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[ - 1] SEPTA releases a study saying home values could fall if they’re forced to discontinue Regional Rail service. It’s titled “Things That Will Never Happen If This Other Thing That Will Never Happen Happens.”

[ - 1] Lawyers for South Philly “Mob Wife” Alicia

DiMichele say she’s not profiting from her jailed husband’s mob connections by filming a reality show, but is instead starring in a “cautionary tale” about a single mom. “And be sure to buy my book, which is a straightup bildungsroman of my struggles to make something of myself by marrying a crook.”

[ +2] Weavers Way co-op in Mount Airy celebrates its 40-year anniversary. With an open quinoa bar and kombucha keg.

[ - 2] Two masked men get $500 by robbing an

IHOP in Port Richmond. Making it the single biggest heist in the history of Port Richmond. And IHOP.

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Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity return to the lineup on conservative radio station WPHT, aka The Big Talker. “It’s kind of a nobrainer,” says the station’s manager. “Our listenership breaks down to something like 45 percent impressionable sheeple, 55 percent straight-up racists. By the time they drive home, the Blue Route will be like a giant Klan rally. Furthermore: White power.”

1] Runners stage a “Patriot Run” through Valley Forge National Historical Park to protest the government shutdown’s closure of the running paths there. “I’m not used to being so conspicuous about my running,” says one protester. “I usually just do my eight to 10 miles twice a week, take my pulse in a very public place, then go right home to tweet my time and do a quick status update about my hammy. But this was for a good cause.”

[ +1] A Breaking Bad writer tweets a photo of

Walter White in a Phillies jersey, but says they never used it because it would make the character “too unlikable.” Besides, the Phillies haven’t been the ones who knock for a couple years.

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GOOD NEIGHBORS: Pastor Jonny Rashid says the church’s goal is to be a good presence in the neighborhood. NEAL SANTOS

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HERE TO STAY The newest offshoot of the Circle of Hope Church makes a foray into the heart of North Philadelphia. By Ryan Briggs

little over a year ago, a new church opened in a place that has gotten used to vanishing houses of worship and dwindling congregants: North Philadelphia. Nestled in a former PECO office near Broad and Dauphin streets, it doesn’t look much like a traditional church, and its occupants — young, trendy and mostly white — don’t look much like traditional churchgoers, particularly in an area where surrounding census tracts are 45 to 94 percent black. But the new worshipers say they are here to stay: Some have even bought homes and started families on the gap-toothed blocks north of Temple University. “They” are part of the newest offshoot of Circle of Hope, a nondenominational Christian organization that opened its first church in Center City 18 years ago and now has four congregations in two states. The group has gained local recognition for a series of successful businesses affiliated with the church or its members, most notably the chain of Circle Thrift consignment shops and Pizza Brain, a popular artisanal pizzeria. But the church could be equally noteworthy as one of few religious entities to succeed in attracting notoriously secular young urban transplants.

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For much of the Circle of Hope’s history, its congregants — totaling 650 as of this year — and their associated businesses have followed the trajectory of most trendy twentysomethings in Philadelphia, clustering around Center City and hipsterfying areas like Fishtown. Leapfrogging to the middle of North Philly is a break from that pattern and a change for some of the new congregants. “My wife and I were part of the original group of 50 of us who had been sent off from the Fishtown congregation,” said social worker and Dauphin Street congregant Matthew Tice, 30, who bought a house on 17th Street, near the new church. “We had been on board with this mission for a long time and really excited about it, When we were looking for a house we were intentionally focused on North Philly as a place where we knew we were going to be doing this: living, working and meeting people.” Tice is one of about 20 of Dauphin Street’s 100 congregants who bought or rented homes in the neighborhood in anticipation of the new church, which combined members from Fishtown with several existing “cells” (home-based prayer groups of about 10 people) scattered around Brewerytown, Francisville and elsewhere in North Philly. The “mission” he mentions draws from the social-justice philosophies the church preaches that are in line with Christ’s dictum to love others “as I have loved you”: breaking down racial

Some church members have bought homes nearby.

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✚ A VIGIL FOR LAPORSHIA School nurses are organizing a candlelight vigil this Thursday evening to mourn 12-year-old Laporshia Massey, a sixth-grader who died after falling sick at a Philadelphia public school where no nurse was on duty. Laporshia’s father and others ask if budget cuts that have sharply reduced staff might have played a role. “We want to express our sadness and support to the family of Laporshia Massey,” according to a message from Eileen Duffey, a school nurse and outspoken opponent of staffing cuts. “Every child deserves better than this.” The vigil will begin at 6:15 p.m. in front of School District of Philadelphia headquarters at 440 N. Broad St. Laporshia’s father, Daniel Burch, told City Paper that he did not understand the gravity of his daughter’s predicament when he first received a phone call from Bryant Elementary School on Sept. 25. He did not pick her up from school, and a staff member later drove Laporshia home. Burch says that his daughter was in great distress from asthma, and that he rushed her to the hospital soon thereafter. She collapsed in the car and died later that day. There are unanswered questions: It is unknown precisely what the school knew about Laporshia’s asthma condition, what symptoms she exhibited at school, and what time she arrived at the hospital that day. It is also unclear whether her life could have been saved if a nurse were on duty that day. But the suggestion that Laporshia died so soon after falling sick at school has prompted widespread doubts as to whether school staff responded appropriately — or, given the sharp staffing

cutbacks, whether they had the capacity to do so. Last Friday, the Pennsylvania chapter of the National Action Network (NAN) civil rights organization called on the School District of Philadelphia and state Department of Health to investigate the student’s death. Though the School District has said it always reviews such incidents, neither they nor state authorities have announced a formal investigation of Laporshia’s death since City Paper first reported the story last Thursday. Her father has retained a lawyer, and the family is deciding whether to file a lawsuit. “We’re literally in the process of gathering our information,” attorney Ron Pollack tells City Paper. “There is a high likelihood.” Bryant only has a nurse on staff two days a week. Across Philadelphia, there are now 179 nurses working in public, private and parochial schools, down from 289 in 2011. Gov. Tom Corbett and the Republican-controlled state legislature have imposed massive cuts on public education statewide, propelling the long-underfunded School District of Philadelphia into a deep crisis. The district has nearly 3,000 fewer staff members than it did in June. Last week, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten released a letter calling on Gov. Corbett to release $45 million in federal funds he has said he will only release if unionized workers deliver major concessions. The money, Weingarten wrote, is “owed to these children [and] should

There is a “high likelihood” of a lawsuit.

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A DARK TURN ³ A FELLOW JOURNALIST wrote on Facebook

last week that the nasty battle that has erupted publicly at the Inquirer reminded her of Groundhog Day, the movie in which the events of a single day repeat over and over again. It’s easy to see why she thinks that way: The turmoil never stops. There have been five owners over the last seven years. In one nine-year stretch of my tenure there, the top editor’s job changed hands five times. And, like clockwork, the Inquirer “rediscovers” the suburbs and South Jersey every few years and realigns the staff. But the recent turn of events — the firing of editor-in-chief Bill Marimow, the leak of emails about confidential discussions and the lawsuit filed by two dissident owners who want to reinstate Marimow and dismiss publisher Bob Hall instead — reminds me of much darker films: The War of the Roses,or maybe even Fargo.Just who will end up in the wood chipper? One casualty, surely, will be Interstate General Media, the local group that owns the Inquirer, the Daily News and Philly.com. No matter how the judge rules, it will be impossible to put Humpty Dumpty back together again. Another casualty is common decency. The leak of confidential emails filled with disparaging personnel remarks showed a no-holds-barred side of the battle that had previously been hidden. What is at stake here is not the careers of a handful of veteran journalists or powerful businessmen who somehow couldn’t find a way to get along. What really matters is that Philadelphia needs these two great daily news engines to uncover public corruption, expose hypocrisy in politicians and reveal the depths of dysfunction in a cash-starved public school system. Without a strong daily newspaper presence, readers would not have gotten a clear bead on the pervasive violence in our public schools, the lack of regulation of our national blood supply or brutal police tactics involving siccing dogs on ordinary citizens — all Inquirer stories that led to reforms. Many of us who once worked at the Inquirer, often late into the night, are watching with sadness as this latest chapter unfolds. We always knew the mission was much bigger than ourselves, and whoever eventually owns the place needs to know that that hasn’t changed one bit. ✚ Send feedback to lswanson@citypaper.net.

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segregation, investing in local businesses and lobbying for more social spending and affordable housing. “We thought it would be good to be ‘stayers’ in North Philadelphia when it’s often been made up of people who are leaving,” said Pastor Jonny Rashid, an Egyptian-American from central Pennsylvania who helped found the Dauphin Street congregation, noting the area’s historic middle-class flight and the “tension” caused by the transitory student population. Of course, for some neighbors, it can be a fine distinction between the students and the Circle of Hope members. Tice purchased a former student rental for his home, and five others rent what one congregant referred to as a “kinda sucky” house that had been aimed at Temple undergrads. “Everyone does think we’re students, and now I am back in grad school so now I am a student again,” said member Sara Semborski. “There’s not a hostility, but it’s more of a non-acknowledgement because they assume you’re just passing through.” Other new residents associated with the church, many of whom relocated from more privileged suburban or rural locales, are forced to deal with the realities of living in one of the most neglected, historically segregated and crime-plagued neighborhoods in the state. (Last month, there were two homicides within a threeblock radius of the church.) “My car has gotten broken into several times on my block. … It’s a rough neighborhood. They’re people who need things and that’s the only way they can get it,” said member Jennifer Danforth, who is white and originally from Ohio. “It’s been really challenging for me to be in a neighborhood and to be a minority on my block. Learning how to be myself, but also learning how to relate to my neighbors is a challenging thing for me. It stretches me, but I’ve enjoyed it.” There is also the question of how effective a church can be at combating rising property values in its new home when it has, unusually, become tied to gentrification through its popular businesses. In acknowledging this apparent contradiction, Rashid stressed the nascence of his congregation’s presence in the neighborhood. “Our force isn’t that big and we don’t have a lot of influence. The thing we’re doing is so incremental, it’s hard to calculate in that sense [of impacting property values], but we realize our presence in any neighborhood is going to increase property values,” he said. So what do longtime residents of the neighborhood think about these newcomers? Several people recounted positive interactions with congregants: Debbie Smith, of the 2700 block of 17th Street, fondly remembered Tice praying for her granddaughter, who suffers from chronic seizures. But Smith and other residents generally expressed a lack of understanding about the church and its mission in their neighborhood. Karen Sisco, who has lived in the neighborhood for more than 20 years and owns the Picky Pet Supply Store near 17th and Diamond streets, has attended a few of Circle of Hope’s Sunday meetings, and praised the church’s “open-door policy.” “All walks of life are invited in, which I really love. I’ve seen Chinese people, black people, white people, mixed couples. And that’s what it should be in any church, but they make it more welcoming,” said Sisco, who is black and an associate minister at a church in South Philadelphia. However, Sisco said that, while she hoped to visit again, she found the meeting too “casual” and “relaxing” for “a traditional church person” like herself, saying it seemed better suited to “college students.” On a recent Sunday evening, Rashid, who is a Temple grad himself, was leading another meeting, steering a conversation that

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touched on drone strikes in the Middle East, the latest Anthony Weiner scandal and global economics. “We need to think about how economic liberty can perpetuate poverty,” he said, narrating a PowerPoint presentation while framed by the grey carpet and drop ceiling of the former utility office. The crowd volunteered reactions to the pastor’s words over the occasional roar of the Broad Street Subway. There were occasional bare feet, a mass of bicycles piled in a corner and new mothers with children clustered around a snack table that featured organic heirloom tomatoes. The meeting closed with an upbeat hymn accompanied by an accordion. The church’s quirky vibe and political activism — Rashid says the church joined protests over school-funding cuts and regularly lobbies politicians to build more affordable housing and create a land bank to utilize North Philly’s numerous vacant lots — are big parts of what has made it attractive to young Christians turned off by more formal, traditional churches. But have those unorthodox qualities made it harder for the North Philadelphia congregation to appeal to older black residents, like Sisco? “I don’t think [Circle of Hope] has the power to draw a lot of black people,” she said. “They don’t want to just sit back and be that relaxed.” However, Sisco also observed that even the area’s traditional churches have struggled to attract new congregants. She was more skeptical of Circle of Hope’s ability to draw neighborhood folks that had strayed from religion altogether. “The gentleness of that church doesn’t draw the wicked sinner who needs to realize that they really need this peace. You really need a church that’s going to tell you ‘Hell is real,’” said Sisco. The group’s pastor said he was wary of targeted “evangelism.” “The one thing I don’t want to do is create a diverse congregation for the purpose of curbing white guilt. I don’t want to tokenize anybody, because I’ve been tokenized before,” said Rashid. “The goal of the church isn’t just to get people in the neighborhood to it, but to be a good presence in the neighborhood that is smart and sensitive and compassionate. If they want to do that with us they can, if they want to keep doing their thing and have a positive relationship with us, that’s good, too.” (ryan.briggs@citypaper.net)

The pastor is wary of “targeted” evangelism.

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be released right now, with no strings attached. With that money, we can come one step closer to making Philadelphia neighborhood public schools —Daniel Denvir safe and healthy.”

✚ UNSCHEDULED STOP The historic Uptown Theater, a long-abandoned cultural landmark on North Broad Street, briefly opened its doors on Monday to unveil newly restored terracotta tile work on its striking Art Deco façade. The gorgeous, brightly colored tiles were crafted in Philadelphia by the Germantownbased Karen Singer Tileworks as part of a longrunning redevelopment process that would convert a portion of the looming structure into leasable space to fund the renovation of the crumbling stage and seating area. Linda Richardson, executive director of the nonprofit Uptown Entertainment and Development Corporation, led onlookers on a brief tour of the partially gutted building, revealing an old stairwell that was uncovered during construction. At the top of the stairs, the lobby’s peeling Art Deco molding abruptly transitions into a darkened corridor lined with the familiar orange and white tile work of SEPTA’s subway platforms. “This is an opening for the Broad Street Subway,” said Richardson, gesturing to the stairs. “The same year this [theater] was built, the Susquehanna-Dauphin platform was being completed. … We’ve been engaging with SEPTA to reopen this subway entrance.” The direct connection between the busy subway line and the Uptown’s lobby hints at the historic prominence the theater once held in the surrounding neighborhood. While renovation of the exterior and the commercial component of the theater is expected to continue with funding from city and HUD economic-development grants, the massive auditorium carries a $5 million price tag for reuse. An active Uptown Theater remains a distant goal, but the gleaming facade is a step in the right direction —Ryan Briggs for the hulking structure.

✚ SERVING UP HISTORY Standing on the grassy vacant lot where his greatuncle’s house once stood in East Kensington, Frank Wilson says there aren’t many people who can tell the story of what was here. “I’m the youngest of seven, and my mom and dad were born in the ’30s — they’re gone now,” he says. “So, if I don’t remember, it’s pretty much lost stories.” In fast-changing neighborhoods like this one, it’s easy for houses, memories, whole swaths of history to vanish with barely a trace. That’s why the Philadelphia Public History Truck pulled 10 | P H I L A D E L P H I A C I T Y PA P E R |

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up onto the lot on York Street earlier this month: to capture those memories, organize them — and eventually share them with the community. The truck stopped by the soup kitchen at St. Francis Inn to collect oral histories from clients this past weekend and will appear again at a storytelling block party on the 1800 block of Huntingdon Street on Oct. 19; the price of admission is a story or neighborhood artifact.

At its first public outing in East Kensington on Oct. 4, its mastermind, Temple graduate student Erin Bernard, was dishing out free pie and gathering recollections on a memory map.

She plans to curate an exhibition of neighborhood history at Little Berlin gallery in April, and later downsize the exhibit to a mobile format. “We’re going to be serving

The price of admission is a story or artifact. history like we’re a food truck,” she says. “We’ll go to different locations in the city, tweet where we are, show up in front of random Philly schools — so that arts and humanities will be accessible in a different way.” Bernard isn’t from the neighborhood, but she wanted to focus on an underserved part of the city. When she got in touch with East Kensington Neighbors Association president Jeff Carpineta, he offered to lend her his truck — a decommissioned postal vehicle — on the spot. Bernard hopes her East Kensington experiment will serve as a model that can

be replicated in other neighborhoods. “Everybody who lives somewhere has a story.” —Samantha Melamed

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for his daughter when her drug-addict mother disappears. Your father wasn’t around when you were a child. TO: There were four big creative liberties taken. One, Maya was changed to a girl, which happened in maybe the second draft. Two, it was pushed back temporally from when it really happened: For me it was the late ’80s, and it was pushed back to the early ’80s. Three, I didn’t get shot. Four, there was no dad. So Tim [the dad] is part who I would’ve liked to have been there, and part storytelling.

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Tommy Oliver makes a film based on his coming of age during the crack epidemic. written by SAM ADAMS

irst movies tend to hit close to home for their directors, but few do so as literally as Tommy Oliver’s 1982. The West Oak Lane native, who now splits his time between Los Angeles and Seattle, where he works as a producer, shot the movie in the house where he was raised by his grandmother, and based the story on his experience growing up with a crack-addicted mother. (She later cleaned up and became a substance-abuse counselor.) The 29-year-old Oliver, whose signing by the Hollywood talent agency CAA was announced the day after 1982 premiered in Toronto, talked with City Paper in advance of the film’s screening at the Philadelphia Film Festival.

CP: Your mother was at the film’s premiere in Toronto. Were you nervous about how she might react? TO: It’s funny, I just had breakfast with her this morning. I spend absolutely no time worrying about things I can’t control. I was happy to have my family there, but they were going to react how they were going to react. Until that question had been asked, I never really thought about it, to be honest. One of the things that came out of this is that my mother didn’t really understand that her drug addiction impacted so many other people in such a significant way. She thought it was just herself. CP: The movie takes a strong stand against enabling addicts; there’s a scene where the mother is desperately knocking at the door of her house, and her daughter refuses to let her in. Is that based on your experience? TO: As a kid I wanted nothing more than for my mother to be there, and I didn’t understand why she wasn’t. I didn’t understand why she would make a promise and not follow through. So at some point, I just became numb to it. After crying myself to sleep literally every night, you don’t have any more tears. So it almost changes to self-preservation. If you’re going to put

yourself in a position to potentially be OK, you have to do what you have to do. Cutting somebody off is one of the hardest things you can do, when you have the ability to do whatever someone is asking, yet you choose not to. She could open the door. But in the end it wouldn’t have done anything, and it would’ve just continued the cycle. CP: You studied economics and digital media at Carnegie Mellon, and took part in the San Francisco Film Society’s A2E: Artist to Entrepreneur conference. How does that affect your approach? TO: For me, it’s about figuring out how to reconcile art with the business. You try to do one or the other, and you’ve got a movie that only your grandmother will watch or you’ve got a movie that’s vapid and soulless. There’s a spot in the middle that works well. I don’t want to stop producing, or even stop thinking as a producer. I just came up with a very cool concept that a lot of people liked that’s never been done before in terms of film distribution, and we’re very seriously considering it for ’82. Had it not been for A2E, I would never have thought of that. (s_adams@citypaper.net) ✖ 1982 screens Sat., Oct. 26, 5 p.m., Prince Music

Theater (with director Oliver in attendance) and Sun., Oct. 27, 9:30 p.m., Ritz East. For more details, visit filmadelphia.org/festival.

City Paper: You shot 1982 in the house you grew up in, where the events that inspired the movie took place. Did that mess with your head at all? Tommy Oliver: The experience was actually quite good. My actors really liked it. My cinematographer liked it. And it brought a sense of authenticity that would have been pretty much impossible to replicate. It probably played into my directing the film, because before this, I had absolutely no interest in directing. None whatsoever. I had written the film and I was planning on producing it. As a producer, I’m not a micromanager; I believe in giving people the space to try and make it their own. But because the script was something that was mine, based on the emotions of growing up with a crack-addicted mother, and we were shooting not just in the house that I grew up in, but also the neighborhood, the streets, with characters that were based on people I knew, I would have absolutely smothered the director. CP: 1982 differs from your own story in many ways, but its biggest deviation is its focus on a father trying to care HOMEBOY: Tommy Oliver shot part of his debut feature in the house where he was raised (pictured here). His grandmother still lives there. ✖ PHOTO BY NEAL SANTOS. C I T Y PA P E R . N E T | O C T O B E R 1 7 - O C T O B E R 2 3 , 2 0 1 3 | P H I L A D E L P H I A C I T Y PA P E R |

PLAYING WITH FIRE

A new documentary revisits the MOVE bombing with an unconventional approach.

PHOTO BY NEAL SANTOS

written by SAM ADAMS

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ason Osder was 11 years old and living in Montgomery County when the Pennsylvania State Police dropped two explosives onto the house at 6221 Osage Ave., ending a standoff with members of the radical political group MOVE and starting a fire that killed 11 of its members, including five children, and eventually consumed 61 houses on the street. As he walked to school, he could see the smoke from the blaze rising above the city, a moment neither he nor anyone else who lived near Philadelphia on May 13, 1985, is likely to forget. Nearly 30 years later, Osder, now teaching media at George Washington University, has channeled that experience into a documentary called Let the Fire Burn that he’s spent most of the last decade assembling. “I think that’s what art’s about,” Osder said last week from Los Angeles, “taking the things that stick with you and trying to make something out of it. I don’t know what the answer is, but I tried to make a story of it.” Osder started off conventionally, shooting new interviews with the only two survivors from the MOVE house: Ramona Africa and Michael Ward, then a 13-year-old known as Birdie Africa. (Ward died a few weeks ago while on a vacation cruise with his family.) But when editor Nels Bangerter joined the film, he advised Osder to drop the footage he’d shot and use only clips from the period, including news footage of the siege and televised hearings of a special investigative commission. “The interviews we’d shot were not particularly strong from a documentary perspective,” Osder says. “What you want to do with a documentary interview is not just provide information, but peel back the surface, get to the emotional reality. And those emotional realities were not particularly accessible.” Africa, who has remained an outspoken political activist, was too practiced a

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speaker to reveal anything new, and Ward, Osder says, was still traumatized to the point where he could barely speak on the topic. “Maybe someone else could have gotten Ramona Africa to talk about what happened in that back alley,” he says, “but she’s not that kind of interview.” In a way, Let the Fire Burn’s lack of present-day perspective is a perfect match for the MOVE bombing itself, which is still an open wound, or, as Osder puts it, “a scar that didn’t heal well. It still itches. It still irritates. I went down to the block recently and you would almost think you’re looking at the burned-down buildings that were boarded up. You’d have to be told that those houses were completely destroyed, and you’re looking at the rebuilt houses that were then abandoned.” In addition to exploring a dark day in Philadelphia’s history, Let the Fire Burn captures several extraordinary moments in the media. It’s five years after CNN’s founding, but when you see Walt Hunter crouching behind parked cars as gunfire echoes down the street, it feels as if the 24-hour news cycle is just percolating down to the local level. “It was one of the first times that they went live and stayed live,” Osder says. “At one point, you see [reporter] Harvey Clark with an untied tie around his neck. Now, you have to think someone would say, ‘Either tie the tie or take it off.’” It’s also, Osder points out, a time when metropolitan police departments were just starting to become militarized, when they had access to weaponry they didn’t yet know how to control. “People ask me if this could happen today,” Osder says, “and my answer is ‘No,’ but not for the reason you might think. Brutality and racism haven’t gone away, but I don’t think you’d see anything like this in an American city because they’re better at controlling the story. The reason it wouldn’t happen today is that the police are better at violence. They have such better equipment, and such superior tactics, that they would storm that house and take those people out like freakin’ RoboCop.” ✖ Mon. Oct. 21, noon (sold out), Ritz East and Sat., Oct. 26, 2 p.m.,

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AROUND THE WORLD IN 11 DAYS

International hits and misses at the 22nd Philadelphia Film Festival. 12 O’CLOCK BOYS | BFor three years, first-time director Lofty Nathan followed The 12 O’Clock Boys, a Baltimore dirt-bike gang known for its signature (and death-defying) riding position, in which the front wheel is lifted in the air until it points at the sky. This dangerous and illegal diversion, while empowering these young men, requires them to stay one step ahead of the police. In this intermittently interesting documentary, Nathan homes in on Pug, a 13-year-old African-American boy who has been trying for three years to be accepted by the gang. Nathan’s real-life chopper opera benefits from Pug’s engaging candor and colorful vocabulary, which carry this uneven film over its rough spots. 12 O’Clock Boys offers a poignant portrait of the fatherless Pug and his raw, ghetto life — from a fight breaking out at a funeral to Pug wanting to steal his stolen bike back — yet it somehow manages to be slightly unsatisfying. —Gary M. Kramer (Cinemark, Sat., Oct. 19, 12:15 p.m. and Ritz at the Bourse, Sat., Oct. 26, 2:50 p.m.)

BLUE HIGHWAY | C+ Clocking in at a lean 71 minutes, Blue Highway’s short-film status might be both its biggest strength and weakness. Director Kyle Smith paints a robust portrait of a romantic’s vision of the great American road trip as couple Dillon (Dillon Porter) and Kerry (Kerry Bishé, fresh off of Argo) drive from Alabama to Los Angeles, stopping at sites where their favorite films were shot and generally being cute. Porter and Bishé are swimming in chemistry, all sparkly-toothed grins and fuzzy banter like any young, in-love couple. The problem is that, while Highway follows two characters that are clearly doing something big, the run time doesn’t allow much to actually happen, narratively speaking. Conflict skims the surface at varying points that could potentially spark some excitement (Dillon leaves his credit card at a Texas gas station, Kerry calls Dillon out on his elitism), but in the end, Blue Highway is content with just spinning its wheels. —Marc Snitzer (Ritz East, Sat., Oct. 19, 7:45 p.m. and Cinemark, Tue., Oct. 22, 7 p.m.) 16 | P H I L A D E L P H I A C I T Y PA P E R |

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Not so shockingly, The Discoverers is a film about discovery. That’s partly meant in surface terms, by how Lewis and Clark’s historic expedition permeates the life of Lewis Birch (Griffin Dunne), a lame history professor and even lamer dad. Although he’s written a big ol’ book about the journey, Birch’s father Stanley (Stuart Margolin) is the true obsessive. When Birch’s mother dies, Birch finds himself and his two eye-rolling teenagers tangled up with a gang of Lewis and Clark discovery reenactors as they try bringing the mourning Stanley, now fully method-acting as Clark, back to earth. The film, despite all of its late-aughts indie mumblecore trappings, is tender and sweet in its depiction of Birch as a scraggly divorced dad trying to maintain connections with his family and maybe learn — nay, discover (whoa) — just how to make his relationships reverberate. And sometimes that means getting awkward with your 15-year-old daughter. In one of the film’s most intimate moments of character-building, Zoe (Madeleine Martin) gets her first period mid-expedition. All Birch can do is scratch his head and deadpan, “Uh, congratulations. That’s what people say, right?” —MS (Ritz East, Fri., Oct. 25, 12:20 p.m. and Ritz at the Bourse, Sat., Oct. 26, 5 p.m.)

The Discoverers

GOD LOVES UGANDA | B With its damning portrayal of evangelicals doing God’s work abroad, consider this documentary Jesus Camp: The International Edition. Sending bright-eyed twentysomethings to serve as missionaries in Uganda, the Kansas City-based International House of Prayer (which uses the unfortunate acronym IHOP), is determined to convert sinners and “harvest the pearl of Africa.” But as some Ugandans argue, the Christian right’s influence is shaping the country for the worse: The rise of abstinence-only programs has exacerbated the AIDS crisis and the crusade against homosexuals has resulted in the controversial Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which, if enacted, would make same-sex relations punishable by death.While director Roger Ross Williams, who won an Academy Award for best documentary short in 2010, offers chilling glimpses of hate unchecked, he fails to linger on one point long enough for the horror he conjures to set in. —Paulina Reso (Ritz at the Bourse, Thu., Oct. 24, 3:15 p.m. and Sun., Oct. 27, 7:20 p.m.)

The Great Hip Hop Hoax

THE GREAT HIP HOP HOAX | BThat title’s a bit of a stretch. After all, the great hoax behind short-lived hip-hop duo Silibil ’N’ Brains is that they were Scottish, not American. But that little lie turned out to be a game changer for witty, underdog BFF MCs Gavin Bain and Billy Boyd. After getting dismissed as “rappin’ Proclaimers,” they moved to London in the mid-aughts, dropped their brogues, took on SoCal accents and started making their old-school rap dreams come true: record deal, money, hotties, high-profile gigs, etc. The tradeoff, of course, was talking like a Yank 24-7 and trying not to feel like a fraud. There are plenty of surprises in director Jeanie Finlay’s tragicomic documentary, and though the film raises a few more questions than it answers, it’s a moving and entertaining look at two likable guys who almost kinda sorta beat the system, back when there was a system to beat. —Patrick Rapa (Cinemark, Fri., Oct. 18, 5:05 p.m. and Mon., Oct. 21, 9:50 p.m.)

Mother of George

MAN OF TAI CHI | BKeanu Reeves’ single-minded directorial debut converses in all the familiar martial-arts phrases, and while its straight-

Vic + Flo Saw a Bear

ahead approach frequently toes into cornball territory, there’s a real sincerity to the action. Reeves calls on his friend Tiger Hu Chen, an experienced Chinese stuntman who worked on the Matrix movies, to portray the titular man, a supremely talented practitioner hell-bent on proving that the forms of tai chi are for more than show. After Chen, a blue-collar courier by day, proves his skill in sanctioned competitions, he’s contacted by Donaka Mark (Reeves), a crime boss who’s apparently so loaded that he buys Lamborghinis by halfheartedly pointing at them. Impressed by Chen’s abilities, he ushers his young project into the violent world of underground fighting, paying him loads of cash to brutalize opponents, blackening his spirit in the process. While the fights vary wildly in narrative value, the quality of the choreography and the incredible athleticism doesn’t waver. Neither does the silliness of Reeves’ amusing one-note villain, who beats up the scenery as frequently as Chen bloodies bad-guy noses. —Drew Lazor (Ritz East, Sun. Oct. 20, 10:15 p.m. and Wed., Oct. 23, 9:30 p.m.)

MOTHER OF GEORGE | ADirector Andrew Dosunmu’s vivid Mother of George opens with the wedding of a Nigerian couple living in Brooklyn. Although Ayodele (Isaach De Bankolé) and Adenike (Danai Gurira) are given blessings for fertility and prosperity, 18 months later they are still childless. After Ayodele refuses to see a fertility doctor, Adenike, feeling pressure to deliver a grandson named George to her mother-inlaw, seeks a risky solution to their problems. Dosunmu captures the escalating drama artfully, shifting the film’s buoyant African rhythms to a bluesier soundtrack and dulling the rich colors of Adenike’s bold dresses to more muted tones. The visual cues are made even more distinct by Bradford Young’s phenomenal cinematography. Mother of George unfolds in a world that is rarely seen in American cinema, and this, along with Gurira’s miraculous, immensely expressive and sympathetic performance, is what makes this absorbing film so outstanding. —GMK (Ritz at the Bourse, Mon., Oct. 21, 2:30 p.m. and Fri., Oct. 25, 7 p.m.)

NORTHWEST | C A young man from an impoverished neighborhood advances from petty robberies to involvement with a local crime gang, then begins to look for a way out as danger mounts and his

younger brother follows in his footsteps. The ethnically diverse Copenhagen neighborhood of the title lends former documentarian Michael Noer’s second narrative feature an unusual setting, but that’s about the only novelty in this overly familiar coming-of-agewith-guns story. Non-professional actors and real-life brothers Gustav and Oscar Dyekjær Giese are adept at depicting kids playing at being adults in a world in which adults have the temperament of kids, but there’s little in their environment that distinguishes this tragic tale of bad choices from countless others. Noer adopts the jittery hand-held camera and bleary digital color palette that is modern shorthand for “gritty,” but it’s a style that’s already been co-opted for prime-time television. The brisk pace and memorable performances of underwritten characters simply reveal that confidence is no substitute for originality. —Shaun Brady (Ritz at the Bourse, Fri., Oct. 18, 9:30 p.m. and Cinemark, Sun., Oct. 20, 2:35 p.m.)

VIC + FLO SAW A BEAR | ADenis Côté’s last film, Bestiaire, was a stark meditation on animals in captivity and their human keepers. The Quebecois filmmaker’s latest at times seems like a perverse variation on the same theme. More of a traditional narrative, Vic + Flo Saw a Bear casts the director’s unflinching gaze on a lesbian couple who met in prison and reunite in a cabin in the countryside. The two women are ostensibly free but intentionally isolated, apart from civilization and confronted with the natural world, where instinct and savagery aren’t reserved for the forest’s natural denizens. The film begins as an intimate character drama, with the lovers confronting the difficulties of a significant age gap and Flo’s continued interest in men. But Côté continually upends expectations, deftly shifting tone and veering the plot in unexpected directions with a bleak, almost sadistic humor. Leads Pierrette Robitaille and Romane Bohringer navigate those sharp turns with impressive, deadpan grace. —SB (Ritz at the Bourse, Fri., Oct. 18, 7:10 p.m. and Ritz East, Sat., Oct. 26, 4:50 p.m.)

TICKETS The 22nd annual Philadelphia Film Festival runs October 17-27. Single tickets to regular screenings are $12; for info, call 215670-2300 or visit filmadelphia.org/festival. Films screen at Cinemark, 4012 Walnut St.; Perelman Theater, 300 S. Broad St.; Prince Music Theater, 1412 Chestnut St.; Ritz at the Bourse, 400 Ranstead St.; and Ritz East, 125 S. Second St.

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³ SO IRON CHEF JOSE GARCES has leased the long-dormant Old Original Bookbinder’sin Old City. What the hell’s he going to do with so much space (13,000 square feet!) — especially considering he’s scheduled to open Rosa Blanca at Seventh and Chestnut in November and Volver at the Kimmel Center in December? Though the deal isn’t finalized, I’ve heard scuttlebutt inside and outside Garces’ organization that the legendary Second and Walnut Bookbinder’s would be everything from a test kitchen and production facility to two different restaurants within the same building. My guesstimate is that Garces will take his knowledge of the hotel business (he’s aligned with The Saguaro Hotel of Scottsdale, Ariz.) and take over Bookbinder’s connected hotel space for a boutique lodging the likes of which Stephen Starrhas discussed (but has yet to do) for ages. Hey, here’s another fun Garces rumor while we’re at it: Douglas Rodriguez — the man behind Miami’s De Rodriguez Cuba on Ocean and the exec chef at Starr’s Alma de Cuba — is said to have had a major hand in designing the menu for Garces’ aforementioned Rosa Blanca. Doing stuff for Starr and Garces? Nice work if you can get it. ³ Scott Johnston, co-creator of Philly burlesque behemoth the Peek-A-Boo Revue, is a man of superlatives, but when he tells me this Friday’s Halloween mega-show at the Troc will be their finest yet, he’s onto something. “I’ll go out on a limb — two limbs — to say that this is the greatest show that we’ve ever brought to their stage,” says Johnston. I caught the Revue in rehearsal at Jeanne Ruddy’s dance studio earlier this week: He could be right. ³ Jazz drummer/bon vivant Bruce Klauber (can’t wait for his “Classics in Jazz” show at WRTZRadio.com), pianist Andy Kahn and bassist Bruce Kaminsky will unveil Prime Rib’s elegant new late-night lounge concept, theLeopard Room, this Saturday with a post-11 p.m. menu, no cover and a cocktail list that’ll knock the bow tie off your neck. ³ A different kind of lounge, the electro-heavy Lit UltraBar on North Second Street, is having a different kind of party. Kyber Bernstein is celebrating his first year owning the place, and his RAW Artists showcase there on Oct. 17 will involve a massive runway show with major help on the local-accessories lineup from BlckBts, one of Philly’s swankiest belts-and-bags designers. Then, on Oct. 24, Bernstein says Lit’s event with Dada Life is a guaranteed sellout. ³ Icepack gets illustrated at citypaper.net/nakedcity. (a_amorosi@citypaper.net) 18 | P H I L A D E L P H I A C I T Y PA P E R |

FLEETING FOXES: The Philly trio likes to balance seriousness and playfulness.

[ rock/pop ]

THE ENDS’ GAME The Fleeting Ends balance pretty power-pop with “controlled derangement.” By A.D. Amorosi

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e treat each song as if it’s our smash hit, something that if we’re having fun, chances are, you are too,” says Matt Amadio, the drumming, singing third of Philadelphia’s The Fleeting Ends. “It’s the thrill of writing those types of tunes that keeps us in the game.” Amadio is talking about the dynamic power-pop sound, crisp, two-part harmonies and driving rhythms that have fueled the band since he got together with vocalist/guitarist Matt Vantine in Upper Darby in 2008. (The singing, songwriting Matts recruited bassist Russell Langley shortly after.) “We call it controlled derangement,” says the drummer. After one lean, mean single, “Revival,” and a brusque, garagey EP, Goldmine in the Gutter, The Fleeting Ends are finally dropping a full-length album. Our Eyes Are Peeled is a magnificent display of Beatles-esque grandeur. The trio’s strong suit, its taut sense of melody, is on full display. What’s bigger and bolder is the singers’ harmonies, as produced by knob-twiddler, MilkBoy Studio founder and the band’s manager Tommy Joyner. The vocals aren’t just sweepingly large or sweet, they are muscular and lustful. Add to those harmonies a string

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section led by arranger Larry Gold — aka “Don Cello,” legendary keystone of the Gamble & Huff sound — and the whole of Our Eyes Are Peeled is a warmly orchestrated charmer. Vantine and Amadio bonded over the Beatles, the Doors and Pink Floyd, and those influences ring true on Our Eyes Are Peeled. “We wanted to achieve what we heard on our favorite records,” he says. “One evening after listening to Abbey Road together, we knew what we had to do. We’ve been writing ever since.” Balancing “seriousness and playfulness,” he says, is their number-one goal where songcraft is concerned, with Vantine picking up the lyrical slack. “I couldn’t trust anyone else with lyrics,” says Amadio. “The kid can write.” According to Amadio, the album didn’t come easy. The process was fraught with “moments of frustration and anger followed by waves of relief and laughter.” Despite (or because of) all that, the pair have delivered their most poignant moments yet, with songs such as “I’m Like That” and “Little People” among their favorites. “Getting back to that idea of ours, where we’ve got a fine line separating seriousness and playfulness. To me, these songs are the closest we’ve come to achieving that.” (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)

Their taut sense of melody is on full display.

✚ Fri., Oct. 18, 9:15 p.m., $10, with The Lawsuits and The Districts, Johnny

Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 215-739-9684, johnnybrendas.com.

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That a song as political as “Royals” penetrated the charts in the Katy Perry Age counts as a minor revolution. That it comes from Lorde, a 16-year-old New Zealander with a hint of smoke in her voice and a kill-your-idols attitude about the current pop landscape, is a major aberration. Her minimalist synth music comes with lyrics you should pay attention to: “Don’t you think it’s boring how people talk?” But not too much attention: “It drives you crazy getting old.” Pure Heroine (Motown/ —Dotun Akintoye Universal) may be pure pop.

³ electronic/art-pop Cameron Mesirow’s gonna have a tough time shaking those Björk comparisons with her second LP as Glasser, and not just because of certain heavily reminiscent contours in the otherworldly acrobatics of her voice. While Interiors (True Panther) remains undeniably Mesirovian, its architecturally inspired yet organically fluid technopop shapes evoke the hypercolor digitalia of Homogenic more than anything Björk has touched in years. —K. Ross Hoffman

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duets on YouTube and crafted Colours (Tin Angel) long-distance, between Austin and Halifax. But there’s nothing newfangled or logistically strained about the topics traversed here — family, ceiling fans, a minor boating accident, love — nor the album’s unhurried folk-pop. His voice is high and pure like hers, and the results, colored by Sandro Perri’s sympathetic, synth- and horn-flecked production, are rarely dazzling but consistently comforting. The Wilsons should be proud. —K. Ross Hoffman

³ live/rock/pop On Feb. 13, 1997, following a power outage, Alex Chilton played an impromptu acoustic set at the Knitting Factory and now the oft traded audience recording sees official release as Electricity by Candlelight (Bar/None). It’s both atypical and typical of the late, great Chilton: an idiosyncratic collection of country, pop, folk and jazz covers. He plays great guitar, gamely banters with the crowd and leads a few sing-alongs. Most impressive are the three Beach Boys songs. —Michael Pelusi

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THE FIFTH ESTATE [ B- ] IT’S OFTEN SAID that journalism is the first draft of history. The Fifth Estate,

released three years after the disclosure of classified U.S. government documents that brought Julian Assange’s muckraking website WikiLeaks to the world’s attention, is at best the second draft. Working from a script by West Wing alum Josh Singer, itself an adaptation of a book by former Assange associate Daniel Domscheit-Berg, director Bill Condon’s film is something of an info-dump itself, a collection of incidents without an animating point of view. As Assange, Benedict Cumberbatch is only slightly more human than his Star Trek villain, a cunning megalomaniac bent on shining sunlight into the darkest of government hidey-holes. In one self-mythologizing speech, he declaims that the beginning of conspiracy is “two men and a secret,” whereas “one moral man ... can topple the most repressive of regimes.” And so the information-wants-to-be-free credo finds itself welded to the Hollywood myth of individualism, in which institutions are reduced to representative figures who can thus be toppled as easily as any flesh-and-blood human. The Fifth Estate has plenty of techno-flash, with a gleaming sense of international intrigue on loan from the Bourne series, but nothing like the intelligence that could untangle a thorny, even defining, debate. Newspapers are stodgy and slow, government is secretive, information activists begin with noble intentions and are corrupted by a sense of their own power — and so on. It’s not wrong, exactly; just old hat, a conventional and contained recitation of a story that is neither. On WikiLeaks itself, Assange posted a version of the movie’s script with extensive annotations purporting to clear up its misrepresentations, but there’s little danger of anyone taking The Fifth Estate as fact. —Sam Adams

A gleaming sense of international intrigue.

THEY GOT THE HAIR RIGHT: In the WikiLeaks thriller-drama, Benedict Cumberbatch (L) stars as Julian Assange alongside Daniel Brühl, who plays a former colleague of the activist.

WALKING CRED

³STEPPING INTO theCRED Philly OnSitespace at 325 South St., I am immediately struck by the busy, colorful and slightly scattershot look of the place, a mix of eclectic art, funky furniture and random paint splatter. All over the room, small circles of twentysomethings hammer away at laptops, field calls and discuss the projects they’re working on. In the middle of it all, CRED intern and event coordinator Paul “S.Frosty” Jackson is prepping — hanging paintings, arranging display cases and helping artists set up drum machines, samplers and sound equipment — for the evening’s event, The Co-Production,a round-robin live showcase of the city’s dopest up-and-coming hip-hop and electronic beat producers. CRED OnSite aspires to be a lot of things to a lot of people; Frosty sums it up as a “visual-art gallery, a storefront, a workspace and an events venue focused on a 25-and-under demographic.” The space was conceived as a physical externalization of CRED Magazine,the slick and eclectic print mag written and edited by 25-and-unders under the stewardship of North Philly nonprofit the Village Arts & Humanities.The magazine aims to help the city’s creative youth develop skills and a unique progressive aesthetic while building portfolios in journalism, photography, music and graphic design. The idea was to turn all that into something immersive and multidimensional, a place for creative explorations into everything from live DJs to body painting, visual arts to music performance. Throughout the month of October, CRED OnSite will be hosting events for young artists and professionals, a series that promises to be part live social networking/part urban art happening. (editorial@citypaper.net) ✚ More info on CRED OnSite at credphilly.com.

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³ ROMEO AND JULIET

Many issues about producing Shakespeare divide people into two camps, and one of the thorniest is faithfulness to the Bard’s intent: One side believes in following historical and stage tradition, the other asserts that interpretive innovation helps make difficult plays accessible and familiar scripts fresh. I’m resolutely in the latter category, so I welcome Curio Theatre’s “lesbian” Romeo and Juliet, in which a woman (Rachel Gluck) plays Romeo not as a pants role, but as an actual female character, the daughter of the Montagues. Director Krista Apple-Hodge’s production proves very enjoyable and engrossing because of its leads’ youthful exuberance and the cast’s clear, committed delivery. Isa St. Clair’s Juliet is an impetuous teen brimming over with new love, appropriately impulsive and silly. Her first moment alone with Romeo — a silent, unscripted scene in which Juliet looks for her party mask and Romeo teases her with it — is magical. Eric Scotolati’s Mercutio lives up to his name with an energetic, witty performance, mastering the difficult “Queen Mab” speech. Casting Gluck meant missing what would probably have been Scotolati’s fine Romeo, but we’re well-compensated by her nuanced performance, which embodies the problems of being “one of the guys” while also decidedly different. The nine-person cast has automatic limitations. Colleen Hughes makes a sprightly Nurse, but falters as Romeo’s nemesis Tybalt, who isn’t as ruthless or lethally skilled as described by Romeo’s

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pals. It’s an awkward choice that forces quick changes of clothes and character, and leads to Hughes looking overmatched in combat with Mercutio, despite Brian McCann’s explosive fight choreography. Steve Carpenter, Josh Hitchens, Ken Opdenaker and Harry Slack fare better with one significant role each, and Aetna Gallagher (who also serves as costume designer) plays an amalgam of Juliet’s mother and father as a cooly officious matriarch. Gallagher’s modern-dress cosRomeo and Juliet tumes come across as rather bland; gray hoodies and jeans just aren’t all that colorful or fun. Paul Kuhn’s multilevel set provides lots of well-used space, skillfully lit by Tim Martin. It doesn’t look like anything in particular — mixing the building’s imposing organ pipes with scaffolding, some stone walls, big wooden church doors and a central circular platform — but it’s dynamic. As usual at Curio, everyone sits close to the action. The production will disappoint those expecting an overt political statement from Curio, whether they’re looking to cheer or jeer. The small company got a flood of national attention in September when a Philadelphia magazine blog post about the production was picked up by The Drudge Report, resulting in an Internet shitstorm over a lesbian Romeo and Juliet being performed “in a church.” (That the Calvary United Methodist Church’s former sanctuary has been a full-time theater space for years was conveniently brushed aside by fundamentalists whipping themselves

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into a froth-mouthed frenzy with images of lesbians scissoring on an altar.) But this Romeo and Juliet plays like one of Mauckingbird Theatre Company’s gender-bent classics, set in a parallel universe in which sexual orientation just isn’t a big deal. The affection between the two leads is staged delicately, and no one — not Juliet herself, Romeo’s guy friends, Juliet’s nurse or their supportive friend Friar Lawrence — seems to notice or care that this tomboy is madly in love with another girl. It plays well, but I can’t help but wonder how some modern reticence and disapproval would add fresh layers to the drama and enrich the characters and their familiar story — and, yes, maybe even piss off some dirty-minded fundamentalists. Oh, well. Through Nov. 2, $25, Calvary Center, 4740 Baltimore Ave., 215525-1350, curiotheatre.org. —Mark Cofta

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Something like the rom-coms that killed Meg Ryan’s career. their names are Jonah and Sophie) sit at separate but matching desks, gazing at the audience with confiding smiles. Jonah begins: “This is a true story, a love story, our love story; and the first thing I want to tell you is … ” So begins Blink. Perhaps I don’t need to tell you the first thing I muttered under my breath, as I anticipated something resembling the icky romcoms that killed Meg Ryan’s career. Happily, at least some of the time Blink turns out to be more than that, and it’s given a likeable if low-key production at Inis Nua. This is the American premiere of Phil Porter’s play, which previously was well-received at the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Fringe hits are often edgy and ostentatiously provocative, so one surprise here is how much of Blink is gentle and sweet. Jonah and Sophie are fundamentally ordinary, middle-class people looking for solutions to their loneliness. That, of course, is what brings them together — though, to Porter’s credit, the road is bumpier than it initially appears. But in the end, there just isn’t enough here to make their story compelling. There are lovely

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moments in Blink, but the basic structure — two characters telling the audience about their lives — is closer to oral storytelling than a fully orchestrated play. It doesn’t help that their memoirmonologues are punctuated with a kind of studied quirkiness that reminded me of college application essays. (The desks, which I gather are a holdover from the original production, don’t help either: They reduce the playing space, and are a constant visual reminder of how much of Blink is pure narration.) In the plus column, at 85 minutes, Blink doesn’t overstay its welcome, and Adam Altman (Jonah) and Clare Mahoney (Sophie) give appealing performances that help us feel invested. Through Oct. 27, Off-Broad Street Theater, 1636 Sansom St., 215454-9776, inisnuatheatre.org. —David Anthony Fox

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✚ NEW A.C.O.D. | CThe same question arises every time another television season rolls around, full of promising, star-studded new shows: How did all of this talent get corralled into creating something so mediocre? TV veteran Stu Zicherman fails to shake some of the small screen’s worst habits in his debut feature film as writer/director. The clumsy acronym of the title stands for “Adult Children Of Divorce,” and Zicherman draws on his own experiences as a member of the first generation for whom divided homes were the rule and not the exception. Adam Scott stars as Carter, a seemingly well-adjusted restaurateur who has spent much of his life as the go-between for his parents. He’s drafted to make a truce between them for the duration of younger brother Clark Duke’s wedding, which leads to the breakdown of his carefully controlled life. Despite the strong cast — Jane Lynch as Carter’s childhood therapist, who senses a best-seller in his breakdown; Scott’s Parks and Rec co-star Amy Poehler as his father’s second wife; and especially Richard Jenkins and Catherine O’Hara as his parents — laughs are middling at best, and Zicherman repeatedly falls back on indie-rock-scored montages as a substitute for evoking real emotions. Littered with subplots and half-explored characters, A.C.O.D. feels like nothing more than the pilot for a sitcom that is only good enough to last if it follows a better show. —Shaun Brady (Ritz at the Bourse)

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✚ CONTINUING CAPTAIN PHILLIPS | C+ With his rootless camera and manic editing style, Paul Greengrass turns the true story of a cargo ship hijacked by Somali pirates into a tense, claustrophobic thriller. What may be surprising is that the film is at once unambitious, stubbornly focusing on Tom Hanks’ noble, stoic captain to the detriment of the remainder of his faceless crew; and defensively apologetic, preemptively defusing racial tensions by drawing condescending parallels between the pirates’ third-world plight and the struggles of their working class first-world counterparts.Without falling back on heavy-handed pronouncements about globalization and the speed of progress, the Danish film A Hijacking told a similar story much more compellingly, allowing suspense to permeate scenes of endless waiting, both at sea and in corporate boardrooms. Greengrass, in a headlong rush toward Navy SEAL heroics, simply doesn’t trust his audience enough to allow his frenetic camera to sit still for a moment. —SB (Wide release)

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sible, the sequel to Robert Rodriguez’s 2010 trailer-turned-film reaches radioactive levels of camp with the pushing-70 Danny Trejo playing Machete. Forced to take on a dangerous mission by scumbag President Rathcock (Charlie Sheen/Carlos Estevez), Machete must penetrate the camp of bipolar revolutionary Mendez (Demian Bichir), who’s got a nuclear missile fixed on D.C. Once he gets his man into custody, however, an evil arms mogul (Mel Gibson) places a $20 million bounty on their heads, drawing only the most lethal hitmen and hitwomen to the light, including vengeful brothel proprietor Desdemona (Sofia Vergara) and the shape-shifting “El Cameleón,” played by four different actors (including Lady Gaga!). Anyone willing to laugh at themselves will find entertainment value in Machete Kills, which may feature more decapitations than lines of dialogue. But there’s also a lighthearted current of Mexican national pride in play, one that boxes America about the ears in a manner it deserves. —Drew Lazor (Wide release)

MUSCLE SHOALS | B+ In the last verse of “Sweet Home Alabama,” Ronnie Van Zant sings, “Now Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers/ And they’ve been known to pick a song or two.” For those who have always chalked up those lines to classic-rock arcana, Greg “Freddy” Camalier’s doc about the Muscle Shoals sound and its key players, the rhythm section known as the Swampers, should be required viewing. Listeners from the North and South should be able to agree on Lynyrd Skynyrd’s praise for the Fame Studios players responsible for the landmark funk sound of records like Percy Sledge’s “When a Man Loves a Woman” and Wilson Pickett’s “Mustang Sally.” That these classic songs by AfricanAmerican artists were recorded with an all-white band is stressed as evidence of the studio’s commendable colorblindness, though the film glosses over larger issues of racial dynamics in the Southern music industry. Instead, Camalier presents the Muscle Shoals sound as a product of its environment, sending his camera out to take in the local swampland and dilapidated remnants of 1950s Alabama. The Swampers themselves chalk it up to basic musical chemistry, unschooled players who simply added up to more than the sum of their admittedly limited parts. —SB (Ritz at the Bourse)

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WADJDA | BPlayed with wry intelligence by Waad Mohammed, Wadjda is an independent-minded 10-year-old girl who stubbornly rejects her indoctrination into Saudi Arabia’s repressive society. Her most fervent desire is to save enough money for a bike in order to race — and beat — the neighborhood boy with whom she shares a flirtatious friendship. Wadjda’s refusal to heed multiple warnings about her behavior threatens to turn tragic, but director Haifaa Al-Mansour avoids veering off into the overly melodramatic. Instead, Wadjda’s particular misfortune is one of dreams trampled and enthusiasm discouraged in the name of tradition. This narrative doesn’t make Al-Mansour’s reliance on sympathy for a young girl any less manipulative, and her directorial vision is never more than blandly competent. But it does temper her didactic message-making, bringing out more nuanced and insightful observations of a cloistered society. —SB (Ritz Five)

WE ARE WHAT WE ARE | BPottstown native Jim Mickle’s followup to the vamp-hunting Stake Land tracks another group whose horror is passed on through blood, but this time it’s a rural family whose annual “Lamb’s Day” ritual involves feasting on human flesh. The cannibalwoods-dweller thing has been done a thousand times before, including in the Mexican film from which We Are What We Are is remade, but Mickle gives the film a rancid sheen that dulls the feeling of familiarity. Indiefilm fixture Bill Sage is fine as the creepy paterfamilias, whose ironclad rule is threatened when a freak storm throws off the family’s airless stability. But the movie belongs to Julia Garner and Ambyr Childers as the daughters who wrestle with their poisoned heritage. Although it’s not a supernatural film, there’s something otherworldly about them, especially Garner, who wants to be normal without being able to understand what that means. Even if it weren’t a remake, We Are What We Are would feel redundant, but it’s worth watching again for the first time. —Sam Adams (Ritz at the Bourse)

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min.) and Pacific Rim (2013, U.S., 131 min.): At this makeshift drive-in, watch monsters new and old duke it out. Fri., Oct. 18, 7:30 p.m., $19.33.

ETHICAL SOCIETY BUILDING 1906 S. Rittenhouse Sq., terrorfilmfestival.com. Terror Film Festival: Three days of horror flicks. Thu.-Sat., Oct. 17-19, prices vary.

INTERNATIONAL HOUSE 3701 Chestnut St., 215-387-5125, ihousephilly.org. The Films of Peter Kubelka: A series of films by the avant-garde Austrian director. Sat., Oct. 19, 2 p.m., $9. Echosystems: 16 mm films by Robert Todd: A series of shorts by the lyrical filmmaker. Mon., Oct. 21, 7 p.m., $9. An Evening with Beatriz Santiago Muñoz: A series of cinematic love letters to Puerto Rico. Tue., Oct. 22, 7 p.m., free.

PENN MUSEUM 3260 South St., 215-818-4000, penn. museum. African Independence (2013, U.S./South Africa/Kenya/Tanzania/Georgia, 120 min.): A doc exploring Africa’s evolving story. Thu., Oct. 17, 5 p.m., free with museum admission of $12.

PHILAMOCA 531 N. 12th St., 267-519-9651, philamoca.org. Night of the Living Dead (1968, U.S., 96 min.): In addition to the awesomeness of the original cult classic, the Andrew Alden Ensemble is presenting a new live score for the film. Thu., Oct. 17, 8 p.m., $12. Birdemic 2: The Resurrection (2013, U.S., 90 min.): A modern version of The Birds, but cheesier and with eagles. Actor and musician Damien Carter will perform for this DVD release party. Fri., Oct. 18, 7:30 p.m., $12. Birth of the Living Dead (2013, U.S., 76 min.): Area premiere of the doc about the making of Night of the Living Dead. Wed., Oct. 23, 8 p.m. $10.

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Tiny, golden yellow fruits that resemble tomatillos. ³ IF YOU ORDER the biscotti plate at Le Virtù

this week, you’ll find a special guest: a small orange orb hand-dipped in chocolate, the papery petals of its inverted husk twisting skyward like a windtossed hairdo, a convenient handle for plucking the Halloween-hued treat from its cookie pals. It’s a cape gooseberry, physalis peruviana,“Tiny, golden yellow fruits that resemble tomatillos,” according to Virtù pastry queen Angela Ranalli. “The berry itself is protected by a beautiful, paper-thin husk and looks like a Chinese lantern.” Cape gooseberries, also known as ground cherries, are not to be confused with regular gooseberries. While the local season for those sweet, floral, pink or green baubles ended in August, the cape gooseberries crop is reaching its apex just now. “Cape gooseberries have a unique flavor, one that is really hard to describe,” says Ranalli. “It’s kind of sweet and sour, but then there is another layer of flavor to them that makes it all its own. I have given a spoonful of cape gooseberry jam to people and asked them to guess what it is. Anyone who hadn’t tried the fruit before failed in guessing that it’s the product of single berry.” The flavor suggests a cross between tomato and pineapple, making them naturals in seafood preps. “I will usually use them raw,” says Marc Plessis, who crushes the fruits into a salsa for his Kona kanpachi crudo at Pennsylvania 6. “The combination of tart with the fatty fish is a great pairing.” Back at Le Virtu, cape gooeberries have also filled the role of green tomatoes in Ranalli’s seasonal crostata. Topped with hazelnut crumble and mascarpone gelato, the tart is a full-throated expression of this unusual local fruit and, like the cookie plate, comes with a whole gooseberry garnish, this one enrobed in orange blossom meringue. “The husks and golden berry make it such a gorgeous component to an autumn dessert, like fallen leaves.” (adam.erace@citypaper.net)

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here are all sorts of reasons that romantic relationships go stale, but restaurant ennui shouldn’t be one of them. I mean, Friday Chinese on the couch in sweats plus Netflix doesn’t really cut it, even if you are queuing up Like Water for Chocolate or Eat Drink Man Woman. We’re not suggesting you bankroll a foie-and-caviar-gilded dinner at Lacroix, though — that place sure seems a lot less affordable now that we (and, we assume, you) lost our vast fortunes in the bond market. So we’ve lined up five solid, walMore on: let-friendly date nights based on the following criteria: (A) Dinner and drinks for two for under $75. (B) No takeout. (C) No canned romance — i.e., no run-of-the-mill aphrodisiacs, carriage rides, opera-singing wait staff, etc. So, without further ado, here’s our five.

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³ EVERYDAY GOOD HOUSE No one has ever called Olney the Paris of Philadelphia, but this

warm, wooden-picnic-tabled Korean barbecue joint is pretty damned cozy. Start out with a few Heinekens and a sharable bottle of sochu and before you know it, a glorious spread of banchan (small plates of Korean sides) floods the table. A recent visit saw charred shishitos, creamy macaroni salad and a totally amazing plate of sliced hot dogs tossed with sesame oil and gochujang. Go for the barbecue for two and you’ll be there for hours, making your way through a very serious plate of rosy cuts of pork belly and skirt steak grilled by one of Everyday Good House’s attentive servers. Then grab another round and head to one of their private karaoke rooms. 5501 N. Front St., 215-276-7942. ³ STOGIE JOE’S You know who doesn’t like pizza? Someone we would never want to go on a date with. Located on a scenic MORE FOOD AND stretch of Passyunk Avenue, Stogie Joe’s is DRINK COVERAGE home to our favorite square pie with cheese AT C I T Y P A P E R . N E T / on the bottom, sauce on the top. Split a M E A LT I C K E T. large (the leftovers are even better the next morning, if you know what we’re saying), a pitcher of Yards Pale Ale and maybe an order of the incredible meatballs and you’re going to be in for some Lady and the Tramp-caliber action — all for under $50. Bonus points for Sinatra Sundays with Rat Pack tunes from Rick Baccare. 1801 E. Passyunk Ave., 215-463-3030, stogiejoestavern.com. >>> continued on page 32

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No one has ever called Olney the Paris of Philadelphia. ³ RANGOON An exotic tour of Southeast Asia with your main squeeze is the stuff that honeymoon fantasies are made of, but if that’s not in your budget, a trip to this Chinatown Burmese joint is much more affordable. Flavors are out of the ordinary (that thrilling Southeast Asian combo of salty-sour-sweet-spicy) and chardonnay by the glass is $4 for a generous pour. Somehow the salads at Rangoon are the most exciting part of the menu: We’re particularly fond of the deep-fried watercress with flash-fried leaves dressed in a striking blend of basil, chile, lime and mint. 112 N. Ninth St., 215-829-8939, rangoonrestaurant.com. ³ KRAKUS MARKET The old-timey feel of the diner in Port Richmond’s Krakus Market is warm (in a Soviet kind of way?), and there’s something decidedly romantic about sharing a comforting meal here with that someone special. Servings are hearty — think plate-sized potato pancakes and steaming bowls of bigos, a Polish hunter’s stew (that has to be good for virility, right?). Plus, the selection of oversized (and high ABV) bottles of Polish beers ensures that you’ll both get back on the El feeling all warm and fuzzy. 3150 Richmond St., 215-426-4336, krakusmarket.com. ³ THE PUB Full disclosure: We’re apprehensive about sharing our most beloved, super-secret date spot with the public. Sure, there’s a towering neon sign advertising this stuckin-another-era gem in Pennsauken, but still. The Pub is pure magic. Make your way into a massive dining room that feels like Medieval Times — if they had Medieval Times in the ’70s. Drinks come in two varieties: over-thetop girly (mudslides and massive pina coladas) or manly (a Manhattan served with a full shaker in reserve to reup your cocktail). The menu and portions are similarly massive, but a steak plus multiple trips to the endlessly intriguing salad bar is the way to go here. 7600 Kaighns Ave., Pennsauken, N.J., 856-665-6440, thepubnj.com. ³ HONORABLE MENTIONS: Fountain Porter (1601 S. 10th St., 267-324-3910, foun-

tainporter.com) for the best and cheapest burger in town, an A+ beer selection, candlelit vibes and an all-vinyl (we’re pretty sure they’ll say yes to reasonable requests) soundtrack. Nick’s Old Original Roast Beef (2149 S. 20th St., 215-463-4114, nicksroastbeef.com) because roast pork sandwiches plus ice-cold Budweisers and life-changing gravy fries really do put us in the mood. (caroline@citypaper.net) 32 | P H I L A D E L P H I A C I T Y PA P E R |

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³ THE WEEK IN EATS The Glorious Vegetables of Italy Dinner at Le Virtù

Thursday, Oct. 24, 6:30 p.m., $75 including wine pairings (excluding tax & gratuity) ³ Le Virtù is welcoming fellow Abruzzo enthusiast Domenica Marchetti to celebrate the release of her new cookbook, The Glorious Vegetables of Italy. Marchetti and Le Virtù chef Joe Cicala have worked together crafting a menu of vegetable-centric dishes from the book. And when Cicala says vegetable-centric, he’s quick to point out that the menu is not entirely meat-free, but “one that celebrates vegetables.” Marchetti’s last volume was devoted to all things pasta-related. “Maybe after all of that pasta I was craving vegetables,” she said. This menu is made up of seasonally sound dishes taken from her new cookbook. It begins with a bread service of cherry tomato and red-onion focaccia and pizza bianca with fennel and a play on a Caesar salad starring bitter chicory dressed with anchovies; soup is a traditional ribollita, and the primo is a warm risotto with butternut squash and Tuscan kale. The main is a whole suckling pig roasted porchetta-style, and the accompanying controni are wintery staples like roasted fennel with sultanas and chile, roasted Romanesco with anchovy sauce and a winter cauliflower salad. Dessert via Le Virtù pastry chef Angela Ranalli is a lovely autumn-spiced semifreddo with crisp sweet-potato fritelle, mocha sauce and toasted pumpkin seeds. Le Virtù, 1927 E. Passyunk Ave., 215-2715626, levirtu.com. ³ LOOKING FORWARD There are a few more notable cookbook dinners happenings in the next few weeks. Here’s a sneak peek at one: The Gramercy Tavern Cookbook Dinner at Osteria

Wednesday, Oct. 30, 6:30 p.m., $150 including wine pairings, cookbook, tax and gratuity ³ Marc Vetri and company are having chef Michael Anthony in to celebrate with an evening of dishes from Danny Meyer’s iconic Gramercy Tavern in New York. Anthony will be speaking to diners about the story of this East 20th Street legend and signing copies of the gorgeous volume. Osteria, 640 N. Broad St., 215-763-0920, osteriaphilly.com. (caroline@citypaper.net) C I T Y PA P E R . N E T | O C T O B E R 1 7 - O C T O B E R 2 3 , 2 0 1 3 | P H I L A D E L P H I A C I T Y PA P E R |

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Do you meet women and then romance them and then leave them hanging? I think that it is fucked up that I can’t talk to you when I want to and I think that it is fucked up that you are there, and I am here! I know that she doesn’t look better than me and I am not even worried about it at this moment...actually I am trying to get you out of my system right now...I am trying to not think about you..and even when I try to get you out of my mind...here comes someone with the same fucking name as you! I don’t like it and I am unhappy about it...what the fuck am I going to do and how the fuck am I going to erase you from my thoughts? How?

You dumb bitch..I don’t like you..you fucking steal everything for yourself and don’t know anything about hard fucking work. Then you tell me these stories of how your jail house murdering boyfriend beat your ass! You dumb bitch you make me fucking sick because you deal with it then you allowed his mom and grandmom to get in your ear and tell you not to press charges, why would you settle for something like that...why would you deal with that...you stupid ass bitch...I don’t like you actually I hope that you never call me again! Kick rocks bitch!

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SUCK A DICK ALREADY!

How fucking dare your stupid ass tell me that you were going to fix me breakfast and then you fuck around and eat the whole fucking thing! I couldn’t believe you did that shit! To me it just didn’t make any type of sense whatsoever. Trust me I am not going to ask you to do anything else for me, you call me a weirdo no bitch you are the one that is a fucking weirdo. Who does the shit that you do! I hate you alot of the times you just don’t know how I truly feel. And plus you are fucking lazy... It can’t get no lazier than you!

I can’t stand this place that I work at but I know I need money and it makes me sick to think about all the phoniness that is surrounding me...why is the economy so fucked up! I know that I am trying so hard to make ends meet but still then... the same fucking shit over and over again. I look forward to new beginings at my new place of employment. I hope that I never see your ugly face again, good fucking luck to all the folks that are left over!

TAKE THE TICKETS

I THINK I LOVE YOU So what am I so afraid of? I’m afraid you might not love me, for the love there is no cure of… Although your lyrics are usually painfully wrong, the way you sing is funnier than anything. The expression on your face when our eyes meet speaks volumes. I hate that you have turned me into a pile of mushy heart mess but I love it too. You are beautiful, inside and out, especially that cock of yours. YUMMY. Oooohh… I said “cock”. - I think it is so hot that you think it’s hot when I say “cock”. I love the way you touch me, kiss me, and love me for all that I am. Know NREV, I will never do anything to compromise this amazing “thing” we have. I love you to death… perhaps ‘til death. Thank you for everything you have done for me, you have changed me in ways previously thought impossible. You make me smile every day as I fall harder and harder each passing day. I want to fall asleep in your arms every night (after you do me) and awake to you doing me every morning. (Oops - I meant making love). Best way to wake up EVER. I promise to be your best friend, your love, and your porn star as long as you keep up your 34 | P H I L A D E L P H I A C I T Y PA P E R |

Shit, go fucking rob a bank if you need money that bad. Just don’t fucking ask me cause I’m in the same boat you’re in, I just chose to keep some composure about myself. You make the city look bad and it’s bad enough! If you don’t have a token,use your two fucking legs and walk. If you can’t afford cigarettes then quit. If your are hungry walk to a place that serves food,there’s plenty of them around. Don’t you get tired of asking people for their money that they worked for all day long. I’m the fuck sick of being stared at with your desperate eyes waiting for you to ask me for something. Where’s your fucking self-pride man?

Jams-I want you to know I still love you. There will always be a piece of me holding on to the idea that we could have been together forever. How will I ever know if I’ve made the biggest mistake of my life? I won’t. All we can do now is be strong and continue to find beauty in the world. Gunther died yesterday. It feels like everything is falling apart. Everything we shared. I still have the pictures. I wish I still had my best friend. so sick...I hate you...I can honestly say that I hate you because you just talk about your best friend like a dog then you depend on her to do things for you! I wouldn’t do shit for your fat ass! How dare you tell someone that I say something about my race! I couldnt care less what your fat ass thinks or says because you are fuckin miserable and you know it! Don’t you know people know that you are a fuckin child molestor! Yeah I said it and I fucking know it! Why do you think that people dont know! Who the fuck really wants your fat ass! Nobody really wants your fat ass and how do you really think that nobody finds out about all the evil you do! I

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for the most part.Yes,”kiladelph”is known for its violence,drugs and poverty,but I’m big into music and art so it seems like the spot for me.HOWEVER,it’s one thing to be down and out and ask for some help from a complete stranger,but the down and out people of this city have taken it to the extremes.I am “down and out” and I tend to be in places among other people that are in my shoes and I cannot stand these homeless,ignorant people who have the nerve to think somebody owes them the fuck something. If you are physically and mentally able to work than GET A FUCKING JOB! or some kind of hustle.

YOU ROCK I can’t believe that you sit there and do everything that you do...in my eyes it is fucking incredible that you are able to do things in such little time and don’t complain. I am so glad that you aren’t one of those whinny ass pieces of shit. Thank you for being who you are!

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YORKIE PUPPIES - 1 male, 1 female, 5 months, 1st shots. 267-351-1270

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Oxford Circle 1BR $580+sec. Furnished. Utils incl. No pets/smoke. 215-289-4149

50th & Walton. 2br $750 incl. water only Avail immed 267-266-3661

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7xx Roosevelt Blvd. 3BR Apt $750+ utils. Hdwd floors. 267-236-3401

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West Philadelphia 1BR/2BR $600 + up Newly Renovated. Call 215-284-7944 W. Phila. Apts for 62 & older, brand new eff, 1 & 2BR units. Call 215.386.4791

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15th & Federal, 51st & Chester, 25th & Clearfield, 52nd & Girard. Rooms for rent. Share kitch. & bath, $375 & up. SSI ok.Call 267-888-1754

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15xx S Bouvier 2BR $850+Utils W/D, Fridge, C/A, 2+1, 215-878-9309

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26xx S Holebrook 4BA $950+Utils W/D, C/A, 2+1, Fridge, 215-878-9309

61XX Glenmore Ave. 2BR/1Ba $600 porch, yd, very nice, 610-534-4521

11xx N. Sloan St 3br/1ba $750/mo w/d hook-up, porch 215-519-5437 13XX N. Wanamaker. 3br/1ba $825/mo. Home. 1st/last/1mo. security required Call 267-255-1895 51xx Ludlow 3BR $750+utils $1,500 move-in. Call (484)433-5764 57th & Webster 3BR/1BA $900/mo. Modern w/gar. Avail immd. 267.266.3661 Cobbs Creek 3BR $900+ utils new renov, credit chk. Call 215-681-9674

225 N Gross St. 3BR/1BA $895 www.perutoproperties.com 215.740.4900

Mayfair 63xx Ditman 3br/1.5ba $900 Fully renovated. Finished basement. New hardwood and w/w floors. Private parking. Callforappointment(215)947-6446

Croyden Rd 2BR/1BA $850 1st/last mo + 1 mo. sec. 610.547.1807

Delware Cnty 3 &4BR $900 & Up +Utils Section 8 ok. Avail Now. 610-394-0768

Narberth 2BR/1.5BA $1900 2xx Woodbine Ave. Spacious 1B 1.25 Bath Townhome Exposed brick, new bath, huge basement for storage. Central A/C. Front porch, fenced in back yard with deck. Owner is licensed PA salesperson (610) 745-8751

Lincoln 2003 Luxury 4 dr presidential edition Towncar w/ sunroof, Like new., chauffer driven, few original miles, Quick Private sale, $5975. Lynn 215-928-9632

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low cost cars & trucks Buick LeSabre 1995 $1850 Mint, 85K, Needs Nothing, 215-620-9383 Buick LeSabre 1997 $1,250 4dr, loaded, clean 215.280.4825

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5xx E Walnut Lane 3br/1ba $700+utils 2 mos sec + 1 mo rent. 215-224-2953

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East Oak Ln 6716 N. 7th Effic & 1BR. $475. 215-224-6566 E. Oak Ln 67xx N Broad St 5br/2b $1450+utls. 215-224-6566

2449 E. Ann St. 3BR/1.5BA $950 Newly renovated, central air & heat, credit check req’d. No pets. 267.767.3551

18XX Schiller 5BR/1BA $1100 +Utils 34XX Joyce 3BR/1BA $795 +Utils No pets. Section 8 ok. 215-539-7866

5272 Glenloch 2BR $750+utils. LR, bsmnt, A/C, sec 8 ok. 267.808.8432

BMW M3 2006 $28,000 Convert, 2 Door, Black in/out W/Hard & Soft top, 6 spd, 48K Mi, 610-775-0651 BUICK 1996 luxury 4 door 9 pass full sized roadmaster station wagon full power, A/C, Like New, gar kept "Pops-Pops" car quick private sale $5,975. 215-922-5342

GMC Yukon Denali XL 2002 $9,200 1 owner, leath int., 133K mi. 610.220.1582 Jeep Commander 2007 Sport $7695 clean serv records. 141,800 miles. 856725-2096

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