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A vaccine-resistant strain of whooping cough has been found in Philly. Admit it. You’re kind of proud.

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St. Joe’s Prep will randomly test its students for drugs using hair samples. And they will continue to utilize brainsuckers to assess intellect.

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Hackers take over Burger King’s Twitter account and give a shout-out to Meek Mill. Then Rick Ross chimes in and it’s not fun anymore.

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According to the Inky, Mayor Nutter’s property-tax-reform plan will likely lead to the city’s 10 biggest commercial taxpayers paying 45 percent less next year. Did you see that? A guy from Occupy Philly just literally exploded with rage.

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Chubby Checker sues the makers of The Chubby Checker app, which guesses penis sizes based on shoe sizes. Amazing he could twist on such tiny feet.

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Police say a gunshot reportedly heard by a Gettysburg student was just the sound of a newspaper being delivered. “A what being delivered?” asks the kid. Aw. Bell Curve just made itself real sad. Earthship Philadelphia plans its second self-sufficient, off-the-grid structure. “And … it’s done. Welcome to the U.S.S. Dirtpile. May we burrow you a chair?” The Borgata unveils “mobile betting,” wherein guests can gamble from their hotel rooms using a TV and remote. Also: suicide slides that lead right to the Dumpsters.

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Environmentalists in New Jersey protest the proposed lifting of a ban on harvesting horseshoe crabs. “We just wanna stick them on our foreheads and pretend we’re Klingons,” say lawmakers, adding, “Hab SoSlI’ Quch!”

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FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS Like the aide who stole from councilwoman’s campaign, his wife also benefited from City Council connections and city funds. By Ryan Briggs

ecently, the public has learned of the special treatment — in the form of a patronage job paying $87,125 per year — afforded to John McDaniel, the politically connected former campaign manager for Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown, who kept his job at the city while bringing home $100,000 a year from a political-action committee and stealing from Brown’s campaign. Now, it appears that his wife, Judith Dumorney-McDaniel, has also benefited from thousands of dollars funneled her way by political friends. The source of that money? The Philadelphia Activities Fund, an obscure, $1.98 million grant program known as a source of “walking-around money” for Philly’s 10 district City Council members to dole out to constituents — and to connected friends. Last year, CP reported on the existence of that fund and its apparently unchecked control by Council members [“One-Man Show,” April 5, 2012]. Today, the fund persists without any new forms of oversight, keeping political exploitation easy and nearly certain. Activities Fund records indicate that Dumorney-McDaniel received $8,000 from 2009-’11 for a nonprofit she runs called Teenagers in Charge (TIC). $2,250 went to a nonprofit she founded called Philadelphia Mocha Moms. A third, apparently defunct organization

with which she was formerly affiliated, American Cities Foundation, accepted $4,000 in grants. Some of TIC’s money was even transferred to the political-action committee her husband ran and admitted to stealing from, according to campaign-finance records. It’s an ironic twist, given that the Activities Fund was set up to put an end to taxpayer-funded gifts directed by cronyism. And it turns out that one of the original architects of the Activities Fund was Mayor Michael Nutter himself. But first, some background: The Activities Fund is really just a pot of money nestled deep within the Department of Parks and Recreation’s annual operating budget, nominally designed to help community-based organizations supplement programming at rec centers. Think little-league teams or after-school dance classes. However, a lack of protocols and oversight has led to the money being used to fund more than 1,000 small grants each year, going to things as varied as a for-profit newspaper, private day-care centers, Mummers clubs and, in one case, a nonoperational police substation — in short, whatever a district councilperson feels like funding. As CP reported last year, Activities Fund dollars were directed to a Democratic committeeman, Shawn Kelly, who presented himself as the head of a (nonexistent) 501(c)3 and community organization. After Kelly attempted to derail neighborhood zoning meetings to halt a large development project, it was revealed that there was no such group beyond Kelly himself. His “activities” were limited to organizing

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neighborhood cleanups and tree plantings near his own home. For those efforts, Kelly received $2,000 per year. Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell, who installed Kelly as a committeeman in 2006, approved his grant applications. The case exemplified the question that swirls around many Activities Fund transactions: Was this the city funding a service, or just a politician directing cash to a loyal supporter? Nutter, known as a reform-minded mayor, was quiet on the subject last year, referring queries to Parks and Rec. But former Councilman Dan McElhatton, who co-sponsored the legislation that created the fund with Nutter, says this is Nutter’s baby as much as anyone’s. “I was one of the councilmembers who was instrumental in the establishment of the Fund. I advocated for its establishment and its structure,” he says. “Michael’s role was identical to mine.” The Activities Fund was designed to replace a previous scandalridden grant program that also operated, in part, out of Parks and Rec. The earlier program centered on “Class 500 grants,” a reference to the grants’ designation in the city budget. That program gave Council the power to dole out large sums with no oversight. At the program’s peak in the late ’80s, Council steered $15 million to Class 500 grants. In 1987, the program came under heavy scrutiny after the Daily News revealed that then-Council President Joseph Coleman had funneled $500,000, via grants to two nonexistent youth groups, into an account he controlled. The ensuing scandal and dwindling city finances led to the program’s dissolution in 1990. But, just four years later, McElhatton and Nutter were pushing then-Mayor Ed Rendell to reintroduce a new, reformed version of the Class 500 grants. That would eventually become the Activities Fund. Appealing to Rendell on the grounds that the grants were

critical to rec centers’ operations, the councilmen proposed a new system. “There was supposed to be a board that would independently review and recommend to council members grants to organizations within their district,” says McElhatton. In addition to a review board, Nutter proposed that the new program gain access to a direct funding stream from the revenue to be generated by the Wells Fargo Center, then still under development. But Nutter’s vision, both for a sustainable revenue stream and for an oversight board, would be short-lived. While the Activities Fund technically has a board, mayoral spokesman Mark McDonald says it has not met in over a year. The seven-seat board currently has just three members: Parks and Rec Deputy Commissioner Susan Slawson, Councilman Brian O’Neill and Councilwoman Cindy Bass. A council insider indicated that O’Neill’s term expired some time ago, and Council President Darrell Clarke had not gotten around to renewing it. If the apparently nonfunctioning board still has a role, it is unclear. Numerous sources acknowledged that the majority of grant applications are now handled solely by district council members. McDonald says “the Mayor [is] in the process of appointing new board members,” and notes that a restored board will be better able to “oversee” the fund. However, he indicated that grant applications would still go through district council members first. “[Nutter] has no interest in eliminating the program” or radically reorganizing it, McDonald says. “He believes it to be a good program.” It seems the nearly $2 million fund will continue to be admin-

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ODD NUMBERS ³ “A BLOODY START to the year for Philadelphia,” said CNN. The Daily Beast screamed, “Homicide Spike Terrorizes Philly,” while Salon bemoaned “Philadelphia’s grim killing spree” and the Daily News declared a “murder epidemic.” These were the headlines that gripped the minds of readers throughout the region and beyond at the dawn of 2012, as news outlets tracked an appalling citywide murder rate that had topped a killing a day — a trend that seemingly heralded the moral and social decay of the nation’s fifth-largest city. Now, just one short year later, there is silence. Murders in Philly are down 42.5 percent so far this year. The number of shooting victims declined 23 percent. In fact, all major categories of crime except rape have seen decreases so far this year. Yet criminologists like Jerry Ratcliffe, chair of Temple University’s Department of Criminal Justice, remain skeptical of such limited data. Ratcliffe cautioned that it was “too early to call it a ‘drop’” in crime. Similar sentiments from experts, however, are often absent from narratives on early spikes in the homicide rate, as the media and public struggle to comprehend its vacillations — alternately blaming shoddy police work, the courts, entitlement programs, education and residents themselves. Philly Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey agreed it was early in the year to be looking for trends. But he’s hopeful that police strategies are paying off. The homicide clearance rate has been 92 percent, up from around 70 percent in 2012. “We made some personnel changes using an analysis of our most violent areas of the city, really narrowing it down to very small geographic areas,” he says. He also credits federal assistance and GunStat, a new program in cooperation with the District Attorney’s Office to target violent repeat offenders. Ramsey could argue that he’s doing more with less: Police ranks are down 5 percent from a decade ago. He acknowledges the department is “a little short.” The entire cadet class set to graduate in March (just 23 officers due to budget constraints) will be assigned to foot patrols, mostly in the crimeridden 22nd District. “We’re going to concentrate them, so you feel it,” Ramsey says. Despite these efforts, there may not be an answer to why such fluctuations occur, beyond chance — or, as Ramsey partially explained last year’s concurrent rise in homicides and decline in overall shootings, better or worse “marksmanship” on the part of criminals. Or, of course, maybe the explanation is simple: Short-term statistics are less significant than the headlines would lead us to believe. —Ryan Briggs

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handle some delinquent-tax collections. TIC also got money from the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office of Supportive Housing, though officials would not say why or how much. Campaign-finance records indicate that TIC transferred $340 to Progressive Agenda PAC, one of the entities John McDaniel admitted to stealing from. In an email, Dumorney-McDaniel said that was a â&#x20AC;&#x153;reimbursement,â&#x20AC;? after the PAC â&#x20AC;&#x153;rented a 15-passenger van for our youth organization to attend a Youth Summit in Allentown â&#x20AC;Ś through its corporate account.â&#x20AC;? A local expert in nonprofit law called such an exchange â&#x20AC;&#x153;very unusual.â&#x20AC;? Similar monetary transfers have been controversial at the national level, as they are often accused of being used to mask questionable nonprofit donations to super PACs. Dumorney-McDaniel did not respond to further questions. (ryan.briggs@citypaper.net))

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Awards as much as I do. As a tot, I wished I had nude-bombed the Oscars just like that streaker did to David Niven. I’m still suspicious about Marisa Tomei’s 1993 win and would pay good money to exhume Jack Palance’s body and see if his retinal retention holds the secret to the true victor. I’d rather gamble on Best Cinematographer while in bed at the Borgata than lose my e-casino cool on slots. The only guy who digs the Oscars like I do is Jimmy Contreras, Philly’s sartorial overlord also known as “JimmyStyle.” He hosts the now-annual Red Carpet Party at 10 Arts (he’s more Seth MacFarlane than Billy Crystal, I can assure) and does so again Feb. 24 at 6 p.m. His special guests: new co-host Kristin Detterline and the Pennsylvania premiere of George Clooney’s Casamigos tequila. “Kristin and I are going to be a mix of Joan Rivers and Kathy Griffin when it comes to red-carpet commentary,” says Contreras, who’ll be as happy doling out best-dressed awards as he will dishing the dressed-down dirt. ³ The Fader reported that the wretched vocal hook to the “Harlem Shake” video and its countless memes can be traced to none other than Philly’s Jayson Musson. His is the voice sampled by NYC producer Baauer from a track (“Miller Time”) that Musson (aka PackofRats) made when he was in Philly rap act Plastic Little. “Underground kids are cute,” Musson told me for a City Paper story on Plastic Little back in 2006. They still are, Jay. ³ Ye old Pub & Grub at 20th and Hamilton’s City View Condo complex switches over to become The Gallery Grill this week. The place is staying open during renovations, and the whole schmear should be ready to go the first week of March. There’s a large outdoor deck before you walk into the restaurant (difficult to see from the street), new booth seating and a fresh paint job. Good. No more frat-house feel to angry up the neighbors. New owner Jeff Katz of City Line’s Deli Kitchen fame is bringing a Manhattan-deli feel to Gallery Grill with homemade matzoh-ball soup and brisket. Plus, GG will have an up-market liquor program of fine wine, cool cocktails and craft beer. ³ Maybe it’s a ’90s thing, the idea of nu-roller derby and banked derby rinks, something this city hasn’t had in 20-plus years. Then again, people still seem to like Krist Novoselic and Die Hard movies, so why not? The new Derby Ink Gardens Arena at 814 Spring Garden (perilously close to Union Transfer, a block that’s emerging as hipster-doofus central) and Love City Roller Derby act as hosts to two men’s teams, Shove City and the Penn Jersey Hooligans, on Fri., Feb. 22. Bring Zima. ³ Try zomething different at citypaper.net/criticalmass. (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)

DIVIDE AND CONQUER: The two halves of Sgt. Sass — DeShawn Timothy (left) and DaQuan Motley — will celebrate solo releases Saturday at Kung Fu Necktie. JEFF FUSCO

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BREAK IT DOWN Out hip-hoppers DeShawn Timothy and DaQuan Motley of Sgt. Sass split the difference. By A.D. Amorosi

ne zigs while the other zags. One stays put while the other hits the road. One has a voice like silk while the other’s is rough-hewn. Thankfully, Philadelphia’s Sgt. Sass — rappers DeShawn Timothy and DaQuan Motley — is the sum of its differences. “What brings us together is our infinite love and passion for good music and great art,” says Motley, on the phone from Connecticut, where he’s mastering his solo CD, The DaQuan, at Killingworthsound Studio. “No, I’m not on the run. Life makes me to be nomadic. My family is travelers. Guess it’s inherited.” What truly keeps Sgt. Sass apart is a restlessness that finds each rapper releasing stuff before they can put a full-length effort together. While Motley is on his second solo CD and readying a third, Timothy drops Merge, his first solo EP. Together, Sgt. Sass has been producing the spare sound of two selfprofessed “down-ass faggots who done picked up the mic” since 2007’s Double S 4 Mayor mixtape dropped. Since then, they’ve release the 2009 EP Body Rock and 2011 mixtape Art Fggt/Fggt Art. They and their DJ, Nasty Sinatra, have forever been planning a full-length testament to Sgt. Sass’s wild-ass Missy Elliott-meetsTyler the Creator-like electro hip-hop, Black Nail Polish. Still, it’s only tentatively scheduled for a late 2013 release.

Though they met in 2002 at the Art Institute of Philadelphia, it wasn’t until the pair discovered out Philly hip-hoppers V.I.P. Party Boys that the duo knew their mission. “DaQuan and I wanted to create hip-hop along V.I.P.’s lines, without boundaries, without any hang-ups regarding our sexualities. After a few DJs, we met DJ Nasty Sinatra in 2011 and everything fell into place,” says Timothy. “As a group, DaQuan fell into the aggressive sergeant role and I have been the sassy one all along.” While Timothy’s magnificent Merge and songs like “55” and “Werq” have all the earmarks of sashaying dance-floor ragers, The DaQuan is beefy yet laid-back hip-hop with spoken-word soliloquies like “Where Did You Go?” and chatty stories about Motley’s heroes (like “Molly Ringwald,” his first female-star crush) as its centerpiece. “Merge has all the qualities of a genuine club banger,” says Motley enthusiastically. “DeShawn and his producing partner Good Goose really went off. My thing? If I had to pick a place you’d be likely to hear my project, it’d be some sort of chill open mic.” For all the solo stuff that the two are currently concentrating on, each promises Black Nail Polish is their ultimate goal. When the pair isn’t in one room, they’re apt to use video conferencing to communicate. “It’s like magic watching us brainstorm subjects for songs and shows,” says Motley. “Once an idea hits the floor, we run with it.” (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)

“I have been the sassy one all along.”

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There are songs on The Man Who Died in His Boat (Kranky) — but only barely. As on her 2008 high-water mark, the just-reissued Dragging a Dead Deer up a Hill, this collection of previously unheard five-year-old recordings finds Grouper (Portland-based ambient-folk musician Liz Harris) circling around an elusive melting point between song and sound, where her endlessly thrumming acoustic guitars and sumptuously reverbed vocals slough off any definable substance and evanesce into a ghostly, inchoate murmur, lingering just beyond conscious grasp. —K. Ross Hoffman

If there’s room in your life for one more gentle thing, you could do worse than Vancouver/Oregon band Wake Owl and their Wild Country debut EP (Vagrant). Colyn Cameron’s velveteen voice leads a small warren of softly stroked instruments — violin, acoustic guitar, piano — to create a lush, lovely sound too unrefined to call chamber pop, too pretty to call rock ’n’ roll. Wake Owl plays the First Unitarian’s side chapel on Saturday (Feb. 23, r5productions.com). —Patrick Rapa

³ folk/roots Those who balked at the Nashville slickness of Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s self-covering record may take similar issue with his new

collection of Everly Brothers duets with Faun Fables’ Dawn McCarthy. But while What the Brothers Sang (Drag City) is earnest, it’s not entirely straightforward. For one, it largely ignores the duo’s ’50s hits in favor of obscurities and B-sides from their late-’60s output. If they can’t always recapture the Everlys’ sublime vocal alchemy, they imbue this overlooked oeuvre with a delightfully understated back-porch looseness. —K. Ross Hoffman

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³ country One of Texas’ great lyrical truth-tellers returns. Terry Allen’s longtime affinity with the border continues in the title track from Bottom of the World (Redeye) and especially in “Emergency Human Blood Courier.” The latter brings the drug war into perspective: “Mexico is the story of the world.” Lone Star tastemaker Lloyd Maines adds pedal steel and resonator guitar, while Terry’s boy Bukka brings accordion and keys. Both men share production credit with Allen, keeping it spare, their exquisite playing strictly in the service of Allen’s stories. —Mary Armstrong

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56 UP

An unfinished masterwork.

³ THIS CD IS all 31 flavors of “Fuck yeah!”

You’re finding this out in the very beginning of the review because not telling you immediately would’ve been a crime on par with simultaneously kidnapping the Lindbergh baby and assassinating Abe Lincoln while dressed in a Nazi uniform. Ana Alcaide’s La Cantiga Del Fuego is a musical depiction of the lives and legends of the Sephardic Jews of Toledo. Alcaide’s voice floats and dances effortlessly and seamlessly atop each tune. The songs are brilliantly arranged — one false move and this material could’ve easily taken a wrong turn onto Pretentious Boulevard. And the use of exotic instruments — the oud, Turkish ney, psaltery, lyra, and Alcaide’s own nyckelharpa — is original, innovative and inspired. Aficionados of world music will immediately recognize the nyckelharpa as that evil Scandinavian cross between a violin and a hurdy-gurdy, the appearance of which usually portends a very unpleasant listening experience. (Seriously, the nyckelharpa has been responsible for more verdicts of “Invade” than yodeling.) But you read that right: Ana Alcaide has single-handedly elevated the nyckelharpa from this column’s sinister, pasty Bond villain into its brooding, handsome hero. One more thing: According to the liner notes, Alcaide also has a degree in botany and has conducted extensive studies of both the Baja California’s mushrooms and the birds’ nests of Scandinavia. What have you done lately? Verdict: How good is this CD? Well, imagine Pat Robertson, naked and covered in bear grease, being backed by Mumford & Sons in a four-hour rock opera about installing drywall. Well, La Cantiga Del Fuego is the exact opposite of that. (a_anonymous@citypaper.net)

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SLIDING SCALE: Michael Apted has been following the lives of his subjects since 1964.

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³ AT THE FABRIC Workshop, six screens float in an edgeless darkness, producing an effect similar to the “Phantom Zone” two-dimensional prison as portrayed in Superman II. Suspended in each screen is an old man sitting motionless in a chair in front of a mirrored dance studio. The only sound in the dark room is film projectors clicking away, illuminating a moving picture that isn’t moving. The man on screen in Tacita Dean’s 16mm film installation is Merce Cunningham, a man best known for being in motion. The American dancer and choreographer, along with his longtime partner and collaborator composer John Cage, was at the forefront of the American avant-garde for nearly half a century. He wasn’t known for being inert — he appeared in every performance by his dance company until he was 70, and continued to perform until his death in 2009 at age 90. But Cunningham isn’t just sitting in these recordings, done at the request of Dean. He’s performing inaction in the films, titled — deep breath — Merce Cunningham performs STILLNESS (in three movements) to John Cage’s composition 4’33” with Trevor Carlson, New York City, 28 April 2007 (six performances; six films), 2008.The dance work is set to Cage’s famous 4’33”, a composition in three movements in which the musician is instructed not to play for four minutes and 33 seconds. 4’33” is often the punch line of jokes about the avant-garde — people often perceive it as a sort of artistic “Gotcha!” on the part of Cage, passing off nothing as something. In fact, a live performance is a meditation-like experience in which audience members slowly become acutely aware of the ambient noise of the room and people around them. Cage, who had been dead nearly two decades at the time of the recording, composed this piece for a musician who does not play. Cunningham’s parallel choreography is for a dancer who does not move. It’s devastatingly beautiful. Born in England and now living in Berlin, Dean explores the possibilities of film with the imagination and obsessive ingenuity that marked the infant medium in the late 1880s. Fabric Workshop is the closest of two opportunities to

see her work in the area right now; the second is JG (pictured), being screened for the first time at Arcadia University. For Dean, the medium is a large part of the message. Her work is on film; she utilizes no digital technology, an anachronistic choice that slows down her production. Mistakes are made and analog devices must be invented or rediscovered as the means to create film steadily disappear. The result is relaxing, yet engaging enough that you won’t fall asleep, a little like a waking fever-dream. STILLNESS and JG represent an important before and after for the artist. STILLNESS was created before Dean discovered a masking technique to let her treat film more like collage and used for the first time in FILM, Dean’s 2011 project for Tate

A silent musician; a motionless dancer. Modern’s Turbine Hall. JG, a journey of discovery inspired by Robert Smithson’s mysterious earthwork Spiral Jetty and the work of writer J.G. Ballard, is much more abstract. It was created using Dean’s aperture-gate-masking method and retains elements of a KurtSchwitters-era collage with moving parts and sound. The film invokes time and space using the alien-looking saline landscapes of Utah and Southern California and an armadillo. The dreamlike effect leaves viewers with the distinct feeling that they now have massive amounts of information that can never be put to any real use, like returning home after a peyote-fueled desert vision quest. (annette.monnier@citypaper.net) ✚ STILLNESS…, through March 17,

$3, Fabric Workshop and Museum, 1214 Arch St., 215-561-8888, fabricworkshopandmuseum.org. JG, through April 21, free, Arcadia University Art Gallery, 450 S. Easton Rd., Glenside, 215-572-2131, arcadia.edu/gallery.

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³ UPWARD MIGRATION SEEMS a trope this

season at Theatre Exile. Their current play and their next one both have “north” in the title (Jason Wells’ The North Plan will be followed by Bruce Graham’s North of the Boulevard), and for this show, the company has temporarily relocated from their home theater in South Philadelphia to the Latvian Society in Northern Liberties. Ah, but the “North” in the title of this play doesn’t refer to the direction — it’s for Oliver North, Reagan functionary and general loon. And, unfortunately, Wells’ play — a blunt, chaotic political satire short on wit and coherence — is a decidedly southward tumble from the usually excellent Theatre Exile folks, who in the past have shown remarkably fine taste in edgy material. Wells’ point of departure here is REX 84, short for “Readiness Exercise 1984,” a policy project North developed for the Reagan administration in case of a national disaster. The plan allowed for martial law and massive abridgement of personal freedoms in the event that a president declared a state of national emergency. (Think a proto-Patriot Act, on a creepier, grander scale.) While it’s generally acknowledged that REX 84 was a historical reality, specifics about it are clouded in mystery, and it was never put into practice. But in the near-future America of The North Plan, a national emergency has been declared, REX 84 is in effect — no, it doesn’t make any sense that an almost-40-year-old piece of abandoned theoretical policy is somehow now the law of the land, but trust me, it doesn’t pay to think about this too much — and for some reason, the epicenter of it all seems to be a small Ozark town (the mythical Lodus, Mo.). Lodus’ jail houses two unlikely cellmates: Tanya Shepke, a trashy but likeable young woman, the town drunk and troublemaker; and Carlton Berg, a State Department bureaucrat gone rogue. Carlton has managed to steal a secret enemies list, but he’s going to need Tanya’s help to get it into the right hands. Wells initially provides some funny moments, and a few insightful ones. But even the broadest farce needs at least a germ of plausibility. From the start, the of lack of logic and thoroughness in The North Plan’s basic construction compromises

its effectiveness, and everything unwinds. By the second act, we’re immersed in shrill comic free fall — Department of Justice employees behaving like Keystone Cops, an entirely preposterous series of mistaken identities and a conclusion that makes absolutely no sense. Somewhere in here, Wells seems to have a clever idea — to marry the kind of paranoiafueled, nail-biting tension of 24 or Homeland with a character comedy like My Name Is Earl. But the cleverness of his play is undone by its sloppiness. Clichés abound in The North Plan, nowhere more so than in the portrayal of its heroine, Tanya. Here, actress Madi Distefano gives a bold, funny star turn, but no amount of comic éclat can leaven the character, a human traffic accident dogged

A marriage of 24 and My Name Is Earl. by drink, divorce, custody battles — enough troubles to fuel a TLC reality show for several seasons. Worse, even as Wells posits Tanya as the potential solution for America’s deadly problem, he seems to faintly sneer at her (really, at most of his small-town characters) in a way that’s a reminder that America’s uneducated poor are really the last group of people society permits to be mocked with impunity. Theatre Exile gives The North Plan a production that’s as good as it’s likely to get. In addition to Distefano, there are some fine supporting performances. Set designer Meghan Jones creates a vivid sheriff ’s office, and Joe Canuso directs with style and energy — it’s not their fault that the small stage makes the intricacies of the second act seem even sillier than they need to be. (d_fox@citypaper.net) ✚ Through March 3, $10-$37, The

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ARGO | B+ Argo is an unexpected treat, a cracking true-ish story with a cast replete with great character actors: Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Alan Arkin, etc. Director Ben 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 (Ritz Five)

BEAUTIFUL CREATURES | C It’d be a stretch to compliment Beautiful Creatures for being literary, but at least its creators are functionally literate. Authors Margaret Stohl and Kami Garcia play all the same cards as the Twilight juggernaut — forbidden young love, supernatural powers, disapproving families, awful amounts of emoting — but their YA transition goes down slightly smoother. Compared to Twilight’s codependent cabal of undead idiots, writer/director Richard LaGravenese’s kids actually sound their age. Sorta. —Drew Lazor (Pearl, Riverview, Rave, UA Grant)

ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH 3D A haiku: Mommy, why does that alien sound like Ricky Fucking Gervais? Fuck. (Not reviewed) (AMC Loews Cherry Hill, Pearl, UA Riverview)

HAPPY PEOPLE: A YEAR IN THE TAIGA | BWerner Herzog’s films are the product of immersion in foreign and often forbidding places. But for Happy People, which he culled from a four-hour TV documentary by Dmitry Vasyukov, he ventured nowhere more inhospitable than the editing room and the sound booth. His subjects (if the possessive even applies) scrape out a living in the

LINCOLN | B+

OSCAR-NOMINATED LIVE SHORTS | B

Swede Lasse Hallström, who’s etched out quite the English-language career efficiently translating beach reads to the big screen, does his visual best with Nicholas Sparks’ stuff, but the source material’s a little too boring and predictable for it to matter. Fleeing a violent relationship in Boston, Katie (Julianne Hough) decides to settle in Southport, N.C., a sleepy coastal vacation town that seems as good a place as any to hide. Try as she might to avoid letting her guard down, she quickly falls for Alex (Josh Duhamel), proprietor of the local general store and widowed father of two. The two are serviceable at best, making Hallström’s pretty pictures the only real tradable asset. —DL (AMC Loews Cherry Hill, Franklin Mills, Pearl, Rave, UA Grant, UA Main Street, UA Riverview)

SIDE EFFECTS | BEmily Taylor (Rooney Mara), possessing all the confidence of a wounded bird, timidly awaits the release of her imprisoned 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. Admitted to the ER after ramming her car into a parking-garage wall, Emily meets Dr. Jonathan Banks (Jude Law), and jumps at the chance to participate in a handsomely paid trial for a flashy new drug he prescribes after standard meds don’t work: “It makes it easier to be who you are.” But what if you’re a murderer? Steven 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. —DL (AMC Loews Cherry Hill, Pearl, Rave, UA Grant, UA Main Street, UA Riverview)

WARM BODIES | C 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 as twitchy or over-the-top as the Twilight films, but Levine also never strives for much more than sweet-

BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD | B Ritz Five THE IMPOSSIBLE | D Ritz at the Bourse THE LIFE OF PI | BRitz East OSCAR-NOMINATED ANIMATED SHORTS | B Ritz at the Bourse For full movie reviews and showtimes, go to citypaper.net/movies

ness. —SB (AMC Loews Cherry Hill, Pearl, Rave, UA Main Street)

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 actionmovie enthusiasts. —SA (AMC Loews Cherry Hil, UA Riverview)

✚ REPERTORY FILM BRYN MAWR FILM INSTITUTE 824 W. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr, 610-527-9898, brynmawrfilm.org. The Little Princess (1939, U.S., 93 min.): Shirley Temple stars as a young girl sent to a boarding school when her father goes to war in Africa. Sat., Feb. 23, 11 a.m., $5. Tokyo Story (1953,

COLONIAL THEATRE 227 Bridge St., Phoenixville, 610-9171228, thecolonialtheatre.com. It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963, U.K., 192 min.): After a dying thief relays the whereabouts of his fortune to some witnesses, a race begins. Sat., Feb. 23, 2 p.m., $5. Psycho (1960, U.S., 109 min.): “We all go a little mad sometimes.” Sun., Feb. 24, 2 p.m., $9.

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p.m., $9. Wolf (2012, U.S., 86 min.): A family discovers their son has been molested. Tue., Feb. 26, 7 p.m., $9.

MEGA-BAD MOVIE NIGHT Bossone Reasearch Center, Drexel University, 3100 Market St., 215-895-2000, drexel.edu. The Core (2003, U.S., 135 min.): Onstage experts point out scientific fallacies in particularly egregious movie-science offenders. What, so you can’t reboot Earth’s electromagnetic field by drilling to the planet’s core and dropping in a few nukes? Who knew? Thu., Feb. 21, 6:30 p.m., $5.

MIDNIGHT MADNESS Ritz at the Bourse, 400 Ranstead St., 215-440-1181, landmarktheatres.com. The Shining (1980, U.S., 146 min.): “Heeeere’s Johnny!” Fri., Feb. 22, Mid., $9.50.

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20 E. State St., Doylestown, 215-3456789, countytheater.org. Grease (1978, U.S., 110 min.): “Sandy, you just can’t walk out of a drive-in!” Sat., Feb. 23, 10:30 a.m., $4.

Gershman Y, 401 S. Broad St., 215-5454400, filmadelphia.org. The Fifth Season (2012, Belgium, 94 min.): A surreal look at a town where spring never comes. Thu., Feb. 21, 7:30 p.m., $5.

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3701 Chestnut St., 215-387-5125, exhumedfilms.com. Zombie Double Feature: Back-to-back late-’80s cult horror flicks The Video Dead and Dead Heat both feature, you guessed it, zombies. Fri., Feb. 22, 8 p.m., $15.

The Bellevue, 200 S. Broad St., unknown-japan.com. Godspeed You! Black Emperor (1976, Japan, 90 min.): A doc on the Japanese motorcycle gang of the ’70s (from which the eponymous band lifted its name). Wed., Feb. 27, 7:30 p.m., free.

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Free Library, Philadelphia City Institute Branch, 1905 Locust St., 215-685-6621, freelibrary.org. Rules of the Game (1939, France, 108 min.): Often regarded as one of the best movies of all time, this Renoir classic highlights human relationships and class differences. Wed., Feb. 27, 2 p.m., free.

INTERNATIONAL HOUSE 3701 Chestnut St., 215-387-5125, ihousephilly.org. Picture Bride (1994, Japan/U.S., 95 min.): A 16year-old Japanese girl travels to Hawaii to marry a man she’s never met. Thu., Feb. 21, 7 p.m., $9. Chris Marker: Réalisateur: Two films from the experimental French filmmaker: Le Fond de l’air est rouge (1977, France, 180 min.), a documentary on the political movements of the ’60s and ’70s, Sat., Feb. 23, 2 p.m., $9, and Level Five (1997, France, 106 min.), which follows a female computer-game designer. Sat., Feb. 23, 7

704 South St., 215-413-0999, woodenshoebooks.com. Death by Hanging (1968, Japan, 117 min.): A man survives his own execution in this dark farce. Fri., Feb. 22, 7 p.m., free.

WOODMERE ART MUSEUM 9201 Germantown Ave., 215-247-0476, woodmereartmuseum.org. Quiz Show (1994, U.S., 133 min.): A young lawyer in the ’50s uncovers a game-show-fixing scandal. Tue., Feb. 26, 7 p.m., $5.

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BUBBLE YUM STIX | 1225 Fitzwater St., 215-735-1317, stixeatery. com. Hours: Sun.-Thu., 11:30 a.m.-9:30 p.m., Fri.Sat., 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m. Appetizers, $1.95-$5.45; entrees, $5.75-$6.95; desserts, $1.

³I DON’T KNOW exactly what decor I was expecting to find at an Asian cafe called Stix (presumably a play on chopsticks), but it definitely wasn’t a poster of Buffalo wings. Bathed in an orangey sauce, the chicken crowds a white plate against a red backdrop, velvety leaves of what appear to be oregano tucked in the center of the pile like a corsage. There it hangs, Getty-Image-as-art on a citron-yellow wall, next to a sign advertising available quantities (six, 15, 25) and flavors (Buffalo, Asian barbecue, garlic Parm, “bang bang”). I tried the second. Glazed in a sugary-gingered slime, they made me want to bang bang my head against the wall. I can’t speak to the other styles of wings at Stix. Takeout shops bloating their menus with America’s favorite empty calories is nothing new, but I guess I expected more from this six-month-old, which sports cheery good looks, a friendly (if easily weeded) staff and a robust bubble-tea and smoothie bar — a proud point of differentiation for chef/owner John Man, a Drexel-bred electrical engineer who got into the restaurant game after his I.T. job was outsourced. Milky and floral, his jasmine bubble tea is unmatched in Philly, worth a special detour to Stix’s lightly trafficked block of Fitzwater. And if you spend more than $20, it’s free. (They’re also very generous with the wax-paper sacks of buttery almond cookies.) Stix is a return to the family business, so to speak, for Man, 47; his father ran a Chinese takeout shop in North Philly after emigrating from Hong Kong and still makes some of the more old-school items on Stix’s menu, like sweet-and-sour shrimp that gets its sour from vinegar and sweet from a top-secret ingredient. Too bad the 6-cent crustaceans were rubbery. Better to stick with the lovely dumplings, whether thick dough clamshells filled with sesameand-cilantro-laced pork and steamed, or smaller chicken versions simmered in an ethereal chicken soup whose clarity bordered on consommé. Notes of lemongrass and fish sauce lit up grilled pork in the fine banh mi. The meat was saucier and the roll softer and moister than that of your typical Washington Avenue hoagie, really giving Stix’s a different vibe through the familiar crunch of raw jalapenos and pickled carrots, cucumbers and daikon. There’s a cheesesteak banh mi as well, but even I wouldn’t touch that one. (adam.erace@citypaper.net)

L’CHAIM: Kosher ingredients make for cocktail creativity behind the bar at Citron and Rose. NEAL SANTOS

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BAR BY THE BOOK At Citron and Rose, the bar is set high. By Caroline Russock

ll restaurant openings are fraught with numerous challenges, from passing health and fire inspections to staffing everyone from the chef de cuisine to the night porter. But when Mike Solomonov and Steve Cook set out to open Citron and Rose, their new Main Line spot, the obstacles they faced were downright biblical. Much like the reimagined Israeli cuisine of Zahav, Citron and Rose aims to bring another largely unfamiliar set of tastes to the Philadelphia area — namely, those of Eastern European Jewish cookery. And the duo chose to execute the menu not only with a modern flair but also with the designation of Glatt kosher, catering to the area’s most observant clientele. No shellfish? No problem. Lose the pork belly? More on: Sure, that stuff is everywhere. But delving a little further into the laws of kashrut, things get a little dicey, especially from a restaurant’s point of view. Dairy is a no-go, meaning that your meal-ending cappuccino is made with frothed soy milk and desserts are served with coconutsoy-milk ice creams. But these are challenges easily overcome by a creative kitchen whose members can cook without the usual crutches of butter and cream. But when Cook set out to create the bar program, he faced a whole new set of hurdles.

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Anyone who’s ever sipped a glass of Manischewitz knows that the jokes about cloying kosher wines are well-founded, but very few folks know the backstory. Manischewitz falls under the category of mevushal wines, which have been cooked to a bare boil or flash-pasturized, killing off any fine mold that would make them nonkosher. This process allows nonJews to serve the wines, but also does a number on the tannins and acids, resulting in flavors that are, well, let’s just say a little flabby. Citron and Rose, however, has done a fine job curating a list of wines that are quite interesting, including Spanish cavas, Piedmontese barolos and even an unlikely trockenbeerenauslese for dessert. The real magic, though, happens in the cocktail menu that Cook and general manager Eilon Gigi created. Stocking bar basics was pretty straightforward, given the fact that most liqueurs carry a hechsher, but when it came to the amaros and vermouths that most mixologists rely on, there aren’t many kosher ones. There’s no Campari behind the bar, and not even a MORE FOOD AND bottle of sweet vermouth. DRINK COVERAGE But these limitations, this forced creativity, AT C I T Y P A P E R . N E T / make the cocktails especially exciting. It’s M E A LT I C K E T. a playful list full of nods to Eastern Europe. The Lower East Side blends gin, cucumber and dill into a drink that exists somewhere between a gimlet and a pickle. The Reb Roy, Citron’s answer to a Manhattan, brings together bourbon, Drambuie, bitters and barrel-aged Manischewitz. A recent addition to the menu, 40 Days and 40 Nights, is the Dark and Stormy that would be at home at a Jewish deli, a genius pairing of allspice-infused rum, brown-sugar syrup, lime and a pour of Dr. Brown’s Cel-Ray soda. (caroline@citypaper.net)

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26xx W. Hargert St. 3BR porch, carp remod kit & ba $775/mo 267-602-8441 2909 Park Ave. 2BR/1BA $625 + utils. 2 mo rent 1 mo sec. (267)693-2585

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Frankford, nice rm in apt, near bus & El, $300 sec, $90/wk & up. 215-526-1455 FRANKFORD / NORTHEAST , Newly renov, nicely furnished, A/C, W/D, cable, clean, safe & secure. Call (267) 253-7764 Germantown Area: NICE, Cozy Rooms Private entry, no drugs (267)988-5890 Germantown Rms, $120/wk utils incl, share kit/ba, $500 move in 215.849.5861 KFrankford rooms $105/week, Everything incl. Sec dep req. 215-432-5637 LaSalle Univ area $125/week Renov furn rooms 215-843-4481 Nicetown 4535 N. Mole St. $100/wk, access to entire house, (215)760-0206 N. PHILA $75 & up, SSI & Vets+ok, drug free, Avl Immed. 215-763-5565 N. Philly $100/wk share ba mw/frig in rm SSI ok. Call 267-516-6235 SOUTHWEST Newly renov, nice ly furnished , A/C, W/D, cable, clean, safe & secure. Call (267) 253-7764 SW Philadelphia $250 to move in. Share kitchen & bath. 267-251-2749 Wayne/Manheim $155/wk Furn, priv bath & kit. 1st flr. Call 215-783-4736 WEST OAKLANE $120/wk. Furn, a/c, pvt entrance. 215-205-2437 West Phila - Room for rent, $125 /wk. Call 267-269-4490 ask for Hakim WEST/SOUTHWEST Newly renov, nicely furnished, A/C, W/D, cable, clean, safe & secure. Call (267) 253-7764 W. Germantown rooms for rent starting at $425/mo, $100 security fee, easy move-in. Theresa at (215) 740-0554 W. Phila. Furn. rooms includes all util, cable, internet $150/wk 267-334-5809 Wynnefield - Room for rent, no drugs, with cable. Call 215-877-0150

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ROCKWOOD 2009, 33 ft, 2 slide outs, $18,950. Call 610-287-9689 Cash for small car, pick-up, scooter up to $3,000. Call 267-324-6673

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

BREWERYTOWN 27th & Girard Lg 2br, rear yard, Sec 8 OK will accept 1 & 2Br vouchers $700/mo 215-681-8018

A1 PRICES FOR JUNK CARS FREE TOW ING , Call (215) 726-9053 4524 N. 13th St. 3BR/1BA $650 Beautiful house, ready now. 610.724.7391 6035 N. 11th St. 5BR/2.5BA $1300 Large 3Story Twin House $1300 Utils. 215-324-4424

NICE TOWN 2br $700 + 1st mo. & sec. 215-763-5565

low cost cars & trucks Acura 3.2TL Type S 2003 $4,950 Mint, 1 owner, new trans., belt, & inspc., all pwrs, needs no work. 215-620-9383 Buick Century Custom 2000 $4995 Silver, 83,000 pampered mi, dealer maintained, very good cond. 610-356-0167

2xx W. Queen Lane 6BR/3BA $1350+ new kit/ba Application req 215-514-7143

Chevy Cavalier 1994 $1250 auto., AC, Heat, 86k. 215-620-9383

62xx Magnolia St. 3br/1ba $1050+utils Section 8 ok. Call 215-849-3758

Dodge Caravan 2000 $1,150 Auto., A/C, heat, inspec. 215-620-9383

64xx N. Lambert 3br $850 Spacious, Sec. 8 ok. 267-230-2600

Montana and Grmtwn 3br/1ba $875+ Section 8 ok. Call 215-839-6468

WEST OAK LANE 3BR/1.5BA $1,095 /utils 65XX N. 18th St. credit check 215224-2773/rentalpropertynow@ aol. com

KENSINGTON 3BR/1BA $750p/m House. Section 8 accepted. Freshly painted. Hardwood floor. 267-210-5810

Ontario St. 3BR $800+utils. Renovated, large. Call 201-321-0543

Hyundai Sonata 2000 $2,400 Excel. cond., 1 owner. 215-687-8130 Jaguar XJ6 Vanden Plas. 1994 $2500 OBO. May trade. 165K NJ insp til 4/14 Sun roof, Excellent cond. Call (267)975-4483 Jaguar XJ8 Vanden Plas, 2000 $3200 OBO. May trade. Sun Roof, Excellent cond. 145k. No damg. (267)975-4483 Mazda 626 1990 $995 auto, 2/14 insp, runs new 215.620.9383 Mercury Sable GS 1997 $1350 all pwrs, clean, runs excel. 215-620-9383 VOLVO V70 1999 $2,400 177K mi. looks & runs great. 610.613.7421

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20xx E. Pacific 3br $750 Spacious, Sec. 8 ok. 267-230-2600 Philadelphia 3BR Section 8 approved 215-843-4481

26xx S. Bonaffon Upscale 3BR $825+ Must see! Avail 3/1. 215-365-4567 54xx Malcolm 4BR mod. kitch. & bath, W/D, newly remodeled, sec. 8 ok. 215-432-3040

58xx Hadfield 4br $1100 Spacious, Sec. 8 ok. 267-230-2600 70xx Saybrook 3BR/1BA $690 Sec 8 ok, new reno, 267-230-2600 71xx Grays 3br/1ba $800+utils 55xx Locust 4br/1ba $950+utils Enclosed front porch, quiet street, "The Landlord that Cares" Mark 610.764.9739 Brndy 609.598.2299

5004 Glenloch St. 2BR Newly renov., backyard. 267-257-0144 Frankford 4br/2ba Sec 8 ok (215)322-6086

DARBY 3br row $985+utils close to transp, Sec 8 ok. 610-529-3531

Elmwood area 3br modern, sec. 8 ok, Call 856-693-7222

Upper Darby 2br/1ba row $800+utils front porch. Carpet. Call 610-805-9599

xx N 53rd Str 3BR/ 1 Full BA. Newly renovated. H/W floors through-out. A must see. Sec 8 OK. Call Arnez @215-317- 5131.

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

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153X W ERIE Av $390 inc utils, cable, internet, kitc access 215-695-3005 18th & Ontario priv ent new paint use of kit ww $120wk $290mv in 267-997-5212 20th and Girard, 2 furn. rooms for rent $100/wk, $200 move in. 267-608-9138 2435 W. Jefferson St. Rooms: $375/mo. Move in fee: $565. Call 215-913-8659 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 Allegheny $90/wk. $270 sec dep. Near EL train, furn, quiet. Call 609-703-4266 Allegheny Ave near 22nd St. Furnished, newly pained, $85/wk (215)990-9709 Art Museum move in Special luxury rms $400 mo SSI welcome 267-632-3286

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