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A West Philly woman is attempting to use crowdfunding on the web to purchase the house she’s been squatting in for the last eight years. “I’ve always wanted to gentrify,” she explains. “I just couldn’t afford it.”

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Lightning forces the audience inside the Linc to take shelter during a Taylor Swift concert. Swift, meanwhile, remains on stage, where she is struck by lightning some 31 times with no ill effect.

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A 25-year study performed by area researchers concludes that babies born to crack-addicted mothers have few significant disadvantages intellectually or developmentally. Meaning we had to look at all those horrible photos of tiny, bugeyed babies for no fucking reason.

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The crack-baby study did determine that poverty was a greater detriment to child development than crack. Go ahead and make us look at photos of poor people all damn day. We won’t feel a thing. A posting on Craigslist purports to be written by a Philly mom attempting to arrange a hook-up for her son so he can lose his virginity before enrolling in Harvard. And suddenly a bunch of Wharton kids are wondering if that handjob during orientation wasn’t a miracle after all. The 400-passenger Liberty Belle paddlewheel boat, which formerly gave tours on the Delaware, will be auctioned in Baltimore. With that out of the way, there should be less Google Alert confusion for anybody else using that name. Specifically the drill team, the conservative women’s group, the chorus, the roller-derby team, the gun-rights group, the women’s football team, the synchronized-skating team, the Tea Party blogger, the volleyball club and the website offering a “glamorous glance at the world of tactical military jobs with a sexy twist.” A new study by the Department of Energy finds no evidence that fracking leads to contaminated drinking water. So suck it up, frack babies.

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DAY IN COURT: Eugene Gilyard spent years writing to lawyers, trying to get help proving his innocence in a 1995 murder. Now, he could have a new trial. EVAN M. LOPEZ

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SPEAKING OUT Two men serving life sentences battle the code of the street — and the DA — for a chance at justice. By Daniel Denvir

ack in 1995, Kenyatta and Lance Felder were teenagers in North Philly. Their mother was dead, their fathers were gone, and an uncle who lived in the house was an addict. Rob Felder, their older brother, ran the house and a small crack-cocaine enterprise with which his younger brothers helped out. “He was our sole provider,” Kenyatta Felder, now 32 and the youngest, testified in court last week. Rob exercised authority “by giving beatings. He actually split my head open to the skull with a concrete flowerpot.” Against that backdrop of fear, Kenyatta Felder kept silent for 15 years as his brother Lance served a life sentence for murder alongside co-defendant Eugene Gilyard, another kid from the neighborhood. But after reading about Gilyard’s Post-Conviction Relief Act (PCRA) petition in City Paper [“The Wrong Man?” May 16, 2013], Kenyatta decided he had to speak up. On June 28, Kenyatta signed a sworn statement implicating his older brother Rob and two of his enforcers — and claiming Lance’s innocence. It was the latest twist in a tortured struggle to clear the names of Lance Felder and Gilyard. Last week, lawyers for the pair called their witnesses in a PCRA hearing. It will be up to Common Pleas Court Judge Rose Marie DeFino-Nastasi to decide whether or not to order a new trial (at which the District Attorney, theoretically,

could decline to bring charges). The DA’s office, which wouldn’t comment, is fighting to preserve its conviction, and will present its case today. Gilyard and Felder have always maintained that they did not murder Thomas Keal, who was shot dead early in the morning on Aug. 31, 1995, near 17th and Pacific. Now, others have come forward to confirm their story, including Ricky Welborn, 34, who says he committed the murder. Welborn, whose street name was Rolex and who is now serving a life sentence for an unrelated killing, confessed to killing Keal and described in great detail the botched robbery, committed in collusion with a man he would not name. Others identified the second shooter as Tizz, who Gilyard’s lawyers believe is Timothy Tyler, 35, now also facing gun and drug charges. The DA originally — and successfully — made the case that Gilyard and Lance Felder acted on their own to gun down Keal. But that case was based on questionable eyewitness identifications made two years later by Keal’s daughter Tonya. “About as thin a case,” says Gilyard attorney David Rudovsky, “as one can imagine for a first-degree homicide conviction.” Tonya Keal has signed a letter in support of reopening the case. Last week in court, a different picture emerged, based on testimony from Kenyatta Felder and Michael Griddle, who was a young dealer also living in the Felder house: The day before Keal was killed, Rolex and Tizz had proposed robbing a bar across the street from the Chinese store where Felder’s crew dealt crack. Kenyatta

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testified that Griddle told them, “Y’all shouldn’t do that. Y’all drawin’.” That is, it would draw police attention to their corner. Rob Felder suggested Keal as an alternate target, his brother claimed. (Rolex’s confession also states he got the idea of robbing Keal from a man named Rob.) Later, Rob allegedly drove the getaway car. “I couldn’t handle the burden anymore,” said Kenyatta, choking up on the witness stand, “knowing my brother was in jail for something he didn’t do while my other brother was out free.” Jules Epstein, a civil-rights lawyer who has taken on Lance Felder’s case pro bono, asked Kenyatta if he understood that Rob could be sentenced to life without parole. “Yes,” he said. He said he didn’t want Rob to go to prison, but pledged to testify if necessary. The DA has raised technical objections to the petition, arguing that Gilyard and Felder waited too long to present new evidence under the state PCRA, which requires that petitions be filed within 60 days of uncovering new evidence. Gilyard first heard that Rolex was prepared to confess in late 2010, but it took time for him to hire a private investigator, get a formal written confession from Rolex, file a pro se petition and then secure representation from the Pennsylvania Innocence Project. The DA is arguing that the PCRA clock should’ve started from the moment Gilyard got wind of Rolex’s jailhouse confession, even though it was then merely rumor. Judge DeFino-Nastasi seemed unimpressed by that technical argument. But prosecutors asked repeated questions about why the convicted men “made a choice to remain silent” until 2010, and when witnesses discovered different pieces of evidence. The Pennsylvania Innocence Project says DA Seth Williams has been using technical arguments to challenge many of their cases. There have been other setbacks in court. Kenyatta testified,

“Until Monday, [Rob] said he was going to confess. He was supposed to be here yesterday and he didn’t show up.” Welborn, meanwhile, has invoked his Fifth Amendment right to avoid selfincrimination, and will not testify. The DA unsuccessfully moved to have his signed confession excluded. After 18 years, it’s not clear whether the old hierarchy of the block will withstand Gilyard’s and Felder’s calls for justice. Back in the ’90s, Gilyard says he was “the help, or the young bul, so to speak,” at the crack-dealing operation. A man named Rodney Swain was his supervisor. Rolex and Tizz, who shared a reputation for gunplay, were the muscle. The night of the murder, Rob Felder was driving a white Pontiac that belonged to a crack addict named Mr. Jimmy. Kenyatta next saw Rob at 3:30 a.m. back at home. Outside the Chinese store the next day, Kenyatta testified, Swain was angry, complaining, “It’s fucked up that Rob brought the buls down here and let them do that.” But the message from Rob was clear: Don’t talk. “I was, reasonably, scared of him,” said Gilyard. Plus, “Rolex and Tizz were shooters. I heard about the work that they did.” When Gilyard was arrested in 1998, Rob visited him a few times in jail. He kept asking the same questions: “Is anybody talking? Am I keeping my mouth shut? Basically trying to feel me out, taking my temperature.” Kenyatta Felder later wrote numerous letters to Welborn in prison, telling him, “You know my brother is locked up for something he didn’t do.” He never received a reply, but apparently the message got through. (daniel.denvir@citypaper.net)

“My brother was in jail for something he didn’t do.”

DRY SPELL ³ MARK FROM WEST Philly is something of an expert on heat: He sells bottled water

and “Rocky” T-shirts on the baking sidewalks near the Art Museum. And what’s the first thing he’d like to do after eight hours in the sun? “After a long, hot-ass day of work, it’d be nice to jump in that fountain — if the water was on, that is,” he says, gesturing at the stepped trenches that flank the world-famous staircase. But that won’t be possible. Unbeknownst to most people, the Art Museum steps are a living monument to two illustrious Philly traditions: illegal swimming in public fountains, and City Hall clamping down on unregulated fun. The pair of cascading fountains that line the steps have been bone dry for nearly a decade. And even as the city tries to add glitz to the Parkway with a new pop-up park on Eakins Oval and pours funds into renovating long-neglected fountains by the Water Works, there’s not much hope for these cascades. Why did the fountains fall out of favor? “People wouldn’t stay out of them,” says Mark Focht, first deputy commissioner of the city’s Parks and Recreation Department. When the water was running, the stone got slippery, making cracked heads a near inevitability. “People’s misuse and abuse of the cascades have kept us from turning them on for others to enjoy the way they were intended — viewed, not swum in.” The city didn’t consider simply fencing off the fountains, says Focht, adding that “unsightly” barriers might not have passed muster with the Historic Commission. In any case, it’s too late now. Focht says the fountains have been shut off for so long, they probably need extensive repairs. There is “little likelihood they will be reactivated.” —Ryan Briggs

RING CYCLE ³ SAMMY GUEVARA,a baby-faced wrestler in tiny yellow trunks, steadies himself atop the turnbuckle, launches into an arcing back flip and lands chest-to-chest with his opponent. Despite his acrobatics, he soon rolls out of the ring, defeated. Some kids in the crowd taunt him: “Justin Bieber! Justin Bieber!” The, in fact, rather Bieberesque Guevara tells the hecklers to shut up and kicks an empty folding chair before limping away. Guevara and 20 others associated with the local Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW) were gathered for an exhibition event at Northeast Philly’s Vogt Rec Center on Friday, a fundraiser for Masada, CZW’s injured world champion. A hundred spectators paid the $10 suggested donation to watch their favorites: Danny Havoc, the “Death Match Drunkard,” known for getting bloody; Devon Moore, the “Notorious Scumbag” in a red pimp suit; and David Starr, an arrogant villain whose catchphrase is “Look at it!” Outside in the parking lot, drinking (medicinally, he says) from a paper bag, Masada shifts his weight from leg to leg. The South Jersey resident is covered in tattoos and wears a long, pointed beard. When he discusses his overwhelming medical bills, he grits his teeth. In May, the 14-year pro tore the cartilage in his knee during a match. He needs arthroscopic surgery, which can cost upwards of $20,000. “I’ve been wrestling on it, because it’s my only job,” Masada says. CZW vice president Maven Bentley explains that the wrestlers are independent contractors, free to wrestle where they choose and keep all the proceeds from the merchandise they sell. But they do not get benefits like health insurance — hence, the fundraiser. Moore, of Roxborough, says groups like CZW were more profitable before Vince McMahon, owner of World Wrestling Entertainment, started buying up smaller organizations in the ’90s. “Vince monopolized it all,” Moore says. Now, wrestlers find it pays better to work abroad, where matches can draw 20,000 fans. “In Japan, wrestling is considered a respectable job,” Masada says. “Here, it’s considered a hobby.” Masada’s real-life predicament sounds remarkably similar to that of Randy “The Ram” Robinson, from the 2008 film The Wrestler.The connections are even more literal: Mickey Rourke trained with CZW at South Philly’s Alhambra Arena. As the last match concludes, the audience chants Masada’s name. He joins Bentley and his fiancée, Christina Von Eerie, also a CZW wrestler, and accepts a wad of cash. Then, Masada thanks the fans and walks slowly out of the ring. —Michael Buozis ✚ Find more information at giveforward.com/fundraiser/

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BY SAMANTHA MELAMED ere’s the problem with health-care revolutions: They don’t always look like much. There was, for example, no ribbon-cutting outside the cramped rowhouse in Kensington’s Norris Square section, the base camp from which Dr. Barbara Schneider and her team are quietly changing the lives of some of Philadelphia’s poorest and sickest residents. There were no press releases, no touting of technology innovations and no awarding of prestigious grants. There are, however, results. For the past year, Schneider’s practice, Care Coordination Services LLC, has been working with chronically ill (and extraordinarily expensive-to-care-for) diabetic patients — patients who’d been hospitalized as often as once a month. One man had been admitted 32 times in 18 months. In the first six months of that work, the number of emergency-room visits went down 33 percent. Inpatient admissions declined by half. The guy admitted for 32 inpatient stays, totaling more than 200 days? He has been hospitalized only once in the past year. Those are impressive statistics — medical-breakthrough-type statistics — with dramatic impacts on both cost savings and the patients’ quality of life. But what’s generating those impacts is so straightforward it sounds almost obvious. The CCS team finds out what issues are affecting the clients — all the issues, not just the medical ones — and then meets the patients where they are, both literally and figuratively, to proactively address those issues and keep patients connected to care. The team — which includes a doctor, a nurse, community-health workers, a behavioral-health specialist and a pharmacist — have met patients in parks and at McDonald’s. Clinical manager Catherine Birdsall, the nurse on staff, recently took a patient’s blood pressure and discussed insulin levels in a grocery-store parking lot. They’ve visited addiction-recovery houses and boarding houses. They’ve done home visits for patients under house arrest. They encourage patients to make positive changes, but they don’t judge. For example, says Caroline Melhado, who recently left her job at CCS to go to medical school, “We have one client who smokes a ton of crack. He might never stop smoking crack, but he’s also a diabetic. So, we go around the crack part. If you’re going to smoke crack, your blood sugars are going to get high. We changed his insulin regimen so he can smoke and not have his blood sugar go up to 600. And if that helps him avoid some diabetes complications in the future, that’s great.” Schneider explains: “If we wait for these guys to go to rehab and come out clean, we’d be here forever. So we work around it.” This approach — identifying the highest-need, chronically ill patients, the ones who don’t or can’t seek out help, and bringing the help to them — is the cornerstone of a movement that some see as the key to fixing a broken and unsustainable American health-care system that’s costing more and more but helping needy people less. Over the past decade or so, a model for this type of community-based health care has emerged. It’s been refined by thought leaders like Dr. Jeffrey Brenner, a data-crunching, big-dreaming primary-care doctor who is trying to make Camden the first city in the nation to reduce its health-care costs, known as “bending the cost curve.” And it’s been proven by innovators like Dr. Ken Coburn, whose nonprofit Health Quality Partners has been sending nurses out to chronically ill elderly patients in Doylestown — on a regular basis, whether they’re feeling sick or not — and reduced the number of deaths by 25 percent. Taken together, these measures offer an elegant solution to an extraordinarily complex problem. But there’s one colossal hitch that no one has quite resolved: Paying for it. “There’s no long-term sustainable business model for what any of us are doing,” Brenner says. After years of

lobbying, Brenner recently got New Jersey to pass a law allowing his organization to share in the savings it generates for hospitals and insurers, but that funding stream is a ways off. Coburn’s work is funded by Medicare as an experimental demonstration project; despite its success, the program has been nearly shut down three times, most recently on July 1, then saved with last-minute, temporary extensions. Schneider’s operation, then, is something unique: It’s a for-profit business. And the patients’ insurance company — the same organization that’s realizing the savings — is footing the bill. UP UNTIL LAST year, Schneider was a primary-care doctor in a private practice that consisted almost entirely of house calls. “When you do home care and see how people live, you get a real good idea, real fast, of what’s going on in their lives,” she says. “They come [into the office] all dressed up and nice, and you don’t realize it’s a choice of eating dinner or getting their meds until you see how people really live.” Still, she wanted to do something more. She had shopped around the idea behind CCS six years ago, she says. No one was interested. Then the world found out what was happening in Camden. A slew of reporters, most prominently Atul Gawande, the medical correspondent for the New Yorker and PBS’ Frontline, began making pilgrimages to America’s poorest city, to tell the story of how, over a decade ago, Brenner had been involved in efforts to reform the Camden police department, and then begun applying CompStat principles to health. Using data prised from the grip of area hospitals, Brenner began mapping “hot spots,” the locations of the worst-off patients, termed “super-utilizers” of the costly emergency-room-centered system. What he found were astounding symptoms of systemic dysfunction: Two city blocks, one containing a senior housing tower and the other a nursing home, generated $175 million in medical bills in less than six years. The top diagnosis in Camden emergency rooms was head colds. And 1 percent of patients were accounting for 30 percent of health-care costs. Brenner and the organization he founded, the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers, responded by developing care-management teams, each consisting of nurses, a community-health worker and health coaches, to intervene and work with patients on an intensive basis to plug them back into the health-care system. The Coalition created a citywide health-information exchange, to coordinate care and locate patients in need of intervention. And they launched a citywide diabetes collaborative to target chronically ill patients. Brenner’s work has been a game-changer, and not

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keeps up with his insulin regime. But, “He’ll also sometimes go and buy five pounds of sugar from the grocery store and add it to his water, which he’s supposed to be drinking,” she says. She and a community-health worker recently held an in-service training in diabetes care at the boarding house where the man lives. The caretakers there “were feeling frustrated and burned out, but after the in-service they were revived, excited, talking about all these different ideas” to improve his care. TALK TO ENOUGH people who are trying to change the face of health care, and certain words come up over and over again. One of them is “barriers.” One of those people is Penn Medicine’s Dr. Shreya Kangovi, who in February launched (without fanfare) the Penn Center for Community Health Workers. In a study published in the July issue of the journal Health Affairs, Kangovi examined how people of low socioeconomic status experience the health-care system. What she found was, they prefer the hospital — the expensive, ineffective, stressful hospital — to low-cost, highly effective preventative primary care. The reason? “Our preventive-care system is riddled with barriers that are driving people away from very low-cost primary care and into the open arms of hospitals.” Kangovi is talking about the barriers familiar to almost all of us as patients: difficulty in getting appointments, pricey co-pays, challenges in arranging child-care or transportation. For poor people, those barriers can prove insurmountable. It’s easier to wait until catastrophe hits and then go to the ER. Spend a day with Amarili Lopez, one of CCS’s two community-health workers, and you begin to understand the sheer, towering height of those barriers. Lopez, a turbo-powered Puerto Rican woman in scrubs, crisscrosses the city all day long, texting and calling her patients, noting their blood sugar, shuttling them to doctor’s appointments, haggling with pharmacists and specialists — and dismantling barriers. On this particular day, Lopez’ first stop is a North Philly addictionCOMMUNITY SERVICE: Amarili Lopez visits a recovery house, home to Jacqueline Turner, a Type 2 diabetic. Lopez is North Philly recovery house to check on Jacqueline here to give Turner a poster she made herself, a laminated reminder Turner, a diabetic who is still learning to manage her chronic disease. that “there will always be someone who cares for you,” and to “take

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just in Camden. His sudden celebrity changed things for Schneider as well: “The thing that I tried to do six years ago — and they tried to have me committed when I asked if I could do it — now is a big deal.” Last year, she connected with Keystone First, a Medicaid managed-care plan that had been exploring the same idea. That connection solved two of the biggest hurdles facing initiatives like Brenner’s: First, paying for intensive care-coordination intervention and, just as important, identifying the patients who needed the help. “Most organizations only have a snapshot of when a person interacts with their system. But the insurance company, because everybody wants to get paid, sees the whole story,” says Grace Lefever, who oversees the program for Keystone First. Though Keystone First, part of the AmeriHealth Caritas Family of Companies, already has community-outreach and phone-based care-coordination programs, AmeriHealth Caritas regional utilization-management medical director Dr. Glenn Hamilton says there were certain chronically ill patients that even those teams couldn’t reach. Keystone gave CCS about 35 of their toughest (and costliest) cases — mostly diabetics who, due to mental-health issues, addiction or the everyday chaos of living in poverty, have seen their disease spin out of control. Diabetes has been a prime target for this type of work, Schneider says, because it’s a chronic disease with “multiple comorbidities: issues with their heart, cholesterol, nervous system — just about every disease and organ you can name is involved.” Many of the cases assigned to CCS are Type 1, or childhood-onset diabetics. “We get them in their 20s, and they have end-stage disease by that time,” Schneider says. “This [disease] needs to be managed so meticulously. With people living this kind of chaotic life, that doesn’t happen. So we have people in their 20s with end-stage renal disease, who are going blind, who are losing limbs. The best we can do is stabilize them where they are, and try to keep them at whatever level we got them at.” A few patients, indeed, have died before CCS could stabilize them. Many others, they couldn’t even locate. Because diabetes care is a lifelong challenge, so far CCS has — unlike many other programs — declined to put time limits on its interventions. Instead, they try to wean patients from daily visits down to weekly or biweekly ones, with lots of phone calls and texts in between. “A lot of these people will probably always need support,” Schneider says. “We try to get them into a place where we’re giving them support — and they’re doing the best they can as well.” In this business, even the greatest success stories are riddled with setbacks. Birdsall points to the man who was hospitalized 32 times; he now sees his primary care doctor once a month, checks his blood sugar and

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MEDICAL MIRACLE: Dr. Barbara Schneider (center), in front of the tiny, unmarked headquarters of Coordinated Care Services, with community health workers Chemeek Sheppard (left) and Amarili Lopez (second from right), Keystone First’s Grace Lefever (second from left) and office coordinator Milly Figueroa (far right). They’ve reduced hospitalizations among their clients by half.

your Lantus before going to sleep.” But while she’s checking Turner’s blood pressure and reviewing her daily bloodsugar records, Lopez finds out that Turner had been to the emergency room just the day before — for a headache. Like every Keystone First client, Turner has a primary-care doctor; now, she also has support from CCS. But she’s used to the emergency room. That’s behavior Lopez is gently trying to change: “Next time you feel like going to the hospital,” she tells Turner, “call me. Because we could bring a doctor to you or troubleshoot with you on the phone.” Next, it’s on to pick up Carmen Martinez and drive her to an appointment at Temple University Hospital. But when they arrive, they learn there was a miscommunication regarding what procedure, exactly, Martinez has scheduled. It turns out she fasted all morning unnecessarily. Lopez walks her to a different part of the hospital for a different type of scan. “You tell a patient she needs to be fasting when that wasn’t necessary,” says Lopez, “and, instead of helping, you create even more confusion in the patient’s life. If I wasn’t here, she would’ve gone home without doing the test.” Issues like that crop up incessantly. Consider Lopez’s third client of the day, an older man named Dennis who lives alone in a rowhouse where trash, papers and half-empty juice jugs are piled high in the living room and on the kitchen table. Lopez visited Dennis just yesterday, but she has to double back. The problem: The insurance company replaced his glucose meter with a different model made by a different company. He’s forgotten how to use it already. To Lopez, decisions like that signify a breakdown in understanding between insurers and the reality in the field. Whoever decided on the new meter, she says, was “looking into cutting costs, that’s about it, without looking at the effects. Maybe you’re cutting costs, but if people don’t end up checking sugars because they don’t understand the new meters, they might end up going to the hospital with ketoacidosis. And how costly is that?” The thing is, the challenges CCS patients face — the problems all low-income, high-needs patients face — are hard to predict and manage if you’re not there, on the ground, listening. As Lefever puts it, “the number of loose ends to track down is just astounding. A regular doctor’s office, with the workflow that they have, is not equipped to deal with this.” She mentions a client who was referred to CCS by her primary-care doctor, who was afraid she’d overdose. The woman, who has behavioral-health issues, had been prescribed 14 different medications, but didn’t understand what they were or how to take them. Her response was to pick a pill — a random pill — and take it, once every two hours. CCS staff finally had the pills packaged at the pharmacy into morning and evening blister packs, so the patient would know what to take and when. Despite the frustrations, Lopez is fundamentally optimistic: She points to her star clients, like Sarah Parker, a Type 2 diabetic who greets Lopez with a hug. Parker had a wake-up call last year when her grandson found her sprawled on the floor of her bedroom in a diabetic coma. In the end, “it was a big blessing,” Parker says. “That’s

when Keystone started coming out.” Before, Parker was doing nothing to stabilize her disease. Now, she says, “I’m more in control.” Life isn’t perfect: She has early-stage gastroparesis — a partial paralysis of the stomach that results in nausea and lack of appetite — so she has to force herself to eat a couple bananas, a half-slice of bread. Her home in Juniata is dim and cluttered, the carpet peeling up and the TV blaring. It’s after noon, and Parker’s in a nightgown. But she’s doing her best, she says. “I take my insulin and check my sugars.” Lopez’s support motivates her. After all, this kind of work is only partly about troubleshooting. As Lefever puts it, “The secret sauce is relationships.” Lopez gives out her personal cell-phone number, and constantly calls and texts clients. “It’s more about you giving them the sense that you’re here for them. At times, you don’t have to text them, they’ll text you.” That’s when she knows they’re engaged. She often spends her own money to bring them healthy treats, like bananas or Greek yogurt. She says that introducing clients to new things — not simply lecturing them to eat better — is how to cultivate healthy habits. When patients like Martinez see results, she says, their whole outlook changes. “Her A1c [blood-sugar levels] dropped, and her self esteem went through the roof.” Later, Martinez mentions that she has been cooking with olive oil and using light salad dressing, even though it means she has to make separate meals for herself and her family. Lopez and Martinez are talking about taking a Zumba class together. “Now,” Martinez says, “I get out and do things I never felt like doing before.” DESPITE ITS EARLY success, CCS is only a pilot program. It has worked with just about 50 patients. Why so few? For one thing, health care is a conservative industry, one that rarely makes a move without hard data. Brenner says dealing with these extremely-highcost patients is “like Moneyball. You don’t need to hit a home run every time; you just need to find the people that are ready to change.” But health systems and insurance companies tend to prefer indisputable studies in the form of randomized-controlled trials, the gold standard for scientific research. Keystone First — which, against that backdrop, took a veritable flyer on CCS — is now analyzing the early data from the pilot. Hamilton, the regional medical director, is cautiously optimistic about expanding the program to patients with other chronic conditions, like coronary artery disease and asthma. “It is pretty exciting, the kinds of results that we’re seeing,” he says. “It’s a pretty high-intensity program in terms of the resources and the manpower, but it’s been very beneficial for the folks that have used it. Our task going forward is to figure out: Is it going to be 1 percent of the

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In a nation where health-care costs are spiraling out of control — accounting for the bulk of the reason that middle-class workers haven’t seen a raise in more than 20 years — that type of cost savings could have a huge impact. Says Brenner, “That would be enough to shut down a couple of hospitals in Philadelphia. They wouldn’t be able to cover their costs to make their bond debt payments.” TALK OF “SHUTTING down a couple of hospitals in Philadelphia” is probably not going to win Brenner any popularity contests in the medical community. In fact, this whole movement represents what you might call a health-care counterculture, grounded in the goal of disrupting a system that’s made a lot of people a lot of money. As Kangovi explains, “When you look at the city of Philadelphia, the thing that pays hospitals is acute care. No one rewards health systems yet — although that is changing — for keeping people healthy.” A few decades ago, it was different, Coburn points out. Philadelphia hospitals including Penn Health System had signed onto population-based risk contracts, which incentivized reducing complications and keeping patients healthy. But under financial strain in the 1990s, they bailed out of those contracts, and moved back toward a fee-for-service model, which is where we are today. The results of that model are visible in construction sites across University City and Center City. “The problem in Philadelphia and the problem in the country is that every crane that you see popping over Penn, building a new hospital building, is like an invisible tax on every city resident, because it’s going to show up in the costs of employee benefits, in the Medicaid costs to the state, in Medicare costs at the federal level,” Brenner says. “We all bear those costs, one way or another.” Penn, for example, currently has two new buildings underway at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center — an Advanced Care Pavilion and a Center for Specialty Care, which together will add capacity for surgeries, acute care, radiology and exam rooms. Pennsylvania Hospital is adding yet another acute-care facility, Penn Medicine at Washington Square, in a $22 million package. And on the day this article is published, Lankenau Medical Center will celebrate the opening in Wynnewood of its new $465 million Heart Pavilion and campus expansion, touted as “the largest Main Line Health financial commitment in history.”

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population that could benefit from this? Or 2 percent?” Keystone First may be willing to do that numbercrunching on its own, but Penn’s Kangovi says that for care providers across the country to adopt these innovations on a large scale, rigorous scientific proof of efficacy is required. Kangovi is one of the doctors trying to develop that data — and, more to the point, to hone a “plug-and-play” model for deploying community-health workers within health systems. Her program studies the outcomes of using community-health workers in two different settings: as a short-term intervention for patients being discharged from hospitals and as longer-term helpers for primary-care patients with multiple chronic conditions. Kangovi says Penn itself is looking to perfect and test this model, then expand it. After all, community-health workers are cost-effective, commanding about a fifth the salary of a nurse practitioner. So if a communityhealth worker, in just a few weeks, can reduce hospital readmission rates, the savings could be enormous. But more than that, the workers could transform patients’ experience of the health-care system. “For a lot of patients, the experience of coming in to their doctor is unpleasant, because we sit across from them and judge them. Patients feel like they’re being set up to fail,” Kangovi says. “Community-health workers take the opposite approach, which is [asking], ‘What can we accomplish?’ and celebrating those triumphs.” But the reality is, even when a clinical trial of a community-based intervention yields spectacular results, it may not be rewarded. Consider Coburn’s Health Quality Partners — which, remember, reduced mortality by 25 percent among its elderly, chronically ill patients, simply by sending nurses into their homes on an ongoing basis. The program — the only one of 15 Medicare Coordinated-Care Demonstrations still going — has been “through several near-death cycles,” says Coburn. Rather than expanding the program, Medicare had threatened to stop funding it as of this past June, then gave it a last-minute extension to keep running through 2014. Private insurers, among others, are taking an interest: For the past four years, Aetna has contracted with HQP to run the program for its own patients in the region. But for Medicare, which Coburn says has understandable worries about committing funds to a nursing program that could apply to millions of elderly people for the rest of their lives, “they want a superhigh level of confidence that this thing could be implemented beyond Health Quality Partners, in a way that they feel confident they could get the return on investment and the savings that we’ve seen.” Those savings, by the way, are very real. Among the highest-risk patients HQP enrolled, hospitalizations were reduced by a third. The cost to Medicare declined 20 percent.

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Brenner isn’t celebrating. He argues, “Does every hospital in Philadelphia need its own gamma knife for irradiating rare tumors? Does every hospital need a Level 1 [neonatal intensive-care unit]? Does every hospital need to be doing open-heart surgery? Do we need more billboards? We keep building more and more and more capacity, without ever asking the question: Do we need this?” In other industries, a lousy value proposition doesn’t get rewarded. But in medicine, perhaps because of the powerful position of care providers to dictate the terms of care, it can. That, says Brenner, is why hospitals are investing in more of the stuff we overpay for — the surgical suites and expensive scanners — and doing less of the stuff that’s undervalued, the spending of time with patients that is the heart of primary care. This principle, that the number of hospital beds tends to dictate the number of patients, is known as Roemer’s law. Because of this effect, 35 states around the country have instituted laws requiring hospitals to demonstrate a need for additional capacity; 28 states have laws specifically around adding new acute-care beds. Pennsylvania has no such laws in place. The good news is those incentives are slowly beginning to change. The Affordable Care Act advances what’s called the “triple aim” — reducing costs, improving the experience of care and improving health — and emphasizes preventive care. It provides for penalties for readmission to hospitals within 30 days or for mortality within 30 days of inpatient treatment. Coburn says that when HQP began reducing hospitalizations 10 years ago, “among some of our hospital partners there was a stepping back. Some of them actually withdrew support they were giving our organization. … Now that these incentives have shifted, some of the hospitals that were fence-sitting or skeptical are starting to move in this direction.” Likewise, Philly hospitals have recently — finally — signed onto a long-awaited health-information exchange, the HealthShare Exchange of Southeastern Pennsylvania. The exchange, which will go live as a pilot this year, could eventually resolve one of the critical problems with hospital care: that it’s fragmented and inefficient. HealthShare Exchange’s interim executive director, Martin Lupinetti, says it could help E.R. doctors avoid repeating costly and unnecessary tests, and ensure that primary-care physicians get discharge reports. But, he warns, “This needs to be looked at as an evolution.” How readily health systems and insurers will part with larger chunks of their business intelligence remains to be seen. Hospitals may be interested in moving from an illness-centered model to a preventive model, says Kangovi.

But they need a push: “In order for that to completely tip over, there need to be more financial incentives.” And even if they do start moving in that direction, without Medicaid expansion in Pennsylvania, hundreds of thousands of patients will be unable to take advantage. Those patients will continue to rely on the emergency room for charity care. The ACA may be ushering in a transformation in health care. But it comes, Kangovi says, with a warning: “As we reimagine health care for the future, we need to let the patients be our guide. Unless we integrate that perspective, we might be designing another broken system.” (samantha@citypaper.net)

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³ IT’S HARD TO believe that ComedySportz Philadelphia is only 20 years old. Wasn’t Mel Brooks their first ref? Wasn’t Carol Burnett a green team captain? No matter. The comic improvisational Hunger Games celebrates its two decades of audacity during its anniversary weekend, July 26 and 27. Friday, they’ll be at their usual home at the Skybox at the Adrienne for a story slam that recalls its illustrious history. Saturday, they’ll move to World Café Live for two shows featuring Sportz alumni such as Jen Childs (1812’s artistic director) and her husband, actor Scott Greer.³ Speaking of Philly comic teams whose names end in Z, Space 1026’s Rose Luardo and Andrew Jeffrey Wright’s Comedy Dreamzdedicate their July 25 show at The Barbary to departing Body Dreamz choreographer Dorothy Dubrule, aka D.Du. They plan to audition new choreographer candidates during breaks in the mirth-making. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, D.Du. Sike. ³ Brendan Olkus follows up his beleaguered Emmaline with the Saint Lazarus Hotel, which opened quietly at Front and Girard on Friday, right down the under-the-El block from Kung Fu Necktie. The guy alternately known as DJ Brendan Bring’Em got the whole building and is considering expansion upstairs, but for now is concentrating on The Saint’s dark, intimate first floor, heavily tiled walls, old-man bar and his usual bespoke-fixtures aesthetic — handmade, sewn and blown lighting, tabletops, wainscoting and such. Check out the spot’s old-school beer cooler. ³ Speaking of new bars, when I heard a taproom was coming to the Italian Market,I assumed Talluto’s was frosting up mugs to go with the meatballs. Nah. Cardenas Oil and Vinegar Taproom, which announced its arrival in June, looks like it’s setting up shop on Ninth Street for an imminent opening. ³ In the pre-download era, getting music via imports or licensing deals was a big gig and Marty Scott, founder and onetime prez of JEM Records, Inc., was king of all he surveyed. JEM broke Brit acts like The Cure and Siouxsie and the Banshees as well as L.A.’s X.JEM’s most famous release was the import/distribution deal for the Japan-only Cheap Trick Live at Budokan.The Trick’s live import sold so many albums in its first month that Epic released it in the U.S. and made stars of them. Anyway, Scott and JEM are back in biz, with distribution coming via the Philly-based MVD and publicity by ex-JEM/ Passport publicist Howard Wuelfing. They’ll be signing artists and licensing catalogs, starting with the never-before-released BongosalbumPhantom Train.The band will be making a major announcement from the stage of Maxwell’s, July 31 when they play the last-ever show there. ³ Surrender to citypaper.net/criticalmass. (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)

VAN CHAMPIONS: Members of Little Big League previously played in Post Post, Strand of Oaks and Titus Andronicus.

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IT’S A HIT Road-warrior rockers Little Big League swing for the fences with their debut record. By Elliott Sharp

hen Michelle Zauner of Philadelphia band Little Big League answers her cellphone, it’s obvious she’s been rudely awoken. “Oh, hey. We’re doing this right now?” she asks. Her voice is scratchy; she sounds baffled. “Sorry, I’m just waking up,” she says. “Sometimes I forget what day it is, and I don’t remember where I am. Right now I’m …” It takes a few seconds for her to remember. But when she does, she declares her location with the confidence of a Jeopardy champion. “I am in Cleveland!” Little Big League — guitarist/vocalist Zauner, guitarist Kevin O’Halloran, bassist Deven Craige and drummer Ian Dykstra — is on tour. Between Pittsburgh and Cleveland, they swam in Lake Erie. “The water was really warm, gross and there was so much lake scum,” Zauner says. Then they played their first Cleveland gig, at a venue called Now That’s Class. Afterward, they crashed at “our bassist’s friend’s girlfriend’s house.” “It’s a nice house,” she continues. “But the shower’s broken, so I’ve had Lake Erie scum in my hair for two days. Overall, we’ve been really lucky this tour, staying in big, clean, nice houses. That makes everything better. People come up to us after shows and ask if we

want to stay with them. You’d be surprised how easy it is to sleep at strangers’ houses. Sometimes they’ll let you do your laundry, too.” This is Zauner’s third tour. Her first, which she describes as “terribly put together,” was with Post Post, the band she was in with O’Halloran for a few years. But the two Little Big League jaunts have been much better. The improvements are largely due to the road experience Craige (the tour manager for Strand of Oaks) and O’Halloran have brought to the band. “Deven and Kevin are like the dads, me and Ian are like the babies,” says Zauner, 24. “I never have to drive the van, because those two are pizza delivery drivers, and Deven’s really intense about driving. He feels safer when he’s behind the wheel. He figures out everything — where we’re supposed to be, what time we’re supposed to get there — and he always volunteers to sleep on the floor. I don’t know what we’d do without him. He’s a real warrior.” This tour’s different from the last one because now Little Big League has its first full-length album for sale at the merch table. These Are Good People (Tiny Engines) is officially out Aug. 6, but the band’s selling advance copies of the LP, which will also be available at tonight’s hometown record release show at The Fire. Zauner wrote the lyrics for the nine emo-inspired/’90s-indie-rock songs on These Are Good People. On “Lindsey,” the opening track, she sings, “Lindsey, Lindsey, be mine. You’ll be my pet, Lindsey.”

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The U.K. bass/post-dubstep trend of warped/ghostly R&B vocal samples has yielded some killer singles but no real album-length explorations to speak of. Beyond (Hyperdub), the debut LP from Manchester-based producer Walton, fills that void and then some, weaving hauntingly down-pitched snippets of Adina Howard and Mary J. Blige in and among an omnivorous spread of deep, nocturnal house, acid techno flashbacks, nasty garage workouts and precision-tooled glitch-funk. —K. Ross Hoffman

Been fiending for a fix of super weirdo rap? Look no further. New Jersey MC ABGOHARD is not afraid to ramp the quirky up to 11. If Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Kool Keith and Max B had a love child while sipping lean, it might sound like Zubat (abgohard.bandcamp.com). Wrap your head around that for a second. This 17-track, free-download album is a surprisingly diverse and developed ride from the rising talent who reps the Inner City Kids, with guest features by Alvie the —Dotun Akintoye Skywalker, Aaron Cohen and more.

³ pop/reissue Following their great Lee Hazlewood campaign, the reissue champions at Light in the Attic turn their attention to the Hazlewoodendorsed one-album wonder Honey Ltd.: four brassy-voiced Detroit knockouts who somehow managed to condense all that’s great about the era’s music — Motown-derived soul-funk intensity, fiery counterculture spirit, rapturous baroque-pop arrangements, far-out production, intricate girl-group harmonies — into the criminally forgotten 1968 opus (plus attendant singles) unearthed —K. Ross Hoffman on The Complete LHI Recordings.

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³ rock The lineup of The Winery Dogs would suggest an album full of virtuoso shredding, but all three members — ex-Dream Theater and Avenged Sevenfold drummer Mike Portnoy, Mr. Big and David Lee Roth bassist Billy Sheehan and singer/guitarist Richie Kotzen (an alum of the six-string-centric Shrapnel Records) — have proven adept at tempering their technical agility with pop hooks. The power trio’s self-titled Loud & Proud debut is satisfying on all counts, with a mix of ’70s blues rock, ’80s-style infectious choruses and occasional displays of synchronized technical wizardry. —Shaun Brady

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I’M SO EXCITED!

Inhibitions drop and secrets come pouring out.

³ HAD THE SPIRITUALLY transcendent Vanilla Ice vehicle Cool as Ice been released in the summer of 1991, rather than in the autumn, there’s no doubt that it would have gone on to be the highest-grossing film of all time instead of ceding that coveted title to Grown Ups 3: My Proctologist, My Twin, My Lover. This is because, during the dog days, we instinctually seek to retreat to a cool, dark place: And what could possibly be cooler or darker than an air-conditioned movie theater plastered with images of Mr. Robert Van Winkle? It’s the same reason why, during the recent heat wave that killed your proctologist twin, you purchased The Klinik’s Eat Your Heart Out.Seriously. Look at that cover. What could be darker? What could be cooler? Who needs central air when they’ve got The Klinik, right? Well, yes and no. While Eat Your Heart Out is essentially devoid of any real barn-burners (or whatever passes for a barn in Belgium), this is still quite a sonically engaging work. Wonderful minimalist synth sounds bubble just under the surface as electronic beats knit the pieces together. This is best exemplified on the track “In Your Room,” which sounds basically like what would happen if The Normal collided with Suicide Commando. It won’t grab you right off the bat, but it will, eventually, grab you.

Verdict: Despite the occasional miss, Eat Your Heart Out still manages to deliver a chilly dose of noisy, suppressed angst into another summer tragically devoid of a Vanilla Ice blockbuster. B kool stay n skool. (r_anonymous@citypaper.net)

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AIRHEADS: Bawdy flight attendants Fajas (left, Carlos Areces) and Ullo (Raúl Arévalo) entertain passengers as their malfunctioning aircraft circles over Mexico.

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Even during the hopeless moments the hooks are so charming you’re forced to sing along. Who’s Lindsey? “We were going to make up a lie about her,” says Zauner, “but we forgot to do that. A lot of the record’s informed by a very possessive male figure who was in my life at the time. On some songs, I even adopt male voices. And a lot of the record’s about power dynamics.” Zauner takes the voice of the domineering male jerk once again on “My Very Own You,” one of the catchiest songs on the album. “Show me every inch they couldn’t reach,” she sings. “I will bring and claim bricks to build my place.” What’s startling is how romantic the tone is, but then how truly terrifying it becomes once you realize what’s really happening here: A man does not see the difference between conquering and loving. When not deconstructing the patriarchy, Zauner sometimes examines how overwhelmed she felt after moving from Eugene, Ore., to Philadelphia, and how the city initially terrified her. “I took comfort in the small things,” she says, “like my house or a school nearby. And then those things ended up being vicious, too.” On

“Sportswriting,” she howls about witnessing two kids ripping each other’s “hair out for entertainment.” But even during These Are Good People’s most brutal, hopeless moments, the hooks are so charming you’re forced to sing along. Back in Cleveland, the rest of the band has now woken up. There’s one place they must visit before skipping town. “Being on tour’s like vacation,” says Zauner. “Today we’re going to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Apparently, if you bring a CD, you get in for free. We don’t have CDs, so we’re giving them one of the copies of our new album that got warped by the sun.” “I hope they do take it, because otherwise, we probably can’t afford to get in.” (e_sharp@citypaper.net) ✚ Thu., July 25, 8 p.m., $8, with

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sked if opening a gastropub in Center City comes with more pressure than opening one in Fishtown, West Philly or the hinterlands of Graduate Hospital, local keg kingpin Brendan Hartranft has this to say: “There is a little bit of a perception of more built-in pressure — but, you know, fuck it, man.” More on: Hartranft and his wife and business partnerof-all-trades, Leigh Maida, have built their modest Camelot on hops and hope, running successful beer bars on the outskirts of Center City. First came Memphis Taproom, then Local 44 with its adjacent bottle shop, then Resurrection Ale House. Now the couple has taken their first shot at colonizing Center City with Strangelove’s, a 20-tap saloon with a Southern lilt. That perception of pressure, Hartranft explains, is mostly off-base: “Being in a more competitive area, there’s a lot less soul-searching. When you’re an island of a restau-

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rant, it’s a lot harder.” Strangelove’s is anything but an island, situated in the heart of Jefferson’s medical campus in the two-story 11th Street storefront formerly occupied by a pair of disappearing acts. And with the hard-won experience he, Maida and third partner Brendan “BK” Kelly bring to the space, there’s no reason to think Strangelove’s won’t have a long and happy life here, even if the edible side of the business doesn’t quite keep pace with the drinkable. Chef Paul Martin is best known locally as the guy that gave Queen Village’s Catahoula its Southern swagger, but between leaving there and opening Strangelove’s, he did time at Cantina, Alma de Cuba and Parc. So you’d assume he knows how to cook all sorts of stuff. A brick of cinnamon-clove-and-coffee-cured pork belly, sandpaper-dry despite a six-hour poach before searing, said otherwise. Riddles riddled my dinner. Why were the fried green tomatoes red? Why did the nicely cooked flatiron steak smothered in basil chimichurri have a salt level programmed for one of Jeff’s hypertension patients? Why so little peach in the peach MORE FOOD AND crostada? Their star-anise-enhanced flavor DRINK COVERAGE was so lovely, I’d have liked them in the limeAT C I T Y P A P E R . N E T / light instead of mummified in gummy dough. M E A LT I C K E T. Why the strange combo of edamame, pecans and farro in the raw “Russian” kale salad — Tuscan kale in mine, for the record — painted with sumac vegenaise dressing? And as for the superfood’s sturdy leaves, why cut them so large ? I felt like I was eating a salad of lavishly textured wedding invitations. No artist wants to be pigeonholed, and I’m sure Martin doesn’t want to be known as “that Southern chef.” But the native of >>> continued on adjacent page

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Lafayette, La., is best when cooking food from his childhood, like his grandma’s smooth and frosty lemon ice-box pie with a hard-packed chocolate-cookie crumb, or that indulgent Low Country snack, tangy orange pimento cheese served with a garden of vivid veggie pickles. Magnificent maque choux, a classic Cajun/Native American dish from southern Louisiana, showed up beneath the dry pork belly, a pile of sweet summer corn stewed with spicy tasso ham, peppers, onions, butter and cream that was like succotash on a French vacation. Tender black-eyed peas also accompanied the pig, cut with jewel-like red and yellow cherry tomatoes and bright sherry vinaigrette. Cloaked in horseradishcharged ravigot dressing, a fresh salad of lump crab, chopped tomato and cucumber, parsley and chives topped those crispy, cornmeal-crusted fried “green” tomatoes. Voluptuous crawfish stock filled a bowl of mussels and blackened andouille, with a plank of crusty sourdough in the bowl like a flag. I could have those tender bivalves, a couple beers and leave Strangelove’s happy. Like the beer programs at all of Hartranft and Maida’s establishments, Strangelove’s is thorough, interesting and sized just right. “There are bars I walk into that have 30 taps, and I can only find two beers,” says Hartranft, who eschews a brainless roster of “four I.P.A.’s, two double I.P.A.’s, six wheat beers in the summertime” for a more balanced mix on 18 taps and two engines capable of satisfying many different beer-drinkers’ palates. Hop heads, look no further than Thornbridge Jaipur from a town in England enveloped in a national park. Belgianstyle buffs will find the honey-blonde abbey Sublimation from Brewer’s Art, an excellent brewery in Baltimore that doesn’t get much local play. Sour obsessed? The cellar has a rich stock of lambic and geueze from Cantillon and others, including Rose de Gambrinus for $35. “Even better when somebody else is paying,” laughs Hartranft. Strangelove’s seats drinkers at a marble bar, one of the few pieces of Butcher & the Brewer that survived a $200,000 renovation led by Maida, the project’s designer and general contractor. “Some stuff about the space was really nice, but so much of it was done half-assed,” Hartranft says. “Leigh had to be a surgeon, like, ‘This 50 square feet is fucking perfect, this 3,800 square feet is fucking horrible.’ It was an insane job” — a job Maida did five-through-nine-months pregnant. Now, a handsome paneled cream overlay on the brick facade advertises “Purveyors of Fine Craft Beers” and gives way to a dimly lit brick-and-wood restaurant. Strangelove’s seems to be having no problem filling it with a mix of bescrubbed medical students, happy-houring office bees and even Hartranft and Maida’s followers from Fishtown, West Philly and GradHo. “It’s definitely a little more of a grind,” Hartranft admits. “We’re always trying to do better tomorrow than we did today.” The kale salad would be a good place to start. (adam.erace@citypaper.net)

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21ST St Spac 2br bi-lev dplx w/d c/a 3 blks fr South St $1200+ Sheila 267-784-6480

12xx S 51st St. 2BR/1BA. $800 Incl Heat/Water, 1st Floor. 267-600-9569

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1547 S. 30th St. furn, fridge, $125 week, $375 move in. no kitchen. 215-892-7198 1740 Georges Lane 2BR $725 + utils pvt entry, credit check. 610-659-7177

15xx Brown St. Modern 2BR Apt C/A & heat, ceiling fans, washer/dryer in unit, Section 8 ok. 1-877-371-7368 Chadwick St. 2BR $550+elec. Large, newly renov. Call 267-444-5274

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FURNISHED APTS Laundry-Parking 215-223-7000 12xx W. Westmoreland Studio $475 2nd flr, incl utils. Call 215.327.2292

3012 N. Broad 1BR $700 2BR $950 Studio $600 Free cable & internet, students welcome, brand new apt. W/D, fridge, microwave 267.228.4050 9xx Lehigh Ave 1BR $425+util 1st/last/sec 3rd flr walkup 267.255.2174 4741 N 12th St 1BR $600/mo. 1+1, 1st & 2nd floor, 267.496.5550

73XX DICKS AVE 2BR $630/MO 2ND FLOOR. 215-837-3328

73xx Wheeler St. 1BR $625+utils. W/D included. Call 267-738-0834

52nd and Master St. 2BR/1BA $725/mo, HW flrs, 251-879-6666 57th & Thomas 1BR $560 + elec. Furn. Avail. immed. Call 267-266-3661 58xx Cedarhurst 1BR 1BA $600+Utils Living Room, 1 BR, Large Kitchen, $1200 Move in, 267-210-3899

Lansdowne Ave. Efficiency $600 utils inc., w/d & cable inc. 484-494-0753 W. Phila. Apts for 62 & older, brand new eff, 1 & 2BR units. Call 215.386.4791

47xx woodland 3br 2nd flr $900+all util non smk/drug, gd credit 215-222-6060

7300 Ruskin 2BR/1BA $725+utils. Dining area, LR, kitch. 610-908-9330 Apartment Homes $650-$995 www.perutoproperties.com 215.740.4900

Abington 2BR $750+Utilis. Duplex, Sec 8 Ok, 215-657-1065.

1st month rent for free . We have studios, 1BRs, & 2BRs at multiple locations. Rental rates starting at $550/mo. Call today to schedule a tour 215-276-5600 5853 N Camac 1BR $660 +utils. Renov. 267-271-6601 / 215-416-2757 58xx N. 15th St 1bdrm 1 ba $625/ mo. Renovated. 267-230-2600 60XX Warnock 1 BR $625+ nr Fernrock Train Station,215-276-8534 19xx W. Brunner St. 1BR/1BA $650/mo Newly renov. 1st, last & sec. 267.236.4517 79XX Forrest Ave 2 BR $850 + util. 1st/Last/Sec Dep, Gar, 267.218.1543

1 BR & 2 BR Apts $735-$835 spacious, great loc., upgraded, heat incl, PHA vouchers accepted 215-966-9371 5321 Wayne Ave. Effic. $550 Move-in now. 1 mo. + sec. 215-776-6277 Germantown: 1, 2, & 3BRs Starting at $650, newly renov., beautiful apts, close to transp. Call 215-740-8049

xx W. Logan St. 1BR $650 + utils. 1st flr., hdwd flr., pets, 2+1. 215-471-1742

22nd & Tioga priv ent paint use of kit ww $120wk $290move in 267-997-5212 27th & Cecil B Moore $80-$115/wk. Shared kitchen/bath, furnished room & cable available. call Tee at 267-575-4088.

11xx Sidney St. 2.5BR/1.5BA $825/mo W/W carp, priv entrance. 215.275.3774 5XX E Brinton 2BR/1BA $750+Utils Avail Now, Sec 8 Approved, 267.972.6916 75xx Thouron Ave. 1BR/1BA 2nd floor. Call (215) 620-4538

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83xx Temple Rd. 2BR $700 1st floor. Call Mr. Green (215)247-2144 MT. AIRY 81xx Willston, lrg 2BR $810 + utils. 609-788-8783

1414 W. 71st Ave 1br $625 Utilities included. Close to transportation & shopping. 215-574-2111

27th & Lehigh - fridge, micro., $90 & $105/wk. $225 move in. 215-765-5578 4900 North Marvine $125/week. Lg rm, No smoking/drugs. Call 267-593-1439 4952 Lancaster Ave. New Luxury Room, Call Henry 267-974-9271 55/Thompson deluxe quiet furn $130 week priv ent $200 sec 215-572- 8833 Bridge/Pratt neat cln effic & rms from $110/wk Sec dep req 215-432-5637 Broad/Olney furn refrig micro priv ent $115/$145wk sec $200 215.572.8833 E & Allegheny furn rms, bed, fridge, micro $90/wk $225 mvn. 215-416-6538 Erie Ave. Nice, furn, fridge, micro, quiet, $90 wk., $270 sec. dep. (609) 703-4266

67XX Broad St 1br $475 + util. medium size. 2 mo sec. 215-224-6566

Frankford, nice rm in apt, near bus & El, $300 sec, $90/wk & up. 215-526-1455

67xx Wyncote 2Br $700+utils 2nd floor duplex, 267-975-8521

Germantown Area: NICE, Cozy Rooms Private entry, no drugs (267)988-5890

801-11 66th Ave, 2BR/1BA, $850/mo LR, DR, 267-226-3235

Hunting Park: Furn. Luxury Rooms. Free utils, cable, A/C. Call 267-331-5382 LaSalle Univ area $125/week Renov furn rooms 215-843-4481

4645 Penn St. Lg 1BR $595. gas/wtr inc. Priv deck 718-938-4590

2854 Tyson Ave 2BR $800/mo 2nd flr, prkng avail. (267)388-5779 8030 Ditman St. 1br $800 Spacious apt. lots of closets, W/D, D/W, C/A, wall to wall carpet, balcony. swimming pool. Call 215-450-6303 Cottman & Hegerman 1BR/1BA 2nd floor, bright and airy w/ lot’s of windows. No pets or smoking. 267-902-9849 PHILMONT HEIGHTS 2BR $825+utils 2nd floor, new kitch, fridge, W/D, w/w & paint, garage. Call 267-467-1596

Wissinoming 1BR/1BA $625 Fully Renovated. Call 215-852-9738

Collingdale, PA 1BR/1BA $525/mo. 3rd floor, living room, kitchen. Call 302456-1132 between 9am and 9pm.

Wallingford 2BR/1BA $1,100 Newly renov. w/ large bsmnt, new appls., Award winning schools. 610-876-5625

NE Phila clean, safe, secure, newly reno furn, A/C, cable, W/D. 215-645-4962

NICETOWN Large clean room with cable. $100/week. Call 215-225-5680 North Philadelphia $300-$600/mo, Apts/Rooms for rent, 267-602-6128 North & West Phila. Rooms - Starting at $75/wk. Call 267-348-7708 N. Phila. $75 & up. SSI & Vets + ok, drug free. Avail immed. 215-763-5565 N. Phila: clean, modern rms, use of kit, no drugs, reasonable rent. 215-232-2268 N PHILADELPHIA $150/week Lrg rm. w/priv kit/bath 267-475-3140 NW Phila. - Clean, comfy, cozy, utils. incl. $100/wk. 2 wk. sec. & 2 wk. rent to move-in. Call (267)249-6340

SW Phila - Newly renov, close to transp. $100/wk 1st wk FREE, 267-628-7454 W Phila & G-town: Newly ren, Spacious clean & peaceful, SSI ok, 267.255.8665

W. Phila & NE - Furn. rooms includes all util, cable $150/wk 267-334-5809

22xx Hemberger 3BR/1.5BA Credit check reqâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d. Call 610-659-2452 S PHIL 1br/1ba $675/mo 1BR apt., W/D, newly renov. 267-882-7752

1265 Greylock, 3br $800 + Utils porch, Private Yard, all appl, w/d, Sec 8 OK, 2+1 Move in, 267-228-4538 26XX Hobson St 2br $800 + utils newly renov. Call 215-651-0057

65xx Gesner St. 3BR $675+utils close to trans, Sec 8 ok, 267-738-0834

4xx Redfield St 4BR $850+Utils Laund rm, bckyrd, sec 8 ok 267-401-9727 5834 Webster Street 3BR/1BA $$875 with 2 A/C. Open Hse Sat, July 20 11-2 (610) 532-6959 packrealty1972@gmail.com

60xx WALNUT ST 3br/1ba $900+ utils. Section 8 ok. 215-356-2256 XX S 55th 3BR $850+Utils Open front porch, great neighborhood "The Landlord that Cares" Mark 610-764-9739 Brandy 609-598-2299

7XX N Dekalb 3br, 1Ba $775 + utils renovated credit ck 215-464-9371

6606 Haddington Lane 3br/1ba $995 www.perutoproperties.com 215.740.4900

12xx Myrtlewood St 2br/1ba $700+utils updated, available now, 215-601-5182

71xx Gillespie 3Br/1.5 Ba $950+Utils Mayfair @ Tyson & Princeton, rear deck & Gar, 2+1 Move in, Spacious, 267-981-1183 9xx Granite 4BR New Reno, Sec 8 ok 267-587-7290

Kindred St. 3BR/1BA $700/mo. Bsmnt, gar., clean. Call 215-752-5317 OXFORD CIRCLE 887 Marcella St. 3br 1ba $850 plus. Call 267-632-4580 Oxford Circle Area 2Br & 3BR $750-$895 +Utils. Available now, Move in Special. 215-459-6819 or 215-783-0175 Upper Darby 3br/1ba row $925+utils front porch, carpet. Call 610-805-9599

Collegeville 3br/2.5ba $1575 TH, deck, fplc, fin bsmt. 610-631-0230 Stone Harbor 8 bed 5 baths beach block, air, all ammenities. Avail weekly, July 27 - Aug 31. 609-425-6206 john.l.curto@gmail.com

automotive Buick Lesabre 2000 $3000 clean, cold air, 267-755-8021

DODGE CHALLENGER SRT 2009 $27,000 5k miles, hemi, loaded. 215-233-5145 Mercedes Benz E320 2000 $6,985 Luxury 4 dr w/ sunroof, positively flawless, senior citizen. Call 215-922-5342 Mercedes Benz S-500 4Matic 2005 $15,400. Blue ext, Black int, 77K mi, Navigation/6 disk CD, 302-494-3309 DUTCHMAN 2001 20 ft. $7,500 Sleeps 4, very clean. 717-768-0745

52XX Pennway 3BR $900+ Utils 60XX Phillip 3BR $900 + Utils 2 mos sec req, Garage, 267-287-3175

17x W. Raymond St. 2BR $900 Sec. 8 welcome, newly renov. floors, new kitch, small bckyrd. Call (347) 204-4884

Cadillac Seville 1978 $5,000 48K mi. excl cond. Call 302-333-3677 Cadillac Seville SLS 2000 4 door, $3,985 woman driver, like new, ORIGINAL MILES, garage kept. Carol 215-627-1814

Chevy Malibu 2001 $1750 4 Door, Loaded, Clean, 215-280-4825 Chrysler Sebring LXI 1999 $1,500/OBO Insp. 12/31/13, 108K, 6 cylinder, sunroof, very clean, like new tires. 267-975-4483

Chrysler Town & Country 2005 $3,475 Touring, stow & go seats. 267-592-0448

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Ford Windstar 2001 $1,800 CD player, 3rd row seats, very clean, high mileage but runs good. 267-403-2387

Honda Accord LX 1995 $1,850 Auto., 128K, new insp. 215-620-9383 Lincoln Towncar 1995 $2,583 Cartier, Almost a classic, Loaded, Everything works, Estate Sale, 856-296-3968

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Mercedes 300 SEL 1988 $2,300/OBO May trade, 209K Mi All orig, In/Out, S/R Insp 1/14, Exec. Cond. 609-398-0882

Business Services

Saab 900 SE 1996 $2,200 4 Door, New Inspection, New perelli Tires, A/C, All Powers, Sun roof, Heated Seats, 215-200-6943.

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Ford F-250 1997 $2,300/OBO 4x4, needs little work. 610.585.0510

2623 Roberts 3BR 1BA $750+Utils 1 MO Sec, 1 MO rent 267-496-5550

2329 E. Cambria 3BR/1BA $875 Newly renovated. Call 215-877-5523

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NICE TOWN 2br $700 1 mo rent & 2 mo sec. 215-219-9257

67xx North Broad St. 5BR/2BA $1450 +Utils, Sec. 8 OK 215-224-6566

ADOPTION

Dodge Avenger 1998 $1800/OBO cold AC, runs great 267-441-4612

Saab 900 Turbo SPG 1989 $2,200 black, manual, 154k mi, 215-247-1572 A1 PRICES FOR JUNK CARS FREE TOW ING , Call (215) 726-9053

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15XX N Bouvier 3BR/1.5 BA $1500 New Reno, Many Amenities, Pets Ok, 3 Story, Student Welcome, 267-292-5274

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MGB Convertible 1976 $5,800, 78,000 mi Tirelli tires 856-264-3191

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around the world words by Emily Guendelsberger // illustration by Evan M. Lopez The availability of really good food from other cultures depends mostly on a cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s immigration demographics â&#x20AC;&#x201D; for example, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tough to ďŹ nd good, cheap Thai in Philly, but good, cheap Ethiopian is available in every third bar in West Philly. You just need to know where to look. It takes

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