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King Samir Shabazz is shorter than I’d expected but otherwise looks just like he does in various YouTube videos—dreads, face covered in tats, and dressed like a soldier. I hesitate—would he be offended to shake the hand of a white man? I extend mine anyway and he takes it; a solid, firm handshake.

Shabazz sits in the office chair and starts talking. “We’re just tired of being demonized,” he says. “When you demonize the New Black Panther Party, you demonize the ideology of black power, black struggle and love.”

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Panthers dressed in black file out and take up positions guarding the sidewalk.

A woman in street clothes comes out and starts walking around the house, peering behind bushes and into corners.

They stand “at ease” but are alert, with their eyes on the street. No weapons are visible but the martial atmosphere is palpable as daylight fades to night on the otherwise deserted block.

Jackson comes out again, setting an old office chair in the center of the porch. Assistant Chief of Staff Ayotefnut Ba takes up position at the back of the porch. Finally, the chairman himself emerges.

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It’s just starting to get dark when I stroll up to Jerry Jackson’s house in northcentral Philly, a tidy, well-landscaped brick single with a red, black and green flag flying out front. A small sign by the door reads: “COLORED ONLY. No Whites Allowed.” I go for the bell anyway, at any moment expecting someone to tell me to get my cracker-ass off the property.

Jackson—chief of staff of the Philadelphia branch of the New Black Panther Party—answers, and we cordially shake hands. He tells me to wait, going back inside and locking the door behind him.

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Day 2008, when Shabazz and Jackson were accused of intimidating voters at a Fairmount Avenue polling station in the 14th Ward. Evidence is sparse to what actually happened on that day at the Guild House West Retirement home.

A videotape distributed on YouTube shows Shabazz and Jackson standing out front, with Shabazz holding a nightstick and telling the cameraman he is providing security. According to the Department of Justice, which brought a case against the men, “Every voter necessarily had to pass within the mens’ armed purview, and within a distance at which the weapon could potentially be swung to hit them.”

Bartle Bull, a white civil-rights attorney known for working on Democratic candidates’ campaigns, was checking in at various polling stations that day, and when he stopped in on Fairmount Avenue, he said Shabazz yelled at him, “Now you will see what it means to be ruled by the black man, cracker!”

Two poll watchers stationed inside the building reportedly told a third poll watcher that they were intimidated, but they later denied it and said that they were unaware of the Panthers’ presence.

“I didn’t see anybody outside. Nobody said nothing to me about anything,” poll watcher Larry Counts testified at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, though he had previously told Justice Department lawyers that before leaving the polling place, he “first checked to see if the Black Panthers were still deployed outside.”

There were no reports of voters denied entrance to the polls. The neighborhood is primarily black, and out of more than 1,500 voters, fewer than 100 were registered Republican. So it’s unclear who exactly Shabazz and Jackson would have wanted to prevent from casting ballots.

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Vice Chair of the Civil Rights Commission Abigail Thernstrom said, “So far —after months of hearings, testimony and investigation—no one has produced actual evidence that any voters were too scared to cast their ballots.”

Citing lack of evidence, the Department of Justice dropped the intimidation charges but issued an injunction banning Shabazz from Philadelphia polls until 2012. Critics are accusing the DoJ of “backing off” voting cases involving black defendants, under the direction of President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder. A number of lawmakers have called for the DoJ’s Inspector General to investigate why the case was dropped, but the office declined, stating that its jurisdiction is to uncover waste and fraud, not political bias.

Meanwhile, Shabazz and Jackson have said very little about Election Day 2008.

“It’s not about a night stick. It’s about the very fact that the New Black Panther Party was there providing security for our elders. The KKK and neo-Nazis in the city of Philadelphia were putting out fliers saying they would be attacking elders and youth. We were there to secure the elders’ home.

“Everything else that happened after that, it is what it is.”

Shabazz says he can’t speak more about

the voter-intimidation charges because the case is still under review by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. He and Jackson were subpoenaed by the Commission but declined to testify when their lawyer did not show up to the deposition in January. “To be honest, I don’t want to talk about it,” Shabazz says.

“The white man has lied about it so much. That’s small potatoes.”

When interviewed on Fox News, New Black Panther National Chairman Malik Zulu Shabazz (unrelated to King Shabazz) was quick to say that the Panthers do not support voter intimidation.

“We should not be conducting ourselves that way at a polling station on Election Day.” But at an undated, videotaped Panther event, Malik Shabazz is seen telling group members: “What would we look like in front of a polling place with a baton? You know we don’t carry batons.

Sike.”

Critics say past inflammatory comments made by King Shabazz in print, audio and video prove he intended to intimidate white voters on Election Day. The most notorious clip is one in which he stands on South Street and yells at a crowd, “You want freedom? You gonna have to kill some crackers! You gonna have to kill some of they babies!”

Shabazz says the clip is overplayed.

“For white media to pick out the one thing I said, when I’m talking to the people—I never said King Samir is gonna kill your babies.”

He won’t accept or deny charges that the New Black Panthers are racist. “A racist is one who loves, supports and adores his race,” he said. “We love our people more than they hate themselves.

White people love white people more than they like black people.”

Malik Shabazz outright denies the charge. “The New Black Panther Party is not a hate group or a racist organization,” he told Fox News when confronted with King’s statements.

Back on the porch at Jackson’s house, King Shabazz is telling me what’s wrong with white people: “You were grafted out of the idea of being wickedly wise.

Everything about your god is false. It is in your disposition to be against the laws of nature. Naturally, you’re just a fuck-up. A wild, untamed savage beast.”

The rhetoric was too over the top. In the silence, as I think about my next question, I start to giggle. I can’t help it.

I look at Shabazz and he is smiling too, just for a second.

“What is wrong with you?” he asks. He posed a lot of rhetorical questions but this one seemed directed at me. Any hint

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of professionalism in the interview was already out the window, so I answer.

“It’s just in my disposition to be evil,” I say, and Shabazz lost his shit, slapping his knee in laughter. “That’s the smartest thing he’s said since he’s been here,” he says to Jackson.

If people want to say King Shabazz has a problem with white people, they’re on pretty solid ground, and he’s happy to confirm the notion in the strongest possible terms.

“The white man is the devil,” he says.

But whether King Shabazz acted along or under the direction of the party, who he hates and to what extent he hates them aren’t the question. The issue is whether any voters were actually intimidated, and whether the DoJ acted improperly in dismissing the charges. The Civil Rights hearing has no resolution in sight and the body has no enforcement power anyway, so the case will linger for some time to come.

“Sometimes, whatever we do, we just tend to do it kind of strong,” Malik Shabazz said at the New Panther gathering.

“King Samir Shabazz was just a little bit too strong.”

“White people need to go. Bottom line,” King says, tapping his fist in his hand. “The solution is the extermination of every last cracker on the planet.” n

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A major difference between her current self-inflicted wound and the previous one is speed.

Whereas Ackerman took a full week to address the chaos at Arlene Ackerman South Philadelphia— whereupon she downplayed the attacks’ racial motivation, aimed blame at the victims and ignored staff shortcomings—her response to Goldsmith’s editorial came in a mere three days. This might not seem relevant until you consider what, in each case, was at stake: When Asian students were beaten, she dawdled. When her pay was exposed, she jumped from her seat.

Philadelphia is now burdened with a superintendent who exacerbates problems in a district that is plagued by them.

The dropout rate hovers at 30 percent; violence and decay are facts of life; reading and math scores, while rising, lag far behind those of the rest of the state. And while Ackerman prides herself on her relationship with students and parents— “Her main education strategy,” Philadel-

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Yet what we’re investing in now is a raft of swollen salaries. In May, Ackerman received a dubious $65,000 bonus, pushing her perk-filled earnings past a half-million dollars. Further, the district’s chief financial officer, deputy superintendent and general counsel each earn more than Nutter and Rendell, at $226,000, $230,000 and $190,000, respectively. In a city where 70 percent of students live in poverty, school administrators are raking it in.

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Researchers suspect a cover-up in the Main Line deaths of 57 Irish railroad workers 178 years ago.

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In June of 1832 , the 57 Irish migrant workers arrived at the docks of Philadelphia. Their job was to lance a flat path for the track through steep, hilly terrain. In railroad parlance, this is known as a ‘cut’ and thereafter that stretch of track would be known as Duffy’s Cut. Six weeks later, they would all be dead. History would blame cholera for their deaths, but history is always written by the winners, and the winners—in this case the railroad company and the landed gentry of Chester County—would be best served by such an explanation. But in fact there is a lot about the historical record that doesn’t add up.

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Back in the 19th century, the Main Line, not to mention large stretches of the railroads in this part of the country, were built on the blood, sweat and tears of Irish Catholic immigrants, who back then commanded about as much respect as Mexican immigrant workers command today. Out near Malvern, under mile 59 of what was then the Pennsylvania Railroad and is today SEPTA’s R-5 line, lies the bodies of 57 Irish railroad workers. What killed them remains a mystery—one that, some 178 years later, appears to be on the verge of being solved. The official record says the men died of cholera, but a team of academic researchers known as the Duffy’s Cut Project suspects foul play—that some, if not all, of the men were murdered to stem the spread of a cholera epidemic, then raging in Philadelphia and Chester County. And the researchers may well have discovered the forensic evidence to prove it.

After eight years of digging, the Duffy’s Cut Project has uncovered more than 2,000 artifacts—pipe stems, broken whiskey bottles, forks, buttons, shoe buckles—and four sets of remains. Two weeks ago, they found two more. These were the most complete set of remains yet. Most striking, the skulls had perimortem wounds, meaning caused at the time of death, according to Dr. Janet Monge, a professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania who has been examining the remains. In layman’s terms, the men’s skulls were split open right before they died, just like the two skulls on the skeletons they found the previous summer.

“We know the wounds are perimortem because living bones break differently than dead bones,” says Monge. “At this point, we are not 100 percent certain that this was the cause of death, but when there is more than one set of remains with the same trauma in the same place it is more likely causative.”

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Cholera is a bacterial infection that causes severe abdominal cramps, violent diarrhea and projectile vomiting that, if untreated, leads to death by dehydration.

By the summer of 1832, a global epidemic of cholera had arrived on the East Coast of America and was killing about 80 people a day during its peak in early August.

Before it was over, the cholera outbreak would kill 900 in the Delaware Valley.

The infection soon spread to the workers at Duffy’s Cut and by late August, according to archival accounts, all 57 had succumbed. The men lived in a shanty of tents at the bottom of a deep, wooded valley located a stone’s throw from mile 59, and it was there that they would be buried in unmarked graves and covered over with the dark, loamy earth they had shoveled out of Duffy’s Cut just weeks prior. And it was there that they would remain, forlorn and forgotten, if not for the efforts of the Watson brothers—Bill, chairman of the history department at nearby Immaculata University, and Frank, a Lutheran pastor with a Ph.D. in historical theology—and a small volunteer army of archaeologists, forensics experts and history students.

And despite near-zero funding, the skepticism of many and the outright obstruction of others—the Watson brothers’ team has dug for eight years through a historical paper trail and the tickinfested valley at Duffy’s Cut searching for the remains of the men and the truth about what happened to them.

When the 57 Irishmen disembarked at Philadelphia, they were intercepted by Phillip Duffy, a subcontractor tasked by the Philadelphian and Columbia Railroad with laying several miles of track near present-day Malvern. The new rail line Duffy was helping to build would connect Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, reducing what was in those days a two-to-three week trek to a mere two-to-three days, and in the process create the Main Line.

Duffy, himself an off-the-boat Irishman, likely spoke fluent Gaelic, with which he was quickly able to secure the labor services of the new arrivals from Derry. The men would be paid 25 cents a day and all the whiskey they could drink to lay mile 59. The work was hard, dirty and back-breaking, something the men had invariably grown accustomed to back in Ireland, where most people worked themselves to the bone in exchange for the right to grow potatoes on a small plot of land.

“The railroads must have been thinking, ‘We have to get the Irish, they are the only ones who would tolerate that kind of work,’” says Bill Watson. “Southern plantation wouldn’t even rent their slaves out for railroad digging, it was just too harsh.”

A dark shadow looms over the valley at Duffy’s Cut, dubbed Dead Horse Hollow because the carcasses of dead horses were allegedly dumped there back in the day. Some say it’s cursed, other say it’s haunted. But for the 178 years since the

57 Irishmen died there, the valley has remained untouched by development or, for that matter, any manifestation of modernity.

“Bad stuff happened there and you feel that the longer you are there,” says Frank Watson. “I’ve been down there a couple of times by myself and it creeped me out.

When this all started, none of us wanted to be there by ourselves.”

Today, a housing development stands at the top of the valley, and former residents have told the Watson brothers about the strange, unexplained phenomenon they witnessed when they lived there. Two separate teams of ghost busters have gathered evidence of paranormal activity at Duffy’s Cut—photographs that captured eerie phosphorescent orbs and recording devices that picked up disembodied voices with startling clarity.

One such recording reportedly captured a voice saying “Help me.”

In fact, the ghost stories surrounding Duffy’s Cut stretch all the way back to September of 1832, just weeks after the 57 died. An unidentified man walking home after dark from the nearby Green Tree tavern took a shortcut along the railroad tracks. He describes the night as “hot and foggy,” according to an account found in the Pennsylvania Railroad’s files, and when he got to the section of track by Duffy’s Cut he claims he saw the ghosts of dead Irishmen dancing on their mass grave. “They looked as if they were a kind of green and blue fire, and there they were hopping and bobbing on their graves,” he said.

Fast forward to the night of Sept. 19, 2000. Bill Watson and friend Tom Conner were returning from a bagpiping performance for World War II veterans out in Lancaster, still wearing the full-on Celtic regalia—kilt, tunic, and dirks—they don for such events. They said they stopped in at Bill’s office at Immaculata University to use the bathroom and get some coffee from the vending machine. They used the men’s room on the first floor of the faculty office building. Conner said he looked out the open window and saw something he couldn’t quite grasp.

“What am I looking at?” he said to Bill, who then took a look for himself. What he saw stopped him in his tracks: three figures with tiny heads standing side by side, their legs opened in a V formation and their arms stretched out to their sides. The figures glowed on the darkened lawn as if made of neon. The men were not spooked by what they saw until the three illuminated figures abruptly disappeared. They said they ran out of the bathroom but when they finally got up the nerve to go outside and investigate they found nothing.

“I believe in the supernatural,” says Bill Watson. “Do I believe in ghosts, like Casper the Ghost? I don’t know. I just know that there’s a lot of strange coincidences that have piled up over the years.”

Eventually, Bill Watson’s memory of the incident faded—until Labor Day 2002, when he was hanging out at his

Most of the skulls uncovered at Duffy's Cut were split open right before the men died.

the marker lay a small, steeply sloped wooded valley, Dead Horse Hollow, and somewhere down there were the remains of the 57 Irishmen. The brothers vowed to find the men, identify them if possible and notify the next of kin, and give them a proper burial. The Watson brothers were soon joined by two other Immaculata historians, Earl Schandelmeier and John Ahtes (who passed away in July), and the four would form the core research team of the Duffy’s Cut Project.

The men worked for love, not money.

Although the team applied for numerous grants to fund the research project, all requests were denied, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

“We have to make do with what we jokingly call MAC grants—meaning we have to go to the ATM,” Schandelmeier says.

But as word of the project grew, more and more experts agreed to donate their

time, including Penn’s Monge and Dr. Timothy Bechtel, professor of earth and environmental sciences at Franklin and Marshall College and chief scientist for Enviroscan, which provides magnetometers and ground-penetrating radar for archeological digs and public-works projects. It was Bechtel’s scans that pinpointed the remains that have been exhumed thus far. Bechtel usually charges $2,200 a day, and he estimates he has spent at least 30 days scanning the valley at Duffy’s Cut pro bono. “This project is so worth it,” he says. “All of us think it’s just absurd that we can’t get any grant money, it boggles the mind that nobody thinks this project has any historic merit. Early on, a lot of people thought we were one a wild goose chase, and now it’s too late to admit they were wrong.”

At first, the work was tedious and time-consuming as the team pored through far-flung historic archives, old census records and newspapers. Strangely, all copies of the Oct. 3, 1832, edition of the Village Record, the paper of record at the time, are missing, including the copy that should reside in the Library of Congress. This is the edition that should have had the first news account of the tragedy at Duffy’s Cut. Curiously, a follow-up story in the Village Record from Nov. 9 claims the death toll was overstated in the first article, and that only eight or nine Irishmen died at Duffy’s Cut. None of the other newspaper accounts from the

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After his death, the Watson brothers inherited his vast collection of history books and various ephemera and artifacts from his days at the Pennsylvania Railroad. Amongst these materials was a file about the tragedy at Duffy’s Cut that had been kept under lock and key by railroad executives all these years.

Bill Watson picked up the file and began paging through it. When he got to the ghost story about the glowing Irishmen “hopping and bobbing on their graves,” he stopped dead.

“My God, that’s what we saw!” Bill blurted out.

Soon, both brothers were poring over the file line by line. As it turned out, Duffy’s Cut was located less than a mile away from Bill Watson’s office at Immaculata and the two decided to try and find it. According to the file, in 1909 the PRR erected a stonewall marker along the side of the tracks to honor the men, and the Watson brothers would spend days walking what is today SEPTA’s R-5 line until they found the monument. Beyond

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time put the death toll higher than nine or 10.

The Watson brothers began to smell a cover-up.

“Railroads were big advertisers” Bill Watson says. “The incident was always downplayed in newspaper accounts, and I think that all copies of the Village Record [from Oct. 3, 1832] issue were pulled and destroyed.”

There were other parts of the official record that didn’t add up. Even with the relatively primitive medical treatments for cholera available back in 1832, such as leeching, the death rate was only 40 to 60 percent, meaning nearly half of all people who contracted the disease recovered. The fact that all 57 Irishmen contracted cholera and died from it would seem to be at best an amazing statistical anomaly—and at worst a bold-faced lie.

According to archival accounts, when the cholera began infecting the men at Duffy’s Cut, a plea for medical help went out and was swiftly denied.

Back then it was mistakenly believed that cholera was spread by casual contact (in fact, cholera is only spread by direct ingestion of fecal matter through contaminated water or food) and the valley at Duffy’s Cut was then quarantined.

There were no police or sheriffs in the area at the time, so law and order was maintained by the East Whiteland Horse Company, an armed vigilante force made up of local men that retrieved stolen horses and meted out rough justice to the thieves. The Duffy’s Cut researchers hypothesize that as many as 10 men may have defied the quarantine and fled the valley in search of help, or just out of fear and desperation. Men from the Horse Company soon tracked them down.

There was a struggle, violence ensued, and all the men who escaped the valley were killed. Their

bodies were brought back to the shanty as a grim reminder of what would happen if anyone else tried to leave the valley. The Horse Company men then cordoned off the lip of the valley, where the men were left to die.

Messages froM the dead?

This past spring, the Chester County Paranormal Research Society asked for permission to investigate the valley at Duffy’s Cut. The Duffy’s Cut Project research team is deeply divided about the scientific validity of paranormal investigations—Frank Watson (along with John Ahtes, before his death) believes they are in conflict with his religious beliefs and status as a clergyman; Bill Watson remains agnostic about their validity; and Earl Schandelmeier prefers to keep an open mind about the known unknowns that lie beyond the purview of scientific fact—but after some debate they gave the go-ahead.

The CCPRS team brought with them an array of sophisticated ghost-busting equipment, including cameras equipped with motion sensors and night-vision capabilities, and several electromagnetic field meters. But the device that yielded the most startling results was something called a Frank’s Box, a device that scans the AM radio band and acts like a ouija board, purportedly enabling a two-way conversation between the

This theory remained just that until the summer of 2009 when the team began uncovering skeletal remains, each with perimortem wounds to the skulls. The Watson brothers admit they may never be able to identify who killed the men, assuming that is what in fact happened. “Unfortunately, that part of the mystery may never be solved,” says Frank Watson. Still, the Duffy’s Cut Team is confident they are on the right side of history, and even if they are never able to conclusively prove what happened at Duffy’s Cut and who is responsible, it is the least they can do to give the men a proper Christian burial. If all goes according to plan, they will locate and exhume the remains of all the men by the end of the year.

West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd has offered burial spaces for the remains, and the Watson brothers plan to have a Celtic cross made out of stone to mark the gravesite.

Already there are signs that, slowly but surely, the curse that has hung over the valley at Duffy’s Cut like an eerie fog for 178 years may finally be lifting.

“Before we found the first body we never heard any animal sounds down in the valley, no bird chirping, just an eerie silence,” says Frank Watson. “After we started finding the bodies, the birds started chirping again.” n Jonathan Valania is editor in chief of Phawker.com.

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The Other Side Of The Water

Originally serving as the voice of rebellion first against French-imposed slavery and now against the various dictatorships, Haiti’s “Rara” music is powerful, theatric and, at times, controversial.

The Other Side of the Water combines archival footage and vérité narratives to tell the story of a group of young immigrants who reinvent the traditional music form on the streets of Brooklyn.

The documentary focuses on Pé Yves, who has led the Rara movement in New York for the past 20 years. Ultimately, it’s about the merging of Haitian and American cultures, ancient ceremonies and modern mentalities. The documentary will be shown with a short film profiling three women competing to be named Ebony Goddess—a title bestowed upon the carnival queen of the Afro-Brazilian all-black group Ilê Aiyê. hannah KeySer

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Admiral Radley’s debut LP I Heart California isn’t as mopey as you’d expect from members like former Grandaddy frontman Jason Lytle and Earlimart songwriters Aaron Espinoza and Ariana Murray. The music possesses a dreamy indie/folk pop drift that suggests lying atop a grassy bluff cataloging the passage of cumulus clouds like a sky-bound Rorschach test. Just disconnect and luxuriate to the gentle swoon of pretty, laconic melodies. It’s neither as majestically idiosyncratic as Lytle’s old band nor as emotionally arresting as Earlimart’s finest moments, but it’s hard not to smile at sardonic spit takes like “I’m All Fucked on Beer” or the title track, which notes Cali’s indigenous attractions (“fake tits and symphonies”). chris parker 8pm. $14-$22. With Hooray For Earth. World Cafe live, 3025 Walnut St. worldcafelive.com

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OzzFest Somehow all the drugs and booze and bat heads and lines of ants and hectic reality TV schedules and Zakk Wylde’s terrifying beard and fights with Tony Iommi and that annoying family of his haven’t killed Ozzy Osbourne just yet. And so the 61-year-old hard-rock/metal icon has revived his long-running Ozzfest tour—which in recent years has been either scaled back or canceled outright—for a half-dozen U.S. dates, Philly being one of the lucky chosen cities. On board with Ozzy this year: Motley Crue (which features four more dudes we’re shocked aren’t dead yet), Rob Halford, Devildriver, Nonpoint, Drowning Pool and more. No rest for the wicked! m.a.g.

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Inspired by the showmanship of Guitar Slim, the young Florida-bred Shorty peppered his act with flips, somersaults and has even played standing on his head (to win The Gong Show during a particularly fallow period). Now in his 70s, the acrobatics are less frequent (though he swears he still does flips on occasion if the stage is big enough). Nonetheless he remains a mesmerizing performer and sizzling guitarist deeply informed

by Chicago blues, recalling Buddy Guy at times.

His profile has increased the last couple decades, highlighted by 2006’s award-winning We the People, and his recent follow-up, Bare Knuckle, with stinging tracks like the hard-luck, blue-collar “Please Mr. President,” which begs “lay some stimulus on me.” c.p.

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Chinatown looks different on a Monday night. The lack of food smells, crowds and assorted Asian chatter leaves the desolate blocks open for mischief. The trouble we sought was behind unmarked doors.

I won’t say it was all Victor’s idea, but without him I can’t imagine my search for a “massage” would’ve gone much beyond curiosity. Piqued by rumors of clandestine lairs concealed all over Philadelphia’s tiny Chinatown, we ventured to put the mystery of the late-night rub ’n’ tug to rest. Our first lead was an address on Cherry Street: White door, single white doorbell. We gave it a buzz.

If prostitution is the oldest profession, we were looking at its oldest boss. The overweight madam who greeted us stood in a lounge lined with couches—neat, nondescript and unmistakably Chinatown. There are a couple Asian women on laptops sitting near her. Our questions are to the point, as are her answers: 150 bucks gets you whatever happens in that room, whether it’s a massage, a wild orgy or discussing yard work—madam doesn’t want to know.

“How about if there’s no sex?” Victor bargains.

“Just a massage and a happy ending?” I chime in, making an unnecessary gesture.

She tells us massages cost 60 bucks, but insists on the upsell—$150 and whatever you want.

We bounce.

Convinced there are more of these spots all around, we press on. Research reveals another place just down the street. Again, plain white door, white doorbell. Buzz. We enter to a madam rushing us through a pink-lit lounge and into rooms. The lack of romance rubs us both the wrong way. Our discussion with her goes about the same as the madam before, but this one is much more pushy. We again try to bargain the “no sex” route, which gets us plum thrown out of the place.

Back on the street, we walk to the corner to take stock. We need information. Victor takes some initiative and starts a conversation in his native tongue with a couple guys walking past. I nod and smile as our map of possibilities suddenly opens up.

There are loads of these joints in Chinatown—many of them unmarked. White door, red door, green door, white doorbell, buzz. Pink walls, soft light, madam, girls,

the deal’s always the same. Whatever you want, $150. By the time we tick off every place on our list of about seven, we thoroughly know the drill. Feeling like pros, we walk back to spot No. 1.

We’d told them we were running to an ATM an hour before, and our return prompts no conversation, just tea in a foam cup. We sit down on a couch and light cigarettes. It’s obviously a slow night.

Madam blankly stares at the TV cycling an endless stream of commercials for Chinese restaurants in Vegas. The girls click away on laptops. Halfway through our smokes, madam is palpably impatient.

From across the room we each pick a girl, prompting them to look up from their screens and rise, awaiting us at the steps.

They lead us upstairs into adjacent shower stalls, strip us down, and begin bathing us.

My girl seems to be on a mission to finish this last little bit of work for the night.

Finally, Victor and I are led into separate rooms. Mine is the size of a walk-in closet and contains something between a massage table and a bed, a nightstand stacked with oils, and strategically placed mirrors on the walls. She directs me to lay back and begins the massage, a pretty standard one, albeit sans even a stitch of clothing. It isn’t long before I have to explain that I’m not willing to receive more than a tug from this fine lady. There’s surprise on her face, but she doesn’t seem disappointed. She got to work and pulled off the finale with 10 minutes to spare on the clock. The experience redefined the handjob for me. This was the work of a professional.

Shortly after, I find myself back in the lounge smoking—TV still blaring, madam snacking. One of her employees has to intercom Victor’s room before he comes strolling down the stairs with a look of bliss on his face. “Sorry man. Got carried away.”

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Gaming is one of America’s favorite pastimes, surpassing any other hobby that kids used to enjoy. Getting the top score on Halo or killing the most prostitutes in Grand Theft Auto is now the mark of a champion, but you haven’t seen real champions at work until you’ve seen King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. Catch a free screening of this hilarious documentary following two men as they vie for the Guinness World Record score on classic arcade game Donkey Kong, then see firsthand how hard it is by participating in an intense Donkey Kong competition. It’s not a battle for glory alone: Prizes include tickets to upcoming World Cafe Live shows, video games and specialty beer. So instead of sitting in your room all night playing Halo against some 12-year-old in Korea, leave your dimly lit room and play Donkey Kong against some game-loving locals. sydney scoTT

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Crowds at the Caribbean Festival have swelled every year since it was established in 1986, and for good reason. Presented by the Social and Cultural Committee of the Caribbean/American Association of Pennsylvania, the Caribbean Festival is an excellent excuse to stuff your face with yum-yums like jerk chicken, curried goat, rice and peas, plantains and heavenly escovitch fish while bouncing along to some serious Afro-Caribbean beats. This year features local singing wunderkind Michael Jordan Woodard, the 12-year-old mini star who didn’t know he could sing well until his mom heard him in the shower. Be sure to pick up some arts and crafts or a colorful wrap in the marketplace area, as all proceeds go toward funding scholarships for Caribbean and Caribbean-American students.

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and those who appreciate its artistry. If you’re one of the later, hit up the Pearl of Africa this Saturday night to catch Sly Artistic City, a film that chronicles our city’s rich history of street art from the 1960s to the present. The brainchild of the legendary Notorious BIK, oft considered the godfather of wild style (those large, intricate pieces that are difficult to decipher, but aweinspiringly beautiful), the documentary unveils a host of candid photos from the early days, and features interviews with prolific writers and public figures, including Mural Arts Program director Jane Golden. At the very least, you’ll walk away with a renewed sense of Philly pride, championing your hometown as graffiti’s true birthplace, and cursing those New Yorkers for taking all the cred. Lucy mcguigan

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Playwright Ray Cooney’s farces have a standard recipe: 1. Place ordinary people in extraordinary situations with potentially dire consequences. 2. Let laughter ensue.

Catch Me, Comrade, the high-octane farce currently being given an appropriately energetic (and at times quite amusing) staging at the Hedgerow Theatre, is no exception.

This is the ninth consecutive summer this company has mounted one of Cooney’s exercises in complicated plotting and comic mayhem. The first six productions were terrific; 2004’s Funny Money ranks among the area’s funniest shows of the decade. In the last couple of years, though, the laughs have fallen off a bit: The casts of 2008’s There Goes the Bride and in 2009’s One for the Pot, were as enthusiastic as ever, but the plays themselves were not nearly as appealing. Thankfully, director Jared Reed’s pick of Comrade is a return to form.

Penned early in Cooney’s career, Comrade isn’t as mathematically precise as Funny Money or other Hedgerow productions like Run for Your Wife or Caught in the Net, but Reed’s exacting choreography more than makes up for the play’s occasional lapses.

The absurdly complicated plot (a Cooney hallmark) centers on Russian ballet dancer Petrovyan (David Polgar, who spends the play speaking in a bad Russian accent and pirouetting about the stage), who decides to leave his troupe to run off with a British ballerina named Alicia (Rachel Holmes).

The pair hides out with Alicia’s friend Nancy (the promising Tara Haupt), who lives with her father, Commander Rimmington (Hedgerow vet Bob Liga), a British government official. Nancy and Alicia must hide Petrovyan from not only from the Commiehating Commander, but also the Russians and a dogged British constable (Jim Fryer).

Alicia and Petrovyan attempt to flee to Ireland with the help of Nancy, her devoted if beleaguered fiancé Gerry (the delightful Carl Smith) and the estate’s teetotaler gardener Hoskins (Bob Meenan, in the production’s most restrained performance).

The performances are broad, yes. But Comrade isn’t about introspection, it’s about action, and the ensemble functions well as a team to execute the precise physical comedy.

Reed’s staging has some of the most complicated blocking you’re ever likely to see: Actors get hurled through doors and over furniture, scale the insides of chimneys, perform a ballet version of the Hustle and, in one memorable instance, get humped in a fireplace. The cast performs the continuous dance of mayhem effortlessly, with impressive stamina and excellent timing.

The performances of Carl Smith and Zoran Kovcic, as British security agent

Consider the poster.

Jason Kernevich, has gotten a On one hand, you have lot of press lately for the series Xeroxed yard-sale fliers, of tourism-board-gone-Founpleas for misplaced kittens tainhead city-themed posters and adverts for CD-release he co-created. parties—8 1/2x11 examples Philly’s printing and design of function over form. On the collectives represent at PHL, other hand, you have posters too. Space 1026 sent a few worth keeping: the Le Tigre contributors, including Anni screenprint you swiped from Altshul, whose girly-yet-eniga venue in 10th grade, Johnny matic fabric prints recall an inCash giving the finger in dive trospective, grown-up take on bars and dorm rooms, art Holly Hobbie, and Chris Kline, prints that mean enough (or creator of ultrabright prints of that cost enough) to merit a fantastical, wackily-patterned classy frame. creatures. Ditto Nodivision But can posters bring Design Syndicate, creators of a community together? gory, eye-grabbing gig posters Collingswood, N.J.-based for the likes of Hole and Less graphic designer and illustraThan Jake, here represented by tor Justin Miller and his new Robb Leef. Leef’s contribution South Philly coffee oasis and draws on Philly’s more-is-more art space Grindcore House food traditions like the “Philly are betting on it. Miller has Challenge”—a cheesesteak put together PHL: Printers/ wrapped in pizza chased with Haters/Lovers, a poster show a 40 of Hurricane—with a that focuses on what a slew of melty-licious skyscraper of Philadelphia’s best screena sandwich dubbed “Philthy printing artists love about the Special.” city—and what they could live Though Leef’s rendering of without. meatballs, tater tots, pretMore than 20 local artzels and pickles on the same ists will show their works, sandwich at first seem gloriand nearly all of the postous, the image could also be ers exhibited will have been seen as negative: Its too-bright created specifically for PHL . colors hint at something rotten Miller and Grindcore House’s beneath the surface. Is it an owners, Mike Barone and homage to tradition, or decryDavid Anthem, wanted to ing gastronomic hubris?

"Free-Wheeling" by Eleanor introduce the new venture One of Grosch’s contribuGrosch (top) and "Philthy to its Pennsport neighbortions, a stark rendering of a Special" by Robb Leef. hood with a show of Philly bicycle seen moving either solidarity. toward or away from the viewer, could also “[Barone and Anthem] really want it to be be seen in a couple of ways: The cycle could a fixture of the community as well as a cool be a stylish symbol for Philly riders, or it hangout spot,” says Miller. “So that’s where could be bearing down ominously, the kind the idea for doing a show based on Philly came from. Showing [that] this is our roots, of sleek, sinister propaganda that cruises this is where we’re pulling from, this is what the nightmares of city drivers? (It’s probwe want to be—a fixture of the community.” ably the former.)

Regardless of your feelings about our city, PHL’s participating artists list is a veritable roster of Philadelphia’s vital fair or foul, Miller has curated the kind of screenprinting scene. Daniel Blackman’s exhibition that should make anyone proud clean, instruction-manual-meets-heraldry to share Philly air with these artists—and illustrative prints have promoted clothing make defectors to Brooklyn more than a in South Carolina and his illustrations for little homesick. n Cicada Books’ Graphic America guidebook radiate merit-badge-esque charm; PHL: Printers/Haters/Lovers, Eleanor Grosch’s elegant, minimalist takes Through Aug. 21. Grindcore House, on animals have graced many an adorable 1515 S. Fourth St. grindcorehouse.com pair of Keds; Heads of State’s Philly half,

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Catch Comrade

One-two-step: Thomas-Robert Irvin (left) as Bobby Hargreaves and Carl Smith (right) as Gerry Bluss in Catch Me, Comrade.

Mr. Laver, stand out. A veteran of all nine Cooney plays at Hedgerow, Kovcic is tasked with acting drunk for most of the production (a state that most actors play horrendously), and he pulls the mix of intoxicated and uptight off well.

Smith’s Gerry is also a delight. To aid his fiancée, Gerry has to impersonate both a British naval commander and a Russian ballet dancer. With much flailing and anxious pacing, Smith’s impersonations aren't quite believable, but he plays his many sight gags with good-natured zeal and an appealing, unassuming stage presence.

The set (Kovcic pulls double-duty as the show’s scenic designer) is sparse for the average living room of an English country estate, but it's necessary in a show that puts a premium on movement. Cathie Miglionico’s costumes are more authentic, in the outlandish colors and patterns of the '80s.

If you take your theater very seriously, Comrade is probably not for you. Reed’s production at times goes too far over the top (the ballet Hustle, for example) and the humor is a balance of silly and stupid.

But if you’re looking for some light fun in a pastoral setting (the theater is in an 1840s grist mill), Hedgerow’s Comrade is a breezy way to spend a hot summer afternoon or evening. n Catch Me, Comrade Through Sept. 12. $22-$25. Hedgerow Theatre, 64 Rose Valley Rd., Media. 610.565.4211. hedgerowtheatre.org.

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A harrowing but surprisingly funny version of a world in which everyone ,who tests positive for a certain (unnamed) virus is quarantined the the Lower East Side of a futuristic New York. $10-$15. Thru Aug. 28.

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Chase Me, Comrade!

A Russian ballet dancer wants to defect to the west. But he little realizes the madness that awaits him. $10-$25. Thru Sept. 12 Hedgerow Theatre, y64 Rose Valley Rd., Media. hedgerowtheatre.org

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Chris Callahan: ”Below Sea Level.”

Thru Aug. 29. 162 N. Third St. knappgallery.com

Twelve Gates Gallery

Various artists: "ART4Barter.” Thru Aug. 28. 305 Cherry St. twelvegatesgallery.com

AxD Gallery

Vincent McLoughlin and Susanne King: ”Fugitive Elements.” Thru Sept.

4. 265 S. 10th St. 215.627.6250. a-x-d.com

Kate Durkin, Maggy Rozycki Hiltner and Abby Glassenberg: ”Out of the Wild.” Thru Aug. 29. 623 N. Second St. 215.238.1557. artstarphilly.com Various artists: "Artists’ Summer Caucus.” Thru Aug. 29. 122 N. Third St. 215.592.0232. rodgerlapellegalleries.com

Shadow’s Space

Various artists: "Girls Don’t Count.”

Thru Aug. 27. 1248 N. Front St. 215.425.1275. shadowsspace.com

Sande Webster Gallery

Various artists: "Divergence: Five Views on Photography.” Various artists: "All That Jazz.” Thru Aug. 28.

2006 Walnut St. sandewebstergallery.com

Wexler Gallery

Various artists: "New Acquisitions in Glass.” Thru Aug. 28. 201 N. Third St. 215.923.7030. wexlergallery.com

Langman Gallery

Various artists: "Summer Group Exhibition.” Thru Aug. 31. 2500 Moreland Rd. 215.657.8333. langmangallery.com

Abington Art Center

Various artists: "The Festival of Young Artists.” Thru Aug. 29. 515 Meetinghouse Rd. 215.887.4882. abingtonartcenter.org Various artists: "Building.” Thru Oct. 10. 2321 Yellow Springs Rd. 610.647.6010. salondesamisgallery.com

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Various artists: "In Review.” Thru Sept. 4. 339 S. 21st St. gallery339.com

PA 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

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Sharka Hyland: ”Islanded.” Thru Oct. 17. 1400 N. American St. 215.235.3405. inliquid.com

Asian Arts Initiative

Various artists: "Going Green: New Environmental Art from Taiwan.”

Thru Aug. 20. 1219 Vine St. 215.557.0455. asianartsinitiative.org

Artists’ House Gallery

Muse Gallery

LGTripp Gallery

Various artists: "August Juried Show.” Thru Aug. 29. 52 N. Second St. 215.672.5310. musegalleryphiladelphia.com

Various artists: "RSVP An Invitational.” Thru Aug. 21. 47-49 N. Second St. 215.923.3110. lgtrippgallery.com

Jolie Laide Gallery

Philadelphia Photo Arts Center

Joel Dean, Fabienne Lasserre, and Leslie Smith III: ”Untitled.” Thru Aug. 31. 224 N. Juniper St. 267.603.1295. jolielaide.com Julius Scissor: ”Converted.” Andrew Abbott: ”Scratched & Demented.” Thru Aug. 29. 1001 N. Second St. bambiproject.com

Seraphin Gallery

Ken Mabrey: ”From All Compass Points.” Thru Sept. 7. 1108 Pine St. 215.923.7000. seraphingallery.com

Mulberry Art Studios

Kate Shelley: ”Some Bodies.” Thru Aug. 31. 19-21 N. Mulberry St. 717.295.1949. mulberryartstudios.com

3rd Street Gallery

Various artists: "Redux: A Group

,Photography Exhibition by Members Gross McCleaf Gallery

Various artists: "40th Anniversary Exhibit: Phase 2.” Thru Sept. 8. 127 S. 16th St. 215.665.8138. grossmccleaf.com

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Tim Eads: ”Pumping.” Tiernan Alexander: ”The Voodoo Living Room.”

Thru Aug. 27. 319 N. 11th St. grizzlygrizzly. wordpress.com

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Various artists: "Daydream Nation.” Thru Aug. 21. 1400 N. American St. 215.232.5678. philaphotoarts.org

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Woodmere Art Museum

Various artists: "Constructed Visions.” Various artists: "Kindred Spirits.” Thru Jan. 2nd 2011. 9201 Germantown Ave. woodmereartmuseum.org

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Various artists: "Marvels and Ciphers: A Look Inside the Flask.”

Thru Dec. 10. 315 Chestnut St. 215.925.2222. chemheritage.org/marvels

Fine Turkish Cuisine

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The Academy of Natural Sciences

Various artists: "Icons of Costume.”

Thru Sept. 5. 138 S. Pine St. 215.340.9800. michenermuseum.org

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FriDAy hAppy hour with DJ mickey wAlker (oF BlooD FeAtherS) 5-10pm!

Various artists: "Duo-Chrome/Duotone.” Paula Wilson: "First Story.” 1214 Arch St. fabricworkshopandmuseum.org “Creatures of the Abyss.” Various artists: "A Many-Colored Glass.” Thru Oct. 31. 1900 Ben Franklin Pkwy. ansp.org

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Kara LaFleur: ”Work to Ride.” Thru Sept. 3. 4226 Spruce St. ucartsleague.org

Various artists: "Group Show of Invited Artists.” Thru Aug. 22. 57 N. Second St. 215.923.8440. artistshouse.com

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of The Light Room.” Thru Aug. 29. 58 N. Second St. 215.625.0993. 3rdstreetgallery.com

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Smile Gallery

Various artists: "Bangkok and Blacklight.” Thru Sept. 6. 105 S. 22nd St. 215.564.2502.

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In the Round

Scads of Philly Folk Fest performers submit to our two-question interview.

By Jeffrey Barg

jbarg@philadelphiaweekly.com

IaIn Matthews What’s the best thing that’s ever happened to you in Philly?

Getting to see Daryl Dawkins shatter the glass.

Who are you most excited to see at PFF? Chris Smither and Richard Thompson again. But also Taj Mahal.

Dave QuIcks trIo Best thing to ever happen to you in Philly?

Three summers ago, it was my birthday, and I had the opportunity to perform at Rittenhouse Square. The park was filled with people. It was a perfect, muggy, Philly summer night and if we weren’t in the very heart of the city, we were close enough to its lungs to feel it breathing. As we played, the sun went down and the lights of the surrounding buildings filtered through the dark like a dense cluster of stars. I felt connected to the city in a way I never imagined. It was magical.

Most excited to see at the PFF? Taj Mahal. When he sings, I hear the soul of America. erIn Mckeown Best thing to ever happen to you in Philly?

I’ve had many great times in Philly, but I don’t think the best has happened yet. I’m waiting for the day I hit a grand slam for the Red Sox at Citizens Bank Park.

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Given the rough economic times, could you get by with four and 15 blackbirds?

Man, I think you would miss those five blackbirds. They’re the ones that bring the pie to the party. And the music. I bet they’ll come for free.

Most excited to see at the PFF? Justin Rutledge. I also am going to do a workshop with Susan Werner, Erin McKeown and Trina Hamlin, and it’s pretty much gonna rock my face off. annIe anD the Beekeepers Most excited to see at the PFF? Taj Mahal. In college, I wrote a 20-page paper on his contributions to American music for my Africana studies class.

I spent an insane number of hours listening to his music and watching videos of his performances for a solid month, but I’ve never seen him live.

Are you hoarding bees’ wings from Richard Thompson?

I should be hoarding “Beeswing,” but I don’t think I could sing in first person about the girl he fell in love with during the summer of love without sounding like a total fraud. susan werner Best thing to ever happen to you in Philly?

First year I was there, in 1993, I was scheduled for a side stage, but it rained out all the Friday-afternoon side stage shows—so I got moved to the main stage on Friday night. I was introduced to all the Philadelphia folkies in one fell swoop—and that right there started my entire career.

Most excited to see at the PFF? I’m all about Richard Thompson. That any one person can rip up a guitar like that, and sing like that with such presence and brains and feeling, and keep writing song after song that is nothing short of brilliant is just ... it’s like a moon landing, so rare and so amazing. You gotta tune in. the GIvInG tree BanD

nuDIe anD the turks Most excited to see at the PFF? I want to ask Taj Mahal if Jesse Ed Davis really did play in Conway Twitty’s band.

August 18-24, 2010

How did you stalk Willie Nelson without getting slapped with a restraining order?

Sir, we’ve never stalked anyone!

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natalIa ZukerMan Best thing to ever happen to you in Philly?

I spent a whole day walking with a friend to look at Philly’s murals. One of the best days ever in one of the best cities for public art!

Best thing to ever happen to you in Philly?

When I was in college at Georgetown, I used to date a girl who went to Haverford.

She took me to the opera for my birthday to see The Italian Girl in Algiers by Rossini. I know that sounds like maybe the worst thing that happened to me in Philly, but I actually love opera.

The kid in The Giving Tree was kind of a dick, don’t you think?

I agree completely. But I think this is why the book is beautiful. If the boy was more grateful and reciprocating, then the tree really wouldn’t be all that special.

What’s your favorite Prince song?

Right now: “Condition of the Heart” as performed by Susanna and the Magical Orchestra. sweetBack sIsters

chrIs sMIther anD the MotIvators Most excited to see at the PFF? Subdudes, a very cool New Orleans group.

What’s your best motivator?

A deadline. the suBDuDes Most excited to see at the PFF? Taj Mahal.

Who’s your favorite Treme character?

Davis is a hoot, but I like Antoine the trombone player ... a very New Orleans kinda guy. tIn BIrD choIr Most excited to see at the PFF? Taj Mahal! His double disc Giant Step/De Ole Folks At Home remains one of my top favorite CDs of all time.

Where in Pennsylvania has the best barns?

Eric and I are from Chester County, so of course we’re biased—especially since now we have our very own Chester County barn that we use as our practice space. shannon whItworth Most excited to see at the PFF? Bonnie Prince Billy, Jeff Tweedy, Taj Mahal and Chris Smither.

What’s the biggest difference between northern folk and southern folk?

Cheese grits vs. oatmeal. Both great ... just different. vIenna tenG Best thing to ever happen to you in Philly?

Ordering my wiz-wit cheesesteak at Pat’s without screwing up.

You’re going to school to study sustainable enterprise. What’s a more sustainable enterprise than folk music?

I know, right? Folk music and the environmental movement are old friends. I’ve spent about 20 years getting to know one; figured I should start spending some time with the other.

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BonnIe “prInce” BIlly Best thing ever happened to you in Philly?

Recording Ask Forgiveness with Greg Weeks and Meg Baird.

Best thing to ever happen to you in Philly?

We took part in Birdie Busch’s Philly Opry at Johnny Brenda’s last winter. The music was great, and the entire set was a modern-day HeeHaw wonderland.

What makes your songs so baadasssss?

Well, we’re all kinda awesome, but it doesn’t hurt to have Philly’s own Ross Bellenoit on electric. He plays one mean Tele. auDra Mae Most excited to see at the PFF? So excited to hang with Good Old War and see Hezekiah Jones. [Ed. note: These bands are no longer playing PFF] Finish this sentence: Folk Fest audiences would like Susan Boyle because ... ... she’s not judgmental.

MIckey clark & the Blue norther Most excited to see at the PFF? Mike Cross—I love his songs and his musicianship.

Who’d be better at bluegrass: Micky Dolenz or Dick Clark?

Micky Dolenz, I reckon, since he sings and plays drums. He’d probably have to use brushes more often than with the Monkees. Dick Clark can manage Micky’s bluegrass group, which will be called Micky and the Brush Monkees. sonos

Most excited to see at the PFF? Erin McKeown.

Bad human beatboxing in a cappella: a necessary evil or justification for homicide? Both. continued on next page

Album Reviews in 30 seconds oR less • bY bill cHeneveRT

Menomena

Shapes and Sizes

Lissie

the Armchairs

S. carey

Afrobeta

Fitz & the tantrums

dead confederate

Mines

Candle To Your Eyes

Catching a Tiger

Science & Advice

All We Grow

Do You Party? EP

Sugar

(Fat Possum)

(Punk Rock Payroll)

(Jagjaguwar)

(Do It Entertainment)

Pickin’ Up The Pieces (Dangerbird)

SoundS Like: Their

(Barsuk Records)

SoundS Like: Bass, sax and drum propelled experimental rock trio from Portland, Ore.’s fourth LP is a touch slower, more controlled than usual but still dark and infectious.

Free ASSociAtion: This one’s a grower, an hour of buildups and crescendos to dissect.

For FAnS oF: Black Keys, Wolf Parade, Morphine x Gang of Four.

(Asthmatic Kitty) SoundS Like: Canada’s

weirdest art house indie rockers’ third LP is a herky-jerky tour de force of pop chaos sans hooks and structures but nonetheless effective.

Free ASSociAtion: Title pops up in the delightful “Time Has Practically Stopped.”

For FAnS oF: Architecture in Helsinki, non-lame Deerhoof, quirk rock.

continued from previous page Malinky

SoundS Like: Illinois folk princess’ fleshed-out debut after a stunning EP is a little more pop/rock than her usually delightful spiritualized, countrified bluegrass.

SoundS Like: This record

is like a Ferris wheel of freakout; one second is a Beatles-style psycho confection and the next it’s a Zappa-flavored noise bugout.

SoundS Like: Bon Iver’s formally trained jazz drummer wrote songs and recorded them during tour breaks; this a soaring, epic album of ambient instrumentation.

Free ASSociAtion:

Free ASSociAtion:

Free ASSociAtion:

Shouldn’t have switched producers, sweetness. He done you wrong.

For FAnS oF: Stevie Nicks x Neko Case, Lucinda Williams.

Philly boys are transplants from Wonderland, Crazytown or LaLaLand.

For FAnS oF: Os Mutantes, Black Mountain, Brian Jonestown, acid.

Wisconsin and Jagjaguwar are a force of wintery mother nature!

For FAnS oF: Brian Eno meets Bill Evans, Sufjan x the Books.

Best thing to ever happen to you in Philly?

Opening shows for B.B. King at the Keswick.

Philadelphia Folk Festival Fri., Aug. 20-Sun., Aug. 22. $10-$181.

1323 Salford Station Rd., Schwenksville.

800.556.3655. folkfest.org

sophomore LP is a solid, soaring piece of Americana full of fuzzy, buzzy garage rock and bits of indie psychedelic low-fi noise.

Free ASSociAtion:

There should be a Chinatown bus to Athens, Ga., to see these guys.

For FAnS oF: My Morning Jacket x Pixies, Band of Horses x Nirvana.

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A Place To Bury Strangers

I t’s fun, even if a bit sadistic, to imagine what will happen when what has repeatedly been called NYC’s loudest band plays PW’s Concerts in the Park series at Rittenhouse Square: tourists uncontrollably dropping their $16 Parc cheeseburgers, $7,475 bottles of Château Cheval-Blanc cracking to bits at Barclay Prime, poorly constructed, overpriced condos shaking like jello from the earthquake-force of the ear-bloodying sonic boom. While so many have been ineptly compared to first-wave shoegazers like My Bloody Valentine and The Jesus & Mary Chain, A Place To Bury Strangers have the gloomy effects drenched atmospherics and in-the-red volume to plausibly wear the elite shoe. Frontman Oliver Ackermann also runs an effects pedal-design company called Death By Audio, and with names like Total Sonic Breakdown, Fuzz War and Interstellar Overdriver, the goal of these pedals is crystal clear. Magnetic Fields/Beat Happening-inspired locals the Homophones bring the calm before the storm. (Elliott Sharp)

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With the Homophones. Rittenhouse Square, 18th and Walnut sts.

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Most excited to see at the PFF? Taj and Richard Thompson.

What’s the most uncommon sin you’ve committed this week?

I spent a couple days last week on a remote island in Maine with two of my best friends working an ongoing literary/archival project known simply as “the List.” By some standards, this list might be consid-

Almost everyone we’ve asked that previous question to has responded “Taj Mahal.” Is it harder to perform for other musicians or Folk Fest audiences?

Musicians have always been in my audience, fans have always been in my audience, dancers have definitely always been in my audience! So I always play the best, finest, hardest, sweetest, most rhythmic, and sensual I can to please my ancestors (who saw to it I got this wonderful gift in the first place) and that calls up plenty of spirit for all the above and more! Mo’ dancin,’ mo’ happy, mo’ harmony, mo’ roots!

the neo-soul Stax-inspired moment has a champion with Mr. Fitzpatrick, who smartly recruited a horns section and picked up a kickass organ.

Free ASSociAtion: This sounds like the lovechild of Sharon Jones and Back to Black.

For FAnS oF: Otis Redding sings for the Supremes, soul flute.

August 18-24, 2010

scott Pryor and tHe coMMon sinners Most excited to see at the PFF? Will Oldham (of Bonnie “Prince” Billy) and Richard Thompson.

Most excited to see at the PFF? The Harlem Blues and Jazz Band and any musician that moves my spirit and makes me feel what they are throwin’ down!

SoundS Like: Ah, finally,

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What are the four ingredients required for an authentic-sounding folk song?

Start with an old guitar (with old guitar strings), add words (that sometimes rhyme) and a melody (occasionally in tune) and top it off with an audience ready and willing to sing along (in or out of tune).

Best thing to ever happen to you in Philly?

Seeing Son House trying to teach his slide guitar style to Mississippi John Hurt while they were both barefooted in a creek and had their pants legs rolled up to their knees! “No, no, no, no, John, like this!” Son plays. John tries it. “Like this?” and on and on. I was one impressed 19-year-old guitar player!

(TAO Records)

JeFF WIlSON

J AY B l A k e S B e R g

Joel Zoss

Most excited to see at the PFF? Jeff Tweedy, Taj Mahal, Susan Werner, the Philly locals, the Sweetback Sisters, and most important, the guy who cleans the port-o-johns in the morning.

duo’s four-song teaser is a sweaty, shiny dance record for booze-fueled dancefloors and house parties where everyone’s in white linen.

Free ASSociAtion: Lots of bloops, bleeps and grindy beats with vixen leading lady vox.

For FAnS oF: Amanda Blank x the Blow, Hercules and Love Affair.

taJ MaHal

Marc silver

Most excited to see at the PFF? Jeff Tweedy. Also very excited to see Joe Pug from Chicago—he’s an awesome singer/songwriter and a great guitar player.

SoundS Like: Miami

ered sinful, and by others, uncommon. For us, it’s just a lot of fun.

Horse featHers Best thing to ever happen to you in Philly?

I once ate at Geno’s and Pat’s in the same afternoon.

Most excited to see at the PFF? Taj Mahal.

How old do you have to be before people stop talking about how young and talented you are, and just talk about how talented you are?

I guess after you’ve passed mid-20s it’s hard to still be labeled with the ‘youth’ thing. After that age, you can’t get away with just being talented—you have to show real vision.

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By Brian Freedman

feedback@philadelphiaweekly.com

Ethics, glamour and serenity rarely co-exist as well as they do at Tweed— but here they are, deeply felt and fully developed.

The former is evident in the menu, which leans heavily toward the organic, the seasonal and the locally grown. The latter two are subtly implied the second

you walk in. The atmosphere has clearly been carefully considered, from the tactile nature of the surfaces (custom zinc bar, velvet seat backs, white linen tablecloths, tweed banquettes upstairs and down) to music that ran the gamut from South America to Sinatra.

Thankfully, Tweed is about much more

nel here provided much-needed textural differentiation and a lingering nuttiness.

The wine list is wide-ranging and reasonably priced, and the cocktails (happily, all $9) are creative and food-friendly. The ‘Bombay’ bellini in particular is an aromatic miracle in a Champagne flute; the freshness of white peach puree is imbued with mysterious depth by cardamom, and the two flavors are tied together by gin and Prosecco.

Perhaps most indicative of Tweed’s M.O. are the desserts, which walk the razor’s edge between cheeky and earnest. A birch-beer float with locally made honey-lavender gelato brought a sense of excitement that this childhood treat rarely attains.

Milk and cookies, while not terribly novel, were done better than Mom’s: Dark chocolate with white chocolate chips, peanut butter, classic milkchocolate chip and oatmeal-raisinshredded-carrot were dunked in an accompanying cappuccino mug of milk from grass-fed cows.

There were, of course, a handful of less-than-stellar moments. The local beer selection could offer more range and pairing options. Smoked salmon deviled eggs groaned under the weight of too many competing flavors—the green apple, the smoked salmon roe and the dill theoretically should have played well together, but the flavors ended up canceling each other out, and the mustard-sharp egg yolk struggled to be noticed. And zucchini gratin left me flat, the chunks of delicate-flavored rainbow, globe, yellow and green zucchini smothered by an unnecessarily thick pillow of Parmesan.

But these are easily rectifiable and far from fatal. On the whole, Tweed is one of the more exciting restaurants I’ve visited in months. Tweed is ethical eating shorn of its pretense and preciousness, and instead given the hefty dollop of glamour it always deserved—a welcome addition to the Philly food scene. n

Tweed

Price range: $5-$29.

Atmosphere: Sophisticated but not

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Food: Contemporary American farm-to-table.

Service: Well-trained, versed in the menu and exceptionally helpful.

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114 S. 12th St. 215.923.3300 Cuisine: Contemporary American and highly seasonal.

Hours: Mon.-Thurs., 5-10pm; Fri.-Sat., 5-11pm.

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Chop Chop: Fred Flintstone would appreciate Tweed's pork chop, smothered in creamed corn.

than the immediate appeal of its aesthetics. The food is what matters above all else, and it’s being conceived and executed with enough creativity and care

by Chef David Cunningham to warrant a cheer in this city.

French bean salad is a handy example of the ethic at work here. Farm-to-table is more than a buzzphrase at Tweed—it’s an actionable, necessary aspect of the food.

In this case, those petite, softly blanched beans were fresh enough that they let out a barely audible squeak when penetrated by the teeth.

Chopped heirloom tomatoes lent a note of hot-summer sweetness, and the shallots in the sherry vinaigrette and the red verjus buttressed balsamic drizzle a bright spark.

Grass-fed cheesesteak croquettes should have been far less elegant than they were, but carried a perfectly balanced interior of artery-clogging goodness. And while the caramelized onion and tomato compote was perhaps a touch sweet on its own, it was exceptional on one of those earthy croquettes.

Sauteed pork chop was Chef Cunningham’s riff on the barbecue of the season, and it hit all the right notes.

A Fred Flintstone-worthy bone-in chop was plated atop a mound of rainbow Swiss chard and covered in a comforting blanket of cheddar-reinforced creamed corn. And despite the drama of that hunk of pork, it was the toppings that were most remarkable. Star anise, cinnamon and vanilla brought an exotic perfume to allAmerican corn. And the barbecue sauce (spicy, tangy and complex from Boylans birch beer, smoked garlic, hickory, coffee, chiles, vinegar and more) enhanced the pork’s own flavor without dominating it.

Tweed’s is a hyperseasonal menu, and this time of year, corn has an understandably big role. It certainly helped lift a lovely risotto with mushroom fricassee and chervil from the trenches of earthy familiarity: The snap of the occasional ker-

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Audrey Claire

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Barclay Prime

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Chima Brazilian Steakhouse

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The Palm

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Cherry Street Tavern

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Pumpkin

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Chris’ Jazz Cafe

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Smiths Restaurant

Devil’s Alley

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SIX PACK Six Pretty Actresses Playing Hideous Grotesques

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Anjelica Huston, The Witches (1990): It’s hardly rare when some ravishing Hollywood beauty slaps on tacky makeup, cuts her hair with a pair of household scissors and tries to pass as one of the great unwashed, but few are willing to go full-on horrorshow. John Huston’s regal daughter was no stranger to playing hideous creatures when, for this Roald Dahl spin, she donned makeup that made her look like a Skeksi. She was also the hissing baddie, nesting in a sea of greasy tubes, in the Michael Jackson 3D opus Captain EO. Charlize Theron, Monster (2003): Theron was merely a semi-respected actress before she reimagined herself as a homicidal lesbian with a bad complexion, jowly cheeks, oddly plucked eyebrows and clunky false teeth. That she had the acting chops to match the transformation almost seemed beside the point for AMPAS voters.

Marion Cotillard, La Vie en Rose (2007): Though long established in her native France, American viewers barely knew Cotillard when she broke through as Edith Piaf. Which means they didn’t know that she she was about 10,000 times hotter than the diminutive, druggy crooner she was playing, who looked about twice her age when she died at 47.

Christina Ricci, Penelope (2006): Maybe “grotesque” is too much. All Ricci did was slap on a prosthetic pig nose, which is apparently enough to turn off every man except James McAvoy.

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Duty calls: Kevin Kline as washed-up, non-sexual escort Henry Harrison in The Extra Man.

could handle everything from Shakespeare to musicals, he won an Oscar for his astounding comic tour de force in A Fish Called Wanda then promptly marginalized himself: He turned down so many roles in his prime, his nickname in Hollywood was “Kevin Decline.” Popping up in these days in weird, unworthy vehicles (Life As A House, anyone?) it’s hard not to think of Kline as a wasted resource.

Which is probably why he grabs the role of H. Harrison and throttles it within an inch of its life. My goodness, there’s a lot of acting going on here. Between Dano and Kline carrying on in capital letters as wacky roomies, I needed to go outside and get some air. Berman and Pulcini are similarly relentless, going so far as to add an omniscient narrator voiced in hoity-toity fashion by Graeme Malcolm.

The last straw for me came via John C. Reilly as Kline’s and Dano’s crazy neighbor. (Because we really needed more

whimsy at this juncture.) Wearing a ludicrous red wig and Grizzly Adams beard, Reilly spends most of the movie lurking about in silence, finally letting loose with a “wild and crazy” falsetto speaking voice that is the polar opposite of funny.

I took the opportunity to step out, perform my toilet and grab another cup of coffee. It was a crowded film festival screening, and after steeling myself for the hambone theatrics to come, I finally headed back in.

In my way, blocking the entrance while standing and admiring his own grandiose performance, was Kevin Kline.

For once, I was at a loss for words. n

Grade: D Directors: Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini Starring: Paul Dano, Kevin Kline Running time: 108 minutes

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I gave up on The Extra Man about two thirds of the way through the movie.

I was a huge fan of Jonathan Ames’ 1998 novel, having followed his oftbizarre columns back in the heyday of the NY Press. Ames’ is a world of sexual peccadilloes and peculiar behavior that passes without judgment. His writing has a droll reserve that hinges on key turns of phrase. (A character doesn’t go to the bathroom, he “performs his toilet.”)

Understatement is key.

Alas, nobody explained that to directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, who helmed Extra Man with all the quiet reserve and commitment to subtlety of Dinner For Schmucks. The husband-and-wife filmmaking duo scored a great deal of acclaim for adapting the late Harvey Pekar’s American Splendor a couple years back. As gimmicky and self-infatuated as Pekar’s comics were plain-spoken and miserable, the movie does not hold up well. (The less said about their follow-up The Nanny Diaries the better.)

Co-scripted by Ames himself, Extra Man hews close to the book in all events, details and circumstances, but the tone is off by at least half a mile. Paul Dano stars as Louis Ives, a loquacious young gentleman born 80 years too late. He fancies himself the hero of an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel and carries himself in a dapper and entirely anachronistic fashion. Dano is a problematic actor on his best days; he requires either strong directors to rein in his stilted affectations or Daniel Day-Lewis bludgeoning him to death with a bowling pin. This film has neither.

Young Louis Ives has a secret: He likes to dress in women’s clothing. This gets him expelled from his prep-school teaching position and cast adrift in New York City, where he becomes the unfortunate flatmate of Kevin Kline’s Henry Harrison.

A broke, pompous boor who yearns for high society, “H. Harrison,” as he calls himself, is an actor’s dream, all weird quirks and theatrical pronouncements.

Henry escorts moneyed, elderly widows around town to the kind of filthy-rich functions that happen only in New York.

But he’s so hard up he’s attracting fleas, painting socks on his feet with shoe polish and driving a beat-down Buick. Prone to odd monologues about his hatred of sex, Henry is such a stubbornly strange creation Kline hardly needed to crank the performance up to 11.

Kevin Kline’s lack of a career remains mystifying. A handsome leading man who

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Emma Thompson, Nanny McPhee Returns (2010): As in the previous installment, Thompson plays a Mary Poppins type, save for the bulbous Santa Claus nose, a hairy mole, wiggly cheeks and a descending front tooth. But as she proceeds to whip her young charges into shape, these afflictions slowly fade, leaving us with the pretty Thompson we know and still kind of dream of. Beauty is deeper than skin. n

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Not once but twice does the Cold War espionage docudrama Farewell show Ronald Reagan (Fred Ward) watching The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Both times, he’s watching Lee Marvin’s titular baddie get shot, but a more sledgehammer-to-head clip would be the film’s famous suggestion to “print the legend.” It’s advice Farewell heeds well, at least when it comes to its tragic, victimized hero.

Sergei Gregoriev (Serbian director Emir Kusturica) is a KGB officer in 1981 Russia, disenchanted with Communism and a winsome Francophile thanks to a long-ago stint in Paris. Making friends with French businessman Pierre Froment (Guillaume Canet, another director and occasional thespian), Gregoriev starts slipping him highly sensitive information, which makes its way to DST French Intelligence and eventually the Reagan White House.

In the film’s (perhaps hyperbolic) estimation, this incident, not widely known until recently, was a key part of the dissolution of the U.S.S.R., and Gregoriev was a martyr who only wanted a better life for his Western-obsessed son and who felt terrible about having a mistress.

The real-life man the character is based on wasn’t quite so cuddly: He tried to kill said mistress, and did kill a militiaman who witnessed said attempted murder. But Farewell scrubs Gregoriev clean, with Kusturica playing him with the kind of haunted gravitas that telegraphs the horrid fate to come. (Kustirica’s calm screen presence both here and in Patrice Leconte’s The Widow of Saint-Pierre is the opposite of the manic films he directs, including the great Underground.)

Sanitized though it is, Farewell has an attractive restraint, bordering on dispassion, that makes for compelling viewing. Director Christian Carion takes the greatest pleasure in crafting an alterna-world spy movie that depicts, of course, how spies really work. Our double agents aren’t boozing Bonds but average Joes; our globe-trotting locations aren’t scenic hot spots but drab Moscow locales.

Farewell moves at the funereal pace of Kusturica’s doomed apostate, coming alive only when Western music suddenly intrudes into the soundtrack; the film’s high mark is a brief scene with Gregoriev’s son

rocking out to a smuggled Queen tape on a smuggled Walkman, in thrall to American excess.

The chief drawback is Gregoriev’s French, allegedly tortured accomplice, a blank cypher whose disapproving wife (Alexandra Maria Lara) is no more than a mere nag and who never sufficiently conveys the thrills and terror of being a nobody helping to erode a major world power. With his character at least, the filmmakers neglected to print the legend.

Mao’s Last Dancer C

Review by Matt Prigge Dear enterprising YouTubers: Will one of you please combine all the shots in fish-out-of-water movies that linger on foreigners staring in doe-eyed wonder, jaws on floor, at basic American luxuries? Some good places to start: Moscow on the Hudson, Time After Time, God Grew Tired of Us and the new Mao’s Last Dancer, the tale of Chinese-born ballet master Li Cunxin.

On loan from his miserable Communist home, Li (Chi Cao, a balletist himself) finds himself in Houston, where he’s immediately transfixed by malls. And ATMs. And “funny” T-shirts. And the freedom to deride the president/leader in a bar. And Pepsi’s sweet, fizzy taste. What a country! Our protagonist is such an adorable plush-doll immigrant that he doesn’t know the terms virgin, do it or even sex (but still scores).

Mao’s Last Dancer serves as a sideswipe to soul-crushing Communist ideals—the week’s second, no less (see also the Cold War saga Farewell). Born into poverty, Li manages to convey his balletic prowess despite the rigid misery of Commie China. When visiting Americans convince the powers that be to let him study abroad, despite Li’s heavy training in the art of resisting Western excess, it’s not long before he’s chugging soda, frügging to funk and making the beast with two backs. Cue international incident.

If this insistent melodrama, directed with little taste or restraint by the once-powerful Bruce Beresford (Tender Mercies, Driving Miss Daisy) has any merit, it’s that it manages to diss China’s governing style without planting a huge, sloppy kiss on the face of megacapitalism. The story is kept at a human level, and even flirts with complexity; this isn’t so much about someone discovering his native culture is shitty as it is someone wrestling with the beliefs of two often-

opposed nations.

But getting hankies soiled is the film’s true M.O. Otherwise, it’s just another 20/20 human-interest segment with crane shots.

Patrik: Age 1.5 C+

Review by Matt Prigge Sweden may have gay marriage, but at least as portrayed in the earnest dramedy Patrik, Age 1.5, it’s no less a hot spot for homophobic fuckheadery. Husbands Göran and Sven (Gustaf Skarsgard and Torkel Petersson) settle in suburbia, with results ranging from deer-in-headlights stares to vandalism by pintsized ruffians. Göran works as a doctor, but his male patients won’t let him touch their prostate and redneck parents storm in to rescue their young squirt from his claws.

The couple wants to adopt a baby, but no country will hand over their orphans to gays. Sweden will, but only due to incompetence. A typo plants not a 1.5-year-old baby on their doorstep, but Patrik (Tom Ljungman) a 15-year-old delinquent homophobe with a history of knife crime.

Will this seething shit reform?

Yes. Will his guardians learn a little something about, I dunno, tolerating an epithet-spewing runt suddenly placed in their Dolly Parton poster-adorned home? Not without throwing the more-butch Sven, who’s more nonplussed about being regularly called a pedo than his husband, under the bus, in a plot turn that’s more than a little underdeveloped and solved far too easily.

It’s impossible to consider Patrik, Age 1.5 without thinking of our own country’s gay-family salvo —The Kids Are All Right, natch—and it makes you really appreciate, then vastly overrate, the lively writing and characterizations Lisa Cholodenko brought to it. Kids has its problems, but it’s loose, lived-in, not hobbled by its agenda and even weirdly conservative in its family-first pleas.

Patrik, meanwhile, is paint-by-numbers filmmaking, with nondescript performances, plodding pacing and predictable outcomes.

Writer/director Ella Lemhagen makes a couple attempts to spice up her film, notably by trying to convey their neighborhood as wacky—e.g., a crabby neighbor who doesn’t slow his car down for playing kids—but they’re too infrequent and too meh to stick. But as a dark portrayal of the straight world’s ability to cope with a world of equal rights, well, hey, this is what America’s future gay-marrieds have to look forward to. n

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Literary lion: Jonathan Ames with lion (left).

want people to see him is as this incredible life force that’s pressing on to the next event, no matter what.”

Both Extra Man and Bored to Death, the HBO show Ames writes that’s about to head into its second season, feature protagonists who long for the past. Louis idolizes F. Scott Fitzgerald; Bored’s lead, who is named Jonathan Ames and played

by Jason Schwartzman, yearns for the private-dick noir of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, even starting his own Craigslist-based detective agency.

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“The ‘extra man’ or ‘walker’ is a longtime fixture of New York society, Palm Beach and, I’m sure, Philadelphia’s Main Line. Blueblood culture has a lot of walkers.”

Ames himself was an “extra man” at one point, and also lived in squalid conditions, as Louis does, though how closely Extra Man mirrors his life he won’t say. “Everything is made up once you’ve change a detail,” he says. “It did mirror my life to a certain extent. But the Louis character is so much different from myself.”

Henry was a composite of three different men Ames knew. Ames gets a screenplay credit along with Berman and Pulcini, but says the only work he did was on the Henry character, particularly his amusingly grandiloquent turns of phrase. Our ultimate perspective on this crabby, sexist, operetta-singing sycophant is complex, but the character comes off alternately despicable, pathetic and hilarious. “In the novel and the film he’s meant to be a full portrait of a man,” Ames says. “How I

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“The act of writing is always an act of solitude,” says author Jonathan Ames. Though he’s primarily known for his short stories and novels, over the last couple years he’s segued into film and TV. But how different are the two mediums?

“It’s always about trying to write sentences that have clarity and that are interesting,” explains Ames. “But the structures are different. Scripts keep the prose to a minimum.

And it’s a very collaborative experience.

With the novel you can take time. ... you’re the [director of photography], the casting director, wardrobe, location, set design. But with a script, you have to work with all these other people to make this happen.”

The Extra Man, the first Jonathan Ames movie, comes out Friday. Based on his 1998 novel of the same name, it concerns young New York dandy transvestite Louis (Paul Dano), who gets pulled into the world of Kevin Kline’s Henry Harrison, an “extra man”—basically a nonsexual gigolo—to the city’s heaping helping of lonely dowagers.

This microcosm, bizarre as it seems both in print and in the film adaptation by Shari

Ames describes the character named after him as a “postmodern detective. He would like to be hard-boiled. He would like to be tough. He’s something of a Don Quixote. Don Quixote wanted to become a knight after reading too many books about chivalry. The Jonathan Ames character played by Jason thinks he’s a detective after reading too many detective novels.”

Ames’ segue into TV and film isn’t unexpected. In addition to his many story collections and novels, he’s had a one-man off-off-Broadway show (Oedipussy), written a graphic novel (The Alcoholic) and acted in both the IFC show The Girl Under the Waves and as an extra in the porn C-Men. Moreover, he’s had two amateur boxing matches under the name “The Herring Wonder.”

“I do other things because I’m curious,” he says. “I have fun performing. It’s a way to be social, a way to meet people.”

Much of his work, and especially Extra Man, straddles two sensibilities: a highbrow world of luxury and class and a lowbrow world of sexual frankness and scatalogical humor. (In addition to knowing good cocktails, Henry also has a foolproof way to urinate on the street without being caught.)

“I think I’m drawn to the sophisticated,” Ames says. “I like the novels of Thomas Mann and Graham Greene. And then I love the Three Stooges. I’m not a snob, I guess.

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There may not be anything wrong with your boyfriend’s dick, HOT. Just as some women require intense, focused stimulation in order to get off (read: vibrators cranked up high), some guys gotta jackhammer to get off. If your boyfriend is one of those guys, HOT, then there’s no bad habit to break. It’s just something you’ll have to accommodate.

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TWO BEDROOM 100% Awesome 2BR apts in Old City, HW floors, SS appls, Common roof deck. $1795. Call 215-413-3732 10th/PINE, WASHINGTON SQUARE: MODERN RENOVATED 2/bd/2ba apt. High ceilings, dining area, large living room, original tin ceilings, hardwood floors, working fireplace, d/w, g/d, w/d. Central heat/air.

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Seeking quiet tenant for owner occupied Bldg. HW/flrs, FP, A/C, G/D, Tile Kit/bath, Dining/Rm, Gas-Heat $1275+ 215-985-1273 15TH ST (Ave of Arts) 2BR 1st fl, Garden patio, WD, Mrble ba/Jac. $1050+. 877-848-8874 19/SPRUCE, RITTENHOUSE SQ. 2BD/2BA. OWNERS UNIT!!!

Totally renovated. Beautiful Bi-lvl apt. Beautiful owners unit. New stainless kitchen, new marble baths, dw, gd, wd. Beautiful inlaid Hrdwd fls, non working fireplace, high ceilings, original moldings.

CH/CA. Master suite is entire floor with custom marble bath ensuite! Tons of charm! $2095-$2295+ Herman RE 215-514-3524 alysherman@ aol.com 20XX Cypress Street, RITTENHOUSE SQUARE AREA, 2-Bedroom Huge, gorgeous 2-bedroom, bi-level, 1 1/2 baths, 3rd & 4th floors of owner occupied brownstone. Cen A/C, D/W, G/D, W/W carpet, W/D on premises. Avail Immediately. 10-mo or 22 mo lease required. Small pets may be possible, restrictions apply. $1950 per month, plus elect. Contact kjpel@verizon.net for further info. and appt.

21ST & PINE Fab apt, HWF, HCeils, Incl heat. MORE. $2050+.

PMG 215-545-7007 x110 21st WALNUT: HRDWD/FL. HI/ CEIL, NEW KIT. LRG LVRM, WD/ STRG bldg HT, WTR INCLD. $1495 Sept. 215-733-0480 22ND & PARRISH Fab apt w/2BA, Den, HW flrs, Deck. $1650+. PMG 215-545-7007 x303 42XX SPRUCE, UNIVERSITY CITY. SEPTA, SHOPPING. LAUNDRY (1)BLOCK Avl NOW. (215)651-6242

PINE/10TH: 4BDRMS, 1.5BA, WOOD FLOORS $2290+ Pine R.E, 1503 Pine. 215-7358896, website: www.pinere.com QUEEN VILLAGE: 3BR, 2BA w/CA. $1650+.

Call for details: 215-922-3910. mcolaizzo@ comcast.net Rittenhouse Square: Enormous 3bdrm w/ 2 Full Baths in Beautiful Historic Brownstone, Full Size Washer/Dryer in Apt, HW Flrs, 2 Decorative Fireplaces, Hi Ceilings, Newly Remodeled Kitchen w/ Granite Countertop, Separate Dining Rm, Living Rm, & Family Rm, A/C, Spacious Rooms, Terrific Location! $2850/Mo. 215735-8030. #216850

house for rent 1300 MOLE ST- Beautiful 2BR, 1BA home, Brand new HW flrs t/o, New kitchen/bath.

Great loc, 1blk to Broad St/Subway, walking distance to CC. Good credit/Refs required. $800/mo+. First/Last/Security dep required.

215-688-7525 17TH & PORTER STS-3Bdrms,C/A,HDWD. FLRS,BSMT,YARD, HAS EVERYTHING. AVAIL.9/1.$1450/MO.+. 215-651-9190.

3RD & RACE, LUXURY 3BR TOWNHOUSE, $2,675/MO 2 full & 2 half baths, 3 walk in closets, new elevator, roofdeck. Granite, stainless, island in kitchen. Jacuzzi & marble shower in master bath. Call 215-380-9999.

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Northern Liberties Area, Temple University Area- 1 room available in groovy cooperative 4BR House, Free WIFI, Washer/ Dryer, No Pets, See Gasheart.com, 1605 N. 6th St., 215-485-1015, $450/month including utilities

office space 12TH & SPRUCE 1st fl Office available w/300SF. Pvt bath. $800+ Elec. Call 215985-0600 OLD CITY, FRONT & MARKET: 600sq.ft., BI-LEVEL, CA $850+Utls. Renzi Management.

800-514-3235 www.renziproperties.com South Philly - 2 story house, full use of house. 10 minutes from Center City. Perfect for college students. Share utilities.

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1404 E Moyamensing $3000/moNew construction 5BD/3.5BA, garage parking, gorgeous fixtures, roof terrace. CALL MIKE MCCANN PRU FOX & ROACH 215-627-6005/215440-8345 239 Montrose $1450/mo 3BD/1BA, pine floors, fireplace, d/w, g/d, w/d c/a, patio. CALL MIKE MCCANN PRU FOX & ROACH 215-6276005/215-440-8345 AVENUE OF THE ARTS: PENTHOUSE Avail!

One of a kind spacious bi-level penthouse in historic Art Deco High-Rise, 3bdrms/ 3 Full Baths/ 2 half baths, 4 Lrg Terraces w/ Amazing City Views, Entertainment Rm w/ Wet Bar, New Kitch w/ Granite Countertops, W/D, CA, Vaulted Ceilings, HW Flrs.

Avail Sept. $4300/Mo. 215-735-8030. Lic #219789.

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

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two bedroom 8TH LOCUST, 2BDRMS PLUS GIGANTIC LOFT (POSSIBLE 3BDRMS), 1.5BATHS, PENTHOUSE w/PRIVATE ELEVATOR. ALL MODERN AMENITIES. AC, HRDWD/FLS WD, ETC. USEABLE common outside area, (2) STORAGE AREAS. Pet Friendly w/restrictions. PARKING available. BEST OF THE BEST! $2200. Tanya 215-922-6088 or email tanya@ ans_hrv.com 9TH & SOUTH Cool 2BR apt w/CA, DW, Close to Wholefds. $1125+. PMG 215-545-7007 x302 ACADEMY HOUSE, 15TH/LOCUST 2BDRM, 2BA CONDO. HIGH FL, EAST VIEW TERRACE CHT/CAC MICRO, DW, WD $2000 INCLDS GAS, ELEC, CABLE. 1888-637-6785 ART MUSEUM 2427 BROWN ST Lg corner 2br, 1ba, w/w, d/w, w/d, Avail Sept. $1195/mo Call Charlie 267-254-6930 ART MUSEUM Large 2BR, 1BA, LR/DR, HWflrs, WD, AC, Deck. $1275+. Avail now. 215-803-3602 AVE OF ARTS- Penthouse Ultra mod, HWF, CA, WD, Mrbl BA w/Jacz. Deck. $1200+.

877-848-8874 BROAD & FEDERAL (AVE. ARTS) VERY LARGE, SUNNY 2BDRM+ DEN, TILE BATH, LARGE/KIT, HRDWD/FLS, WD 9/1 Avail $1100 INCLDS/UTLS. (215)551-9599 FISHTOWN 2stry 2BR 2BA, FP, Jacuzzi tub, W/W crpt. $975/mo+ utils. call 215-669-7965 FREE MONTH! OLD CITY, 2BDRMS, 2BA. 2PATIOS, FRPL, STAINLESS APPLS., HRWD/ fl, CA, DW, GD, BUILT-IN MICRO, WD Avail NOW. $1900. S&S Properties. 267-402-8017 GRAD HOSPITAL: Bi-level, 2BR, 2BA, WD, DW, AC, Deck. $1400/mo+. 215-817-3504 ITALIAN MKT: 10th/Federal 2BR, CA, 1BA, WD. $1350+. 215-922-3910. mcolaizzo@ comcast.net MANAYUNK Clean 2BR, 1BA, Pvt entrance, HW flrs, Laundry, Good closet space. Parking. Quiet setting. Avail 09/01. $875/mo+.

215-704-5450 MANAYUNK/ROXBOROUGH: Lrg 2bdrm, Renovated Kitch/Bathrm, Patio/Balc Laundry, Gym, Pool, Tennis/ Basketball Crts, Free Shuttle to Main Street Manayunk, Pets Welcome. From $1220/Mo. 888-538-9667. Ask about how you can receive FREE Furniture for 1 Year! EXECUTIVE SHORT TERM FURNISHED SUITES AVAILABLE. lic# 218436 Manayunk/Roxborough: Bright, Large 2Bdrm, Balc, Central Air, Prkg, Laundry, ALL UTILITIES INCLUDED! Oversized Windows, NEW Kitchen, DW/GD, Abundant Closet Space, Gym, Pool, Shuttle to Main St. From $1195/Mo. 215-482-4246. lic# 215101 MANAYUNK/ROXBOROUGH: Charming 2Bdrm, Bright, Oversize Closets, All New Carpets Throughout, Intercom Entry, Onsite Prkg, AC, Updated Kitchen/Bathrm.

Heat/Water/Gas Incl. 1st month free on select apts! From $1020/Mo. 215-4820788. lic# 218586 Manayunk/Roxborough: Large 2 Bdrm, Patio, Washer/Dryer, Gym Membership, Private Entrance, Parking, Cats Welcome, Shuttle to Main Street Manayunk. From $1115 /Mo. 888-633-9365. Lic # 223386

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2 bedrooms plus den, 2 baths, balcony, views units include pool & fitness center Studio, high floor, floor-to-ceiling windows, 549 sf $1,240 of Washington Square, laundry room, 1897 sf

$3,250 units include all utilities, pool, gym tHE WHitE BUiLDing 105 S. 12tH StrEEt Junior one bedroom, high floor, southern exposure 1 bedroom, 1 bath, high floor, open kitchen, great closet and western city views, 656 sf $1,300 space, 705 sf $1,695 1 bedroom, 2 bath, loft apartment with exposed brick, 1 bedrooms, 1 bath, high floor, excellent closet space, 1 bedroom townhome, custom kitchen and bath, private southern exposure, 724 sf $1,500 street entrance, direct access to garage, 700 sf $1,975

high ceilings, custom finishes throughout, 1312 sf $2,000

905 LOMBArD StrEEt

1 bedroom, 1.5 baths, terrace, upgraded kitchen, 863 sf 2 bedroom, 2 bath, corner unit, with city views, large kitchen, washer dryer, 1,200 sf $2,575 Four story townhome, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, renovated, $1,575 roof deck, one car garage, 1792 sf $2,600 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, brand new kitchen and baths, 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, separate dining area, 1016 sf high floor with panoramic city views, 1200sf $2,850 $2,300 HOPKinSOn HOUSE

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1701 LOCUSt StrEEt 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, eat-in-kitchen, great closet space, 1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony over Washington Square, 1314 sf` $2,350 Studio, hardwood floors, marble bath, city views, 345 sf $1,295 great closet space, 843 sf $1,500 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, hardwood floors, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, southern views, wood floors, brand new kitchen and baths, 1314sf $2,750 marble baths, designer kitchen, 1296 sf $3,450 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, balcony, excellent closet space,

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3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, Ben Franklin Bridge and river units include all utilities views, excellent condition, 2229 sf $2,390 Studio, high floor, california closet, wood floors, 522 sf $1,100

2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, all rooms overlook Rittenhouse 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, tri-level, bridge views, 1 bedroom, 1 bath, Society Hill views, excellent value, Square, large kitchen, seperate dining area, 1765 sf $3,950 700 sf $1,325 grand fireplace, two terraces, 2229 sf

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1742 Sansom Street - 2nd floor retail space on highly $1,500 Corner 1 bedroom, 1 bath, river views, galley kitchen, 775 sf $1,535 trafficked corner or 18th and Sansom Streets, 1000 sf

$1,500 NNN Junior 1 bedroom, wood floors, marble bath, open 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, floor-to-ceiling windows, wood kitchen 506 sf $1,750 floors, 1200 sf $2,200 1830 Rittenhouse - Prime Rittenhouse Square office P H I L A D E L P H I A W E E K LY

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space, 754 sf $2,100 $2,100 131 S. 18th Street - Prime 1st and 2nd floor retail space

Washington square inDEPEnDEnCE PLACE 233-241 S 6tH StrEEt

August 18-24, 2010

units include all utilities, gym, pool 1 bedroom, 1 bath, laundry room, balcony, WIC, 928 sf $1,425 Junior one bedroom, open kitchen, excellent closet space, wood floors, 609 sf $1,390 1 bedroom, 1 bath, brand new gourmet kitchen and designer bath, 258 S. 18tH StrEEt 850 sf $1,525 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, hardwood floors, custom 1 bedroom with alcove, 1.5 baths, wood floors, renovated kitchen and baths $2,500 renovated kitchen, balcony, 1118 sf $2,100

on high-end 18th Street shopping corridor, directly across from new 10 Rittenhouse condos $7,500 NNN 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 prestigious Lanesborough condo, ideal for restaurant or offices, 4700 sf $11,500 NNN

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SoCIETy HILL TowERS 200 LoCuST STREET 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, intimate views of Society Hill, 1133 sf $2,100/mo.

SoCIETy HILL TowERS 220 LoCuST STREET Corner 1 bedroom, 1 bath, high floor, river and city views, 775 sf $1,650/mo.

INDEPENDENCE PLACE 241 S. 6TH STREET 1 bedroom, brand new high-end kitchen and bath, 850 sf $1,525/mo.

HoPkINSoN HouSE 604 S. wASHINgToN SquARE 1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, lots of natural light, 778 sf $1,500/mo.

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Current Take-out w/ c/a, kitch & 2601 S Mildredcustom kitchen, central vac, $189,900 2-story windows!

10 year tax abatement, hardwood floors, East-facing 1BD/1.5BA, deck overlooking Society 10 Tasker Street $349,900 $299,900 prepand area. granite counters, stainless appliances, high Nice cornr duplex. Flrs rented for $875 & $1000 Hill, spacious kitchen bedroom.

Beautifully renovated 2BD/1BA, finished 2108 Wallace $639,900 home with 3 bedrooms, efficiency HVAC, beautiful finishes! 2 resp. New Kitch,Restored, BA, windws, c/a den, deck,Wonderful brickfront Federal gas periodheat, 3BD/2.5BA, basement, custom kitchen, large rear yard, 233 S 6th #505 1507-09 E. Moyamensing $344,900 $375,000-450,000 baths, hardwood floors, exposed bricks, and large yard, pine floors.. absolutely elegant! amazing details throughout!

Beautiful 1BD/1BA unit, auburnat maple floors, walls 2608 S 9th Street $189,900 The Lofts Pennsport of windows, balcony, newly upgraded bathroom. lovely kitchen with granite countertops!

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Very large, renovated, 3 story, 5 bedroom, 2.5 Now is truly the time to buy! TVs and parking included! landscaped rearchoose yard, and from! great rooftop deck potential!

2610 Dudley Street $194,900 bath, corner home, finished basement, GRADUATE HOSPITAL WHITMAN Interest rates are the lowest in home St. Albans Lovely 3BR, 1BA2234 w/ GARAGE h/w flrs, $379,900 2309 South Front 338 St S 3rd cherry/oak floors, new oak kitchen, mosaic tile 532 Porter Street $514,900 $129,900 Wide 3BD/1.5BA, eclectically styled, custom Handsome 2BD/2BA w/ den, sundeck, wood years!

There are many great great light, in a convenient location to everything! $229,900 kitchen, bamboo floors, gorgeous garden.

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2721many S. Cleveland $199,900 $524,900 2118Street Carpenter 1242 Ellsworth $459,900 with brick front, finished updated 3New bedroom, 2 bath home with finconstruction, 2700sf 3BD/2.5BA, finished 241-43 Chestnut E Wolf Street $749,900 412 $149,900 sellers Large Brand new, 3 bedroom, 3 bath, garage, roof deck, yard, gorgeous woodwork, basement c/a, rearStunning deck 2BD/2.5BA, an abundance of natural ished basementbasement, and fireplace.

Great value! custom kitchen, 10 year tax abatement.

NiceJuliet 3 bedroom, 1 bath home in need of some TLC! light, private elevator, balcony, large deck, custom kitchen and bths, 10 year tax and patio area, a great will pay closing1520 costs! cathedral windows, walk-in California closet in Tasker Street $199,900 space.

1429 Christian $825,000 abatement $169,900 master bedroom!346 Fitzgerald Street Large 1 bath home with newly We have plenty of 5 Bedroom, Fabulous 4BD/2.3BA, finished basement, library, Lovely rehabbed 2$1,250,000 bedroom, 1 bath home with office, 2 carkitchen parking, and 6 years left onand the tax Society Hill Society Hill remodled 1st floor, new bath, 100 Pine RENTALS abatement! financing Unique 3BD/3.5BA, garden, wine cellar, central air,elevator, new kitchen and bath, and large yard!available 227-31 S 62th BD #2NW $2,150,000 $4,900,000 new windows throughout!

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Spectacular 3BD/2.5BA, private elevator This 9000 SF Townhome and 4500 SF through our 322 Ritner Street $199,900 building inentrance, million dollar landscaped courtyard 1618 Jackson 330 Queen A QUEEN VILLAGE $199,999 $234,900 deeded indoor parking, 12 ftwith garden has every imaginable amenity in its WASHINGTON SQUARE ceilings, kitchen, Juliet 4 stories, 6 BR’s, 5 full baths, 2 powder rms, Modern 3BR, 1BA, $329,000 recent rehab, enclsd porch, company, Handsome brickLovely front,condo, 3 bedrooms, 1.5hardwood baths, floors, LR/ hardwood floors, magnificent storage, andopen parking!! $1000++ 1BD/1BA, with 604-36 S Washington Sq #2708 mortgage balcony overlooking private courtyard.

4 car garage and finished basement. Each combo, largeceilings, windows, common garden space Newly renovatedw/w 1BD/1.5BA luxury unitsemi-fnshed w/ carpet, EIK, bsmnt, c/a, and extra large livingDR room, high exposed Avail Now Call Mike McCann 215-440-8345 balcony, lots of natural light, oversized windows, room tells a story and the walls resound with Trident Mortgage. beams, formal dining room and Berber carpet. $669,900 227 Monroe galley kitchen. clng fans history.

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2201 Chestnut #302 $435,000 rate dining room, washer/dryer/central-air, yard.

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1031 S Randolph Nicely renovated, 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath, patio Charming 3 bedroom, 1 bath home with finished$334,900 toric Girard Estateshardwood twin floors,Vacant lot measuring 14 X 48. Great developNicely renovated 3BD/2BA, sundeck, yard, basement, central air, and nice yard! with 4 bedrooms, 1.5 1024baths, Spruce A ment opportunity! $529,900 hardwood floors, nicerear kitchen, granite counters, front home, bamboo flooring, new windows, high 3BD/3.5BA, over 2000sf, soaring ceilings, 1123 Lemon $430,000 easy parking, great value. finished basement,Great 2-zoned ceilings, central air 2628 S 10th $209,900 huge windows, fireplace, cook’s kitchen.

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1241 N Howard 2848 S.$449,900 Camacabatement!

Street $219,900 floors, and many original details on lovely block! front porch and lawn!

1541 Dickinson $39,900 Fabulous 3BD/2.5BA new construction home, with a 2 bedroom RITTENHOUSE SQ/FITLER Street SQ Nice duplex and 1 bedroom $479,900 731 S 11th secure parking, roof deck, high ceilings, tons of 509 S 21st Vacant lot$449,900 measuring 14 X 72.

Great develop$189,900 Nice 3BD/3BA, hardwood floors, fireplace, deck,208 Moore Street units. Good income potential!

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810 Watkins Street $259,900 504 Delancey $950,000 OLD CITY 515 S 10throom, A $559,900 ed living/dining all new kitchen with stain1212 Durfor Street $549,900 129 Cuthbert$149,900 Charming home with bedrooms, 1 bath, new 2201 Chestnut #701 Completely renovated 3-4BD/2.5BA home #2 $377,000 For2more information + images of Mike’s This is a wonderful 3BD/2BA home with Beautiful 2BD/2BA, hardwood floors, neww/w crpt, less steel appliances, hardwood floors, new with refinished pine floors, three wood Nice 3 BR, 1 BA,brand AS-IS, A/C, 1BD/1BA EIK, picture Renovated loft, many original premier listings, visit www.prufoxroach.com cherrydetails, floors, lovely kitchen with stainless steel den, deck, deeded parking and a common bathrooms, high ceilings, granite and stainless kitchen, Juliet balcony, factory size and nice rear yard! burning fireplaces, new kitchen and baths Berbercourtyard Carpet and on desirable block! appliances, window, full tiled BA, yard, gasrenovated stv, great locale. andcentral garden air areas, custom kitchen. kitchen, lots of sunlight!

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Total Square Footage

ART MUSEUM

Price

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

Monthly After Tax Cost

the philadelphian

Duplex penthouse, 3BR, 2.5BA, balc. w/panoramic city and Fairmount views, high ceilings, bright & sunny throughout

4,207

$725,000

$186,019 $441,365

$10,299

$1,864

the philadelphian

3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, unobstructed city skyline views, wood floors, large balcony, 2017 sf

2,017

$595,000

$94,567

$217,633

$5,078

$759

the philadelphian

1 bedroom, 1 bath, brand new kitchen and bath, wood floors, Art Museum view

1000

$289,900

$43,514

$104,190

$2,431

$342

$2,089

the philadelphian

1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, upgraded kitchen wood floors

1127

$239,900

$36,789

$91,940

$2,145

$284

$1,861

the philadelphian

Studio, wood floors, balcony, updated kitchen

570

$149,900

$27,582

$62,474

$1,458

$224

Location

Total Square Footage

AVENUE OF THE ARTS

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

$8,434 $4,319

$1,234 Monthly After Tax Cost

the grande

Bi-level penthouse, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, wood floors, large high-end kitchen

1,437

$475,000

$65,578

$143,483

$3,348

$572

$2,824

acadeMy house

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, renovated kitchen and master bath, large balcony

1,111

$375,000

$56,241

$125,499

$2,928

$420

$2,509

acadeMy house

2 bedroom 1.5 bath corner unit, courtyard view, new kitchen and baths

1,019

$309,900

$52,547

$129,242

$3,016

$525

$2,491

acadeMy house

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

705

$289,000

$42,808

$93,556

$2,183

$381

$1,802

lenox

1 bedroom, 1 bath, wood floors, open gourmet kitchen, bay windows bring excellent light, large living area

966

$263,900

$40,309

$93,139

$2,173

$338

$1,835

acadeMy house

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

705

$259,900

$88,861

$87,544

$2,049

$311

Location

Total Square Footage

RITTENHOUSE SQUARE

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

$1,761 Monthly After Tax Cost

the rittenhouse

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

3,876

$3,500,000 $486,796 $1,050,939

$24,522

$4,335

$20,187

barclay

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

3,293

$2,900,000 $262,402 $974,357

$22,735

$4,348

$18,387

lanesborough

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

3,413

$2,500,000 $377,859 $853,245

$19,909

$4,586

$14,792

barclay

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

2,638

$2,195,000 $320,490 $707,490

$16,508

$3,545

$12,963

1900 rittenhouse

3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 270 degree views including Rittenhouse Square, chefs kitchen, upgraded throughout

3,200

$1,975,000 $278,829 $632,859

$14,767

$3,009

$11,758

parc rittenhouse

3 bedrooms plus den, 3 baths, Juliet balconies over Rittenhouse Square, hardwood floors, marble baths, brand new

2,131

$1,595,000 $219,093 $468,543

$10,933

$2,017

$8,916

1830 rittenhouse

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

2,275

$1,425,500 $203,598 $457,161

$10,667

$1,792

$8,875

warwick condoMiniuMs

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

2,000

$1,290,000 $174,122 $373,141

$8,707

$1,757

$6,949

warwick condoMiniuMs

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

1,978

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

$8,672

$1,795

$6,877

the rittenhouse

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

1,560

$995,000

$143,558 $319,365

$7,461

$1,263

$6,198

parc rittenhouse

New construction, Santos mahogany wood floors, sub-zero refrigerator, new marble baths, square views

1,348

$895,000

$180,007 $379,163

$8,847

$1,850

$8,847

warwick condoMiniuMs

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

1,614

$829,000

$115,051 $246,527

$5,752

$992

$4,761

220 w. rittenhouse square

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, wood floors, open upgraded kitchen, designer baths

1,351

$599,000

$103,090 $235,610

$5,498

$923

$4,574

rittenhouse

1BR, 1.5 ba, EIK, ex. closet space, sunset view

1,037

$599,000

$99,540

$228,813

$5,339

$1,076

$4,263

barclay

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

1,050

$595,000

$91,967

$203,203

$4,741

$962

$3,779

barclay

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

1,075

$550,000

$79,315

$180,094

$4,202

$831

$3,371

250 s 17th street

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, original wood floors, excellent closet space, W/D, formal dining room

1,350

$499,000

$79,127

$175,675

$4,099

$664

$3,435

warwick condoMiniuMs

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

712

$399,900

$53,426

$106,710

$2,490

$486

$2,003

2322 locust street

Trinity townhouse, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, original hardwood floors, decorative fireplace, private garden

900

$335,000

$50,646

$88,333

$2,061

$424

$1,687

the rittenhouse

Studio, city views, large marble bath, hardwood floors, excellent natural light

583

$379,900

$55,444

$117,582

$2,744

$425

$2,319

dorchester

Studio, high floor, view of Rittenhouse Square, wood floors excellent closet space

$33,082

$66,762

$1,558

$4248

Location

583 Total Square Footage

SOCIETY HILL

$225,000 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

$1,310 Monthly After Tax Cost

bank building

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

2,117

$875,000

$128,466 $281,166

$6,561

$1,308

$5,253

bank building

Wonderful opportunity to create your own residence, luxury building w/ many amenities, unfinished space

2,127

$429,000

$79,423

$4,730

$934

$3,797

$202,717

society hill towers

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

1,133

$399,000

$61,727

$141,361

$3,298

$582

$2,716

society hill towers

Corner 1 bedroom, southeast view, wood floors in living room, updated kitchen

775

$329,900

$48,143

$103,454

$2,414

$390

$2,024

society hill towers

One bedroom, one bath, river views, custom kitchen and bath

700

$297,500

$43,635

$94,403

$2,203

$343

$1,859

bank building

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

1,286

$269,000

$41,427

$97,654

$2,279

$320

$1,959

society hill towers

One bedroom, high floor, river view, investment opportunity

700

$290,000

$41,910

$100,158

$2,337

$453

$1,884

Location

open sunday 8/22, 12-12:30pM

Total Square Footage

WASHINGTON SQUARE

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

P H I L A D E L P H I A W E E K LY

independence place

Penthouse, 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, EIK, wrap around balcony, floor-to-ceiling windows, wood floors, fireplace

2,810

$1,395,000 $197,226 $418,785

$9,772

$2,167

$7,605

independence place

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, open chefs kitchen, upgraded bathrooms, hardwood floors, balcony

1,977

$975,000

$27,582

$1,458

$224

$1,234

independence place

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, wood floors, balcony, renovated kitchen and baths, custom details throughout

1,818

$899,900

$127,528 $267,452

$6,241

$1,201

$5,040

independence place

3 bedrooms, 2 baths, upgraded kitchen, unobstructed Washington Square views

1,961

$799,900

$117,104 $254,037

$5,928

$1,128

$4,800

independence place

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, hardwood floors, upgraded kitchen and baths, granite wet bar

1,977

$799,000

$125,319 $269,695

$6,293

$1,234

$5,059

independence place

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, balcony over Washington Square, highly upgraded kitchen and baths

1,457

$589,000

$92,141

$191,723

$4,474

$820

$3,654

1,118

$499,900

$74,297

$149,025

$3,477

$620

$2,857

1,200

$399,900

$59,268

$129,239

$3,016

$460

$2,556

1,063

$369,000

$53,908

$115,998

$2,707

$410

$2,297

928

$299,900

$42,151

$89,666

$2,092

$358

$1,734 $1,734

open sunday 8/22, 1:30-2pM

$62,474

independence place

1 bedroom, 1.5 baths, alcove, Washington Square views

hopkinson house

2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, wood floors, balcony, southern exposure

hopkinson house

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

independence place

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

independence place

1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, excellent value

928

$290,000

$42,151

$89,666

$2,092

$358

hopkinson house

1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, unobstructed southern views, great condition

778

$259,900

$42,166

$91,499

$2,134

$339

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waterFront square

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Total Square Footage

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

924

Price

$279,900

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

$42,318

$90,810

$2,119

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$1,804

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Waterfront Square 901 n. Penn Street 1 bedroom plus den, large designer bath, hardwood floors, open high end kitchen, river views, 924 sf $279,000

tHe PHiladelPHian 2401 PennSylvania ave.

3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, bi-level penthouse, large balconies, 4207 sf. $725,000

250 S. 17tH Street 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, wood floors, eat-in-kitchen, formal dining room, 1448 sf $499,000

tHe rittenHouSe 2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, all rooms face Rittenhouse Square, completely renovated, 1560 sf $995,000

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HoPkinSon HouSe 604 S. WaSHington Square Deluxe 1 bedroom, balcony with Square, skyline and river views, renovated kitchen and bath, 1063 sf $369,000

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