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Maybe this is a case that should not have happened, but I personally know of parents that are forced to care for their children alone and I could only be so lucky to have this happen in my case.

MELVA SMITH, via philadelphiaweekly.com I read your article and was really impressed. It really hit home with me as I am about to have a child with a woman I don’t have a relationship with, and I know the road that is in front of me. I have talked to many lawyers and I understand how hard it is going to be. It’s so ironic to me that women fought so hard for equal rights and yet today men are so being pushed aside. If you go down the numbers, women earn almost as much as men, women are more likely to get college degrees and so on. I really liked your article and I wish things were being done to level the field.

Good luck in your future.

DAVE, via email While I struggled to be empathic toward Mister Mann Frisby’s plight, I can’t help wonder why he thinks he is above the law by not supporting his child as he was court ordered to do in the first place to the tune of $17,000. So what if you took your daughter a few days of the week.

That’s what you’re supposed to do. The rest of the money owed goes toward the care and well being of your daughter when she is not with you. Yeah I know a lot of men like you. But I also know from experience the time I wasted in court trying to secure money so my son could have a happy childhood when a man unlike yourself decided to give up being a father when my son was 6. I finally won my case when my son was 17 and back payments have been rolling in on the regular. My son is now 23.

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VALERIE BROWN, via email I wish the author of this piece would take responsibility for missing his court date and for not making timely payments. Admitting it and accepting responsibility are not the same thing. There are many fathers, including war vets who have payments set at one level of income and then struggle when their income changes. Getting a personal attorney might help. Child support is set up differently from state to state, county to county. Marching to Washington D.C. would only prompt a federal takeover of state’s various child support systems.

ALEXANDRA, via philadelphiaweekly.com The laws need to be changed. We went from favoring the man to favoring the woman. There needs to be better balance for the sake of the kids.

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JOE, via philadelphiaweekly.com Unfortunately, this happens too often to good men who are good fathers.

It is sad that the parents could not have worked matters out without concerning the courts. I don’t know the other side of this story, but sometimes we, as women, become vindictive and our children suffer, the man who is providing for our child(ren) suffer as well. I thank God for the relationship I have with my son’s father. We have remained constant friends for the sake of our son, who is 18, and his well being, mentally, physically and spiritually has always been our first priority over anything else. I will be praying for this young man, his daughter and her mother.

For a child, there is nothing like seeing their parents get along and spend quality with them, whether together or separately.

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The introduction of the Pennsylvania Attorney General Mandated Reporter Law

by Rep. Dan Deasy (D-Allegheny) on the steps of the Allegheny county courthouse in early December didn’t make much of a splash here, but the implications of the legislation are explosive: Supporters allege

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that the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office is sitting on thousands of leads on child sex abusers, collecting the data on their possible whereabouts but not trying to find them.

“The facts are that there are 22,000 graphic child pornographers in Pennsylvania, thousands of them are likely to be committing child abuse right now, and if we’re not giving out that information to local law enforcement, which is the case … we are not doing our job as best we could,” says former U.S. Representative Patrick Murphy, currently campaigning to become the first Democrat elected as Pennsylvania Attorney General next year.

The bill’s supporters want the Attorney General’s office to share leads generated in RoundUp, a sophisticated forensic tool

that scours peer-to-peer file-sharing networks like Gnutella and BitTorrent and pinpoints IP addresses of computers sharing graphic child pornography.

Murphy sees the new law as a stateside extension of the federal PROTECT Our Children Act in 2008. During Congressional testimony for that legislation, the FBI and Department of Justice estimated less than 1 percent of all leads are investigated.

Material includes graphic videos of child rape and ‘grooming materials’—videos designed to teach children it’s normal for adults to touch them sexually.

Supporters of the bill include Murphy, Deasy, Rep. Dan Frankel (D-Allegheny), Rep. Michael Sturla (D-Lancaster), national nonprofit PROTECT and high-profile advocate Alicia Kozakiewicz. They say they want the attorney general’s office to “push out” the leads to each of the 67 county district attorneys every 24 hours, and have each instance count as a new investigation into a possible—or statistically speaking, probable—child abuser.

They say where there’s smoke there’s fire, and research backs them up. Though estimates range widely on the percentage of overlap, studies and arrest data confirm the modern phenomenon of “dual offenders,” people whose crimes involve both possession of child pornography and child sex abuse.

Pittsburgh resident Alicia Kozakiewicz doesn’t need to read any studies to make the “dual offender” connection. Ten years ago when she was 13, she was abducted, held hostage, raped and tortured by a man she met online. Both her assault and rescue were facilitated by the Internet.

“I was that typical bored, shy and lonely child, just looking for something to do.

In the beginning, I chatted for months with Christine … a 14-year-old girl who just understood me all too well,” said Kozakiewicz while testifying in 2007 at a “Sex Crimes and the Internet” hearing before the judiciary committee of the U.S. House of Representatives.

“We became the very best of friends

and shared all of our thoughts, all of our intimate secrets. There was nothing she didn’t know about me and we traded our school pictures. Too bad hers were fake.”

Christine was the screen name of a man who introduced her to another “friend” online, a man named Scott Tyree. After chatting for six months, they arranged to meet. The next thing Kozakiewicz remembers, she was in Tyree’s basement.

As her picture appeared in papers and TV news reports across the country, Tyree uploaded footage he took of torturing her online. A Florida man who had seen her picture on the local news recognized her as the young girl hanging from the ceiling, arms bound, in a video. He called the FBI. Kozakiewicz was chained to the floor when they found her. “I still have really bad days,” she says. “This time of year is always very difficult for me. Last year was the first year we could sing Christmas carols. When this happened … the tree was still up, and there was still that Christmas feeling and Santa Claus being everywhere.”

Kozakiewicz says that since the Penn State scandal broke, it’s more important to her than ever to make some progress in her home state.

“The Penn State tragedy is horrible, and really shocked the world into something that, while it may have been a secret, [is] nothing new,” says Kozakiewicz. She sees Attorney General Linda Kelly’s comments on Penn State hypocritical. “[Kelly] pointed her finger [at] Penn State and has been accusing them [of withholding information] while she herself could also be accused [of the same thing],” says Kozakiewicz.

“If inaction is a crime, on the part of Penn State officials, then certainly Tom Corbett and Linda Kelly are guilty of the same crime,” says Camille Cooper, who helped draft this bill as legislative director of PROTECT. “That’s why Pennsylvania, and that’s why now.”

Attorney General Linda Kelly dismisses the idea that her office is sitting on information that could lead to saving kids.

Following the press conference announcing the legislation, Kelly, who as an appointee will not be running against Murphy for the position in 2012, responded in a statement: “The Attorney General’s Child Predator Unit works aggressively to identify and prosecute Internet predators. To date, the unit has arrested 298 predators and has a 100 percent conviction rate, making it the most effective unit of its kind in Pennsylvania and a national leader in child predator prosecutions.”

PROTECT fired back: “All anti-child exploitation units have conviction rates at or approaching 100 percent. That’s precisely why interdicting child pornography trafficking by sexual predators is the most effective strategy possible for detecting and stopping child sexual abuse.”

Here’s a disconnect: The Attorney General’s office, state police and Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task force say that local law enforcement has access to RoundUp, while the bill’s supporters say that access isn’t good, or direct, enough.

“Now, the leads in the roundup database are not leads that come in reports, so the local law enforcement agency don’t have to work them, don’t have to account for them.

They can ignore them, which is what’s going on now … if you require that the AG [report] those leads every 24 hours, they now go up on the board for the first time ever ... That’s called accountability,” Cooper says.

Sgt. Manetta, public information officer for the state police, admits that there is no shortage of leads on child pornography possessors, but he says it isn’t that simple.

He says all local law enforcement agencies either have an ICAC investigator on team or access to one, and ICAC investigators have access to the database. Manetta says using ICACs as a “clearinghouse” for leads is a better protocol than simply “pushing out” raw data to local law enforcement.

“The problem with that premise infers that this lead is in such a format that it can be followed up on without training, without knowing how to use that lead appropriately and then to ensure that your investigation is not going to impact someone else’s adjacent investigation,” says Manetta. “It really doesn’t make sense to put it out there ... the last thing in the world you would want is someone working a low-level simple possession case to jeopardize a case about a vast network of distribution.”

Lt. Dave Peifer says that the estimate of following up on “less than 1 percent” of leads is outdated. He says that for one thing, since 2008, the size of Pennsylvania’s ICAC almost doubled to 185 affiliate officers. “More people are trained in doing these types of investigations and we’re out there every day monitoring,” he says. Peifer says it’s not like the leads are just sitting in a database. “These leads are generated and seen by investigators immediately and worked pretty soon.”

The details will be worked out, or argued, soon enough. Deasy’s office confirms the legislation has been drafted and will be formally introduced within two weeks.

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POLITRICKS Big moment: Former Democratic State Senator and South Philly maven Vince Fumo gets his sentence extended by six months to 61 months. At his hearing he says, “I am tired. I am depressed. All I want is peace …

It’s not Club Fed. It’s not an easy thing to do.”

Small moment: Fumo’s private prison emails are released. And shit, that dude’s insane. “I feel like Caesar and Christ all tied into one with Brutus and Judas both stabbing me in the back,” he wrote at one point.

Big moment: A group called the Philadelphia Independent Veterans Association is created to challenge politicians who use fake military credentials when running for office—especially then-City Council-at-Large candidate David Oh, who had been caught doing just that.

Small moment: David Oh wins the seat and the PIVA goes quiet, writing their last Facebook post on the morning of election day. So much for the cause.

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Big moment: Outgoing Councilman Frank DiCicco, perhaps indebted to the “lets make buildings look weird” lobby, tries to add legislation into the city’s new zoning code that would allow a building on Callowhill to be wrapped in billboards, which would cause the city to lose public funding, but perhaps gain lots of ad revenue.

Small moment: Nutter vetoes the idea, and future City Council president Darrell Clarke decides what we really need is advertising on city property.

Big moment: Businessperson and former Mayoral candidate Tom Knox threatens to run for mayor, over and over again. First as a Democrat, then as an Independent, then a Democrat again?

Small moment: To get Knox off his back, Nutter signs an executive order creating something called the Facilities Management Taskforce. As leader, Knox and 13 others will be kept busy for two years, trying to figure out which city properties need to be either leased or sold.

Big moment: Former Democrat and ultimate crazy person Karen Brown wins the Republican nomination for mayor by less than 100 votes.

Small moment: Brown releases two campaign commercials using 1970s B-movie cameras, loses the election against Nutter, then goes on Judge Judy.

Big moment: Karen Brown files an official grievance with NBC 10 through her lawyer, Philly Republican Matt Wolfe, in which they complain about the station’s playing of a primetime special called Ask the Mayor. NBC then

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Small moment: Then Brown grieves at Fox29, when they air her single mayoral debate with Nutter on Fri., Oct. 4, at 10:30 p.m., a time when no one watches TV. Big moment: Gov. Tom Corbett signs Senate Bill 732, which many call a “Back-Door Ban” on abortion. The bill will use architectural regulations to close women’s health centers.

Small moment: Next up, House Bill 1077, which will require all women seeking an abortion to get an ultrasound at least 24 hours before the procedure and listen to the fetus’ heartbeat, if it has one.

OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD Big moment: Occupy Philly is formed and calls itself a “leaderless movement.”

Small moment: After being evicted from Dilworth Plaza, OP member Vanessa Maria Graber criticizes the media for interviewing random members of the encampment, and not, as she put it, “the quote-unquote leaders.”

Big moment: A spokesperson for Occupy Philly accuses reporters of not “embedding” themselves with Occupiers during the two-month encampment to get the complete story of the movement.

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Antonio Rodriguez, and charge him with murder, rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and abuse of a corpse in the 2010 deaths of 21-year-old Elaine Goldberg, 35-year-old Nicole Piacentini and 27-year-old Casey Mahoney.

Small moment: When the cameras left, the cops left.

Big moment: Philadelphia’s gun violence epidemic hits a new low when six people are killed and 32 others shot in separate incidents over one June weekend.

Small moment: The National Rifle Association objects to proposed Pa. legislation that would, in part, establish a Violence Prevention Fund to help steer youth away from gun violence, saying that such a program “would just help establish funds for further anti-gun programs in the name of stopping inner-city violence.”

Small moment: PW spends many days and nights at Dilworth Plaza covering all aspects of Occupy Philly, and is so embedded with Occupiers during eviction night that one of our reporters is grabbed by riot police and has his camera lens broken.

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Big moment: Members of the homeless population already living at Dilworth Plaza and elsewhere in Center City gravitate toward the newly established Occupy Philly encampment, and Occupy welcomes them with open arms—providing food, tents and clothing and spotlighting the issue of homelessness in Philadelphia.

Small moment: Many homeless Occupiers accuse the movement of exploiting them—“recruiting” homeless people merely to swell Occupy Philly’s numbers and physical presence.

Big moment: Occupy Philly splinters over whether or not to point their sing-song derisive chants away from corporate influence in national policy and instead yell at Mayor Nutter. The newfound Nutter haters vow to live in tents forever, or something, and now also hate Reasonable Solutions, a splinter group that worked with the Mayor to obtain a permit to protest on Paine Plaza. Reasonable Solutions also calls themselves Occupy Wall Street Philadelphia.

Small moment: Amused news readers everywhere punchbuggy with the Monty Python line: “We’re not the Judean People’s Front—we’re the People’s Front of Judea!

We hate the Judean People’s Front!”

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Big moment: Former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky is arrested on charges of raping and molesting at least eight young boys over 15 years. Head coach Joe Paterno and PSU president Graham Spanier are fired, and athletic director Tim Curley and retired vice president Gary Schultz face criminal charges for allegedly covering up one of Sandusky’s sexual assaults.

Small moment: City Paper lambasts PW for live-tweet-

ing preliminary hearings in the Sandusky case, case, accusing us of trying to “thrill” readers with “salacious details.”

Um, no. That’s fucking disgusting.

Big moment: 89-year old California doomsday “prophet” Harold Camping declares Judgment Day will come on May 21 and the world will be consumed by a fiery, earthquake-filled cataclysm. Darby-based ministry eBible Fellowship helps spearhead the cause by erecting ominous May 21 billboards around the globe including a dozen in Philadelphia.

Small moment: May 22.

Big moment: Union Transfer opens at the site of the old Spaghetti Warehouse on Spring Garden St., finally giving co-partner and booker Sean Agnew—head honcho of Philly’s long-running R5 Productions—the sprawling and majestic music venue he’s so richly deserved.

Small moment: South Street live music institution Tritone—a home for emerging local acts of all stripes, from hip-hop to death metal—announces it’s closing in early 2012.

Big moment: Philadelphia Schools Chief Arlene Ackerman gets almost $1 million to leave the school system.

Small moment: She begins collecting unemployment— and it’s completely legal! After a week of criticism, she goes on NBC to explain her decision to take the money and run, then collect a steady stream of money and sit. “I thought I would be working for three more years. I was depending on it. I didn’t get a chance to get vested in the Pennsylvania retirement system. If I had that opportunity, I would have had a comfortable retirement for the rest of my life. So, this early stepping down from my job cost me thousands of dollars a month,” she said.

Big moment: After spending the winter with daily headlines about “The Kensington Strangler,” police arrest

Big Moment: In January, the D.A’s office published a grand jury report on Kermit Gosnell, accusing the alleged drug trafficker and murderer of running a butcher shop he called a clinic. The grand jury concluded that the death toll was “literally incalculable.” The report referred to the dead babies by letters of the alphabet in order to identify where the bodies were found, which included frozen spring water bottles, a plastic shoe box and a catfood container. Gosnell was able to operate in wide-open darkness because the clinic had not been inspected since 1993.

Small moment: Operation Rescue, a radical domestic terrorist organization—senior policy advisor Cheryl Sullenger served time for conspiring to blow up a San Diego abortion clinic and admitted advising murderer Scott Roeder on George Tiller’s court dates—gather in the basement of St. Agnes in the Philly suburb of West Chester. Leader Troy Newman recast Kermit Gosnell as a golden political opportunity and invited an audience of elderly Christians to salivate at the possibilities. It worked. Some audience members volunteered to act as operatives, calling clinics and pretending to need help in order to gather intel on local doctor’s schedules and addresses.

MOB MENTALITY Big moment: After a few years of serious “flash mob” incidents in outlying Philly neighborhoods, the city finally takes the violence seriously—and responds with a show of PPD force—after a handful of brazen youth mob attacks in Center City over the summer threaten businesses and tourism.

Small moment: As part of his strategy to combat youth mob violence, Mayor Nutter announces extended hours for rec centers—something that already should have been done proactively instead of reactively.

Big moment: Mayor Nutter gives the “blacks need to control their kids” sermon at his church with regard to flash mobs, telling parents, “You have damaged your own race.”

Small moment: Airwave conspiracist Glenn Beck praises Nutter: “If he’s sincere about what he’s saying here on the pulpit, if he’s sincere about that, he might get my vote in Philadelphia, if I were living in Philadelphia.”

Big moment: This summer, “Wanted” posters of young hipster dude with a penchant for tiger sweaters named Michael Calamari pop up on telephone posts all around town after allegedly punching a Barbary DJ woman in

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“It’s Hipster Profiling … Everyone wants to hate this guy because he looks like a douchebag. He probably is a douchebag. But being a douchebag doesn’t make you a rapist or an assailant.”

Big moment: Philly boxing legend Joe Frazier dies in November at age 67 after a brief bout with liver cancer.

One-time bitter adversary Muhammad Ali comes to the Mount Airy funeral to pay his respects.

Small moment: Following Frazier’s death, the New York Daily News points out that Philly has a Rocky statue but no Frazier statue in a column titled “Philadelphia’s lack of respect for Joe Frazier hits below the belt.”

- Philebrity commenter the face. The poster read: “Michael Calamari has violently assaulted multiple women.” After the posters went up, local media collectively crowed about libel lawsuits and the dangers of mob mentality while the DIY DJ community discussed sexism in their community. Calamari ducked out of the scene, and victim filed charges and vowed to leave town.

Small moment: Philebrity commenter waxes philosophical: “It’s Hipster Profiling … Everyone wants to hate this guy because he looks like a douchebag. He probably is a douchebag. But being a douchebag doesn’t make you a rapist or an assailant.”

“Give Respect, Get Respect” program, and how it will hand out tickets for residents walking and texting at the same time. The national media picks up the story, and the right wing goes fucking nuts. One Fox News commenter writes, “They cannot control the gangs and criminals, so again let’s go after something we can make money from … another liberal city ready to crash and burn.”

Small moment: CBS’s original story is complete bullshit. You can walk and text all you want, monsters.

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Big moment: Promising legislation that would allow the use of medical marijuana in Pennsylvania is introduced in both the House and Senate in the spring.

Small moment: The bills are stalled in both House and Senate committees and ultimately die. Meanwhile, across the river, Gov. Chris Christie finally announces the implementation of NJ’s long-delayed medical marijuana law (perhaps the model for an eventual Pa. law), but ongoing legal issues threaten to stall the program indefinitely.

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Big moment: Fight for Philly and other city job advocates, like the Philadelphia Unemployment Project and concerned citizens, hold several protests outside Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey’s office over his votes against the American Jobs Act and its individual components.

Small moment: A group of Temple University Republicans hold silent counter-protests behind a wall of bicycle cops. One brings a sign reading, “Go Occupy a Bathtub while I pay for your welfare.” The protesters, many of whom are elderly and unemployed, are not impressed.

Big moment: The Northern Liberties grocery store finally opens, as a SuperFresh, therein apparently completing the Bart Blatstein NoLibs utopian urbania.

Small moment: How many failing storefronts can we count between Liberties Walk and the Piazza, again?

Big moment: Philadelphia Parking Association announces customer service initiatives and LGBT sensitivity training.

Small moment: PPA still hated, by everyone.

Big moment: The Department of Justice’s Office of Professional Responsibility releases an official inquiry regarding the New Black Panthers’ alleged intimidation at a Fairmount Avenue voting site—and found no intimidation actually took place.

Small moment: Right wing bloviators have one reaction: A conspiracy by the Obama Administration, which is littered with anti-white racists and New Black Panther sympathizers.

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Big moment: In June, District Attorney Seth Williams announces that Philly’s Small Amounts of Marijuana (SAM) program—in effect for a year—saved the city $2 million in court costs and allowed more than 4,000 busted weed smokers to keep the charge off their records.

Small moment: In 2011, blacks in Philadelphia continued to suffer weed arrests disproportionately to whites; the racial disparity in pot possession arrests is 5 to 1.

Big moment: In October, a study commissioned by Gov. Tom Corbett to find the best way for Pennsylvania to slither out of the liquor sales biz recommended selling liquor licenses to the tune of up to $1.9 billion.

Small moment: The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board pours taxpayer money into advertisements that target women, saying basically, ladies, if you drink too much, you may just get what’s coming to you in the form of everyone raping you and your friend, too. So consider yourself warned! Also, it’ll make you cheat on your man and that’s just uncool. Someone actually taped one of these ads up in the bathroom of the Dive bar in South Philly.

Big moment: Darren Daulton—hero of the ’93 Phillies who’s clawed his way back from marginalized, astralplane-dwelling weirdo to beloved and respected sportscaster—is inducted into the Phils’ Wall of Fame.

Small moment: Lenny Dykstra, another fan favorite from that ’93 Phillies squad, goes in the opposite direction, arrested on a litany of charges—including grand theft auto, drug possession and indecent exposure.

“Nails” is facing some serious jail time when he’s sentenced in January.

Big moment: Once the NFL lockout ends, the Eagles make a huge splash in free agency, signing Nnamdi Asomugha, Jason Babin, Cullen Jenkins and Vince Young (who infamously calls the Birds a “Dream Team”) and ownership says it’s going “all in” for a Super Bowl title.

Small moment: Vick sucks. Reid sucks. Castillo sucks.

The Eagles suck. No playoffs, and the Andy Reid era may finally be over.

EARTH SHATTERING Big moment: On Tues., Aug. 23, Philly experiences the remnants of a 5.8 magnitude earthquake from Virginia, shaking skyscrapers and leading businesses all over Center City to evacuate.

Small moment: PW ’s Tuesday afternoon deadline becomes a bit trickier.

Big moment: Later that week, the unimpressive Hurricane Irene strikes the city. It rains a lot, sure, but we stocked up on bread, milk, eggs and whiskey for this?

Small moment: All the media and your friends come up with the same cliched cliche: “What next, locusts? LOL!” n

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Animal Day As if you needed another reason to visit America’s oldest natural-history museum and roam the halls of striking wild taxidermy dioramas, titan dinosaur bones and a lush indoor garden swarming with 40 different species of butterflies. Today, you can share your visit with some live animals. Academy naturalists will wander the great halls with you, carrying birds, snakes, owls and a veritable encyclopedia of other animals for 360 degrees of wild-life immersion. The day is part of the museums Wild Weekends series that includes other fascinating programs like “Weird Things in a Jar Day,” all of which are probably meant for kids, but we won’t let that get in the way of our unabashed excitement. AbigAil bRuley 10am-4:30pm. $12. The Academy of Natural Sciences, 19th St. and Benjamin Franklin Pkwy. ansp.org

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The gentlemen in Lucero have long mastered the delicate art of earnest songwriting. A typical number from the Memphis, Tenn., altcountry/punk outfit is simultaneously sad and hopeful, sounding like an anecdote told from the perspective of a man who might have not made the best decisions in life, but you love deeply anyway just because he’s so humble and genuine. Through this lens, the hardworking, hard-luck act’s lyrics have touched on a variety of subjects: girls, gambling, booze, World War II, beloved indie comic Love and Rockets, motherly love, and a ruined romance between motorcycle riders. The last crucial ingredient is Ben Nichols, the singer/guitarist whose mangled, soulful wail-cum-croon fits the music impossibly well. Really, it’s a blessing to have Lucero around: When things really, really suck and it feels like life can’t inflict any more pain on you, a good sing-along to “Nights Like These” or “Tears Don’t Matter Much” is there to make you feel less alone in the world. ReyAn Ali 8pm. $20. With Lionize. Union Transfer, 1024 Spring Garden St. 215.821.7575. r5productions.com

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With a debut album titled Shakespeare, you can expect to hear some tragic elements mixed in with the poetic punchlines of Anthony Jeselnik.

“If it wasn’t for Romeo and Juliet, I would have

totally overreacted when my fiancee killed herself,” deadpans the comedian. “Now, clearly, that’s not a joke for everybody, right? …pretty much just people who read.” Featured on plenty of late-night programs, Jeselnik knows how to make an audience smile. Whether you remember him from his contributions on the Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump, Down and Dirty with Jim Norton, or his 2009 Comedy Central one-man stand-up special, Jeselnik is sure to conclude your year with some laughs as he headlines at Helium Comedy Club through Saturday. Ashley Kole 8pm. $15. Helium Comedy Club, 2031 Sansom St. 215.496.9001. heliumcomedy.com

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He’s also known for his movie roles (i.e. the scrawny, thieving Santa Claus in Friday After Next and alongside Ice Cube, Tracy Morgan and Katt Williams on First Sunday). On his nationally syndicated radio show, The Rickey Smiley Morning Show, his prank calls have also invoked chuckles showing his ability to turn the absurd into logical laughs like posing as a distraught church lady calling Krispy Kreme to get a funeral wreath made of collard greens dunked into the glaze. The crazy part is that he’s done it the clean way and proven that there’s a market for cuss-free comedy. Tonight he headlines with Kevin Hart’s cohorts Spank Horton and Naim Lynn in a show hosted by 107.9 the Beat’s prodigal host Q-Deezy. RyAn K. smith

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First up, the fully improvised telenovela and Fringe Fest hit, Pasiónes de Pasiónes, featuring Ralph Andracchio, Mike Marbach, Andy Moskowitz (with specials guest Jason Grimley), followed by the improv powerhouses of Medic. Last but not least, five lucky improv students—chosen at random from a hat at the beginning of the show—will get the chance to perform alongside a few surprise local improv vets. If you’re not familiar, the Sideshow is a new weekly comedy showcase that offers new and unique acts an outlet to experiment with their comedic art form and (hopefully) make a few extra bucks. Can’t make it out tonight?

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Bleeding Rainbow, Creepoid, Pink Skull + Slutever “I’m going through changes,” sang Ozzy on Black Sabbath’s “Changes.” So is Philly popunit Reading Rainbow. They began 2011 as a duo with drummer/vocalist Sarah Everton and guitarist/vocalist Rob Garcia, but then they added guitarist Al Creedon. Like De La Soul once professed, “Three is the magic number.” Well, now they’ve changed their name to Bleeding Rainbow. It still invokes the youthful television show, but sounds tougher, like that Misfits song “Bloodfeast.” As 2011 concludes TONIGHT, this show’s the place to celebrate the changes you’ve made, too. You’re an adult now, baby. You can rage all night with seven bands—including Philly’s Creepoid, Pink Skull and Slutever—without getting reamed by the ’rents. And, maybe your duo will become a trio, if ya know what I mean. elliott Sharp 8pm. With Eternal Summers, Fire In The Hearts And Minds + Exploding World. Little Bar, 736 S. Eighth St. littlebarphilly.com

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Leftöver Crack Fat, hungover, underemployed, broke, in debt to the gills? Leftöver Crack may be the best thing you can see the week after Christmas. These political shock punks once illustrated an album cover with a photo of George Bush and Dick Cheney blowing up the World Trade Center. Their best known holiday song is a cheery number called “Baby Jesus Sliced Up in the Manger.” Their performances often end badly, with band members Tasered, arrested, abused and banned for life from normally forgiving venues like ABC No Rio and the Knitting Factory. They’re even madder than you are, and that’s got to be cathartic. Jennifer Kelly 7pm. $13. With Bucket Flush + Cop Problem. The Barbary. 951 N. Frankford Ave. 215.634.7400. myspace.com/thenewbarbary

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The Levee Drivers + Andrew Lipke The Levee Drivers’ hard-driving, explosive roots music kick finds a common thread between Johnny Cash and the Clash, Chuck Berry and Bruce Springsteen. It’s Americana that’s not afraid of a fist fight—just listen to how the drums come up like a battering ram

behind Jason Schultz on “Tennessee Girl.”

They have been gaining considerable traction lately winning the Deli magazine’s Best Emerging Artist in Philly for 2011. Catch them now while the shows are still small, sweaty and personal. Get there early for Andrew Lipke, a classically trained, sonically adventurous songwriter whose new album The Plague is as emotionally affecting as it is cerebral. J.K. $5. With Zach Zaitlan + Kevin Killen. Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St. 215.291.4919. kungfunecktie.com

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You’re Quite the Dish Truffled Cheesesteak Empanadas at Good Dog

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Truffled Cheesesteak Empanadas at Good Dog, you are quite the twist on a Philadelphia original!

I know Philadelphians are particular about their sandwiches, so, for my own safety, I’d stress that I’m a cousin of the cheesesteak.

OK, understandable. What’s the biggest difference between you and your cuz?

Instead of a fresh baked roll, I’m packaged neatly in pie dough and folded into empanadas.

But you’re not your traditional empanada either, now are you?

You got me there. Most Latin American empanadas are fried or baked but I’m grilled on the flat top, same as my thinly sliced rib-eye steak.

What else are you stuffed with?

A New York, 3-year-aged cheddar, sprinkled with truffle oil to give it an earthy taste.

What? Too good for Whiz?

No, no, no! Nothing like that.

I told you, I’m just a distant relative to the cheesesteak. No disrespect!

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Fair enough. So if you’re not covered in Cheese Whiz and ketchup, then how do you prefer to be dressed?

She’s a bourbon-infused rogue chocolate stout sauce. Our chef cooks down two gallons of chocolate stout and homemade veal stock with garlic and then adds whole grain and Dijon mustards, bourbon and caramel sauce. Thank you for asking, my sauce is a huge part of my flavor.

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Smoked joint: The Comcast Center’s food court welcomes a star—Percy Street Barbecue.

I walked into the Comcast Center’s Market & Shops entrance on JFK, headed down the empty stairs and immediately felt like a fish swimming upstream. The crush of humanity was literally breathtaking: All the oxygen being used up by the school groups on their pre-holiday field trips, office workers and families on vacation, their matching fanny packs better used as battering rams than storage units. The hum only grew louder as I weaved my way to my destination, past the lobster tanks on the left, the inexplicably long line at Panda Express and Di Bruno’s beckoning with its always-tempting treats.

And then ... quiet. I’d caught Percy Street at just the right time, and entering its tile-and-metal sanctuary, breathing in the smoke-tinged air and glimpsing the steam trays of meaty wonders, I felt as if I’d gone through some sort of Indiana Jones-ish set of obstacles.

It was worth the battle to get there.

This month-and-a-half-old outpost of the popular South Street Percy does justice to what we’ve come to hope for from the Solomonov/Cook/O’Shea team, a pared-down Texas-BBQ spot that delivers all the addictive flavors you’d want, and at fair prices to (cowboy) boot.

The barbecued chicken sandwich is good—impossibly moist, sunset-colored and spicy from pickled jalapeños, sweet and savory from the Old Faithful and Hot Mess BBQ sauces. The slaw—creamy with buttermilk—rounds it out nicely and ties it all together.

The highlights here are generally the pulled or shredded or chopped meats—true to a certain school of Philly sandwich logic. Pulled pork was hoisted to the great Texan heavens by the bright hit of apple cider vinegar and pickle juice, a move that allowed the smoky, almost exotic spice of the meat (cumin, paprika, cayenne, more) to shine with startling clarity. The roll itself was lined with a few leaves of porky collards, and all of it is folded with Provolone. Unlike so many pulled porks, the meat here was the star, and not an obscuring ladleful of stickysweet sauce.

Chopped brisket, unexpectedly, found greater success than its sliced counterpart. The former was certainly the most deeply savory of the sandwiches at Percy, vaguely reminiscent of a cheesesteak in the Dalessandro’s mold, but nothing like it

in flavor. Moistened with BBQ sauce and snappy from pickle slices, it was an exercise in balance and meaty joy.

The sliced brisket, on the other hand, while certainly wellconsidered, lacked moisture in its roll. Its deep smokiness brightened with pickled green tomatoes and horseradish mayo, the shock of sharp cheddar, but something was ... missing.

Perhaps outside the context of the other sammies it would have been better. Sliced smoked turkey was like a pig-less riff on a Cuban sandwich with its mustard, pickles and Swiss cheese.

Good stuff.

Some favorites failed to make the trip from South Street to the Center (deviled eggs, the BBQ fries), but the ones that did venture forth are winners. Mac and cheese was a creamy, oozy wonder beneath its seasoned breadcrumb crust. And dessert pies, in their little take-away-friendly tins, are just right in size and sweetness—the key lime creamy and just tart enough, the pecan decadent but not cloying.

I expect the Center’s crowds to grow less aggressively dense once Santa and Hanukkah Harry have gone their separate ways for the season. It doesn’t matter either way: This Percy Street justifies whatever efforts you have to make. Good barbecue does that, whether it’s on South Street or in an office complex. n

Percy Street Barbecue at the Comcast Center 17th St. and JFK Blvd. 215.964.9014 Cuisine type: Texas-style barbecue, sandwich-centric.

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Atmosphere: Clean and welcoming.

Food: Dig in—this is delicious barbecue. (Meats, sides and desserts are made at the South Street location and brought over).

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Whether you’re a seasoned theatergoer or a newbie to the scene, it’s easy to see that our local theater companies are doing exciting work. Drugs, racism, identity issues, gay rights. These are just a few of the issues being tackled—both seriously and not—on stages across the city in the new year.

If you like controversy, check out Philadelphia Theatre Company’s local debut of the Tony-nominated musical The Scottsboro Boys (Jan. 20-Feb. 19). The final collaboration from the legendary musical team John Kander and Fred Ebb, the show caused outrage among some who objected to the musical’s minstrel show format. Others found it to be a daring exploration of racism in the U.S. judicial system. Love it or hate it, few have come away indifferent to the provocative story about nine black teenagers falsely accused of a horrific crime in the 1930s.

When done badly, Shakespeare’s plays can be as dull as a Mitt Romney stump speech.

Not so at Lantern Theater, where artistic director Charles McMahon is mounting The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet (March 1-April 1). McMahon’s production focuses on the timeless story of two young people who, in his words, use “all the power of their wills and imaginations to try to create a better world for themselves and each other.” One of the city’s most promising young actors, Sean Lally, stars as Romeo.

Perhaps the biggest event this spring is InterAct Theatre’s ambitious new festival “Outside the Frame: Voices from The Other America” at the Adrienne (March 27-April 22). InterAct’s artistic director

Seth Rozin says the festival’s goal is to give voice to communities rarely covered by the mainstream media. The festival features eight small touring productions including a solo piece by queer performance artist Tim Miller called Lay of the Land, and Najla Said’s Palestine, a humorous story of a Palestinian-American princess who rediscovers her Arab-American identity when she travels to occupied territories.

Philly’s best gay theater troupe, Mauckingbird Theatre Company, returns with the local premiere of Jon Marans’ The Temperamentals (April 11-29) at the Skybox at the Adrienne. Set in the early 1950s—when homosexuality was classified as a mental illness—the play explores the origins of the Mattachine Society, America’s first gayrights organization. Artistic director Peter Reynolds plans “a highly intimate performance” that focuses on the organization’s founders, who risked everything in their attempt to achieve equality for America’s gay community.

First Baptist Church Azuka Theatre presents Hope Street and other Lonely Places (March 15-April 1), the anticipated new work from Philly playwright Genne Murphy. Hope concerns a heroin junkie’s attempts to stay sober on the mean streets of Philadelphia. (Director Kevin Glaccum says the city figures so prominently in the story it is “almost a character in the play.”)

The Wilma Theater concludes its season with Tony Kushner’s masterpiece Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches (May 23-July 1). The first play in Kushner’s two-work masterpiece focusing on the early days of the AIDS epidemic and its impact on the gay community, the Wilma plans to stage Angels’ second play, Perestroika, to open its 2012-13 season. Wilma spokesman John Van Heest says the company hopes to present an opportunity for audiences to view both parts of Kushner’s epic tale on the same day at selected performances. Each play can stand alone, but when viewed together on a single day, Angels is a once-in-a-lifetime experience that will leave you grasping for words.

And finally, the Arden Theatre Company concludes its season with the world premiere of local composer Michael Ogborn’s “modern morality tale” about obsession, fear and greed, Tulipomania (May 24-July 1). Tulipomania is set during the Dutch tulip craze in 1636. More than six years in the making, Ogborn says the musical travels to a dark place “where values and reason are compromised.”

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Sean Burns’ Top 10 10. Midnight In Paris 9. We Need To Talk About Kevin 8. Martha Marcy May Marlene 7. Certified Copy 6. Shame 5. Meek’s Cutoff 4. Melancholia 3. Carnage 2. Hugo 1. Drive

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Shit, even Woody Allen made a great movie this year. That hasn’t happened since I was in college.

For film fans, 2011 was an embarrassment of riches. I can barely remember the last time I had such difficulty winnowing all these contenders down to a manageable number.

When I think about this movie year, I think of moments out of time—tiny impressions and oversized gestures that have remained with me for months on end. For whatever reason, the best films of 2011 all felt dreamier and more fluid than they have in years past.

I’m still haunted by Elizabeth Olsen’s stricken gaze, trapped between the past and the present as an escaped cult member without any identity left, in rookie Sean Durkin’s remarkable Martha Marcy May Marlene. Or I recall Michael Fassbender’s anguished sex addict, sizing up a married woman like a piece of meat on the subway during director Steve McQueen’s uncompromising Shame.

There’s also that blinkered perspective clamped by foot-long bonnets, compressing the view of Michelle Williams’ feisty frontier woman to a narrowing lack of options in Meek’s Cutoff. Or the much wider, yet equally relentless close-ups on Juliette Binoche, allowing us full access to

every emotion while working and reworking her way through a relationship that could be beginning just as easily as it might be ending—and what does it matter either way?—in Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy.

I got to see Lynne Ramsay’s stunning We Need To Talk About Kevin just before making this list, and it’s the boldest, most disturbingly hilarious parental nightmare since David Lynch’s Eraserhead. Tilda Swinton stars as a mother of a teenage psychopath, refracting unreliable memories through a hallucinatory prism of mordant survivor’s guilt.

Parenting also took it on the chin in Roman Polanski’s hilarious Carnage, an

Melancholia

adaptation of Yasmina Reza’s Tony Awardwinning play that doubles as a master class in widescreen frame composition. As a bonus, it also features the side-splitting sight of Jodie Foster and Kate Winslet attempting to passive-aggressively out-bitch one another while discussing the works of Francis Bacon. (“Such cruelty and splendor.”

Indeed.)

For sheer audacity, no single image from 2011 can possibly match that of Kirsten Dunst, nude moon-bathing beneath a massive, rogue planet en route to destroy

the Earth in Lars Von Trier’s go-for-broke Melancholia.

Elder statesmen Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese both grappled with nostalgia this year. Allen’s deceptively frothy Midnight in Paris served as something of a rebuke to the auteur’s well-worn hard-on for the good old days, at last finally admitting that they were probably never all that great. Meanwhile Scorsese plowed forward, embracing cutting edge digital effects and breathtaking 3-D technology in an ode to cinema’s past that simultaneously embraces every opportunity for the medium’s future, presenting film history as an ever-evolving continuum.

But personally, I still loved Drive the most.

Nicholas Winding Refn’s pulp fantasia— with the iconic Ryan Gosling sporting a cheesy scorpion jacket, a toothpick and a lack of dialogue unrivaled since Clint Eastwood’s spaghetti westerns—reminded me just how much I love movies. Refn’s boldly artificial flourishes, graphic violence and swoony romanticism conjured an alternate universe I adored basking in, over and over.

Throw in Albert Brooks as the villain, and I don’t want to admit how many times I went back to see it again.

Scorsese’s Hugo was dedicated to all the dreamers in the dark. For me, Drive was that dream.

Matt Prigge’s Top 10 10. Tuesday, After Christmas 9. Martha Marcy May Marlene 8. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives 7. Rubber 6. Certified Copy 5. The Tree of Life 4. Drive 3. A Separation 2. Margaret 1. House of Pleasures My favorite movie moment of 2011 happened on Twitter. In the fall, Margaret— playwright Kenneth Lonergan’s truant follow-up to You Can Count On Me, filmed in 2005 and the subject of numerous vague legal and editorial kerfuffles since—was abruptly dumped into theaters. Most of the reviews pegged it as a frustrating mess. No one came. The end.

But then a funny thing happened on cyberspace. Critics and cinephiles, myself included, began reporting that it wasn’t a mess but an intentional mess. To its fans, Lonergan had conceived a genuinely new kind of cinema, one that bottled up the tumult of life and keenly reflected it through the underformed anxieties of a teenager (Anna Paquin, when she could pass for one). A film about the imprecision of life, of emotions, of the systems that govern us; it wasn’t jagged and imperfect by accident, but on purpose.

On Twitter, there erupted a proliferation of support. The inevitable hashtag

#TeamMargaret was born. When distributor Fox Searchlight—understandably apathetic over a film that grossed a paltry $46,495—refused to release screeners or set up screenings for awards season (many had—and still have—not seen it), critic Jaime N. Christley set up a petition on change.org. It amassed 685 names, including Margaret supporting actor Mark Ruffalo.

I love Margaret, but I love a movie called House of Pleasures even more. (It’s known elsewhere under the less porny title House of Tolerance.) Like Margaret, Bertrand Bonello’s dreamy look at a tony, turn-of-thecentury Parisian brothel was initially hated, with some at Cannes calling it the fest’s worst. It fared better at Toronto, where its fans succumbed to its opium-induced vibe, its fearless silliness (anachronistic use of the Moody Blues, plus a moment involving,

Margaret

well, “semen tears”) and its deeply sad look at an era on the wane. In a year stacked silly with films about end times (Melancholia, Take Shelter, etc.), this mini-apocalypse was my favorite.

Divorce fueled the calm and exacting Romanian film Tuesday, After Christmas, as well as the forthcoming Iranian A Separation, which resembles the rock solid drama of Ibsen and is essentially perfect. Meanwhile that country’s undisputed master, Abbas Kiarostami, was bumbling about Italy with Juliette Binoche, making the old school mindfuck Certified Copy.

Like Copy, a personality crisis also afflicted the titular hero of the unbearably intense Martha Marcy May Marlene, while that film’s leaps through time were nearly as accomplished as the ones in another wondrously imperfect beast, The Tree of Life.

While Terrence Malick’s Cannes-winner exhumed the past—not just the ’60s, but the beginning of the universe and the era of dinosaurs—Nicolas Winding Refn brought back the ’80s with Drive, which is Michael Mann by way of John Hughes and as awesome as that sounds.

Death reared its head in Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Thai master Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s trance-y meditation on death and nature—a fantasia where the deceased come back as animal-man hybrids and women receive cunnilingus from talking catfish. And then there was Rubber, aka the “killer tire movie”—a hilarious nonsequitur that people mistakenly assumed was actually a “killer tire movie.” ■

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feedback@philadelphiaweekly.com couple bangers just for Diplo. [Laughs] I play small venues all the time, so when I get on a big stage like this, I just wanna throw the fuck down.

When’s the first Cool Records release dropping?

In January. It’s an EP by Brick Bandits member Tim Dolla.

Two tracks are remixed by these kids from Monterrey, Mexico, named Sheequo Beat and DJ Otto. Initiating globe is a big deal to me right now. A new kind of electronic dance music artist is emerging from the younger crowd, which is very versatile and has very diverse influences. All these strange sounds are meshing together. Over the last few years, I’ve heard sounds I don’t recall ever hearing before. With the new label, we’re gonna keep it as youthoriented as possible and close to the streets, even if those streets are everywhere.

Philly DJ/Producer Dirty South Joe’s been grinding for years (and was once a PW contributor). He spun his first show at Washington, D.C.’s 9:30 Club (between sets by U.K. shoegaze bands Ride and Lush) in 1990, and has balled in Philly for about 10 years. He played some of the legendary Hollertronix parties at the Ukie back in the day, is currently a Mad Decent Mondays regular and is opening for Diplo at Union Transfer this Thursday. We met DSJ last week in Northern Liberties to talk about the show; the Cool Records label he’s launching; and Luvstep, his collaborative project with Philly’s Flufftronix, which releases its next album on Valentine’s Day.

Luvstep’s more romantic?

Definitely. People were having sex during our last rave in Minneapolis. I didn’t see it, but the promoter told us a couple was just going at it. I heard they let them finish.

A couple in Buffalo told me they fucked all the time while listening to us. That’s amazing. It’s a sign Luvstep’s working. n Dirty South Joe performs Thurs., Dec. 29, 9pm. $20. With Diplo + Xaphoon Jones. Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St. 215.232.2100. utphilly.com

Critic's Pick Plow United I n its first incarnation, Wilmington, Del.-born pop punk band Plow United (now based in West Chester) only existed for a few short years before disbanding in 1997. In that time, Brian McGee, Joel Tannenbaum and Sean Rule managed to be remarkably prolific, releasing two full-lengths on Creep Records as well as a Little Women whole slew of singles and split 7-inches. The band also staked out an ubiquitous presence within the Philly punk scene, as it was pretty much impossible to walk into an all-ages venue without seeing multiple Plow United patches stitched onto the showgoers’ messenger bags. However, Plow United’s break-up turned out to be just a 14-year hiatus. Not only did the band reunite to play this year’s Riot Fest East, but it also announced plans to record a new album. It will be interesting to hear what Joel, Sean and Brian produce now that they are firmly planted in adulthood. (Maggie Serota)

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How does Luvstep compare with dubstep and the aggro/brostep stuff made by dudes like Skrillex?

Dubstep’s a major part of Luvstep, but it’s not dubstep.

And, you can be out brostepping all day long, but eventually you gotta go home to see your girlfriend or your wife.

Luvstep’s futuristic make-out music—it’s what’s for dinner after a hard day of brostepping. But the brostep thing is cool because kids are always gonna love loud and noisy music. It’s filling up arenas all over the country, which never would’ve happened 10 years ago. It’s awesome.

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I am a 25-year-old gay man. I consider myself very gay-positive and self-accepting. Recently I have been going through a hard time psychologically because I’m exposing myself to very graphic homophobic online content. There are blogs, online groups and websites that cater to gay men who like to be abused and degraded by “straight” men. Some people write extensively about how all gay rights should be rolled back.

I am very disturbed because I am actually aroused by content that shows supposedly straight men degrading gay men. I have spent hours reading these homophobic posts, and I always come away feeling disturbed, insecure and unhappy. But when I’m horny, I go right back. The worst feeling comes from knowing that a lot of those people don’t seem to recognize it as just a fantasy, but instead believe in the homophobic views they express.

I was never disturbed by BDSM-type fantasies or BDSM porn. But this type of dom/sub thing is very disturbing, as people don’t seem to be “just playing” and it is playing with a real-world violent and powerful hate ideology. Is it OK for me to just view this as another harmless fantasy or is this something I need to control or get help dealing with?

Secondly, are the people who contribute, participate in and produce such gay-bashing sexualized content just indulging in a version of acceptable BDSM/kink or is it dangerous to use a prevalent hate ideology in sex play?

Not An Inferior Faggot P.S. Examples of these websites: faggot4ever.tumblr. com, obeythestraightman.tumblr.com and tribes. tribe.net/qssm.

You’re not inferior, NAIF, and you’re not alone.

In fact, you have lots of horny soul mates out there—think of strong feminist women with rape fantasies, think of faithful Jews with Nazi fetishes, think of empowered African-Americans who get off on Master/slave role-play scenes. And think of all the gay men out there turned on by those vaguely threatening male archetypes. I mean, come on: All those cliche gay-male sex symbols— truckers, skinheads, marines, cops, firemen, gangbangers—don’t exactly represent the kinds of people or professions that have historically been associated with tolerance.

A person can safely explore degrading fantasies—even fantasies rooted in “hate ideology”—so long as he/she is capable of compartmentalizing this stuff. Basically, you have to build a firewall between your fantasies and your self-esteem. (And, just as importantly, between your fantasies and your politics.) Once you do that, NAIF, you’ll be able to enjoy your “straight men abusing fags” fantasies without feeling devastated immediately after you come.

In fact, successfully building that firewall and then enjoying your fantasies without shame can leave you feeling stronger and more empowered for having these fantasies in the first place. Call it the sub’s paradox: A D/s sub who can enjoy his fantasies without being shredded by them is in control, not being controlled—regardless of how things might appear to a casual or misinformed observer.

But it doesn’t sound like you’ve been able to build that firewall yet, NAIF, due to feelings of shame rooted in a perceived disconnect between the person you know yourself to be—a proud gay man—and the scenarios that make your dick hard. But there is no disconnect, NAIF. You don’t really hate yourself any more than the feminist with rape fantasies really wants to be raped or the Jewish guy with Nazi fantasies really believes that Germans are the master race. (Could a people who routinely wear sandals with socks be the master race? No, they could not.) It might help if

you reminded yourself of that before, during, and after you rub one out—it also might help if a sexpositive counselor reminded you of that during some regular sessions over a period of months.

You know what else might help? Finding a nice, out, proud gay man who gets off on this shit, too, NAIF, a guy who wants to explore these degradation fantasies with you in real time—safely, respectfully, and consensually.

Cuddling after a hot, crazy, kinky D/s sex session with the “straight” guy who five minutes ago was “degrading” you for being a “worthless faggot”— and then getting dressed and going out to grab some fro-yo and chat about Glee—would go a long way toward helping you see your fantasies as something that brought intimacy, companionship, and connection into your life, instead of selfloathing and self-recrimination.

But don’t start exploring your fantasies with a boyfriend until that firewall is well under construction, NAIF, OK? Three months ago, I started a fuck-buddy relationship with an old friend. As we are both not seeking a serious romance, I thought it would be a good idea.

My assumption was that the relationship was “open.”

But when I asked him how he’d feel about me dating another guy, he got defensive and said that if I fucked other guys, he would “never” sleep with me again. I asked him if he was sleeping with other girls, and he said no. I don’t know whether to be happy (he likes me enough to be monogamous) or freaked (at his leotarded communication style). I do have feelings for him, and the sex is progressing from good to great.

Any advice would be helpful.

Confused Canadian Chick

I would advise you to have a convo about upgrading your frequent-fucker cards from fuckbuds silver to boyfriend/girlfriend gold. The latter designation gets closer to the facts on the ground: You have feelings for him, he has feelings for you (however poorly articulated), the sex is great, the relationship is exclusive. You two may not have been seeking romance, CCC, but it looks like romance found you.

I’m a straight male in a committed live-in relationship. My girlfriend and I have sex once a week, usually on Saturday mornings. During the week, she is either too tired or too full after dinner. She often says she wants to have sex, but come 9:30 p.m., she’s ready to get in bed and watch TV until she falls asleep. She asks me on a daily basis if I’ve masturbated in her absence. If I say no, she accuses me of lying. She has demanded to smell my hands to see if she can smell lube on them. I resent feeling interrogated and guilt-tripped over this. When I do masturbate, I always clean up after myself and I’m doing it before she gets home or after she’s gone to bed. So, again, why the guilt?

Browbeating OK, Meat Beating Another Story Totally

I don’t know who’s crazier, your controlling, psychotic, hand-sniffing girlfriend, BOMBAST, or you, for sticking around and putting up with this bullshit. There’s nothing wrong with having a low libido; it’s not a crime to want sex only once a week. But terrorizing a higher-libido partner about whether or not he is making ends meet by masturbating now and then—and demanding to smell his hands!—is borderline abusive behavior.

DTMFA, BOMBAST, and be so kind as to pass this bit of advice on to your soon-to-be ex-girlfriend: If you want a companion animal you can castrate, lady, get a dog. Not a boyfriend, not a husband. A dog. n

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OLD CITY (108 Market/2nd fl.)

Loft apt. w/Separate bedroom.

Overlooking BF bridge. High ceilings, Wood floors, WD, Gas heat. $1050/mo+. 215-627-4414

124 LOMBARD in the HEART OF SOCIETY HILL, HEAD HOUSE SQ. “TOKIO B&B” STUDIOS. TOURIST ALSO WELCOME. WALK to HISTORIC LOCATIONS! ($55-$100) DAILY rates. ($300-$500) WKLY rates.

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S.BROAD (AVE of ARTS) 2nd Fl, Ultra mod, Mrble BA/Jac. WD, HW, Deck. $925+. 215-463-7374

13TH & SPRUCE- Parker Hotel CC. Fully Furn’d Rms, no sec. deposit. Utils & housekeeping incld. WK: $165-$203; Day: $40-$56. 215-735-2300.

THE ROOSEVELT (2220 Walnut Street) - Beautifully renovated apts. in the RITTENHOUSE SQUARE AREA of Philadelphia. Studio’s starting at only $765/mo. and one bedrooms starting at only $965/mo. Call 215-640-8880 for an appointment.

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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.

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1 bedroom, 1 bath, w/d, separate dining area, 270 degree city views, 826 sf

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1 bedroom, balcony, south facing views, walk-in closet

city views, 1079 sf

separate dining area, views of the parkway, 1,202sf

in bedroom, laundry room, 928 sf

$1,925 $2,290

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2 bedrooms, 2 baths, western city views, woderfully updated kitchen, lots of natural light, 1164sf

$2,375

1 bedroom, balcony, updated fixtures and appliances throughout, w/d, 860 sf

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THE LANEsBoRouGH 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, brand new, high ceilings, hardwood floors throughout, chefs kitchen, magnificent entertaining space, luxurious master suite, 3467 sf

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$1,625

237 s. 18TH sTREET throughout, designer kitchen and baths, wood floors, $7,500

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7 N. CoLumBus BouLEvARd Tri-level, 3 bedroom, 3 baths, firpeplace, excellent closet $2,350

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1420 LoCusT sTREET

1601 LoCusT sTREET

$1,625

Studio, northeast city views, open kitchen, separate dressing $975

area, 608 sf

1 bedroom, renovated kitchen, wood floors in living room, $1,595

Fairmount view, lots of light, w/d, 1258 sf

258 s. 18TH sTREET

ACAdEmY HousE 1420 LoCusT sTREET Office space with newly painted walls and new carpet, 695sf $1,200 2031 Locust Street Professional Office Space in secure apartment building, 1058 sf

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1830 Rittenhouse Square – Rittenhouse Square

open kitchen, designer baths, lots of natural light

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doorman building, 754 sf

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units include all utilities

250 S. 18th Street – Prime ground floor corner

2 bedrooms. 2 baths, south views, open chef’s kitchen, marble

Studio, floor-to-ceiling windows, sunrise view, 540 sf

baths, hardwood floors, 1106sf

$2,450

$3,950

retail/office

$1,275

1857 sf

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$3,000 NNN

1 bedroom plus den, 2 bath, completely open floor plan with

1 bedroom, 1 bath, city views, 700 sf

$1,485

1601 Locust Street - 1st floor and lower level of prestigious

excellent living/entertaining space, like-new condition, 1,506sf

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, wood floors, intimate society hill

Lanesborough condo, ideal for restaurant or offices, 4700 sf

views, 1200sf

$1,950

2031 Locust street 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, new kitchen, 958 sf

2 bedroom plus den, 2 baths new kitchen, 1079 sf

$1,925

$2,290

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TWO BEDROOMS 1109D South Street Bi-level 2 Bedrooms, 2 Baths, PARKING, central air, washer & dryer

$1,800

1161 S. 13th ( Ellsworth St ) Large, plain, 2 Bedrooms, 1 Bath wood floors

$700

TOWNHOUSES 205 Fitzwater St 2 Bedrooms, 1 Bath , w&d, wood and w/w carpets, basement

$1000

134 Elfreths Alley Fabulous 3 Brs., 2 Baths, gourmet kitchen, marble baths, c/a,w&d, garden

$2,700

834 Federal St. 3 Bedrooms, 2 Baths, deck, hardwood floors, great kitchen, w&d, patio

$1,750

1535 S. 16th St. 3 Bedrooms, 1.5 Baths, wood & wall to wall carpet available now

$1,500

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

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341 W. Girard Ave (NE Corner 4th & Girard) Retail store, C-2, 800 sq.ft.,bath, c/a

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404 South St 1200 sq.ft, retail store, bath, c/a, high traffic great block NNN

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135B South St 1800 Sq.ft. C-2, tri-level retail corner or office former bank NNN

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413 S. Broad St across from Symphony Hse. Approx 2500 sq.ft. bi-level offices, c/a.1.5 bths

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Broad & Pine - Very Lg 1BR w/EIK, New Carpet, Incl heat. ................................................................ $925+ 22nd & Spruce – Very cool Studio apt, Incl Heat.

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King size Studios & One Bedrooms in High rise, Doorman building, All utilities included, $1,275 - $1,445 Hardwood floors, Laundry. AVAILABLE JAN/FEB!

22ND & SPRUCE

One Bedroom in Elevator building, Heat & Hot water included, Hardwood floors, $960 Laundry on premise. AVAILABLE FEBRUARY!

20TH & WALNUT

The Chocolate Works

Spacious Studio w/Separate kitchen, Wall to Wall, Dishwasher, Central Air, High ceilings. AVAILABLE JANUARY!

$785

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Sunny Studio next to Kahn Park, Heat & Hot water included, Hardwood floors, Laundry $685 on premises. AVAILABLE FEBRUARY!

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Bright 1 and 2 bedroom apartments with many multi-level designs.

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ART MUSEUM the philadelphian

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combined home with 4BR + den, 4Ba, large balcony with art Museum view , upgr. kit. and baths 3,904 sf

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wanaMakeR house

3BR, 2.5Ba, wood floors, beautifully renovated designer kitchen, large balcony, river views 2,028 sf

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1BR, balcony, wood floors, updated kitchen and bath, custom walk-in closet in bedroom

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1BR, beautifully renovated kitchen with wood cabinetry and breakfast bar, panoramic sunrise views

1,397 sf

$439,900 $210,000

to the east overlooking the Fairmount neighborhood, wood floors throughout, pristine condition 1166 sf

$199,900

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2 BR, 2 Ba, split plan on a high floor, excellent lving and closet spaces, eat-in kitchen, master BR with ensuite Ba & walk-in closet

centeR city one

1314 sf

$365,000

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$409,900

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3,293 sf

$2,900,000

3BR, 3.5Ba, brand new, very high ceilings, his and hers master bath, custom kitchen, 3,467 sf

$2,395,000

220 w. Rittenhouse sq. Magnificent custom home with 3BR’s, 2.5Ba, balcony over Rittenhouse square, chef’s kit., wonderful enter. space, lavish master suite

3,682 sf

4,338 sf

great entertaining space, marble baths Rittenhouse plaza

2BR + den coop overlooking Rittenhouse square, custom chef’s kitchen, lavish master suite,

the waRwick

3BR + den, 3.5Ba, open floor plan, chef’s kitchen, marble bath, north and south city views

formal entertaining space

2,306 sf

2421 sf paRc Rittenhouse

712 sf

$399,900

paRc Rittenhouse

1BR, 1Ba, balcony, open kitchen, hardwood floors, marble bath

765 sf

$389,900

paRc Rittenhouse

1BR, large kitchen, marble bathroom, wood floors

637 sf

$359,900

paRc Rittenhouse

1BR, large galley kitchen, open living and dining room, excellent closet space 661 sf

$349,900

the Rittenhouse

studio, wood floors, large marble bath, panoramic sunset view

$344,900

Bank Building

2017 sf

Condo Fees: $943 Taxes: $240

$549,900

2 BR, 1 Ba, parquet wood floors, washer/dryer, unobstructed river views, floor-to-ceiling windows

1BR, high floor, river view, investment opportunity

1,200 sf

$399,000

700 sf

$269,900

wAShingTon SqUARE

the lippincott

custom 2BR, 2Ba home with high celing, lots of light, open chefs kitchen, luxurious master suite, direct view of

4,500 sf

washington square $775,000

$585,000

independence place

1,775 sf

$2,295,000

$1,075,000

2BR, 2Ba, beautifully renovated throughout with open kitchen and designer bath, wood floors, balcony 1,387 sf

$699,900

928 sf

$299,900

independence place

1BR, 1Ba, balcony, laundry room, excellent condition

independence place

1BR, 1Ba, wood floors throughout, upgraded kitchen andBa, custom closets, balcony 928 sf

$539,000

$269,900

acadeMy house 1420 locust stReet

independence place 241 south 6th st

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, split floor plan on high floor, eat-in kitchen, spacious living/dining room, 1314 sf

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, completely renovated with custom finishes throughout, balcony, 1387sf

$365,000

$699,000

Condo Fees: $958

Condo Fees: $693

Taxes: $311

Taxes: $500

Monthly Cost After Tax To Own: $2590

Monthly Cost After Tax To Own: $3230

Monthly Cost After Tax To Own: $1937

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$1,195,000

2BR, 2Ba, hardwood floors, building offers 24 hour doorman and gym, located on Rittenhouse square

1 bedroom, open kitchen, balcony, great entertaining space, 1397 sf

$950,000

Bi-level penthouse, 2BR. 2.5Ba, 2 kitchens, impeccably finished throughout, amazing river and city views

BaRclay

the philadelphian 2401 pennsylvania ave

Raw space that can be designed and built into a custom home overlooking independence Mall 3,068 sf

Bank Building

$1,100,000

independence place

2BR, 2Ba, open floor plan, luxurious master suite, marbleBa, wood floors, lots of light

1,075 sf

2,025 sf

$1,450,000

the waRwick

1,199 sf

Brand new 2 BR + den, 2.5 Ba home, lots of natural light, wood flrs, open chef’s kitchen, designerBa, services available from adjoining oMni hotel

2BR, 2Ba, terrace on pool club deck, open custom kitchen, marble bath, wood floors 1,272 sf

583 sf

SociETy hill

$1,750,000

$1,695,000

$479,900

1BR, 1Ba, hardwood floors, marble Ba, custom kitchen

society hill toweRs 2,644 sf

1,085 sf the waRwick

society hill toweRs

3BR, 2.5Ba, magnificent tieenhouse square & sunset views, pristine condition,

$519,900

1BR, 1Ba, Juliet balcony, upgraded kitchen andBa, lots of light, separate dining room, hardwood floors

$1,975,000

townhome with 5BR plus den, 3.5Ba, private garden, lots of natural light, beautifully restored, original details with modern updates

the Rittenhouse

1900 Rittenhouse

Bank Building

exquisite detail throughout.

2228 spRuce stReet

1,198 sf

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

2BR, 2Ba, wood and granite floors, marble baths, beautifully upgraded kitchen, high floor

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one bedroom 11TH & SPRUCE Quaint 1BR w/HWF, Heat/Hot water incld, Laundry on premises. AVAIL MID-JAN! $985/mo+.

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20XX SNYDER AVE 2nd flr., 2bedmrs. remodeled. $725/mo.+utils. Call Dr. K. 215-336-4151.

15TH and SPRUCE: Beautiful Art Deco High-rise 1Bdrm Apt, Desk Attendant, HW Flrs, Updated Kitchen, Onsite Laundry, Intercom Entry, Amazing Location! $1120/Mo. 215-735-8030.

Available March. Lic #219789.

OLD CITY (6 S.Front St.) 2BR or Office combo. Overlooks BF Bridge & Del River. High ceiling, WD, DW, GD, CA, Gas heat, Tiled bath & Kit. $1195/mo+. 215-627-4414

20TH & WALNUT King size Studios & 1BRs in High rise, Doorman bldg, All utils incld, HWF, Laundry. AVAIL JAN/FEB! $1275-$1445/mo. MSRE, 215-925-RENT(7368), www.MichaelSingerRealEstate.com

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QUEEN VILLAGE Walnut & 23rd 1 & 2Bd's, hardwood, laundry ART MUSEUM

$770-995 Walnut & 23rd 1 & 2Bd's, hardwood, laundry Pine & 22nd 1 & 2Bd, hardwood, heat incl. $575-1000 Locust & 21st Studios & 1Bd's, laundry, heat incl.Lombard & 23rd 1 &2Bd, bi-level, A/C Pine & 21st 1Bd's, hardwood, heat incl., yard Chestnut$850-950 & 20th Ultra mod 1Bd's, C/A, great location $700-1000 Pine & 22nd 1 & 2Bd, hardwood, heat incl.

Lombard & 19th Newly renov, mod studio, 1 & 2Bd's $750-1100 Lombard & 23rd 1 &2Bd, bi-level, A/C Broad & Spruce Mod 1Bd's, W/D, C/A, heat incl. $875-1000 Chestnut & 20th Ultra mod 1Bd's, C/A, great location Lombard & 9th 1Bd & 2Bd, w/d, hardwood, laundry $875-1700 Lombard & 19th Newly renov, mod studio, 1 & 2Bd's Pine & 9th 2Bd's, h/w floors, W/D $800-850 Broad & Spruce Mod 1Bd's, W/D, C/A, heat incl. Spruce & 12th 2Bd, 1-1/2 bath, bi-level, laundry $850-995 Lombard & 9th 1Bd & 2Bd, w/d, hardwood, laundry Spruce & 16th Old World, 1 & 2Bd's, hardwood $995-1100 Pine & 9th 2Bd's, h/w floors, W/D Art Area Ultra Mod 1 & 3Bd's, W/D, Deck, Parking Spruce & 12th 2Bd, 1-1/2 bath, bi-level, laundry Old City Fab$995 ultra mod 1 & 2Bd's, deck $995-1350 Spruce & 16th Old World, 1 & 2Bd's, hardwood University City 3Bd, 2 bath, totally renovated Art Area Ultra Mod 1 & 3Bd's, W/D, Deck, ParkingSpring $950-1750 Garden Collonade-Extremely Nice Studio $825-1375 Old City Fab ultra mod 1 & 2Bd's, deck Q.V. 3rd & Bambridge 1 & 2Bd's, W/W, C/A $1950 University City 3Bd, 2 bath, totally renovated Spring Garden & 19th Studio, hardwood, Heat incl.

Spring Garden Collonade-Extremely Nice Studio Fairmount &$700 18th Mod 1Bd, C/A, W/D $600-675 Q.V. 3rd & Bambridge 1 & 2Bd's, W/W, C/A Mt. Vernon & 21st Gret Studio, Yard, Laundry $375 1Bd, parquet floors, yard Spring Garden & 19th Studio, hardwood, Heat incl.

Wallace & 20th $625 Fairmount & 18th Mod 1Bd, C/A, W/D Aspen & 26th 1Bd, W/W, laundry $600 Mt. Vernon & 21st Gret Studio, Yard, Laundry $700 Wallace & 20th 1Bd, parquet floors, yard $600 Aspen & 26th 1Bd, W/W, laundry

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6XX CARPENTER ST 4BRMS.,1BATH, 4PdRms, C/A,G/H, DECK, FIN. BSMT. $2,000/MO.+utils. 215468-7468

9XX n. 3rD New Super Mod 1 & 2 BD, HW floors, Stainless steel appliance w/ Granite, W/D in unit. PARKING! Across from Park! from $1400

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OLD CITY (108 Market/2nd fl.)

Loft apt. w/Separate bedroom.

Overlooking BF bridge. High ceilings, Wood floors, WD, Gas heat. $1050/mo+. 215-627-4414

124 LOMBARD in the HEART OF SOCIETY HILL, HEAD HOUSE SQ. “TOKIO B&B” STUDIOS. TOURIST ALSO WELCOME. WALK to HISTORIC LOCATIONS! ($55-$100) DAILY rates. ($300-$500) WKLY rates.

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S.BROAD (AVE of ARTS) 2nd Fl, Ultra mod, Mrble BA/Jac. WD, HW, Deck. $925+. 215-463-7374

13TH & SPRUCE- Parker Hotel CC. Fully Furn’d Rms, no sec. deposit. Utils & housekeeping incld. WK: $165-$203; Day: $40-$56. 215-735-2300.

THE ROOSEVELT (2220 Walnut Street) - Beautifully renovated apts. in the RITTENHOUSE SQUARE AREA of Philadelphia. Studio’s starting at only $765/mo. and one bedrooms starting at only $965/mo. Call 215-640-8880 for an appointment.

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8 TH & CATHAR I NE 1st flr, C/A, finished bsmt, 1.5BA, hardwoodflrs, avail 2/1. 215-915-5347

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.

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two bedroom 1522 PINE: Rittenhouse Area Extra Large 2BR, 3rd & 4th fl front. Brown Stone Mansion: 2400SF = $2200/ month plus gas/electric. This unit is located on the 3rd floor front, TV intercom, Bi-Level, 2 extra large bedrooms, 2 dec. fireplaces, large living room, dining room and kitchen combination w/SS appliances, large windows, plenty of closet space. Full new ceramic bathroom on 1st floor of bi-level. Laundry in unit. Walk to everything in center city, Minutes from All Major public transportation. Commuterss paradise Best Restaurants in The City, theaters, grocery Stores, coffee shops and much more. This unit has C/A/H, HW floors. For further information and appointments please contact Realty World Properties, Mary Umbrell/ Rental Agent/Pa #Rs311351, office 215-386-4200, 215-528-8039

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ONE BEDROOM 50 S. 16th Fabulous Ind. Pl #2 High floor 1 Br., 2 Bths, pooll, health club, lots of amenities

$4,000

TWO BEDROOMS 1109D South Street Bi-level 2 Bedrooms, 2 Baths, PARKING, central air, washer & dryer

$1,800

1161 S. 13th ( Ellsworth St ) Large, plain, 2 Bedrooms, 1 Bath wood floors

$700

TOWNHOUSES 205 Fitzwater St 2 Bedrooms, 1 Bath , w&d, wood and w/w carpets, basement

$1000

134 Elfreths Alley Fabulous 3 Brs., 2 Baths, gourmet kitchen, marble baths, c/a,w&d, garden

$2,700

834 Federal St. 3 Bedrooms, 2 Baths, deck, hardwood floors, great kitchen, w&d, patio

$1,750

1535 S. 16th St. 3 Bedrooms, 1.5 Baths, wood & wall to wall carpet available now

$1,500

519 N. 19th St

$3,000

5 Bedrooms, 2.5 Baths, Hrd. Flrs, gas fireplace, finished basement

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

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341 W. Girard Ave (NE Corner 4th & Girard) Retail store, C-2, 800 sq.ft.,bath, c/a

$900

404 South St 1200 sq.ft, retail store, bath, c/a, high traffic great block NNN

$4,000

135B South St 1800 Sq.ft. C-2, tri-level retail corner or office former bank NNN

$6,400

413 S. Broad St across from Symphony Hse. Approx 2500 sq.ft. bi-level offices, c/a.1.5 bths

$2,500

Broad & Pine - Very Lg 1BR w/EIK, New Carpet, Incl heat. ................................................................ $925+ 22nd & Spruce – Very cool Studio apt, Incl Heat.

Avail now. ................................................. $875+ 13th & Spruce – Great 1BR apt in Very Cool Building. ................................................................ $875+ 9th & Spruce – Very Lg 1BR w/HW flrs, CA, Laundry and more......................................................... $995+ 22nd & Spring Garden- Adorable Studio apt, Close to everything. Avail 01/15 ..................................$775+

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1800 Sq. Ft. + Large Covered Balcony

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ichael inger

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over 50 years in the real estate business P H I L A D E L P H I A W E E K L Y December 28,2011 - January 3, 2012

Best Wishes this Holiday Season!

RITTENHOUSE SQUARE/FITLER SQUARE 20TH & WALNUT

King size Studios & One Bedrooms in High rise, Doorman building, All utilities included, $1,275 - $1,445 Hardwood floors, Laundry. AVAILABLE JAN/FEB!

22ND & SPRUCE

One Bedroom in Elevator building, Heat & Hot water included, Hardwood floors, $960 Laundry on premise. AVAILABLE FEBRUARY!

20TH & WALNUT

The Chocolate Works

Spacious Studio w/Separate kitchen, Wall to Wall, Dishwasher, Central Air, High ceilings. AVAILABLE JANUARY!

$785

WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST/AVENUE OF THE ARTS 11TH & PINE

Sunny Studio next to Kahn Park, Heat & Hot water included, Hardwood floors, Laundry $685 on premises. AVAILABLE FEBRUARY!

Once the heart of “Confectioner’s Row”- today at the heart of Old City the Chocolate Works is right in the vibe.

Bright 1 and 2 bedroom apartments with many multi-level designs.

11TH & SPRUCE

Quaint One Bedroom w/Hardwood floors, Heat & Hot water included, Laundry on $985 premises. AVAILABLE MID-JAN!

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1117 Spruce Street www.michaelSingerrealestate.com

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231 North Third Street Philadelphia, PA 19106 215.351.1535 Leasing Hours: Mon-Fri 10-6 Sat 10-5 • Sun Noon-5

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