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35 To Hell and Back Reading Dante III plumbs the multimedia underworld.

48 On Pointe Black Swan is crazy like a fox.

48 Six Pack Six great performances by mediocre or bad actors.

50 New Releases White Material, The Chronicals of Narnia and Welcome to the Rileys.

tured by the marred memory of his slain daughter.

10 Feather Knows BEST Meet John Featherman, candidate for mayor.

ARTs & CulTuRe 31 Calendar PW’s picks for the week.

sTAge 35 Road to Nowhere Front Row Seat gets lost along the way.

MusiC 38 Critical Analysis What your favorite albums say about you.

40 Week’s Worst Better than Ezra.

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Feedback I had no idea, being a middle-aged, white woman, that the hip hop genre were so into—or even aware of—the very real and active Illuminati, even though they (the rappers) are merely wannabes. I’m so disgusted with mainstream news outlets—all of them—and was surprised to see words like Bilderberg and New World Order in newsprint! Kudos to you (watch your back). Make me really happy by taking it a step further and proclaiming on the front page “9/11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB” and inform your readers of the facts. Good job, bravely written.

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New World Disorder Black elites and the Illuminati

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Regarding Brian McManus’ cover story about possible members of the Illumniati: I am only a half page into your article and I had to stop and say thank you! I already posted it to my blog and Facebook.

The cover caught my eye as I passed by the stack of PW’s in the lobby of my apartment building. I never pick it up, but I will now. In a city that has bred artists like the Roots who seem to speak out about everything they can wrap their brains around you would think that we as a city would be more on the edge of this “war” that is going on but we are not.

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Kudos to PW and Brian McManus. It was truly an enlightening read. In the absence of power, humans develop narratives of self and others, either as conquers or victims. It appears to me that Jay-Z has become both. He has clearly dominated the hip-hop charts, but has become a victim to rumors of being a traitor in the game he helped develop. I do not believe he is Illuminati, but to the young black youth on the block, trying to catch a break in hip-hop, it may appear to be so. He is successful as a rapper and hobnobs with the wealthy. He seems to have access to power that other artists (even rockers) cannot approach.

His reach seems undeniable. Dammit to hell, he even has Rihanna … er Beyonce.

Success breeds envy. However, to place him in the realms of the corporate/ military/multi-national elite (Illuminati, whatever) is a stretch of the imagination.

His $450 million amassed wealth wouldn’t even allow him to be employed in the housekeeping department of those hallowed grounds.

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Regarding Sean Burns’ review of Night Catches Us: Dude I know it’s painful for you, but I love your reviews of terrible films. “You asked for this America”. That opening line not only applies to the film you related it to, but every piece of junk out there— Jonah Hex, etc. I think of it often.

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Diss of Death

Dad tortured by the marred memory of his slain daughter.

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On a recent afternoon, 58-year-old Joe Goldberg sits at his kitchen table with his sister, Betty Ann Golden, 54. Goldberg, father of six, is talking about life since the moment last month when police knocked

right after the other—as he looks around, noting that the house, where Elaine’s three younger siblings still live, is usually decorated for Christmas by now. He explains that Elaine was the only one of his clan

Ten days after Elaine’s death, Nicole

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Piancentini, 35, was slain in Kensington about a mile away from where Elaine’s body was found. Goldberg drove out there, and decided to ask a crossing guard—they know everything about the city, he says—if she knew any details. Goldberg was hanging back as the guard talked with a man, but soon realized the two were discussing the killings. Goldberg says he heard the guard say, “I bet both of them tried to hold some money back from her pimp and he killed them.”

That’s when Goldberg butted in: “Gee, I hope that’s not true, because the first woman he killed was my daughter,” he recalls saying. The man the crossing guard was talking to was a reporter n

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allowed to tinsel the tree, after inheriting the job from her grandmother, who she’s now buried with at Laurel Hill cemetery in East Falls. Goldberg also struggles with the idea of whether he should hang Elaine’s stocking. He wonders if he should decorate for the sake of the kids but concedes that it’s too hard.

The fact that his daughter’s death is still making headlines almost every day doesn’t make it easier.

Now that DNA has linked Elaine’s death to at least one other homicide and a string of frighteningly similar attacks, Goldberg’s family has to keep enduring not only the gruesome details of her slaying but also what the father sees as the

media. Anonymous Internet trolls hit the Facebook memorial page Elaine’s little sister created. Goldberg says they wrote awful things, something about peeing on his daughter’s face. Whoever it was, they wouldn’t stop, so the grieving family had to create a second page that required approval of each member.

“My daughter was portrayed as the perpetrator. ‘What was she doing there, she’s got to be a junkie, she’s probably a prostitute.’ Why are you trying the victim?” he asks. “Someone took my daughter and choked her to death.”

Betty Ann nods. “It’s cruel and painful,” she says quietly.

“It paints her as if her life has no value …

I’m not saying the one and a half years that she was toying with drugs turned her into a creep because she was still nice, she was still helping people,” Goldberg says.

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on the door of his Northeast home in Holme Circle and informed him that his 21-year-old daughter Elaine Golderg’s partially clothed body was found in a lot in Kensington. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled to death. The attack is now suspected to be the first homicide in a connected series of assaults by the socalled Kensington strangler that as of press time include two murders and up to five nonfatal attacks.

“The macho in me says … I’m OK, but I’m not. I’m not … anything like OK,” Goldberg says, his eyes watering.

The grieving father stares down at the table, jaw tight. Smoke rises from the Marlboro cigarette in his hand—he smokes one

The grieving dad says it’s not just the

Goldberg was aware of his daughter’s drug problems. He says Elaine hooked up with the wrong boyfriend then started taking prescription pills—percocet and oxycontin.

He adds that in May, Elaine broke up with the boyfriend, moved back home and entered rehab in June. She stayed seven days, the duration of the detox part, but didn’t stay for rehab, figuring she could it on her own. Goldberg says he and his daughter talked openly about her getting clean every day: What’s the plan for tomorrow? For the most part, she was doing all right, he says. When she did “slip up,” she got really down about it. In September, she re-entered rehab, where she stayed for 15 days.

He says the message seemed to take. She began hanging out at the Life or Death, a clubhouse where sober people can hang out and where AA and NA meetings are held.

She started re-connecting with old friends she lost track of during her drug-fueled relationship with the ex-boyfriend and enrolled in nursing school. Her last Facebook status was posted five days before she was killed: “Good morning so far. I feel like doing something, just don’t know what yet.

Two meetings already and I suppose I’ll just creep on here til the [third]. Anyone doing anything drug/alcohol free for Halloween?

Haha.”

Goldberg admits that when he heard where Elaine’s body was found, he wondered if she slipped, if she was out there trying to cop drugs. But he doesn’t think so. For one thing, many of Elaine’s old friends from Little Flower, the ones she was trying to re-connect with, live in Kensington and Port Richmond. Secondly, when he got Elaine’s purse back from the Medical Examiner’s Office, he found a meeting list from a recovery clubhouse on Kensington Avenue, a place called the Last Stop. That slip of paper, plus the word of a woman who hangs out at the coffeeshop there, indicate that Elaine was probably there the day she was killed.

“That’s my spiel about her horrible, tawdry life of addiction,” he says sarcastically.

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“My daughter was portrayed as the perpetrator.

‘What was she doing there, she’s got to be a junkie, she’s probably a prostitute.’ Why are you trying the victim?” he asks. “Someone took my daughter and choked her to death.”

murder of her memory.

“My daughter’s dead a month and I’m still getting fresh shit,” Goldberg says. He talks about that morning’s news.

“Channels 10 and 4 described Elaine as a nursing student, but channel 3 had to say ‘recovering addict.’” He shakes his head. “I guess two out of three ain’t bad.”

Since her killing, Goldberg says he and his family have made many phone calls and sent several emails to local print and television reporters, requesting more sensitivity in their depiction of Elaine.

“My main beef with the media is my daughter was 21 years old. For 19 and a half of those years, she was … a shoulder to cry on for all her girlfriends, giving everyone in the universe advice or homework help. She was a never-ending pool of energy ... and everybody loved her,” he says. “Elaine was gorgeous, smart … she got honors all the way through [Little Flower] high school.

She was fun, had a good sense of humor and was creative.”

But Goldberg says the vivacious nursing student at Gwynedd-Mercy College is not the young woman described in the stories.

“The stories at first were about … [phrases] like ‘a drug neighborhood,’ ‘found in a lot,’ and apparently that Elaine’s down there doing drugs and perhaps a prostitute.

‘The medical examiner hadn’t yet determined whether the sex was consensual.’ I mean come on, like she was a piece of shit or something, just because she was found on a lot in Kensington.”

Goldberg stubs one cigarette out and taps a fresh one out of the pack. “First it was just ‘a drug addict.’ Then they started with ‘recovering.’ … Reporters I talked to, they saw my point and they removed the references with the story, but with TV news, they have so many reporters, there’s a new one, and you see it again. ‘Recovering addict,’ or ‘drug abuser.’ How about murder victim?”

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News & Opinion Feather Knows BEST Meet John Featherman, candidate for mayor.

By Aaron Kase

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Did anyone know there’s a mayoral race next year? While we wait with baited breath to see if any Democrats will actually nut up and challenge Mayor Nutter in the primaries, let’s not overlook the fact that there is already one contender for the general election, Realtor John Featherman, who announced his candidacy as a Republican back in June.

Featherman has run for office a number of times previously as a Libertarian and Republican (he says he grew tired of fighting for third-party ballot access and recognition, which is why he signed up with the big R), including for Congress, twice for Senate, and most recently for the now-defunct Clerk of Quarter Sessions in the 2007 elections. Though he hasn’t yet won an election, and knows first-hand how poorly Republicans tend to poll in overwhelmingly Democratic Philadelphia, Featherman remains encouraged, forging ahead without even the support of his own party– he’s a member of the Loyal Opposition, a group that has split with the Republican City Committee.

Featherman is almost sure to face an RCC challenger in the spring primaries, but no one has stepped up yet. For now, this is still a two-horse race, the Nutt vs. the Feather. Like many other past and future candidates, including Nutter himself,

Cutting the budget: I would rather look at wasteful government. For example, the so-called Department of Ethics? Complete waste of money. You’d save between one and two million dollars just excising them, because what they do is already done by the Department of Records and the Board of Elections.

I would go into L&I and at least cut between 20 to 25 percent. I would cut back a lot of their responsibilities. There’s always a risk that there can be homes that are unsafe, that’s something we have to address, but right now in this city there’s so many draconian steps we have to go through [to get permits and building modifications approved].

From the start, I would have examined every department for something to bid out. The ones where we thought it made sense, we bid it out. If you want to change the budget, you’ve got to excise it. If we can do it, I would bid out trash collection.

And you don’t do it the Arlene Ackerman way of giving it out to your friends.

Council members’ Bill Green and Maria Quinones-Sanchez’s business tax-reform plan to cut profit tax and increase receipts tax: There’s an as-

sumption that there are no other options, like cutting things. Anyone who’s a dot. com, or a start-up, when they hear these

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Featherman talks a lot about eliminating waste and cleaning up corruption in City Hall, and his take-no-prisoners mantra of “cut cut cut” sounds reminiscent of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. But can Featherman deliver the goods to finally make an impact on our bloated budgets? Read on to find out where he stands on various subjects of interest:

[Mayor Nutter] said, “the economy is bad, we can’t cut the gross receipts tax.”

It made me so mad. That’s one thing. Just one thing he could have done that would have changed everything. It stops young people from starting businesses and it stops people from wanting to come to Philadelphia.

things it doesn’t make them feel good to come to Philadelphia. A lot of the dot. coms make no profit the first three to five years, but they have tons of sales. In this environment that Green and Sanchez are proposing, over five years you’re going to see the gross receipts tax go up 300 percent. That’s not going to ingratiate them to young kids who want to start businesses.

actually go to the Board of Realtors and say “We’ve got all these lots, we need you to sell them.” Because realtors can do a much better job than the city. We’re not employees, they don’t have to pay us anything, just a standard commission, and we sell for whatever the market does.

Center City real-estate tax abatement, where property owners can avoid 10 years of taxes: I’m probably

the only person you’re ever going to meet who does not like the ten-year tax abatement. The ten-year tax abatement, in my opinion, should not be used any more for the high-end, rich, luxury buildings in Center City. It should be used as a tool for public policy to encourage people to build in North Philly, to build in Southwest Philly, to build in areas that really need help.

The mayor’s Office of Inspector General and Chief Integrity Officer, charged with cleaning up corruption in the city’s executive branch: I don’t know the answer. I have no idea. That’s something I could find out more about.

The Boy Scout controversy over giving free rent to an organization that does not allow gay members: I think

it’s abhorrent that they discriminate. I understand the situation that legally they can, but I think it’s abhorrent that they don’t embrace and love everyone. Here’s the situation: When I found out they get free rent, nobody should get free rent! I don’t care if it’s Mother Theresa. The fact that people are getting free or very low priced rent is disturbing. That’s something that should be changed right away too.

Decriminalization of marijuana:

Throughout my entire political career, I have supported decriminalization of marijuana, with an immediate decriminalization of medicinal marijuana. I took that stand long before it became a ballot issue in California and many other states.

I support District Attorney Seth William’s decision not to waste of our limited law enforcement resources on issues involving “small amounts of marijuana for personal use.” While I disagree that it should even be prosecuted as a summary offense, it’s a step in the right direction.

The war on drugs has been an expensive failure. We should shift gears and instead

treat drug and alcohol abuse as a health issue and not as a criminal issue, concentrating on rehabilitation.

Conservative social values: I’m a

libertarian. I’m not into the family values stuff. I support gay marriage. I support a woman’s right to choose. I’m socially inclusive. I’m fiscally very conservative.

Chris Christie: I like what I hear about

him. I don’t know him. I like that he’s a straight talker. I like how he said it was almost an anomaly he got elected, and three years from now he may not. That’s going to be the same story with me. Chris Christie and I are not the same people. He has a lot of good things going on, even a lot of Democrats that didn’t vote for him are respecting that he’s at least able to clean things up. So yeah, I mean, I like him. Is he a role model for me? I don’t know him well enough, and I don’t try to work off what other people do. But I like the direction he’s going, and I like that there’s straight talk.

What it means to be a Republican in Philadelphia: It’s tough right now.

It’s going to be tough for most Republican candidates. We are out-registered approximately seven to one. Right now, it means nothing. I mean, it all starts with the RCC. I’m on the other side. I’m a Loyal Opposition person. If you look at the history, we have done very little to build the party. It’s gonna take a new Republican City Committee to change that.

We will have no significant impact until we change the people who run the party.

Until we offer an urban agenda, we won’t have any significant impact.

Why he’s running against such long odds: Maya Angelou, the poet, once said

if there’s a book you want to read that hasn’t been written, you must write it. My job is to help write that book. To reform the Republican party, to reform Philadelphia. Even if I don’t win, I’m the RCC’s worst nightmare. I’m running to win. I’m realistic, I understand the odds. But if I can accomplish one simple thing, like eliminating the gross receipts tax, I’ve done something very good for this city. I am going to run to win. It’s almost going to be like a suspension of disbelief.

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He likes to have fun, and wants you to have more. So pick up some treats (like a Charleston Chew) so you two can be chewing, and he’ll chew with you. And if chewing with you isn’t all that much fun, he can leave and go home, so there’ll be only one. And that one will sit there like a big blob of goo—

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And while your little pal never seems to be “lazy” by any stretch, you can only imagine that every once and a while he likes to have some space. A gift certificate to Landmark Theaters will let him catch some flicks on his own. Then again, he seems to be a little lost on his own—he’ll probably nag you until you go see the new Darren Aronofsky movie or some foreign documentary or something when you’ve told him a thousand times you’re just not into that stuff.

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Art Star has a variety of beautiful ceramics, but for these purposes, Eleanor Grosch’s fox mug seems somehow perfect.

If your friend would prefer to have a little less clutter in his life and you want to let him know that you’re going to be his friend for years and years to come, try looking toward long-term philanthropy that you can visit—adopt a bald eagle at the zoo! For 15-20 years to come you guys can ride your tandem bike over to visit your ward as he or she grows up—maybe there’ll even be more little eaglets!

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Billykirk utility pouch There’s also a lot to carry around—a walkie-talkie in case of raids, a Droid for updating His GloriousLeader twitter account, a digital camera for documenting members and assembling the “Scion of the Month” bulletin board.

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end word to one and all and all and one that on Oct. 21, 2010, BFF ceased to stand for Best Friends Forever. It now stands for Baracka Flacka Flames, the head of the motherfucking state.

If you’re unfamiliar, Baracka Flacka Flames is just like our 44th president, except for the part where he spends his days posted up on OGs’ porches, bending corners in the SK, smoking weed with Michelle, using the U.S. military to settle beef and not really existing except in a viral music video by comedian and absurdly talented mimic James Davis.

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How is BFF supposed to make speeches if his throat is all cut up all the time? Make sure those all-important vocal cords are properly soothed with some herbal tea. For more information on what kind of herbal tea is best suited for this situation, please refer to pp.217-219 in Suggested Gift #2.

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If He’s out there spreading the message, He’s already wearing His heart on His sleeve. Why not give him the Haymaker T-shirt so he can subtly declare his favorite Constitutional Amendment, too?

Puns used to be the highest form of humor (back in the good old godly days before Chester “Antichrist” Arthur)—even the accursed Federal Government agents will surely laugh when they see the hilarity on their surveillance tapes!

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you’re reading this, it means we were successful. It means you have a chance not to suffer the fate that befell most of the city that fateful March 2011.

We’re not sure where it started, really. Aaron said it was at the American Apparel—he’s sure there was something even deader than usual behind the eyes of the employees. Said he got close enough to smell them, that there was no tobacco on their breath that day.

If they hadn’t been smoking, he was sure, they must have already been dead. Then again, Aaron went crazy.

Either way, it spread fast. At 20th and Market, a falafel cart was overturned—and it wasn’t the platter or the sandwich they were after. In South Philly, the streets ran redder than any tomato product could explain. Windows were smashed all up and down Broad with no Phillies victory to account for the frenzy.

A few of us understood what was happening. We stocked up, fled the urban center and made it here to Manayunk, where we’ve holed up in Spectrum Scientifics trying to send this dispatch into the past so maybe a few more can make it.

Manayunk is safe, for now. The undead here have no more interest in this shop than they had when they were alive. If you make it, though, steer clear of the bars. That scene has only improved a little since the apocalypse came.

Yeah, you’ll need a weapon, but not as much as you’ll need to be quiet. For the first few hours we heard shots, but they didn’t last. The noise drew the staggering horde—I guess, in a way, the guns of others saved our lives. We were smarter, packing firepower without the noise. A traditional bow will be most cost-effective if you’re early enough to buy, but like I said, if you’re already in the shit, go for ease of use with a crossbow—no one will miss it, and you’ll miss less with it.

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Be mobile You need a way to get around fast, and you need to be able to take your mode of transportation with you even through tight spaces and over and under obstacles. A folding bike fits the bill—sturdy and fast enough to get you around the city on the back roads, compact enough to carry when you need to duck into hiding. If you’re getting this far enough ahead of time to buy, go for the KHS Latte. If it’s already begun, you may as well loot something sturdier and nicer. Take a Dahon.

Always have fire Reliable lighters are more valuable than diamonds these days—you can use fire to cook, to attack, to defend, to do a hundred other odd jobs, and few are prepared to pull that Boy Scout business with the sticks and the string. A good dual-flame lighter with a soft flame and a butane torch will do you right, and if you invest in a good one and some extra fluid you won’t keep having to scramble to a gas station every time you want to cook or set up a burnscreen. It will save your life. And while you’re down at S.J., you may as well pick up a couple good smokes, too—it’ll kill you eventually, but who’s still worried about eventually?

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Prepare for the jerk who will inevitably lose his mind We should have seen it coming with Aaron, and the fact that we didn’t cost us. If it’s a bite the signs will be obvious, and you need to dispatch the infected with a broadhead before they start thinking of the rest of you as al dente. If it’s just stress breaking them, well, they might recover, but don’t get caught unaware. Keep restraints on hand so you can put the crazy on lockdown when you need to. Oh, but go furry.

They’re still human beings, for Christmas’ sake.

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If you’re in a group, you’re going to get separated from time to time and you don’t have the luxury of planning ahead. To take advantage of what you’ve got to keep in communication—your Iphone, your ham radio, your GPS, whatever—you’re going to need to keep it powered up. There’s no signal these days, of course, but it took at least a week for the grid to fail—a precious week that can be used to find your loved ones. A compact solar charger will give you enough juice for the necessaries without tethering you to a single place. Trust me, going green never saved your ass so hard.

Know where the wind is coming from, and know where they’re coming from. If you can spot them before they see, hear or smell you, you have a better shot at keeping your skull pudding intact. Some basic binoculars will give your party a huge advantage, though if the economy’s already gone brain-based you may as well help yourself to something with night-vision capabilities—PECO’s not going to keep pumping juice into the streetlights forever.

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iving some fine domestic cannabis or a cool marijuana accessory is a realm many are looking to explore this year. If someone in your life is a regular consumer for recreation or medication there is a bumper crop of great options.

Vaporizers Vaporization does not combust the plant material but it does release cannabinoids like THC into a fine mist. This means the plant material does not catch fire. It takes careful regulation of the temperature to pull off this trick so low-end models offer mixed results. The Volcano Vaporizer is the Cadillac of consumption devices and is the ultimate gift in our guide. The Volcano is recognized as the safest, most effective cannabinoid delivery system and it is also the most expensive at $650. However this is a fair investment to make in something that will be used regularly for many years.

For medical consumers this is the recommended device. It is available in a few local shops and direct from the manufacturer online.

Canvassing for Cannabis

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High grade

Light to dark green, very well manicured, no seeds, plenty of visible red hairs and naturally occurring white crystals on the flower buds and leaves of the plant called trichomes. Philly street price: $120 per quarter/$500 per ounce or more, often sold at $60 per eighth-ounce.

Sativas tend to have a looser bud structure while Indica strains are very dense and tightly knit. The diversity of flavors, scents and sensations is impressive. The most popular tend to have a citrus-bright smell mixed with the earthy “dank” tones of the cannabis.

Though many named strains of marijuana are available some more commonly found in Philly are Blueberry Kush, Sour Diesel, Blue Dream and Northern Lights. A gift of high-grade marijuana will elicit a response of almost surprisingly effusive gratitude. A little goes a long way with just a gram or two being a wonderful gift, any more is a true luxury.

Mid grade

Light to dark green, sometimes with many visible red hairs or even purple leaves with few seeds. Philly street price: $50 per quarter/$200 per ounce.

Middle-grade cannabis comes in the form of well-manicured buds with good flavors and scents but without knock-your-socks-off potency, making for an excellent gift.

Low grade

Dark green, tightly pressed together often with many stems and seeds.

Philly street price: $20 per quarter/$80 per ounce, often sold in “dime” bags.

Gift Wrap Presentation is everything, so when giv giving cannabis as a gift don’t just slap it in a plastic baggie; get some cool packaging.

Local craft stores carry miniature paint cans and clear-plastic houses normally used as candy dispensers that make for nice little presentation boxes at just $1.50 each.

Storage Jars Forget wooden boxes and metal tins, the best storage device for marijuana is a sealed glass jar. Blown glass containers are topped with a large cork and feature deep colors like blue or dark red. A new variety is made of scientific grade glass that is completely clear so the buds can be seen. Etching is placed on the side and customized designs can be ordered: $15-$85 each. Fill them up for an extra-special treat.

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These days a mind-boggling selection of materials is available to wrap up cannabis for smoking including (no joke) bacon-flavored papers. Better ones too look for: Natural hemp papers, clear papers (made of plant cellulose) and papers with a built in wire for convenient holding as it burns. These are nice treats for $2-$9.

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Grinders look like a small jar but inside there are two plates with metal teeth above a catch screen. Put in some bud, twist a few times and it’s ready to roll. There are even battery-powered versions: $8-$40

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’s making a list, checking it twice...

We are, of course, speaking of Craig Newmark, whose list isn’t all judgy about naughty or nice. Craigslist may have gutshot print media’s ad revenues, but from curb alerts to Casual Encounters to Best-of, his list is undeniably essential these days, and we have to respect that.

Listography 2011 Calendar Like Best of Craigslist, perhaps the most fitting gift is the one that continues to evolve in a delightful way: a Listography 2011 Weekly Calendar. This hilariously illustrated and clever notebook will not only provide the opportunity to keep track of the whens and wheres of all of those suburban estate sales, but each turn of the page provides a personal prompt such as, “couples you were sad to see break up,” or “things that freak you out,” creating a planner that doubles as a brief, point-by-point diary.

$15.99. The Papery, 57 N. 3rd St., 215.922.1500, paperyofphilly.com

Leather Gag Craig, in perhaps his greatest benevolent gift to humankind, has helped innumerable people get laid. Even the timid can peruse missed Connections, and the Casual Encounters section provides the potential for quick, pizza-delivery-like sex for those with immediate needs. A few months ago, the erotic services section got Craig slapped with allegations of prostitution; given the snarky “censored” tag that he slapped on his now-defunct adult services list, we bet he’d appreciate a festively red leather bit gag.

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Pyramid Ring Unfortunately for Craig, the Craiglist Killer and Craigslist Robberies have given his list some grim associations. He ought to diffuse his image through the lens of ironic detachment (and potential to do serious bodily harm) with one of Adelina Mitclan’s pyramid rings, which reinterpret brass knuckles with a subdued sexiness.

$150. Topstitch Boutique, 54 N. Third St., 215.238.8877. topstitchboutique.com

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The housing section of Craigslist is key to tracking down a heartwarming hearth or rat-riddled sublease to call your own. To show your appreciation for the roof over your head, try this series of prints by Melanie Linder that beautifully celebrates the comfort of Home Sweet Home. Steeple-roofed houses glow from within, coupled with quotes of contented domesticity from Emily Dickenson, Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeroes.

$20-$27. Art Star, 623 N. Second St. 215.238.1557, artstarphilly.com

Newspaper Subscription Newspapers have been in financial trouble for a while; and while there’s a variety of reasons for this that have nothing to do with Craig, the loss of revenue from real estate and rental listings has been killer.

While getting him a year’s subscription to the Inquirer and/or Daily News will be just another drop in a leaky bucket, it seems appropriately passive-aggressive. $205.99,

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The Book of Imaginary Beings Your roommate the unicorn can be a tiresome conversationalist. His pretentious discourses on Schopenhauer are a real downer at the bar, but you know he’s just trying to impress the ladies. Help him out with Borges’ coffeehouse-appropriate mini-encyclopedia. He might even learn something about himself.

Oatmeal-Raisin Cookies Ever since your roommate the unicorn started crushing on that vegan barista at the coffee shop around the corner, he’s been talking about wanting to improve his diet. This health kick hasn’t made it much further than a token carton of rice milk in your fridge, but you can give him a tasty little push with a dozen cookies. Vegan, glutenfree and free of highly processed additives, your roommate the unicorn can gorge himself on these oats, and maybe bring one over to that barista.

Self-interest: With his diet of ice cream and Cheetos, your roommate the unicorn can wreak unspeakable havoc on your apartment’s unrenovated plumbing system. Help him solve his digestive troubles and you’ll really be helping yourself.

$13.75/dozen. Sweet Freedom Bakery, 1424 South St. sweetfreedombakery.com

Self-interest: You’ve witnessed enough late nights with his bottle of scotch to know that the “lack of temperance” Borges quotes Leonardo da Vinci attributing to the unicorn is no joke. Maybe this will $16. Joseph Fox Bookshop, remind him to be a 1724 Sansom St. bit more cautious foxbookshop.com with the bottle.

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It’s hard for unicorns to keep shearling slippers on their hooves, so buy him a pair of XL dog boots. Understated in black fleece, they’ll keep his hooves warm and him happy. And if this winter sees anything like last year’s snow, he’ll appreciate the added traction of these indooroutdoor boots when he has to head out to the bodega.

Self-interest: Four gold hooves make a hell of a racket on the wood floors of your walk-up (not to mention what they’re probably doing to your security deposit); these will muffle the clomping.

$13.99. Doggie Style, 1700 E. Passyunk Ave. (various locations). doggiestyle2.com

Tickets to the Unicorn Tapestries Maybe it’s the species divide, but your roommate the unicorn doesn’t get what’s so scary about that Saw franchise everyone’s always yammering on about. Give him a chance to experience the fun of a good scare with tickets to the Cloisters, part of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Among other medieval masterpieces, there’s some famous and terrifying (if you’re a unicorn) sequential art—the seven Unicorn Tapestries narrate the hunt of a unicorn, ending with its gruesome death.

Although 15th-century special effects may not compare with today’s 3-D corpse showers, your roommate the unicorn will be properly chilled by man’s inhumanity to, well, unicorns.

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Self-interest: A trip to New York for your roommate the unicorn means you get the apartment to yourself for once.

$20. The Cloisters, 99 Margaret Corbin Drive, Fort Tryon Park, New York City. metmuseum.org

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Talk format we know and love. If you’re not familiar: TEDTalks are discussions hosted by the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Organization, online videos of which are cult favorites. The conference is in DC, but that doesn’t mean that Philadelphians can’t be a part of the audience—Moore will be streaming live footage from the conference all day long, so you can either witness the whole talk as it happens, or just duck in for your favorite speaker. Some of the bigger names: Madeleine Albright, Arianna Huffington, Nancy Pelosi and Donna Karan (yes, that Donna Karan)But lesser-known TED speakers are often the most interesting, and here they range from author/ Zen priest Joan Halifax to First Lady of Sierra Leone Sia Nyama Koroma. This conference may make you feel inadequate, but should be fascinating nonetheless. eMily CrAWfOrD 8:30am. Free. Moore College of Art and Design, 20th St. and the Parkway. 215.965.4065. moore.edu

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10 Blind Boys of Alabama For fans of the show The Wire (read: anyone who watched it), “Which version in the opening title sequence of ‘Way Down in the Hole’ was the best?” was a fun little debate. Those conversations usually lasted about as long as this: “Clearly, the Blind Boys of Alabama version from season one,” with occasional due props to Tom Waits’ season-two rendition. Their bluesy, swinging version encapsulated much of the spirit of their records: a hand-clappin’, foot-stompin’ good time with undertones of soul-stirring gospel. The Blind Boys have been recording gospel in various forms since forming at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind in Talladega in 1939, and they’ve won multiple Grammys, including a 2009 lifetime-achievement award. They‘re touring in support of their new album, 2010’s Faith Moves Mountains. If these blind men don’t move you, you’re deaf. JOe HArDy 8pm. $36. Keswick Theatre, 291 N. Keswick Ave., Glenside. 215.572.7650. keswicktheatre.com

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ar on Drugs frontman Adam Granduciel and drummer Mike Zanghi are members of Kurt Vile’s the Violators, but with two solid Secretly Canadian releases the Philadelphia trio has rammed out from underneath Vile’s (muchdeserved) media shadow. 2008’s Wagonwheel Blues was a workingclass road album that re-articulated the restless American spirit of Woody Guthrie from the perspective of the Bush-era wanderer, and 2010’s Future Weather shows them drenching blue-collar anthems driven by krautrock’s motorik rhythms in dense walls of shoegaze fuzz. Like Tom Petty, Granduciel’s songwriting is immediately memorable: the hooks dig in and incite sing-a-longs at every turn. Tonight’s their much-anticipated first hometown gig since the new album dropped. elliOTT SHArp

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Thurs., Dec. 9. 8pm. $8. With Ape School.

Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front Street.

215.291.4919. kungfunecktie.com

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Bert Jansch Bert Jansch has been a guitar master for nearly half a century now, from his days with Pentangle, through a recent solo collaboration with freak folk’s Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom. An unassuming, yet stunning, performer, he seems, at times, to be split by genre right down the rib cage. His fretting hand executes the bends and pulloffs and hammer-ons that link him to the blues. His picking hand flutters in delicate three- and four-finger patterns to anchor his tunes in folk. Jansch missed some shows earlier this year due to complications from lung cancer, so if you want to see this particular living legend, now is the time. Jennifer Kelly 9pm. $15. With Meg Baird. Johnny Brenda’s. 1201 N. Frankford. 215.739.9684. johnnybrendas.com

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From the makers of TEDTalks comes the first ever TEDWomen conference, bringing in men and women from diverse disciplines and backgrounds to share their ideas related to female leadership in the standard TED-

The Philadelphia Art Alliance continues to spark dialogue about the place of craft and design in contemporary fine art with its guest lecturer series The Commonwealth. For the third installment, our city’s own Candy Depew gives a presentation on innovative modes of creation and redefining the role of the artist.

Innovation and identity are two thematic hallmarks of Depew’s knockout artistic career; distinguishing herself as a Cultural Entrepreneur, her creations and insights are as dazzling and multifaceted as the diamonds that recur in her designscapes. Known internationally as an interdisciplinary master of artistic media from sculpture and printmaking to film and installations, Depew is also founder and director of Philly’s CandyCoated Center, a gallery which houses the StudioSchool of Decorative Art and serves as a launchpad for Depew’s chimerical projects. MiCAelA HeSTer 7pm. $5. Philadelphia Art Alliance, 251 S. 18th St., 215.545.4302. philartalliance.org

Tonight at their Chinatown gallery, the Space 1026 art collective will be celebrating their 13th anniversary with this annual auction where all proceeds go to ensure they can bring more exhibits by international artists to the city in 2011 and continue nurturing local paint-slingers, sculptors, screen printers, and a slew of other hyper-creative-types.

With Philadelphia art scene veteran Todd B. Kimmell as auctioneer, winning bidders may stride home carrying works by over 25 artists.

Up for grabs are a red skull wood cut painting by Bonnie Brenda Scott, screen prints by Andrew Jeffrey Wright, a sculpture by Craig Hein called “Ol’Rampy” that really is an ol’ ramp, a heady drawing by Luke Ramsey, a green monster painting by Matt Furie, and many more pieces by local artists. For holiday shoppers who don’t know what to snag their lovers, nothing says “You complete me” like an ol’ ramp. Think about it. elliOTT SHArp 7pm. Free. Space 1026, 1026 Arch St. 215.574.7630. space1026.com.

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EndangeredCity Reinvention and connection to history don’t have to be mutually exclusive. So while GEDo may sound a bit like a faux neighborhood name dreamed up by condo developers (a la SoSo and G-Ho) in their quest to turn Philadelphia into something bright, shiny and nonthreatening, GEDo (and the Preservation Alliance) stands for just the opposite with the

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Mario Pavone’s Orange Double Tenor

7pm. $10. Global Dye Works, 4500 Worth St. 215.828.3068. gedoprodject.blogspot.com

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finally ends. The songs are mostly awful, but it’s the repetition of the same 30 tunes over and over that really stings—we all want to enhance our holiday joy with themed music, but we want it a bit more avant-garde, amirite?

Enter composer Phil Kline’s Unsilent Night.

Debuted in NYC in 1992, and making its ninth annual Philly appearance, the participatory sound piece consists of four recorded tracks played back in cassette, mp3 or CD format on the boomboxes, phones or iPod docks brought by audience participants. Moving from the Ethical Society meeting spot to Rittenhouse Square, the park slowly becomes a flowing tapestry of ambient, absorptive, and collective sound. e.S. 6:30pm. Free. Ethical Society Building, 1906 Rittenhouse Square. 215.574.8248. unsilentnight.com

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Dave Holland Big Band

A major force in jazz since his late ’60s apprenticeship with electric-era Miles Davis, bassist Dave Holland has devoted much of the last decade to his fiery quintet. But on What Goes Around (2002) and Overtime (2005), Holland expanded to a big band format, keeping the quintet lineup intact while increasing the sound mass with horns galore. This week the Bride hosts the big band’s Philly debut.

The music is a stew of stripped-down harmony and off-centered rhythmic attack, with stormy bass-driven vamps and supple grooves courtesy of drummer and aspiring bandleader Nate Smith. The soloists, including saxophonists Chris Potter and Antonio Hart and trumpeter Alex Sipiagin, do not make a habit of holding back. DAviD R. ADleR 7pm & 9pm. $25. Painted Bride Art Center, 230 Vine St. 215.925.9914 paintedbride.org

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8pm. $12. International House, 3701 Chestnut St. 215.895.6546 arsnovaworkshop.org

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Christmas is a goddamn nightmare for retail employees whose workplaces have stereos.

Beginning in November, the noxious tones of “Jingle Bells” and “Winter Wonderland” stab into these poor bastards’ brains until the holy day passes and the Johnny Mathis madness

Noon. Free. The Gallery, third floor, 9th and Market sts. muralarts.org

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10am. $3. Punk Rock Flea Market-Dome, 461 N. Ninth St. r5productions.com

At 70, Mario Pavone continues to blaze the path he embarked on in the late ’60s, bridging the dissonant, structurally open world of the avant-garde and the swinging accessibility of jazz tradition. Like Dave Holland, he’s a prolific leader and composer and a monster bassist, with a raft of recent standouts on the Playscape label to his credit. The latest, Arc Suite T/Pi T/Po, seems to merge the quintet from 2003’s Orange with the twinned tenor sax lineup of 2008’s Ancestors (hence “Orange Double Tenor”). The results are punchy, furious at times, yet finely calibrated at the core.

Watch for Pavone’s secret weapon, the underrated pianist Peter Madsen, whose advanced harmony does wonders for these wry, twisted compositions. D.R.A.

At first glance, Freelance Whales induce the kind of jaw-breaker monster yawn that blinds for a few seconds, what with their self-consciously quirky bio (“A seemingly never-ending jigsaw of small rooms, the farm colony ate them whole and threatened to never regurgitate them”), meteoric new-media rise (the single “Generator, 2nd Floor” was just used in a Twitter video) and predictable art-school style (a fricking fedora!). But if you stop looking and start listening to the Queensbased group of friends-of-friends, their groovy layered harmonies, bright major-key jangles and judicious use of bloops and bleeps chisels away the cynicism. Youthful enthusiasm ... totally annoying, but it takes this round. tARA

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he new mural planned for the airport is scheduled for completion in June of next year, but it won’t get done without some help from upstanding, art-loving citizens. The Philadelphia Mural Arts Program is providing supplies and inviting the public out for a community paint day, where for three hours of paint-bynumbers on the grand scale, residents with no painting experience can be a part of Jacques-Jean “JJ” Tiziou’s dance-inspired design, one panel at a time. The mural, which will cover 50,000 square feet and will be visible from I-95, is called “How Philly Moves” and is designed to incorporate the city’s rich history of tap, jazz and other forms of dance. 60 dancers have been photographed in various poses to be displayed on this gateway to Philadelphia, seen by millions of travelers every year. lAuReN hODGeS

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Browse through over 200 tables of vendors and Philly locals selling crafted, found, and pre-loved treasures you won’t find anywhere else. Rare LPs, unique clothes, vintage show posters—someone’s selling ‘em. Bikes, skateboards, rare-as-hell hook-ups for the old stereo your friend is trying to piece back together? Probably there too. Some eats to keep your energy up while you shop? They’ve got you covered. Need a break from the buying?

Rock some skill crane games to win tickets to shows, backstage passes, and rare records— one person will even win a lifetime pass to all R5 shows. Your $3 donation and all other proceeds go to keeping shows at the First Unitarian Church and other all-ages venues alive and kicking. ChARlie Gill

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art show EndangeredCities. They asked local artists to show how the city has inspired them, and received pieces in all sorts of media, including paintings, sculptures, video and fiber works. The show invites the public to vote on their favorite works, which will be displayed on the Preservation Alliance’s website for the next year, and to bid during the silent auction.

Half the proceeds will go toward the Alliance’s Advocacy fund, which helps pay for legal assistance and negotiations for protecting “endangered” properties—historic spaces (buildings, landmarks, details) that are not on the historic registry, but should be. Alli KAtz

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On the Gaydar A preview of Philly's upcoming LGBT events.

By Brian Goldthorpe feedback@philadelphiaweekly.com

Camp Tabu

Back for its third monthly installment, Camp Tabu is a huge celebration of standup comedy, jam-packed with Philly’s most outspoken gay and lesbian comics who do whatever it takes (within reason, and within the law) to put a smile on your face.

The hysterical Christine Meehan and Alejandro Morales share hosting duties, serving up dynamic dialogue between performances from the local gay comedy scene.

Jess Carpenter, Rae Drew, Carolyn Busa, Tim Stevens, and Jaime Fountaine’s alter ego, “Beverly Winthrop,” will be bringing enough witty one-liners, sarcastic storytelling and self-deprecating sentiments to get you through this holiday season.

Fri., Dec. 10, 9pm. $5, includes one drink.

Tabu Lounge and Sports Bar, 200 S. 12th

Babes of Toyland GayBINGO!

Anything with the words “gay,” “toys” and “bingo” in the title basically guarantees a good time. Back with a campy and clever theme for the holiday edition, your grandma’s BINGO card is still in use, but that’s about as traditional as it gets. The games are refereed by the “Bingo Verifying Divas”—an outrageous bunch of drag queens on roller skates who play it up between sets with contests, pop IQ tests and general nonsense. The event benefits nonprofit organization, the AIDS Fund, which has raised more than $2 million for people in the area living with AIDS since GayBINGO’s inception 14 years ago. Prizes range from $100 to a $1,000 jackpot.

Sat., Dec. 11, 7pm. $20-$25.

Gershman Y, 401 S. Broad St. 215.731.9255. aidsfundphilly.org/gaybingo/

December Arouse

Possibly more than at any other moment in history, now is the time to get involved with organizations that provide support and programs for gay youth. In Philadelphia, the Attic Youth Center is leading the way— creating new opportunities for gay youth “to develop into healthy, independent, civicminded adults within a safe and supporting

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community.” This month, you’ll have the opportunity to get familiar with the Attic’s staff and volunteers during Arouse, a monthly party organized by Stimulus Philly the second Saturday of each month. Stimulus partners with a different LGBT service organization each month and donates part of the proceeds.

Guest DJs will be spinning house, hip-hop, salsa, reggae, and everything in between.

Delicious specialty shots will be served by the gorgeous Aroused shot crew along with $3 Miller Light and Coors Light, and $4 well drinks.

Sat., Dec. 11, 10pm. $5-$10. MarBar, 200 S. 40th St. 215.222.0800. stimulusphilly. com

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Arts & Culture The lovely ladies of Philly are always ready to Werq it, girl. Outrageous NYC superstar Mimi Imfurst hosts an outrageous night of standup, sitdown, singing, dancing and wig-whipping performances each week for (and sometimes with) lucky members of the audience. Drag has definitely been gaining steam around here with the help of a few notable queens, like the incredible Brittany Lynn and Lisa Lisa. In the last few months, several new performers, including Navaya Shay and Cherry Pop have burst onto the scene with standout routines at the U.S. Mr. Gay Competition and the Gayborhood Games.

Come out and watch them do their thing and be sure to see what the Ultimate Diva thinks of our Lady Mimi when she competes on Season 3 of RuPaul’s Drag Race on the LOGO Network, starting this January.

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Stage Road to Nowhere Front Row Seat gets lost along the way.

By J. Cooper Robb jrobb@philadelphiaweekly.com

To Hell and Back

Reading Dante III plumbs the multimedia underworld.

By Roberta Fallon rfallon@philadelphiaweekly.com

Front Row Seat Through Dec. 12. $15-$18. Walnut Street Theatre, Studio 5, 825 Walnut St. philadelphiatheatreworkshop.org

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A four-page handout of the words featured from the Divine Comedy gives a sense of its aesthetic: “A gloomy wood…death might well be its confederate…the wasteland…terrible crescendo…where light was not…children crying in their sleep…unhappy flesh… as they lay dead…absolute rock bottom.”

But there are no references to grotesques in the visuals, no ghouls, ghosts or shades, and most of the Catholic details are stripped away. Instead, what’s suggested is ordinary humans performing meaningless tasks for all eternity—a series of disparate and seemingly humdrum moments that add up to an existential nothingness. This is slow art, a depiction of a time out of time.

Perhaps for us postmoderns, the void on earth is far more terrifying than Dante’s visions of fire and ice.

Influenced by surrealism and the sculptures of Alberto Giacometti, Jonas is a great image-maker. Her videos might be long and repetitive (the 45-minute video could be edited down), but they are punctuated by lovely lyrical passages, including some that translate the film into a negative of itself. A scene of children setting up a dollhouse village, for example, is beautiful and poignant.

Jonas, born in 1936, studied sculpture and art history at Columbia University, but discovered a love of performing early on and switched to video and performance in the early ’70s—video was new at the time, she’s said, and gave women a better shot than male-dominated sculpture or painting at a voice in the art world. So mark Dec. 11 on your calendar—missing a chance to see this seminal artist in person would be like turning down a trip to the moon. n

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Joan Jonas’ Reading Dante III at the Fabric Workshop and Museum includes a 45-minute video of people reading excerpts of the Divine Comedy and of the artist drawing circles within circles that suggest the poet’s descriptions of Hell and Purgatory. Despite these moments, though, Jonas’ installation isn’t completely literal—rather, it’s lyrical, and, in places, beautiful. And there’s a rare opportunity this Saturday to see Jonas perform in conjunction with the installation.

The acclaimed New York video and performance pioneer creates the feel of the underworld even without Dante’s words.

The second-floor gallery is dark like a cave, with abstract drawings on the walls. Three video projections supply motion and a rumble and tinkle of sound, vitrines hold the artist’s chalk drawings, light sculptures provide dim illumination and benches accommodate the weary.

In the videos, humans recite, sing, play, draw with chalk, climb a wall, walk and drive in circles and parade theatrically behind a scrim as dark silhouettes. Filmed in Mexico, Canada, New York and Italy, the videos translate the eternal journey of Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso into yet another language—pixels, cycling and recycling, without beginning or end.

Like Margaret Meade’s videos of New Guinea natives, these videos play like scientific records, or videos meant for a museum.

Similarly, just as the Smithsonian displays a moon rock in a vitrine, this installation displays pieces from Jonas’ performances in a vitrine. Few will experience a trip to the moon first-hand, slightly more but still few have experienced Jonas’ performances. But we can imagine both while viewing these artifacts in this darkened, dreamy space.

It’s a struggle, perhaps an intentional one, to hear Dante’s words, read repeatedly in the 45-minute video; the voices echo, refusing to clarify or stick in the present.

In terms of programming, few companies are as community-minded as Philadelphia Theatre Workshop, a small company dedicated to developing and producing new work from local playwrights. Continuing their mission, PTW opens their 2010-11 season with the world premiere of Kathy Anderson’s disappointing comedy Front Row Seat.

In 1963, the Flannery family sets out on a road trip from their small Texas town to Dallas to see the parade in honor of President Kennedy and the First Lady. The audience is aware that the Presidential visit will end in tragedy, but first the Flannerys have to get to Dallas, and the more light-hearted, National Lampoon-esque disasters they encounter on the way is where the hilarity’s clearly supposed to ensue. Unfortunately, it doesn’t. But we’ll get to that in a minute.

Road trips are a staple in film (Thelma and Louise, Little Miss Sunshine, Easy Rider, etc.), but you’ll notice that these movies often cut away to extreme long shots of sweeping vistas and miles of blacktop as a T-bird convertible, VW van or Harley chopper zooms off to the horizon, evoking a sense of destination and forward motion that’s hard to capture onstage.

Director Bill Felty is clever about doing the best he can without vehicles or a horizon. The actors are onstage for all of the play’s 90 minutes, and the feeling of being confined with a set group of people for a set period of time is pretty on the nose if you’ve ever been stuck in the back of a family station wagon for more than a couple of hours.

When they aren’t in some sort of vehicle, represented by arrangements of chairs, the actors go whizzing about the stage, creating an almost-constant sense of movement as they interact with Stephen Hungerford’s scenic design.

Running along the sides and back of the stage, Hungerford’s design is more a collection of knick-knacks—an old rocking horse, a pay telephone and a sign reading “Dry Gulch Saloon,” among other items—than a conventional set, and it at least vaguely evokes an atmosphere of 1960s Texas. But with just that plus a white line down the center of the stage signifying the road, we get little sense of the sights and sounds the Flannerys encounter on their trip across the Lone Star State. Some well-conceived video design would be a welcome addition, but Felty seems to want to keep things simple.

The main problem with Front Row Seat, though, is Anderson’s script. The plot is poorly managed and often has a feeling of gritted-teeth insistence that this is really funny, dammit. There’s far too many bits that fall flat, then make it worse by stolidly refusing to give up the fight, including a long physical gag involving an unmanageable girdle and an equally tedious and unfunny argument about whether they are “borrowing” or “stealing” an unattended car.

The characters in Front Row aren’t an especially interesting bunch. The father, Billy (a likeable Peter Zielinski), is so enamored with President Kennedy that for him, the trip is practically a religious pilgrimage.

Kennedy’s charisma has him completely sold on the idea of the White House as a new Camelot. Billy’s wife Franny (Janine White) isn’t as excited—in fact, she hates the idea of the trip. She’s far more comfortable at home, in the small Texas town where she and Billy conceived their daughter on the night of the junior prom. A nervous, insecure desperately needy woman, Franny sees danger around every bend in the road—and carries a hammer in her purse in case of trouble.

In the backseat are the couple’s daughter Perdita (Kelly DelDuca), a stereotype of the teenage years who spends most of the trip listening to headphones and screaming clichés like “If I don’t have the music on I can’t stand my life!” and Franny’s mother, Inez (Susan Moses). She seems closer to her son-in-law than her daughter, as Inez and Billy share a yearning for adventure that Franny completely lacks. Inez views men as suffering the burden of manhood—“They work and work and then they die”—and frequently chastises her daughter for the demands she places on Billy.

In addition to the family, Anderson supplies a gaggle of oddball characters portrayed by the cast’s remaining three members. There’s a homicidal evangelical (Greg Bell) who twice gives Billy a ride, first in a stolen car and later in a “pretend” cab; a strangely quiet gas station attendant (Matt Dell’Olio), a pair of Kennedy onlookers (Dell’Olio and the reliable Amy Acchione) and a lesbian truck driver (also Acchione) who makes a pass at clueless Franny in the play’s only amusing scene.

Anderson concludes her play with an epilogue of sorts, which is both sentimental and unsatisfying. What, if anything, Anderson has to say about either family relationships, history, or America remains uncertain. As nice as it would be to celebrate a great new play by a Philly playwright, in this case we leave the theater with the impression that we’ve been on a long road to nowhere. n

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Music Critical Analysis

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With top album lists fast approaching, we break down what your favorite albums say about you.

By Brian McManus

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Superchunk, Majesty Shredding: YOU ARE OLD. You read Dave Eggers while listening to WFMU, and have toddleraged kids you treat like adults.

Bruce Springsteen, The Promise: You are old, bitter and nostalgic for a time when you weren’t, even if it means get-

Sleigh Bells, Treats: You’re a sucker for duos from New York City.

Hole, Nobody’s Daughter: Trick pick! This person doesn’t exist.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! It's list time—when critics, bloggers and everyone in between determine the albums of the year (which you won't remember a year from now.).

Over the coming weeks, you’ll see tons of Top lists for 2010, including some of our own.

Here, we take a look at what your favorite albums say about you or the critic including them in his or her year-end list..

Kanye West, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy: You are a douchebag, an asshole, a scumbag, a jerkoff or someone on staff at Pitchfork. Possibly all of the above.

Crystal Castles, self-titled: You’re a sucker for duos from Canada.

ting all wishy-washy for songs that weren’t good enough to make the cut when they were originally recorded. Or you’re a young person who has been browbeaten so often with The Importance of Springsteen that it seemed like a no-brainer.

Eminem, Recovery: You are Eminem.

Janelle Monae, ArchAndroid (Suites I and II): You are confusing Janelle’s amazing live performances with this ho-hum album, which doesn’t hold up in the absence of her

Nicki Minaj, Pink Friday: You are a fan of eating hype by the bowlful without actually listening to the album, which is quite terrible.

Sufjan Stevens, The Age of Adz: The album is a difficult listen. Sufjan is challenging his listeners, and you like to be challenged. And you made it to eight on your list and needed some go-to filler.

The New Pornographers, Together: You are the whitest person on earth.

Surfer Blood, Astro Coast: Remember that one month everyone seemed to be talking about Surfer Blood? You do too, and you’re still living in it.

Justin Bieber, My World 2.0: You can’t be bothered to put down your copy of Twilight to read this.

DeepChord Presents Echospace, Liumin: “A record you’ve

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Drake, Thank Me Later: Oh, you fancy, huh?

LCD Soundsystem, This Is Happening: Putting This Is Happening on your list gives you an opportunity to, once again, tell the story of that one time you and a friend dressed up like Daft Punk for Halloween and carried a boom box that played “Daft Punk Is Playing at My House” on a loop.

Spoon, Transference: You are often late for parties.

Titus Andronicus, The Monitor: The record you could take or leave, but as an avid pretend reader of Amy Andronicus’ Tumblr—which you namedrop often in mixed company— and its 5,500 word essays about feminism and all-girl Japanese punk bands, you thought you’d look hypocritical not giving it a holler.

MGMT, Congratulations: You appreciate the wild, off-course direction this album took from its much more electronically driven predecessor. You also have shit in your ears.

The Black Keys, Brothers: You’re a sucker for duos from Ohio, but are secretly happy they filled out their sound with a couple extra players on this album, their best yet. never even heard of made my Top 10 list, because I’m better than you.”

Deerhunter, Halcyon Digest: You hate deer, or “rats with hoofs,” as you like to call them.

Arcade Fire, The Suburbs: “I am a risk taker. I don’t follow trends. I buck the system. I upset the apple cart. I am a rugged individualist. I don’t go with the flow. I am my own person. I zig where most zag.” The opposite of all that.

Joanna Newsom, Have One On Me: Your favorite movie is The Dark Crystal.

KT Tunstall, Tiger Suit: You felt guilty about the lack of women on your list.

The National, High Violet: It’s their worst album, but still one of the best of the year. Or so says you, the person who doesn’t listen to enough new music.

Beach House, Teen Dream: You are the second whitest person on earth.

Katy Perry, Teenage Dream: Displaying fake outrage over the loud chorus of nay-saying critics who think she’s the worst thing in music since whites stole rock ’n’ roll, you take a different path, and pretend you’re utterly charmed by the garbage music she puts out. Either that or you hear with your eyes and see with your ears.

Gorillaz, Plastic Beach: You eat kids cereal and still read comic books. When someone says “arrested development” around you, they’re not talking about the TV show.

Tame Impala, Innerspeaker: When it comes to dropping acid, you make Ken Kesey and Timothy Leary look like a total fucking pussies.

OK Go, Of the Blue Colour of the Sky: “You know how when you watch an OK Go video and think ‘They did it again! Top form. These videos are amazing! I wonder who actually listens to their music though?’ The answer is me.”

Broken Social Scene, Forgiveness Rock Record: You are one of the 600 people in the band.

Los Campesinos, Romance is Boring: “Romance is boring, and so is this record. Only I’m the one person on this planet who doesn’t think so.”

Hot Chip, One Life Stand: You eat at the same place most days of the week, and, as such, when Hot Chip put out an album it just feels natural to put it on your list.

The Hold Steady, Heaven is Whenever: You are a card carrying member of Sigma Phi Date Rape.

Big Boi, Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty: “I know everyone is swinging from Kanye’s nuts, but this is the real hip-hop record of the year!”

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Band of Horses, Infinite Arms: You thought it was an album played by an actual band of horses, which you found endlessly impressive.

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Taylor Swift, Speak Now: Boys make you cry. See also Justin Bieber, My Life 2.0.

The Dead Weather, Sea of Cowards: You are awesome and should apply for a job at PW.

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Vampire Weekend, Contra: You’ve been taking lots of shit for wearing your boat shoes for far too long, and then Vampire Weekend came along and made them OK. You feel you owe them a debt of gratitude.

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On The Record Susan Boyle The Gift

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A Christmas Cornucopia

Glee: The Music The Christmas Album

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half is a sick cover record (“Perfect Day,” “Hallelujah,” “Don’t Dream It’s Over”), and the second half is a dreamy, Christmas altar in Krispy Kreme.

Free Association: SuBo will not stop until all the world’s been weirded out by her supervoice.

For Fans Of: DVD box sets of American Idol, X-Factor, and America’s Got Talent.

rious, churchy collection of traditionals where the Diva herself slays every vocal over complexly composed worldflavored instrumentals.

Free Association: She’s a Christmas baby, and obviously loves Christ, so this works out!

For Fans Of: Androgyny, boas, the King of Israel, frankincense, myrrh.

the greatest hits done by the obnoxious Glee kids; schmaltzy productions with their mediocre voices and cheesy personages.

Free Association: Kurt and Blaine duet “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.” Now that’s gay!

For Fans Of: Broadway tickets, slurpees, track suits, Karaoke Revolution.

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Christmas is a good time! This one’s a square dance ‘round the tree kind of feel with cocktails and guitars, now doesn’t that sound like fun?

of Christmas record your grandma would love, very unadventurous versions of the usuals with featured vocals from handsome lounge singers.

Free Association: This is that cookie-bakin’, tree-decoratin’, egg nogsippin’ ish!

For Fans Of: Sweaters, blankets, socks, gift cards to GAP, Michael Buble.

the mighty Philadelphia soul kings have fallen (and aged), unfortunately, but they’re almost 70 and you can hear every year in these tracks.

Free Association: Must be at least 60 to enjoy this because you lived the golden days.

For Fans Of: Polyester suits, canes and walkers, Depends, tissue, suckers.

1990 heroines return, reunited (thank God!) after six years, under the shocking tutelage of Glen Ballard for this corny harmonic nightmare.

Free Association: Eureka! Christmas records are only fun when you have killer pipes!

For Fans Of: Snuggies, Photoshop, age-defying face cream, Wendy’s.

Merry Christmas II You (Island) Sounds Like: Still got it.

Even though Nick Cannon’s knocked her up, she found time to wrap up this Holiday gem as lovely as the one she dropped six years ago.

Merry Christmas!

There’s even an “All I Want For Christmas Is You [Extra Festive]”!

For Fans Of: Short little silk robes, puppies, Ugg boots, glitter.

Free Association:

Free Association:

Sounds Like: A country

“Winter Wonderland” and “Silver Bells” should always be this joyous.

For Fans Of: Jack Daniels, Evan Williams, Old Grand-Dad, Jim Beam.

Christmas

Sounds Like: The kind

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My favorite thing about Philadelphia is: Kenzinger.

The one song I didn’t write but wish I did is: “Martha My Dear,” by the Beatles.

By Brian McManus bmcmanus@philadelphiaweekly.com

The strangest thing that ever happened to me in Philadelphia is: We found a slug on top of our espresso machine in the kitchen. I ran away because I have an intense fear of slugs, and I’m sweating just bringing it up.

The funniest thing one of my bandmates ever said to me while we were playing live was: “You’re fired!”

Jukebox the Ghost

I decided to leave Philadelphia and move to New York because: I needed a change of scenery. And because of the slugs.

Our live show is not a success unless: I am the center of attention.

Our band name rules because: It’s terrible.

The one thing that must be provided for us backstage is: Gum. We have a Tumblr blog where we review gums. We’re gum snobs, gum hipsters. And now we’re asking for gum. I think it’s in our rider.

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iano-centric indie-pop upstarts Jukebox the P Ghost have had a pretty swell year. The trio’s recently issued second album Everything Under the Sun, helmed by Peter Katis (Interpol, the National) has gotten sterling reviews across the board; they played their single “Schizophrenia” on Late Show With David Letterman; and they toured with Guster and Barenaked Ladies before embarking on a headlining jaunt that brings them to town this week. It’s sort of a homecoming gig—the band got its start in D.C., but lived in Philly for a couple of years. Two-thirds of the trio— singer/guitarist Tommy Siegel and drummer Jesse Kristin—recently relocated to New York City (boooo!), though singer/keyboardist Ben Thornewill still lives here (for now). But with all the time they’ve been spending on the road of late, Jukebox basically has no home.

We caught up with Kristin from a tour stop in Alabama to play “Fill in the Blanks.”

Christmas with the O’Jays Sounds Like: Oh how

Christmas In Harmony Sounds Like: The

week's worst

Better Than Ezra

The thing I’ll remember most about making Everything Under The Sun is: That Tuesday nights were chili nights in the studio. Every Tuesday, without fail, Peter Katis would make us chili. It was pretty spicy, but the most special thing about it was that we had the guy who recorded Interpol and the National cooking chili for us.

The single best thing about being in a band is: No homework.

The single worst thing about being in a band is: The drummer.

My most treasured possession is: My tattoos. I don’t want anyone to steal them.

The best gift I’ve ever gotten from a fan is: Ed from Barenaked Ladies, who is now a fan of ours, during our final show with them he gave us the gift of flashing us onstage. He had a robe on and he came out slowly and we didn’t know what to expect, and all of a sudden he opened the robe. The crowd couldn’t see but we could. It was terrifying. It was the best gift and the worst gift all at once.

If I was caught by the tabloids canoodling with a celebrity in a bar, I’d want that celebrity to be: Morrissey.

The strangest question a fan has ever asked me is: “I really like your cologne, what is it?” It was a combination of Old Spice, Tiger Balm, and sweat.

The one question I wish someone would ask me but they never do is: Who my favorite drummer is.

When we met David Letterman he said to me: “Love the drums. Thank you sir.”

Our only interaction with him was when he came over after we got done playing. To Ben he said, “Hey look out, look out. Heads up, heads up!” and to Tommy he said, “Nicely done.” I think he says the same thing to every band, though.

My favorite drummer joke is: How do you get a drummer off your front porch? You pay him for the pizza. n

I first realized I was musically inclined when: I’m musically inclined? I’m the drummer!

The first record I bought with my own money was: Dookie, by Green Day.

My favorite drummer is: Ringo.

Fri., Dec. 10, 7:30pm. $10. With the Meligrove Band + Dynamite Walls. First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St. 866.468.7619. r5productions.com

he most insidious thing about Better T Than Ezra is their innocuousness: They possess a bland regularity to rival institutional food. Lightweight and disposable, they’re like a package with nothing inside. For three guys from New Orleans, you’d expect a bit more soul and less sterile plasticity, then again it is Modern ®ock. Led by Kevin Griffin’s smooth mannered croon—a sugary confection that goes down (on you) like Rob Thomas—they’re effortlessly amiable and shallow as a reflecting pool. Sure there’s some narrative piffle about lost friends, lovers and good times, but nothing that compares to the feeling of loss experienced awakening in their garden of wrappers and Styrofoam refuse realizing you could’ve had a real meal if you hadn’t anaesthetized your taste buds on their saccharine swill.

Like a disease with no cure, they’ll make three and a half minutes feel like a lifetime. (Chris Parker) n Fri., Dec. 10, 9pm. $32.25. With Big Sam’s Funky Nation. Theater of Living Arts, 334 South St. 215.922.1011. livenation.com

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7:30pm. $38-$48. Keswick Theater, 291 N. Keswick Ave. keswicktheater.com

5pm. $15. With the Whomping Willows, Justin Finch-Fletchley and the Sugar Quills, MC Kreacher, the Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt and Rich Aucion. First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St. r5productions.com

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4pm. $5-$8. The King of Prussia Fire Hall, 170 Allendale Rd., King of Prussia.

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9pm. $12. With Miniature Tigers.

Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave.

Dave Holland

7pm. $25. Painted Bride Art Center, 230 Vine St. 215.925.9951. paintedbride.org

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8pm. $7. With Vintage Kicks, Hemming and Hawing and Velvet Crayon. North Star Bar, 2639 Poplar St. northstarbar.com

s u n d ay 1 2 The New Kings of Rhythm

8pm. $8. With Local Dub, Guerilla Funk and Trouble City All-Stars. North Star Bar, 2639 Poplar St. northstarbar.com

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M o n d ay 1 3 The Lit Fuse Hip Hop Literary Salon

6pm. Free. The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1901 Vine St.

W e d n e s d ay 8 Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band

8pm. $10. With Atley Moon and the Say Something Sound Machine and Songdogs and the Nightjar. North Star Bar, 2639 Poplar St. northstarbar.com

Chad Stokes

7pm. $20-$27. With the White Buffalo, Matt Embree, Lauren Coleman and Bonnie Paine. World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St. worldcafelive.com

Alex Dezen Extravaganza Experience Situation Tour 8:30pm. $12. The Tin Angel, 20 S. Second St. tinangel.com

t h u r s d ay 9 The Hezekiah Leaves

8pm. Free. With Spinning Jonses, Toy Soldiers, Englishman, and Papertrees. The Ox, 1652 North Second St.

Dapp

8:45pm. $5. The Grape Room, 105 Grape St. graperoommusic.wordpress.com

The Sobriquets

9:15pm. $5. With Derek Andrews, Danielle Miraglia, and Six Pack Creek. Connie’s Ric Rac, 1132 S. Ninth St. conniesricrac.com

Juston Stens and the Get Real Gang

F r i d ay 1 0 Nomad Clientele

5pm. Free. 111 Presidential Blvd., Bala Cynwyd, radio1045.com

Jukebox the Ghost

7:30pm. $10-$12. With the Meligrove Band and Dynamite Walls. First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St.

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9pm. $10. With Handsome Petes and Screaming Rattler. North Star Bar, 2639 Poplar St. northstarbar.com

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t h u r s d ay 9 Jeffrey Khaner and Charles Abramovic 7pm. $16. Settlement Music School, 416 Queen St. 215.569.8080. pcmsconcerts.org

F r i d ay 1 0 Tuba Christmas

5pm. Free. Kimmel Center’s Commonwealth Plaza, 300 S. Broad St.

The Blind Boys of Alabama

8pm. $36-$46. With Ruth Foster.

Keswick Theater, 291 N. Keswick Ave.

s at u r d ay 1 1 Holiday Concert

7pm. Free. Holy Family University, 9801 Frankford Ave.

Feast of Carols

4pm. $25. With Michael Stairs, the Mendelssohn Brass and Coline-Marie Orliac. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 22 E. Chestnut Hill Ave. 215.735.9922. mcchorus.org

s u n d ay 1 2 University of Pennsylvania Glee Club 2pm. $7-$14. Morris Arboretum, 100 East Northwestern Ave. morrisarboretum.org

The Philadelphia Chorus

4pm. $20-$24. The Trinity Center, 2200 Spruce St. thephiladelphiachorus.org

Mario Pavone’s Orange Double Tenor 8pm. $12. International House, 3701 Chestnut St. arsnovaworkshop.org

The Duo Parisienne

3pm. $20. German Society, 611 Spring Garden St. 215.627.2332. germansociety.org

M o n d ay 1 3 Philadelphia Chamber Music Society

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You’re special. Unique. Fabulous. Only some offthe-beaten-path activities will do for you and your friends. Below is a list of suggestions for a few who are just as cool as you, champ. They’re recurring events (save the one Sunday), so you don’t have to try to do them all in a week, but it’d be pretty badass if you did. n

Monday

National Mechanics (22 S. Thrid St.) Starts: 9 p.m.

National Mechanics Monday Night Club is a selfdescribed “clusterfuck” of bands and artists.

Always something different, the ever-changing lineups will keep you on your toes. n

Tuesday

Apollinare (1001 N. Second St.) Starts: 8 p.m.

If you never got to check out Ortlieb’s Jazzhaus before it closed and feel too young to head into Chris’ Jazz Cafe, hit up this spot for a four-hour jazz block featuring quartet Peppe Merolla, who used to call Ortlieb’s home. n

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Friday

Jolly’s Dueling Piano Bar (2006 Chestnut St.) Starts: 8:59 p.m.

Two pianos set up to duel one another to the death (the death!), there can only be one Highlander.

Try to get there before 9 p.m. when they start charging a $5 cover. n

Saturday

Jerry’s (129 W. Laurel St.) Starts: When you wanna go somewhere everybody knows your name.

When being stuffed in a crowd of drunk, horny people becomes too much to handle at whatever usual haunt you frequent, Jerry’s is a nice spot to go to escape the crowds. But not so much the horny. n

Sunday

masterful way with Cambodian comfort food.

Phnom-enal

Experience the joy of new flavors at New Phnom Penh (uh, unless you’re Cambodian).

By Brian Freedman

bfreedman@philadelphiaweekly.com

New Phnom Penh 2301 S. Seventh St. 215.389.2122 Cuisine: Cambodian comfort.

Hours: Daily: 10am-7pm.

Prices: Eat till you’re sick for around $10 a person.

Atmosphere: Very much a basic, neighborhood spot, but comfortable and clean.

Service: Friendly, with minor language barriers here and there.

Food: Popping with flavor and personality.

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“Are you sure you want the combination noodle soup?” asked our waiter, eyebrows arching. “It has everything in it—heart, liver, meat...”

He nodded as we reassured him that that was the very reason we wanted to try it, but still-skeptical smile seemed to say “well, I warned them,” as he continued taking our order.

The joy of visiting a restaurant like New Phnom Penh is having the chance to experience new flavors and textures.

As long as you go in willing to argue for that right, you’ll be setting yourself up for a meal that gets to the heart of why we explore new places (and restaurants).

That combination noodle soup turned out to be one of the menu’s many highlights. Its clear, chicken-based broth had a distinctly earthy, organ-y aroma and flavor, with thinsliced pig heart and liver, more aromatically subdued pork and shaved fish cake floating throughout. Bracing greens provided punch while a slippery knot of noodles, glassine and tender, anchored.

Beef and beef-ball noodle soup was more familiar, its delicate slices of meat and fluffy (if vaguely industrial) meatballs floating in a sweeter broth limned with a gentle, fish-saucy funk. Both bowls came with a side plate of sprouts, stems of fresh basil and lime wedges, components that, no matter how much was added, thankfully never dominated the true focal flavors.

Seafood fried with large noodles was remarkable for the density of the broad, flat pasta as well as the teeth-sticking texture of the thick sauce, nutty and sweet. If only there had been more shrimp and less crab stick, this would have been one of the best Asian noodle dishes I’ve had this year.

Seafood with ginger leaned a touch too heavily on sliced fish cake, but the overall impression of the preparation,

like the noodle one, was an overwhelming sense of deliciousness. In this case, success rested on the unexpected yellow curry perfume, its intimation of spiciness rolling across the tongue.

A different, more feminine perfume permeated the chicken with lemongrass. But here, too, as with so much of New Phnom Penh’s food, the primary flavor was not the only one that counted. The kitchen here turns out intricately, subtly layered food, and often when you think you’ve understood a dish, another supporting flavor or texture comes to the fore. In a way, those bowls of soup are a decent metaphor for much of the menu, with new treats always popping to the surface. As for the chicken, just when the lemongrass seemed to have reached its peak expression on the palate, a deep salinity in the exquisitely moist meat shot through, rendering it impossible to fight the urge for another bite.

For all its complexity, however, this is disarmingly straightforward food at its core, bursting with honest, well-developed flavors and buttressed by a complete lack of pretense. Start with an order of fried bread sticks with a texture like the hypothetical offspring of a baguette and a churro, crispy crust hiding an interior light and lacy as a doily. Wash them down with coconut water, slippery-sweet petals of coconut at the bottom of the glass, or a durian shake, the notoriously stinky fruit’s hint of spoiled cheese and morning breath balanced with a coconutty sweetness.

Just don’t fall into the trap of heading to the 2300 block of South Seventh Street and ordering the General Tso’s in an unfamiliar-menu panic. You can get many standard dishes here, sure—but why would you want to? n

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Tattooed Mom (530 South St.) Starts: Crafts at 1 p.m., drink specials at 5 p.m.

Throughout December make a holiday ornament at Mom’s crafts table from 1 p.m to 11 p.m.

Drink specials include half-off all drafts from 5 to 7 p.m., then starts again from 10 to 11 p.m., which guarantees sufficient time for you to get inebriated enough to stab yourself with an ornament hook. n

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By Matt Prigge mprigge@philadelphiaweekly.com Hayden Christensen, Shattered Glass (2002): This junior-high Brando was

abysmal as a pissy young Darth Vader— but he was born to play Stephen Glass.

Everything that’s off-putting about Christensen—his gawkiness, the way he’s simultaneously snotty and pouty—is perfect for a fraud journo prone to self-pity.

Ryan O’Neal, Paper Moon (1973): Peter Bogdanovich wasn’t able to get much out of this rent-a-hunk in the previous year’s neo-screwball What’s Up, Doc? But O’Neal magically gained—then immediately lost—real acting chops for their next picture. As a Depression-era huckster, he oozes charisma, as does his daughter Tatum in her Oscar-winning performance. He followed that up by at least not destroying Stanley Kubrick’s finest film.

Natalie Portman, Black Swan (2010):

When she’s rated at all, Natalie Portman is overrated. Her childhood turns (The Professional, Beautiful Girls) lean hard on perk. But as an already-insane ballerina losing what’s left of her shit, this smugly complacent thespian finally pushes herself to actually deserved Oscar buzz.

Rebecca Romijn, Femme Fatale (2002):

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Recognizing her strengths (strong sexuality, general hotness) and her weaknesses (speaking, acting), Brian De Palma erected a byzantine, oft-hilarious deconstructionist noir in honor of the latest model who wanted to act. And until Romijn starts speaking regularly in the last reel, the spell holds.

Rosalind Russell, His Girl Friday (1940):

Russell was a competent actress capable of respectable work, but she had a capacity for genius left untapped by everyone except Howard Hawks. For one movie, this perfectly acceptable actress upstaged Cary Grant. Then she returned to her pleasant career.

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Adam Sandler, Punch-Drunk Love (2002): Sandler gets praise on the rare

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occasions he steps outside his comfort zone. But he shouldn’t: He’s overwrought in Reign Over Me, underwrought in Funny People and no more than credible in Spanglish. His best work is really an amplification of his frat-comedy stylings.

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Who's the fairest one of all: Natalie Portman reflects in one of the many, many mirrors that keep turning up in Darren Aronofsky's excellent ballet psychodrama Black Swan.

On Pointe

Black Swan: Crazy like a fox(y girl-girl makeout).

By Sean Burns

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Nothing will cure a foot fetish faster than a ballerina’s toes. Gnarly and noisy with split nails and cracking knuckles, they’re relentlessly pivoted and propped upon by Natalie Portman’s Nina Sayers as she rehearses tirelessly in front of mirrors at home and at the ballet studio.

But believe it or not, her feet get off comparatively easy in Darren Aronofsky’s delirious Black Swan, a giddy, sickly comic phantasmagoria that flirts with ridiculousness on its way to the sublime. It’s either the awesomest stupid movie or the stupidest awesome movie I’ve seen all year—but semantic distinctions fall away when you’re caught up in its headlong rush.

Portman’s Nina is an aging bit player in a cut-throat Manhattan ballet company.

Somewhere in her mid-20s, she lives in a state of perpetual arrested development in a cramped apartment with her hyperattentive gargoyle Stage Mommy (Barbara Hershey). Nina sleeps in a bedroom lined with stuffed animals, and after rehearsals she falls asleep to the tinkle of a pink music box.

Unsurprisingly, as this is a Darren Aronofsky movie, there’s some strange stuff swimming around under these apparently still waters. A stressed-out bulimic, Nina is prone to unconscious self-harm like scratching herself bloody and tearing up her cuticles, and freaks out over even the thought of eating cake with frosting.

Portman’s shockingly gaunt frame is a testament to the dancer’s almost psychotic discipline, and Aronofsky films it with the

same pitiless Passion of the Christ rigor he used to document Mickey Rourke’s brutal physical conditioning in The Wrestler.

When the company’s prima ballerina is deemed over the hill, the despot director (Vincent Cassel, leading with his crotch), announces that Nina will replace her as the lead in their upcoming production of Swan Lake, in the roles of both the virginal white swan and her seductive dark counterpart. It’s the dual role of a lifetime—every dancer’s dream. And that’s when she comes undone.

Much like the actress playing her, Nina has no trouble with angelic. It’s the dirty parts that trip her up. The first of Black Swan’s many nifty metatextual flourishes is that Portman suffers from a parallel dilemma, having skyrocketed to fame as a precocious child actress only to falter now that it’s come time for adult roles. Aronofsky in fact conceived the role of Nina with Portman in mind, and it’s impossible to imagine another contemporary actress of her age group being so believable while sleeping in a doll-lined child’s bedroom.

Crippled with anxiety, Nina is tormented by the constant, friendly taunting of her alternate, Lily (Mila Kunis), a sloppy, naturally gifted new rival who exudes an earthy, effortless sexuality. Kunis is a neat physical match for Portman (and also lost a somewhat disturbing amount of weight for the role), yet her relaxed, husky-voiced comfort with herself couldn’t be more opposite. (She also has a really hot tattoo.)

Down the rabbit hole we go, with Aronof-

sky’s subjective camera keeping us hardwired into Sayers’ panicked hallucinations and hormonal frenzies. There’s more than a bit of Sapphic longing bottled up inside that rigid repression, and at its best Black Swan hits the giddy, leering heights of ’70sera Brian DePalma pictures, slack-jawed at the terrors of female sexuality. (This film features, hands down, the scariest masturbation scene since Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Don’t even get me started on the cunnilingus sound effects.)

We get a first-person view of Nina’s escalating mania, thanks to Aronofsky’s dizzying technique. Keeping his camera in claustrophobically close to his heroine, the director cuts and jumps while cranking up the Grand Guginol music cues. Sets designed with relentless walls of mirrors hammer home the doppelganger themes, allowing no end to the visual mischief within the overlaid images. Shot on 16mm by the brilliant cinematographer Matthew Libatique, the film’s palette retreats into high-contrast blacks, whites and bloodreds as we descend into chaos.

A movie geek’s playground, Black Swan is dripping with allusions and in-jokes.

Most screamingly obvious are Powell’s and Pressburger’s The Red Shoes, Argento’s Suspiria, Polanski’s Repulsion, and especially Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz—which Aronofsky also pillaged for his (awful) Requiem For a Dream. Among the countless DePalma references mentioned earlier, Hershey practically channels Piper Laurie in Carrie as the Evil Mommy.

But what’s it all about? Aye, there’s the rub. There are at least a dozen academic interpretations one can foist upon Black Swan, but most of them feel tedious and sophomoric. The brilliant stunt casting of Winona Ryder as Portman’s cruelly deposed predecessor suggests one might read the film as a metaphor for the brutal way Hollywood starlets are used up and tossed aside. It also works as an eerie, distaff response to The Wrestler, as yet another stunted protagonist all but crucifies herself in pursuit of a moment of transcendence in front of an audience.

Anyway, any first-year grad student could bullshit an entire paper off of the film’s use of mirrors alone, and I’m so not looking forward to the inevitable inane online discussions about “what actually happens” in this movie. Instead, why not just approach it as a dance? Give yourself over to the sounds and the music, and become overwhelmed by the precision and technique. Nina would have wanted it that way. n

Grade: A Director: Darren Aronofsky Starring: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis and Vincent Cassel

Running time: 107 minutes

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White Material AReviewed by Matt Prigge “Because of you, this country is filthy,” an African soldier scolds white coffee plantation owner Maria (Isabelle Huppert) early in White Material. It’s an ugly moment—not because of the racial charge, but because

directness is not director Claire Denis’ bag.

The French sensualist of Trouble Every Day and Friday Night does mega-obliqueness.

In 35 Shots of Rum, it took two reels to glean that most of the characters were related, while even the staunchest Denis-head couldn’t coherently synopsize The Intruder.

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If the role of the character known alternately as Allison and Mallory, a teenage stripper adopted by a grieving suburbanite (James Gandolfini), in the Sundancer Welcome to the Rileys wasn’t written expressly for Lindsay Lohan, it would have at least been a perfect fit. (The plot even resembles Georgia Rule, although one expects more out of replacing Jane Fonda with Tony Soprano.) Alas, she’s unemployable, so the role goes to that chick from the emo-vampire tentpole series.

Eternally bedheaded, her listless eyes surrounded by impenetrable eyeliner, Kristen Stewart looks more junkie than pole dancer as the 16 year old who first tries to coax Gandolfini’s Doug Riley into a condomladen BJ. In New Orleans on business when he whimsically swings into her strip joint, Doug’s been hollowed out by the accidental death of his daughter. As luck would have it, Stewart’s Allison/Mallory is the same age as his daughter, and an orphan to boot. Soon Gandolfini has entered into a no-funny-business version of the Pretty Woman contract, shacking up in and fixing up her dingy

(or rather, not-inexplicable) feels like a betrayal. So, relax: White Material introduces racial strife as a red herring. She’s really interested in navigating through the particulars of absolute anarchy. And when you get deep enough into anarchy, what caused it doesn’t matter.

In a never-named African country, a vague civil war breaks out. The workers at Maria’s plantation flee, but their wealthy but bedraggled bosses remain in their air-conditioned manse. Maria scrambles through various dubious checkpoints, delusionally maintaining order even as she’s robbed of jewelry and money. Husband André (Highlander Christopher Lambert, art-house slumming) is as useless as his dying father (Michel Subor). Layabout son Manuel (Nicolas Duvachelle) gets robbed by kids and is reborn a juvenile guerilla.

Whatever rebels started this mess get swept aside by other, less ideologically driven (and less polite) rebels. Before you know it, to quote Lars Von Trier, chaos reigns.

Throughout, Denis nimbly avoids both demonizing its white imperialist protagonists or pleading for Gone With the Wind-style empathy. Casting Huppert helps—cinema’s reigning ice queen maintains a steely exterior as she refuses to acknowledge the horrors, which largely happen off-screen. When violence invades the frames, it’s disturbingly gentle; a scene where soldiers massacre a group of children is all the more upsetting for being deathly quiet. What Denis is aiming for is both ambitious and curious: serene pandemonium.

White Material is so calm that when true horror shows its face, it’s too late. n apartment, and fining her a dollar every time she deploys an F-bomb. This from one of the stars of In the Loop—a movie, by the way, that allowed Gandolfini to flex far more acting muscles than this alleged drama.

Eventually pill-popping wife Lois (Melissa Leo) makes her way down south to make the family whole, but not before the absurdly talented, typically wasted actress suffers through some embarrassing comic relief shenanigans involving her inability to drive her car past the driveway without hitting something. Otherwise this is humorless, grief-and-redemption porn, notable for the laidback restraint wielded by two-thirds of the primary cast—Stewart tries too hard when she tries at all—and occasionally Ken Hixon’s script does too. Certain obvious directions aren’t taken, some cliches are avoided, but Hixon never replaces these gaps with anything notable. The empty film goes nowhere and not fast, leaving director Jake Scott (son of Ridley, following up 1999’s Plunkett & MacLean) with little to do but allow this blob of not much to expand into a sadistic 110 minutes. Ultimately Rileys settles on trite but inoffensive; the 3 a.m. slot on the Sundance Channel will soon be its grave. n

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader C+ Reviewed by Matt Prigge

You know a franchise is in trouble when it has to hire Michael Apted (Gorillas in the Mist, Nell, the Up! series) to improve it. Abandoned by Disney, rescued by 20th Century Fox and now (thank Aslan) a good half-hour shorter per movie, the Narnia series reaches an important stage in its third installment: semi-tolerability.

It helps that Voyage of the Dawn Treader is your basic episodic sea romp, with the series taking a turn for genre thrills after the plodding bore of Prince Caspian (in both novel and movie). In Dawn Treader the book, C.S. Lewis added The Odyssey to the list of classics he shamelessly cannibalized, meaning all the filmmakers really had to do here was copy Jason and the Argonauts. It should have been that simple.

Picking up the travels of the personalityfree Pevensie brats, Treader ditches the two oldest (you won’t miss them), leaving us with mugging Lucy (Georgie Henley) and glowering Edmund (Skander Keynes) plus snotty cousin Eustace (Will Poulter), as they’re sucked through an aquatic painting to the titular vessel of now-King Caspian (Ben Barnes). Having brought peace to Narnia, the moon-eyed leader is on an imperialist victory lap that finds him battling slave traders, belligerent gas and admittedly impressive sea monsters.

Whatever his novels’ faults, Lewis wrote in a soothing, bemused patois that counteracted most nagging thoughts of plagiarism or propaganda. These blockbusters don’t have room for such charm; surely the author would be appalled at both their witless excess and the fact that the world he created has been cruelly designed to resemble a Yes album cover.

Being basically a road-trip film, Treader takes us to more remarkable locales than the previous two, but the most arresting sight it has to offer is a spectral Tilda Swinton in three dimensions. Most criminal: Where’s the all-star Brit cast? Oh, right— Harry Potter nabbed them all. n

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2031 Locust Street Professional Office Space

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$2,250

Penthouse, 1 bedroom, 1 bath, brand new bulthaup kitchen, hardwood floors, 722sf $2,100

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604-36 S. wASHingtOn SqUArE Studio with alcove, overlooking Washington Square, full kitchen, separate dressing area, 600 sf $1,175

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1936 Spruce Street #1-Office space 1800sq.ft on 1st flr/600 sq $5,000 ft on lower flr.

To See the Following, Call James Labonski (215) 521-1552 $2,800 113 Arch Street #2-1 bedroom loft,2,200 square ft.

3750-78 Main Street #605-2 bd/2 ba,1202 sq ft,river $1,850 views,blcny,prk included 3750-78 Main Street #708-2 bd/2 ba,902 sq ft,river views and $1,675 balcony.

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241 S 6th Street #209-Large 1 bedroom w/eat-in kitchen & $1,400 balcony.

To See the Following, Call John Featherman 215-790-5221 1324 Locust Street #315-Studio @ Arts Condos w/ Fit ctr 24/7 $1,025 sec. all util incl 4200 Pine Street #304-2B/2b/2car prkg in Univer City, hi-end $2,100 kit, w/d, lrg storage 1010 Race Street #5LM-Modern corner 2B/2b in Chinatown high ceil closets, w/d, a/c $1,795 604-36 S Washington Square #503-Renovated corner 2B/1.5b at $2,395 Hopkinson House, balcony, w/d 1111 South Street #B-Bi-level 2B/2b, w/d, a/c, balcony, 1 car $1,500 gated parking 202-10 W Rittenhouse Square #1707-2B/2.5b at the Rittenhouse, $3,995 Square view. Be spoiled!

220 W Rittenhouse Square #5E-Spacious renov 2B/2b on Rittn Sq 24/7 security all util incl $2,595 1101 Washington Avenue #108-2B/2b hi-end loft, modern kit & $1,795 bath, 24/7 sec, fit ctr To See the Following, Call Kathy Conway (215)440-8190 117 Chestnut Street #502-2 bd/2 spa bths,hrwd $2,200 flrs,granite,marble,W/D + deck.

110 Kenilworth Street-LR,DR w/random hrwd flrs,lrg kit,4 bd/2 $2,000 bths,3 fpls.

337 S 4th Street-2 bd/2 ba + 2 1/2 bth,hrwd flrs t/o,2 car $2,500 heated grg,C/A 1418 S Orianna Street-Totally open & spacious LR/DR & kit,2 $1,000 bd/1 ba,bsmt fin.

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To See the Following, Call Mike McCann (215) 440-8345 500 Admirals Way #103-2 bd/2 ba,kit w/granite counter,SS $2,050 appln,hw flrs.

134 Krams Avenue-3 bd + den,LR,DR,updated kitchen,SS $1,700 applns,slate tile bth.

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512 n 36th Street-3 bd/1 ba bi-level unit,refinished flrs,freshly $1,500 painted.

515 S 10th Street #A-3 bd/2 ba + den,skyline views from $3,000 dk,cstm kit,fp.

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To See the Following, Call Stephen Ferguson (215)521-1567 212 Governors Court-3 BR/2 1/2 baths,Whirlpool tub,built-in $2,500 microwave.

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two bedroom 1237 VINE ST. 2BR, HW/flrs, CA, $925+. Avail 01/01/11. 646705-8788 1 6 T H & B A I N B R I D G E Fa b 2BR, Newly Ren. 2BA, HW, All Amens. $1495. PMG 215-5457007x302 16XX SO. 2ND ST 2nd. flr.C/A, hdwd/flrs., rear deck. $850/ mo.+utils. 215-551-9956.

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THE PAPERMILL- Community of Artist. 2825 Ormes St. Affordable Artist Studios staring at $100 for 130 sf. Four large floors of open or private studio space for Painters, Sculptors, Dance, Theatre, or Creative companies. A community of artist practicing their talents in custom sized studio workspaces. Short term, inexpensive rental of theatre and gallery spaces. Join our group on Facebaook for updates on our events and gallery spaces.

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1936-38 Delancey Place-Double wide carriage house, elev, 2-3 car grge, 2br suites + guest suite $1,725,000 336 S 21st Street-1860s mansion 4BR/2.5ba + elev. LR, sep DR, den/study, EIK, lg grdn + deck $1,495,000 2216 Locust Street-Great value. 6BR/3.5ba, c/a, EI kitchen, sep DR, garden and parking. $1,095,000 1515 Locust ##500-Great 3 bd/3 ba corner unit,cstm kitchen,huge island,10ft ceilings,deck $879,000 2211 Panama-Garage plus 3 bd,den,2.5 ba,fpl,wd flrs,grdn + cook’s kitchen. $799,900 2132 Saint James Street-3B+den, 2B white oak fl T/O; top of the line perfect gem in English Village $795,000 2128 Cypress Street-Amazing architectural renovation of Historic Home,3 bd/2 ba. $760,000 340 S 17th St-3BR/3.5bth home. Hi-end renov. Exc layout. Beaut & tasteful $675,000 210 W Rittenhouse Sq ##1402-Rittenhse Hotel-New upscale,furnished luxury condo,1050 sq.ft,1 bd/1.5 ba. $595,000 2027 Rodman Street-Lovely 3 bd/2.5 ba,small office,1 car prkng,fpl,patio,yard. $569,900 420 S 21st Street-3-Story residence w/full flr mstr suite + 2nd flr 2 bdrms + full ba. $499,900 1904 Waverly Street-Charming 2 bd/2 ba,rear yard,hrwd flrs,woodburing fp,2 bd suites. $459,900 2308-10 Spruce St #B-Private garden entry. LR w/fp, cooks kit, 1/2 bath, lg BR & full bath $379,000 1813 Spruce, #Unit 1R-Bi-lev condo renov in boutique bldg,1 bd/den/1.5 ba,hw flrs t/o. $305,000

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1706 Rittenhouse Square #23RD F-Picture yourself in the pleasurable comfort of this new 3BR/3+BA condo. $5,298,200 237 S 18th Street #9F&9G-Gracious living at the Barclay 2BR/3BA w/ gallery foyer. Exquisite $1,725,000 440 S Broad Street #1505-Symphony House 2B/den/2b + 1 CAR PKG. 150K++ less than dev unit! $865,000 210 W Washington Square #2SW-Extra large 1 br w/ study, 1.5 baths & a 200 sq ft patio & parking. $725,000 1600-18 Arch Street #917-Sunny,fully furnished corner condo 2 bd/2 ba w/views of Love Park $699,500 1901 Walnut Street #7C-New! Trad. restor LR/DR Open gourm kit C/A, Bright with 3 exposures 1600SF $649,500 111 S 15th Street #2003-Deluxe 2BR/2BA, Gourmet Kitchen, Marble Baths, Custom Millwork $580,000 1900 Hamilton Street #803-Prized Corner 2BR Condo, Sweeping Vuws, PRKG, Windows, 24hr Doorperson $549,000 735 S 12th Street #502-2br/2b w/cherry flrs, 1 CAR GARAGE PARK, roof deck, 5yrs left tax abatement $509,000 1901 Walnut Street #14C-Sunny lrg 2br, 2b,(assessment paid) corner unit in elegant Deco building $465,000 1420 Locust Street #24F-Beautiful 2 bd/2 ba unit,lrg LR w/hw flrs,Eik,sep DR,terrace. $349,900 1929 Wallace ##2A-2 bd/2 ba,wd molding & flooring,2 bdrm/2 bth,1 prkng spot. $329,900 7 N Columbus Boulevard #212-3 bedroom with parking,2229 sq ft,excellent value,on the River. $329,900 111 S 15th St #1710-Comfy 1BR/1BA, Granite Kitchen, Marble Bath, Doorman, Tax Abated $310,000 111 S 15th ##1810-1 bd/1 ba,open floor plan w/modern bth & kit w/granite/SS applns,W/D $309,900 23 S 23rd Street #2F-Designer 1Br/1b, garage parking, Viking Kit, Spa bath, doorman $299,900 2031 Walnut Street #3F-Unique condo in heart of CC High Ceils, original hw flrs & tray ceiling $299,000 1420 Locust Street #9L-Academy House Renovated Condo. 1 Bed 1 Bath Kimmel Center Views $269,900 2108 Wallace-Restored, Federal period 3 bd/2.5 ba,den,deck,large yard,pine flrs. $629,900 1500 Chestnut Street #3H-1Br/2B, 1,010 sq.ft., gourmet kit, marble baths, doorman $292,000 655 N 24th Street-TH w/garage parking, lg brick deck, 4BR, huge EIK, FP, gorgeous wd fls. $625,900 1420 Locust ##20R-One bedroom,upgraded with south view. $259,900 2401 Pennsylvania Avenue #14C45-Corner sun filled unit w/terrace,3 bd/2.5 ba,wd flrs. $624,900 2401 Penna Ave ##12A2-2 bdrm/2bth plus den,lrg laundry rm,75 ft balcony w/museum views. $499,000 2521 Brown Street-Beautiful 4Br/2B, hw flr, t/o, c/a, mast br suite $445,000 1915 Brandywine St-3BR/2BA Townhome, Tree-Lined Street, Patio, Granite Kitchen $439,000 $419,000 1350 Crease Street-4bd 4.5B Grge & Grdn w/Cust Fin & kit, Solar Panel 8yrs left on Tax abate $468,500 2401 Penna Av ##19A7-Renovated 2 bd/2 ba,hi floor,full terrace,prkng available. $379,000 133 N Bread St ##C3-Bi-level 2 bedroom,2 1/2 baths with parking. $409,900 2401 Penna Ave ##17C47-2 bedroom,2 bath,lovely balcony with City Views. $315,000 223 Fairmount-Great 3 bd/2.5 ba,new construction with roof deck,hrwd flrs,gorgeous kit. $399,000 753 N Croskey-2 bd/1 ba,updated kitchen & bath,lovely grdn,refin HW flrs,C/A. $314,900 901 N Penn Street #R605-Waterfront Square,luxury 1 bd condo,parking,pool + River views. $299,900 813 N Stillman-Charming & bright 2 bd/1 ba,fin bsmt,gleaming hrwd flrs,paved grdn.

2601 Penna Ave ##1004-Corner 1 bdrm condo w/tons of light & space,on-site gym. $189,900 415 W. George-3 bedroom,1 bath,hw flrs,newer kitchen and bath,roof deck. $299,000 $159,900 513 W Thompson Street-3BR/2BA tot rehabbed Townhome.Mst Ste w/Whirlpool+Walk in clst,Gourmet Kit $279,000 1504 Mount Vernon Street #2R-3 Year old charming studio,hw flrs,9’ceil,Kit w/granite/SS,tile ba.

19 W Wildey Street-Beaut reno hse 2br 1.5b HW flrs new granite/ss kit Den & Stu bonus rms, CA $259,000 130 Bread St #402-New Listing-the Castings Fab-Newly upgraded 1Br loft condo w/high ceils $219,000 315 New Street ##711-Large studio condo set as 1 bd,storage area,parking,plenty of light. $185,000 4400 Sansom Street-3unit invest prop, renov in 2007 2bd/1b units, kit & liv area Bsmnt storage $349,000 4814 Osage Avenue-3Bedroom, 1 full bath, 2 1/2 baths w/garage $229,900 4625 Pine Street #F102-Great New Price 2br, 1b large condo in great, secure build with pool & gym $179,900 2421 Grays Ferry-Spectacular 3 bd/2.5 ba, fpl,roof terrace,deck,cstm kit,central vac. $519,900 203 Governors Court-Amaz Price in Naval Sq Drake Model-Short Sale act now before its gone $479,000 1920 Montrose Street-Modern Renovation, 4 Bed, 2.5 Bath, Hdwd Flrs, Finished Basement $439,000 2006 Pemberton St-Gorgeous 3 year old 2 bed/1.5 ba w/ fin bsmt $369,900 $399,000 2621 Christian Street #A-2 bd/1.5 ba condo,hw flrs kit w/granite/SS,cherry cab,bth w/marble tile $249,900 2301 Cherry Street #4J-Fantastic 3br+ Den w/ 2.5bths, 1 car garage park roof deck 1620 South Street #A-1100sqft commerc space w/ useable basement + 10ft outdoor patio area $249,000

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500 S Front Street-Designer home 3 bd + au pair suite,3 bths,hw flrs, grdn + deck $1,150,000 719 S 9th Street-4 bd/den,media rm,3.5 ba,Lr/Dr,hw flrs,chef’s kit,2 fpl,grdn,2 C prkng $1,150,000 128 Kenilworth Street-3 story twnhse,2600 sq.ft,2bd/den/office,2 full & half bths,fp,dk & grdn. $729,000 808 S 7th Street-5 bd/2.5 ba,fin bsmt,lrg rear yard,high ceilings,excellent condition. $550,000 132 Kenilworth Street-Custom 3 bd/2 ba,orig pine flrs,formal D/R,cooks kit,2 marble bths + deck. $529,900 116 Queen Street-3 bd/2.5 ba home w/fin bsmt/guest suite,3 fpls,hrwd flrs + garden $529,000 $509,000 128 Pemberton Street-Fedral period home,used as 3 family dwelling,owners unit,1 bd apt + studio. $499,000 111 Federal Street-Phase-1-7 ctm homes 1-3 bd/2.5 ba,media rm,fp,hw,grdn,dk,x-wide grg,tx abat 620 Christian Street #1C&D-Double wide 2B/2b loft, fab light, fpl, C/A, fab shared grdn,1 car pkg $456,000 823 “B” Kater Street-Light filled 2 bd/2.5 ba condo fpl,rf deck,garage prkng. $399,900 714-22 Bainbridge ##7-Terrific light & space,2 bd/2 bth,hrwd flrs t/o,garage prkng included. $389,900 826 S. Mildred-Renovated 2 bdrms + office,1.5 baths,straight stairs,C/A,New kitchen. $379,000 909 S 12th Street-3-Unit mixed-use prop in Bella Vista,1st flr store,2 & 3rd 1 bd/1 ba apt. $370,000 114-18 Naudain Street #A-2 bd/1 ba condo w/prkng,wd flrs,lrg bdrm,spac kit. $330,000 904 S Alder Street-2BR/2bth home. SS&GranKtch. Patio. Exc. Light. Awesome locat $269,000 712 S 12th Street #401-FHA Approved,new condos,Hawthorne Lofts,most w/prkng,tax abat.

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401 Pierce Street-3BR/1ba home, c/a, hdwd flrs & fnshd bsmnt. LR, kit & yard. Sep laundry rm 2436 Jasper Street-3 bedroom,1 bth with many upgrades,very clean 419 W Penn Street-Well Maintained 3 Bed, 1.5 Bath, Porch, Hdwd Flrs, Hi Ceilings 2060 E Lippincott Street-3 bedroom,1 bath,great for first time buyer or investor.

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234 S Philip Pl I.M. Pel bright& airy 4 bedroom, 3.2 bath, +/-2520sf, family rm, great garden, parking .................REDUCED $965,000 325 S 2nd St, Penns Landing Sq Contemporary townhome, 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, garden, deck, garage parking ..............$885,000 231 Delancey St Traditional 4bedroom,1.5bath, h/w flrs, fireplace, many original details, beautiful Society Hill block .... NEW PRICE $829,000 SOLD! 235 Fitzwater St 3bedrooms,3.5baths, +/-3200sf, large garden, deck, garage ..................................................REDUCED $699,000 732 Christian St Completely renovated 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, deck, lots of light, municipal parking across the street ............$579,000 400-416 S 2nd St #402 Beautiful 2 bedroom,3 bath condo, patio, shared courtyard, 1 yr parking ..............................................$559,000 308 Cypress St 2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, +/-2025sf, eat-in kitchen with f/p, large garden patio ....................................................$529,900 778 S Front St, Whildin’s Way 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, finished den, many upgrades, PARKING .................................... NEW PRICE $499,900 SOLD! 217 B Fulton St 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, patio, +/-1500sf, f/p, large patio, Brazilian cherry flrs, garage parking.......................$429,000 607 S 8th St Rehabbed 3bedroom, 2bath, h/w flrs, garage ....................................................................................... REDUCED $399,900 130 Spruce St 19C Dramatic bi-level condo, 1 bedroom, den 1.5 bath, wood floors, GARAGE parking, large deck .......................$369,000 1 Christian St #25 Court at Old Swedes 3 bedroom, 2 bath townhouse condo, deck with river views, garage parking........................$310,000 Abbotts Sq, #526, 530 S 2nd St Beautiful 1 bedroom, 1.5 bath condo, +/-839sf, balcony, 24/7 front desk..........................$244,900 1211 South St C Corner 2 bedroom condo, newer kitchen,c/a, balcony, deeded parking, low fee ............................................$229,000 1008 Spruce St Quiet 1 bedroom in elegant brownstone, featuring hi ceilings, h/w flrs, wood burning f/p, bedroom w/ bay windows, eat-in-kitchen ........................................................................................................................................................$159,000

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1100 Vine St PH101, Grandview 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, +/-1127 sf .................................................................................................$329,900 1100 Vine St #1210, Grandview Bright 2 bedroom, 1 bath, h/w flrs ...........................................................................................$274,900

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4007 Haverford Ave Three 1-bedroom units, back yard, good condition, investment opportunity............................................................$165,000

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100 N 22nd St #135, The Arches Dramatic upper unit, light filled, 3 bedroom,2.5 bath, balcony, great storage, garage parking ...........$475,000

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6646 Boyer St Corner 4 bedroom, 2 bath, wraparound porch, garage......................................................................................................$179,900

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1004 E Passyunk Ave 3 bdrooms, 2.5 baths, adorable garden, rear deck, c/a ......................................................................$399,000 1030 Montrose St, Corner 3 story 5 bedroom, 2.5 bath, h/w flrs, cooks’s kitchen, roof deck ................................................$399,000

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1012 N American St New rehab, modern 3 bedroom, 2.5 baths, bamboo floors, glass railings, rear yard, roof deck .......................$439,900 626 N Bodine St Loft style home, 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, garden ................................................................................................$324,900 107 W Master St, Old Kensington Bright 3 bedroom, den, 1.5 bath, +/- 2300sf, yard ........................................................................$210,000 3427 Livingston St, Port Richmond Newly renovated 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths ....................................................................................$119,000

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1436 S 13th, Passyunk Sq 5 bedrooms, den, 2 full, 2 half baths, gourmet eat-in kitchen, beautiful yard, 2 level deck w/amazing views, original charm & newest upgrades! .............................................................................................................................................................$425,000 1020 Annin St, Passyunk Sq 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, new kitchen & bath, huge garden, c/a ...................................................................$349,000 1155 S Clarion St, Passyunk Sq Rehabbed large 3 bedroom, yard ........................................................................................$295,000 1925 S 4th St Bright 3 bedroom, 1 bath, yard, basement .....................................................................................................$219,999 1926 S Alder St Bright 2 story house, 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, mosaic tiled patio........................................................................$215,000 828 Earp St Bright 2br, 1.5b, wood flrs, new kitchen & new windows .......................................................................................................$179,900 1516 Wolf St 2 story, 4 bedrooms, 1 bath, h/w flrs, garden ........................................................................................................$156,500 2315 S 8th ST 3bedrooms, 1.5 baths ......................................................................................................................................................$156,000 1133 Cantrell St 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, h/w flrs, basement........................................................................................................................$155,000

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501 S 12th St Professional Office space, over 20,000 sq ft zoned for medical and /or legal offices. 16 deeded parking spaces .......... $4,999,900 1100-1118 E Passyunk Ave (at Washington Ave) +/-8500sf, 3 entrances, also 3 story house and 2 garage bays ....................... $3,000,000 118 N 3rd St, Minima Loft Bldg., Full floor 1 & 2 bedroom condos & 3 level commercial space, 2 parking spaces ............$2,200,000 384 W Lancaster Ave, Wayne Well-known Main Line bar/restaurant with license & parking ...............................................$2,600,000 380 W Lancaster Ave, Wayne Commercial Building ...........................................................................................................$695,000 117-119 South St Fully equipped bar/restaurant with liquor license +/- 10,000 sq ft plus 3 one bedrooms apartments ......$2,300,000 1118 Spruce St Grand 6 unit building, good income, excellent Wash West location ............................................................$1,150,000 12 N 3rd St Old City +/-8400sf commercial building ............................................................................................................$999,900 507 S 2nd St Professional office or retail store plus 3 bedroom, bi-level apartment ...............................................................$895,000 50-52 S 3rd St Historically certified buildings formerly a pub/restaurant, plus newly renovated bi-level 3 br apartment ............$749,000 Pennsport Approx. 4000 sq ft, clear span/floor, many uses ...................................................................................................$649,000 1245 Ridge Ave (Corner of Mt Vernon St) Large irregular lot with auto repair shop ...........................................................$625,000 1725-31 S 25th St +/-12,000sf garage/warehouse with 4,000sq ft parking lot ....................................................................$595,000 908 N 4th St Renovated triplex, 3 one-bedroom apts, garden, 2 decks, separate utilities, fully rented ......................................$425,000 2229 E Huntingdon St 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, deck. First floor front commercial space, zoned C1...........................................$319,900 3213 Frankford Ave 3 story, +/-21,000 sq ft industrial warehouse with elevator, 2 loading docks, zoned G2 ..........................$299,500 1206 Alter St Vacant lot, +/- 14’x48’ .................................................................................................................................... $89,000 1212 S 2nd St, Pennsport Vacant lot, +/-15’x20’ ................................................................................................................ $39,000 214 S 49th St Vacant land, 16’x60’ ...................................................................................................................................... $25,000

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1435 Bainbridge St Announcing Artisan 2!

Bold contemporary 4br,3.5b, +/-4000sf, elevator, chef’s kitchen, 2 panoramic decks, 2 car garage, 10 yr tax abatement...............$1,399,000 644-650 N Sydenham St, Art Museum Area New Townhouses 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, deck, garage parking, tax abatement.....................................................................................................REDUCED $549,900

Bold contemporary 4br,3.5b,+/-4000sf, elevator, chef’s kitchen, 2 panoramic decks, 2 car garage, 10 yr tax abatement

Dramatic bi-level condo, 1br, den,1.5b, wood flrs, GARAGE parking, large deck

5br, den, 2.2 b, gourmet eat in kitchen, beautiful yard, 2 level deck w/ amazing vus, original charm & newest upgrades!

CENTER CITY NEW CONSTRUCTION

1435 BAINBRIDGE ST, ARTISAN 2!

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400-416 S 2ND ST #402 Open Sunday, 12/12 1:30-2:30PM

234 S PHILIP PL

Magnificent beautifully restored double wide corner, 5br, 6b, +/-9000sf, original detail, elevator, terrace, 3 car heated garage

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parc rittenhouse 225 s. 18th street

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

the dorchester 226 W. rittenhouse square

Studio, wonderful sunset view, large marble bathroom, hardwood floors, 583 sf

1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, open kitchen, renovated throughout, 609 sf

$379,900

$265,000

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Location

ART MUSEUM

Total Square Footage

Price

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

Monthly After Tax Cost

tHe PHilaDelPHian

4,049 sf of completely customizable space that can be designed to the buyer’s desire

4,049

$599,900* $153,493 $243,586

$5,684

$646

tHe PHilaDelPHian

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

2,017

$579,900* $149,496 $191,032

$4,457

$698

$3,760

tHe PHilaDelPHian

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

1000

$289,900

$43,267

$96,341

$2,248

$309

$1,939

tHe PHilaDelPHian

2,205 sf of completely customizable space that can be designed to the buyer’s desire

2,205

$275,000

$40,731

$86,724

$2,024

$291

$1,733

tHe PHilaDelPHian

Renovated studio, wood floors throughout, open kitchen, large balcony with city skyline view

567

$175,000

$26,306

$57,483

$1,341

$190

$1,152

Location

AVENUE OF THE ARTS

Total Square Footage

Price

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

Monthly After Tax Cost

acaDeMy House

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

705

$289,000

$42,702

$88,613

$2,068

$296

$1,772

center city one

1 bedroom, 1 bath, high floor, balcony with panoramic views of the city to the south, excellent closet space, W/D

897

$259,900

$41,412

$86,520

$2,019

$299

$1,720

acaDeMy House

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

705

$259,900

$39,043

$82,852

$1,933

$272

$1,661

center city one

$78,608

$1,834

$271

$1,563

$5,038

1 bedroom, 1 bath, spacious balcony, magnificent city views to the south, abundant natural light

873

$240,000

$36,972

Location

RITTENHOUSE SQUARE

Total Square Footage

Price

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

tHe rittenHouse

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

3,952

$3,500,000* $834,620 $889,056

$20,745

$3,725

$17,020

barclay

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

3,293

$2,900,000* $666,258 $619,296

$14,450

$2,632

$11,818

lanesborougH

3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, brand new, very high ceilings, his and hers master baths, custom kitchen, exquisite detail throughout.

3,467

$2,750,000* $636,038 $607,268

$14,170

$2,605

$11,565

lanesborougH

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

3,413

$2,500,000* $579,879 $557,842

$13,016

$2,351

$10,665

barclay

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

2,638

$2,195,000* $511,632 $501,005

$11,690

$2,094

$9,597

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Monthly After Tax Cost

Parc rittenHouse

2 bedrooms plus den, 2 baths, den/study, high ceilings, oversized windows overlooking Rittenhouse Square, upgraded custom kitchen, sun soaked master suite

2,221

$1,395,000* $349,934 $362,728

$8,464

$1,511

$6,953

Parc rittenHouse

2 bedrooms plus den, 2.5 baths, large balcony over Rittenhouse Square, open kitchen, hardwood floors, marble baths

1,552

$1,075,000* $306,402 $304,997

$7,117

$1,320

$5,796

1830 rittenHouse

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

2,275

$1,195,000* $309,704 $318,887

$7,440

$1,321

$6,119

warwick conDoMiniuMs

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

2,000

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

$8,707

$1,757

$6,949

warwick conDoMiniuMs

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

1,978

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

$8,672

$1,795

$6,877

tHe rittenHouse

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

1,560

$995,000* $242,439 $273,743

$6,387

$1,090

$5,298

Parc rittenHouse

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, terrace on pool club deck, open custom kitchen, marble baths, wood floors

1,272

$839,000* $201,948 $206,151

$4,810

$855

$3,956

warwick conDoMiniuMs

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

1,614

$829,000* $115,051 $246,527

$5,752

$992

$4,761

1830 rittenHouse square

2bedrooms, 1.5baths, windows overlooking Rittenhouse Square, old world charm, spacious kitchen, formal dining room

1,380

$725,000* $145,000 $217,432

$5,073

$2,938

$4,251

tHe warwick

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, southern exposure from every room, marble baths, open chefs kitchen, maple hardwood floors

1,296

$625,000* $149,666 $158,380

$3,696

$631

$3,064

tHe rittenHouse

1 bedroom, 1.5 baths, eat in kitchem, beautiful sunset views, master suite with large marble bath

1,037

$599,000* $147,283 $170,623

$3,981

$659

$3,323

barclay

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

1,050

$595,000* $143,766 $153,060

$3,571

$619

$2,953

barclay

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

1,075

$550,000* $133,706 $146,037

$3,408

$580

$2,827

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Parc rittenHouse

2 bedrooms, 1 bath, hardwood floors, marble bath, rooftop pool club and skyline view

806

$497,500

$119,226 $116,911

$2,728

$447

$2,281

warwick conDoMiniuMs

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

712

$399,900

$53,426

$106,710

$2,490

$486

$2,003

tHe rittenHouse

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

583

$379,900

$55,358

$114,993

$2,683

$401

$2,282

oPen sunDay 12/12 12:00 - 12:30PM wanaMaker House

1 bedroom, 1 bath, wood floors throughout, renovated kitchen and bathroom, bay windows with city views

704

$319,000

$46,421

$91,365

$2,132

$352

$1,780

warwick conDoMiniuMs

Studio, high floor with city views, walk in closest, wood floors, marble bath

423

$229,900

$32,772

$62,166

$1,451

$226

$1,225

Location

SOCIETY HILL

Total Square Footage

Price

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

101 walnut st

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

2423

$1,200,000* $281,398 $298,478

$6,694

$1,124

$5,841

bank builDing

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

2,117

$799,000* $207,313 $217,014

$5,064

$844

$4,291

society Hill towers

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

1,133

$399,000

$58,788

$128,086

$2,989

$427

$2,562

society Hill towers

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

775

$329,900

$47,977

$98,340

$2,295

$344

$1,951

society Hill towers

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

700

$297,500

$43,513

$90,659

$2,115

$309

$1,806

society Hill towers

One bedroom, high floor, river view, investment opportunity

700

$290,000

$42,577

$89,976

$2,099

$302

$1,798

society Hill towers

1BR, 1BA, magnificent river views, high floor, wood floors throughout

700

$275,000

$40,731

$86,724

$2,024

$291

$1,733

bank builDing

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

1,286

$269,000

$41,367

$95,821

$2,236

$303

Location

WASHINGTON SQUARE

Total Square Footage

Price

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

inDePenDence Place

3 bedrooms, 3 baths, east facing river and city views, modern kitchem, hardwood floors, balcony, laundry room

3,015

$1,250,000* $250,000 $319,246

$7,449

$1,403

$6,046

inDePenDence Place

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

1,977

$975,000* $234,783 $235,988

$5,506

$1,053

$4,453

inDePenDence Place

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

1,977

$769,000* $187,954 $198,717

$4,637

$868

$3,769

inDePenDence Place

2 bedroom, 2 baths, completely renovated with custom kitchen and designer baths, balcony, hardwood floors

1,173

$559,000* $139,761 $140,111

$3,269

$613

$2,656

inDePenDence Place

1 bedroom, 1.5 baths, alcove, Washington Square views, completely upgraded throughout

1,118

$499,900

$71,144

$135,733

$3,167

$524

$2,643

HoPkinson House

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

1,200

$349,900

$56,515

$122,407

$2,856

$417

$2,439

HoPkinson House

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

1,063

$329,000

$53,908

$115,998

$2,707

$410

$2,297

Monthly After Tax Cost

$1,933

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

928

$299,900

$44,212

$87,809

$2,049

$327

$1,722

1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, excellent value

928

$290,000

$42,132

$83,461

$1,947

$302

$1,645

Location

WATERFRONT

Total Square Footage

Price

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

Monthly After Tax Cost

waterFront square

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

924

$219,000

$42,318

$1,804

$90,810

$2,119

$315

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Monthly After Tax Cost

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