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Two workers are injured in a flash fire at a Delaware County chocolate factory.“Oompa loompa doopity dee. I think these burns are second degree.”

[ + 2 ] A UPenn project will use crowdsourcing to

map out the locations of the 5,000 automated external defibrillators scattered around the city. If there’s one thing you can count on, it’s Philadelphians in groups.

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A UPenn student says dozens of bystanders watched him and a cab driver get attacked by a group of teens in Center City but failed to intervene. “We were too busy looking for defibrillators,” say bystanders. “See, great.

Now we lost count.”

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The owner of the Inquirer and Daily News, Philadelphia Media Network, is trying to sell the company for $100 million. “Good luck with that,” cackles Brian Tierney from a chair made of quarters, lighting a cigar with a roll of pennies.

NEW SHERIFF IN TOWN: Jewell Williams says he wants to reform the office and return moneys owed; whether he has the clout to do it is another matter.

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A bag full of goat and chicken parts is found in Pennypack Park; police say it was likely the result of a religious service, not animal cruelty. “Has it occurred to you guys that it could be both?” asks the skinned, severed torso of a goat. “That’s right, I’m a talking goat torso.”

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A Port Richmond IHOP is robbed and set on fire. And for the first time in a long time, the neighborhood smells really, really great.

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The Pennsylvania House passes a measure declaring the Bible “the word of God” and 2012 “The Year of the Bible.” “You know, thousands of your fellow Pennsylvanians are without enough food and proper health care, but, hey, thanks for making this a priority,” says God. “’Bout time I got my name out there. Sell some books. Good lookin’ out, fuckfaces.”

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CASHED OUT Newly elected Sheriff Jewell Williams faces an office in disarray and citizens clamoring for the millions they’re owed. But the city and state see returning the money as a dangerous precedent.

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n 2010, Tom White discovered that his deceased father-inlaw had owned an overgrown vacant lot at 4205 Boone St., in Roxborough — an address White had never visited.

It wasn’t inconceivable that his father-in-law had lost track of the property in his waning years. “He probably had no knowledge of it — he was an older man,” says White, who is retired and lives in South Carolina.

What surprised him was that the land had recently been auctioned by the Philadelphia Sheriff’s Office to cover unpaid taxes that had accrued in the years since his father-in-law’s death in 2001. It sold for nearly $10,000 more than what was owed on the land, a surplus that the Sheriff must legally return to White, the executor of the estate. Like potentially tens of thousands of other former, sometimes unsuspecting Philadelphia landowners, White hasn’t seen a penny.

It’s not for lack of attempts to contact the office. “Either the line was busy, or nobody answered, or the mailbox was full. I had one person call me back who said she was working on 70 cases and told me to expect my money by Thanksgiving. Then she said by New Year’s.

Then I just couldn’t reach her. Eventually her mailbox was full, too,”

says White, reached by phone.

It’s not an uncommon story in a city full of abandoned property and its share of foreclosures. This is a glimpse of the human cost born from the smoldering wreckage left by former Sheriff John Green, who resigned after 23 years in office in January of last year amidst audits and investigations into his mismanagement of the department.

His successor, Jewell Williams, was sworn in this January.

Williams now faces the daunting prospect of rebuilding the Real Estate Division of the office, which is responsible for public auctions and the return of surplus auction proceeds to individuals like White. But with the Real Estate Division in disarray — and, more to the point, with the city and state unwilling to set a precedent for handing out millions of dollars, however deservedly — Williams and White may both be waiting awhile.

The problem is that the Real Estate Division was the lucrative core of Green’s disgraced administration. The City Controller in November reported that between 2005 and 2010 alone, an astounding $206 million was channeled by the division through two dubious vendors, Reach Communication Specialists Inc. and RCS Searchers Inc., both owned by a friend of Green — and at least $6.2 million in excess fees went into the vendors’ coffers.

Described by departmental employees as effectively “running” the Real Estate Division, Reach Communication operated with almost no oversight or effective record keeping. Its tenure saw surplus

Dubious vendors effectively ran the department.

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✚ INFERNAL AFFAIRS Almost exactly two years ago, City Paper published a cover story by contributing writer Andrew Thompson (no relation) whose title asked the following question: “Who Polices the Philadelphia Police?”

“Not the Police Advisory Commission” would have been one accurate subtitle. The PAC, as Thompson observed, is almost farcically ineffective.Though it has subpoena powers, the body has held an average of just over one actual hearing on matters of citizen complaint per year. It has not published an annual report for four years. Recently, according to Commissioner Veronica CastilloPerez, the PAC boldly acted to hire someone who could conduct interviews in Spanish. Spanish, for crying out loud.

The PAC is notoriously slow at closing cases, and it’s unclear how many cases the board actually meaningfully reviews at all: not clear because the PAC publishes almost none of its findings and refused a Right to Know request by Thompson to disclose its records — any of them.

Which makes one wonder what, exactly, Mayor Michael Nutter meant when he told WHYY this week, with a straight face, that “as far as I can tell, they’re up and operating and doing their job.” Of course, it was then-Councilman Nutter’s legislation that created the advisory commission in the first place: Perhaps it’s paternal instinct.

Less protective is Councilman Curtis Jones Jr., who broached the issue of police brutality in Council hearings, and whose legislative agenda for 2012 called for reforms to the Police Advisory Commission — including such radical proposals as making them actually write that annual report and put actual information in it. So far,

the legislation hasn’t surfaced yet — but Jones seems intent on doing something.And when it comes to the Police Advisory Commission, that’s something indeed.

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✚ ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT “They better not start things off with a prayer,” someone muttered as hundreds of Point Breeze residents filed into the sanctuary at Mount Zion Pentecostal Church for the latest in a series of volatile zoning meetings fraught with issues of race, class and gentrification. “But,” a neighbor responded, “we might need it.”

The Monday meeting, run by South Philadelphia H.O.M.E.S. Inc., was for the kind of project that wouldn’t get all that much attention elsewhere: Developer Ori Feibush, who owns OCF Realty and the blog NakedPhilly.com, wants to build 13 “affordably high end” housing units (mostly moderately sized one-bedrooms) with ground-floor retail. But while many community members said the development was gravely needed, other longtime residents saw something else.

“This is very sentimental to me,” said Angela Anderson, gesturing at a photo of the site, a series of blighted lots on Point Breeze Avenue and Titan Street. “I know how things work when a neighborhood is being gentrified.”

The way they work, argued Tiffany Green and Theresa McCormick — who appeared to have been behind widely circulated fliers saying rents would rise to $1,500 to $2,000 and accusing Feibush of “preying on the poor and minority” — is that current residents get priced out and Hispanic workers, not local African-Americans, get the construction jobs. “It’s just always coming in here and taking and taking from us; that’s why we’re tired,” McCormick said. >>> continued on page 11

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³ THERE HAS BEEN much in the news recently about Reyna Aguirre-Alonso, the North Philadelphia bodega clerk killed in cold blood on Jan. 23 because she was, or was believed to have been, a witness to a murder last November.

On Jan. 27, police arrested 23-year-old Jorge Aldea, a young man who had a long rap sheet and had been in jail on a gun-possession charge — but who had been able to post his own bond after a judge had lowered it, just a little over a week before Alonso was shot. Mayor Michael Nutter has lashed out at the judge; the District Attorney has pointed fingers at police, saying the DA wasn’t notified that Aldea was the main suspect in the November murder; and police have shot back, saying the DA was indeed informed.

But the accusation that no one wants to talk about is the one made by residents to newspaper reporters following the murder: that police exposed Alonso to danger by approaching her several times in public, in full view, presumably, of the dealers outside.

“They picked her up three, four times. Everybody saw … they set her up,” one resident of the neighborhood told the Daily News.

“Last week, she was taken to the police station — she didn’t want to go,” Alonso’s brother-in-law told the Inquirer.

She was scared in the days before her killing, another neighbor said.

Asked why police would have approached a possible murder witness so visibly, police spokesman Lt. Raymond Evers told CP, “That’s how we do things.

We pick up people and interview them.”

Alonso, Evers added, was not in the city’s witness protection program.

One question is: Why not? If police believed Alonso to have been a witness to a murder — as her neighbors seem to have believed — why was she not being protected?

Evers explained that Alonso had volunteered information about the case: “If she was afraid, she wouldn’t have went in” for questioning, he told CP. Yet neighbors say exactly the opposite: that she was afraid, and that she didn’t want to go in. What changed her mind?

In a city where 40 percent of all murders are going unsolved and whose mayor has trumpeted a “start snitching” campaign and offered higher rewards for tips, we now have a case in which residents perceive — right or wrong — that a murder witness was killed in part because she was exposed and left unprotected by police. That fear is a disincentive to speak up that won’t easily be bought away.

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Reachâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s relationship with the office was terminated last year, leaving the division and its records in disarray. While many claims for surplus funds were processed, others went nowhere.

White and several other former landowners have filed a class-action lawsuit with Adams Renzi Law against the city and Sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office. Joseph Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hara, a named plaintiff in the suit, says theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re tired of waiting. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You look in the paper and see headlines about how the Sheriff found $40 [million], $50 million they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even know about,â&#x20AC;? he says, referring to $53 million in unaccounted-for surplus funds discovered in the course of the Controllerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s audit â&#x20AC;&#x201D; funds the Sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office triumphantly announced it would be turning over to the city and state in October. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t care. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve made a decision to not help people like us,â&#x20AC;? he says.

Williams would like to bury the case, along with the officeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sordid past. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are trying to resolve the class-action lawsuit, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the best way to put it,â&#x20AC;? Williams says, adding he would be â&#x20AC;&#x153;open to a settlement.â&#x20AC;?

But the resolution of the matter is largely outside Williamsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; purview: The case is being handled by the City Solicitor and also involves funds held by the city itself. Both the Solicitor and the Mayorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office refused to comment on the ongoing litigation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our goal is to make sure that, if people are legitimately owed money, that we make sure they get their money,â&#x20AC;? Williams says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really something thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s up to the Solicitor and whatever award or agreement they come up with.â&#x20AC;?

Though Williams may wish to appear deferential, the stakes are higher than he lets on. While the amounts sought by individuals may be relatively small, the outcome of the case could have far-reaching consequences.

State Treasury spokesman Michael Smith, who calls the class action â&#x20AC;&#x153;unprecedented,â&#x20AC;? explains in an e-mail that the lawsuit could â&#x20AC;&#x153;permit private outside entities to intercept millions of dollars from the Commonwealth for the purpose of reuniting those funds with their owners â&#x20AC;&#x201D; at a sizable cost.â&#x20AC;?

Essentially, the suit alleges the Sheriff violated due process by intentionally failing to notify property owners that their land had been auctioned, for how much and how their money was disbursed.

What complicates the matter is that money that sat â&#x20AC;&#x153;unclaimedâ&#x20AC;? long enough was eventually transferred to the city and state, as mandated by law.

The suit seeks to forcibly recover funds that may already have found their way to city and state coffers, and return it to potentially thousands of landowners â&#x20AC;&#x201D; with commensurate attorneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fees and possible damages (i.e. â&#x20AC;&#x153;sizable costsâ&#x20AC;?) that neither the city nor the state wants to pay.

Smith adds that this precedent would effectively â&#x20AC;&#x153;eviscerate Pennsylvaniaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unclaimed property law,â&#x20AC;? allowing lawyers â&#x20AC;&#x153;to step into the shoes of the Treasurerâ&#x20AC;? in order to identify and redistribute unclaimed funds. The city runs similar risks.

Adams recently expanded the suit to include a second class of plaintiffs who were overcharged by the Sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office, following a revelation in the Controllerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s report that Reach had artificially inflated Sheriff salesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; fees â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in effect, shorting people on auction proceeds. This would open the case up, effectively, to just about anyone who had a property auctioned under Green.

Williams wants to put the suit behind him; the cash-strapped city and state hope to squash a potential liability. But caught in the middle are Tom White and the rest of Adamsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; clients, who likely have a bumpy road ahead to get money that, by all accounts, is rightfully theirs.

Williams says for now he wants to focus on restructuring the office to ensure that this situation canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t happen again. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our goal

â&#x20AC;&#x153;They made a decision not to help us.â&#x20AC;? is to establish a claims division within the office, or, if not in the office, at least under my direction,â&#x20AC;? he says, noting heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still formulating exactly what this would look like.

As the scale and severity of Greenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s corruption become fully apparent, some people â&#x20AC;&#x201D; most recently Councilman James Kenney â&#x20AC;&#x201D; have said revamping is not enough, calling for the dissolution of the Sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s real estate function altogether. Last year, John Kromer, a Penn professor, ran for the office, promising if elected to dissolve the agency and merge its functions with the city.

Williams rebuffs that idea: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The city cannot be the person over[seeing] the tax sale, because there would be a conflict of interest. The independence of the Sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office gives us the opportunity to be fair.â&#x20AC;?

He may have a point, but it rings hollow for those who were wronged, and for the taxpayers who may be stuck with the bill when they get their day in court. (editorial@citypaper.net)

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“We need to get the big money out of politics.”

The back-and-forth lasted more than two hours, and Feibush says he watched as Green stole a number of ballots cast by neighborhood residents.

As Green said at the meeting, “We’re not going to allow high-end.”

—Samantha Melamed

✚ OFF TO THE RACES It’s Friday afternoon at Così in Elkins Park, and a steady stream of forty-, fiftyand sixty-somethings are trickling in to collect petitions. A suburban outpost of a coffeehouse chain is not exactly the war room you might expect for the first candidate to come out of Occupy Philly. But it was good enough for Nathan Kleinman, 29, who’s listing his occupation as “human rights activist” on petitions to get on the ballot for Pennsylvania’s 13th Congressional District race.

Kleinman quit his job to focus on Occupy (he never actually slept at Dilworth, instead donating his tent to a homeless person), and he’s been involved in some

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of the movement’s more radical efforts: creating a “Free University” and

moving homeless residents to an enplans to run his campaign — and his tenure, if elected — like an Occupy assembly, with regular meetings open to the public.

And he says he learned something important from the movement: “We can create the systems that should exist in a modern society but don’t exist in ours.”

Still, to take down U.S. Rep. Allyson Schwartz in a district that sprawls out of Northeast Philly into Montgomery County, Kleinman will likely have to lean on his more mainstream Democratic network.A former volunteer and delegate for President Obama and assistant to then-Pennsylvania Rep. Josh Shapiro, he appears to have the background for it.

Bobbi Penniman, 60, a Cheltenham resident who met Kleinman while volunteering for Obama, says she’s “too old for Occupy” but not too old to gather petitions for Kleinman’s campaign. “We need to get big money out of electoral politics,” she says. Which is one thing most Occupiers would probably agree on.

—Samantha Melamed

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WE’VE LAID ASIDE THE RISKS IN OUR MIDST THAT AFFECT US EVERY YEAR. CP: Your conclusions are certainly not very encouraging.

SGK: No. We need real policy changes.

CP: Regardless of the political level, the policy doesn’t always reflect what’s needed, right?

SGK: It may not be in a locality’s interest to undertake a huge tax to build a levee system, for example, but at the same time we trust them to make decisions that are best for them. We want to allow local government and local people to make their

CP: And people want to build houses on coastlines. Locally, that can be seen with the condos that were built a few years ago on Manayunk’s Venice Island, which is in a floodplain. In the past two years, they have flooded and have had to be evacuated.

SGK: Philly’s a funny environment because within the city — and [in cities like] New York and Boston — these are urban environments that work.

They’re ecologically stable, because they’ve been around a long time. When you push out into these areas outside the city, you start to develop and lay a lot of asphalt and mess with the drainage system, or build high rises in the middle of the Schuylkill River, you’re starting to do things that people never thought of doing before. That presents some really interesting problems. The flooding from [2011’s Hurricane] Irene — if you look at the majority of losses from the flooding, they’re all in suburban areas. In general, Philly floods, but it floods in a way that people know about. But when you get out into Bucks

CP: What did the 1950s civil defense efforts in Philadelphia reveal?

SGK: The idea for Philadelphia was that you would have a block warden for every single street, and the block warden’s job would be to make sure that people were prepared for nuclear attacks. That’s sort of a Philly thing to do, right? But it totally, totally failed.

Almost zero percent participation.

Because Philadelphians didn’t see themselves as happy Cold Warriors.

They were members of their union or their church or whatever. It’s a weird sell for the government to say, “You could be incinerated at any moment! And also here are three small steps you can take to prepare yourself for that!” It just doesn’t make sense, and people generally did nothing about it. There was a lot of talk about civil defense, a lot of money spent, but very little action among citizens. Philadelphia is a great example.

CP: You begin the book with a scene from the Sept. 11 hearings.

SGK: I felt then and still think the wrong lessons were learned from that day. Those were fires that brought down high rises. They were caused by an act of terrorism, but that does not negate the fact that those buildings were experimental and unsafe. … The conversations after Sept. 11 were so fraught around “Why do they hate us?” and all these other things, but there was so little discussion about the hazards in our midst. That inspired me to write the book. (theresa.everline@citypaper.net) Scott Gabriel Knowles will talk about The Disaster Experts on Wed., Feb. 22, 5:30 p.m., at the Penn Bookstore, 3601 Walnut St., penniur. upenn.edu.

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CP: You write that disaster mitigation requires poverty reduction, education and land-use restrictions. I read that and think, “Who’s going to do any of those three?”

SGK: Can you think of a politician who’s actually taken that on in the last 20 years? Bill Clinton elevated FEMA to Cabinet-level status, and he put James Lee Witt in charge. ... He preached the gospel of mitigation, but it was really smartly done, because they talked a lot about infrastructure spending, and they talked about poverty reduction. … There were initiatives in the late ’90s, and they were all summarily canceled in the Bush administration. And it’s not because the Bush administration didn’t care about natural hazards — it’s just that they were ideologically opposed to the way that our government is set up to deal with those. That is to say: Do we want a federal agency to be going into local communities and incentivizing them to understand their hazards? If you ask George Bush, his answer is “No, absolutely not.” If you ask Bill Clinton, his answer is “Well, maybe.”

CP: Could you explain what you posit in the book: That disasters are not external to the environment and political culture, but that disasters mirror the values of a society.

SGK: [There are] the hazards that we countenance in our physical environment — the built environment — and the effects that we allow. If you think that it’s OK to have a 200-story building with no fire escapes, that would be a certain kind of value. That means that it’s a society that celebrates building the tallest building. That’s a simple example, but the World Trade Center was not that different. ... I think that we can read into the built environment a lot about our values in the United States postwar, about land use and about this notion of small government.

County and Montgomery County and places where people weren’t living 50 years ago, it’s a very different picture.

Since World War II, metropolitan growth is so rapid in areas that we have not taken good ecological assessments of. There are reasons for that: We don’t restrict land use.

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³ GENTLEMEN OF PHILADELPHIA,there are

subtle shifts in your masculinity on display these days. Beefy Tony Luke Jr. can lose 100 pounds and still be a prince of roast pork and a king of sous-vide cheesesteaks. (By the way, did anyone see the Luke tribute during Sunday night’s TNT-televised SAG Awards?)Pep Boyscan sell its auto-parts concerns to a Los Angeles company for a billion bucks while remaining Philly-based and repped by Manny, Moe and Jack. And Holt’s Cigar Company can take control of its own smoking-lounge destiny, thank you very much. Holt’s, the longtime cigarsmoker paradise at 1522-24 Walnut, previously rented its upstairs space to Mahogany — a cool cigar lounge — to hang its stogie-scented shingle.

No more, though. The men behind Holt’s own the building and they’re readying their own cigar-andliquor-filled lounge in that space, which will close for renovations while Holt’s inspects blueprints. No word yet where Mahogany will relocate. Smoke up. ³ Ever since Bi Jean Ngo and Nicole Blicher changed their group’s name from Nice People Theatre Company to Theatre Confetti, they’ve been doing bang-up business: an introductory party at Underground Arts weeks ago with goodies from Brown Betty’s, COOK and Tiffany & Co., as well as Feb. 2’s Martha Undressed soiree at Sofitel’s Chez Colette with Ms. Graham Cracker going unplugged with her ensemble. “We’re bringing more lifestyle and smaller theater into our collection of offerings to audiences,” says Blicher. “We speak to the incorporation of mixed mediums and event productions.” Plus they and the artists they present will be video blogging from each event.

In bigger Confetti news, they’ve announced their fall production, Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them by A. Rey Pamatmat, dates and locations TBA. ³ South Philly’s premiere plunderphonics producer/MC/bedroom composer Lushlife just signed a deal with Western Vinyl to release his full-length artist joint Plateau Vision in April. The platter will host guest appearances from Ryat, Heems of Das Racist and Styles P. ³ Several weeks ago I wrote about the passing of Philadelphia artist/musicianTim Bowen.I spoke of personal loss, how family and fellow artists whose lives he touched responded to the news of his sudden departure.That loss will never go away even though we’re happy that his ashes will soon be spread throughout his favorite places on the planet. For those who loved his post-Pop aesthetic and for those who missed out, a memorial gallery showing of his voluminous body of work will be on display Sat., Feb. 4, 6 to 9 p.m., at 729 S. Fourth St., with a silent auction ending at 8 p.m. You’ll be happy you came. ³ Ice gets cubed at citypaper.net/criticalmass. (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)

BETTER LATE: It took City Paper 10 years to appreciate Jack McTamney’s stellar Halfway to NowHere.

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THE LONG WAY It’s about time you listened to Jack McTamney.

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e call him the late Jack McTamney,” quips his sister Mary Ellen Costa. When the family got together at her place on Christmas, the doors opened at 2 p.m. “We had a pool.

Everybody threw in a buck, betting what time he’d show up. If your time passed, you could toss in another buck and pick another time.

We were up to $22 when he finally showed up.”

Jack sniffs. “I don’t know why everybody is so worried about what time I’m arriving.” They should know by now he’ll get there eventually.

That attitude might explain how Jack McTamney has been an active singer-songwriter in the region since the ’80s, and even has a CD of originals, Halfway to NowHere, that’s been out for more than a decade, yet somehow still buzzes just below the radar.

He’s a man of many voices, but there’s always a tinge of high, sweet sadness, even in the finely controlled shrieks. As a kid he was fascinated by the blues and the Who; you’ll hear them in his work. He loves Johnny Cash and Phil Ochs, and you’ll pick up touches of them as well. “Streets of Gold,” a compact rendering of the immigrant experience, is a hopeful heartbreaker. “Mr. Ford” is a story-song about a worker throwing himself at a four-dollar-a-day factory job, and it’s catchy as hell.

Scan the crowd at a live performance, even when it’s just him and his guitar doing covers in a neighborhood bar like the Shamrock and the people are transfixed.

Port Richmond is the kind of neighborhood where grade school friends still get together three decades after graduation. Jack, a St. Anne’s alum, still lives there, but misses the days before air conditioning, when people hung out on the stoop, building community in preference to roasting indoors; when not everybody had a car, so you met at the bus stop. “We played on the railroad. There was a lot of land around, with weeds and trees. I felt like Opie,” he recalls. “I can still hear the trains coupling. It was like nuclear war every night.

The only thing louder was my mother screaming.”

The kids would listen before going into the kitchen. “You knew everything was A-OK if she was singing. If she wasn’t, maybe not so good.” As Jack grew up, he and his mom became great pals. He recalls her being a gifted poet and painter, a soprano who loved to sing all the time. Big sis Mary Ellen — who chipped in with brother Jerry to buy Jack a real guitar for his 16th birthday — says that Jack got all his talents directly from their mother.

Proximity bred fondness in the McTamney household, which held at its maximum eight people plus a dog, so multiple bunk beds were a must. “We didn’t have much, but we had fun,” says brother Joe, who picked up the record-collecting bug from their dad. The boys would spin The Beatles, The Band and The Lovin’ Spoonful till the LPs looked like cooked bacon.

“Jack was 10 years younger than me. I was maybe [19 or 20], showing off, teaching him his first chords. Little did I know he’d soon race past me,” says yet another brother, Fran. “I was the closet Gene Shay

“It was like nuclear war every night.”

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It’s as spare as you dare on Clay Class (DFA), the sophomore effort from U.K. duo Tobin Prinz and Suzi Horn. On 11 nervy, anxious tracks built from staccato bass and guitar, punch-drunk drums and oddball slogan-vocals tiptoeing around each other, Prinzhorn Dance School craft a worldview as disorienting as it is enthralling, where love is loathing and rhyme schemes don’t quite resolve. “I want you …” they sing almost sweetly on a song of the same name, “… to stab your sweet smile/ drown your laughter/ in a clever … river.” Like that.

—Brian Howard

Rhyton’s self-titled release (Thrill Jockey) starts just as you fall facedown in interstellar sand, alone and without hope of rescue.

Dave Shuford (No Neck Blues Band), Jimy SeiTang (Psychic Ills) and Spencer Herbst (Messages) leave you farther behind as things get progressively more abrasive and experimental. It’s instrumental, yet speaks in tongues when the seething “Dale Odalíski” segues into “Shank Raids.” There are moments of sunny warmth, but days are relatively short on what—Brian Wilensky ever world this one was laid down on.

³ pop Forget the haters. Lana Del Rey is a goddamn American original.

Naturally, she’s a magpie, paraphrasing the great poets of the 20th century (Nabokov, Springsteen, Betty Boop) in a languorous, honeythick alto over luxuriant strings and syrupy trip-hop beats — smart, funny, sexy as apple pie. Born To Die (Interscope) doesn’t diversify her vocabulary much (though she does rap — no joke), but it maps in detail a highly stylized vision of Americana — triangulated somewhere between Hollywood, the ’hood and archetypal Anytown, —K. Ross Hoffman U.S.A. (imaginary spaces, all).

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³ rock/pop Though you could count Imperial Teen among the current spate of late-’90s indie recidivism, the Roddy Bottum-led quartet’s return transcends mere nostalgia.

Feel the Sound (Merge), the band’s first album since ’07, refines Bottum’s yen for complex arrangements integrated with killer hooks. Yes, there’s that classic, clean-channel guitar chugging beneath the rushing “Runaway” and the contemplative “Don’t Know How You Do It,” but the former’s gigantic keyboard swells and fourpart harmonies and the latter’s gentle orchestral flourishes combine for a sound and feel that’s timeless and timely.

—Brian Howard

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³ THE CAREERS OF some of America’s greatest musical theater writers have ended with a whimper. So it’s heartening that composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb’s final work together, The Scottsboro Boys, shows the pair brimming with the mix of tunefulness and raw edge that dazzled audiences in Cabaret. And Philadelphia Theatre Company’s production, essentially a remounting of the Broadway version, is a knockout.

Kander and Ebb did their share of traditional musicals, but are best known for the in-your-face revue, à la Chicago. The Scottsboro Boys works in a similar mode. Based on the true story of nine African-American teenagers wrongly convicted of rape, Kander and Ebb situate their storytelling within the framework of a minstrel show. A top-hatted Interlocutor provides the narrative; Mr. Tambo and Mr. Bones offer comic commentary.

At its best, Scottsboro shocks and entertains in equal measure. “Electric Chair,” in which a kid is teased by a pair of prison guards, leaves the audience in stunned silence. “Southern Days,” a nostalgic hymn to antebellum culture, is both grim and hilarious.

But ironic distance has its limits. The acerbic breeziness of Chicago works because the story is tawdry tabloid stuff. Applying a similar technique to a genuine tragedy is brave but risky, and Scottsboro plays out its hand in the first hour. At the point where we want something deeper, it isn’t there.

Still, it’s hard to imagine a better production.

Director Susan Stroman uses minimal scenery but vividly evokes multiple locations. (Jeff Whiting skillfully restages her work here.) Six of the original Broadway cast members return, but the entire group is first rate. Particular kudos to Ron Holgate as the Interlocutor and J.C. Montgomery as Mr. Bones. As Mr. Tambo and other characters, Forrest McClendon is simply brilliant. A must-see evening of theater. Through Feb. 19, $51-$69, Suzanne Roberts Theatre, 480 S. Broad St., 215-985-0420, philadelphiatheatrecompany.org. (d_fox@citypaper.net)

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[ B- ] JULIETTE AND ROMEO exchange looks, exhausted and thrilled, in the Paris hospital room where they’re holding their newborn baby, Adam. Moments later, they’re home ... and miserable, in a move that typifies the way the film careens between moods. The baby cries incessantly and won’t sleep, and it isn’t even clear to the new parents whether feeding him helps. “He’s not like us,” Romeo (Jérémie Elkaïm, also the film’s co-writer) explains to a doctor. “He’s not walking, he vomits tons for no reason, and he has huge coughing fits.” As he finishes the list of symptoms, the physician suffers her own alarming coughing fit. It’s not funny, exactly, but it is odd — another trait typical of the film. At film’s start, Romeo and Juliette (Valérie Donzelli, the other co-writer and director) meet at a red-lit Paris club and embark on a brief courtship, compressed into a montage of kisses, fountains, cotton candy and a shooting range. They learn their son has a brain tumor later, as the beginnings of the Iraq War screen on a TV in the background (hence the title). The crisis brings the young couple’s families together — Romeo’s adorable mom Claudia (Brigitte Sy) and her wife Alex (Elina Löwensohn, lovely as always, and barely visible here), plus Juliette’s generally forgettable parents — even as everyone has reasons to come apart.

Though they have support, doctors are attentive and “government aid” is apparently easy to get, Juliette and Romeo lapse into isolation and frustration. They don’t indulge in the sort of drama their American counterparts might (see: Extraordinary Measures), though — they revisit old patterns, partying and dancing. But as the movie returns again and again to montages and expository voiceovers, you feel like you’re missing something in the too-quick passage of time. —Cindy Fuchs

Careening between moods.

YOU LAUGH NOW: It’s all fun and games for Romeo and Juliette, until they welcome baby Adam, who cries incessantly, suffers crazy coughing fits and barfs all over the place.

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YOU MIND?: (L-R) DJ Kwestion, Jus Allah, Crypt the Warchild and Vinnie Paz.

Philly’s Jedi Mind Tricks begets Violence but averts self-destruction. By A.D. Amorosi

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ince 1996, incendiary Philly hip-hoppers Jedi Mind Tricks have existed in that dangerous no-man’s land between Public Enemy’s frank consciousness and X Clan’s insistent ire.

Vinnie Paz, Stoupe the Enemy of Mankind (Paz’s longtime producer and collaborator, who officially left the group he co-founded last September), DJ Kwestion and Jus Allah (a Camden, N.J., MC who’s been in and out of the fold since 1999) have spoken up about blood, religion and politics with the righteous rage of a Bible Belt preacher.

“I think it’s necessary to wear your heart on your sleeve,” says Paz, who takes pride in his hometown’s hip-hop traditions. (“Pop Art Records. Tuff Crew. Hilltop Hustlers.”) When he says he’ll never, ever leave Philly, it sounds like it could be either a promise or a threat.

Then again, most things could qualify as scare tactics when coming from Jedi Mind Tricks. Their albums are smart, blunt takedowns: 2003’s Visions of Gandhi is rap’s version of Woody Allen’s Love and Death, with pissed-off-sounding guest stars like Kool G Rap and a sampled Mike Tyson talking about what it means to be black in America. Servants in Heaven, Kings in Hell, from ’06, is most critical of the Vietnam War (“Uncommon Valor”) and slave labor issues (“Shadow Business”). 2008’s History of Violence took on the reasons we fight, on the streets and abroad.

“I can’t pick a favorite amongst our old stuff. Records are like girlfriends: You always like the one you’re with at the present time the most,” he laughs. Right now, the belle of the Jedi Mind Tricks ball is Violence Begets Violence, released last October, which lets go of

larger issues (for the most part) to focus on personal politics.

Paz, who was raised Catholic but converted to Islam in recent years, gives Christianity a drubbing on “Fuck Ya Life” and throughout the new album. On “When Crows Descend Upon You,” Paz declares he’s no longer part of “God’s colony.” “Everyone is a walking contradiction to some degree,” he says. “There’s a definite line that separates organized religion and spirituality. Do you need a middleman to have a relationship with God? I don’t know. These are things that I — and I believe a lot of people — think about. So I’m just throwing things out there to plant seeds in people’s minds.”

That’s pretty much been the JMT playbook from the beginning.

“We don’t fix what isn’t broken, you know,” laughs Paz. “Jus and I picked a bunch of beats that we loved, and started writing. Making songs. Writing hooks. Kwest was coming up with the scratches.

That’s the process. …We just let things take their natural course.”

For Stoupe — Paz’s longtime producer, beatmaker and sonic brother in arms — the natural course meant leaving the group shortly before Violence Begets Violence, the first of the seven Jedi

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Mind Tricks full-lengths and various EPs he did not produce. Those who frequent hip-hop blogs have read that Stoupe had become distanced and distracted.

“It is what it is,” says Paz. “Stoupe’s thinking the world is against him, thinking we are against him. There was a slow work rate.

Constant complaining. … He’s my brother, and I love him, but until he comes to his senses and understands that we’re not gonna cater to that type of shit anymore, it’s not gonna work.”

Stoupe’s loss of enthusiasm was a wakeup call. “People expect a certain level of quality from us,” says Paz. “That’s not something we take lightly. It’s not a hobby. … To make music, or art in general, with someone who’s lost their passion is counterproductive. I’m not trying to go backwards.

I’m trying to evolve. The younger producers [on Violence Begets Violence] brought a fire to the project that’s been missing for a long time. They lit a fire under Jus and I. We felt like we were kids again making this record.

It felt like back in the day for us.” (a_amorosi@citypaper.net) ✚ Sat., Feb., 4, 8 p.m., $18-$20, with Diabolic and B. Lynch, Union Transfer, 1024 Spring Garden St., 215-232-2100, r5productions.com.

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listener in the neighborhood. I gave Jack his first Phil Ochs record.â&#x20AC;?

Jack started writing songs in his teens. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had fantasies of becoming a star, coming back and showing my teachers.â&#x20AC;? But when he married and the kids came, it became tougher to find time for music while working a day job. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If I stayed in music, kept writing and getting my stuff around as best I could, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be OK,â&#x20AC;? he figured. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was raising two autistic kids. Nothing happens before its time and nothing happens that shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.â&#x20AC;? Perhaps the time is now, as Jack has started putting new song demos on YouTube and getting active on Facebook.

During a break at a recent Twisted Tail gig, guitarist extraordinaire Jim Fogarty, Jackâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s longest, steadiest musical partner and bandmate in the ToneBenders, describes his friendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s writing gift this way: â&#x20AC;&#x153;You could say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Jack, I need a theme song for Twisted Tail: polka in E flat.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be back with it in 30 minutes. And it would be good.â&#x20AC;?

Fogarty continued the thought in a text message a bit later: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Since I met and started working with McTamney in 1984, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always been kind of a disorganized, frustrating but inspired songwriting savant. He opens up his guitar case, and 50 sets of lyrics spill out. If you ask him to write a song on demand for a project, the next day he sends you three, all excellent.

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Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d make someone rich.â&#x20AC;? (m_armstrong@citypaper.net)

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—Sam Adams (Ritz at the Bourse)

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CHRONICLE Read Drew Lazor’s review at citypaper.net/movies. (Pearl, UA Grant, UA Riverview)

DECLARATION OF WAR|BRead Cindy Fuch’s review on pg. 15. (Ritz at the Bourse)

THE INNKEEPERS|B+ A chamber piece in which two desk clerks ride out the last weekend in a mammoth New England hotel, The Innkeepers is Ti West’s most assured film yet, a slowburning creeper that pays off in spades. With only a handful of guests and one of the Yankee Pedlar’s floors already stripped bare, pixie-cut Claire (Sara Paxton) and hipster goof Luke (Pat Healy) have ample time to play amateur ghost hunter, seeking out the spirit of a suicidal woman whose body was hidden in the basement by the inn’s press-shy owners. It takes a while for even these bare facts to emerge, and longer still before the spirit’s presence is more than a faint whisper on the pair’s sound recorder. But West, unlike most whammy-driven horror filmmakers, isn’t afraid to take his time, building character and mood before pulling back the curtain. As in The House of the Devil, West builds up more than he can pay off. Once they come out from under the bed, the movie’s monsters turn out not to be so scary after all. But

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A SEPARATION|AAsghar Farhadi’s carefully devised tale brushes up against scores of pregnant themes, from parental responsibility to the future of Iran, but they’re worked so deftly into the mix that A Separation never devolves into a message movie.

The film’s drab style isn’t on par with its substance, but it furthers the sense of a life captured with casual precision, by a camera that’s always in the right place. Although Farhadi never coaxes his cast toward histrionics, the film functions as a highly effective melodrama, accruing a tragic sense of inevitability as it moves toward its melancholy conclusion. His characters are deliberately ordinary, but their stories take on the weight of myth. —S.A. (Ritz Five)

ALBERT NOBBS|B A passion project 15 years in the making, Albert Nobbs is, not surprisingly, most effective as a vehicle for its star, producer and (novice) writer, Glenn Close. Camouflaged, but not buried, beneath layers of latex and makeup, she plays a 19th-century Dubliner who’s spent decades dressed as a man to gain decent employment. As writer and actor, Close makes Albert implausibly naive, convinced that marriage to Mia Wasikowska’s chambermaid

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dience and the interminable stretches of portentous dialogue. Neeson’s incessant reflections on facing death and the absence of God strain toward Bergman with wolf-punching, but feel more like the closing-time ramblings of the local pub philosopher. —Shaun Brady (Pearl, UA Grant, UA Riverview)

will set her life aright, but her asexual innocence is offset by the presence of Janet McTeer’s lusty workman, a fellow cross-dresser who fully embodies both masculine and feminine. The film’s tone of unrelieved melancholy wears thin over the distance, and Close can’t keep the character from seeming like a pitiable doormat, but the tears come nonetheless. —S.A. (Ritz Five)

MAN ON A LEDGE|D Even an audience full of vertigo sufferers would have a hard time finding much to feel edgy about in director Asger Leth’s tepid thriller. Nick Cassidy (Sam Worthington) checks into a high-rise Manhattan hotel, orders room service, jots down a note and steps out onto the window ledge. While there wouldn’t be much of a movie if he jumped, any sense of suspense or intrigue immediately plummets straight to the ground. The whole affair is so formulaic that it doesn’t even stick

THE GREY|C+ Liam Neeson re-teams with his A-Team director Joe Carnahan for this alternately tense and ridiculous action yarn, the latest entry in his transformation into the thinking man’s action hero for non-thinkers. The bigger set pieces are tautly directed, but the harshest struggle in this film is not between the survivors and the elements but between the au-

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by its own title, yanking Worthington back from the ledge and into a run-ofthe-mill running and shooting climax.

—S.B. (Pearl, UA Grant, UA Riverview)

MISS BALA|B Most of the thrills in this ripped-fromthe-headlines story about Laura, a Mexican beauty-pageant hopeful who’s unwillingly embroiled in a dangerous drug cartel operation, stem from director/co-writer Gerardo Naranjo’s fantastic camerawork.

Using long, impressive tracking shots, he provides viewers with plenty of atmospheric excitement. Yet even with the vivid and authentic treatment of the topic, Miss Bala feels lukewarm.

It’s hard to fully connect with the detached Laura, who is continually placed in harm’s way. But even as she endures multiple horrors, viewers know as much about her at the film’s

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Metropolis (1984, Germany/U.S., 82 min.): An ’80s pop/electronic soundtrack breathes new life into Fritz Lang’s dystopian sci-fi classic.

Fri., Feb. 3, 11:30 p.m., $7. Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (2011, U.S., 86 min.):

This Sundance-winning doc explores the mysterious tiles sprinkled across Philly. Wed., Feb. 8, 7:30 p.m., $10.

CHESTNUT HILL FILM GROUP Free Library, Chestnut Hill Branch, 8711 Germantown Ave., 215-2480977, armcinema25.com. Follow the Fleet (1936, U.S., 110 min.): Starring as reunited lovers, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers offer audiences some of the best numbers of their careers.

Tue., Feb. 7, 7:30 p.m., free.

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SECRET CINEMA International House, 3701 Chestnut St., 215-387-5125, thesecretcinema. com. This double feature opens with Trailer Trash, a collection of ’60s and ’70s exploitation film trailers, before moving on to The Black Angels (1970, U.S., 87 min.), a blaxploitation/biker hybrid about the racially charged clash between two motorcycle gangs. Sat., Feb. 4, 8 p.m., $9.

WESTPHAL COLLEGE OF MEDIA ARTS AND DESIGN Bossone Research Center, 3140 Market St., drexel.edu/westphal.

Urban Roots (2011, U.S., 93 min.): This documentary on the emergence of urban farming in Detroit should resonate with Philadelphians who frequent their local farmers market.

Tue., Feb. 7, 7:30 p.m., $5.

MEDIUM RARE CINEMA 7141 Germantown Ave., regrettablesincerity.com. Hell in the Pacific (1968, U.S., 103 min.): An American pilot (Lee Marvin) and a Japanese navy captain are stranded on a deserted island during World War II. Thu., Feb. 2, 7 p.m., $7.

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Constantine’s Sword (2007, U.S., 96 min.): This doc follows a priest’s examination of Christianity’s religious intolerance. Fri., Feb. 3, 7 p.m., free.

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Thu., Feb. 2, 8:30 p.m., $15, with Vacationer, Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St., 215-232-2100, utphilly.com

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✚ SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE West Philly’s Curio Theatre Company has proven adept at

—Mark Cofta Feb. 2-March 3, $15-$20, Curio Theatre Co. at the Calvary Center, 4740 Baltimore Ave., 215-525-1350, curiotheatre.org.

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✚ THOMAS FRANK “Now, there is nothing really novel about the idea that free markets are the very essence of freedom,” Thomas Frank writes at the beginning of Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right (Metropolitan Books, Jan. 8). “What is new is the glorification of this idea at the precise moment when freemarket theory has proven itself to be a philosophy of ruination and fraud. The revival of the right is as extraordinary as it would be if the public had demanded dozens of new nuclear power plants in the days after the Three Mile Island disaster; if we had reacted to Watergate by making Richard Nixon a national hero.” Frank details how conservatives regrouped after the 2008 market crash by wrapping themselves in populist rhetoric. At the Free Library, he’ll no doubt get into how the Occupy movement began to

take the language back.

—Andrew Milner Thu., Feb. 2, 7:30 p.m., $15, Free Library, Central Branch, 1901 Vine St., 215-567-4341, freelibrary.org.

whose ink-on-paper works examine the medium “sci-fi folk art.” Dick Neff and Charles Cohen will join them to play music at the opening reception.

—Holly Otterbein

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✚ JAMES ULMER His professional training at UArts notwithstanding, James Ulmer has a splendid, self-taught quality about him.

The local artist’s drawings and prints depict imaginative vignettes, full of boats and planes and houses, on materials like notebook paper and cardboard.

Though his works are often funny, they also demand to be taken seriously. In the exhibit “Planar Split,” Ulmer shares the walls with Lance Simmons,

Opening reception Fri., Feb. 3, 6-10 p.m., free, through Feb. 26, Part Time Studios, 2031 Frankford Ave., 215-9482242, parttimestudios.com.

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✚ GREEN CHAIR DANCE It takes two to tandem bike ride, but what happens when you add a third wheel? That’s a whole different kind of balancing act, as you’ll see at Green Chair Dance Group’s new eveninglength work Tandem Biking and Other Dangerous Pastimes for Two.The piece deals with what it means to be in a relationship with someone and how intimacy and commitment over time leads to intensity. Deep stuff, but Green Chair is known for its spry sense of humor, so it ain’t all heavy. “Some people

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staging what co-founder Jared Reed calls “big idea plays” based on great literature, including Catch-22, Lord of the Flies, The Trial, The Odyssey, and Reed’s own Great Expectations adaptation. Kurt Vonnegut’s darkly comic 1969 masterpiece SlaughterhouseFive is especially challenging, concerning a man experiencing all of his life simultaneously, “unstuck in time.” Vonnegut coyly declared that it “has no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no cause, no effect,” though readers know better. Actor and designer Paul Kuhn promises another dynamic set suggesting — concurrently — bombedout Dresden, an alien planet, and stifling post-war suburbs.

Adds Reed: “Anything with aliens named Tralfamadorians should always be brought to the stage.”

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cats, who give the Dap-Kings a run for their retro-soul moneymaker-shakin’. They’ve also got the fizzy suavity of Pizzicato Five and the Day-Glo giddiness of The Go! Team, plus a surprisingly versatile blue-eyed-soul siren in vocalist Mette Lindberg.

Of course, when you boil down all the paisley psychedelics and Technicolor spy-soundtrack spangles, this is pop music, simple and pure. And these are Scandinavians we’re talking about — we probably shouldn’t be too surprised that they can dole out 21st-century space-age bachelor-pad party-pop just as perfect as any other kind.

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Âł I SAW THE SIGN The image is iconic: A jubilant Harvey Milk perches on the roof of a car as he leads hundreds of marchers at the 1978 San Francisco Pride Parade. In one hand, he hoists a homemade sign scribbled with the words â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m From Woodmere N.Y.â&#x20AC;?

The photo threw Nathan Manske into aha-moment bliss when he saw it for the first time. The Driftwood, Texas-born, Brooklyn-based advertising grad was surprised to learn Milk originated from an obscure part of New York, and he felt that sharing the gay legendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s small-town origins could â&#x20AC;&#x153;send a comfortable message to gay youth that there are people all over the world just like [us].â&#x20AC;?

In March of 2009, he launched imfromdriftwood.com, a website that allows readers to submit written stories about their gay-life experiences. That summer, with Philly videographer Marquise Lee in tow, he began traveling between New York and Philadelphia to capture some of the tales on film.

Now, nearly 200 videos deep, Manske is compiling footage in his Community Spotlight Initiative, an every-three-months series that focuses on particular groups in the LGBTQ community. The first, highlighting gay African-Americans, premieres in Philly with four 4- to 5-minute screenings featuring locals like The Attic Youth Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Shara Dae Howard and HIV advocate Tyrone Smith.

Manske touts the wide range of topics that turn up in the Philadelphia stories â&#x20AC;&#x201D; from racial inequality to a jollier tale about being a gay athlete. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want to put on display the full aspect of our lives,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It shows the world who we are as a community.â&#x20AC;? Thu., Feb. 2, 6-9 p.m., $10 suggested donation, William Way Community Center, 1315 Spruce St., 215-732-2220, imfromdriftwood.com. (josh.middleton@citypaper.net) Have an upcoming LGBTQ event? Give it here. E-mail listings@citypaper.net.

hear â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;contemporary danceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and think unitards and angsty emotion, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re about,â&#x20AC;? says Hannah de Keijzer, a GCDG co-artistic director. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Deni Kasrel Fri.-Sat., Feb. 3-4, 7:30 p.m., $20-$30, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, 3680 Walnut St., 215-898-3900, pennpresents.org.

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â&#x153;&#x161; STUDIO MAKKINK & BEY The Netherlands must be so cool. The Dutch design group Studio Makkink & Bey, led by architect Rianne Makkink and designer Jurgen Bey, not only creates stylish, free-graze dairy-barn stalls and â&#x20AC;&#x153;worklandscapesâ&#x20AC;? (seriously, Google it), but has also been known to pressure the government to use its vacant properties for artistic purposes. The exhibit â&#x20AC;&#x153;Soft Villageâ&#x20AC;? features an installation by

the collaborative inspired by the Fabric Workshop and Museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s collection exploring the worlds of textiles, fashion and industry.

The opening reception will include a speech by Bey. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Holly Otterbein Opening reception Fri., Feb. 3, 6-8 p.m., $3, through late spring, Fabric Workshop and Museum, 1214 Arch St., 215-561-8888, fabricworkshopand museum.org.

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â&#x153;&#x161; FEDERICO HERRERO The unbelievable story goes like this: In 2000, Costa Rican artist Federico Herrero was 22 years old, and hanging his paintings on trees. Just a year later, he snagged a best young artist award at the Venice Biennale.

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can cohere into a boldly compelling package, and the four composers who have been commissioned to write new works for the ever-adventuresome Prism Quartet certainly fall into that category. Shanghaiborn Bright Sheng is the best known of the group, but Fang Man, Huang Ruo and Lei Liang all write with distinctive style that evades nationalistic preconceptions.

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Opening reception Fri., Feb. 3, 6-8:30 p.m., free, through Feb. 25, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, 709 Walnut St., 215413-8893, bridgettemayergallery.com.

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stracts to the newly-renovated Bridgette Mayer Gallery. His works are playful and childlike, like Paul Klee’s paintings. But it’s his bright colors, which are drawn from tropical plants, rural houses and traffic signs, that are just plain scrumptious.

Sat., Feb. 4, 7 p.m., $20, First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St., 215-438-5282, prismquartet.com

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✚ PRISM QUARTET Contemporary Chinese music is a fascinating stew of influences, tempered by the cultural whiplashes of the Communist regime, with rich strains of traditional Asian sources, of course, but also powerful avant-garde and even rock and jazz elements. In the right hands, these diverse sources

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Tokio Global | Ryo and Nicole Igarashi are relocating their 2-year-old Japanese street-food shop Maru Global Takoyaki from 10th and Spruce to Headhouse Square. The ball-griddlin’ couple has teamed up with Madame Saito to move their operation into what was her sushi bar, Tokio; fresh fish is still available, but it’ll now be buddied up with Maru’s many-splendored griddled-batter-sphere selections and a new yakitori menu. (Since the space is attached to Saito’s adjacent HeadHouse, they’ll be able to serve beer, too.) Opening tomorrow, the new-look Maru will serve dinner nightly, with lunch Friday to Sunday and legit late-night service. (3:30 a.m.) Fridays and Saturdays. 124-126 Lombard St., 215-922-2515, maruphilly.com.

Green Olives | The far end of East Passyunk has some new North African blood, too — Green Olives, taking over for Mondial Café, offers shawarma, tagine, kebabs and some decidedly non-Moroccan dishes (Cajun fries!) in a BYO setting. They’re looking into adding hookahs, too. The café’s open daily, 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday to Friday and 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. 1941 E. Passyunk Ave. ³ LITTLE VITTLES

Ben McNamara, who made a name for himself in the first wave of Philly gastropubbing (most notably at New Wave Café), is the new chef at Old City’s Philadelphia Bar & Restaurant, aka PBR (120 Market St.).

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THE BANK JOB Wood fires produce proud pizzas and more at the Schuylkill-side In Riva. By Adam Erace IN RIVA | 4116 Ridge Ave., 215-438-4848, in-riva.com. Dinner served Sun.

and Tue.-Thu., 5-10 p.m.; Fri.-Sat., 5-11 p.m.; brunch served Sat.-Sun., 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.; closed Mon. Salumi, $11-$18; cheese, $14-$19; vasi (bruschette jars), $9-$12; salads, $10-$12; antipasti, $9-$13; pizza, $13-$19.

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ood writers love labels. This is why we’re always trying to group, classify and define trends 12 months at a time: The Year of Barbecue, The Year of the Cupcake. As lazy and easily exploitable as this device may be, sometimes themes emerge that even the most righteous among us cannot ignore. Take 2011, The Year of More on: the Dumb Restaurant Name.

Chenango, Llama Tooth, Chicken.Org — what were your owners thinking? Clearly, the same thing as Beyoncé and Jay-Z when they named their daughter Blue Ivy. Falling in with 2011’s oddly named ranks is chef/coowner Arthur Cavaliere’s In Riva, but unlike its weirdly coined comrades, it makes sense once Cavaliere throws down a little lesson d’Italiano: “It means ‘along the banks.’”

This stylish East Falls pizzeria and antipasti spot does indeed dwell along the banks — the views of the Schuylkill River, a highway of liquid jade just across Kelly Drive, are expansive out on In

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Riva’s patio. Right now, night comes too soon to appreciate them, but once April arrives, al fresco tables will be set, and guests will toast spring with effervescent Frigo cocktails, a delightfully bittersweet union of white wine, Campari and orange soda.

The location is prime, and two other restaurants, Verge and Franco’s Trattoria, had respectable runs at this address before closing down, leaving developer/building owner Mark Sherman (he’s a partner in In Riva) with a vacancy. He filled it with Cavaliere, a longtime family friend who’d just returned to Philly from cooking in D.C. and consulting in Michigan. Locally, Cavaliere has been part of the Starr and Garces empires, but he got his start in nearby Manayunk, bussing tables at River City Diner.

Sherman and Cavaliere stripped down Franco’s dining room and furnished its cinder-block skeleton with caged fans, laboratory barstools, an architectural mural of the nearby Falls Bridge and other industrial accessories. Crowded MORE FOOD AND together on a wooden platform suspended DRINK COVERAGE from the ceiling by brass chains, vintage AT C I T Y P A P E R . N E T / desk lamps create a dramatic secondhand M E A LT I C K E T. chandelier above a long feast table constructed of salvaged barn doors. The lights’ necks crane over the sides like nosy old geese, eyeing diners passing around spreadfilled jars and boards piled with thick toasted bread.

Cavaliere’s menu is designed for sharing, broken into sections of salumi, cheese, antipasti, salads, pizza and “vasi” (jars), the aforementioned build-your-own bruschette. The pepperonata vasi brought ribbons of red, orange and yellow bell peppers packed into a hinge-top container with bits of blue crab. Cavaliere stews >>> continued on page 36

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Marrakesh Express| Brahim Ighladen sold his West Philly restaurant last spring, but he’s already back in biz with a food truck of the same name. Specializing in shawarma (chicken, beef/lamb, baked fish) and various sides (hummus, baba ganoush, grape leaves), Marrakesh serves Monday to Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the corner of 40th and Locust. halalmarrakesh.com.

CANNED DO: In Riva’s classic margherita pizza is superior, but don’t sleep on their new-school pies like the cippolini, with Brussels sprouts, provolone, pancetta and goat cheese.

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the peppers for four hours in a vinegary tomato-fennel marinara, a method that turns them tender and acquiescent but ultimately fails to develop their innate sweetness.

Minor miscalibrations like this prevent In Riva from reaching its full potential. Slick pork belly arrived over saccharine apricot mostarda. Tender agrodolce pork ribs were tight, but neither agro (sour) nor dolce (sweet). Stiff Greek yogurt swirled with blackberry preserves wasn’t the best dip for zeppole that had all the structure of bubble gum. Lemon curd was slightly more forgiving.

Cavaliere’s condiments and saucing weren’t always suspect, evidenced by the vivacious golden-raisin gremolata scattered over wintry braised beef cheeks, and there was plenty more to like at In Riva. Glazed with marsala wine, the cheeks also testified to Cavaliere’s masterful handling of meat, an impressive thread connecting the heartier dishes here, from the aforementioned ribs and belly (cured with citrus and garlic, confit-ed, pressed, seared and roasted in the oven) to the airy “Mommy’s Meatballs.”

“Saturday morning in my house growing up, my mom would have four pans of meatballs going at a time,” says Cavaliere. “I helped her make meatballs every weekend of my life.” Practice makes perfect. Pork and beef are the ground meats here. Parsley and cheese add flavor.

Milk and fresh bread (never crumbs) lend lightness.

Veal jus, woodsy with sage, laps at the orbs, rolled and cooked to order, and attendant croutons browned in prosciutto fat.

The meatballs, though praiseworthy, aren’t the main attraction at this riverside rendezvous: That honor belongs to In Riva’s pizzas. Stretched 12 inches, they puff, crisp and blister in two minutes in the oak-burning oven, the centerpiece of the snug open kitchen. Up in the dome, 1100 degrees of heat seethe and hover like captive harpies, radiating the brash angles of the superior margherita’s raw San Marzano tomato sauce, sweetening the cippolini onions on a pie of the same name. The former is classic and the latter is new-school (with Brussels sprouts, sharp provolone, pancetta and chèvre), and I still couldn’t decide which I liked better after devouring three slices of each — though I can still remember the cippolini pie’s spatter of aged balsamic, and how the vinegar’s time-won sweetness and acidity cut bloodlessly through the pie’s considerable fattiness.

I also couldn’t choose which of the mini cannoli I liked best: lemony ricotta, olive-oil-enriched chocolate or palegreen pistachio streaked with nutmeg and cinnamon.

I’d love to linger over these diminutive desserts on the patio with an espresso, some good company and a view of the water, but there’ll be plenty of time for that later.

While In Riva’s name might denote outdoorsy, it’s a restaurant suitable for all seasons. (adam.erace@citypaper.net)

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how to order; each of you shouting over the other your staggered modified orders. Everyone MUST HAVE SEPARATE CHECKS! You YELP that your server is slow and miserable. Your server would be much more efficient and sweet as cotton candy if you followed a few simple guidelines that most of the general population in Philly seem to get. 1 Ask your work pals earlier in the day who’s going to happy hour. 2) When the first person arrives to happy hour tell your server how many are in your party and he/she will be more than happy to set up a spot for you. 3) When your server asks you what you want to eat or drink, don’t tell them to come

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I am really tired of hearing the both of you fighting in the house. If the both you can’t get along why don’t you break the fuck up! I am also tired of hearing the both of you fighting for food! Who does that shit? Why did you move over me...I feel cursed.

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I can’t believe a grown-ass woman such as you live in a fucking pig’s sty how can you not have a door on your bathroom? And then act like it is nothing.

I thought you were 48 but you think you are 21. I thought a woman of your age would listen to the golden oldies not hip-hip. You have really embarrassed yourself and then you gonna go to sleep on me snoring over the television.

PURE WASTE Thinking back to myself when I picked you up I thought that you were worth something...now I see that you arent then you told your wife that I was trying to pick you up and then she came around my house wanting to fight me on the porch! All my neighbors came out wondering what was going

I must say this and I probably will be saying this for awhile...what the fuck is up with you and I...It doesn’t seem like I am in a relationship with you... you don’t tell me anything and I am really tired of it. You come and go as you please...you don’t love me that much and if you do....why can’t you just walk away...try walking away now.

from you! I don’t think that you understood what you and I were together. We were magic together.

No worries though...I have no hard feelings. I just want you to not contact me anymore and that would make things simpler. Take care.

SEPARATE CHECKS YELPER Any Friday (Sept-June) 3:10 PM: As soon as the school bell rings you and your 10 closest co-worker friends come barreling into happy hour to get your fried food and drink on. You rearrange the furniture to suit your seating pleasure and in the process giggle and apologize when you accidentally send condiments crashing and splattering all over the place. You yell over each other as if you are still standing in front of 30 bored kids. You have no idea

back in a minute and expect that to really happen.

There is a full restaurant and food and drink must be ordered and delivered to all of the other hungry and thirsty customers. Therefore, reality is it may be about 7 mins before a server’s round gets back to you. *Understanding this point should help you to understand that when your beer is at 2-fingers and the server asks if you want another, answer him/her because your server may not be back for another 7 mins and then it may take about 3 mins to order/ make/deliver that drink, leaving you on empty for about 10 mins. 4) Use your indoor voice; that’s for everyone in the building’s sake. 5) 10 people...10 SEPARATE CHECKS! REALLY! You are all friends, you each get the same exact thing EVERY WEEK. Bring some cash, some ones, fives and

I feel like you used me and that is fine because you will never, I mean never, get anything else from me again! That money that you took from me I told you that I earned that money...but you took it anyway... regardless of what I told you that we needed in the house you still took it! I don’t know what to say about this so-called relationship because there is no communication. But you know what...I am going to cheat on you like your child’s mother did...and then I am really not going to care like I don’t right now.... sorry but...you deserve every bit of it! ✚ To place your FREE ad (100 word limit), go to citypaper.net/ILUIHU and follow the prompts. ADS ALSO APPEAR AT CITYPAPER.NET/lovehate.

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merchandise market Autographed Guitar Collection, must sell. Stones, Zeppelin, Beatles, others. Appraised over $2500 each. asking $500/ea. with COA, call for pics 215-798-0789

Bed: Dbl Cherry Sleigh, armoir, desk, matress/bxsprg $800. 302-379-4059 BRAZILIAN FLOORING 3/4", beautiful, $2.75 sf (215) 365-5826

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CABINETS SOLID MAPLE Brand new soft close/dovetail. Crown molding. Can add or subtract to fit kitchen Cost $6400. Sell $1595. 610-952-0033

BDRM SET: Solid Cherry Sleigh Bed, Dresser, Mirror, Chest & Night Stand High Quality. Brand new. Must sell.

Cost $6000 Ask. $1200. 610-952-0033

BED: Brand New Queen Pillowtop Mattress Set w/warr, In plastic. $175; Twin $140; 3 pc King $265; Full set $155.

Memory foams avl. Del. avl 215-355-3878

BUYING EAGLES SBL’s & TICKETS

CALL 215-669-1924

WANTED: EAGLES SBL’S True Eagles fan, Call 610-586-6981

33&45 RECORDS HIGHER $ REALLY PAID

Bed Queen Pillow top matt set $229; King $299 mem foam $295. 215-752-0911

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Bedroom Set brand new queen 5 pc esp. brown $489. Del Avail 215-355-3878

33 & 45 Records Absolute Higher $

NEW Mattress Sets, $99: TWIN, FULL, QUEEN, Delivery Available 215-307-1950 SOFA, LOVE SEAT, MICROFIBER Chocolate. Can del. $550. 215-752-0911

Double Header Candy Machines dispences small candy, $39/each. Buy 23 get another 3 for free. Call (856)983-1969

BD Mattress memory foam w/box sprIng Brand New Queen cost $1400, sell $299; King cost $1700 sell $399. 610-952-0033

SAUNA with options, fits in any room, will deliver. Original cost $2,300 sell for $500. Call (856)983-1969

Books -Trains -Magazines -Toys Dolls - Model Kits 610-689-8476

Coins, Currency, Gold, Toys,

Dr. Sonnheim, 856-981-3397

I Buy Anything Old...Except People! antiques-collectables, Al 215-698-0787

pets/livestock Please be aware Possession of exotic/wild animals may be restricted in some areas.

ENGLISH BULLDOG PUPPIES - Family raised, great selection, lot’s of wrinkles, $1,400. Call 717-475-0713

English Bulldog pups, ACA, $1450.

3M, 1F, ready Feb 7th, 717-445-0606

Maine Coon Kittens, CFA reg., M/F multiple colors. (215)438-8759

English Bulldog Pups, AKC, cute & adorable, shots & wormed, health guaranteed, $1200. no Sunday calls. (717)336-7381

Ragdoll Kittens: Beautiful, guaranteed, home raised. $500. Call 610-731-0907

English Bulldog Pups AKC/FCI Champ Bloodlines. 610-533-0589.

American Bull/Pit mix, s & w, parents on premises, $100. (215)740-6136 American Pit Bull terrier pups, 1M, 5F, red/red nose, UKC/ADBA reg., 100% Camelot Bloodlines, $600. (215)681-1855

Australian Shepherd pups, AKC, born 11/28, Merles & Tris, 610-777-3120 Boston Terrier M, 3 yrs, $150. Also Chow Black Fem, 8 mo, $150. 215-254-0562 CAVALIER KING CHARLES PUPS Blenheim, 4M, ACA, $700. 215-353-2303

ENGLISH BULL DOG PUPS grandparents and parents on premise, shots, papers. Call 215-696-5832

FOX TERRIERS: Toy ready to go, 8 weeks old $325. Call 717-768-0745 GERMAN SHEPHERD PUPPIES - AKC www.quietwinterfarm.org. 610-913-8156 German Shepherd Pups - AKC. lg boned, champ pedigree. Call 609-351-3205 German Short Hair Pointer pups AKC, world class bloodlines, M $600, F $700 shots, wormed, (717)964-3843

Lionel/Am Flyer/Trains/Hot Whls $$$$ Aurora TJet/AFX Toy Cars 215-396-1903 Housekeeper, errands, PT-FT, 5 yrs exp, refs,car,bkgd chk,Overbrook,215.290.2100

13xx S 22nd St. 2br $775+utils recent reno, hwd flrs, w/d 856-906-5216

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CAREGIVER/ELDER companion, driver w/car desires morning P/T position, references, 19 years exp. George 267.597.9662

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1100 S 58th St. Studio & 1Br apts newly renov, lic #362013 215-744-9077 1119 S. 61st St. 1Br $650 1st flr, exc. loc, Sec 8 OK 267-988-5698 12xx S. 52nd St. 2br $695+utils hdwd flrs, near transp., 267-808-3347

Oil Refinery Positions

Philadelphia, PA

DVA Federal Credit Union, is seeking a highly motivated, goal oriented and experienced Member Service Representative. Email Resume to: Greynolds@dvafcu.org or Fax 202-737-2992

Maltese Pups, AKC Reg., p.o.p., health guar, babymaltese.com 610-405-2379 MALTESE PUPS - Ready to Go! Call 856-875-6707 PEKINGESE PUPS M & F, $295 - $495.

Adorable & Beautiful. Call 267-243-9526 Pit Bull Pups - Blue, UKC, exc. bloodlines, 5 M, 2 F, S/W $500. 302-275-8792 Pit fem. blue 11 wks, cropped ears $300. 9 wks fem, cream & black tiger stripe, big head, $150. both S/W. (215)254-0562

Collection Sales Rep NEPA Area

Ability Recovery Services, LLC is looking for an experienced Collection Sales Representative to target the Allentown, Philadelphia and New York areas. Salary + commission based on experience.

Call Kim @ 855-207-1892 ext 208 Email resume: kross@ars-llc.biz

Pomeranian Puppies - Registered, great companions, $550. Call 856-692-1867 Poodle Puppies: Standard, home raised, 1 black female $500, Males: 2 brown, 1 cream, 1 white. $400. 610-489-3781

DRIVERS Class A & Class B

PUG PUPS AKC: Exc. companions for old or young, Males $450/obo. 717-354-6582

Pumpernickel Express has immediate openings for night delivery of auto parts. Must have 3 years exp. with clean CDL. Call 877-849-0990

SHIH TZU PUPS ACA, 10 weeks, $975.

Call 215-752-1393

Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Puppies available, Call 215-538-2179

Golden-Doodles,Standard & Mini, F1, parents on premises, health guarantee, $500-$1000. Call (484)678-6696

Doberman Pups: AKC, 3M, 1F left, ready now. dogwooddobes.com 215-791-4663

Golden Retriever Pups: AKC, adorable, champ line $525 M, $575 F. 610.286.5373

Shih Tzu pups, AKC, Ch sired, 15wks, 2F, home raised, $775 (443)365-6140

Doberman pups black & rust $1100 & up adrkdobermans.com 856-491-7929

Maltese Maltese/Yorkie=Morkie Tiny BOY, shts., hlth guar. $650 609.509.3345

WEIMARANER PUPS M/F, gray/blue, reg., health guar., exc litter. 570.589.1465

17xx Reed St. 1BR Apts For info please call 267-592-4739

20xx Federal St 1BR Apt. nice, modern, call 9a-5p (267)516-0977

Member Service Representative

LAB pups, AKC, choc., English & champ lines, parents on prem. excellent temperament, health guar., $500. 717-354-2674

apartment marketplace 254 S 16th St. Lg Effic. $860 Heat included. Laundry rm. 215-732-6348

Diabetic Test Strips needed pay up to $10/box. Most brands. Call 610-453-2525

everything pets English Bulldog born 12-29-2011 4 girls and 4 boys family raised and registered with both parents on premises. For more info call Dan 2154904697

JUNK CARS WANTED Up to $250 for Junk Cars 215-888-8662

* * * 215-200-0902 * * *

Trains, Hummels, Sports Cards. Call the Local Higher Buyer, 7 Dys/Wk

18 Myrtle Ave - Havertown. Mon-Fri 8am-3:30pm Various items - Antiques, Collectibles.

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Diabetic Test Strips, $$ Cash Paid $$ Nicotine patches, gum. For highest prices & pick-up, Call 215-395-7100.

Langhorne, PA

Alaska, relocation available

68xx Chester Ave 1 or 2br $700 all utils inc. nice area, avail now 215-873-1200

Current positions available:

200 N. 52nd St 1BR Nr new El transp. Sec 8 ok 484.358.0761

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Tesoro Alaska offers an excellent compensation and benefits package.

Full relocation available upon hire.

View full job descriptions and submit your resume at: www.tsocorp.com Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V

Airport Area nice 2BR $795+ duplex, a/c, gar, bsmt. Call 856-346-0747

40th & Cambridge 1BR & 2BR $535 free utils, liv rm, kitch, Scott 215.222.2435 512 N. 54th St. 1br $625+utils must see, LR, kitch, ba. 267-709-2704

51 N. 63rd St. 2BR/1BA $675 Kitch, living room, porch. (215) 626-6245 51xx Irving St 1BR & Effic’y $545-$600 Must See! Call for details 610-869-3663 52nd/Parkside 2br $650+ utils large, newly renov, w/w. 215-552-5200 52xx Parkside 2br $700 $2100 move-in. Call 267-972-9693 53rd & Chestnut 2br $625+utils 2 mo. security, 1st flr, w/w 215-365-0135

South Philadelphia area

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54xx Kingsessing Ave 1br $500 heat & hot water inc. newly painted, hardwood floors, 2nd floor, Call (215)729-5760

Tesoro Alaska Company is located on the Cook Inlet, 70 miles southwest of Anchorage, Tesoro Alaska’s Kenai refinery can process up to 72,000 barrels per day (bpd). The refinery produces ultra low sulfur gasoline, jet fuel, ultra low sulfur diesel (USLD), heating oil, heavy fuel oils, propane and asphalt.

Reach Lift Operator

SHIH TZU PUPS- ACA, shots, 3 generation family tree. 717-738-0464

22xx S. 63rd 2br $700 2nd floor, spacious apt (610)812-6352

Freezer position within well established food manufacturer. Exp. necessary, F/T union position with benefits. Email Resume or letter of interest to: Weirback@yahoo.com

53rd & Westminister 1 BR $580 + utils Efficiency $400 + utils Newly renov, must see! $1,500 move-in. apt., $800 move-in effic. 215-476-5885 540 N. 52nd St. 1 BR Newly renov. 215.744.9077 lic# 333911 64xx Saybrook Ave lrg 1Br $525+utils 1st flr, hdwd flrs, mod kit. 215-848-7471

Parkside A rea 1Br, 2Br & 4Br starting @ $700. Newly renov, new kit & bath, hdwd flrs, Section 8 OK. 267-324-3197

63xx Magnolia St 1BR $650+utils updated, 1st flr., w/w carpets, EIK, W/D hookups, garage. Call 610-547-7355

Parkside area 1BR $800 hdwd flrs, new construction, PHA, Sec 8 ok, 1 block from Park. (215)791-2722

Fieldview Apts-705 E. Church Lane Penn Lee Court- 557 E. Church Lane Studio 575-$600, 1br700-$750, 2br $850 Gas, Water, Heat Free- SEC. 8 WELCOME Call to schedule appt @ 215-276-5600 Greene or Seymour Sts. 1br units $545$685+util. Great transp. 610-287-9857 Wayne & Manheim Efficiency $425+ 2nd flr, nice efficiency. 215-783-4736 xx W LOGAN St Studio $490+ utils 2+1 to move in. 215-471-1742

Walnut St Efficiency $450 2br $720 renov, 215-471-1365; 215-663-0128

503 N. 63rd St. 2br $750+utils very lg, 2nd fl, 1st mo., sec. 917-650-6855 Various 1, 2 & 3 BR Apts $725-$895 www.perutoproperties.com 215.740.4900

13th & Somerset 2BR/1BA $650 Private entrance, 2 months plus security, call Lisa 267-516-7917.

1826 Ridge Ave. Lg. 3BR Section 8 OK Must See. Call 215-885-1700 1916 W. York St. 3BR $725+utils Newly renovated. Call 267-977-1221 2xx E Albanus 1BR $590+ utils 3 mo sec. h/w flrs, w/d, new paint. Beautiful apt. Call 215-820-2219 leave mess.

3214 N. Broad 1BR $600+utils 3rd flr, near transp,new reno 215.748.1383 33RD ST. 1-2BR $625 & up newly renov, near Univ 215.227.0700, 9-5 35xx N. 19th 1BR $525 heat & hot water incl, new renov. 215-226-2526 North Phila 5BR’s starting @ $1600.

Newly renov, S/S, W/D, hdwd flrs, carpeted Br’s, Section 8 OK. Call 267-324-3197

1,2, 3, 4 Bedroom FURNISHED APTS LAUNDRY-PARKING 215-223-7000

38xx N. 15th new 1Br $550+utils beautiful, renov,no smoking267.809.7866 46xx Broad St. 2br $775+utils 1st, last, sec 215.329.2863 / 215.229.2433 50xx 10th St. 2br $650/mo. renov, beaut., 3 mon req. 267-984-8522

13xx Nedro nice 2BR $600+utils 2nd flr, capreted, spacious (215)424-4176 1xx E. Wyoming Ave. Effic. $475 + elec.

New renov, 1st flr. Must See 215.552.5200

1610 E. Roumfort Rd lrg 1BR $765 Section 8 OK. 877-866-8309 76xx Rugby St. 1br $595+utils mod dplx, w/w cpt, garage, 215.840.6018 80xx Fayette/Thouron 2BR $630-$750 2 months + sec. to move in 215-410-6907 Cliveden St. 1 br/1ba $585+ gar disp., a/c, newly renovated, off street, no pets, w/w carpets, 215-782-8030 Green Tree Apts-330 West Johnson St. Modern & Quiet Living in West Mt. Airy Starting-1BR $700-$750 & 2BR $900 Gas,Water,Heat Free-Move In Specials Call to schedule appt. 215-276-5600

14xx W. 71st Ave 1 BR $625 utilities included, close to transporation and shopping. Call 215-574-2111 66th & Broad 2Br $925+utilities close to transp. & schools. 215-888-9018 66xx N Broad St 1BR $650+utils duplex, close to transp. 215-932-2736 E.O.L: 2br& 4br apt $600 & $825+utils 2 month security. Call 215-224-6566

1507 Foulkrod 1Br & 2Br $625 Sec 8 OK. 215.778.0977 267.496.9252 4343 Frankford 1BR & 2BR $525-$650 w/w, close to transp. 267-235-5952 46xx Hawthorne St 3br $775+utils private entrance yard, bsmt 215.805.6455 4711 Leiper St. Studio renovated, lic#493309 215-744-9077 4810 Oxford Ave. 1br $565+utils 2nd floor, $1130 move-in. 267-255-6322

2xx Furley St. 1br $600+utils 1st, last & sec, Call Steve (267)249-9432 60XX Warnock 1 BR $595+ near Fernrock Train Station,215-276-8534

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Newly renov. 215-744-9077 lic#433314

Eli Ct.-1418 Conlyn/Julien- 5600 Ogontz Convenient Living near LaSalle University Stud. 450-$575 1br 575-$675 2br $775 Gas, Water, Heat Free- SEC 8 WELCOME Call to schedule appt @ 215-276-5600

535 McKinley St. 1BR/1BA $565/mo Lawncrest. Large. New wall-to-wall carpets. Must see! 215-914-0859 Academy & Grant 2BR $775+ 2nd flr,w/w, c/a,off st prkg 856.346.0747

22xx W. Tioga 1br $550 2br $775 Newly renov, 215.229.2433; 215.329.2863

25th & Girard Lg Effic $500+utils Nice size & clean, 215-765-2195

18xx Ruscomb 1br & 2br $550+elec.

1st & last month rent & security deposit, Call 267-258-3543 or 215-626-5427

1xx W Sharpnack 2br $725 heat & hw inc lrg twin, 1st flr, porch, w/d, 215-848-7471 4617 Wayne 1br $450 ht & hot wtr inc.

EIK, 267-600-6894 or 215-416-2757

5220 Wayne Ave. Studio & 1 BR newly rehab, 215-744-9077, Lic# 507568

Philmont 2BR duplex, 2nd flr $820+ C/A, bsmnt, w/w, garage, (215)752-1091 Red Lion/Verree Road Vic. Duplex 1 lrg BR $695+utils. Call (215)808-8863 Rhawnhurst 2br Duplex $850 well maintained, w/d, (267)432-5392 TACONY 1BR $425+utils across from train station 215-355-3548 Wissinoming 1BR $575+utils 1st fl, W/D, front & rear entr 267.456.9118

Darby Efficiency $600 utils inc., w/d, private parking 484-469-0753

Elkins Park 1br/1.5ba $1000 all utils incl huge BR, w/d, grt location 484.300.9699

Mt. Laurel 2br/2.5ba Condo $1400+utils garage, LR, DR, A/C, exclusive area, 8 miles from Center City. (609)713-4448

homes for rent

Phoenixville 2BR/2BA Apt. to share w/ retired woman, use of washer/dryer, 1321 Rodman St. #3B 1BR/1BA $2,400 w/ Garage and Utils incld. ALL YOU NEED! $400/mo, pet welcome. 484-924-8650 267-886-9995

22nd & Hunting Park, renov, lrg rm, furn $85-$95 wk 2nd week free! 215.960.1600 24xx Turner St. Rooms $400/Mo. SSI OK. 215-519-5437 33rd St & Ridge Ave $100-125/wk. Large Renovated furnished rms near Fairmount Park & bus depot (215)317-2708 42xx Paul St. furn $120/week + 2 week deposit, 609-617-8639, 856-464-0933 4500 N. 17th St. $350/mo. new luxury room, Free Cable! Henry (267)974-9271 5th & Wyoming Newly renovated, furnished, $85/week. Must See! 215-552-5200 6100 W. Oxford St. Furnished Rms w/ Cable, Kitchen & Liv Rm W/D incl. $125 wk. Near Transp. Call 215-473-5100 6134 Lambert St. Furnished Large. 267-474-0827 61xx Chew Ave, Mt. Airy, W Phila, Popular , $85-$100/wk. 215-242-9124 6255 Limekiln Pike - Rooms for Rent Call 215-549-2111, between 9-9

A1 Nice, well maintained rms, N. & W. Phila. Starting @ $125/wk 610.667.9675 Brewery Town/Temple U: Luxury furn. rms, priv ent., no smoking 267-240-2474 Broad & Erie, $120/week +sec., single, furn,c/a, ideal for Seniors, 215-880-1799 Broad & Erie: Clean, Neat, Secure Rooms $110/wk. Shared ba, no kit 267.226.2455 Broad & Hunting Park - $100/week, clean, near transportation. 215-206-3832 Broad & Olney deluxe furn priv ent $115 wk, 4 free wks, Sec $200. 215-572-8833 Frankford, furnished, near bus & El, $85/wk & up + $295 sec. 215-526-1455 Germantown area $565 utils included 1 month rent. 2 mon dep. 610-998-5261 Germantown Area: NICE, Cozy Rooms Private entry, no drugs (215)548-6083 Germantown, Clean furn. rooms, some with private baths. Call Jeff 215-805-3823

Germantown,furn rms, renovated, share kitch & BA, $125/wk. 215-514-3960 GTN & North Phila $350-$400 1occupant Clean furn rooms for rent. 267-276-2153 Hunting Park: Furn. Luxury Rooms. Free utils, cable & internet. 267-331-5382 Hunting Park, Kensington, Germantown, Olney, NE, W, S & SW Phila, Mt. Airy, $85-$125/wk. SSI ok. Call 215-602-2252 Lansdowne - Furn’d, private bath, share kitch & w/d.$495+ 1/2 elec. 215-729-1160 Lehigh & Glenwood renovated rooms, $100/wk SSI ok. 267-736-8375

8xx N. Taney 3br/1ba $1,280 ac, hwd fl, 610.212.5920 or 267.997.4072

15xx S. Stanley St. 3BR modern kitchen & bath, w/d, yard & patio, Section 8 ok. Call 215-432-3040 435 Dudley St. 2BR $850 Small backyard. Sec. 8 ok. 917.667.4101

14xx Vodges 3BR, 1BA $800+utils Large open front porch, rear yard.

"The Landlord That Cares" Tasha 267.584.5964, Mark 610.764.9739 55xx Whitby Ave. 3BR $850+utils Finished basement. Call 215-828-1101 60xx Pine St. lrg 4BR front porch, modern kitchen and bath, ceramic tile, carpet, Sec 8 ok. 877-371-7368 62nd & Buist 3BR $725/mo.

Basement, yard. Call 215-821-8858 65XX ALLMAN 3br/1.5ba 1st floor Hdwd flrs, air, sec8ok 610-212-1947

SW: Elmwood Area 3BR modern, Section 8 approved 215.726.8817

14xx N. 62 St. 3BR $700 mo.

Total rehab, new kitchen, bath. Exit Benchmark Rlty. Greg 215-427-2970 x104 51xx Ludlow 3BR $750 water incl. newly renovated, carpet, paint, nice small backyard, good block. 267-249-6645 5404 Delancey 2BR $700+ utils gd cond, 1st/last & sec 267-968-6131

1226 W Oakdale 3br/1ba $650+utils 1st/last & 1 month security, 215-526-1140 2010 W. Hagert 3br/1ba $700/mo.

Newly renovated, Sec 8 ok. 215.479.5508 2353 Lambert 3 BR $650+utils 1st/last & 1 month security, 215-526-1140

1xx Linton St. 3BR/1BA new carpets, Sec 8 ok. 215-740-4629 1xx W. Albanus 3Br $900+utils Freshly painted, Sec 8 ok (856)630-8853 2xx W. Sheldon St. 3BR/1BA $825+ yard, carpet, fin basement. 215-704-4427 G & WYOMING 2BR House $725 Painted: Basement/Yard. 1st & last month Rent & Sec. Call Jack 718-884-2848

7xx E Allegheny large 3br/1.5ba $725+ w/w carpets. Call 215-836-1960 8xx E. Hilton St. 3br/1ba $750+ 1 mo. sec. Sec. 8 ok, renov., near K & A and new elementary school 215.206.4582

13xx Airdrie 3BR $695+2mo sec.

Nice upgrade, ready now 267-307-6964 Bridge & Frankford vic. 3br/1ba $1200 newly renovated, Sec 8 ok. 215.479.5508

MAYFAIR 3br/2.5ba $1150+utils close trans/shops, full bsmt 215-694-4089

Darby 3br/1ba $950+Sec newly renov, Section 8 ok 610-284-4982 UPPER DARBY 2BR/1BA 410 Crowden, hdwd floors, new kitch, porch, beautiful location. 484-557-0098

Dresher Woods 2br/2.5ba TH $1400 2 story, security, sprinkler, fireplace, all appliances, no pets, (215)938-7140

Classic Coup 1996 w/ removable glass top, positively flawless, perhaps the finest avail., few original miles, Sr. Citizen, will accept best offer. Call 215-627-1814

CIVIC LX 2010 $14,900 4 door, auto., 8,900 mi. 302-584-0631 Odyssey EXL 2008 $17,000 loaded, white, tan leather, 83K mi, 1 owner, non-smoker, garaged, exc cond., needs very minor body work. (610)489-9195 Pilot 2004 $7,890/obo blk, lthr, all pwr, BEAUTIFUL 610.348.9188

LEXUS GX470 2009 $28,000 Black ext., tan int., 4 wheel drive, auto., nav. system, enter. system, sat. radio installed, CD player, sun roof, 3rd row seating, 66,212 miles. Call 610-458-7277 LS460 2009 $41,900 AWD, blk/beige, 47,500 mi 267.240.9360

R 350 2006 $22,900 only 39k, loaded, blk/blk 267-241-4967

Land Cruiser 2006 $29,995 109k, gray mica ext., leather, loaded, mint cond., dealer serviced, (215)298-2299

resorts/rent

$300 & UP FOR JUNK CARS CALL 215-722-2111

Junk Cars & Trucks Wanted, $400, Call 856-365-2021

STONE HARBOR 8br/5ba Beach Block, sleeps 24, air, all amenities available weekly, shorter periods off season, Easter and Memorial Day weekend special.

Call 609-425-6206 or email: John.L.Curto@gmail.com

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JUNK CARS WANTED 24/7 REMOVAL. Call 267-377-3088 Wanted Mack Trucks, any type, dumps, CH, CL, RD, DM. Call 301-964-7790

A1 PRICES FOR JUNK CARS FREE TOW ING , Call (215) 726-9053

Restaurant 4 rent $2200/Mo + puchase of equip. Approx 1600SF, full kit, tables.

Fit out w/ glassware, pots & pans already completed. Prkg for 30 cars. Exc loc. 1601 Chapel Av, Cherry Hill NJ. 856-663-4110

16xx E. Roumfort Rd., 9x20ft garage, storage shelving, $99/mo. 877-866-8309 Castor and Frankford area $75/mo.

215-519-5437

Chevy Mobile Kitchen 1998 very good condition, fully equiped. $85,000/obo.

Call (856)764-8356 8am-5pm.

Ford F 250 XLT Super Duty ’02 $11,500 4WD, bedliner, 54k, extras, 610.279.7895

low cost cars & trucks Buick LeSabre 1999 $1,650 all power, clean. new insp. 215-620-9383 Buick LeSabre 2004 $4,999 exc cond, Sr. driven, 4 door 215.925.8946 CAD Coupe de Elegance 1979 $4500 super mint condition, 610-667-4829 Cadillac Deville 1993 101k miles, red, 215-964-9207

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Cadillac DeVille 2002 $4,275 lthr, CD, alarm, 65K, clean 267.592.0448 Chrysler Concorde LX 2002 $2475 V6, 1wner, lo mi, CD, clean 267.592.0448 Chrysler Town & Country Ltd. ’02 $5000 105k, gold, lthr, runs good 267-252-7643 Chrys Town & Country Van 2005 $4,295 DVD, loaded, gorgeous. 610-524-8835 Ford Bronco XLT 4WD 1993 $1,450 auto, AC, heat, cln, runs exc 215.620.9383

GMC 2000 Deluxe 2500 Savanna 3/4 ton work van, full powers, AC, replacement transmission, excellent cond., unusual oppurtunity $3985 215-922-5342 Mercedes 300SD Turbo 1992 $4950 4 door sedan, blk/tan, 200K, orig. owner, all records, fully equip. Call 856-795-7177 Mercury Grand Marquis LS 2005 $4999 All power,46K miles. Call 267-825-2315 MERCURY MARQUIS 1998 $3995 like new, garage kept, 610-420-8954 Nissan Maxima 1995 $1,350 all pwrs, new insp, runs exc. 215.620.9383 Nissan Maxima 1996 $1750 loaded, moonroof, good car 215.847.7346 Saturn SL2 1997 $1,250 4 door, auto, loaded, clean. 215-280-4825 Volvo S70 1999 $3,900/obo orig. owner, 92K mi., perfectly maintained, leather, sunroof. Call 610-688-1234 VW Passat GLS Wagon 1999 $1,995 200K, auto, gorgeous. (610)524-8835

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5201 Wayne Ave. Studio & 1Br apts On site Lndry 215.744.9077 Lic# 311890

Bustleton & Byberry 1br condo $900+ut 2br Condo $1200+utils, w/d, d/w, central air, available now, Call 215-669-8688 Bustleton South 2br/1ba $1100/mo.

1st floor duplex, Sec 8 ok. 215.479.5508 Fox Chase: Hasbrook 2br $875 water incl. 1st flr, W/D hkup, gar 215-785-0819 Northwood 2BR $625+utils LR, full kit & ba. 609-868-1342

DOWNINGTOWN 2br $1050 lg deck, gar, w/d in unit 215-778-0344

30xx C St. 3br $650+utils avail. now, fresh paint, new carpet, new water heater, Call Alex 267-242-7123 348X EMERALD ST. 3BR/1BA $750 SEC DPT + UTILS. Clean, new paint, large bdrms. Near transp. 484-716-4639

528i 1998 $6250/bo fully loaded, MUST SELL! 267-650-2548

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Call (856)761-2283 or (856)740-4354

4309 Tower St 2BR/1BA $1250 2 blks to Main St., d/w, w/d, garb/disp, c/a, deck, yard. No pets. 215-518-1275

WARMINSTER Lg 1-2-3 BR Sect. 8 OK 2 MONTHS FREE RENT!!! HURRY!!

Pets & smoking ok.

We work with credit problems.

Call for Details: 215-443-9500

5114 Keyser St 3BA/1BA $750 Section 8 OK. Call 215-200-5206 Chelton Ave 3Br $1,100 newly renov., ready now. 267-991-2078

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Lansdowne Ave. Efficiency $600 utils inc., w/d & cable inc. 484-469-0753

5321 Wayne Ave. Efficiency $550 1BR $625 Avail Now. Call 215-776-6277 607 E. Church Lane 1BR & 2BR apts. nr LaSalle Univ,215.744.9077 lic# 494336

N. Phila: Furnished rooms, $100/wk.

Call 484-636-8205 N Phila/W Phila/Logan,pvt ent,$75-$110 wk, pvt BA/kit, $140 wk 609-877-0375 Olney lrg rm, all utils incl, single occup’t, $125/wk, $375move-in 215-307-9230 Penrose & SW Rooms: $75 & up SSI & Disability ok. (302)391-0490 Richmond room, use of kitch, nr transp.

Seniors welcome/SSI ok 215-634-1139 S. Phila Furn Rms SS & vets welcome.

No drugs, $100 & up, 267-595-4414 SW Phila. $100-$115/wk Clean, kit.

610-348-0121 or 267-804-0101 SW Phila - Newly renov, close to trans. $100/wk 1st wk FREE, 267-628-7454 Univ City/West Phila Nice Rooms & Apts for rent, Mr. Savage (215)382-2588 West Phila. large room, clean ,kitchen privileges, utils incl 215-350-6626 W. Phila, 58xx Wyalusing, renovated rooms, $100/wk, SSI ok. 267-736-8375 W Phila-clean rm, priv entr, nr transp.

Must be work’g. Avail now! 215-494-8794 .

W Phila & G-town: newly ren lg, lux rms ALL utils incl, SSI ok, 215-519-4715

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Broad & Roosevelt 2br & 3br $750+ new renov., new carpet & kitch w/granite counter tops, Sec. 8 ok 215-463-6366

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