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Regarding last week’s cover package about the mid-term elections: I found the comparison between Onorato and Corbett’s platforms very helpful but it misses the biggest question in this election: What is going to happen to health-care reform? Corbett is already suing the federal government over this life-saving legislation. This election year, we need to support candidates, like Dan Onorato, who will stand up for health reform. I was denied adequate health care due to not having any health insurance. I had a miscarriage and went to the emergency room. The doctors talked to me as if I did not exist because I didn’t have health insurance. I did not receive the proper care and could still be facing complications. I hope in the future no one has to go through the humiliation that I went through. Health-care reform is a step in the right direction but we need politicians who will keep fighting for health care for everyone who cannot afford it. ELIZABETH LASSITER Philadelphia
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When are people, the middle class, or at least what used to be that majority of the population, going to wake up to the fact that republicans, now more than ever with their right-right-right leaning fiscal policies represent ideas that do and will always work against the financial interests of the middle class. If the main concern of the electorate in this election is jobs and financial stability, unless you are in the upper 2 percent you would have to be insane to vote republican. They represent the party of “I’ve got mine and too bad for you if you don’t” extremism. Vote for them at your own peril. IRA UPIN via philadelphiaweekly.com
You write an article about how Philadelphia state representatives are gerrymandering without mentioning that these districts where drawn up while running for re-election and under indictment by republican John Perzel and signed into law by republican Governor Tom Ridge. You should take a look at the district, he picks and choses each division for the republican registration and effectiveness of committee person. You try to take a cheap shot at the city Democratic Party who had nothing to do with these districts. They were drawn up to give the republicans maximum advantage state wide. You need to correct this. DAVID A. GRIMES via email Why the hell would any middle class person vote for the republicans? Look what’s happened since the right wing elected Reagan.
In short, the rich have gotten a lot richer. The unions have been busted, all manufacturing has been exported to China. The right-wingers want to eliminate Social Security and medicare. Tommey-Bush had a big hand in causing this problem. Come on middle class! Don’t let the Tea Party fool you. The rich don’t need tax cuts. They have all the money they need. JASON via philadelphiaweekly.com
Vote for the candidate whose policies lead to more liberty and less government intervention in our lives. Most of us in the middle class, like people in every class in the America home of the FREE, want the government to leave us alone unless we are infringing on the rights of another. Sestak has already voted against liberty by voting to open the door to more Federal Government intervention in our health care. By voting for the government to begin owning corporations (ie: the banks and the car companies). By voting to create a “stock market” that trades on our carbon emissions. The size and scope of the Federal Government has expanded far too much, and Sestak has been a big part of that expansion. Whether Toomey will help to shrink it remains to be seen, but at least he will help to stop the bleeding. MATT G. via philadelphiaweekly.com
I’m voting Sestak. I don’t understand why people think it’s wrong to extend health care to those that can’t afford it. Full time work was the only way to receive affordable health care until the groundwork for universal health care was laid out. Without health-care reform, people that are un/underemployed do not have affordable access, and there are A LOT of unemployed people right now, due to the irresponsibility of W. and the republicans. Obama is doing his best with what he was left, and the conservative republicans are acting like children by refusing bipartisanship. ALISSA via philadelphiaweekly.com
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Risk Management A deeper look at Philly’s AIDS crisis. By Aaron Kase
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here in Philadelphia. Second phase we designed a computer survey and had teams of recorders go out into census blocks we randomly selected with 50 percent or more black people. We recruited men between ages of 18 and 44 who reported having sex with a woman in the last 6 months, and identify as heterosexual and live in Philadelphia. We collected data from 581 of them.
that’s the last thing I want to do. One of the things I do in research is really try to talk about the context of black men’s lives. It’s not about me pointing the finger at black men; there are some factors beyond the level of the individual that might shape this. Also, black men are not the only men with multiple partners. What makes it so dire is how concentrated HIV is in sexual networks.
Did you test the men for HIV?
[HIV/AIDS researcher] Dr. Amy Nunn mentioned a study that found number of partners, condom use and drug use rates to be similar among blacks and other races.
No, but we did ask if they’ve been tested. Many reported they had been, probably because they got tested in jail. Most of them said they didn’t know their status. Either they didn’t want to disclose it, or also a lot of people don’t return for the results of the test.
Why heterosexual black males?
The rate on HIV in black communities continues to be staggeringly high, especially as we get ready to enter three decades of this epidemic. There are so few studies of theory on interventions focused on heterosexual black men. Most of it focused on black men who have sex with men or [who are] IV drug users. I feel strongly that black heterosexual men are the missing link and forgotten group.
What did you learn?
Austria. PW caught up with Bowleg to discuss her findings.
What was your study about? Give us the abstract.
The goal of the study was to understand how structural factors such as unemployment, incarceration, poverty and factors such as masculine ideologies and black men’s ideas about what it means to be a black man are associated with sexual risk. All of this is informed by theoretical work and empirical work on men and HIV.
What was your methodology?
That’s one of the things we asked men about. What are these expectations for black men? Many said that you’re supposed to have lots of sex partners. Not all the men endorsed this. But when you can’t get financial success and are unemployed, it’s pretty rough, and one of the ways to be respected in black communities is to have sex with many women. We have narratives where men are telling us that. And they say it’s just natural; that’s how it’s always been.
Have you received any backlash from people saying that you are perpetuating stereotypes?
Not yet, but it’s something that concerns me. It’s something I worry about because
In this country they are so intersected. They confound. It’s hard to separate them. We know that the poverty rate for black people has historically been much higher than for whites, so it becomes hard to untangle them. The issue is complicated by the fact that we don’t collect data by incomes—at the [Centers for Disease Control], you have data by sex, age, region and exposure category. And ethnicity. You don’t have socio-economic status. That also becomes an artifact of reporting. People who go to private physicians to be tested are not going to be in the same pool for having that information reported as someone who gets tested at a city health center. There’s so much that we don’t know and don’t collect.
What’s the next step?
I think what we need to do is a syndemic approach, looking at prevalence of all these different conditions. One problem is focusing on solely as HIV as one thing. We need to make a much more comprehensive approach, integrating what we know about structural factors, housing and unemployment. That would have an impact for reducing HIV risk, and other health problems that plague low-income families, tuberculosis, other STDs. There are ways for us to be really creative as to how we improve health of communities as a whole across all of these different diseases. I think that’s really promising. n
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For the first phase of research we did interviews and focus groups. We really wanted to make sure we were getting culturally grounded understanding of men’s lives
You spoke about how expectations of black men can lead to risky behavior.
At the hearing, Councilman Wilson Goode asked if the HIV rates had more to do with race, or poverty.
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Last week, City Council held hearings to discuss the ongoing, if little talked about, AIDS crises in Philadelphia, especially within black communities. The key statistics, from the Department of Public Health: 19,237 people in Philadelphia are living with HIV/AIDS, or 1.3 percent of the total population; 12,741 are black, of which 8,416 are men; the largest risk factor among blacks is heterosexual transmission, which accounts for about 40 percent of infections. Speaking at the hearing was Dr. Lisa Bowleg, an associate professor in the Department of Community Health and Prevention at Drexel. She is completing a three-year study on HIV/AIDS risk factors among black heterosexual men in Philadelphia, which she presented at the 2010 International AIDS Conference in Vienna,
That’s exactly right. There’s an amazing study where they look across the races, and there were no major differences in condom use, or drug use, or number of sex partners. But for black folks, because HIV is so densely concentrated in the networks, it meant that a person having unprotected sex with one partner could get infected. Whereas people in white communities it won’t happen because HIV isn’t that concentrated in the network. That’s the take-home point. Chances are you’re having sex within your race and community, and prevalence is higher and so is the risk of infection.
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The most important thing we’ve learned is how much stress these men are under. Most of them are unemployed. Most of them have histories of incarceration. Most are unstably housed. Most report incomes less than $5,000 a year. Most of them report having unprotected sex with multiple women. The other take-home message is the need for structurally based interventions. We can’t just throw condoms at them; we need to really take innovative goal steps in terms of employment for black men, address macro-level forces like poverty. Which is daunting. Even when I say it, part of me as a researcher says how the hell do we do that?
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News & Opinion is, so they don’t have to be attacked on regular Halloween, or be run over by wolf packs [black trick-or-treaters from neighboring areas]. … Twenty years ago that’s how it would be [with baseball]. We would notify who we wanted to about registration.” “Yes, Whiteween exists, or existed historically,” Grasmuck says recently on the phone. “People talk about it, but it’s a complicated kind of thing. I don’t know whether it’s still going on right now. I don’t know if people use that phrase.”
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Giving Up the Ghost Does Fairmount have a separate Halloween for white kids? By Tara Murtha
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Though I lived in Fairmount over a decade ago, I didn’t return to scare up the skeletons in my old North Croskey Street closet. They’re just fine where they are. I went hunting for ghosts of Fairmount’s past, ones that haunt new residents every October in the form of whispered rumors about “two Halloweens” in the neighborhood— one for white kids and one for black kids. I went looking for evidence of “Whiteween.” P H I L A D E L P H I AW E E K LY November 3-9, 2010 • 10
Fairmount was once an extremely racially charged neighborhood. Dr. Sherri Grasmuck is a sociology professor at Temple University who has conducted significant field research on the history of racial relations in the Fairmount neighborhood as background for her 2005 book, Protecting Home: Class, Race and Masculinity in Boys’ Baseball. In the book, Grasmuck uses the evolution of local boys’ baseball leagues as a lens to examine gentrification and racial integration in Fairmount. Grasmuck wrote that in the 1950s, Fairmount was subdivided into pockets populated by mostly by English, Irish, Ukrainian, Polish and Italian families. It was bordered by neighborhoods populated by mostly blacks to the north and an increasing number of Puerto Ricans in neighboring Spring Garden, due in
part to its proximity to La Milagrosa, the first Spanish-speaking Catholic church in Philly. “In the late 1960s, White residents of a Philadelphia neighborhood called Fairmount, north of Center City, regularly ran off Blacks who walked through the neighborhood, often with the support of police,” wrote Grasmuck. She reports that “a red-faced, Irish-Ukrainian Fairmounter” said the neighborhood was called “white island” while he was growing up. “We fought every day,” said the resident. “We fought our way to school. We fought our way home from school.” To demonstrate how much attitudes in the neighborhood evolved, Grasmuck fast-forwards 30 years to a summer night in 2001, when the same resident rallied to defend a group of black kids from the police, shouting, “You know what they did wrong? I’ll tell you what. They were guilty of ‘walking while Black.’” Grasmuck interviewed baseball coaches to find out how recruiting practices evolved over the years. In an interview, one coach brought up Halloween, explaining that the holiday was segregated by the same method of word-of-mouth exclusion. “Listen. We have our own Halloween. We call it Whiteween. Parents are notified in their mailboxes about where our Halloween
loween had heard the term Whiteween— though many relative newcomers said they recently heard rumors that there used to be “two Halloweens” in Fairmount. “I’ve never heard that phrase; I believe it though,” says Bob, 34, who grew up visiting his Polish grandparents on Judson Street and, six years ago, purchased the family house for himself. “The neighborhood was really different back then.” When I mention Whiteween, Bob’s friend perks up. “Oh! That’s the phrase [my neighbor] used last night,” Vanessa says. “I heard some of the neighbors talking about it, about another block,” she nods. Other residents, like “Joe,” who was giving out candy a few blocks over, are sick and tired of hearing about “two Halloweens” and resent the implication. Joe has lived in the area since 1994. “There’s a block party on Meredith Street that’s not on Halloween, that’s it,” he says, exasperated. “[Stories like this] are told to paint Fairmount as racist.” Joe pulls his cell phone out of his pocket and points to a message on the screen. It read: “I heard your hood is moving Halloween to Saturday.” “It’s just a block party,” says Joe. “Maybe there are some people who don’t want to have Halloween on Halloween, or maybe that used to be true, but there are not two Halloweens in Fairmount.” Down the street, “Ella” sits on a bench in front of her house, where she has lived for 60 years. She smiles as she drops candy bars into plastic pumpkins and pillow cases. “When we bought this house, it was Ukrainian and Polish here,” she nods. She recalls past Halloweens. “It was a mess,” she says. “Not because [the trick-ortreaters] were black, no. They used to come here but a lot of people wouldn’t open their doors.” Ella doesn’t elaborate but Grasmuck, who calls herself a “yuppie newcomer” because she’s “only” been living in Fairmount 25 years, recalls some trouble more specifically. “I just remember one year in particular there was large numbers of older kids … not having costumes and ringing your door and it was, ‘Give me your candy.’ So the charm of it didn’t feel really nice,” she says. “Several teenagers came and knocked [younger kids] down and grabbed their bags. I mean, knocked them down hard…
Then it just spreads like wildfire. But it was one incident one year that a lot of people talked about.” Tonight, there are no signs out trouble, except empty candy bowls. Indeed, as Grasmuck’s research and a simple walk around the hood shows, Fairmount has changed dramatically in recent years. Eastern State Penitentiary, considered more architecturally progressive than the White House because it had flushing toilets when it opened in 1829, went from being a model of prison reform to a symbol of inhumane treatment to a tourist attraction—which causes parking problems that are far and away the Halloween concern on most Fairmounters’ minds these days.
It’s almost 8 p.m. and the trick-or-treat-
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William Bailey had been fighting off haters since he was a kid. “I’m more flamboyant than most people,” says the 22 year old, smiling and pointing to his crazy, picked-out afro. “[As a kid] I didn’t play sports … I wanted to play with dolls and hang out with the girls.” Bailey, who lives in Camden, has been openly gay since 10th grade, and says he’s been talked about and bullied for as long as he can remember. “It was relentless at times,” he says. “I’d get called a faggot … I’d go to the bathroom and cry.” As he speaks, Bailey looks around at the five other young gay men—ranging from their late teens to early 20s—sitting in a circle at the Attic By Aaron Kase Youth Center, an after-school space in Center City for akase@philadelphiaweekly.com LGBT youth. The group, led by life-skills counselor Tara Rubinstein, is immersed in a conversation about Illustration by Fred Harper bullying, homophobia and the recent wave of suicides by gay youth. Bailey tells the group that he came out in his sophomore year at Camden Academy high school because he was “done trying to deny it.” The backlash was immediate. One of his best friends told him she wished he would get AIDS and die, then stopped speaking to him. Others kept up the harassment. “I was picked on every day, multiple times per day,” he confides, adding that kids threw things at him on the bus, and every once in a while he was forced into minor scuffles with his tormenters. “Bullies are bullies,” says Bailey, who learned to deal with the persecution over time. “Call me something I haven’t heard, then I’ll try to be affected by it.” Disparaging comments be damned, he even performed in a high school talent show as Janet Jackson and wore a tutu.
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Podietz, the only white guy in the group, says he was bullied more for his buckteeth than his sexuality, but also struggled with “suicidal thoughts.” The other guys in the circle nod their heads in recognition. Nineteen-year-old Jared Martinez, sporting eyeshadow and earrings in both ears, says he had thoughts of suicide while growing up in a small Maryland town. He moved to Philadelphia this year after finishing high school, and says it got better when he “started accepting and loving myself. Trying to fit in led me to places I didn’t want to be.” He adds: “You need to learn to love yourself because that’s key to growing tough skin and have bullying fly by. If you love yourself … you can say ‘I don’t give a shit.’”
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national headlines more than usual lately, they are no new trend. Federal youth risk behavior studies dating back to 1989 suggest that LGBT kids are consistently two to four times more likely to kill themselves than their straight peers. “The thing that annoyed me is everybody’s acting like school bullying and suicides just started yesterday,” says Carrie Jacobs, founder and executive director of the Attic, who has counseled kids on the
edge ever since the center opened in 1993. “Many kids are suicidal prior to coming, or have attempted suicide,” she says recalling one of the Attic’s members, a female-tomale transgender kid named Scott, who committed suicide after he had left the care of the youth center to embark on his adult life. Scott struggled with his identity before he found the Attic as a teenager, but Jacobs says he seemed to find some peace and was ready to move forward. “He went to college, got a boyfriend, started feeling really good about his life,” she says. Scott had graduated, was working and living on his own when his friends at the center heard he killed himself. “None of us knew he was that depressed,” Jacobs says. “That’s what was so puzzling about it.” Fortunately, Scott’s story is the exception, not the rule. “While engaged in programming we haven’t had anyone who committed suicide,” Jacobs says. Though they deal with serious issues, the Attic is generally a high-spirited place. Every weekday afternoon, 30 to 50 kids ages 14 to 23 show up for counseling, clubs or just hanging out. Gay, lesbian,
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On a recent day, the group rehearses what they want to say on the videos. Rubinstein leads the discussion, posing questions to the kids: “What are some more things we’ve learned from our experiences about how it gets better even when things are bad?” she asks. Bailey says that for him, “Your skin gets tough and your heart gets warm. The words stopped hurting as much when I heard them over and over and realized it doesn’t mean much.” Kemar Edwards-Jewel, 19, can’t hide his glowing smile despite the heavy subject matter. “Family doesn’t necessarily have to be the people you share DNA with,” he says. Originally from Jamaica, Edwards-Jewel says that when he came out two years ago, the reaction from his family was swift and harsh. He tells the group: “My grandmother told people I died … my mom said she wished she had an abortion.” His family told him to leave the house, and he now has his own apartment and says he barely communicates with them. “Family are the people who are trying to watch you grow and become a better person,” he says. “I started coming to the Attic and found other people like me.” Zachary Podietz, 18, waits quietly for his turn to speak. “It gets better when?” Rubinstein asks him. “When your friends are there to stick by you and guide you,” he answers.
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teens weighs heavily on the kids at the Attic. Each youth in the circle has faced the same taunts, threats, assaults and rejection as the suicide victims. A few days previously, the group held a big meeting to talk about what happened and how society responded: The It Gets Better project, a collection of online videos inspired by Seattle-based sex-advice columnist Dan Savage featuring adults telling queer youth that life will improve with age. But the Attic kids say it’s hard to look forward to a future when it’s so difficult to get through the present. “For us, it’s not it gets better someday,” says Rubinstein, 28. “We need it to get better now.” So the group decided to make their own set of videos called It Gets Better When, available soon online, to share what helps them survive the daily barrage of homophobia they face in school and at home. Rubinstein says the idea behind the videos is to create something positive from the onslaught of bullying and suicide news over the last few months. “They’re about more than just overcoming bullying. We’re showing a gay youth culture that’s positive, with youth out doing great things.” The group added a twist to the videos, showing the kids looking in a mirror and describing what they see. “It’s powerful hearing how they see themselves, whether primarily as gay, or an artist, or a student,” Rubinstein says.
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The bill has been lurking around the House for a year and a half now, lingering in committee. But if it somehow gets through the contentiously partisan political climate—only a handful of Republicans are among the bill’s 126 mostly Democratic sponsors—it would force all schools receiving federal money to implement and enforce strong anti-bullying rules, including for reasons related to sexual orientation, a big boost for struggling kids to make things get getter now, not later. “It’s so important for Safe Schools act to pass. It would apply to all schools across the country,” Buehler says. While here in Philly we already have strong anti-bullying rules in place—“really comprehensive” ones, according to Buehler— the school district doesn’t have the greatest track record of enforcing its policies. “We are absolutely not satisfied with current climate in schools,” says District Spokesperson Fernando Gallard. “We have incidents happening in our schools that should not happen. They need to be immediately confronted,” Gallard says, citing policy that requires school personnel to take action against bullying or harassment. But in the meantime, the consequences of bullying can be grave. A sharp reminder came at last month’s Outfest, the annual coming-out festival in the Gayborhood, where more than 100 people came together at the William Way Community Center for a vigil to mourn the recent teen suicides. Outside, on a stage set up amidst the thousands of milling masses, a man in an oversized purple suit and enormous top-hat put out a call for openly gay high school kids to come up and join him on the stage. “We need them to know that we love them and we’re here for them no matter what,” he told the crowd. “It doesn’t matter how you love or who you love, only that you love.” The resulting cheer was deafening. Matt attended both events, and says “hearing about the suicides got me in the mood to cry.” Like his family at the Attic, he wants to use the It Gets Better When videos to show others that they are not alone, because even at 16 he has seen enough to know the future is promised to no one. “Someday that might be me in the news,” he says.” You don’t know the future ... maybe the Nazis will take over in two years and eliminate gays.” n
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At a table in the library of West Philadelphia Catholic High School, about a dozen seniors have their attention focused on Alex Zimmer, a Penn student who is presenting his favorite creative-writing exercise: Describe a scene first from the perspective of someone who has just received great news, and then describe the same scene from the perspective of someone who has just received bad news. The kids are there for WriteCorp, an after-school creative-writing club created by Zimmer and fellow Penn student Allyson Even. Last year, Even, a Latin American Latino Studies and Africana Studies major and a Creative Writing and Urban Education minor (yes, two majors and two minors), was hired as a work-study student to revive community outreach at Penn’s Kelly Writers House. The afternoon at West Philadelphia Catholic was just one of the many small-scale initiatives she organized, but the event prompted her to question whether the current outreach offerings at Penn was sufficient. Currently, the Netter Center for Community Partnerships serves as a hub and sponsors for a comprehensive array of community services. Among these is Community School Student Partnership (CSSP), which recruits and trains Penn students to assist hired staff in mentoring and tutoring at West Philadelphia schools through a series of structured
“Writing is an incredible way to empower kids. To really say ‘hey, what you have to say matters and ... we think it’s valuable that you put what you have to say on paper.’” -Allyson Even programs. The Kelly Writers House also hosts a series of literary-based outreach programs, including WriteOn!, in which fourth- through eighth-graders from two local schools come to the Writers House on select Fridays and Saturdays to engage with Penn students on extracurricular writing projects. While Even commends the service done by these and similar groups on campus, she says WriteCorp offers unique benefits. Foremost among these is flexibility. Unlike CSSP, WriteCorp will be more accommodating to an individual teacher’s request. “Whether it’s enrichment, a fun thing for their kids to do, or whether it’s tied to the curriculum and tied to Pa. standards— one thing that’s really important about the model of WriteCorp is being able to adhere to what a teacher wants.” WriteOn!, which requires kids to commute to Penn’s campus during what would otherwise be their free time, is an attractive option for the college volunteers because of accessibility. However, Even expresses concern that this model is “already selecting for students that have the
initiative, that have the interest, and that have the parental support to come here.” With WriteCorp, members will travel to schools throughout the city and in that way “be reaching students that might otherwise never come into contact with a program like this.” Senior Alex Marcus, has signed up to be one of WriteCorp’s tutors. He says that while WriteOn! focuses exclusively on nonacademic writing, WriteCorp will allow him “to learn more about the kind of writing education Philadelphia public school students are getting, and, perhaps, do something to improve it.” This year, WriteCorp will be recruiting members—already up to 25—to establish a training program and to reach out to teachers who might be interested in hosting a workshop. Michelle Taransky, a professor in the Critical Writing Department at Penn and a staff member at the Kelly Writers House, joined WriteCorp as the faculty advisor early this fall. Taransky has been involved in poetry outreach since her junior year at the University of Chicago. Most recently she ran a poets-in-
the-schools program, Hands On Stanzas, for the poetry center of Chicago. By the spring, Even hopes to have several regular workshops in session. Each workshop will likely follow a general pattern of introducing the students to a paradigm piece of sample writing and then encouraging them to craft their own work based on the style exemplified. Even explains the benefits of this interactive style, saying, “I think a lot of times we lose sight that kids are not just like containers to be filled with information and a lot of times in school we’re just trying to shove stuff down kids throats and have them memorize and have them regurgitate rather than having them create. And I think it’s a higher level of intelligence to synthesize and create something of your own that’s unique.” Students will then have the opportunity to display their writing from these workshops on the Writers House online literary magazine, The Blacktop. Even says that posting their work where other kids can read it is integral to WriteCorp’s mission. “Writing is an incredible way to empower kids,” says Even. To really say ‘hey, what you have to say matters and probably there are a lot of people in your life telling you that it doesn’t but we think it’s valuable that you put what you have to say on paper.’” But it’s not all charity. “We want to stress this idea of horizontal community service versus vertical community service,” says Even. “Vertical community service is like ‘I’m going into this underprivileged area and I know a lot and I’m going to share it with these people. I’m giving to these people.’ Horizontal community service is, ‘I have things to learn from the people I’m going to work with. I have things to offer and they have things to offer.’” Even says this is one of the fundamental tenets that distinguishes WriteCorp from other programs. WriteCorp provides the kids with valuable lessons that Even anticipates will be applicable in any field as well as the chance to be heard. And what do the Penn undergraduates stand to gain? Perspective. “I mean, we’re all really bright but just because you’re really bright doesn’t mean you’re any better than anyone else,” says Even. “And it also doesn’t mean you know a whole lot about the world beyond 42nd Street.” n
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Organic and healthy food may not be the first thing on middle-school students’ minds, but it may be the key to getting them a jump-start on business skills. And three progressive Temple seniors have made it their mission to plant the seeds of success in the minds of North Philly students. “Eric and I were trying to think of ways we could work together,” says Alex McNeil, president of Temple’s Project
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out in the community using the skills they were interested in. “We were driving around and realized there were unused gardens everywhere,” McNeil says. They decided to get in touch with Yuan Huang, president of Temple Community Gardens, an organization that works to empower and educate the Philadelphia community through gardening to connect to its city, land and life. “What if we build a garden, teach the kids about gardening, and have them harvest all their produce and sell it to a local farmer’s market?” McNeil says. “They would keep track of their money, realize their expenses, and maybe in a few years, this could be a self-sustaining business.” The culmination formed Urban Roots. Over the course of two months, beginning in February 2011, students in North Philly’s Norris Square area will learn business in the form of six lesson plans,
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everything from marketing to costs and revenue. The lessons will be taught by undergraduate business students from the ESA who have, with the counsel of faculty, the know-how to advise younger students. “One of the major benefits of this is to show them what they’re capable of doing,” Trumbower says. “They don’t have much direction and we want to be able to give back to them in some kind of way, and show them the local impact they can make.” The lessons will correspond with the gradual progression of the gardens that the students will be working on themselves. The first lesson will focus on developing thorough business plans. John Welsh Elementary School is a little over a mile away from Temple and is the first school to sign up with Urban Roots. Huang has taught Chinese at John Welsh for two years, and proposed the idea to the immediately enthused principal, who loved the business twist. Conveniently, as part of their science curriculum, John Welsh teaches Life Sciences, in which the kids learn about plant growth and development. Urban Roots will take over Life Sciences for the middle-school students this coming year. “As long as I’ve been at this school, we’ve never seen a program like this,” says Jeffrey Bowes, a science teacher who has taught at John Welsh for the past eight years. “I think it will help teach the students responsibility and help them understand where their food comes from.” “Inner-city schools are in dire need of help on many different levels,” says McNeil, who is no stranger to giving back to the Philadelphia community. Since creating Project EDU two years ago, the program has fostered tutoring services, an academic coaching program that was previously run by AmeriCorps and the Philadelphia Higher Education Network for Neighborhood Development (PHENND), geared toward helping public school students with their mandatory senior projects, and successful programs such as Philly Eco Kids and Operation Bookshelf. “There are great schools and teachers here, but it’s not just the school. It’s the community, it’s the home, it’s the whole nine yards,” he says. “One of the things we can address with this program is lack of nutrition and available nutritious foods. There’s a few grocery stores scattered around North Philadelphia, but not many. A lot people have to rely on the local corner stores and bodegas.” The short-term goal currently is to find more schools and sponsors in the Norris Square area by the start of the program. McNeil hopes the students will be inspired enough by the program to continue running it, to recruit more kids and to create gardens throughout the city. And Trumbower anticipates the students will see higher education as more of a probability. “We hope that we can help show the importance of education,” he says. “As well as where it can take you.” n
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By Sharon Margolis feedback@philadelphiaweekly.com Sonny Drain, an adjunct professor at the Community College of Philadelphia, was 41 when he signed himself into treatment
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Between one-third and one-half of the students in the class, he discovered, were also in recovery from addiction. On his first day of class, he met a fellow student who was nearly the same age. They shared a hot desire to succeed, a quality most noticeable among older students in a class where the average age was late 20s. Classes are brought to the facility premises, usually at night and on weekends, so that patients can study “in cohorts” on the recovery site while continuing to work a full-time job and, in many cases, support a family. “We’ve set up courses that they want to go to college for,” says Dr. Pat Scoles, the program coordinator of Addiction Services at CCP. Foundations of Addiction Studies, for example, provides an overview of the psychological, physiological and social effects of substance abuse, the pharmacology of drugs and a description of various treatment options. What interested Drain the most was the behavioral causes for addiction. He soaked up the real-time experience that instructors actively working in the field brought to class. “They weren’t just teaching you theory, but they were also bringing, you know, true life experience, and I just found it so invaluable.” It’s a method he tries to use in his own classes. Despite holding close to a 4.0 GPA, Drain doubts that he could’ve done so well at any other time of his life. “If I’d gone to college when I was 18, there’s no way in the world I would’ve accomplished what I accomplished … I don’t even know that I would’ve finished.”
Students tend to place below minimum proficiency on placement tests in basic math and English, having disappeared into addiction for up to years at a time. So the college offers “co-requisites,” a remedial class taught alongside one of three major-related skills training courses. As Scoles explains, there’s always the danger of losing their interest if you burden them with courses they consider unimportant. Students are impatient to start “giving back,” a central tenet of spiritually focused programs like 12-Step. But after earning a 12-credit Proficiency Certificate in Recovery and Transformation, which qualifies one to work as an associate addictions counselor, the majority of students have built up enough confidence to stay on the academic track, Scoles says. Most go on to complete an Addiction Studies certificate, and eventually walk away with a two-year associate’s degree. As Dr. Phillipe Bourgois, author of the book Righteous Dopefiend, points out, “If you’re offering someone an intellectual and academic skill that they can then parlay into a job in the future, you’re making a much better treatment program.” Bourgois believes treatment programs need to be diversified further to include the full gamut of spiritual, biomedical and educational methods, because no one knows exactly what “works.” What does seem to be working is putting outreach efforts into the hands of recovering addicts because “they speak with authority, they speak with sophistication, they speak in the right vocabulary; they resonate with
the same values as the people that they’re trying to do outreach to,” Bourgois says. Many of the addicts enrolled at the college choose to stay here in Philly, helping rebuild the city that nursed them in their addiction. It was at CCP where Drain met Scoles, who would become his mentor. Scoles strongly encouraged him to get an associate’s degree and later transfer to Temple University, where he progressed through a bachelor’s alongside his friend from the first day of class. While studying at Temple, Drain won a scholarship to get an M.A. in Social Administration and Planning. He finished the degree in three semesters. Drain says recovery taught him that in order to take responsibility for himself—and on some level, for other people—he needed to take a risk. So when Scoles asked him if he could teach a class at the college in early 2000, he agreed. “I said, ‘OK, I’d be glad to do it. When do I start?’ And he said, ‘Tomorrow,’” he remembers, laughing. “It was just kind of like baptism by fire. And it actually was great.” Drain now works as a therapist at Northwestern Union Services in Mt. Airy on a fee-for-service basis, allowing him the freedom to pursue his passion for teaching. He describes himself as a farmer, both as a teacher and clinician, toiling away for everuncertain gains. “I’m just planting seeds,” he says. “I may never see the fruits of my work.” Yet he’s dedicated. Responsibility is his motto. “If someone wants some advice, to be able to spare them some of the pain, you know, it can be very gratifying. That I’m taking the responsibility to do that.” n
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NoirCon Philly is a perfect backdrop for noir thrillers: dark corners, desolate blocks, burned-out rowhomes, political corruption out the wazoo. It’s no wonder, then, that the genre is catching on here in a mighty way. We’re the birth/ deathplace of the Prince of Noir, of course— the exalted-but-somehow-forgotten-by-most David Goodis, and home to a new fold of gifted hardboiled-fiction writers. Dennis Tafoya’s Philly-based Wolves of Fairmount Park was a stunningly strong release this year; ditto Duane Swierzynski’s Expiration Date. That dark duo will be on hand at Philly’s NoirCon this weekend to participate in a panel discussion on Philadelphia noir alongside Philly cop/crime writer Keith Gilman and others. Throughout the conference, loads of workshops and panels will take place to help instruct you how to release your inner Chandler. The conference begins with a screening of To A Pulp, the highly anticipated documentary about Goodis’ life, and the next day king of D.C. crime fiction George Pelecanos will be on hand. There’s food too, though it’s mostly a buffet of glass, nails and gasoline. BRian McManus Through Nov. 7. $200. DoubleTree Hotel, 237 S. Broad St. 215.893.1600. noircon.com
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Uncle Tupelo gets all the props for kickstarting the alt-country/Americana movement in the early ’90s, but it’s the St. Louis quartet Bottle
Rockets—led by Brian Henneman, a one-time roadie for (and occasional player in) Uncle Tupelo who formed Bottle Rockets in 1992—that deserves just as much credit. But history, and certainly the music industry, isn’t fair, and despite finding a glorious midpoint between Woody Guthrie’s socially conscious folk music and the Replacements’ raucous, drunken punkand roots-rock, Bottle Rockets continue to claw and scrape for attention and respect. Myriad label woes over the years haven’t helped, but albums like last year’s rippin’ Lean Forward prove the band’s still mighty hungry. Unlike, say, Wilco... M.a.G. 9pm. $15. North Star Bar, 27th and Poplar sts. 215.787.0488. northstarbar.com
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Life Rally The suicides of gay kids have been flooding national headlines, and as you read about tragedy after tragedy, you might wonder “What can I actually do about this?” One option is to show public support en masse—this Friday, for instance, at the Life Rally in Love Park. The gathering is part of the 2010 Soul Symposium, a two-day LGBTQ event sponsored by the William Way Center. Singer/songwriter Ray Boltz, a Christian pop star who came out in 2004 after years of depression and despair in the closet, will be performing during the rally. Boltz certainly has lived the message, as his coming out was rewarded by hate mail and ostracism from many former fans. If you’re upset that being honest about sexuality can be a regrettable or even dangerous thing for you, someone you know, someone you haven’t met yet or someone you’ll never meet, show your face in the crowd and let anyone who might feel trapped know the sheer numbers of people who aren’t going to judge. lauRen HODGes 8:30pm. Free. Love Park, 15th St. and JFK Blvd. soulforce.org
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Clinic On their landmark debut, Internal Wrangler, surgically masked Ade Blackburn and Jonathan Hartley did something that very few bands ever accomplish: create a wholly original and distinctive sound. How’d they do it? They polished junk-store keyboards to a finely reverbed gloss. They cranked spasmodically funky jitter-punk to “Voodoo Wop” proportions. They caught the pathos in a world paced by rickety drum machines and rife with mournful organs, but sadly, delicately “free of distortions.” Their sixth and latest album, Bubblegum, veers slightly into a vein of 1960s psychedelia, which should make the pairing with San Francisco’s trippy garage rockers the Fresh & Onlys all the more interesting. JennifeR Kelly 9:30 p.m. $13-$14. Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford. 215.739.9684. johnnybrendas.com
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South Street Bridge Reopening Rejoice, Philadelphians! After 23 long months of construction, the South Street Bridge—one of the city’s main interneighborhood arteries— will reopen to bike and pedestrian traffic, with autos allowed later in the evening. It’s a boon to bike commuters, a much easier route between West Philly and Center City and South Philly than the glass-shard gauntlet that is the Gray’s Ferry Bridge. It’s also an ingress point for the Schuylkill River path and one less excuse for your lazy-bones friends who claim they’re too far to come hang out. The project was miraculously finished ahead of schedule, so there really is something to celebrate. Twolegged and two-wheeled traffic can cross the bridge at 2 p.m., or wait an hour to congratulate the Streets Department at the reopening ceremony. aleXanDRa JOnes 3pm. Free. South Street Bridge, 215.686.5499. potholes.phila.gov
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Uhuru Day of Solidarity The bad news: African people throughout the world are systematically oppressed by police brutality, economic colonization and the prison-industrial complex, with Anglo and elite (hey, Obama!) hands pulling the imperialist puppet strings. The good news: People of all backgrounds can enlist in the war on inequality. Uhuru Solidarity Movement is a band of white activists who have united with the larger, African-led Uhuru Movement to raise funds for black liberation. You may have bought a trinket from their flea market in Clark Park, but to make a more concerted contribution, attend their Day of Solidarity, with dinner, workshops and speakers, including Omali Yeshitela, theoretician and leader of the Uhuru Movement, and Glen Ford, executive director of the Black Agenda Report. All are welcome, whether you’re a revolutionary, radical, or just racked with guilt. GeRRy cHRisTOPHeR JOHnsOn 1pm. $10-$25. First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St. 215.387.0919. uhurusolidarity.org
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Derby Jell-O Wrestling Actual derby girls are much more exciting to watch than Ellen Page and Drew Barrymore in Whip It—not only do they hit hard, they occasionally roll around in Jell-O to raise money for their team. There will be ample drink specials (including Jell-O shots, of course) to accompany the spectacle as Penn Jersey roller-derby team the She Devils get down and dirty in a kiddie pool of jiggly gelatin. The She Devils are Philly’s representatives in the Old School Derby Association, a league that blends traditional derby rules with contemporary twists. The team have become regulars at Sis-
9:30pm. $7. Sisters, 1320 Chancellor St. 215.735.0735. pennjerseyrollerderby.com
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Man ... Or Astroman? Although Alabama’s Man ... Or Astroman? married surf rock with punk and the occasional sound bite from old B movies, their musical output was overshadowed by their elaborate stage show. They performed in space suits amid a makeshift set designed to look like a low budget space movie. The members of Man ... Or Astroman? also performed in character, insisting they were aliens. The only thing missing was a special effects budget. The stage show is something like a sci-fi geek’s version of Gwar. Given their intense theatrics, it’s only fitting that the band covered Mystery Science Theater’s “love theme” and was once joined onstage with show creator and star Joel Hodgson. MAggIE SEROtA 7:30pm. $15. First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St. 866.468.7619. r5productions.com
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9pm. $10. With McRad + King Britt. Silk City, 435 Spring Garden St., 215.592.8838. silkcityphilly.com
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Through Nov. 14. 7pm. $15-$35. Painted Bride, 230 Vine St. 267.402.2055. firstpersonfestival.org
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Restrepo Rumor has it that Restrepo is the best war film this side of The Hurt Locker (and infinitely more accurate), but its presence on Philly screens was limited and brief. Luckily, the National Constitution Center is offering a remedy for those of us who missed our first chance at seeing it. As an added bonus for us late-birds, directors Sebastian Junger (of Perfect Storm fame) and Tim Hetherington will be present at the screening, and participants in a subsequent group discussion. The documentary follows a platoon of American soldiers deployed to one of the most dangerous outposts of the U.S. occupation in Afghanistan. The goal of the film is not to express a viewpoint about the soldiers or their presence there, but simply to channel their experiences verbatim—a refreshing take, given the heavily politicized nature of many documentaries, much less ones about war. If this all sounds a little heavy, there’s a pre-film reception for “cocktails and conversation,” so you’ll have a full hour to prepare. E.C. 5pm. $7-$15. National Constitution Center, 525 Arch St. 215.409.6700. constitutioncenter.org
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Bonobo As a recording artist, Simon Green (a.k.a. Bonobo) constructs dense and multilayered grooves that skirt jazz, pop, hip-hop and electronic genres without ever definitively touching down. His fourth and latest album, Black Sands, worked subtle, introspective magic with strings, sampled drums and the distinctive voice of up-and-coming soul chanteuse Andreya Triana. Live, he fleshes out these complex, yet body-moving visions with a full band that includes guitar, keyboards, drums and woodwinds. His own double-tasking reflects the dual nature of a sensual, yet cerebral aesthetic, as he switches off between the chilled textures of electronics and the warm, danceable thud of bass guitar. J.k.
First things first, we’re extremely jealous of your life. We’ll try not to let that taint this interview ... I get that a lot, actually. Bet you do, Lamprey. Bet. You. Do. Anyway, you were in Philly recently to shoot Drinking Made Easy. Where’d you go, what’d you drink? We went to McGillin’s, which was the old Bell in Hand, I guess, and is the oldest bar in Philly. That was cool. We went to City Tavern, which at first looked like it would be a very stuffy experience and then it ended up being very interesting,
How drunk are you during these episodes? Ever watch one and not remember having done something that’s been filmed? All the time. I don’t remember any of it! Nah, it’s all done at a professional level. It’s my production company that does it, and we have fun but it’s really— it’s a business being run. I’m also the executive producer so I will walk in and discuss what’s going to happen with the producer. Then we set up the shot. Drink. Lights, drink. Sound, drink. It’s all very slow going. I’m not drinking as quickly as the show suggests. I certainly can’t try five drinks in a bar and then go to another bar and try another five drinks. That’s pretty close to my limit right there. The drinking is pretty evenly paced with discussions of what, where, why, how—the flow. Recently, on Last Call with Carson Daly, you told a story about doing something called a scorpion shot, which sounds pretty gnarly. Yes. There’s a bar in Milwaukee called Bad Genie that serves a shot with a dead scorpion floating in over-proof rum, the scorpion shot. The most anyone had ever done was nine. I did 23. The next morning was pretty brutal. Passing a scorpion isn’t fun. It’s painful. Your body can’t digest an exoskeleton, so they come out connected like a chain of monkeys in a barrel. Still jealous? n Zane Lamprey performs Fri., Nov. 5, 7:30pm and 11pm. $25-$28. Theater of Living Arts, 334 South St. 215.922.1011. livenation.com
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Oh, fuck you, Zane Lamprey. You have the world’s greatest job! For three seasons you stumbled around the globe on the TV show Three Sheets—think Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations, but with a focus on alcohol, not food—being paid to drink with the locals in exotic locales and learn about their drinking customs. You are the Bard of the Booze, the Songbird of Suds, the Hero of Hooch. Now, since Three Sheets ’ demise, you’ve started a new show, Drinking Made Easy, for Mark Cuban’s HD Net. It’s basically the same premise, but now you’re imbibing stateside, drinking our nations best drinks. So you’ll excuse us if we’re a tad bit jealous. And you’ll also excuse us if we use the phrase “tad bit” when we mean “extremely.” Now, with 24 episodes of Season 1 of Drinking in the can, you’re traveling the country on your “Sing the Booze” tour, singing old drinking songs, telling jokes and performing original ditties: “Beer, I Love You,” “Mojito,” “House Party,” “Giving Up Drinkin’”. You’re bringing the whole thing to the TLA on Friday. We tried to squash the raging jealousy inside us for a moment and talk to you about the tour, your show and your mammoth insurance premium.
very cool. It’s very intimate; they have a lot of the cocktails made the way they would’ve drunk them back when our forefathers were drinking. We went to a place called Alpha, and we had some newer cocktails made from Root, a rootbeer-flavored liquor made close by. We went to Yards and had the beers they brew from recipes from the founders. That was an interesting experience. The objective of the show is to find drinks that are unique to a region, not necessarily find bars. A lot of times people are upset because, “Oh man, you didn’t go to this bar or that bar!” It’s like well, that bar may be great, but they just serve typical American stuff. We are looking for things specific to a region.
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Back for its ninth year, the First Person Arts Festival of Memoir & Documentary Art brings a host of storytellers from the across the globe to Philly, with tales as varied as the ways they tell them. Tonight, there’s a dinner with CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien, author of a recent memoir on her experiences reporting Katrina,
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This Toronto trio attempts to find the sweet spot between reggae and punk, not as a thirdrate/wave ska retread but in rediscovering the soul that initially inspired reggae and the anthemic spirit of great punk rock. They’re still searching for a proper balance of elements, though 2007’s Street Gospels comes pretty close to calibrating their mix of dub-tastic pulse, glimmering hooks and strummy rock. Against that yardstick, the King Britt-produced Light the Horizon feels like a retreat, losing muscularity to languorous reggae sway and overly atmospheric melodiousness. ChRIS PARkER
Haiti, the 2008 election and other huge stories. There’s Wednesday’s Grand Slam, with the winners of previous First Person StorySlams competing for the title of Best Storyteller in Philadelphia, and two nights of awesome Mormon Elna Baker, of many radio shows and the extremely funny memoir The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance. There’s a full week of programming, but one last event to try to get to in particular is the wrap, a star-studded tribute to poet/activist Sonia Sanchez at the Baptist Temple on North Broad with appearances by Ruby Dee, Amiri Baraka and Talib Kweli. JuLIAn gALEttE
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ters, where they have hosted similar fundraisers there in the past—in other words, these ladies have Jell-O-wrestling down to an art form. The ladies will also be hosting a raffle and manning a kissing booth, so bring some dollars and some breath mints. EMILY CRAWFORD
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Girl, Interrupted
Transgender woman’s murder leaves loved ones on edge By Gerry Christopher Johnson feedback@philadelphiaweekly.com
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By dusk, Love Park has usually made its transformation from a tourist-friendly lunch haven to an encampment for the homeless, who share benches, bottles and laughter deep into the night. But on this autumn Saturday evening, another group emerges from the margins to overtake the park. Gay, lesbian and transgender people of color trickle in from cars, the Broad Street Line and nearby 13th Street to congregate in mourning. They’ve come to speak out on behalf of 31-year old Stacey Blahnik Lee, a transgender woman who was permanently silenced on National Coming Out Day. According to police, on Oct. 11, Stacey’s
live-in boyfriend, Malik, found her dead in the bedroom of their Point Breeze home with a pillowcase wrapped around her neck. Police ruled her death a homicide. “It’s a tragedy because every three days a transgender is murdered,” says Yonnie, 32, who identifies as a lesbian and one of Stacey’s best friends. “But we are all humans and she didn’t deserve that.” She and many of Stacey’s loved ones are demanding better treatment from the media and swifter action from the police. To many, news outlets’ initial coverage of Stacey’s death was insensitive. The Daily News referred to her by her birth name, Michael Lee, setting her chosen name in quotation marks. Likewise, NBC 10 reported, “The victim is Michael Lee, a 31-year-old man who lived his life as a woman named Stacey Blahnik.” The trivialization of Stacey’s male-tofemale transition left loved ones, already in mourning, with the added burden of defending Stacey’s memory. “It is a big deal,” says Chyna, a transgender woman and one of Stacey’s best friends. “Show her some respect. She lived as a woman, address her as a woman.” Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation field media strategist Justin Ward says that transgender people suffer so much violence and workplace discrimination that using their preferred names and genders is the least reporters can do. “Calling her by the name which she went by when she walked the face of this earth and making sure that our pronouns reflect that is a simple sign of respect and common decency.” Ward says GLAAD contacted the Daily News, which subsequently revised its initial story and also updated its style guide. However, the mourners gathered at Love Park tonight fear that the media will disappoint them once again. They don Stacey’s face on their T-shirts, share tearful anecdotes, light candles in her memory and wonder aloud where the reporters are. Jay, the father of the House of Blahnik, part of the black underground LGBT scene called the ballroom, appointed Stacey as overall mother. He describes her as beautiful inside and out, winning beauty contests as a sex siren and guiding other young transgender people on the right path. “She was a legend,” says Jay. The night is slowly getting darker and the air more brisk, and people stand around restlessly. They’re waiting for somebody to make a speech. Waiting for the news cameras to arrive. Waiting for their prayers to be answered after this senseless crime. For many of those who Stacey left behind—including Chyna, Malik and Yonnie—time is running out. Frightened that the police will let the case turn cold, the three have banded together to demand
justice, which they believe slips further away with each passing day. “We have to make them find out who did this, because if we don’t give a fuck, nobody will,” says Chyna. She and Stacey met as sixth-grade boys in Washington, D.C., and moved to Philadelphia in their 20s to take on a new life and new gender. Chyna sees Stacey’s death as part of a larger pattern. “This is what they do to people like us,” she says. “Things like this we have to deal with constantly.” Exasperated, she angrily rattles off cases of unsolved murders against gay and transgender people. “A good friend of mine named Alphy Karan was shot and killed at point-blank range on 12th and Locust in ’99,” she says. “They still have not found the killer.” Chyna also recalls the case of Nizah Morris, whose treatment by police sparked outrage from gay advocates in 2007. After leaving Key West nightclub intoxicated, Morris was dropped off by police at 15th and Walnut streets, where she was later found bleeding from her head. She soon died and her killer has never been found.
were perfect for each other,” he says. They were so inseparable that Stacey’s sudden silence one day while Malik was at work seemed out of character. “I called her four or five times, and it kept going to voicemail,” he says. “Something didn’t feel right.” When he arrived home, several things were awry, such as the mail still in the mailbox and the disposition of the dogs. He mounted the stairs and entered the bedroom. “I went in there, and that’s when I saw her on the floor,” he says. “I went down to shake her,” he says, but the feel of her skin shocked him. “I just got the hell out the room.” He says he saw blood on her pillow, but didn’t notice the pillowcase around her neck until the police arrived. The police do not consider Malik a suspect, and have no other leads. Malik says that without closure, he has kept one of Stacey’s old voicemail messages on his phone. He says it’s the last time he’ll ever hear her say that she’s on her way home. “I’ll miss hearing her ring tone,” says Dawn, 34, her voice cracking with sadness. “I haven’t been outside in two weeks.
“There’s still unsolved mysteries in the gay community that we know that they haven’t solved. I feel like I owe it to her to fight for her when she can’t fight for herself.” - Malik, Stacey's boyfriend “I’m not saying they don’t care, but it’s like we’re at the bottom of the barrel,” Yonnie says. Chyna says that with Stacey’s murder still unsolved, things have not gotten any easier. “We are giving each other support. But every day it gets harder.” Malik shares Chyna’s concern about the case. “There’s still unsolved mysteries in the gay community that we know that they haven’t solved,” he says. “I feel like I owe it to her to fight for her when she can’t fight for herself.”
For Malik, that fight often consists of waiting by the phone, hoping the police will return his calls. He says they rarely do anymore. But that doesn’t stop him from dialing their number every day. “I call the detective every time I think of something,” he says. “I called again and told him I found a footprint of blood under the bed.” He points to an unfamiliar black smudge on the living room wall. He says he’s called him about that, too. Around 6’4”, 39 years old and built like an NBA forward, he is reduced to wiping back tears and grasping at theories as he mourns for Stacey in the row home they moved into together last February. “We
Literally. Not even to the front door.” Dawn, a transgender woman, met Stacey when she still went by Michael. She adopted Stacey as her gay daughter and watched as she successfully transitioned, bravely overcoming the struggles of starting female hormones. She says Stacey stayed away from the pitfalls to which some transgender woman fall victim, and thus became a good mentor to other young gay and transgender people. “She didn’t do the prostitution and the drugs,” Dawn says. “And then she made sure that her kids didn’t do them.” People also recall Stacey as a peacemaker and a caretaker. “She was the one who had the water for the fire,” Yonnie says. “And she would give the shirt off her back to anyone.”
An hour later at Love Park, no news cameras—or any other media—have arrived for the vigil. Ariq, a transgender man with a fitted Oilers cap and Timberland boots, takes the stage. “Look around,” he says angrily to the crowd of 100. “They’re not here. They’re not coming. Hug the person to the left of you. All we’ve got is ourselves.” n
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Month of Gay A preview of Philly's upcoming LGBT events. By Brian Goldthorpe feedback@philadelphiaweekly.com
Norma Doesmen
Are you ready for your close-up? Norma Doesmen certainly is, and she’ll get it no matter what she has to do. This hilarious play pays homage to Broadway and silent films with a campy and satirical edge. Set in a less-than-starlit bungalow on Sunset Boulevard, Doesmen tells the story of Joe Dillis, a down-on-his-luck writer who finds himself drawn to a notoriously sex-crazed and mildly psychotic silent-movie star named Norma. With a little help from her schizophrenic man-servant, Norma seduces and manipulates Joe in an attempt to make her big comeback to the silver screen. The production is filled with big laughs, witty one-liners and outrageous plot twists that will have you jeering and cheering for Norma to make it back into the spotlight.
Fri. Nov. 5 -Sun., Nov. 7, various times. $35. Society Hill Playhouse, 507 S. Eighth St. 215.923.0210. normadoesmen.com
Burn the Floor
Years before Dancing with the Stars and So You Think You Can Dance turned competitive ballroom dancing into ratings heaven, the ballroom dance performance, Burn The Floor, was entertaining audiences oversees in London. Originally created as a birthday performance for one of Elton John’s birthday parties, the show became a smash hit and began playing internationally before taking a tour on Broadway last year. Twenty rock-hard chiseled champion dancers will be sweating and spinning in an electric-paced marathon of 10 dances that include the Waltz, the Samba and the Jive. The tour features the talents of international dancers from around the globe as well as So You Think You Can Dance alums and a vocal performance from Vonzelle Soloman, from Season 4 of American Idol. If you enjoy hot bodies, sinful gyrations and neck-breaking displays of athleticism, poise, flexibility and raw power, this show is a must-see. Fri., Nov. 12–Sat., Nov. 13, various times. $20-$72.50. Academy of Music, 1420 Locust St. 215.893.1935. academyofmusic.org
U.S. Mr. Gay Competition The U.S. Mr. Gay Competition is a delicious cross between Fame, Toddlers & Tiaras and Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader. The contestants represent 20 cities across the U.S., including one from our very own City of Brotherly Love. The contest begins with an opening reception on Fri., Nov. 12 at Q Lounge with the main competition to follow the next night at Voyeur Nightclub. Contestants must compete in three rounds of competition including swim wear, evening wear and a Q&A for the top five finalists. But this isn’t the typical dog-andpony show; contestants will also be judged on ability to represent the organization both in vision and purpose and be rated on whether the contestant “inspires and generates a call to action, articulates a plan of action and a means to achieve goal stated.” The judges’ panel includes infamous gossip columnist Michael Musto, celebrity stylist and reality TV star David Evangelista and more. In addition to these judges, Sirius OUT Q radio star, Frank DeCaro and uproarious drag personality Brittany Lynn will be co-hosting the event. Drag diva Navaya Sha and the Philadelphia Freedom Band will headline performances between rounds of competition. All in all, it’s one hotly anticipated night of entertainment, and the only place you can see 20 of the na-
tion’s sexiest guys in their skivvies. Sat., Nov. 13, 9pm–midnight. $30-$60. Voyeur Nightclub, 1221 St. James St. 215.735.5772. nightlifegay.com
PINK Pub Crawl
If you’re out on the town the night before Thanksgiving, you’ll likely see 400 pinkclad guys and gals running roughshod through the Gayborhood. No, it’s not a midnight breast cancer walk—it’s the third annual PINK Pub Crawl. Every Thanksgiving eve, Nightlifegay.com hosts a huge bar hop that hits the Gayborhood’s hottest lounges and clubs. The gay bar crawl begins just before 9 p.m. at Q Lounge, and then continues with the PINK Pub Crawl heading east to 12th and Locust streets, making the second stop at Tabu and then to Woody’s before finishing up at Voyeur Nightclub. Admission gets you a free drink at each of the first three stops and free admission to Woody’s and Voyeur. Goodies like T-shirts and free gym memberships will be given out as you sip on signature cocktails and dance away calories in preparation of the next day’s main event. Just don’t promise to be anywhere before noon on Thanksgiving. Wed., Nov. 24, 8:45pm. $25 if dressed in pink ($30 without pink). Q Lounge and Kitchen, 1234 Locust St. qphilly.com. n
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truly new. Guest curator Wendy White is a New Yorker, as are most of the artist—but go see it anyway for Brian Belott’s collages, which bubble over with color, rhythm and id-fueled energy. Go for Tyler alums Paul DeMuro, who paints like he’s decorating birthday cakes while tripping on LSD, and Liz Markus, who paints her feelings in drippy, ghostly quasi-realist works. (Her portrait “Frank is much better than this painting” appeared in the Thanks.Frank show.) Take in these exuberant and idiosyncratic works by these emerging New York artists, some with Philly connections, and save your Bolt Bus money for another weekend. (Roberta Fallon) Fri., Nov. 5. 6pm. Through Dec. 10. Jolie Laide, 224 N. Juniper St. 267.603.1295. jolielaide.com
Paper Japonism
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Shu Kubo has nothing to do with street art or show posters, but anyone who’s ever made (or tried to make) a moderately detailed stencil or multilayer silkscreen shouldn’t miss the Japanese kirié artist while he’s in town for Paper Japonism, an exhibition of his work at Drexel. Kirié, which means cut-pictures, is a centuriesold Japanese art form that requires a keen eye for negative space and a ton of patience—practitioners generally create something of a real-life floating .gif by drawing or imagining a black-and-white image on paper, then painstakingly cutting with an exacto knife until it’s a black-andnothing image. The wire-thin results of master kirié artists are something that would probably make Banksy and Co. weep with appreciation, though the fine details wouldn’t survive a spray of paint literally or figuratively. Shu Kubo takes the traditional art form further, adding color and the third dimension by arranging different layers of dyed paper with the black paper “lines” into a sculpture that looks like a flat screenprint when viewed head-on. Take note: The opening reception, at which Shu Kubo will be giving a talk about his work and technique, is a Wednesday, not a First Friday like usual. (Emily Guendelsberger)
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De-Nature, the seven-person group show at Jolie Laide, demonstrates how artists love to mess around, transform or de-nature things in hopes of creating something
Structuring Desire/ Desiring Structure Charles Burwell’s colorful, heavily patterned abstract paintings are all about relationships. While it’s not clearly spelled out, we’re talking every kind—interpersonal, historical, biological, technological and formal artistic relationships—all writ large in the interplay of color and shape, with hard-edged lines and biomorphic forms circled by sweeping lasso-like arcs. Burwell’s oil paintings are dreamy and meditative, built up layer by layer freehand and with stencils and templates. From cool mint green to acid yellow ochre, Burwell’s colors surprise. Simultaneously psychedelic and harmonious, the works reveal and revel in their depths, which suggest neverending bright-hued conversations— not arguments—in which there’s a lot of echo and answer, like married couples finishing each other’s sentences. To use another metaphor—as with jazz, there are grounding underlying rhythms, like the recurring stripes and cloverleaf shapes, and risky solo moments, with swooping lines demanding attention. Nine new works are on display at Bridgette Mayer this month; go. (Roberta Fallon) Fri., Nov. 5. 6pm. Through Dec. 17. Bridgette Mayer Gallery, 709 Walnut St. 215.413.8893. bridgettemayergallery.com
Say Uncle
Brilliant acting propels Vanya ’s tale of inertia and despair. By J. Cooper Robb jrobb@philadelphiaweekly.com “What happens onstage should be just as complicated and just as simple as things are in real life,” Anton Chekhov once said, and Uncle Vanya, with its embrace of life’s painful and funny ironies, is a perfect tragicomic example. A lot happens in the four-act play, but little changes—but under Kathryn MacMillan’s direction in a powerfully affecting production by Lantern Theater Company, inertia has never been so involving. Vanya is set on the country estate of a middle-class family in turn-of-the-century Russia. The full-time residents—the title character (Peter DeLaurier), his plain niece Sonya (Melissa Lynch) and his mother (Ceal Phelan)—are joined by Sonya’s visiting father, Serebryakov (David Howey), a retired academic once married to Vanya’s sister, and his beautiful second wife Yelena (Sarah Sanford). Vanya’s in love with Yelena; so is country doctor Astrov (Charlie DelMarcelle), who starts hanging around after she turns up. His presence delights the painfully shy Sonya, secretly in love with the doctor. But Astrov only has eyes for Yelena, who detests her pompous, much-older husband. Although the play is set in 19th-century Russia, Lantern’s production manages to feel neither dated nor foreign. Millie Hiibel’s costumes evoke the period, but the fabrics and cut (particularly the men’s) don’t differ greatly from contemporary dress. And, unlike many other Chekhov productions, the actors don't arbitrarily adopt Russian accents. The result is that even with their Russian names the characters seem familiar—they’re unhappy, but not in a particularly exotic way. One of the limitations of the thrust stage (bordered by the audience on three sides rather than just the one) at St. Stephens Theater is that actors don’t always face the entire audience, which got annoying. Chekhov’s characters don’t tend to say exactly what they think, forcing the audience to rely more than usual on subtleties of facial expression. The space’s drawbacks are nearly countered by its assets—the close proximity to the actors made for a feeling of intimacy, as if we were ourselves inside the country home—but the occasional lack of facial cues was frustrating. But even given the difficulties of the space, the acting, led by DeLaurier in the title role, is brilliant. DeLaurier, a two-time Barrymore winner, sinks his teeth into the role of the dispirited Vanya with an emotive, physical performance that ranks among his best. “I drink to fool myself I’m alive,” Vanya
In your face: Vanya (Peter DeLaurier) and Yelena (Sarah Sanford) are watched by Dr. Astrov (Charlie DelMarcelle) in Lantern Theater Company’s Uncle Vanya. explains at one point, lying spread-eagle on the floor, his pained expression suggesting that alcohol no longer provides a refuge from his troubles. Vanya has spent his life working on the estate, all the while suspecting that he’s ruined his life by not leaving like his siter did. Over the course of the play, it comes through in DeLaurier’s movements, which become increasingly slow and sluggish until at the end he sits slumped over a desk with his head in his hands. Melissa Lynch as Sonya is no less heartbreaking. The youngest member of the household, she’s also in many ways the most responsible—while her uncle drinks and yearns for Yelena, she worries about the harvest. In public Sonya is resilient, but in private she’s tortured by her desire for Astrov and lack of companionship. “It’s terrible being plain,” she says to Yelena, shoulders dropping and large round eyes welling up with tears. She believes she has found a confidant in her stepmother, but the deceitful Yelena has her own agenda. And in his best performance in years, David Howey is exceptional as the selfinvolved Serebryakov. A celebrated academic accustomed to the applause of colleagues, he feels lost in the anonymity of country life. Portraying Serebryakov as a celebrity whose best days are behind him, Howey uses his classically trained voice (he worked for years with England’s Royal Shakespeare Company) to command attention. All four of Chekhov’s major full-length plays involve guns—in fact, he’s the source of the famous literary advice “If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off.” This tends to go down offstage rather than in the most literal sense, but in Vanya, the gunfire erupts in the middle of the drawing room. It is a shocking, calm-shattering moment, and the farcical aftermath is both funny and frightening, a contrast that well captures the sense of contradiction running through the play. n Uncle Vanya Through Nov. 21. $20-$36. St. Stephens Theater, 10th and Ludlow sts. 215.829.0395. lanterntheater.org
Receptions/events Leonard Pearlstein Gallery
LGTripp Gallery
Miriam Singer: “Built Up.” Rebecca A. Jacoby: ”Resonances.” Thru Nov. 27. 47 N. Second St. lgtrippgallery.com
The Print Center
Isaac Tin Wei Lin: “One of Us: Isaac Tin Wei Lin.” Matt Neff: “Pulling from History: Letterpress.” Thru Nov. 20. 1614 Latimer St. printcenter.org
Wed/3, 6-8pm. Kubo Shu: “Kubo Shu Kiri: Paper Japonism.” Thru Dec. 3. 3215 Market St. 215.895.2548. drexel.edu/westphal
Schmidt/Dean Gallery
Csilla Sadloch and Hanna Hannah: “New Paintings.” Thru Oct. 23. 1710 Sansom St. 215.569.9433. schmidtdean.com
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Locks Gallery
Portside Parlor & Art Gallery
Samuel M. V. Hamilton Building
Fri/5, 5:30-7:30pm. Robert Motherwell: “Paintings.” Thru Nov. 13. 600 Washington Square South. 215.629.1000. locksgallery.com
Rodger LaPelle Galleries
Sun/7, 1-4pm. Patricia Traub: “Biophila.” Jeanine Leclaire: “Borrowing Souls and Other Awkward Moments.” Thru Dec. 31. 122 N. Third St. 215.592.0232. rodgerlapellegalleries.com
Manayunk Roxborough Art Center
Sun/7, 12-3pm. Anthony Casasanto: “Saving Daylight.” Thru Nov. 21. 419 Green Ln. mrartcenter.org
galleRies
“Art by MAL; Paintings, Works on Paper, Books.” Thru Nov. 30. 30 S. Second St. artbymal.com
Dirty Frank’s Bar
David Krevolin, Al Stegeman and Harvey Weinreich: “Off the Wall Gallery’s Fall Show.” Thru Dec. 3. 347 S. 13th St. 215.732.5010.
Larry Becker Contemporary Art
Merrill Wagner: “Paintings.” Thru Nov. 20. 43 N. Second St. artnet.com/lbecker
Gallery 13 West
Salvatore Cerceo: “Paintings and Sculpture.” Thru Dec. 4. 4504 Regent St. galley13w.com
Asian Arts Initiative
Artists’ House Gallery
Various artists: “Of Filmi Love And Other Demons.” Thru Nov. 24. 1219 Vine St. 215.557.0455. asianartsinitiative.org
Philadelphia Art Alliance
Charles Burwell: “Structuring Desire/ Desiring Structure.” Thru Dec. 17. 709 Walnut St. bridgettemayergallery.com
Various artists: “Recent Oil Paintings.” Thru Nov. 28. 57 N. Second St. 215.923.8440. artistshouse.com Various artists: “Wunderwerk.” Thru Nov. 28. 251 S. 18th St. 215.545.4302. philaartalliance.org
Cerulean Arts
Michael Moore and Michael Rossman: “Natural Touch” Thru Nov. 27. 1355 Ridge Ave. 267.514.8647. ceruleanarts.com
Burrison Gallery
Mary Powers Holt: “Open Spaces.” Thru Dec. 10. 3611 Walnut St.
Bridgette Mayer Gallery
Alan Magee: “Tapestries.” Thru Dec. 31. 51 N. Second St. 215.413.3191. gallery51.net Various artists: “Narcissus in the Studio: Artist Portraits & Self Portraits.” Thru Jan. 2. 128 N. Broad St. pafa.org
Twenty-Two Gallery
Karen S. Davies: “Recent Work.” Thru Nov. 7. 236 S. 22nd St. 215.772.1911 twenty-twogallery.com
Philadelphia Art Alliance
Jennifer Angus, Ligia Bouton, Carole Loeffler and Saya Woolfalk: “The Sitting Room: 4 Studies.” Thru Jan. 3. 251 S. 18th St. 215.545.4302. philartalliance.org
AxD Gallery
Christine Stoughton and Nancy Sophy: “Passing Evidence.” Thru Nov. 6. 265 S. 10th St. 215.627.6250. a-x-d.com/gallery
NEXUS Foundation
Various artists: “Pinhole Dreams...” Thru Nov. 5. 1400 N. American St., Suite 102. 215.684.1946. nexusphiladelphia.org
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Phillip and Edward Toledano: “Days with My Father.” Thru Nov. 6. 339 S. 21st St. 215.731.1530. gallery339.com
BIREY Gallery
William Cresson: “Ye Great Mogul of the Sketch Club.” Thru Nov. 30. 128 N. Broad St. 215.972.7600. pafa.org Matthew Alden Price: “Hanji Field Paintings” Junghak Lee: “Ceramic Vessels.” Thru Nov. 244 Race St. bireygallery.com
The Rosenbach Museum & Library
Muse Gallery
Cynthia Groya: “Pulling Paint.” Thru Nov. 28. 52 N. Second St. 215.627.5310. musegalleryphiladelphia.com
Highwire Gallery
Rochelle Dinkin, Rachel Isaac and Joshua Gabriel: “Archetypes and Icons.” Douglas Martenson: “Light, Space, and Observations.” Thru Nov. 30. 127 S. 16th St. 215.665.8138. grossmccleaf.com
Gross McCleaf Gallery
Victoria Barnes: “Curious Incidents.” Thru Nov. 30. 127 S. 16th St. 215.665.8138. grossmccleaf.com
Vox Populi
Bruce Campbell: “Mood-Yarn-Titty.” Christopher P. McManus: “Suburban Warlock.” Mark Stockton: “Flesh for Worms.” Thru Nov. 28. 319 N. 11th St. voxpopuligallery.org
Woodmere Art Museum
Various artists: “Kindred Spirits: Woodmere and the Philadelphia Sketch Club.” Thru Jan. 2. 9201 Germantown Ave. 215.247.0476. woodmereartmuseum.org
Philadelphia Art Museum.
Thomas Eakins: “An Eakins Masterpiece Restored: Seeing The Gross Clinic Anew.” Thru Jan. 9. 26th and Ben Franklin Pkwy. 215.763.8100. philamuseum.org
Penn Museum
Vivian Wolovitz: “Second Nature.” Thru Nov. 27. 629 N. Second St. 267.303.9652. projectsgallery.com
Various artists: “Archaeologists and Travelers in Ottoman Lands.” Various artists: “Cleopatra: Search for the Last Queen of Egypt.” Thru Jan. 2. 3260 South St. 215.898.4001. penn.museum
Langman Gallery
The Franklin Institute
Projects Gallery
Various artists: “Art Jewlery 2010.” Various artists: “Contemporary Menorahs.” Thru Dec. 31. 2500 Moreland Rd. 215.657.8333. langmangallery.com
museums Academy of Natural Sciences
Chris Nissen and Brian Kreydatus: “Unititled.” Thru Nov. 3. 127 S. 16th St. 215.665.8138. grossmccleaf.com
Ned Smith: “Pennsylvania.” Ray Troll and Kirk Johnson: “Cruisin’ The Fossile Freeway.” Thru Jan. 2. 1900 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy. 215.299.1043. ansp.org
Bambi Gallery
The Fabric Workshop and Museum
Joan Jonas: “Reading Dante III.” Thru Jan. 1. 1214 Arch St. 215.561.8888. fabricworkshopandmuseum.org
“Cleopatra.” Thru Jan. 2. 222 N. 20th St. 215.448.1200. www.fi.edu
The Chemical Heritage Foundation.
Various artists: “Marvels and Ciphers: A Look Inside the Flask.” Thru Dec. 10. 315 Chestnut St. 215.925.2222. chemheritage.org/marvels
The Rosenbach Museum & Library
Gross McCleaf Gallery
Various artists: “It Was 20 Years Ago Today.” Thru Nov. 28. 1001 N. Second St., Suite 7. bambiproject.com
Various artists: “Westward Ho! The Lure and Lore of the American West.” Thru Nov. 28. 2008-2010 Delancey Pl. 215.732.1600. rosenbach.org
Maurice Sendak: “Dreadful Things Happen: The Brothers Grimm & Maurice Sendak.” Thru Nov. 7. 20082010 Delancey Pl. 215.732.1600. rosenbach.org
University of the Sciences
Various artists: “Secundum Artem.” Thru Jan. 1. Marvin Sansom Center for the History of Pharmacy, 600 S. 43rd St. 215.596.8721. usp.edu/museum
elsewheRe National Constitution Center
Various artists: “Art of the American Soldier.” Thru Jan. 10. 525 Arch St. 215.409.6895. constitutioncenter.org
Longwood Gardens
“Making Scents: The Art and Passion of Fragrance.” Thru Nov. 21. 1001 Longwood Rd. 610.388.5200. longwoodgardens.org
Free Library of Philadelphia
Frank H. Taylor: “Ever-Changing Philadelphia: Prints & Watercolors by Frank H. Taylor.” Thru Dec. 31. 1901 Vine St. 215.686.5322 freelibrary.org
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schools & univeRsities Temple Gallery
Yevgeniy Fiks: “Communist Conspiracy in Art Threatens American Museums.” Thru Nov. 6. Tyler School of Art, Temple University, 12th and Norris sts. 215.777.9144. temple.edu/tyler/exhibitions
University of the Arts
Sterling Hundley: “The Art of Sterling Hundley.” Thru Nov. 21. 320 S. Broad St. 215.717.6240. uarts.edu/go
Moore College of Art & Design
Various artists: “Faculty Triennial Exhibition: Practice and Process.” Thru Dec. 11. 20th and The Parkway. 215.965.4065. thegalleriesatmoore.org
Institute of Contemporary Art
Erin Shirreff: “Still, Flat, and Far.” Anne Chu and Matthew Monahan: “Mineral Spirits.” Various artists: “Set Pieces.” Thru Feb. 13. 118 S. 36th St. 215.898.7108. icaphila.org
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Music Be Frank
Philadelphia’s pre-eminent sports journo Reuben Frank knows his Guided By Voices. By Michael Alan Goldberg feedback@philadelphiaweekly.com
When we heard the news earlier this year that legendary Ohio indie-rock/power-pop band Guided by Voices—led by the prolific Robert Pollard (pictured above)—were reuniting its mid-’90s “classic lineup” and coming to Philadelphia, we knew we’d need to speak to Reuben Frank. You probably know Roob as one of Philly’s pre-eminent sports journalists, a longtime WIP host, and a columnist/ TV personality for Comcast SportsNet. But he’s also a Guided by Voices superfan who’s seen about a million GBV/Pollard-related shows, owns hundreds of live GBV bootlegs (and regularly listens to them), and just might know more about GBV’s sprawling songbook than ol’ Pollard himself. We caught up with Roob to get the diehard fan’s perspective of GBV then and now.
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How did you first discover Guided by Voices? [Philly sports writer] Phil Sheridan and I worked together at the Bucks County Courier Times in the late ’80s and into the ’90s and we’d always turn each other onto bands. One time I was in his car and he put on [1993’s] Vampire on Titus. It didn’t catch right away, but gradually I was like, “This is what I’ve been looking for from pop music all my life.” What was it that drew you to their music? Just a total absence of musical or lyrical clichés. Really inventive and subversive, very adventurous chord changes within really catchy pop songs. I mean, I grew up listening to Yes, ELP and Genesis, so it kinda gave me everything I’d been looking for from a pop standpoint but it still had the musicianship. A lot of people say that it’s hard to get into GBV because they’ve put out so much music and you really have to work to separate the wheat from the chaff. Yeah, it’s overwhelming. Somebody at CSN asked me to make them a GBV sampler and it ended up being 10 CDs and 250 tracks [laughs]. Every record’s so different. I dunno, I don’t try to convince anybody that they’re better than the Beatles anymore. Nobody believes it until you spend a couple years getting into their catalog, and then you realize they actually have more great songs than the Rolling Stones or the Beatles. It’s almost like you’re unraveling a mystery, and you have to have the time and willingness to put into it, and most people don’t want to do that.
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What was it like the first time you saw them live? I was totally blown away because I’d heard, you know, the critics love to call their live show “shambolic,” but they
were a great band—the musicianship was amazing. As much as Pollard drinks onstage and jokes about that, live they were as good as any band I’ve ever seen. Any shows particularly stand out for you over the years? I saw them at a place called Conduit in Trenton. I think it was in the spring of ’04 and it was the night I found out they were breaking up. Maybe 12 songs in, somebody had slipped Pollard a drink and it must have had some drug in it because he basically collapsed into the drum set. He sang “Cut-Out Witch” from his back, half-conscious, and it was amazing. And then the show ended. It was one of the best shows because they were living on the edge that night. Until Pollard crashed into the drum set and got dragged off the stage. One night in New York he was onstage ripping Bright Eyes, just killing ’em. He was going, “Ask the person next to you if they own a Bright Eyes album, and if they say yes, punch them in the face.” And it turned out Conor Oberst was standing about 10 feet behind me. Did Pollard know he was there? I was told he didn’t. And apparently Conor Oberst left. I’m sure he walked out in very dramatic fashion. It was pretty hilarious. I’ve been to some really bad Pollard shows, too. World Café, when there was like 75 people downstairs there on a weeknight and his wife was crying backstage. It was the low point. Wow, when was this? It was after [2006’s] Normal Happiness came out. A lot of the hardcore GBV fans had fallen off because the solo stuff was kinda different. He went into this really long, depressed tirade about how irrelevant he had become and how the glory days were over, and he went on and on and we could see his wife crying backstage. He actually canceled the tour after that. Did you think they would ever reunite? I did. I really did. You went to one of the reunion shows in D.C. recently, how was it? They sounded great and they played all the hits from that era. It was a little too much like a nostalgia show, though. As much as I love those songs from Alien Lanes and Bee Thousand, they’re 15 years old and there wasn’t a single new song. I just found it a little sad that a guy who’s written so much great music since then would have to limit himself because everyone wants to hear “I Am a Scientist.” To me the great thing about Pollard’s music is that it continues to evolve and grow. But I think everyone there loved it and I enjoyed it. I don’t wanna sound like I didn’t dig it, because I really did. But it felt like it was going backward instead of forward. OK, obligatory sports-related question: If you had to compare Robert Pollard’s career to any professional athlete’s, who would it be? Wow, that’s a tough question. It would have to be somebody who had a ton of talent but who wasn’t appreciated. You could go with Donovan [McNabb], but nah, I don’t wanna go there [laughs]. Maybe Satchel Paige. Yeah. Robert Pollard toiled in the Negro leagues of rock ’n’ roll for all those years—he was as good as anybody in the bigs but nobody knew about him. And he kept doing it well into his 50s. n Guided By Voices perform Sat., Nov. 6, 8:45pm. Sold out. Trocodero, 1003 Arch St. 215.922.6888. thetroc.com
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Sounds Like: Delight-
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mind-blowing Athens, Ga., band; veteran instrumental rockers steeped in psychedelics who rock extra hard to honor their late drummer, Jerry Fuchs. Free Association: Proof you don’t need vocals to be a kickass rock band. For Fans Of: Pink Floyd x Tortoise, Neu!, Headlights, the Rapture.
fully eerie synth-driven and percussion-heavy three-part lady harmonies on Portland, Ore.’s newest incarnation of Carolyn Berk’s songwriting. Free Association: Sexy ambiguous punk girls make grimy, pretty beats. For Fans Of: Gossip x Duran Duran, the Knife, Tegan & Sara, but better.
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Many Arms By Elliott Sharp
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L.A. rapper takes a new turn with a more commercial and less underground vibe, introducing a lot more indie rockness and pop appeal. Free Association: Some sick moments of funk genius with light-hearted, chill lyricism. For Fans Of: Big Boi, Blackalicious, Janelle Monae, Pharcyde.
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Atomic Clock blending duo from the Bay Area’s futuristic hip-hop is upbeat and socially conscious, but the faith is buried beneath tight production and sick beats. Free Association: Hiphop and Christianity can be really boring— this just isn’t. For Fans Of: Brother Ali, Dam-Funk, Mos Def.
Ricardo Lagomasino: I think it was more of a free for all at the beginning because we were trying to reconcile all the ideas we were each bringing to the table. We definitely have a more cohesive sound now and we’ve done a lot of playing together. Nick Millevoi: I think that’s the most important thing. Since the last record we’ve played together a lot and totally shifted our focus. Whereas before we had improvised sections through composed songs, now it’s more deep, free-jazz-style improvisation over longer periods of time. There’s definitely a deeper group aesthetic.
So there’s a more collective, improvisational approach? RL: Yeah, we just know each other much better musically. NM: On our last tour we went to a record store in Minneapolis and Johnny bought Frank Wright’s Unity. We listened to that for five hours and then the next day we listened to it for several hours, and it’s been our goal to achieve that kind of group energy.
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Purple Mountain Majesty In The Antlers Hotel (Self-released)
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tinged folk pop with a hint of blues from local boys (and a girl) who could fill a bar with musician friends and alcoholics in a heartbeat. Free Association: The blues are in there, sure, but this is happy times Clark Park music. For Fans Of: B.C. Camplight, Willie Nelson.
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A Little Broken Isn’t Bad (K-9 Audio)
Sounds Like: Local
romance rocker Chet Delcampo’s quartet of folksy rock hits a homerun with the help of some guests on vocals and woodwinds. Free Association: You need to get those guest female vocals on board permanently. For Fans Of: The Swimmers + Wilco, the Dears with Amy Milan, West Philly.
missing time and wandering through a forest wondering what happened, and maybe you were just in outerspace.
RL: Not every song, but most share this theme. NM: As we were going through the phase of finding our new approach to playing we were equally fascinated by the books of Temple Professor David Jacobs. RL: It started with you, but I think we all read Secret Life and I have Nick’s copy of The Threat, which I haven’t read. NM: So a lot of band conversations on tour were about aliens, then we would go play this music and listen to Frank Wright.
Do you think nonhuman life forms exist? NM: Yeah. RL: Yes.
What do you think they’re up to?
What was the recording process like? RL: We don’t do anything in the studio different than we do live.
Is your music a message for them?
RL: Totally. NM: Yeah, we just rolled into the studio and played a live set.
What does “missing time” signify?
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circus-influenced chamber rock from two L.A. dudes who beat, finger and strum all kinds of instruments to grandiose effect.
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Dreamy and slightly psychedelic approach to orchestral pop rock. For Fans Of: Beach Boys, Beirut, DeVotchka x Grizzly Bear.
Return of the Century harmless and pretty chamber pop from a Chicago collective who use cool instruments, have pretty voices and sound like nice people. Free Association: To be listened to on a stroll along Lake Michigan with Sufjan Stevens. For Fans Of: Belle & Sebastian, Stars, Fleetwood Mac, the Shins.
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NM: No. Our message is to humans and it’s just to spread the word about the possible threats of this situation.
Does it have to be a threat? RL: Well, they’re kidnapping us, experimenting, you know. They’re not asking, they’re just taking. Extracting, presenting, bonding and causing us to miss time.
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word for those who succumbed to A the hype, genuflecting like Pitchforkpoisoned pod-people at the altar of these post-punk parasites: Really? Years (and three progressively crappier albums) later it seems like an embarrassing drug-addled dream. These narcissistic fraudsters only ever really knew how to strike an ambivalent pose or affect a dark mood; actual songwriting never entered the equation. They’re interior decorators, capable of assembling a few key pieces but at a loss as to how to create anything original. Once they finished sucking off Ian Curtis’ corpse there was little left but cinematic wisps of smoke and vainglorious histrionics—available from any metalcore band without having to endure the soul-sucking, world-weary malaise of the black turtleneck set. Interpol’s ponderous self-titled fourth album pulls back to the curtain on a tale told by tools full of thick textures and fashionable frowns signifying exactly bupkus. (Chris Parker)
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RL: Maybe you should take this one ... NM: The name is taken from a book by noted ufologist Budd Hopkins. One of the first indications that you’ve had an abduction experience is that you’ve “missed time.” The piece is written to impart that feeling of
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Is this idea explored throughout the record?
RL: David Jacobs says these guys are not our friends. They’re not here to help us. NM: And we believe that we should heed his warning.
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hiladelphia-based experimentalists Many P Arms just released their second LP, Missing Time, and their record release show is Friday at Avant Gentlemen’s Lodge, which will also mark the West Philly venue’s final concert. Missing Time is equally motivated by free jazz and punk, daringly shifts between exactitude and improvisation, chaos and control. PW met with guitarist Nick Millevoi and drummer Ricardo Lagomasino (bassist John DeBlase was in Europe) in West Philly to talk about the new album.
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Chicken isn’t supposed to be this exciting, and modern cooking techniques aren’t generally reputed to be this comforting. But the deceptively, straightforwardly named “panroasted, bacon-wrapped chicken” hit every note it should have, and even a few it generally wouldn’t. This was no leathery Purdue breast—it was a wholly original take on the bird. Typically bland white breast meat was stuffed with a chicken-chestnut forcemeat (that’s from farce, French for “stuffing”—it’s meat that’s been finely ground up with other ingredients), wrapped in rolled-thin bacon, treated to a languorous hourlong sous vide bath followed by a quick bacon-crisping roast then plated with deliriously addictive Boursin potatoes: Fun, witty and technically accomplished chicken. A restaurant with ambitions this high and the chops to achieve them typically flies far higher on the radar than Sonata. But despite a generally positive review here last year and a prime location on Liberties Walk, it’s still upsettingly easy to score a table. Chef-owner Mark Tropea says business has been picking up—hopefully it’ll continue to, because some truly remarkable food is being served in this understated dining room. Rabbit and andouille sausage gumbo, a slick-top beauty, is remarkable for Tropea’s dexterity with a simple roux that lends the bowlful a glistening, ganache-brown appearance and a sense of elegance. The two green-onion hush puppies marooned in the center stake out a spot at the intersection of delicacy and exuberance. Foie gras was just a touch overdone—the seared outer layer encapsulating the liver a hair too thick—but still charmed by virtue of its accompaniments. The standard balanceproviding sweet components were present (black-currant preserves, in this case), but they were joined by an unexpected cashew crumble, the much-needed acid of a balsamic reduction and a brioche puree—essentially a sauce, Tropea pointed out, “that tastes like toast.” Complex arugula and frisee salad, flecked with Shellbark Farm’s stellar goat cheese and crunchy pomegranate seeds, made excellent and intelligent use of persimmon, which had been cooked sous vide with cinnamon, compressed and draped in three-dimensional rectangles over the greens. The standout appetizer, however, was the pork belly, a geometric and densely compressed cut with a warm, perfectly crisped layer of fat on top. Tomato marmalade heady with smoked paprika echoed the warmth, toothy compressed apple brought a sense of seasonal heft and calvados molasses reiterated the theme—the elements working together embodied the musical give-and-take of the restaurant’s name. Entrees continued in much the same successful vein, though the chicken was the unquestioned high point.
Lobster “mac and cheese” succeeded in updating the old favorite, but a few details kept it from stealing the spotlight. The lobster tail itself was a velvety, highly persuasive argument for poaching everything you can find in butter. And the pasta, made in-house, was an appealing reminder of why slippery pappardelle is among the sexiest of noodles to eat. Only the slight grittiness of the fontina-cream sauce and the overwhelming fishy notes of the mushrooms scattered throughout kept it from really shining. Duck confit cooked sous vide was a textural tour de force, though slightly too salty. Still, its perfectly calibrated salad—beets, gently spiced walnuts, pears and a subtle balsamic dressing—showed the confidence and maturity of this kitchen. Short rib done sous vide, a remarkably vivid pink, retained more structure than any I’ve tasted in a long time. An accompanying celery-root puree, a subtle evocation of the autumn, stole the show—not an easy trick with a dish like this. Desserts followed in the same witty, hyper-competent vein—Sonata’s sous and pastry chef, Krystal Weaver, is a serious talent. Pumpkin pie was re-imagined as a quasisamosa, brown-spiced, burnt-umber puree encased in a flaky pie crust, a cloud-light dollop of Grand Marnier whipped cream hovering off to the side. “Chocolate decadence,” a fairly common name on dessert menus, actually lived up to its name. Midnight-brown beignets were a hint more bitter than sweet and wildly complex, their molten centers protected by a fried exterior. The elegant, shimmery chocolate was the star, and would have found itself just as at home in a Parisian patisserie case as here in Northern Liberties. Sonata really excels at making these sort of comfort dishes unexpectedly challenging, and unexpectedly fun, too. The meal ends with a plateful of salted chocolate caramels that simultaneously call to mind Rolos, and a kitchen with serious vision. In other words, they're Sonata to a T. n
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mprigge@philadelphiaweekly.com The Great Dictator (1940): Anything can be funny. Comedy exists in part to bring levity to tragedy, which is why Charles Chaplin decided to channel his rage at the ascent of the Third Reich into this slapstick belittling its figurehead, who had the balls to steal the Little Tramp’s slim ’stache. Chaplin went even further into dark comedy with Monsieur Verdoux, a featherweight comedy about a serial killer. But first he ensured the Nazis and the Holocaust could always be comic targets, paving the way for To Be Or Not to Be, The Producers, Life Is Beautiful, etc. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964): How serious was the threat of nuclear annihilation the year Stanley Kubrick made light of it? It also produced Fail-Safe, which plays exactly as Strangelove’s straight-faced doppelganger. The End (1978): “When I think about killing myself, I get a hard-on,” confesses sickly Burt Reynolds (who also directed) before he embarks on a series of botched suicide attempts. And if that sounds bleak, don’t worry, because he’s often aided by Dom Deluise.
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Divine Intervention (2002): In occupied Palestine, pissy neighbors dump trash in each other’s yards, a female terrorist unleashes Matrix moves, border police act extra nutty and a bound-and-gagged Palestinian prisoner is removed from the back of a van to give directions to a tourist. A series of deadpan blackout sketches, often in the style of Jacques Tati, from one of the most miserable places on earth.
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Group hug... except for you, Thandie: (from left) Anika Noni Rose, Kerry Washington, Janet Jackson, Kimberly Elise, Phylicia Rashad, Loretta Devine, Tessa Thompson and Thandie Newton in Tyler Perry's ambitious but poorly executed For Colored Girls. Tyler Perry’s back-breakingly ambitious adaptation of Ntozake Shange’s beloved 1975 play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When The Rainbow Is Enuf is a fascinating misfire. Over the past decade, Perry has become a cottage industry unto himself, every nine months or so cranking out another buppie soap opera or crazy family melodrama in which he wears a dress. Under the radar of most mainstream press, Tyler Perry’s films have grossed north of $400 million without ever being screened for critics— until now, that is. Perhaps suffering from Oscar envy after all the wild acclaim bestowed upon Lee Daniels’ Precious (to which Perry belatedly attached his name as executive producer), For Colored Girls is the filmmaker’s bid for awards-season glory. It’s a massively selfimportant, oppressively weighty translation of difficult material that most folks said couldn’t be translated—and it turns out they were right. And yet the movie remains strangely watchable, even when it’s gone bonkers. Especially when it’s gone bonkers. Audacity goes a long way. Perry might lack tonal
backseat of a Buick, which I didn’t think kids were into anymore. Before long she’s suffering from morning sickness, but doesn’t dare tell Mom (Whoopi Goldberg, terrible) who belongs to a fire-and-brimstone religious cult and dresses like she’s still guest-starring on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Nyla’s estranged sister Tangie (Thandie Newton) isn’t much of a help, as she’s usually drunk and dragging home a different man every night—facing scornful glares from the apartment manager (Phylicia Rashad.) Down the hall, we’ve got battered wife Crystal (Kimberly Elise) who tries to shield her two kids from a traumatized war-vet boyfriend who likes to guzzle gin and dangle the toddlers out the window. Crystal works for an uptight bitch-onwheels (a terrifying-looking Janet Jackson) so focused on her magazine-editing career that she doesn’t even notice her husband just got arrested for blowing a guy in his BMW. Kerry Washington hovers around as a social worker who deals with unwanted kids all day yet (irony alert!) can’t conceive her own, and Anika Noni Rose shows up as a goody-two-shoes teacher who seems to be in the movie just so she can get raped. It’s an awful lot to juggle, especially since Perry hasn’t found a way to organically incorporate Shange’s poems into the screenplay. Mid-sentence, the characters lapse into verse the way folks in musicals burst into song, but Perry just keeps shooting as if it was a regular dialogue scene. The words are often quite beautiful, and For Colored Girls actually works once in a while, when a few of these actresses (most notably Newton and Rashad) are allowed to hold the screen alone and tear into the language. But such moments throw the banality of the filmmaking into even sharper relief. Like Precious, it all becomes a bit much. The movie’s midsection is a dizzying onslaught of child-murder, abuse revelations, hysterical breakdowns and assorted sexual assaults, culminating in a batshit, bizarrely dated sequence starring Macy Gray as a drunken abortionist working in a back-alley clinic. By that point, there’s no choice but to throw up your hands and surrender to this odd, earnest beast of a film. Then go home and read the poems. n
“The movie remains strangely watchable, even when it’s gone bonkers.
Especially when it’s gone bonkers.” control, the ability to modulate performances and even rudimentary visual skills, but the dude has massive cojones. Shange’s play was seven women reading a series of 20 poems, telling intertwined tales of abuse, abandonment, abortion and rape. Perry’s stubbornly literal-minded adaptation centers the action on a Harlem tenement building, allowing an all-star cast to overlap in broad, sitcom-y fashion as different acts of degradation occur behind every door. (It seems like a really unpleasant place to live.) The film is set in the present day, but the distinctly 1970s language remains untouched, leading to some jarring anachronisms. For starters, young dance student Nyla (Tessa Thompson) speaks of getting liquored up and losing her virginity in the
Grade: C Director: Tyler Perry Starring: Kimberly Elise, Janet Jackson Running time: 134 minutes
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Those who’ve read the book might have their suspicions as to why (a little too close a peek into Hoover’s drawers, perhaps?), but he isn’t interested in speculating. “She has read the book and she’s not speaking to me. So I don’t know the specifics of what she’s so cobbled by—I can guess, but I honestly don’t know.” He gives the impression that he expects it will be all right and it’s difficult to doubt that unspoken appraisal; after all, this is the man who’s built his fame on doing the best he can with what he’s got. When asked about the tensions around semi-outcast Michael Costello on the most recent season of Project Runway, Gunn shoots from the hip: “I’ll tell you what troubled me,” he says without hesitation, “and I’m making an assumption that it troubled the other designers too. It’s that Michael, for each challenge, would create two, three, sometimes four looks ... 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Gunn, on is societal and cultural and historical and economic one recent such visit to the King of Prussia Mall, was and political,” he says. “Clothes don’t need to change, kind enough to discuss the book, reality shows, “It but fashion, by definition, must.” Gets Better,” and being seen as the voice of reason in Gunn is passionate about the connections between a notoriously unreasonable industry. what we wear and the environments we live in—one Gunn’s first-hand accounts of some of the more thing he loves about the American fashion industry uncouth behavior in the fashion world drew a ton of (and it’s a point that’s not always seen as a positive, early interest in his book, but the attention skewed particularly in Europe) is its accessibility—how “we its perception—the slim volume could be titled look at fashion through the lens of commerce.” Gunn’s Guide to Being a Rational and Decent Human But Gunn acknowledges that even the accessible Being, but the way the tabloids picked up and harped American fashion industry, can still be alienating on a couple of anecdotes, someone who hadn’t read it to many consumers—after all, it is still de rigueur might assume it’s more “Manol-oh-no-she-didn’t.” for runway shows to feature prohibitively expensive “I have been concerned about it,” says Gunn. “The clothes on “girls who haven’t even hit puberty.” reasons these stories are so potent for me is because “It’s just not realistic,” he asserts. “A lot of people they are aberrant—this isn’t the way most people be- don’t have either the money or the inclination for have.” For example, the now-infamous story of Anna that, and they want real, solid advice about how Wintour having bodyguards carry her down five to present themselves. 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AReview by Matt Prigge The suicide-bomber comedy Four Lions arrives in America with slightly bum timing—the weekend of the NPR fracas would have been ideal. The feature debut of Chris Morris dares to find jokes in Sheffield jihadists planning to make their mark, albeit while dressed as ostriches and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Of course, like most amateurs, they have more in common with the underwear bomber. Even Riz Ahmed’s Omar, the most intelligent of the five, gets booted from terrorist training camp and can’t grasp basic rocket launcher function. Of the rest, two are endearingly dim, one’s an Ali G-esque poser and the last’s a blowhard who pulls tenets like “Dogs contradict Islam” and “Spark plugs are a Jewish plot” from deep within his ass. Three of the five guys are basically likable, which is a touch disconcerting when their aim is to ignite a London still shaky from 7/7. Criminally underknown in the states, Chris Morris is Britain’s most savage satirist, and his shows (Brass Eye, The Day Today, Nathan Barley) combine headline-grabbing pranks with fearless subversion. On Brass Eye, he tricked various celebrities into advocating against a fictional drug called “cake,” while the show’s notorious “Paedogeddon” episode netted the BBC a record number of complaints. Four Lions is more rooted in reality than anything Morris has ever made; comparisons to Dr. Strangelove are apt, but it’s a Dr. Strangelove where Dr. Strangelove is a recognizable human being. Even playing it straight, Morris finds much to laugh at, and it takes a unique brilliance to turn the murders of innocent bystanders into a film’s heartiest laughs. But it’s as funny as it is rich. Morris spent three years researching the project, and his film—in addition to being a constant hoot—offers an important rejoinder to our latest wave of anti-Muslim fervor. In Four Lions, extremists are choked by misplaced anger and uninterested in actual religious study, while true, peaceful fundamentalists are plagued by racial profiling, which only makes matters worse. If it’s not as gut-busting as In the Loop (two of whose writers carried on here;
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Fair Game
C+ Review by Matt Prigge The two directors of the Bourne series each debuted historical accounts of the Bush Era this year, and who would have expected the superior film would come from the one who made Jumper? With the WMD yarn Green Zone, Paul Greengrass wildly overcompensated for a paint-by-numbers script loaded with speechifying, one-note villains and toxic nobility. Doug Liman (Swingers, Go) is only slightly less keyed up in his account of Plamegate, but directing this decidedly unthrilling story as if it were The Bourne Identity proves unexpectedly appropriate. Instead of gunplay and platitudes, it’s the thrill of verbal sparring—of people of power duking it out with words, making their moves on cable news and in print. And for a good while, it fools us into thinking there’s more going on here than there is. As you well know, Valerie Plame (Naomi Watts) is a seasoned spy who has the misfortune to be married to Sean Penn—er, Joe Wilson (Sean Penn), a hotheaded ex-diplomat who publishes a series of New York Times pieces debunking claims that Saddam Hussein had purchased uranium yellowcake from Niger. Plame is then mysteriously outed, and her career and some lives are immediately ruined, sending her into a depressive funk and Wilson on a media tour pointing the finger at Karl Rove and fellow mega-dick Scooter Libby. It’s frankly bizarre that this not-that-dramatic story has now inspired two movies (the other, Nothing But the Truth, tells it from the side of journo Judith Miller, who barely figures in here)—the third act is mostly internalized, its ending no more than someone sitting down at a table and microphone. The filmmakers panic and try to turn it into the story of a marriage suddenly in mildly dire straits; when that thread proves unenlightening, here come the speeches the film had thus far heroically avoided. But until then, Fair Game is effectively a bluff job, seducing us with a quick pace, lots of stressedout chatter and, most surprisingly,
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CReview by Sean Burns Adapted from Posy Simmonds’ comic strip, which was itself a reworking of Thomas Hardy’s Far From The Madding Crowd, director Stephen Frears’ wheezy romp sets forth a game of musical beds in one of those pastoral English villages where everybody’s all up in each others’ business—and knickers, too. The alleged farce begins with the return of the title character. Once a horny wallflower with a bad nose, Gemma Arterton’s Tamara Drewe arrives from London much improved by plastic surgery and what must be a punishing workout regimen. Aiming to sell off her parents’ old farmhouse, Tamara strikes a few sparks with a former flame (Luke Evans) before alternating her affections between a ludicrous indie star (Dominic Cooper) and a hack novelist (Christopher Hitchens look-alike Roger Allam.) A couple of rascally teenyboppers set about mucking things up for the adulterous adults, but there’s little at stake and even less forward momentum. Allam’s serial philanderer runs a rustic writer’s retreat, where his long-suffering wife (Tamsin Greig) does all the work to the adoration of an American Hardy scholar (Bill Camp). For one of those movies where everybody’s spying somebody through a bedroom window and getting the wrong idea, Tamara Drewe is curiously short on energy. (There’s nothing here a little undercranked fast-motion and the Benny Hill theme couldn’t have spruced up.) Frears seems unsure as to whether he’s playing the material for laughs or for keeps, dwelling uncomfortably on Greig’s scornedwife humiliation one moment, then crudely dispatching characters via a goofy cattle stampede the next. A couple of half-hearted splitscreens acknowledge the tale’s funny-book origin, but the project overall has a slapdash, goodenough-for-government-work feel to it. Arterton makes little impression as the sexpot around which this chaos pivots. She’s easy to look at, but otherwise blank—it’s hard to believe all these guys would go so crazy over such a dull gal. n
I’m a 23-year-old heterosexual male, and I am married. My wife and I also happen to have a girlfriend now, making our arrangement a polyamorous triad. We all love each other very much, and we are getting to the point that we are thinking about how we are going to tell our parents. My parents already know. My mother was slightly bemused and amazed that I was able to pull it off, and my father gave me a high five. But my parents are not exactly typical; by the time I was 12, my dad was teaching me how to eat pussy. My wife’s family is super Southern Baptist, while our girlfriend’s mother is a big ol’ bag of crazy: She was a physically abusive nut job who beat her children with a Bible. Our question is this: Should we even bother disclosing to the other sets of parents? To give you an even better idea about who my mother-in-law is: I’m a recovering addict (two years sober), and after I told her that in confidence, she used it against me the first chance she got (called me a thieving junkie). She’s a hypocritical, judgmental bitch, but my wife feels like she needs her approval. If we shouldn’t disclose, then how do we deal with things like family holidays and other group events? Is not disclosing a sign that either my wife or girlfriend is ashamed of the life we lead? Not Telling The Whole Truth
make it fun for him? Wants Info For Erotics Except in the most extreme cases, WIFE, male chastity play isn’t really about orgasm denial. It’s more of an elaborate, extended kind of foreplay, a way of introducing elements of erotic power and control that usually result in the denied/chaste man having more orgasms, not fewer. There’s no way of knowing how many wives out there are locking up their husbands’ dicks, WIFE, but there are enough couples doing it to keep male chastity device manufacturers in business (cb-6000.com) and enough couples interested in male chastity play for publishers to bring out books that explain how to do it and how to make it pleasurable (Male Chastity: A Guide for Keyholders by Lucy Fairbourne, Be Careful What You Wish For…: The Ultimate Guide to Male Chastity by Sarah Jameson). As for safety: Make sure you get a male chastity device that fits properly, WIFE, as you don’t want his dick to go numb, develop gangrene, and fall off—that would be nullification, not chastity. And don’t deny your husband orgasms for weeks or months on end, as that could elevate his risk for developing prostate cancer (his orgasms flush carcinogens from his prostate). I’m a guy in my late 30s and have been married for 12 mostly happy years, with three kids. I’ve never cheated, despite a boring sex life that I’ve tried to spice up. My efforts were not received well. We’ve talked at length about the frequency and style of our sex life, but she’s not interested. I’ve thought about having sex with other women but have never acted on any of the opportunities that came my way. I’ve jerked off to plenty of porn in the meantime, though. Anyway, I meet a girl, we’re attracted to each other, and we decide to go for it. No, my wife does not know. Yes, I’m an asshole. And the problem is, suddenly I can’t get it up—for either of them! Neither my hand nor porn work, either. WTF? I have NEVER had this problem. It’s been three attempts— patient girl, huh?—and so far nothing. I can’t tell if this is guilt, performance anxiety or what. Has my wife, porn and my hand ruined me for having sex with other women? Do you have any suggestions? I doubt it’s medical, since the onset occurred precisely when this girl and I decided to have sex, and that would be far too much of a coincidence. No Catchy Sign-Off
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one bedroom 1218 S 11TH ST #2 $895/MO Corner building, 3 exposures, great light and location, close to I talian mar ket, hwf, CALL MIKE MCCANN PRU FOX & ROACH 215-627-8345 1235 VINE ST 1BR+ Office, HW/flrs, $750+. Avail Now. 215-787-7733 1326 SPRUCE Beautiful 1br/1ba on a hi floor in Center City One. Lg kit, sep. DR, great storage & closet space t/o. WD, CA, great views. Avail 12/1. $1395+. John Brown, Prudential Fox & Roach at 215-440-2384 14XX PORTER: MODERN HRDWD/ fl. $675 ALSO AVAILBLE STUDIO $475. No pets. 610-909-9025 1 5 t h /S p r u c e : B e a u t i f u l A r t Deco High-rise 1Bdrm Apt, Desk Attendant, HW Flrs, Updated Kitch, Onsite Laundry, Intercom Entry, Amazing Location! From $1080/Mo. 215-735-8030. Lic #219789. 16TH & BAINBRIDGE Grt 1BR, w/ ALL AMENITIES. Avail 11/10. $850+. PMG 215-545-7007 x302 17th GIRARD, TEMPLE/ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL: LARGE, BI-LEVEL, HRDWD, 2BATHS DW, WD/bldg $800+ NOW 215-236-4937 1811 CHESTNUT #503 $1700/ M O 1 B D/ BA , hw f, g ra n i te a n d sta i n l ess K i t, w/d , c/a , CA L L LYNDA KREVITZ PRU FOX & ROACH 215-627-6005/215-521-1565
11TH & MOYAMENSING Lg.ultra mod.,1bedrm.,3rd.flr.apt. C/A,G/H,H/W Flrs., Granite counter/W/D/Intercom. No Pets. $700/mo.+utils. 215-468-7852
21ST & LOCUST- Charming 1BR, HWF, DW, Laundry on premise, H e a t/ H o t wa te r i n c l d . AVA I L NOW! $1,055+. MSRE, 215-925RENT(7368), www.MichaelSingerRealEstate.com
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22nd & SPRING GARDEN V.Cool apt w/Lg Yard, Laundry. MORE. $875+. PMG 215-545-7007 x303
28TH & POPLAR Fab apt. Exp brick, ALL AMENITIES. Bsmt, Yard. $950+. PMG 215-545-7007 x303
6600 Doral Street/a 1st floor -one bedroom, enclosed porch, full basement, w/w carpets good condition. Avail November 1. $680 month. 1st and last month rent and 1 month secruity deposit needed. Call Frank 267-879-8373.
9TH & LOMBARD: Charming 1br bi-level. Spacious LR w/tile flrs, FP, open kit w/wood cabs, tile flrs, sep dining area. BR w/HW flrs & lg Closet. Avail 12/1. WD on premises. $1045+ Gas/Elec. John Brown, Prudential Fox & Roach, 215-440-2384 9TH & MOORE-DUPLEX LG. 2ND FL. OFFICE & DECK. $650/MO.+. Call 215-334-1136.
ART MUSEUM: 26th & PARRISH LARGE w/DRESSING ROOM, 1.5BA, HRDWD flrs WD bldg. $700+, Hot water incl. 215-236-4937
BELLA VISTA, LARGE LVRM, DINING AREA. NEAR BUS WALK C.C. No pets. 215-681-4481
BROAD & SPRUCE: Bright 1BR in Elevator bldg,
Brand New Kit, AC, HWF, Gas incld, Laundry. AVAILABLE NOW! $925+. MSRE, 215-925RENT(7368), www.MichaelSingerRealEstate.com C O R N E R 3 R D & S O U T H S T, RECENTLY RENOVATED 3rd/ f l , W D, C A /C H , $ 70 0. 2 1 5 817-5695
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RITTENHOUSE SQ. AREA (2013 WALNUT) One bedroom duplex in Old World Charm Brownstone. High ceilings, Carpeted, C/A, Gas heat. W/D, D/W. Small pet friendly. $995/ mo+. 215-627-4414 RITTENHOUSE SQUARE!! 301 South 19th Street. OLD WORLD CHARM BUILDING. FRESH ON THE MARKET. One bedroom-1 bath apartment $1,600.00 per month. Available for early Mid-November move in. Must see to appreciate! Hardwood floors, High ceilings, Plentiful closet space. Cat friendly. Call to schedule an appointment 215-735-5757 OR E-MAIL: DelanceyPlace@aol.com THE GRAND - Cherry Hill. Renovated 1BR’s starting at $1250/mo in luxury high rise. All utils incld. FREE SHUTTLE TO CC PHILA. Balcony, WD. Clubhouse w/Infinity Pool, Game room and MORE. 24hr Doorman and Fitness room. (856)428-1840
TWO BEDROOM 15XX SO. BROAD ST-2BEDRMS.,TILE BATH, L A R G E , M O D E R N . $ 1 , 0 0 0/m o . + . C a l l 610-304-0087. 1641 WOLF ST. 3rd fl, 2BR, spacious, recent renovations, deck w/great view, W/D. $900/ mo. Call Max 267-253-3485 16XX SO. 2ND ST 3rd. flr.C/A, hdwd/flrs., rear deck. $800/mo.+utils. 215-551-9956. 1 7 T H & LO M BA R D Cool bilev apt w/All amens, PRKG. Avail 11/10. $1695+. PMG 215545-7007x302 17TH & WOLF VIC. Rencently updated. C/A/H. W/D. Great Location Won’T Last!. 267-246-0579. www.postlets.com/rts/4640988. 9TH SPRING GARDEN BEAUTIFUL 2BEDR.,TILE BAT H , H DW D F L R S. , A L L A P P L I A N C ES, A /C, S EC U R I T Y SYST E M . $ 1 1 0 0/ M O + . 610-304-0087 21ST & PINE Elegant brownstone. HWF, HCeils, Incl heat. MORE. $1850+. PMG 215545-7007 x302 21ST/CHESTNUT: RiverWest- Large 2BR condo w/Great views. New HWF, DW, AC. $1795, all utils incl. Laundry in bldg, P R KG Av a i l . 24 h r f ro n t d e s k , G y m . (215)698-2516
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ART MUSEUM: Parrish/Bucknell Lg 2BR, 2BA. F.bsmnt w/Laundry. Backyd. CA. Sec System. Incl heat. $1550/mo+. 215-873-5701 FREE MONTH! NEWLY RENOVATED OLD CITY, 2BDRMS, 2BA. 2PATIOS, FRPL, S.S. APPLS., HRWD/fl, CA, DW, GD, BUILT-IN MICRO, WD Avail NOW. $1850. S&S Properties. 267-402-8017 GRADUATE HOSPITAL AREA: 2 BR 1611 Bainbridge St. $1,225+. Newly renovated, SS appliances, W/D, H/W floors, C/A. Avail 11/1. BCH 215-545-1144 GRADUATE HOSPITAL AREA 2 BR. 917 S. 20th. C/A, H/W floors, $925+. BCH 215-545-1144
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2BR, CA, 1BA, WD. $1350+. 215-922-3910. mcolaizzo@comcast.net M A N AY U N K / ROX BO RO U G H : 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: Large 2 Bdrm with Den, Washer/Dryer in Apt, Gym Membership, Private Entrance, Parking, Cats Welcome, Shuttle to Main Street Manayunk. $1155/Mo. Ask about Move-in Discounts! 888-633-9365. Lic # 223386 N.LIBERTIES: 3rd/George Great 2BR, All amens, HWF. Parking. $1350+. PMG 215545-7007x304 NORTHERN LIBERTIES, SWEET LITTLE HOUSE in the Heart of Northern Liberties, 2bdrms, ac, dw, hrdwd/fls, great backyard. Pets OK. Really Cool Vibe. Now REDUCED $1300. 267-334-6708. PASSYUNK SQ New rehabbed 2nd floor 2BR apt. CA, HW/flrs, WD. $895+. 215-465-4565
RITTENHOUSE: BRIGHT, HRDWD, WD, EIK DW, NEW BATH DECK. $1790/INCL ht/ ht-wtr. 215-567-0159
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R I T T E N H O U S E S Q U A R E ! ! 3 26 S o u t h 19th Street OLD WORLD CHARM BUILDING, Fresh on the market. Two bedroom-1 bath apartments $1,800.00-$2,200.00 per month. Available for MID-NOVEMBER move in. Must see to appreciate. Hardwood floors, High ceilings, Plentiful closet space, Cat friendly, Small dogs welcome too. Call to schedule an appointment 215-735-5757 OR E-mail: DelanceyPlace@aol.com S . P H I L LY- 6 t h & Ta s ke r R m l d 1 B R, Lg EIK, Den, HWF, Itln tiles, WD, AC. $650+. 215-803-3602
THREE + BEDROOMS 1 5 t h & S p r u c e/ R i t t e n h o u s e S q u a re : 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. $3999/Mo. 215-735-8030. Lic #219789. ART MUSEUM AREA; BRAND NEW 3BDRMS, ALL AMENITIES DECK. ALARM. W/W. $1700+. 215-651-7144 PINE/10TH: 4BDRMS, 1.5BA, WOOD FLOORS $2290+ Pine R.E, 1503 Pine. 215-735-8896, website: www.pinere.com 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! $2799/Mo. 215-735-8030. #216850 THE GRAND - Cherry Hill. Renovated 3BR’s starting at $2100/mo in luxury high rise. Great to share. All utils incld. FREE SHUTTLE TO CC PHILA. Balcony, WD. Clubhouse w/Infinity Pool, Game room and MORE. 24hr Doorman and Fitness room. (856)428-1840
HOUSE FOR RENT 10TH & REED 5BDR, 1.5 Baths, w-to-w carpet, good condition; 8TH & RITNER, 2BDR, 2 Baths, w-to-w carpet. Both Available Immediately. 215-467-8612 1 1 T H & C H R I ST I A N - G R E AT LO C AT I O N ! 4BEDRMS., 2FULL BATHS, C/A, HDWD/ FLRS.,DECK, BACKYARD, WASHER/DRYER. Must See! $2600/mo.+. 610-304-0087. 13TH & TASKER VIC. Gorgeous, Brand New, 2BDR Home w/Romeo-Juliet BDR Balcony, C/A, W/D, Eat-in-kitchen, HD Flrs. $1350 mo.+ utilities. 215-997-0105
16TH & PASSYUNK LRG. Rooms, 3 BDRS, Deck, 1.5 Baths, $1,400+ utilities. Also 2BDR Apt. great condition, W/D, 2nd flr. $750+ utilities. 267-318-8022
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19TH & PORTER VIC. 3bedrm. house, modern, great neighborhood. Won’t Last! 267-246-0579. WWW.postlets.com/rts/2798955
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19TH & WOLF $1295/MO 3BD/1BA,renovated, hw f, w/d CA L L J I M O N E ST I P R U FOX X & ROAC H 2 1 5 - 6 27- 6 0 0 5/2 1 5 - 4 4 0 -20 5 2 jonesti@mccannteam.com 28TH & JACKSON Lovely 4/5Bdrms., newly renovated,hdwd.flrs. $1000/mo.+utils. Sec.8 approved.215-432-6222. 28XX ERNST ST. Vic.25th & Passyunk,2BDR, New Bath, Parking, $800+utilities. 267278-2797 BELLA VISTA Charming House, quiet street near Cianfrani Park. 2 bedrms, new oak floors & tiled kitchen, new range, D/W & bathrooms, 1 1/2 baths, W/D, G/D, fireplace, brick walls. $1250 + utilities. 215-901-8922. BREWERYTOWN, 2BDRMS TOWNHOUSE, W/W, Pet OK $850+ Tanya 215-922-6088 email tanya@ans_hrv.com Manayunk/Roxborough: Spacious Stone Farmhouse, 6 Lrg Bdrms 2.5 Baths, HW Flrs, Fireplace, 2 Porches, Deck, Separate DR, LR, & Den, Modern Kitchen, Laundry, Private Driveway/Parking, 2 Car Garage, Huge Yard. $2900/mo. 888-538-9667 lic# 218436 NORTHERN LIBERTIES/Fishtown Newly renovated, 3bd, YD, Wash/Dry, $950m, Call 215.463.2950.
Nor thern Liber ties, Nice 6BR House, Great Block, 234 Brown Street, Washer/ Dryer, No Pets, See www.gasheart.com, 215-485-1015, $595/month South Philly - 2 story house, full use of house. 10 minutes from Center City. Perfect for college students. Share utilities. Call 267-879-8373 leave message
ARTISTS STUDIO SPACE THE PAPERMILL- Community of Artist. 2825 Ormes St. Affordable Artist Studios staring at $100 for 130 sf. Four large floors of open or private studio space for Painters, Sculptors, Dance, Theatre, or Creative companies. A community of artist practicing their talents in custom sized studio workspaces. Short term, inexpensive rental of theatre and gallery spaces. Join our group on Facebaook for updates on our events and gallery spaces. Contact Wulfhart Management Group: Karyn 215-687-8391 or karyn@ wulfhartmanagementgroup.com
OFFICE SPACE 1 2 T H & S P R U C E 1st floor Office available w/300SF. Pvt bath. $800+ Elec. Call 215-985-0600
O L D C I T Y: E L F R E T H ’S A L L E Y Historic 2BR, FP, Den, Backyard, Oak floors. $2300. 917-501-9111
9 T H & S P R I N G G A R D E N -1 20 0 S Q. F T. , BATHROOM, CARPETING, C/A/H. VERY C L E A N . G R E AT LO CAT I O N ! $ 1 5 0 0/m o. 610-304-0087.
PENNSPORT AREA-103 SIGEL ST. SMALL 2BEDRM.HOUSE. $700/MO.+UTILS. YARD. 215-551-9956.
OLD CITY, FRONT & MARKET: BI-LEVEL, CA, 600sq.ft. $850+Utls. Renzi Management. 800-514-3235 www.renziproperties.com
PENNSPORT: FRESHLY PAINTED, NEW WD, NEW RUGS 2bdrms, yard. 215-882-3888
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1 207- 0 9 E . Pa s sy u n k Ave. C 2 Zo n i n g Warehouse w/office & loft. 1.5bath. 2,000sq. ft. Great for retail business. For Sale/Rent $1500/OBO. 609-870-8123.
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O L D C I T Y: 41 S. 3 rd Street level Commercial/Retail space, 950SF +Basement. 215-669-6955
3BR, 2BA w/CA. $1650+. Call for details: 215-922-3910. mcolaizzo@comcast.net
124 LOMBARD, HEAD HOUSE SQUARE, SOCIETY HILL. “TOKIO B&B” STUDIOS. ($55-$100) DAILY rates. ($300-$500) WEEKLY rates. We also have MONTHLY ra t e s AVA I L . We b s i t e h t t p : / /s u s h i . madamesaito.com Call MADAME SAITO 215-922-2515
12TH and PINE: DAYTIME spot. Avail 12/01. $75/mo. PMG, 215-545-7007 x304
1 3 T H & S P RU C E- Pa r ke r H ote l CC. Fully Furn’d Rms, no sec. deposit. Utils & housekeeping incld. WK: $165-$203; Day: $50-$66. 215-735-2300.
1300 BLOCK S. JUNIPER 1/Garage-$1150. Carriage house w/Studio apt. above 2 car garage. Also 1250Sq.Ft.ideal for contractor or commercial/industrial use. For Info. 215-868-0532
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5 0 0 A d m i r a l s W a y # 1 0 3 $ 220 0/m o 2BD/2BA unit, s/s appliances, lots of light CALL JIM ONESTI PRU FOX & ROACH 215-6276005/215-440-2052
TWO BEDROOM 8TH LOCUST, 2BDRMS PLUS GIGANTIC LOFT (POSSIBLE 3BDRMS), 1.5BATHS, PENTHOUSE w/PRIVATE ELEVATOR. ALL M O D E R N A M E N I T I ES. AC, H R DW D/ F L S WD, ETC. USEABLE common outside area, PARKING INCLUDED, (2)STORAGE AREAS. Pet Friendly w/restrictions. BEST OF THE BEST! $1995+elc. Parking AVL. Tanya 215-922-6088 or email tanya@ans_hrv.com
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ONE BEDROOM MANAYUNK/ROXBOROUGH: ALL UTILITIES INCLUDED! LARGE 1BDRM, Patio/Balc, Central Air, Prkg, Laundry, Oversized Closets, Modern Kitchen w/DW/GD, Pool, Gym Membership, Cats Welcome, Shuttle to Main St. 1st Month FREE on Select Apts. From $1035/Mo. 215482-4246. lic# 215101
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The WarWick 1701 LocusT sTreeT 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, wood floors, chefs kitchen, marble baths, walk-in-closets, 1986 sf $4,750/mo.
The riTTenhouse 210 W. riTTenhouse square 2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, wood floors, Rittenhouse Square views, marble baths, large kitchen, 1765 sf $3,950/mo.
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academy house 1420 LocusT sTreeT 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, large living area, excellent closet space, 1314 sf $2,290/mo.
Pier 5 7 n. coLumbus bouLevard 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, roof deck, parking space, bridge views, 2229 sf $2,250/mo
socieTy hiLL ToWers 210 LocusT sTreeT 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, intimate views of Society Hill, 1133 sf $2,000/mo.
2020 WaLnuT sTreeT panoramic city views, 1200 sf $2,375/mo.
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ACADEMY HOUSE 1420 LOCUSt StrEEt
225 S 18tH StrEEt Junior 1 bedroom, wood floors, marble bath, open
units include all utilities, pool, gym
kitchen, 506 sf
1 bedrooms, 1 bath, high floor, excellent closet space, W/D, 705 sf
$1,750
2 bedrooms, 1 bath, city skyline view, hardwood floors,
$1,550 W/D, high-end finishes, 807 sf
2 bedrooms, 2 baths, eat-in-kitchen, great closet space, 1314 sf` 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, hardwood floors, $2,750
tHE ArtiSAn 1420 bAinbriDgE StrEEt Contemporary townhome with 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, gourmet kitchen, rooftop deck, marble baths, custom closets, 3100 sf
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CEntEr CitY OnE 1326 SprUCE StrEEt
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inDEpEnDEnCE pLACE 233-241 S 6tH StrEEt
units include pool & fitness center
1 bedroom, 1 bath, w/d, walk-in-closet, open kitchen 777 sf $1,455
vate street entrance, direct access to garage, 700 sf
$2,375
tHE LAnESbOrOUgH 1601 LOCUSt StrEEt
$1,400
3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, brand new, high ceilings, hardwood floors throughout, chefs kitchen, magnificent
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floors, balcony with Art Museum view, 1000 sf
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rittenhouse square tHE CArLYLE 2031 LOCUSt StrEEt 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, corner unit, 928 sf
$10,000
3467 sf
1 bedroom, 1bath, completely renovated, hardwood
$1,875
tHE WHitE bUiLDing 105 S. 12tH StrEEt
$1,690 1 bedroom, 2 bath, loft apartment with exposed brick, high ceilings, custom finishes throughout, 1312 sf $2,000 2 bedrooms 2 baths, high floor, panoramic city views, 1200 sf
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1 bedroom, 1 .5 baths, balcony overlooking Headhouse Square, great closet space and natural light. $1,250
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Corner 1 bedroom, 1 bath, river views, galley kitchen, 775 sf $1,500 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, floor-to-ceiling windows, Society Hill views, 1133 sf $2,000
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HOpKinSOn HOUSE 604-36 S. WASHingtOn SqUArE
Studio, wood floors, new kitchen and bath, 450 sf $1,000 1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony with a southern view, great closet space, 778 sf $1,425 Deluxe 1 bedroom, 1 bath, high floor, balcony, renovated kitchen and bath, 1003 sf $1,600
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piEr 5, 7 n. COLUMbUS bLvD. 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, tri-level, bridge views, grand fireplace, two terraces, 2229 sf
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2 bedrooms, parking space, river views, 1300sf $1,500 unobstructed southern views, open kitchen, marble 2 bedrooms, 2baths, terrace, large kitchen, one garage $2,150 baths, 1582 sf $4,150 parking space, 1300 sf 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, hardwood floors, 270 degree
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1742 Sansom Street - 2nd floor retail space on highly views, marble baths, open custom kichen, 1978 sf tHE rittEnHOUSE trafficked corner or 18th and Sansom Streets, 1000 sf $4,750 $1,500 NNN 210 W. rittEnHOUSE SqUArE 2031 Locust Street Professional Office Space in sesociety hill 2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, all rooms overlook Rittenhouse cure apartment building, 958 sf $1,500 SOCiEtY HiLL tOWErS 1830 Rittenhouse - Prime Rittenhouse Square office Square, large kitchen, seperate dining area, 1765 sf space, 754 sf $2,100 200-220 LOCUSt StrEEt $3,950 131 S. 18th Street - Prime 1st and 2nd floor retail units include all utilities tHE bArCLAY space on high-end 18th Street shopping corridor, directly across from new 10 Rittenhouse condos $7,500 NNN 1 bedroom, 1 bath, Society Hill views, excellent value, 237 S. 18tH StrEEt 133 S. 18th Street – Ground floor corner retail space, 700 sf $1,295 1 bedroom, 1 bath,open kitchen. W/D in unit, 728 sf excellent visibility on 18th Street shopping corridor $9,000 NNN $1,890 1 bedroom, 1 bath, high floor, expansive city views, 1601 Locust Street - 1st floor and lower level of 700sf $1,425 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, hrdwd. floors, panoramic city prestigious Lanesborough condo, ideal for restaurant or offices, 4700 sf $11,500 NNN views, renovated kitchen and baths, 2,527sf $7,850
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$975.00
824 Fttzwater St. Nice 1 Bedroom, 1 Bath, c/a, w&d in bst, hrd. Flrs.
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TOWNHOUSES 2030 BRANDyWINE ST, (ART MUSEUM AREA) 2 Brs., 2 Baths, deck, garden, w&d, a/c’s
$1,950.00
#1 Queen St. 3 Brs.,2.5 Baths, Garage, Hrd. Flrs., Fireplace c/a, deck. Garden, great kitchen $2,500.00 2033 Bainbridge St. 3 Bedrooms, 1 Bath, w&d, wood floors, yard Available 12- 1-10
$1,500.00
408 Queen St. Beautiful spacious 3 Brs., 3 Baths, hrd.flrs, patio, garden, c/a, w&d
$3,250.00
132 Emily St. (Pennsport McKean St) 2 Brs., 1.5 Baths, w&d, yard, basement, a/c
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ART MUSEUM/LOGAN SQUARE
(MLS#5786406) 2730 Parrish Excellent cond. 3bd, 1.5 bth w/ exposed brick (MLS#5503349) 2200 Arch former model unit/bonus lighting/bath upgrades
BELLA VISTA
$299,900 $360,000
(MLS#5792578) 1180 S 11th Perfectly located 5bd, 2.5bth w/ raw space $299,000 (MLS#5736689) 1313-15 S 11th Exceptional rehab...Corner - Double property, garage, gym, office with kitchenette, multiple decks, spectacular rear outdoor space! $699,900
LOFT DISTRICT
(MLS#5671865) Old Shoe Fact #301 NE Corner 1BD w/40+ ft of windows! $209,900 (MLS#5713827) Old Shoe Fact #1001 Special Penthouse w/dramatic 360° views!Huge terraces with city views. Custom Bi level home! Seller providing PARKING! $599,900
NORTHERN LIBERTIES
(MLS#5774485) 224 Fairmount Ave go to www.PhillyModern.com for full tour (MLS#5764465) 953 N American go to www.NorthernLibertiesModern.com
OLD CITY
$450,000 $765,000
(MLS#5741893) 214 New ‘A’ Lagerhouse 1BD/1ba-995SF-pet friendly bldg OPEN SUNDAY 12-1PM $300,000 (MLS#5659459) 315 New #117 DEEDED prkng! Spacious west facing 2B/2b $319,888 (MLS#5655903) 319 Vine#512 Gorgeous 2BD/2.5b PH-1408SF inc Parking $515,000
RITTENHOUSE SQ / FITLER SQ
(MLS#5742433) 15th & Chestnut LUX 2BD/2ba Brazilian cherry floors, SS appliances, granite, 24hr Concierge, gym, lounge room, tax abatement & Parking avail! $375,000 (MLS#5776977) 2315 Waverly Meticulously maintained 2BD townhouse, patio, EIK great closet space, spacious bath, 1blk from Fit Sq & FAB Schuylkill Dog Park! $459,900 (MLS#5695683) 1817 Kater Wide plank wood flooring, garage, basement $679,900
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The William penn hOuSe
(MLS#5727332) 1326 Spruce#1606 Large 1BD (897SF) south facing balcony $294,000 (MLS#5786126) 511 S 13th Multi-unit w/ hardwd floors, brick frplce, courtyard, $525,000 (MLS#5631998) 1101 Locust 3H 2BD/2bth/1600SF West facing- w/ 12ft ceilings, custom kitchen, stone bath, hardwood floors $658,998
OPEN SUNDAY 11AM - 1PM Rittenhouse Sq • Rooftop Pool Fitness Center • Valet Parking 24 HR Security • 24 HR Maintenance • All Utilities Included Includes real estate tax • no transfer tax
NEW CONSTRUCTION
(MLS#5774326) Univ City 804 N 48th “B” “West Village Townhomes” offer Eco design-Energy Efficient Products - Green Roof System - 3BDs/2ba/Garage $225,000 (MLS#5730691) Roxborough 729 Valley Green Ct ONLY 3 LEFT!! 10 yr tax abtmt, 2200+/1SF-3BD/2.5b-chef’s kitchen-deck-garage-driveway–Avail for Immed Occ! $394,895 (MLS#5757783) W Conshohocken 0000 Church St Welcome to McKenzie Place a premier community by Shaffer Builders! 2c Parking, 3900SF, 3BDs/3.5baths $449,900 Center City 1101 Locust St Western Union Telegraph Bldg...the address which sends a message. A rare architectural masterpiece this condominium residence bridges the past, present and future in a style of timeless luxury. www.westernunionbuilding.com (MLS#5621689) Manayunk Hills 308 Dupont St 2400SF 3BD/2.5b/2c Garage/10yr warranty “an architecturally designed community just steps to Main St” $479,900 (MLS#5773017) No Libs 1004 N Bodine St Liberty Greene – gated carriage house community – steps from The Piazza – offers 3BDs/2.5ba/1c Parking $549,000 (MLS#5753248) No Libs 147 W Laurel “A” St THIN FLATS 3BD/3ba/1c PKG/private green roof garden – off St Parking & Tax Abatement $679,000
SOUTH PHILADELPHIA
(MLS#5687998) 1907 S Newkirk Well-maintained, 3bd, 2bth w/ hardwood floors (MLS#5785259) 1100 S Broad 305C Great studio loft w/ sleek features+location (MLS#5758097) 903 S 13th Large 3 story row w/ 4 bds. Near Ave of the Arts (MLS#5732701) 2846 S Franklin Spectac 3bd,2bth w/ garage+ finished bsmt (MLS#5771245) 2706 S 8th PERFECT! ’09 total rehab 3B/2ba fin’d bsmt-deck (MLS#5778541) 1814 Latona Gorgeous totally renovated 3bd, 1.5bth
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OPEN SUNDAY 2-3:30PM 5 christian street, a.k.a. 3-7 christian independence court 3BD, 3.5BA Row, REDUCED $549,000 838 newkirk st #e1, art museum area 2BD 1.5BA PARKING $325,000
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923 mount Vernon st, spring Garden 4BD, 2.5BA, 1830sq ft Row w/ 1 car parking $400,000 2101 market street #804, Rittenhouse sq 1BD, 1BA Unit at The Murano, 1 Car Parking, $410,000 2945 Poplar, 3BD, 1BA Row $269,000 or rent $1,300/mo 4523 Ritchie, Manayunk, 3BD, 2.5BA Row $325,000 1409 Wesleys Run, Gladwyne, 5BD, 4.5BA contemp. in northwoods$1,200,000
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Open Sunday 2-4pm 1280 Round Hill Road, Bryn Mawr 3BD, 4BA, 4,815 sq ft, Row in Hermitage, $675,000 931 Clover Hill, Wynnewood 4BD, 3BA Stone Colonial, $485,000 1387 Bartlett Road, Chesterbrook – 3BD, 2.5BA 3016sq ft Row, $345,000 Open Sunday 2-4pm 711 Cornerstone Lane, Bryn Mawr 4BD, 3.5BA, 3440 sq ft Colonial, $775,000 410 Hampshire Drive, Broomall 3BD, 2.5BA, Split Level, $294,900 2 Springhouse Lane, Havertown 4BD, 1 Full, 2 Half BA, Farmhouse on 0.7 acre lot, $695,000 626 Black Rock Road, Bryn Mawr 3BD, 3.5BA 2,785 SqFt Contemporary on 2.5 acre lot $1,600,000 or $4,000/mo 668 Woodcrest, Ardmore 4BD, 2BA Twin, $285,000 1051 Lemar Cir, Merion Station 4BD, 3BA 3475sq ft Cape on .84 acre lot w/ pool $700,000 336 David Drive, Havertown Spacious 4BD, 2.5BA Split Level overlooking Merion Golf Course in Paddock Farms, $365,000 138 Montrose Ave, Bryn Mawr, #45 3BD, 2.5BA Row in Montrose Village $2,275/mo
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449 Inveraray Rd, Villanova 3BD, 3.5BA Home, In-Ground Pool, Finished Lower Level $919,000
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306 Spruce Street-Cooks kit, f/p lr dr 2 rm master ste + 3 add br’s sunrm, rf deck, prkg 502 Delancey Street-Extra Wide Home 4 bd/3 ba/2 half ba,fam rm,office,2 fps,2 dks,garden. 504 Delancey Street-Renov-3-4 bd/2.5 ba,refin pine flrs,3 fp,new kit/bths,1 yr prkg for 2 cars! 241 S 6th ##1307-2 bd/2 ba corner unit,cstm kit,wd flrs + views of the Square. 513 Lombard Street-Contemp 4br/2.5b reno TH w/ grdn, 1car prkg, & 3rd flr sun deck 604-36 S Washington Square #1110-Upgraded 1 bd/1 ba w/balcony off bd overlooking Wash. Sq. 200-10 Lombard ##635-1 bd/1 ba completely upgraded,on-site fitness center,24 hr concierge.
GRADUATE HOSPITAL
$1,795,000 $1,200,000 $895,000 $749,900 $719,000 $299,900 $262,500
LUXURY CONDOS AND CO-OPS P H I L A D E L P H I AW E E K LY November 3-9, 2010
1830 Rittenhouse Square #3A-Eloquence! Gorgeous 3BR/4+BA condo. Cozy fireplace, pantry. $4,700,000 1901 Walnut Street #PH-21A-Spect. PH on Ritt. Sq, 3B+study/4ba, double hght LR ceil, 2 huge terraces $2,395,000 1901 Walnut Street #14BE-Architecturally designed in the NY gallery Style, 3br=study, 4.5b $2,250,000 1820 Rittenhouse Square #402-Elegant 3Br/3.5ba condo with unparralleled treetop views of the Sq. $1,950,000 1531 Pine Street #D-4BR/3.5B bilevel condo with large private deck in the Ritt Hs Sq area $1,299,000 1830 Rittenhouse Square #7A-Fab cont. apart, vuws of Park 2bds, + sit rm/den. Gorge kit. 3 bths $1,250,000 50 S 16th Street #4106-2 Bed/2.5 Bath Corner Unit, Decorator Furnished, 24/7 Concierge $1,150,000 440 S Broad Street #1505-Symphony House 2B/den/2b + 1 CAR PKG. 150K++ less than dev unit! $865,000 1901 Walnut Street #12B-Upgraded 2/2.5 w/ Full Sq vuw! Formal DR, hw, Moldings Just Move In! $819,000 915 Clinton Street #202-Fab & Chic 1br/1.5b flat w/ 2 outdoor spaces chef’s kit & designer finishes $539,000 1420 Locust ##17K-3 bd/2.5 bth,wrap-around terrace,excellent closet space,24 hr doorman $534,900 1901 Walnut Street #14C-Sunny lrg 2br, 2b,(assessment paid) corner unit in elegant Deco building $465,000 2301 Cherry Street #6C-Fab 2B/2.5b/balc/1 car GAR PKG. wd flrs,upgraded kit&bths $436,000 2241 Fitzwater Street #C-Penthouse Condo, 1 Bed 1 Bath, Bamboo Flr, Marble Counters + Deck $329,900 2241 Fitzwater Street #A-1st Fl Parlor 1 Bed 1 Bath Condo, Dramatic Kit, Veranda + Parking $299,900 111 S 15th Street #1705-Bright Corner 1BR/1B, Gourmet Kitchen, Marble Bath, Drmn $299,000 2001 Hamilton Street #515-Bright 2BR/1BA, Large Windows, Gym, 24hr Doorman $289,500 2241 Fitzwater Street #B-Relaxed 1 Bed 1 Bath Condo, Pine Flr, Exp Brck, Vintg Tin Ceiling $279,900 1420 Locust Street #9L-Academy House Renovated Condo. 1 Bed 1 Bath Kimmel Center Views $269,900 1420 Locust ##13L-Academy House 1 bd,hrwd flrs,southern exposure,french balcony. $249,900 604-36 S Washington Square #115-Very bright, South-Facing 1BR condo w/Balcony. HW Flrs. $209,000
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$649,000 $599,500 $529,900 $385,000 $380,000 $359,900 $359,900 $250,000 $249,900 $219,000
FITLER SQUARE 207 S 24th Street #2F-Loft-like light filled 2BD, 1ba condo. Roof deck & garage parking
RITTENHOUSE SQUARE 1936-38 Delancey Place-Double wide carriage house, elev, 2-3 car grge, 2br suites + guest suite $1,725,000 2125 Pine Street-1870 Mansion extensively renovated in 2010. 5br/4b and garden $1,595,000 1830 Rittenhouse ##7C-Luxury 2 bdrm,2.5 bth,formal DR,eat-in kitchen,original details. $1,300,000 210 W Rittenhouse Sq ##1107-Renov 1 bd,403 sq.ft,refin flrs,fresh paint,new kit,csmt flr plan. $920,000 2211 Panama-Garage plus 3 bd,den,2.5 ba,fpl,wd flrs,grdn + cook’s kitchen. $799,900 2132 Saint James Street-3B+den, 2B white oak fl T/O; top of the line perfect gem in English Village $795,000 210 W Rittenhouse Sq ##1402-Rittenhse Hotel-New upsc.,furn. luxury condo,1050 sq.ft,1 bd/1.5 ba. $649,000 420 S 21st Street-3-Story residence w/full flr mstr suite + 2nd flr 2 bdrms + full ba. $499,900 1919 Chestnut ##711-Gorgeous customized unit in well-managed & maintained CO-OP bldg. $167,500
ART MUSEUM 655 N 24th Street-TH w/garage parking, lg brick deck, 4BR, huge EIK, FP, gorgeous wd fls. 2521 Brown Street-Beautiful 4BR/2BA, hw flr,, t/o, c/a, mast br suite 2533 Swain Street-Charming 3 bd/2 ba,beautiful hrwd flrs,contemporary kit,patio,garden. 713 Shirley Street #A-N/C-Great 2 bd/2.5 ba,stainless appln,cork/ bamboo flooring,amazing detail.
$468,500 $429,900 $284,500 $279,000 $259,900 $259,900 $224,900 $199,900
$625,900 $459,900 $419,900 $309,900
UNIVERSITY CITY/POWELTON VILLAGE QUEEN VILLAGE AND BELLA VISTA 431 Fulton Street-Circa 1986-Rehab in 2009,4 bd w/full bths,wd brng fpl,lrg dk. 905-7 S 2nd Street-Fab 4 bd/3.5 ba,hrwd flrs,2 fp’s,high ceil,roof dk,2 C garage. 236-A Queen Street-3 bd/2.5 ba,hrwd flrs,fp,2 car prkng,deck,2 zoned heating/cooling. 314 Monroe-Beaut 3 bd/2ba w/partially fin bsmt/den & 1-yr prepaid parking! 728 S 3rd Street-Bright 3 bd/2.5 ba,hrwd flrs,fp,new kit,grdn,monthly prkng avail. 125 Kenilworth Street-3 bd + den,orig hw flrs t/o,orig woodwork,non-working fp,lrg EIK,lrg grdn.
At The Rittenhouse .............................................................. 215-546-0550 Rittenhouse Square ............................................................. 215-893-9800 Society Hill ........................................................................... 215-627-6005
319 Catharine Street-Colonial twnhse with 2 bd/2 bth,family room,garden & prkng. 823 “B” Kater Street-Light filled 2 bd/2.5 ba condo fpl,rf deck,garage prkng. 1008 S. 2nd Street-3 br + den/2.5 ba,lg garden/yard & patio,hwf t/o,2 decor fpls,C/A 731 S American Street-2 bd trinty,hw flrs t/o,3 fp’s,exp brk,cstm features & built-ins 1030 South Street-3 bd/2 ba w/prkng,hi ceilings,fireplace & roof deck. 1351 Kater Street-N/C-2 bdrm/2.5 bth,finished bsmt,2 mstr suites,cstm kit,roof deck. 918 S 2nd Street-Lovely 3 bdrm home w/LR,FP,orig random pine flrs,EIK,small yard. 621 S American Street #G-Trinity located in private crtyd w/lrg grdn,2 bd/1 ba,hw flrs,exp brk. 904 S Alder Street-2BR/2bth home. SS&GranKtch. Patio. Exc. Light. Awesome locat 918 E Moyamensing Avenue-Nice 2-story 3 bd/1 1/4 ba,finished bsmt,lrg yd,needs updating.
$799,900 $799,000 $575,000 $559,900 $479,000 $419,900
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$419,999
4200 Pine Street #105-3BR/3bth+office. 3yr-old condo. 2-car PRKG. Tax Abte. Catchment $790,000 4400 Sansom Street-3unit invest prop, renov in 2007 2bd/1b units, kit & liv area Bsmnt storage $399,900 4625 Pine Street #F102-Great New Price 2br, 1b large condo in great, secure build with pool & gym $179,900
OLDE CITY/NORTHERN LIBERTIES 1350 Crease Street-4bd 4.5B Grge & Grdn w/Cust Fin & kit, Solar Panel 8yrs left on Tax abate 112 N 2nd Street #4H-2 bd/2 ba,flr to ceil wndws,hw flrs T/O,upgraded kit,tx abate. 36 Strawberry Street #35-900 Sq Ft flat,Blk granite kit, huge storage, stylish 513 W Thompson Street-Find a real haven in this welcoming 3BR/2BA townhome. Whirlpool tub. 1019-25 N 4th ##1025D-1 bd w/bamboo flrs,SS,Granite counters,open loft bdrm,tx abat. 1215 N Randolph Street ##1-Large modern condo,private yard,SS,HW,fin bsmt. 301 Race ##401-Amazing bridge views from this oversized studio,1 bdrm (715 sq ft) 301 Race ##303-1 bd/1 ba,granite & SS kit,Jacuzzi,hrwd flrs,loads of storage.
2101 Catharine Street-Gorgeous, light filled corner townhouse with GARAGE Parking, 1801 Montrose Street #B-3 Bed, 2.5 Bath, Finished Basement, Roofdeck w/City Views, Patio 507 Governors Court-Beautiful 3 bd/2.5 ba,den,family rm,hrwd flrs,2 decks + garage. 703 S 17th Street-Newly renovated 3BD 2.5ba TH. Engaging home w/ many amenities 910 S 21st Street-NC 3 BD/2.5 BA,hw flrs t/o,lg garden,deck,amazing views. 2218 Catharine Street-Spac, bright home w/3br 1.5b fin bsmnt, sep DR wd fl patio hi-ceils 709 “B” S 18th-Large 2 bd/1.5 ba home,2-car prkng,SS applns,deck. 1822 Catharine Street-Investor Special 4 BD, 1.5 BA, Solid Structure, Rehab Opportunity 2618 Webster Street #A-New 2 bedoom/1.5 bath condo,grt open layout,10 yr abatement pending. 1007 S 19th Street #2-Bi-lev condo w/soaring ceil,granite counter tops,SS appln,2 bd/2 ba,HW t/o.
526 S 11th Street-Fab 4B/Lib/3.5b,8 fpl,C/A,pine flrs t/o,fin base,grdn,deck,2 car PKG 253 S Quince Street-Gorgeous 2 bdrm/3 bth home w/private parking,large patio 1225 Panama Street-Impeccably restored 2 bd/1.5 ba,cstm kitchen,SS appln,garden. 1108 Lombard Street #45-Beaut. 2br/1.5b, 2 fps, hw flrs, big patio 1001-13 Chestnut Street #605W-Large 1 bd/1 ba unit w/15” ceilings,open kit,island,W/D. 1012 Spruce ##3F-2 bdrm bi-level,cstm millwork,cstm kit,hrwd flrs,new bth. 1234 Waverly Walk-2 bdrm,expanded trinity w/yard and roof deck,hw flrs t/o,on quiet blk. 1014 Spruce ##7-3-Strickland row bi-level 2 bd/2 ba,hrwd flrs,crtyd setting w/pool. 912 Spruce ##8-Cozy 1 bd,low condo fees,SS appln,hi ceilings & good closet space.
$876,000 RED’D $599,999 $439,900 $399,900 $349,900 $345,000 $289,900 $269,900 $248,000
LOGAN SQUARE 2301 Cherry Street #4J-Fantastic 3br+ Den w/ 2.5bths, 1 car garage park roof deck 2301 Cherry ##3C-Rivers Edge 2 bd/2 ba,extra lrg terrace + 2 car garage parking.
$409,900 $360,000
AROUND TOWN 3450 Midvale Avenue-3 BD - 1 Bath Tudor Charming 2 story w/h/w floors 2434 E Cumberland Street-Renovated 4 bd/2.5 ba,fin bsmt,C/A,fp,fam rm,hw,patio. 1504 S. Iseminger-Bright 3 bd/1 ba home,orig plank wood flrs,upgraded kit,spac LR,rear yard. 815 Moore Street-Charming 3 bd/1.5 ba,hw flrs,newer kitchen and bath. 2334 E Fletcher Street-Well maintained 2 bd/1 ba,updated kitchen,hrwd flrs,yard w/planting area. 2721 E Venango Street-Renovated, looks great, 3BR 1BA 1835 W Tioga Street-Property set-up as a 5 unit bldg,2 studios & 3-1 bd,needs repair. 243 N 54th Street-2BR/2B house with a huge garage in the heart of West Philadelphia
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THE WORLD ACCORDING TO JOSH, NICOLE & STEVEN Now more than ever, EXPERIENCE counts… that is why you need to call our Aunt Anne, because she has the EXPERIENCE & KNOWLEDGE to help you in selling or buying a ho me. For all your Real Estate Needs, give our Aunt Anne a call today at 856-795-4709 MEDFORD/ CENTENNIAL LAKE Gorgeous stone & stucco 5 BR, 4 full & 2 half bath home w/ 3 gas FP, 3 car garage, in ground pool & professional landscaping. Huge Gourmet Kitchen w/ commercial appliances, center island and bar island & granite counters. Hardwood floors thru-out. Finished lower level w/ wine cellar, gaming area & gym. Wooded lot on the edge of Centennial Lake. Sprinkler & security systems…. Realistically priced at $2,500,000
MEDFORD Exquisite brick & stucco estate w/ 6BR, 5 full & 2 half baths, 3 car side gar. & circ. driveway. Custom limestone, natural stone & HW cherry floors. 2 story foyer, 1st floor office w/ gas FP & HW floors. Gourmet Kitchen w/ center island. 1st floor Master BR w/ double door entryway, 2 walk-in dressing rms. & private patio access. Fin. lower level w/ FR, gas FP, gym, home theatre & bar w/ kitchenette. Surround sound, sprinkler & security systems… Realistically priced at $1,999,000
HADDONFIELD Stunning custom home on gorgeous landscaped lot w/ fountains, ponds & total privacy. Rich in intricate wrought iron work, architectural details & finishes. 5 BR, 6.5 baths & Cherry, Siberian oak & porcelain slate floors. Grand windows, doors & artistic lighting. Dramatic 19’ ceiling crowns Great Room & remote controlled skylights. 7 heating/AC zones w/radiant heat in floors. Endless pool, gym, office, elevator & beautifully finished lower level w/ custom wine cellar...Realistically priced at $3,950,000
MOORESTOWN Magnificent estate on 7 acres. 6BR, 6 full baths, 3 FPs & Gourmet Kitchen w/ commercial appliances. Master BR Suite w/ pvt. balcony & spiral staircase to Main Flr. Atrium & indoor pool/ spa & 10 person Jacuzzi. Great Rm/Living Rm w/ dual FP. Office w/ built-ins. Blue Stone & brick patio overlooking grounds w/ waterfalls & ponds. 3 car heated garage & detached barn w/ kitchenette & half bath. Nestled between 10 acres of woods on one side and 8 acres of woods on the other side of the property for total privacy...Realistically priced at $3,200,000
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2930 W. Girard ave BreWerytoWn Renovated Townhome, 3 BRS, 1 tiled Bath, wd flrs, separate Dining Rm. updated Kitchen, 1308 sq ft. ...................................................................................................................... $200,000 2536-38 Montrose street naval square Two properties sold as a package; two story row and two story garage terrific development opportunity. New price! ....................................................................................................................... $170,000 1415-19 n. Franklin old kensinGton Bi-level warehouse garage ready to be transformed to your live/work space! 6,822 sf........ $250,000 2031-35 WashinGton ave Graduate hospital Warehouse space+/-27,500 sq. ft. on two floors w/an unlimited number of uses. Zoned industrial w/ access from Washington Ave and Kimball Street. .......................askinG price $1,600,000 950 n. aMerican northern liBerties Unique architecture overlooking Liberty Lands Park. 3 beds/2.5 baths. 2,484 sf. 3 car parking ................................................................................................................ neW price $619,900 1135 n orianna northern liBerties 7yr Contemporary 2200 sq. ft. Open Liv/Din/Eat-In Kitchen, Garden & Pkg, 3BRS, Sun Room, 3BTHS, Finished Basement, High Cls., This house has it all! ............................................$449,000 1908 s. BancroFt st. south philadelphia 2 BRS/1 bath New roof, windows, doors, hardwood floors and brick front. ......................................................................................................................neW price $130,000 1010 race st 3l chinatoWn Immaculate, sunny corner 1 bed condo w/ wood floors & C/A. 660 sf ,............................................................................................................................ $179,900
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Champions Honored
“Agents
Society Hill Office July & August Units,Volume,Listings
Prudential Fox & Roach, REALTORS honors each of the highest sales producers at a monthly “Breakfast of Champions.” ®
*Honored for their outstanding contribution to the Trident Group.
Travis Rodgers Rittenhouse Hotel Office Listings
Johanna Loke 1800 Rittenhouse Units & Volume
Phyllis Greenberg
1800 Rittenhouse Listings
Prudential Fox & Roach, REALTORS® Chairman and CEO Larry Flick recently met with a group of Center City sales associates at the Four Seasons to discuss market trends.
Pictured are (seated, l to r) Tina Elmer, Society Hill; Suzanne Petruzel, Rittenhouse Hotel; Linda Genzano, 1800 Rittenhouse; Mikhal Mary, Rittenhouse Hotel; (standing, l to r) Kieran Diamond, Rittenhouse Hotel; John Brown, Society Hill; John Featherman, Rittenhouse Hotel; Janet Margolis, Rittenhouse Hotel; Chairman and CEO of Prudential Fox & Roach, REALTORS® Larry Flick, Paul Fontaine, Society Hill; Carlos Peraza, Art Museum; Steven Ferguson, Society Hill; Josh Allen, Society Hill and Ginny McCuen, regional manager and manager of Society Hill, Art Museum and 1800 Rittenhouse Offices.
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Prudential Fox & Roach, REALTORS® has more than 64 sales offices and 4,000 associates serving the Tri-State area, including five Center City offices. Through its affiliate, the Trident Group, the company provides one-stop shopping and facilitated services to its clients including mortgage financing and title, property and casualty insurance. An Independently Owned and Operated Member of The Prudential Real Estate Affiliates, Inc.
November 3-9, 2010
Prudential Fox & Roach, REALTORS® recently honored the Center City sales associates for their sales performance for the month of August at a monthly Breakfast of Champions. The following agents were honored by (far left) Bruce Glendinning, Senior VP and regional manager (sitting, left to right) Johanna Loke, 1800 Rittenhouse; Kieran Diamond*, Rittenhouse Hotel; and Donna Santore, Society Hill. Honored but not pictured were Reid Rosenthal and Andy Oei, Rittenhouse Hotel; the Mike McCann Team and Adele Gerngross*, Society Hill.
Laurie Phillips
Rittenhouse Hotel Units & Volume
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SATURDAY 11/6 1:00-3:00PM PORT RICHMOND Almond & Indiana Sts $249,900 Mastromarco Developers
1:00-4:00PM COLLINGSWOOD, NJ 600 Atlantic Ave The LumberYard Condos >From $210,500 Main Street Realty
SUNDAY 11/7 12:00-1:00PM RITTENHOUSE SQ 1820 Rittenhouse Sq #602 $1 ,699,000 Prudential Fox & Roach RITTENHOUSE SQ 2042 Waverly St $1 , 325,000 Prudential Fox & Roach WASH SQ WEST 1101 Locust St #11D $1 , 250,000 Prudential Fox & Roach SOCIETY HILL 500 S Front St $1 ,150,000 Prudential Fox & Roach RITTENHOUSE SQ 2216 Locust St $1 ,095,000 Prudential Fox & Roach RITTENHOUSE SQ 1901 Walnut St #21B $989,000 Prudential Fox & Roach GRAD HOSPITAL 752 S Dorrance St $869,000 Prudential Fox & Roach
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RITTENHOUSE SQ 2211 Panama St $799,900 Prudential Fox & Roach QUEEN VILLAGE 717 S Philip St $719,900 Prudential Fox & Roach
ART MUSEUM 1900 Hamilton St #803 $549,000 Prudential Fox & Roach FITLER SQ 2419 Pine St $520,000 Prudential Fox & Roach ART MUSEUM 2401 Pennsylvania Ave #4A4 $515,000 Prudential Fox & Roach BELLA VISTA 615 Kater St $514 ,990 Prudential Fox & Roach RITTENHOUSE SQ 210 W Rittenhouse Sq #1404 $500,000 Prudential Fox & Roach RITTENHOUSE SQ 111 S 15th St #P204 $484 ,000 Prudential Fox & Roach FITLER SQ 420 S 26th St $474 ,900 Prudential Fox & Roach WASH SQ WEST 1225 Panama St $449,900 Prudential Fox & Roach FISHTOWN 1133 E Susquehanna $189,900 Prudential Fox & Roach SOUTH PHILLY 1806 S S artain St $258,000 Prudential Fox & Roach GRAD HOSPITAL 2104 Montrose St $285,000 Prudential Fox & Roach GRAD HOSPITAL 1039 S Chadwick St $299,900 Prudential Fox & Roach ART MUSEUM 753 N Croskey St $315,000 Prudential Fox & Roach ART MUSEUM 2533 Swain St $429,900 Prudential Fox & Roach
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SOCIETY HILL 105 Naudain St $629,000 Prudential Fox & Roach
WASH WEST 1225 Panama St $459,900 Prudential Fox & Roach
RITTENHOUSE SQ 111 S 15th St #2003 $580,000 Prudential Fox & Roach
RITTENHOUSE SQ 2027 Rodman St $569,900 Prudential Fox & Roach
QUEEN VILLAGE 236-A Queen St $575,000 Prudential Fox & Roach
WASH WEST 1101 Locust St #11D $1 , 250,000 Prudential Fox & Roach
RITTENHOUSE SQ 2027 Rodman St $569,900 Prudential Fox & Roach
CENTER CITY SOUTH 1020 Annin St $349,000 Plumer & Associates
OLD CITY 214-18 New St A $300,000 Coldwell B anker Realty Corp
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1:00-3:00PM AVE OF THE ARTS 1435 B ainbridge St $1 , 399,000 Plumer & Associates
SOCIETY HILL 506 Pine St. $649,000 Coldwell B anker Preferred
QUEEN VILLAGE 1030 Montrose St $419,000 Plumer & Associates
GRADUATE HOSPITAL 2011 Catharine St. $574 ,900 Coldwell B anker Preferred
QUEEN VILLAGE 217 B Fulton St $429,000 Plumer & Associates
ART MUSEUM 2524 Aspen St. $569,000 Coldwell B anker Preferred BELLA VISTA 919 Christian St. $334 ,900 Coldwell B anker Preferred WASH SQ WEST 1109 Spruce St. #1R $299,900 Coldwell B anker Preferred GRAD HOSPITAL 2238 Kimball St. $299,000 Coldwell B anker Preferred WASH SQ WEST 927 Spruce St. #2R $199,900 Coldwell B anker Preferred
12:00-1:30PM FISHTOWN 2722 E. Albert St. $179,900 Coldwell B anker Preferred
12:00-2:00PM SOUTHWEST CC 630 S. 27th St $699,000 Independent Custom Realty
12:30-2:30PM QUEEN VILLAGE 315 Monroe St. QUEEN VILLAGE $415,000 Coldwell B anker Preferred QUEEN VILLAGE 525 Fitzwater St. #15 $239,000 Coldwell B anker Preferred
12:00-3:00PM ART MUSEUM 558 N. Judson St $444 ,900 Coldwell B anker Preferred
1:00-2:00PM BELLA VISTA 720 S. Percy St $275,000 Coldwell B anker Preferred
U CITY 4905 Cedar Ave $399,000 Coldwell B anker Preferred BELLA VISTA 714 S. Marshall St. $319,000 Coldwell B anker Preferred PORT RICHMOND Almond & Indiana Sts $249,900 Mastromarco Developers
1:00-4:00PM COLLINGSWOOD, NJ 600 Atlantic Ave The LumberYard Condos >From $210,500 Main Street Realty
1:30-2:30PM SOCIETY HILL 516 Pine St $2 , 250,000 Prudential Fox & Roach RITTENHOUSE SQ 202 W Rittenhouse Sq #2606 $1 ,795,000 Prudential Fox & Roach
QUEEN VILLAGE 431 Fulton St $799,900 Prudential Fox & Roach
EAST FALLS 3441 Midvale Ave $419,000 Prudential Fox & Roach
WASH SQ WEST 1109 Spruce St. # 2R $225,000 Coldwell B anker Preferred
RITTENHOUSE SQ 1924 Rittenhouse Sq $899,000 Prudential Fox & Roach
QUEEN VILLAGE 128 Kenilworth St $729,000 Prudential Fox & Roach
ART MUSEUM 937 N B ambrey St $199,900 Prudential Fox & Roach
GRAD HOSPITAL 2155 Montrose St. $450,000 Coldwell B anker Preferred
SOCIETY HILL 210 W Washington Sq #2SW $725,000 Prudential Fox & Roach
SOUTH PHILLY 2611 S Rosewood St $199,900 Prudential Fox & Roach
WASH SQ WEST 255 S. Hutchinson St. $250,000 Coldwell B anker Preferred
FITLER SQ 2413 Pine St $649,000 Prudential Fox & Roach
QUEEN VILLAGE 131 Catharine St #1 $248,000 Prudential Fox & Roach
WASH SQ WEST 1109 Spruce St. #4 $185,000 Coldwell B anker Preferred
WASH SQ WEST 803 Lombard St $599,900 Prudential Fox & Roach
RITTENHOUSE SQ 1515 Locust St #301 $719,000 Prudential Fox & Roach RITTENHOUSE SQ 340 S 17th St $699,000 Prudential Fox & Roach RITTENHOUSE SQ 224 S 23rd St $659,000 Prudential Fox & Roach GRAD HOSPITAL 2101 Catharine St $639,000 Prudential Fox & Roach RITTENHOUSE SQ 23 S 23rd St #2G $575,000 Prudential Fox & Roach GRAD HOSPITAL 1540 Christian St $569,000 Prudential Fox & Roach ART MUSEUM 756-58 N Bucknell St $549,900 Prudential Fox & Roach AVE OF THE ARTS 1215 S Juniper St $545,000 Prudential Fox & Roach QUEEN VILLAGE 132 Kenilworth St $529,900 Prudential Fox & Roach
RITTENHOUSE SQ 336 S 21st St $1 ,495,000 Prudential Fox & Roach
QUEEN VILLAGE 307 Catharine St $529,000 Prudential Fox & Roach
RITTENHOUSE SQ 1830 Rittenhouse Sq #7C $1 , 300,000 Prudential Fox & Roach
NAVAL SQ 2421 Grays Ferry Ave $519,900 Prudential Fox & Roach
FITLER SQ 2403-5 Waverly St $1 , 299,000 Prudential Fox & Roach
BELLA VISTA 735 S 12th St #502 $509,000 Prudential Fox & Roach
SOCIETY HILL 118 Spruce St $975,000 Prudential Fox & Roach
FITLER SQ 2427 Naudain St $499,000 Prudential Fox & Roach
SOCIETY HILL 504 Delancey St $895,000 Prudential Fox & Roach
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RITTENHOUSE SQ 509 S 21st St $439,900 Prudential Fox & Roach
GRAD HOSPITAL 2203 Montrose St $285,000 Prudential Fox & Roach ART MUSEUM 813 N Stillman St $324 ,900 Prudential Fox & Roach QUEEN VILLAGE 1031 S Randolph St $334 ,900 Prudential Fox & Roach RITTENHOUSE SQ 509 S 21st St $439,000 Prudential Fox & Roach FITLER SQ 2427 Naudain St $499,000 Prudential Fox & Roach GRAD HOSPITAL 2421 Grays Ferry Ave $519,900 Prudential Fox & Roach QUEEN VILLAGE 314 Monroe St $559,900 Prudential Fox & Roach ART MUSEUM 756-58 N Bucknell St $574 ,900 Prudential Fox & Roach RITTENHOUSE SQ 1917 Panama St $859,000 Prudential Fox & Roach SOCIETY HILL 504 Delancey St $895,000 Prudential Fox & Roach NAVAL SQ 500 Admirals Way #408 $429,000 Coldwell B anker Preferred
1:30 - 3:00PM SOCIETY HILL 231 Delancey St $829,000 Plumer & Associates
2:00-3:00PM OLD CITY 51 N. 2nd St. $328,900 Coldwell B anker Preferred
3:00 - 4:00 PM GRAD HOSPITAL 709 S 18th St #B $359,900 Prudential Fox & Roach GRAD HOSPITAL 2232 St. Albans St $359,900 Prudential Fox & Roach GRAD HOSPITAL 609 S B ambrey St $479,900 Prudential Fox & Roach SOCIETY HILL 803 Lombard St $589,900 Prudential Fox & Roach ART MUSEUM 2323 Pennsylvania Ave $619,900 Prudential Fox & Roach BELLA VISTA 920 South St #7 $749,900 Prudential Fox & Roach SOCIETY HILL 210 W Washington Sq #PH $2 ,500,000 Prudential Fox & Roach
GIRARD ESTATE 2449 S Garnet St $549,999 Prudential Fox & Roach QUEEN VILLAGE 3-7 Christian St $549,000 Prudential Fox & Roach GIRARD ESTATE 2447 S Garnet St $495,000 Prudential Fox & Roach FITLER SQ 609 S B ambrey St $479,900 Prudential Fox & Roach RITTENHOUSE SQ 1901 Walnut St #14C $465,000 Prudential Fox & Roach WASH SQ WEST 1108 Lombard St #45 $399,900 Prudential Fox & Roach GRAD HOSPITAL 1713 Fitzwater St #A $369,000 Prudential Fox & Roach LOGAN SQ 2301 Cherry St #3C $360,000 Prudential Fox & Roach GRAD HOSPITAL 709 “B” S 18th St $359,900 Prudential Fox & Roach GRAD HOSPITAL 2232 S aint Albans St $359,900 Prudential Fox & Roach RITTENHOUSE SQ 23 S 23rd St #2F $299,900 Prudential Fox & Roach WASH SQ WEST 1136 Waverly St #1R $270,000 Prudential Fox & Roach
OLD CITY 209 Cuthbert St. #301 $325,000 Coldwell B anker Preferred
SOCIETY HILL 210 W Washington Sq #5NW $1 ,425,000 Prudential Fox & Roach
ART MUSEUM 754 N 23rd St $424 ,000 Prudential Fox & Roach
OLD CITY 309-313 Arch St. #308 $319,000 Coldwell B anker Preferred
BELLA VISTA 719 S 9th St $1 ,150,000 Prudential Fox & Roach
AVE OF THE ARTS 1420 Locust St #20R $259,900 Prudential Fox & Roach
QUEEN VILLAGE 319 Catharine St $419,000 Prudential Fox & Roach
WASH SQ WEST 1109 Spruce St. # 3R $180,000 Coldwell B anker Preferred
RITTENHOUSE SQ The Rittenhouse #1005 $945,000 Prudential Fox & Roach
ART MUSEUM 2601 Pennsylvania Ave #610 $199,000 Prudential Fox & Roach
RITTENHOUSE SQ 1917 Panama St $859,000 Prudential Fox & Roach
WASH SQ WEST 1119-25 Pine St #103 $434 ,900 Prudential Fox & Roach
RITTENHOUSE SQ 1515 Locust St #501 $835,000 Prudential Fox & Roach RITTENHOUSE SQ 2128 Cypress St $799,900 Prudential Fox & Roach
AVE OF THE ARTS 1420 Locust St #20P $259,900 Prudential Fox & Roach
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Magnificent contemp townhouse w/ Garage & Japanese garden. LR, DR, gorgeous Kitchen (featured in magazine!) 3 or 4 BRs, Den + 2 offices. Deck with fabulous city views! $1,500,000.
S. new QUINCE •252 Spacious townhomesSTREET with 2 or 3 bedrooms 2 BR suites baths, c/a, lovely garden patio. LR with fireplace, sep DR $469,000. 21/2 w/pretty baths & attached 1-car garage 11/2 and SOCIETY HILL TOWERS, #2F (South LocatedTower) at Schoolhouse Ln. & Ridge Ave. •Desirable Breathtaking viewsbrand of the new city &kitchen, River Drive in 1 BR, upgraded bath. Pretty oak parquet floors. $289,000. Mon–Sat 11-5 | Sun 12–5 desirable East Falls / Manayunk QUEEN VILLAGE - 723 S. 2nd STREET Greek Revival home (c1830) 4BRs, 3 1/2 baths. Beautiful LR/DR & Gorgeous Kitchen. down •Fabulous FHA loan approved communityLglowMaster as 3.5% Wood floors , 5 fireplaces. suite w/ Library & bath. 3 decks, garden. $895,000. CALL NOW FOR MORE INFORMATION •MANAYUNK Walking Distance to Shopping & Dining BRIDGE FIVE at 3750 MAIN STREET 2BR 2 b condo. 10 yr tax abate., incl. PKG! $365,000. 215.844.8888 •Stunning 3.5 miles to Center City Kit w/ granite, new stainless appl,c/a, hw flrs. •Walk to Fairmount Park Sign up for our member’s list and stay up to date on deals at westr umhomes.com/register • 500 ft from Kelly Drive
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1636 RODMAN STREET 3BR+den,4bth 2005 New Constr. GARAGE. Huge Deck w/skyline vus. Awesome Floorplan. Tax Abte. $779,000
1119 PINE STREET, #103 NEw PRICE 2BR/2.5BTH bi-level condo. PRKG. Corner unit w/exc. light, open plan, HW flrs, 2 patios. FP $434,900
17 N. 3RD STREET Mixed-Use corner on bustling block. Storefront & Renov 1BR apt $1,100,000
340 S. 17TH STREET Pristine 3BR/3.5bth home. Complete, high-end renov. Custom kitch. Exc. layout. HW Flrs. Beautiful & tasteful. $699,000
ABOUT OUR NEW RITTENHOUSE PLAZA, #16A BAINBRIDGE Magnificent bi-lev Penthouse overlooking Rittenhouse Sq. 4 BR, 4+ baths. Liv Rm/18 ft ceil! Formal DR, Den, Kit/sep breakfast room, lux Master Suite, Dressing Rm. Over 4500 sf! TOWNHOME! $2,200,000.
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1012 SPRUCE STREET, #4R Wonderful 2BR condo w/exc. Space & Character. Amaz. Light, HW Flrs t/o. Pool. Awesome loc. $284,900 SOCIETY HILL 118 SPRUCE STREET BRAND NEw LISTINg Spacious 3BR + den, 2.5BTH Soc. Hill home. 2-car GARAGE PRKG. Brick Patio. Fin. Bsmnt. 17’ Ceil Flrs. Move-in Cond. Great Light. Penn’s Landing Sq. Pool. $975,000 105 NAUDAIN STREET NEw PRICE Gorgeous 3BR + den and office/2.5BTH home. GARAGE. Quiet Society Hill block. Open plan living, dining & amaz. kitchen. HW flrs., great light, deck. $629,000 ABBOTTS SQUARE, #744 1BR/1.5BA Condo. Balcony w/great CC views, beautiful H/W Floors, Exc. Layout, New Baths w/hi-end marble, Great Closet Sp. $325,900 fITLER SQUARE 2300 LOCUST STREET Rarely avail., updated corner 5-unit bldg. in best Ritt/Fit location. Perfect for rental bldg or sell as condos (already converted). $1,850,000 2425 NAUDAIN STREET 2BR townhome w/Large Patio. Open plan, HW flrs t/o, & huge Mstr BR. Exc storage. Amazing Loc. $429,900
SPRINg ARTS POINT 627 N. 10TH STREET Pristine 3BR, 2.5bth 3-yr old. Huge backyard. PRKG. Chef’s kitch. HW flrs. Custom finishes. Tax Abte. $419,000 BELLA VISTA 904 S. ALDER STREET Beautiful 2BR/2bth home on charming block. S/S &Gran. kitch. Back Patio. HW flrs. Fin. bsmnt. Exc light. Great Locat. $269,000
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431 Fulton Street 1215 S. Juniper StreetBeautiful 2940 S. Broad StreetGarden - Incredible 1008 S. 2nd Street - Beautiful hm, + lg garden $650,000 4 + office/2.5 & Garage. $435.000 TRUE. We have 7 deeded Lot size 19x136 $1,250,000 Beautifully rehabbed hm, 4/4, fp, Newer Construction, 3 bdrms, 2.5owning designer quality hm, 3/2.5, Auabout pair 3/2.5, wdyour flrs & lrg patio. about about owning owning owning your your your own own own about about your owning own your own owning own spots available in about a secured large private deck, garage & lrg bths, fp & parking. suite/media rm, 3/4 oak flrs, dk & 4 $374,900. Deeded Deeded Deeded Queen Queen Queen Village Village ParkParkParkQueen Deeded Village Queen ParkVillage Deeded ParkQueen Village ParkQueen Village Location. landscaped garden $799,900 $545,000 orDeeded $2,300 crVillage prkg. $599,900.
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FeAtuRed PRoPeRtIes 1914-16 RITTENHOUSE SQ
1435 BAINBRIDGE ST, ARTISAN 2
2036 DELANCEy PL
231 DELANCEy ST
Landmark property, 5 combined lots, over 6,000sf footprint, great opportunity for development or magnificent residence
Magnificent beautifully restored double wide corner, 5br, 6b, +/-9000sf, original detail, elevator, terrace, 3 car heated garage
$7,250,000
$5,497,000
$1,399,000
$829,000
1030 MONTROSE ST
607 S 8TH ST Rehabbed 3br, 2b, h/w flrs, garage, new price, great value!
1020 ANNIN ST, PASSyUNK SQ
Call Bruce Benjamin
217B FULTON ST
OPEN SUNDAy, 11/7 1-3PM
3br,2.5b, patio, +/-1500sf, f/p, large patio, Brazilian cherry flrs, garage parking
Corner 3 story 5br, 2.5b, h/w flrs, cook’s kitchen, roof deck
NEW LISTING!
$429,000
Call Ellen Carasick
Call Scott Neifeld
NEW LISTING!
SOCIETY HILL/QUEEN VILLAGE/WASH WEST
234 S Philip Pl I.M. Pel bright& airy 4 bedroom, 3.2 bath, +/-2520sf, family rm, great garden, parking .................REDUCED $965,000 325 S 2nd St, Penns Landing Sq Contemporary townhome, 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, garden, deck, garage parking ..............$885,000 231 Delancey St Traditional 4bedroom,1.5bath, h/w flrs, fireplace, many original details, beautiful Society Hill block .... NEW PRICE $829,000 235 Fitzwater St 3bedrooms,3.5baths, +/-3200sf, large garden, deck, garage ..................................................REDUCED $699,000 408 Queen St Exquisite 3 bedroom, 3.5 bath, totally renovated, +/-2500sf, gourmet kitchen, roof deck with city view..............$599,450 732 Christian St Completely renovated 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, deck, lots of light, municipal parking across the street ............$579,000 400-416 S 2nd St #402 Beautiful 2 bedroom,3 bath condo, patio, shared courtyard, 1 yr parking ..............................................$559,000 308 Cypress St 2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, +/-2025sf, eat-in kitchen with f/p, large garden patio ....................................................$529,900 778 S Front St, Whildin’s Way 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, finished den, many upgrades, PARKING .................................... NEW PRICE $499,900 607 S 8th St Rehabbed 3bedroom, 2bath, h/w flrs, garage ....................................................................................... REDUCED $399,900 217 B Fulton St 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, patio, +/-1500sf, f/p, large patio, Brazilian cherry flrs, garage parking.......................$429,000 1 Christian St #25 Court at Old Swedes 3 bedroom, 2 bath townhouse condo, deck with river views, garage parking........................$330,000 Abbotts Sq, #526, 530 S 2nd St Beautiful 1 bedroom, 1.5 bath condo, +/-839sf, balcony, 24/7 front desk..........................$252,000 1211 South St C Corner 2 bedroom condo, newer kitchen,c/a, balcony, deeded parking, low fee ............................................$235,000
RITTENHOUSE/FITLER SQUARE/SOLO (South Of Lombard St)
ART MUSEUM OLd CITY
22 S Front St #701 +/-2500sf 2 bedroom, 2.5 bath penthouse condo, private rooftop deck, 2 car deeded parking ..................$1,390,000 144 Bread St Carriage house style 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath, garage parking ................................................................................................$939,000 118 N 3rd St Minima Loft Bldg, full floor condos, +/-1375 sq ft, 1 & 2 bedroom units available............................................$390,000-$410,000 50 N Front St 2 bedroom loft condo, 2 baths, f/p, river views, tax abatement...........................................................................................$329,900 320 Race St “E” Penthouse loft condo, 2bedrooms, 2baths, incredible views www.320racest.com .........................................................$329,000
$349,000
Call Scott Neifeld or Bruce Benjamin
CHINA TOWN
1100 Vine St PH101, Grandview 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, +/-1127 sf .................................................................................................$329,900 1100 Vine St #1210, Grandview Bright 2 bedroom, 1 bath, h/w flrs ...........................................................................................$274,900
UNIVERSITY CITY
4007 Haverford Ave Three 1-bedroom units, back yard, good condition, investment opportunity............................................................$165,000
LOGAN SQUARE
100 N 22nd St #135, The Arches Dramatic upper unit, light filled, 3 bedroom,2.5 bath, balcony, great storage, garage parking ...........$499,000
EAST MOUNT AIRY
6646 Boyer St Corner 4 bedroom, 2 bath, wraparound porch, garage......................................................................................................$175,000
BELLA VISTA
1004 E Passyunk Ave 3 bdrooms, 2.5 baths, adorable garden, rear deck, c/a ......................................................................$349,000
NORTHERN LIBERTIES / FISHTOWN
626 N Bodine St Loft style home, 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, garden ................................................................................................$339,900 107 W Master St, Old Kensington Bright 3 bedroom, den, 1.5 bath, +/- 2300sf, yard ........................................................................$210,000 3427 Livingston St, Port Richmond Newly renovated 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths ....................................................................................$119,000
CENTER CITY SOUTH
1020 Annin St, Passyunk Sq 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, new kitchen & bath, huge garden, c/a ...................................................................$349,000 1155 S Clarion St, Passyunk Sq Rehabbed large 3 bedroom, yard ........................................................................................$299,000 1609 S Lawrence St Renovated 2 story, 2 bedroom, 1.5 bath, full basement, rear patio, wood floors, c/a, +/-1176sf........REDUCED $259,000 1925 S 4th St Bright 3 bedroom, 1 bath, yard, basement .....................................................................................................$219,999 828 Earp St Bright 2br, 1.5b, wood flrs, new kitchen & new windows .......................................................................................................$179,900 1516 Wolf St 2 story, 4 bedrooms, 1 bath, h/w flrs, garden ........................................................................................................$156,500 2315 S 8th ST 3bedrooms, 1.5 baths ......................................................................................................................................................$156,000 1133 Cantrell St 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, h/w flrs, basement........................................................................................................................$155,000
COMMERCIAL & INVESTMENT
501 S 12th St Professional Office space, over 20,000 sq ft zoned for medical and /or legal offices. 16 deeded parking spaces .......... $4,999,900 1100-1118 E Passyunk Ave (at Washington Ave) +/-8500sf, 3 entrances, also 3 story house and 2 garage bays ....................... $3,000,000 1118 Spruce St Grand 6 unit building, good income, excellent Wash West location ............................................................$1,250,000 12 N 3rd St Old City +/-8400sf commercial building ............................................................................................................$999,900 507 S 2nd St Professional office or retail store plus 3 bedroom, bi-level apartment ...............................................................$895,000 50-52 S 3rd St Historically certified buildings formerly a pub/restaurant, plus newly renovated bi-level 3 br apartment ............$795,000 Pennsport Approx. 4000 sq ft, clear span/floor, many uses ...................................................................................................$649,000 1245 Ridge Ave (Corner of Mt Vernon St) Large irregular lot with auto repair shop ...........................................................$625,000 1725-31 S 25th St +/-12,000sf garage/warehouse with 4,000sq ft parking lot ....................................................................$595,000 908 N 4th St Renovated triplex, 3 one-bedroom apts, garden, 2 decks, separate utilities, fully rented ......................................$445,000 2229 E Huntingdon St 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, deck. First floor front commercial space, zoned C1...........................................$319,900 3213 Frankford Ave 3 story, +/-21,000 sq ft industrial warehouse with elevator, 2 loading docks, zoned G2 ..........................$299,500 1206 Alter St Vacant lot, +/- 14’x48’ .................................................................................................................................... $89,000 1212 S 2nd St, Pennsport Vacant lot, +/-15’x20’ ................................................................................................................ $39,000 214 S 49th St Vacant land, 16’x60’ ...................................................................................................................................... $25,000
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3br,2b, new kitchen & bath, huge garden, c/a
November 3-9, 2010
2128 Brandywine St Big 4 bedroom, 2bath, eat in kitchen, h/w flrs, patio, deck possibility ....................................................$499,999
NEW LISTING!
P H I L A D E L P H I AW E E K LY
1914-16 Rittenhouse Sq Landmark property 5 combined lots, over 6,000sf footprint, great opportunity for development or magnificent residence ....................................................................................................................................................$7,250,000 2036 Delancey Pl Magnificient beautifully restored double wide corner, 5 br, 6b, +/-9000sf, original detail, elevator, terrace, 3 car heated garage.......................................................................................................................................................................... $5,497,000 50 S 16th ST #4102, 2 Liberty Pl Exquisite 2br,2b, many upgrades, sunset & river vus, 2 yr garage parking, tax abatement ............$925,000 2120 Pine St Large beautifully restored Victorian, 5 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, original features, patio, parking available .......... REDUCED $899,000 212-24 S 24th St #2420 Filter Walk Spectacular +/-2600sf, 4 bedroom, 3.5 bath, f/p, h/w flrs, 2 gated patios, 2 decks, parking ..$879,000 2001 Catharine St Corner 3 bedroom,2.5bath,+/-2500sf, roof deck, garage, tax abatement, 5 yrs young ...................................$659,000 251 S 22nd St B, Chandler Pl NY style full floor, +/- 1339sf, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, f/p, south facing garden, parking ...........$499,900 2038 Pemberton St Spectacular new renovation, 2 bedrooms, S O 1.5 Lbaths,Dden, steel ! stairway, glass, exposed brick & stone ....$399,900 1500 Chestnut St, 13E, The Ellington 1 bedroom, 1 bath luxury condo, central location, 24 hr doorman .............................$251,500
OPEN SUNDAy, 11/7 12-1PM
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Call Viv Gilliam
1435 Bainbridge St Announcing Artisan 2! Bold contemporary 4br,3.5b, +/-4000sf, elevator, chef’s kitchen, 2 panoramic decks, 2 car garage, 10 yr tax abatement...............$1,399,000 644-650 N Sydenham St, Art Museum Area New Townhouses 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, deck, garage parking, tax abatement.....................................................................................................REDUCED $549,900
Call Izzy Sigman
$399,900
$419,000
CENTER CITY NEW CONSTRUCTION
Traditional 4br,1.5b, h/w flrs, fireplace, many original details, beautiful block, new price!
Bold contemporary 4br,3.5b,+/-4000sf, elevator, chef’s kitchen, 2 panoramic decks, 2 car garage, 10 yr tax abatement
Call Robert Volpe or Karen Joslin
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239 Sigel Street $159,900 Well maintained 2 bedroom, 1 bath home on lovely Pennsport block!
Large corner mixed use property with garage! Part of the first floor is office space with the rest of the building being residential with 4 bedrooms, 1 bath, and den!
5 unit building, 4 apartments + store, separately metered, central location!
Check out my website, www.mccannteam.com, for amazing property photos and the best virtual tours online! 125 Hoffman Street $169,900 Great 2 bedroom, 1 bath home with hardwood floors, new windows, and rear deck!
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NEWMercy THIS WEEK! 2330 Pine $169,900 $599,000 2565 Coral $199,900 1648-52 E. Passyunk Ave $850,000 138 Street Spacious 3BD/2BA, in-law suite, exposed1220 brick, fireplace, hot Large rehabbed 4BD/1BA, modern $159,900 kitchen, rear yard, high S. Clarion Wonderful investment opportunity! Commercial Nice 2 bedroom, 1 $199,900 bath home in tub, being gorgeoussold EIK, deck. ceilings. Small 2 bedroom, 1 bath home on great block Charming 2BD/1BA, hardwood floors, lovely yard, as0is condition on balcony. nice block! property with2 stores and bi-level apartment 1805 Pine $2,350,000 $255,000 with pine floors. 1321 E Hewson True grandeur, 5BD/5.2BA, library, den, wet bar, 10 fireplaces, Large 4BD/1BA, den, huge roofdeck, hardwood floors, GRAD HOSPITAL $285,000 above on busy shopping corridor! 124 Mercy Street $179,900 Beautiful 2BD/2.5BA, recently renovated, finished basement, elaborate details, 2 car garage! stainless appliances. 1210 Point Breeze Ave $169,900 custom kitchen. Nice 2 bedroom, 1 bath home with hardwood ITALIAN MARKET 2 story property 998 with multiple office spaces and OLD CITY/LOFT DISTRICT N Randolph $315,000 and central air! GRAD HOSPITAL floors, nice kitchen,$359,900 $259,900 garage$325,000 zoned C2. Beautiful 4BD/1BA, stainless appliances, large yard, new 1416 S. 7th Street 1010 Race PC Handsome 2BD/1.5BA, renovated home, old world details, windows, c/a. Fabulous 2BD/2BA, exposed brick, great views, stainless Nicely renovated 3 bedroom, 2 bath home with freshly painted, stainless 122 appliances. Dudley Street $259,900 118 Durfor $179,900 appliances, hardwood floors. 1227 Mercy Street 1836 Cedar $344,900 central air, wide open kitchen with stainless steel 1 bath home with beautiBeautiful 3BR, 1BA, h/w flrs, bckyard, bay wndw, GRAD HOSPITAL Gorgeous 2 bedroom, $519,900 $209,900 Sun drenched corner 3BD/2.5BA, open floor plan, gas Market From $329,900 Spectacular 3BD/2.5BA new construction, roofgas terrace, deck, 112central appliances, central air, and lovely master bedful wood floors, fireplace, air, custom hi ceilings, EIK, nu w/w crpt, c/a, 42” cabinets. fireplace, beautiful kitchen, finished basement. Gorgeous units with marble baths, bamboo floors, custom Charming 3 bedroom, 1 custom kitchen, fireplace, central vac. kitchens, open living spaces, pending! kitchen, rear patio, plus finished basement withtax abatement bath home with finished 2335 S. Percy Street $189,900 $415,000room suite 223 Fairmount WASH WEST $1,250,000 media room, office, 241-43room! Chestnut F $859,000 New construction, 3BD/2BA, fantastic roof deck, hardwood basement, central West air, facing and2BD/2.5BA Beautifully renovated 2 bedroom, 1 bath home penthouse, hardwood floors,and 330 sflaundry 1229 S. 8th Street $319,900 Amazing 2BD/2BA, heated floors, 3 sided fireplace, custom floors, wired for sound, great kitchen! terrace, beautiful views! nice rear yard! with rosewood flooring, custom kitchen and Queen Village kitchen, one of$349,900 a kind! 146 McKean Very large 6 bedroom, 1 bath home with 3 powUniversity City 805 Nand Lawrence $459,900 $639,900 bath, high ceilings, central air! SOCIETY HILLcrnr office/store w/ 2 BR apart. above Wonderful From $169,900 great in need somedetails, cosmetics Great 3BD/2.5BA, garage, brick patio, stainless appliances,der room inExtra widearea 3BD/2.5BA, manyoforiginal New construction, 1-2BDs, low taxes, 10 year tax (rent $1000). Current Take-out w/ c/a, kitch & 1034 Waverly $279,000 2601 S Mildredhardwood floors, generous deck. $189,900 exposed brick, fireplaces, office/den. abatement, hardwood floors, granite counters, stainless 10 Tasker Street $349,900 Pristine 2BD/1BA, wood-burning fireplace, updated kitchen, prep area. Nice cornr duplex. rented for $875 & $1000 901 NFlrs Penn #R1902 $999,900 generous patio, deck. appliances, high efficiency HVAC, beautiful finishes! corner 3BD/2.5BA, resp. New Kitch,Amazing BA, windws, gasunobstructed heat, c/aviews, gourmet Wonderful brickfront home with 3 bedrooms, 2 1507-09 E. Moyamensing $375,000-450,000 kitchen, stunning entertainment console, private terrace, baths, hardwood floors, exposed bricks, and The Willings exquisite common spaces. 211-15 S 4th From $757,000 2608 S 9th Street $189,900 The Lofts at Pennsport Beautiful 1-2BD units, high ceilings, recessed lighting, granite lovely kitchen with granite countertops! Lovely 3BR, 2.5BA, spacious,ARTnuMUSEUM drs, yard, Luxurious lofts in fabulous building! 2 bi-level counters, exclusive 4 residence with 24 hour doorman and AREA A/C, many other great amenities. w/w crpt, cust wndw treamnts, mdrn EIK, abund 1612 S. 8th $359,900 lofts and 2 penthouses with private decks to 918 N Bambrey $233,900 cabinets. 227-31 S 6th #2NWchoose from! These $2,150,000 are a must-see! Renovated 2BD/1.5BA, finished basement, granite and Very large, renovated, 3 story, 5 bedroom, 2.5 Spectacular 3BD/2.5BA, private elevator entrance, deeded stainless kitchen, nice outdoor space. 2610 Dudley Street $194,900 bath, corner home, finished basement, indoor parking, 12 ft ceilings, magnificent open kitchen, WHITMANNow is truly the time to 3BR, buy!1BA private courtyard. Lovely homeArch w/#1001 GARAGE h/w flrs, $464,900cherry/oak floors, new oak kitchen, mosaic tile 2200-28 2309 South Front Juliet St balcony overlooking 532 Porter Street $129,900 Luxurious 2BD/2BA loft condo, c/a, hardwood floors, high Interest rates are the lowest great light, in a convenient location to everything! $229,900 VryWASH niceWEST 3 BR, 1.5 BA, h/w flrs, EIK, w/w crpt, ceilings, floor to ceiling windows, granite kitchen, stainlessbaths, spacious bedrooms, central air! appliances, garage parking. Beautiful 3 bedroom, bath, ceiling fans, wndw $459,900 2721many S. Cleveland Street $199,900 treatments. in years! There are 1225IPanama 1242 Ellsworth $459,900 Impeccably restored 2BD/1.5BA, custom kitchen, stainless with brick front, finished Large updated 32018 bedroom, 2 bath home with finGreen $899,900 great$149,900 homes out there and appliances, garden. 412 Wolf Street restored 4BD/3.5BA mansion, antiqueBrand new, 3 bedroom, 3 bath, garage, roof basement c/a, rear deck ished basementBeautifully and fireplace. GreatVictorian value! chandeliers, formal drawing room, soaring ceilings, full Nice 3 bedroom, of some TLC!will pay closmany sellers GRADUATE HOSPITAL 1 bath home in need deck, custom kitchen and bths, 10 year tax and patio area, a great apartment on 3rd floor. 1520 Tasker Street $199,900 space. ing costs! We have plenty of abatement $169,900 2104 Montrose 346 Fitzgerald Street $285,000 Large 5 Bedroom, 1 bath homeBELLA withVISTA newly Stunning 2BD/2BA renovation, finished basement, spacious Bella Vista Lovely bedroom, 1financing bath home with available through remodled 1st floor, new kitchen and bath, and bedrooms, tons of closets, largerehabbed rear yard, new2deck, RENTALS Society Hill $549,900 1008 S Randolph $250,000 gorgeous kitchen. central air, new kitchen and bath, and large yard! new windows throughout! in low rise condo $419,900 Nice 2BD/1BA with den, new floors, new kitchen, tons of Liberties West 2 BD condos our mortgage company, This is a wonderful 3BD/2BA home with den, deck, closets, rear yard and deck. 2208 Carpenter $309,900 Large tri-level apartment above retail first floor.4 322 Ritner Street $199,900Mortgage. building in million dollar landscaped courtyard with deeded parking and a common courtyard and garden 1618 Jackson $199,999 Trident Lovely 3BD/2BA, deck, skyline views, central air, hardwood fireplaces, garden, roof deck potential. Kater3 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, $329,900 areas, custom kitchen. 3BR, appliances. 1BA, recent rehab, enclsd porch, floors, kitchen with Modern granite and stainless Handsome brick1351 front, hardwood floors,beautiful storage, andgreat parking!! $1000++ Please call us today Beautiful 2BD/2.5BA new construction, finished basement, http://520South4thStreetPHL.com/ w/w carpet, EIK, semi-fnshed bsmnt, c/a, and extra large livingtworoom, high custom ceilings, master suites, kitchen,exposed fantastic roof deck. Avail Now Call Mike McCann 215-440-8345 726 S 24th $359,900 We can helP! Gorgeous 3BD/2BA high-end renovated home, finished beams, formal dining room and Berber carpet. clng fans basement, large rear yard, hardwood floors, stone & tile 1011 Christian $359,900 435 Ritner Spacious, 3 bedroom, 1 bath, sepaasK FoR MIKe Mccann baths, tons of light! 364-366 Snyder Well kept 4BD/2.5BA, in law suite, great closet space, deck. 1238 S. 17th Street $200,000 $425,000 rate dining room, washer/dryer/central-air, yard. Totally renovated triplex with two 2 bedroom condo development, for215-440-8345 2234 St. Albans Large space for possible $364,900 711 Kimball $379,900 Avail not Call Mike McCann 215-440-8345 Wide 3BD/1.5BA, eclectically styled, custom kitchen, bamboo units and one 1 bedroom unit. Good investment Handsome 3BD/2.5BA family room/office, rear yard, newer merly day care center, zoned-R10, over 5000 sq ft. 2532 S. Colorado floors, Street gorgeous garden. kitchen and baths, 6 years left on tax abatement! opportunity! JUST SOLD $379,900 SOUTH 609 S Bambrey $479,900PHILLY 610 Percy #2 $199,900 1227 Mercy Street $209,900 $579,9002312 Ellsworth Large, very beautiful His- renovated Beautifully 3BD/1.5BA, family room deck, rear yard, 610 Greenwich Street $34,900 Beautiful 3BD/3.3BA, oak flooring, huge EIK, oversized bath, hardwood floors. Nicely renovated, 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath, patio Charming 3 bedroom, toric Girard Estatesupdated twinkitchen andVacant windows. 1 bath home with finished lot measuring 14 X 48. Great developNORTHERN LIBERTIES/ FISHTOWN basement, central air,th and nice rear yard! with 4 bedrooms, 1.5 front home, bamboo flooring, new windows, high 608 baths, S 16th ment opportunity! $599,900 732 S 6 newer construction 3BD/3.5BA, garage parking, finished basement,Fabulous, 2-zoned 2623 Amber $145,000 $619,000 ceilings, central air 2628 Supdated 10th $209,900 large rear yard, wonderful master suite, finished basement. Fresh and hip 3BD/1BA, new windows, rear patio, Gorgeous 3BD/2.5BA, garage, deck, luxury finishes 1324 S. Cleveland $39,900 c/a, sunroom, new AndermrblJuliet foyer, spac. W/ cust kitchen, wood floors, exposed brick. Lovely 3BR, 1.5BA, throughout, balcony, deck off master suite with 833 Mountain Street $289,900 RITTENHOUSE SQ 2 story, SQ/FITLER shell, great opportunity for custom renoson and Pella windows, awesome skyline kitch. views! crpt & wndw treat t/o, mod 2361 E Huntingdon $155,000 Great 3 bedroom, 1 bath home with hardwood vation! original woodwork,407 plus S 20th $425,000 Lovingly restored 2BD/1BA, open LR, hardwood floors, rear S 10th 2848 S. Camac812 Street $219,900 $769,000 Large 3BD/2BA, den, deck, 1st floor is an open art studio with outdoor space, large bathroom. front porch and lawn! Rare 5-6BD/2.5BA, many original features, gorgeous chef’sfloors, and many original details on lovely block! 1541 Dickinson Street $39,900 high ceilings, 2BD apartment above w/ roof deck. Nice duplex withkitchen, a 2 bedroom and 1 room/office, bedroom Rittenhouse Square grand staircase, sitting ample outdoor 1133Great E Susquehanna $184,900 Vacant lot measuring 14 X 72. develop208 Moore Street Society Hill $189,900 space. potential! $459,900 Good 2427 Naudain $499,000 Charming 2BD/1BA, outdoor space, largeunits. bathroom, centralincome Amazing 4BD/2BA, large rearopportunity! yard, random width plank ment Charming 2BD/2BA, rear yard, hardwood floors, woodair. Very nice 2 bedroom, $895,000 1 bath home with renovatQUEEN VILLAGE 810 Watkins Street $259,900 floors, large EIK, skyline views! Completely renovated 3-4BD/2.5BA home with refinished burning fireplace, two bedroom suites. room, allburning new kitchen stain2334 E Fletcher $184,900 1212 Durfor Street $149,900 Charming home with 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, new $599,900ed living/dining pine floors, three wood fireplaces,with new kitchen 2323 South $579,900 Well maintained 2BD/1BA, updated kitchen, hardwood floors, 314 Monroe hardwood floors,fornew 3 BR, 1 BA, AS-IS, A/C, Beautiful 3BD/2BA, with partiallystainless finished basement, andappliances, baths and one year prepaid parking 2 cars. cherry floors, lovely kitchen steelden, one less steel Free standing cornerNice 3BD/2.5BA, wood-burning fireplace, w/w crpt, spacious bath.EIK, picture pre-paid parking, wood-burning fireplace, granite andBerber Carpet and central air on desirable block! stainless steel appliances, hardwood appliances, andyear nice rear yard! window, full floors, tiled open BA,LR/DR, yard, gas stv, great locale. stainless kitchen. parking!
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1600 Arch St. #1410 Rarely avail., lrg fully upgraded studio, custom closets, cabinets, counters 1916 Cambridge St. Renovated Art Museum townhome w/hwflrs, full fin bsmt, granite counters 83 N. Judson St. 3br/1ba, Recently renovated on quiet street. HWflrs, backyard, unfinished bsmt 870 N. 28th St. #211 Fierce contemporary multi-level w/XL city view deck. Open SS KIT, Parking 558 N. Judson St. Completely rehabbed & redone! Amazing details t/o & an incredible master ste 2524 Aspen St. Stunning Victorian on favorite Art Museum block!
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1233 S. 18th St. 2br/2.5ba townhouse, total rehab, intercom, H/W, fenced yard, granite, fin bsmt 1823 Pine St. #4 1br/1.5ba Newly remodeled bi-level condo w/pkg! HWflrs, room for entertaining 2018-2032 Walnut St. Fully upgraded 1br condo, Luxurious Wanamaker House. SS Appls, HWflrs 1516 South St. #2A Lrg, Dramatic bi-level 2br/2ba, boutique conversion walk to Rittenhouse Sq. 1616 Naudain St. Lovely, renovated spacious 2br/2ba in walking distance to CC. Garden, quiet st. 1737 Chestnut St. #301 Location and Space – on one flr. 2 Mstr Stes w/baths. HWflrs, grt light 1701 Locust St. #2005 Warwick Condominium: Split 2 br/2.5ba high floor, great views 2413 Manning St. Reduced 2+br/2+ba, garage home xtra wide 4-story townhome in Fitler Sq. Charming Block 1607 Kater St. MUST SEE! PRICED TO SELL! Unique location, quaint street w/unique Skyline View! 418 S. Taney St. Park side home, 3+br/2+ba, LR w/FP, sep DR, EIK, Wd flr, patios, 2FP’s, garage 2128 Spruce St. 4-5br Townhouse located in Rittenhouse Square
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800 N. 48th St. New Construction! 1136 S. 26th St. New 3br/3ba; alarm system; bay windows; master ste; roof deck; fin bsmt 309-313 Arch St. Loft condos in the heart of Old City w/vintage HWflrs, high ceilings & more 767 S. Cleveland St. Brand New! Pre-Construction! 3br/2ba, 2-Story Townhouse, Ready 12/10 1329 Annin St. 1br/1.5ba, 3-story home with garage parking, roof deck, new construction 709 S. Mole St. New Construction ; 3br/2.5ba; Fin Bsmt; HW flrs; Granite Counters: SS Appls 1836 Manton St. Brand new construction; 3br/3ba; sec sys; master ste; roof deck; fin bsmt
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SOCIETY HILL / WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST 1109 Spruce St. Units 2R, 3R Your choice of two 1br/1ba units. 2R totally renovated w/granite & SS Kit 1109 Spruce St. #4 New Listing. Totally rehabbed loft style condo. Deluxe granite & SS kitchen 927 Spruce St. 2R Deluxe Jr. 1br/1ba w/new kitchen. Unit contains a queen size Murphy bed 255 S. Hutchinson St. New listing! Historic 2br/1.5ba on charming cobblestone street 1109 Spruce St. #1R Deluxe bi-level 2br/2ba totally renovated unit. Deluxe Granite & SS Kit 1110 Waverly St. 3br/2.5ba, 1526 sqft corner home, quiet cherry tree lined st. Move in ready. Garden 506 Pine St. Gracious townhouse with one-car parking in the heart of Society Hill!
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QUEEN VILLAGE/ BELLA VISTA / GRADUATE HOSPITAL / SOUTH PHILA. 2335 Mountain St. Completely renovated 2br with hwflrs, granite countertops & rear yard $89,900 2112 Mole St. Well maintained spacious 2br home in good condition. Move in condition, very clean $124,900 2316 S. Franklin St. 3br/1ba, HWflrs t/o. Recessed lighting, spacious living room, renovated KIT $135,000 343 Emily St. Pennsport home w/1.5 baths & central air. 1st flr offers lrg updated eat-in-kitchen $147,900 911 W. Shunk St. Open flr plan, Well maintained, 9’ ceilings, Bright eat-in-kitchen $149,900 2439 S. 9th St. 3br/1ba. Home has large EIK, 1st flr laundry, large closets, Great location $155,000 1107 Emily St. This two bedroom home has been well maintained and updated $169,900 1805 S. 8th St. Great value for beautiful 3br home in Pennsport. Sep bkfst rm, patio, 1.5 baths $159,000 1245 S. 18th St. 3br/1.5ba gorgeous rehab, hwflrs, new kitchen w/granite, ceramic tile baths $179,900 1515 S. 2nd St. Fabulous! 3-story w/huge yard, neat & clean t/o. Needs some TLC, New Roof ’07 $229,000 525 Fitzwater St. #15 Abbott’s Ct. Gated Community, all new electric, plumbing, heating, C/A. low taxes OPEN HOUSE Fr $239,000 822 Kimball St. Location, Location, Location. Three story home in move in condition $249,900 1711 Wolf St. 4br home was rehabbed just 5 years ago & meticulously maintained & upgraded since $264,900 934 S. 23rd St. Marvelous newly renovated townhome in Graduate Hospital, hwflrs & rear courtyard $275,000 606 Pemberton St. 3br/1ba 3-story home w/large rooms, wall to wall carpeting, shared patio $275,000 OPEN HOUSE $275,000 720 S. Percy St. Well kept, recently updated Trinity. New windows, electric, HVAC & roof 608 Pemberton St. 3br/1ba, Modern upgrades, bsmt laundry, EIK, shared patio, new windows $295,000 OPEN HOUSE $299,000 2238 Kimball St. Low Price for Gorgeous New Construction in Graduate Area! 3br/2ba, hwflr, patio 1228 Ritner St. Beautiful re-construction. This home has is all! $299,900 145 Moore St. $25,000 price reduction! 3br/2.5ba, Hwflrs, C/A, granite, 3rd flr master suite w/deck, 1500sqft. $299,999 2533 Grays Ferry Ave. Complete renovated home with gorgeous finishes, huge roofdeck, city views $315,000 OPEN HOUSE $319,000 714 S. Marshall St. 1br contemporary townhome, garage parking, choice Bella Vista Street 200 Lombard St. #744 Very nice 1br/1.5ba condo. H/W, great views fr balcony, great bathrooms $327,900 OPEN HOUSE $334,900 919 Christian St. Spacious Bella Vista home just steps from the Italian Market OPEN HOUSE $415,000 315 Monroe St. Bi-level Condo in Desirable Queen Village OPEN HOUSE $429,000 500 Admirals Way #408 Gorgeous 2br/2ba condo in Naval Square! Mster Ste, Pkg, HWflrs, balcony 836 S. 2nd St. Huge 4-story, 3 bedroom townhouse with multiple balconies and garage! $500,000 15 Christian St. Fantastic 3br/3.5ba townhouse in Queen Village. One car garage, elevator $565,000 OPEN HOUSE $574,500 2011 Catharine St. Newly rehabbed! 2-car pkg., 3br/3.5ba, wood flrs, deluxe kit w/granite & SS
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2155 Montrose St. New (2400sqft) corner home across fr park. 3br/2.5ba, open flr plan, custom kit 2514 Grays Ferry Ave. 3br/2.5ba; 2400 sqft; HWflrs; Recessed Lighting; Granite Counters, more 2516 Grays Ferry Ave. New construction; 3br/2.5ba; sec sys; master ste; roof deck; fin bsmt; garage 2518 Grays Ferry Ave. 3br/2.5ba; 2400 sqft; HWflrs; Resessed lighting; Granite Cnters; SS Appls 2520 Grays Ferry Ave. New construction; 3br/2.5ba; sec sys; master ste; roof deck; fin bsmt; garage 2522 Grays Ferry Ave. New construction; 3br/2.5ba; sec sys; master ste; roof deck; fin bsmt; garage 2524 Grays Ferry Ave. New construction; 3br/2.5ba; sec sys; master ste; roof deck; fin bsmt; garage 1346 Crease St. Price Reduction! 3br/4ba Green home, quiet st. Solar ready, 11ft ceilings, garage 1221 S. Philip St. 3br/2.5ba New constructions w/1 car garage, hwflrs, hi ceilings, open kit, deck 629-31 S. 13th St. #A Choose your finishes, 3br/3ba, fin bsmt, 660 sqft, Roof Deck!
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Minimum Income Monthly Cost Monthly Tax Total Incld. Mtg, Condo Savings in a 31% for 10% Down Cash Fee & Taxes Tax Bracket Required Financing
Monthly After Tax Cost
the philadelphian the philadelphian the philadelphian the philadelphian the philadelphian the philadelphian
Duplex penthouse, 3BR, 2.5BA, balc. w/panoramic city and Fairmount views, high ceilings, bright & sunny throughout 4,049 sf of completely customizable space that can be designed to the buyer’s desire 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, unobstructed city skyline views, wood floors, large balcony, 2017 sf 1 bedroom, 1 bath, brand new kitchen and bath, wood floors, Art Museum view 2,205 sf of completely customizable space that can be designed to the buyer’s desire 1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, upgraded kitchen wood floors
4,207 4,049 2,017 1000 2,205 1127
$699,000* $599,900* $579,900* $289,900 $275,000 $209,900
$179,830 $153,493 $149,496 $43,267 $40,731 $36,661
$5,471 $5,038 $3,760 $1,939 $1,733 $1,818
Location
AVENUE OF THE ARTS
Total Square Footage
Price
Minimum Income Monthly Cost Monthly Tax Total Incld. Mtg, Condo Savings in a 31% for 10% Down Cash Fee & Taxes Tax Bracket Required Financing
Monthly After Tax Cost
the grande acadeMy house acadeMy house center city one lenox acadeMy house acadeMy house center city one
Bi-level penthouse, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, wood floors, large high-end kitchen 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, renovated kitchen and master bath, large balcony One bedroom, one bath, upgraded kitchen and bath, Juliet balcony, W/D 1 bedroom, 1 bath, high floor, balcony with panoramic views of the city to the south, excellent closet space, W/D 1 bedroom, 1 bath, wood floors, open gourmet kitchen, bay windows bring excellent light, large living area 1 bedroom, 1 bath, panoramic southern views, Juliet balcony, renovated bath and kitchen 1 bedroom, 1 bath, high floor, wood floors throughout, updated kitchen and bath 1 bedroom, 1 bath, spacious balcony, magnificent city views to the south, abundant natural light
1,437 1,111 705 897 966 705 861 873
$475,000 $375,000 $289,000 $259,900 $263,900 $259,900 $245,000 $240,000
$65,578 $56,157 $42,702 $41,412 $40,023 $39,043 $37,511 $36,972
$2,824 $2,473 $1,772 $1,720 $1,761 $1,661 $1,710 $1,563
Location
RITTENHOUSE SQUARE
Total Square Footage
Price
Minimum Income Monthly Cost Monthly Tax Total Incld. Mtg, Condo Savings in a 31% for 10% Down Cash Fee & Taxes Tax Bracket Required Financing
the rittenhouse barclay lanesborough lanesborough 1900 rittenhouse lanesborough barclay parc rittenhouse parc rittenhouse 1830 rittenhouse warwick condoMiniuMs warwick condoMiniuMs the rittenhouse parc rittenhouse warwick condoMiniuMs
Penthouse, 2 bedrooms, 2 full baths, 2 half baths, high end finishes and appointments throughout, balcony with city views 3bedroom+den, 3.5 baths, marble foyer, formal dining rm, sunny eat-in kitchen, 10’ ceilings, moldings, oak herring bone floors, 3 gas fireplaces 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, brand new, very high ceilings, his and hers master baths, custom kitchen, exquisite detail throughout. Tri-level penthouse with 1600 sq ft of terrace space, being sold unfinished, private elevator access 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 270 degree views including Rittenhouse Square, chefs kitchen, upgraded throughout 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, study/den, open floor plan, coffered ceilings throughout, chefs kitchen, luxurious master suite 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, herringbone wood floors, EIK, crown molding and other custom finishes throughout, Rittenhouse Square views 2 bedrooms plus den, 2 baths, den/study, high ceilings, oversized windows overlooking Rittenhouse Square, upgraded custom kitchen, sun soaked master suite 2 bedrooms plus den, 2.5 baths, large balcony over Rittenhouse Square, open kitchen, hardwood floors, marble baths 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, upgraded kitchen, original hardwood floors and molding, lots of light 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, hardwood floors, 270 desgree views, open kichen, marble baths, custom closets, W/D 3BR, 3BA, Bamboo flrs., spac. Kit w/custom wood cabinetry, granite countertops, marble baths, 3 exposures, gym and hotel services 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, completely renovated with high end finishes, views of Rittenhouse Square from every room 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, terrace on pool club deck, open custom kitchen, marble baths, wood floors 2 bedrooms + den, 3 baths,gourmet kitchen, marble baths, walk-in-closets, hardwood floors
3,952 3,293 3,467 3,413 3,200 3,419 2,638 2,221 1,552 2,275 2,000 1,978 1,560 1,272 1,614
$3,500,000* $834,620 $2,900,000* $666,258 $2,750,000* $636,038 $2,500,000* $579,879 $1,975,000* $475,252 $1,900,000* $510,871 $2,195,000* $511,632 $1,395,000* $349,934 $1,075,000* $306,402 $1,295,500* $309,704 $1,290,000* $174,122 $1,350,000* $181,323 $995,000* $242,439 $849,900* $201,948 $829,000* $115,051
$889,056 $619,296 $607,268 $557,842 $522,588 $505,196 $501,005 $362,728 $304,997 $318,887 $373,141 $371,644 $273,743 $206,151 $246,527
$20,745 $14,450 $14,170 $13,016 $12,194 $11,788 $11,690 $8,464 $7,117 $7,440 $8,707 $8,672 $6,387 $4,810 $5,752
$3,725 $2,632 $2,605 $2,351 $2,124 $2,101 $2,094 $1,511 $1,320 $1,321 $1,757 $1,795 $1,090 $855 $992
$17,020 $11,818 $11,565 $10,665 $10,070 $9,687 $9,597 $6,953 $5,796 $6,119 $6,949 $6,877 $5,298 $3,956 $4,761
1,380 1,037 1,050 1,075 1,350 712
$725,000* $599,000* $595,000* $550,000* $429,900 $399,900
$145,000 $147,283 $143,766 $133,706 $62,466 $53,426
$217,432 $170,623 $153,060 $146,037 $137,002 $106,710
$5,073 $3,981 $3,571 $3,408 $3,197 $2,490
$2,938 $659 $619 $580 $442 $486
$4,251 $3,323 $2,953 $2,827 $2,755 $2,003
Studio, city views, large marble bath, hardwood floors, excellent natural light Studio, high floor with city views, walk in closest, wood floors, marble bath Studio, high floor, view of Rittenhouse Square, wood floors excellent closet space
583 423 583
$379,900 $229,900 $215,000
$55,358 $32,772 $33,082
$114,993 $62,166 $66,762
$2,683 $1,451 $1,558
$401 $226 $4248
$2,282 $1,225 $1,310
Location
SOCIETY HILL
Total Square Footage
Price
Minimum Income Monthly Cost Monthly Tax Total Incld. Mtg, Condo Savings in a 31% for 10% Down Cash Fee & Taxes Tax Bracket Required Financing
Monthly After Tax Cost
bank building society hill towers society hill towers society hill towers society hill towers society hill towers bank building
2 bedrooms plus den, 2.5 baths, hardwood floors, high-end open kitchen, designer bathrooms Two bedrooms, one bath, parquet wood floors, washer/dryer, unobstructed river views, floor-to-ceiling windows Corner 1 bedroom, northwest view, wood floors in living room, updated kitchen One bedroom, one bath, river views, custom kitchen and bath One bedroom, high floor, river view, investment opportunity 1BR, 1BA, magnificent river views, high floor, wood floors throughout Raw space that can be customized to the buyers desires, hotel services and amenities available
2,117 1,133 775 700 700 700 1,286
$875,000* $399,000 $329,900 $297,500 $290,000 $275,000 $269,000
$207,313 $58,788 $47,977 $43,513 $42,577 $40,731 $41,367
$4,291 $2,562 $1,951 $1,806 $1,798 $1,733 $1,933
Location
WASHINGTON SQUARE
Total Square Footage
Price
Minimum Income Monthly Cost Monthly Tax Total Incld. Mtg, Condo Savings in a 31% for 10% Down Cash Fee & Taxes Tax Bracket Required Financing
independence place independence place independence place independence place independence place hopkinson house hopkinson house independence place independence place
3 bedrooms, 3 baths, east facing river and city views, modern kitchem, hardwood floors, balcony, laundry room 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, open chefs kitchen, upgraded bathrooms, hardwood floors, balcony 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, hardwood floors, upgraded kitchen and baths, granite wet bar 1 bedroom, 2 baths, plus den, completely renovated with custom kitchen and designer baths, balcony, hardwood floors 1 bedroom, 1.5 baths, alcove, Washington Square views, completely upgraded throughout 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, wood floors, balcony, southern exposure Deluxe 1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcomy with views of Washington Square and the river, renovated kitchen and bath 1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, laundry room, excellent condition 1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, excellent value
3,015 1,977 1,977 1,173 1,118 1,200 1,063 928 928
$1,250,000* $250,000 $975,000* $234,783 $769,000* $187,954 $579,000* $139,761 $499,900 $71,144 $379,900 $56,515 $350,000 $53,908 $299,900 $44,212 $290,000 $42,132
Location
WATERFRONT
Total Square Footage
Price
Minimum Income Monthly Cost Monthly Tax Total Incld. Mtg, Condo Savings in a 31% for 10% Down Cash Fee & Taxes Tax Bracket Required Financing
Monthly After Tax Cost
waterFront square
1 bedroom, 1 bath, wood floors, balcony, high end finishes in kitchen and bath
924
$279,900
$42,318
$1,804
$271,026 $243,586 $191,032 $96,341 $86,724 $88,932
$143,483 $122,944 $88,613 $86,520 $88,045 $82,852 $84,440 $78,608
$6,324 $5,684 $4,457 $2,248 $2,024 $2,075
$3,348 $2,869 $2,068 $2,019 $2,054 $1,933 $1,970 $1,834
$852 $646 $698 $309 $291 $257
$572 $396 $296 $299 $293 $272 $260 $271
Monthly After Tax Cost
open sunday 11/7 1:00 - 1:30pM 1830 rittenhouse square the rittenhouse barclay barclay 250 s 17th street warwick condoMiniuMs the rittenhouse warwick condoMiniuMs dorchester
2bedrooms, 1.5baths, windows overlooking Rittenhouse Square, old world charm, spacious kitchen, formal dining room 1 bedroom, 1.5 baths, eat in kitchem, beautiful sunset views, master suite with large marble bath Two bedrooms, two baths, hardwood floors, old world charm with modern features Two bedrooms, two baths, hardwood floors, building offers 24 hour doorman and gym, located on Rittenhouse Square 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, original wood floors, excellent closet space, W/D, formal dining room One bedroom, one bath, hardwood floors, marble bath, custom kitchen
open sunday 11/7 1:45 - 2:15pM
$217,014 $128,086 $98,340 $90,659 $89,976 $86,724 $95,821
P H I L A D E L P H I AW E E K LY
$319,246 $235,988 $198,717 $140,111 $135,733 $122,407 $115,998 $87,809 $83,461
November 3-9, 2010
$90,810
$5,064 $2,989 $2,295 $2,115 $2,099 $2,024 $2,236
$7,449 $5,506 $4,637 $3,269 $3,167 $2,856 $2,707 $2,049 $1,947
$2,119
$844 $427 $344 $309 $302 $291 $303
$1,403 $1,053 $868 $613 $524 $417 $410 $327 $302
$315
Monthly After Tax Cost
$6,046 $4,453 $3,769 $2,656 $2,643 $2,439 $2,297 $1,722 $1,645
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parc riTTenhouse 225 s. 18th street
Entire floor 3 bedroom, 3.5 bathroom home, 270 degree views, high end finishes & features throughout, 3419 sf
Brand new with 2 bedrooms plus den, 2 baths, very large windows overlooking the center of the Square, upgraded finishes, 2221 sf
$1,900,000
$1,395,000
The phiLadeLphian 2401 pennsylvania avenue
independence pLace 233 s. 6th street
Bi-Level penthouse with 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, large balconies, 16’ ceilings, 4207 sf
2 bedrooms, 2 baths, custom renovations throughout, balcony, fabulous Washington Square & Locust Walk view, 1173 sf
$699,000
$579,000
The riTTenhouse 210 W. rittenhouse square
academy house 1420 Locust street
Studio, wonderful sunset view, large marble bathroom, hardwood floors, 583 sf
1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, high floor, wood floors throughout, updated kitchen and bath, 861 sf
$379,900
$245,000
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