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Contents

December 15-21, 2010

New Year’s Eve Guide A list of the people who made Philly an interesting place to live in 2010 and a roundup of NYE events to get 2011 started right. Page 9

inside news & oPinion 5 PhillyNow Chairwoman goes head-to-head with PW.

8 School Dazed Temple adjuncts face termination without representation.

ARTs & CulTuRe 23 Calendar PW’s picks for the week.

sTAge 29 AA Humbug Dublin

Carol mines the other side of Christmas: despair, alcoholism and endless monologues.

ART 28 Dream On Wolf Man Paints, the art of Freud’s most famous case.

MusiC 34 Defend it’s Existence Insane Clown Posse.

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Under Press-ure Chairwoman of City Commission goes head-to-head with PW reporter.

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She was pissed. “The election is over ... she retired,” Tartaglione shot back, referring to her daughter. “It’s over ... We run a clean house here,” she added, visibly angry. “It’s over. It’s over. That’s it. No more questions.”

Pressing the issue, I mentioned that Cruz had alleged that the entire Tartaglione family was working against him. That’s when mama bear lost it. “You’re a liberal paper aren’t you?” Tartaglione cackled. “You want all the liberals to read this like this office is corrupt.”

Then came the threat.

“You say that and I can jump over this table and punch you out.”

The soundbite became the story as Philly news sources fixated on the absurdity coming out of the Chairwoman’s mouth instead of focusing on the substance and implications of the charges against her daughter.

“Oh, what an eccentric, feisty old lady,” was the theme of the flood of “commissioner threatens to punch reporter” articles that swamped the web and print media last week.

something? Where is City Controller Alan Butkovitz’s angry press conference slamming the corruption within the Commissioners’ Office? His office did not respond to request for comment. Where are the press releases and speeches from elected City Council members denouncing the electoral shenanigans? All 17 were emailed soliciting comment, but only one, Maria QuiñonesSánchez, was brave enough to respond.

Sánchez, who represents the district where the Cruz/Ramos showdown went down, points out that registration scandals and fraud have taken place mostly in Latino areas of the city. “It has been detrimental to Latinos in the process,” she says. Does the Commission function properly as an elected body? “I think that because of the public outcry and the PICA report, it’s justifiable for us to do a review,” she says. And where does Nutter stand on all this? The Mayor’s Office is at least talking, even if frustratingly restrained when answering questions about the commissioners’ impartiality, or lack thereof.

“This behavior was obviously wrong and the mayor in no way condones that kind of behavior,” says Spokesman Mark McDonald about Tartaglione Matos’s ethics violations.

“He’s committed to ensuring that there are fair and impartial elections in this city.”

But how? While Nutter has called for a review of a potential redesign of the Commissioners’ Office for fiscal reasons, good luck getting him to comment about the real or perceived conflicts of interest in having elected partisan ward leaders run the city’s elections.

The possibility of Tartaglione Matos taking up her old position again next year seems ridiculous, especially since she’s enjoying a $50,844 per year pension, but don’t bet against it. Her mother is somehow able to shed criticism and scrutiny without a second thought and would surely relish the idea of rehiring her daughter.

Everybody who pays attention knows the Tartaglione/Matos family is crooked as shit—we just didn’t have proof before (err, besides Carlos Matos’ bribery convictions).

But now that we’ve confirmed what we already knew and stolen a peek at the filth that lurks behind the scenes of our election campaigns, the rest of the city government appears too impotent, too scared or too beholden to Chairwoman Tartaglione to speak up.

Seems like the media and government alike are content to write off this scandal as Philly business as usual and move on to the next breaking news.

Bullshit.

The Ethics Board gave us a chance to peel back the polished foreskin of city politics and catch a whiff of the repulsive smegma rotting beneath. Are we just going to surrender to the status quo and live with the stench? Hell no. Take a washcloth to that shit! n

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There’s absolutely nothing corrupt about having one of the most powerful political bosses in the city in charge of elections!

Nope! Not a chance! Don’t even ask, or Marge Tartaglione, chairwoman of City Commission, will threaten to punch you out.

Last week I watched a room full of City Commission officials and reporters sit around and calmly go about business as usual. This just two days after former Chief Deputy City Commissioner Renee Tartaglione Matos admitted to illegally working against State Rep. Angel Cruz during his primary race last spring versus challenger Jonathan Ramos.

The commission staffers sure moved on quickly, happy in their first public meeting since Tartaglione Matos’s confession to discuss technicalities of upcoming elections as if their chief deputy hadn’t just been busted.

They had to be kidding.

So I asked 77-year-old Marge Tartaglione, otherwise known as the former Chief Deputy’s mother, how we could trust anything produced by the Commissioners’ Office at this point.

But what about addressing why the feisty old lady won’t answer any questions?

In the week since I posed the question to Tartaglione not one member of the commission has even attempted to offer a remotely credible response.

So here it is again. Now that we have proof that a member of the City Commission was illegally participating in elections, how can we have any faith whatsoever that a single thing that comes out of the office is legit— especially when it’s run by the disgraced deputy’s own mother?

It was widely known that Tartaglione Matos was supporting Ramos, but somehow the people she worked with, including her mom-boss, were blissfully ignorant?

“It’s over … we run a clean house,” is the only answer taxpayers get?

That sounds suspiciously close to the response Tartaglione Matos gave last summer when questions about her impartiality in the Ramos case were initially raised: “Our consciences are clear. We do a good job.

We’re honest people.”

Even more of a disgrace, Tartaglione Matos got off easy: A laughably small $2,700 fine and a one year ban from holding city employment for nine violations of city charter, including handling street money for her mother and husband—convicted criminal (for bribery) Carlos Matos—and printing ballots with deliberately incorrect information on how to vote for Cruz.

Unfortunately, the Board of Ethics has no power to impose extra sanctions even though the commission held a hearing last summer on the very Ramos vs. Cruz race that Tartaglione Matos was participating in.

Her punishment is no more than would be assessed to any rank-and-file city employee, despite the fact she committed elections violations while working for the elections office.

“We cannot look to issues that involve possible misconduct in office beyond political activity violations,” Ethics Board Executive Director Shane Creamer says.

“That is something beyond our purview and investigation.”

So who can hold these people accountable?

That would be the job of the District Attorney— whose office released a statement saying, essentially, the charges were no big deal. “It appears that the only possible violations are those of the city code, and in this instance, summary violations,” the statement read.

Granted, the Committee of Seventy and the Pennsylvania Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority have been calling for reform of the commission for years, for wasting up to $6.2 million of the city’s money as well as the inherent conflict of having elected officials run elections. And reformer Al Schmidt has thrown his hat in the ring to run for commissioner next year. But where is the outcry from within the government, the people with the power to actually do

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Temple’s adjunct professors feel the wrath of termination without representation.

By Randy LoBasso rlobasso@philadelphiaweekly.com

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For adjunct professors at Temple University, the ongoing attempt to unionize by 2011 just got urgent.

On Nov. 1, First Year Writing professors Mike Cihak, Frank Fucile and 23 others received an email from Rachael Groener, Associate Director of Temple’s First Year Writing Program. “Dear Colleagues,” the

Rose Wint, it means that we didn’t have a course to offer you at this time ... The ‘gradjunct’ situation has made available classes even more scarce … I wish the situation were different.”

The message came as a shock to many of those who’ve counted on Temple’s employment for years and expected to join the

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“When I first heard about the union ... I didn’t really think there was a substantial need for it. I just didn’t think about it in a serious way. It wasn’t until [the layoffs] happened that I thought about it at all.”

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email begins, “I’m writing to let everyone know that all spring 2011 adjunct instructor positions have been given out in both the FYW and Undergraduate English programs. If you haven’t heard from me or

full-time professionals’ union during the Spring semester. In the meantime, contractual employees are still looking for answers as to how, and why, this happened.

“I don’t know if [the layoffs] are happen-

ing as a way to keep us from organizing, though that’s a certainly more romantic story,” says Cihak.

“Strictly speaking,” says Fucile, “it’s not in Temple’s budget interests to have grad students teaching … Perhaps the fact that they’re spending money to do it suggests it’s a union-busting tactic, because we know Temple is willing to spend money to do damage to unions, as we saw during the nurses’ strike.”

The “gradjunct situation” began in March—less than two weeks before the Temple nurses’ strike—with an email attachment. “On March 19, a policy change was made,” says Andrew Dixon, 32, English Literature Ph.D. candidate and Temple University Graduate Students’ Association (TUGSA) Staff Organizer. That change required all graduate students working as adjuncts to become, in the eyes of the university, graduate assistants. The policy afforded these new adjuncts-turned-graduate assistants all the benefits for which their union had fought: $15,000 per year if teaching 20 calculated working clock hours per semester, or two courses, and a health care stipend of $312 per month (up from $400 per year before organizing).

According to Dixon, there are at least 900 graduate assistants at Temple.

That’s great for graduate assistants, but it leaves the 1,300 to 1,400 adjunct professors—who are currently the only employees on campus who do not have union representation and, therefore, no option of payraises, health care or job security for longer than a single semester—at the North Broad postsecondary institution scrambling for protection.

“When I first heard about the union, I thought, ‘OK, that’s cool if you’re into that,’ and at the time I didn’t really think there was a substantial need for it,” says Cihak, who’s been teaching since 2009. “I just didn’t think about it in a serious way. It wasn’t until [the layoffs] happened that I thought about it at all.”

Ralph Flood, veteran professor of Amer-

ican Studies and Latin American Studies at Temple, created the Adjunct Organizing Committee (AOC) in 2003 with help from Arthur Hochner, president of the Temple Association of University Professionals (TAUP), the full-time professors’ and other professionals’ union. Flood currently works with a number of adjunct professors from several departments, attempting to organize adjunct professors.

But the organization of adjunct professors has proven extremely difficult. Adjuncts aren’t allotted offices and therefore do not spend much time on campus. There was often a scramble in between classes to find adjunct professors as they were either moving to another classroom or leaving campus.

Regina Bannon, professor of American

Studies and member of the AOC refers to potential union members as “moving targets.”

Fucile and other organizers would set up tables and hand out pamphlets on campus.

In other instances, adjuncts would hold up rally signs outside administrative buildings on both the Philadelphia and Ambler campuses.

“We got some support from the American Federation of Teachers, and we got support from the Temple full-time union,” says Fucile. “But in general, it was all grassroots. We didn’t have outside canvassers from the American Federation of Teachers.

That’s why it took so many years just to try and track people down.”

The AOC created a website in September 2007, which is maintained by TAUP. It includes organization updates, adjunct protest dates and times, downloadable authorization cards and leader contacts.

Eli Goldblatt, Director of the First Year Writing Program, believes there’s little that can be done about the cuts to adjunct faculty. Nevertheless: “The problem with the decision that it was made very quickly, it wasn’t made in consultation with anybody and it just popped into our email boxes,” he says. “And it was made at a very high level at the university.”

And though he lauds the university’s decision to give graduate assistants more benefits, he’s not sure if unionization would have necessarily stopped the layoffs.

“That’s the nature of adjunct labor,” he says. “And it’s a bad thing about adjunct labor, and it’s why I work with people to get them other kinds of jobs, because sometimes you have courses and sometimes you don’t … But can I tell you, definitely, that people in central administration weren’t thinking about the adjuncts unionizing when they made decisions? I cannot tell you that because I didn’t hear anything one way or another. The decision about gradjucts was made much further up the line.”

The Office of the Provost at Temple did not respond to calls for comment.

In light of the layoffs and unpredictable future, Bannon and Flood are still in high hopes to hold their election to unionize next semester—and believe it’s imperative they do so—but nothing’s been set in stone. “I’m especially concerned about young adjuncts, working two or three jobs at universities and trying to piece together a living of what they thought would have been a professional career, now having to eke out a living by shuttling back and forth.

We’re like gypsies,” says Flood.

“The whole idea of having a union was stopping the university from doing things like this,” says Fucile, who plans to continue union efforts through the end of the year, while he is still contractually employed by Temple. “It doesn’t do you any good if you don’t have it done before a large layoff like this occurs.” n

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Noisemakers of the Year The peo ple wh o g av e t o ta l k us some about t thing his yea r.

Guidance Councilor City Council meetings are boring. We’re talking hours of procedure and talk for a few minutes worth of good takeaway. What’s not boring, however, is Councilman-at-Large Bill Green. Green is brash and blunt and you never know when he’s going to take a swipe at someone, be it Mayor Nutter or some poor department clerk testifying at a budget hearing. When so many Council members seem content to sit around and collect paychecks, Green is hard at work on high profile moves like scrutinizing the budget for ways to save money and developing a business tax reform plan with colleague Maria Quiñones-Sánchez that threatens to turn conventional wisdom on tax policy entirely on its head, or stuff that flew more under the radar like eliminating the so-called “blogger tax” and penning a plan for paperless government. Always outspoker, “It won’t be the first time the mayor is wrong,” Green snarled over a dispute over tax reform. When City Controller Alan Butkovitz weighed in against Green’s plan, the councilman hit back, “It’s disappointing to see the controller embarrass himself like that.” (Aaron Kase)

Whistleblower The de facto segregation in bars in Philadelphia has long been a hush-hush

reality. But Michael L. Bolden, an African-American bartender at Old City’s McFadden’s, had enough. He brought a suit against the bar and its reported parent company, East Coast Saloons, alleging discrimination in hiring practices. The investigation which followed unearthed some damning information, including a text by then-manager Walt Wyrsta to a weekend manager stating: “We don’t want black people we are a white bar!” As a result of the suit, Wyrsta was fired, McFadden’s has enlisted a consulting company to improve their hiring practices and make the establishment friendlier to a multicultural audience, and the company will have to file quarterly reports on their progress to the court. Bolden, also an attorney for Community Legal Services, chose not to pursue financial compensation, saying in a statement “My goal was to effectuate changes at McFadden’s that would positively impact race relations.” He’s even decided to continue working at the bar, which seems like reason enough to go order a cheap beer and tip big. (Alli Rose Katz)

Comeback Kid How did Michael Vick go from dog fighting/torturing/executing ex-con, to controversial Eagles backup used only for gimmick plays, to perhaps the most valu-

able player in the league? That’s easy. He runs. He scrambles. He throws 80-yard passes with no apparent effort. Every time Vick touches the ball, there’s a good chance something crazy-good will happen. When Donovan McNabb was traded away in the off-season, nobody figured the Eagles would have a winning year, let alone be a Super Bowl contender. Yet here we are, with Vick inspiring confidence that the team can come back from deficits late in the game in a way McNabb never did.

There’s no guarantee the Eagles will keep winning, or even make the playoffs, but Vick has turned their offense into the most exciting and unpredictable the NFL has seen in a long time. (A.K.)

Canine Crusader Kim is a wolf in business-casual clothing. Inspired by her love for animals and especially pitbulls—and rage for what she sees as their mistreatment—Kim Wolf spent 2010 putting her considerable skills to work for four-legged friends. Inspired

by Sarge, the 16-year-old pit bull she rescued and rehabilitated after he spent 14 years abused, she founded the Sarge Fund, which provides affordable spay/neuter and veterinary care to pit bulls. This past May, Mayor Nutter awarded 30-year-old Wolf “Humane Educator of the Year.” She

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Big Brawler Daily News veteran Stu Bykofsky spent 2010 ruffling feathers and rattling Philadelphia’s frequently obnoxious bicycle enthusiasts by ragging on them and dismissing bike lanes. City Council, the Democratic Party, the police, BRT and PPA have been repeated and “delicious” targets as well. As can be expected, Byko gets the usual—often ageist—browbeating in the comment gallery (it is after all, Philly.com, once described by Byko as “where cowards, haters and the deranged can leave anonymous droppings.”) Yet he presses on, even seven years after he publicly stated he was tired of writing his column because he had to “deal with too many assholes.”

Seems every year, more doo-doo hits the fan: Most recently, Bykofsky was nominated by Philebrity.com to be “cast out like a demon,” alongside corrupt megalomaniac-sexual harasser Carl Greene and the toad that played tonsil hockey with Christine O’Donnell. Does Byko give a shit? Of course not: “I am semi-humbled to be nominated for an award I have never heard of and I have no chance of winning because my current (award-winning) column is neither as vacuous nor popular as my previous gossip column.” May he piss off more people—and generate more conversation—in 2011. (Tara Murtha.)

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Katrina Mansfield has overcome unthinkable obstacles since she was left to die in a pool of her own blood after being attacked and stabbed in her Northern Liberties home in 2008. At first, Mansfield spent a long time simply fighting for her life—and she still fights against severed nerves and torn muscle every day. This year Mansfield transformed into one of the most dedicated and outspoken advocates against the crime wave that has washed over Northern Liberties as the neighborhood’s become a petri dish studied for the effects of rapid gentrification. A graphic designer before her injuries, Mansfield uses her computer savvy to trumpet the Northern Liberties Town Watch, an innovative group whose

At 3:59 p.m. on May 2, it was an odd scene underneath the highway by the South Philly Target. Hundreds of people had gathered; some milled around, but most were stationary, spread out gridlike in the huge space as they staked out a claim on one of the many heavy square columns supporting the cars overhead.

The crowd was waiting for the signal that Zoe Strauss’ 10th and final I-95 show was over. And when the clock clicked over to 4 p.m., there was a noise like hundreds of giant post-its being ripped off at once as the crowd tore down all 231 of Strauss’ 11x17 photo prints (of subjects like Mummers exposing themselves, people showing off tattoos and scars, grungy once-bright advertisements, etc.) that had been adhered to the columns, one per side. It was an efficient cleanup of one of the most-anticipated shows in the Philly art world this year. Strauss got her first camera a decade ago, and has been displaying her incredibly honest and interactive photographs of American life in this same format for 10 years, even as she racked up Pew grants, Whitney Biennial selections and a book deal. The decade-long experiment is over now, but we can’t wait to see whatever she comes up with next. (E.G.)

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Every Friday we look forward to Inga Saffron’s Changing Skyline architecture column in the Inquirer. Far more than a bland commentary on bricks and mortar, Saffron serves as our urban conscious against the banal and ugly, educating us on how the city’s physical features interact with the residents to everyone’s benefit—or detriment.

Over the year she’s covered everything from the South Street Bridge to the nudie theater on Market Street to the proposed paint sculpture outside the Convention Center (“strongly resembles a pile of excrement”).

She lets us know the news on city buildings, but more importantly, why we should care. And throw in some solid investigative reporting to boot—guess who warned us that lawyer Jeffrey Rotwitt was playing both sides of the new family court development?

Philadelphia has far too few must-read writers and columnists, but Saffron is definitely sitting near the top of the list. (A.K.)

The Mural Arts Program and artist Steve Powers would have seemed unlikely bedfellows in the ’80s when both were just getting started. Back then, the fledgling Mural Arts Program was called the Anti-Graffiti Network, and Powers, an Overbrook teenager, went by ESPO (Exterior Surface Painting Outreach), a graffiti tag that appeared all over the city. A quarter-century later, their collaboration on the now-complete “A Love Letter for You” mural series, which can be seen on 50 walls and roofs along the El in West Philadelphia between 46th and 63rd streets, created a ton of noise in Philly and beyond.

There’s a book. There’s a movie. There’s a guided tour, on which one guy proposed to his girlfriend. Plus, at the film’s premiere last month, the Mural Arts Program announced a plan to expand the project out to the other end of the El in North Philly and Kensington; something to look forward to in the new year.

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Storytelling is having a cultural moment as an art form and West Philly resident Juliet Hope Wayne spent 2010 grabbing that moment by the balls. Wayne has an uncanny talent for crafting anecdotes into exquisitely hilarious five-minute yarns she unravels with infectiously wicked glee. We won’t spoil the fun by revealing the punch lines but rest assured the story “Poundcake” can make anyone, especially anyone who’s ever spent time in the dark underbelly trenches of restaurant work, burst into uncontrollable fits of laughter approaching Double Rainbow levels. After winning the First Person Arts grand-slam in 2007, Wayne broke the storytelling gender barrier in 2009 to become the Moth’s first-ever female “Grand Slampion.” Her star rose even higher this year when “The Swimming Pool Story” was featured on the Moth podcast and she was cherry-picked to perform on the Moth’s “Unchained Tour,” where she dished her dark Philly tales across the entire state of Georgia this past October. (T.M.)

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Garbage Disposer The City Controller of Philadelphia is a fancy title for “Official Pain In The Ass” for city government. Judging by the year that Alan Butkovitz had, this is a title he seems to relish. City officials cringe with every monthly report Butkovitz releases, as he sheds light on just how messed up our city is and wags his finger at every dollar misspent or misplaced. In 2010 alone, Butkovitz has gone to war with the sheriff’s office over misallocated funds, butted heads with City Council over business tax reform, blasted the city’s lethargic snow removal, and revealed that Philly is the most impoverished major city in the U.S. Not even libraries were safe from Butkovitz’s wrath, as he fingered the city’s top librarian for pulling in hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of illegal bonuses. It’s refreshing to know that there is a city official who at least tries to take out the trash (literally, as he reamed out

the city for its suspect contract with the solar compactors). Mayor Nutter may run the city, but there’s no question as to who polices it. (Nick Powell)

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Consider this: Man Man’s Six Demon Bag was Pitchfork’s No. 20 album of the year in 2006, an eternity ago in today’s fast-paced, ADD-addled, flavor-of-the-minute clickthrough culture that gobbles up new indie acts before the old ones are fully digested.

Since then, the group has cycled through a couple lineup changes and put out one more record, Rabbit Habits, which fucking ruled but, alas, failed to have the impact of the two predecessors that earned them the national spotlight. But he’s not fazed.

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won a similar award from PSPCA and just this month, the Francisvale Home for Smaller Animals also formally recognized Wolf and Sarge for their work in animal welfare outreach and education. In a city notorious for dirty animal welfare politics, under-funding and dogfighting, we need advocates to stay hungry like the Wolf. She keeps track of it all over at elderbulls.blogspot.com, an effort that recently earned a first-place “Animal Welfare Blogger” award by American Dog magazine. (T.M.)

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work indirectly helped lead to the arrest of alleged murderer Donte Johnson. On top of speaking out on safety in her neighborhood in almost every news outlet in the city, Mansfield can be spotted around the neighborhood on any given day spreading the word, or at night marching with NLTW, slicing through the fear found in the streets’ silent darkness with flashlights, whistles and a voice that simply refuses to be silenced. (T.M.)

Daddy Warbucks Seems like every time a cherished city institution is in danger of dying due to lack of funding, H.F. “Gerry” Lenfest pops up to save the day with a million dollars or two. The media mogul sold his communication company to Comcast for $6.7 billion in 2000, so he’s got cash to spare, and he’s spreading it around to help the rest of us poor saps. When the S.S. United States was headed for the scrap heap, Lenfest swooped in with nearly $6 million. Just when it looked like we’d never see the Mummers or the ethnic parades again due to lack of city support, here came Gerry with another half million. And when Warren Buffett and Bill Gates decided to pledge at least half their money to charity, Lenfest was one of the first in line to join them. He’s also financing much of the Art Museum’s expansion, the Barnes Foundation, and scholarships for high school kids. Of course, not all his picks are winners—Lenfest gave out $350,000 to Dan Onorato for his gubernatorial bid. Ah, well. (A.K.)

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Vox Populi artist Kara Crombie was the only animation artist this year to win the prestigious $60,000 Pew Fellowship in the Arts. No hoity-toity artist, Crombie has an uncanny ability to sledgehammer high- and low-brow culture together to create videos as visually stunning as they are elegantly bizarre. Set against the backdrop of a South Carolina plantation, Crombie’s latest series traces the dark, surreal twists and turns of the Van der Screwd family and friends over many years. It’s hard to explain, but the work weaves slave-boy mushroom trips, greasy, bluesy rock and roll riffs (courtesy of Crombie, an accomplished guitarist), incestrape, a beer-chugging redneck skeleton crew and cynical restaurant servers into

cohesive works of serious but unpretentious art. “Whether I’m poor or rich, I’ll spend the same amount of time working on these videos, but the Pew will enable me do more in the same amount of time,” she says. Good thing, since animation is, by design, slow in the making, and we need to see more of Crombie’s work ASAP. (T.M.)

Master Engineer Bill Moriarty has had a hand in some of our favorite local albums to come out over the last few years from groups like Dr. Dog, Man Man, the Swimmers and Make a Rising. This year, he’s upped the noisemaker ante by having his hand in one of the year’s best local records, Drink Up Buttercup’s Born & Thrown on a Hook, and his skillful production work with Dice Raw of the Legendary Roots Crew, who he mixed “100 (Philadelphia Historical Remix)” for. That song brings together a veritable who’s who of Philly hip-hop— Freeway, Schooly D, EST, Bonic—and features, from Raw, one of the best lines of the year: “You’re like a half off coupon/ Me, I’m like a fresh jar of Grey Poupon.”

For a guy working in music, Moriarty’s incredibly approachable—a down-to-earth, affable lug who doesn’t have a cross word about any of the egos you just know he’s had to deal with in the bustling and budding career he’s been at for over a decade now. He counts the legendary Larry Gold as one of his mentors, and just this year Moriarty blazed out on his own to open his own recording space in East Falls after years of working at Kensington’s Meth Beach. “I would say [that] Bill, of all the engineers I’ve ever dealt with, would spend more hours trying stuff out in the studio than anyone,” Philadelphia producer/engineer Edan Cohen told PW back in July. “As soon as a session was over I’d be like, ‘I’m so tired, I’m gonna go home,’ and he’d be putting mics all over this giant staircase or under a piano bench to see what the drums sounded like through them.” Dude’s like a fresh jar of Grey Poupon. (B.Mc.)

label, but a refreshingly vintage soul/rock ’n’ roll/blues kick. Since then, the band has toured the South twice, headlined at the TLA, and re-released their critically acclaimed debut album, Whisper Down The Lane through MAD Dragon Records. Lead singer Ron Gallo has reformed the band, downsizing to seven members, leaving himself as the sole member of the original lineup. Despite the infusion of new blood, they have not missed a beat, receiving a nomination for Best Indie Act by Origivation Magazine, and recording the follow-up to their debut album, which, according to the band’s Facebook page, will include a gospel choir and horn section. A refreshingly local band, Toy Soldiers can be seen bringing their eclectic roots rock to every small venue in Philly you can think of, from Johnny Brenda’s to Triumph Brewing Company, where their blue collar sound really resonates. (N.P.)

Curve Baller Talk about expectations. The Phillies lusted after Roy Halladay all year in 2009, and finally got their man after the season, even dumping playoff hero Cliff Lee to the curb in Halladay’s favor. How did Roy respond?

He had the best season by a Phillies’ pitcher in at least 30 years. A perfect game and a whole shitload of wins, strikeouts, shutouts and complete games, which led to the National League Cy Young award. For an encore, in his first playoff appearance ever after 11 full years of waiting, he threw the second no hitter in post-season history.

The team didn’t make it back to the World Series, alas, but Halladay is a big part of why there’s hope for next year. The craziest part about all of this is that he signed with Philly for tens of millions of dollars less than he could have gotten from some other teams.

What’s with this guy? (A.K.)

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When Toy Soldiers performed last fall at their album release show at The Fire, they were still a relatively fledgling local band with a 10-piece ensemble and no record

Former Clockcleaner drummer Richie Charles runs the best label in the city, Richie Records/TestosterTunes, which puts out stellar rare gems by the likes of local space-folk hero Kurt Vile, Cleveland, Ohio, ding dong rockers the Homostupids and the highly addictive N.J.-based fuzz pop of Home Blitz (seriously, their track “Two Steps” off RR/TT release Out of Phase is the very reason the repeat button was in-

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vented). This year Clockcleaner shot off one final EP for Load Records, Auf Wiedersehen, and it was quite a piece of work—a slow, dark, subtle, churning, noir-ish four songs that cut powerfully deeper than the rest of their catalog, which was more interested in pummeling listeners while burning their hallowed temples to the ground. They grew up just before they broke up, essentially.

Part of that maturity is injected in the day-to-day of RR/TT, who’s responsible for the newly released Hissteria, an album by Birds of Maya’s Mike Polizze’s solo project which is currently bursting ear drums from turntables at cool people parties all across the city. Hissteria is release number 27 for Charles, and people are beginning to take serious notice. The very popular and aggressively readable outsider-music site Terminal Boredom—which you should have bookmarked for new music finds if you don’t already—profiled Charles and RR/ TT in August, and word is spreading about the killer collectibles he’s putting out at an astonishingly consistent (in both pace and quality) clip. Now, if you’ll excuse us, we’ve got to go listen to “Two Steps” again. (B.M.)

Rainbow Warrior While it seems like Mayor Nutter is taking flak from all directions, he’s generally enjoyed the support of the LGBT community.

That’s no accident, because whispering in his ear is one of its most outspoken activists, Gloria Casarez, who in 2008 joined the administration as director of the one-woman Office of LGBT Affairs. Casarez, who formerly worked at the LGBT Center of the University of Pennsylvania and the Gay and Lesbian Latino AIDS Education Initiative, advises Nutter on all things queer and keeps an open line of communication between the community and the Mayor’s Office. In July, she was recognized for her work as an “Inner Circle Activist” with a leadership award from Women’s eNews. Later this fall, when queer bullying and suicides were riding the national news cycle, she helped guide the mayor’s response, which culminated in raising the rainbow flag outside City Hall right next to the stars and stripes. It was the first time the gay flag has ever flown outside a city municipal building and a symbol that in Philly, thanks to Casarez, everyone’s got a voice at the table. (A.K.) n

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OK, so being in Old City at 2 a.m. is literally one of the most awful experiences you can have in this city (unless you’re a sober onlooker not trying to hail a cab). Yet, there’s no denying it’s the best neighborhood for bar-hopping. For a flat $85 bucks, you can get into all three bars, which will have food and top-shelf open bars all night. The best part: you won’t have to stumble very far to get to each of them. As for getting home, it’ll probably be quicker if you just stumble there too. 9pm-2am. $85. 247/124 Market St. lucys215.com, drinkers215.com, tophat215.com

Bistro St. Tropez

For all you foodies who snub your noses at pub grub, Bistro St. Tropez’s Chef Rames will be preparing a special “Triologie” menu which includes three courses, each with a trio of dishes. For the main course alone you get to choose between lobster feuillete, filet mignon, duck leg confit and striped bass. Plus, with a beautiful view overlooking the the Schuylkill River, Market Street Bridge and Art Museum, it’s perfect for a romantic evening (or peoplewatching). $55. 2400 Market St. 215.569.9269. bistrosttropez.com

Tendenza

Why go to a bar where everyone knows your name, when you could be the first to brag about the hot new spot in town? Tendenza, which opened this month at The Piazza, will be serving up customized cocktails (like a bubble gum martini and a pineapple mojito) and buttlered delectables like coconut lobster tails and mini kobe beef sliders. The rest of the night club mixes will be blasting while you enjoy the open bar. 9pm. $150. 969 N. Second St.

Prohibition on Tap: A Celebration of the Empire

No need to head to A.C. for a lavish NYE bash—you can party it up Nucky-style right here in the city. Inspired by the HBO hit Boardwalk Empire, City Tap House will be transforming its interior into that of a posh, 1920s A.C. speakeasy. There’ll be free drinks, a grand buffet of their yummy pub fare, dancing and casino-style table games.

Maybe you’ll get lucky one last time in 2010. 9pm. $100. City Tap House, 3925 Walnut St. 215.662.0105. citytaphouse.com

McFadden’s

ide Few bars could pull off a creepy/cool vibe quite like National Mechanics. From 8 p.m. till midnight, they’ll make sure you’re both fed and drunk. This shouldn’t be too hard considering they have 32 varieties of both local and exotic brews to choose from. Meanwhile, you can marvel at their eccentric decor and chat with an interesting, inebriated stranger—all to an eclectic mix of tunes (minus anything

L’Etage/Beau Monde

Upstairs you have L’Etage, where the house DJ will be spinning till 2 a.m. Downstairs there’s Beau Monde, a traditional Breton creperie which will be preparing a special, fancier menu for the occasion. Put them under one stunning elegant roof and you’ve got yourself a pretty decent evening. 8pm. $20. 624 South St. 215.592.0656. creperie-beaumonde.com

Sisters Nightclub & Restaurant

National Mechanics

No bros here! Known for throwing wild theme parties, you can bet Philly’s premiere lesbian nightclub won’t disappoint on NYE. The 5,000-square-foot club has hot tunes, cool art, good food and a friendly staff. For a cheap cover they will be offering a snack buffet and drink tickets for cocktails, drafts and house wines. 8pm. $20-$25. 1320 Chancellor St. 215.735.0735. sistersnightclub.com

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remotely Top 40). 8pm. $60. 22 S. Third St. 215.701.4883. nationalmechanics.com

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Bars/Restaurants

If you can look past the massive crowds of bros and drunk chicks dancing on the bar, McFadden’s isn’t all that bad.

Bartenders will pour free liquor down your throat, the bathroom line moves quickly and there’s always space on the dance floor. All three rooms will be decked out in NYE decor including ice sculptures. At midnight, balloons will rain from the ceiling (just like in a movie!). 7pm. $70-$90.

461 N. Third St. 215.253.3216. mcfaddensphilly.com

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Well folks, 2011 is just around the corner. That said, it’s probably best that you start thinking about how and where you want to bid 2010 adieu.

The good news is, whether you’d prefer a quiet night of good food and good conversation or just want to booze it up and shake yo’ ass, you’ve got plenty of options. If you’re a recovering alcoholic, or a parent without a sitter don’t fret. There’s some stuff for you, too.

Not into the idea of spending a day’s pay to have your personal space violated while trying to shout your bar order over a DJ? Then lucky for you there’s Sugar Mom’s, the antiOld City watering hole. With retro arcade games, a pool table, jukebox, toys and bumper car seats, it’s more like the basement of that really cool kid in school who you always wanted to hang out with. The fact that they’ll be offering free food with no cover is really just icing on the cake. 8pm.

Free. 225 Church St. 215.925.8219. myspace.com/sugarmoms

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This may blow all of the other NYE parties out of the water.

In a nutshell: three meals, four bars, three dance rooms, six DJs and one live band all for an economic-meltdownfriendly $30 cover (not to mention free parking). Want to watch the fireworks at Penns Landing? No problem— they’ll have them on a huge projection screen. Don’t want to miss the ball drop at Times Square? Well, that’ll be playing too. Oh, and while everyone else is heading home at 2 a.m., this shindig will be bumpin’ till 6 a.m. 10pm. $30$180. Zee-Bar, 100 Spring Garden St. 215.922.2994. zeebar.com

Theater/Comedy Eddie Gossling

Why not bring in the new year with a smile on your face?

The hilarious Eddie Gosling will have you pissing your skivvies with his rants about, well, everything. In addition to performing at comedy clubs all over the U.S and Canada, Gossling has made the rounds on Comedy Central having been featured on Premium Blend and the animated series, Shorties Watchin’ Shorties. He’s currently a writer for Tosh.0. The later show includes a dessert buffet and champagne toast. 8pm and 10:30pm. $35-$62. Helium, 2031 Sansom St. 215.496.9001. heliumcomedy.com

This Is The Week That Is

This will be your last chance to see 1812 Production’s hit holiday show featuring some of Philly’s finest comedic talents like Steve Wright and 1812’s artistic director Jennifer Childs. Each night they poke fun at local and national news with sketches and musical numbers. To keep up with our 24-hour news cycle, the script changes daily, sometimes even during intermission. 8pm. $32. Plays and Players Theater, 1714 Delancey Pl. 215.592.9560. 1812productions.org

Murder at the Irish Wake

Not everyone in the O’Malley Family believes Uncle Sean’s death was an accident. Was it Colonel Mustard in the study with the candlestick? Or were you the murderer all along?

Why not enjoy a theatrical production this year instead of doing the same auld thing. Admission covers the show, a four course dinner and a reception in their piano lounge.

Bonus: Killer views of the fireworks. 8pm. $59. Bistro Romano, 120 Lombard St. 215.925.8880. bistroromano.com

Parties

Dangerous Ponies

Billed as a “seven piece queer allied band from Philadelphia, slathered in gold and rainbows,” you can assume they’ll be delivering some high-energy dance jams. Their sound is a pure fun mix of indie rock and catchy pop. The lineup also includes Bandname and Banned Books who will be performing with DJ Femstar. 9pm. $5. Kung Fu Necktie, 1248 N. Front St. 215.291.4919. kungfunecktie.com

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DJ Jazzy Jeff

If you’re going to ring in the new year in West Philly, it’s only appropriate that you do it to the musical stylings of native and hip-hop icon, DJ Jazzy Jeff. Aside from having an ear for talent—his Philly-based record label having launched the careers of Jill Scott and Musiq—his mastery of scratching techniques continue to impress a crowd.

Fortunately, The Blockly is equipped with a state-of-theart lighting and sound system so you won’t miss a beat.

Admission also includes a six-hour, top-shelf open bar and a complimentary buffet. 8pm. $85. The Blockly Pourhouse, 3801 Chestnut St. 215.222.1234. theblockly.com continued on page 22

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The three piece band from California has been making harmonious rock music for over a decade now and are currently working on their sixth studio release. Oddly enough, their songs seem appropriate after a terrible breakup, a long night of sweet, sweet loving-making and everything else in between. Known for putting on two-and-a-half to threehour long shows, you can be sure that they’ll be rockin’ it all the way till midnight. 9pm. $40-$45. With the Engery. North Star Bar. 2639 Poplar St. 215.787.0488. northstarbar.com

Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue

Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews is far from your average New Orleans jazz musician. His signature sound being a mix of rock, jazz, funk, soul and hip hop, he had to come up with his own name to even describe it: Supafunkrock! His new album, Backatown has gotten rave reviews and a 2011 Grammy nomination. 10pm. $50-$115. With the Bridge. World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St. 215.222.1400. worldcafelive.com

Danny Krivit

Considering that Silk City puts on a hell of a dance party every Thursday night, it’s hard to imagine their NYE show would be any exception. Danny Krivit is an internationally acclaimed DJ who began spinning at the hottest clubs in NYC in the ’70s. He’s also worked on tracks with legends like James Brown and Gloria Gaynor. 9pm. $25-$30. With Dirty Del. Silk City, 435 Spring Garden St. 215.592.8838. silkcityphilly.com

Halestorm

Just last month, this hard-rock group from Red Lion, Pa. released their first live album—and second album to date— which was recorded right here in Philly at the TLA back in April. The band was formed by the brother-sister team Arejay and Elizabeth Hale and has toured with a long list

of heavy metal bands. 8pm. $15. With New Medicine, Madam Adam and Blackened Blue. The Troc, 1003 Arch St. 215.922.6888. thetroc.com

Events

Blue Cross RiverRink

In time for you to catch an amazing view of both firework shows over the Delaware, the RiverRink will be holding two skating parties, including an early party with familyfriendly live entertainment and free kids activities. The later party goes from 11 p.m. till 1 a.m. and will feature free psychic readers, photo keepsakes and strolling entertainment

by Mummertime. Due to the inevitable lawsuit that would result from having drunk people on ice, there won’t be any alcohol. But there will be hot coco! 5pm and 11pm. $20-$30.

Blue Cross RiverRink, Columbus Blvd. at Market St. riverrink.com.

The Philadelphia Art Museum

Nothing says sophistication like a pre-party in a museum.

Browse the museum’s art collections while listening to party band Marquee perform your favorite pop hits and still have enough time to get to another soiree. 5pm. Free with admission.

26th and Benjamin Franklin Pkwy. 215.763.8100. philamuseum.org

New Year’s Eve Ghost Tour: Toast With Philadelphia’s Ghosts

Before you celebrate the new year ahead, dig into the city’s past. The candlelight tour stops at two historic mansions in Society Hill where guests will hear legends of phantom celebrations, reports of ghostly activity and other eerie tales from long ago. There’s a tour every hour starting at 8 p.m. and the last tour includes a midnight toast to the departed.

Who knows, they might even join you. 8pm. $25. Physick House, 321 S. Fourth St. 215.413.1997. ghosttour.com n

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Drawing from the macabre original The Nutcracker and the Mouse King story rather than the neutered storyline of the famous Christmastime ballet, Maria is now a hot, scantily clad young woman revisited by the creatures and fairies (and evil mice) that she met one Christmas Eve as a child. Page 24

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f you’re not familiar with Swiss troupe Mummenschanz, it may be best to think of them as the artsy bits of Cirque du Soleil in distillation, or Blue Man Group with the frenetic monochrome replaced with a dash of quiet reflection, or a puppet show where people’s bodies serve as multifunctional marionettes. The only way to really get them, though, is to see them in action. This week they’ll be performing 3 x 11, a sort of retrospective showcasing some of their most beloved vignettes and characters from the past several years, as well as introducing new material.

Using the language of movement and employing supporting tools of light, shadow, mime, maskwork, puppetry, toilet paper and building materials (the giant slinky dancer at the 76ers games ripped them off, btw), the five-person troupe is expert at transporting their audience to a place that looks inhuman but feels personal. cHarlie Gill Dec. 16-18. 7:30pm. $28-$48. Annenberg Center, 3680 Walnut St. mummenschanz.com

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are more than three-quarters of a million homebrewers in the U.S., and it seems that in Philly everyone has friends with a nanobrewery rigged in the basement. Half the fun of brewing your own is sharing the end result with appreciative quaffers, and Dock Street Brewery gets into this spirit with the Holiday Homebrew Swap. Homebrewers are encouraged to bring their finest samples to exchange with fellow crafters, and swap participants receive a free pint of one of Dock Street’s signature beers.

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7pm. Free Dock Street Brewing Co., 701 S. 50th St. 215.726.2337. dockstreetbeer.com

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Guignol + Gringo Motel

Dock Street Homebrew Swap Homebrewing is a tradition that predates the Gutenberg press, the 12-month calendar and even the kid in a manger whose merry birthday approaches. The craft’s popularity shows no signs of flagging in the Information Age—there

Starting with their first event last month, the objective of the Diaspora Series is to present a diverse assortment of contemporary world and folk musics that sonically articulate the movement of peoples and cultures in our hyper-globalized age. Presented with free admission at West Philly venue The Rotunda, the highlight of the series thus far was an explosive, standing-room-only double-bill with Sun Ra Arkestra and the West Philadelphia Orchestra.

The celebration of musical cosmopolitanism continues tonight with border-blurring performances by Brooklyn-based gypsy klezmer outfit Guignol and Philadelphia-based cinematic Mexican quintet Gringo Motel. Head’s up: All concerts in the series are available for gratis streaming and mp3 purchase at Diaspora’s bandcamp website. elliott sHarp 8pm. Free. The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St. 215.573.3234. therotunda.org

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Cabaret Red Light Nutcracker P H I L A D E L P H I A W E E K LY December 15-21, 2010

Vaudeville performers will be turning their red light on old holiday warhorse The Nutcracker, but don’t expect to hear any Tchaikovsky.

Drawing inspiration from the macabre original story (The Nutcracker and the Mouse King by unconventional German romantic E.T.A. Hoffman) more than from the more neutered storyline of the famous ballet, our protagonist Maria has grown up into a twentysomething on the eve of her wedding who is revisited by the creatures and fairies from her childhood.

The story’s gothically interpreted with both burlesque and puppet theater to a score composed almost entirely by Dr. Rolf Lakaemper, a robotics professor at Temple, whose sound was described by Red Light founder Peter Gaffney as like “a music box from hell.” Like Hoffman’s unsettling original, this Nutcracker is more of a fairy tale for adults, so best leave the kids home. racHel stuMpo

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Through Dec. 19. 8pm. $20-$25. Painted Bride, 230 Vine St. 215.925.9914. cabaretredlight.com

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Reading Rainbow Boy/girl fuzz pop has been flavor of the month for a while now, but very few of these dreamy, slouchy, soft-focus romantics are as good as Philly’s Reading Rainbow. This married duo— drummer and singer Sarah Everton and guitarist/keyboard player Rob Garcia—layers choral unisons and counterpoints over spattery, jittery rock melodies in a mix that feels like plainsong amped on a caffeine buzz. In performance, Everton and Garcia radiate geeky likability, imbuing rackets of guitar, flights of schoolgirl harmonies and rudimentary flurries of drums with a radiant sweetness. They’re celebrating the release of their second full-length, the giddily pretty Prism Eyes, out now on Hozac Records. Jennifer Kelly 8pm. $5-$10. With Coasting + Moon Moon.

Danger Danger Gallery, 5013 Baltimore Ave. 903.345.5790. dangerdangergallery.com

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17 Manmoth the Eighth In March 2009, local fiction writers Sam Allingham and Sarah Szymanski organized the Manmoth reading series to unite an eclectic group of writers for a literary event that would appeal to common readers with diverse sensibilities. Previously held at ChaCha’razzi in South Philadelphia, Manmoth the Eighth will call Brickbat Books home. To avoid the academic stuffiness of traditional readings, the five writers who are reading will be limited to 8 minutes each, and every reading will be followed by palate-cleansing musical improvisations by Tristan Dahn. With two writers from Brooklyn and three from Philadelphia, tonight’s line-up is a no-holdsbarred, geographico-literati brawl. Katie Assef, of lit mag A Public Space, and Thug Lit/ Pedestal Magazine-published Ben Nadler will represent Brooklyn. Social worker and writer Ben Goldstein, Boston Review/DIAGRAM/ Conjunctions-published Michael Agresta, and One Story/Epoch/AnOther Mag-published, Mothman founder Allingham will throw blows for the home team. There will be blood. e.s.

8pm. Free. Brickbat Books, 709 S. Fourth St. 215.592.1207. brickbatbooks.blogspot.com

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Good Old War

It’s been a fantastic year for the folky Philly indie-rock trio Good Old War. Their eponymous second album, issued in June, won raves across the nation for its warm acoustic instrumentation, sharp songwriting and heavenly vocal harmonies that recall Simon and Garfunkel and Crosby, Stills and Nash and give folks like Fleet Foxes a run for their money. GOW spent most

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he rise of the personal computer in the late 1970s may have rendered typewriters obsolete, but the allconsuming presence of the Internet has given them an enduring appeal.

“If you are sitting at one, and there is a clacking noise--you are writing,” says Michael McGettigan, owner of Trophy Bike Garage in NoLibs and the brains behind the event. “You’re not checking your schedule, or fighting aliens, or watching a lo-res video of a kitten falling off a desk.” Not to mention they also make you feel like cooler, more serious writer. Attendees can marvel at a display of vintage writing machines, type up a holiday letter (stamps and envelopes provided) and compete in a typing contest. If you own a typewriter, bring it along as there will be an opportunity to swap/sell with other local typewriter enthusiasts. An experienced technician on will be hand for consultations. nicole finkbiner

Sat., Dec. 18. 1pm. Free. Bridgewater’s Pub, 2951 Market St. 215.387.4787. phillytyper.com

of the year on the road playing their own shows and opening for the likes of Dr. Dog and Dashboard Confessional, and the band is poised to break even bigger in 2011 (a tour with Guster is lined up). Tonight they play a homecoming headlining show with support from East Hundred and the Great Unknown—two other fine local bands you should get there early to hear.

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9pm. $23. With East Hundred + the Great Unknown. Theater of Living Arts, 334 South St. 215.922.1011. livenation.com

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Zappa Plays Zappa A few years back, singer-guitarist Dweezil Zappa stopped making obscure rock albums and dating Lisa Loeb and began fulfilling his destiny—keeping the music of his late, legendary father Frank Zappa alive. First, he holed up for a while to learn much of Frank’s celebrated (and sprawling, complex) compositions, then he assembled a crack backing band to bring those tunes to life once again. Anyone who’s seen a Zappa Plays Zappa show knows that Dweezil and gang truly do the works justice. On the occasion of what would have been Frank’s 70th birthday (Dec. 21), this evening’s show offers the elder Zappa’s 1974 album Apostrophe (’)—featuring the semi-hit “Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow”—in its entirety, plus a handful of other classic tracks, all of it accompanied by previously unreleased video footage. M.a.G. 8pm. $29.50-$89.50. Keswick Theatre, 291 N. Keswick Ave. 215.572.7650. keswicktheatre.com

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19 Bilenky Junkyard Cyclo-Cross Do you envision a post-apocalyptic world in which you and your trusty cyclo-steed weave among rusted, unmoving cars? Do you worry that your clothes aren’t sufficiently splattered with petroleum byproducts and antifreeze?

Prepare to have your prayers answered at Bilenky Cycle Works’ Urban Junkyard CycloCross, where you and other racers can book it all over an automotive graveyard fraught with enough obstacles to put Double Dare to shame (though nobody ever got tetanus from green slime, as far as we know). Bilenky has provided this yearly opportunity for adrenaline-starved bikers to get their Mad Max on at the junkyard next door to their Olney location since 2006. Registration starts at 10 a.m.; stick around for the free party after the spectacle to commiserate over beer and tacos.

If you’re racing, maybe make sure all your vaccinations are up to date—just in case you lose a fight with some rusty metal. aleXandra JoneS Noon. $5. Bilenky Cycle Works, 5319 N. Second St. 215.329.4744. bilenky.com

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Tony Danza’s A&E reality series about teaching in the Philly public school system is hardly a realistic portrait of Northeast High School; Danza’s students are almost disturbingly cavalier about the cameras documenting their English classes, leading to many conversations about these kids today, babies with facebook accounts, etc. But the first time cameras documented student life in these hallways was way back when, even before Friendster—in 1968, filmmaker Frederick Wiseman used Northeast as the setting of his documentary High School.

Without voiceovers or talking heads, the film offers an honest, fly-on-the-wall look at the school during a tumultuous time in American history. While there’s a very different set of challenges facing the students and teachers at Northeast as portrayed by Danza and co., it’s interesting to see how much has changed—for better and worse. nicole finkbiner 7:30pm. Free. Wooden Shoe Books, 704 South St. 215.413.0999. woodenshoebooks.com

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While we’re still hopeful that Ian MacKaye will one day reactivate the on-hiatus Fugazi, we have no doubt that the world truly saw the last of Minor Threat when MacKaye’s pioneering D.C. hardcore outfit disbanded in 1983. The music still endures, and so tonight, TV Casualty—the mutable Philly punk-rock tribute band featuring members of Ted Leo/

Pharmacists, Paint It Black, and others, who’ve previous donned the look and sound of the Misfits and the Ramones—will offer their take on Minor Threat, fronted by Philly hardcore vet Mike McKee (of Kill the Man Who Questions fame). Think of it as all the fun, volume, and moshing minus that stupid straight-edge crap. All proceeds from the show will benefit Attic Youth Center, which supports Philly’s LGBT young adults. M.a.G. 2:30pm. $8. Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St. kungfunecktie.com

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20 Crispin Glover Most recognizable as George McFly in Back To The Future, Crispin Hellion Glover’s got quite a bit more going on. Donning a fur coat, Glover perches atop a throne. A youth with Down’s Syndrome tells a snail “I love you,” then pours salt on it. “Good, he’s dead, now we can have a good time,” Glover says while another Down’s youth swings an axe. A nude woman wearing a monkey mask slithers into a hole. These are scenes from What Is It?, the first part in Glover’s It trilogy. Screening tonight, It Is Fine! Everything is Fine! is the director’s second voyage into madness, telling the story of a man with cerebral palsy who has a fetish for long-haired women.

Glover will begin with a dramatic narration inspired by books he’s published containing 19th century illustrations, and then he’ll stay at the end for questions, which you’re surely already formulating. e.S. 6:30pm. $20. International House, 3701 Chestnut St. 215.922.3855. ihousephilly.org

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Windsor Drive “Nathan, we need to talk ...” “What is it, Katie?” “Well ... we’re freshmen in college now, and after all the drama we went through in high school—you know, the affairs, the backstabbing, the unwanted pregnancies, the genetic disease, the brooding newcomer causing trouble, and so on, I think it’s time we start seeing other people.” “Katie, are you breaking up with me?!” “Well ...” “And what’s that music I’m starting to hear in the background—that super-polished, vaguely emo, piano-and-guitar song that’s so perfectly placed for a distraught teenage moment such as this that we’ll barely remember three years from now?” “Oh Nathan, that’s Windsor Drive.” “I’ll miss you, Katie!” “Don’t worry, Nathan, we’ll always be friends.” M.a.G. 8pm. $8. With Case Closed + A Little Affair.

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gering six awards at the American Country Awards, will raise the roof of borgata’s event Center (8pm; $95, $135, $155 and $185). one floor down in the casino’s intimate Music box, the original Jersey boy, Frankie Valli, will become the room’s first headliner of the new year (9pm; $65).

Modern rock band Third Eye Blind sees it way into 2011 from the stage of the House of blues at Showboat (8pm; $37.50 and $45), while the soulful r&b trio The O’Jays, which still includes Eddie Levert from the original lineup formed 53 years ago, sings its hits at the atlantic City Hilton (8pm; $50). in addition to the main showroom fare, the casinos are also offering a variety of demographically diverse alternative entertainment and events to celebrate the holiday. Jerry Blavat, who this year celebrated his 50th anniversary as the Delaware Valley’s preeminent DJ and entertainer, continues a long-standing new Year’s tradition by hosting a buffet dinner party and dance (read: a record hop) in the Tiara ballroom at Trump Taj Mahal (Dec. 31 at 9pm; $125). at Caesars atlantic City, Gossip Girl actress Leighton Meester will host a party at the Dusk nightclub (10pm; $100). Harrah’s resort raises a few eyebrows on Jan. 1 when Sasha Grey, the adult film star, mainstream actress (The Girlfriend Experience and Entourage) and music performer hosts a 2011 kick off Party on new Year’s Day at The Pool after Dark (10pm; prices start at $20).

Finally, for those who want to begin partying a little early, rapper Wiz Khalifa works the House of blues at Showboat (Dec. 29 at 8pm; Dec. 30 at 9pm; $22.50).

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ollowing a weeklong break, the casino showrooms of atlantic City will spring to life following the Christmas holiday weekend for an all-out new Year’s eve (and new Year’s Day) celebration.

Here’s a look ahead to see how the casinos will send out 2010 and usher in 2011.

Folksy Canadian-born balladeer and songwriter Sarah McLachlan, provides a mellow end to 2010 in the Circus Maximus Theater at Caesars atlantic City (9pm; $70, $90 and $115).

Harrah’s resort counters with an equally historic name for the ages. B.B. King, the 85-year-old undisputed king of the blues, will welcome the new year from the stage of The Concert Venue (10pm; tickets are $45, $55 and $75). resorts atlantic City doesn’t have a king in its Superstar Theatre, but it does have a prince. Bobby Vinton, the socalled Polish Prince who was one of the top-selling pop singers of the ’60s and early ’70s, returns to the boardwalk for his first gig in about five years. Vinton will also play a new Year’s Day show at resorts (Dec. 31 at 10:30pm; $35, $45 and $55; Jan. 1 at 8pm; $25 and $35). one of the most intriguing Dec. 31 bookings is at the Tropicana, which has scheduled a concert by Christian Hoff, Michael longoria, Daniel Reichard and J. Robert Spencer. if their names don’t exactly jump off the page, their claim to fame will: They’re the original cast of the wildly successful broadway musical The Jersey Boys (10:30pm; $45, $65, $75 and $115).

The rock band Maroon 5 will attract a younger crowd of new Year’s eve revelers at the House of blues at Showboat on Dec. 31 (9pm; $65 and $75), while comedian Joel McHale, host of the e! network comedy series The Soup (and who’s also seen on the nbC sitcom Community, sends 2010 out with a laugh in borgata’s Music box (7pm; $65; 10:30pm; $65 and $75).

The hits keep coming on the first day of 2011 when country superstar Carrie Underwood, who recently won a stag-

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Stage AA Humbug Dublin Carol mines the other side of Christmas: despair, alcoholism and endless monologues.

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Theater is one of the live arts, but you would barely know it from Amaryllis Theatre Company’s sobering production of celebrated Irish playwright Conor McPherson’s Dublin Carol. It’s hard to wholeheartedly recommend this tale of an undertaker with one foot in the grave, but given the ticket price is less than the average movie, it may still be worth a visit. At the very least, it’s a stark contrast to the manically cheery shows that appear on the scene this time of year like elves brandishing great glittery enemas of Christmas spirit.

However, the production veers a bit too hard in the opposite direction. Dublin Carol is a densely written play that requires careful listening, and while the staging thankfully avoids sentimentality, Mimi Kenney Smith’s over-exacting direction and deadly slow pacing are an energy suck.

The play is set on Christmas Eve in the parlor/office of a Dublin undertaker. The owner is sick in the hospital, but his employee John (James Schlatter), who has a room at the residence, is holding down the fort with apprentice Mark (Matt Mancuso), his employer’s 20-year-old nephew. The two have just finished up a young addict’s funeral, returning to the parlor for a spot of tea and conversation.

A one-sided conversation, it turns out.

John is quite the talker, and the play, which runs 90 minutes in three acts, consists mostly of him talking about the past—or what he can remember of it. John is an alcoholic, and though he says he has his demons under control, the regularity with which he tips a bottle of Jameson into his mug indicates otherwise. Mark’s uncle rescued a homeless, friendless John from the streets of Dublin, giving him a job and a place to live.

John’s now functional, but, as any alcoholic can tell you, he’s playing a losing game and knows the bottle will again lead him to ruin.

It’s easy to draw parallels between Dublin Carol and Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, and not just the titles. Although this script lacks the touch of the supernatural shared by Christmas Carol and many of McPherson’s finest plays, both involve men confronted with the past, present and future consequences of their selfish choices—in John’s case, the effects his drinking had on his one-time wife and two children, whom he

Yakkity Yak: James Schlatter as extremely talkative drunk John and Caitlin Antram as his estranged daughter Mary in Dublin Carol. hasn’t seen in a decade. His daughter Mary, played by Caitlin Antram, calls on him like a ghost of Christmas past in the second act, and the two are like strangers.

Unlike Dickens, McPherson doesn't offer redemption or forgiveness; it’s clear that John will not magically become “as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man as the good old city knew” as a result of one Christmas Eve. In McPherson’s view, one night doesn’t change a man—here, Tiny Tim would undoubtedly be a goner.

Yet while John is no saint, in Schlatter’s performance we don’t dislike him. In a carefully constructed but not entirely well-executed portrayal, Schlatter plays John as a basically moral man with a tragic weakness. It’s not an especially original take. Schlatter, while a thoughtful actor, struggles at times to locate the emotional core and is ultimately unable to convey the depth of John’s pain.

The set makes the most of the Playground’s awkward stage (which lacks necessary depth but is disproportionally wide), giving the production some muchneeded ambience. A mug emblazoned with the word “JOY” provides a nice touch of black humor in a relentlessly grim production. The funeral parlor has clearly been decorated in the hopes of providing a festive atmosphere, with a poinsettia on the filing cabinets and lights in the windows, but holiday cheer withers away in the grim setting. Jerold R. Forsyth’s lighting design does a good job contrasting the relative warmth and security of John’s current living and working situation with the bleak Dublin winter that lurks outside—John’s past and probable future. n If you enjoy Irish playwrights, this is the first show of the Philadelphia Irish Theatre Festival, running through May with eight productions from six local theaters and two of Ireland’s leading companies.

Dublin Carol Through Dec. 19. $10. The Playground at the Adrienne, 2030 Sansom St. 215.717.2173. amaryllistheatre.org

Dream On

Wolf Man Paints, the art of Freud’s most famous case.

By Harold Parker feedback@philadelphiaweekly.com

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Wolf Man Paints Through Jan. 22. Slought Foundation, 4017 Walnut St. 215.701.4627. slought.org

December 15-21, 2010

he later expressed mixed feelings about both his “cure” and his semi-celebrity, because though his case study was used as one of the biggest arguments for the validity of psychoanalysis, Pankejeff returned to psychoanalysis again and again for the rest of his life.

Further, due to his status as “the most famous patient,” his relationships with Freud’s circle and other psychoanalysts would come to be almost codependent.

Many doctors, including Freud, helped Pankejeff out financially when he lost his fortune in the Russian Revolution, many by buying his art—much of the work in this show can be traced back to Vienna-trained psychoanalyst Dr. Muriel Gardiner, who worked with Pankejeff, helping him write his memoirs and buying dozens of his paintings, which she gave to local psychoanalysts when she lived in Princeton.

More interesting than the rather straightforward renderings of wolves in trees is an untitled sketch, perhaps a self-portrait, of a sleeping male figure before a bare landscape of a few horizontally-ordered trees.

The drawing recalls themes of the gaze present in the famous dream. Freud interpreted the wolves’ stare as a displacement of young Pankejeff staring at his parents having sex; it’s displaced one more degree as viewers take on the role of the wolves, staring in at the dreaming man through the window of the picture frame.

It’s all about the eyes and the gaze in the self-portraits, too. Painted with piercing black cores, his eyes are the eyes of Oedipus, cursed by investigation into his origins. Pankejeff termed the way artists put some of their personality into a painted object abfärben, or staining. Here it’s most evident in the landscapes, interiors and still lifes, but also appears in one of Pankejeff ’s self-portraits, with green and white panels giving the face a zombie-like glow. This is a true self-portrait—one that stages the conflict between the privacy of the self and unavoidable self-representation for the public eye. n

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Rat Man. Wolf Man. Little Hans. Dora.

Katharina. Anna O. These names may bring a sideshow to mind, but they’re instantly recognizable to any student of psychology— they’re the pseudonyms of the celebrities of psychoanalysis, the “famous cases;” the most famous of all was Sigmund Freud’s patient Sergius Pankejeff—the Wolf Man. Pankejeff got his moniker from his dream of white wolves in the trees outside his window—a dream that was key to Freud’s budding theories about sexuality and the unconscious. Now for the first time, a show at the Slought Foundation presents a collection of the Wolf Man’s paintings and drawings.

Pankejeff, who died in 1979, was a 23-year-old Russian aristocrat when he came to Vienna in 1910 seeking out Dr. Freud for treatment for his depression. During his time with Freud, he brought up the dream which would become famous upon Freud’s publication of “From the History of an Infantile Neurosis”: I dreamt that it was night and that I was lying in my bed … Suddenly the window opened of its own accord and I was terrified to see that some white wolves were sitting on the big walnut tree … the wolves sat quite still … and looked at me. It seemed as though they had riveted their whole attention upon me.

Spoiler alert: It's all about sex. Pankejeff ’s dream, the doctor concluded, was an encoded memory of a time in very early childhood that his patient had toddled in on his father shtupping his mother a tergo (that’s the polite Latin word for doggy style).

It was the first appearance in a case study of the idea of the “primal scene.”

Thankful for the relief Freud was able to give him at the time, Pankejeff gave Freud several paintings of his dream. But

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JAZZ/Blues W e d n e s d Ay 8 Gerald Benson

7:30pm. Free. With Fred Simmons.

Upstares & Sotto Varalli, 231 S. Broad St. 215.546.6800. varalliusa.com

rock pop W e d n e s d Ay 1 5 Sean Carey

7pm. $12. With White Hinterland and the Grand Nationals. First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St. r5productions.com

The 24 West December Benefit Show 9pm. $10. With Toy Soldiers, Raccoon Fighter, Steve & Krista of the Swimmers and Sharon Little. Johnny Brenda’s. 1201 N. Frankford Ave.

Machine Gun Joe

8pm. $8. With Oldermost, the Vulcans and Polar Ice Cap. North Star Bar, 2639 Poplar St. northstarbar.com

Insane Clown Posse

8pm. $23. With Axe Murder Boyz, ABK and Mission: Infect. The Electric Factory, 421 N. Seventh St. electricfactory.info

T h u r s d Ay 1 6 Madball

6pm. $15. With Bitter End, Lionheart and Stick Together. The Barbary, 951 N. Frankford Ave. myspace.com/thenewbarbary

Big Blue Spruce

9pm. Free. Millcreek Tavern, 4200 Chester Ave. millcreektavernphilly.com

Third Wire

9pm. $3 Sweeney’s Saloon, 13639 Philmont Ave. sweeneyssaloon.net

Moonslope

8pm. $8. With the City, Silver Sea and City Rain. North Star Bar, 2639 Poplar St. northstarbar.com

Badfish

7:30pm. $20. With Scotty Don’t, Private Stock and Dephonic. The Electric Factory, 421 N. Seventh St. electricfactory.info

F r i d Ay 1 7 Valencia

7:30pm. $12-$16. With Hit The Lights and New Strike Zipper. The Trocadero, 1003 Arch St. 215.922.6888. thetroc.com

Job For A Cowboy

7:30pm. $15. With Skeletonwitch and Trap Them. First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St. r5productions.com

The Starting Line

7:30pm. Free. North Star Bar, 2639 Poplar St. northstarbar.com

s AT u r d Ay 1 8 Thurston Moore

6pm. $12. With Bill Nace and Mary Lattimore. First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St.

Mikey Galactic

10:30pm. $10-12. With Dani Mari, the Tragics, So Close To Sober and Destined to Fail. Trocadero, 1003 Arch St. thetroc.com

Citizens Arrest

2pm/7pm. $10. Kungfu Necktie, 1248 N. Front St. r5productions.com

s u n d Ay 1 9 Stinking Lizaveta

9pm. $5-$10. The Ox, Cecil B. Moore and Oxford sts. myspace.com/theoxphiladelphia

TV Casualty

3pm. $8. With Lighten Up and the England Belongs to Twee Sound System. Kungfu Necktie, 1248 N. Front St.

Bane

5pm. $15. With Breakdown, Cold World, Down To Nothing and Suburban Scum. First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St. r5productions.com

The Bigger Lights

5:30pm. $12. With the Scenic. The Barbary, 951 N. Frankford Ave.

Robots & Racecars

8pm. $8. North Star Bar, 2639 Poplar St. northstarbar.com

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Bolcom and Morris

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8pm. $8. With Windsor Drive and A Little Affair. North Star Bar, 2639 Poplar St.

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F r i d Ay 1 7 The Shops

8:30pm. $29-39. Comcast Center, 1701 JFK Blvd. operatheater.org

A Holiday Concert for World Peace

8pm. $50. With Geoffrey Burgess, Rebecca Harris, Leon Schelhase and Eve Miller. Fleisher Art Memorial, 719 Catherine St. fleisher.org

Piffaro

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Upper Darby Sousa Band Piffaro

4pm. $15-40. The Episcopal Church of Staints, 719 N. Shipley St. 5pm. $29-39. Comcast Center, 1701 JFK Blvd. operatheater.org

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8pm. $15-$40. All Saint’s Church, 16 All Saint’s Rd. allsaint.org

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6:30pm. $50. HighNote Cafe, 1549 S. 13th St. 215.755.8903. francoandluigis.com

c o u n T r y/ F o l k T h u r s d Ay 1 6 Justin Townes Earle

8PM. $13. With Jessica Lea Mayfield.

First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St. r5productions.com

The Philly Folk Parade

7pm. $10-$15 With the Spinning Leaves, Brad Hinton, Phil D’Agostino and Allison Polans. WHYY, 150 N. Sixth St.

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Mike Short Jr. and the Downtime

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iven Thurston Moore’s dizzying proG ductivity and the diversity of his creative output, adding “Sonic Youth” to his name as a descriptor is too restrictive. From launching Ecstatic Peace Library, a book publishing wing of his Ecstatic Peace record label, to co-writing No Wave: PostPunk. Underground. New York. 1976-1980 and contributing words to Grunge and Punk House: Interiors in Anarchy, Moore is an avant-rock renaissance man. He’ll be playing at the First Unitarian Church Chapel this Saturday with guitarist Bill Nace, violinist Samara Lubelski and Philadelphia-based harpist Mary Lattimore. We caught up with him via email to chat about his recent activities.

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defend its existence The volume was low during your panel discussion with Jim Jarmusch at All Tomorrow’s Parties. Did I hear correctly that you opened a record store?

Well, I’m in cahoots with a record store.

There are two fellows here in Western Massachusetts who have a small experimental music and art label called Feeding Tube and they decided to open a used record store in Northampton, Mass., which sorely needs one. They asked Byron Coley and I to partner with them knowing that we had access to a very sick amount of insanely amazing vinyl. Now that Byron and I are old men we are primed to unload and unleash a few hundred boxes of killer plastic. People who go into the store, which is called Feeding Tube, walk out in a daze, and usually with emptied wallets.

In April you gave a talk called “A Dissertation on White Noise” as part of the Avant Garde Preschool in New York City. What was the reaction from the kids?

It was at a storefront in Manhattan run by Andy Spade, where he presents interesting events and sells items he picks up from around the world that spark his collector mania. He had asked if I wanted to do something at this series for children and I said “Hell Yeh Mister Spade Dude.” I had been asked years prior to do a parent thing at my daughter’s middle school so I did a talk about experimental music, showed some of that cool clip of John Cage on What’s my Line?, and performed a 10 minute prepared guitar duo with Bill Nace.

Then I asked the kids what they thought.

One of them said it sounded like water. So, anyway, I told Andy I would do the same at his thing but just the talk and the playing— again with Nace—and we did it. Then we had cupcakes, and all hell broke loose.

How’s your upcoming Matador album coming along?

It’s called Benediction, recorded in Southern California at Beck’s home studio with him producing. Beck sings and plays a little bit on it. Samara and Mary both play on it quite extensively and very, very beautifully. Beck really put them through the paces.

If I remember correctly, the last time you played Philly was for the Jack Rose memorial. What’s your fondest memory of Jack?

Jack used to sit in my kitchen here when he’d play around Northampton and commune with my dogs. One of my pups was named Chime and he got run over and died, but right before he did, he hung out with Jack. The last photo I have of Chime is him sitting on Jack’s lap.

How did the lineup for this Philly show materialize?

When Samara and Mary were recording with me in Cali, we talked about doing a gig together including Bill Nace, who I’ve been playing duo gigs with a lot lately under the aegis Northampton Wools. When Bill and I played at the White Noise dissertation for preschoolers, Mary was there playing harp near the entrance to the store.

What’s Sonic Youth up to in 2011?

We are starting off by playing a New Year’s Eve gig in London with The Pop Group.

Then we go to Chile end of February for a week. That’s it. We’re laying low and preparing to record some secret sides. n Thurston Moore, Mary Lattimore, Bill Nace and Samara Lubelski perform Sat., Dec. 18, 6pm.

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erhaps it’s unfair to hold the Insane P Clown Posse and the Juggalo Family culpable for the barbarism and depravity of a few bad seeds. Like all of us, the Juggalos have brothers and sisters that drag the family’s reputation through the mud such that it conceals the splendor and goodness at the core. Perhaps our hurtful words say more about us than them, more about our inability to see beyond the false stereotypes created by our increasingly sensationalistic media.

Despite the principle of tolerance that grounds our values, we pass judgment without careful deliberation, exposing our own moral duplicity. It’s subtle, yes, but a distinction must be made: the ICP doesn’t endorse brutality and homophobia, for example, but represents how both are ingrained in our cultural DNA. If we would look closer, we’d see that the clown looking back is not as unfamiliar as we expected, and that enlightenment follows perspicuity. (Elliott Sharp) n Wed., Dec. 15, 8pm. $26. With Axe Murder Boyz, ABK + Misison: Infect. Electric Factory, 421 N. Seventh St. 215.627.1332. electricfactory.info

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By Any Other Name Trying out Tequila Rose, the pink drink on tap at Barbie's Dream Bar. Nicole Finkbiner

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With a slightly lighter shade and consistency than Pepto-Bismol, Tequila Rose is described as a “passionate combination of strawberry cream liqueur with a splash of tequila.” By “a splash,” they mean a measly 15 percent alcohol per volume—but to be fair, it’s silly to expect to get tanked on a liquid that looks like unicorn vomit.

The Tequila Rose brand is based in Nowheresville, Mo., and has two other flavors—java and cocoa cream—though strawberry cream remains their top seller. It turns up seemingly at random in weird places in Philly, from swanky douche spots in Old City to dives in Fishtown. It got me to wondering: What’s the common thread?

I ask a bartender at Silk City about Tequila Rose.

“I don’t know, that’s really Northeast-y,” he responds, doubtfully.

Northeast-y? Having grown up in Northeast Philly, I am a little insulted. He calls over another bartender who grew up not too far from me to corroborate.

“It’s for girls who like White Russians,” she says. “If you go anywhere in the Northeast, they all carry that bullshit.”

After calling a bunch of bars in the Northeast, it turns out that the evidence does not support this claim. Unable to get to the bottom of whether there's a pattern to which bars stock Tequila Rose, I was still determined to at least get to the bottom of a bottle of the stuff. I bought one and tried a few of the hot drinks recommended on their website. It was ... interesting.

Hot Chocolate Rose f 1 1/2 oz Tequila Rose f 1 cup hot chocolate

Verdict: Absolutely delicious, but putting strawberry milk in hot chocolate is a much cheaper alternative, and probably about as alcoholic. f 1 1/4 oz Tequila Rose f 3/4 oz Banana Liqueur (99 Bananas) f Hot chocolate f Whipped cream

Verdict: I could only smell a hint of banana, so I added another shot. This didn’t improve the taste, but it did get me a bit buzzed. f 1 oz Tequila Rose f Hot apple cider f Whipped cream

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Picanha Grill 6501 Castor Ave. 215.743.4647. picanhagrill.com Cuisine: Brazilian barbecue; BYOB. Hours: Daily, 11am-10:30pm.

Prices: : $21.99 for all-you-can-eat, or just pay by weight.

Atmosphere: Wood paneling, faux-stucco, trophies, and a TV: In other words, supremely comfortable and happily unselfconscious.

Service: On the serious side, but polite and justifiably proud of the food here.

Food: Eat till you’re sick ... then eat some more.

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Take away the roving “gauchos,” the salad bar stocked with oversized vegetables that look as if they got their fertilizer from Barry Bonds’s trainer and the corporate-AmEx prices, and you’re left with Picanha Grill, a Brazilian experience of a far more authentic sort. The other guests during a recent visit bore this out: Many of the tables were filled with families, little kids scooting between chairs, the adults conversing in Portuguese, everyone occasionally glancing up at the TV to check out the variety show flashing its colors and drama on the screen.

The focus here, as is the case with so many taste-of-home restaurants in immigrant enclaves, is the food—the kind of comfort that can only come from the smells and flavors of one’s childhood. The 6500 block of Castor Avenue in the Great Northeast couldn’t feel farther from the strip-mall feel of Center City’s high-priced churrascarias, and it’s the real deal—charming, hearty and soulful.

The mile-long salad bar and buffet, helmed by Chefs William Aravjo and Juarez Machado respectively, could provide a meal on its own. Chicken stroganoff, its creamy, aromatic sauce providing ballast to the nutty chicken, could have been a delicious entree in its own right; add a scoop of beans and rice, a few slippery rounds of sweet beets and a joyous pile of thin-sliced greens topping brown beans

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Verdict: Unsurprising given its creamy consistency, the pink stuff curdled the moment it touched the cider.

I’m still waiting to hear back from the company about whether anyone actually tried this drink before putting the recipe on its website. n

Picanha Grill’s Brazilian meats are worth the trip north.

December 15-21, 2010

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Grill thrill: Various meats on the skewer at Picanha Grill.

and yucca (or manioc) flour, and you’d be able to walk out happy.

A particularly wonderful lasagna was a standout, the ideal middle ground between scalloped potatoes and a very good pasta alfredo. And while the tomato sauce on top tasted a touch tinny, it nonetheless worked in context.

There were lighter offerings too, of course. Bacalao was as elemental as it gets: shredded salt cod with a bit of olive oil.

Plantains would have been better had they been seasoned more consistently—the ones that had been in the line of the salt’s fire were lovely; the other ones were just bland. Vinagrete, essentially a tomato, onion and bell-pepper salad, proved to be one of the more necessary items throughout the entire meal. The vibrant acidity of the vinegar provided a much-needed jolt to the taste buds between forays into the world of meat.

As for those meats, I’d recommend going with the $21.99 all-you-can-eat option, even if you’re not a big eater: The opportunity to experience so many cuts in one sitting is a great education, not to mention a tasty one. For repeat visitors, paying by weight is likely a better bet. Either way, you’re likely to out-consume your stomach capacity.

Skirt steak was a sweet-crusted, earth-perfumed cut of astounding tenderness. Brisket—with apologies to my mother—was the best I’ve ever tasted. Its seasoning was taken right up to the point beyond which it would have been off-puttingly salty, but Chef Alexanbre Alvef, a veritable master of beef and Brazilian charcoal, held it just short of that line. The deep savoriness combined with the arcs of caramelized fat to create something that the table began referring to as “beef crack.”

Top sirloin (the eponymous “picanha”) was carried by its salty layer of succulent fat, whose flavor had leached into the meat immediately below it—excellent. Roast beef didn’t fare quite as well: Its zippy minerality wasn’t enough to compensate for the inherent lack of flavor. Linguiça was notable mainly for the appealing snap of its casing and unexpected delicacy of its filling. Chicken was moist and perfumed with the sweet smokiness of the bacon wrapped around it, though the inner layer of the bacon was a touch underdone. (The outer layer, however, was textbook: Caramelized at the edges, dizzyingly savory and just the slightest bit sticky.)

Homemade desserts aren’t included the $21.99 deal, but though you’ll likely be beyond full beyond power of speech, power through anyway—as in a marathon, it’s all about the rush at the finish line. Bright-flavored pineapple dulce de leche cake will freshen you up and make you feel vaguely healthy, and the bave, a layered construction of Brazilian cookies, whipped cream and chocolates built on a base of condensed milk creme, will push you over the edge of fullness, yes, but is 100 percent worth the discomfort during the ride home.

Taken as a whole, Picanha Grill embodies an obvious truth: Good restaurants need no shtick, just a broad, appealing palette of flavors and a clear vision—all of which this Brazilian gem possesses in abundance. n

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Six Cases of Documentarians Dabbling in Fiction

By Matt Prigge mprigge@philadelphiaweekly.com Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardennes: Truth is supposedly stranger than fiction, but sometimes those who deal in truth can’t help but be seduced by the prospect of making stuff up for once. Rosetta, The Son, The Child and Lorna’s Silence ooze realism for a reason: Their Belgian brother filmmakers made documentaries for over a decade before hiring professional actors and creating their own stories.

Seth Gordon: For some, documentaries are a mere stepping stone. After his populist doc The King of Kong, the budding filmmaker proceeded directly to the garish Four Christmases. Horrible Bosses, with Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman, is slated for a July release.

Andrew Jarecki: The co-founder of Moviefone, Jarecki unexpectedly reinvented himself as a documentarian with the maddeningly unresolved Capturing the Friedmans. He reinvented himself again as a fiction filmmaker—or attempted to. The star-studded All Good Things (reviewed online) sat on a shelf for a year and a half.

For a reason.

Michael Moore: Between his Roger & Me intro and subsequent descent into pompous ubiquity, Michael Moore tried to transfer his concerns into Strangelovian war comedy Canadian Bacon. But like failed fact-to-fiction filmmakers Errol Morris (The Dark Wind ), Joe Berlinger (Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2) and Barbara Kopple (Havoc), Moore went straight back to what he does best (well, better, anyway).

The King’s Speech isn’t bad for Oscar bait, but it isn’t particularly great, either.

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sburns@philadelphiaweekly.com beth (an appealingly tart Helena Bonham Carter) enlists the assistance of one Lionel Logue, an oddball Australian with some unique ideas as to what constitutes proper elocution lessons; he’s more like a psychotherapist with excellent diction.

Played by Geoffrey Rush with clipped precision and significantly less ham than usual, Lionel is a master enunciator and a staggeringly inept amateur stage actor.

He’s also one of those old-movie-standby break-all-the-rules, unconventional, inspirational types who exist to loosen up stuffy rich white people, and, not coincidentally, to ennoble the audience with a little underclass brio.

Lionel has strict rules for office visits.

There will be no fancy-schmancy titles, as the doctor and the patient must regard one another as equals for his offbeat methods to work. There’s a fair amount of comic mileage gained from snooty Firth’s initial irritation with Rush’s cheek. The monarch is so used to being fawned over, he’s entirely unaccustomed to hearing the word “no.”

Would you ever guess that after initially disliking one another, the unlikely duo forms a fast friendship? Lionel suspects there’s something psychological causing his patient’s stutter, and before long we get a glimpse into the fabulous dysfunction of

Grade: BDirector: Tom Hooper Starring: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush Running time: 118 minutes

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There’s a certain brand of veddy, veddy British import, usually well-regarded amongst Oscar voters, that I find almost impossible to get excited about. These tend to be popular holiday diversions with little lasting shelf life. If you disagree, answer me this: When was the last time you watched (or thought about) Shakespeare in Love ?

This year’s model: The King’s Speech, a perfectly adequate middlebrow crowdpleaser that appears to have been customengineered for awards consideration.

I enjoyed the movie thoroughly while watching it, and by this time next month I’m sure it will have completely vanished from my memory.

Directed by Tom Hooper, the picture stars Colin Firth as King George VI, but when we first meet him he’s just poor stammering Bertie, the second son of a mean old monarch (Michael Gambon) and sickly kid brother to loutish playboy Prince Edward (Guy Pearce). With the recent advent of radio, royalty is now required to do more than look regal and wave to the crowd. They’re expected to be articulate, but sad-sack Bertie has a mouth full of marbles. Quite literally, at one point—his residence is often frequented by charlatan speech therapists hawking phony cures.

Exasperated, Bertie’s loving wife Eliza-

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Penelope Spheeris: Like Michael Apted—who helms dreck like Nell, Enough and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader while managing the long-running Up! doc series—is a director-for-hire who uses her winnings to do real work. Yes, you should admire the director of The Beverly Hillbillies, Black Sheep and Senseless (and, more charitably, Wayne’s World ) but only because she’s also the director of the Decline of Western Civilization films, which document music in its glory (punk) and hilarious excess (metal).

The Pale King: Colin Firth nervously preparing to give a speech as the stutter-afflicted King

the Royal Family.

Dad is on his deathbed, but caddish Prince Edward is hardly ready to assume the throne. Gallivanting from party to party with the notorious American divorceé Wallis Simpson (who, we are told, learned how to please men while spending time in Shanghai), the heir seems blithely unconcerned about this Hitler fellow causing such a ruckus in other bits of Europe.

The abdication of Edward VIII is probably story enough for an entire movie of its own, but it’s a mere speed bump here that never allows the focus to stray too far from Firth and Rush’s Good Will Hunting therapy sessions. (You half-expect Lionel to say, “Bertie, World War II is not your fault.”)

As such a formula demands a massive payoff, The King’s Speech builds up not to the coronation, but to King George’s epic radio address as Britain enters the war.

Shot like a prizefight, with suspense hanging over every syllable, the film threatens to become Rocky for stutterers.

But it still entertains. Boasting a bustling gallery of British character actors who probably carpooled over from the set of Harry Potter, there’s no shortage of droll performances. Gambon makes a convincing tyrant, and Pearce finds a couple of surprising grace notes as a hedonist who can’t carry the crown. As Winston Churchill, Timothy Spall somehow manages to chew scenery even while standing still, and I was quite taken with the no-nonsense backbone Bonham Carter brings to a barely written role.

One may, however, quibble with director Hooper’s bizarre decision to shoot the movie with wide-angle fisheye lenses, distorting the backgrounds and framing the characters in odd tableaus that emphasize dead space at the top of the frame. It often looks like you’re watching the film through a peephole.

But screwy camera choices be damned: This sort of thing lives and dies by its leads, and both carry the day quite winningly. Always adept at playing the underdog, Colin Firth will no doubt be lauded for his technical handle on a difficult speech impediment, but he’s even better at conveying a bullied kid’s crippling fear of inadequacy. His slowly dawning confidence is a pleasure to behold, as is Geoffrey Rush’s manner of making muleheaded stubbornness appear elegant.

All in all, The King’s Speech is perfectly pleasant and completely unremarkable. As far as end-of-the-year Oscar bait goes, you could do a lot worse. n

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Why would a very entertaining comedy starring Jim Carrey in full rubberface mode be held up for two years between its Sundance debut and its general American release?

It seems inexplicable but for one pesky fact: Carrey’s character is, as he puts it, “gay, gay, gay, gay.”

Really, the blame for I Love You Phillip Morris’ under-the-radar fate in this country (it was a hit in Europe) shouldn’t be laid on our country’s supposed homophobia just yet, but on gutless distributors apprehensive about same. Still, writer-directors Glenn Ficara and John Requa (Bad Santa) shouldn’t be surprised. Unlike most mainstream films with out characters played by straight actors, I Love You Phillip Morris is in-your-face gay. It’ll see your Brokeback Mountain’s saliva-lube moment and raise you Ewan McGregor spitting rather than swallowing. The homosexuality is pervasive, casual and ultimately beside the point.

The main interest is the criminal shenanigans of Carrey’s antihero, real-life con man and serial prison escapee Steven Jay Russell. Initially a closeted, god-fearing family man, Russell has an epiphany after a severe auto accident and is reborn a flaming ‘mo in Florida, “living high off the gay hog”—a high-end lifestyle that, alas, requires some light credit-card fraud that soon catches up with him. In prison, he falls for the titular Morris (McGregor), a meek bottom who inspires him to expand on his innate grifting talent.

And so begins a cycle of fraudulent luxury, more prison time and wacky escapes that are allegedly totally or at least mostly true.

Tempting as it is to read Phillip Morris as a salvo against American repression, it’s more accurately described as a gay Catch Me If You Can (or a Catch Me If You Can without a million humorless false endings; it even parodies annoying third-act tonal shifts, with a jaw-droppingly ballsy finale that’s entirely earned). The tone is barndoor broad, much like Alexander Payne circa Election. But it’s as arch and controlled as Carrey, whose elastic Jerry Lewis routine is even more engaging when he’s working with competent material.

The central joke in Phillip Morris is that it’s a superior mainstream entertainment that happens to be wildly out—a gag that may have worked too well.

The Fighter

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Inspirational sports sagas starring Marky Mark are not how David O. Russell (Three Kings, I Heart Huckabees) ought to be spending his time. But if The Fighter is penance for being a notorious on-set prick while another project, the already-filmed Nailed, hangs in limbo, the filmmaker doesn’t treat it that way. The tale of Lowell, Mass. welterweight champ Micky Ward comes to us not in the thumb-twiddling straight-line narrative of an Invincible, but as the messiness of life brought to us by an exceptionally messy filmmaker.

In part because Ward’s story isn’t, in Aristotlean terms, all that compelling—all he needs to overcome is insecurity and pushy family members—it’s more tempting to read The Fighter as an Oscar tagteam bout.

In one corner stand the more obvious AMPAS-feted turns: Christian Bale, who once again drastically changed his body size to play Micky’s champ-turned-crackhead brother Dickie; and Melissa Leo as their tyrannical mother-manager. Both are showoffs in showoff roles—which will likely be rewarded by the Academy.

If you’re less impressed by bombast, you’ll probably be rooting for the other pair’s more restrained underdogs. In that corner, we’ve got Wahlberg and Amy Adams.

Wahlberg, who tends to be dull when doing anything but broad comedy (as in Huckabees), manages subtlety without slipping into a zombie state; he’s constantly surprising us with sudden energy.

And Adams’ transformation into a trashy, obscene sparkplug is all the more admirable for her doing it without overhauling her tiny voice.

Working from a byzantine script, which holds the boxing montages until after the hour mark, Russell directs with appropriate recklessness. Sometimes he’s an ideal fit; other times he abuses cutesy, on-the-nose music cues—“Back in the Saddle” during Micky’s return to fighting, for example, or “Good Times, Bad Times” over a montage juxtaposing one brother having a good time, the other having a bad time.

Tones mix but frequently lean towards comic, and spill over in a centerpiece involving an angry visit from Leo and her many, many daughters—a scene where Russell’s gift for barely organized chaos shines through. True, The Fighter doesn’t add up to much, but as it unfolds it’s a much-welcome trainwreck in a paint-by-numbers genre.

Post-graduate inertia looms like an abyss in the prodigiously talented 24-year-old Lena Dunham’s first theatrical feature. Still reeling from a bad end-of-undergrad breakup, dumpy, self-pitying Aura (played with deadpan aplomb by Dunham herself) moves back into her mother’s apartment immediately after college, floundering in a directionless wasteland only exacerbated by the Tribeca loft’s stark, Kubrickian interior decor.

Butting heads with her bitchy teenage sister while forever disappointing poor famous-artist mum, Aura botches a go-nowhere job as the day hostess at a restaurant that’s only open nights, her fickle affections shifting between a hilariously smug viral video comedian (Alex Karpovsky) and a sleazy sous chef (David Call). Lounging around the loft pantsless and often not bothering to shower, Aura’s poor-little-rich-girl malaise would probably be insufferable were it not for Dunham’s acute knack for selfflagellation.

Sort of like a Greenberg for girls, Tiny Furniture follows its not-particularly-likable heroine through stupid mistakes and selfish choices, yet the movie offers glancing and at times devastatingly funny hints at the world beyond our protagonist’s blinkered narcissism. (Dunham playing the lead, as well as casting her real-life mom and sister to play Aura’s mom and sister has brought up the question of authorial distance in certain circles, but I found the film too lacerating to qualify as a mere diary entry.) It also has one of the most cringingly humiliating sex scenes I’ve ever seen.

Beautifully photographed by Jody Lee Lipes, Tiny Furniture isn’t just notable for being a microbudget indie that sprang for a tripod. Dunham shoots in carefully composed widescreen frames, allowing entire scenes to play out in very long takes with no camera movement. The static visuals and muted performances emphasize Aura’s insulated torpor, with the only livewire energy coming from Jemimia Kirke’s gleefully spoiled Charlotte, a bad influence with fake tattoos to rival her phony British accent.

Eschewing the easy lessons of many coming-of-age stories, Dunham leaves the film deliberately unresolved, closing on a throwaway gesture of hilarious laziness. We’re left unsure if Aura is ever going to get her shit together and become an adult, but judging from Tiny Furniture Dunham will grow up to be one hell of a filmmaker. n

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I am a 33-year-old married male who has a WAM—wet and messy—fetish. I’m into mud and clay. I have played with various substances in the bathroom by myself over the years. It always ends with me masturbating myself into oblivion, wishing there were someone with me.

I was always too shy to share this fetish with anyone until three years ago, when I told the woman I’ve now been married to for two years.

She assured me that I should never be ashamed of any of my fantasies and that she would be glad to help me fulfill them. But when I went and got some clay, and said that we were going to be having some fun, she acted uncomfortable. Once I got the bathtub full of the “mud,” got naked, and started to coax her into the room, she totally freaked out.

Needless to say, I was mortified and disappointed, and there was $50 worth of clay in the tub that I didn’t want to go to waste. So I locked her out and decided to try to make the best of it. This backfired because soon she was pounding on the door like she was jealous that I was in there pleasuring myself. I washed off, washed everything down the drain, and opened the door, but it was too late. She was angry and wouldn’t say anything the rest of the day. Neither of us has spoken of it since.

I still have my fantasies, but now I feel I have to hide them. I have magazines and videos that I masturbate to, but it goes no further than that.

So my questions are: 1. Am I some kind of a freak or weirdo?

2. Have you ever heard of this fetish before?

3. If so, why doesn’t anyone else ever write to you about similar fetishes?

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substances that are not at all harmless and represent an impossibly high barrier to entry, e.g., shit, vomit, snot. Your kink could be much, much more problematic.

3. Other people have. Yours isn’t the first letter I’ve run from/about a weirdo freak like you.

4. You already showed this side of yourself to the wife. She knows, you know she knows, but you’re both pretending not to know what you damn well do know.

To avoid becoming completely sexually estranged, TALK TO YOUR WIFE. Ask her what went wrong—how did she go from “never be ashamed … glad to help [you fulfill your fantasies]” to freaking out and pounding on doors and ignoring the mudcaked elephant in the room for more than three years?

Ask her to open up—beg her to open up—and apologize to her out of the gate for botching it, for rushing her, for being so insensitive as to prioritize the clay over her feelings after she freaked. And then tell her you want to be able to work on building a healthy, honest and mutually satisfying sexual relationship, one that meets your needs and hers, but to do that you’re going to have to start communicating with each other again.

I have a 15-year-old daughter. I am bisexual and work in marketing for the adult industry; both are things I explained to her when I thought she was old enough to form an understanding of what they meant.

Recently, I returned from an adult-industry convention, where I often pick up new toys. One of my gift bags contained a petite sparkly purple vibrator, and I thought, well it’s not my style but maybe I should give it to my daughter along with a lecture on masturbation being a great alternative to sex. Even though I am an openminded and cool mom, this thought still made me uncomfortable, and I relegated the new toy to my nightstand full of gifted-from-vendors toys that aren’t my style.

I figured that no teenager wants to be given a masturbatory device by a parent. Was I wrong?

Teenage Masturbation Icky

No, TMI, you were right: No teenager wants to be given a masturbatory device by her parent. But that doesn’t mean a teenager— even your teenager—wouldn’t be delighted to have a masturbatory device. A moment of awkwardness and a little feigned teenage discomfort/disgust—perhaps even a show of discarding the device where it could be easily retrieved after Mom apologizes and retreats—is a price that most teenage girls would be willing to pay to have a brand-new sparkly purple vibrator of her very own.

(Oh, and I’m thinking she knows about your drawer full of misfit sex toys. Maybe you could just tell her that anything in there that’s still in its original packaging is up for grabs.)

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LOCUST & 21ST Large bright Studio. HW flrs, on tree lined street. $750. WRPG 215-6360100 or 215-546-9247

lofts OLD CITY: 43 S.3rd Renvtd Bilev loft, 1500SF, HWF, WD, Skylite, HVAC. $1550+. 215669-6955

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15TH/SPRUCE: Beautiful Art Deco High-rise 1Bdrm Apt, Desk Attendant, HW Flrs, Updated Kitch, Onsite Laundry, Intercom Entry, Amazing Location! From $1080/Mo. 215-735-8030. Lic #219789.

Lg Bilev w/All Amens, Home off. Pet Friendly. $1075+.

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15TH/SPRUCE: Huge 1Bdrm in Beautiful Brownstone, Large Rooms, Abundant Closet Space, Modern Kitchen, Walk-In Cedar C l o s e t , L a u n d r y, I n te rco m Entry. $955/Mo. 215-735-8030. lic# 380139

21ST & LOCUST- Charming 1BR, HWF, DW, Laundry on premise, Heat/Hot water incld. AVAIL NOW! $1,055+. MSRE, 215-925RENT(7368), www.MichaelSingerRealEstate.com

15XX SO. BROAD ST-1BEDRM.,TILE BATH, LARGE, MODERN.$900/ mo.+. Call 610-304-0087.

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16XX W. PASSYUNK 2nd flr., $675/mo.+utils. Call 484-7532013.

301 South 19th Street- RITTENHOUSE SQUARE: One Bedroom apartment, completely Renovated by Award Winning contractor. Must See to Appreciate. Corner Unit, Outstanding light. State of the art Kitchen, Granite countertops, Superb cabinetry, Refinished Hardwood floors, High ceilings, Plentiful closet space. $2,100.00 per month. Call to Schedule an Appointment, 215-735-5757 OR E-Mail: DelanceyPlace@ aol.com 6600 Doral Street/a 1st floor - o n e b e d ro o m , e n c l o s e d porch, full basement, w/w carpets good condition.

Av a i l N o v e m b e r 1 . $ 6 8 0 month. 1st and last month rent and 1 month secruity deposit needed. Call Frank 267-879-8373.

two bedroom ABBOTT SQ, NEWLY REMODE L E D, w/ 1 . 5 BA , B a l co ny w/ City & Bridge view, WD. $1395.

215-850-2600 FISHTOWN: RENOVATED, W/W, WD/blg. PARKING. Pet Friendly. $695+ Tanya 215-922-6088

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15TH & SHUNK 2bedrm., 1.5bath, 1st. flr. Full Basement.$1100/ mo.+gas. 215-397-7562.

BAINBRIDGE NEAR 7TH Bright, spacious Loft style. WD, GD, AC. $1275+. 215-563-7271

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Fab 2BR, Newly Ren. 2BA, HW, All Amens. $1495. PMG 215-545-7007x302

COSMOPOLITAN: ONE OF CENTER CITY’S FINEST Luxury buildings at 12th & Locust. HW Floors or Carpeting, On-Site parking, WD in unit. 24hr Doorman.

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18TH & WALLACE Great apt w/2BA, All Amens, Lg Yard. $1095+.

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ITALIAN MKT: 10th/Federal 2BR, CA, 1BA, WD. $1350+. 215-922-3910. mcolaizzo@comcast.net

20XX SNYDER AVE Remodeled 2bedrms. 2nd flr. $675/mo.+gas/ electric. Dr.K 215-336-4151.

MANAYUNK/ROXBOROUGH: Lrg 2bdrm, Renovated Kitch/ Bathrm, Patio/Balc Laundry, Gym, Pool, Tennis/ Basketball Crts, Free Shuttle to Main Street Manayunk, Pets Welcome. From $1220/Mo. 888-538-9667. Ask about how you can receive FREE Furniture for 1 Year! EXECUTIVE SHORT TERM FURNISHED SUITES AVAILABLE. lic# 218436

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MORE. $1825+. PMG 215-5457007x302 21St & Spruce Duplex, 2BR, 1.5Ba, w/d, hw/flrs, Closets & storage. Rent Includes heat/hot water $1850 (215)732-7340 9TH SPRING GARDEN BEAUTIFUL 2BEDR.,TILE BATH,HDWD F L R S. , A L L A P P L I A N C E S, A/C, SEC.SYSTEM. $1100/ MO+. 610-304-0087

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RITTENHOUSE SQUARE!! 326 South 19th Street- OLD WORLD CHARM BUILDING, FRESH ON THE MARKET! Two Bedroom-1 Bath apartments $2,000.00$2,200.00 per month. Must See to Appreciate. Hardwood floors, High ceilings, Plentiful closet space, Cat friendly, Small Dogs welcome too. Call to schedule an appointment 215-735-5757 OR E-mail: DelanceyPlace@ aol.com S O C I E T Y H I L L : P R I VAT E G A R D E N , 2 . 5 b a t h s, L o t s storage, WD, CA, DW, GD. $1800. 267-977-1096

13TH & SPRUCE- Parker Hotel CC. Fully Furn’d Rms, no sec. deposit. Utils & housekeeping i n c l d . W K : $ 1 65 - $203 ; D ay : $50-$66. 215-735-2300.

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MANAYUNK/ROXBOROUGH: Spacious Stone Farmhouse, 6 Lrg Bdrms 2.5 Baths, HW Fl rs, Fi re pl ace, 2 Porc h es, Deck, Separate DR, LR, & Den, Modern Kitchen, Laundry, Private Driveway/Parking, 2 Car Garage, Huge Yard. $2900/mo.

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25th & Wharton Sts. G-2 warehouses, garages, offices, 800sq. ft to 16,000 sq. ft available $7-$9 sq.ft.

761 S. 4th St 1100 sq. ft. retail store, bathroom, full basement, a/c unit

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office space $1000 2 Room office-private bath & kitchen Two room office space with private full bath and kitchen $1,000.00 per month.

This is a Center City private office space located at William Way LGBT Community Center, 1315 Spruce Street. Space has private security system, brand new central air and heat, and new carpet and light fixtures.

Perfect for small business that doesn’t have foot traffic. Your own private bath and kitchen included. Utilities are included with monthly rent price. This is a space you HAVE to see to believe!

12TH & PINE 1st floor Office available w/300SF. Pvt bath. $800+ Elec. Call 215-985-0600 9TH & SPRING GARDEN-1200SQ. FT., BATHROOM,CARPETING, C/A/H. VERY CLEAN. GREAT LOC! $1500/mo. 610-3040087.

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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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Queens Village Charming 2BR, Split Level. New HW floors, 1.5BA, Heat, AC, full kitchen, DW, GD, ceiling fans. Lots of windows.

WD/storage in basement. $1295+ utils, Available 02/01. Call Albert (215)205-7900

124 LOMBARD, HEAD HOUSE SQUARE, SOCIETY HILL. “TOKIO B&B” STUDIOS. ($55-$100) DAILY rates. ($300-$500) WEEKLY rates. We also have MONTHLY rates AVAIL. Website http://sushi.madamesaito. c o m C a l l M A DA M E S A I TO 215-922-2515

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house for rent 11TH & CHRISTIAN-GREAT LOC! 4BDRMS., 2FULL BATHS, C/A, HDWD/FLRS.,DECK, BKYARD, W/D. MUST SEE! $2500/mo.+.

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THE WELLINGTON at Rittenhouse Square. Exclusively on the Square. Magnificent Square View. All utils inlcd. Spacious built-in closets, Laundry Fac, AC, DW, GD. Cable h/up. 24hr Doorman. 215-567-7810

SOCIETY HILL GEM, 3BDRMS, 2.5BA, Bright, Contemporary, Mod kit, HW Flrs, Patio, Gated parking. $2200. (610)909-9876

2030 Brandywine St , (Art Museum) 2 Brs., 2 Baths, deck, garden, w&d, a/c’s REDUCED $1,500.00

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RITTENHOUSE SQUARE: Enormous 3bdrm w/ 2 Full Baths in Beautiful Historic Brownstone, Full Size Washer/ D r ye r i n A pt, H W F l rs, 2 Decorative Fireplaces, Hi Ceilings, Newly Remodeled Kitchen w/ Granite Countertop, Separate Dining Rm, Living Rm, & Family Rm, A/C, Spacious Rooms, Terrific Location! $2650/Mo. 215735-8030. #216850

QUEEN VILLAGE-6TH & KATER Spacious 3BR house +Den, HW floors, Eat-in kit, Basement, W/D, Great ou td oor s p ace, D o g s we l co m e. AVA I L . M I D DEC! $1,875. MSRE, 215-925RENT(7368), www.MichaelSingerRealEstate.com

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PINE/10TH: 4BDRMS, 1.5BA, WOOD FLOORS $2290+ Pine R.E, 1503 Pine. 215-735-8896, website: www.pinere.com

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Abbotts Square 1 Bedroom, 1.5 Baths,c/a,w&d, balcony avai. 12-1-10

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

MANAYUNK/ROXBOROUGH: C h a r m i n g 2 B d r m , B r i g h t, O v e r s i z e C l o s e t s, A l l N e w Carpets Throughout, Intercom Entry, Onsite Prkg, AC, Updated Kitchen/Bathrm. Heat/Water/ Gas Incl. 1st month free on select apts! From $1020/Mo. 215-482-9032. lic# 218586

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academy House 1420 locust street 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, large living area, excellent closet space, 1314 sf $2,175/mo.

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

Wanamaker House 2020 Walnut street 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, high floor with panoramic city views, 1200 sf $2,500/mo.

society Hill toWers 210 locust street 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, intimate views of Society Hill, 1133 sf $2,000/mo.

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pArC rittEnHOUSE 225 S 18tH StrEEt

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

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1 bedroom, 1 bath, high floor, open kitchen, great closet space, 705 sf $1,595 1 bedroom, 1 bath, renovated kitchen and bath, custom-built closeet, 705sf

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2 bedrooms 2 baths, high floor, panoramic city views, 1200 sf

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Contemporary townhome with 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, gourmet kitchen, rooftop deck, marble baths, custom closets, 3100 sf $4,750

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2 bedrooms, 2 baths, city skyline views, balcony, washer and dryer in unit, 1209 sf $1,875

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

rittenhouse square 1909 fitzwAtEr StrEEt 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, wood floors, renovated kitchen and bath

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society hill SOCiEtY HiLL tOwErS 200-220 LOCUSt StrEEt units include all utilities

2 bedrooms, 1 bath, floor-to-ceiling windows, Society Hill views, 1133 sf $2,000 Penthouse, 1 bedroom, 1 bath, brand new bulthaup kitchen, hardwood floors, 722sf $2,100

2031 LOCUSt StrEEt 1 bedroom, 1 bath, city view, 595 sf

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233-241 S 6tH StrEEt 1 bedroom, 1 bath, w/d, walk-in-closet, open kitchen 777 sf $1,455 1 bedroom, 1 bath, high floor, balcony, W/D, 928 sf $1,475

604-36 S. wASHingtOn SqUArE Studio with alcove, overlooking Washington Square, full kitchen, separate dressing area, 600 sf $1,175 Deluxe 1 bedroom, large living room, separate dining area, overlooking Washington Square, 1063 sf $2,000

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wAtErfrOnt SqUArE 901 n. pEnn StrEEt 1 bedroom plus den, 1 bath, hardwood floors, new open kitchen, designer bath, 924 sf $1,285

piEr 5, 7 n. COLUMbUS bLvD. 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, tri-level, bridge views, grand fireplace, two terraces, 2229 sf $2,250

piEr 3, 3 n. COLUMbUS bLvD. 1 bedroom, 1.5 baths, bi-level, high ceilings, one garage space

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2 bedrooms, parking space, river views, 1300sf

$1,500

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, terrace, large kitchen, one garage parking space, 1300 sf $2,150

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1742 Sansom Street - 2nd floor retail space on highly trafficked corner or 18th and Sansom Streets, 1000 sf $1,500 NNN 2031 Locust Street Professional Office Space in secure apartment building, 958 sf $1,150 1830 Rittenhouse - Prime Rittenhouse Square office space, 754 sf $2,100 133 S. 18th Street – Ground floor corner retail space, excellent visibility on 18th Street shopping corridor $9,000 NNN 1601 Locust Street - 1st floor and lower level of prestigious Lanesborough condo, ideal for restaurant or offices, 4700 sf $11,500 NNN

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

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1 bedroom with alcove, 1.5 baths, renovated kitchen, balcony with southern views, 1118 sf $1,850

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1.5 bths, fp, hrdwd flrs & garage.

1100 sq. ft, 1 bdrm, 1.5 bth bi-level, granite kitchen & great southern den, 2 bths, hrdwd flrs, fp, balcony, 2 bths, private outdoor deck     2 bdrms,                 & prkg. $539,900  $324,900    prkg. avail. $329,000 $149,900 spectacular views. $399,900 exposure. $289,000. great garden & onsite gated prkg. $329,900

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110 Kenilworth Street Wonderful large 4 bdrm, 1.5 bth

Locust Walk- 2 bdrm, 2 baths,

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$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

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

873

$240,000

$36,972

$78,608

$1,834

$271

$1,563

Location

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

Total Square Footage

Price

tHe rittenHouse

RITTENHOUSE SQUARE

3,952

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

$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

$5,038

W W W. P H I L A D E L P H I A W E E K LY. C O M

cENtER citY lUXURY coNDoMiNiUMs FoR sAlE!

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

$1,295,000* $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

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

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

700

$297,500

$43,513

$90,659

$2,115

$309

$1,806

Monthly After Tax Cost

Open HOuse • sunday 12/19/10 12:45pm - 1:15pm society Hill towers

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

Open HOuse • sunday 12/19/10 1:30pm - 2:00pm 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

$95,821

$2,236

$303

1,286

$269,000

$41,367

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

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 inDePenDence Place

$1,933 Monthly After Tax Cost

Open HOuse • sunday 12/19/10 12:00pm - 12:30pm 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

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

Allan Domb Real Estate

* Based on 20% Down Mortgate

215.545.1500 • www.allandomb.com “wE coopERAtE with All REAltoRs”

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December 15-21, 2010

inDePenDence Place inDePenDence Place

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

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

Location