Philadelphia Weekly 02-29-2012

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ARTS & CULTURE 12 Calendar PW ’s picks for the week.

FOOD 18 Inn Keepers There’s a lot to love about the new Trestle Inn.

STAGE 22 Show Stoppers Gay performance artist Tim Miller responds to Villanova’s cancellation of his workshop.

ART 23 Race Against the Machine PAFA celebrates the

COVER STORY 6 Mad Recent

highs and lows of Henry Tanner and the black artists who came after him.

It took five years, but PO PO’s SCREEN debut album Dope Boy 24 X Bomb Project X uses Magick is a beautiful, fully tired movie gimmicks to make a formed wonder to behold. far-less-superior Superbad.

PHILLYNOW 4 Worst-Curse Scenario Employees in the Controller’s Office should think twice about swearing.

5 Shove Thy Neighbor PA offers little protection for gay victims of hate crimes.

MUSIC 26 Critic’s Pick Jim Jones + Dice Raw. 27 ADULT 30 SAVAGE LOVE 30 RECRUITMENT 31 REAL ESTATE 32 OPEN HOUSE 11 MEDICAL STUDIES

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Growing Pains

Regarding Matthew Petrillo’s article about a proposed Neighborhood Improvement Project in North Central: Contrary to the slant of your article and your inflammatory cover, the new entity will be anything but a burden on the long-time residents of North Central. The proposed legislation is clear—only commercial or rentalproperty owners will be assessed. Owner-occupants will not. To suggest that this new initiative will be a “burden to the already struggling neighborhood” may be a way to get attention and circulate more papers, but it is patently untrue. The intent of the new entity is to create a mechanism where those who have been investing in properties in the neighborhood will be required to also invest in neighborhood quality of life measures.

The NID will be very tightly focused on neighborhood cleanliness and security. The “struggling neighborhood” will stand to benefit significantly.

NCNID Steering Committee, via philadelphiaweekly.com

The steering committee is a self appointed group of developers seeking power from the city to tax and to place liens on property owners who fail to pay the tax to them. This is not a voluntary association; it is empowered by the city to collect taxes on every property owner as defined by the steering committee whether they agree or not with the NID. The Philadelphia CCD began in the same manner and now is a taxing monster that targets residential owners of property. When the Temple NID is up for renewal it can do the same. The goal of these developers is to obtain state and federal subsidies for their investments under the disguise of a non-profit NID. PABLO O’HIGGINS, via philadelphiaweekly.com

So they secretly make a NID and put developers on the steering committee of it. How many of those people donated to Clarke, I wonder. They probably read about more kids going to Temple and see dollar signs. Bah. If they were really sincere about raising money to benefit the city, they’d actually collect those taxes that 42 percent of the people in the area owe, and not make everyone pay a new tax instead.

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Worst-Curse Scenario

Employees in the Controller’s Office should think twice about swearing.

Trash talk: Potty-mouthed employees will feel the wrath of the Controller’s Office.

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According to (apocryphal) legend, prolific British writer Rudyard Kipling was never knighted because of his vulgarity. A Kipling tale beginning, “‘Shit!’ said the Queen … ” didn’t sit too well with the prudish Victoria.

Apparently, City Controller Alan Butkovitz doesn’t fancy cursing, either.

Employees in his office are walking on eggshells after two separate incidents in recent months involving the use of naughty words resulted in the firing of one auditor and the investigation of another dozen employees.

Indecent Exposure

By Aaron Kase akase@philadelphiaweekly.com

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Victorian-era morals, indeed.

According to numerous sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity, the latest firestorm was set off at the beginning of February when a sexually explicit note was found scrawled on a bathroom stall in a men’s room near the Controller’s Office on the 12th floor of the Municipal Services Building. The writing referenced a sex act between Chief Deputy City Controller Harvey Rice and his partner, political consultant Marty O’Rourke, who ran Butkovitz’s election campaign and is now

contracted to provide public relations and communications services to the office for $30,000 a year.

The powers that be were not pleased.

Sources with knowledge of the situation say Butkovitz quickly brought in a private investigator from the Keystone Intelligence Network, which removed the stall door and dusted it for fingerprints.

About a dozen employees were interrogated on city time by the investigator, with no union representation, and forced—under implied threat to their jobs—to provide fingerprints and a handwriting sample by transcribing the message on the stall, “Harvey sucks Marty’s dick.” Employees were alarmed that during the course of the interrogations they were questioned about what they thought was confidential information from their personnel files and medical records.

Employees under investigation say they were also told that a hate crime had been committed. A police spokesperson said the PPD had no record of any recent contact from the Controller’s Office regarding a hate crime.

Keystone Intelligence Network Director William Fleisher confirmed that his firm was hired to undertake an investigation for the Controller’s Office, but declined further comment on any details.

Asked to confirm the incident, Butkovitz Spokesman Brian Dries said only, “This is a personnel matter that is currently under investigation and as such, there will be no comment.” The office declined to confirm or deny any facts or address additional questions about how much the investigation cost, why the dozen employees were singled out of an office of more than a hundred, or whether any HIPAA privacy rules were broken through disclosure of employees’ medical records to the investigators.

According to one source, after PW contacted the Controller’s Office for comment, the employees questioned in the doorwriting incident were told by upper management that anyone suspected of speaking to reporters affiliated with the newspaper would be subject to further investigation by Keystone and subsequent punishment.

Rice, apparently upset because no one has been fired, reportedly walked out of the office nearly two weeks ago and hadn’t returned as of yesterday. He didn’t respond to phone calls and email requesting comment.

His absence has reportedly resulted in a void of leadership, since a number of sources close to the office claim that he and O’Rourke run the whole show and Butkovitz is a mere political figurehead.

Whether the mysterious bathroom scribbler will ever be caught and brought to justice, and how many taxpayer dollars will

be spent hunting him down, is still up in the air.

For now, whoever did the deed still has a job. Unfortunately, Rafael Kaplan isn’t so lucky.

Kaplan was a promising young auditor certified as a CPA and boasting a 4.00 M.B.A. from Rutgers Camden School of Business. He joined the Controller’s Office in June 2011 after stints with the city’s Department of Revenue and the IRS. In an October progress report reviewed

by PW, Kaplan received rankings of satisfactory and superior across a 10-point evaluation signed by his immediate supe-

The employees were told by upper management that anyone suspected of speaking to reporters would be subject to further investigation and subsequent punishment. rior, Audit Supervisor Eugene McQuary.

McQuary checked a box indicating that he would request to have Kaplan on his team for future assignments.

What Kaplan didn’t realize at the time was that he had already sealed his fate, signed in ink with the s-word.

The precipitation of his downfall came in early September, during a course on white-collar fraud taught by one Sammy Antar. Antar was the chief financial officer of Crazy Eddie, the electronics retailer that perpetrated one of the largest and most notorious security frauds of the 1980s, a precursor to more recent Enron and Madoff scandals.

Antar cooperated with prosecutors and gave evidence against his cousin and uncle, the firm’s co-founders, escaping prison time himself though coming away with three felony convictions. He now leads seminars on white-collar crime for law enforcement agencies, professional groups, businesses and universities.

That’s how Antar found himself in the Controller’s Office in September, telling his story to employees and giving them tips for spotting fraud. (In a note of irony, one of Antar’s warnings to auditors is to not get too close to the people they’re auditing so as to not compromise their judgment. Butkovitz should take note—he’s been criticized for using audits as a political stick and carrot to

attack his enemies and protect his friends.)

Kaplan, while he thought the course content excellent, took issue with the choice of presenter because he had a personal history with scammers—he was once ripped off by a disreputable diamond appraisal on a purchase of an engagement ring.

“As someone who was once the victim of a fraud and who lost thousands of dollars as a result of it, I found Mr. Antar’s presentation to be morally and ethically reprehensible,” Kaplan says. He made his feelings known on an anonymous survey passed out at the end of the course, writing, “Why would the City of Philadelphia hire a criminal PIECE OF SHIT to teach us a course? . . . He doesn’t even deserve to be hired to clean toilets.”

Kaplan’s anonymity was short-lived.

He mentioned his displeasure with Antar in an aside to a supervisor following the presentation, but didn’t spare another thought about the matter until Oct. 24, when he was called into a disciplinary hearing and asked whether he was the author of the anonymous survey containing the dreaded s-word. “I reacted with integrity by telling the truth,” Kaplan says. He apologized and said it wouldn’t happen again, only to be unexpectedly and abruptly fired on Dec. 9, 11 days before his probationary period ended and he would have gained civil-service protections. Washing his mouth out with soap, it seems, wouldn’t have been sufficient.

“Your reaction [on the anonymous survey] suggests that when you dislike something or someone you may handle the situation in a less than professional manner,” his termination paper read, signed by Post Audit Deputy City Controller Gerald Micciulla (the office declined comment on Kaplan’s saga).

Antar was surprised to hear about Kaplan’s termination. “It doesn’t bother me that he said that,” the former white-collar criminal says. “He has every right to voice his opinion of me. It was wrong for the City of Philadelphia to fire him for what he said about me.”

The last word on Kaplan’s rejection notice reads, “The vulgar language expressed by you in the attachment, which you acknowledge as having written, places you at high risk for embarrassing the Controller’s Office, discrediting the professionalism of the office, and causing unwanted negative publicity.”

The office is doing a fine job in those departments on its own. ■ Aaron Kase runs the Philadelphia Exposure Project, which aims to uncover business as usual in Philly politics. Find out what he knows on phillyxp.com or twitter.com/phillyxp.

PA offers little protection for gay victims of hate crimes.

By Tara Murtha tmurtha@philadelphiaweekly.com RYA N S T R A N D G R E E N B E R G

Troubled Waters: Edward “Blaze” says he’s been driven out of his house.

drastic.”

It seems no one saw who put up the sign.

But it brings up an interesting point: Even if it becomes known who put up the sign, the charges can’t be legally considered a hate crime under Pennsylvania law.

Like the police told Waters, if he were a minority and called a racial slur in the context of another crime being committed against him, that’d be a different story.

Even though the FBI’s most recent statistics show more bias-motivated crimes are committed due to sexual orientation (19.3 percent) than ethnicity (12.8 percent), Pennsylvania law recognizes race, but not gender and sexual orientation, as a category of bias crime.

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The list of grievances Waters and Benoit have against Roman is long. They say on top of the name-calling, he’s thrown dog shit on their front door and inexplicably dug up their backyard. Both men say they witnessed him kick their cat Mary in the face, who died soon after the attack.

Last fall, the couple installed surveillance cameras around their home. The camera rolled as a man who appears to be Roman leaned over his backyard fence, smashing furniture that Waters had temporarily stored on a tarp in the backyard with what looks like a pipe or stick. The couple burned a DVD of the footage and called Fox 29 news reporters.

“If he can do this to an innocent gay man who lives next door, what can he do to poor innocent children that might be gay or

In 2002, an amendment was passed that added actual or perceived ancestry, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, gender and gender identity to the list of bias categories covered by the Ethnic Intimidation Act, which already included race, color, religion and national origin.

It didn’t last long.

In 2004, Temple grad Michael Marcavage, born-again Christian and founder of extreme Philadelphia-based evangelical group Repent America, was arrested while protesting the city’s OutFest celebration.

Marcavage was charged under the Ethnic Intimidation Act. A judge eventually dismissed the charges against Marcavage, but he went on to challenge the law all the way up to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Though the premise has precedent in other states, the way the amendment was passed resulted in it being declared unconstitutional. “It had nothing to do with the content of the statute,” says Leonore Carpenter, assistant professor of law at Temple and former legal director at Equality Advocates PA. “It was merely that it was passed in a way that was procedurally inappropriate. It was a very technical reason.” In short, legislators violated protocol by tucking it into an agricultural bill. “[The amendment] has not been passed again,” adds Carpenter.

With both chambers dominated by Republicans rapidly proving themselves to be among the most socially conservative in the country, properly amending the Ethnic Intimidation Act to include gender and sexual orientation isn’t a top priority.

Ted Martin, the executive director of LGBT political advocacy organization Equality PA, says, “There’s discussion about hate-crime legislation in Harrisburg, but there’s nothing moving.”

The inertia probably has something to do with the fact that Pennsylvania has never had an openly gay or lesbian legislator in either the House or the Senate. (If Brian Sims, a lawyer challenging Rep. Babette Josephs (D-Philadelphia) for the 182nd District, wins a seat this year, he will be the first.)

“The point has to be made that we simply treat LGBT people really bad [in Pennsylvania],” says Martin.

Recently, Martin established the first LGBT caucus in the state legislature. “The basic gist of the caucus is to start having conversations,” says Martin. “To help members of the Legislature to simply understand the lives of LBGT folks, quite honestly.”

Perhaps they can start by having Blaze Waters as a guest to tell them all about it. n

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Edward “Blaze” Waters has been living in his house on Orthodox Street in the city’s Frankford section for 20 years, and has been sharing it with his boyfriend, 34-yearold Justin Benoit, for the last two.

They say a couple weeks ago, they came home to find a homemade sign, a slab of wood bigger than a door, propped up on the porch of their neighbor’s house. Since the houses are only about a foot apart, the sign—which had “MOVE FAGS” spraypainted on it—towered over the couple’s front porch space.

“I was just mortified,” says Benoit, a transplant originally from Louisiana. “I’ve never encountered anything like this.”

The sign was the final straw. Benoit left the house and is crashing with friends in South Philly. Waters, 48, who’s staying with other friends nearby, alleges that the sign is just the latest stunt in what he describes as years of ongoing harassment from his neighbor, Jose Roman.

Waters claims the trouble started when Roman purchased the house next door several years ago. Waters says he and Benoit have been called “faggots” and “homos” and told they were living “in a house of Sodom and Gomorrah” by Roman, who was employed as a counselor by the Philadelphia School District at the time. He was suspended after being arrested for criminal mischief and harassment last September.

A former tenant of Roman’s who asked to remain anonymous claims he witnessed Roman use slurs against Waters. “It started out slowly,” says Waters. “Then became

transgender growing up in the school system?” Waters asked the news crew.

On top of the Roman’s arrest and job suspension, Waters was also granted a stayaway order.

At the time, Roman denied to Fox 29 reporters that he did anything to Waters’ property. “I don’t do that,” he insisted on camera. “No, sir.”

Then Roman, who also works as a contractor, got in more trouble when Fox 29 followed up on the story to report that he had been illegally renting out the house in question without the proper license. A former tenant says many of the boarders are temporary, roaming in and out.

While it’s still unclear exactly what is going on down at the end of Orthodox Street and the motivations behind it all, it’s clear that this is a feud gone berserk: Between the two houses, records show the police responded to disturbances or calls 36 times since January 2011.

Waters says his health is suffering from the stress.

“I’ve had a lot of internal problems. I’m on nerve medicine,” says Waters. “A lot of this stuff has taken a toll on me. I’m like, I’ve got to move to get away from this insanity.”

He’s conflicted. Waters says he feels pressure to “represent the gay community” by not backing down, but he’s scared. He served time after being convicted for arson in 2003 (he says he is innocent) and isn’t about to go back. He fears that if he stays in the house any longer, he’ll be forced into a physical confrontation.

“I’m not staying at my house because I know that I’m going to have to go to jail if I have to protect myself,” says Waters. “But everyone’s telling me ‘don’t move.’”

By “everyone,” Waters means the LGBT community, where news of Waters, and his situation, spread like wildfire. At this point, Waters is receiving voicemails from people he doesn’t even know. They tell him they’re enraged about the situation, and then leave him another phone number and advise him to call another person he doesn’t know.

That’s just the way the Philly LGBT community works. But the way Pennsylvania law works, even if the prosecution convicts Roman of criminal mischief and harassment and can prove bias as motivation, it wouldn’t matter legally.

Waters and Benoit say last week, a rep from the Human Relations Commission took the sign down. The HRC declined to comment on the situation.

Roman declined to comment through his attorney, Mary T. Maran. “My client denies putting up the sign,” says Maran.

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The rollout begins with black sheep of @maddecent POPO … five years in the making

us for the better. Anyone from Philly should hang out in a city like that just for a little bit. It felt like a warm hug after being in the cold.”

As it turned out, there was someone from Philly hanging out in Athens around the same time. And that someone wasn’t just anyone. His name was Thomas Wesley Pentz, though he’s better known by his DJ name, Diplo.

@diplo, Feb. 18, 2012

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ere it was: every musician’s worst nightmare. Jahan Zeb Malik, “Zeb” to friends, was living in his tiny practice space on Columbus Boulevard, sleeping on a dirty mattress he’d crammed in amongst the maze of gear and the straggle of guitar cords. He had no shower. No fridge.

No stove. No closet.

His diet at the time mostly consisted of gas station hot dogs. Though sometimes he’d splurge for a gas station hamburger. The year was 2008, and everything had pretty much gone to shit.

“It was a pretty miserable lifestyle,” says the Philly-born Pakistani, looking bleary eyed while eating a pear on a bench upstairs at the Market East station, one of the oddball spots he likes to hang. “Awful.”

Zeb couldn’t help but think, as did his two brothers, Shoaib and Hassan Malik, that the time to call it quits was nigh. They’d been a band, PO PO, for only a short while, and had already experienced a gigantic high, one that only served to make their current low feel lower.

Just a year prior, Zeb, his brothers, and then-bandmate Mike Collins, were touring Europe with Nine Inch Nails.

Plucked, they were, by the hand of Goth God Trent Reznor himself.

PO PO had cut a rough demo they’d recorded in a Bryn Mawr party house they were renting, and it wound up in the right hands. Before the demo, they’d played only a handful of open mikes at spots like the Grape Room, along with a few West Philly basement shows. “We went from playing for 15 people at Tritone one night to playing in front of 25,000 in Portugal the next,” says Zeb, still in awe at the thought of it, still eating the pear.

They were invited from the basement into the penthouse faster than you can say, “I wanna fuck you like an animal.”

Reznor liked what he’d heard on the PO PO demo, no doubt. But it’s certain he’d really liked what he’d seen in the PO PO promo photo, too: three gargantuan, longhaired, imposing Pakistani brothers, each hovering around 6-foot-5. Reznor was, according to Zeb, on “some hardcore political shit at the time,” and many a Nine Inch Nails video around that time bear that out—each is permeated with an undeniable and angry Big Brother is watching you vibe.

The prospect of flying across the pond in a post9/11 world to tour with three guys who would make TSA agents shit bricks on sight probably held more than a little appeal to him.

So was the NIN tour a lark? A fluke? Was it the peak of a career that needed to just end already, or the auspicious beginnings of something that could be bigger still? It was something Zeb thought about while eating gas station pork product.

PO PO decided to make a choice about their fate on May 29, 2008, at Johnny Brenda’s, where they were filling an opening slot for Athens, Ga.’s Dark Meat, a (not kidding) 17-piece collective of cacophonous hippy-dippy love children who play Southern rock/free jazz. PO PO would quit if the show sucked. If it didn’t, they’d suck it up and keep the band going.

The night was magic. A band friendship between PO PO and Dark Meat ensued. The three Pakistani giants would eventually head down to Athens to feed their inner Michael Stipes for two weeks of hippy-sponsored, sun-soaked Georgia glory.

“It was such an inspirational time down there,” says Zeb. “It was the first time I was around any sort of hippy vibe, for real. I think it really changed

Man ppl always askn me how rich is @diplo ? I always tellem if he puttn out my album he got money to burn ;( @ZEBsDEAD, Feb. 2, 2012

It took three years, but PO PO’s debut album Dope Boy Magick is a beautiful, fully formed wonder to behold.

By Brian McManus bmcmanus@philadelphiaweekly.com

PHOTOGRAPH BY RYAN STRAND GREENBERG

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homas Wesley Pentz. “Wes.” Diplo. DJ royalty. Hit maker. Booty shaker. BlackBerry spokesmodel. His label, Mad Decent, is a tastemaker. A cool factory. Its artists span multiple genres, but all of them are a means to roughly the same end: Get your ass on the dance floor.

In its few short years of existence, Mad Decent has crammed Brazilian baile funk, Angolan kuduro and a renewed interest in dancehall into American ears. It’s been instrumental in breaking dubstep, too, that bass-heavy behemoth that threatens to devour whole every human on the planet under the age of 22. Add PO PO’s “if the Ramones played Bollywood,” as super-producer Nick Launay describes them, to the exceedingly eclectic Mad Decent mix.

PO PO is the first band on Mad Decent’s roster that aims as much for the head and heart as it does the feet.

Diplo also introduced the mainstream to MIA, for whom he produced her only bona fide hit, “Paper Planes”—but try not to hold that against him. He’s more good than bad, more an actual artist and deep lover of music than the ignorant hordes who write him off as a culture vulture give him credit for.

“PO PO are the American dream … Pakistani brothers that love family, basketball, girls and Philly,” the alwaysbusy Diplo says via email from Jamaica. “They are just tryin’ to reach Mecca on a rainbow bridge of distorted guitars and flea market wardrobes.”

They met in Athens, when Dark Meat brought Diplo to a PO PO gig. Diplo dug it, and showed his affection by setting off fireworks on stage. One of them went off dangerously close to Zeb’s face. It was perfect Philly, love at first spite.

Since that night three-and-a-half years ago, much has changed about PO PO, both sonically and aesthetically.

Mike Collins got married, started a family.

And, one by one, Zeb’s brothers left, too. Hassan has started his own band, Sunny Ali and the Kid, and plays in another, Kominas. Shoaib simply burnt out. The brothers remain close.

“I’m proud of all my siblings and just feel blessed to be part of such a talented family,” says Hassan.

“It blows my mind sometimes. I’m looking forward to [Zeb’s] album.”

In the roughly six years since they started schlepping out to open mikes, PO PO have managed the world’s most anemic discography.

There’s the Bryn Mawr house demo, which was heard by a few important people, but not much more. There was a 10-song demo recorded in Athens in the kitchen of a guy named Timmy Tumble, which was heard by Diplo, and few else.

Diplo released two of the songs from the Athens recording via Mad Decent in ’09, on a 7-inch single called Kill Tonight. It remains the band’s only officially released output.

That changes this week when Mad Decent lets Dope Boy Magick (out Feb. 28) loose on the planet.

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Of course, many listeners also come to Mad Decent for an education. In Dope Boy Magick, they’ll get one.

Imagine the distorted edge of Bleach-era Nirvana getting chummy with the straight-ahead giddy/sloppy ferocity of the Ramones underneath a soaring Muslim call to prayer. Now add some double violin and a dash of the Middle East from the legendary L. Shankar. And production from Nick Launay, whose records with Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Arcade Fire, Nick Cave (all his projects— Birthday Party, Bad Seeds and Grinderman), and Public Image Limited have made him the go-to guy for way-out projects.

“My taste in music still to this day is the more adventurous, anarchistic, go-against-the-rules kind of music,” Launay recently told Sound On Sound magazine. “Those are the bands I choose to work with—the ones that are trying to do something different, trying to get a reaction, trying to make people think.”

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pening for Nine Inch Nails as early as they did, as green as they were, was more a curse than a blessing.

Being hand picked by Reznor, Zeb says, “was detrimental to the band.”

It made them less hungry. They were handed something out of the gate, given a first-place trophy just for showing up. They hadn’t earned it.

“We got to see the end of this long race before it started,” says Zeb of the music business. “Trent was really angry that tour. He didn’t hang out with his band at all. We saw the view at the top of the mountain and the people up there didn’t seem all that happy. We began to wonder if it was what we wanted. We—my brothers and I—never wanted the band to come between us. Fuck that. We’ve been through too much together.”

After Athens, when the crew got back to Philly, they hooked back up with Diplo. They began playing basketball regularly together at the courts next door to Diplo’s Mad Decent Mausoleum near 12th and Spring Garden streets.

Mad Decent signed the group. Diplo made the brothers some of his early, near-legendary psyche rock mixtapes, curated from deep cuts of rare gems he found while crate digging.

Upon Diplo’s invitation, PO PO moved into the Mausoleum, which was quickly redubbed “the Mosque-oleum.”

“There was a shower!” says Zeb. “We were finally clean enough to pray.”

The band started rehearsing. PO PO played downstairs while Diplo worked in a recording suite above. “That’s the fondest memory I have of the whole beginning,” says Zeb. “It really felt like—he’s just one of the best dudes. No matter what you think about him, you can’t ignore his opinion. That doesn’t mean you have to follow it. But there’s some information in what he thinks that’s powerful. As much as people may want to try and deny him, you can’t.”

Straight dope: Po Po’s Dope Boy Magick is a labor of Zeb’s blood, sweat, tears, tenacity and love.

Dope Boy Magick is a labor of Zeb’s blood, sweat, tears, tenacity and love. He’s been working on it for three years, in Philly and Los PO PO definitely fit the bill. Even in their own label’s Angeles and spots in between, with various players and tight-knit family. collaborators, but mostly brother Shoaib. It’s a gorgeous “It’s been, in some ways, a good introduction for us,” album—equal parts fierce and ethereal. Though, it might says Zeb. “The odd ducks of Mad Decent, these black make more sense to say it’s two gorgeous albums. Maybe sheep, as Wes always calls us, of Mad Decent. It makes three. people pay attention.”

There are distinct sonic shifts in the album, inevitable perhaps when you consider that, over the course of recording, PO PO went from being Zeb’s band to being Zeb’s Pakistani folk music, Bollywood soundtracks—this was the music ingrained in Zeb’s mind from a young age. It project. It’s a breakup album. Only it was the band that was the soundtrack of his life, the music that scored every broke up. And the result is a schizo album that occupies a road trip, every party and every family gathering of his lot of aural real estate. It’s all over the map, like nothing youth. You can hear those influences on Dope Boy, right you’ve ever heard before, and certainly not from Mad alongside Zeb’s other influences, like Nirvana and Perry Decent.

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“It’s definitely been an uphill battle for us, in terms of Early reviews have been positive, both from friends and getting the fans into it,” says Mad Decent label manager fans. Goggins says many a DJ has given it an enthusiasJasper Goggins of marketing PO PO. “Most [Mad Decent tic thumbs up. Filter gave the album an 82, and says the fans] are teenage kids who just want to rave out. But we album offers clues to PO PO’s “vast potential … arenahave a pretty diverse audience, and I think that stems worthy promise.” from the fact that Wes’ career is pretty diverse. He does “I love it,” says Naeem Juwan, aka Philly’s Spank Rock, all kinds of stuff, so we do rely on a pretty educated fragof Dope Boy. “PO PO is my favorite act on Mad Decent ment of music lovers as fans.”

right now. It definitely sticks out on the label, but I think it’s the coolest thing they’re putting out. Zeb’s really smart about music. He definitely has a vision and knows what he wants.”

Zeb produced the weirdest track on Spank Rock’s last album, the WTF “DTF DADT.” (The video for “DTF” is worth your time.) In the last year he’s also co-produced “Last Name London” for Trinidad-born, Brooklyn-based R&B style icon-in-the-making Theophilus London, and has served as London’s guitarist on a few globetrotting tours.

“I’m just excited, man,” says London of Dope Boy Magick’s release this week. “[Zeb]’s been waiting for this his whole life. Zeb—no matter what was going on with Mad Decent or his brothers—has always believed in the PO PO project. First time I saw Zeb was at South by Southwest, years ago. We played the same stage at the Fader Fort, and I was so blown away. They were my favorite act. I just thought that they were gonna be one of the biggest bands in the world.”

Dope Boy will definitely flummox listeners who come to it without open ears or minds.

There’s a mysticism and ambiguity that lingers throughout the album, a mysteriousness that PO PO exude in everything from their sound to their aesthetic, that requires a long, hard look.

Hell, there’s ambiguity in their name.

The term “po-po” has, as you’re well aware, long been slang for the police. But it means different things to different people depending on where you are in the world, and Mad Decent’s reach is nothing if not global. To Germans, “Po Po” means “butt.” In other spots, it means “shit.” To Greeks, it’s what little girls often nickname their vaginas.

“In Pakistani, we say it all the time because that’s what you call your dad’s sister, Po Po,” says Zeb. “My dad would always tell us stories about his sisters and they were legendary women. Po Po, to me, it always describes my aunties. They were all these badass villager women who took care of everyone. A lot of men die young [in Pakistan], they die of violence or sickness, so in my head it has a powerful association with strength, a diva association. But also, phonetically—I started playing with the O’s. It just seemed like a powerful onomatopoeia. It’s percussive. I like that.”

Zeb started “playing with the O’s” visually, too. On any given bit of PO PO merch, the O’s can be represented by anything round with far-reaching, mystical qualities—a sun and earth, or yin/yang and peace symbols.

It’s the yin/yang symbol that suits Zeb and PO PO best.

In conversation, Zeb can vacillate wildly between being intensely introspective to casually narcissistic. He can tell you he intends to be the greatest guitar player man has ever known and the “world’s first Middle Eastern sex symbol” without blinking, just after reflecting on some huge lesson the universe whispered to him in a moment of meditating in solitude. In photos, he can look kind or gentle, mean or menacing, without a change in expression.

“Like most musicians, depending on what moment you catch them, their personalities can shift,” says Juwan. “It’s an extremely emotional process, working on something you care about for so long and trying to put it out, working with other people’s egos and ambitions. I’ve seen Zeb in a lot of different moods, but more often than not he’s kind. I think he’s mostly really funny. I think he’s sexy.”

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Christ, Muhammad, mysticism, symbolism: These things take up a good deal of space in Zeb’s mind. But he also spends ample time on the lighter side of life: hip-hop, basketball, women, drugs, women, fashion, women. He’s as intense talking the Koran as he is about the time he masturbated during an earthquake. Call it the duality of Zeb: half-yin/yang, half-Ying Yang Twins.

The title Dope Boy Magick serves both sides of his outsized personality. The “Magick” is a nod to the spiritual realm. The title also happens to be a cheeky nod to Atlanta rapper Yung Joc’s song of the same name. It’s a cautious wink to Zeb’s battle over the years with actual dope too. He’s candid about the time he’s spent battling heroin. It’s part of the reason the album’s taken so long.

He likes to think he’s kicked it. “Heroin is like a bear trap,” he says. “You can get away, but you lose a leg.”

He still partakes in many other substances that alter his consciousness.

The Ying Yang Twins side of Zeb’s dual nature is all Philly. The introspective, spiritual side comes from somewhere else. To paraphrase N’awlins rapper Juvenile—an artist the lighter side of Zeb no doubt loves—he get it from his mama.

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eb knew he and his brothers were in deep trouble for the Project X-style bash they’d thrown while his parents were away, because his father raised his voice, something he never did. What’s more, he wasn’t making any sense.

“You think you are the champions now?” the usually genteel Dr. Mubarika Malik, DDS, asked his three boys, whose confusion he mistook for smugness, which only served to ramp up his anger all the more. “DO YOU THINK YOU ARE THE ONES WHO IS FLYING THE PLANE?!?”

“He was so pissed he was losing his mind,” says Zeb, remembering that time back in high school. “He was making no sense. He was trying to say, ‘Oh, you think you’re sooo smart,’ but couldn’t get it out right. It was like he forgot how to speak English.”

Zeb’s father was accepted to the University of Pennsylvania’s dental program in the 1970s. He opened a practice soon after graduating with others of his ilk, Pakistani immigrants hoping to build a better life through whitening teeth in the World’s Greatest Democracy. He eventually opened an office of his own in North Philly at 22nd Street between Cambria and Indiana, which his family lived above until Zeb was 7. The Good Doctor still works out of that office today.

Inside the practice, it was the American dream. Outside its walls, the American nightmare. It was the ’80s, and the crack epidemic was in full swing.

“I remember crack heads throwing themselves on top of our car,” says Zeb of his early childhood. “I remember people sleeping in the hallway and on the staircase leading up to our apartment. I remember sometimes they’d knock on our door late at night, and would try to talk my mom into opening the door.”

The practice grew, and it wasn’t long before Malik moved his family, which was also growing, to Haverford Township.

Once there, he enlisted his kids—his Muslim kids—into Catholic school, in hope of equipping them with the best possible education. Zeb’s time at St. Aloyisius and S.s.

Colman-John Neumann left a permanent impression. He loved the idea of Jesus, a “zombie savior.” Crucifixes. Holy water. Eating the body. Drinking the blood. It was all very black metal and it all appealed to him.

“The story of Jesus resonates with me more than anything,” he says. He liked the idea of a peaceful Christ. In Christianity, there were no calls to arms. No fatwas placed on the heads of those who dare speak ill of the prophet.

No Dutch director was ever stabbed for making a movie criticizing the treatment of women in Christian culture.

“All that turned me off to Islam,” says Zeb. Eventually, the Brothers Malik ended up at Lower Merion, where Zeb, already sprouted, played senior basketball.

“I was a legendary loser,” he says of his time on the pine.

“An epic benchwarmer.” All the while, God was present in the home.

“My earliest memories, ever since I was a baby, was that everything my parents do, they do for God,” says Zeb. “They’ve never wavered from that once. And as a kid I grew up completely faithful and believing in God. And Islam basically teaches us that Christianity is right too, and that we’re all brothers, that Islam is the next step, but that Jesus is one of the prophets. My parents have always stressed that it’s important to remember that America’s great because they’ll never stop you from believing what you believe.”

After 9/11, America sure tried. Zeb recognized a visible shift in attitude toward him on the streets of Philly after the Towers fell. An anger. People began to yell. And it

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continued for years. Still happens sometimes.

It was especially bad in the early days of PO PO, when three imposing Pakis on stage was just too much for some. At a show in Asbury Park, N.J., a man snatched the microphone from Zeb and demanded to be told what he was singing about. “My brother is a motherfucking Army Ranger!” the man yelled before Zeb could answer, “Love.”

The ire of those around him made him look inward, to the faith he was raised in, with new eyes. He thought about his mother and his father, and their unconditional, unbridled love. These were the most peaceful, loving people he’d ever known and ever would. They were not the monsters America now obsessed over and feared.

Zeb’s mother, “the most mystical person I know,” still believes he’ll be a great religious leader some day. Maybe PO PO is his audition.

“She just wants me to be a powerful Muslim,” says Zeb. “And in some ways that’s been very hard to deal with and in some ways it’s been very empowering, to always have someone tell you that your purpose on earth extends beyond just having money, that there’s much more to this life. It’s exhausting to hear your parents constantly talk about death, but to see two people who got together based on their faith and have never—I’ve never heard my dad raise my voice to my mom. They’re so fair to each other.”

After a long absence, Zeb began attending Friday prayer with his father.

He began to incorporate the melodies, the soaring voice of the call to prayer into his own singing. He brought it to PO PO. It was so perfectly Zeb: commingling the sacred with the profane.

“When you hear the call to prayer, especially in public places in Muslim countries, it’s out of a megaphone and there are usually multiple megaphones, and that definitely influenced me when I started recording music,” says Zeb. “I thought how cool would it be to have that voice—that call to prayer—over a rock track? Those are the melodies that were ingrained in me.”

The ascending and exultant call to prayer is all over Dope Boy Magick. It’s in kick-in-the-teeth opening track “Dnt Wnt U, Jst Wnt It All,” the two-minute fuzzbomb “Final Fight,” the spacin’ electro-pop of “Let’s Get Away,” the sinking, heart-heavy lament of “Holy Mountain,” and the emotive/sexy “Teen Dreamz.” It makes an appearance on many of the album’s 13 tracks.

“It just comes out, and I don’t try to stop it,” says Zeb. “I know it sounds hokey, but sometimes I’ll hit notes and … feel something. I’m totally into it. Especially when people started verbalizing that they could hear it, that was encouraging to me.”

“I don’t want to say the other brothers didn’t have an influence on the direction of the group,” says Mad Decent’s Goggins. “But Zeb has really been the heart and soul of this thing from the beginning. And while I love to have the other brothers involved and I think they’re really cool as a group, at the end of the day, what’s most important is that the vision of the group can be fulfilled. The lineup to me is not crucially important.”

“I don’t take it lightly and I wear it with pride that the first two people who fucked with me are legends,” says Zeb of Reznor and Diplo. “You really do have to pay your dues and come up when the time is right. These last two years, I’ve worked my ass off.”

Zeb hopes, with the coming wave of opportunity that will greet Dope Boy Magick, brothers Hassan and Shoaib will show a renewed interest in PO PO. “Together, we can’t be stopped,” he says.

Until then, Zeb’s poised to go it alone, maybe hiring hands along the way to help out with live gigs. PO PO, no matter the lineup, will remain unique and uniquely American. They are the yin, the yang; the earth, the sun.

They are the champions. They are the ones who are flying the plane. No more gas station hot dogs. ■

Mad Decent Mondays Presents PO PO’s Dope Boy Magick record release party, Mon., March 5, 10pm. $5. M Room, 15 W. Girard Ave. 215.739.5577. mroomphilly.com

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Bad Boy Shakespeare Shakespeare often gets all mixed up in the giddy, romantic sludge that wafts from our televisions around Valentine’s Day. Of course, he was a romantic, and his sonnets and monologues are some of the most intensely passionate displays of human emotion ever put to page. Yet where there is intense passion, there is sure to be dark and lurid undertones. Producer Adriano Shaplin and Drexel dramatists the Riot Group offer up a radically alternate view of the bard as a violent competitor, bisexual misogynist, sexual deviant, literary pirate, sociopath and lapdog for Elizabethan fascism. They’ll cut through the flowery stuff and right to the orgies, the deceit and the plain ol’ evil. abigail brulEy

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8pm. Free. Mandell Theater, 33rd and Chestnut sts. 215.895.2528. theatrealliance.org

Love theater but don’t think you can afford it? Beginning Feb. 29, the Mt. Airy-based Quintessence Theatre Group gives you an opportunity to determine the price of your ticket when they turn the box office over to the patrons at a special “pay what you can” performance of the classic drama Antigone.

Instead of Sophocles’ original version, director Alexander Burns has wisely chosen to stage Jean Anouilh’s potent adaptation in a new translation by Jeremy Sams. Penned

by Anouilh in 1943, during the occupation of France by Nazi Germany, the play shows how civil disobedience isn’t only a citizen’s right, it’s a responsibility. A particularly timely production, the play stars the dynamic Lavita Shaurice, who captured a 2011 Barrymore nomination for her commanding performance in the Wilma Theater’s My Wonderful Day. J. CoopEr robb 7pm. Sedgwick Theater, 7137 Germantown Ave. 877.238.5596. quintessencetheatre.org

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Megawords Megawords is an independently published photography magazine and experimental media project currently occupying space at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Its purpose of creating “an ongoing narrative that examines daily life” will be set to music tonight in a celebration of the significant

role music plays in the creative process.

Performances by the West Philadelphia Orchestra and ADVENTUREDRUM (the dance band led by Man Man percussionist Christopher Sean Powell), will rely on a sense of community—within their band and with the audience—which is exactly Megawords style. aShlEy KolE $16. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 26th St. and the Ben Franklin Pkwy. 215.763.8100. philadelpiamuseum.org

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Punchline Over the years, the label Fueled By Ramen has groomed some of pop-punk’s most profitable and teen-friendly titans by way of Fall Out Boy, Paramore and Panic! At the Disco.

Of course, for every breakout band, several others on the label have dwindled in obscurity. One of those dwindlers is Punchline, an unsurprisingly sentimental Pittsburgh gang who’ve done their jobs competently for 14 years, even if there’s never been too much to actually do. Long off FBR, Punchline received an affirming wallop of affection last December after OG bassist Chris Fafalios threatened to quit if their new EP So Nice to Meet You didn’t reach the peak of the iTunes Albums charts. Although the stunt initially appeared disastrous (internal iTunes issues delayed a big midnight release), Punchline loyalists pushed So Nice to No. 1 on Rock Albums and eventually No. 7 overall. Slightly contradicting his ultimatum, Fafalios expressed satisfaction with No. 1 on Rock and pledged to stick with Punchline as a measure of appreciation for their fans. The story’s ending isn’t ideal, but it’s quite the triumph for the underdog anyway. rEyan ali 5:30pm. $10. With Just Surrender, Bright and Early + June Divided. The Barbary, 951 N. Frankford Ave. r5productions.com

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Tonight’s event begins with it the announcement of the winner of the Terrence McNally Award—a $10,000 prize awarded annually to a new play that celebrates the transformative power of art. Later, catch a reading of Hope and Gravity, a comedy comprised of eight interconnected short plays, each bookended by stories in an elevator. N.F. 7pm. Free. Through March 11. Suzanne Roberts Theatre, 480 S. Broad St. 215.985.0420. philadelphiatheatrecompany.org

A Barcelona native and longtime New Yorker, bassist Alexis Cuadrado has been documenting quality work since 2001. But he outdid himself in 2011 with Noneto Ibérico, his second for the Brooklyn Jazz Underground label, bringing jazz and flamenco together in a way that was rigorous, authentic and fresh.

He wrote new tunes but adhered to traditional forms such as bulerías, soleá and fandango, adding palmas (handclaps) and jaleos (hollers) for good measure. Best of all, he got a smokin’ nine-piece band to play it all. This week, he’ll have saxophonists Jon Gordon and Loren Stillman, trombonist Alan Ferber, guitarist Brad Shepik, pianist Robert Rodriguez and other VIPs in the house. DAvID R. ADLER

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Jodi Picoult Having written nearly 20 novels in 20 years, Jodi Picoult has sold more than 14 million copies of her spellbinding works worldwide.

Picoult may not be a household name like J.K. Rowling or Stephanie Meyers, but she creates art out of the fictional terrain of family relationships. Her stories include topics such as teenage suicide, stem cell research, school shootings and date rape—all concealed beneath the seemingly blissful life of suburbia. She visits Philly this week to promote her latest work, Lone Wolf —which examines the intersection between medical science and morality. TRISHULA PATEL 7:30pm. $7-$15. Central Library, 1901 Vine St. 215.686.5322. freelibrary.org

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With a growing number of artists feeling unwelcome by this city’s professional galleries, local photographer Kenny White has decided to open up his spacious Fishtown studio to fellow creators in all different stages of their careers. Slated to be held the first Sunday or Saturday of each month, the new monthly arts salon kicks off with a chill afternoon of art, food and music. The work of five local artists will be on display, including Don Stephens’ expressive charcoal drawings, Angela McQuillan’s mixed-media works and photographs by Melvin Chappell. Courtney Chobert of “Unstrung Designs” will be on hand selling her handcrafted jewelry while guitarist Mike Tyler and friends provide the tunes. Each salon promises to feature live music and showcase at least two performance artists and two visual artists whose exhibition will run for the entire month. NIcoLE FINkBINER

MacAllister, acoustic rocker Mia Johnson, all-female long-form improv troupe ApocaLIPS and Philly’s award-winning drag and burlesque performance troupe, the Liberty City Kings.

Although the entertainment is expected to become slightly less appropriate for youngsters after 9 p.m., the event is open to gals of all ages.

So grab the best ladies in your life and ride this third wave of feminism. N.F.

and Tony Braithwaite’s amusing look at heterosexual unions Let’s Pretend We’re Married, the duo’s new creation surveys the world of American celebrity. A mix of song, dance and comic skits from Philly’s most copacetic comedy team, the show includes a 15-minute remembrance to flash-in-the-pan semi-celebs, each of whom is notable for enjoying a brief and forgettable 15 minutes of fame. Childs and Braithwaite also pay ode to the world’s greatest one-hit-wonders, including the bouncy comic-book band The Archies’ and their great bubble-gum hit “Sugar, Sugar” and the Weather Girls’ gay club favorite “It’s Raining Men.” J.c.R. 8pm. $20. Plays and Players Theatre, 1714 Delancey St. 215.592.9560. 1812Productions.org

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Scott Kelly + Eugene Robinson

hanks to Adele officially becoming the toast of the pop-music universe (she picked up Grammys a couple weeks ago the same way people nonchalantly pick up their dry cleaning), female British singers are once again catching breaks in this post-Winehouse era. Maybe now Estelle can finally get some mainstream love up in this bitch!

The Brit hit these shores the same time Adele dropped her debut album, 19. With Kanye West and John Legend co-signing for her, she released her 2008 sophomore album, Shine. And even though the album gave stateside audiences the catchy single “American Boy,” Estelle-mania didn’t sweep the nation. Nevertheless, she will give us fickle Americans another chance with her latest album, All of Me, which just dropped Tuesday.

And instead of collaborating with classy gents like West and Legend, she hooks up with more nefarious folk, including Rick Ross, Akon and everyone’s least favorite boyfriend, Chris Brown. It seems Estelle has figured out how to win over American listeners: start associating with some shifty-ass brothas people can’t stop talking about. cRAIg D. LINDSEy Mon., March 5, 8pm. $25. With Luke James. World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St. 215.222.1400. worldcafelive.com

As a member of Neurosis, Scott Kelly helps create some of the most mind-bending and progressive music made under the punk/ metal umbrella. Eugene Robinson is best known for being the confrontational front man for the band Oxbow, but he is also an actor, writer and raconteur with a frightening intellect and even scarier physique. Together, the duo will whip up an evening interweaving both acoustic sounds and spoken word (the latter coming mostly from Robinson) that’ll be sure to shock the shit out of those who only know these guys as merchants of loud, challenging sounds. Whether or not Eugene will strip down to his skivvies and pound an audience member like he usually does during an Oxbow set has yet to be confirmed as we go to press. I guess you’re just going to have to find out for yourself. ToNy RETTmAN 8pm. $12. Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave. 215.739.9684. johnnybrendas.com

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In its heyday, The J&J Trestle Inn featured pregnant strippers with gunshot wounds jiggling their flesh morosely for the marks at the bar, who looked on as they reached distractedly into a foggy jar loaded with pickled pigs’ feet for a snack. Today’s Trestle Inn still has ladies dancing for the crowd—and still serves pickled pigs’ feet—but the similarities pretty much end there.

The Trestle Inn is a whiskey and go-go bar with an ambitious cocktail program, interesting and often inspired bar food (courtesy of Chef Travis Messman, formerly of Arrow Swim Club and a much stamped passport that includes stops in South Korea, Germany, Portland, Ore., and Yosemite National Park) and, yes, live go-go dancers five nights a week. Projectors blast clips of ’60s beach flicks onto the walls and a soundtrack of retro-hip tunes gives way to DJs spinning funk, psychobilly and everything in between. A black-clad, much-tattooed service staff dishes out the drinks and grub. The Trestle is also home to two weekend brunches (Saturday’s features classic cartoons, while Sunday’s “Drag Your Ass Outta Bed” is hosted by drag queen Brittany Lynn). It’s the kind of ambitiously hip bar that could either be a revelation or a disaster.

The Trestle is mostly a revelation, and its occasional missteps can largely be excused by its frank, unapologetic commitment to its genre: The Trestle Inn is a kitschy dive bar.

It’s a good one, with an impressive whiskey list and enough iterations of the classic whiskey sour—including a very drinkable $4 version and an exceptional $7 iteration made the real way, with egg white for frothiness—to satisfy the cocktail geeks. The craft beer list includes 14 draughts and an assortment of cans, enough to merit return visits from suds lovers to sample the rotating cask selections.

Service is capable and friendly, with both bartenders and wait staff eager to offer advice, but ultimately unobtrusive.

And the menu, both at dinner and brunch, is playful and surprisingly diverse, with a variety of vegetarian and vegan options alongside what might be the best roast pork sandwich in town.

That sandwich, featuring RC Cola-braised pork shoulder with melted sharp provolone and pickled long hots on a crusty hoagie roll, is a dreamy balance of meat, bread and accoutrements, neither too dry nor too wet, toothsome without being toilsome to chew.

Less successful was the “burger,” a slice of bison meatloaf wrapped in bacon and served dressed with blueberry ketchup. Although meaty and flavorful, replacing a juicy patty with a dense slice of loaf diminishes some of the primal joy only a medium-rare burger can bring. To satisfy the carnivores, one would do better to order the bone

marrow, which is perfectly roasted, subtly smoky and served simply and expertly alongside thin crostini with a caper gremolata that is both delicious and unnecessary. The bone stands alone.

Other bar snacks were tasty (savory roasted garlic popcorn, served in a red-and-white paper cup, and creamy crab and Old Bay deviled eggs), but the Trestle’s kitchen has an unusual execution issue: They like to cook with booze, and they like you to know it. A small mason jar of baked beans was whiskey-heavy enough to replace a cocktail, and the glaze on a house-made sticky bun tasted like a shot at last call—not exactly appealing when you’re still choking down that first cup of coffee. There were other misses, including the misnamed “All Grown Up Kid’s Cereal” at brunch that is, in fact, a bowl of Cheerios topped with dried fruit and, inexplicably, half of a fresh seckle pear, seeds and all. Given the price point—most meals cost less than $10—much can be forgiven. After all (say it with me), it’s a dive bar.

Unlike many dives, where the primary entertainment attractions are Big Buck Hunter and jukeboxes loaded with George Thorogood and the Cure, Trestle Inn manages to be both bawdy and fun. A diverse crowd gathers starting at happy hour to watch nightly go-go dancers shimmy playfully in Bardot-approved get-ups to lively tunes. And brunch with Brittany Lynn is a riot, featuring trivia and sing-alongs. Highbrow it’s not, but for a late-night hang-out to attract a packed house at brunch, they must be doing something right.

As for the pickled pigs’ feet of yore, that vinegar-y porcine gelatin of a foodstuff? While they’re a whimsical nod to the history of the J&J, they belong, along with the chubby strippers and other unmentionables, firmly in Trestle’s past.

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Stage hand: Tim Miller will present his solo work, Lay of the Land, at the Adrienne in April.

Villanova University, one of the nation’s leading Catholic institutions, set off a firestorm of controversy last week with news that the school canceled a long-planned visit

by Tim Miller, an award-winning, nationally recognized gay performance artist. Miller, 53, was to conduct a weeklong workshop exploring identity and cultural diversity with students and other interested members of the Villanova community. The workshop was to conclude with a performance of the participants’ work.

But on Feb. 19, Villanova President Father Peter M. Donohue canceled the event.

Following an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Feb. 21, news of the cancellation spread quickly through the region’s theater community. The next day, Donohue issued a statement explaining his decision to cancel Miller’s visit, saying: “I want to be clear that this had nothing to do with Mr. Miller’s sexual orientation, and I believe it is untrue that Villanova is a homophobic community.

Such a description concerns me far more than a cancellation.” Donohue added: “It is the explicit, graphic and sexual content of his performances that led to this decision ...”

But Miller, who was invited to Villanova

by Professor Heidi Rose, believes his sexual orientation was a factor in the decision. He says there were never plans for him to perform at the university and he was “shocked

by President Donohue’s grotesque mischaracterization of my performance work.”

“I was surprised that he behaved so unethically and undermined academic freedom for the professors and students at Villanova, but the reasons he gave were bizarre and misinformed. I have performed at hundreds of universities all over the country, many of them with religious affiliation, including Catholic,” Miller says.

In response to Donohue’s claim about the graphic nature of the presentation, Miller says that’s absolutely not true. “In my workshops, I use trusted theater and performance techniques to get students to find and tell their story, to claim their own value for their diverse identities and life narratives and shape that into performance.”

The decision is perplexing given Donohue’s background in theater and the school’s history of staging progressive and controversial plays. Before his tenure as the school’s president began in 2006, Donohue was chairman of the theater department for 14 years. During that time, the department won six Barrymore Awards. Three of the awards (including best overall production of a play) went to Villanova’s magnificent 1997 production of Angels in America Part II: Perestroika. Angels is a two-part drama focusing on a group of characters during the early years of the AIDS epidemic. At the time, Villanova was applauded for staging the Pulitzer Prize-winning play without taming any of the graphic language or depiction of gay relationships, including a scene that simulates an act of anonymous gay sex in Central Park.

Former Villanova professor James J. Christy says that Donohue (who won a Barrymore Award for his direction of Villanova’s 2002 production of Chicago) was “strongly supportive” of Angels, which Christy co-directed. “Our most receptive audience was an audience of nuns and priests who worked with people dying of AIDS,” Christy recalls. Christy says his proudest moment at Villanova was when the church’s social mission and Christy’s artistic beliefs intersected.

However, Christy notes that the Cardinal Newman Society—a group that claims its public criticism of Miller led to the cancellation of his visit—“has become pretty aggressive in stirring up conservative controversy on catholic campuses, in my opinion undermining the very identity of a university as a community of open inquiry.”

Miller will hold his workshop at Bryn Mawr (April 16-20). He’ll also conduct a workshop at the Adrienne in Center City (April 9-15). n

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Poweful strokes: Philly artist James Brantley’s “Brother James” (left) and “Peace Piece.”

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to meet and study under local landscapepainting maestro Andrew Wyeth. The piece was eventually purchased by PAFA in 1970.

That’s not to say his journey was without struggle. Brantley spent years trying to navigate the gallery system in Philadelphia, having doors shut in his face and phone calls not returned. He says he continues to experience some of the same racial shutouts that followed him at the start of his career.

“If you go into any gallery in Philadelphia and ask for their list of artists,” Brantley says, “you’d be hard-pressed to find an African-American artist on the list of any of the major galleries. A lot of the galleries don’t have any. A lot of the excuses are that ‘We don’t know them’; ‘We haven’t heard of them’; ‘We don’t know that they’re around’; … blah blah blah. That’s nothing more than excuses.

That’s not a reason.”

These days, Brantley says, galleries don’t seem to be focused on minority contributions. Curator Sande Webster, whose gallery was a haven for contemporary black artists, closed in October 2011. Despite that setback, Brantley and others are staying focused in the face of the adversity.

Unfortunately, the same number of black students aren’t enrolling or achieving in the arts now. This may have as much to do with the lack of opportunities to work as an artist as it does with the lack of opportunities to study as one.

“When you go through high school now and the arts are being severely cut, art isn’t really an option,” he says.

“If you go back to the Academy now, and ask the registrar how many black students are enrolled, you’ll find maybe three. Art doesn’t seem to be an option for young African-Americans … ” But in order to remain visible in the community, black artists say it must be.

Otherwise, stories like Tanner’s—he allegedly was inspired to become an artist after walking through Fairmount Park with his father and seeing a black man painting a landscape—will cease to exist.

“We’re still out the pressing, pressing, pressing, trying to make a difference,” Brantley says of himself and his peers. “If someone doesn’t say it or see it, maybe it never happened. If we’re not documented, if we’re not collected, maybe we didn’t exist. We’re going to make our statements and then back out gratefully.” n

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Upstairs at the Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is a show called After Tanner: African American Artists Since 1940, and it looks at the contributions of Henry Ossawa Tanner—arguably the country’s first African-American artist to achieve international prominence.

The show is not simply about Tanner’s visual legacy—that is well-represented downstairs in Modern Spirit, the most comprehensive show on the artist to date. After Tanner is about the struggle he faced in becoming the kind of artist who makes it into history books, and how he became something of a hero to black artists after him.

“There were younger artists who visited [Tanner], made a pilgrimage to see him and to show him their work and be criticized, in the best sense,” says Robert Cozzolino, curator of Modern Art and

senior curator at PAFA who organized After Tanner. “He did not take no for an answer to his aspirations, but rather found a way to make the career and life he wanted. And that is a profound story given the historical context.”

Though Tanner—who was lauded for his historically and ethnically accurate biblical scenes—was a dedicated student at PAFA, as the first student of color at the Academy he received a great deal of ill will from his peers. One of the most horrific stories of his time at PAFA, recounted in nearly every official Tanner biography and in the memoirs of his classmates, involves him being strapped to an easel and left in the middle of north Broad Street by white students in the early 1880s.

Fast-forward to the 1960s. Racial tensions remained high, but AfricanAmerican students had access to academic institutions they could only once dream of. That dream, for people like James Brantley and other contemporary African-American artists in the making, included the Academy.

Brantley, a lifelong Philadelphian who has two paintings in After Tanner, began his pursuit of the fine arts while he was a student at Simon Gratz High School in North Philly. “The schools in our cities had opened up to African-Americans,” says Brantley, whose tenure at PAFA began in 1963. “It was like a renaissance.

At PAFA, the registrar had never seen as many African-American students come or enroll in that institution before or since.

We came in droves, and we produced.”

One of Brantley’s pieces, purchased by Lewis Tanner Moore (the grand-nephew of Henry Tanner) called “Peace Piece,” is dedicated to that journey. “Across the center, the piece reads, ‘If the winter goes

on, where will we be tomorrow? Keep the peace today.’ I wanted to reflect upon my journey into the army and off to Vietnam, spending a year there and coming back to the States, and feeling racial problems had become more pronounced than when I left after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.” It is this shared sense of struggle among black artists—many of whom have works in the exhibit—that makes After Tanner so powerful. Many of the artists featured in the exhibition shared the struggle for equality experience together. Moe Brooker, a world-renowned artist still based in Philadelphia, with works in the most important collections in the world, was at PAFA during this period, along with landscape and life scene painter Richard Watson. Not only were these artists living and learning amongst each other, they were working together, creating visual evidence of a shared experience.

Case in point: Brantley’s other piece in After Tanner is a 1968 portrait of Barkley L. Hendricks, another renowned contemporary African-American artist Brantley studied with during his time at PAFA. In the 48-inch-tall canvas, Brantley depicts Hendricks as an ideal figure of black power. With his perfectly sculpted afro, blacked-out sunglasses and his hands firmly pressed in his trouser pockets, Hendricks’ image pops against the seething red of the oils, taking his space in the frame and in society, forcefully and unapologetically.

But even though a number of black artists were coming though PAFA to stake their claim to a world-class education, not everyone was happy to see them arrive, and they said so. Brantley recalls an incident at the Academy in which a white instructor told a black classmate that “the boy’s [bathroom] is in the back.”

“You can’t say that to an urban AfricanAmerican male without consequences,” Brantley says. “There was a huge disruption in the bathroom that spilled into the corridors and into the classroom. It got really, really bad that he eventually had to apologize for it. There was a lot of that unspoken racism.”

Yet in spite of the institutionalized racism he endured as a student in the late ’60s and early ’70s, Brantley pursued a successful career as a painter. A selfportrait titled “Brother James” (1968) won first prize in a student competition at the Academy, which allowed Brantley

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X Bomb Project X uses tired movie gimmicks to make a far-less-superior Superbad.

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By Matt Prigge mprigge@philadelphiaweekly.com The Killers (1947): For a short story as short as Ernest Hemingway’s The Killers, it sure has been adapted into a lot of films. Over a mere eight pages, hitmen stick up a diner in order to track down a mark. It’s a great setup, so great that the two major Hollywood films made from it use it as a killer opening, then spiral into a wholly made-up backstory. In the beloved 1947 noir version, the focus turns to detectives and flashbacks. In Don Siegel’s trashy 1964 version—featuring a Ronald Reagan bitch-slapping Angie Dickinson—it’s the hitmen themselves (Lee Marvin and Clu Gulager) who do the snooping. The only version that remains faithful is a 1956 short Andrei Tarkovsky made while in film school.

Masque of the Red Death (1964): In the early ’60s, Roger Corman hit gold by turning Edgar Allan Poe into what—for the famously penny-pinching filmmaker—were lavish hits. His expansion of Poe’s essentially plotless 1842 chiller, with Vincent Price as a sadistic medieval despot, isn’t very in-depth. But it is his most visually striking work, with gorgeous colors and elegant camerawork from Nicolas Roeg.

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968): The inspiration for Stanley Kubrick’s space opus was Arthur C. Clarke’s The Sentinel. Thing is, it runs only six pages, merely hinting at what wound up in the film. Clarke himself said comparing the story to the film was like “comparing an acorn to the resulting oak tree.” He later expanded his story into the official 2001 novelization.

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La Belle Noiseuse (1991): Jacques Rivette is famous for his long films—1971’s Out 1 runs for more than 13 hours—and he couldn’t help himself when (loosely) adapting Honore de Balzac’s The Unknown Masterpiece. A 21-page story became a four-hour epic, much of it devoted to the slow artistic process of painter Michel Piccoli working with nude model Emannuelle Beart.

Tony Takitani (2004): This minor-key character study runs only 75 minutes. But even that seems excessive given that the Haruki Murakami source will take you only five minutes to read.

The Lorax (2012): Remember that part in Dr. Seuss’ eco-tut-tutter when the Lorax tells jokes and stuff?

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Wearing an argyle sweater-vest over a T-shirt, the motor-mouthed Costa spends the movie frantically spewing mountains of deathlessly labored, crass descriptions of anatomical functions, often attempting to put a spin on key cuss words by dragging out certain syllables in sing-songy tones.

The instigator behind his meek friend’s party, Costa is preoccupied with the rather sad notion that throwing a crazy rager might elevate their social status to a point where these pathetic kids could actually get laid.

Does any of this sound familiar yet? We’ve got one crazy, booze-fueled, sex-seeking night spent with a mousy kid and his short blustery sidekick, along with a mystical geek rounding out the trio?

Project X shamelessly rips so many pages from the script of Superbad that Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg have grounds for a lawsuit. (At the very least, Oliver Cooper should consider sending Jonah Hill a check, along with a heartfelt letter of apology.)

Big pimpin’: Three nerdy high-school seniors throw a party in a pathetic As tends to happen when parents are out of attempt to get laid. town, the guestlist for this particular bash quickly blossoms out of control. In the movie’s most bafShouldn’t this “found-footage” movie fad be over already? fling diversion, Rabbit Hole and Footloose co-star Miles I totally get that this was a charming gimmick back in Teller plays himself—except it’s a fictional version of himthe days of The Blair Witch Project, but considering the self that happens to be some sort of nationally renowned speed at which Internet memes expire, one suspects that baseball prodigy complete with access to a party bus full of we as a culture would already have gotten past the whole hot babes. (No, I don’t understand it, either.) “fake reality” of following your characters with a camAs hundreds upon hundreds of nubile young teens corder, plus the ensuing half-assed attempt by marketers inexplicably descend upon the Kud residence, removing to persuade gullible audiences that any of this nonsense their clothes for the benefit of the cameras, our protagonist actually happened. finds himself stuck in a depressingly Maybe I’m just hung up on wondering tired scenario. Girl next door Kirby why people would keep filming whenever (Kirby Bliss Blanton) has been his Project X such crazy shit is happening. Or could best friend since forever, but now Grade: Dit be that it’s just much easier to shoot a that she’s grown up to be wicked hot Director: Nima Nourizadeh movie on low-end equipment with availthey’re both finally figuring out that Starring: Thomas Mann, Oliver able lighting, and the sorry-ass shaky they’ve actually been in love with Cooper and Jonathan Daniel Brown camera aesthetic appeals to lazy filmone another the entire time. Isn’t it makers who don’t like to bother planning a shame that such self-discovery arout their shots? rives on the same night the most popuIn any case, after a now routine campaign of “secrecy,” lar mean girl in school (Alexis Knapp) can’t stop taking her we finally have a glimpse at Project X, which disappointtop off for Thomas? ingly enough does not turn out to be a remake of that The lone joke in Project X is one of scale. The party gets so absurdly out of control we’ve soon got a nut-punching 1980’s cable staple in which Matthew Broderick and Helen midget stuck in the oven and a drug dealer our kids ripped Hunt rescue cute monkeys who know sign language. Instead, it’s the Cloverfield of teenage sex comedies, doubling off shows up for revenge with a flamethrower. It’s just a lot down on the hoariest, out-of-control party cliches and of boobs and mayhem, devoid of wit. passing them off as something new thanks to the fauxDirector Nima Nourizadeh sloppily orchestrates the documentary structure and an overdose of amateur action with an eye best described as leering, but it’s Flipcam footage. producer Todd Phillips’ personal stamp that comes It’s gawky Thomas Kud’s 17th birthday, and rather through strongest. His Due Date and Hangover Part II pushed slob-comedy further and further into the actively conveniently his parents are headed out of town, leaving unpleasant, and Project X stinks of a similar naughtyhim alone for the weekend in their sprawling Pasadena boy entitlement. The movie is stuck in smirky adolescent McMansion. Played by Thomas Mann, he’s an un-endearspats of rebellion and cro-magnon sexual politics. ingly awkward young fellow who seems to be missing a It’s Superbad for bullies, ignoring the delicate insecurifew crucial personality traits. Thomas is always trailed ties and thoughtful character shadings that made the 2007 by his pervert sidekicks, Costa (Oliver Cooper) and J.B. picture so very special—beneath the bluster. By contrast, (Jonathan Daniel Brown.) The latter is too vaguely defined Project X is just some boorish drunk dudes who want to to make much of an impression, while the former stakes use girls as receptacles. As Michael Cera said: “Here’s to an early claim as one of this year’s most insufferable movie respecting women!” n characters.

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By Dan Savage mail@savagelove.net I had a threesome with my husband and another woman because I am GGG and that’s always been a fantasy of his. I laid out my ground rules and they were violated. (I said I was uncomfortable with his P in her V, and I ended up watching them fuck.) I didn’t stop it at the time because I didn’t want to ruin it for him. It’s been some time and my heart is still broken. I was completely down with every other aspect of the threesome, but I feel like a line was crossed.

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Please hand this column to your husband. My response is for him.

You are one stupid motherfucker.

Here’s how you’re a motherfucker: Your wife agreed to have a threesome on one condition— no penis-in-vagina intercourse with the other woman. That’s a fairly common ground rule for first-time threesomes, and you agreed to honor that ground rule. But you went ahead and stuck your penis in the other woman’s vagina anyway.

Maybe you felt your wife’s no-penis-inour-third’s-vagina ground rule was arbitrary.

Maybe it seemed like a distinction without a difference—you were already sucking and fondling and kissing and rolling around, why should fucking be against the rules?—but it mattered to your GGG wife. And your wife consented to that threesome only after you agreed not to stick your penis in the other woman’s vagina. And when you went ahead and stuck your penis in the other woman’s vagina anyway, you stupid motherfucker, that threesome suddenly became a nonconsensual sexual experience for your wife. And now she feels violated.

Because you violated her.

Adding to her feelings of violation, she felt obligated to play along and pretend she was fine with your penis in the other woman’s vagina because she didn’t want to ruin the experience for you, for starters, and she probably didn’t want to make your third feel uncomfortable—a third who either didn’t know about the no-penis-in-her-vagina ground rule or knew about it and didn’t give a shit (which makes her a malicious motherfucker)—and as a result, your wife may feel complicit in her own violation. Talk about mind-fucks!

That’s how you’re a motherfucker. Here’s how you’re stupid: If you had demonstrated to your wife during your first threesome that you could be trusted, if you had cheerfully observed the ground rules, this threesome would very likely have been the first in a whole series of sexual adventures. If you had kept your penis out of the other woman’s vagina, you stupid motherfucker, your wife might have trusted you with more and allowed you to do more during a future threesome. You might have gotten to penis-in-vagina intercourse with another woman with your wife’s enthusiastic consent!

To others out there with partners who have agreed to have a threesome: Sometimes, a nervous wife/husband/boyfriend/girlfriend sets ground rules for an inaugural threesome that seem arbitrary, because they are arbitrary.

(Don’t use tongue when you kiss the other person, don’t use my favorite tit clamps on the other person, you can put your penis in the hole in the other person’s face but not in the hole[s] in the other person’s swimsuit area.)

When your partner declares a particular kiss/ toy/orifice out of bounds, he or she isn’t just holding something back because it’s special.

They are also measuring your ability to respect

their boundaries. Respecting your partner’s boundaries—honoring those ground rules— sends a message: “I may be messing around with someone else, but I love you, and your emotional and sexual needs still come first.”

And once a nervous wife/husband/boyfriend/girlfriend sees with their own eyes that their ground rules are going to be respected— once they see that their partners can mess around with someone else without forgetting who matters to them most—those ground rules tend to become less restrictive.

But that’s not gonna happen for you now, you stupid motherfucker, because you couldn’t honor your wife’s ground rules during your first— and most likely last—threesome. You violated her, you violated her trust, and you screwed yourself out of future sexual adventures. If you ever hope to have another threesome, or to realize some other sexual fantasy, or if your wife has a sexual fantasy that she would like to realize (one that you might enjoy helping her realize), you’re going to need to offer her a plausible explanation and an abject apology.

I’m in love. But my boyfriend of more than a year is REALLY into the fantasy of a MFF threesome. I’m as GGG as girls get, but I was sexually abused by an adult woman when I was a young girl. He knows that ever since I realized that I was attracted to other women, I’ve felt like a guilty pervert. Thanks to copious amounts of alcohol, I’ve gotten about as far with another girl as a stereotypical college student, but the abuse still haunts me. (I go to therapy when I can afford it.)

My question is this: If I may never be capable of fulfilling his fantasy by bringing another chick into our bed, am I an asshole for wanting to remain in an LTR with this guy? I don’t know if he gets how hard that could actually be for me. I have no idea how to even broach this subject with him. Should I set him free?

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First, WYICCUW, I’m so sorry about the sexual abuse you suffered. But I would urge you to prioritize therapy over, say, a third and fourth round of drinks. Fewer copious-amounts-ofalcohol-enabled bisexual experiences in the short run, with less money going to booze and more going to therapy, may lead to more—and happier, and easier-to-recall—bisexual experiences in the long run.

As for the boyfriend, just tell him that, due to your history, an MFF threesome is not something you would be able to do for or with him anytime soon. If going without MFF threesomes for the foreseeable future is a price of admission that he’s willing to pay to be with you, WYICCUW, do him the honor of letting him pay it.

I’m a straight woman who enjoys gay porn and writes slash fiction. Seeing my husband make love to another man is my biggest fantasy, but he insists that it will never happen. He did agree to a MMF threesome, but only if he didn’t have to do anything with the other man. I found a guy in a city we are visiting soon. My husband doesn’t know this guy is bisexual and into him. I’m hoping that my husband will feel “inspired” once “things” are under way. What’s the best strategy for getting my husband— She Lusts After Sexy Homos

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To See the Following, Call Randy Dobin 215-440-2058 1018 Christian Street-3 BR,hw floors,sep DR,kit w/island,granite ctrs,brk patio ...........................................................................$2,500 To See the Following, Call Mark Wade 215-521-1523 604 S 11th Street #4-Townhouse w/granite brkfst bar,hw flrs,SS applns,C/A,patio. .....................................................................$2,850 To See the Following, Call Mike McCann (215) 440-8345 1811 Chestnut Street #503-N/C-1 Br/1 Ba,hw flrs,granite,SS applns,C/A,washer/dryer. ........................................................$1,800 928 Fitzwater Street #1ST FL-1st flr Large Real Estate office w/C/A,3 piece bath. .................................................................$1,095 1629 Jackson Street #2F-2 Br/1 Ba 2nd flr apt w/rear entrance,lots of natural light ............................................................................$950 2005 Mercy Street-Nice 3 Br/1 Ba townhome, pine flrs,modern kit,clean bsmt .............................................................................$800 874 N Stillman Street-2 Br/1 Ba home on tree lined blk,Lr/Dr w/hw flrs,tiled ba...............................................................................$1,400 1232 Reed Street-4 Br/3 Ba,Lr/Dr,hw flrs t/o,updated kit w/granite/ SS,patio. ..................................................................................$1,850 739 S 11th Street-Tr-level 3 Br/1 Ba,Lr/Kit area w/hw flooring,maple cabinets. ..................................................................................$1,200 2301 S Bancroft Street-3rd Flr-Bi-level 1 Br/1 Ba apt,hw flrs,exp brk,hi ceilings. ............................................................................$675 2132 S Philip Street-2 Br features wide open Lr/Dr/Kit w/double doors out to yd............................................................................$850 2036 Spruce Street-3rd flr apt-2 Br/1 Ba,hw flrs,galley kit,2 fpl mantles. ...................................................................................$2,000 530 W Girard Avenue #4-Bi-level unit 3 Br/3 Ba + den,Lr w/exp brk,Chef’s kitchen....................................................................$2,400 To See the Following, Call Stephen Ferguson (267)377-9344 1 Academy Circle #208-Naval Sq-1000 + sq ft,1 Br/1 Ba,13’ceil,Parking.gym,pool. ...................................................$1,795 To See the Following, Call Suzin Kline 215-440-7505 50 S 16th Street #4407-Celestial 1 BR/Den/2 BA condo totally furnished w/river view.............................................................$7,500

To See the Following, Call Laurie Phillips 215.790.5644 1936 Delancey Place-3 br suites 2-3car garage prkg elevator 4 fps outdr balcny.............................................................................$6,500

To See the Following, Call Travis Rodgers (215) 790-5234 1220 Buttonwood Street #304-Fantastic 1br + den w/ granite & s/s kit & 1car gated prkg ...............................................................$1,950 802 Locust Street #201-Amazing 3br+den w/2.5b 1car prkg avail immed pets allowed ................................................................$3,000

To See the Following, Call Linda Holt (215)790-5635 1708 Wallace St #202-1 bed condo. fplc, hw flrs kitchen w granite ...........................................................................$199,900

To See the Following, Call Vicki Goldberg 215-790-5650 2107 Catharine Street #B-Lge 2B w/wd flrs t/o, C/A, w/d, perfect to share........................................................................................$1,700

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1 bedroom, completely renovated, open kitchen, panoramic city views, 712 sf $1,700 wAshingTon squAre Hopkinson House 604 s. WAsHington squAre Efficiency, high floor, river and south city views, 415 sf $1,025 Studio with alcove, high floor, balcony, Washington Square $1,275 view, 600 sf Deluxe 1 bedroom, high floor, Washington Square view, $1,550 balcony, 843 sf 1 bedroom, high floor, balcony, great closet space, unobstructed river and city views to the south, 778 sf $1,700 1119 pine street 2 bedrooms plus den, wood floors, open renovated kitchen, private deck overlooking Pine Street, indoor parking $2,800 space included, 1999 sf independence pLAce 233-241 soutH 6tH street 1 bedroom, balcony, south facing views, walk-in closet in bedroom, laundry room, 928 sf $1,625 wATerfronT pier 5 7 n. coLumbus bouLevArd Tri-level, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, generous living space, large balcony, parking space, 2229 sf $2,190 Tri-level, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, fireplace, excellent closet space, large balcony, parking space, 2229 sf $2,400 CommerCiAl sPACe 1420 Locust street Office space with newly painted walls and new carpet, 695sf $1,200 2031 Locust Street Professional Office Space in secure apartment building, 1058 sf $1,290 1830 Rittenhouse Square – Rittenhouse Square professional or personal office space in boutique, $1,590 doorman building, 754 sf 250 S. 18th Street – Prime ground floor corner retail/office space on Rittenhouse Square, $3,000 NNN 1857 sf 1601 Locust Street - 1st floor and lower level of prestigious Lanesborough condo, ideal for restaurant or offices, 4700 sf $10,000 NNN

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SOCIETY HILL Lower unit condo with Garden entry. 3 Full BR, 2 Baths, open Livin rm/Dining rm. oak parquet flrs t/o, Super size Main BR. 1672 sq ft all in a lovely Garden setting. ................................$725,000 765 S MARVINE BELLA VISTA Elegant Renovation, 5 yrs old w/ 5 yrs on the tax abatement. Over 1850 sq ft. 3 BRS, 2 marble baths, finished basement, Garden and Roof Deck off main BR. Great Location, walk to everything. ...........................................................................................................NEW PRICE! $499,500 1101 WASHINGTON AVE #501 FISHTOWN 2 Bedrooms, 2 Baths, Open Design, Industrial styling, Huge windows, 1500 sq ft. ................................................................................................................................... $390,000 948 N RANDOLPH NORTHERN LIBERTIES Liv w/pine flrs, Sep Dining, New Kit. Lovely garden & Deck, 3 BRS, 1 Bath, 1500+ sq. ft with lots of style. .....................................................................................................NEW PRICE! $305,000 335 TITAN PENNSPORT New Listing ! 3 Bedrooms, 2 Baths. Living/Dining combo with oak flrs. Eat- In Kitchen, Garden 3rd floor Bedroom Suite. Move –In Condition on a Lovely Block. .................................. $270,000 314 KAUFFMAN QUEEN VILLAGE 2 BR Trinity w/ wide plank pine flrs, lower level Kit, garden & circular stairs. In Meredith school district ...........................................................................................$189,000 606 WAVERLY B SOCIETY HILL Ren Trinity on a cobblestone street. Oak floors throughout, Straight stairs, 1BR, 2nd floor Kit w/Granite counters, Bath w/shower .................................... MOVE IN! NEW PRICE! $159,000 439 GEORGE NORTHERN LIBERTIES 3 BRs, 1 BA house, Liv Rm w. HW floors, New Eat-in Kitchen w.SS appliances, New white Bath w/subway tile....................................................................................... NEW PRICE! $239,900

238 W. Montgomery Ave., Haverford 5BD/2.5BA 3-story, 2,018 sf, Dutch Colonial For Sale $400,000 or Rent $2,500/month

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fITLER SqUARE

$525,000

604 S Washington Square #314-Deluxe 1 Br (1,063 Sq Ft) overlooking Wash Sq w/parquet flrs,newer kit. $289,000 2310 Spruce Street #A-1BR+den/1.5bth condo. Patio. 11Ωí ceil. FP, Moldings, S/S&Gran. Kitch.

$2,550,000 1922 Rittenhouse Square-Gorgeous 3BR/2+BA townhome. Cozy fireplace. Double ovens, breakfast room. $990,000 1740 Naudain Street-Contemp TH w/grge, 3BR+Den 2.5B, entertain space w/Deck Master Ste w/Deck $759,000 202-210 W Rittenhouse Sq #2805-Lux 3B/2.5b 2644sf Condominium w/ Square, City & River views. Outstanding $1,495,000 511 S 21st ##102-2 Br w/hw flrs,exp brk,decorative fp,Ba w/whirlpool tub,kit w/granite/SS. $499,500 2101 Market Street #3106-Furnished 2br+den, 3b 1,634 sqft, prkg Pool vuws concierge $1,297,000 1903 Spruce ##1F (aka #1B)-Large 1 Br/1.5 Ba w/fp,small den,closet space,updated kitchen & baths. $412,500 440 S Broad Street #2506-Designer showplace,11’ ceilings,2 Br/den/2 Ba,balcony,Garage Parking $1,050,000 1624 Spruce Street #3R-Spac 1 Br condo,hi ceilings,cook’s kit,granite ctrs,hw flrs,exlrg Br,C/A. $ 309,900 2101 Market Street #3002-Stunning 2BR, Views, Parking, Gourmet Kitchen, Spa Bath $825,000 $450,000

1119 Pine Street #201-2 Bedroom,2.5 bath,home office,fireplace,deck,Garage Parking.

$449,000

1500 Chestnut Street #19B-Deluxe 2BR/2BA, Skyline views, Gourmet kitchen, Marble baths, Doorman $445,000 1901 Walnut Street #8C-Bring your architect. 1441 sf co-op has C/A+ wd&marble flrs pets ok

$349,000

1027 Arch ##807-Penthouse loft-condo w/skyline views,1300 sq ft,hrwd flrs,hi ceilings.

$340,000

514 S 12th #Unit A-Parking included with this 2 BR contemporary condo,patio,ultra kit.

$304,900

1420 Locust Street #22H-Junior one bedroom,high floor,just renovated.

$229,000

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2021 Brown Street-Mint duplex $2400/m income new kits & bths, w/d C/A in units 2532 Brown-Orig wd flrs,2 fpls,kit w/granite ctr/SS applns,gardn,partially fin bsmt.

1702 W Girard Avenue-New List! Reno Multi-unit w/2br/2b, 1br & studio sep utils hw fl rear yard 2622 Folsom Street-A Charming & unique 3 Br/1 Ba,open layout,ex-lrg sunken LR,dark hw flrs.

1901 Green ##1-1 Br/2 Ba,soaring ceilings,hw flrs,orig molding,chef’s kitchen.

833 N Newkirk-Classic 2 BR townhouse w/hw flrs t/o,new wndws,recently renov kit& patio.

2401 Pennsylvania Avenue #16B36-One bedroom + den,washer/dryer,balcony,completely reonvated.

870 N 28th Street #113-Bi-level 1 Br/1 Ba,hrwd flrs,WW carpet in Br,Fp,Gated Parking.

1708 Wallace St #202-Beaut reno 1br condo ss/granite kit wd burning fp hi ceils wd flr tax abate 2229 Green Street #2-Fan 1br w/12’ceils updated kit & bath h/w fl w/b fp & in a historic mansion 2601 Pennsylvania Avenue #651-Upgraded Studio, Newer Kitchen, Newer Bath, Doorman, Gym, FHA

33 N 3rd Street ##3-Unique 2 Br/2 Ba Old City Flat,high ceil,den/study,wd flrs,gas fpl.

$799,000

113 Bread St ##3B2-3 Br/2 Ba,hw flrs,granite counters,Juliet blcny,GARAGE PARKING + tax abat.

$449,900

103-7 Church Street #14-Gorgeous 2 Br/2 Ba condo,hrwd flrs,designer kit w/granite/SS,12’ceilings

$389,900

627 N 10th Street-Beautiful 3br, 2.5b 4yr old new construction home 1 deeded parking

$355,000

927 N 2nd Street-Opportunity along busy Commercial Corridor,2nd/3rd used as owner Residence

$350,000 431 S 43rd Street-High-end crnr home w/PRKG. 2BR+den/2.5bths. In Penn Alexa Catch $144,500 4527 Sansom Street-Gourmet kit, decorative fplc in LR. 3Br/1b, 3rd fl master bdrm suite

51 N Front Street #503-Penthouse Studio w/River/ Bridge views,exp brk,hw flrs,new Kit & Ba

$479,000 $474,500 $349,900 $314,900 $299,900 $279,000 $249,900 $219,900 $209,000 $189,900 $129,000

$680,000

727 S American Street-Charming 2 Br/2.5 ba w/1 Car Parking,wood-burning fp,mstr suite w/terrace. $600,000 719 S Philip Street-Bright 3 Br/2.5 Ba home w/Deeded Prkng,cook’s kit,hrwd flrs,fp,grdn & deck.

$575,000

213 Headhouse Court-4 Br/2.5 Ba w/secure prkng,rear patio,grdn,rf dk,fin bsmt,fp.

$565,000 $479,000 $399,900

715 S Schell Street-Renov 2BR/2bth TH. Open plan, HW Flrs & Exc light. In Meredith

$369,000

908 E Passyunk Avenue-Designer reno 3R home open flr plan lg kit hw flrs high ceil new bath patio

$359,000

125 Kenilworth Street-3 Br + den,hw flrs t/o,orig wood work,lrg EIK,non working fpl,lrg grdn.

$334,900

812 S Howard Street-Total rehab,2 Br/lrg Ba,grt Eik,hrwd flrs t/o,bsmt & garden.

$299,900

712 S 12th Street #311-FHA Approved-New Condos-Hawthorne Lofts,some w/PARKING,tx abat.

Starting @220,000

WASHINGTON SqUARE WEST 1016 Spruce Street #3-Epic Space. Dramatic 5BR, 3bth condo. All Character. Just Grand

$1,000,000

802 Locust Street #201-Spect 3br/2.5b condo w/ reno kit, w/b fp, h/w flrs & 1 car deeded parking

$689,000

903 Clinton Street #2R-Pristine 2BR/2bth condo. Exquisite finishes. On-site PRKG avail

$525,000

420 S Jessup Street-Storybook Lane. 3BR/2ba, wd fls, lg LR/DR w/fpl, French drs to patio.

$497,000

334 S 12th ##1R-2 Br/1.5 Ba multi-lev unit w/den,hrwd flrs,gor kit,fin bsmt,1 Car prkng.

$450,000

AROUND TOWN 530 Warren Boulevard-Deluxe 3BR/2+BA residence. Cathedral ceilings, skylight, whirlpool tub.

$399,900

1739 W Ritner Street-Fully equip restaurant + 3 lrg Br,mod kit,Ba w/jacuzzi,hrwd flrs.

$308,900

11166 Hendrix Street-Updated 3 Br/2.5 Ba home w/Eik,porch,bk yard,lrg family rm w/fireplace.

$264,999

924 Dudley Street-2bed/1bath East Passyunk Square. Great 1st-time buyer opportunity

$165,000

1712 S Mole Street-Rehab 2Br/1.5 Ba,hrwd flrs,kit w/breakfast bar,granite,SS,yard + bsmt.

$169,900

125 Tasker St-1BR+den, exposed brick, finished basement, C/A, pine plank floors, garden.

$155,000

$459,000 1723 S Dorrance Street-Great 2Br/1 Ba home w/spac LR/DR,Eik,rear yard,partially fin bsmt. $349,950 3600 Conshohocken Avenue #1803-2BR/2b w/vuw, pkg, pool, gym, bus service. Condo fee includes ALL

$94,900

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275 S 19th Street #PH2-Gorgeous Penthouse Residence. 2 full flrs w/Private Roof Retreat

1901 Walnut St #7F-Amazing price for 2BR/2BTH 1500+sf, high ceilings, wd flrs, storage

$1,050,000

2200 Arch ##706-Bright 2 Bd /2 Ba,1310 sq ft,24 Hr Doorman,DEEDED PRKNG,pet friendly

$365,000 912 Fitzwater Street-Townhse in BV,3 Br w/park views,stunning kit,mstr suite,fin bsmt,patio + dk

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$2,495,000 2107 Bainbridge-A true WOW house! To-die-for kit,2.5 spa Ba,3 Bdrm,media rm,fpl,deck,grdn 512 S Front Street-Terrific investment opportunity,River & Park Views,zoned C2. $1,900,000 1808 Christian-3 BR/2 Ba + 2 pwdr rms,bright liv space,hw flrs,gas fp,finished lower Level 224 Delancey Street-Reno 4sty TH, 3BR, 2.5 spa bth den new kit dbl LR, fin bsmt FPL decked gdn $1,299,000 500 Admirals #210-Exceptional 2BR/2BA townhome with blissful comforts. See this one now!

1820 Catharine-3 Br/2 Ba,2 fp mantals,rear yd,hw & tile flrs,3 ceiling fans,whirlpool tub.

241-43 Chestnut #Unit G-Penthouse unit 2Br/2Ba w/800 ft roof deck,gourmet kit,gas fpl,hi ceilings. $1,250,000 1727 Fitzwater #Unit A-Chraming 2 Br/1.5 Ba,bright & spacious,granite ctrs,Garage,new central air.

206 Gaskill Street-Award winning Liberty Crt,2500+ sq.ft,4 Br/3.5 Ba,den,fp,3 dks,Garage/grdn $1,199,000 1629 Fitzwater Street-Renov 2BR/1.5bth home. Patio&Balcony w/skyline vus. Exc. locat 523 Spruce Street-Stunning Historic twnhse,3 Br/2.5 ba,hw flrs Eik,mstr suite w/dk,grdn. $629,900 1516 Catharine ##4-Great 1 Br condo,hw flrs,SS appliances,hi ceilings,washer/dryer included.

508 Lombard Street-Beautiful 3 Br/2.5 Ba w/garage prkng,cstm kit,gas fp,lovely mstr Br. $625,000 271 S 4th Street-Grand 5B/3.5b cook’s kit,wd flrs,7 fpl,new Mbth,grdn,2 car pkg

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SALE

QUEEN UNIVERSITY VILLAGE CITY RITTENHOUSE

QUEEN TEMPLE VILLAGE UNIVERSITY FISHTOWN Fantastic Investment Duplex Open Floor Plan Property 5 $369,000 3 Bedrooms Bedrooms 2.5 Baths 2MLS Baths $329,900 5965611

3 Story Victorian Row Sunny Townhouse SQUARE Just Renovated!

3Duplex Bedrooms 2.5 Baths 1 Bedroom 1 Bath $335,000 $237,599 $339,000 MLS 5790241 5965620 MLS 5787044

MLS 5784384 $215,000

MLS 5987174

UNIVERSITY NORTHERN LIBERTIES CITY WASHINGTON

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3 Bedrooms 1.5 Baths SQUARELocation Convenient Charming Condominium 3 Bedrooms, 1 Bath $339,000 1 Bedroom 1 Bath $249,900 MLS 5950613 $225,000 MLS 5933122

$339,900 $242,500 $259,900

MLS 5952328 MLS 5790241 MLS 5790241

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Powers Brangan PENNSPORT CENTER CITY CENTER CITY

3 Bedrooms Duplex…

Location State ofAmazing the2artBaths Loft 1$239,000 Bedroom 1 Bath, each unit Condominium 2 Bedrooms $379,000 MLS 59569862 Baths $489,555 MLS 5897864

Rittenhouse Square 2000 Pine Street Philadelphia, PA 19103

MLS 5746449

215.247.3600

The Residences SOCIETY HILL at PROPERTY Beautiful 18 century THE MURANO The Residences historic in home Satring the

$825,000 $400,000s at THE MURANO

CENTER NORTHERN CITY LIBERTIES NORTHERN

MLS 6001640

Starting in the $400,000s

Unique, green gem in Duplex LIBERTIES theWalkers heart ofParadise!

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3 Bedrooms 1 Bedroom 1 Bath MLS 5897864 2.5$269,900 Baths

Chestnut Hill 8039 Germantown Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19118

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$629,000 MLS 5744269 MLS 5965786

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2036 dELaNCEy pLaCE Magnificent beautifully restored double wide corner, 5br, 6b, +/-9000sf, original detail, elevator, terrace, 3 car heated garage, tax abatement.

1432 BaINBRIdGE ST Pristine Artisan 1 townhouse, 3br, 3b, +/3100sf, gourmet kitchen, media room, deck, 2 car garage +2 car parking, 5 yr tax abatement.

110 LOMBaRd ST OpEN SuNday 3/4 12pM-2pM Spacious 3br, 2.5b, h/w flrs, f/p, deck, courtyard, garage parking.

$3,999,999

$949,000

Call Margaret Szumski

1512 MELON ST OpEN SuNday 3/4 1:30pM-2:30pM New construction, 3br, 3.5b, wood flrs, garage, deck, 10 yr tax abatement.

RESIdENCES aT THE WaRWICK #1901, 1701-15 LOCuST ST 1 br, 1 b condo in luxury building, +/-677sf.

Call Jody Volpe or Karen Joslin

$599,000 Call Bruce Benjamin

$724,900

Call Leon aksman

$619,000 Call Izzy Sigman

Call Scott Neifeld or Bruce Benjamin

$369,900

204 ½ S 3Rd ST OpEN SuNday 3/4 1:30pM-2:30pM Spacious contemporary, 3br, 2b, f/p, patio, deck, secure deeded parking, new price!

2005 N 49TH ST BaLa GOLF aREa OpEN SuNday 3/4 12pM-2pM 2br, 1b cottage, 2 decks, brick patio, f/p, view of golf course, move-in condition.

1919 CHESTNuT ST #1410 WILLIaM pENN HOuSE 1br,1b co-op, south view, great location!

$169,900

Call Margaret Szumski

$280,000

Call Viv Gilliam

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226 South Street

215 922 4200

ART MUSEUM The PhiladelPhian The PhiladelPhian The PhiladelPhian The PhiladelPhian

RiTTEnhoUSE SqUARE COnT.

Combined home with 4BR + den, 4Ba, large balcony with art Museum view , upgr. kit. and baths 3,904 sf 3BR, 2.5Ba, wood floors, beautifully renovated designer kitchen, large balcony, river views 2,028 sf 1BR, balcony, wood floors, updated kitchen and bath, custom walk-in closet in bedroom 1,397 sf 1 bedroom, updated kitchen, wood floors throughout, excellent natural light, spacious floor plan, 1166 sf

BaRClay

$399,900 $210,000

3 BR, 2.5 Ba, lots of natural light, high floor, generous entertaining/living space 1,524 sf 2 BR, 2 Ba, split plan on a high floor, excellent living and closet spaces, eat-in kitchen, master BR with ensuite Ba & walk-in closet 1,314 sf oPen sunday 3/4 • 12:15 - 12:45PM

$479,900

The RiTTenhouse 2228 sPRuCe sTReeT The RiTTenhouse PaRC RiTTenhouse PaRC RiTTenhouse PaRC RiTTenhouse The waRwiCk RiTTenhouse Plaza The waRwiCk PaRC RiTTenhouse PaRC RiTTenhouse

1900 RiTTenhouse

1BR, 1Ba, Juliet balcony, upgraded kitchen and Ba, lots of light, separate dining room, hardwood floors 1,085 sf

$479,900

712 sf

$399,900

637 sf oPen sunday 3/4 • 1:30 - 2:00PM

$359,900

The waRwiCk

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

PaRC RiTTenhouse

1BR, large kitchen, marble bathroom, wood floors

The RiTTenhouse

studio, wood floors, large marble bath, panoramic sunset view

wanaMakeR house

1 BR, wood floors throughout, bay windows in all rooms, excellent condition

583 sf

$344,900

704 sf

$300,000

SociETy hill

3 BR + den, 3.5Ba, marble foyer, formal dining rm, sunny eat-in kitchen, 10’ ceilings, moldings, oak herring bone floors, 3 gas fireplaces 3,293 sf $2,900,000 Bi-level penthouse with dramatic sunset views of the city, lavish entire flat master suite, great entertaining space 4,455 sf $2,295,000 Townhome with 5BR plus den, 3.5Ba, private garden, lots of natural light, beautifully restored, original details with modern updates 4,338 sf $1,750,000 3BR, 2.5Ba, magnificent Rittenhouse square & sunset views, pristine condition, great entertaining space, marble baths 2,644 sf $1,695,000 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, all rooms overlook Rittenhouse square, 2 sets of Juliet balconies, lavish master suite, brand new 1,709 sf $1,475,000 Brand new Joanne hudson designer home overlooking Rittenhouse square, 2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, custom finishes throughout 1,860 sf $1,425,000 oPen sunday 3/4 • 1:00 - 1:30PM 3 bedrooms plus den, 2 baths, 690 sf private landscaped terrace, custom kitchen, wood floors throughout 1,707 sf $1,400,000 3BR + den, 3.5Ba, open floor plan, chef’s kitchen, marble bath, north and south city views 2,421 sf $1,195,000 2BR + den CooP overlooking Rittenhouse square, custom chef’s kitchen, lavish master suite, formal entertaining space 2,306 sf $1,150,000 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, 270 degree city views, kitchen is open with high end appointments, bathrooms are all appointed in marble 2,000 sf $1,125,000 2BR, 2Ba, terrace on pool club deck, open custom kitchen, marble bath, wood floors 1,272 sf $775,000 1 bedroom plus den, open floor plan with generous entertaining space, 2 marble bathrooms, courtyard view 1,481 sf $745,000

Bank Building

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

Bank Building

$1,150,000

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

2,025 sf

$1,100,000

Bank Building

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

soCieTy hill ToweRs

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

soCieTy hill ToweRs

Completely renovated corner 1 bedroom, wood floors throughout, city and bridge view, open custom kitchen

2,017 sf

1,200 sf

soCieTy hill ToweRs

1BR, high floor, river view, investment opportunity

$549,900

$399,000

750 sf

$324,900

700 sf

$269,900

wAShingTon SqUARE indePendenCe PlaCe

Bi-level penthouse, 2BR. 2.5Ba, 2 kitchens, impeccably finished throughout, amazing river and city views 4,500 sf

$2,295,000

indePendenCe PlaCe

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

indePendenCe PlaCe

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

indePendenCe PlaCe

1BR, 1Ba, wood floors throughout, upgraded kitchen and Ba, custom closets, balcony

1,387 sf

$699,900

928 sf

$299,900

928 sf

indePendenCe PlaCe 241 souTh 6Th sT

1 bedroom, wood floors, pristine condition, bay windows, 700 sf

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

$269,900

The PhiladelPhian 2401 Pennsylvania avenue 4 bedrooms plus den, 4 baths, balcony overlooking Art Museum, one-of-a-kind, 3904 sf

Condo Fees: $380

$699,000

Taxes: $235

Condo Fees: $693

$599,900

Monthly Cost After Tax To Own: $1,660

Taxes: $500

Condo Fees: $2,694

Monthly Cost After Tax To Own: $3230

Taxes: $1,101 Monthly Cost After Tax To Own: $5,371

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$300,000

$539,000

$359,900

RiTTEnhoUSE SqUARE BaRClay

1,075 sf

$185,000

AvEnUE of ThE ARTS aCadeMy house aCadeMy house

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

$599,900

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