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David Goodis, Philadelphia’s most famous unknown author, is experiencing a small resurgent moment 44 years after passing thanks to the work of a dedicated few. Page 10

inside news & oPinion 6 Persicopin’ Renegade reporters take on the Kensington Strangler.

9 Line of Fire Candidates for City Commission speak their minds.

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For all the buzz in media circles about the importance of hyper-local news, some of the best coverage of the biggest story in the city, the Kensington Strangler, is being churned out by an underemployed cake-maker single mom and a crane operator out on disability.

Two months ago, 38-year-old mother of three Heather Barton and 38-yearold Richie Antipuna could not have predicted that they would not only generate some of the most eye-opening reporting on the Strangler to date, but also become ensnared in national headlines courtesy of the nowinfamous Facebook fiasco—a debacle that earned them death threats.

“We can’t even go to Kensington right now because there are people out to kill us,” she says. “I didn’t ask for all this.”

How did Barton and Antipuna go from regular civilians to hyperlocal reporters to death-threat targets in less than two months?

Well, there’s the situation and then there’s the story. The situation, as Barton sees it, traces back to Kensington’s lack of one cohesive newspaper.

“I’ll keep saying that over and over.

[Kensington residents] don’t have a local newspaper to … find out where services are, where to go, how to volunteer,” she says. “Without a newspaper it’s hard for people to network.”

To be sure, there are solid community newspapers working beats defined by ZIP codes that extend into Kensington, but both the coverage and

circulation of the weeklies are patchwork. For example, the Fishtown Star and the clumsily named Star of Bridesburg, Juniata and Harrowgate cover parts of Kensington while the North Star and Port Richmond Star are available in some spots. Kensington is hard to cover—it’s huge and bilingual.

Worse, it seems its already-spotty online presence via Philly.com will now be even spottier since the recent sale of the whole Star lot to Broad Street Media LLC. “My grandmother has lived [in Kensington] for 78 years, she gets no newspaper,” says Barton. “Sometimes when my aunt goes shopping she’ll bring the Star from Port Richmond.”

So that’s the situation. Then there’s the story.

Two months ago, the longtime friends decided to launch a local TV show through PhillyCAM (Philadelphia Community Access Media) called the Richie Antipuna Show. Their goal was to focus on positive stories in Kensington because as self-identified “Kenzos,” they have fond memories of growing up there.

“The rule of a Kenzo was to stick together and protect one another. We didn’t hurt one another. We just had this bad reputation because of the poverty level I guess,” says Barton.

“But there are plenty of people there working hard to be part of their community.”

They intended to showcase all kinds of arts and culture. The first interview was with an opera singer; Barton already interviewed Danny Bonaduce.

But the vacuum created by combining the threat of a serial killer and a lack of a one-stop community news source sucked Barton and Antipuna into reporting on how the community is struggling with the Strangler.

The afternoon before the first episode even aired, organizers of the Dec. 10 vigil for victims of the Strangler called and asked them to “cover” the event.

“We were like, ‘We’re not the media [and] how did she even find out about our show?’” asks Barton. Hesitant, they agreed.

After Barton met the mother of the first confirmed Strangler victim at the vigil, finding and airing the Kensington

perspective, non-existent in network and national coverage, went from a civic duty to something personal.

“When I met Darrah Goldberg … that’s when it hit me. She said, ‘I’ll never see her get married.’ I’m a mother too.”

Then the duo was asked to cover the Dec. 18 community meeting at Cardinal Bevilacqua Center on Kensington Avenue and they did that, too. They also conducted renegade personon-the-street interviews for Special Report: Broken Silence. The interviews had an insider edge, revealing the neighborhood dynamics that enable a perp like the Kensington Strangler to roam free for three months.

In the video, Barton interviewed a woman who claimed that she and the third victim, Casey Mahoney, had encountered the Strangler the week before he choked Mahoney to death. “A guy identical to the guy in the picture ... approached me and asked if I could do a date with him for like $20,” she said. The woman says she walked with the guy and told her friend to call the police. “[Mahoney] ran across to the pharmacy down the street and they ... wouldn’t let her use the phone,” she says. “[Mahoney] goes across to the beer distributor and they said no.”

Desperate, Mahoney asked to borrow the phone of a family standing outside but they also refused. “The attitude ... is that what happens to us, addicts or prostitutes, is on us,” she shrugs. “Kind of, we deserve it.”

Meanwhile, Barton says that Kensington residents have been asking her and Antipuna to obtain press passes and help report on Kensington for real.

They were even asked to review cold murder cases. Barton is incredulous at the response.

“What are we going to do next, open DNA kits?”

Antipuna is confident they’re gaining the trust of locals. “[Kensington residents] don’t trust media, they don’t trust the cops,” he says. “We put out what they actually said, not a 10second clip of a 15-minute interview.”

“We’re not professionals, I’m a stayat-home for the last six years with my kids,” says Barton. “People have just been asking so we kind of feel obligated at this point, not to mention it … has become very emotional.”

The phone hasn’t stopped ringing.

What’s next? This Thursday at 8 p.m. they will air an exclusive with Howard Rubin.

“We just tried to open a talk show and it brought all this other stuff. I am glad it’s bringing attention to the neighborhood, because it does seem like it’s forgotten,” says Barton. “People who live there just have to deal with it.” n

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Candidates for City Commission speak their minds.

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Schmidt: This agency is going to reform or go the way of the BRT. They should be embracing reform rather than fighting it tooth and nail. Because by fighting it, they’re going to ensure the end of this office as they currently know it. If they embrace reform, or at least adopt some of the recommendations, I think you take away a lot of the ammunition for abolishing these offices. But by just saying no, no, no they’ve got to bend or they’re gonna break.

Staten: I think the recommendations are a really good reasonable estimation. I agree with quite a few of them. I talk about updating the website, and that doesn’t require much. A lot of people communicate via social networks. We want to make sure the City Commissioners’ Office is in the midst of all that.

Should the elected Commission positions be abolished in favor of appointments?

Singer: Things are never as simple as some people like to say they are. When you have an office like that that’s important, it touches a lot of people. Any kind of change you make is a change for a lot of people.

Unless you’re careful and smart about it you can do damage.

Schmidt: It’s the same problem you have with judges, or the city controller or any kind of office that revolves around fairness.

They’re either elected or someone’s going to appoint them. If that someone is the mayor, that’s a concern also. From the perspective of the minority party, that’s an even bigger problem.

Staten: No. The City Commissioner’ office in my opinion is one of the most important offices, and a well-needed office. It just means we need to reevaluate the way some of the things are done and make sure they’re implemented.

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Singer: The image of that office is part of the image of Philadelphia. People are like, “that’s the way it is, that’s Philadelphia.”

We’re the birthplace of democracy, for crying out loud. People need a nonpartisan source of good information about elections and good emotional messages about elections and that’s what the City Commissioner’s Office ought to be doing.

Schmidt: There’s no interest [among the current commissioners] in rationalizing this election process. It’s been done the same way since the 60s. It’s set up geographically located where Philadelphia’s population was in the 60s. Consequently you have an inefficient and ineffective system.

Staten: We have to take a look at all of our potential voters. We should continually look at increasing [voting numbers] so it’s something that gets better and better each time. We should also look at individuals who are in prison and are now eligible to vote. They may not know. They’re coming back out eventually so we want to make sure they know their rights. n

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Philadelphia is focused on the dysfunction of the City Commission like never before.

The three-member body in charge of the city’s elections—comprised of Marge Tartaglione, Joseph Duda and Anthony Clark—has garnered a list of complaints and allegations almost as long as the collective years they’ve been in office (Tartaglione was first elected in 1975; Duda in ’95; Clark in ’07): Running a problem-plagued, expensive, out-of-date election system; allegedly allowing or tacitly encouraging electioneering within polling places; failing to find an adequate number of election judges; nepotism; getting paid for their entire four-year term even though they only work for three because they have to sit out elections when they are candidates themselves; failing to provide election results on their web site; failing to provide useful information about who and what is up for polling before the elections; and ignoring any and all feedback and calls for reform.

Election watchdog Committee of Seventy suggested a series of fixes to correct the Commission, including better enforcement of an electioneering ban and more attention paid to selecting election judges.

And the Pennsylvania Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority (PICA) suggests the city could save up to $6.2 million by eliminating the elected commissioner positions altogether, instead professionalizing the Commission with appointees. Seventy agrees, although no one is quite sure how a new Commission would look.

“What this needs is a careful study on the front end on how it’s done in other cities and what’s the best way to professionalize it,” Seventy CEO Zack Stalberg says.

“There needs to be some system with a nominating panel and some concern with minority parties.”

Until that happens, though, there are a few candidates lining up to take on the entrenched commissioners.

Al Schmidt, the Republican 38th ward leader, previously worked for the federal Government Accountability Office and more recently was an adviser to the Pennsylvania Republican Party. Last month, Schmidt, 39, unveiled a stack of documents that show a number of public officials using public resources for their own campaigns, which

more time. Then it never happens and we’re up at the next election. It’s like Groundhog Day. Staten: Ultimately, the office oversees the elections and voter registration. One of the primary focuses needs to Left to right: Stephanie Singer, Al Schmidt and Ivy Staten. be to reform the is prohibited political activity. All of which, bridge between the office and community Schmidt says, passed right under the curand to educate the voters and citizens of Philadelphia a little better. rent commissioners’ noses.

Also ready to campaign is Stephanie How can the Commission be improved?

Singer, Democratic 8th ward leader. Singer, 46, is a data strategist for Athenian ProperSinger: Things like working with the water ties, a real-estate services company based department so water bills have little fliers in Center City. Fed up with the Commisin them to remind people to register and sion’s refusal to post any useful information remind people to vote. Working with the online, Singer created her own website to Department of Technology to put up a real display election results, campaignscientific. website that’s a presence in the city. com. She also sued the Commission to get Schmidt: The only way you can do it is results up in a more timely manner. Singer through oversight. I think that’s one thing hasn’t officially declared yet but says it’s right to know requests allow. Frankly, poll “pretty darn likely” that she’ll run. watchers are a part of that oversight to make And at 24, Ivy Staten is a fresh contender sure that there isn’t electioneering in polling on the Democratic side (not even a ward places on election day. leader!), although she does have family poStaten: There should be workshops, litical cred—her uncle is the former business seminars, reaching out to senior citizens to manager of the Laborers Local 332. Staten make sure they’re informed voters. Going is the founder of the local nonprofit Mature to schools to say these are the positions Cradle, which runs education programs for up for election—each election is different both youth and seniors, and she also started offices. Not only that but reaching out to the “Vote Your It” initiative to encourage the younger generation, so they are already voter registration and education. accustomed to the voting process before Then there are rumors that Chris Vogler, they turn 18. the Republican 55th ward leader and Philadelphia Parking Authority functionary, What about the role of politics within the will run. He did not respond to request to office? comment.

Singer: If the Democratic machine tried to Presumably, Tartaglione, Duda and Clark shut down elections they probably could. It’s are all running for re-election, although Democratic Committee people who do the they have ignored questions about their lion’s share of outreach that needs to happen intentions. The primaries are in May, and to make elections happen. two candidates from the Democratic and Schmidt: There were 900 election boards Republican party will advance to the generaround the city where all five people were als in November. From there, the top three Democrats. In spring and fall 2010 we filled vote-getters advance to office. Vying to about 250 of those boards by recruiting take those three spots, Singer, Schmidt and Republicans. Of those 5 seats [per board], Staten all gave their ideas about what needs two are guaranteed to the Republican party. fixing in the Commission: It’s to make sure things are done fairly. You really don’t have that when they are all one What needs to be changed? party.

Singer: The office is just doing a fraction Staten: I think that the city commissioners of the job it needs to do. It’s not just a job of have to simply run the office in accordance running elections, it’s a job of encouraging with the rules and regulations and strictly people to vote and letting people know what adhere to that. the elections are about.

Schmidt: [Election board members] are What about the PICA and Committee of paid $95. When you break it down to the Seventy studies recommending major number of hours they work on election day, reforms to the Commission? it’s well below minimum wage. Well, it gets Singer: I think that there are a lot of differharder and harder every year to recruit people to sit on those boards. It’s the same thing ent ways that elections are run across this country. It’s clear that there are other modagain and again. And [the commissioners’] els that work. Most places do it differently. response is, we’ll get to this when we have

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Dead David Goodis, Philadelphia’s most famous unknown author, is experiencing a resurgence 44 years after passing thanks to the work of a dedicated few.

By Brian McManus bmcmanus@philadelphiaweekly.com

“It was a tough break.”

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That’s the first line of the first book David Goodis wrote, Retreat from Oblivion, in 1939. He was Philadelphia’s most famous unknown writer, but that’s probably just how he’d want it.

He’s the forgotten Prince of Philadelphia Noir, the Poet of Losers. Born into this cruel, unforgiving world on March 2, 1917, he was taken from it 44 years ago this week, on Jan. 7, 1967. He was 49.

Goodis lived quite a life. He was editor of his high school newspaper, The Spotlight, at Simon Gratz. He was president of his class. The caption under his yearbook photo reads:

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David Loeb Goodis 4758 N. Tenth Street. A bundle of energy, a fountain of thought, Few like “Dave” have e’er been Wrought.

Just below that poetic description, a list of Goodis’ school activities go on at length, enough of them to make Max Fischer from Rushmore look like a stone slacker: President of Students Association, Debate Club, Forum, Philosophy Club, Representative, Captain Monitor, Finance Committee, Chairman of Gala Nite—Corridor Committee, Writing.

He was even on the “No Smoking Committee,” ironic considering nearly every character in each of the 17 books that bear his name lit up every other page.

And those characters, particularly his protagonists: downtrodden, down-andout, desperate, hungry, cold, couldn’t catch a break. They’d all been taken down a peg (or 20), each had managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, many experiencing a fall from grace.

There was no light at the end of their tunnel. The good guy did not always win.

In fact, he seldom did.

This is noir, a literary genre that does the sobering and thankless work of describing the life you’ve been dealt, not the one you wish you’d had. Crime writing without the detectives. Or, as famous Washington, D.C., crime/noir writer George Pelecanos described it at NoirCon—held in Philadelphia since ’07—in November at the Double Tree hotel on Broad, the idea that “things are not ever, ever going to get any better.”

Goodis’ work exemplified Pelecano’s description. His books, it was once said, are not books at all. “They are suicide notes.”

“I disagree with that,” says Lou Boxer, a doctor of anesthesiology and Goodis fanatic. “I think they’re very dark and depressing, but it’s almost his way of dealing with life.”

Boxer discovered Goodis’ work in “2006 or so,” and has been borderline obsessive ever since—“compulsive,” as he says. He’s on a mission—along with a few other dedicated fans, so-called “Goodis Guys” or “Goodisheads”—to keep Goodis’ name alive in his native Philadelphia.

Since discovering the writer, Boxer has become the world’s foremost authority on the man, tirelessly tracking down Goodis’ old friends and relatives, writing anyone who ever had contact. He publishes his findings on noircon.info and davidgoodis. com. He’s truly smitten, traveling happily down a mostly forgotten and partially grown-over path placed there by an entire nation: France.

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they’ve been wild for Goodis, devouring his work with rapturous abandon while he was still alive to see it. Without them, Goodis is forgotten. They threw a giant croissant tied to a line into the abyss, he latched on, and they fished him out. Plucked him from the obscure fate of so many pulp novelists of the past.

“If it wasn’t for French publishers and

French directors, Goodis’ name may well have disappeared altogether in the late 1960s and ’70s,” writes Adrian Wootton in the introduction to Goodis’ Of Tender Sin. “The importance of the French Serie Noire crime imprint cannot be underestimated for many crime writers, but particularly for Goodis. It was through this that several of the greatest French filmmakers, including Jean Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut, became aware of Goodis and decided to adapt his work for the cinema.”

Truffaut adapted Goodis’ Down There for the screen as Shoot The Piano Player (1960). Gerard Depardieu starred in the on-screen adaption of The Moon in the Gutter. Most of Goodis’ work was translated into French, for a people who seem fortified from birth to withstand the force of his prose. To agree with its tone, even.

The author of the lone biography on Goodis is French: Philippe Garnier. His 1984 book, David Goodis: La Vie En Noir Et Blanc (A Life in Black and White), remains to be translated to English and is very hard to find. Boxer owns a copy he had translated.

“The dominant intellectual strain of 1950s France was existentialism—[Jean Paul] Sartre and [Simone de] Beauvoir— and existentialism says there is no meaning to life given by God or the universe,” says Carlin Romano, Pulitzer Prizenominated book critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer for some 25 years before leaving recently. “So there was always a great appreciation post-war in French literary and intellectual culture for kind of downto-earth American life. And I would say if you had to pick one American crime writer of the ’50s who fit perfectly with French existentialism, it would be Goodis. I don’t think it was any accident.”

“It’s not sanitized, it’s not romanticized,” says Boxer of the world Goodis depicted.

“This is the bleak utter truth about life, or the life that Goodis perceived, the life that [French writer Albert] Camus wrote about.

Just that stark black-and-white reality, that life sucks. You go to bed, you wake up, life continues to suck. People don’t really complain about it, they’re just, that’s their lives.”

This was the raw, exposed nerve Goodis picked at so convincingly. This is what his characters wrestled with, the dread they carried on work-worn backs.

There was Edward Webster Lynn, Eddie for short, the once famous concert pianist at the heart of Goodis’ Down There (1956), who used to play to adoring crowds at Carnegie Hall but, wrecked by his wife’s suicide, gathered up the battered pieces of his psyche and ended up playing for $30 a week in a Port Richmond dive bar. His next love would die too, shot in cold blood right in front of him.

There was Cassidy, the beaten-down man at the center of 1951’s million-copy bestseller Cassidy’s Girl, a once great pilot who now drove a bus. He was torn between two women: “Mildred, the wife who kept him chained with ties of fear and jealousy and paralyzing sexual need” and

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tively comfortable middle-class Logan and lived for quite some time at East Oak Lane. He was student body president who ran track and captained the swim team.

He majored in journalism at Temple, graduating in 1938. He wrote ad copy for fairly good dough in Philadelphia, and moved on to write serial pulp in New York, where he’d churn out, he once estimated, 10,000 words a day published under various pseudonyms. One of his books, Dark Passage, was serialized in his hometown Saturday Evening Post. With it, a job offer in Hollywood, where he was hired by Warner Brothers to write scripts, the first an adaptation of Passage. He was being paid $1,000 a week, a king’s ransom back then, and hanging with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Becall, who both starred in Passage. He’s described as the life of the party, a joking prankster never without a smile and a quip by many of his friends and family in the rich, info-packed documentary David Goodis … To A Pulp.

Still, there was something off about him, something that no doubt made him a keen observer of outsiders and drifters.

He’d stick the red cellophane of a pack of Lucky Strikes up his nose and fain a nosebleed in front of unsuspecting waiters at restaurants in Hollywood. He’d go out into the L.A. night dressed in a borrowed bathrobe, pretending to be an exiled Russian prince. He’d pretend to get his foot stuck in trolley tracks as a car approached to win the attention of ladies on the street.

In Philly, friends laughed. In L.A., they thought him strange.

In To A Pulp friends describe coming out to visit him in Hollywood, they’d demand to be taken to the set, which he did begrudgingly. They wanted a slice of L.A. nightlife, wanted to see the glitz and the glam. He wasn’t interested. One time, though, he relented … and took them to a dance thrown by a waiters’ union.

It’s widely speculated that Goodis loved black women. Specifically, “healthy”

black women, a bit of meat on the bones.

“Healthy” black women who lived in sections of Los Angeles and Philadelphia where Goodis, a Jew born to Russian immigrants, stood out like, well, a Jew born to Russian immigrants. Sometimes he’d pay these women to verbally and physically abuse him. Other times he had to fight men in the neighborhood to get to them, both a small price to pay to satisfy his lust.

Goodis kept this from his friends. He kept it from everyone. He had to. It was the ’40s, ’50s and ‘60s when such a thing would earn more than a passing glance of disapproval.

He kept a marriage from them too, from his time in Los Angeles. Records show he was married to an Elaine Astor, from 1943–1947. Astor’s son, Larry Withers, discovered the marriage certificate and divorce decree among her belongings after her death in the mid-’80s. The questions he had about the mother it turns out he never knew drove him to research and create David Goodis … To A Pulp, in part relearning who his mother was through the eyes of a writer who didn’t paint too nice a picture of her. (It’s theorized that many of the manipulative women in Goodis’ prose are modeled after Astor, his “sick personal muse,” as Withers calls her in his doc.)

“There were different aspects to my mom,” says Withers from his home in Elkins Park. “There were times when she could be just a regular, loving mom, and there were times where she could be a kind of a demon, shoot you the fish eye and scare you half out of your wits. At times I could see her in several [of Goodis’] books, especially Behold This Woman, which was written a few years after their divorce.”

Says Withers of his mother’s first husband: “He’s a man of a lot of compartments, a hidden man,” but also a “decent person. I think he had a lot of conflicts, a lot of vices and a lot of desires, none of which he could handle very well.

“He had a lot of dark, locked rooms he wouldn’t let any of his friends in,” adds Withers, who spoke with many of Goodis’ friends and family for To A Pulp. “They all had notions and stories to tell, but no one actually followed him or had been with him to confirm it. It was a lot of speculation.”

The Inquirer’s David Hiltbrand (a mystery novelist himself) stopped by GoodisCon in ’07 to file a report, and came away with a telling quote from Goodis’ cousin Herbert Gross, who said of his long-dead kin, “I knew him very well. And I say that with a question mark. I don’t know that anybody knew him very well.”

Another secret: Goodis’ five-year relationship with prominent black sculptor Selma Burke. Burke studied privately under Henri Matisse, and is responsible for the portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt on the dime in your pocket.

To biographer Philippe Garnier, Burke recalled Goodis’ “sensitive nature,” and “tormented and creative spirit, which he always sought to hide … in order to protect himself.”

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“Doris, a frail angel with a 100-proof halo and a bottle instead of a harp,” as Goodis describes each in his typically unique style.

There was William Kerrigan, the broadshouldered Philadelphia dockworker living a “hellhole existence” after his sister’s suicide in the stark tale of desire and revenge Moon in the Gutter (1953).

These men lived lives Goodis wasn’t all that familiar with.

“I do not hold to the premise that a writer must live his own story,” Goodis wrote in an author bio accompanying his short story “Caravan to Tarim” in an October ’46 issue of Collier’s Weekly. “If I did, I would be writing about a fourth-rate football player, a frustrated racing driver, an unsuccessful landscape gardener and an unhappy automobile mechanic.”

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n the last few years of his life,

Goodis lived as though he were a protagonist in one of his own novels. He was embattled in a lawsuit with United Artists, who he was suing for copyright infringement in a landmark case that would change the law forever and which he wouldn’t live to see the end of (they lifted his Dark Passage as the premise for The Fugitive). He was the sole caretaker of a schizophrenic brother, Herb. His parents were both dead. He was having heart troubles.

The toll it all took revealed itself in a letter he wrote to a man named William David Sherman, in reply of his request to interview Goodis for a story.

In a letter dated Aug. 16, 1966: “Illness has prevented me from answering your letter of July 15. I am going through a labyrinth of neurological difficulties which make it impossible for me to grant your request for an interview.

However, if it will be of any help, I offer the following—I’m 49, and my first novel was published when I was 22. It was nothing, and the same applies to most of the 16 others published since then …

“At first I wanted to write very solemnly and handle only the most important issues. But of course the most important issue of all is putting food

his death while resisting a robbery outside a North Philly diner. The letters paint a bleak picture of the way Goodis saw himself and his career: Not worth mentioning.

“I have talked to Bill Sherman about [the letters],” says Lou Boxer, who brought them to the public light once they were made available at Yale. “True Goodis. Selfdeprecating and not seeking any praise or accolades ... loathing the spotlight but living in the shadows the way he wanted away from the analytical eye. When he was left to his own designs, he was as free as a bird, doing and being whoever he wanted to be. When the light was shined on him, his idiosyncrasies and insecurities were magnified to such a degree that he appeared uncomfortable in his own skin.

“Was his evaluation of his work terribly depressing?” asks Boxer. “Of course, but it allowed David to slink off into his own world having successfully driven away more prying eyes.’

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oodis wrote a lot of himself into his characters, or, better still, how he perceived himself—a prankster like Dippy in The Blonde on the Street Corner (1954), a loner like Kerrigan in Moon. It’s said

Duane Swierczynski, Philly-based author of hardboiled fiction with titles like Expiration Date and Severance Package, of Goodis’ protagonists. “Once, we were the nation’s capital; once, we created things you couldn’t find anywhere else in the world. But we’ve suffered a similar fall from grace, and we’re still struggling to figure things out. That’s why I only semi-joking call Philly the noir capital of the East Coast. The whole city is a hero straight out of a Goodis novel.”

Swierczynski, along with Boxer, is part of a growing number of Goodis obsessives in Philadelphia’s burgeoning noir community. He writes about Goodis frequently on his blog, Secret Dead, and his own writing has been influenced by The Prince.

And there are others. The fabulous Dennis Tafoya, whose books Wolves of Fairmount Park and Dope Thief have wowed critics in recent years. Keith Gilman, a crime writer whose book Father’s Day sparkles with a gritty realism afforded to him by way of his day job as a Philadelphia cop.

Along with them, Deen Kogan, a mystery collector and two-time host of Bouchercon—the largest gathering of mystery writers and fans in the world—when it has chosen Philadelphia as host city. Kogan has also co-hosted Bouchercon in other cities—Chicago and Las Vegas—and her collection (along with late husband Jay) of some 35,000 mystery novels is stored at Port Richmond Books, owned by another Goodis fanatic, Greg Gillespie.

“Deen is tireless, bright and incredibly sharp,” says Boxer. “Add to this her uncanny ability to recognize great writing coupled with her love of reading and you get one of the best go-topeople in the genre in the country.”

Boxer and Kogan started what was then known as GoodisCon in 2007, to honor the forgotten Goodis 40 years after his death. Back then it was a modest gathering at Society Hill Playhouse, owned by Kogan. Today it’s morphed into the much larger, much less niche NoirCon, which plays to a packed house of fans of the genre from all over the world.

They still give a Goodis Award, an image of the author etched into it, which this year went to Pelecanos. Fittingly, Pelecanos’ favorite noir film of all time, The Burglar (1957), starring Jayne Mansfield and a reliable mainstay in noir cinema Dan Duryea, was shot in Philadelphia and adapted to the screen by Goodis himself.

Goodis is dead, but through the work of many Philadelphia noir writers who owe him a tremendous debt and people like Boxer, Kogan, Port Richmond bookstore owner Greg Gillespie, La Salle literary historian Ed Pettite, Mansfield University English professor and amateur Philadel-

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in one’s belly and in order to do that I deviated from the track most of the time and complied with the wishes of various editors and publishers. I admit this was weakness. I should have taken a job digging ditches, and because I was too lazy to do that, I threw away a lot of valuable time.”

In a letter to Sherman three months later, another reply, Goodis noted: “Nothing I did in the Hollywood studios is worth mentioning. Very few of the major characters in my novels operate on a criminal level. They live in neighborhoods of low real-estate value, which is a different thing entirely.”

The second letter was dated Nov., 11, 1966. Goodis would die less than two months later of, as it is listed on his death certificate, “cerebral vascular accident.” A stroke some believe was brought on by his being clubbed over the head and beaten a few days before

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most of his books were an allegory of his life. The one-time Hollywood movie writer who returned to Philadelphia to churn out pulp and care for a sick brother could be the plot of one of his many fall-from-grace quick reads. Most of his main protagonists’ dialogue took place in their own head, exposing in them the kind of selfdoubt Goodis exhibited in his letters to Sherman. “Don’t touch her!” “Touch her!”; “Leave!” “Stay!”; “Run!” “Walk”; “Have another!” “You fool!”

Goodis placed these characters in neighborhoods unlike the comfortable Logan he grew up in, the city’s most hard-scrabble patches of turf: Port Richmond, Kensington, Southwark before it blossomed into Queen Village, Germantown, Philly’s Skid Row, its Tenderloin, Chinatown and a fetid, rat-infested Dock Street that no longer exists.

“Maybe this sounds harsh, but I think about Philadelphia the same way,” says

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(most of his 17 books) Goodis exposes more about our city than any tourist guide could ever hope to. You see the trash. You smell the streets. You feel the stare from the roughneck across the alley. You run into the city’s tough guys, walk its narrow streets and pray one or both don’t get you. You step over its homeless sleeping on steamy grates in hopes of getting warm. You avoid eye contact with drunks. Sometimes you are the drunk. Sometimes you fight. Other times you fuck. Sometimes you’re happy, but mostly you’re not.

His books are us.

Noir, perhaps more than most genres, is forever joined in an intimate love affair with location, which is why many of the genre’s writers are associated so closely with the city they lay for bare on the pages they write: Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles; George Pelecano’s D.C.; Richard Price’s New York; David Goodis’ oft-forgotten Philadelphia.

“That’s the brilliance of the books when they’re successful—and they almost always are—is this feel,” says Johnny Temple, owner of book publisher Akashic Books out of New York City. “It’s so great, if you read Miami Noir, you can feel the breeze blowing while you’re reading.” Akashic started its famed noir literary anthology in 2004, and has, in six short years, published 44 different editions of the series, everything from Brooklyn Noir to Haiti Noir, from Twin Cities Noir to Istanbul Noir. Philadelphia Noir came out at the end of 2010.

In it, 15 writers—seasoned vets of the genre like Tafoya, Swiercznski and Gilman mix with newcomers like Laura Spagnoli and Halimah Marcus—to tackle different neighborhoods, painting a vivid picture of each.

“My belief with the Noir series, and given the really great response we’ve gotten so far in Philadelphia, the whole idea is you have to appeal to the people of the city itself.

They are the judge and jury,” says Temple.

“If the book feels authentic and it reflects in interesting ways on the city to the people who live there … it has more chance of success outside of that city. It’s real authentic flavor of the city by people who know it well.”

Philadelphia’s ever-growing noir community had been clamoring for a City Of Brotherly Love edition of the Akashic Noir for what seemed an eternity, and Temple admits the book was a longtime coming.

But he had a specific person in mind he hoped to convince to edit and curate the book: Carlin Romano.

Problem was, Romano had made quite a name for himself bashing the genre while book critic for 25 years at the Inquirer, a “pointy-headed intellectual hostile to noir,” he says of his reputation. He’s even been

invited to noir and mystery conferences to offer balance to panels. He was a hard sell on the hard-boiled.

“I’d approach him again and again,” says Temple. For two years, to be exact. Many of the conversations ending with Temple, as he recalls it, being asked “What the fuck are you thinking?” by a perplexed Romano.

In the end, he got his man.

“I was always an appreciator of superb literary noir—[Raymond] Chandler, [Dashiell] Hammett—all the people that are often noted,” says Romano. “But I also felt that there was a kind of new genre that had grown, which I call ‘factory noir.’ In other words, it had become an industry.

You go into bookstores and the whole left wing is devoted to mass-market mysteries. That was really the part of the industry of the noir world I was hostile to. The fact that a lot of junk was being produced on the illusion that everyone who did one of these books was Raymond Chandler or Hammett. Or Goodis, because I think Goodis is genuinely literary and deserves the redemption, the resurrection of his reputation.”

With the release last year of Philadelphia Noir, Tafoya’s Wolves and the white-hot reputation of Swierczynski, Romano believes Philly-based noir is about to get its due props.

“Absolutely it is,” Romano says.

“I agree—cautiously,” says Swierczynski.

“Like a Goodis protagonist, I think Philly crime writers do toil in obscurity a bit. Just like with everything else, we’re overshadowed by N.Y.C. and D.C. That said, I think some of the coolest stuff creeps out from obscure corners of the world, and I’ve really enjoyed what’s been creeping out of Philly lately. OK, I’m not going to dither, damnit. Philly noir is having a moment!”

This Sunday, the 9th, Lou Boxer and others will do what they’ve done since 2007. They will gather at Goodis’ grave at Roosevelt Memorial Park in Trevose at 11 a.m. and read from his work. Afterward, a tour of Goodis’ Philadelphia—his birthplace, his home in Logan, the hospital where he expired—and will wrap up at Port Richmond Books.

Quietly, slowly, other Philadelphians will begin to discover The Prince. Then, the world.

It’s already started. First-edition prints of Goodis’ work sell on eBay for as much as $1,600. They move like hot cakes at Gillespie’s Port Richmond Books. “They’re highly collectible,” he says. Shoot the Piano Player just started streaming on Netflix.

“I think it would be a wonderful thing if Goodis really came back strong for literature in general,” says Romano, “He’s a firstclass writer. It would be great for the city.”

“I’m just glad Goodis seems to be enjoying more of a ‘moment’ now. My dream would be to have all of his novels in print.

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HealthWise Fight the Fitness Resolution Wreckers Proper goals, form, routine are key. A trainer can help.

- By Margaret Battistelli Forty-five minutes a day, three days a week for five weeks. If getting fit is one of your New Year’s resolutions for 2011, this might be all it takes to get you on your way.

But given the fact that roughly two thirds of all people who join a gym as part of their kick-off to a new year have given up by June, it’s not all that easy. Experts say it takes five weeks to get into a routine when it comes to working out and eating right.

And once you get past that mark, your new lifestyle becomes a habit, and working out is more like second nature than the burden it often starts out seeming to be.

So why the crappy stick-with-it statistic?

The main culprit seems to be unrealistic goals. Local experts agree that even though you might want – heart and soul – to be able to bounce quarters of your abs by Valentine’s Day, you’re probably not going to Phil be ableWeekly_Jan5:10x5.375 to. If you prepare for that,12/30/10 mentally,

then you’ll be in good shape to get over the hurdles as they present themselves.

Fitness pros suggest that when you join a gym – whether you’re part of the firstweek-of-January rush or not – you take advantage of the free consultations most centers offer. Or, if necessary, pay for a few sessions with a trainer to set your goals and get your routine off to a proper start. Set both short- and long-term goals. A good example of a short-term goal is to commit to your routine: Decide, with the trainer’s guidance, how often you’ll work out and when. Establishing as consistent a routine as possible is a big first step. Losing 20 pounds in a month is another short-term goal -- but it’s not realistic. Putting that out there as your goal is a sure way to set yourself up to fail.

Long-term goals include maybe losing a 2:02 PM Page 1 set amount of weight by a certain date.

But even those have to be realistic. And as much as you’d like to read right now that x number of pounds in x number of weeks/ months is a reasonable goal, it’s not that easy to determine. Everyone’s starting fitness level, weight, routine, diet, etc., is different, so talking to a trainer/consultant is key to setting manageable goals.

Expecting immediate results is definitely the main wrecker of resolutions when it comes to working out, especially since experts say that the muscle you’re building will hold on to more water at first, often causing you to actually gain weight. But three to four weeks into it, your body will start getting used to its new composition, processing the water better and start looking like you want it to look.

But most people expect to see significant – read: unrealistic – results way sooner, and they get discouraged when they don’t.

Working with a trainer, even for just a few sessions, will keep you from, say, focusing too much on fun stuff like dance classes that work on cardio but ignore important muscle-building routines like weight lifting.

It’ll help you find the proper routine/technique to get you on your way.

That initial consultation also can help reduce the chance of your falling victim to another resolution wrecker: injury. Far too many folks head to the gym for the first time certain that they know how to the perfect crunch or the proper settings to use on the elliptical machines to get the results they want. Most, unfortunately, don’t and wind up spinning their wheels – sometimes literally – in ways that actually work against them and hinder their process.

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• Expect it to take about five weeks to turn into a habit.

• Learn proper form.

• Combine cardio with weight lifting for a holistic approach.

• Combine diet and exercise improvement for quicker, better results.

All indications point to consulting a trainer – either in a complimentary session offered when you join the gym or a series of sessions that you pay extra for – to set goals and tackle these other points. You can go it alone, but doing so increases the margin of error and could result in you giving up before you get the results you’re looking for.

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Finally, be sure to attack your New Year’s fitness resolution from both ends. Even the perfect fitness routine won’t help if you chow down on beer and cheesesteaks twice a day. And while you can, indeed, lose weight by diet alone, you won’t get the toned body you’re looking for without supplementing your healthy eating with a structured exercise routine.

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Our Theater Artist of 2010: Video designer Jorge Cousineau.

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First Friday: Cartoons, art tech and outsourced performance art.

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Folksinger Greg Brown helps us all live a little in the past.

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Joe truglio trio Drummer Joe Truglio has been an active player and sideman on the local jazz scene since he moved to Philadelphia from Long Island 10 years ago to study music at the University of the Arts. After sharing bills with Cypress Hill and Herbie Hancock, hitting the road with Vans Warped Tour, and playing several dates in China and England, Truglio released his first album as a group leader last year: Live, which captures recordings by his working trio with pianist John Stenger and bassist Ken Pendergast. For tonight’s show, they’ll navigate pieces from their new studio album, Past Life, inspired by modern jazz composers like Aaron Parks and Robert Glasper. ELLIOTT SHARP 7pm. $10. Chris’ Jazz Cafe, 1421 Sansom St. 215.568.3131. chrisjazzcafe.com

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A Moon for the Misbegotten

8pm. Pay what you can. The Arden, 40 N. 2nd St. 215.922.1122. ardentheatre.org

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the elephant Man Terrible disfigurement apparently makes for great entertainment—at least, that’s the basis of TLC’s primetime lineup. But before there were Little People in a big world and a girl Born Without a Face, there was Joseph Merrick—freak-show attraction, specter of the London streets and eventual toast of Victorian high society. The notorious Elephant Man roamed 19th-century England with a burlap sack over his bulbous head, gawked at by circus attendees, recoiled from by nurses and doted upon by socialites (tragically deformed people were the Pomeranians of the hoopskirted set). Merrick rears his giant head in Philadelphia in Fever Dream Repertory’s production of Bernard Pomerance’s 1979 Broadway version of the fabulous freak’s sad life.

Wade Andrew Corder follows in the footsteps of role originator Philip Anglim and modernday iconic weirdos David Bowie and Mark Hamill, portraying Merrick sans makeup and prosthetics, depicting his deformation entirely through tortured movement. LAuREn SMITH

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Webcomic fanatics rejoice—digital comic producers South Fellini Studios are bringing their traveling gallery to Brave New Worlds!

South Fellini, established by Tony Trov and Johnny Zito, is a collection of DIY comic creators at the forefront of the digital revolution who produce comics about monsters and badass women. They’ve worked with DC Comics Online and Apple distributor Comixology and developed the comics Moon Girl, Black Cherry Bombshells and The LaMorté Sisters. Come to the Old City comic boutique and enjoy an evening of wine and webcomic discussion with artists, fans and people who just love comics in general. Rahzzah, Sacha Borisich, Mark Fionda, and Christine Larsen will be some of the artists featured in the show. SyDnEy ScOTT

heers Elephant is poised to deliver the first stellar local recording of 2011 when they usher in their second album, Man is Nature, with a release party tonight. We’ve only heard two new tunes thus far—“Shark Attack” and “My Bicycle Ride”—but they build on the promise the psych-flavored modpop foursome displayed on their eponymous debut LP of a couple years ago: Jangly, bouncy guitars, spry rhythms, and spirited harmonies feed the former track, while the loping latter track feels just as earthy and joyful while the vocals veer between Pavement drawl and high, yearning yelps. Dr. Dog fans will probably want to be all over this. MIcHAEL ALAn GOLDbERG

5pm. Free. Brave New Worlds, 45 N. Second St. 215.925.6525. bravenewworldscomics.com

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Sat., Jan. 8, 8pm. $13-$16. With the New Connection, the Fleeting Ends + Nicos Gun. World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St. 215.222.1400. worldcafelive.com

Through Jan. 20. 8pm. $20-$25. The Adrienne, 2030 Sansom St. 267.997.3799. adriennelive.com

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AGOGIC Seattle may still call to mind the flannelwearing grunge bands of the ’90s. But among the city’s more current ambassadors is trumpeter Cuong Vu, a searching avant-jazzer who recently returned home after a stint as a downtownish New Yorker (and sideman with the Pat Metheny Group, among others). Seattle friend Andrew D’Angelo (alto sax/bass clarinet), now a Brooklyn-based provocateur, joins Vu to give AGOGIC a spirit of purposeful abandon, but also a tender lyricism in spots. The two horns go up against skin-tight, bone-deep, wondrously supple rhythms from electric bassist Luke Bergman and drummer Evan Woodle, new talents who typify the Seattle jazz of today—youthful, resolutely DIY, resistant to easy classification. DAvID R. ADLER

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An American Chinese

8pm. $5. With Steve Goldberg & the Arch Enemies + When I Was 12. Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St. 215.291.4919. kungfunecktie.com

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On the eve of the play’s opening night, the Arden Theatre Company presents a paywhat-you-can dress rehearsal of the regional theater’s first new production of 2011, Eugene O’Neill’s A Moon for the Misbegotten.

Each year, the Arden selects five community partners to benefit from the proceeds of these preview performances, and tonight the recipient is the Rosenbach Museum and Library, a treasure trove of rare documents and books that actually houses some original O’Neill manuscripts. Misbegotten was the Nobel laureate’s final play, and is an accompaniment to his classic Long Day’s Journey Into Night.

Directed by Matt Pfeiffer, who helmed last year’s Romeo and Juliet, the intimate Misbegotten is a bittersweet romance between two people haunted by their pasts who yearn for redemption in each other’s arms. Tickets are available on a first-come basis and are general admission. MIcAELA HESTER

equipment. On the group’s first full-length, Utopian Tree, they’ve seamlessly blended songs from the EP with new creations. The album is a amalgam of pop, folk and Gothic Americana, with guitar melodies and drum beats driving the album, from rousing rock to soothing ballads. With seven members, An American Chinese’s live shows have always been a sight to see, but their show at Kung Fu Necktie has an even bigger draw: At only $5, it’s an absolute steal. KATHERInE SILKAITIS

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orget the ham-fisted stunts of Michael Moore and other soapbox documentarians. Kazuhiro Soda’s frank, taboo-busting “observational documentaries” immerse viewers in the action, forgoing dictatorial narration in favor of allowing the audience to form their own opinions about what they’re viewing, be it the operations of a Japanese mental-health clinic or the machinations of a local election. Tonight, Soda conducts a master class about his Buddhist-inspired, cinéma vérité filmmaking, introducing Philadelphians to the zen and nofrills honesty that has guided his oeuvre. For homework and followup, head to International House for the Monday night screening of Soda’s 2008 documentary Campaign and Tuesday night’s Mental, his disarmingly candid exploration of psychiatry in a society that associates mental illness with shame.

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The Portuguese Nun It’s a late-December tradition to visit family and steal a few desperate hours of (relative) peace and quiet with the home crew at the movies, watching laser Frisbees or Robert De Niro continuing to piss on his remaining artistic cred. But now you’re back home, and you can return to recursive, subtitled art-house fare! Huzzah! The Portuguese Nun follows an actress playing a nun in a low-budget film shot in Lisbon and her experiences with her director (played by the 2009 film’s actual director, Eugène Green), an actual Portuguese nun and the warm, glowing coastal city in which all three are immersed. The film-within-a-film structure is ripe for referential wit, while the placid, meditative plot affords viewers plenty of time to enjoy the radiant cinematography and haunting interludes of traditional fado music.

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7pm. $8. International House, 3701 Chestnut St. 215.387.5125. ihousephilly.org

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Will Bunch’s The Backlash After eight years under Bush, it’s become clear that merely pointing out when something is dumb isn’t exactly politically ineffective; this strategy discounts the validity of the opponent’s position before it has been properly grasped and evaluated. Daily News senior writer Will Bunch avoids this pitfall in his latest book, The Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, High-Def Hucksters and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama. For the last couple years, Bunch researched the Tea Party firsthand, plunging into the belly of the ever-strengthening beast to gauge what makes its devotees tick. From high priest and priestess Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin to ground-level folks at gun ranges and anti-immigration rallies across the country, Bunch lays out the movement’s scaffolding before going to kick it over. This morning, he’ll be leading Nation magazine’s monthly public discussion group. e.S. 11am. Free. Moonstone Arts Center, 110A S. 13th St. 215.735.9598. moonstoneartscenter.org

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Jimmy Webb In his heyday, Webb was one of his era’s finest songwriters, combining Leonard Cohen’s intimacy with baroque Brill Building arrangements. He created several huge hits for other artists (“Up, Up and Away,” “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” “Wichita Lineman”) in the late ’60s, then launched a solo career in the ’70s.

His seven-minute signature tune “MacArthur Park” (sung by actor Richard Harris) was a huge, boundary-stretching hit on pop radio, exemplifying his gift for elegant piano-driven pieces whose theatricality complements the lyrics’ brash vulnerability. He’s been particularly active lately, releasing three albums in five years including a new greatest hits/duets album featuring Glen Campbell, Billy Joel, Lucinda Williams and Willie Nelson, among others. ChriS PArker

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Tues., Jan. 11, 5pm. $15-$25. Scribe Video Center, 4212 Chestnut St. 215.222.4201. scribe.org

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While normally a jejune phrase, “there’s something for everyone” is an apt descriptor for Robert Rodgriguez’s and Ethan Maniquis’ 2010 neo-exploitation film Machete. Violence? There are many severed limbs and decapitated heads

with so much blood squirting from them that Lone Wolf and Cub will seem like How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. Star-studded cast? Only if the names Danny Trejo, Don Johnson, Jessica Alba, Steven Seagal, Robert De Niro, Lindsay Lohan, Cheech Marin and Michelle Rodriguez mean anything to you. Sex? The only thing Machete does to its characters more than killing them is getting them laid; on one occasion our hero enjoys a mother-daughter hot-tub doubleup. Timely commentary? No other film has more creatively and ferociously investigated the politics of immigration. Repulse? Chica’s choice of cell-phone storage will make even the most twisted Takashi Miike buff cringe. ¿Bromas? Sí, muchas. e.S. 8pm. $3. Trocadero, 1003 Arch St. 215.922.6888. thetroc.com

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Everyone Everywhere In his excellent 2003 book, Nothing Feels Good: Punk Rock, Teenagers, and Emo, Andy Greenwald notes that “Being an emo band is kinda like being in the KGB—everyone knows who they are, but no one admits anything and no one likes talking about it in public.” Indeed, Philly quartet Everyone Everywhere doesn’t speak the dreaded E-word, but we spy it in their tunes: Crunchy, math-y, yet undeniably catchy riffs; soaring melodic choruses; nasally, introspective, bittersweet vocals. At least it’s reminiscent of the “good” emo—a la the Promise Ring, Sunny Day Real Estate, Jawbreaker and other bands who could do the “loud ‘n’ poignant” thing without coming off too silly or formulaic—enough so that we can forgive Everyone Everywhere for starting a song with the words “I’m too sad to tell you...” M.A.G. 8pm, $5. With Young Leaves + Luther. Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St. kungfunecktie.com

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Venice Sunlight

Sunshine is a rare commodity, in Venice anytime and in Philadelphia during the depths of January. That’s a good enough reason to check out this jittery, jump-up-and-down pop band, Venice Sunlight. Their short, sharp songs are shot through with sunny sweetness but also barbed with sharp, random stabs of irony.

Up to now, their best-known cuts have been smirky, off-kilter pogo-pumpers like “Great Moments in Bad Timing” and “The Devil Wears Nada,” but a new EP, Venice Sunshine Vs. the Rabid Rabbits, takes things in a slightly less wise-cracking direction. The single “Annabel” is unequivocal power pop, though its sugar is cut with rackety drums, its sentiment diluted with the observation that “Love is fleeting and largely pharmaceutical.” jennifer kelly 8pm. $5. With Right This Second. Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St. 215.291.4919. kungfunecktie.com

Sunday Drag Show at Tabu Lounge

On the Gaydar A preview of Philly’s upcoming LGBT events.

By Brian Goldthorpe feedback@philadelphiaweekly.com

Karaoke Tuesdays at Tavern on Camac

There doesn’t seem to be much middle ground with karaoke—either you love it, or you avoid it like the plague. Witnessing a less-than-self-aware amateur singer belt out “Little Red Corvette” while sloshing a cocktail all over the floor isn’t everyone’s idea of a good time. At Tavern on Camac’s Ascend Lounge, there are a few painful performances, but each week a crop of talented vocalists take the stage. Penny Productions runs the show, and their expansive songbook provides a surprisingly diverse and fun music selection.

Add $4 flavored Stoli cocktails to the mix, and you’ve got the recipe for a great night.

Tuesdays, 9pm. Ascend Lounge, Tavern on Camac, 243 S. Camac St. 215.545.0900. tavernoncamac.com

When Jeff Sotland announced his plans to develop a sports bar for the LGBT and allied communities, some questioned whether the concept would fly. Fast forward several months, and Tabu Lounge and Sports Bar is a certifiable success story—and one of the Gayborhood’s most popular bars. While you can always watch your favorite pro and college teams on the main floor, the upstairs lounge is used for special events and partnerships, illustrating Sotland’s support for many of Philly’s LGBT nonprofits, including the William Way Center and Philadelphia FIGHT. Beginning in mid-January, Tabu is ratcheting up the drama with the debut of Sinful Sundays—a weekly drag show hosted by Isis Brooks D’Shey, featuring established and new gender-bending performers. A $5 cover gets you in the door with a free drink, and happy hour prices are available from 10 p.m. till midnight.

Sundays, 9pm (starting Jan. 23). Tabu Lounge, 200 S. 12th St. tabuphilly.com

Black Banana "Get Together"

Do you remember Philly nightlife in the ’80s and ’90s? Before every club became a lounge, and DJs were replaced by iPods, decadent after-hours parties were the name of the game—and no place did it better than

the legendary Black Banana. Located at Third and Race streets, The Black Banana opened in the 1970s, but hit its stride in the ’80s, becoming the stomping ground for those who work hard and play harder.

Boundary-breaking DJs, including Robbie Tronco, Josh Wink, and King Britt cut their teeth on Black Banana’s turntables.

The hotspot suffered a devastating fire in 1991, and its owner Garrick Melmeck passed away soon after. There has yet to be—and likely never will be—another institution quite as beloved in nightlife. As a tribute to The Black Banana, the folks at Voyeur Nightclub are gearing up for the 2nd Annual Black Banana Anniversary Party.

Nine DJs will be spinning classic beats while music videos from the era play in the background. You’re sure to see the old gang reminiscing and dancing to the classic beats that made The Banana famous.

Sun., Jan. 16, 8pm. Voyeur Nightclub, 1221 St. James St. voyeurnightclub.com

Blue Ball Weekend

Our local gay party weekend is returning to its winter roots, and taking up residency during the last weekend in January. At its heart, Blue Ball is a fundraiser and awareness-building event for the Sapphire Fund—a local LGBT non-profit organization. It’s one of the few remaining multi-day

circuit events in the country, and features a wide range of day and evening parties.

(Check blueballphilly.com for specific times and additional details on each event).

Wed., Jan. 26, Junior Blue. Woody’s, 202 S. 13th St. Blue Ball’s youth event—18 to 21 are welcome for an exclusive dance party.

Thurs., Jan. 27, Blue Ball Weekend KickOff. Q Lounge, 1234 Locust St. The official “opening” of Blue Ball weekend with a cocktail party at Q Lounge.

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Fri., Jan. 28, “Don’t Ask … Don’t Tell!”

Military Party Voyeur Nightclub, 1221 St. James St. Celebrate the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” by suiting up in your favorite military garb and dancing a the night away.

Ladies’ Winter Wonderland Ball, T.L.A., 334 South St. This one’s for the women – Philly’s lovely lesbians invade South Street for the “Winter Wonderland Ball” Sat., Jan. 29. Blue Ball Main Event: “One Weekend. One Community.” Check website for details. The event everyone will be talking about—hot music and hot guys burning the dance floor.

Sun., Jan. 30, Sapphire Brunch, The Pyramid Club, 1735 Market St. A brunch and silent auction. Sunday Tea, Woody’s, 202 S. 13th St. Close out the weekend with one last spin around the dance floor. n David Mamet

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Rainstorms Projected: Video by Jason Varone at Locks Gallery’s Alterations.

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Comics, tech and outsourced performance art opening this month.

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Andrew Norman Wilson’s Virtual Assistance, the opening show of Extra Extra’s new digs, examines and disrupts the labor flows structured by Get Friday, a “life outsourcing company” based out of Bangalore, India. Get Friday, a company praised by world-flattening globalization junkie Thomas Friedman, provides virtual personal assistants to predominantly American clients for a monthly fee that comes out, on average, to about $10/hour.

Andrew signed up, enlisting his assigned 25-year-old virtual assistant Akhil as a collaborator on several art projects—all part of the greater project of turning the proscribed one-way roles of outsourcing into something that flows both ways across the virtual channel. “Can my relationship,” Wilson asks, “become a device for altering the work conditions of Get Friday?”

The small projects called for varied levels of participation, leadership and direction from both men. Examples: The Toy Boat Task—Akhil drew up a construction manual for a battery-powered toy boat he made as a kid, Wilson made a few and mailed one to Bangalore for Akhil to play with. The Work Station Task—Akhil made a spreadsheet of the objects in his work space, then the two imagined how each could be used if Bangladore’s IT boom went bust and the Get Friday employees had to live in their office, like a cubicle/sleeping pad, a computer encasement/grill, cables/clotheslines, etc. Wilson and Akhil continue to collaborate; at Jan. 28’s closing reception, they’ll both be at Extra Extra for a PowerPoint presentation of their accomplishments. (Elliott Sharp) 6pm. Free. Extra Extra, 1524 Frankford Ave. eexxttrraa.com

Digital tools are not new to art, but some artists are fascinated with the way new technology is changing art. Alterations, a group show at Locks Gallery, takes a look at just that. While this might not sound like a laugh-out-loud topic at first, the mix of video and installation includes some fun stuff.

Curated by video artist Peter Campus, the five-person exhibit explores not only how eerily technology can mimic art, but how much humor resides in the Venn diagram overlap of old-fashioned “ahhhht” and new-fangled tech. Campus’ video of a barn, for example, has been pixilated almost beyond recognition. The result? An almost pointillist painting of a barn by Charles Sheeler circa 1925—what goes around comes around. It’s a beautiful image, and it raises ideas about the importance of icons and how they transcend time and media.

Jason Varone’s cartoon cloud on a wall with a projected image that makes it seem as if there’s cartoon rain falling down the gallery wall. Not quite Disney, yet Disney-sprited— Alterations will get you thinking about the art of Tomorrowland. (Roberta Fallon) 5:30pm. Locks Gallery, 600 S. Washington Sq., 215.629.1000. locksgallery.com

CGI vs. Forming Anyone who still says there’s a debate about the artistic value of comics and cartoons has been living in a dungeon for the past 25 years. This week’s show at Space 1026 celebrates the work of two strong, independent creators. First, Lance Simmons, a graduate of Savannah College of Art and Design’s sequential-art program (the Harvard of comics) and a presence on the Philly alt-comic scene (anyone read The Owl?) will be showing works on paper and books. His work is surreal and cutting, a world away from the navel-gazing comic zines of the early decade. Further, the show serves as the launch of Simmons' publishing microcompany, C.G.I. (Cartoon Graphics Imaging).

Second, there’s multitalented Jesse Moynihan—former PW contributor (the comic Kime Agine), member of the band Make a Rising, illustrator of Philly album art and winner of an ultra-prestigious Xeric grant for self-publishing comics. While Moynihan spends half his time in L.A., where he works on the Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time, he’s one of the most established members of the Philadelphia underground comics scene. He’ll be showing the first hundred pages of Forming, his mega-epic psychedelic creation story that breaks all the rules of webcomics—it’s serial, complex and hand-painted with no one-off gags or cut-and-paste. Each page is a work of art, and it’s presented as such here. (Alli Katz) 7pm. Space 1026, 1026 Arch St. 215.574.7630. space1026.com n

invents pointillism and works on his masterpiece, “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte;” in the second act, we jump forward in time to meet Georges' great-grandson George, a successful contemporary artist, at the black-tie unveiling of his latest multimedia video installation, “Chromalume #7.”

Both acts present Multiplicity: George Seurat (Jeffrey Coon) shedding animate technological and design copies of himself via Jorge Cousineau's videos in the Arden's challenges—during the production of Sunday in the Park With George. time we spend with the elder Seurat, his omnipresent sketchpad is often projected large, the sketches (which Cousineau did himself) gradually coalescing into the familiar scene of “La Grand Jatte.” But “Chromalume #7,” conceived by Cousineau and wife Nikki, was the real showstopper. A fascinating setpiece employing live action, moving screens, bluescreen video, computer graphics and “La Grande Jatte” itself, the Chromalume leaped over the hurdle of coming up with art-within-art that doesn’t come off as pretentious

By J. Cooper Robb jrobb@philadelphiaweekly.com or hopelessly naive (Rent, anyone?). Figures from the painting and first act return as Jorge Cousineau has never appeared onstage ghostlike projections, walking around the or uttered a single word in front of an audistage (via moving screens) before disinteence. But that doesn’t stop him from being grating into dots that erupt into a pointillist, our runaway choice for PW’s 2010 Philadelswirling blizzard of color, light and movephia Theater Artist of the Year. ment. Both similar to and a contrast with If you’re a regular or even casual theater“La Grande Jatte,” this was by far the year’s goer in Philadelphia, chances are you are most visually dazzling moment of theater. familiar with the versatile Cousineau's work.

Despite the dazzle of Sunday, Cousineau He was involved with 11 productions last believes he’s doing best when he can create year with a ridiculously wide range of job a natural, unintrusive world that expands to descriptions, designing sets, sound, lighting fill not just the stage, but the whole theater. and video and serving as a composer, co“The most important things are the actor director and co-conceiver—often creating and the story being told,” he says. “When the multiple elements per production. audience is in the moment, they shouldn’t be Why do we think that's such a big deal? Be- noticing the design.” cause it results in productions with a single, Hence, there’s no Cousineau signature—he cohesive vision of the onstage world, a rarity has no particular style, adapting to serve when the usual is fusing ideas from three or the needs of each production. The Arden’s four designers. “I find it easier to make the artistic director, Terrence J. Nolen, who split elements compatible if I’m working on all of “conceived by” billing for Sunday with Cousthem,” Cousineau says of his multitalented ineau and worked with him on three other multitasking. He enjoys collaboration, but plays last year, credits this chameleonlike when he’s in control of designing multiple ability to how the designer “listens” at each elements, “it’s easier to make the environstage of a production’s development. “He ment compatible and seamless.” doesn’t impose” ideas on a production, says Cousineau’s most visible work last year was Nolen, “he creates from within.” probably the video and sound design for the Though this year Cousineau worked on Arden’s Sunday in the Park With George, productions as dissimilar as the Arden’s recently noted by the Wall Street Journal’s kiddie-theater If You Give a Mouse a Cookie theater critic as one of the best shows of (sound, original music, video) and Theatre 2010 (one of very few from outside New Exile’s incendiary, ultraviolent That Pretty York). Cousineau also considers Sunday a Pretty; or, The Rape Play (set, lights, video), highlight of the year, as well he should—the his goal is always the same: to create a video elements of the Sondheim musical are believable, immersive space where the charsignificant, and notoriously tough to pull off, acters and audience can temporarily coexist but transcendent when done right. without reminders that it's all an illusion.

Sunday splits its focus between two artSo, though he’d rather not be recognized ists: The first act follows painter Georges by audiences, we recognize his skills here Seurat, mostly unappreciated even as he nonetheless. n

Sunday in the Park with Jorge Meet multimedia designer Jorge Cousineau, PW ’s Theater Artist of the Year.

Remembering Dreams Folksinger Greg Brown helps us all live a little in the past.

By Jeffrey Barg

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sounds to our Northeastern ears like something that could only spring from the imagination of Garrison Keillor. The son of an English teacher/electric guitar player (Mom) and a Pentecostal preacher (Dad), Brown skipped across the Midwest and eventually became a fixture in the Greenwich Village hootenanny scene as he learned how Jesus, blues and wholesome cooking all bled together in contemporary folk music.

He now lives in Iowa City with his wife, musician Iris DeMent, and his work has been embraced by an entire younger generation of fans who found him through the folk festivals that have remained a staple for him over the years.

I’d sure as hell never had a beet.

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A few years later, on another first date, the lyrics to Brown’s “If I Had Known” seemed to be playing themselves out in real time: She was older than me, I guess, and summer was invented for her to wear that dress/ [which had always struck me as just about the perfect line] I knew about risk, and she knew about proof, and that night she took me up on the roof/ [It was after dinner near the Art Museum and a walk through the galleries, where I, completely ignorant about any of the artwork, made exceedingly witty comments about the other museum patrons. We ended up back at her place, standing on her roof deck, where the Cira Centre—just about a year old—jumped out of the Schuylkill skyline.]

The shooting stars and meteorites, we went on a ride through the sky that night (“If I Had Known”) She cooked me dinner one time after that, but it was too late. Sometime between the Art Museum date and the dinner date, I met my wife—who doesn’t really have much interest in folk music anyhow. n

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Theater 1894, Greg Brown creates a whole new roomful of memories. Tucked away in northwest Bucks County, the intimate theater has undergone a renaissance of late, with a recent Daily News feature talking about how the boomers who haunted the Main Point in Bryn Mawr back in the day now consider it a second home. But it’s not just for your parents; recent shows have included the likes of Hüsker Dü, Mike Doughty and a top-shelf triple bill of Andrew Lipke and the Prospects, Hezekiah Jones and Chris Kasper.

Brown’s bio doesn’t easily fit either the boomers or their offspring. Born in the Prairie Home Companion fields of southeastern Iowa, Brown’s Hacklebarney upbringing

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More than anything, I remember the baritone.

There was the grassy field, and an unrelenting sun, and her ’90s hippie-girl T-shirt, and that gorgeous long, dark hair. I was 17; she looked like an angel, and it was the first time I’d told a girl I loved her and felt like I knew what that meant. (When you’re 17 and it’s still really easy to fall in love, you’re pretty certain you know exactly what that means.) As we lay in the crowd of a New York folk festival near Haverstraw Bay, Greg Brown sang quiet, plaintive songs about ... well, I don’t remember what he sang about. That’s where the memory goes dark. But I remember his low, rumbling baritone, dark enough to convince you a thunderstorm was coming off in the late-afternoon distance—despite the nearly clear sky up above.

Would she have said it was the wrong time if I had found her then?/ I don’t want too much, a field across the road and a few good friends/ She used to come and see me but she was always there and gone/ Even the very longest love don’t last very long (“Rexroth’s Daughter”) Greg Brown’s songs tend to call up a memory. Not necessarily of the first time you heard it—my New York hippie girl and I didn’t make it through the summer, but “Rexroth’s Daughter” wasn’t released for another few years. But a line or even an inflection will roll out, and suddenly the scenery changes and you’re back five, 10, 20 years.

When I was 23, exotic cooking to me still meant putting both mozzarella and parmesan cheese on my baked ziti. But a crush with blond hair and an eyebrow piercing was about to change all of that.

I’m not sure if she was vegetarian or vegan or herbivore or locavore or ate only things that still had dirt on them, but I was floored. With each new ingredient she flashed in front of my eyes—bulgur! Swiss chard! radishes!—my heart quickened. You mean you can eat these little red beets raw, and they taste this good? Swoon.

We (OK, she) packed a picnic and headed to King of Prussia, where Greg Brown was playing the summertime Concerts Under the Stars series.

She cans the pickles, sweet and dill/ And the songs of the whippoorwill/ And the morning dew and the evening moon/ I really got to go down and see her soon/ ‘Cause the canned goods that I buy at the store/ Ain’t got the summer in ’em anymore. (“Canned Goods”) Brown sang soft and warm about how much better foods taste when you can make them yourself, and offered up slow food as the perfect antidote to a fast-paced world. In between songs, we drank juice from mason jars and she taught me about grains and fruits and veggies—a culinary universe heretofore unexplored.

On the way home from the concert, I confessed my crush, and she confessed that she was more into girls. But if you’d asked me then, I’d have told you I’d never eat processed food again.

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Tasty as shell: Jogae tang, Korean clam-and-vegetable soup, was a standout in an uneven menu at Seorabol.

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By Brian Freedman

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For all the restuarant diversity in the parts of the city easily accessible by SEPTA, there’s a number of national culinary traditions maintaining their center of gravity elsewhere.

When it comes to the hearty foods of Korea, Olney has long been where it’s at: For a generous tableful of banchan and menus as authentic as they are deep, head north until you smell the kimchi.

Among these totemic northern Korean destinations, Seorabol has a reputation that places it a cabbage petal above many of its competitors. Ask a serious food-lover where to chow down on chajang or browse the infinite food websites—this large, casual spot a 15-minute drive north of Old City keeps popping up. Unfortunately, much as I enjoyed certain dishes, I wasn’t blown away by the food in general.

This came as a surprise; I typically love the lusty flavors of N O W - J A N U A RY 9 this cuisine that places a premium on the hearty and the PURCHASE TICKETS AT STUDIO 5 ON THE DAY OF PERFORMANCE tongue-tingling.

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salty and bright, showed the herb far more respect than it typically gets, and proved that it’s capable of being so much more than a garnish. O-deng (fish cakes) were sliced thin with the texture of a particularly dense matzoh ball and a fabulous nutty flavor you’d never expect. Cucumbers carried a very appealing back-of-the-throat burn, an excellent counterpart to the inherent freshness. Korean water cabbage, despite the delicacy of the greens and whites, exploded with a front-of-tongue spice heat and a bright bite that was the Korean equivalent of bar snacks: One chopstickful inexorably led to another, until the bowl was empty.

But other banchan fell flat: Pleasantly gelatinous cubes of bean jelly were little more than vessels for the (excellent) kochujang chili-pepper paste; cellophane-clear vermicelli noodles were inexplicably bland; seasoned sprouts were overwhelmed by their salinity.

As far as the real meat of the menu—well, lean toward the meat. Marinated bulgogi grilled on the table’s cooking surface was sweet, bright, tender and impossibly moist.

(Barbecue dishes incidentally have a two-order minimum, which can crank up the bill.) Ethereal curls of beef in an otherwise unremarkable bibimbap raised the preparation higher than its waterlogged vegetables could have accomplished on their own.

Kimchi jigae took full advantage of Seorabol’s high level of skill with this most emblematic cabbage. Despite kimchi’s reputation for unrelenting spiciness, the cabbage in this stew, like the kimchi banchan, managed a cooling sensation that played well off the gentle burn of the broth that permeated the accompanying tofu and pork.

Spicy clam and vegetable soup (jogae tang) was remarkable, a deep, earthy liquid that highlighted the meatiness of the clams, as opposed to its more common sweet focus. Just make sure to tuck into the clams as soon as they arrive, as they tend to overcook if they sit in the broth too long.

Then there were dishes that just failed to excite, which perhaps is inevitable with a menu this extensive. When I asked about the noodles in black bean sauce (chajang myun) and was told that they might be a bit too stinky for me (the waitress’ word, not mine), I immediately ordered them, as the most interesting dishes are often the ones that come with disclaimers. When the glistening, inky noodles arrived, my spirits brightened even further. Unfortunately, that visual led to nothing more than a pleasant but wholly pedestrian experience, neither stinky nor particularly flavorful. Stir-fried octopus (nakji bokum) had the opposite problem—its flavors were spectacular, a fireworks display of chili-paste spice, sweet sliced onions and thin noodles that had absorbed all the juicy goodness. The octopus itself, though, had been so overcooked, chewing was a chore.

So while there are definite flashes of deliciousness here, there are also some more problematic dishes that peddle far too comfortably in the bland. Best to visit with a large group (the portions are huge and the prices add up quickly) and focus on the meats and stews. You’ll likely leave wearing a smoky meat perfume—not the average fragrance of choice, but a nice memory of the best parts of eating here. n

Seorabol 5734 N. Old Second St. 215.924.3355 Cuisine: Korean, with sushi and maki options.

Hours: Mon.-Sat., 11am-11pm; Sun., 11am-10pm.

Prices: $3.75-$39.95.

Atmosphere: Casual, permeated by the aroma of grilling meat— in other words, very comfortable.

Service: Willing to guide you, though there may be a bit of a language barrier depending on who’s helping your table.

Food: Generally solid, with both highlights and a handful of dishes that fell surprisingly flat.

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gracetavern.com

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LIVE MUSIC!

Wednesday, 1/5 – doors @ 7:30

saTurday, 1/8 – doors @ 7:30

The Terribles

Case Closed

The NighTmare river baNd

The violeT ToNe

The high iroNs Willy greeN

breTT Talley The Nodd breNNa fiTzgerald

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The augusT iNfiNiTy 12 mile CirCle The PhoeNix veil

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Friday, 1/7 – doors @ 7:30

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Tasty as shell: Jogae tang, Korean clam-and-vegetable soup, was a standout in an uneven menu at Seorabol.

Not-So-Super Bol Korean at Seorabol is just OK.

By Brian Freedman

bfreedman@philadelphiaweekly.com

P H I L A D E L P H I A W E E K LY Januar y 5-11, 2011 • 24

For all the restaurant diversity in the parts of the city easily accessible by SEPTA, there’s a number of national culinary traditions maintaining their center of gravity elsewhere.

When it comes to the hearty foods of Korea, Olney has long been where it’s at: For a generous tableful of banchan and menus as authentic as they are deep, head north until you smell the kimchi.

Among these totemic northern Korean destinations, Seorabol has a reputation that places it a cabbage petal above many of its competitors. Ask a serious food-lover where to chow down on chajang or browse the infinite food websites—this large, casual spot a 15-minute drive north of Old City keeps popping up. Unfortunately, much as I enjoyed certain dishes, I wasn’t blown away by the food in general.

This came as a surprise; I typically love the lusty flavors of N O W - J A N U A RY 9 PURCHASE TICKETS AT STUDIO 5 ON THE DAY OF PERFORMANCE this cuisine that places a premium on the hearty and the TICKETS $10 - $55 • CALL 215-574-3550 tongue-tingling.

AMERICA’S OLDEST THEATRE — PHILADELPHIA’S MOST POPULAR THEATRE COMPANY Banchan, as always, started things off on an appropriSponsored by ately welcoming note, but they were unexpectedly uneven in execution. Kimchi was a highlight, a wonderfully light STUDIO 5 preparation with a zip of freshness to the otherwise deeper, FOUNDED 1809 825 WALNUT STREET • PHILADELPHIA, PA 19107 spicier flavors of the fermented cabbage. Parsley salad,

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salty and bright, showed the herb far more respect than it typically gets, and proved that it’s capable of being so much more than a garnish. O-deng (fish cakes) were sliced thin with the texture of a particularly dense matzoh ball and a fabulous nutty flavor you’d never expect. Cucumbers carried a very appealing back-of-the-throat burn, an excellent counterpart to the inherent freshness. Korean water cabbage, despite the delicacy of the greens and whites, exploded with a front-of-tongue spice heat and a bright bite that was the Korean equivalent of bar snacks: One chopstickful inexorably led to another, until the bowl was empty.

But other banchan fell flat: Pleasantly gelatinous cubes of bean jelly were little more than vessels for the (excellent) kochujang chili-pepper paste; cellophane-clear vermicelli noodles were inexplicably bland; seasoned sprouts were overwhelmed by their salinity.

As far as the real meat of the menu—well, lean toward the meat. Marinated bulgogi grilled on the table’s cooking surface was sweet, bright, tender and impossibly moist.

(Barbecue dishes incidentally have a two-order minimum, which can crank up the bill.) Ethereal curls of beef in an otherwise unremarkable bibimbap raised the preparation higher than its waterlogged vegetables could have accomplished on their own.

Kimchi jigae took full advantage of Seorabol’s high level of skill with this most emblematic cabbage. Despite kimchi’s reputation for unrelenting spiciness, the cabbage in this stew, like the kimchi banchan, managed a cooling sensation that played well off the gentle burn of the broth that permeated the accompanying tofu and pork.

Spicy clam and vegetable soup (jogae tang) was remarkable, a deep, earthy liquid that highlighted the meatiness of the clams, as opposed to its more common sweet focus. Just make sure to tuck into the clams as soon as they arrive, as they tend to overcook if they sit in the broth too long.

Then there were dishes that just failed to excite, which perhaps is inevitable with a menu this extensive. When I asked about the noodles in black bean sauce (chajang myun) and was told that they might be a bit too stinky for me (the waitress’ word, not mine), I immediately ordered them, as the most interesting dishes are often the ones that come with disclaimers. When the glistening, inky noodles arrived, my spirits brightened even further. Unfortunately, that visual led to nothing more than a pleasant but wholly pedestrian experience, neither stinky nor particularly flavorful. Stir-fried octopus (nakji bokum) had the opposite problem—its flavors were spectacular, a fireworks display of chili-paste spice, sweet sliced onions and thin noodles that had absorbed all the juicy goodness. The octopus itself, though, had been so overcooked, chewing was a chore.

So while there are definite flashes of deliciousness here, there are also some more problematic dishes that peddle far too comfortably in the bland. Best to visit with a large group (the portions are huge and the prices add up quickly) and focus on the meats and stews. You’ll likely leave wearing a smoky meat perfume—not the average fragrance of choice, but a nice memory of the best parts of eating here. n

Seorabol 5734 N. Old Second St. 215.924.3355 Cuisine: Korean, with sushi and maki options.

Hours: Mon.-Sat., 11am-11pm; Sun., 11am-10pm.

Prices: $3.75-$39.95.

Atmosphere: Casual, permeated by the aroma of grilling meat— in other words, very comfortable.

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Food: Generally solid, with both highlights and a handful of dishes that fell surprisingly flat.

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Who’s that, you ask? Only the unsung true father of motion pictures. Years before the Lumière Brothers filmed workers leaving factories, this Frenchman was shooting movies on paper with a single-lens camera. Le Prince invented cameras, projectors and hybrids of both.

He was scheduled to publicly debut his work in September 1890 when he suddenly vanished without a trace.

F.W. Murnau: Probably the most talented filmmaker to emerge from German Expressionism, Murnau emigrated to Hollywood and made Sunrise, a work even more thrillingly experimental than Nosferatu and The Last Laugh. Popular cinema may have been much different had he, shortly before the release of Tabu, not perished in an automobile accident—a tragedy caused, Kenneth Anger claimed, because Murnau was servicing his driver.

Stanley Kubrick: The ice king was notoriously prone to reworking his films postrelease; the versions of 2001 and The Shining you see today aren’t how original audiences saw them. Who knows what alterations he would have made to Eyes Wide Shut, released four months after his fatal heart attack? Likewise, imagine how much more people could have openly hated it if the guilt trip hadn’t been there.

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Pier Paolo Pasolini, or Rainer Werner Fassbinder—Hickenlooper died shortly before his unintentional swan song hit theaters. Sadly, Casino Jack needs all the help it can get. n

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By Matt Prigge mprigge@philadelphiaweekly.com Everything that is wrong with George Hickenlooper’s Casino Jack is conveniently placed in its microcosmic first scene. Kevin Spacey, looking nothing like Jack Abramoff but playing him anyway, brushes his teeth.

Suddenly, he stops, stares at himself in the mirror and launches into a fiery monologue, then casually resumes brushing.

This scene is amusing in theory. It would be amusing in reality if the speech wasn’t powerfully lame, and if Spacey (whose presence in this barely releasable dreck is depressing, even after a decade of imprudent career choices) didn’t go all... Kevin Spacey. The abrupt oral-care segues are admittedly funny, but they’re anomalies— the lone moments of decent comic timing in not just this scene, but the entire film.

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How is it so hard to milk yuks from the life and many, many, many fuckedup transgressions of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff? Casino Jack is the second Abramoff burlesque in a year, following Alex Gibney’s longer-named doc Casino

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Abramoff’s sins are many, and hilariously heartless: He’s been linked to slave labor in the Mariana islands, fleecing Native American casinos, a Mafia murder and Tom DeLay. But, evidently insecure with this fish-in-a-barrel content, Gibney sabotaged himself with glib sarcasm, jokey film clips and cutesy music cues (for example, “Burning Down the House” as Newt Gingrich & co. take over the House of Representatives, get it?).

Even so, this new Casino Jack makes it very clear that documentary, not fictionalization, is the ideal format for a look at Abramoff—but if you must, at least cast a lead who can pass as a younger version of the character. We see only the back end of Abramoff’s political career shortly before his spectacular downfall, leaving scores of juicy bits in the past: Abramoff’s days as a New Republican at Brandeis and in the Reagan administration, his friendships with the unsavory Ralph Reed and Grover Norquist (barely featured) and his 10-year stint in Hollywood, where he co-conceived and produced the Dolph Lundgren-starring, ‘roidy Rambo ripoff Red Scorpion, an embodiment of far-right politics and homoerotic machismo.

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Here comes the uncomfortable part: Two months ago, Hickenlooper died of an accidental painkiller overdose. He was only 47. One ought not to speak too much ill of the recently dead, so I'll mention that this unintentional swan song isn’t the worst biopic Hickenloop ever made—that would be Factory Girl, his 2006 account of Edie Sedgwick, a paint-by-numbers history lesson with a laughably fallacious Warhol Factory and the worst Bob Dylan impersonation ever done by anyone, anywhere, courtesy Hayden Christensen. Luckily, Hickenlooper will likely remembered for his breakthrough Hearts of Darkness, the thrillingly trainwrecky account of the making of Apocalypse Now. Whether this was only because it’s tough to fuck up footage of Francis Ford Coppola losing his shit and Marlon Brando consuming bugs midmonologue remains unclear.

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THREE + BEDROOMS PINE/10TH: 4BDRMS, 1.5BA, WOOD FLOORS $2290+ Pine R.E, 1503 Pine. 215-735-8896, website: www.pinere.com RITTENHOUSE SQUARE: Enormous 3bdrm w/ 2 Full Baths in Beautiful Historic Brownstone, Full Size Washer/ D r ye r i n A pt, H W F l rs, 2 Decorative Fireplaces, Hi Ceilings, Newly Remodeled Kitchen w/ Granite Countertop, Separate Dining Rm, Living Rm, & Family Rm, A/C, Spacious Rooms, Terrific Location! $2650/Mo. 215735-8030. #216850 THE WELLINGTON at Rittenhouse Square. Exclusively on the Square. Magnificent Square View. All utils inlcd. Spacious built-in closets, Laundry Fac, AC, DW, GD. Cable h/up. 24hr Doorman. 215-567-7810

HOUSE FOR RENT 10TH & PINE Dream Home & Garden $2000/mo 267-2501574 11TH & CHRISTIAN-GREAT LOC! 4BDRMS., 2FULL BATHS, C/A, HDWD/FLRS.,DECK, BKYARD, W/D. MUST SEE! $2500/mo.+.

610-304-0087.

23RD & WOLF VIC. 3bedrms., porch front, newly renovated, Hdwd. flrs., $1,000/mo.+. Section 8 approved. 215-432-6222.

ART MUSEUM AREA Beautiful 2-3BR home w/2.5BA (jacuzzi), Granite kit w/SS appls, HW floors t/o, Fin basmt w/powder rm, Laundry rm w/WD. Dual zone Air/ Heat, Fenced-in Patio. Balcony off 2nd/3rd flr BR’s. $1750/mo+.

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15TH/SPRUCE: Huge 1Bdrm in Beautiful Brownstone, Large Rooms, Abundant Closet Space, Modern Kitchen, Walk-In Cedar Closet, Laundry, Intercom Entry. $955/Mo. 215-7358030. lic# 380139

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339 CHRISTIAN ST 2 Bedroom, 1st floor, available Dec.1st $950/Mo 215-917-8835

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AVAILABLE NOW! $1,875. MSRE, 215-925-RENT(7368), www.MichaelSingerRealEstate.com QUEEN VILLAGE: 3BR, 2BA w/ CA. $1650+. Call for details: 2 1 5 - 92 2-3 9 1 0 . m c o l a i z z o @ comcast.net SOCIETY HILL GEM, 3BDRMS, 2.5BA, Bright, Contemporary, Mod kit, HW Flrs, Patio, Gated parking. $2200. (610)909-9876 SO.PHILLY’S MOST CLEAN AND DECORATIVE ST.-3XX DURFOR ST,2Br/New Oak Flrs./All Appls.,A/C,Extras. $990/ mo. 215-849-4049.

13TH & SPRUCE- Parker Hotel CC. Fully Furn’d Rms, no sec. deposit. Utils & housekeeping i n c l d . W K : $ 1 65 - $203 ; D ay : $50-$66. 215-735-2300.

9TH & WOLF VIC. Rooms For Rent. fully furnished, Utils. Incl. $175/weekly. 215-545-5464 KENSINGTON AREA: FURNISHED rooms WITH TVs Use of kitchen & bath, W/D, Starting $70 & UP wkly. 267-496-0065

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1535 E. Moyamensing Ave. Garage for sale;Repair Shop with 3 apts. incld. $450,000 Negotiable. 215-271-7171 ask for Joe.

OFFICE SPACE 12TH & PINE 1st floor Office available w/300SF. Pvt bath. $800+ Elec. Call 215-985-0600 9TH & SPRING GARDEN-1200SQ. FT., BATHROOM,CARPETING, C/A/H. VERY CLEAN. GREAT LOC! $1500/mo. 610-3040087.

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730 S. 19th Street (19th & Fitzwater) ........... $575,000

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Fantastic location for this well appointed triplex. Fully rented, each unit is self contained, HW floors, WD, Gas heat and A/C. Property is a corner building. Second and third floor units have private decks. In addiction, there are 2 garages, Rented for $100.00 each per month. Property also has a new and up to code fire alarm and sprinkler system. Tenants pay all utilities. Located near all that Center City has to offer, easy to rent and close to transportation, shopping, Universities, Schuylkill River Park and Rittenhouse Square Park .

Renovated first floor unit with HW floors. Kitchen has Granite countertops, Oak cabinets and ceramic tile. Bathroom w/new vanity and ceramic tile. Recessed lighting. Outdoor space and full basement. Second floor has Sec. 8 tenant. Spacious and neat. All utilities separate. Great for owner-occupant, 1031 Exchange or investor taking advantage of rental market.

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2002 Fitzwater Street ................................$425,000

excellent cash flow with solid tenants. HW floors. First floor kitchen has cherry wood cabinets and granite countertops in kitchen. Custom vanity and granite counter in bathroom. Naval Square: 2532 Grays Ferry Ave. ..$500+ Gas & El. Recessed lighting throughout. Ceramic tile. Washer/Dryer in Studio apt, WD, All New! first floor unit. All utilities separate. Upgraded plumbing and electric. Six block walk to Rittenhouse Square.

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783 S. 2nd St 1bd/1bath h/w 2 fireplaces exposed brick w/d, c/a. Available 2/1/11 Front & Market

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cHESTNUT HILL Willow Grove Ave 2 BD/1 bath, H/W, incl. heat, hot water & cooking gas Willow Grove Ave Garages/storage spaces available 415 Church Rd

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25th & Wharton Sts. G-2 warehouses, garages, offices, 800sq. ft to 16,000 sq. ft available $7-$9 sq.ft.

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Studios on beautiful tree lined street, HW floors, Private patio, Laundry on premises.

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Parking Space for Compact Car, Great Location!

$150/MONTH

WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST/AVENUE OF THE ARTS/QUEENS VILLAGE 6th & KATER

Spacious Three Bedroom house, 1st floor Living & Dining room, Eat-in kitchen, 2nd floor 1 Bedroom, Office & Bath, 3rd floor 2 Bedrooms, Basement, W/D, Great outdoor space, AVAILABLE NOW! $1,875 Dogs Welcome.

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Bright Studio with view of Kahn Park, HW floors, Heat/Hot water included, AVAILABLE JANUARY! $695 Laundry on premise.

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Cozy Studio w/Heat/Hot water included, HW floors, High ceilings, AVAILABLE JANUARY! $725 Laundry on premises.

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13th & Pine - Adorable Studio apt, Laundry. Incl Heat. $750+ 21st & Green - Very Cool apt, HW Floors, Incl Heat.

Lots of Light $895+ N.Liberties: 3rd & George- Great apt. HW floors, WD, DW, and Parking. $1150+ 22nd & Spruce - Very Cool Studio apt, Incl Heat.

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Broad & Spruce Mod 1Bd's, W/D, C/A, heat incl. $770-995 Walnut &&23rd 1 &1Bd 2Bd's,& hardwood, laundry RITTENHOUSE Lombard 2Bd,hardwood, w/d, hardwood, laundry $770-995 Walnut9th & 23rd 1 & 2Bd's, laundry $575-1000 Locust & 21st Studios & 1Bd's, laundry, heat incl. $575-1000 Locust & 21st Studios & 1Bd's, laundry, heat incl.

Chestnut & 20th Large 2BR, 2BA, H/W, laundry. $1150 Pine & 9th 2Bd's, h/w floors, W/D $850-950 Pine & 21st 1Bd's, hardwood, heat incl., yard $850-950 Pine & 21st 1Bd's, hardwood, heat incl., yard $700-1000 Pine &&22nd 1 & 2Bd, 2Bd, hardwood, heat incl.

Spruce 12th 1-1/2 bath, bi-level, laundry $700-1000 Pine & 22nd 1 & 2Bd, hardwood, heat incl. $750-1100 Lombard & 23rd 1 &2Bd, bi-level, A/C $750-1100 Lombard & Old 23rd WEST/AVE 1 &2Bd, bi-level, A/C ARTS Spruce & 16thWASH World, 1 &OF2Bd's, hardwood THE Chestnut & 20th Ultra mod 1Bd's, C/A, great location $875-1000 Chestnut & 20th Ultra mod 1Bd's, C/A, great location $875-1000 Art Area Ultra Mod 1 & 3Bd's, W/D, Deck, Parking $875-1700 Lombard & –19th Newly Studios renov, mod 1W/D. & 2Bd's Broad & Spruce Renovated & studio, 1BD’s, $875-1700 Lombard & 19th Newly renov, mod studio, 1 & 2Bd's $835-$1000 $800-850 &Fab Spruce Mod 1Bd's,1W/D, C/A, heatdeck incl.

OldBroad CityBroad & 2Bd's, $800-850 & ultra Sprucemod Mod 1Bd's, W/D, C/A, heat incl.

Spruce & 13th -&Bright Studio’s & 1BD’s, H/W. Availlaundry Now. $725-$975 $850-995 Lombard 9th 1Bd & 2Bd, w/d, hardwood, $850-995 Lombard & 9th 1Bd2&bath, 2Bd, w/d, hardwood, laundry University Pine & 9thCity 2Bd's, 3Bd, h/w floors, W/D totally renovated$995-1100 $995-1100 Pine–&Studio’s, 9th 2Bd's, floors, W/D w/New kitchen.

Spruce & 12th 1 & h/w 2BD’s Bi-levels $715-$1240 Spruce & 12th 2Bd, 1-1/2 bath, bi-level, laundryNice Studio$995 Spring Garden Collonade-Extremely $995 Spruce & 12th 2Bd, 1-1/2 bath, bi-level, laundry & 16th Old World, 1C/A, & 2Bd's, hardwood Lombard &Spruce 9th 2BD’s W/W, FROM $900 $995-1350 Q.V.Spruce 3rd &- 1Bambridge 1W/D. W/W, C/A$995-1350 && 16th Old World, 1&& 2Bd's, 2Bd's, hardwood $950-1750 Art Area Ultra Mod 1 & 3Bd's, W/D, Deck, Parking $950-1750 Art Ultra Mod 1 & Studio, 3Bd's, W/D, Deck, Parking South & 12th –Area 1BDultra Bilevel.

All $875 Spring Garden &mod 19th incl. $825-1375 Old City Fab 1 &new.

2Bd's, deck hardwood, Heat $825-1375 Old City Fab ultra mod 1 & 2Bd's, deck $1950 University & City18th 3Bd, 2Mod bath, totally renovated Fairmount 1Bd, C/A, W/D $1950 University City 3Bd, 2 bath, totally renovated $700 Spring Garden Collonade-Extremely Nice Studio Spring& Garden Nice Studio Mt.Q.V. Vernon 21stCollonade-Extremely Gret Studio, Yard, Laundry$600-675 $700 MUSEUM 3rd & Bambridge ART 1 & 2Bd's, W/W, C/A $600-675 Q.V. 3rd & Bambridge 1 & 2Bd's, W/W, C/A $375 Wallace & 20th 1Bd, parquet floors, Spring Garden & 19th Studio, hardwood, Heatyard incl. $375 & 19thH/W, Studio, hardwood, HeatHeat incl. Incl.

Mt.Vernon Spring & 21st –Garden Cute Studio, Laundry.

Avail Now. $650 $625 Fairmount & 18th Mod 1Bd, C/A, W/D Aspen & 26th 1Bd, laundry $625 Fairmount & 18thW/W, Mod 1Bd, C/A, W/D

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$600 Mt. Vernon & 21st Gret Studio,& Yard, Laundry Pennsylvania 26th –& Spac.

1BD, Yard, H/W, laundry.

Mt.&Vernon 21stStudio Gret Studio, Laundry Available Now. $600 $700 Wallace & 20th 1Bd, parquet floors, yard $700 Wallace & 20th 1Bd, parquet floors, yard $650-$700 $600 Aspen & 26th 1Bd, W/W, laundry $600 Aspen & 26th 1Bd, W/W, laundry

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society hill 421 CHEStnUt StrEEt 2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, study, open floor plan, gourmet kitchen, designer baths, exposed duct-

1 bedroom, 1.5 baths, bi-level, high ceilings, one garage space $1,250 2 bedrooms, parking space, river views, 1300sf $1,500 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, terrace, large kitchen, one garage parking space,

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$2,150

$1,675

1742 Sansom Street - 2nd floor retail space on highly trafficked corner or 18th and Sansom Streets, 1000 sf $1,500 NNN 2031 Locust Street Professional Office Space in secure apartment building, 958 sf $1,150 1830 Rittenhouse - Prime Rittenhouse Square office space, 754 sf $2,100 133 S. 18th Street – Ground floor corner retail space, excellent visibility on 18th Street shopping corridor $9,000 NNN 1601 Locust Street - 1st floor and lower level of prestigious Lanesborough condo, ideal for restaurant or offices, 4700 sf $11,000 NNN

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tHe lanesborougH 1601 locust street 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, high ceilings, hardwood floors, brand new construction, chefs kitchen, designer baths, 3467sf $9,750/mo.

Independence place 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, beautifully renovated throughout, balcony, overlooks Washington Square & Locust Walk $2,350/mo.

Wanamaker House 2020 Walnut street 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, high floor with panoramic city views, 1200 sf $2,290/mo.

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Hardwood Floors. Courtyard. Driveway. $139,000.

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1407 WHARTON NEWBOLD 5BR, 2BA, over 2200 sq. ft. Corner House. One block from Broad Street. Original Details. ....................................................................................................................................................... $260,000 1908 S. BANCROFT ST. SOUTH PHILADELPHIA 2 BRs, 1BA w/New roof, windows & doors; Hardwood floors and Brick front. ........................................................................................................................................................$130,000 2639 SEPVIVA ST FISHTOWN Wood floors, Eat -in kitchen & approx 700 sq ft Yard! 3BR plus Den, 1BA. 1,218 sq ft. ........................................................................................................................................................$168,000 438 POPLAR ST NORTHERN LIBERTIES Renovated & oversized 2BR, 1.5BA home. Central air & garden. 1,539 sq ft. ..........................................................................................................................New Price! $325,000 919 KIMBALL ST BELLA VISTA 3 story 4BR, 2BA townhouse near Italian Market. Open Liv/Din w/Pergo floors, White kitchen, Patio. 1,400 sq ft , Great Block, Great Location. Great Price!............................ $335,000 2930 W. GIRARD AVE BREWERYTOWN Renovated Townhome 3BRs, 1 tiled Bath, Wood flrs, separate Dining Rm. updated Kitchen, 1308 sq ft. ........................................................................................................ New Price $185,000 2536-38 MONTROSE ST NAVAL SQUARE Two properties sold as a package; Two story Row and Two story Garage. Terrific development opportunity. ..................................................................................................... New Price $162,000 2031-35 WASHINGTON AVE GRADUATE HOSPITAL Warehouse space+/-27,500 sq. ft. on Two floors w/an unlimited number of uses. Zoned industrial w/ access from Washington Ave and Kimball Street. ....AskiNg Price $1,600,000

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ART MUSEUM

Total Square Footage

Price

Minimum Income Monthly Cost Monthly Tax Total Incld. Mtg, Condo Savings in a 31% for 10% Down Cash Fee & Taxes Tax Bracket Required Financing

Monthly After Tax Cost

the philadelphian

3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, unobstructed city skyline views, wood floors, large balcony, 2017 sf

2,017

$579,900* $149,496 $191,032

$4,457

$698

$3,760

the philadelphian

1 bedroom, 1 bath, brand new kitchen and bath, wood floors, Art Museum view

1000

$289,900

$43,267

$96,341

$2,248

$309

$1,939

the philadelphian

Renovated studio, wood floors throughout, open kitchen, large balcony with city skyline view

567

$175,000

$26,306

$57,483

$1,341

$190

$1,152

the philadelphian

Studio, open renovated kitchen, large balcony with Art Museum view

567

$129,900

$20,834

$49,901

$1,164

$181

$984

Location

AVENUE OF THE ARTS

Total Square Footage

Price

Minimum Income Monthly Cost Monthly Tax Total Incld. Mtg, Condo Savings in a 31% for 10% Down Cash Fee & Taxes Tax Bracket Required Financing

Monthly After Tax Cost

acadeMy house

2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, spacious living room, separate dining room, W/D

1019

$319,000

$48,703

$112,132

$2,616

$431

$2,186

acadeMy house

One bedroom, one bath, upgraded kitchen and bath, Juliet balcony, W/D

705

$289,000

$42,702

$88,613

$2,068

$296

$1,772

center city one

1 bedroom, 1 bath, high floor, balcony with panoramic views of the city to the south, excellent closet space, W/D

897

$259,900

$41,412

$86,520

$2,019

$299

$1,720

acadeMy house

1 bedroom, 1 bath, panoramic southern views, Juliet balcony, renovated bath and kitchen

705

$259,900

$39,043

$82,852

$1,933

$272

$1,661

center city one

1 bedroom, 1 bath, spacious balcony, magnificent city views to the south, abundant natural light

873

$240,000

$36,972

$78,608

$1,834

$271

$1,563

Location

RITTENHOUSE SQUARE

Total Square Footage

Price

Minimum Income Monthly Cost Monthly Tax Total Incld. Mtg, Condo Savings in a 31% for 10% Down Cash Fee & Taxes Tax Bracket Required Financing

the rittenhouse

Penthouse, 2 bedrooms, 2 full baths, 2 half baths, high end finishes and appointments throughout, balcony with city views

3,952

$3,500,000* $834,620 $889,056

$20,745

$3,725

$17,020

barclay

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

3,293

$2,900,000* $666,258 $619,296

$14,450

$2,632

$11,818

lanesborough

3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, brand new, very high ceilings, his and hers master baths, custom kitchen, exquisite detail throughout.

3,467

$2,750,000* $636,038 $607,268

$14,170

$2,605

$11,565

lanesborough

Tri-level penthouse with 1600 sq ft of terrace space, being sold unfinished, private elevator access

3,413

$2,500,000* $579,879 $557,842

$13,016

$2,351

$10,665

barclay

3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, herringbone wood floors, EIK, crown molding and other custom finishes throughout, Rittenhouse Square views

2,638

$2,195,000* $511,632 $501,005

$11,690

$2,094

$9,597

Monthly After Tax Cost

parc rittenhouse

2 bedrooms plus den, 2 baths, den/study, high ceilings, oversized windows overlooking Rittenhouse Square, upgraded custom kitchen, sun soaked master suite

2,221

$1,395,000* $349,934 $362,728

$8,464

$1,511

$6,953

parc rittenhouse

2 bedrooms plus den, 2.5 baths, large balcony over Rittenhouse Square, open kitchen, hardwood floors, marble baths

1,552

$1,295,000* $306,402 $304,997

$7,117

$1,320

$5,796

1830 rittenhouse

3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, upgraded kitchen, original hardwood floors and molding, lots of light

2,275

$1,195,000* $309,704 $318,887

$7,440

$1,321

$6,119

warwick condoMiniuMs

3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, hardwood floors, 270 degree views, open kitchen, marble baths, custom closets, W/D

2,000

$1,290,000* $174,122 $373,141

$8,707

$1,757

$6,949

warwick condoMiniuMs

3BR, 3BA, Bamboo flrs., spac. Kit w/custom wood cabinetry, granite counter tops, marble baths, 3 exposures, gym and hotel services

1,978

$1,350,000* $181,323 $371,644

$8,672

$1,795

$6,877

the rittenhouse

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, completely renovated with high end finishes, views of Rittenhouse Square from every room

1,560

$995,000* $242,439 $273,743

$6,387

$1,090

$5,298

parc rittenhouse

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, terrace on pool club deck, open custom kitchen, marble baths, wood floors

1,272

$839,000* $201,948 $206,151

$4,810

$855

$3,956

warwick condoMiniuMs

2 bedrooms + den, 3 baths, gourmet kitchen, marble baths, walk-in-closets, hardwood floors

warwick condoMiniuMs

2 bedrooms + den, 3 baths, sun-soaked, wood floors, open kitchen, marble baths

1830 rittenhouse square

2bedrooms, 1.5baths, windows overlooking Rittenhouse Square, old world charm, spacious kitchen, formal dining room

the warwick

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, southern exposure from every room, marble baths, open chefs kitchen, maple hardwood floors

the rittenhouse

1,614

$829,000* $115,051 $246,527

$5,752

$992

$4,761

open sunday 1/9, 1:00pM - 2:00pM

1,614

$799,000* $190,486 $203,258

$4,743

$861

$3,881

open sunday 1/9, 12:45pM - 1:15pM

1,380

$689,900* $145,000 $217,432

$5,073

$2,938

$4,251

1,296

$625,000* $149,666 $158,380

$3,696

$631

$3,064

1 bedroom, 1.5 baths, eat in kitchen, beautiful sunset views, master suite with large marble bath

1,037

$599,000* $147,283 $170,623

$3,981

$659

$3,323

barclay

Two bedrooms, two baths, hardwood floors, old world charm with modern features

1,050

$595,000* $143,766 $153,060

$3,571

$619

$2,953

barclay

Two bedrooms, two baths, hardwood floors, building offers 24 hour doorman and gym, located on Rittenhouse Square

1,075

$550,000* $133,706 $146,037

$3,408

$580

$2,827

parc rittenhouse

2 bedrooms, 1 bath, hardwood floors, marble bath, rooftop pool club and skyline view

806

$497,500

$119,226 $116,911

$2,728

$447

$2,281 $2,003

warwick condoMiniuMs

One bedroom, one bath, hardwood floors, marble bath, custom kitchen

712

$399,900

$53,426

$106,710

$2,490

$486

the rittenhouse

Studio, city views, large marble bath, hardwood floors, excellent natural light

583

$379,900

$55,358

$114,993

$2,683

$401

$2,282

wanaMaker house

1 bedroom, 1 bath, wood floors throughout, renovated kitchen and bathroom, bay windows with city views open sunday 1/9, 12:00pM - 12:30pM

704

$319,000

$46,421

$91,365

$2,132

$352

$1,780

parc rittenhouse

Studio with wood floors, marble bath, open kitchen and city view

497

$275,000

$39,472

$81,681

$1,906

$319

$1,587

warwick condoMiniuMs

Studio, high floor with city views, walk in closest, wood floors, marble bath

423

$229,900

$32,772

$62,166

$1,451

$226

$1,225

Location

SOCIETY HILL

Total Square Footage

Price

Minimum Income Monthly Cost Monthly Tax Total Incld. Mtg, Condo Savings in a 31% for 10% Down Cash Fee & Taxes Tax Bracket Required Financing

101 walnut st

Entire Floor Residence, 2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, custom open kitchen, designer baths, panoramic river and city views

2423

$1,200,000* $281,398 $298,478

$6,694

$1,124

$5,841

bank building

2 bedrooms plus den, 2.5 baths, hardwood floors, high-end open kitchen, designer bathrooms

2,117

$799,000* $207,313 $217,014

$5,064

$844

$4,291

society hill towers

Two bedrooms, one bath, parquet wood floors, washer/dryer, unobstructed river views, floor-to-ceiling windows

1,133

$399,000

$58,788

$128,086

$2,989

$427

$2,562

society hill towers

One bedroom, one bath, river views, custom kitchen and bath

700

$297,500

$43,513

$90,659

$2,115

$309

$1,806

society hill towers

One bedroom, high floor, river view, investment opportunity

700

$290,000

$42,577

$89,976

$2,099

$302

$1,798

society hill towers

1BR, 1BA, magnificent river views, high floor, wood floors throughout

700

$275,000

$40,731

$86,724

$2,024

$291

$1,733

bank building

$95,821

$2,236

$303

Monthly After Tax Cost

P H I L A D E L P H I A W E E K LY

Raw space that can be customized to the buyers desires, hotel services and amenities available

1,286

$269,000

$41,367

Location

WASHINGTON SQUARE

Total Square Footage

Price

Minimum Income Monthly Cost Monthly Tax Total Incld. Mtg, Condo Savings in a 31% for 10% Down Cash Fee & Taxes Tax Bracket Required Financing

$1,933

independence place

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

4,500

$2,295,000* $552,133 $588,133

$13,728

$3,022

$10,706

independence place

Penthouse, 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, wrap around balcony, high ceilings, eat-in kitchen, large master suite

2,810

$1,250,000* $303,747 $328,202

$7,658

$1,511

$6,147

independence place

3 bedrooms, 3 baths, east facing river and city views, modern kitchen, hardwood floors, balcony, laundry room

3,015

$1,250,000* $250,000 $319,246

$7,449

$1,403

$6,046

independence place

2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, beautifully renovated kitchen and baths, balcony with city and river views, hardwood floors in living areas

1,977

$799,000* $195,082 $212,815

$4,966

$961

$4,004

independence place

2 bedroom, 2 baths, completely renovated with custom kitchen and designer baths, balcony, hardwood floors

1,173

$559,000* $139,761 $140,111

$3,269

$613

$2,656

independence place

1 bedroom, 1.5 baths, alcove, Washington Square views, completely upgraded throughout

1,118

$499,900

$71,144

$135,733

$3,167

$524

$2,643

independence place

1 bedroom, 1.5 baths, alcove, completely renovated with gourmet kitchen, designer bath, amazing closets

1,118

$479,900

$68,164

$137,351

$3,205

$620

$2,585

hopkinson house

2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, wood floors, balcony, southern exposure

1,200

$349,900

$56,515

$122,407

$2,856

$417

$2,439

hopkinson house

Deluxe 1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony with views of Washington Square and the river, renovated kitchen and bath

1,063

$329,000

$53,908

$115,998

$2,707

$410

$2,297

Monthly After Tax Cost

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independence place

1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, laundry room, excellent condition

928

$299,900

$44,212

$87,809

$2,049

$327

$1,722

independence place

1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, excellent value

928

$290,000

$42,132

$83,461

$1,947

$302

$1,645

Location

WATERFRONT

Total Square Footage

Price

Minimum Income Monthly Cost Monthly Tax Total Incld. Mtg, Condo Savings in a 31% for 10% Down Cash Fee & Taxes Tax Bracket Required Financing

Monthly After Tax Cost

waterFront square

1 bedroom, 1 bath, wood floors, balcony, high end finishes in kitchen and bath

924

$219,000

$42,318

$1,804

$90,810

$2,119

$315

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* Based on 20% Down Mortgate

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1830 rittenHouse 1830 rittenhouse square

3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, den/ study, open floor plan, marble baths, 2421 sf

3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, excellent natural light, spacious kitchen, great entertaining space, 2275 sf

$1,275,000

$1,195,000

independence pLace 233 s. 6th street

tHe pHiLadeLpHian 2401 pennsylvania avenue

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, updated kitchen and baths, balcony with river and city views, 1977 sf

3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, balcony and windows walls with magnificent city and Art Museum views, 2017 sf

$799,000

$579,900

Wanamaker House 2020 Walnut street

tHe dorcHester 226 W. rittenhouse square

1 bedroom, 1 bath, open renovated kitchen, wood floors throughout, bay windows, 700 sf

1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, open kitchen, renovated throughout, 609 sf

$319,000

$265,000

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