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Already, the Morris case has been the inspiration of Adams’ own personal transformation into a community activist. Previously, her life had taken some dangerous turns—at 9 years old she ran away from home from a father she says was full of hatred and drifted into the world of drugs and prostitution. “I been through it,” she says. “I come from the days of cops pulling my wigs off and calling me ‘he.’” Her lifestyle led to altercations with the police, exacerbated by the disgust many officers showed to the transsexuals they arrested. “If you’re an officer of the law … you’re supposed to learn how to separate your issues and don’t look at me with such hate and disdain,” Adams says. It’s that mutual suspicion and distrust that made the Nizah Morris case such a flash point. If nothing else, if there is no resolution, at least the attention paid to the Morris case has helped spotlight the problems between the police and transgender individuals and set the ball rolling for reforms. “I think that’s what brought awareness to the lack of acknowledgment to the trans community,” Adams says. “We just have to give this new committee a chance. And a fair chance.” n

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Tall and proud, Jaci Adams stands at the podium and addresses the members of the Police Advisory Commission. “The night Nizah got killed, I was up on Old York Road getting ready to turn a trick,” says the 53-year-old transgender woman without hesitation or shame to the crowd gathered in the William Way Community Center ballroom. “I got a phone call, and overnight I became an advocate for the trans community. I haven’t been out on Old York Road since.” Last week, the PAC met at William Way to reach out to the LGBT community, part of

The new set of PAC commissioners, confirmed last year, says that’s not good enough. “Our concern is, if we’re relying on something as mushy as somebody else’s recollection, how can you show that to the community?” says Ronda Goldfein, a PAC commissioner and executive director of the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania. To kick off the reopening of the case, PAC Counsel Michael Hayes sent a letter to both Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey and D.A. Seth Williams asking for another review of all relevant files and information. Police spokesman Sgt. Ray Evers verified that the commissioner received the letter, sent it down to the homicide unit and they intend to respond, possibly as soon as this week. The D.A.’s Office did not respond to request for comment. “The D.A. won’t be happy about it, but we don’t care,” PAC Executive Director Bill Johnson laughed after the meeting when asked about reopening the files. “If they’ve left anything out we want to find out what it is.” Even if no conclusive evidence comes to light the PAC wants to show it is making every effort to get to the bottom of the case. If the police or D.A.’s Office refuse their request, the next step is to issue a subpoena for the records. “Do we think there’s a smoking gun? Not likely,” Goldfein says. “But you can’t render an opinion with half the information. It would be a disservice to Ms. Morris’ memory, and family, and any officers that may have been accused.” Reopening Morris’ case is one of the first gestures of a new PAC eager to show it is

revitalized, active and responsive to citizen concerns after taking criticism for years of minimal discernible activity. Officials seem to be taking the outreach seriously, as the heads of the City and State Human Relations Commissions, the city’s Director of LGBT Affairs Gloria Casarez and the police’s Deputy Commissioner for Internal Affairs, Stephen Johnson, all attended the William Way meeting, as well as members of the LGBT Police Liaison Committee. “It’s recognized that historically there have been challenges,” says Casarez about tensions between queer-identified groups and the police. “I think that the new [PAC] members are in tune with good things that have been happening over the last several years that have been positive,” she adds, citing sensitivity trainings done by the Liaison Committee with new police recruit classes. “Clearly there are issues that we hear from the LGBT community that we’re not going to hear from other neighborhoods,” Goldfein says. “This is a group with a very strong story to tell about what their issues are, and there is a long standing history of this community being treated poorly. Stigma against gay people is nothing new.” The reopening of the Morris case is appreciated—with a caveat. Some of the attendees at the William Way meeting said they were angry because they’ve heard the promise before—“we’re investigating”— with no results. Adams admits she felt angry herself, but she tempered her feelings with a desire to let the new PAC do its job. “This is a new committee, it had nothing to do with old investigations,” Adams says. “They’re coming in our community and publicly saying they’re going to reopen the case and do some better fact-finding.”

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a larger effort to become more visible and more accessible to citizens throughout the city. The biggest issue on the agenda that night was reopening the case on Nizah Morris, a transgender woman and popular drag performer at Bob and Barbara’s who was killed in December 2002 under mysterious circumstances. Eight years later, the wounds from Morris’ death remain fresh, especially to those who live in similar circumstances. “The whole population is still angered, still hurt, still don’t trust those that are supposed to serve and protect us,” Adams says later in an interview. “We’re hopeful that answers come somehow.” A few facts about Morris’ death are undisputed: She left the Key West Bar and Grille in the Gayborhood about 3 a.m. Dec. 22, 2002, nearly incoherent and having trouble standing on her own. Police Officer Elizabeth Skala responded to a 911 call made on Morris’ behalf, decided to call off an ambulance and give Morris a courtesy ride to 15th and Walnut, where she thought Morris had said she lived (her home was actually at Fifth and Walnut). Skala dropped Morris off at 15th—and within minutes, Morris was found unconscious in the street a block away, victim of a head trauma. Two days later, she died in the hospital. Her death was officially ruled a homicide.

The transgender community was outraged, and many questions went unanswered—Did Skala make the right call to refuse an ambulance, and to then leave Morris on her own? Was Morris drunk, on drugs or otherwise impaired and to what degree? Who hit Morris in the head and when? How far did police responsibility go, and did Morris’ past arrests for prostitution affect their treatment of her and the subsequent investigation? Other officers came and went before and after Morris was dropped off—what was their role? Contradictions between witness accounts and officer logs only added to the confusion. The PAC investigated and originally issued an opinion in 2007 relieving the police of any responsibility for Morris’ death. Later, thanks to the work of activists and Philadelphia Gay News reporter Timothy Cweik, it came to light that important evidence had been withheld or was missing from the investigation—911 tapes, the police homicide file and more. In response, the PAC reopened the case in 2009 and reached an agreement with the District Attorney’s Office to view all the relevant material, but agreed to a nondisclosure agreement under which only a few PAC members could view the documents, and they weren’t allowed to reproduce them.

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Seeing red: Guardian Angels (from left) Life, Third Rail and Hightower patrol the streets of Camden after massive police layoffs.

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An afternoon with the Guardian Angels in Camden’s “Drug Alley.” By Tara Murtha tmurtha@philadelphiaweekly.com

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It’s the day after 168 police and 67 firemen turned in their boots and badges due to budget cuts in Camden, N.J., a small city with a violent crime rate five times the national average. That leaves about 200 cops to patrol 80,000 residents, half of whom live in poverty. It’s around noon, and I’m hanging with the Guardian Angels in “Drug Alley,” the strip in front of the Walter Rand Transportation Center on Martin Luther King Boulevard where Angels are focusing their efforts. Since arriving four days ago, the Angels have spent 12 hours a day—noon to midnight—patrolling streets in the bitter cold and handing out fliers, desperately hunting for recruits to set up a Camden chapter. During the 90-day recruitment campaign, Angels leaders from far-flung cities will rotate leadership here. Finding a few good men or women—three of the seven out here today are female— hasn’t been easy. Recruits so far: Zero. A prospect walks up. “Do you get paid to be an Angel?” he asks. No. He keeps walking. Another guy stops and studies a flier. “Sorry,” he shrugs. “I’d rather be home on my couch.” “We get a lot of fake phone numbers,” says Life, a 44-year-old Philadelphian. Only one Angel lives in Camden: Yvette,

aka “Teddy Bear,” is a 43-year-old mom of three and professional nurse’s aid. Both “Life” and “T-Rex” are Philly women who signed up in December after meeting Angels on Kensington Avenue while hunting for the Strangler. T-Rex is a long-time activist. In 2005, Life made the local news for singlehandedly chasing down a bank robber. Originally from the Czech Republic, Life is proud to be a new Angel. “I’m sick and tired of this stuff,” she says, referring to violence. “I live in America 21 years. My cousin got killed in 2005.” She yanks up her sleeve and reveals his name tattooed into her skin. Angel brass often get a bad rep as publicity seekers, but from the street-level view the vast majority of passers-by shout words of appreciation. “Oooh, you’re Angels!” cries one woman as the Guardians prepare for their 12-hour shift. “I’ve seen you on TV! Thank you!” she says, shaking their hands.

Amber Zoll, 41, says Camden and Drug Alley in particular needs more cops, not fewer. She says she should know. “I used to be a crackhead. I used to be out here, buying drugs, selling drugs, doing all kinds of crazy shit,” she says. Zoll points to the bus stop shelters across the street in front of a CVS, where both residents and Angels say most of the men hanging out are waiting for customers, not buses. “A couple of years ago, there was a girl out here … getting raped, right in the middle of

everybody, and there were no cops. And now you’re going to lay off cops?” A woman with glassy eyes staggers up. She says she’s 28 years old but she looks much older. Her name’s Jen. She’s trying to talk but her mouth twists into sobs, choking her sentences. She claims she’s being followed. She’s terrified. The Angels escort her through the building to where the buses pull in, locate her bus and form a human shield around her. A man tries to come near Jen. “No!” shouts Hightower, a tall black Angel from Chicago with serious swagger. “Zeek,” a commander on loan from the South Bronx, makes sure Jen has a ticket. “I have no one,” Jen cries. “No one in the whole world.” They wait with her until the bus lurches into gear. Then Jen’s eyes go wild. “I’m not suicidal. I don’t want to kill myself,” she says, hanging on to Life’s arm. “But I don’t want to live, either. Does that make sense?” Life scribbles down her number and hands it to her, then puts Jen on the bus. Mission accomplished, we head back out front to the Boulevard. I split off with the women, who want a smoke break. A fight erupts nearby before the third cigarette’s lit. A short guy with a long black Santa beard in a dirty, yellow jacket screams at another man. “Let’s go ’round the corner, then,” he says. “No, no, I don’t want to get locked up,” pleads the other guy, stumbling backward. Yellow Jacket reaches his hand under his waistband like he’s pulling a gun. The women shield in front of me. I ask Teddy Bear if she gets scared. “No,” she says. “But I’m always praying.” The shouts escalate. They advise that ‘duck’ means hit the pavement, ‘shotgun’ means to scatter. They also tell me that should shots ring out, the best place to hide is behind the front of a car, since handgun bullets can’t slice through a car engine. But Zeek talks Yellow Jacket down. All this goes down a few feet from a giant Camden Police Mobile Command Post trailer. The trailer’s empty. “An argument leads to problems, and problems can lead to death,” says Zeek, 41. A thin scar runs from the right edge of Zeek’s nose to his lip. He got stabbed in the face while patrolling the Long Island Railroad last year. “See how bad this is? Wait until we leave,” he says. “Wait until next summer.” A driver in a passing car yells, “Go, Angels, go!” We head in the opposite direction, passing a cell phone place, a pizza joint and a man who theatrically fake-laughs. Later, a crackhead will taunt, “Where’s my Domino’s pizza at?” They get called ‘Charlie’s Angels.’ “You see that?” asks Life. “They laugh at us but we don’t care.” Zeek shrugs. “It’s the drug dealers that don’t like us,” he says. “We’re on their turf.” A Camden cop walks by and slips into a

Rainbow NYC shop. Inside, he’s chatting with the shop girls at the register counter. “Nope, I can’t comment, can’t say anything,” he says before I even get to ask him a question, like why he’s hanging out in a women’s clothing store while on duty. “I know, we’re all terrible, right?” he asks. Later and the next day, the same officer sports a bright crossing guard vest and directs traffic, even though official Camden announcements stated that remaining Camden police officers can only respond to violent and escalated situations. On almost every corner, Guardian Angel recruitment posters are half-torn off lamp posts. Zeek tapes them back together. We split up. A few Angels want to stop in the McDonald’s around the corner for a break from the cold. Inside, Terrell Wynne, 39, is polishing off a couple hot apple pies. He recognizes the red jackets. “You gotta have a clean record?” he asks. Not necessarily. Interest and free time are hard enough to come by, so the Angels do accept people with records, though generally they won’t enlist violent offenders. “Twenty years ago, it used to be nice [here],” sighs Wynne. “Now, I won’t even walk around.”

We head back to meet up with the other half of the small crew. While we were in McDonald’s, they helped police apprehend a man who was shooting heroin in the bathroom. We also missed the real action: Someone signed up to be the first Angel in the Camden chapter. “It’s been on my mind a while,” says 23-year-old Jose Soto, a telecommunications professional. “Since I’ve seen them come through Kensington, I’ve been doing a little research.” Though membership means three to four months of training—CPR, martial arts, general procedure and safety protocols— under the circumstances, Soto will hit the pavement in a red beret tomorrow. Within 20 minutes, he’s already wearing an official Guardian Angels sweatshirt. Soto moved from Kensington to Camden. Someone overhears this and laughs. “You traded one good neighborhood for another!” he says. “Yeah,” snorts Soto. Camden resident Michelle Sheppard, 52, is glad people like Soto want to join the Angels, but echoes the sentiment of many when she says it’s no replacement for police. “The city is already in danger, but you’re going to take away its armed forces? That’s what it is, armed forces, because it’s a battlefield out here,” she says while waving her cigarette across the street, at the bus shelters. “I heard they’re recruiting security guards from Camden hospital,” says 38-year-old Shannon Souzers, who grew up in Collingswood and says she’s watched the area crumble. “They need people to help them... Right now, we’re outnumbered, two to one,” she says, glancing around. “At least.” n

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ate one night on a trolley rolling west from City Hall, Wellington Christian struggles to open a plastic shopping bag. The handles are tied in stubborn knots, so he takes out a knife and cuts through the plastic. The bag falls open, revealing three large boxes of herbs: two types of ginseng and a deer tail extract. It’s nearly 11 p.m., but when Christian gets back to his West Philly house, he will spend the next hour sterilizing equipment in a secret laboratory, off-limits to all. Then he will work throughout the night into the following afternoon, cooking and mixing a special recipe with the herbs. “This is for dick-hardener,” he explains, grinning conspiratorially. He has an 80-year-old client who needs the potion by the following night, a rush order because the cus-

tomer is leaving on a trip to visit his 20-yearold girlfriend. Christian is making him a gallon and a half, or about a month’s supply, which he sells for $275. Clients take one dose a day, preparing them for any occasion that might arise. “You’ll be ready when you need it,” Christian says, noting that the elixir doubles as a general strength potion. “I used to sell it to wrestlers,” he says. “The stuff costs a lot of money, but it’s worth its weight in gold.” Christian, a 50-year-old stout, affable man, has spent most of his life performing manual labor. The evidence is there on his hands, enormous and swollen with worn fingernails, palms chapped and flaking from the cold, dry air. He currently works part-time doing maintenance at the Public Ledger Building and the Curtis Center in Center City, but the jobs are just a way to pay the bills. Christian’s hobby, passion and true calling is medicine—not the

modern medicine found in hospitals and doctor’s offices, but natural, herbal-based recipes based on traditional remedies from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. He can rattle off a whole list of popular tonics he learned from old family recipes, from blood purifiers to the ever-popular colon cleanser. “It tastes like hell but it works like magic,” Christian promises. “Just make sure you’re at home when you take it. It’ll clean you out to the last grains of sand.” Laxatives and erection drugs are one thing, but over years, Christian has come up with potions that far surpass the traditional mountain lore. He claims he’s found the key to solving a host of modern medical problems that have flummoxed doctors for decades—cures for asthma, permanent blood-sugar normalizers for diabetics, tumor dissolvers for cancer patients. He even thinks he’s hit on the solution to the biggest public-health crises of the last 30 years, a way to stop the HIV/AIDS virus square in its tracks. It sounds crazy, and maybe it is. But willing to testify on Christian’s behalf are a host of satisfied clients, customers who have taken his products, felt the results and sing the praises of the man who healed them. Christian has spent years toiling around the security desks, back alleys and loading docks of eastern Center City, and it’s there he’s built a customer base of friends and colleagues. Eager to show off his successes and dressed up in a crisp suit for the occasion, he leads a tour of his old haunts, where it seems like there’s no one who doesn’t know him—or hasn’t tried his medicine. Ann Brown, a receptionist at the command center at the Public Ledger Building sits behind a terminal filled with screens, phones and keyboards. Three years ago, she found out she was diabetic when her sugar crashed and she was carried out of work in an ambulance. Taking insulin and metformin in the years following, she still had trouble maintaining her sugar levels—sometimes it would soar as high as 1,000, a life-threatening condition (normal daytime levels usually fall between 80 and 120). Then, two months ago, Christian made her a tonic she now swears by. “My sugar’s under control,” Brown says. “Right now it’s at 98.” Pleased with the results, Brown has also started taking Christian’s colon cleaner and blood purifier and says she’s never felt healthier. “I give him all the credit in the world,” she gushes. Standing nearby, the building’s security manager, Lee West, says he also took a potion Christian made, this one for acid reflux. “The first batch wasn’t strong enough,” West admits, “but he went back and made a second batch and I didn’t have no problems since.” Christian leaves the building through a back door and walks into a side entrance of the stately Curtis Center. He wanders through the cavernous lobby past a giant Christmas tree and finds his way to a table outside the Cooperage Cafe, where one by one people stop by to say hi and share their stories. Almost immediately, the manager of the coffee shop, Corey Newman, spots him and comes out to sit for a

minute. Five years ago, when Newman, then 28, was working security at the Curtis, he’d heard rumors of Christian’s talent. Newman’s girlfriend was suffering from a bad case of asthma, requiring a breathing mask to sleep, so he was ready to try anything to help her. “I started asking around, is this guy legit?” Newman says. He questioned Christian and was impressed with his breadth of knowledge and willingness to draw a diagram or give an anatomy lesson on the fly. “Not one question I asked him, he didn’t know anything about,” he says. So Newman bought an asthma tonic, describing it as “a wheat germ kind of thing.” “It worked great,” he says, adding that his girlfriend no longer has to use the breathing mask. What’s more, Christian made him a diabetes potion for his girlfriend’s father, which cut back his sugar considerably. After Newman goes back to work, Christian takes a pen and sketches a rough diagram of a set of lungs to explain the theory behind his asthma medicine. He takes on a pedagogical air as he labels the alveoli, bronchioles and other parts. “Primarily with asthmatics, you can’t get the air in cause you can’t get the air out,” he explains, as if teaching a class. “With asthmatics you see over-inflation of the bronchus. At the same time you see narrowing of the bronchioles.” “One part is swollen up, the other part is closing down. So what you gotta do is go in there and reverse the polarities of this. Which is what I do.” He contrasts asthma to emphysema. “What happens is in the case of emphysema, cigarette smoke provokes the enzyme in the alveoli so instead of dissolving what would hurt it, it starts tearing holes all throughout itself,” he says. “Now a person can’t effectively expel the air.” He finds standard solutions for lung and throat problems counterproductive at best. “Never use cough suppressants. You paralyze the nerves, and all the phlegm and mucus gets stuck down there,” Christian says. “You’re setting yourself up for pneumonia. You’re laying the groundwork for your own destruction.” His sermon on the lungs is interrupted when an older man sits down at the table. It’s Gervis Soloman, 60, maintenance supervisor for the Public Ledger Building and one of Christian’s bosses who has also taken advantage of some homemade medicine. In 2005, Soloman was diagnosed with stage four inoperable colon cancer. Doctors gave him six months to live. Just to prove them wrong, he says he walked around for six months before beginning treatment—chemo and radiation. The cancer had spread to his liver as well, spotted with tumors. Soloman was going to chemotherapy during the day, but says he got tired of the intervention interfering with his job. Plus, after four years and $520,000 in bills, the tumors were still there. He decided to try something new. “I told my doctor I was goin’ natural,” he says. He heard through word-of-mouth that Christian had helped other employees with problems, so he gave him his hospital records and told the doctors he would discontinue his treatments. The oncologists told him he would not survive six months. That was in April 2009.

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Within two weeks, Christian delivered a herbal remedy that Soloman said cleared away all traces of the cancer. The numerous tumors that had spread to his liver appeared clear as day on the MRI. “All I saw were little ones by my liver—he [Christian] gave me something for that, I drank it, went back and all they saw was holes where the tumors were,” Soloman says. “I’m good now, I don’t take anything,” he says. “Colon cleanser, that’s about it.” The doctors were amazed. Christian says he used four different formulas to purify the tumors since Solomon’s spleen was no longer functioning to filter out the carcinogenic compounds. “It should not take four years to get rid of any tumor,” he fumes. “And $520,000 on top of it? That’s bullshit.” Soloman grins. “They [the doctors] swear it’ll come back, but it ain’t come back yet!” Christian takes a moment to philosophize on his work. “All these things—asthma, cancer, diabetes, they’re like big bad animals I’ve been fighting all my life,” he says. “But I know how to beat them.” After Soloman heads back to work, a mailman stops by on his route through the building. Visibly jolly, a broad man with a thick mustache, he introduces himself as Jim Carroll. “He’s unreal,” Carroll says, pointing to Christian. “My son was dying of diabetes.” James Carroll Jr., the son, was in heart failure and by last year was going to dialysis four times a week. “They told him, ‘you need a new kidney or you’re out of here,’” the mailman says. His son’s kidneys were operating at 3 percent efficiency. Carroll too had heard of Christian’s skills, so he decided to feel him out. “I had my doubts when I first met him,” Carroll says. “But there was something about the way he talked—not bragadacious, but informational.” Carroll decided to trust him, and gave his son a Christian-made formula to take for a month. “The turnaround was unreal,” Carroll says. “His spirit has been renewed and rejuvenated.” Later on, Christian produces the younger Carroll’s medical chart indicating that his kidneys are functioning normally. “The doctors told him he was an anomaly, one in a million, that his kidneys started again,” Carroll says. “Diabetes is a nasty one,” Christian says. “He’s big and he’s brutal. When he’s young, he’s mischievous—makes you pee a lot and drink a lot of water. But he’s vicious when he gets full grown. What I gotta do is pull the legs out from under him.” He explains his technique. “In most cases, cells say ‘sugar, let’s put you to work.’ For diabetes, the cells close up, say ‘you on your own,’” he says. “You need to bust those damn hatches open and get sugar from the bloodstream into the cells.” Whatever he did, it worked for Carroll’s son, so the mailman hooked Christian up with other family members, including his 92-yearold, bedridden mother. Christian made her a blood purifier to help her feel better. “She took it, came out of bed and we can’t keep her home to this day,” Carroll says. “She just came back from seeing her brother in Georgia.” To Carroll, Christian’s remedies are a welcome break from the repressive influence

of big pharmaceutical companies. “There’s a sick conspiracy going on in this country,” Carroll says. “Drug companies control the FDA and have influence over medical schools and doctors.” “We’ve become nothing more than a way for them to make profits,” he laments. To him, Christian’s methods are far less compromising. “Here you come with root knowledge that circumvents the need for prescription drugs,” he says. “No endless lists of side effects. It doesn’t sit in your body.” Carroll himself now takes Christian’s blood purifiers and colon cleansers. “I’m 65 years old and I’ve never felt better,” he says with a laugh. After Carroll gets back to his mail route, next to stop by is Ernest Simmons, Christian’s supervisor in the Curtis Center. Simmons, 66, light-skinned with a thin white mustache and friendly demeanor, has worked at the Curtis for more than 30 years. Two years ago, doctors found a brain tumor in his head, but

told him to wait six months and come back for another exam to find out if it was growing. But in the meantime, the tumor was causing problems. “I used to get dizzy,” Simmons says. “There was no warning, it would just come. I would lose my balance, have to sit down 25, 30 minutes.” “It was scaring me—I didn’t know if it would happen when I was driving.” Simmons heard that Christian had helped Carroll and Solomon, so he brought his medical records into work and showed them to him. Christian looked them over and made him a formula that Solomon took over six weeks starting in March 2010. “I haven’t gotten dizzy since,” Simmons says. He got another MRI that showed the tumor was still there, but hadn’t

gotten any bigger, but later the doctor told him the test was in error, and the tumor might be entirely gone—they are waiting to get new tests to confirm. After several hours chatting with his friends and co-workers, Christian moves out the front door of the Curtis, stopping to greet George Eshun, the security guard at the front desk. George is 45 years old and looks like a bouncer—big, swollen arms and an air of confidence that says he knows he’s stronger than anyone else in the room. In part, he says, thanks to Christian. “He made me a concoction,” Eshun says. “It gave me a lot of strength—and kept me regular.” Since he’s been using the strength potion, he says he can lift more weights and not get tired as easily. And there’s more—“It helps for life at night too, if you know what I mean,” he winks. There’s only one problem. “The taste—oh my god,” Eshun laughs as Christian heads out the door. Leaving the Curtis, Christian braves the cold and wind of the late December day to make his way over to the Gallery. He walks with a slight limp, weighed down by a heavy briefcase of empty bottles he will later fill with potions and tonics. Confidently and unapologetically jaywalking across the busy downtown streets, back on the sidewalks he stops several times to rest the bag and to indulge a horrible, hacking cough. “I’m an herbalist and I don’t take care of myself,” he says ruefully. “I still smoke cigarettes,” he admits, though he hasn’t had one all morning—he’s cutting back. Across Market Street to the Gallery, he walks straight through the mall and out a back door to Filbert Street. Just across from the Reading Market inside an open garage door he finds Steve Byrd, working security. Byrd was suffering from diabetes in 2006. “I was losing my sight—sugar was at 500,” Byrd says. He was taking the doctor’s medicine with little effect, but when he took Christian’s tonic he says it knocked his sugar down overnight and he’s been healthy ever since. “I’m fine,” he says. “My sugar’s normal.” Lingering outside to finally give in to habit and smoke a cig, Christian says goodbye to Byrd and walks back through the Gallery, stopping to chat with some more security workers on the way to the subway. From there, he rides up to Spring Garden Street and enters the Penn Herb Company, a large herbal remedy store where he buys the bulk of his raw ingredients.

Walking past the shelves and displays, he causally reels off the different substances and their benefits: “Celery seed and corn silk; 100 percent pure. Makes the base of a lot of what I do.” “Senna pods—laxative.” “Burdock root, one of the best purifiers you can get.” “Alfalfa herb—keeps horses and elephants strong.” “Feverfew—knocks migraine headaches right out.” Store management declined to comment for the story, but the shop appears to do a brisk business, with a perpetual line of customers waiting to check out with raw herbs, pre-mixed products and health foods. Christian shakes his head at the self-help books on display that claim to hold the secrets to healthy living. “Books are pretty much a waste of time,” he scoffs. “When it comes to simple stuff, people can do it relatively easily. But when it comes to diabetes it’s not that easy.” He credits his father and uncles for teaching him techniques that books never could. Now that the older generation is gone, he’s left on his own to solve new mysteries of the human immune system. “I don’t have anyone to go to,” Christian says. “I’m the last one. I could have gotten so much more than I did.” The seeds of Christian’s knowledge were planted in the mountains of Amherst, Va., where his father’s family tended to their health using ancient Appalachian wisdom. While Christian spent his youth in West Philly in the same house he lives in now, his uncles and grandparents still lived on a farm on the outskirts of the small mountain town. His cousin, Bishop Raymond Milburn, 18 years his senior and a pastor at the Temple of Christ Church in Olney, grew up in Amherst himself. A softspoken but willing storyteller, Milburn sits at a table in his North Philly home and recounts his childhood. “At night you can’t see a light nowhere. You know we were deep back in the woods,” says Milburn, now 68. Born in Philadelphia in 1942, he moved to the farm when he was 3 and remembers the old four-bedroom house with a woodstove and trapdoor basement. The town itself was tiny, maybe 600 or 700 people, at the time without even a stoplight. Most residents were white, with some black families on the fringes. “Black folks were poor, out in the woods,” Milburn says. Between six and 10 people lived in the house when Milburn was growing up as relatives came and went. The family sold maybe $400 worth of tobacco a year, and that was all the money they had. Otherwise they had to live on what they grew and raised—corn, wheat, eggs, milk, pork and chickens. Milburn, known familiarly to family as “the last of the barefoot plowboys,” worked hard fetching firewood from the forest, milking cows and slopping the hogs. The family cooked up herbal remedies out of necessity. The closest doctor was in Lynchburg, 16 miles away, and the nearest hospital was more than 50 miles away, in Charlottesville. The only time anyone saw a doctor was for a home visit when a baby was on the way. “Black folks didn’t have insurance so they weren’t allowed in hospitals,” Milburn

months,” he says, fully recovered but bearing the scar and limp as souvenirs. He went back to SEPTA but was fired in 1992 for a dispute over leave time, so he moved to Greensboro, N.C., in 1992 to work at a friend’s herb store. The partnership fell apart, however, and he moved back to Philly in 1999 to be with his ailing father, who died that year of heart failure on Christmas Eve. Christian decided to stay since his mother, two younger siblings and Milburn all live in the city. Along the way Christian had three children by three different woman—a 30 year old son who lives in Jersey, a 25 year old daughter in Detroit and a 21 year old son he’s lost contact with. He never married any of the women— “All they want from me is money,” he says bitterly— but did find true love eventually, only to have it ripped away from him. In Greensboro, he met a woman named Vanessa Greenlee. Unlike the other women

Long before men like Wellington Christian sought to offer alternatives to doctors, Philadelphia has been a center for unconventional medicine exploration. Hahnemann Medical College was originally founded as Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania in 1848, teaching an upstart practice of provoking similar symptoms to what a patient suffers from to supposedly cure a disease. By 1869, the school was renamed Hahnemann, after Samuel Hahnemann, considered the father of homeopathic medicine. “By the 1880s into 1890s, homeopathy was tremendously popular, mostly with the educated middle class,” says Steven Peitzman, a medical historian and professor of medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine. “That was a period of a very wild medical marketplace,” Peitzman says. In the latter half of the 19th century, botanical medicine was also popular, as well as a system called eclectic medicine that claimed to take the best of other

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medical systems. However, around the turn of the century, professional M.D. medicine made a series of scientific triumphs that set it ahead of the pack, among them aspirin, germ theory, immunizations and the discovery of insulin. The alternative practices soon fell out of fashion. Bits and pieces of alternatives remained— Hahnemann kept offering homeopathic courses as electives into the 1950s, and of course the rural poor like the Christian family kept making their own remedies out of necessity. Today, alternatives are seeing a resurgence, getting a second look even in professional schools, Peitzman says. “Until the last 10 years these have pretty much been excluded from American medical education,” he explains. But a younger generation of medical students seems more interested in exploring options outside the FDA-approved pharmacy. “In more recent times, there’s a lot of interest in homeopathy, in plant based medicines, acupuncture, and various kinds of spiritual based healing,” says Peitzman. Studies over the past two decades support the assertion that use of alternative medicine is on the rise, and the practice is one that transcends race, class and age. A 2005 report on complementary and alternative medicine in the United States presented by the Institute of Medicine at the National Academy of Sciences compiled a number of studies as to who is using alternative practices and why. The most widely cited study was done in 1998 by David Eisenberg, director of the Harvard Medical School Osher Research Center. While most of Christian’s clients are working-class blacks, Eisenberg and his colleagues found that nearly every subgroup of the population, be it divided by age, race, gender or socioeconomics, showed usage rates

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who passed through his life, he sensed a real future with her. Soon they were engaged, and he kept traveling back and forth to Carolina to see her after he moved back home to be with his dad. “She was the one behind me with everything,” he says. “She was the one person I knew who genuinely cared about me.” The bliss was short-lived. In 2003, when Christian was up in Philly, Greenlee was in a terrible car accident and died in the hospital after a blood transfusion gone wrong. He never got a chance to see if he could help her, or to say goodbye. While dealing with the loss of his loved ones, his business plan was still not thriving like he wanted it to. He found plenty of customers looking for cheaper and more effective alternatives to what doctors and pharmacists had to offer, but for his friends he charged little profit, if any. There have been a few close calls—he says the Oakland Raiders briefly used a pain salve of his after he met the trainer while working at a Marriott hotel, but their corporate office put the kibosh on it. And once, he heard that Robert De Niro’s people had somehow heard about his skills and left a message for him at his convention center job when the actor was battling prostate cancer. Christian called the number that was left, but never made the connection. Call it bad luck, poor planning, trusting the wrong people or who knows what, but for whatever reason he still struggles to make ends meet. So he scrapes by on his earnings as a laborer, living with his dreams of finally breaking through and making a decent income from his gift. “My goal is to become the world’s best alternative medicine expert,” Christian says, undaunted by life’s roadblocks. “I think I can hold my own.”

of one-third of the population or above. Eisenberg found usage of alternative remedies went up dramatically from 1990 to 1997, from 33.8 percent of the population to 42.1 percent. And users spent about $27 billion out-of-pocket for alternative treatment and medications in ’97, a similar number spent outof-pocket for physician services. In fact, the study found 629 million visits to practitioners for alternative therapies (a 47 percent increase from 1990), compared to 386 million visits to primary care doctors. A more recent survey by the Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University in 2006 found that herbs and natural supplements were used by 22 percent of the adult population— that excludes practices like chiropracty and acupuncture covered in the other reports. Results from Eisenberg’s and other studies found people using alternative meds for a wide range of ailments, everything from back pain, pregnancy-related illnesses, menopause, ADD, asthma, cancer and HIV/AIDS. Common motivations for using alt-meds included curiosity, belief in the principals behind various techniques, savings over professional medicinal services—especially poignant in light of the 50 million or so Americans who don’t have health insurance—and frustration or mistrust of the pharmaceutical industry. “They want someone not using chemicals,” says Frank Wyatt, a doctor of naturopathic medicine who has run the University Herbs store and health clinic on 40th Street near Chestnut for 26 years. He says many of his customers are sick of pharmaceutical medicine and its side effects. “They usually get slammed by medical establishment,” he says. “We have a whole unique system—we go back to ancient ways of figuring things out,” Wyatt explains. Plants are the basis for many modern drugs anyway, so why bother with the chemicals when you can have the real thing? “We just approach things differently,” he says. “We deal with the plants first.” The varied schools of medicine aren’t mutually exclusive. Many patients use alternatives in addition to their regular care—Thomas Jefferson Hospital even offers a program incorporating complementary practices like acupuncture, herbal remedies and other alternatives alongside a patient’s normal treatment at the Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine. However, widespread use by no means indicates that alternatives are accepted by the medical profession at large, says doctor Brian Strom, professor of public health and preventive medicine in biostatistics and epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. “With alternative medicine, herbals, or homeopathic or anything like this, you’re talking about products that have never been proven to have benefits,” Strom says. Instead, the perception becomes reality, so to speak. “It’s important to realize the placebo effect,” Strom explains. “If you give someone an injection of salt or sugar water, who just had surgery, 30 percent feel better. There’s no question the pain is relieved. The mind is very, very powerful.” He is quick to caution that pain relief is no proof of scientific, medical efficacy. “It doesn’t mean the drug is effective or it should

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says. Instead, they took care of themselves. He describes a homemade mustard plaster his grandmother would rub on his chest, and a tree moss remedy to heal sores. “You had to take a laxative every quarter,” he reminisces fondly. Milburn credits the herbal medicine for the family’s long lifespan—his grandfather, Samuel Scot Christian, born in 1884, died in 1971 at the healthy age of 87. “All he had was rheumatism,” Milburn says proudly. He laments lost knowledge that never got passed on, since Christian was the only member of the younger generation to take an interest in the lore. “Everything is in the earth,” Milburn says. “You search it out. So much stuff is lost.” In 1955, Milburn’s uncle, Wellington Christian Sr., left the farm to look for work in Philadelphia, where he became a mason. Milburn followed him three years later, running away from Amherst when he was 16. After Christian Jr. was born in 1960, nearly every summer he, his family and Milburn made the trip down to Virginia to visit, sometimes multiple times per year. Christian, nicknamed Skeeter because as a baby he could never stay still and was always scooting around, got his first lesson in anatomy watching his uncles and cousins gut the deer they shot out in the woods. He also eagerly took in all he could about the herbs and potions his father and uncles cooked up together. Once he saw his dad cure a neighbor’s asthma, he knew he was hooked. “When you grow up seeing that, there ain’t nobody telling you what you can’t do,” he says. He started voraciously reading medical dictionaries and journals to supplement his homegrown knowledge. The trips slacked off as Christian got older, but he and his cousin stayed close—Christian refers to Milburn as his spiritual adviser and best friend, where he turns to for help when his life and plans go awry. “He’s real, real serious about what he’s doing,” Milburn says. “When he gets discouraged, I call him.” The sympathetic ear is welcome, because despite his easy-going nature and apparent medical talents, Christian has spent much of adult life with his personal and professional affairs teetering on the edge of catastrophe. After high school, he worked masonry with his dad for a few years while continuing to soak up his old man’s knowledge of herbs and medicine. In 1981, he got a job as a track worker for SEPTA, until 1987 when he met with neartragedy when a forklift rolled over on him. “I jumped out, tried to roll away, but I wasn’t fast enough,” he remembers. He suffered a compound fracture of the tibia and fibula—bones sticking clear out of his skin. “My leg damn near fell off,” he says, rolling up his pant leg to reveal a scar the shape of a giant cinnamon roll on top of his already considerably sized calf. Somehow doctors saved his leg without having to amputate, and Christian refused pain medicine and checked out of the hospital as soon as possible to self-medicate. “Cortisone’s no good—it runs all the calcium out of the bone, makes it all spongy,” he says. He told the doctors, “When I get out of here, I’m going to take alfalfa and yucca—” the same thing that makes horses and elephants strong. The doctors told him he wouldn’t walk for a year at least. He laughs. “I was running steps in seven

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Stricken with breast cancer, Mrs. Christian made a decision in 1988 to have a mastectomy. Christian vowed to help her avoid chemotherapy and radiation. “Mom, I’ll see that you never deal with this again,” he told her at the time. “When you’re diagnosed with cancer, you want to try something,” she says. “What do you have to lose?” Her family was skeptical of Christian’s talents and were not happy that his mom would be taking homemade medicine. “My relatives hit the ceiling,” he says, but he went forward anyway, cooking up a capsule his mom took to complement the Tamoxifen her doctor prescribed. Either one, the other, or both in combination worked. “In 22 years, the tumors never came back,” Christian says proudly. “If it ain’t come back in 22 years, it ain’t coming back.” “You can’t say that, Skeeter. There are no guarantees in this life,” his mother cautions him. “It has not happened so far. I’ve been blessed for 22 years.” When the subject turns to Christian’s AIDS treatment, he jumps to his feet in excitement, gesturing with his arms as he goes over his theory. “I just took a practical approach to it— you break down the components of the virus. You back-track your steps,” he says. “The one thing that AIDS targets is the very thing you need to protect you, CD4 cells,” he explains. Without its natural protections, various infections take advantage of the body’s weakness, Christian says, and spins off into a technical lecture about fungi, protozoa and other nasties that invade the human body when its guard is down. He says he has a combination of herbs and supplements that closes off the body from the invading diseases, without compromising its other systems. Then he launches into a 20-minute diatribe about the inadequacies of professional AIDS treatment. “Their medicines compromise the body themselves,” he rails. “You’re getting paid to put people in the ground.” His way, he’s sure, is better. He’s only worked with a few AIDS patients and just wants the opportunity to bring his methods to greater exposure. “I’m not allowed to say the word ‘cure,’ he says. “I can tell you that I downsize the virus.” He has a book about his methods copyrighted that he’s working to get published, and if he can get a patent on his recipe and bring in some partners, he dreams of hosting a conference for all the AIDS organizations in the city to share his ideas. It could finally be the big break he’s been waiting for. His mother brings up the question he will inevitably face— “If you’re that knowledgeable, and you’re that intelligent, and you know that much, how come you’re not working at a pharmaceutical company or something?” Christian counters that when he was helping Jim Carroll’s son with diabetes, the mailman’s wife had the same criticism. The wife told Carroll, “If your boy could do like that, why is he down there with a broken dustpan?” It was Carroll’s son who decided that sometimes, you gotta have faith. “He said, ‘Dad, look, I don’t care what Momma says,’” Christian remembers. “If that man can help me, let him help me.” n

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That’s no painting—it’s “nourathar,” the notation system that turn-of-the-century musician/inventor/engineer Mary Elizabeth Hallock Greenewalt came up with for her “color organ,” an instrument on which one could play light and color as a musician would play music. Five musicians, artists and sound designers were commissioned to work with a subset of Greenewalt’s archive and will be playing, showing and discussing the resulting audiovisual compositions Thursday. Page 19

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robert Plant When the Pixies reunited in 2004, frontman Black Francis said, “We’ve had this chip in our back pocket for a long time. We’re cashing it in this year.” Robert Plant’s Led Zeppelin chip is probably worth about a half-billion dollars, but aside from that one-off 2007 London gig, the 62-year-old singer has adamantly and admirably refused the easy money of a full-scale Zeppelin nostalgia trip. Instead, he’s focused on Americana/bluegrass collaborative projects, first with Alison Krauss and now with his terrific, countrified six-piece ensemble Band of Joy (which includes Patty Griffin and singer-guitarist Buddy Miller). Frankly, we’d rather watch Plant pour his soul and still-great voice into new music he cares about than go through the Led Zep motions for the cash. michael alan goldberg

8pm. $57.60-$101.50. With North Mississippi Allstars. Tower Theatre, 69th and Ludlow sts., Upper Darby. livenation.com

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a high-capacity pipeline of inspiration that it overflows into several fields. In the early 20thcentury Philadelphia area, Greenewalt was an engineer, the principal pianist of the Philadelphia Orchestra, a writer, a political activist, an inventor and the creator of some of the earliest hand-painted films. A few of these interests combined in her “color organ,” an invention on which one could, through a console-operated light display and a rather beautiful system of notation she called “nourathar,” play color just as a musician would play music. The Historical Society of Pennsylvania invited five of some of Philly’s most interesting musicians, artists and sound designers to work with the archive of Greenewalt’s personal papers. Each took a subset of the collection’s finding aid (a written description of an archival collection—like a library catalog, but with more detail) for inspiration and composed audiovisual pieces that HSP terms “musical finding aids.” Tonight, the composers will give a recital of the results and discuss them. caitlin goodman 6pm. Free. Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust St. 215.732.6200. hsp.org

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Mary Elizabeth Hallock Greenewalt was, along the lines of Ben Franklin, one of those fascinating historical people who seem to have such

More orchid than iris, Dement’s a rare beauty, ripe with tenderness and vulnerability. Her vocals slalom and soar. Their stark presence is

Each Micro-Fest in the Network of Ensemble Theatres’ series (think of them as bite-sized Fringe festivals) is loosely themed around a different question about the future of theater. Atlanta’s was race, culture and aesthetics; L.A. was new play development. Philly, the last in the series, gets the fun topic of genre-defying work, and the lineup for this weekend includes a lot of familiar names from Philly Fringes past: Punchkapow, an examination of why we love fantasy violence (interspersed with some fantasy violence) by Team Sunshine Performance Corporation; 2007 Fringe hit The Word: A House Party for Jesus, a tent revival in which Elastic Theatre Co.’s Brian Osborne will reprise his role as child evangelist Marjoe Gortner; plus more performances from the Shakedown Project, Headlong Dance Theater, Fatima Adamu, Illreality and others that mix up music, theater, art, dance, video and pretty much every media you can multi. Between shows, local fixtures Pig Iron, Strike Anywhere and First Person Arts will be workshopping some things for festival attendees. Though it be but little, Micro-Fest promises to be fierce. maddie hoagland-hanson

Through Jan. 30. 6pm. $50-$75. CEC Meeting House Theater, 3500 Lancaster Ave. cecarts.org

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Normal love For the first time since delivering one of the only memorable sets at last September’s Bang on a Can marathon, Philly/NYC-based avant-ruckus collective Normal Love return to shudder the city into head-wrecking sonic convulsion. Tonight’s shake-up promises to be superior, though, as a new associate has joined their ranks: violinist, jazz and classical composer, and frequent Mary Halvorson and Anthony Braxton collaborator Jessica Pavone. Like daring contemporaries Zs and Original Silence, Normal Love don’t simply fuse noise, jazz, skronk, live electronics, fire-breathing and new music for the sake of genre-killing or academic posturing, but aim to build majestic,

Wed., Jan. 26. Through March 6. 7pm. $10-$60. Walnut Street Theatre, 825 Walnut St. 215.574.3550.walnutstreettheatre.org

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et’s get this out of the way: Salieri did not kill Mozart. The idea that he did got into the, “Oh, I heard that somewhere” canon because of Peter Shaffer’s (fictionalized) play Amadeus. The 1984 Best Picture-winning film adaptation cemented “Salieri killed Mozart” alongside “Napoleon was really short” and “JFK once told a bunch of Germans that he was a jelly donut” in the Valhalla of popular historical misconceptions. But 30 years of the urban legend’s popularity can be taken as evidence of how powerful a storyteller Shaffer can be. The play uses the two composers as a jumping-off point for an allegory about genius and jealousy, and the bubbling rage of a good person divinely tapped for the drudgery of mediocrity while assholes are blessed with effortless talent. (The title, Mozart’s middle name, even means “beloved of God” in Latin.) Additionally: No historical evidence suggests that Mozart had a doofus laugh. emily guendelsberger

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Saxophonist/multireedist Daniel Peterson, a 2004 Temple graduate, co-curates the monthly Avant Ascension series at Tritone, and he’s honed his voice in a number of the city’s finer ensembles: Bobby Zankel’s Warriors, Odean Pope’s Saxophone Choir and more. His own recordings include the evocative suite Five Simple Worlds … And Ways of Getting There and now the audience-funded October, a live-in-studio document featuring his Truth & Consequence Octet. Heralding the new release this week, Peterson will summon a wealth of textural subtlety, rhythmic juice, bluesy bite and formal adventurism with vibraphonist Behn Gillece, violinist June Bender, trombonist Larry Toft, guitarist Mike Lorenz, bassist Matt Stein and drummer Wayne Smith. david r. adler

The YouTube sidebar for Jenny Drumgoole’s “Wing Bowl 13” suggests that you might also be interested in viewing “Wing Bowl 15 Dr. Slob Wingettes Best Assets,” “Sexy Wingettes and Wing Bowl 15 Hottt DVD” and something simply titled “tit cooking.” But as the pretty redhead flirts her way via a 610WIP contest into being a Wingette for Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas (the Wing Bowl 12 champ, generally reviled for defeating local Bill “El Wingador” Simmons despite being a tiny, Korean-born woman; spectators throw bottles at her), it’s clear that the leering DJs are overlooking the Yale MFA’s best asset: the deadpan humor with which she infiltrates ridiculous competitions. Real Women of Philadelphia is taken from the name of a Paula Deen-and Kraft-sponsored competition for video recipes that involve Philadelphia cream cheese, to which she submitted nine utterly off-the-rails submissions—Cognitive Developmental Special Cheese & Macaroni, for example, is prefaced by two minutes of her interacting with a terrifying baby with a face made of cream cheese. All nine of her recipe videos will be on display. e.g.

matched by spare arrangements which render a sepia-toned reflection of backwoods countrygospel and small-town simplicity. Live performances are only slightly less rare than new recorded output. Her ’92 debut Infamous Angel created a stir, and her subsequent two albums cracked the Billboard Top 25, but since ’96 her only release is 2004’s collection of gospel standards, Lifeline. At its core, Dement’s allure springs from an unblinking honesty culled from truths likely emblazoned on her soul for all the power and passion she gives them. chris Parker

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on Braun, lead singer of Start Making Sense, doesn’t look a whole lot like David Byrne—he’s a bit too rosy-cheeked and healthy looking. But he’s Byrne’s audial doppleganger to an almost creepy extent; the voice is god-given, but the eerily accurate intonation suggests that at some point in his life he was tied to a chair and forced to watch Stop Making Sense for several weeks, Clockwork Orange-style. The Talking Heads cover band is playing the first birthday of ’80s dance party Steppin’ Out, which has the excellent selfdescriptor “a time machine back to when it rained beauty and snowed cocaine.” The DJs of which take pride in playing diverse great music of the era vs. the more-standard rotation of “Like A Virgin” Madonna and “Like A Prayer” Madonna, so it’s likely to be a good time even if you think you’ll scream if you hear the opening to goddamn “Thriller” one more goddamn time. E.G. Sat., Jan. 29. 10pm. $5. Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St. 215.291.4919. kungfunecktie.com

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Making Things Blink and Buzz The good folks at Hive 76—the Philadelphia hackerspace collective with the motto: “Make things awesome, make awesome things!” that’s home to electronics-minded tinkerers, inventors, artists, and, yes, hackers (the benevolent ones, we’re pretty sure)—probably won’t be able to teach you how to construct a teleporter or a flux capacitor. But if you’re more interested in learning how to modify your Roomba so you can make it chase your cats by remote control or swap the voice boxes of talking Barbie and talking G.I. Joe, you may want to swing by for their day-long Making Things Blink and Buzz workshop. Chief Hive 76 “maker” Far McKon and his crew will guide you through the DIYelectronics basics and help you unleash your inner geek via example projects like turning 555 timer chips into an “Atari Punk Console.” And who knows, maybe after a while you’ll be able to construct your very own time machine, in which case give us a shout (and a ride). M.A.G. 10am. $40. Hive 76, 915 Spring Garden St. hive76.org

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Hard to believe, but it’s already been a decade since Philly’s Sara Sherr—writer, music critic, DJ, teacher, promoter and all-around fabulous gal—started the monthly Sugar Town night at Tritone to spotlight our city’s myriad female musicians and DJs and inspire other creative ladies to follow suit. Tonight, to celebrate the party’s 10th anniversary, 13 local bands (some formed especially for this event) will pay tribute to the female artists who inspired them. Lust 2 Love (featuring members of Philly blog Girl About Town) will play Go-Gos tunes; a quartet of Girls Rock Philly campers will tackle Electrelane; there’ll be an acoustic tribute to Garbage; and other acts will do the B-52’s, Blondie, Hole, Sinead O’Connor, Cyndi Lauper, the Pretenders, and more. M.A.G.

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long-time frontman for glammy N.Y.C. gutter-rockers D Generation, which more or less lifted its steez from the New York Dolls and Johnny Thunders. But around 2000 Malin began to re-invent himself as a sort of alt-country/folk-punk singer-songwriter not unlike his good friend Ryan Adams, issuing a string of engaging solo albums that feature the sort of ragged roots-rock, wry lyrics and sandpaper-voiced spirit that a Replacements fan could easily fall for. These days, with his new-ish band the St. Marks Social and their recently released, anthemic Love It to Life, Malin’s giving Springsteen acolytes like the Gaslight Anthem and the Hold Steady a run for their money. M.A.G. 9pm. $10. With Hey Angel + the Midnight Beat. Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 Frankford Ave. 215.739.9684. johnnybrendas.com

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Philly Stake II The folks behind Philly Stake have made it easy to simultaneously get involved with the local-food scene and do some good. They get together roughly a dozen proposals for smallscale, community-centric creative projects or neighborhood improvements, then have the proposers present their plans over dinner, which is made from Philly-area ingredients. Then there’s a vote, and the winner gets the evening’s take. The winner of the first Philly Stake, back in September, was Philly Rooted, the urban-farming org behind West Philly’s Woodland Community Garden and underthe-El Walnut Hill community farm. Tonight, diners will hear a follow-up report on how the money was used, plus decide whether the several hundred bucks raised this time would be best used (among other things) buying bees, launching a writing workshop for veterans, growing indigo and marigold to make dyes or making an bonkers-sounding giant living mushroom sculpture. OK, the mushrooms and growing kits will ultimately go to a good cause. But first they’ll be edible fungal art. ALEXAnDrA JOnEs 5pm. $10-$20. First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St. 215.563.3980. phillystake.org

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Meredith Monk It’s kind of hard to explain Meredith Monk to someone who hasn’t already heard or seen some of her work. You could say she sings like a bird—but that calls up dainty little sopranos who you’ll note do not sound anything like actual birds. Monk could be described that way more literally: ululating, swooping, not particularly attached to human tonality and just wild. It’s called extended vocal technique, and she was one of the first modern musicians to take the voice as an instrument beyond just pretty

singing. Though she’s best-known for her voice, Monk is a dancer, a composer, an artist, a musician, a filmmaker, a director and a choreographer; she’s starting off her residency at Bryn Mawr today by attending a screening of biography Inner Voice, and will be performing and talking about her work through Sunday. She was one of the first people to try not sounding like everyone else, and there is seriously nobody else like her. E.G. 7:30pm. Free. In residence through Feb. 6. Bryn Mawr College, 101 N. Merion Ave., Bryn Mawr. 610.526.5210. brynmawr.edu

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Young Prisms Lovers of hazy, spacey psych-rock, shoegaze and slo-core will want to be front and center at KFN tonight to soak up the vibes of this glorious three-band bill. Headlining is San Francisco quintet Young Prisms, whose craggy, reverby guitars and gauzy vocal harmonies find the sweet spot at the intersection of Galaxie 500, the Jesus and Mary Chain, and our very own Kurt Vile. They’re bringing along fellow Bay Area swirl-popsters Melted Toys, who sometimes sound like a more atmospheric, Krautrocky version of the Lightning Seeds. Rounding things out is the Lehigh Valley’s Soars, which uses My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive as a launching pad for their own blissed-out, magnetic explorations. M.A.G. $10. With Soars + Melted Toys. Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St. kungfunecktie.com

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Ideas in Food There’s no doubt Stephen Starr’s 15th Philadelphia restaurant, the Dandelion, is one of his most gorgeous. It should be—dude spent $3.5 million rehabbing and redecorating the former shoe store into a cozy English pub with enough taxidermy to make you think you’ve stumbled into Ted Nugent’s living room. Perhaps to stave off the card-carrying Tucker Max and Sex and the City types that are as inevitable at Starr joints as high prices, the pub kicks off its Speaker’s Corner series Tuesday, inviting a special guest once every few months to share their expertise and knowledge with guests. First up are Aki Kamozawa and Alex Talbot of the popular foodie website and recently published book Ideas in Food. At the kickoff, Kamozawa and Talbot will share their unique understanding of the ingredients, techniques and the science of cooking and take questions; lovable old coot Rich Nichols of the Inquirer moderates. BriAn McMAnus

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Crypt keeper: Left to right: Mairtin (Jake Blouch), Mick (Stephen Novelli, center) and Thomas (Jered McLenigan) in A Skull in Connemara.

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ment in this trilogy, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, or as explosively funny as The Lieutenant of Inishmore, which Theatre Exile is presenting for the festival starting Feb. 17. But this production from co-directors Kathryn MacMillan and M. Craig Getting amplifies every laugh and shudder in McDonagh’s script, and the pacing is so swift that the two hours pass in the blink of an eye. You can attribute this success in part to the cast, who for the most part deliver appealing performances. As ridiculously pompous local cop Thomas Hanlon, Jered McLenigan chews so much scenery it’s a wonder there’s anything left of Dirk Durossette’s atmospheric set. Grabbing his crotch and puffing out his chest, Thomas is a vision of buffoonish machismo. He lacks the intellect of the crack investigators in the American TV procedurals he admires, and for all his posturing he’s incapable of intimidation. Even better is youngster Jake Blouch as Mairtin, Thomas’ younger brother and Mick’s exhumation assistant. Blouch plays Mairtin with natural charm as a young man with more ideas than he has the vocabulary to express. As if in the throes of REM sleep, Blouch’s eyes dart back and forth as Mairtin struggles to verbalize his racing thoughts. Although the character’s most notable achievement in school was surreptitiously cooking a live hamster in biology class, Blouch avoids playing him as a dimwit or hooligan in a performance that’s effusive, but humane. We laugh at Mairtin, who has the gullibility of a person driven to please others, but we’re also saddened that this engaging youth is almost certainly doomed to live out his life in a town that offers little in the way happiness. As Mick, Novelli strikes just the right tone. His performance counterbalances the outlandish antics of the supporting cast, but his Mick is still cut from the same cloth as his suspicious, vindictive neighbors. Instead of being handcuffed by the awkwardness of St. Stephen’s Theater, the set takes advantage of the split-level stage to immerse us in the village, with Mick’s home on the lower level and the graveyard on the upper Durossette’s set puts us in the middle of the action—you feel like you haven’t so much watched a play as visited Leenane. Leenane is a place where nothing is permanently laid to rest. The parishioners take their grudges and suspicions with them to the grave only to have them dug up years later. If Skull has anything profound to say about the human condition (which is doubtful) it is not especially cheery. However if you favor dark humor and a few chills , Lantern’s well-crafted production delivers both in spades. n

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Lantern Theater Company contributes to the Philadelphia Irish Theatre Festival with its entertaining production of Martin McDonagh’s darkly funny and slightly gruesome A Skull in Connemara. The second installment of McDonagh’s well-regarded Leenane trilogy, Skull is set in the tiny village of Leenane on Ireland’s rugged west coast. As in small towns everywhere, everyone knows everyone else’s business—and in this case, familiarity breeds contempt. The villagers operate under an unhappy social truce; they’re far from friendly, but everyone recognizes that talking to even an enemy is better than isolation. They drink moonshine and gossip and discuss such weighty social matters as whether it would be better to drown in your own vomit or urine. Leenane’s citizens are all practicing Catholics, but the traditional commandments about stealing, lying and cheating tend to get a little lost around town. The site-specific religious dogma is physically evident in the town’s cemetery, which is too small to hold all of the town’s dead; to work around this, each fall the parish employs Mick (Stephen Novelli), who makes room for the newly deceased by digging up and relocating remains that have been interred for at least seven years. What happens to the bones is known only to Mick, though the matter generates considerable discussion around town. This year, the excavation involves the bones of Mick’s late wife, who died in a car accident in which her husband was drunk at the wheel. Drinking and driving is common in Leenane, but gossip persists that she was killed before the accident, by a blow to the head delivered by her husband. Skull isn’t McDonagh’s best play. It’s not as deliciously macabre as the first install-

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Mao (1956)” is mesmerizing. The piece shows Chairman Mao in a Socialist Realist poster with a Monty Python-esque, animated mouth reciting the English trans lation of Mao’s 1956 speech to the association of music workers. The cartoonish depiction of the Supreme Leader is funny, but Dong’s message is far from clear. Is the UD MFA candidate mocking Mao or implying his message lives on in 2011? Or both? Regardless, the ambiguous nature o Bugging out: Lynne Yamamoto’s “Insect Immigrants, after Zimmerman (1948),” on display at the Crane Gallery. modern China’s relationship with Mao is worth thinking about. Another ambiguous piece is Lynne Yamamoto’s “Insect Immigrants, after Zimmerman (1948),” an aggressive installation that’s part beautiful, part ugly and conflicted. A grouping of cloth doilies sprawls across the wall, each embroidered in black thread with an example of an invasive insect species found in her home state of Ha By Roberta Fallon waii by entomologist Elwood Zimmerman. rfallon@philadelphiaweekly.com The larger-than-life “insect immigrants” are even more grotesque for the imperfect, “Wax on,” instructs Mr. Miyagi, “wax off.” freehand-looking embroidery with dark, This scene from 1984’s The Karate Kid is overworked patches like swarming ants or one of the most recognizable pop-culture mites; the forlorn Victorian-esque doilies examples of an old archetype that gets being invaded are equal parts pathetic and taken for a ride in an exhibit by the Univeroff-putting. sity of Delaware at Crane Arts. The Kid is One of the works with the least obvious frustrated, unable to understand why his ties to Asian themes is a single color photo b teacher thinks washing and waxing a car Paul Pfeiffer, probably the biggest name in will teach him how to fight. But though the the show (the New York artist was featured Kid demands answers, Miyagi is deadpan, on PBS’s Art 21 series and won the Whitney revealing nothing—inscrutable. first $100,000 Bucksbaum award for his Inscrutable, a two-venue show of Asian work in the 2000 Biennial). Pfeiffer, who and Asian-American artists at UD Crane grew up in the Phillipines, is renowned for and the Asian Arts Initiative (this review his use of sports videos to examine issues of is only of the Crane portion), examines the race and deconstruct Western culture from cultural differences and stereotypes that the point of view of the outsider. exist in the era of mainstream sushi. Not all “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the works use obviously Asian motifs, but all (2003),” is one of a series of digitally maare about non-Western cultures rubbing up nipulated sports action shots from the NBA against the West. archives. For most of these, Pfeiffer removes Local and 2009 Fleisher Challengeball, basket, sidelines, court and jersey winner Yvonne Lung’s imaginative interacmarkings—everything except one player in tive piece “When in Rome” unfortunately blank jersey, contorted and straining toward wasn’t working when I visited, but the idea the now-absent ball, and the staring crowd. reverberated loud and clear. There’s a small Michael Jordan’s balletic pose in front of table with a computer, a chair and a screen the hungry-looking audience is a reminder for privacy. The instructions are to sit and of how we exoticize differences in sports have a Skype conversation about anything players—yet demonize it outside the arena. at all with a designated stranger—but you Other standouts include Rene Marquez’ aren’t allowed to speak your native language. two-channel video about the Filipino blessPhonetic spellings of greetings and simple ing of the animals, Hiro Sakaguchi’s drawphrases like “How are you?” “My name is ...” ing of a boat with a Hibachi-grill motor and are supplied in Chinese, German, Dutch, Jennifer Jones-O’Neil’s portrait photos with Filipino and Swahili. (My favorite, “Whatevmasked faces. Inscrutable is a thoughtful er,” is “Ano kailanman” in Filipino, FYI.) The update on stereotypes and identity, and very piece places the viewer in the uncomfortable worth your time. n position of struggling with basic communication. Even though it may feel a bit like a sensitivity-training exercise, the piece feels Inscrutable right, and right for this show. Through Feb. 4. UD at Crane Arts, 1400 N. The 13-artist exhibit is spread throughAmerican St. Closing reception: Feb. 4, 5:307:30pm at Asian Arts Initiative, 1219 Vine St. out UD Crane’s first floor and basement. udel.edu/art, asianartsinitiative.org Downstairs, Chinese-born Jinming Dong’s 16-minute animated video “I Want to Talk:

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Run This Town

A new benefit album featuring legend Schoolly D helps kids hoof it to their goals. By Brian McManus

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The track you’re on, Schoolly, “West Philly,” which closes the album out, is very you, if that makes sense. It’s got Schoolly D references in it, it samples “P.S.K.” Joe, would those things have remained if Schoolly hadn’t agreed to do the track? Joe: We were trying to figure out what to do for the hook and we just thought, “Why don’t we just have someone scratch over it?”—like old school, traditional hip-hop. We started thinking about songs from Philly artists about Philly, and you know, I mean, if you start thinking about Philly artists rapping about Philly, how do you not end up on “P.S.K.”? So we added that once we knew Schoolly was going to be on the track.

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Speaking of “P.S.K.” Black Thought just had a guest verse on a Ghostface Killah track where he references that song and you, Schoolly. Did you have any idea back in the ‘80s that people would still be influenced by and talking about your music in 2011? Schoolly: You know what? I’m a lifer. I tell everybody, I’m a fuckin’ lifer. And I’m going to do this shit until I die. You know what, we were in the studio the other day and I was cracking these young cats up. I’m back to having fun. It’s just pure energy. I’m just me. This is how I am during the daytime. It’s back to just being fun ... even though now I have a big-ass mortgage. But, I asked Joe the other day in the car I said, “Why do you do this?” I mean, when we did it we made that shit up. We needed a job and a lifestyle. We started hip-hop so we could stop shooting and killing each other in gangs, so that was a life decision to start hip-hop. But I don’t understand why these new cats—new producers, new rappers—do this. Is it because it’s there and they’re lazy? Or do they really enjoy what we put forth for them?

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That’s a really interesting perspective. Joe, what was your answer? Joe: Well, I said it damn sure wasn’t for the money, because that hasn’t come through yet [laughs]. But yeah, you do it for the love. The reason I got into making music—there are two songs that I always reference that made me want to do this. “T.R.O.Y.” [“They Reminisce Over You”] by Pete Rock and CL Smooth and “Midnight in a Perfect World” by DJ Shadow. I remember when I heard both of those songs. One of them I was mopping my mom’s kitchen and I had Power 99 on, the old school mix. I remember I was about 10 or 11 years old and I heard it and it made me feel a certain way. And I wondered, “Aw man, do others feel this way when they hear this?” And now when I make music, my goal is to make others feel the way I felt when I first heard those two songs. Schoolly: What, you mean none of my songs inspired you? You fuckin’ ... [Laughs] He’s sitting here in front of me talkin’ “T.R.O.Y.”! n

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So let’s talk about We Run Philly. Schoolly, how’d you come to be involved in this project? Schoolly: I was in North Philly buying an eight ball and Joe showed up and I said “Yo, man.” [Laughs] Actually, I don’t remember. Joe? Joe: Milkboy Communications was repping Schoolly, and I’d been working some ideas I had for the record. I asked Schoolly if he would be interested, and pitched him the

track. I already had an idea for doing a song about Philly, about a neighborhood, and I came up with a beat. I already had two artists—Chilly Moody and Tone Trump—on the track and then I just pitched it to Schoolly, and he came in on the end and did his thing. Schoolly: He told me he had a track, and asked if I’d listen to it. I did, thinking it might be whack, some phoney-ass, fake-ass [Everyone laughs] ... but anyway, when he played me that shit I just started writing to it right away in my head. I just got in there and did my thing, did my thing with Chill. And then I found out it was for a benefit and I was like WHAT THE FUCK, YO?? Really? I need to get paiiiid. [Everyone laughs] Ha. Thank God these motherfuckers like me to be me.

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Schoolly D is many things: hip-hop icon, the nation’s first gangsta rapper, West Philly Ambassador. His hits “P.S.K.”, “Am I Black Enough For You” and “Parkside 5-2” still occupy a special place in hip-hop lore. He is an idol, a mentor, a trailblazer. These things are well-documented and accepted. He also happens to be dead-ass funny, which is apparent exactly 15 seconds into a phone call I had with him and producer Joe Logic last week. The duo have teamed up for a benefit album, We Run Philly, which Joe Logic produced in total and, on top of Schoolly, features Philly rappers galore—Chill Moody, Tone Trump, Hezekiah, J. Ivy and many more. The proceeds raised by the album benefit Students Run Philly Style, the only program in Philadelphia that offers marathon training to young people, along the way helping them make smart choices, see through and attain goals. Logic, a Temple grad in communications, has been working at Milkboy Communications and Studios in Ardmore in virtually every capacity since ’05. He’s always had an interest in music, and played saxophone growing up. “My parents were big Springsteen fans. They wanted me to be the next Clearance Clemons,” he says. “Unfortunately, I’m not a 240-pound black man.” When Logic found himself with no projects on his plate about a year-and-a-half ago, he looked into doing a benefit album. Students Run Philly Style was a natural selection. “I ran track in high school and have some friends who are teachers in the district who volunteer at Students Run Philly,” he says. “It’s a great program that helps build confidence and promotes health.” He hit up program director Heather McDanel, pitched his idea—a benefit album featuring a plethora of Philly rap artists—and she was sold. Now, Schoolly D on board, We Run Philly is major, and is quite a good listen. The album is available on werunphilly.com or studentsrunphilly.org, or via hand-to-hand sales from Logic himself, who can often be found selling the 10-track disc at the races the students participate in. It’ll cost you $5. Every penny taken in goes to benefit the organization.

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Dance to the Best of ESG Sounds Like: South

Bronx sisters who made a splash in the early ’80s with gems like “You’re No Good.” But they got the sounds to turn a party out fuh dayz. Free Association: They keep the beat simple, catchy and timeless— great party fodder. For Fans Of: Salt-NPepa, Liquid Liquid, Tom Tom Club, spirits, spandex.

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Sounds Like: Mexico

City college rockers who loved Dave Newfield’s work with Broken Social Scene et al, went to Canada to record and now sound totally cute. Free Association: Fine, fuzzy lo-fi anthemic bedroom pop that’s joyous but typical. For Fans Of: Los Campesinos!, Apostle of Hustle, Toronto.

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ashington, D.C.’s much-loved DismemberW ment Plan have reunited for a brief tour in support of the reissue of the reissue of their Emergency & I; they’re playing a nearly sold-out show at the Starlight Ballroom Thursday. PW interviewed frontman Travis Morrison back in ’07, when the band reunited to play a one-off benefit show, about playing together after being apart for years, the origins of show traditions, which songs are a bit embarrassing in retrospect and ... how they’d probably never go on tour again.

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Sounds Like: The moniker for Seattle-based Michael Benjamin Lerner’s second fulllength is all shredding electric guitar, fuzzy pop and romance.

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really only one Hasidic reggae superstar, so he’s on the top of his game there, and here’s ANOTHER live record of his kick-ass concert energy. Free Association: Say what you want, but this Jew’s got legit flow and strong pipes. For Fans Of: Bob Marley x Phish, Buju Banton x Judah, curly sideburns.

On choosing cover songs: I probably just, quite to my bandmates’ consternation, started singing some song [laughs]. Usually that’s how things worked, I would do something that vaguely annoyed my bandmates and then kept doing it, and next thing you know ... I found myself being like, “If we didn’t do ‘The Greatest Love of All’ it would really be a shame. You ever heard the George Benson version of the song? The original’s by him and it’s all [deep voice] “I believe the children are the future!” It’s not the Whitney [spreads arms to heavens] thing. It’s great. It’s really good. It’s not great. But it’s really good. One of the things I think was good about the band was we were open to trying, and if it stuck, it stuck. But we never really planned these things ahead of time, and some things would stick around for a long time and then they would go away. On singers, like himself, with distinctive voices: The thing about voice is that the bands where people make fun of the singers, notice how successful they are? Like Sleater-Kinney, people bitch and moan about her voice, but she’s a great singer. People don’t like the vibrato; it’s like people who see Shakira and they don’t like that e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e thing. But that’s what makes them successful, the distinct human quality to that. Usually it’s when someone’s voice makes me go “yurgh!” [laughs] On revisiting the old catalogue: It was a great relief to find out what a jerky young guy I was not. I’ll use this example: I don’t

Thank You, Happy Birthday Sounds Like: Bowling

Green, Ky., dudes who made it big in England with “Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked,” their second is less Nashville and more NorCal sun punk. Free Association: Lead singer’s got a voice, but boy is it annoying to watch him sing. For Fans Of: Shins x Ramones, Dr. Dog x MGMT, mediocre garage rock.

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pop masters unveil their sixth full length and it’s a dreamy, synthed-up Parisian paradise for the drug-taker needing a sexy groove to seduce.

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Something’s in that European water; must be wine and Phoenix. For Fans Of: Air x the Gainsbourgs, Daft Punk, Darkel, cheese, berets.

feel like singing “Time Bomb.” I cannot relate to that song anymore. It is ridiculous. There are a few songs that for one reason or another we’re all like, “Oh god.” And songs where we made such inexplicable musical decisions we just couldn’t relate to them anymore. But then a couple of songs, you’re like, “Oh, that just needs a little slap in the ass!” and it sounds better. Like, the first song on Change, “Sentimental Man,” can be an incredible rock and roll song when we ditch the keyboards and I stop singing like I’m on ’ludes—it’s fabulous. It’s so good. Love and sex were big elements in our lyrics, and I was incredibly relieved that— like, my view on women was basically together, I was basically respectful. I didn’t fully understand love, but the voice was humane; and even in songs about personal conflicts there were very few straw men. “Time Bomb” is a little bullying, like, “It’s my song, so I’m gonna sing what I want!” On the prospect of their one-off reunion show turning into a full-fledged reunion tour: We’ll probably keep playing occasionally. We’d never fight it, but we would never ever want to be like, “Shit, let’s go out and play ‘The City’ and make some money!” [laughs] That’s just really wrong. So the whole getting back together/not getting back together thing—it’s not like that. I don’t think we’ll ever play for profit again, I don’t think that interests us … you got that on tape, so … [laughs] I’m gonna say it a lot, so then I’ll be embarrassed if we ever thought of doing it for a paycheck. n The Dismmemberment Plan perform Thurs., Jan. 27, 7:30pm. $20. With Cymbals Eat Guitars + Trophy Wife. Starlight Ballroom, 460 N. Ninth St. 215.821.7575. r5productions.com

Jessica Lea Mayfield Tell Me

(Polymer Sounds/ Nonesuch)

Sounds Like: An Ohio

native and friend of the Black Keys (Dan produced this one), she’s got bluegrass in her genes but kicks out the rock jams, too. Effortlessly. Free Association: The Keys connection helps, no doubt. Would we care otherwise? For Fans Of: Lissie, Best Coast x Laura Marling, cute girl rock, pixie haircuts.

Holcombe Waller Into The Dark Unknown (Napolean)

Sounds Like: An

Oregonian homosexual whose gentle, artistic spirit comes across as deep, dark and nuanced on this rich and touching collection of stories.

Free Association:

This is gay folk music, straights. Go ’head and try to hate on its beauty. For Fans Of: Xiu Xiu x Jonsi, Cat Stevens x Elliot Smith, gay stuff.

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Best Coast

istening to Best Coast is risky because L the music will turn your brain to shit and then your shit-brains will clog your ears. While compared to 1960s girlgroups by indie and mainstream critics alike, Best Coast lacks every appealing aspect of those bands: sophisticated harmonies, innovative production, clever lyrics, attitude, soul. More toxic than hearing front-woman Bethany Cosentino rhyme “crazy,” “lazy,” and “hazy” over and over again, though, is how often she says “like” in interviews. She, like, makes Sarah Palin, like, seem like a fucking, like, Rhodes Scholar. When not busy penning songs fit for a 7-year-old, she Tweets about ripping bong hits and how super-cute her cat is: Snacks, which also haz Twitter profile. Before imagining Beth and Snacks sporting matching My Little Pony pajamas, taking tubers, and tweeting about their adorable boyfriends (OMFG!), diaper your brain because it’ll soon be reduced to liquid shit. (Elliott Sharp) n Tues., Feb. 1, 7:30pm. $17. With Wavves + No Joy. Starlight Ballroom, 460 N. Ninth St. 267.765.5210. r5productions.com

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“This album changed my life, man,” John Lyons, 24, who runs Prohibition Taproom’s Bring Your Own Vinyl Sunday nights, tells Vince, a customer crammed in the corner next to the turntable. He’s referring to Electric Warrior by T-Rex. B.Y.O.V. Sundays are the general manager’s night to shine. He has customers bring in their favorite records (for 20 percent off their tab) and relishes the “crackle” of a needle making contact with vinyl. When 10 people bring in a record, it’s a good night. He plays each one all the way through. Lyons, a giant craft beer and music geek, bounds the length of the bar in one giant stride, energetically pouring craft beers like Hoppy Little Hudson, the Prohibition standard named after owner Michael Pasquarillo’s daughter, Hudson Rose. It’s a special beer Yards made for them, an IPA that’s not bitter, it’s cask-conditioned, English pub-style, he says. Lyons worked at the Troc from ages 19 through 23, before he had a daughter himself and started looking for a more stable job. He found one at Prohibition. Most of the records in Lyon’s stack this night belong to Lindsay, an olive-skinned waitress who recently moved back here from L.A.. She pauses at the counter near the turntable. “I always end up in Philly,” she muses, fingering a copy of A Hard Day’s Night. She owns three copies, but has never been able to bring herself to sell any of them for cash. All the beer-drinkers tonight are guys, except for one girl sitting at table with a heavy-set man. They brought in Dead Weather’s Sea of Cowards, which John enthusiastically opens to reveal an artsy spread of four portraits in black and white. “This looks like the Beatles with Nikki Six from Mötley Crüe!” he yelps. Finally, Simon and Garfunkle lull the stragglers into quiet reminiscence, per Jesse Cane’s request, an “old hard-core kid from the ’80s” who stopped in to buy a six-pack. He forgets about their old songs until Wes Anderson puts them on a soundtrack. Wes is everyone’s favorite moviemaker, Cane claims. “Who can argue with Bill Murray? It’s like arguing with God.” Like the people who love and defend it, vinyl wears its seeming outmoded-ness with aggressive pride—a kind of integrity, even. “They take up space. They exist,” Lyons says. “The imperfections are cool, too. They crackle. They hiss.” n

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But the food is a more hit-or-miss proposition, and for every success there are others that miss their mark. The burger, for example, showed less in the way of personality than I’d hoped. Chef and owner Nick Miglino brings in his meat from a hand-chosen farmer in Jersey, a good sign. But the patty was cooked to a a gray-toned mediumwell and served by a waiter who never asked how I’d like it cooked. There wasn’t quite enough fat in the meat to facilitate adequate moisture-retention even at medium, so the result, despite the fried egg and Maytag blue cheese on top, was an unexpectedly flat and dry burger. Sweet and sour wings would have been better had they been cooked On a roll: Delicately filled with shrimp and pork, these spring rolls are tops. at a higher temperature, crisping their skin a bit more. The meat itself was moist, but the pleasure of that is typically lost when it’s encased in skin of similar texture. Still, the sweet Thai chili sauce shows potential. The fish taco on offer was nearly inedible, the mahi mahi’s aroma uncomfortably fish-funky, its texture mushy. The appealing intensity of the accompanying pico de gallo cut this a bit, but not enough. But then there were the dishes I would go back for. Turkey meatloaf comforted and excited at the same time, two velvety slices whose own deep poultry character found satisfying, familiar counterparts in the sweet-tangy barbecue sauce with an unexpected Asian personality. Paired with a side of mashed sweet potatoes, it brought to mind a sort of modern Rockwellian rendition of Thanksgiving, minus the vaguely creepy uncle staring out from the corner of the By Brian Freedman bfreedman@philadelphiaweekly.com painting. A Cuban sandwich, with its house-roasted pork, sweet Sticks and Stones is full of surprises, not least of which is ham, and floral-piquant pickle mustard, was stunning: the fact that it finally opened at all. The tale of this pleasant Easy to eat, just salty enough to demand further sips of newcomer had become a leitmotif of sorts over the past beer, and deeply flavorful in its subtlety. two years worth of local foodie news—intimations of its And the spring roll—taking top prize as menu’s best— pending opening kept popping up, and just as it seemed it was a handmade beauty. Made by neighborhood favorite would really happen, the rumors died down again and the Artisan Boulanger Patissier, they were delicately filled neighborhood was thrown back into its Sticks and Stones with shrimp and pork, the barest bit oily from the fryer but holding pattern. otherwise crisp, balanced sweet and earthy, and rested on But here it is, nearly two months old and already a pleasa bed of excellent Asian slaw, the daikon and cabbage and ant addition to the burgeoning E. Passyunk scene. Is there onion kissed with the heat of wasabi. enough going on here to warrant a trip from other parts of Which is all to say that Sticks and Stones has some work the city? left to do before it warrants the kind of attention that it When it comes to beer the answer is a hearty, frothy yes. commanded when it was just a promise, but is well on its Damnation is being pulled from a tough-to-find Russian way. While you’re waiting for it to be in full bloom, pull up River keg (it’s $8 for a 10-ounce pour). Victory Schwarz a seat at the bar for all that beautiful beer. n Pils is wintertime perfect—its color implying a beer far heavier than it is. Bottles of Brown Shugga, the Lagunitas sweetie, work STICKS AND STONES brilliantly with the more Asian-inspired dishes on offer 1909 E. Passyunk Ave. 215.964.9127 from the all-over-the-place menu. Under the watchful eye of bar manager Eric “Elvis” Walsh, Sticks and Stones Cuisine: American pub food, with all its international influences. seems geared to become a destination for serious beer Hours: Mon.-Fri., 3pm-2am; Sat.-Sun., 2pm-2:am; lovers. (Case in point: They’ll be getting in two kegs of brunch and earlier-opening hours pending. Lagunitas Olde Gnarly Wine and only tapping one; the Prices: $6-$10, with occasional specials hitting $12. other will be cellared, aged and tapped later.) Bar service Atmosphere: Just like a cozy neighborhood bar should be. is knowledgeable without ever devolving into the kind of pedantry that such a lovely list might invite. This is a Service: Friendly, knowledgeable, especially well-versed in beer. neighborhood bar, with a neighborhood ethos, regardless Food: Hit-or-miss right now, but there’s potential. of its stellar suds.

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Screen SIX PACK Six Cases of Movies With the Same Subject By Matt Prigge mprigge@philadelphiaweekly.com Tombstone (1993) vs. Wyatt Earp (1994): Fresh ideas are notoriously scarce in Hollywood, but it’s rare to see two productions come up with roughly the same idea. In the wake of the hit westerns Dances With Wolves and Unforgiven, two separate projects were launched on Wyatt Earp. The dirtier Tombstone focused entirely on the Gunfight at the O.K. Coral, plus let loose a prime Val Kilmer on sickly Doc Holliday. Lawrence Kasdan’s Wyatt Earp, befitting its lofty title, took an epic look at the iconic lawman’s entire life, with a Holliday played by an actor (Dennis Quaid) who wouldn’t upstage bigheaded star Kevin Costner. Alas, audiences preferred their Earp sagas less than three hours long.

Antz vs. A Bug’s Life (1998): During the infancy of CGI animation, DreamWorks rushed out its own insect toon, Antz, to arrive shortly before Pixar’s A Bug’s Life. It did OK, but DreamWorks would quickly learn that Disney-owned rivals will always prevail in commerce and quality. Deep Impact vs. Armageddon (1998): Such were our choices in the summer of ’98. Sad times.

Capote (2005) vs. Infamous (2006): Both Capote and Infamous told the unpleasant backstory behind Truman Capote researching In Cold Blood. Yet Capote did it first, and scored Oscars and box-office booty. Infamous didn’t stand a chance. Too bad, because it’s lighter, less pompous and, in some cases, better cast. (Toby Jones was born to play Truman Capote; you can tell Philip Seymour Hoffman is acting.)

Paul Blart: Mall Cop vs. Observe and Report (2009): Both films depict mall cops becoming heroes to impress a hottie. One was so sloppily put together, even its star was surprised when it became a fluke blockbuster. The other was a deranged portrait of an off-his-meds sociopath from a filmmaker who specializes in them (see also: Eastbound and Down).

No Strings Attached vs. Friends With Benefits (2011): Natalie Portman vs. Mila Kunis: the rivalry’s back on! (Or real this time.) Except Kunis’ has a better title and co-star (Justin Timberlake vs. Ashton Kutcher). Advantage: Black Swan! n

Pass the Prozac: Tom (Jim Broadbent, right) and Gerri (Ruth Sheen) invite their sad, lonely friends over to dinner to make themselves feel better.

Another Hour? A boring couple entertains their sad-sack friends but not the audience in Another Year. By Sean Burns sburns@philadelphiaweekly.com

No Strings Attached C Reviewed by Sean Burns

I just don’t understand the Ashton Kutcher thing. He always comes off as a dull-witted bed-head with zero discernible screen presence, and yet the offers keep rolling in. No Strings Attached, the first watchable movie from director Ivan Reitman in almost 20 years, boasts a crackerjack ensemble of up-and-coming stars dropping droll, nicely-naughty one-liners. Unfortunately, this killer supporting cast is stranded in the service of a vehicle for Kutcher and Natalie Portman, who summon eight different shades of bland while the party seems to be going on elsewhere. The central question, can two people be “sex friends” without falling in love is entirely moot. These two characters are clearly head over heels for one another from the opening reel, and the only thing keeping them apart is the film’s annoying premise. Portman’s workaholic doctor refuses to commit to a relationship for no reason whatsoever except that there wouldn’t be a movie if she followed her heart. The fun lies in the margins, with Greenberg’s Greta Gerwig and The Office’s Mindy Kaling all but begging for a spin-off of their own as Portman’s tart, way more interesting roommates. Kevin Kline carves some delicious ham as Kutcher’s lothario father, an over-the-hill sitcom actor with a penchant for younger women and Lil Wayne. Even the bit parts are given generous screen time, with Lake Bell working some weird OCD mojo and Abby Elliott dropping her Drew Barrymore impression into a scene that’s otherwise going nowhere. It’s such a drag whenever Reitman cuts back to Kutcher and Portman’s affair. Kutcher’s just a touseled lump of inertia, and Portman is distractingly uncomfortable with the material’s raunchiness. I actually felt bad for her every time she had to say something dirty. She’s far too much the white swan to pull this one off, and Anne Hathaway pretty much played this role, quite smashingly, in last year’s Love and Other Drugs. You kinda get the sense Reitman packed the sidelines with ringers because he knew his leads couldn’t cut it.

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minister of Pakistan, was born three years before her country became a Republic. Thus, conveniently, her story is also the story of Pakistan. As depicted in the doc Bhutto, Benazir’s life in many eerie ways resembled that of her father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, a charismatic and well-coitured politician modern enough to disparage the wearing of burqas and to wed an Iranian hottie. Both father and daughter were Western-educated progressives who brandished rightish tendencies—dad banned hooch, she resisted certain women’s rights issues—and both were martyred, he while imprisoned, she by messy assassination in 2007. They were symbols of modernity and progressiveness in a nation dominated by its military, although Benazir inherited a far more precarious situation—a clusterfuck of coups, honor killings, plentiful nuclear warheads and terrorists, including a respectable chunk of Al Qaeda that not even the best politician could clean up. Packed into two hours, Benazir’s life is presented with a wealth of details and sidelines, including elaborations on how American money wound up in the pockets of Osama bin Laden and her stint in solitary confinement, where she spent so long without speaking that her jaw locked, forcing her to communicate only through writing. For a Wikipedia doc, one that could air on The History Channel if it boasted a shred of credibility, Bhutto keeps things fast and lively. As a history lesson and call to arms, it’s above par, albeit suffering a touch from hero worship. Bhutto embraces its subject’s importance—her as a person, not so much. Placed on a pedastal, she’s depicted as a person of limited flaws who all but walked on water. When the filmmakers have to cover her forced resignation on corruption charges, their army of talking heads simply assert that corruption charges are usually bullshit with no further comment. Bhutto gives you a rich idea of its star’s accomplishments but not so much who its star was.

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At his best—like in 2008’s Happy-Go-Lucky—writer-director Mike Leigh can create richly lived-in portraits of London’s lower classes, utilizing an improvisational working method with such invisible dexterity that it sometimes feels like we’re eavesdropping on real-life situations that just happened to take place in front of a camera. At his worst—like in Another Year—Leigh can be a self-indulgent scold, wallowing in the misery of his subjects. Jim Broadbent and Ruth Sheen star as Tom and Gerri, a perfectly content couple headed into the back nine of middle age with few complaints. He’s a geologist, she’s a therapist at the local clinic, and both seem happy in their work. They spend most of their free time tending to their garden, communicating in the easy shorthand of two people who have been together forever and have already gotten all the important conversations out of the way years ago. But sad folks seem to leach on to Tom and Gerri, perhaps envious of their stability or just aching for the hospitality of a home-cooked meal. Their home, with which we become very familiar over the course of this picture, at times seems a boarding house for self-pitying drunks. Don’t these two know any other happy couples? The most frequent visitor is Gerri’s co-worker Mary, played by Lesley Manville with the kind of shrill showboating that people get excited about during awards season. After getting divorced in her twenties she’s navigated a couple of wrongheaded affairs. She now dresses a bit too young for her age and always downs at least two too many glasses of wine. Mary also never, ever stops talking. She’s always babbling on and on about big plans for taking vacations, or perhaps buying a car, relentlessly insisting that she’s extremely happy with how things are going and optimistic about

the future. Of course, the relentless chatter is obviously just Mary’s way of hiding her desperate sense of inadequacy and her crippling self-doubt. Unfortunately, Manville telegraphs this from her very first moments onscreen, and the performance has nowhere to go but in circles for the next two hours. Watch Mary get shitfaced, fall on the floor and bray about the married guy who dumped her so many years ago. Now watch Tom and Gerri nod silently to one another, politely putting her to bed. That’s just the first dinner party. Now rinse, wash, repeat. Borrowing the structure from Alan Alda’s The Four Seasons, Leigh breaks the movie up into four repetitive chunks that allow Mary to embarrass herself in different weather patterns. But the gist of every story is the same. Sorry old drunk lady gets her hopes up over a silly idea, talks it to death and then acts like a petulant child when things don’t go her way. Most cringe worthy is the “Summer” segment, in which she’s deluded enough to think she’s got a shot with Tom and Gerri’s 30-year-old son, Joe (Oliver Maltman.) Another Year is not easy to watch. Leigh’s marvelous Happy-Go-Lucky is considered, positivity, as an act of defiance, with Sally Hawkins’ indefatigable Poppy looking on the bright side almost as an aggressive way of sticking it to the miserable sods around her. Another Year is far less interesting, seeing Tom and Gerri’s contentment as a dumb luck state of grace. They tend to their garden and breathe sighs of relief that they aren’t as bad off as the wretched company they keep. So is that all there is? Because over the course of this very long 129 minutes, this viewer’s patience wore extremely thin with the happy couple’s benign condescension. Broadbent’s Tom clearly doesn’t care for Mary, and makes a point of saying her name at the end of every sentence until it starts to feel like a passive-aggressive dig. Sheen’s Gerri merely tolerates her friend, often busting out the same schoolmarm tone she takes with her patients at the clinic. (“You let me down,” is her retort of choice.) On the margins are other assorted grotesques, including a morbidly obese alcoholic who tries to put the moves on Mary, and Tom’s monosyllabic sad-sack brother Ronnie (David Bradley), who spends his days chain-smoking and staring into middle distance. Is the point Leigh’s trying to make that if you’re not lucky enough to be married by now you’re sentenced to live a pathetic existence of chronic substance abuse and dashed dreams? There’s a frission of something deeper here, a suggestion that maybe Tom and Gerri surround themselves with these human trainwrecks so that they can feel better about their banal complacency. But Another Year never follows through on it, drifting off into another mealtime episode of Mary making an arse of herself. This movie makes me want to avoid my married friends. n

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This is a beautiful 3 bed/2 bath + den home with rear yard, 2 fireplaces, central air, hardwood floors and handsome, original brick front. Living room/ dining room is open to kitchen with maple cabinets, granite counters, stainless steel appliances and door to private rear yard with unique access to a common landscaped courtyard. (Not a HOA). Second floor has a bedroom and hall bath. Third floor has 2 bedrooms and a hall closet. Basement is finished family room/ den with full bath and separate mechanicals, brand new heater and a/c unit with warranty and utility areas. This property does not have a HOA fee but there is a voluntary contribution of approx $300/yr for courtyard, etc. Home has a brand new heating/ cooling system w/1 year warranty on parts and labor! This wonderful street is considered the Delancey Street of Queen Village! This is an excellent value and is convenient to everything! Offered at $399,900

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Pristine, move in ready 3BR, 1BA on a great quite pretty block. Galley Kitchen w/New modern appliances, open to dining area. Lovely space in living area open to dining room w/French doors that lead to a nice size deck. Lots of light, wooden floors throughout. Unfinished Basement, Possible Garage Space. Large yard in front and back, possible to park 2 cars in the rear yard.

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MANAYUNK/ROXBOROUGH: Charming 2Bdrm, Bright, Oversize Closets, All New Carpets Throughout, Intercom Entry, Onsite Prkg, AC, Updated Kitchen/Bathrm. Heat/Water/ Gas Incl. 1st month free on select apts! $1020/Mo. 215482-9032. lic# 218586 N.LIBERTIES: 3rd/George Great 2BR, All amens, HWF. Parking. $1295+. PMG 215-545-7007x304 Northern Liberties, 2BR, Bilevel, Washer/Dryer, 2 full bathrooms, Deck, G/D, AC, No Pets, See www.gasheart.com, 1136 N. 4th St., 215-485-1015, $1100/month Northern Liberties, 2BR, Beautiful, All New, Black Granite Floors Throughout, Updated Eve r y t h i n g , G ra n i te Co u n tertops, 1.5 New Bathrooms, AC, GD, W/D, Large Deck, No Pets, See www.gasheart.com, 1138 N. 4th St., 215-485-1015, $1500/month OLD CITY This fabulous 2 bedroom is a must see!! With new kitchen cabinets, stainless steel appliances, huge living area, nice sized bedrooms, great closet space, in apt washer/dryer and lots of windows with incredible city views, this is a place you will want to come home to!! $1695. CALL 215-351-9193, www. oldcityapts.com PENNSPORT AREA-SPACIOUS M O D. , 2 BAT H S, C/A / H , T I L E KIT.FLR., REAR DECK. $1200/ MO. 215-334-0281. RITTENHOUSE SQUARE!! 326 South 19th Street- OLD WORLD CHARM BUILDING. Two Bedroom-1 Ba t h a p a r t m e n ts $2 ,0 0 0.0 0 $2,200.00 per month. MUST SEE TO APPRECIATE. Hardwood floors, High ceilings, Plentiful closet space, Cat friendly, Small Dogs welcome too. Call to schedule an appointment 215-735-5757 OR E-mail: DelanceyPlace@aol.com

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SO.BROAD STREET-ULTRA MOD., ALL APPLIANCES,GRANITE COUNTER TOPS, HDWD, CARPET/ TILE, C/A, WINDOW TREATMENT, W/D, STARTING AT-$995.00+. WALK TO-SPORTS COMPLEX. T RA N S P O RTAT I O N O U TS I D E YOUR DOOR. NO PETS. 215755-6900. SOUTH & 7TH: 2 bedroom To w n h o u s e w i t h p a r k i n g . $ 1 275. 2 1 5 - 636 - 0 1 0 0/2 1 5 546-9247

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THREE + BEDROOMS 10TH & SNYDER-4BEDRMS., 1ST FLR., CARPET, FULL BSMT.,$1200/ MO.+. 610-304-0087. PINE/10TH: 4BDRMS, 1.5BA, WOOD FLOORS $2290+ Pine R.E, 1503 Pine. 215-735-8896, website: www.pinere.com RITTENHOUSE SQUARE: Enormous 3bdrm w/ 2 Full Baths in Beautiful Historic Brownstone, Fu l l S i z e Wa s h e r/ D r y e r i n Apt, HW Flrs, 2 Decorative Fireplaces, Hi Ceilings, Newly Remodeled Kitchen w/ Granite Countertop, Separate Dining Rm, Living Rm, & Family Rm, A/C, Spacious Rooms, Terrific Location! $2650/Mo. 215-7358030. #216850 THE WELLINGTON at Rittenhouse Square. Exclusively on the Square. Magnificent Square View. All utils inlcd. Spacious built-in closets, Laundry Fac, AC, DW, GD. Cable h/up. 24hr Doorman. 215-567-7810

HOUSE FOR RENT 10th & Pine Dream Home & Garden $1850/mo 267-250-1574 11TH & CHRISTIAN-GREAT LOC! 4BDRMS., 2FULL BATHS, C/A, HDWD/FLRS.,DECK, BKYARD, W/D. MUST SEE! $2500/mo.+. 610-304-0087. 12XX NEWKIRK ST-2BEDRMS. MODERN. $700/MO. CALL 267241-3976. 14XX ETTING ST. 3BDR, 1Bath, re ce n t l y - re m o d e l e d . $ 8 0 0 + utilities. Section 8 Welcome! 267-243-1139 1 4 X X S O. P H I L I P ST-3 B E D RMS., $900/mo. CALL 267241-3976. 18XX DUDLEY ST. 3BDR, 1 Bath, clean house, new paint & carpet. $850 + utilities. Section 8 welcome! 267-243-1139 2 0 T H & R I T N E R S T4BEDRMS.,MODERN, HDWD/ FLRS.,BASEMENT. $1250/mo.+utils. Call 215-850-9350. 20XX BOUVIER ST. Newbold Area. 2 BDr, 1 Bath, new paint and carpet, clean house. $850 + utilities. 267-243-1139 300 BLK SNYDER AVE- Brand new house, 3BR, CA, DW, GD, Good credit/Refs required. $900/mo+. First/Last/Security required. 215-688-7525

HOUSE FOR RENT 9XX MOUNTAIN ST A MUST SEE!! 2bedrms. All Brand New.,Hwd/flrs./ carpets, granite top. 1.5baths. $1200/mo.+utils. Call 267-2780824. COUNTRY LIVING IN SO. PHILA. SECLUDED, NEWLY RENOVATED 2BEDRM., NEW KITCHEN W/ N E W A P P L I A N C E ; 1 . 5 BAT H , CENTRAL-AIR, CERAMIC TILE/ CARPET: EXTRA LARGE BACKYARD W/PATIO AND CABANA, BASEMENT, LOTS OF PARKING, NO PETS. $1,475/MO.+UTILS. CALL 215-755-6900. MANAYUNK/ROXBOROUGH: Spacious Stone Farmhouse, 6 Lrg Bdrms 2.5 Baths, HW Flrs, Fireplace, 2 Porches, Deck, Separate DR, LR, & Den, M o d e r n K i t c h e n , L a u n d r y, P r i va te D r i veway/ Pa r k i n g , 2 C a r G a ra g e , H u g e Ya r d . $ 29 0 0/m o. 8 8 8 - 53 8 - 9 6 67 lic# 218436 PASSYUNK SQ (18xx Sartain) Bright 2+BR 1.5BA, HW floors, C/A, W/D, yard. Avail 2/1. $1250+ jphila@ aol.com 215-413-3137 P T R I C H M O N D - Nice bi l evel w/2-3BR, Loft, Lg bonus rm/office, EIK, Deck, Yard, HW flrs, Laundry room. $1000+ 609-685-1899 QUEEN VILLAGE: 3BR, 2BA w/CA. $1650+. Call for details: 215-922-3910. mcolaizzo@comcast.net

QUEEN VILLAGE6TH & KATER Spacious 3BR house, 1st floor Living & Dining room, Eat-in kitchen, 2nd floor 1 Bedroom, Office & Bath, 3rd floor 2 Bedrooms, Basement, W/D, Great outdoor space, Dogs Welcome. AVAILABLE NOW! $1,875. MSRE, 215-925-RENT(7368), www.MichaelSingerRealEstate.com S O. 4 T H & W O L F- $ 9 6 2 /m o . 2.5BR, EIK, ALL APPLS. STORAGE, LG. PATIO W/PLANTERS. CLOSE TO PUBL.TRANS. 215990-3405.

ROOM FOR RENT 124 LOMBARD, HEAD HOUSE SQUARE, SOCIETY HILL. “TOKIO B&B” STUDIOS. ($55-$100) DA I LY ra te s. ( $ 3 0 0 - $ 5 0 0 ) WEEKLY rates. We also have MONTHLY rates AVAIL. Website http://sushi.madamesaito. com Call MADAME SAITO 215922-2515 13TH & SPRUCE- Parker Hotel CC. Fully Furn’d Rms, no sec. deposit. Utils & housekeeping incld. WK: $165-$203; Day: $50$66. 215-735-2300.

ROOMMATE/ SHARING ALL AREAS - ROOMMATES.COM. Browse hundreds of online listings with photos and maps. Find your roommate with a click of the mouse! Visit: http:// www.Roommates.com. South Philly New Bold Area 1900 S 20th Street - 2 story house, full use of house. 10 m i n u te s f ro m Ce n te r C i ty. Perfect for college students. Share utilities. Call 267-8798373 leave message

ARTISTS STUDIO SPACE 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

OFFICE SPACE 12TH & PINE 1st floor Office available w/300SF. Pvt bath. $800+ Elec. Call 215-985-0600 9TH & SPRING GARDEN-1200SQ. FT., BATHROOM,CARPETING, C/A/H. VERY CLEAN. GREAT LOC! $1500/mo. 610-304-0087. OLD CITY, FRONT & MARKET: BILEVEL, CA, 600sq.ft. $850+Utls. Renzi Management. 800-514-3235 www.renziproperties.com

COMMERCIAL SPACE DELAWARE AVE VIC.-PRIME LOCATION. 5,000 SQ.FT WAREHOUSE SPACE WITH 2ND FLOOR OFFICES. LOADING DOCK W/OVERHEAD DOOR. CONVENIENT TO I-95, MINUTES FROM NORTHERN LIBERTIES. IDEAL FOR SALL BUSINESS: CONTRACTOR/MACHINE AND/OR WOOD SHOP. CALL 215-755-6900.

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To See the Following, Call Andy Oei (215)790-5230 2101-17 Chestnut Street #818 - Comfy 2BR/1BA, Wood Floors, Gym, Doorman, All Utilities Incl ................................................................... $1,775 2429 Locust Street #614 - Deluxe 1BR/1BA + PRKG, Storage, Gourm Kit, Spa Bath & Gym ................................................................................... $1,895 111 S 15th Street #P307 - FULLY FURNISHED 2 bed, 2 bath Designer Penthouse in the Sky ..................................................................... $2,900 111 S 15th Street #1614 - Deluxe 2BR/2BA Corner Condo, Gourmet Kitchen, Marble Baths ................................................................................. $2,150 To See the Following, Call Barbara Auritt 215-790-5640 1807 Pine Street #3F -3Br 1.5b bi-level hi ceils moldings FP e-i-Kit W/D avail now ................................................................................................ $2,000 To See the Following, Call David Snyder 267.968.8600 2332-38 Carpenter Street #3D - 3 units left,2 bd,1 ba,SS applns,bamboo flrs,W/D. ........................................................................................... $1,450 1729 French Street - 3 bdrm/1 bth home steps away from T.University. . ............................................................................................................ $1,200 2730 Parrish Street - 3 bd/1.5 ba,exp brk/fpl,fin bsmt,1,000 sq ft of living space ................................................................................................. $1,800 735-739 S 12th Street #302 - 2 bd/2 ba,exp brk,exp wd beams,hi ceilings. ............................................................................................................ $1,900 1936 Spruce Street #1 - Office space 1800sq.ft on 1st flr/600 sq ft on lower flr. ...................................................................................................... $5,000 To See the Following, Call Eric Fox (215)790-5228 908 S Schell Street - Renovated 2Br, 1B, Hdwd Flrs, Fin Bsmnt, CA, SS App ............................................................................................................ $1,595 To See the Following, Call Johanna Loke (215)893-9800 1420 Locust Street #24J - High floor,JR one bedroom,sunset views,Avail 2/1. ..................................................................................................... $1,350 1010 Race Street #2n - Great studio w/loft,exposed brk wall,washer/dryer. ............................................................................................................... $850 241 S 6th Street #209 - Large 1 bedroom w/eat-in kitchen & balcony. ... ............................................................................................................ $1,350 To See the Following, Call John Featherman 215-790-5221 1515 Locust Street #500 - Lux 3B/3b corner unit @ Chelsea, hi-end open kit, outdoor, .............................................................................................. $3,995 1213-15 Locust Street #C - Pristine 1B/1den/1b in WashWest hi-end thruout orig details ................................................................................... $3,600 2223 Locust Street #2F - Bi-level 2B/1b in Rit Sq, HW flrs thru-out, a/c, shared w/d ......................................................................................... $1,850 1324 Locust Street #315 - Studio @ Arts Condos w/ Fit ctr 24/7 sec. all util incl .................................................................................................... $1,025 1137 Pine Street #107 - Reno 1B/1b in Wash West, hi-end kit, HW flrs a/c w/d storage ....................................................................................... $1,295 241 S 6th Street #311 - Reno 1B/1b at Independence Place, hi-end kit, w/d, 24/7 sec .............................................................................................. $1,650 1337 S Clarion Street - 3B/1b in Passyunk Sq renovated eat-in kit, patio, full bsmnt ............................................................................................. $1,495 1326-42 Spruce Street #1408 - Large 1B/1b at Center City One, hi-end kit, lrg terrace, w/d ................................................................................... $1,500

To See the Following, Call Josh Allen (215)521-1536 2531 Lombard Street #3n - 1 bd /1 bth,SS appliances,hrwd floors,great location. ............................................................................................. $1,200 To See the Following, Call Kheon Benjamin (215)546-0550 1001-13 Chestnut Street #902W - 1Bd/1Ba charming condominium all utilities included ................................................................................ $1,400 To See the Following, Call Mark Wade 215-440-2088 315 new Street #103 - 2 bd/2 ba,lrg wndws,washer/dryer + parking. ........................................................................................................... $1,895 To See the Following, Call Michael Keough 215-888-1775 111 n 9th Street #703 - Penthouse 1 bdrm/1 ba,upgrades galore. ... $1,400 310 S 12th Street #1ST - R-Bi-level 1 bd/den/1 ba,parking & storage,tenant pays elec. ........................................................................................... $1,295 To See the Following, Call Mike McCann (215) 440-8345 2133 Carpenter Street - 4 bd/2 full/2 half bath home w/den,fin bsmt,hw flrs,rear dk. ........................................................................................ $2,495 671. Franklin Place #E - 2 bd/1 ba apartment w/hw flrs, marble bath and parking. ................................................................................................. $995 2513 Kimball Street - 2 bd/1.5 ba home w/fin bsmt,granite kit,marble ba,C/A,W/D......................................................................................... $1,395 832-36 Lombard Street - 5 bd/3 full and 2 half baths,2-car garage. .......................................................................................................... $12,500 609 n 34th Street #3RD FL - 2 bd unit w/new kit,hw flrs,lots of wndws. ............................................................................................................... $975 1345 S 19th Street - 3 bd/2 1/2 ba,hw flrs t/o,kit w/SS/Granite,mstr ste w/ dk. .................................................................................................. $1,895 1219 S 2nd Street - Pizza shop w/bar counter,oven,fryer,refrig,sink,rented As-Is ...................................................................................................... $650 1437 S 4th Street - Rehab 4 bd/2.5 ba,hw flrng,kit w/granite & SS,patio,dk. ............................................................................................................ $1,700 410 S 7th Street - 2 bd/1.5 ba,hw flrs,tons of light,tiled bths,exp brk,C/A. ............................................................................................................ $1,650 1216 S Juniper Street - 2 bd/1 ba apart w/prkng,C/A,sep laundry rm w/W/D ................................................................................................ $1,450 2048 South Street #1R - 1st flr studio w/hw flrs, new kit,W/D,includes all utilities ........................................................................................... $1,100 3425 Tilden Street - Cute 2-story 3 bd home in East Falls w/grg + porch front. .............................................................................................. $1,050 To See the Following, Call Robin Mitchell (215)440-8550 2249 S 18th Street - 3 bd,1 ba,2 pdw rms,hw flrs,modern kitch....... $1,100 To See the Following, Call Suzin Kline 215-440-7505 1414 S Penn Square #15A - Ritz-Carlton 2 bd/2 ba,ultra kit & ba,fitness center + pool. ................................................................................ $3,900 To See the Following, Call Vicki Goldberg 215-790-5650 2301 Cherry Street #6C - 2B/2.5b/balc/1 car GAR PKG, wd flrs, kit&bths immed occup ..................................................................................... $2,395 220 Locust Street #14F - 1B, kit granite ss appl wd cabs fab 1b new paint util incl .......................................................................................... $1,495

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1742 Sansom Street - 2nd floor retail space on highly trafficked corner or 18th and Sansom Streets, 1000 sf $1,500 NNN 2031 Locust Street Professional Office Space in secure apartment building, 958 sf $1,150 1830 Rittenhouse - Prime Rittenhouse Square office space, 754 sf $2,100 133 S. 18th Street – Ground floor corner retail space, excellent visibility on 18th Street shopping corridor $9,000 NNN 250 S. 18th Street – Prime ground floor corner retail/office space on Rittenhouse Square, 1857 sf $7,500 NNN 1601 Locust Street - 1st floor and lower level of prestigious Lanesborough condo, ideal for restaurant or offices, 4700 sf $11,000 NNN

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15th & Federal – 15xx Latona St – Recently renovated, 3 stry, 3 bdrm, 2 bth w/3rd flr master bdrm suite. $208,900

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Arts Condominiums – 1324 Locust St – Upgraded 1 bdrm, 10th flr condo w/ultra modern kitchen. $179,900

2025 Kimball Street – 3 Bedrooms. 3 ½ Baths. Den. 3 Story Home . Hardwood Floors. New Stainless Steel Appliances. Deck. W/D. $339,000.

South Phila – 5xx Pierce St – 3 bdrm row. Priced to sell $54,900

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$125,000 $250,000 $259,000 $249,000 $279,000

OPEN HOUSE $549,000

2524 Aspen St. Stunning Victorian on favorite Art Museum block! RITTENHOUSE SQUARE / FITLER SQUARE / AVENUE OF THE ARTS 1324 Locust St. Bank owned Studio at a Fantastic Value!! 2525 Federal St. Newly rehabbed 2br/1.5ba, hwflrs, granite, SS appliances and parking 201-259 N 8th St. #212 1bdrm, 1 bath, Lrg rooms, Dark Hardwood Floors, Mod Kit, Broad windows 1901 Walnut St. #9B Wonderful Aity and Light Unit facing Ritenhouse Square 2413 Manning St. Reduced 2+br/2+ba, garage home xtra wide 4-story townhome in Fitler Sq. Charming Block

$76,900 $189,900 $298,000 $479,000 $590,000

1307 S. 32nd Street. (Lot) Great Development Opportunity in Grays Ferry! 151 N. 57th St. Remodeled 3br/1ba home, new kitchen, HWFlrs, new bath 707 Ellsworth St. Fantastic New Renovation in Italian Market Area 310 Gladstone St. 2br/1ba, Large Walk-in Closet in Master Bedroom, Fully Renovated 2236 Dickinson St. Complete renovation with fabulous upgrades, full fin. bsmt &back patio 2243 S. Carlisle St. End unit row, 3br/1ba, grt block, Hwflrs, large kitchen, Fireplace 2612 S. Rosewood St. Renovated 3br, desirable block, lots of recent upgrades, aggressive price 2736 S. Cleveland St. Spacious well-kept house w/orig. HWflrs t/o. Lrg bsmt and yard! 1515 S. 2nd St. REDUCED-OWNER MOTIVATED!! BRING ALL OFFERS!!! 3Sty w/ huge yard/neat and clean t/o 210 Carpenter St. #R Best Priced 2br/1ba townhome, great price, on private, picturesque courtyard setting 525 Fitzwater St. #15 Newly renovated 1br/1ba townhomes, gated private courtyard setting, tax abatement 2847 Warnock St. Complete renovation with fabulous upgrades in South Philadelphia 1206 S. 15th St. Beautifully renovated 3br/2½ba, townhome, Gourmet kitchen, HWflrs, roofdeck 708 S. Perth St. #B Lovely Home in a Fantastic Neighborhood! 1608 Montrose St. Two-story townhome in a very desirable location features tons of upgrades! 200 Lombard St. #744 Very nice 1br/1.5ba condo. H/W, great views fr balcony, great bathrooms 919 Christian St. Price reduced on this spacious Bella Vista home just steps from the Italian Market! 914 S. 16th St. Three-Story Gem in Graduate Hospital with Fabulous Upgrades 1336 E. Passyunk Sq. Newly Renovated Three-Story Townhome in Passyunk Sq. 914 S. 16th St. Three-Story Gem in Graduate Hospital with Fabulous Upgrades 2228 Saint Albans St. Just reduced and staged! 1903 Carpenter St. Luxuriously ren. 3br/2ba, Gourmet KIT, lrg yard, private Maste Ste., 10yr Tax Abatement 1221 S. Phillip St – 3br/2.5ba new construction, 1car garage, HWflrs, hi ceilings, open kit, & deck. 2011 Catharine St. Newly rehabbed! 2-car pkg., 3br/3.5ba, wood flrs, deluxe kit w/granite & SS 1424 Christian St. Customize your 4br/2.5ba mansion, orig. details, luxurious finishes, roofdeck, FP

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-546-2700 309-313 Arch St, #606 1br/1ba loft condo in heart of Old City w/SS appliances & silestone counters 309-313 Arch St. #308 An affordable historical restoration in Old City! Hoopskirt Factory 317 Vine St. #503 Bi-level Penthouse in Old City for Great Price! 2br/1.5ba, Terrace, huge windows 201-59 N. 8th St. #910 2br/2.5ba, 1642sqft, bi-level Penhouse at the Metroclub w/450sqft balcony! 309-313 Arch St. #205 Fabulous 3br/3ba multilevel loft in the heart of Old City 1234 Hamilton St. Fabulous 2br+den in Heart of Loft District 314-22 N. 12th St. Fab Bi-Level Penthouse Condo, 2br/2ba, Granite, SS, Hwflrs, 2 large decks

$225,000 Fr $319,000 $399,000 $475,000 $529,900 $599,000 $669,900

SOCIETY HILL / WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST 1109 Spruce St. Units 2R, 3R Your choice of two 1br/1ba units. 2R totally renovated w/granite & SS Kit Fr 1109 Spruce St. #4 New Listing. Totally rehabbed loft style condo. Deluxe granite & SS kitchen 606A Waverly St. Location! This is a lovely trinity! It’s a 1 Bedroom. Great for 1st time buyer/student

OPEN HOUSE $189,000 OPEN HOUSE $185,000 $194,400

OPEN HOUSE $199,900 OPEN HOUSE $250,000

927 Spruce St. 2R Deluxe Jr. 1br/1ba w/new kitchen. Unit contains a queen size Murphy bed 255 S. Hutchinson St. Historic 2br/1.5ba on charming cobblestone st. in heart of Wash Square 1109 Spruce St. #1R Deluxe bi-level 2br/2ba totally renovated unit. Deluxe Granite & SS Kit 1029-1033 Spruce St. 1br/ba loft in th heart of Old City includes SS appliances & Silestone counters 1110 Waverly St. 3br/2.5ba, 1526 sqft corner home, quiet cherry tree lined st. Move in ready. Garden

$275,000 $235,000 $599,000

UNIVERSITY CITY / WEST PHILADELPHIA 5501 Pentridge St. Porch Front Home w/Good Bones, a quiet W. Philly block. Open flr plan, lrg yard. 915 N. Fallon St. 3br/1ba Close to schools & transportation, New kitchen, Nice size yard, Remodeled 544 S. 48th St. #B Pristine Home ready to move in, in lovely University City! 403 S. 51st St. Charming 6br/2ba Tin, hwflr, enclosed porch, 2800sqft, gourmet kit, yard

$23,000 $45,000 $244,900 $274,000

NORTHERN LIBERTIES / FISHTOWN / NORTH PHILADELPHIA 2537 Memphis St. Excellent Location for spacious 3br that works for an investor or a homeowner 2651 Belgrade St. Charming fixer upper in Fishtown, newer heater and roof, great location 2209 Harold St. Totally renovated gorgeous 2br home in Fishtown 2641 Cedar St. 2bed/ 1 bath totally renovated Fishtown home. New everything & comes w/2642 Ritter back lot 2721 E. Lehigh Ave. Bank Owned Three Story Fishtown Home on Bustling Lehigh Ave 1637 N. Cadwallader St. 4br/2.5ba, Huge, completely renovated near NoLibs. HWflrs, new appls. 1429 E. Oxford St. Great 4br home, brand new brick front, newer electric. This is a Short Sale 2349 E. Cumberland St. 4br/1.5ba. Lrg home. New kit, new carpeting & windows, partly fin bsmt 2657 E. Norris St. Total Rehab 3br/2ba, new brick front, all new interior, Granite counters, Wood flrs 428 N. 13th St. #3A Beautiful loft conversion, lrg open flr plan, 1400sqft+, HWflrs, exposed brick 2037 Frankford Ave. Lovely home, 18’ width, 120’ property depth. 4br/1.5ba. Wonderful investment 813-17 N. 5th St. #301 Unique 2br/1ba loft living experience in the heart of Northern Liberties 1763 Frankford Ave. Spacious Fishtown home for Great Price w/Orig Details, Lrg Yard, Unique 2161 Dauphin St. 3br/2½ba, finished basement with powder room 1234 E. Fletcher St. Brand New 3-story Construction in Fishtown

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432 N. 37th St. Classic Exterior & Modern Interior, One-of-a-kind Renovation! SURROUNDING AREAS

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NEW CONSTRUCTION (10 YEAR TAX ABATEMENT) 800 N. 48th St. New Construction! From 309-313 Arch St. Loft condos in the heart of Old City w/vintage HWflrs, high ceilings & more 2218 Manton St. 3br/3ba, 2800sqft, master ste. roof deck, patio and finished basement 764 S. Mole St. HWflrs, 3br/2.5ba, master ste. w/huge walk-in closet & sitting room 1937 League St. 3br/3ba, selct your finishes, gourmet KIT, pending tax abatement, roof deck 209 Cuthbert St. #301 New Loft Conversion located in the heart of OLD CITY 209 Cuthbert St. Newly renovated loft building in the heart of Old City! Modern kitchens & baths-must see! 2155 Montrose St. New (2400sqft) corner home across fr park. 3br/2.5ba, open flr plan, custom kit 1912 Kimball St. 3br/3ba, high-end finishes, tax abatement, roof deck, fin bsmt, garage 1304 S. 2nd St. Pennsport-Wharton Estates 3br/2full & 2half ba, contemporary, H/W, granite/SS KIT 629-31 S. 13th St. #A Choose your finishes, 3br/3ba, HWflrs, fin bsmt, 660 sqft, Roof Deck!

$225,000 $259,900 $295,000 $339,000 $349,900 $389,900 Fr $344,750 $425,000 OPEN HOUSE $450,000 $450,000 $599,000

COMMERCIAL/INVESTMENT 2215 Latona St. Vacant residential lot at a great price 6072 Callowhill St. West Philly shell. Mixed use, 1st flr Studio, 2nd flr apt, nice yard, potential pkg 3527 N. 6th St. Duplex w/2 spacious units. 1st flr (1br/1ba) is vacant & 2nd flr (2br/1ba) is occupied 5738 Market St. Legal Duplex along Market St. Corridor. Envision the updated version, Priced to Sell 2239 N. Front St. Tremendous opportunity! Cleaned out shell prime for redevelopment. 1576sqft 1818 Germantown Ave. Grt Multi/Commercial developmnt Opp. In NoLibs/Fishtown, 4 res units 1820 Germantown Ave. Grt Multi/Commercial Opp. Commercial 1st flor, resi 2nd and 3rd flrs 828 W. Ritner St. Store with 2 renovated apartments & finished basement-tenants secured 27 Osborne St. Cashflowing Duplex. 2+3 BRs. Grt loc, well maintained. Sep utils excpt water 1716 Monument St. Nicely renovated triplex. One block from Temple Campus 117 Sumac St. Huge Triplex, Great Street. Sep. & meters. Laundry. Long-term tenants in 2 units

*Please see the oPen house time for this ProPerty in the oPen house Directory.

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Kinsessing – 1414 S. 51st Street Spacious home at incredible price! 4 beds, 1 bath, porch, patio, full basement! Southwest Phila.-2553 S. Dewey St. Open Flr. Plan. Upgraded bathroom & kitchen, Full fin. Bsmt Northeast-4619 Sheffield St. 3br/1ba, Well-designed home, nice yard, 1-car pkg, bsmt laundry Germantown-5321 Wingohocking Terr. 3br/1ba, renovated., HWflrs, exp. brick, C/A, granite/SS kit Point Breeze-1222 South 20th St. – Fantastic opportunity to own a huge, ranch style corner property Roxborough-427 Shawmont Ave. #B 1br w/den condo, parking, porch, dining area, great location Oak Lane-2308 W. Cheltenham Ave. Beautiful 3br/1.5ba, recent renovations, encl. deck, garage West Oak Lane-1516 Beverly Rd. Beautiful 3br/1ba with parking and finished basement. Krewstown-8922 Krewstown Ave. #310 2br/2ba includes PKG space & newer KIT appliances New Kensington-2074 E. Cumberland St. Brand new roof, windows, lighting, ceiling fans, flooring Port Richmond-3298½ Miller St.- 3br/1ba recently renovated w/2 car garage Parkwood-12717 Medford Rd.- Well maintained 3br/1½ba row, spacious living area, renovated KIT, garage Chestnut Hill-7601 Crittenden St. Spacious 3br/2½ba, new flooring & bath, FP, Hwflrs, Parking Holmesburg-4313 Rhawn St. Great 4 Bedroom home. Large backyard and new remodeled Come see for yourself! East Falls-3688 Stanton St. 4br/1ba, 3-story home in East Falls. Wall to wall carpets, lrg Kit, lrg yard East Falls-3424 Crawford St. Charming 2br/1ba w/lrg yard, HWflrs, Mod Kit w/SS appls, near SEPTA Manayunk – 27 Osborne St. Duplex. 2+3br, Grt Loc, well maintained. Sep. Utils except water. Torresdale-113 Village Lane 3br/1.5ba, C/A, lrg driveway, inground pool, newer appls, lrg bsmt Manayunk-142 Carson St. Gem of a house. Classic charm & modern convenience, 3br/1.5ba Manayunk-4743 Sheldon St. Manayunk’s Newest Luxury Townhome!

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Penthouse, 2 bedrooms, 2 full baths, 2 half baths, high end finishes and appointments throughout, balcony with city views 3bedroom+den, 3.5 baths, marble foyer, formal dining rm, sunny eat-in kitchen, 10’ ceilings, moldings, oak herring bone floors, 3 gas fireplaces 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, brand new, very high ceilings, his and hers master baths, custom kitchen, exquisite detail throughout. Tri-level penthouse with 1600 sq ft of terrace space, being sold unfinished, private elevator access 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, herringbone wood floors, EIK, crown molding and other custom finishes throughout, Rittenhouse Square views 2 bedrooms plus den, 2.5 baths, large balcony over Rittenhouse Square, open kitchen, hardwood floors, marble baths 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, upgraded kitchen, original hardwood floors and molding, lots of light 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, hardwood floors, 270 degree views, open kitchen, marble baths, custom closets, W/D 3BR, 3BA, Bamboo flrs., spac. Kit w/custom wood cabinetry, granite counter tops, marble baths, 3 exposures, gym and hotel services 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, completely renovated with high end finishes, views of Rittenhouse Square from every room 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, terrace on pool club deck, open custom kitchen, marble baths, wood floors 2 bedrooms + den, 3 baths, gourmet kitchen, marble baths, walk-in-closets, hardwood floors 2 bedrooms + den, 3 baths, sun-soaked, wood floors, open kitchen, marble baths oPen sunDay 1/30, 1:00PM - 1:30PM 2bedrooms, 1.5baths, windows overlooking Rittenhouse Square, old world charm, spacious kitchen, formal dining room 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, southern exposure from every room, marble baths, open chefs kitchen, maple hardwood floors 1 bedroom, 1.5 baths, eat in kitchen, beautiful sunset views, master suite with large marble bath Two bedrooms, two baths, hardwood floors, old world charm with modern features Two bedrooms, two baths, hardwood floors, building offers 24 hour doorman and gym, located on Rittenhouse Square 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, hardwood floors, marble bath, rooftop pool club and skyline view One bedroom, one bath, hardwood floors, marble bath, custom kitchen oPen sunDay 1/30, 1:45PM - 2:15PM 1 bedroom, 1 bath, wood floors throughout, renovated kitchen and bathroom, bay windows with city views Studio with wood floors, marble bath, open kitchen and city view Studio, high floor with city views, walk in closest, wood floors, marble bath

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$3,500,000* $834,620 $2,900,000* $666,258 $2,750,000* $636,038 $2,250,000* $579,879 $1,975,000* $511,632 $1,295,000* $306,402 $1,195,000* $309,704 $1,290,000* $174,122 $1,350,000* $181,323 $995,000* $242,439 $799,000* $201,948 $829,000* $115,051 $799,000* $190,486 $689,900* $145,000 $625,000* $149,666 $599,000* $147,283 $595,000* $143,766 $550,000* $133,706 $497,500 $119,226 $399,900 $53,426 $319,000 $46,421 $275,000 $39,472 $219,900 $32,772

Location

SOCIETY HILL

Total Square Footage

Price

101 walnut st bank builDing society Hill towers society Hill towers society Hill towers society Hill towers bank builDing

Entire Floor Residence, 2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, custom open kitchen, designer baths, panoramic river and city views 2 bedrooms plus den, 2.5 baths, hardwood floors, high-end open kitchen, designer bathrooms Two bedrooms, one bath, parquet wood floors, washer/dryer, unobstructed river views, floor-to-ceiling windows One bedroom, one bath, river views, custom kitchen and bath One bedroom, high floor, river view, investment opportunity 1BR, 1BA, magnificent river views, high floor, wood floors throughout Raw space that can be customized to the buyers desires, hotel services and amenities available

2423 2,117 1,133 700 700 700 1,286

$1,200,000* $281,398 $799,000* $207,313 $399,000 $58,788 $297,500 $43,513 $290,000 $42,577 $275,000 $40,731 $269,000 $41,367

Location

WASHINGTON SQUARE

Total Square Footage

Price

nDePenDence Place

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

4,500

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

$13,728

$3,022

inDePenDence Place

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

2,810

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

$7,658

$1,511

$6,147

inDePenDence Place

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

3,015

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

$7,449

$1,403

$6,046

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2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, beautifully renovated kitchen and baths, balcony with city and river views, hardwood floors in living areas 2 bedroom, 2 baths, completely renovated with custom kitchen and designer baths, balcony, hardwood floors 1 bedroom, 1.5 baths, alcove, Washington Square views, completely upgraded throughout 1 bedroom, 1.5 baths, alcove, completely renovated with gourmet kitchen, designer bath, amazing closets 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, wood floors, balcony, southern exposure Deluxe 1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony with views of Washington Square and the river, renovated kitchen and bath 1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, laundry room, excellent condition 1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, upgraded kitchen, new fixtures throughout 1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, excellent value

1,977 1,173 1,118 1,118 1,200 1,063 928 860 928

$799,000* $559,000* $499,900 $479,900 $349,900 $329,000 $299,900 $295,000 $290,000

$195,082 $139,761 $71,144 $68,164 $56,515 $53,908 $44,212 $42,801 $42,132

$4,966 $3,269 $3,167 $3,205 $2,856 $2,707 $2,049 $2,038 $1,947

$961 $613 $524 $620 $417 $410 $327 $348 $302

$4,004 $2,656 $2,643 $2,585 $2,439 $2,297 $1,722 $1,690 $1,645

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WATERFRONT

Total Square Footage

Price

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

Monthly After Tax Cost

waterFront square

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

924

$209,900

$42,318

$1,804

$96,341 $85,223 $57,483 $49,901

$88,613 $86,520 $82,852 $78,608

$889,056 $619,296 $607,268 $557,842 $501,005 $304,997 $318,887 $373,141 $371,644 $273,743 $206,151 $246,527 $203,258 $217,432 $158,380 $170,623 $153,060 $146,037 $116,911 $106,710 $91,365 $81,681 $62,166

$2,248 $1,989 $1,341 $1,164

$2,068 $2,019 $1,933 $1,834

$20,745 $14,450 $14,170 $13,016 $11,690 $7,117 $7,440 $8,707 $8,672 $6,387 $4,810 $5,752 $4,743 $5,073 $3,696 $3,981 $3,571 $3,408 $2,728 $2,490 $2,132 $1,906 $1,451

$309 $238 $190 $181

$296 $299 $272 $271

$3,725 $2,632 $2,605 $2,351 $2,094 $1,320 $1,321 $1,757 $1,795 $1,090 $855 $992 $861 $2,938 $631 $659 $619 $580 $447 $486 $352 $319 $226

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

$298,478 $217,014 $128,086 $90,659 $89,976 $86,724 $95,821

$6,694 $5,064 $2,989 $2,115 $2,099 $2,024 $2,236

$1,124 $844 $427 $309 $302 $291 $303

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

$212,815 $140,111 $135,733 $137,351 $122,407 $115,998 $87,809 $87,347 $83,461

$90,810

$2,119

$315

Monthly After Tax Cost

$17,020 $11,818 $11,565 $10,665 $9,597 $5,796 $6,119 $6,949 $6,877 $5,298 $3,956 $4,761 $3,881 $4,251 $3,064 $3,323 $2,953 $2,827 $2,281 $2,003 $1,780 $1,587 $1,225 Monthly After Tax Cost

$5,841 $4,291 $2,562 $1,806 $1,798 $1,733 $1,933 Monthly After Tax Cost

$10,706

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