Philadelphia Weekly 1-11-12

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FOOD 19 Slice of Kevin Sbraga, helmed by Top Chef winner Kevin Sbraga, is both familiar and exotic.

STAGE 22 Gypsy Girl When it comes to musicals, bigger is definitely better.

ART 23 Hair Apparent Nick Cave’s sculptures literally come to life.

COVER STORY 6 Frame of Mind The story behind Zoe Strauss’ iconic “Mattress Flip” photograph.

PHILLYNOW 5 Party Planner Philly native Robert Allen Mansfield is a black Tea Party Republican.

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

SCREEN 24 Couples Retreat Carnage finds two couples bickering over their kids.

MUSIC 26 Q&A With Dave Hill The funnyman talks about Philly fashion and the passing of dear friend Kim Jong-il.

27 ADULT 30 SAVAGE LOVE 31 RECRUITMENT 32 REAL ESTATE 35 OPEN HOUSE

Feedback Snitchin’ Ain’t Easy Regarding Michael Alan Goldberg’s cover story about “Star & Buc Wild” Shock Jock Troi Torain’s campaign to “Start Snitching”: I think this is a great look for hip-hop. I’m really tired of people in my hood acting like killing and robbing is so cool. I also would like to see rappers talk about something other than money and hoes.

D ROCK, via philadelphiaweekly.com

Start snitching is a GREAT MOVEMENT! I believe in the message being sent here. Being “hood” doesn’t mean you have to be heartless. Let’s stop disrespecting the neighborhoods we come from and start promoting positive change.

ANONYMOUS, via philadelphiaweekly.com

Until a movement like this becomes what is popular and “cool” for your children to follow, your children will continue running around with criminal “swag” and follow behind rappers, athletes and drug dealers posing as either. The real crime is not caring enough to report senseless acts of violence against senior citizens and children.

SPIT, via philadelphiaweekly.com

It’s time someone took a stand against this sort of pervasive ignorance. I also agree that some hip-hop artists and their glorification of criminal acts and nonsense need to be held accountable.

STEVEN VAN PATTEN, via philadelphiaweekly.com

Torain is on the right path, while Reef is spewing the same garbage that keeps the criminals on the top of the food chain and has destroyed West and North Philly, Kensington, etc. When someone is killed, questions like, “Do you know them” or “What is your association to them?” is called investigating. Live in silence and die ignorant.

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Philly native Robert Allen Mansfield is a black Tea Party Republican. Yes, you heard that right.

By Randy LoBasso rlobasso@philadelphiaweekly.com rya n st r a n d

and immediately began a run for governor of Pennsylvania, though later dropped out of the race due to health issues.

Now, in a better state of health, he’s running for Senate with a set of radical ideas that, he says, will essentially pull the United States from its debt-economy and free the people from the progressive tax system, which he believes has failed.

Mansfield calls for moving the production-based federal tax code to a consumer-based code. As senator, he

“African-Americans fail to realize that until recently, the Democratic Party was the party of the KKK. So why would I want to join a party that wants to lynch me?” would support cutting all federal taxes for a federal ‘fair tax’ system and the closure of all tax loopholes. “And when I say ‘fair tax,’ I’m not saying 23 percent,” Mansfield says. “I’m talking 10 to 15 percent on everything you use. You can’t pick winners and losers anymore.”

Replacing the income tax system, he says, would not only put all Americans on the same playing field, but give those working their way up more motivation without discouraging those at the top from hiring and producing more.

These ideas could not be further from Sen. Bob Casey’s.

“He’s not leading,” Mansfield says of the state’s current senior senator. “He’s too much in the pocket of the unions … I understand that union workers are voters, as well, but you can’t be so pro-union. And [in so doing], he has stood in the way of deficit reduction.”

He knows that his plans sound a bit ambitious, but he’s got the experience, he says, few in Congress have. And not just that of the military: “I’m from the hood,” he says. “I’m from North Philly. I have to negotiate everything.” n

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he became close with the late Michael H. Danjczek, the organization’s executive director, who taught him public speaking.

When Mansfield was getting ready to leave state custody, he says Danjczek approached him about politics. The move from public speaking to politics, he said, was a nobrainer. So was the decision to register Republican.

“African-Americans fail to realize that until recently, the Democratic Party was the party of the KKK,” he says. “Just look at [former West Virginia Sen.] Robert Byrd, the southern Dixiecrats. So, why would I join a party that wants to lynch me?”

Mansfield says things could have gotten better from there—but they got worse.

After doing some research, he found out his mother had died in 1983, but her family still resided in Philadelphia. He moved back to the city to reconnect with them, but became homeless, and would remain so for three years. During that period, he began working part-time for a local Democratic state representative, both as a driver and issues advocate.

“I got caught up in progressive politics,” he says. “I was out there advocating for houses, you know, ‘housing now!’ And I realized as I was going through another painful chapter of my life that ... how am I going to advocate for the homeless when I don’t have a home?”

The experience grounded him, and even now, as a Tea Partier, he calls the social safety nets that kept him above ground for so long necessary in today’s society. He even suggests Gov. Tom Corbett’s recent move to destroy some of those safety nets is perhaps unconstitutional. “I’m not a nogovernment anarchist,” he says. “You want anarchy, come to 30th and Norris and take the stop signs down … You have to have rules, you have to have order, but you don’t have to have nannies.”

In 1995, he joined the Pennsylvania National Guard and remained there until 2010, when he was honorably discharged.

While fighting in Iraq, he suffered a serious injury that requires the use of a cane and dark sunglasses. “I’m not trying to be pimp daddy,” he says with a laugh, referencing a City Paper blog post from December, in which he was mocked for having worn the shades at an indoor debate. (CP later issued an apology.)

While in the military, Mansfield worked in financial consulting and began several small financial companies. He even worked six months as the chief financial officer for a Toronto-based financial firm. He was discharged from the Guard in June 2010

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Republican anywhere in the state of Pennsylvania.

Yes, a black Tea Party Republican from Philly.

Now, Mansfield’s campaign is in full swing as he meets-and-greets in Northern Liberties, and he immediately wants to clarify his positions. He wants: a federal ‘fair tax’ code (which is a flat tax on all consumer products in place of a national income tax); school vouchers; more emphasis on veterans’ health care; and he wants to empower blacks through business and ownership.

Mansfield, touting himself as Philadelphia’s “hiphop Republican,” says the party won’t survive past 2020 if Tea warrior: Iraq War vet Robert Allen Mansfield joins the small group of black it continues ignoring Republicans who have run for office in Pennsylvania. and disrespecting the black community. “In my neighborhood, I It’s election night 2011 and all signs do what Malcolm X says: I rap to people,” point to a Republican upset in the City he says. “I don’t talk to them, but I speak Commissioner’s race between incumbent with them … everyone in Cheltenham Joe Duda and challenger Al Schmidt. Win knows I’m a Republican. They know I’m a or lose, Schmidt’s holding a victory party Tea Party guy. But I try not to come with all in the upstairs lounge at Liberties Bar on that ‘holier than thou’ stuff.”

North Second Street. North Philly native Mansfield’s personal and political Robert Allen Mansfield, dressed in black narrative is anything but conventional. and walking with a cane, is one of the first Born in North Philadelphia in 1971 to show up. Wearing dark sunglasses, to a heroin-addicted mother, he was he hands out business cards. He’s just immediately given up for adoption and back from Kentucky, where, Mansfield spent a week in the hospital recovering says, the Tea Party candidates—with from the opiate addiction. He would never whom he identifies—are barely showing meet his mother. “I spent seven days up for the fight. And he hopes that here withdrawing from heroin,” he says, “so I in Philadelphia, Schmidt can bring a came into this world fighting.” “resurgence to the Republican Party ...

He spent his childhood in several We need to be out there competing and Philadelphia foster homes, which resulted expanding the base.” in a series of tragedies that he has tried In less than a month, the 40-year-old to make the most from. “I was molested retired U.S. Army Sergeant and 2010 when I was 9 and raped when I was 16,” he gubernatorial candidate will announce a says. “And that was in a children’s home. So bid for the U.S. Senate. He’ll be the only adults had failed me every step of my life.”

Philadelphian in the crowded Republican In July 1987, he was transferred to the Easton Children’s Home in Easton, Pa., field, the only Iraq War veteran, and one and believes it saved his life. While there, of the few blacks who have ever run as a

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The story behind Zoe Strauss’ “Mattress Flip” photo.

By Tara Murtha tmurtha@philadelphiaweekly.com

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n the corner of McClellan and Fifth streets in South Philadelphia, a group of young boys pass the afternoon executing daredevil flips off a stack of old throwaway mattresses. A woman driving by, a novice photographer, glimpses the small bodies somersaulting through the air.

Startled, she pulls over, and winds up snapping seven or eight quick photographs.

In the best shot, a boy hangs upside down in the center of the frame while another boy stands off to the side. He’s gazing directly into the camera’s lens, shyly hiding the smile lighting up the rest of his face with a fist curled in front of his mouth.

The wall behind the boys is painted deep red, darker than the natural brick beneath. About 10 feet up the wall, the paint line looks like the high watermark of a recent flood.

The picture was taken in 2001. Since then, the photographer, Zoe Strauss, has become recognized as one of America’s top living artists and the photo, “Mattress Flip,” is one of Strauss’ most famous and beloved pieces, seen and appreciated all over the world.

“Mattress Flip” was an integral part of Strauss’ magnum opus, Under I-95. Every year from 2001 to 2010, Strauss converted an empty lot at the intersection of Front and Mifflin streets in South Philly into a temporary public-art gallery by displaying 231 photos—mostly street portraits, signs and architecture—on the concrete pillars holding up the I-95 overpass. Each aisle had a specific theme and every walking path presented narratives rooted in interconnectedness of the city, its denizens and art. Every installation is a fresh edit of an ever-expanding story: Strauss has repeatedly defined Under I-95 as an epic narrative exploring the beauty and struggle of everyday life.

“Mattress Flip” is a bestseller. At Under I-95, every print was sold for $5 each, while larger copies produced with fancier inks and papers have been sold through the Bruce Silverstein Gallery in New York City for up to $3,000. A giant vinyl version of the photograph hangs inside Lincoln Financial Field.

On Jan. 14, a mid-career retrospective of Strauss’ work—a rare honor, especially for an artist who picked up a camera only 12 years ago—opens at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The exhibition unfolds in three parts: inside the museum, in a companion book, and on 54 billboards all over the city. In a project built on the premise of the intersection of worlds within worlds, even the parts have parts, including a slideshow inside the museum.

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This week, the Philadelphia Museum of Art will drape a 70-foot-wide version of “Mattress Flip” across the pillars atop its famous steps. The image of the boys playing will announce the opening of Zoe Strauss: Ten Years.

It will also serve as a memorial.

The name of the boy in Strauss’ photo, the one watching the action, is Lawrence Edward Rose Jr., but everyone called him Boo. On June 17, 2007, six years after Strauss transformed his smiling face into a work of art, Boo was shot on Seventh and Mifflin streets, three blocks away from where he and his cousin, Botty (pronounced “Boo-dee”), flipped on mattresses that summer afternoon. The first bullet entered Boo’s stomach; the second, his knee. Boo died on July 12, the 214th homicide out of that year’s 392. He was 19 years old.

For 10 years, Boo’s family didn’t know the photograph existed, never mind that it was printed in books, exhibited in museums and hanging in homes all over the world.

And Strauss, who lives four miles from the boy’s family, never knew about his murder.

Now, Strauss’ work and Boo’s memory are intertwined forever, frozen in one moment of bliss under the sun. It’s as if the series of chance encounters that led to Boo’s family’s discovery of “Mattress Flip” proves Strauss’ point: big or small, everything is connected.

Every installation is a fresh edit of an ever-expanding story: Strauss has repeatedly defined Under I-95 as an epic narrative exploring the beauty and struggle of everyday life.

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Sa’ddiya Suku is a librarian at Haddington Branch on 65th and Girard. The 30-yearold grew up on the same corner the photograph was taken, which is just a block away from Boo’s grandmother, Gloria Richards’ house. Boo spent a lot of time at Gloria’s house as a kid, and was living with her when he was shot.

One day this past July, Suku was busy shelving books when she glanced down at a children’s book titled A is for Art Museum. In it, each letter of the alphabet is illustrated by a famous piece of art. “B” is for bridge, and features Monet’s “The Japanese Footbridge and the Water Lily Pool, Giverny, 1899.” “S” is for sunflowers, and features Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers.” “J” stands for jump, illustrated by “Mattress Flip.”

Written by the PMA’s senior curator of education, Marla Shoemaker, and museum educator Katy Friedland, copies of the book were given to every library branch in the city courtesy of the museum when it was published in 2008.

The PMA purchased “Mattress Flip” in 2003. Three years later, it was exhibited as part of a show called Summer Vacation. Friedland had to pass through this particular gallery to get to her office, so the image was on her mind when she started selecting artwork for the book in 2007. “I had to walk by it on my way to work every morning,” says Friedland. “And it made me smile.”

The cover of the book is a checkerboard pattern sampling of the artwork featured inside. A small version of “Mattress Flip” fills one of the squares. Boo was cropped out, but Saku recognized the painted brick wall as the one on McClellan Street. She opened the book.

“The first page I turn to is that exact picture,” says Saku. “I notice Lawrence. Boo. I knew he passed away.”

She had never met Boo, but recognized him from the neighborhood and knew his mother, 51-year-old Dorothea Richards. She took the book to Richards.

“She was crying,” says Suku. “Her family was happy because I had brought them a piece of their family that was no longer with them, and he left such a good mark.”

“It was joy to see,” says Richards. “Something that you ain’t even know. That your son was in a book like that, and you know it’s going to be around for years.”

She showed Boo’s father, Lawrence Rose, Sr. “He was happy to see it and know his son is party of history.”

Richards called the museum and reached Shoemaker; Shoemaker emailed Strauss.

They set up a meeting between the authors, Strauss, Richards and Richards’ 32-yearold daughter, Sumayya.

“It’s insane for so many different reasons,” says Strauss. “It’s totally crazy to be

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included in that kind of art instruction and to be seemed representative of both the feeling of joy I wanted included with the other [pieces] they have in the book … to talk about but also a fitting memorial … I wanted to When I think of Botty and Boo, it makes perfect sense in talk about his life and say that he was here. He existed relation to ‘Sunflowers.’ They are shining superstars.” and mattered.”

By all accounts, it was a very emotional meeting.

The name “Boo” glitters across the top of a Christmas Shoemaker recalls Richards’ reaction. “She was stocking hanging off the staircase of his grandmother’s pleased to see the picture, and remember him in a house on Sixth Street. Debris litters the stoop but inside, happier time,” she says. it’s tidy. Even though the family is Muslim, the house is “It’s not just a picture, but someone you love,” says decorated for the holidays with gold garland tacked to Richards through tears. “He left something behind for the wall and a big tree dotted with mini stockings. It’s a all the children to see so they know that it’s not just week before Christmas, and Richards says she needs to about violence, it’s about life … They’re just playing in go to the dollar store and buy 50 more in order to have a the neighborhood, doing what they want to do. They stocking for each of Gloria’s 94 grandchildren and greatdon’t want all this violence. They just want to play.” grandchildren.

Violence has cut into Richards’ life many times. In Lots of kids and young adults stream in and out of the 2010, she buried two of Boo’s cousins, Hakim Smith and house. At least five cousins hanging out today have Boo Quaan Westbrook, in one month. “All three died in July, and all three of them was 19 years old.” And they all died tattoos on their arms. One of Boo’s sisters, 31-year-old Ceron, has “Boo” and his birth and death dates tattooed by gunfire.

Strauss says she’s still overwhelmed by everything she across her chest in black ink. Another sister, Khadiyah, rolls up her sleeve to show a tattoo of a long rose, its learned when she met Richards. thorny stem threading through four ribbons: one for Boo, “The photograph is present in every day of my life,” says Strauss. “I couldn’t … get my mind around the Quaan, Hakim and Nellie, a friend who died too young of idea of him becoming an adult and then having been a bad heart. murdered,” she says of Boo. Or that she would connect with his family after this much time had passed. “Ten years,” she sighs. “There was a whole life between this moment and the moment they said, ‘Come over.’”

Strauss was surprised to learn that all this time, she had been reading Boo’s expression wrong.

“He was sucking his thumb,” she says.

“In my mind … he was holding his fist in an exclamation, like, ‘Oh, damn!’ And it was not true. They knew his posture and presence in that moment … It was something we all kind of marveled at a little bit.”

Strauss remembers the day she shot “Mattress Flip.” She was driving home from errands, “Kmart, probably,” when she glimpsed a body twirling through the air.

“I was driving by and they were flipping and I was like, ‘Are you joking?’”

She pulled over. “I got out to be like, ‘Please, that is too high!’”

Flip side: Strauss shot “Mattress Flip” on McClellan Street on a summer afternoon in 2001.

“I [said], ‘Oh my God you guys, please you have to be careful’ and they were like, ‘No, but look at this!’ and someone “He was a special baby,” says Richards of her son. “He else did this Greg Louganis back-flip and landed on their was kind of spoiled, being the only boy with three older feet.” sisters, so of course they teased him a lot.”

Strauss snapped some photos on a 35mm camera.

Sumayya, 32, is the oldest, followed by Ceron and “[They] were really polite, really affable and funny,” 29-year-old Nydeea. Then, when Boo was 5 years old, she says. “They were generous in their spirit of Richards had another son, Leron, 22, and then two more excitement.” girls, Khadiyah, 21, and Natara, 19.

“Mattress Flip” debuted as art in the first Under I-95 exhibit in November, 2001.

Richards smiles while reminiscing about Boo as a kid.

“I felt strongly compelled to show it, because here was About how he always begged for a puppy and how he was this moment of just unbelievable joy,” recalls Strauss. “It always much smaller, and gentler, than the other boys. He really put it all the way out there in terms of the thrill of had a temper, too, and they say he was an overprotective being alive.” brother. Still, even into his teens, the family thought of Strauss says that before meeting Richards and the Boo as a big baby who mostly liked to stay to himself. He rest of the family, she had no intention of installing sucked his thumb until he was 17.

“Mattress Flip” at the entrance to the museum. But “He didn’t carry guns,” says Sumayya. “He rarely got after joining them at a memorial for Hakim on the date into fistfights … he was a homebody.” that would’ve been his 21st birthday, and learning more “The only thing he liked was [video] games and shows,” about Boo’s life, she was certain. says Richards. “In preschool, he’d come home, take all “The context changed,” Strauss says. “I was thinking his clothes off, sit down put his thumb in his mouth and about the position of the museum in relation to the watch TV.” city, and the way the museum is seen as disconnected As he got older, he started getting into some trouble. from the city in many ways. I thought [“Mattress Flip”] At 18, he got caught with some pills and arrested for

receiving stolen property. The year he died, he was arrested for robbery and related charges, which were withdrawn.

Everyone describes Boo as an animal lover and says

he thought about becoming a veterinarian one day.

When his uncle, 40-year-old Wayne Richards, brought home a puppy named Roscoe in 2007, Boo was the one who took care of him every day.

The family trades stories about how much Boo loved this dog, even though he’s “crazy,” and about how he “lives in the basement” at Gloria’s, which they call the boy zone because it used to be mostly just Boo and the dog down there. They say Boo rarely left the basement because he felt safe down there. The family continued to take care of Roscoe because Boo loved him.

“He had this dog from when he was a puppy to when he died,” says Richards.

But two hours after this reporter left the family’s house that day in December, Roscoe died.

“They killed Roscoe,” says Richards. “They killed the dog for nothing.”

According to Richards, her nephew was sitting in a car with tinted windows across the street from Gloria’s house when a cop pulled up and stopped in front of the car. He panicked and ran from the car and straight into the family’s house, down into the basement. “There wasn’t nowhere for him to run,” says Richards. “So he just gave up. But it was too late, the cops kicked the door open and shot the dog.”

According to Richards, her nephew wasn’t arrested and the family filed a complaint with Internal Affairs. The Philadelphia Police Department did not comment by press time.

When Boo was born, Richards lived

in the projects at Fifth and Washington.

When he was 3, his mother sent him to Kaleidoscope, an arts enrichment pre-school program offered through Settlement music school. Back then, Patty Pedrick was a new teacher just out of college.

“He was my student for two years,” Pedrick says. “And then as he was getting ready to go to kindergarten, we just knew there was going to be trouble … [They’re a] great, great family, but overwhelmed.

And he was having a hard time with the cognizance stuff.”

Boo had a learning disorder. “It was hard [for him] to read,” says Richards. “He was intelligent, though.”

Richards and Pedrick hatched a plan to let the boy stay with Pedrick during the school year. She loved him and was willing to be a live-in caretaker and tutor.

“He was very tiny, and had huge eyes and the greatest smile ever,” says Pedrick. “My entire family fell in love with him and that shy sweet smile. I was very worried about him growing up in the city because he was just too sweet and kind.”

So Boo stayed with Patty for one school year.

“He loved his Patty,” says Richards. “And she really loved Boo so much.”

Pedrick and Richards talked about arranging for Pedrick to legally adopt Boo, so that if she needed to take him to the hospital she had authority to make the necessary decisions.

“When you’re young and stupid, you think you can do everything and everything,” says Pedrick. “[Richards] was a very loving mom. I don’t remember it any other way than that, but she just wanted him to do well, and since I’ve known her she was always had her hands full with

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working, trying to get better jobs, and it was rough.”

They started the paperwork, but Pedrick felt pressured by the courts to say bad things about Boo’s family. “The courts wanted her to say that I’m on drugs, and unfit and stuff like that,” says Richards.

“When it got to that point, we got uncomfortable,” says Pedrick.

Then the family moved around South Philly a few times.

But Richards always worried about Boo’s safety. “We live in an area where it’s the Fifth Street and Seventh Street gang,” says Richards. “You have to get out of dodge.”

When Boo was about 13 years old, she sent him to an Islam boarding school in New Jersey.

Pedrick was happy to hear it. “Our city is a rough place for sweet, nice boys to grow up and there’s not enough things for our boys to be involved in to keep them out of trouble,” she says. “Just being in the wrong place at the wrong time, things happen.”

He lived there for a year, but then the school moved to Malaysia and Richards didn’t feel comfortable sending Boo so far away; it was right after 9/11.

The last time Pedrick saw Boo was about five years ago when she was teaching at George Washington Elementary School. “I was taking [my class] to the playground, and there’s this big young man with Boo’s smile, and I said, ‘Boo?’ And he was like, ‘Miss Patty!”

“Sometimes I figure if I would’ve let her go ahead and raise him, maybe he’d be still living,” says Richards.

In 2002, Boo was attending South Philadelphia High School but got in trouble for truancy. His little brother Leron was skipping school, too. “They didn’t feel comfortable going to school because they were not comfortable with the gangs,” says Richards.

Richards enrolled them at George Junior Republic, “one of the country’s largest, private, nonprofit residential treatment communities in western Pennsylvania for at-risk youth.”

Boo lived there year-round, until he returned to South Philly in 2005, and was shot two years later.

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Ceron heard the gunshots.

“I was around the corner where my aunt lives and someone came and said, ‘Your brother got shot!’” she says.

Sumayya had left the house for a walk. She thought she heard firecrackers.

“I didn’t think nothing of it,” she says. “Then [friends] Robert and Julie came running around the corner and said, ‘Boo just got shot!’”

She ran toward the noise.

“When I made it there, he was on the ground. He wasn’t responsive so I was automatically scared,” she says.

“There were a lot of people around. It was summertime in broad daylight.”

Sumayya says she cradled her brother’s body and eventually helped get him in the backseat of the squad car that rushed him to the hospital.

“I got a lot of respect,” she says. “[Police] could have been like, pardon my language, but, ‘Let this nigga lay there and let his people come,’ but no, they picked up him and brought him to the hospital and because of that we got to spend another 28, 30 days with Boo.” Sammi Campbell was arrested for the shooting, but beat the charge. A few months later, he was arrested for shooting another man and given 27 years for attempted murder.

Richards says Boo and Campbell grew up playing basketball together.

“They all used to be friends,” says Richards. She often says it’s crazy that everyone knows each other and this still goes on.

“It’s been like this the last 50 years,” says Richards. “People need to hear the stories and it really needs to stop.”

Sumayya says that since Boo’s murder, “like 14 people died. That kicked it off.”

The family says that before Boo died, he had been getting better. “He was more alert, answering questions,” says Richards.

He had an interview for YouthBuild, a GED program, scheduled in August. His death came as a total shock.

“He started bleeding July 11,” says Richards. By the time he was rushed to surgery, it was too late. He died the next Khadijah Alderman is the funeral day. director who helped Richards take care of “It didn’t sound right, that all of a Boo’s final arrangements. sudden he died, he never told me he Alderman, like many funeral Neither cousin Botty, the boy flipping in the photo, nor Boo’s mom Dorothea Richards knew this photo existed until a was in pain,” says Richards. She says directors working with clients in violent the doctor acted weird, saying he didn’t few months ago. neighborhoods often do, covered the know what happened. And then he cost of the services while awaiting stopped returning her calls. reimbursement from the state’s victim’s assistance fund.

Boo’s sister Sumayya recalls that day.

Since taking care of Boo, Alderman also provided “He had a girl he was interested in [and he had] a thin While Boo lay dying, his cousin Robyn was giving birth services for Richards’ two nephews. piece of suede with a seashell on it, and he said to me, to a little girl named Zion. Now 4 years old, she dances She says it’s so sad how many young black men she ‘Hold this,’” says Sumayaa. It was a necklace. “This was my around the room, saying her god-daddy Uncle Boo is in helps families put into the earth. “It’s a phenomenon, it brother’s exact words right before he got shot: ‘Hold this the sky. really is,” she says. Alderman says she’s buried 50 to 60 because where I’m going I don’t need it.’ I was like, ‘What “Does he watch over you?” asks Robyn. “Yeah!” says young male victims of crime in the last few years, and are you talking about?’”

Zion. “To make sure you’re all right, right?” estimates she’s helped lay 200 to rest in the course of her He was just heading to the corner store with a friend, While she sings and dances, Boo’s brother Leron seven-year career. but Sumayya sees the spiritual significance of her brother’s studies “Mattress Flip.”

“They’re anywhere from 17 to 30 [years old],” she says. last words to her. “He didn’t know what was going to “He looks happy that day,” says Leron. “He looks like he’s “All gunshots.” happen, but you feel it,” she says. “You can’t prevent it, but looking into the picture. Like he knows someone is there.”

Malik Aziz is chairman for the National Exhoodus you feel it.”

In the last 10 years, “Mattress Flip” has wound its way Council and a local activist who has worked to combat There are three stores within two blocks of Gloria’s from the concrete pillar holding up a highway coursing youth violence in neighborhoods all over the city. He house. In terms of turf, two “belong” to Fifth Street, and with people speeding to other places to the pillars of the says that beef between Fifth Street and Seventh Street the other one belongs to Seventh Street. The family says most revered building in the Philadelphia. is a long-standing tradition that has been handed down Boo went to the wrong store.

“I’m hoping that it will be seen in many ways as through generations.

“I guess they didn’t want to walk to Fifth and Mifflin honoring [Boo’s] life,” says Strauss. “He lived … he was “In the early 1970s, it was Fifth and South versus or Fifth and Pierce,” Sumayya says. “Boo went to Seventh here, and he was loved.” n Seventh and Emily Street,” says Aziz. Young guys dropped and Mifflin. You walk into the store in somebody else’s the South and Emily Street part, and just say Fifth Street neighborhood, that’s what is going to happen.” The store is Zoe Strauss: Ten Years opens at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Sat., Jan. 14. philamuseum.org and Seventh Street for shorthand. less than two blocks from Gloria’s house.

“Even though the kids call themselves different things … like ‘this is my crew,’ it’s still the gang mentality,” says Aziz. “You live on Seventh Street and you live on Fifth Street, you’re an enemy.” Gloria’s house on Sixth Street is considered part of Fifth Street crew. “[Boo] never hung on the corner when he was at my mother’s house,” says Richards. “He would always be with my brother … or in the cellar.”

On the day that Boo was shot, a group of older male family members went to Dorney Park in Allentown. Boo stayed behind.

Richards remembers that morning and her son’s last words to her. “My mom was cooking for Father’s Day. He came in and said, ‘Mom, I’m getting ready to be a dad.’”

“I said, ‘You better leave something behind!’”

Boo loved kids. He babysat family members often. His cousin Robyn, 25, was pregnant at the time. “He wanted to be the godfather,” says Robyn. “Every time he’d see me, he just kept asking about the baby.”

Richards recalls teasing him playfully. ‘I was just going, ‘You’re gonna be a father? Yeah, right Boo, who are going to get pregnant?’”

“A half an hour later, he got shot.”

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Londoner Archy Marshall’s a freckle-faced 17-year-old with poofy red hair who makes music as King Krule. He released a gloomy five-song EP on True Panther last November.

Atop barebones sonics—twangy guitar, dubsteppy beats, atmospheric electronics—Archy articulates his pains more than his hopes. He growls about dead love and loneliness, but all the while a grander, unidentifiable doom is growing. An uncertainty looms above young Archy, some inescapable terror. It’s very mysterious, but he’s young—there’s plenty of time to give it a name. For now, what’s striking is how cool he is about it all. Evil’s lurking and Archy just runs his fingers through his fiery feathers. He knows something we don’t. e.S. 9pm. $20. With Girls. Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St. 215.232.2100 utphilly.com

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Radical Faeries A Faery Fashion show, a goat boutique, a maypole, impromptu drum circles, the infamous five-person dress and bean-bag-chair cuddle piles: just a few of the sparkling treasures you’ll encounter at the kickoff to this year’s Radical Faery Gatherette. Conceived as an interactive exhibit replacing a museum’s “please don’t touch” attitude with a “come play” invitation, the evening will showcase the history and traditions of the Radical Faery movement, as well as the general fabulousnesss and diversity of the faeries the Philadelphia Gatherette attracts from far and wide. The goat boutique features a big hamper full of costumes from which visitors will be encouraged to assemble an outfit, then become (if briefly) a part of the exhibit as they showcase their look on a modeling platform. Precious fae artifacts, historical documents, photographs documenting the past 15 years of faery gatherettes and issues of Radical Faery Digest will also be on hand for those craving a more traditional exhibition experience. emma eiSenBerg 6pm. Free. William Way Community Center, 1315 Spruce St. 215.732.2220. waygay.org

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taken hundreds of photos of Northeast bands, and this exhibit opening tonight at Grindcore House features about 40 of these images. Many were taken at Philadelphia venues with local bands, showing the evolution of the city’s underground scene from early R5 shows to the present.

Locals photographed include Need New Body, the A.K.A.s, and Bardo Pond side project Alasehir. “One aspect of doing this for so long is I’ve started shooting some of these musicians’ newer, and less hardcore bands,” says Walsh. “And quite a few of those people will be at the opening. It will be like a reunion.” e.S. 7pm. Free. Grindcore House, 1515 S. Fourth St. 215.839.3333. grindcorehouse.com

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Eldar Djangirov Great jazz pianists have emerged from hotbeds like Detroit and Philadelphia—and how about Bishkek, in the seldom-noted former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan? Eldar Djangirov is a young and fearsome player who landed a major-label deal at 17 and showed great poise and creativity on his 2005 debut, simply titled Eldar. Since then, he’s ventured into complex electric post-fusion with ReImagination and Virtue, but he hasn’t abandoned the acoustic sensibility at the heart of Eldar and the sophomore release Live at the Blue Note. His latest, the solo-piano keeper Three Stories, veers between jazz repertoire and treatments of Bach and Scriabin. It’s the work of a traditionalist in the best sense of the term. DaviD r. aDler 5pm. Free with museum admission.

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Natural Process: A Study in Worn Denim Departing from traditional art exhibits, Elixr Coffee hosts a new exhibit titled Natural Process: A Study in Worn Denim this week. The Center City spot hopes to show how seemingly mundane activities leave their mark on one of the most commonly worn articles of clothing—in this case, jeans. On display will be jeans from construction workers, metal workers, artists, baristas, musicians, students and more. The exhibit, also a nod to natural-process coffee—which is left in the sun to dry before it is roasted—celebrates the connections between production and the final products we savor and, ultimately, find comfort in. Root, Snap, and Rhuby cocktails will be provided courtesy of Art in the Age’s Craft Spirits. Kyle Bella 8pm. Free. Elixr Coffee, 207 S. 15th St. elixrcoffee.com

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Ravi Coltrane Saxophonist Ravi Coltrane—son of jazz greats John and Alice Coltrane—isn’t just getting by on the grounds of his parentage. Although it took him a while to embrace jazz as a calling (he didn’t release his first album as leader until age 32), Coltrane has worked hard to hone his chops, to both critical and popular acclaim.

As his straight-ahead bop has slowly morphed into more explorative, free-form jazz, and his tenor sax shares time with a soprano, Coltrane has also become more willing to address his ancestry, through both musical influences and interpretations of songs associated with his parents. On his own, however, Coltrane’s tone is warm, his original compositions are rich and poignant, and his covers of standards are provoking and creative, oftentimes to the point of non-recognition. KathErinE SiLKaitiS 8pm. $20-$40. Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, 3680 Walnut St. 215.898.3900. pennpresents.org

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coco and get swept up in the rhythmic sounds of steel drums while Finding Nemo and old episodes of Baywatch play on the giant video wall (nothing like seeing a shirtless David Hasselhoff magnified, right?). Guests will also receive complimentary leis and hula lessons from Main Line Polynesian dance troupe Aloha Style. niCoLE FinKbinEr 1pm. Free with admission. Blue Cross RiverRink, Columbus Blvd. at Market St. riverrink.com

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Westbound Train This seven-piece band from Boston takes their name from a song by the lovers’ rock icon Dennis Brown, and their smooth, genre-hopping sound from the most romantic corners of ska, reggae, soul and rock. A full complement of horn players, convened by bandleader Obi Fernandez on trombone, fills out the band’s twitchy, bass-thumping, backbeat-obsessed rhythms. But it’s the vocals that push the whole enterprise toward classic soul territory, with Fernandez putting down a layer of velvet over rock steady’s staccato slink. Westbound Train records for Tim Armstrong’s punk-iconic Hellcat Records, but it’s clearly the lady-killing, smooth-talking ringer in the mix. JEnniFEr KELLy 8pm. $13-$15. With Among Criminals. World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St. worldcafelive.com

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Heavy metal and comedy: Though the combination of the two may strike you as risky, Jim Breuer—with a hand bearing rock horns thrown up in the air—is happy to dispel any doubts. Tonight’s performance of rock ’n’ roll and jokes marks his Philadelphia presentation of “The Heavy Metal Family Man” Tour.

Known for his role in 4/20 favorite Half Baked and his work on Saturday Night Live, the evening begins with a half-hour of humor, an intermission, then the introduction of Metal Man. This superhero of heavy metal displays his power to transform tired songs into brutal face-melters. Even children’s songs aren’t safe from the grasp of Metal Man. For those about to rock, Breuer salutes you. aShLEy KoLE P H I L A D E L P H I A W E E K L Y Ja n u a r y 1 1 - 17, 2 01 2

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Animus With their unorthodox instrumentation and unique, original compositions, Philly’s Belly Dance Spectacular fuses music and dance forms from across the globe to create one incredibly enchanting and invigorating live experience. The audience is invited to either participate or sit back as the group’s musical journey takes them from India to Africa then from Latin America to the Middle East. While Animus is primarily an Eastern Mediterranean/Middle Eastern/Latin/American dance ensemble, their eclectic sound covers all of the above along with an impressive sprinkling of jazz, blues, funk and rock. Through their continuously evolving performances, the troupe aims not only to push—and flat out defy—traditional boundaries of song and dance, but promote tolerance, diversity and world peace. n.F. 7:30pm. $16. World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St. 215.222.1400. philly.worldcafelive.com

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With temperatures (finally) starting to drop, it has becoming increasingly difficult to make it through the day without fantasizing about ditching this shit-hole town for a faraway island. But since most of us can’t afford a trip to the Jersey shore let alone the Caribbean, for one day, RiverRink is bringing a tropical paradise to you—a tropical paradise on ice, that is. After taking a few laps around the rink, head inside the pavilion, grab some hot

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streets more than I do, and no Philadelphian has fought harder to reach that goal,” says Reverend Paul “Earthquake” Moore, a fighter turned Reverend that has worked tirelessly to serve the community of Southwest Philadelphia and improve quality of life through anti-violence work, youth advocacy and community beautification initiatives.

Church restoration and cleanup starts at 10 a.m., but the afternoon program kicks off with a re-enactment march at 65th and Woodland in which participants are encouraged to bring signs recalling the “we shall overcome” spirit of the MLK era. The march will end at the New Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church where Reverend Moore will deliver the famous “I Have A Dream” speech, followed by gospel singers and praise dancers from the church community. E.E.

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he surprise Broadway hit musical Memphis’ acclaimed touring production lands in Philly tonight when it begins a quick run at the Academy of Music through Jan. 22. Winner of four 2010 Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Original Score, the fast-moving story is set in the racially segregated dance halls of 1950s Memphis, where a white DJ (Bryan Fenkart) falls for a dynamic black singer (future superstar Felicia Boswell). One of the few Broadway shows to appeal to black and white theatergoers alike, Memphis’ primary attraction (besides the captivating Boswell) is its vibrant and soulful rock score, composed by Bon Jovi keyboardist and occasional songwriter David Bryan, who is also responsible for the music in the sublimely silly mutant musical The Toxic Avenger. J. CoopEr robb

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Marc Cohn It’s been 20 years since Marc Cohn’s break-out hit “Walking in Memphis” won the Ohio-born songwriter a Grammy for Best New Artist, a nomination for song of the year and a gold record. Nothing Cohn did afterwards matched the song’s ubiquity, and in 2005, his career went into hiatus when he was shot in the head during an attempted carjacking. Last year, he returned with a covers compilation, Listening Booth: 1970, which reconsiders songs from the dawn of soft rock age: McCartney’s “Maybe I’m Amazed,” Bread’s “Make It With You,” Simon’s “Only Living Boy In New York” and others. Rolling Stone gave the album four and a half stars, with a nod toward one of “rock’s most soulful croons—a rich, immediately recognizable tenor that makes these songs his own.” J.K.

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Proof Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning drama Proof takes the stage at the Walnut Street Theater this week. Catherine, a brilliant scholar in her own right, fears that she inherited her mathematician father’s mental illness. When a graduate student of her fathers discovers complex equations in his notebooks, Catherine has to supply proof that she, not her father, authored the work. Philadelphia audiences will be the first to experience this captivating production before it travels as the second national tour of a Walnut Street Theater production. Laura GoLdman 7:30pm. $30. Walnut Street Theater, 825 Walnut St. 215.574.3550. walnutstreettheater.org

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Wild Mushroom Arancini at Barbuzzo, you’re quite the dish!

Thank you, honey. Are you hungry? Come sit down and have something to eat.

Why don’t you tell me about where you’re from first?

Well, I’m from here, of course, 13th Street. But my recipe hails from Sicily.

Deep-fried rice and cheese certainly sounds like an American treat!

I am hard to resist. Executive Chef Marcie Turney stuffs me with classic risotto cooked just past al dente, to give me a nice, firm texture. Then I’m mixed with maitake hen of the woods mushrooms.

What’s the secret ingredient holding you together?

That would my fontina cheese: A single square is pushed into the center of each rice ball before I’m breaded in egg, flour and panko, then deep-fried.

Your finishing touches?

If you’d like me vegetarian, I’m simply topped with a San Marzano tomato sauce made with onion, garlic and EVOO, and garnished with a pine-nut basil pesto.

And if I’m a carnivore?

Then I have the good stuff for you: house-cured lardo.

Don’t get fresh. Chef Turney gets whole pigs, ranging from 150 to 175 pounds, from the Lancaster Farm Fresh Cooperative. She saves the fat back, sears it in salt, herbs and black peppercorns before curing it for about a month. It’s then put in an oak house smoker, sliced very thin and warmed with a heating gun before being draped on top of me.

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You’ve seen the presentation before: The architectural bowl with its sweeping planes, its base scattered with a consciously casual Mondrian of components. Soon after it arrives, the waiter anoints it with liquid, the ostensible centerpiece of the starter, and there you have it: soup, deconstructed and then reassembled before your very eyes. Yes, you’ve seen it before. And yet ...

The foie gras soup at Sbraga is like nothing you’ve tasted, or likely even considered: The rose petal relish, the foie pureed to silk, the toasty depth of cumin, the perfume of lemongrass and ginger complicating and cutting the liver, the gentle tingle at the back of the throat lingering past each bite.

This is exactly what modern American food is supposed to be.

Familiar, yet tinged with the exotic. Comforting, yet edged with the unexpected. If this is what it means to be a Top Chef, then I’m ready to buy into the concept whole-heartedly.

There’s just so much to love at Sbraga, not least of which is the fact that its namesake—Kevin Sbraga—is doing, night after footaching night, what so many other so-called celebrity chefs don’t.

He cooks. And his earnestness is palpable, his successes very well-earned.

So are his flavors. A single, perfectly seared scallop, plenty sweet on its own, had its character magnified by the unique sweetness of beets. The interplay was delicate, exuberant. And when both were forked with a crisp, pink-centered brick of lovingly seared pork shoulder, the entirety exploded, the meat’s richness mimicking the unctuousness of the scallop, the sweet dancing with the savory.

There’s a study of mackerel done three ways: 1. Breath-takingly delicate when steamed, then kissed with an orange zest-amped harissa. 2. Cured and smoked and perfect against a tangle of matchsticked green apples and bracing red cabbage. 3. Pounded flat and fried, the unexpectedly least pleasurable of the trio, the nuttiness of the hot oil overwhelming the flesh itself, though nice with the chickpeas and olives.

This kind of occasional misstep did occur, though when it did, the result was merely pleasant, never inherently negative. A play

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Beet it: A perfectly seared scallop is magnified by beets and pork shoulder.

on shrimp cocktail, with wasabi-spiked avocado puree, peanuts, pickled grape tomatoes and cilantro, failed to inspire. The merely good, when surrounded with the extraordinary, is bound to fall short. (Sbraga told me he’s tweaked that particular preparation; the night I tasted it was its first time on the menu.)

But that was an anomaly in an otherwise stunning procession of plates. Humble-sounding buffalo chicken was a tour de force of texture and flavor, and did hautelevel justice—finally!—to one of the totemic preparations of the casual-American repertoire. Sbraga didn’t diverge from the truth of the dish. It’s still just chicken, hot sauce, creamy dressing and greens. But the degree of attention lavished on each aspect of it was stunning. The chicken, marinated in buttermilk and then fried, is textbook perfect. The buttermilk-ranch dressing was studded with knuckles of high-toned blue affine cheese. And the sauce was so thoroughly enjoyable—a chile de arbol-based liquid so complete, so perfect with the Griggstown poussin—that I seriously considered stealing one of the mini-squeeze bottles on my way out. Even sliced, charred tomato and onion-marinated wagyu, at $18, justified its price tag with its meltingly tender texture, never needing but immensely benefiting from the exquisitely balanced sauce choron— like a béarnaise kissed with tomato—painted on the plate.

Sbraga’s platings are generally complex, the various components providing any number of opportunities and headaches for wines. But GM and Sommelier Joseph Norkus somehow finds the secret key to each one. His smart matches tend to amplify the pleasure throughout the menu, all the way to dessert with the Quinta do Noval “Black” alongside moussed mascarpone, coffee granita and chocolate streusel, and a sweet-earthy white Loupiac framing a pear. There was also an out-of-this-world chestnut strudel ingeniously as bitter as it was sweet, and encased in phyllo instead of the more traditional dough. Sbraga’s wife Jesmary is the pastry chef, and she’s a real benefit to the endeavor here.

The totality of the experience, really, seems to be inextricably tied to the man himself. It’s as honest, earnest and accomplished a restaurant as you’re likely to find, especially at this relatively early stage of its evolution. If Sbraga is any indication, 2012 promises to be a very good restaurant year indeed. n

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The 1959 musical is loosely based on the memoirs of the Stage hand: Tovah Feldshuh plays the famous role of Rose famed burlesque in the BRT’s production of Gypsy. artist Gypsy Rose Lee. Featuring music by Jule With 28 performers, 12 musicians Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a host of gigantic set pieces that and an extraordinary book by are fluidly brought into place on a Arthur Laurents, the show’s pedigree revolving stage, Bristol Riverside is unassailable. Epic but swiftly Theatre’s Gypsy is the most moving, the musical has the heft of expensive in its 25-year history—an a Shakespearean tragedy and the lead role is among the most complex and compelling female characters in Gypsy musical theater.

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ridiculous costumes. Along the way, she recruits a few homeless boys who, together with the painfully shy Louise, form the show’s chorus.

The act is amusingly dreadful, but through determination and the help of a good-hearted candy-salesmanturned-manager named Herbie (Guiding Light soap star Robert Newman), Rose secures enough bookings to keep food in their bellies and a series of leaky hotel roofs over their heads.

However, even the most determined mother can’t keep her children from aging, and by the time the kids are in their late teens, vaudeville has fallen victim to the Depression and the newfound film business.

Feldshuh’s Rose doesn’t just love the theater; she is addicted to it and her drug of choice has taken its toll.

But while she appears a bit worn and frayed around the edges, Rose’s ambition never wanes. Even when circumstances eventually land Rose and Louise in the unseemly world of burlesque (where Louise discovers her independence and becomes the infamous stripper Gypsy Rose Lee), Feldshuh’s Rose remains a force to be reckoned with. And when Feldshuh sings the musical’s rousing final number “Rose’s Turn,” she does so with a fury and passion that is both shocking and exhilarating.

In addition to Feldshuh’s star turn, Amanda Rose gives an affecting performance as Louise, and Newman is excellent as the devoted Herbie.

In the performance I attended, the young understudy Joe Garry took over for Joe Grandy in the role of Tulsa and delivered a charming rendition of “All I Need is the Girl.”

In today’s world of short, oneact plays staged on bare sets with ever-shrinking casts, Gypsy is a gigantic musical filled with largerthan-life characters and big showstopping songs like the spectacular “Everything’s Coming Up Roses” (delivered with gusto by Feldshuh).

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entirely of human hair, they’re cousins to the posse in Cave’s single-channel video, “Drive-By” (2011).

If “Mating Season” shows us Cave’s hairsuits in restive symmetry, then the bouffant costumes in “Drive-By” unleash their wild side. Sewn from brightly dyed human hair, these suits are fatter, glossier and friskier than the others. The video features suited dancers flashing across the screen in various configurations, sometimes somersaulting, sometimes falling Well-suited: In Let’s C, artist Nick Cave’s sculptures can be enjoyed from afar—until they start moving, that is. from the sky.

Perfectly synched to the clubby soundheads stand loosely connected by a Hallucinate a tie-dyed Yeti getting track, the video can seem a bit slick. swathe of pearlescent buttons. Could down in the jungle and you’ll have Still, a slowed-down segment with it be a thrice-cloned Liberace for the an approximate idea of just how pogo sticks is admittedly spectacular. digital age? A tribal totem from a colorful and savagely hip Nick Cave’s secret urban sect? Visitors from a dis- The suits in motion are supple and solo exhibition, Let’s C, at the Fabric primal, and when they move, you tant (fashion-forward) planet? As in Workshop and Museum is. Featurwant to move with them. Speaking to all Cave’s work, associations abound. ing 14 of Cave’s iconic “soundsuits,” the mix of tribal animism and runway And given his training, there’s proba video of the suits set in motion, an chic, Cave sums up the effect well: installation of hanging bamboo beads ably some truth to just about all of “It’s seductive, but also a bit scary.” them. and a custom-designed, street-level Less stylish and more powerful was With an MFA in art, and dance facade, Let’s C seethes with color and the opening night performance, “Artraining from Alvin Ailey Dance chitectural Forest” (2011), in which Theater in New York, Cave is an Let’s C eclectic artist, moving deftly between 11 dancers (most of whom sported fine art, dance and fashion. Currently soundsuits) shimmied, crawled and Through mid-February. spun their way through and around head professor and chairman of the The Fabric Workshop and Museum, a large installation of bamboo beads Fashion Department at the School of 1214 Arch St. 215.561.8888. hung on strings from the ceiling. the Art Institute of Chicago, he’s on fabricworkshopandmuseum.org Printed with psychedelic patterns that a mission to connect people with art: merge in and out of its reedy depths, “My only concern around my work is the installation is immersive and making sure that my art continues to reach a broader community,” he says. visually enthralling—even without delights with movement. the added thrill of live performance.

Judging by the turnout at his Dec. Named “soundsuits” after the “Architectural Forest” is on view for 16 opening, Cave’s work is practiunique noise each sculpture makes the duration of the exhibition on the cally universal; Let’s C appeals on a when it moves, Cave’s enormous, wearable costumes are handcrafted primal register, mixing brilliant color 8th floor.

Even stationary, Cave’s soundsuits using a staggering range of materials. with seductive rhythms and exquisite speak to our deep-seated fantasy that While each sculpture perches atop a craftsmanship. the objects we see in museums live a pair of mannequin’s legs (sheathed in Especially intriguing is the series knitted tights), they vary drastically “Mating Season” (2011), comprised of secret half-life. As they come alive onscreen, the sheer pleasure of watching from the knees up. One is a teeterfour shaggy haired sculptures. Remithem dance is enough to make you ing honeycomb of stuffed animals, niscent of the aforementioned Yeti, wish that you could try one on, lose another a medley of embroidered some of these impeccably groomed your inhibitions and find your inner rugs. In “Speak Louder” (2011), three beasts have rabbit ears, and one has Wild Thing. n figures with megaphone-shaped even sprouted three heads. Made

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Walter Huston, Abraham Lincoln (1930): Because most people don’t look like attractive movie stars, biopics rarely wind up starring people who look like them. Erin Brockovich doesn’t look like Julia Roberts, Virginia Woolf didn’t look like Nicole Kidman and Salvador Dalí looked nothing like Robert Pattison. That said, apply the right makeup to Meryl Streep and she’ll look like Margaret Thatcher, as happened with The Iron Lady. Likewise, throw the right beard on Walter Huston and doesn’t he look like Honest Abe. In his first sound film (of two), D.W. Griffith did just that, with Huston making for a more believable Lincoln than Joseph Henaberry in a previous Griffith production, The Birth of a Nation.

Val Kilmer, The Doors (1991): Val Kilmer looks exactly like Jim Morrison. That’s about the only thing this Oliver Stone movie got right.

Robert Downey Jr., Chaplin (1992): Kilmer’s Kiss Kiss Bang Bang co-star looks exactly like the younger Charles Chaplin. RDJ’s expert pantomime is about the only part of Dickie Attenborough’s doddering biopic—perhaps the poster child for all that is wrong and insufferable about the genre—that’s actually entertaining.

Stephen Fry, Wilde (1997): The British comic legend was born to play Oscar Wilde. Why he got stuck with this paint-by-numbers biopic while the less deserving Rupert Everett scored the Wilde-standby roles in An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest is a question for the ages.

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Toby Jones, Infamous (2006): For one of his least interesting performances, Philip Seymour Hoffman scored an Oscar for impersonating Truman Capote, even as he more closely resembled Ralphie from A Christmas Story. This performance and film wound up entirely overshadowing the Capote-circa-In-ColdBlood project made at the same time, which starred an actor who actually looked like Truman Capote, and wasn’t as ponderous or tiresomely self-satisfied to boot.

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Ben Kingsley, Hugo (2011): Of part Indian descent, British-born Ben Kingsley made a shockingly credible Mahatma Gandhi in Gandhi. But the person of historical importance he most truly resembles is Georges Méliès, the magician-turned-cinema pioneer. Lucky Shakespeare in Love for him, a major studio was convinced a $170 million extravaganza about his obscure latter life was a sure Hugo The Skin I Live In bet. n Immortals Ben Kingsley in Hugo

Couples Retreat

Roman Polanski’s Carnage finds two sets of parents arguing over their pre-teen kids.

By Sean Burns sburns@philadelphiaweekly.com pearls. For once, Winslet’s wavering American accent comes in handy, as she’s so desperately keeping up appearances, the placid surface patter can barely contain her roiling dissatisfaction. And that’s before she gets drunk and throws up all over the damn place.

Positioning one trendy Brooklyn Heights apartment as a dungeon worthy of Luis Bunuel, Reza’s cutting script (adapted for the screen with Polanski’s assistance) finds Alan and Nancy descending upon the oh-so-happy home of Penelope and Michael Longstreet. Penelope’s played by Jodie Foster as a marvel of pinched, moneyed do-gooder platitudes. She’s writing a book about Darfur, and don’t think she will let you forget that for an instant.

Henpecked Michael is an entirely different story.

In yet another phenomenal performance by John C. Reilly (who with this film, Cedar Rapids, Terri and We Need To Talk About Kevin outdid even Jessica Chastain for ubiquitous 2011 awesomeness), he’s an easygoing fella just aching to be pushed over the line.

Mommy dearest: Nancy (Kate Winslet, center) gets increasingly drunk as she Towering over Foster and bulging out of his ill-fitting attempts to one-up Penelope and Michael (Jodie Foster, right, and John C. Reilly). sweater, Reilly is always one drink away from making announcements like: “My wife dressed me up as a liberal today, but …”

A short, tart, altogether delectable slice of misanthropy from The pleasures of Carnage are simple, and not exactly proDirector Roman Polanski, Carnage is the funniest film I saw found.

It’s just plain fun to watch these people bitch at one last year. another, especially when the actors are in such superb form.

Adapted from Yasmina Riza’s Tony Award-winning play, God My favorite moment finds Foster and Winslet attempting to of Carnage, it follows the deceptively simple structure of two one-up one another while ostensibly discussing the works of high-falutin’ sets of parents in an upscale Brooklyn neighborFrancis Bacon. The painter’s command of “such cruelty and hood, forced to hash things out after their pre-teen kids have splendor” is altogether beside the point, they an unfortunate after-school altercation that just want to get their licks in. ends with a couple missing teeth.

Polanski has a keen grasp of the mateHell just so happens to be other Carnage rial’s essential absurdity, venturing out of people, and Reza’s clockwork farce digs Grade: A the apartment only for a pair of bookendup hidden resentments on all fronts.

Director: Roman Polanski ing, Michael Haneke-inspired shots to Passive-aggressive sniping devolves into Starring: Jodie Foster, Kate remind us that this is all much ado about outright hostility, even moreso once the Winslet and Christoph Waltz a meaningless schoolyard scuffle. In starvintage Scotch gets uncorked. Dismissed tling contrast to the Broadway production, by some as a Who’s Afraid of Virginia the filmmaker seems to side with Waltz’s Woolf knock-off in which both couples are Alan, regarding the rest of these characters’ George and Martha, Reza’s play seems to have as many detracdrunken meltdowns with a similarly bemused smirk. tors as it does admirers. Count me in the latter category.

And good lord, his direction! Shooting in widescreen I saw God of Carnage during its initial New York run in 2009, cinemascope, Polanski crams these people into increasingly starring James Gandolfini, Marcia Gay Harden, Hope Davis tighter frames, teaming up the actors in elegant arrangeand Jeff Daniels. A hilarious night of theater, it nonetheless ments that visually convey the power dynamics within their stuck me as an evening staged by, and for, ritzy New Yorkers. relationships as the conversation turns, from moment to (We also had better seats than Henry Winkler, which was moment. You can watch Carnage with the sound turned off, awesome.) What’s so fascinating about Polanski’s cinematic and still understand who is winning an argument just by adaptation is his jaundiced outsider perspective on the same looking at the blocking. It’s masterful work. material, foreign—if you will—to the Broadway incarnation.

I guess now is where I am probably supposed to make a Daniels’ role as a milquetoast corporate lawyer has here been assumed by Christoph Waltz, the sly, silky voiced “Jew-Hunter” shitty joke about Roman Polanski being so good at shooting a single room because he spent so much time under house of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds. Obsessively tendarrest. But I respectfully decline. Since the 1960s, he’s been ing to his iPhone, often to the detriment of any attempts at a master at trapping his characters within confined spaces, conversation, Waltz’s Alan is an expertly tailored weasel, gliding into the apartment, snorting his laughs and oozing outright claustrophobia just suits his sensibility.

As does Reza’s dyspeptic worldview. I won’t argue claims contempt for social niceties. Polanski unsubtly positions him that Carnage is thin material, but at a fleet hour and 20 as the de facto hero of this picture, but only if you can imagine minutes, it’s breathlessly paced, flawlessly executed and anybody escaping this mess unscathed. every time Kate Winslet belched I fell in love with her a little His wife, Nancy, played as an extraordinary bundle of nerves more. n

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Too strange and volatile. That’s how TV execs once described cult comedian and consummate showman Dave Hill. The characterization is apt, but being “strange and volatile” is part of Hill’s charm. He’s comedy’s master craftsman. And what appears, onstage, as effortless is actually a well-honed skill that Hill has perfected through years of writing and performing in New York. When not shredding the axe with Walter Schreifels (Gorilla Biscuits, Rival Schools) in the Walter Schreifels’ Band or with Moby in the metal band Diamondsnake, this multi-hyphenated hostwriter-rocker-Twitter phenom-correspondent-jack of all trades is actively and attentively engaged in making quirky, off-beat comedy for This American Life, HBO and some obscure TV networks that no longer exist. PW managed to pull Dave away from his busy schedule to chat about comedy, Philly fashion and the loss of his best friend, Kim Jong-il.

You started out as a writer and you kinda ended up being a performer by chance. You once said you never planned on being a comedian, so you had no expetations. Do you still feel that way?

Yeah, when I first started performing, I really didn’t know much about the comedy world. I never thought much beyond whatever show I was doing that night and I didn’t have any goals or anything like that. It was just something new to try. I figured if nothing came of of it, it might at least help

me be less shy at dinner parties and things like that. But after a while, it became my job so it didn’t take long for me to have all sorts of expectations, goals, hopes and dreams and stuff like that, which has caused me to be just as depressed and suicidal as anyone else in comedy. But every once in a while, I’ll think about all the fun stuff I get to do and remember that in many ways my life is much better than when I used to paint houses and live with my parents. I do have to buy my own groceries now, which kind of blows, but other than that things are really looking up.

Last year, GQ named Philly men the sixth worst dressed in the country. As a sharp-dressed man and someone who covers New York’s Fashion Week practically every year, any style tips?

Really? I’ve been to Philly a lot and I never found the men to be that poorly dressed. Then again, I love satin Phillies jackets. Washington, D.C., on the other hand— whoa. Those guys need to take a good hard look in the mirror. They are a little too comfortable with pleats in that town. Man, I am really being a bitch right now. Sorry. Anyway, as for tips, when in doubt—go just slightly tighter than whatever you were originally thinking. Another good rule of thumb is to dress like any member of the Rolling Stones circa 1965, especially Charlie Watts, who remains one of the best-dressed people on the planet to this day.

You recently lost your good friend, supreme leader of North Korea Kim Jong-il. (Our condolences) What was he like?

Where do I start with that loveable old nutjob? He loved pizza, loved to play video games and, most of all, just loved to laugh a lot. And he really had a way with a pantsuit. That’s the guy I’m gonna remember. Sometimes I’ll put on a rerun of According to Jim just to imagine him choking with laughter in the background. He was my boo. I’m really gonna miss him. n

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“ Run your hand across my hair and you might catch a flake,” admits Pissed Jeans’ Matt Korvette on “Half Idiot” from the (mostly) Philadelphia-based band’s killer King Of Jeans LP. This nicely captures their unique charm: They wanna be touched, but they’re very dirty, and that will never change. Most sludge-punk bands bash your brains and leave you feeling violated/alone, but not Jeans. They warmly welcome people into their wonderful world of filth and dismay. On “The L Word,” from 2010’s Your Life Is Worth Pissed Jeans 7-inch, Korvette sings about love. “Love is the word I use to describe the way I feel inside,” he groans. Then he lists things he loves: pie, a good surprise, Velvet Sky (the Jenkintown bakery, or the pro wrestler?), and the Flyers. Like you, Pissed Jeans are simple men. But unlike you, they’re the greatest live band in Philadelphia. (Elliott Sharp)

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Purple Naked Ladies (Sony Red) Sounds Like: A collaboration of two Odd

Future members, Syd tha Kyd (A LADY!) and Matt Martians, is a silky, jazz-inspired hip-hop and R&B hybrid full of trippy beats.

Free Association: The Internet is a very difficult band to find on the Internet—very pomo.

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Remiddi, an Italian pianist who’s soundtracked many short films; this is beautiful, synth-heavy dream rock that’s gonna be big.

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J.U.I.C.E. EP (Interscope) Sounds Like: The ATL party rap newb’s

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Charlie Haden & Hank Jones Come Sunday (Decca/Universal/Emarcy) Sounds Like: Mississippi-born Jones

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Free Association: Expertly executed covers of American standards; no words, just notes.

For Fans Of: Chopin/Gershwin x the Duke, Metheny + Reinhardt, aging gracefully.

Ladysmith Black Mambazo Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Friends (Gallo/Listen 2) Sounds Like: You know them from Graceland, but when this African singing

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For Fans Of: Faux internationalism, tribal vases and fertility masks, NPR, patchouli.

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Free Association: For the lonely Bike Stop set who go home sad and heartbroken.

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I am writing to thank you. I remember reading your definition of “santorum”—“the frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex”—when it first appeared. I remember thinking it was a cute way to make fun of a dickhead politician. I never thought it would go this far. But after Iowa, Rick Santorum is in the spotlight again. And so is that frothy mixture.

And that’s fucking awesome.

Jeff In Wisconsin Don’t thank me. Thank Rick Santorum for making his bigotry clear in a 2003 interview with the Associated Press. Santorum equated consensual gay sex with child rape and dog fucking; he stated that birth control should be illegal; and he argued that states should be able to arrest, prosecute and imprison people—gay and straight—for private, consensual sex acts.

Thank the Savage Love reader who, after reading that interview, urged me to invite my readers to submit new definitions for Santorum’s last name.

And thank the Savage Love readers who—in their wisdom—selected “the frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex” from a crowded field of equally repulsive candidates.

I did my part: I counted the ballots, I created a website (spreadingsantorum.com) that eight years later remains the No. 1 return when you Google “Santorum.” But, again, if it weren’t for my creative, kinky and hilarious readers, JIW, an otherwise distressing news cycle—a ranting, raving, washed-up religious bigot tied for first place in the Iowa caucuses?!?— would not have been leavened by such unintentionally hilarious headlines as “Santorum Surges from Behind,” “Santorum Runs Hard” and “Romney Squeezes Out Santorum.”

Dan Savage is one sick, pathetic excuse for a human being. Truly a sad piece of sh*t. Especially trying to “insert himself”—pun intended—into the GOP presidential race.

Savage Isn’t Completely Kind We redefined “santorum” back in 2003, SICK, long before Santorum was running for president. So it would be more accurate to say that the GOP presidential race has inserted itself into me, not the other way around. And, gosh, I hope there isn’t any santorum on the GOP presidential race when it pulls out of me— that would be so embarrassing!

Also embarrassing: Elise Foley’s gushing profile of Elizabeth Santorum, Rick’s adult daughter, that appeared on the Huffington Post before the Iowa caucuses. “It is tough [being] a young surrogate for a candidate/father clinging to an older worldview,” Foley writes. “Her father’s stance on same-sex marriage and gay rights, in particular, has caused some friction from nonsupporters. ‘It’s a policy thing,’ [Elizabeth Santorum] said of gay marriage … Opposed to same-sex marriage herself, Elizabeth said she has gay friends who support her father’s candidacy based on his economic and family platforms.”

Yeah, it’s tough out there for a ’phobe—and it’s getting tougher all the time. Santorum was nearly booed off a stage in New Hampshire last week after he insisted that legalizing gay marriage would lead to the legalization of polygamous marriage. (The same argument was made against legalizing interracial marriage—and here we are, 44 years after the Supreme Court declared laws against interracial marriage to be unconstitutional, and Tiger Woods can marry only one busted Olive Garden hostess at a time.)

You know what else is tough? Gay widowers losing their homes after the deaths of their spouses because they don’t qualify for the same Social Security benefits as all other married couples.

But, hey, Elizabeth Santorum isn’t a bigot—she can’t be! She has gay friends! And her gay friends support her dad!

Who are these gay people who support Rick

Santorum despite his having equated consensual gay sex to child rape and dog fucking? Who are these gay people who support Rick Santorum despite his opposition to gay marriage and any other legal framework—civil unions, domestic partnerships— that might provide legal protections for same-sex couples? Who are these gay people who support Rick Santorum despite his promises to write anti-gay bigotry into the U.S. Constitution, forcibly divorce all legally married same-sex couples in the U.S., reinstate DADT and ban adoptions by same-sex couples?

Who are these faggots?

To Ms. Foley and all the other political reporters out there: When someone like Elizabeth Santorum tells you that she has gay friends and her gay friends support her dad based on his “family platforms”—gay people shouldn’t be allowed to have families—your subject is making an astonishing claim. Your immediate response should be a demand for the names and phone numbers of these gay friends. Offer to quote these gay friends anonymously, to protect their privacy/stupidity, but tell the homophobe that you will need to verify the existence of her gay friends because you’re a journalist, not a stenographer.

You’ll either catch the homophobe in a very revealing lie—what does it tell us about this moment in the struggle for LBGT equality that even bigots like Rick and Elizabeth Santorum perceive a political risk in being perceived as homophobic?—or land a fascinating interview with a crazy-ass faggot.

I’ve been a loyal reader for half my life. Today, a friend and I got into a debate about you. My friend says your campaign to redefine “santorum” flies in the face of your anti-bullying “It Gets Better” campaign. Would you please address this issue?

Google Problems First, GP, the campaign is over: Santorum has been redefined.

Second, taking the piss out of a middle-aged bigot who has repeatedly and viciously attacked a tiny minority for personal and political gain—a man surrounded by people who support him personally, politically and financially—is not the moral equivalent of beating the shit out of a vulnerable and isolated 13-year-old queer kid in rural Texas who is a member of the tiny minority that this powerful bigot has repeatedly and viciously attacked.

Third, circling back to Elizabeth Santorum’s blowjob on HuffPo: “[Elizabeth] is aware of her father’s so-called ‘Google problem,’ part of a campaign by columnist Dan Savage … ‘That just makes me sad. It’s disappointing that people can be that mean,’ she said.”

I’m sorry for giving you a sad, Elizabeth. You know what gave me a sad? Reading about Janice Langbehn and Lisa Pond. The women, together 18 years, were vacationing in Florida in 2007 with three of their four children when Pond suffered an aneurysm. Langbehn and the children were barred from Pond’s room when they arrived at the hospital. A social worker informed Langbehn that she wouldn’t be able to see her wife because they were in an “anti-gay city and state.”

By being so mean as to oppose legal protections for gay and lesbian families, Elizabeth, you and your father are trying to make sure that other families headed by same-sex couples will suffer as Langbehn, Pond and their children were made to suffer.

It is disappointing how mean some people can be, Elizabeth, it really is.

Time to follow through on your threat to redefine “rick,” Dan. Matt Via Twitter Already done: To “rick” is to remove something with your tongue—the “r” from “remove,” the “ick” from “lick”—which makes “rick santorum” the most disgusting two-word sentence in the English language after “vote Republican.” n

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23RD & POPLAR Very Lg Studio w/ Sep EIK, Grt light, Laundry. $750+.

PMG, 215-545-7007 x303 BELLA VISTA Lg basement studio apt. Sep kitch, good Coloset/storage space, w/d on premises. Elect/heat/ hot water incld. $695/mo 215-3992009 or 856-305-3818 BROAD & SPRUCE Studio in High rise, Great City view, HW flrs, Gas incld, Laundry on premises. AVAIL FEB! $725. MSRE, 215-925-RENT(7368), www.

MichaelSingerRealEstate.com TEMPLE UNV/ST JOS HOSPITAL AREA: NEWLY RENOVATED studio. DW,GD, W/d in Bldg. $525/mo 215-236-4937

suMMer rentals MARGATE-MARINER CONDO MOD. 1BDRM. POOL/PATIO. EXT.SEASONAL. GREAT LOC. 267-257-6389.

one bedrooM 14XX SO.16TH ST Lg.1bdrm.,1st. flr. Pvt. ent. A/C,D/W, G/D. $800/ mo+utils. 215-465-8065.

16th WALLACE: GREAT 1BR, 1BA, ALL MODERN AMENITIES, WW, AC, WD/BLDG. Pet frndly w/Restricts. $700 Tanya, 215-922-6088, tanya@ ans-hrv.com 1 9 X X S O.1 8 T H S T 1 b e d r m , l g .

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20TH & WALNUT King Size Studios & 1BR in High rise/Doorman bldg, All utils incld, HW flrs, Laundry.

AVAIL JAN/FEB! $1275-$1445. MSRE, 215-925-RENT(7368), www.MichaelSingerRealEstate.com 5TH & SPRUCE- Cool 1BR w/HW flrs, Grt closets, Incl heat. $825+.

PMG 215-545-7007 x302 8 T H LO C U ST/ WA S H S Q A R E A : BEAUTIFUL 1BR, 1BA, ALL MODERN A M E N I T I E S, W W, AC, W D, e tc Strg area. Pet frndly w/Restricts.

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PMG 215-545-7007x304 O L D C I T Y ( 1 0 4 C h est n u t/2 n d Fl) Lg. 1 Bedrm, 1 Bath, Approx.

1300 s/f, tall windows, view of BF Bridge, high ceiling, carpeted, c/a, gas heat, d/w, g/d, w/d. $1160+/Mo. 215-627-4414.

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Loft apt. w/Separate bedroom.

Overlooking BF bridge. High ceilings, Wood floors, WD, Gas heat. $1050/mo+. 215-627-4414

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THE ROOSEVELT (2220 Walnut Street) - Beautifully renovated apts. in the RITTENHOUSE SQUARE AREA of Philadelphia. Studio’s starting at only $765/mo. and one bedrooms starting at only $965/mo. Call 215-640-8880 for an appointment.

16XX BAILEY ST 3bedrms., basement, yard. HdWd Flrs. thru-out, Brand new kit.,ceramic tile, Section 8 Vouchers welcomed. $750/ mo.+utils. 267-278-0824.

two bedrooM 8TH & CATHARINE 1st/flr,C/A,finish. bsmt,1.5BA, +House for Rent. Avail 2/1. 215-915-5347 1522 PINE: Rittenhouse Area Extra Large 2BR, 3rd & 4th fl front. Brown Stone Mansion: 2400SF = $2200/ month plus gas/electric. This unit is located on the 3rd floor front, TV intercom, Bi-Level, 2 extra large bedrooms, 2 dec. fireplaces, large living room, dining room and kitchen combination w/SS appliances, large windows, plenty of closet space. Full new ceramic bathroom on 1st floor of bi-level. Laundry in unit. Walk to everything in center city, Minutes from All Major public transportation. Commuters paradise Best Restaurants in The City, theaters, grocery Stores, coffee shops and much more. This unit has C/A/H, HW floors. For further information and appointments please contact Realty World Properties, Mary Umbrell/ Rental Agent/Pa #Rs311351, office 215-386-4200, 215-528-8039 1629 JACKSON, #2F - $950/mo.

2BD/1BA with rear patio, C/A, lots of windows. CALL BIBE CHIN, PRU FOX & ROACH, 215-627-6005/215521-1546

18TH & SNYDER 5bedrms., Beautiful.

1.5 bath, A/C, Washer/Dryer, Refrig.

Recently renovated $1500/mo.+.

215-432-6222.

2005 MERCY - $875/mo. 3BD/1BA townhome, pine flrs, rear yd, nice kitchen. CALL NATE NANESS, PRU FOX & ROACH, 215-627-6005/215440-2098 39TH & LANCASTER 1BR Townhome +Den, New kit, Tile bath, HW floors & W/W, W/D. Conv to Drexel Campus.

AVAIL FEB! $885. MSRE, 215-925RENT(7368), www.MichaelSingerRealEstate.com BREWERY TOWN AREA TOWNHOUSE: 2BR, 1BA, ALL MODERN AMENITIES, WW, AC, WD/BLDG. Pet frndly w/ Restricts. $925 Tanya, 215-922-6088, tanya@ans-hrv.com E AST FA L L S. 2 B R, 1 . 5 BAT H , UNIQUE! $1450/month + util.

Newly renovated. Tree-lined street.

EZ parking. Large private yard.

Floating staircase. New kitchen w/ stainless. Exposed brick. Clawfoot tub. Glass shower. 1st floor laundry.

2 blocks to train. Avail Feb 1. Call Jeannie @ 267-972-4447

20XX SNYDER AVE 2nd flr., 2bedmrs. remodeled. $725/mo.+utils. Call Dr. K. 215-336-4151.

2044 WILDER - $795/mo. 2BD/1BA, rear yard, carpeting, new kitchen.

CALL MIKE MCCANN, PRU FOX & ROACH, 215-627-6005/215-440-8345

Updated 2BR/1BA - H/W, W/D. Close to restaurants, park & CC. $1200/mo. + util. Avail. immed.

610-329-2414.

OLD CITY (6 S.Front St.) 2BR or Office combo. Overlooks BF Bridge & Del River. High ceiling, WD, DW, GD, CA, Gas heat, Tiled bath & Kit. $1195/mo+. 215-627-4414

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RICHMOND & ANN STS Beautiful bilevel w/v.lg Bath (Stall shower, sep area w/Jac tub). 2 V.lg bedrooms, HW flrs, CA, EIK, Sep Laundry w/WD. $950+. Call Joe 609-685-1899

124 LOMBARD in the HEART OF SOCIETY HILL, HEAD HOUSE SQ. “TOKIO B&B” STUDIOS. TOURIST ALSO WELCOME. WALK to HISTORIC LOCATIONS! ($55-$100) DAILY rates. ($300-$500) WKLY rates.

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SOCIETY HILL: Beautiful 2BR, AC, GD, Cath ceiling. Fam atmosphere, Quiet area. Heat/Water incl. $1200/ mo+. 610-299-5920

13TH & SPRUCE- Parker Hotel CC. Fully Furn’d Rms, no sec. deposit. Utils & housekeeping incld. WK: $165-$203; Day: $40-$56. 215-735-2300.

TEMPLE HOSP AREA 2BR, Hardwood floors, Washer/Dr yer, Cent Air. $750+. 215-247-3616

three + bedrooMs 10TH & SNYDER 4BEDRM.,Apt. 2ND FLR., Lg.Tile BATH, CARPET, $1200/ MO.+. 610-304-0087.

1832 EARP - $1600/mo. Brand new 3BD/2.5BA, finished basement, roof deck. CALL MIKE MCCANN, PRU FOX & ROACH 215-627-6005/215440-8345 QUEEN VILLAGE: 3BR, 2BA w/CA. $1650+. Call for details: 215-922-3910. mcolaizzo@comcast.net

THE PAPERMILL- Community of Artist. 2825 Ormes St. Affordable Artist Studios staring at $100 for 130 sf. Four large floors of open or private studio space for Painters, Sculptors, Dance, Theatre, or Creative companies. A community of artist practicing their talents in custom sized studio workspaces. Short term, inexpensive rental of theatre and gallery spaces. Join our group on Facebaook for updates on our events and gallery spaces. Contact Wulfhart Management Group: Karyn 215-687-8391 or karyn@wulfhartmanagementgroup.com

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EPIPHANY PARISH: 11th/Jackson Brand new 2BR house w/beautiful Kitchen & Bath. Granite c-tops, DW. WD, CA, HW flrs t/o. Fin bsmt. Nice yard. $1295/mo+. 267-254-1914

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RITTENHOUSE SQUARE/FITLER SQUARE/WEST PHILLy 20TH & WALNUT King Size Studios & One Bedrooms in High rise, Doorman building, All utilities included, Hardwood floors, Laundry. AVAILABLE JANUARY/FEBRUARY! $1,275 - $1,445 22ND & LOCUST (ST. JAMES) Cozy Studio in Brownstone, Hardwood floors, Air conditioner, Laundry on premise.

AVAILABLE FEBRUARY! $635 20TH & WALNUT Spacious Studio with Separate kitchen, Wall-to-Wall, Dishwasher, Central air, High ceilings.

AVAILABLE FEBRUARY! $785 39TH & LANCASTER One Bedroom Townhome plus Den, New kitchen, Tile bath, Hardwood floors downstairs, Wall-to-Wall upstairs, Washer/Dryer. Mile from Drexel Campus.

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WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST/AVENUE OF THE ARTS/OLD CITy 11TH & PINE Sunny Studio next to Kahn Park, New kitchen, Heat/Hot water included, Hardwood floors, Laundry on premises.

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10TH & CLINTON Cozy One Bedroom on tree lined street, Hardwood floors, Heat/Hot water included, Laundry & Storage on premises.

AVAILABLE MID-FEBRUARY! $885 BROAD & SPRUCE Studio in High rise building, Great City view, Hardwood floors, Gas included, Laundry on premises. AVAILABLE FEBRUARY! $725 10TH & CLINTON Studio with All Utilities Included. Great location! Hardwood floors, Laundry on premises.

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Fairmount view, lots of light, w/d, 1258 sf

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CommerCial sPaCe ACAdEmY HousE 1420 LoCusT sTREET Office space with newly painted walls and new carpet, 695sf $1,200

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225 s. 18TH sTREET

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Studio, wood floors, marble bath, open kitchen, 516sf

$1,650

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1 bedroom, high floor, updated kitchen and bath,

1857 sf

651 sf

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

$1,890

$1,600

2 bedrooms. 2 baths, south views, open chef’s kitchen, marble

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baths, hardwood floors, 1106sf

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Lanesborough condo, ideal for restaurant or offices, 4700 sf

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Lombard & 19th Newly renov, mod studio, 1 & 2Bd's $750-1100 Lombard & 23rd 1 &2Bd, bi-level, A/C Broad & Spruce Mod 1Bd's, W/D, C/A, heat incl. $875-1000 Chestnut & 20th Ultra mod 1Bd's, C/A, great location Lombard & 9th 1Bd & 2Bd, w/d, hardwood, laundry Lombard & 19th Newly renov, mod studio, 1 & 2Bd's Pine & $875-1700 9th 2Bd's, h/w floors, W/D $800-850 Broad & Spruce Mod 1Bd's, W/D, C/A, heat incl. Spruce & 12th 2Bd, 1-1/2 bath, bi-level, laundry $850-995 Lombard & 9th 1Bd & 2Bd, w/d, hardwood, laundry Spruce & 16th Old World, 1 & 2Bd's, hardwood $995-1100 Pine & 9th 2Bd's, h/w floors, W/D Art Area Ultra Mod 1 & 3Bd's, W/D, Deck, Parking Spruce & 12th 2Bd, 1-1/2 bath, bi-level, laundry Old City Fab$995 ultra mod 1 & 2Bd's, deck $995-1350 Spruce & 16th Old World, 1 & 2Bd's, hardwood University City 3Bd, 2 bath, totally renovated Art Area Ultra Mod 1 & 3Bd's, W/D, Deck, ParkingSpring $950-1750 Garden Collonade-Extremely Nice Studio $825-1375 Old City Fab ultra mod 1 & 2Bd's, deck Q.V. 3rd & Bambridge 1 & 2Bd's, W/W, C/A $1950 University City 3Bd, 2 bath, totally renovated Spring Garden & 19th Studio, hardwood, Heat incl.

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9XX n. 3rD New Super Mod 1 & 2 BD, HW floors, Stainless steel appliance w/ Granite, W/D in unit. PARKING! Across from Park! from $1400

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PENNSPORT – NEW CONSTRUCTION – 10 YR TAX ABATEMENT 1321 E. MOYAMENSING AVENUE – 17ft wide.

3 floors. High ceilings. Large master suite with large deck. $429,000.

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50 S. 16th Fabulous Ind. Pl #2 High floor 1 Bedroom, 2 Baths, pool, health club, lots of amenities

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1909 POINT BREEzE AVE - 3 Bedrooms. Easy access to expressway. $119,500.

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1526 S 17TH STREET – Granite. Stainless Steel appliances. French Door. $180,000.

2038 SO. 22ND STREET – Just Completed.

New Front. 2 Master Suites. Large Kitchen.

Deck. $185,000.

DUPlEX – 60TH AND MARKET

25 N 60TH STREET – Needs Renovation. $28,000.

GRAYS FERRY – HOUSE WITH GARAGE 1517 S CORlIES STREET – 3 Bedroom.

Hardwoods. $58,000.

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2027 ogdeN Street • $419,000 Mint condition townhouse in Historic Art Museum Area offers fine finishes gracious floor plan and newer everything! Just 6 years new! Remaining years on TA!

$4,000

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920 Waverly (Trinity House) 1 Bedroom, den or br., w&d, woof floors, nice garden 205 Federal St 2 Brs., 1 Bath, w&d, wood and w/w carpet, basement, EZ Street Parking

317 North Broad Street Philadelphia, PA 19107 215.351.0930

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2049 FERNON STREET – 2 Bedrooms.

Hardwood floors. $109,500.

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205 Fitzwater St 2 Bedrooms, 1 Bath , w&d, wood and w/w carpets, basement 134 Elfreths Alley Fabulous 3 Brs., 2 Baths, gourmet kitchen, marble baths, c/a,w&d, garden 834 Federal St. 3 Bedrooms, 2 Baths, deck, hardwood floors, great kitchen, w&d, patio 1535 S. 16th St. 3 Bedrooms, 1.5 Baths, wood & wall to wall carpet available now 519 N. 19th St 5 Bedrooms, 2.5 Baths, Hrd. Flrs, gas fireplace, finished basement

1613-27 GERMANTOWN AVENUE – Approx.

10,000 sq ft on one floor. Overhead door on 4th Street - $465,000.

She was the stunning showroom for Packard Motors with soaring window walls and a stunning limestone exterior. Today, her spacious studios, 1 and 2-bedroom apartments bring gracious elegance and every modern convenience to today’s most luxurious apartment living.

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719-23 DICKINSON STREET - Approx. 10,000 sq ft.

Ramps to second floor. $425,000.

727 DUDlEY STREET – Renovated 3 bdrms.

Hardwood floors – open stairway, Jacuzzi. $119,000.

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$975

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608 kimball Street • $364,900

$2,700 $1,750

923 CathariNe Street • $379,000 Three story, 2BR/2Ba home in the heart of Bella Vista. Many updates throughout. Spacious rooms, huge kitchen, wood floors, master bedroom fireplace, fantastic Trex rooftop deck!

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Eden Silverstein

Newly ren., 3-story home on a Bella Vista block featuring a sunny LR with h/w flrs, modern EIK overlooking a sizeable rear patio garden, 2 spacious BRs, stone & ceramic tile bath & excellent closet space. This home is in pristine cond & is simply awaiting a new owner.

$1,500 $3,000

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

341 W. Girard Ave (NE Corner 4th & Girard) Retail store, C-2, 800 sq.ft.,bath, c/a $900 404 South St 1200 sq.ft, retail store, bath, c/a, high traffic great block NNN $4,000 135B South St 1800 Sq.ft. C-2, tri-level retail corner or office former bank NNN $6,400 413 S. Broad St across from Symphony Hse. Approx 2500 sq.ft. bi-level offices, c/a.1.5 bths $2,500

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SO C I E TY H ILL 43 8 Lom b a rd S t reet $ 475 , 0 0 0 Pr u d e nt i al Fox & Ro ach

RIT T E NHOU S E SQ 111 S 15th Street #1712 $279,000 P rudent ial Fox & Ro ach

R ITTENHO USE SQ 1740 Na ud a i n Stre et $759,000 Pr ud enti a l Fox & Roa ch

Q UEEN V ILLAGE 741 S 2nd Street $1 ,150,000 Pr ud enti a l Fox & Roa ch

SO CIETY HILL 8 St Ja mes Ct ##16 $464 ,900 Pr ud e nti a l Fox & Ro ach

C HEST N UT HILL 24 Rex Ave n u e $ 359 , 5 0 0 Pru d e nti al Fox & Ro ach

R IT T EN HOUS E SQ 1 935 Man n i n g S tre et $ 875 , 0 0 0 Pru d e nti al Fox & Ro ach

A RT M U S E U M 1 9 0 0 H a m i lton Street #101 $ 475 , 0 0 0 Pr u d e nt i al Fox & Ro ach

ART MUSEUM 2601 Pennsylvania Avenue #421 $275,000 P rudent ial Fox & Ro ach

R ITTENHO USE SQ 2020 Wa l nut ##31E $739,900 Pr ud enti a l Fox & Roa ch

SO CIETY HILL 265 S aint Josephs Way $1 ,145,000 Pr ud enti a l Fox & Roa ch

BELLA V ISTA 763 S M a r v i ne Stre et $459,900 Pr ud e nti a l Fox & Ro ach

B ELLA V ISTA 9 0 8 E Pa s sy u n k Ave n u e $ 359 , 0 0 0 Pru d e nti al Fox & Ro ach

SOC IETY HILL 2 1 1 -2 5 S . 4 th - # # 2 01 $ 835 , 0 0 0 Pru d e nti al Fox & Ro ach

SUNDAY 1/15/12 11:30 - 1:00PM

OL D C I TY 1 1 3 N . B re ad ##3A1 $ 475 , 0 0 0 Pr u d e nt i al Fox & Ro ach

PENNSPORT 1905 E Moyamensing Ave $239,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

WASHINGTO N SQ 8 02 Locust Stre et #201 $ 68 9,000 Pr ud enti a l Fox & Roa ch

R ITTENHO USE SQ 1901 Wa l nut St #7F $450,000 Pr ud e nti a l Fox & Ro ach

WA S H WEST 51 0 S 1 1 th S tre et $ 3 49 , 9 0 0 Pru d e nti al Fox & Ro ach

GRA D UAT E HOS PITA L 7 39 S 1 5 th S tre et $539 , 9 0 0 Pru d e nti al Fox & Ro ach

B E LLA VISTA 7 74 S Fro nt ST $549 ,9 00 P lumer & A s s o c iate s

B E L LA V I STA 7 35 S 1 2 t h Street #502 $ 459 , 0 0 0 Pr u d e nt i al Fox & Ro ach

NORTHERN LIBERTIES 12 2 3 N Palet ho rp $234 ,900 P rudent ial Fox & Ro ach

BELLA V ISTA 750 S M a r v i ne Stre et $ 679,900 Pr ud enti a l Fox & Roa ch

ART M USEUM 2401 Penna Ave ## 1 2 A 2 $449,900 Pr ud e nti a l Fox & Ro ach

GRA D UAT E HOS PITA L 1 62 9 F i tz wate r S tre et $334,900 Pru d e nti al Fox & Ro ach

12:00 - 1:00PM

B E L LA V I STA 7 1 8 S Mi l dred S t reet $ 45 0 , 0 0 0 Pr u d e nt i al Fox & Ro ach

GRADUATE HOSPITAL 1413 Ellsworth $219,900 P rudent ial Fox & Ro ach

SO CIETY HILL 304 S Phi l i p $679,000 Pr ud enti a l Fox & Roa ch

WASHINGTO N SQ W EST 1119 Pi ne ##201 $449,000 Pr ud e nti a l Fox & Ro ach

A RT MUS e u m A R EA 1 7 1 7 S p ri n g Gard e n , # Un i t A $ 32 5 , 0 0 0 Pru d e nti al Fox & Ro ach

OL DE C I TY 1 1 3 B re a d St ##3B2 $ 4 49 , 9 0 0 Pr u d e nt i al Fox & Ro ach

ART MUSEUM 2601 Pennsylvania Avenue #126 $210,000 P rudent ial Fox & Ro ach

GRADUATE HOSPITAL 2107 B ainbridge $669,000 Pr ud enti a l Fox & Roa ch

WASHINGTO N SQ W EST 428 S Hutchi nson Stre et $439,000 Pr ud e nti a l Fox & Ro ach

QUEEN V ILLAGE 81 2 S Howard S tre et $299,900 Pru d e nti al Fox & Ro ach

ART MUSEUM AREA 1804 Green ##1 $210,000 P rudent ial Fox & Ro ach

UNIV ER SITY CITY 4635 Hazel Avenue $595,000 Pr ud enti a l Fox & Roa ch

WHITMAN 2416 S P hilip S t reet $209,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

Fa i r mount 907 Corinthian Avenue $579,900 Pr ud enti a l Fox & Roa ch

ART MUSEUM 2601 Pennsylvania Avenue #651 $129,000 P rudent ial Fox & Ro ach

Q UEEN V ILLAGE 527 Catha r i ne Stre et $549,500 Pr ud enti a l Fox & Roa ch

WASHINGTO N SQ W E ST 1 1 1 1 Locu st St 2G $ 379 ,9 9 9 Col dwel l B a nke r P re fe r re d WASHI N GTO N SQ WE ST 1 1 1 1 Locu st St 9B $1 ,100, 00 0 Col dwel l B a nke r P re fe r re d

Q U E E N VIL LAGE 240 M onro e ST # 2 $2 29 ,000 P lumer & A s s o c iate s SO CI E TY H I L L 2 31 D el ancey St re et $1 ,500,00 0 P r udenti a l Fox & Ro a c h SOCIETY H I L L 2 24 D el ancey St re et $1 , 299,00 0 P r udenti a l Fox & Ro a c h R I TTE N HO USE SQ 1901 Waln u t S t re et # 1 8 A $1 , 200,0 0 0 P r udenti a l Fox & Ro a c h Society H i l l 2 0 6 G ask ill St re et $1 ,199,00 0 P r udenti a l Fox & Ro a c h

12:00-2:00PM WASHINGTO N SQ W E ST 92 9 Cl i nto n St # 2R $415, 000 Col dwel l B a nke r P re fe r re d B USTLETO N 1 1 20 N orwa lk Rd $249 ,500 E lfant Wi s s a hic ko n

QU EEN V I L LAG E 82 2 S . Swa nson $ 439 , 9 0 0 Pr u d e nt i al Fox & Ro ach A RT M U S E U M AREA 2 8 1 3 Pa r r i sh $ 42 9 , 0 0 0 Pr u d e nt i al Fox & Ro ach WA S H I N GTON SQ 2 3 6 S H u tc hinson $ 379 , 9 0 0 Pr u d e nt i al Fox & Ro ach SO C I E TY H ILL 2 0 0 Lo m b ard ##8 $ 3 69 , 0 0 0 Pr u d e nt i al Fox & Ro ach A RT M U S E U M AREA 78 6 N . Ta n ey $ 3 49 , 9 9 9 Pr u d e nt i al Fox & Ro ach

ART MUSEUM 2601 Pennsylvania Avenue #605 $124 ,900 P rudent ial Fox & Ro ach NEWBOLD 1433 S Hicks $88,000 P rudent ial Fox & Ro ach

12:00-2:30PM SOC IE TY HILL 540 Cypress St, $374 ,900 Co ldwell B anker P referred

R ITTENHO USE SQ 1920 Chestnut ##9S $545,000 Pr ud enti a l Fox & Roa ch 12:00-3:00PM WASHINGTO N SQ W EST 1111 Locust St 2G $ 379,999 Col d wel l B a nke r Prefer re d WASHINGTO N SQ W EST 1111 Locust St 9B $1 ,100,000 Col d wel l B a nke r Prefer re d

1:30- 2:30PM

SO CIETY HILL 126 Del a ncey Street $995,000 Pr ud enti a l Fox & Roa ch SO CIETY HILL 143 S 2nd Street #204 $949,000 Pr ud enti a l Fox & Roa ch R ITTENHO USE SQ 2101 Market Street #3002 $895,000 Pr ud enti a l Fox & Roa ch R ITTENHO USE SQ 2018 Wa l nut Street #19GH $699,000 Pr ud enti a l Fox & Roa ch SO CIETY HILL 513 Del a ncey Street $ 695,000 Pr ud enti a l Fox & Roa ch AV ENUE O F THE ARTS 1536 Kater $ 650,000 Pr ud enti a l Fox & Roa ch ART M USEUM AR EA 566 N 23rd Stre et $ 650,000 Pr ud enti a l Fox & Roa ch R ITTENHO USE SQ UAR E 608 S 16th Stre et $599,900 Pr ud enti a l Fox & Roa ch FITLER SQ 2530 Pi ne Stre et $579,900 Pr ud enti a l Fox & Roa ch Q UEEN V ILLAGE 719 S Phi l i p Street $575,000 Pr ud enti a l Fox & Roa ch GRADUATE HOSPITAL 18 37 M ontrose Stre et $575,000 Pr ud enti a l Fox & Roa ch

SO CIETY HILL 121-35 Wa l nut ##20 6 $399,900 Pr ud e nti a l Fox & Ro ach WASHINGTO N SQ W EST 425 S 13th Street $399,000 Pr ud e nti a l Fox & Ro ach R ITTENHO USE SQ 2101 Market Street # 9 0 5 $399,000 Pr ud e nti a l Fox & Ro ach

ART M USEUM AR EA 8 62 N 27th Street $38 4 ,500 Pr ud e nti a l Fox & Ro ach

PA SSY UN K SQUA R E 1 72 1 S . I s e m i n g e r $ 26 4 , 9 0 0 Pru d e nti al Fox & Ro ach

PENNSPO RT 434 Fe d e ra l Stre et $379,900 Pr ud e nti a l Fox & Ro ach

WA S HIN GTON SQ WEST 1 02 9 -3 3 S p r u ce # # 3 07 $ 249 , 9 0 0 Pru d e nti al Fox & Ro ach

ART M USEUM AR EA 2214 Poplar $379,000 Pr ud e nti a l Fox & Ro ach

ART M USEUM 2610 Pa r r i sh ST $ 434 ,900 Pl ume r & Associ ate s

OL D C I TY 3 35 N Front S t reet # B $ 3 39 , 9 0 0 Pr u d e nt i al Fox & Ro ach

WASHINGTON SQ WEST 13 15 Irving S t reet $995,000 P rudent ial Fox & Ro ach

O LD CITY 108 Arch Street #902 $1 ,495,000 Pr ud enti a l Fox & Roa ch

WASHINGTO N SQ W E ST 903 Cl i nto n # # 2F $525,000 P r udenti a l Fox & Ro a c h

WA S H SQ WEST 1 01 2 S p r u ce # # 3 F $ 3 39 , 0 0 0 Pr u d e nt i al Fox & Ro ach

RIT T E NHOU S E SQ 1919 Panama $815,000 P rudent ial Fox & Ro ach

SYM PHO NY HO USE 400-426 S Broa d St #2001 $1 ,450,000 Pr ud enti a l Fox & Roa ch

WASHINGTO N SQ 1212 Ad d i son Wa l k $529,900 Pr ud enti a l Fox & Roa ch

LO GAN SQ UA R E 2200-28 A rc h # # 8 1 0 $499,900 P r udenti a l Fox & Ro a c h

RI T T EN H OU S E SQ 2 02 0 Wa l n ut ##6C $ 32 9 , 0 0 0 Pr u d e nt i al Fox & Ro ach

FIT LE R SQ 212 S 24th Street #2421 $795,000 P rudent ial Fox & Ro ach

R ITTENHO USE SQ 1515 Locust Street #900 $1 , 250,000 Pr ud enti a l Fox & Roa ch

WASHINGTO N SQ W EST 420 S Je ssup Street $ 497,000 Pr ud enti a l Fox & Roa ch

SPRING ARTS 627 N 10th Street $365,000 Pr ud e nti a l Fox & Ro ach

BELLA VISTA 624 Keni l wo r t h $479,000 P r udenti a l Fox & Ro a c h

RI T T EN H OU S E SQUA RE 1 62 8 S p r u ce ##3 $ 32 5 , 0 0 0 Pr u d e nt i al Fox & Ro ach

QU E E N VILLAG E 830 S 2nd - #Unit A $779,000 P rudent ial Fox & Ro ach

R ITTENHO USE SQ 2018 Del a ncey ##1A $1 ,195,000 Pr ud enti a l Fox & Roa ch

BELLA V ISTA 912 Fi tz water Street $ 482 ,500 Pr ud enti a l Fox & Roa ch

GRADUATE HOSP 1727 Fi tz wate r #Un i t A $359,900 Pr ud e nti a l Fox & Ro ach

WASHINGTO N SQ W EST 1108 Sp r uce ##1F $540,000 Pr ud enti a l Fox & Roa ch

AV EN UE OF T HE A RTS 1 42 0 Lo cu st # # 2 9 Q $ 2 89 , 0 0 0 Pru d e nti al Fox & Ro ach A RT MUS EUM A R EA 83 3 N N ewki rk $ 2 79 , 0 0 0 Pru d e nti al Fox & Ro ach

WA S HINGTON SQ 1016 Spruce Street #3 $1 ,000,000 P rudent ial Fox & Ro ach

SOCIETY H I L L 267 S 4th - # U n i t A $525,000 P r udenti a l Fox & Ro a c h

GRA D HOS PITA L 5 07 S 1 5 T H ST $ 3 89 , 9 0 0 Pl u m e r & A sso ci ate s

GRADUATE HOSP 1628 Catha r i ne Stre et $389,000 Pr ud e nti a l Fox & Ro ach

RI T T EN H OU S E SQ 1 9 01 Wa l n ut Street #8C $ 3 49 , 0 0 0 Pr u d e nt i al Fox & Ro ach

GRADUAT E H OS P I TA L 1 540 Chri st ia n St re et $525,000 P r udenti a l Fox & Ro a c h

SOC IETY HILL 2 0 4 1 / 2 S 3 R D ST $ 69 9 , 0 0 0 Pl u m e r & A sso ci ate s

BELLA V ISTA 715 S Sche l l Stre et $369,000 Pr ud e nti a l Fox & Ro ach Q UEEN V ILLAGE 720 S Front Street $365,000 Pr ud e nti a l Fox & Ro ach FITLER SQ 2310 Sp r uce Stre et # A $365,000 Pr ud e nti a l Fox & Ro ach

N AVA L SQUA R E 24 43 C arp e nte r S tre et $ 2 39 , 9 0 0 Pru d e nti al Fox & Ro ach D IC K EN SON N A R R OWS 61 1 Fe rn o n $1 89 , 9 0 0 Pru d e nti al Fox & Ro ach

3:00-4:00PM R IT T EN HOUS E SQ 2 02 3 Lo cu st S tre et $3,999,990 Pru d e nti al Fox & Ro ach R IT T EN HOUS E SQ 1 9 01 Wal n u t S tre et # 1 4 B E $2,000,000 Pru d e nti al Fox & Ro ach R IT T EN HOUS E SQ 2 1 0 W R i tte n h o u s e S q u a re # 1 0 07 $1 , 2 9 5 , 0 0 0 Pru d e nti al Fox & Ro ach

GRA D UAT E HOS PITA L 2 02 3 Pe m b e rto n $51 4 , 9 0 0 Pru d e nti al Fox & Ro ach F IT LER SQUA R E 241 8 D e l an cey S tre et $ 49 9 , 9 0 0 Pru d e nti al Fox & Ro ach GIRA R D ESTAT E A R EA 24 49 S Garn et $ 49 9 , 0 0 0 Pru d e nti al Fox & Ro ach N ORT HER N LIB ERT IES 9 63 N . A m e ri can $ 49 9 , 0 0 0 Pru d e nti al Fox & Ro ach SOC IETY HILL 42 2 S 7 th S tre et $ 42 9 , 0 0 0 Pru d e nti al Fox & Ro ach B ELLA V ISTA 7 3 6 S 1 2 t h , # # 3 02 $ 3 89 , 9 0 0 Pru d e nti al Fox & Ro ach B ELLA V ISTA 6 0 9 Mo ntro se S tre et $ 3 39 , 9 0 0 Pru d e nti al Fox & Ro ach FA IR MOUN T 3 0 0 4 W G i ra rd Ave n u e $ 3 39 , 0 0 0 Pru d e nti al Fox & Ro ach SOC IETY HILL 1 1 4 N au d ai n # Un i t C $ 324 , 9 9 9 Pru d e nti al Fox & Ro ach R IT T EN HOUS E SQ 1 5 0 0 C h e stn u t S tre et # 7 H $315,000 Pru d e nti al Fox & Ro ach GRA D UAT E HOS PITA L 2 2 2 1 Pe m b e rto n $299,000 Pru d e nti al Fox & Ro ach QUEEN V ILLAGE 535 Le ag u e S tre et $ 2 1 9 , 80 0 Pru d e nti al Fox & Ro ach A RT MUS EUM 2 2 2 9 G re e n S t re et # 2 $1 9 4 , 9 0 0 Pru d e nti al Fox & Ro ach

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A RT MUS EUM 2 1 1 3 Mo u nt Ve rn o n S tre et $52 9 , 0 0 0 Pru d e nti al Fox & Ro ach

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WASHI N GTO N SQ 903 Cl i nto n St re et # 2 R $534 ,900 P r udenti a l Fox & Ro a c h

A RT M U S E U M AREA 2 3 4 0 Fa i r mount #Unit A $ 4 49 , 9 0 0 Pr u d e nt i al Fox & Ro ach

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631 N 21st St 2BR trinity with central air patio and 2 decks 809 N 16th St Updated 3BR/2BA home with CA , Hardwood Floors, Modern kitchen 2731 Cambridge St Reduced! Private Parking 3 Story 4BR/1.5 BA with original wood floors fireplace and rear yard 849 N. Woodstock St. Classic beauty! Gorgeous Details! Green updates! 3bd/1.5ba w/garage prkng & c/a 2312 Brown St. Multi-unit great for owner occupant or Investor! Both units feature modern kitchens & baths.

756 N. Bucknell St. Bright & Spacious, 3bd/3ba on tree-lined street, open layout, h/w flrs, High Ceilings 757 N. Bucknell St. Bright & Spacious, 3 bed/3 bath on tree lined street. Open layout, h/w floors, high ceilings!

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629-31 S. 13TH St. Unit A Stunning 3 bed/3 bth new contruction. Luxurious finishes, Roof Deck, Parking + Tax Abatement $60,000 $119,000 $244,900 $265,000 $317,000 $330,000 $349,000 $450,000 $479,900

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RITTENHOUSE SQUARE / FITLER SQUARE / AVENUE OF THE ARTS 2001 Chestnut St. #401 3bd/1.5ba condo, corner, 1370sf, elevator bldg $290,000 $409,000 1912 Waverly St. Reduced! Charming historic home offers 2br/2ba, garden, fab kitch w/heated floors 1516 South St. #2A 2bd/2.5ba condo in boutique bldg walking distance to Ritt Sq, spacious & well-appointed $425,000 219 S. 18th St. #412 Pet friendly 927sqft hi-rise, 1bedrm “PARC” Rittenhouse condo, pool/gym $449,000 327 S. 25th St. Architects hm, house sits on edge of Schuylkill River Park, 3bd/1ba, e-I kit & lrg garden $489,000 1343 Christian St. 4bed/3.5bath 2650 sqft townhouse w/HW floors, granite counters, SS appl, finished basement, master suite $489,000 440 S. Broad St. 1, 2, and 3br luxury condos, 7 yrs left on tax abatement, garage parking available, pool fitness & luxury amenities incl., in condo fees, 1 yr builders warranty OPEN FRI, SAT, SUN 12-5PM Fr $499,900 2049 Walnut St 1F Spectacular high end bi level 2BR/2.5 BA condo OPEN HOUSE $550,000 1819 Kater St. 4bed/4.5bath 3200 sqft home w/HW floors, granite counters, SS appl, deck, garage, finished bsmt, master suite $769,000 251 S 25th Street Diamond Residence – Elegant Modern Home on the Park – All New Construction –215-582-7909 $1,975,000

1915 N. 23rd St. Row home – multifamily capabilities, rear yard = parking capabilities, original details, separate utilities.

$239,900 $270,000 $285,000 $299,000 $325,000 $475,000 $650,000

SOCIETY HILL / WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST 540 Cypress St Quaint completely updgraded 2BR/1.5BA in the Heart of Society Hill Open House 1/15/12 12:00-2:30 $374,900 720 Chestnut St. Unit D 2Bd/2ba 1300sqft condo in boutique bldg. Hi ceilings, wd fl, granite & SS, priv outdoors, FP $399,900 929 Clinton St #2R 2 BBR/2BA multi-level townhouse design in boutique condo Open House 1/15/12 12:00-2:00 $415,000 1034 Spruce St. Unit 601 2Ba/2BR Corner unit with floor-to-ceiling windows & dramatic panoramic skyline view. $499,900 409 S. Jessup St. 3br/2ba fully upgraded & private garden, nearby leased surface parking spot $569,900 130 Spruce St. #21B 3br/2ba w/garage pkg. City living at it’s finest, brand new hand-scraped hwflrs $625,000 440 Lombard St. Society Hill Gem: Townhome 4 BR 2.5 BA, EIK, SS Appls, HWFLR, FP, CA, Courtyard & Parking. Great location! $639,000 250 S. 13th St. #14B Incredible 3bd/2ba penthouse featuring lrg landscaped terr w/extraordinary views $899,000 1111 Locust 9B 2210sqft, 3bd/3.5ba, 10ft ceilings, SE CORNER, 800sqft terraces, parking $1,100,000 1111 Locust 10E 11ft ceilings, 1600sqft, parking 800sqft terraces $1,150,000 5XX S. Philip St. Liberty Court, 2,800SF 4br/3.5 half baths, 3 decks, 2-zone HVAC, garden, elevator, parking $1,235,000

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QUEEN VILLAGE/ BELLA VISTA / GRADUATE HOSPITAL / SOUTH PHILA. 2503 Manton St Huge Lot, Awesome Opportunity 2127 Woodstock St Well Maintained house Reduced 1220 S. 20th St. Vacant lot, investment opportunity 2214 Clarion St. 3br townhome in South Phila. Boasts remodeled KIT & lrg rear patio 2432 Camac St Well Maintained 3BR/1BA Refinished hardwood Fl New heater and plumbing 2414 S Jessup St. Great house on a quaint street in Lower Moyamensing with a beautiful modern kitchen.

318 Mifflin St Reduced Duplex in Pennsport 310 Gladstone St. Wonderful 2br home w/extra lrg bath, new kit., rear yard, many extras, 2nd fl laundry.

1021 Mercy St Tastefully decorated, Many upgrades Reduced 2746 S 18th St Very well maintained 3BR/1BA Unbelievable Value 207 Gerritt St. Totally rehabbed updated townhome in Pennsport. 1st flr has refinished HWflrs, full bath 1016 S Reese St Beautifully renovated 2 bd townhome in Queen Village. Hardwood floors. Gourmet kitchen.

200-10 Lombard St. #622 Perfectly located and updated Abbot’s Square condo w/gourmet kitchen and sunny balcony!

1728 S. 18th St. 5br/3.5ba 1680sqft w/HW flrs, security sys, SS appl, & granite counters 525 Fitzwater St. #11 REDUCED TO SELL! AbbottsCourt.com, 2 bd/1.5ba, gated crtyrd, grmt kitchens, & H/W Flrs 2208 Kimball St. 2 Bdrm. 1.5 BA. C/A. Lots of Upgrades. Finishes LL. 6 yr. tax abatement.

1721 Webster St. 2bd/1ba C/A, Newly Renovated Chic Home, this home has it all. Must See! 211 Ellsworth St. Suburban living in the city! 3br/2ba, new kitchen, hw floors on 1st fl close to Center City!

2531 S 15th St. New gorgeous rehab large 3bed great location 743 S. Sheridan St. 2bd/1ba TH, grt open space w/lots of light. www.743ssheridan.com 705 S. Mildred St. Beautiful 2br/2ba, move in condition! Tax abatement, EE wind & drs, C/A, HWflrs 2030 Pemberton St. REDUCED! Spacious, updated 2bd/1ba hm w/HW flrs t/o, desirable flrpln & lrg backyard 1612 West Oregon Ave Completely renovated Exceptional level of workmanship 1 year of free parking 1718 Rodman St. Lovely renovated trinity home (kitchen on 1st flr) 1.5ba, charming st., nice garden space 928 S. 2nd St. 2br/1ba 1092sqft w/HW flrs, SS appl, granite, exp brk, balcony, & 3 fireplaces 1715 S. 10th St. Completely renovated townhome features HWflrs, lrg rear patio, full finished bsmt 1512 S 2nd St. fabulous 3bed new front, HW, kitchen, fireplace move right in 1825 S. 12th St. Newly renovated townhome in Passyunk features 4br, HW flooring, large rear patio 719 Fulton St Brand new 3BR/1.5 BA in Meredith Catchment with all the bells and whistles 2053 Pemberton St. Roof-top deck 360 Center City Views! New Luxurious construction, 3br/2.5ba

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$125,000

2352 E Harold St. 2bd/1ba eco-friendly gem on great Fishtown block. Rehabbed top-to-bottom—a must see.

$127,500

1132 Marlborough St. Historic TH w/opportunity for development. Price reduced. Seller motivated!

$175,000

2652 Memphis St. Recenty renovated 3bd hm in Fishtown w/full bsmnt, storage & orig details intact

$175,000

2344 E Letterly St. This 2 bdrm Fishtown home is completely renovated and features fabulous upgrades & large rear patio 2714 Almond St. NEW Listing! 20ft wide, 3bd/1bath, 1660sq ft home w/hdwds, enclosed porch & lg yd, newer kitchen…

$189,900 $200,000

1137 E. Palmer St. REDUCED! Renov corner offers 3B/2b, HW Flrs, updated ktchn, 3rd fl main suite, large lot.

$199,900

1217 Shackamaxon St. HUGE partially rehabbed home once was a triplex, now a 4bed/3bath opportunity

$214,000

2211 E. Susquehanna Ave. Spacious 2br/1.5ba home w/ nice mix of orig details & upgrades. Huge deck & yard

$215,000

2639 Salmon St. Total rehab with up to 3-car parking!

$219,000

2628 E. Somerset St. REDUCED! Two homes for the price of one. Wonderful opportunity to own a home deeded as Building A & B

$219,900

1219 N. Randolph St. #1F REDUCED!Updated 2bd/2ba condo offers s/s appl, c/a, finished bsmnt & flagstone patio

$225,000

-546-2700 OLD CITY / LOFT DISTRICT / CHINATOWN 444 N 4th St Great Deal on amazing loft style condo with parking and tax abatement 315 Arch St. Unit 703 1 BR, 1 BA condo w/HW flrs, huge windows, granite, SS appliances, & Tile Floors.

315 Arch St. Unit 206 2 BR, 1 BA condo w/HW flrs, huge windows, granite, SS appliances, & Tile Floors.

428-40 N. 13th St 6D Penthouse Condo-Open layout w/ tons of light, wide plank hardwood flrs & 12’ tall ceilings 428-40 N. 13th St. #3F NY-style open loft. Amazing custom ktchn, high ceilings, beautiful vintage hdwd flrs 144-146 N. 3rd St. Unit C Stunning bi-level penthouse unit with TWO decks – in the heart of Old City.

112 Elfreths Aly Historic one of a kind home on cobble street, 3bd/2ba, yard, fp, must see

$649,900

NORTHERN LIBERTIES / FISHTOWN / NORTH PHILADELPHIA

1301 N Front St 2BR/2BA + Den, End unit with parking

$239,000

2130 E. Susquehanna Ave. Price reduced for immediate sale!

$279,900

1025 Mt Vernon St Huge, recently renovated 6-7 BR House with central air and HW floors, blocks away from Spring Arts

$295,000

2312 East Huntingdon St. Great Investment Opportunity – own a Triplex in the heart of Fishtown!

$325,000

2447 Coral St Corner Lot Prime for development Located close to public transportation Now is the time to build!

$642,500

UNIVERSITY CITY / WEST PHILADELPHIA 6423 Dorel St. Short Sale

$60,000

5242 Cedar Ave. Income producing duplex available

$95,000

116 S. 51st St. 4bd/1ba Fixer-Upper for Investors or 1st Time Buyers Priced Out of Univ. City. Nice Orig. Details

$99,000

214 S. 56th St. Solid 3-unit bldg in a convenient location, 3rd flr is rent-ready, potential for cash flow!

$110,000

5002 Florence Ave 4BR1BA Great location Definition of Potential. Needs some work but has great bones

$150,000

5120 Irving St. REDUCED! 3bed/1bath w/green features renovated w/original details intact absolute move in condition

$150,000

139 S 50th St Reduced Triplex Upgraded Freshly painted

$169,900

4948 Hazel St. 5br/5ba Victorian twin needs repairs but has potential to be restore to grand showpiece

$230,000

811 S 51st St. 3bed/2.5bath twin top to bottom renovation where old & new blend seamlessly not a detail overlooked

$250,000

6011-13 Market St Double wide Commercial Property Endless Possibilities

$299,999

237 S. 49th St 4 unit corner property w/detached garage and separate utilities. Fully leased—a solid investment

$319,000

4126 Chester Ave. Excellent Value Added Investment opportunity across the street from the University of the Sciences

$325,000

527 S. 41st St. Catchment area 5bd/2.5ba, 2car pkng: Historically certified home, fully updated

$549,000

NEW CONSTRUCTION 1515 Carpenter #B 10 Yr Tax Abatement Luxurious bi-level condo with private enclosed yard 3BR/3BA

$275,000

2715 Poplar St. A true beauty in coveted Art Museum Area, 3bd/1ba, lots of space ,www.2715poplar.com

$284,900

1753 Tilghman St new construction w/vast quantities of living space and fabulous industrial finishes

$300,000

2331 Madison Sq. New Cons 3bd/3ba/1900sqft TH w/HW flrs, FP, SS appl, master suite, fin bsmt

$419,900

1743 Christian St High Quality with roof top CC Views, Luxuary finishes 3BR/3BA 10 yr tax abatement approved

$450,000

905 Corinthian Ave. Gorgeous New Cons, 3400sqft, 4bd/3.5ba, garage, roofdeck, tax abtmnt

$584,900

COMMERCIAL/INVESTMENT 617-31 S 56th Commercial Building in West Philly

$264,900 SURROUNDING AREAS

Grays Ferry – 1356 S Stanley St Recently renovated home at a great price

$59,900

Frankford – 1651 Brill St

$70,000

Torresdale-5017 S. Convent Ln. #D Very Lrg 1br/1.5ba plus den in gated community. $5,000 seller assist

$95,000

Whitman – 2431 S 3rd St Rehab a few years ago harwood floors throughout Reduced

$169,900

Newbold – 2339 S 18th St Duplex completely Rehab.

$239,000

Passyunk Square - 723 Tasker St. 4bd home in fast growing neighborhood

$269,000

Penns Landing - 3 N Columbus Blvd 3BR/2BA South facing cond0 Amazing riverviews and parking

$299,000

East Falls - 3617 Indian Queen Ln Old Brewery Mansion w/ impeccable stone front and foundation 6BR/2BA

$325,000

Fishtown - 1836 Sepviva St 4,400 sf loft style property w large side yard and 2 car off street pking

$350,000

Italian Market – 837-39 Montrose St Development Opportunity

$477,500

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2,306 sf

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$269,900

$585,000

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

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$1,075,000

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$699,900

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$299,900

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$269,900

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$359,900

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$2,295,000

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

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

$775,000

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

the lippincott

$1,195,000

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

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$399,000

4,500 sf $1,450,000

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1,200 sf

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$549,900

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$2,295,000

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$950,000

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

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$1,100,000

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$2,395,000

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$479,900

712 sf

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

1,085 sf 1BR, 1Ba, hardwood floors, marble Ba, custom kitchen

$359,900

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