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When will Pennsylvania push past politics to do something about Lyme Disease? By Tara Murtha tmurtha@philadelphiaweekly.com The room was packed to standing-room-only with jilted Lyme patients. One by one, they stood up and testified how Lyme shattered their lives, how they spent their life savings seeking treatment. State Sen. Donald White, chair of the Banking & Insurance Committee, had the reaction most people have when they first enter the rabbit hole, learn how serious and complicated Lyme Disease can be and that patients are so underserved. “I’m just amazed,” he said. “This is very eye-opening to me.” Next up was Dr. Stephen Ostroff, acting physican general for Pennsylvania. Ostroff is chief advisor to the Department of Health on medical matters relevant to Pennsylvanians. Thing is, he had nothing to say. Right upfront, he an-
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nounced that due to conflicts of interest he would not testify in any meaningful way (though he was happy to keep talking). Ostroff essentially said that his role on a committee with the Institute of Medicine was more important. “While the committee is doing its work, members are expected to refrain from expressing opinions that could affect the outcome of this particular committee,” he said. “The second issue is that I am a member of the state Board of Medicine and one of the sections of the bill deals with imposing restrictions on the authority and functions of the state board of medicine … I have an inherent conflict,” he added. Our chief medical advisor declined to comment on legislation regarding the prevention and treatment of a disease that affects 80,000 Pennsylvanians when called on by the state Senate to do so. White was flabbergasted. “I just find it incredulous, that in this country that has the greatest medical knowledge in the world, that politics has reared its ugly head ... I’m sorry, I guess I’m naïve, I just don’t see where it has its place.” The audience erupted into applause.
“I don’t understand your conflict of interest,” White pressed. “What’s going on?” Ostroff squirmed but continued to blow smoke rings. “So you have no knowledge on where public programs stand on this issue?” White asked. “I think the next several speakers will address issues related to insurance,” replied Ostroff. He was referring to reps from the insurance industry who spoke after him. Turns out, they were against paying for longer-term antibiotic treatment (though I suppose happy to pay for all those useless tests that come along with misdiagnoses.) Then Sen. Stewart Greenleaf, who introduced the bill, took over. “[The Department of Health] are the advocate for the health and welfare for the commonwealth of Pa., and you are advising a Secretary of those issues, and you are here and you say that you’re muzzled, that you can’t speak out?” “The citizens of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania need you to do that, we need you to do that.” Ostroff repeated that he had conflicts of interest. And so it went until White dropped the hammer. “That is not an acceptable answer at all. I’m sorry, that is not acceptable AT ALL,” charged White, and the audience cheered. While being scolded, Ostroff went into an off-script diatribe. At one point, he actually said something interesting: “I don’t believe that any health care provider truly believes that there are no chronic sequela of Lyme disease.” Say what? If no health care providers “truly” believe there are no cases of chronic Lyme, then why does the IDSA, CDC and Pa. Department of Health basically deny its existence and leave patients to fend for themselves? Ostroff eventually returned to script and delivered a prepared statement saying the Department of Health wants to focus on prevention (rather than treatment) to avoid the “devastating consequences” of Lyme, but that the DOH doesn’t have any money. Despite the display, advocates, including Greenleaf, left with spirits high because someone actually listened. And for Lyme, that’s progress. “I think [SB 1199] has a chance now because of the hearing,” Greenleaf told me over the phone just over a week after the hearings. “There was a very compelling accounts by people afflicted by this disease.” But meanwhile, White no longer sounds like an infuriated storm-trooper for sick citizens. He sounds more like, well, a politican. “At this point, there are many concerns with SB1199 as written,” White recently commented in an email. “There is no proven course of treatment, an uncertain liability factor for providers, and the mandate on insurers to pay for certain treatments could ultimately increase insurance premiums for consumers.” When will Pennsylvania, one of the states affected most by Lyme, stop doing so little about it? Maybe next hearing, all 80,000 people in Pennsylvania with Lyme Disease should show up. You know, if they have the energy leftover from untreated Lyme or money from out-of-pocket treatments to get there. n
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Anyone familiar with Lyme Disease knows that getting correctly diagnosed and sufficiently treated is a crapshoot, even here in Pennsylvania, where local health officials recently announced the number of Lyme cases has increased for the fifth straight year—an estimated 80,000 cases statewide—with most concentrated in Southeastern Pa. As someone repeatedly misdiagnosed despite presenting a classic constellation of symptoms, I can tell you most local doctors couldn’t identify a case of Lyme if it bit them in the face. And since the standard test boasts an accuracy rating about as effective as a coin toss, it’s often left to drill deeper into the nervous system, where it can cause crippled limbs, impaired cognition and constant nerve pain. It can be fatal. It’s difficult and expensive to find treatment that helps chronic Lyme. I drove an hour an a half to visit a “Lymeliterate” doctor (LLMD) because Philadelphia has a notorious dearth of LLMDs, and my doctor was willing to prescribe the only treatment course I’m aware of that can help: long-term antibiotics. Some doctors believe long-term antibiotics help eradicate advanced or chronic cases of Lyme and common tick-borne co-infections. Others believe that chronic Lyme doesn’t exist at all and that long-term antibiotics has no benefit. Two separate medical associations exist because of the divergent views: The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS). The Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases Center at Columbia University wrote, “Both sets of doctors are practicing medicine in a reasonable fashion based on the application of certain diagnostic principles.” Here’s the core of the problem: The IDSA, the camp that says chronic Lyme doesn’t really exist and long-term antibiotics don’t help, writes the guidelines that most doctors follow. So doctors like mine risk their medical licenses for prescribing long-term antibiotics, even though they see patients regain health. The debate can be gussied up in the rhetoric of scientific rigor, but it’s about money: Insurance companies often use these guidelines to deny coverage. Then there’s the fact that at least three independent investigations concluded that IDSA board members have financial conflicts of interest with tests and the insurance industry. It’s a vicious whirlpool of suck, with patients drowning in the middle. But there’s a glimmer of hope in Pennsylvania. Two weeks ago, for the first time, Harrisburg hosted public hearings for a landmark piece of legislation that could help Lyme patients. Senate Bill 1199 would establish a task force toward prevention and education of doctors and the public. It would also protect doctors prescribing longer-term antibiotics from sanctions and mandate that insurance companies cover the treatment they determine is best. It’s a big deal. Lyme legislation has never made it this far; similar bills have died in Committee for years. Issues were aired, but ultimately progress was hamstrung by a flagrant display of politics.
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It’s June 19 and Robert Smith, sweaty and sporting a Phillies cap, has just marched to the Franklin Mills Mall with about 20 peace activists. Their mission? To claim victory in their battle against the Army Experience Center, a 14,500-square-foot recruiter-run marketing project created by the U.S. Army that allowed children as young as 13 to play war-centric video games on one of 79 gaming stations featuring X-Box 360s and life-sized Humvees, Black Hawk and Apache helicopters with simulated rifles. “Most of all, we need to thank those kids who said ‘no’ to the Army Experience Center’s recruiting mission,” says Smith, staff coordinator of the Swarthmorebased Brandywine Peace Community, an anti-war group involved in almost two years of protests, arrests and vigils inside the Northeast Philadelphia shopping mall. Their main beef with the AEC? That the video games glorified killing. Just nine days before the planned protest, the Army announced through a press release it had planned on closing the $12 million center by July 31, though its two-year lease wouldn’t officially end until November. “The marketing and outreach lessons learned and interactive technology will be studied for the best application to nationwide recruiting applications,” the release stated. The protesters re-branded the march as a celebration, and many activists we spoke to assert that protest pressure became too much for the AEC. But that’s just not the case. The enemy has other plans. Since closing five smaller recruiting stations in Philadelphia and opening the AEC in August 2008, recruiting in Philadelphia has been up 15 percent. Now, the AEC’s video-game equipment—used for entertainment but more so to entice children and teens to sign up for service—is being sent to smaller recruiting stations across the country. The purpose of this, the Army says, is to make way for 21st-century recruiting. “We’re now going to see how we can move it out of one center and get it around the country,” says Brian Lepley, public affairs officer at the U.S. Army Accessions Command. “This is how young Americans are used to receiving information. They can summon it when they want to and that’s the type of outreach we want to import through new
You and what Army? Protesters at the Franklin Mills Mall in the Northeast.
recruiting stations.” So, like it or not, video-gaming yourself into [insert country we’re at war with here] is here to stay. Since opening, more than 40,000 visitors have passed through the AEC’s doors and at least 236 have been recruited. But Lepley says recruiting wasn’t the goal of the Northeast station. (Interested teens weren’t turned away, either). “The center didn’t have a recruiting mission,” he says. “The point of the place was for younger Americans, and even older Americans—because vets and other people walked in there—to learn about the Army.” Tim Kearney isn’t buying it. The former candidate for state representative of the 172nd District, which covers the Northeast, says the Army was trying to target working-class and lower-middle-class teens. “You’ll notice the Army didn’t put the Army Experience Center in Society Hill or Chestnut Hill or Lower Merion,” he says. “They’re trying to recruit people from the Northeast. There’s a real class warfare aspect to the AEC and where they decided to locate it. They’re horribly, horribly misusing people.” Not quite, says the Army. “Protestors can say what they want,” Lepley tells us. “They weren’t part of our decision process. We didn’t consult them.” Maybe not, but questions about the Army’s mission remain. Why did it build a
$12 million (which came from taxpayers) center, not use it for recruiting, and then close it two years later? It seems like a whole lot of money just to “determine the most effective tools for public outreach.” Despite repeated questions and calls for comment, we never got the answer. As far as the gaming equipment, Lepley says it will take four months to disassemble and remove, and will then go to two new stations in the Philadelphia area. The locations haven’t been finalized, but Lt. Col. Chris Belcher, of the Army Recruiting Command, says there will be one on Cottman Avenue and one in the Levittown area. These “21st-century” recruiting stations will likely have about three gaming stations each, as well as an interactive careernavigating system. As for other stations throughout the United States potentially receiving equipment, Lepley says: “There is no lack of units clamoring for the [video games and simulators at the AEC],” though the Army must still “determine how we can make the most effective use of the equipment.” In the future, U.S. military recruiting won’t be done with pamphlets and folding tables set up around strip malls. It’ll happen when Mom and Dad drop their kids off at the taxpayer-funded arcade so they can shop without the constant begging to stop by Toys “R” Us and Gamestop. The war is far from over. n
Months after the lights have dimmed on New York City’s famed Fashion Week, more than 300 people from one of Philly’s poorest Zip codes, just north of Strawberry Mansion, take seats in the hot sun and prepare to watch as local clothing and hair designers display their works in front of Ernie Harrod’s 25th and Lehigh shop. “I’m going to be showing off this fresh hairstyle,” says Joel Richardson, gesturing to his intricately fashioned scalp. “I’m also going to be modeling.” Richardson and his friends have sculpted lines and spirals circumnavigating their heads, colored shades of blue, red, purple and yellow. They are crowded backstage, waiting to hit the catwalk at the Ernie’s Upp-A-Cuts Unisex Salon 3rd Annual Outdoor Hair & Fashion Show. Block party meets urban couture. While mainstream fashion is more diverse than ever, it’s still overwhelmingly white. So today, inner-city designers and models get to strut their urban stuff. It’s a growing trend in the world of AfricanAmerican hair shows orchestrated by salons and barbershops in neighborhoods throughout the country. The platform and runway are built by hand and face out to the street, while the shop interior is transformed into a backstage dressing room. After a rapper, R&B and reggaeton singers have tried to placate the crowd, sweltering to distraction, Usher’s “OMG” roars from the sound system. The first set of dozens take the stage in outlandish locally designed clothing: silver Jetson-age bikini and dress frame combinations, flower-bedazzled bras, polka dots, tulle and taffeta, bustiers, rainbow-colored hair carved into starbursts or concentric circles, and braids embroidered with small mirror fragments. The svelte young boys in tight pants sashay and twirl and young women show off long legs stalking out from the most diminutive miniskirts. The long-suffering crowd is on its feet. Backstage, a young woman named Dominique is putting the final touches on her continued on page 11
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outfit. “I have a tutu, which is made out of tulle. And I have a ripped shirt with scissors on it, because our theme is Edward Scissorhands. So I got a zipper: really cutting edge,” she says, pointing up, “My neck brace,” and then to her hair. “Cut. Chopped. Scissors. A little pink at the top, black at the bottom. Do you like it?” Overseeing the controlled mayhem are local designers like Happy, the owner of a North Philly boutique called Happy Couture which has designed much of the day’s clothing. She is not on stage today, but she is set on spectacle. “This is some of my punk rock stuff. It’s a little Gaga,” says Happy, describing her zipper, metal and chain-laden clothing. “Everyone calls me the Mother of Gaga, because I’ve been doing it since I was a little girl. I eat this stuff, I sleep it. I was created to create. I came out of my mom bedazzling my pampers.” Happy is one of four designers participating in today’s show, along with two barbershops and salons. She, Harrod and a team of young, male fashionistas have overseen months of rigorous training for the catwalk, mostly young men and women from North Philly. Footwork. Hips. Turns. Pouting. Posture. Dead sexy stares. Highly choreographed dance numbers and skits.
Many nights models practiced dance moves at the shop until two in the morning. “I’m pretty tough on them,” admits Happy, who says that she’d also like to design costumes for the Walnut Street Theater. “But the world’s pretty tough. So if they can’t handle me, they’re not going to be able to handle out there.” “That’s how we get the best performers,”
says Harrod, who takes a fatherly interest in his performers. Teens, twentysomethings. Gay and straight. “You see Beyoncé, right? She didn’t get that overnight. She works hard. And that’s what I tell the girls. You gotta work hard.” “It’s just crunch time,” says Chelsea Holmes, as a neighbor curled her hair. “Time to get on the runway and strut our stuff.” Upp-A-Cuts barber Franky Fingaz did all the hair for his scene, in which he—painted grey head to toe—plays a statue that discovers that he is actually an amazing hair stylist. This is the Abbotsford Homes native’s first skit with his new group, Team Fingaz. “Usually when I do a hair show, I do straight runway, which is just walking and showing off haircuts,” says Fingaz, who hopes to perform at the Bronner Brothers show in Atlanta, the nation’s biggest African-American hair event. “But I finally got a team together.” It’s a community endeavor, one that Harrod says helps the community “feel better about ourselves.” Between scenes, the crowd did the Cupid Shuffle and the Electric Slide, devoured hamburgers, chicken wings, water ice and ribs. Aside from the neighbors, there are also a hundred-odd recovering drug addicts taking in the show and doing a yeoman’s service behind the
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usquehanna Avenue doesn’t seem so menacing in the daytime. Running east to west through North Philadelphia just north of Temple University, the street feels calm at 11 a.m. The blocks are lined with Halal meat shops, ice-cold-beer joints, some run-down rowhouses and vacant lots filled with tires and mattresses. The sidewalks are nearly empty, and few cars drive by. But make no mistake, tranquility isn’t the norm in this neighborhood. Bad shit goes down too. The Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) Crime Map shows a homicide, a rape, seven robberies, 12 aggravated assaults, 19 burglaries and three stolen vehicles for the month of June within a three-block radius of 17th and Susquehanna. Even so, the area is getting safer, thanks to the widening reach of Temple and its private police force. As enrollment at the university increases and more students move into the neighborhoods around campus, Temple feels the impetus to use its considerable resources to protect them. The increased security is good for business. Temple enrollment is up 20 percent in the last decade. And increased safety for students means better neighborhood security in general, paving the way for new businesses to come in and prosper. “We feel very good about what Temple’s been able to do in that we feel that our students are safe,” says Anthony Wagner, Temple’s executive vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer. “The single biggest indicator of our success is that incredibly strong student demand we’ve seen over the last decade.” University safety departments are part of a national trend of security
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privatization that has been growing for the last 40 years. Private security forces, ranging from unarmed guards to full-fledged police squads, have been created to fill voids left by municipal police. Here in Philadelphia, budget concerns have put the PPD under the knife of Mayor Nutter, who has proposed eliminating two incoming police classes to vacate 230 positions. The move would reduce the force from about 6,600 officers to nearly 6,400, making the private police forces more important than ever. With a security budget of $18 million, Temple is striving to create a safer environment, deploying a 121-officer police force, plus 73 inhouse security guards and 225 others contracted from AlliedBarton. “Part of my street isn’t that bad, the other part is really bad,” says Leon Bruce, an accounting major at Temple, who lives half a block away on North Colorado. Despite pervasive crime, Bruce says he generally feels safe. Authorities keep their eyes on the block. Bruce, who lives on the fringe of Temple’s area of influence, says, “there’s always a Temple cop in the neighborhood.”
As its influence continues to expand outward into the neighborhoods, Temple is treading down a path the University of Pennsylvania has already blazed. In the last decade, University City has undergone a complete makeover, unrecognizable in commercial complexion and neighborhood safety. The changes were brought about largely through security supplied directly or indirectly by Penn (116 private cops) and, to a lesser extent, Drexel, which just unveiled its own police force last year. Combined with the PPD, that makes three police forces and four major security-guard forces in University City including teams of AlliedBarton guards employed by
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neighborhood trash can and toilet.” In 2008, the last year data is available, 1,064 Part I and Part II crimes (which range from disorderly conduct to murder) were reported on and around campus. “If you were a victim of a crime on campus, that counts; Not just students,” Bittenbender says. A glance down the school’s daily crime log shows a mixture of underage alcohol consumption and public intoxication mixed with assaults, thefts, stolen cars and burglary. Temple recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of its police force, which holds Act 120 certification from the Municipal Police Officers Education and Training Commission, giving the force the same powers of arrest and investigation as the PPD. “A police officer is a police officer whether employed by the city of Philadelphia, Penn or Temple,” says PPD spokesman Lt. Frank Vanore. “They all get the same training at the same police academies.” “We have a memorandum of understanding between the universities and police department,” says Vanore. “Certain investigations they handle, certain investigations we handle.”
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or six college students. “A lot of the people that were moving in here were Temple students,” she says. “We’ve got the standard town-andgown activity. Our neighbors go to bed around 10 and that’s around the time the students start partying. Neighbors call us
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police to quiet them down,” says Willie J. DeShields, president of the Yorktown Community Organization. Faison says the neighborhood started having late-night rowdiness problems when investors came and bought singlefamily houses, renting them out to five
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tion, but problems arise when the extra security comes packaged with institutional expansion, raising housing prices and driving out lower income residents. Long considered a public service, security can become a monetized resource, available only for those who can afford to pay the bills. “If you’re not a yuppie making $100,000 a year, you can’t afford to live around here anymore,” says Dena Lewis-Sallie who had to give up her one-bedroom apartment on the 700 block of Franklin Street, because the landlord raised her rent from $600 a month (including electricity) to $800 (plus electricity.) Lewis-Salles says that the more the neighborhood gentrifies, the “further north” longtime residents are forced to move. “Now where I’m at there’s drug activity. Further north you get the worse it gets.” In 2000, the average price of a house between the blocks surrounding Temple was $32,891. In 2008, prices reached $87,932, and continue to rise despite the housing crash, averaging $97,224 last year, according to Econsult. It’s not just the cost of living that’s under attack. It’s also the quality of life. Temple cops are routinely called to stop students from causing disturbances in their adopted neighborhoods. “Students have had parties that have gotten out of the way. We called Temple A S H L E Y T I S DA L E
the University of the Sciences and the University City District (UCD) development corporation. The eyes, ears, night sticks and guns on the street have made an impact. “I have personally witnessed tremendous changes in the neighborhood for the positive,” says Lori Klein Brennan, who has lived in University City for seven years. “It’s cleaner, safer, more amenities, restaurants, attractions, more young families have moved into the neighborhood.” Brennan is the director of marketing and communications for the UCD, a business improvement organization founded in 1997 to increase security and market the neighborhood to businesses. The UCD spends $1.2 million for the security officers annually, employing 42 AlliedBarton security guards as “ambassadors,” who patrol as far west as 50th Street seven days a week from 10 a.m. to 3 a.m., on foot or bicycle wearing green and yellow vests. “Seven years ago people were not willing to go west of 43rd Street,” says Brennan. “I think public safety has a tremendous amount to do with it,” she says of the neighborhood revitalization and UCD’s efforts to create a visible security force. “Safety is the foundation of what neighborhoods are built on.” West and North Philly each contain some of the most dangerous areas in the city, but with the resources to deploy their own security, the large universities are making inroads into crime-fighting where city police haven’t made an impact. They're transforming entire neighborhoods in the process. Like University City, the Jefferson Manor and Yorktown neighborhoods east of Temple feel the effects of extra security, here in the form of Temple police. “This is one neighborhood where people still have their lawn chairs and sit outside,” says Roberta Faison, who has lived in Jefferson Manor since the 1960s. An estimated 6,000 students live in the neighborhoods immediately surrounding Temple’s campus. Temple police can patrol up to 500 yards off campus, says Carl Bittenbender, executive director of campus safety services, though they usually stay a bit closer to home. “Generally, our patrol area is a block to two off campus,” he says. The patrols don’t and can’t cover everywhere students live in the neighborhoods, though “as Temple expands that area keeps getting bigger and bigger,” Bittenbender adds. James Baraldi, who graduated last year and who lived on Bouvier Street, a few blocks west of Broad between 17th and 18th, says he didn’t see much of the Temple police on his block. “There were people on the corner selling drugs in the open. There was an open space next to our house, which was basically the
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up and say kids are being noisy,” says Anthony Wagner, Temple’s executive vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer. In reaction to the student influx Jefferson Manor and Yorktown were granted a special zoning ordinance by the Department of Licenses and Inspections that bars rentals by absentee landlords. Effectively, apartments can no longer be rented to Temple students unless the owner is willing to live in the house with them. This May, the residents won a lawsuit forcing certain owners who had continued renting to students to discontinue the practice. “You will see Temple police going through the neighborhood,” says DeShields. “At some point they had officers that were walking through the community and on bikes as well.” With full-time enrollment at an all-time high of more than 30,000, Temple’s reach and power has never been greater and its ultimate effects on surrounding neighborhoods remain to be seen. The school is still growing up, and that’s up, not out, administrators point out, wary of perceptions that Temple is trying to engulf it's surrounding neighborhoods. “I once heard somebody say it this way: No one can bring Philadelphia back on their own, but no one can bring it back without Temple,” Wagner says. As Temple moves forward with its renaissance, searching for balance between revi-
talizing and overwhelming the surrounding neighborhoods, the fact remains that it would not be in a position to affect major changes without its police force. Similarly, Penn could never have transformed University City to the extent it did without its own police and security initiatives. With some caveats about rising prices, many neighbors appreciate the increased safety—few people would say they aspire to live in a crime-ridden neighborhood—but the sobering thought is that the city relies on university cops to shoulder such a large burden. There are countless other neighborhoods throughout the city that could use more policing, be it by the city or a private force, but there are only so many Temples, Penns and Drexels to go around. “There’s been a huge growth in private policing over the past several decades,” says Jennifer Wood, an associate professor of criminal justice at Temple. But Wood outlines “concerns with the rise of private policing with the sense that those that can afford to pay for private police will get a supplemental security blanket around them. If you live in a gated community, you buy yourself into a lifestyle that’s highly secure. “Some worry that the process of marketizing security will exacerbate the gaps between the wealthiest segments of the population and the less well-to-do,” Wood says. “Should security be a commodity that you can buy?” n
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8pm. $12-$15. With Richard Crandell + Good for Cows. Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave. 215.739.9684. arsnovaworkshop.org
Slumdog Millionare. He’s also sick of being asked if he was excited about how successful Slumdog was: In one of his bits, he wonders whether white people are just psyched all the time. “Back to the Future, that’s us! Godfather, that’s us! Godfather Part II, that’s us! Departed, that’s us! Sunset Blvd., that’s us! Citizen Kane, that’s us! Jaws, that’s us! Every fuckin’ movie BUT Slumdog Millionaire and Boyz N the Hood, that’s us! We’re white people, suck our dicks!’” Since Ansari, who steals tons of scenes as Tom on NBC’s Parks and Recreation, has just jumped aboard the Apatow train, catch him now before he slides down into the fetid cesspool of stoner-boner movies where Seth Rogen reigns supreme. Admittedly, Apatow’s idea of casting Ansari in an as-yet-untitled film “about two disgraced astronauts who must return to space to clear their names” sounds pretty solid. TaRa MuRTha
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T-minus 50-odd days until the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe (kind of a mouthful) overtakes the city. Are you ready? With hundreds of performances to choose from, consider it your cultural homework to do a little pre-show recon. Meet, greet and hang out with Fringe alumna Charlotte Ford, whom you may recognize from her work in 1812 Productions’ An Evening Without Woody Allen and Cherry Bomb or last year’s Fringe darling Welcome to Yuba City from Pig Iron Theatre Company. This year, Ford presents CHICKEN, which features “a buzz-cut she-beast, a Casper Milquetoast somnambulist cross-dresser and a passive-aggressive Elvis devotee vying for bunk beds, safety goggles and poopie suits.” She’ll spill all the dirty details and cast members will sample scenes from the show. Afterward, they’ll hang out for a reception (read: free snacks and beers!) and you can ask extra-credit questions. ERICA PALAN
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Start rolling those Rs for the 31st Annual Hispanic Fiesta, hosted all weekend by the Council of Spanish Speaking Organizations (Concilio) as part of the PECO Multicultural Series. Attendees can revel in the cultures (and awesome food) of Latin America, perusing the wares of traditional craftsmen, sampling delicious ethnic foods and dancing to salsa, mariachi and merengue. Saturday, munch on an empanada while shaking your hips to Venezuelan group Los Aviadores. Come back the next evening to see Cano Estremera, perhaps the world’s most famous albino Puerto Rican, who will be showing off the vocal chops he honed touring with trumpet legend Bobby Valentin. A number of Latin dance groups will also be gracing the stage, so if you don’t quite have the moves, you can at least watch the pros. LUCy MCGUIGAN
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Afrobeat—the absolutely consuming blend of urgent and feisty West African drumming, funky horn blasts, psychedelic rock horsepower, and post-bop jazz underpinnings—started in the ’60s with Nigerian legend Fela Kuti, who used the music’s unstoppable grooves as a delivery system for his fiery political dissent and demand for social change. Upon Fela’s AIDS-related death in 1997, the torch was passed to his eldest son, Femi, who’d played in his father’s band and had his own career going since the late ’80s. Though Femi, now 48, has updated the Afrobeat template a bit with dub/reggae elements and modern sonics, the potency of the grooves—and the messages they carry— remain unchanged. MICHAEL ALAN GOLDbERG 9pm. $25. Theater of Living Arts, 334 South St. 215.922.1011. livenation.com
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If it’s got a motor, runs on electricity or is wireless, engineering pioneer Nikola Tesla made it possible. But the Tesla legacy isn’t just power lines and iPods: The Serbian scientist’s ideas and inventions have inspired an inquisitive new generation in the search for sustainable energy. The Tesla Energy Independence Celebrations 2010 are how the Philly-based Tesla Science Foundation pays
homage to the inventor/alpha nerd whose life’s work makes modern existence, well, modern. Tesla enthusiasts don’t celebrate with booze and cake (although they will sing for his 154th birthday at midnight), but with feats of art, engineering and community. Friday night has a Tesla coil competition (bring yours to show off), a dance party with projections from VJ Static, sculpture by Bat Country Art Collective and a collaborative mural organized by PANadelphia. Festivities continue on Saturday with outdoor exhibits, music and food.
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We’d love to be at customs when Katzenjammer arrives from Norway. On the plus side, these four ladies sport the kind of seriously attractive, high-cheekboned looks that can slice through bureaucratic obstacles. On the minus, they’ll be toting up to 30 different instruments, ordinary ones like keyboards and guitar and rarer ones, including tuba and balalaika. If they get through, however, this performance will be jam packed with orchestral flourishes, with bugle calls and calliope pipes, mad gypsy romps and caffeinated, Abba-esque harmonies. They’re touring the U.S. for the first time on the strength of their debut album Le Pop, a lighthearted, cheerful confec-
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So exchange rates got the better of your Parisian vacation, and all your plans for revolution have fizzled. Instead of drowning your sorrows in croissants and Godard, join Philadelphia’s sansculottes and displaced Francophiles in an uprising against Bourbon tyranny and ridiculous wigs in Fairmount’s annual Bastille Day celebration. First build your esprit du corps with French cuisine and crafts supplied by local restaurants and shops, then watch as musket-toting revolutionaries storm the walls of the Bastille (played by Eastern State Penitentiary) to capture a TastyKake-hurling Marie Antoinette and drag her to the guillotine. Regicide is a possibility, but this commemoration of the French Revolution is more Monty Python than Intro to Western Civilization, and more likely to end in champagne at a bar than in a Reign of Terror. At least here there’s no Robespierre… and everyone accepts American dollars. LAUREN SMITH
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The only thing gays love more than Lady Gaga is a good survival story; even Alejandro would be enamored by the Gayborhood‘s rock-hard resilience. The streets between Pine and Chestnut and 11th and Broad are here, and they’re queer, despite many refusing to get used to it. From state-sponsored harassment during the 1970s to failed rebranding campaigns (remember B3, aka Blocks Below Broad, and Midtown Village?), the continued existence of the Gayborhood is a testament to the ’hood’s fortitude. The city government that once raided this former red-light district now celebrates the area’s 40th anniversary as the cultural center of the city’s queer community and its transformation into an economic epicenter. The day kicks off with the unveiling of 32 more rainbow street signs, then a block party fit for a queen. Gerry Christopher Johnson Noon. Free. 13th St. between Locust & Walnut sts. and Camac Street between Locust & Spruce sts. visitphilly.com
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Haven’t you heard? If you’ve got the money (a mere twelve bucks), now is a great time to invest in Real Estate! The return on your investment? Instant nostalgia for the sun, surf, sand, cheap beer and tender hookups of youth that’s conjured by the New Jersey band’s easygoing, tropicalia-kissed psych-pop. Listening to tunes from the foursome’s wonderful self-titled debut is like gazing at an old, faded postcard of Avalon or Margate from the ’60s that you might find at a flea market. There’s no Springsteenian “we gotta get out of this place” sentiment here; just the vivid sensation of soaking up the rays and living in the moment and feeling like everything’s gonna be all right. M.A.G. 8pm. $12. With Kurt Vile. Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 Frankford Ave. 215.739.9684. johnnybrendas.com
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Drinking whiskey impairs judgment, sometimes to the point of landing you in bed with someone who looks like their face was melted with acid and/or beaten with a lead pole. That’s just the most obvious reason not to drink whiskey with strangers; the Chemical Heritage Foundation can give you several more deadly ones with the booze-infused science lecture series Science on Tap’s latest installment, “The Burke and Hare Murders: Sixteen Good Reasons Not to Drink Whiskey With Strangers.” After hearing from speaker Lisa Rosner, professor of history at Stockton College, chat with fellow nerds over a couple drinks about how informative the lecture was, how you learned your lesson, how you’ll never talk to strangers while you’re drinking ... oh. Well, drink responsibly. rAChel stuMpo 6pm. Free. national Mechanics, 22 S. Third St. 215.701.4883. chemheritage.org
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The World Cup’s great and all, but it ain’t got shit on the Winter Olympics, which also has world-class athletes but brings an aesthetic bonus: Tons of glitter. (We love you, Johnny Weir!) Get your seasonal shimmer fix at the Liberty Figure Skating Summer Competition. One of the nation’s largest standalone figure skating competitions, the five-day event features more than 650 skaters ranging in age from 6 to 25. Although winners won’t advance to further competitions, this is a chance for them to show off their newest moves in front of national judges. Keep your eyes peeled for performances from Canadian skater Patrick Chan and American competitor Ashley Wagner, both of whom are poised to be household names in future Olympics. Admission is free, so PhillyCarSharing for an afternoon is totally justifiable. And just think of all the glitter! eriCA pAlAn Through July 17. Free. IceWorks Skating Complex, 3100 Dutton Mill Rd, Aston. 215.233.1399. libertyskating.org
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Short and sweet: Three words that sum up the Coke Dares. The Bloomington, Ind., trio channels the Ramones’ spunky simplicity through the irrepressible irreverence of They Might Be Giants and punchy power/punk-pop tunefulness like GBV covering the Descendants. Their second album Feelin’ Up races through 33 songs in 25 minutes ranging from the four-second “Fuck You I Quit” to “I Wish I Could Get as High as Neil Young Does,” which suggests a Cliffs Notes Oh My Gawd-era Flaming Lips, and the Cheap Trick-ish, “There’s a Meth Lab on My Street.” The hooks are sharp and the playing tight (the rhythm section sidelights in Magnolia Electric Co.), proving brevity’s indeed a witty song’s heartbeat. Chris pArker
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Shore Shot Zahav’s Down the Shore party gets the music and food just right. By Erica Palan
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We walked into Zahav on Thursday night and, within seconds, I was having a flashback. I’m blue, da ba dee da ba die ... “Well, they got the music right,” I said aloud, recalling a night in 1999 when Eiffel 65 played on a constant loop at Jilly’s Arcade on the Ocean City boardwalk. My boyfriend and I had just entered the Down the Shore party at chef Mike Solomonov’s lauded Israeli restaurant. The party’s theme was simple: A bunch of Philly’s best chefs each put a new twist on a classic Shore dish. The milk-chocolate walls of the restaurant were adorned with banners announcing the evening’s menu. Pizza! Crab boil! Fried clams! Hot dogs! I’m a minor-league foodie but on this night, I wasn’t in it for the calorie consumption. I wanted to binge on nostalgia. Growing up in the God-damn-rightit’s-Great Northeast section of Philadelphia, a vacation at the Jersey Shore was equivalent to a troupe of sorostitutes heading to Cancun: It was The Dream. We fantasized about our seven days in Ocean City for 51 weeks a year, planning and saving, making lists of which boardwalk shops we wanted to visit and wondering if the boardwalk had added any new amusements. Oddly, The Dream hasn’t evolved much in the last decade or so. While the rest of the fashion world has changed, shops on the boardwalk are still carrying booty shorts with the names of shore towns emblazoned on the ass. Tie-dyed shirts. Hemp jewelry. Drug rugs. (Fashion at the Jersey Shore is not unlike what you’d see in the parking lot of a Dave Matthews Band show.) Not only is this hideous shit available for purchase, but people actually wear it. Unironically. I wouldn’t be shocked to walk into Jilly’s right now and hear Eiffel 65 blaring from the speakers. I likely won’t get to the Jersey Shore this summer. So I needed to get my fill of N.J. lovin’ close to home. I’m a machine head, better than the rest, green to red, machine head ... The soundtrack appropriately stayed in the late 1990s as we mingled with other partygoers. The crowd was unsurprisingly brimming with members of the Philly foodie community. We bought Miller High Life pounders from inside a wheeled trashcan, paying a guy wearing a mullet wig and a fanny
pack. “This is authenticity,” I told my boyfriend. Soon, our growling stomachs led us away from the bar and toward the kitchen. Camped out by one of the two kitchen doors, we pounced on servers, grabbing a trio of popsicles from Bistrot la Minette’s Peter Woolsey, mini hot dogs from John Taus (formerly of Snackbar) and Fork’s Andrew Wood, ice cream sandwiches from Percy Street’s Erin O’Shea and crab from Lucio Palazzo of Xochitl. Starving, we dove right in. Glory days, in the wink of a young girl’s eye, glory daaaaaays ... As the evening’s playlist traveled further back in time, we made our way toward the opposite end of the restaurant, hoping to find more munching options. On the way, I got sidetracked by a waitress donning another Jersey Shore fashion staple: Daisy Dukes. She was selling intriguing slushy split-pea-soup-colored beverages. Having had my fill of High Life, I asked about the drink’s ingredients. The lemonada, featuring Jim Beam bourbon, mint, lemon, verbena and simple syrup, was the highlight of the evening. Gloriously herbal-y and deliciously sweet, I couldn’t stop drinking them. One. Two. Three cups. I felt my stomach gurgle and I suddenly realized I was swaying back and forth— likely not in time with the music. Fuck nostalgia. I needed more food. Now. We stalked servers with trays of chunky herb-sprinkled fries from Bibou’s Pierre Camels, the most delicious fried clams I’ve ever tasted from Fork’s Terence Feury, burgers from Mémé’s David Katz and a lamb-stuffed calzone from party host Michael Solomonov. Much like every beach vacation I’ve ever taken, I stuffed my face with food I’d never allow myself to eat while preparing to wear a bathing suit. We gonna rock down to E-lec-tric Avenue ... “Have you had enough?” my boyfriend asked a while later. I wasn’t sure whether he meant enough food, enough drink or enough reminiscing, but I nodded, too drunk for sentimentality. As we stumbled out the door and down the stairs, I heard talk the evening’s entertainment—a Journey cover band— was tuning up. I laughed and said it again: “They got the music right.” n
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Stage Best of 2009-10 By J. Cooper Robb jrobb@philadelphiaweekly.com
Welcome to Yuba City: Best New Play and Best Choreography.
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As the 2009-10 theater season comes to a close, Philadelphia confirms its status as a city with one of the most vibrant theater scenes in the country. It didn’t happen overnight. For the past two decades, the theater community has grown in both quantity and quality; now, previously young companies are now artistically established, and over the years have been cultivating a stable of talented local designers, directors and actors. However, the difference between this season and past years wasn’t just the quality of the productions, but also the selection of plays. Past seasons have tended to be dominated by strong productions of inferior or mediocre work. This time, audiences were treated to selections of unusually high quality: Broadway hits like The History Boys and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, compelling dramas like Shining City and Rabbit Hole, sharp-witted comedies like the wickedly funny Becky Shaw, and exciting new work like The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity and Welcome to Yuba City, notable for its excellent ensemble cast as well as its brush with the national media as Sen. John McCain decried the use of stimulus funds to pay the show’s actors. Plays were markedly shorter than in past seasons. Gone were the lengthy three-act dramas: Even the two-act play became an anomaly as 90-minute one-acts took over the area stages, rendering intermission a quaint memory. The result was tighter, more focused stories (good for audiences) and smaller casts (not so good for actors). What makes the success so surprising is that it occurred in spite of (or because of) the struggling economy. If necessity is the mother of invention, the budget shortfalls of many companies led to a host of innovations like Yuba City, Gas & Electric Arts’ bizarrely entertaining Cabinet of Wonders, the interstellar site-specific work Survive! from new company Swim Pony and the season’s wildest ride, Brat Productions’ literary horrorshow Haunted Poe. Finally, the 2009-10 season suggests that Philly theater’s best days may lie ahead. Perhaps the season’s most welcome trend was the emergence of young actors. Among the new wave of local talent this season are Aaron Stall, who gave a wrenching performance as a grief-stricken teenager in the Arden’s Rabbit Hole; Jonathan Silver, as an enterprising, emotionally susceptible teen in Bristol Riverside Theatre’s Up; Laura Giknis, who showed off her versatility with memorable performances in Up and the musical Little Shop of Horrors (a co-production of Theatre Horizon and 11th Hour Theatre Company); and Michael Doherty, who charmed audiences as a gay prep-school student in the Arden’s well-executed staging of The History Boys. ■
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TOP 10 PRODUCTIONS, 2009-10: Becky Shaw (Wilma Theater) Company (EgoPo Productions) Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Walnut Street Theatre) The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (InterAct) Haunted Poe (Brat Productions) The History Boys (Arden Theatre Company) Little Shop of Horrors (11th Hour and Theatre Horizon) Rabbit Hole (Arden Theatre Company) Shining City (Theatre Exile) Welcome to Yuba City (Pig Iron Theatre Company)
HONORABLE MENTIONS: Cabinet of Wonders (Gas & Electric Arts), Up (Bristol Riverside Theatre), Sunday in the Park with George (Arden Theatre Company), Language Rooms (Wilma Theater), Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Philadelphia Theatre Company), Coming Home (Wilma Theater)
THE BEST OF 2009-10: PRODUCTION (PLAY): Haunted Poe PRODUCTION (MUSICAL): Little Shop of Horrors DIRECTOR (PLAY): Seth Rozin, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity
DIRECTOR (MUSICAL): Megan Nicole O’Brien, Little Shop of Horrors
NEW PLAY: Welcome to Yuba City ACTRESS (MUSICAL): Kristine Fraelich, Sunday in the Park with George
ACTOR (MUSICAL): Jeffrey Coon, Sunday in the Park with George
ACTRESS (PLAY): Grace Gonglewski, Rabbit Hole ACTOR (PLAY): Scott Greer, Shining City SUPPORTING ACTRESS (MUSICAL): Mary Martello, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
SUPPORTING ACTOR (MUSICAL): Fran Prisco, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
SUPPORTING ACTRESS (PLAY): Laura Giknis, Up SUPPORTING ACTOR (PLAY): Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
ENSEMBLE (PLAY): Welcome to Yuba City ENSEMBLE (MUSICAL): Sunday in the Park with George CHOREOGRAPHY: Christina Zani, Welcome to Yuba City COSTUME DESIGN: Alisa Sickora Kleckwer, Haunted Poe LIGHTING DESIGN: Thom Weaver, Coming Home SCENIC DESIGN: Mimi Lien, Welcome to Yuba City SOUND DESIGN: Mikaal Sulaiman, Hunter Gatherers VIDEO DESIGN: Jorge Cousineau, Sunday in the Park with George
ORIGINAL MUSIC: Mogauwane Mahloele, Coming Home
Story of Privilege By Holly Martins feedback@philadelphiaweekly.com
Paula Wilson’s latest exhibition First Story at the Fabric Workshop opens with a painted image of the artist leaning out a window in one of several large, graffiti-covered, faux-brick fabric walls, looking out onto the street. By placing this image of herself, an African-American woman in a re-creation of one of Philadelphia’s struggling neighborhoods, right in the foreground, Wilson sets down the coordinates of race and class in which her work is meant to be read. Wilson, originally from Chicago and currently of New Mexico, spent some time exploring the outlying regions of the city. It seems that as she roamed our streets, she found signs of class relations encoded in our very buildings. Through the windows of her run-down fabric rowhomes, you can see an Italian villa with expansive pools, lavish gardens and decorative fountains, a vision of excess in a frame of urban decay. In the villa, painted and printed images of multiracial young subjects participate in Caligula-like debauchery, complete with a jokingly cliched backdrop of Roman baths and Grecian urns. It’s a bawdy callback to neoclassicalism and its symbols of economic privilege, and a comment on materialism in the modern landscape. The brick walls and covered windows are the reality; the open windows and interior images can be seen as the shared dreams of those living within. Everyone, the work seems to say, not just the wealthy, has been inundated via movies, music and TV with the message that fulfillment can be found in the external signs of material wealth. Even the Greco-Roman imagery in the fantasies has been imported from the dominant, Eurocentric culture. Not only have the inhabitants of this fabric ghetto had their physical lives hobbled from the start by asymmetric distribution of privileges, but even their imaginations have been colonized by a European vision of happiness and fulfillment. Wilson presents her aestheticized interpretation of the imagination of the urban poor in a wealthy institution funded by wealthy individuals. I fear her work could feed that romantic longing of the privileged to really understand urban poverty, to go back to one’s privilege at the end of the day displaying nuggets of wisdom about what it’s really like to be poor. (This is well-illustrated by those who didn’t grow up in urban poverty knowingly asserting that The Wire really hit the nail on the head.) Inner-city poverty is bleak and brutal. Some manage to escape, but most struggle to get by. Wilson’s enigmatic wishwindows function as a whimsical, palatable Other for those who are privileged, but may be less charming for those who aren't. ■ Paula Wilson: First Story Through early fall. Fabric Workshop and Museum, 1214 Arch St., 215.561.8888. fabricworkshop.org
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Sherlock Holmes & The Speckled Band
Cerulean Arts
Various artists: “Beyond Vision.” Thru July 30. 1355 Ridge Ave. ceruleanarts.com
Thornstensen: ”Counterpoint: The Leap From Vision to Print.” Various artists: ”Constructed Visions.” 9201 Germantown Ave. woodmereartmuseum.org
Stockbridge Fine Art
Winterthur Museum
Twelve Gates Gallery
Michener Museum
Various artists: ”Lost Gardens of the Brandywine.” Thru July 25. 5105 Kennett Pike. 302.888.4600. winterthur.org
See Holmes in his study with Dr. Watson working out the elements of the mystery, and then follow him to an old mansion where he must stop a devious killer from committing another horrible crime! Sat/10, 7pm. Free. Pennypacker Mills, 5 Haldeman Rd., Schwenksville. historicsites.montcopa.org
Justin James Reed: ”Don’t Die.” Thru July 31. 319 N. 11th St. 215.629.4040. stockbridgefineartprint.com
Moliere’s The Miser
BoYoung Moon: ”Fabrications: Contemporary Arts and Textiles” Thru Aug. 7. 51 N. Second St. 215.413.3191. gallery51.net
The Franklin Institute
Burrison Gallery
Greg Dunn: ”Nature and Neurons.” Thru Aug. 6. 3611 Walnut St.
Various artists: ”Cleopatra: Search for the Last Queen of Egypt.” Thru Jan. 2. 3260 South St. penn.museum
Artists’ House Gallery
The Chemical Heritage Foundation
Harpagon works to maintain his frugal lifestyle despite the mounting challenges that his children, his servants and his own impending marriage place on his relationship with his only true love: his gold. Sat/10, 7pm. $5-$10. Live at the Pavilion, 8480 Hagy’s Mill Rd. schuylkillcenter.org
The Second City’s 50th Anniversary Tour
Various artists: ”Erasing Borders 2010.” Thru July 24. 305 Cherry St. 267.519.2737. twelvegatesgallery.com
Gallery51
Various artists: ”Group Show of Invited Artists.” Thru Aug. 22. 57 N. Second St. 215.923.8440. artistshouse.com
A side-splitting comedy revue celebration of The Second City’s 50th Anniversary Tour. Suzanne Roberts Theater, 480 S. Broad St. 215.985.0420. philadelphiatheatrecompany.org
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Various artists: ”Summer Selections.” Thru Aug. 1. 2040 Frankford Ave. highwiregallery.com
REcEpTions/EvEnTs
JoKa: “Self Portraits of People I Don’t Know.” Thru July 15. 2434 E. Dauphin St. 267.825.2949. proximityart.com
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Philadelphia Art Alliance
Thurs/8, 6-9pm. Nancy Agati: ”Stratum.” Thru July 31. 1400 N. American St. 215.235.3405. inliquid.com
AxD Gallery
Fri/9, 5-8pm. Various artists: ”QueerArt.” Thru Aug. 7. 265 S. 10th St. 215.627.6250. a-x-d.com/gallery
Locks Gallery
Fri/9, 5:30-7:30pm. Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib: ”Whiteout.” Thru July 30. 600 S. Washington Sq. 215.629.1000. locksgallery.com
Bridgette Mayer Gallery
Fri/9, 6-8:30pm. Mark Brosseau: ”Wondrous Spaces.” Thru July 31. 709 Walnut St. 215.413.8893. bridgettemayergallery.com
Sande Webster Gallery
Fri/9, 6-8pm. Various artists: ”Divergence: Five Views on Photography.” Thru Aug. 28. 2006 Walnut St. 215.636.9003. sandewebstergallery.com
Knapp Gallery
Sat/10, 6-9pm. Nancy E. F. Halbert: ”A Painted Diary: Figurative Expressions.” Thru July 25. 162 N. Third St. 267.445.0279. knappgallery.com
gAllERiEs Pentimenti Gallery
Various artists: ”Let’s Go Enjoy Nature!” Thru Aug. 3. 1108 Pine St. 215.923.7000 seraphingallery.com
Project Basho
Various artists: ”Friends of Project Basho 2010.” Thru July 30. 1305 Germantown Ave. 215.238.0928. projectbasho.org
3rd Street Gallery
MaryAnn Miller: ”Costa Rica: Constructed and Deconstructed.” Michael J. Dalton: ”Building Violence.” Thru Aug. 4. 58 N. Second St. 215.625.0993. 3rdstreetgallery.com
Vincent Michael Gallery
PaperMonster: “PaperMonster Ate That Little Boy.” Thru July 31. 1050 N. Hancock St. vincentmichael.com
Square Peg Artery & Salvage
Anthony Kosiakowski and Sara Horne: “Untitled.” Thru July 30. 108 S. 20th St. 215.360.5548. squarepegartery.com
Muse Gallery
Various artists: ”Vanitas: Contemporary Reflections.” Thru Aug. 12. 251 S. 18th St. 215.545.4302. philaartalliance.org
Philadelphia Photo Arts Center
Various artists: ”Daydream Nation: 1st Annual Contemporary Photography Competition.” Thru Aug. 21. 1400 N. American St. 215.232.5678. philaphotoarts.org
Gallery 339
Various artists: ”In Review.” Thru Sept. 4. 339 S. 21st St. 215.731.1530. gallery339.com
The Print Center
Bill Walton: ”Tracings/Transfers/ Copies/Forgeries.” Various artists: ”84th Annual International Competition: Photography.” Thru July 24. 1614 Latimer St. 215.735.6090. printcenter.org
Philadelphia Art Alliance
Andrea Gaydos Landau: ”Control Point.” Thru Aug. 12. 251 S. 18th St. 215.545.4302. philaartalliance.org
Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts
Tannaz Farsi: ”Of News and Reclamation.” Various artists: ”Spectrum: Contemporary Color Abstraction.” Lawrence Cromwell: ”Make it Bigger.” 200 S. Madison St. 302.656.6466. thedcca.org
Abington Art Center
Judy Engle, Alison Stigora, Atsuko Tajima, and Jay Walker: ”Solo Series 2010.” Thru July 25. 515 Meetinghouse Rd. 215.887.4882. abingtonartcenter.org
Newman Galleries
Various artists: ”Philadelphia Sketch Club 2010 Members Exhibition.” Thru July 9. 1625 Walnut St. 215.563.1779. newmangalleries.com
musEums The Academy of Natural Sciences
“Creatures of the Abyss.” Various artists: ”All Types of Fish.” Thru Aug. 1. 1900 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy. 215.299.1043. ansp.org
Philadelphia Mutter Museum
Penn Museum
Various artists: ”Marvels and Ciphers: A Look Inside the Flask.” Thru Dec. 10. 315 Chestnut St. 215.925.2222. chemheritage.org/marvels
The Rosenbach Museum
Various artists: ”Friend or Faux: Imitation and Invention from Innocent to Fraudulent.” Thru July 11. 2008-2010 Delancey Place. 215.732.1600. rosenbach.org
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia Museum
Various artists: ”Secundum Artem.” Thru Jan. 31. 600 S. 43rd St. 215.596.8800. usp.edu/museum
ElsEwHERE The National Constitution Center
Various artists: ”Being ‘We the People’: Afghanistan, America and the Minority Imprint.” Various artists: ”Ancient Rome & America.” Thru Aug. 1. 525 Arch St. constitutioncenter.org
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Leila Daw, Joyce Kozloff, Eve Laramee, and Nickolas Schiller: ”OUTSIDE/INSIDE.” Masaki Kobayashi: ”Capturing Sky.” Thru Aug. 15. 401 S. Broad St. gershmany.org
City Hall
Various artists: ”Currency.” Thru July 23. 215.686.9912. phila.gov/artincityhall
Library Company of Philadelphia
“Philadelphia on Stone.” Thru Oct. 15. 1314 Locust St. librarycompany.org
Longwood Gardens
“Making Scents: The Art and Passion of Fragrance.” Thru Nov. 21. 1001 Longwood Rd. longwoodgardens.org
The Philadelphia Foundation
Various artists: ”See Change: Photographs from the Leeway Foundation.” Thru Oct. 20. 1234 Market St. 215.563.6417. philafound.org
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University of the Arts
Various artists: ”Brace for Impact: The Aftermath of Flight 1549.” Barbara Yoshida: ”Megalith’s/ Night/Sky.” Thru Aug. 7. 211 S. Broad St. 215.717.6300. uarts.edu/go
Drexel University
Various artists: ”Ni Una Mas: Not One More, The Juarez Murders.” Thru July 16. 3401 Filbert St. 215.895.1029. drexel.edu/westphal
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Andy Warhol: ”Polariods and B&W Prints.” Various artists: ”The Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States.” 128 N. Broad St. 215.327.2101. pafa.org
Various artists: ”Corporeal Manifestations.” Thru Aug. 2. 19 S. 22nd St. 215.563.3737. collphyphil.org
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Woodmere Art Museum
Moore College of Art & Design
Various artists: ”Queer Voice.” Thru Aug. 1. 118 S. 36th St. icaphila.org
Wendy Ewald: ”Secret Games: Collaborative Works with Children 1969-1999.” Various artists: ”Project 35.” 20th and The Parkway. moore.edu
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Proximity Gallery
“Cleopatra.” Thru Jan. 2. 222 N. 20th St. 215.448.1200. fi.edu
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Seraphin Gallery
Highwire Gallery
Various artists: ”Icons of Costume: Hollywood’s Golden Era and Beyond.” Thru Sept. 5. 138 S. Pine St. 215.340.9800. michenermuseum.org
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Kate Kern Mundie: ”Recent Paintings.” Thru July 24. 221 Arch St. 215.922.5155. fanartgallery.com
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Panic At the Disco
Wherein I have my Camp Bisco 8 nightmares analyzed by a psychologist. By Brian McManus
bmcmanus@philadelphiaweekly.com
P H I L A D E L P H I A W E E K LY July 7-13, 2010 •
Back about as far as I can remember (five years or so, sadly) I’ve had a recurring nightmare. I’m back in high school, a senior, and graduation is looming. It’s a day before finals, and I’m as prepped as can be—studied up, ready to go: English, science, government, a couple electives. All except for math. I’m not ready for it. In fact, I’ve skipped my math class all semester, and won’t be taking the final. This will keep me from walking on graduation day, as it’s the one credit I need to earn my diploma. I won’t graduate with friends. I will have to go to summer school. Worse still, I’ll have to tell my parents about the ditching I’ve been doing. This is going. to. suck. And then, just as I’m preparing to tell my parents what an absolutely huge fuckup I am—a quitter, a liar, a class-cutter—I wake up in a cold sweat. In my drowsy panic it takes me a second to realize it was just a dream. I did graduate. I didn’t skip class (except homeroom, but c’mon!). I did take all my tests, and passed them. I walked with my classmates. All is well. Except it’s not. Because I have this dream a lot, countless times since I graduated back in the Paleozoic era. Only I should’ve written “had” in that last sentence. The good news is, I don’t have that nightmare anymore. The bad news is, I have a new one. For about the past year or so my new nightmare goes like this: I’m in a tent during a driving rain and hail storm in the middle of bum-fuck New York state, freezing cold, sleeping in icy water, surrounded by drug-addled zombies who are pissing all around where I’m trying to sleep, some of their urine doubtlessly seeping through the tent. There is music blaring at deafening levels. Laser lights pierce through blindingly. I want to leave, but know I can’t. “I’ve got to live through this for 36 more hours,” I think to myself. Then I wake up. The difference between these two dreams—besides the piss—is that I actually lived through the second, at Camp Bisco 8, the three-day festival curated by Philly’s self-described “Super jamband” Disco Biscuits. At Camp Bisco hippies known as “wookies” do “wookie shit” like eat copious amounts of Ecstasy, gobble shrooms by the handful and smoke DMT. Then they twirl around and pee wherever they like. It’s an event that attracts 10,000 people a year. The dream is vividly real to me. I
distinctly remember having that exact thought during Bisco: “I’ve got to live through this for 36 more hours.” It was while Nas and Damian Marley were wrapping up their set late Friday night, and I had a full day and night ahead of me before catching the train out of Mariaville, N.Y. There was nothing to do but grin and bear it. So I got shit-faced and slept in zombie piss while trying to stave off hypothermia and resisting the urge to buy drugs at insanely discounted prices. But still, I wonder what the dream represents. Was Camp Bisco 8 so awful as to give me post-traumatic stress? (Seriously.) Could I sue? (Joking.) I called a professional to find out. His name is Dr. Doug Osman, and he’s got a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. Osman works with schizophrenics primarily, but was nice enough to get his Freud on with me. I described both dreams to him, asked his opinion. So, what up, doc? (Sorry.) Osman tells me that the first, about not graduating, or failing to do what’s necessary to complete a task, is a fairly common anxiety dream, “anticipating something unpleasant in the future.” The second is an anxiety dream too, he says, although not typical. “Do you often have this dream on nights when you know you have some pretty serious and possibly unpleasant things to do the next day or days?” Osman asks me. “I do.” He grins. Well, that was pretty easy. The fact I actually lived through the events that occur in the nightmare, indeed, suggests it was emotionally stressful enough to cause me post-traumatic stress, Osman says. This news isn’t satisfying. In fact, it’s disappointing. Because, really? It was a concert, not Fallujah. Am I that huge a pussy? (Over/under on people in the comments answering that question in the affirmative: six.) Not so fast, Dr. Doug says. The type of negative stimulus in my Camp Bisco nightmare is nothing to sneeze at. Police blare horrible music at high volumes continuously for hours at suspects they hope to get to come out, Branch Davidian style. They shine lights, too. I’m sleeping in freezing water and urine. I’m sucking on secondhand DMT fumes. So war-torn Iraq it’s not, but it’s no goddamn picnic either.
Big-time Biscuits: Disco Biscuits ready for camp.
Still, oddly, I think of going back this year—like Jeremy Renner’s character in The Hurt Locker, I take comfort in the chaos. Or something. This time, though, I go native, go wookie. This time I travel with a group of friends, one of whom hopefully has an RV. This time I buy the “$5 roll” that’s in abundance. This time I play hacky sac. This time I bring rain boots. And this time I don’t do jello shots after a six-hour beer bender just because they’re free. The lineup at Bisco 9 is much better than the year prior, maybe its best ever. Ghostface Killah, Method Man and Raekwon—known together as Wu
Massacre—are playing. LCD Soundsystem, Girl Talk, Diplo, Ween, Holy Fuck, Major Lazer, the Album Leaf, Earl Greyhound— this year the actual bands you might want to see versus scrubs ratio is dramatically improved. So let’s go. Wanna come with? I’ll supply the DMT. Osman has graciously offered his services gratis for up to a month after. n
Camp Bisco 9 Thurs., July 15–Sat., July 17. $135-$349. With Disco Biscuits + many more. Indian Lookout Country Club, 1142 Batter St., Mariaville, N.Y. campbisco.net
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Album Reviews in 30 seconds oR less • bY bill cHeneveRT
Scissor Sisters
Maps & Atlases
Samantha crain
Best coast
neu!
Night Work
Perch Patchwork
You (Understood)
Crazy For You
Neu! ‘86/Vinyl Box
(Downtown Records)
(Barsuk)
(Ramseur Records)
(Mexican Summer)
(Gronland Records)
SoundS Like: Disco pop thrives with NY’s troupe of gender-bending queers under the guidance of Stuart Price (Madonna, Kylie, Killers) on this synth-friendly opus. Free ASSociAtion:
Their debut was genius. Ta-Dah! was a bore. This one’s wicked good! For FAnS oF: Bee Gees, Blondie, Mika, Duran Duran, disco balls.
SoundS Like: Sometimes angular and punchy, others rhythmic and ecstatic, Chicago-bred math rockers’ debut is an occasionally wonky but solid LP. Free ASSociAtion: Oh snap, they usin’ a flute! Doesn’t make them Jethro Tull but still, props. For FAnS oF: Menomena, Shapes and Sizes, Man Man, sleepers.
SoundS Like: The
Oklahoman dynamo has a voice that barrels you over with thoughtful, mysteriously dark lyricism and a talented backing band to boot.
SoundS Like: Bethany Cosentino took her time, picked a good band, and finally released this stellar batch of fleshed out surf rock, girl pop indie rock with grit and punch.
Free ASSociAtion:
Free ASSociAtion:
Maybe its her Choctaw origin, but this girl’s got soul and it shows. For FAnS oF: Regina Spektor x Joanna Newsom, Gillian Welch.
When will this beachy retro girl pop wave start to feel tired? Not yet! For FAnS oF: Beach House meets Vivian Girls, Jenny Lewis with Real Estate.
SoundS Like: Krautrock legends and Kraftwerkers Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger made a huge volume of inspiring, stripped down proto-electro grooves. Free ASSociAtion:
Here, they release a previously unheard record and box up the past. For FAnS oF: Can, Bowie, Tortoise, Velvet Underground, !!!, Yaz.
Miss tk and the revenge The Ocean Likes to Party Too (Ernest Jenning Record Co.) SoundS Like: Asbury
Park dance pop masters shock with their simplistic grooves and funktastic rhythms while Miss TK coos and groans. Free ASSociAtion: If she were Sri Lankan, Miss TK could easily do what MIA does. For FAnS oF: Peaches, the Sounds, Le Tigre, Human League.
Fill in the Blanks with Kate Foust
By Michael Alan Goldberg
feedback@philadelphiaweekly.com
MICHAEL ALAN gOLdBERg
The biggest upside to being a musician in Philly is ... ”getting to play with all the other awesome musicians in Philly.”
SoundS Like: The Que-
SoundS Like: One of the
weirdest bands around bundle a march, sludgy metal, a 7-minute Who cover (“My Generation”) and punk/noise into one on their 20th LP. Free ASSociAtion: Fans will eat it up; at least it’s not a bunch of covers and remixes. For FAnS oF: Black Flag, Sonic Youth, Boris, Soundgarden.
(Sub Pop)
becois rockers have made a brooding, moody gem of guitar and drum rock. Perhaps not as catchy or digestible as we’re used to, but it’ll do. Free ASSociAtion: It pays to have some big deal friends (Arcade Fire and Isaac Brock). For FAnS oF: Modest Mouse, Built to Spill, Frog Eyes, Canada rock.
WEEK’S WORST
EVERYTHING!
The artist I most dislike being compared to is ... ”I play piano sometimes and I sing so I get Alicia Keys, Fiona Apple, Regina Spektor, but I don’t think that I or Lady sound anything like them. So I feel like when people compare me to that they just haven’t really listened to my music.” The artist I really don’t mind being compared to is ... ”Jeff Buckley.” The first time I ever performed music in front of an audience I ... ”was at my eighth-grade talent show and I performed ‘At Last’ by Etta James—before American Idol started doing it, OK? [laughs]—and I had a flower in my hair and I was doing the whole Billie Holiday thing. And I sang the song and suddenly all these kids in my grade knew my name, and my mother and my aunt were crying. And I was like, ‘This is cool! This is neat!’” The one question I wish someone would ask me about me or my music is ... ”I guess if somebody wanted to ask me about music theory or nerdy music stuff like that I would totally love to wax poetic about anything like that.” Ten years from now I hope to be ... ”a successful touring and recording musician making an OK living. Maybe or maybe not having a husband and some babies, whatever. I hope to be creating and working with lots of interesting people. I guess what I’m doing now, but on a somewhat bigger and more professional scale. Maybe live in the middle of nowhere where there are no bloody rubber gloves laying around.” n
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atten down the hatches, folks, because B this Shitty Music Watch has turned into a Shitty Music Warning! Forget merely the “Week’s Worst”—this might be the “Worst Week” of an already kinda dubious summer concert season in Philadelphia. There’s Sting, who must have thought to himself, “How can I be even more of a pretentious jackass?” and then promptly went out and hired the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra to help elevate his songs to tantric levels of pompous crapitude (Sat., Susquehanna Bank Center, $42.25-$157). There’s 311, which for two decades has fused rock, rap and reggae into a unique genre called “fish vomit,” and includes a member who still insists on calling himself “P-Nut” even as he approaches 40 (Tues., Festival Pier, $49.50). There’s Jack Johnson, who makes us hate bare feet, dudes who surf and sorority chicks even more than we already do (Sun., SBC, $35 - $55). And there’s the American Idols tour, a form of torture so extreme even John Yoo refuses to endorse it (Sun., Wachovia Center, $44.50-$70.50). Our advice? Stay home and pretend this week never happened. (Michael Alan Goldberg) n
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The one goal I have for my career is ... ”to be respected and recognized for all that I have to offer by cool people who like good music.”
(Ipecac Recordings)
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The biggest downside to being a musician in Philly is ... ”that whole promoter’s bill thing. I really enjoy playing house shows
The strangest thing someone has shouted at me while I was performing was ... “I get shouts of, like, ‘Marry me,’ something along those lines. I don’t usually get ‘nice tits’—I don’t have enough tits. It’s usually something along the lines of ‘Marry me’ but not as cute.”
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got there, or what they were used for. Like, a bloody rubber glove. And there’s always a used tampon or condom on the street. When I move back to the country someday I’m gonna miss it.”
Wolf Parade
The Bride Screamed Murder
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erhaps you’ve seen her adding P and things. If something like her vocal flair to the emergthat goes through, it would ing Philly roots-rock collective suck to not have any more Toy Soldiers. Or maybe you’ve house shows. Those shows are seen her fronting her own how I got acquainted with all local band, Lady, her voice the musician friends I have.” pouring out in a jazzy, torchy, The three words I’d like to see moody, brassy and all-around used to describe my music extraordinary manner. The are ...”Cathartic. Powerful. And woman in question is 21-yearKate Foust sassy. We’re totally sassy.” old singer/songwriter Kate Foust, whom you also may The one thing that must be remember from her stint in the Lancaster, provided for me backstage is ... ”Are Pa., indie-folk band Perkasie. Foust will be you kidding me? What backstage? What onstage with Toy Soldiers at this year’s provided? A bottle of water would be nice! XPoNential Festival; Lady, meanwhile, is I like that coconut water, too, that’s really prepping its debut EP, I Think It’s Fine, for hydrating. So I guess if I got famous I’d ask release on Ropeadope Records in Septemfor coconut water. But for now, Aquafina is ber. We caught up with Foust to play a little fine.” “Fill in the Blanks.” The 10 minutes before I go onstage to My favorite thing about Philadelphia is perform I ... ”am usually helping set up the ... “the buzz and the background noise. I stage or frantically scribbling a set list.” grew up in the country where you can hear a pin drop in the middle of the night, so I ap- The 10 minutes immediately after I get offstage from performing I ... “hug my preciate that. Also the random gross things that I find outside of my front door and I try sweaty bandmates, kiss them on the face, and tell them that I love them.” not to wonder why they’re there, how they
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Kate Trucker
8pm. $8. With Adrien Reju and Charlotte Littlehales. The Fire, 412 W. Girard Ave. 267.671.9298. iourecords.com/thefire
Gloominus Doom
7:30pm. $7. With Colossus and Abserdo. The Troc, 1003 Arch St. thetroc.com
Nobody Beats the Drum
8pm. $10. With C-Mon & Kypski. The Khyber, 56 S. Second St. thekhyber.com
Monday 12 Blind Man’s Fate
8pm. $8. With Her Virgin Womb and Dark Waters End. M Room, 15 W. Girard Ave. 215.739.9684. themanhattanroom.com
Tuesday 13 Vic Ruggiero
7pm. $6. With Chris Murray, the Forthrights and Curtis Irie. The Fire, 412 W. Girard Ave. iourecords.com/thefire
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West Philadelphia Orchestra Balkan Dance Party
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9:30pm. Tritone, 1508 South St. 215.545.0475. tritonebar.com
Machel Montano
5pm. Six Flags Northern Star Arena, 1 Six Flags Blvd., Jackson, N.J. sixflags.com
The looks dazzle, but is Le Viet more than just a pretty face? By Adam Erace aerace@philadelphiaweekly.com It was one of those typically thick Philadelphia nights, the kind that turns a pleasant-sounding stroll into something more like a trek through Amazonian rainforest. T-shirts become sweat rags. Poker-straight manes become Cabbage Patch curls. I caught the reflection of my sweaty mess in the sleek, glass doors of Le Viet, the new pho-slinging fashion plate at 11th and Washington. The doors didn’t open so much as recoil. Inside, the air was as well-conditioned as Viet’s
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pride of bouncers waiters. Cherry blossoms in tall vases trembled in the electronic breeze. Stacked stone walls twinkled as if inlaid with splintered diamonds. Le Viet couldn’t look less like the fluorescent-lit pho emporiums and banh mi counters it calls neighbors. They’re all serving the same dishes, but Viet’s owner Bruce Cao is after distinction through decor. So the chairs are leather, and dinner—from a menu of more than 50 items—is served against a backdrop of matte pine panels and Tears for Fears. “We make the food we eat at home, not the food we make for Americans,” Cao says. But this is surprising considering the chef is Cao’s father, Sinh, a 58-yearold who emigrated from Bong Dang, in northern Vietnam, three decades ago. By nature, Vietnamese cuisine is less baroque than that of, say, next-door neighbor Thailand. It’s usually diners, not cooks, who calibrate the spice and seasoning with the array of condiments on each table. These are absent from tables at Le Viet, their buff, buffed surfaces saying “You are not to be trusted.” A saucer of sweet, sour, funky fish sauce-based nuoc mam arrived with one Le Viet specialty, stir-fried baby clams and ground beef with crushed peanuts and basil. Chili sauce I had to ask for. Big doses of both plus a squirt of lime refused to add dimension to this wet, mulchtextured starter served, taco salad-style, in a black-sesame-freckled rice-cracker carriage as lavishly scalloped as a bowl in King Triton’s china cabinet. “Like fish and chips,” offered the server, unsteady as a baby giraffe. He instructed us to break off a piece of the cracker to scoop the saute. More like dip and chips. Sinh’s food is beautiful, adequate in taste but exquisite in presentation. It comes festooned with edible garnishes as ornately whittled as an armoire from
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the Lester Freamon Dollhouse Collection. Bowls like inverted Mayan pyramids brimmed with wispy vermicelli, shredded crab and a simmered-all-day broth that, unfortunately, only had simmered-15-minutes depth. More rice noodles came in bowls like upsidedown turbans, these topped with a lot of pork, but not a lot of herbs. There were grand sundae glasses of rainbow ice overstuffed with green jello and red beans and a frosty soursop shake, which came with the surprise addition of black tapioca pearls—not unwanted, unlike the shake’s toothache sweetness. Fried bananas with coconut-doused ice cream were fine, in a P.F. Chang’s sort of way. None of the above was bad, per se. Were my parents to come down with a craving for summer rolls, I’d bring them to Le Viet. But you can get better Vietnamese elsewhere. Was it a coincidence there was but one diner of Asian descent in the crowd? Even Glee has more than that. The lunchtime clientele is heavily Southeast Asian, Cao says. While I can’t vouch for that, I can for the tender squid-and-pineapple salad presented, grandly, in a hollowed pineapple shell. Even if the Vietnamese cilantro bullied some of the starter’s more delicate notes, the cumulative effect was tropical and refreshing. Battered and fried, the soft-shells were far too fat to be from nearby waters, but their buxom bods packed generous deposits of sweet crabby meat offset by the potato-chip crunch of backs and claws. Two cups of silty Vietnamese coffee later, I was back out into the Philadelphia night. Le Viet’s logo, a tall drink of letters and askew chopsticks, glowed lilac blue above the plate-glass facade. Like a tractor beam, it pulled in passers-by. Cars on 11th slowed to a stop. Their drivers twisted their necks like Linda Blair. Good looks can be a blessing, but what your mama said holds true: Real beauty’s on the inside. n
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Center City East AMERICAN/CONTINENTAL Bar
1309 Sansom St. $ AS
Bill’s Breakfast & Lunch
1312 Sansom St. 215.985.2901. $ CC
Bonte
922 Walnut St. bontewaffles.com $ CC BR
Bump
1234 Locust St.bumplounge.com $$ CC AS BR
Cafe Lift
428 N. 13th St cafelift.com $ CC BR
Capital Grille
Vintage Wine Bar & Bistro
129 S. 13th St. 215.922.3095. $$ CC AS
615 Chestnut St. lascalasphilly.com $$$ CC AS
La Scala’s
Santa Fe Burrito
XIX
Urban Saloon
ASIAN FUSION
Mercato
MIDDLE EASTERN
VEGETARIAN
Waterworks
1326 Spruce St. 215.546.0180. $$ CC
Upstares at Varalli
401 S. 13th St. leilacafe.com $$
129 N. 11th St. 215.413.2290. $ CC
Muntin
1216 Spruce St. mercatobyob.com $$ BYOB
Sampan
231 S. Broad St. varalliusa.com $$$ CC AS
124 S. 13th St. sampanphilly.com $ CC AS
CARIBBEAN Mixto
Valentino
1 328 Pine St. 215.545.6265. valentinoristorante.com $$ CC BYOB
JAPANESE
Zinc
246 S. 11th St. 215.351.9901. $$ CC AS
Naked Chocolate Cafe
1317 Walnut St. nakedchocolatecafe.com $ CC
Reading Terminal Market
12th and Arch sts. readingterminalmarket.org $ CC
Ruth’s Chris Steak House
260 S. Broad St. 215.790.1515. $$$ CC AS
Smokin’ Betty’s
116 S. 11th St. 215.922.6500. $$ CC AS
Time
Effie’s
122 S. 12th St. 215.922.0414 $ CC
Minar Palace
1304 Walnut St. 215.546.9443 $ AS BYOB CC
Finn McCool's
1 225 Sansom St. 215.238.1903. rawlounge.net. $$ CC AS
Wasabi House
1238 Pine St. 215.732.4790. $ CC
8 34 Chestnut St. 267.232.5600. palaceattheben.com $$ CC AS BR
ITALIAN
1123 Walnut St. irishpubphilly.com $ CC AS
Knock
225 S. 12th St. knockphilly.com $$$ CC AS
McGillin’s Olde Ale House
1310 Drury St. mcgillins.com $ CC AS
Moriarty’s
1116 Walnut St. moriartyspub.com $ CC AS
Westbury Bar and Restaurant
Tampopo
Aqua Malaysian Thai
205 S. 13th St. 215.545.8511. $$ CC
THAI 705 Chestnut St. 215.928.2838. $$ CC
MEXICAN/SOUTHWESTERN
SEAFOOD
El Fuego
1113 Walnut St. joepescerestaurant.com $$$ CC AS
Amis
723 Walnut St. elfuegoburritos.com $ CC AS
Buca di Beppo
121 S. 13th St. elvezrestaurant.com $$$ CC AS BR
El Vez
412 S. 13th St. amisphilly.com $$ CC AS
Valanni
Jose’s
1229 Spruce St. valanni.com $$$ CC AS BR
2 58 S. 15th St. 215.545.2818. buccadibeppo.com $$ CC AS
Varga Bar
La Buca
Lolita
469 N. 10th St. 215.765.2369. $
711 Locust St. 215.928.0556. ristlabuca.com $$ CC AS
Irish Pub
Pastoral
1 315 Sansom St. 215.985.4800. timerestaurant.net $$$ CC AS
941 Spruce St. vargabar.com $$ CC AS
118 S. 12th St. finnmccoolsphilly.com $$ CC AS
2 61 S. 13th St. 215.546.5170. westburybarandrestaurant.com $$ CC AS
1 04 S. 21st St. 215.557.9593. tampoporestaurant.com $ CC BYOB
Palace at the Ben
Back Home Cafe
Fat Salmon
KOREAN
Bombay Express
AMERICAN/CONTINENTAL
2047 Green St. thebelgiancafe.com $$ CC AS
Raw Sushi Lounge and Bar
105 S. 13th St. bindibyob.com/bindi $$$ BYOB
FUSION
1210 Walnut St. akiphilly.com $$ CC AS
1120 Pine St. paulphilly.com $$$ CC AS BR
Bindi
Fairmount/Art Museum
1214 Sansom St. fergies.com $ CC AS
7 23 Chestnut St. 215.413.9070. morimoto.restaurant.com $$$ CC AS
INDIAN
Umai Umai
Fergie’s Pub
Aki
266 S. 10th St. kanellarestaurant.com $$ BYOB
Paul
PERUVIAN
1214 Walnut St. 215.546.2009. $ CC
1515 Fairmount Ave. 215.232.6311. $ CC AS BR
Morimoto
B road and Chestnut sts. 215.561.4460. marathongrill.com $ CC
1334 Walnut St. 215.985.4155. $$ CC BYOB
PUB FARE
1126 Walnut St. thecariboucafe.com $$ CC AS BR
Kanella
Marathon Grill
Sahara Grill
707 Chestnut St. chifarestaurant.com $$ CC AS
1127 Pine St. effiesrestaurant.com $$ BYOB
7 00 Chestnut St. 215.223.5663. jones-restaurant.com $$ CC AS BR
ASIAN FUSION
112 S. 13th St. zavino.com $ CC AS
Field House
Jones
New Samosa
128 S. 12th St. 215.922.5922. $$ CC BYOB
Chifa
7 19 Washington Square West. 215.351.6265. $$$ CC BYOB
1113 Market St. hardrockcafe.com $$ CC AS
Maccabeam
Zavino
GREEK
Hard Rock Cafe
1 Boathouse Row. 215.236.9000. thewaterworksrestaurant.com $$$ CC AS
FRENCH Caribou Cafe
106 S. 13th St. lolitabyob.com $$$ BR BYOB
2120 Fairmount Ave. 215.232.5359 $$ CC AS
Kingdom of Vegetarians Restaurant
Vetri
1312 Spruce St. vetriristorante.com $$$ CC AS
200 S. Broad St. 215.790.1919. $$$ CC AS
Leila Café
1141-43 Pine St. mixtophilly.com $$ CC AS BR
1 338 Chestnut St. 215.545.9588. thecapitalgrille.com $$$ CC AS 1150 Fibert St. fieldhousephilly.com $$ CC AS
212 S. 11th St. santafeburrito.com $ CC
Joe Pesce
McCormick & Schmick’s
1 S. Broad St. 215.568.6888. mccormickandschmicks.com $$ CC AS
Belgian Cafe
Bishop’s Collar
209 Poplar St. arbolcafe.com $$ BYOB
GREEK Zorba’s
2230 Fairmount Ave. 215.978.5990. $$ CC BYOB
ITALIAN Illuminare Ristorante
2321 Fairmount Ave. illuminaire2321.com $$ CC AS BR
L’oca
Bridgid’s
Osteria
726 N. 24th St. 215.232.3232. $$ CC AS
Capriccio Café & Espresso Bar
110 N. 16th St. capricciocafe.com $ CC
Jack’s Firehouse
2130 Fairmount Ave. jacksfirehouse.com $$ CC AS BR
The Flying Saucer
2545 Brown St. theflyingsaucer.net $ CC
The Institute
2025 Fairmount Ave. 215.769.0316. $$ CC BYOB
640 N. Broad St. osteriaphilly.com $$$ CC AS ★
MEDITERRANEAN Aya’s Café
2129 Arch St. ayascafe.net. $$ CC BYOB
Figs
2501 Meredith St. 215.978.8440. $$ CC BR BYOB
PUB FARE
549 N. 12th St. institutebar.com $$ CC AS
Lucky 7 Tavern
London Grill
McKenna’s Tavern
2301 Fairmount Ave. londongrill.com $$ CC AS BR
McCrossen’s Tavern
529 N. 20th St. mccrossens.com $$ CC AS
Rembrandt’s
741 N. 23rd St. rembrandts.com $$ CC AS BR
Rose Tattoo Cafe
1847 Callowhill St. rosetattoocafe.com $$$ CC AS
Sabrina’s Cafe and Spencer’s Too
Sotto Varalli
St. Stephen’s Green
231 S. Broad St. varalliusa.com $$ CC AS
Arbol Café
2349 Fairmount Ave. bishopscollar.com $
Sole Food
12th and Market sts. 215.231.7300. $$$ CC AS
533 N. 22nd St. 215.988.0707. $$$ CC BYOB
1804 Callowhill St. 215.636.9061. $$ CC BYOB 17th and Green sts. 215.769.5000. $ AS CC
747 N. 25th St. luckyseventavern.com $$ AS 24th and Brown sts. 215.978.9897. $ AS
Prohibition Taproom
501 N. 13th St. theprohibitiontaproom.com $ CC AS $ $$ $$$ CC AS
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Six Jaw-Droppingly The lowdown on LGBT-themed QFest. Old Directors By Matt Prigge mprigge@philadelphiaweekly.com Michelangelo Antonioni: It’s always impressive when a pockmarked geriatric lords over something as complex as a motion picture. But the king of Italian alienation? Not only was he 91 when he made his last work, The Dangerous Thread of Things, but he did it while partially paralyzed. A stroke hit in 1985, limiting him to the odd short and only one more feature (1995’s Beyond the Clouds, made with Wim Wenders). Of course, it would be more impressive still if these had even a shred of the brilliance of L’Avventura or Eclipse... Kon Ichikawa: An animator who segued into fiction (Fire on the Plains) and documentaries (Tokyo Olympiad), this jack-of-all-trades worked so feverishly that his last film, 2006’s Murder of the Inugami Clan, was released two years before his death at 92. Sidney Lumet: Some may carp that he hasn’t cranked out a good film since 1982, but the craftsman behind Dog Day Afternoon, Network and many more is still going at 86. Manoel de Oliveira: How old is cinema’s oldest working director? 101. The Portuguese filmmaker, whose minimalist work (I’m Going Home, A Talking Picture) is notoriously slow, began working in the silent era and just premiered his latest, The Strange Case of Angelica, at Cannes.
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Leni Riefenstahl: Long life was a punishment for the onetime Nazi propagandist, who was unable (for obvious reasons) to release a completed, post-Third Reich project until she was 100. One year after she unleashed the aquatic doc Underwater Impressions—she was a scuba diver into her 90s—Riefenstahl was belatedly granted sweet death. n
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What, today, qualifies as gay cinema? The inclusion of Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam in QFest, TLA Entertainment’s 16th LGBT-themed film festival (the second under the new name), speaks volumes. If you ignore the one lesbian thrash band—playing in Pakistan, no less—Taqwacore is a film with minimal queer content (most of the subjects are straight men) Taqwacore in a queer festival. Is homosexuality now that mainstream, or are there no longer enough gay films to fill a gay film festival? Actually, Taqwacore is a rarity in this year’s QFest (running through July 19), though its appearance enriches the festival in more ways than one. The energetic documentary hops on the tour bus with a group of groups, soaking up the contradictions: Devout Muslims, these bands criticize both Islam and mainstream America’s fear of it—they’re religious types who still provide the typical on-tour antics (well, most of them). Musically, they’re standard hardcore, only with titles like “Sharia Law in the U.S.A.” and “I Want to Fuck During Ramadan”; the filmmakers bottle up the essence of the scene before its inevitable asphyxiation. QFest is missing the season’s most high-profile gay crossover maybe-hit The Kids Are All Right, starring Annette Bening and Julianne Moore as a longtime couple (it opens here on July 23.) But (straight) stars grace Handsome Harry Handsome Harry, with Steve Buscemi and Jamey Sheridan, and they definitely grace Howl, an experimental look at Allen Ginsberg’s epic breakthrough by documentarians Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (The Times of Harvey Milk). A low-key (though shakey accented) James Franco plays the Beat poet in “interviews,” while an all-star cast (including Jon Hamm, on Don Draper autopilot) acts out the 1957 obscenity trial, which essentially turned into a annoying, collegiate literary discussion. “You can’t translate poetry into prose,” crows Ginsberg fan Treat Williams. But you can, evidently, translate it into painfully literal animations, including a fire-breathing robotic “Moloch.” More films should be this ambitious, but Howl’s remains shallow. Howl is just one of several films in which lesser filmmakers get their mitts on fascinating subjects. The slackly conceived Dearest Mother fails to summon the life of a homosexual in Franco’s Spain, while the too-pleasant Edie and Thea: A Very Long Engagement is too busy being upbeat to truly convey the feeling of being a lesbian in decidedly less understanding times. And the disparity between topic and tone are fairly stunning in Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride, about pride parades at home and abroad. Perhaps bouncy techno and cutesy graphics (including a “Freedometer”) are a bit much when certain mentioned countries punish homosexuality with beatings and/or capital punishment? Then there’s Eyes Wide Open. Haim Tabakman’s drama isn’t the first film to look at homosexuality amongst Jerusalem’s Orthodox Jews (such as the doc Trembling Before G_d), but it’s subdued, and therefore all the more affecting. A devout, married-with-kids butcher (Zohar Shtrauss) wrestles with feelings for his new twentysomething hired hand (Ran Danker). Though it goes to few unexpected places, the minimalist filmmaking (long takes, long shots, minimal score, punishingly bland colors) and terrific central performances
provide the patient restraint the screenplay sometimes lacks. Sundance fave Undertow also boasts a religious type cheating on his family with a strapping young lad, but it adds an unexpected element: Elena Undone ghosts! Borrowing from Truly Madly Deeply, Javier Fuentes-León’s film unfolds in a supergossipy Peruvian fishing town, where an expecting father (Cristian Mercado) is visited by the specter of the drowned artist he’d been banging (Manolo Cardona). The rare ghost story that takes place in the bright, bright sun, Undertow winds up focusing on the least interesting element, but the midsection goes to some delightfully strange and even trenchant places. Eyes and Undertow further underline the bullshit of Elena Undone, the fourth soggy romance from Nicole Conn, she of 1992’s lesbian breakthrough-cum-snickerfest Claire of the Moon. Conn is a shameless manipulator who uses titles like Passion’s Shadow, but her latest is boringly unawful. The wife of a homophobic pastor falls for a chick, and though there’s a record-breaking-long kiss and dialogue like “I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a thousand times: He is not your twin flame! ” it’s no different from any other coming-out film, just longer. Having set the template, Conn is now just one of the imitators. Better that today’s A Marine Story queer cinema be more like A Marine Story, the big “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” bitchslap on the festival circuit, which gets the job done with minimal didacticism. Dreya Weber is a badass lesbian booted from the military; back in America, she plays home boot camp for a teen meth-head and beats the shit out of sexist, homophobic rednecks. Much better than it sounds, this crowdpleaser plays its politics cool, and even has a potentially pro-Iraq War hero—further proof that even a queer film festival can offer a broad spectrum of views. Running concurrently, as a kind of mea culpa for the cancellation of this spring’s CineFest, is a sidebar devoted to Danger After Dark, TLA’s catch-all for anything genre or “edgy.” Even with only 11 films (one per night), returning ace programmer Travis Crawford mixes it up with gorefests, Straw Dogs riffs, classic grindhouse and two of the year’s most anticipated offerings. Gaspar Noé’s Enter the Void hasn’t sickened people like his infamous (and brilliant) Irreversible, but everyone’s united on this: It’s technically jaw-dropping, with the camera taking the point of view of a just-offed drug dealer as his spirit gallivants through time and space. Finally, the less Dogtooth said about the Greek Dogtooth— my vote for best film of the year so far—the better, as surprise and discombobulation are two of its chief pleasures. Let’s leave it at this: For an examination of willful ignorance and overprotection in the age of Glenn Beck, you won’t find a funnier, creepier or more relentlessly clever entry. Also, you’ll learn this: “Pussy means lamp.” n
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We begin with Rapace’s Lisbeth framed for the murder of her perverted legal guardian/tormentor from the previous picture, a sick fellow who ended up on the receiving end of aforementioned sex-toy self-defense. She’s also tied to the gangland execution of two investigative journalists working for Blomkvist’s Millenium magazine, young crusaders seeking to blow the lid off of a human-trafficking ring confusingly enough by exposing the johns, but not the traffickers. Lisbeth’s been hiding out in the Caribbean for a year, having lurid nightmares about her epic history of abuse while avoiding contact with true love Blomkvist—who seems to have gotten over the heartbreak just fine by banging his longtime (married, but polyamorous) editor. But, soon enough, he’s the only one who believes in Lisbeth’s innocence, and sets about having long, drawnout conversations with shady older Swedish fellows that somehow always circle back around to the subject of forcible penetration. The Girl Who Played With Firearms: Nooni Rapae as Lisbeth Salander. The first, and most obvious, problem with The Girl Who Played With This past spring’s surprise art-house smash The Girl Fire is that Lisbeth knows who the culprit is from With the Dragon Tattoo didn’t do much for me, but the get-go, yet from her all-powerful remote desktop I can understand its appeal. Based on the first book only sends Blomkvist the sketchiest of clues and of Swede Stieg Larsson’s bestselling Millenium trilvaguest of hints for no discernable reason other than ogy, the film spiced up hoary CBS primetime proto drag this story out to feature length. The movie cedural tropes with a dash of tawdry transgression would be half an hour long if she’d just pick up the and chic exoticism. It was like an episode of Cold goddamn phone and answer a question or two. Case, but with subtitles, facial piercings and rape. More cripplingly, the film commits the Jewel Of Michael Nyquivist starred as disgraced journalist The Nile sequel sin of keeping the two characters we came here to see apart for the entire running Mikael Blomkvist, who’s killing time after losing a time. Meager as Dragon Tattoo’s pleasures were, the libel suit by investigating a decades-old murder and two leads worked well together. Not a single word earning the unlikely affections of Noomi Rapace’s is exchanged between them in The Girl Who Played Lisbeth Salander, the titular tattooed lady and a With Fire (occasional emails just don’t cut it). camera subject of opaque fascination. Playing a Finally, the movie overexplains Lisbeth Salander, Suicide Girls fantasy come to life with conveniently diminishing her mysterious appeal. (SPOILER: Not peerless computer hacking chops and some nifty for nothing does she share initials with a certain self-defense skills involving a dildo, Rapace wisely Skywalker.) The cryptic flashbacks and elliptical kept the character concealed from the audience for traumatic references that haunted Rapace’s permost of the movie’s running time. Dragon Tattoo’s plot is the sort of absurdity that formance in the first film now receive full Freudian will get laughed off the screen when everybody has flesh-outs, with a host of new male aggressors just to say all this crap out loud in English in the inevibegging to get tasered in the nuts. (She’s at least table remake. But there was something fetching feisty enough to oblige.) The curse of backstory about the oddball chemistry between Nyquivist and makes The Girl Who Played With Fire feel like just another shitty Hollywood prequel, even though it Rapace and their halting progression from fucknominally takes place after the first film. n buddies to sidekicks. The Girl Who Played With Fire, alas, is one of those sad sequels that fail to communicate why anyone might’ve enjoyed the original. Daniel Alfredson Grade: Ctakes over directing chores from Neils Arden Opev, Director: Daniel Alfredson but the transition is a smooth one aesthetically, as Running time: 129 minutes the icky after-hours aura of sexual assault still pervades every frame.
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Probably as good as any movie can be while still being based on a novel by Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse continues the mopey bestselling saga of sparkly vampires, shirtless werewolves and a cloyingly vapid heroine who makes Carrie Bradshaw seem generous and selfaware. The new addition here is directorial competence, something the first two features sorely lacked. Also, some shit actually happens in this one. Director David Slade previously helmed Hard Candy and the very different vampire picture 30 Days of Night, two extremely well-made movies that I still didn’t like very much. He’s got visual chops to burn, shooting Robert Pattinson’s fey dreamboat Edward and Kristen Stewart’s petulant twit Bella in romanticized widescreen closeups. There’s Twilight’s usual Mormony abstinence: Bella wants it bad, but Edward insists on waiting until marriage, because consummating their love will cause her to lose her soul and become a monster. Wicked subtle, Steph. She also keeps teasing Taylor Lautner’s sad-sack wolf-boy Jacob, who repeatedly insists that Bella secretly loves him, showing the same steadfastness in his resolve to never wear a fucking shirt. Luckily for us, there’s a rogue pack of flesh-eaters tearing up the Pacific Northwest. Eclipse picks up some steam when it strays from the Hot Topic angst and charts an uneasy alliance between vampires and werewolves against a common enemy, digressing for some nifty flashback histories of side characters that expand the series’ scope considerably beyond the usual teenybopper belly-button lint. There’s
a knowing, tiny turn by Stewart’s Runaways’ bandmate Dakota Fanning as Darth Vader by way of Bette Davis, and the climactic battle sequence is gratifyingly nasty. But in the end it’s still a Twilight movie, which means queasy sexual politics, rancid dialogue and terrible lead performances. At this point, Stewart looks so bored by this entire endeavor that I couldn’t help bursting into giggles whenever she’s nuzzled by a gigantic CGI wolf and half-assedly mutters, “What’s up, Jake?”
cable Me is consistently loopy, with guns that shoot octopi, shrunken elephants, spider cookies and Gru’s minions—a horde of yellow, babbling whatzits always on hand to bring the cute. What’s more, in an era when studios lean hard on celebrity voices to distract from so-so material, the vocal cast—mostly Apatow clan members, plus Julie Andrews— actually do voices, not just “Will Smith as a shark!” laziness. As Gru, Steve Carrell does a pretty good impersonation of John Lithgow in Buckaroo Banzai, while you might not even recognize Jason Segel (as Gru’s nerdy, tracksuited rival) or Russell Brand (as a geriatric Brit). Unlike most non-Pixar featurelength toons, Despicable Me suggests its makers actually gave a shit, with striking character design and a minimum of sentiment and shitty Shrek humor. Alas, there's also a minimum of hard yuks. Despicable Me is more twisted than most kiddie pics—the orphanage punishes naughty kids by imprisoning them in a sad cardboard box—but still plays it safe for today’s overprotective parents. Above the cut it may be, but Futurama, in the episode where Bender buys out an orphanage, planning to sell the kids to a Chinese restaurant, did this with infinitely more laughs in 20 minutes and two dimensions.
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Studio execs are overly concerned with keeping their protagonists likable, so don’t get too worried that Gru, the antihero of the 3-D toon Despicable Me, is a true baddie. There’s simply no way he won’t get softened up by some adorable moppet(s), just like the curmudgeon/asshole leads of Tsotsi, Three Men and a Baby, Kolya and, less crappily, Bad Santa. Sure enough, it takes less than a reel for Gru—a supervillain, we’re told, although he’s more into grand heists than serious evil—to run afoul of a trio of adorable orphans. When these little girls with massive eyes prove instrumental in his plan to steal the moon, he tries to maintain his misanthropic cool, but even evildoers who look like Uncle Fester and speak in an excitable, unplaceable Eastern European accent can only stay Grinch-y for so long. Credit where credit is due: Despi-
ensues—until Dussollier abruptly loses interest in Azema and she, also abruptly, begins stalking him. Dussollier starts putting the moves on Azema’s friend (Emmanuelle Devos). And then things get weird. On one level, you have an old coot mucking about. Like the director's previous Private Fears in Public Places, the colors are bizarre—oddball shades of blue and green. There’s little attempt at psychological continuity, with characters pulling behaviorial 180s and the actors left looking amusingly confused. And the finale hinges on someone’s inability to zip their fly. However jokily, Resnais is ruminating on pet themes. Like John Gielgud’s boozy author in Providence or Giogio Albertazzi’s would-be seducer in Marienbad, the narrator jostles the characters around in a constantly mutating narrative, giddily exposing the artificiality of storytelling. And though the tone is light, the film keeps hinting at dark, messed-up subtext: Just what is that mystery crime that Dussollier committed that would put him in jail should he be caught stalking? Wild Grass is too strange to fully unpack on first viewing, though the deep melancholy—plus the brief 2001-esque conclusion—suggests a director mourning that this may be the last time he can ruthlessly fuck with both an audience and fictional characters.
ed stupid movie ever made. But there’s no excuse for the bungled compositions of The Happening, a film whose only redeeming value is that its awe-striking awfulness inspired SNL’s “Mark Wahlberg Talks to Animals” sketch, and let’s just never mention Lady in the Water ever again, mmmkay? I can’t even tell you what The Last Airbender is about. Based on an allegedly popular Nickelodeon cartoon— which I’ve never seen because I am a grown man—the movie already had me baffled during the opening Star Wars-like expository crawl. There’s something about nations named after stuff like fire and wind, and some bald kid who can’t act gets thawed out from a block of ice alongside Falcor from The Neverending Story. We’re repeatedly told, in flat deadening text, that he is “the Avatar” who can “bend all four elements” and save the world, but he just seems like an annoying little turd. Unfortunately, our Avatar dropped out of monk school, so he needs to do a lot of Tai Chi in slow motion to catch up on his homework if the universe wants to be rescued. Meanwhile, the dreaded Fire Nation is out to capture or kill this whiny pipsqueak, and, for my money, the year’s most riotous miscasting comes from enlisting Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi to play a dastardly villain. Working on his first blockbuster
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Most great directors spend their autumn years quietly crafting complex but relaxed “masterworks” that belie the wisdom—and, in some cases, sluggish technical chops—of their many years. Not Alain Resnais. The French titan stormed the ‘60s art film scene with modernist mindfucks like Hiroshima, Mon Amour and Last Year at Marienbad. Over the last two decades, he’s settled into a groove of deceptively deep trifles like Same Old Song and Not On the Lips. Wild Grass, however, is pure whatzit. Hopefully not the 88-year-old director’s last film, it marries the assured control of a master filmmaker with the restlessness of someone unwilling to go gently into that good night. Resnais regular Andre Dussollier plays a middle-aged man, apparently unemployed, who finds the stolen wallet of a big-haired dentist (Sabine Azema). Drawn to her photo, he tries to make a connection. She’s uninterested. Stalking
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I’m all out of theories. For a while, I liked to think of M. Night Shyamalan as a uniquely skilled director stuck, Siamesetwin -like, with a terrible writer. Unbreakable and Signs are dopey but beautifully helmed, and The Village might be the most exquisitely craft-
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y husband confessed to wanting to watch me with another man. I asked if he meant it. He said yes. I found a guy, and he agreed to a full STD screening so that we wouldn’t have to use condoms. I was worried about how my husband would feel. But he loved every minute of it. My husband had sex with me after our “guest” left. I still had our guest’s semen inside me. Is my husband gay? He didn’t touch the other guy, but what the fuck? SpouSe expreSSIng ConCern over newly DISCloSeD SexualITy
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“It’s time to stop bullshitting yourself,” says Ryan. “You’re very young, so, with all due respect, a certain amount of bullshit is to be expected. But you sound ready to move beyond this. You owe it to yourself and to the other person to be honest about who you are, and for now at least, you’re clearly not sexually monogamous. The best way to not be a heartbreaker is to be honest about your own feelings. “And if you’ll pardon just a few words of old-guy wisdom while Dan shares his amazing platform,” Ryan continues, “many people your age (including yours truly, way back when disco was king) misunderstand the odds of finding love in life. Few young people really appreciate that by being open about who you really are, you end up wasting much less time on relationships that are doomed from the start. In the long run, it’s much more efficient to fess up about who you are and what you’re really into from the get-go.” Who are you, DWBAH? You’re a slut. (I mean that in the sex-positive sense! I’m a slut, too!). And what are you really into? Variety. And don’t feel bad: You didn’t fail monogamy, DWBAH, monogamy failed you—as it has failed so many others (Clinton, Edwards, Spitzer, Vitter, Ensign, et al.), and will continue to, because monogamy is unrealistic and—this is not a word I toss around lightly—unnatural. “Maybe half of the people you’re interested in will walk away when you fess up,” says Ryan. “Let them walk! Those who don’t walk away are a much better investment of your time and energy—both of which are more limited than you can possibly realize at age 24.”
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“Toward the end of Sex at Dawn,” says Ryan, “there’s a brief section called ‘Everybody Out of the Closet.’ We argue that it’s not just gay people who have to go through the sort of brutally honest self-exploration involved in coming out. We all need to go through this process—and the sooner the better.” And here’s what you need to come out about, DWBAH: You’re never going to be happy in a monogamous relationship.
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18/SPRUCE, RITTENHOUSE SQ.: BEAUTIFUL, TOTALLY RENOVATED apts. NEW DESIGNER KIT., STAINLESS appls, new carrera marble bath, DW, GD, WD, HRDWD/ fls, Cathedral ceilings, Great light. CH/CA, non working FRPL. Multiple apts. $1695-1795+ Herman RE Merideth: 617-905-7561 www.hermanrealtygroup. com 18TH & PINE V.Lg apt, new crpt, colse to all. incl heat. $1095+. PMG 215-545-7007 x302 19/SPRUCE, RITTENHOUSE SQ. BEAUTIFUL, TOTALLY RENOVATED apts. NEW KITCHEN & new baths, dw, gd, wd, Hrdwd/fls, Cathedral Ceilings, Great Light. Large rms, non working FRPLS. Multiple apts: $14501695+ Herman RE, Merideth 617-905-7561 www. hermanrealtygroup.com 19TH & SPRING GARDEN Gorg renov, HWF, gourmet kit and more. $995+. PMG 215-545-7007 x303. 20/LOCUST RITTENHOUSE SQ.: COMPLETELY RENOVATED JR. 1BDRM. NEW KITCHEN & BATH, DW, WD, GD. Great light, High ceilings, Hrdwd/fls. $1175+ Herman RE, Merideth 617-905-7561 www. hermanrealtygroup.com 20TH & WALNUT STS One bedroom duplex is Old World Charm Brownstone. High ceilings, Carpeted, C/A, Gas heat. W/D, D/W. Small pet friendly. $1150/mo+. Avail Sept. 215-627-4414 21ST & SPRING GARDEN 1BR w/Old world charm, Gorg garden, HWF, Incl heat. $950. PMG, 215-545-7007 x110 21ST & SPRING GARDEN V.Cool apt, HWF, Lots of charm. Incl heat. $925+. PMG 215-545-7007x303 22ND CHESTNUT: COURTYARD, GOOD CLOSETS, HRDWD, NEW KIT, WD/STRG NOW! $1099+elc. 215733-0480 22nd CHESTNUT, HRDWD, NEW KIT, AC, CRT YARD, WD STRG AUGUST $1100-$1200+elc. 215-733-0480 250 S 13th 3C $1900/mo 1BD/1BA condo, high ceilings, hwf, new kitchen, large closets, 1 car parking. CALL LYNDA KREVITZ PRU FOX & ROACH 215-627-6005/215-521-1565 50 S 16th #4204 $36501BD+den, 2 full baths, topof-the-line kitchen, hwf, health club, pool. CALL LYNDA KREVITZ PRU FOX & ROACH 215-627-6005/215-521-1565 609 S. 16TH: LARGE apts, HRDWD, LARGE WINDOWS, MOD. KIT, BATH. Close Trans. 1bdrm $875. EFFIC. $850. 651-246-2288 7TH & PINE Bilevel, DW, WD, AC, Crpt. Great loc for Med student/resident. Quiet loc. Photo avail. $945+. 267-3576558 jamesq1@verizon.net 822 SOUTH ST Bilevel lg 1BR, 1.5BA, CA, WD. $1195+. Pet fee. Avail 08/01. 215-990-9672 8TH & CATHERINE-3RD FL.,DECK, C/A,STORAGE/ BASEMENT. AVAIL. 8/1. NO PETS. 215-915-5347. 9TH PINE: CHARMING, SPACIOUS, PRIVATE DECK, NEW KIT w/PANTRY, (5)CLOSETS, HI/CEILG, HRDWD, WD AUG. $1350+ 215-733-0480 ART MUSEUM 21/Parrish Lg 1BR, Fab EIK, All amens. incl heat. $925+. PMG, 215-545-7007 x302 ART MUSEUM AREA Old World Charm w/Mod convnc. Renvt 1BR+ Den. WD, DW, CA, Gas heat. $995+. 215-740-3399 BROAD & PINE Gorgeous 1BR, HWF, Close to evrythng. Inc heat, $1025+. PMG 215-545-7007 x302 ITALIAN MKT. AREA 1bedrm., $850/mo.+utils. Washer/ Dryer, A/C. Call 267-334-6111 OLD CITY: Loft apt. w/separate bedroom. Overlooking Ben Franklin Bridge. High ceilings, Wood floor, W/D, Gas heat. $995/mo+. 215-627-4414 PENNSPORT: NEWLY RENOVATED 3rd fl, IDEAL for 1 person. CA, Gas HT/WTR, Off street parking. $750. (215)271-7130 RIT SQ. VIC: PETS OK ELEC. INCL! DON’T MISS THIS ONE! AUG or EARLIER $1175. (215)732-1625 RITTENHOUSE SQ. AREA, 20th SPRUCE, CA, DW, WD/ bldg $1250+ INCLDS Hot/Wtr George Gay R.E. 215-563-6724 RITTENHOUSE SQ: 1 bedroom, pet friendly sublet on Rittenhouse Sqr. Call 302.539.9650 RITTENHOUSE SQ. Lovely 1BR/1BTH condo in Brwnst. w/ wd. fl., ss appliance, cherry cab, w/d, central AC, secure bldg. Water/condo fees incl. Avail. 8/1. 609-471-7125. SOCIETY HILL, DELANCEY ST: 1BR, FP, Garden, Pine Flr, Cathedral ceilings. All appliances & Cable. $1500. (215)850-8751
neW JerseY real estate FOr sale CHERRY HILL Sale/Rent (Furn.) 2 BDRM, 2BTH Move-incondition. $175,000. 215-467-3163 general apartments Center City/Art Museum Lg selection of affordable studios, 1, 2 & 3 BD thruout city. $500-2700/mo. WPRG 215-636-0100 or 215-546-9247 RITTN. HSE SQ. area SMALL 1BDRMS $800. EFFCS. $715-$750+elc. Harvey Blank R.E. 215-735-8414. studiO/eFFiciencY 12TH & SPRUCE Adorable Studio, close to superfresh/ whole foods. $750+ PMG 215-545-7007x302 12TH LOMBARD, BRIGHT, BALCONY, NEW KIT, HRDWD, WI/CLOSET, AC, WD NOW! $850+El 215-733-0480 13th PINE: FULLY UPDATED, w/GRANITE/SS KIT, CA, WD, HI CEIL 8/1 $1350. (610)529-4444. 15TH & PINE Magnfcnt Studio w/HW Flrs, All amens. Must See. $975+. PMG, 215-545-7007 x304 16TH PINE, CRTYRD VIEW, NEW KIT DW GD, HRDWD, 2CLOSETS, WD/STG Aug. $895+elc. 215-733-0480 23RD DELANCEY, SLEEPING LOFT, BRIGHT, HI/CEIL, HRDWD, NEW/KIT, WD/STRG JUL $900-$1000/INC HT/ WTR 215-733-0480 23rd SPRUCE, LARGE, PRV/ENTRANCE, NEW KIT DW GD, WLK-IN-CLOSET/HT JULY $999+el 215-733-0480 OLD CITY, LARGE, UPDATED KIT&BATH, BRIGHT, HI/ CEILG, HRDWD, CA Aug. $900+elc 215-733-0480 RITT. SQ. AREA: STUDIOS/ROOMS Include Elect,Heat,Hot Water. $625-$795 (215)806-1526 RITTENHOUSE SQ. AREA, WD/bldg $850 INCLS HT/HT Wtr George Gay R.E. 215-563-6724 SOCIETY HILL/QUEEN VILLAGE: FURNISHED Studio, flex lease, WD, Parking, AC. $975+. 978-239-2903 judycrtn257@ gmail.com SPRUCE/BROAD: DOORMAN, GREAT VIEW. $975 Heat/ INCL. Avl/NOW! Pine R.E, 1503 Pine. 215-735-8896, website: www.pinere.com THE ROOSEVELT (2220 Walnut Street)- Beautifully renovated apts. in the RITTENHOUSE SQUARE AREA of Philadelphia. STUDIO’S starting at only $765/mo. and ONE BEDROOMS starting at only $965/mo. Call 215-640-8880 for an appointment. One bedrOOm
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tWO bedrOOm 100% AWESOME APTS Starting $1595. FP, CA, WD, HWF, Nice kits/Baths. 215-413-3732 10TH and FEDERAL: 2BR, CA, 1BA, WD. $1350+. 215-9223910. mcolaizzo@comcast.net 11TH & WOLF Mod 2BR bilevel w/Basement. CA, HWF, WD, Granite c-tops. $950+. 267-254-1914 12TH & LOCUST Fab 2BR 2BA bilevel, All amens, Deck. $1495+. PMG 215-545-7007 x302
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hOuse FOr rent 11TH & CHRISTIAN-GREAT LOCATION! 4BEDRMS., 2FULL BATHS, C/A, HDWD/FLRS.,DECK, BACKYARD, WASHER/DRYER. Must See! $2800/mo.+. 610304-0087. 12TH & ELLSWORTH 4BDR, 2.5Bt,Brand New! Loaded!$2195mo.+ utilits.,Sec/Syst.,Avail.8/1,215-651-9190 435 McKean: 3bdrms $850 439 DUDLEY 2bdrms $850, 432 McCLELLAN 2bdrms $875. 215-468-5790 ART MUSEUM: 2 bdrm bi-lev 1.5 bth Garage ctyd,deck ww,wd/dd, ca. $1525+. Pets OK. 610-420-7699 FISHTOWN Cool 2BR Townhouse, HW Flrs, yard and more. $1150+. PMG 215-545-7007 X304 LOMBARD 16TH: (4)BDRMS, A/C, YARD. $2290+. Avail NOW! Pine R.E, 1503 Pine. (215)735-8896, website: www.pinere.com. Midvale near Ridge Ave. 3BD/1.5BA house available. Renovated kitchen, W/D, private backyard, sunroom! $1335/month. Call to schedule a tour: 215-243-7802 Ridge Ave 5BD/2BA house available! Huge LR, W/D, renovated eat-in kitchen, deck and parking! $2020/ month. Call to schedule a tour: 215-243-7802
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sublets RITTENHOUSE SQ 1 bedroom, pet friendly sublet on Rittenhouse Sqr. Call 302.539.9650 rOOm FOr rent 124 LOMBARD, HEAD HOUSE SQUARE, SOCIETY HILL. “TOKIO B&B” STUDIOS. ($55-$100) DAILY rates. ($300-$500) WEEKLY rates. We also have MONTHLY rates AVAIL. Website http://sushi.madamesaito.com Call MADAME SAITO 215-922-2515 rOOmmate/sharing ALL AREAS - ROOMMATES.COM. Browse hundreds of online listings with photos and maps. Find your roommate with a click of the mouse! Visit: http://www. Roommates.com. Northern Liberties Area, Temple University Area- 1 room available in groovy cooperative 3BR House, Free WIFI, Washer/Dryer, No Pets, See Gasheart.com, 1605 N. 6th St., 215-485-1015, $450/month including utilities South Philly - 2 story house, full use of house. 10 minutes from Center City. Perfect for college students. Share utilities. Call 267-879-8373 leave message OFFice space 12TH & PINE VIC Office available w/300SF. Pvt bath. $800+. Call 215-985-0600 OLD CITY, FRONT & MARKET: 600sq.ft., BI-LEVEL, CA $850+Utls. Renzi Management. 800-514-3235 www. renziproperties.com cOmmercial space 9TH & SPRING GARDEN-1200SQ.FT., BATHROOM, CARPETING, C/A/H. VERY CLEAN. GREAT LOCATION! $1500/mo. 610-304-0087. cOmmercial sales/lease GARAGES FOR SALE New Construction. GRAYS FERRY AVE AREA. 16’x36’ w/Loft, Zoned L-4. Suitable for food cart business/Contractor storage, etc. $125,000. 215-868-4659 parking space 20TH & WALNUT STREETS, IN DOOR SELF PARKING, DOUBLE. $425mo. Available NOW. 609-214-7158
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9th & Lombard-Bright, modern 1BR. C/A, HWflrs, Sep Kit, beautiful patio/garden, gas heat, Laundry. $1025+ 16th & Lombard-Outstanding, modern 2BR w/private patio/garden. C/A, HWflrs, DW, F/P, gas heat, laundry. $1,550+ 9th & Bainbridge-Gorgeous, NEWLY REMODELED 2BR 2BA Townhouse! New eat-in Kitchen, DW, F/P, C/A, HWflrs, W/D, private patio. $1,825+ 13th & Lombard-Spacious, modern Studio. Sep Kitchen, C/A, HWflrs, Private balcony, laundry. ALL UTILITIES INCLUDED $1,025 12th & Rodman-Desirable, modern 3BR 2BA Townhouse. C/A, HWflrs, New kitchen, DW, W/D, 2 F/P, Deck & patio, gas heat. $2,295+ 13th & Rodman-Impossible To Find! Modern 4BR, 2BA Townhouse. Eat-in Kit, C/A, HWflrs, DW, W/D, 2 F/P, PRIVATE patio/garden. $2,895+ 21st & Pine- WOW!! Incredible 4BR, 3BA, C/A, HWflrs, large fully equipped kit/breakfast bar & sep DR, Private Patio. Incl Heat/HW/Cook. $2,875+
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parking space Fairmount & 18th parking space $75. Contact WPRG 215-636-0100 X203 RITTENHOUSE SQ 2 car secure, high rise parking. $400/ mo (total). 215-751-1991 Spruce & 16th- parking space $200 Call WPRG 215-636-0100 x203
CENTER CITY’S FINEST Society Hill, WaSH. Sq. WeSt Offering flex-lease
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large 1 Br $1395 studiO w/ sleeping lOft new kit. $895 awesOme Brand new 2 Bd, 2 Bath $2350 until 6/30 take $50-$100 off!!
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Three bedrooms, three and a half baths, 2137 sf. $3,750.
Two bedrooms, two baths, 1164 sf. $2,350.
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July 7-13, 2010
2031 Locust Street
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24-hour doorman, beautiful views, high ceilings, original woodwork, short hallways. Workout room.Close to some of the best BYOB’s in the city. All utilities except electric included. We gladly welcome four-legged residents.
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CENTER CITY LUXURY CONDOMINIUMS FOR RENT avenue of the arts ACADEMY HOUSE 1420 LOCUSt StrEEt
units include all utilities, pool, gym 1 bedrooms, 1 bath, high floor, excellent closet space, southern exposure, 724 sf $1,625
1 bedroom, 1 bath, laundry room, balcony, WIC, 928 sf $1,495 233 S. 20tH StrEEt 1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, southern exposure, laundry 1 bedroom, 1 bath, open kitchen, wood floors, 802 sf $1,395 room, walk-in-closet, 928 sf $1,650
OpEn HOUSE SUnDAY 7/11, 1:30-2pM 258 S. 18tH StrEEt
1 bedroom with alcove, 1.5 baths, wood floors, renovated kitchen, balcony, 1118 sf $2,100 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, hardwood floors, custom renovated kitchen and baths $2,675 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, separate dining area, 1016 sf 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, balcony, high floor, laundry room, 1387 sf $2,400 $2,300
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1810 S. rittEnHOUSE SqUArE 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, eat-in-kitchen, great closet space, 2 bedrooms plus den, 2 baths, balcony, views 1314 sf` $2,495 1 bedroom, 1 bath, spacious living room with separate of Washington Square, laundry room, 1897 sf $3,450 dining area, 515 sf $1,340 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, city skyline views, high floor, tHE WHitE bUiLDing 105 S. 12tH StrEEt W/D, 1524 sf $2,850 WAnAMAKEr HOUSE 2020 WALnUt StrEEt 1 bedroom, 2 bath, loft apartment with exposed brick, CEntEr CitY OnE units include pool & fitness center high ceilings, custom finishes throughout, 1312 sf $2,000 1326 SprUCE StrEEt 1 bedroom, 1 bath, high floor, open kitchen, great closet 1 bedroom plus den, 2 baths, high floor with panoramic space, 705 sf $1,695 905 LOMbArD StrEEt skyline views, balcony, excellent closet space, W/D, 1209 sf $1,900 1 bedroom townhome, custom kitchen and bath, private Four story townhome, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, renovated, $2,600 street entrance, direct access to garage, 700 sf $1,975 roof deck, one car garage, 1792 sf
rittenhouse square tHE CArLYLE 2031 LOCUSt StrEEt
1 bedroom, 1 bath, city views, 514 sf
1 bedroom, 1 bath, W/D, sunrise view, 607sf
$1,150
2 bedroom, 2 bath, corner unit, with city views, large kitchen, washer dryer, 1,200 sf $2,550
HOpKinSOn HOUSE 604-36 S. WASHingtOn SqUArE
Efficiency, southern exposure, great closet space, 415 sf 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, brand new kitchen and baths, $995 $1,275 high floor with panoramic city views, 1200sf $2,850
2 bedrooms, 2 baths, excellent closet space, city views, 1164 sf $2,350 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, den, 270 degree city views, large kitchen, 1375 sf $2,575
tHE WArWiCK 1701 LOCUSt StrEEt
Studio, hardwood floors, marble bath, city views, 412 sf $1,290
Large studio with alcove, balcony overlooking Washington Square, great closet space, 600 sf
$1,200
1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony over Washington Square, $1,525 2 bedroom plus den, 3 baths, hardwood floors, southern great closet space, 843 sf tHE rittEnHOUSE exposure, marble baths, gourmet open kitchen, 1614sf 210 W. rittEnHOUSE SqUArE $4,000 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, balcony, excellent closet space, 2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, all rooms overlook Rittenhouse southern exposure, 1200 sf $2,175 Square, large kitchen, seperate dining area, 1765 sf $4,500 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, hardwood floors, 270 degree views, marble baths, open custom kichen, 1978 sf $5,150
tHE bArCLAY 237 S 18tH StrEEt
2 bedrooms, 2 baths, split floor plan, wood floors, lots of natural light, 1150 sf $2,950
pArC rittEnHOUSE 225 S 18tH StrEEt
Studio, large marble bath, southern exposure, wood floors, 413 sf $1,375 Junior 1 bedroom, wood floors, marble bath, open kitchen 506 sf $1,750 1 bedroom, 1 bath, skyline and pool club view, wood floors, 679 sf $1,950 P H I L A D E L P H I A W E E K LY
1 bedroom, 1 bath, wood floors, open kitchen, marble bath, 840 sf $2,375 2 bedrooms plus den,2 baths, wood floors, open floor plan, marble baths, 1506 sf $4,000
tHE DOrCHEStEr 226 W. rittEnHOUSE SqUArE
July 7-13, 2010
units include all utilities, gym, pool Efficiency, great natural light, wood parquet floors, excellent value for building, 359sf $995
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SOCiEtY HiLL tOWErS 200-220 LOCUSt StrEEt
units include all utilities Studio, large windows, city views, walk-in-closet, 540sf $1,125 1 bedroom, 1 bath, Society Hill views, excellent value, 700 sf $1,395
Waterfront
piEr 5, 7 n. COLUMbUS bLvD. 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, Ben Franklin Bridge and river views, excellent condition, 2229 sf $2,390 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, tri-level, bridge views, grand fireplace, two terraces, 2229 sf
$2,600
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Corner 1 bedroom, 1 bath, river views, galley kitchen, 1742 Sansom Street - 2nd floor retail space on highly 775 sf $1,575 trafficked corner or 18th and Sansom Streets, 1000 sf 1 bedroom, 1 bath, high floor, expansive city views, 700sf $1,500 NNN $1,700 1830 Rittenhouse - Prime Rittenhouse Square office space, 754 sf $2,100 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, floor-to-ceiling windows, wood 131 S. 18th Street - Prime 1st and 2nd floor retail space floors, 1200 sf $2,200 on high-end 18th Street shopping corridor, directly across from new 10 Rittenhouse condos $7,500 NNN 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, floor-to-ceiling windows, Society Hill views, 1133 sf $2,250 133 S. 18th Street – Ground floor corner retail space, excellent visibility on 18th Street shopping corridor $8,250 NNN 1601 Locust Street - 1st floor and lower level of prestiWashington square gious Lanesborough condo, ideal for restaurant or offices, inDEpEnDEnCE pLACE 4700 sf $11,500 NNN 233-241 S 6tH StrEEt
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9th & Pine
Studio and 2 bedrms .......................................$600-$1250
2nd & Wharton
one bdrm, C/A, W/D, D/W............................................ $725
3rd & South
one bdrm, den, C/A, H/W .......................................... $1000
2nd & Catharine
one bdrm, den, H/W.................................................. $1100
9th & Pine
1 & 2 bdrm, laundry, C/A .................................$890-$1250
16th & Bainbridge
2 bdrm, ba, H/W, C/A, W/D ......................................$1450+
2nd & Race
one bdrm, den, H/W.................................................. $1200
3rd & Chestnut
lg. one bdrm, H/W, C/A, W/D ..................................... $1250
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SOCIETY HILL ART MUSEUM RITTEnHOUSE Sq AT THE RITTEnHOUSE
over 50 years in the real estate business
RITTENHOUSE SQUARE/FITLER SQUARE 19th & SANSOM Beautiful & Charming Studio, Extra large Brownstone building, Heat & Hot water incl. AVAILABLE AUGUST!
$985
21st & LOCUST Cozy Studios in Brownstone building, Heat/Hot water included, HW floors, High ceiling, Laundry. AVAILABLE JULY/AUG! $775 23rd & PINE Sunny One & Two Bedrooms, Across from Fitler Sq. park, HW floors, Heat/Hot water included, Laundry. AVAILABLE NOW/AUGUST!
$985-$1,585
21st & WALNUT Beautiful Studio, Spacious, High ceilings, HW floors, Heat/Hot water included, Laundry in building. AVAILABLE NOW!
AVAILABLE AUGUST!
22nd & ST. JAMES Charming Studio on tree-lined street, HW floors, Lots of closet space, High ceilings, Laundry. AVAILABLE NOW!
$945
$1,850
$835
WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST/AVENUE OF THE ARTS
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To See the Following, Call David Snyder 267.968.8600 1 Academy Circle #320-1 bd/1 ba loft in Naval Sq,24 hr gated community. 2332-38 Carpenter Street #1A-New conversion,2 bd,SS applns,bamboo flrs,cstm ba,W/D. 2123 Christian Street #3-New conversion,SS applns,SS counters,wide plank flrs,cstm ba 2134 Locust Street #4R-Bi-level unit w/rf dk,granite/SS applns,refin hw flrs t/o. 2134 Locust Street #3R-2 bd w/granite counter tops,SS applns,refin hw flrs 2133 Reed Street-Open Lr/Dr w/hrwd flrs t/o,1/2 bth,kit w/granite & SS. 1806-18 Rittenhouse Square #1010-Spac 1 bd at the Savoy,plenty of storage & closet space. To See the Following, Call Fran Wyner (215)627-6005 2401 Pennsylvania Avenue #2B23-1 bedroom,low floor,hrwd floors,available 9/1. To See the Following, Call Joanne Davidow (215)790-5656 317 S 2nd Street #5B-Renov. 1BR w/ Prkg! Bamboo flrs, 1 ba, C/A, W/D. Heat incl 101 Walnut Street #6-Stylish full floor condo, 2BR, 2.5 bath with 1 car parking To See the Following, Call John Featherman 215-790-5221 2301 Cherry Street #9B-Trilevel 2B/2.5b Balcony, w/d, and 1 car garage parking. 1500 Chestnut Street #3F-2B/2b, Hi-end kit, baths, hw flrs, w/d. 24/7 security 1420 Locust Street #12K-3BR/2 and 1/2 baths. 739 S 6th Street-4B/2b, pristine cond., hw flrs, full basement 2321-23 Sansom Street #2C-3 bedrooms. 1718 Spruce Street-5B/5.5b home in Rittehouse square. Timeless craftmanship 202-10 W Rittenhouse Square #1707-2B/2.5b at the Rittenhouse, Square view. Be spoiled! To See the Following, Call Kheon Benjamin (215)546-0550 1001-13 Chestnut Street #902W-1Bd/1Ba charming condominium all utilities included 1001-13 Chestnut Street #604W-1Bd/1Ba sunny& spacious 1brm in the Victory 1001-13 Chestnut Street #706W-1 Bd/1Ba spacious and sunny condo w/enormous walk in closet To See the Following, Call Laurie Phillips 215.790.5644 108 Arch Street #404-Modern 2brs/2ba, pkng, fp, terrace, drmn, high ceils To See the Following, Call Mike McCann (215) 440-8345 671 Franklin Place #E-2 bd/1 ba w/1C prkng, courtyard setting,gated community. 512 N 36th Street-3 bd/1 ba bi-level unit,refinished flrs,freshly painted. 335 N Front Street #A-2 bd/2 ba,wide open Lr w/hw flrs,kit w/granite island. 112 Queen Street-3 bd/2 1/2 ba,den,newer kit & ba,granite counters,SS appl. 2232 S Clarion Street-2 bd/1 1/2 ba,Lr,Dr w/laminate flr,lrg kit,nice yard 2424 S Orkney Street-Super cute home,porchfront w/3 bedroom,1 bath. 1433 Snyder Avenue #2-2 bd/1 ba apart w/hrwd flrs,SS applns,deck w/partial views! To See the Following, Call Stephen Ferguson (215)521-1567 1 Academy Circle #208-1,000 + Sq Ft,13’ ceilings,hrwd flrs,granite kit,prkng. To See the Following, Call Travis Rodgers (215) 790-5234 225 S 18th Street #505-Stylish 1br/1b w/granite s/s kit & beaut marble bath
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10th & CLINTON Brand new, Modern One Bedroom, HW floors, All utilities included, Walk-in closet, Tile bath, Laundry. AVAILABLE NOW! $965
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10th & CLINTON Bright Studio, All utilities included, HW floors, Laundry on premises.
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BROAD & SPRUCE Studio in High rise, Elevator, HW floors, Great view, A/C, New windows, Laundry. AVAILABLE AUGUST!
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17th & LOMBARD Contemporary Two Bedroom condo, W/W, C/A, D/W, W/D, Gated parking included.
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13th & Spruce - Large 1BR apt, Elevator bldg, Close to everything � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � $850+
14xx Tasker St- 1BR- Includes utilities $1000 Center City /South Philly OverBrook 4xx South St- 1br Apt $950 13xx Pennington St- 3br $1500 18xx S Broad St - 3BR Bi-level w/ Upper Darby deck Brand NEW $1600 13X Westdale Rd St - Apt $550 15xx S Broad St- 2BR Finish basement/ Commercial wet bar Apt $1200 9xx Sigel St- rEntED 2br $950 ATTENTION TRUCK COMPANY’S/ MECHANICS 22XX Castor St- 22,000 sq feet warehouse 18xx Master St – 2BR Newly renovated only paid Electric $1000 huge industrial/ this premises can be subdivided. 17xx S 5th St - 2BR $650 Great location, next to 95, busy area. Call in about our Commercial Listings For Rent
22nd & Spruce - Very Cool Studio apt in Charming building, Includes heat� � � � � � � � � � �$825+ 12th & Locust - Cool 1BR apt, CA, DW, and WD � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � $1095+
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1701 PINE ST. 1500 sq.ft bi-level penthouse, two full baths,c/a,w&d,pets ok $1,850.00 ABBOTTS Sq.Nice 1 Br.,1 to 1.5 Bths., c/a, w&d, balcony, nice vu’s $1,300.00-$1,400 Walnut & 23rd 1 & 2Bd's, hardwood, laundry $675-$710 $770-995 1810 RITTENhOUSE Sq.(SAvOy) 1 Br., 1 Bath, central air, w&d area, south view $1,300.00 Walnut & 23rd -Great Studios H/W, laundry SOCIETy hILL TOWERS Beautiful Fully Open, Upgraded 1 Br., 1 Bth.Util. Inc. $1,600.00 Chestnut &20th1 BD Bi-Level, W/W, C/A $875 $575-1000 Locust & 21st Studios & 1Bd's, laundry, heat incl. $1125 819 N. FRANkLIN Lg. 1 Br. Den, 1 Bth., w&d, c/a,yard, EZ Street parking $800.00 Walnut & 23rd - 2BD Bi-Level, W/W
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Prudential Fox & Roach QUEEN VILLAGE 227 Monroe St $669,900 Prudential Fox & Roach RITTENHOUSE SQ 1805 Pine St $2,900,000 Prudential Fox & Roach WASH SQ WEST 1109 Spruce St. #1R $299,900 Coldwell Banker Preferred QUEEN VILLAGE 525 Fitzwater St. #9 $275,000 Coldwell Banker Preferred SOUTH PHILA 2415 S. 17th St. $235,000 Coldwell Banker Preferred 12:00-1:30PM SOCIETY HILL 234 S Philip Pl $995,000 Plumer & Associates U CITY 4530 Regent St. $389,000 Coldwell Banker Preferred 12:00-2:00PM GRAD HOSPITAL 1607 Kater St. $699,000 Coldwell Banker Preferred GRAD HOSPITAL 2015 Kimball St. $325,000 Coldwell Banker Preferred WISSAHICKON HILLS 5421 Quentin St. $248,000 Coldwell Banker Preferred 12:30-2:00PM OLD CITY 313-315 N. 3rd St. #5A $479,900 Coldwell Banker Preferred 1:00-3:00PM U CITY 4616 Hazel Ave. $679,000 Coldwell Banker Preferred 1:30-2:30PM
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892-94 N. 41st St. Amazing turn-of-the-century home in great condition; 6br+2dens; plaster walls $139,900 OLD CITY / LOFT DISTRICT / CHINATOWN 507 N. 40th St. Four units. This is an “as-is”, “where-is” sale. Updates needed kit, bath and flooring $139,000 1324 Locust St. #411 Beautiful studio,The Arts Condos, renovated kit & bath, A/C 24hr Attendant $121,900 4822 Beaumont St. Twin 3-story, 6br/2.25ba on great tree-line street $350,000 1100 Vine St., #1515 H/W flrs, updated bath, 2 built-in custom closets & stunning skyline views $184,900 4530 Regent St. 7br Rehab, refinished floors, new windows, new porch, steps from Clark Park OPEN HOUSE $389,000 314-22 N. 12th St. #801 Large corner 1br/1ba loft . Grt Style! Tax abatement until 2011 REDUCED $215,000 4523 Larchwood St. Bright, sunny, pristine house on tree-lined st., Penn Alexander SD. 3br/2.5ba 468,000 429 N. 13th St. #5E Gorgeous 2 bed Loft with great light and storage, H/W floors, all amenities $229,900 522 Woodland Terrace Large, One-of-a-kind Corner Lot $475,000 309-313 Arch St. #606 1br/1ba loft condo includes SS appliances and Silestone counters $235,000 4616 Hazel Ave. Century-old home 6br/3.5ba in the catchment area with custom restoration in 2006 OPEN HOUSE 679,000 315 Arch St. #308 Price Reduction on this great 1br urban retreat in the heart of Old City! $253,900 201-259 N. 8th St. #212 1br/1ba, Lrge rooms, Dark hardwood floors, Modern kitchen, Broad windows $298,000 NEW CONSTRUCTION (10 YEAR TAX ABATEMENT) 125 Cuthbert St. #B Recent Renov make this the best valued 2br on quaint street $298,500 525 Fitzwater St. Abbott’s Ct. #7 Gated Community, 2br/21.5 ba, 10 yr tax abatement, renovated $239,000 201 N. 8th St. #504 1br/1ba, gated prkg, pool, gym, granite, SS, tax abatemnt, close to 676, 95, 76 $315,000 309-313 Arch St. Loft condos in the heart of Old City w/vintage HWflrs, high ceilings & more $259,900 428-440 N. 13th St. #5H Drastic reduction to $289.900 Barbara & $4500, as allowable for cash, condo fees, $ for pkg Betsy Woodrow $289,900 315 Arch St. #308 Perfect urban retreat, 1br/1ba, elegant well shop,Cowperthwait night life $264,900 Roddy Jennings Mandel Maya Paveza Ann Clark Jordan Brody Katekept Vailbldg. Steps frKen 8-10 Letitia St. #610 1br/1ba unit w/HWfl rs, esposed brick,CONSHOHOCKEN wood beams, common area roof deck $319,900 BLUE BELL DELAWARE EXTON MEDIA OLD CITY Homes with Deck, SOCIETY HILL 7426-7432 Buist St. 6 New Construction Garage, Fireplaces, 10 yr taxWAYNE abatment Fr $279,000 107 Arch St. #2i Reduced! Enormous corner loft, prime location,15ft ceiling, brand new kit,1.5 ba $349,900 813-817 N. 5th St. 5 condos w/community roof deck. Some units with priv. deck & parking From $289,000 INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL 320 Race St. #2 Urban modern meets Old City Character. 2br/2ba; exposed brick & beams, oversized windows $355,000 2703 Cambridge St. 3-story, 3br/3.5ba, SS Appliancs, Granite, Fin Bsmt, Roofdeck, 10yr tax abtmnt $299,000 PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE TEAM 201 N.PRESIDENT’S 8th St. #713 Unique elegant unit in boutique luxury bldg. High ceilings, open fl oorplan $357,000 ELITE TEAM 209 Cuthbert St. Newly renovated loft building in the heart of Old City! Modern kitchens & baths-must see! Fr $344,750 201-59 N. 8th St. #213 Luxury Living at its finest. Elegant 1br/1ba unit in the Metro Club. Grt Flrplan $357,000 709 S. Mole St. New Construction ; 3br/2.5ba; Fin Bsmt; HW flrs; Granite Counters: SS Appls $339,900 201 N. 8th St. #610 1200s.f. 1br/aba, Marble, lots of closets, SS cabinets, pool, gym, prk inc.! $389,000 1232 Fletcher St. Exceptional new corner townhome with over 3,000 sqft, hi end finishes $340,000 201-59 N. 8th St. #801 Rarely offrd expanded flr plan, 1br/1.5ba, HWflr, Granite, Views, Pkg,Pool $399,000 2028 Kimball St. Gorgeous new construction, 3br/3ba, HWflrs, New appls & HVAC, Fin Bsmt $350,000 133 N. Bread St. #C1 Beautiful corner townhome, everything new, 8.5 yrs tax abatement, parking! $489,000 2314 E. Huntingdon St. Gorgeous 3br/2.5ba, huge yard, 2650sqft, two decks, full flr master ste $350,000 201 N. 8th St. #308 2br/2ba w/balcony & pkg, marble baths, HWflrs & plenty of space! $525,000 439 Krams Ave. Fab New Construction, 3br/2.5ba, Pkg, Fin bsmt, 10yr tax abatement $399,000 313-315 N. 3rd St. #5A Priced to sell! 1400 sqft, 2br/2ba Old City Condo with PRIVATE ROOF DECK! OPEN HOUSE $479,900 183 Levering St. Green construction. Tranquil Crtyard Setting. 2-car pkg, 1 garage space per home $425,000 28 N. 3rd St. #2R 2br/2ba Lux Loft; 2006 SqFt; Hi End Appls in KIT; Spa Baths; Marble Tile; H/W $585,000 2550 Grays Ferry Ave. Drastically reduced! NEW construction, custom home! Garage, 4br/3.5ba $429,900 313-25 Race St. #T4Team 3b/ba historic home, grmet kit, mstr steJordan w/deck, Brody tx abtemnt, Short Sale $599,000 Bowers and & Mikefab Srokaviews. Team Does Desantis & Zilahy Barbara Mandel Skye Michiels Rothbard Heller Maria Quattrone Stokespkg, Group 170 Grape St.Rachel Green construction w/tranquil crtyardJeremy setting not get better Team than this! The Gomez Team $450,000 CONSHOHOCKEN BLUE BELL EXTON OLD CITY OLD CITY OLDdeck CITY& 3 yrs on tax abmnt CONSHOHOCKEN OLD CITY OLD CITY 237 N. Bread St. #2 3br/2ba condo w/private elevator, fireplace, private $599,000 COMMERCIAL/INVESTMENT 143 S. 2nd St. #201 3200sq.ft. 3br, 2/1ba, balcony, fireplace, c/a, parking at the Moravian $1,390,000 1504 S. 20th St. Open Lot Ready for a Developer! Can be bought with neighboring lot! $25,000 SOCIETY HILL / WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST 1716 Monument St. Nicely renovated triplex. 1 block from Temple Campus $279,000 1109 Spruce St. # 2R, #3R, Best Condo deal in Wash. Sq. West, 1br/1ba, low taxes & condo fees OPEN HOUSE Fr $180,000 1536 W. Erie Ave. Large lot blocks from Temple Med Sch. Plans, Permits & Zoned for 12 apts $300,000 606A Waverly St. Location! This is a lovely trinity! It’s a 1 BR. Great for 1st time buyer/student! $200,000 2200 S. 15th St. Comm. Vacant busy Corner Store-2 RENTED 2br apts!! Dream Location $300,000 927 Spruce St. #2R Very lrg Jr. 1br, totatly updted w/deluxe kit & ba. Wd flrs, Murphy bed $215,000 614 S. 2nd St. 3-Story Commercial Building, Currently used as a Salon, Price Includes All Equipment $459,000 2611 S. 11th St. 3br/1.5ba Lrg meticulous home-- completely redone. HWflr, finished bsmt, C/A $259,900 1501 S . 12th St. Great Investment in Passyunk Sq.! 1 Commercial & 3 Residential units, Fully Rented! $465,000 1029-1033 Spruce St. LOCATION! 3rd flr, 1br condo. Close to all Center City has to offer. C/A, bi-level $240,000 SURROUNDING AREAS 1109 Spruce St. #1R Bi-level, lowest priced 2br/2ba in Wash. Sq. West, SS & Granite KIT OPEN HOUSE $299,900 250 S. 13th St. #7D Spacious 1br, sep dining facil, wood fl, dec FP, granite & SS, complete renov $299,900 Olney-1980 Church Ln. Property was used as a church. Pkg & large lot. Excellent for re-development $60,000 Sherri Carol15’ Diament Chris Gallagher Joe Herzog Jeff Huss S. Frazier St. April LaCorte HWflrs and Paulupdated Mazzochetti Lin Ninnis 1012 Spruce St. #1M Tri-level Condo in Bramble Strickland Row; 1br/1.5ba; Ceilings; New KIT; Walk-In Closet $300,000 Southwest-710 3br end-of-row, half bath $75,000 MEDIA OLD CITY CONSHOHOCKEN OLD CITY EXTON CONSHOHOCKEN CONSHOHOCKEN EXTON 1008-20 Spruce St. #3F 2br, 1ba bi-level in a great community w/pool & common areas $359,900 Kingsessing-5539 Windsor Ave. Lovely 3br row w/HWflrs, carpeted bedrooms, C/A, new heater $80,000 Diamond Society Team Diamond Society Team Diamond Society Team Diamond Society Team 1211 Waverly Walk Large 2 bedroom, 1.5 bath home with den and patio $424,900 Mayfair East-4759 Meridan St. Beautifully remodeled 3br/1.5ba, fin bsmt row home, must see! BUYER BONUS $129,000 220 Locust St. #20A Large corner 2br w/city and river views. Includes prepaid parking $399,900 Wissahickon Hills-5421 Quentin St. Price Reduction on Wonderful Home in Beautiful Manyunk! OPEN HOUSE $248,000 514 Randolph Ct. #F Garage pkg, 1800 sqft., roof deck, 3 full bathrooms, must see this house! $439,900 Overbrook Farms-6367 Woodbine Ave. Lrg. Dutch Colonial Single, 6br/2.5ba, updated, orig details $399,000
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234 S PhiliP Pl OpeN suNday, JuLy 11, NOON-1:30 pm i.M. Pei bright & airy 4br,3.2b, +/-3360sf,family room, great garden, parking! $995,000 Call hermie leung
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306 Spruce Street-Cooks kit, f/p lr dr 2 rm master ste + 3 add br’s sunrm, rf deck, prkg $1,795,000 259-261 S 17th Street-Unique opportunity double prop w/10 residential units above,shell cond $1,900,000 719 S 9th Street-4 bd/den,media rm,3.5 ba,Lr/Dr,hw flrs,chef’s kit,2 fpl,grdn,2 C prkng $1,250,000 400 Spruce Street-Super wide corner home w/ a garage & grdn. 4br, 4baths 2 powder rooms $1,435,000 1936-38 Delancey Place-Double wide carriage house, elev., 2-3 car grge, 2br suites + guest suite $1,800,000 133 Salter Street-3550 sq.ft,22’wide 2 lrg bd,main suite w/blcny,den,4.5 ba,dk,grdn,grg. $849,000 100 Pine Street-Unique 3 bd/3.5 ba,walled fountain,grdn,elevator,grt views,fpl,wine cellar. $1,250,000 2125 Pine Street-1870 Mansion extensively renovated in 2010. 5br/4b and garden $1,595,000 729 S 2nd Street-Beaut 3 bd/1.5 ba twnhse condo w/garage prkng,wide open living space,rf dk. $519,900 241 S 6th Street #1805-Views of Wash Sq from 18th flr,newr kit w/side wndw,blcny,stunning view. $739,000 $699,000 822 S Swanson Street-Single fam used as duplex,1st fl 1 bd w/grdn,2nd fl 2 bd/2.5 ba,hw,2 dks. $469,900 208 S 3rd Street-1st fl Bi-lev off/com Zoned C-3 + 2 rental units mint condit $695,000 210 W Rittenhouse Sq ##1402-New upscale,furnished luxury condo,1050 sq.ft,1 bd/1.5 bath. $639,000 752 S 3rd Street-4 bd/2 ba w/hrwd flrs t/o,high ceil,sep Dr,bsmt,fpl and grdn 233 S. 6th St ##706-Independence Place luxurious 1 bdrm/1 1/2 bth,customized t/o,terrace. $575,000 304-6 S American Street-Double-wide trinity,2 bd/2 ba,refin pine flrs,gas fpl,kit w/brk flr,patio $429,000 206 S 3rd Street-1st fl. Bi-lev office/com zoned C-3, + 2 rental units, excel. cond $559,000 1004 E Passyunk Avenue-3 bedroom,2.5 bath,fireplace,SS/granite,charming patio. $409,900 500 Manning Walk-Spacious, light-filled bi-level 3bd, 2bth condo w/open kit, hrd fls, patio $549,000 732 S Clifton Street-Large expanded trinity 2 bd/1.5 ba,C/A,hrdwd flrs,deck $349,000 419 Spruce Street #D-Renov Jr 1BR condo. Prfct locat&value. SS&GranKtch. HW, C/A, W/D $232,500 735-739 S 12th Street #403-FHA APPROVED!54 Brand new condos, Hawthorne Lofts,most w/prkng, THURSDAY, JULY 8TH, 2010-5:00-6:30 From-$149,900 2447 S Garnet-N/C Lr/Dr,Kit,2 bdrms,1 ba + mstr suite w/ blcny,tx abate,garage. $495,000 tx abat. 136 Carpenter Street #C-Trinity w/eat-in kit,granite and SS appln,hw & pine flrs,2 bd/1.5 ba,rf dk. $339,900 THURSDAY,JULY 8TH,2010-5:00-6:30 1706 Rittenhouse Square #23RD F-Picture yourself in the pleasurable comfort of $329,900 518 Queen Street-4 bd/1.5 ba,LR,sep DR,updated kit,patio,add’l bd/fam rm on 3rd flr. $399,000 839 S American Street #B-3 sty cond w/prkng,2 bd/1.5 ba,LR/DR w/hw flrs,wd buring fpl,deck. this new 3BR/3+BA condo. $5,298,200 1008 S Randolph Street-Cute 2 bd/1 ba,new floors, new kitchen,nice rear yd,deck. $279,900 1830 Rittenhouse Square #3A-Eloquence! Gorgeous 3BR/4+BA condo. Cozy fireplace, pantry. $4,700,000 904 S Alder Street-2BR/2bth home. SS&GranKtch. Patio. Exc. Light. Awesome locat $279,000 1601 Locust Street #1300-Modern condo designed by Wesley Wei. Detailed full flr, 326 Queen Street #A-Perfect 1 BR condo in Q.V., boutique bldng, charm, mint condition $195,000 wndows on 4 sides $3,300,000 905 Corinthian Avenue-4 bd/3.5 ba,2 car prkng,fin bsmt,roof dk,9 yrs left on tx abat. $599,000 1901 Walnut Street #PH-21A-Spect PH on Ritt Sq. 3B+study/4ba, double hght LR ceil, $529,000 2 huge terraces. $2,395,000 2521 Brown Street-Beautiful 4BR/2BA, hw flr,, t/o, c/a, mast br suite 853 N Ringgold Street-3BR/1.5Baths Restored & Remodeled Victorian w/chef’s Kitchen $399,999 1901 Walnut Street #14BE-Architecturally designed in the NY Gallery Style. 3br + study, 4.5b $2,250,000 849 N Newkirk Street-3-story corner property, originals details,newer mechanicals. $350,000 1801 Montrose Street #B-Amazing TH in gated ctyd w/1 car garage. 3 bds/ 2full, 2half baths $599,500 1820 Rittenhouse Square #402-Elegant 3Br/3.5ba condo with unparralleled 703 S 17th Street-Newly renovated 3BD 2.5ba TH. Engaging home w/ many amenities $399,999 treetop views of the Square $2,200,000 2203 Kimball-2 bd/2.5 ba,granite/SS kit,hrwd flrs,outdoor space,fin bsmt. $287,500 1531 Pine Street #D-4BR/3.5B bilevel condo with large private deck in the Ritt Hs Sq area $1,399,000 2210 Madison Square-Center Hall Updated kit Sep LR & DR patio 2Br & den tile bth $299,900 1830 Rittenhouse Square #7A-Fab contemp apart, vuws of Park 2bds, + sit room/den. Gorge kit. 2301 Cherry ##4K-Beaut 3 bd/2+ ba condo, 2 fireplaces,central air, prkng,beaut city views. $499,000 2616 Webster Street #A-New community 12 condos,2 bd/1.5 ba,great open layout,9 ft ceilings $249,900 3 bths $1,395,000 210 W Rittenhouse Square #1809-2 bedroom with park views from every room, 2.5 bathooms $1,225,000 415 S 19th ##1E-1 bdrm @ Addison w/lrg wndws,hi ceil,granite + w/d in unit,beaut roof dk. $249,000 1515 Locust Street #300-Priv. & Sec. Boutique build, 3Bds, 2.5bths, deck, gas fp, 2225 sq. ft. $1,195,000 50 S 16th Street #4106-Twilight Open 6/10 5:30-7p, 2Bed/2.5Ba w/ Superb NE Views $1,150,000 $878,000 275 S 19th Street-2100 square feet surrounded by windows Elevators open into your residence $875,000 33 N 3rd Street #3-2 bd/2 ba Unique Old City Flat,2000 sq.ft,huge wndws,high ceilings. $499,900 1515 Locust Street #601-1855 sq ft condo w/ 10ft ceils, super upgraded, 2br, 2.5 ba $735,000 800 N Hancock Street-4 bd/2.5 ba,large rooms,hrwd flrs,deck,prkng,tx abat. $1,499,000 1420 Locust ##17K-3 bd/2.5 bth,wrap-around terrace,excellent closet space,24 hr doorman $559,000 129 Cuthbert ##2-Renovated 1 bd/1 ba loft,many original details,Juliet balcony. $397,000 131 S 10th Street-Commercial bldg w/2 bd-3 sty owner unit,SS applns,hw flrs,cstm ba and kit. 210 W Rittenhouse Square #2303-Newly refurb 1Brm 1Bth Spect sunset vuws, full amenities, $579,000 415 W. George-3 bedroom,1 bath,hw flrs,newer kitchen and bath,roof deck. $310,000 420 S Jessup Street-3br, 2b, Colonial TH, updated kit, ss appl., lr, grdn, patio concierge,drmn $539,000 1218 Mount Vernon Street-4BR, 2b. Lrg yrd for prkg or grdn, w/10’ clngs & wd flrs. New Kit & Bths. $398,000 $299,900 1107 South Street #C-Best Total Rehab ever Bi-level 2B/2b w/1 car PKG low fees pets ok 201-59 N 8th ##308-Gorgeous 2 bd/2 ba w/ balcony & deeded prkng,pool & fitness center. $499,900 301 Race ##512-Bi-Level renovated 1 bd/1 ba,granite kit,hw thru out,grt closet space. $299,900 1001-13 Chestnut Street #605W-Updated 1 bd/1 ba unit with 15’ceilings,open kit,island,W/D. $349,900 1500 Chestnut St #10H-Great Buy! Luxury 2BR/2ba, granite kitchen, marble baths, doorman $369,000 36 Strawberry Street #35-900 Sq Ft flat,Blk granite kit, huge storage, stylish $284,500 1014 Spruce Street #7-3-Strickland row bi-level 2 bd/2 ba,hrwd flrs,crtyd setting w/pool. $284,900 225 S 18th Street #415-Jr. 1 Bedroom w/ beautiful finishes! Pool, fitness center & 24 hr. security $340,000 $264,900 1305 Spruce Street #2B-Washington Sq. West 1 Bed/1 Bath Condo. Tax abatement $259,900 111 S 15th ##1810-1 bd/ 1 ba ,open floor plan w/modern bth & kit w/granite/SS applns,W/D $324,000 36 Strawberry Street #46-926 sf 1B PENTHOUSE fab wd flrs,chic kit&bth C/A,w/d Pets ok $239,000 1420 Locust ##15B-Academy house,junior 1 bdrm,cstm kit,lrg windows, sunrise view. $219,900 301 Race ##209-1 bd/1 ba,open flr plan,hrwd flrs,loads of storage,home warranty. 301 Race ##303-1 bd/1 ba,granite & SS kit,Jacuzzi,hrwd flrs,loads of storage. $219,900 1326 Spruce Street #702-Center City One studio w/southern exposure,terrace,W/D, $159,000 24 hr doorman bldg. $189,900 721 North Terrace #C-Gated community 2 bd/1 ba w/crtyd views & parking,freshly painted. 1919 Chestnut ##711-Gorgeous customized unit in well-managed & maintained CO-OP bldg. $175,000 808-10 Morris Street-Amazing space! former firehouse w/lrg yard and 4 car garage. $525,000 1100 Vine Street #700-Charming 1 bd w/views of City Hall,hw flrs,oversized wndws. $149,900 316 Federal Street-3 bd/3.5 ba,high ceil,hrwd flrs,granite & SS kit,spacious bdrms. $339,900 2704 S 10th Street-3 bdrm/2 full ba,granite & SS kitchen,deck,fin bsmt. $339,000 4927 Chancellor Street-great 5 BR 1.5 ba twin, new Ikea kitchen $235,000 1422 W Stiles Street-Former carriage house renov into a duplex,1 unit currently rented. $300,000 4742 Pine Street #405-N/C-PINE WEST CONDO w/prkng,10 year tx abat,hw & ceramic flrs, 2524 Pine Street-Exquisite 3BR/2BA in private crtyrd setting w/fp, rfdeck w/stunning views $619,000 SS Appln 815 Moore Street-Charming 3 bd/1.5 ba,hw flrs,newer kitchen and bath. $256,999 From-$179,900 341 S 26th Street-Lovely 3 bd/2 ba,front grdn,wd fireplace,parquet flrs,C/A. $579,900 $224,900 $25,000 354 Martin Street-Charming 2 bd + den w/rear yard and deck,wd flrs,new wndws,SS applns. 2323 South Street-Corner 3 bd/2.5 ba,wood-burning fpl,SS appln,hrwd flrs,open LR/DR. $579,900 839 N Hutton Street-Nice 3br, 1bth home with strong rental history on solid street 351 Emily Street-Newly renov twnhse,2 bd/1 ba,new C/A,heating system,carpeting & hrwd flrs. $199,900 2422 Lombard Street-3BR 1.5bth TH, lg LR, FDR, hi-ceil, e-i kit, bricked gdn, wd fls MINT! $499,000 2237 S 20th Street-Corner duplex,rental income,fully occupied,tenant pays utilities. $199,000 207 S 24th Street #2F-Loft-like light filled 2BD, 1ba condo. Roof deck & garage parking $439,900 1125 N 65th Street-very nicely maintained 3BR 1.5ba home with garage $165,000 2429-41 Locust Street #201-Deluxe 1 bd at Locust Pt w/granite,SS,hw flrs,w/d,lrg wndws, $85,000 $649,000 1316 N 56th Street-4 BR 2 ba twin, great hardwood flrs, large kit hi ceilings. $315,000 Independence Court-Only 1 left! -3Br, deck, grge, gran kit, ss appli. 10yr tax abatement
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indePendence Place 241 S. 6tH St. bedroom with alcove, 1.5 baths, hardwood floors, open renovated kitchen, balcony, 1118 sf $499,900
Parc rittenHouSe 225 S. 18tH St. 1 bedroom plus den, 1.5 baths, custom details throughout, great entertaining space, 1338 sf $644,900
dorcHeSter 226 w. rittenHouSe Sq. 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, completely renovated, unimpaired southwest views, balcony, 1218 sf. $599,999
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ART MUSEUM
Total Square Footage
Price
Duplex penthouse, 3BR, 2.5BA, balc. w/panoramic city and Fairmount views, high ceilings, bright & sunny throughout 3 bedroom, 2.5 baths, balcony, overlooks Art Museum, parquet wood floors TOO! SOLD! WESub-Zero CANrefrigerator, SELL YOURS Studio, wood floors, balcony, updated kitchen 1 bedroom, 1 bath, brand new kitchen and bath, wood floors, Art Museum view 1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, upgraded kitchen wood floors
4,207 2120 570 1000 1127
$725,000 $650,000 $168,000 $289,900 $239,900
AVENUE OF THE ARTS
Total Square Footage
Bi-level penthouse, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, wood floors, large high-end kitchen 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, renovated kitchen and master bath, large balcony 1 bedroom, 1.5 baths, hardwood floors, high floor, balcony, upgraded baths 2 bedroom 1.5 bath corner unit, courtyard view, new kitchen and baths SOLD! WE CAN SELL YOURS TOO! One bedroom, one bath, upgraded kitchen and bath, Juliet balcony, W/D 1 bedroom, 1 bath, separate dining area, wood floors, excellent closet space 1 bedroom, 1 bath, wood floors, opem gourmet kitchen, bay windows bring excellent light, large living area SOLD! WE CAN SELL YOURS TOO! 1 bedroom, 1 bath, panoramic southern views, Juliet balcony, renovated bath and kitchen
1,437 1,111 863 1,019 705 875 966 705 Total Square Footage
RITTENHOUSE SQUARE
Price
$475,000 $384,900 $339,900 $309,900 $289,000 $263,900 $263,900 $259,900 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
$186,019 $100,419 $27,582 $43,514 $36,789
$8,434 $4,697 $1,234 $2,089 $1,861
$441,365 $249,041 $62,474 $104,190 $91,940
$10,299 $5,811 $1,458 $2,431 $2,145
$1,864 $1,114 $224 $342 $284
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
$65,578 $57,584 $50,718 $52,547 $42,808 $39,111 $40,309 $88,861
$2,824 $1,603 $2,248 $2,491 $1,802 $1,831 $1,835 $1,761
$143,483 $129,821 $115,182 $129,242 $93,556 $91,708 $93,139 $87,544
$3,348 $3,029 $2,688 $3,016 $2,183 $2,140 $2,173 $2,049
$572 $449 $440 $525 $381 $309 $338 $311
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
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3bedroom+den, 3.5 baths, marble foyer, formal dining rm, sunny eat-in kitchen, 10’ ceilings, moldings, oak herring bone floors, 3 gas fireplaces Tri-level penthouse with 1600 sq ft of terrace space, being sold unfinished, private elevator access 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, herringbone wood floors, EIK, crown molding and other custom finishes throughout, Rittenhouse Square views 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 270 degree views including Rittenhouse Square, chefs kitchen, upgraded throughout 3 bedrooms plus den, 3 baths, Juliet balconies over Rittenhouse Square, hardwood floors, marble baths, brand new 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, panoramic RittenhouseWE SquareCAN view, eat-in-kitchen, master suite, original details SOLD! SELLspacious YOURS TOO! 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, hardwood floors, 270 desgree views, open kichen, marble baths, custom closets, W/D 3BR, 3BA, Bamboo flrs., spac. Kit w/custom wood cabinetry, granite countertops, marble baths, 3 exposures, gym and hotel services 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, large private balcony, open kitchen with upgraded appliances and details TOO! SOLD! WE CAN SELL YOURS New construction, Santos mahogany wood floors, sub-zero refrigerator, new marble baths, square views 2 bedrooms + den, 3 baths,gourmet kitchen, marble baths, walk-in-closets, hardwood floors 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, new construction, panoramicWE city views, high endSELL features andYOURS finishes throughout SOLD! CAN TOO! Unique combined home with 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, completely renovated with custom finishes, wood floors 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, wood floors, balcony over Rittenhouse Square, abundant natural light, new W/D SOLD! WE CAN SELL YOURS TOO! 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, wood floors, open upgraded kitchen, designer baths One bedroom + den, one and a half baths, hardwood floors, marble baths, custom details throughout
3,293 3,413 2,638 3,200 2,131 3,217 2,000 1,978 1,707 1,348 1,614 1,550 1,747 1,231 1,351 1,338
$2,900,000 $2,500,000 $2,195,000 $1,975,000 $1,595,000 $1,595,000 $1,290,000 $1,350,000 $950,000 $895,000 $829,000 $795,000 $799,900 $769,000 $699,900 $644,900
$262,402 $377,859 $320,490 $278,829 $219,093 $232,152 $174,122 $181,323 $132,825 $180,007 $115,051 $114,292 $118,964 $110,008 $103,090 $91,789
$974,357 $853,245 $707,490 $632,859 $468,543 $529,528 $373,141 $371,644 $293,447 $379,163 $246,527 $266,296 $256,375 $245,039 $235,610 $213,455
$22,735 $19,909 $16,508 $14,767 $10,933 $12,356 $8,707 $8,672 $6,847 $8,847 $5,752 $6,214 $5,982 $5,718 $5,498 $4,981
$4,348 $4,586 $3,545 $3,009 $2,017 $2,579 $1,757 $1,795 $1,205 $1,850 $992 $1,043 $1,215 $1,015 $923 $946
$18,387 $14,792 $12,963 $11,758 $8,916 $9,776 $6,949 $6,877 $5,642 $8,847 $4,761 $5,171 $4,767 $4,702 $4,574 $4,034
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open sunday 7/11 12:45-1:15pm 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, wood floors, balcony, excellent light, upgraded kitchen and baths
1,218
$599,999
$98,201
$210,128
$4,903
$843
$4,060
riTTenhouse barclay barclay 250 s 17Th sTreeT wanamaker house warwick condominiums parc riTTenhouse
1BR, 1.5 ba, EIK, ex. closet space, sunset view Two bedrooms, two baths, hardwood floors, old world charm with modern features Two bedrooms, two baths, hardwood floors, building offers 24 hour doorman and gym, located on Rittenhouse Square 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, original wood floors, excellent closet space, W/D, formal dining room 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, oak wood floors, highly upgraded kitchen, pristine condition One bedroom, one bath, hardwood floors, marble bath, custom kitchen Junior 1 bedroom, 1 bath, open kitchen with granite countertops andSELL SS appliances, wood floors, marble bath SOLD! WE CAN YOURS TOO!
1,037 1,050 1,075 1,350 1,200 712 515
$599,000 $595,000 $550,000 $499,000 $494,900 $425,000 $349,900
$99,540 $91,967 $79,315 $79,127 $70,590 $53,426 $49,239
$228,813 $203,203 $180,094 $175,675 $147,092 $106,710 $99,127
$5,339 $4,741 $4,202 $4,099 $3,432 $2,490 $2,313
$1,076 $962 $831 $664 $667 $486 $399
$4,263 $3,779 $3,371 $3,435 $2,08 $2,003 $1,914
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open sunday 7/11 3-4pm Trinity townhouse, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, original hardwood floors, decorative fireplace, private garden
900
$50,646
$88,333
$2,061
$424
SOCIETY HILL
Total Square Footage
2 bedroom, 2.5 bath, hi ceilings, exposed brick in living room, custom hardwood floors, views of Independence National Park 2 bedrooms plus den, 2.5 baths, hardwood floors, high-end open kitchen, designer bathrooms Unique opportunity to create your own residence. Enjoy amenities from adjacent Omni Hotel Two bedrooms, 2 baths, corner SOLD! unit with river and city views, excellent details throughout WE CAN SELL YOURS TOO! Wonderful opportunity to create your own residence, luxury building w/ many amenities, unfinished space Two bedrooms, one bath, parquet wood floors, washer/dryer, unobstructed river views, floor-to-ceiling windows Corner 1 bedroom, southeast view, wood floors in living room, updated kitchen One bedroom, one bath, river views, custom kitchen and bath One bedroom, high floor, river view, investment opportunity One bedroom, high floor, river view, excellent investment opportunity SOLD! WE CAN SELL YOURS TOO! Studio, high floor with unobstructed river views, custom closets, wood floors, track lighting, electric blinds
3,068 2,117 2,017 1,200 2,127 1,133 775 700 700 700 522
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Total Square Footage
WASHINGTON SQUARE
$335,000 Price
$1,195,000 $939,900 $625,000 $469,000 $429,000 $399,000 $329,900 $297,500 $290,000 $249,900 $187,500 Price
Monthly After Tax Cost
$306,441 $128,466 $119,775 $76,336 $79,423 $61,727 $48,143 $43,635 $41,910 $41,012 $29,599
$12,556 $5,253 $5,042 $3,198 $3,797 $2,716 $2,024 $1,859 $1,884 $1,632 $1,336
2,702 2,810 1,818 1,977
$1,975,000 $1,395,000 $899,900 $839,000
$201,065 $197,226 $127,528 $125,319
independence place
open sunday 7/11 12-12:30pm 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, wood floors, open updated kitchen and baths, balcony with river views
1,818
$750,000
independence place independence place independence place hopkinson house
2 bedrooms, 2 baths, balcony over Washington Square, highly upgraded kitchen and baths 1 bedroom, 1.5 baths, alcove, Washington Square views 1 bedroom, 1 bath, alcove, highly upgraded with wood floors and custom kitchen, W/D, balcony 2 bedrrooms, 2 baths, balcony, high floor, balcony, high floor with unobstructed city and river views
1,457 1,118 1,118 1,200
independence place
1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, laundry room, excellent condition
independence place hopkinson house hopkinson house
1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, excellent value Junior one bedroom, wood floors, upgraded kitchen and bath, balcony 1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, unobstructed southern views,CAN great condition SOLD! WE SELL
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WATERFRONT Bi-level penthouse, 2 bedrooms, SOLD! 3.5 baths, large WE balconies, chef’s kitchen, panoramic city and river views CAN SELL YOURS TOO! 1 bedroom, 1 bath, wood floors, balcony, high end finishes in kitchen and bath
$3,702 $1,308 $1,249 $677 $934 $582 $390 $343 $453 $345 $239
$10,852 $9,772 $6,241 $6,293
$2,394 $2,167 $1,201 $1,234
$8,458 $7,605 $5,040 $5,059
$114,547 $243,280
$5,677
$1,082
$4,595
$649,000 $499,900 $375,000 $499,000
$92,141 $74,297 $55,279 $72,256
$191,723 $149,025 $114,763 $156,620
$4,474 $3,477 $2,678 $3,654
$820 $620 $475 $609
$3,654 $2,857 $2,221 $3,046
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$299,900
$42,151
$89,666
$2,092
$358
$1,734
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$290,000 $289,900 $275,000
$42,151 $44,769 $42,166
$89,666 $95,974 $91,499
$2,092 $2,239 $2,134
$358 $411 $339
$1,734 $1,828 $1,795
Total Square Footage
3,635 924
Price
$465,089 $418,785 $267,452 $269,695
Monthly After Tax Cost
Minimum Income Monthly Cost Monthly Tax Total Incld. Mtg, Condo Savings in a 31% for 10% Down Cash Fee & Taxes Tax Bracket Required Financing
$1,600,000 $212,568 $474,778 $279,900 $42,318 $90,810
$11,078 $2,119
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$2,112 $315
Monthly After Tax Cost
P H I L A D E L P H I A W E E K LY
Amazing 2BR + den, 2.5BA, 2 story penthouse, custom throughout, Ligne YOURS Roset decorated, large balconies on both floors SOLD! WEfinishes CAN SELL TOO! Penthouse, 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, EIK, wrap around balcony, floor-to-ceiling windows, wood floors, fireplace 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, wood floors, balcony, renovated kitchen and baths, custom details throughout 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, hardwood floors, upgraded kitchen and baths, granite wet bar
Location
$16,258 $6,561 $6,290 $3,875 $4,730 $3,298 $2,414 $2,203 $2,337 $2,177 $1,575
Minimum Income Monthly Cost Monthly Tax Total Incld. Mtg, Condo Savings in a 31% for 10% Down Cash Fee & Taxes Tax Bracket Required Financing
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$1,687
Minimum Income Monthly Cost Monthly Tax Total Incld. Mtg, Condo Savings in a 31% for 10% Down Cash Fee & Taxes Tax Bracket Required Financing
$696,771 $281,166 $269,585 $166,066 $202,717 $141,361 $103,454 $94,403 $100,158 $93,294 $67,507
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