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ers who find work at the very corporations funding their laboratories, buildings and scholarships.

Such circumstances, the filmmakers say, have created a culture in which cheating and laziness, on both the students’ and teachers’ behalf, is the norm.

And it’s perpetuated by outsourcing.

In recent years, online companies based around writing students’ papers have become extremely industrial. “I work at an online company that generates tens of thousands of dollars a month by creating original essays based on specific instructions provided by cheating students,” pseudonymed-writer Ed Dante said in a piece for Inside Higher Education. “You would be amazed by the incompetence of your students’ writing. I have seen the word “desperate” misspelled every way you can imagine. And these students … couldn’t write a convincing grocery list, yet they are in graduate school.”

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Those expecting fireworks at last week’s City Commissioners’ meeting came away sorely disappointed. All the explosive elements were in place—the hearing room on Delaware Avenue was filled with reporters, and combustible Commission Chair Marge Tartaglione was holding court, smacking on gum and looking fashionable in a patterned scarf. However, the commissioners kept things short, maybe 15 minutes total to iron out a few details about this week’s special election for the late Robert Donatucci’s 185th state representative district seat. Questions from the audience were limited to the election, so no one had a chance to ask anything inflammatory. The crowd lingered around for a few minutes after the abrupt end, as if to ask, “Was that it?”

What did happen on Wednesday, however, during hearings before and after the meeting, provided a look at how the Commission actually functions outside all the controversy swirling around the office. The two commissioners present, Tartaglione and Joseph Duda, listened to testimony about the costs and benefits of moving polling places that create accessibility problems for disabled voters. The hearings offered a glimpse of the tension: On the one hand, the city must ensure that its disabled residents are able to get in and out of polling stations. On the other, moving polling places in cases where nobody has actually complained about accessibility has prompted complaints that the city is spending money unnecessarily and inconveniencing all voters.

Inspections of all the polling places by an independent assessor, which cost the city up to a half-million dollars, were mandated by a 2009 settlement after a lawsuit by disabled groups claimed a lack of access on Election Day. “You could either vote absentee or not vote,” says activist and lawyer for plaintiff Stephen Gold. “Out of 1,600 polling places, only four were accessible,” he says. “Now we’re up to something like six or seven hundred.”

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Scott and LaBree have found a lot of people in academia who are open to discussing the problems with the university system—just not on film. “People we’ve talked to in Philadelphia are terrified [to speak on film],” she says. “I mean, the economy’s terrible and we just can’t afford the job losses. The people in this industry who still have employment are just desperately trying to hang onto it.”

But it’s not stopping the pair from spreading their message. They recently traveled to California to meet with adjunct labor activists and will be headed to a conference in Washington, D.C., this weekend for more interviews with professors.

“Debra’s film and book project and others like it will be invaluable for educating people both within and outside of higher education about the reality of adjunct faculty working conditions and the urgent need for action,” says Maria Maisto, an adjunct faculty member at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland. “I have to believe [the university system] can be saved.

I have kids. I am not going to stand by and watch their educational future continue to be, as Debra has so cleverly and accurately put it, ‘junct.’”

Scott and LaBree are hoping to get Junct into Sundance, Tribeca or another big-name film fest. But, LaBree says, “the important thing is that it be seen period, even if it’s screened at a public library and I have to bring in the projection equipment myself.”

“I have a lot of hope that something’s going to blow up,” Scott says. “We’ve reached a tipping point. We’ve lost knowledge, we’ve lost the ability to transmit knowledge and that’s a huge thing to lose. But what have we gained? That’s been the question I’ve asked everyone I’ve interviewed for Junct so far. What have we gained and who’s the winner? No one seems to be able to answer that.” n

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These days, experience gets you nowhere— fast. Just ask Debra Leigh Scott, who has had her share of career ups and downs over the past 20 years. While working as a part-time adjunct professor of English at several colleges in the Philly area, she found time to publish a book of short stories and provide editing, writing and corporate coaching services to business clients. She’s even written several plays, which eventually were produced. But by the time the market crashed in 2008, her resume wasn’t enough. Scott lost her Bryn Mawr home and moved into an apartment with strangers she found on Craigslist. She lived there for a year while she tried to get back on her feet.

“I was like a lot of people,” she says over coffee in her Headhouse Square neighborhood. “You believe you’re going to find a full-time position for the first 10 years or so. You really think it’s going to happen.

And it’s a horrible day when you finally realize you’re not going to get full-time.”

Which is a reality for many, considering full-time professorships have been on the decline since at least the ’70s. A 2006 American Association of University Professors report found that from 1975 to 2003,

the number of tenured track positions in higher education had fallen from 56.8 percent to 35.1 percent. Today, about 1 million professors nationwide are adjuncts, and can teach up to 11 classes per semester at any number of schools.

Eleven classes may seem like an enormous workload—but at $3,000 per class, how else do you make ends meet?

What’s more, Scott says, the student learning under that overburdened professor may be worse off. “Students are being taught by dedicated but demeaned professors who have no offices, who are hired semester-by-semester for wages lower than those of K-Mart workers,” she says.

“Students have little to no personal access to faculty beyond the classroom. They receive no … face to face meetings, they are forced to resort to email exchange.”

These sentiments led Scott to embark on yet another project, one that would be the culmination of her career doing scrappy freelance academic and writing work. It began with “The Homeless Adjunct,” a blog that chronicled her jobs at various universities—Temple, University of the Arts and Drexel, to name a few—where, as she puts it, we’re all being screwed by “the corporatized university, where the needs of the students and the value of the professors are minimized in the pursuit for a profit, which benefits neither.”

It was the stuff movies are made of. So she and filmmaking partner Chris LaBree set out to make one. The result was Junct: The Trashing of Higher Ed. in America, a documentary about the student-teacheradministration relationship at the American university, which she says relies on contingent workers and outsourcing—just like an American corporation.

In their research, Scott and LaBree said they found evidence of corporations moving in and taking over what’s taught in the classroom. Sharp cuts in state budgets have forced universities to rely more and more on corporate donations, which “come with strings attached,” Scott says. “You’re not going to get corporate donations in the humanities. You’re going to get research subjects from pharmaceutical companies, for instance, making large donations that are tax deductible, to universities, which then guide grad students into conducting research on behalf of the corporation.”

Graduate students can easily become low-paid or unpaid labor on behalf of Big Pharma without knowing it.

Further, Scott says, when they graduate hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt (according to FinAid.org’s student loan debt clock, about $882 billion is owed) they become frightened, obedient work-

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Not everyone is satisfied that the effort is there. The rules are clear—there is a 39 page document on the ADA website with a checklist getting down to the last detail, like the slope of the ramp, to ensure exactly what facilities need to be in place so each polling place can be accessed by disabled voters. But sometimes solutions aren’t as simple as simply running down a checklist, and the rules don’t always correspond to real-world scenarios. For example, ADA compliance mandates that the doors to polling places be propped open, so that people who might not be able to open them under their own power can still enter the building without assistance. In many cases last fall, the election judges sitting in the exposed rooms all day refused to prop the doors because it was simply too cold. Now, for that and other violations, Gold is filing a motion to hold the Commission in contempt, in a hearing that will be held in April.

It wasn’t just the doors that were a problem, according to Gold. According to the memorandum of contempt, out of 197 polling places surveyed by the Department of Justice in the 2010 general election, 129 were found out of compliance, lacking the temporary modifications that had been agreed to. “They didn’t get the ramps up, didn’t put signs up for alternative entrances, didn’t move the main entrances so everyone gets equal access,” Gold says.

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feds won’t OK seven steps.”

To some, the moves would end up making it harder, not easier, for people to vote. Take the case of Parker Pub, which has hosted elections for the last 12 years in the 29th Division of Roxborough’s 21st Ward. The slope of the ramp into the pub is steeper than regulation and has a small lip at the top, so the Commission proposed moving the location to the nearby Salvation Army.

The Salvo, however, two blocks down on Ridge Avenue, is a longer walk for many voters, which could very well be a bigger obstacle than navigating a lip at the top of a ramp. “It’s dangerous for elderly voters who walk,” argued attorney Richard W. Hoy, who is also a Democratic committee person for the division. “They have to cross two streets to get to the new spot.”

The bigger issue, however, is that no one has had problems accessing the Pub. “Nobody’s complained about it!“ Hoy points out later in an interview. “Why move it away when there’s no problem with the building?”

He promised letters from two disabled people supporting the Pub, plus from both ward leaders and the division’s two other committee people. “All the people that work at the board are gonna sign it,” he says. In the end, the Commission didn’t rule on the move, telling him to come back with the letters before they gave a decision.

Hoy’s frustration is in the feeling that the Department of Justice, which enforces ADA rules, is looking for problems where none exist. “It’s the federal government’s overbearing regulations intruding on people’s voting,” he complains. “They’re

putting their fingers in places they don’t need to put fingers in.” In fact, last year the 29th Division went through the same process, and the Commission decided to let the polling place stay at the Pub. Now, they’re at it again.

Parker Pub is one of 1,687 polling places active in Philadelphia for a full election. In neighborhoods without an available public building to hold the voting booths, it’s already difficult in many cases to find willing hosts, businesses who give up a day of commerce, or homeowners who let a crowd of people tromp through their house every day, let alone find places offering perfect access. Nevertheless, any building that blocks entrance to someone in a wheelchair or with another disability is a problem. Ultimately, the city isn’t required to get all 1,687 stations up to code—the lawsuit settlement recognizes it might not be possible in all cases—but must at least

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Years of complaints couldn’t stop a rogue physician from operating in plain sight.

By Tara Murtha Not every story has two sides and the truth.

The case of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia physician charged with murdering babies for decades uninterrupted in a wideopen darkness of institutional failure, offers many lessons and no simple solutions.

A year-long investigation that included interviewing 58 witnesses culminated in a 281-page grand jury report published Jan. 19. The report relentlessly documents not only Gosnell’s crimes, but how he got away with it for so long.

It’s all much worse than can be summarized.

The grand jury believes that at least hundreds of children were killed inside Gosnell’s West Philly medical practice.

They concluded the death toll was “literally incalculable.”

But the District Attorney’s Office can only assemble enough evidence to charge for eight murders. Seven of those victims were babies.

According to the grand jury, “Baby Boy A” was born to a 17-year-old who was almost

30 weeks pregnant. The infant was “breathing and moving when Dr. Gosnell severed his spine and put the body in a plastic shoe box for disposal.” The report includes a graphic photo of the dead baby. In it, his splayed arms and legs hang over the edge of the makeshift coffin.

“Baby Boy B,” at least 28 weeks of gestational age, was found frozen inside a 1-gallon spring-water bottle. “‘Baby C’ moved and breathed for 20 minutes before an assistant came in and cut the spinal cord.”

The jury found that Gosnell’s typical method of killing was to use scissors to cut into the back of a baby’s neck, severing the spinal cord. The report includes a photo of one such baby with a rectangular chunk missing from the back of its neck.

“And these were not even the worst cases,” according to the report.

Gosnell is also charged with killing 41-year-old Karnamaya Mongar, who died during the abortion. Little is known about the mother of three except that she and her

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husband fled her native Bhutan and spent nearly 20 years in camps in Nepal before arriving in America about four months before she was killed by an overdose of Demerol and other drugs in November 2009.

As the report states, Mongar wasn’t the first woman killed inside Gosnell’s practice and, except for the accidental discovery of the abortion mill by the DEA agents looking for proof of Gosnell’s sideline prescriptiondrug-trafficking operation, she surely would not have been the last.

The Raid

On the evening of Feb. 18, 2010, the FBI, Philadelphia’s D.A.’s Office, the federal Drug Enforcement Agency and the Philadelphia Police Department raided the Women’s Medical Society at 3801 Lancaster Ave. Representatives from the Pennsylvania Department of Health and Pennsylvania Department of State were invited to tag along by DEA Agent Stephen Dougherty after a colleague expressed concern over the

strange circumstances of Mongar’s death.

The team raided the clinic after Gosnell arrived around 8:30 p.m.

According to the report, “semi-conscious women scheduled for abortions were moaning in the waiting room or the recovery room, where they sat on dirty recliners covered with blood-stained blankets.” Blood was splattered all over the dirty floor. It stank of urine, cat feces and the fetid turtle tank kept in the waiting room.

The only functioning medical equipment was a single pressure cuff. The emergency exit was padlocked shut.

Embryos, fetuses and, as the medical examiner would determine after autopsies, corpses of viable babies were stashed “haphazardly” in milk jugs, spring water bottles and cat food containers; more were bundled in red and yellow plastic bags stacked high on the dirt-floor basement and packed into the freezer. It’s been widely reported that Gosnell kept a collection of small jars containing the severed feet of fetuses.

“All in all,” the report states, “the remains of 45 fetuses were recovered at the clinic that evening.”

Inside the freezer, investigators found the fully intact 19-week fetus “delivered” by Mongar the night of her death three months earlier.

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Many people had gotten a glimpse into Gosnell’s grisly operation. But multi-level, panoramic, institutional negligence, a culture of passing the buck and flagrant disregard for patient’s welfare prevented any meaningful investigation.

“Most appalling of all,” states the grand jury report, “the Department of Health’s neglect of abortion patients’ safety and of Pennsylvania laws is clearly not inadvertent: It is by design.”

After 1993, “the Pennsylvania Department of Health abruptly decided, for political reasons, to stop inspecting abortion clinics at all … With the change of administration from Governor [Bob] Casey to Governor Ridge, officials concluded that inspections would be ‘putting a barrier up to women’ seeking abortions,” the report says.

That fatal decision was enacted by Gov. Tom Ridge, a pro-choice Republican, in response to the legacy inherited by Gov. Casey, a pro-life Democrat who passed landmark legislation in Pennsylvania that enabled states to restrict women’s access to abortion.

Not only did inspections systematically stop in 1993, red flags were ignored. They include a former employee’s complaint that “laid out the whole scope of [Gosnell’s] operation,” and a malpractice lawsuit over the death of 22-year-old Semika Shaw, a mother of two children who died of sepsis at University of Pennsylvania hospital after Gosnell punctured her uterus.

The lawsuit was settled for almost a million dollars.

Local negligence added additional layers to the complex matrix of oversight failure.

For example, “Penn could not find a single

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His butcher shop of an abortion factory and prescription-pill mill were operated in the unbridled pursuit of profit. He made little pretense to care for patients. When not fatally neglecting women and killing babies, he regularly hit them and forced abortions on underage girls at their guardians’ request.

The depths of inhumanity that can reside behind a gentle face is one facet of this story. That racism and sexism—both of his own and the institutions that failed to respond to complaints—enabled the atrocity is another.

“Bureaucratic inertia is not exactly news. We understand that,” states the report. “But we think this was something more. We think the reason no one acted is because the women in question were poor and of color because the victims were infants without identities, and because the subject was the political football of abortion.”

Which brings us to the facet with a flashpoint so bright it threatens to blind us from all the other lessons: the politics of abortion.

Indeed, immediately on release of the grand jury report—before it was even humanly possible to have read it in its entirety—competing interpretations of the case began to emerge. For the most part, views split over political fault lines.

The legislative legacy of this case can go one of two ways: it can expedite legislation either restricting or promoting access to abortion.

“The timing could not be worse,” says Susan Schewel, executive director of the Women’s Medical Fund, a local nonprofit that grants financial assistance to poor women seeking abortions. “It’s a horrible situation anyway, but with the results of the mid-term elections and all these legislators around the country and especially in

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Pennsylvania now starting their work, [the Gosnell case] provides them with fodder if they choose to interpret it toward their ends.”

“What we feared as soon as we heard about the horrifying details of what went on in Gosnell’s clinic, we were concerned right away that those opposed to abortion would take this really isolated case and use it as an opportunity to make a case that this is what all abortion providers are like and how ‘unsafe’ it is,” echoes Dayle Steinberg, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Southeastern Pennsylvania. “We’ve heard that bills are going to be introduced specifically to further restrict as a result of Gosnell.”

They are correct.

“In the wake of Gosnell situation, we’re talking with some allies and legislators about the Abortion Patients’ Enhanced Safety Act,” Daniel McConchie, vice president of government affairs for Americans United for Life.

AUL states that one of the promises of legalized abortion was that “unskilled and incompetent ‘butchers’ would no longer perform abortions.”

The paper states, “Has more than 30 years of legalized abortion eliminated these problems? Sadly, it has not. Instead, abortion clinics across the country have become the true ‘back alleys’ of abortion mythology.”

The article states, “There is abundant evidence to support the contention that abortion clinics are the true “back alleys” that abortion advocates warned us about.”

The Gosnell case was a Hail Mary pass for pro-life advocates. Gosnell’s name is already tethered to the policy paper explaining the proposed legislation on AUL’s website. Indeed, the grand jury report explicitly recommends this policy.

The policy paper states that APESA’s goal is to raise the standard of basic abortion clinic regulation standards and requires that the center function as ambulatory surgical centers.

But critics charge that legislation like APESA is designed to restrict access to abortion by unnecessarily driving up costs, as a sort of covert arm of anti-abortion advocates’ overall defunding strategy—which critics charge is partly what drives women to resort to places like Women’s Medical Society.

“There were already regulations against Gosnell, it’s not like he was operating within the limits,” argues Tracy Weitz, assistant professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco.

“You don’t need more regulations for people operating outside the bounds. It’s a horrendous situation and we are all taking different lessons from the story, but the lesson none of us should take is more regulation, because he was already outside the regulations.”

“We have almost 40 years of data to suggest abortion is a remarkably safe clinical procedure,” she says. “[APESA] is really designed to restrict access.”

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Amidst the filth and chaos, the clinic ran a predictable program: Every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday morning around 10 a.m., a motley, cult-like group of unqualified employees—including Gosnell’s 49-year-old wife, Pearl, failed wannabe doctors and a high school student—opened up shop. Gosnell spent his days swimming, jogging or relaxing at home and only came to work at night and Sunday afternoons.

During the week, according to the grand jury, “Gosnell routinely aborted and killed babies in the sixth and seventh month of pregnancy.” On Sundays, Gosnell and his wife (charged with performing illegal abortions and conspiracy, among other crimes) performed the most blatantly illegal third-

Once delivered, he would cut the spinal cord, then crush the skulls.

Upstairs, there was one clean room with a television. Tina Baldwin is a 45-yearold who worked at the clinic testified that the separate room was reserved for white women only.

“The … black population was … big here.

So he didn’t mind you medicating your African-American girls, your Indian girl, but if you had a white girl from the suburbs, oh, you better not medicate her. You better wait until he go in and talk to her first.”

Baldwin is facing charges of racketeering, conspiracy, and corruption of a minor for allowing her teenage daughter to also work at the clinic.

Targeting the poorest women, women of color and immigrants like Mongar who didn’t speak English and could not read the papers they signed, was lucrative for Gosnell. When the grand jury searched the doctor’s home, they found $240,000 in cash—and a gun—in a closet of his 12-yearold daughter’s room.

The cash is a pittance compared to the millions of dollars generated over decades.

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trimester abortions. “The Sunday babies must have been bigger still,” the report says.

“We may never know the details of these cases.”

Before leaving for a job in telemarketing, Steven Massof masqueraded as a doctor at Gosnell’s clinic for five years. An online resume claims he attended medical school in Grenada, but he was not licensed and was paid in cash. He testified that approximately 40 percent of abortions performed at the clinic were on fetuses beyond 24 weeks and that he personally severed the spinal cords of about a hundred babies. Massof, 48, is charged with murder, theft by deception, conspiracy and drug violations.

The report describes daily operating procedure: As patients seeking abortions arrived, whoever was manning the front desk fed them unregulated quantities and mixtures of drugs. The chemical cocktails were designed to simultaneously induce labor and sedate the women. In many cases, the women were pumped so full of drugs they were out cold, or as D.A. Seth Williams explained on a recent episode of NPR’s Radio Times, “like zombies.” He added: “[Patients] did not know inducing the labor and severing the spinal cords of live babies was going to happen.”

The report stated that “All afternoon and evening, as patients woke and complained of pain, workers would continue to medicate them with injections of sedatives. Between doses, the staff would leave the patients largely unattended. This would go on until the doctor arrived, some six or more hours after the patient did, or until the woman delivered.”

Sometimes, depending on how far along the woman was in her pregnancy, the “procedure” would last as long as three days.

“If … a baby was about to come out, I would take the woman to the bathroom, they would sit on the toilet and basically the baby would fall out and it would be in the toilet,” testified Latosha Lewis, who worked for Gosnell for more than eight years. “I would be rubbing her back and trying to calm her down for two, three, four hours until Dr. Gosnell comes. She would not move.”

The latter happened so often that James Johnson, the clinic’s janitor—and commonlaw husband of 51-year-old Elizabeth Hampton, who is herself Gosnell’s wife’s sister—refused to pull any more flesh out of the plumbing.

Hampton, 51, faces charges of hindering prosecution, perjury, false swearing, and obstructing administration of law. “[Johnson] described how he had to lift the toilet so that someone else—he said it was too disgusting for him—could get the fetuses out of the pipes.”

If the fetus or babies hadn’t “fallen out” (or “precipitated” in the euphemistic language employed by the staff) by the time Gosnell arrived, staff would push and shove on the women’s abdomen.

“By maximizing the pain and danger for his patients, [Gosnell] minimized the work, and cost, for himself and his staff,” states the report. “The policy, in effect, was labor without labor.”

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case in which it complied with its legal duty to alert authorities” in cases where emergency room physicians had to treat ramifications of Gosnell’s botched procedures, as required under the Abortion Control Act. As a private physician treating teenage girls in West Philadelphia, Dr. Donald Schwarz—currently Philadelphia’s health commissioner—noticed a pattern of his patients becoming infected with trichomoasis, a sexually transmitted parasite, after appointments at Gosnell’s clinic. Schwarz testified to the grand jury that about six years ago, he “hand-delivered” a complaint about Gosnell’s clinic to the Pennsylvania Department of Health.

Yet in his two years as the city’s health commissioner, he did not check into Gosnell’s practice. In addition to his personal knowledge of problems, the Philadelphia Department of Health was aware that Gosnell never submitted a infectious medical waste removal plan—the reason fetuses and body parts littered on the premises.

Schwarz testified that medical waste regulations were established with the sole goal of making money for the city. “The department was told, apparently, to collect the money, make sure the plan came in, get the fee, and not enforce, that is don’t take action against people … This is a revenuegenerating activity.”

The hand-delivered complaint did not exist among the records subpoenaed by the grand jury.

Though the report documents up-thechain failures, the aerial-view conclusion regarding oversight is that even if all the proper protocols were followed and complaints filed, the state Department of Health would have continued ignoring warning signs, no matter what.

“If Dr. Schwarz’s complaint did not trigger an inspection, we are convinced that none would,” the jury stated.

“Pennsylvania is not a third-world country,” asserts the report. “There were several oversight agencies that … should have shut down Kermit Gosnell long ago. But none of them did.”

And so, with the eyes of the state averted, Gosnell and his staff—the clinic was run by a tight-knit group of relatives and friends— were able to get away with regularly scheduled murders.

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RED FLAGS December 20, 1979: Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH) grants first approval for the Women’s Medical Society to provide abortions.

December 20, 1980: Approval expires.

August, 1989: Next documented site review. Site reviewers recommend approval despite shoddy record-keeping and lack of nursing staff, among other violations.

March, 1992: Next inspection. “There is nothing to suggest that these evaluators reviewed any patient files.”

Nevertheless, evaluators Janice Staloski and Sara Telencio “inexplicably concluded that there were no deficiencies,” and DOH approved Gosnell’s clinic to continue to perform abortions.

April 8, 1993: Gosnell’s clinic inspected by DOH evaluators Susan Mitchell and Georgette Freed-Wolf. “Instead of making their own inspection, the evaluators appeared to have relied on representations by staff about procedures for cleaning and checking equipment.” It is the last inspection of Gosnell’s clinic—or any clinic in the state of Pennsylvania—conducted by DOH until after the raid.

July 23, 1993: Susan Mitchell recorded that the deficiencies had been corrected despite no follow-up.

1996: An attorney informs state Home Health Division that “his client had suffered a perforated uterus, requiring a radical hysterectomy, as a result of Gosnell’s negligence.”

1996–1997: Dr. Don Schwarz, then a private practice physician (and Philadelphia’s current health commissioner), hand delivers a complaint to the DOH after noticing his patients contracting a sexually transmitted parasite after referring them to Gosnell’s practice.

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March, 2000: 22-year-old Semika Shaw dies at University of Pennsylvania after being treated by Gosnell. It is the only instance where the hospital filed reports of abortion complications and maternal deaths, as required by law.

They did not report halting an abortion of a 29-week pregnancy, a woman arriving unconscious with fetal remains inside her, or the death of Mongar.

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December, 2001: Former Gosnell employee Marcella Stanley Choung filed a complaint with the Department of State outlining his entire operation, including the pill mill.

Despite a follow-up interview March 4, 2002, that included Choung’s testimony that Gosnell performed abortions on “underage children” against their will and that unlicensed employees were administering anesthesia, “No one asked to see the facility or the files.”

2003: Philadelphia Health Department’s Environmental Engineering Section failed to follow through on complaint about aborted fetuses stored in the employee refrigerator.

April 29, 2004: A State Board of Medicine attorney recommends closing the case on Choung’s allegations.

May 7, 2004: City health department inspector checks clinic based on awareness that Gosnell has no medical waste plan for biohazard disposal as required by the city.

2004–2005: The department stopped trying to enforce the regulation against those who had not complied.

August 2, 2005: Attorney William Newport of Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs is notified that Gosnell is not carrying liability insurance. He was not insured at all between July 15, 2004, and April 18, 2005.

September, 2005: An attorney for a victim called “Alice” sent a copy of malpractice suit to the DOS that alleged that during a procedure, she convulsed, fell off the table and struck her head. Gosnell was not insured at the time of procedure.

March 4, 2006: Board of Medicine attorney David Grubb recommends closing the “Alice” case without investigation or prosecution. His supervisor agrees.

November 11, 2006: Victim Dana Hayes alleges that Gosnell botched an abortion and recklessly tore her cervix, uterus and bowel. He locked her family members out for four hours and refused to call an ambulance as she bled out.

She filed a civil malpractice suit. “No one [at DOS] thought Ms. Hayes’ complaint was worth investigating.”

2007: Dr. Frederick Hellman, the Medical Examiner for Delaware County, reported to DOH the “stillbirth” of a 30-week-old baby girl after being chemically induced by Gosnell.

July, 2008: City of Philadelphia nurse Lori Matijkiw conducts vaccine inspection, notices everything else, including expired chicken pox vaccines stored in an ice tray above the containers of bloody fetuses. She reports the “multitude of deficiencies” to Philadelphia DOH. They suspend Gosnell from the vaccine program but take “no further action.”

August, 2008: Employee of Philadelphia Department of Health alerted her bosses for the second time “that things were seriously wrong” at Gosnell’s clinic.

October 7, 2009: Matijkiw returns to clinic and files another “scathing” report.

November 24, 2009: Gosnell faxes DOH notification that Karnamaya Mongar had died following an abortion at his clinic. Janice Staloski, Director of the Bureau of Community Program Licensure and Certification, claims investigating her death is beyond purview of DOH. February 18, 2010: The DEA raids Gosnell’s clinic for drug trafficking.

Weitz says that in order to reach the status of ambulatory surgical center, facilities providing abortions need expensive upgrades such as construction, additional staff to maintain higher nurse-to-patient ratios, and a host of medications that clinics don’t really need if they’re not performing any medical procedures other than abortions.

Weitz co-wrote a study that analyzed the effect of similar legislation in other states.

“Ambulatory surgical center requirements significantly increase abortion costs and reduce the availability of abortion services despite the lack of any evidence that using those facilities positively affects health outcomes,” states the 2009 report.

“For pregnant women, the corresponding effect … has been to hinder (and possibly preclude) timely access to safe and legal abortion services,” states the report, which also notes that ASC regulations go “far beyond” guidelines for abortion issued by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and National Abortion Federation.

“When you restrict abortions you certainly have some women who can not obtain the abortion, but most common is that the abortions are delayed,” Weitz says. “So you take what is a relatively uncomplicated early abortion and make it a later abortion … We force this these women into these later circumstances and then blame them.

Most of the data speaks to what is the most common outcome of these restrictions, which is delays.”

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The day before the grand jury report on Gosnell was published, Gov. Tom Corbett, endorsed by Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation and LifePAC of Southwestern PA on previous campaigns, put his hand on William Penn’s bible and was sworn in as governor.

A week later, Jan. 25, the Pennsylvania Senate Banking and Insurance Committee approved Senate Bill 3. If signed into law, the bill will restrict private insurance companies planning to participate in the 2014 state healthcare exchanges from covering abortion. Since many women currently un- or underinsured or working at smaller companies will obtain health insurance coverage through the exchanges, this law will translate into less access to abortion services for women, and disproportionately affect poor women.

Pennsylvania was ground zero for the abortion debate before the Gosnell case and will continue to be as much in its aftermath. Whatever the specifics of the legislation that will be passed in the near future, what’s clear is that the trend will be to restrict access, not protect it.

It’s also clear from the data that more restrictions will result in both delayed abortions and women forced to carry to term simply because they can’t afford it.

The real fault lines in the abortion debate don’t lie between pro-lifers and pro-choicers anymore. It lies between rhetoric and reality. Gosnell operated in the wide-open darkness that lies between. n

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AFA has another installment of its After Dark programming coming up, where visitors can tramp around the museum a la The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (although bathing in fountains and stealing the change at the bottom is generally discouraged). You can browse the galleries after hours and check out the restored Gross Clinic at the Anatomy/Academy exhibit, based on Philly’s confluence of science and art, with the addition of cocktails, food, performance and artmaking. Reload features the fabulous drag cabaret of Martha Graham Cracker and her band, plus art collective Space 1026 with an onsite art project about zines—you can check out their curated selection of local ones, or make your own. The After Dark series is always a good place to meet new and interesting people; if you’re getting winter cabin fever, this is a good a way as any to get out and have some interesting conversation. eMily guendelsberger

Thurs., Feb. 3. 6pm. $10-$15. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 118 N. Broad St. 215.972.7600. pafa.org

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Ozomatli Ozomatli’s vibrant tongue-tickling paella traverses the musical landscape with more carefree abandon than Beck, sampling liberally from Latin, funk, soul, jazz, rock, hip-hop and anything else they can find.

Their brisk rhythms target the booty, while exhorting brass beguiles the hips, coalescing around shoulder shimmying grooves.

The vibe’s so hot live the ceiling rains sweat.

The Los Angelenos’ diverse tastes ensure an intriguing mélange, though each of their five albums has its own flavor. After enlisting producer KC Porter (Ricky Martin, Boyz II Men) for 2007’s overtly dance-pop Don’t Mess With the Dragon, they return to their roots with perhaps their finest album, Fire Away, touching on almost everything in their repertoire. Chris Parker 8pm. $28-$38. With Psychedelphia. World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St. 215.222.1400. worldcafelive.com

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Exploring the emotional aftermath of a fatal accident, the Flashpoint Theatre Company’s production of Adam Rapp’s Nocturne opens in previews tonight with the show starting proper on Friday. A man who inadvertently killed his sister when he was a teenager is the voice of this one-man show, weaving his family’s grief through his own as he tells the story of their disintegration. Rapp has frequently been praised for the lyrical beauty of his writing, and Nocturne’s combination of language and subject matter powerfully expresses the characters’ experience.

Flashpoint has been presenting interesting and evocative plays in Philadelphia since it was founded in 2003, and Nocturne is no exception: Directed by Flashpoint veteran Meghann Williams and starring Kevin Meehan, it will take you deep into the family’s sorrow but bring you back to your seats in the end a little more hopeful, a little less blue. kerin hayes Through Feb. 26. 8pm. $15-$25; $5-$10 for previews. The Adrienne, 2030 Sansom St. 215.665.9720. flashpointtheatre.org

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Deep in the over-greased cogs of the indie rock-band-naming machine, Philly’s Bells Bells Bells might be dead ringers for one of

those trendy synthesized smooth-jazz bands (lookin’ at you, Destroyer), but in reality they’re electro-Celtic sound bleeds closer to Ren Faire than any of Generation Y’s excessive digital irony. Surprise! Lead singer Amandah Romick’s earnest, opera-style vox rise out above the spooky compositions like steam hissing out of a subway grate: It’s pretty and pure but hints at the screeching trains, pick-pockets and night-shadows rumbling below. Romick says the band is eager to present “expanded versions” of tracks off 2009’s A Ghost Could Live Here, so hopefully more of the songs will get the “Little Hours” treatment, an epic six-and-a-half minute emergency evacuation from the stress and anxiety of modern living. Tara MurTha 8pm. $5. With Acres of Diamonds + the Orchid. Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St. 215.291.4919. kungfunecktie.com

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Lemmy Lemmy Kilmister has the best name in rock history, so it’s only fitting that this new feature-length documentary about the iconic, badass Motörhead frontman has one of the best titles in cinema history: Lemmy: 49% Motherfucker, 51% Son of a Bitch. The filmmakers—who followed their subject around for three years and got testimonials from the likes of Dave Grohl, Ozzy, Slash, Jarvis Cocker (!) and numerous others— make it abundantly clear that Lemmy is also 100 percent awesome. The guy roadied for Jimi Hendrix, played in the pioneering ’70s space-rock band Hawkwind, and wrote the greatest rock song of all time (“Ace of Spades,” duh). Plus, he still drinks a bottle of Jack Daniels a day and smokes more than a chimney and is still going strong at 65. Maybe it’s because he’s reportedly bedded more women than Ron Jeremy. When Lemmy glares at you with that perma-scowl, abetted by that mustache and the most famous moles this side of Aldrich Ames, it seems like he’d rip your head off and shit down your neck for putting the umlaut over the wrong ‘o’ in Motörhead. But we have it on pretty good authority that he’s just a big pussycat. He’s pretty hilarious, too. Just wait till you hear the frog joke. MiChael alan goldberg 8pm. $8. Trocadero, 1003 Arch St. 215.922.6888. thetroc.com

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Tattoo Arts Convention Perhaps you’re thinking of getting inked up for the very first time, but you’re intimidated by the idea of walking into your local “scary” tattoo parlor, even though many of them actually resemble a doctor’s office. Or maybe you’re hardly a tattoo virgin, but you just can’t get inspired to get your skinwork

done in such a sterile, boring environment.

Either way, your best bet might be to swing by the welcoming, circuslike atmosphere of this weekend’s 2011 Philadelphia Tattoo Arts Convention. Not only will 200 of the best local and national tattoo artists (including Chris Nuñez of TLC’s Miami Ink) be on hand to decorate your skin in whatever ways you please, there’ll be musical acts like longrunning punks Murphy’s Law (on Saturday) and sideshow performers doing disgusting things to their bodies, skin-hook suspension demonstrations, bikini bull-riding, burlesque shows and the always popular slip ’n’ slide bowling. M.a.g.

Through Feb. 6. $20 per day, $40 for the weekend. 2pm. Sheraton City Center, 201 N. 17th St. 215.448.2000. villainarts.com

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Pittsburgh mash-up king Gregg Gillis—he soundtracked a veritable riot at the Starlight Ballroom. As soon as he ran out and took his spot behind a large table that held his laptop and several monitors, the packed crowd rushed the stage like they were storming the ramparts (the norm at every Girl Talk show). Soon, Gillis was swallowed up in a neon sea of dancing bodies, glow sticks, toilet paper and confetti as his highly recognizable, highly illegal samples morphed into new, exhilarating sonic shapes. At one point, the entire table tumbled off the stage and onto the swirl of people below, but no one seemed to care. If Electric Factory allows similar Girl Talk shenanigans tonight, we’re talking one of the most epic parties/riots of the year. M.a.g.

8:30pm. Sold out. With Penguin Prison. Electric Factory, 421 N. 7th St. electricfactory.info

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Bhangra Dance Party Missy Elliott was definitely on to something when she added these hot bhangra beats to “Get Ur Freak On” a decade ago—the insistent, impossible-to-hold-still rhythms of American hip-hop and what started as a Punjabi folk dance tradition go together like peanut butter and jelly. So get ready to get your bounce on—DJ Rekha is back with the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Bhangra Dance Party after a three-year hiatus, during which she dropped her first album, Basement Bhangra. She’ll be spinning beats with origins in the northern Indian region of Punjab all night long, merging traditional music with hip-hop beats along the lines of Punjabi MC and Britain’s Swami. There’s also a tour of the Indian art collection, if you need a break, and thanks to his newish catering deal with the PMA, Stephen Starr will be providing India-themed food and drinks. Trishula PaTel 5pm. Free with admission. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2600 Ben Franklin Pkwy.

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For the past year, West Philly’s premiere yoga and healing arts space Studio 34 has been playing host to lo-fi music sessions that, in the chilly months, means cozily lounging about on oversize floor cushions while sipping complementary hot teas and ciders. To celebrate the one-year anniversary of the Sweet Sound of Music series, the studio’s hosting a grab-bag of dudes that each bring a distinct vibe to the table.

Ross Bellenoit has long been Philly’s sideman axe extraordinaire (earning him the rarified distinction of being included in PW’s Session Players cover story) who’s finally making his own mark at the mike with just-released debut Eight Track Mind.

Johnny Miles cruises the blacktop between rock ’n’ roll with graceful workingman’s swagger—keep andeye out for his forthcoming record produced by Bellenoit—while Small Houses, AKA Jeremy Quentin, on loan from Michigan, delivers jaunty bright finger-picking and literate-lumberjack vox that recall the wintry ache of Tallest Man on Earth, all chilly porches and kerosene lanterns. T.M. 7:30pm. $10. Studio 34, 4522 Baltimore Ave. 215.387.3434. studio34yoga.com

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8pm. $10. With Federation X, Pujol. The Ox, 1652 N. Second St. myspace.com/theoxphiladelphia

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Philadelphia: The Great Experiment If you find Philly history as compulsively interesting as we do, check out Philadelphia: The Great Experiment. The first installment of a projected seven-hour miniseries, the doc’s got both the neat and the nasty, especially when it comes to the city’s turbulent (to say the least) past when it comes to race relations—for example, lots of stuff about the Quaker movement’s protests against slavery in an era when that was distinctly untrendy, and the corresponding time when firemen let a mob burn down the HQ of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society. The doc is by Sam Katz, who’s been in the thankless role of Republican candidate for mayor of Philadelphia three times (although he’s a Democrat now), which should give you some idea of the guy’s stick-to-it nature and love of city. If you actually want to come across as knowledgeable about Philly, you gotta take your curiousity further than “Uh, Ben Franklin.” So go learn something. E.G. 6pm. $5. Center for Architecture, 1218 Arch St. 215.569.3186. philadelphiacfa.org

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Revolution Girl Style Again The topic for this roundtable discussion at Kelly Writers House is the past, present and future of the Riot Grrrl movement. Emerging from underneath the larger punk umbrella in the early 1990s, riot-grrrl culture was grounded on the inseparability of empowerment, music and political action. Leading this all-star discussion is Sara Marcus, whose recent book Girls To The Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution provides a definitive account of an under-discussed and often misrepresented history. Joining her are Kathleen Hanna, leading figure and member of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre, Katy Otto, founder of Exotic Fever Records and drummer for Philadelphia’s Trophy Wife and Beth Warshaw-Duncan, the executive director of Girls Rock Philly. The Arts Café is presently booked beyond capacity, but the event is live streaming at the nearby Rotunda (4014 Walnut St.), where a concert

by Trophy Wife, Cat Vet and Whore Paint will follow the discussion. EllioTT shArp 6pm. Free. Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk. 215.746.7636. writing.upenn.edu

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red Siegel loves magic. Not so much the white tigers and ABC Family specials kind—his lifetime love of sleight-of-hand and trickery comes from much more lo-fi roots, along the boardwalks and in sideshow tents. He started doing magic after an Atlantic City pier sideshow in the summer of ’69, where a young Siegel got the crap scared out of him by the old beautiful-girl-changesinto-fearsome-gorilla standby.

After years of shuffling cards (and writing his doctoral dissertation on the role of magic in American vaudeville), Siegel got a summer gig doing magic at the Coney Island Sideshow, which he calls “lying for money.” His one-man show, a two-off reprise of performances from the past Fringe festival, is part memoir of his life and times as a magician, part magic show and part dream sequence, performed at the distinctly appropriate venue of Isaiah Zagar’s mosaic-covered Magic Gardens. E.G. Sat., Feb. 5. and Sun., Feb. 6. 8pm. $5-$8. Magic Gardens, 1020 South St. 215.733.0390. phillymagicgardens.org

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9pm. $8. The Fire, 412 W. Girard Ave. 267.671.9298. iourecords.com

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Spastic jazz-punks PAK couldn’t hail from anywhere other than Brooklyn, though the scratchy guitar does at times recall Greg Ginn’s Gone. They employ jazz-skronk, Zappa-esque eccentricity and slashing guitar atonality while wavering between math rock churn and noisy no wave bristle.

They’re less confrontational sonically than their free-form jazz/avant-noise antecedents, utilizing more knotty structure, repetition and even snatches of melody.

The vocals—what there is of them—are comprised of yelps, screeches and curt, high-pitched declamations. Their forthcoming third album, Secret Curve, the first since leader Ron Anderson (Molecules) forsook the guitar and culled the lineup down to a duo, is fashioned with keyboards, strings, horns, and ecectronics, but no sixstring. C.p.

8pm. $5. With Inzinzac, Ugh, God + Multitudes.

Kung Fu Necktie, 1248 N. Front St. 215.291.4919. kungfunecktie.com

that second-coming-of-Doug Henning vibe he was rockin’ when the Israeli trio first came to the U.S. five years ago and established itself as THE must-see live band. Sure, their roaring, scuzzy garage-rock grooves rule. But most everyone goes to a Monotonix show to catch Shalev and company’s legendary mayhem, which typically includes (playfully) tormenting fans, setting things on fire, dumping garbage on one another, climbing things they probably shouldn’t, and eventually taking the show out onto the street. Hopefully Shalev’s brilliant madman routine won’t put him afoul of any North Philly cops. M.A.G.

cians slipping under the covers with other musicians. Hearing how tribute-friendly Philadelphia has become, visiting musician Jeremy Quentin (who’s playing his own tunes this week at Studio 34) requested a tribute night of his own, choosing both Lou Reed and Leonard Cohen to honor. He’s invited 10 of his local friends to help. The maudlin ones will take on Lou Reed, the more maudlin will take on Leonard Cohen. Some teasers: Local pop-folk statesmen Chris Kasper will be performing “Tonight Will Be Fine” and “Famous Blue Raincoat”; Ron Gallo of Toy Soldiers will interpret “Dance Me to the End of Love,” and bassist Phil D’Agostino will cover “Candy Says.” Additional performers include Brand Hinton, Hezekiah Jones, Matt Helm and Louis Elliot. T.M.

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Pa.’s gay-marriage debate heats up in 2011.

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Going to the chapel: West Philly residents Amanda Kole (left) and Rachel Turanski documented their cross-country trip down the isle.

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Sitting at the dinner table in her West Philly rowhome, 29-year-old Amanda Kole glances over at her partner of two years, 26-year-old Rachel Turanski, and smiles.

“I never thought we’d be people who were political or controversial. We just wanted to exercise our rights, and we had to go to Iowa to do it.”

Despite their hesitancy to become poster girls for LGBT activism, Kole and Turanski are preparing to thrust themselves into the heated debate over same-sex marriage in Pennsylvania as the subjects of the forthcoming documentary Married in Spandex.

The 30-minute film, due in the spring, follows the couple’s road trip last June from Philadelphia to Iowa—one of five U.S. states, plus the District of Columbia, where gay marriage is legal. They were wed (in spandex outfits) by gold-lamé-clad lady rapper and marriage officiant Leslie Hall in an over-the-top ceremony that featured a performance from flamboyant Philly dance troupe Club Lyfestile.

Why travel 1,100 miles to get married, only to return to a state that doesn’t recognize their status? “Because we could, and it was a celebration of our love, and it was a crazy fun party,” Turanski says. And, notes Kole, if gay marriage is ever legalized in Pennsylvania, “the tax breaks and full domestic partner benefits are pretty nice.”

Kole, a librarian, and Turanski, an educator, explain that they didn’t initially

set out to make a documentary. The footage was meant to be a wedding video, shot as a present by Kole’s sister Allison and her sister’s boyfriend, independent filmmaker Devin Gallagher, who piled into a van with the couple, their dog Darla and a few other friends for the 18-hour journey to Ames.

Soon after the nuptials, however, they realized they had captured not only a colorful cast of characters but something more poignant and significant: The experience of several members of Kole’s family—conservative, religious people who have traditionally opposed same-sex marriage—who traveled to the wedding in spite of their misgivings.

“They ended up supporting us even though they were in an environment that they weren’t used to and in no way could be prepared for,” Kole says. “But they embraced it … and they’ve accepted Rachel into the family.”

The couple says the idea behind Married in Spandex is to appeal to viewers’ sense of compassion and humor, rather than bash them over the head with their convictions.

“We’re not Michael Moore-ing it up,” Turanski laughs. “Fighting fire with fire doesn’t do anything but make people more angry. Ideally, people will watch this and think, ‘They love each other, they’re stable, they have great jobs, they’re hilarious, they’re putting good into the world—why not just let them get married and have it be

legal in Pennsylvania?’”

But that’s a pretty tough sell to Pennsylvania’s strident gay marriage foes gearing up for battle this year. On Feb. 11 and 12, the Pennsylvania Family Institute is hosting a conference called The Art of Marriage—a six-session video event created by the Arkansas-based ministry FamilyLife— at churches in Reading and Harrisburg.

While touted as a means for couples to build “godly marriages” through advice from more than a dozen prominent evangelical leaders (including pastor Paul David Tripp of Philadelphia’s Paul Tripp Ministries), many LGBT advocates believe that the videos—the specific contents of which are being kept tightly under wraps until their Feb. 11 premiere—are a thinly veiled effort to uphold the “one man-one woman” definition of marriage and drum up local support for what they view as the anti-gay agenda of groups like PFI. (The Art of Marriage conference made national headlines last month when word that a Pennsylvania Chick-fil-A was donating food to the event led numerous gay-rights groups to call for a boycott of the fast-food chain.)

Critics of PFI point to president Michael Geer’s public statements calling same-sex marriage “not moral” and a “tragedy,” as well as his group’s call for a “marriage protection” amendment to Pennsylvania’s Constitution—similar to California’s controversial Proposition 8—that would ban same-sex marriage. And there’s the essay co-written by FamilyLife president Dennis Rainey titled “Gay Marriages … What’s the Big Deal?” in which Rainey (who also appears in The Art of Marriage videos) concludes that America faces a future of severe social ills “if we allow gay marriage to further undermine and redefine an institution God created.”

Geer did not respond to several phone calls and emails seeking comment. But when asked if The Art of Marriage contains any anti-same-sex marriage content, Joy Roark, FamilyLife’s marketing communications director, said: “The event looks at what the Bible teaches about marriage.

There’s nothing in The Art of Marriage that specifically addresses any challenges faced by gay couples. There may be things that people disagree with … but they’re welcome to attend anyway.”

Many signs seem to indicate momentum is on the side of Pennsylvania’s same-sex proponents: The December repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell”; the growing likelihood that New York and Maryland will legalize same-sex marriage this year; and a recent Pew Research Center poll that found that fewer than half of all Americans oppose gay marriage. But Ted Martin, executive director of the LGBT rights organization Equality Pennsylvania, believes his group will struggle in 2011 to hold ground against the intense anti-gay marriage lobbying efforts from PFI and other wellfunded groups, whose cause was certainly

helped by the conservative Republican sweep of Pennsylvania’s General Assembly last November. That may have emboldened State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, (R-Butler County), who plans to introduce a marriage protection bill sometime this year— even if three similar efforts over the past four years failed.

Though Martin says he’ll continue the fight to legalize same-sex marriage, he believes it’s a moot point if LGBT citizens are not first protected by nondiscrimination legislation. “If suddenly I could get married in Pennsylvania and I could marry my partner on Saturday, Saturday night I could get denied a hotel room for my honeymoon.

And then Tuesday I could get fired when the marriage announcement comes out in the newspaper. And by Thursday I’m living in a refrigerator box under a bridge. But I’m married.”

Indeed, the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act (PHRA) prohibits discrimination based on “race, color, religious creed, ancestry, age or national origin,” but not sexual orientation or gender identity. Efforts by some state lawmakers to amend the act over the past decade have failed. “In roughly 85 percent of the state, people can still be fired for being openly gay,” Martin says. “Philadelphia affords a more protected life for LGBT folk, but you don’t have to go very far outside the city for it to be a completely different situation.”

Stephen Glassman, chairperson of the Pennsylvania Human Relations Committee, says that because numerous efforts over the past decade to pass a statewide nondiscrimination law have failed, his focus has turned to passing local sexual orientation/gender identity nondiscrimination ordinances. In addition to Philly, such laws are already on the books in places like Lower Merion, West Chester and Doylestown, and similar efforts are currently under way throughout Bucks, Montgomery and Delaware counties despite pushback from members of PFI and the American Family Association.

Glassman believes that once all of these laws are in place in Pennsylvania, legalization of gay marriage will follow, all of it possibly within the next couple years, He scoffs at what he terms the “desperate attempts by some people to prevent the inevitable.”

“In places that have legalized same-sex marriage, it’s been a tremendous success.

The sky hasn’t fallen, no one’s married a dog, and there hasn’t been any financial or economic impact that’s been in any way negative,” Glassman says.

Which is the message the makers of Married in Spandex hope those on the other side of the fence take away from their film.

“Hopefully they can begin to empathize with us as people, and understand that we just want the same rights as anybody else,” Kole says. “At the core of it, this is just about two people who really, really love each other.” n

On the Gaydar A preview of Philly’s upcoming LGBT events.

By Brian Goldthorpe feedback@philadelphiaweekly.com

Big Game Event To some of us in the gay community, the term Super Bowl means a wonderful new serving dish from Crate & Barrel. But for the gay sports enthusiasts among us—and there are a lot more than you might think—this Sunday’s game is as big a deal as it is for any straight, middle-American suburbanite.

Quite frankly, the Super Bowl has enough pageantry and celebrity power to keep everyone interested—regardless of whether you know which teams are playing. To join in on the action, check out the Greater Philadelphia Flag Football League’s (GPFFL) Big Game Event at I-House this year. In addition to watching the game on a huge screen, there will be an open bar, free snacks and a

spectacular silent auction. Bonus: Proceeds will benefit local non-profit, Action AIDS. Sun., Feb. 6, 5:30pm. $40-$65. International House, 3701 Chestnut St. 215.387.5125. actionaids.org/content/superbowl-party

The Smoke, Lilies, and the Jade Arts Initiative Valentine’s Day Party No policy or advocacy issue has had as deep an impact on the LGBT community as HIV/AIDS. But over the last several years, activists have witnessed their cause lose prominence in the collective gay consciousness thanks to improved treatments and disease management. Unfortunately, these changes have fueled misconceptions about the severity of the disease, leading to a rise in unsafe sex practices and newly diagnosed patients. At this critical juncture, it’s important to lend our support to AIDS awareness organizations that have proven effective in distributing their message in diverse and creative ways. One such organization is The Smoke, Lilies, and the Jade Arts Initiative, a local dance theater company that promotes AIDS awareness through live performances. Zane Booker is SLJ’s artistic director, and one of the most accomplished dancers working in Philadelphia. As Booker explains, “HIV/AIDS is still an incredibly

pervasive and troubling problem. We utilize our performances to renew focus and attention on this issue.” If you’re not familiar with SLJ, stop by their Valentine’s Day Party at Haru. SLJ is co-hosting the party with representatives from Philly Black Gay Pride. In addition to celebrating Cupid’s day with one of Haru’s outstanding cocktails, this party is an open call for contestants in a new dance competition. The contest will take place in April during Philly’s annual Black Gay Pride celebration, but this is your chance to ask questions and sign up.

Mon., Feb. 14, 6pm. Haru, 241 Chestnut St. liliesandjade.org

bination of jazz, pop and classic love songs peppered with her trademark comedic dialogue. Karen’s resume includes a feature spot on XPN and numerous sold-out performances of her hit cabaret shot, “Sex & the Single Singer.” More Than Just Ice Cream will be transformed into an elegant cabaretstyle club for the evening, and guests will enjoy a delicious three-course dinner and champagne. Mon., Feb. 14, 8pm. $48.

More Than Just Ice Cream, 1119 Locust St. 215.574.0586. sexyfeast.eventbrite.com

“Sexy Feast”: A Valentine’s Day Cabaret and Dinner

Gays don’t just like to watch sports, many of us like to play! In fact, increased demand for group sports activities has resulted in local LGBT clubs, leagues and teams for football, softball, soccer, running, swimming, wrestling and other competitive and recreational sports. One of Philly’s most popular and visible LGBT sports clubs is the rugby-playing Gryphons. The Gryphons will kick-off their 2011 campaign in style at Woody’s this month with a party featuring drink specials, raffle prizes and a horde of hot ruggers. It’s a wonderful opportunity to show your support for one of our most notable LGBT sports teams. Fri., Feb. 25, 6pm. $5. Woody’s Bar, 202 S. 13th St. phillygryphons.org

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“Is romance dead?” I posed this question to one of my friends last week. His response— “I guess it depends on your Facebook status!” Though funny, his comment is pretty insightful. In the digital age—when it’s easier to get laid than get a date—is there a place for romance? If you ask Karen Gross, one of Philly’s most exciting cabaret-style singers—the answer is a resounding yes!

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Mamet’s intriguing investigation of “post-racial” America.

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David Mamet has described his hyper-provocative 2009 drama Race, currently mounted in an outstanding production by the Philadelphia Theatre Company, as “a play about lies.” Some things Mamet considers convenient lies (or, at the very least, willful naïvité): Most Americans don’t have a racist bone in their body. Race is unimportant and everyone is the same. The election of Barack Obama put us in a postracial America.

Mamet counters that everyone is racist, people aren’t the same and that we as a nation have a long way to go before the subject of race can be put to rest. And as the title suggests, Race examines these lies and why they persist—specifically in the context of the long and often contentious relationship between black and white Americans.

The play takes place in a conference room at a law office, which scenic designer Kevin Rigdon imagines as a converted warehouse with a frosted glass entryway that distorts everything on the other side. The firm’s partners, Jack (Jordan Lage) and Henry (Barrymore nominee Ray Anthony Thomas), sit around a large conference table. Jack is white; Henry is African-American, as is young lawyer Susan (Nicole Lewis), whom Jack hired right out of law school over Ray’s objections. With them is a potential new client, Charles (a subdued John Preston), a rich white man and prominent community figure who has been charged with raping a young African-American woman in a hotel room.

The first act focuses on Charles’ alleged crime, whether the firm will accept him as a client (a debate that is a bit too long and is awkwardly resolved) and a possible defense, orchestrated entirely by Jack. After the rare fault of an unnecessary intermission that disrupts the play’s momentum, the focus changes from Charles’ crime to the relationship between the three lawyers.

Although the play never enters an actual courtroom, Race maintains the structure and language of a classic courtroom drama—accusations are hurled, denials are issued, guilt is evaluated. But Race doesn’t offer a confession, indictment or acquittal. It’s Mamet’s contribution to America’s long discussion of race, an ongoing discussion since the founding fathers gathered for the first Continental Congress in 1774.

Some critics have labeled Race cynical; others see it as honest. In truth, it’s both. It’s certainly not a typical example of those plays that well-intentioned companies tend to mount during Black History Month—plays often consumed by predominantly white audiences, who listen sympathetically to the horrors endured by black victims of institutional racism.

It’s not that these plays are bad—in fact, they’re usually quite good and, it can be argued, a helpful means of promoting a greater understanding of racial issues. What these plays generally aren’t is controversial, in particular tending to avoid that one particular word beginning with the letter N, that unavoidable sign that modern America is far from post-racial.

Mamet, for his part, doesn’t shy away. Race is unrelentingly confrontational and uncomfortable, the playwright seeming to revel in the power that people can so often forget still exists in certain words. At the performance I attended, the racially mixed audience reacted to the play’s most incendiary language with a ripple of shocked (but not appalled) whispers and glances. Under Scott Zigler’s confident direction (Zigler is a longtime associate of Mamet’s and has directed many of his works), PTC’s production crackles with tension.

Zigler is well-known as an actor’s director (he cowrote one of America’s acting bibles, A Practical Handbook for the Actor), and he inspires a number of forceful performances that propel PTC’s production.

Lage is particularly commanding as the white lawyer Jack.

He doesn’t talk to people; he cross-examines them. He asks questions to which he already knows the answers (or thinks he does), and in Lage’s performance, Jack is confident to the point of arrogance. Lacking in empathy, he is incapable of seeing or understanding different points of view. Lage isn’t a big man, but his Jack seems to fill the room, pushing out all opinions other than his own.

By contrast, Thomas’ Henry is more reserved, at times almost subservient. As the play develops, however, Thomas lets anger slowly bubble to the surface. Henry doesn’t like or trust most white people (including perhaps Jack), but doesn’t let it get in the way of his work. Thomas’ carefully crafted performance reveals Henry to us in layers; with each scene, our impression of him and his relationships with Jack and the case changes.

Lewis’ Susan is likewise mysterious, but this can be attributed more to Mamet’s plotting than the actress’ performance. Lewis manages to develop the character beyond a simple plot device (which Susan could easily be in the hands of an inferior actress), but she remains the least interesting of the quartet.

Rounding out the ensemble is Preston’s fascinating Charles. Outwardly contrite for a crime he claims not to have committed, in Preston’s performance we get no glimpse of Charles as the charismatic community leader he apparently once was. We can’t reconcile what we’re told about Charles and the man we see. As played by Preston, Charles is an enigma, and though we find him intriguing, it’s impossible to definitely determine his guilt or innocence.

In the past decade PTC has emerged as one of the nation’s top producers of contemporary American drama.

Sure-handed and impeccably crafted, it’s incisive production allows us to draw our own conclusions about the play and the character of the people in it. Race isn’t Mamet’s finest play, but at PTC it is certainly interesting, and offers a compelling look at America’s racial divide. n

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S/T II: The Cosmic Birth And Journey of Shinju TNT (Dead Oceans)

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Free Association: The bassist is super cute (he waited on me in Montreal); this EP’s solid!

For Fans Of: Denali, Karen O, Metric x Corin Tucker, the Go-Gos.

The last time I was in Philadelphia I ... Got drunk. At a number of places.

My fondest memory of Philadelphia is ... Seeing the Arensberg Collection at the art museum when I was 18.

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Fill in the Blanks with ... Gang of Four P H I L A D E L P H I A W E E K LY

By Michael Alan Goldberg mgoldberg@philadelphiaweekly.com

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erhaps you remember a few years back P when every U.K. band was ripping off British post-punk icons Gang of Four’s sharp, searing riffs—albeit sans Go4’s singular gusto or their fiery sociopolitical agenda.

Now, nearly 35 years after first forming (and then splitting up and reuniting two or three times) Gang of Four is back to show ’em all how it’s done with the great new Content, their first studio LP in 16 years. Frontman Jon King and guitarist Andy Gill remain from the original lineup; the rhythm section is new, but highly capable of anchoring Go4’s signature attack. We caught up with the affable King over the phone for a “Fill in the Blanks” session.

I love playing with Andy Gill because ... Andy is one of the greatest guitarists in the world. It’s absolute musical admiration. Andy and I have been lifelong friends, but I can’t add that as a reason to wanna play with him, even if it may be true.

The one thing that must be provided for us backstage is ... Very nice California wine. I remember when we did our first U.S. tour—we both supported the Buzzcocks and played our own club shows—we suddenly learned that promoters are expected to give you stuff, because we didn’t get anything in England. The first thing that most excited me was getting a whole pitcher of White Russians. Andy said, “You know what? They just said that as soon as that’s finished, they’ll give us another one!” That was quite cool.

The thing I’ll always remember the most about making Content is ... Writing [first single] “You’ll Never Pay for the Farm.” That was the track where we thought, “Yeah, that works.” And then a month later was the great global financial collapse of 2008 and we were like, “We predicted the future!”

When I think back on our 32-year career I ... Am amazed that we’re still around.

Planning isn’t my strong suit.

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The nicest thing a critic ever wrote about Gang of Four is ... “Gang of Four sounds like a train derailing at Grand Central Station.” I thought that was so flattering.

The meanest thing a critic ever wrote about Gang of Four is ... Very, very early on we had a song called “Call Me Wanker” and we got one tiny review that said “‘Call Me Wanker’—you said it, meatball.”

The most surreal thing that ever happened to me on stage is ... We were playing in L.A. some years ago, and in the middle of a song this naked guy jumped out of the audience and embraced me. We all stopped and we pissed ourselves laughing while this naked man was gently eased off stage. And about six months later we met the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who had just formed—they were big Gang of Four fans.

And it turned out the naked guy was Flea.

My most treasured possession is ... A 2b pencil. I write all my lyrics in pencil.

The first record I bought with my own money was ... “Space Oddity,” by David Bowie. My family, we were quite poor and we didn’t have a record player. So when I was 12 I entered a cartoon competition sponsored

by Snickers bars, and my cartoon peanut won first prize and I won a record player. I saved up and saved up and I was desperate to buy anything, so I bought the “Space Oddity” single. Can’t say I really treasure it now, though. Haven’t listened to it for 20 years.

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Degeneration Street Sounds Like: The fifth

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ou’d be hard pressed to find a guy with Y a more acerbic, creative wit than comedian Todd Barry. His humor is so dry it could start a fire. His Medium Energy is arguably one of the greatest comedy albums of all time, putting on full display Barry’s remarkable ability to pull gut laughs out of jokes about two strangers having a conversation about an answering machine or house-cut French fries—he quietly, astutely cuts through the mundanities of everyday life with a surgeon’s precision. It’s a wonder to behold. It’s earned him A-List headliner status, and this week he brings his pile-driving deadpan to veritable Italian Market dive Connie’s Ric Rac, which is pretty goddamn rad. “I don’t necessarily care what the place looks like, as long as the audience is nice, the microphone works and I’m treated well,” Barry told us when we recently asked him about the unique choice of venue. (Read our brief interview with Barry in its entirety at philadelphiaweekly.com). Should be one for the ages. (Brian McManus) n Fri., Feb. 4, 8pm (sold out) and 11pm. $20.

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Peas in a pot: Chole (curried chickpeas) shine at Taj-India

The Rise of Taj Tucked away in a Northeast shopping center, this Indian spot packs a veggie punch.

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For too long, the frequent criticism leveled at vegetarian cusine was richly deserved—slippery, uncomfortably jiggly tofu; seitan like shoe leather; veggie burgers with the texture of compressed saw dust and a flavor to match. It’s come a long way, and to insist, as some do, that it hasn’t is uninformed. Because as the region’s food culture has grown and expanded, and as the Philadelphia area has become home to an ever increasing range of immigrant communities and their hometown cuisines, the options for dining in any number of styles—vegetarian among them— have grown accordingly.

This is all to say I shouldn’t have been surprised by the flat-out success of Taj-India, the vegetarian destination humbly located in the Bustleton Somerton Shopping Center in the Great Northeast. For fans of Indian food in particular, and anyone who simply loves to eat well in general, this is a must-visit restaurant, and thoroughly worth the schlep up 95.

Corn soup is listed as a “family recipe” on the menu (all the soups are), which sets the bar of expectations rather high before it’s even ordered. But like nearly everything else here, it delivers with gusto. You can pick the level of heat/spice on a scale of one to 10. I went with seven, and was met with a warning from my fantastic waitress Jalpa, who worried it might be too hot for me. The bowl packed a serious punch, its fiery red-umber color a harbinger of its heat. But just when the smoke had nearly begun shooting from my ears, cartoon-style, the deep sweetness of the corn itself slid in beneath, softening the flame and balancing it out.

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There are two bars in Philly where you can drown your sorrows on the cheap, and in retro style, without having to look apologetic for it; self-deprecation’s already on the menu.

“Chicken,” owner of Fishtown music venue Kung Fu Necktie, claims he dreamed up and installed the Shelf of Shame about a year and a half ago. Originally, in 2008, the bar featured its signature “Embarrassment of the Week,” a single, semi-obscure beer at a time.

Soon, the special morphed into a bona fide pedestal of eight to 10 even-in-their-heyday barely drinkable brews.

Two-dollar cheapos at KFN include “real weird eyeball stuff,” Chicken says, purchased from a distributor out in South Philly. The Shelf seats “old-school beers from the ’50s and ’60s, like Schafer and Schlitz, Black Label, Genesee Cream Ale, Nattie Bo, Schmidt’s beer and Private Stock, which is malt liquor from Pabst.” Kung Fu also doles out so-called “Shots of Shit,” $1 “mystery shots of Rock and Rye, Mad Dog and stuff like that,” Chicken says, Wednesday through Saturday nights.

Besides the obvious relief of stewing in the depths of your self-hatred, what, exactly, is the appeal of downing alcoholic water?

“Two bucks—in these times, it goes over well,” explains Chicken. “That’s really the appeal, the price. And then you get a lot of these touring bands [that] will get all nostalgic for these beers, like ‘Oh, I remember drinking this stuff in high school.’ They get all tuned in on them. It’s a fun thing to do.”

He’s not the only one who believes shame can be enjoyable.

Jody Sweitzer has been Dirty Frank’s gallery manager of nearly 20 years, and says she instituted the original Shelf of Shame about a year ago, a spin-off of the age-old memorial to stupidity, the Wall of Shame. Her take on the shelf spotlights only one $2 beer at a time—this week, it’s “The Beast,” a nickname for Milwaukee’s Best Premium (“No one knew there was such thing as the Premium,” jokes a daytime bartender.) Before building the wooden ledge by hand, the University of the Arts instructor of Found Object Sculpture checked out KFN’s, then known as the Wall, to avoid copying anyone else’s idea.

True to the inscription at the bottom of Premium, “It’s about making something you can take pride in.”

“Kids want a special,” Sweitzer shrugs. “It’s kitschy.”

Last month, the Shelf at Frank’s featured a 12-oz can of Busch, dubbed “the Dirty Busch” by lewd-minded patrons who call the iconic dive a second home.

Next up, she reveals, is Milwaukee’s Best … Ice. The Shelf of Shame has, perhaps, transcended gimmick into parody—but for the broke, the nostalgic and the selfprofessed ironic set, it’s still a hell of a deal. n

and batter thickness. Vegetable samosa, filled with a fragrant mix of baked potato and pea, was encased in a flaky wheat and rice flour dough whose surface was attractively woven with shallow cracks, like an overhead view of the ocean floor. Paneer samosa added that round-flavored homemade cheese to the equation. Chickpea batter-fried vegetable pakodas were denser and sweeter—addictively easy to pop like a game-time snack. Tikki chole added tamarind, coriander chutney, and chickpeas to already singing potatoes.

Chole bhatura also showed how stunning chickpeas can be when given the respect they deserve and are allowed to shine as a dish’s centerpiece. The heat of the curried chickpeas here was of a more linear sort, the spice driving a line down the center of the tongue. This was mitigated (though not completely; you wouldn’t want it to be) by the excellent bhatura, a dense, deep-fried bread that’s a typical accompaniment. The side of raita, its own springtime flavors of vegetables and yogurt a well-calibrated counterpart to the curry, could easily have stood up on its own.

Kaju curry, on the other hand, was downright meaty.

Marinated Indian cashews attained an almost beeflike chew, and their own inherent sweet-earthiness permeated the sunset-orange liquid with a heady, nutty flavor that clearly took a long time of simmering to develop. Here was a creamy, infinitely complex curry that I’d happily put up against any nonveg one I’ve ordered in the past year. As with so much else here, the lack of meat proved not to be a detriment but a boon.

To sop up all this delicious food, a bread basket is a great idea, and makes a fantastic take-home treat for the next day’s lunch. Butter naan was crisp in parts, slippery in others. Kulcha, texturally perfect, was coated in enough garlic to send any fan of Emeril into conniptions of joy.

Puri, ethereally light, was magnificent.

Only the paneer kabob roll was a disappointment, the promising ginger and garlic spicing of the paneer too obscured by the lettuce, tomatoes, and flatbread to hold its own. But that paneer on its own was stunning, and yet another demonstration of this kitchen’s concern for freshness and flavor.

But that’s a mere quibble in the context of an otherwise stellar procession of dishes. I just wish more people took advantage of this understated, admittedly not-terriblyatmospheric gem. Perhaps its location—not far from the corner of Red Lion and Bustleton, in the heart of the Northeast—will deter the city’s foodies. Or the fact that it’s a strictly vegetarian spot. Or that its nestled in a shopping center that isn’t aesthetically pleasing alongside an eyeglass store and florist.

But the food here is just amazing, and missing out on Taj-India is tantamount to a serious Philly food sin. Find a way to the shopping center, order a sour, funky salted lassi, and prepare yourself for one of the most satisfying Indian meals around. It’s beyond good enough to atone for all manner of veg-food sins you’ve been subjected to in the past. n

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Gene Hackman, I Never Sang For My Father (1970): More often than is comfortable, the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences suffer a strange affliction: They can’t tell who a story’s protagonist is.

Usually, they elevate a supporting role (or, more accurately, performance) to the lead: Anthony Hopkins, Forest Whitaker and Annette Bening are not the heroes of Silence of the Lambs, The Last King of Scotland and The Kids Are All Right, respectively. Sometimes the Academy does the reverse.

In this case, it should have been evident: The “I” is Gene Hackman’s dissatisfied son, not his aging father (Melvyn Douglas).

Al Pacino, The Godfather (1972): The one constant in Francis Ford Coppola’s breakthrough epic is Pacino’s Michael Corleone, who sports one awesome arc: from mousy prodigal son to tyrranical crime boss. AMPAS, however, thought the real lead was a character who’s absent from giant chunks of the film, including the entire third act. Reminder: just because someone gives the biggest performance doesn’t make him/her the main character.

Tatum O’Neal, Paper Moon (1973): For some reason, kids rarely get treated as leads; Whale Rider’s Keisha Castle-Hughes is the only kid ever to get a Best Actor nom.

So, despite being the co-lead (with father Ryan) of Peter Bogdanovich’s Depression era conman pic, O’Neal wound up becoming the youngest person to ever win an Oscar—but in the wrong category.

Martin Landau, Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989): Woody Allen’s drama is split into two stories: in one, Landau has his mistress offed; in the other, Woody considers cheating on his wife. This split evidently caused AMPAS to panic, treating the movie as a film with no leads.

as the real Ford dwelt in the shadow of the man he killed, so Affleck, playing the fanboy-assassin to creepy perfection, was usurped by the A-lister (Brad Pitt) he had to shoot.

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Javier Bardem stars as Uxbal, a two-bit hustler just barely scraping by on the ugly side of Barcelona. He works as a shifty middleman, setting up illegal immigrants in the business of knockoff handbags, either selling them on street corners or laboring in an underground sweatshop owned by a couple of creepy Chinese guys (who periodically have graphic gay sex for no explicable reason.) Uxbal runs interference, paying off cops and trying to convince himself that

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by Maricel Álvarez. She’s a parttime hooker who’s sleeping with Uxbal’s sleazy, obese brother; that is, when she’s not busy slapping around the children and doling out heaps of vicious psychological abuse.

Uxbal also happens to be dying of prostate cancer, so massive portions of the movie are devoted to him urinating blood.

Had Iñárritu cut just half the shots of Bardem wincing over the toilet, Biutiful could’ve clocked in at a reasonable length. Instead, it plods on for a full two and a Not walking on sunshine: Javier Bardem stars as as Uxbal, a two-bit hustler just barely half hours, following this hapless scraping by on the ugly side of Barcelona. grifter through scenarios that inevitably escalate from bad to worse to outlandishly awful.

Oh, and Uxbal can also talk to dead people. But that doesn’t figure into the story as much as you might imagine.

Or really, at all.

Iñárritu made a dazzling debut in 2000 with Amores Perros, a movie that I’m honestly afraid to revisit again because his subsequent output has been so stridently despondent.

Babel, 21 Grams and Biutiful reveal a director with an eye for striking compositions and the ability to elicit excellent performances from his actors. But he also seems like a sadistic prick who never heard a joke in his life, and has no idea how to modulate a movie’s tone beyond a single note of self-important dread.

Working once again with ace cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto, Iñárritu can shoot squalor like nobody’s business.

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By Sean Burns sburns@philadelphiaweekly.com Actor would be all locked up.) And he’s got a leading man willing to follow him all the way down, well past the gates of hell. Javier Bardem is probably the greatest living actor not Just one question: To what fucking end? named Daniel Day-Lewis, but there’s only so much one man The Bataan Death March of impeccably art-directed sorcan do with Uxbal’s droopy-eyed, small-time martyrdom. row, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s fourth feature, Biutiful, What’s one to make of a sequence in which Bardem is is as miserable a slog as I’ve ever endured. The movie oozes savagely beaten by thug policemen, until he pisses his pants anguish from every frame, wallowing in abject hopelessfull of blood, only to return home and attempt to hide this ness, rubbing your nose in filth, sadness and a despair so secret shame while his manic ex-wife insists on blowing overwhelmingly suffocating, eventually it becomes comical. him? And please don’t get me started on the dead women I wholeheartedly apologize for busting out in giggles durand children washing up on the Barcelona beaches. ing this film’s final reels, but I just couldn’t take it anymore, For all his formal brio, Iñárritu is at a complete artistic and my ironic self-preservation instincts finally kicked in. dead end, fixated on the inherent nobility of suffering withLook, it’s not like I can’t handle these kind of pictures. Both regular readers and my shrink can vouch for the fact that my out a larger point, refusing to allow any signs of life into his hermetically traumatic worldview. Biutiful lies dead on the tastes tend to tilt toward the depressive side when it comes screen, lumbering in no hurry toward a preordained, pitiless to big-screen entertainment. But Biutiful is, frankly, absurd. conclusion without a single organizing idea or overarching And it doesn’t seem to be about anything, either. Usually, theme besides the uninspired notion that life can really suck I love to suffer the tortures of the damned with my movie sometimes, and eventually you’ll die. Is this all there is? To characters, as long as there’s some sort of larger point being what fucking end? n made. But in this case I must repeat—to what fucking end?

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It should come as no shock to someone who reads my column every week—or any other advice column—that there are lots of people out there who want to be in relationships but don’t particularly want to have sex.

We don’t usually hear directly from these “minimally sexual” types. Instead, we hear from their maximally unhappy partners, i.e., the “normally sexual persons” who find themselves unhappily married to and/ or otherwise stuck with minimally sexual persons.

With all the minimally sexuals out there making normally sexuals miserable, NSNA, it should be obvious to all regular readers that there’s not exactly a shortage of people who aren’t interested in sex. With that being the case, why would you even contemplate inflicting yourself on a normally sexual person? Why not go find another minimally sexual person? You’ll be doing your minimally sexual self a favor, you’ll be doing your future minimally sexual partner a favor, and you’ll be doing all normally sexual persons everywhere a favor by removing two minimals from the dating pool.

Unless you’re more interested in sex than you let on, NSNA, and you find the idea of a normally sexual partner appealing because a normal might be able to help you build your confidence and learn to enjoy sex. I certainly hope you’re not another asexual/ minimally sexual person who wants a normally sexual partner because you take a perverse pleasure in depriving someone else of sex, constantly rejecting that person’s advances, and ultimately destroying their confidence.

I’m a 22-year-old queer chick who came out only a couple years ago. Right when I was starting to talk honestly with my friends about my sexuality, I met a girl with whom I got along great.

Fairly quickly, we both realized that she wanted the relationship to go further—she says this was the first time she had ever been attracted to another girl. I was not at all attracted to her, so I said something about being too unstable myself in the coming-out process to date someone who’s also just coming out. It worked, she dropped it, and we have since become extremely close friends. She began identifying openly as bi, and identifies me as the reason.

Here’s the problem: Yesterday, out of the blue, she told me that she still really likes me and thinks we should be together. Dan, this girl is really important to me, but I am still not at all physically attracted to her. Am I a totally

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superficial a-hole? What can I tell her that won’t ruin this friendship? How can I make it clear that I don’t feel the same way without giving the actual reason?

Can’t We Just Be Friends

“I’m too unstable in the coming-out process to date someone who’s also just coming out,” is a baby-dyke variation on “I’m just not ready for a relationship right now.” Unfortunately, CWJBF, not everyone on the receiving end of that white lie is smart enough to realize that their white liar actually means “I’m not interested in being in a relationship with you and I never will be.”

This poor girl waited until you were further along in the coming-out process to ask you out again because she was foolish enough to believe you when you blamed bad timing.

Now you’re going to have to tell her the truth—yes, you’re going to have to give her the actual reason—and the hurt is going to be worse when she realizes what a fool she was to wait.

Apologize for not being direct when she first asked you out. Tell her you love her as a friend but you’re not attracted to her sexually or romantically and never will be. Leveling with her won’t make you an a-hole, CWJBF, but it could cost you this friendship.

CONFIDENTIAL TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: I was supposed to speak

on your campus last Thursday night, but God had other plans. I was at the Cornerstone bar when the blizzard really started slamming and power lines started catching fire and all hell broke loose. The evening’s most distressing development: The bar had to stop serving once the power went out.

Anyway, I’m looking forward to coming back to your campus—the Savage Love Live event/shoot is being rescheduled and may take place this week—and when I return, I’d really like to meet the person responsible for some graffiti I spotted in the men’s room at the Cornerstone: “Don’t Raw Dog a Random.”

That has to be the most effective peer-topeer safer-sex message I’ve ever read while taking a piss in Maryland. It did take me a second to work out exactly what it meant, as I’m old, so here’s a quick translation for other olds: “Don’t raw dog a random” means “For heaven’s sake, don’t engage in unprotected vaginal intercourse—don’t have sex without a condom—with a woman you’ve only just met, particularly if you met her in this drinking establishment. Bro.” It’s not a fail-safe strategy for avoiding sexually transmitted infections—people can get very specific STIs from completely nonrandom sex partners—but the number of STIs could be cut dramatically if all male college students everywhere refrained from raw-dogging those lovely lady randoms and vice versa. (I realize that “random” is not gendered … but if you saw this bar, you would know that an exclusively heterosexual clientele can be safely assumed. A straight boy wrote that message, and he was addressing other straight boys, and “random” refers to female pickups, not male pickups.)

I want to add that I was particularly impressed by the use of the word “random” in place of, say, “bitch,” “slut,” “whore,” or any of the other sexist/hostile/demeaning terms that college-town-bathroom-stall-graffitiing types typically use in place of “woman,” “female,” or “young lady coed.” Well done, DIY safe-sex educator! n

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TenanT faces damages for unreporTed leak, flood ¶I Q: I had a tenant that called me to let me know that I had water dripping from the ceiling and that my wood floors had “something wrong with them.” I sent over my brother-in-law, who is a contractor, and it turns out that there was no roof leak but my tenant had been using the faucet in the kitchen and it had become loose.

Then the pipe underneath the sink got a split in it and leaked under the cabinet and was flooding the kitchen and adjacent dining area. The water has severely warped the wood floors. my tenant says that she was sick all week and never saw the leak. my brother-in-law tells me that the wood floors are so damaged that clearly the water had been leaking for months. It is his opinion that she should have not been using the kitchen faucet, as the source of water was obvious to anyone using the faucet. plus, the split pipe was visible by just opening the cabinet and looking underneath the sink. please let me know who is liable.

A: Generally, the landlord is responsible for the maintenance and repair of the rental unit. In this case, if your tenant had contacted you in a timely manner, then you would have sent a qualified repairperson or plumber to tighten the faucet and replace the split pipe.

If the faucet had become loose and the pipe split through normal use and wear and tear, then you would be fully responsible for the costs incurred in making the repairs.

If the tenant had damaged the faucet or the pipe intentionally or through her negligence, then she would be responsible for the cost of the repairs, which you could have charged back to her. { However, the real question here is: Who is responsible for the subsequent damage to the wood floors? } Because your tenant failed to give you any notice of the leaking faucet and the split pipe, you have a very good argument that the tenant is responsible for not only the damage to the wood flooring but also any other damage caused by persistent conTInued on p36 >>>

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>>> HOME MAINTENANCE IS A 2-WAY STREET! CONTINUED FROM p35 flooding over a long period of time. If the wood floor is severely warping, it is likely you will have to replace some or all of the wood flooring. Whether you have natural wood floors or some of the simulated product, this expense will be much higher than a new faucet and a new drain pipe under the sink.

I would suggest that you immediately fix the faucet and pipes and then get an estimate for repairing or replacing the warped and water-damaged wood flooring. You also need to carefully inspect the walls and behind the cabinets and appliances. Prolonged water exposure could create much more damage than just warped wood flooring.

You want to make sure that you address all of the damage and bring the unit back to a safe and habitable condition regardless of who may have caused the damage.

Also be sure to determine if there is insurance coverage for this water loss claim. If your tenant has renters insurance, she can submit a claim to her insurance carrier. If she doesn’t have renters insurance or refuses to make the claim, then you should file a claim with your insurance carrier.

The insurance company may ultimately subrogate or seek reimbursement from the tenant directly or from the tenant’s renters insurance policy, if she has one.

Another option could be just to make a demand for your tenant to reimburse you for this expense if she doesn’t want to file an insurance claim. She may be willing to pay it or at least work out a payment plan over a reasonable period of time.

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1601 LOCUSt StrEEt 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, brand new, high ceilings, hardwood floors throughout, chefs kitchen, magnificent entertaining space, luxurious master suite, 3467 sf $9,750

2401 pEnnSYLvAniA AvE Studio, private balcony, dressing room, spacious kitchen, 570sf $950 1 bedroom, 1bath, balcony with Art Museum and city views, updated throughout, 1262sf $1,700 1 bedroom, 1bath, completely renovated, hardwood floors, balcony with Art Museum view,

1830 rittEnHOUSE SqUArE

1000 sf

2 bedrooms, 1 bath, wood floors, renovated kitchen

226 w. rittEnHOUSE SqUArE Studio, high floor, Rittehouse Square views, 573 sf $1,195 Junior one bedroom, balcony, southern exposure providing excellent light, excellent condition, 595 sf $1,675

and bath

rittEnHOUSE SAvOY

$1,700

rittenhouse square 1909 fitzwAtEr StrEEt $1,500

$1,350

2 bedrooms, 1 bath, corner unit, 928 sf $1,700 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, sunset views, excellent closet space, spacious living areas, 1164sf $2,300

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225 S 18tH StrEEt Junior bedroom with open kitchen, marble bath, rooftop pool club view, wood floors, 504sf $1,750 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom home with southern views offering excellent light, open kitchen with upgraded appliance package, marble baths, wood floors, 1017sf $3,600 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, private deck on rooftop pool club, open upgraded kitchen, marble baths,

wood floors, 1272 sf

tHE wArwiCK

1701 LOCUSt StrEEt Spacious Studio with city views, hardwood floors, marble bath, high-end kitchen, walk-in closet, 423 sf $1,375

tHE DOrCHEStEr

1810 S. rittEnHOUSE Sq. Studio, overlooking Rittenhouse Sq. Treetop views, 415 sf $1,175

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

2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, kitchen and baths renovated, bay windows, 1136sf $2,990

$3,850

society hill BAnK BUiLDinG

421 CHEStnUt StrEEt 2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, study, open floor plan, gourmet kitchen, designer baths, exposed ductwork and brick ceilings, 2117sf $3,900

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

Studio, great closet space, city views, $1,100 floor-to-ceiling windows, 504 sf 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, floor-to-ceiling windows, Society Hill views, 1133 sf $2,000 Penthouse, 1 bedroom, 1 bath, brand new bulthaup kitchen, hardwood floors, 722sf $1,750

22 St. jAMES COUrt

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, high ceilings, privateout-

door entrance, 1602sf

$2,000

tHE LippinCOtt

227 S. 6tH StrEEt 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, hardwood floors throughout, open chefs kitchen, designers baths, great closets, 1710 sf

$4,795

washington square inDEpEnDEnCE pLACE

233-241 S 6tH StrEEt 1 bedroom, 1 bath, w/d, walk-in-closet, open kitchen 777 sf $1,300 1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, W/D, wood floors, renovated kitchen, 928 sf $1,475 1 bedroom with alcove, 1.5 baths, renovated kitchen, balcony with southern views, 1118 sf $1,675 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, beautifully renovated throughout, balcony, overlooks Washington Square and Locust Walk, 1292 sf $2,350

HOpKinSOn HOUSE

604-36 S. wASHinGtOn SqUArE Studio with alcove overlooking Washington Square, full kitchen, separate dressing area, 600 sf $1,275 1 bedroom, 1 bath, brand new renovated kitchen and bath, wood floors throughout, W/D, balcony, 778 sf $1,650 Deluxe 1 bedroom, large living room, separate dining area, overlooking Washington Square, 1063 sf $1,900

waterfront piEr 3, 3 n. COLUMBUS BLvD.

2 bedrooms, parking space, river views, 1300sf $1,500 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, terrace, large kitchen, one garage parking space, 1300 sf $2,150

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1742 Sansom Street - 2nd floor retail space on highly trafficked corner or 18th and Sansom Streets, 1000 sf $1,850 NNN 2031 Locust Street Professional Office Space in secure apartment building, 958 sf $1,150 1830 Rittenhouse - Prime Rittenhouse Square office space, 754 sf $2,100 133 S. 18th Street – Ground floor corner retail space, excellent visibility on 18th Street shopping corridor $9,000 NNN 250 S. 18th Street – Prime ground floor corner retail/office space on Rittenhouse Square, 1857 sf $7,500 NNN 1601 Locust Street - 1st floor and lower level of prestigious Lanesborough condo, ideal for restaurant or offices, 4700 sf $11,000 NNN

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HomExpert Market Watch 2010 Center City · Philadelphia County YEAR END 2010 REPORT

Center City Home Sales Increase 5.5% in 2010 The Philadelphia housing market continued to stabilize towards the end of 2010, marking a turning point in the residential housing market. In spite of a slow down since the expiration of the federal tax credit in July, homes sales in Philadelphia decreased a mere 5.3 percent in 2010, while median home prices held steady at $139,900. Center City posted the highest gains in 2010 with a 5.5 percent increase in home sales, followed closely by Southwest Philadelphia (+4.3%), and South Philadelphia (+0.1 %) In Center City, Rittenhouse Square remained the area’s most desirable place to live, with home sales up a whopping 34.1 percent and median sales prices up 1.9 percent compared to 2009. Old City boasted the highest median sales price in the region at $408,000, a 9.5 percent increase in 2010 vs. 2009.

Center City — Number of Homes Sold 350

Philadelphia % Change in Median Sales Price 2010 vs 2009

300

193 332

349

2010 vs 2009

Sold 2010

330

Sold 2009

250

246

200 171

150

168

149

184

100

94

106

50 0 -4.5%

NORTHEAST

-3.1%

52 19130

19103

19123

19106

19017

Fairmount/ Art Museum

Rittenhouse Square

Northern Liberties/ Fishtown

Old City

Washington Square

NORTHWEST

Center City -8.6% WEST

NORTH

-4.8%

RIVERWARDS

-2.0%

Homes Sold Year-to-Date 2010.................................1,147 2009.................................1,087

19102

Philadelphia County +5.5

%

Homes Sold Year-to-Date 2010 ..............................11,818 2009 ..............................12,480

-5.3%

CENTER CITY

+2.3% SOUTH

-12.9%

Median Sales Price 2010 .........................$325,000 2009 .........................$331,750

-6.7%

-2.0%

Average Days on Market 2010 ......................................74 2009 ......................................77 Median Sales Price 2010 .........................$139,900 2009 .........................$142,000

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Average Days on Market 2010 ....................................108 2009 ....................................116

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Location

ART MUSEUM

Total Square Footage

Price

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

Monthly After Tax Cost

tHe PHilaDelPHian tHe PHilaDelPHian tHe PHilaDelPHian tHe PHilaDelPHian tHe PHilaDelPHian

1 bedroom, 1 bath, brand new kitchen and bath, wood floors, Art Museum view 1 bedroom, 1 bath, wood floors, upgraded kitchen, ample living space Renovated studio, wood floors throughout, open kitchen, large balcony with city skyline view Studio, Art Museum views, private balcony, excellent closet space Studio, open kitchen, new carpet, city view

1000 1258 567 625 567

$289,900 $189,900 $175,000 $159,900 $129,900

$43,267 $30,637 $26,306 $25,148 $20,834

$1,939 $1,751 $1,152 $713 $984

Location

AVENUE OF THE ARTS

Total Square Footage

Price

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

Monthly After Tax Cost

acaDeMy House center city one acaDeMy House center city one

One bedroom, one bath, upgraded kitchen and bath, Juliet balcony, W/D 1 bedroom, 1 bath, high floor, balcony with panoramic views of the city to the south, excellent closet space, W/D 1 bedroom, 1 bath, panoramic southern views, Juliet balcony, renovated bath and kitchen 1 bedroom, 1 bath, spacious balcony, magnificent city views to the south, abundant natural light

705 897 705 873

$289,000 $259,900 $259,900 $240,000

$42,702 $41,412 $39,043 $36,972

$1,772 $1,720 $1,661 $1,563

Location

RITTENHOUSE SQUARE

Total Square Footage

Price

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

tHe rittenHouse barclay lanesborougH lanesborougH barclay Parc rittenHouse 1830 rittenHouse warwick conDoMiniuMs warwick conDoMiniuMs tHe rittenHouse Parc rittenHouse warwick conDoMiniuMs warwick conDoMiniuMs 1830 rittenHouse square tHe warwick tHe rittenHouse barclay barclay Parc rittenHouse warwick conDoMiniuMs wanaMaker House Parc rittenHouse warwick conDoMiniuMs williaM Penn House

Penthouse, 2 bedrooms, 2 full baths, 2 half baths, high end finishes and appointments throughout, balcony with city views 3bedroom+den, 3.5 baths, marble foyer, formal dining rm, sunny eat-in kitchen, 10’ ceilings, moldings, oak herring bone floors, 3 gas fireplaces 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, brand new, very high ceilings, his and hers master baths, custom kitchen, exquisite detail throughout.

Tri-level penthouse with 1600 sq ft of terrace space, being sold unfinished, private elevator access 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, herringbone wood floors, EIK, crown molding and other custom finishes throughout, Rittenhouse Square views 2 bedrooms plus den, 2.5 baths, large balcony over Rittenhouse Square, open kitchen, hardwood floors, marble baths 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, upgraded kitchen, original hardwood floors and molding, lots of light 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, hardwood floors, 270 degree views, open kitchen, marble baths, custom closets, W/D 3BR, 3BA, Bamboo flrs., spac. Kit w/custom wood cabinetry, granite counter tops, marble baths, 3 exposures, gym and hotel services 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, completely renovated with high end finishes, views of Rittenhouse Square from every room 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, terrace on pool club deck, open custom kitchen, marble baths, wood floors 2 bedrooms + den, 3 baths, gourmet kitchen, marble baths, walk-in-closets, hardwood floors 2 bedrooms + den, 3 baths, sun-soaked, wood floors, open kitchen, marble baths 2bedrooms, 1.5baths, windows overlooking Rittenhouse Square, old world charm, spacious kitchen, formal dining room 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, southern exposure from every room, marble baths, open chefs kitchen, maple hardwood floors 1 bedroom, 1.5 baths, eat in kitchen, beautiful sunset views, master suite with large marble bath Two bedrooms, two baths, hardwood floors, old world charm with modern features Two bedrooms, two baths, hardwood floors, building offers 24 hour doorman and gym, located on Rittenhouse Square 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, hardwood floors, marble bath, rooftop pool club and skyline view One bedroom, one bath, hardwood floors, marble bath, custom kitchen 1 bedroom, 1 bath, wood floors throughout, renovated kitchen and bathroom, bay windows with city views Studio with wood floors, marble bath, open kitchen and city view Studio, high floor with city views, walk in closest, wood floors, marble bath 1 bedroom, 1 bath, city views, spacious kitchen

3,952 3,293 3,467 3,413 2,638 1,552 2,275 2,000 1,978 1,560 1,272 1,614 1,614 1,380 1,296 1,037 1,050 1,075 806 712 704 497 423 825

$3,500,000* $834,620 $2,900,000* $666,258 $2,750,000* $636,038 $2,250,000* $579,879 $1,975,000* $511,632 $1,295,000* $306,402 $1,195,000* $309,704 $1,290,000* $174,122 $1,350,000* $181,323 $995,000* $242,439 $799,000* $201,948 $829,000* $115,051 $799,000* $190,486 $689,900* $145,000 $625,000* $149,666 $599,000* $147,283 $595,000* $143,766 $550,000* $133,706 $497,500 $119,226 $399,900 $53,426 $319,000 $46,421 $275,000 $39,472 $219,900 $32,772 $165,000 $24,513

Location

SOCIETY HILL

Total Square Footage

Price

101 walnut st bank builDing society Hill towers society Hill towers society Hill towers society Hill towers bank builDing

Entire Floor Residence, 2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, custom open kitchen, designer baths, panoramic river and city views 2 bedrooms plus den, 2.5 baths, hardwood floors, high-end open kitchen, designer bathrooms oPen sunDay 2/6, 1:15PM - 12:45PM Two bedrooms, one bath, parquet wood floors, washer/dryer, unobstructed river views, floor-to-ceiling windows One bedroom, one bath, river views, custom kitchen and bath One bedroom, high floor, river view, investment opportunity 1BR, 1BA, magnificent river views, high floor, wood floors throughout Raw space that can be customized to the buyers desires, hotel services and amenities available

2423 2,117 1,133 700 700 700 1,286

$1,200,000* $281,398 $799,000* $207,313 $399,000 $58,788 $297,500 $43,513 $290,000 $42,577 $275,000 $40,731 $269,000 $41,367

Location

WASHINGTON SQUARE

Total Square Footage

Price

nDePenDence Place

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

4,500

$2,295,000* $552,133 $588,133

$13,728

$3,022

$10,706

inDePenDence Place

Penthouse, 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, wrap around balcony, high ceilings, eat-in kitchen, large master suite oPen sunDay 2/6, 12:00PM - 12:30PM

2,810

$1,250,000* $303,747 $328,202

$7,658

$1,511

$6,147

inDePenDence Place

3 bedrooms, 3 baths, east facing river and city views, modern kitchen, hardwood floors, balcony, laundry room

3,015

$1,250,000* $250,000 $319,246

$7,449

$1,403

$6,046

inDePenDence Place inDePenDence Place inDePenDence Place inDePenDence Place HoPkinson House HoPkinson House inDePenDence Place inDePenDence Place inDePenDence Place inDePenDence Place

2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, beautifully renovated kitchen and baths, balcony with city and river views, hardwood floors in living areas 2 bedroom, 2 baths, completely renovated with custom kitchen and designer baths, balcony, hardwood floors 1 bedroom, 1.5 baths, alcove, Washington Square views, completely upgraded throughout 1 bedroom, 1.5 baths, alcove, completely renovated with gourmet kitchen, designer bath, amazing closets 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, wood floors, balcony, southern exposure Deluxe 1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony with views of Washington Square and the river, renovated kitchen and bath 1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, laundry room, excellent condition 1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, upgraded kitchen, new fixtures throughout 1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, excellent value 1 bedroom, 1 bath, wood floors throughout, upgraded kitchen and bath, custom closets, balcony oPen sunDay 2/6, 12:30PM - 1:00PM

1,977 1,173 1,118 1,118 1,200 1,063 928 860 928 928

$799,000* $559,000* $499,900 $479,900 $349,900 $329,000 $299,900 $295,000 $290,000 $269,900

$4,966 $3,269 $3,167 $3,205 $2,856 $2,707 $2,049 $2,038 $1,947 $2,037

$961 $613 $524 $620 $417 $410 $327 $348 $302 $348

$4,004 $2,656 $2,643 $2,585 $2,439 $2,297 $1,722 $1,690 $1,645 $1,243

WATERFRONT

Total Square Footage

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, open floor plan, fireplace, terrace off mastersuite 1 bedroom, 1 bath, wood floors, balcony, high end finishes in kitchen and bath

1,300 924

Location Pier 3 waterFront square

Price

$259,900 $209,900

$96,341 $85,223 $57,483 $59,979 $49,901

$88,613 $86,520 $82,852 $78,608

$889,056 $619,296 $607,268 $557,842 $501,005 $304,997 $318,887 $373,141 $371,644 $273,743 $206,151 $246,527 $203,258 $217,432 $158,380 $170,623 $153,060 $146,037 $116,911 $106,710 $91,365 $81,681 $62,166 $63,419

$2,248 $1,989 $1,341 $1,400 $1,164

$2,068 $2,019 $1,933 $1,834

$20,745 $14,450 $14,170 $13,016 $11,690 $7,117 $7,440 $8,707 $8,672 $6,387 $4,810 $5,752 $4,743 $5,073 $3,696 $3,981 $3,571 $3,408 $2,728 $2,490 $2,132 $1,906 $1,451 $1,480

$309 $238 $190 $200 $181

$296 $299 $272 $271

$3,725 $2,632 $2,605 $2,351 $2,094 $1,320 $1,321 $1,757 $1,795 $1,090 $855 $992 $861 $2,938 $631 $659 $619 $580 $447 $486 $352 $319 $226 $168

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

$298,478 $217,014 $128,086 $90,659 $89,976 $86,724 $95,821

$6,694 $5,064 $2,989 $2,115 $2,099 $2,024 $2,236

$1,124 $844 $427 $309 $302 $291 $303

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

$195,082 $139,761 $71,144 $68,164 $56,515 $53,908 $44,212 $42,801 $42,132 $40,971

$212,815 $140,111 $135,733 $137,351 $122,407 $115,998 $87,809 $87,347 $83,461 $87,301

Monthly After Tax Cost

$17,020 $11,818 $11,565 $10,665 $9,597 $5,796 $6,119 $6,949 $6,877 $5,298 $3,956 $4,761 $3,881 $4,251 $3,064 $3,323 $2,953 $2,827 $2,281 $2,003 $1,780 $1,587 $1,225 $1,312 Monthly After Tax Cost

$5,841 $4,291 $2,562 $1,806 $1,798 $1,733 $1,933 Monthly After Tax Cost

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

Monthly After Tax Cost

$41,044 $42,318

$1,985 $1,804

$99,922 $90,810

$2,332 $2,119

$347 $315

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1830 rittenhouse square 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, chefs kitchen, panoramic views to the south, 2275 sf

Bank Building 421 chestnut street 2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, study, open floor plan, custom finishes throughout, 2117 sf

$1,195,000

$799,000

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indePendence Place 233 s. 6th street 1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, open kitchen, new fixtures, 860 sf

$625,000

$295,000

Parc ritenhouse 225 s. 18th street

PhiladelPhian – 2401 Pennsylvania avenue

Studio, wood floors, marble bath, open kitchen, 497 sf

Studio, wood floors, balcony, renovated kitchen, 567 sf

$275,000

$175,000

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RITTENHOUSE SQUARE 1936-38 Delancey Place-Double wide carriage house, elev, 2-3 car grge, 2br suites + guest suite $1,725,000 1936 Spruce Street-Bldg commercial,1st flr offices,2nd flrs 2 bd/1 ba w/dk,3rd flr 4 bd/2 ba. $1,600,000 2125 Pine Street-1870 Mansion extensively renovated in 2010. 5br/4b and garden $1,395,000 210 W Rittenhouse Sq ##1107-Furnished 1 bd,403 sq.ft,refin flrs,fresh paint,new kit,csmt flr plan. $920,000 440 S Broad ##2106-2 bd/den w/garage prkng,ultra kit & bths,storage locker. $865,000 2128 Cypress Street-Amazing architectural renovation of Historic Home,3 bd/2 ba. $760,000 2211 Panama-Garage plus 3 bd,den,2.5 ba,fpl,wd flrs,grdn + gourmet kitchen. $749,500 210 W Rittenhouse Sq ##1402-Rittenhse Hotel-New ups.,furn. luxury condo,1050 sq.ft,1 bd/1.5 ba. $595,000 250 S 18th Street #102-1st flr comm space in beaut lux build Perf for small prof off w/sep entry $495,000 2038 Latimer Street-Charming 2bd/1.5 ba,open living area,rear yard,harwood floors. $349,900

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2012-30 W Girard Avenue-Grt devel. opportunity,building,land,blue prints,permits & approvals. $1,849,900 2401 Penna Ave ##14C45-Corner sun filled unit w/terrace,3 bd/2.5 ba,wd flrs. $624,900 756-58 N Bucknell-X-Wide 3 bd/3 ba,3-sty on grt tree-lined block,cherry flrs,1-yr prepd prkng $549,900 1524 North Street-3 yr old 3 br 2.5 BA townhouse, parking avail, 7 yrs on tax abatement $475,000 526 S 11th Street-Fab 4B/Lib/3.5b,8 fpl,C/A,pine flrs t/o,fin base,grdn,deck,2 car PKG 2521 Brown Street-Beautiful 4Br/2B, hw flr, t/o, c/a, mast br suite $445,000 253 S Quince Street-Gorgeous 2 bdrm/3 bth home w/private parking,large patio 2339 Wallace Street #B-Contemp TH w/Garage Prkg 3BR,2 1/2B, Fpl, Kit w/Granite & ss Tax Abate $444,900 209 S Sartain Street-Lovely 3 bd/1.5 ba,modern kitchen & bath,fireplace 2401 Penna Av ##19A7-Renovated 2 bd/2 ba,hi floor,full terrace,prkng available. $379,000 2401 Penna Ave ##17C47-2 bedroom,2 bath,lovely balcony with City Views. $359,000 2601 Penna Ave ##1004-Corner 1 bd condo w/tons of light & space (800+ sq ft),cable & on-site gym. $189,900

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2101 Catharine St-Gorgeous, light filled corner townhouse with GARAGE Parking, $669,000 1801 Montrose Street #B-3 Bed, 2.5 Bath, Finished Basement, Roofdeck w/City Views, Patio $599,500 1418 Catharine-Quadplex,4 Apts,2+3+3+3,all bi-level and modern,garage in rear. $569,000 2607 Webster Street-Webster Mills-new community,3 bd/2.5 ba,granite/SS appln,1 C deeded prkng. $429,900 1920 Montrose Street-Modern Renovation, 4 Bed, 2.5 Bath, Hdwd Flrs, Finished Basement $425,000 910 S 21st Street-NC 3 BD/2.5 BA,hw flrs t/o,lg garden,deck,amazing views. $380,000 2218 Catharine St-Spac, bright home w/3br 1.5b fin bsmnt, sep DR wd fl patio hi-ceils $359,900 709 “B” S 18th-Lovely 2 bd/1.5 ba home,2-car prkng,SS applns,deck. $359,900 764 S Hicks Street-4 year old rehab,3 bd/2 bths,3 fpls,granite counters,SS appln. $359,900 2241 Fitzwater Street #C-Penthouse Condo, 1 Bed 1 Bath, Bamboo Flr, Marble Counters + Deck $314,9000

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640 Fernon St. Charming, comfortable & cozy. Renovated 3br/1ba, new KIT, private yard, fin bsmt 210 Carpenter St. #R Best Priced 2br/1ba townhome, great price, on private, picturesque courtyard setting 525 Fitzwater St. #11 Newly renovated 1br/1ba townhomes, gated private courtyard setting, tax abatement 2847 Warnock St. Complete renovation with fabulous upgrades in South Philadelphia 1206 S. 15th St. Beautifully renovated 3br/2½ba, townhome, Gourmet kitchen, HWflrs, roofdeck 606 Pemberton St. 3br/1ba 3-story home w/large rooms, wall to wall carpeting, shared patio 608 Pemberton St. 3br/1ba, Modern upgrades, bsmt laundry, EIK, shared patio, new windows 1247 S. 19th St. Fantastic 3br/2.5ba, 3yrs old, all the bells & whistles, 2 outdoor spaces, fin bsmt 708 S. Perth St. #B Lovely Home in a Fantastic Neighborhood!

1608 Montrose St. Two-story townhome in a very desirable location features tons of upgrades!

200 Lombard St. #744 Very nice 1br/1.5ba condo. H/W, great views fr balcony, great bathrooms 919 Christian St. Price reduced on this spacious Bella Vista home just steps from the Italian Market!

914 S. 16th St. Three-Story Gem in Graduate Hospital with Fabulous Upgrades 1813 S. Alder St. Mifflin Estates 3br/2.5ba, w/garage, parking, granite, SS appliances 1819 S. Alder St. Mifflin Estates 3br/2.5ba, w/garage, parking, granite, SS appliances 1903 Carpenter St. Luxuriously renovated 3br/2ba, Gourmet KIT, lrg yard, private Maste Ste., 10yr Tax Abatement 1221 S. Phillip St. 3br/2.5ba new construction, 1car garage, HWflrs, hi ceilings, open kit, & deck.

741 S. 10th St. Wonderful 3br/2ba home, redone kit & bath, fin. bsmt, Grt neighborhood and block 909 S. 16th St. 4br/3ba TH offers garage, deck, yard. Newer rehab, tax abatement, fab finishes

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1901 Walnut St. #9B Wonderful Aity and Light Unit facing Ritenhouse Square

$479,000

-546-2700 1737 Chestnut St. #301 Location, location: Lrg., bright living area, 2 mstr suites w/baths. Pet friendly bldg

OPEN HOUSE $599,850

2413 Manning St. Reduced 2+br/2+ba, garage home xtra wide 4-story townhome in Fitler Sq. Charming Block

OPEN HOUSE $585,000

OLD CITY / LOFT DISTRICT / CHINATOWN 309-313 Arch St, #606 1br/1ba loft condo in heart of Old City w/SS appliances & silestone counters

$225,000

50-56 N. Front St. #202 Stunning, large windows, lots of closets, upgraded t/o

OPEN HOUSE $299,000

309-313 Arch St. #308 An affordable historical restoration in Old City! Hoopskirt Factory

Fr $319,000

209 N. 4th St. #F4 Spacious 2br/2ba corner unit, exp brick & beams, FP, recent mechanicals

$349,000

317 Vine St. #503 Bi-level Penthouse in Old City for Great Price! 2br/1.5ba, Terrace, huge windows

$399,000

201-59 N. 8th St. #910 2br/2.5ba, 1642sqft, bi-level Penhouse at the Metroclub w/450sqft balcony!

$475,000

309-313 Arch St. #205 Fabulous 3br/3ba multilevel loft in the heart of Old City

$529,900

1234 Hamilton St. Fabulous 2br+den in Heart of Loft District

$599,000

314-22 N. 12th St. Fab Bi-Level Penthouse Condo, 2br/2ba, Granite, SS, Hwflrs, 2 large decks

$669,900

SOCIETY HILL / WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST 1109 Spruce St. Units 2R, 3R Your choice of two 1br/1ba units. 2R totally renovated w/granite & SS Kit

Fr $189,000

1109 Spruce St. #4 New Listing. Totally rehabbed loft style condo. Deluxe granite & SS kitchen

$185,000

606A Waverly St. Location! This is a lovely trinity! It’s a 1 Bedroom. Great for 1st time buyer/student

$194,400

927 Spruce St. 2R Deluxe Jr. 1br/1ba w/new kitchen. Unit contains a queen size Murphy bed

OPEN HOUSE $199,900

255 S. Hutchinson St. Historic 2br/1.5ba on charming cobblestone st. in heart of Wash Square

$250,000

1109 Spruce St. #1R & 3R—1R totally rehabbed bi-level 2br/2ba—3R move-in condition, newly painted

OPEN HOUSE Fr $180,000

1110 Waverly St. 3br/2.5ba, 1526 sqft corner home, quiet cherry tree lined st. Move in ready. Garden

$599,000

UNIVERSITY CITY / WEST PHILADELPHIA 5501 Pentridge St. Porch Front Home w/Good Bones, a quiet W. Philly block. Open flr plan, lrg yard.

$23,000

915 N. Fallon St. 3br/1ba Close to schools & transportation, New kitchen, Nice size yard, Remodeled

$45,000

544 S. 48th St. #B Pristine Home ready to move in, in lovely University City!

$244,900

403 S. 51st St. Charming 6br/2ba Tin, hwflr, enclosed porch, 2800sqft, gourmet kit, yard

$274,000

432 N. 37th St. Classic Exterior & Modern Interior, One-of-a-kind Renovation!

$439,900

4526 Pine St. Fantastic Spruce Hill twin with spacious yard and old world charm

$525,000

SURROUNDING AREAS Southwest Phila.-2553 S. Dewey St. Open Flr. Plan. Upgraded bathroom & kitchen, Full fin. Bsmt

$71,900

Germantown-4611 Greene St. 4br/1ba, lovely orig. details + recent improvements. Needs cosmetic work

$80,000

Germantown-5321 Wingohocking Terr. 3br/1ba, renovated., HWflrs, exp. brick, C/A, granite/SS kit

$109,000

Mayfair-3131 Levick St. Lovely 3br/1ba, greatt price, renovated kitchen and hardwood flrs

$100,000 $135,000

Port Richmond-3133 Cedar St. 3br/1ba, hwflrs, orig details, updated kit & bath, tons of light, yard

$162,000

Port Richmond-3298½ Miller St. 3br/1ba recently renovated w/2 car garage

$169,900

Parkwood-12717 Medford Rd. Well maintained 3br/1½ba row, spacious living area, renovated KIT, garage

$175,000

Chestnut Hill-7601 Crittenden St. Spacious 3br/2½ba, new flooring & bath, FP, Hwflrs, Parking

$179,000

Holmesburg-4313 Rhawn St. Great 4 Bedroom home. Large backyard and new remodeled Come see for yourself!

$179,900

NORTHERN LIBERTIES / FISHTOWN / NORTH PHILADELPHIA 2945 N. 23rd St. 3br/1ba, backyard w/fountain & rear deck accessible fr 2nd story br, full bsmt 2537 Memphis St. Excellent Location for spacious 3br that works for an investor or a homeowner 2651 Belgrade St. Charming fixer upper in Fishtown, newer heater and roof, great location 2209 Harold St. Totally renovated gorgeous 2br home in Fishtown 2641 Cedar St. 2bed/ 1bath totally renovated Fishtown home. New everything & comes w/2642 Ritter back lot 2054 E. Arizona St. Pristine rehabbed 2br townhouse, central air, large MBR, and huge yard 2721 E. Lehigh Ave. Bank Owned Three Story Fishtown Home on Bustling Lehigh Ave 1637 N. Cadwallader St. 4br/2.5ba, Huge, completely renovated near NoLibs. HWflrs, new appls.

2334 East Letterly St. Gorgeous, totally renovated 2br/1.5ba w/den home in Fishtown 1429 E. Oxford St. Great 4br home, brand new brick front, newer electric. This is a Short Sale 2349 E. Cumberland St. 4br/1.5ba. Lrg home. New kit, new carpeting & windows, partly fin bsmt 2657 E. Norris St. Total Rehab 3br/2ba, new brick front, all new interior, Granite counters, Wood flrs 428 N. 13th St. #3A Beautiful loft conversion, lrg open flr plan, 1400sqft+, HWflrs, exposed brick 2037 Frankford Ave. Lovely home, 18’ width, 120’ property depth. 4br/1.5ba. Wonderful investment 813-17 N. 5th St. #301 Unique 2br/1ba loft living experience in the heart of Northern Liberties 1763 Frankford Ave. Spacious Fishtown home for Great Price w/Orig Details, Lrg Yard, Unique 2161 Dauphin St. 3br/2ba, finished basement with powder room 1234 E. Fletcher St. Brand New 3-story Construction in Fishtown

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NEW CONSTRUCTION (10 YEAR TAX ABATEMENT) 800 N. 48th St. NEW CONSTRUCTION! 309-313 Arch St. Loft condos in the heart of Old City w/vintage HWflrs, high ceilings & more 2218 Manton St. 3br/3ba, 2800sqft, master ste. roof deck, patio and finished basement 764 S. Mole St. HWflrs, 3br/2.5ba, master ste. w/huge walk-in closet & sitting room 1937 League St. 3br/3ba, selct your finishes, gourmet KIT, pending tax abatement, roof deck 209 Cuthbert St. #301 New Loft Conversion located in the heart of OLD CITY 209 Cuthbert St. Newly renovated loft building in the heart of Old City! Modern kitchens & baths-must see!

913 N. 28th St. 3br/2.5ba, HWflrs, Garage, Roofdeck, Custom Closets, Designer Kitchen 911 N. 28th St. 3br/2ba, Garage, Roofdeck, Balconies, 10yr tx abatement, Audio t/o, Bambloo flrs t/o 2155 Montrose St. New (2400sqft) corner home across fr park. 3br/2.5ba, open flr plan, custom kit 1912 Kimball St. 3br/3ba, high-end finishes, tax abatement, roof deck, fin bsmt, garage 1304 S. 2nd St. Pennsport-Wharton Estates 3br/2full & 2half ba, contemporary, H/W, granite/SS KIT 629-31 S. 13th St. #A Choose your finishes, 3br/3ba, HWflrs, fin bsmt, 660 sqft, Roof Deck!

Fr $225,000 $259,900 $295,000 $339,000 $349,900 $389,900 Fr $344,750 OPEN HOUSE $379,900 OPEN HOUSE $399,000 $425,000 $450,000 OPEN HOUSE $450,000 $599,000

COMMERCIAL/INVESTMENT 2215 Latona St. Vacant residential lot at a great price 2113 S. Opal St. 3br/1ba, lrg rooms, EIK, backyard. Great affordable home in South Philadelphia 27 Osborne St. Cashflowing Duplex. 2+3 BRs. Grt loc, well maintained. Sep utils excpt water 1806 W. Diamond St. Great Investment, 5br/2.5ba, Temple U. Area! Yard, Deck, Rented till 7/11 1822 W. Diamond St. Grt Investment in Temple U. area! 5br & 2br units, fully rented, laundry in bsmt 117 Sumac St. Huge Triplex, Great Street. Sep. & meters. Laundry. Long-term tenants in 2 units 1919 Walnut St. Wonderfully restored 8,000+ s.f., 2 car pkg, elevator, currently used as corp office

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