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Annual Public Notice of Special Education Services and Programs, Services for Gifted Students, and Services for Protected Handicapped Students Notice to Parents Consent
According to state and federal special education regulations, annual public notice to parents of children who reside within a school district is required regarding child find responsibilities. School districts, intermediate units and charter schools are required to conduct child find activities for children who may be eligible for services via Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. For additional information related to Section 504/Chapter 15 services, the parent may refer to Section 504, Chapter 15, and the Basic Education Circular entitled Implementation of Chapter 15. Also, school districts are required to conduct child find activities for children who may be eligible for gifted services via 22 Pa Code Chapter 16. For additional information regarding gifted services, the parent may refer to 22 PA Code Chapter 16. If a student is both gifted and eligible for Special Education, the procedures in IDEA and Chapter 14 shall take precedence.
School entities cannot proceed with an evaluation, or with the initial provision of special education and related services, without the written consent of the parents. For additional information related to consent, please refer the Procedural Safeguards Notice which can be found at the PaTTAN website, www.Pattan. net. Once written parental consent is obtained, the district will proceed with the evaluation process. If the parent disagrees with the evaluation, the parent can request an independent education evaluation at public expense.
Program Development This notice shall inform parents throughout the school district, intermediate unit, and charter school of the child identification activities and of the procedures followed to ensure confidentiality of information pertaining to students with disabilities or eligible young children. In addition to this public notice, each school district, intermediate unit, and charter school shall publish written information in the handbook and on the web site. Children ages three through twenty one can be eligible for special education programs and services. If parents believe that the child may be eligible for special education, the parent should contact the appropriate Regional Office or Charter School Principal identified at the end of this public notice.
Once the evaluation process is completed, a team of qualified professionals and parents determine whether the child is eligible. If the child is eligible, the individualized education program team meets, develops the program, and determines the educational placement. Once the IEP team develops the program and determines the educational placement, school district staff, intermediate unit staff, or charter school staff will issue a notice of recommended educational placement/prior written notice. Your written consent is required before initial services can be provided. The parent has the right to revoke consent after initial placement. Confidentiality of Information:
Children age three through the age of admission to first grade are also eligible if they have developmental delays and, as a result, need Special Education and related services. Developmental delay is defined as a child who is less than the age of beginners and at least 3 years of age and is considered to have a developmental delay when one of the following exists: (i) The child’s score, on a developmental assessment device, on an assessment instrument which yields a score in months, indicates that the child is delayed by 25% of the child’s chronological age in one or more developmental areas. (ii) The child is delayed in one or more of the developmental areas, as documented by test performance of 1.5 standard deviations below the mean on standardized tests. Developmental areas include cognitive, communicative, physical, social/ emotional and self-help. For additional information you may contact Elwyn SEEDS at (215) 222-8054.
School districts, intermediate units and charter schools maintain records concerning all children enrolled in the school, including students with disabilities. All records are maintained in the strictest confidentiality. Your consent, or consent of an eligible child who has reached the age of majority under State law, must be obtained before personally identifiable information is released, except as permitted under the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). The age of majority in Pennsylvania is 21. Each participating agency must protect the confidentiality of personally identifiable information at collection, storage, disclosure, and destruction stages. One official at each participating agency must assume responsibility for ensuring the confidentiality of any personally identifiable information. Each participating agency must maintain, for public inspection, a current listing of the names and positions of those employees within the agency who have access to personally identifiable information.
Evaluation Process Each school district, intermediate unit, and charter school has a procedure in place by which parents can request an evaluation. For information about procedures applicable to your child, contact the school, which your child attends. Telephone numbers and addresses can be found at the end of this notice. Parents of preschool age children, age three through five, may request an evaluation in writing by addressing a letter to Elwyn SEEDS at 4025 Chestnut Street, 2nd Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19104.
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SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA PARENT AND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTERS Parent and Family Resource Center Ramonita Rivera Building 2603 N. 5th Street, 5th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19133 (215) 291-5680
Parent and Family Resource Center The School District Education Center 440 N. Broad Street, 1st Floor Philadelphia, PA 19130 (215) 400-4180 Parent and Family Resource CenterNorthwest Leeds Middle School 1100 E. Mt. Pleasant Avenue, Ground Flr. Philadelphia, PA 19150 (215) 248-6685
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FIRST, DO NO HARM: Prevention Point, helmed by Jose Benitez, center, runs Philly’s only sanctioned needle exchange, proven to reduce the spread of HIV and hepatitis C. NEAL SANTOS
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BREAKING POINT For providers of clean syringes, demand is outpacing supply. By Isaiah Thompson
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he entrance to Prevention Point, the only government-sanctioned syringe-exchange operation in the Philadelphia region, doesn’t look like much from the street: It’s a drab gray door down a set of steps from a drab alleyway, around the corner of a drab building on Lehigh Avenue in Kensington, along which flows a parade of people looking various shades of troubled. But behind the door is a considerably brighter scene: The sparse hallway inside has been slathered in cheerful colors — blue, orange. A TV sits in the corner, surrounded by couches. Encouraging signs are everywhere, offering services, explaining health issues. A pot of hot coffee sits invitingly in the middle of it all. There is a lot of hand sanitizer. The tiny facility is, in more ways than one, a rare oasis for the population it serves: In a city brimming with recovery houses and addiction clinics — not to mention illegal drug markets and shooting galleries — it’s a safe, professional environment in which intravenous-drug users can exchange used needles for clean ones and go on their way. The demand is apparent. Managing the exchange on a recent Friday were Prevention Point employee Gus Grannan and one volunteer. In the three-hour span during which the exchange was open for business, they would see about 120 clients and exchange thou-
sands of clean syringes for used ones. But the program is beginning to buckle. Thanks to a dearth of resources, Prevention Point has had to cut back on its services. It’s had to lay off employees and cut its casemanagement services. Needle exchange was rolled back from six days a week to five. And, maybe most alarming, Prevention Point and the few other sources of free clean needles in the city are falling short in their ability to meet the demand — and beginning to see the consequences on the street. Syringe exchange and other forms of “harm reduction” haven’t exactly had the warmest reception in the United States since syringe exchanges began to take off in the ’80s. While syringes themselves are legal, exchanges have faced all sorts of state and local legal challenges, and the federal government last December reinstated a long-standing ban on funding such programs, just two years after the prohibition had been lifted. Maybe it’s not so hard to understand: The idea of handing to drug users the very tools they require to use drugs can be, for some, a tough ideological pill to swallow. But the medicine works. Several studies indicate that needle exchanges don’t increase or encourage drug abuse; what access to clean needles has been tied to is major reductions in incidences of HIV and other diseases like hepatitis C among intravenous drug users. It’s one the most successful methods of reducing those dis-
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✚ HERE COMES THE SHUN As presidential hopeful Mitt Romney blazes his campaign trail, he’s been calling on Republican governors from New Jersey’s Chris Christie to Louisiana’s Bobby Jindal for help. Not, it seems, invited to the party: Pennsylvania’s Gov. Tom Corbett. A new Franklin & Marshall College poll might hold a clue as to why: Corbett isn’t winning any popularity contests these days. The proportion of Pennsylvanians who view him unfavorably has shot to 42 percent; just 32 percent hold favorable views. His job approval fell below 30 percent for the first time. Corbett’s public-relations difficulties mean the governor might not be a helpful advocate for Romney in this much-watched swing state. If Corbett stumps for Romney, Democrats might focus attacks on the governor’s unpopular cuts to education and the safety net (the Democratic National Committee has already run an ad slamming Corbett’s infamous comment to women who object to being forced by law to undergo a pre-abortion ultrasound to “close your eyes”). Yet the fortunes of Corbett and Romney could become intertwined — to the detriment of both. The cuthappy governor, who has delivered low taxes for gas drillers and a massive subsidy for Shell, could draw unfavorable comparisons to Romney, who has been criticized for his work at private-equity firm Bain Capital. Vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan won’t help: His proposed tax breaks for the wealthy and cuts to the safety net seem like the national embodiment of Corbett’s agenda. Yet Corbett keeps embroiling himself in polarizing national debates. The state’s controversial new voter-ID law, which could disenfranchise thousands, is headed to a divided state Supreme Court, drawing national media scrutiny. Corbett responded to a
Department of Justice investigation of the law by claiming it was “fueled by political motivation.” In a letter, Corbett’s general counsel mocked the feds for not investigating a 2008 case of Philly voter intimidation by the New Black Panther Party — which (as I reported in 2010) never happened. Then there are questions about whether Corbett failed to aggressively investigate child sexual abuser Jerry Sandusky while attorney general because he did not want to alienate the powerful Penn State constituency. Romney might want to keep Corbett out of the headlines. But —Daniel Denvir circumstances might not oblige.
✚ CONFLICT RESOLUTION In March, CP wrote about how Philly had hired Wall Street firm Lazard to conduct a study that ultimately recommended privatizing Philadelphia Gas Works — and about how Lazard, in one of several potential conflicts of interest, planned to bid to manage the sale. Well, Lazard’s bid was successful.The city now plans an initial payment of $2 million in fees — ratepayer dollars — to Lazard and a number of well-connected local contractors.That’s on top of the $200,000 Mayor Michael Nutter already paid Lazard to study privatizing PGW. Suggestions Lazard proposed included selling PGW to an infrastructure fund; Lazard happens to have a strategic relationship with such a fund. And two of the six potential buyers Lazard interviewed for the PGW study were Lazard clients. Lazard could complete a sale in 18 to 24 months, Nutter says, in the process freeing the city from major financial liabilities, including expensive pensions. But City Controller Alan Butkovitz warns the privatization would come at a cost: “For someone to be able to capture a profit, they’re going to have to do it through rate increases and slashing employees.” —D.D.
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NOT PAID IN FULL Our cover story about the prevalence of employers stealing wages and the lack of Philly organizations fighting it [“The Crime That Pays,” Jake Blumgart, Aug. 9, 2012] prompted several people to email with their stories about being the victims of wage theft. Wrote one: “A lot of outfits are milking the recession to commit highway robbery.They need to be held to the same standards as major criminals.” Citypaper.net commenter Dissenta wrote: “Sent this article to Philly City Council with the request they get a hold of Miami and Seattle wage-theft ordinances and use them as a model to create one for Philly, telling them there is no excuse not to act immediately on this, especially since Philly could end up with cash in the till in the long run. Great article. Great illustration too!” A RESPONSE FROM TEMPLE We received this letter from Rebecca Harmon, assistant vice president, communications, at Temple University Health System: “The article by Samantha Melamed in the Aug. 16, 2012, issue of Philadelphia City Paper (‘Tech’s Hiring in Temple Strike Reveals Flawed System’) promulgates false accusations by a single unnamed source.The piece demonstrates obvious bias and advances an agenda damaging to Temple University Hospital. Furthermore, at no time did Ms. Melamed contact the hospital to elicit a response to these baseless allegations.” A LESS PERFECT UNION Last week’s column about how the building-trades unions’ tactics are alienating the public [“Union Made,” Daniel Denvir, Aug. 16, 2012], caused commenter Phil Perspective to complain about the union leader mentioned in the column: “John Dougherty is more concerned with himself. If he put half the effort into improving the union that he puts into his own self-image, Philly would be a lot better off.” WE SWEAR BY IT Anonymous Philaphilia critic GroJLart’s blog-rant about the crappy surface parking lot at the Rite Aid at 23rd and Walnut streets [“Empty Lot of the Week: Lot of Lots of Lost Uses,” Naked City, Aug. 7, 2012] caused commenter FocusTruthFully to write: “This story might have had some merit if it were not for all the cursing in it. … Clean it up!” Au contraire, writes orangechickenorange: “History is super fun, but it’s more fun with swearing.”
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eases (among that population) that anyone’s found, and it has had that effect in Philadelphia. Even as HIV rates remain disturbingly high among other (especially African-American male) populations in Philadelphia, the rate of HIV infection among intravenous drug users has dropped from above 40 percent in the early ’90s to somewhere around 10 percent now — thanks, according to the Philadelphia Department of Health, largely to Prevention Point’s syringe-exchange program. But, says Jose Benitez, the group’s executive director, that success is being challenged as costs ouptpace resources. While city funding for the program has been steady, Benitez says that health-care costs for his employees (who are exposed to more health risks than most) are becoming a major issue. “We’re a relatively low-paid staff, but what we do pay for is health insurance, and that’s gone up consistently,” Benitez says. Private foundation support, meanwhile, has been drying up. Understanding the scope of the problem facing Prevention Point — and, by extension, the city’s health officials — requires wrapping your mind around a few ideas that might seem less than intuitive: the fact, for example, that Prevention Point has begun to limit the number of clean syringes a drug user may receive in exchange for used ones to 300. Yes, 300. Per person. Per visit. It might sound at first, as it did to this reporter, like a lot. But it didn’t take much time watching the exchange in action to see the significance, as Grannan called out the count for each client’s exchange: 200, 300. “How many you need?” Grannan asks one man. “Four hundred? You know we gotta cap this at three, right?” “The reality is that we’re rarely getting people just here for themselves,” explains Grannan. “People are exchanging for other people” — partners, friends, sometimes households. Some needles, no doubt, are being sold on the street — but from a (somewhat counterintuitive) public-health standpoint, that isn’t necessarily a bad thing: What matters is people not sharing infected needles. And that’s what’s got Grannan and director Benitez concerned about their own tightening supply of syringes: “Like any economy, people are going to find a way,” says Grannan, “and if we bottleneck with syringes what happens — what’s already happening — is users will go and share.” The inevitable consequence of a smaller supply of free, clean needles, in other words, is going to be the larger use of dirty ones. Grannan isn’t the only one who sees signs of a mounting problem. City Paper heard similar reports from members of Project Safe, a small group of volunteers who maintain relationships with female drug users, many of them sex workers who aren’t reached by Prevention Point’s services. Project Safe’s team provides these women with condoms, lubricant, reports of abusive or dangerous johns — and clean syringes. The tightening supply of syringes, says volunteer Kahn Miller, “is putting a strain on our own incredibly limited supply. And when [Prevention Point]
can’t give out, we run out more quickly.” Lindsay Roth, another volunteer, says her group is “having our own little crisis” dealing with the situation: “There are just not enough clean needles to go around … and I think that, because of that, people are engaging in riskier behaviors.” There is one other place where a user can almost always buy a syringe — and that’s beneath the El tracks in Kensington, where “works” are sold more or less openly. But, says Roth (and confirms Prevention Point’s Grannan), prices have been going up. And the higher that price goes, they say, the more users will share. City officials acknowledge Prevention Point’s difficulties — and are sympathetic: “We absolutely believe that IV drug users are a priority [and] our focus
Without clean syringes, users share. is absolutely still with them,” says Jim Garrow, a Health Department spokesman. “Steady funding these days is akin to a cut in funding,” he acknowledges. “But it isn’t a cut in real funding, which I hope demonstrates our priorities. … In this time of state budget cuts, it’s a pinch for everybody in human services.” Of course, he’s right — as Benitez knows. “If I were in their place, I’d be thinking the same way,” he says, referring to the allocation of resources toward other at-risk populations. “[But] this is one prevention that really, really works, and it gets funded the least.” The volunteers for Project Safe put it even more starkly: “We host karaoke fundraisers” to pay for outreach, emphasizes Roth. “How is it in Philadelphia that a public-health measure that is the one known way to prevent hep C and HIV [relies] on a bunch of anarcho-chicks getting their friends to pay for booze?” (isaiah.thompson@citypaper.net)
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LESSON EARNED Some in Philly find being a great teacher means being an even better grant writer. By Samantha Melamed
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eva Watson was ecstatic when she landed her dream job at Southwest Leadership Academy this year, as the charter school’s first and only art teacher. Then she saw her classroom. Her heart sank at the sight of the basement storage-closet-turnedart-room where she’d be teaching 350 kids a week, and then plummeted when she learned that state funding that was supposed to go toward a classroom renovation had evaporated. But she was determined to make improvements. “I wanted to give my students something beautiful to work in,” she says, “so I decided I would independently raise the money” for a $6,000-plus rehab. Watson is, perhaps, on the extreme end, but she’s not alone. As we head into what is, the marketers tell us, the back-toschool shopping season, public- and charter-school teachers across Philadelphia are scrambling — if they haven’t already done so — to stock their classrooms with basic supplies and a few extras (if books and markers can be considered “extras”). Now, in addition to putting down their own cash, a growing number of teachers are getting creative, with ad hoc fundraising efforts for projects large and small. Donorschoose.org, which dozens of Philly teachers use to solicit funds for specific educational supplies or projects, offers a snapshot of teacher wish lists. Some requests are for projects that illustrate the commitment to education innovation that still exists in Philly schools. Others are for basics that reveal bare need: a pencil sharp-
ener for the classroom; a rug for storytime so kids don’t have to sit on the floor; books to replace copies that are mismatched, out of date or falling apart. “It’s a huge step forward even hiring an art teacher in this climate,” Watson says. So she’s willing to accept that being a great teacher may also require being an outstanding grant writer. The crowd-funding of Philly public education has also gone social, most prominently with PhilaSoup, a grassroots organization that brings together teachers from schools throughout the city to meet for casual dinners where they can audition their proposed educational projects to compete for grants of about $350. “In an under-resourced school, you’re really dependent on your own ways of funding and innovating, without any real help from the outside,” says Elaine Leigh, a former Philly teacher and current board member of PhilaSoup, which held its first event last fall and kicks off its new season on Monday. Inspired by the micro-granting group Sunday Soup Chicago (and its imitators around the word), PhilaSoup looks beyond the basic needs of paper and pencils, though, for presenters who want to inspire. Jason Bui, a third-grade teacher at Mitchell Elementary at 55th Street and Kingsessing Avenue, uses Donors Choose to raise funds for books and equipment for an after-school guitar club he runs. Through PhilaSoup, he won a grant enabling his school’s chess team to travel to tournaments. Bui says he’s never gotten so much as a chess board from the school district. From his fellow teachers, though, he got not just money, but encouragement: “It was a lot of really motivated teachers from all different levels of teaching. ... To be able to get together and talk about the successes
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An unforgiving and broken system is forcing sex offenders further to the fringes of society — and that’s dangerous for all of us.
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avid Kaplan had a problem. He was hurtling toward the end of a three-year sentence in state prison, and he had nowhere to go. He wanted to return to Philadelphia to be near his teenage son, but he was terrified at the prospect of navigating Philly’s homeless shelters without the promise of a bed, worried he would end up sleeping on the street.With a sex offense on his record, the former addict says,“I couldn’t take that chance.” He wrote to every shelter in Philadelphia, practically every one in the state. Only one wrote back: a place called Just for Jesus, in the tidy, one-stoplight town of Brockway, about 100 miles northeast of Pittsburgh in Jefferson County. So, this past July 24, Kaplan left prison and found himself at a ragged complex of buildings and trailers marked by crooked, hand-painted signs reading “Welcome to the Streets of Nazareth.” Clinging to the edge of a hill about a mile outside the center of town, the farmstead happens to house what’s probably Pennsylvania’s highest concentration of unincarcerated sex offenders, hailing from all over the state. Deep in Pennsylvania’s Bible Belt (and, nowadays, shale country), this place is the brainchild of an evangelical and some would say radical preacher, Bishop Jack Wisor of the nondenominational First Apostles’ Doctrine Church. A former homebuilder and recovered alcoholic,Wisor found Jesus — literally: he testifies to having picked him up while driving along a desolate roadway in his 1971 Oldsmobile Cutlass — and about 10 years ago turned his woodshop into a church and his house into a homeless shelter. Planning the shelter, says Wisor, “I started feeling like Noah building the ark.” There were, after all, few homeless people or homeless services in Jefferson County. But once he opened his doors, “Within two weeks, I had 30something people in my home that needed help.” The place filled up so fast that Wisor himself had to move out. By 2007, Wisor was flooded with letters from state prison inmates requesting approved home plans, the stable residences that are required for parole. And in 2009, the sex offenders began arriving. Wisor welcomed them: He’s developed a 12-step program based on scripture and a printed guide to spotting sexual abuse. As long as they can follow the rules, almost no one is turned away.
A few weeks into his stay at Just for Jesus, Kaplan — a former restaurant manager who pleaded no-contest to aggravated indecent assault in 2010 — still looks shell-shocked. This is, after all, an unlikely place for a guy brought up Jewish in Northeast Philly. (He initially thought he was applying for a berth at someplace called “Just for Jews.”) He’s now living alongside about two dozen other sex offenders. And many in Brockway, a town of 2,000, don’t share Wisor’s welcoming spirit. A group called Concerned Citizens has organized around shutting down the shelter — holding meetings, printing up T-shirts, rallying on Facebook. Brockway residents regularly post photos of the offenders under car windshields and in store windows around town. And Wisor has made a nemesis of local state Sen. Joe Scarnati, a Brockway Republican who in 2011 introduced legislation preventing more than five offenders classified as sexually violent predators (SVPs) from living at the same address. The law, he told the Punxsutawney Spirit, partly targeted Just for Jesus, which housed six SVPs at the time. After protests broke out around the arrival of paroled murderer Ernie Simmons in 2010, home plans stopped being approved at Just for Jesus altogether. Wisor believes Scarnati put a moratorium on home plans there, though Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole spokesman Leo Dunn says the board doesn’t play politics. It does, however, take into account factors like complaints about a facility from offenders and feedback from the local police — with whom Wisor admittedly has a fraught relationship. But into this standoff, the sex offenders continue arriving, to the increasing hostility of the neighbors. How Kaplan and so many others have washed up here, of all places, can be traced back to a simple underlying problem: Pennsylvania has given little thought to what to do with its thousands of sex offenders, how to house them or reintegrate them into society. Instead, a web of confusing and often contradictory laws and policies has kept hundreds of sex offenders in prison for years even after they earn parole, made life increasingly difficult on the outside and spawned strange, unpredictable results — like dozens of sex offenders winding up in a shelter on the outskirts of a small town like Brockway. And that web is about to get way more tangled.
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now going to be reclassified as 25 years or life.” Despite all that, Pennsylvania is not, in fact, the most restrictive place in the country for sex offenders to live — at least not yet. That’s largely because the state Supreme Court last year struck down local residency restrictions for offenders in Allegheny County, calling hundreds of similar ordinances around the state into question. However, a bill creating statewide residency restrictions is currently in committee in the Pennsylvania Senate; it has 10 sponsors, including Philly’s own Larry Farnese and Anthony Williams. Such legislation
Bishop Jack Wisor, right, receives piles of letters each week from state prison inmates looking for a place to stay. Above, Leroy Malseed, a sex offender, found refuge at Just for Jesus.
tion perilously worse. The state’s Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) — Pennsylvania’s answer to the demands of the federal Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006, which requires that states impose tougher laws or risk losing some federal funds — will, among other things, require more people to register for longer and check in more frequently with state police. Nicole Pittman, who is researching the impact of SORNA laws around the country for Human Rights Watch, says that SORNA laws elsewhere have proven devastating for sex offenders trying to reintegrate with society — and Pennsylvania’s version looks to be among the harshest. She points out that, for many, the cycle of punishment will begin anew: “People who were looking at a year or two of registration [remaining] are
could bring Pennsylvania in line with Florida, where restrictions preventing offenders from living near parks, schools, bus stops or day cares famously force many sex offenders into exile, living under bridges or in sugarcane fields. In the meantime, state officials have found a way to restrict where many sex offenders live anyway. Even though there are technically no residency restrictions in Pennsylvania, for hundreds of offenders coming out of state prisons, de facto restrictions are already in place — through the state Board of Probation and Parole. The board typically rejects sex offenders’ home plans if they’re too close to a school, day care or playground. As a result, says Love, almost all sex offender home plans are denied. “Most sex offenders are going to max out,” or
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amendments to Megan’s Law has been a popular pursuit for legislators. “In this session in Harrisburg, there were 53 bills related to sex offenders,” says Angus Love, executive director of the Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project. “It’s almost like open season. Anybody who can dream up anything to make [offenders’] lives more miserable puts a bill in. It’s society seeking to purge their collective guilt by scapegoating sex offenders.” The latest twist, a sweeping new law set to take effect this December, could make a bad situa-
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The state’s prisons are overflowing with sex offenders, and many are due (if not overdue, after years of tough parole policies) to be released. At the same time, new, tougher laws are eating away at the limited options available to them on the outside. Meanwhile, City Paper has learned that recently (and somewhat secretively) relaxed parole policies could mean hundreds more sex offenders hitting the streets in the very near future. When that happens, it won’t just be Brockway residents who are up in arms.
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serve out their maximum sentences, rather than be paroled, he says. The Pennsylvania Prison Society estimates that there are about 1,000 sex offenders who have earned parole but are still in state prison because they can’t get home plans approved. That comes at an estimated cost to taxpayers of $33,000 per inmate or, altogether, $33 million a year. Ann Schwartzman, policy director for the Pennsylvania Prison Society, says there’s also a greater cost. Inmates who are released on parole are monitored by a parole officer and may be required to undergo therapy. But those who “max out” and leave prison without parole or probation go completely unsupervised — a much more dangerous proposition. “These are people that need assistance,” says Schwartzman. “For public safety, we want to make sure that they get the assistance they need, that they are monitored and they are watched.” However they’re implemented, residency restrictions may do more harm than good, says Ted Glackman, executive director at the Joseph J. Peters Institute, which provides counseling to sex offenders in Philly. “There’s no clear evidence at all that those residency considerations either protect children or reduce recidivism,” Glackman says. What does reduce recidivism — from 15 percent, he says, to under 10 percent — is treatment, of the type often mandated during parole. CP heard from more than a dozen Philly men unable to secure home plans after several years of attempts. Among them: Kevin Keith, a West Oak Lane janitorial supervisor now serving a 3½-to17-year sentence. Keith became eligible for parole in 2008, but all of his proposed home plans — among them, to his sister’s place, an ex-girlfriend’s house, a Kensington boarding house and Just for Jesus — were rejected. In all likelihood, he could stay in prison, at our expense, until the end of his sentence, still nine years away. That Keith is, quite possibly, set to spend an extra 13 years in prison might not bother you. But, there’s another twist, already under way, that complicates things. It’s this: Parole guidelines were quietly relaxed starting in June, according to the Rev. John Rush of Reading’s New Person Ministries, another program with a high volume of sex offenders. Before, forms he received from the state indicated that anyone who had committed a crime against a minor could not live within 1,000 feet of a day care, school or playground. The new guidelines
leave it to the parole officer’s “personal discretion,” says Rush. Rush says, as a result, the number of sex offenders awaiting approval of home plans could soon drop precipitously: “Now, because of that policy change, in the next several months, a number of people will be getting out.” He expects about 500 to be released before long. In the meantime, the newer, vaguer rules also put the state parole board conveniently on the right side of the state Supreme Court decision on residency restriction ordinances. “It may seem like we’re doing something like some of these ordinances are,” says Dunn, the Board of Probation and Parole spokesman, “but we’re following best practices for sex-offender supervision.”
help his cause. “The cherry-picking [of more palatable cases] is what makes it very difficult.”
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his past Monday, the Daily News ran the headline “Suburban park listed as sex predator’s home,” atop an article about community outrage in Upper Darby, where an SVP is registered as living in a park used by “hundreds of kids and families.” What the story didn’t mention is that some 2,000 sex offenders live, work or study in Philadelphia — including many in various states of housing instability. A law enacted in February made it legal for Megan’s Law registrants to list themselves as homeless; before that, those without addresses were summarily hauled back to
Some 500 sex offenders could be released on parole. Dunn confirmed that the policy had been changed, and says the board now takes things case by case: “Everything is specific to that offender and that neighborhood.” Pittman, however, has another way of describing it: “a very arbitrary situation.” Inmates still receive all sorts of reasons for home-plan denials. When it comes to Just for Jesus, “no ties to the community” has become a common explanation for denial. Rush, on the other hand, often does get home plans approved for his New Person Center. He manages that through a cautious and cordial relationship with the regional parole district, rejecting about 95 percent of those requesting his help and agreeing to various conditions and demands — like refusing to accept offenders from Philadelphia. “The average parole agent in our experience doesn’t want to rock any boats and wants his pension someday,” Rush admits. “It’s no skin off of his back if the person is greatly inconvenienced or has to live under a bridge or stay in jail.” Just for Jesus’ Wisor says that while ministries like Rush’s do good work, they don’t necessarily
jail. Today, while only a handful of sex offenders in Philadelphia are registered as homeless transients with no fixed address, dozens more move in and out of the city’s homeless shelters, which, unlike many others across the state, do admit sex offenders and SVPs. Iraina Salaam, social services supervisor at St. John’s Hospice, a men’s shelter at 12th and Race, gets drifts of letters every week from sex offenders. The shelter accepts many of them (10 are registered there), though some cases are rejected because of the number of children who volunteer there. “Almost every letter, somewhere or other in the letter, it says something about a sexual offense,” says Salaam. “I have a stack sitting right next to me. I didn’t know this many prisons existed in Pennsylvania. Frackville and places I never heard of before: Marienville, Huntingdon, Somerset, Albion, Huntsdale. I never heard of all these places, and I’m writing to these guys all the time.” Salaam does sign off on many inmates’ home plans — with a caveat. “We’re not a hotel. I never know when a bed’s going to be available,” she says. Occasionally, a parole officer will make an exception, >>> continued on page 16
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but “most of the time, [the home plans] get rejected because of the indefinite availability of our beds.” That conditional acceptance is more than most other shelters can offer. Jason Miller, associate director of clinical services at Our Brothers’ Place at Ninth and Hamilton, says he is “bombarded with letters from current prisoners” but does not sign home plans, since all guests must go through the city’s central homeless intake. Once sex offenders do arrive at the shelter (generally after maxing out their sentences), getting them out is even harder. “They’re some of
up enough to move out of the shelter. Miller often tries to place them with family or friends: “You have to get very creative.” A better option, with more supervision, might be a halfway house — but many halfway houses will not accept sex offenders. And homeless shelters are not rehabilitation programs: Therapy is optional. Meanwhile, the city-run prisoner-re-entry program, the Mayor’s Office of Reintegration Services for Ex-Offenders, does not accept sex offenders. One program that did, the Prison Society’s Philly ReNew, shut down earlier this summer.
Wisor’s old woodshop in Brockway now houses a small church. Nearby, in what used to be his house, he shelters 38 homeless men, including 23 sex offenders, at a cost of $60,000 per year — all private donations.
“Re-entry programming would be really helpful for that classification of folks,” says the Prison Society’s Schwartzman, who gets constant phone calls from desperate families of inmates. “It’s more and more difficult for them to really be able to make it once they’re on the outside.” Rush says allowing offenders to fall into desperation is exactly what state and local agencies should be looking to avoid. “I’m not sure what’s more dangerous,” he says, “than a hopeless person that has nothing to lose.”
the hardest men to place,” says Miller. Seventeen offenders are registered at Our Brothers’ Place. “These men face so many issues with poverty, lack of work, drug and alcohol issues. And when they have a criminal background, it becomes very difficult to move them on. A sex offense adds one more level.” Both Miller and Salaam say the end of cash assistance for people with low incomes — eliminated from the state’s budget this summer — will make it even harder for offenders to save
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ike it or not, it looks like more sex offenders will be coming out of prison soon, and they’ll have to live somewhere.The question is whether they’ll be able to resume some semblance of a normal life
— and it’s in the interest of public safety that they do so. Lack of stable housing, unemployment, dearth of social supports, public hostility — these are all factors that research has shown contribute to recidivism among sex offenders. Yet those are exactly the conditions that Megan’s Law and now SORNA tend to cultivate. Leroy Malseed, an SVP wearing an “I Heart Jesus” hat, has been there. After he got out of prison in 2010, he spent five months homeless in Harrisburg, first on the city streets and then in a tent city, fishing in dumpsters for food and bathing in the Susquehanna River. “I went to every church in Harrisburg and every shelter. No one would take me in.” His homeless “transient” status made the evening news. “They put my picture on TV for three days,” Malseed says. “One time I was walking through town and some people threw dog shit, piss, trash, everything at me because they knew that I was a sex offender.” Malseed has been staying at Just for Jesus for the past two years and is ready to move on. But getting housing is another story, he says, unfolding the latest one-sentence rejection note from a prospective landlord. “The SVP label throws a monkey wrench in all parts of your life,” says Ron Payne, an SVP and Just for Jesus resident from Quakertown in Bucks County. He adds that job applications have been slow going — especially in a town where everyone knows exactly who he is. “I understand that I did an awful crime and I hurt somebody I cared about and I should pay for it,” he says. “But I’ve done my time. Now, it’s like double jeopardy. When I get out I have to do time again, because people … don’t want to give you a chance.” Unemployment is estimated at more than 50 percent for sex offenders. “The average registrant cannot get a job,” Pittman says. To make matters worse, newly tough SORNA laws around the country are now requiring that the employer’s name be included on the registry. When that happens, “they’re going to lose that job in very short order.” As a result, Pittman says she’s met numerous ex-offenders who are constantly living on the brink. One man she met had 30 different jobs by age 30: “He tries to just get one or two paychecks at every job before [his new work location] goes up on the [Megan’s Law] website and he gets fired.” The majority of sex offenders are themselves victims of abuse; consequently, many also have a history of an addiction. That’s part of what makes
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turning a sex offender into a homeless person so dangerous. Raymond Taylor, a Philly native who was convicted of indecent sexual assault, says he was a crack addict and an alcoholic before he went to prison. He was high when he committed his offense. In 2011, after maxing out his 10- to 15-year sentence (his application for a home plan in his mother’s Section 8 apartment was denied: sex offenders, like those with drug convictions, are barred from federally subsidized housing), he could have gone to Philly’s Ridge Center. But the last time he went straight from prison to Philly’s streets, he got in trouble all over again. So this time around, he says, “I chose Just for Jesus because it has a support system, and would ease me back into society.” Now, Taylor has an apartment of his own near the ministry and is weighing his options. He hopes to find work and maybe make his way back to Philadelphia. “Start a new life and no more victims,” he says. “That’s my goal.” But back in Nazareth, or the version of it clinging to the edge of a hill outside Brockway, community outrage still burns fiercely. Just for Jesus residents aren’t allowed out without an escort, Wisor says, “for their own protection.” “The individuals in a faith-based ministry trying to get help, those aren’t
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the ones we need to worry about. It’s those out there,” he insists, that should concern us. Meanwhile, he says that the state government — the same one that’s throwing obstacles in his way — is also putting increased demands on his services. He gets frequent calls from prison chaplains and social workers, asking him to take on offenders. Other times, men who have served out their sentences but have nowhere to go are put on buses or dropped off at the post office or police station of a small town, somewhere in the vicinity. That’s what happened to Bobby MacMillan, a man who was convicted of possessing child pornography and who suffers from severe depression, bipolar disorder and psychotic episodes. A prison guard drove MacMillan to the Reynoldsville, Pa., post office late one night. Local police called Just for Jesus to come and pick him up. The people in Brockway don’t like Wisor’s solution, and you might not either. But he says it’s just about the only solution anyone is offering, and it could be coming to a church near you. Wisor wants to take his ministry statewide. He’s actively looking for abandoned or underutilized churches in Philadelphia and elsewhere that he can take over, transform into shelters and rehabilitation programs first and deal with permission (and permits and First Amendment-based legal actions) later. “I can pretty much move in overnight,” he says. He just wants the government to stay out of his way. But, he says, there also needs to be a secular solution. “You’re letting them live illegally out in the cities and the streets and you’re ignoring it,” he says. “Those who don’t want God in their life, the state needs to provide a place for them.” (samantha@citypaper.net)
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³ ON THE HEELS of my Ruffhouse cover story
— in case you missed it: The reborn label’s got Lauryn Hill and Beanie Sigel signed, and the latter is rushing to promote his new album before starting a two-year prison stint — a question came up. Sigel’s got gigs in LA and NYC booked, but where are the Philly shows? He only has a few weeks of freedom left. Well, along with the news that director Ron Howard and producing partner Brian Grazer will film Jay-Z’s Made in America shows Sept. 1 and 2 on the Parkway comes word of last-minute machinations between Ruffhouse, Live Nation and Jay-Z’s peeps to not only get Beanie on the Made bill, but to make Sigel part of Hova’s set as a sort of happy reconciliation. Those who know their hip-hop history remember that the two were once thick as thieves, that Sigel was signed to Jay-Z’s Roc Nation joint through Def Jam and that there was brotherhood between them long before there was beef. Let’s make this happen. ³ Brian Dwyer may hold the Guinness World Record for pizza memorabilia, but he’s gunning for one more item before his Pizza Brain opens any moment now along Frankford Avenue’s burgeoning commercial corridor: a Little Caesars’ Brain Teaser Simon Says machine from the 1990s. Maybe you have one? Why else would you have gone into a Little Caesars, then or now? “Certain shops, especially the one near my house growing up, had this particular ‘Simon’ game. It was simple enough, a memory game consisting of colors and sounds, and the higher you could go remembering the patterns, the higher the stakes. If you got above 50 points, you won a free drink, Crazy Bread, even a small pizza. I played it regularly, always trying to win myself free Crazy Bread, so I used to go there and waste a few dollars in quarters trying to beat my score from the time before. Keep in mind this came from an era that pre-dates Caesars’ $5 Hot-N-Ready model that most people know today.” This sort of obsession is why Dwyer holds a world record, ye, who are noshing on Stella. If anyone has any knowledge of the whereabouts of one of these machines, Dwyer will “lay a big fat wet kiss on their left eye, then track that baby down and give it a nice new home.” ³ Looking forward to what chef Jen Zavala (Top Chef, El Camino Real) has in store for her soon-to-be-driving Cherry Bomb food bus with biz partner/baker Christina Clark? Check out their Hen’s Revenge monthly this Monday at Prohibition for a sample. ³ A fond farewell is due NBC-10 anchor/news guy Terry Ruggles, who just announced that he’ll retire in December. If you’re 40-or-older you’ll remember that he’s been around since you had your first baby mullet. Byeee. ³ More eye-kissing when Icepack gets illustrated at citypaper.net/criticalmass. (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)
COLOR LINES: Keith Boykin’s new book collects stories addressing the issues specific to coming out and being out in communities of color. DUANE CRAMER
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OVER THE RAINBOW A new collection examines the particular trials of gay men of color. By Lewis Whittington
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eith Boykin has been at the forefront of LGBTQ advocacy since his days in the Clinton White House as an out, gay, black Harvard Law grad, where he engineered the first official dialogue of gay civil-rights leaders with a sitting president. He’s made appearances as a TV commentator on CNBC, MSNBC, CNN and BET, and his books One More River to Cross: Black and Gay in America and Beyond the Down Low: Sex, Lies and Denial in Black America were part of the national dialogue about the complex and changing dynamics of African-American gay, bi and trans men, who often faced virtual shunning from their communities. This week, Boykin will be in Philly at Giovanni’s Room reading from his new book, which comes out this week — a collection of reallife coming-of-age and coming-out stories from within the AfricanAmerican and Latino communities. Among these essays is Boykin’s own account of leading the gay contingent of men who came out at the Millennium March on Washington in 2000. The collection’s title, For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Still Not Enough: Coming of Age, Coming Out and Coming Home (Magnus, Aug. 28), is an homage to Ntozake Shange’s iconic ’70s prose-poem manifesto, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf. Boykin thought that Shange’s book — which focused on issues spe-
cific to women of color, at the time often overlooked by the greater feminist movement — was a good way to begin the dialogue about boys of color who might be suffering over issues of sexual identity and feeling invisible. “In the fall of 2010 I started hearing a lot of stories about AfricanAmerican and Hispanic teens who were gay or were suspected to be gay, committing suicide, which [before then] wasn’t really being widely reported,” Boykin says. “It was around the time of Tyler Clementi’s suicide, which was followed by Dan Savage’s ‘It Gets Better’ campaign. But it struck me that the messaging wasn’t really targeting people of color, and they seemed to me disproportionately at risk,” Boykin said. A 2011 study by the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, for example, found that people of color made up 70 percent of American hate-crime murder victims in the previous year. Even though there is more open dialogue today than there was even two years ago, outreach is still especially critical for young men of color struggling with their sexuality. A survey released by the National Strategy for Black Gay Youth earlier this year found that more than half of the young people who responded had been disowned over their sexual orientation or were afraid they’d be disowned if they came out, and 43 percent had considered or attempted suicide. And another study released last month by the Fenway Institute found that the rate of new HIV infection is three times
“‘It Gets Better’ wasn’t really targeting people of color.”
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³ psych/pop In a world — heck, a borough — crammed with sorta-electronic, sorta-groovy bands camping out at the nebulous intersection of pop and art, Yeasayer have managed to stake out a peculiar timbre. It’s just the right blend of squirmy synth patches and earthy vocals that remains unmistakable despite their near-constant musical evolution. Fragrant World (Secretly Canadian) is their slyest, most satisfying work yet, a smoother synthesis of the world-beat and R&B elements that still loom in their DNA, mostly eschewing big pop moments in favor of lots of nifty little ones. —K. Ross Hoffman
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³ electronic Teengirl Fantasy seem to average one glimmer of dancefloor transcendence for every album’s worth of woozy, implacable New Age-tinted synth-goop. 7AM had solid-gold soul/house scorcher “Cheaters.” Tracer (True Panther), for all its wibbly electro burbles, pan-flute presets, acid-laced Jell-O shots and fine vocal spots by Panda Bear, Kelela and Laurel Halo, only really gets down to business on the hard-jacking “Do It.” It taps Daft Punk’s “One More Time” crooner Romanthony, brashly aiming for that anthem’s immortal, hedonistic euphoria, and just about nailing it. —K. Ross Hoffman
³ one track mind Dropping your new single on the day you get sentenced to two years in prison? That is badass. Exactly what you’d expect from Russian activist-punks-turned-free speech-martyrs Pussy Riot. I have no idea what they’re yelling about on “Putin Lights Up the Fires” (besides “The Gray Cardinal,” he’s a favorite target for the band), but the song is catchy, passionate, fast and fun, like some lost Bikini Kill track. Seek and download. They’re anti-capitalist, so they should be cool with it. —Patrick Rapa
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Enjoying good-ol’boy life in a bubble.
Here, “good” may be read as “creepy in the best possible way.” ³ DESPITE HAVING BEEN around for over a decade, Grendel has never really been one of those bands people rave about. On the other hand, they’ve also never been one of those bands everybody hates. Like Best Coast. Who suck. A lot. Because Grendel has occupied this artistic gray area for such a long time, the listener can easily be forgiven for approaching the group’s latest CD, Timewave Zero,with a certain amount of trepidation. And that unease doesn’t abate as the first track, “Rise,” begins. Suddenly one finds oneself with that “uh-oh” feeling, as what sounds very much like the opening-credits music to a low-budget apocalypse flick crawls slowly out of the speakers. And then something unexpected happens: The song is actually good — not great, but really, really good. Here, “good” may be read as “creepy in the best possible way.” Strings and drums play below a mock emergency news report. It works. Then, like a junkyard dog let off its leash, comes “Conflict Instigation.” If you have downstairs neighbors, they will hate this song because you are going to stomp to it. A lot. Same goes for the title track. Shit, Luther, by the time you get to “EPR // EDP,” with its infectious chant of “Eat pork rinds; eat dead pigs,” it’s clear that Grendel put much more work into this CD than any of its earlier works.
Verdict: While Timewave Zero may not be a shoo-in for everyone’s 10 Best lists, it’s extremely unlikely to land on anyone’s 10 Worst list. Unlike Best Coast. Who suck. A lot. (r_anonymous@citypaper.net)
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JUG DEALER: Desperate to show his troublemaking family he can be just as unruly, Shia LaBeouf’s good-natured Jack Bondurant starts peddling moonshine to big-city gangsters.
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A conversation by gay pro athletes on the closet codes of the locker room. higher among black gay and bi men under the age of 30 as it is in the corresponding white population, and that each year around 6 percent of black gay or bi youth contract HIV. Boykin’s goal with For Colored Boys wasn’t just to reassure gay youth that it can get better, but to demonstrate it through relating the actual experiences of African-American, Latino and Asian gay men — doctors, lawyers, performers, pastors, poets, journalists, community leaders and pro athletes. Though statistics and the occasional after-thefact coming-out of a former pro athlete would suggest that there are more than a few gay men playing in American professional sports, there’s still not a single out man currently in the NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL or MLS. One powerful section of the For Colored Boys, called “Coming Out in the Locker Room,” is a verbatim conversation by gay pro athletes about the closet codes of the locker room. Other essays speak of living through harrowing circumstances growing up, or of religion and the effects of the confusing, unspoken “don’t tell”codes found in many African-American churches, where homosexuality is condemned in the most vicious
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terms from the pulpit but tolerated as long as it’s kept invisible. “Physical abuse, molestation, bullying, HIV-AIDS, coming out, relationships, church issues, sex — such a wide range of perspectives,” says Boykin of the contributed stories, many of which he found through a website he set up for the project. “This is the most complicated book I’ve done, but the important thing is that these stories are out there now. ... All of the voices in this anthology needed to be heard. “Things have changed dramatically in my lifetime, both politically and personally,” says Boykin. “We have a president in the White House that will talk to and about black gay men, and is not afraid of the LBGTQ community. “That doesn’t mean there won’t be resistance on the way.” ✚ For Colored Boys reading and signing, Fri., Aug. 24, 5:30 p.m., free, Giovanni’s Room, 345 S. 12th St., 215923-2960, giovannisroom.com.
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Quirkiness seldom serves well. Believers works best when sticking to a story, and Karenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best stories lie behind the patchouli and pot-smoke curtain of the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s. When it pauses to display its research or drop a name â&#x20AC;&#x201D; younger Karen implausibly both belittles Hillary Rodham in high school and sits in on a seminar with Bill Clinton in college â&#x20AC;&#x201D; it loses steam. Andersenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cultural criticism is lucid and amusing, like when he considers old men in blue jeans or the Stones touring into their 70s as â&#x20AC;&#x153;annoying and freaky, like an album that kept skipping for 50 years and nobody lifted the needle to move it past the scratch.â&#x20AC;? But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also beside his point. And when Andersen not only shows us his old lefties transformed into art dealers and real-estate impresarios but delivers a dose of knowing editorializing (â&#x20AC;&#x153;The shit we got away with as kids! We are the smuggest generationâ&#x20AC;?), youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be forgiven for skimming past the knowing self-criticism to get back to the business at hand. (j_bauer@citypaper.net)
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a novel Benjamin Benjamin â&#x20AC;&#x201D; thankfully, and kind of elegantly, Jonathan Evison resists the urge to do very much with that self-conscious bit of quirkiness until the end of The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Aug. 28). Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s another thing entirely to take sad-sack Ben Benjamin and have him explain his situation to a man heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just met: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t plan for any of this, Cash, believe me. Not this trip, not these passengers, and definitely not what I left behind. I planned like hell for something else entirely. All this just happened.â&#x20AC;? When â&#x20AC;&#x153;all thisâ&#x20AC;? is a shaggy-dog road trip in a wheelchair van whose passengers include a teenaged runaway and an ex-con inventor, a quote like this jerked out of context looks like contrivance, manipulative and heartwarming and Sundance-y. But thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s out of context. In context, it slides past quickly, effortlessly: Evison has developed the command of craft and tightness of focus necessary to animate quirky characters and outlandish set pieces, and to make them into something more than the sum of their twee parts. This is difficult â&#x20AC;&#x201D; quirkiness is seldom something that serves a novelist well. Evisonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last book, the sprawling and overambitious West of Here, had such a large cast that he could do little more than stereotype, and despite Caregivingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s smaller canvas many characters only get to flash an outsized comic feature or two. But these come in places where it counts â&#x20AC;&#x201D; like in the relationship between professional caregiver Ben and Trev, whose muscular dystrophy confines him to a wheelchair (and, later, the wheelchair van). The very thinness of their shared quirks (spinning elaborate sexual fantasies about girls they see in the mall food court; spinning elaborate sexual fantasies about the better-endowed weather girls on the Weather Channel) actually captures the thin soil and circumscribed expectations of their comradeship. So itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surprising when Evison miscalculates, as he does when explaining how Ben goes from happily married stay-at-home dad to changing bedpans for $9 an hour. Spaced out in flashbacks interrupting Ben and Trevâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s journey, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a sad story, a well-assembled tearjerker with sadly gor-
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geous moments of family life, but Evison doles it out slowly and methodically, blunting the impact of how Benâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life collapses by foreshadowing so heavily that, by the time we get there, we already know what happens and how. This is nearly the exact opposite of the situation ex-Supreme Court nominee and would-be memoirist Karen Hollander writes herself into in Kurt Andersenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s True Believers (Random House, July 10). Similarly split, Karenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story is weighted heavily toward the flashback, where her childhood fascination with James Bond becomes a dry run for much more serious cloak-and-dagger plotting as a radicalized 1968 Harvard freshman. While thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a paranoid echo of conspiracy as memoirist-Karen uncovers the secrets that surrounded her earlier self, True
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MIX AND MATCH Facemelting MC Lace FM talks about The Journey and the destination. By Madeline Bates
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ndré Cofield, aka Lace FM, just wants to make music and move crowds. Doesn’t matter where. A native New Yorker, Cofield moved to Philadelphia to study industrial design at the Art Institute of Philadelphia and record his new mixtape, The Journey. For the past year he’s been a part of Girard Hall, a local art collective, with other young Philly creators and put the finishing touches on what he calls “the start of everything.” FM stands for “Face Melter,” by the way.
City Paper: You grew up in Staten Island and moved to Philly for
school. Has the new city changed your music at all?
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day I started getting good. I came to Philly a little later to a show and ended up spitting over some guy’s beats for a good 10 minutes. He hit me up afterwards and told me to come up to Pittsburgh and lay down an EP. Chiaroscuro came out of that.
Lace FM: I think being here gives me an outside edge from the New
CP: How does freestyling compare to writing for you?
York scene because I’ve been spending time in a different place. I miss my city every day, but I don’t think about it too much here because Philly has given me so much and taught me a lot about myself. There’s also just a lot of good local shit going on here. There’s cats out here that have been grinding and the city is budding for sure. It’s gritty out here and Philly rappers are hungry as shit, which pushes me.
LFM: I quickly learned how different it is to freestyle as opposed to songwriting. I view freestyling as easier sometimes. It’s more forgiving since it’s whatever your subconscious mind spits out. Sitting down to actually write a new song can be a process.
CP: How’d you first get into rapping?
LFM: I knew instrumentation and wanted to use it in my music
LFM: Around the time I was 15, I was hanging with all these older
because my mom was a trumpet player and my uncle, who pretty much got me into music, was a multiple-instrument musician. It’s important and feels natural to me to add that influence into my music.
CP: You have a stronger instrumental presence on The Journey
than Chiaroscuro. What spurred that?
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dudes from around the block and we would all battle each other. Freestyling was my first rapping experience but I was always getting washed because I was down there with all the old heads. One
CP: Who were some big collaborators on The Journey? LFM: The beats are coming from all over. There’s one on there from my best friend Emmanuel [Walkes], who was really the one who pushed me to start taking my rapping seriously. There’s a beat on there out of Texas from my homie Dylan [Ewen] and some from my boy Dan Paoletti, who produces under the name Apostrophe S. CP: It seems like you have a love/hate relationship with success. Do you want to be a household name one day or is the idea to be an independent artist forever? LFM: Yeah, you’re right, I think about the stress that comes along with success a lot. Success in the industry brings a lot of bullshit along with it. You can’t really trust it because there are greater artists who get shelved all the time. At the end of the day, me and my friends just wanna go around and perform and fucking move crowds. To me, that’s the greatest thing, that’s fucking awesome and that’s what I want. (madeline@citypaper.net) ✚ More info on Lace FM at twitter.com/WashPahpin and lacefm.tumblr.com.
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COSMOPOLIS|C+ Although it’s hardly the best of his recent work, David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis feels like the first real Cronenberg movie in more than a decade. Eastern Promise and The End of Violence have their virtues — less so the flavorless A Dangerous Method — but they felt impersonal if not quite anonymous, like audition reels for an action-movie career he never wanted. Cosmopolis, by contrast, is a full-bore art-house movie, deliberately pretentious (not a value judgment here), often stultifying and sometimes simply dead on arrival. The movie is doubly trapped inside Don DeLillo’s source novel and the stretch limousine belonging to protagonist Eric Packer (Robert Pattinson), a billionaire finance whiz whose air-conditioned coffin creeps its way back and forth across a traffic-choked metropolis. The conversations in Cosmopolis take place in a world of abstraction, an environment less hospitable to recognizable human emotions than it is to sentences like “She thought I was dissolvable in water.” Cronenberg has worked in this register before — in Dead Ringers and Naked Lunch, among others — but without the grounding force of eros, Cosmopolis feels like it’s sheathed in latex. When Eric and his newlywed wife (Sarah Gadon) discuss their sex life — or the potential for one — it has the nothing-personal tenor of a business negotiation. Gadon and Pattinson have the waxy pallor of mortuary tenants; no sparkly vamp-twinkles here. Exploring what Eric calls “the intersection of technology and culture,” Cosmopolis plays out as a series of stilted two-handers. “Money,” Samantha Morton’s advisor explains, “has lost its narrative qualities,” and so has the film, at least until the much-needed jolt of the final reel,
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COMPLIANCE|AThe disturbing prank phone call that inspired Compliance, in which a McDonald’s manager in Kentucky stripsearched an employee at the behest of a caller posing as a police officer, was the last of more than 70 similar real-life incidents that occurred in the U.S. over the course of nearly a decade. Director Craig Zobel doesn’t reveal that, or much of anything beyond the increasingly uncomfortable facts of this single incident, until the film’s closing moments; the majority of Compliance claustrophobically explores the reasoning that allows seemingly average people to engage in unfathomable behavior. Zobel sets the proceedings in a fictional chain called ChickWich, but anyone who’s ever worked in fast food will instantly recognize the depressing ecosystem that Zobel establishes during the uneventful opening scenes. Middle-aged manager Sandra (the remarkable Ann Dowd) is overwhelmed and insecure, determined both to establish her authority and to fit in with her much younger employees, a typically disrespectful and self-absorbed crew of high schoolers. Zobel slowly, excruciatingly turns the screws as the demands of “Officer Daniels” (Pat Healy, compellingly creepy despite not physically appearing until midway) mount, never providing the slightest justification. The teens, including the victim herself, combine a disdain for authority with a fear and trust of it, implicating the adults around them in their complicity. Dowd plays the manager’s limited intelligence, easily flattered ego and desperate submission to supposed authority so convincingly
that the obvious question — how could anyone let things go this far? — is answered effectively, if not reassuringly. —Shaun Brady (Ritz at the Bourse)
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when Paul Giamatti’s desperate assassin finally shows his sweat-streaked face. It’s a masterful finish to what up to that point feels like a pure exercise, doubtless more thrilling for the utter airlessness of what precedes it. —Sam Adams (Ritz at the Bourse)
LAWLESS|B+ Read Drew Lazor’s review on p. 19. (Opens Wed., Aug. 29) PREMIUM RUSH|BIf you’ll be sufficiently smitten by Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s adorable oopsie-I-almost-hit-a-cab chuckle, there’ll be enough antidote to help you through this 90-minute game of cops and bikers. If not, the fast-paced escapades may leave you nauseated. Gordon-Levitt plays New York bike courier Wilee, gifted with his coyote namesake’s speed and a Spidey-like sense that allows him to decide in a split second which swerv-
ing route through a busy intersection will prevent him from slamming into a windshield or killing a baby. The pulsing heart of the film is unquestionably the chase. Wilee is tasked with delivering a mysterious package from Columbia University to Chinatown, with corrupt cop Bobby Monday (Michael Shannon) in hot pursuit. There are only brief respites from the breathless zigzag across Manhattan, the camera zooming out at intervals for a birds-eye view that keeps viewers oriented. Director David Koepp’s commitment to credibility is admirable, opting for live-action stunt doubles rather than CGI effects. It’s refreshing to see the baby-faced (500) Days of Summer star going balls out into some real danger; Gordon-Levitt even had to get 31 stitches after a particularly rough on-set crash. But stripped of the bike scenes, the movie has little meat to it. Gordon-Levitt’s gorgeous ex-girlfriend, played by Dania Ramirez, and
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ROBOT AND FRANK|BSet in upstate New York in the ambiguous “near future,” Jake Schreier’s Robot and Frank is a melting pot of 22nd-century perplexities. Frank Langella plays an eponymous retired jewel thief who lives on his own in a grumpy and increasingly dementiariddled existence. His son Hunter (James Marsden) gives Frank a robot in an effort to keep his father’s life in order and to give himself a chance to spend less time with his dad. Frank initially despises the bot, but eventually the machine becomes not only his pal but an accomplice in one last small-scale heist (as long as Frank agrees to a low-sodium diet). The target in question is yuppie library employee Jake (Jeremy Strong), cast as the film’s tablet-toting villain and the antithesis of his lovely employer Jennifer (Susan Sarandon), the object of Frank’s affections. The library’s embrace of digital scans instead of printed material is one of many serious issues the films appears to juggle in a surprisingly lighthearted
fashion. The concepts of augmented reality, parental relationships and the philosophy of a robot’s very existence are all touched upon in a manner suited to a story that does its best to tie the plotline’s threads together, with questionable results. “I don’t want to talk about how you don’t exist,” Frank tells the robot. “It’s making me uncomfortable.” —JB (Ritz Five)
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been dug up from a particularly loamy patch of ground. But the beauty is troubling — not simply because it runs the risk of aestheticizing rural poverty, but because director Benh Zeitlin and his collaborators seem heedless of the possibility. Beasts is a movie eminently worth seeing, but surrendering to its spell is as dangerous as trusting in government-built levees. —SA (Ritz Five)
BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD|B Beasts of the Southern Wild is a gorgeous thing, set in an impoverished Southern area called the Bathtub. It’s there that a spirited 6-year-old named Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis)
makes her home in a tree-bound trailer, connected by zip line to one occupied by her alcoholic father (Dwight Henry). Captured on Super 16mm, the film’s images are warm and earthy, the colors rich and saturated as if the print had
CELESTE AND JESSE FOREVER|ACeleste and Jesse Forever is an entertaining look at a fizzled-out fling that attempts to subvert the structures of the shiny rom-com genre and take an honest, hard look at heartbreak. The premise of the movie — a couple working to make sure their divorce doesn’t ruin their friendship — follows optimistic pair Celeste (writer Rashida Jones) and Jesse (Andy Samberg), who are still living together six months after their separation. Things go swimmingly until Jesse starts dating a former one-night stand, forcing a rebound-driven Celeste to go on a slew of uncomfortable, half-hearted first dates. It’s hilariously touching to watch her trying to hold on to her dignity, whether she’s passed out at a pool party or giving a tear-jerking speech at her best friend’s wedding. We feel for her, though the film’s ending winds up feeling too tidy for all the emotional sturm und drang. —Frida Garza (Ritz East)
HIT & RUN|BDax Shepard plays Charlie Bronson, a getaway driver who is forced to enter the Witness Protection Program after he testifies against his former bank-heist accomplices. Life is idyllic for Charlie and his girlfriend Annie (Kristen Bell) until a trip to Los Angeles brings him face to face with his old gang. The problem with Hit & Run is that it doesn’t know what it wants to be. The drama undercuts the comedy and vice versa, leaving neither strong enough to carry the film. Fortunately, it succeeds in offering exciting car chases that, at their best, approach Bullitt-grade intensity. This achievement is heightened by the fact that Shepard does all his own stunts, lending the film’s action scenes an air of authenticity. But no matter how great Shepard’s driving skills, he still needs a crash course in storytelling. —Michael Blancato (Pearl, UA Riverview) THE IMPOSTER|B+ Director Bart Layton’s debut featurelength documentary tells the story of Frédéric Bourdin, the mad Frenchman who at age 23 assumed the identity of a missing boy from San Antonio, Texas,
The story, an incredible one, is that of Sixto Rodriguez, a Detroit singersongwriter who made two albums of introspective, psychedelic soul music: Cold Fact and Coming From Reality. Two decades later, long after Rodriguez dropped out of sight and possibly died, those unknown albums were embraced by the South African freedom movement, becoming the soundtrack of a struggle half a world away and elevating him to the status of an absent figurehead. Director Malik Bendjelloul is so insistent about the storyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s extraordinary nature that you can't help but wonder if heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cooking the books, a suspicion that pays off when a latefilm twist reveals heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s essentially been leading his audience astray. Pulling drama out of the material is one thing, but ginning it up wholesale blurs the line between storytelling and simple fraud. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;SA (Ritz at the Bourse)
group are met with strife. American Idol spawn Jordin Sparks takes center stage as Sparkle, whose presence is helped by an ensemble of exceptional performances, especially producer/pop icon Whitney Houston as Biblethumping, you-better-not-look-atme-sideways mother Emma, Carmen Ejogo as drug-addicted Sister and Mike Epps as her abusive boyfriend Satin. Handheld cameras and special effects narrow the focus onto the stars, evoking a style forgotten in most of todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mainstream films. Unfortunately, the talented cast canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make up for missed opportunities in the writing. A dramatic first half brings out the best in the players, but interest wanes as the focus becomes more about Sparkleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pursuits, leaving other, more interesting, stories fizzling in the background. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Andrew Wimer (Pearl, UA Riverview)
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✚ DEATHTRAP Ira Levin’s Deathtrap is the bastard son of the Agatha Christie murder mysteries so popular at Hedgerow Theatre. The 1978 hit, which ran on Broadway for four years and spawned a 1982 movie, occurs in a single space (much like Christie’s suspects-
trapped-in-a-drawing-room whodunits), but its characters are more nakedly ambitious. In Deathtrap, which Penelope Reed and Ellen Wilson Dilks co-direct in Hedgerow’s usual Christie slot, a blocked mystery writer (Robert Smythe) plots to steal the brilliant script of a promising student (Andrew Parcell) — and then all bloody hell breaks loose in a whirlwind of red herrings, double-crosses and more sex and humor than Dame Agatha ever dared imagine. —Mark Cofta Through Sept. 23, $10-$32, 64 Rose Valley Rd., Rose Valley, 610-565-4211, hedgerowtheatre.org.
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✚ KNIT LAB WITH ANDREW DAHLGREN The most visible knitting culture in Philadelphia is a smattering of yarn-bombed telephone poles, but local industrial designer Andrew Dahlgren is well on his way to
changing that. He received a knitting machine three years ago, which kickstarted a quest for a sustainable regional knitting industry with craftsmanship at its core. His company, ADMK (for Andrew Dahlgren Machine Knitting), will be setting up shop in the first-floor galleries of the Philadelphia Art Alliance through Sunday. At the temporary Knit Lab, viewers can interact with Dahlgren and his equipment, and even create their own knit designs and learn to use the machines. We’re gonna bet you’ve never had the chance to use a knitting machine. —Jodi Bosin Through Aug. 26, 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m., free with $3-$5 admission, Philadelphia Art Alliance, 251 S. 18th St., 215-545-4302, philartalliance.org.
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✚ THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE There is a limit to how deeply
a man can gaze safely at his own shoes, or how often he can step down on a vintage effects pedal. Anton Newcombe arrived at that threshold and crossed over it awhile ago, then built a murky swamp utopia on the other side. It’s never been more obvious from The Brian Jonestown Massacre’s latest album — the mesmerizing, riff-sublimating Aufheben (A.) — Newcombe is at peace over there. It’s a place where every seam is spackled with organs, where eastern beats get supporting roles and impish laughs make cameos, where drummers become robots, where the singing never stops but the words are indiscernible, where a flute may be played with impunity. “Psych-rock” is a loose genre tag for sure, but Newcombe has found an edge and he’s poking at it from the inside, like an ant in a soap bubble. —Patrick Rapa Thu., Aug. 23, 9 p.m., $20, with Magic Castles, Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St., 215-232-2100, utphilly.com.
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✚ MARY J. BLIGE/ D’ANGELO More than six months into his comeback tour, it’s still hard to believe D’Angelo will actually appear on the stage of the Mann on Friday night. We’ve heard promises of new albums and new tours for years from the reclusive soul crooner, but 12 years after Voodoo, a third album remains little more than a tantalizing rumor, bolstered by enthusiastic reports from ?uestlove and producer Russell Elevado. (James River has overtaken Chinese Democracy in the competition for “bestknown album that may or may not someday actually exist.”) But for now, it’s almost certain that D’Angelo will materialize,
in the flesh, backed by a skilled band featuring killer drummer Chris Dave. He’s sharing the bill with the far less mysterious but always powerhouse Mary J. Blige, whose recent questionable choices — belting out Pat Benatar and Quarterflash in Rock of Ages? That Burger King ad? — can’t do much to detract from the force of her voice. —Shaun Brady Fri., Aug. 24, 7 p.m., $39.75-$125.75, Mann Center for the Performing Arts, 5201 Parkside Ave., 215-893-1999, manncenter.org.
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✚ CASA DE VENEZUELA On Fifth Street, a bit below Lehigh, there is a big old paved lot where Taller Puertorriqueño will build its new facility. Until construction commences, it makes for a great spot for tented arts events to come to the barrio, rather than vice versa, and the
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✚ SECRET CINEMA For this screening, Jay Schwartz of Secret Cinema levels the playing field in the NYC/PHL rivalry with two rarely seen documentaries that take the shine out of today’s Manhattan. The evening begins with John McGreevey’s 1978 work George Plimpton’s New York, which follows journalist Plimpton on the hunt for what charm is left in a city rotting after massive budget cuts and apathetic
leadership. Part two is Only One New York, French ethnographer Pierre Dominique Gaisseau’s nook-and-cranny examination of everyday New Yorkers in 1964. Nasty.
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to strut on the dance floor, to jump and jive, lift your knees and step? Papa Grows Funk invites you to blame them. This New Orleans-based band, which has been together 12 years, claims to never rehearse, but their constant touring might obviate some of that drudge work. At home, they’ve worked the same Jazz and Heritage fest bills as the Meters and Rebirth Brass Band. The title song to Papa’s (relatively) new recording is also their personal recipe for stress relief — “drop that needle in the groove” and move your body. —Mary Armstrong Fri., Aug. 24, 9 p.m., $10-$12, with the Pimps of Joytime, The Blockley, 3801 Chestnut St., 215-222-1234, theblockley.com.
—Andrew Wimer Fri., Aug. 24, 7 p.m., $9, International House, 3701 E. Chestnut St., 215-3875125, ihousephilly.org.
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✚ PAPA GROWS FUNK Looking for fun, for an excuse
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✚ GUARDIAN ALIEN When you’ve manned the drums for both eccentric black-metallers Liturgy and electronic pop experimentalist Dan Deacon, “keeping time”
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Bass players tend to make reluctant leaders, and for more than 10 years Madison Rast has seemed content to lend rock-solid support to some of Philly’s best, including Orrin Evans, Bootsie Barnes and Joanna Pascale. In recent months, though, he’s begun to take center stage with increasing frequency, and the time has come to call in a decade’s worth of favors. This Friday’s show was born of a sideman gig with Randy Napoleon, guitarist in singer Freddy Cole’s quartet, who will be returning to support Rast. Sharing the frontline will be Philly tenor icon Bootsie Barnes, whose stage Rast shared for years during Ortlieb’s prior incarnation. Those three (who will be anchored by drummer Byron Landham) have been brainstorming about off-thebeaten-path jazz standards, so expect a set comprising lesser-known tunes by the likes of Monk, Clifford Brown
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“The plus-size fashion industry has grown leaps and bounds over the past few years.” That’s according to Colleen Stovall, a local plus-size model and blogger for shortCurvyFIERCE. She drops names like BellaNOR Boutique, in Mount Airy, and Chinoo Designs when discussing go-tos for curvaceous customers in our area, but the options still feel a bit constricting. That’s why Stovall teamed up with Empress Lingerie founder Domonique Revere-Lincoln to create the Curvy Closets Plus Size Fashion Showcase, which will offer a myriad of full-figured shop-ables. Expect to get an eyeful of great up-and-coming and veteran designers, like silhouette-centric BGU (Big Girls United) and vivid prints from Eddy & Bri. The event’s location — Marathon Grill — is another testimony to the lack of traffic plus-size fashion gets in Philly. That’s not to knock the local restaurant chain, but wouldn’t the show be better served at some edgy, fullfigure-catering boutique? Oh wait, we’re sorely lacking one. But just as soon as we feel embittered by this one-size-fits-all discrimination, Stovall chimes in to lift our spirits. “Positive events are important to break stereotypes that society places on full-figured women,” she says. She’s got a point. Without the dedication of women like her and ReverLincoln, and without events like this showcase, we’d get nowhere. Stovall reminds us there is such thing as Full Figured Fashion Week in New York, and our fair city is taking strides to provide a richer spectrum of shopping options. If you want to see a trendy boutique catering to curves in Center City (or Old City, or any shopping destination in Philly), you’ve got to start by showing off your goods at Marathon. Sat., Sept. 1, $35, 5-9 p.m., Marathon, 1818 Market St., 856-558-9559, curvyclosets.com. (julia.west@citypaper.net)
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—Beth Boyle Sun., Aug. 26, noon, free, William Way Community Center, 1315 Spruce St., 215-732-2220, waygay.org.
—K. Ross Hoffman Sun., Aug. 26, 8 p.m., $12-$15, with Shovels & Rope, MilkBoy Philly, 1100 Chestnut St., 215-925-MILK, milkboyphilly.com.
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Philly-based songstress (and local swing-dance scenequeen) Carsie Blanton doesn’t cut an imposing figure. But when the curly-headed, “cuter than a kidney bean” charmer advises a timid suitor, midway
Kristen Asher, Jen King and Sarah Rose returned home after this year’s NYC Feminist Zine Fest inspired to organize the girl love, radical creativity and feminist power in Philly. The result is Philly Feminist Zine Fest, a full day of zines and crafts, workshops and skillshares, new friends and good times. Proceeds benefit Project SAFE, an organization that’s been working for the rights and health of sex workers since 2004. There’s going to be a sweet raffle for stuff like girl-positive horror movies, drum lessons, gift certificates to Blackbird Pizza, art and zine gift packs. And there will be plenty of vegan baked goods — it’s written down in some dusty old charter that it’s illegal to have a zine fest without vegan cupcakes.
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Blanton waxes unblushingly frank about exactly what (and who) she wants (when not detailing the sometimes less sanguine consequences of getting what she wished for), atop a groove-rich musical landscape that spans her typical jazz-inflected folk-pop and digs deeper into loose acoustic funk but also manages to live up to maybe her least-likely avowed inspiration, Elvis Costello: “Together Too Long” could pass for one of his Blood & Chocolate kiss-offs, while “All We Got” loosely rewrites Trust’s “Lovers’ Walk.”
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Like its participants, the Philly Naked Bike Ride doesn’t need much coverage. For the fourth year in a row, bikers will let their nether regions flop in the wind as they pedal through the streets of Philadelphia. The route changes every year, but the event’s core values remain the same: “fuel conscious consumption, positive body image and cycling advocacy.” This is a bare-as-you-dare event, so never-nudes are free to participate in underwear, swimsuits or jorts. Just make sure to visit the Philly Naked Bike Ride website and sign up for the mailing list to receive the route map and starting location info.
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through her excellent new album, “I ain’t gonna hurt you honey / I ain’t even half your size,” it’s clear enough why he might need the reminder. This is a woman who does not mince words. Throughout the self-released Idiot Heart,
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streets and Snyder and Oregon avenues has no official name, but you might as well call it the United Nations. To the west it’s still thickly Italian, and to the east stretches South Philly’s shamrock settlement, but between them Cambodian dress shops shoulder Mexican groceries, and Buddhist temples rise like giant lemon-and-tangerine confections. It’s a diverse ecosystem down here, and one that’s been enriched by a relatively recent influx of Central Americans like Felipe Cortez, who moved to South Philly from Guatemala City in 2009. Four months ago, he turned a defunct pizzeria into El Costeñito, a wee eat-in/takeout whose name means “young boy from the coast.” Windows frame Costeñito’s corner building at the intersection of Sixth and Oregon, a new trading post of Latin-Caribbean and coastal Central American cooking in a city that sorely, surprisingly, lacks both. Here, blue flames lick sauté pans of cayenne-red tomato sauce and smiling Honduran women pinch pupusas. Like the passport of a rainforest preservationist or coconut tycoon, Costeñito’s menu bebops between Cuba, El Salvador, Puerto Rico and Costa Rica. The warm pupusas were leopard-spotted pillows filled with a mix of classified cheeses (“If I tell you I, have to kill you,” says Cortez) and a friedpork paste called chicharrone.A pair of the stuffed Salvadoran tortillas reclined on curtido — shredded, lightly fermented cabbage. Pulled chicken hid inside flaky, buttery pastelillos, the Puerto Rican name for empanadas. Fried orbs of papas rellenas cradled smoky seasoned ground beef inside soft layers of potato. Snacks like these — anointed with triple-chile hot sauce and thin tomato salsa and washed down with house-brewed agua jamaica and tamarindo — are Costeñito’s forte. Meanwhile, the mofongo was dry and oddly bland, lacking the punch of garlic to offset the starchy sweetness of the mashed plantains, and the chicharrone de pollo didn’t have the resonance of its garlic-and-lime marinade. Try the pernil instead, slices of oven-roasted pork laced with soft fat and crispy skin. Like most of the entrees at Costeñito, the pernil comes with rice and a simple salad, but the heaping portion of meat rendered them untouched. That generous spirit, at prices that don’t top $12, earns Cortez’s shop a spot on my takeout rotation. (adam.erace@citypaper.net)
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FATED PLATES Serendipitous circumstances led to Angela Ranalli heading up not one but two of the city’s sweetest pastry programs. By Caroline Russock
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he menus of the rustic-meets-refined Vernick Food and Drink and the Abruzzo-in-South-Philly Le Virtù are worlds apart. But when it comes time for dessert, these two diverse restaurants have something in common: Angela Ranalli heads up the pastry programs at both, with a roster of American-inspired meal enders at Vernick and Abruzzese dolci at Le Virtù. A life in pastry seems almost a given for someone who spent her childhood baking and selling cannoli and sfogliatelle at festivals with her More on: mother and brothers and sisters. But Ranalli’s path was a roundabout one. Stints baking wedding cakes in Cape May and at Philly’s scenic Water Works were interspersed with time spent studying interior design and living in Florence, making a living body painting at clubs and selling hand-painted tiles on the street. Her entrance to Le Virtù seems like a fated one. After spying a Craigslist ad for servers, Ranalli did a bit of detective work, learning that Le Virtù owner Francis Cretarola’s roots were in Teramo, the same Abruzzese province Ranalli’s family came from. Although there was no “pastry chef wanted” in that particular ad, Ranalli
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decided to try her luck. Much like the story of how chef Joe Cicala found his way to Le Virtù (via another Craigslist ad), there’s something serendipitous about how things happen at this East Passyunk spot. Ranalli quickly realized that the desserts she grew up with were just the way to end a meal of Cicala’s house-cured salumi and hand-cranked pastas. The experience is strikingly Italian and refreshingly unpretentious. At Le Virtù, Ranalli embraces the Southern Italian tradition of using olive oil in place of butter in many of her desserts. In a pistachio semifreddo, the oil shines through with grassy flavor. Drizzled onto a crunchy lemon granita, the oil makes perfect sense. Ranalli’s second pastry gig was another fated encounter. Moving to Philadelphia, chef Greg Vernick and his wife Julie became quick regulars at Le Virtù and approached Ranalli. Vernick was looking for a menu of homey desserts, reimagined takes on classics like doughnuts and Boston cream pie. Ranalli came through with a menu of never-dainty desserts MORE FOOD AND designed for optimal shareability. A blueDRINK COVERAGE berry pie could easily serve two but is good AT C I T Y P A P E R . N E T / enough to warrant a no-share policy, and M E A LT I C K E T. she finishes the smoked-chocolate parfait with a biscotti a necessary Italian touch. Lest anyone think that designing the dessert menus at two of the city’s most inventive restaurants is enough for Ranalli, it’s worth a mention that in her spare time she reads tarot cards, predicts future events by way of coffee grounds and wine sediment, and travels to Italy with the Le Virtù crew several times a year to explore indigenous dishes and keep the inspiration fresh. (caroline@citypaper.net)
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dinner 6:30 p.m., $25 Âł Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot going on at Lemon Hill Sunday. First up for food lovers is the guest-chef potluck benefiting the Fairmount Community Development Corporation. Chefs on board for the dinner include Jeff Michaud of Osteria, Tim Spinner from La Calaca Feliz, Townsend Wentz from McCrossenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tavernâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Scott Schroeder of the South Philly Tap Room and American Sardine Bar, and Lemon Hillâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Joel Mazigian. In addition to the joint-effort menu, there will be drink specials and a Fernet Branca bike raffle. Earlier in the day there will be a barrel-aged beer tasting with Swiss brewery Brasserie des Franches-Montagnes. Jonny Medlinsky from the Khyber Pass will walk guests through a vertical tasting of Abbaye de Saint Bon-Chien, a rare, wine-like sour ale. The kitchen will be sending out snacks to complement these small-batch brews. Seating is limited, so call ahead to reserve your spot. Lemon Hill, 747 N. 25th St., 215232-2299, lemonhillphilly.com.
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✚ AMERICAN NOIR
Taking over the short-lived Sticks and Stones space, Noir has opened with an all-over-the-map menu covering everything from Montreal poutine to coconut shrimp and turkey Milanese. Open Tue.-Sat., 5 p.m.-2 a.m., and Sun., 3 p.m.-1 a.m., 1909 E. Passyunk Ave., 267-319-1678, noirphiladelphia.com.
✚ CAFE/ COFFEESHOP OFC COFFEE HOUSE
The second branch of OFC Coffee House is open in Point Breeze, serving up locally roasted Green Street Coffee and pastries from neighboring Sweet Life bakery. Open daily, 7 a.m.-7 p.m. 2001 Federal St., 267-273-1018, ocfcoffeehouse.com.
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This jewel box of a cafe from Le Bec alum David Smith serves a menu of elegant French pastries, breakfast sets, and light lunches. Coffee, tea, and other cool drinks are available but you are welcome to bring your own bottle. Open Mon.-Sat., 8 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sun., 8 a.m.-4 p.m. 2029 Walnut St., 267324-5244, lepetitedauphine.com
✚ CAJUN/CREOLE BECK’S CAJUN CAFÉ
Reading Terminal N’awlins favorite Beck’s Cajun Café has branched out to a location in 30th Street Station. Now harried commuters and UCity denizens can get Big Easy favorites like fried oyster po-boys, gumbo and overstuffed muffulettas all day long. Open daily, 8 a.m.-8 p.m. 2955 Market St., 215-592-0505, beckscajuncafe.com.
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✚ ITALIAN SPIGA
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alongside assagi, or tasting boards, a handful of pastas and crowd-pleasing entrees. Daily drink specials include half-price wine Wednesdays and pizza-anda-beer deals Thursdays. Open Mon.-Thu., noon-10 p.m.; Fri., 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Sat., 5-11 p.m. 1305 Locust St, 267-273-1690, spigaphiladelphia.com.
✚ MEXICAN PURE TACOS
The second branch of this Ocean City, Md.-based fast-casual concept serves up gluten-free Mexican in Rittenhouse. Nachos, tacos and salads are customizable with options like orangechili fish, chipotle brisket and peach-habanero salsa. Open for lunch and dinner, Mon.-Sat., 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sun. 11 a.m.-9 p.m. 1935 Chestnut St., 215-496-9393, puretacos.com.
✚ SANDWICHES/ HOAGIES/WRAPS EL SOTO
Setting up shop in a long-neglected storefront at 15th and Morris streets, this shiny new Mexican grocery is putting out some solid sandwiches, a south-of-the-border-meets-South-Philly menu of tortas, hoagies and Italian Market roasted-lamb sandwiches served on Sarcone’s bread. La Colombe coffee is brewed and served alongside a selection of Jarritos sodas, produce and tortillas. Open daily, 7 a.m.-8 p.m., 1649 S. 15th St., 215-278-7831.
✚ SEAFOOD DOC MAGROGAN’S
The fourth outpost of this West Chester-based oyster house serves an across-the-board selection of seafood from cocktails, shooters and plateaus to simply grilled fish, crab cakes and that old-school, only-in-Philly bizarro combo of chicken salad and fried oysters. Open daily, 11 a.m.-10 p.m. 3432 Sansom St., 215-382-3474, docmagrogans.com.
✚ THAI CIRCLES NORTHERN LIBERTIES
Newbold's beloved Thai takeout has expanded yet again, this time setting up a sit-down BYO on North Second Street. Expect the same fiery pad thai, creamy curries and cheesesteak spring rolls along with more vegetarian and vegan options. Open for lunch Mon.-Tue., noon-3 p.m.;Thu.-Sun., noon-3 p.m.; dinner Mon.-Tue., Thu.-Sun., 5 p.m.-10 p.m.; Fri.Sat., 5-11 p.m., 812 N. Second St., 267-687-1309, circlesnewbold.com
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merchandise market R & D LAB Closing down & relocating: All must go, Including, Fume Hoods, lab benches, cabinets, mixers, stirrers, balances, ovens, hot plates, employee work stations. Homogenizers & microscopes, executive office furniture & conference room table, buffet & chairs. Contact Guthj@botaneco.ca for complete list or call 215-604-0634
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2012 Hot Tub/Spa. Brand New! 6 person w/lounger, color lights, 30 jets, stone cabinet. Cover. Never installed. Cost $6K. Ask $2,750. Will deliver. 610-952-0033.
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Position: Seeking candidates interested in pursuing careers in medicine or medical research. Candidates will routinely obtain diagnostics specimens from physician offices and operating rooms for laboratory analy33&45 RECORDS HIGHER $ REALLY PAID sis. Research projects with follow up publications are encouraged. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: µ Sample acquisition and transport 33 & 45 Records Absolute Higher $ µ Building and maintaining relationships with physicians and staff µ Initiating sample preservation and Books -Trains -Magazines -Toys database management Dolls - Model Kits 610-689-8476 Labs pups, chocolates, AKC, vet check, µ Research projects Diabetic Test Strips, $$ Cash Paid $$ S/W, M $400, F $450. (717)824-5835 µ Publications and poster Mini Pinscher puppies, male $250 and fe - Nicotine Patches, Gum. Highest Prices presentations of data Paid. For pick up Call 215-395-7100 male $275. 267-597-2060 Please be aware Basic Qualifications: I Buy Anything Old...Except People! Possession of exotic/wild animals may µ Good organizational skills to be PITBULL PUPPIES, Blue, antiques-collectables, Al 215-698-0787 be restricted in some areas. $650-$800, 267-688-6450 able to manage multiple tasks JUNK CARS WANTED We buy Junk Cars. simultaneously Pomeranian & Min-Pin mix, brown, Up to $300 215-888-8662 µ A team player with effective 1 M, 1 F, 13 wks, $200. 215-254-0562 Lionel/Am Flyer/Trains/Hot Whls $$$$ communication/listening skills Rottweiler German pups, AKC, shots, Siamese Kittens m/f applehead, pureAurora TJet/AFX Toy Cars 215-396-1903 µ Attention to detail tails clipped, 4F/4M $550. 267-270-5529 bred, Health Guar. $300+ 610-692-6408 µ Candidate must have reliable ROTTWEILER M, 3 years, $150. SHEPtransportation HERD M, 3 years, $100. 215-254-0562 µ Must complete VendorMate Shiba Inu AKC Grand Champion sired clearance for access to operating red Shiba Inu puppies - 2 boys, 1 girl, 12 rooms weeks old $800. (619)564-1914 Contact information: ALASKAN MALAMUTE pups, AKC, 8 wks, Please submit resumes/CV to Shih Tzu black and white female, gorMales & Females, $600. (973)978-8389 careers@cddiagnostics.com. geous, 5 months old $550. 215-755-0504
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Boxer pups, ACA, family raised, vet checked, shots, fawn & brindle, $600. Call (717)442-8720 ext 2 Cane Corso pups, 3 months, black, large, cropped and dopped. 267-339-9265 COCKER SPANIEL PUPS AKC, chocolates & black/whites. Ready now. M $450, F $550. 717-442-9493
ENGLISH BULLDOG - Beautiful family raised litter. Ready 8/20, reserve yours now! $1800 717-799-6155. English Bulldog Pup ACA $1600. (717) 572-4477 http://www.tlcbulldogs.com English Bulldog Pups, 6 wks, vet, shots, dewormed. 215-696-5832 (Bensalem) German Shepherd Pups - AKC. lg boned, champ pedigree. 1M, 7F, 609-351-3205 German Shepperd Pups, also Maltipoo Pups, health gaur. $475& up 610.913.0393 German Shep Pups, Euro Blood, pa rents imported, AKC. $950. 856-745-3180 German Shep. Pups lrge boned, child socialized, beaut must see! (717)278-7937 Golden Retriever Pups AKC, fam. raised, 1st shots, $800. Call 302-757-0963. Golden Retriever Pups AKC, M&F, vet check, home raised, $600. 267-980-8027 LAB PUPS 100% GUAR. READY NOW, MUST COME SEE!!! 215-768-4344.
Siberian Husky Male, 11wks, white with blue eyes! $1000 (610) 688-2122 Standard Poodle pups: AKC Champion lines, family raised. Call 610-621-2894 www.HohlFamilyPoodles.com West German Shepherd Puppies - AKC, Parents sg show rated, 2 females, $1,000/ea. Also 2 adult females available. Call (856) 628-7719
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Center City 2br/2ba $2,800 Extra room, 1390 sqft, 9ft ceilings, close to train, buses, trolley. Call 267-408-0181
22nd & Reed 2BR $625 + utils newly renov, 1st/last/sec, 267-588-5403 22xx Snyder Ave. 2BR 2nd flr, credit check 610.659.2452 9-5pm 28XX Wharton St 2br $650 newly renovated, 2nd flr 215-582-8686
58th & Cobbs Creek 1 BR $540+ utils newly renovated, call 215-695-5194
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6401 Saybrook off Woodland 1br $500 $1050 to move in, room $350. Call 610358-1649
1x 60th & Market 4BR newly renov., Sec 8 OK.215-885-1700 51xx Parkside Ave 3br/1.5ba $850+util bi level, hdwd floors, c/a, must see, (484)231-1509 or (215)264-3538
52nd and Parkside Studio $500+utils $1000 move in, call 215-284-7944 53rd & Westminister 1BR $600 + utils New renov, $1200 move-in. 215.476.5885 827 N. 41st St. 2BR $650 2 mo. security + 1 mo. rent to move-in. Call 215-939-1067
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Yorkie pups, small, AKC, family raised, (located Lancaster County) 609.420.5626 Yorkie Tea Cup Male - AKC, home raised, pure bred, $950. 215-490-2243
15th & Jackson 1br Penthouse $825+util c/a, EIK, marble bath, Jacuzzi, hdwd flrs, S/S appliances, 215-463-7374
11xx S 52nd St. Lg Studio $450 1 month rent & security, 215-917-1091
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10th & Snyder 2BR 1st flr $1150+ c/a, w/d, marble bath, jacuzzi, bsmnt, hdwd flrs, garden patio. (215)463-7374
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8xx S. Cecil St. 1BR $500+utilities $1500 move in. 215-681-7978 Parkside A rea 2br & 3br $900-$1100 Newly renov, new kitch. & bath, hdwd flrs, Section 8 OK. 267-324-3197
33rd & Baring St. 1Br $725+utils furnished, updated, 2nd flr, old home, near Drexel Univ., quiet area, (215) 386-4138 5006 Spruce St. studio $500 2nd floor. 973-432-5742 or 973-662-1851
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65xx W. Girard 2BR $775+ sec dep, w/w crpt, W/D 856-906-5216
Various Studio, 1, 2 & 3br Apts $650$895 perutoproperties.com 215.740.4900
Balwynne Park 2BR $850+utils W/D, C/A, W/W. Call 484-351-8633
Broad & Cheltenham vic 2br $740+util 2nd flr, Lg kit, LR, Must see! 215.850.1649
C & Roosevelt Blvd. rm priv house, conv to shops, trans. & Temple Univ. $100/wk, $400 move-in. 856-217-2477 after 10am Frankford effic & apts $535 to $725 conv to trans. sec dep req 215-432-5637 Germantown Area: NICE, Cozy Rooms Private entry, no drugs (267)988-5890 LaSalle Area with Cooking $259 Move-in Special. 215-219-3411 LaSalle Univ area $125/week Renov furn rooms 215-843-4481 Mt Airy, 61xx Chew Ave, Univ City, 41xx Popular $85-$125/wk, 215-242-9124 N Broad St. large br’s $360-$440 3 large windows. Carpet. 215.600.5654 N Phila Furn, Priv Ent $75 & up . No drugs, SSI ok. available now 215.763.5565 N. Phila Rooms for rent $85-$100/week plus 1 month sec. Call 215-669-0912 Olney and N Phila. $65 and up furn, kit privs, coin-op, crpt. 516-527-0186 SW,N, W Move-in Special! $90-$125/wk Clean furn. rooms. SSI ok. 215-220-8877 WEST OAKLANE $110/WK Furn, a/c, pvt entrance. 215-205-2437 West Philadelphia deluxe rooms for rent, 267-997-5181 W Phila & G-town: newly ren lg, lux rms /apts. ALL utils incl, SSI ok, 215-833-4065 W Phila, rooms for rent $300-$375/mo. 41xx Girard Ave., 215-758-5120
1742 N 16th St. 3.5BR $1,200 utils incl new renov, C/A, W/D. 215-843-8387
1742 N 16th St. modern 2br $900+utils new renov, W/D, C/A 215-843-8387 BROAD ST Efficiency On campus efficiencies; furnished/unfurnished, utils incl, newly renov. $575 & up. John 215-236-1612 or 302-345-6334 Temple Hosp area 1-2 br $575 water incl Broad & Allegheny. Call (215)336-4299
Camac St. 1br $575/mo w/w crpt, window treatment 267.608.0182
1 BR & 2 BR Apts $725-$835 spacious, great loc., upgraded, heat incl, PHA vouchers accepted 215-966-9371 46xx Germantown Ave. Studio $485+util wall/wall crpt, remodeled, 267-259-7930
35XX RYAN AVE 1st flr 1BR $700+ Cottman/Frnkfd, Sec 8 OK 267.736.9862 8030 Ditman St. 1br $800 spacious apt. lots of closets, W/D. DW, cent. air, wall to wall carpet, balcony. swimming pool. 215-450-6303 Academy & Grant 2BR $795+ 1st floor, renovated, C/A, off street parking. Please call 856-346-0747
Burholme/Fox Chase 2br $950+utils lrg new 1st flr, 1st, last, sec (215)342.2596 Bustleton & Haldeman 2br Condo $895 prvt balcony w/garden view 215.943.0370 C & Blvd. 1 BR $550 + utils 1st, last & sec, w/d, N/S. 215-329-4793 FOX CHASE 1br $675 W/D, hot water, near train 215-901-6934 MAYFAIR - 64XX MARSDEN 2BR $695+utls, credit check 215-869-2402
Parkwood/Franklin Mills 2br $975+util 1st floor end unit, duplex, hdwd floors, new kitchen cabinets, garage, private laundry room & storage unit, central air, gas heat, backyard with BBQ, newly renovated, no pets, Call (215)570-0082
MEDIA 1Br $1150+electric near Courthouse, train and Blue route. luxury penthouse apt, liv rm w/ fireplc, kitch w/ din area, lofts, lrg deck, prvt parking, Call (610)565-8695 Sharon Hill 1 BR $650 heat incl newly renovated, off st, parking, credit application required, 484-716-0232
Plymouth Meeting 3BR apt $2000 Fully furn apt, min frm New Einstein Hospt, Blue RT & Turn Pk. Gtd condo cmty. 2 full BA, updtd kit, W/D, wrp arnd balc, ovr lkng pool & tennis crts. Rent inc util& cbl TV. 1st/last/sec. 610-592-5109
homes for rent 13xx S. Cleveland St. 2BR/1BA $875/mo W/D, A/C New Rehab. 215-519-5437 15xx Napa 3br $775 Section 8 OK. 267-230-2600 15XX S. 26TH ST 3BR All New w/w! Avail now! 215-680-7011 15xx S. Etting St 3br $725 + utils. newly painted, new heater,215-435-2333 15xx S Stanley 3br $675 1 car garage, Call 215-833-6673 18th & Snyder 2br/1ba $695 modern, section 8 ok, call (856)956-1101
16xx S Frazier 2br $750+utils 64xx Buist 1br apt $475+utils "The Landlord that Cares" Tasha 267.584.5964, Mark 610.764.9739
508 Midvale Ave. 2br $750 newly renovated, near transp., available immediately, sec 8 ok, 215-680-2538 Walnut Lane & Morton 1Br $650 Call 267-902-2585
Cherry Hill Studio $985 utils incl great location, private deck 856.397.0674
1854 S. 65th St. 3br/1ba $765+ utils Call Erik 215.744.5750 or 215.510.0034 1x 65th & Chester 3BR newly renov., Sec 8 OK.215-885-1700
11xx N. 55TH ST. $200 SPECIAL MOVEIN TO THOSE WHO QUALIFY! CALL FOR DETAILS! CALL 267-707-6129
60xx Buist Ave. 3br/1ba $800 1 & 1/2 mo. sec. dep., renovated, LR, DR, kitchen, 1 car garage, 215-828-6651 Elmwood area 3-4BR $850+utils modern, Sec. 8 approved. 215-726-8817
35th & Clearfield 1br $550+utils $1650 move in, new renov 610-453-0066
21st & Erie, large room, new renov., wall/wall, furn. $100/wk. 215-570-0301
67xx Blakemore St. 1BR 1st floor. Call 267-255-1895
$700
79xx Gilbert St. 2br $750+utils. Newly renovated, large duplex, 1st floor, Call 610-513-9398
26xx Gordon St: Furnished rooms, utils included, $100/wk, SSI ok, 267-819-5683
MAYFAIR 3br/1ba $875+utils washer/dryer. Call 215-300-9313
75xx Sherwood Rd. 3br $1,050 +utils. C/A, bsmnt, garage. 610-284-5631 Wyndale Ave 3br/2ba $1,250 spacious deck, Sec 8 OK. 215-253-0754
Chadds Ford Cottage 2BR/2.5BA $1,600 spacious, built 2000 large deck, private setting. 610-388-3401
UPPER DARBY 3br/1ba $925+ utils small front porch, rear prkg 610.909.8957
3900 Ford Road 2BR/1BA $1,400 utils Beautiful Condo, great location 215-324-4424
15xx N. 28th St. 3+BR/1Ba $750+utils renovated, credit check, 215-464-9371 20xx W. CAMBRIA ST 3br/1.5ba $650 porch, 2 mo rent + sec. 267-246-7017 22xx CLEVELAND 2br $650 16XX French. 3br. $750. 15XX York. 4br, 2ba. Sec 8 OK. 267-230-2600 North Phila 2BR house $675 3 months rent needed 267-414-7442
11XX W. VENANGO new renov 2BR. 1st, last+1 mo sec. $650/mo 215-228-7543
Glenside 2 BR $1150 tiny, turn of century twnhse, across from park & Twnp. pool, near library, shops & train. center hall, liv. rm, din. rm, powder rm, 2nd flr: 2 bdrms, full bathroom, central a/c, bsmnt, no pets, 215-233-5426 Lansdale lrg 4Br/2.5Ba $1,900 beautiful bi-level, nice neighborhd, lrg yard, 2nd flr din rm w/deck 215-990-2779
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56XX N. Marvine St. 3BR/1.5BA $1,000 Utils garage w/w carpet 215-324-4424
BMW 2000 528i luxury 4 dr w/ sunroof, few original miles, garage kept, woman driver, $7,950 Betty 215-928-9632
2xx W Sheldon St 3br Row home $770 spacious, fin bsmt, bkyard 267-345-3752
Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham 1996 $5,900. 61k, beautiful, (609)344-0141
38xx N. 15th: Lg furn rm, 1 week free, $105/wk, $300 sec, 267-809-7866
53xx Girard Ave: Large clean rooms $100-$110/week. Call (215) 917-1091
ALLEGHENY $90/wk. $270 sec dep Nr EL train, furn, quiet. 609-703-4266
300 N. Simpson St & 700 S 52nd St. Two 2BR renovated duplexes, $650 plus util each. Section 8 ok. 215-760-7031. 56xx Washington Ave. 3br $700-$750 Newly renovated. fin bsmt, 267-595-6122 59xx Locust St. 3BR/1.5BA beautiful, renov., Sec 8 OK 215-609-5207
G35 2004 $12,000 Manual, 85,000 miles, navy/tan, leather seats, moon roof, trans. replaced at 35K, engine replaced at 51K. 610-526-9996
S 430 2004 $12,700/obo loaded, 4matic, 100k, blk, 215-237-0109
FORD F150 ’94 $7500/obo Ser. Inq. only Mint No rust, manual 100K 267-997-0443
FORD F-350 HD Turbo Diesel 4x4 2008 Dually, ONLY 61k miles, 215-757-1747
JUNK CARS WANTED 24/7 REMOVAL. Call 267-377-3088
Ford E-150 V6 2001 $5,500 57K mi, white, PW/PL,alarm, lock-in cage, drawer cabinet & cubes. 215-287-2803
A1 PRICES FOR JUNK CARS FREE TOW ING , Call (215) 726-9053
300 Special Edition 2008 $9000 Mint, highway mi., in Phila, 949.861.4546
325 E. Cliveden St. 3br/1ba $1200+util Call Erik 215.744.5750 or 215.510.0034 xx Bringhurst 3BR/1BA $850+utils new remod, Sec 8 welcome 215.698.7840
20xx Ann St 3BR $700+ 2 mo sec, Sec 8 OK, no pets215-539-7866 3000 blk of Tulip 2br/1ba $675 +utils sec 8 ok, move-in ready. 610-761-0665
18xx E Lippincott 2br $700+utils Section 8 ok, Call 215-688-3689 19xx Thayer 3Br $675+ 3 mo sec, Sec 8 OK, no pets 215.539.7866 33xx Malta St. 2BR/1BA $650 clean, ready to move in, 215-680-1413 600 blk of Wensley 2br/1ba $650+utils sec 8 ok, clean, porch front 610-761-0665
18xx Haworth 3br/2ba $800/mo New renovations, Section 8 ok. Close to Bridge & Pratt. Call 215-839-6468 18xx Orthodox spacious 3BR/1.5BA renovated, Section 8 OK. 267-230-2600 2BR/1BA $700 Totally renov., Sec. 8 ok, rear yd. nice block, 1 mo sec dep. Tony (215) 681-8018
low cost cars & trucks Buick Park Avenue 1992 insp, 99k, clean, 610.667.4829
$1850
CADILLAC SEVILLE STS 1999 $4400 Exc cond silver ext, loaded 215-357-9507 Chrysler 5th Avenue 1993 $1250 New insp., 85k, 1 owner, 215-620-9383 Dodge Neon SE 2001 $1,750 4 dr, auto, loaded, clean. 215-518-8808 Ford Escort SE 1998 $995 Mazda Protege DX 1995 $995 auto, cold AC, 4 door, 4 cyl 215-620-9383
FORD F250 Utility Body 2002 $4900 86k, V8, auto, rack, a/c, (215)338-4716 Honda Civic LX 1996 $2,500/bo 4dr, black, 176K, runs great 267.970.2623 Hyundai Accent 2001 $1,750 5 spd, loaded, clean, 28mpg 215.518.8808
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Wilmot St 3br/1ba $1050 w/d, side yard, Sec 8 ok. 215-632-5763
15xx Devereaux 3br/1ba $1100 renovated, fin bsmt, W/D. 215-601-5182 4100 Higbee St. 3BR $950 Duplex, backyard, frntprch. 917.667.4101 52XX BURTON ST . 2BR/1BA Section 8 ok, $900 + all utils. Call 215-740-4629 7907 Marsden St. 3BR/1BA $1,000 Finished basement, Hardwood Flooring, Great Neighborhood John: 215-880-946 8xx Granite St 3BR newly renovated, Sec 8 ok 267-587-7290
Lexus ES 300 1994 $1,695 black/tan, 200K, runs well 484-876-1609 Lincoln Continental 2002 $3,500 Moonroof, leather, loaded. 215-840-4860 Mercury Grand Marquis 1999, 4 Door, deluxe wheels, 52,000 ORIGINAL MI, like new $3975 Call Mary 215-629-0630 MERCURY SABLE 1993 $1800 85K, exc cond, 1 owner. 215-830-8881 Mercury Sable LS 2002 $1,750 4dr, loaded, clean, sunroof 215-280-4825 Plymouth Voyager 1999 $1,750 all pwrs, cold AC, new insp 215.620.9383 Pontiac Bonnevile SSE 1993 $1,450 all pwr, no rust/dents, insp 215.620.9383 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP 2004 $3,675 supercharger, sunroof, lthr 267-592-0448 Volvo 960 1996 $1,650 auto, all pwrs,clean, rns new215.620.9383 Volvo V70 Cross Country 2002 $3,875 leather, moonroof, 3rd row267-592-0448
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53xx N. Broad St. Room fridge, 27" TV, a/c. Call 267-496-6448
13xx N. Farson St. 2br/1ba $625 Immed. Avail., Appt. Call 267-753-5403 2Br & 3Br Houses Sec. 8 welcome beautifully renovated, (267)981-2718
Accord EXL 2004 $8900 112k, leather, heated seats, power locks, & seats, fully serviced, (610)547-2450
Broad & Hunting Park 3br $735+utils must see, avail immed. 215-850-1649
2764 N. Hemberger St., Rooms for rent, starting $300/mo. 267-257-3610
4223 Lancaster Ave, Clean room near transportation. 267-738-6201 10xx Medary Ave. 2BR Hdwd flrs, newpaint, pvt ent. A must C! 267.331.9255 1414 W. 71st Ave 2br $800 Utils incl. Close to trans & shopping. 215-574-2111 1501 W. 66th Ave. 1Br w/w wash/dry, mod. kit & bath. $550+. 215-514-7143
1335 N. Wanamaker St. 3BR/1BA $850 1st, last, 1mo. sec. req’d. 267-255-1895
206 N. Simpson Street 3br/1ba $850 www.perutoproperties.com 215.740.4900
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1** Wyoming Ave. 3BR/1BA $750 646-346-3114 5849 N. Camac 1BR $600+utils renovated, 267.271.6601 or 215.416.2757 58xx N. American St. 2br/1ba $650 2nd, back balcony. 215-688-0109 60XX Warnock 1 BR $595+ near Fernrock Train Station,215-276-8534
4645 Penn St. 1BR $650. newly renov gas/wtr inc 215-781-8072
Burgess St 4br/2ba $1800 single, nr Loesche school. 267-984-3660
CLASSIC COUPE 1985 w/ removable glass top, full power, AC, 49K orig miles. matching #s, Best Offer! 215-922-6113
Mayfair 3br/1.5ba $1000+ util best location, Large St. & Cottman Ave., basement, garage, 973-477-4935 Broad & Roosevelt Blvd. Vicinity No ROOM RENT DUE Til OCT. 1st. Rent $530$575. Furnished ROOMS for ONE (1) PERSON ONLY--NO EXCEPTIONS. To see ROOMS REQUIRED/PROOF of INCOME, Sec. Dep. Appl Fee. Call AL for details: 267-235-6555/ 856-237-7912
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WYNNEFIELD 2br $850+ 2nd flr, credit check. 215-879-5041
15xx N. 28th St 4BR/2BA $875/mo Recent rehab. 215-519-5437 17xx N 23rd St. 1br $475+utils 1st flr, yard, 1st, last & sec. (267)597.7742 35xx N. 11th St 1Br $460+utils newly remodeled, call (215)917-1091 37xx N. 16th St 1BR $650+elect. also efficiency $500+elect. 267-339-1662 Erie & 19th Efficiency $450 Large, sunny, with private bathroom and kitchen, 1st and last month rent, + security deposit, Please Call 267-407-9926
900 Carber St. 3br/1ba porch and deck. 267-632-4580
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