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24 M-E-H Spelling Bee is just O-K.

tax reform is coming. Does Manayunk care? 5 Financial AIDS Organizations, patients struggle to make ends meet. 7 Diplomatic Immunity Church leaders put religious taboos aside to fight AIDS.

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24 First Friday Picks

MusiC 27 The Great Unknown Joy Division bassist Peter Hook celebrates the 30th anniversary of the band’s seminal album. 28 Week’s Worst Twiztid

35 Night Almost Catches Us Earnest local indie just doesn’t quite get there. 36 New Releases Faster, Burlesque and Waste Land. RESTAURANTS ADULT SAVAGE LOVE RECRUITMENT REAL ESTATE OPEN HOUSE MEDICAL RESEARCH STUDIES

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on The web Dress Codes: Are they racist, or just keeping us safe?

Frackin’ A!: Toxic fluid spills into water supply. Still want natural gas drilling?

Times Square in Center City?: Proposal for a “commercial advertising district” pops up.

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Feedback Feeling Empty

Regarding Aaron Kase’s recent story about the empty lots in the city: There are many civic-minded people here in this city who would support a program that offers affordable stewardship for the many vacant and abandoned places. It is so frustrating that so many properties are rotting or sitting dead that could be restored. A friend tried to inquire about an old boarded up bar as a possibility for the hostel but couldn’t reach anyone. Urban legends that rung unfortunately true were passed along to her that the property which has been vacant for decades is privately owned and an exorbitant amount was being asked for it. Now think of this example and multiply it by many more. If we want to consider this a modern, forward-thinking city we need to take action in a modern, forwardthinking way. We need to accept that within this recession there is a young population who is educated, savvy and passionate—that despite our wallets are contributing positively to Philadelphia through art, music, community services and more. Let us propose ideas for these unwanted properties, put in the work to restore them, and create something the city, its citizens and visitors, and our future generations can benefit from. Perhaps these spaces could be rented from the city for a reasonable monthly amount in order to open doors and set things in motion. That Philadelphia isn’t trying its hardest to hold on to these progressive, creative folks is a mistake. Despite all that we are proud of within our community, it is an embarrassment and disappointment. EMILY “BIRDIE” BUSCH

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Regarding Aaron Kase’s cover story about what Philadelphians really think about Mayor Nutter: To answer Richard Emmons question [from the piece]: Yeah, that’s fucked up. Yes, he may have made a whopper of a mistake turning down that snow machine but to use that non-policy-related decision to decide whether not to vote for him is ... well, “fucked up.” Not voting for Nutter is pretty much a vote for the Republican. Do you think a Republican is going to do any better? (Take a look at the governor of New Jersey.) Look, I hate to tell anyone not to vote. So instead, I ask that you educate yourself about actual issues before deciding to vote against a candidate because of how much it snowed last winter. E GILL

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Regarding a PhillyNow post about whether dress codes can be racist: Why does everything have to have a racist tone with you guys? There are only two criteria for entering an establishment: Proper dress and cash. So where's the racism? There is none. If someone can afford to dine at a certain establishment that requires a dress code, then he or she can dress appropriately. Not doing so is narcissistic pure and simple. Frankly I wish more places would have dress codes. There’s nothing more wonderful than sitting down to a $300 meal (our 14th wedding anniversary) at Morimoto and have to witness the hijinks of a tattooed miscreant with untied sneakers, a sixers jersey and his slattern of a girlfriend. They were loud and rude. Same goes for the theater. Why should I sit behind some South Philly goomba in an Eagles jersey who can't shut up during the performance. If people dress a certain way, they act a certain way. PAT I.

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New rules: 1. Don’t talk about hip-hop fight club. 2. If you play hip-hop music at your club, restaurant or bar then you are required to let people dressed in “hip-hop” garb into your establishment. This means baggy jeans, caps, jerseys, white tees, sneakers, necklaces, four finger rings, kangols, leather vests, and backpacks are allowed. 2. If you play hip-hop music but DO NOT follow rule number two then you will NOT be allowed to play hip-hop music for one month. This includes anything created, inspired or produced by The Godfather of Soul, James Brown. 3. Every establishment playing hip-hop music must require all employees to read the following: Total Chaos by Jeff Chang The Gospel of Hip Hop by KRS One The Vibe History of Hip Hop STEVE BELIEVE

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No Small Change

Business-tax reform is coming. Does Manayunk care? By Aaron Kase

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HIV/AIDS organizations, patients struggle to make ends meet. By Gerry Christopher Johnson feedback@philadelphiaweekly.com Bebashi, which supports about 800 minorities living with HIV/AIDS, it didn’t have a food bank. After seeing the urgency—HIV medications can be nauseating on an empty stomach—Bell opened a pantry, but says demand has doubled over the past two years. “We have been inundated with people coming for food,” he says. AIDS organizations’ concerns come at a time when Pennsylvania’s October unemployment rate dipped to 8.8 percent. However, Philadelphia lags behind the rest of the state, with a jobless rate of 11.2 percent, well above the national average of 9.6 percent. Likewise, Camden County fares second worst in the region. Jennifer Stephens, coordinator of the Mazzoni Center’s food bank for people with HIV/AIDS, has kept track of many clients who can’t find a job. “It’s especially hard for older clients to find work and those without degrees,” she says. “Even those who are very hirable are having a lot of difficulty.” On top of unemployment, recent figures show that Philadelphia’s poverty rate surpasses that of the nation’s largest cities. The city also has a rate of HIV infection five times the national average—no coincidence, advocates say, pointing to a July Centers for Disease Control study linking poverty with HIV infections in inner-city neighborhoods. Bell has experienced the correlation firsthand. He says that his clients earn an average household income of $400 a month. HIV/AIDS organizations PhiladelphiaFight and ActionAIDS also report that at least 90 percent of their clients are in poverty. Nurit Shein, executive director of the Mazzoni Center, estimates that half of the HIV patients seen at the medical practice are in poverty and lack essential items such as housing. “If you don’t have running water, you can’t take medication,” she says. “Poverty is affecting those who are HIV positive more than other people.” Meanwhile, the organizations complain that the growing demand for services has not been met with growing dollars. Federal funding has remained flat, but doesn’t cover the cost of care, according to Shurin. “We are constantly adding people to the system but not adding resources,” she says. Philadelphia saw a 34 percent cut in HIV/ AIDS funding from the state starting July 1.

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Raised in South Philly, very little intimidated Marky D., not even the HIV diagnosis he received in the late 1980s. Through persistence, a dream body followed a dream job: By the ’90s, he owned a custom leather shop, earning $100 an hour. Four years ago, Marky D. weighed in at 175 pounds of solid muscle. Then there was the cancer that hit him in March 2006 and with it, a nosedive in his T-cells and a rapid progression to AIDS. “I was a 130-pound weakling,” he says. Consumed by medical bills, he moved from his Dallas apartment to Williamstown, N.J., at the behest of his father, who could no longer pay his son’s rent. Today, at 48 years old, he has regained his weight but not his independence. Receiving disability insurance, he still lives under his father’s roof. “That was the biggest mistake I’ve ever made,” he says about the move. “I’ve been stuck here in this rut and I can’t get out. But I didn’t have any other choice.” Marky D. represents the growing number of Delaware Valley residents faced with the double burden of fighting HIV/AIDS and staying afloat financially. While some officials point to an economic recovery, the region’s HIV/AIDS organizations are worried about a recent surge in clients unable to meet their own basic needs. In Philly, major HIV/AIDS service providers—ActionAIDS, the Mazzoni Center, Philadelphia Fight and Bebashi—express concern about their ability to keep up with the growing demand. “More people need help with concrete things,” says Kevin Burns, executive director of ActionAIDS. There is nothing new about patients not being able to pay for their own medication, which costs upward of $20,000 a year and is subsidized by the government. But Burns says he’s not used to so many requests for basic needs—such as food, housing and transportation—which used to be the domain of clients’ own friends and families. “In the past, we’ve been able to work with clients so their needs can be met through social networks,” he says. “ActionAIDS was built on the concept of friends helping friends. That’s a huge resource that’s diminished because of the economy.” Gary Bell says that 14 years ago when he joined as executive director of Philly-based

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many paid by companies into the city’s perpetually empty coffers, on top of sales taxes, wage taxes, real-estate taxes, use and occupancy taxes plus specialty levies for products like parking and smokeless tobacco. Are Philly’s small-business owners so weary of the oppressive tax burden that they can’t even muster the enthusiasm to pay attention to a potentially game-changing reform? “I’m for whatever’s good for small business,” shrugs Davida Levin, owner of Worn Yesterday, a 24-year-old Main Street landmark. Levin says she had once considered moving to the Ardmore suburb for its simplified tax structure, but in the end decided to stay in the city. “It’s hard to leave when you’re established,” she says. “It costs you a lot more to be in Philly, so you have to really like it.” Miles Bond, owner of the Octavio Miles Boutique, suggests paying the less of the two business-privilege taxes because “for a lot of folks in business, you’re barely breaking even. I guess it depends on how much you’re making altogether.” Akos Racz, who has owned the Volo coffee shop since April, pulls out a calculator to see how he would save more money. “I’d like to see them get more money out of those companies [headquartered outside Philadelphia], as long as it doesn’t put me out of business,” he says about Green’s justification for the reform. “The more money you make, the more money you should pay,” Racz considers, plugging in figures. Finally, he gives up—for the moment—admitting, “I’m not sure what would be best.” “It’s typical,” says Sharrieff Ali, overhearing the conversation in the coffee shop. Ali has owned the Consult Energy Efficient Design company in Center City for three years now and gripes that Council has not done a good job getting the word out about the bill. “If they win the proposal, if it goes through, it doesn’t mean it really has the kind of support that they would like people to believe that it did.” He says the city, or Council, needs to do a better job marketing the potential changes. “Essentially, they need to let business know what the proposal is all about,” Ali says, suggesting that Council set up a website with a calculator for businesses to use. But there is: forwardphiladelphia.com. And Green says he spent all summer meeting with various chambers of commerce, banks, contractors, developers and more. “We’ve basically met with every single person we thought would be a stakeholder,” he says. Somehow, Main Street seems to have missed the message. n

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The city is about to make major changes to the way it collects business taxes—which could potentially become law by the end of the year—but are businesses paying attention? To briefly recap: Council members Bill Green and Maria Quiñones-Sánchez have proposed a bill that would eliminate the netprofit portion of the business-privilege tax (currently at 6.45 percent of declared profits) and nearly quadruple the gross-receipts portion (from .14 percent to .53 percent of total revenue), while exempting the first $100,000 of receipts from taxation. Of 89,000 business-tax payers in the city, Green says about 50,000 will be taken off the tax roles under the exemption, while the remaining companies will pay more. The idea is to shift the burden from small, Philly-based businesses to large companies headquartered outside the city that use loopholes to avoid paying profits tax. The Nutter administration says that plan won’t work, citing a recent Finance Department report that essentially calls the proposal a giveaway to law firms at the expense of the hospitality and construction industries. Green says the finance report is crap, based on faulty numbers and assumptions, but City Controller Alan Butkovitz counters that the Green/Quiñones-Sánchez plan is a dangerous break from precedent with unknown consequences. Regardless of the shape reform takes, it is critically important to the future of the city. A thriving business climate means more employment and more opportunities for hard-working entrepreneurs. There are a lot of tough words going back and forth between politicians right now, each claiming they know what’s best for Philadelphia’s small businesses. Major players from construction, hotel and other industries have weighed in. But what do the small businesses themselves think? We set out to Main Street, Manayunk’s quirky commercial corridor, to find out. Say what you will about self-absorbed yuppies who shop at high-end furniture stores and novelty craft boutiques, but Main Street actually brings money into the city, attracting our affluent neighbors from the Lower Merion suburbs just across the Schuylkill River. What’s more, a surprising number of the shops on Main Street are independently owned small businesses. In other words, this is exactly the kind of place the Council bill is designed to help. So why has no one on Main Street heard of it? Of the 20 or so business owners interviewed, few knew of its existence and none expressed strong feelings about it. The business-privilege tax is just one of

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Diplomatic Immunity

Church leaders put religious taboos aside to fight AIDS. By Aaron Kase

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Sunday morning, the sanctuary at Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church rocks with music. The Men’s Chorus, about 40 older men in blue suits, stands at the back of the stage inside the cavernous room, swaying and singing praises to the Lord. In front of them, seven young ladies and one man dressed in black and white—the praise and worship team—also sing and dance, while an audience of 6,000 looks on from the double-decker seating area, many dancing in the aisles themselves. Soon, the Rev. Dr. Alyn E. Waller, senior pastor at the East Mt. Airy church, takes the

AIDS, roughly four times the national average—by the disease, Philly has spearheaded a faith-based movement over the past few weeks to get the word out about prevention and provide testing through many of the city’s churches, part of a program aimed at reaching black neighborhoods where infection rates are highest. Of those infected, 12,741 are black, and African-Americans account for about two-thirds of new diagnoses in the city. Although Enon Tabernacle is a major participant in the efforts, church leaders say that this particular outreach is nothing new; they strive to make AIDS prevention and care part of their day-to-day activities throughout the year. “It’s not as if we do anything special” for AIDS day, says the Rev. Leroy Miles, associate pastor of pastoral care and counseling, who leads HIV/AIDS support efforts at Enon. “Week in, week out we try to keep this in the forefront,” he says, noting that the church has placed an emphasis on AIDS prevention for about five years now. With total membership in the neighborhood of 16,000, Enon has unparalled reach in getting the message out. The church participated in a citywide HIV testing two weeks ago, netting 120 people who stood in line to find out their status, but

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it also offers testing every week at its Germantown location on Coulter Street. Enon also hosts a LIVE (Living in Victory Every Day) support group for bi-weekly meetings with HIV/AIDS victims or family members of people with the disease. In August, Enon held a “Carnival for the Cure” as well as a HIV science and advocacy training to promote education and testing for the disease. “We’re informing and training community leaders so they have accurate information, and they are informing their own constituency,” Waller says.

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pulpit. Waller opens with some jokes about potato salad at Thanksgiving dinner, but soon whips himself into a frenzy, jumping up and down. “Nothing but the grace of God has kept you from becoming HIV positive,” he projects into the microphone. It was just one line, part of a larger message about serving God, and that’s by design. Today is World AIDS day, set aside to raise awareness about the estimated 33.4 million people worldwide living with HIV or AIDS. As a city particularly ravaged—there are 19,237 Philadelphians living with HIV or

The Rev. Dr. Marguerite Handy, the city’s executive director for faith-based initiatives, says Enon’s work fits in with larger city effort to fight AIDS. “What we have done is sent out information through churches, mosques and synagogues, held meetings and conferences all over and set up five billboards,” she says. The billboards show five religious leaders, including Waller and Handy, standing under a banner reading, “We have been tested for HIV. Have you?” Traditionally, churches have not been part of AIDS/HIV prevention efforts because of their unwavering belief that the spread of the disease is caused by sinful behavior— gay sex, or heterosexual sex with multiple partners—making it an uncomfortable subject to address. That attitude is changing. “Initially, the church was afraid to deal with it,” Miles says. “Now we’re making a commitment to say we’re willing to stand with anyone of any faith … to stand against HIV and AIDS.” Even the Pope, long a staunch advocate against contraceptives, is tenuously getting on board with prevention efforts, writing in a new book that condom use shows “moral responsibility” in some cases when aimed at preventing disease. Though the Baptists worshipping at Enon have no association with Catholic papal doctrine, Miles says that the gesture is still meaningful. “It validates,” he says. Breaking boundaries on sensitive subjects, this month Enon gave out fans and information pamphlets on HIV/AIDS to 10,000 of its congregants over a period of several weeks. The language is straightforward: “Protect: Always use a condom,” the fan reads. Miles laughs. “This is huge, here, just talking about condoms in church,” he says. Nor does the pamphlet shy away from frank talk, with detailed instructions on condom use, like “Holding the tip, unroll the condom all the way to the base of the penis.” It’s not your typical Sunday morning sermon, but with sex on the mind, the church held a recent bible study devoted specifically to the subject. “It was just a very honest, biblically based conversation about sex,” Miles says. “You gotta laugh when you’re hearing ‘anal sex’ in the context of bible studies.” Homosexuality is no longer a barrier to care and support. “It’s not even an issue of gay. That’s not our conversation at all,” Miles says. “It’s an issue of fornication, and in some cases adultery. “ He asserts that no matter how church members contract the disease, Enon is there to help. “We’re not concerned with how,” he says. “We’re loving God’s people in the context in which they come.” The message has reached church members like Terri Miller, who has been attending Enon for four years and says she appreciates the efforts to get the word out about the disease. “We try to help everyone we can,” she says. “We’re all human beings. But for the grace of God, that could be us with HIV.” n

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All of the organizations also report a significant decrease in private, corporate and foundational giving since the recession. “Our donations are way down,” Bell says. Because state funding cuts targeted HIV prevention, many educational efforts had to be scaled back or cut altogether. Keila Canate is the program manager of the Northcentral MOMobile, which operates RESPECT, a five-week program educating low-income women about HIV prevention. She says that without renewed government funds, the program is set to end in December. “It was very valuable,” she says. “We were meeting high-risk women at high schools, at shelters and wherever they were.” The most dramatic cautionary tale may be that of the AIDS Coalition of Southern New Jersey, which shut its doors last summer. Founded in 1988, it was South Jersey’s only drop-in center where people with HIV/AIDS could receive daily, centralized services. In a press release, AIDS Coalition cites “Cuts in governmental support of 40 percent over five years and ever-shrinking private-sector support” for its demise. Marcie Walton, who worked at ACSNJ, says that it was difficult watching her clients deal with “separation anxiety” in the final days. “They didn’t know who they were going to trust and who they were going to get services from,” she says. Marky D. was a client at ACSNJ, relying on it for case management and moral support. “It was very important,” he says. “It was my lifeline.” Carol Wolff, executive director of AHEC, says that ACSNJ’s departure continues to be a huge loss. “A lot of those services haven’t been replaced,” she says. “I’m very concerned about what’s happening to those clients, especially during the holiday season.” She describes South Jersey’s HIV/AIDS services as a maze, and says patients pay the consequences if they fail to navigate it. “Their health and lives will come in jeopardy,” she says. When organizations like ACSNJ shut down, it puts more pressure on the ones that survive. “If another AIDS organization closes its door, those clients still need services,” says Shein. “Where do they end up? My door step.” The lack of resources is an added burden to those afflicted with the disease. “What clients talk about over and over again is the stress,” Bell says. “Just trying to pay the bills, keep a roof over their head, people who go without food so their kids can eat.” Even without kids, Marky D., who describes himself as a “shut in” after ACSNJ’s closure, knows all about stress. Although his new goal is “to be my own man again,” he says he needs help. “I’d never been on unemployment or welfare,” he says. “But ever since this disease hit, I can’t do it on my own.” n

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Paunchy Fox News host Glenn Beck believes we’re in the midst of a slow-but-sure government overthrow, that a shadowy group of dastardly elites are pulling the strings of the puppet show we’re watching—every bit of the news we read, hear and watch is manufactured by a group seeking to manipulate your thoughts and emotions. “If you get past all of the puppets and the strings, if you stop looking at the puppets themselves, you have to see who’s behind the puppets. Who is choosing the puppets and the players? Who’s the puppet master?” Beck asked on his eponymous program—in the first of two special episodes titled “The Puppet Master”—on Nov. 9. (Spoiler alert: The “puppet master” is liberal Jewish Hungarian billionaire George Soros, who seeks to control the media and world through millions of dollars worth of donations to leftist organizations.) “Aggressive constitutionalist” Alex Jones agrees. The popular conspiracy theorist says we’re destined to live Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, “a THX 1138 nightmare with shaved heads and [Child Protective Services] raising all the kids in dormitories.” And soon. “This was actually our plan,” Jones quotes Huxley as saying upon reflection of his seminal work in ’62. “My brother runs UN UNESCO, we’re really going to do this to you early in the next century. It’s all real.” Jones is an Austin, Texas-based radio talk show host and director/producer of such movies as TerrorStorm: A History of

Government-Sponsored Terrorism, Loose Change and Invisible Empire: The New World Order Defined. His two websites, inforwars.com and prisonplanet.tv, track what the New World Order is up to now and what’s on tap next, be it skipping happily toward nuclear war with North Korea to boost the American dollar or poisoning the water supply. Beck and Jones have thousands of followers who believe as they do. They include Tea Party types, the right-of-center Rand Pauls of the world, militiamen who feel this nation’s sovereignty is under attack from some very serious and credible forces. They’re primarily Republican (though more conservative), white, male, married and over 45, according to a New York Times/ CBS News poll. Unearthed in that same poll: Tea partiers are better educated and wealthier than the average American. More than half say the policies of the Obama administration favor the poor, and 25 percent think that the administration favors blacks over whites— compared with 11 percent of the general public. They are more likely than the general public, and Republicans, to say that too much has been made of the problems facing black people. And then there’s Nikki, a 20-something woman drinking with friends at El Toro, a bar on Belmont Avenue, just off Lancaster Avenue in West Philly. She also believes that shadowy forces—the real power behind

the power—are at play to overthrow the American government. The Illuminati: a conspiratorial organization of cultural elites with unspeakable wealth who control world affairs through governments and corporations. Nikki says that President Obama was “selected, not elected” president by the Illuminati, and that he’s now carrying out its homosexual agenda by “appointing more gays to his Cabinet than all the other presidents combined.” But unlike Beck, Jones and their followers, Nikki happens to be young, black and a huge fan of hip-hop. Oh, and she believes rapper Jay-Z is apart of the Illuminati too. “Everybody know that,” she says, her three friends nodding wildly in agreement. The “everybody” she’s referring to is people like herself: mostly young, black and deeply embedded in hip-hop culture. These are wildly different groups: Tea Party patriots believe their country is being taken away from them and being given to people like Nikki. Nikki and her friends contend that the American system is rigged in favor of those fitting the Tea Party profile. Lately, it appears that hip-hop has more in common with Tea Party patriots than it would ever care to admit. Instead of acknowledging the wild success of someone like Jay-Z, a growing number of hip-hop fans attribute his rise into the mainstream elite to him getting in bed

blood oath with a secret society. Jay-Z is in the occult. Jay-Z sold his soul to evil forces to acquire power and influence heretofore unseen by a black entertainer. Jay-Z is in the Illuminati. The evidence is everywhere, hidden in plain sight. It’s in his videos. It’s in his lyrics. It’s in the pyramid-shaped sign he makes with his hand, which you foolishly believe represents his Rocafella/Roc Nation labels. It’s right there in the book he just put out, Decoded. (One of Oprah’s—also rumored to be in the Illuminati—favorite things!) Can’t you see the face and horns of Pagan deity Baphomet swirling in Warhol’s Rorschach on the cover? And speaking of Baphomet, what could the goat skull featured prominently in his video for “On to the Next One” represent if not it? How about the obvious references to Skull and Bones and Masonry? “On to the Next One” has nearly 15 million views on YouTube, and in the countless comments about it, this is the dominant conversation that’s playing out. “Jay-Z is a mason. He said so himself in ‘Run This Town.’” The rumor-mongering has ramped up so aggressively, it’s spilled over into those around Jay: Kanye (check the symbolism in his “Power” video and 30-minute movie “Runaway”); Rihanna (her video for “Rude Boy” is steeped in Masonic imagery); Beyoncé (whose videos and costumes for alterego Sasha Fierce is ripe with Illuminati symbolism). Even 9-year-old Willow Smith, daughter of Will and Jada, is not immune. She was signed by Jay-Z to Roc Nation so, naturally, she’s part of the Illuminati too. “Her first video ‘Whip My Hair’ is out and, as expected, there are some not-so-subtle hints to Illuminati symbolism and mind control,” says website BlackVoices, before breaking down the video, which takes place—according to the site—in a “mind control institution” (complete with blackand-white checkerboard floors used in most Masonic lodges!). “This Illuminati stuff has been popular for a long time,” says Byron Crawford, “your favorite rapper’s least-favorite blogger,” over the phone from his home in St. Louis. “The more hip-hop fans go online, they’re exposed to things like Alex Jones theories about the Illuminati—it’s the two worlds intermingling.” Crawford posts Alex Jones videos often

conspiracy theories last year and are now running around spouting these nonsensical tales.”

Before conspiracy theories hit the Internet, of course, they could be found in books. And one book, in particular, Behold A Pale Horse, was on the bookshelf of many a rapper back in the ’90s, when politically minded hip-hop was riding the crest of a wave that seemed like it might never end and rap music truly lived up to the reputation placed on it by Public Enemy’s Chuck D, “CNN for

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ment with conspiracy theories,” says Marc Lamont Hill, professor and “hip-hop intellectual” at Columbia University; a Fox News and CNN talking head; and Our World with Black Enterprise host on TV One. “In fact, black culture in general has always had pervasive conspiracy theories—in the 1980s people thought the ‘K’ on the Snapple bottle represented Ku Klux Klan or that Church’s Chicken was sterilizing black people. There have always been questions and conspiracies about the structure and nature of power by African-Americans, and naturally those questions have made their way into hip-hop. Powerless people tend to try and make sense of their circumstance in different ways.” He adds: “When you think about the ’90s political hip-hop that was apart of a whole cultural nationalist tradition within hip-hop and within black culture, themes about the Illuminati came up. People were going to black book stores like Hakims in West Philly or Robbins downtown and buying books like Behold a Pale Horse. They were buying books on Free Masonry and Leviathan and reading Malichi York’s books, they were reading the Isis papers and all these books that discussed arrangements of power. They were talking about the Illuminati and the Rothchilds and Bilderbergs.” Hill rationalizes that when people feel powerless, they look for ways to make sense of it. “One way is to blame themselves—‘We don’t work hard enough, we don’t care about ourselves’—that’s certainly been a popular narrative about black people, right? … Another responsive is to say, “They [the powerful] don’t play fair. The game is rigged.” People feeling powerless is why the Tea Party was founded. They were tired of standing by impotently as taxes were raised into oblivion, a health-care system they didn’t want or need was shoved down their throats and more stimulus money was spent in the face of an already Everest-sized debt. It’s why Glenn Beck can get on TV with puppets and prattle on about the evils of a philanthropist who has toppled more communist governments than Ronald Reagan. “You don’t want to completely dismiss people who have conspiracy theories, because part of why these conspiracies develop is they’re plausible,” Hill says. “They’re believable because they happen. People have a healthy suspicion of any kind of power arrangement. Any time people have a large chunk of power, it’s reasonable and natural to believe they didn’t get it fairly.” Hip-hop may have long been cynical about those who dine in the halls of power, but it’s the first time the focus is on one of their own.

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popular in hip-hop, both of the Illuminati and Jay-Z’s possible connection to them— sometimes to great comic effect. “I can’t imagine they power, they put a black family in the white house so they could take away ours.” Sounds like something Glenn Beck might say at a party to friends, but it’s not. It’s from a song, “Dead By Design,” by rapper Canibus. He goes on to rap, “After this album they gonna call me a leader, but I’m not. Because the killuminati just gonna murder me like they did TuPac.” Public Enemy’s Professor Griff is weighing in on the subject, too. Griff now holds lectures on the Illuminati in hip-hop, and has put out a 90-minute DVD lecture explaining The Truth of the evil forces Jay and Kanye are playing with, showing slides of Kanye on the cover of Time magazine as proof. “The cover of Time is reserved for presidents,” he says indignantly. “How’d a rapper get it?” (Also, according to Griff, the Illuminated and those in charge are injecting tones and beats into hip-hop music specifically designed to stimulate the pituitary

“Hip-hop has always had a deep engage-

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black people,”—rappers like Tupac, Paris, KRS ONE, and groups like Poor Righteous Teachers, X-Clan, Digable Planets and Dead Prez questioned power at every turn. Rappers championed the theories in Behold A Pale Horse, a seminal book amongst conspiracy theorists, in an attempt to expose government corruption, secret societies and UFO cover-ups. Some feel it did the job. Among them, the feds: The Clinton White House issued a memo labeling the book’s author the most dangerous radio host in America. About that author: He was ex-Naval Intelligence Officer Milton William Cooper. In June 2001, Cooper predicted a catastrophic event would soon take place on American soil. What’s more, said event would be an attack on the American people by its own government, who’d already lined up a scapegoat to take the blame, Osama bin Laden. Cooper was killed in his Arizona home by sheriff’s deputies on Nov. 5, 2001. Depending on whose story you believe, Cooper was either a truth-seeking patriot of the highest order who stumbled too closely to the truth and paid for it with his life, or a paranoid shell of a man who frequently brandished a weapon in public, took glee in thumbing his nose at law enforcement, frequently evaded paying taxes and threatened the life of a doctor in town. Others contend Cooper was never an intelligence officer with inside knowledge about the inner-workings of power, but

A Pale Horse,” rapper Kweli told hiphopnews24-7.com when asked about Illuminati and its possible association with Jay-Z, Kanye and Beyoncé. “Then I learned that it’s important to know the history of the author and their agenda before you read a book. There are facts to support the existence of the Illuminati, but too much of the fear of it is steeped in religious dogma. A lot of those books are written by right-wing Christian organizations because they don’t like how religion is portrayed in secular society. And they don’t like seeing symbolism that’s used from ancient times, from pagan times, and the word pagan just means no religion, and they get offended by that. You mix that with a large amount of success, you mix that with a Jay-Z and artists like him doing deals with people who people don’t trust, and you put together a theory.”

gland and make the listener horny.) MC Hammer (who now goes by the name King Hammer), has taken to calling Jay-Z “hell boy” on Twitter, and even wrote a track about him and his evil ways, “Better Run Run.” In the video for the song, Hammer baptizes Jay-Z in a river.

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background when a circle of light forms just over his head, like a halo. While they’re lit, Jay-Z makes a devil sign with his right hand, symbolizing both good and evil in the same shot, the dual nature of man, the fight for Jay-Z’s soul. Which will win? Elsewhere in the video, a dour, pale man in a hoodie with a crow tattoo on his chest looks on solemnly. The crow is a Pagan symbol meant to convey cunning or trickery. Celts believed crows were omens for death or conflict. Two men appear in skull makeup in the video, and a diamond-encrusted skull is coated in paint dripping from a hammer, a Masonic symbol … you get the idea. On and on the theories roll; every image dissected in YouTube videos and blog posts, every frame assigned a meaning. Ad infinitum. The Illuminati chatter has reached such a deafening chorus that Nah Right editor Eskay could no longer hold his tongue. “This recent rash of rumors about the alleged Illuminati ties of people like Jay-Z, Rihanna and Oprah and whoever has got to be one of the corniest trends in rap ever,” he wrote in a long post. “This is easily the corniest shit since the ‘Stop Snitching’ debate … I can’t tell you how many times I’ve argued with folks in the comments about this same topic. A Black man (or woman) rises to a certain level of success and the only way to explain that in ya’ll minds is that they must be in bed with some secret society? Shame on you morons who just discovered Internet

instead a petty officer who simply made up most of what he wrote and lectured about, and used a falsified military record to bolster his credibility. Either way, Beyond a Pale Horse has the very unique distinction of being read rampantly by both right-wing and left-wing conspiracy theorists, 45-year-old white males and young hip-hop fans. They could start the world’s most diverse book club. “When I was younger I believed everything I read if it was in a book like Behold

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on his blog, and writes fairly frequently about hip-hop and Jay-Z’s connection to the Illuminati. “And [‘On to the Next One’], it’s just fascinating to look at, it makes for an interesting story,” Crawford says. “At a time when hip-hop isn’t always that interesting, it adds some interesting subtext.” That subtext: The video is shot in blackand-white, symbolizing, or so the theory goes, the Masonic checkerboard floor pattern found in most lodges. It’s also a nod to both white-and-black magic. Jay-Z stands in front of a stark black

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church ends.” For Jay-Z, what had been faint murmurs about his religious affiliation was turned up to 11 about as instantly as it took him to rap that line. Delivered on Jay-Z’s “Empire State of Mind,” it lit the Internet ablaze, and suddenly more scrutiny was being paid to Jay’s songs. “Lucifer” on the Black Album and “D’Evils” off his debut Reasonable Doubt (the chorus of which is rapped by Mobb Deep’s Prodigy, revived from a verse he did on a remix of LL Cool J’s “I Shot Ya”:

enough,” Jay teases afterward. But the lyric that people can’t let go of, is the one where they feel Jay-Z basically admits his allegiance. From website Vigilant Citizen: “Further in the song Jay-Z says ‘I’m in Maison, ugh, Martin Margiela’ which is an upper-end fashion store. English-speaking people usually pronounce the French word ‘maison’ to sound like ‘mayzaun.’ Jay-Z, however, says it to sound like ‘mason,’ as in ‘Freemason.’ There is an obvious doublemeaning here meant to catch the ear of the listener. He basically says ‘I’m in Mason’

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“Illuminati want my mind, soul and my body, secret society tryna keep they eye on me”). This is really when Jay-Z’s stones, as it were, began to not go unturned. In the minds of Christian rap fans looking very intensely, they were finding evidence. The controversy was white hot in the circles where it mattered: rap fans of faith. They took to making angry YouTube video responses—“Jay-Z Disses JESUS CHRIST”—about the lyric. They took to blogs. They took to Twitter. They wanted an explanation. They wouldn’t get one, not right away, but the pressure did manifest in other ways. Jay-Z began to change the lyric when performing “Empire State” live on TV. “Jesus Christ could not save you … ” The act of semi-contrition worked for a bit. The fever began to break. But then the videos started, first with Kanye and Rihanna, for their ubiquitous hit with Jay, “Run This Town.” In it Rihanna is handed a lit torch. She makes the Rocafella sign over her left “all seeing” eye. She and Kanye perform their verses in front of an angry mob, which conspiracy theorists believe are an angry citizenry looking to revolt against the status quo, represented by Jay, Ye and Rihanna, their rulers who want to keep them down. Jay adds lubricant to the rumor mill’s churning gears when he begins to wear a hoodie in public with the words “Do What Thou Wilt,” the official dictum of Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.), a hermetic order modeled after Freemasonry and German Illuminism headed by its most notorious member, noted Occultist Aleister Crowley. And then the lyrics get dissected once again. The last line of Jay’s first verse is “Back to running circles’ round niggas, now we squared up,” and refers, according to sites and blog posts that broke them down, to the Masonic concept of squaring a circle. “I get more in-depth if you boys really real

to make people say ‘Huh, did he really say that?’ as ‘I’m a Freemason.’ Is Jay-Z goading his detractors, stoking the fires? Is he even aware he’s doing it, running the oldest play in the book to dazzling perfection? The countless breakdowns online reek of a certain paranoia, one that might seem familiar to anyone who remembers the Hells Bells: The Dangers of Rock ‘n’ Roll documentary of the 1980s, which basically herded every rock group ever into Devil’s camp, comically even making the case that John Denver was working in legion with Lucifer to corrupt your children’s souls. “Jay-Z and some other people who these accusations have been thrown at, I think they’ve done a brilliant job of using the media, from a pop-culture standpoint, to the best of its ability,” says Tayyib Smith, co-founder of Two One Five magazine. “Whether it’s using those references in the videos or lyrics—it’s brilliant, absolutely brilliant. Because the people who don’t believe it are going to laugh, and the people who do are going to be that much more into it.” To be sure, “Next One” wouldn’t have 15 million views if it weren’t for the talk about it, or if, say, Jay-Z were standing on a yacht sipping champagne instead of hanging out with po-faced omens of death. Jay just planted the seeds. Conservative boogey man aping grew them into a giant tree of intrigue. “People who embrace Illuminati fear mongering are often ignorant of its far right roots,” says Talib Kweli over email. “They often mistake religion for God. So when they hear someone either bad mouth religion or talk about it in its proper perspective, they feel like God is being dissed. This allows them to accept the ridiculous concept that Kanye acknowledging Satan’s influence in his life makes him a Satan worshipper. But if you call yourself a spiritual or religious person and you don’t

acknowledge that the devil is around you, you are a hypocrite. Kanye is just doing what brave artists do, which is paint the picture. Same thing Jay did on ‘D’evils’ and ‘Lucifer.’” “This is Jay-Z, so we’re more apt to believe it,” Hill says. “No one is going to look at, say, a Soulja Boy video and look for symbolism in that because no one thinks Soulja Boy is part of Illuminati. No one is going to look at a Beanie Sigel video, because he doesn’t have any money. It’s not plausible that Beanie Sigel could be in the Illuminati. With Jay, he’s crossed over to such a degree that the discussion is even possible. In some sense it’s honorific to be called Illuminati, it means you’re successful and powerful enough. Ten years ago, the only person in hip-hop anyone could’ve dreamed about saying this about is Russell Simmons. Now, it’s Jay, and he’s riding it. ”

The growing power and influence of Jay-Z as he swells beyond being a hip-hop elite and crosses over into the mainstream elite is why this particular set of rumors has stuck. That and the fact that Jay-Z feeds them, and feeds off them. They are now permanently woven into his narrative, and it bolsters his image. With the world believing he is a Freemason or part of the Illuminati, he becomes the undisputed most powerful rapper breathing. His background helps. Born Shawn Carter on Dec. 4, 1969, the last of four children of mother Gloria Carter, he famously caused her no pain at birth. That’s how she knew he’d be special. He lived in one of the 27 six-story buildings of the Marcy Projects in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. When his father left, Carter’s world fell apart. He began selling crack. Today, he’s an art collector. He tours with U2. He brunches with Warren Buffet. He talks Basquiat. He owns more than a dozen businesses, one of them an NBA team. He’s worth an estimated $450 million. Forbes magazine predicts it won’t be long before he’s a billionaire. He has more No. 1 hits than Elvis. He’s the definition of the American Dream people have stopped believing in. He must be in the Illuminati. What does Jay-Z think about the

rumors? “I don’t know where it came from. I don’t know where it started,” he answers sleepily during an interview back in January with Hot 97 DJ Angie Martinez. “People are really buying into this that you are some sort of Illuminati, devilworshipping, Freemason, something— what are you up to that I wasn’t aware of?” presses Martinez. “There are all these images in videos that people say are deliberate. My question to you is, are you messing with people and doing this on purpose?” “Why would I do that?” Jay-Z asks, voice barely containing at a laugh. “That’s retarded. I really think it’s really silly. For the record, I of course believe in God, but I believe in one God … I don’t believe in religion. I don’t believe in Christians or Mus-

lims. I think all that separates people … I don’t believe in Hell. Am I a part of some sect or cult? That sounds stupid to me.” Of course, the interview—that answer— has been parsed to death. Doesn’t believe in Hell? Doesn’t believe in Christians? Why’s he wearing a cross? As is the nature of this story, the rolling stone just gathered more moss. Perhaps Jay explained it best in his new book, Decoded, when he talked about how good rappers elevate hip-hop to an art form. “Art elevates and refines and transforms experience. And sometimes it just fucks with you for the fun of it.” “[Hip-hop] is meant to be provocative— which doesn’t mean it’s necessarily obnoxious, but it is (mostly) confrontational, and more than that, it’s dense with multiple meanings,” he writes. “Great rap should have all kinds of unresolved layers that you don’t necessarily figure out the first time you listen to it. Instead it plants dissonance in your head.” “The idea that Jay-Z or Kanye are members [of the Illuminati] is beyond ridiculous,” says Kweli. “I remember watching Jay-Z grind as an artist, and I was there for Kanye’s grind. Their grind is too much for the laymen, so the mysteries and the stories start to overtake reality.”

As similar as their theories about the Illuminati may be, this is the crucial distinction between what hip-hop fans and Tea Party right-wingers believe: the rightwing doesn’t fear Jay-Z or Kanye or Oprah. They don’t have the power or money to pull strings. They don’t have the access. Glenn Beck won’t be having a two-part series about Rihanna any time soon. “If we’re talking about real back-door deals, real conglomerations of power, none of these rappers have enough money to be apart of it,” Hill says. “It’s not even plausible from a race perspective, from an economic perspective, that’s just not who rappers are. I know these guys. They’re not in the Illuminati.” “Rapper’s can’t keep a group together, run a label, make a good film, or keep a secret,” says Smith, who, at 39, has worked with hip-hop artists half his life. “Kanye can’t keep his private parts offline for mass consumption, so I have a hard time imagining them having the same organization structure as the Bilderberg Group.” And Jay-Z? His Angie Martinez interview wouldn’t be the last time he’d address the rumors. He’d go on to drop a guest verse about them on Rick Ross’ album Teflon Don: “Couldn’t do nothin’ with me, they put the devil on me/I’d have preferred if niggas squeezed the metal on me/Rumors of Lucifer, I don’t know who to trust/Whole world want my demise, turn the music up/Hear me clearly, if y’all niggas fear me/Just say y’all fear me, fuck all these fairy tales.” Then, the money shot: “Bitch, I said that I’m amazin’ … not that I’m a Mason.” The name of that Rick Ross track? “Free Mason.” Someone call Alex Jones. n

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Appropriations/Great Super 8 In this age of digital encroachment upon the cinematic experience, Super 8 film (the lowgrade, home-movie film stock of the 1960s and ’70s) has developed a devoted following. Revered by amateurs and auteurs, the cheapness and accessibility of Super 8 film defies the bloated, computer-generated multiplex spectacles; the texture alone has the visual pulp and soul of a bygone era. International House follows up this season’s previous installments of small-scale, personal cinema (Winnipeg Babysitter, the annual Home Movie Day) with Appropriations/Great Super 8, a selection of 13 short films spanning four decades of the Spanish avant-garde, including works by art luminaries Eugènia Balcells and David Reznak. Constructed out of found footage with particular emphasis on Super 8, the evening showcases the experimental

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2nd Annual Art Dash to help fund the upcoming move and expansion. At 6 p.m., the gallery doors will swing open to reveal 50 pieces of art donated by anonymous local artists. While one might expect more sophistication from the art world than Black Friday Wal-Mart shoppers who stampede each other to death like war pigs, great art at blowout prices might justify temporarily abandoning etiquette. There will be no time for smooth, contemplative Kantian aesthetic judgments, as each piece is priced at $25 and will be snagged by the fastest, elbowthrowing bidder. Wear a helmet. Elliott Sharp

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Winter Onionland Soon we’ll be in the depths of a cold dark winter, so before it becomes impossible to treat yourself to a night out you should head out to The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium’s presentation of Winter Onionland, a staging of Onion opinion columns like “Upon Reflection, I May have Exaggerated My Skills in Midwifery,” “Hey, Where Did All My Stuff Go?” and “Hang In There! You Live In The Richest Nation In The World!” by some of Philadelphia’s most talented actors. You’ll be helping IRC to fund their first show of the 2011 season, The Empire Builders. So whether you’re a fan of America’s favorite satirical publication or just want to help support local theater, you’ll be in good hands with the IRC. JUliaN GalEttE

Geri Allen & Timeline

Hailing from the hard-bop capital of Detroit, pianist Geri Allen has always made a point of stretching jazz’s parameters, from her early work with Steve Coleman and Charlie Haden to her ’90s duo and quartet summits with the great Ornette Coleman. She’s had an especially strong 2010, releasing the gorgeous solo piano disc Flying Toward the Sound as well as a live album with Timeline, a quartet featuring “tap percussionist” Maurice Chestnut. Her Kimmel show is ostensibly a tribute to Thelonious Monk, but Allen is sure to follow her own muse, with veteran bassist Kenny Davis and new-blood drummer Kassa Overall. Chestnut will get physical, putting a modern spin on a dance form that goes way back. DaviD r. aDlEr 7:30pm. $32-$38. Kimmel Center, 260 S. Broad St. 215.731.3333 kimmelcenter.org

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Black Tusk Black Tusk suggests a primordial battle over charbroiled dinosaur thigh, Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons lining up on opposing sides of the greasy spit, banging their clubs on the ground to a sludgy pulse and snarling. The band’s malevolent ritualistic throb is as deepseated as their Paleolithic eyesockets beneath thick protruding foreheads. The ground quakes and violence seems incipient, a skull-lined fantasy tableau in black velvet, shrouded with sweet sativa smoke. The Savannah, Ga., power trio recalls hometown brethren Baroness with more monochromatic rumble and a swampy swagger. Though the tempos tend to plod the drums possess the rhythmic intensity of hardcore, while guitars slam and thrash theatrically behind a guttural howl. ChriS parkEr $15. 6:30pm. With Crowbar + Reign Supreme. The Barbary, 951 Frankford Ave. myspace.com/ thenewbarbary

Bob Ray’s Down & Dirty Austin Film Tour Last month’s return, It’s What I’m Thinking, Pt. 1: Photographing Snowflakes, isn’t as convoluted as the title. It’s elegant without being overwrought, yet its gauzy tinkling veneer and echo-laden vocals still feel standoffish. Gough’s pretty, heartfelt songs are better served without excess frillery, and therefore perhaps bestrealized live. C.p. 8pm. $25. With Justin Jones. First Unitarian Church Sanctuary, 2125 Chestnut St. 866.468.7619. r5productions.com

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For the second year in a row, Philadelphia’s top glass, fiber, wood, metal, ceramic and mixedmedia artists were invited to test their creativity on an even playing field. Thirty local artists were given a plain ceramic bowl and instructions to transform it into a unique work of art. Each sculpture reflects the individual aesthetic and medium of some of the luminaries of the Philadelphia art world. The “battle” consists not of ceramic-smashing, but of a slightly more civilized auction of the modernist pieces during a cocktail reception, with proceeds benefitting the Art Alliance. haNNah kEYSEr

Sat., Dec. 4, 8pm. $8-$12. The Skybox, 2424 E. York St. 215.925.7676. crashcamfilms.com

5:30pm. $75-$150. Philadelphia Art Alliance, 251 S. 18th St. 215.545.4302. philartalliance.org

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The downward slope of Damon Gough’s career rivals its initial trajectory when he won the Mercury Prize for his intimate, understated debut, Hour of the Bewilderbeast. BDB’s subsequent two releases—the song-laden About a Boy soundtrack and ornate Have You Fed the Fish?—held the line creatively, but his increasing predilection for fussy Bacharach-ian productions weighed down and overwhelmed the next two albums, prompting a four-year hiatus.

Battle of the Bowls

creenings of acclaimed documentary films are generally more exciting when both director and subject are on the run from the law. Drugs, competitive rodent breeding, bone-crushing violence and gross-out cartoons are standard during Bob Ray’s Down & Dirty Austin Film Tour. First there’s Total Badass, which follows Austin denizen Chad Holt as he deals with a felony probation, selling weed, family drama and the difficulties of raising guinea pigs with his girlfriend. Holt and director Bob Ray will be present for a Q&A. The second feature, Hell on Wheels, also directed by Ray, follows the rebirth of roller derby, the gentlest of sports. There’ll also be animated episodes of the filthy CrashToons between features. Hopefully the evening will end without the stars getting arrested. alli katZ

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Whether you prefer crispy or cakey, applesauce or sour cream, there’s likely to be something for every palate at the annual Latkepalooza. Like the name suggests, the Gershman Y’s annual celebration of the potato cake is more than just a potluck—it’s a bonafide party. Revelers can feast on gourmet varietals from Jones, Sabrina’s, Bar Ferdinand, Delicatessen and several other dining hot spots while shimmying to the West Philly Orchestra. Puppets and storytime will preoccupy little nibblers while you go back for seconds, and there’s the opportunity to tie on your apron and throw down in any of three bake-offs: Jewish Apple cake, Mandel Bread and Ruggelach. Register beforehand if you want to compete, and bring your A-game—the champion gets a gift certificate to Fante’s and a good dose of well-earned pride. MiCaEla hEStEr

6pm, 8pm + 10pm. $20. L’Etage, 624 S. Sixth St. idiopathicridiculopathyconsortium.org

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Paper portrait: Work on crumpled paper by Lucy Kim, at Tiger Strikes Asteroid.

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Installation art can sometimes be pretty inscrutable. Is it sculpture? Is it performance? Is it a painting that crawled its way out of the frame like a magic carpet? But these questions are the definition of what’s interesting about art—being asked (or even required) to think. Lucy Kim and Jeesoo Lee, two artists of Korean origin who count installation work as a significant part of their repertoire, will be giving viewers a lot to think about in their upcoming exhibition at Tiger Strikes Asteroid. Born in Seoul and trained at RISD and Yale, Lucy Kim’s work roams the wide range between paintings of celebrity iconography and conceptual installations—her past work includes tinfoil impressions of her apartment and car’s interior and an apple painted with the likeness of Paris Hilton. Jeesoo Lee, also trained in the U.S., has described herself as “a painter working three-dimensionally,” projecting her painterly aesthetic into the realm of sculpture and installation—many of her pieces look like they belong in a pop-up book of abstract expressionism. Both women were formally trained as painters, but felt the need to break out of the frame into the third dimension. Together, their works make for a visceral, tactile experience in which thread, paper, and molded tinfoil jut out into the realm of the viewer. (Emily Crawford) 6pm. Tiger Strikes Asteroid, 319A N. 11th St., 4th floor. tigerstrikesasteroid.com

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W.E.B. DuBois coined the term “double-consciousness” in an 1897 Atlantic Monthly article on the duality of African-American life. He was addressing the difficulty of claiming

an American identity when the color of his skin permanently marked him as Other to most of America—“always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.” Quadruple-Consciousness at Vox Populi multiplies DuBois’ concept by factors of gender and sexuality. Curator Malik Gaines brought together 19 artists, and appropriately, their chosen media are diverse—the show features paintings, musical performances, dance, sculpture and film and video art. Friday’s opening includes performances by Ei Arakawa and Sergei Tcherepnin, New York-based performance artists who use the film Philadelphia to discuss the AIDS crisis. Xavier Cha’s installation features the conflict between performance and the mediated gaze—a live dancer and a cameraman interact as choreography. Closing the evening is Zackary Drucker’s modified drag performance, a question about the roots of the humor when gender and sexuality are turned into something of a minstrel show. The variety is a reflection of Gaines’ goal of “hyperbolizing” consciousness. From playful (Dynasty Handbag’s one-woman show) to haunting (Taisha Paggett’s dance piece), the wide range of geographic, ethnic, social and gender-spectrum backgrounds reflect the new complexity of identity in America. “There is no one answer to the premise I proposed,” says Gaines, “so the work is diverse.” (Alli Katz) 6pm. Vox Populi, 319 N. 11th St., 3rd floor. 215.238.1236. voxpopuligallery.org

Bike Part Art Show

“Bike culture, especially in Philadelphia, has a lot to do with being able to create and reuse something in a new way,” says Kitty Heite, executive director of Neighborhood Bike Works. Evolving from one of the West Philadelphia-based nonprofit’s arts-and-crafts programs in which youths created jewelry out of otherwise unusable scrap parts, the first Bike Part Art Show was held in 2003. “It gives local artists an opportunity to transform something old and discarded, like a dirty inner tube, into something beautiful,” Heite says. “One of the big reasons people get into bikes and biking is because they want to simplify their lives and cut down on waste and consumerism.” In a season of unabashed consumption, the annual event is a celebration of sustainability, creativity and care. In previous years, local artists have rummaged through NBW’s used-parts bins to produce works across mediums, including prints, paintings, shirts, furniture and jewelry. All submitted works will be available for purchase during the silent auction, and all proceeds benefit NBW’s after-school and summer youth-cycling programs. (Elliott Sharp) 7pm. Studio 34, 4522 Baltimore Ave. 215.387.3434. studio34yoga.com

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Broadway smash The 25th Annual Putnam Spelling Bee is something less than smashing in a new co-production between New Jersey’s Paper Mill Playhouse and Philadelphia Theatre Company on the Avenue of the Arts. Spelling Bee is essentially a coming-of-age tale, set (as one might expect from the title) at a middle-school spelling bee in a nicely realized school gymnasium as entrants (half a dozen actors plus a few civilians chosen from the audience) compete for a spot in the national bee. These kids have spent years being shunned by the jocks and cheerleaders— the action even takes place under banners celebrating athletics—and this seems like their one shot at their 15 minutes. The first to capture our attention is Olive (Ali Stroker), who is confined to a wheelchair. Olive’s parents seem to have little interest in her—not only are they not in attendance, they didn’t even pony up her $25 entrance fee. Olive, like most of the contestants, has few friends, and explains that her best friend growing up was Webster—as in the dictionary. Other spellers: Chip (Brandon Yanez) is the defending champion, but the year that’s gone by has dropped him into the hormonal swamp of puberty. He’s now easily distracted, particularly by the pretty girl in the front row. Brash, confident Barfée (Will Blum) uses his “magic foot” to spell out words across the gym floor in a kind of linguistic ballet. Glum Marcy (Olivia Oguma) is cracking under her overbearing parents’ expectations and more interested in getting the bee over with than winning. Clad in all manner of rainbow pins is Logaine (Ephie Aardema), head of the gay-straight alliance at her school, whose two dads are willing to do anything to secure victory. Last is Leaf (the delightful Lyle Colby Mackston), repeatedly told by his siblings that he is stupid and seemingly lacking the self-confidence to bring home the trophy. Unfortunately, Mackston is the only young actor to give an original performance. When

Leaf spells a word correctly (by falling into a bizarre trance), he seems genuinely surprised; his song “I’m Not That Smart” could be performed as a plea for our sympathy, but Mackston turns the song inward as Leaf muses about his perceived shortcomings and unusual spelling ability. On the strength of Mackston’s performance, Leaf emerges as an interesting, complex character. The performers are not the real stars of Spelling Bee, though—that’s librettist Rachel Sheinkin and her amusing book. Instead of the usual stage directions that dictate every moment of a play, her script includes sections of improvisation, which lends a spontaneity not generally found in musicals. It’s especially evident in the cast’s quick-witted interactions with audience-member contestants. Many of the younger actors seem to struggle with the lack of structure, but the more experienced ones clearly relish the freedom. The not-so-strong performances by the younger actors get little help from Bruni’s production, too. No greater sense of community is developed among this group of outsiders, and its absence is felt. The staging reduces the show to a collection of individual songs and performances that are fine on their own but never quite come together—and the overemphasis on the characters’ estrangement makes William Finn’s score and lyrics seem more disjointed than they already are. The songs themselves aren’t bad, but are disappointing considering Finn’s strong track record of the AIDS drama Falsettos, which won him Tonies for best book and best original score, and Elegies: A Song Cycle, which PTC mounted in a beautiful 2005 production. Compared to them, Spelling Bee lacks dimension—the songs are cute, but little more. Sheinkin’s book isn’t perfect, either. The first hour zips along and the improv sections are fun, but instead of building momentum to the climax, there’s a side trip to India, a duet accompanied by flashing disco balls and a sudden appearance by Jesus (seemingly for no other reason than the incorrect assumption that a messiah in a gymnasium is intrinsically hilarious). Spelling Bee regains its footing in the final moments with a surprisingly sweet gesture that’s likely to leave all but the most cynical exiting the theater feeling warm and fuzzy. Overall, though, the cast is average to aboveaverage—and considering we are at PTC, where the acting is typically exceptional, “good enough” just isn’t what you come in expecting to see. Maybe it’s the influence of co-producer Paper Mill Playhouse, where the production will move after its Philly run—regardless, the performances (and the direction, for that matter) are not up to PTC’s usual standard. n The 25th Annual Putnam Spelling Bee Through Dec. 12. $48-$69. Suzanne Roberts Theatre, Broad and Lombard sts. 215.985.0420. philadelphiatheatrecompany.org

THEATER South Pacific

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s awardwinning musical about two couples during WWII. $20-$50. Academy of Music, Broad & Locust sts. academyofmusic.org.

Sister’s Christmas Catechism: The Mystery of the Magi’s Gold

The newest addition to the Late Night Catechism series, Sister sets out on an hilarious hunt for Magi’s Gold. $49. The Kimmel Center, 300 S. Broad St. 215.790.5800. kimmelcenter.org

In The Blood

A contemporary spin on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, telling the tragic tale of a mother of five. $18-$20. Allen Lane Theater, 601 W. Allens Ln. 215.248.0546. allenslane.org

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

A group of six quirky tweens compete in a spelling championship. Suzanne Roberts Theatre, 480 S. Broad St. 215.985.0420. philadelphiatheatercompany.com

My Mother’s Italian. My Father’s Jewish. And I’m in Therapy. Former teacher Steve Soloman share tales of his hilarious family dinners and his hilarious family. $45. Society Hill Playhouse, 507 S. Eighth St. 215.923.0210. societyhillplayhouse.org

The Taming of the Shrew

performers for an outrageous night of music and comedy. $37. Walnut Street Theatre, 825 Walnut St. 215.574.3550. walnutstreettheatre.org

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Iving Berlin’s White Christmas

NEXUS Foundation

A pair of song-and-dance boys chase after two beautiful singing sisters en route to their Christmas show. $10-$95. Walnut Street Theatre, 825 Walnut St. 215.574.3550. walnutstreettheatre.org

The Nigga Files

This controversially titled play examines the state of inner city youth and the heavy life situations that they sometimes create or inherit. $15-$20. Thru Jan. 16. Shubin Theatre, 407 Bainbridge St. shubintheatre.com

Molumby’s Million

Jennie Thwing: “Plastic Landscape.” Anastasia Owell: “Let’s Play.” 1400 N. American St. nexusphiladelphia.org

AxD Gallery

Mike Stack and Carrie Patterson: “Objects and Fields.” Thru Dec. 4. 265 S. 10th St. 215.627.6250. a-x-d.com/gallery

Smile Gallery

Various artists: “Picturing the Decameron.” Thru Dec. 6. 105 S. 22nd St. 215.564.2502

University City Arts League

Rodger LaPelle Galleries

Patricia Traub: “Biophila.” Jeanine Leclaire: “Borrowing Souls and Other Awkward Moments.” Thru Dec. 31. 122 N. 3rd St. 215.592.0232. rodgerlapellegalleries.com

Wexler Gallery

Leah MacDonald: “In My Body.” Thru Dec. 31. 201 N. Third St. 215.923.7030 wexlergallery.com

Schmidt/Dean Gallery

Susan Fenton.“Work From Ballinglen.” Thru Jan. 8. 1710 Sansom St. 215.569.9433 schmidtdean.com

Seraphin Gallery

Various artists: “Wear The Art.” Thru Jan. 2. 1108 Pine St. seraphingallery.com

Boxing champ Jack Dempsey is looking for a big pay day, but gets derailed by crooked promoters and conniving reporters in this comedy about the seedy world of boxing. $18-$22. The Centre Theater, 208 DeKalb St., Norristown. 610.279.1013. thecentretheater.org

Pernot Hudson: “soft bigotry for a mercy killing (in two preludes).” Thru Dec. 13. 4226 Spruce St. ucartsleague.org

The Last Night of Ballyhoo

Leonard Pearlstein Gallery

Alan Magee: “Tapestries.” Thru Dec. 31. 51 N. Second St. 215.413.3191. gallery51.net

Bridgette Mayer Gallery

Sergius Pankejeff: “The Wolf Man Paints!” Thru Jan. 22. 4017 Walnut St. 215.701.4627 slought.org

Langman Gallery

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

A well-to-do Jewish family’s comfortable life in America is disrupted by the tragic events unfolding in Europe during WWII. $12.50-$20. The Stagecrafters Theater, 8130 Germantown Ave. 215.247.8881. thestagecrafters.org

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A new take on one of Shakespeare’s most well-known plays. $15. The First Methodist Church of Germantown, 6001 Germantown Ave. 215.844.0724. thedramagroup.org

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Ceasar’s Palace O’ Fun

Ryan Mulligan: “Naked Ben Franklin.” Thru Dec. 4. 3237 Amber St., Box 3, 5th floor. pterodactylphiladelphia.org

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Bruce Murray: “Baseball, History & Americana.” Thru Dec. 5. 236 S. 22nd St. 215.772.1911. twenty-twogallery.com

Mary Powers Holt: “Open Spaces.” Thru Dec. 10. 3611 Walnut St., 2nd fl. upenn.edu Kubo Shu: “PAPER JAPONISM.” Thru Dec. 3. 3215 Market St. 215.895.2548. drexel.edu/westphal Charles Burwell: “Structuring Desire/ Desiring Structure.” Thru Dec. 17. 709 Walnut St. bridgettemayergallery.com Various artists: “Art Jewlery 2010.” Various artists: “Contemporary Menorahs.” Thru Dec. 31. 2500 Moreland Rd. 215.657.8333. langmangallery.com

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Mark Khaisman: “From Russia With Love.” Sand T: ”Reductive.” Thru Dec. 18. 145 N. 2nd St. 215.625.9990 pentimenti.com

Locks Gallery

Lynda Benglis: “Flow and Flash.” Thru Dec. 30. 600 Washington Square South. 215.629.1000. locksgallery.com

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Philadelphia Art Alliance

Academy of Natural Sciences

Ray Troll and Kirk Johnson: “Cruisin’ The Fossile Freeway.” Thru Jan. 2. Ned Smith: “Ned Smith’s Pennsylvania.” Thru Jan. 9. 1900 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy. 215.299.1043. ansp.org

The Fabric Workshop and Museum

Joan Jonas: “Reading Dante III.” Thru Jan. 1. 1214 Arch St. 215.561.8888. fabricworkshopandmuseum.org

Woodmere Art Museum

Various artists: “Kindred Spirits: Woodmere and the Philadelphia Sketch Club.” Thru Jan. 2. John Folinsbee: “John Folinsbee and American Modernism.” Thru March 6. 9201 Germantown Ave. 215.247.0476. woodmereartmuseum.org

Philadelphia Art Museum

Thomas Eakins: “Eakins on Paper.” Thru Jan. 2. 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

Various artists: “Archaeologists and Travelers in Ottoman Lands.” Thru Feb. 6. Various artists: “Cleopatra: Search for the Last Queen of Egypt.” Thru Jan. 3260 South St. 215.898.4000. penn.museum

The Franklin Institute

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Mike Bell: “Technicolor Pop Noir.” Thru Jan. 8. 531 N. 12th St. 215.913.3199. philamoca.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

ElsEwHERE Free Library of Philadelphia

Frank H. Taylor: “Ever-Changing Philadelphia: Prints & Watercolors.” Thru Dec. 31. 1901 Vine St. freelibrary.org

National Constitution Center

Various artists: “The Unfinished Business of Women’s Equality.” Thru Jan. 2. Various artists: “Soldiers Love Their Coca-Cola.” Various artists: “Art of the American Soldier.” Thru Jan. 10. 525 Arch St. constitutioncenter.org

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The Library Company of Philadelphia

Various artists: “Building a City of the Dead: The Creation and Expansion of Laurel Hill Cemetery.” Thru April 29. 1314 Locust St. 215.546.3181. librarycompany.org

scHools & univERsiTiEs La Salle University Art Museum

Sidney Goodman: “Small Paintings.” Thru Dec. 10. 1900 W. Olney Ave. 215.951.1221. lasalle.edu/museum

Moore College of Art & Design

Faculty Triennial Exhibition: “Practice and Process.” Various artists: “Focus on: Foundation-Drawing.” Thru Dec. 11. Various artists: “Urban Camouflage: Selections from Jumpstart Fashion Show.” Thru Jan. 5. 20th and The Parkway. thegalleriesatmoore.org

Institute of Contemporary Art

Anne Chu and Matthew Monahan: “Mineral Spirits.” Erin Shirreff: “Still, Flat, and Far.” Thru Dec. 5. Various artists: “Set Pieces.” Thru Feb. 13. 118 S. 36th St. 215.898.7108. icaphila.org

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Part of the reason Joy Division still holds our collective fascination is because it never performed on this side of the pond; singer Ian Curtis famously committed suicide on the eve of the first American tour. “I still remember right up until the night he killed himself,” says bassist Peter Hook. “We were in the car talking about how frightened we were of playing America. God knows what happened after that.” Of course, this never stopped American bands from imitating the group’s haunting vocals and infectiously bleak melodies. However, no one has been able to actually replicate the band’s minimalist, but aggressively visceral tones. Hook quotes producer Martin Hannett’s description that the music had “a polished edge.” To commemorate the 30th anniversary of Ian Curtis’ passing, Hook assembled the band the Light to perform the seminal Joy Division album Unknown Pleasures in its entirety. “It seems quite poignant to bring it to America,” says Hook. Just from the cover art alone, it’s clear that Unknown Pleasures was poised to be a classic. The design, credited to Joy Division, Peter Saville and Chris Mathan, was lifted from The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Astronomy and graphs the first discovered pulsar. It’s an instantly recognizable image attributed to Joy Division the same way the four bars are attributed to Black Flag. The problem with creating such an iconic image is that it is practically asking to be bootlegged. At the time of this interview, Hook was drafting a cease-and-desist type letter to a group of Japanese bootleggers. However, thwarting forgers isn’t anything new for him, as evidenced by his recent skirmish with Urban Outfitters. “This design agency came up with the brilliant idea of printing Joy Division’s name in Arabic and then changing a letter. Of course, the agency made one sizable misstep,” Hook says. “They were advertising the shirts as Joy Division shirts. They’re also ripping off Motorhead, Black Flag and the Ramones. Some people just have no morals.”

Since Hook brings up the question of morality, it seems only fair to ask how he responds to the criticism that this tour is a gauche cash grab at the expense of his dead friend. “People accuse me of cashing in when I’ve been waiting 30 years to do this,” he says. As for what the remaining members of Joy Division think about this tour, Hook would be the last to know. He hasn’t spoken to any of them since New Order’s—the band he formed with Joy Division members after Curtis’ suicide— rather acrimonious split back in 2007. “I haven’t read or heard anything,” Hook says before pointing out that Bernard Sumner’s band Bad Lieutenant include Joy Division songs in their live sets. Despite the reception the Unknown Pleasures shows have received in Europe, Hook is candid about the fact that he hasn’t developed a thick enough skin for some of the criticisms lobbed at him, especially in the comments sections of online articles and blog posts. “I was terrified of the negative vibe. There’s this one geezer just typing away and it’s the one comment that gets to you. However, at this point in my life, at 54 years old, I’m set in ways. I have to follow my instincts.” The fact that Lights is a new venture adds to the trepidation. “We’re still quite young and very fledgling,” Hook says. Perhaps the fact that Hook’s son Jack is handling the bass duties will provide some comfort. “Jack is a very good bass player and he’s developed a new passion and appreciation for the album after performing it.” Hook boasts. “Jack always liked the record, but he wasn’t a huge fan. He loves Seattle grunge.” Hook has fared much better with the cinematic versions of himself produced in 2002’s 24 Hour Party People and 2007’s Control. When asked how he reacted to seeing somewhat fictionalized versions of himself onscreen, Hook quips, “In many ways I’ve been living a fictionalized version of myself. There are three films about me and I’m still alive.” “The 24 Hour Party People Ian acted more like Ian. He could be very difficult with people he didn’t know. Control made Ian too good-looking. I could say that to Ian’s face and he’d laugh. However, the films don’t get much wrong.” What about Steve Coogan’s over-the-top portrayal of Factory Records founder Tony Wilson in 24 Hour Party People? “My big quote about that is it’s the second biggest twat in Manchester playing the first. I had the pleasure of knowing Steve Coogan, if you want to call it that. He did it quite well, he’s an impressionist.” That isn’t to say he’s without his criticisms. “When Tony Wilson meets God, God should have been played by Tony Wilson,” says Hook of the famous scene. “He was still alive then.” According to Hook, director Michael Winterbottom really dropped the ball on that comedic opportunity. “Winterbottom’s film was much more lighthearted. Control was much more difficult for me to watch. It was very harrowing and harder even though I knew the bloody ending.” Hook will be making his own contribution to the canon with a forthcoming book about the band. He’s already a published author with 2009’s The Hacienda: How Not To Run A Club. “I’ve read so many books about Joy Division. It’s about time someone who was actually in Joy Division wrote about it,” he says. As for what Hook has to say with regard to writing about music, rather than playing it, he has this to offer. “It made me look at journalism in a whole new light.” n

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My Beautiful Dark Annotated Kanye Review By Brian McManus bmcmanus@philadelphiaweekly.com

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Last week, Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy hit retail shelves with a resounding roar. It’s the best reviewed album of the year! Jim DeRogatis of the Chicago Sun Times compared Kanye to Brian Eno. Pitchfork awarded him a 10.0 rating and “Best New Music.” “I’d rather listen to this album than get head in a Jacuzzi while smoking weed Snoop Dogg gave just because he thought I was cool,” raved People. (That magazine has gotten really filthy, btw.) Critics are tripping over themselves to blow sugar up Kanye’s ass, and we’ve read every drop of hyperbole they could muster. Here, we comb through only the most “OMG HE IS MUSICAL JESUS” of them, pluck the best lines, and annotate

who wrote what, with only a few transition words added to smooth it all out. Let the games begin: The music world should be grateful to have [Kanye West]. I know I am. (1) My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is his most maniacally inspired music yet, coasting on heroic levels of dementia, pimping on top of Mount Olympus. It’s a rock-star manifesto for a downsizing world. (2) He samples atmospheric noodling from Aphex Twin and bombastic nuggets from Black Sabbath and King Crimson, and he gets help from some of the biggest names in pop, rap, and indie rock. West crafts these influences into a fever dream with a crescendo around every corner—the Beautiful Fantasy of the

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flashiest, fanciest and best yet, with some bizarro stuff like Bon Iver and french horns, plus brilliant Chris Rock and Gil Scott-Heron. Free Association: This is starting to feel like a famous and rich people hip-hop parade. For Fans Of: Jay-Z, Talib Kweli, Dr. Dre, Wu-Tang, Drake.

week's worst album’s title. (3) He can’t get much higher. (4) It’s terrific—of course it’s terrific—a startlingly maximalist take on East Coast rap traditionalism, (5) Fantasy oscillates between manic highs and depressive lows emotionally, as West and his collaborators create sounds big and cinematic enough to house all that mad-prophet ambition. (6) He’s right about his own greatness. (7) But West isn’t claiming to be flawless anymore. He’s trying to make a masterpiece. Trying to be honest with us. Trying to be honest with himself. Trying to figure out if he’s closer to God or to something else entirely. Far more important than his aim, however, is the fact that he tries at all. (8) Dark Twisted Fantasy is also a much stronger work than anyone could have reasonably expected from West. (9) It’s his flashiest, fanciest, and best yet. (10) So don’t believe it if someone tells you, “The new Kanye West record is not even ironically good. ‘No more drugs for me, pussy and religion is all I need’ sung as if it was Black Sabbath’s ‘Iron Man.’ Seriously? Bon Iver has two guest appearances. Wanker. The ‘d-bag’ song is nine minutes long; the second longest song is a fucking duet with John fucking Legend. The Gil Scott-Heron outro is a travesty.” (11) (1) David Amidon, in a 1,900 word review for Popmatters, which gave the album a 10 out of 10. (2) Rob Sheffield, five star review for Rolling Stone. (3) Simon Vozick-Levison, Entertainment Weekly. (4) Sean Fennessey, Village Voice. (5) Jon Caramaica, New York Times. (6) Nathan Rabin, Onion AV Club. (7) James Reed, Boston Globe. (8) Chris Martins, Spin. (9) M.T. Richards, Paste Magazine, which is still reviewing albums, apparently. (10) Bill Chenevert, Philadelphia Weekly. It’s right up there at the top of the page. Can’t you read? (11) Philadelphia Weekly’s Elliott Sharp, via Facebook.

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hat’s more terrifying than the possibilW ity of a Tea Party Movement revolution? The fucking Juggalos. Grounded on the aesthetic and principles of the Insane Clown Posse, the Juggalo Family Cult descend from the suburbs wearing clown face-paint to unleash unprecedented vile consisting of equal parts wretched music, white-trash ignorance and misogynistic ultra-violence. They annually swarm to the Gathering of the Juggalos: a festival where homicidal clowns go shirtless, celebrate being the lowest common denominators, and beat the shit out of each other. Leading the impending revolution are Twiztid, who have perfected the repugnant mixing of nu-metal with the glorification of rape, murder and overall degeneracy: “Fuck you I hope you die/ I can split your wig with my aluminum bat/ Kill the next muthafucka that look/ Die, die,” goes their classic tune “Diemuthafuckadie!” Society’s plunge into barbarism quickens tonight as the city’s Juggalos unite. Week’s Worst is a grave understatement. (Elliott Sharp) Thurs., Dec. 2, 8pm. $20. With Blaze, Miclordz & Zanx + DJ Clay. Electric Factory, 421 N. Seventh St. 215.627.1332. electricfactory.info

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Fork & Barrel could so easily have devolved into caricature—the Monks-y, Eurocentric beer selection, the focus on hot dog variations upstairs and beer-cafe food downstairs, the whole candlelight thing—but it doesn’t. In fact, though it’s still a young spot with some glitches, this thoroughly appealing new East Falls destination is exactly what the neighborhood needs, and is a great replacement for the Pour House. We’ll get to the food in a minute, but any discussion of Fork & Barrel has to start with it’s beer program, one of the more exciting in a while. Drafts rotate with relative frequency; with the hard-to-find or otherwise idiosyncratic European brews here, it’s worth a fairly regular visit to see what’s been added since you last stopped by. The bottle selection, which currently boasts well over a hundred options, is intelligently divided into categories based on flavor, aroma and body, like “Stiff & Brawny, SnifterWorthy Gems,” “Smokey & Autumnal” and “Earthy, Moody, Rustic.” A list this long and unfamiliar could easily have grown into a shaggy, in-club monster. But the staff is very welltrained in beery specifics by Matt Scheller (who wrote the list and owns F&B with Matthew Swartz and wife Colleen), and servers are as enthusiastic and knowledgeable about their brews as most sommeliers. They’re an invaluable resource for talking through the options and suggesting pairings. The highlight pairing of a recent visit was one of the best food-and-beverage matches I’ve had all year—the result of our waiter’s suggestion that the Birrificio Montegioco Quarta Runa, an Italian ale with a subtle but unmistakable perfume from the inclusion of peaches in the brew, might work well with the grilled cheese. He was spot on. The funky-fruity combination of Brie, thin-sliced Granny Smiths and homemade apple butter was the perfect foil for the ale.

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“Whiskey’s something you can really spend your life pursuing,” says Fiume operator Kevin James Holland with Captain Ahab-like seriousness while sipping a glass of Rittenhouse’s 25 Year Straight Rye Whiskey. The studio-bedroom sized 45th Street haunt, with its seven barstools and six tables, is the site of Philadelphia’s first Whiskey Week. During Beer Week 2010, a whiskey-loving customer mentioned that Philadelphia should have a week devoted to mash, and Holland promised one before the New Year. Not one to abandon his word, the 45 new ryes, bourbons and corn whiskeys he’s acquired since that conversation are the fuel for the event, which will run exclusively at Fiume from Dec. 3 through 12. Some rarities Holland is enthusiastic about sharing are Michter’s 10 and 25 Year Ryes, Elmer T. Lee Bourbon, Rittenhouse’s 80 and 100 Rye, Old Potrero’s 18th Century Rye, and the Tuthilltown Hudson Four Grain. Available at full or half pours, and with daily specials, this is only the tip of the iceberg. In addition to flights designed to explore subtleties in mash bills, and regional- and distillery-themed flights, the American Whiskey Retrospective will chart the evolution from 18th Century whiskey through the corn whiskey popular during prohibition to the present. It’s this aspect, namely how the country’s socio-cultural history speaks through whiskey’s development, which Holland hopes to facilitate a conversation around. “We had wars, we fucked, we made babies, and we made visual art, jazz, blues and country music,” he says. “More distinct, however, is our whiskey making, and whiskey’s the lens I look at many things through.” Information about distilleries and pertinent historical events—like the Whiskey Rebellion—will supplement the connoisseurship Holland aims to foster. But while challenging familiar brands and exploring the history are important, Holland insists Whiskey Week happen in a context of affordability and access provided by a bar like Fiume. “I don’t want people to not drink the good stuff because they’re daunted or can’t afford it. My customers are intimidated by hoity-toity bars and fancy whiskey drinking, so I’m making American whiskey connoisseurship approachable, historically engaging and affordable,” Holland declares while pouring another round. n

Even desserts are tailored to sudsier ends—chocolatechip bread pudding, more hearty and austere than the creamier versions usually found in these parts, paired well with the sweet honey tones of the (14 percent abv!) Samichlaus Helles from Austria, and the peach crisp worked wonders with the last drops of that Quarta Runa. Like that grilled cheese, the best dishes here are the simplest. The house-made Bavarian pretzel provides ample justification for another round even if you’re neither hungry nor particularly thirsty. The nuttiness of the mahogany, salt-flecked crust gives way to an interior of perfect density and chewiness. Spicy blue-cheese-scented mustard and a less impressive but still pleasant honey mustard are nice options, but not strictly necessary: I found myself avoiding distractions from the pretzel’s interaction with Nogne-O Imperial Brown Ale, a silky Norwegian refresher with soul to spare. Rosemary-scented, Maytag blue-cheese-blanketed lamb burger arrived sandwiched between split halves of a Thomas’ English muffin, a move that often results in a soggy, impossible-to-hold mess by the fourth bite. This worked, though—the burger, generously portioned but not unwieldy, was easily encased by the muffin, whose own intimation of sweetness was an excellent bookend to the gaminess of the ground lamb. Wild-boar bratwurst highlighted everything that makes this animal such a treat—the slight chew, the hint of sweetness balanced with a gamy background tang. Braised cabbage was shown more love than it usually gets: A potato, carrot, housemade demi and Spaten Dunkel stew treated the veggie with an unusual respect, providing a great background for the wurst and a sense of sweetness that made the next bite seem a desperate necessity. This is a young restaurant, however, and the kitchen is not immune to slip-ups. Borscht was boring, a virtually unseasoned, watery bowl that barely hinted at the richness and rib-stickiness that my Eastern European ancestors relied on in wintertime. The few pâte à choux dumplings marooned in there were gluey, like gnocchi gone wrong. Caesar salad was more successful, its honey-dijon, roasted-garlic and Argentine parmesan dressing a nice change of pace, but seemed a dieter’s concession on a menu with such a strong focus on Eastern and Northern Europe. Belgian mussels were plump and meaty, but the zip implied by the presence of Flemish red ale was all but missing, and the snowfall of nearly-raw garlic threatened to overwhelm the thyme and apple-cider bacon. Still, the food is in general thoughtfully conceived and well-prepared, and the hits far outweigh the few misses. Chef Peter Felton, who has worked with the owners at their other restaurants in Emmaus and Bethlehem, has the talent and drive to make F&B as much of a food destination as it is a beer one. As we head into the cold, gray misery of another Philly winter, this is an appealing, cozy spot to drink a bit too much, have a rich, beer-friendly meal and head home supremely satisfied. n

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Earnest local indie just doesn't quite get there. By Sean Burns

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This is the part of my job I hate. When you spend most of your days in dark rooms consuming a fairly steady diet of dreck, negative reviews can be cathartic. I’m not going to lie; it’s fun to occasionally get revenge for all those wasted hours by railing against the arrogance of overpaid movie stars in one grotesquely expensive, lowest-common-denominator mediocrity after another. But every once in a while you stumble upon a movie made with the best of intentions, a noble little labor of love that needs critical support to survive in this ridiculously competitive marketplace. So what’s a writer to do with a picture like Night Catches Us, an earnest, locally made, extremely well-meaning indie that just doesn’t work? Set in 1976, writer-director Tanya Hamilton’s debut is set in a Germantown neighborhood of overgrown trees and junked cars. Anthony Mackie stars as Marcus, a haunted drifter who returns to his hometown after a mysterious four-year absence, ostensibly to attend his father’s funeral. Developed in the Sundance Institute’s Screenwriters Lab, Night Catches Us bears the Redford factory’s imprint—long, elliptical conversations freighted with backstory that’s parceled out quietly over a great deal of screen time. Despite the Philadelphia setting, the movie is struc-

tured and paced like one of those muted, rural family melodramas that are a dime a dozen at regional festivals. Nobody is very happy to see Marcus. His brother gives him the boot shortly after the service, leaving him to sleep under a bridge in the Caddy he just inherited. The local hoodlums want him gone, spraypainting the word “SNITCH” on his car and constantly hinting at past misdeeds with an increasingly maddening vagueness. The only friendly face is Patty, who now wants to be called Patricia. Played by Kerry Washington, she’s a civic-minded single mom who practices community law and has turned her home into a sort of halfway house for the neighborhood’s problem kids. It doesn’t take long for Marcus to end up living there as well, puttering around fixing stuff while exchanging awkward small talk with Patricia’s inquisitive daughter, Iris (Jamara Griffin). The problem is that you feel like you’re going to grow old waiting for characters to stop eyeing one another warily and just lay their cards on the table by having a goddamned conversation, already. We eventually discover that Marcus and Patricia were once active in the Black Panther movement, and that four years ago Iris’ father was murdered by police officers, thanks in no small part to information

Grade: C Director: Tanya Hamilton Starring: Anthony Mackie, Kerry Washington

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Red (1994/2010): One is the conclusion and apex of Krzysztof Kieslowki’s Trois Couleurs trilogy, as well as an alternately playful and devastating rumination on the fickleness of chance and coincidence. The other has Helen Mirren shooting fuck-off guns. This is arguably better than the year 1993, when Kieslowski and Derek Jarman both released grief porn films named Blue.

meaning but ultimately flawed Night Catches Us.

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Baby, You Can Drive My Car: Anthony Mackie and Kerry Washington in the well-

gleaned from interrogating Marcus. Or maybe it’s more complicated than that? Meanwhile, Patricia’s headstrong cousin Jimmy, described by those who love him as having a brick between his ears, tries to make ends meet selling scrap metal and finds himself in almost daily altercations with racist, bullying police officers. Problems predictably arise when Jimmy discovers his family’s buried Panther memorabilia, including crazy agitprop comic books that spring to life in animated form. Reborn as an activist, the dim-bulb cousin won’t heed Marcus’ warnings, and sets the stage for history to repeat itself. Night Catches Us tackles a milieu underserved by movies (save maybe Mario Van Peebles’ absurd 1995 Panther), and Mackie and Washington carry the weight of their shared past with a marvelous fatigue. Mackie in particular, much like in The Hurt Locker, has a way with silences. He carries himself as if wise beyond his years and wishing he wasn’t. Washington’s line readings stray toward the over-emphatic, particularly opposite his stillness. But Hamilton doesn’t trust her actors enough. The script undercuts the measured scale of the performances with blunt, melodramatic proclamations. The movie certainly did not need young Iris staring out at the river, somberly stating, “Ghosts. They’re everywhere.” (In fact, no movie needs a scene like that.) Worse is when the fate of Iris’ father is at last revealed in an incredibly overwrought symbolic flourish as the child peels new wallpaper off the family’s living-room wall. The movie’s shocking twist is communicated obliquely at first through furtive glances, demonstrating incredible respect for the audience. But two minutes later, it’s announced out loud, several times, by a cartoonishly crooked cop played by Wendell Pierce (Bunk from HBO’s The Wire, giving an uncharacteristically terrible performance). Hamilton makes the most of an obviously limited budget, capturing the broke, run-down 1970s vibe without calling undue attention to the art direction like most period pictures. Every prop in the movie looks either second-hand or broken. An effective score by the Roots bolsters the era’s authenticity, and considering the subject matter and degree of difficulty involved, it’s a commendable achievement that Night Catches Us got made at all. If only that were enough. n

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as labored and humorless as it is in Faster. It doesn’t start that way. In Faster’s opening minutes, bulky, stolid James Cullen (The Rock—er, sorry, Dwayne Johnson) is released from prison, runs an undisclosed length to a junkyard, picks up a sweet ride, drives to a busy office and shoots a telemarketer in the head. There’s more people on his assasination list—each responsible for his brother’s murder. But no lean retro-noir, this. Instead, it gets improbably desultory. Standing in his way are two antagonists. One’s a junkie cop named “Cop” (W.R. Thornton of the Boxmasters fame) whose relevance doesn’t become apparent until quite late in; the other’s a swell-dressed dot-com billionaireturned-assassin billed as “Killer” (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) whose importance never becomes apparent. Despite having a name associated with speed, Faster repeatedly

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ly, the movie lacks the daft intensity of Mariah Carey’s autobiographical boondoggle, settling for stock, lowstakes scenarios and feel-good girlpower tropes as blandly chipper as its heroine. Not much of an actress, Aguilera hangs her mouth open a lot and impresses the club’s toughminded matron (Cher, or whatever’s left of her) with a pluckiness and refusal to take no for an answer that most would find grating. It was here that the movie lost me, as I could not take my eyes off Cher, her face immobilized by Botox, plastic surgery and god knows what else. Sounds would appear to be emanating from this frozen visage, with lips inflated like collagen zeppelins, but I could not for the life of me see how that’s physically

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and favela dwellers alike. Thus are born warehouse-sized “portraits” of the workers made of trash—each a silhouette surrounded by colorful garbage, preserved in hi-res photo form for show and sale. Muniz sports one of those romantic views of the poor, all but literally patting himself on the back for recognizing that the downtrodden are people, too. Walker, however, leads by example. Despite co-conceiving the project with Muniz, she’s only partially interested in documenting her artist-star’s ego, eventually shifting the attention to the workers and their lives. The film’s middle section is theirs entirely, and they use it to talk about choosing a lowpaying but honorable gig in lieu of

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You can have your current boyfriend, HMC, at the price of a lousy and uninspired sex life with a guy who doesn’t give a shit about your pleasure—excuse me, a partner who hasn’t created a lot of “macho drama” about the fact that you’ve never had an orgasm and isn’t interested in helping you realize your fantasies—or you can find a new boyfriend and/or girlfriend and perhaps discover that orgasms are easier to come by when you’re with someone who (1) turns you on and (2) gives a shit about your pleasure and (3) hasn’t come to symbolize the death of sexual possibility. Giving up the current boyfriend means you’ll have to find a new emotional tampon—excuse me, a new “source of emotional support”—but that’s a price that you should be willing to pay, HMC, particularly at your age. And if you don’t want to find yourself boyfriendless and bestfriendless ever again, HMC, in the future keep those roles separate.

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IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS SALES REP: EL 105 DIVISION OF ST. THOMAS AND ST. JOHN CHECK FOR

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left corner of each page. APPROVAL ) ) ST – 10 – CV - 234 ) ) ACTION FOR DEBT AND vs. ) FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE ) NORMAN S. BRIGGS, DANIELLE S. ) DAVENPORT, MARRIOTT HOTEL ) MANAGEMENT COMPANY ) (VIRGIN ISLANDS), INC., and ) FRENCHMAN’S COVE CONDOMINIUM ) OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION, INC. ) __________________________________________)

MARRIOTT OWNERSHIP RESORTS (ST. THOMAS), INC., Plaintiff,

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SUMMONS To:

Norman S. Briggs Danielle S. Davenport 4419 N. 19 Street

Philadelphia, PA 19140

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Within the time limited by law (see note below) you are hereby required to appear before this Court and answer to a Complaint filed against you in this action and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment by default will be taken against you as demanded in the Complaint, for DEBT AND FORECLOSURE OF MORTGAGE. SO ORDERED this 9th day of September , 2010.

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NOTE: This defendant, if served personally, is required to file his answer or other defenses with the Clerk of this Court, and to serve a copy thereof upon the plaintiff's attorney within twenty (20) days after service of this summons, excluding the date of service. The defendant, if served by publication or by personal service outside of the jurisdiction, is required to file his answer or other defense with the Clerk of this Court, and to serve a copy thereof upon the attorney for the plaintiff within thirty (30) days after the completion of the period of publication or personal service outside of the jurisdiction.

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Richard H. Dollison, Esq. Attorney for Plaintiff, Marriott Ownership Resorts (St. Thomas), Inc. Stryker, Duensing, Casner & Dollison Drakes Passage, Second Floor P.O. Box 6785 St. Thomas, Virgin Islands 00804

BRENDA J. HOLLAR, Administrative Judge Superior Court of the Virgin Islands

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Clearwire CommuniCations proposes to collocate new telecommunications antennas on the existing building located at 2336 south 18th street, philadelphia, pa. 3 panel antennas and 1 microwave dish antenna will be installed on platform on the main rooftop at 48 feet above ground level. support equipment will be installed on the garage rooftop.

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Hartt Transportation offers many other benefits and courtesies to drivers and owner operators. If you are at least 21 years old with a clean CDL driving record and one year Customers have been retained by quality of service, and high levels of performance. We are well respected in the industry and OTR experience, then we encourage you to apply. known for our on time deliveries. Scott Grant Driver Recruitment If you’re a team player, Hartt Transportation is the place for you. 1591 Hotel Road Auburn, ME 04210 Phone: 800-456-0433 Cell: 207-735-5402 Our services handle freight within the 48 states and Canada Bangor Corporate Office providing dry van, flatbed, and refrigerated freight. We have a 262 Bomarc Road, PO Box 1385 tremendous loyal customer base that provides excellent paying Bangor, ME 04402 freight to desirable lanes. Hartt Transportation Systems, Inc. Phone: 800-341-1586 * Fax: 207-455-5819 assists in filing the proper paperwork to make you an Independent Email: rmarquis@hartt-trans.com Contractor. With more than 1000 trailers in our fleet, Hartt offers loads that can either be loaded on your trailer or ours. Payment will Auburn - Office be sent on all loads in less than a week after we receive your 1591 Hotel Road paperwork. Call now and start your future with one of the top East Auburn, ME 04210 Phone: 866-500-9645 * Fax: 207-689-2084 Coast carriers today.

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The Grande 15th & Chestnut Lg. 1 Bedroom, 1 Bath, c/a, w&d, elevator bldg.,door-person $1,650.00 1628 S. 9th ( Morris St) lg. 1 Br., Den, 1 Bath, w/w carpets, w&d in bst., yard 1008 Spruce St 1 Bedroom., 1 Bath, hrd.flrs, fireplace,hi-ceilings,laundry

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10TH SPRUCE, MODERN, LARGE 2BDRMS, 2FLRS, 2DECKS AC, DW, GD. $1800. 215-872-6956

1326 Spruce St (Center City One) 500 sq.ft, wood flrs, sep kitchen, balcony, w&d,

12TH & FEDERAL VIC. (2)Apts. 2nd/3rd.flrs. For more info call: 610-348-1047.

204 S. 3rd St Society Hill 3 Brs. 2 Bths, 2 Decks, PARKING, 8 month lease available now

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2030 Brandywine St, (Art Museum Area) 2 Brs., 2 Baths, deck, garden, w&d, a/c’s

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15XX SO. BROAD ST-1 & 2BEDRMS.,TILE BATH, LARGE, MODERN.$850-$900.00/mo.+. Call 610-304-0087.

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701 Walnut St 3rd Flr. Corner 500 sq.ft office/studio, artist,architect, nice lite, utilities inc. $700.00

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To See the Following, Call Kheon Benjamin (215)546-0550 1001-13 Chestnut Street #902W - 1Bd/1Ba charming condominium all utilities included $1,500 To See the Following, Call Lisa Budnick (215)790-5227 1714 Locust Street - Office Space for rent 650 sq ft, pr, high ceils, hw flrs $1,200 129 n 20th Street #3RD FL - Large 3-4br, 3b, high ceilings, exposed brick, great light $2,500 To See the Following, Call Lynette DuFon (267)328-7426 1631 Locust Street #3RD FL - 3rd fl,2 lrg offices w/fpl, 3 sm offices vuws of atrium $6,000 To See the Following, Call Mark Wade (215)521-1523 817 n Taylor Street - 2 bedroom,granite,SS,rear deck,full bsmt,W/D.

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To See the Following, Call Gregory J. Damis (215)440-2095 1945 S Hollywood Street - 4 bd/2 ba w/driveway,tile bth,lrg kit + laundry & yard space $1,250

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Pier 5 7 n. columbus boulevard 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, roof deck, parking space, bridge views, 2229 sf $2,250/mo

Wanamaker House 2020 Walnut street 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, high floor with panoramic city views, 1200 sf $2,290/mo.

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1420 LOCUSt StrEEt

1 bedroom townhome, custom kitchen and bath, private street entrance, direct access to garage, 700 sf $1,690 2 bedrooms 2 baths, high floor, panoramic city

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Studio, city views, separate sleeping area, 624sf $1,225

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waterfront wAtErfrOnt SqUArE 901 n. pEnn StrEEt 1 bedroom plus den, 1 bath, hardwood floors, new open kitchen, designer bath, 924 sf

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Contemporary townhome with 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, gourmet kitchen, rooftop deck, marble baths, custom closets, 3100 sf $4,950

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2401 pEnnSYLvAniA AvE Studio, private balcony, dressing room, spacious kitchen, 570sf $950 Studio, hardwood floors, upgraded kitchen & bath, separate sleeping area, 608sf $1,000 1 bedroom, 1bath, completely renovated, hardwood floors, balcony with Art Museum view, 1000 sf $1,900

rittenhouse square 1909 fitzwAtEr StrEEt 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, wood floors, ren. kitchen and bath $1,500

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2031 LOCUSt StrEEt 1 bedroom, 1 bath, city view, 595 sf $1,450 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, corner unit, 928 sf $1,795

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530 S 2nD StrEEt 1 bedroom, 1 bath, open kitchen, great closet space, 639 sf $1,250

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237 S. 18tH StrEEt

233-241 S 6tH StrEEt

3 bedrooms, 3 baths, hrdwd. floors, panoramic city views, renovated kitchen and baths, 2,527sf $7,850

1 bedroom, 1 bath, w/d, walk-in-closet, open kitchen 777 sf $1,455

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commercial sPace 1742 Sansom Street - 2nd floor retail space on highly trafficked corner or 18th and Sansom Streets, 1000 sf

$1,500 NNN

2031 Locust Street Professional Office Space in secure apartment building, 958 sf

$1,150

1830 Rittenhouse - Prime Rittenhouse Square office space, 754 sf

$2,100

131 S. 18th Street - Prime 1st and 2nd floor retail space on high-end 18th Street shopping corridor, directly across from new 10 Rittenhouse condos $7,500 NNN 133 S. 18th Street – Ground floor corner retail space, excellent visibility on 18th Street shopping corridor $9,000 NNN

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units include pool & fitness center

604-36 S. wASHingtOn SqUArE

of prestigious Lanesborough condo, ideal for

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928 E. Moyamensing 2bd/2bth bilevel, HW/flrs, full appl., c/a-heat laundry on site. Parking available for an additional $100 per month. Available 2/15/11

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Center City Housing Prices Heat Up

Median Sales Price Jumps 16.7% in Spite of Slowing Sales

Philadelphia % Change in Median Sales Price Oct ’09 vs Oct ‘10

While Philadelphia home sales remained sluggish last month, home values continued to surge in areas like Southwest, North & Center City. Center City median sales prices jumped 16.7%, with prices in zip code 19102, Washington Square and Old City showing a drastic increase compared to October ’09. Fairmount posted the highest number of homes sold in Center City at 17, followed by Rittenhouse Square (14) and Washington Square (6).

Center City Homes Sold October 2010 ..........................47 October 2009 ..........................99 Average Days on Market October 2010........................101 October 2009........................110 Median Sales Price October 2010.............$371,000 October 2009.............$318,000

-6.5%

-8.2%

+16.7%

Homes Sold October 2010........................780 October 2009 ....................1,230

NORTHEAST

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NORTHWEST

Philadelphia County -52.5%

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HomExpert Market Watch October 2010

-36.6% +24.7%

Average Days on Market October 2010 ..........................72 October 2009 ..........................75

-4.0%

Median Sales Price October 2010.............$130,500 October 2009.............$140,000

-6.8%

-26.6% WEST

NORTH

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RIVERWARDS

+16.7% CENTER CITY

-8.5% SOUTH

+31.0% SOUTHWEST

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Rittenhouse Hotel Units & Volume

Ellen Steiner Jody Dimitruk Johanna Loke Rittenhouse Hotel Listings

1800 Rittenhouse Units & Volume

1800 Rittenhouse Listings

Community Service Day Center City Lending a hand in the

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Prudential Fox & Roach, REALTORS® has more than 60 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.

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CENTER CITY NEW PRICE 1500 CHESTNUT STREET, #10E Gorgeous 1BR in Ellington. HW Flrs. Hi-ceil. S/S&Gran Kitch. Perfect condition $249,900

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UNIVERSITY CITY 4202 PINE STREET Trumbauer House: 2010 Complete Hi-end Renov. in CATCHMENT. Spectacular Character. 3,500’ 4BR,5BTH residence in c.1905 Mansion. 2-car PRKG. Private landscaped yard. Full flr Great Rm., Hi-ceil. HW flrs. $975,000 4200 PINE STREET, #105 Hi-end 2007 new constr. CATCHMENT. 3BR/3bth condo w/2-car PRKG. Huge home w/Open flr.plan. Gorg. Kitch. Hi-ceil, HW flrs. Amaz. Light. Tax Abte. Premier Locat. $740,000 WASHINgTON SQUARE WEST 1119 PINE STREET, #103 2BR/2.5BTH bi-level condo. PRKG. Corner unit w/exc. light, open plan, HW flrs, 2 patios. FP $434,900 1012 SPRUCE STREET, #4R Wonderful 2BR condo w/exc. Space & Character. Amaz. Light, HW Flrs t/o. Pool. Awesome loc. $284,900

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

OLd CITY 17 N. 3Rd STREET Mixed-Use corner on bustling block. Storefront & Renov 1BR apt $1,100,000 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 gRAdUATE NEIgHbORHOOd bANCROFT gREEN 706-726 S. bANCROFT STREET 11 Award Winning Sustainable 3BR/2.5bth Homes. Best of Philly Green Architect. STOP WASTING $1,000’s/yr. on UTILITIES. Amazing finishes, 10-yr Tax Abte. Spectacular roof patios. BG1: ONLY 1 HOME LEFT (<30 DAYS)—BG2: ONLY 3 HOMES LEFT (March 2011). $505,000-$579,000 1713-A FITZWATER STREET Gorgeous 2BR/1.5bth townhome w/GARAGE. Hi-end gut renov. Perfect floor-plan. Large windows. HW flrs. Amaz. Kitchen. $369,000

ART mUSEUm AREA THE PHILAdELPHIAN, #4A4 Spacious 3BR/2.5BTH light filled condo. Art Museum views from lrge balcony. $515,000 2521 bROWN STREET NEW LISTINg Lovely 4BR/2bth home filled with Character. Many improvements, superb locat. Hi-ceil, randomwidth Flrs, orifinal detail. Awesome Master Suite. $445,000

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2930 W. GIRARD AVE bREWERYTOWN Renovated Townhome 3BRs, 1 tiled Bath, Wood flrs, separate Dining Rm. updated Kitchen, 1308 sq ft. ............................................................................................ NEW PRIcE! $185,000 2536-38 MONTROSE ST NAVAL SQUARE Two properties sold as a package; Two story Row and Two story Garage. Terrific development opportunity. .........................................................................................NEW PRIcE! $162,000 1415-19 N. FRANKLIN OLD KENSINGTON Bi-level warehouse garage ready to be transformed to your Live/Work space! 6,822 sq ft. ........................................................................................................................................$250,000.

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919 KIMbALL ST bELLA VISTA 3 story 4BR, 2BA townhouse near Italian Market. Open Liv/Din w/Pergo floors, White kitchen, Patio. 1,400 sq ft , Great Block, Great Location. Great Price! ...........................................................$335,000

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MiNi-CoMpouNd Near 9th aNd rooseveLt BLvd. 4437-39 N. Lawrence Street - Renovated Home plus Multi-Use Separate Out Building . 4 Bedroom. 2 Full Baths. Hardwood Floors. Courtyard. Driveway. $139,000.

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SATURDAY 12/4 1:00-4:00PM COLLINGSWOOD, NJ 600 Atlantic Ave The LumberYard Condos >From $210,500 Main Street Realty

SUNDAY 12/5 12:00 - 12:30PM RITTENHOUSE SQ 2020 Walnut St $319,000 Allan Domb

12:00-1:00PM RITTENHOUSE SQ 341 S 18th St $2 ,100,000 Prudential Fox & Roach RITTENHOUSE SQ 1936-38 Delancey Pl $1 ,725,000 Prudential Fox & Roach RITTENHOUSE SQ 2125 Pine St $1 , 395,000 Prudential Fox & Roach RITTENHOUSE SQ 210 W Rittenhouse Sq #1001 $1 , 299,990 Prudential Fox & Roach SOCIETY HILL 503 Pine St $1 , 250,000 Prudential Fox & Roach SOCIETY HILL 118 Spruce St $939,000 Prudential Fox & Roach WASH SQ WEST 526 S 11th St $876,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

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ART MUSEUM 1900 Hamilton St #803 $549,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

FRANCISVILLE 713 “A” Shirley St $309,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

SOCIETY HILL 312 S Philip St $575,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

NAVAL SQ 2421 Grays Ferry $519,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

OLD CITY 50-56 N Front St #402 $305,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

N LIBERTIES 964 N Leithgow St $699,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

ART MUSEUM 2009 “C” Wallace St $479,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

RITTENHOUSE SQ 1813 Spruce St, #Unit 1R $305,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

SOCIETY HILL 1008 Spruce St $159,000 Plumer & Associates

ART MUSEUM 780 N TaneySt $424 ,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

RITTENHOUSE SQ 1500 Chestnut St #3H $292 ,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

ART MUSEUM 2533 Swain St $399,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

WASH SQ 1012 Spruce St #4R $284 ,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

PENNSPORT 1614 S 4th St $398,500 Prudential Fox & Roach BELLA VISTA 711 Kimball St $379,900 Prudential Fox & Roach ITALIAN MARKET 603 Wharton St $369,900 Prudential Fox & Roach NAVAL SQ 2501 Christian St #101 $369,500 Prudential Fox & Roach AVE OF THE ARTS 1420 Locust St #6N $365,000 Prudential Fox & Roach ITALIAN MARKET 932-A EllsworthSt $359,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

CHINATOWN 1100 Vine St #417 $279,900 Prudential Fox & Roach PASSYUNK SQ 1536 S Clarion St $279,000 Prudential Fox & Roach BELLA VISTA 904 S Alder St $269,000 Prudential Fox & Roach AVE OF THE ARTS 1324 S Broad St #2R $269,000 Prudential Fox & Roach GRAD HOSPITAL 2241 Fitzwater St #B $264 ,900 Prudential Fox & Roach PASSYUNK SQ 1637 S Iseminger St $260,000 Prudential Fox & Roach AVE OF THE ARTS 1420 Locust St #20R $259,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

BELLA VISTA 726 S 11th St $729,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

U CITY 4530 Regent St $349,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

RITTENHOUSE SQ 1500 Chestnut St #10E $249,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

N LIBERTIES 964 N Leithgow $699,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

BELLA VISTA 608 Kimball St $331 ,500 Prudential Fox & Roach

BELLA VISTA 711 Kimball St $379,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

GRAD HOSPITAL 2011 Catharine St $574 ,900 Coldwell B anker Preferred EAST PASSYUNK 1238 S. Alder St $299,000 Coldwell B anker Preferred

1:00-4:00PM COLLINGSWOOD, NJ 600 Atlantic Ave The LumberYard Condos >From $210,500 Main Street Realty

1:30 - 2:00PM RITTENHOUSE SQ 1701 Locust St $1 , 290,000 Allan Domb

1:30-2:30PM RITTENHOUSE SQ 1601 Locust St #1300 $2 ,750,000 Prudential Fox & Roach RITTENHOUSE SQ 1820 Rittenhouse Sq #602 $1 ,699,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

WASH SQ WEST 1109 Spruce St. #1R $299,900 Coldwell B anker Preferred

RITTENHOUSE SQ 1830 Rittenhouse Sq #7A $1 , 250,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

WASH SQ WEST 927 Spruce St. #2R $199,900 Coldwell B anker Preferred

RITTENHOUSE SQ 1922 Rittenhouse $1 ,190,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

12:00-2:00PM ART MUSEUM 713 A Shirley St $309,900 Prudential Fox & Roach GRAD HOSPITAL 1918 Carpenter St $359,000 ReMax Preferred

12:30-2:00PM FITLER SQ 2413 Manning St $590,000 Coldwell B anker Preferred

12:30-2:30PM BELLA VISTA 629-631 S. 13th St $599,000 Coldwell B anker Preferred QUEEN VILLAGE 525 Fitzwater St. #15 $239,000 Coldwell B anker Preferred

RITTENHOUSE SQ 1632 Spruce St #200 $995,000 Prudential Fox & Roach SOCIETY HILL 504 Delancey St $875,000 Prudential Fox & Roach WASH SQ WEST 411 S 13th St $695,000 Prudential Fox & Roach BELLA VISTA 808 S 7th St $550,000 Prudential Fox & Roach CENTER CITY 1425 Locust St #5C $549,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

N LIBERTIES 805 N Lawrence $459,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

N LIBERTIES 805 N Lawrence St $459,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

BELLA VISTA 620 Christian St #1C&D $456,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

GRAD HOSPITAL 609 S B ambrey St $479,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

ART MUSEUM 2521 Brown St $445,000 Prudential Fox & Roach WASH SQ WEST 1119-25 Pine St #103 $434 ,900 Prudential Fox & Roach QUEEN VILLAGE 319 Catharine St $419,000 Prudential Fox & Roach QUEEN VILLAGE 771-75 S 2nd St, #Unit H $419,000 Prudential Fox & Roach LOGAN SQ 2301 Cherry St #4J $399,000 Prudential Fox & Roach OLD CITY 38 N Front St #1E $389,000 Prudential Fox & Roach GRAD HOSPITAL 1000 S. Chadwick St $349,900 Prudential Fox & Roach OLD CITY 315 Arch St #404 $349,900 Prudential Fox & Roach BELLA VISTA 732 Montrose St $339,000 Prudential Fox & Roach WASH SQ WEST 408 S Camac St $319,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

BELLA VISTA 808 S 7th St $550,000 Prudential Fox & Roach GRAD HOSPITAL 1429 Christian St $775,000 Prudential Fox & Roach SOCIETY HILL 504 Delancey St $875,000 Prudential Fox & Roach RITTENHOUSE SQ 1515 Locust St #500 $879,000 Prudential Fox & Roach QUEEN VILLAGE 125 B ainbridge St $579,000 Plumer & Associates QUEEN VILLAGE 1211 South St $235,000 Plumer & Associates WASH SQ WEST 1109 Spruce St. # 3R $180,000 Coldwell B anker Preferred WASH SQ WEST 1109 Spruce St. # 2R $225,000 Coldwell B anker Preferred WASH SQ WEST 255 S. Hutchinson St $250,000 Coldwell B anker Preferred WASH SQ WEST 1109 Spruce St. #4 $185,000 Coldwell B anker Preferred

3:00 - 4:00 PM SOCIETY HILL 210 W Washington Sq #PH $2 ,500,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

QUEEN VILLAGE 131 Catharine St #1 $238,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

RITTENHOUSE SQ 1924 Rittenhouse Sq $899,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

RITTENHOUSE PLAZA 1901 Walnut St #7F $539,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

PENNSPORT 238 Watkins St $219,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

RITTENHOUSE SQ 250 S 18th St #902 $799,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

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

QUEEN VILLAGE 228-30 Catharine St #2 $209,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

SOCIETY HILL 210 W Washington Sq #2SW $725,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

GRAD HOSPITAL 1540 Christian St $549,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

ART MUSEUM 2319 Aspen St $325,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

ART MUSEUM 2533 Swain St $399,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

SOCIETY HILL 312 S Philip St $575,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

NAVAL SQ 2501 Christian St #401 $319,500 Prudential Fox & Roach

GRAD HOSPITAL 2421 Grays Ferry Ave $519,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

QUEEN VILLAGE 213 Headhouse Ct $574 ,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

GRAD HOSPITAL 2241 Fitzwater St #C $314 ,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

QUEEN VILLAGE 314 Monroe St $549,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

BELLA VISTA 931 S. 11th St $299,000 Coldwell B anker Preferred

BELLA VISTA 735 S 12th St #502 $509,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

PENNSPORT 127 MountainSt $199,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

RITTENHOUSE SQ 224 S 23rd St $659,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

RITTENHOUSE SQ 2027 Rodman St $569,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

BELLA VISTA 915-25 B ainbridge St #104 $314 ,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

RITTENHOUSE SQ 2027 Rodman St $569,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

WASH WEST 1024 Spruce St A $529,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

FITLER SQ 609 S B ambrey St $479,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

CHINATOWN 1010 Race St #8K $179,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

ART MUSEUM 2206 Brandywine St $549,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

12:45 - 1:15PM RITTENHOUSE SQ 1820 Rittenhouse Sq $1 ,195,000 Allan Domb

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LOGAN SQ 2301 Cherry St #6C $436,000 Prudential Fox & Roach SOCIETY HILL 604 S Washington Sq #703 $429,900 Prudential Fox & Roach EAST FALLS 3441 Midvale Ave $419,000 Prudential Fox & Roach N LIBERTIES 223 Fairmount $399,000 Prudential Fox & Roach GRAD HOSPITAL 2234 S aint Albans $364 ,900 Prudential Fox & Roach BELLA VISTA 1351 Kater St $319,900 Prudential Fox & Roach QUEEN VILLAGE 818 S 4th St #B $275,000 Prudential Fox & Roach NEWBOLD SOUTH 2141 S Mole $189,900 Prudential Fox & Roach BELLA VISTA 1351 Kater St $319,900 Prudential Fox & Roach GRAD HOSPITAL 2234 St. Albans St $364 ,900 Prudential Fox & Roach N LIBERTIES 223 Fairmount $399,000 Prudential Fox & Roach RITTENHOUSE SQ 509 S 21st St $439,900 Prudential Fox & Roach WASH WEST 1225 Panama St $449,900 Prudential Fox & Roach BELLA VISTA 920 South St #7 $749,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

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SOCIETY HILL 105 Naudain St $629,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

WASH WEST 1225 Panama St $449,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

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WASH SQ WEST 1233 Lombard St $299,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

FITLER SQ 2419 Pine St $520,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

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BELLA VISTA 1020 Annin St $349,000 Plumer & Associates

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2508 S. Franklin St. Solid 2br/2ba in South Philly w/partially refinished basement and C/A 2049 Fernon St. Great Price for New Construction in Point Breeze! 2br, all new systems, back patio 2507 S. Sheridan St. Renovated 3br, HWflrs, tiled kit & bath, new 100 amp elec, upgraded plumbing 2316 S. Franklin St. 3br/1ba, HWflrs t/o. Recessed lighting, spacious living room, renovated KIT 721 S. Smedley St. 3br/1.5ba home on popular block. Semi-fin bsmt, roof primed for deck, hot tub 2439 S. 9th St. 3br/1ba. Home has large EIK, 1st flr laundry, large closets, Great location 1515 S. 2nd St. Fabulous! 3-story w/huge yard, neat & clean t/o. Needs some TLC, New Roof ’07 525 Fitzwater St. #15 Abbott’s Ct. Gated Community, all new electric, plumbing, heating, C/A. low taxes Fr 1138 S. Alder St. Totally renovated townhouse, desirable Italian Market! Everything new-Must See! 606 Pemberton St. 3br/1ba 3-story home w/large rooms, wall to wall carpeting, shared patio 608 Pemberton St. 3br/1ba, Modern upgrades, bsmt laundry, EIK, shared patio, new windows 1238 S. Alder St. Superb 3br/1.5ba Total Rehab on tree-lined block! Restored front, much more 931 S. 11th St. Excellent opportunity to own a 2b+2den/1.5ba lrg home in Bella Vista 200 Lombard St. #744 Very nice 1br/1.5ba condo. H/W, great views fr balcony, great bathrooms 800 S. Front St. #2 Two Bedroom condo w/roof deck, SS appliances, granite countertops, hwflrs 625-27 Bainbridge St. #2 Immaculate 2br/2ba w/exposed brick, HWflrs, modern KIT, outdoor space 2011 Catharine St. Newly rehabbed! 2-car pkg., 3br/3.5ba, wood flrs, deluxe kit w/granite & SS

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2525 Federal St. Newly rehabbed 2br/1.5ba, hwflrs, grantite, SS appliances and parking 37 S. 20th St. #3B Excellent Location! Sunlit Condo with lots of upgrades! 1642 Lombard St. #C Adorable trinity with no condo fees! 37 S. 20th St. #3B Wonderful Light Filled 1 Bedroom! Upgraded! 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. 1901 Walnut St. #9B Wonderful Aity and Light Unit facing Ritenhouse Square 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

$189,900 $224,900 $229,000 $239,900 $269,000 $319,000 $345,000 $400,000 $459,000 $479,000 $589,000 $597,500 OPEN HOUSE $590,000 $684,900 $949,900 $1,450,000

OLD CITY / LOFT DISTRICT / CHINATOWN 104-106 Arch St. #1 Wonderful Historic Building! Amazing Space for the Price in this Area! 315 New St. #521 Condo w/Pkg-Needs TLC-Qualifies for FHA-Grt for Developer or Owner w/203k 1220 Buttonwood St. #102 Fabulous 1 Bedroom Loft in Converted Warehouse 125 Cuthbert St. #A & #B Two 2br condos in historic carriage house on quaint street, freshly painted façade Fr 429 N. 13th St. #3E Beautiful artist’s loft, amazing open, airy layout! Soaring ceilings, lrg storage area 104 N. 2nd St. #402 Dramatic Sun Filled Penthouse! 201-59 N. 8th St. #212 1br/1ba, Lrge rooms, Dark hardwood floors, Modern kitchen, Broad windows 50-56 N. Front St. #202 Stunning, large windows, lots of closets, upgraded t/o 201-59 N. 8th St. #504 Stylish 1br in Metroclub Condominiums 309-313 Arch St. #308 An affordable historical restoration in Old City! Hoopskirt Factory Fr 1204 Green St. Total Rehab; conrer unit; 3br/2.5ba, HWflrs; master ste; walk-in closets; roof deck 2101 Christian St. Well Maintained home. $2,000 Buyer Agent Bonus for executed AOS b-4 11/31 51 N. 2nd St. #F Fab 1br/1ba w/hi ceilings, hwflrs, rustic ba, exposed brick, fireplace and den 201-59 N. 8th St. #213 Elegant unit, boutique luxury bldg. Sophisticated finishes, huge windows 1220 Buttonwood St. #105 Fabulous bi-level two bedroom Loft in Converted Warehouse 201 N. 8th St. #314 2br/2ba Condo, HWflrs, Modern Kit, Cali. Closets, Marble Baths, Pool, Balcony 317 Vine St. #503 Bi-level Penthouse in Old City for Great Price! 2br/1.5ba, Terrace, huge windows 104-106 Arch St. #2 Wonderful Historic Building! Best Value for Square Footage in WHOLE CITY!! 103 Callowhill St. Intimate 50 seat theater, exp brick, velvety curtains, vintage sconces. Upper level residence/office 237-41 N. Bread St. #5 Gorgeous bi-level 3br/3ba w/awesome views from 2-tier roof deck

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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 606A Waverly St. Location! This is a lovely trinity! It’s a 1 Bedroom. Great for 1st time buyer/student 927 Spruce St. 2R Deluxe Jr. 1br/1ba w/new kitchen. Unit contains a queen size Murphy bed 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 720 Chestnut St. #D 2br/2ba, 1300sqft condo in boutique bldg. Hi ceilings, wood ﬂr, granite & SS, FP 1110 Waverly St. 3br/2.5ba, 1526 sqft corner home, quiet cherry tree lined st. Move in ready. Garden

OPEN HOUSE Fr $189,000 OPEN HOUSE $185,000 $194,400 OPEN HOUSE $199,900 OPEN HOUSE $250,000 OPEN HOUSE $299,000 $449,000 $599,000

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2209 Harold St. Totally renovated gorgeous 2 bedroom home in desirable Fishtown! 2349 E. Cumberland St. 4br/1.5ba. Lrg home. New kit, new carpeting & windows, partly ﬁn bsmt 722 N. 2nd St. #203 2br/2.5ba, Bi-level Condo with Exposed Brick Walls and Roof Deck

$159,900 $225,000 $285,000

UNIVERSITY CITY / WEST PHILADELPHIA 5827 Cedarhurst St. Spacious Porch Front in West Philly. Needs some updating. Original HW Flrs! 5403 Cedar Ave. Solid West Philly Porch Front, Needs updating t/o, Great investment, Short Sale! 826 S. 51st St. 4br/2.5ba twin w/ﬁn. bsmt. No detail spared in this elegant renovation. A must See

$50,000 $55,000 $249,900

NEW CONSTRUCTION (10 YEAR TAX ABATEMENT) 800 N. 48th St. New Construction! 309-313 Arch St. Loft condos in the heart of Old City w/vintage HWflrs, high ceilings & more 1104 Emily St. 4-story, 3BR w/2 decks, hwflrs, granite, SS appls, grg pkg, 10yr tax abatement 1106 Emily St. 4-story, 3BR w/2 decks, hwflrs, granite, SS appls, grg pkg, 10yr tax abatement 209 Cuthbert St. #301 New Loft Conversion located in the heart of OLD CITY 209 Cuthbert St. Newly renovated loft building in the heart of Old City! Modern kitchens & baths-must see! 2028 Kimball St. Gorgeous new construction, 3br/3ba, HWflrs, New appls & HVAC, Fin Bsmt 911 & 913 N. 28th St. 3br/2.5ba, HWflrs, Garage, Roofdeck, Custom Closets, Designer Kitchen 4124 Apple St. 4br/3ba, New Construction, 2900 sqft, finished basement & roof deck 1935 Kimball St. Brand New! Beatiful 4br/3ba, Townhouse w/tons of details, roof deck, & fin bsmt 2516 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 2544 E. York St. Beautiful, contemporary new construction, bsmt, 600+ ft. of balconies & roof deck 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 2118 Webster St. Grad Hosp., 3br/3.5ba, Roof Deck w/City Views, option of Finished Basement 2120 Webster St. Grad Hosp., 3br/3.5ba, Roof Deck w/City Views, option of Finished Basement 629-31 S. 13th St. #A Choose your finishes, 3br/3ba, HWflrs, fin bsmt, 660 sqft, Roof Deck!

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COMMERCIAL/INVESTMENT 2113 S. Opal St. 3br/1ba, lrg rooms, EIK, backyard. Great affordable home in South Philadelphia 27 Osborne St. Cashﬂowing Duplex. 2+3 BRs. Grt loc, well maintained. Sep utils excpt water 1716 Monument St. Nicely renovated triplex. One block from Temple Campus 117 Sumac St. Huge Triplex, Great Street. Sep. & meters. Laundry. Long-term tenants in 2 units

$66,000 $245,000 $259,000 $345,000

SURROUNDING AREAS Northeast-4619 Sheffeield St. 3br/1ba, Well-designed home, nice yard, 1-car pkg, bsmt laundry Cobbs Creek-Renovated 3br/2ba home. HWflrs, fin. bsmt., new KIT w/tile flr, yard, front porch Port Richmond-2721 Webb St. Newly-renovated, 2br/1ba beauty on quiet Port Richmond block Holmesburg-4313 Rhawn St. Great 4 Bedroom home. Large backyard and new remodeled Come see for yourself! East Falls-3688 Stanton St. 4br/1ba, 3-story home in East Falls. Wall to wall carpets, lrg Kit, lrg yard East Falls-3424 Crawford St. Charming 2br/1ba w/lrg yard, HWflrs, Mod Kit w/SS appls, near SEPTA Somerton-15105 Ina Dr. Come see this very spacious 4 bedroom, 3 bath home in Somerton! Fox Chase- 1115 Solly Pl. Recently Refinished Beautiful 3br/1.5ba on CuldeSac w/garage Torresdale-113 Village Lane 3br/1.5ba, C/A, lrg driveway, inground pool, newer appls, lrg bsmt

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1127 South 11th Street • $359,000 Three story home featuring 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, den, central air, recessed lighting, hardwood floors, bright and sunny throughout with plenty of storage space. This comfortable home is conveniently located close to center city, shopping and transportation.

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$5,038 $3,760 $1,939 $1,733 $1,152

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$289,000 $259,900 $259,900 $245,000 $240,000

$42,702 $41,412 $39,043 $37,511 $36,972

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$8,707 $8,672 $6,387 $4,810 $5,752 $5,073 $3,696 $3,981 $3,571 $3,408 $2,728 $2,490 $2,683

$1,757 $1,795 $1,090 $855 $992 $2,938 $631 $659 $619 $580 $447 $486 $401

$6,949 $6,877 $5,298 $3,956 $4,761 $4,251 $3,064 $3,323 $2,953 $2,827 $2,281 $2,003 $2,282

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704 423

$319,000 $229,900

$46,421 $32,772

$91,365 $62,166

$2,132 $1,451

$352 $226

$1,780 $1,225

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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

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

2423 2,117 1,133 775 700 700 700 1,286

$1,200,000* $281,398 $799,000* $207,313 $399,000 $58,788 $329,900 $47,977 $297,500 $43,513 $290,000 $42,577 $275,000 $40,731 $269,000 $41,367

Location

WASHINGTON SQUARE

Total Square Footage

Price

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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 2 bedroom, 2 baths, 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 $559,000* $139,761 $499,900 $71,144 $349,900 $56,515 $329,000 $53,908 $299,900 $44,212 $290,000 $42,132

WATERFRONT

Total Square Footage

Price

Total Cash Required

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

924

$219,000

$42,318

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

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Location

D e c e m b e r 1-7, 2 01 0

waterFront square

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 2bedrooms, 1.5baths, windows overlooking Rittenhouse Square, old world charm, spacious kitchen, formal dining room 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, southern exposure from every room, marble baths, open chefs kitchen, maple hardwood floors 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, 1 bath, hardwood floors, marble bath, rooftop pool club and skyline view One bedroom, one bath, hardwood floors, marble bath, custom kitchen Studio, city views, large marble bath, hardwood floors, excellent natural light

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$298,478 $217,014 $128,086 $98,340 $90,659 $89,976 $86,724 $95,821

$6,694 $5,064 $2,989 $2,295 $2,115 $2,099 $2,024 $2,236

$1,124 $844 $427 $344 $309 $302 $291 $303

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

$319,246 $235,988 $198,717 $140,111 $135,733 $122,407 $115,998 $87,809 $83,461

$7,449 $5,506 $4,637 $3,269 $3,167 $2,856 $2,707 $2,049 $1,947

Minimum Income for 10% Down Financing

$90,810

Monthly Cost Incld. Mtg, Condo Fee & Taxes

$2,119

Monthly After Tax Cost

$5,841 $4,291 $2,562 $1,951 $1,806 $1,798 $1,733 $1,933 Monthly After Tax Cost

$1,403 $1,053 $868 $613 $524 $417 $410 $327 $302

$6,046 $4,453 $3,769 $2,656 $2,643 $2,439 $2,297 $1,722 $1,645

Monthly Tax Savings in a 31% Tax Bracket

Monthly After Tax Cost

$315

$1,804

Allan Domb Real Estate

* Based on 20% Down Mortgate

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101 Walnut 101 Walnut street

Brand new with 2 bedrooms plus den, 2 baths, very large windows overlooking the center of the Square, upgraded finishes, 2221 sf

Entire floor residence, 2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, floor-toceiling windows throughout, chefs kitchen, designer baths, 2423 sf

$1,395,000

$1,200,000

the philadelphian 2401 pennsylvania avenue

independence place 233 s. 6th street

3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, balony and windows walls with magnificent city and Art Museum views, 2017 sf

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, custom renovations throughout, balcony, fabulous Washington Square & Locust Walk view, 1173 sf

$579,900

$559,000

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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