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SEPTA wins the American Public Transportation Association award for Outstanding Public Transportation System in a major metropolitan area. We smell a trap, guys.

Wear something you don’t mind getting pig’s blood on.

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Liquor Control Board officials tell the state’s Senate Appropriations Committee that morale is low throughout the agency, but business is good. “Mostly because we blow our paychecks on hooch. Which ain’t doing our morale any favors. So we drown our sorrows in the aforementioned hooch, and so on and so forth,” say LCB officials. “At this time we’d like to recommend you gentlemen be vigilant when picking up your hats from the coat check, as we have recently vomited in several of them, and we do apologize for that.”

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The Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe renames itself FringeArts.

“Bravo!” says Opera Philadelphia. “Sellouts,” says the Greater Philadelphia Society of Mural, Wax and Wood Arts Philosophy Center-Upon-Schuylkill.

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Ex-cop Jonathan Josey is found not guilty of simple assault, after testifying that he hit Aide Guzman in the face at last year’s Puerto Rican Day Parade accidentally while trying to knock a beer bottle from her hand.These things will happen as long as there’s that law on the books about how cops are required to knock beers out of people’s hands.

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Municipal Court Judge Patrick F. Dugan called the case troubling, but says he was swayed by Josey’s testimony.“Oh, and I’m up for re-election in 2015,” says Dugan.

“Remember: A vote for Dugan is a vote for cops punching ladies in the face.”

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A SEPTA cop spots a man with a 2011 arrest warrant for strangulation and rape charges and has him arrested. We’ve had some fun at your expense over the years, transit cops, but right now, given that you got this scum off the street and that we’re pretty sure you can distinguish between a beer bottle and a woman’s face, we’re honoring you with Bell Curve’s esteemed Best Cops in the City award.

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MISTAKES WERE MADE The politics of tax reform are proving treacherous for Philly property owners.

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ast spring, as City Council debated how to handle the 2013 rollout of a citywide reassessment of property values known as the Actual Value Initiative, or AVI, one councilman dug in his heels.

While proposals for various tax rates and relief measures ricocheted around City Hall, Mark Squilla decided passing the measure without assessment data in hand was too risky, and convinced his colleagues to delay AVI until 2014. “They wanted us to pass this last year, and it’s amazing — knowing that if we passed it … what would have happened,” Squilla says. “Thank God we didn’t.” Today, that expression of gratitude is a common refrain. After all, before Squilla (and, some say, common sense) prevailed, Council had been considering a 1.8 percent tax rate. The large tax increases resulting from that high rate would have been “disastrous for the city,” says Squilla.

But the fact that it took a freshman councilman standing up to an adamant administration and an uncertain City Council to put the brakes on that “disaster” might be taken as an indication of just how problematic the city’s property-tax-reform process has been.

Talk of AVI overshadowed the last budget season; now, with another one looming, a great deal of uncertainty remains. While Council scrambles to patch together ways to make the tax reform palatable, and property owners struggle to make sense of the assessments

they’ve received in the mail over the past week (and, in many cases, start preparing their appeals), critics say both the politics of AVI and its execution have been fraught with miscalculations.

To start, there’s the appearance that Mayor Michael Nutter — whom Squilla says viewed AVI as “a legacy thing” — simply didn’t count on pushback from Council. He told Council in his 2011 budget address to get AVI done by 2012: “It’s time to finish the job.”

This pressure gave some Council members the sense that the administration was attempting to force their hands. Councilman Jim Kenney, for one, suspects the administration of withholding assessment information from Council. “The administration has had these numbers for a while longer than they admitted,” he said last week. “We could have taken some actions, and now the horse is out of the gate and it’s just, like, ‘Tough.’” Council President Darrell Clarke, meanwhile, complained that the administration’s publicizing of a rock-bottom tax rate of around 1.25 percent, without relief measures, put him in a bind. After all, if he votes for relief measures, “it will appear that Council is increasing the rate” in order to meet the $1.2 billion revenue goal. “All of a sudden, Council’s the bad guy.”

It seemed similarly telling that one of the most dramatic side effects of AVI — that it would shift an estimated $200 million of the tax burden from commercial properties onto residential ones — wasn’t made public until Councilman Bill Green sat down with some spreadsheets and figured it out. After Green dropped this bomb last

“The horse is out of the gate and it’s, like, ‘Tough.’”

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✚ POINT TAKEN Last fall, Point Breeze developers and like-minded critics slammed 2nd District Councilman Kenyatta Johnson for his efforts to condemn 17 privately held lots and consolidate them for affordable-housing development. One of their complaints: The city already owns 311 properties in the vicinity and many of them have languished for years, unused and ill-maintained. So why couldn’t the city develop those properties first?

Now, Johnson wants to do just that. City Council passed a bill last week to steer $2.2 million in Neighborhood Transformation Initiative (NTI) dollars toward turning vacant structures in Point Breeze into affordable housing. “We thought it would be a better idea to find city-owned shells in our district and rehab them instead of taking more properties onto the city inventory,” says Johnson’s legislative aide, Steven Cobb. The money will be used to rehab up to 11 properties — if the buildings aren’t already too deteriorated. “Unfortunately, a lot of [city-owned buildings] are in a dilapidated condition,” says Cobb. Johnson would have liked to rehab more buildings. “The problem is, there’s not that many shells.” The city’s portfolio in Point Breeze is mostly vacant lots, and NTI money can’t be used for new development, only for acquisitions or rehabs.

It may sound like a reaction to last year’s backlash, but Cobb says the plan has been the works since last spring: “The steps of the process take a little bit longer than we would like.” —Ryan Briggs

✚ WALK THIS WAY Even while waving banners, stopping to greet neighbors and sing-

ing an adorable (if incessant) refrain of, “All we are saying is give Hill a chance,” it didn’t take the students of Leslie P. Hill School more than 10 minutes to walk to Blaine, the school where many of them will be relocated if the School District follows through on its plan to close Hill and 28 other schools next year. But distance is only part of the problem, says fifth-grader Taylor Nunnelly, one of 50 or so students, parents and teachers participating in a Monday-afternoon “Walk in My Shoes” rally run by the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, which is urging a moratorium on closures.

“It’s dangerous for me,”Taylor says, glancing around Blaine’s schoolyard. “I was fighting people here.” She says if she’s sent to Blaine, neighborhood grudges will spill into school hallways.

The other problem, parents say, is the route: It’s just half a mile, but it snakes past boarded-up buildings and trashstrewn lots and across the busy intersection of Ridge Avenue with Diamond and 30th streets. Crossing guards are no match for that, a school-district employee remarks, and who knows if there’ll be funding for them in the future, anyway.The previous walk PFT had organized, at Meade Elementary on Feb. 19, turned into a rally after the district announced it would keep Meade open. The district also said it would keep open Strawberry Mansion High School, which shares a building with Hill. So closing Hill, says PFT’s Yvette Jones, “makes absolutely no sense.” She says children often walk to school alone or with older siblings who attend high school.

All of this is making Carol Henry wonder why her property taxes are going up 100 percent — what exactly that’s paying for, if not to keep Hill open. Her three grandkids go there. “To sacrifice for the children is OK,” she says. Now, she’s not seeing the upside.

Barbara Shields, who cares for her niece, a seventh-grader, admits she’d just as soon not send her to either Blaine or Hill: “If I had the money, I would put her in a better school.” —Samantha Melamed

ALAN BARR

By Daniel Denvir

MAKING US SICK ³ GOV. TOM CORBETT’S February budget address kicked off what may be a troubled reelection campaign. His approval ratings have hit an all-time low, dipping to 26 percent in a recent Franklin & Marshall poll. (And if this sounds familiar, you’re right: I frequently have the pleasure of writing, “Corbett’s approval ratings have hit an all-time low,” because they frequently do.) Now, they have attracted a high-profile 2014 opponent in U.S. Rep. Allyson Schwartz.

Corbett is thus making a heroic effort to seem like something other than the austerity-worshipping agent of natural-gas companies that his enemies portray him to be. Notably, he has proposed boosting school funding. But that is contingent on privatizing liquor sales and weakening pensions, making it look less like a serious proposal and more like a bargaining chip in his fight against organized labor.

The superficiality of Corbett’s newfound moderation is nowhere more evident than in his rejection of Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion to an estimated 613,000 uninsured Pennsylvanians who are not poor enough to qualify for the current program. The decision places Corbett firmly on his party’s right wing; Republican governors from Florida, Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota and Ohio are all participating in the expansion.

Corbett complains about cost: Though the federal government will cover 100 percent of the bill for the first three years, that support will eventually drop to 90 percent. He contends expansion would cost the state nearly $1 billion through 2016, and he is demanding that Washington “start granting states true flexibility to successfully reform” their Medicaid programs. Corbett has already used his “flexibility” to decimate the state-level health-care safety net, eliminating adultBasic, which insured 41,000 people, kicking nearly 90,000 children off Medicaid, and quietly cutting nearly 55,000 people from state Medical Assistance by way of the elimination of General Assistance and the imposition of new work requirements and complicated paperwork.

But it’s not clear that expanding Medicaid would ultimately cost the state money. Pennsylvania hospitals expect that forgoing the expansion will cost them $7 billion over the next decade. The Pennsylvania Health Law Project estimates the expansion could save the state $400 million per year.

Thanks to Corbett, 613,000 Pennsylvanians are at risk of untreated illnesses or medical bankruptcy.

He still has time to change his mind. If he doesn’t, Pennsylvanians may change theirs in 2014. ✚ Send feedback to daniel.denvir@citypaper.net

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spring, the administration conceded it was an issue.

But the most direct fix, changing the state constitutionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;uniformity clauseâ&#x20AC;? requiring equitable taxation, has only lately come into play in the General Assembly and is still considered a long shot.

For anticipated mayoral candidates like Green and Kenney, taking a stand on AVI may be a political no-brainer. Likewise for City Controller Alan Butkovitz, who claims he proposed six years ago to â&#x20AC;&#x153;defer the AVI discussion and concentrate on changing the uniformity clause.â&#x20AC;?

But that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t void the perception that, as Butkovitz puts it, AVI â&#x20AC;&#x153;has been backed into â&#x20AC;&#x201D; without real modeling, without a real understanding of its impact on real people. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the best planning to build this structure and then feed in the numbers, and then say the computer is going to tell us who is going to get driven out of their homes.â&#x20AC;?

Instead of a comprehensive, policy-driven plan, he adds, â&#x20AC;&#x153;thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a series of surprises,â&#x20AC;? such as the differing impacts on various neighborhoods and demographic classes, the shift of the tax burden onto residential owners â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and even the total value of all 579,000 city properties, announced in December as a better-than-anticipated $96.5 billion.

Of course, Nutter did have a plan, as he outlined in his 2012 budget address: Assess properties fairly, give owner-occupants a $15,000 â&#x20AC;&#x153;homestead exemptionâ&#x20AC;? tax break, initiate â&#x20AC;&#x153;smoothing measuresâ&#x20AC;? to phase in the change over time, and help low-income seniors with tax freezes.

But that plan has been wracked with hiccups and delays. In 2011, Nutter promised to mail new assessments by fall 2012; by the end of last budget season, Council members said, they were told to expect data by December. Instead, assessments were released to Council in February, just days before they were mailed to homeowners. (By the way, chief assessment officer Richie McKeithen says the time frame â&#x20AC;&#x153;was what I expected. It takes time to attempt to do any kind of quality reassessment.â&#x20AC;?) Âł NOW THAT ASSESSMENTS have been mailed,

the political outlook has not improved.

Some Council members are making the rounds of community meetings partly to answer questions and partly to stir property owners to action.

Kenney, for one, says he is organizing a â&#x20AC;&#x153;militaryâ&#x20AC;? response and will bus whole blocks of residents in to appeal if necessary. Squilla is telling residents heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s convinced that the valuations are â&#x20AC;&#x153;flawed.â&#x20AC;?

While the administration has repeatedly stated that the assessments are fair, some property owners donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see it that way. Queen Village resident Karen Joslin, for one, says her house was assessed at 65 percent more than what it was appraised for in 2011. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a real estate agent, and I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sell my house for that,â&#x20AC;? she says of the $675,000 valuation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If they can sell it for that, they can have it.â&#x20AC;?

McKeithen acknowledges that gentrifying areas are tough to appraise. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To nail something like that down perfectly in a year [is difficult]. It will take more than likely more tweaking and more analysis. â&#x20AC;Ś We came from a system where the values werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t

even remotely reflective of what the property would sell for. We feel like the first year we got a pretty good indication of at least landing closer to the market value.â&#x20AC;?

Still, some realtors are concerned about the uncertainty created by mailing out assessments without a tax rate. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People feel helpless,â&#x20AC;? says Michael Esposito Jr. of South Phillyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alpha Realty Group. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you could afford a house where your payment was $1,200 but now itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s $1,500, you can get less of a house. â&#x20AC;Ś If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re selling, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be detrimental.â&#x20AC;?

He says some of the assessments make sense to him, but not all. Take a property he has listed for sale at $89,000 on the 600 block of Mountain Street. Even he admits that, â&#x20AC;&#x153;with the amount of repairs it needs, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s probably worth more like $70,000.â&#x20AC;? The appraisal? $149,000. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a series of surprises.â&#x20AC;? bought it for $70,000, and you made $79,000 worth of improvements, which is about what it needs, then you would be right there,â&#x20AC;? he says with a laugh.

Separate from tax fairness, but equally important, is whether AVI will, in the end, be affordable for homeowners. An analysis by the Controllerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office found that the top 10 census tracts for seniors living alone will all see tax increases. Taxes will also rise in some low-income areas: Phillyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s poorest neighborhood, Fairhill, will see an average tax increase of 118.7 percent.

Over recent weeks, alarmed Council members have unleashed a slew of bills and resolutions to address those issues, including relief for lowincome homeowners whose taxes will rise 250 percent; the elimination of a $30,000 homestead exemption in order to reduce the overall tax rate; and the generation of revenue by targeting tax delinquents, collecting taxes from nonprofits and creating an outdoor-advertising program. There >>> continued on page 11

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are more ideas to come: Squilla wants to phase in AVI over four years, while Kenney is considering a “reverse tax abatement” for longtime residents.

“If that [hodgepodge of proposals] feels like panic, I think it’s because they’re panicky,” says Zach Stalberg of the good-government watchdog Committee of Seventy. He calls it a symptom of poor planning and the punting of budget issues from one March to the next. “People are suddenly grasping for ideas, and it can seem really unorganized.”

And as politicians hear from angry constituents, some small-business owners worry the politics of AVI could hurt them further. The property category “stores with dwellings” saw the largest average valuation increase citywide, a 251 percent bump; and an analysis by AxisPhilly found a homestead exemption would adversely affect small commercial properties even further. Since Council increased the commercial Use and Occupancy tax last year, some businesses are already on the ropes, says Jane Lipton of the Manayunk Development Corporation.

“These businesses are not suddenly going to increase their revenue because AVI finds they have a higher property value.” She fears they are “easy targets, generally speaking, because the people that

own commercial properties do not live or vote in the districts.”

Meanwhile City Council, which already approved AVI last year with a $30,000 homestead exemption, will need 12 votes to chart a different (and veto-proof) course, if the mayor doesn’t agree.

Whatever happens, the administration expects appeals to increase by 50 percent, at a potential cost of $30 million. If Squilla and Kenney are right, though, it could be even more.

All this promises, at the least, to ring in another messy budget season. Stalberg is urging Council to address AVI at once, with hearings and expert analysis, and not let it dominate budget talks again. But he admits this idea hasn’t gotten traction.

“Politics and personality have an inordinate effect on situations like this. Everyone’s got their own political agenda,” he says.

“Then, on top of that … you have the pure problem of bad human dynamics.” (samantha@citypaper.net)

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The Record: The Village Voice and the Birth of Rock Criticism (March 28, University of Massachussetts Press).

She argues that rock critics — namely those writing for the Voice in the 1960s and ’70s, like Robert Christgau and Richard Goldstein — provided valuable political and intellectual contributions while institutionalizing a new discipline. City Paper recently met with Powers to talk about why music criticism matters today, and what the future holds for critics — including this jaded writer.

City Paper: Why does music criticism matter now?

Devon Powers: Ah, the million-dollar question! It matters for the same reason music does: It gives meaning to people’s lives. Music’s an important part of our lives, and we like to express ourselves about those things that are important to us. We can’t all be musicians, but we can all have emotions and ideas about music.

That’s why people do it, and why it still matters, even if the ways people are getting music, and thinking about music, are through new channels.

CP: There’s more recorded music and more channels now than ever before.

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THE RESURRECTIONIST E.B. HUDSPETH The Resurrectionist doesn’t want PHILLY you to know it’s not real. From the sober, matter-of-fact prose of the first half of the book to the extensive anatomical diagrams of the second, this historical horror-fantasy tries its darndest

CP: The value of the critics you write about is that they comment, not merely on music, but on larger cultural and social issues of importance.

DP: Right. I think music’s an incredible medium from

to maintain the illusion. It mostly succeeds — though not without some drawbacks.

The premise, as laid out in the faux-biography at the beginning: Spencer Black, supposedly, was a Philadelphia surgeon studying at the Academy of Medicine obsessed with Mütter-worthy human mutations like Siamese twins, extra limbs and “lobster’s claw.” From his studies, Black comes to the controversial conclusion that humans are distantly descended from mythological creatures — thus, the second half of the book is a reproduction of his Codex Extinct Animalia, an encyclopedia of mermaids, harpies, sphinxes and the like. Because Dr. Black’s supposedly an artist as well, the detailed scientific analyses of these creatures are accompanied by beautiful hand-drawn illustrations. (The advance copy was missing some of the art, but there were more than enough to get the idea.)

Philly-based publisher Quirk Books is best known for putting out the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies series, and The Resurrectionist could be seen as another addition to the “Victorian grotesque” niche. But much of Pride’s success came from its tongue-in-cheek premise. The narrator of The Resurrectionist

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CP: It’s hard to keep that in mind nowadays, given the dwindling resources available to those who do this as a profession. It seems like critics spend more time fighting on Twitter than providing valuable commentary.

DP: It’s true: We don’t do a good job making arguments for why we matter, and why music matters. We’d definitely do a better job if we fought our common enemies rather than fight each other. But I think the fighting’s good, too. Anytime there’s a destabilizing moment, it’s like a crucible — it’s like baptism by fire. It will hopefully result in something stronger and much more interesting and much better in ways that we can’t even predict. (e_sharp@citypaper.net)

remains almost completely neutral throughout the tale, which does have its benefits; Dr. Black’s story is convincing no matter how absurd or horrific it gets.

But it’s played a bit too straight for its own good. The story’s ability to thrill or chill has gotten lost in its stoic, found-document method of telling, resulting in a book that was probably more fun to write than it is to read. However, much like Dr. Black himself, The Resurrectionist’s willingness to be different makes it a fascinating curio. (May 21, Quirk Books, 208 pp.)

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that pays the bills, is on the decline, but music criticism itself is actually increasing now that there are more platforms.

DP: I’m not too optimistic about the money side of it, but I’m optimistic about the intellectual side.

Democratization leads to devaluing. There aren’t travel agents or video stores anymore, either; lots of careers pass away for various reasons. What’s curious about music journalism is that it’s very similar to other types of knowledge professions. It’s not because technology’s changing, but the question is: What does it mean to be someone who has ideas and shares them, and how do we value those ideas?

technological, emotional and intellectual standpoints.

I really do believe music’s the harbinger for things to come. Music’s the place where you see technological changes, and where you hear political commentary before it erupts. Music’s the prism through which we see life, and the people who are drawn to write about music feel and see that, and they want to share it.

PHL 2012: A YEAR IN DIY DIY PHL You don’t need to have heard of the PHILLY bands in PHL 2012: A Year in DIY to appreciate the visceral energy of this handsome little photo book. The mostly word-free pages — assembled by esteemed Philly-music-scene site diyphl.com — are packed with sweaty drummers, screaming >>> continued on page 20

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baggage (adopted, tiny dad, dead mom, etc.) that his old college frenemy Adam sneakily repurposes it all into a novel. Now a bit older and wiser, Rank responds to this exploitation of his life story with a year’s worth of emails to Adam, a hilarious and heartbreaking novel of his own that makes up the entirety of The Antagonist. Coady’s casual storytelling style is a stealthy vehicle for some wily insights into oft-ignored facets of modern masculinity. In her hands, everybody’s worthy of sympathy and dignity. Nobody’s a monster. Or everybody’s a monster. Or there’s no such thing as monsters. (Jan. 22, Knopf, 304 pp.)

CP: It seems like music criticism, understood as a job

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attempting to manage this surplus. Not all of them will stick, and that’s OK. But one thing that’s stuck for hundreds of years is that people enjoy the opinions of others they respect regarding the decisions they make. The pathway to becoming these critical voices, however, has changed. This path’s destabilizing, and it’s scary, but it’s not necessarily bad. Look at Fashion Week, for example — there are all these bloggers sitting in the same row as Anna Wintour. She’s still there, but there are all these other new people, too. When these new technologies arrive, people freak out because they inevitably change things. Then come the proclamations about the end of the world. That’s what it looks like in the beginning, but there’s eventually stasis and coexistence.

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play on the two meanings of “curve,” and he builds up late-style sentences that would, for a lesser writer, make entire paragraphs.

But the intensity and concentration that made The Tunnel so vengeful here make ironic counterpoint with the story, about a man at pains “to be a person who disappears because he is so like everybody else as not to count.” Even when it digresses into the obscurities of Thomas Hardy or the complexities of music history, Middle C remains a bleak black comedy. (March 12, Knopf, 416 pp.)

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TYLER KEPNER As the Phillies celebrate their PHILLY 130th anniversary this season, they’ve amassed more one-volume histories than World Series trophies.

Adding to the library is Tyler Kepner’s excellent new book detailing the team’s many joys and heartbreaks — sometimes both simultaneously, in the case of 1964 or 1993.

The book’s 220 illustrations include lavish color photographs of Citizens Bank Park, several rare action shots from the Baker Bowl and, amazingly, even one in-game photo from their original home, Recreation Park (at 24th Street and what’s now Cecil B. Moore Avenue) where the Phillies played from 1883 to 1886, plus pictures of vintage baseball cards and memorabilia. Despite this, though, if The Phillies Experience has a major flaw, it’s that while each season from 1900 onward gets at least one page (the 2007-2011 seasons are understandably given greater detail), the 1883-1899 teams are summarized in just six pages.

Kepner, a baseball writer for the New York Times, grew up in Philadelphia an ardent Phillies fan during the lean mid-1980s. He describes the recent renaissance: “The team that bumbled through 30 losing seasons in a 31-year span; that once tried to change its name to Blue Jays; that lagged behind every [National League] team in integration; that traded Hall of Famers Ferguson Jenkins and Ryne Sandberg … somehow, that team would one day become the envy of baseball.” The Phillies Experience is likely to be the envy of every local baseball fan come Opening Day. (March 23, MVP Books, 224 pp.)

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MIDDLE C WILLIAM H. GASS The most immediately relevant fact about Middle C is how long it took to be written — William H. Gass’ previous novel, The Tunnel, came out nearly 20 years ago in 1995, when the author was a spry 70 years old. Middle C wears its author’s labors on its sleeve; even incidental bits glow with the effort of the polishing. When his hero unaccountably aces a test in high school, Gass points out how “guys smiled or winked at him, and Joey had to assume they felt he had somehow cheated his way to perfection.

They did not honor good grades — on the contrary — but they prized chicanery, and any successful dodge, so long as it didn’t threaten the curve, and Miss Gyer had no curves. She was a tall woman made entirely of posture. The y in her name was her best feature.”

Gass sustains the same pressure on his language throughout Middle C. He’s everywhere as witty and effortful as in that

South Philly native Jason Mulgrew PHILLY has certain gifts, including a flair for colorful footnotes, a spectacularly mortifying family photo album, an encyclopedic knowledge of local junk food and, apparently, a variety of inventive techniques for masturbating. One thing he lacks is a sense of shame.

That’s lucky for readers, since his comingof-age confessional, set first in the roughand-tumble vicinity of Second Street in the ’80s and later in the more rarefied halls of St. Joe’s Prep, is an extremely funny (if stomach-turning) look at life as an overachieving, overweight and occasionally overcompensating city kid.

Blogger-turned-author Mulgrew picks up where his first childhood memoir, the bestselling Everything Is Wrong With Me, left off, drawing us into a world crowded with outsized and perversely lovable characters, starting with himself. Mulgrew spent much of high school wearing a fur cape and trying to move beyond the “gay best friend” zone before running for student government on the campaign promise that he’d deliver no less than the titular 236 pounds of class vice-president.

Hometown boosters will appreciate Mulgrew’s comprehensive taxonomy of Philly’s favorite foods (and South Philly’s best underage drinking spots). And anyone who was at one time a teenage boy will likely relate to Mulgrew’s retelling of his discoveries of the Beatles, beer and blue balls.

Writing a memoir funnier than the childhood photos scattered throughout the text (again: the fur cape!) is a tall order, but Mulgrew mostly manages it. Expect consistent humor, but not necessarily a point to it all: These are less tales of redemption than stories of poor decisions that happened not to lead to disaster. (Feb. 12, Harper Perennial, 240 pp.)

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JASON MULGREW singers and crowds getting into it, often at the sort of small, off-the-beaten-path venues City Paper usually can’t write about for fear of risking their livelihood. Zia Hilty’s overhead shot of local hardcore heroes Paint It Black captures singer Dan Yemin dramatically pointing toward the heavens, or at least the ceiling of West Philly’s Golden Tea House. In a powerful two-pager by Alyssa Tanchajja, Steve Pid of Providence band White Load prowls the confines of Cloud City (also in West Philly), microphone at his side, blood pouring from his head. Though the photos in PHL 2012 were taken just over the last year, there’s an eerie and exhilarating sense of timelessness that connects this collection to the larger punk picture.

(Feb. 16, 60 pp.)

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UNKNOWN PLEASURES: INSIDE JOY DIVISION PETER HOOK This is the kind of book we want to never end. Not because it’s so brilliant, but because there’s no way to twist the final act into anything other than what it inevitably is. No matter how Peter Hook tells the story of Joy Division, the Manchester band for which he played bass, he can’t stop frontman Ian Curtis from committing suicide one day before their first U.S. tour. On May 18, 1980, we know Debbie Curtis will walk into the kitchen to find her 23-year-old husband with a noose around his neck. And as >>> continued on page 22

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³ ONCE UPON A TIME, the number-one sportswriter

for the better of Detroit’s newspapers was a better-thanaverage slice-of-life columnist named Mitch Albom.

But Albom is no longer just a sportswriter. Instead, an earnest, heartfelt memoir and a handful of unabashedly inspirational novels have made him the foremost producer of Father’s Day books.

He’s also become a symbol of something to avoid, at least for novelists writing about relationships among men, afraid enough of sentimentality that they’re willing to lurch in the opposite direction, sometimes even outright. Right at the outset of Rage Is Back (Jan. 10, Viking), Adam Mansbach — or his narrator Kilroy Dondi Vance — excuses himself for breaking the fourth wall and

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ing, were taking such a toll. Not even his first suicide attempt was an adequate clue.

They kept charging forward.

The atrocious destination can’t change, but Hook’s book finally puts meat on Joy Division’s bones where only thin myths previously hung. Unknown Pleasures is far more real (and so much less romantic) than Control, the 2007 Joy Division biopic. Here, four clueless, but incredibly creative, working-class kids somehow become the most promising, original rock band the world was about to receive. Even the band seemed surprised by it all. So surprised, sadly, that none of them realized what was happening until it was too late. (Jan. 29, It Books, 416 pp.)

—ELLIOTT SHARP

we get closer, each page is more devastating than the last.

As Hook recounts the band’s quick life, with each step we’re searching for what went wrong. Hook’s answer? They were too young, and too stupid, and everything happened too fast. No time to see that Curtis, an epileptic who started having seizures at almost every show, needed a break. No time to see that his deteriorating marriage and his depression, and the band’s heavy tour-

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straining the reader’s credulity, explaining that “if you’re already frowning and thinking I’m an unreliable narrator, or going, ‘Oh goody, I love magical realism,’ then you should cut your losses and go read Tuesdays with Morrie.”

Mansbach is hardly alone in bristling against the taint of sentimentality. John Kenney’s Truth in Advertising (Jan. 22, Touchstone) opens with the arm’s-length cynicism of adman-in-crisis Fin Dolan distancing himself from the self-importance and shop talk of his stagnant career as an uninspired copywriter. He’s one of a tribe “so much alike in wardrobe, attitude, worldview, background, humor; readers of HuffPo, Gawker, Agency Spy, people who quote Monty Python, Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, who speak in movie-line references over and over.”

This is familiar enough that it’s a relief when Kenney decides he doesn’t need to maintain his edge, and steps away from ad-industry satire. Truth then becomes the story of a middle-aged white guy getting himself together, forced to grow up after holding on to adolescence for too long — familiar Nick Hornby territory. But even if Kenney follows a well-marked playbook, down to an almost single-minded concentration on his male characters and their relationships, he’s sure-handed with the grace notes, especially with Fin’s tendency to soundtrack and post-produce his lower moments: “It makes life more interesting for me, gives me a wonderful sense of false empowerment.”

Not that distance is the only way to avoid sentimentality. A book like Marjorie Celona’s intense Y (Jan. 8, Free Press) goes in precisely the opposite direction, painful and immediate, as it twists together the stories of Shannon’s childhood in the

HARVEST JIM CRACE Jim Crace tells two stories in Harvest. The stories share a setting, and some members of a village’s cast of characters; they rub up against each other uneasily at the edges, but mainly stay apart.

The first story occurs right after harvest in a small, remote English village, where the well-worn rhythms of autumn are interrupted by a fire at the manor house and the arrival of two sets of strangers, high-born

foster system and her mother Yula’s decision to abandon her newborn daughter on the steps of a YMCA. Celona’s writing is clear and strong, and she avoids fripperies like metaphor or flowery prose, so it sticks out when she does, emphasizing baby Shannon’s smallness by describing her head as “the size of a Yukon Gold potato.”

But if Y is unadorned and humorless, it’s also lean and honest, without self-pity. Then again, Y is also a book about mothers and daughters, not fathers and sons — no less fraught a relationship, but judging by the memoir shelves, one that’s easier to approach earnestly.

It’s this very lack of earnestness that mars Mansbach’s otherwise enjoyable, hyperkinetic Rage Is Back. Rage is a person — Billy Vance, leader of the legendary Immortal Five graffiti crew — and Dondi’s absent father, driven out of the city when his son was 2. He’s returned to stop, more or less, the mayoral campaign of the Metropolitan Transit Authority chief who killed his closest friend 18 years before.

Mansbach uses Dondi’s manic energy and slang and direct address as a shoehorn, channeling a bunch of stuff into the book, from a heist to a pocket history of the glory days of train bombing.But the father-son story is a bait-and-switch, with neither character as developed as the patter Mansbach pushes through Dondi’s mouth. In fact, the closest they get to rapport or even conversation is a 16-page shared psychedelic trip, as tiresome on the page as it sounds, evading the difficulty of describing a real relationship with a flight into fantasy. Not necessarily all that far from the pressures that would turn a sportswriter away from his beat and toward wish-fulfilling, inspirational fiction. (j_bauer@citypaper.net)

and low, who each become scapegoats for the villagers’ faults, fears and prejudices. Crace’s other, larger story is about enclosure — the 17th-century transformation of the English countryside from common fields to fenced pasture — which condemns the village commons to become a sheep farm.

Crace’s window on this moment comes from Walter Thirsk, one of the few characters who participates in both stories, and perhaps the only one who responds to his village’s fate with the appropriate fatalism.

A relative newcomer, Thirsk arrived as the master’s man, and chose to marry among its people. A dozen years later and now a widower, he can share in the work and the harvest but is alone in knowing a world beyond the village.

Harvest sets Crace a difficult task: balancing the uneven halves of the story, then creating a character able to bridge the specifics of the past with the general (and, right now, timely) dread of capital and foreclosure. Crace does this, often beautifully, through Thirsk, whose narration is mannered enough to be timeless without becoming archaic, and methodical enough to serve character without stinting on interest and incident: an instrument fit perfectly to a man out of time and place. (Feb. 12, Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 224 pp.)

—JUSTIN BAUER

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author Bruce Klauber to Philly’s jazz scene in the last six months has truly been something to crow about. The drummer sailed smoothly through the ’80s and ’90s with the gusto of a Gene Krupa (the big-band leader has been a subject of Klauber’s books and DVDs), but his health and business got wonky in 2008. Through the auspices of Philly’s Jazz Bridge organization, Klauber got a spiritual, physical and financial leg up, and now is back on his feet and better than ever. How much better? He’s starting this city’s first regular all-jazz, only-jazz column in the March issue of ICON.Not since Nels Robert Nelson wrote his last jazz column for the Daily Newsin November 1996 (eight months before his death at the age of 73) has Philly jazz seen such devotion in print. “As a jazz musician and a writer, I know that one of the community’s complaints has been the lack of regular media coverage,” says Klauber. “I have the chance to try to do something about it, with coverage of the players, the presenters, the recordings, the academic scene, the jam sessions and yes, sometimes the issues.” Klauber’s the mouth that roared, so Philly jazz: Prepare for an earful. ³ Live Nation’s Michael Lessner is used to sell outs. Still, he was amazed and thrilled when his daughter Raquel Lessner hit the Today Show last week to show off new goods and designs from her Strut-This activewear line. “Her site crashed almost immediately from all the activity,” said the proud papa, recalling that the youngest members of the Kardashian clan tweeted about Strut-This’ stuff last year. ³ Speaking of Live Nation, now that Jay-Z has paired up with Justin Timberlake for the Legends of the Summer stadium tour with local dates at Hersheypark Stadium (Aug. 4) and Citizens Bank Park (Aug. 13), what will become of Hova’s Made in America 2? The first one took over the Parkway last year at the end of August, and plans were being made for a second round in town in 2013. What’s up? No word yet from H-to-the-Izzo’s peeps at RocNation. ³ Birra on East Passyunk is going to have to do without one of its chefs during a busy Friday night during that Avenue’s restaurant week. On March 1, drummer/ chef Steven Stens will play Johnny Brenda’s as part of Juston Stens & the Get Real Gang’s gig for its new CD, Share the Road. Share a slice of pizza while you’re at it, Steve. ³ DJ/producer/label owner A-Trak signed Grande Marshall — the Philly toast of nu-rap known for the 800 mixtape and “AK47” collaboration with local rapper Asaad — to Fool’s Gold at 2012’s end. A-Trak recently talked up the rapper’s unique vibe and said that Marshall would drop a debut disc this year. ³ More ice? Try citypaper.net/criticalmass. (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)

YE MARINERS ALL: (from left) Hal Willner got Tom Waits and Richard Thompson to contribute to his latest piratethemed compilation.

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roducer and arranger Hal Willner’s only a household name in certain households.

Los Lobos and Lucinda Williams know him. Lou Reed has tapped him for several recent recording projects, including that 2011 team-up with Metallica.

Marianne Faithfull knows him as a foodie, as well as a producer.

“Hal loooooves to eat,” she once told me during an interview about her 2008 album Easy Come Easy Go, which Willner produced.

“His father had a wonderful deli in Upper Darby,” she said with a hearty laugh. “We talked about that as much as we did music during our time together.”

Mostly, though, Willner is known as the number-one-withoutquestion producer and curator of tribute records.

It all started with 1981’s Amarcord Nino Rota (I Remember Nino Rota). Dedicated to the work of the composer renowned for his efforts with Federico Fellini, that album featured the then-freshfaced likes of Wynton Marsalis and Bill Frisell along with hit-making vocalist Debbie Harry.

That’s been Willner’s tribute compilation schematic ever since: Use avant jazz-bos, top-notch singers taking a risk and esteemed outsider artists such as Tom Waits, Todd Rundgren, Iggy Pop and

John Zorn to pay weird homage to legends like Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Harold Arlen, Harry Smith and Kurt Weill.

Willner’s last two compilations have been swashbucklers: 2006’s Rogues Gallery and the just-released Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys. Both are executive produced by the Pirates of the Caribbean team, Johnny Depp and Gore Verbinski. Willner jokingly calls the project “this monstrosity.”

“This pirate thing definitely traces back to when I lived in Philly,” he says. “A lot of the music on Rogues Gallery comes from the old folk days and listening to Gene Shay on Philly radio. All of Philly radio back in the day was great. WDAS was killing it.

WMMR had Michael Tearson.

My tastes kept changing as a kid. Soul. Avant-garde. But Shay stayed firm.”

Willner, who now lives in New York, remembers how one night Shay dedicated an entire show to sea shanties and chants. The music moved him immediately. “Not so much to go out and buy a dozen albums,” laughs Willner. “But enough to base several albums on it over 40 years later. It sounded like a dozen Popeyes at once.” He then goes into a burly-man Barnacle Bill song.

“When I got the call from [the label] Anti- and Johnny Depp, I knew that I wasn’t an expert on the music. But that’s why I do these albums in the first place, so I can learn.” A research hound

“My tastes kept changing as a kid.

But Shay stayed firm.”

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No surprises: Amok (XL) is, at least on the surface, standard-issue latter-day Thom Yorke product. Imagine The Eraser’s mannered moodiness with an extra helping of jittery King of Limbs percussion and you’ve got a workable shorthand. What distinguishes it is the extent to which Atoms for Peace are truly a band; comprising not just Yorke’s left-hand soundwiz Nigel Godrich but also a trio of truly world-class groovemakers (Mauro Refosco, Joey Waronker, Flea) atop whose gorgeously sinuous and sometimes intriguingly Brazilian-tinged throwdowns his million-dollar murmur functions as mere, miraculous window dressing.

—K. Ross Hoffman

Eugene Mirman’s act shouldn’t work as

well as it does — on the new An Evening Of Comedy in a Fake, Underground Laboratory CD/DVD (Comedy Central), and in everything he does. Most of the time, he’s simply recalling funny things he did, like making fake Facebook ads, trolling a Christian dating site and leaving weird notes on bar napkins (i.e. “It’s OK to lie to old people!”). Maybe it’s his goofy enthusiasm, or it’s just the relentless absurdity, but Mirman comes off not like a braggart, but an always-on comedic adventurer.

—Patrick Rapa

³ pop/rock L.A.’s Foxygen, who hit a sold-out First Unitarian Church Friday with similarly tuned-in/turned-on tourmates Unknown Mortal Orchestra, are the schtickiest of the recent psych-wavers, but also maybe the stickiest. We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic (Jagjaguwar), title on down, plays like an elaborate pophistorical dress-up pageant, mix ’n’ matching baroque-pop brocade and bell-bottom blues, glam-Velvets jean jackets with Sgt. Pepper epaulets, a Shuggie soul-patch and a Dylanish sneer. I know it’s only po-mo indie-pop pastiche — but I like it.

—K. Ross Hoffman

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³ folk/world The core of From Bamako to Carencro (Compass) is classic BeauSoleil. Michael Doucet’s soaring and sawing fiddle trades lines with brother David’s flatpicked guitar. Billy Ware, Tommy Alesi and Mitchell Reed round out the sound while guest accordionists divide the tracks. Jesse Ledet plays straight-ahead Cajun on tunes like “Port Arthur Two-Step.”

Cory Ledet does it zydeco style on the old gospel song “You Got to Move” en français, low and slow. Recordings like this give outsiders a hint of what they are missing.

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Fee-fi-fofum: All this CGI is dumb.

³ Dear Papa: My husband and I have been married for almost two years, and I am pregnant with our first child. We decided I would name our baby if it was a girl, and he would name the baby if it was a boy.

Turns out, it’s a boy! I’m thrilled. But my husband just informed me that he wants to name our child Gene. Gene! When I joked about his choice, he got upset. How do I get him to reconsider? —Not Genial in Northern Liberties Dear Not Genial: The laughter of a woman has a way of piercing a man through his heart and piercing a man through what makes him a man. A man has a name and it’s the name his father gave him. You will have the boy to yourself before he is old enough to fish. You can call his father whatever you’d like then, but damn it, for Christ’s sake — don’t cut a man down if you expect him to ever teach your boy to be a man. You should never make a promise you’re not ready to keep.

Dear Papa: My new Blu-Ray player has an HDMI output, but my TV only has S-cable, component and composite video inputs! Is there any hope for me?

—Luddite in Bala Cynwyd Dear Luddite: No one should mix their own daiquiris or set up their own A.V. equipment.

Dear Papa: I just found out that my girlfriend cheated on me with my cousin, with whom I used to be really close. My girlfriend apologized and my cousin said it didn’t mean anything, but I’m really hurt. I still love both of them, and I want them both in my life, but I don’t know if I can forgive them. How can our relationship get past this? —Betrayed in South Philly Dear Betrayed: There are two deer. One is a buck.

The buck’s antler is broken. Antlers break when two bucks battle over a doe. A broken buck is weaker and is easier to shoot. Do not be the broken buck.

Shoot the broken buck. (askpapa@citypaper.net) ✚ Writer Alli Katz communicates with the late Mr. Hemingway via Ouija board. Email her your questions for him and you may find yours answered in this monthly column.

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[ B-] Fee-fi-fo-fum: All this CGI is dumb. It’ll be easy for practical-FX purists to hack Bryan Singer apart for the visual approach of his tricked-out fairy tale: “high gloss, low heart” goes the screed. But while the director has created what looks like a million-shekel iPhone game, the flesh and blood of Jack the Giant Slayer is unexpectedly buoyant due to Jack’s young stars. As a lad, the head-in-the-clouds farm boy (Nicholas Hoult) loves the monster-filled bedtime yarns spun by his father. Same goes for Princess Isabelle (Eleanor Tomlinson), who’s lulled to sleep the same way by her queen mum. The shared story: Heroic King Erik protected Albion from an army of freaky-large, sky-dwelling invaders with the use of a magic crown — a good-overevil triumph entrancing serfs and nobles alike. (Fairy tales: negators of medieval-class barriers for that ass since the late fifth century!) Skipping ahead, Jack is still poor, orphaned and struggling to maintain his dumpy farmhouse; Isabelle rebels against her royal poppa (Ian McShane), who’s arranged for her to marry next-level scumbag Roderick (Stanley Tucci). Having drawn his uncle’s ire for trading a monk a horse for “magic” beans, a dejected Jack’s spirits are lifted by a visit from Isabelle — who’s literally lifted when a discarded bean erupts and sends his domicile, complete with princess, blasting into the stratosphere. Joined by noble knight Elmont (Ewan McGregor, with great hair) and Roderick, Jack scrambles up the stalks to save fair Isabelle, soon running head-on into the armor-plated giants. Led by double-headed Fallon (Bill Nighy and John “Crypt Keeper” Kassir), the beasts mobilize an attack, and Roderick attempts to game the circumstances to capture the throne. Cutting large-scale battles with small-scale trickery, Jack gets action right. There is an overreliance on CGI, but it never gets too Transformers-y; the kids won’t recoil and their parents won’t revolt. —Drew Lazor

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“Willner went about the discovery process with the ears of a novice.” who loves an old-fashioned library as much as he does the Internet, Willner went about the discovery process with the ears of a novice.

He and a core band (“calling them a house band makes them sound like the house wine; not the best”) set up pop-up studios (“or ports of call,” he laughs) central to several of his singers and let the recording rip.

“This is the first album I’ve done where the artist could just show up, pick a song and an hour later be done with it because the songs are so easy to learn.” On some pop-up days, as many as eight or nine singers would show up to a recording in New Orleans or Seattle and the session would take on the vibe of a happening. Willner, the perfect host, lets his guests shine.

“Put a bunch of people in a room that you’d never expect to see together — Shane MacGowan, Macy Gray — and something weird is bound to happen. It reminds me of the old Electric Factory in the ’60s where you’d get Rahsaan Roland Kirk and the Bonzo Dog Band opening for Led Zeppelin. It’s vaudevillian.”

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made Willner want to get into the recording business to begin with, a kitchen-sink aesthetic he learned from another radio personality, his mentor and fellow Darby-ite Joel Dorn.

When Willner decides to hold a vaudeville soiree, he calls on his friends (“actual friends, I’m old-fashioned like that”) to collaborate. Then they call friends, and the next thing you know you’ve got Son of Rogues Gallery and newcomers like Robyn Hitchcock, Marc Almond, Michael Gira and Patti Smith (“Johnny Depp called her”) along with buddies like Keith Richards and Tom Waits howling through the gut-bucket river hymn “Shenandoah.”

“There’s a lot of seven degrees of separation,” says Willner.

“It’s this-one-calls-that-onerings-the-next one. By this time, though, I’m lucky that everyone takes my calls.” (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)

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Torsney-Weir’s Duchess is surprisingly crotchety, though the script clearly creates a mischievous meddler with a lighter touch. David Howey follows her listlessly as Lord Hector, but hams bizarrely with a contrived American-ish accent as a hotel manager. David Blatt fumes and frets as a waiter, leaving Brian McCann to bring genuine style and wit to The Butler, directing a team of Drexel students in scene changes with imperious finger-snaps.

When scene changes outshine scenes, however, something’s amiss. It’s the difference between the frivolity of the phrase “To Fool the Eye” and the winsome poetry suggested by “Time Remembered.” (m_cofta@citypaper.net) ✚ Through March 3, $22-$38,

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³ TO FOOL THE EYE is the English title American playwright Jeffrey Hatcher chose for his 2000 adaptation of Jean Anouilh’s 1940 play Léocadia, first translated in the ’50s as Time Remembered. Hatcher’s title refers to trompe l’oeil, an artistic technique that uses realistic imagery to create an optical illusion of three dimensions when only two exist. In French, “trompe” technically translates closer to “deceive” than “fool” — but Hatcher’s choice of a word that implies comedy over one that implies seriousness speaks volumes. In 1812 Productions’ staging, co-produced with Drexel University’s Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, both Hatcher and director Jennifer Childs seem to want To Fool the Eye to be a French farce. This succeeds in some areas, not so much in others.

The plot, for example, certainly is as convoluted and crazy as the average farce: A dotty Duchess, concerned for her nephew Prince Albert after his girlfriend Léocadia’s sudden death, recreates on her vast estate all the places they visited together during their three-day courtship. Since wallowing doesn’t seem to be helping grim Albert, the Duchess secures a Léocadia look-alike, seamstress Amanda, to play the part of his lost love. (If this setup sounds a little strange and morbid for hilarity to ensue, you’re not alone.)

The production design expands on the idea of two-dimensional frivolity and reality vs. illusion: Adam Riggar’s cleverly transforming storybook sets literally frame the action in gold — allowing characters to emerge into the third dimension as if stepping through a picture frame. The Duchess’ drawing room also ties in to that theme as characters hide and pose behind portraits on her walls, comically responding to the action.

Unfortunately, the script refuses to cooperate with being framed as a farce, feeling more like a melancholy rumination on lost love and memory’s manipulative powers. Act I’s drawn-out setup leads to a long discussion about the Léocadia invented by Albert’s misery versus her actual words and actions. Once Amanda’s common-sense personality breaks through the idealized, scripted version of the woman she’s been asked to impersonate, Albert is predictably forced to break with

the past and confront reality.

Farce? No. A potentially engaging romantic fantasy? Well, maybe — but we don’t find out from this production.

Michael Doherty seems ideal for mercurially emotional Albert, and plays his unraveling with a sincerity that would work well in a production that encouraged it. Amanda Holston’s seamstress, however, lacks subtlety and depth: She hits one strident note throughout, doing little to become Léocadia and even less to establish Amanda, a union worker appalled by Albert’s extravagant wallowing: “Many a memory is beautiful,” she says, “but life is not.” It takes two to make a conversation, let alone a relationship — and in this production characters seldom even look at each other, let alone connect.

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This modern breakdown of the famously unorthodox (read: corrupt) unit by writer/director Nick Love generates a good bit of bollocks-grasping excitement, but squanders its highs with too many dulling lows. Famous for his book-’em-Dannostyle catchphrase (“You’re nicked!”) and the quickness with which he cracks bad-guy bones, Sweeney leader Jack Regan (who else but Ray Winstone?) does right by doing wrong.

He regularly bends the rules — beating info out of suspects, bribing informants with funds lifted from crime scenes — but is too arrogant, and too effective, to care. Backed by protégé George (Ben Drew) and clandestine screw-buddy Nancy (Hayley Atwell), Jack begins investigating a knockover of a small jewelry shop that ended with the brutal execution of a seemingly innocent civilian. The trail leads to an old nemesis (Paul Anderson) and complications with internal-affairs investigator Ivan Lewis (Steven Mackintosh) — who also happens to be Nancy’s husband. Any good caper vehicle needs strong chase scenes and shootouts, and Love more than delivers in this regard — the weaponized footrace through Trafalgar Square is the movie’s most exhilarating segment. It’s the time between these sequences that comes off pale and plodding. No one needs engrossing character development in a heist flick, but we at least want to stay on the right side of boring. —Drew Lazor

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Like his earlier Horrible Bosses, Seth Gordonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new wire-fraud-fraught road-buddy comedy suffers from banking on the belly-laugh dexterity of the leads and not much else. A stiff at a Denver financial firm, Sandy Patterson (Jason Bateman) has two kids and a third on the way; too many mouths to feed on a menial salary. Circumstances brighten when heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s offered a high-paying new gig â&#x20AC;&#x201D; immediately jeopardized by his mysteriously plummeting credit, skyrocketing debt and a warrant for a missed court date. Once cops determine that Floridian petty crook Diana (Melissa McCarthy) is the culprit, Sandy treks cross-country to confront her. These are two sharp comedic actors, but theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re only intermittently allowed to bang their funny drums. The rest of the run time is filled with boring sob-story sentiment (so thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why she steals identities!) and constant out-of-character asides. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;DL (AMC Loews Cherry Hill, Pearl, Rave, UA Grant, UA Main Street)

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✚ VINCENT IN BRIXTON Driving Nicholas Wright’s fascinating play is our knowledge of the future: Vincent van Gogh will become a great artist, and his talent won’t be recognized in his lifetime. In 1873 London, however, young Vin-

cent — portrayed with brave crudeness by Brian Cowden — is a jerk. He professes his undying love at first sight for Eugenie (Clare Mahoney), the daughter of his grieving widow landlady Ursula (Mary Martello), and then launches a surprising new seduction. As we learn early on, “Nothing in this house is what it seems.”

Director Kate Galvin’s production is exquisite in every way, from a perfect cast led by Martello to Thom Weaver’s richly detailed kitchen set and masterful lighting, particularly impressive in his seldomused “alleyway,” or two-sided, configuration of the Walnut Street Theatre’s flexible 80seat Studio on 3. John Jarboe, as working-class artisan Sam Plowman, outshines the impulsive, unpleasantly frank Vincent in most ways, and Liz Filios is brilliantly fiery as Vincent’s sister, visiting from Denmark to spy on their family’s behalf. This gripping play about love, class and art shows how all four characters

contribute to Vincent’s seemingly impossible, yet inevitable, growth from callow youth to immortal artist.

—Mark Cofta Through March 10, $30-$36, Walnut Street Theatre Studio on 3, 825 Walnut St., 215-574-3550, walnutstreettheatre.org.

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✚ JAMES HUNTER SIX Back when he debuted in the mid-’90s — and when the burgeoning retro-soul audience caught up with him a decade later for his excellent 2006 breakthrough, People Gonna Talk — James Hunter’s buttery-smooth vocal stylings and svelte, dapper ’50s-style arrangements made him a double-take-worthy dead ringer for Sam Cooke. On Minute by Minute (Go/Fantasy), his fifth album in two decades and the first to acknowledge his crackerjack backing combo (in number, at least), he sounds, if anything, even less

like what you’d expect from an unassuming-looking Englishman, trying on a smokier, Ray Charles-via-Jackie Wilson vocal grittiness to match his band’s horn-heavy throwdowns. With Gabriel Roth, Daptone Records’ soul-revival kingpin, behind the boards, Hunter and the Six dip into chicken-shack funk, “Tequila”style Latin-tinged acoustic groovers and the title track’s hard-swinging organ-led strut, alongside their more refined, jazzier supper-club fare — all on original tunes that’d handily pass a smell test as unearthed turn-of-the’60s chestnuts.

—K. Ross Hoffman Thu., Feb. 28, 8 p.m., $20-$33, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-2221400, worldcafelive.com.

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✚ PARSONS DANCE Choreographer David Parsons is marvelously adept at crafting wholly entertaining

works that maintain high artistic integrity. “There’s no question that he makes work that people respond to,” says Randy Swartz, artistic director of Dance Celebration, who adds, “I don’t want to say popular, because then it sounds like you’re dumbing it down.” Parsons is one of the top creators of ensemble dance performance and Swartz claims the cast that comes in this week is “the most together, stylistically, appearancewise, and technique-wise that I’ve ever seen. … It’s a finely tuned instrument and he uses it to good stead.” The program includes two Philly premieres: Round My World hews to Parsons’ penchant for dexterous rhythmic patterns while A Stray’s Lullaby is dark, dramatic and intense.

Per usual, Parsons serves up multiple moods.

—Deni Kasrel Through March 2, $20-$55, Annenberg Center, 3680 Walnut St., 215-898-3900, pennpresents.org.

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✚ MOBY DICK — REHEARSED Everybody sort-of knows Herman Melville’s behemoth American classic: Captain Ahab, the white whale, “Call me Ishmael.” Reading it is a huge undertaking, and filming it is damn near impossible, but staging the story is something that Orson Welles accomplished over half a century ago. Now Iron Age Theatre Company — whose past productions have compellingly told stories set in exotic locales from Antarctica to an African jungle to a 1920s football field — takes us to sea. “The intense physicality of the show fits with Iron Age’s muscular performance style,” says director

—Mark Cofta March 1-24, $22, Centre Theater, 208 DeKalb St., Norristown, 610-279-1013, ironagetheatre.org.

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—Deni Kasrel Sat.-Sun., March 2-3, $10-$20, thefidget space, 1714 N. Mascher St., 267679-4166, thefidget.org.

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✚ PLATO’S PORNO CAVE Inspired by both Plato’s Republic and the Mayan creation text the Popul Vuh, Plato’s Porno Cave: The New World may be taken as performance art or sincere spiritual practice. Though, why can’t it be both? The month-long “dream exhibition of overwhelming sensual

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about an open space while dancers Melissa Krodman and Kelly Bond perform a mechanical repetitious duet. Things don’t change a heck of a lot, yet this performance-art piece manages to mesmerize through the hypnotic power generated by one’s need to perceive and focus in on the tiniest details.

We’re talking super-subtle slow-motion transformation.

The two wily dancers stay in unison for 50 minutes, and be advised: If you blink, you really may miss something.

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society that lives by Plato’s conception of utopian justice and allows people to shed past hardships. There will be visual arts, performance, music, film screenings (focusing on Richard Kern, Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin and others) and, of course, refreshments for those who still need convincing.

—Joe Poteracki March 2-29, 8 p.m., $5-$10, Little Berlin, 2430 Coral St., 610-308-0579, littleberlin.org.

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✚ HOWL Howl, the Providence doommetal quartet, has a problem with heaven. At least, that’s the impression I get from “Heavenless,” one of the sickest, grimmest songs on 2010’s Full of Hell. “No chance, we’re all set,” yells Vincent Hausman to whoever’s offering a corrupting taste of the afterlife. “Time to harvest / the sweetest fruit, the brain,” he screams. When Howl dies, there will be no clouds and eternity-long chats with Elvis: There won’t even be nothing. Right back to the dirt ya go! This same harsh realism will certainly be displayed on Howl’s sophomore album, Bloodlines, out April 30 via Relapse. Expect chain-dragging riffs, abominably hefty rhythms and the type of triumphant despair that necessarily comes from making peace with the finitude of life.

—Elliott Sharp Sat., March 2, 7:30 p.m., $10, with Ominous Black, Die Choking and Mainline Cocksuckers, Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St., 215-2914919, kungfunecktie.com.

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✚ DAEDELUS Much as those guys from Four Tet and Caribou have traced an improbable trajectory from producing bucolic “folktronica” early last decade to their current esteem in the thriving GARI ASKEW

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prodigious release schedule may have tapered off slightly (his last full-length was 2011’s overstuffed, guest-studded Bespoke), but he seems busier than ever, collaborating and sharing remixes with the likes of Nosaj Thing, Sepalcure, Teebs and Gaslamp Killer, plus curating his own Magical Properties imprint, which has been less active as a label per se than a semi-annual live electronica roadshow/revue. This fourth installment features S.F./L.A. bass-head Salva, who just dropped his hyped-up, hip-hop-jacking Odd Furniture EP (Friends of Friends), and hotly tipped, Halifax-born cloud-rap beatsmith Ryan Hemsworth.

international EDM scene, Californian neo-dandy Alfred Darlington — alias Daedelus — has lately emerged from his quaintly whimsical IDM tinkerings as a similarly unlikely de facto elder statesman of L.A.’s burgeoning beat underground. His historically

Sun., March 3, 9 p.m., $14, with Salva and Ryan Hemsworth, Underground Arts, 1200 Callowhill St., undergroundarts.org.

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band Man Man. But Powell has recently started two new, wildly unique music projects.

First, he sits at the helm of Adventuredrum, a nearly all-percussion large ensemble with a rotating cast of bashers. (Last August, an outdoor Adventuredrum show in West Philly featured about two dozen bodies creating a hyperrhythmic party soundtrack.)

Then there’s Spaceship Aloha, Powell’s experimental electronic dance-music solo project, which opens tonight

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for German duo Mouse on Mars. Spaceship’s uplifting debut, Universe Mahalo: Volume #1, came out last year on Data Garden. (The plant-loving local label plans to release a second album, called Tropical Information Systems, this summer.) When Powell leaps into the Spaceship, he designs surreal-disco collages using funky, equatorial, hard-thrust-

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✚ MAC DEMARCO He’s got precursors, sorta — Kurt Vile, Ariel Pink and Daniel Johnston come to mind — but Canadian slackerrock pioneer Mac DeMarco is definitely his own special, befuddling mix of defiantly casual and deceptively crafty.

He’s got this impossibly tangy and crystalline guitar tone that doesn’t feel the least bit fussed over, but it’s just too luscious and idiosyncratic not to be. DeMarco’s forté is seemingly knocked-off, borderline inane slice-of-life lyrics — mostly about cigarettes, boredom and girls (preferably denim-clad) — which he sets to tight, heartbreakingly winsome little melodies. His whole presentation pretty much screams amiable goofball slouch, but in the right light he comes off effortlessly, enviably hip and art-damaged.

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ing, totally gonzo sounds.

Jonathan Richman and his icon/would-be prototype, Lou Reed. DeMarco’s also promisingly prolific, dropping one full-length and one EP in 2012. The full-length called 2 was certainly the more lucid — it kicked off with the year’s finest riff, with plenty more to follow — but its weirder, scruffier predecessor, Rock and Roll Night Club, was nearly as intriguing. None of it will prepare you for a live DeMarco “raunchfest” renowned for its lewdness and crudeness.

—K. Ross Hoffman Mon., March 4, 7 p.m., $10, with Naomi Punk, Calvin Love and Neighborhood Choir, Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St., 215-291-4919, kungfunecktie.com.

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✚ JONATHAN BISS One look at the wacky time machine in the lobby of the Kimmel Center will tell you that classical-music marketing is changing. For better or worse, this is a necessity. Many young musicians have grasped this reality, even as they may be dealing with it more subtly. Pianist Jonathan Biss

is a potent example. In many ways, he is old-school; he still plays plenty of Mozart and Beethoven, but he also blogs with insight and self-deprecating humor. He takes chances with his programming, too, such as his bold interspersing of Schumann (Fantasy Pieces) and Janácek (On the Overgrown Path), featured on this Philadelphia Chamber Music Society recital. But it would be all for naught if he were not the smart and exciting artist that he is.

—Peter Burwasser Wed., March 6, 8 p.m., $24, Kimmel Center, 300 S. Broad St., 215-569-8080, pcmsconcerts.org.

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But in recent years, the show’s organizers have upped the edible ante. This year, farm-to-table produce (and plenty of edible flowers) will be showcased at a Garden to Table Studio where local and national chefs and a few farmers will be doing daily demos courtesy of Organic Gardening magazine.

Elissa Altman, James Beard Award-winning blogger and author of the upcoming Poor Man’s Feast (Chronicle Books, March 5), will be emceeing the events at the Studio. Poor Man’s Feast tells the story of how Altman met her true love, Susan, and made her way from a world of Périgord truffle and Pinot Noir dinner parties in Manhattan high rises to a simpler life of foraging, vegetable gardening and far-from-fussy cooking in Connecticut — annotated with the recipes from her transition from city to country living.

Altman will be welcoming the likes of Marc Vetri, Aimee Olexy of Talula’s Table and R2L’s David Stern, as well as a few former Top Chef contenders including Edward Lee and Ariane Duarte. Pastry chef Miche Bacher is coming down from Greenport, N.Y., to educate on the subject of edible flowers. And, in keeping with the “Brilliant!” theme of this year’s show, the Garden to Table Studio is bringing in two chefs who specialize in all things British: Robert Aikens of the Dandelion and The Whip Tavern’s Wyatt Lash.

The Pennsylvania Wine and Spirits Store is going to be setting up shop as well, pouring samples of Great British potables and hosting tastings. Here’s to hoping that the G&Ts and Pimm’s Cups will be flowing. (caroline@citypaper.net)

HEAD ON: Lime and poblano crema accent grilled shrimp and caramelized butternut squash.

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CAT POWER Hardly traditional, Blue Cat offers Spanishaccented plates by way of Mexico, Cuba and Puerto Rico. By Adam Erace BLUE CAT | 1921 Fairmount Ave., 267-519-2911, bluecatrestaurant.com.

Dinner, Tue.-Fri., 4-9 p.m., Sat., 4-10 p.m., Sun., 4-8 p.m.; lunch, Thu.-Fri., noon-4 p.m.; brunch, Sat.-Sun., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Appetizers, $5-$11; entrees, $15-$22; desserts, $5-$8.

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ooking is a young person’s game. Knees go. Backs break.

And like running backs, many cooks come with an expiration date of around 35. The media doesn’t help; we fixate on up-and-comers, rising stars and nubile prodigies like a coven of cradle-robbing Wilhelmina model scouts. Sorry for that.

More on: When culinary old heads emerge from the netherworld like reanimated bodies on The Walking Dead — and it happens from time to time — it often leaves ignorant young’uns like me wondering, “And you are ...?” But there’s nothing ghoulish about Luli Canuso, a soft, motherly presence in the sunny dining room of Fairmount’s Blue Cat, or Guy Shapiro, her husband and the chef of this cocina Latina.

They count about 70 years of industry experience between them, logging time in the back-of-the-house at O.G.s like Cafe Nola, where they first met, and Mirabelle, where they met again — under the gaze of Canuso’s mom, who owned the place. Shapiro

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left Philly to cook in Colorado, Russia, Turkey and the Hamptons, opened a restaurant in Jersey and got divorced. Canuso worked at Le Bec-Fin and went to law school. In the late ’90s they reconnected, romantically this time, got married and headed south to cook in Memphis and for a Mississippi casino. They came back to Philly when Canuso’s mother fell ill and Shapiro got a job consulting for a local mini-chain of suburban spaghetti halls.

Canuso and Shapiro had been out of the game a while, leisurely perusing properties around their home in Fairmount to fit the Latin concept budding in their brains — something, Canuso says with a laugh, “to build our retirement.” They found it in new-construction digs on the corner of Fairmount and Uber, a vanilla box they warmed with rondelle-glass lights, woven rattan chairs, Ikea drapes and a wall of stacked stone with a peek-a-boo cutout looking into the open kitchen. Artist Domenic Frunzi, a childhood friend of Blue Cat’s architect, painted the dining room’s dominant design feature, a floorto-ceiling mural of a cerulean feline slinkMORE FOOD AND ing through a meadow of stylized calla lilies.

DRINK COVERAGE So that’s who they are, and it’s nice to AT C I T Y P A P E R . N E T / make their acquaintance, especially when M E A LT I C K E T. the introduction is attended by studly saltand-peppered shrimp perched like oversized hood ornaments on charred bars of caramelized butternut squash. Roasted poblano crema pooled beneath, and lime-spritzed cress tangled atop, dealing strokes of mellow heat and snappy acid that nudged the appetizer into Spanish-speaking territory.

Though you wouldn’t call Blue Cat’s menu purely traditional, Shapiro, a Russian Jew, and Canuso, an Italian, do an impressive >>> continued on page 40

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Oppty for an Exp’d Auto Body Tech in a modern multi loc. facility.

Health bnfits and 401k plan. Vac. & pers. days. On going co. training & I-Car. Fax resume: 215.546.1548 or Email: val@collisioncareabc.com.

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I Buy Anything Old...Except People! antiques-collectables, Al 215-698-0787 I Buy Guitars & All Musical Instruments-609-457-5501 Rob

LG 32" TV, new in box. Cost $299.95 Asking $225. Call 267-528-1974

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PIT BULL TERRIER UKC REGISTERED BLUE PIT BULL PUPPIES $800.

Call Rob 610-413-5107

Rottweiler pups, AKC Reg, family raised, shots & wormed, Ready 2/25 $675. Call (610)273-3170 ROTTWEILER PUPS - German bloodline, health guarantee 717-768-8157 SHIH TZU PUPS - Free vet exam, shots, wormed, $300. Call 302-897-9779

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Sales/Home Remodeling

Kitchens, Baths, Siding, Windows, Doors & MORE CLOSERS WANTED PLENTY OF LEADS Phila, Suburbs & S. Jersey 215-634-7800 856-829-8229

1408 Ellsworth St. Lg. Effic. Clean 2nd flr front. No pets. Call 215-549-4279

2544 N. 30th St. Apt 1 and Apt 2 both 2BR, 1BA, $650+ utils, good credit, all new, please call (267)701-7845

1900 S. 65th St. 2BR Apt Newly renov, Lic #400451, 215.525.5800

2807 W.Allegheny Ave. 2BR/1BA $500 Renov. kitchen & bath. 2nd flr.

3801 N. 17th St. 2BR/1BA $550 Nice neighborhoods. 215-424-5231

4715 Walnut St. 1BR/1BA $635/mo.

APT in University City with new APPLIANCES, CARPET, CERAMIC TILE BATH/ KITCHEN...Limited number of units remain! Special!!! Call Scott 215-386-1236.

40th & Cambridge 1br $510/mo.

Free utils! Call / text 215-222-2435 41st & Girard 1 & 2BR’s $495 - $595+ 2, 3, 5BR $595-$795+ 215-431-6677 540 N. 52nd St. 1 BR Newly renov. 215.525.5800 lic# 333911 55th & Thompson 2br $500 + utils wall 2 wall, new ba, 3rd flr. 215-473-2136 56xx Market St. Eficiency, $550 + elec Two 2BRs $650 & $675 1 mo. rent + 2 mo. sec, avail 3/1. Call 267339-4309 60xx Cobbs Creek 2br/1ba $750 hw flrs, DR, eat in kitc. 267-934-1618 9xx S. 58th St. 2BR $600 lrg, paint, sec 8 ok. Call 215-416-5862 Parkside Area 1br- 4br $800+ Apts and Homes. w/w, h/w, w/d, Section 8 OK. Call 267-324-3197 W. Phila 2, 3 & 4br apts Avail Now Move in Special! 215-386-4791 or 4792

Concrete Stone & Tile (CST) manufacturer of concrete pavers and walls seeks a sales rep for Philly/Central PA territory. Requirements 5-10 yrs experience in hardscape industry. Competitive salary, bonus, benefits, & company car. Email resume to eric@cstpavers.com.

Caregiver Avail to care for your loved one Reliable w/car 484-636-7392 DRIVER, Chauffer seeks position. 30 Years exp. Can drive own car. Different shifts & requests. Vic 267-581-8111

3500 N. 11th St. 1BR $500 Available immediately. 215-680-2538 Broad & Erie Ave. 2BR $340 every 2 weeks. $995 move in. Near transportation & shops. Call 215-498-9149

1,2, 3, 4 Bedroom FURNISHED APTS LAUNDRY-PARKING 215-223-7000 Temple Hosp area 1-2br $595 water incl., 1st flr. Broad & Allegheny. 336-4299

3xx Claremont Road 2BR/1BA 215-259-3931

$840

51xx Bingham 2BR/1BA $775 newly renovated, 1st floor. 215-650-7378 5853 N. Camac

1BR $660+utils 2BR $700+utils Renov., 267-271-6601 or 215-416-2757 5926 N Broad St. 1br $625 heat incl. tenant pays cooking gas & elec., 1st, last & sec. 2nd flr, 215-572-6648, 9am-5pm.

60XX Warnock 1 BR $595+ nr Fernrock Train Station,215-276-8534 60XX Warnock 1 BR $595+ nr Fernrock Train Station,215-276-8534

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Yorkshire Terrier PUP Small female.

Parents on prem. AKC. All shots. Health Guaranteed. $950 or BO. 856-218-8883

LOST Orange Ginger breed M, cat.

12 years old. Fairland Ave. blue collar / tag / bell. Call 215-262-0301

apartment marketplace 13xx Mt. Pleasant Ave. 1BR $695 1st flr, EIK, close to transp. 215.313.5132 395 E. Cliveden St. 2 BR Please call 215-836-2412

1533 Orthodox studio newly renov, lic # 309722, 215-525-5800 20XX Orthodox 1br $550/mo. spacious, painted, sec8 ok 267-230-2600 42xx Frankford Ave Effic. $425 2nd flr., $1000 move in. 484-450-6553 4670 Griscom St. 1BR Newly renov, Lic#397063, 215-525-5800 4840 Oxford Ave 3br Ldry, 24/7 cam lic#214340 215.525.5800 5000 Penn St. Lrg 1 and 2 BR newly renov, lic #584090, 215-525-5800

4647 Adams Ave Lg. 1Br Newly renov. 215-525-5800 lic#433314 5200 Arbor St. Effic. $450 Close to train station. Call 215-888-6783 53xx Akron 1 BR $600+ elec 2nd flr, 1st & last to move in, 215.651.1140 907 Carver 2BR $800, 3BR $875 Row hm, nw reno. 267-991-2825

Bustleton & Grant nice 2br $895 prvt balcony w/garden view 215.943.0370 FKD area 3BR 1BA row, fully renov, laminate flr. Sec 8 poss. 267-210-5277 Tacony - Keystone & Diston 1BR $450 + utils. Call 215-752-2611

Lansdown 1BR $550+elec 2nd floor. 610-513-1393 5006 Spruce St. 2br $750. 3rd flr. Call 267-601-1937 50xx Baltimore Ave. 1 and 2BR’s $725$825 C/A and heat inc. (215)651-8973

828 Wynnewood Rd. 1BR $750 On 1st flr. Porch and private backyard.

Call (267) 250-2178 852 Wynnewood Rd Spacious 2BR $725 Up to date, 1st/last & sec, 610-348-6121 Apartment Homes $625-$995 www.perutoproperties.com 215.740.4900

2424 N. 29th St. Apt 1 and 2 both 1 BR and 1 BA, $600 plus utils, good credit, All new, please call (267)701-7845

4518 N. Carlisle St. Apt 1 1BR/1BA $600+utils, All new, good credit. Apt 2 2BR/ 1BA $750+ utils, good credit.

All new. Call (267)701-7845 NICE TOWN 2BR $650 Tastefully reno., new w/w, spacious EIK, ceiling fans, tile baths, A/C, lndry on prem., 215-242-1204 or 267-250-9822

Norristown: Sweede & Jacoby 1br $780 Minor & Arch 3br/1.5BA $900 renovated, call (267)259-8449

5000 N. 20th St. efficiency $550 also 1BR $550. Call 215-455-6135

DREXEL HILL: Cozy furn. room includes bed, TV, utils. $450/mo., $225 Sec. Dep. Call John 610.259.7039

5220 Wayne Ave. Studio, 1Br on site lndry, 215-525-5800 Lic# 507568 Greene / Seymour 1br $585- $700 incl. heat & water. Call 610-287-9857

18th & Ontario priv ent new paint use of kit ww $120wk $290mv in 267-997-5212 Green & Seymour Studio $525/mo 2435 W. Jefferson St. Rooms: $375/mo.

Move in fee: $565. Call 215-913-8659 All utils inc., 1K to move in 215-765-5578

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 62ND & ELMWOOD - ROOMS FOR RENT. CALL 267-591-6058 Erie Ave. Nice, furn, fridge, micro, quiet, $90wk, $270 sec dep (609) 703-4266

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58xx Hadfield 4br $1100 Spacious, Sec. 8 ok. 267-230-2600 65th and Chester Ave. 3BR House Sec 8 ok. Must See. 215-885-1700 6xx S. 59th Spacious 3BR $875 Must see! $2625 move in. 215-365-4567 Elmwood area 3br modern, sec. 8 ok, Call 856-693-7222

2BR & 3BR Houses Sec. 8 Welcome

LOGAN-4BR twin house + 3BR row.

Rent - Sec 8 only! 267-312-9977.

39xx Delhi St . 3BR/1BA $750/mo. porch, yard. Call Carol at 610-872-1797 C & Wyoming 3br row $595+utils porch, yard, bsmnt. 215-701-7076 2xx W. Queen Lane 6BR/3BA $1350+ new kit/ba Application req 215-514-7143 62xx Magnolia St. 3br/1ba $1050+utils Section 8 ok. Call 215-849-3758 Morton & Chelten 6BR/1BA Rent neg.

Also efficency. Call 215-289-7530.

W. Oaklane 3BR/1BA $900 LR, DR, Bsmt, kitch, 2 car garage, porch, very nice, sec 8 ok. call 267-593-9433

15xx Ruan St. 4BR $1000 Sec 8 welcome Call owner 718-882-2173 20xx E. Pacific 3br $750 Spacious, Sec. 8 ok. 267-230-2600 PHILA 4BR/ 2BA Section 8 ok. 215-322-6086 27xx Mower St. 4BR/2.5BA $1400 + utils. 2 mo. sec. dep. 267-243-9229 44xx Elizabeth St. 2BR Section 8 approved. Call 215-205-9910 Mayfair 3br $950 + Comp. Ren. row Sec 8 OK. 215-364-0217 OXFORD CIRCLE 887 Marcella St. 3br 1ba $850 plus 267-632-4580

Upper S. Hampton, Street Rd & Gravel Hill Rd. 4br, 2.5ba $2,750 single home, fin. bsmnt, 2 car gar. FR, FP, 267-981-2000

Lansdowne Pa 2BR/2BA $1,000 Beautiful Home For Rent!!! Near: Transportation, Airport & Center City.

Call 267-809-7771 Sharon Hill 2BR/1BA Newly remod. Sec. 8 ok. 610-864-6033 YEADON 3BR $1,000 House for Rent Private owned home. Hot water & security sys incl. 215-815-8028

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

Beautifully renovated Call (267)981-2718

MT. LAUREL 3BR/2.5BA TH $1700 In Stonegate Dev. Newly renov., frsh paint, new appls., no pets/smoking, avail. April 15th. Call Days 856-2340064 or Evenings 215-579-8868

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

A1 PRICES FOR JUNK CARS FREE TOW ING , Call (215) 726-9053

HD V-Rod 2005 $13,900, O.B.O Custom paint and chrome, like new!

2,500 miles, (215)626-6334

low cost cars & trucks Buick Century Custom 2000 $4995 Silver, 83,000 pampered mi, dealer maintained, very good cond. 610-356-0167 Buick Lesabre Ltd 1997 $2,650 2nd owner.,exl cnd. Call 610-667-4829 CADILLAC DEVILLE 1999 $2500/obo new PA inspection, perfect body & interior. Call 267-975-4483 Chevy 2000 2500 3/4 ton cargo van Fully equipment, ladder rack, bins, $4,985 Call 215-922-5342 Chevy Impala LS 2001 $2800/OBO Runs great. Call 267-441-4612 Chrysler Town & Country Van 2002 $2,002 Runs great. Call 267-825-2315 DODGE SEDAN 1941 $4800/OBO Original A title. Call 843-768-1578 2002 $1950 Ford Taurus SE 4 dr, loaded, clean. 215-280-4825 Ford Windstar 2002 $2900, OBO May trade. 156k, New insp, excellent cond, very clean. Call 267-975-4483 Ford Windstar SEL 1999 $1,350 All pwrs, clean, runs excel, 215-620-9383 Hyundai Elantra 2000 SW $2,400 New insp, radials. 610.667.4829 Hyundai Santa Fe GLS 2003 $4,000 129K mi., 2.7L V6, auto. 610-265-9457 Jaguar XJ8L 1998 $4,500 Runs great, clean, 104K. 215-477-9236 Saab 93 1999 $1,950 Mint, Auto, needs no work. 215-620-9383 Saturn SC1 2001 $1,350 Auto, heat, 106k, insp. 215-620-9383

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2x N. Paxon 4BR/1BA $800+ Newly renov. Call (215) 292-4505 58xx Rodman St. 3BR/1BA 1st, last, security deposit. Call 267-3355950 or 215-839-2283

Acura TL 2004 $11,600 69K, excel. cond. May 215-741-7124 Chevy 2003 Silver Auto. Extended cab.

Deluxe pickup truck. light commercial use Like new $6985. 215-922-5342 FORD 2003 E350, Super Duty, 18 pass mini bus, new tires, SS wheels, orig mi., $6,950/ BO. Call 215-627-1814 Nissan Maxima 2001 Luxery 4 door w/ spoiler, full power, AC, original miles like new, $4,975. 215-922-2165 Volkswagon Jetta Wolfsburg 2010 $17,000 16.5K mi. 302-427-2433

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14xx S. Etting St. 3br $725 Fresh paint, Sec. 8 ok. 267-230-2600 14xx S. Marston St. 3br/1ba $750 sec 8 ok, nw carpets, bsmt 267.970.8632 15XX ETTING ST 3 BR fresh paint, Avail now! $675+ 215-680-7011 15XX OPAL lg 3BR hse, new paint, refrig, yd, bsmt $800+ 267-645-9421 21xx Tasker St. 3.5br/1ba $800 freshly painted, sec 8 ok, 215-416-5862 23XX F ederal L g 4 BR 2B, F ridge bsmt yrd $1000+ 267-645-9421 2520 S. Juniper 3br / 1.5 ba $1090 Small pets ok! Call 856-686-1919

19xx N. Hollywood St. 3BR/2BA $825 1st, last, 1mo. sec. req. 856-627-7979 24xx W Toronto 3br new paint, yd refrig, bsmt $750+ 267-645-9421 2717 N. Ringgold St. 2br/1ba $725 Newly Renovated. Call 267-269-0570 3728 N 18th St . 4BR/2.5BA $1,600 total monthly Rent. Temple Off Campus Housing for Students or Professionals. 3 living room/social areas, basement storage and laundry. 1st month rent plus sec. deposit required. All inquiries please contact Rob @ 215-226-6200.

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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 G-town Area, 1xx Hansberry St., furn, nice block, SS and Disability are welcome. $100-$125/wk. Call 267-528-7012 Kensington Area rooms for rent $250-$350, clean, furnished, call 215-200-2960 N. 57th St. $125/wk. Very lrg, newly renov., furn. Call 267-581-1933 NE $125/week, clean, share bath / kit / laundry / cable. $500 at move.

Call 215-743-5324 North Phila., West Phila. furnished rooms for rent $100/wk per room 267-228-1143; 215-416-2075 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 SW Phila - Furnished rooms for rent.

Kitch. avail. $100/wk., 267-531-8900 SW Phila - Newly renov, close to trans. $100/wk 1st wk FREE, 267-628-7454 West Oaklane furnished room and house for rent. 267-707-0226 after 3 WEST/SOUTHWEST Newly renov, nicely furnished, A/C, W/D, cable, clean, safe & secure. Call (267) 253-7764

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