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12 Crossed Out Struggling neighborhoods lose their cornerstones of faith.

PhillyNOW 9 Savior the Date May 21: Are you caught up in the Rapture?

10 Power Trippin’ Do aliens hold the answer to our energy crisis?

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Child Support Regarding Tara Murtha’s recent cover story about a man’s search for answers about his brother’s death: First I’d like to say I am so sorry for these children having to endure such atrocities at the hands of those they depend and trust. They don’t ask to be brought into this world. Your tax dollars fund to pay these abusers and the entities that hire them.

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God bless you, Chahlie, for the tireless work you are doing.

I hope you find the answers, so you can be at peace. It’s very unfortunate that you and your brother endured the horrific abuse, and that many other children have to endure the same.

Keep the faith and keep up the good work you are dedicated to do for the countless children who might otherwise fall between the cracks.

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Another child died in this home under this foster mother’s care, like a year before? How can children be tossed aside and overlooked? So sorry for Chahlie, Eddie and your sister! Chahlie has dedicated his life to becoming a voice for Eddie and all the little children. He deserves these answers. The people involved are too ashamed of how they “didn't handle” it. WHY? WHY? WHY? Give him answers! Why were these children overlooked?

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God Bless you Chahlie, your fight is effortless. There should be more people in this world like you. You are/will be making such a difference in the way the foster system handles finding proper homes for these children. There will be less deaths (hopefully none) and abuse because of YOU! These children now will have the chance to live happy lives. I hope you find all your answers so you may finally be at peace, it’s long overdue. I am so sorry for what you, Donna and Eddie had to go through. Your childhood years should have been your best and that was taken away from you all.

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Every time I read this I get sick. I am so glad you are so strong to try to get to the bottom of this. It is so sad that no one is held acountable for his death. I hope you find peace and truth like you should have already.

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May 21: Are you caught up in the Rapture?

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“But when you see [the earthquake] coming, trust me, you’re gonna want to kill yourself.”

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question [Camping’s] right,” says McCann, who left his mutual fund company in 2008 to focus solely on Bible study. “It’s all there in the Bible.”

While Camping is the main force behind May 21, McCann has emerged as his righthand man and prime mover of the message beyond the Family Radio airwaves. The nonprofit eBible Fellowship, run by McCann with the help of a few other volunteers, is Family Radio’s advertising arm. They’re the ones primarily responsible for the “Judgment Day” billboards and bus banners seen all over Philly in recent months. EBible has helped erect thousands more billboards around the U.S., and throughout Africa, South America and South Asia. It has had a hand in millions of May 21 text messages sent to China, and tracts floated into North Korea via balloon. From a small rented room equipped with a Xerox machine in

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to heaven,” he warns—and begin a slow, destructive roll through the world’s time zones, hitting Philadelphia at 6 p.m. our time.

“You’ll be able to see it coming, but there won’t be anything you can do about it,” McCann says.

According to the May 21’ers, caskets will be unearthed and the remains of believers will ascend to the clouds along with the living “saved.” Meanwhile, the unsaved who somehow manage to survive the event will be left to suffer in the rubble until Oct. 21, 2011.

That’s when the world will actually end, they explain.

“There’s going to be death everywhere,” says South Philly native Barbara Pisano, 55, who strolls over in her “Earthquake: So Mighty So Great” shirt. “There’s going to be no electric, no gas, no water, no stores.

It’ll take you five days just to get around the block because of all the debris. I’m scared to think what people will do to each other.”

“It will be like the earth is giving birth,” says 52-year-old Kevin Brown, a soft-spoken South Jersey resident with piercing blue eyes.

“There will be great pain for those who stay, and great joy for the saved.”

To a skeptic, this whole scene—the RVs, the T-shirts, the dire predictions—might feel like an elaborate put-on, a prank. But to the believers gathered here, May 21 is for real.

Many have quit their jobs, given away their possessions and burned through their life savings.

Elvis Nditafon, 25, left his engineering job at the end of March. He’s standing next to his gleaming white Mitsubishi Eclipse—he just drained what was left of his bank account to get huge “Return of Christ” graphics on the sides of his car. “I’m not sure how it’s going

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It’s 10 days before all hell will supposedly break loose. A caravan of RVs, vans, pickups and cars, all emblazoned with large signs reading “Judgment Day: May 21, 2011,” idles in the parking lot of the Tri-State Mall, a shabby strip mall tucked just inside Delaware, right off I-95. Several dozen evangelical Christians—of all ages and races—stand around chatting. Many are Philadelphians.

Most are wearing neon-yellow T-shirts with the words “May 21” and “The End” or “The Rapture” in big black letters. They’re grinning, laughing, embracing.

Once a few more people arrive, the caravan will hit the highway for a five-day trip to New York City, where the group will stand on street corners handing out tracts warning that the end of the world is nigh.

Chris McCann glances up at the sky, the brim of his “Judgment Day” baseball cap shielding his eyes from the morning sun.

“It’s going to be a beautiful day,” says the Darby resident, a 49-year-old married father of four and leader of the locally based online ministry eBible Fellowship. But he isn’t talking about today. He’s speaking of Judgment Day. According to McCann, the others gathered here and countless more doomsday believers worldwide, this coming Saturday is when trumpets will blare and Jesus will return to scoop up his “elect” and lift them to heaven.

“If you hit the lottery, if you win 100 million dollars, that’s the ultimate good day, right?” asks McCann. “This will be a billion times better than that for the believer.”

McCann says he’s convinced that on Saturday, a cataclysmic earthquake will strike New Zealand at about 6 p.m. local time—marking “the shutting of the door

Sharon Hill, just west of Philly, eBible has copied and mailed hundreds of thousands of tracts to people around the world. And it has helped provide a fleet of RVs for several May 21 caravans that have been crisscrossing the country the past two years.

It’s all been funded by donations to eBible and Family Radio. McCann won’t say how much money has been taken in or how much has been spent, aside from saying it’s a “very significant amount.” But, he insists, “This isn’t done for any profit whatsoever … we haven’t made a cent, and neither has Mr. Camping.”

The advertising has undoubtedly been effective. People are talking about May 21 like they did about Y2K. “Never in history has a date speaking of Judgment Day spread around the whole world like this,” McCann says proudly.

McCann acknowledges that most people on the streets of Philly and elsewhere think he’s a kook—“You know the Philadelphia attitude,” he laughs—but he says that people regarded Noah and Jonah much the same way. “Every once in a while God sends messengers to warn people. This is something I have to do.”

While it’s difficult enough to make the world believe that the end is rapidly approaching, several May 21’ers say they’ve struggled to convince their own families that Judgment Day is coming. McCann says that his wife believes, but that only one of his four children is on board. “I pray for all of them and it may be that the Lord will open up their eyes, there’s still time,” he says.

But the entire Pisano clan—Barbara, her 61-year-old husband, Paul, and their two kids, 22-year-old James and 24-year-old Rachel—believe. “We’re hoping that on May 21 we’ll all be raptured up together as a family,” Paul says.

Minus their dog. Like many May 21’ers who plan to euthanize their pets prior to Judgment Day, the Pisanos considered putting down their 3-year-old pit bull, Bella. “[She] won’t have food or water.

It’s like knowingly leaving one of your children behind and saying you don’t really care.” The family ultimately decided to leave her postapocalyptic survival “in the Lord’s hands.”

And if the Rapture comes and it turns out Barbara’s left behind, will she kill herself?

“Absolutely not. People think I’m going to drink Kool-Aid. But when you see [the earthquake] coming, trust me, you’re gonna want to kill yourself.”

As the caravan gets ready to leave—the group will return to Philly to hand out tracts the days before May 21—McCann says he doesn’t yet know how or where he’ll spend his final hours on earth, other than praying feverishly for salvation. And he won’t even entertain the notion that the world isn’t ending.

“The information is coming from the Bible and the Bible is God’s word. And therefore ... it’s not a possibility that Judgment Day won’t happen on May 21.” n

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to work, but our bodies will be changed,” he says of May 21. “It could be vanishing.

The Bible gives evidence that it’s going to be something visible to those who are left behind. I just pray that I’m one of the chosen.”

The spiritual leader of the May 21 movement is Harold Camping, the 89-year-old founder of California-based Family Radio— a nonprofit, noncommercial Christian broadcasting network that boasts more than 100 radio stations around the country (their programming is heard locally on 106.9FM WKDN out of Camden) and many millions of listeners worldwide. A selfproclaimed “tireless student of the Bible,” Camping’s been on the airwaves for 50 years analyzing Scripture and sharing his end-of-the-world beliefs. In 1992, Camping famously predicted that Judgment Day was slated for mid-September 1994. When it didn’t happen, he claimed he’d simply gotten the math wrong.

Over the past several years, though, Camping has told his followers he’s recrunched the numbers and is sure he has it right this time. Family Radio’s website says: “The Biblical evidence is too overwhelming and specific to be wrong” about May 21. Camping’s complex formula to arrive at Saturday’s date with Armageddon involves numerous assumptions (“absolute truths,” McCann insists) derived from various Biblical passages: The world was created in 11,023 B.C. Noah’s flood occurred in 4990 B.C. Judgment Day is supposed to happen seven days after the flood. One of God’s “days” really equals 1,000 years. And so on.

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Do aliens hold the answer to our energy crisis?

By Randy LoBasso rlobasso@philadelphiaweekly.com It’s late afternoon and Chris Augustin is sitting in a private room in the back of Essene Café and Market on South Fourth Street— an unlikely setting for the local arm of a national political movement that seeks to bring extra terrestrial life into the public discourse, if only by way of discussion—waiting for the rest of the group he organizes, about 20 members from in and around Philly.

In 2008, Augustin and fellow UFOlogist Bob Gardner were the focus of a PW piece on UFO subculture. Their combined research since has led them to some new, weird places. And like all alien information, it’s either complete bullshit, or the most important information anyone’s come across, ever.

“The biggest belief now is that UFOs are being suppressed for one major reason, and that’s energy,” says Augustin. “They represent a totally new energy form that could potentially destroy the world’s economy.”

An IT professional working in Center City, Augustin sports a tightly cropped goatee and neat, forward-combed black hair. He’s been to Area 51—the top-secret Nevada military base central to UFO conspiracy theories— twice, and plays the video evidence on his laptop to prove it. He claims multiple experiences with sightings and even claims to have

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“And if they revealed, ‘Yes, UFOs are real and they hold a type of energy we’re trying to replicate,’ that could be a big problem for them.”

He and others around the country have advocated, through discussion, activism and a wide Internet presence, to get the U.S. government to release the full extent of its work on UFOs. The most famous of that work may be Project Blue Book, a 1952-spawned, 12,000-document government operation dedicated to determining if UFOs were a threat to the United States. It’s believed this operation holds secret government documents—of which, some information has been released, then redacted—that proves the existence of alien life.

There’s the Disclosure Project, too. That’s a Maryland and Virginia-based nonprofit, and the professional center of the effort to disclose information on extra terrestrials to the American public. It was set up by retired emergency room physician Steven Greer in 1992, and has attempted to lobby members of Congress toward its cause, publicly warning them of possible dire consequences conducted by both the New World Order-like curtain dwellers and, perhaps, aliens themselves.

“If you look at 1947 on, “UFOs are being suppressed for you notice a gigantic leap one major reason, and that’s energy.” forward with technology,” Augustin says, noting in the late ’40s, had a triangular alien implant inserted into most nuclear testing and experiments with his leg during an abduction which he hasn’t advanced radar were being conducted in been able to remember through regressive New Mexico. “Up until that point, computhypnosis or otherwise. ers took up entire buildings. Then, out of noBut never mind all that. Augustin says where, we start developing microchips and there’s proof that extra-terrestrial UFOs microwaves. Where’d that breakthrough have the ability to perform maneuvers that come from? If you were an alien species would be impossible using conventional keeping tabs on the human race, that’s the fuels: 180-degree turns, multiple-speeds in place you would want to be to see all this a given flight or instant and propeller-less stuff. It’s too much of a coincidence for me.” hovering. “Of all the UFO sightings I’ve Still, Gardner thinks the very idea of seen either on TV or myself, there’s never an talking about disclosing the government’s exhaust vent, they’re not using any consecrets on UFOs, going on the History ventional convulsion, the maneuvers they Channel, wearing his MUFON T-shirts perform aren’t aerodynamic,” he says. “If around town—that alone is a small step this technology was shared with the public, toward disclosure, whether it comes next oil, gas and standard utilities would be year or decades from now. irrelevant,” he says.

“Some people say the Disclosure age might Since the Roswell, N.M., crash in 1947, the begin in 2012, or shortly after,” says GardU.S. has had the ability to harvest new energy ner, who doesn’t dismiss the idea that Nazis technology which could do just that—and may have worked with aliens on space travel even leased out some of the recovered matein the 30s and 40s. “But I don’t buy into rial to companies like Boeing, he says. If this that. People nowadays can’t handle basic is sounding a little New World Order-ish, it things. You’ve got racism, sexual discrimishould. Augustin sounds pretty sure shadnation, homophobia. How can we throw owy figures are working behind the scenes another race into the mix who are four-feet to keep some of this information suppressed. tall with almond-shaped eyes?” n

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Philadelphia’s innumerable churches seem out of place, beautifully crafted testaments to religious faith surrounded by burned-out shells and boarded-up windows. Looming over the corner at 12th Street and Lehigh Avenue is Cookman United Methodist, an 84-yearold relic. Some of the masonry in the high arched windows is crumbling away, and rusted air conditioners hang precariously from the walls, but the building maintains a steady presence in a neighborhood where far too many houses and far too many lives have fallen to pieces.

As school lets out on a spring afternoon, kids in blue uniforms from nearby George Clymer Elementary file past Cookman.

Last year, the church itself was filled with youth after school, working inside or just hanging out on the steps. On Sundays, dozens of people still came for services.

Today, no one stops. The church doors are locked, the calendar board outside empty, just naked brown plywood inside the gray wood frame. A crossing guard helping the kids across Lehigh says the deserted church was bustling just a few months ago.

“I don’t know what happened,” she says.

“They were having programs there … next thing I know they were closed.”

In February, Cookman shut its doors for the last time, depriving the neighborhood of its spiritual rock and place of worship, to say nothing of vital community services.

But Cookman’s story is just one drop in a trickle of church closings in Philadelphia that could soon become a flood. And some church leaders feel betrayed that wealthy congregations aren’t contributing more resources to keep their inner-city counterparts up and running.

The doors have already closed on many churches throughout the city: St. Peter’s Episcopal in Germantown; Metropolitan AME Zion in South Philly; Mars Hill Baptist in North Philly; 40th Street Methodist in West Philly; and St. Boniface in Norris Square. The worst-case scenario is when a building is in such bad repair that it is destroyed, such as in the case of Metropolitan AME. And the soaring Church of the Assumption on Spring Garden Street is currently awaiting word from the Department of Licences & Inspections as to whether it will be demolished.

Civic and religious leaders are sounding the alarm. “Our practice seems to be a retreat from traditional places where we have relationships with a high concentration of poverty,” says Robin Hynicka, senior pastor at Arch Street United Methodist, just north of City Hall. “I understand it, but I’m not willing to accept it emotionally and spiritually. Ultimately, the people who have depended on these centers for help are left floundering.”

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“The community will be absent an institution that really provides some tremendous resources in terms of place of meeting, in terms of stabilizing communities,” says former Mayor W. Wilson Goode, currently a minister at the First Baptist Church of Paschall in Southwest Philly.

“Youth groups, job training, job development, re-entry, mentoring programs, places for people to meet. The main thing is the public needs to know this is taking place,” Goode says. “The best solution is to shed light on it.”

Hanging in a dark, seldom-used stairwell is a plaque that reveals Cookman’s origins.

Originally a mission founded in 1871, members then built a chapel and later a church on Lehigh Avenue. After a fire destroyed the old facilities, the current building was put up in 1927. Hynicka himself had been pastor at Cookman United for 15 years, arriving at the church in 1978 when a congregation that had once numbered in the hundreds was down to a mere handful.

Five people showed up for his first sermon.

“I was assigned for two years to make myself available to the ministry that was going on,” says Hynicka, who was 24 and fresh out of seminary at the time. Undiscouraged by disrepair—when he arrived, the front room of the church housed construction debris and a bathtub—Hynicka got to work building on the senior and youth programs.

“We kind of focused on children and youth and their families,” he says. “We developed an after-school program with emphasis not only on assisting elementary aged children with homework, but also a leadership development component with youth and teens.”

Money issues were ever-present. The big stone building was expensive to heat and maintain, and the small, low-income congregation had no way to come up with the necessary dollars. But the church scrounged the money to stay open. “We were constantly finding creative ways to keep the building safe and available to people,” Hynicka says. The pastor even learned to fix a constantly on-the-fritz furnace and tend to a leaky roof.

a part-time basis. Donna Jones, now 54 years old, remembers her first days at the church after she finished seminary, transitioning from a career in pharmaceutical sales. “When I came, the intent of the bishop [from Cookman’s parent organization, the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church] was to close the church,” Jones says. “It still wasn’t self-sustaining.” However, the church received enough support from the conference to stay on, and Jones took on the ministry job full-time.

In 2004, Jones says life got more difficult. “The mood of the nation and the mood of the conference changed,” the pastor recalls, saying that the parent church got tired of propping up congregations that weren’t bringing in enough money to support themselves. “The conversation about Cookman being a welfare church started to really take traction.” Nevertheless, she continued scraping by with the help of some suburban churches. As of last year, Cookman was still offering a wealth of programs for the community— an after-school center, teen education and mentoring programs, addiction programs, re-entry programs for ex-offenders and a soup kitchen. The Dollarboyz youth club held activities in the church every day after school, and the local chapter of the Black Nationalist Uhuru movement planned a national convention in February. A congregation of 40 to 50 was still showing up on Sunday. From the outside, the church appeared well-utilized, succeeding as both a place of worship and a community center. But lurking beneath the surface were irresolvable tensions that would soon put it all out of business for good.

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Hynicka stayed in the church and the neighborhood until 1993, when he moved on to the Frankford Ministry. By then, the congregation at Cookman had grown to 100, with 50 or 60 showing up for services on a given Sunday. The pastor’s departure from Cookman was featured in journalist Buzz Bissenger’s portrait of early ’90s Philadelphia “A Prayer for the City,” which quotes from Hynicka’s final sermon: “Today is not a day God has brought us to say ‘It’s over, it’s finished.’ Today is a day God has brought us to say ‘It’s new, it’s a beginning.’ Are you ready?”

“His refrain of hope was appropriate,” Bissenger wrote, “but in that simple church built for another time and another era, it was hard to know just what would happen.”

After Hynicka left, Cookman was in danger of closing altogether, but another ambitious new pastor was assigned on

taway, who has lived near Cookman since the 1950s, and has been a member since 1987. “I figured in my old age, I was safe.

I had a church to go to, a church home within walking distance.” Now 74, she sits in the living room of Gloria Graham’s rowhome, around the corner from Cookman, along with another neighbor and former church member Ellis Pryor. Arttaway and Pryor sit on a plastic-covered couch, Graham in a folding chair on the other side of a glass coffee table. A child’s push toy props the door open on a warm spring afternoon.

“But as it stands,” Arttaway sighs, “the members that were there, that were left— we could not carry it.”

The church roof was in desperate need of repair. The building had a mold problem.

There was no money to pay for heat or hot water, and no time to try to build up a new congregation to help defray the costs. “And this is the dead of winter,” says Arttaway.

And money wasn’t the only source of conflict. Neighbors also objected to disruptions from the youth programs, including parties that brought teens in from all over the city. “It wasn’t that we didn’t want parties, it was the fact that the parties needed to have been monitored,” Arttaway says.

“They fought, they jumped on people’s cars and stuff, on people’s properties,” Graham says. “Half the time, people riding on the street, you couldn’t go by, because they’re all in the middle of the street.”

Another complicating factor were whispers that the UMC was not thrilled with Jones’ politics, specifically that she invited the controversial black revolutionary Uhuru group to speak to kids and hold events. The outspoken nationalist organization had scheduled its 20th anniversary convention at Cookman in February, but were forced to relocate on the fly when the church shut down.

Uhuru released a scathing denunciation of the UMC’s “ongoing attacks”: “[Uhuru’s] agenda, which represents the interests of the African working class, was in direct conflict with that of the United Methodist Church, a representative of white power.”

A UMC spokesperson would only comment through a written statement assuring that after Cookman closed, “The church officers returned the deposit for the Uhuru event with apologies.”

Thinking back on her 17-year tenure at Cookman, Jones defends the community programs that drew criticism. “We didn’t have church kids,” she says. “We had kids that were on the margins and they came with on-the-margin issues. They came with loudness, came with cursing, came with all kinds of interesting attitudes.” But, she says, that’s exactly who the church was there to serve. “Our goal wasn’t to make angels in 24 hours,” she says. “If you came into Cookman at 14, we didn’t care if you were transformed by the time you were 15.

We cared if by the time you were 25, you were able to be an adult.”

As for the Uhuru group, Jones says they were just one of many influences she sought to expose to the kids, noting that she also brought in veterans of the civilrights movement, peace activists and truth and reconciliation advocates. “I actually like America,” she says. “I’m not a separatist. But I think it’s unjust for young people not to be exposed to the breadth of political thought.”

Ultimately, Jones says, the parties and politics were side issues. “In the end, I don’t think the kids and politics has much to do with it. It just comes down to the money.”

For insurance, pension and other fees, plus $4,000 a month for heating oil in the winter, the church had to come up with about $70,000 a year, not including the pastor’s salary, which Jones was no longer receiving by the end of her tenure. Then, structural repairs to the building could run into the hundreds of thousands. For a congregation of 109 people, most making less than $15,000 a year, “it was just impossible,” Jones says.

Weary of constantly fighting just to get by, Jones finally left Cookman in December, along with many of the congregation members. “If you ask people to make bricks without straw long enough, they get tired,” she says. “I was going to work every day in a cold building. There was no hot water, there was no heat for the kids’ teen center

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we were trying to keep open, and for the first time since I’d been at Cookman, the senior neighbors were really mad.”

Arttaway and her neighbors say they never heard a real explanation as to why Jones walked away. The UMC sent a temporary preacher along with a warning from the conference—“Time is running out.”

“We were just dumped and abandoned, that’s the way I see it,” Graham says.

When she left, Jones hoped the dwindling congregation would somehow be able to make a go of it. “I’m 54,” she says. “I said maybe if I step out, the conference will step up in a different way. Maybe if I move out, somebody else will come in that will pick it up.”

But help was not forthcoming. Faced with an impossible financial burden and no hope of bailout from the conference, the remaining church members voted to shut down. On Sunday, Feb. 13, Cookman locked its doors.

The worst part, to Jones, is that the UMC, with more than 34,000 churches and 8 million members in the United States, couldn’t find more ways to help out its churches in vulnerable neighborhoods. “We minister to the poor,” Jones says. “Middle-class people aren’t coming to 12th and Lehigh. What I felt was not fair was for a church with an average income per person of 10 or 15 thousand, we had the same economic responsibility of a church that was bringing in a million dollars, plus had a couple million dollars in endowments.

“There was a sense in general that to give to Cookman was putting money down a dark hole.”

According to the UMC, divestment from inner cities is something the mainline church is trying to avoid. “I fully understand the criticism because of how it appears, but it really is an appearance,” says Yvette Davis, director of the Office of Urban and Global Ministries for the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference. “We’re doing everything that we can to remain in the city, build up our ministries and enhance existing relationships so we can all work together to keep the city strong.”

Davis says that Cookman was under discussions for various strategies to continue its service, but the problems just became overwhelming. “That building is a very, very old, old building. It’s been a monster to try to maintain over the years,” she says. “They plugged on as long as they could.

“A lot of our urban churches are grossly understaffed, while doing the best that they can to minister to the issues and concerns in their local communities. Then they’re trying to maintain buildings that are 100, 150, 200 years old with congregations that have just gotten smaller and smaller over the years.”

The Rev. Charles McNeil, executive director of church partnership at Palmer Seminary, part of Eastern University, did a study on traditional African-American churches in South Philly and found more

bad news. In the 19146 ZIP code, encompassing parts of Grays Ferry and Point Breeze, McNeil found 22 churches open 15 years ago, each over 70 years old, many of them in use for over a century. Of the 22, 18 are still operating, but only three are in good physical shape and project a strong future. The rest are in need of extensive repair, with no obvious source of revenue.

“Those churches perhaps may not exist in a few years,” McNeil says. “If they survive another five years I’d be surprised.”

The city is paying attention, says the Rev. Malcolm Byrd, interim director for the Mayor’s Office of Faith Based Initiatives.

“We are aware of a growing number of religious structures in need of repair, and are of such magnitude that diminishing congregations are not able to sustain it,” he

community asset is going to be overwhelming in some cases,” Forrest says.

Though the group doesn’t have a firm set of numbers of churches in danger, the picture looks grim. “I would say that there are hundreds of congregations like that in Philadelphia,” Forrest says. “I think that we’re really at a point where we’ll see dozens and dozens if not more closures … over the next couple years.”

Beyond the loss of a historic building and religious community, churches often provide many other benefits to the neighborhood. “It’s a double blow to a community when congregations close,” Forrest says.

“They are there for after-school programs, soup kitchens, concerts, GED classes. A whole range of things.” Partners last month released a study of the “halo effect” that churches have on local economies, finding

“I think that we’re really at a point where we’ll see dozens and dozens, if not more, [church] closures … over the next couple years.” —Tuomi Forrest, Partners for Sacred Places says. “There is awareness and also some concern about how to strategically revitalize those organizations.”

“I think this is a relatively new reality for Philadelphia,” Byrd continues. Last month the city hosted representatives from the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships to explore opportunities for collaboration.

Scrambling to help save churches like Cookman before it’s too late is nonprofit Partners for Sacred Places. In the group’s 10th-floor Sansom Street office, Associate Director Tuomi Forrest says Cookman’s story is representative of what’s happening not only in Philly, but in many cities around the country. “The struggle of trying to balance their community service and also figure out new ways to manage the building, and find resources to use it as a

that the dollar value of services provided can run into the millions.

Indeed, the churches’ role in the greater community may be the key to their salvation, as Partners helps ministries reach out to other tenants who can make use of building space and help pay for upkeep. The Calvary Methodist on Baltimore Avenue in West Philly is considered a model, hosting five different congregations, a dozen community groups and a theater collective.

Whether churches, especially those in the very poorest parts of the city, can find enough allies in the community before it’s too late remains to be seen. “We’ve seen a lot of success stories but it’s hard,” says Forrest. “It’s a long road. There’s no overnight cure for this.”

The Shiloh Baptist Church in South Philly is yet another place of worship facing

the dilemma—a dwindling congregation of limited means, combined with sky-high utility and maintenance costs. Between 50 and 75 worshipers come in for Sunday service at the immense building on Christian Street, part Gothic revival-style, part brick annex.

Utilities can run $4,000 a month in the annex alone. Members no longer use the sanctuary for winter services because it costs another $4,000 to heat, so instead they have moved into the social room in the annex. Five roofs have been replaced in recent years and the electrical system has been redone, but there’s more work to do.

The Rev. Edward Sparkman has been the church’s pastor for 13 years. With a snowwhite beard but hair still mostly dark, Sparkman leans back in a chair in his office and explains that he’s held more than 120 funerals during his tenure for longstanding church members, among them many of the biggest donors.

Trying to stay ahead of the dwindling resource base before it reaches a crisis point, Shiloh is seeking to rent out unused space and bring in some much-needed cash.

“We want to let community groups hold meetings here,” Sparkman says. “We have so much space.” The building already hosts some addiction support groups, women’s groups and ballet practice, among others.

Dressed immaculately in a white-striped shirt and red tie, Sparkman is happy to lead a tour of the facilities. Looking for good places to rent, church officials went into areas that had barely been touched for decades, revealing century-old locker rooms on the third floor with original gas lighting fixtures and slate shower dividers.

An eerie yellow light fills the second-floor gymnasium, its floor covered in tarps, buckets and an old kiddie pool to catch the leaks from the roof. Seemingly endless rooms filled with tables and chairs wait around every corner, just begging to be used. “We’re really looking for groups that benefit the community,” Sparkman says.

The halo effect study found Shiloh was already worth a theoretical $1.6 million to the surrounding neighborhood.

“I like to take the vision that it’s one hand helping the other,” the reverend says.

“They’re helping us, we’re providing them a space to help the community.”

While Shiloh looks to secure its future, the neighbors who lost their church at Cookman are left to wonder what comes next. “It’s a traumatic experience,” says Arttaway. “You have a feeling of being lost.”

Pryor has already found a new nearby church to attend, but Arttaway and Graham still refer to themselves as homeless. “Me and Miss Arttaway say that when this weather breaks we’ll go float, just visit different churches,” Graham says.

“You find a home that you can fit into,” Arttaway says. “And a home that’s not so far away.”

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s it really five years since the Arctic Monkeys emerged, breathlessly hyped as the newfound saviors of indie-pop? No longer the British music press’ pet wunderkinder, or, for that matter, the spotty poet laureates of adolescent antics in suburban Britain, they’ve become older (obviously), considerably more hirsute, and hugely successful, regularly filling arenas and stadiums back home and hanging out with the likes of James Ford and Josh Homme.

Which is all well and good, but let’s face it, their last album—the distinctly underwhelming Humbug—was, well, pretty turgid. Still, they’re promising a glorious overdose of big, dumb pop hooks and guitar heroics with their forthcoming new album, Suck it and See, and that can only be a good thing.

They remain a band of not inconsiderable wit and panache, and live they’re one of the tightest acts around. Put on your dancing shoes indeed ... NEIL FERGUSON Wed., May 18, 8pm. $25. With the Vaccines.

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The A.W.A.R.D Show!

The best dancers in Philly are competing live this week for a prize totalling $12,000. After being selected by a national panel of dance experts, 12 of the most talented local choreographers will go head to head (or toe to toe) over three consecutive nights. The diverse group of experienced dancers includes Brian Sanders, founder of JUNK (a local dance troupe known best for their off-the-wall choreography incorporating found objects) and Raphael Xavier, an award-winning breakdancer from Delaware who has performed around the world. Four works will be presented each night then discussed and voted on by the audience. On the final night, a panel of local dance experts, including Inquirer dance critic Lisa Kraus and Pennsylvania Ballet resident choreographer Matthew Neenan, will name the top three. NICOLE FINKBINER 7pm. $15. Through May 21. The Arts Bank, 601 S. Broad St. 215.545.0590. danceaffiliates.org

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Now that Super Furry Animals are on extended hiatus, it’s likely that frontman Gruff Rhys won’t bring his red Power Rangers helmet, furry animal costumes, and the band’s other visual hijinks to the stage this evening. It’ll be tough for him to leave the group’s whimsical, addictive psych-pop behind, however—it’s embedded in Rhys’ DNA, and on his tremendous new solo LP, Hotel Shampoo. Lively and celebratory in spots (like the mariachi-horn-dappled single “Sensations in the Dark”), sweetly nostalgic in others, the album blends SFA-style melodic eccentricities with whiffs of Burt Bacharach, Love and the Zombies. It should make for an odd and rollicking set tonight, preceded by the nearly as weird Welsh instrumental surf-rock outfit Y Niwl. MIChAEL ALAN GOLDBERG 9pm. $12. With Y Niwl. Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave. 215.739.9684. johnnybrendas.com

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Perhaps Sandy Bull got too far ahead of his audience. Branded a folkie, the multi-instrumentalist opened his 1963 debut on Vanguard with a side-long piece featuring his raga-like guitar and the soulful drumming of free-jazz stalwart Billy Higgins. He studied oud with Hamza El Din long before George Harrison picked up a sitar, and in concert he accompanied himself

to pre-recorded tracks, which he employed because he was dissatisfied with most rhythm guitarists. Dylan even invited him to join the Rolling Thunder Revue. Bull’s output later slowed to a trickle and he receded from public view, mostly because record labels couldn’t pigeonhole him. The nomadic musician finally succumbed to cancer in 2001. Fortunately for music lovers, K.C. Bull has made a heartfelt documentary about her father, which she’ll screen this week in Philly. Brooke Sietensons of Espers, a fan, helped organize the event; local guitarist Willie Lane will pay his respects.

Here’s hoping their combined efforts bring Bull’s music a wider audience. RAYMOND SIMON 7pm. $5. Brickbat Books, 709 S. Fourth St. 215.592.1207. brickbatbooks.blogspot.com.

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owed mother and teenaged daughter who are in love with the same beau, a very Maury-esque situation. The cast runs the generational gamut of black pop culture starring America’s favorite housewife Nene Leakes, VH1 reality personality Joe ‘Tiny’ Barrino from Fantasia For Real, New Jack City actor and crooner Christopher Williams, modeling vet and heartthrob Tyson Beckford along with R&B songsters Angie Stone, Kenny Lattimore and the legendary Lenny Williams. You’re sure to laugh, possibly cry and leave uplifted. RYAN K. SMITh 8pm. Through May 22. $39-$58. Merriam Theatre, 250 S. Broad St. 215.732.5446. kimmelcenter.org/events

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Black Anvil Upper Darby Greek Festival In case any of you weren’t aware of the superiority of Greek women, music and food, educate yourself in Upper Darby during this four-day festival. Saint Demetrios, a Greek Orthodox church that spares no expense in the name of gilt and glittering trappings, will host a festival celebrating Greek culture—meaning food and drink, of course. Traditional dance performances start at 6:30 p.m, entertaining you as you feast on mousaka, lamb kokinisto, gyro, souvlaki and Greek beer and wine. The church will host free tours, and you can try your luck in their raffle, all in the name of preserving this rare gem in the sea of our city’s many diasporas. (You know, the word “diaspora” comes from the Greek). The Greek isles seem far, far away from the industrial hubbub of Philly, but in Upper Darby this weekend, if you squint hard enough, you’ll almost feel like you’re there. ADA KULESZA 11am. Free. Through May 22. Saint Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church, 229 Powell Lane, Upper Darby. 610.941.4222. saint-demetrios.org

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Loving Him is Killing Me Starting in the latter 1890s with Will Marion Cook’s The Origin of the Cakewalk and Bob Cole’s A Trip To Coontown and coming into prominence with Gershwin’s Porgy & Bess and Hammerstein’s Carmen, the black stage play flourished into a rich tradition of exhilarating performances and plot lines that entertain the entire family. While most of the plays that hit the stage today sound like self-help seminars with titles similar to “Lord, Why Can’t I Find A Man,” the tradition is still strong. Critically acclaimed playwright Theo London looks to add to it with his latest offering, Loving Him Is Killing Me. The play displays the drama of a wid-

Following an opening gig in February with stoner-sludge overlords Eyehategod, New York City’s Black Anvil return to Philly to headline a triple bill with local metal-fiends the Claw and Coffin Dust. Triumvirate, their 2010 sophomore release on PA’s Relapse Records, thrashes with savage speed-riffs, fierce beats and demonic growls, but the fuming trio—all former members of hardcore heroes Kill Your Idols— will do more than just shred you and leave your corpse for the vultures to gnaw. With frequent transitions between rhino-charging fury and more melodic, sweet leaf-scented grooves, Black Anvil pause to whisper in your ear and run their ogre-fingers through your mane while hacking you into bite-sized bits. ELLIOTT ShARp 7pm. $10. With The Claw and Coffin Dust.

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Northeast Beer Fest Though the man discovered electricity and invented bifocals, “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy,” may be the wisest proverb our forefather, Benjamin Franklin, ever told. Centuries later, our city continues to celebrate the nectar of the gods, and you can take part in some “idol worship” this weekend at the 1st annual Greater Northeast Philadelphia Beer Festival. This rain-or-shine outdoor event will feature craft brews from far and wide to sample, taste and certainly come back for more. Local up-and-coming band On Display with play along with other acts as beer lovers shop for homemade brewing kits and Santiago Cigar Factory’s hand-rolled cigars. Attendees receive an official Greater Northeast tasting class and can vote on a wide range of local and national brews. Plus, you can compete in the “mystery brew” contest to challenge your beersnob knowledge. No better way to kick off the summer than spending the day in the sun with a tall, frosty glass of beer. LAUREN GORDON 1-5pm. $26-$30. Cannstatter Volkfest Verein, 9130 Academy Rd. 215.332.0121. nephillybeerfest.com

“Imagine smokin’ weed in the streets without cops harassin’.” This utopian imagery set forth

by Nas is shared by more than 800,000 bustees nationwide and PhillyNORML. They’ve made strides in the legalization of the tree by influencing the Small Amount of Marijuana court program where those knocked with a small amount of bud face fines and classes instead of jail time. In its journey to bring this dream to fruition, they will be hosting the Philadelphia leg of the Global Cannabis Peach March, where pot reformers will take to the streets in 300 cities nationwide to make their cries for marijuana legalization heard.

Get your costumes, floats, signs and any other creative materials (there will be a sign-making meeting 7:30 pm on May 19 at A-Space, 4722 Baltimore Ave.) together and make some noise in the name of hemp legalization. The march will begin at Broad & South and end at Headhouse Square. At 7:30 p.m., make your way over to the TLA for the Philadelphia Freedom Festival to hear an eclectic mix of acts ranging from electronica to reggae to rock to jazz. The bands include the Synth Sircus, Psychadelphia, I Yahn I Arkestra, the Primate Fiasco and Before the Accident Happens. All proceeds go toward funding marijuana reform educational programs and the passing of the Governor Raymond Shafer Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act. If you’re down for responsible blazing, come out for this peaceful day of reform and awareness. RyAn K. SMITH March: 5pm. Free. Broad and South sts.

Concert: 7:30pm. $15-$20. TLA, 334 South St. 215.922.1011. livenation.com.

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The Cars Admit it: You know every word to every Cars song ever written. Fronted by Ric Ocasek, the Boston band put out their first record in 1976, and it’s practically a Greatest Hits album: “Good Times Roll,” “My Best Friend’s Girl,” “Just What I Needed,” “You’re All I’ve Got Tonight,” and “Bye Bye Love” all appeared on their eponymous debut. Founding members Ocasek, Elliot Easton, Greg Hawkes and David Robinson (bassist Benjamin Orr died of cancer in 2000) are reuniting for the first time since 1988 to tour in support of their new album, Move Like This. It’s unlistenable, but goddamn those early tunes are great. E.S. 8pm. $60.45. Electric Factory, 421 N. Seventh St. 215.627.1332. electricfactory.info

Lecture

What Is A Record Label in 2011?

Most people know that a modern record label is not a ticket to stardom or riches or even necessarily national distribution anymore. “The music biz playing field has been leveled,” says attorney and badass industry expert Marcy Rauer Wagman. “Artists are learning to live without the label as the labels lose their powerful grip on the music industry.” So what’s the point? Wagman’s moderating a discussion centered on answering the question many local musicians have been asking themselves. The roundtable of industry veterans and local luminaries debating the issues include: WXPN’s Program Director Bruce Warren, Marc Allen (Red Light Management), Jim Walsh of Big Hassle Publicity, producer Phil Nicolo, Kristin Thomson of the Future of Music Coalition, Eli Wolf of Blue Note Records and label-crash survivor and musician Res. Philly pop trivia: Wagman, former teen pop sensation, wrote the KYW Newsradio jingle. TARA MURTHA 2pm. $5-$10. World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St. 215.222.1400. worldcafelive.com

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he Trenton Avenue Arts Festival begins today, and with that rolls in the Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby, a mobile design competition and mini-parade showcasing the finest in human-powered vehicles and fancy-pants floats. The thinking man’s Mummer’s, if you will.

Builders, mechanics and art kids alike will display contraptions made from garbage, lawn mowers, construction materials, whatever they can get their hands on, give it a theme (Amish Zombies, for instance) and complete a course designed for optimum brigading. Award categories include: Best Art, Best Costumes, Best Engineering, People’s Choice, Best Breakdown and a special secret judge award. The Philadelphia Brewing Company will be on hand to provide some tasty brews, along with all the art and food vendors you can handle. Plus, two stages pumping with local music to send you into complete sensory overload. ABIGAIL BRULEY

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For our money, the best of the so-called “shoegazer” bands back in the day was Swervedriver—not only were they masters of blissed-out atmospherics, they added guitar muscle and a propulsive rhythmic backbone to their tunes, and made sure there were classic pop/rock melodies you could grab onto as well. The same applies to Philly’s Ports of Call, a frequently awe-inspiring combo that finds the right balance between dreamy and aggressive, merging gossamer vocals and wobbly, heat-mirage sonics with huge riffs and sturdy songcraft.

Produced by Jeff Zeigler (of like-minded locals Arc in Round), Ports of Call’s new EP Fractals is magnetic and mesmerizing, and we imagine the band will be even more so live. M.A.G. 7:30pm, $5. With Psychic Teens + Swimmers Ear. Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St. kungfunecktie.com

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Imagine every awesome flea market, yard sale, craft fair and art bazaar you’ve ever been to under one roof and essentially, you’ve got the kick-ass shopping blowout that is the Punk Rock Flea Market. With more than 200 tables selling everything from jewelry, vintage clothing, furniture and baked goods to records, stereo equipment, skateboards and posters, the Spring Fever Edition is actually slated to be the biggest one yet. To keep things a little less chaotic this time around, the vendors will be organized into different sections. They’ve also given a special discount to those looking to sell their old punk-rock stuff like band tees, vinyls and instruments to ensure that the event keeps its punk edge.

The $3 entry donation is pretty fair considering how much stuff you’re likely to walk away with, even if you only come with $20 in your pocket. Plus, it goes toward helping R5 Productions continue to put together cheap,

10am. $3. The Punk Rock Flea Market Dome, 461 N. Ninth St. r5prductions.com

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by Citizens for a No-Kill Philadelphia, the non profit continues to spread animal love through making Philadelphia a safe place for pets.

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Maccheroncini alla chitarra con limone e pancetta at Le Virtú

Can this watering hole succeed at Broad and Locust?

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Maccheroncini alla chitarra con limone e pancetta, you’re quite the dish. How are you handling the busy season of outdoor dining?

With vino by the barrel-full, signorina! Our chef, Joe Cicala, says I’m perfect for light summer meals because I’ve got the “Right amount of richness— scantily dressed and not swimming in butter.” What do you think of that, signorina? Scantily dressed ...

Let’s get back on topic. Where in Italy are you from?

Va bene. Like the rest of the menu at Le Virtú, I’m Abruzzese, and I believe we’re the most delizioso cuisine in Italy, defined by decadent simplicity.

Can you translate your name for English speakers?

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Certo! Guitar-cut pasta with lemon and “bacon”: thin pasta made in-house with a unique tool called a chitarra that’s a rectangle with what resembles the strings of a guitar. After I’m rolled into lasagna sheets, Cicala lays me across the chitarra creating my “guitar-cut.” Then lemon juice and zest plus a tablespoon of butter melts into my pasta and at the last second, Cicala folds in thinly sliced house-cured pancetta.

Come semplice! What’s the catch?

You can easily make a mess of me. The emulsification process gets tricky—when I’m at my best, the fat in the pancetta dissolves into the pasta without separating. If it does, Cicala adds a bit of leftover pasta water (a tip any Nonna can tell you: Save the pasta water!)

As Le Virtú’s customer favorite, describe your perfect date?

As a typical Abruzzese, I prefer the lush countryside to the busy streets of Roma, so eat al fresco—the patio and garden area can be quite romantic on a warm night. Order a bottle of our Campirosa Cerasuolo, a very dry rosé, that pairs nicely with my citrusy flavor. I promise, Principessa, it will be love at first bite! n

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Le Virtú, 1927 E.Passyunk Ave. 215.271.5626. levirtu.com

Like a love connection on an online dating site, the perfect pairing of a restaurant and its neighborhood requires either the magical touch of a leprechaun or an oracle’s ability to see the future. A quick walk down East Passyunk Avenue, or along the block that’s increasingly (and deliciously) being converted into the personal culinary fiefdom of Marcie Turney and Valerie Safran, demonstrates how wide-ranging the options are even in short physical distances. Also how the restaurateurs responsible for these gauntlets of gluttony saw an opening and filled it with what even the people who lived there didn’t necessarily know they needed.

I bring this up because the conversion of Upstares at Varalli to Perch Pub is a curious one. On a stretch of Broad Street whose most successful restaurants are more glamorous and chef-driven (10 Arts at the Ritz, XIX at the Bellevue), a spot like Perch seems risky. Its predecessor, on first blush, seemed better suited to the ’hood.

Still, great food and service rise above any issues of geographical curiosity, and I was hoping Perch Pub would do so.

In all fairness—and stripped of any sort of critical artifice— Perch isn’t bad. And for the city’s ever-growing legion of devotees of the suds, its selection of more than 100 bottles Flex those mussels: Perch perfects these plump, garlicky mollusks. and a dozen rotating taps, all from within 151 miles of the city, is another jewel in our collective cap.

Soft shell crab, a seasonal special served here as a sandNo, the problem is that the bar for bar food has been raised wich, showed the kitchen’s acuity with the deep-fryer, the in this city, and even at watering holes that would never batter lacy and tempura-like, a nice juxtaposition against dream of advertising themselves as “gastropubs,” the food the soft cushion of the bun. has become a collective point of pride. I couldn’t help but Snacks also worked well. Deviled eggs were damn good: think about this around the third bite of my Franklin burger, Whipping Sriracha into the yolk and dusting it with sesame an overcooked, underseasoned and surprisingly inelegant construct that wasn’t helped any by the too-sweet bacon jam seeds is a great move. Malanga sticks were addictive when dragged through a tart garlic aioli. Onion rings made up for spread on top. Like over-oaked wine or the hyper-produced being half a step too greasy with the meaty exuberance of music of Milli Vanilli, this was a case of the accouterments their white-onion hearts. being used to cover up an essenI’m rooting for Perch Pub. But tially hollow main ingredient: I also worry for it. In a city with Mushy, generic-tasting ground PERCH PUB plenty of great beer programs, and beef. casual spaces that wrap you up Unfortunately, that wasn’t the 1345 Locust St. 215.546.4090. in either the homey warmth of a only defeat I faced at the Perch. perchpub.com beloved neighborhood destination Pig Latin tacos, with their or a brilliantly conceived room meaty pork-belly-like richness Cuisine type: Pubby. that approximates just that, there’s amped up by achiote and cut Hours: Mon.-Fri., 11:30am-2am; something sort of cold here. The by a vivid tomatillo salsa, were Sat.-Sun., 4pm-2am. brick walls are lovely, the wood so salty they proved difficult to Price range: $1.50-$17.50 floors appropriately urban, and the get more than halfway through. views down Broad Street stunThe fruitiness of a gorgeous Atmosphere: Cold-ish space is compensated ning. But that ineffable quality of draft of New Holland Golden by the views. warmth seems to be missing. I like Cap Saison went some way Food: Decent, but could be better.

Perch, but want to like it more. toward attenuating the salinity, Service: Appropriately helpful; pleasant.

For all its vaunted neighbors— but not quite enough. the Kimmel Center and the Garlic mussels, plump and Bellevue nearby, the Ritz a few perfectly jiggly in their shells, blocks away—the corner of Broad and were one of the highlights, an Locust remains a tricky location for a restaurant. It’s right instance of excellent execution and a brave willingness to in the heart of where tourists and concert-goers are likely eschew the tendency that too many places still fall victim to find themselves wandering around for a meal, but in to: Trying to out-Monk Monk’s and lard down the classic terms of neighborhood identity, it’s still searching. As such, with unnecessary crap in the steaming-and-dunking liquid. a restaurant has to provide some unique experience that No, this was simple, elegant—butter, white wine, herbs and generous sweet cloves of roasty garlic grown alternately dark warrants a visit, and then a repeat one. The beer at Perch certainly does that; I’m still holding out hope for the rest. n brown and opalescent.

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The days of our lives: Gustin (Harry Philiboisan, right) looks at his younger self (David Raphaely).

For those of you between the ages of 28 to 30, prepare to die. Or at least begin another “life cycle.”

Noah Haidle’s inspiration for the bittersweet drama Saturn Returns—Theatre Exile’s season closer—is the astrological

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20 N. American St. 215.218.4022. theatreexile.org curiosity known as “A Saturn Return,” which refers to the moment when the planet returns to the precise place in the cosmos that it occupied the day you were born. The phenomenon occurs every 28 to 30 years, and some believe that it instigates a disruption in the person’s life cycle. So, if you believe in such things, the 28-to-30 age range represents a time of endings and beginnings as your first life cycle concludes and another begins.

In Haidle’s elegantly structured play, we meet a man named Gustin on three days during three different periods of his life, beginning when he is an elderly man of 88 (Harry Philibosian). Gustin is in marvelous health, and it is for companionship alone that he employs a daily health-care worker named Suzanne (Amanda Schoonover) to keep him company. Through their conversations we learn about Gustin’s troubled past,

which includes the death of his daughter Zephyr (Schoonover, who also plays Gustin’s wife Loretta), who tragically drowned while vacationing in Mexico years ago.

The next time we meet Gustin he is a 58 year old man (played by Joe Canuso, Theatre Exile’s artistic director). He is widowed, and Zephyr (who is leaving the next day for that fateful trip to Mexico) is harassing him to go out on a date. “What do I need other people for?” Gustin asks. Still aching from the death of his wife decades earlier, he is unwilling to risk another romantic entanglement. Besides, he thinks, he’ll always have Zephyr for company.

When we finally meet the 28 year-old Gustin (David Raphaely), the year is 1951.

He is young, good-looking, married and life appears filled with promise. Later that night, Zephyr will be conceived. But unbeknownst to Gustin, the birth of his daughter will come at a tremendous cost. In this strange and compelling play, happiness is short-lived and no sorrow is ever forgotten.

The plot, at times, feels contrived; Haidle often withholds information for no other reason than to keep us interested. But Brenna Geffers directs with a deft hand and her production strikes the proper tone of melancholy. The play is also cast well.

Because three actors portray one character at different stages of life, it is paramount that they bear some physical resemblance.

Canuso, Philibosian and Raphaely aren’t carbon copies of each other physically, but they are so adept at mimicking each other’s gestures, vocal patterns and inflections that when they stand side by side, the “family” resemblance is eerie. All give strong performances, but Philibosian, now 76, is in a league of his own.

Ultimately, it’s not the events in Gustin’s life that make Saturn linger in our memory.

It’s the play’s ability to capture the pain associated with loss and the sense of despair that loneliness brings. “No matter how much you cry there is no end to the tears,” the elder Gustin tells Suzanne, and it is clear he remains haunted by ancient regrets and thoughts of what might have been. Yet the play is not unbearably sad. The finest scene in the production is a tender moment when Gustin (who is a doctor) stitches a bad cut on Suzanne’s hand with his home sewing kit.

She hugs him—and it becomes clear that he hasn’t been hugged in years (Philibosian is a master at playing the quiet, unassuming moments). The play is a reminder that as long as we have one person to live for, life—despite its pain and hardships—remains worth living. n

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What little motion there is has been frozen into a neverending stuttering. If you approach the wall, your shadow gets projected on the video and you become a giant black hole in the crowd, a piece of the puzzle that doesn’t fit.

You are alone in their crowd.

Julien Bismuth’s and Lucas Ajemian’s work features side-by-side video monitors that show them talking during their collaboration, often like a couple on the verge of divorce. The pair makes videos (as part of the show they’ve made bright Prince of pop: The Institute of Contemporary Art is paying tribute to Andy green metal sculptures that Warhol (second to right). echo foam-core sculptures in the videos), they write (you Collaboration is a road paved with landcan take a free selection of their newsprint mines, and the way to avoid those is to stay zines from the downstairs lobby), and focused on the goal. Luckily for the artists they seem obsessed with alphabet letters involved in the Institute of Contemporary and symbols. The art seems argumentaArt’s “One is the Loneliest Number,” they tive without reason, but the zines contain have their eye on the prize. a lot of good writing and are much more The exhibit features five collaborative personable. teams, each comprised of two emerging The companion totems of clay and wood artists who’ve been working together for

by Nicole Cherubini and Taylor Davis are four, six, even 10 years. Some of the work a palette cleanser in this show. The way feels like the call and response of two indithe materials are put down—a glob of clay vidual voices, while other works sing with here; a stick of wood there—makes the one voice. The show is haunting, as several pieces likeable, albeit not as memorable. pieces focus on isolation or miscommuLess likeable is Nick Mauss’ and Ken nication, shedding light on the solitary Okiishi’s “One Season in Hell,” an update nature of the human condition. of the 1873 Arthur Rimbaud poem A Season in Hell. The framed book pages are displayed on the wall but it’s far too much One is the Loneliest Number to read or even look at in a gallery. PerThrough Aug. 7. Institute of haps a little desk and the book itself to flip Contemporary Art, 118 S. 36th St. through would have been more in keeping 215.898.7108/5911. icaphila.org with the intimacy of the piece. Framed pages are not engaging and make the book Local artists Matt Suib and Nadia more precious than it maybe is.

Hironaka portray loneliness in a crowded The opposite of precious, Megawords setting in a piece that’s both political and collaborators Dan Murphy’s and Tony poignant. “Provisional Monument for the Smyrski’s raucous installation on the mezNew Revolution” is a large, multi-channel zanine has a jumble of photos, adolescentvideo projection with sound that wraps boy memorabilia and a handmade display around two walls and envelops you in a desk and chair. The installation is upbeat, black-and-white, barely moving image energetic and affirmative about life lived, of protesters in an urban square in some times experienced and collective memory.

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Six Pack Six Films With Hobo Protagonists

By Matt Prigge mprigge@philadelphiaweekly.com Kids Auto Races at Venice (1914): Class

is a subject most movies masterfully dodge, which is a touch weird given that one of history’s most iconic movie characters is a penniless bum. Newly hired by comedy producer Mark Sennett, Charles Chaplin used his second film appearance to try out his latest creation: a dirty vagabond soon known as The Tramp. In his debut, the character is a mere nuisance, repeatedly getting in the way of an auto relay. (Chaplin improvised his antics in front of a real crowd.) He didn’t remain an annoyance for long.

Wild Boys of the Road (1933): The notoriously censorious Production Code would have cockblocked William A. Wellman’s ornery look at Depression era life among a group of teens who become train-hopping transients. But despite being founded in 1929, it wasn’t strictly enforced till 1934, meaning impoverished audiences got to see Hollywood actually speak truth before being muzzled.

My Man Godfrey (1936): Depression-era

audiences were by and large fed a diet of fizzy fantasies about the rich and fabulous. Gregory La Cava’s screwball thus operates as savage satire: The protagonist is a derelict (William Powell) enlisted by an airheaded heiress (Carole Lombard) to serve as butler to her household, who are even battier than her. What follows is a prime example on how to slip subversive content (in this case, Marxism) past cultural gatekeepers.

Emperor of the North Pole (1973): The

Vagabond (1985): We tend to prefer our poor people funny and embraceable. Agnes Varda’s drama takes the opposite approach, considering the misery that befalls a toughminded homeless girl (Sandrine Bonnaire), whose life has to be told in flashback, being that she’s found dead in the opening minutes.

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been studded with Z-grade nonsense just like this, so that his casting amounts to a monumental in-joke. Much like the movie.

The Drake’s nasty sons wear Ray-Bans and dated Run DMC hip-hop gear, running amok while raping and pillaging with impunity. It’s a vile town that looks more like an apocalyptic wasteland, with citizens freely murdering homeless people in a sociopolitical sideline that director Eisener doesn’t seem to have much interest in following up.

As the local hooligans stick folks’ heads inside manholes and slutty women bathe in arterial spray from the bloodshed, we’re all just waiting for this hobo to finally get his shotgun and exact some ugly vengeance.

Token signifiers abound. The charming Molly Dunsworth grants the picture far more emotion that it deserves, as a whore with a heart of gold who comes to our hero’s rescue. Like everybody else in Hobo With A Shotgun, she’s playing a tongue-in-cheek concept instead of a character, but at least she’s trying.

Hauer has a handful of insane monologues that feel weirdly improvised. His character seems to be strangely Adrifter: Rutger Hauer has a gun and he's not afraid to use it. fixated on grizzly bears for reasons that right now escape me. Credit where it’s due, the actor completely commits to Stretched out to feature-length from a fake trailer that the role, delivering a full-bore Method performance in the originally won a contest associated with Quentin Taranmidst of all this nonsense. tino’s ill-fated Grindhouse, director Jason Eisener’s Hobo Eventually, some tricked-out henchmen called “The With A Shotgun delivers exactly what it promises. A hobo Plague” arrive in medieval armor, suggesting a mash-up has a shotgun. You get what you paid for with a picture of The Road Warrior and Pulp Fiction’s gimp. Accordlike this. The question is whether it was worth paying for ing to the film’s cockeyed mythology, they’re legendary at all. enough to inspire a standup, retro-arcade video game, I’m on record as worrying about Tarantino’s fetishizaand rumor has it these characters are getting their own tion of crap. Sure, what made him such a remarkable spinoff. figure in the 1990s was the way he melded a love of postIt’s all very nasty, gonzo and gross, doing an excellent modern French New Wave aesthetics with a hankering job of replicating that trashy, long-gone aesthetic of somefor old-school exploitation pictures. thing you might have rented on a Tarantino made it cool to enjoy whim 20 years ago back when video garbage movies. But I’m starting stores still existed. My question Hobo with a Shotgun to wonder if this legacy might be remains, as it did during Tarantino’s Grade: D slightly toxic.

Grindhouse project. What’s the Hobo With A Shotgun is gross, point?

Director: Jason Eisener ugly and completely depraved.

Why go to all this trouble, mimStarring: Rutger Hauer, Pasha Rutger Hauer stars as the title icking lousy, long-forgotten movEbrahimi and Robb Wells character, who dearly wants enough ies from a bygone era? The cheesy Run time: 86 minutes money to buy a lawnmower and retro-synthesizer score is a flawless start a landscaping business. Inthrowback to the VHS age, and the stead he finds himself stranded in loud, egregious overacting by most an amoral town owned by sicko thugs. of the villains is note-perfect, for this A crime boss calling himself “The Drake” runs roughshod sort of thing. over any sense of common decency, with corrupt cops Yet I still wonder why I should care? Robert Rodriguez’s owning the neighborhoods and his two dimwit sons comMachete already proved that perhaps these fake trailers mandeering streets that run red with blood. should remain fake trailers. What we giggle at in the short How long will it take Hauer’s thoughtful, philosophical form becomes wearying at feature length. Eisener is a drifter to decide that enough is enough and finally deal gifted mimic, but brings nothing to the table of his own. out some high-caliber justice? Well, the movie’s title is At his best, Tarantino infuses junk-movie tropes with kind of a spoiler on that front. a sly sensibility and post-modern intellect. Hobo With A Shot in lurid Technicolor, the picture apes the early Shotgun doesn’t bother with any of that clever stuff. It’s a 1980’s direct-to-video Troma Films aesthetic so flawlessly, proudly trashy exploitation picture that has no reason for I assumed I was watching a period piece. Hauer is a fine being. I’m sorry, but I rented enough of this shit when I actor, rather brilliant in Blade Runner, but his career has was in elementary school. I don’t get the nostalgia. n

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“Can’t we have more beaver impact in the beginning?”

Jodie Foster giggles, quoting a studio executive’s note.

Even smaller in person than you might expect, she smiles with her entire face, and wastes no time charming a room full of jaded freelancers with candid, articulate answers and a larger-than-life personality that belies her tiny stature. The famously private Foster is subjecting herself to interviews only to promote The Beaver, her third directorial effort and a long-gestating dream project she’s called the biggest challenge of her professional career. And all that was before her star Mel Gibson flamed out in an ugly, tabloid frenzy shortly after this long-delayed picture was finally finished.

But for now we’re just talking about the title, which brings a mischievous glint to her eyes.

“I think it’s fantastic how irreverent it is, that people kind of wince—it’s almost painful for them to say. I love that! When I first started doing the movie everybody asked, ‘You’re going to change the title, right?’

Absolutely not!”

Double entendres aside, the film is a surprisingly serious exploration of mental illness, despite the fact that a depressed Gibson spends most of it talking in a Cockney accent through a hand puppet as a bizarre form of therapy. Originally set up for director Jay Roach and star Steve Carell until they decided to make Dinner For Schmucks instead, Foster steered the project into much trickier, more confounding direction, based on her own experiences.

“Everyday life gets heavier and heavier as it goes on,” Foster explains. “There’s a lot of tragedy mixed in with the comedy of our lives, and many of us—myself included—go through these moments of spiritual crisis, when we feel alone. Terribly alone. But there’s an interesting phenomenon with artists—and it might be a cliche—we are often obsessive ruminators. The

process of ruminating is beautiful. It’s also incredibly painful. But it’s the one thing that allows you to evolve through this kind of spiritual crisis. People who just go to the beach don’t evolve through those experiences. It’s important. It has a function. Depression has a function. In a weird way I feel lucky that I have the ability to find that in myself.”

Foster co-stars as Gibson’s long suffering wife, a double-duty decision that did not come easily. “After Little Man Tate I said, ‘Boy, I’m never doing this again.’ It’s definitely not something that I think is a wise idea for most people. But I feel like Mel and I know each other so well, and there’s such a real compassion between the two of us, I knew you would believe that we were married onscreen.

“Mel has been doing this for 40 years, I’ve been doing it for 45. His personality is the same as mine ... He’s a two-take guy, and he doesn’t really want to discuss it. He comes in having already done the work he has to do before he ever steps on set. He’s genial and fun, and able to walk in and out of character very quickly, so there’s none of that weird stuff.”

Wait, no weird stuff?

“There’s nothing I can say about Mel’s struggles.”

(Nobody in the room dared ask a follow-up question.)

As for Foster’s four-decade on-screen career, she has mixed feelings. What else might have been?

“I think about it all the time. I’ve been thinking about it my entire life. Who would I be if I didn’t do this? If you’ve ever read books on child prodigies, it’s a question they all ask themselves. If people didn’t applaud what I did, would I be anybody? That’s many years in therapy for me on that one.

“But it was all about the adventures, the traveling and going to crazy places, living in different countries, and being asked to function emotionally as an adult person at a very young age. On the TV show Paper Moon, I was in Kansas for three months during tornado season. I learned how to drive for the first time on that set in a Model A! The places that this life takes you to and the experiences that I’ve had, that’s what I bring with me.”

The only thing that’s certain is that she would not like to be starting out in this current TMZ paparazzi climate.

“It was different when I was growing up. There was a different philosophy about the separation between news and celebrity. News was not entertainment. If I was 17 now, I don’t think I would be an actor. I don’t think it’s a life, anymore. I think we’re seeing the aftermath of that now in a lot of empty young people. “ And as for what she is trying to say with The Beaver?

“Despite the rollercoaster, and the unfairness of everything and the heaviness of life—you don’t have to be alone. The impact that pain has on people sets them apart and puts them alone. There’s no pill to fix it, and you’re probably not going to be OK. But you don’t have to be alone.” n

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It should come as no surprise that Mel Gibson has issues.

but it’s positively startling to hear from a Hollywood movie. Such good intentions, plus a stunning Gibson performance, go a long way toward damming up The Beaver’s obvious flaws.

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The late Kimani Maruge should be cute. After all, he’s the current Guinness World Record holder for the oldest person to begin primary school. But Oliver Litondo, the former news anchor who plays him in the inevitable docudrama The First Grader, doesn’t bring that across. Maruge was 80 when, upon learning that Kenya’s new independence meant free schooling for everyone, he sauntered up to the school grounds to point out that “everyone” technically meant crotchedy geriatrics, too. And with Rudy-like resilience he was able to convince the powers-that-be to let him sit in a one-room shack filled with adorable moppets, learning how to hold pencils and, more importantly, how to read.

So far, so heart-warming. But Maruge bears in his soul and on his body the ugly past of modern Kenya. A survivor of British rule, he served with the Mau Maus, meaning he laid the groundwork for the independence that belatedly flourished. But that also means he served time and lost his family. As played by Litondo, his soft-spoken demeanor just barely masks seething anger and deep trauma.

His performance is one of a man forever on the verge of explosion, a feeling that manifests itself but briefly when he begins punishing kids with a thwack from his walking stick. He could be capable of so much worse.

It’s a good thing The First Grader has Litondo, as otherwise it would be nothing more than a harmless weepie that grossly extends a slender tale. (Producers Sam Feuer and Richard “Not That One” Harris previously told Margue’s story in a short doc with the same name that only ran 12 minutes. Sounds about the right length.) It still basically is.

Director Justin Chadwick spends the first half-hour overdosing on overwrought flashbacks—a typically inelegant segue begins with Maruge’s introduction to a pencil sharpener—but is ultimately uninterested in dwelling too long on his dark past. Litondo’s efforts aside, his character is ultimately meant to be pacified, his life squeezed into a cookie-cutter tribute-to-the-human-spirit template and sprinkled with a couple couldn’t-resist Obama-Kenya jokes. You know, for the nuts. n

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Radiohead blares as young boys in an anonymous Middle Eastern country have their heads shaved for war in the opening minutes of Incendies. It’s a curious but conscious musical selection: Western mope employed to evoke true misery, one that Thom Yorke and the majority of his listeners will thankfully never have to experience first-hand. It also speaks to the violent West-meets-MidEast split that concerns Denis Villeneuve’s drama, semi-freely adapted from Wajdi Mouawad’s play.

Villeneuve jettisons most of the play’s monologues and some of its more extreme asides, but he retains the fragmentation. The story starts proper with Jeanne and Simon (Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin and Maxim Gaudette), Canadian twins of Arab descent, learning that their recently deceased mother Nawal (Lubna Azabal) has intended them to embark on a wild goose chase.

Turns out they have a half-brother of whom they were never aware; they must find him, as well as the father they never met. As the two learn of their profound connection to Middle East hellscapes, we witness the younger Nawal experiencing the tragedies that caused her to suppress her history, even from her children, and be born again in boring Canada.

Mouawad’s play is a slow-burn escalation of horrors that culminates in the kind of revelation that causes audience members to actually and very audibly gasp in unison. Villeneuve’s film version, unsurprisingly Oscar-nominated, adopts an appropriately chilly vibe, one that can cause you to underrate it. As the younger Nawal stumbles from harrowing encounter to even more harrowing encounter— including an intense showstopper involving Christian soldiers massacring a bus—Incendies doesn’t seem all that different from other films centered on Mid-East miserablism. In fact, it’s almost conservative in its dramatics, at least in comparison to Julian Schnabel’s periodically eccentric Miral.

But like the play, the film is designed to open up slowly, with an ending that both puts everything we’ve seen into perspective and serves a considerable sucker punch. It’s the kind of experience

that requires a walk-off afterward, allowing viewers to not only get over the shock ending but to also process a film that works better when you’re finally allowed to unravel it in your head.

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Last summer’s tabloid voicemail debacle portrayed the actor as a drunken, racist maniac, and made Gibson psychoanalyses a national pastime. In fact, it’s presumably only due to the sudden, annoying ubiquity of the even more crass and crazy Charlie Sheen that we’re finally witnessing the long-delayed release of Jodie Foster’s third directorial effort, The Beaver. A long-delayed, low-budget labor of love for the actress, the film grapples sincerely with mental illness within a patently absurd context. It doesn’t quite work, but it provides something of a cinematic exorcism for the public’s increasingly conflicted relationship with Gibson. It also gives a platform for one of his most indelible performances.

Gibson stars as Walter Black, a clinically depressed basket case who drifts through the film’s early segments in a sad-eyed haze, barely registering when he’s kicked out by his long-suffering wife (Foster) and shunned by his two sons (Anton Yelchin and Riley Thomas Stewart.)

After a comically disastrous suicide attempt, Walter discovers a beat-up beaver puppet in the garbage. Wearing it on his hand, he spontaneously concocts a radical form of therapy in which he’ll only communicate through the beaver. It’s a depressive’s dream, the chance to start everything all over again with a new, unaccountable identity. The beaver is brash, charming and likable—everything that Walter Black is not.

Running a scant 88 minutes and over-reliant on montages and a syrupy score, the movie is hesitant to let scenes play out in their entirety. It feels heavily edited and fussed over.

A shame, because Foster comes to a gutsy conclusion. What’s impressively tough-minded about The Beaver is its ardent insistence that there are no quick fixes and easy outs. Summed up rather inelegantly in a lecture to the camera by Jennifer Lawrence’s secretly grieving cheerleader: Sometimes things just aren’t going to be OK. Sometimes people you love get sick, and there’s nothing you can do about it. Sometimes they die. The only way to move forward is learning how to live with that.

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Phonte Coleman (right) and Nicolay Rook

At 32 years of age, Phonte Coleman is now looking toward the future—mostly, what the hell he’s gonna do with his life once he gets too damn old to kick it with all these young whipper-snappers.

1BA, Row, $950/mo. is a highly regarded MC. The At the moment,2BD,Coleman North Carolina-born-and-based brotha is best known as one of the members of Little Brother, the now-defunct, critically acclaimed hip-hip trio that consisted of him, rapper Big Pooh and DJ/producer 9th Wonder. And while Coleman is still known to drop a few bars on a rap track every now and again (he recently did a guest spot on a track from Bay Area Internet fave Lil B the Based God), even he realizes he may be getting, shall we say, too old for this shit.

“You have to do something that, you know, allows you to make music, but grow old in your craft,” says Coleman, on the phone from Raleigh. “And, for me, hip-hop—I just didn’t really see that happening. I don’t wanna be, you know, 5060 years old jumping around, [saying] ‘Throw your hands in the air, and wave ’em like you just don’t care.’ That shit is not in the cards for me. That just ain’t what I’m trying to do.”

Thankfully, the man can sing, which he’s been doing very well in his other project, the Foreign Exchange. Started nearly a decade ago when he and Dutch producer Nicolay Rook began working on music by sending audio files to each other online, the pair is now a full-fledged musical outfit.

Ever since Rook moved to North Carolina a few years ago, the duo have been joined at the hip, dropping three albums (including Leave It All Behind, their Grammy-nominated 2008 effort, and last year’s Authenticity) and going on tour with a full backup band.

The guys’ music can be definitely described as, for lack of a better word, grown-ass. Performing the sort of music that would go great with sipping a nice glass of wine (“White Zin-

fandel Music—that’s the next joint,” says Coleman, laughing), the duo has created a mature, progressive style of R&B music—kind of like the Alan Parsons Project with soul.

“I just think that—for me, personally—I just had to make music that is indicative to where I am now and something that I can grow with, something that will allow me to grow,” says Coleman. “I mean, hip-hop has yet to see a 60-year-old hip-hop star. Like, I don’t know if Jay-Z is still gonna be rapping when he’s 65. I don’t know if there will still be a market for that. But there’ll always be a market for, you know, a great song with a great melody. And, so, for me with Foreign Exchange, it’s just a brand that allows me to—you know, it’s like my retirement package. That’s my 401k, you know, for me and Nic. I don’t think that he, you know, wants to be 70 years old and still doing DJ gigs.”

His partner agrees that performing as the Exchange has been a great life-insurance policy. “I think that, for us, as a duo and as a company, we’ve really just been able to consolidate a lot of things—just taking control of a lot of different things that involve, you know, our music,” says Rook, 36. “And not only am I very proud of what we were able to put together, which was truly something that we built up, like, with our own blood, sweat and tears, but it really gives us a platform with a lot of possibility towards the future, in just keeping our name going, having our own unique way to release it and to directly get it in the hands of fans. And I just look forward to really keeping building on top of that foundation.”

At the moment, Coleman is working on his solo debut album, which he’s being very mum about. He will say it comes out in September and will feature production work from his Little Brother mate 9th Wonder. If this was a year ago, it would be shocking news considering 9th and Coleman weren’t on speaking terms back then. The two had a falling-out when 9th left Little Brother in 2007 to produce for other artists and start his own label. But, earlier this year, the pair kissed and made up, memorably dropping a photo of the two of them together on each other’s Twitter feeds. Now, the guys are helping each other out, with 9th producing music on Coleman’s solo album and Coleman doing guest shots for artists on 9th’s It’s a Wonderful World Music Group label.

Says Coleman, “The point we’re at now in our relationship is just kind of where I would always hope it would be, where we’re not just helping each other out as friends and as musicians, but also just helping each other out as businesses and the brands. And anything I can do to help him, I got his back and the same on my side. So, we’re both very excited just to see what the future has for both of us.”

Coleman says Rook won’t be helping out much on his solo joint (“We like to keep the Foreign Exchange brand different from everything else.”), but he won’t be taking time out from performing with his Exchange partner anytime soon.

They’re currently making more concert rounds across the country, as well as releasing an upcoming CD/DVD package of a live acoustic performance they recorded a few months back. So, even though Coleman is thinking about life when he gets old and gray, it hasn’t stopped him from working his ass off like a young kid. n Foreign Exchange perform Thurs., May 19, 8pm. $25-$40.

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venerable, go-to comedy cult hero scene stealer on A 30 Rock, Chappelle's Show, Role Models and many a Late Night with Jimmy Fallon sketch (where he also warms up the audience), Seth “The Zog” Herzog will whip you in a laugh-out-loud frenzy. The powerhouse host and producer behind one of the longest-running, most popular standup shows in New York, “Sweet,” brings his witty brand of stream-of-consciousness absurdities to Connie’s Ric Rac this week. PW caught up with the legend in the making about his daily routine, what he’d say to alien life forms if given the opportunity, and his cheesesteak obsession. Read the entire interview at philadelphiaweekly.com

then watch The View at 11. Some days I have auditions for movies, mostly aimed at the hip youth market with titles like Lucas and Leelee Never Liked Each Other. Other days I shoot talking head segments over at VH1 for a show called 40 Greatest Shows about Lists of Things You Never Cared About. I then run errands like: get a “nvr frgt” license plate for my Porsche 911 (stuff like that). At 4:30, I head up to Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to do the warm-up for the show. Although when I’m on the show, I show up at 2 for rehearsal. After that I usually do a show of some sort in basement, bar or supermarket or go to some extravagant party, like a dinner hosted by the Dalai Lama.

One or the other. Then I end the night with some karaoke at my local sake joint, where I sing Green Day’s “Good Riddance” and Go-Go’s “Vacation” until I cry myself to sleep.

Stephen Hawking was asked recently in the New York Times if he had a message for alien life forms, what would it be? If you, “The Zog,” were to send such a message into space, what would it be? “ Do you know how to get semen stains out of jeans? Asking for a friend.”

Pat’s or Geno’s?

Describe the typical day in the life of a comedian.

I plan on going to both. I’m a bit of big cheesesteak fanatic.

Last week, at a cheesesteak place in New York, a girl was insisting I go to “Ishkabibbles” [while in Philly]. Also, I know the Roots swear by Tony Luke’s and Cosmi’s. So I plan on having at least five. In a very short time. And then farting through the whole show. Not really joke, more of an accurate prediction. n

ell, I get up at 9, most often to the overwhelming feelW ing that I have to pee. I try to think of a way to deal with it without having to get out of bed, but am usually foiled. I

Seth Herzog performs Sat., May 21, 9pm. $10-$12. Connie’s Ric Rac, 1132 S. Ninth St. 215.279.7587. coreycohencomedy.com

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Kinky female here, age 26. For as long as I’ve been sexually active, I’ve been ridiculously turned on by guys with huge cocks. I love the way they look and feel in my hands and when they’re inside me. I’m not sure what to do about my current situation: I’m dating someone now who shares my same values—he’s flamingly liberal and actually enjoys RuPaul’s Drag Race—but we don’t have the greatest sexual chemistry. Some of it’s because he’s pretty vanilla, although he’s GGG, but a lot of it is that his dick is average. Sadly. Am I wrong to want a guy

You don’t say how long you’ve been dating this guy, FP. If you’ve been fucking him for a while and you still haven’t found a groove, well, it might be best to move on. Liberalism and RuPaul’s Drag Race are nice, but they’re not enough to sustain a long-term romantic relationship.

But if you’ve been dating him a short time, FP, and there’s been some noticeable improvement on the chemistry front, you might want to stick around. Sometimes the chemistry is there and obvious from the start; sometimes chemistry kicks into gear after a few weeks or months. If you dig him—and it sounds like you do—then he’s worth the investment of a little time. As for the little dick, well ... how big is his forearm?

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Knowing that she could be disqualified due to the size of her clit, which she can do nothing about, or the presence of pubic hair, which she can do something about (but might not want to), is information a woman might want before she invests a lot of emotion, time and effort in you, CMA. Or any emotion, time and effort.

But there’s literally no way to ask a woman to show you her clit or to verify either her “baldness” or willingness to go bald in advance of that crucial first date. Even women with sixinch clits who suffer from neck-down alopecia (credit: tinyurl.com/5vle95) are going to run screaming after hearing a request like that.

Don’t get me wrong, CMA: It’s a fine thing to have preferences, to be aware of them and to be able to articulate them. And most people would prefer to be with someone whose preferences roughly jibe with their attributes. But most of us would also like to think—even if it’s not true—that our personalities are so winning that our partners would love us even if, say, our clits were tiny and our pubes towering.

So what do you do? Well, CMA, since being up-front about your very particular, dealbreaking preferences would result in your never seeing another pussy again in your life, I think you keep your mouth shut. You’re just going to have to date and invest the time. And then if you discover once you get into her pants that her clit is too small or her pussy is too hairy, CMA, just make up a nice, polite, it’snot-you-it’s-me lie. It wouldn’t be fair to leave her wondering what the hell is wrong with her when in actual fact there’s something wrong with you.

with the lower half of a horse? If so, can I retrain myself to accept, and even want, an average penis?

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WEDNESDAY 5/25/11 5:00-7:00PM Avenue of the Arts 440 S. Broad St. 19146 Fr $550,000 Coldwell Banker Preferred

FRIDAY 5/20/11 12:00-5:00PM

12:00-1:00PM Rittenhouse Square 1812 Spruce St. #2R 19103 $425,000 Coldwell Banker Preferred Fishtown 2308 Sergeant St. $379,000 Coldwell Banker Preferred

12:00-2:00PM QUEEN VILLAGE 828-34 S 3rd #Unit D $299,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

Bella Vista 609 League St. 19147 $425,000 Coldwell Banker Preferred

RITTENHOUSE SQ 1731 Rodman Street $298,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

Graduate Hospital 2228 Fitzwater $600,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

GRADUATE HOSPITAL 1319 S 16th Street $289,900 Washington Square West Prudential Fox & Roach 255 S. Hutchinson St. PENNSPORT 19107 WASHINGTON 116 Alter Street SQ. WEST SATURDAY 5/21/11 $289,900 $250,000 Prudential Fox & Roach Coldwell Banker 12:00PM-2:00PM Preferred 148 Fitzgerald CENTER CITY $210,000 1100 Vine Street #1401 South Philadelphia Summit Real Estate $284,900 1133 Daly St. 19148 Prudential Fox & Roach $175,000 Coldwell Banker 12:00PM - 5:00PM CHINATOWN Preferred Avenue of the Arts 111 N 9th Street ##703 440 S. Broad St. 19146 Queen Village $279,000 Fr $550,000 Prudential Fox & Roach 726 S Marvine St Coldwell Banker $519,000 Preferred WASHINGTON SQ Plumer & Associates 1012 Spruce Street #4R $274,900 2:00PM-4:00PM Queen Village Prudential Fox & Roach 705 S Phillip St 332 Gerritt St. $613,900 $192,000 OLD CITY Plumer & Associates Summit Real Estate 50-56 N Front ##402 $269,000 Bella Vista SUNDAY 5/22/11 Prudential Fox & Roach 1022 Carpenter St $339,000 11:00PM - 2:30PM Art Museum Area Plumer & Associates RITTENHOUSE SQ 2401 Olive Street 1919 Chestnut Street $269,000 SOCIETY HILL #2209 The Willings #105(225 Prudential Fox & Roach $209,900 S. 4th St) Prudential Fox & Roach $1,875,000 UNIVERSITY CITY Prudential Fox & Roach 4742 Larchwood Avenue GRADUATE HOSPITAL $265,000 1909 Christian Prudential Fox & Roach FITLER SQUARE Street #C 2410 Spruce SOCIETY HILL TOWERS $149,900 $1,375,000 Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach 210 Locust ##24C $264,900 Prudential Fox & Roach RITTENHOUSE SQ 11:30-12:30 2042 Waverly Street WASHINGTON SQ WEST PASSYUNK SQUARE $1,265,000 1002 Spruce #Unit E Prudential Fox & Roach 1518 S Clarion Street $399,000 $259,900 Prudential Fox & Roach RITTENHOUSE SQ Prudential Fox & Roach 1922 Rittenhouse Square GRADUATE HOSPITAL LOGAN SQ $1,190,000 2200 Arch Street #913 Prudential Fox & Roach 1517 Manton Street $259,900 $394,900 Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach SOCIETY HILL The Willings #402(225 Washington Sq West S. 4th St) GRADUATE HOSPITAL 1136 Waverly #1R 2310 Pemberton Street $907,850 Prudential Fox & Roach $259,900 $375,000 Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach RITTENHOUSE SQ QUEEN VILLAGE 440 S Broad #2106 Art Museum 818 S 4th Street #B 2401 Penna Ave ##19A7 $834,900 Prudential Fox & Roach $249,000 $350,000 Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach RITTENHOUSE SQ PHILA (SOUTH) 1531 Pine, #Unit C LOGAN SQ 815 Moore Street $799,000 2200-28 Arch Street Prudential Fox & Roach $242,900 #405 Prudential Fox & Roach $369,000 SOCIETY HILL Prudential Fox & Roach The Willings #404(225 WASHINGTON SQ WEST 912 Spruce #8 S. 4th St) $229,000 GRADUATE HOSPITAL $750,000 753 S Mole Street Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach $355,000 MANAYUNK Prudential Fox & Roach OLDE CITY 300 N 3rd Street #301 184 Maiden Street $229,000 $749,500 Queen Village Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach 1008 S. 2nd Street $350,000 PASSYUNK SQUARE Prudential Fox & Roach RITTENHOUSE SQUARE 1603 S Clarion Street 416 S Carlisle Street $229,000 $695,000 RITT SQUARE Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach 2038 Latimer Street $349,900 WASH WEST Prudential Fox & Roach QUEEN VILLAGE 1014 Spruce Street #3-4 526-A Christian $225,000 $679,900 FAIRMOUNT Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach 886 N Bucknell Street $349,000 ART MUSEUM AREA RITTENHOUSE SQ Prudential Fox & Roach 1901 Walnut Street #18F 2601 Pennsylvania Avenue #1241 $650,000 RITT SQUARE Prudential Fox & Roach $224,000 Prudential Fox & Roach 1614 Naudain Street $340,000 RITTENHOUSE SQ ART MUSEUM AREA Prudential Fox & Roach 224 S 23rd Street 759 N Taylor $629,000 Prudential Fox & Roach $479,000 ART MUSEUM AREA Prudential Fox & Roach 2536 Meredith WASHINGTON SQ WEST $337,000 FITLER SQUARE Prudential Fox & Roach 314 S Iseminger 609 S Bambrey Street $629,000 $459,900 Prudential Fox & Roach FAIRMOUNT Prudential Fox & Roach 830 N Stillman Street 12:00-1:30PM $329,000 Fairmount Prudential Fox & Roach PENNSPORT 1614 North St. 19130 144 Morris Street $799,990 GRADUATE HOSPITAL $399,900 Coldwell Banker 2232 Saint Albans Prudential Fox & Roach Preferred $325,000 Fairmount Prudential Fox & Roach ITALIAN MARKET AREA 1218 Ellsworth 905 Corinthian St. 19130 $399,000 $584,900 NAVAL SQUARE Prudential Fox & Roach Coldwell Banker 2501 Christian ##401 Preferred $319,500 Queen Village Prudential Fox & Roach 529 Queen St. 19147 South Philadelphia $479,900 1009 Moyamensing Ave. BELLA VISTA $479,000 1112 Bainbridge #Unit A Coldwell Banker Preferred Coldwell Banker $314,900 Preferred Prudential Fox & Roach Art Museum 2401 Pennsylvania Ave. Graduate Hospital QUEEN VILLAGE #2B21 19130 2108 Webster St. 19146 621 “G” S American $168,500 $449,000 $299,900 Coldwell Banker Coldwell Banker Prudential Fox & Roach Preferred Preferred Avenue of the Arts 440 S. Broad St. 19146 Fr $550,000 Coldwell Banker Preferred

WASHINGTON SQ WEST 105 S 12th ##402 $599,000 Prudential Fox & Roach RITTENHOUSE SQ 1901-5 Walnut Street #2F $589,000 GRADUATE HOSPITAL 732 S 20th Street $579,000 Prudential Fox & Roach BELLA VISTA 606 S 11th Street #5 $569,900 Prudential Fox & Roach QUEEN VILLAGE 314 Monroe Street $519,900 Prudential Fox & Roach WASHINGTON SQ WEST 515 S 10th Street #G $519,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

12:00-2:30 GRADUATE HOSPITAL 2060 Pemberton Street $299,900 Prudential Fox & Roach FITLER SQUARE 2315 Waverly Street $459,000 Prudential Fox & Roach RITTENHOUSE SQ 237-47 S 18th Street #3E $425,000 Prudential Fox & Roach RITTENHOUSE SQ 1709 Rodman Street $439,900 Prudential Fox & Roach Pennsport 117 Federal Street $499,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

1:00-2:30PM

RITTENHOUSE SQ 314 S Smedley Street $599,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

ART MUSEUM AREA 827 N Bambrey Street $349,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

RITTENHOUSE SQ 1931 Spruce Street #2B $369,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

ART MUSEUM 2401 Penna Ave ##14C45 $594,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

GRADUATE HOSPITAL 2207 Kimball Street $349,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

ART MUSEUM AREA 1712 Green Street #4 $369,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

WASHINGTON SQ 1024 Spruce, #Unit A $529,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

RITT SQUARE 271 S Van Pelt Street #B $569,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

QUEEN VILLAGE 826 S 2nd Street #2R $342,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

GRADUATE HOSPITAL 709 “B” S 18th $359,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

ART MUSEUM AREA 756-58 N Bucknell $525,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

GRADUATE HOSPITAL 2023 Pemberton Street $569,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

BELLA VISTA 732 Montrose Street $339,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

Society Hill 440 Lombard St. 19147 $660,000 Coldwell Banker Preferred

ART MUSEUM 2401 Penna Ave ##16B24 $550,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

RITTENHOUSE SQ 1821 Spruce Street #2 $339,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

Old City 249 N. 2nd St. #2R 19106 $375,000 Coldwell Banker Preferred

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Brinton Estate 3224 Sydenham St. 19145 $485,000 Coldwell Banker Preferred

12:00PM -3:00PM Northern Liberties 907 N. 5th St. 19123 $408,000 Coldwell Banker Preferred

12:00PM - 4:00PM PENNSPORT 413 Greenwich Street $210,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

12:00-5:00PM Washington Square West 1111 Locust St. #10F 19107 $1,046,000 Coldwell Banker Preferred Avenue of the Arts 440 S. Broad St. 19146 Fr $550,000 Coldwell Banker Preferred

OLDE CITY 113 Bread St ##3B2 $549,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

1:30PM - 3:30PM

NORTHERN LIBERTIES 315 W George Street 1:30PM - 2:30PM $525,000 RITTENHOUSE SQ Prudential Fox & Roach 1936-38 Delancey Place $1,725,000 WASHINGTON SQ WEST Prudential Fox & Roach 718 Rodman Street $509,900 1:30PM - 3:00PM Prudential Fox & Roach SYMPHONY HOUSE 400-426 S Broad Street Bella Vista 629-31 S. 13th St. #2001 #A 19147 $1,450,000 Prudential Fox & Roach $649,900 Coldwell Banker Preferred SYMPHONY HOUSE 440 S Broad Street Graduate Hospital #2702 2155 Montrose St. 19146 $1,449,000 Prudential Fox & Roach $425,000 Coldwell Banker Preferred SOCIETY HILL 522 Delancey Street Rittenhouse Square $1,425,000 Prudential Fox & Roach 1812 Spruce St. #2F 19103 $399,900 QUEEN VILLAGE Coldwell Banker 741 S 2nd Street Preferred $1,150,000 Prudential Fox & Roach Rittenhouse Square 1812 Spruce St. #3R RITTENHOUSE SQ 224-30 W Rittenhouse 19103 Square #1206-7 $375,000 $1,149,000 Coldwell Banker Prudential Fox & Roach Preferred Washington Sq 1315 Irving St $1,095,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

ART MUSEUM AREA 2012 Brandywine Street RITTENHOUSE SQ 210 W Rittenhouse $499,000 Sq #1001 Prudential Fox & Roach $999,000 Prudential Fox & Roach RITT SQUARE 1628 Waverly RITTENHOUSE SQ $490,000 2216 Locust Street Prudential Fox & Roach $995,000 Prudential Fox & Roach BELLA VISTA 735 S 12th Street #502 SOCIETY HILL 700-12 Locust $489,000 Prudential Fox & Roach Street #A1 $995,000 Prudential Fox & Roach RITTENHOUSE SQ 111 S 15th Street ##P212 SYMPHONY HOUSE $479,900 400-26 S Broad Street Prudential Fox & Roach #2105 $949,000 ART MUSEUM Prudential Fox & Roach 2401 Penna Ave ##17B32 $479,000 FITLER SQ Prudential Fox & Roach 507 S 27th Street $919,000 Prudential Fox & Roach 12:30-2:00PM Washington Square West 302 S. Quince St. 19107 $475,000 Coldwell Banker Preferred

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GRADUATE HOSPITAL 756 S Dorrance $799,000 Prudential Fox & Roach WASHINGTON SQ WEST 1202 Saint James Street #5S $698,000 Prudential Fox & Roach SOCIETY HILL 514 Cypress Street $689,000 Prudential Fox & Roach RITT SQUARE 621 S 17th Street $649,500 Prudential Fox & Roach WASHINGTON SQ WEST 250 S Quince $649,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

2:00PM - 4:00PM ART MUSEUM AREA 1911 Green #3 $329,900 Prudential Fox & Roach Passyunk Square 1214 Dickinson Street $319,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

3:00-4:00PM Graduate Hospital 1912 Kimball St. 19146 $450,000 Coldwell Banker Preferred South Philadelphia 425 Jackson St. 19148 $165,000 Coldwell Banker Preferred PHILA (SOUTH) 1537 W Porter Street $179,999 Prudential Fox & Roach Logan Square 2132 Race Street $1,995,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

GRADUATE HOSPITAL 2241 Fitzwater Street #C Rittenhouse Square $299,000 237-47 S. 18th Street, Prudential Fox & Roach #15B $2,999,000 RITTENHOUSE SQ Prudential Fox & Roach 1514 Pine Street #4F $297,000 Rittenhouse Square Prudential Fox & Roach 2213 Locust Street $1,095,000 ART MUSEUM AREA Prudential Fox & Roach 807 N Bucknell Street $289,000 Society Hill Prudential Fox & Roach 100 Pine Street $1,195,000 South Philadelphia Prudential Fox & Roach 1410 Jackson Street $250,000 Rittenhouse Square Prudential Fox & Roach 246 S. 22nd Street $599,999 PASSYUNK SQUARE Prudential Fox & Roach 1126 Watkins Street $249,900 Rittenhouse Square Prudential Fox & Roach 2128 Cypress Street $695,000 QUEEN VILLAGE Prudential Fox & Roach 131 Catharine #1 $229,900 Bella Vista Prudential Fox & Roach 813 S. Darien Street $699,000 ART MUSEUM AREA Prudential Fox & Roach 2231 Green #2 Queen Village Packer Park $189,000 525 Fitzwater St. Prudential Fox & Roach 2940 S. Broad Street #11 19147 $529,000 Fr $239,000 Prudential Fox & Roach GRADUATE HOSPITAL Coldwell Banker 2400 Catharine #2 Preferred Bella Vista $179,000 Prudential Fox & Roach 610 S Percy #2 Northern Liberties $579,900 19 W. Wildey St. 19125 Prudential Fox & Roach ART MUSEUM $220,000 2401 Penna Ave #2B26 Coldwell Banker Art Museum Area $164,900 Preferred Prudential Fox & Roach 916 N. 30th Street $499,000 Washington Square West Prudential Fox & Roach GRADUATE HOSPITAL 1109 Spruce St. 705 S 16th Street #1F 19107 Spring Garden $499,000 $225,000 Prudential Fox & Roach 1524 North Street Coldwell Banker $500,000 Preferred Prudential Fox & Roach WASHINGTON SQ WEST 415 S 12th Street Washington Square West $479,000 Queen Village 1109 Spruce St. #2R Prudential Fox & Roach 927 Catharine 19107 $519,500 $215,000 Prudential Fox & Roach FITLER SQ Coldwell Banker 406 S Croskey St #B Preferred Bella Vista $479,000 Prudential Fox & Roach 808 Federal Street Washington Square West $489,000 1109 Spruce St. Prudential Fox & Roach ART MUSEUM #4 19107 2401 Penna Ave #12A2 Northern Liberties $185,000 $472,500 Coldwell Banker Prudential Fox & Roach 602 N. American $479,900 Preferred Prudential Fox & Roach FITLER SQUARE Washington Square West 2429-41 Locust #207 Queen Village 1109 Spruce St. #3R $469,900 822 S. Swanson 19107 Prudential Fox & Roach $469,900 $180,000 Prudential Fox & Roach Coldwell Banker FITLER SQ Preferred 2429-41 Locust Art Museum Street #611 2401 Penna Ave #18B34 1:30-4:00 $429,500 $439,000 Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach QUEEN VILLAGE 116 Queen Street QUEEN VILLAGE $499,000 Girard Estate Area Prudential Fox & Roach 430 Gaskill Street 2447 S. Garnet $439,000 $464,000 Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach 1:30PM -4:00PM NORTHERN LIBERTIES 1010 N American Street $359,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

WASHINGTON SQ WEST 1112 Spruce ##1R $399,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

Pennsport 148 Morris Street $399,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

ART MUSEUM AREA 2450 Olive Street $355,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

WASHINGTON SQ WEST 251 S Warnock Street $395,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

Art Museum Area 753 N. Croskey $305,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

QUEEN VILLAGE 421 Fulton Street $395,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

Graduate Hospital 2407 Kimball $282,500 Prudential Fox & Roach

BELLA VISTA 711 Kimball Street $374,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

Northern Liberties 721 Melon Place #D $199,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

QUEEN VILLAGE 1 Christian Street ##47 BELLA VISTA 609 Montrose Street $615,000 Prudential Fox & Roach $350,000 Prudential Fox & Roach GRADUATE HOSPITAL ART MUSEUM AREA 1715 Carpenter Street 756 N Croskey Street $615,000 Prudential Fox & Roach $349,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

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To See the Following, Call Andy Oei (215)790-5230 1500 Chestnut Street #9G-Oversized 1BR /1BA, Granite Kitchen, Marble Bath, Doorman ........................................................... $1,795 2101-17 Chestnut Street #1525-Deluxe Studio Wd Flrs Granite Kit Marble Bath Utils Incl ............................................................ $1,225

To See the Following, Call Ellen Rohlfing 2158753356 214 S Bonsall Street-4 BR/2 baths. Cozy fireplace. ............... $3,400 To See the Following, Call Jessica Eary (215)546-0550 1701-15 Locust Street #1910-2 BR/2 baths. Family room, built-in microwave. ............................................................................ $3,000

To See the Following, Call Mike McCann (215) 440-8345 609 E Thompson Street-3 bd/1 ba w/hw flrs,modern kit & ba,exp brk,fp + private yd. .................................................................$1,200 723 Melon Place #F-Crtyd-2 bd, 2 ba,LR/DR w/hw flrs,kit /w bar counter .................................................................................. $1,095 609 N 34th Street #3RD FL-2 bd unit w/new kit,hw flrs,lots of wndws. ..................................................................................... $975 1008 N 3rd Street-3 bd/2.5 ba,grg + drwy prk,fam rm + office,open Dr/Kit,grdn ............................................................................. $2,500 335 N Water Street #C-Bi-lev commerical space or opportunity for res conversion. ...................................................................... $1,350 125 Pine Street-2 bdrm/1 bth,hrwd flrs t/o,washer/dryer,C/A & office nook. .............................................................................$1,750 2418 S Alder Street-3 bd/1.5 ba home on quiet block,fresh kit,fin bsmt w/W/D. .......................................................................... $1,150 39 Strawberry Street #3R-Huge Bi-Level 1 bd/1 ba,tile kit,lots of closet. .................................................................................... $1,250 41 Strawberry Street #3RD FL-Large 1 bd/1 ba-bi-level unit,new kit w/newer applns. .................................................................... $1,250 To See the Following, Call Paul Fontaine (215)440-2059 2601 Pennsylvania Avenue #842-Huge 1 bd/1 ba w/granite/SS kitchen,renov bth. .................................................................. $1,499 To See the Following, Call Rose Ann Jugla (215)790-5637 507 S 27th Street-New bright 3br-2.5b new 50k kit h/w fl 2dks grge+1 pkg space ................................................................. $4,750 To See the Following, Call Stephen Ferguson (215)521-1567 1 Academy Circle #210-1 bd/1 ba w/prkng,gym,pool,hrwd flrs,granit/SS kit. ................................................................... $1,475

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To See the Following, Call John Featherman 215-790-5221 108 Arch Street #401-High-end 1B/1.5b/1 pkg in Old City gourm kit luxurious bath ........................................................................ $2,300 1130-32 Chestnut Street #402-Totally renov loft 1B/2b (flex 2B) @ White Bldg super hi-end ........................................................ $2,500 2101-17 Chestnut Street #805-Studio at RiverWest, window a/c, 24/7 Security, fit ctr ............................................................... $1,295 1213-15 Locust Street #C-Pristine 1B/1den/1b in WashWest hi-end thru-out orig details ................................................................ $3,250 1512 Pine Street #2R-Reno 1B/1b off Ave of Arts high-ceils HW flrs w/d 1car pkg ......................................................................... $1,500 1817 Spruce Street #3F-Bi-level 2B/1b in Ritt Sq many orig details HW flrs hi-ceil ........................................................................ $2,195

To See the Following, Call Mark Wade 215-521-1523 315 New Street #103-2 bd/2 ba/lrg wndws,washer/dryer, prkng for $200 month. ...........................................................................$1,695

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To See the Following, Call David Snyder 267.968.8600 1600-18 Arch Street #508-Large studio for rent at The Residence at the Phoenix. ........................................................................... $1,700 1373 Farrington Road-Beautiful,clean,all new renov near City Ave & St Joe’s Univ .......................................................................... $1,400 2133 Reed Street-3 bedroom/1.5 bath home in Point Breeze ................................................................................................ $1,100 2211 South Street #1-Luxury designer furnished 1 bd/1 bth rental in Fitler Sq. ............................................................................ $1,400 1936 Spruce Street #1-Spectacular corner office space,steps from Rittenhse Sq .......................................................................... $5,000

220 W Rittenhouse Square #3E-Spacious 2B/2b on Rittenhouse Sq 24/7 security all util incl ........................................................ $2,300 121-35 Walnut Street #204-3B/3.5b at the Moravian, high end, HW floors, 1 car grg ..................................................................... $5,995

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1420 locust street Studio, Separate sleeping area, excellent closet space, 622sf $1,300 Junior one bedroom, great closet space, sunset views, spa$1,390 cious kitchen, 656 sf 1 bedroom, 1 bath, French balcony, spacious kitchen, 705 sf $1,540 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, master bedroom has ensuite bathroom and generous closet space, ample entertaining/living $3,150 areas, 1524 sf

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2020 walnut street

Studio, open kitchen, generous closet space, large bay window, 548 sf $1,285 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, brand new kitchen, upgraded baths, marble floors, French doors throughout, city views, 1748 sf $3,800

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1810 s. rittenhouse square 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, excellent natural light, corner unit, 892sf $2,100

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appointed in marble, spacious kitchen, 583 sf the carlyle $1475 2031 locust street 2 bedrooms plus den, new designer kit., 2.5 1 bedroom, 1 bath, city view, 567 sf $1,325 marble baths, huge balcony with city views, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, corner unit, 928 sf $2,100 2122 sf $6,950 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, sunset views, excellent society hill closet space, spacious living areas, 1164sf $2,300 3 bedrooms, unobstructed city views, bonus den/ society hill towers study & nursery, generous living space, 200-220 locust street 2137 sf $3,950 units include all utilities

parc rittenhouse 225 s. 18th street Studio, wood floors, open floor plan, marble bath, $1,600 506 sf Junior 1 bedroom, 1 bath, high floor, wood floors, $1,790 open kitchen, 492 sf 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, open kitchen, wood floors, $2,400 marble bathroom, 840 sf 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, Rittenhouse Square views, open kitchen, marble baths, wood floors through$4,850 out, 1580 sf

Studio, great closet space, city views, $1,200 floor-to-ceiling windows, 504 sf 1 bedroom, 1 bath, floor-to-ceiling windows with $1,575 magnificent river & city views, 700sf Corner 1 bedroom, 1 bath, wood floors, unob$1,750 structed city views, 775 sf

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1 bedroom, 1 bath, plus den, hardwood floors throughout,newer kitchen with stainless steel $2,190 appliances, updated bath 995 sf

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, 989 sf $1,500

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233-241 s 6th street 1 bedroom, 1 bath, private balcony, W/D, spacious $1,540 walk-in closet, 928 sf Deluxe 1 bedroom, 1.5 bath, brand new chef’s kitchen, designer baths, hardwood floors, balcony, 1118 sf $2,100 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, balcony, large living areas, up$2,450 dated kitchen, 1387 sf

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

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hopKinson house 604-36 s. washinGton square Studio with alcove overlooking Washington $1,250 Square, balcony, 600 sf 1 bedroom, 1 bath, newer kitchen and bath, $1,490 great closet space, balcony,778 sf Brand New 3 bedroom, 2 bath home with bal-

cony over Wash Sq., wood floors throughout, desginer baths, chefs kitchen, custom finishes in all rooms, 1700 sf $3,500

commercial sPace 2031 Locust Street Professional Office Space in secure apartment building, 958 sf $1,300 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 $5,000 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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RITTENHOUSE SQ $799,900 RITTENHOUSE SQ/FITLERSQ Incredible 2BD/2BA unit w/ private entrance, 507 S 26th $469,900 exotic wood floors, custom kitchen, impec- Adorable, beautifully renovated 2BD/2BA cable details. with finished basement, granite and stainless kitchen, cozy bedrooms and an English QUEEN VILLAGE garden!

804 S 6th #D $259,900 Adorable trinity, 2BD/1BA with fireplace, 2418 Delancey $539,900 hardwood floors, patio, hardwood floors.

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University City $450,000 Magnificent 2700sf 3BD/3BA, turn of the century home, stained glass windows, mosaic tilework, gorgeous kitchen, rear yard w/ potential for parking!

Art Museum $525,000 Fantastic x-wide 3BR/3ba 3-Sty on grt tree-lined block. Handsome new façade, Brazilian cherry flrs, 1-yr prepd parking!

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MOORESTOWN Magnificent 6 BR, 5.5 bath, Carriage House, 2 car gar. & heated in-ground pool. Original plaster ceiling details, crown moldings & HW flrs. thru-out.

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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 910 S 21st Street-NC 3 bdrms/2.5 bths,hrdwd floors t/o,lrg grdn and deck w/amazing views 2310 Pemberton Street-Graduate Gem 3BD/1.5Ba, 3 yrs young, complete renovation 2121 Saint Albans Street-2 Bed 1 Bath updated home on great block w/potential for parking 1629 Webster Street-Brand new 3 bd/2 ba w/finished bsmt,hardwood flrs + roof deck.

1028 S Colorado Street-Beautiful home w/incredible features,wide open flr plan & hw flrs t/o.

1419 Montrose Street-Charming 2 bd/1 ba updated home,beaut hrwd flrs,fp,lrg garden w/BBQ grill.

2102 Christian Street #B-Super 1 bdrm,fully renovated w/private deck,grt value in grt location.

271 S 4th Street-Grand 5B/3.5b cook’s kit,wd flrs,7 fpl,new Mbth,grdn,2 car pkg $2,495,000 265 Saint Josephs Way-I.M.PEI House, 3864sqft, corner prop, garden, lg media rm, pkg space $1,295,000 200-10 Lombard Street #10-Rarely available 2 bd/2.5 ba bi-lev home in Society Hill,Upgr. in 2007 $474,900 234 Stamper Street-3 bd/hw flrs,updated kit/modern amenities,orig fireplace and W/D. $459,900 233 S 6th - ##606-1 bedroom plus alcove,upgraded kitchen, large terrace $350,000 265 S 4th Street #B-Bi-Level-1 bedroom,hardwood flrs,parking + outdoor space. $295,000

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507 S 27th Street-New bright fab 3br-2.5b new 50k kit h/w fl 2dks grge+ 1 pkg space-Pristine $919,000 2429-41 Locust Street #611-Just Listed! 1BD/1BA gorgeous loft condo W/GARAGE, pet friendly $429,500 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

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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 2040 Waverly Street-4 bd/2.5 ba,bsmt,terrace,terrific space,2600 sq ft,C/A + 4 Car prkng. $1,080,000 2216 Locust Street-1860’s TH, 4br,3.5b, study, orig details, dr, e-i-kit, 2zoned c/a grdn, prk $995,000 1531 Pine, #Unit C-2 bdrm/2 bth w/private elevator access & blcny, stunning finishes. $799,000 246 S 22nd St-Mixed use, C-1. 5BR/3.5B home in Rit/Fitler Sq 2333sqft Priced to sell $599,999 210 W Rittenhouse Sq ##1402-Rittenhse Hotel-New upsc,furn luxury condo,1050 sq.ft,1 bd/1.5 ba. $579,000 2418 Delancey Street-3 bd/1 ba,extra deep, w/ornate wdwrk,formal DR,spac bdrms,historic details. $539,900 1629 Waverly Street-Lovely 2 BR Trinity with lots of light, brick patio $334,000 1731 Rodman Street-Mint 2B expanded trinity w/ new kit (on 1st flr),wd flrs,fab grdn $298,000 1514 Pine Street #4F-Reno PH, 1Br/1b, Italian kit fp wd fl whirlpool skylite mint cond Tax abate $297,000

OLDE CITY/NORTHERN LIBERTIES 103-07 Church ##9-Tons of Old City Charm,tall wndws,hw flrs,exposed duckwork,open kitchen.

50-56 N Front ##402-1 bd w/fpl on grt Old City blk,exp brk,rf dk w/river views 301 Race ##401-Loft style 1 bedroom, modern bath,walk-in closet,hi ceilings.

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741 S 2nd Street-Spectacular Contemporary 3 bd/2.5 ba,fin bsmt,atrium,roof dk,garage prkng.

335 Christian Street-3BR/3.5BA QV Mansion w/ detail & character,dk,grdn + 2Car parking.

795 S 3rd Street-Corner prop,1 st flr has tenant, 2nd & 3rd flr lrg sunny 1 bd apartments.

522 Queen Street-Rehab 3 bd + media rm,2.5 spa ba,hrwd flrs t/o,2 fp’s,deck + outdoor space 1 Christian Street #33-Priced to sell Beautifu, upgraded 3br 2.5b townhome Parking Garage 852 S Front Street-Very lg 4 bd/2 ba w/separate shell trinty,Lr Eik,granite,SS,lg closets.

430 Gaskill Street-4 bd/2 ba,mosaic tile foyer,grdn,2-tier deck,2 car reserved monthly prkng.

620 Christian Street #1C&D-Double wide 2B/2b loft, fab light, fpl, C/A, fab shared grdn,1 car pkg 129 League ##2-Beautiful 2 bd/1 ba w/1 car prkng,granite & SS kitchen,private deck.

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

421 Fulton Street-Truly A Gem! Circa 1832, 2 bedrms + den, fpl, random pine flrs, pvt deck 711 Kimball Street-Handsome 3 bd/2.5 ba,family rm,rear yard,newer kit & bth,hw flrs.

915-25 Bainbridge ##201-Recently remod. Kit,D/R,living area w/15’ ceils,view into Palumbo prk.

909 S 12th Street-Renovated 3-unit mixed-use property in Bella Vista 828-34 S 3rd #Unit D-Fantastic 2 bedroom condo w/parking & deck,updated throughout.

915-25 Bainbridge ##104-1 bedroom + den,1200 sq ft,hrwd flrs,parking 804 S 6th - #Unit D-Adorable trinity 2 bd/1 ba w/fireplace,hardwood flrs,patio 818 “B” S 4th Street-2 bd/1.5 ba Condo in a gated secured garden cy,Lr,Dr,hw flrs,fp new kit.

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WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST 1101 Locust ##9I-Spacious 2 bedroom, 2 bath with open floor plan and modern amenities.

736-38 Pine #Unit D-2 bd/1.5 ba,den,renov kit & bths w/granite & SS,hw,roof dk,prkng.

1225 Panama Street-Impeccably restored 2 bd/1.5 ba,ctm kit,pine flrs,wd fp,exp brk + garden.

209 S Sartain-Lovely 3 bd/1.5 ba,Fp,Modern Kit & Bth in Washington Sq.West 1112 Spruce ##1R-XL condo w/granite,SS,wd flrs w/lrg lower lev w/lndry space,office & 2nd bd 1012 Spruce ##3F-Custom 2 bedroom 1 bath bi-level beautiful details.

912 Spruce ##8-Cozy 1 bd,low condo fees,SS appln,hi ceilings & good closet space.

$699,000 $499,900 $449,900 $397,500 $349,000 $345,000 $229,000

AROUND TOWN 2210 S Broad Street-Discover the charm of this impressive 3-bedroom townhome! Security system.

1429 Wharton Street-4 unit corner bldg,Deli + salon + 2 very lrg 1 bdrm updated apts.

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

932-34 N 19th Street-Fairmount- Francisville 4 bedroom income producing property.

1246-54 E Montgomery Avenue #7-2BR/2bth condo. 1,140 Sq/Ft. Built in ë07. HW Flrs. Deck 2617 S Warnock Street-Porch-front home 3 bd/1 ba,h/w flrs,renov kit,new wndws,cstm blinds.

4334 Shelmire Avenue-Cheerful 3-bedroom townhome. Family room, built-in dishwasher. Bsmt.

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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 1718 Rodman St. 1br/1.5ba home, rear garden, quiet street 2101 Christian St. Well Maintained home. $2,000 Buyer Agent Bonus for executed AOS b-4 11/31 1500 Chestnut St. #8H Elegant 2br/2ba condo location in the Ellington in the heart of Center City 1812 Spruce St. #3R Best value 2br/1ba. New everything, marble bath, deluxe KIT, huge terrace 1812 Spruce St. #2F Brand new 1br/1ba condo conversion, heart of Rittenhouse Sq., Deluxe KIT 23 S. 23rd St. #2N Rare 1br/1.5ba with patio courtyard 1812 Spruce St. #2R Grand Scale 1br/1.5ba w/office area. Magnificent ceiling & molding details 1616 Naudain St. Perfect house for the urbanite. Lovely lrg 2br/2ba w/updated KIT & baths, Patio 1912 Waverly St. Charming street, prime location, 2br/2ba with a garden 219 S. 18th St. Pet friendly 927 sqft, 1br Parc Rittenhouse condo Hi-rise amenities incl poo/gym 1431 Spruce St. #3F Renovated Bi-level Condo in historic mansion, steps from Ave. of the Arts 1625 Spruce St. #3F Bi-level Beauty! 2br/1.5ba w/over 1700sqft and a deck with Center City Views!

1737 Chestnut St. #301 Great space & location, 2br/2ba uptown condo, HWflrs, Cental location 2413 Manning St. Reduced 2+br/2+ba, garage home xtra wide 4-story townhome in Fitler Sq. Charming Block 111 S. 15th St. #1707-09 Luxury-Packard Grande, 2br stes, den spac grt room LR/DR, granite/SS kit 1607 Kater St. Large Home Rehabbed in ’04 with Garage Parking & 2 Decks!

418 S. Taney St. Park side home, 3+br/2+ba, LR w/FP, sep DR, EIK, Wd flr, patios, 2FP’s, garage 2212 Pine St. Circa 1857 corner TH, 4br/2ba, library, garden, pkg, porch, ornate details, mult. FPs 2128 Spruce St. Wonderful 5br/4.5ba, 4500 sqft home in f Square

$229,000 $298,000 $299,000 $319,000 $329,000 $335,000 OPEN HOUSE $355,000 OPEN HOUSE $375,000 OPEN HOUSE $399,900 $419,000 OPEN HOUSE $425,000 $439,000 $459,000 $499,900 $519,900 $534,900 $549,900 $570,000 $650,000 $625,000 $949,900 $1,250,000 $1,350,000

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2344 E. Letterly St. 2br home is completely renovated, features fabulous upgrades, lrg rear patio 19 W. Wildey St. Newly renovated live/work space. 2b/1ba w/additional rm. w/priv entry, grt light 800 N. 2nd St. #4 Updated 2b4/1.5ba, bi-level condo with low condo fees in heart of No. Libs 2308 Sergeant St. Gorgeous 2 year Old Fishtown Townhouse w/Parking & Roof Deck!

907 N. 5th St. Ultra modern Designer Home, 3br/2ba, Fireplace, Beautiful 939 New Market St. Corner property in NoLibs with two car garage! 3br/2ba, huge KIT, yard 314 Brown St. Sensational Live/Work Superloft, 4200sqft in the heart of NoLibs, with Parking!

$189,900 $220,000 $289,000 OPEN HOUSE $379,000 OPEN HOUSE $408,000 $489,900 $1,100,000

UNIVERSITY CITY / WEST PHILADELPHIA 618 S. 56th St. Tenant occupied at $800 mo. Owner is motivated 413 N. 53rd St. Extra Lrg. 4br/1.5ba, remodeled, EIK, HWfrls, lots of extras. 1st time buyer special 720 W. Cobbs Creek Pkwy Well maintained house on a quiet street. 1 car pkg & garage. Fin attic 252 S. Saint Bernard St. 3br/1ba recently rehabbed home w/garage, hwflrs, orig detail t/o, lovely st 826 S. 51st St. 4br/2.5ba twin w/fin. bsmt. No detail spared in this elegant renovation. A must See

$47,000 $80,000 $125,000 $235,000 $244,900

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249 N. 2nd St. #2R Corner 1100sqft, 2br/2ba, 4-years old, tax abatement, garage OPEN HOUSE $375,000 126 Cuthbert St. #2 Sensational 2br/2.5ba, 1,667 sqft. Condo on historic Cuthbert St. in Old City $400,000 201-59 N. 8th St. #910 2br/2.5ba, 1642sqft, bi-level Penhouse at the Metroclub w/450sqft balcony! $475,000 309-313 Arch St. #205 Fabulous 3br/3ba multilevel loft in the heart of Old City $529,900 5 Loxley Ct. Secluded 4br/2ba house in heart of Old City. Courtyard entrance & private parking $585,000 103 Callowhill St. Intimate 50 seat theater, exp brick, velvety curtains, vintage sconces. Upper level residence/office $599,900 237-41 N. Bread St. #2 3br/2a, 2266sqft. Condo, HWflrs, gas FP, SS appls, Jacuzzi tub, Cali Closets $600,000 314-22 N. 12th St. Fab Bi-Level Penthouse Condo, 2br/2ba, Granite, SS, Hwflrs, 2 large decks $669,900

2524 Grays Ferry Ave. New construction; 3br/3ba, 2400 sqft, security system, roof deck, fin bsmt $425,000 2155 Montrose St. NEW, lrg 3br/2.5ba w/garden, deck, tax abatement, finished lower level, must see OPEN HOUSE $399,900 1221 S. Phillip St. 3br/2.5ba new construction, 1car garage, HWflrs, hi ceilings, open kit, & deck. $399,900 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 $400,000 1013 S. 21st St. Brand New Grad Hosp Townhome, Private Parking!! Finished Bsmt & Roof Deck !

2108 Webster St. Stunning 3br/2.5ba, New Construction. Superb craftsmanship t/o, gourmet kit, roof deck, garage OPEN HOUSE $449,000 OPEN HOUSE 1912 Kimball St. Stunning 3br/3ba, gourmet kitchen, roofdeck, garage, tax abatement OPEN HOUSE $450,000 624 Carpenter St. 3br/2.5ba, rowhome, central air, finished bsmt, laundry, oak flrs, roof deck $475,000 440 S. Broad St. Premium New Residences at Sympohy House fr 1br/ba to 3br/3ba, poo OPEN HOUSE Fr $550,000 th $649,900 629-31 S. 13 St. #A Custom 3br/3ba new construction, hi ceilings, luxurious baths, gourmet KIT, roof deck

SOCIETY HILL / WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST 1109 Spruce St. Only three left, 1br/1ba condos Best Value in Wash. Sq., close to Jeff & PA Hosp 255 S. Hutchinson St. Cute 1br/1.5ba townhouse, lovely historic cobblestone st. City-style garden 302 S. Quince St. 1696sqft, 2br+den/2.5ba, contemporary home with garage 440 Lombard St. Society Hill Gem: 4br/2.5ba, EIK SS Appls, HWflrs, FP, C/A Courtyard & Parking 720 Chestnut St. #D 2br/2ba, 1300sqft condo in boutique bldg. Hi ceilings, wood flr, granite & SS, FP 1111 Locust St. #10F 1729 sqft Penthouse, terraces, fireplace, tax abatement, garage

OPEN HOUSE Fr $180,000 OPEN HOUSE $239,900 OPEN HOUSE $475,000 OPEN HOUSE $660,000 $429,000 OPEN HOUSE $1,046,000

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COMMERCIAL/INVESTMENT 1818 N. Judson St. Fire damaged shell. Formerly 3br/3ba. New Water Service Recently Installed 1020 Snyder Ave. DUPLEX! Two 1br units. Very clean and maintained! New 1st flr full bath!

1533-37 E. Moyamensing Ave. 3-Story triplex & 2-Story, 2100 sqft. commercial garage w/loft 1900 Diamond St. Renovated historic corner Triplex, 3 spacious units just blocks from Temple U 4134 Chester Ave. Commercial space, tons of possibility, grt location convenient to transportation

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1931 Dickinson St. Renovated 3br/2.5ba, HWflrs, Master Suite and rear yard $165,000 Manayunk-177 Levering St. 3br/2ba newly rehabbed, 1 blk off Main St., Gourmet KIT, fin bsmt 1515 S. 2nd St. REDUCED-OWNER MOTIVATED!! BRING ALL OFFERS!!! 3Sty w/ huge yard/neat and clean t/o… $205,000 Roxborough-6812 Pechin St. Fabulous twin home, great location across from park. Lrg deck, yard 2725 S. Marvine St. Wonderful home, 1 of South Phila.’s most desirable blks-close to Marconi Prk! $200,000 *Please see the oPen house time for this ProPerty in the oPen house Directory.

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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 tHe PHilaDelPHian tHe PHilaDelPHian

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, views of the Art Museum, private balcony, spacious living and dining areas 1 bedroom, 1 bath, wood floors, upgraded kitchen, ample living space Renovated studio, wood floors throughout, open kitchen, large balcony with city skyline view

1,867 1258 567

$439,900 $189,900 $175,000

$68,538 $30,637 $26,306

$3,431 $1,751 $1,152

Location

AVENUE OF THE ARTS

Total Square Footage

Price

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

Monthly After Tax Cost

acaDeMy House acaDeMy House acaDeMy House

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, split plan on a high floor, excellent lving and closet spaces, eat-in kitchen, master bedroom with ensuite bath & walk-in closet Corner two bedroom, one and a half bath, high floor, spacious living area, W/D One bedroom, one bath, upgraded kitchen and bath, Juliet balcony, W/D

1314 1016 705

$379,900 $324,000 $289,000

$56,862 $49,894 $42,702

$2,740 $2,289 $1,772

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 barclay lanesborougH lanesborougH tHe warwick barclay tHe warwick tHe rittenHouse tHe warwick 2009 sPruce street Parc rittenHouse tHe warwick Parc rittenHouse tHe rittenHouse barclay barclay 1900 rittenHouse Parc rittenHouse tHe warwick Parc rittenHouse tHe warwick tHe DorcHester Parc rittenHouse tHe warwick tHe warwick williaM Penn House

Penthouse, 2 bedrooms, 2 full baths, 2 half baths, high end finishes and appointments throughout, balcony with city views 3bedroom+den, 3.5 baths, marble foyer, formal dining rm, sunny eat-in kitchen, 10’ ceilings, moldings, oak herring bone floors, 3 gas fireplaces 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, brand new, very high ceilings, his and hers master baths, custom kitchen, exquisite detail throughout.

Tri-level penthouse with 1600 sq ft of terrace space, being sold unfinished, private elevator access 1 bedroom plus den, magnificent city views to the north and south, open kitchen, custom details and finishes throughout, one-of-a kind 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, most rooms have views of Rittenhouse Square, beautifully restored original details throughout 3BR, 3BA, Bamboo flrs., spac. Kit w/custom wood cabinetry, granite counter tops, marble baths, 3 exposures, gym and hotel services 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, completely renovated with high end finishes, views of Rittenhouse Square from every room 2 bedrooms + den, 3 baths, gourmet kitchen, marble baths, walk-in-closets, hardwood floors 3 bedrooms plus den, 2.5 baths, tri-level condominium, large private deck, luxurious master suite Rarely available south side 2 bedroom, 2 bath, hardwood floors, marble bathroom, custom upgr. throughout oPen sunDay 5/22 1:00-2:00PM 2 bedrooms + den, 3 baths, sun-soaked, wood floors, open kitchen, marble baths 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, terrace on pool club deck, open custom kitchen, marble baths, wood floors 1 bedroom, 1.5 baths, eat in kitchen, beautiful sunset views, master suite with large marble bath Two bedrooms, two baths, hardwood floors, old world charm with modern features Two bedrooms, two baths, hardwood floors, building offers 24 hour doorman and gym, located on Rittenhouse Square 1 bedroom, 1 bath, Juliet balcony, upgraded kitchen and bath, lots of light, separate dining room, hardwood floors 1 bedroom, 1 bath, terrace, marble bath, hardwood floors, spacious living areas oPen sunDay 5/22 1:00-2:00PM One bedroom, one bath, hardwood floors, marble bath, custom kitchen oPen sunDay 5/22 1:00-2:00PM 1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, open kitchen, hardwood floors, marble bath 1 bedroom, 1 bath, wood floors sunset view, marble bath, custom shutters 1 bedroom, 1 bath, high floor, balcony, excellent natural light, Studio with wood floors, marble bath, open kitchen and city view Studio, high floor with sunrise views, marble bath, open kitchen Studio, high floor with city views, walk in closest, wood floors, marble bath 1 bedroom, 1 bath, city views, spacious kitchen

3,952 3,293 3,467 3,413 2,421 2,338 1,978 1,560 1,614 2,844 1019 1,614 1,272 1,037 1,050 1,075 1,085 818 712 765 697 723 497 345 423 825

$3,500,000* $834,620 $2,900,000* $666,258 $2,750,000* $636,038 $2,250,000* $579,879 $1,475,000* $347,779 $1,450,000* $349,592 $1,350,000* $181,323 $995,000* $242,439 $829,000* $115,051 $800,000* $192,721 $799,900* $190,230 $799,000* $190,486 $775,000* $201,948 $599,000* $147,283 $595,000* $143,766 $539,000* $133,706 $479,900 $71,388 $450,000 $64,320 $399,900 $53,426 $369,900 $55,623 $369,900 $52,163 $350,000 $51,614 $259,900 $39,472 $217,000 $30,900 $219,900 $32,772 $159,900 $24,513

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

22 Front bank builDing society Hill towers society Hill towers society Hill towers society Hill towers bank builDing

Custom penthouse with 2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, balcony and roof deck, designer baths and chefs kitchen 2 bedrooms plus den, 2.5 baths, hardwood floors, high-end open kitchen, designer bathrooms Two bedrooms, one bath, parquet wood floors, washer/dryer, unobstructed river views, floor-to-ceiling windows 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, unobstructed river views, beautifully upgraded kitchen and bath, wood floors throughout One bedroom, high floor, river view, investment opportunity 1 bedroom, 1 bath, bridge and city views, wood floors, upgraded kitchen Raw space, high ceilings, opportunity to create a custom home in boutique condo building

2,468 2,117 1,133 1,133 700 700 1286

$1,250,000 $799,000* $399,000 $379,900 $290,000 $259,900 $269,900

$298,000 $207,313 $58,788 $56,870 $42,577 $40,731 $40,779

$6,671 $4,291 $2,562 $2,569 $1,798 $1,733 $1,794

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 inDePenDence Place inDePenDence Place inDePenDence Place HoPkinson House inDePenDence Place inDePenDence Place inDePenDence Place inDePenDence Place stricklanD row stricklanD row

Bi-level penthouse, 2 bedrooms. 2.5 baths, 2 kitchens, impeccably finished throughout, amazing river and city views 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, east facing river and city views, modern kitchen, hardwood floors, balcony, laundry room 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, beautifully ren. kit. and baths, balc. with city and river views, hdwd. flrs. in living areas 1 bedroom, 1.5 baths, alcove, completely renovated with gourmet kitchen, designer bath, amazing closets Deluxe 1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony with views of Washington Square and the river, renovated kitchen and bath 1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, laundry room, excellent condition 1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, excellent value 1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, upgraded kitchen, new fixtures throughout 1 bedroom, 1 bath, wood floors throughout, upgraded kitchen and bath, custom closets, balcony 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, bi-level, excellent natural light, wood floors, open kitchen, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, bi-level, open kitchen, wood floors

4,500 3,015 1,977 1,118 1,063 928 928 860 928 1,188 857

$2,295,000* $552,133 $1,250,000* $250,000 $799,000* $195,082 $479,900 $68,164 $329,000 $53,908 $299,900 $44,212 $290,000 $42,132 $285,000 $42,801 $269,900 $40,971 $250,000* $39,682 $239,900* $39,930

Location

WATERFRONT

Total Square Footage

Price

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

Monthly After Tax Cost

Pier 3

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

1,300

$259,900

$41,044

$1,985

Location

$172,018 $85,223 $57,483

$4,014 $1,989 $1,341

$137,188 $115,776 $88,613

$3,201 $2,701 $2,068

$889,056 $619,296 $607,268 $557,842 $362,985 $386,553 $371,644 $273,743 $246,527 $190,406 $197,716 $203,258 $206,151 $170,623 $153,060 $146,037 $153,551 $134,563 $106,710 $120,077 $104,702 $112,778 $81,681 $59,322 $62,166 $63,419

$20,745 $14,450 $14,170 $13,016 $8,470 $9,020 $8,672 $6,387 $5,752 $4,443 $4,613 $4,743 $4,810 $3,981 $3,571 $3,408 $3,583 $3,140 $2,490 $2,802 $2,443 $2,631 $1,906 $1,384 $1,451 $1,480

$348,655 $217,014 $128,086 $129,431 $89,976 $86,724 $91,238

$8,135 $5,064 $2,989 $3,020 $2,099 $2,024 $2,129

$588,133 $319,246 $212,815 $137,351 $115,998 $87,809 $83,461 $87,347 $87,301 $106,038 $98,839

$13,728 $7,449 $4,966 $3,205 $2,707 $2,049 $1,947 $2,038 $2,037 $2,474 $2,306

$99,922

$2,332

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$582 $238 $190

$461 $1,474 $296

$3,725 $2,632 $2,605 $2,351 $1,608 $1,685 $1,795 $1,090 $992 $960 $881 $861 $855 $659 $619 $580 $613 $523 $486 $473 $416 $435 $319 $240 $226 $168

$1,466 $844 $427 $451 $302 $291 $335

$3,022 $1,403 $961 $620 $410 $327 $302 $348 $348 $1,135 $1,143

$347

Monthly After Tax Cost

$17,020 $11,818 $11,565 $10,665 $6,862 $7,334 $6,877 $5,298 $4,761 $3,483 $3,732 $3,881 $3,956 $3,323 $2,953 $2,827 $2,969 $2,167 $2,003 $2,328 $2,027 $2,197 $1,587 $1,144 $1,225 $1,312

Monthly After Tax Cost

$10,706 $6,046 $4,004 $2,585 $2,297 $1,722 $1,645 $1,690 $1,243 $2,156 $1,986

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Barclay 237 S. 18th Street 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, most rooms overlook Rittenhouse Square, original details beautifully restored throughout, 2338 sf

indePendence Place 233 S. 6th Street 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, city and river views, two balconies, open floor plan with generously sized rooms throughout, 2968 sf

$1,450,000

$1,250,000

2009 SPruce Street

Parc rittenhouSe 225 S. 18th Street

Tri-level condo with 3 bedrooms plus den, 2.5 baths, large deck, high ceilings, lots of light, 2844 sf

1 bedroom, 1 bath, terrace, hardwood floors, marble bath, excellent entertaining space, 818 sf

$450,000

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the PhiladelPhian 2401 PennSylvania ave.

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, split plan on a high floor, excellent living and storage spaces, eat-in-kitchen, 1314 sf

1 bedroom, 1 bath, lots of light, wood floors, upgraded kitchen, W/D, ample closet space, 1258 sf

$379,900

$189,900

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