
ADOPT-WE PROMISE to give your baby a life filled with love and happiness. Expenses paid. Marygrace & Eddie (888) 220-2030.
Floors. $850/month. Call Pete: 267-307-0371
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Germantown - Large furnished and unfurnished rooms, $100-$150, close to train and XH Bus. Call 215-514-8173 Germantown & The Blvd. Rms: $100/up Call 215-669-4530, 215-800-2390 Logan/WP/NP private entry, furnished, $85- $115/wk. also efficâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;y. 609-526-5411 N. 57th St. $125/wk. Very lrg, newly renov., furn. Call 267-581-1933 North Phila - $360-$500/mo newly renov, use of kitc, SSI ok. 215-704-0312 North Philadelphia $350-$550 Lg rm w/half bath, priv. entr. Call 267-414-4819 N. Philadelphia, $85-$100/ week, 1 plus 1 Needed, 215-669-0912 N. PHILADELPHIA includes gas, elec, W/D, crpt, $350 Call 267-342-1226 N. Phila Furn, Priv Ent $75 & up No drugs, SSI ok. 215-763-5565 N. Phila Furn Rms SS & vets welcome. No drugs, $100 & up, 267-595-4414 N Phila - Lrg room, king sized bed, use of kitch, utils incl, SSI & SSD ok. Call 215-307-2645 N. Phila. Temple Hosp. renov., 2 bath, kitchen, cable, $105 Call 267-972-6716 N. Phila Vanpelt St. Spacious, Renov, $85-$125 wk. Call 267-471-8171 N PHILA & W. PHILA $375 Clean rooms for rent. Call 267-276-2153 Orthodox and Torresdale, 13th and York, 61st and Girard, 52nd and Race, 54th and Landsdown, 215-290-8702 Richmond furn room, use of kitch, $100/wk Proof of income 215-634-1139 S. Phila Furn Rms, SS & Vets welcome, No drugs, $100/wk & up 267-357-5148 SW Area, furn rm, nr trans, $350 and up. no dep use of house. 215-397-1183 SW. Phila Furn Rms, SS & Vets welcome, No drugs, $100/wk & up 267-707-7722 SW Phila - Newly renov, close to trans. $100/wk 1st wk FREE, 267-628-7454 Temple off Campus area. New reno. nice clean luxury rooms. Kitch. $400 move in. Norman at 267-240-6805 Upper Darby Clean rooms, use of kitchen, no drugs, close to transportation. Call 484-431-3670 West and SW Phila $125-$140/wk priv rm & ba, clean & new. 215-939-5854 West Phila, everything new, quiet $450 /mo. $125/ wk. SSI ok (267) 357-5559 W. Phila Furn Rms, SS & Vets welcome, No drugs, $100/wk & up 267-586-6502 W Phila & G-town: Newly ren lg, lux rms /apts very peaceful SSI ok, 267.255.8665
26xx S. Bonaffon Upscale 3BR $825+ Must see! Avail 3/1. 215-365-4567 58th & Pentridge 3BR $850/m Vry Large. Recently Renovated. $1,700 to move-in. Avail Now Tasha 267-584-5964 65xx Allman St. 3br $750/mo. New remod, come see! 215-463-2403 SW PHILADELPHIA 3br/1ba $850/mo. 25XX S. Millick St. Newly renov. Sect 8 ok. Call 215-892-6848
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Broad & Erie, furnished, kitchen, w/d, $100/wk 215.228.6078 or 215.229.0556 Broad & Lehigh - Pvt. kitc & bath, $135/wk. $300 move-in. 215.416.6538 Broad/Olney furn refrig micro priv ent $115/wk sec $200 215.572.8833 Broad St. $375 and up. Several locations. Call 215-510-0928 Frankford rooms $105/week, Everything incl. Sec dep req. 215-432-5637 Germantown $100-$125/wk. Newly renov. Pvt. entrance. 215-605-5207 Germantown Area: NICE, Cozy Rooms Private entry, no drugs (267)988-5890 GERMANTOWN: furn rooms everything incl., cable ready $430/mo. 267.467.4595
Collingdale Area- 3BR/1BA $ 1397 Sec 8 ok. New paint, w/w (610)998-1422 Upper Darby 2br/1ba row $800+utils front porch. Call 610-805-9599 Upper Darby 3BR/1BA $1,000/mo. W/D, fully renov., sec. 8 ok. 917.755.0727 Upper Darby Lg. 2BR $850 + utils. Excel. cond. sec 8 ok, 610-284-5631
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