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7 chain Reaction Knee-jerk

21 woot! There it is Tyler students show us what they’re made of.

rhetoric comes to blows between a blogger, a politician and a nonprofit.

7 baby crusaders Antiabortion organization sets sights on Philly—and it’s not going to be pretty.

ARTs & CulTuRe 16 calendar PW’s picks for the week.

sTAge 20 This is only a Test Live Arts Fest experiments with year-round shows.

26 The young ones Drinking craft suds ... for the kids.

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MusiC 22 Raider of the lost snark Michael Ian Black drops by the Troc to film his standup special.

23 critic’s pick The Ex.

food 26 The state of philly’s liver Taking the temperature of our burgeoning cocktail scene.

29 breaking Tradition Old and new worlds collide when a battered wife and her son try to escape in When We Leave.

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Regarding Nina Hoffmann’s cover story about the war on weed: I just finished reading your story and I am reminded of a problem that I see as an inefficient and ineffective use of law enforcement and MY TAX DOLLARS. While fining people $200 is better than locking them up is that even cost effective? How much is spent to operate this process? I understand that having members of our society addicted to drugs is not a good thing and sometimes this leads to crimes other than buying or selling illegal substances. I personally am for legalization—the U.S. needs more industry and more tax revenue, that’s for certain. I cannot claim that I know what the answers are, I haven’t studied the best practices and what is happening in other countries or states. I just know that it is my opinion that what we are doing is not working and it is disproportionately affecting young, black people who also suffer from poor education and lack of job opportunities.

always been my understanding that a teacher cannot violate the privacy of an adult student by discussing classroom issues with parents, and Giddle should have kept the mother out of the dialogue. To be honest, if the student is a 23 year-old freshman, I question her side of the story. I feel like there is an underlying story here about post-adolescent syndrome and the over-involvement of parents. There are very clear and simple avenues for students to take in these types of situations. The student should go to the director, and the director can mediate between the two. If the teacher continues to proselytize, then there is a problem that involves the student, college and director. In that case, the parent is more than within her rights to tell her daughter to contact the ACLU, or inspire her from the sidelines, but frantic mothers running onto the field does nothing but hinder our educational system.

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The most hilarious part for me is when the professor offered Jubilee as a substitute for via email Gianna, when this is perhaps the type of real literature she should have been teaching in Great job with the cover story. I enjoyed it the first place! very much and have passed it on to others.

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Although remedial, this was an English I used to only read it if I passed a yellow box class. Even at a high-school level, English and was catching the 21 (it can be a long ride classes normally teach literature and critical from Center City to West Philly). But now I thinking. There is a huge amount of bona look forward to each new issue. I’ll be sure to fide literature suitable for students who need look for your future articles. help with reading and writing. This is not a GARY LIME case where the only choices are the Iliad or via email religious/self-help claptrap.

The CCP administration has been negligent in allowing this situation to exist. It’s not As a member of N.O.R.M.L. and a firm believer in legalization I have to say to all the about academic freedom (unless one believes that instructors in the Biology department potheads out there: Your public tokings are ruining any chance of legalization. The public should be able to teach creationism if they fancy it). This concerns an educational misdoesn’t care when it’s done in private. As the sion at a public institution. Ms. Levinson article should have told you, it’s not a black should not be put in a coercive situation (the problem it’s a dumb-ass pothead issue. I’ve instructor holds the power of grading) or smoked freely in private for over 20 years as forced to transfer to a different section. a stoner who respects the fact that what the GERVASIA public doesn’t know it doesn’t perceive as a via philadelphiaweekly.com threat. Your public displays are not cool it just shows how stupid you are, take it inside and we can all smoke legally a lot sooner!

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Regarding Michael Alan Goldberg’s recent story about required religious reading in an English course at CCP: Nice piece on the situation at CCP. I found your piece very even handed and objective.

What shocked me about this piece was not so much the books or the proselytizing, but the presence of Ellen Levinson. I am a freshman writing teacher here in the area, and I cannot express how offensive it is that a mother should dabble in her daughter’s class. It has

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Blogger’s Remorse: Aaron Proctor, 29, publicly called the Council on American-Islamic Relations a terrorist organization.

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Knee-jerk rhetoric comes to blows between a blogger, a politician and a nonprofit.

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Extreme Measures Anti-abortion organization sets sights on Philly—and it’s going to get ugly.

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Operation Rescue is coming to Philadelphia. Last Saturday morning, about 60 people gathered in the basement of St. Agnes Church in West Chester to listen to a speech by the charismatic president of Operation Rescue, a well-known organization that represents a militant faction of the American anti-choice movement.

Under the leadership of 44-year-old Troy Newman, Operation Rescue has become known for zeroing in on defined areas and then pressuring individual clinics and practitioners until operating becomes unreasonable or impossible.

Newman calls this technique a refusal to compromise. Critics and judges have called it harassment. Newman took over the group that became Operation Rescue after an $880,000 judgement against former leader Jeff White for harassing Planned Parenthood staff and patients.

Ethical or not, legal or not, the strategy has been successful. Newman has boasted that in the early ’90s in San Diego, 18 clinics closed and 50 of 72 “abortionists” quit, retired or left town during a five-year “No Place to Hide” campaign.

Then, Operation Rescue moved to Wichita, Kan., and focused on putting abortion provider and pro-choice champion Dr. George Tiller out of business.

In a documentary that aired last fall on the Rachel Maddow Show, Tiller’s former staff described Operation Rescue’s street campaign, which even targeted workers of loosely affiliated businesses like cab companies, FedEx drivers and garbage men who worked with Tiller’s office in any capacity. According to ex-staff members, Operation Rescue would find employees’ home addresses and then distribute photos of the workers alongside pictures of supposedly aborted fetuses to neighbors.

“It’s like we became pariahs,” said one former Tiller staff member.

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Ever wonder what happens when reactionary extremist rhetoric blows up in everyone’s faces? Aaron Proctor could probably tell you a thing or two about that. Last month, the 29-year-old blogger took to his page on Examiner.com and accused the Council on American-Islamic Relations of being nothing but a bunch of terrorists: “CAIR is an Islamic group that forwards the false belief that Islam is a religion of peace when it is simply a terroristic world-dominating political movement and not a religion at all,” the Philly resident wrote.

And then he called out a politician, Republican Rep. Pat Meehan, whose 7th District covers Delaware and Montgomery counties.

You see, CAIR’s Philly chapter is having its annual banquet in Delaware County this weekend, so naturally Proctor wanted to know Meehan’s thoughts. Specifically, if he was “with us or against us.”

It’s the first time Proctor, who makes a living off his daily Libertarian rants has called out a public official, even though he writes about politics all the time. His editorials show up in Google News regularly, and he’s spoken at a number of Tea Party protests.

He has even appeared on Fox News as a

commentator. All of this must have been impressive enough to get the freshman representative to respond because “his press secretary emailed me,” Proctor recalls, “and was like, ‘Oh, hey, you should have called me.’” And apparently, Meehan has “major concerns about the [March 12] meeting’s featured speakers,” the congressman wrote in a note to Proctor. “The event is sponsored by … a group which the FBI severed ties with in 2009 after CAIR was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial regarding the funding of terrorist organizations.”

Chalk that one down to either inexperience or naivety on Meehan’s behalf. And since Meehan has refused to comment on his comments, he probably knows it.

And then, of course, there’s CAIR. Moein M. Khawaja, executive director of CAIR-PA’s Philly chapter, fired off a letter to Examiner. com’s news director, Jay Keller, saying Proctor’s statements are “eerily similar to those who have committed hate crimes against Muslim Americans.”

The organization, which called Proctor “an amateur fear monger working to make a name for himself” and “a bigot who has found an audience,” claims to have handed over a picture of Proctor to police and security for banquet. Apparently, CAIR believes Proctor is a physical threat to the “families and children” in attendance. “[The Proctor matter] was not something I wanted to do and we certainly are not advocates of censorship,” writes Khawaja in an email to PW, “but when a writer is slandering you and falsely calling your event a terrorist gathering, there is a real danger that someone who is not mentally together, or on the edge, may read that and act out on it.”

Still, Khawaja says he’s satisfied that Proctor has gone on to discuss other things.

When Proctor found out he’d been suspended (then later reinstated), he went

back to read his blogs. ‘This isn’t unlike any rhetoric you hear on talk radio,’” he recalls after reading them. “What’s the big deal?”

The big deal, he realized, was that Meehan, a public official who’s already gone on record attacking Islam, had gotten involved. And in light of upcoming Congressional hearings, CAIR may have seen its chance to attack the politician for his knee-jerky reaction.

“They want to go after Meehan,” Proctor says. “And what better way to make a guy look bad than to put him in with an unknown weirdo like me who can easily be dismissed as a right-wing Glenn Beck guy.”

And Khawaja’s comments suggest Proctor may be onto something. “The matter we do not consider closed is with Congressman Pat Meehan,” he writes. “He was very quick to respond to a clear-cut bigot, Mr. Proctor… he has not responded to another constituent of his, us, CAIR-PA…We would also like to ask Mr. Meehan if he does indeed believe Islam is not a religion.”

But Meehan remains silent. He hasn’t responded to CAIR. And Proctor says he, too, can’t get in touch with the politician. “I just wanted to get him on the phone and say, ‘Can you believe this crap?’” Proctor says— and never got a response.

Here’s what’s bothersome about Meehan’s comments: He was appointed chair of the counterterrorism and intelligence subcommittee by Republican Rep. Peter King in January. This week, Meehan, King and others will begin a series of McCarthy-esque hearings studying the alleged “Radicalization of Muslim Americans.” The hearings come on the heels of 13 states attempting to ban Sharia Law, legislation that is bizarre as it is meaningless.

Further, Meehan’s labeling of CAIR as an “unindicted co-conspirator” is ripped straight from Bush Administration prosecutors back in 2007 when listing 307 American Muslim organizations and individuals as such in a criminal conspiracy to support terrorist organization Hamas. “Unindicted of course,” reads CAIR-PA’s rebuttal statement to Proctor and Meehan, “because there is zero court-admissible evidence to suggest that they are in anyway related to terrorism.”

The story is way too typical of today’s swift reaction—from all sides—to extreme rhetoric that’s become the norm of national media politics. Meehan’s congressional hearings are pretty much like a big witch hunt; CAIR is well-known in right-wing media circles for silencing critics; and Proctor is admittedly an Islam nonscholar. So the war of ideas goes on, but for the time being, it’s only Proctor, who’s silenced himself on CAIR-related matters, really learning the lesson. “They alluded to me using violence on kids, which is obviously something I wouldn’t do,” he says. “So, yeah, I’m nervous about the event. What if someone does something stupid or invokes my name? I don’t know. I’m just not going anywhere near Delaware County for anything.” n

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“This is ground zero, the abortion battle starts and ends here,” announced Newman on Saturday.

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There’s little logic in the idea that a movement rooted in religious conviction sees an alleged serial baby murderer and drug trafficker as a gift from God. There’s also little logic in attempting to kangaroocourt indict every abortion provider in the state based on one man’s crimes—especially in the face of contradictory empirical data.

But, like in the basement at St. Agnes, where a show of hands confirmed that not one attendee willing to play detective for the cause had begun their research by reading the public Grand Jury report on Gosnell, gross photographs trump information and rhetoric trumps reason.

Instead of remaining relatively quiet and trying to distance themselves from the Gosnell case, pro-choice advocates should be vocally refuting such rhetoric with reason, pictures with words, fear with information.

Meanwhile, anti-choice is calling for bigger megaphones. “[Young reporters] are not the old-school bra-burning feminists,” Newman assures.

“The majority of them are pro-life. It’s just the old hardened producers now that we’ve got to just wait for them to fall off the apple cart.”

Aided by a convicted felon and the Holy Spirit, Operation Rescue’s foot soldiers are setting up shop in Philadelphia, methodologically targeting every local abortion clinic and practitioner and even offering financial awards: $25,000 for tips leading to an arrest.

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the Alamo before inviting the small crowd of mostly middle-aged, almost all-white faithful to serve as “foot soldiers.”

“Philadelphia is in many ways similar to the Alamo,” he says. “You’re here, this is your moment … God handed you an opportunity for success, for victory.”

The “gift from God” is Dr. Kermit Gosnell, who operated the now-shuttered Women’s Medical Society in West Philly. He’s currently facing charges that include murder, serial infanticide, third-trimester abortions and drug trafficking, among other charges.

As the 70-year-old sits in jail, his name is being loudly and repeatedly invoked by prolife activists as a straw man in the abortion wars.

Next came recruitment. Operation Rescue is actively seeking volunteers to pose as pregnant women seeking abortions for phone calls and visits to hospitals and clinics. The effort is focused on obtaining and distributing the names of physicians who perform abortions and to gather evidence of clinics breaking the law. The latter part is to support the allegation, made repeatedly at the meeting, that all abortion providers in Pennsylvania are regularly breaking the law.

“We have great opportunities here,” said another speaker. “If we discover something, we can expose it. We can have it in the governor’s office in 24 hours.”

Stapled packets listing local abortion clinics with details such as hours, prices and physician names were distributed. “Every abortion provider is violating provisions of the Abortion Control Act,” said the speaker, holding the packet in the air.

There is no proof of this allegation. In fact, the statewide inspection of 22 abortion clinics ordered in January in the wake of Gosnell disproves it.

“Maybe they cleaned up real quick in the wake of Gosnell,” reasoned another pro-life activist after the meeting.

Introduced next were a couple of local women and an out-of-towner named Cheryl Sullenger. “If [Cheryl] was put in charge of finding Osama Bin Laden, he would have been found within a week!” cracked the host.

It was meant as a joke, but the reference is frightening. In 1987 Sullenger pleaded guilty to conspiring to blow up San Diego’s Alvarado Medical Center with a gasoline bomb. Sullenger, who’s Operation Rescue’s senior policy advisor, served two years in

federal prison. Her name and phone number was found on Scott Roeder’s dashboard after Tiller’s murder.

James McElroy, a civil rights attorney who won the judgment against Jeff White, says both Sullenger and Newman had restraining orders filed against them. “Suffice it to say they were in legal trouble most of the time they were in San Diego. They had very little respect for the law,” says McElroy.

“Not laws protecting private property or against harassing people or disturbing the peace ... They are not the kind of people you want rolling into town.”

Operation Rescue has denied direct association with Roeder. In the Maddow documentary, footage shows Roeder sitting next to Troy Newman throughout the 2009 trial of Tiller, who was facing charges of performing illegal abortions assembled with the help of Operation Rescue. The jury quickly acquitted.

The women at the meeting discussed the importance of obtaining physicians’ names.

They assured potential intelligence-gathering ops that they need not be nervous about lying during the phone calls.

“Once you start, the Holy Spirit will take over,” said a volunteer. “I just spew out words. I don’t even know where they come from!”

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t’s 10 past three, and Mayor Nutter is running late. He’s due to speak at the Community College of Philadelphia at 3:15 p.m., but he’s just rushing out of a book signing at City Hall, downstairs to the SUV waiting for him on the building’s concrete apron. It’s a typical busy Monday, the start of a manic week that culminates with his budget address to City Council on Thursday.

Climbing in the black Hybrid Tahoe with his driver, a security guard and a press aid, Nutter takes the passenger seat and produces an iPod from somewhere. Fiddling with the controls, he plugs it into the dash, bumping the 2008 hit “Closer” by R&B singer Ne-Yo (the “Can’t Stop” remix).

Wearing a black suit and purple tie, with his standard city of Philadelphia lapel pin and cufflinks, the mayor fields some BlackBerry messages as the Tahoe pulls onto Broad Street.

Afternoon traffic is crawling. Though CCP is less than a mile away, congestion drags out the trip. While the mild electronic beat pumps out of the car’s speakers,

Nutter takes the opportunity to describe his vision for the future of Philadelphia.

“We’re still focused on the main issues that make cities great: A safer city, a smarter city and a more sustainable city. One with integrity and transparency,” he says, hitting his four big talking points. “Those things don’t stop. We can’t lose focus on those big items.”

“Education is the key to the future of this city,” he continues. “We support higher education as well, because of jobs, the research dollars that come.”

Nutter’s rhetoric hits on the expansion and new jobs at the Navy Yard, planned waterfront development on the Delaware River, gains in the hospitality industry plus progress in recycling and other environmental initiatives through the city’s Greenworks program. “Continuing reforms in the government,” he says. “Institutionalized culture of integrity. People want to do business with a government they know has integrity.”

And then there are the numbers, which he can recite easily: Since he’s been in office, the city claims improved test scores in schools with 10 percent more students graduating from high school, plus a 28 percent increase

in residents with a college degree. Violent crime has gone down 13 percent, and murders 22 percent. More than 100 city workers have been fired for corruption or dereliction of duty.

But plenty of obstacles remain as stubborn impediments to a smarter, safer city.

Watchdogs point out that among the 10 largest cities in the country, Philadelphia has the second highest unemployment rate (currently around 10.7 percent), is the third poorest and has the highest violent crime rate. Twenty-five percent of the city lives in poverty. Half a million adults are barely literate, and 40 percent of high school students never graduate.

But as we begin to poke our heads out of two and a half years of recessionary rubble, the city’s outlook is starting to look brighter. Finances are ever so tenuously stabilized. The government is cautiously making noise about investment instead of taxes and cuts. Threats still remain, but Nutter, odds-on favorite to win election to a second term this year, implores you to have faith that Philadelphia is back on track.

mayor’s Monday is an informal forum appropriately called “Winning the Future” with Michael Blake from the White House’s Office of Public Engagement. The event, attended by a number of local government higher-ups and local business leaders, is supposed to start at 8:30 a.m. at the Municipal Services Building, the home of feared city departments like Revenue and Licenses & Inspections. The mayor’s SUV pulls up to the building that looms just northwest of City Hall only a few minutes late. He strolls into the lobby, shaking a few hands along the way before riding the elevator up to the 14th floor.

Outside the nondescript room where the conference is being held, Nutter chats with Blake for a few minutes, annoyed with congressional bickering over budget cuts that nearly shut down the federal government.

“Even talking about it is a sign of dysfunction,” Nutter says. “If we were having that discussion here, people would be going crazy.”

The mayor shakes more hands upon entering the room. He must shake hundreds over the course of the day. When the forum begins, the talk is positive as Blake and Nutter take turns praising each other to the assembled crowd. “If more [mayors] could be like Nutter we’d be able to do a lot more things,” Blake says.

“He must not read the Philly papers,” Nutter says, straight-faced but drawing a laugh. He’s usually good for a dry joke every few minutes at informal occasions.

Blake is here to speak about the State Small Business Credit Initiative, a $1.5 billion federal program designed to encourage up to $15 billion in lending by local institutions across the country. The feds are counting on their local partners to get the word out about the loans to their communities. “Now we need to create more concrete game plans with you all on the ground,” Blake says.

We sure could use the jobs. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, local employment is at 654,900, up from last year but still well below the 695,900 jobs the city boasted in 2000, even though population is expected to have increased by 50,000 or so in that time.

Eventually, the Win the Future conversation lets out with promises of collaboration but no concrete conclusions. After a whole other round of handshakes, the mayor takes a crowded elevator downstairs and walks across JFK Boulevard back to City Hall, accompanied by Luke Butler, his right-hand man. The 27 year-old Great Britain native came to Philadelphia in 2006 to study at Penn and immediately signed up to volunteer on Nutter’s campaign. “I was looking to get involved,” Butler says. “I was reading about this guy Michael Nutter who had this record of pushing for ethics reform.”

While earning his master’s in public administration, Butler stuck with Nutter after the election and worked his way up from the press office to become “special assistant to the mayor.”

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“He was just standing outside the door one day,” Nutter quips.

Short, with red hair and a red beard, Butler carries the thick blue binder that contains all the briefing and scheduling information for the mayor’s day. It’s a flexible document, one that’s frequently out of date by 10 a.m. as events run long and things come up, forcing the team to rearrange the day’s happening. Observers of the mayor might note that he is almost always late to events by 15, 20 minutes or more. “Not bad for an elected official,” Butler says.

Butler estimates that he and the mayor work 15- or 16-hour days on average.

Weekends, too. Nutter says he sleeps about four hours per night—“I’m used to it,” he says—and more amazingly, hasn’t touched a drop of coffee since he was in college.

After a quick two-minute walk from the Municipal Building to City Hall, Nutter and his entourage climb the expansive stairway that winds around the diameter of the entrance hall. The mayor’s office is on the second floor, so they don’t have far to go. On arrival, Nutter disappears into his inner chambers to deal with a private matter before a press conference for the Police Athletic League in the Mayor’s Reception Room around the corner.

The PAL thing is no big deal—just highschool kids getting paired with various city officials for the day. Once it kicks off just after its scheduled 11 a.m. start time, the mayor poses with all 26 kids and their adopted officials, though the needs of the day weigh ever heavier with each passing minute.

Meanwhile, members of the press have started circling in like vultures, not for the kids but because there’s been big news about the city’s beleaguered Housing Authority and they want the mayor’s comment. The Federal Housing Administration, citing financial and managerial irregularities, asked the PHA board, chaired by Nutter’s arch-nemesis former Mayor John Street, to resign over the weekend, but they refused. Press Secretary Mark McDonald warns the gathering reporters that the mayor needs to take a phone call immediately following the PAL event, but he will appear afterward to answer questions. By 11:15, the photo session finally ends and Nutter heads back to his office while the media position themselves outside, chatting about microphone design while they wait.

Councilman Curtis Jones walks by with his PAL shadow and laughs at the mass of reporters. “What I learned my first day on the job, you can’t hide from the media,” he tells the kid.

After five or 10 minutes, Nutter emerges to address the housing situation. “The events of the weekend are slightly confusing,” Nutter tells the press. “I have no details.”

“This is an issue, if not a battle, between [the Department of Housing and Urban Development] and the board,” Nutter says while reporters try to goad him into

calling for the board’s resignation. There’s an unspoken feeling that the mayor doesn’t want to get drawn into a public pissing match with Street, who has thrown a few choice barbs in Nutter’s direction, most notably saying he was “not a black mayor.”

After five minutes of coming up with different ways to say “no comment,” Nutter backs away into his office. McDonald brusquely tells the reporters “Thank you, guys,” while creating a barrier with his body between them and the retreating mayor.

Later, Nutter says he tries to take in stride all the unplanned distractions and delays that inevitably come up throughout the day, throwing him off the schedule laid out in Butler’s thick blue binder. “You have to accept in this job that there’s never enough time for almost anything. Time is not your friend,” he says. “Because of the events of the day we have to move some things around, but it’s what you do.”

Nutter's vision for the city doesn’t

necessarily resonate with the public, with a recent poll showing that 53 percent say the city is headed in the wrong direction.

Critics have ripped him for being too timid, cutting too much from the budget, not cutting enough, not paying enough attention to black neighborhoods and for failing to articulate a grand vision for the city, among other things.

Former Councilman Juan Ramos evokes a common perception when asked about his impressions on the mayor’s effectiveness. “He’s taking care of the people of Philadelphia to the best of his ability. He’s done good for the times that we’re in,” Ramos says. Positive, yet lukewarm.

Some of the mayor’s confidants make the case that the naysayers are missing the forest for the trees. “The day-to-day news of government doesn’t lend itself to sustained interest in big-picture projects,” says former state Rep. Dick Hayden, whose 194th District overlapped with Nutter’s Council district for a few years in the early 1990s.

“The next news cycle moves on to something different.”

“We’ve hit a stabilization point well ahead of other local governments,” Hayden says.

“If you get there earlier, does that put you in a better position to thrive? My answer is yeah.” Hayden points out that planned development at the airport, the Delaware riverfront, North Broad and East Market streets will not only be a boon to the local economy, but should create jobs that don’t require a whole lot of education—employment for the great undereducated mass of city residents.

“I put it in the legacy category,” Hayden says. “Get it done, get it done right, and get 20, 30, 40 year value out of those decisions.”

In small groups, the mayor tends to be well-received. At a surprise visit to a Spruce Hill civic meeting in University City last month, he startles some members who don’t realize that Nutter is in the house until he’s actually standing next to them, shaking their hand. “What are we doing wrong?” asks civic Director Barry Grossbach in mock concern when he spots the mayor.

Giving the group a sneak preview of his financial plan, Nutter frequently moves his hands in and out of his pockets, touching his nose or goatee as he speaks. As he answers questions—people seem less than concerned about the budget, instead asking about the Housing Authority and the Board of Revision of Taxes—his speech is peppered with “umms” as he searches for the right word.

When he gets to well-tread subjects like the DROP retirement benefit, it’s easy to tell he’s switched to his talking points, the practiced words coming out smoother and more polished: “DROP is too expensive, we can’t afford it, the citizens don’t want it, and it has to go. It’s time to drop DROP.” On a question about gun use in the city, he relishes a choice shot at the NRA: “The whole gun situation is just insane,” he

fumes. “The proudest day in office was my 100th day when I was sued by the NRA. It feels great. They are out of their minds.”

Two nights later, he sits down with the neighbors for a similar budget discussion at the Southwest Philly house of Helen Divers, a retired schoolteacher and community activist. After everyone holds hands for a prayer circle in which the pastor prays for the mayor, “help him to remember he has more friends than enemies,” Nutter sits straddled between the dining and living room, both filled with people. Once again, he explains the budget situation. “You can’t always do what you want to do, but you do what you have to do,” he tells his audience. Like at Spruce Hill, they take the opportunity to ask the mayor about other things, like youth programming and abandoned cars in the neighborhood. “It’s like high school here,” Nutter says to a question about political machinations in the Sheriff’s Office. “We’re trying to run a government.”

Closing the meeting, the pastor prays for thanks that Philadelphia isn’t undergoing a Middle Eastern-style revolution. “I do plan on being buried in Philadelphia,” Nutter says in response. “I just don’t plan on doing it anytime soon.”

Divers says she’s known the mayor nearly 30 years, and is pleased to open her home to him for the yearly budget chat. “Some folks move up the ladder and forget about the little folks, but he didn’t forget about me.”

Despite the mayor’s claims that the budget is stable, even he admits that grave threats to the city’s fiscal health lie around every corner. Expected big cuts in federal and state money plus a $400 to $500 million gap in the School District’s budget for next year have potential for “a devastating impact on Philadelphia,” Nutter says. While tacitly acknowledging that the administration has plans in place to account for the ugly and uglier-looking possibilities, the mayor doesn’t want to discuss them yet, preferring to take at least a week to look optimistically at the city’s budget before the bad news comes down from the state.

“We’ll deal with whatever comes down the pipe,” he says. “This budget is a statement of priorities.”

Not all the threats are external, however.

There are a number of red flags within our own ledger books, and self-proclaimed citizen watchdog Brett Mandell has set up a website and mailing list to lay out the places he feels the Nutter administration isn’t living up to its fiscal responsibilities.

“This is a great city, but it’s not the city it should be and not the city we deserve,” says Mandell, who formerly served on the Tax Reform Commission and ran unsuccessfully for City Controller in 2009.

Mandell laughs about his longstanding role as a prominent Nutter critic. “I get reporters all the time who call me and say, ‘Brett, we need someone to say something bad about this,’” the Fitler Square resident says. “They tell me, ‘only you will say it on the record.’”

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“Then folks in the Nutter administration say ‘why are you always going to Brett Mandell?” he says wryly.

But the fast-talking Mandell turns serious when he gets to city finances. “The city’s current five-year plan is balanced on a number of really, really dubious assumptions,” he says.

The biggest problem is the pension fund for retired employees. The fund was already depleted when Nutter came into office, and has only gotten worse since.

A recent audit found it has only enough cash to meet 45 percent of its obligations, promising ever-ballooning payments in the future.

“If you have credit-card debt, the only way you’re going to pay it down is if you stop charging and start paying, or at least pay more every month than you’re charging. We haven’t been doing that,” Mandell says. He also points out that the budget assumes dubious projected savings for municipal union contracts that have been expired for two years now, and that future real-estate tax projections don’t appear to take into account the expiration of last’s years temporary hike.

To him, the Nutter administration has failed to provide the bold leadership the city needs to right its faltering trajectory.

“What are we doing here?” Mandell asks.

“If all we’re doing here is managing decline or treading water, at some point we should throw in the towel.”

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In the black Tahoe on the drive up Broad Street to CCP, as the music shifts to the Black Eyed Peas “Let’s Get It Started (clean version),” Nutter defends his plans on pensions and the union negotiations.

“The short-term plan is to negotiate a different pension plan for new employees,” he explains. “Reduce the general fund contribution over time, stabilize it, get its unfounded liability much lower than it is today. That’s gonna take a long time.”

Then there’s the lingering question of the “wow” moment. When we look back after Nutter’s years in office, what’s the one thing we remember?

“I know folks like to focus on the one big thing—but this is fifth largest city in America,” the mayor says. “It’s important that you are able to do more than one thing at a time. What we’re trying to do is a number of other things well.”

Nutter again brings up the waterfront development as well as advances in education, crime and sustainability. Then he pauses for a second before continuing. “I think part of the ‘wow,’ quite frankly, is that we guided this city through the biggest recession since the great depression.”

Nutter’s tenure in office, replete with budget woes, union negotiations and all the other headaches that come with being the city’s chief executive, recall memories of Ed Rendell’s first term as mayor in the early 1990s. “On the one hand, our deficit was far greater than anything he’s [Nutter] faced,” Rendell remembers. “On the other hand, it was more difficult for him in a way because

it came along so unexpectedly.”

Rendell generally praises Nutter’s first term so far. “First of all, Philadelphia’s made great progress on crime,” he says. “We’ve made terrific progress on refurbishing our image—a transparent government and accountable government, a government of integrity,” he continues, echoing some of Nutter’s talking points.

“In terms of finances, we’re bouncing back. Not fast enough to avoid tough decisions, but revenues are headed in the right direction,” Rendell says. “Some of the big problems, structural problems haven’t been dealt with yet.”

It’s not Rendell’s problem anymore, and the two mayors’ role reversal was illustrated two weeks ago at the Hyatt on Broad Street when Rendell made his official endorsement announcement for Nutter’s re-election. At the end of the press conference, the media swarmed Nutter to ask about the city’s embattled DROP retirement program and school closings due to overnight snowfall.

Rendell, on the other hand, faced a mere two reporters who wanted to know what it’s like to drive after having a chauffeur for so many years. When the former governor extricated himself and walked out of the room, he glanced over at Nutter, still buried

doctor to discuss the case in hushed tones before advancing upstairs to check on the injured fireman and greet his family. When he comes back, Nutter leads a short press conference outside. “We’re here for him, he’s a strong guy and a fighter, and we’re certainly hopeful for his full recovery,” he tells the cameras before heading back to his car.

It’s well after 5 p.m. by then, and the car ride back to City Hall is somber. Nutter looks back over his shoulder. “Luke, have you eaten today?” he asks his assistant.

Butler answers in the negative. Neither has Nutter. Reflecting in silence for a moment, the mayor gets out his iPod and puts on the Carpenters’ “Close to You,” (Why do birds suddenly appear?), fodder for a joke if the moment weren’t so serious.

Eventually, he speaks. “It’s a reminder that the budget is not just a bunch of numbers on a sheet of paper,” Nutter says as the car drives west down Market Street. “Every decision that we make has an impact one way or another. Real people, real lives, real public employees, real citizens.”

The firefighter’s union had been hammering the city over lack of resources lately, and though no one tried to bring politics into McGuire’s injury, the moment was still a sobering gut-check. “I care very passionately

ing his performance, but says he doesn’t let it bother him. “People often times hear what they want to hear,” he says. “You know, I’m in a position where maybe I have a little more information. Or can see some other things. This is like three-dimensional chess in the dark here. You have to be able to see it a couple steps ahead on the chess board and how all the different pieces move together.”

“I don’t let negative comments, negative energy get in the way,” the mayor continues. “I do listen. I hear what people say, and I pay attention to the details.”

“When you’re the mayor, you get a lot of praise and a lot of criticism. It all works out,” he concludes. “When I look at myself in the mirror at night, or first thing in the morning when I’m shaving, as long as I know that I did the best I could do with the resources that I have, then, you know, what else can I do?”

The Tahoe pulls up on the City Hall apron, but the day is far from over. Tomorrow is the big budget address in front of City Council, and the team still needs to prepare. Nutter and Butler head inside with a long night in front of them, staying at City Hall until past 11 p.m. hammering out the final details of the speech.

The next day, Mayor Nutter ambles into

“The budget is not just a bunch of numbers on a sheet of paper. Every decision that we make has an impact ... Real people, real lives, real public employees, real citizens.”

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three-deep in journalists, and amusedly gave the mayor a two-fingered wave, as if to say, “good luck with all that.”

All the talk of budgets and finances can seem abstract, but sometimes, unexpected events provide a stark reminder of the human side of the debate. When appearing before the editorial board at the Philadelphia Tribune last Wednesday, two days after the “Win the Future” conference, Nutter excuses himself at 4 p.m. to visit an injured firefighter at the Penn hospital. Michael McGuire had run out of oxygen while searching for civilians during a fire at a North Philly highrise, but his comrades found him and pulled him to safety. Now he lies in critical but stable condition.

Nutter hops in the car with Butler and heads down Lombard to South. “South Street bridge, on budget a month early,” the mayor purrs as the car passes over the newly refurbished bridge across the Schuylkill River. Soon, he is broken from his thoughts when the car arrives at the hospital. Inside, he huddles with city officials and McGuire’s

about our public employees,” Nutter says softly. “When someone gets hurt, it’s very personal.”

As the SUV nears City Hall, the subject shifts to what extent the recession derailed the mayor’s vision for the city. “The lack of resources is a tremendous challenge,” Nutter says. “I tend not to use the word frustrated. I tend to use my energy to move forward on things I’m trying to get done.”

He points out that the gains in education, crime, sustainability and accountability came despite the unprecedented hole in the city budget: “We said we were going to do certain things when I came into office. We did them.”

“We may not have all the money we want, but is there a different way to go about doing something? Is there some creativity, some innovation?” the mayor asks. “I’m a pretty impatient person, I have a sense of urgency. I always want to do more, do things better, do things quicker, get it done yesterday so you can move on to the next thing.”

Nutter’s aware of the criticism surround-

the packed City Council chambers on the fourth floor of City Hall after the legislative body’s normal Thursday morning meeting.

The bulk of the city’s government leadership sits to the side, including Street, while Nutter faces Council head on and lays out his plan for the year.

“We gather at a time of great opportunity and great threat,” he says. “At a time of hope and caution. A time when we’ve won hard-fought stability, but tremendous uncertainty still lies ahead.”

No absent-minded hand gestures. No umms. This is a polished, rehearsed speech. The budget he describes keeps his promise of no service cuts and no new fees or taxes, for now. There are some goodies in it—$1 million to promote adult literacy, $4.4 million to fix the city’s broken property tax system, another $4.4 million to the fire department. And $6.4 million for a new class of 120 police officers, the first since 2009. Everything dependent, of course, on just how drastic the state and federal cuts are, and how much help the School District needs. Even new taxes could be back on the table if the incoming cuts are deep enough.

But for now, Nutter tries to keep the focus on optimism.

“We’re going to stand up and fight for the budget that I introduce today,” he tells Council. “I believe that this is a time—not for dejection or despondency—but for determination, strength, resilience and hope.”

After years of bad news, maybe a positive attitude is just what the city needs. “We need to get used to the fact that Philadelphia is a city on the rise,” the mayor says.

He ends the speech with a charge to the city. “We’re fighting our way back,” the mayor says. “We’re getting things done.”

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sn’t it about time you heard an MC who just happens to have Indian in his family?

(Seriously, the last one we remember is that Magoo guy who used to hang with Timbaland. Are there any others we’re overlooking?) Well, that’s what you’ll get when you take in the rhymes of the aptly named Yelawolf. This half-Caucasian, half-Cherokee, multi-tattooed Alabama native is a star on the move now that he’s been signed to Eminem’s Shady Records.

But even though he has the Great White Hope’s seal of approval, he may have a difficult time showing folks he’s not a Slim Shady knockoff. In the video for his single “Pop the Trunk,” a title which we believe he snatched up from a bit off of Kevin Hart’s last stand-up special, his white-trash swagger is in full effect. He gives off more lower-class, trailer-park pride than Em did in his early days. (The video itself looks like one of those dream sequences from Winter’s Bone.) But we assume this guy will catch a lot of buzz. Hell, with his dirtbag good looks, we wouldn’t be surprised if he suddenly gets a let’s-get-together text from Pamela Anderson. craiG d. lindSeY

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Junior Brown While Junior Brown has become known over the past couple of decades for his quirky “guit-steel”—a double-necked contraption he invented that’s a six-string electric guitar on top and a lap-steel guitar on the bottom— there’s absolutely nothing gimmicky about this 58-year-old honkytonk hero. Brown injects old time rock ’n’ roll spirit into the rowdy Hank/Waylon school of country music, throwing in Tex-Mex, blues and surf-rock flavors for good measure. The guit-steel’s simply a handy means to an end—he plays it like a fiend as he summons heartache, humor and hell-raisin’ with his gritty baritone voice, creating a feverish stomp that’s made him one of country’s all-time greats. Michael alan GoldberG

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including the infamous Chinese Execution Blade Box, chainsaw juggling, the good ol’ bed of nails and, y’know, people pounding various sharp things into their faces and other places—and plenty of vaudevillian and rockabilly flavored merriment. We hear that members of Philly’s own burlesque sensations the Peek-ABoo Revue will be joining Pretty Things this evening as special guest performers. Together, they’ll demonstrate how the tease can be more fun than the strip. M.a.G. 8pm. $10-$12. North Star Bar, 2639 Poplar St. 215.787.0488. northstarbar.com

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LGBT Adoption Cafe The LGBT community has made tremendous gains since Stonewall: The Matthew Shepard Act, the repeal of DADT, gay marriage in several states, those cute rainbow signs in the Gayborhood. Still, these triumphs are no substitute for children. After all, what is a queen without an heir? Prospective parents can attend the LGBT Adoption Cafe, an evening of food and information about gay adoption, which is permitted in Pennsylvania, though the waters remain murky. Let the Philly-based National Adoption Center— which, according to Director of Communications Gloria Hochman, facilitated its first lesbian adoption in the ’70s—be your guide at this event that includes LGBT parents who’ve been there and adoption agencies that have signed off on that. While you may not get your own Zahara Jolie Pitt, Hochman suggests a more logical alternative. “In the Delaware Valley, we have 1,500 children in foster care waiting for families to adopt them, waiting for permanence in their lives.” GerrY chriSToPher JohnSon

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October 1996. Fieldwork convenes as a trio on Saturday. The JACK Quartet performs chamber music by Lehman (“Nos Revi Nella”) and Iyer (“Mutations I-X”) on Sunday, after a pre-concert chat with New York Times jazz critic (and Penn alum) Nate Chinen. david r. adler Through Sun., March 13. 8pm. $12 ($30 three-night pass). Christ Church Neighborhood House, 20 N. American St. 215.922.1695. arsnovaworkshop.org

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Somehow the most skewed, abstract rhythms become magnetically appealing when pianist Vijay Iyer, saxophonist Steve Lehman and drummer Tyshawn Sorey gather as the experimental collective Fieldwork. In a rare three-night showcase, these formidable musicians will appear together and apart, highlighting their distinct identities as solo innovators and their power as a combined force. Sorey opens on Friday with “For Kathy Change,” a quintet tribute to the late political activist who burned herself to death on the Penn campus in

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Even if you never graduated past stick figures, the Mural Arts Program wants you to come out and help create the nearly 50,000 square foot mural—the largest of any project ever completed in the over 3,000 created by the Mural Arts Program. The final product, known as How Philly Moves, will feature dancers of all ages, races, genders and abilities, originally photographed and transformed into a nearly 75-foot tall mural design by Jacques-Jean “JJ” Tiziou. Join Tiziou and lead muralist Jon Laidacker for your final chance to be a part of this new Philadelphia landmark—and cross “display artwork publicly” off your bucket list. hannah KeYSer

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While every member of the Phillies’ starting lineup may have an oh-so clever nickname, none of them is quite as bad-ass as Roxy Elbowa, Shenita Stretcher and Leggs Benedict. If you’ve never experienced the fierce, puntastical world of roller derby—you’re in luck. Having just kicked off their fifth season, the Philly Roller Girls will be delivering not one, but two batches of ass-whoopings for your enjoyment. First up, last year’s Warrior Cup Champions, the Broad Street Butchers will go head to head with the league’s newest team, the Heavy Metal Hookers. The Independence Dolls will then take the track for the first time this season and look for their second win against the Cape Fear Rollers Girls from Wilmington, N.C. There will also be an after party at Bonner’s Irish Pub where you’ll have a chance to get to know the women behind all the awesome aliases. N.F. 6pm. $15-$20. 23rd Street Armory, 22 S. 23rd St. phillyrollergirls.com

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What happened on Feb. 8, 1968, at South Carolina State College in Orangeburg was shocking, even to veteran reporters following the civil rights movement. “I’ve covered a lot of violence,” recounts a journalist featured in Scarred Justice, a documentary about the event and its aftermath. “We saw violence at demonstrations; we saw violence in Selma.

But nothing prepared us for what happened at Orangeburg.” That night, state troopers opened fire on African-American students protesting to desegregate the local bowling alley. The shooting supposedly lasted no more than 10 seconds—just long enough to kill three students and wound 28. Despite the carnage, the Orangeburg Massacre, as some call it, has been largely overlooked. And unlike Kent State, which didn’t occur until 1970, hippie bards never commemorated this tragedy in song. Filmmakers Bestor Cram and Judy Richardson hope to rectify that by giving both victims and perpetrators the chance to speak.

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s more dance and electronica seep into mainstream wellwater, artists push to subvert the style’s typically cold, mechanistic aura.

Crystal Castles reveal where the shadow hits the light. The Toronto duo are a study in contrasts: quiet understated reflection beset by epic sonic swells, pretty icy melodies skating on a broken ground of noise and fuzz, spunky 8-bit samples and skittering background detritus parting for moments of sublime elegance. The vigorous energy of their clamorous live performances are injected with big doses of determined vibrancy, and sound like the swelling rage of a futuristic immigrant slum at the foot of a dark corpo-industrial monolith. CHRIS PARkER Tues., March 15, 8pm. $26. With Teengirl Fantasy. Theater of the Living Arts, 334 South St. 215.922.1011. livenation.com

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Perhaps more kids would clamor for science if pints were given out with homework assignments. Those adults among us who understand the pleasures of expanding the mind while inebriating it can continue their education at National Mechanics’ bi-weekly Science on Tap forum. The informal gathering is the brainchild of the Academy of Natural Sciences, the Chemical Heritage Foundation, the Wagner Free Institute of Science, and the American Philosophical Society and Mütter museums. Each event features a presentation from an expert within the scientific field while attendees take down notes and brews. This month, Christine Bartos, curator of ungulates and small mammals at the Philadelphia Zoo, will lead a presentation and discussion about graceful giraffes and evolutionary adaptation. Apropos of the

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Murs sports a dread-locked head of hair that’s tough, woolly, untamed and even, dare I say it, uniquely individualistic. Of course, you can say the same thing about the rhymes he spits. The Los Angeles-born-and-bred rapper has made a career out of being something of an independent force of nature, as both an MC and an artist. (Murs is supposedly an acronym for “Making Underground Raw Shit.”) The dude has always been on the fringe and loving it, starting way back when he was one of the key members of the West Coast hip-hop collective Living Legends. He seems to be at his most creatively charged when he’s paired up with someone. He and Atmosphere’s Slug formed a supergroup called Felt, which had them dropping albums dedicated to their favorite actresses. But, of course, he’s been doing his best work with North Carolina producer 9th Wonder. They’ve collaborated on four albums together, including last year’s Fornever. So, expect him to bring some more underground raw shit this weekend. And, for all the people in the front row, you better get back when he starts whipping that hair back-and-forth. He could take one of your eyes out! C.D.L. 7pm. $12. With Tabi Bonney, Whole Wheat Bread, Ab-Soul + DJ Foundation. North Star Bar, 2639 Poplar St. 215.787.0488. northstarbar.com

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Most people think of the Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe as being an annual 16-day event that begins Labor Day weekend. And while the presentation of contemporary performing arts is still the festival’s primary focus, it has also taken a year-round interest in developing new work from local artists.

The festival’s hub for shepherding this work is the Live Arts Brewery, launched in 2009 as part of a two-year pilot program. LAB supports local artists with fellowship and production residency programs, the latter of which includes the just launched LAB Test series. The series is designed to give artists the opportunity to “test” new material on audiences and discover what does and doesn’t work. LAB Test debuts this spring with public showings of work from the two artists awarded residencies: Philly-based theater artist Geoff Sobelle will present Elephant Room, and Thaddeus Phillips will show Whale Optics in April.

The new push for cultivating local work is an effort to “elevate the quality” of it, according to Nick Stuccio, producing director of the Live Arts and Philly Fringe.

LAB Director Craig Peterson adds that although Philly artists often supply the Festival with some of its most creative and satisfying productions, there can be a noticeable disparity between their work and the creations presented by out-of-town artists.

Peterson points out that many of the shows presented by national and international artists arrive at Live Arts after extended tours of one or two years, a period of time that allows the production to be refined and polished. By contrast, the productions presented by Philadelphia artists

are almost exclusively world premieres, which in some cases have never been seen by an audience. Peterson says the result is that the local shows can appear “undercooked” in comparison to the more “finessed” out-of-town work. LAB is an attempt to level the playing field by giving artists the time and resources to allow the work to mature before it debuts at the festival.

Sobelle, perhaps best known for his work with the Pig Iron Theatre Company, is creating Elephant Room with collaborators Trey Lyford (who he teamed with on the brilliant festival hit All Wear Bowlers) and Steve Cuiffo. The production—which Sobelle describes as “a surreal magic show a la David Lynch”— focuses on magicians Dennis Diamond, Louie Magic and Daryl Hannah, who have gathered at “a clubhouse just this side of dreamland” called the Elephant Room.

The plan, Sobelle says, is to use the informal March performances to gauge audience reaction. “It’s a great advantage to try this material beforehand in front of a live audience. Especially with magic, you can rehearse and talk about it until you are blue in the face, but the only way you know if it works is to do it in front of people and get their reaction.” Audiences won’t get to see the entire show, but Sobelle promises plenty of “nonstop experimental jaw-dropping magic. We will try a variety of things and hopefully we’ll know then what to put in the final draft of the show.”

Phillips, whose previous festival shows include last year’s hit El Conquistador, says participating in LAB has encouraged him to work on a larger scale. He describes Whale Optics as an ambitious “three-part epic about humpback whale songs, suboceanic fiber-optic cables and the ocean.”

He says that next month, he and his team of performer/collaborators—which includes acclaimed local actor Lee Ann Etzold and the very hot Makoto Hirano—will be working on the show’s “creative and technical elements” such as the lights, sound, set and music. Putting the unfinished work in front of an audience is an opportunity “to see how [Whale Optics] flies and where it drags,” Phillips says.

If the LAB Test series and the associated programs prove beneficial, Peterson says, the Festival hopes to expand the series to include more artists. “The series isn’t just the artists testing material with an audience; it’s also a test for whether we are serving the development process in appropriate ways,” he says. “There is no doubt artists can benefit from extra time to develop the work. The question is whether this particular format is the most helpful.” n Geoff Sobelle's Elephant Room : March 12 and 19, 7:30pm. Thaddeus Phillips' Whale Optics : April 11 and 17, 7pm; April 23, 2pm. Live Arts Studio. 919 N. Fifth St. livearts-fringe.org

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that looks like a religious icon from Mars. Ash Ferlito’s oil on canvas, “Tell Me What to Do,” a rotary telephone floating in a sea of black, is also iconic. Emily Davidson’s lovely and surreal “Shipwreck,” is especially striking: a tiny piece depicts improbably gorgeous rubble in an urban environment.

Among the objects on display, Giles Heffernan’s “The Gates of Horn and Ivory” is the standout. Of course, it helps that the Suck it to me: One of Stuart Lorimer's abstract white foam core tower oil paintings. almost reaches the ceiling and that at its top is a tiny, well-lit city under glass (it’s a blue-tinged Emerald City). Tim Rusterholz’s virtuosic “The Vision of Constantine” weds a classically styled horse head of pink foam insulation with a rocking-horse bottom to suggest the emperor at play. Also playful is Leslie Friedman’s “Sukkot Ramp,” a handserigraphed path of linoleum tiles that runs up what looks to be a skateboard ramp on

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Wayne” could have broken the monotony of The paintings here are lively, and the seeing one crotch after another (they’re all subject matter and paint applications vary so clothed) if the video showed an occasional much that you’d be hard-pressed to pinpoint face. And David King’s animation “Plastic a “Tyler” style among them.

Palin/Plastic Marx” needs more Marx and Dan Schein’s oil paintings are mock-heroic less Palin to balance its message that all cartoons, and his large, drippy brush strokes idealogues are one in the same. As it is, give off a dreamlike ambiance. Schein’s narPalin dominates the media. Who wants to ratives don’t add up to a coherent story—or look at or think about that? even an incoherent story—but there’s plenty The Tyler students, who fundraised in orof room for the viewers to come up with their der to produce this show from start to finish, own. Stuart Lorimer’s oil paintings likewise have done a great job of filling the space with allude to some kind of story but don’t quite works big and small. Look for solo shows get there. In fact, Lorimer, one of the five by each of the graduating MFAs beginning student organizers of the show, told me he March 16 at Tyler’s Temple Gallery. n once painted narrative works with so much content he began to question just what he Woot! was doing and why. Now, in an opposite exThrough Mar 13. Reception: Thurs., March 10, treme, he paints works like “The Suck” and 6-9pm. Ice Box Project Space and Grey Area, Crane Arts, 1400 N. American St. cranearts.com “After the Dance,” which depict a carefully abstract shape in a color field—something

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Is it more difficult than other forms of comedy, like sketch writing?

It’s difficult in a different way. It’s certainly hard to hold the stage by yourself for an hour, even when you are blessed with as much animal magnetism as I have. It’s a challenge.

There’s no one there to save you when you flail. But that’s co also what makes it fun. It’s hard making jokes. It’s probably not as hard as mining coal. But it’s probably a close second.

You know what? It is harder than mining coal.

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I don’t give a shit. The only time that matters at all is when I have to introduce myself to somebody. They say, “Well, what do you do?,” and then I have a hard time answering that question. But other than that, it’s not something I give a lot of thought.

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efore MTV dedicated all of its programming to the smushing guidos of the Garden State, spoiled asshole rich kids turning 16, loads and loads of pregnant teenagers crying and True Life: I Am Fat and Wish I Wasn’t, the Real Life Fictitious Tale of Life Behind the Scenes of MADE playing in a constant loop, it actually made an attempt to air some shows with a creative bent. The best of them: The State, a sketch comedy show at the forefront of what is now called “alternative comedy” that taught us how to dip our balls in things and was a springboard for many a spry comedic mind. Among the cast: the handsome, understatedly cool Michael Ian Black stood out, mostly because he was handsome and understatedly cool (call me!). Since the show, Black has acted, directed, written a few books, been on call 24/7 at the other end of the VH1 pop-culture-talking-head phone line and co-founded the very funny Twitter-aggregator site Witstream (aka the Internet’s Bestest Time Waster), which mines the microblogging site for its funniest nuggets. One thing he has yet to do, though, is tape a stand-up special for Comedy Central.

He’s making his way to Philly to do just that this week. PW chatted with MIB over the phone, and we talked about the state of The State reunion, the value of fame and how he got Abe Lincoln to write the foreword to one of his books.

Viva Variety, Stella, Michael & Michael Have Issues: Unfortunately, none of the TV shows you’ve been a part of have lasted too long. Is it disheartening to see them canceled?

Of course. It’s always hard when you work really hard on something and have it be met with indifference. It’s disheartening. What’s nice is that, because of DVDs and Internet and everything else, people find those shows. They don’t necessarily find them on the air when their viewership could do me any good whatsoever. They find them much later.

Do you think you’ll ever pitch anything to Comedy Central again?

Who knows. I think they’re probably tired of me because of my track record. I’ve got good relationships with everybody there and we all like each other. It’s just that, for whatever reason, their audience doesn’t want to see me on their television network.

Is there any truth to you getting your own show on MTV? I saw that was on Wikipedia. I don’t know where that came from. There’s no truth to that.

You call Witstream, a website you co-founded, a “24-hour live comedy ticker.” How has the Internet changed comedy?

I wouldn’t say it’s changed comedy itself. I would say it changed peoples’ previous ability for it to get out there in a profound way. Comedy is comedy and will remain so. Now people who didn’t have a voice before, have a voice. There are so many outlets for people to express themselves comedicly … be it videos, or Youtube, or Twitter, or Witstream. continued on next page >>

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Free Association: Assholes around Boston are so effing pumped for this.

For Fans Of: Guinness, the Celts and Sox, Colin Quinn, St. Patrick’s Day.

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Who are some of your favorite Witstreamers?

There are a ton of them. And a surprising number are women. I say “surprising” only because there is a persistent prejudice in comedy, or our culture, about women being funny. I think what Witstream has proven is that women are just as, if not more, funny than the men. Many of my favorite comics are women. And a lot of times, they are talking about things that are specific to women.

But it’s not alienating others ... they’re just funny people.

You’ve all gone on to do bigger and better things. Are you bummed to be asked about The State, or are you proud of it?

I think The State, for me, is like someone who went to a big football school. They will always identify themselves as an alumni of that school. That is what The State is for me; that’s where I come from. As in college, I formed some of the closest relationships during that time. Those people will continue to be my lifelong friends. For all of us, it’s an origin place. It’s where we started. I think that’s where we’ve gone back to time and time again. We work with each other all the time.

Finally, cheesesteaks: Pats or Genos?

I know of them and haven’t tried either.

So, whoever is going to be pissed off by whichever one I say, that’s the one. If you’re going to be pissed by “Genos,” then I say “Genos.” If you’re going to be pissed off by “Pats,” then I say “Pats.” My inclination is just to provoke. n

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Each of their 20 albums displays a gradual evolution of their cosmopolitan ethos as they unite African or Middle Eastern folk musics with stabbing post-punk precision.

Always stretching their palette in order to resist patterns, in recent years they’ve worked with furious hornsmen from the free-jazz scene such as Ken Vandermark and Mats Gustafsson. For 2011’s Catch My Shoe, they returned to the studio with Steve Albini (Big Black, Shellac), who produced their last several records. The nine tracks are sparse, with clean-cut slabs of guitar and polyrhythmic momentum providing a vivid texture for Arnold de Boer’s militant musings. This is their first Philly appearance since 2006. (Elliott Sharp) n Sun, March 13. 8pm. $12. With DJ/rupture.

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You just recently did a Viva Variety reunion. I’m sure you’ve get asked this all the time, but will there be a State reunion? You’re coming up on a 20th anniversary.

Whenever we get together, when we do on occasion, we always express a desire to do it. The problem is, there are so many of us.

Most of us are pretty busy in show business.

When you’re slicing a pie 11 ways, those slices get awfully thin. So, financially, it gets difficult. And then, the culture at large doesn’t seem to give a shit one way or the other. It’s

not like someone is dangling a check in front of us and saying, “Go make a movie.” They’re not. If they did that, I’m sure we would do it. It’s difficult to make it happen. We came close a couple of years ago. Comedy Central expressed interest in making a movie with us and we said “sure” and we wrote a bunch of stuff. For whatever reason, their funding went away. That was kinda the last time we thought we might do something together. It’s just hard. We’d like to.

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You seem to poke fun at your own fame

a lot. You calling your Comedy Central special “Totally Famous” is you playing coy. Your bio for McSweeney’s pokes fun at it too: “Michael Ian Black Is A Very Famous Celebrity.” But you’ve gotta know you’re totally famous, right? Do you not feel famous?

I would say I’m totally famous among a very small group of people. There’s a lot to say about that subject. First is that fame is maybe the least desirable commodity in our culture. It is the most valueless, overrated and stupid commodity in our culture. Part of what I’m making fun of when I make fun of it is that anybody would want to be famous to begin with. It does nothing for your life other than give you awkward encounters at the mall. That’s more or less the extent of it. At the same time, my business operates in such a way that you need it as a currency in order to get things done. So you’re kind of caught in between two opposing desires.

One is to be left the fuck alone. And the second is to get things done and make some money. Those desires are competing with each other. But, my own level of fame is not that great and it’s funny to me. It’s funny for me to acknowledge that.

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How did you manage to get Abe Lincoln to write the foreword of your book, My Custom Van ?

His people knew my work and I approached them about the former president writing a foreword to the book. There was a lot of back and forth about him being shot. Finally, after a lot of meddling, I wrote him a very nice letter and reminded him that we had actually met. He agreed to write the foreword. To my knowledge, it’s the first time that he had written a foreword to a book ... certainly to a book in the 20th century. Obviously, when a former president writes the foreword to your book, and in particular, a president as well regarded as Abraham Lincoln ... well, it’s more humbling than anything.

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The passers-by on 16th Street had a number of good questions, namely “What’s everybody waiting for?”

The short answer was beer. “What do they give you, a case?” inquired another. He too was ambling past the line that stretched over half a block outside of Monk’s at 11:15 last Monday morning.

We were all waiting for an eight-ounce pour of Pliny the Younger, a triple IPA made by California’s cult Russian River Brewery. Other Russian River beers, like Pliny the Elder double IPA, can be found at more conventional hours in the many bars that help bolster Philly’s claim to being the “best beer town in the U.S.” But Pliny the Younger, which weighs in at 11 percent alcohol by volume, only appears in the late winter, and then, only for a flash. And if you happened to live in Boston, Atlanta or even New York, you’d be shit out of luck. The only barrels shipped east of the Mississippi go to us discerning Philadelphians.

The line started moving before the clouds overhead turned into rain. And at 11:30, I was standing in the doorway, handing a $20 bill to the bearded and ponytailed Fergie, Monk’s co-owner and eminence grise of Philadelphia’s beer scene.

Pliny the Younger was being sold for $15 a pour, but Fergie didn’t hand back change. “Exact change,” he grumbled. “Everything extra goes to charity.” That charity: Alex’s Lemonade Stand, a foundation looking to seek a cure for childhood cancer. I grabbed my wine glass of Pliny the Younger, and headed for the bar rail to start on the golden elixir.

Since the outing was ostensibly about the beer, I should deliver my impressions. On the nose, orchard fruits. On the palate: hops, hops, hops.

Brewer Vinnie Cilurzo evidently dumps three times as much hops into Pliny the Younger than what goes into Russian River’s standard IPA Blind Pig; the bitterness they impart almost completely conceals the sweetness I detected.

I looked around the bar, packed with morning drinkers. Entirely white; 90 percent male.

In other words, they looked like me. The sixtel of Pliny was gone; I’d arrived just in time.

By 11:45, some of my fellow drinkers were leaving. Others were ordering a second round; the seven other taps each held another Russian River beer, some nearly as prized by the cognoscenti.

Meanwhile, I finished my own serving. The Who’s “I Can’t Explain,” started out over the stereo. Pete Townsend’s sentiments seemed appropriate. How did the hype suck me in?

Puzzled, I put down my glass and stepped out into the street. n

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The State of Philly’s Liver Taking the temperature of our burgeoning cocktail scene.

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My own revelatory moment happened, like it did for so many Philadelphians, at Southwark. I met a friend there late on a Saturday night, not in the mood to drink all that much but needing to get out of the apartment, and agreed to have a glass of whatever he’d ordered.

Several minutes later, I was presented with a miracle in a martini glass, a saffron-perfumed Gibson made with the Cadenhead’s Old Raj gin, sweet from onions, spicy from the Noilly Prat vermouth. It had been stirred with ice that took the edge off the gin, and was as balanced and complete as any cocktail I’d ever sipped.

That night, I fell in love again with booze.

In the years since Southwark opened in 2004, our city’s drinking culture has seen its share of change, as have towns all over the country: Carrie Bradshaw and the ridiculous “-tini” times have thankfully passed us by, and a saner, more grown-up sensibility seems to have prevailed. But lately, I’ve found myself wondering where we really are these days as a city, how we’ve evolved since those first heady days of rediscovering the beauty of the tipple.

“If you’re talking about cocktails, a lot has changed,” says Al Sotack, head bartender at Franklin Mortgage & Investment Co. Since Southwark’s opening, Sotack says, “Philly’s basically just catching back up, as it rightly should, to cities like New York and San Francisco. Traditionally, pre-Prohibition, there were like five or six cities where cocktails were taken really seriously, and Philadelphia was one of them. Unfortunately, we’ve been a little bit reluctant to take our proper spot in the 21st century, but I think that’s changing.”

And it’s changing with a real sense of purpose. All over town, in what seems like the entire gamut of neighborhoods and drinking establishments, what we drink is given far more care and consideration than it was in the past.

“Every bar is putting much more emphasis on cocktails, be it classic cocktails or gourmet takes on classics, or more modern [drinks],” says Kip Waide, co-owner of Southwark.

According to Sotack, there has not only been a progression in the city in general, but also in how customers drink.

Used to be, says Sotack, “there were a lot of dudes, drinking a lot of boozy brown stirred cocktails. They were drinking Old Fashioneds, and they were drinking Manhattans, and that’s pretty much what we all cut our teeth on. I learned to bartend in 2003 in New York, [and] those things were in full swing at that point.”

Since then, Sotack says, Philadelphians are more willing to drink what they want on any given night, and not necessarily what they assume they’re supposed to.

Now, he says, “You’re starting to see guys not afraid to order a daiquiri at the bar, you’re starting to see people be a little bit more experimental in ordering off of the menu. I think in general, people are starting to challenge their palates and their preconceptions about cocktails a little bit more, which is always, I think, a great thing.”

For all the progress we’ve made, however, we’re still not quite in the top-tier of American cocktail cities. According to Jason Wilson, the Philadelphia-based spirits columnist for The Washington Post and author of Boozehound, recently published by Ten Speed Press, we still have a way to go.

“As much as I wish it weren’t so, Philly has definitely lagged behind the cocktail trend of the past few years,” Wilson writes in an email. “We still have some great bars and bartenders that make great cocktails, but there’s too few of them. In places like New York and San Francisco and Portland, you can get interesting, well-made cocktails in plenty of bars that aren’t, you know, focused ‘cocktail bars.’ In those cities, the drinking public just demands better cocktails. Too many places in Philly—including places that should know better—make bad cocktails, and too few people demand differently.”

Not so with beer, however, which everyone seems to agree is where our town has made its name and set a national standard.

“It’s a totally different story with beer,” Wilson writes. “I mean, everyone knows this is one of the best beer cities in the U.S. But you have drinkers here who demand better beer. So most bars have to stock more than just Bud Light and PBR—even places that aren’t specifically ‘craft beer’ bars.”

Southwark’s Waide agrees, and says you can find craft brands like Bell’s or Founders or Belgian beer in most bars now, including some dives.

The grape is doing well, too. From wine bars like Tria and Vintage to smaller restaurants with ambitious wine programs (Zavino and Barbuzzo come to mind), oenophiles are faced with an embarrassment of riches these days. The major area of evolution is the range of options on wine lists, no matter what their size. It’s rare that you’ll be presented with a choice of merlot, cab or shiraz and nothing else. Originality, it seems, has become the motivating factor.

Much of the reason for this, Waide thinks, is that Philadelphia is such a BYOB-focused city that oenophiles often do much of their serious wine-drinking at places where they can bring their own bottles. As a result, he says, “We can keep our wine list really simple these days.”

Of course, that understates Southwark’s list. It lacks the depth and breadth of, say, Le Bec-Fin’s, but is studded with enough interesting bottles to keep even passionate wine drinkers happy and surprised. Most wine collectors, in my experience, don’t necessarily stock, say, Pineau des Charentes in their home wine racks or cellars, but it’s on the list at Southwark. Even Village Whiskey, whose intentions are right there in its name, maintains a tight wine list that makes the most of its selections, and always features something that will surprise even serious wine-lovers.

So we’ve come a long way, and still have aways to go. But we’re headed down the right track: Philadelphia is well on its way to once again becoming a major destination for doing real damage to your liver with classy, exquisitely crafted drinks. We’ve come this far in a fairly short period of time. Imagine where we’ll be in another five years. n

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By Matt Prigge mprigge@philadelphiaweekly.com Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937): Strictly speaking, there are no definitive versions of fairy tales. Each tale changes with the teller, allowing variations on the semi-official versions put down by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm.

But some go so far that the original is nigh unrecognizable. In this regard, Disney has been a greater villain than the villains in their films. Starting with this, their debut feature—and continuing with Tangled, last year’s mangled Rapunzel take—they’ve sanitized the oft-gory or unpleasant aspects of fairy tales that delighted and/or terrified once-tougher children. Like the part where the Queen demands to eat Snow White’s heart. Or her other two assassination attempts. Or the Queen being killed by being forced to dance in iron shoes.

Cinderfella (1960): In which Jerry Lewis is turned into a handsome prince. Movie magic. Lewis’ ninth film post-Dean Martin also features such inventive switch-ups as Henry Silva, he of the high cheekbones, as one of the wicked stepbrothers.

Alice in Wonderland: An X-Rated Musical Fantasy (1976): No explanation necessary, I presume.

The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb (1996): Courtesy British stopmotion animators the bolexbrothers, the Grimms’ pint-sized hero is reimagined as a barely-formed grotesque dwelling in a squalid urban environment whose only friends are grotesque beasts.

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Bluebeard (2009): Disney would have a tough time sanitizing the tale of a husband who ritualistically marries and murders young women. For Catherine Breillat (Romance, Anatomy of Hell) it’s a perfect fit. A straight retelling is perverted by two things: the story is read by two excitable little girls, whose presence complicates matters; and Bluebeard himself (Dominique Thomas) is a porcine sadsack, who hesitantly goes through his crimes. The tale is thus recognizable but utterly new. (Breillat recently did up Sleeping Beauty, with similar results.)

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page from Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow, Catherine Hardwicke’s overextension of a slim tale overcomes the original’s brevity by adding a Murder She Wrote mystery plot.

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Never let me go: Sibel Kekilli (center) tries to flee from her abusive husband (Ufuk Bayraktar) as her traditionalist father (Settar Tanriogen) watches on.

Breaking Tradition Old and new worlds collide when a battered wife and her son try to escape in When We Leave.

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For everybody who thought Biutiful was too frivolous and upbeat, another massive helping of international misery-porn arrives courtesy of Feo Aladag’s When We Leave. A well-intentioned slog attempting to shed light on the so-called honor killings of Muslim women—based on an actual case that took place in Berlin in 2005—the movie is suffocated by its own grim determinism.

A shame, as there are plenty of good intentions here, as well as a remarkable central performance from Sibel Kekilli, who made such an impression a few years back in Fatih Akin’s Head-On. Kekilli stars as Umay, a German-born Turk living in Istanbul, trying to protect her adorable 5-year-old son, Cem (Nizam Schiller), from her viciously abusive husband, Kemal (Ufuk Bayraktar.) In the opening moments, Umay is staring down a loaded pistol. We soon flash back to happier times, when her hubby bats her around the living room, then locks the kid in a closet and

wordlessly mounts her. Things get more unpleasant from there on out.

Umay eventually flees, taking Cem with her and hiding out with her parents and siblings in Berlin. The welcome is not as warm as one might expect. Hidebound by traditional values, her family is embarrassed by Umay’s domestic situation, offering at first only inane platitudes. Her father offers a few choice words of wisdom: “He is your husband. The hand that strikes is also the hand that soothes.”

As time wears on, the presence of Umay and Cem becomes more than just an imposition. Such things are simply not done, even in this day and age, and her family’s name is quickly disgraced with their tightknit community. Her sister’s fiance wants to call off their engagement, which is a bit of a logistical nightmare since she’s already knocked up. Umay’s father Kader (Settar Tanriogen) clearly loves his daughter, but remains baffled by the entire situation.

Most private moments find him sitting helpless, staring into space wondering how things have come to this, particularly after

he becomes an accessory to an attempted kidnapping.

Before long, Umay flees once again, bringing Cem to live with her in a women’s shelter and attempting to begin a new life in a restaurant. She even has a couple of dates with a sad-eyed chef (Florian Lukas.) But any hopes for her escape we might wish for have already been negated by the flash-forward gun barrel opening.

(I do wonder sometimes why so many screenwriters choose to open their movies with a spoiler.)

Aladag’s tone is a good deal more measured than the white-hot outrage such sentiments might normally elicit. When We Leave takes its time and attempts to give every character a fair shake (well, besides Kemal, who’s pretty unredeemable.) It’s photographed in wide-screen, often with two characters in the frame and compositions stressing the vast physical space between them. There’s not a lot of agency here, as most of these folks appear to be caught up in circumstances beyond their control, and nobody seems particularly eager to get on with the inevitable.

When We Leave asserts that the problem is rooted in the culture itself, and a more interesting movie lurks in the glimpses we get of this family’s day to day lifestyle. We notice how much they have assimilated into German society, yet still take great pains to preserve some semblance of their old world. A gutsier movie might have explored how and why this population has chosen to embrace certain aspects of modernity while still holding matters of prehistoric misogyny so very dear.

Instead, Aladag succumbs to melodrama. Kekilli’s performance is marvelously internalized. She’s watchful, unwavering and often grimly resigned to events and attitudes most of us would rightly find appalling. There is one meltdown at a wedding that devolves into histrionics and doesn’t ring true to this character in the slightest, a harbinger of bad things to come.

Without getting into specifics, When We Leave has the worst last five minutes I’ve seen in any movie in years. Every last scrap of goodwill the movie had earned due to its noble purposes or Kekilli’s fine work is promptly flushed down the toilet with a rapid-fire barrage of manipulative cheats and a left-field sucker-punch so cheap that it’s like something out of Crash, only worse. It’s the kind of choice that makes you not just call to mind the filmmaker’s ethics, but also his sanity. n

Grade: D+ Director: Feo Aladag Starring: Sibel Kekilli, Nizam Schiller and Derya Alabora Running time: 119 minutes

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I forget which Pirates Of The Carribean sequels we were discussing at the time, but I recall my brilliant colleague Jim Ridley objecting to director Gore Verbinski’s aesthetic in general, calling it “mandatory fun.”

That phrase sprang to mind more than once during Rango, Verbinski’s computer-animated hellzapoppin’ Western pastiche that’s so ferociously determined to cram every last CinemaScope frame with so many visual grotesques, movie-buff allusions and forced boisterousness, the very experience of watching it becomes deadening. This movie made me very, very tired.

Johnny Depp stars as a wisecracking chameleon in a Hawaiian shirt, stranded on a desert highway after his terrarium falls off a truck. Eventually he discovers a miniature frontier town called Dirt, populated by icky mice and mole folk who believe his outlandish tall tales and elect this jittery blabbermouth as their new sheriff.

Depp is in full-on manic freeassociation mode here, and it’s a testament to just how cluttered this picture is that his Robin Williams routine feels like the most subdued thing about it.

Borrowing the plot and entire scenes from Chinatown, with Ned Beatty’s dastardly mayor even wearing John Huston’s hat, Rango calls to mind a question raised

by Who Framed Roger Rabbit?: Is Roman Polanski’s 1974 classic really appropriate story material for a children’s cartoon? Systemic corruption regarding irrigation is

hardly compelling kiddie fodder, and Rango’s labored machinations call to mind the jumbled convolutions of Verbinski’s Pirates series.

He’s never been a filmmaker you would accuse of being light on his feet.

The weirdness of the film is, however, fascinating. Tipping its 10-gallon hat to illustrator Ralph Steadman on several occasions, Rango has a meticulously crafted case of the uglies. Most of these creatures are just plain revolting to look at, with the ramshackle town of Dirt as photo-realistically grubby as any CGI landscape we’ve ever seen. But there’s just so damn much of it, all pitched at the same antic, unwavering tone—sensory overload kicks in early and often It’s a rare computer animated film not released in 3-D. I think because an extra dimension of this would cause seizures. continued on next page

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Uprisings are on our TVs, computers and now in our art house cinemas. In the satire Even the Rain, a film shoot in Bolivia is put into jeopardy when the locals explode into protests after the government threatens to privatize the water, thereby violently raising the costs to a size few of the low income denizens could afford. The timing couldn’t be better, but timeliness isn’t all actressturned-director Icíar Bollaín’s film has going for it.

Director Sebastián (Gael García Bernal), an idealist in theory only, and producer Costa (Luis Tosar), a penny-pinching cynic, have traveled to the city of Cochabamba to film a revisionist retelling of Christopher Columbus, which portrays the explorers as religious zealots and imperialists, mistreating and murdering the natives. These well-intentioned filmmakers, while concerned about the mistreatment of the “Indians” in the distant past, are reluctant to care about the mistreatment of the same right before their eyes. First, they can’t accommodate the hundreds of locals who turn up for a cattle call for extras.

Then they can’t pay them more than $2 a day.

Finally, they find themselves conflicted over the protests that suck up certain prominent cast members, notably a fiery rabble rouser (Juan Carlos Aduviri). If they support it, the film is certain peril; if not, they’ll find it difficult to live with themselves.

A more scathing lampoon wouldn’t allow them such ambivalence, particularly if they were Hollywood filmmakers. But Even the Rain is in part about the stubborn political awakening of its two leads. (In a nice twist, Tosar’s foul-mouthed producer caves before long before Bernal’s emotional director.) In essence, it wants to have its cake and eat it, too: it wants to send up liberals who talk the talk but won’t walk the walk, but it also wants to be a work of humanism, a trait that doesn’t traditionally jibe so swimmingly with satire.

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Typically, naming your movie after an ’80s pop hit is a sure sign of artistic lethargy. (See Take Me Home Tonight, which was once even more lazily titled Kids in America.) The bare-bones indie I Will Follow uses this noxious trope in a touchingly personal way. The U2 fave, which Bono wrote about his dying mother, was a favorite of writer/director Ava DuVernay’s aunt, who died of cancer.

It’s no coincidence that in DuVernay’s debut feature it’s also a favorite of Amanda (Beverly Todd), a former session musician who also expired from cancer before the film’s main events begin. (She’s seen in flashbacks peppered throughout.) That leaves niece— and writer-director surrogate—Maye (Salli Richardson-Whitfield) to spend the film’s day-spanning length packing up her handsome and well-scouted Topanga Canyon manse and grieving, joined in succession by a baker’s dozen visitors. These range from Aunt Amanda’s daughter (Michole Briana White), who held a decidedly less esteemed view of her mother than Maye, to kindly neighbors to an old flame (Omari Hardwick), who may help abate Maye’s recent marriage problems (with Blair Underwood, in a glorified cameo).

I Will Follow is the first released under the auspices of the African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement, which seeks to lift black indies from the vagaries of the festival circuit and deposit them in mainstream theaters, thus allowing more African-Americans to see African-American films not made by Tyler Perry. Unapologetically stagebound and even more unapologetically personal, I Will Follow means better than it delivers, and can be clumsy. (A scene with Jonas Brothersdebating movers is labored, and that goes double for a “loose” scene where Maye talks Jay-Z diss tracks with a young relative played

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ong story short: I cheated on my boyfriend three years ago. I admitted it nine months ago, and we’ve been in couples counseling. My BF is very responsive in therapy, where we’re working on his control issues, and he says everything the therapist expects him to during a session.

Later, though, he’ll say, “I was listening to Dan Savage’s podcast …” then take back everything he said to our therapist. He then ignores our therapist’s advice because of some advice you gave. Could you please tell your listeners who are in counseling to ignore you and listen to their therapists?

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I won’t go that far, YNGC—I will not be ignored—but I will go this far: It sounds like your boyfriend is still angry about the affair and isn’t being fully honest during those therapy sessions. He’s saying what he thinks the therapist wants to hear instead of owning his anger—pardon my psychobabble— and justifies his postsession backsliding/ truth-telling by pointing to some fool thing I might have said on the podcast.

You can tell him that I said it’s fine if he’s still angry, and that’s something he might want to talk with your therapist about, but I would appreciate being left out of it. And you can tell him I also said this: If he wants to stay with you, then he needs to forgive you and work on rebuilding trust. If he can’t forgive you, he needs to leave you. But to jerk you around like this—even if you’re the one who transgressed—is a dick move. And it’s not the kind of dick move that I want to be associated with so, again, he should leave me out of it.

All of that said, YNGC, I’m thinking your boyfriend isn’t being honest with your therapist—about his anger, about your relationship, about anything—because he maybekindasorta perceives these sessions to be a joint effort to shift the blame for your affair onto his shoulders. (A joint effort on the part of you and your therapist.) You say you’re “working on his control issues” during these sessions. That’s nice. If your boyfriend has control issues, YNGC, then by all means work on ’em. If you’re not working on your own issues—if your therapist doesn’t think you have any issues—then I don’t blame your boyfriend for not taking your therapist or these sessions seriously.

I’m a 24-year-old female and I’ve just started seeing a great guy. The chemistry is insane— he’s a great kisser, he loves going down. We’ve slept together a few times and … it could be better. He’s got all the moves—not to mention being really well endowed—but he just lies there like a dead fish. Very little thrusting and he doesn’t use his hands. I’ve asked him to do it doggie style (some improvement) and I’ve said stuff like “Faster! Harder!” (also with some improvement). But any momentum he gets is fleeting. It’s like he’s thinking too much about the act instead of losing himself in it. I really like him and enjoy his company. But sexual compatibility is really important, too! How can I address the “dead fish” issue? Is this going to be a deal breaker?

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He appears to be concentrating (“thinking too much about the act”), he keeps thrusting to a minimum, he isn’t using his hands in ways that might heighten your arousal or his own … hmm …

You might want to ask this great guy—who does great with at least one sex act (oral), but not great with at least one other (vaginal

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Based on your description of what he’s doing/not doing, EBTS, it sounds like your boyfriend is following the standard-issue advice given to premature ejaculators. To train themselves to last longer, preemies are advised to concentrate, to pay close attention to their arousal levels (so they don’t get to the “moment of no return” too quickly), to thrust slowly and carefully, and to not overload themselves with too much additional stimuli (groping your breasts with his hands, say, while he’s inside you). Your boyfriend may not be really “losing himself” in sex because he fears it will result in him coming too soon.

This would also explain why he’s a different man—and a better lay—when he’s going down on you.

If I’m right, and PE is the issue, you can work on upping the intensity levels. It’ll take time, EBTS, but it sounds like this guy is worth the investment.

I’m a 27-year-old gay man in a three-year relationship. My boyfriend has always been the mature one, I the immature one. Yesterday, I discovered he has a special email account to look for sex with strangers. I saw chats and other evidence of cheating. We are not having safe sex since quite a long time. We are planning to start living together soon. He has always told me that he is incapable of cheating and many times said that if one of us would fail and cheat, it would be me.

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Your boyfriend is a manipulative POS. He wanted the freedom to fuck other guys but didn’t want his boyfriend to enjoy the same freedom. So he made you feel like you were the problem—he convinced you that you were the immature one and that you were the one most likely to cheat, he maliciously undermined your self-esteem—so that you would be too busy worrying about and scrutinizing your own shortcomings to notice his.

DTMFA.

BEFORE WE GO: So … I’ve got some space to kill, and not sure what to do with it.

Do I come to the defense of J. Michael Bailey, the Northwestern University prof being attacked for inviting his adult students to stay after his popular human sexuality class to watch two adults engage in a wholly relevant display of human sexuality? Do I beat the hell out of Maryland’s backstabbing, born-again bigot Sam “Political Suicide” Arora? (Don’t have the room to unpack his transgression, dear readers, so you’ll just have to trust me on this: Send a furious email expressing nonspecific disgust to sam.arora@house. state.md.us.)

Do I ask my readers to go to recalltherepublican8.com and make a donation? Or go off on the latest anti-gay religious bigot to be exposed as a hypocritical sexperv? (Again, no room to unpack here—you’ll just have to Google “Reverend Grant Storms,” “arrested for masturbating in a public park,” and “children were present” for all the details.)

Or do I use this space to promote the upcoming release of the It Gets Better book—It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living, edited

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Another vulnerable group was first-time buyers, including many immigrants who were not able to understand the language let alone the real estate and mortgage jargon.

The bottom line is that many borrowers -- in all groups -- do not clearly understand loan documents and are afraid not to sign.

Some have concerns about losing their loan lock; others don’t want to appear ignorant in front of a spouse or escrow professional; while still others simply want the process to be over and done.

There has never been a notation stating “if you don’t understand this, don’t sign” at the closing table, nor have there been contact names and numbers provided if a borrower has questions.

The escrow officer -- an independent third party -- can do only so much before referring specific questions to the lender or Realtor.

What if there was more support for not signing on closing day? continueD on Page 45>>>

GRAND OPENING OF RANCH STYLE - ONE STORY LIVING, TWO-CAR GARAGE VILLAS AT 55+ ARBOURS AT EAGLE POINTE IN SOMERTON PHILADELPHIA, PA --Don’t miss the Grand Opening of Westrum Development’s One story living, 2-car garage villa homes opening on Saturday, March 12th at 10 a.m.

Each Arbours at Eagle Pointe home includes ranch-style, one story living, and includes 2 to 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, an oversized 2-car garage, living room, gourmet kitchen with GE® appliances and 42” cabinets. The owner’s suite offers a spacious walk-in closet, and the bathroom has cultured marble double bowl vanities, an oversized one-piece shower with seat, and elegant ceramic tile floors.

One of the most appealing aspects about Arbours at Eagle Pointe is the relaxing, low maintenance lifestyle offered here. Exterior maintenance, snow removal, trash removal and homeowner’s insurance are all provided. Additionally, homebuyers will be able to enjoy a 5,000 sq. ft. clubhouse, which is filled with all the amenities you need including an indoor pool, fitness center, locker room, great room, library, full kitchen and much more!

Homebuyers who act now will also be able to take advantage of the city’s 10-year real estate tax abatement program where the homeowners pay approximately $500 per month. (Consult a sales manager for details).

Arbours at Eagle Pointe is located on the border of Bucks and Montgomery counties in Somerton, Northeast Philadelphia, which is convenient to Roosevelt Boulevard, the PA Turnpike, and I-95; and is minutes from Parx Casino and Neshaminy Mall. The sales office is open Monday to Saturday 11-5 and Sunday 12-5. For more information, please call 215-698-4540 or visit www.westrum.com.

Preview new floor Plans of the 2-car GaraGe villas at the arbours at eaGle Pointe community for 55+ adults in somerton, ne Phila. startinG at $299,990

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Gourmet sep. ble ovens & desk area.kitchen Large 1st flr.w/study with staff’s kitchen, lg.with vaulted ceil- & dbl. doors, Family Rm. marble surround mantle fireplace, cathedral ceilingSuite & open ingwood morning room.

Master kitchen. Dining with&wainscoting & crown w/tofoyer, FP &Rm.his her walk-in molding. Au Recessed throughout. closets. pairlights suite w/pvt. Master enBedroomViews has tray ceiling, 2 walk-in closets & sittrance. of the 1 acre ting area.

Huge princess suite with full bath. pond from many patios . Geothermal heat & partially finished Very Mount Laurelthe • Maple Glen security &drive, sprinkler7systems…. basement w/ storage rms. & a 3 car garlarge w/basement; pvt. circular pvt.

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2ND & MARKET Bi-Level One Bedroom, Modern appliances, Spiral staircase, HW floors, D/W, W/D, C/A. AVAILABLE APRIL! $1,085 7TH & FITZWATER Adorable Two Bedroom House, Bella Vista neighborhood, HW floors, Washer/Dryer, Basement, Yard, Dog friendly. AVAILABLE APRIL! $1,285

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1337 S Clarion Street-3B/1b in Passyunk Sq renovated eat-in kit, patio, full bsmnt ����������$1,495

111 S 15th Street #2310-Deluxe 1BR, Skyline Views, Gourmet Kit, Marble Bath, Drmn ������$1,650 257 S 16th Street #6A-1bd/1ba. Incl Wat, Heat, Fit Center, Great Loc! Pet Friendly �����������$1,595 257 S 16th Street #2C-Jr. 1bd. Incl Wat, Heat, Fit Center, Great Loc! Pet Friendly �������������$1,250

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121-35 Walnut Street #204-3B/3.5b at the Moravian, high end, HW floors, 1 car grg �����

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To See the Following, Call Kheon Benjamin (215)731-4106 1001-13 Chestnut Street #902W-1Bd/1Ba charming condominium all utilities included ����� $1,400 1001-10 Chestnut Street #401E-1BR/1BA-Loft Style Condo w/stun flr plan & fab spiral stairs ����� $1,300

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To See the Following, Call Lisa Budnick 215-790-5227

310 S 12th Street #2F-Large studio,separate kitchen,bath,heat/hot water included. ��� $950 1714 Locust Street-4fl bi-lvl 1BD /1.5BA

To See the Following, Call David Snyder 267�968�8600 2332-38 Carpenter Street #2A-2 bdrms,stainless steel appln,bamboo flrs,cstm bath� ������ $1,550 2332-38 Carpenter Street #3D-2 bd,1 ba,SS applns,bamboo flrs,W/D��������������������� $1,450 2134 Locust Street #2F-2 Aparts contains all the amenities and quality finishes� ���$1,550-$1,700 2730 Parrish Street-3 bd/1�5 ba,exp brk/fpl,fin bsmt,1,000 sq ft of living space ��� $1,800

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To See the Following, Call Mark Wade 215-440-2088 315 new Street #103-2 bd/2 ba,lrg wndws,washer/dryer + parking. ����������������������� $1,895 1352 South Street #202-1 bd/1.5 ba,hw flrs,granite& SS,exp duck work,Wall of wndws. ..................................................................................................................................... $2,195 To See the Following, Call Mike McCann (215) 440-8345

38 S 3rd Street #1-Contemporary space in Old City for use as retail or office� ������ $2,800 1936 Spruce Street #1-Spectacular corner office space,steps from Rittenhse Sq �������� $5,000

671� Franklin Place #E-2 bd/1 ba apartment w/hw flrs, marble bath and parking. ���� $995 134 Krams Avenue-3 bdrm + den,lrg backyard & full bsmt.

1709 Panama Street-1br, 1b, 1car private grge, new kit & b, hw flrs, sunny, W/D

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609 n 34th Street #3RD FL-2 bd unit w/new kit,hw flrs,lots of wndws� $2,500

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335 n Water Street #C-Bi-lev commerical space or opportunity for res conversion $1,350 1345 S 19th Street-3 bd/2 1/2 ba,hw flrs t/o,kit w/SS/Granite,mstr ste w/dk.

To See the Following, Call Eric Fox (215)790-5228

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762 S 19th Street #1-1 bd/1 ba 1st flr unit,SS applncs,fantastic rear yard.

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1437 S 4th Street-Rehab 4 bd/2.5 ba,hw flrng,kit w/Granite & SS,patio,dk.

......... $1,700

1213-15 Locust Street #C-Pristine 1B/1den/1b in WashWest hi-end thru-out orig details ...$3,600

2633 S Chadwick Street-Renov 3 bdrm/1 bth,hrwd flrs,semi-fin bsmt,C/A,washer/dryer. ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������$1,150

908 S Schell Street-Renovated 2Br, 1B, Hdwd Flrs, Fin Bsmnt, CA, SS App

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1324 Locust Street #315-Studio @ Arts Condos w/ Fit ctr 24/7 sec. all util incl ..............$1,025 2401 Pennsylvania Avenue #3A14-Lrg studio @ Philadelphian, terrace, Muse view, 24h doorman �� $1,195

2048 South Street #1R-1st flr studio w/hw flrs, new kit,W/D,includes all utilities

1137 Pine Street #107-Reno 1B/1b in Wash West, hi-end kit, HW flrs a/c w/d storage ����� $1,195

39 Strawberry Street #3R-Huge Bi-Level 1 bd/1 ba tile kit,lots of closet.

104-6 S 13th Street #5-Lrg 1B/1b in Wash Sq West, hi-end kit & bath, hi-ceil w/d ac ������� $1,750

3425 Tilden Street-Cute 2-story 3 bd home in East Falls w/grg + porch front.

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the lanesborouGh

1601 locust street center city one 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, brand new, high ceil1326 spruce street ings, hardwood floors throughout, chefs kitchen, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, city skyline views, balcony, washer and magnificent entertaining space, luxurious master $9,750 dryer in unit, 1209 sf $1,875 suite, 3467 sf

art museum philadelphian

1830 rittenhouse square

2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, kitchen and baths renovated, bay windows, 1136sf $2,990

2401 pennsylvania ave Studio, private balcony, dressing room, spacious the warwicK kitchen, 570sf $950 1701 locust street Spacious Studio with city views, hardwood floors, rittenhouse square marble bath, high-end kitchen, walk-in closet, 423 sf $1,375 1909 fitzwater street 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, wood floors, renovated kitchen and bath $1,500

the dorchester

226 w. rittenhouse square Efficiency, sunset views, wood floors, 359 sf $1,100 Studio, generous closet space, galley kitchen, over237 s. 18th street $1,300 2 bedroom, 2 bath, open kitchen, hardwood looks landscaped courtyard, 528 sf floors throughout, 180 degree city views, 1075 sf Junior 1 bedroom on a high floor, balcony, excellent $1,490 $2,750 natural light, 570 sf

the barclay

127 s. 18th street

the carlyle 2031 locust street 1 bedroom, 1 bath, city view, 595 sf $1,325 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, corner unit, 928 sf $1,825 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, sunset views, excellent closet space, spacious living areas, 1164sf $2,300 3 bedrooms, unobstructed city views, bonus den/ study & nursery, generous living space, 2137 sf. $3,750

1 bedroom, 1 bath, open floor plan with large kitchen, fireplace, 715 sf $1,525

the rittenhouse

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210 w, rittenhouse sq.

1 bedroom, 1.5 baths, hardwood floors, marble baths, kitchen with upmarket stainless steel appliances and granite countertops, 1037 sf $2,750 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, large kitchen, baths appointed in marble, oversized windows with magparc rittenhouse nificent sunset views, 1318 sf $3,800 Studio, excellent natural light, wood floors, marble 2 bedrooms plus den, new designer kit., 2.5 bath, open kitchen, 425 sf $1,400 marble baths, huge balcony with city views, Junior 1 bedroom, lots of natural light, wood floors, 2122 sf $7,250 marble bath, open kitchen, 493 sf $1,825 1 bedroom, wood floors, marble bathroom, new society hill kitchen, pool club views $1,975 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, private deck on rooftop pool society hill towers club, open upgraded kitchen, marble baths, wood 200-220 locust street floors, 1272 sf $3,850 units include all utilities Studio, great closet space, city views, $1,100 floor-to-ceiling windows, 504 sf wanaMaKer house 1 bedroom, 1 bath, high floor, floor-to-ceiling 2020 walnut street windows with magnificent river & city views, 700sf units include pool & fitness center $1,390 studio, open kitchen, generous closet space, large bay window, 548 sf $1,250 Penthouse, 1 bedroom, 1 bath, brand new bulthaup kitchen, hardwood floors, 722sf $1,850 1 bedroom, 1 bath, high floor, open kitchen, great closet space, 705 sf $1,490 2 bedrooms, 2 bath, floor-to-ceiling windows, 1 bedroom, 1 bath, renovated kitchen and bath, Society Hill views, 1200 sf $1,900 custom-built closeet, 705sf $1,550 2 bedrooms 2 baths, high floor, panoramic city 22 st. jaMes court views, 1200 sf $2,190 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, high ceilings, privateoutdoor entrance, 1602sf $2,000

abbott’s square 530 s 2nd street 1 bedroom, 1 bath, open kitchen, great closet space, bi-level 639 sf $1,250 1 bedroom, 1.5 bath, bi-level, deck, large living room, separate dining area, 989sf $1,500

washington square stricKland row

1014 spruce street 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, bi-level, wood floors, open kitchen $1,700

independence place

233-241 s 6th street Studio, washer/dryer in unit, balcony, 674 sf $1,175 1 bedroom, 1 bath, W/D, generous closet space, 777sf $1,455 1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, W/D, wood floors, renovated kitchen, 928 sf $1,475

the lippincott

227 s. 6th street 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, hardwood floors throughout, open chefs kitchen, designers baths, great closets, 1710 sf

$4,250

hopKinson house

604-36 s. washinGton square Studio with alcove on a high floor overlooking Washington Square, balcony, 600 sf $1,375 1 bedroom, 1 bath, high floor with a panoramic river & city views, balcony, 778 sf $1,550 2 bedrooms, 1.5 bath, balcony, wood floors, generous closet space, 1200 sf $2,150

waterfront pier 3, 3 n. coluMbus blvd.

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, terrace, large kitchen, one garage parking space, 1300 sf $1,900

commercial sPace

2031 Locust Street Professional Office Space in secure apartment building, 958 sf $1,150 1830 Rittenhouse - Prime Rittenhouse Square office space, 754 sf $2,100 250 S. 18th Street – Prime ground floor corner retail/office space on Rittenhouse Square, 1857 sf $7,500 NNN 1742 Sansom Street - 2nd floor retail space on highly trafficked corner or 18th and Sansom Streets, 1000 sf $1,850 NNN 133 S. 18th Street – Ground floor corner retail space, excellent visibility on 18th Street shopping corridor $9,000 NNN 1601 Locust Street - 1st floor and lower level of prestigious Lanesborough condo, ideal for restaurant or offices, 4700 sf $11,000 NNN

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The Lanesborough 1601 Locust St. 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, high ceilings, hardwood floors, brand new construction, chefs kitchen, designer baths, 3467sf $9,750/mo.

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RITTENHOUSE $850-995 Lombard & 9th 1Bd & 2Bd, w/d, hardwood, laundry $850-995 Lombard & 9th 1Bd & 2Bd, w/d, hardwood, laundry $1950 University City 3Bd, 2 bath, totally renovated Pine & 21st Fab 1 & 2BD bi-level’s, H/W, Laundry. $1125-$1300 $995-1100 Pine & 9th 2Bd's, h/w floors, W/D $995-1100 Pine & 9th 2Bd's, h/w floors, W/D Walnut & 20th 1 & 22Bd, BD’s, H/W,bath, Laundry, Elevator. $1095-$1350 $995 $700 Spruce & -12th 1-1/2 bi-level, laundryNice Studio Spring Garden Collonade-Extremely $995 12th 2BD, 2Bd, 1-1/2H/W, bath, bi-level, laundry Chestnut &Spruce 20th - &Large laundry. $995-1350$1000 & 16th Old World,2BA, 1 & 2Bd's,CA, hardwood $600-675 $995-1350 Q.V.Spruce 3rd & Bambridge 1 & 2Bd's, W/W, C/A Spruce & WASH 16th Old World, 1 & 2Bd's, hardwood OF THE ARTS $950-1750 Art Area Ultra Mod 1 & WEST/AVE 3Bd's, W/D, Deck, Parking $950-1750 Art Area Ultra Mod 1 & Studio, 3Bd's, W/D, Deck, Parking Spruce 10th - Great 1BD bi-level, H/W. $925 $375 Spring Garden 19th incl. $825-1375 Old&City Fab ultra&mod 1 & 2Bd's, deck hardwood, Heat $825-1375 Old City FabStudios ultra mod 1 & 2Bd's, deck 9th & Pine BroadUniversity & Spruce -City Ren. & 1BD’s, W/D. Heat included. $835-$1000 $1950 3Bd, 2 bath, totally renovated $625 Fairmount & 18th Mod 1Bd, C/A,renovated W/D $1950 University City 3Bd, 2 bath, totally qUEEN VIllAgE $700 Spring Garden Collonade-Extremely Nice Studio 3rd $700 Spring Garden Collonade-Extremely Nice Studio $600& Chestnut Mt.Q.V. Vernon &Ren. 21st Studio, Yard, Laundry$600-675 Christian &3rd 5th&- Bambridge 1 & 2 Gret BD’s kitchen $850-$1150 1 & w/New 2Bd's, W/W, C/A& W/W. $600-675 Q.V. 3rdAC, & Laundry.

Bambridge 1 & 2Bd's, W/W, C/A South & 5th 1BD, $720 2nd $700& Pine $375 Wallace & 20th 1Bd, parquet floors, Spring Garden & 19th Studio, hardwood, Heatyard incl. $375 Spring & 19th Studio, hardwood, Heat incl.

Bainbridge & 3rd&-Garden PrivateMod Entrance Studio. $625$575 Fairmount 1Bd, C/A, W/D $600& Christian Aspen & 26th18th1Bd, laundry $625 Fairmount & 18thW/W, Mod 1Bd, C/A, W/D 8th ART MUSEUM $600 Mt. Vernon & 21st Gret Studio, Yard, Laundry $600 Mt. Vernon &Large 21st 1BD, Gret Studio, Yard, Laundry Spring Garden 19th -1Bd, Laundry. $700$900 Wallace &&20th parquet HW, floors, yard $700 Wallace &-20th 1Bd, parquet floors, yard Pennsylvania & 26th Spac.

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2nd & Wharton

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1628 S. 9th St ( Morris St ) Two bedrooms, 1 bath, w/w carpet, w&d in the building

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239 McClellan St (Pennsport) 3 Brs, 2.5 Bths, c/a, w&d, Parking, w/w carpets

$995.00

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$1,300.00

1010 S. 7th 1 Bedroom, Den, 1 Bath , washer & dryer available April 8, 2011

$1,000.00

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$2,300.00

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

761 S. 4th St 900 sq.ft. retail store, C-2, plus basement, window a/c, yard

$900.00

1429 S. 23 rd St 2nd floor, 4500 sq.ft,C-3, bathroom, gas heat, c/a, ramp access

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>>> CONTINUED FROM PAGE 38 What if there was no penalty -- real, perceived or threatened -- for waiting to sign the loan until the borrower truly understood loan adjustments, prepayment penalties and potential assumptions? Three mortgage analysts, including Ed Pinto, a consultant to the mortgage finance industry and former chief credit officer at Fannie Mae, have crafted a one-page mortgage information disclosure form that encourages borrowers to do more than simply look before they leap.

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1636 Rodman Street-3BR+den/4bth ë05 New Constr. GARAGE. Amazing & Huge Deck. Tx Abte 203 Governors Court-Amaz Price in Naval Sq Drake Model-Short Sale act now before its gone 1709 Rodman Street-Lovely 2BR/2.5bth home. Quiet Ritt. block. Patio. Pristine cond 1920 Montrose Street-Modern Renovation, 4 Bed, 2.5 Bath, Hdwd Flrs, Finished Basement 1524 Rodman Street-Renovated 2 Bed 2 Bath, 17 feet wide, hdwd flrs, fp, master suite 910 S 21st Street-NC 3 bdrms/2.5 bths,hrdwd floors t/o,lrg grdn and deck w/amazing views 1921 Kater Street-Reno 2BR den fully equip e-i-kit oak fl lrg cust bath w/seamless shower 1319 S 16th Street-N/C-Handsome facade,2200 sq ft,3 bd/2.5 ba,hrdwd flrs,fin bsmt,yard & deck 1028 S Colorado Street-Beautiful 2 bd w/incredible features,wide open flr plan & hw flrs t/o.

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$799,000 $759,000 $479,000 $449,500 $425,000 $400,000 $380,000 $335,000 $289,900 $279,000

100 N 21st Street #B-Renov. 3BR/2.5bth corner bi-level home w/balcony & PARKING

Lemon Flats-Except. design, 2br/2b, 1500sf, open, bright, private rf deck w/10 YTA $289,000-$318,000 631 N 12th Street #2-New Construc 2b,2b, 1200SF, super modern, lofty, bright, w/balcony 10YTA $289,000

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$289,000

813 S Darien Street-N/C-3 bedroom/3.5 bath,garage,yard,roof deck,gas fireplace.

812 S Swanson Street-3 bd + den/3.2 bths,hrwd flrs,fpls,grdn,3 dks,2C grg.

104 Catharine Street-Duplex,Queen Village,2 bi-lev units,1 w/2 bd/1.5 ba,1 w/3 bd/2 ba,2C grg.

111 Federal Street-Phase-1-7 ctm homes 1-3 bd/2.5 ba,media rm,fp,hw,grdn,dk,x-wide grg,tx abat 2308-10 Spruce Street #B-Condo w/grdn entry + deck, LR/DR w/fp, new kit, lg br, 1.5b + off/study c/a $329,000 620 Christian Street #1C&D-Double wide 2B/2b loft, fab light, fpl, C/A, fab shared grdn,1 car pkg 224 Monroe Street-Beautiful 3 bd/2 ba,den,yard,2 fpls,common courtyard.

934 S 10th Street-3 bd/2.5 ba,hi ceil,grt kit,mstr suite w/spa ba,hw flrs,full fin bsmt.

621 “G” S American-Trinity located in private crtyd w/lrg grdn,2 bd/1 ba,hw flrs,exp brk.

2003 Delancey Street-Mansion w/ Orig details 13’ ceils & FP 5br 4.5b, lib Grand LR, DR Grdn, Prk $2,495,000 129 Monroe Street-2 bd/1 ba, LR/DR,EIK,C/A,bsmt semi-fin,Facade is Historically certified.

1936-38 Delancey Place-Double wide carriage house, elev, 2-3 car grge, 2br suites + guest suite $1,725,000 336 S 21st Street-1860s mansion 4BR/2.5ba + elev. LR, sep DR, den/study, EIK, lg grdn + deck $1,495,000 2216 Locust Street-1860’s TH, 4br,3.5b, study, orig details, dr, e-i-kit, 2zoned c/a grdn, prk $1,095,000 2040 Waverly Street-4 bd/2.5 ba,new facade,mechanicals,roof,terrace,C/A + 4 car grg. $1,080,000 918-20 Spruce Street #1-Brownstone condo-3 bdrm w/2-car tandem prkg,chef’s kit,2 new bth.

2128 Cypress Street-Amazing architectural renovation of Historic Home,3 bd/2 ba. $695,000 736-38 Pine Street #D-Beaut 2 bd/1.5 ba,den,renov kit & bths w/granite & SS,hw,roof dk,prkng.

246 S 22nd St-Mixed use, C-1. 5BR/3.5B home in Rit/Fitler Sq 2333sqft Priced to sell $649,900 812 Lombard Street #26-Renov. 2BR/2bth TH. 2-CAR GARAGE. HW Flrs. Grt Light. Ideal loc 210 W Rittenhouse Sq ##1402-Rittenhse Hotel-New upscale,furnished luxury condo,1050 sq.ft,1 bd/1.5 ba. $595,000 1101 Washington Ave ##302-2 bd/2 ba,2 car prkng,beautiful upgrades throughout.

2020 Walnut Street #19B-Corner 2 bedroom,2 bath,upgraded thru-out. $499,000 903-05 Clinton ##1R-Renovated 1 bd/1 ba w/cherry hrwd flrs,gor kit,granite ctrs/maple cab.

1813 Spruce, #Unit 1R-Bi-level condominium,last unit available,completely renov boutique bldg. $305,000 912 Spruce ##8-Cozy 1 bd,low condo fees,SS appln,hi ceilings & good closet space.

1906 Pine ##3-North-facing,well lit studio,bamboo floors,stainless appls,high ceilings. $192,500 1919 Chestnut Street #711-Gorgeous Customized unit in well-managed and maintained Co-OP bldg. $165,000

1706 Rittenhouse Square #23RD F-Picture yourself in the pleasurable comfort of this new 3BR/3+BA condo $5,298,200 237 S 18th Street #9F&9G-Gracious living at the Barclay 2BR/3BA w/ gallery foyer. Exquisite $1,725,000 224-30 W Rittenhouse Square #1206-7-So.Balconies, Tastefully, renov. 2B+2.5B, Den, Suite w/lrg walk-in closet $1,149,000 700-12 Locust Street #A1-2BR/2bth loft. Amazing Sustainable Features. PRKNG. 10 Yr Tx Abte $1,025,000 210 W Rittenhouse Sq #1001-Recently renovated 3BR/2B at the Rittenhouse, 1862 sqft, breathtaking view $999,000 440 S Broad Street #1505-Symphony House 2B/den/2b + 1 CAR PKG. 150K++ less than dev unit! $855,000 300 N 3rd Street #301-3br/2.5b bi-level condo w/ finest fin thru-out + Viking Kit & 1car prkg $774,900 735 S 12th Street #502-2br/2b w/cherry flrs, 1 CAR GARAGE PARK, roof deck, 5yrs left tax abatement $499,000 237-47 S 18th Street #3E-Barclay, Generous 1BD/1ba, Luxury bldg- door staff, town car, gym $475,000 1901 Walnut Street #8C-Bring your architect. 1441 sf co-op has C/A+ wd&marble flrs pets ok $425,000 1811-19 Chestnut Street #606-Fab 2B/2b,wd flrs,open granite kit w/ bkfst bar,tax abate,pets ok $417,500 233 S 6th - ##606-1 bedroom plus alcove,upgraded kitchen, large terrace $375,000 1420 Locust ##6N-2 bedroom,2 bth,completely upgraded,large terrace. $365,000 2031 Walnut Street #3F-Unique condo in heart of CC High Ceils, original hw flrs & tray ceiling $299,000 111 S 15th ##1810-1 bd/1 ba,open floor plan w/modern bth & kit w/Granite/SS applns,W/D $297,500 7 N Columbus Boulevard #204-Lr/Dr,Eik,wood flrs,fpl,built-in,deck off top,bdrms on 2nd & 3rd Flr. $295,000 111 N 9th Street #703-Penthouse 1 bd/1 ba,upgrades galore,Granite/SS,wd flrs. $279,000 1919 Chestnut Street #2209-Sunny 1BD Apt, high floor- full service co-op, parking, pool, gym $209,900 1601 Spring Garden Street #G116-Ground flr 1 bd/1 ba w/hw floors and high ceilings. $180,000 1010 Race Street #8K-Pristine 1B/1b, hw flrs, d/w, w/d, exp brick, high eilings, & much more $179,900 1100 Vine Street #707-Updated 1bd/1 ba w/hw flrs and skyline view. $179,900 2401 Penna Ave ##14C45-Corner sun filled unit w/terrace,fantastic views of the City,3 bd/2.5 ba.

1524 North Street-3 yr old 3 br 2.5 BA townhouse, parking avail, 7 yrs on tax abatement 2001 Hamilton ##708-2 bd/2 ba plus den,open flr plan,lots of upgrades,parking.

2401 Penna Av ##19A7-Renovated 2 bd/2 ba,hi floor,marble floors,W/D,prkng available.

241-45 Market Street-Property runs thru to Church St 40 x 160,currently 29 prkng spaces-$200mo $1,750,000 238 Arch Street-Terrific Invest opportunity,hi traffic commercial area,4sty,8,000 sq ft +/$1,200,000 2601 Pennsylvania Avenue #904-800 SQ.FT 1BR/1BA, Modern Kitchen, Wood Floors, Gym, Doorman 113 Bread St ##3B2-3 bd/2 bths,hrwd flrs,granite counters,Juliet blcny,grg prkng + tax abat. $549,900 1504 Mount Vernon Street #2R-3 Yr Old Charming studio,hw flrs,9’ceil,Kit w/Granite/SS & tile bath.

1015 N Orianna Street-Deluxe 4BR/2+BA townhome. Family room, whirlpool tub. This is a real buy! $499,900 2601 Pennsylvania Avenue #1121-PRIVATE DECK, Corner studio, Pet Friendly, Gym, Doorman 602 N American-4-Sty-twnhse,grg prkng,open flr plan,hi ceil,oak flrs,ceramic bths,tx abat. $489,000 223 Fairmount-Great 3 bd/2.5 ba,new construction with roof deck,hrwd flrs,gorgeous kit. $375,000 19 W Wildey Street-Beautiful Rehab with NEW everything! 2 Bed. Den 1.5B $259,000 4814 Osage Avenue-3Bedroom, 1 full bath, 2 1/2 baths w/garage 1109 E Dunton Street-2 bedroom,renovated expanded trinity with large private yard. $239,900 4625 Pine Street #F102-New price 2br, 1b, large condo in great secure build. with pool & gym

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328 N 39th Street-Magnificent (2700 sq ft)3 bd/3 ba,stained glass wndws,SS applns,rear yd.

3106 S 19th Street-Outstanding 3BR/2BA townhome. Family room. Deck.

1127 S 11th Street-3-Story 3 bd/2.5 ba,recessed lighting,hw flrs,mstr bdr,roof deck.

2654 S Camac Street-Commercial prop,50’frontage on busy Oregon Ave,Hair Salon + 2 bd apt.

1637 S Iseminger-Beautiful,modern renovations,hrwd flrs,SS applns,extra lrg bathroom.

238 Watkins Street-Pennsport 2 Bed, 1 Bath, Hdwd Flrs, Exposed Beams & Brick, Patio 1540 S Iseminger Street-Fantastic space,completely rebuilt in 2004,open floor plan,backyard.

1537 W Porter Street-Large 4BD/ 1ba South Philly Row, well maintained condition 1002 Wolf Street-3 bedroom/1 bath,large home with finished basement w/bar.

1241 S 21st Street-Great 3 bedroom/1.5 bath home finished with top of line materials.

7645 Elmwood Avenue-Elmwood Park-end of row-3 bd,C/A,HW,modern Eik,parking 1814 S Newkirk Street-1ST flr open flr plan,3 bdrm/1.5 ba,sep dining,new roof & wndws,C/A. 2060 E Lippincott Street-3 bedroom,1 bath,great for first time buyer or investor.

1518 S Clarion Street-2 bd/1 ba home on one of quaintest blks in Passyunk Sq,upgraded thru-out.

2415 Frankford Avenue-Great multi features 1st fl commercial, 2br apart & grge w/studio.

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“23” is just a few blocks from the Square and the entrance to the Schuylkill Expressway. This building offers accessibility to all that Center City Philadelphia has to offer. Terraces and private balconies overlook a magnificent interior courtyard garden. As for the exterior view, enjoy it without the sounds of the city; these units all have soundproof glass windows which open, if needed. From the minute you step inside you’ll find elegance, innovation and distinction of upscale city living. A strikng open lobby greets you, as does stainless steel and stone, with a flowing staircase. Unlike many buildings in the area, elegance hasn’t been saved for simply the homes interiors; the building has premium custom carpet in the hallways with silk moray wall covering. You’ll feel like you’re home before you put the key in the door.

“23” A Condominium offers 24-hour doorman/concierge; enclosed monitored parking; hardwood floors throughout; and bathrooms with marble floors, walls and vanities. Kitchens are beautifully equipped with Viking appliances, Pennsylvania-made cabinetry and granite countertops. You’ll always be greeted in the lobby by helpful staff members, an elegant interior courtyard oasis, and a snowmelt system installed under the sidewalks.

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1 Br - From $1,295 to $2,050 2 Br - From $2,150 to $3,350

1 & 2 Bedrooms - Starting at $259,000 . First Phase building: 23 units, Second phase building: 38 units . 1 bedrooms with 1.5 bath and 2 bedrooms with 2.5 bath available Amenities . Soaring 9’ ceilings that allow the larger windows to capture more sunlight . gated secured parking lot with ample dedicated parking . Hardwood floors . Subzero refrigerator, Wolf gas stove, granite countertops, 42” cherry cabinets, Kohler double bowl vanity, and washer/ dryer included . Carrier heat and air conditioning Contact Dawn Cignak, Sales Manager Special Financing to SCheDuLe An AppointMent . Low interest mortgages, 3.99% only 10% d c i g n a k @ t u rc h i p ro p e r t i e s . c o m down when qualified. . no Points, no Pmi . 2% Transfer Tax Waived . 10 Yr. Tax Abat.

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more than a prestigious address, 1700 Walnut apartment homes feature breathtaking, unobstructed views of the square.

Experience the high life as you join the lifestyle of nineteen Thirty, and luxriate in the awe-inspiring views of Philadelphia. A premier apartment community in the heart of rittenhouse Square.

Located in the heart of Philadelphia’s Historic Society Hill District.

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826 S. 51st St. 4br/2.5ba twin w/fin. bsmt. No detail spared in this elegant renovation. A must See 403 S. 51st St. Charming 6br/2ba Tin, hwflr, enclosed porch, 2800sqft, gourmet kit, yard

1stn Quarter Award Winners wColdwell a rBanker d Preferred Wi n er s 1601 Spring Garden St. #G109 Great Value in Historic Colonnade Bldg. Luxuy at an affordable price!

1601 Spring Garden St. #M101 Beautiful 1br/1ba, 13’ ceilings, pergo HWflrs, SS appls, marble flrs 1601 Spring Garden St. #205 1br, heart of Art Museum-close to restrnts, transportation, museums 2601 Pennsylvania Ave. #422 Art Museum area 1br/1ba with upgraded kitchen and appliances 2401 Pennsylvania Ave., #4A10 Large Open Floor Plan with Balcony 856 N. Bailey St. Best value for a home on a quiet tree-lined street in Art Museum!

1832 Green St. #D Fab 1br/1ba Condo. Completely redone with modern high end finishes 838 N. Newkirk St. #D2 Lovely 2br/1.5ba condo, gated comm., secure pkg, Tons of outdoor space 1719 Wallace St. #102 Amazing Light-filled 2 bedroom, 2 bath, with Fireplace 627-37 N. 18th St. #102 Stylish & dramatic bi-level condo in Carriage House Condo Bldg.

870 N. 28th St. #211 Cutting edge contemporary. Multi level w/XL city view deck, private pkg, secure 885 N. Stillman St. New Price! 2br/1ba on Great Street with Finished Basement 1714 Wallace St. #4 Bi-level 2br/2ba. Gourmet KIT, FP, HWflrs, 500sqft, bi-level private roof deck!

2037 Appletree St. Charming 3br/2.5ba, beautiful tree-lined street, HWflrs, modern KIT, master ste 2524 Aspen St. Stunning Victorian on favorite Art Museum block!

$125,000 $164,900 $169,900 $175,000 $219,000 $219,000 $225,000 $259,000 229,900 $269,900 $289,000 OPEN HOUSE $275,000 $339,900 OPEN HOUSE $485,000 OPEN HOUSE $549,000

QUEEN VILLAGE/ BELLA VISTA / GRADUATE HOSPITAL / SOUTH PHILA.

1914 S. 19th St. Great Value for large 4br/1ba corner property, garage, updated kitchen 2316 S. Franklin St. 3br/1ba, HWflrs t/o, Recessed lighting, spacious living room, renovated KIT 1133 Cantrell St. Charming townhome w/HWflrs, newer windows, fresh paint colors, and back patio!

707 Ellsworth St. Fantastic New Renovation in Italian Market Area 2548 S. 9th St. Residential property set up as duplex. Great income potential 1515 S. 2nd St. REDUCED-OWNER MOTIVATED!! BRING ALL OFFERS!!! 3Sty w/ huge yard/neat and clean t/o 525 Fitzwater St. #11 Abbott’s Court, beautiful 2br/1.5ba trinities, gated courtyard, gr KIT, HWflrs 2847 Warnock St. Complete renovation with fabulous upgrades in South Philadelphia 1711 Wolf St. 4br home was rehabbed just 5 years ago & meticulously maintained & upgraded since 606 Pemberton St. 3br/1ba 3-story home w/large rooms, wall to wall carpeting, shared patio 608 Pemberton St. 3br/1ba, Modern upgrades, bsmt laundry, EIK, shared patio, new windows 919 Christian St. Spacious Bella Vista home just steps from the Italian Market!

1621 Croatan Pl. Packer Park Airlite-Elegant Corner-Huge lot-Parking!

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-546-2700 1642 Lombard St. #C Adorable trinity with no condo fees! $229,000 1233 S. 18th St. 2br/2.5ba townhouse, total rehab, intercom, H/W, fenced yard, granite, fin bsmt 201-259 N 8th St. #212 1bdrm, 1 bath, Lrg rooms, Dark Hardwood Floors, Mod Kit, Broad windows 2136 Tryon St. Cute 2br/1ba, small garden and nice deck 1823 Pine St. #4 1br/1.5ba Newly remodeled bi-level condo w/pkg! HWflrs, room for entertaining 2101 Christian St. Well Maintained home. $2,000 Buyer Agent Bonus for executed AOS b-4 11/31 1901 Walnut St. #9B Wonderful Aity and Light Unit facing Ritenhouse Square 219 S. 18th St. Pet friendly 927 sqft, 1br Parc Rittenhouse condo Hi-rise amenities incl poo/gym 1737 Chestnut St. #301 Location, location: Lrg., bright living area, 2 mstr suites w/baths. Pet friendly bldg 2413 Manning St. Reduced 2+br/2+ba, garage home xtra wide 4-story townhome in Fitler Sq. Charming Block 1607 Kater St. MUST SEE! PRICED TO SELL! Unique location, quaint street w/unique Skyline View!

418 S. Taney St. Park side home, 3+br/2+ba, LR w/FP, sep DR, EIK, Wd flr, patios, 2FP’s, garage

$269,000 $298,000 $299,000 $319,000 $335,000 $479,000 $499,900 $599,850 $580,000 $684,900 $949,900

OLD CITY / LOFT DISTRICT / CHINATOWN 1010 Race St. #PH 2br/1ba, HWflrs, Modern Floor Plan 104 N. 2nd St. #402 Dramatic Sun Filled Penthouse!

50-56 N. Front St. #202 Stunning, large windows, lots of closets, upgraded t/o 201-59 N. 8th St. #504 Stylish 1br in Metroclub Condominiums 309-313 Arch St. #308 An affordable historical restoration in Old City! Hoopskirt Factory 1204 Green St. Total Rehab; conrer unit; 3br/2.5ba, HWflrs; master ste; walk-in closets; roof deck 51 N. 2nd St. #F Fab 1br/1ba w/hi ceilings, hwflrs, rustic ba, exposed brick, fireplace and den 209 N. 4th St. #F4 Spacious 2br/2ba corner unit, exp brick & beams, FP, recent mechanicals 103-7 Church St. #2 1br/1ba, Central Air, Exp Brick, High Ceilings, Laundry, Gas FP, Private Patio 317 Vine St. #503 Bi-level Penthouse in Old City for Great Price! 2br/1.5ba, Terrace, huge windows 201 N. 8th St. #314 2br/2ba Condo, HWflrs, Modern Kit, Cali. Closets, Marble Baths, Pool, Balcony 114 Quarry St. #2B 2br/2ba bi-level condo w/HWflrs, exp., vaulted ceilings, new KIT & 1 yr pkg 201-59 N. 8th St. #910 2br/2.5ba, 1642sqft, bi-level Penhouse at the Metroclub w/450sqft balcony!

309-313 Arch St. #205 Fabulous 3br/3ba multilevel loft in the heart of Old City 103 Callowhill St. Intimate 50 seat theater, exp brick, velvety curtains, vintage sconces. Upper level residence/office 314-22 N. 12th St. Fab Bi-Level Penthouse Condo, 2br/2ba, Granite, SS, Hwflrs, 2 large decks

$175,000 $289,900 $299,000 $315,000 $319,000 $325,000 $328,900 $329,000 $369,000 $399,000 $400,000 $450,000 $475,000 $529,900 $599,900 $669,900

SOCIETY HILL / WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST $79,000 $110,000 OPEN HOUSE $180,000 $194,400 OPEN HOUSE $199,900 OPEN HOUSE $250,000 $265,000 $150,000 $320,000 $334,900 $354,900 $425,000 $439,000

UNIVERSITY CITY / WEST PHILADELPHIA 252 S. Saint Bernard St. 3br/1ba recently rehabbed home w/garage, hwflrs, orig detail t/o, lovely st

$235,000

OPEN HOUSE $129,000 $135,000 $140,000 $145,000 $155,000 $205,000 OPEN HOUSE $239,000 $225,000 $249,900 $260,000 $295,000 OPEN HOUSE $319,900 $349,000

NORTHERN LIBERTIES / FISHTOWN / NORTH PHILADELPHIA

1637 N. Cadwallader St. 4br/2.5ba, Huge, completely renovated near NoLibs. HWflrs, new appls.

2349 E. Cumberland St. 4br/1.5ba. Lrg home. New kit, new carpeting & windows, partly fin bsmt 1545 E. Palmer St. Gorgeous 3br/2ba home w/garage in desirable Northern Libs/Fishtown 1128 Day St. Fabulous Recently Constructed Townhome in Fishtown-steps away from Everything 336 Fairmount St. 3br/2.5ba Nearly New w/all the bells & whistles. HWflrs t/o, SS Kitchen

$189,000 $205,000 $379,900 $395,900 $499,000

NEW CONSTRUCTION (10 YEAR TAX ABATEMENT) 1819 S. Adler St. Mifflin Estates, 3BR/2.5BA, Garage, 2 car parking, 7yr tax abatement, HW Floors OPEN HOUSE $365,000 4124 Apple St. 4br/3ba, New Construction, 2900 sqft, finished basement & roof deck $389,000 209 Cuthbert St. #301 New Loft Conversion located in the heart of OLD CITY! Gorgeous model unit $389,900 1935 Kimball St. Brand New! Beatiful 4br/3ba, Townhouse w/tons of details, roof deck, & fin bsmt $389,900 911 N. 28th St. 3br/2ba, Garage, Roofdeck, Balconies, 10yr tx abatement, Audio t/o, Bambloo flrs t/o OPEN HOUSE $389,900 1228-1232 Arch St. Loft District Arch St. Exchange: 35 lofts w/maple flrs, 13’ ceil., s/s apps, granite tops, glass/metal backsplashes, slate bths., $399,900 2155 Montrose St. New construction. Tax abatement, 3br/2.5ba OPEN HOUSE $425,000 1819 S. Alder St. Mifflin Estates 3 br/2.5 ba, w/garage, 2 car parking, 7yr tax abatement, HWfloors OPEN HOUSE $365,000 2514 Grays Ferry Ave. 3br/2.5ba; 2400 sqft; HWflrs; Recessed Lighting; Granite Counters, more $400,000 1221 S. Phillip St. 3br/2.5ba new construction, 1car garage, HWflrs, hi ceilings, open kit, & deck. $399,900 2522 Grays Ferry Ave. New construction; 3br/2.5ba; sec sys; master ste; roof deck; fin bsmt; garage $425,000 1346 Crease St. Price Reduction! 3br/4ba Green home, quiet st. Solar ready, 11ft ceilings, garage $429,000 1221 S. Philip St. 3br/2.5ba New constructions w/1 car garage, hwflrs, hi ceilings, open kit, deck $434,900 1013 S. 21st St. Brand New Grad Hosp Townhome, Private Parking!! Finished Bsmt & Roof Deck ! $435,000 COMMERCIAL/INVESTMENT 530-532 Reed St. Double-wide one-story garage. Good storage or development site 1539 W. Erie Ave. Grt income producing property. Blocks fr Temple U. Hosp. Renovated/updated 1708 W. Erie Ave. Grt income producing property. Blocks fr Temple U. Hosp. Renovated/updated 1841 W. Erie Ave. Grt income producing property. Blocks fr Temple U. Hosp. Renovated/updated 1841 W. Erie Ave. Grt income producing property. Blocks fr Temple U. Hosp. Renovated/updated 27 Osborne St. Cashflowing Duplex. 2+3 BRs. Grt loc, well maintained. Sep utils except water 911 Ellsworth St. Huge garage & two 1br apts. Potential to expand to 2brs subject to city approval 117 Sumac St. Huge Triplex, Great Street. Sep. & meters. Laundry. Long-term tenants in 2 units 2739 Poplar St. Brownstone triplex w/detached garage/carriage house NEW PRICE 813-15 Ellsworth St. Double property Approx. 35x67, 1st flr huge garage, 2nd flr lrg 2br Apt. 1024-26 Wharton St. 8-unit Apt. Bldg. Utilities not separated, Needs cosmetics, legally zoned

$199,000 $229,900 $229,900 $239,900 $239,900 $245,000 $285,000 $315,000 $379,000 $499,000 $650,000

SURROUNDING AREAS Germantown-5321 Wingohocking Terr. 3br/1ba, renovated., HWflrs, exp. brick, C/A, granite/SS kit New Kensington-2074 E. Cumberland St. Brand new roof, windows, lighting, ceiling fans, flooring Overbrook Farms-6497 Morris Park Rd. 3br/1ba, priced to own, great neighborhood Port Richmond-3133 Cedar St. 3br/1ba, hwflrs, orig details, updated kit & bath, tons of light, yard Cobbs Creek-6213 Cobbs Creek Pkwy 6br/2ba, beautiful details await finishing touches Roxborough-604 Roxborough Ave. 4br/2.1ba, porch, garage, nice yard, new elec & mechanicals Roxborough-108 Rochelle Ave. 3br/2.2 ba, 3+car Pkg. Lrg yard. Walkout Bsmt w/high celings, FP Bryn Mawr-Addison Hutton House 803 W. Montgomery Ave. #2 New 2br/2ba Bryn Mawr-Addison Hutton House 803 W. Montgomery Ave. #2 New 2br/2.5ba Bryn Mawr-Addison Hutton House 803 W. Montgomery Ave. #1 New 2br/2.5ba

$99,000 $149,000 $150,000 $157,000 $189,000 $259,000 $289,000 OPEN HOUSE $599,900f OPEN HOUSE $715,900 OPEN HOUSE $849,900

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1324 Locust St. #420 Bright & clean studio in the Arts Bldg! Grt location, walk to everything!

250 S. 13th St. #UP2 Easy access PARKING SPACE in Washington Square West 1109 Spruce St. 3 Units Available, one Studio, and two 1br/1ba condos 606A Waverly St. Location! This is a lovely trinity! It’s a 1 Bedroom. Great for 1st time buyer/student 927 Spruce St. 2R Deluxe Jr. 1br/1ba w/new kitchen. Unit contains a queen size Murphy bed, Pkg avail-$20k 255 S. Hutchinson St. Historic 2br/1.5ba on charming cobblestone st. in heart of Wash Square 1110 Lombard St. #12 Beautiful renovated 1br/1.5ba condo in Washington Mews!

1012 Spruce St. #1M Beautiful Tri-Level Condo in Strickland Row Community!

265 S. 4th St. Gorgeous condo with low fees and deeded parking!

220 Locust St. #24G Amazing 180 degree views! Lrg 1br/1ba rehabbed unit in Society Hill Towers!

114-18 Naudain St. #C 2br/1ba w/pkg, C/A, HWflrs, exposed brick, 1,150sqft, move-in ready, asking 250 S. 13th St. #10D 2br/2ba corner unit in Lenox with Parking!

720 Chestnut St. #D 2br/2ba, 1300sqft condo in boutique bldg. Hi ceilings, wood flr, granite & SS, FP

$244,900 $274,000

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ART MUSEUM

Total Square Footage

Price

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

Monthly After Tax Cost

tHe PHilaDelPHian

1 bedroom, 1 bath, wood floors, upgraded kitchen, ample living space

1258

$189,900

$30,637

$85,223

$1,989

$238

$1,751

tHe PHilaDelPHian

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

567

$175,000

$26,306

$57,483

$1,341

$190

$1,152

tHe PHilaDelPHian

Studio, Art Museum views, private balcony, excellent closet space

656

$159,900

$25,148

$59,979

$1,400

$200

$713

tHe PHilaDelPHian

Spacious studio with large balcony and panoramic Art Museum, river and city views, generous closet space, open kitchen

656

$159,900

$25,223

$61,416

$1,433

$212

$1,221

tHe PHilaDelPHian

Studio, open kitchen, new carpet, city view

567

$129,900

$20,834

$49,901

$1,164

$181

$984

Location

AVENUE OF THE ARTS

Total Square Footage

Price

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

acaDeMy House

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

705

$289,000

$42,702

$88,613

$2,068

$296

$1,772

acaDeMy House

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

705

$259,900

$39,043

$82,852

$1,933

$272

$1,661

center city one

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

873

$240,000

$36,972

$78,608

$1,834

$271

$1,563

Location

RITTENHOUSE SQUARE

Total Square Footage

Price

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

tHe rittenHouse

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

3,952

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

$20,745

$3,725

barclay

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

3,293

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

$14,450

$2,632

$11,818

lanesborougH

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

3,467

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

$14,170

$2,605

$11,565

lanesborougH

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

3,413

$2,250,000* $579,879 $557,842

$13,016

$2,351

$10,665

barclay

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

2,638

$2,250,000 $511,632 $501,005

$11,690

$2,094

$9,597

Monthly After Tax Cost

Monthly After Tax Cost

$17,020

1830 rittenHouse

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

2,275

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

$7,440

$1,321

$6,119

warwick conDoMiniuMs

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

2,000

$1,200,000* $174,122 $373,141

$8,707

$1,757

$6,949

warwick conDoMiniuMs

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

1,978

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

$8,672

$1,795

$6,877

tHe rittenHouse

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

1,560

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

$6,387

$1,090

$5,298

warwick conDoMiniuMs

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

1,614

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

$5,752

$992

$4,761

Parc rittenHouse

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

1,272

$799,000* $201,948 $206,151

$4,810

$855

$3,956

warwick conDoMiniuMs

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

1,614

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

$4,743

$861

$3,881

tHe warwick

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

1,296

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

$3,696

$631

$3,064

tHe rittenHouse

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

1,037

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

$3,981

$659

$3,323

barclay

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

1,050

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

$3,571

$619

$2,953

barclay

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

1,075

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

$3,408

$580

$2,827

warwick conDoMiniuMs

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

712

$399,900

$2,490

$486

$2,003

$53,426

$106,710

Parc rittenHouse

1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, open kitchen, hardwood floors, marble bath

765

$389,900

$55,623

$120,077

$2,802

$473

$2,328

tHe DorcHester

1 bedroom, 1 bath, high floor, balcony, excellent natural light,

740

$350,000

$51,698

$113,035

$2,637

$437

$2,201 $2,197

tHe DorcHester

1 bedroom, 1 bath, high floor, balcony, excellent natural light,

723

$350,000

$51,614

$112,778

$2,631

$435

wanaMaker House

1 bedroom, 1 bath, wood floors throughout, renovated kitchen and bathroom, bay windows with city views

704

$309,999

$46,421

$91,365

$2,132

$352

$1,780

Parc rittenHouse

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

497

$275,000

$39,472

$81,681

$1,906

$319

$1,587

warwick conDoMiniuMs

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

423

$219,900

$32,772

$62,166

$1,451

$226

$1,225

williaM Penn House

1 bedroom, 1 bath, city views, spacious kitchen

825

$165,000

$24,513

$63,419

$1,480

$168

$1,312

Location

SOCIETY HILL

Total Square Footage

Price

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

Monthly After Tax Cost

101 walnut st

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

2423

$995,000

$281,398 $298,478

$6,694

$1,124

$5,841

bank builDing

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

2,117

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

$5,064

$844

$4,291

society Hill towers

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

1,133

$399,000

$58,788

$128,086

$2,989

$427

$2,562

society Hill towers

One bedroom, high floor, river view, investment opportunity

700

$290,000

$42,577

$89,976

$2,099

$302

$1,798

society Hill towers

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

700

$275,000

$40,731

$86,724

$2,024

$291

$1,733

bank builDing

$95,821

$2,236

$303

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

1,286

$269,000

$41,367

Location

WASHINGTON SQUARE

Total Square Footage

Price

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

inDePenDence Place

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

4,500

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

$13,728

$3,022

$10,706

inDePenDence Place

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

2,810

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

$7,658

$1,511

$6,147

inDePenDence Place

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

3,015

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

$7,449

$1,403

$6,046

inDePenDence Place

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, beautifully ren. kit. and baths, balc. with city and river views, hdwd. flrs. in living areas

1,977

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

$4,966

$961

$4,004

inDePenDence Place

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

1,173

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

$3,269

$613

$2,656

inDePenDence Place

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

oPen sunDay 3/13, 12:30PM - 1:00PM

1,118

$479,900

$68,164

$137,351

$3,205

$620

$2,585

HoPkinson House

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

oPen sunDay 3/13, 1:45PM - 2:15PM

1,063

$329,000

$53,908

$115,998

$2,707

$410

$2,297

$1,933 Monthly After Tax Cost

inDePenDence Place

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

928

$299,900

$44,212

$87,809

$2,049

$327

$1,722

inDePenDence Place

1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, upgraded kitchen, new fixtures throughout

860

$295,000

$42,801

$87,347

$2,038

$348

$1,690

inDePenDence Place

1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, excellent value

928

$290,000

$42,132

$83,461

$1,947

$302

$1,645

inDePenDence Place

1 bedroom, 1 bath, wood floors throughout, upgraded kitchen and bath, custom closets, balcony

928

$269,900

$40,971

$87,301

$2,037

$348

$1,243

Price

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

Monthly After Tax Cost

$259,900

$41,044

$1,985

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Location

WATERFRONT

Total Square Footage

Pier 3

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, open floor plan, fireplace, terrace off mastersuite

1,300

$99,922

$2,332

$347

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the barclay 237 s. 18th street

101 Walnut

Magnificent three bedroom, three and a half bath home with most rooms overlooking Rittenhouse Square, 2638 sf

Entire floor home with floorto-ceiling windows and panoramic city and river views, designer kitchen and baths, two bedrooms, two and a half baths, 2423 sf

$2,250,000

$995,000

the WarWick 1701 locust street

indePendence Place 233 s. 6th street Completely renovated deluxe one bedroom with chefs kitchen, designer bath, balcony and custom details throughout, 1118 sf

$799,000

$479,900

Parc ritenhouse 225 s. 18th street

the PhiladelPhian 2401 Pennsylvania ave.

Studio, wood floors, marble bath, open kitchen, 497 sf

Spacious one bedroom home with lots of light, wood floors and a recently renovated kitchen, 1258 sf

$275,000

$189,900

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