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STAGE 18 Boys’ Life PHLash: A Mob Story examines the phenomenon through students’ eyes.

ART 22 Gogh in Peace Van Gogh

COVER STORY 10 Church vs. State The legislative battle over the statute of limitations on child sex abuse.

PHILLYNOW 6 On the Rights Track Q&A with Occupy candidate Nathan Kleinman.

6 Indecent Exposure Just because something is legal, doesn’t make it right.

Up Close is fine—if you can drown out the corporate sponsorships.

SCREEN 24 W.E. Need to Talk Madonna’s sophomore effort gets lost in the material world.

MUSIC 25 Dies Nuts South African rave-rappers Die Antwoord keep it real.

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A Dish Best Served Cold This column is a joke. It is poorly written bullshit that seems to try to sell restaurants to readers (why bother when everyone in the city has heard of, say, Zahav?), or is some misguided, column-filling attempt at highlighting a single segment of an eatery. You could fit the same amount of basic information three or four times over for three or four dishes in that column space rather than writing childlike, banal drivel.

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I love food, both eating and reading about it and this column would be a disaster written by anyone on your staff. There has to be something better.

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On the Rights Track

Occupy candidate for U.S. House says our freedoms are slipping away.

By Randy LoBasso rlobasso@philadelphiaweekly.com can do with the authority under the Patriot Act. We have the NDAA [National Defense Authorization Act], the most recent defense bill, which Congresswoman Schwartz voted for, just like the Patriot Act, which codified arbitrary indefinite detention. These are dangerous and I really believe our rights are slipping away and I don’t think we have enough people in Washington fighting for the people and fighting for our rights.

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On Jan. 24, Politico described 29-year-old Jenkintown native Nathan Kleinman as “the first Occupy candidate.” Kleinman, a member of Occupy Philadelphia since its fifth day at Dilworth Plaza, is running for the U.S. House of Representatives in the 13th District (parts of North, Northeast Philly, suburbs) against Democratic Rep. Allyson Schwartz. A moderate on fiscal issues, health care and taxes, Schwartz has become one of the Democrats’ rising stars and is considered by many the as frontrunner to take on Sen. Pat Toomey for the Senate in 2016. With that in mind, Kleinman, a graduate of Georgetown University and former aide to Joe Sestak’s 2010 campaign for U.S. Senate, believes that Schwartz can—and should—be challenged from the left. PW recently caught up with Kleinman and chatted about a range of topics that include his motivation for running, his place within the Occupy movement and the real burning question: Is this guy for real?

Based on a lot of press that I’ve seen, people can’t seem to figure out if you’re an Occupy member or an establishment Democrat. How do you define yourself?

I consider myself a human-rights activist.

I’ve worked on human-rights issues in other countries and I’ve worked on human-rights issues in this country. I look at my work in the Occupy movement in that context. And I also look at my run for Congress in that context.

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You said you fear that we’re losing our democracy. In what ways would you say that’s happening?

We have the Patriot Act, which has a classified legal interpretation so we don’t even know what the government believes it

What has the general reaction been to your run from people who aren’t affiliated with the Occupy movement?

I’ve received so much support from people in the district, people across Pennsylvania and people across the country … I have current and past chairs of local democratic committees circulating petitions for me.

I have support from elected officials, including the president of the board of commissioners in Cheltenham. People … who think it’s a bad idea for me to run against Allyson Schwartz, they say, ‘Well, what if you hurt her in the campaign and then we lose the district, or if you’re too progressive for the district?’ I say, ‘Have you looked at the new map?’ The Republicans gerrymandered the heck out of the 13th District and took all the more conservative areas and excised them from the 13th and handed them to the swing districts that are held by Republicans adjacent to this area. So now the district includes the most progressive parts of Montgomery County. It includes large, diverse working-class boroughs like Norristown, Ambler, Conshohocken and Lansdale. It includes a large swath of North Philadelphia as well; Olney, Oak Lane and Cheltenham. It is an incredibly Democratic district and there is no Republican that can possibly beat either one of us in November.

What role do you think the Occupy movement will play and already plays in electoral politics now?

The movement is nonpartisan. We had an interesting write-up in the Metro [Jan. 30]. They ridiculously said I was snubbed

by Occupy Philly when Occupy Philly voted to not endorse candidates. What the article failed to mention was I was there.

I supported that proposal and I agree that Occupy should not be supporting candidates. That’s the first step to being co-opted by mainstream politics. Occupy is engaged in a long-term movement for changing this country and it seeks to get to the roots of the problems. We recognize it’s going to be a long process and I fully expect to be a participant in Occupy Philadelphia ... when I retire from Congress in a few terms.

I know you’ve been working in the Occupy Free University and Vacant Lots programs. How has your involvement influenced the way you would conduct yourself as a representative of the 13th District?

I don’t believe, and most people in Occupy don’t believe, that government has all the answers. Or the government can solve all of our problems. I believe that people working together with their friends and their neighbors can achieve so much for their community and I believe it’s the job of a member of Congress to be a leader of a community ... There are plenty of people who are willing to volunteer their time to improve their communities and it takes real leadership to make that happen.

What do you think Allyson Schwartz and the rest of Congress have done to lengthen the recession we’re still suffering from today?

Congresswoman Schwartz voted to extend those Bush tax cuts on the rich.

She’s voted for quote-unquote free-trade agreements that ship jobs overseas. And in health care, which is supposed to be her best issue, she voted with Republicans and a handful of Democrats to scrap the most important cost-cutting measure in the Affordable Care Act, which is the Independent Payment Advisory Board—and very few people know that. I really believe that moderate Democrats in Congress, like Schwartz, have worked to undermine the president and haven’t had his back on important issues, like health care, like civil liberties, like tax cuts for the rich.

Schwartz is considered by many to be the frontrunner for the nomination for Senate against Pat Toomey in 2016.

How are you going to compete with all that cash, especially since you’re not accepting corporate donations?

I’ve already received a donation from as far away as Alaska. I’m already receiving support from free-thinking individuals all across this country. I think that’s the way—that’s the only way—to combat someone who has the ability to raise so much money from corporations and from wealthy friends. I know once people understand Congresswoman Schwartz’s true record, and once they understand I am a hardworking, serious, passionate individual who is well-prepared to be a United States congressman, I will win. n

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Read our full interview with Nathan Kleinman at philadelphiaweekly.com.

The Three Amigos Just because something’s legal, doesn’t make it right.

Incest has long been taboo among human societies for its propensity to produce deformed offspring. Among political circles in Philadelphia, however, incest is a cherished, closely guarded tradition, which might go a long way toward explaining our deformed government. Like our own little Gabriel García Márquez novel, everyone’s in bed together, while our mess of a city is left to be carried away by ants.

Question: What do City Controller Alan Butkovitz, Councilman Jim Kenney and the Philadelphia Parking Authority all have in common?

They all act with the strictest integrity only in the best interest of city residents?

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By Aaron Kase akase@philadelphiaweekly.com No, all three are connected by their muscular embrace of one Martin O’Rourke, a powerful political consultant who, according to documents obtained under the state’s Right-to-Know law, has raked in well over $1 million from them and others in the last decade. At least $500,000 of those contracts have been paid for by Philadelphia taxpayers, which is more than enough money for a Marian Tasco DROP payment (but only about half of what we coughed up to make Arlene Ackerman go away).

O’Rourke wears many hats. He does politics. He does public relations and marketing. He tweets. All strictly compartmentalized, mind you, when required by law.

So who cares? Well, the trouble comes with the nature of the offices held by the gentlemen in question. The city controller is responsible for auditing City Council and the PPA, and Council makes laws that can affect the PPA and the city controller.

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Butkovitz insists there is no conflict of interest in keeping the same PR guy as the others, and denies that O’Rourke ever gets involved in the audits.

“He doesn’t have anything to do with preparing statements,” the controller claims. “He’s working as a consultant for media and communications.”

O’Rourke didn’t return phone calls. Nor did Kenney. But the Parking Authority concurred with Butkovitz in their opinion that there’s nothing wrong at all with the cozy arrangement.

“The Parking Authority sees no conflict and Mr. O’Rourke has done a good job for the Parking Authority,” a PPA spokesperson wrote in an email.

There’s the rub. As long as O’Rourke is not (officially) involved in the laws and audits that affect his other clients, he is free to do business with whomever he pleases. And business is good.

From Kenney, O’Rourke has worked under contracts worth a total of $252,000

It’s a remarkable skill, to be able to navigate what appear to be blatant conflicts of interest, yet never step out of line and break the law.

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since 2001, records show. In his current deal, he earns $175 an hour for services like speech writing, research and setting up press conferences. From 2007 through 2009, he also worked for Councilman Brian O’Neill, pulling in a total of $108,000.

From our friendly controller, records show O’Rourke has landed $140,000 in contracts since 2006—and that’s in addition to at least $108,404.10 that campaign-finance records show Butkovitz’s campaign paid to O’Rourke in 2009 when he was serving as the controller’s campaign manager. See? Communications in the office, politics on the stump. He can pivot on a dime.

In the event O’Rourke ever loses his lucrative Council and controller jobs, he can probably still make ends meet; he has been on a $10,000-a-month retainer for the Parking Authority since 2003. That’s not funded by tax dollars but it’s still your money that goes into all those parking meters and tickets. Nice work, if you can get it.

The web gets more tangled. O’Rourke is in a long-term personal relationship with a member of the controller’s senior staff, but Butkovitz denies there’s anything fishy about handing out contracts for $30,000 per year to his staffer’s partner, noting that

the pair are not married nor immediate family, so no ethics rules are being broken.

“The Ethics Act defines the level of relationships that are regulated,” he says dryly.

It’s a remarkable skill, to be able to navigate what appear to be blatant conflicts of interest, yet never step out of line and break the law.

There have been occasional brushes with real trouble. Among his other clients, O’Rourke has worked for state Rep. William Keller and former state House Speaker John Perzel, who is currently awaiting sentencing for public-corruption charges. O’Rourke was never officially implicated in Perzel’s problems, but in 2010 his home office in Media was raided by the FBI as part of a campaign-spending investigation targeting Keller. Doesn’t look great on the resume, but to date no charges have been filed against the representative, who remains in office. As for O’Rourke?

None of this has bothered his clients.

“There are extensive federal investigations in Philadelphia right now,” Butkovitz shrugs. “In the absence of information, I just don’t jump to conclusions.”

See, unlike real-life incest, everything on record is perfectly legal as long as the players follow the letter of the law, though buying that line takes a certain suspension of disbelief on the part of an observer.

Paying a political heavyweight $175 an hour just to run media campaigns and set up press conferences sounds about as believable as a hippopotamus in the Schuylkill.

So, is the system rigged or not? Well, Butkovitz was widely panned by his opponents during his 2009 re-election campaign for giving a powder-puff audit to the Parking Authority. And Kenney over the past few years has proposed handing off to the PPA regulation of tow-trucks, vehicle business licenses and private parking lots. Then it was Perzel, of course, who engineered the state takeover of the authority in 2001 and facilitated its massive expansion and forays into red-light cameras, taxi and limousine regulation and the Live Stop towing program. Connect the dots: O’Rourke’s biggest clients all are working to expand or protect the Parking Authority, his best client of all.

But surely, there’s no real collusion here.

No conflict of interest, not even as Kenney, Butkovitz, O’Rourke and the PPA perform a cabaret kick line while singing a rousing chorus of “I’m My Own Grandpa,” while the whole production’s paid for with your money. It’s just business as usual. It’s what we do in Philadelphia. n Aaron Kase runs the Philadelphia Exposure Project, which aims to uncover business as usual in Philly politics. Find out what he knows on phillyxp.com or twitter.com/phillyxp.

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s 78-year-old state Rep. Louise Williams Bishop (D-Philadelphia) began to speak to a crowd gathered in the rotunda of the capitol in Harrisburg at a public meeting in November, her voice wavered and shook, belying her decades of experience in public speaking as a polished politician, Baptist minister and radio DJ. Shaky, Bishop revealed a secret she had held inside for six decades. “I discovered someone in the bed with me. [He was] doing a little more than feeling and touching,” she told the hushed audience, recalling the night when her stepfather first raped her.

Bishop, who was 12 at the time, says that when she awoke to find her stepfather in her bed, she “didn’t know how to react. I was afraid. There was fear. Fear in what my sisters, if they awakened, would think.

Fear if I told my mother what she would say. Fear if my grandfather found out, he would have taken a shotgun and killed somebody and went to jail.”

“So I lived with that fear,” and the secret, “all these years.” Even as a minister listening to survivors, who at 35, 40 years old were revealing their own childhood sex abuse, Bishop remained silent about her own. She never even told her husband.

But here, surrounded by child abuse survivors and in the shock and turmoil of allegations against former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky, Bishop says she was moved to share her story.

“I was standing in front of people with stories that people may not have believed,” she says of that moment. “I had not planned to talk, to tell them about my experience, but when I saw them … I could not walk away from that without letting them know I understood, I’ve been through it, and that we were going to do everything we could do for them.”

What she means is: She’s not going to give up on abolishing the statute of limitations in Pennsylvania, because she knows how and why it can take a long time, a lifetime even, to come forward about having been abused. Bishop says that the burden she sees in the men she counsels does not expire, so the time period when survivors can come forward and press charges shouldn’t expire, either. She says it’s not about the money that could be won in a civil suit, but it helps, because survivors often need, and deserve, therapy and treatment.

“They need as much help as they can get to overcome that horrible experience and try to live a normal life,” says Bishop. “They don’t even start talking about it until they are 30, or 40, or 50 years old.”

Last February, Bishop introduced House Bill 832, a bill to eliminate the statute of limitations on sexual abuse of children in Pennsylvania. Current Pennsylvania statutes give survivors up until the age of 50 to file a criminal suit and until 30 to file a civil suit against their abusers. HB 832 would abolish the age limit altogether.

Bishop introduced the bill alongside Rep. Mike McGeehan’s HB 878, which would install a two-year “window,” a temporary time period in which survivors who otherwise aged out of the statute of limitation (SOL) could still file civil suits.

Sometimes called the “look-back window,” states around the country, including Delaware, have implemented the windows in the wake of child sex abuse scandals.

SOL reformists see window legislation as a tool to identify predators.

Indeed, after California passed a one-year window legislation in 2002, about 1,000 survivors came forward, and the names of more than 300 alleged perpetrators were identified, according to

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By Tara Murtha tmurtha@philadelphiaweekly.com constitutional law expert and omnipresent SOL reform advocate Marci Hamilton, of Bucks County. Of the suits filed, about 850 were relevant to the Catholic Church.

The California experiment yielded interesting results: While it confirmed that indeed many survivors wait decades to come forward, it also sparked a backlash against SOL reform that was spearheaded, insiders say, by the Catholic Church.

In response, Church lobbyists across the country have repeatedly framed SOL reform as both a moneygrab and as evidence of anti-Catholic bias.

Advocates in Harrisburg say the battle of statute of limitation reform is much bigger, and uglier, than Republicans versus Democrats. It boils down to church versus state.

Now, between the upcoming trial against Philadelphia priests accused of child sex abuse, the Penn State scandal and an administration that just declared 2012 the “Year of the Bible” in Pennsylvania, that battle has never been more intense and line has never been more blurry.

The echo Chambers Pennsylvania legislators have been introducing bills to reform the statute of limitation for years, mostly to no avail.

Sen. Lisa Boscola (D-Lehigh/Monroe/Northhampton) has introduced bills every year since at least 2005.

According to her office, none has ever made it on the agenda or to a public hearing. In 2007, former Rep. Lisa Bennington (D-Allegheny) introduced HB 1137, an SOL bill known as the Child Victim’s Act of Pennsylvania.

It was referred to the Judiciary Committee in May of that year, where it died of neglect, along with the rest.

Sickened by the behind-the-scene politicking over SOL reform, Bennington deserted Harrisburg after only two years to go back to the relatively pleasant industry of divorce mediation.

After introducing the legislation for three consecutive years, Bishop’s HB 832 has been stalled, along with McGeehan’s HB 878, gathering dust on the not-to-do list of the House Judiciary Committee for almost a year.

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Rep. Thomas Caltagirone (D-Berks), the majority and minority chairs of the Judiciary Committee, respectively, as roadblocks. “I spoke to bills 878 and 832 when they were introduced by McGeehan and Bishop,” says Sister Maureen Turlish, a South Philly-born-and-raised Catholic nun and staunch SOL advocate who played a key role in Delaware SOL reform. “The problem seems to be that the House Chair Ron Marsico … won’t let them into discussion.”

Even McGeehan’s office says they’ve been frozen out by Marsico.

“We have, together with Rep. Bishop, written both Marsico and minority chairman Thomas R. Caltagirone (D-Berks) several times asking them to move the bills, we have no written response back to date,” says a spokesperson from McGeehan’s office. “This SOL issue has been vetted in one form of another for many years … and we just feel that it’s time to have a hearing. If there are arguments, then let them come out in the hearing. But at least give the advocates of the bill the opportunity to get it out there and give victims the chance to present their point of view.”

Among grassroots organizations advocating for reform, Marsico’s become a villain. “Our group has pounded him quite steadily since the fall to try to get these bills put on the agenda,” says Maureen Martinez, co-founder of Justice4PAKids, an activist organization put together last year explicitly to advocate for SOL reform and child sex abuse education in Pa. In a letter to Hamilton, Marsico explained his point of view. It read in part, “What may seem to be a prudent response in the wake of a well-publicized criminal allegation may have implications that undermine other important values for which our Commonwealth stands.”

Martinez isn’t buying it. “We’ve also talked to a lot of judiciary committee members and they say there’s nothing they can do. He’s completely road-blocking the bills by not even putting them on the agenda. That’s just not right. We live in a democracy and one man has so much control that he’s the only guy who sets the agenda?”

What advocates really think though, is that the Catholic Church, via the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference, is setting the agenda.

Former Rep. Bennington says that after her brief run through the SOL spin cycle, she only has two words to say about the debacle: “Catholic Conference.”

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A report issued last fall by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life indicates that on a national level, the amount of money religious lobbyists spend to influence policy has increased steadily and dramatically in the last few decades.

The lobbying arm of the Catholic Church is the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference, the public affairs arm of Pennsylvania’s Catholic bishops and the Catholic dioceses of Pennsylvania. Though it is not possible to know exactly how much money the PA Catholic Conference has spent lobbying against SOL reform in the state, the report reveals that in 2009, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops spent $26,662,111 influencing national policy, second only to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. The USCCB disputes the report’s claims.

Though the PA Catholic Conference, for the most part, stays publicly quiet on the matter of statue of limitation—

choosing instead to tweet and post newsletters focusing on school vouchers, abortion and contraception—advocates report they’ve encountered their representatives all over Harrisburg, “stealthily” campaigning against reform. “[Reform] would mean implicating bishops and cardinals and monsignors, and that’s why they’re fighting so viciously over this, and it is vicious,” says Tammy Lerner, vice president of The Foundation to Abolish Sex Abuse.

Lerner says she met with the Pa. Catholic Conference across the table at one point.

“There’s no talking with them, the answers they will give you are canned from their lawyers, they don’t waver off it ... and they are not willing to take any responsibility.”

A sex-abuse survivor who got involved with the cause in 2001, Lerner says negotiating SOL reform back then was like playing a game of “whac-a-mole. You had to keep squashing down the objections to it … at every turn there was a new strategy to try to kill it, or try to gut it.”

PA Catholic Conference spokesperson Amy Hill declined to discuss SOL reform with PW, saying it was a “sensitive issue.” However, Hill emailed a prepared statement, which reads in part: “Over the years Pennsylvania increased the statute of limitations on sex abuse cases from age 20 to 50 for criminal prosecutions and age 20 to 30 for civil actions. The PCC did not oppose these bills. However, the

case won’t go any place.”

While the statement doesn’t mention the fear of financial cost of settling lawsuits, that is the No. 1 argument advocates say they have heard from Catholic Conference lobbyists on the hill.

According to the John Jay report, the sex-abuse related costs totaled $573 million, with $219 million covered by insurance companies.

Coming Out

In September 2005, the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office published the 423-page grand jury report outlining claims of sexual abuse and an institutional cover-up in the Philadelphia Archdiocese. The allegations included a priest who allegedly impregnated an 11-year-old girl through rape, then took her to get an abortion; a boy awoke in a priest’s bed, dazed from intoxication, to find one priest sucking on his penis while three more watched and masturbated; a teenage girl, immobilized by traction in a hospital bed, molested by a priest until she rang the bell for a nurse. In all, the report named 62 priests as alleged abusers. But none of them could be charged due to the statute of limitations.

“The abuser priests, by choosing children as targets and trafficking on their trust, were able to prevent or delay reports of their sexual assaults, to the point where applicable statutes of limitations expired,” wrote the Archbishop Charles Chaput grand jury. “And Archdiocese officials, by burying those reports … managed to outlast any statutes of limitation. As a result, these priests and officials will necessarily escape criminal prosecution. We surely would have charged them if we could have done so.”

The 2005 grand jury’s top-priority recommendation was: “Abolish the statute of limitations for sexual offenses against children, as several other states have already done.”

The Archdiocese fired back in a 76-page response to the report issued through their longtime attorneys of Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young. In it, the church called the grand jury report a project of “exceptional hostility driven by fixed opinions, unbridled cage rattling and insidious pre-judgments about the Catholic Church” and a “vile, mean-spirited diatribe against the Church and the Archdiocese.”

Charlie Gallagher, lead prosecutor on the 2005 report, Catholic Church does not support a retroactive suspension recalls how the church came out swinging against the of civil statutes of limitations creating a ‘window’ in cases efforts to reform SOLs. “The Catholic Church and the involving the sexual abuse of minors from many years ago. insurance lobbyists fought against this all through 2006,” “Opening a ‘window’ on the statute of limitations for says Gallagher, who worked closely with newly minted damages claims against non-perpetrators is flawed because statutes of limitations exist to ensure a just verdict City Councilman Dennis O’Brien, then a legislator in Harrisburg championing SOL reform. can be reached. Over time, memories fade, evidence is They managed to extend the criminal statute of lost or never found, and in many instances perpetrators or limitation to age 50. witnesses may be deceased. The passage of time makes it “It was one of the heaviest-lifting things I ever did,” says nearly impossible for a Church or any other organization to O’Brien. “And I did a lot of stuff.” But it still has not, as the defend itself against allegations from 30, 40 and 50 years grand jury recommended in 2005, been abolished. ago. For similar reasons we do not support the proposal to Lerner, 41, learned about the SOL when she and her abolish the statute of limitations in both criminal and civil cousin (also a victim) went to the D.A. in Union County, cases of childhood sexual abuse from this point forward.”

Pa., to file charges against a family member they say raped In the John Jay study on clergy and sex abuse them for years, starting when Lerner was 4 years old. commissioned by the U.S. Bishops, the writers went to “We thought he was going to be arrested after we came great lengths to emphasize that the vast majority of sex forward because he admitted he raped us,” she says. “[But] abuse by the clergy was in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s. So, he wasn’t. That’s when we found out what the SOLs were.” while on one hand, the church admits there are many He is free, but in many ways, she is not. survivors abused in this era, they argue the abuse would “I just saw him over Thanksgiving, came face to face be impossible to prove in court. Turlish says that point is with him, and didn’t know what to do … It’s a horrible, moot. “I defend anyone’s right to due process, but it’s the horrible feeling to know that you have the power within plaintiff’s responsibility in the civil case to provide proof. you to be able to tell, you have the knowledge to be able So if the people are all dead, if there are no records ... the

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"It’s a horrible, horrible feeling to know that you have the power within you to be able to prevent other children’s lives from being ruined and the law in Pennsylvania says I’m not allowed to. I’m not allowed to help other kids to not get raped.” to prevent other children’s lives from being ruined and the law in Pennsylvania says I’m not allowed to. I’m not allowed to help other kids to not get raped.”

As for the Catholic Church, Lerner says: “They keep saying things are changing but they’re not changing. The second grand jury report says they’re still harboring these criminals, still protecting them.”

Last February, District Attorney Seth Williams issued a second grand jury report on the Philadelphia Archdiocese.

In the 2005 report, Avery was accused of abusing a 12-year-old boy in the late 1970s while an assistant pastor at St. Philip Neri in Pennsburg. After undergoing a psychological evaluation at St. John Vianney Hospital—a facility often scapegoated for recommending molester priests return to work, that it also owned by the Philadelphia Archdiocese—Avery resigned as pastor of St. Therese of the Child Jesus and was placed on health leave for four months before being re-assigned as chaplain at Nazareth Hospital. Ten years later, in 2003, he was placed on administrative leave. He is charged with raping a boy referred to in the report as “Billy,” sometime between 1998 and 2000, when the boy was between 10 and 12 years old. Father Charles Engelhardt, 64, and teacher Bernard Shero, 47, face charges of raping the same boy.

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When Archbishop Cardinal Justin Rigali retired from The Philadelphia Archdiocese last year, Pope Benedict XVI called on Rev. Charles Chaput, who served as the archbishop of Denver since 1997, to replace him. While most Philadelphians hadn’t heard of Reverend Chaput, SOL reform advocates had—and they weren’t happy to hear he was moving East.

Though admirers credit Chaput with handling sensitive investigations such as the one into the Legionaries of Christ, Chaput is also credited with squashing SOL reform in Denver.

“Oh we knew,” says Lerner. “I worked with Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) and we both were very much aware of what was going on in Denver, what he did, the tactics he employed out there. It really didn’t shock me when they sent him here to Philadelphia.

It was a smart move on their part.”

As the Colorado Independent put it in a headline at the time, “Penn. Lawmakers Seeking to Bolster Sex Abuse Laws Will Have to Outmaneauver Chaput: Archbishop defeated similar efforts in Colorado with hardball highend lobbying and PR campaigns.”

The debacle in Denver is well-documented.

“Denver Bishop Charles J Chaput succeeded in defeating legislative reform in Colorado through shameless (and expensive) antics,” wrote Marci Hamilton in Justice Denied, a primer on statute of limitation reform, years before knowing Chaput would be cherry-picked to deal with the crisis in Philadelphia. Hamilton, who consulted on the 2005 Grand Jury report, called what went down in Denver one of the “bloodiest battles” in SOL reform yet.

Chaput’s hallmark is calling on Catholics to more directly participate in politics.

In his book, Render Unto Caesar: Serving the Nation

by Living Our Catholic Beliefs in Political Life, Chaput meditates at length on the relationship between church and state.

“The one thing the ‘establishment clause’ cannot mean,” writes Chaput, “is for religious believers and communities to be silent in public affairs.”

In the book, Chaput rails against secularism.

“Secularism as a cult—the kind of rigid separationism where the state treats religion as a scary and unstable guest—hollows out the core of what it means to be human.”

He concludes, “Of course, turnabout is fair play. Believers can push back.”

Chaput also writes about the anti-Catholic bias that he sees as “a kind of background radiation to daily life.”

Charges of anti-Catholic prejudice were key to the Denver strategy, which reportedly included hiring a boutique PR firm, writing and distributing sermons for pastors to read from the pulpit and asking churchgoers to fill out postcards with messages on them to be mailed to legislators.

Gwyn Green was the sponsor of legislation that would have lifted the statute of limitation and created a window.

“The Archdiocese fought it quite a bit,” says Green, 73, on the phone from her home in Golden, Colorado. “Actually the Catholic Conference, and then it seems that they reached the insurance companies who said to the members of the legislature, ‘If you pass this legislation, we will no longer insure your public schools’ so I lost the votes to pass that.”

The main message went roughly like this: Window legislation is anti-Catholic bias unless a companion bill opens a window on possible lawsuits against public schools.

“The information I got was that the Catholic Conference brought in national lobbyists and as I understand it, a great deal of money was being spent to defeat the bill, which they were successful at,” says Green. “Every week in the Denver Catholic Register, Joan Fitz-Gerald, the president of the Senate and I were vilified … They smeared our reputation and with many people it ruined our reputations, and that continues to this day.”

Green says she and Sen. Fitz-Gerald were called names.

“Both of us are very Catholic and accused of being anti-Catholic, of trying to destroy the church, all that nonsense.”

The experience changed Green, who retired for health reasons in 2009 and now goes to an Episcopalian church.

Green says the idea that SOL reform is an attack on the Catholic Church is ridiculous. “When I ran this legislation, I wasn’t even thinking of the Catholic Church, I was thinking of children.”

Green says that when she and her colleagues heard Chaput was heading here, they felt “relief for Denver. And … concern for Philadelphia.”

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Whatever muscle Archbishop Chaput may or may not bring to the fight against SOL reform in Pennsylvania, SOL reformists recently got an unexpected push for their cause, too: the Penn State scandal.

“A state chooses a new limit, and then and a new horrible case becomes known, and the state says, ‘we have to move

it again,’” says Hamilton. “We have been liberalizing SOL step by step across the country in virtually every state.”

“Step-by-step” really means “scandal-by-scandal.”

“It’s horrible to say, it’s a horrible experience for those children, and it’s horrible for Penn State which had a stellar reputation, but good things come from bad things,” says Rep. Bishop. “I don’t think we ever would be having this conversation [if the Penn State scandal hadn’t happened.] I know that I never would have talked about it.”

After the scandal broke, with the eyes of the nation on Pennsylvania, Gov. Tom Corbett assembled the Task Force for Child Protection, an 11-member coalition tasked with combing through Pennsylvania laws related to child sex abuse. “This task force has a tremendously important job,” Corbett said at the time. “It will provide input to help us strengthen state laws and ensure every Pennsylvania child receives the protection from harm they deserve.”

Statute of limitation, however, is not on the Task Force agenda.

Certainly, an analysis is needed: According to the Department of Health and Human Services 2010 Child Maltreatment Report, Pennsylvania is a statistical outlier in the investigation and determination of child abuse. We investigate child abuse 8.3 per 1,000 children versus 40.3 per 1,000 children nationally, and then we determine a child is a victim of child abuse 1.4 per 1,000 children versus 9.3 per 1,000 nationally.

The low numbers are not, as evident by scandals that made Pennsylvania look like the poster state for child sex abuse last year, due to lower incidence than elsewhere.

But there’s good news. Bishop says that for the first time, she participated in a real conversation in Harrisburg about SOL reform. She says that two weeks ago she sat down with both Rep. Marsico and Rep. Caltagirone.

“I don’t know if my bill per se will move, but I’ll tell you this, it’s moving enough that there’s been a meeting on it, there’s been talk on it … which I’ve never had before. It is now in Chairman Marsico’s committee, it was always in Democratic committee chairman Thomas Caltagirone and he wanted no discussion on it, none whatsoever, I have had one discussion with [Marsico], he didn’t say yes or no.”

Rep. Caltagirone declined to comment.

As for Church’s argument that pursuing statute of limitation reform is anti-Catholic, Pennsylvania’s scandals have pretty much defanged that theory. “The fact that the Penn State scandal and now [the Conlin case] have also hit the fan, in a sense, that can effectively defuse the accusation that, ‘Oh this anti-Catholic,’” says Sister Maureen Turlish.

“The one thing they didn’t count on,” says Lerner, “was the Penn State scandal and the Syracuse scandal, and on people getting educated on the issue.”

Just in the last few days, insiders are buzzing the movement on current bills, if anything, will likely be to extend the civil statute of limitations from age 30 to age 50. Which is a start.

But the window, for now that remains shut, with survivors like Rep. Bishop who took decades to speak out, locked out of the courthouse, looking in. n

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A$AP Rocky Wanna prep for the analogy section of the 2012 Rap Test? A$AP Rocky is to A$AP Mob as Tyler, the Creator is to Odd Future. Last year we met the young Harlem spitter A$AP Rocky (aka “that pretty muthafucka”) when his whitegirl-with-grillz vid for “Purple Swag” went viral.

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Thanks in large part to the overarching brilliance of his legendary travel narratives— especially 1989’s Video Night in Kathmandu, one of the earliest books to look at the effects of globalism through a pop-culture lens—the British-born Pico Iyer is most often thought of as one of our generation’s finest travel writers.

Iyer is the sort of visionary able to distill the essence of our quickly shrinking universe into language that is both whip-smart and easily digestible. During his upcoming appearance, Iyer plans to speak informally about the craft of writing, after which he’ll entertain questions.

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Mega-Bad Movie Night The only thing better than attending a really bad movie at the 69th street movie theater— where it is not only allowed, but expected to yell at the screen throughout the movie—is attending a really bad movie at the Academy of Natural Sciences and sharing your heckles with scientists. The academy will open its doors after hours and position experts onstage to comment on the many scientific absurdities and impossibilities during The Lost World: Jurassic Park, like a live Mystery Science Theater. The museum will even open its doors an hour and a half before the film, so you can have a chance to roam the museum with beer and snacks in hand. Let’s drink to science! abigail brUlEy 8pm. $15. Academy of Natural Sciences, 1900 Ben Franklin Pkwy. ansp.org

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Howlin’ Rain To those who know Ethan Miller from his previous gig as the leader of Psychedelic scorchers Comets on Fire, the sound of his new unit Howlin’ Rain might be a hard duck to swallow. There’s no real crazed, over-the-top guitar damage to be found on their upcoming full-length The Russian Wilds. What you do get is a supersonic conglomeration of goodtime grooves that wouldn’t sound out of place emanating from a muscle car in the age of hip-huggers and eight-track tapes. Crate diggers will cite Terry Reid, Trapeze or even Steely Dan upon initial blasting, while your uncle who lives in the garage will probably say it sounds just like Foghat at the Spectrum in ’76 after three bong hits and 10 Miller High Lifes. Throw in opening sets by Manhattan’s skewed rural rockers D. Charles Speer and the Helix as well as those hometown heroes of Lumber Rock and Watery Love, and you’re talking the best goddamned bill this city’s seen all goddamned year. tony rEttMan 9pm. $10. Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N.Frankford Ave. johnnybrendas.com

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Like fellow Texans Explosions in the Sky, This Will Destroy favors cinematic, instrumentally based, epicly uplifting drama with guitar lines that shiver luminously in grey penumbras of drone. Understand, though, that you’ll have to bring your own story line. The bill that This Will Destroy You close—synthetically celestial Mountains, jangle-shamanic Amen Dunes and Philly’s own Power Animal—is high on atmospherics, but remarkably low on narratives.

Even so, whatever movie is playing in your own head, it’ll look and feel better with these bands as a soundtrack. JEnnifEr KElly 8pm. $12. First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St. r5productions.com

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Knives in Hens When Theatre Exile last staged a play by David Harrower, 2009’s Blackbird, the result was the best production of the entire season. This week, Exile returns to the talented Scottish

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6pm. $40-$50, Crane Arts Building, 1400 N. American St. 215.235.3405. inliquid.org

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Canyon Luminaries Avant-garde cinema has always been difficult to see, which is why in 1961 Bruce Baillie, with help from Chick Strand, founded Canyon Cinema. What began as a program to bring independent cinema to San Francisco soon blossomed into a collective of filmmakers and cinephiles, and then into a distribution company, as it exists today. Baillie and Strand also evolved, both turning into legendary filmmakers of “poetic documentaries,” where mood and feeling take precedence over cold facts.

This week, the two get successively screened programs at I-House. On hand will be many of Baillie’s early work, ranging from Here I Am, an atmospheric look at a school for disturbed children, to the superimposition-heavy Castro Street. Where Baillie is meditative, Strand is outrageously alive with colors and tight closeups, as you’ll see in Waterfall, Kristallnacht and, completed after her 2009 death, Señora con Flores. Matt Prigge 5pm and 7pm. $7-$9. International House, 3701 Chestnut St. 215.387.5125. ihousephilly.org

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has become The Kids In The Hall of the iPod generation. After performing around New York after graduating college, the troupe sold their own sketch show to cable network Fuse in 2006. The first season was an underground hit, but after disagreements about content censorship, the show moved to competing channel IFC, where it aired four more seasons, ending its run last year. Though it featured the crude humor that young people oh so crave, the show could still be whip-smart, often blending in the stupidity of our culture with the quaint days of yore. In perhaps the show’s best moment, the group tells the real story of the Lincoln assassination at Ford’s Theatre—the president wasn’t murdered over political disagreements, but because Abe was loud and obnoxious during the play, telling John Wilkes Booth to “Suck my presidential cock, bitch!” BryaN BierMaN 8pm. $16-$18. Trocadero, 1003 Arch St. 215.922.6888. thetroc.com

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Old Baby Heroes old and new from Louisville, Ky.’s storied post-rock/post-hardcore scene come together in the just-formed combo Old Baby.

At the core of the noisy, arty psych-rock quartet are Todd Cook—who played bass in the Shipping News, the For Carnation, and the reunited Slint—and singer-guitarist Evan Patterson, who fronts the excellent post-hardcore trio Young Widows. Old Baby’s debut EP, Misunderstanding Human Behavior, is coming out at the end of the month. We’ve heard one track so far, “Pale as Man,” and it lives up to the band’s pedigree—a dark, tension-filled burner inside which Patterson’s grave baritone gets shoved around by the grimy, dynamic rhythm section and sucker-punched by wah-ed out, resin-caked guitar riffs. From the sound of it, Old Baby deserves a warm Philly welcome tonight for just their third date outside of Louisville. MiChaeL aLaN goLdBerg

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Romantic dinner for two? Long walk on the beach? Nope, Valentine’s Day is taking on a whole new level (literally) this year with Philadelphia School of Circus Art’s Double the Love. At this intro to circus workshop, love really will be in the air as couples learn how to fly with doubles trapeze, figure out how to work together in doubles acrobatics and keep from falling by balancing on doubles tightwire.

No special experience or skills are required, and workshop activities are geared specifically toward beginners. So, if you’re out of ideas to make this Valentine’s Day actually special, here is something original to check try. trishULa PateL

8pm. $8. Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St. kungfunecktie.com

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The idea for Ladysmith Black Mambazo came to founder Joseph Shabalala during the early ’60s in recurring dreams that featured angelic choirs in perfect harmony. Forged in South Africa, their connection to negro spirituals and gospel manifests in soulful haunting beauty that obviates the need to understand their native tongue. (See last year’s “children’s album,” Songs from A Zulu Farm, hardly distinguish-

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able from their “adult” albums aside from the farm animal sounds between songs.) Their collaboration with Paul Simon on Graceland made them stars, and since Nelson Mandela’s release they’ve become cultural ambassadors. They’re supporting a career-spanning compilation of collaborative tracks made with artists like Taj Mahal, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Sarah McClachlan. Chris

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ounded in 1996 by Philly native Matthew Hart as a way to use his interest in puppetry, street theater and pageantry to promote social and political change, Spiral Q Theater has become a nationally acclaimed organization, known for their award-winning arts education programming. Now, you’re invited to join as they celebrate their 15th anniversary and award the winners of the 2012 Q-Awards honoring community members and organizations that reflect Spiral Q’s core values: challenging discrimination, working collaboratively, using sustainable practices and inspiring a better city through art. This year’s award-winners include local photographer Peter Lein who has promoted awareness of HIV/AIDS advocacy through his work for the past twenty years and Philly’s all-ages anti-war activist group Granny Peace Brigade.

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Anne Rice For those who are experiencing unrequited love this Valentine’s Day, prolific author Anne Rice will be at the Free Library to promote her new book, The Wolf Gift.

Rice, who is a virtuoso at maximizing the erotica in her tales of unrequited love, will be interviewed by Edward Pettit, the Philly Poe Guy. Before the Twilight series made vampires a household word, Rice’s Interview of the Vampire fueled many an adolescent and grown women’s fantasies. After tackling vampires, witches and angels in her previous bestselling 28 books, her loyal readers will not be surprised that Rice has chosen to write about the legend of the werewolf in her latest book. Naturally, the book commences with a bite from the Man Wolf. L.g.

7:30pm. $7-$15. Free Library of Philadelphia, 1901 Vine St. 215.567.4341. freelibrary.org

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Cassadee Pope It’s unclear whether Cassadee Pope—an early 20-something, emo-pretty singer with awesome hair who, until very recently, fronted a pop-punk band full of dudes (Hey Monday)—got so fed up with endless comparisons to Paramore’s Hayley Williams that she decided to split and go about reinventing herself. But we wouldn’t be surprised if that were the case. In the wake of Hey Monday’s December announcement of their “indefinite hiatus,” Pope launched her solo endeavor with an acoustic tour that might be the best way to showcase a polished voice more suited for a mainstream country-pop career than yet another slot on the Warped Tour. Tonight’s show may offer a glimpse into Pope’s future, but we fully expect to see her on CMT before long. Bonus info (learned from Yahoo Answers): If you want hair like Cassadee, you’re going to have to wet your bangs, apply leave-in conditioner, and then put your bangs in a clip, preferably overnight. M.a.g.

7:30pm. $15. With Stephen Jerzak + Darling Parade. First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St. r5productions.com

Sat., Feb. 11, 8pm. $75-$85. The Ethical Society Building, 1906 Rittenhouse Sq. 215.222.6979. spiralq.org

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bar with his grandmother’s diamond ring atop a piece of his wife’s favorite dark chocolate cake. So, yeah, the guy knows a bit about romance and food. We asked him what makes a meal—or, in his case, a confection—sexy. His answer: Going out of your way for appropriate ingredients and taking your time when preparing whatever dish it is you’re making.

For a romantic night out, Eric and his wife head to Bistrot La Minette for the warm service, ruby red decor and cassoulet, a dish the couple first enjoyed on their honeymoon in France. “If we want dessert, we usually have it at home above the shop,” he says. “I love having coffee with my ice cream or espresso. I feel like I need it to balance out the sweetness.”

For Valentine’s Day at Franklin Fountain and the newly renovated Shane Confectionary, the Berley Brothers have a few new menu items. At Franklin Fountain, they’ll debut a black forrest ice cream (chocolate base, brandied cherries and black forrest cake) and an ice cream soda with strawberry and coconut ice cream.

Skip the drugstore box of candies and head to Shane’s for the real, homemade deal. They’ll feature sexy little truffles like a traditional Italian flavor with chestnut and port wine fittingly called, ahem, Nipples of Venus. “No one says ‘sensuous and delicious’ all in one like the Queen of Love, Venus,” says Eric. We won’t disagree.

Whether you pooh-pooh Valentine’s like Cicala or are a romantic like Eric, there’s no reason to stay home on the 14th. And, for God’s sake, if you happen to make it out somewhere, don’t salt the food before you taste it! n

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The Debbie Downers in your life might whine that Valentine’s Day is a bullshit “Hallmark holiday,” but in Philly, it’s really just another excuse—like you need one—to enjoy a great meal.

“If you’re cooking for somebody, you’re trying to provide pleasure to that person,” says Chef Michael O’Halloran of Bistro 7. “It’s intimate because it requires all the physical senses.” O’Halloran spends most of his time in the kitchen at work, but still finds time to cook for his wife when home. He prefers to make her comfort food, but they celebrate anniversaries at Lacroix. “It’s elegant without being uptight,” he says.

For a more casual scene, the couple revisits their first date at Dmitri’s. “I felt like a big shot, 15 years ago [Dmitri’s] was really jumping before there were 15 other BYOBs,” says O’Halloran. He enjoys the intimacy the tiny restaurant’s Catherine Street location provides.

Bistro 7 will be staying true to its seasonal dishes for Valentine’s and won’t be gauging you with special “For Lovers Only” menus or handing out roses.

Some restaurants go over the top with special prix fixe menus, but Joe Cicala of Le Virtu promises to offer fresh and homemade dishes on its set-priced menu with most items perfect to share—or not. When pressed about his thoughts on love and cooking, Cicala confesses we’ve got the wrong guy: He hates Valentine’s Day. And though that makes it sound as if he’s a bit of a

Valentine’s Grinch, he has a pretty swoon-worthy go-to for the at-home date: “Women are terrified to cook for chefs ... so I usually like to do something interactive where my date could help out. Teach them how to make fresh pasta, like gnocchi. Get their hands dirty. That’s always kind of fun.”

Cicala uses food to weed out incompatible dates. If she orders a salad (“Forget about it”), if she brings Franzia or Carlo Rossi to a BYO (“I’d probably just walk out”) or if she seasons her food before tasting it (“It’s just plain insulting to the chef”).

He jokes these stipulations make him sound high maintenance, but the reverse is also true. For instance, if he took a date to his favorite restaurant on Passyunk, Fond, and “she got the crudo, the foie gras, pork belly (or) pigeon, I would probably ask her to marry me before dessert,” he says.

And what can one expect for dessert on Valentine’s Day at Le Virtu? Cicala’s pastry chef is still planning the menu, but, “there’s going to be something chocolate because of the whole aphrodisiac bullshit,” snarfs the Grinch.

Whether or not you believe chocolate gets you or your date in the mood, there’s no denying it takes center stage on Valentine’s Day. Just ask soda-jerk and now candy shop owner Eric Berley, who runs Franklin Fountain and Shane Confectionary with his brother, Ryan.

Eric proposed marriage two winters ago in a chocolate

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Lacroix 210 West Rittenhouse Sq. 215.790.2533. lacroixrestaurant.com

Dmitri’s 795 S. Third St. 215.625.0556. dmitrisrestaurant.com

Le Virtu 1927 E. Passyunk Ave. 215.271.5626. levirtu.com

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Love is in the Air

A roundup of Valentine’s Day events that will help you get through this manufactured holiday.

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nfinkbiner@philadelphiaweekly.com 1812’s Funny Valentine

Featuring some of Philly’s finest comedic talents, this annual cabaret of music and comedy promises to be the funniest Valentine you’ll receive. Mon/13, 8pm. $15.

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Sweetheart Skate

What’s more romantic than holding hands with your significant other as you clumsily skate around a regulation-sized rink to your favorite love songs? Guests receive a free photo keepsake, chocolate treats and free roses for the ladies—while supplies last. Tues/14, 6pm. $20. Blue Cross RiverRink, Columbus Blvd. at Market St. 215.925.7465. riverrink.com

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alentine’s Day isn’t about showering your significant other with gifts. Nor is it an excuse to sit home and weep uncontrollably while listening to Lionel Richie’s greatest hits on repeat. It’s about making time in your busy schedule to enjoy the people you care about, unapologetically eating your weight in chocolate and maybe getting laid. So whether you’re single or attached, here are some things going on in the city that’ll help you realize the true meaning of the holiday.

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Slated to be one of the last performances at the Tritone—the beloved South Philly music venue—this anti-Valentine’s cabaret features a lineup of local and internationally renown musicians and artists, all of whom will be performing in protest of the corporatization of love. The show is also a benefit for Collage, the three-day collaborative arts festival going down in May. Tues/14, $10. Tritone, 1508 South St. 215.545.0475. tritonebar.com

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You’ll have only one night to catch the Philly premiere of Neil Haven’s unconventional romantic comedy. Starring a young cast of rising local stars, the show revolves around two roommates who exploit a dating website, playing pranks on unsuspecting women. Laugh at all the antics, desperation and desire that goes into a “real” relationship. Tues/14, 8:30pm and 10pm. $10. Plays & Players Theatre, 1714 Delancey St. playsandplayers.org

Peek-A-Boo Revue

As always, Philly’s premiere neo-burlesque show delivers a night of classic song and dance with a sexy sense of humor. You have two chances to catch the beauties strip down, but they’ll be kicking the heat up a notch for the later, strictly over-21 show.

Sun/12, 5:30pm and 8:30pm. $19. World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St. 215.222.1400. worldcafelive.com

Valentine’s Party and Movie Tuesday: Blue Valentine

As if watching an Oscar-winning indie film starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams isn’t a big enough incentive, the Troc is celebrating V-Day with a full-on bash. In addition to free candy grams and arts and crafts, guests are invited to share their dating horror stories for a chance to win a prize. The best/worst stories will be read after the film. Arrive before 7 p.m. and score yourself a free beer and a bag of popcorn. Tues/14, 8pm. $3. The Trocadero, 1003 Arch St. 215.922.6888. thetroc.com

Chocolate

This decadent, two-hour chocolate tasting features unique, hand-crafted chocolates, chocolate desserts and other chocolateinspired items from local chocolatiers, bakeries and restaurants. Celebrate all things cocoa with live music, raffles, hors d’oeuvres, wine, specialty cocktails and a chocolate beer garden! Sat/11, 7pm. $35$55. WHYY, 150 N. Sixth St. 215.351.1200. whyy.org

If you’re single and bitter, you won’t feel as bad about being alone on Valentine’s Day after scholars explore the harsher side of love and relationships with salacious tales of romance in the ancient world. Following the program, join the Young Friends of the Penn Museum as they gather for a cocktail reception. Thurs/9, 6:15pm. $5-$10. Penn Museum, 3260 South St. 215.898.4000. penn.museum

Kryptonite For Your Relationship

This comedy showcase features a lineup of some of Philly’s top stand-ups including, Alex Pearlman, Steve Miller, Paul Easton, Conrad Roth and Reggie Conquest.

There will also be a slew of food and drink specials. Warning: Couples who prefer to stay together should definitely avoid sitting in the front row. Tues/14, 8:30pm. Free.

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Till Death Do Us Part: Love Stories of Laurel Hill

Roam the historic cemetery and listen to tales of undying love and tragic loss from beyond the grave. After, head indoors to warm your flesh next to a toasty fire while sipping on red wine and hot cocoa and nibbling on tasty snacks. Sat/11, 1pm. $18$20. Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Ave. 215.228.8200. thelaurelhillcemetery.org

Love, Wine & Chocolate

This annual chocolate and wine pairing features a guided tasting of five different wines and four chocolates. In addition to having your senses stimulated downstairs in Pinot’s intimate wine cellar, you’ll learn how to create your own perfect dessert pairings. Bonus: The class is led by PW ’s food/wine guru Brian Freedman. Fri/10Sat/11, various times. $49. Pinot Boutique, 227 Market St. 215.627.9463. pinotboutique.com

The Vagina Monologues

Come out to hear stories about the va-jayjay and help a good cause. Now in its 12th year, V-Day Penn is one of the university’s largest and most successful social justice campaigns, raising awareness about violence against women. The organization has raised more than $75,000 for Women Organized Against Rape in the last three years. Fri/10-Sat/11, 8pm. $9. University of Pennsylvania, Irvine Auditorium, 3401 Spruce St. upennvday.org

First Person Arts “The Ex-Files” StorySlam

For the second year, First Person Arts is offering folks an unconventional Valentine’s night out. Ten storytellers will take the stage and get five minutes to regale you with their true tales of love lost. Some stories may tug on the heart strings while others may make you wet your pants.

Judges, selected from the audience, will then score the performances on a 10-point scale. Tues/14, 8:30pm. $8-$10. World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St. 215.222.1400. worldcafelive.com

The Free Library of L’Amour

On the prowl for a Valentine’s date? Skip the bar and head to the nearest library.

Throughout the beginning of February, the Free Library is holding speed-dating events for singles of all ages at several branches around the city. Participants are encouraged to bring a book they’ve either loved or hated, or just recently read to use as an ice-breaker. Sat/11, various times. Free. Various locations.

215.686.5322. freelibrary.org

Dances of Love

Everyone knows that the tango and rumba are the sexiest dances of all time. So, on the most romantic night of the year, the Society Hill Dance Academy is holding a class every hour between 5 and 9 p.m. for you to learn one of the two. If you’re looking for something a little more freestyle, their annual “Twist of Love Dance Party” is on Saturday. Tues/14, 5pm. $40. Society Hill Dance Academy, 409 S. Second St. 215.574.3574. societyhilldance.org

The Naked at the Philadelphia Museum Scavenger Hunt

Roam the art musuem—fully clothed— while working with a team to find the answers to questions hidden in nude works of art. You’ll have to scrutinize a sultry sea-monster, a peeping Tom, extralarge bathers and saints with shocking piercings. Sat/11-Sun/12, 2pm. $34-$38.

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To “give voice” to his students’ experiThe show’s pacing is as varied as the ences living in the city, drama instructor opinions expressed. At the play’s outset, a quiet mother-son moment is disrupted by a blast of noise and physical chaos that is PHLash: A Mob Story jarring in its intensity, enhanced by projec7pm. Feb. 9-11. $5-$12. Boys’ Latin of tions and the sounds of shouting and whisPhiladelphia Charter School, 5501 Cedar tles blowing. Later in the play, the mugging of a student is frighteningly re-enacted.

Ave. boyslatin.org Not all the action in PHLash, however, is threatening. There is a joyous re-creation of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video and a Gregory DeCandia proposed they create an performance of the “Hallelujah Chorus” as original work. “I knew I wanted to explore sung by some 650 participants at Macy’s. the teen flash mobs due to the fact that I These latter scenes serve to portray flash would be teaching the actual demographic mobs as they were originally: a means of that had participated in these events,” artistic expression.

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And while we’re at it, why not take in the Philadelphia Flower Show, stay in a hotel, enjoy a meal and indulge in a desk calendar sporting van Gogh’s greatest hits?

Van Gogh Up Close Through May 6. Philadelphia Museum of Art. Main Building, 26th Street and Benjamin Franklin Pkwy. 215.763.8100. philamuseum.org Many visitors may do just that. Because when shows are this big, it’s easy to let the hoopla beyond the frame become a bigger attraction than the art itself.

For starters, consider the stunningly complex network of corporate sponsorships: Best Western and the Four Seasons are in on the action, offering a range of ticket, travel and accommodation bundles so voluminous you may never finish navigating your way through it all. With any blockbuster, accessibility is the name of the game, and Up Close plays by the rules.

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and the Philadelphia Flower Show—all roads point to the PMA galleries. (Successfully making the tenuous connection between the flora of Southern France and this year’s Hawaiian-themed Flower Show is, apparently, up to you.)

Once at the PMA, there’s a gift shop, naturally, offering every conceivable—and often comically earnest—Van Gogh-themed bauble. You can buy the highly peculiar “Van Gogh Face to Face: A Portrait in Music,” a CD promising to conjure the genius of van Gogh through the ethereal strains of his musical contemporaries. Or, you can score perennial favorite “Starry Night” slapped onto a cloth for cleaning glasses or grafted onto a vaguely ’90s sun dress. If nothing else, the shop is thoroughly inventive, so much so that you might actually start to think the ubiquitously reproduced “Starry Night” is in the exhibit (it’s not).

So, you’re probably wondering what is.

Dig far enough beneath the media frenzy, and you’ll be rewarded with a collection of quietly revolutionary paintings that use the landscape as a pretext for early experiments in composition and scale. Up Close features tightly cropped landscapes that focus on small patches of grass well below the horizon line. Often alighting on irises in a ditch or poppies just below his feet, van Gogh’s angles give the impression of contemplating nature through a zoomedin camera lens or through the magnifying powers of a microscope. Such a vantage point, argue the curators, was unprecedented in Western painting and suggests that van Gogh looked to other sources.

Featuring a selection of photographs from the PMA collection (still a relatively recent development in van Gogh’s time), the exhibition makes a broad-strokes case for van Gogh’s sensitivity to the changing horizon of pictorial space in the late 19th century.

It’s perhaps no small irony that given the show’s emphasis on photography, the camera would be the means by which van Gogh’s work was eventually reproduced on coffee mugs the world over. While we may assume that merchandising “Starry Night” on a poster wasn’t at the top of his list when he checked himself into the asylum at Saint-Rémy (a period from which many of the works in the exhibition date), what the exhibition does suggests is that van Gogh thought critically about the relationship between photography and painting. If you’d like to do the same, then Van Gogh Up Close offers an easy way in. As long as you can stomach the hype. n

Six Pack Six Historical Movies that Deliberately Use Anachronistic Music

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Love Me Tender (1956): Elvis Presley wanted to be an actor. Before music, his passion was movies, and as his star rose he spoke of attending the Actors Studio. He even insisted that any movie roles would be nonsinging. Alas, Colonel Tom Parker had other ideas, and ordered that his client’s debut vehicle include some crooning, even if his style of music didn’t exactly gibe with the setting: the Civil War. Of course, the title song is a Civil War ballad, but the other numbers find The King introducing the 19th century to some mighty fine rockabilly.

Zachariah (1971): Around the same time Robert Altman was laying Leonard Cohen’s first album on top of his anti-western McCabe & Mrs Miller, someone had an even more radical idea: turn Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha into “the first electric western.” The James Gang and Country Joe & the Fish swing by to crank out some crunchy tunes, although Ginger Baker denied an offer to play the lead. At least it scored a young Don Johnson.

Dirty Dancing (1987): A summer of ’62 opus that ends with our heroes dancing to that golden oldie, “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life.”

A Knight’s Tale (2001): Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge! disoriented many by relocating “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” “Like a Virgin” et al. to 1900’s Paris.

But this medieval romp got there first, depicting joust crowds chanting “We Will Rock You,” Thin Lizzy and other Jock Rock faves.

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exile, knocking back cocktails and wondering if the movie is ever going to get around to a point.

Like Nora Ephron’s Julie and Julia for the jet-set after-party crowd, this picture traverses competing timelines lingering for long, admittedly gorgeous shots of beautiful people doing beautiful things. The highlight arrives early, as an anachronistic deployment of the Sex Pistols “Pretty Vacant” underscores a Royal debauch. Madonna is wandering into Sofia Coppola’s snarky pop soundtrack territory, here.

Far, far too much screen-time is lavished upon the young Cornish’s halting affair with a savvy security guard, played by Drive’s resident kinda-cuckold, Oscar Issac. He’s got an easygoing magnetism that holds the camera well, comfortable within his station amid all this class, and unlike everybody else in the movie he actually works for a living.

As with most Madonna projects, it’s fairly impossible not to read the Material Girl’s tumultuous personal history into the proceedings. The strain of wannabe Anglophilia is fitting for a Detroit gal who There’s no eye in W.E. : Madonnna needs to stop making movies. invented her own British accent once she turned 40, and the attraction to Issac’s plain-spoken, bluecollar dude can easily be explained away by a woman who A marvelous 10-car pileup of ostentatious art direction and married bare-knuckle brawlers like Sean Penn and Guy dated fashion shows in search of reason for being, the sophoRitchie. more effort from writer-director-hyphenate Madonna is Shooting for the most part through hallways and doora fascinatingly bad collision of good intentions and decent ways, W.E. has a lush visual kick that was missing from craftsmanship. By virtue of her near-indestructible pop Madonna’s directorial debut, Filth And Wisdom. Thanks to icon status, everything Madge does automatically becomes cinematographer Hagen Bandanski, the movie is awash in a semiotics exercise, and so we’re left to opulence and constricted by frames within ponder W.E.—a heartfelt, deeply personal the frame. But what’s disappointing about and wildly self-indulgent vision issued W.E. W.E. is just how little time she spends from within an ivory tower. It’s like a on the travails of life beneath a tabloid Grade: Ccostume drama hijacked by a Freudian microscope. Every last one of Wallis’ Director: Madonna confessional. and Edward’s banal comings and goings Starring: Abbie Cornish, James Abby Cornish, Sucker Punch’s are chronicled by the media—a situation D’Arcy and Andrea Riseborough comely co-star with broad shoulders and our filmmaker is presumably intimately sonnet-worthy thick thighs here stars familiar with, but never quite pays off. as Wally, occupying the picture’s main She sadly remains shackled to a rotimeline as a bored 1990’s Manhattan trophy wife constantly mance-novel notion of Wallis and Edward’s affair, a dull ignored by her boozy doctor husband (Richard Coyle) and sin- hypothesis set on its ear when the ghost of Simpson herself gularly obsessed with the historical travails of her namesake, slaps Cornish upside the head and utters out loud: “This is Wallis Simpson. not a romance novel.”

When a collection of the long-dead Simpson’s belongings So what is it, then? Dreadfully overlong at almost two goes on sale at Sotheby’s (where our heroine used to work, but hours, W.E. spends a ridiculous amount of time lingerpointedly was instructed to quit by her vaguely pre-historic ing on minutae, with Madonna’s token cross accessories hubby), we kick into some serious double-timeline storytelling, occupying vast portions of filmic space. The central idea envisioning the abdication of King Edward VIII as a sucof a leader who surrendered his kingdom for the love of a cession of glamorous parties with a miserable ending that I disreputable woman remains abstract at best, and surprispresume is supposed to mirror our central character’s divorce. ingly (of all people) Madonna can’t muster the erotic heat Copious flashbacks ensue, yet Madonna can never quite get to that presumably drove Edward’s and Wallis’ relationship the bottom of this crazy, stupid love between a couple of Nazi off the rails. It’s a surprisingly sexless movie. sympathizers that knocked Great Britain’s power structure for Cornish remains obsessed with Simpson and the king for a loop. strictly juvenile reasons. She’s unloved and lonely in a dead Played by Andrea Riseborough with a screwball American marriage, seeking validation from ghosts and envious of accent seemingly borrowed from Jennifer Jason Leigh back their doomed circumstances. There’s probably a master’s thesis to be written here about celebrity and projection— when she was mimicking Rosalind Russell in the Coen Broththe dangers of living a vicarious life through superstar ers’ Hudsucker Proxy, Simpson is a plain, shockingly dull worship.

American girl thrust into the limelight by her nonsensical love You’d think Madonna would probably know a thing or affair. British costume drama perennial James D’Arcy plays two about this, but as a filmmaker she keeps getting disEdward as a weak, ginned-up salamander with a startling tracted by the champagne bottles and costume design. n shortage of star quality, and the two linger for epic scenes of

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House of Pleasures (2011): The best film of last year takes an opium-drenched look at a turn-ofthe-(last)-century French brothel, but saves its strangest moment for the end. As their profession faces a grim fate on the world’s streets, the prostitutes dance sadly to the Moody Blues’ “Nights in White Satin”—the future encroaching upon them even as its dreamy sounds comfort them.

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Thanks to Lana Del Rey, who you probably know as “that awkward, puffy-lipped socalled singer who bombed on Saturday Night Live,” music critics have trapped themselves once again within the murky, moronic concept of “authenticity.” Is she really real, or is she acting? Is she a marketing gimmick? Is she, like Holden Caulfield’s bro, a goddamn phony? Such questions are only asked by gnawing little mice who want desperately to be metaphysicians. Here’s a response: Pizza!

The “authenticity” flames haven’t blazed this bright since South African rave-rap group Die Antwoord (The Answer) exploded the Internet back in 2010, when their “Enter the Ninja” vid went next-level viral. With choppy, shocking images and super-anti-hero gusto, nobody was ready for rapper Ninja and vocalist Yo-Landi Vi$$er’s disturbing (and hilarious) articulation of the allencompassing aesthetic they referred to as “Zef Style”—a South African low-culture that Die Antwoord aimed to elevate, celebrate and proliferate.

Evidence that Die Antwoord was merely Ninja’s latest “conceptual” music project soon spread across the Web faster than a Kardashian sex tape, and the group was reduced to mere thought-fodder as critics ruminated their authenticity. Is Die Antwoord real? Is it an art proj? Is Ninja acting, or is he really real? Is Yo-Landi a butterfly? It was like a freshman comparative lit-class high on Roland Barthes and Four Loko.

Following irrevocable disagreements with Interscope Records about the direction of their follow-up to 2010’s $O$, Die Antwoord self-released Ten$ion this week on Zef Recordz, and their North American tour begins Thursday night at the Trocadero. PW talked to Ninja on the phone shortly after

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feedback@philadelphiaweekly.com I feel like my melodies are the strongest they’ve ever been.

And my range has gotten a lot bigger. I can sing lower and I can sing higher and I push myself to do that more often.

And as far as the record, I feel like my vocal was captured so well. It’s so raw, it’s like you can hear my breathing. And they are the most complex melodies I’ve ever written, which I’m excited about.

After recording her first two records in Pa., Jersey native Sharon Van Etten settled on Brooklyn to record her third LP, Tramp. It’s out this week, and Van Etten’s tour kicks off this Friday with a sold-out show at Johnny Brenda’s.

On it, she got support from esteemed colleagues including production from the National’s Aaron Dessner, and guest spots from Julianna Barwick, Zach Condon (of Beirut) and Jenn Wassner (of Wye Oak). PW talked shop with Van Etten about the record before she hits the road.

Your huge spring tour starts here in Philly! Any significance to starting in Fishtown?

Yeah, I’m excited to come back there. I love Philly. I feel really comfortable there and I love Johnny Brenda’s. The routing is sensible, but I feel really good there and it’s kind of where everything started in a ways.

You must admit with Tramp, some of these lyrics are a little dark.

Well, ya know, I’ve always written from such a personal place. The only thing that’s changed is that it’s not about sadness. Because I’m not a sad girl. It’s just the natural way that I write and if people are going to be critical, then they’re probably not really in touch with their emotions.

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The singing feels its most expressive on this record.

You feel it especially on “Leonard” and “Kevin’s”. Do you feel like your singing has been developing, too?

Love and romance provide the ultimate song content.

Doesn’t it seem like women are easily pigeonholed into the crazy lady? Did you knowingly fight against that on this record?

Yeah, that sounds about right. A lot of it is being OK with being upset. Being OK with who you are. Being at peace with what’s happened. Being able to talk about it. Being open to accepting blame. You can reminisce about something without resenting or regretting it. I am in a really good space right now. The songs, even though some are a little sad, it’s all very secure, strong and confident. No regrets.

It’s worrisome that in the same breath that people talk about Tramp they mention the National. But this is all you here.

One thing that Aaron and I were very concsious of is we didn’t want it to sound like a National record. He was working with me because he thought my songs were strong and he was a fan. He got my vibe right away. And we didn’t produce more than we should have. We kept a lot of songs stripped down and we took songs where they felt like they were going. Aaron is responsible for helping me flesh out these ideas more than I would have been able to do by myself. And I’m eternally grateful for all the time he’s put in to help me orchestrate everything and expand my sound.

If anyone’s wondering if he helped me write any of these songs: No, I wrote them, but he helped me realize them. n Sharon Van Etten performs Fri., Feb. 10, 8pm. Sold out. With Shearwater. Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N Frankford Ave. johnnybrendas.com

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Nicholas Payton, a trumpet ace since his teens, has embraced a new role as a Twitter agitator, the self-proclaimed “Creator of #BAM aka the Savior of Archaic Pop.” OK ... what? Well, BAM stands for Black American Music, the term Payton insists should replace jazz, or “the j-word,” which he holds to be “racist at its inception.” Cue the online flame wars, which have yet to subside.

It’s too simple, however, to tag this native New Orleanian as a racial exclusivist; his own career as a leader and sideman doesn’t bear it out. His polemics are over the top, no doubt, but they’ve touched a nerve with people eager to think beyond confining categories. Case in point: Payton’s new R&B epic, Bitches, on which he plays every instrument and sings. This week at Chris’ [Black American Music] Cafe, he’ll double on trumpet and Rhodes, sometimes simultaneously, with a trio he calls XXX. (David R. Adler)

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I’m a 21-year-old gay male. My friend “Marcelo” is friends with “Chad.” Everyone who meets Chad assumes he’s gay. Never had a girlfriend, a dance major, dyes his hair blond/ green/purple, got up at 2 a.m. to watch Kate marry William—I could go on. Over four years at college, this situation has gone from funny to sad as we realize he may never come out and could pull a Marcus Bachmann and live a miserable life with a miserable wife. Last night, Marcelo was on Grindr and got a message from a guy who turned out to be Chad! Chad sent a face pic, Marcelo sent a faceless one back, they chatted. It turns out that Chad is experienced enough to know his homosex likes and dislikes and carry on a detailed conversation about them with a guy on Grindr. Should we say something to Chad? Would letting him know he’s been outed be the best course of action? Should we have a gayvention?

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Chad hasn’t “been outed,” CCC, Chad outed himself.

Before Al Gore invented the Internet and ruined everything for everyone forever, a college-aged closet case had to work up the nerve to visit the campus gay bar if he wanted some dick. (Or visit the cruisey bathroom in the undergraduate library, but let’s leave that one alone for now.) The closet case knew he was running a risk by showing his face in the campus gay bar—even the gay bar three towns over—but going to the bar was the only way to get some dick. So the pre-Grindr college-aged closet case would slip into a gay bar and, after pounding shots in a wildly successful effort to self-medicate against his inhibitions, wind up shirtless on the dance floor making out with some random dude.

There was a code of conduct for friends of closet cases when I was in college—which was, I’m sorry to say, just a couple of years before Grindr came along (cough, cough)—and a section that dealt with dance-floor make-out sessions: If you saw a guy who told you he was straight in class on Friday morning making out with some random dude on the dance floor of the campus gay bar on Friday night (or in the gay bar three towns over), you had a right—no, you had a responsibility—to tap him on the shoulder, smile, and say, “Welcome out, dude.”

And if you had engaged in a little subterfuge—if you, say, ducked behind a post when you saw the closet case come in so he wouldn’t spot you and flee the gay bar pre–shots/shirtless-make-outsession—that was an understandable impulse and forgivable sin.

What Chad is doing on Grindr—sending out face pics, chatting about his homosex preferences—is the Grindr-era equivalent of making out with a random dude on the dance floor of a campus gay bar. What Marcelo did was the Grindr-era equivalent of ducking behind a post. And now Marcelo has a right—no, a responsibility—to tap Chad on the shoulder and, without any sense of malice or triumph, say, “Welcome out, Chad.”

I’m an 18-year-old male who is weird in the way of a bit of crossdressing and pegging.

My girlfriend endorses these interests, and I love her for that. Recently, a hot 22-year-old gay guy told me he was interested. I tried to tell him I was in a relationship, but we kissed.

It sucked ass. His stubble hurt, he used too much tongue, and I got nothing out of it. Do I tell my girlfriend? I worry that telling will make her worry, and the worry will cause distrust, and that distrust will ruin a great three-year run.

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First, after reading your letter, NOTBI, I was left

wondering what would’ve gone down (you perhaps?) if the gay dude you made out with—after you tried so very, very hard to tell him you were in a relationship—didn’t have a rough beard and use too much tongue.

Second, a girlfriend who endorses your interest in crossdressing and pegging is a girlfriend who might have endorsed your interest in a boy-onboy make-out session. (Particularly if she could watch.) If you’d had the decency to ask for her permission, NOTBI, you wouldn’t now be in the position of having to ask for her forgiveness.

Third, I think you should discuss this with your girlfriend, but I don’t think you must. You’re 18, you’re not married, you (briefly) kissed a boy, and you didn’t like it. If you think coming clean would destroy your relationship and you’re sure it’s never going to happen again, stuff this one up your memory hole.

Fourth, if you do talk with your girlfriend, NOTBI, you might not wanna emphasize the beard/tongue details. Not unless you want your girlfriend wondering the same thing I did after reading your letter: Maybe if it had been a different guy, with a different tongue, a lot more than his tongue would’ve wound up in your mouth.

I (middle-aged, married, straight guy) recently attended a boring business conference where I ran into an old friend (middle-aged, married, straight guy). He came to my room for a moment, noticed a camera on a small tripod on the desk, and asked what I was shooting. Emboldened by a few beers, I told him about my hotel room routine: shoot myself naked and masturbating then upload pics to an amateur exhibitionist website. Since I had shared my little secret, he shared his: He gets naked in hotel rooms and masturbates while spanking himself with his belt. You can see where this is going. I whacked his ass while he took photos of me. There was no sucking or fucking—no physical contact at all—but his Catholic guilt came out afterward, and he started going on about how he had just had gay sex and cheated on his wife. To me, it was masturbation with a few toys (camera, belt, and, OK, person). So here’s the question: Did we have gay sex and cheat on our wives? Or was this just a wank with a few toys?

Spank And Wank Yes, dear readers, this could be a fake. Every letter could be a fake.

OK, SAW, two guys beating off in a hotel room?

Sounds pretty gay to me. I mean, if a woman offered to help me out with my solo hotel room routine—mostly blogging and watching MSNBC, I’m sad to report—I’d take a pass, as that scene would be entirely too straight for me to get aroused.

Now, it’s possible that your enjoyment of exhibitionism is so pure that the gender of the person or persons involved is irrelevant. That’s not the case with my kinks, SAW, nor does it appear to be the case with your new spank buddy. And considering your friend’s kink (punishment) and his faith (Catholic), I’m thinkin’ the odds that your buddy has a few forbidden desires—perhaps gay ones—that led to his erotic obsession with being punished seem … oh, I dunno… kinda high. It may not have been gay for you, but it was gay for him.

As for whether what went down in that hotel room constitutes cheating, SAW, you’re asking the wrong person. Show your wife the pictures and ask her.

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CALL NATE NANESS, PRU FOX & ROACH 215-627-6005/215-440-2098 26XX S. 13TH ST. 3 BDR/1Bath Townhouse, E-I-Kitchen, New w/w carpets, old Finished Bsmt w/laundry rm. $1200/ mo.+ Util. 610-690-0862 31XX S. 18TH ST. PACKER PARK Single Family Home 3BDR,1.5/Bths.,HD/Flrs.,Sunken LVRM, Finished Bsmt., lrg. rear brick patio, $1650+ utilities. 610-658-2098 BREWERYTOWN AREA TOWNHOUSE: 2BR, 1BA, ALL MODERN AMENITIES, W W, AC, W D/ B L D G. Pet frn dly w/ Restricts. $925 Tanya, 215-922-6088, tanya@ans-hrv.com

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To See the Following, Call Andy Oei (215)790-5230 1500 Chestnut Street #9F-2BR/2BA, Gourmet Kitchen, Marble Baths, Lrg Windows, Doorman ..................................................................................$2,350

To See the Following, Call Laurie Phillips 215.790.5644 1936 Delancey Place-3 br suites 2-3car garage prkg elevator 4 fps outdr balcny ........................................................................ $6,500

2101 Market Street #3106-Furnished 2br+den, 3b 1,634 sqft, prkg Pool vuws concierge................................................................$5,250

To See the Following, Call Linda Holt (215)790-5635 753 N Ringgold Street-3 bd 2.5 bth garden deck 2 fp cooks kitchen Garage ................................................................................$3,500

2601 Pennsylvania Avenue #126-2 bedrooms.........................$1,850 To See the Following, Call David Snyder 267.968.8600 2125 Christian Street #3-2 Br unit w/SS appln,Hw flrs & porcelain tile Ba w/shower................................................................. $1,400 To See the Following, Call Jody Dimitruk (215)893-9800 518 Randolph Court #G-3 Bedrooms,2.5 baths and Garage Parking ....................................................................................$2,500 P H I L A D E L P H I A W E E K L Y Februar y 8 - 14, 2012

224 W Rittenhouse Square #2805-7-One of a kind 3BR plus den, 3 balconies,Rittenhouse Sq views. ..................................... $7,800

To See the Following, Call Mark Wade 215-521-1523 1600 Arch Street #1404-1 Br/1 Ba at the Phoenix,valet prkng avail for extra fee ..........................................................................$1,900 1335 Pine Street #201-2 Br/2 Ba,C/A,W/D,remote controlled blind,SS,luton lighting. ........................................................ $2,600 To See the Following, Call Mike McCann (215) 440-8345 1811 Chestnut Street #503-N/C-1 Br/1 Ba,hw flrs,granite,SS applns,C/A,washer/dryer. ................................................... $1,800

To See the Following, Call Johanna Loke (215)893-9800 224 W Rittenhouse Square #2512-Deluxe 1 Br S/W corner w/many upgrades................................................................................. $2,500

1832 Earp Street-N/C-3 Br/2 Ba w/fin bsmt,roof dk,hw flrs,amazing space. .................................................................................$1,600

To See the Following, Call John Featherman 215-790-5221 1500 Chestnut Street #8F-2B/2b at the Ellington hi-end kit & bah w/d a/c 24/7sec .................................................................... $2,200

928 Fitzwater Street #1ST FL-1st flr Large Real Estate office w/C/A,3 piece bath. ............................................................ $1,095

326 Hermit Street #2-2B/1.5b in Roxborough 1 car pkg, outdoor, common w/d, a/c ................................................................ $1,195 1618 Latimer Street-Spacious 2B/Den/1.5b in Ritt Sq area HW frs backyard a/c w/d ................................................................... $2,500

1629 Jackson Street #2F-2 Br/1 Ba 2nd flr apt w/rear entrance,lots of natural light ......................................................................t $950 6228 Larchwood Avenue-3 Br/1 Ba,new kit w/granite/SS,ceramic tile ba,fenced yard. ................................................................... $975

1324 Locust Street #306-Studio Great location, Fit ctr, 24/7 security, all util incl ........................................................................... $1,100

2005 Mercy Street-Nice 3 Br/1 Ba townhome, pine flrs,modern kit,clean bsmt ........................................................................$850

202 N 8th Street #907-Bi-level 2B/1.5b 1car prkg @ MetroClub 24/7 sec fit ctr pool ..................................................................... $2,195

241 S 6th Street #1103-1 Br/1 Ba condo,928 sq ft,w/park views from Br & balcony. ..................................................................$1,900

2601 Pennsylvania Avenue #605-Studio in Art Museum area, HW flrs d/w w/d fit ctr, 24/7 sec ...................................................... $995

2036 Spruce Street-3rd flr apt-2 Br/1 Ba,hw flrs,galley kit,2 fpl mantles. ...................................................................................$2,000

334 S 15th Street #2-Large tri-level 4B/2b in Rittn Sq area, HW flrs, a/c w/d ...............................................................................$2,500

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1601 Spring Garden Street #309-1B/1b at Colonnade, high ceil, a/c, w/d, fit ctr, bike room...............................................................$1,195

To See the Following, Call Suzin Kline 215-440-7505 50 S 16th Street #4407-Celestial 1 BR/Den/2 BA condo totally furnished w/river view .........................................................................................$7,500

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COMMeRCIAL 25th & Wharton Sts. G-2 warehouses, garages, offices, 800sq. ft to 16,000 sq. ft available $7-$9 sq.ft. $900.00 341 W. Girard Ave (NE Corner 4th & Girard) Retail store, C-2, 800 sq.ft.,bath, c/a, $4,000.00 404 South St 1200 sq.ft, retail store, bath, c/a, high traffic great block NNN $6,400.00 135B South St 1800 Sq.ft. C-2, tri-level retail corner or office former bank NNN 413 S. Broad St across from Symphony Hse. Approx 2500 sq.ft. bi-level offices, c/a.1.5 bths $2,500.00 305 Brown St. (Northern Liberties) 1500 sq.ft office or studio space, great light, hrd.flrs $2,200.00

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College Park 4BD, 2BA, Colonial, Around the corner from $392,500 Rittenhouse Square, step GRAD HOSPITAL $599,900 back from the buzz of WASH WEST 1025 Barr Lane, Chestnut Street, walk apowder beautiful 4BD, 3.5BA,spacious 3BD/2BAthrough StunningGladwyne and + 2 Totally Renovated 334 S 12th #1R $459,900 courtyard garden into Cape Cod, the comforts of home. $650,000 living spaces, hardwood rooms, bright Fitness center, roof top Beautiful 2BD/1.5BA multi-level unit with pool, garage, security 739 Mustin Ln, Villanova floors, gas fireplace,Efficiencies, finished lower level, Renovated Cape den, private rear yard, 1 car parking, on 1.2 acre 1&2 5+BD, 4.5BA, custom shelving. $1,000,000 Bedrooms hardwood floors, gorgeous kitchen, finished available.

825 Beechwood Dr., $150,000 OLD CITYLower $1,250,000 Merion $350,000 3 BD, 1.5 BA, 3 car garage $395,000 Penthouse unit in a• 2601 boutique building!

Pennsylvania Ave #801 - At Museum Large 1BD, 1BA Condo, $216,700 Hidden River Rd, • 1108 Rodman Street - Washington Sq West 2BD/2BA401Pennwith 800ftGorgeous roof Row deck, hand-crafted Valley w/2 Car Garage, $1,100,000 4BD, 2.5BA, on • 844 N. 28th St - Art Museum Area 1.81 Acre, wooded details, gourmet kitchen, gas fi replace, high Triplex, Corner Lot, 100% Occupied! $500,000 lot. $600,000, Rnt $3,900/mo • 1833 Spruce Street - Rittenhouse Square 3 BD, Renovated Bi-level Condos $2,650/mo ceilings, 2250 sf of •living space!

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225 Carpenter $479,900 New construction, 3BD/2.5BA with finished basement, granite and stainless kitchen, tax DAMON MICHELS • 1208 Greentree Ln,Penn Valley Renovated 6 Unit Mixed use Bld. $999,000 SOCIETY HILL • The National, 112 N. 2nd St., #5A4 - Old City abatement pending, luxury amenities…Still Call: 215-840-0437 NEW.1336 sq ft 2BD, 2BA balcony, $549,000 610-688-4310 • 1609 S. Clarion St.,Philadelphia South Damon@DamonMichels.com 2BD, 1BA, Row, $950/mo.

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3Bd/1.1Ba townhouse $199K garden, fireplace, tons of natural light, wide Rittenhouse Sq • Rooftop Pool • Fitness Center Valet Parking • 24 HR Security 1,664 Sq.Ft; 1-car Garage 508 Lombard $650,000 open living space, semi-finished basement.

Spring Garden $389,900 New construction 3BD/2.5BA home with den, finished basement, 3rd floor terrace, beautiful wood floors, contemporary kitchen and baths, roof deck with skyline views!

4BD, 3BA, Bright and Open Cape $515,000

• 191 Presidential Blvd #828 - Bala Cynwyd 2BD, 2BA, Condo, $375,000, Rn $3,250/mo

Studios 125,000-175,000 I 1BDs 175,000-275,000 2BDs 275,000-450,000 I 3BDs 400,000-500,000

OPEN 11AM – 12:30PM 1500 Mount Vernon St. #2F, Art Museum 1BD, 1BA 751 sq ft condo $208K • $1450/Mo.

OPEN 1:30PM – 2:30PM 1125 Spruce St. #D, Washington Sq. West 2BD/2.1BA End Unit Townhome, 1,556sq. ft. $400K

NEW LISTING – 1519 Swain Street, Art Museum Area 3BD/2.1BA 1,552 Sq.Ft Renovated Twnhouse Central Air, Finished LL; $415,000

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1280 Round Hill Rd., Bryn Mawr 5BD, 4.5BA 4815 sq ft townhome $600,000

153 Bryn Mawr Landsdowne P Ave EN- DIN G 3BD, 1.1BA, c/a, Colonial $140K

1440 Flat Rock Rd., Penn Valley 5BD/4.5BA French Colonial; 5,096sf; 3/4 Acre; 2-car garage, $5,500/month

Great Rehab Opportunity! $69,900

415 S. Jessup St., Wash Sq West

3Bd/2Ba; Townhouse; 1,362 sq.ft. $450K

3508 Hamilton St – Powelton Village 4Bd/3.1Ba 3,300 Sq.Ft.

$670,000

238 W. Montgomery Ave., Haverford 5BD/2.5BA 3-story, 2,018 sf, Dutch Colonial For Sale $400,000 or Rent $2,500/month

1132 Rodman AND 505 S. Sartain Street 1 lot w/ 2 properties; great investment Opportunity! Washington Square West $515,000

2105 Bryn Mawr Place #A5, Ardmore

122 Quarry St., Old City

3BD/2.5BA, 640 Sq. Ft. Twnhse $249k

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1901 Green $299,900 One-of-a-kind 1BD/2BA, soaring ceilings, hardwood floors, original moldings, California closets, chef’s kitchen, shared BELLA VISTA outdoor space.

918 Catharine $680,000 1624 Fairmount $399,000 Contemporary and completely renovated Museum-like 3BD/2.5BA, uniquely designed 4BD/2.5BA with den, finished basement, with luxurious baths, rear deck, roof deck, fireplace, custom kitchen and baths, tax spacious custom closets, bamboo floors, floating staircase. abatement pending.

Graduate Hospital $650,000 Beautiful 3BD/3BA with garage, handsome moldings, marble baths, hardwood floors, granite and stainless kitchen, roof deck, brick patio, large finished basement.

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923 cathariNe Street • $379,000

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Newly ren., 3-story home on a Bella Vista block featuring a sunny LR with h/w flrs, modern EIK overlooking a sizeable rear patio garden, 2 spacious BRs, stone & ceramic tile bath & excellent closet space. Home is in pristine condition, and Seller is motivated!

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CHERRY HILL/ CENTURA 2 BR, 3.5 bath townhome w/ 1 car side gar. on corner lot. HW floors thru-out Main flr., wall/ wall carpet thruout 2nd Level & cust./recessed lighting thru-out. 2 story Great Rm. w/ gas FP. FR w/sliding glass drs. to patio. Updated eatin kitch. w/oak cabinetry & granite. MstrSuite Bath w/ sunken tub & sep. shower. 2nd Level laundry. Fin. bsmnt. w/wet bar, full bath & entertaining/office areas.

Gated community....Realistically priced at $319,000

MT.LAUREL/ ASHURST GLEN 4 BR 2.5 bath, 2 car gar. expanded Kentmorr model. 2 story foyer w/HW flrs. Lg. eat-in Kitchen w/stainless steel appliances , cust. lighting & Sun-room. 1st Flr. Study, w/bay windows. FR w/gas FP , custom oversized windows & staircase to Master Suite on 2nd level. Surround sound on Main level. Full, unfinished basement w/sliding glass dr. w/o to pvt. patio area …

Realistically priced at $529,900

CHERRY HILL/ COUNTRY WALK 4 BR, 2.5 baths w/2 car gar. on culde-sac in gated com-munity.

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MOORESTOWN French Normandy 19th Century brick estate on 8+ acres on Rancocas Creek. 7BR, 3 full baths & 3 pwdr. rms. Original SJ red pine HW & slate flrs. thru-out. Gourm. kitchen w/prof. appliances & open to Great Rm. overlooking the Rancocas Creek. 2 orig. Parlors, formal DR, Sunroom/Study, Rotunda & fin. bsmnt w/Gaming area. 4 FPs, 3 car detached gar., Guest House, In-ground Pool, Pool House, Chapel. ….Realistically priced at $3,600,000

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271 S 4th Street-Grand 5B/3.5b cook’s kit,wd flrs,7 fpl,new Mbth,grdn,2 car pkg 512 S Front Street-Terrific investment opportunity,River & Park Views,zoned C2.

255 Pine Street-Grand/magnificent 3 Br/3.5 Ba,gorgeous kit,fin bsmt,den,dk,grdn & 1C prkng.

316 Delancey St-c 1760 Colonial w/walled gdn, 2-3BR/2.5ba, LV w/fp, DR, library, prkg!

334 Delancey Street-3 Br/3.5 Ba w/fab EIK,bright & spac LR w/gas fp,oak hw flrng,crown molding.

715 Pine ##5-Light filled Bi-Level 2 Br/2 Ba condo w/deeded parking,hw flrs,open fl plan 422 S 7th Street-Renov 2BR+ office/1.5bth TH. Patio, HW Flrs, FP, S/S&Gran Kitch 200 Lombard Street #643-1 Br Abbott Sq condo, blcny,carpeting,fitness center in bldg,prkng avail

OLD CITY/NORTHERN LIbERTIES

$2,495,000 $1,900,000 $1,350,000 $799,000 $789,900 $508,000 $429,000 $235,000

LUXURY CONDOS AND CO-OPS P H I L A D E L P H I A W E E K L Y February 8 - 14, 2012

275 S 19th Street #PH2-Gorgeous Penthouse Residence. 2 full flrs w/Private Roof Retreat 400 S Broad ##2903-3 Br plus den/3.5 Ba,panoramic views,terrace,parking.

202-210 W Rittenhouse Sq #2805-Lux 3B/2.5b 2644sf Condominium w/ Square, City & River views. Outstanding 227 S 6th ##4NW-Lippincott home,2 Br,den,2.5 Ba,garage,treetop view of Washington Sq. 2101 Market Street #3106-Furnished 2br+den, 3b 1,634 sqft, prkg Pool vuws concierge 130 S 18th Street #1101-Enchantment! Luxurious 2BR/2+BA condo. High ceilings, bay windows.

317 Vine Street #506-See this luxurious 2BR/2+BA condo. Pantry. Ultimate traditional charm!

275 S 19th Street #2ND FL-2200sqft full flr w/elev opening into res 2br+ study & 2b windows facing SW 2020 Walnut ##31E-PENTHOUSE! 2 bedrooms,2 baths,breathtaking views,large terrace.

1901 Walnut Street #13F-Gracious 2BR/2+BA condo on a corner lot. Pantry, breakfast room.

500 Admirals Way #312-Naval Sq Condo PRKG 2BR/2B beaut finishes taxabate pool fitness low mo fees 8 St James Ct ##16-St James Crt 2 Br/2 Ba + den,terrace overlooking quiet courtyard.

2200 Arch Street #501-Wide Loft Condo-2 Br/1.5 Ba,lrg Din/Liv areas,modern kit,garage parking.

500 Admirals Way #203-Naval Sq Condo PRKG 2BR/2B beaut finishes taxabate pool fitness low mo fees 717 S Columbus Boulevard #1016-Spac light filled condo 1 Br unit w/granite kit,walk-in closet,deeded prkng 210 Locust Street #17A-2 Br corner unit w/full river view,updated kit,bth,moldings & more.

1901 Walnut Street #8C-Bring your architect. 1441 sf co-op has C/A+ wd&marble flrs pets ok 1012 Spruce ##3F-2 Br Bi-level,3 wndws over Spruce St,fpl,renov kit & bth.

2020 Walnut ##6C-1 Br w/1 car garage prkng,24 hr doorman bldg,roof-top pool.

1717 Spring Garden, #Unit A-JUST REDUCED! Gated parking,extra large 1 Br,modern bth,Old World Charm 1500 Chestnut Street #7H-Deluxe 2BR/2BA, High Ceilings, Gourmet Kitchen, Marble Baths, Doorman 514 S 12th Street #A-Parking included with this 2 BR contemporary condo,patio, ultra kit.

111 S 15th Street #1712-Deluxe 1BR/1BA, Gourmet Kitchen, Marble Bath, Gym, Doorman 200 Locust ##4G-Corner 1 Br w/full river view,24 hr doorman bldg in Society Hill.

3900 Ford Road #11S-2 Bedroom,1.5 Bath, C/A,PARKING,terrace,1230 sq ft.

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813 N Orianna Street #A-4 Br/3 spa Ba,fin bsmt,European chefs kit,muti dks,grdn/outdoor spc,tx abat 800 N Hancock #Unit B-NEW construction,4 Br/2.5 ba w/3 exposures,1 C prkng,fin bsmt,huge rf deck 113 N Bread ##7F-Lovely 2 br/2 ba condo Lr/DR,kit,granite,brkfst bar,cherry wd flrs + blcny 721 Melon Place #D-Renov. Light-filled 3BR condo w/PRKG & Tax Abte. Pet Friendly 315 New Street ##704-Loft studio w/sleeping alcove,kit w/brkfst bar,tiled Ba,deed parking.

UNIVERSITY CITY/POWELTON VILLAGE 4527 Sansom Street-Gourmet kit, decorative fplc in LR. 3Br/1b, 3rd fl master bdrm suite

NEW CONSTRUCTION $2,550,000 300 Salter Street-New Construction in Queen Village - 3Br 2.5b w/ den & GARAGE, Tax Abated $1,950,000 627 N 10th Street-Beautiful 3br, 2.5b 4yr old new construction home 1 deeded parking $1,495,000 $1,412,000 $1,297,000 $1,160,000 $799,900 $795,000 $739,900 $649,000 $519,900 $459,900 $429,000 $428,500 $369,900 $369,000 $349,000 $339,000 $329,000 $325,000 $315,000 $304,900 $279,000 $249,000 $142,000

GRADUATE HOSPITAL 2001 Catharine Street-Corner property 3 Br + den.2.5 Spa Ba,fpl,cherry flrs,dk,grdn + fin bsmt.

1932 Catharine Street-16’ wide 2B,new s.s. appl&granite counter,wd flrs,C/A,huge grdn 1015 S Colorado-Stylish 2 BR/2 Ba home w/tax abat,fin bsmt,back patio,hw flrs,washer/dryer.

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$789,900 $679,900 $625,000 $535,000 $450,000 $409,900 $399,900 $379,000 $365,000 $359,900 $249,000 $225,000 $169,900

802 Locust Street #201-Spect 3br/2.5b condo w/ reno kit, w/b fp, h/w flrs & 1 car deeded parking 1212 Addison Walk-Extra-wide 3br/2.5b TH w/beaut chef’s kit patio 2 fp h/w flr & master bath $625,000 903 Clinton ##2F-2 Br/2 Ba condo in Historic bldg,SS applns,hw flrs,fpl + parking space. $314,000 1104 Lombard ##43-1 Br/1.5 Ba twnhse style unit,Lr w/hw flrs,gas fpl,open kit/din area,1/2 ba $309,900 250 S 13th Street #4E-Hw flrs & 12’ceil w/fans,kit w/granite/SS,cherry cab & brkfst bar.

$689,000 $529,900 $525,000 $289,000 $245,000

WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST

RITTENHOUSE SQUARE 2042 Waverly Street-Distinguished 4BR/3+BA townhome. Lots of space. Shows off superbly.

1740 Naudain Street-Contemp TH w/grge, 3BR+Den 2.5B, entertain space w/Deck Master Ste w/Deck 1731 Naudain Street-New! bright 3br/2b 3 story Lg LR w/fp DR ss & granite kit grdn 1519 Pine ##9-Beautiful 1 Br/1.5 Ba,Brazilian flrs,9’clngs,granite/SS kit,Br w/bay wndw.

1629 Fitzwater Street-Renov 2BR/1.5bth home. Patio&Balcony w/skyline vus. Exc. locat 1629 Waverly Street-Lovely 2 BR Trinity with lots of light, brick patio 1624 Spruce Street #3R-1 Br condo in premier location,hrwd floors,high ceilings,pets welcome.

1514 Pine ##3F-1 Br condo w/gourmet kit,marble tile ba,fpl,wood flrs + tx abatement.

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LOGAN SQUARE $1,175,000 $759,000 $499,000 $359,900 $334,900 $319,000 $309,900 $289,500

ART mUSEUm 2134 Wallace Street-Distinctive 3BR/2BA townhome. Security system. High ceilings, skylight.

2200-28 Arch ##810-2 BR/2 Ba unit w/high ceilings,1 Car Garage,lrg wndws,tons of natural light 2021 Brown Street-Mint duplex 2400/m income new kits & bths, w/d C/A in units 2401 Penna Ave ##12A2-2 Br/2 Ba plus den,lrg laundry rm ,75 ft balcony w/Museum views from 2 rms.

2027 Ogden-Historic Art Museum area,gracious flr plan, new,tx abat.

2712 Parrish Street-Exceptional 3-bedroom townhome. High ceilings, ceiling fans.

2715 Swain Street-New kitchen, stainless and granite, new bath, h/w floors, c/a, patio.

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733 S 2nd Street-Pristine 4 Br/2.5 Ba,new kit,hrwd flrs,2 Fp’s,formal DR,bsmt,deck & grdn.

750 S Marvine-Gorgeous new rehab,lrg grt room,1 car prkng,hw flrs,granite/SS kit,rf dk.

216 Christian Street #A-3 Br/3 Ba home w/2 Car Prkng,soaring ceil,hrwd flrs,gas fpl,huge roof deck 527 Catharine Street-Renovated 3Br, 2.5b TH in MEREDITH Catchment, deck w/ City View, Fin Bsmnt 718 S Mildred Street-3 Br/2.5 Ba,hw flrs,gas fpl,gourmet kit,mstr suite,jacuzzi tub,decked yard 822 S. Swanson-Single fam used as duplex,3 bdrm,3.5 ba,C/A hrwd flrs,2 dks,garden.

628 S Orianna Street-2 Bdrm 2 Bth, Roof Deck, Meredith Schl, Fireplace, C/A 923 Catharine-2 Br/2 Ba home w/many updates t/o,huge kit,wd flrs,trex-roof-top deck. $349,950 720 S Front Street-2 Br + den,dressing rm,spa Ba,hrwd flrs,Eik,roof garden w/river views.

608 Kimball Street-2 Br/1 Ba home w/gorg hw flrs,lrg modern EIK,patio grdn,loft style mstr Br. 617 S 7th #Unit B-Beautifully updated trinity,2 Br/1 Ba,new kit on main flr & bath.

612 Clymer Street-Trinity home w/2 Br/1 Ba,partially fin bsmt,updated kit,new roof,rear yard. $499,000 136 Carpenter #Unit B-Just Reduced- Here is your chance to own a grt trinity in Queen Village $355,000

$679,900 $481,887 $455,000 $199,000 $156,900

$679,000 $499,900 $479,000 $449,900 $399,000 $339,000 $309,000

2030 Race Street-Unique/Elegant,can be used as single fam or multi-fam,roof dk,fpl,high ceil

$1,050,000

AROUND TOWN 2210 S Broad Street-Discover the charm of this impressive 3-bedroom townhome! Security system.

3135 S Uber Street-Packer Park-3 Br/1.5 Ba with 3 car private prkng & very lrg outdoor space.

1204 Jennifer Road-Somerton-Spacious 3 Br home on cul-de-sac,lrg LR,hw flrs,open flr plan.

924 Dudley Street-2bed/1bath East Passyunk Square. Great 1st-time buyer opportunity 2938 Wharton Street-Spacious 3 BR/1.5 Ba updated home,fin bsmt,ample size BR’S + backyard.

4334 Shelmire Avenue-Cheerful 3-bedroom townhome. Family room, built-in dishwasher. Basement.

5236 Oakland Street-Large rehab 3 Br/1 Ba,pine flrs, formal DR,large deck,central air.

1115 Atwood Road-Fully renov 3 Br/1 Ba w/hrwd flrs,1 Car Prkng,new roof & windows.

5928 Reach Street-3 Br/1 Ba rehab w/lrg front patio,hrwd flrs,formal DR,SS applns.

418 Tree Street-Quaint 2 Br home is ready for you,new hrwd flrs,new carpeted BR’s,Eik. 6102 Charles Street-Friendly 3-bedroom townhome full of potential. Central air. Garage.

3600 Conshohocken Avenue #1803-2BR/2b w/vuw, pkg, pool, gym, bus service. Condo fee includes ALL 5927 Springfield Avenue-3 Bedroom porch front row,nice location,on a wide street,well kept.

5636 Thomas-3 Bedroom porch front row,nice convenient location,needs updating.

1941 W Passyunk Avenue-Convenient 3-bedroom townhome that is ideally priced. This is a real buy!

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1914-1916 RITTenHouSe SQ Landmark property, 5 combined lots, over 6,000sf footprint, great opportunity for development or magnificent residence

744 ST aLBanS ST BeLLa VISTa open Sunday 2/12 1:30pm-2:30pm Newly restored 3br, 2b, roof deck, h/w flrs, finished basement, designer kitchen, exposed brick, custom built-ins

$4,750,000 Call Bruce Benjamin

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246 FITZWaTeR ST #7 neW LISTInG! open Sunday 2/12 12pm-2:00pm 2br, 1b condo, +/-1005sf, deeded parking

240 monRoe ST #2 open Sunday 2/12 12pm-1:00pm 1 br, 1b condo, amazing outdoor space, great location!

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OPEN FRI, SAT, SUN 12-5PM From $499,900-900,000 OPEN HOUSE $695,000 1207 S Broad St Restored Brownstone mansion, 4BR/4.5BA, formal LR &DR, Newer Kitchen, Multi parking and garden OPEN HOUSE $1,975,000 251 S 25th Street Diamond Residence – Elegant Modern Home on the Park – All New Construction –215-582-7909

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SOCIETY HILL / WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST 250 S 13th St 3E Large rully renovated 1BR/1BA Corner condo, High Ceilings, lots of windows, great light $269,000 540 Cypress St Quaint completely upgraded 2BR/1.5 BA on cobblestone street $374,900 1111 Locust St #2G High Ceilings, Huge Kitchen, Lrg Living space, Parking available OPEN HOUSE $379,999 720 Chestnut St #D 2BR/2BA, Hi ceilings, wood Floors, granite, SS, private outdoors $399,900 924 Spruce St. #201 Luxury 2br/1ba historically certified brownstone condo w/ hrdwd fl rs, granite cntrtps, wbfp, w/d $475,000 736-38 Pine St #J Gorgeous 3BR2BA bi level condo in restored Victoreian Mansion with Parking and Tax Abatement $575,000 241 S. 6th St. #2002 2br/2ba, Den, Beautifully renovated, move-in condition 1,788SF Call Mar Kline 267-246-7607 $795,000 250 S. 13th St. #14B Incredible 3bd/2ba penthouse featuring lrg landscaped terr w/extraordinary views $889,000 220 Locust St. 6B REDUCED! View by appointment 3B/3Ba $995,000 1101 Locust St #10F Corner Penthouse Views of River, Maple flooring, 2 terraces, tall windows OPEN HOUSE $1,046,000 1111 Locust St #11C Bi-Level Penthouse , Upgraded Kitch with awesome light and Views, Private Terrace $1,799,999 QUEEN VILLAGE/ BELLA VISTA / GRADUATE HOSPITAL / SOUTH PHILA. 1619 S Chadwick St 3BR.BA, Open layout, updated kitchen and backyard $74,900 1220 S. 20th St. Vacant lot, investment opportunity $95,000 2214 Clarion St. 3br townhome in South Phila. Boasts remodeled KIT & lrg rear patio $125,000 310 Gladstone St. Wonderful 2br home w/extra lrg bath, new kit., rear yard, many extras, 2nd fl laundry. $147,900 705 Pierce St spacious Rehab, 1BR + bonus room, CA, garage, SS appliances $149,900 2746 S 18th St Very well maintained 3BR/1BA Unbelievable Value $169,900 1728 S. 18th St. 5br/3.5ba 1680sqft w/HW fl rs, security sys, SS appl, & granite counters $200,000 2251 League St 3BR/1BA Corner hm, HW FL, crown moldings, back yard Great Location $239,900 1721 Webster St 2BR/1BA CA, Newly renovated, this home has it! $264,900 2531 S 15th St. New gorgeous rehab large 3bed great location $285,000 757 S 7th St #2F Spacious 2BR/!BA Newly painted and upgraded, HW Flrs, High Ceiling, Lg Deck $289,900 2337 Montrose St Gorgeous renovated 3 Story 2BR/2BA with fi nished basement $309,000 1916 Christian St B Spcious 3BR , Gorgeous Master, Basement, 5 yr Tax abatement OPEN HOUSE $350,000 1512 S 2nd St. fabulous 3bed new front, HW, kitchen, fi replace move right in $353,500 924 Catharine St. REDUCED! 1800sqft 3bd/1.5ba, exposed brk, new hdwds/carpet, lrg yrd, skyline view, must see $399,999 629-31 S. 13TH St. Unit A Stunning 3 bed/3 bth new contruction. Luxurious fi nishes, Roof Deck, Parking + Tax Abatement $649,900 2401-25 Washington Ave Very Large Corner Lot on North side of Washington Ave &24th .90 Acre $2,700,000

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1301 N Front St 2BR/2BA + Den, End unit with parking 2155 E. Dauphin St. Great 4 bedroom Fishtown home!

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813-817 N. 5th St #202 Amazing 1900sq ft 2 bedroom plus office loft condo with parking!

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COMMERCIAL/INVESTMENT 3122 Montgomery Ave. Investment property for fi rst time investor. Lg 3 story w/1 car parking. $140,000 870 E. Chelten Ave. Income producing, fully occupied 4 unit bldg. Great investement opportunity $150,000 6147 Hawthorne St. Two –Unit corner lot, features two 2br/1ba units. Live in one, rent out the other $169,000 139 S. 50th St. Reduced Triplex, newer upgrades, freshly painted $164,000 2339 S. 18th St. Duplex, Complete Rehab, awesome renovations, reduced $239,000 2438 S. 3rd St. Investor Opportunity-store front (deli/grocery) & 1bd Apt (leased), well maintained bldg! $249,900 617-31 S 56th Commercial Building in West Philly $264,900 6011-13 Market St DBL Wide Commercial Reduced $299,000 1710-14 N. 5th St. Former carriage house/stable w/cement fl rs, 12-15’ ceilings, exp brk. Endless Possibilities $399,900 1609 E Passyunk Commercial property on the Square, Rare Opportunity $435,000 202-10 W. Rittenhouse Sq. Premiere commercial space in The Rittenhouse Hotel. Ideal for office, retail, owner use or investment. $459,900 103 Callowhill St. Intimate 50 seat theater, exp brick, velvet curtains, vintage scones. Upr Lvl Res/Off $599,900 131 S. 13th St. Restaurant/Bar with a 21 room & 6 bath boarding house on 2nd thru 4th fl rs $1,300,000 SURROUNDING AREAS West Phila – 5709 Malcolm St Investment Opportunity Short Sale Reduced $30,000 West Phila – 3921 Pennsgrove Investment Opportunity $34,000 Grays Ferry – 1356 S Stanley St Recently renovated home at a great price $59,900 West Phila- 231 N 52nd St Large house, spacious kitchen, separate dining room, high ceilings $60,000 West Phila – 6423 Dorel Short Sale $60,000 Mayfair – 4723 Vista St Inviting façade, front patio, rear deck, 3BR, garage, encl as addit, BR $64,900 Kingsessing – 5253 Pine St 4BR/1BA $65,000 Kingsessing – 5855 Christian St 3BR/1BA $65,000 Kingsessing – 5634 Hazel Ave 3BR/1BA $65,000 Port Richmond – 3266 Cedar St Perfect as a starter home or investment $65,000 Fishtown – 2116 E Lehigh St Reduced, Tenant occupied, Great Investment $70,500 Newbold – 1619 S Chadwick St Investment opportunity Needs TLC $74,900 West Phila – 1543 N Alden St 3BR/1BA Extremely well maintained $75,000 West Phila – 5837 Christian St 3BR/1BA home in excellent move in condition. Original details remain $85,000 Overbrook – 1336 N 57th St 3BR/1BA, Newer heating and electrical $87,500 Harrowgate – 2071 E. Venango St. Totally redone, new roof, new vinyl windows, w/w carpeting, nw hdwdfl r $89,900 Norristown – 306 W Freedley St Solid Home on Quiet block with Ample Storage and Sun Room $90,000 Mayfair – 6708 Marsden St Beautiful renovated 3BR home $94,900 Delaware Co – 216 Mulberry St DBL Wide Corner property with Parking $94,900 Old Kensington – 1850 N Marshall St 2BR/1.5BA $99,000 Mayfair West – 4625 Hartel Reduced, recent upgrades $100,000 Northeast – 757 Jericho Rd Complete Rehab, Bay window, French doors, HW Fls, Finished Basement, Patio and deck OPEN HOUSE $125,000 Northeast Phila - 2013 Glenview St 3BR/1.5 BA, updated kitchen, H/W Floors, fi nished basement and parking $139,900 Port Richmond – 2314 E Allegheny Double wide bldg can be used as offices or office w/ apts above $159,900 Manayunk- 469 Conarroe St – 4BR, exposed brick HW floors and backyard $184,900 Fishtown – 2446 Tulip St 2BR/1.5BA Completely Renovated. Features Expansive rear Patio OPEN HOUSE $185,000 Manayunk - 4524 Smick St Fully renovated in 2003, features 2BR/1BA and rear patio $215,000 Mt Airy – 705 Carpenter Ln 4BR/1.5BA, Perennial garden, open Porch, stone fi replace, chef’s kitch, HW Fls $349,900 Roxborough - 334 & 336 Leverington Ave (2) 3 Story, 3BR/2.5BA H/W fls, decks, great views, SS kitch, Master Suite, 2 Car parking, Basement $369,900 Fishtown – 1241-45 E Berks St 3 extra long lots in rapidly growing area, Possibilities are endless $450,000 Packer Park – 3506 Prima Ct 4BR/3.5BA Spacious LR, HW Flrs, Sliding doors to outdoor space $459,000

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