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According to a Daily News cover story, the Confederate flag is becoming more prominently displayed on houses and license plates in the area. Hmm.This must be a glitch, because it looks like the story got 100,000 likes and no comments.

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After a season full of injuries and illnesses, some are speculating that Phillies pitcher Roy Halladay will retire. Others are sure he’ll morph into the fabulous winged horse Pegasus!

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Flowers Foods Inc., which owns Tastykake, has revived the Wonder Bread brand. Which apparently means Wonder Bread had gone away. Which means that loaf in the fridge is probably bad. Did Wonder Bread even make pumpernickel? The Philadelphia Zoo debuts its two new snow leopard cubs. The crowd demos it for a minute, then quickly upgrades to the lion exhibit. Racist text messages sent between Coatesville’s school superintendent and its athletic director cause an uproar. But before your resignations are final, would you fellas mind commenting on your Confederate flag TruckNutz? We’re writing a little article.

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Paul Dabbar of J.P. Morgan, the broker selling Philadelphia Gas Works, says the city has received “a lot more than five” bids from companies looking to privatize the utility. When ask to specify, he held up fwee fingers, each adorned with a Ring Pop.

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Councilman Jim Kenney says the city should rent out its skyboxes at Citizens Bank Park, the Linc and the Wells Fargo Center and give the money to the School District. “In conclusion, Mr. Mayor, you should have invited me to a game sometime. Yes, of course I like sports. Well, you didn’t ask.”

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A MATTER OF GRAVITY: Klint Kanopka is determined to give his physics students at Academy at Palumbo a top-notch education. But that means spending hundreds of dollars out of pocket on lab supplies. NEAL SANTOS

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SUPPLY PAIN Teachers who spend hundreds to get classrooms up and running say they’ve sacrificed enough. By Samantha Melamed

he day before school started this month, Anissa Weinraub got the email she’d been waiting for all summer: She had been re-hired by the Philadelphia School District. Then, panic set in. She had four hours to meet her new colleagues at Heston School in West Philly, find her classroom and locate the cafeteria “so I could pretend like I knew where things were [and] how the school functioned.” And then she went to Staples and Target and spent nearly $500 on copy paper, computer cords and other items just to get her classroom up and running. She already knows what she’ll be requesting from friends and family for her birthday: Schoolbooks and paper. This school year, teachers who returned to work on an expired contract, and to schools running without librarians or sufficient counselors, secretaries and nurses, say they’re paying more than ever out of pocket and taking on more extra work than ever before. They get $100 from the School District each year in reimbursements. These days, they say, that doesn’t begin to cover their costs. “There’s never been a time when we’ve had everything we’ve needed, but it’s gotten really tight in the last couple years,” says Daniel Meier, social-studies department chairman at Northeast High. “Budget cuts have been really taking hold. They’ve become

bigger and bigger, and I’ve been spending more and more, as we’re not provided with many of the things we used to be provided with.” City Paper surveyed a dozen teachers at various schools and grade levels around the city. They spent or planned to spend an average of $500, conservatively (that doesn’t include gifts from friends or family, teaching-innovation grants or donations collected through websites like DonorsChoose.org). If all of Philly’s 15,000 teachers spent that much, that would add up to an unreimbursed $6 million per year. Earlier this month, Mayor Nutter announced the launch of a United Way-administered Educational Supplies Fund, to which the city pledged $200,000 toward a goal of raising $500,000 by Oct. 15. It’s not yet clear how that money will be awarded, but it will be shared among District schools, charters and Archdiocesan schools. Some teachers, like Weinraub, spent money just to ensure their classrooms were functional. But in high-poverty schools, the needs are even more basic. For Ray Porreca — who’s already paid $200 for school supplies — the school year at Feltonville School of Arts and Sciences means endless small expenses. He says he takes those on gladly. “I run to Wawa to get food for kids who haven’t had breakfast. I buy magazines like Sports Illustrated or ESPN for kids to try and get them reading. I try to pay for field trips when I can for kids who wouldn’t get to go otherwise. I’ve bought kids yearbooks, paid for the eighth-grade dance and graduation, art supplies.” At Academy at Palumbo in Bella Vista, Klint Kanopka is worried

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✚ UNWANTED ATTENTION In a corner of Philly’s Juniata Park neighborhood, beyond the rowhouses and aging factories, sits an unexpected wilderness. It’s made up of Tookany Creek Park, the grounds of Friends Hospital, three cemeteries, a municipal golf course and a smattering of surreally bucolic country estates. The incongruously rural pocket of Philly, an oasis sandwiched between the Roosevelt Boulevard and gritty Kensington, was easily forgotten by city officials. Until now. In April, the Department of Parks and Recreation installed a new length of paved recreational trail. And this week, officials held a public meeting to plan phase two of the trail, due to break ground next year. It will link the formerly inaccessible portion of Tacony Creek to an existing trail north of the Boulevard. “The idea is to introduce legitimate users and provide a pathway for people to walk and jog in order to get them down into the park,” says Mark Focht, first deputy commissioner at the Department of Parks and Recreation. “By introducing positive uses in any place, you begin to minimize and reduce the negative uses.” So far, Myoung Soo Kim is not pleased. Kim runs the secluded Fishers Glen Driving Range off Fishers Lane, a winding dead-end road the city mostly sealed off after a string of grisly car accidents. His property, which he says was an active farm until 1994, is encircled by the park and golf course. He says the parkland has brought him nothing but trouble. “I’ve had quite a few problems [with teenagers]. … The kids do not respect anything. Maybe two and a half weeks ago, there was a police car here and they were looking around with a flashlight for two kids. They asked me if I’d seen them, and what they were say-

ing is that it was armed robbery,” said Kim. “One time, one of them shot my doggie with a paintball gun.” Kim is, in his way, a reflection of the wild seclusion of the area. He keeps four Jindos and one Pungsan, both Korean hunting dogs, on the land around his pro shop. Kim started working for the previous owner of the range, whom he says he found by flipping through “the Korean Yellow Pages” (which isn’t a euphemism but an actual phone directory for Korean business owners) as a freelance golf teacher. Now, Kim owns the driving range and runs it by himself. The new trail could be a boon for his business, but Kim is skeptical. In past years, visitors haven’t brought much good here. The remains of ritualistic animal sacrifices and even human remains were repeatedly reported in the area. “There was ATV activity, there was short-dumping,” agrees Focht. “There has been some abandonment of automobiles, where people took cars into certain sections of the park to be stripped and chopped, and then burned.” It’s that kind of activity that the Parks Department wants to stop. Kim hopes it will work, but isn’t counting on it. “Those guys who planned this think if there’s enough traffic running around here, it’s going to be like citizens policing themselves: Lots of good guys running around here and the bad guys are going to be not around as much,” he says. “That’s not happening yet. In the meantime, with the new trails, there are more kids running around.”

“One of them shot my doggie with a paintball gun.”

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leave packing up the kitchen for last.Those essential pots and pans get thrown into boxes just as the moving van pulls into the driveway. So it is here at City Paper, where we have saved our essentials for cooking up a newspaper and website — computers, monitors and keyboards — for last. We plan to cover them in bubble wrap and place them in boxes as soon as we close this issue of the paper. After 15 years at 123 Chestnut St. in Old City we’re pulling up stakes and moving to the Graham Building at 15th and Ranstead, right across from City Hall. We’ll be exchanging individual offices for cubicles, and views of low-slung, red-brick buildings for glass palaces like Liberty Place. This will be City Paper’s fifth home since its founding in November 1981. Back then, it occupied the site of a former drugstore at Germantown Avenue and Johnson Street in Germantown. Founder Bruce Schimmel lived upstairs. After four years, City Paper moved to a fourth-floor walkup at 13th and Sansom, a place that Schimmel says must have been breeding mosquitoes in the basement, because the winged insects always found their way upstairs to the newspaper’s offices. Two years later, City Paper relocated again, to 13th and Chancellor streets in the Gayborhood. Then, in February 1998, the paper moved into this third-floor office space at Second and Chestnut streets. “It was always too big,” Schimmel says, and over the years, the number of empty offices and cubicles only grew. This summer, publisher Nancy Stuski decided that downsizing was the smart move. Music editor Patrick Rapa, who has been with the paper for 16 years, says he will miss having an office door. “It’s the key to sanity in this business.” He’ll also miss seeing the tourists and what he suspects is better and cheaper food right outside the door. Over the last few days, each of us has been saying goodbye to Old City in our own way. One of us, who likes to walk at lunchtime, snapped a photo of her river walk. Others have made a point of visiting their favorite restaurants. I sat quietly in the courtyard where Ben Franklin’s house once stood. It was my tip of the hat to the Old City printer with the immense imagination. Thus, City Paper begins anew in yet another home, but you can be sure we are taking our ambitious coverage plans, the black Royal typewriter used to produce the first issues in 1981 and, yes, our bicycles with us. ✚ Send feedback to lswanson@citypaper.net.

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about the big picture: How can he give his students a top-notch education in physics without lab supplies? He can’t. So, he spent $163 before school started and will spend between $500 and $800 more on materials — “And that’s assuming I don’t get any great inspiration.” He also expects to run a couple of fundraising projects on DonorsChoose.org. “A good science education is so much based around having access to supplies,” he says. “I’m not going to sacrifice the quality of what I do in the classroom. I don’t eat fancy food or live in a nice house. I don’t spend money on other things. I’ve really pared down my expenses so I can have money to do innovative teaching stuff.” He’s also sacrificed a little dignity: Last year, he let a student shave off his beard into “a goofy mustache” as part of a fundraiser. The science department, he says, “has no operating budget.” He says administrators haven’t really offered advice as to how to proceed. “It’s a conversation that a lot of administrators aren’t having, because it’s a brief and upsetting conversation.” Like many other young teachers, he says he’s not sure whether he can stay in the Philly School District over the long term. “It’s insane and unsustainable,” he says. “It’s like teaching in a war zone. I’ve got the city waging war on me. I’ve got the state waging war on me.” Kanopka also coaches the school’s debate team. Extracurricular pay for those who oversee clubs was never much, but this year teachers have been told that it’s gone altogether. There’s no money for transportation to tournaments, either. Kanopka says he’ll have to figure it out: “I’ve got kids that are banking on debate to get them into colleges that are slightly out of their reach otherwise.” It’s a similar situation for Galeet Cohen, who teaches biology and advanced placement environmental science, and sponsors several clubs at Central High School. She started the school year by shelling out $171, and spends nearly $800 per year on expendable lab supplies. She and a colleague share 20 laptops they won through a grant in 2007, but the batteries have since died; they’ve been running DonorsChoose campaigns to replace them. Cohen says she’s “succumbed” to the pull of extra work, too: helping organize student records, since the school is short on secretaries, and set up the computer lab, since the IT person is gone. “It’s the usual tension between wanting everything to run smoothly for my students, and not wanting to prove positions unnecessary in the eyes of the state.” Department chairs may be feeling the crunch even more. At Northeast, Meier went from 28 teachers to 24. He and other department chairs are teaching extra classes as a result, so they have less time for teacher support. They’re also picking up work that used to fall to counselors; at Northeast, there’s only one counselor to serve 3,000 students. He says staff have been pulling together — but that they can’t keep it up. And there are things they can’t do, like fill in for the laid-off librarian. For Meier, the school library, sitting dark and locked throughout the school day, has become a surreal emblem of what’s at stake.

The library is also closed at Academy at Palumbo, where English teacher Meghan Donnelly spent $900 last year. She spent $300 and ran a $500 DonorsChoose campaign just to start the current school year with everything she needed and to make her classroom a welcoming place. But on the first day of school there was a hitch: “All four of our copiers were also down. No paper, none of the copiers were working, no library, no computer lab.” She’s used to back-to-school panic; last year, there was a larger-than-expected freshman class, so she went to Barnes & Noble and spent $85 on additional copies of Elie Wiesel’s Night. The receipts go on and on: Angela Chan at Taggart Elementary spent $530 on school supplies, toner for a printer she bought rather than deal with the copy-

“It’s insane. It’s like teaching in a war zone.” machine wars and school clothes for a student. Theresa Lord, a social-studies teacher and reading specialist, spent more than $500 — not to mention the $700 in monthly student-loan payments from degrees in reading and English-language education she sought because, she says, “many of my kids needed help.” A teacher at Juniata Park Academy who didn’t want to be named says he’ll spend $1,000, and is raising $1,500 more for a classroom library. Donnelly is proud of what she and other teachers accomplish. But she worries the state will take all this as an affirmation. “I imagine that as long as teachers keep being willing to spend their own money, they’ll just cut more and more,” she says. “They’re taking advantage of the fact that we love our kids, we love our job. We’re willing to stay until 5 or 6 at night and spend hundreds of dollars of our own money. It’s like they want to see how little they can get away with.” (samantha@citypaper.net)

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After the funeral for the year’s first murder victim, 16-year-old Jaymire Rustin, friends gather at the site of his killing on Carpenter Street. Two doors down, the house where his alleged killer lived was ravaged by a fire two days after Jaymire’s death.

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D I S PAT C H E S FROM KILLADELPHIA On the front lines of Philly’s war on murder. BY DANIEL DENVIR, SAMANTHA MELAMED & ERIC SCHNEIDER

ON THE COVER: A street-side memorial has been created where Shaheed Jackson, 18, was shot to death on Dover Street in Brewerytown. On Sept. 18, he became Philadelphia’s 176th murder victim of 2013.

aymire Rustin, a 16-year-old West Philadelphia High School student, became the city’s first murder victim of the year when he was shot once in the chest at a party just after midnight on New Year’s Day. An 18-year-old from the neighborhood is accused of killing Jaymire — reportedly over an argument about a cellphone. Memorials soon crowded Jaymire’s Facebook wall, filled Twitter feeds, and were silkscreened onto hoodies and jackets. “Rest in paradise Jeezy, My lil bro forever. Sunrise: 02/20/96 Sunset: 01/01/13.” “Jaymire: The good die young.” The Rev. Michael White convened a candlelight vigil at a park on 57th and Baltimore on the Friday after the killing. The young pastor of Good Samaritan Baptist Church had never met Jaymire, whom friends called J-Money. He had learned of the killing from TV news, and made an emotional YouTube plea to find Rustin’s family and friends. “You can be out here tonight with Jaymire tatted on CONTINUED ON ADJACENT PAGE

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Today, though, police and prosecutors are adopting data-driven tactics that home in on crime hot spots with concentrated foot patrols and target repeat offenders for aggressive prosecution. And new programs are dispatching ex-offenders to help turn the tide of violence in their own neighborhoods. There are early signs that such efforts may be working. On July 1, Philly quietly recorded a milestone: Murders as of midyear were down 38 percent from 2012, on track to the city’s lowest homicide rate since 1968. Politicians generally flock to positive front-page headlines. But no one rushed to take credit for this one. Murder rates fluctuate — and Philly’s could spike again. • WHAT DOES MURDER IN PHILLY LOOK LIKE? Jaymire Rustin’s murder — and all the others that flash on the evening news — seem senseless and incomprehensible. But taken together, they form a pattern. Eighty-three percent of alleged perpetrators in 2012 were black, as were 80 percent of the victims. Eighty-six percent of murder victims were felled by gunfire. Last year, the most popular firearm model was a 9 mm handgun. Most perpetrators and most victims had one or more prior arrests; a good deal had many. Killings are concentrated in the city’s

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your arm and pasted on the back of your jacket, but if your mind-set does not change about how you live,” he said, “you put yourself into a predicament to fall as a victim to the same kind of crime.” One young woman, who was sobbing, said the city’s killings were motivated by rage. “People not thinking. … And it’s stupid. Because of one emotion, you rode off of one single emotion and shoot — and then did something permanent to somebody’s family.” Jaymire’s brother was upset that his tragedy had become a media spectacle. “What you mean, ‘How we feeling?’” he asked a reporter. “We mourning right now. You all coming out asking us how we feeling? How would you be feeling?” White pleaded with the mourners to stop the bloodletting that has terrorized Philadelphia for decades. “Young black men: There’s too many of us in the ground, and not enough of us in college,” he said. Despite the efforts of thousands of pastors, cops, reformed gangsters, concerned parents and politicians, Philadelphia is consistently among the most violent big cities in a country with the highest murder rate of any wealthy nation on earth. And while rates of violent crime, shootings and gun homicides have fallen dramatically nationwide over the last two decades, in Philadelphia declines have been far more modest and often quickly reversed. In 2012, 331 people were murdered in Philadelphia, bringing the death toll to nearly 9,500 since 1988. Why gun crime has persisted in some cities, like Philly, while declining in others, like New York, is a question that involves not just law-and-order strategies, but also deep-seated social and economic problems. The murder epidemic in Philly’s poorest black neighborhoods has been more than a half-century in the making. Likewise, ending it has been a decades-long preoccupation of law enforcement, which — in lieu of effective violence-prevention programs — has mostly relied on locking people up.

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“The sad part about it is that they not making no money. We hear them asking each other, ‘Let me get a half of that sandwich.’ What kind of drug dealers are you?”

poorest neighborhoods. North Philly’s 3-S community, named for Sterner, Silver and Seltzer streets between 25th and 27th, is one of those neighborhoods. Since 2003, there have been almost 200 shootings and 50 murders within a quarter-mile of 27th and Sterner. Far from the pop-culture perception of gangs and high-rolling drug dealers, the regular gunfire on these streets is the outcome of neighborhood feuds and a drug business that’s not making anyone much money. One man, who asked not to be identified, says he lives in fear. A bullet recently flew into his rowhouse, ricocheted off a steel bar on the window and then against a 75-gallon aquarium before it dropped to the floor of the living room where his partner, daughter and granddaughter sat terrified. “It’s a select few,” he says, “that like to run up and down the street terrorizing the neighborhood.” The young men who hang out on the corner perpetrate much of the violence — and attract the rest of it, through feuds with other corners. “Guns are stashed all over the place,” the resident says. “A little kid can go over and find a gun in an alley, or in a lot. Because if you got seven or eight guys hanging on the corner, they may not have guns on them, but those guns are maybe 15 to 20 feet away — no farther than that.” Police posted a “No loitering” sign. Drug dealers ignored it. Police erected a spotlight, but it was soon broken. Carrying guns, says a young man who grew up a few blocks south of 3-S in Strawberry Mansion, “gave me a sense of power … I could play God. With this in my hand, you had to obey me. Either you do what I say, or you have to deal with my wrath.” In the 22nd Police District, which includes Strawberry Mansion, “Crack is the big issue,” says Capt. Roland Lee. It’s different from the open-air drug markets in Kensington that attract addicts from all over the city and suburbs looking for heroin and oxys. “It’s homegrown,” he says, and hard to shut down. “The low-level guys are replaceable.” The way Lee sees it, at least 75 percent of the shootings in his district are “narcotics-related, some way, somehow. It could be a deal gone wrong, or over territory, someone makes too much money, jealousy.” Citywide, police classified just 10 percent of murders in 2012 as drug-related. But an untold number of killings labeled as personal disputes took place on drug corners. Often, those crimes are linked to feuds between small gangs whose territory may be just a block or two long. Police classified 48 percent of murders as argument-related. “It’s all beef, to me — if you want to be technical,” says Terry Starks, a former North Philly dealer. He says his neighborhood’s drug economy has collapsed. “That breeds tension when you got people arguing over $15 sales, because he been standing out there all day on his feet, cold.” The man from 3-S remembers a different sort of dealer in his childhood. A dealer might watch out for the neigh-

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borhood and hold cookouts for kids. The dealers that now attract gunfire to his block are broke. “The sad part about it is that they not making no money,” he says. “You stand on the corner, you fighting, and you killing each other. … We can hear them asking each other, ‘Let me get a half of that sandwich.’ What kind of drug dealers are you? You need to change your occupation. … They’re working for sneakers and to smoke blunts.” In neighborhoods like this, guns are easy to find and quickly drawn. Lee says guns on the streets are higher caliber now than ever before. “When I first started it was the .38 specials and then it was the 9-millimeter. Now I’m seeing a lot of .40s and a lot of .45s,” Lee says. “But those guns that are being used in crimes are not necessarily new weapons. Some are older — the average is 11 years old. A lot of guns are passed around from person to person for years.” The former drug dealer from Strawberry Mansion found his first gun at age 13 in an alley. “It’s kind of cliche,” he concedes, but “that’s when my whole life turned around.” Not, he notes, for the better. Now, if someone wants a gun, “All you got to do is ask.” It’s like asking, “‘Do you know where the Walmart at? Do you know where the restaurant at?’ It’s as simple as that.” • HOW DID WE GET HERE? That gun, and how it came to be stashed in that alley, could be traced back to a previous crime, a previous gang, a previous generation that ruled the corner. But a review of the historical record shows it really goes back further, to the early 20th century, when the first of two Great Migrations swept millions of impoverished black people out of the Jim Crow South and into Northern cities in search of jobs and less repressive environs. In Philadelphia, working-class whites violently opposed the arrival of blacks in their neighborhoods, while middle-

class whites fled to segregated suburbs. And so, the hyper-segregated metropolis was born.The black ghetto sat in its isolated center. There, job opportunities were few and the murder rate was high. The murder rate fell during World War II, as black Philadelphians found work opportunities. By the early 1950s, African-Americans had a homicide rate 12 times the white rate, but that gap was narrowing. But by the late ’50s, black youth gangs in West Philadelphia were preoccupying city leaders; the murder of a University of Pennsylvania international student in 1958 by a group of black youths made international headlines. Crime and race became bitter flashpoints in the city. Gangs had multiple generations: Midgets, juniors, seniors, old heads. “They had their own institutions, as they saw it. They had their own leadership hierarchies: leader, the runner, the assistant, the war chief, consul,” says Harold Haskins, a gangoutreach worker during the 1960s who documented the 12th and Oxford gang in the classic documentary The Jungle. Youth gang members had little interaction with drugs aside from alcohol, he says. They had guns, but not as many as today, so street fighting was still a popular way to settle disputes. 3-S resident Wayne

Jacobs was from Camac and Diamond streets, “known as a fighting corner.” They “resolved most things with our fists,” he says. The deindustrialization of Philadelphia and the growing economic inequality that followed pummeled the black ghetto. Between 1967 and ’77, the city lost 40 percent of its manufacturing jobs. Even the timing of murders changed as a result. From the 1950s on, murders in Philly spiked on weekends. But as more young men went unemployed in the early 1970s, a greater share of killings took place on weekdays. As jobs evaporated, an informal economy emerged in poor black neighborhoods: selling liquor by the glass at the kitchen table on Sundays, selling prepared meals to neighbors, hosting card games — and selling drugs. Illegal entrepreneurs, vulnerable to robbery, increasingly purchased guns; nationwide, handgun sales quadrupled between 1962 and ’68. The murder rate began to climb in Philly. Things came to a head in 1969, when 45 youths were murdered in gang violence (up from just one in 1962) as .38s and rifles replaced homemade zip guns on the streets of the city. A polarized Philadelphia elected Police Chief Frank Rizzo, who had a reputation for brutality against the black community, as mayor in 1971. Things got much worse in the 1980s, with the development of crack cocaine and multi-shot pistols to replace the old-fashioned revolver as protection in a tumultuous drug marketplace. Murder was never so easy. Nationally, the murder rate has fallen since 1991 — but failed to drop to anything approaching historic lows. And it has stayed persistently high in Philadelphia. “I’d rather be judged by 12 than carried by six” became the credo of permanent urban warfare. • CAN PHILLY STOP THE KILLING? Changes in the murder rate over the past century are generally attributed to social and economic forces. Police efforts — including increasing the size of Philly’s force to an unsustainable 8,500 in 1979 — have had little lasting effect in areas like North Central Philly. That neighborhood’s 22nd Police District leads Philadelphia in homicides. Now, the 22nd has become Philly’s laboratory for testing crime-prevention and crime-fighting methods. The District Attorney chose the area to roll out a new targeted prosecution program. Criminology professors are focusing experiments there with help from the police district. Everyone from Family Court judges to top brass at the city departments of Health, Commerce and Licenses & Inspections is zeroing in on the 22nd under a federal violence-reduction grant. And a new anti-violence program is deploying some of the very men who used to run the corners to turn the neighborhood around. Perhaps as a result, crime in the 22nd has declined this year: Through the end of August, murders in the disCONTINUED ON PG. 16

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“When someone gets shot, you have a window to clear that job,” says one police detective. “Because once they realize they’re going to live,” they won’t talk. trict were down 26 percent, and shootings were down 31 percent. Bryan Lentz, who heads the District Attorney’s Gun Violence Task Force, says, “The good news is there’s a lot going on there [in the 22nd]. The bad news is that it’s a lot harder to link one particular activity to reductions in crime.” The earliest of those experiments occurred in 2009, when Philadelphia’s new police commissioner, Charles Ramsey, allowed Temple University criminologists to use two classes of graduating cadets to see if foot patrols deployed to the city’s most dangerous corners could reduce violent crime. The studies found that violent crime fell by 23 percent, at least in the short term. The 22nd District and others now make foot patrols a regular part of their policing strategy. A reporter stopped by the precinct to meet the patrolmen — and received a warning. “We don’t usually let people do walk-alongs or ride-alongs without body armor, because we’re not really that popular in the city,” an officer said. Lee, who started his police career at the district but has only been back as captain for a year, sees the issue of police “popularity” in the neighborhood, where distrust for law enforcement runs high, as his most vital challenge. He thinks foot patrols are starting to help with that. For the 6 p.m. shift, officers pile into a van, then get dropped off at points around the district to walk their beats. Sgt. Bisarat Worede says that all of the neighborhoods are difficult to manage — Temple, with its students and parties; Brewerytown, with its burglaries; or North Philadelphia’s poorest neighborhoods, like Strawberry Mansion, where shootings and drug dealing are pervasive. “It’s all a challenge,” Worede says. “There’s no typical night in this neighborhood. You try to get into the mind-set of, ‘expect anything and everything.’ You don’t want to get into a routine, because that’s when you might get surprised.”

On a warm evening in March, Brian Nolan, a former Wildwood, N.J., cop and Mitch Farrell, a former fireman, are on their second day alone on the streets. Their beat is from Oxford to Jefferson, 22nd Street to 24th. It includes the two 18-story high-rises of the Blumberg projects, where the stairways smell of urine and are littered with tiny plastic bags that once contained drugs. Nolan and Mitchell climb the stairs, offering greetings to residents they pass in the stairwell. Not much is happening.“Usually by the time we go up, they’re all inside,” Nolan says. Worede worries about the new guys. “You’re in the academy, it’s a controlled environment. And now you’re out here,” he says. It’s hard to prepare them for “someone who’s not your instructor yelling at you, or seeing someone actually bleeding.” This is the third class of foot patrolmen that he’s overseen. He encourages them to chat up residents, play a little basketball with the kids. “The hardest thing for me is just convincing people we’re here trying to help.” One police source who works in the district is sympathetic to the young men he chases across the city, and understands their reticence. He recalls that when he was growing up in an Irish neighborhood, his little brother watched a robber

escape from police. His mother told the child to keep his mouth shut. “They have no other life. If they cooperate with the police, they have to go back to that neighborhood,” he says. If “you go to relocate people, it’s not just one person. It’s generations. The families are so entrenched in these neighborhoods, for them to cooperate — you know?” Murders in Philadelphia are often tangled with ties of family, friends and neighborhood. When suspects elude capture, police say, they rarely leave the city. Being “on the run” from North Philly usually means crossing the Schuylkill River, and hanging low in West Philadelphia. “When someone gets shot, you have a window to clear that job. Because once they realize they’re going to live,” they won’t talk, says a police detective. The city dabbles in neighborhood transformation with programs like PhillyRising, which organizes residents to plant gardens and clean vacant lots. But without resources to enact more widespread change, the lawenforcement solution has been to lock up more young men for longer. Now, for the first time, Philly prosecutors are putting those offenders into context. District Attorney Seth Williams reorganized his office into geographic bureaus in 2010 — previously, units focused on specific types of crime — and began focusing on bringing down the most dangerous offenders in the most dangerous neighborhoods. Mike Barry, chief of the Central Bureau, which includes the 22nd District, says his team’s understanding of the communities they serve and their adoption of a data-driven approach has enabled them to chip away at North Philly’s hot spots. But, he admits, “there are areas within our hot spots, especially this summer, that have started to re-show activity. When you create a vacuum and get rid of a problem, sometimes other people will step up.” Barry also cites the benefits of GunStat, a program the DA launched in 2012 to get police, detectives and prosecutors all collaborating to identify repeat offenders who might otherwise be able to slip through the cracks of the criminal-justice system — and demand higher bail and longer prison sentences. The program launched in the 22nd and has since expanded. In promoting GunStat, prosecutors often roll out the profile of the program’s unwitting poster child, a man from North Philly named Shaheed Springs who, despite nine arrests and numerous charges of drug and illegal gun possession, robbery and shooting, had previously evaded conviction. Lentz says prosecutors “prioritized him for resources and attention.” The DA made sure the judge knew the full extent of Springs’ record this time, and brought in numerous police officers and community members to testify during sentencing. Ultimately, Springs was sentenced to 7½ to 17 years in prison for gun charges. Sentencing guidelines, according to the DA’s Office, call for nine to 16 months. CONTINUED ON PG. 18

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“We’re doing our job by getting to know the people we’re prosecuting on a much deeper level,” says Barry. As of midyear, homicides in the 22nd District were down from 22 in 2012 to seven. “It’s not much of a stretch to say that whatever we’re doing is working, and that it saved 15 lives.” He cites another major change (one that has some civilrights advocates concerned): the return of grand juries to the Philadelphia courts. “The vast majority of our most serious cases go [through grand juries] now.” A grand jury replaces a preliminary hearing at which a judge would decide whether the prosecution has enough evidence to go to trial; witness intimidation at such a hearing can kill a case. But because grand-jury testimony is not public, Barry says, “there’s a lot less recantations of testimony, a lot less failures to appear.” Of course, those witnesses still have to appear at trial. If they recant, he says, “we have the transcript. … If they [change their testimony] while your client’s in the room, it certainly raises some flags.” Still, murder remains a problem that is simply too big for police to control. Last year, police made arrests in just 171 of the 331 murders committed. The number of convictions will be even smaller. • A SOLUTION FROM THE STREETS? GunStat meetings take place around a massive shiny conference table in the District Attorney’s Office near City Hall. Terry Starks’ reality, on the streets of North Philadelphia, is about as far from that as you can get. He remains skeptical that hot-spot policing will work. “It’s like a project,” Starks says. “They study their opponent and, you know, they catch them at the damnedest times.” He thinks he might be able to do better. Today, Starks works for Philadelphia CeaseFire, a program run out of Temple’s School of Medicine that formalizes, funds

and professionalizes the longtime ghetto practice of squashing beefs, or creating gang truces. “Squashing is basically defusing — or conflict mediation is what they call it — but we call it squashing,” says Starks. “When you can squash a conflict, it’s supposed to be done with. … People still hold up malice in their heart but, like an old person told me, sometimes you gotta cut your losses in order to move forward.” Starks, who in a previous life was a gun-toting drug dealer, is not a police officer’s idea of a crime fighter. But some experts believe his criminal past and current street credibility are precisely what endow him with the power to convince young men to stop shooting each other. He knows all about violence and retaliation — and what it takes to break the cycle. He was a victim of an attempted murder when his business partner robbed him and shot him four times in the chest with a .38 handgun. “This’ll blow your mind,” Starks says. “I could’ve retaliated. But I see him every day. He took the money and bought a church. And he’s a pastor.” But squashing beefs is often not simple. Eighth and Diamond, where Starks grew up, is home to just the sort of longstanding street-corner feud that’s at the root of many Philly murders. There has been “a rivalry

for the last 24 years with our neighborhood and Seventh and Jefferson. So we trying to get in and get with the guys down there, the older guys. They try to come up with some sort of truce, but, you know, it’s like the younger guys don’t listen.” Philadelphia’s slowness in embracing violence-prevention initiatives is a reflection of a national predilection to view murder as something that cannot be controlled.When Attorney General William French Smith announced a nationwide campaign against violent crime in 1981, experts said there was little the government could do. Even the FBI Uniform Crime Reports included a disclaimer in 1980 that prevention was basically impossible. So many killers knew their victims that murder was “largely a societal problem beyond the control of … law enforcement.” CeaseFire, which was founded in Chicago, views urban gun violence as a public-health issue: Norms of retaliation, post-traumatic stress and gun-toting make for an endless cycle of shooting. The program has sent outreach workers into Philly neighborhoods for the past two years and hired its first Interrupters, who de-escalate potentially dangerous conflicts, this year. In Philly, the program is focused on the 22nd Police District, where many murders trace back to beefs, and on a crime hot spot in Swampoodle, just across Lehigh Avenue from the 22nd, in the 39th District. “You can mediate 20, 30 or 40 conflicts in a month,” says Temple University professor Caterina Roman, who works with the CeaseFire program in Philly. “But the hard work is also — you really need the team approach. Maybe these guys who are carrying the guns and doing the shootings are thinking, ‘I want a way out.’ The outreach workers are doing intensive behavior change to help the person that’s on their caseload understand that, really, there is another way out.” Quinzel Tomoney, who now runs CeaseFire’s 22nd District program, says most young men on the corner are too caught up in the streets-level arms race to see the big picture. He was one of them: Over the years, he carried illegal 9 mm handguns, .40-caliber guns and Glocks. “I carried it because I knew the game I was in, it bring police, stick-up boys. And that’s what it was: to defend myself,” says Tomoney. He says sometimes the motive was a beef, sometimes not. “You have stick-up boys, and you have people that just want to murder you. People envy you that bad that all they want to do is to kill you. They won’t even rob you. They’ll just kill you and just leave you.” Recently, he ran into an old acquaintance who recalled that his friends had wanted to kill him. “I’m glad we didn’t run across you, ’cause we probably woulda killed you, or you woulda killed one of us,” he told Tomoney. “Man, we were sick individuals, do something like that.” • THE BIG PICTURE Almost everyone on the North Philly streets says things might change if only there was someCONTINUED ON PG. 20

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“I’m glad we didn’t run across you,” he said. “We woulda killed you.” thing for kids to do: recreation centers, sports leagues, adequately resourced schools. Harold Haskins, recalling the youth participation in making The Jungle in the 1960s, says that, just from that project, many gained the self esteem and curiosity necessary to find jobs and leave the streets behind. As it stands, no one is declaring victory in Philly’s war on murder. In March, Sgt. Worede of the 22nd District looked forward to the warm weather with some anxiety. “It’s been quiet,” he said. “Usually that means it’ll be that much busier in the summer.” But as of Sept. 24, Philadelphia had witnessed 179 murders in 2013, a 41 percent decline from the same time last year. Violent crime overall has

fallen 7 percent as of Sept. 15. No one yet knows why violent crime is down so far this year or if the trend will hold. But, indisputably, its root causes remain. Philadelphia still has the highest poverty rate — 27 percent — of any of America’s largest cities. The institutions like public schools and welfare programs that sustain the poorest residents are in a state of deep, budget-cutinduced crisis. And tighter restrictions on guns, which many argue could combat violent crime, have

proven a political impossibility. For now, the odds are still stacked against Philadelphia teens like Jaymire Rustin: The leading cause of death for Philadelphians aged 15 to 24 is homicide (52.4 percent). For the rest of the state, it’s automobile accidents. It’s possible that no particular law-enforcement or prosecution strategy could have stopped Jaymire’s death this January. And figuring out how to stop the next young Philadelphian from reaching for a gun remains an elusive goal. Days after Jaymire Rustin’s New Year’s Day killing, an ominous sign of the retaliation that often follows murders, and that precipitates many others, soon appeared on Twitter. After one person tweeted that alleged killer Kamonne Jordan should be freed, another responded with a succinct threat. “Bitch you stupid for saying ‘Free’ the nigga that killed #Jaymire, he gne die tho!” Jordan’s home, only two doors from where Rustin was killed, caught fire and burned early in the morning of Jan. 3. Fire officials say they do not know what caused the blaze. (daniel.denvir@citypaper.net) ✚ Eric Schneider is a historian at the University of Pennsylvania and can be reached at eschneid@sas.upenn.edu. Casey Thomas of Axis Philly also contributed to this report.

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³ THIS WEEK, several friends of the scene and this column have reappeared as if by magic. Good. We need all the friends we can get. One of them, DJ Bobby Startup (last seen spinning tales of old Philly punk at Ruin’s reunion show), called to respond to City Paper’s story about the 60th anniversary of the Virgin Mary’s visitation to Fairmount Park near a certain privet bush near 51st and Parkside [News, “Our Lady of Fairmount Park,” Ryan Briggs, Sept. 19].Though 70,000 devotees crowded around the park back in 1953 (with a legion of believers still visiting the sacred land), Startup, who was raised in that neighborhood, claims to know the truth behind three Catholic schoolgirls’ sighting of the Blessed Mother. Startup recalls a couple of neighborhood kids, one of whom was always getting into trouble: “He was near that bush with friends playing with matches, a big no-no as a kid; that and breaking windows. He was lighting up a bush when those girls came along. The smoke started rising and to mask his crime, he yelled,‘Look, it’s the Virgin Mary,’ and ran. The girls saw it and I guess because they were … indoctrinated into the Catholic code, believed it.” Startup did tell his mom, and she supposedly told young Robert not to bother saying anything. “The next day it was all over the news, that the Vatican was looking into it and that the park was going to become a shrine. From that day on, every time I heard about Catholic miracles, I had to laugh.” All because of those [name redacted] boys. This has been Amorosi’s Believe It or Not! ³ You may see San Diego-bound Billy Weiss around Philly a little more often now that the co-owner of Voyeur and Woody’s is busying himself with the business of Rosewood, the glittering yet intimate Walnut Street cocktail lounge attached to Woody’s. After opening in June, the onyx-heavy hot spot got cooled off by several code violations. That is, until Friday night, when Weiss quietly re-opened Rosewood with its opera doors spread wide. Loyal readers may recall that Billy’s pop, Barney,is considering re-opening the original Palmer Social Club in Fishtown as an art gallery. ³ Last week in my ebullient rush to chat up veteran Philly-girl-punk Noelle Hoover’s new exploits, I mis-mentioned her all-lady pairing with multiinstrumentalist Palmyra Delran as being Pink Slip Daddy. I know that you know that I know that Delran and Hoover’s all-gal band was The Friggs. Delran’s Pink Slip Daddy wasn’t all-girl, it was allwoman. No one would ever think of Delran’s Pink partner, spooky Mick Cancer, as anything other than Philly’s grand dame of trashcan rock. See you Nov. 2 at Kung Fu Necktie.³ More minor miracles when Icepack gets illustrated every Thursday at citypaper.net/nakedcity. (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)

NEWLY MINTED: For his latest audio installation, Michael Kiley incorporated the sounds of trains braking and trucks moving across the bridge. JESSICA KOURKOUNIS

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LISTEN HERE Michael Kiley’s latest sound installation leads listeners to the edge. By Jessica Bergman

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’m interested in how art can bring people to certain places and affect that place as a result,” says rocker/sound designer Michael Kiley. This past spring he created an iPhone app/sound installation called The Empty Air, which played a song that mutated as users walked around Rittenhouse Square. The music shed and added layers, disappearing behind ambient noise. On Tuesday he’ll release Animina, an installation that evolves as listeners walk from Second and Race to the tip of Race Street Pier. The linear route allowed Kiley and his musician friends to create something palindromic, with its many moving parts working even in reverse order. City Paper : What drew you to Race Street Pier? Michael Kiley: I wanted to have a project that brought people

from a well-trafficked part of town to a less well-trafficked part of town that the city is trying to revitalize. CP: How do you write a song that corresponds to a physical space? MK: I start by recording the place and then I go back through those

recordings and I find sounds that interest me and I make loops out of them. So, for this one, the first sound that you hear are the brakes of the El, which we’ve already heard about 10 times during this interview. They sing at, like, a D and an F sharp, which is a major

third, and that really established a tonality right away. And then I just wrote a melody based on that key. And I used rhythms from being under the bridge and hearing the trucks go overhead. CP: What goes into Animina besides the sound? MK: What I’ve really been learning about throughout this process

is how the technology can affect what I’ve made, and at a certain point it’s totally out of my hands. Because the technology of using the GPS to hear things depending on location is so erratic, your phone can think you’re in the totally wrong place. The best I can do is make suggestions as to what I think you should hear in one certain area, and then the phone kind of does the rest.

“At a certain point it’s totally out of my hands.”

CP: Why use apps? MK: I wanted to find a way to

use smartphone technology in a way that opened you up. And sound really has the ability to be layered on top of our lives. It sort of exists in a way that draws our attention but can also allow us to do other things, especially something visible, whereas a video app really sucks you into the phone. So, I wanted to use the phone without engaging the phone, and this allows people to put their phone away and really see their surroundings. And hopefully by creating a soundtrack it really heightens that awareness, and you start to notice things you’ve never noticed before. (editorial@citypaper.net) ✚ Starts Tue., Oct. 1, 99 cents, Second and Race Streets, themuralandthemint.

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DFA Records’ September releases offer contrasting visions of the label’s post-punk/disco aesthetic: Where Holy Ghost’s synth-house is lush and uplifting, Factory Floor’s long-awaited self-titled debut is anything but. The London trio has made some impressive friends lately — members of Throbbing Gristle, Joy Division and The Fall. It’s not hard to hear why within these seven nightmarish extended workouts: sparse, deathly funky lockgrooves of loose-cannon percussion and acid-washed industrial squelch, spiked with Nik Void’s demented mutterings. Your body may be powerless to resist — just —K. Ross Hoffman try not to surrender your soul.

Here comes Drake, straining every sinew to prove Nothing Was the Same (Young Money/Universal), except that it is. Clearly I’m outside of the critical consensus; Caramanica somehow found 1,600 words to write about how this album signals change. But it’s the same expressionless singing, soft-serve hedonism and even softer self-criticism, except now Drizzy casts himself as a world-beater. Blame the consensus of people declaring this a three-peat on the fact that they were bored enough to care the first two times. —Dotun Akintoye

³ pop/electronic When Junior Boys started swirling svelte tech-pop with the seductive pathos of mainstream R&B, they sparked a quiet revolution. It was only a matter of time before an aspiring electro-soul diva would enlist Jeremy Greenspan’s production talents for herself, as Jessy Lanza does on her effortlessly elegant, house-damaged Hyperdub debut. Pull My Hair Back plays, predictably and thrillingly, like a female-fronted JBs record, clinching that impeccable icy romanticism, although Lanza makes it an especially discreet, coyly intimate affair. —K. Ross Hoffman

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³ r&b/hip-hop The means of expression in Kiss Land (Republic) are deep bass, progressive R&B via low synth wash and a falsetto in perpetual agony. The source of said agony? You ought to know by now — “I’ve been flying around the world/ I’ve been killing these shows/ But I’m always getting high/ Cause my confidence low/ And I’m always in a rush/ Ain’t no time to fuck slow/ And even if I try/ It’s not something I would know/ But I’m sure I’ll make you cum/ Do it three times in a row.” These are The Weeknd’s revelations from the road? Sounds like —Dotun Akintoye crocodile tears in the rain to me.

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An exhilarating death-trap pissing contest.

NEED FOR SPEED: Based on a real-life rivalry, Formula 1 racers James Hunt (left, Chris Hemsworth) and Niki Lauda (Daniel Brühl) compete for the top spot.

PERU! Sultrier than a warm stick of butter looking for a good time. ³ YOU CAN’T REALLY BLAME either Sofia Tosello or Yuri Juarez. It’s not really their fault. And, listen, TangoLando isn’t a bad CD — it’s just not something anyone under 80 might want to listen to. Sure, Yuri’s a very capable guitarist and Sofia’s vocals are smoother and sultrier than a warm stick of butter looking for a good time, but the songs themselves are the sort of music wallpaper that comprises the vast majority of world Muzak currently playing quietly in the background of one million not-very-good cafés. You can’t heap all that on Sofia and Yuri’s shoulders. If you need to blame someone, blame the people at your local Dad Rock station. Because it’s these assholes who are responsible for the trickle-down effect of dull music. You see, the same people who, three decades ago, used to blast Black Flag and the Meat Puppets from their dorm room windows, have found work feeding their contemporaries a steady diet of shitty shoegazer pop, painfully boring alt-country and whatever the fuck Kurt Vile is doing this week. After a few years of this, people became so acclimated to no longer being screamed at by angry troubadours here in the New EZ Listening era that they began to do the unthinkable: Actually pay money to see Animal Collective. And that, boys and girls, is how dull became the new black.

Verdict: Remember, Sofia and Yuri are just patsies in all this. Instead of invading Peru, why not invade your local Dad Rock station and demand that they play something loud, profane and interesting? (r_anonymous@citypaper.net)

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[ B ] AS ERRONEOUS AS IT SOUNDS, the most subtle movie Ron Howard has made in years involves Formula 1 cars pulling up pavement at triple-digit speeds. Taking the real-life rivalry of ’70s-era racers James Hunt and Niki Lauda and distilling it to its basest motivations, Rush is the rare sports-oriented feature that’s actually about sport, exploring the headstrong nature of masculine competition with nary a kneel at the altar of believe-in-yourself schmaltz. A long-haired Brit, Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) is a playboy of Europe’s lower-echelon race leagues.Anticipating domination once he reaches the top-tier F1 series, Hunt’s immediately knocked back by upstart Lauda (Daniel Brühl), an antisocial outsider who has ignored his family’s urges to take on a sane profession.They’re both fast, they’re both arrogant and they both crave the checkered flag. Cue exhilarating death-trap pissing contest. The role of the charismatic but self-destructive Hunt seems custom-sewn for Hemsworth, who hasn’t had many opportunities beyond Thor to prove that he can charm sans cape. But it doesn’t feature the same opportunities afforded to Brühl, best-known to American audiences as cinephilic Nazi sniper Fredrick Zoller in Inglourious Basterds. Motivated by a deep inferiority that seems to predate his entry into a dangerous profession, Lauda is established as the more complex of the two, and Brühl doesn’t waste this advantage. Howard sets up Hunt and Lauda’s connection with their vehicles via repetition and proximity, wedging us into pit crews and strapping us into driver’s seats in lieu of wider, more fashionable looks at the race as recreation. His man-versus-man micro-focus does have its casualties — Hunt and Lauda’s wives (Olivia Wilde and Alexandra Maria Lara), given nothing to do, non-respond accordingly — but the drivers’ relationship with each other, so uncomplicated in its volatility, is dynamic enough to make up for it. —Drew Lazor

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NEVER SAY DIE Punk mainstays Live Not On Evil embrace the darkness When Everything Goes Down.

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e are truly grateful for the scene in Philly,” says Rob Windfelder, in a moment of distilled sincerity. “It always supports us and it always keeps us going.” Windfelder could be talking about the punk rock gear shop that he co-owns, Crash Bang Boom at Fourth and South. Or he could be talking about his bleak, chaotic rock band, Live Not On Evil. In both cases, he’s a respected (if sometimes underappreciated) fixture. “I appreciate every bit of respect that I get, and I’d like to think that I give it as freely as I receive it.” Windfelder’s one of those guys who commenced his life in punk on South Street and has made it his spike-haired business ever since. If you didn’t run into him behind the clothing racks at Zipperhead back in the day, you caught him at Dobbs in the ’80s playing in edgy bands like Dead City Psychos. “The trick is to stay in the here-and-now, to appreciate it for what it is while you have a chance to participate in it,” he says. “You cannot ignore or disrespect the new blood. This scene is not a museum with tenured characters who hold their prominent place for eternity. There are always new characters, new bands, new venues, new writers. That’s what makes it a scene.” New writers? This week, after having re-upped his lease for several additional years at Crash Bang Boom, Windfelder and the rest of Live Not On Evil are renewing their lease on dark, hard electro-tinged punk.

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They’ve got a new album on a new label: When Everything Goes Down on Creep Records. The band’s third CD features several of Windfelder’s Philly-punkscene pals, including veterans like Viletones’ Freddy Pompeii and Dead Milkmen frontman (and City Paper columnist) Rodney Anonymous. “It was a blast and an honor doing music with Rodney,” says Windfelder, talking about the raging emotionalism of “Still She Haunts Me,” a track he and Anonymous co-wrote. To handle the album art, Windfelder brought in local artists he didn’t know, but whose work he respected: painter Anna Shukeylo, graphic designer Sarah Tourtellotte and photographers Adam Wallacavage and Dan Murphy. Outside contributors aside, this is Live Not On Evil’s tightest, harshest effort — and possibly its most personal. “In comparison to our first albums, this one takes a few more chances — it’s just naked and honest,” says Windfelder. In his mind, these are songs meant “to overcome things of the past, take all that was handed to you maliciously and [remove] it from your system, of having the courage to deal with the mess that ensues when you take

the chance of trying to see your life for what it really is, and pulverizing it.” That’s quite a mouthful. Then again, so is the new album. Windfelder’s brutal lyrical beauty was sparked by a year steeped in slow heartache. His mother passed away after a prolonged illness in the middle of recording When Everything Goes Down. “The band had some things that we were just dying to get out, sounds we’d been experimenting with,” he says. “I had some things that I was dying to get out, too.” (a_amorosi@citypaper.net) ✚ Live Not On Evil plays the 2013 Philly Zombie Prom with The Young Werewolves and DJs Kiltboy, Dave Ghoul and Mighty Mike Saga, Sat., Sept. 28, 8 p.m., $11-$16, The Trocadero, 1003 Arch St., 215-922-6888, thetroc.com.

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ENOUGH SAID | AKnown for his chilling portrayal of a crime boss on The Sopranos, the late James Gandolfini takes on a vastly different role — one of his last — in the clever, more-than-just-a-chickflick rom-com Enough Said. In the latest film by writer/director Nicole Holofcener (Walking and Talking, Please Give), Gandolfini is Albert, a single, long-divorced dad who halfjokingly describes himself as a disorganized slob. At a party, he meets Eva (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), a peppy masseuse who is also a divorced parent with a college-bound kid. As fate would have it, Eva becomes acquainted with Albert’s ex-wife Marianne (Catherine Keener) and takes her on as a client, unaware of the identity of her former husband. While Albert woos Eva with self-mocking humor and touching gestures, Marianne gripes to her about him: clumsy in bed, can’t stick to a diet and won’t break his annoying habit of picking out the onions in guacamole. Even after Eva connects the dots, she keeps asking her “human TripAdvisor” about Albert, allowing Marianne’s venomous replies to poison her relationship because, after her divorce, she’s too cautious to take another romantic leap of faith. With a face as expressive as Louis-Dreyfus’, every wince and smile is magnified, making each scene that much more emotionally affecting, and the nimble dialogue, expertly alternating between wisecracks and expressions of vulnerability, makes us both laugh with these flawed, true-to-life characters and feel for them. Not too jokey, not too schmaltzy, Enough Said offers a believable mix of romance and comedy, ending with a surprise punch to the emotional gut. —Paulina Reso (Ritz East)

THE TRIALS OF MUHAMMAD ALI Read Drew Lazor’s review at citypaper.net/movies. (Wide release)

✚ CONTINUING THE FAMILY | CAn American gangster caricature that’s self-aware in all the wrong ways, The Family is Luc Besson at his top-heaviest — there’s so much violence and so little spirit that it’s easy to forget there’s a movie taking place between all the femur-snapping. Relocated to France as part of the witness protection program, “Fred Blake” (Robert De Niro), née Giovanni Manzoni, knows he needs to leave his mob-snitch past behind. Too bad he, his wife (Michelle Pfeiffer) and his kids (Dianna Agron and John D’Leo) are unable to resolve any conflict without deception, brutality and MacGyvered explosives, much to the frustration of grumbly-bumbly FBI agent Stansfield (Tommy Lee Jones, asleep at the wheel). When the Stateside mafiosi Giovanni ratted out learn of his location in the most asinine manner possible, it sets off a predictable firefight filled with Mediterranean henchmen, but no amount of high-caliber ammo is able to blast apart Agron’s awful acting. The Family’s most infuriating moment, however, comes when Besson has De Niro’s character plop down and watch a classic mob film starring — yes — Robert De Niro. No spoilers on which one, but your mood will already be spoiled by this point, anyhow. —Drew Lazor (Wide release)

POPULAIRE | C RUSH See Drew Lazor’s review on p. 23. (Wide release)

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Stuart Blumberg, screenwriter for both the sharp lesbian-parents drama The Kids Are All Right as well as the broad porn-based comedy The Girl Next Door, makes his directorial debut with Thanks for Sharing, a seemingly sympathetic portrayl of three porn-obsessed 12-steppers in different stages of recovery. Mark Ruffalo’s Adam is five years sober and finally trying to pursue a healthy relationship with cancer survivor Gwyneth Paltrow; his sponsor, Mike (Tim Robbins), seemingly has his life straightened out with the help of meditation and New-Age sloganeering, at least until his drug-addicted son (Patrick Fugit) reenters the picture; while Neil (Josh Gad) is a doctor who’s less than serious about his court-ordered recovery. The smart cast goes a long way toward rescuing the film from movie-of-theweek status, but their stories travel far-too-familiar trajectories, with prostitutes and masturbation swapped in for dealers and back-alley injections. —SB (Wide release)

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3701 Chestnut St., 215-387-5125, ihousephilly.org. An American Hippie in Israel (1972, Israel, 95 min.): Hippies flee to a deserted island in shark-infested waters after being attacked by mimes. Thu., Sept. 26, 7 p.m., $9. The Church on Dauphine Street (2007, U.S., 83 min.): A doc about an Irishman and an ex-Marine who come together after Katrina to rebuild a church that houses deaf Catholics and Spanish-speaking immigrants. Tue., Oct. 1, 7 p.m., free.

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Charlie Bucket finds a Golden Ticket, he steps into “a world of pure imagination.” Or an acid nightmare. One of those. Sat., Sept. 28, 11 a.m., $5.

EASTERN STATE PENITENTIARY 2027 Fairmount Ave., 215-236-3300, thesecretcinema.com. The Big Doll House (1971, U.S./Philippines, 95 min.): For its annual screening at Eastern State, Secret Cinema’s picked a campy prison film starring Pam Grier. Thu., Sept. 26, 8 p.m., $10.

HIWAY THEATER 212 Old York Rd., Jenkintown, 267864-0065, hiwaytheater.net. Rare Silent Shorts: An assortment featuring Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and others. Thu., Sept. 26, 7 p.m., $9.75.

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min.): A silent-era comedy about a shop owner who can’t seem to catch a break. With live music from organist Don Kinnier. Tue., Oct. 1, 7 p.m., $5.

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RETURN TO THE LAND

“They recently moved,” Garces says of the hens. ³ ONE OF THE season’s most anticipated openings is Volver (Spanish for “to return”), Jose Garces’ jewel-box restaurant at the Kimmel Center. Volver is Garces’ passion project, an intimate setting for guests to experience a tasting menu designed and (if you come on the right nights) executed by the chef himself. But if you venture some 45 miles north on Route 611, you’ll find another of Garces’ passion projects: Luna Farm. Located in Ottsville, Pa., just north of Doylestown, Garces’ 40-acre farm serves as both a weekend getaway for his family and a small-scale organic farm, producing a selection of vegetables and eggs for his East Coast restaurants. “We go through 30 pounds of microgreens a week at the restaurants,” Garces explains while walking though a balmy greenhouse lined with tables topped with trays of tiny arugula sprouts. The greens will make their way to Distrito, Amada, Tinto, Garces Trading Company and JG Domestic. On a recent visit to Luna Farm, tomato season was tapering off but a greenhouse was filled with tall plants that were heavy with heirlooms. Heartier cold-weather crops like Walla Walla onions, shishito peppers and varieties of lettuce like Salanova and Rhazes were in the works, courtesy of Jillian Herschlag, Luna Farm’s head farmer. Heading down to the mobile chicken coops at the bottom of the field, Garces explains that when he bought the land, cultivating anything on it was a bit of a challenge because of the natural moisture content of the soil. To counter this, he had a natural soil-conservation agency come in and sort out the situation. Approaching his brood of black-and-white speckled Barred Rock hens, Garces tells us that the mobile coop helps the hens produce upward of 300 eggs a week. The eggs make their way into egg-centric dishes, like crème brûlée and tortilla española, at Amada.“They recently moved,” he says of the hens. “I hope they’re happy girls.” Beehives were recently put into place and lambs are on the not-too-distant horizon, but Garces also has long-term plans for his personal plot. “This piece of land will grow food for the next 100 years.” And with a rapidly growing restaurant empire like Garces’ this return to the land is as idyllic as is it sustainably sound. (caroline@citypaper.net)

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CHAMPAGNE WISHES AND RITTENHOUSE DREAMS A stellar bar program and seafood-centric small plates at Rittenhouse’s a.bar. By Adam Erace A.BAR | 135 S. 18th St., 215-825-7030, stayaka.com. Hours: Daily from 3 p.m.-midnight. Dishes, $2-$28.

t was like sailing onto the private beach of a tourist-jammed island. A.bar, the six-month-old candlelit cocktail cove at the AKA Hotel, had just opened for the day, and I had the place to myself as shoppers streamed around 18th and Walnut. I drank in the views of the Square, resplendent in its autumn best, and drank away a golden Rittenhouse afternoon at the languid pace of a More on: first-class Titanic passenger. Backlit by late sun pouring through the picture windows of the former Kiehl’s, my Haitian Wedding cocktail looked camera-ready. The tall cooler’s Campari float gleamed, swirls of red bleeding down into a lower layer of aged rum, fino sherry and cantaloupe juice. I lifted the drink and took a long pull on the straw: fruity, boozy; a high-octane punch I could see being served at island nuptials, or causing them. Crushed ice rattled in the tumbler like diamond chips in a velvet pouch. Condensation curled down the glass. A

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server appeared to change my coaster. Life at a.bar sure is sweet. And so is the seafood. Literally. Chef Waldemar “Val” Stryjewski sweetened octopus and tuna as if they were nuts to be candied. The former, nicely al dente from a two-hour bath with lemongrass, garlic and ginger, wore a creamy miso-honey glaze that tasted like something from the pantry of P.F. Chang’s. Piled on leaves of shiso, cleanly cubed raw tuna would have been the gold standard for tartare were it not tossed in cloying chili sauce. With his resume of restaurants remembered fondly (Django, Pasion, Le Bec Fin) and not so fondly (Brasserie Perrier, Le Bec Fin), 39-year-old North Jersey native Stryjewski is a local industry lifer whose creative streak, when focused, can produce brilliant things. Squid-ink crackers, for example. The wheat-sensitive chef makes these gluten-free crisps by combining cooked rice, rice flour, tapioca starch and pureed squid with its ink. Baked, broken and deep-fried, the long, jagged crackers come MORE FOOD AND arranged upright in a glass, looking like a DRINK COVERAGE quiver of black lightning bolts. AT C I T Y P A P E R . N E T / The former sous chef to Bryan Sikora, M E A LT I C K E T. Stryjewski has been with AKA since a.kitchen opened in 2011. When Sikora decamped to Delaware, Stryjewski was promoted to the executive position and asked to head up the culinary offerings at the forthcoming a.bar as well. Together, it’s a tall order, with more than 40 plates between them. There’s no way Stryjewski can taste every dish that leaves his line, leading to failures like the octopus and tuna. The Spanish mackerel dish, meanwhile, had the opposite problem. The asser>>> continued on adjacent page

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tive fish can handle flavor, so why accessorize the four dominoes of it so stingily, with dots of marinated tomatillo and a trickle of chorizo oil? At least the mackerel was cooked nicely, its mediumrare flesh glistening beneath crackling blowtorched skin that looked like silver leaf. That can be said of most of the seafood at a.bar, but prices consistently soured my opinions. Shrimp cocktail starred jumbo U-12s to dunk in yuzu-splashed cocktail sauce, six for $21. Coated with an uni sauce made grainy by grated hard-boiled egg, the housemade soba spaghetti was an $18 misappropriation of precious urchin. And let’s not forget that single $16 scallop, prepared as a gorgeous crudo accented with yuzu, olive oil, furikake and restraint. Were prices lower, the average diner would have extra cash to throw at the unbelievable wine list curated by beverage manager Tim Kweeder. His cellar overflows with interesting bottles, a dozen of which are available by the five- and three-ounce glass. The smaller pour is perfect if you want to hop around the list, sampling a new-school boxed red from the Rhone, an unfiltered Roussanne, an organic frizzante rosé. Twenty-five cocktails, a collaboration between GM Todd Rodgers and the team of six bartenders, also beg to be explored. A mix of honeydewinfused gin, Lillet and St. Germain was an ass-kicker in disguise. In another drink, a coupe brimmed with a betterthan-you’d-think blend of bourbon and Scotch, amaretto and port, apricot liqueur and red wine. It’s called Without a Trace, and it was as if all the bottles from my grandmother’s liquor cabinet disappeared as such. A.bar shucks half a dozen different oysters daily, and if you slip in at happy hour (3 p.m. to 6 p.m.), they’re a buck and a half each with a minimum order of six. That’s a great deal, especially since a.bar offers Cooke’s Creeks, Stellar Bays and East Beach Blondes, not the grotesque bargain bivalves many raw bars pass off for buck-a-shuck. Stryjewski promises more bargains like this. He plans to jettison many of the effete Asian trinkets — I’ll only be sad to see the gem lettuce with miso-ginger vinaigrette, a worthy upgrade of the sushi-joint cliche, go — and replace them with bar-friendlier snacks like roasted mixed nuts, lobster clubs and his housemade charcuterie. Meanwhile, the menu on a.bar’s website still advertises $85-an-ounce caviar service. I can’t say it any better than Pete Wells, the New York Times restaurant critic, did in his recent review of Armani Ristorante, one of “a few opulent restaurants [that] opened right after the economy fell apart in 2008, like guests who pound on the door long after the lights have been turned out and the hosts have gone to bed.” A.bar is a much younger restaurant, but our response is the same. In Wells’ words, “The rest of the city looked up from a collective hangover at their flashy outfits and expectant smiles and said, ‘Um, the party’s kind of over, dude.’” (adam.erace@citypaper.net)

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Over its previous 10 seasons, Bravo TVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s award-winning cooking-competition show has left our cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s talent pool largely untapped: Jennifer Carroll turned out to be one of the showâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest stars, Jennifer Zavala got the nod in season 6, but beyond that â&#x20AC;Ś crickets. So itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty big news that the latest season, which was filmed in New Orleans, features two prominent Philly chefs: Jason Cichonski of Ela and Nicholas Elmi, who recently left Rittenhouse Tavern and announced plans for an East Passyunk BYOB called Laurel. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got our fingers crossed for a hometown Top Chef champ for sure â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re also holding out hope for some topnotch trash talk on Twitter. Bravo, bravotv.com/top-chef. (carly@citypaper.net)

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1313 S 58th St 1Br $625 Incl heat & Water, 3rd Fl, 484-461-2171 15th & Jackson 1br $795+util Penthouse, c/a, EIK, marble BA, Jacuzzi, hdwd flrs, S/S appl, W/D, 215.463.7374

2nd & South St. 2BR/1BA $1100/mo. Recently Renovated. Call 215-574-9223

8TH & KATER Efficiency $695+utils Recent remod, new carpet, D/W, disposal. Avail 10/15. 609-965-5338

2xx N. 52nd St 1BR Apt Near Trans. Reasonable. 484.358.0761

2xx N 63rd, 1,2,3,4 BR $615-$950 Spacious, Nice, Great Location. Section 8, PHA, SSI ok, 610-772-4373

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I Buy Anything Old...Except People! Military, toys, dolls etc Al 215.698.0787 I Buy Guitars & All Musical Instruments-609-457-5501 Rob JUNK CARS WANTED We buy Junk Cars. Up to $300 215-888-8662

42xx Otter St 1br $650 Large, $1650 to move in. 267.402.8836 Bella Vista/Italian Market 2BR $1300/mo. 1000sqft,yrd, hrdwd flr, tile BA,215.307.9596

58th & Cobbs Creek 1BR $550 + utils newly reno, Sm Pets. Call 215.695.5194

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51ST & LUDLOW 1br/1ba $550+util. Clean, freshly painted. $1650 to occupy. Call 302-724-2017

55th and Wyalusing 2br/1ba $575 utils Very good condition. Call 215-836-2476

5818 Vine St. Studio $575+util 1/2 off 1st mo. special, 215.688.1363

6xx N. 38th St. 1BR $600+gas/elec Newly Renovated. Call 484-557-2369 CLEAN 1BR. hdwd flrs. $595+utils. Close to transp. 215-880-0612

pets/livestock Please be aware Possession of exotic/wild animals may be restricted in some areas.

Maine Coon Kittens, CFA reg., M/F multiple colors. (215)438-8759

Boxer Pups- AKC, beaut, 1 black face M & 1F. S/W. Hbg. 717-599-5818. $500 Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Pups, AKC, All 4 Colors, Cute, 215.538.2179

COCKER PUPS, born 7/9, health guarantee, home raised, free booster shots, free pet sitting and much more, trimales, 856-299-0451

Dachshund Pups AKC, wirehair, shots, vet exam. $550, 704-663-5303

ENGLISH BULLDOG 3F pups, red & white, vet checked, 1st shots, wormed, health guar, $1,500. 717-572-9602

German Shepherd Lab Mix Puppies - Vet checked, wormed, ready now! $300 . Call (610) 273-9802

Lab pups, Choc., AKC, M & F, wormed & dew claws, $550. (609)220-1818

4808 N. Broad St. 2BR $700+utils Please Call Tom 215.796.3173 48xx N 11th St. 2BR $675+ utils Newly Renovated. Call 267-593-2551 50xx N. 10th St. 2BR $595+ elec. Very lrg. $1,785 move in 267.259.8759 Rockland St. Large 1BR $575 w2w carpet. Avail now. 215-329-3013

6021 N. Park Ave. 1 BR $600+gas & elec. 1 month & security. (215)480-6460 Olney Studio $475 3rd floor, EIK, full bath, nice storage, very clean. Call (215)287-5318

LAB PUPS- Rdy 10/1, blk/ylw. M & F, AKC reg, parents on premises. 410.692.2405 Labrador Retriever Pups BYC All health clear. $1800. ybrfarm.com 301.514.5334 Pekingese Puppies $349 M & F, rare black. Call 215-579-1922 Pomeranian-Reg, 2 Female 1 Male Great companion $600 Call 856-692-1867 Rottweiler Pups, 12 weeks old, M & F, $500. AKC. Call 484-523-4421

SHETLAND SHEEPDOGS - 11 Wks & up, 4M, Sable & White, $550, Vet Chked, DW & S, Akc & CKC Reg, 302.535.3732 SHIH TZU PUPS ACA, 28 Wks, $425 Solid/Tan & White. Call 215.752.1393 Smaller Beagel Puppy F - 3/4 Beagel, 1/4 Brussel Griffon 10 wks $500 267.977.3793 Westies - M&F, shots/wormed, home raised. Call 484-868-8452

Apartment Homes $730-$895 www.perutoproperties.com 215.740.4900

18th & Ridge Ave 3BR Newly renov. Must see! 215-885-1700 3208 W CECIL B. MOORE 2BR $600 Freshly painted, 1st mo rent & 1.5 mo sec. 215-828-6651

75xx Mayland St 1BR $625/mo. newly renovated, Call 267-368-5259 75xx Thouron 1BR $675+ Renov, near transp. Sec 8 ok. 856.524.9002

Germantown/Mt. Airy: 1, 2, & 3BRs Starting at $725, newly renov., beautiful apts, close to transp. Call 215-740-8049

1520 W Champlost 2BR $675 Fresh paint, 2 month sec. 215.779.6914 64xx N. 16th St. 1 BR $650+utils finished bsmt, 1st flr apt, updated, no pets Call 215.765.1611 / 215.593.5479

7206 Sommer Rd. 1BR $680 Newly renov 267.271.6601 / 215.416.2757 Broad Oaks 1BR & 2BR Lndry rm. Special Discount! 215-681-1723 WEST OAKLANE Effic Near transp. & Lasalle Univ. 215.205.2437

N 6th &W Erie remod 2nd fl 2BR dplx $650+elec, inc water 267-991-5980 33xx Kensington Ave. 2BR/1BA $600+utils 1BR $500+utils. Call Tom 215.796.3173 1 BR & 2 BR Apts $735-$845 spacious, great loc., upgraded, heat incl, PHA vouchers accepted 215-966-9371 5321 Wayne Ave. Effic. $550 1 BR $625, 2BR $700 215-776-6277 601 E. Church Lane 1BR/2BR nr LaSalle Univ. 215.525.5800 lic#494336 9xx E. Upsal St. 2BR $750 New renov., gar., nr trans. 215.275.7477

46xx Leiper. 1Br/1Ba $600+ Elec newly reno, Sec 8 ok, 215.399.8448

4840 Oxford Ave Studio, 1BR, 2BR, Ldry, 24/7 cam lic#214340 215.525.5800

Frankford & Oxford 1BR $600 Also Efficiency, $500, utils included. We speak Spanish. Call 215-620-6261

33rd St. 1-2BR $625 & up newly renov, near Univ 215.227.0700, 9-5 North Philadelphia 2br/ 1ba $500, newly renovated, 267-444-5274

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16xx Block Cecil B Moore 3BR $1100 Hrdwd flrs, C/A, Call Michelle 267.971.4291.

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

5709 Charles St. 2BR/1BA $650+ + utils. 2nd floor. Call 267-456-8383

63xx Germantown Ave. 2br $750 Lg, low utils, w/w cpt, yrd, 215-681-3896 66xx Blakemore 1BR $850+util/sec section 8 ok, quiet area (215) 457-4946 7500 GTN AVE Garden type 1BR! FALL SPECIAL ! Newly dec, d/w, g/d w/w, a/c, laundry/cable, off st prkg. Pets OK! 215-275-1457/233-3322

7410 Alma Street 1BR/1BA $675 Located in the beautiful Rhawnhurst section of Northeast Philadelphia in a residential area near public transportation and shopping mall. Newly renovated with wallto-wall carpeting. Rent includes gas heat and water. Off-street parking and 24 hour maintennce on-site. Must see! (267) 2550858 lramalho64@verizon.net

6812 Ditman St 2BR on site parking, laundry. 215-525-5800 Lic# 212751

Chocolate Labs $550 each. 717-535-5948 www.LancasterPuppies.com

11XX Wingohocking 2BR $650 + Utils. Renov. Special $1300 move in. 267.339.2101

W. Phila. Apts for 62 & older, brand new eff, 1 & 2BR units. Call 215.386.4791

Shaltese Designer pups - 8 wks S/W, 2M $400, 1F $500, 609-517-4051 English Bulldog Pups - pedigree, reg., dewormed, vet checked. 215.696.5832

16xx N. Willington St. 1BR/1BA $575 per month Mr. Brooks: 215-235-2235 or 267 974-7319

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homes for rent 22xx Hemberger 3BR/1.5BA Credit check req’d. Call 610-659-2452

Bridge & Pratt 2br $650+utils backyard, 215.613.8989, 267.746.8696 Castor Gardens 1BR/1BA $685+ No pets. Call 267-872-7125 Frankfort & Academy 2BR/ 1BA w/w carpet with all new appliances. George, 215-651-3783 NORTHEAST 2br/2ba $750 Renov. Shops/trans/schl. 732-544-2112

1653 Brintons Bridge Road, Chadds Ford 3BR/3BA $2650. month Charming cottage on private estate. Living rm with brick fireplace, dining rm, new kitchen , 3 bdrms, 3 ba, family rm with wet bar, new carpet and paint. Private terrace and yard. 4 car garage. landscape maintenance and snow removal inc. $2650. per month. Great location , 20 minute drive to Wilmington and 45 minutes to center city mhow653@gmail.com

Lansdowne 3BR/1.5BA $1400

48 E. Stewart Ave. Spacious & well maintained; close to shops and trans; all appliances including w/d on main floor. Excellent credit needed; multi-year lease preferred. No pets. (610) 453-4124 moffas1@msn.com

Sharon Hill 1 BR Heat incl. off street parrking. Sec 8 ok. Credit check. Call 484-716-0232

Elkins Park 2br $900 + utils newly reno, 1st flr, w/d, 610-675-7586

South Phila, 1323 S. Opal Street (21&Wharton) 3BR/1.5BA $1495 All new home, Full appl pakage: w/d, fin basmt, C/A, Lg yard (215) 915-8888 fred@djcre.com

1368 S Paxon 3BR/1BA $850+Utils 267-912-5942 or 267-709-2704 20XX S 58th 4Br/1Ba $1,000 + Utils Modern 4 Br, Sec 8 ok, 215.868.0481 South West Phila 2BR /3BR House "Modern." Elmwood Area. 215.726.8817

Cobbs Creek 3 BR $950+ utils new renov, credit chk. Call 267.303.5326 PARKSIDE 17XX ABERDEEN ST. 3BR/1BA $800/mo. Front porch. $400 off 1st month’s rent. 267-444-8870

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

65th & Stiles 2BR $750 +Utils. 3 months to move in. 215-237-4737

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Mayfair. 63xx Ditman Str $920/Mo 3BR 1BA house. Renovated. Finshd bsmnt. Private parking. Nice & cozy. Available immediately. Call (215) 947-6446

Rhawnhurst 3BR/1.5BA $1300+utils Garage. Section 8 ok. Call 267-337-3923

Upper Darby 4BR Sect 8 ok, Near transp. 610.459.3990 Upper Darby 5XX Wiltshire Rd., 2BR $750. 2 full BA, Call 610-534-45 21

Upper Darby 7261 Walnut St. 3BR $1,100 Garage, W/D, hrdwd flr. 215.298.4852

Willingboro 4BR $1300/mo LR/DR, 1 car gar. Call 908-764-0634

automotive Cad Sedan Deville 2001 Luxury 4 dr, w/ sunroof $5,975 woman driven, like new, 59,000 ORIGINAL MILES. 215.629.0630

23xx Smedley 3BR/1BA $850 Renov. 1st month + sec. 856-627-7979 24xx Master St 5br 1ba $1000/mo+ util new paint, new crpt, bsmt, rear yard Sec. 8 ok 215-888-8662

Corvette Coupe 1985 $9,850 Removable Glass Top, 49,000 ORIGINAL MILES, Matching #, fortune invested. Senior Citizen Must Sacrifice today 215.922.6113

Temp Hosp area 3/4BR Sngl Fam Avail Now. Move in Special 215-386-4792

Mercedes 450SL Convert 1975 $7,500 105K miles, 2 tops, runs well. Evenings & weekends 215.848.4037

4xx W Fisher 3Br/1Ba $895+Utils $2685 move in, Reno, 610.350.9616

Norristown 2BR $975+utils lg Kit, A/C,W/D, 2nd Flr, 610.265.1568

22nd & Tioga priv ent paint use of kit ww $120wk $290move in 267-997-5212 30th & Dauphin vic rooms & Efficiency Call 267-975-4602 38xx N. 15th . Furnished room, $100/week plus $300 security. Call 267-809-7866 4900 North Marvine $125/ wk No smoking/drugs. 267-593-1439 5523 Media St. Clean, furnished rooms, $125/wk. Call (267) 333-4586 55/Thompson deluxe quiet furn $120$145wk priv ent $200 sec 215-572-7664 6034 Delancey, $120/week. newly renovated, 215-768-4107 Bridge/Pratt neat clean effic. from $125/wk Sec dep req 215-432-5637 Broad/Olney furn refrig micro priv ent $100/$145wk sec $200 215.572.7664 BROAD St: Move in Special $190, Lrg clean furn rms, w/w. 215-681-3896 Broad & Wyoming Area $85-$125/Wk, $200 Sec. Furn, Pvt Ent. 267.784.9284 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 61xx Chew Ave, W. Phila 42xx Girard Ave. $85-$125/wk. 215.242.9124 NE - Fully Furn. rms incl utils & cable Close to Transp. $150/wk 267-334-5809 NE - Nice House. use of kitchen. $125/week plus sec. 267-312-5039 N. Phila. $75 & up. SSI & Vets + ok, drug free. Avail immed. 215-763-5565 W Phila & G-town: Newly ren, Spacious clean & peaceful, SSI ok, 267.255.8665 W. Phila - Near Trans, use of house. Pvt yard, Quiet block, $110/wk. 215.470.2418

MAYFAIR 3BR/1.5BA $900+utils Washer/Dryer hookups. 215-300-9313

Ford 2000 Luxury High top Handicap equipped Conversion Van, Garage Kept (new body style) a/c, full power, original miles, Clean, $5985, 215-928-9632

4000 Block of Darien 3Br $700 +Utils New Reno, $2100 Move in, 215.470.4918 A1 PRICES FOR JUNK CARS FREE TOW ING , Call (215) 726-9053 53xx Lena St. 3BR/1BA $950+utils Ceramic kitch/ba. Close to trans & shopping. No pets/smoking. lv mess @ 267.230.0283

56XX North Marvine Street 3BR/ 1.5BA $995/month This is an attractive 3 bdrm, 1.5 bath rowhome in Fern Rock. Adjacent to train and bus @ Fern Rock Transportation Center, the city is yours. (215) 324-4424 rare_rose_mgmt@yahoo.com

19xx Briggs St 2Br/1Ba $700+ Utils Front porch, yard, Sec 8 ok, 1 Br Voucher ok. $1400 Move in. 215.680.5666

18xx Lansing St. 3BR/2.5BA $1400 Det. gar, hdwd floors, back porch & yard, full basement. 215-292-9545. 21xx Margaret St. 2br/1ba $700 + All utils. Sec. 8 OK. 215-740-4629 61xx Algard St. 3BR Freshly painted, Sec 8 ok 215.264.2340

Castor Gardens 3br/1.5ba $995+ LR, DR, kitch, c/a, full bsmnt, gar, close to schools/trans. 215.322.3663

low cost cars & trucks Acura Integra 1995 $1250 Ford Taurus GL 1998 $950 Mazda 626 1999 $1450 Call P.A. Inspected. 215.620.9383 Acura MDX Touring 2003 $4200, 1 owner, clear title in hand, only 83k miles, auto., fully loaded, navigation, 717467-1799 Buick Lesabre 1997 $1,750 Cadillac Deville 1999 $1,995 69K & 66K, Runs new, 215.620.9383 Buick LeSabre 2005 $2975 Low Mi, Xm/CD, Alarm, 267.592.0448 Cadillac Deville 2003 $3700 136K, New INSP, Immaculate, Warranty Avail, May Trade, Loaded, 267-975-4483 Cadillac DTS 2000 $1900 131K, new INSP, runs & looks very good, may trade, Loaded, 267-975-4483 Chrysler Sebring Conv 2002 $3,600 Exec Cond. loaded, 59K Mi. 215.830.8881

Chrysler Sebring Limited 2005 $3,500 2dr, loaded, like new Call 610-506-5759 DODGE GRAND CARAVAN 2003 $1750 4 door, loaded, clean. 215-480-4825

low cost cars & trucks Ford 1990 really exceptional steak body, light commercial, 3 speed, Like new $3475, Retiring, 215-922-5342 Ford 2000 F150 Deluxe extended body work van, full powers, A/C auto trans like new, retiring, $3,975 215-922-5342 Ford Explorer XL 1992 $1,450 4x4, 48K, new inspec. 215.620.9383 FORD F-150 2000 $3975 Deluxe pickup truck, 4 door, A/C, extended cab. Retiring. 215-922-5342

KIA SEDONA EX 2004 $4,500 Van, Loaded, 71K, Like New, 610.506.5759 Pontiac Grande Prix 2005 $3500 OBO Runs perfect, loaded. 267-441-4612 TOYOTA CAMRY SE 2005 $4200, 3.3 liter, V6, Auto, 81K miles, 1 owner, clean title. Call 717-516-1741 Toyota Corolla CE 1999 $1,950 Auto, 4 dr, 4 cyl. runs new. 215-620-9383 Volvo S40 2004 $3495 Leather, sunroof. Gorgeous. 610.524.8835 VOLVO V70-XC 1999 $1900, AWD, 159,000 miles, 610-316-9620 VW Jetta GT 1997 $1250 5 spd, nu clutch, timing belt 215.620.9383

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that you must of gotten alittle bit of money that is the whole reason that you didn’t call me! I forget to tell you sometimes! No! Sorry that is you! You never seem to tell me anything. You stay away then you decide to come back around! I think that the shit is pathetic! And when my friend comes back, you and I are going to be no more! I am just done with trying to pursue you anymore. I am just done! You know who I am...I don’t think I need to say my name!

LIKE TOTALLY NOT My boyfriend! I am so sick of you calling me your boyfriend, when you don’t even kiss me, let alone

nightmare,I’m in love with you my best friend. But we both know that it can’t happen because it would cause too much confusion for both of us. I swore that I would never get married again. Then came you, my favorite girl, the one that always comes through for me,my best friend. Fonz

OLD PERVERT Dude... seriously... you need to get your junk spliced apart and your nads chopped off, because the way you talked to me made me feel like a puppy that was getting sniffed out by a wheezing old dog that should be put down. You are desperate and sick! I saw you an hour later putting on the

When I go out in the morning with my steaming hot cup of coffee and Sunday paper, I like to enjoy the fresh morning air and the birds that are chirping. But I can’t cuz I have to put up with dumb fucks like you! Pigeons don’t fucking talk! So stop talking to them. They’re not listening to you. You know who you are. I know no one else will listen to you talk about your stupid bitch friend problems but just shut the hell up and GROW THE FUCK UP. That’s all I wanted to say.

I AM HOPING I hope my elevator joke made you laugh, 1600 divided by 4 people is good math. I hoped to catch you on the way out, but I let my shyness cause some doubt. I wonder if you will actually even read this, or if I will live anonymously without bliss. Anyway, writing this was quite a blast, I hope our chance is not past. Come find me in one of the late classes, before July ends and I run out of passes.

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You know that I want you and you want me too! I wish that things would change between us! I think

Sometimes I wish I wasn’t me because of the kind of shit that I go through. This is a freakin

same charade to another twentysomething that could have been your daughter. And day after day after day you circle Rittenhouse, a place of solace that now gives me anxiety. You take advantage of the good faith young women have in people, and use it as some kind of conversational leverage. After all of the shit that spewed from your mouth, your head jerking side to side, I barely said one thing. There is obviously something wrong with you, and it will undoubtedly be the reason you die alone on your deathbed. You are a bad person. You should kill yourself. Seriously, the world would be a better place without you motherfucker. - XOXO The Young Lady That You STALKED

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it was over. i don’t know why you didn’t believe me. i don’t like that you say you’ll call and you never do. i can’t waste any more time on that flakery. i’m doing the right thing. you just don’t know it yet. i’m trying to spare you heartache. one day, when you meet her, you’ll be happy i did.

grab my ass...what kind of boyfriend doesn’t even take a bite...you’re out horseback riding all damn day, working up a sweat...too tired to even notice me by the time you get home, let alone make me dinner or give me a foot massage. You never buy me flowers, or candy, and forget about all those promises of jewelry and gems coming out of my bra. You tease me forever and never make me feel you...you’re such a tart. Pop tart yo ass.

To the guy “T” that I ran into the other day on the train you were giving me the shish with your fingers when I said your name who do you think you are with you stupid ass! I know in my heart under your hat you were fucking bald headed! I think that you are a joke and I always did! It was obvious when I said your name the way that I did that I was happy to see your stupid ass! Oh, I can play phony also, just like you! I hope the girl that you were with, didn’t think that I was trying to pick you up because the same along time ago, I could care less, and as I said before, I was surprised that you spoke. The people from your class was shady and you still are!

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Just wanna say that u thirtysomething men aren’t men, you are lil boys, so we fucked, so what, don’t go bragging to your friends that I’m a slut, so I used you for sex, that don’t make me a slut, that makes you a loser cause you were used, you got burned...so you are mad that I finally grew up and I’m out of the stage or slutty phase and decided to better myself. I found a man who was willing to accept me and my history, talk all you are shit, hate all u want, feel bad I’m not you are lil call girl anymore. I am growing up, I am more wise, no longer the girl I was, or what I had been with u losers, fuck u all u lil pussies. oh and your dick wasn’t even good, Paul your the biggest slut I’ve ever met!!!! And there’s a possibility that you are gay to want to have a threesome with another guy and me!!! FAG!! get a life!! Tony-the sex was weak! Faked it the whole time...and i was drunk!!! I found my true love and he’s 100 times the man you both are, you guys are lil boys who need to be shown how to be real men! losers. hope u get what’s coming to you and karma bites you in the ass! accept the fact that you cant fuck me anymore, accept the fact that your best sex will never be back with you, and accept the fact that I have a man and if you keep talking shit he’s gonna kick your asses! PM & AM you can kiss my white ass and go suck a big ass dick. everytime you speak my name and talk shit on me, know that you’re the loser and not me, get over it. and stop playing childish games, there really cant be anything else to talk about besides me!!! ASSHOLES!

I love you alot..damn I just had to say that so that I know that you and I are on the same page! Damn what the fuck then happened...you know who you are and you know where I am! Call me or come see me...we don’t have to get physical just check on me when I checked on you to make sure you had what you needed. I hope that you are doing well. I want to call you but, I declined.

I TOLD YOU

PIGEONS DON’T TALK

PUSSIES

HOT HONEY! WARM HEART

I hate you! You are a liar and a loser. I hate that you live off your mommy and daddy at 24. I hate that you lived with me and I gave you the best of me. I hate that you slept with dirty needy girls behind my back. I hate that you ruined our trip and treated me like shit. I hate your long greasy hair. Your long disgusting face. Your terrible hygiene. Your sex. Your non-existent emotionless love. Your lies. You truly serve no purpose except to clear the bottom shelf of whiskey, so I hope your plane to Australia crashes and you burn in hell. Thanks!

P.S. BEWARE SINGLE WOMEN OF RITTENHOUSE

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I am a nice woman. I have a kind heart. I had a best friend with the same. And one arrogant bitch comes along and changes you and she takes you away from me. I once told you we had happiness in those moments between pretending we loved other people. You held me that one night I’ll always have. And that bitch took you away and got me out of your life. This is for her. You are nothing. If you were dead things would go back to normal and I would be happy again.

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