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Lt. Jonathan Josey, fired after being caught on video punching a woman in the face, will get his job back. Well, at least he took a financial hit and got taught a lesson.

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Lt. Jonathan Josey will also be paid all the money he would have earned had he not been fired. The lesson, of course, is that it’s OK to punch a woman in the face.

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On the TLC genealogy show Who Do You Think You Are?,Zooey Deschanel traces her roots back to Quakers from the area.

Technically, it was a little-known subset called the Quirkers, known for their cutesy ukulele songs and totes adorbs outfits. Anyway, most of them died out in the 19th century, when they were torn apart trying to pet coyotes.

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The New Jersey chapter of the National Organization for Women backs U.S. Rep. Rush Holt in the race for Senate, saying his opponent Newark Mayor Cory Booker was unresponsive to their attempts to hold a meeting. Because NOW means now.

Locally based pet-insurance company PetPlan says its business is expanding rapidly and that it currently insures some 100,000 dogs and cats nationwide. Some customers like the low dedogtibles, while others appreciate the nine-tuple indemnity clause.

Activists start a petition for Philadelphia to sever ties with its sister city of Nizhny Novgorod, given Russia’s recent antigay laws. Hey, you know, if we’re not sisters anymore, God won’t mind if we fool around a little.

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A North Philly man is arrested for aiming a laser pointer at a police helicopter. “This man needs to learn that his actions could lead to serious consequences,” says the arresting officer. “In this case: All these chopped-up kitty cats.”

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Penn researchers are studying dogs’ ability to identify ovarian cancer by smelling patients. “So far we’re mostly finding out that Great Danes are big-time pervs.”

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FAR FROM HOME: Sandra Leino’s former home is up for sheriff’s sale after the DA forced her out and she ultimately lost the property to foreclosure. Leino and her three kids were made homeless in the process.

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HOUSE HUNTING How the DA’s forfeiture program made an innocent woman and her three kids homeless.

By Isaiah Thompson

T

he only conspicuous thing about Courtroom 478, located along a dark stretch of hallway in an obscure corner of Philadelphia’s City Hall, is the knot of people you’re likely to find standing outside of it, crying.

One morning last August, Sandra Leino was among them.

Leino had been coming to Room 478 off and on for the better part of two years in an attempt to keep her house from being seized by the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office — a fight that had sapped the limited resources of Leino’s family to the point that she had, finally, on that morning, acknowledged defeat.

“They took everything from me,” she said, visibly shaking outside the courtroom.

Leino is one of thousands of Philadelphia residents who each year find themselves facing the seizure of their possessions — cars, cash and real estate — via “civil asset forfeiture,” a legal construct that lets law-enforcement agencies seize property linked to crime and keep the proceeds. In Pennsylvania, civil forfeiture is carried out primarily under state drug laws. The Philadelphia DA brings 300 to 600 real-estate forfeiture cases per year, and thousands of cases against small amounts of cash seized in police stops that sometimes, but not always, result in arrests — together bringing

nearly $6 million into its coffers annually.

In a series of reports for City Paper [“The Cash Machine,” Nov. 29, 2012] and ProPublica, this reporter has documented how the Philadelphia DA has made civil forfeiture into a vast, unaudited revenue stream, profiting from an upside-down legal process through which the DA has the power to bleed property owners dry of financial resources and imperil homeowners with minimal or no evidence of criminal wrongdoing.

Sandra Leino’s is just one of these stories — but one that casts in sharp relief the difference between the way the District Attorney’s Office describes the goals of its forfeiture programs to the public and the way those targeted by forfeiture experience it.

The Philadelphia DA characterizes its forfeiture program not as a revenue generator but as a public service: depriving criminals of the spoils of their crimes, abating “nuisance properties” that terrorize neighborhoods and, according to a recent statement, working to “establish responsible property ownership.” But Sandra Leino’s story paints a very different picture of how the DA uses forfeiture — less like a scalpel than a battering ram.

Long before the forfeiture action against her house would be completed, and without a judge or jury ever seeing her face, Leino would be forced from her house and made homeless along with her three children. She would lose her most precious possessions, and ultimately be deprived of her family’s most valuable asset — all

“They took everything from me,” she said.

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✚ STUDENT UPRISING The gravity of Crystal Arim’s situation struck her a couple weeks ago, when she was attending a college-prep summer program at Columbia University. Crystal, 17, a senior at Kensington Urban Education Academy, was chatting with admissions officers from Harvard and Yale when she realized she was at a competitive disadvantage.“It was just embarrassing to openly say to the director of admissions, ‘Hey, I don’t have a [school guidance] counselor,’” she says. “I felt like I was set up to fail.”

For ambitious students like Crystal, going into their junior and senior years with hopes of attending elite colleges on competitive scholarships, news of the potential delayed start of classes in the Philadelphia School District pending $50 million in needed funding felt like the latest in a string of betrayals by state and local politicians. It also felt like a wake-up call.

There are challenges every year in Philly. But Crystal fears the situation in September — if school opens in September — will only be worse.All of the District’s counselors were laid off in June.

Crystal is on Superintendent William Hite Jr.’s Student Advisory Board, which was created this spring following the student walkouts — and which was back at work again last week. Students on the board are worried about the basics, like school safety and having a counselor around when crisis strikes. But they’re also concerned about how they can attain their dreams of college with insufficient counselors to fill out evaluations and draft recommendations; with a lack of extracurriculars, electives and mentallygifted classes to put on their applications; and with bloated class sizes and fewer course offerings to ensure they’re prepared.

“We need counselors to get into college,” fellow board member and

Masterman senior Gomian Konneh says simply.

Even if schools are each allotted a single counselor in the fall, Crystal says, “Imagine a school with 1,500 students and one counselor. How is your letter of recommendation going to stand out from the other students when that counselor didn’t have time to get to know you?” she says. A late start to school would make matters worse — as would a boycott.

Crystal is in foster care, and says school is the only constant in her life. Now, students feel like they’re walking into turmoil.

Board member Maureen Smith, 16, a junior at the High School for the Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA), says she’s bracing herself for a school year filled with unknowns: her schedule, the principal, class sizes and whether her school will stock even basic supplies. (Last year, the CAPA ceramics department didn’t have clay.) “The world isn’t slowing down for us. And it’s really not the time for us to be stopped in our tracks.”

College applications are not, of course, the only reason counselors are critical. This past school year, Konneh says, her school was struck by a tragedy. “We didn’t have enough counselors to properly deal with that situation.” They asked Konneh, as a peer counselor, to step in. She felt uncomfortable and ill-equipped for the task — but she felt she couldn’t say no.

Amy Chen, 16, a junior at Science Leadership Academy and a fourth board member, comes from an immigrant family and plans to be the first to go to college. She says her counselor “is like a second mother. “My mom speaks broken English, and my dad speaks broken English. So I can go to [my counselor] for help and

“We need counselors to get into college.”

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Penn’s Landing Swan Boats JUSTIN BENNER FLICKR: J.BENNER

By Daniel Denvir

RIGHT’S WRONG ³ PENNSYLVANIA FACES VAST challenges.

Gays are marrying in Montgomery County, schools are teaching evolution, black people are voting and poor folks are squandering tax dollars on their kids’ breakfast cereal. This is reality according to the state Republican Party, led by Gov. Tom Corbett, House Majority Leader Mike Turzai and Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, who believes SEPTA is “welfare” and homosexuality “open rebellion against God’s law.”

Things look different in the Pennsylvania where school budgets are cut to the bone and property taxes are on the rise. Businesses exploit tax loopholes, while the natural-gas drillers ransacking public forestland are barely asked to contribute anything.

Deep cuts to social services, new barriers to accessing food stamps and the complete elimination of General Assistance cash welfare have made difficult lives worse for the state’s most vulnerable.

The state House Republican caucus (like its Washington counterpart) is dominated by right-wing ideologues and religious fundamentalists who insist on torpedoing common-sense legislation that even Corbett might have signed — like a transportationfunding package and the expansion of Medicaid.

It’s not clear how their obsessions, motivated by greedy corporate prerogatives and theological commitments, fare under “God’s law,” but they’re making life hell here on Earth.

This is particularly true in Philadelphia, the impoverished laboratory for the party’s worst legislative sadism. Superintendent William Hite announced that schools, long critically underfunded, may not open on time due to a budget gap (initially $304 million) that has prompted the layoffs of thousands of teachers and staff. Austerity is harming Philly’s young people today. But it will hurt Republicans down the road: Playing to a shrinking right-wing base ensures their long-term political obscurity in an increasingly left-leaning state. More immediately, they further undermine the re-election prospects of Corbett, who faces rock-bottom approval ratings.

Corbett’s last-ditch response has been one of desperation, as he works tirelessly to mislead the public about who is responsible for the school-funding crisis. He knows that Philadelphia’s typically low turnout for mid-term elections would be his saving grace, while an angry Philadelphia dedicated to booting him out of office is his worst nightmare. But students, parents and pastors aren’t waiting for the ballot box to demand decent schools — they are now pondering a mass boycott. Philly just might show Harrisburg what an “open rebellion” looks like. ✚ Send feedback to daniel.denvir@citypaper.net.

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without Leino ever being accused of any crime.

Her husband, Sam, was accused. On Feb. 22, 2010, police officers arrived at the family’s house, at 2729 Orthodox St. in Bridesburg, to arrest Sam on charges of selling prescription pills. The officers would later testify that they observed Sam handing over small objects in exchange for money outside the house. After executing a search warrant, police recovered various painkillers. (Sandra Leino says her husband was partially disabled from a truck accident and took the painkillers himself, legally, for his pain.)

Sandra Leino and her three children were not accused of any crime; nowhere in police reports is there even a hint that any of them had done anything wrong.

That didn’t stop the DA from filing a motion to seize the Leino’s house that May — and then, for reasons that remain unclear, kicking them out of it the same month. (The DA’s Office responded to inquiries with a short statement describing the forfeiture action, but would not explain why Leino and her family were made to leave). Leino, her husband (out on bail awaiting his trial), and their children were forced from their home with nowhere to go. They stayed in a motel for one week.

“We couldn’t afford living in a hotel [long-term],” Leino explains, her voice rising and breaking, and then rising again. “Well, my husband grew up in the backwoods in Jersey, and we always kept sleeping bags in the back of our vehicle in case the kids got cold. …

So what we did was we went in the backwoods where he grew up, and we slept there.”

Then a relative whom they had contacted offered to take them in. Sam and Sandra Leino slept in the basement for the next five months, while their three children crammed into a spare room with two small beds, taking turns for the third spot on the floor.

While the family navigated a homelessness imposed on them by the District Attorney’s Office, the DA asked the city’s Department of Licenses & Inspections to conduct a “clean and seal” operation on the Leinos’ house. City officials arrived at the house shortly after the forfeiture motion had been filed (not granted) and began throwing out the Leinos’ possessions — among them pictures of the Leinos’ children growing up, antiques they had collected together as a hobby and a 5-gallon jar of pennies the family had filled as a way to save money.

“We’d fill a spaghetti jar — I figured out it was $15 when you filled it up — and dump it into the jug,” Sandra Leino recalls. “I figured it would be worth something someday.”

Samuel Leino, who maintained his claim of innocence, went to trial in January 2012 and was found guilty of one count of possession with intent to distribute, and sentenced to three to six years.

Sandra was eventually able to rent a new house, about five blocks from the old one. But on her own now, and unable to pay rent on top of the mortgage on the house she was barred from entering, she began missing mortgage payments. When the DA did eventually withdraw its forfeiture case against the Leinos’ house, it was only because the bank had already foreclosed.

Leino says the house is for sale now, for a little more than what she and her husband paid for it in 2005. “I see it every day on the bus,” she says.

If that outcome represents the DA’s goal of “establishing responsible ownership,” it’s difficult to see how. Leino and her kids live together in the same neighborhood as before, while her old home sits

“We couldn’t afford a hotel. We slept in the woods.”

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unoccupied. Her husband, the only person in the scenario accused of a crime, is already being punished in prison, as he would have been with or without the DA’s attempt to seize his house.

And even his case — the case, that is, upon which the seizure of the family’s house was based — raises questions about whether justice has been served. Four of the police officers who surveilled and arrested Sam Leino are among a group of six narcotics officers whose credibility has been effectively dismissed by the DA’s Office itself after allegations were made in open court that they were part of a drug-dealing ring within the Philadelphia Police Department.

The DA has been systematically dropping cases brought by these officers, including about 285 prosecutions mostly related to felony drug arrests. But Sam Leino’s conviction still stands. How many times the DA’s forfeiture unit has seized property based on the testimony of these officers is not presently clear. (editorial@citypaper.net) ✚ This article was published in collaboration with

AxisPhilly.org, where Isaiah Thompson is a staff writer. Reach him at isaiah@axisphilly.org.

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Amy and the others have dreams and plans for their lives. But theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve heard comments about Philly schools being a â&#x20AC;&#x153;cesspoolâ&#x20AC;? loud and clear. â&#x20AC;&#x153;How do you take students who are identified as part of a cesspool and inspire them to continue with their education, when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re giving them that stereotype?â&#x20AC;? Maureen says.

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On a blistering afternoon in August, a line of Washington, D.C.-bound Megabus passengers at the discount carrierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s curbside bus stop, in the figurative shadow of 30th Street Station, are squinting into the brutal sun.A BoltBus employee, who does not wish to be named, says a co-worker already passed out from heat exhaustion

today; colleagues took her to a nearby bank branch to cool off. And Temple University English major Jeffrey Jenkins â&#x20AC;&#x201D; who is, like many college students, a Megabus regular â&#x20AC;&#x201D; is trying to stay cool in the shade of a stone rail viaduct nearby. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Last week, there was a bus that was supposed to go to D.C. and it was raining,â&#x20AC;? says Jenkins.

Even huddling under the patchy shelter of the viaduct, â&#x20AC;&#x153;we were still getting rained on,â&#x20AC;? he says, adding that he still rides Megabus because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;cheaper than Greyhound.â&#x20AC;?

Of course, one reason those fares are so low is the lack of shelters or facilities of any kind. And it looks like that wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t change anytime soon, despite the surging popularity of discount bus lines, which served 28,000 passengers a week out of the 3100 block of JFK Boulevard last year. On the contrary, even though more than two-thirds of Bolt and Mega passengers are aged 18 to 29 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and nearly half are college students â&#x20AC;&#x201D; neighboring Drexel University wants the bus stops gone.

Drexel owns the land on both the north and south sides of the block. It has big plans for the space, which is currently home to a parking lot and the former offices of newspaper The Philadelphia Bulletin, as part of an â&#x20AC;&#x153;Innovation Neighborhoodâ&#x20AC;? to include high-density mixeduse buildings. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As the Innovation Neighborhood takes shape, it is our concern that private bus operatorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; current location on JFK Boulevard will deter entrepreneurs and companies from wanting to locate their businesses there,â&#x20AC;? says Drexel spokesperson Lori Doyle.

That creates a conundrum: The city authorized the bus pickup locations, which planners say are ideally located near SEPTA and Amtrak service, and doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to relocate them.

Drexel wants the bus stops gone.

Nor does the city intend to invest in improvements for the

burgeoning transit hub. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The bus companies are private businesses, and the city doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t currently have an interest

in public dollars being spent to support their infrastructure needs,â&#x20AC;? says Andrew Stober, chief of staff at the Mayorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office of Transportation and Utilities.

Of course, neither bus line could erect sidewalk shelters without the adjacent landownerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s consent, which is evidently not forthcoming. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If folks donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like standing in the elements to catch a bus, there are other options. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the trade-off for spending $5 or $20 to travel hundreds of miles,â&#x20AC;? says Stober. He acknowledges that he himself stopped using Megabus for trips to New York after being caught in the rain for hours a few years ago. Now, he opts for SEPTA and New Jersey Transit instead. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Ryan Briggs

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blind ambition Adventures in Braille street art. By Paulina Reso

DOT ORG: Sonia Petruse (left) and Austin

Seraphin create Braille street art at the Old City co-working space Indy Hall.

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around town. Recently, Petruse and the legally blind Seraphin, who can see some light and color but not much else, were jointly nominated for Philadelphia Geek Awards’ Visual Artist of the Year, the winner of which will be announced this Saturday at a red-carpet event at the Academy of Natural Sciences.

The idea was conceived in February at an Indy Hall art show, where a foam-board landscape by Petruse, was on display. “I didn’t intentionally make it tactile, but there were elements that you could feel,” she says. By tracing the indentations etched into the board, she says, Seraphin “could feel the two mirrored mountains of my hometown and Ryan Adams’ hometown. ... Unintentionally,

I think Austin understood the work much better than anyone else who could see it,” says Petruse. “That work was a big connection moment for us.”

Their conversation led to Petruse’s sticker art, which she’s been doing since December 2012.

Intrigued, Seraphin wondered if he could roll a sticker through his Braille writer. But with no concept of street art, he had to first look it up on Wikipedia.

“It said that street art is a specifically visual art form,” says Seraphin. As a consultant and programmer who helps iPhone developers make their apps accessible to the blind, he took this as a challenge: “That was it.

Now we have to do this.”

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AUSTIN SERAPHIN, 36, lugs his Braille writer down the stairs of his Bella Vista apartment and sets the typewriter-like contraption on a table. The machine’s bell softly rings from the impact. His friend Sonia Petruse, 27, says she has a sticker for him, and he grabs at the air in the general direction of her voice until his fingers pinch the Priority Mail label. He rolls it into the writer and types, creating raised dots the size of pinheads, barely visible to the eye. Seraphin hands the now-bumpy sticker back to Petruse for her part of this dual effort: writing down the bumps’ translation in the standard sighted alphabet. Like watching invisible ink reveal itself, a message emerges letter by letter as she writes: “Buy silver. Crash J.P. Morgan!”

Jackie O sunglasses perched on her blond head, Petruse scribbles

“Braille street art” at the bottom of the sticker, along with some arrows, dots and x’s, then tosses it into a pile of others bearing messages like “Aaron Swartz died for you” and “Protect Snowden” glimmering in metallic Sharpie. Petruse, a painter, installation artist and social-media manager, will take these stickers with her as she tours galleries for First Friday later that day, slapping them up wherever there’s space — on newspaper honor boxes, street lamps, signs. She’ll place them low enough that anyone, blind or sighted, can run his or her hands over the message.

The duo started making Braille street art, as they call it, in March. Since then, they’ve put up roughly 60 embossed stickers

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casting their gazes on everything they pass, the visually impaired don’t go around touching everything in case someone’s left a message. “I don’t encounter that much Braille in public — it’s not like you go around feeling surfaces. The Braille I encounter the most is at my elevator here, and there’s some at ATMs,” says Seraphin. Even if someone were actively searching for them, discovering the tiny dots scattered like bread crumbs throughout the city would be improbable; the likelihood that someone with the ability to read Braille would spontaneously discover the work is almost zero.

With this in mind, the project was not something Seraphin could do independently, nor could it be fully experienced alone: Both cases would require the combined efforts of a blind person and a sighted person.

“We write ‘Braille street art’ on it because a blind person isn’t going to know to feel it. A sighted person will still have to point it out to them, but it’s something unexpected. It’s something unusual,” says Seraphin.

Although Braille tags had previously appeared in cities around

the world, from Portland, Ore. to Moscow, they’d been made by sighted people, and the messages were written solely in Braille — accessible to few, and unnoticeable to nearly everyone who’d find meaning in them.

By addressing themselves to both the sighted and the blind, Petruse and Seraphin’s tags attempt to make a connection between the two worlds.

Petruse placed their first Braille sticker, about the late programmer-activist Aaron Swartz, in front of Indy Hall, where it has since been removed, like many of their other stickers, says Petruse, who does the actual tagging. Depending on the location, either city workers or honor-box owners have buffed out the stickers. For those that remain, the elements have caused the Braille to fade. “You have to work under the assumption that this work is not permanent,” she shrugs.

They haven’t had to invest much money in the project: The Braille writer, which retails for upwards of $700, is something Seraphin has owned since age 5, and the stickers are free at the post office. Their expenses boil down to the cost of a few Sharpies.

Shortly after starting their project, Petruse began exchanging stickers and letters with Curly, the self-proclaimed

“Banksy of stickers,” whose short messages, adorned with a trademark curlicue, can be spotted all over the city and whom Petruse credits as an inspiration. Petruse has repeatedly tried to meet him, even enticing him with free art-museum tickets, but he has declined all of her invitations. Nevertheless, he’s been supportive.

Seraphin’s project, Curly says, with a hint of envy, has the potential to spark real-world connections between two groups of people who engage with the world in very different ways.

And if a sighted person stumbles upon the project alone? “It’s like a smack in the face when you see that sticker,” Curly says. “It makes you realize that the fact

“IT’S LIKE A SMACK IN THE FACE WHEN YOU SEE THAT STICKER.” “I wish I’d thought of it, because it’s a whole new group of people who can appreciate the work,” says Curly, who prefers to remain anonymous to sustain his mystique. (“I’ve been told that people can’t tell if I’m a fucking genius or a pissed-off, sexually frustrated teenager,” he wrote via email. “As long as I’m anonymous, I’m both and everything else too, like a cat in a quantumphysics experiment.”) There’s a reason, he says, that Banksy supports projects working to restore vision and prevent eye disease: “It expands the market.”

Street art is typically a solitary experience for both artist and audience. But Petruse and

that you’re even seeing the city is an experience that not everyone gets to have.”

Like Curly, Petruse and Seraphin often use humor in their stickers. On an early sticker, “Braille” is written out in print and “Print” is typed out in Braille so that blind and sighted friends will argue over the sticker’s meaning. Having recently learned that Braille is used on drive-through ATMs, something he finds inherently absurd, Seraphin imagines a bumper sticker in Braille: “If you can read this, you’re too damn close.”

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Discordianism, based on the worship of Eris, the Greek goddess of chaos. He’s been practicing this form of “Western absurdist Zen,” as he calls it, since high school, when an online friend gave him a copy of Principia Discordia, the faith’s sacred text. It’s unclear how many people practice Discordianism since followers rarely congregate, guided by the belief that they must “stick apart.” “Our society is very order-focused,” says Seraphin. “Discordianism is into overemphasizing the constructive chaotic element to help balance that.” Street art strikes him as being very Discordian, and he uses the Discordian symbol of two arrows converging on a single point ( ), a representation of two opposing forces uniting, as his tag.

Petruse, a feline-lover, uses cat ears (^..^) as her symbol. Such emoticon-esque tags are common in street art, but nonsensical when translated into Braille — literally translated, her tag would be i e ‘ ‘ i e.

— something that Seraphin says most people would see as gibberish.

“Most blind people aren’t used to seeing Braille turned into art like

that,” says Seraphin, grinning as he imagines the confusion.

“I keep forgetting it’s illegal.

I really do,” says Petruse, who, as the one actually putting the stickers up, is who law enforcement would probably take issue with. “To me, this is another art form.” While it’s technically illegal, stickering is rarely reprimanded in Philadelphia (New York is a different story), and unlike Curly, Petruse and Seraphin have chosen not to remain anonymous. While they’re happy with their smallscale operation, they’ve considered pursuing more mainstream channels, either by applying for grants or submitting a proposal to the Mural Arts Program, to get their work more visibility (so to speak) and protect it from the buffing of everyday life.

Petruse worries about how her bosses might react to finding out about her extracurricular activities, but this hasn’t stopped the duo from promoting their work bare-faced — with a booth at Philly Tech Week’s signature event, for example. There, Seraphin invited a friend, a Braille proofreader, to help with translation, and the trio churned out sticker after sticker, distributing about 100. (Since then, Petruse has spotted some of them around town.) A few critics argued that this “wasn’t tech.” In

jest, the duo printed out a sticker that read, “It’s technology.”

Even though Seraphin’s Brailler, invented in 1892, isn’t exactly cutting-edge, he argues that since it is being used in a way for which it had not been intended, it’s essentially a hack. Graffiti culture is full of other unlikely improvisations, says Curly — using walls, the transit system

of himself as an artist, though his mother is a watercolorist and his father runs Seraphin Gallery at 11th and Pine. He opted for computers from an early age, first learning how to program at age 7. Recently, though, he’s embraced this new side of himself, experimenting further with quasi-visual mediums. At a recent Indy Hall Drink

“I KEEP FORGETTING IT’S ILLEGAL. TO ME, THIS IS ANOTHER ART FORM.” or free Priority Mail labels as canvases rather than confining creativity to private property.

This subversive quality is partly why the two were nominated for a Philly Geek Award.

“We love highlighting somebody challenging the status quo with their passion project,” says Tim Quirino, a member of the awards committee and interactive designer at P’unk Avenue.

“Austin can’t change anything about not being able to see, but he can change the way people perceive art just by bringing Braille into the conversation.”

When the nomination was announced, Seraphin was surprised. He had never thought

and Draw sketching session, for example, Seraphin was cutting foam-board etchings that he can feel and others can see — somewhat like that first picture of mountains that brought him and Petruse together. He’s gleeful when Petruse is able to recognize what he has drawn: hieroglyphics, a landscape and a spiderweb.

Without each other’s support, they wonder if they would have advanced to this point. “It really does take a special partnership between a blind person and a sighted person,” says Seraphin.

“Maybe that’s why it hasn’t been done before.” (paulina@citypaper.net)

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³ LAST WEEK, Stephen Colbert went out on a limb, and the twig kinda-sorta snapped. Not because the Report-er mouthpiece taunted the Viacom/ MTV/Comedy Central industrial complex when he spoiled the “secret special appearance” by the rarely seen yet somehow overexposed Daft Punk at the VMAs. No, Colbert’s crime is having chosen between DP’s “Get Lucky” and Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” as his Song of the Summer of the Century.A shame, because Colbert missed, by one week yet, the actual S. of the S.: “Crummy Summer”

by Philly’s Spandex/electro-glam faves Sweatheart.

Thom Lessner’s zippy seasonal tune comes from this week’s steamiest full-LP release, Sittin Pretty — highlighted by the return of MC Amanda Blank and the recorded debut of longtime live Sweatheart member Brian Langan. The song is a “reminder not to have a crummy summer,” says Lessner, who mentions that Sweatheart got a chance to “tune up” by touring with Free Energy and The Darkness.

“We sound like the tender, big-balled rock band I always wanted us to be.” ³When The Food Trust’s Night Market hits South Street between Front and Ninth today, Aug. 15, I say: Expect a mess. Eating food with your hands on South? Yeah, something’s bound to get sloppy. Prove me wrong, please.That said, look out for The Food Trust’s new partnership with Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens’ ART/GAGE: Celebrate Philly Creativity Festival, with dueling stages (far apart) on South (at Ninth and Second), starring Circadian Rhythms, Norwegian Arms, New Pony and others. ³ Nobody says enough good stuff about WXPN music director Dan Reed.

He’s got good ears, he came up with the idea for NON-COMM and he’s a fine host. (I used to appear weekly on his Thursday afternoon program.) Well, the secret’s out: He’s been named Non-Commercial Radio Station Music Director of the Year by N.J.’s Friday Morning Quarterback. Bravo. ³ Speaking of local-radio icons, Ms. Patty Jackson, WDAS’ queen of the grown-and-sexy crowd, will hold and host her Ladies Night Concert at the Dell Music Centeron Aug. 18 with a quartet of musky, male R&B crooners and shouters such as Avant,Johnny Gill, Keith Sweat and Christopher Williams.³You’ve probably heard about country-loving racist ass-wipe Darren Walp of Ridley Park — the guy who visits Camden’s Susquehanna Bank Center for seemingly no other reason than to wave Confederate flags and yell bigoted slurs (on his way to see Toby Keith and Blake Shelton) — but take heart: The Camden County police are trying to work with LiveNation to make certain Walp never visits again. Keith Urban plays there Sep. 14. Ticket holders, keep your eyes peeled. ³ More Thursday morning punt returns at citypaper.net/criticalmass. (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)

SKY HIGH: The Stray Birds really took off after NPR called their debut one of the top 10 folk/Americana albums of last year.

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FLIGHTS OF FANCY Lancaster trio The Stray Birds aims for the sky at the Philly Folk Festival this weekend.

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t’s not about virtuosic playing,” says Maya de Vitry of The Stray Birds’ sudden popularity on the folk circuit. Of course, the individual members of the Lancaster County-based oldtime/new acoustic-music trio are classically trained, so they have the chops. “It is playing together,” de Vitry continues. “We give people a taste of what happens before the concert — and again after.”

A Stray Birds show is not a jam session. They have complex arrangements, ones made more challenging due to the choreography required for their customized, three-mic setup: one high for vocals and two at waist level for banjo and guitar, with a little fill from the tiny mics on the fiddles and bass.

“We don’t use any monitors. Many bands get a special mix, but we can’t use them with these mics. It took a while to get the positioning. The bows are like tiny swords.” Given that there can be two fiddles and a bass sawing away on some of the tunes, the challenge is obvious. But the band loves to play like they would offstage, listening hard to one another, making the tiny adjustments that keep the music live and lithe.

In 2010 de Vitry joined with fellow multi-instrumentalist Oliver Craven, working out originals they had each written and exploring their shared knowledge of old-time tunes. Craven’s family band

had him playing bluegrass and old time early on, and de Vitry’s family also played music and loved attending old-time festivals.

Bassist Charles Muench joined them to record their first EP and the chemistry was instantaneous.

Their self-titled, self-released debut scored a spot on NPR’s top 10 Folk & Americana albums of 2012. This was a turning point for the young band. Soon they went from playing small clubs around New England — returning to de Vitry’s old stomping ground from her days at Berklee where she studied with Mark Simos and Darol Anger — to enthusiastic acceptance at the Northeast Regional Folk Alliance.

They showcased at Folk Alliance International in Toronto this February, and, this summer, got booked at major festivals like Falcon Ridge and this weekend’s Philly Folk Fest, where they’ll play the main stage.

So what’s the Stray Birds’ secret? Devotion. De Vitry laughs when she recalls a recent workshop where another performer was musing over the million reasons you can find not to practice your instrument. This trio’s joyful interplay makes rehearsal sound pretty sweet. It also helps to have three equal partners, each swapping instruments and lead-vocal duties.

“Like at a jam, you take turns,” says de Vitry. “No one single person is the center of attention.” (m_armstrong@citypaper.net)

“We don’t use any monitors,” says Maya de Vitry.

✚ The Stray Birds play the main stage at the Philadelphia Folk Festival Fri.,

Aug. 16, 2:30 p.m. See right for more picks from the fest.

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Over eight years and four proper albums, No Age blended aggression, angst, pop and art into a singular, often fuzzed-out force. But with An Object (Sup Pop), the best things about the L.A. duo stand out where once they may have stayed hidden in the mix. Dean Spunt’s melodic everyman vocals rise above the distortion, but the fierce and occasionally accusatory lyrics warrant some serious analysis. Still, the base of these songs is rhythm, and most of the album’s cracks are filled with a stamping beat.

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folk concern of Chicago-based multitaskers Janet Bean (Freakwater) and James Elkington (The Zincs, Brokeback) — pack its second full-length with more than enough curious tales and anthropomorphic diversions to make good on their funny-sounding moniker. But Waterdrawn (Fluff & Gravy), which flits between British and American idioms, jovial and haunting overtones, is best when the duo’s spry whimsy is countered by a —K. Ross Hoffman stark, fragile beauty.

³ hip-hop/electronic How to contextualize Arca’s &&&&& (free at earmilk.com) aurally? The hip-hop production’s enthralled to The Glitch. The electronica’s so widely sourced and deeply transmuted that its origins can’t be divined. With a nearly indistinguishable (not because they’re not distinct, but because they don’t pause) 14 tracks in just over 25 minutes, it’s even more compressed and mysterious than last year’s Stretch 2. How to conceptualize it sonically? This is dystopian beat music for a future where people have forgotten how to —Dotun Akintoye dance, but not how to move.

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³ dance/electronic The title of wrestling-obsessed London/ Berlin party crew/de facto record label Greco-Roman’s first compilation offers a (longish) shorthand for the sort of goodnatured house and sparkly tech-pop they typically favor. We Make Colourful Music Because We Dance in the Dark fills two bulging discs (hits and remixes) with spine-loosening

goodies, encompassing Disclosure’s divafied neo-garage, Hackman’s cheeky, twitchy R&B retweaks and Grovesnor’s joyriding yacht-soul.

Fittingly, many highlights come from Hot Chipper Joe Goddard, including 2011’s still-epic “Gabriel” and Four Tet’s playfully sweeping overhaul of “Apple Bobbing.”

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³ THE STRAY BIRDS (see left) are truly rooted in tradition, but scan the rest of the Philadelphia Folk Festival lineup and you might wonder about a few. Like Todd Rundgren. Jesse Lundy, who booked him, says, “The first word in the name of our event is Philadelphia. We’re featuring a bunch of cool stuff like In the Pocket and Ben Vaughn, also. Todd was the engineer on Stage Fright [The Band’s 1970 record] and did an album of Robert Johnson songs, so he gets ‘folk.’ But I also believe that a large, large portion of our audience is a classic-rock audience, and this fits the bill.”

To soothe the second-worders, there’s the brandnew Cultural Tent, a callback to the old teaching workshops that were an essential part of the earliest festivals. Dom Flemons (of Carolina Chocolate Drops) and HogMaw will walk you through how to record a traditional album. Sessions on murder ballads, primitive guitar (hosted by Jerry Hionis) and banjo are throwback gems. Bring $40 and you can leave with a new uke and beginner’s lessons from the Rev. TJ McGlinchey. Uke-lovers will be front and center Friday night for Jake Shimabukuro.

That same evening offers serious blues from Otis Taylor and folk rock from Richard Thompson, not to mention Philly’s Celt champions, RUNA. Really early on Saturday (noon!) in the shaded lobby tent plains Canadian Del Barber showcases.

The sleeper hit of this year’s Folk Alliance, Barber will draw you in with candid banter and blue-collar songs. Saturday night runs the gamut from West African traditionals by Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars to the Mavericks’ Americana. Don’t miss David Francey, whose songs carry sounds of his native Scotland. Then Runt rocks you to sleep.

Sunday afternoon, Francey and gifted local wordsmith Michael Braunfeld will lead a songwriter’s workshop. The main stage, meanwhile, will have the crowd up to rock, swing and hippie-hop: old time from Carolina Chocolate Drops, two-steps and swing with Asleep at the Wheeland everything from blues to Appalachian with David Bromberg.

Rev. Peyton’s Big Damn Bandwill probably be your best bet for getting your hippie-style interpretive dance on. Wear your folk-fest tie-dyed finest.

—Mary Armstrong ✚ Philadelphia Folk Festival, Fri.-Sun., Aug. 16-18, $54.50$198, Old Pool Farm, Upper Salford, Pa., 215-247-1300, pfs.org/folk-festival.

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OPPOSITES ATTRACT: A gawky bookworm (Shailene Woodley) and a hard-drinking popular kid (Miles Teller) strike up an unlikely romance.

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lar kid. Aimee (Shailene Woodley) is the naïve, inexperienced, insecure girl dating above her station. They meet cute when he wakes up on her lawn after a night of drinking and embark on an unlikely relationship, with Aimee helping Sutter with his homework before he goes home to chat online with his ex (Brie Larson). We’ve seen these characters before and know where this high-school story is going: her humiliation, his comeuppance, their shared happy ending. Only The Spectacular Now doesn’t take that easy route. Sutter’s drinking doesn’t stop with the red Solo cups; he’s constantly tipping a flask into his fast-food soda cup. And despite toying with one girl while attempting to reunite with another, it’s never entirely clear that even he knows what he wants. It’s less con than confusion, an emotion that threatens to overwhelm his glib confidence. Aimee is at first less attracted to Sutter than in awe of him, stunned that someone so much further up the social ladder would even take notice, despite the wise counsel of friends. Woodley so well captures the stuttered, unfinished sentences and embarrassed self-justifications of the socially awkward that she’s convincing as a mousy girl that escapes attention, despite her actual beauty. Director James Ponsoldt previously helmed the alcoholicsin-love drama Smashed, while screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber were responsible for (500) Days of Summer, a quirky rom-com that teetered between the heartfelt and the gimmicky. The Spectacular Now dispenses with the hipster irony, and while it ultimately succumbs to sentimentality and writerly tics, it has by that point crafted two fully fleshed, flawed but redeemable characters who can withstand such missteps. By the end, we want different and mostly contradictory outcomes for them, encapsulated in a single closing moment suspended in hope and pain. —Shaun Brady

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Dispensing with the first blush of love in a cursory montage, Mazer sows the initial seeds of discord at Rose Byrne and Rafe Spall’s wedding, beginning with best man Stephen Merchant’s monstrously inappropriate toast. Cut to the couple, nine months later, airing their grievances to marriage counselor Olivia Colman, in a manner that suggests it’s just a pro forma step on the way to divorce. The rest of the movie fills in the gory details: ad exec Byrne’s high-handed prissiness, homebound novelist Spall’s slobby insensitivity, their respective flirtations with hunky client Simon Baker and frumpy ex-girlfriend Anna Faris. (The latter’s awkward attempt at extricating herself from a threesome-in-progress is enough to renew your faith in Faris’ comic skills after a string of bad choices.) I Give It a Year is a mean, nasty movie full of mean, nasty people — and a delightful one at that.

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community, a microcosm of Hollywood with the same monumental egos, seedy glamour and unexpected betrayals. Carol works as a vocal coach, surreptitiously collecting interesting accents for her archives and hand-holding Eva Longoria through dubbing her role as a “Cockney mob wife,” while she aims to be the first to utter LaFontaine’s famous three words as the new voice of a Hunger Games-like quadrilogy. But this domain too often serves as the backdrop for the too-familiar tale of a thirtysomething woman scrambling to pull her life together. Melamed, as a bad-father straw man, lends the film’s final moments a calculated measure of redemption, while a campaign against young women speaking in a squeaky, up-talking “sexy baby” voice feels like grafted-on messaging. But Bell and an amiable cast are likable enough to make this an amusing glimpse inside a little-known corner of filmdom. —Shaun Brady (Ritz Five)

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who hits the skids after his pyramid scheme crumbles. Having lost all her money along with her former friends, Jasmine, who is indeed blue, moves to San Francisco to live with her adopted sister (Sally Hawkins). Jasmine’s one goal is to find her way back to the land of the wealthy, but her nearpsychotic inability to see the world as it is cripples her. Madoff resonances aside, Allen has a tin ear for the 21st century: Bobby Cannavale’s hot-tempered Italian is an ethnic stereotype 50 years out of date. But where his actors are concerned, the material hasn’t been this rich in years, nor have his casting instincts. Andrew “Dice” Clay is soulful and nuanced as Hawkins’ ex-husband, and Allen cannily uses his inexperience to great effect. At times, Blanchett’s clawing at the walls makes the movie difficult to watch, but for once, that’s because Allen means it to be. —SA (Ritz Five)

ELYSIUM | BRaised in squalor, orphaned hood Max (Matt Damon) is scraping by, leaving his car-jacking ways behind for a menial job in an armaments factory. Directly above his impoverished head floats the unattainable Elysium, a glinting satellite where the 22nd century’s one percent soak it all in. After an accident leaves Max with terminal radiation poisoning, he contacts a space coyote (Wagner Moura) and cuts a deal: In exchange for bio-hacked body armor and safe sky passage, he’ll hijack the brain data of a CEO (William Fichtner) — a straightforward gig that blows up once he realizes he’s stolen the blueprints for an Elysian coup. Exploiting slick third-person perspectives with dramatic pivots that place you on the flanks of firefights, Neill Blomkamp is a talented action director, never squandering his resources. It’s the one-dimensionality of the players, from Foster’s evil empress and her

twisted lieutenant (Sharlto Copley) to Max’s long-suffering love interest (Alice Braga), that render Blomkamp’s already-crystal social critique almost too clear. —DL (Wide release)

EUROPA REPORT | B Move over, Elysium. There’s a better sci-fi movie starring Sharlto Copely in town. In Sebastián Cordero’s bottledup thriller, Copely’s part of a six-person crew dispatched to search for signs of life on one of Jupiter’s moons, an expedition we know from the start has gone horribly wrong. From the moment the first piece of equipment fails, or the first mysterious light shines through Europa’s icy crust, it’s clear where we’re headed, but the movie’s cast, which includes Anamaria Marinca and Michael Nyquist, play out the escalating tension with enough finesse and variety that you never feel like you’re on rails. The found-footage frame adds

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little and the chintzy CGI exteriors are mercifully brief — the astronauts’ landing craft looks uncannily like the foam projectiles at the Please Touch Museum — but for what Elysium spent on Matt Damon’s wigs, there’s a lot more movie here. —SA (Ritz at the Bourse)

WE’RE THE MILLERS | C+ Commingling domestic perplexities with gross-out sequences, Rawson Marshall Thurber’s frat-friendly comedy is hindered by the problem most often clipping movies in this gray-area genre: It’s too sweet to be sour and too sour to be sweet. Unfulfilled by his existence as a plateaued small-time weed dealer in Denver, David (Jason Sudeikis) is dying to settle down with a family of his own. We know this, of course, because he stares wistfully at the happy-family windshield sticker on a minivan. When he gets in deep debt-wise with sadistic dope supplier Brad (Ed Helms), he’s forced to play weed mule, cobbling together a cover family — foul-mouthed pole dancer Rose (Jennifer Aniston) as wifey, with neglected local kids Kenny and Casey (Will Poulter and Emma Roberts) as his progeny — to get across the border. The post-SNL Sudeikis has unfolded into a leading funnyman who can really hammer in a gag, and his presence is what keeps his fake clan mostly focused. The Millers’ more maudlin meanderings, however, will inspire just as many laughs as their wisecracks. —DL (Wide release)

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somefest.com.) 32nd Street and Powelton Avenue, universitycity.org/drexelpark. The NeverEnding Story (1984, Germany/U.S., 102 min.): As if Deep Roy didn’t have enough trouble with his real name, the poor actor plays a character Teeny Weeny in this film.

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(1988, U.S., 88 min.): Word on the street is the Chiodo Brothers will be in attendance for this 25th anniversary screening. Sat., Aug. 17, 9 p.m., free.

✚ REPERTORY FILM INTERNATIONAL HOUSE 3701 Chestnut St., 215-387-5125, ihousephilly.org. Sergei Parajanov: Surrealist Poet of Soviet Cinema series: The Legend of Suram Fortress (1984, U.S.S.R., 88 min.), Thu.,

Aug. 15, 7 p.m., $9. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965, U.S.S.R.,

97 min.), Fri., Aug 16, 7 p.m., $9. Ashik Kerib (1988, U.S.S.R., 73 min.), Sat., Aug. 17, 5 p.m., $9. The Color of Pomegranates (1968, U.S.S.R., 79 min.), Sat., Aug. 17, 8 p.m., $9.

PHILAMOCA 531 N. 12th St., 215-387-5125, philamoca.org. Detonator (2013, U.S.): In this locally shot film, ex-bandmates butt heads in the ’burbs. Dingus and Joe Jack Talcum of The Dead Milkmen perform post-screening. Thu., Aug. 16, 7:30 p.m., $10.

RITZ AT THE BOURSE 400 Ranstead St., 215-440-1181, landmarktheatres.com. Pulp Fiction (1994, U.S., 154 min.): “You read the Bible, Ringo? Well, there’s this passage I got memorized.” Fri., Aug. 16, midnight, $10. Spark: A Burning Man Story (2013, U.S., 112 min.): Behind the scenes of the week-long desert cult fest.

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8.15 [ theater ]

✚ THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST

—Mark Cofta Through Aug. 25, $15-$25, Off-Broad Street Theatre, 1636 Sansom St., 215923-8909, mauckingbird.org.

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✚ VALERIE JUNE As you might expect from an album produced by a Black Key (the in-demand Dan Auerbach), Pushin’ Against a Stone — Valerie June’s mainstream debut following three self-released efforts — makes it clear that the Tennessee native can knock out some swampy, riff-driven modern blues-rock with the best of ’em. But that’s hardly all: June also takes on a hypnotic, acoustic folk lament (“Workin’ Woman Blues”) that’s curiously laced with Afrobeat-style horns, a sparse, creaky Appalachian lullaby (“Somebody to Love”) with tattered fiddle and banjo accompaniment and a loose ’60s-girl-group shuffle (“The

Hour”), complete with wall-ofsound glockenspiels and ghostly gospel backups — and that’s just the first three tracks. While her voice, a reedy, high, lonesome-sounding thing, is potent enough, it won’t knock you flat like, say, Alabama Shakes’ Brittany Howard. (June’s hairstyle — a massive, Medusa-like nest of dreads — is another matter.)

But not too many singers can hopscotch between styles and decades, running down the whole damn Americana gamut from bluegrass to gospel, fiddle tunes to funk, and make it sound so artless, ageless and achingly truthful.

—K. Ross Hoffman Thu., Aug. 15, 8 p.m., $12, with Tall Tall Trees, Tin Angel, 20 S. Second St., 215-928-0978, tinangel.com.

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✚ SOMEONE BROUGHT ME/THE NEW CENTURY Rich Rubin, Quince Productions’ artistic director and

creator of GayFest!, is not only managing the whole threeweek festival of gay theater and song, he’s directing two of its four full-length plays. They both are opening this week, playing in repertory at Second Stage at the Adrienne through Aug. 24. Someone Brought Me is the festival’s second commission of an original work by Daniel Talbott, and its third Talbott play. Like Mike and Seth and Slipping, this new work is “moving and challenging,” says Rubin, and was written with actors Dexter Anderson and Calvin Atkinson in mind.

Rubin adeptly adjusts to the high comedy of Paul Rudnick’s The New Century, because, he says, both plays move “from problems to a resolution that provides hope.” Rudnick (I Hate Hamlet, Jeffrey) is a skilled comedy scribe, which should suit veteran performers R. Eric Thomas and Peggy Smith.

—Mark Cofta Through Aug. 24, $10-$25, Second Stage at the Adrienne, 2030 Sansom St., 215-627-1088, quinceproductions.com.

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✚ TIM WARFIELD Late legendary organist Shirley Scott mentored countless young would-be jazzheads during her years holding court with the house band at Ortlieb’s. One of her most successful musical offspring was York-based saxophonist Tim Warfield, who would trek to Philly on a weekly basis to jam with the “Queen of the Organ,” usually with trumpeter Terell Stafford in tow. The two went on to perform and record often with Scott, joining her in the house band for Bill Cosby’s short-lived revival of You Bet Your Life. Warfield showed his gratitude with his 2008 Criss Cross release One for Shirley, a soulful, grooving tribute album that he’ll revive on Friday night at the Art

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Director Peter Reynolds does it again, viewing a familiar classic “through a gay lens,” per Mauckingbird Theatre Company’s mission statement. Oscar Wilde’s 1895 comedy of manners, with just a few altered

are not always played male, so genuinely elegant and sincere are these performers.

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pronouns, imagines “a Victorian England fit to make the Queen blush” in which young aristocrats Jack (Chancellor Dean) and Algernon (James Ijames) pursue young men Gwendolyn (Brent Knobloch) and Cecily (David Hutchison), neither of whom will marry a man not named “Ernest.”

Easily the most quotable play ever — gems like “the truth is rarely pure and never simple” are throwaways — the play sparkles not only through nuanced performances, but thanks to Marie Anne Chiment’s glorious costumes and Andrew Laine’s clever scenery. Sarah Doherty and Lindsay Mauck become another gay couple in this version, but the imperious Lady Bracknell is played as she should be, not by a man in drag for cheap laughs (as has become customary), but with hilarious gravity by Nancy Boykin. Those who know the play will find this new version refreshingly clever, while audiences experiencing it for the first time will be surprised that the central couples

—Shaun Brady Fri., Aug. 16, 5:45 and 7:15 p.m., free with museum admission of $20, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2600 Ben Franklin Pkwy, 215-763-8100, philamuseum.org.

✚ DAUGHN GIBSON Daughn Gibson has the kind of voice that almost sounds like a parody of itself: a big, booming, Johnny Cash-caricature of a baritone, which he doesn’t shy away from using to maximum swooping, drunken-Elvis effect. Me Moan (Sub Pop), the Carlisle, Pa., native’s follow-up to last year’s breakout debut, is chock-full of twangy guitars and blustery, borderline-campy barroom crooning, but this isn’t your granddad’s country music, or even your hip uncle’s alt-country. It’s more like the

sort of thing Beck might make if he decided to indulge his foundsound sample-hop tendencies and his Lee Hazlewood-inspired troubadour fantasies all at once. We’re talking mistyeyed, honky-tonk balladeerA D A M WA L L A C AVA G E

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ing and spooky, rough-hewn backwoods menace, peppered with rickety drum loops, eerie vocal samples and weird, snaky guitar licks, plus one particularly resonant bagpipe riff.

—K. Ross Hoffman Fri., Aug. 16, 9 p.m., $12, with Hiss Golden Messenger and Man On, Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 215739-9684, johnnybrendas.com.

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✚ BRETT FEST Philly scene stalwarts IKE had seen plenty throughout their decade-long career by the time lead guitarist Brett Talley was diagnosed with chronic myelogenous leukemia. Frontman John Faye alone had endured his mother’s declining health and a failed marriage, both of which were explored on the band’s catharsis-ready Tie the Knot With All That You Got in 2010.

But if you’ve ever heard IKE’s anthemic power-pop sound, you know they’re more likely to go for triumphant than self-indulgent. Tomorrow, IKE and their extended family of side projects and friends bring this spirit of resilience to World Café Live for Brett Fest, a benefit concert to support Talley’s costly treatment and recovery. Check out performances from John & Brittany (Faye’s latest project

with 23-year-old poet Brittany Rotondo), IKE bassist Susan Steen and 12 others before Faye and Talley finish things off with members of Jealousy Curve as the Awesome Bros. It’s a full night of passionate sets and a chance for the music community to show its strength during challenging times.

—Sameer Rao Fri., Aug. 16, 6:30 p.m., $15, with IKE, Pawnshop Roses, Matt Duke, John & Brittany, The Better Half, Susan Steen, Awesome Bros., The Jellybricks, Rodger Delany, Boy Wonder, Phil Murphy, Otho, David Melendez, Paul Wiese and Mike Mitchell, World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400, worldcafelive.com.

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✚ A DOLL’S HOUSE The Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion, Philadelphia’s only restored Victorian house museum and garden, has been hosting site-specific plays since 2008, including actor-director Josh

Hitchens’ solo adaptations of Dracula and A Christmas Carol.

Now, with support from the American Swedish Historical Museum, Hitchens directs Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, with the 1859 “country villa” serving as the controversial 1879 tragedy’s period-accurate setting.

Only 25 tickets are available for each performance, guaranteeing an intimate experience in the parlor of this house, which is on the National Register of Historical Places. Jennifer Summerfield plays Nora Helmer, a dutiful wife forced by circumstances to break the chains of traditional marriage. A Doll’s House has obvious relevance today, not only because women still struggle for wage equality and reproductive freedom, but due to Ibsen’s universal concern for every individual’s right to an independent life.

—Mark Cofta Fri.-Sun., Aug. 16-18, $30-$35, Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion, 200 W. Tulpehocken St., 215-438-1861, ebenezermaxwellmansion.org/a-dolls-house.

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8.17 [ metal/rock ]

✚ SADGIQACEA/ HIVELORDS Two of the locals on tonight’s five-metal-band bill at the Khyber have recently released new records on rising Philly metal label Anthropic. Sadgiqacea’s False Prism (co-released by Candlelight Records) is raw and sludgy with post-rock and stoner tendencies. One of the album’s most gratifying

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black doom that pulverizes with irrevocable despair and tremendous volume. The impressive diversity of the music and vocals make Hivelords’ unwaveringly bleak, grim and cursed journey surprisingly uplifting.

—Elliott Sharp Sat., Aug. 17, 7 p.m., $10, with Ramlord, Lonesummer and Occult 45, Khyber Pass Pub, 56 S. Second St., 215-2385888, khyberpasspub.com.

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✚ CRAZY PRAISE DANCE SHOWCASE God is always in the house at the Baptist Worship Center, but this weekend He won’t have to listen as hard to hear His children. That’s because the charttopping gospel duo Mary Mary will hit the West Philadelphia house of prayer while a handful of praise-centric dance troupes storm the street for the all-day party and health fair. Started

by Worship Center founder and senior pastor Bishop Millicent Hunter, the annual event is about healing and respecting the body and the spirit. Now in its fourth year, the health fair offers everything from screenings to educational opportunities.

The live gospel dance troupes put their epiphanies where their feet are in a highly choreographed show of solemnity and shout-out-loud holy rolling. And Mary Mary sisters Erica and Tina Campbell bring the joyful noise with hits like “Anything” (recorded with Patti LaBelle — hope she shows!) and “Believer.” Amen to that.

—A.D. Amorosi Sat., Aug. 17, free, health fair 2-4 p.m., showcase 6 p.m. (priority seating for ticket holders who attend health fair), Baptist Worship Center, 4790 James St., 215991-4351 or email cpds@healthpart.com.

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✚ PHILLY LEGENDS OF OLD-SCHOOL HIP-HOP moments happens during the nearly 15-minutes-long closer, “True Darkness,” when band members Evan Schaefer and Fred Grabowsky rappel from steep, chunky riffage down into a hushed, shadowy occult interlude. Hivelords’ (pictured) Cavern Apothecary is bottomless

Joseph Hicks has had, to put it lightly, a rough couple of years. While behind bars for aggravated assault, Hicks — better known as DJ Too Tuff of historic Philly rappers Tuff Crew — was also battling thyroid cancer. Serious lows for a man hailed as a forefather of turntablism thanks to his

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s LOVED: Lauren Beukes, The Shining Girls s LOVED: Rupert Sheldrake, Science Set Free HATED: Sam Harris, Free Will

Send the Grumpy Librarian two books you like and one you hate and she’ll tell you what to read.

— should clue in the kids about Philly’s role in hip-hop history.

—Sameer Rao Sat., Aug. 17, 7 p.m., $20, with EST, Schoolly D, Tuff Crew, Larry Larr and Malika Love, Major Events, 5075 Lancaster Ave., 215-696-2567, ticketweb.com.

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8.21 [ rock/pop ]

✚ JC BROOKS & THE UPTOWN SOUND At a time when new-wave soul is personified by the slick but

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extensive scratch breaks on Tuff Crew’s landmark 1988 debut, Danger Zone. But with the past behind him, he and the original members of Tuff Crew will take the stage this Saturday for the first time in nearly two decades alongside several Philly rap contemporaries. If Tuff Crew doesn’t ring a bell, then the other performers might — Three Times Dope’s EST is now a sought-after songwriter with a Grammy nomination (for Destiny Child’s “Cater 2 U”) to his name, and you’ll surely recognize Schoolly D from the Aqua Teen Hunger Force theme song, not to mention his gangsta classic “P.S.K.” This appropriately DIY show — Too Tuff’s personal email is on the concert’s Facebook page

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³ Recommendation: As a proud generalist with only the glancingest familiarity with science, the Grumpy Librarian had to get someone to explain to her the post-mechanistic science promoted by the spectacularly named Rupert Sheldrake. Did you know he is pals with fellow anti-materialist Deepak Chopra? The GL bets that their theoretically rigorous guru parties are downright transcendental.

The GL is glad that you stand firm in the belief that free will exists, even if she is mildly disturbed by your dedicating that will to terrifying books about serial-killer dreamlands. This column is nothing if not servicey, however, and so Denis Johnson’s 1992 short-story collection Jesus’ Son is offered for your approval. Full of terrible choices, shrieking violence and unreliable narrators, the book also has a few years’ allotment of active verbs. The Grumpy Librarian once used the opening story, “Car Crash While Hitchhiking,” to teach a group of precocious middle-schoolers about vivid language and they obediently filled the blackboard with age-appropriate lines like “the blood ran off him in strings.” It was not a rousing success. (grumpylibrarian@citypaper.net)

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and the Cure. All done up in a glossy hi-fi setting, singer/songwriter Reggie Youngblood and the Kids went against the lo-fi grain with wild, silly love songs and saccharine-sweet choruses.

The only thing was, they failed to follow up on giddy hits like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You,â&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hit the Heartbrakes.â&#x20AC;?

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â&#x20AC;&#x201D;A.D. Amorosi Wed., Aug. 21, 9 p.m., free, Morganâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pier, 221 N. Columbus Blvd., 215-2797134, morganspier.ticketfly.com.

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WESTERN PIE KERMIT’S BAKE SHOPPE | 2204 Washington Ave.,

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267-639-4267, kermitsbakeshoppe.com. Hours: Mon.-Fri.,11 a.m.-11 p.m., Sat.-Sun., 8 a.m.-11 p.m.

Sweet $2-$8; savory $4-$20.

³ WHEN YOU THINK of businesses on the west side of weary, dreary Washington Avenue, what springs to mind? Granite warehouses. Hardwood fabricators. Scratch-and-dent appliance depots. Big boxes of buildings, filled with things to make things and populated by a blue-collar cast. Stereotypically not the folks who crave an almond frangipane tart inlaid with vanilla-glazed apricots and micro-sage after rewiring a house.

Home to that stunning tart and dozens of other pastries, cakes and confections, Kermit’s Bake Shoppe at the intersection of 22nd is rewiring their appetite. Owner Adam Ritter originally planned Kermit’s, for the laundromat across from his Sidecar Bar, but relocated the bakery south to Washington when plans fell through. He calls Kermit’s “a bridge between the two neighborhoods,” Graduate Hospital and Point Breeze.

A tattoo of dusky pink flowers vines up the concrete facade, adding panache to the bakery’s industrial exterior. Inside, bakers in white aprons hustle behind glass cases displaying pastry chef Chad Durkin’s gems: trays of sugar cookies, passion-fruit tarts topped burnished meringue, delicately spiced linzers whose heart-shaped peepholes are red with raspberry jam. Recovering chunks, enter at your own risk. Durkin sexes up his cinnamon buns with chai spices and bakes flaky pate-brisee Pop-Tarts.

Brian Lofink, chef of Sidecar and Ritter’s other pub, Kraftwork, handles Kermit’s savory side, creating soups (watery chicken-spaetzle, velvety zucchinicorn) and fiery housemade “sausage and peppers” and gooey cheeseburger hot pockets, his crave-able take on the British pasty.

Served whole or by the slice, pizzas are Kermit’s other calling card, topped with cheffy items like spinach pesto, cracked Gaeta olives and crucolo cheese only the guys at Di Bruno’s have heard of.

The straight-up traditional pie is respectable, too, with four cheeses and a complex, crimson pizza sauce that tastes like proper pizza sauce and not like plain tomatoes. But while I enjoyed Lofink’s toppings, I expected more structure and character from Durkin’s dough, especially because it’s made with an eight-month-old sourdough starter. Maybe I’d like the gluten-free version better?

Either way, I know who’ll be making my birthday cake this year. (adam.erace@citypaper.net)

POTENT PAIRINGS: Dosas, pastries and Indian-Chinese fare at Indian Hut. NEAL SANTOS

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INDO LIVING A fascinating fusion of Chinese and Indian cuisines in an unlikely strip mall in Bensalem.

By Caroline Russock INDIAN HUT | 1967 Street Rd., Bensalem, Pa., 215-638-2200, indianhut.

com. Hours: Sun.-Thu., 11:30 a.m.-9:30 p.m.; Fri.-Sat., 11:30 a.m.-10:30 p.m. Snacks, $2.99-$8.99; mains, $6.99-$13.99; desserts, $1.49-$11.99.

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or some food-minded folks — the culinary Marco Polos — there’s a distinct thrill in discovering a strip-mall gem. So we’ll take you on this trip in the second-person.

You’re in the far Northeast, driving on an unremarkable stretch of (the seemingly redundantly named) Street Road. Questionable all-you-can-eat sushi joints and fast-casual chain restaurants whiz by on More on: either side of the six-lane highway. Then, in one of the shopping centers, you notice an outpost of massive Indian grocery store Patel Brothers and a shop selling intricately beaded saris, with a salon that specializes in henna in the back — telltale signs that good food is probably somewhere nearby. And your instincts are correct, because there it is: Indian Hut Curry & Cakes (1967 Street Rd., Bensalem).

You cut across a couple lanes of traffic and pull into the parking lot, which also serves an A.C. Moore, a fireplace retailer and a sketchy-looking pet store advertised by a large, hand-lettered

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The menu in the window lists standard Indian staples like aloo gobhi masala, biryanis and chicken tikka. But there’s also a more intriguing section: “Indo Chinese.” There’s that little thrill.

Indian Hut was initially a side project for owner Mannu Mitt, whose background is in I.T. His menu looks to replicate a unique cuisine with roots in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), home to India’s only Chinatown. “It’s a fusion of Indian and Chinese fast foods,” he says, “the kind of thing you find sold on street corners.”

Mitt opened the first Indian Hut in Exton in 2007 — “It was a hobby, something to do on nights and weekends,” he says. The original concept was even more of a mash-up — a combination of a French bakery, Indo-Chinese and dosas, oversized rice-flour-and-lentil crepes.

But in five years, he had expanded the menu into a mini-chain, with locations in North Wales and here in Bensalem.

You order several dishes from the Indo-Chinese section of the menu and sit down to pass the time. The Bollywood music videos playing on the wall-mounted TV prove fairMORE FOOD AND ly inaccessible, so you pull out your phone DRINK COVERAGE to do a little research.

AT C I T Y P A P E R . N E T / Indo-Chinese isn’t the arbitrary pairing M E A LT I C K E T. of cuisines that “Asian fusion” brings to mind. Kolkata’s Chinatown has been around for hundreds of years, and the immigrant cuisine has a long time to naturally marinade in Indian flavors. The city’s ethnic Chinese population is largely of Hakka descent, meaning that they or their forebears came from southeastern provinces, like Sichuan.

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appearance is deceptively lo mein-y, with shreds of carrots, cabbage and bell peppers. But it’s alive with a heat and brightness not typically found in strip malls. Chef Swatanatra Singh is kind enough to break down the process of sautéing the noodles (“spaghetti,” he says), with chiles, ginger, garlic, black and white pepper and a kick of soy. The two distinct flavor profiles marry seamlessly.

Chicken Manchurian’s glossy, deep-fried exterior wouldn’t look out of place at your local Number One Dragon Garden. But tasting it, the trinity of ginger, garlic and green chiles are right there, along with a serious umami hit of soy. It’s got the satisfying stickiness of General Tso’s, but its flavors are more vibrant, less cloying and deeply savory. That same savoriness carries over to the veg Manchurian, tender little vegetable dumplings served in a rich brown curry gravy spiked with soy and chiles.

Digging deeper into Indian Hut’s offerings, you find some fascinating street-food snacks. There are little vada pav, fried-potato sliders sandwiched into burger buns and topped with sharp cilantro chutney. You pass on the intriguing but confusing-sounding samosa panini, described as “vegetable samosa topped with fresh tomatoes, lettuce and green peppers stuffed in a panini.”

And then there is chicken 65. “A very popular quick bite,” Singh says of the deep red, deep-fried bar snack of chile and onion-topped chicken. Indian Hut’s menu mentions that the marinade’s 65 spices give the dish its name, but fails to provide a list, so out comes the phone again. Seems that not everybody traces the “65” back to the marinade ingredients — there’s lots of entertaining speculative origin stories. The dish should only be made with 65-day-old chickens. It takes 65 days to perfect the marinade. It was created in 1965 in a Chennai hotel.

Tamil-speaking soldiers trying to order at a bar in nonTamil-speaking Chennai eventually gave up and just kept ordering the best thing on the menu: “number 65.”

Indian Hut’s is perfect drinking food, made with boneless chicken thighs that sit for hours in a blend of ginger, garlic, chiles, lemon juice, garam masala and a bit of red food coloring before being fried to a crimson crisp and finished with sliced red onion and an orange chile pepper.

Singh is especially proud of his pastries, displayed in a glass case by the register. He’s engineered the recipes for the delicate slices of mango, Black Forest and mixed-fruit cake, among others, until they’re light and not cloyingly sweet. He says it’s so you can have two or even three slices without feeling overloaded on sweets, a departure from the world of sugar-syrupy Indian desserts.

You wash all this down with ample tap water (no ice), lassis and a thick glass bottle of Thums Up — a cola with a retro logo, questionable spelling, an out-of-place looking USDA sticker half-heartedly tacked on and a flavor that is definitely neither Coke or Pepsi. Something about these bold, spicy Indo-Chinese plates screams for beer, though — you make a mental note to BYO next time. (caroline@citypaper.net)

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Promised flavors include Ellieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Brown Sugar Brown, Lemongrass Ginger White Rascal and New World Coffee Porter. The Institute Bar, 549 N. 12th St., 267-318-7772, institutebar.com.

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Wed., Aug. 21 through Sun., Aug. 24, $55 Âł One of East Passyunkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most celebrated BYOBs is turning one, and of course chef Chris Kearse and crew are throwing themselves a party or three. (Look out for a couple of collab dinners, including one co-hosted by David Ansill, next week.) Starting Wednesday, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be serving a fivecourse best-of tasting from year one. Revisit favorites like Jersey corn veloute with lobster and shishito peppers, Barnegat Light scallops with uni crème and hearts of palm, Burgundy escargots with Parisian gnocchi and morels, and Rohan duck with Sauternes-spiked apricots.

Will, 1911 E. Passyunk Ave., 215-271-7683, willbyob.com. (carly@citypaper.net)

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merchandise market ANTIQUE CAPTAIN’S FROM WARSHIP WARDROBE 1860. Magnificent.

Call 215-990-8163

BRAZILIAN FLOORING 3/4", beautiful, $2.75 sf (215) 365-5826 Grandfather Clock, Seth thomas, 6’ Cherry, tempas fuget, 610-631-0216

Sec’l sofa, Qn BR set, 2coffee tbls,sports equip. Home Ofc furn. 215 355-6662

3 Eagles Seats for full season. Sec 116, Row 24, Seats 1,2,3. Great Seats! Priced for quick sale, $4,500. Also avail, SBL seats for sale. Call Pete, 570.954.1257 Eagles (2) great seats! Sec 224, Row 1 Most Games. Call 215-872-9616 EAGLES season tickets 2/4 front row lodge. $1,250/seat. 610-586-1000

33&45 RECORDS HIGHER $ Really Paid

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BOMBAYS From INDIA, summer special $50. Home raised, calico, sable, or black.

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Main Coon Kittens vet checked, 1st shots, papers. 610-574-6874

Ragdoll Kittens: Beautiful, Melt in your arms, home raised. 1st Shots Priced to sell, Summer Specials!. 610.731.0907

Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Pups, AKC, All 4 Colors, Cute, 215.538.2179 Chihuahua - Male, long haired, white, $500. Call 215-391-6537

German Shepherd Pup, AKC, 8wk (856)665-0249

56XX W Diamond St. 1br/1ba $585/mo. utilities. Call 609-315-2895 153 W Girard Ave. 2/1. $1400/mo + sec & elec New reno. No pets. 267.229.4267

1951 S. 22nd St.

2BR/1BA $750 Effic. $550 Call (215) 207-1123 2300 S 11th 1br $700-$750+utils.

2nd & 3rd flr, no pets, 2+1. 215.468.8939

12xx S 51st St. 2BR/1BA. $800 Incl Heat/Water, 1st Floor. 267-600-9569 S. 57th St. 3BR $765 2nd floor. Call 267-902-9269

Rottweiler Pups - AKC, 4 males, 12 weeks old, shots, wormed, vet checked, $695 Call (717)715-4041 Rottweiler Pups - Purebred, great temperments, born June 2013, 4 m, 5 f, $500. Parents on site. Call 856-296-6578 SHIH TZU pups ACA, 22 wks, $650 Solid/Tan/white. Call 215.752.1393 WHITE GOLDEN RETRIEVERS champion, $2,000, 717-951-9582 Yorkie Puppies - Purebred, vet chkd home raised. $600. 215-490-2243

1413 Toronto Street 3BR/1BA $1050 Newly remolded! New modern bath, carpet and floors, stove, refrig. Washer/ dryeralso. Section8OK. (215)863-1920

19xx N. 32nd St. 2BR $725+elec. brand new, c/a, $2175 req., 215-322-2375

13xx N 61st St 1br $510+utils 1st, last & sec, w/w crpt 267.278.1492 53xx Master St. Lovely modern 1br $575 + util. 2 mo sec. 215-748-3327 58xx Cedarhurst 1BR 1BA $600+Utils Living Room, 1 BR, Large Kitchen, $1200 Move in, 267-210-3899 60xx Catharine St 2BR+den $700 1st flr, renov, nr trans, 267-934-1618 61xxLocust 2BR $650+elec/gas 2nd flr, EIK, 2 mo. sec. 267-496-0730

N. 53rd St. 1BR Spacious, 215-816-3857 & 843-4087 W. Phila. Apts for 62 & older, brand new eff, 1 & 2BR units. Call 215.386.4791 W Phila Eff, 1, 2Br, New For 62 & older Handicapp acces. Avail now 215.386.4791

129 N. 50th St. Effic. $450/mo.

For rent 3rd floor apt. 1st/last/1 mo sec. required 267-255-1895

836 Wynnewood Rd. 2BR/1BA $850 On 1st flr. Large LR, Eat-In Kit Porch & Pvt backyard. Near Transp. Call 267.250.2178 Apartment Homes $650-$995 www.perutoproperties.com 215.740.4900

3XX W Godfrey 1Br $595+ Utils Pvt entrance, 2nd Floor, 215-805-6455 67xx Wyncote 2Br $700+utils 2nd floor duplex, 267-975-8521

34xx Kensington Ave. 2BR/1BA $675 18xx E. Tioga St. 1BR/1BA $595 (215) 485-1887

21st & Tioga 2BR $595 available immediately (267) 312-5957

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FURNISHED APTS Laundry-Parking 215-223-7000 Brewerytown Studio $575 + Elec 2 mos sec dep. N/S. 267-240-2474

German Shepherd Pups M/F 1st Shots HealthGuar Blk/tn $900 609-858-1807

German Shorthair Pointers - AKC, Excellent dogs! Call (856) 261-8922 Miniature Goldendoodle Puppies- Very cute & playful, 10 weeks old, both parents on premisies, $950. Call 717-587-5392 OLD ENGLISH BULLDOG PUPS - Vet checked & shots, 11 wks old, $400. Lancaster County area. 717-529-6992 ext. 4 Pekingese Pups - 11 weeks, 4F, 1M, rare black, $349/ea. Call 215-579-1922 PUG PUPPIES - Black, very cute and playful, family raised, vet checked, 1st shots, ready 8/28. Call 717-821-1889 Rottweiler Pups, 11 weeks old, M & F, $500. AKC. Call 267-270-5529

5200 Montgomery 2BR/1.5BA $775 + utils. Den, 3mo. sec. dep. 267-240-7152

DOMINO LN 1 & 2BR $750-$895 Renov., parking, d/w, near shopping & dining, 1ST MONTH FREE! 215-500-7808

11XX Wingohocking 2BR $650 + Utils.

Renovated. 1st, last, sec. 267-339-2101 5022 N. 12th St. 2BR/1BA $650/mo.

Tenant pays all utils. 2 mo. sec. and 1 mo. rent in advance. Call 215-868-3045

5xx Allengrove St. 2BR $695+utils new renov, nr trans & shop 610.457.2710

1 BR & 2 BR Apts $735-$845 spacious, great loc., upgraded, heat incl, PHA vouchers accepted 215-966-9371

45xx Greene St. 267.535.0261

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33xx Kensington Ave. 2BR/1BA $650 1BR/1BA $550 Call 215-459-3564.

45xx Frankford Ave. Studio $490 2nd floor,private kitchen. 215-289-2973 53xx Akron 1 BR $625+ elec 2nd flr, 1st & last to move in, 215.651.1140

88xx Cottage. 2Br 1BA. $750+Utils.

2nd Flr, No Pets, Sec 8 ok, 215-539-7866 NORTHEAST - 1BR-$575, 2BR-$750.

SPECIAL 1/2 MONTH OFF Good area, newly remodeled.

Call 215-744-8271

RHAWN & BLVD. 2BR/1BA $800 c/a & ht, w/d, d/w, w/w, (267) 972-8411

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333 Vincent Heights Circle Spring City, PA 610-948-6602 1-800-654-5984 (TTY) Office hrs: Mon-Fri 9a - 5p Rent Based on 30% of Income Minimum 62 Years age or Handicap/Disabled Equal Housing Opportunity

Rubicam St 1 BR/1 BA $725+sec.

LRG. 1st & 2nd flr, porch, bkyrd, water & gas incl. 215-501-2543 or 290-3192

XX W LOGAN ST. 1br studio. $650 util.

2+1 to move in. 215-471-1742 Must see beaut. effic. on corner of W. Chelten Ave. & Wissahickon Ave. right off Lincoln Drive. 215-843-4481

Upper Darby 5BR/2BA $1400/month Re-painted, hardwood floors, carpeting, backyard & deck (917) 326-1959

10xx Oaklane - Private entrance, clean kitchen, $420/mo. Call 215-287-2424 16xx Orthodox St, share ba, $130 per wk. Utils incl. Nr trans 215.743.9950 22nd & Tioga priv ent paint use of kit ww $120wk $290move in 267-997-5212 4th & Norris $105/wk, $175 to mv- in, frig/micro, w/w 215-416-6538 55/Thompson deluxe quiet furn $130 week priv ent $200 sec 215-572-7664 57xx Balt. Ave. $125/week West 55+ community, 484-250-3259 Allegheny $90/wk. $270 sec dep. Near EL train, furn, quiet. Call 609-703-4266 Bridge/Pratt neat cln effic. & rms from $90/wk Sec dep req 215-432-5637 Broad & Allegheny furn rms, fridge, micro $90/wk $195 mvn. 267-333-3721 Broad/Olney furn refrig micro priv ent $115/$145wk sec $200 215-572-7664 East Lansdale - Clean, comfortable, furn. rooms, $125/wk. Call 267-259-0430 Frankford, nice rm in apt, near bus & El, $300 sec, $90/wk & up. 215-526-1455 Germantown Area: NICE, Cozy Rooms Private entry, no drugs (267)988-5890 MT. AIRY (Best Area) $130/wk SSI ok. Furnished, Cable. 215-730-8956 North Philadelphia $300-$600/mo.

Rooms for rent. Call 267-602-6128 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 NP/Logan/WP pvt entry, also effic avail $110 - $135/wk. Call 609-526-5411 Richmond room for one person Seniors welcome $90/week 215-634-1139 S 59th St. near El, furn, a/c, fridge, $90/wk + $90 sec. 215-472-8119 SW, N, W Move in Special $90-$125/wk Clean furn rms, SSI ok, 215.220.8877 S.W. Phila. $110-$125/week.

Furnished with cable. 267-608-8408 Temple Univ Area: 16th & Oxford, room, $125/wk. Call (267) 249-1475 WEST MOUNT AIRY $100 and up special. In private home. 215-224-3737 W Phila clean med rm, priv entr, nr transp, Must be working. 215-494 8794 W Phila & G-town: Newly ren, Spacious clean & peaceful, SSI ok, 267.255.8665

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German Shepherd Puppies - AKC Reg, 10 wks, $325 Ea, 3M 3F, 717-327-7629 No Sunday calls

13xx Locust Studio $1025 all utils inc.

Doorman,cable, gym, 973-768-5362

12xx Rush - Fully furn rm, Free W/D, No Pets/Drugs $100/Wk, 267-386-6641 4500 N. 17th St. $350/mo. new luxury room, Free Cable! Henry 267.974.9271 N.Phila, No Kit/Pvt Ba $75-$95 Wk No Drugs/Pets 2nd Flr 267.650.6197

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apartment marketplace Balwynne Park 2BR $860+utils W/D, C/A, W/W. Call 215-219-6409

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Fylers Tix (2) Sec 114 Row 22 $99 per Game + $20 VIP Parking 609.876.8768

I Buy Anything Old...Except People!

Military, toys, dolls etc Al 215.698.0787 Sauna- 4 person, like new, $1,000 OBO Call 609-487-9121

JUNK CARS WANTED We buy Junk Cars. Up to $300 215-888-8662

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homes for rent 188 W GODFREY AVE 3BR/1BA $875.00 +UTILS,3BR/1BTH,W/W CARPET,NEWLY PAINTED,WASHER/DRYER. 267-901-8688

16xx South 55th St. 3BR $795+Utils Bckyrd, carpet, sec 8 ok 267-401-9727 49th/Warrington 4br $1,100 2mo + 1 mo sec., + all utils. 215-471-1742 SW Phila 6439 Paschall Ave. 2BR or 3BR $850 + utils. Modern. Call 215-726-8817

13XX N. Wanamaker 3br/1ba $825/mo.

Home 1st/last/1mo. sec. reg.

267-255-1895 2BR Houses Sec. 8 Welcome Beautifully renovated Call (267)981-2718

57xx Arch St. 4br/1.5ba. $875.

1st, last and 1 mo sec. Newly renovated, laundry room. Call 215-471-8725 60xx Haverford Ave. 3BR/1.5BA beaut, brand new. Call 610-331-9173 W. & SW. Phila 2br-3br $725-$925.

2+1, C/A, Fin Bsmnt, 215.878.2857 XX S. 55th 3BR/1Ba $800+Utils 20xx S. 60th 1Br/1BA $550+Utils "The Landlord that Cares" Mark 610-764-9739 Brandy 609-598-2299

7XX N Dekalb. 3br/1ba. $775 utils.

Renovated. Credit check. 215-464-9371

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

10th & Hunting Park 2BR/1BA $700 $2,250 to move in, owner pays water, sec. 8 ok. 215-659-5348 24xx Master St 5br 1ba $1000/mo+ util new paint, new crpt, bsmt, rear yard Sec. 8 ok 215-888-8662 27xx N. Croskey St. 3BR $710/mo.

Near shopping mall. Call 267-847-6626 27xx W. Montgomery 3BR/1BA $650 Good condition Call 267-246-7017 30xx W. Colona 3BR/1BA $525 /mo 22xx Latona 2BR/1BA $500/mo $1500 To Move In. Call 215-559-9289

Jayco Flight 29’ 2007 $16,000 2BR, BA w/Tub, 12’ slide, sleeps 8-10, exec cond, cable/dish ready, many extras, elec hitch W/Sway bars. 215.219.7353

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32xx Memphis St 3BR/1BA $1050/ mos + ut. MUST SEE! Beaut, new renov.

(215)694-0360.

600 blk of Wensley 2br/1ba $645+util Sec 8 ok, cln, prch frnt, 610.761.0665 East Hiltom 3BR $750+utils.

Go to school, Reno. Call 201-321-0543

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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 city’s immigration demographics — for example, it’s tough to find 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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