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ARTS & CULTURE 14 Calendar PW ’s picks for the week.

Editor Adamma Ince Managing Editor Anastasia Barbalios Senior Editor Nina Hoffmann Music and Food Editor Brian McManus Staff Writers Tara Murtha, Michael Alan Goldberg Art Director Drew Phillips Listings Nicole Finkbiner Contributing Writers Jeffrey Barg, Sean Burns, Bill Chenevert, Brian Freedman, Matt Petrillo, Craig D. Lindsey, Randy LoBasso, Cristina Perachio, Matt Prigge, J. Cooper Robb, Katherine Rochester, Katherine Silkaitis Contributing Photographers Jeff Fusco, Ryan Strand, Felicia Perretti Editorial Interns Lindsay Bell, Ashley Kole, Julian Lopez, Darren White Advertising Director Amy Stoller (ext. 144) Retail Senior Account Executive Matt Satten (ext. 164) Retail Account Executives Deidre Simms (ext. 163), Peter J. Eisenmann (ext. 147), Monica Kanninen (ext. 145), David Muir (ext. 118) Classified Senior Account Executive John Maguire (ext. 126) Classified Account Executives Arnetta Reddy (ext. 100), Susanna Simon (ext. 134) Adult Coordinator Toni Flynn (ext. 106) National Advertising Representative The Ruxton Group 888.2RUXTON Distribution Manager Philip E. Metz (ext. 148) Office Administrator Danielle Mitchell

REVIEW PUBLISHING Chairman & CEO Anthony A. Clifton Chief Operating Officer John Gallo Vice President James Stokes Help Desk Jeanne Terne Controller Ginger Monte Webmaster Lindsey Bell Production Manager Eddy Dubell Senior Graphic Designer Doug Wipf Graphic Designers LeTera Haynes, Dionna Gary Marketing Assistant Alex Freedman 1971-1995 Welcomat

Philly’s Birra puts pizza in a dough bowl ... and it’s fabulous!

ART 23 January First Friday Don’t miss the art party!

COVER STORY 8 Call Me Mr. Snitch “Star & Buc Wild” shock jock Troi Torain wants you to drop a dime on crime.

PHILLYNOW 4 Mayor in Review Michael Nutter reflects on his first term and looks ahead.

6 Fish Sticks Cartoonist Dwayne Booth’s coming-of-rage.

SCREEN 24 Bottoms Up A look the worst films of the past year.

MUSIC 27 WitOut Comedy Awards A celebration and a mockery at the same time.

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Feedback Bills of Rights Regarding coverage of PA’s abortion bills: I have the perfect solution to these self-important, anti-woman, anti-choice religious loonies who want to save those fetuses (so they can grow up to be dead soldiers and breeding machines): If women are forced to have kids, drop the kids off at the doorsteps of the local anti-choice nut along with the hospital bill. Make these self-important hypocrites put up or shut up (9.5 times out of 10, they shut right up). I hope the folks here in Pennsyltucky are happy with their Republinazi legislature. Don’t blame me because I didn’t vote for the neo-con boorish old man Corbett.

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You’re the Shit Regarding Bill Chenevert’s On the Record music column: I don’t read Philadelphia Weekly very often—it kinda sucks. I was at the Hinge and needed some shit paper, so I took one! (Philadelphia Weekly that is). Your album review is the best thing that has ever been laid to print in that shit paper of a newspaper. I truly loved your words and it was a great layout. Perfect.

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I Spy A Flop Regarding Sean Burns’ review of “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”: I thought that the acting was superb, and that the accurate depiction of time and place was highly convincing. However, the rest of the film played out like an extended trailer. There were some tense moments, some good lines, a mixed-up chronology, and never enough information to give away the plot. I kept turning to my date and telling him I was still lost. I walked out of the theater unsure of what I had witnessed and whether the people who made this film were playing a joke on the audience. Anyone that hasn’t read the book and says that they understand the film is probably lying.

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Michael Nutter reflects on his first term and looks ahead.

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Mayor in Review local level. Obviously we cannot change the course of the national economy ... what they [Philadelphians] say to me is, “Look I know you are doing the best you can. I still don’t like what you are doing, but you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do.”

PW: What do you think is the single biggest challenge facing the city heading into 2012?

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Nutter: You’ll have to excuse me if I do not just give you one answer because this is a big city and big cities have big challenges and big opportunities.

There’s never one Two timer: Mayor Nutter says he’s just getting started. single thing that I get to work on. I will give you some context for that. We have some In this end-of-year interview, Mayor Nutter big challenges. First, we have to knock down sounds off on his first term in office and the unemployment rate here in the city. That looks ahead to a new year and another stint will help us in a number of areas. One, more as Philly’s commander-in-chief. Nutter talks people working means a little less pain and candidly about a range of topics, including anxiety out in the community. Two, people his easy win in the November election, his working means less folks who may turn to handling of Occupy Philly, the biggest chalcrime. More people working reminds our lenges facing the city heading into 2012, and young people that there is a reason they are the issues that keep him up at night. in school and that they can have a brighter future as well. That will help us with our PW: Despite what the ballot said in Novemgraduation rate and young people going on ber, you ran for re-election virtually unopto college. One of the most critical things posed. Why do you think that neither the that is ripping out the heart and soul of this Republican side of the ballot or any indepencity is criminal activity. In particular, violent dent candidate was able to give you any sort crime, shootings and homicides. It has a of real competition in the 2011 election? tremendously devastating effect and disproportionate effect on the African-American Mayor Nutter: Ultimately that’s really a community, specifically African-American decision that the voters make. I think that males. So, I want everyone to key in on this like any other incumbent either Democrat or … I want everyone to imagine what this city Republican—city, state or federal—these are would be like with 50 to 100 fewer homivery tough times. Economically and socially. cides. This is not just a moral issue. This is an People have lost their jobs, their homes. economic issue, a social-economic issue that They’ve lost their health care. Pensions are has a devastating impact on our communiunder attack. Their children’s future is to ties. But it’s also the psychological impact some extent uncertain. There’s a lot of pain, that it has on a community when people hear anguish, anger and fear. And people have shots or see somebody lying in the street. So watched, certainly me as a mayor. But I I will be particularly focused in that area and think more importantly me as a mayor and also greater support for what I call returning the City Council trying to do our part at the

citizens. Those who have been incarcerated and are now coming back home. We need to stay focused on that segment of the population because they are most likely potential next offenders or victims. Poverty, homelessness, hunger and illiteracy, combined with an excessive accessibility to illegal handguns, is a very toxic mix. So those are the great challenges that face us. Those are the areas where I will be most focused and concentrating on.

PW: You mentioned earlier that one of the goals in your second term is to get illegal guns off the streets. How exactly do you plan on accomplishing this?

Nutter: It’s a daunting mountain of bodies that we cannot overlook all over this city.

Which is a result of the proliferation of illegal guns across the city. We’ve been working with our partners in law enforcement up and down the federal, state and local chain. We’re putting together a variety of ideas and strategies to enable us to take on this great challenge. I will be making announcements about more of the details of some of the things that we plan to do. It should be clear to everyone that I will not stop my efforts to get illegal guns off the streets and out of the hands of people who shouldn’t have them.

PW: Earlier in the year when the enhanced youth curfew was signed into law, there were some, namely [mayoral candidate] Diop Rahman, who protested the bill on the grounds of being racist. What would you say to someone like him and others who protested the bill?

Nutter: The bill applies citywide. It applies to all young people regardless of race, creed, color, national origin, gender or anything else. Saying the bill was racist is complete nonsense.

here is to make sure we are doing everything we can to ensure young people get a high quality education. I’m working with the governing structure that we currently have.

That is something that is also determined by general assembly and the governor, not by the city.

PW: What do you think is the biggest problem that the Philadelphia School District faces?

Nutter: One great challenge is making sure all of our young people go to school every day. If they’re not in school, we certainly

“One of the most critical things that is ripping out the heart and soul of this city is criminal activity.

In particular, violent crime, shootings and homicides.” cannot teach them. We have to make sure that young people and parents understand that going to school is very important. Two, we have to make sure that schools are a safe place. Both going to, coming from and in the building. Three, to make sure that our teachers have the resources and the support they need. That they are qualified to teach in their subject areas, but also well motivated. Funding is a major issue that we always have to focus on. In the end, learning takes place in the classroom. It’s a partnership amongst the students, teachers and parents to make sure that their child is fully focused on getting the most that they can out of their education.

PW: What as mayor keeps you up at night?

PW: Do you have any regrets in the way the city handled the Occupy Philly movement?

Nutter: No. I think we did, under the circumstances, as decent and respectful job as we possibly could.

PW: Do you agree with Councilman Bill Green’s proposal to get rid of the SRC [School Reform Commission] and put in place a school board that would be appointed by yourself?

Nutter: The proposal just came out in the past week or so. I’ve not had a chance to fully review it, nor have I talked to the councilman in depth about his idea. I appreciate that he is thinking about these issues and my focus

Nutter: I worry about primarily the violence in our city. The young people getting a good education. Those are the things I worry about the most.

PW: Do you have any aspirations of running for governor of Pennsylvania once your second term as mayor is up?

Nutter: The only aspiration I have is to be the best possible mayor I can be during my second term. I have not given one second of thought about doing anything else. n Read the full interview with Mayor Nutter online at philadelphiaweekly.com

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Fish Sticks

Political cartoonist Dwayne Booth’s coming-of-rage.

By William C. Smith feedback@philadelphiaweekly.com

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Dwayne Booth seems like the typical mild-mannered man, middle-aged hipster model, with his round horn-rimmed glasses, thrift-store-chic wardrobe, tousled yet stylish haircut, and bemused expression. Booth lives in the tiny, kid-friendly borough of Narberth with his wife, Diana, a Quaker school technology coordinator, and their 8-year-old twin girls. On school mornings, he waits at the bus stop with his daughters, chatting with the other stay-at-home parents (mostly moms), as commuting neighbors (mostly dads) bustle toward the SEPTA station.

It’s easy to picture Booth in one of his prior low-wage jobs for high-IQ slackers: coffee shop barista, Barnes & Noble clerk, paid medical volunteer. It’s a bit jarring, though, to learn how this unassuming Main Liner actually earns his living.

After waving goodbye to the girls, Booth retreats to a second-floor studio in his twin house, jams some jazz, and draws cartoons.

His work is nothing like newspaper comic strips, or Donkey Democrat vs. Elephant Republican political cartoons. Under the name “Mr. Fish,” Booth’s work is even more radical, and more disturbing, than the standard fare in lefty “alternative” papers like the one you’re reading now.

One Mr. Fish cartoon, captioned “MORE BLOOD!” depicts George W. Bush as the smiling head of a very engorged penis. In another, a haloed God sits dejectedly on a cloud, reacting to the legalization of gay

marriage. “Oh fiddlesticks—I’ll never be able to compete with analingus.”

Even cute herbivores are not safe from his poison pen. A mother deer lovingly explains that “Republicans are dickhead motherfuckers with shit for brains who have gotten everything wrong for the last 50 years.”

Over the years, Mr. Fish cartoons have appeared in Harper’s, Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Mother Jones, Slate, Huffington Post, Truthdig.com and—until a very messy departure— the LA Weekly. Booth has collected his favorite cartoons—both published and rejected—in a new book titled Go Fish: How to Win Contempt and Influence People (Akashic Books, $18.95). The artwork is interspersed with a short memoir—or, as Booth puts it, a “coming-of-rage story.”

Booth grew up in the Jersey shore town of Manahawkin, near Long Beach Island, the son of a “1950s housewife” mother, and a blue-collar stepfather. The town was choked with free-spending tourists all summer, but was desolate after Labor Day. The off-season economy was supported by “a single Dunkin Donuts, a porno shop, two and a half gas stations and a thousand bars,” Booth recalls. “It was suddenly the exact wrong place for tourists to come, unless they wanted to commit suicide in the dunes.”

In this manic-depressive milieu, boy Booth taught himself to draw on purloined classroom paper, sketching skeletons, elaborate battles between sharks and whales, and a 474-page opus on a giant, violent hog named “Suey Pig.” Booth never read comics as a kid, he insists. “I preferred monster magazines, because I pitied monsters. I saw them as victims of straight society’s thuggish refusal to tolerate outsiders.”

After high school, Booth enrolled in Rutgers as a fine-arts student, but dropped out after a couple semesters. He bummed around New Brunswick for another three years, working odd jobs and homeschooling himself on Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre and other wise guys.

Booth began drawing as a break from his main passion: “writing unpublishable diatribes on what’s wrong with everything and everybody in the world.” He adopted the nom de cartoon of “Mr. Fish,” the rejected name of a family bird, to avoid confusion with George Booth—the more famous, less nihilistic New Yorker cartoonist.

Unlike Booth’s angry writing, Mr. Fish’s angry art slowly found a market. His first cartoon was published in Anarchy magazine in 1990. Predictably, the anarchists never got

it together to pay for his cartoons, but they published Mr. Fish for years.

Moving to Los Angeles in 1997, Booth finally landed a steady gig with the LA Weekly, where he was a regular contributor from 2003 until 2010. During these years, Mr. Fish sharpened his pen to skewer the Left’s usual suspects, as well as its heroes.

Some of Mr. Fish’s most malevolent work involves George W. Bush—a gardening Bush planting miniature flag-draped coffins on Earth Day; a blood splattered Bush watching his daughters’ heads being blown off to impress “Middle Eastern Daddies” about Western values; and a Frankenstein monster Bush watching Karl Rove leave the White House, thinking: “Maybe he’s right—maybe the villagers will eventually respect me.”

These days, Mr. Fish is just as brutal with Obama for unfailingly, and predictably, betraying the Hope-and-Change hype. In one cartoon, the dorkily smiling president tells a resurrected Martin Luther King Jr. that his dream is “to not piss off rich people—that’s really about it.” In another, Obama is “selling his war in Afghanistan to suckers,” opening his suit jacket to reveal those ubiquitous flag draped coffins.

Booth admits that he is especially hard on Obama, who “was so likable that his supporters made excuses to perpetuate a lie that politicians will honor their campaign promises.”

An indifferent Protestant boy turned avowedly atheist adult, Mr. Fish’s cartoons often profane the holy. Jesus Christ hits on women at a bar by bragging: “My dad invented the beaver.” A bloody, crucified Jesus is in bed with a blonde, apologizing: “Sorry, baby, not tonight—I gotta rise up early tomorrow.”

While he may offend the odd Christian, Mr. Fish really pisses off Jews and Muslims.

Cartoons critical of Israel’s policy toward the Palestinians—like the Israeli tank with a menorah turret, or emaciated concentration camp survivors protesting the “Holocaust in Gaza”—have drawn death threats and hate mail, says Booth, who insists that he is neither pro-Palestinian nor anti-Semitic, but antiviolence.

In September 2005, Mr. Fish jumped—or, rather, tried to jump—into the worldwide controversy over the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. Booth submitted to the mainstream daily LA Times and the alternative LA Weekly a recreation of one of the most inflammatory cartoons—Mohammed with a bombshell turban. It was a dot-to-dot version, so readers could have the thrill of actually drawing one of the graven images that had sparked bloody riots throughout the Muslim world.

Cowed by death threats from Islamic fundamentalists, the worldwide mainstream media had a self-imposed ban on reprinting the sacrilegious cartoons. The LA Times immediately rejected the cartoon, Booth says, “because they were afraid of having their heads chopped off, literally, and their families killed.”

However, the LA Weekly editors summoned the courage to publish his dot-to-dot Mohammed. The day before the cartoon was to appear, Booth happened to be speaking to a cartoonist group in San Diego. “I told everybody in the room to pick up a copy of the Weekly and send a message that we are a free

society capable of grappling with controversy and celebrating the virtues of fighting censorship.”

The next day, Booth logged on to the LA Weekly website to show his wife the controversial cartoon that might endanger their family.

There it wasn’t.

In its place was a cartoon by another artist that posed no risk of provoking Islamic ire.

As Booth later learned, his Mohammed cartoon was pulled in a last-minute “stop the presses” order from the paper’s owner, Village Voice Media Group. “Sometime around midnight, the machines stopped and my creative director had to provide an alternative cartoon that was not so dangerous,” he says.

The experience confirmed Booth’s longheld views on the media, free speech and dissent.

“My being censored didn’t surprise me entirely, nor did it alter my expectations from those who control the mass media of this country. I’ve had cartoons about Bush, the U.S. military, Israel and the Pope pulled, too.”

“Calling for violence against a perceived

“Where does a radically left-leaning political cartoonist go to piss off powerful people and to document the rage and contempt of liberalminded loud-mouths?” thought crime is grotesque, whether it be against the editor of a Danish newspaper or the population of a region of the world that American foreign policy is currently targeting for one reason or another.”

Booth’s relationship with LA Weekly soured after its owner was bought out in 2006

by New Times Media, owner of a string of alternative papers. According to Booth, the profit-hungry new owners (still operating as Village Voice Media) gutted the paper’s “sizable and competent staff” to the point where the current personnel “only slightly outnumber the Osmond brothers.”

Booth hung on, still contributing cartoons after moving back to the Philadelphia area in 2009. When he was finally axed in January 2010, Booth did not go gentle into the freelancer good night. In a scorching post on his website, Crowncrack.com, he sniffed that Mr. Fish “no longer fit in with the TMZ/ your-ad-here/journalism-produced-cheaplywill-produce-cheap-journalism” look of the Village Voice Media chain.

Booth concluded his bridge-burning diatribe with the rhetorical question: “Where does a radically left-leaning political cartoonist go to piss off powerful people and to document the rage and contempt of liberal-minded loud-mouths and vengeful humanitarians?”

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By Michael Alan Goldberg I mgoldberg@philadelphiaweekly.com

ithin moments of hearing the pop-pop-pop of gunshots outside her Brewerytown rowhouse just past midnight on May 2, 2010, a sickening feeling hit Vonda Bowser in her gut. “Wood!” she screamed, running out the door. There’d been a confrontation across the street, where her 20-year-old son, Linwood, had been hanging out with a couple friends. Someone had fired a bullet into Wood’s chest. Within an hour, he was dead.

Losing her only son was bad enough. But Bowser’s grief was compounded in the ensuing months when she learned that PPD homicide detectives had a pretty good idea who killed Wood—a man who has since been incarcerated on a separate charge—but they didn’t have enough to pin the murder on him. That’s because Wood’s friends refused to tell police what they witnessed that night.

“Two young men saw what happened, but they’re goin’ by that ‘no snitching’ code so they say they saw nothing,” Bowser, 40, says quietly. “I begged them to tell me something, to tell me what [the shooter] looked like. They said they didn’t know. One of them, his mother told him not to say anything—she feels like her son and maybe herself would be threatened if he snitched. You know, ‘snitches get stitches.’”

The men’s ongoing lack of cooperation “mortifies me,” says Bowser. She hears the suspected shooter is getting out of jail soon. “The agony in your heart that the person who took your child’s life is not held accountable, that they’re getting away with murder ... I can’t even explain the pain I feel every single day.”

It’s stories like Bowser’s that infuriate Troi Torain.

“What. The. Fuck,” says Torain. “I’m not gonna sit back and watch people get shot down by some fucking savage. And I ain’t tryin’ to hear ‘stop snitching’ anymore. It’s a culture of ignorance that protects these little animals for no good reason except for some ‘keepin’ it real’ bullshit that prevents people from doing the right thing.”

Torain is better known as Star, the unapologetically brash and controversial half of the popular, long-running “Star & Buc Wild” hip-hop radio team, most recently heard mornings on Philly’s 100.3FM “The Beat.” The duo was dropped last summer when the station changed formats, but not before Torain made a visit to City Hall for a press conference in late June. There, flanked by Mayor Michael Nutter, Deputy Police Commissioner Richard Ross and other city officials, Torain announced his new “Start Snitching” campaign—hatched to combat the street code that continues to stymie Philly cops investigating violent and deadly crimes.

Though he’s not on Philadelphia airwaves anymore, 47-year-old Torain—who lives on a 40-acre parcel of land in tiny Hazleton, Pa., about two hours north of Philly, with his girlfriend and three Chihuahuas—hasn’t abandoned the city or his campaign. Since mid-October, he has been using his @startsnitching Twitter name to link followers to news stories and videos regarding unsolved crimes in Philly and elsewhere around the country. He has gotten offers to bring “Star & Buc Wild” to stations in other states, but instead Torain’s going solo, dropping the Star name and committing fully to the cause, launching Start Snitching, his Ustream Internet TV show, later this month. If all goes well, he hopes to bring an accompanying radio show to Philly this year.

Modeled in part after America’s Most Wanted—“call me ‘John Walsh 2.0,’” Torain laughs—Start Snitching will be taped in New York, where Torain turned urban radio upside down for a decade before coming here, but it’ll focus heavily on Philly crime. “I watch the numbers, I know the stats. Philly’s one of those places where you can get your wig pushed back really fast,” he says.

Torain’s show will spotlight specific cases—and encourage witnesses to come forward with information—in the hopes of getting justice for people like Bowser, and slowing down the cycle of violence that consumes neighborhoods. And in keeping with his self-embraced notoriety as “The Hater” (he doesn’t hate the game, just some of the players), he intends to call out hip-hop culture—and a number of high-profile rappers—for promulgating the “stop snitching” mentality.

“Hip-hop is the babies leading the babies, and I don’t subscribe to that ignorance,” he says.

It’s inevitable Torain will catch flak as a hip-hop turncoat, but that doesn’t seem to faze him. “I don’t give a fuck what anyone says about me,” he says. “I’m the bad guy. I’m the ‘Sammy the Bull’ [Gravano] of hip-hop, whatever. Call me anything you want. Matter of fact, call me ‘Mr. Snitch,’ because that’s what I’m doing now.”

But Torain’s got plenty of fans and followers, too. Maybe his voice—deeply embedded in popular youth culture, rather than critical from afar—can turn the tide against “stop snitching” in a way that others haven’t.

“Somebody has to take a stand, someone’s gotta lead the charge,” he says, “and I’m that guy.”

There were 324 murders in Philadelphia in 2011, down from 391 in 2007 (a

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60 percent in 2011. There are more killings, more people never turn down an opportunity to talk to young kids, getting away with them and not nearly enough witnesses but I realize that most of them are not paying me any talking to police. attention,” he laments. That’s why he was thrilled when “Even with us suffering a decline in our clearance Torain approached him and Mayor Nutter to get behind rate, the numbers suggest a lot of people do cooperate,” “Start Snitching,” and invited them on “Star & Buc Wild” insists Ross, the deputy police chief. “But with probably last summer to talk about the campaign.

90-something-percent of all homicides, somebody knows “He’s one of those guys that can touch them in ways who did it, so there’s a gap.” that we can’t, since he’s got a lot of credibility with the “Every homicide that comes through the door is youth,” says Ross, whose daughter is a dedicated “Star handled the same way in the first day or two,” Ross says. & Buc Wild” fan, going back to when the show was “We approach it with a team effort and we want to solve syndicated on Power 99 from 2004 to 2006. “I had to every homicide, but how much witness cooperation we get up every morning listening to it whether I wanted to get dictates how much manpower we can throw at it.” or not,” he laughs. “[Torain] calls things like they are.

Which is why city officials and scores of advocacy Sometimes it made me cringe a little bit,” Ross adds, groups have spent years pleading with the public for alluding to Torain’s liberal use of the N-word and rough more cooperation with police. And yet that message street slang. typically falls on deaf ears.

In fact, Torain’s initial meeting with Nutter and Ross Anthony Murphy, executive director of Town Watch had to be brokered by Barry Mayo and E. Steven Collins— Integrated Services, has spent the better part of three decades preaching some version of “See Something, Say Something” to Philly youth, trying to explain to them that snitching means “if me and you commit a crime and I get caught, if I told on you to get my sentence reduced, I snitched.”

The distinction is vital because out on the streets, the concept of snitching has morphed from dropping a dime and cutting your time to being a rat just for reporting any criminal activity, even if you’re not directly involved.

Regardless of how the meaning got twisted—street thugs using witness intimidation to protect their own hides; hip-hop sending out a message that anyone in league with the po-po for any TK reason isn’t to be trusted; or the media getting it wrong and broadcasting misinformation—for the current generation, “Stop Snitching” is understood to mean that if you see something and say something, you’re liable to catch a slug as payback.

That’s the attitude Murphy’s trying to quell. “People have a responsibility to tell,” Star power: Troi Torain announces his "Start Snitching" campaign at City Hall in June. he insists, “and we’ve stopped educating our youth about civic values—your roles and responsibilities as a citizen.” widely respected bigwigs at urban media giant Radio It’s the same message Dorothy Johnson-Speight, One, which owns 100.3FM—because Torain’s outrageous founder of Mothers in Charge—the organization of local and sometimes disturbing reputation had preceded him. women who’ve lost children to street violence (Bowser The NYPD arrested him in 2006 after he made on-air joined not long after her son’s murder)—has been threats to urinate on the 4-year-old daughter of radio struggling to deliver for a decade. She estimates that of rival DJ Envy and offered listeners $500 to tell him what the hundreds of mothers in her group, at least half of school the girl attended. In 2001, he was suspended by the homicides that claimed their kids remain unsolved, Hot 97 after he broke the news of the death of R&B star many because of “no snitching.”

Aaliyah with sound effects of a plane crash and a woman Two weeks ago, Mothers in Charge, joined by the PPD, screaming. And during a 2004 gag gone way wrong, he led a large motorcade around the city to denounce the dialed a call center in India and proceeded to call the escalating homicide rate. Along the way, they stopped customer service woman a “bitch” and a “rat-eater,” to read the names of the murdered and essentially beg garnering widespread condemnation and a suspension people to talk to the police if they have information from Power 99. about a killing—to help bring closure and begin to heal a “I’ve said some fucked-up shit on the radio,” Torain mother’s grief. admits. “People hear my name and they go, ‘Whoa, that “That code of the street makes me so angry because guy. Whoa, whoa.’ So [Nutter and Ross] were looking at nobody should have that kind of loyalty to criminals,” me at first, like, ‘I don’t know about this guy’ … but within says Johnson-Speight, whose 24-year-old son Khaaliq three minutes I convinced them that I’m a serious guy was shot in 2001 by a man who’d killed 19-year-old and I was here to assist in Philly.”

Justin Donnelly six months earlier, but remained out Though he’s ramping things up with the Internet TV on the streets because witnesses wouldn’t “snitch” to show, Torain’s “Start Snitching” campaign goes back the police. “It’s a mentality they have that’s very hard to nearly 10 years, when he started promoting a propenetrate,” she says, “so trying to convey our message [of snitching ethos on the air at Hot 97. “There was no single cooperation] is always a challenge.” case, no great epiphany,” he says. “It’s just something that Ross knows that frustrating feeling all too well. “I

I’ve always wanted to do ever since I first started doing radio. I have a fascination with crimefighting.”

Torain’s a walking paradox. Growing up in an upper class household in Scotch Plains, N.J., he went to private schools, had an in-ground swimming pool, “got a brandnew moped every year,” and was the only black kid in his neighborhood into heavy metal and playing ice hockey.

And yet, he says, when this seemingly soft, coddled kid started running on the crime side of New York in the early ’80s, “I never got my ass kicked, but I kicked a lot of niggas’ asses who were from the projects. A lot of niggas’ asses. I pistol-whipped people. I choked motherfuckers out. I beat motherfuckers’ asses on Nostrand Ave. in Brooklyn.”

He says that for most of the ’80s and into the ’90s, he snorted mountains of cocaine and committed various petty crimes. “There have been situations in my life where I could’ve gone to prison for five or 10 years,” he says. “But I’ve been a clean, rational man for many, many years now.”

In cleaning himself up and building the “Star & Buc Wild” brand from cableaccess phenomenon to a syndicated radio juggernaut, he pulled off the singular feat of repping hip-hop to millions of listeners daily and being a central, celebrated figure in the hip-hop world, all the while ruthlessly criticizing myriad aspects of that world which he found objectionable.

He’s bringing a similar mindset to Start Snitching.

“I’m addressing this from inside hip-hop, from the eye of the tornado, deep inside the culture that’s responsible for this ‘no snitching’ bullshit,” says Torain, noting that too many rappers are trying to “keep up the old gangsta persona” to make money, regardless of the ramifications their rhymes have on the street.

“I’ve spent a lot of years grindin’ that microphone,” he says. “People know I know what I’m talking about, they know where I’ve been and what I’ve done, and they’re gonna listen to me and respect what I have to say.”

“He’s fearless, and when he gets involved in something he gives his all, so I know it’s gonna be huge,” says Helene Sola—aka “White Trash Helene,” one of Torain’s sidekicks on “Star & Buc Wild” since 2004—who says he’s got a knack for relating to the kids that they need to absorb his message. “He knows the dance moves, he knows the forms, the lyrics … He looks like he’s 25 years old, he dresses like them. He knows what’s up, and he doesn’t talk down to them but he tells it like it is.”

Torain says the 30-minute show—the first episode of which is still in production and doesn’t have a firm air date yet, other than “mid-January”—will be a serious affair, which is why he’s divorcing himself from the Star name and persona.

“It’s going to be very similar to Bill O’Reilly or Nancy Grace,” he says. “I’ll be sitting at a desk. I’m not gonna be dropping F-bombs and N-words. It’s gonna be a very upscale show.”

Assisted by a small staff, including four NYPD officers acting as consultants, Torain will show sometimesgraphic footage of unsolved murders and other

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Lyrically, Reef’s message isn’t that far removed from to talking to the police because someone started a That’s all. John Walsh isn’t out there telling people how Torain’s. But he still can’t get behind Start Snitching. campaign.” to hold a fork at the table. He just wants to get the bad “My whole thing is, and it might sound a little bit Reef says mistrust of the police, more than any kind guys off the streets.” crazy, I’m not opposed to vigilante justice,” he says. “I of allegiance to street code, is at the heart of the “no But Torain won’t pull any punches with the rappers feel like that’s where we’re at in this time. I’m not saying snitching” mindset. Citing the negative relationship on his shit list. “I took my gloves off years ago,” he people need to go out and start shooting at criminals. many young black men have with police, and his own says. On the debut episode, Torain plans to call for a But there was a period where you couldn’t do things experiences being hassled by cops for no reason, the national boycott of Busta Rhymes, who just signed to in certain areas because they knew the brothers there 30-year-old Lacey—a prodigious freestyle rapper and Cash Money Records—home to hip-hop superstars weren’t having it. We need to get back to that. We need veteran battle emcee who’s never run afoul of the law, Lil Wayne, Drake and Nicki Minaj—in hopes of to tell kids that if you see something, tell an adult and and is known for his work mentoring kids in Philly— resurrecting his flagging career. we’ll handle it. I know you can’t take the law into your says it may be too late to repair the fractured trust “I think Busta Rhymes is a real own hands, but if people don’t feel piece of shit,” says Torain. “He like they can talk to the police then watched a guy get gunned down, a nothing gets done at all. So I’m father of three, and he won’t talk to looking at it like the lesser of two the police because he wants to keep evils.” his street credibility. What a fucking You can add that perspective to idiot.” the list of things Torain’s not trying Torain’s still seething over the 2006 to hear. “That’s retaliatory shit, you incident in which Busta’s bodyguard, can’t do that shit. Then you get people Israel “Izzy” Ramirez, was shot to shooting into a crowd. I could be in death outside a Brooklyn warehouse the club when that goes down. I could where Busta, 50 Cent, Missy Elliott be in the bar that night.” and Mary J. Blige, along with 500 He’s not buying the fear argument, extras, were shooting the video for either. “Not an excuse,” says Torain.

“Touch It.” Though Busta maintained “That cannot be the overruling he was inside the building at the time decision, that if I speak [to police] I’m of the shooting, witnesses placed the gonna be retaliated on. I say that’s rapper right next to Ramirez when the a small, distorted reality. I’m not bullets started flying. Busta refused saying it doesn’t happen, but that fear to cooperate with the investigation, is magnified more than what it really angering police—at the time, NYPD is. You can’t let fear keep you from Commissioner Ray Kelly publicly doing the right thing. You have to berated the rapper for withholding strive to do more, to do better.” information—and the murder remains And if, beyond fear or issues with unsolved. police, it comes down to simple Other targets, whose songs or allegiance to a long-standing street videos, Torain says, promote anticode, Vonda Bowser says: “They loyal Most wanted: Start Snitching will spotlight specific murder cases and encourage witnesses to come forward. snitching messages: The Game (“He’s to a lie. They think it’s a code that a fucking clown—we’re gonna go after everybody goes by, but when those his dumb ass”), Lil Wayne (“Fuckin’ ignorant”), and guys get in jail they’re makin’ deals.” between cops and the hood.

Kreayshawn (“She’s out there talkin’ that silly shit: ‘I’m “It’s them wanting to fit in, be part of something that’s “I know that in order for anyone to ever want to in the VIP with the chopper,’ which is a gun. Really?”) really not real,” she says. “Like, ‘I got your back, I’m your cooperate with the police, the police have to ensure “We don’t wanna beat up on hip-hop, but it does boy.’ My son was like, ‘No those my friends, they down, that people are gonna be treated with the respect they have to be pointed out that hip-hop glorifies ignorance, we down, they cool,’ and that’s not true—his so-called deserve,” says Reef. “What happens when you call the and people need to see how stupid this shit really is,” friends who know who killed him won’t say anything. police is you end up being interrogated by them like says Torain. “Maybe when they start really seein’ that, Now the person who killed my son might go back out you’re the one who did something wrong—‘Do you know they’ll start to think differently.” there and kill someone else.” these people? How do you know them? Where these Bowser, who worries about the future for her young people at?’ All this shit.”

But if the streets are any indication, getting people to grandson—left fatherless when Wood was gunned And, he says, the fear factor is very real. “[Police] let start snitching is going to remain an uphill battle. down—says she’s glad that Torain is “stepping up and you fend for yourself after they get the information they At the Kingsessing Rec Center in SW Philly, where trying to do something,” and she hopes that Start need. I’ve known people who’ve tried to do the right six people were shot when a gunman fired into a crowd Snitching will begin to expose that lie, bring justice to thing … and they end up getting killed. People think it’s of hundreds watching an adult league basketball game killers and get violent criminals off the streets. the movies where there’s two cops outside your door last summer, a group of teenage boys standing near the Torain’s only too happy to oblige. “Somebody has to every day. Naw, man—maybe the day before you’re courts laugh about the idea of cooperating with police if stand up and say, ‘I wanna put you in a place called the supposed to testify they’ll come and get you. But the they’d witnessed that or any other incident. penitentiary if you’re shooting into a crowd, if you’re idea that the police are protecting you from whatever’s “I ain’t talkin’ to no police,” says one. shooting some hardworking father in the neck, if it’s out there is bullshit … you’re on your own, and everyone “Snitches get stiches,” says another, repeating the a reckless shooting because you’re high or you wanna out here knows that.” mantra. “I don’t wanna get shot too,” agrees his friend. have fun.’ This shit is unacceptable, and if we don’t start While Reef concedes that hip-hop bears some Near King’s Water Ice In North Philly, not far from snitching, we’re gonna keep destroying ourselves from responsibility for promoting “no snitching,” he says where Linwood Bowser was gunned down, a 37-yearthe inside.” n there are rappers out there who address the harsh

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Body awareness Gifted, young playwright Annie Baker stole the show in September at the Philly Fringe when Theatre Exile presented her mesmerizing drama The Aliens. Baker returns to the city with the Wilma Theater’s production of the playwright’s 2008 work Body Awareness, which begins performances tonight and continues through Feb. 5. Similar to Aliens, Body Awareness is set in the small town of Shirley, Vt., home to Shirley State College, which is commemorating “Body Awareness Week.” The school’s celebration of the human form brings a photographer with photos of naked women to the home of liberal college professor Phyllis, her girlfriend Joyce and Joyce’s 21-year-old son Jared, who may or may not have Asperger’s Syndrome. Like Aliens, nothing thunderous occurs in Awareness. Rather, in Baker’s involving exploration of gender and parenting, the drama emerges quietly but with surprising force. J.

metal/noise rock monsters Fight Amp will never comfortably occupy the same bill, but the disparate bands share at least one rare detail: They both partly owe their names to the Velvet Underground. In Fight Amp’s case, the five-piece (now three-piece) originally called itself Fight Amputation, which partially nodded to “Rock & Roll” from 1990’s Loaded: “Despite all the amputations, you know you could just go out/ And dance to the rock ’n’ roll station.” The resulting act’s music isn’t nearly as jovial as that snippet suggests—on the contrary, “Thankless” finds them reciting the phrase “I wouldn’t trust the living” like a good piece of advice—but Fight Amp’s workmanlike gusto lends their coarse material a convincing sense of earnestness.

Fingers crossed that they elevate their Velvets worship by tackling “Venus in Furs” or “Heroin” someday. reyAn Ali 7:30pm. $8. With Psychic Teens, Whores + Bardus. Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St. 215.291.4919. kungfunecktie.com

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For three long years, the England Belongs to Twee DJ collective did the impossible by melding hardcore Oi anthems with sweet Twee ditties, and it was bloody brilliant. Sadly, as when testosterone is fed its soundtrack, and anger its team jacket, some hooligans went and actually rioted, just like their heroes on the covers of the albums, and the historic night came to a rebel halt. Now, the EBTT droogs will reband for an extra-special evening spinning the punk classics, the riot grrl thrashes, the soul stompers, the two-tone steppers and the twee smooches—if it wears an anorak, they’ll be playing it. AbigAil bruley 9pm. Donations accepted. Barbarella, 951 Frankford Ave. 215.634.7400. englandbelongstotwee.com

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First Person arts Story Slam First Person Arts, a local nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting storytelling in the city, is back for its 2012 Story Slam season. Conceived as a series of bi-monthly competitions, the event features 10 people who are chosen at random from a hat. Each of these 10 people are given five-minute slots to tell a personal story. To kick off January, First Person Arts has selected the theme “Daily Grind.” Though the theme is intentionally open-ended, it’s easy to conjure up a few memorable and bizarre work stories.

Even if you’re too shy to put your name in the hat, stop by and listen to individuals vie for a coveted spot at the annual Grand Slam, and a chance to be crowned “Best Storyteller in Philadelphia.” Kyle bellA 7:30pm. $10. World Live Cafe, 3025 Walnut St. worldcafelive.com

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Let’s recap what we do know. First, the project is a solo affair manned by Disco Biscuits drummer Allen Aucoin. Unlike the mélange of electronica and jam-band stylings that the Biscuits are known for, Fameus focuses on the electronica side, allowing Aucoin to bang away at his kit while a computer gladly handles all the techno-esque segments.

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The drummer first began performing live under this alias in February 2008, but the moniker’s history stretches back to his days at Berklee College of Music, where he had both a predilection for lateness and a friend who used the word “famous” incessantly. Eventually, his tardiness earned him the nickname he employs today. Just don’t be fooled by that pesky spelling: Pronouncing “Dr. Fameus” correctly has more in common with “Seamus” than “atheist.” R.A.

visiting avant-gardists. To kick off 2012, the label welcomes Philly cellist/guitarist/vocalist Helena Espvall, whose music evokes the Arctic climes and austere expanses of her native Sweden. Marcia Bassett, of New York, brings a much freakier template of processed vocals and noise to the party. How will she play off of Espvall’s calm folkloric melodies and looped and layered legato cello? Only one way to find out. Tara Burke, another Espvall collaborator, is slated to appear with her Fursaxa project, and Bassett will venture a solo set under the moniker Zaïmph (a Flaubert reference). dAvid R. AdleR 8pm. $6. With Fursaxa + Zaïmph.

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9pm. $10-$12. With CIA. The Blockley Pourhouse, 3801 Chestnut St. 215.222.1234. theblockley.com

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Most people spend the first week of the new year recovering from all the New Year’s Eve mayhem they manage to get themselves into.

But if you still have a little energy left, spend a lazy Saturday strolling around the Pennsy Flea Market. Philadelphia’s largest flea market boast more than 300 vendors, so you’ll find baked goods, fresh produce, collectibles and vintage clothing. Located in South Philly, the large indoor and outdoor market also features an auction and offers consignment shopping. Registration for the auction is free and you can do it before or during the event.

And, Pennsy will take just about anything for consignment, including gym equipment, tools and sport memorabilia. S.S.

Tap into your inner Indiana Jones and check out the Archaeology Fair at the Franklin Institute this week. Hosted by the Archaeology Institute of America, the event is the perfect place for adults who act like kids or kids who like digging in the dirt. Archaeologists, specialists and teachers will be on hand to present the activities and educate the crowd about what it’s like to be an archaeologist.

Presenters for the event include the Penn Museum, Franklin Pierce University Anthropology Club, the Bucks County Community College Arts Department, the Pennsylvania Archaeological Council and the Legio III Cyrenaica. Sydney Scott

9:30am-5:30pm. Pennsy Flea Market, 1600 S. Warfield St. 215.463.3532. pennsyfleamarket.com

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Hypocrisy: The Anti-Sex Mystery Despite whatever strides we may have made in women’s liberation and the fact that it’s now 2012, for far too many women the discussion of sex comes with feelings of shame and embarrassment. You know, because only men are entitled to satisfying sexual relationships. We’re just supposed to lay there and moan occasionally. Rather than simply promoting promiscuity, Hypocrisy is about embracing the beauty of sexual intercourse and empowering women to speak up and tell their mates what it is that they like and don’t like. Combining spoken word and theater, the play centers around five women from five generations who obviously have different ideas and experiences with sex and relationships. Through their open dialogue, the women explore and validate various issues with

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boog It’s no small feat when someone can come along with just a voice and an acoustic guitar and make you feel like you haven’t heard it all before. It’s especially great when it’s a youngin’ like 20-something singer-songwriter Kyle Simmons, better known as boog (yep, lowercase), who jams Nick Cave bite, Tom Waits weirdness and Dylanesque storytelling acumen into his Southern Gothic-tinged folk, and yet doesn’t really sound like any of those dudes. With a strangely accented, occasionally unhinged baritone and sometimesfrantic strums, boog colors his dark, immersive character sketches with rum kisses, squirming worms, lamb-eyed stares and vagrant’s dreams. Tonight you get to hear him do it for free, as part of the North Star’s continuing Victorian Dining Room acoustic series. MichAel AlAn GoldbeRG 8pm. Free. With Elisha Kane. North Star Bar, 2639 Poplar St. 215.787.0488. northstarbar.com

genre flourished through the late 1980s and 1990s, King Django became one of its leading, nonIsland born proponents, fronting N.Y. area outfits like Skinnerbox and Stubborn All-Stars, guesting with Murphy’s Law and the Toasters and collaborating with many of rock steady’s biggest stars. Along the way, he’s invented one of music’s more bizarre hybrids: Jewish-themed ska.

His bass-thumping, hypnotic “Slaughter” filters the Holocaust through a Kingstown lens, telling the story of a grandfather who died in a concentration camp.

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Sandra Bernhard Fresh from appearing with Betty White on TV Land’s hit show Hot in Cleveland, Sandra Bernhard is bringing her show, “I Love Being Me, Don’t You” to the Painted Bride. Bernhard is a mix of Don Rickles on steroids with a sprinkling of Liza Minelli.

The sultry brunette, accompanied by a backup band, will also sing a few songs.

During the show, she lets loose about Obama, conspicuous consumption and the superiority of gays over straights. Attendees will hear riffs on Pippa Middleton’s butt (two peaches) and Bristol Palin’s role as an abstinence spokeswoman. Bernard, who was famously Madonna’s gal pal in the ’80, pokes fun at the crusades of Madonna’s heir apparent, Lady Gaga. Audience members, who think that they can just sit back and relax, beware. This twisted sister loves to skewer the crowd. lAuRA GoldMAn 8pm. $40-$50. Painted Bride Art Center, 230 Vine St. 215.925.9914. paintedbride.org

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allowed to speak freely about their thoughts without fear of judgment. During the opening, many of the active members of the city’s Faeries will be in attendance to showcase their talents, passions and personal legacies.

(Kyle Bella) Thurs/12, 6pm. William Way, 1315 Spruce St. waygay.com

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Known for hosting some of the largest and most diverse monthly LGBT parties in the Northeast, Stimulus Philly is pulling out all the stops for their first Arouse party of 2012.

Besides taking over a stunning new venue in University City with two huge bars, two dance floors and great drink specials, they’ll be hosting a DJ battle open to anyone who thinks they’ve got the skills to impress. This month’s installment will also help raise money for Equality PA and their continuing efforts to achieve equality for LGBT Pennsylvanians through education, policy and legislative action. (N.F.) Sat/14, 10pm. $7-$10. Landmark Americana, 3333 Market St. 215.222.4500. landmarkamericana.com

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The Liberty City Kings (LiCK), Philadelphia’s proud queer drag and burlesque troupe, holds its bimonthly cabaret and dance party at Tabu this month. In homage to glitter and Occupy Wall Street, LiCK hopes to present a glitter resistance through a series of sexy, scintillating and often-raunchy acts that explore the intersections of drag and burlesque. Though politics and pleasure are often seen as being distant, LiCK hopes to bring the two together in a series of performance and dance aerobics that explode expectations without all of the weighty pretense and uncomfortable moments you’d expect. Drag or kink outfits are encouraged (and get you a discount off the cover charge). And since LiCK doesn’t want to be the only ones getting naked, DJ Evil V will be spinning tracks and encouraging you to shimmy and shake the night away. So bring yourself, bring your lover(s), bring your kink and get ready to be part of the glitter resistance. (K.B.) Sat/7, 8pm. $8-$10. Tabu, 200 S. 12th St. tabuphilly.com n

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This month, the Philadelphia Faeries host Faerie groups from around the country in a gathering of music, dance, visual arts and conversation. As part of the gathering, the William Way Center is opening an exhibit exploring the broader history of the Faeries. The exhibit attempts to show how a community has embraced their differences from the non-LGBT world through practices that include heart circles, where everyone is

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With so many run-of-the-mill dance parties in this city to choose from, it’s about damn time someone added more drag queens to the equation. On the main floor, DJ John Gill will be spinning a mix of club and radio faves with a drag performance every hour. On the second floor, Showgirl Arena, host and DJ, the “Vaginally Challenged” Brittany Lynn will be joined by four fabulous ladies for a show every half-hour starring Miss Pinklewinkle, Aida Snatchwell, Diana Dharling and Tammy Faymous. In addition to a slew of drink specials (including Raven’s delicious champagne and Pop Rocks and root beer barrels for just $5), shot girls will be providing complimentary body shots throughout the evening. (Nicole Finkbiner) Fri/6, 10pm. $5.

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As always, this quarterly showcase will feature a variety of queer and transgender performance artists and help a member of the GncGVTG community supplement the cost of their much-needed gender reassignment surgery. This particular installment will benefit Gender Reel’s very own Sam Richman, a female-to-male transperson and will also be the last MixTape held at the beloved South Philly music venue before relocating to its new home at the Troc’s Balcony Bar in April. (N.F.) Fri/27, 9pm. $5-$10. Tritone, 1508 South St. 215.545.0475. genderreelfest.com

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By Cristina Perachio feedback@philadelphiaweekly.com Veal Sweetbreads at McCrossen’s Tavern, you are quite the misunderstood dish!

It’s true. Many customers have no clue who I really am, but love to speculate.

I’ve been mistaken for lungs, brains— even testicles!

Can you reveal your true identity?

I’m no mystery meat! I’m a thymus gland, usually found in young animals.

Chef Townsend Wentz buys me from Pat LaFrieda Meats in New York.

Tell me how Chef Wentz prepares you.

First, I’m poached to medium rare in a court boullion—water, wine and black peppercorn—and then I’m peeled, sliced thick, seasoned with salt and pepper and sauteed.

How about your supporting cast?

That would be grilled veal tongue—also poached but for two hours, then sliced thick and grilled—plus Wentz’s pickled potatoes.

And what are the potatoes wearing?

They’re dressed while still warm from poaching with sherry vinegar, red wine vinegar and extra virgin olive oil. Then we add bacon, shallot, salt, pepper and piment de’espelette—a pepper from Southwest France that packs a small amount of heat and a distinct flavor.

Any finishing touches?

A sweet ’n’ savory au jus with whole grain and dijon mustards finished with sherry and butter.

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Can you recommend a wine pairing?

Wentz likes to wash me down with a crisp Sauvignon Blanc from Decibel Wines in New Zealand.

What are customers saying about you?

Those who love sweetbreads think I’m the best. And of those who have never feasted on SB—or those who thought I was actually balls or brains—about half of them are sweetbread converts after tasting me.

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its main purpose: as the base to Birra’s satisfying pizzas.

There are more than a dozen of them here, ranging from the margherita, with its fresh mozzarella and cured tomatoes, to the puttanesca, which, though half a step too salty for me, was nonetheless a good-faith effort at recreating that piquant sauce. One slice was perfect, the salinity of the meaty white anchovies, capers and olive pesto softened by garlic pesto and mozzarella; two, however, would have required more beer to quench the resulting thirst than I wanted to drink.

Regardless, this is a multiple beer kind of place, not just to wash down the food but to take advantage of the selection, which Rolling in the dough: The mac and cheese pizza at Birra is delicious, oozy joy. reminds me of a well-edited list of Foodery favorites, as well as some you’ve likely never Strictly speaking, no one really needs to have a mac and encountered. Ask for guidance; the staff is knowledgeable cheese pizza “Birra bowl” in their life. In fact, given the state and enthusiastic. of this country’s collective cholesterol and waistline and our A bottle of Menabrea Ambrata worked particularly well ever-expanding national gut, this calorie-delivery-system with the meatball al forno, baseball-sized fists of veal and could be considered the mortal enemy of the healthy-eating beef—from a secret family recipe—that were as tender crowd. But just as we go to concerts to revel in the music and as any I’ve had recently. And while they could have used not worry about the long-term damage to our hearing, or gulp just a bit more salt on their own, they were perfect when down a fourth or fifth liver-stressing glass of beer or wine dragged through the gently piquant tomato sauce and a because it tastes so damn good, so, too, does this particular light dusting of parmigiano.

Birra bowl exist for wholly laudable reasons: pleasure and Mussels were also thoughtfully conceived and gluttony and cheesy, oozy joy. generously portioned, the long slices of dried Asian chili What’s not to love? A heaping helping of macaroni, all sparking the garlicky, complex Peroni broth to life. And stringy and rich with fontina, pecorino and mozzarella, the next time I visit for a simpler meal, I’m likely to just sit tossed with herbs and breadcrumbs, is baked in the pizza at the bar with a beer and an unpressed fontina, roasted oven covered by a protective cap of dough. When it’s done, porchetta panini—with a beautifully seasoned pork the entire smoky, steamy construction is flipped over, the belly-wrapped rib loin that’s seen two-and-a-half hours bowl removed, and voila! The Birra bowl: Mac and cheese in a in the oven in the middle—and revel in the happiness that pizza-dough vessel. Best of all, any pizza on the menu at Birra squirts out of each bite. can be ordered this way.

All of this is served in a space that’s both comfortable The bowl, in fact, is a nice stand-in for so much of the Birra and cool—striated surfaces, televisions, the music barely experience. It wins you over by virtue of ebullience, flavor and audible through the thrum of conversation, the smoky audacity. Judging by crowds, this seems to be just what we’ve perfume of the oven hovering over everything. Birra’s well been waiting for. worth your time. n Not everything here is about heft; no serious restaurant could survive on that alone. What’s more remarkable than the size of the physical dishes is the size of the flavors, many of Birra which seem to have been somehow magnified.

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Price range: $6-$19.

Of the trio of accompanying breads, paradoxically fluffy, Atmosphere: Warm and convivial. dense focaccia and oil-crispy baguette were the highlights, Food: Generous—in every sense of the word. though flatbread (really just less-cooked pizza dough) did provide a nice background for the spreads’ expressive flavors.

Service: Helpful and well-versed.

The dough is the real highlight, however, when used for Felicia Perretti

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In Vox’s second guest artist exhibition of the season Catherine Maloney, Leah Beeferman, Guy Ben-Ari and Brie Ruais explore a wide range of themes using painting, video and mixed-media. In 1201.2880v1, Leah Beeferman draws on her research into physical and mathematical laws to create sci-fi conceptual images whose sleek aesthetics throw their very accuracy as scientific proofs into question.

On the other end of philosophical-material continuum, the raw physicality of Brie Ruais’ clay sculptures obviates Beeferman’s theoretical postulates; resting implacably on the floor, the tactile mass of Ruasi’ sculptures already declare their terrestrial origins. A painter, Guy Ben-Ari tests the limits of how many theoretical allusions a single canvas can bear, while Catherine Maloney treats her obsession with men, television and outer space to a light touch via her photographic series Teleplay, Part I. 6-11pm. Through Jan. 29. Vox Populi, 319 N. 11th St. voxpopuligallery.org n

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As the Arab Spring turned into the Arab Summer, Fall, and now Winter, we have all seen the truly remarkable staying power of protest. In an exhibition featuring five prominent artists who deal with the representation of politics, Five Acts: Chronicles of Dissent (guest curated by Yaelle Amir) explores the dissemination and reception of counter-cultural directives.

Yael Bartana, Andrea Bowers and Naeem Mohaiemen have each created pieces that document specific acts of political, social and environmental dissent, while Sharon Hayes and Mark Tribe restage iconic acts of dissent throughout history.

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The Arbor: Roughly 700 films open theatrically in New York City. Philadelphia gets about a fourth of those. That means we miss some gems. One of the greatest casualties was Clio Barnard’s ingenious doc, which relates the short life of working-class English playwright Andrea Dunbar through a simple device: actors lip-synch to the audio interviews with those she left behind, including a half-Pakistani daughter who fell into drug use. It’s a striking and moving way to spice up documentary filmmaking’s usual talking heads-and-exposition approach.

Leap Year: Just as some people must carelessly

rent the wrong Crash, chances are some of the five or six people seeking to rent Leap Year, the Amy Adams rom-com, instead wind up with Michael Rowe’s dark Mexican drama about a lonely sex addict who finally finds a partner who will join her in urolagnia and well, well beyond. Lead Monica del Carmen helps make an in-some-ways too tidy production as resonant emotionally as it is aesthetically.

Ong Bak 3: Video on Demand has made small/ foreign genre films accessible to a wider audience, and that’s fantastic. But it still would have been nice to see the latest from Thai ass-kicker and elephantenthusiast Tony Jaa old school: on a big screen with a whooping crowd.

Putty Hill: The most exciting American indie released this year, Matthew Porterfield’s city portrait offers a nonjudgmental look at young, low-income Baltimoreans in the wake of an OD, although most would rather play paintball than grieve. Porterfield casts mostly non-pros then interviews them in “character,” and the jostle between real and fiction proves thrilling.

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Shit Year: The same year Ellen Barkin became a potty-mouthed Twitter star, she delivered one of the year’s finest performances. Cam Archer’s kaleidoscopic, B&W character study casts Barkin as an aging, Barkin-esque actress who retires. She shouldn’t follow suit.

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To Die Like a Man: Now that Pedro Almodovar’s transsexuals are played by hot actresses, the torch is passed to Portuguese filmmaker João Pedro Rodrigues. The maker of the formally adventurous O Fantasma and Two Shakespeare in Love Drifters slows down for this elegy to an aging, dying drag queen that’s alternately loopy, hypnotic and deeply Hugo Like a Man The Skin I Live In melancholic. n To Die Immortals

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10. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 9. The Art of Getting By 8. Magic Trip 7. Super 6. Transformers: Dark of the Moon 5. Red State 4. Like Crazy 3. Straw Dogs 2. Jack and Jill 1. Sucker Punch The lowlights of 2011 were rife with sexual assault, so I guess it’s fitting that the year closed out with David Fincher’s Girl With a Dragon Tattoo—a film too competently crafted to make my worst list, yet deeply troubling all the same.

Whatever queasy uncertainty one might have felt during the over-aestheticized forcible attack on Rooney Mara, pales in comparison to dunderheaded former film critic Rod Lurie’s inexplicable remake of Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs. After an almost 40-year reign as the undisputed heavyweight champion of sickening rape and revenge sequences, Peckinpah’s insanely upsetting 1973 id-monster finally got a glossy, lobotomized do-over.

Reconfigured to make an asshole Hollywood screenwriter the unlikely hero of a Cro-Magnon rural South, Lurie’s Straw Dogs obliterated Peckinpah’s moral gray areas as an icky, crowd-pleasing Blue State revenge fantasy.

A pampered liberal sans socks who likes to recycle takes on a gang of drooling, backwoods rednecks, and wins! Cue the triumphant score, and more jokes about global warming!

Seeing the new Straw Dogs was like watching a movie I love often in spite of myself, remade for single-issue morons who bookmark the Huffington Post.

Our national ideological divide was equally ill-served

by Kevin Smith’s Red State. Smith kicked off last year by hijacking the Sundance Film Festival with an annoyingly time-wasting P.T. Barnum routine, openly insulting all in attendance, loudly announcing his intention to change the face of American filmmaking.

Laughably, Smith’s Red State went direct-to-video instead, carried over into profit only by the director’s shrewd

tactic of attaching jaw-droppingly exorbitant personalappearance fees onto the picture’s box-office tally. (I know some poor schmucks who paid $90 to see this movie in exclusive engagements. Nobody gouges their fans’ wallets quite like Kevin Smith.)

It is a dire film—a paranoid pothead “what if” conspiracy fantasia conflating Fred Phelps and Waco, touching upon a dozen hot-button issues without having a single thing to say about any of them. Red State is all empty shock value and crass exploitation.

Sundance offered more than its share of bummers, even beyond the Kevin Smith sideshow. Overhyped festival favorites such as Like Crazy and The Art of Getting By proved 20-something solipsistic navel-gazing knows no bounds once you have a digital camera in your hand. As far as I’m concerned, these two didn’t even count as movies. They’re just self-pitying Tumblr posts with a budget.

A friend joked that “the leading cause of conservatism amongst young people is documentaries about the 1960s.”

Alex Gibney and Allison Ellwod’s Magic Trip most assuredly won some converts to the Grand Old Party, barfing up a metric shit-ton of unfocused home movie footage from Ken Kesey’s over-sold bus trip and allowing the results to play out in what felt like real time. A journey chronicled in hyperbolic prose by Tom Wolfe in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test became thunderously banal, history just got smaller.

Speaking of history, I promised to withhold my review of Stephen Daldry’s gob-smacking Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close until the picture opens locally in a couple weeks. So for now let’s just ask, when the crew outfitted Tom Hanks for a money-shot green-screen CGI moment, plummeting directly into camera from the World Trade Center as the tower collapses behind him, wasn’t anybody who went to work that day willing to raise their hand and suggest this just might be slightly tacky? Yes, 10 years is a long time. But perhaps not long enough to turn a massacre into cause for some more Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock Oscar-grubbing kitsch.

What does it say about a year in movies that Michael Bay’s latest Transformers opus can’t even crack the bottom five? Dark of the Moon won half-hearted kudos for being slightly less racist and sexist than the previous installment. It still sucked, just not as memorably.

Yes, Al Pacino rapped in Adam Sandler’s Jack and Jill, a pitilessly unfunny dirge of product placement representing the nadir of a comic talent’s once-promising career, oozing with lazy contempt for his audience. (And if any of you assholes had gone to see Funny People, I bet this would never have happened.)

But the worst of all was Sucker Punch. Director Zach Snyder’s staggeringly wrong fantasy epic conjures a world in which lithesome young women are routinely sexually abused in a mental institution, so they escape into a lush imaginary universe—where they work as strippers? How’s that for an empowerment scenario?

Creepier still is the way Snyder transforms every violation into a weightless, out-of-this-world video-game action sequence, pandering to his fanboy audience’s most antisocial, unpleasant impulses. Sickeningly enough, this foul rape-fantasy went out into the world with a PG-13 rating.

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There are several key lines uttered in the Bosnian War saga In the Land of Blood and Honey about over-simplifying the truth and about foreign forces throwing “their idea of justice at a country they know nothing about”—dialogue that would be even more resonant if the film that contained them wasn’t an overly-simplistic docudrama written and directed by Angelina Jolie.

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numbing and repetitive: they fuck, stopping occasionally so Ajla can express guilt over her less lucky compatriots or so Danijel can doubt Ajla’s sincerity. The ending, which shall go tantalizingly unrevealed here, is shocking—not only in its violence but in how it makes everything that we’ve seen suddenly more interesting. It recodes what preceded it as an entirely different, much more cynical breed of romance, making one character a lot colder than we assumed.

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Jutting her jaw out and writhing manically, Kiera Knightley makes a ferocious entrance in David Cronenberg’s latest little bit of perversity. As Sabina Spielrein, a patient suffering from hysteria, Knightley’s heavily eroticized, larger-than-life performance threatens to obliterate the postcard scenery and upend the fussy period detail of her preWWI Zurich sanitarium. Which is, of course

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WitOut Comedy Awards A celebration and a mockery at the same time.

By Nicole Finkbiner nfinkbiner@philadelphiaweekly.com In the past year, Hertzog says, there have been so many new alternative comedy ventures popping up around in the city that is has become almost impossible to keep track of them all. “There’s a lot of comics taking initiative to build up the scene. No matter what your taste is, you can find a show that suits your pallet, whether that’s alternative, bizarre stuff or more mainstream stuff.”

When friend and fellow comic Rob Baniewicz approached him a few months ago with the idea of holding an award ceremony to honor the troupes, individuals and shows that best represented Philly comedy this year, Hertzog jumped on the idea. “We thought it would be a good thing for troupes to have on their resume when they apply to out-of-town shows,” he says.

To keep it from becoming nothing more than “a popularity contest,” WitOut left the nomination and voting process up to the people who really know the local comedy scene best—the comedians themselves. “I guess we just kinda decided to take a more ‘for us, by us approach,’” says Hertzog. Surprisingly, only a few acts actually nominated themselves or their own troupes.

Hertzog and Baniewicz, along with PHIT founder Greg Maughan, are still ironing out the final details of the ceremony—like what they should put on the plaques—but ultimately want the 2011 WitOut Awards to feel like a fun comedy show. “It’s going to be a parody of award shows,” says Hertzog. “Like a celebration and a mockery at the same time.”

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TOWNHOUSES 205 Fitzwater St 2 Bedrooms, 1 Bath , w&d, wood and w/w carpets, basement

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134 Elfreths Alley Fabulous 3 Brs., 2 Baths, gourmet kitchen, marble baths, c/a,w&d, garden

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COMMERCIAL 25th & Wharton Sts. G-2 warehouses, garages, offices, 800sq. ft to 16,000 sq. ft available 341 W. Girard Ave (NE Corner 4th & Girard) Retail store, C-2, 800 sq.ft.,bath, c/a

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413 S. Broad St across from Symphony Hse. Approx 2500 sq.ft. bi-level offices, c/a.1.5 bths 305 Brown St. (Northern Liberties) 1500 sq.ft office or studio space, great light, hrd.flrs

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1 bedroom, high floor, balcony, Washington Square

1600 ARCH sTREET

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iNdEpENdENCE pLACE 233-241 souTH 6TH sTREET 1 bedroom, balcony, south facing views, walk-in closet in bedroom, laundry room, 928 sf

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Jr. 1 bedroom, open kitchen, generous closet/ storage space, 512 sf

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1 bedroom, high floor, wood floors throughout, updated

Tri-level, 3 bedroom, 3 baths, firpeplace, excellent closet

237 s. 18TH sTREET

kitchen and bath, w/d, city views, 875 sf

space, large balcony, parking space, 2229 sf

$1,625

3 bedrooms, 3 baths, large and light-filled rooms throughout, designer kitchen and baths, wood floors, $7,500

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ACAdEmY HousE 1420 LoCusT sTREET

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Office space with newly painted walls and new carpet, 695sf

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Studio, northeast city views, open kitchen, separate dressing

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2031 Locust Street Professional Office Space in secure

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Fairmount view, lots of light, w/d, 1258 sf pARC RiTTENHousE Studio, wood floors, marble bath, open kitchen, 516sf

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651 sf

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2 bedrooms. 2 baths, south views, open chef’s kitchen, marble baths, hardwood floors, 1106sf

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1601 Locust Street - 1st floor and lower level of prestigious

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Lanesborough condo, ideal for restaurant or offices, 4700 sf

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$10,000 NNN

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2031 Locust street 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, new kitchen, 958 sf

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SOUTH PHILLy 31xx WhArtOn - 16x36 garage, 15xx s. iseminger - New front, 17’ ceilings perfect for contractor or RENTALS h/w floors, 3 BR, fin. basement, c/a car storage commissary carts l4 13xx WOlF st - Doctors Office $254,900 $2,000/Month PENNSPORT 16xx s. beAulAh st. - Newer front, 3 brs, 1 bath, complete renovation 1xx dudley - Original h/w fls, BELLA VISTA $184,900 2 bedroom, 1 bath, great block 10xx tAsKer st. - 3 Bedroom, 1 4xx CrOss st. - New construction, $174,900 Bath, large yard, Near Passyunk three story home with master suite 3xx WhArtOn - large 3 story in Ave., Needs Updating $229,000 /deck. Three bedrooms total and need of renovation $160,000 two full baths, all new... Must see.

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1900 Rittenhouse

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$439,900

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1,397 sf

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712 sf

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765 sf

$389,900

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637 sf

$359,900

$210,000

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$349,900

$185,900

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$344,900

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1,085 sf

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1314 sf

centeR city one

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$359,900

1,209 sf

$409,900

873sf

$275,900

3,293 sf

$2,900,000

3BR, 3.5Ba, brand new, very high ceilings, his and hers master bath, custom kitchen, exquisite detail throughout.

3,467 sf

space, lavish master suite

3,682 sf

$1,750,000

wAShingTon SqUARE

2,644 sf

$1,695,000

independence place

2,306 sf

$269,900

$585,000

2BR, 2Ba, hardwood floors, building offers 24 hour doorman and gym, located on Rittenhouse square 1,075 sf

1 bedroom, open kitchen, balcony, great entertaining space, 1397 sf

$210,000 Condo Fees: $943 Taxes: $240

1,775 sf

$1,075,000

2BR, 2Ba, beautifully renovated throughout with open kitchen and designer bath, wood floors, balcony 1,387 sf

$699,900

928 sf

$299,900

independence place

1BR, 1Ba, balcony, laundry room, excellent condition

independence place

1BR, 1Ba, wood floors throughout, upgraded kitchen andBa, custom closets, balcony 928 sf

$539,000

$269,900

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independence place 241 south 6th st

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, split floor plan on high floor, eat-in kitchen, spacious living/dining room, 1314 sf

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, completely renovated with custom finishes throughout, balcony, 1387sf

$365,000

$699,000

Condo Fees: $958

Condo Fees: $693

Taxes: $311

Taxes: $500

Monthly Cost After Tax To Own: $2590

Monthly Cost After Tax To Own: $3230

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the philadelphian 2401 pennsylvania ave

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$2,295,000

custom 2BR, 2Ba home with high celing, lots of light, open chefs kitchen, luxurious master suite, direct view of

$775,000

2BR, 2Ba, open floor plan, luxurious master suite, marbleBa, wood floors, lots of light 1,199 sf

BaRclay

the lippincott

$1,195,000

2BR, 2Ba, terrace on pool club deck, open custom kitchen, marble bath, wood floors 1,272 sf

the waRwick

700 sf

4,500 sf $1,450,000

3BR + den, 3.5Ba, open floor plan, chef’s kitchen, marble bath, north and south city views 2421 sf

paRc Rittenhouse

$399,000

Bi-level penthouse, 2BR. 2.5Ba, 2 kitchens, impeccably finished throughout, amazing river and city views

2BR + den coop overlooking Rittenhouse square, custom chef’s kitchen, lavish master suite, formal entertaining space

the waRwick

4,338 sf

3BR, 2.5Ba, magnificent tieenhouse square & sunset views, pristine condition, great entertaining space, marble baths

Rittenhouse plaza

1BR, high floor, river view, investment opportunity

1,200 sf

townhome with 5BR plus den, 3.5Ba, private garden, lots of natural light, beautifully restored, original details with modern updates

the Rittenhouse

society hill toweRs

$549,900

2 BR, 1 Ba, parquet wood floors, washer/dryer, unobstructed river views, floor-to-ceiling windows

$2,395,000 $1,975,000

$950,000

opportunity to create a custom home in a luxury, boutique condominium building on independence Mall 2017 sf

society hill toweRs

$1,100,000

Raw space that can be designed and built into a custom home overlooking independence Mall 3,068 sf

Bank Building

220 w. Rittenhouse sq. Magnificent custom home with 3BR’s, 2.5Ba, balcony over Rittenhouse square, chef’s kit., wonderful enter.

2228 spRuce stReet

Bank Building

2,025 sf

3 BR + den, 3.5Ba, marble foyer, formal dining rm, sunny eat-in kitchen, 10’ ceilings, moldings, oak herring bone floors, 3 gas fireplaces

lanesBoRough

Brand new 2 BR + den, 2.5 Ba home, lots of natural light, wood flrs, open chef’s kitchen, designerBa, services available from adjoining oMni hotel

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