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February 23-March 1, 2011

Home-Court Disadvantage The murder of a basketball star reignites fears of a neiborhood feud.

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7 Ex-Factor Milton Street

24 Sexual Reeling Blasted explore humanity through horrific violence.

27 (Kinda) Down on The Corner Cocktails spot-on, but menu needs cohesion.

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counting on Philly’s former cons to help him become mayor.

8 Missionary Position Women’s center wants Kensington’s troubled souls to know there’s still hope.

ARTs & CulTuRe 20 Calendar PW’s picks for the week.

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Regarding Ressurect Dead, a film about the Toynbee tiles found throughout the city:

As someone who has been following the tiles since Bill O’Neill’s website way back, I gotta say that I wish Philly could see this damn thing already. These guys sound terrific, their website forum is tops and the movie looks great too from the snippets of footage I’ve seen. But when, oh when, will folks in the birthplace of Toynbees finally get a screening?

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Editor Adamma Ince Managing Editor Anastasia Barbalios Senior Editor Nina Hoffmann Music and Food Editor Brian McManus Staff Writers Tara Murtha, Michael Alan Goldberg Listings Nicole Finkbiner Contributing Writers Aaron Kase, Jeffrey Barg, Sean Burns, Bill Chenevert, Daniel Denvir, Roberta Fallon, Brian Freedman, Michael Alan Goldberg, Gerry C. Johnson, Jacob Lambert, Craig D. Lindsey, Randy LoBasso, Paul F. Montgomery, Matt Prigge, J. Cooper Robb, Katherine Silkaitis Art Director Ioana Veleanu Contributing Photographers Jeff Fusco, Ryan Strand Contributing Illustrators Alex Fine, Hawk Krall Editorial Interns Peak Johnson, Nick Powell, Bianca Brown, Maddie Hoagland-Hanson, Rebecca Curwin, Maryline Dossou, Claire Noble, Trishula Patel

25 A Good Word! Tribute to a Philly-born painter.

MusiC 26 Good Head How is Radiohead’s new album? We let a tribute band decide.

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I am so glad that their dreams came true and I can’t wait to see the movie playing at the Ritz.

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to hear him speak, he got his face and his message all over the evening news and in newspapers across the city.

The timing of his announcement was perfect. Rumblings of discontent about nobody bothering to run a primary campaign against Mayor Nutter had reached a fever pitch when out of nowhere, Street stepped in to break the tension and fill the void.

And fresh out of jail for tax evasion, he was happy to grab the spotlight.

Had it already been a competitive primary season, reporters wouldn’t have given him the time of day. As it was, his event drew nearly as many media members as supporters, excited by the prospect to write about a mayoral challenge instead of the lack of one. It may have been the most white people who have gathered at

Though crowds at his announcement were small, Street did manage to perk the interest of a few bystanders. “I liked what I heard,” says West Philly resident Howard Watson, who happened to be passing by.

“What he was saying was very powerful.

And it seemed very sincere.”

Others coming and going to the El barely bothered to stop and glance at the man in black standing on the pickup and soaking in the attention. But regardless of where his campaign ends up, Milton Street is having fun. “I’m gonna be out there,” he says, sitting down in the truck bed for a rest after the crowd drifts away, promising we’re going to be seeing a lot more of him all over the city in the coming weeks and months. “You will see me on the block, you will see me on the subway stations, you will see me on the trains!” he exclaims, inviting the rest of Philadelphia along for the ride. That is, “If you’ve got the energy to keep up.” n

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Milton Street had a cold. That much was evident to reporters crowded below the former state senator as he stood on the back of a pickup in West Philly last week and announced his candidacy for mayor.

Still an energetic and powerful speaker at 71, the older brother of our most recent ex-mayor dressed up for the occasion in a black wool coat and black beret, the effect only broken by his worn-out, dirty, white sneakers. While he laid out his views on how to fix Philadelphia, he searched for a tissue.

But deeper inside Milton Street’s head is a brain that’s plotting. Here’s a formerly prominent man, on the verge of fading into obscurity, who saw an opportunity to get back in the public eye and ran with it.

Though only a few dozen people came out

the streets? That would be a mayoral race to remember.

But flights of fantasy aside, half the point of a campaign is to get ideas brought more prominently into the public discourse.

Street’s army may not be practical, but it is bold and attention-grabbing. If we start hearing more about RISE and other ideas on how to combat recidivism and incentivize people to stay out of jail, Street will have made a positive impact.

His campaign is still in its infancy—only about 10 people were signed on to work for him last week, and just a handful of supporters came out specifically to hear him on Market Street. The team says they gathered 1,000 signatures that day to get Milton on the ballot, with plenty more to come. The idea is to run a totally grassroots effort and appeal directly to the poor and marginalized voters they want to reach.

“A lot of people try to crunch numbers and see how things work, but on a campaign it really doesn’t matter,” says Johnny Patterson, Street’s campaign manager. “It matters how you get in front of voters and addressing the specific issues that matter to them.”

And Street assured reporters that despite his lack of other employment, he can dedicate himself to the campaign trail by supporting himself using austerity measures he learned while locked up. “I learned how to live on $14 a month,” he says. He’s smooth—it’s unclear if he rehearsed the joke or made it up on the spot, but he got a few good laughs out of it.

There are at least a few extremely vocal supporters out there. The morning the news of his mayoral aspirations first appeared in the Metro, an unkempt-looking man was running around outside City Hall passing out newspapers, exhorting passers-by, “It’s time we got a mayor who understands our problems!”

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Milton Street counting on Philly’s former criminals to help him become mayor.

52nd and Market streets in years.

Though he has been treated as something of a joke from the moment he announced his candidacy a few weeks ago, Street insists he’s for real. “I am as serious as I’ve ever been in my life,” he says. Those who write him off, he explains, don’t understand how deeply his message of dignity for former criminals resonates in this city. “You’re dealing with a frame of reference that you’ve had prior,” he says.

“We’re going to mobilize a class of people that have never actually been mobilized before.” He’s banking on the support of as many as 300,000 ex-cons who want to see a kindred soul pulling the strings.

Street says his 26 months in prison helped inspire his mayoral aspirations.

“I have been thinking about it for a long time,” he says. “I absolutely had to do something.” Through talks with other inmates, he hatched his plan to put 3,000 ex-offenders on the city payroll to combat crime in the neighborhoods. To fight fire with fire, so to speak, paying his men with money saved by not throwing them back in jail for crimes committed in lieu of employment. That’s the heart of his platform and he needs a big pulpit to see it through.

“The only way you can handle this—you gotta be mayor,” Street says.

Whether or not he has any real political muscle left to flex, his candidacy still stirs up an important issue. Street’s message— that former criminals are good for more than just committing more crimes—needs to be heard, says Malik Aziz, a member of the Ex-Offenders Association of PA, who previously worked in the city’s re-entry office under both Mayors John Street (Milton’s brother) and Nutter. “Violence is rampant in the streets. Unemployment is rampant,” says Aziz, who’s currently working on Milton Street’s campaign. “[Milton] knows how to maneuver and get that idea in people’s heads that they can be somebody.”

Re-entry is not something that Nutter has ignored—the city has the Mayor’s Office for Reintegration Services for Ex-Offenders (RISE) in place, providing job and life skills training for ex-cons. The program boasts a 3 percent recidivism rate for those who complete it, helping several hundred people get jobs over the past two years. Street’s idea, though, is to say hell with incremental progress and go for a big splash all at once.

Now, a squad of 3,000 ex-cons out patrolling for crime may not be the perfect, most nuanced solution in the world. With a slight leap of imagination, the concept sounds like something out of feudal times, with private militias enforcing the rule of the land. If Street can get his own loyal strike force, can Nutter and Republican candidate John Featherman build up their own brigades and let them duke it out in

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and 28-year-old Kensington native Harry Winans—serve on the tiny staff of Pastor Frank Vega’s Inner City Missions at 2439 Kensington Ave., which has for years quietly served as a beacon for Kensington’s innumerable troubled souls.

Tonight, Callahan and Winans are manning Vega’s just-launched Cora Women’s Center, which the 57-year-old ex-con and recovered heroin addict hopes will inspire more than a few “Amandas” to come in from the street and reinvent themselves.

Timing-wise, the women’s center’s birth (its doors opened Feb. 8) neatly coincides with the Kensington Strangler killing spree that left three local prostitutes dead. “I think the Strangler thing made us launch it quicker to provide a safe haven for women,” says the good-natured Vega, a married father of six. “But it’s something I wanted to do long ago. I just didn’t have

’”I tell people that it was easier for me to stick a needle in my arm than to look in the mirror and see who I really was. But I also always tell people that nobody wakes up one morning and says, ‘I want to be a drug addict’ or ‘I want to be a prostitute.’”

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selling her body, I don’t care if he’s a drug dealer. I’m not there to judge them. I’m there to help them.”

Similar sentiments propelled Vega to found Inner City Missions, which serves men and women alike, in 1994.

Raised at Third and York streets after arriving from his native Puerto Rico at age 2, Vega was physically abused as a boy and, seeking to numb his pain, turned to heroin and street crime. “I had a lot of issues,” he says. “And all I got from others was criticism. I tell people that it was easier for me to stick a needle in my arm than to look in the mirror and see who I really was. But I also always tell people that nobody wakes up one morning and says, ‘I want to be a drug addict’ or ‘I want to be a prostitute.’”

In the late 1980s, aware that the police were after him for his most recent offense, Vega turned himself in and detoxed in jail without medication or professional assistance.

Convinced a divine power steered him through the stormy seas of withdrawal, he’s now been sober 24 years.

Perhaps Vega’s smartest innovation at Inner City has been his cultivation of future missionaries by inviting teams of volunteer college students from schools across the nation to visit Kensington for a week during their Christmas, spring and summer breaks. The students sleep nights at the mission, but by day come face-to-face with junkies and other downtrodden types at drug-infested intersections such as Kensington and Somerset.

Callahan got her first taste of Kensington’s seamy streets on such a pilgrimage during her 2007 spring break, and she’s never looked back, even though her parents aren’t wild about her living here. “At this point I can’t imagine being anywhere but in Kensington,” she says. “I love Kensington.”

On a recent overcast morning, Vega, Callahan and Winans discuss the women’s center with a visitor when a slightly built man toting a backpack raps on the window requesting a cup of water. Once inside the mission, he announces that he’s addicted to heroin and wants to get off the streets, where he’s spent the past 20 years. He says he’s HIV-positive and afraid of dying.

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the people. Then (Callahan) came on staff, and this was one of her visions. So it came together.”

Besides discovering safety, Vega hopes some of the women who drop in, perhaps out of curiosity or simply for coffee, will allow him and his staffers to steer them toward addiction treatment, health care, housing assistance and other good stuff.

“It’s an open-door place where women on the street and even not on the street can come,” he says. “We’re going to have volunteer counselors here, free HIV testing (on the third Wednesday of every month), music, fellowship. They can have coffee, talk to one another, get counseling, resources.”

The aptly-named center—Callahan says that in Greek, Cora means both “girl” and “filled heart”—provides tangible items, too.

A table in the corner is topped with a dozen or so blue bags, each of which contains toothpaste, a toothbrush, Kleenex, hand sanitizer, Band-Aids, a razor, a comb, deodorant, shampoo, conditioner and a month’s supply of women’s vitamins.

Although not included in the bags, feminine hygiene items are also available. “We need to meet the women’s physical needs,” Callahan says. “If you can’t meet physical needs, you can’t meet spiritual needs.”

While emphasizing that no one at Inner City Missions forces religion on anyone, Callahan— whose modest salary is paid entirely by donors, many from her smalltown Indiana church—adds that spirituality indeed matters here. She says she’s listened as many ex-addicts testified about repeatedly failing in attempts to conquer dope and other personal problems before asking God to join their fight.

Winans, with a shaved pate and a laidback demeanor (he also generates his salary through donations), represents a case in point.

Released from SCI-Frackville 15 months ago after serving nine years of an eightto-20-year sentence for third-degree murder (he maintains the victim’s death was accidental), he says he struggled with alcoholism and low self-esteem before getting right with God. Still required to see his parole officer monthly, he hooked up with Vega last summer. “My mother was a drug addict,” Winans says, “and my father was a drug dealer. Then at 18 years old I found myself in a prison cell. But that’s where I met Jesus, and he gave me love, acceptance and approval. So now I go out on these streets and give it away. I don’t care if she’s

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Home-Court Disadvantage A budding basketball star’s murder stokes fears of a neighborhood war.

Story and photos by Michael Alan Goldberg mgoldberg@philadelphiaweekly.com Abbottsford and Allegheny Avenue—who all go to school together at Roxborough—that some say threatens to get even worse before it gets better?

“Talk to anyone around here, everyone’ll

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assault. All three await sentencing on April 1. Speculation is that Anderson— who, poised for success, was a living manifestation of all of Abbottsford’s hopes and aspirations for a better life—may have been intentionally targeted as revenge, to inflict maximum pain and grief on the neighborhood.

Though they say they have no suspects in Anderson’s case, the Philadelphia Police Department has made it known that they’re looking for someone from the neighborhood around 32nd and Allegheny, just beyond the bridge on Henry Avenue that crosses over the train tracks; only a quarter-mile

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probably have a different story,” says a bearded 36-year-old Abbottsford resident who only identifies himself as Anderson’s cousin.

Standing on the sidewalk across from Anderson’s apartment and staring out at the field where he was shot, he adds, “Nobody really knows what happened.”

Police have a theory: Anderson’s murder

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chill afternoon wind whips across the sprawling hill leading up to the cluster of brown-and-mustard twostory buildings that make up Abbottsford Homes, the public housing project nestled on the border between East Falls and Hunting Park. A short stretch of unseasonably warm mid-February weather has disappeared, but not before transforming the hill from a sheet of densely packed snow and ice to a grassy, muddy mess. Candy wrappers and empty potato chip bags swirl past—a tattered segment of yellow police tape snakes along the ground, too—heading toward a distant chain-link fence already plastered with debris. A small teddy bear lies face down in the grass, blown by the wind several feet from a makeshift memorial of stuffed animals, candles, photos and notes wrapped around a telephone pole near the base of the hill.

Four young black girls, maybe 14 or 15 years old, stroll down the hill, slowing as they pass the memorial dedicated to slain 18-year-old Roxborough High School senior Rashawn “Shawnee” Anderson.

“Ain’t no way he woulda run straight up the hill, he probably went that way,” one girl says, pointing to the curved road that leads out of the projects.

“You crazy?” answers another. “He was runnin’ up to his house.”

The wind drowns out their conversation as they continue walking, following a worn path that leads to Uncle Willie’s convenience store a couple hundred yards away on Fox Street. Like most Abbottsford kids, Anderson frequently made late-evening trips down to Uncle Willie’s to grab a soda and something to eat. But just after 11 p.m. on Feb. 7, as he was trudging back up the snow-covered hill toward the apartment he shared with his father and grandmother, police say he was ambushed by at least one person who fired nine times from a .45-caliber handgun. A star basketball player and not-too-shabby football player, Anderson was fast, but that didn’t matter. He was struck several times in the head and neck.

Neighbors who heard the shots rushed down to Anderson and carried him back up the hill. Someone ran to Anderson’s apartment and pounded on the door, yelling that he had been shot. His father, “Big Shawn” Anderson, ran out and found his son on the ground covered in blood, barely breathing.

He and others lifted Anderson into a car and sped off toward Temple University Hospital; police arriving on the scene quickly transferred him to their cruiser and drove him the rest of the way.

Half an hour later, Anderson was dead.

Weeks later, as the tight Abbottsford community continues to mourn and cops hunt for a killer, questions linger. Was Anderson—a once-troubled kid who’d turned his life around and had a bright future ahead of him—simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, the victim of a random act of violence? Or was it payback: The latest, and one of the deadliest, incidents in a decades-long clash between youths from

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neral, Town Watch Integrated Services—the city agency that tries to bring communities and police together in the name of neighborhood safety, crime response, and crime prevention—hosts a meeting in the Abbottsford Community Center for residents to air their fears about Anderson’s murder and the potential for escalating violence between Abbottsford and Allegheny kids.

About 70 concerned parents and seniors show up; Big Shawn and Anderson’s mother, Tyisha Mincey, are there, too.

So are Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Everett Gillison, Deputy Police Commissioner Thomas Wright, 39th Police District Commanding Officer Capt. Stephen Glenn, Roxborough Principal Stephen Brandt, District Attorney’s Response Team Director Theresa Marley, and several members of Men United for a Better Philadelphia—former Philly gang members now working to stop gang violence. Not in attendance: Any Abbottsford teens. Anderson’s friends and peers. The ones TWIS Executive Director Anthony Murphy hoped to reach directly with his “Stop the Violence” message.

“I don’t want the young people [at Abbottsford] to feel that they gotta go retaliate against someone else,” Murphy tells the residents. “I don’t want things to go off at Roxborough High School and it comes back here. I don’t want things happening at 32nd and Allegheny, either. I need to know what it is [that’s going on], and then we can work to fix it.”

“We can all point fingers at someone but that’s not the answer—we gotta change the heart of man,” Wright says. A man sitting in the back rolls his eyes, another lets out a frustrated sigh. “We’ve got to find a better way to deal with each other regardless of the gang you’re in or what neighborhood you’re from,” Wright continues. “This violence is ridiculous.”

“After being at Shawnee’s funeral, and you see all the young people at his funeral, you look at their faces after seeing someone’s body laying there and you’d think they’d be spooked and that would be a wake-up call,” one resident says. “That wasn’t a wake-up call. That made these young guys ready to ride.”

Glenn implores anyone in the room who might have any information about Anderson’s murder to get in touch with him. He walks around handing out his business card; some residents reluctantly take it. By the end of the 80-minute meeting, pledges of moral support and promises of more dialogue and community meetings—but little else—have been offered by city and school officials, few of whom linger to talk with the residents. The police brass say they’ll stick around as long as necessary to answer questions one-on-one and address people’s concerns; within moments they’re gone. Residents walk over to Big Shawn and Mincey to pay their respects, then shuffle out into the night.

Anderson’s cousin is old enough to remember the days when Abbottsford was wracked by drugs and crime, and the cycle of violence between organized Abbottsford and Allegheny gangs was a fact of life. “If something like this would have happened then, someone else from down there woulda been laying dead on the ground, too. It would have happened that night.” But that was more than 20 years ago—Abbottsford’s since turned into a safe, peaceful place, he says.

The police don’t see it that way. Cop cars are all over Abbottsford around the clock since Anderson’s murder; helicopters hover over the projects at night. Sometimes, when Anderson's cousin walks down to Uncle Willie’s, he says the cops shine flashlights in his face and harass him.

“The cops keep saying, ‘We know the retaliation’s coming. When’s it coming?’ I tell them no, it ain’t comin.’ And it’s not. No one here is stupid enough to do that. And [Allegheny] would be crazy to come up here right now, with all these cops around. But the cops, they makin’ it more tense around here.”

Anderson’s parents bristle at the notion that their son’s murder represents a rekindling of gang warfare between the two neighborhoods. “Allegheny and Abbottsford, that’s been going on for years,” says Mincey. “I’m from Allegheny—I got jumped up here, and I came back. My son live here, they ain’t gonna run me outta Abbottsford.

But it’s not gangs. It hasn’t been gangs for a long time. It’s just regular, stupid high school stuff. Jealousy, things like that. But the days of fighting … are over. Now it’s, ‘I’mma go get my gun.’”

“My boy was not in a gang,” she continues. “He didn’t start any trouble with anyone. He was focused on basketball and school. He knew what he had to do.”

She and Big Shawn believe the police haven’t helped matters by connecting their son’s murder to the McDonald’s incident— both claim the shootings are unrelated.

“The cops say that to take away from their responsibility. If they blame it on the turf, then, ‘This is gonna happen, they beefin’.’

But what are you as the protectors doing?

People around here, they call the cops telling them people are harassing them or whatever, and no one comes out to see them. And why? Because they live [in the projects] … That’s sad. They only come out here after something like this happens, and then they harass you for no reason.”

Big Shawn also says the media have been irresponsible in describing what’s going on as a “turf war”—he says it makes the public think that his son was purposefully involved in something and maybe he had it coming to him. When a local TV news crew came out to talk to him shortly after the shooting, “the woman said, ‘I’ve seen [Shawnee’s] Facebook page—he’s got a lot of tattoos and he’s throwing up gang signs …’ I said, ‘Gang signs? They ain’t no gang signs.’

We like to party and have fun. We just havin’ fun, that’s all. I cut that interview short right there.”

Still, Anderson’s parents say they’re try-

ing their best to prevent Abbottsford kids from avenging their son’s murder. “A lot of his friends have been Facebooking me,” says Mincey. “They’ve expressed anger and I tell them, ‘I’m his mom, there’s nobody angrier than me. Take his name and make something good out of it. If you go out and retaliate, then what? It’s not gonna bring Shawnee back. And then you’re destroying your life, your family’s life.’ I don’t wanna see another family go through this.”

Respected as he is around Abbottsford, if Big Shawn put out the word to retaliate, “They’d be lined up outside telling me, ‘What time we leavin’?’ But I tell the kids they gotta chill out. There ain’t gonna be no retaliation.”

Inside the family’s second-floor apartment, Big Shawn switches on the TV in the living room. He says he’s hardly slept, and finally ate some food for the first time since the shooting. “I think I’ve been doing more drinking than anything.”

A few years shy of 40, he’s lean and athletic like his son; the “Big” in front of his name doesn’t represent his physical stature so much as the respect he’s earned at Abbottsford, where he’s lived since 1977. A former taxi driver, he’s also known around the projects as “Transporter Charlie” for hauling Abbottsford residents all around Philly—40 to 60 miles a day, he estimates— for less cash than they’d pay to call a cab.

“They was ridin’ with me when I had a taxi, now they ride with me and there ain’t no meter. They like that,” he laughs softly as he brings up a YouTube video on the TV. It’s a Shawnee tribute clip called “Cherish the Last Words” by young Philly rapper Shump Bucketz, posted two days after Anderson’s murder.

Crammed on two couches are Mincey, Anderson’s stepmother Stephanie Young, his 19-year-old sister Rakeema, his 17-yearold brother Tre’Shawn, his 16-year-old stepbrother Andre, and Lashay Boseman, his girlfriend of just over a year. All of them are wearing Shawnee tribute T-shirts or hoodies. A handful more neighbors and friends filter in and out of the room. Big Shawn sits on a folding chair about two feet away from the screen, lights a cigarette, and stares at the slideshow of Anderson mugging for the camera at parties with his friends or elevating toward the basket during Roxborough games as the music plays. Everyone else nods their head to the beat and silently mouths the lyrics: I cherish the last words, I wish I woulda said more, Now shorty got me sayin’ rest in peace to one more.

He was cooler than most and he loved it on the court, Why do good things gotta be so short?

When it ends, Big Shawn hits play. They watch it again.

“I watch it every day, at least two or three times a day,” he says.

“More than that,” says his brother, Tre’Shawn.

“I’d be watching it on my phone, too, if it wasn’t broke,” says Big Shawn. “He used to

rap a little bit, too, he cracked me up.”

Was he any good? “Nahhh,” says Big Shawn. Everybody laughs. “He was always laughin’ and jokin’—he was a straight-up jokester.”

“He likes to dance, he likes his music.

And he loved basketball,” says his stepmom.

“That was his life—basketball,” says Mincey. A point guard and Roxborough’s leading scorer, he was being scouted by several colleges. Confident in his hoops abilities to the point of cockiness, Shawnee had told friends and family he was interested in going to Temple. The pride of Abbottsford, Anderson was going to be “the next Curtis Brinkley”—the Abbottsford native and record-breaking West Catholic football star who’s currently a running back for the San Diego Chargers.

Big Shawn and Mincey say their son was intelligent and strong-willed. “He was a livewire,” Mincey recalls. “Once he felt like he was right and you was wrong, that was it.

There was no turning him around. He and his father went through their things, but at the end of the day he knew his dad loved him.”

“He was somewhat like me when I was growing up,” says Big Shawn. “I told him, ‘Don’t be afraid to speak your mind.’ That got him in trouble. He mighta yelled at the teacher, cussed him out, forgot who he was talking to.”

When he was in middle school, Anderson got into a physical altercation with a teacher and was sent to a disciplinary school for at-risk students for four years. But by his junior year of high school, when he enrolled at Roxborough, his family says he’d figured things out. “He was getting his stuff together, going to class, getting everything done,” says Boseman.

“He had so many people in his corner helping him, making sure he graduated,” says Mincey, giving props to Brandt and basketball coach Terrell Burnett.

“He was gonna make copies of his diploma and put it on everybody’s door [at Abbottsford], like, ‘I told you so!’” says Big Shawn.

Tre’Shawn says Anderson was known for being tough both on and off the basketball court. “He didn’t do nothing to nobody unless somebody did something to him or his family. That’s when he stepped up to fight.

He was really misunderstood. If you picked on him, he would walk away to give you a chance to leave him alone. But if you keep goin’, he’s gonna stand up for his self and put you down.”

“He wouldn’t back down from nobody,” says Mincey.

Anderson planned to go to junior college for a couple of years, then transfer to a Division One school—Temple, perhaps— where he could really get noticed playing basketball. He dreamed of playing in the NBA, but Mincey—who is a visual artist— says that in one of their last conversations he also expressed interest in becoming an architect. “When he said that I was like, ‘Wow, you can do that. You can do anything you want.’”

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lips tighten, and she stares straight ahead at nothing in particular for a couple of minutes. Nobody in the room speaks. “I’m still in disbelief,” she finally says. “I mean, I seen them lay my boy to rest, I seen them drop him, but I’m still in a dream. It’s still not real to me. You can’t tell me he’s gone. It hasn’t really…”

Her voice trails off, and Big Shawn quickly jumps in. “My thing is I’m always telling people to tell someone you love that you love ’em, because that could be the last time you see them.”

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Greg Brinkley slowly sets his fork down on his plate of eggs and grits at the Oak Lane Diner. “Look, I’m not gonna sugarcoat anything. It’s a feud. It’s not everyone in the neighborhood, but it affects everyone in the neighborhood. I don’t care what people say or what they don’t like, but this is what I know—there is a feud going on.”

Georjean, Brinkley’s wife of 33 years, nods her head in agreement; so does Brinkley’s long-time friend, Malik Aziz, as he digs into his short stack. Aziz says the rift between hoods began decades ago when the kids who lived in private homes along Allegheny started making fun of the kids who lived in the projects. There have been long stretches of dormancy during the conflict, but Brinkley says the last couple years have proven it’s dormant no more.

“Everybody knows this is going on, that there’s fights and skirmishes you don’t even hear about in the papers.”

“Roxborough [High School] sayin’, ‘Ain’t nothin’ going on here,’ but I live up there, I see things,” says Aziz. “All the time, groups of them fighting. Punching each other, coats flying off. A mixture of the girls and the boys. From the high school all the way down to the bus stop at Roxborough Avenue. They cursin’—‘Aw yeah, I’m gonna fuck you up, bitch.’ All kinds of shit. They fight, and then they start runnin’ when the cops come. The senior citizens gotta jump out the way. It’s real havoc. It’s vicious. You see someone fall on the ground and they kickin’ ’em in the head.

“The police follow them all the way down the Ridge [Avenue], and it still doesn’t stop it. They got the cops pegged—they know they’ll get a couple punches in before the cops get there. Sometimes they get picked up—the cops take ’em to the 39th or the 5th [precincts] and their parents gotta come get them. If they’re over 18 they might get charged with disorderly. Don’t stop nothin’.”

“Let’s stop playin’,” says Brinkley. “This ain’t about somebody worrying about how their neighborhood is perceived or whatever. I’m trying to save a life. Last year I said if we don’t do something about this, somebody’s going to die. I hate the fact that I was right. But I say this again: If we don’t get ahold of this now, there will be more bloodshed.”

Brinkley and Aziz know something about bloodshed—as young men, they ran together in Philly’s notorious Uptown 28th & Oxford gang. It’s hard to believe now, given their gentle, soft-spoken demeanors and kind eyes, but both were combatants

on the front lines of battles against gangs from East Falls and up and down Allegheny Avenue. Both men have been shot, stabbed, and beaten up; they did their share of shooting, stabbing, and beating up, too.

With the help of his wife and his strong religious faith, Brinkley—an Abbottsford activist and the Philly chapter president of the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network—pulled himself out of the gang life and a serious drug addiction before the prison system or a violent death could claim him. Aziz wasn’t so fortunate—he was busted for selling drugs in 1982, did eight years, came out and fell back into the life, and got busted again. It was during that second stint in prison that he turned things around, and since his release in 1996 he’s been a tireless advocate for gang prevention, intervention, mediation, and extraction via such organizations as Men United for a Better Philadelphia and the National Exhoodus Council. Both men are tapped into the ebb and flow of Philly’s roughest streets, and they command respect from Abbottsford and Allegheny alike. “The kids, they listen to us because they know we lived it,” says Brinkley. “There ain’t nothin’ new under the sun. The only difference is that we had a gun or two, and now everybody has guns. But the concept of the streets doesn’t change.”

Brinkley— whose nephew is Curtis Brinkley (who Anderson was close with and considered a mentor) —is tight with Big Shawn and knew Anderson since he was a baby. He says Anderson knew how to fight, but he didn’t carry a gun. And he doesn’t believe he was involved in the McDonald’s shooting.

“But by the same token he was recognized as an Abbottsford leader. He mighta took up for some people.”

“He had a thousand people there at his funeral,” says Aziz. “You ask any of those kids what they think of Shawnee, they like, ‘He was the shit. He was like our leader up here.’ He was an athlete, he was personable, he had that charisma, and young people follow.

“He had this bravado about him, like, ‘I

ain’t takin’ no shit because I’m from Abbottsford.’ I can tell you he had a fierce love for Abbottsford. He identified with Abbottsford—that’s his crew and his hood.”

Both Brinkley and Aziz acknowledge that Shawnee’s parents don’t want to hear that, but, says Aziz, “We gotta say it like it is. It was more or less a hit on the leader. I feel bad it happened. I love the kid and his family. But sometimes you gotta tell it like it is so you can save other kids.”

The pair say they’ve been driving around Allegheny, trying to talk to kids around 32nd Street, hoping to broker some kind of truce. Maybe get someone to give up Anderson’s killer because “it’s the right thing to do.” Aziz says the tension in that neighborhood is palpable; kids tell him they’re expecting retaliation from Abbottsford at any minute. “They one up on Abbottsford,” says Aziz. “And to the outside, [Abbottsford’s] sayin’, ‘It’s cool, it’s cool, everything’s alright, we ain’t gonna do nothin’ about it.’

But to themselves they sayin’, ‘This is Abbottsford, we don’t take no shit.’ So somebody’s gonna take that up. This kid was a loved figure up there by the other kids. You seen it at the funeral. You think they gonna let that go by? There’s no way. They gonna be like, ‘Fuck that, they killed Shawnee.

Fuck that, somebody got to go over there.’

It’s up to us to stop it.”

“We can stop it,” says Brinkley. “I’ve got to believe that. We just gotta figure out how we’re gonna do the intervention process with stakeholders across the bridge. We got a working group from Abbottsford; we need a working group from Allegheny.

We gotta say to them, ‘If your child is not involved, fine, but when the shooting starts, your child isn’t safe either.’

We need to encourage our communities to come together. Failure is not an option.”

In their living room, surrounded by photos of their son, Big Shawn and Mincey ponder the deeper causes of street violence and how to stop it. “It starts at home,” says Mincey, who used to counsel teens at West Philadelphia High School. “If you got

a child at home, sit down and talk to that child and listen to that child like myself and Shawnee’s dad did with Shawnee. Your child could be goin’ through so much and you don’t even realize because you’re probably too busy working. Sit down and really ask your child, ‘How you doin’?’ Go to the school, see what they’re doin’. Get involved in their life.”

And, they say, the city needs to take responsibility, too. Big Shawn and others at Abbottsford have been trying for years to get after-school and evening programs —basketball, computer training, tutoring, anger-management counseling, movie nights, and more; the kind of programs Big Shawn had as a kid to keep him out of trouble—going at the Community Center again.

But they say that ever since the Philadelphia Housing Authority (which has owned the Abbottsford property since the 1940s) took over full-time management of the projects from the Abbottsford Tenant Management Association in 2002, the building is locked most of the time, and when it’s not, it’s being used for PHA meetings.

“When kids ain’t got nothin’ to do, they gonna find something to do and it ain’t gonna be good,” says Big Shawn. “At least during that time they’re doing those activities at the Center, that’s one less chance they’re gonna be out there and something bad happen to ’em.”

Big Shawn says there’s plenty of adults at Abbottsford who will volunteer their time at the Center, they just need the PHA to make the facility available to residents and provide some modest funds to make those programs a reality. “We ain’t askin’ for a lot. It’s somethin’ small that can make a big difference.”

Make no mistake about it—Anderson’s parents want their son’s killer found and brought to justice. “I think death would be too easy,” says Mincey. “I want him to suffer … I mean suffer. How about being in a hole 23 hours a day, pure darkness. You don’t even know if it’s day or night. For the rest of your life.”

But both she and Big Shawn say their focus now is on becoming anti-violence activists, going to community meetings and candlelight vigils for murder victims all over the city, telling their story, and demanding Mayor Nutter do more to get guns off the streets. Mincey’s got a meeting scheduled next month with Mothers in Charge—the Philadelphia advocacy group formed by mothers who’ve lost their sons or daughters to street violence. And Big Shawn says he’ll go out and talk to anyone who will listen to his story. “I can’t just let it ride. I got to be out there. I don’t wanna see nobody go through what I’m going through right now.

You can’t even imagine what it’s like.”

“They gonna hear our voice,” says Mincey. “They gonna hear my son’s voice.

Shawnee isn’t just a number. He’s not just ‘the 38th male murdered in Philadelphia this year.’ Rashawn was a son. A grandson.

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The Philadelphia Story

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espite M. Night’s best (and worst) efforts, Philadelphia’s contributions to cinema are still dominated by a certain Sylvester Stallone product. Jump back half a century and you’d find public perception erred on the other side of the class divide. Instead of picturing working-class shlubs pounding away at meat, people might have identified the City of Brotherly Love with Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant as Main Line socialites, swapping tony quips with James Stewart’s skeptical journalist. The Philadelphia Story, which proved the antidote to Hepburn’s box-office poison period, is the least of her work with Grant (the others being Holiday and Bringing Up Baby), which is to say it’s merely jaw-droppingly wonderful. It’s a fine kickoff to the Philadelphia Film Society’s series of films shot in (or, in this case, inspired by) our fair city; others include Trading Places, Blow Out and, of course, Mannequin. matt pRigge Wed., Feb. 23, 7:30pm. $5-$10.

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Anat Fort Trio After years on the New York circuit, Israeliborn pianist Anat Fort scored big with A Long Story, a 2007 date featuring legendary drummer Paul Motian. That the album came out on ECM Records, home to Motian as well as Keith Jarrett and Paul Bley (two of Fort’s main influences), made the triumph even sweeter. A fluke? No, in 2010 Fort returned with a second ECM disc, And If, this time featuring her working trio with bassist Gary Wang and drummer Roland Schneider. They may not be big names, but they’re solid as they come, completely at home in the intricacies of Fort’s music. The sound is poetic, darkly lyrical, with rough improvised edges, Middle Eastern echoes and hints of classical grandeur. DaviD R. aDleR 8pm. $12. Philadelphia Art Alliance, 251 S. 18th St. 215.545.4302 arsnovaworkshop.org

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Lower Dens Baltimore’s Jana Hunter rode the Naughts’ folk revival wave to underground-sized success. She released a fistful of capable albums on Gnomosong, the label started by Devendra Banhart and Vetiver’s Andy Cabic, with 2007’s There’s No Home considered the crown of her corpus. Her new quartet Lower Dens lunges into shadowy territories built on a sturdy percussive backbone and painted by expansive, reverb soaked guitar-tones. Impossible with

her sparse instrumentation as a solo artist, the full-band landscape compellingly elevates the heavy elegance of her throaty blues. Their 2010 debut, Twin-Hand Movement, finds Hunter unexpectedly evoking the switchblade-bravado of Chrissy Hynde rather than woodsy delicacies. Tonight they open for emerging locals Reading Rainbow. elliott ShaRp 8pm. $5. With Reading Rainbow, Adventure + R.u.an.if.u.R. The Ox, Second and Oxford sts.

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Flip the Switch Gala Finally, technology has created a use for the city’s roofscapes that doesn’t involve drinking or moonlit heart-to-hearts. Solar-powered outfit Solar States has teamed up with Kensington’s Crane Arts to install 450 solar panels, capturing 81 kilowatts of awesome power, on the Crane Arts Building’s 20,000-square-foot roof. (81 kW might not sound like a lot, but it’s enough to power Crane Arts with some left over to be pumped into the local grid.)

They’re celebrating this step up in Philly’s sustainability in style with a gala celebration featuring food and drinks. Mayor Nutter and a handful of local officials will be on hand to flip the proverbial switch. Toast to Kensington’s continued greening, and see how many city suits it takes to turn on a whole lot of light bulbs. aleXaNDRa JoNeS 6pm. Free. Crane Arts Building, 1400 N. American St. 215.232.3203. solar-states.com

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Tonight kicks off the FERNCHAIRS 2011 Tour as Philly’s the Armchairs and too-cute-pop quintet Arrah and the Ferns descend upon the world with their eyes focused on total world domination. They’ll trek up through Chicago, down to Austin for two SXSW dates, and then up the East Coast stopping at every city and sleepy hollow along the way. Summoning the spirit of Frank Zappa’s pranksterism, the Armchairs have been working on their “Custom Song Project,” where they’ve been commissioned to write songs on timeless topics like dumplings and heartbreak. For $25, they’ll record a tune about anything you want. With the long, winding road awaiting they could really use the gas money. e.S. 8pm. $5. With Arrah and the Ferns, The HI-TONES + Bird Names. The Ox, Second and Oxford sts. myspace.com/theoxphiladelphia

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Armed with a dry wit and a penchant for absurdist, slyly subversive comedy, Princ-

eton-born writer/actor Michael Showalter has become one of the more recognized, and busiest, members of the so-called “hipsterhumorist” cabal. Showalter first made waves in the early ’90s as a cast member of MTV’s cult sketch-comedy series The State; later he briefly served as a correspondent on The Daily Show before co-writing and starring in 2001’s irreverent, critically panned (yet still beloved by many) Wet Hot American Summer. More recently, he’s been onethird of the surrealist sketch-comedy trio Stella; he’s hosted the offbeat online series The Michael Showalter Showalter; and was seen for a spell on Comedy Central with his Stella/State compadre Michael Ian Black in Michael and Michael Have Issues. Showalter also found the time to write a comedic memoir, Mr. Funny Pants, published this week—he’s in town tonight to deliver his oddball stand-up routine, preceded by a 4 p.m. appearance and signing at the Penn bookstore. michael alaN golDbeRg 7:30pm. $12-$14. Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St. 215.291.4919. kungfunecktie.com

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Fourth Wall Arts Salon Every month, Philly nonprofit Fourth Wall Arts brings artists and intellectuals of all stripes and disciplines together with the public to mingle in the European tradition of the “salon”—an intersection of performances, lectures, discussions, food, and drink. Tonight’s FWA Salon is hosted by Perry “Vision” DiVirgilio, the towering North Philly poet. Among the many local and international folks he’ll introduce you to this evening (if you don’t know them already): Hip-hop poet B. Yung, Haitian sculptor/painter Claes Gabriel, contemporary Indian dance troupe Courtyard Dancers, visual artist and Kutztown professor James Rose, singer-songwriter Marc Silver, UArts multimedia/communications professor Neil Kleinman, tap dancer Frances Bradley, poet and playwright Gina Dukes, and turntable wiz DJ Supreme. m.a.g.

7pm, $20. Dorrance Hamilton Hall at the University of the Arts, 320 S. Broad St. 215.645.2424. fourthwallarts.org

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An Evening with Fonzworth Bentley He burst onto the scene as Sean “Puffy/P. Diddy/Diddy” Combs’ umbrella man on sunny days, then went on to parlay that rather menial position into a career as an author, actor, haberdasher extraordinaire, recording artist and TV host with the charge

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of transforming rapscallions into refined men of class. The man in question is none other than MTV’s From G’s To Gents’ Fonzworth Bentley. As a part of its Black History Month festivities, The Community College of Philadelphia has invited Mr. Bentley to come for an evening that includes an interactive lecture, signing for his book, Advance Your Swagger: How to Use Manners, Confidence and Style to Get Ahead and a performance of material from his album C.O.L.O.U.R.S. The evening will also feature student performances by Deja tu and Seff Al-Afriq. For all those focused on getting their “swag on a million,” this is for you. Get fresh and come out. ryAn sMith 5pm. $10-$20. Community College of Philadelphia, 700 Spring Garden St. 215.751.8082. ccp.edu

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Always wanted to try figure painting but unwilling to be the weirdo who posts an ad on Craigslist for a model? Fleisher Art Memorial has you covered. Channel your inner Wyeth (or Oldenburg or Warhol) with a variety of tuition-free art classes from Fleisher Art Memorial. They’ve recently capped enrollment so you get plenty of instructor attention from their experienced faculty and it’s the perfect opportunity to scratch that printmaking or pottery itch without actually buying a press or a kiln. Instructors will coach you through the basics but expect plenty of hands-on art-making. Check Fleisher’s website for full course listings and schedule, but most classes are weekly (many in the evenings) for two or three hours. They offer courses in anatomy and art history for the more hands-off art lover, but those looking to get messy can immerse themselves in ceramics, drawing, sculpture and printmaking. The 10-week semester begins April 9 but classes fill up quickly so set your most reliable calendar alarm for Monday morning and get ready to get crafty. CAitLin GOOdMAn 10am. Free with membership. Fleisher Art Memorial, 719 Catharine St. 215.922.3456. fleisher.org

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ust shy of 30, Louisiana singer-guitarist Marc Broussard has spent the past decade establishing himself as one of the premier ambassadors of “Bayou soul”—he’s sorta like Dr. John, had the Doctor been weaned on Prince instead of Bo Diddley. Broussard’s got a husky, gritty voice and a command of blues, soul, and Cajun traditions, at least some of that absorbed from his famous father, Boogie Kings guitarist Ted Broussard. The younger Broussard has been particularly adept at working those old music forms into modern-pop structures, scoring a handful of hits (surely you’re heard the ubiquitous “Home”) and collaborating with the likes of LeAnn Rimes and Sara Bareilles. Tonight he hits town behind his forthcoming self-titled album, which doesn’t arrive in stores until June but which you can purchase exclusively at this gig. M.A.G.

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Even if you aren’t beginning a fast for the Lenten season (for some of us, every Tuesday is “Fat” Tuesday), you can still party like it’s going out of business at Sunday’s 27th annual Mardi Gras Parade with the Wild Bohemains. The Wild Bohemians have become practically synonymous with drunken Mardi Gras revelry in Philadelphia, and will pull us out of our February funk (Valentine’s Day, digging your car out of the snow with a Frisbee, etc.) yet again with a celebratory parade down South Street, complete with big-band sound and 1,500 Mardi Gras beads.

The parade starts, quite appropriately, at Fat Tuesdays, and ends at Cafe Nola, hitting several watering holes along the way. Come

1:30pm-6pm. Free. Fat Tuesday, 431 South St. 215.629.5999

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Trolls: They’re large, hairy and scary. They live under bridges. When sunlight hits ’em, they turn to stone. And when they get their huge paws on humans, they usually eat them. Fuckin’ A, right? Scandinavians are down with trolls because they’re part of that region’s rich folklore, and metal bands have long dug trolls because of all the mayhem and fear. Thus: Finntroll. As the name implies, this rousing, growling black-metal/ folk-metal group is from Helsinki, Finland, and near as we can tell, all of their songs are about either trolls devouring interloping Swedish priests, or interloping Swedish priests being devoured by trolls. Long as you’re not a Swedish priest, we can’t see any reason for skipping this show. M.A.G. 7:30pm. $20-$23. With Ensiferum, Rotten Sound + Barren Earth. Trocadero, 1003 Arch St. 215.922.6888. thetroc.com

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Love-hate: Cate (Haley McCormick) cares for her troubled man, Ian (John Jezior).

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Luna Theater Company delivers the most welcome surprise of the 2010-11 Philly theater season with its blistering staging of Sarah Kane’s ferocious and bizarrely touching drama Blasted.

And it’s like nothing you have ever seen.

The play begins in a generic hotel room (realized with just the right touch of ordinary in Dirk Durossette’s scenic design) in Leeds, England. Spending the night is a middleaged journalist named Ian (John Jezior) and his troubled ex-girlfriend, Cate (Haley McCormick). Ian is domineering, and that’s an understatement. At one point, he has his way with the unwilling Cate while sticking a gun in her mouth. It’s an act of violation that sends her into a state of convulsions.

This troubling pattern of behavior continues through the night, interrupted by the occasional knock on the door. It’s only room service leaving food and a bottle of gin, but Ian’s reaction suggests it could be something far more malicious. We, too, suspect that violence lurks beyond the door, and our suspicions are confirmed when a well-armed and desperate soldier (Jerry Rudasill) suddenly bursts into the room. What happens next is difficult to watch, yet the violent images are so striking (Andrew Cowles’ lighting design is spectacular) you can’t turn away.

The production is helmed by Luna’s founder and producing artistic director Gregory Scott Campbell, whose direction doesn’t pull any punches. The acts of sexual violence (of which there are many) are graphically depicted, but the intent is not simply to shock the audience. Carefully paced and meticulously blocked, the production is unrestrained but is neither gratuitous nor manipulative. There is a point to all this violence, which makes Blasted impossible to dismiss.

Keeping in line with Campbell’s go-forbroke direction, the three performances are anything but timid. Jezior has been on local stages since 1992, and while he’s always been a decent actor, nothing in his resume

compares to the seismic performance he delivers as the enigmatic Ian. Ian abuses Cate horribly, yet we come to pity this emotionally abused man. Which is why Jezior’s Ian is not the usual shallow portrait of evil.

He is lonely, desperate and incapable of appropriate displays of affection. Despite his horrendous behavior, we believe him when he says he loves Cate.

McCormick is equally impressive. In lesser hands, Cate could be reduced to the stereotypical female victim. Cate is certainly victimized, but she is also the play’s most courageous and compassionate character, capable of forgiving even the most obscene transgressions. It is Cate who gives Blasted its humanity, and McCormick’s performance is an impressive achievement for an actress with limited professional experience.

Rudasill’s Soldier is unnervingly unpredictable. Alternately ruthless and easygoing, he is a frighteningly relaxed killer, who one moment is joking and collegial and the next moment is ripping Ian’s eyes out with his teeth. He is scary as hell, and the closeness that develops between he and Ian is both surprising and strangely poignant.

Blasted doesn’t have an obvious message.

Experimenting with new forms of storytelling, Kane allows the audience to form their own impressions of the play. Showing us the ability humans have to endure suffering, Blasted is undeniably gruesome. However, Kane (who committed suicide in 1999) offers us a light at the end of the tunnel and the play’s conclusion is deeply moving. The physical abuse may be shocking, but loneliness is what scares the characters the most.

Making good use of the tiny Upstairs at the Adrienne space, the configuration of the seats and stage forces us into an uncomfortably close relationship with the characters (there are only three rows of seats so no theatergoer sits more than a few feet away from the barbarity on stage) and Campbell succeeds in making us feel as if we are part of Kane’s nightmarish world.

An example of high-wire theater at its best, Luna should be applauded for bringing the controversial Blasted to Philadelphia (the production is the play’s local debut). According to Campbell, it is the most expensive production Luna has mounted in its nine years, which considering the subject matter is an extremely daring move in these difficult economic times.

Some will no doubt find Blasted offensive, and for some theatergoers the play may be too intense (no one under 18 years of age is permitted to attend). But if you believe that theater has not only the right but the responsibility to address even the most horrific subjects, this strange and memorable play is not to be missed. n Blasted Extended through March 15. $12.50-$32.

Upstairs at the Adrienne, 2030 Sansom St. 215.704.0033. lunatheater.org

A-OK: James Hyde's sculptures are playful and visually engaging.

A Good Word!

Jolie Laide exhibit pays tribute to the works of a Philly-born painter.

By Roberta Fallon rfallon@philadelphiaweekly.com

His collage paintings in the gallery space wear their historical references to Davis a little loudly and seem more about formalist ideas.

And because their enigma unfolds quickly, they are less magical than tricky.

The works combine digital prints and paint. Initially, you confuse the two because what looks painted is really huge and realistic-looking digitally printed blow-ups of brush strokes from Davis’ paintings. The flat white areas look like paper, and you assume they are the prints. The humongous paint strokes—so big and luscious they look like waves and drips of pudding—are very attractive, but once you’ve figured out that they are digital photos of paint, they lose their mystery and become nothing more than great big pictures. The white paint that Hyde sprays on in hard-edged geometric lines and circles ends up looking like White-Out hiding a mistake.

Unlike the playful sculptures, the collage paintings seem rooted in formalist abstract concerns about color, line, shape and rhythm. And, also true to their art historical roots in Davis, words serve as the title of the pieces—“IN,” “TO,” “AT,” “IF,” “OF,” “AS,” “OR,” “ON”—and are spelled out in whole or part by the white painted areas.

Hyde, who was born in Philadelphia but lives in New York, is a sculptural painter who frequently references art history and whose works showcase construction materials (according to the gallery, he worked in the construction trades and clearly loves these materials). He has previously created big pillow pieces painted like Monet’s water lilies and Jackson Pollock’s drip paintings. He’s also made functional furniture. In his 2002 solo exhibition at the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Hyde showed colorful furniture made of plexiglas that looked like functional color-field chunks. A recent show at The Boiler in Brooklyn included functional furniture/painting hybrids like a “Davis” sofa and some white “Chunk” chairs for people to sit on while visiting the show.

The sofa was covered with the blown-up brush strokes and it looked like a new kind of 3-D painting.

While they might look like toss-offs, Hyde’s sculptures are the magic of the exhibit—their combination of idea and materials comes together perfectly. n

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Through March 26. Artist’s talk, with PMA Curator of Modern Art Michael Taylor, Fri., March 18, 7pm.

Closing event, with Jeremy Sigler and Shayna Dunkelman, Sat., March 27, 7pm. Jolie Laide, 224 N. Juniper St. jolielaide.com

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“OR” talks with “OK” as “OH” hangs back in the corner. “Capital B,” the tall, gangly guy, is telling jokes while the host, “Big A,” though looped and upside down, makes everyone feel at home.

What is this, a cocktail party?

James Hyde’s show, Word!, at Jolie Laide kind of looks like one, with sculptures of letters and short words—made from wood, spray paint, foam insulation, cinder blocks and other construction materials—forming little clusters on the floor. Short and tall, fat and thin, the sculptures strive to give Philadelphia-born modernist painter Stuart Davis a fresh look in the 21st century.

Visually and materially engaging, the objects hold a strange but true allegience to Davis’ free-form, Cubist-inspired wordand jazz-influenced paintings. Cheerful, playful and colorful, these little letters and words speak on many levels about humans and language, just as Davis’ work does.

(And they’re hand-made, which appeals to us in our era of DIY).

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Radiohead dropped a surprise new album last week, and The World paused. The World of the music press that is, who wasted no time at all issuing verdicts about the sound and scope and what does it all mean-ness of The King of Limbs, the band’s eighth. So how is it? We went straight to someone who listens more closely to Radiohead than anyone else, Philly-based Radiohead tribute band Meeting in the Aisle, who play outstandingly close renditions of Radiohead’s entire catalogue. Here they give us general first impressions of the album and break it down track by track. This week, on our music blog, we talk with the members of Meeting in the Aisle about how difficult the album will be to cover. Tune in!

(Brian McManus) General impressions of The King of Limbs, by Anthony Pryor, who plays the role of Ed O’Brien in Meeting in the Aisle: King of Limbs is really not such a surprising change of pace—that is, if you’ve been following the “Office Charts” that Thom and company post on their website, Dead Air Space. The lists include songs like Four Tet’s “Nothing to See” and Burial’s “South London Boroughs”—good examples of the kind of post-dub-step percussiveness that percolates throughout Radiohead’s newest release. Couple these with jazz standards like Duke Ellington’s “Jeep’s Blues” and Stone’s classics like “Lady Jane” and the stage is set for The King of Limbs.

The first impression I have of King of Limbs is that it’s an almost seamless record. Once you get past the dubby weirdness of the drum patterns—once you take for granted the underlying rhythmic noise—the songs have an almost calming effect. Gone are the mood swings of “Paranoid Android” and “2 + 2 = 5.” It’s a lot like [Thom Yorke solo album] The Eraser in that way. No alarms, no surprises—just lush and melodic soundscapes serving as the antidote to the schizophrenic rhythms underneath.

General Impressions by Michael Litt, who plays the role of Phil Selway in MitA: Since it has only been two days after the release of The King Of Limbs, I have not been able to give this record the due

diligence it deserves. Having said that, my first impression was one of dissatisfaction, much like if you were to gulp a big mouthful of vodka when expecting cool refreshing water ... your mind and taste buds would of course be simply unprepared for the booze.

Most albums that have taken on special meanings to me both musically and emotionally have more or less begun this way. The one thing such albums have always possessed, that other albums I disliked and quickly disregarded have not, is a mysterious quality that makes me want to keep listening despite the negative first and second time experience. I’ve listened to it a few more times since, and feel this is what Thom’s solo album The Eraser would have been like had all of Radiohead collaborated on it. It is in the same vain as The Eraser, but more organic and I feel goes a bit deeper. I have yet to hear this with headphones yet, but am very eager to, as it will be an entirely different album with many more layers to peel back and explore.

“Bloom,” by Anthony Pryor: You’re never quite sure what you’re going to get with a new Radiohead record. The first time I listened to Kid A, I had to switch it off after a few seconds. I was at work and, upon hearing the ominous opening notes of “Everything in It’s Right Place,” I knew that I was not in the right place to listen to it.

I’m not sure there is right place to hear TKoL's first track, “Bloom.”

But once you get familiar with the terrain, it emerges as a lush and beautiful song about transition and awakening (I think). Floating above the rhythmic wonkiness are gorgeous, layered vocals and orchestration reminiscent of Bjork’s “Isobel.” In the lyric, we find Thom (or someone) diving amidst the waves of the grey English surf and contemplating the mysteries of life: “Why does this still hurt?/ Don’t blow your mind with why.”

Maybe it’s piece of advice from Thom about The King of Limbs experience? Because, yeah, it’s gonna hurt a little at first.

“Morning Mr. Magpie,” by Mike McCarthy, who plays the role of Johnny Greenwood in MitA: Guitars! A beat! Already a world away from “Bloom.”

Thom’s voice is up-front and accessible, not hiding anywhere, a pleasant reminder of how clear and present his voice was on most of In Rainbows. Between Ed painting epic soundscapes with his multiple sustained guitar notes, coupled with Thom and Johnny’s machine-gun, palmmuted riffing, I find a more comfortable place to listen and just dig into the song. “Morning Mr. Magpie” is similar to “Weird Fishes” in that there are great interweaving guitar parts, and Colin’s sparse, but incredibly tasteful bass lines.

“Lotus Flower,” by Anthony Pryor: The resident bad-boy groove track in the tradition of “15 Step” and “National Anthem.” It’s also one of the most accessible songs on the record. The wonkiness is still there, but Colin’s hypnotic bass line is the Xanax that calms things down enough to make it listenable—and danceable, as Thom brilliantly demonstrates in the song’s video, which the guerilla comedians of YouTube have already synched up to “Whip My Hair” and “Rock With You,” among others.

The lotus flower is a Buddhist symbol of spiritual growth.

I’m not exactly sure how it relates to the song, but at one point Thom sings, “Listen to your heart.” (That has to be ironic, right?) n Read more impressions at makemajormoves.com

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one of Houston’s oldest and last remaining record stores, Sound Exchange, Bakos has been a driving force of support for Houston music since punk rock hit the streets in the late ’70s. Always a renaissance man, Bakos lent his design talents to many a T-shirt, show poster and album for Houston-based bands of that era, D.R.I. among them (Bakos is responsible for the art on their stalwart albums Violent Pacification and Dealing With It). We caught up with the man to talk Houston punk, D.R.I. and their maturing sound.

How did you come about doing the artwork for D.R.I.?

I was unemployed at the time, obsessed with punk rock, and became fascinated with screen printing. I started doing T-shirts for local bands, usually without asking first, and once the bands saw them they of course wanted more. This led to some art gigs working for various scene-related businesses and local bands, of which D.R.I. were a part.

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all co-existing, supporting and influencing each other. I was lucky to be there.

Why didn’t Houston’s punk scene get the recognition of cities like D.C., New York, L.A.?

Because there was no way you could label it neatly. It was musically all over the map, so you didn’t have the convenience of a simple identity such as “Boston Hardcore” or “DC Hardcore.” The scene in Houston supported all kinds of music, and I must point out that that was largely at the insistence of the founders of the scene including, but not limited to, Really Red. Is there truth to the rumor you created the iconic “Skanking Man” logo for D.R.I.?

None whatsoever. That was [D.R.I. vocalist] Kurt’s [Brecht] brother, whose name I cannot recall. I think he was playing drums for D.R.I. at the time.

D.R.I.’s sound has changed over time, starting with their album Crossover.

Were people bummed when it came out?

I suppose some were, but that was a kneejerk reaction to the rockisms that were part of metal at that time. Looking at it now, I think there was a very positive crosspollination occurring there. Besides, you can’t do three-chord punk as a career. It is too limiting. Can’t blame them at all, especially since it was a great record.

Is it astonishing to you that Kurt and [D.R.I. guitarist] Spike are still thrashing 30 years later?

It is. I ran out of steam for it years ago, so more power to ’em!! n D.R.I. perform Sat., Feb. 26, 7:30pm. $16.50$18. With Paths 2 Glory, The Heels + Live Set Disaster. Trocadero, 1003 Arch St. 215.922.6888. thetroc.com

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I ndie kids harbor this delusion that their shit don’t stink, but champion as many steaming loafs as punks and hard rockers. One recent lottery winner is Beach House, whose turgid Fall-flavored shuffles suggest Mazzy Star on Ambien.

The music wanders listlessly about the room, expressing moody dissatisfaction and a contagious sense of ennui, while indulging a petulant spat with melody and pep. The gauzy, lo-fi setting for this minimalist pop fosters the impression they’re coyly reticent when the truth is they simply have nothing to say.

Victoria LeGrand’s husky vocals affect dramatic sweep and stature that strives for Marianne Faithfull but sounds more like Kate Bush being drowned in her bathtub. Her voice isn’t rich and grainy, it’s wood paneling. Usually music this bland doesn’t make it out of the elevator, though the soft-focus texture makes sense—like photography, it’s great at disguising the fact that you don’t want to look too closely. (Chris Parker) n Thurs., Feb. 24, 8pm. $19. With Papercuts.

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Important bands came out of Houston during the ‘80s (Really Red, Verbal Abuse, Party Owls). What was Houston like at that time?

Downtown Houston at that time was a pit.

Most of the clubs were either downtown or in The Montrose, an area that had all but been forgotten by the city. Shuttered homes and abandoned warehouses littered the map. There was no evening entertainment downtown at that time, so after 5 o’clock the whole thing was vacant. It made for a great playground/art/music environment, but that is the case for all nascent bohemias, I suppose. Culturally you could easily draw analogies between Houston in the early ’80s and NYC in the late ’70s. There were artists, punks, hippies, cosmic cowboys, beatniks, junkies and anything else you could name

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You’ll remember (unless you’re trying hard to forget) what the ’80s were like. You were young, disaffected and angry. Reaganomics was killing you. You felt alone. Then a band threw you a life preserver in the raging sea of despair that was your life. They were called D.R.I., an acronym which stood for something you already considered yourself: Dirty Rotten Imbeciles.

A Houston based punk act too furious to ignore, they were one of the only bands to make a name for themselves outside that giant bastion of Republican politics. They were thrash pioneers, twisting the genre and infusing it with metal/punk/hardcore and making it all their own. D.R.I. could whiz through 22 songs in 18 minutes. And they did, on their first 7-inch record, Dirty Rotten EP. Enter Kevin Bakos. As the co-owner of

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Blanket statement: Delicious shrimp in a blanket could define The Corner.

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102 S. 13th St. 215.735.7500 Cuisine: American, with homage paid to many of its influencing cuisines.

Hours: Mon.-Weds., 5pm-midnight; Thurs.-Sat., 5pm-2am.

Price range: $4-$18.

Atmosphere: Comfortable and thoroughly urban: Great buzz in the room. The upstairs space, complete with patio, continues to be a great addition to the neighborhood.

Food: Shows promise, but more menu coherence would help.

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There’s an almost scientific sense of precision to the Devil in the White City cocktail at The Corner, the restaurant and bar opened in mid-December by former Buddakan chef Scott Swiderski. It would have been so easy for this apple brandybased drink to slide down the road of least resistance, and lean into the sweeter aspects of its flavor profile. But it doesn’t, and in the astounding attention to detail with which it’s composed, it pays perhaps inadvertent homage to the narrow, urbane space’s former tenant, Apothecary. So too does the tequila Old Fashioned.

In the conception and execution of these cocktails, The Corner makes itself into a worthy successor to both Apothecary and, following that speakeasyish temple to booze, APO. What sets The Corner apart from its predecessor is its lack of the sort of self-conscious mixological righteousness that occasionally hovered over the experience there. (It never marred it, of course, and Apothecary is still owed a serious debt of gratitude by anyone in town who likes a well-crafted cocktail). The drinks here are great, and the bar’s transformation has been as seamless as you could hope: The narrow downstairs space with an open kitchen and two revered chefs, the well-chosen soundtrack, walls that reflect and magnify sound, creating a literally audible buzz of energy. It is, in other words, perfectly blended with so much that has made this slice of the city one of the most exciting to visit for a meal or a tipple: Zavino, the Valerie Safran-Marcie Turney empire, El Vez, Time and the rest. It’s young and energetic, and like its neighbors, comfortable enough for the several families I saw dining next to googly-eyed daters on a recent Friday night.

I just wish the food was as exciting as the vibe and the booze.

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Living Loaded: Tales of Sex, Salvation, and the Pursuit of the Never-Ending Happy Hour is the funny, compulsively readable memoir/survival guide from Playboy booze scribe and Philly native Dan Dunn. He stopped

by Baby Blues BBQ in West Philly for a book signing last Thursday.

As he mentions throughout the tome, Dunn’s mentor was none other than Hunter S. Thompson, the great God of Gonzo. Though the closest he comes to approximating Thompson’s psychedelic prose is a scene echoing the opening of Fear and Loathing where Dunn’s cruising down a warbling Pacific Coast Highway high on E, you couldn’t say he doesn’t launch himself, body and soul, into the scene he gets paid to observe.

“If your job is to be constantly surrounded by drunk, rowdy people, then hey, you’re going to be one of them yourself from time to time,” Dunn writes, justifying his more-than-occasional hedonistic overindulgence.

His account of the Life Gigantic weaves in and out of scenes from Dunn’s childhood (father was an alcoholic, mother, a terminal head case) and grown-up reality, carousing with porn stars and C-list celebrities, boning a crazy broad in the ass behind a dumpster, almost getting hooked on “spiritual heroin” at a Christian rock concert, and unsuccessfully keeping his composure at industry events (isn’t that the point?). Fortunately, he’s documented it all.

Somewhat cringingly, the author paints himself as a sort of thinking man’s frat boy. His intricate deconstruction of the phrase “bros before hos” illustrates this point.

The good thing is, he’s got enough Bukowski and pop culture/music references up his sleeve, plus an undeniable God-given wit, to save this pseudo-memoir from suffering the literary fate of a go-to “Bro Bible.” In a section titled “How to Master the Barroom Conversation,” for example, Dunn suggests insinuating yourself into a stranger’s conversation by dropping a concise one-liner like, “Hey, David Bowie wore tights.”

Loaded’s other saving grace: Dunn’s writing is selfconscious; he engages the reader’s skepticism about his contradictory theories on women and the sometimes lonely life of a career drunk with self-deprecating humor, beating us all to the judgmental punch by saying it first.

His best defense is also his simplest: “Life is too short not to find out what’s out there in left field.” If that means exploring the murky recesses of an escapist, pleasureseeking conscience, mix yourself a stiff gin-andsomething, pop a pill or two, and go along for the ride.

Soon, it might be tunneling straight into your living room.

At Baby Blues, Dunn announced that Living Loaded is in the works to be made into a TV series produced by It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia creator Rob McElhenney.

Look out for the real-life adaptation of real-life drinking tales from one of the best onscreen drunks in the business. n

I understand the desire to pay homage to all the influencing cultures that have impacted what we now know as “American cuisine,” but it’s difficult to keep the totality of them on a single menu cohesive, and lead to a whole that speaks of more than simply the sum of its parts. The Corner’s missteps are in this regard.

Masa tots—think tater tots, but made with masa—were theoretically promising. In practice, however, the ground corn absorbed a bit too much oil in frying, and as a result lacked the fluffy-centered allure of their classic potato counterparts. The appealingly dense filling of potato pierogies was hemmed in by too-gummy dough encasing it. Shrimp in a blanket, however, hit its intended target, and seem to be the kind of dish that will ultimately define The Corner: Internationally inspired yet still rooted in a familiarly-American concept. The dish’s simplicity is its allure—large prawns were wrapped in kataifi, or shredded phyllo, and deep fried. It was executed perfectly, the kataifi splintering with each bite and juxtaposed in a neat little dance with the soft prawn inside.

Thin-skinned and crisp fried chicken also worked well, cider brining lending a sweetness to the meat. Ribs succeeded too, though given the menu’s description of “maple-bourbon glazed,” I expected a more gooey, lusty presentation than the rather austere set of ribs I was served. These were a hybrid of sorts on wet and dry ribs, they possessed a delicate glaze on top, though the rub on the meat also played a pivotal role. While the first bite led to some confusion, they ultimately worked very well.

A classic cheeseburger showed more truthful advertising: Juicy ground beef, aged cheddar, bun. Only the accompanying pickle was an outlier, its delicate Asian flavors causing some dissonance when interacting with the more forceful American ones of the sandwich.

Truffle grilled cheese would have been better with less truffly savor: The short ribs peeking up throughout possessed enough headiness on their own; the addition of sottocenere cheese, though excellent for a few bites, overpowered and made it difficult to finish.

It seems that Swiderski, alongside chef John Taus, most notably of Snackbar and Buddakan, work well together, and are at their best when channeling the flavors of Asia.

A side of Brussels sprouts, for instance, were anchored by the inclusion of sweet Chinese sausage. The pickle that threw off the burger made all the sense in the world when sliced to translucent discs the color of sea glass and employed as a base for the ribs.

Nothing here truly failed (except the coffee, which tasted like melted plastic and was too hot), but in order to make itself a repeat-visit kind of place, The Corner needs a greater sense of cohesion. All the parts are here—it’s just a matter of re-jiggering them to fit together more completely. In the meantime, sip a cocktail or three while you wait: They’ll make the time pass as smoothly as you could ever ask for. n

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SIX PACK Six Great Actors Never Nominated for an Oscar

By Matt Prigge mprigge@philadelphiaweekly.com Dana Andrews: The number of towering thespians nominated but never awarded an Oscar goes on forever: Cary Grant, Barbara Stanwyck, Peter O’Toole, Richard Burton, etc. Even more embarrassing are those that have never been even named. Though he spent the ’50s and on in B-movie crap, the handsome, cool, borderline sinister Andrews spent the ’40s quietly stealing several A-pictures. Along with his low-key work in best picture-winner The Best Years of Our Lives, he was aces in Ball of Fire, The OxBow Incident, Canyon Passage and several Otto Preminger pictures, notably Laura and Daisy Kenyon. Alas, he only scored one award his whole career: a Golden Apple in 1946 for “Most Cooperative Actor.”

Dirk Bogarde: Haughty Englishness personified, Bogarde never successfully meshed with Hollywood, and he also never scored The King’s Speech-y crossover British import that would lead to Oscar drooling. Or rather, with Darling, he did, but the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences only noticed his co-star, Julie Christie, and even gave her the trophy.

W.C. Fields: Comedy has long been an AMPAS blind spot, traditionally rectified by one of those “Whoops! Butterfingers!” honorary Oscars awarded before one’s death. Philadelphia’s proudest contribution to comedy didn’t even get one of those. resident ice queen has never scored much Hollywood success. She was revelatory in her Yank debut; alas that film turned out to be the studio-killing Heaven’s Gate.

Few of her imports score more than critic adulation—but still, no love for even The Piano Teacher?

Myrna Loy: The very definition of droll, Loy was more than the laconic Nora to William Powell’s flustery Nick: she was as strong at drama as comedy, not to mention politically outspoken enough to be placed on Hitler’s blacklist. Even if she never did The Rains Came or The Great Ziegfeld, she would still deserve trophies for Libeled Lady, at least the first couple Thin Mans and definitely Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House.

Hall Pass is full of dick and fart jokes, but they’re far from funny.

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sburns@philadelphiaweekly.com cessful Stuck On You and Fever Pitch reveal that these siblings are at their most comfortable crafting jokeless comedies about perfectly nice people, boringly going about their daily business.

The Apatow Era left the Farrellys in the dust, but Hall Pass is their bid to reclaim the naughty comedy throne. As far as the work of aging, sadly irrelevant class clowns go, it feels a lot like Kevin Smith’s half-assed Clerks II. Owen Wilson and SNL’s Jason Sudeikis star as Rick and Fred, a couple of henpecked suburban husbands living in Providence, R.I. At every opportunity, these men expound at great length about all the women they’d like to sleep with, yet right away something feels off. Wilson and Sudeikis speak of sex not in the jaundiced, experienced tone of middle-aged men who have been around the block, but instead in the abstractly boner-iffic, juvenile rants more appropriate for Superbad ’s McLovin. These two are never not talking about “titties” or “large-mouthed vaginas,” yet never in a manner that would suggest that they’ve ever caught a glimpse of either one. Their stilted banter sounds more appropriate for a middle-school playground, with the film’s eyesore-bright over-lighting and primary color palate only adding to the artificial aura.

Which I guess might be the point, as

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Contemporary screen comedy has seen no sadder decline than that of Rhode Island’s own Peter and Bobby Farrelly, the two gentle-hearted, dirty-minded brothers who kicked in the doors of propriety and made scatology safe for the multiplexes back in the ’90s with their heroic blockbuster run of Dumb And Dumber, Kingpin and (especially) There’s Something About Mary.

Mainstream comedies have become so reflexively crass, it’s tough to recall what a shocker Mary was upon its release in the summer of 1998. Starring thenunder-the-radar talents Ben Stiller and Cameron Diaz (as well as washed-up Matt Dillon, who never did quite capitalize on the comeback) the picture slipped into theaters and took its time building ecstatic word of mouth, creeping up the box-office charts without earning blockbuster status until several weeks into its release. The “I-can’t-believe-they-justshowed-that” gross-outs were tempered by the film’s fundamental sweetness, making it the first and only movie with graphic come jokes that my mother wholeheartedly loved.

But the years have not been kind to the Farrelly brothers. Flicks like Me Myself And Irene and The Heartbreak Kid exhibit an ugly desperation beneath the gross-out humor, while the even less suc-

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Office detour: Jason Sudeikis (left) and Owen Wilson get a week off from their marriages in Hall Pass.

after taking the advice of the unwelcome Joy Behar, Rick’s and Fred’s long suffering spouses (Jenna Fischer and Christina Applegate) decide to give the boys a “hall pass.” In case you might miss it, the concept is tiresomely reiterated and over-explained in every scene. The wives take the kids to Cape Cod, giving their husbands “a week off from the responsibilities of marriage, no questions asked. Just get it out of your system.”

There’s a great idea lurking in here. In fact, Larry David mined an entire season of Curb Your Enthusiasm out of a similar deal with his onscreen wife Cheryl, and we delighted to the suddenly single would-be stud floundering in one ill-fated encounter after another, only to sheepishly return to the comforts of domesticity, with a formerly randy tail tucked between his legs.

Sadly, the Farrellys don’t seem to have much interest in their own premise.

Instead, Hall Pass is awash in weirdly grafted-on pee-pee and doo-doo jokes, with the gross-outs feeling phoned in from another universe and often hurled at the screen having nothing to do with the picture’s rich central idea. Wilson faints in a gym’s jacuzzi, prompting a heroically endowed African-American man to rescue him from drowning. There’s a long, loving close-up of the gentleman’s oversized equipment, without any subsequent payoff. Likewise with the thong-clad co-ed who wet-farts diarrhea all over Sudeikis’ bathroom wall.

Yes, we can see the penis and feces. Now where are the jokes?

And can we declare a moratorium on pot brownies ever being used as a comedic device ever again? By now they’re such a hackneyed trope, you might as well be complaining about why airlines give out such small bags of peanuts.

Wilson lazes his way through the film as if he’d rather be somewhere else, allowing Sudeikis room to improvise his way into the kind of mugging, needy performance that’s going to cut that big-screen career short very quickly. Borrowing entire scenes from Bachelor Party (another thing the film has in common with the anemic Clerks II) Hall Pass has so little faith in its own ideas, the movie resorts to police chases and a vengeful, gun-toting barista.

Indifferently photographed and slackly edited, Hall Pass rambles on and on, so undisciplined that by the end, even fleeting side characters are granted elaborate nonsequitor fantasy sequences to pad out the running time. Why bother spraying shit on a bathroom wall if you can’t come up with anything funny to say about it? n

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Credit the low-budget Vanishing on 7th Street for conjuring up an apocalyptic concept that is, if nothing else, original. Rather than flesh-eating bacteria, nuclear bombs, nanotechnology-run-amok or inexplicable sterility, the baddies are (wait for it) shadows. The earth, evidently, is done with humans. Its method of annihilation: Turning out the lights, thereby (apparently) causing people to vaporize, leaving behind cities filled with bodyless clothes. Only those lit by independent light sources (flashlights, glownecklaces, torches) survive; one of the many loopholes screenwriter Anthony Jaswinski employs to make sure there’s a movie at all.

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Appropriately, noted fabulist James Frey has, with co-conspirator Jobie Hughes, hidden behind a pseudonym for the book I Am Number Four. But he’s far less coy about revealing his influences, which are worn right there on the sleeve. The kids like Twilight, eh? If they’ll go gaga for brooding, sexless vampires, perhaps there’s room in their hearts for brooding, sexless aliens, too. I Am Number Four’s film version was greenlit by producer Michael Bay a full year before the first book (in a threatened series) was published; rarely have filmmakers been so openly cynical in their commercialism.

Boring Alex Pettyfer plays a young man from the planet Lorian, which was decimated by a group of snarling baddies decked out in sharp teeth and tats that make them more ridiculous than scary. Pettyfer was one of 10 super-powered kids who, like Superman, were sent from their dying planet to dwell on earth. Unfortunately, the bad guys want to finish the job, meaning Pettyfer’s life is one lived perpetually on the run, with little chance for meaningful, quasi-human

reporter, Thandie Newton as a hysterical and now-babyless mother, wounded projectionist John Leguizamo and Jacob Latimore as a 12 year old with a shotgun.

The quartet hole up in a dive bar that, handily, represents Detroit’s last vestiges of electricity. There, they act out an inconsistently cast, junior-high version of No Exit.

So, why the decimation? No explanation, neither literal nor figurative. From the action and the relationships onscreen, we witness no insight into the human race that would merit annihilation, or thought of any kind. Vanishing on 7th Street would be a pessimistic film had it some perspective on humanity, its relationship to the planet, anything. Instead it appears to be the first apocalyptic wet dream without an axe to grind. Like director Brad Anderson’s The Machinist, it’s a movie made not through passion but through a need to belong to the cool clique. The Machinist was a splotchy, nth-generation dub of Fight Club, and Vanishing exists solely because movies depicting the end of man inevitably develop cults.

As always, Anderson compensates for weak material through overdirection. There are plenty of handsome ’scope frames, but the special effects always look digital when natural would have been far spookier, or at least less giggle-worthy. The Romeroesque trick of suggesting a world peppered with survivors would be more effective if half the cast wasn’t actively awful. Perhaps the planet is simply ridding itself of lousy thespians. If so, maybe there is a case for end times.

relationships apart from the strained one with his strict-but-should-be-more-strict guardian (Timothy Olyphant, on hand for some much-needed credibility), with whom he has recently relocated to an Ohio town so wholesomely backwoods the schools still show film strips.

Despite the sticky wicket into which he’s been born, it’s difficult to care for Pettyfer’s emo E.T., in large part due to his lack of self-preservation. Because he’s bored, Pettyfer attends high school—which would be an amusing joke if I Am Number Four had a sense of humor. It’s only a matter of time before there’s a massive alien-on-alien smackdown within the school walls. Nor does he care for the safety of others, entering into a hesitant Edward-Bella-styled relationship with an aspiring photographer (Glee’s Dianna Agron) who used to date the school bully. Nearly every superhero broods over putting their mortal loved ones at risk. Not the hero of I Am Number Four, who never entertains the possibility that his new gal could be vaporized by his pursuer’s fuck-off laser guns. Perhaps Pettyfer develops basic preservation traits in a future installment; alas, it doesn’t look like filmgoers will have the chance to see that happen.

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After toiling for the past decade or so as “The Mentor Who Gets Killed In The First Reel Of Every Hollywood Epic,” that husky-voiced oak tree of an actor Liam Neeson made a curious career decision. Pushing 60 years old, the Oscar nominee has abruptly decided to give Jason Statham a run for his money, passing on prestige pics and knocking in the skulls of Eurotrash baddies in some slickly engineered B-movies. This is not an unwelcome development.

Much like Neeson’s surprise 2008 smash Taken, director Jaume Collet-Serra’s Unknown finds the hulking master thespian lending unexpected depth and gravity to a preposterously entertaining globe-trotting potboiler. Neeson stars as Dr. Martin Harris, a renowned botanist visiting Germany for an international biochemical conference when a nasty taxicab accident leaves him with partial amnesia. After four days in a coma, Martin returns to his hotel, only to discover that an imposter (Neeson’s one-time

Michael Collins frenemy Aidan Quinn) has swiped his identity and is now playing house with his wife (Mad Men’s beautiful, cardboard January Jones.)

Sleekly confident in its fundamental silliness, Unknown sends Neeson down a rabbit hole of conspiracies, botched assassination attempts and impeccably shot, wintery Berlin landscapes. The expertly executed hooey brings in Diane Krueger as the world’s most glamorous Bosnian refugee cabbie, as well as a wonderfully droll performance by the legendary Bruno Ganz as a bored ex-Stasi agent nostalgic for the heyday of Communism.

Late arrival Frank Langella gets right into the spirit of things as Dr. Harris’ disturbingly supercilious colleague, sharing one instant classic of a scene with Ganz as these two old pros prove that understatement and scenery chewing need not be mutually exclusive.

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It gets much more erect than it used to and often throbs or twitches after I come.

No one’s complaining. I am enjoying the heightened sexual arousal. But why/how is this happening? Could it get even bigger? And why now? I hit menopause seven years ago, so it’s not some weird hormone surge. Could our sexual connection have caused this all by itself? I don’t really want to ask my gynecologist, though I did notice her checking out my equipment with wide eyes at my last checkup.

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What’s not so nice is that we sometimes have to tell happy-and-satisfied folks that something may be seriously wrong.

“I would strongly encourage her to ask her gynecologist about her enlarged clitoris,” says Herbenick. “She should be very clear about the fact that it has increased in size. She should let her know when she first noticed this and roughly how much she thinks it’s increased in size.”

If your gynecologist isn’t comfortable talking with you about your clit—if she just stands there gaping at it—get a new gynecologist. Because your megaclit could be a symptom of something very, very serious.

“You need your doctor to examine your clit and rule out various medical conditions that could cause hormonal problems,” says Herbenick.

“Sometimes these are benign health conditions; unfortunately, sometimes they include vulvar cancers, ovarian cancers and adrenal cancers that, for example, may present with symptoms including an enlarged clitoris.”

Some women believe their clitorises “grew” after menopause, but that’s not usually the case.

When estrogen levels drop during menopause, other parts of the vulva—such as the labia—can become flatter or less prominent, which can in turn make the clitoris appear bigger. “However, she’s been in menopause for a long time,” says Herbenick, “and it sounds like the clitoral change happened well into menopause.” And amazing sex does not supersize clits: “High levels of arousal usually result in only a temporary swelling of the clitoris,” says Herbenick.

So make another appointment to see your doctor, SNAZ, “and keep asking questions until she’s sure that medical conditions, such as cancers, have been ruled out,” urges Herbenick.

And, again, if your gynecologist doesn’t want to discuss it or was too stupid to spot what could be a symptom of common lady-parts cancers (!), time to get a new gynecologist.

My husband is awesome. Unfortunately, his dick is small. It wasn’t so bad at first; he knows how to work what he’s got. But then I had a baby, and I tore. A few days later, my stitches tore. My six-week checkup turned out to be a poke in the stomach to confirm that my uterus was back in place, and when I asked why I couldn’t get restitched, the doctor told me, “Vaginas are very forgiving.” But a year later, Kegels aren’t helping and both of us are having trouble getting off.

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“Many women who have had multiple or traumatic births—and it sounds like she had a good deal of tearing—have some degree of prolapse,” says Herbenick. (A uterine prolapse, says the Wiki, “occurs when the female pelvic organs fall from their normal position, into or through the vagina.”)

“If she did have prolapse,” says Herbenick, “she may be a candidate for anterior or posterior vaginal wall repair, which is quite similar to vaginal ‘rejuvenation’ surgeries, and then insurance may cover the surgery.

“Some people will wildly disagree with me and say that women shouldn’t have surgery ‘to please their man,’ but I don’t see that here,” Herbenick adds. “I see two people who are married and want better sex, and she may have experienced some physical changes that have affected that. And there are ways to fix it.”

Debby Herbenick is the associate director of the Center for Sexual Health Promotion at Indiana University and the author of Because It Feels Good: A Woman’s Guide to Sexual Pleasure and Satisfaction, a book that I strongly recommend even though Debby once attacked me with a vulva puppet in a room full of people.

I live in Ann Arbor, Mich. Grange, a local restaurant, has a cocktail called “GGGinger.” Is it possible for a cocktail to be GGG? And how does it feel to have inspired one?

Curious Cocktail Connection

A cocktail can’t be GGG, CCC, but a couple of cocktails—enough to take the edge off inhibitions, not so much to make consent unpossible—can induce GGG. And, I’m saddened to report, the GGGinger’s Gs refer to three of the gin-based cocktail’s ingredients—ginger beer, candied ginger and ginger syrup—and not to the Savage Love meme “good, giving and game.” Still, Grange co-owner Brandon Johns is confident that his GGGingers have inspired GGG behavior all over Ann Arbor.

“It’s been our most popular drink since we opened,” says Johns, “so it must be doing something right. We also do pitchers of them, and when a couple shares one of those—let’s just say that something good is bound to come of that.”

And in other, more successful Savage Love memes …

Former U.S. senator and current presidential candidolt Rick Santorum “opened up” to Roll Call last week about his “longtime Google problem,” aka “the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the by-product of anal sex” and always the number-one search result when you Google the former senator’s last name.

“It’s one guy,” Santorum told Roll Call. “You know who it is … It’s unfortunate that we have someone who obviously has some issues.”

I do have issues—I have lots of issues—but I take particular issue with politicians who compare loving, stable same-sex relationships to “man on dog” sex, as Santorum has done, or who would ban same-sex marriage and adoptions by same-sex couples, as Santorum has promised to do if he gets elected president. But the lowercase “s” santorum campaign wasn’t “one guy.” A lot of people were involved—from the Savage Love reader who first suggested that we redefine your name to all the folks who’ve written about it over the years (thanks, Roll Call!)—just like a lot of people were involved in turning Rick Santorum out of office in 2006, an election he lost by an 18-point santorumslide.

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SUMMER RENTALS MARGATE Modern 1 BDR Condo, pool, patio,cable, great location. Season $8200. Call 267-257-6389

STUdiO/ EFFiciENcy BROAD & PINE Gorgeous Studio, Newly renovated. Avail now. $800+. PMG, 215-5457007 x302 BROAD & REED AREA, Luxury 400SF Studio. MUST SEE! $795+ Elec. Joseph 609-217-1198 RITTENHOUSE SQ AREA Small Ef f i c i e n c y, S e p b a t h , E l e c heat. Bsmt WD. $625+Elec.

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ONE bEdROOM 10TH & SPRUCE, Bright, HW flrs, Updated kit/Bath, CA, W D/St rg . N OW. $ 1 1 5 0 + 2 1 5 733-0480 1 5 T H & S P RU C E Charming 1BR w/15’Ceilings, HW flrs, LR/ Kit combo. Laundry/Strg in bldg. Avail april. $1250+ Elec.

215-733-0480 www.CentraAssociates.com 15TH/SPRUCE: Beautiful Art Deco High-rise 1Bdrm Apt, Desk Attendant, HW Flrs, Updated Kitch, Onsite Laundry, Intercom Entry, Amazing Location! From $1080/Mo. 215-735-8030. Lic #219789.

15TH/SPRUCE: Huge 1Bdrm in Beautiful Brownstone, Large Rooms, Abundant Closet Space, Walk-In Cedar Closet, Laundry, Intercom Entry. $899/Mo. 215735-8030. lic# 380139

BELLA VISTA, Large LVRM, Dining area. Near bus, walk to CC. No pets. 215-681-4481

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Manayunk/Roxborough: Spacious 1Bdrm w/ Den, W/D in Apt, Private Entrance, Balc/Terrace, Gym/Pool Membership, Onsite FREE Prkg, Walk to Bus, Cats Welcome. $980/Mo. 888-6339365. Lic # 223386

Charming 1BR, HW floors in LR/Kit, Carpet in BR. C/A/H, Energy-eff appls, Gas stove, pvt Deck w/AMAZING skyline view. Convenient to Public trans, Avenue of the Arts & CC West/Grad Hospital Restaurant/ Shops. $950/mo. 1st/last/sec.

Avail 03/01. 215-888-9464 2048 South 1st Floor $1100/ mo 1st floor studio, includes all utilities. CALL MIKE MCCANN PRU FOX & ROACH 215-6276005/215-440-8345 21ST & KATER: 1BR private back yard, basement & W/D Recently renovated. One of Philly’s nicest blocks. Near UPenn/CHOP/Grad Hosp, bars, restaurants & coffee shops. $1100+/month. Call Max 914523-8016 23RD & SPRUCE Bright, New kit, HW flrs, Nice view. Avail April. $1125 (Wtr incl) 215-733-0480 www.CentraAssociates.com 2814 Poplar, 1st FL $950/ m o Cute 2BD/1BA, private deck, c/a, bsmt laundry, hwf.

CALL MIKE MCCANN PRU FOX & ROACH 215-627-6005/215440-8345 301 South 19th Street- RITTENHOUSE SQUARE: One Bedroom apartment, Available for Immediate Occupancy. MUST SEE TO APPRECIATE. Corner Unit, Outstanding light. State of the art Kitchen, Granite countertops, Superb cabinetry, Refinished Hardwood floors, High ceilings, Plentiful closet space. $1,950.00 per month.

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MINUTES to CC. SOUTH PHILA. 14XX PORTER: Modern 1BR w/ H W F l r s. $ 675 . N o p e t s.

610-909-9025 OLD CITY (104 Chestnut) Lg 1BR, 1BA, high ceilings, tall windows, view of BF Bridge, CA, Gas heat, DW, WD, GD, carpeted. $1050/mo+. 215-627-4414

67 1 Fra n k l i n E $ 9 9 5 /m o Great 2BD/1BA condo unit, 1-car parking, courtyard setting.

CALL MIKE MCCANN PRU FOX & ROACH 215-627-6005/215440-8345 9TH SPRING GARDEN BEAUTIFUL 2BEDR.,TILE BATH,HDWD F L R S. , A L L A P P L I A N C E S, A/C, SEC.SYSTEM. $1100/ MO+. 610-304-0087 B E L L A V I S TA S u n n y 2 B R , Tile BA, EIK, DW, GD, WD, Pvt Roofdeck, City view. Rec renvtd.

Avail 05/01 or sooner. $1275+.

215-271-0915 ITALIAN MKT: 10th/Federal 2BR, CA, 1BA, WD. $1350+. 215-922-3910. mcolaizzo@comcast.net

Rittenhouse Square: Beautiful & Spacious (1000 SqFt) 1 Bdrm 1.5 Bths Apt in Historic Brownstone, HW Flrs, Renovated Kitch, 2 Deco Fireplaces w/ Marble Tile, HUGE Master Bthrm Suite w/ Sep Shower Stall & Soaking Tub, Beautiful details & woodwork throughout, Cat/Dog Friendly, a MUST SEE! $1835/Mo. 215-735-8030. #216850

MANAYUNK/ROXBOROUGH: Lrg 2bdrm, Renovated Kitch/ Bathrm, Patio/Balc Laundry, Gym, Pool, Tennis/ Basketball Crts, Free Shuttle to Main Street Manayunk, Pets Welcome. From $1220/Mo. 888-538-9667. Ask about how you can receive FREE Furniture for 1 Year! EXECUTIVE SHORT TERM FURNISHED SUITES AVAILABLE. lic# 218436

STADIUM AREA New, large 1 Bedroom, W/D, C/A, Parking. 1st/ last, security, $975 +. Credit Ch. 215-510-0797

MANAYUNK/ROXBOROUGH: Lrg 2Bdrm Apt, Rent Incls All Utilities! Balc, Upgraded Kitch, Lrg Floor to Ceiling Closets, Pool, Gym Membership, Walk to Bus, Shuttle to Main St Manayunk. $1230/ M o . 2 1 5 - 4 8 2- 4 24 6 . l i c # 215101

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Studio’s star ting at only $765/mo. and one bedrooms starting at only $965/mo.

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THE WELLINGTON at Rittenhouse Square. Exclusively on the Square. Magnificent Square View. All utils inlcd. Spacious built-in closets, Laundry Fac, AC, DW, GD. Cable h/up. 24hr Doorman. 215-567-7810

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339 CHRISTIAN ST Spacious 1br +den floor available Now $950/Mo 215-917-8835

1216 S Juniper $1450/mo 2 B D/ 1 BA , 1 ca r g a ra g e, c/a CALL LAUREN ACKER PRU FOX & ROACH 215-627-6005/215440-2097

ART MUSEUM Large Historic 1BR, HW flrs, Newer window/Kit/BA. 2 working FP. Courtyard. WD in bldg. $1150+.215-364-6378

15TH ST (AVE ARTS AREA) 1st fl 2BR, MARBLE BA/JAC Grdn patio, WD, CA. $995+.

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BELLA VISTA: Entire 2nd fl, 12ft glass doors to 22ft Deck overlooking lg pvt garden.

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OLD CITY Great Bi-level w/1.5BA, CA, Ceiling fans, FP, Carpeted.

Open floor plan w/Spacious LR & Dining area, Lg kitchen. Lg Closets, F/S WD, Ceramic Tile full bath. Pet friendly. Available Immed. 215-925-7500 x213

MANAYUNK/ROXBOROUGH: Spacious Stone Farmhouse, 6 Lrg Bdrms 2.5 Baths, HW Fl rs, Fi re pl ace, 2 Porc h es, Deck, Separate DR, LR, & Den, Modern Kitchen, Laundry, Private Driveway/Parking, 2 Car Garage, Huge Yard. $2900/mo.

888-538-9667 lic# 218436

RITTENHOUSE SQ. AREA (2013 Walnut/4th Fl) 2 Bedrm, 1 Bath bi-level in brownstone.

CA, Gas heat, DW, GD, WD, Carpeted. $1250/mo+. 215627-4414

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326 South 19th Street OLD WORLD CHARM BUILDING. Two Bedroom-1 Bath apartments $2,000.00 per month. MUST SEE TO APPRECIATE. Hardwood floors, High ceilings, Plentiful closet space, Cat friendly, Small Dogs welcome too. Call to schedule an appointment 215-735-5757 OR E-mail: DelanceyPlace@ aol.com

ThREE + bEdROOMS 10TH & SNYDER-4BEDRMS., 1 S T F L R . , C A R P E T, F U L L B S M T. , $ 1 20 0/ M O. + . 61 0 304-0087.

1 6 t h & O re g o n $ 1 1 75/m o 3BD/1BA, newly renovated, w/d, finished basement, yard, hwf. CALL JIM ONESTI PRU FOX & ROACH 215-627-6005/215440-2052 9TH & SPRING GARDEN-2 FLRS., 5BEDRMS. 2KITCHENS, 2BATHS. CARPETS, MOD. KITS, C/A/H, ONLY $1600/MO.+UTILS. 610-304-0087.

THE WELLINGTON at Rittenhouse Square. Exclusively on the Square. Magnificent Square View. All utils inlcd. Spacious built-in closets, Laundry Fac, AC, DW, GD. Cable h/up. 24hr Doorman. 215-567-7810

hOUSE FOR RENT 11TH & CHRISTIAN-GREAT LOC! 4BDRMS., 2FULL BATHS, C/A, HDWD/FLRS.,DECK, BKYARD, W/D. MUST SEE! $2400/mo.+.

610-304-0087.

N.LIBERTIES: 3rd/George Great 2BR, All amens, HWF. Parking. $1195+. PMG 215-5457007x304

12XX SO. 26TH ST(26th & Federal) Newly renovated, lg.

3bedrms., G/Heat. $950/mo.+.

Call 215-389-7944.

Nor thern Liber ties, 2BR, Beautiful, All Newly Renovated Throughout, Updated Everything, Granite Countertops, 2 New Baths, AC, GD, W/D, Large Deck/Backyard, No Pets, See video, www.gasheart.com, 1138 N. 4th St., 215-485-1015, Unit A $1400, Unit B $1500/month

26XX WEBSTER ST-2BEDRM., 2 BAT H S . $ 975/ M O. C A L L A L P H A R E A LT Y 2 1 5 - 4 63 0777, EXT.225.

OLD CITY Bilevel Loft-Style w/ CA, HW floors, Exposed beams, Skylites. Lg LR & EI-kit, DW, FP, 2 Lg Bedrooms w/Great closets, WD. Pet Friendly. Available 03/01. 215-925-7500 x213

446 WINTON ST Mod 2BR House, Newly rehabbed. HW flrs, CA. $850/mo. 215-468-5790 9TH & TASKER-$1290, also M A R S TO N & R E E D $ 7 7 0 .

UPGRATED 3BEDRM. CALL 215-849-4049, 215-9903405.

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CA, Bkyd, Near trans. $685/ mo ($1685 to move-in). 215715-0878

ROOM FOR RENT 124 LOMBARD, HEAD HOUSE SQUARE, SOCIETY HILL. “TOKIO B&B” STUDIOS. ($55-$100) DAILY rates. ($300-$500) WEEKLY rates. We also have MONTHLY rates AVAIL. Website http://sushi.madamesaito. c o m C a l l M A DA M E S A I TO 215-922-2515

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cOMMERciAL SPAcE 9TH & SPRING GARDEN-1200SQ. FT., BATHROOM,CARPETING, C/A/H. VERY CLEAN. GREAT LOC! $1500/mo. 610-3040087.

ARTiSTS STUdiO SPAcE THE PAPERMILL- Community of Artist. 2825 Ormes St. Affordable Artist Studios staring at $100 for 130 sf. Four large floors of open or private studio space for Painters, Sculptors, Dance, Theatre, or Creative companies. A community of artist practicing their talents in custom sized studio workspaces. Short term, inexpensive rental of theatre and gallery spaces. Join our group on Facebaook for updates on our events and gallery spaces.

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Terrific 2400 sq. ft +(-), 3 bedroom, 3.5 bath home is located inside a private gated courtyard featuring 2 car garage, Dramatic—Open & Spacious Floor Plan. 2nd Floor—Living room with fireplace, Powder room, kitchen + a great dining room w/ lots of windows allowing Southern exposure. The next floor has two nice sized bedrooms with good closet space and each with their own bath. The next level is a terrific large room with a full bath and deck + a great closet w/ lots of extra storage behind it. All this and located on a beautiful Queen Village tree lined block across from Mario Lanzo Park + it is located in the great Meredith School District.

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Miscellaneous tools and products (www.amazon.com): Amazon.com is pretty much the granddaddy of product websites, and it has just about anything you need for remodeling and repairing your home. It’s obviously a commercial site, but many of the products offered there are at fair and often bargain prices; shipping is fast and some products ship for free; and they have a no-hassle return policy.

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State contractors boards : Never hire a general contractor or subcontractor without first finding out the contractor’s laws for your state, then verify that the company or person you want to hire is properly licensed, bonded and insured. I can’t list all of the various state contractor boards, so you’ll need to search for this one on your own. In Google or whatever search engine you prefer, just type in “(your state name) contractors board” and it’ll take you where you need to go.

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2101-17 Chestnut Street #818-Comfy 2BR/1BA, Wood Floors, Gym, Doorman, All Utilities Incl ................................................................... $1,550 2001 Hamilton Street #2114-Deluxe 2BR, Skyline Vuws, Wd Fl, Grmt Kit, All Utils Incl ............................................................................................. $2,150 To See the Following, Call David Snyder 267.968.8600 2332-38 Carpenter Street #2A-2 bdrms,stainless steel appln,bamboo flrs,cstm bath. ................................................................................... $1,550 P H I L A D E L P H I A W E E K L Y February 23 – March 1, 2011

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271 S 4th Street-Grand 5B/3.5b cook’s kit,wd flrs,7 fpl,new Mbth,grdn,2 car pkg $2,770,000 306 Spruce Street-Cooks kit, f/p lr dr 2 rm master ste + 3 add br’s sunrm, rf deck, prkg $1,699,000 734 Addison Street-Gorgeous 3BR/2+BA townhome. Spacious layout. 2 fireplaces. $1,295,000 500 S Front Street-Dramatic & Open 3 bdrm/3 bth,fpl,fabulous deck,2 grdns & parking $1,150,000 200-10 Lombard Street #10-Rarely available 2 bd/2.5 ba,bi-lev home in Society Hill,Upgr. in 2007 $499,000 121-35 Walnut Street #207-Beaut. units at the Moravian, lobby is breathtaking From-$479,500 413 Spruce ##5-Charming 1 bd/1 ba in the heart of Society Hill,fp,w/d in unit. $189,900

$5,298,200 $1,725,000 $1,300,000 $1,149,900 $999,000 $865,000 $799,000 $725,000 $499,000 $475,000 $425,000 $417,500 $309,900 $299,000 $279,000 $269,000 $269,000 $209,900 $179,900 $129,900 $119,900

OLDE CITY/NORTHERN LIBERTIES 1107 N Howard Street-Zoning approval for 16 townhouse,20 off street prkng space + 2 duplexes. $1,900,000 238 Arch Street-Terrific Invest opportunity,hi traffic commercial area,4sty,8,000 sq ft +/$1,200,000 602 N American-4-Sty-twnhse,grg prkng,open flr plan,hi ceil,oak flrs,ceramic bths,tx abat. $489,000 223 Fairmount-Great 3 bd/2.5 ba,new construction with roof deck,hrwd flrs,gorgeous kit. $375,000 19 W Wildey Street-Beautiful Rehab with NEW everything! 2 Bed. Den 1.5B $259,000 301 Race ##401-Amazing bridge views from this oversized studio,1 bdrm (715 sq ft) $214,900 231-235 N 2nd Street #208-Parking space,grt investment for someone living or working in CC. $20,000

GRADUATE HOSPITAL 203 Governors Court-Amaz Price in Naval Sq Drake Model-Short Sale act now before its gone 1709 Rodman Street-Lovely 2BR/2.5bth home. Quiet Ritt. block. Patio. Pristine cond 2607 Webster Street-Webster Mills-new community,3 bd/2.5 ba,granite/SS appln,1 C deeded prkng.

1920 Montrose Street-Modern Renovation, 4 Bed, 2.5 Bath, Hdwd Flrs, Finished Basement 2621 Christian Street #A-2 bd/1.5 ba condo,hw flrs kit w/granite/SS,cherry cab,bth w/marble tile

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ART MUSEUM 2401 Penna Ave ##14C45-Corner sun filled unit w/terrace,fantastic views of the City,3 bd/2.5 ba.

2401 Pennsylvania Avenue #16B24-3 bedroom,2.5 bath,kitchen w/SS, terrace + full window views.

2401 Pennsylvania Avenue #17B32-2 bdrm condo w/terrace, parkng avail,2028 SQ Ft. 1524 North Street-3 yr old 3 br 2.5 BA townhouse, parking avail, 7 yrs on tax abatement 2401 Penna Ave ##12A2-2 bdrm/2bth plus den,lrg laundry rm,75 ft balcony w/museum views.

2521 Brown Street-Beautiful 4Br/2B, hw flr, t/o, c/a, mast br suite 2401 Penna Av ##19A7-Renovated 2 bd/2 ba,hi floor,marble floors,W/D,prkng available.

1504 Mount Vernon Street #2R-3 Yr Old Charming studio,hw flrs,9’ceil,Kit w/Granite/SS & tile bath.

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$229,900 $174,900

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WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST 1101 Washington Ave ##302-2 bd/2 ba,2 car prkng,beautiful upgrades throughout.

408 S Camac Street-Beaut 2br + den on fantastic block feat e-i-kit, w/b fp, h/w fl & patio 903-05 Clinton ##1R-Renov 1 bd/1 ba w/cherry hrwd flrs,gor kit,granite ctrs/maple cab.

912 Spruce ##8-Cozy 1 bd,low condo fees,SS appln,hi ceilings & good closet space.

$439,900 $309,000 $299,900 $239,0000

AROUND TOWN 328 N 39th Street-Magnificent (2700 sq ft)3 bd/3 ba,stained glass wndws,SS applns,rear yd.

223 Wharton Street-3 bdrm + den,2.5 bths,hrwd flrs t/o,deck off living room, rf dk,1C garage.

3106 S 19th Street-Outstanding 3BR/2BA townhome. Family room. Deck.

932-A Ellsworth-Exceptional details/well designed 3 bd/2.5 ba w/fin bsmt,roof dk + tx abat 1127 S 11th Street-3-Story 3 bd/2.5 ba,recessed lighting,hw flrs,mstr bdr,roof deck.

1504 S. Iseminger-Bright 3 bd/1 ba home,orig plank wood flrs,upgraded kit,spac LR,rear yard.

1637 S Iseminger-Beautiful,modern renovations,hrwd flrs,SS applns,extra lrg bathroom.

238 Watkins Street-Pennsport 2 Bed, 1 Bath, Hdwd Flrs, Exposed Beams & Brick, Patio 1537 W Porter Street-Large 4BD/ 1ba South Philly Row, well maintained condition 1002 Wolf Street-3 bedroom/1 bath,large home with finished basement w/bar.

153 Wolf Street-Large,nice,duplex in great neighborhood.

7645 Elmwood Avenue-Elmwood Park-end of row-3 bd,C/A,HW,modern Eik,parking 2060 E Lippincott Street-3 bedroom,1 bath,great for first time buyer or investor.

243 N 54th Street-2BR/2B house with a huge garage in the heart of West Philadelphia

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1601 Spring Garden St. #205 1br, heart of Art Museum-close to restrnts, transportation, museums 2601 Pennsylvania Ave. #422 Art Museum area 1br/1ba with upgraded kitchen and appliances 1832 Green St. #D Fab 1br/1ba Condo. Completely redone with modern high end finishes 856 N. Bailey St. Best value for a home on a quiet tree-lined street in Art Museum!

838 N. Newkirk St. #D2 Lovely 2br/1.5ba condo, gated comm., secure pkg, Tons of outdoor space 1721 Wallace St. #102 Amazing Bank Owned Property in Excellent condition-A steal!

627-37 N. 18th St. #102 Stylish & dramatic bi-level condo in Carriage House Condo Bldg.

870 N. 28th St. #211 Cutting edge contemporary. Multi level w/XL city view deck, private pkg, secure 885 N. Stillman St. Lovely home on a Quiet Sunny Tree Lined Street 1714 Wallace St. #4 Bi-level 2br/2ba. Gourmet KIT, FP, HWflrs, 500sqft, bi-level private roof deck!

2739 Poplar St. Brownstone triplex w/detached garage/carriage house 2524 Aspen St. Stunning Victorian on favorite Art Museum block!

718 N. Uber St. Gorgeous model home. 3000sqft., 4br/4.5ba, garage, SS appls, quartz ctrs, bamboo flrs

$125,000 $169,900 $175,000 $225,000 $219,000 $259,000 $235,000 $269,900 $289,000 $289,000 $339,900 $399,000 OPEN HOUSE $549,000 $569,000

2013 Gerritt St. Completely refurbished, move-in ready home. New KIT, appls, windows, HWflrs 1133 Cantrell St. Charming townhome w/HWflrs, newer windows, fresh paint colors, and back patio!

707 Ellsworth St. Fantastic New Renovation in Italian Market Area 1515 S. 2nd St. REDUCED-OWNER MOTIVATED!! BRING ALL OFFERS!!! 3Sty w/ huge yard/neat and clean t/o 525 Fitzwater St. #11 Abbott’s Court, beautiful 2br/1.5ba trinities, gated courtyard, gourmet KIT, HWflrs 2847 Warnock St. Complete renovation with fabulous upgrades in South Philadelphia 934 S. 23rd St. Marvelous & modern 2br in Grad Hosp. Fantastic upgrades, great location!

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 919 Christian St. Spacious Bella Vista home just steps from the Italian Market!

1621 Croatan Pl. Packer Park Airlite-Elegant Corner-Huge lot-Parking!

902-904 Montrose St. 4br/2ba, Double wide lot includes 902+904 Montrose & 911-913 Hall St. 101 Snyder Ave. Incredible living and work space for savvy entrepreneur!

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RITTENHOUSE SQUARE / FITLER SQUARE / AVENUE OF THE ARTS

$79,900 $140,000 $145,000 $205,000 OPEN HOUSE $239,000 OPEN HOUSE $225,000 $265,000 $260,000 $295,000 OPEN HOUSE $319,900 $349,000 $459,000 $499,900

UNIVERSITY CITY / WEST PHILADELPHIA

-546-2700 1642 Lombard St. #C Adorable trinity with no condo fees!

1233 S. 18th St. 2br/2.5ba townhouse, total rehab, intercom, H/W, fenced yard, granite, fin bsmt 201-259 N 8th St. #212 1bdrm, 1 bath, Lrg rooms, Dark Hardwood Floors, Mod Kit, Broad windows 2136 Tryon St. Charming 2br/1ba w/FP, garden & deck on hidden blk - Western Edge of Rittenhouse Area 1823 Pine St. #4 1br/1.5ba Newly remodeled bi-level condo w/pkg! HWflrs, room for entertaining 2101 Christian St. Well Maintained home. $2,000 Buyer Agent Bonus for executed AOS b-4 11/31 1901 Walnut St. #9B Wonderful Aity and Light Unit facing Ritenhouse Square 219 S. 18th St. Pet friendly 927 sqft, 1br Parc Rittenhouse condo Hi-rise amenities incl poo/gym 1737 Chestnut St. #301 Location, location: Lrg., bright living area, 2 mstr suites w/baths. Pet friendly bldg 2413 Manning St. Reduced 2+br/2+ba, garage home xtra wide 4-story townhome in Fitler Sq. Charming Block 1607 Kater St. MUST SEE! PRICED TO SELL! Unique location, quaint street w/unique Skyline View!

418 S. Taney St. Park side home, 3+br/2+ba, LR w/FP, sep DR, EIK, Wd flr, patios, 2FP’s, garage

$229,000 $269,000 $298,000 OPEN HOUSE $299,000 $319,000 $335,000 $479,000 $499,900 $599,850 $580,000 $684,900 $949,900

OLD CITY / LOFT DISTRICT / CHINATOWN

3716 Baring St. Powelton Village Victorian Twin w/modern amenities. Convenient to Drexel, UPenn 432 N. 37th St. Classic Exterior & Modern Interior, One-of-a-kind Renovation!

4526 Pine St. Beautiful Victorian 5br/2ba hom e in the Catchment Zone

$365,000 $439,900 $525,000

SURROUNDING AREAS Southwest-5533 Springfield Ave. Remodeled 3br/1ba. Great for 1st time buyer Germantown-5321 Wingohocking Terr. 3br/1ba, renovated., HWflrs, exp. brick, C/A, granite/SS kit Cobbs Creek-6117 Larchwood St. 2-story 3br/1ba brick row home w/front lawn, porch & lrg yard Bells Corner-1704 Megargee St. 3br/1ba twin, powder rm on main flr. C/A, new heat, grt condition Somerton-15105 Ina Dr. Come see this very spacious 4 bedroom, 3 bath home in Somerton!

Germantown-310 W. Duval St. 6br/3.5ba, Stone front FP, huge DR w/ orgig wood trim, lrg KIT Roxborough-604 Roxborough Ave. 4br/2.1ba, porch, garage, nice yard, new elec & mechanicals Overbrook Farms-6367 Woodbine Ave. Elegant single Dutch Colonial-Main Line living in City limits

$99,900 $104,000 $125,000 $169,000 $210,000 $249,000 $259,000 $399,000

NORTHERN LIBERTIES / FISHTOWN / NORTH PHILADELPHIA

1010 Race St. #PH 2br/1ba, HWflrs, Modern Floor Plan 309-313 Arch St, #606 1br/1ba loft condo in heart of Old City w/SS appliances & silestone counters 104 N. 2nd St. #402 Dramatic Sun Filled Penthouse!

50-56 N. Front St. #202 Stunning, large windows, lots of closets, upgraded t/o 201-59 N. 8th St. #504 Stylish 1br in Metroclub Condominiums 309-313 Arch St. #308 An affordable historical restoration in Old City! Hoopskirt Factory 1204 Green St. Total Rehab; conrer unit; 3br/2.5ba, HWflrs; master ste; walk-in closets; roof deck 51 N. 2nd St. #F Fab 1br/1ba w/hi ceilings, hwflrs, rustic ba, exposed brick, fireplace and den 209 N. 4th St. #F4 Spacious 2br/2ba corner unit, exp brick & beams, FP, recent mechanicals 103-7 Church St. #2 1br/1ba, Central Air, Exp Brick, High Ceilings, Laundry, Gas FP, Private Patio 317 Vine St. #503 Bi-level Penthouse in Old City for Great Price! 2br/1.5ba, Terrace, huge windows 201 N. 8th St. #314 2br/2ba Condo, HWflrs, Modern Kit, Cali. Closets, Marble Baths, Pool, Balcony 114 Quarry St. #2B 2br/2ba bi-level condo w/HWflrs, exp., vaulted ceilings, new KIT & 1 yr pkg 201-59 N. 8th St. #910 2br/2.5ba, 1642sqft, bi-level Penhouse at the Metroclub w/450sqft balcony!

309-313 Arch St. #205 Fabulous 3br/3ba multilevel loft in the heart of Old City 103 Callowhill St. Intimate 50 seat theater, exp brick, velvety curtains, vintage sconces. Upper level residence/office 314-22 N. 12th St. Fab Bi-Level Penthouse Condo, 2br/2ba, Granite, SS, Hwflrs, 2 large decks

$175,000 $225,000 $289,900 $299,000 $315,000 $319,000 $325,000 $328,900 $349,000 $369,000 $399,000 $400,000 $450,000 $475,000 $529,900 $599,900 $669,900

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1324 Locust St. #420 Bright & clean studio in the Arts Bldg! Grt location, walk to everything!

250 S. 13th St. #UP2 Easy access PARKING SPACE in Washington Square West 1109 Spruce St. Units #1R, #3R 1R is totally renovated bi-level 2br/2ba. 3R has white mod KIT, move-condition 606A Waverly St. Location! This is a lovely trinity! It’s a 1 Bedroom. Great for 1st time buyer/student 927 Spruce St. 2R Deluxe Jr. 1br/1ba w/new kitchen. Unit contains a queen size Murphy bed, Pkg avail-$20k 255 S. Hutchinson St. Historic 2br/1.5ba on charming cobblestone st. in heart of Wash Square 1110 Lombard St. #12 Beautiful renovated 1br/1.5ba condo in Washington Mews!

1012 Spruce St. #1M Beautiful Tri-Level Condo in Strickland Row Community!

265 S. 4th St. Gorgeous condo with low fees and deeded parking!

220 Locust St. #24G Rarely offered Corner 1br. Renovated Kitchen and Bathroom!

114-18 Naudain St. #C 2br/1ba w/pkg, C/A, HWflrs, exposed brick, 1,150sqft, move-in ready, asking 1229 Pine St. 2br/2ba, beautiful expanded trinity. HWflrs, deck, open KIT, FP, lrg yard 720 Chestnut St. #D 2br/2ba, 1300sqft condo in boutique bldg. Hi ceilings, wood flr, granite & SS, FP

$79,000 $110,000 OPEN HOUSE $180,000 $194,400 OPEN HOUSE $199,900 OPEN HOUSE $250,000 $265,000 $150,000 $320,000 $334,900 $354,900 $399,000 $439,000

2563 Tulip St. Investor alert! Under value, great neighborhood, lots of potential!

1637 N. Cadwallader St. 4br/2.5ba, Huge, completely renovated near NoLibs. HWflrs, new appls.

2344 E. Letterly St. Gorgeous, totally renovated 2br/1.5ba w/den home in Fishtown 2349 E. Cumberland St. 4br/1.5ba. Lrg home. New kit, new carpeting & windows, partly fin bsmt 2546 Emerald St. Brand new townhome features fab upgrades including full fin bsmt & deck!

410 E. Wildey St. Amazing New rehab, 3br/2.5ba, A/C, HWflrs, Open KIT, green features 1128 Day St. Fabulous Recently Constructed Townhome in Fishtown-steps away from Everything

$79,000 $199,000 OPEN HOUSE $209,900 $213,000 $225,000 OPEN HOUSE $315,000 $395,900

NEW CONSTRUCTION (10 YEAR TAX ABATEMENT) 911 N. 28th St. 3br/2ba, Garage, Roofdeck, Balconies, 10yr tx abatement, Audio t/o, Bambloo flrs t/o $399,000 1228-1232 Arch St. Loft District Arch Street Exchange: 35 lofts w/maple flrs, 13’ ceil., s/s apps, granite tops, glass/metal bcksplsh, slate bths. $399,900 2155 Montrose St. New construction. Lrg home, oversized bdrs w/city views from every window $425,000 2514 Grays Ferry Ave. 3br/2.5ba; 2400 sqft; HWflrs; Recessed Lighting; Granite Counters, more $400,000 1221 S. Phillip St. 3br/2.5ba new construction, 1car garage, HWflrs, hi ceilings, open kit, & deck. $414,900 2524 Grays Ferry Ave. New construction; 3br/2.5ba; sec sys; master ste; roof deck; fin bsmt; garage $425,000 1346 Crease St. Price Reduction! 3br/4ba Green home, quiet st. Solar ready, 11ft ceilings, garage $429,000 1221 S. Philip St. 3br/2.5ba New constructions w/1 car garage, hwflrs, hi ceilings, open kit, deck $434,900 2118 Webster St. Grad Hosp., 3br/3.5ba, Roof Deck w/City Views, option of Finished Basement $439,000 2120 Webster St. Grad Hosp., 3br/3.5ba, Roof Deck w/City Views, option of Finished Basement $439,000 1912 Kimball St. Stunning 3br/3ba, gourmet kitchen, roofdeck, garage, tax abatement OPEN HOUSE $450,000 1304 S. 2nd St. Pennsport-Wharton Estates 3br/2full & 2half ba, contemporary, H/W, granite/SS KIT $450,000 629-31 S. 13th St. #A Custom 3br/3ba new construction, hi ceilings, luxurious baths, gourmet KIT, roof deck OPEN HOUSE $599,000 COMMERCIAL/INVESTMENT 2503 Frankford Ave. Very well maintained Duplex. Fully Rented 27 Osborne St. Cashflowing Duplex. 2+3 BRs. Grt loc, well maintained. Sep utils except water 117 Sumac St. Huge Triplex, Great Street. Sep. & meters. Laundry. Long-term tenants in 2 units 1204-16 S. 12th St. 22,000sqft. Warehouse, 106’x137’ lot, can accommodate 12 townhomes 1300 Spruce St. Center City Development Opp., approved for residential condos & commercial 2501 Oakford St. 54,000 sqft G2 4-story light industrial bldg. Sale or lease. Will divide 1919 Walnut St. Wonderfully restored 8,000+ s.f., 2 car pkg, elevator, currently used as corp office

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cENtER citY lUXURY coNDoMiNiUMs FoR sAlE! 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

1 bedroom, 1 bath, wood floors, upgraded kitchen, ample living space

1258

$189,900

$30,637

$85,223

$1,989

$238

$1,751

tHe PHilaDelPHian

Renovated studio, wood floors throughout, open kitchen, large balcony with city skyline view

567

$175,000

$26,306

$57,483

$1,341

$190

$1,152

tHe PHilaDelPHian

Studio, Art Museum views, private balcony, excellent closet space

656

$159,900

$25,148

$59,979

$1,400

$200

$713

tHe PHilaDelPHian

Spacious studio with large balcony and panoramic Art Museum, river and city views, generous closet space, open kitchen

656

$159,900

$25,223

$61,416

$1,433

$212

$1,221

tHe PHilaDelPHian

Studio, open kitchen, new carpet, city view

567

$129,900

$20,834

$49,901

$1,164

$181

$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

One bedroom, one bath, upgraded kitchen and bath, Juliet balcony, W/D

705

$289,000

$42,702

$88,613

$2,068

$296

$1,772

center city one

1 bedroom, 1 bath, high floor, balcony with panoramic views of the city to the south, excellent closet space, W/D

897

$259,900

$41,412

$86,520

$2,019

$299

$1,720

acaDeMy House

1 bedroom, 1 bath, panoramic southern views, Juliet balcony, renovated bath and kitchen

705

$259,900

$39,043

$82,852

$1,933

$272

$1,661

center city one

1 bedroom, 1 bath, spacious balcony, magnificent city views to the south, abundant natural light

873

$240,000

$36,972

$78,608

$1,834

$271

$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

Penthouse, 2 bedrooms, 2 full baths, 2 half baths, high end finishes and appointments throughout, balcony with city views

3,952

$3,500,000* $834,620 $889,056

$20,745

$3,725

$17,020

barclay

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

3,293

$2,900,000* $666,258 $619,296

$14,450

$2,632

$11,818

lanesborougH

3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, brand new, very high ceilings, his and hers master baths, custom kitchen, exquisite detail throughout.

3,467

$2,750,000* $636,038 $607,268

$14,170

$2,605

$11,565

lanesborougH

Tri-level penthouse with 1600 sq ft of terrace space, being sold unfinished, private elevator access

3,413

$2,250,000* $579,879 $557,842

$13,016

$2,351

$10,665

barclay

3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, herringbone wood floors, EIK, crown molding and other custom finishes throughout, Rittenhouse Square views

2,638

$2,250,000 $511,632 $501,005

$11,690

$2,094

$9,597

1830 rittenHouse

3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, upgraded kitchen, original hardwood floors and molding, lots of light

2,275

$1,195,000* $309,704 $318,887

$7,440

$1,321

$6,119

warwick conDoMiniuMs

3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, hardwood floors, 270 degree views, open kitchen, marble baths, custom closets, W/D

2,000

$1,290,000* $174,122 $373,141

$8,707

$1,757

$6,949

warwick conDoMiniuMs

3BR, 3BA, Bamboo flrs., spac. Kit w/custom wood cabinetry, granite counter tops, marble baths, 3 exposures, gym and hotel services

1,978

$1,350,000* $181,323 $371,644

$8,672

$1,795

$6,877

tHe rittenHouse

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, completely renovated with high end finishes, views of Rittenhouse Square from every room

1,560

$995,000* $242,439 $273,743

$6,387

$1,090

$5,298

warwick conDoMiniuMs

2 bedrooms + den, 3 baths, gourmet kitchen, marble baths, walk-in-closets, hardwood floors

1,614

$829,000* $115,051 $246,527

$5,752

$992

$4,761

Parc rittenHouse

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, terrace on pool club deck, open custom kitchen, marble baths, wood floors

1,272

$799,000* $201,948 $206,151

$4,810

$855

$3,956

warwick conDoMiniuMs

2 bedrooms + den, 3 baths, sun-soaked, wood floors, open kitchen, marble baths

1,614

$799,000* $190,486 $203,258

$4,743

$861

$3,881

tHe warwick

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, southern exposure from every room, marble baths, open chefs kitchen, maple hardwood floors

1,296

$625,000* $149,666 $158,380

$3,696

$631

$3,064

tHe rittenHouse

1 bedroom, 1.5 baths, eat in kitchen, beautiful sunset views, master suite with large marble bath

1,037

$599,000* $147,283 $170,623

$3,981

$659

$3,323

barclay

Two bedrooms, two baths, hardwood floors, old world charm with modern features

1,050

$595,000* $143,766 $153,060

$3,571

$619

$2,953

Monthly After Tax Cost

barclay

Two bedrooms, two baths, hardwood floors, building offers 24 hour doorman and gym, located on Rittenhouse Square

1,075

$550,000* $133,706 $146,037

$3,408

$580

$2,827

Parc rittenHouse

2 bedrooms, 1 bath, hardwood floors, marble bath, rooftop pool club and skyline view

806

$497,500

$119,226 $116,911

$2,728

$447

$2,281 $2,003

warwick conDoMiniuMs

One bedroom, one bath, hardwood floors, marble bath, custom kitchen

712

$399,900

$53,426

$106,710

$2,490

$486

Parc rittenHouse

1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, open kitchen, hardwood floors, marble bath

765

$389,900

$55,623

$120,077

$2,802

$473

$2,328

wanaMaker House

1 bedroom, 1 bath, wood floors throughout, renovated kitchen and bathroom, bay windows with city views

704

$309,999

$46,421

$91,365

$2,132

$352

$1,780 $1,587

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Parc rittenHouse

Studio with wood floors, marble bath, open kitchen and city view

497

$275,000

$39,472

$81,681

$1,906

$319

warwick conDoMiniuMs

Studio, high floor with city views, walk in closest, wood floors, marble bath

423

$219,900

$32,772

$62,166

$1,451

$226

$1,225

williaM Penn House

1 bedroom, 1 bath, city views, spacious kitchen

825

$165,000

$24,513

$63,419

$1,480

$168

$1,312

Location

SOCIETY HILL

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

101 walnut st

Entire Floor Residence, 2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, custom open kitchen, designer baths, panoramic river and city views

2423

$995,000

$281,398 $298,478

$6,694

$1,124

$5,841

bank builDing

2 bedrooms plus den, 2.5 baths, hardwood floors, high-end open kitchen, designer bathrooms

2,117

$799,000* $207,313 $217,014

$5,064

$844

$4,291

society Hill towers

Two bedrooms, one bath, parquet wood floors, washer/dryer, unobstructed river views, floor-to-ceiling windows

1,133

$399,000

$58,788

$128,086

$2,989

$427

$2,562

society Hill towers

One bedroom, high floor, river view, investment opportunity

700

$290,000

$42,577

$89,976

$2,099

$302

$1,798

society Hill towers

1BR, 1BA, magnificent river views, high floor, wood floors throughout

700

$275,000

$40,731

$86,724

$2,024

$291

$1,733

bank builDing

Raw space that can be customized to the buyers desires, hotel services and amenities available

1,286

$269,000

$41,367

$95,821

$2,236

$303

Location

WASHINGTON 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

inDePenDence 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

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

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, beautifully ren. kit. and baths, balc. with city and river views, hdwd. flrs. in living areas

1,977

$799,000* $195,082 $212,815

$4,966

$961

$4,004

inDePenDence Place

2 bedroom, 2 baths, completely renovated with custom kitchen and designer baths, balcony, hardwood floors

1,173

$559,000* $139,761 $140,111

$3,269

$613

$2,656

inDePenDence Place

1 bedroom, 1.5 baths, alcove, completely renovated with gourmet kitchen, designer bath, amazing closets

1,118

$479,900

$68,164

$137,351

$3,205

$620

$2,585

HoPkinson House

2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, wood floors, balcony, southern exposure

1,200

$349,900

$56,515

$122,407

$2,856

$417

$2,439

HoPkinson House

Deluxe 1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony with views of Washington Square and the river, renovated kitchen and bath

1,063

$329,000

$53,908

$115,998

$2,707

$410

$2,297

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$1,933 Monthly After Tax Cost

inDePenDence Place

1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, laundry room, excellent condition

928

$299,900

$44,212

$87,809

$2,049

$327

$1,722

inDePenDence Place

1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, upgraded kitchen, new fixtures throughout

860

$295,000

$42,801

$87,347

$2,038

$348

$1,690

inDePenDence Place

1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, excellent value

928

$290,000

$42,132

$83,461

$1,947

$302

$1,645

inDePenDence Place

1 bedroom, 1 bath, wood floors throughout, upgraded kitchen and bath, custom closets, balcony

928

$269,900

$40,971

$87,301

$2,037

$348

$1,243

Location

WATERFRONT

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

Pier 3

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, open floor plan, fireplace, terrace off mastersuite

1,300

$259,900

$41,044

$99,922

$2,332

$347

$1,985

waterFront square

1 bedroom, 1 bath, wood floors, balcony, high end finishes in kitchen and bath

924

$209,900

$42,318

$90,810

$2,119

$315

$1,804

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the barclay 237 s. 18th street

the lanesborough 1601 locust street

Magnificent three bedroom, three and a half bath home with most rooms overlooking Rittenhouse Square, 2638 sf

Entire floor home with 360 degree city views, three bedrooms, den/study, two fireplaces, an open floor plan and luxurious master suite, 3419 sf

$2,250,000

$1,900,000

the WarWick 1701 locust street

indePendence Place 233 s. 6th street Completely renovated deluxe one bedroom with chefs kitchen, designer bath, balcony and custom details throughout, 1118 sf

$799,000

$479,900

Parc ritenhouse 225 s. 18th street

the PhiladelPhian 2401 Pennsylvania ave.

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

Spacious one bedroom home with lots of light, wood floors and a recently renovated kitchen, 1258 sf

$275,000

$189,900

Allan Domb Real Estate 215.545.1500 • www.allandomb.com “wE coopERAtE with All REAltoRs”

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P H I L A D E L P H I A W E E K L Y Februar y 23 – March 1, 2011

Sun soaked two bedroom plus den home with beautiful open kitchen, marble baths and hardwood floors, 1614 sf

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