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The proof is in the pudding. She has showed that she can handle any situation. I think Rendell is the pebble in Cheri's shoe. But as we all know, Cheri will work very hard in those shoes even if the pebble hurts cause Cheri is a tough lady who can get the job done.

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The Green Party is right on the money with their choice for Philadelphia Sheriff candidate Cheri Honkala. I’ll be voting for her, telling everyone I know and supporting the only moral imperative coming out of this sheriff's race—keeping families in homes! It is about time someone was willing to challenge the way things are and change them to the way things should be. I saw her speak recently at a rally for workers’ rights and I was very moved by her energy and dedication.

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Union mistrust Regarding Tara Murtha’s recent column about union picketing outside Milkboy Coffee: As an ex-employee of Milkboy Coffee I feel the need to defend them in this battle. Milkboy does everything right as far as local community and world community is concerned. Not only do they support the neighborhoods/people in which they are located but they are a responsible business when it comes to recycling, composting, buying local, buying organic and supporting coffee growers by fair trade practices. What do these union guys do? They are out for themselves and they bully people if they don’t get their way. Grow up guys and stop littering while you’re at it!

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What happens when there’s nothing to fight over any more?

What are the unions going to picket when there is no new business to bully? They don't realize that there is no work for their members if businesses don’t want to move here.

Philadelphia can’t be carried by nonprofit construction funded by the city and Penn. If people (union members and non) are going to have work to do, the city needs businesses.

Have we learned anything from riding the R7 through Bucks County and seeing the industrial skeletons? Modern business doesn’t care about provincial bullying because it votes with its feet, moves away and the union guys are left to bully themselves. U3 ventures and Milkboy are bright exceptions and should be commended for their fortitude, heart and perseverance.

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The homeless find refuge at 315 South.

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Six blocks south of City Hall, a cafe opens at 9:30 p.m. People waiting in line outside the gothic church file in with their duffel and trash bags. Some have suitcases on. They descend into the sparse church basement, where they sign in at the reception desk, greeting staff and claiming spots around the room. Men and women, mostly middle-aged, approach a long table where the “barista” fills their Styrofoam bowls and cups with pasta, soup, bread, salad and coffee.

No one pays. They sit in metal folding chairs at round tables, eating silently. When the lights go out, these 36 men and 14 women—who are spending the night at 315 South Homeless Cafe at the Broad Street Ministry—take places on the floor, in their chairs or on pews along the walls, sleeping amongst their things, or watching movies on a small TV. Philadelphia spends millions to alleviate homelessness, which worsened after the financial crisis of 2008 set off a wave of mass foreclosures. The city uses most of its $98 million homeless housing budget to get people into permanent housing, leaving the chronically homeless few places to go. They’re a different category than those who’ve fallen on hard times. “This is more of a population that’s been doing this for long periods of time, and needs access to other resources to stabilize,” says café program coordinator Misty Sparks.

This year, the 315 South Homeless Cafe opened on Jan. 4 with $115,000 grant from the city, and will serve its last meal on March 31. It’s the only place in Center City where a homeless person can walk in—no questions asked—for food and rest. Run by the South Street-based nonprofit Bethesda Project, which serves the chronically homeless, the

cafe uses a personal approach by listening to the guests, referring them to the resources they need when they ask, and giving them a communal space. “We deal with a mentally ill, chronically addicted or drunk population,” says Sparks, who has been working with the homeless for more than a decade.

In bureaucratic parlance, it means the guests are “shelter resistant”: they’re unable to meet the city’s requirements to enter its emergency shelter system, which provide free but temporary beds. But the guests aren’t eager to enter those shelters anyway.

The 315 South staff says the guests have encountered theft, aggression, violence, mental abuse and apathy from staffers.

Some just don’t have the ID required to get into a city shelter.

Guests at 315 South do have to follow a few basic rules though: They have to be respectful of each other; they can have cigarettes; and they can be intoxicated, as long as they don’t bring drugs or alcohol inside.

Paul, a blue-eyed man with a faint scar on his cheek, was one of the “shelter resistant.”

He was homeless before he got sober and started working at 315 South. “Shelters had rules,” he says, recalling the time he spent in and out of the city’s system. “It’s selfimposed incarceration. I couldn’t come in wasted. You got searched at the door. We had a certain time we could have a cigarette.

They treat you like you’re in prison.

“You’re on the street,” he continues, declining to give his last name. “You have a chronic addiction. They tell you you can’t go in drunk or high. If I didn’t drink I would shake and go into seizures. They weren’t offering any substantial treatment options. I almost killed myself out there.”

Paul recalls when his life turned around:

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One day his buddy told him about free food at the Broad Street Ministry. He walked in and he said he felt the presence of God. Walking into the ministry got him into treatment, but shelters made him feel unsafe; people steal anything. He says older guests at 315 South feel intimidated and vulnerable at the shelters.

Sparks says Bethesda had some successes using a personal approach, but budget constraints are forcing the cafe to shut down, and she doesn’t know if it’ll open back up next winter.

Former Mayor John Street first steered Philadelphia toward using new approaches to solving homelessness. In 2005, the nonprofit Project H.O.M.E. opened the first cafe in Philly, taking in more than 100 people each night. The next year, the Bethesda Project came on board to open 315 South at the Broad Street Ministry.

On nights when wind-chill temperatures dip to 20 degrees (Code Blue), or when it’s snowing (Code Gray), the city declares a weather emergency. On those nights, 315 South can take in 75 people. There’s no weather emergency tonight, so the cafe can only take 50. Sparks shakes her head. Number 51 always gives her a hard time, she says.

By city orders, once at capacity, they can’t let anyone else in.

“You get an old man in his 60s with crutches covered in snow, and you have to turn him away,” says a visibly emotional Nick Ison, a member of the four-person cafe staff.

There’s a need for cafes like 315 South, because for the homeless Center City is the best place to find food and make money panhandling. But despite the cafe’s advantages, “barista” Liam O’Donnell says it has serious limitations. “If this program is connected to the right services, it would be awesome—but we don’t have options. If we don’t have services, it’s just people sleeping on the floor—not much better than sleeping on the streets.”

Sparks is less reticent. “It should turn your stomach to see people put out their bedroll on the floor rather than go to a shelter and sleep on a bed.”

The city’s Ridge Avenue shelter—the emergency system’s biggest—is closing in December, putting more money into permanent housing. Sparks agrees that permanent housing is the way to go, but thinks keeping a sense of community and support is necessary to help the recovery process.

Even if her guests don’t get along, and even if they don’t like each other, they help each other, she says. Everywhere else, the homeless are treated as pariahs. “Everywhere you go, you’re unwelcome and unseen. Even after years, you can’t be used to that.”

At 6:30 a.m., the cafe closes. The lights come on and the staffers, who have been awake all night, goad their guests into rising. They serve more bad coffee, and everyone leaves—to parks, libraries or to seek services. A lot of them go underground for warmth in the subway until tonight, when the cafe will reopen. n

Sext Offenders Two Pa. bills aim to make teens think twice before cyberbullying.

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By now, Tina Meier’s story is wellknown: In 2006, the Missouri native’s 13-year-old daughter Megan hanged herself after being bullied on MySpace by a neighbor—the mother of one of the teen’s schoolmates and former friends—who created a fake profile to torment Megan.

At the time, there was no specific law dealing with that kind of situation, so the mother ultimately escaped prosecution.

Gasps and tears from parents and educators filled the auditorium of Neshaminy High School in Bucks County last Wednesday as Meier recounted the events that led to her daughter’s suicide.

The emotional, hour-long presentation marked the launch of CyberSafe Philly, a series of 20 Verizon-sponsored summits—of which Meier is the keynote speaker—happening at area schools over the next two months.

“Do I think kids need to understand there are consequences, that there are devastating things that happen out of the things they do and say through technology? Absolutely,” says Meier, who played a key role in getting a Missouri cyberbullying law passed in 2007.

Since losing her daughter, Meier has become one of the nation’s most potent crusaders against cyberbullying and sexting—the transmission of nude or semi-nude photos to someone else via cell phone, computer or other electronic device. Sexting has become a chief component of cyberbullying because such photos often turn into instruments of blackmail or harassment. Her extended visit to Philadelphia comes at a time when Pennsylvania is poised to join about 20 states that have already criminalized the act of minors engaging in sexting and/or cyberbullying.

Because there are currently no sexting or cyberbullying laws on the books in Pennsylvania, district attorneys have wide latitude when it comes to prosecuting minors. Everything from simple harassment to possession or distribution continued on next page >>

“Do I think kids need to understand there are consequences, that there are devastating things that happen out of the things they do and say through technology? Absolutely.”

-Tina Meier with,” says Grove, who introduced a similar bill last year that passed in the House but failed to get through the Senate. “My heart does go out to the victim, [but] by her sending that [photo] to him, she now broke the law and she’s also the victim. It’s a unique, hard situation, but if she sent it to him, she’s responsible for her own actions.”

Grove believes his bill gets to the root of the problem: The creation of the photo in the first place. “I don’t accept [sexting] as normal child behavior. At some point you have to draw a line … and say, ‘We’re not going to accept this.’ This is about child pornography. It’s about us as a society deciding what is child pornography.” Grove argues that sexts frequently end up in the hands of adult sexual predators. “We’re inadvertently creating child pornography to fuel an illegal industry.”

That approach doesn’t sit well with Riya

Shah, staff attorney at the Philadelphiabased Juvenile Law Center, who believes Grove’s bill doubly victimizes the minor who creates the sext. “We hear the horrific stories about the kids who hurt themselves because they’ve sent a photograph to somebody and it’s gone public and they’re humiliated or being bullied by it, so by prosecuting that person who sent the photograph, you’re not accomplishing anything,” she says, adding that she supports criminalizing the boy’s actions in the aforementioned scenario.

Dr. Rollyn Ornstein, a Hershey-based pediatrician who has advised the JLC on the sexting issue, disputes Grove’s assertion that consensual sexting is aberrant behavior. “I’m not advocating [sexting], but it falls under the rubric of normal, healthy teenage sexual development. Now we just have all this technology to do it with. Kids need to be educated about how

far it can go and how it can be harmful.”

The JLC is throwing its weight behind Greenleaf’s proposed legislation, which Shah says is “a much more thoughtful and understanding response to the issue.”

“It clearly provides an offense that is measured in nature and addresses not all sexting, but sexting that’s not consensual, sexting that’s intended to harm or hurt another person,” Greenleaf says of his bill, which is scheduled for Senate consideration on April 12. “I’m very reluctant to create new crimes, particularly for juveniles, but in this case we’re trying to protect them [with] an appropriate way to deal with this matter.”

Grove and Greenleaf believe that some form of sexting/cyberbullying legislation will end up on Gov. Corbett’s desk by the end of the year. Which is what Tina Meier’s hoping for. “Parents need to take the lead in educating and warning kids about these things, but states need to do something, too,” she says. “Otherwise it’s like ‘If no one’s really gonna do anything to us, then what’s to stop us?’ We have to have laws in place.” n

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Two Pennsylvania lawmakers—Rep. Seth Grove (R-York) and Sen. Stewart Greenleaf (R-Bucks/Montgomery)—have each introduced legislation in the past two months that would provide clearer guidelines for prosecutors by establishing sexting (and in the case of Greenleaf’s bill, nonsexual cyberbullying as well) by minors as a second-degree misdemeanor.

There are similarities between Grove’s House Bill 815 and Greenleaf’s Senate Bill 850. Both lawmakers anticipate that minors convicted on a second-degree misdemeanor would likely not face jail time, but instead be placed in a diversion program and hit with community service, fines and forfeiture of the electronic device used to do the sexting. Both bills also provide for swift expungment of criminal sexting records following completion of the sentence. But one profound difference jumps out. Take, for example, this common scenario: A girl takes a nude photo of herself with her camera phone and sexts it to her boyfriend. The relationship falls apart, and the boy retaliates by forwarding the photo all over school, humiliating the girl.

Under Greenleaf’s bill, the boy could be charged with the misdemeanor, but not the girl. Under Grove’s bill, however, both the boy and the girl could be charged.

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Improv can be an intimidating field to break into, but for Amie Roe and Kristen Schier it’s like second nature.

“We’re about to be stunned by two hot babes,” announces the emcee at the Actor’s Center in Old City. Describing their show as “an undeniably girlish romp,” the ladies seamlessly teeter between kittenish and obscene. Over the course of the next hour, Roe, 27 and Schier, 32 morph into an obscure array of characters with equally obscure foreign accents.

Within the first 10 minutes of the show, the women go from bouncing around the stage as two sumo wrestlers to running in circles singing “Turning Japanese.” This paves the way for the next scene in which Schier plays a therapy patient who thinks she’s turning into different ethnicities.

“You’re not turning Irish, Cynthia,” Roe—her therapist—assures her.

“But the other day I was eating potatoes and I really enjoyed them,” Schier whines. “Also, I added an ‘O’ to my name just for fun.”

At one point, Schier elicits moans of disgust from several guys in the crowd after comparing her “snatch” to an iron maiden—a German torture device that “stretches things.”

Briefly breaking the fourth wall, she turns and addresses the audience.

“Hey, I’ll say whatever I want about my vagina.”

That puts an end to the moaning.

The comedic duo’s success is no surprise to Philly Improv Theater (PHIT) founder Greg Maughan. “The strength of women in improv in Philadelphia is something unique,” he says. “Last year when we had our auditions, we had one of our house teams get cast with more women than men, which is the opposite of what usually happens around the country.”

“I think we found an identity for what we wanted to do really easily because we are such good friends and our friendship has a real quality to it,” Roe says. “Kristen and I have an immature, playful sense

about us ... We don’t half-ass being silly, we fully commit to it.”

Roe and Schier first met while taking classes at PHIT in 2006, the first year it opened. It wasn’t until last year that they decided to take their friendship to the next level and become an improv duo.

They’ve already scored themselves invites to improv festivals in Seattle and Baltimore; Later this month they’ll be heading to the Chicago Improv Festival and in May, they’ll perform for the second time at Philly’s Duofest.

“I think Philly is doing something right in terms of attracting more women in the improv scene,” says Roe, adding she thinks it might have something to do with the fact that PHIT has several female instructors. “I find that when I teach a class, whatever level it is, there’s more women in it than other classes.”

Meanwhile, at the most renowned improv schools in the country, she notes you’ll find only maybe one or two women teaching.

Which is odd because women may actually have a funny bone. Biologically speaking, many comedy scholars argue that improv is actually a feminine art form.

“We have twice as many connections as men’s brains in our corpus callosum,” Roe says with a laugh. Men communicate better side to side because they’re programmed to hunt something” while “women’s brains are wired to connect to people face to face.”

The women stress that a good improv scene is grounded in relationships. “Instead of chasing what’s funny, you follow what you create and keep committing to that,” Schier notes.

And with the ladies, as Roe puts it, there’s not so much of a “my comedy dick is bigger” mentality getting in the way of that.

Both women have a long list of credentials. They studied at New York’s top improv schools: the Upright Citizens Brigade and the Magnet Theater, where Roe goes twice a week to rehearse and perform with one of their house teams. Schier has also taken intensives at the famous Second City in Chicago. In addition to now teaching classes and workshops at the theater, Schier is a part of the house team Fletcher while Roe directs the house team King Friday.

It seeems Schier, a “4’11 dynamo” with red hair and freckles, was genetically designed for comedy. Though she considers herself more a performer than a comedian, she says she discovered her knack for making people laugh as a young girl on long family road trips.

“I would play characters in the back seat and my mom had to pull over because she was laughing so hard. So that was my goal every road trip ... get my mom to pee her pants.”

Schier actually gave up a comfy fulltime position teaching English at a local private school to fully immerse herself in improv. “I took a drastic pay cut,” she jokes.

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It used to be that women weren’t funny.

That’s what men said, anyway. These days, that idea seems pretty laughable, as female comics like Tina Fey dominate our screens, both big (Date Night) and small (30 Rock). But they’re also doing some funny-ass routines right here in Philly. Like Amie Roe and Kristen Schier, Philly Improv Theater alums who wax poetic about their vajays in some of the craziest, most entertaining improv you’ll ever see. Or Mary Radzinski and Carolyn Busa, whose stand-up acts are known to routinely upstage their white-dude counterparts. And Meg Favreau, the primary source of estrogen within our local sketch community. The point is that women are hilarious, and it’s about damn time we acknowledged it. Philly’s bursting with female talent. Sorry, gentlemen: It turns out these broads got a lot more going for them than a uterus and a couple oneliners.

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attention and upstaged the majority of the night’s acts. Resembling a modest girl-scout in a blue button-up and a brown skirt, Busa delivered her routine in a low, calming voice, only ever slightly elevating to punctuate a joke with an F-bomb.

Starting her set with random musings and humorous observations, she finishes with a bit about vibrators.

Despite not following one comic’s advice a few years back to start wearing a pushup bra at shows, Radzinski did get a few hoots and hollers. They admit to sometimes using their femininity and often find it can work to their advantage.

“I feel like being attractive has definitely gotten me on a show where they didn’t even know my material,” says Busa. “But when it’s such a struggle, you kinda have to take those moments and just be thankful for the stage time.”

Yet, regardless of whether a venue wants to “salt-n-pepper” a line-up, as Radzinski

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acquainted. “If we’re on a show that’s a showcase, we’re probably the only girl,” Radzinski says.

At the first “Laughs on Fairmount,” a free open mic the women co-host every Monday night at the Urban Saloon, they were only three women out of roughly 20 comics in attendance. To add insult to injury, a man introduced Radzinski and Busa instructing the crowd to put their hands together for “the guys who put this show together.” Quickly realizing his slipup, he chuckled and corrected himself. “I mean, ladies.”

From there, a rotation of men took the mic cracking jokes about everything from porn and paintball to threesomes and how “bitches like to shop.” Add in one very misfortunate joke about date rape and well, that was just the icing on the testosterone-filled cake.

But in the sea of middle-aged white men, Radzinski and Busa commanded

The Ivy League tradition of musical sketch comedy remained off-limits to women until a group of female students at Penn began creating comedy sketches in their dorms in the late ’70s and formed Bloomers—the first and only all-female collegiate musical sketch comedy troupe in the country.

Named after Amelia Jenks Bloomer, an early member of the women’s liberation movement, today the troupe continues to put together two annual productions in the spring and fall in addition to smaller shows throughout the year at coffeehouses and special campus events.

Alumnae of the troupe (also lovingly referred to as “Girdles”) still attend shows and rehearsals to offer suggestions or send care packages of props, costumes and candy. This includes Vanessa Bayer who, after graduating in 2004, went on to study at Second City and last year was hired as a featured cast member on Saturday Night Live.

Now she’s probably known best for her uncanny Miley Cyrus impersonation.

With their final performance of their spring show having been one of Bayer’s off-weekends, she made the trip to Philly to witness the newest cast in action and reconnect with her fellow Girdles.

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By day, Mary Radzinski, 32, is a pharmaceuticals sales rep and Carolyn Busa, 25, does marketing and design for a small book publisher. By night, they’re two gals in a very small pool of local female standups. Having both started making their rounds in the comedy club circuit roughly three years ago, the two naturally became

ages of one another’s faces and sequined shorts, sketch partners Meg Favreau and Rob Baniewicz come out dancing and immediately establish their love/ hate dynamic. “I’m a feminist and he’s a misogynist,” says Favreau of Baniewicz to a crowd of mostly friends and family packed into the Shubin Theater, for what was likely to be Meg & Rob’s last show for a while—Favreau is heading west as the senior editor of the frugal living website WiseBread. “You might not think we get along, but we do,” Baniewicz answers, slowly reading the words off a cue card.

“Meg makes sure to tell me when I’m being offensive toward women.”

“And Rob makes sure to hit me whenever I’m wearing too much makeup,” Favreau responds.

Later he refers to her as “Professor Cunt-Rag” while she threatens to “skull fuck” the cue card holder for revealing her last name.

Favreau moved to Philly after college and for the last six years she’s been pretty much the primary source of estrogen within the local sketch community. She briefly served as the managing director at PHIT and started Sketch Up or Shut Up, the only monthly sketch open mic in the city. It was while she was working at QVC in 2006 that she met Baniewicz.

When the night of laughs comes to an end, the audience bid adieu to Meg with a standing ovation. One man openly wept onstage.

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decided that I wanted to do something fun and social, so I signed up for classes through PHIT.” She works full-time at the Children’s Crisis Treatment Center, where she specializes in play therapy. “Through their play, I watch [kids] figure stuff out and relive experiences and then resolve them,” she says.

But she's not quitting her day job.

“When [you] find you somebody who is really as serious about it as I am, it’s really refreshing,” Schier says. “But it’s rare still in Philly.”

adds, “they’re not going to ask us back if we’re not funny.”

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Every Saturday, she teaches a morning improv workshop for children ages 7 to 18 at the Actor’s Center, followed by her Level 4 class at PHIT in the afternoon and possibly one or two shows at night.

On Friday nights, Schier can be found performing with the N Crowd, one of the city’s longest running short-form improv troupes. Luckily, having recently been voted in as artistic director, she now gets paid. The rest of the week she keeps herself busy doing small jobs within the theater community, including the Philly Shakespeare Theater. “I’m sorta sinking my teeth into the Philly scene,” she says.

The journey was different for Roe, who says she was always more of an athlete than a performer. While getting her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Haverford College, she befriended a few improvisors on campus. “After college I

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Cast, band and crew included, their spring show, Hot-Cross Nuns: Old Habits Die Hard was the laborious fete of about 40 girls, starting with an intense round of auditions in the fall.

This year, out of the roughly 30 to 40 girls who auditioned, only four made the cut.

In the first round, girls must prove themselves as true humorists through a variety of comedy games encompassing improv, sketch and straight joke-telling. They then have to prove that they possess at least semi-decent singing and dancing abilities.

“One of the cool things about Bloomers is that there is no separate writers and actors,” says Lizzie Sivitz, a sophomore who joined the troupe this year.

Sivitz wrote one of the running bits in the show revolving around a girl who goes around campus, infiltrating various student clubs in hopes of scouring free food.

In between her failed attempts to blend in, she violently shovels handfuls of chips into her mouth. Even with a few topical sketches sprinkled throughout the hour-plus show and several geared toward a college crowd, it was clearly written by women, for women.

If the three musical numbers set to the tunes of No Doubt and numerous jabs at the opposite sex didn’t give it away, the scene where one Bloomer mimes a papsmear certainly did.

The comedians contribute their success to a strong sense of female camaraderie in the community.

Before pairing up with Roe, Schier and Favreau performed with the improv troupe, The Real Housewives of Philadelphia along with two other women in the scene.

“The idea was like we’re fucking funny, so let’s all do this,’” Schier says with her usual, unwavering enthusiasm.

Aside from having performing locally at the Philly Fringe and Improv Festivals, they were invited to the women’s comedy festivals in Boston and Texas.

According to Schier, many comedy festivals are starting to seek out less stereotypical troupes or what she describes as: “one skinny, tall guy with glasses, one sorta fat John Belushi-looking dude, two girls—one of whom is totally hot, the other who is kinda ugly, but she’s really funny so they tolerate her—and no black guys.”

Unfortunately however, they’ve been forced to become only a “bi-coastal show,” with two of the housewives having left Philly for the bright lights of L.A. Roe is hoping to wedge the local gender gap between the other comedic forms by inviting some of her fellow improv gals to sit on her upcoming free workshop at PHIT specifically for sketch and stand-up comics.

She thinks it may just be the nature of sketch that precludes woman, describing a typical sketch writing session as a bunch of bros drinking beer, getting high and eating pizza. “I can see women being like, ‘this is

not how I want to spend Monday through Friday,’” she jokes.

Even after finding success beyond the city limits, Northeast Philly native, Christine Nangle returns a few times a year to teach a sketch-writing workshop at PHIT, including one next month.

“I want to encourage comedy in Philadelphia,” she says.”

Following in the footsteps as Philly’s beloved comedy maverick Tina Fey, Nangle is currently one of the female writers at Saturday Night Live.

After graduating from Penn, she spent five years doing improv and sketch in Pittsburgh before moving to New York and enrolling at the Upright Citizens Brigade.

That’s where she eventually caught the attention of an SNL scout and was asked to submit a package.

She got the good news while at the movies with a friend. “It was pretty surreal,” she says. “I was holding the phone shaking and I think I may have fell to the ground.

People came over to me thinking that someone had died.”

The female players in the professional scene are also reaching out to help hone and nurture the comedic talents of a younger wave of amateur and aspiring comediennes.

Co-founder of 1812 Productions, “Philadelphia’s All-Comedy Theater,” Jennifer Childs is one of the Philly’s few, true veteran comedians. As artistic director, she works with a predominantly male team of writers and performers to produce each 1812 show and special event.

Last year, with the help of two other female comedy vets, Childs ran the Funny Girl Bootcamp, a three-day workshop for women between the ages of 21 to 29 focusing on “finding your inner funny girl.”

The workshop covered text, character work and comedy history with Jen, shortform improv with Mary Carpenter and comedic dance with Karen Getz who has been teaching improv for 20 years.

“It was a terrific weekend and I learned as much as the students, I think,” Jen remarks. There will be a second installment of the workshop in June, open to women of all ages.

As for the whole gender issue and lingering notions of the “humorless woman,” most of the city’s comediennes feel like it’s a bit of a moot subject.

Especially in Philly.

“I almost wish there was some old-timey sexism,” Busa jokes. “That would just fuel me.”

Even being the leading lady of sketch, Favreau says she always felt like one of the guys. Yet, she does dream of a world free of “sexy photo spreads of lady comics” where comedians can just be comedians.

With SNL being a notorious boys club, Nangle says she often gets asked for input on the topic. While acknowledging that the big, bad comedy business can be rougher on women at times, as far as she’s concerned, the secret of success is quite simple.

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One of the founding members of California’s storied Solesides/Quannum hip-hop collective (along with DJ Shadow, Blackalicious, and DJturned-journalist Jeff Chang), Bay Area rapper Lyrics Born has straddled the underground/ mainstream divide for close to two decades.

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Unlike the Queen Mum, Desiree Evergreene knows that royalty must make way for its successors. Since capturing her title, the reigning Miss Bob & Barbara’s has been wowing fans twice weekly at the venerable South Street watering hole, where she belts out Broadway show tunes. But after holding the crown for almost two years, the time has come for her to relinquish it. Of course, this diva won’t just hand her tiara over to any old thing: Five ambitious ladies are vying for the glory. The contestants have been primping and practicing for just this chance and will compete in three categories: evening gowns, talent show and on-stage Q&A. This year’s theme, “An Evening in Greene,” requires the girls to wear an emerald shade, so show your love by ordering a shot of sour apple schnapps to go with that PBR. raYMond SiMon

This Thursday through Sunday, the Philadelphia Art Alliance will present Artwear, a gathering of local artists who’ve handcrafted a selection of wearable accessories and clothing. More than 25 designers will be featured, including Marsha Drummond of Mona the Mad Hatter, who dreams up extravagant and ornate headpieces crafted of flowers and feathers, and Aimee Eckert’s ‘wearable time travel’—vintage photos restored into jewelry.

The sale runs all weekend with guest speakers presenting in the afternoon, including printmaker Doug Bucci’s panel on the process of 3-D printing on Sunday. eMilY FreiSher 3-8pm. $10 includes admission all three days plus panels. Through Sun., April 3. Philadelphia Art Alliance, 215 S. 18th St. philartalliance.org

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streets of Times Square, but today Reverend Billy’s project has grown to include a gospel choir, nationwide performance tours and his own movie, What Would Jesus Buy? Billy and his choir have dedicated themselves to political change and social action, waging campaigns in defense of the First Amendment and public spaces, encouraging strong local communities, and advocating sustainable consumption practices. Tonight, Reverend Billy and 15 members of his gospel choir will perform their Earthalujah show, which combines music and “preaching” for a bible-thumping good time.

Sorta like church—if the pastor were preaching for a safe and healthy environment, local community building and the decline of corporate greed. Emily Crawford 7pm. Free. Swarthmore College, LPAC Theater, 500 College Ave. Swarthmore. 610.328.7750. swarthmore.edu

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Sunday’s the day to beat your hangover. As experts in the field, Philadelphians know the two surest cures: exercise and drinking some more beer. Do them at the same place, at the same time, for the same ticket price and discover the joys of transcendence through hedonistic indulgence. Dock Street Brewery will host a 75-minute all-levels yoga session with the spirited and flexible Justicia Friese DeClue, which will be immediately followed by a brewery tour and tasting. Just don’t try any crazy stuff after you’ve started drinking. The ancient sages said that true flavor couldn’t be expressed by mere

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In 1996, Bill Talen invented the character “Reverend Billy:” the Elvis-haired, hyperventilating televangelist who preaches the gospel of environmentalism and ethical business practices. He started out as a lone performer on the

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Those of you who will always associate bassist extraordinaire Mike Watt with punk legends the Minutemen—despite his 25 post-Minutemen years doing FIREHOSE, loads of great (if sometimes abstruse) solo albums, and playing or recording with the Stooges, Banyan and Kelly Clarkson (!)—will be thrilled to hear that Hyphenated-Man, his new album with backing duo Missingmen, is the most Minutemen-ish thing he’s done since the tragic 1985 demise of that band. Thirty songs. Most under two minutes. Noisy punk meets free jazz meets baffling grooves. All of it written on D. Boon’s old Telecaster. Double Nickels on the Dime for a new generation? Could be something like that tonight. m.a.G.

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ith allconsuming monochrome drones and death-shaking, low-frequency grooves, the Black Angels’ Directions To See A Ghost (2008) painted a dystopian portrait of an LSD-based free-community where doses were secretly spiked with PCP. The Austin, Texas-based five-piece plunged into the dark heart to confront the sick cult’s Godhead, and upon finding the blood-sucking snake disguised as a dove, they decapitated it. On Phosphene Dream (2010), they make a slight departure from Velvet Underground-esque dirges to incorporate more 13th Floor Elevators-inspired blues and rock riffs (which makes sense since they toured as Elevators’ founder Roky Erikson’s backing band in 2008). While their palette has evolved, thankfully, the uptight trembling and bad vibes remain. EllioT Sharp

Center for Philadelphia’s biggest dodgeball game ever: 500 on 500, hurling balls murderously at each other. Proceeds go to the organization that awards 20 grants a year to people with big goals who need a leg-up to get off the ground. Participants will snag goodies, including free Wings tickets and T-shirts. The last person standing on the losing team and 10 players on the winning team will be crowned winners and showered with praise and prizes. Lacking the balls to get whacked in the face? Spectator tickets are $20. There will also be tailgating all day long and a post-game party where losers can nurse their bruised egos over food and beers. ada KUlESZa

Destroyer The most super part of so-called “indie supergroup” the New Pornographers is Dan Bejar (with Neko Case finishing in second place).

Bejar has recorded as Destroyer since 1996, with the last eight albums of his discography released by recent Grammy-winning label Merge. Given the nostalgia movement sweeping the popular-indie world, some may quickly discount Destroyer’s 2011 release Kaputt as representing an already exhausted trend. But while the tunes are soaked in 1980s elevatorpop grease and New Age body oils with traces of Kenny G-inspired smooth jazz, Kaputt is more a reappropriation of kitsch than an escapist’s return to the womb. Guiding with his erudite wordplay, Bejar revives highly danceable sonic wastelands to disclose the impermanence of taste. E.S. 8pm. $13. With War on Drugs.

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If your only exposure to Santería has been the horrible Sublime song or the 1987 Martin Sheen shlockfest The Believers, you may want to swing by International House tonight for a screening of When the Spirits Dance Mambo.

The 90-minute documentary—shot in both Cuba and New York City—traces the journey and evolution of the sacred, somewhat mysterious, and often misunderstood La Regla Ocha (better known as Santería) religion from its West African roots to the Caribbean (16thcentury slaves brought their Yoruba belief systems with them to Cuba and elsewhere as a means of maintaining identity and strength) and ultimately the United States. Created by filmmakers Robert Shepard (who’ll be on hand this evening for a question-and-answer session) and Marta Moreno Vega, the vibrant, colorful Mambo examines the ways in which Santería embedded itself in Cuban music, dance and rituals, and how Cuban immigrants carried those traditions to America. m.a.G. 7pm. $5-$10. International House, 3701 Chestnut St. 215.387.5125. ihousephilly.org

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The Mr. Gay competition is coming back to our fair city for another round of sexy strutting. Slated for Nov. 4 and 5, Philly’s own Bruce Yelk, to plan the competition weekend. This month, we must search high and low to find Philly’s finest gay man to represent us and compete for the national title. The competition is open to any gay resident of the city or five-county region who wants the opportunity to fight for the title. And a valuable title it is—last year’s local winner, Ryan Mattis, went on to finish first runner-up in the national competition. All entrants will compete in two preliminary rounds of competition: evening/club wear and swimsuit. The top five scorers from

Decades before marriage equality, hate crimes and “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” came to dominate the discourse about gay rights and policy, the central issue facing our community was HIV and AIDS. Whereas the newer LGBT issues concern equal rights and protection, the HIV crisis is a different matter altogether.

HIV is preventable and treatable, but without a cure and without access to medication in many parts of the world, it remains a global health crisis. Join thousands across the Delaware Valley for the region’s single-largest fundraising event this month, Dining Out for Life. More than 200 Philadelphia-area restaurants will participate in this evening of philanthropy and awareness. A portion of each meal sold at participating restaurants (33 percent) will provide medical care and outreach programming to men, women and children suffering from HIV and AIDS in our region. What’s so wonderful about this event is that the charitable donation is taken directly from the cost of your meal—there is no additional fee for the event. Complacency is not an option. We must continue working on improved treatments, preventive messages and ultimately—a cure. Thurs., April 28, Various Locations. 215.981.0088. diningoutforlife. com/philadelphia

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prelims advance to the finals, which is a Q&A session featuring questions by the hosts and judges, which include Village Voice gossip columnist Michael Musto and Paper Magazine’s Mickey Boardman. In addition to all the man candy strutting around onstage, there are several ensemble drag performances similar to those that brought down the house at last month’s production of “Dragapalooza: Broadway Divas.” Frank DeCaro from Sirius OUTQ Radio and local drag personality Brittany Lynn will reprise their role as co-hosts. VIP guests get to mingle with the celebs and judges during a pre-show reception. Sat., April 16, 9pm. Voyeur Nightclub, 1221 St. James St. 215.735.5772. nightlifegay.com

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Bar Ferdinand 1030 N. Second St. 215.923.1313. barferdinand.com $$ AS CC ★ El Balconcito 658 E. Godfrey St. 215.342.2340. $ Freddy and Tony’s 201 W. Allegheny Ave. 215.634.3889. $ Pura Vida 527 Fairmount Ave. 215.922.6433. $ Sazon 941 Spring Garden St. 215.763.2500. sazonrestaurant. com $$ CC BR BYOB

P H I L A D E L P H I A W E E K LY March 30 - April 5, 2011

SundayOUT at the Piazza

From April 25 through May 1, the international gay community will take root in Philadelphia for a week of educational panels, live performances, community gatherings and celebratory parties. Many nongay Philadelphians have only recently heard of Malcolm Lazin in connection with his run for one of City Council’s at-large seats. But the LGBT community has benefitted from his advocacy and leadership efforts. Lazin has transformed Equality Forum from a grassroots community-building function into arguably the world’s most important LGBT event by focusing on civil liberties, advocacy, public policy and global activism. Events this year include SundayOUT at the Piazza (May 1), the International Equality Dinner at the National Constitution Center (April 30), and the Zane Booker Dance Tribute (April 29). In addition, Equality Forum will feature several discussion panels on key policy issues throughout the week, as well as the 12th Annual Gay and Lesbian Art Exhibit at the University of the Arts. Several special nightlife events will take place periodically during the week, including the “Men’s Party” at Q Lounge (April 30) and “Girl Fever” at Sister’s (April 30). Equality Forum deserves the support of those who live and work in its host city, so take a look at the schedule and plan your week now. Mon., April 25–Sun., May 1. Various Center City Venues.

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A Full Plate 1009 N. Bodine St. 215.627.4068. $$ CC Bistro Juliana 2723 E Cumberland St. 215.425.2501. bistrojuliana.com $ AS Darling's 1001 N. Second St. 267.239.5775. $$ CC Delilah’s 100 Spring Garden St. 215.625.2800. $$ CC AS Higher Grounds 631 N. Third St. 215.922.3745. $ BR Honey’s Sit ’n’ Eat 800 N. Fourth St. 215.925.1150. $ Hot Potato Cafe 529 E. Girard Ave. 215.425.0905. $$ CC BR BYOB Ida Mae’s Bruncherie 2302 E. Norris St. 215.426.4209. $ BR North Third 801 N. Third St. 215.413.3666. norththird.com $$ CC AS BR ★ PYT 1050 N. Hancock St. 215.964.9009. pytphilly.com $$ CC AS Ron’s Ribs 1539 Cecil B. Moore Ave. 215.732.3561. ronsribs.com $ Silk City Diner & Lounge 435 Spring Garden St. 215.592.8838. silkcityphilly.com $ BR CC ★ Sulimay’s 632 E. Girard Ave. 215.423.1773. $ BR BYOB The Hinge 2652 E. Somerset St. 215.425.6614. hingecafe.com $$

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Suddenly sea more: Golden spot tilefish luxuriates in a pool of tomato consumme.

Despite each new accolade he receives, Chef Mike Stollenwerk has been remarkably quiet in his rise to the upper echelons of Philadelphia’s food scene. Sure, his name is dropped in the press and on blogs with relative regularity. And yes, he’s been every bit as busy as other local bold-faced food names: special menus and dinners locally; cooking at the James Beard House; opening Fathom in the full glare of expectation and coverage. But it seems the respectable little empire he’s built has been constructed more on solid foundation, on consistency and on a great team than

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anything else. And that has served him well.

The re-opening of Little Fish in the old Salt & Pepper space at Sixth and Fitzwater is both another coup for a neighborhood that’s become a serious dining destination in its own right—Bistrot La Minette, Adsum and Cochon are all walking-distance from Little Fish’s new digs—as well as a clever relocation for a once-beloved BYOB. Shoehorning his growing reputation into this diminutive space lends the enterprise a sense of poetry, not unlike superstar Gabrielle Hamilton still cooking from her closet-sized kitchen at New York’s Prune.

Of course, with multiple projects in the air, Stollenwerk can’t be all places at once, or even as often as he’d perhaps like to be. But with Executive Chef Chad Jenkins helming the kitchen here, and Jonathan

Petruce pulling sous-duty, he has a reliable, talented team to keep standards high.

And they are, almost shockingly so. Malpeque oysters, for example, are sparked to life by sherry vinegar and shallots: Fairly standard, and executed well. But the real stunners are the Miradas—ripple-shelled oysters from Washington state whose own whiff of melon was amplified by an ingenious garnish of minced cucumber, lime and tamari. These are as fresh and refreshing as oysters get: Mollusks as mouthwash.

Those cukes are an indication of this kitchen’s swerve with textures. The rice noodles tangle up in a densely concentrated, almost woodsy hot-and-sour broth and are joined by carrots and daikon that has been shaved to almost exactly the same width. Beneath it all, a thumb-sized minaret of butter-poached king crab leg, brilliantly pink and sweet.

Scallops, seared to an umber-toned brown and still silky at their centers, are topped with bacon marmalade and accompanied by a sneaky-sweet potato-apple gratin. For this dish alone it’s worth dropping the money on a nice rose Champagne or, if you’re feeling flush, a white Burgundy.

Golden spot tilefish, meaty and moist and luxuriating in a shallow pool of tomato consomme, mines a smokier depth with andouille and roasted poblano and red bell peppers. My only wish is that they’d offer little to-go bags of the crisp-skinned rock shrimp and grits cake that accompany the fish.

The one problem with enhancing so many fish dishes with pork products is that the bar can be set perhaps too high. Sturgeon, a fleshy fish that’s a natural partner for pig, is brilliant with its scattering of cracklins, but the base of whole and disintegrating gigande beans and oddly-underwhelming pork belly left me wondering what had happened to this otherwise well-conceived take on cassoulet. The dish is good, but when you read about cracklins and belly on the menu, you expect more. (By the time this review runs, the dish will have been replaced with a salmon and pork-belly ravioli, which sounds more than promising.)

But that was really the only perplexing part of the new Little Fish. Service is hyper-competent and professional; the music—full of appropriately idiosyncratic iPod diversions—fills the space without interrupting conversation; and the desserts are great. Rum cake with salted coffee caramel and a crown of banana-cashew ice cream extinguished the last vestiges of heat from the soup’s spicy broth, and chocolate mousse with thick chestnut cookies and ice cream, itself as savory as too many are saccharine-sweet, works well with the dregs of whatever red you have left.

Really, it’s all very much still a product of Stollenwerk’s philosophy, and as tightly focused as it was back in its original incarnation. The difference now is that there’s a tiny bit more space and air, meaning you won’t go home smelling like the oil from his saute pans, and eventually, I expect, it’ll be a bit harder to snag a weekend reservation. But it’s worth the effort of calling early. Like the chef himself and the team he has surrounding him, Little Fish is as dedicated as it’s ever been. As rewarding, too. n

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Smith (who is perhaps best known for her role on TV’s The West Wing) is often credited with inventing the style of theater known as docudrama. Instead of creating and portraying fictional characters, in docudrama all the characters we encounter are real people. The words they speak are entirely their own, taken verbatim from the more than 300 interviews Smith conducted for the play. In Easy, 20 of those interviewees appear in a series of monologues. The subjects range from the famous (seven-time Tour de France winner and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong; former Texas Gov. Ann Richards; supermodel Lauren Hutton) to the ordinary (a New Orleans hospital worker).

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It is widely acknowledged that the Japanese were the first to perfect the most sophisticated methods for inscribing works of art onto the body. Carla Hopkins of Portside Parlor has become a master of this style. Together with boyfriend and artistic partner-incrime, Nick Gleckman, Hopkins has put together a series worthy of the gods—a modern tribute It's all Greek to me: Tattoo artist to GrecoCarla Hopkins brings Nick Gleckman's Roman bold and ckeeky sketches to life. mythology.

Ten paintings, as well as additional study sketches, will adorn the walls while DJ Tom B. spins and burlesque performers shimmy. Beyond her nine-year tattooing career, Hopkins is a formally trained artist, having attended the University of the Arts as a sculpture major. Gleckman, on the other hand, is a self-taught phenomenon who drew early inspiration from comic-book characters. The two complement each other to vibrant completion as Gleckman sketches and Hopkins paints. “Nick and I have a very healthy level of artistic competition,” Hopkins says, “but in collaboration, we play to each other’s strengths.” As adept with a brush as she is with a needle, Hopkins brings to life Gleckman’s fascinatingly cheeky sketches with the same bold contrast of colors and precise shading she uses to adorn her clients’ skin. Pieces featuring classic idols like Pan and Persephone get quirky titles like “My Boyfriend Seduces the Harvest Moon” and “An Easy Choice.” The show’s lively mermaid may “Command the Crimson Seas,” but together Hopkins and Gleckman command attention. (Allison Krumm) 7pm. Portside Parlor, 30 S. Second St. 215.922.1313. bodygraphics.com

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The ladies are taking over Extra Extra this month, transforming the white-walled alternative space into a lady cave—a den of decor and comfort without, I’m guessing, a big-screen TV. “Common Place,” a collaborative sculptural installation by Beth Brandon, Luren Jenison and Saman-

tha Margherita, is interactive. And it has to be, because any good lounge space has comfortable outcroppings on which to lean, sit or lie. But since this is also an art installation and not an IKEA showroom, there’s lots of stuff to look at, pick up and shake. The show’s theme is nature—specifically what role it plays in our increasingly domesticated lives. To prove the point, there won’t be just potted plants in the cave; the artists will inject some real nature into it. Will there be a real Bambi in the gallery, a la Joseph Beuys, who in 1974 set up temporary digs in a New York gallery—complete with a coyote? Check the opening to see. (Roberta Fallon) 6-10pm. Through April 24. Extra Extra, 1524 Frankford Ave. 301.412.7547. eexxttrraa.com

“Night is a Girl” at Tiger Strikes Asteroid

Theresa Saulin, a local artist whose recent works are on view this month at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, evokes both biological systems and man’s predilection for intrusion. “Night is a Girl” showcases the artist’s astonishing aptitude for translating a theme into disparate mediums. Her earthenware sculptures are beautiful yet harrowing mutations of human and botanical forms: Child-sized limbs and heads sprout from masses that replicate the texture of sea sponges or coral-like tubes. Spiraling into curves that suggest some recursive mathematical formula guiding Saulin’s hand, these wall-mounted constructions produce a hypnotic calm, all the while overshadowed by their unsettling insinuations of monstrous metamorphoses. The unexpected synthesis of cast-off doll parts and vegetal growths is at once a fascinating novelty and an alarming anomaly, the sort of artifact one might have uncovered from an Old World cabinet of curiosities.

Nevertheless, the pale ceramic surface implies a long-hardened relic—a fossil from some unknown time and place that forces the viewer to confront the frightening yet intangible possibility of organic or engineered corporeal transformations.

The delicate ink outlines of her drawings suggest a human reinterpretation of microscopic forms—a guide to navigating some complex molecular process.

By obscuring whole bodies of evidence, Saulin demands a close examination of her diagrams, which like nearly every natural phenomenon, elude the viewers’ total comprehension. (Lucy McGuigan) 6pm. Through May 1. Tiger Strikes Asteroid.

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Two For the Road (1967): Of course, it’s perfectly understandable: Investors want a profit. So when what they’ve funded proves too challenging to mass audiences, it’s only natural—if slightly unethical—to do some fibbing.

Released as a new freedom swept Hollywood, Stanley Donen’s marital saga is both formally radical and brutally honest, showing a couple (Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney) at their most foolishly in love and most depressingly bile-filled. Naturally, the trailer largely showed the former, and even repeated a banal line about them making “something wonderful out of being alive” three separate times—anything to assure viewers they wouldn’t see the movie they would see.

Cockfighter (1974): When he bought the rights to Charles Willeford’s novel, producer Roger Corman assumed audiences would eat up a film about its widely illegal sport. He was wrong. But Corman allegedly never lost a dime, and so he briefly retitled Monte Hellman’s astute character study as Born to Kill, then fitted it with a new trailer, one that never mentioned lead Warren Oates’ profession.

Corman even spliced in footage from other Corman products.

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exchange for $50 million to faithfully remake Andrei Tarkovsky’s space epic, he had to put up with ads that sold it as a sci-fi thriller, complete with producer James Cameron’s name before his. Hey, it didn’t work.

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so pissed that the intense horror film they’d been sold was a talky Tracy Letts play that they awarded it an F—one of four times that’s happened (see: directly above).

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A man travels back in time to try to stop a pending terrorist attack.

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Back when he was still a film critic and hadn’t yet become a What follows is Groundhog Day meets Speed, a star-crossed stark raving lunatic, iconic director Jean Luc-Godard once said love story unfolding in eight-minute couplets. Paced like a that the best criticism of a movie was to make another movie. rocket and unfolding perilously close to real time, Source Code By that rationale, I’d argue that Source Code is a rebuttal to The creates a maze in which we want the hero to solve the mystery Adjustment Bureau. Director Duncan Jones’ sophomore effort and save the girl from a tragedy that has already occurred. is a sleek machine, touching on questions of true love, alternate The lovely Monaghan, who, for the first time since her breakrealities and predestination, nailing them to the floor with a through role in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, is allowed to exude her rock-hard discipline that this particular viewer applauds. full charisma, provides some romantic distraction from the Source Code begins with Jake Gyllenhaal as a shell-shocked task at hand. (I’d rather flirt with her than hunt down a mad veteran of the Afghanistan War waking up after a snooze on bomber, too.) a Washington commuter train. He has no memory of where Working from a script by Ben Reilly, Jones plows a lot of the he was or of his mission. Suddenly, a hot fellow passenger same gimmicks that made his 2009 summer sleeper Moon such a pleasant surprise. Notoriously born as “Zowie Bowie,” (Michelle Monaghan) is being entirely overfriendly. Weirdly Jones has since scrambled far away from his father David’s enough, there’s another strange fellow staring back at him in formidable sphere of influence and carved out a niche within the mirror whenever Gyllenhaal goes to the bathroom. the kind of thoughtful, low-budget space oddities that folks Then the whole goddamn train explodes. just don’t make anymore. Camera composition and editing Gyllenhaal is quickly plunged back to a frosty control bunprovide more thrills than the dodgy CGI. ker, video-linked to an even chillier commanding officer (Vera And it’s nice to see Gyllenhaal, who so often struggles with Farmiga) and her no-nonsense superior (Geoffrey Wright, who roles above his pay grade, finally setdecided to let his ostentatious, bad-guy tling into a part he can finally handle. crutches deliver half the performance The Speed comparisons don’t end Source Code for him). here, as Source Code reminds you After some hasty explanation, Grade: B of when Keanu gave up on all that we’re led to believe that thanks to the Director: Duncan Jones Shakespearean balderdash and embrain’s capacity to retain information Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle braced his talents as a handsome guy shortly after death—plus a quantum Monaghan and Vera Farmiga who moves well on camera. physics equation to be named later—a Running time: 93 minutes The movie plays by its own rules secret military forensic operation has and—for most of its running time—is allowed Gyllenhaal’s grunt to minda masterful example of sci-fi at its best meld with a civilian victim and witness and most dystopian. a terrorist attack that already took place several hours before.

So just when it feels like the film should end, please walk out.

The rules are hard and simple: He can only witness the last Source Code has another 10 minutes to go that keep it from eight minutes on the train, and he can’t alter the outcome. being a hallmark of the genre, and it soon falls into the realm Everything else is gobbledygook that director Jones ushers off of all those other April also-rans. There’s a crowd-pleasing the screen as quickly as possible, as opposed to The Adjustwhatzit of an addendum that frankly makes no sense and sells ment Bureau, which kept re-explaining each arbitrary rule so out almost everything that has come before, damn near ruinoften that it no longer even made sense to anybody, including ing the movie. You can smell the studio executive’s notes from the actors involved. a mile away.

This bomber has a great big nuclear surprise planned for A smart projectionist would jump on this thing with a pair later in the day, so it’s up to discombobulated, time-travelof scissors. n sick Gyllenhaal to navigate his way through this particular caboose, over and over again, until he finally locates the Read our interview with director Duncan Jones at philadelphiaweekly.com terrorist.

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C+ Reviewed by Matt Prigge Milling about during the opening Christmas party of Miral, Julian Schnabel’s contribution to the Israel-Palestine debate, is no less than Vanessa Redgrave. At the scene’s climax, she toasts to briefly putting political differences aside. If that sounds awkward coming from someone who has a thing or two to say about “Zionist thugs,” sometimes during Oscar ceremonies, then welcome to the muddled intentions of Schnabel’s wouldbe salvo.

A mini-epic spanning the creation of Israel in 1948 to the still-never-implemented 1993 Oslo peace accords, Miral keeps things personal. Though the titular little girl doesn’t man the narrative reins till the hour mark, the first half acts as a survey of the strong women of Palestine through the years, moving from Hiam Abbas as orphanage-creator Hind al-Husseini through to Miral’s martyrlike mom Nadia (Yasmine Al Massri), who escaped being raped by her father, served jail time and submerged herself, beautifully, in the sea. Miral grows up to be Slumdog Millionaire’s Freida Pinto, as well as torn between two ideologies: the reticent, apolitical non-stance held by Hind and her kindly surrogate father (Alexander Siddig) versus the dashing revolutionary theatrics of sexy Hani (Omar Metwally).

Excepting the Plain Jane-looking (but otherwise superior) Basquiat, Schnabel’s forte is sensualism bordering on camp. Every shot in Before Night Falls and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a goddamn beaut; only when the films went for deeper (or “deeper”) meaning did they falter. Miral goes light on style, mostly falling back on handheld and the occasional odd angle. (The anomaly is a bomb-placing scene set in a theater showing Polanski’s Repulsion, which studies the potential victims’ faces as they’re rapt in cinematic ecstasy.) Schnabel claims he knew nothing about the Palestine-Israel issue before reading the novel by Rula Jebreal, who wrote the screenplay, and it shows: he approaches the Palestine-Israel issue emotionally but rarely intellectually, and while he wants to piss people off, he doesn’t want to piss them off too much. Miral steps back before it ever gets truly offensive. Its saving grace, in a sense, is that it fails to engage with its thorny issue. Like its Slumdog Millionaire-borrowed star, who can do puppy love but less so the fate of the West Bank, it’s pretty—very, very pretty—and vacant. n

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There is a brief spell during which Win Blah, blah, blah.

Win starts to feel like the greatest pottyAs with every McCarthy movie, the fun mouthed underdog sports comedy since is in the character interactions. Giamatti Slap Shot or The Bad News Bears. McCarthy is brilliant as the beat-down, flummoxed knows how to use his actors, and having Gia- straight man. Cannavale is over-the-top and FOXand SEARCHLIGHT 2 COL. (3.925") X 7" divorce matti, Jeffrey Tambor the ever-effusive over-compensating for his recent Bobby Cannavale coach a hard-luck gang of by becoming insanely hyper-excited about PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY scrawny Star Wars nerds practically writes every single thing that happens onscreen.

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Writer-director Tom McCarthy doesn’t make great movies, but he makes movies about people I enjoy spending time with.

Scoff all you want at McCarthy’s stubbornly middlebrow The Station Agent or The Visitor, but these are both formula Sundance flicks elevated by endearing performances from bravura, always-welcome character actors. So it goes with Win Win, starring Paul Giamatti as a sad-sack New Jersey lawyer,

killer combination, and there’s also room for Amy Ryan as Giamatti’s tough-minded, spitfire wife, who has a Bon Jovi tattoo on her ankle that she’d like to tell you about.

I kind of wish McCarthy had just made a straight sports picture, because these characters are so entertaining that he didn’t actually need to make a mawkish reach for relevance.

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“There’s nothing very simple about being simple,” intones writer James (William Shimell) early in Certified Copy. Here’s a film that knows it. After a decade making quasi-documentaries, Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami (Taste of Cherry) returns to narrative cinema with a film that is, in fact, simple, if deceptively so. Two strangers—James and a French antique dealer billed only as “she” (Juliette Binoche)—wind up spending a lazy afternoon together in Tuscany. They chat; they debate. So far, so Before Sunrise.

At the 45-minute mark, a barrista mistakes them for spouses. They play along. Then they start bickering as though they’ve been married for 15 years. And for the rest of the film, the facade barely drops.

The question is: Which is it? Are they strangers pretending to be longtime marrieds? Or longtime marrieds who, for some reason, initially pretend to be strangers?

These are the wrong questions. For starters, neither possibility holds up to scrutiny. “In character” (or not!) “she” complains that James never bothered to learn her language, only to be startled when he busts out some Français. On the other hand, she carps that he only shaves once every two days, a specific detail later confirmed. The solution, then, is that there is no solution—just as it was in another, older European art film mindfuck (and obvious inspiration), Last Year at Marienbad. Our two leads are genuinely strangers and later genuinely longtime marrieds, then possibly back again.

Accepting this illogical position, no matter how unnatural the feeling, frees us to dwell on the heady ideas bouncing around. The question of authenticity is the most enticing. (After all, these are actors, or to put it another way, copies.) But it’s also the most facile. Better to focus on, among other subjects, its radical notion of intellectualization versus sensation. This is a film that asks us to accept an insane setup as presented—to not think, that is—while also demanding we unravel its dense thoughts on art, on copies, on performance, on the fluidity of personality. Certified Copy is richer than a mere mindfuck, promising to be a different film on each viewing, changing whenever you look at it from a new angle.

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On the blistering track, ODB sounds angrier and more insane than any human ever has.

“Brooklyn Zoo” is all Chris Brownlevel freak-out rage—unhinged, dangerous, palpable. Just through Dirty’s vocal delivery—snarls, drawn out words, gulping and gasping for air—you get the sense that this man will bite you if given the chance. Or worse. Dirty wants to give you “the type of pain you couldn’t even kill with Midol.”

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Of the many chest-thumping reasons given to save Philly’s beloved generic cardboard cake brand Tastykake—misplaced source of local pride, exaggerated and/or outright false claims of deliciousness, exaggerated and/or outright false claims of childhood fondness—the only truly meaningful one has yet to even be discussed: Wu Tang Clan’s Ol’ Dirty Bastard immortalized Tastykake in his ice-cold stunner of a hit “Brooklyn Zoo.” In case you haven’t heard, Tastykake is in dire financial straits. The company moved to the Navy Yard at large expense last year, just as they were bitten badly in the ass by the down economy and repeatedly punched in the face by the hard knuckles of superior competitors Hostess and Entenmann’s. Add to that some dunderheaded money moves on behalf of company higher-ups and the fact that no one really actually eats this crap and, yeah, well, cue the emptying of public coffers to help rescue another lumbering large business: we’ve already given the company $31 million in taxpayerfunded aid to help right its ship, another bailout in a sea of them.

But here’s the thing: “Brooklyn Zoo” is, on its own, cause for another $31 mill to be thrown at Tasty. And another after that.

Whatever it fucking takes. Not because Tastykake is worth it.

It’s not. But for a reason much, much more vital: We can’t have a generation of kids growing up listening to “Brooklyn Zoo” thinking “Tastykake” is a typo on the lyric sheet. Or, worse, not knowing what the hell it even means. As it stands, with Tastykake’s imminent demise, there’s a chance ODB’s line about them could be hip-hop’s version of the Dire Straits declaring “I want my MTV.” We can’t let this happen.

“Fuck around,” he warns, “and get sprayed with Lysol.” In your face.

Like a can of mace, bay-bay. Is it burnin’? Well, fuckin’ now you’re learnin’ !

And before that, the line:

“Enough to make you break and shake ya ass/ ‘cos I create/ Rhymes good as a Tastykake.”

That Tastykakes aren’t good is the point here, perhaps. It’s ODB’s sly way of saying. “I’m no Notorious BIG, for sure, but goddamn I’m authentik.”

On the Wu Tang Clan’s stunning debut Enter the Wu Tang: 36 Chambers, Method Man explains the origin of ODB’s name in what remains the most succinct way to date: “There’s no father to his style.”

He was the most enigmatic member of a nine-person group full of them, and remains, as Rolling Stone put it when Dirty Version was released, “the most original vocalist in hip-hop history.”

Dude pooed Butterscotch Krimpets.

No one since his death in November ’04 has come close to matching his ribald, bombastic delivery. No one can hope (or attempt) to recreate his style.

(It would be like covering the Shaggs. Can’t be done.) No one has ever expressed, with such verve, a fondness for all things rawwwwwwwwwwwwww. No one in hiphop has been quite as unpredictable or possibly insane since. (Save for, of course, Gucci Mane, who, upon his release from a mental institution not long ago, got a giant electric ice cream cone tattoo ... on his face: see next page) So, yes, let’s save Tastykake.

But not because your mother packed Kream Filled Koffee Kunts in your elementary school lunches.

We shouldn’t throw public money at it because you split a Krimpet with your best girl down the shore in the summer of who gives a shit.

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25 Things I Learned

Listening to the new Gucci Mane album

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ucci Mane is one of hip-hop’s most intriguingly enigmatic artists. Here, we mine some interesting nuggets from G his new album, The Return of Mr. Zone 6.

1. I know I still don’t know what “Mr. Zone 6” means.

2. As you’ve no doubt heard/seen, Gucci Mane, upon release from a mental institution, got a tattoo of a three-scoop ice cream cone that shoots lightning bolts ... on his face.

He must really like it, because on Mr. Zone 6, a drawing of the tattoo appears four times.

3. Gucci won’t “shit, shave or shower” until he get his money back.

4. Gucci might not be the world’s most exceptional rapper, but he certainly is gifted in the art of picking great song titles. Exhibit A: track 10, “Pancakes.”

5. All of the slurry, lazy rappers who guest on the album— Waka Flocka, Master P, Birdman—sound exactly alike.

Which is to say amazing.

6. Gucci is “a rich ass nigga.” You “a bitch ass nigga.”

7. More accurately: He “a rich ass nigga wif a mouf fulla gold, wif a mouf fulla gold, wif a mouth fulla gold.” Or so says him on track two, “Mouth Full of Golds.”

8. Waka Flocka has taken to calling himself “Flockavelli.”

9. Gucci Mane is “like Luke in the ’90s.”

10. Gucci is “healthy, stealthy and wealthy.” He can “probably show a nigga how to drive Jet Ski.”

11. Gucci “blows kush smoke on his haters while he fucks with the real fuck-you fakers.”

12. Gucci is “icy as an Icee.”

13. The chorus of track four, “Reckless,” is “Let’s get reckless,” repeated 16 times.

14. Gucci shouts out to his set on a track called “Shout Out To My Set.” 15. Gucci is a “carnivore.” He a “dinosaur.” You a “herbivore.” He use “verbs and words you ain’t heard before.”

(Gucci doesn’t think you know what a dinosaur is.)

16. Gucci don’t love her, which he makes abundantly clear on the track “I Don’t Love Her.” 17. Pretty bitches love Gucci, he tells us on “Pretty Bitches.”

He thinks it’s because he’s “a bottle popper.”

18. Though he hasn’t been around in some time, Master P still can say “UNNNNNNHHHHHHHHHHH” without missing a beat, which he proves time and again on “Brinks.”

19. Speaking of P, on “Brinks” he says he’s about to “Pull a Mike Vick on ’em,” which sounds terrifying. Watch out, “’em!”

20. Gucci looks “like Mr. T,” feels “like Soulja Slim” but thinks he’s “Easy E.” 21. Waka “don’t let shit slide.” “This ain’t baseball.”

22. Good weed, in Gucci parlance, is “President Bush shit.”

Makes sense.

23. Gucci uses auto-tune on “My Year.” How can you tell it’s his year? Just look at his neck, his wrist and his ear. Also, he “tips waiters.“ 24. Really, truly, seriously: Gucci don’t love her. How many times must he tell you? (Answer: Roughly a dozen.)

25. Gucci’s “set” includes his accountant, his attorneys and his manager. Also, the 26 inch rims on his Challenger. n

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Free Association: After the Internet hits, the rest isn’t allllll that (and a bag of chips).

For Fans Of: Radiohead + Stevie Wonder, Burial, white soul, minimalism.

The Mountain Goats All Eternals Deck (Merge) Sounds Like: John Darnielle’s back with his eighth as the Goats—another quirky dense collection of literate songs and bizarro witticisms.

Free Association: To freaky fans he poos haikus, to nonfans he’s a little obnoxious.

For Fans Of: They Might Be Giants, R.E.M., pretentious intellectualism.

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third is nonstop apreggios, metal riffing, Adam Lambert-style wailing and mathy tempo changes.

Free Association: Hail the heroes of the Prog Metal Renn Faire.

For Fans Of: Coheed and Cambria x the Darkness, metal geeking out.

Bob Geldof How To Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell (Mercury/Fontana/Vagrant) Sounds Like: Band Aid founder and Boomtown Rats frontman’s first LP in 10 years is a strange, dark collection with a mixed bag of instrumentation, paces and vibes.

Free Association: Will he ever live down that “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” nightmare?

For Fans Of: Bono x Dylan, Sting’s newest work, Billy Mack in Love Actually.

Own Side Now (Theory 8)

Sounds Like: Pretty sophomore effort

Rod Stewart + Stevie Nicks While there’s never a dull moment on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, the possibilities were endless when Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks appeared together in January. Had the Young Turk scored a new Maggie May? Was the gold dust woman sharing her leather and lace with the blonde god? No, but even better, the two would unite for the most epic double-bill stadium tour ever. While Mick Jagger has always been too anorexic and Robert Plant too deep into Tolkien mythology to actualize the sex-rock ideal, Stewart—with his spiked feathers and loverboy smirk—oozes jouissance. Following his early work with the Jeff Beck Group and Faces, when in 1978 he asked “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?,” it was never intended to be a question. For these dates, the Fleetwood Mac gypsy songstress will open, and then join hot Rod for several smokin’ duets. They better fucking play “Tonight’s the Night.” (Elliott Sharp)

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been singin’ solo sets since 17, and even though he’s from industrial central Massachusetts, here’s his straightup country solo EP. Free Association: If you think about it, Staind was never really that far from country.

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I want to take this opportunity to thank Savage Love readers for launching the It Gets Better Project.

My husband and I created the project in response to the suicides of several LGBT youth.

The idea was to give bullied and despairing LGBT youth hope for their futures by encouraging LGBT adults to reach out to them via YouTube. (For the record: Not all LGBT youth are bullied or despairing.) The It Gets Better Project was first announced in this space. Savage Love readers jumped in to help spread the word about the project on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, and Savage Love readers created the very first wave of IGBP videos. Savage Love readers are responsible for making the It Gets Better Project the international phenomenon it is today and, more importantly, for helping to save the lives of countless LGBT kids.

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When he gets upset, he literally throws and punches things and screams obscenities.

What makes him upset? Losing his keys, missing the subway. I had an abusive father who hit me and, though my fiance would never in a million years hit or abuse me, his tantrums remind me of those childhood experiences. I have tentatively broached the subject of therapy, but he is not interested.

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He hasn’t hit you … yet.

I’m not saying he’ll definitely get around to hitting you, FF, but a man who goes apeshit when he misses the subway is likely to go apeshit on his wife sooner or later. Marriages are more stressful than commutes. And I’m sorry, but it’s a disturbing sign that you’re already tiptoeing around this guy (“I have tentatively broached the subject”) and making excuses for him (“My fiance would never in a million years hit or abuse me”).

Emergency rooms, divorce courts and graveyards are filled with women who once said, “My fiance would never in a million years hit me.”

The time for tentative broaching has passed, FF, and the time for confrontational confronting and ultimatums has arrived: He gets his ass into therapy and gets a grip on his anger issues or the wedding is off. And this can’t be about seeing a therapist once or twice to mollify you. He has to solve this problem before you pick out cake toppers. And if he won’t get help, or if he can’t solve this problem even with help, do not marry him.

I’m female, bi, into kink—bedroom-only BDSM stuff—and involved in the local kink scene in NYC. I’m not into public sex or group sex. One of my closest friends is having a birthday party—she’s hosting a straight-up orgy. I don’t want to be a no-show but sitting around trying to make small talk with someone while a fisting scene is taking place two feet away?

AWKWARD. I thought about going for the first half, and leaving before it turns into an orgy.

But what excuse could I give to bail?

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How about the truth?

If you’re mature enough to be a part of NYC’s kink scene, you’re mature enough to say this to your friend: “I love you, but orgies just aren’t my thing.”

If anyone should be able to hear that without taking offense, WATO, it’s a member of an organized kink scene. All organized kinksters ask of each other is an open mind about kinks generally, thoughtfulness about consent and safety specifically, and clarity about boundaries absolutely. No one in a kink scene expects that all kinks—and group play is a kink—appeal to all kinksters equally.

So go to the party, wish your friend a happy birthday, then head for the door when you hear the snap of a latex glove.

I am a 28-year-old woman. About a year ago, I noticed this really torn-up-looking guy sitting by himself in a bar. It turned out his wife had just been deployed and was going to be gone for nine months. He said he didn’t think he’d make it. We wound up having sex. I moved in a few days after that. The whole thing revolved around nobody asking questions. Over time, I fell in love with him. Yesterday, he woke up and said, “It’s over. She’s coming home today.” I was crying and crying while he was saying: We had a good thing, and he’d miss my love. Then he told me to look away so he wouldn’t have to watch me crying! I know I was a fool, Dan, but who was the bigger jerk?

Sad Eyes

Seeing as you spent the last nine months attempting to be the author of someone else’s misery—his wife’s misery—only to wind up being the author of your own, SE, it’s kind of hard to feel sorry for you.

I suppose you deserve some credit for acknowledging that you’re a jerk—you did, after all, ask me to determine which one of you is the bigger jerk—but I gotta say that your jerkiness is the kind that makes me want to break out my brandnew-asshole-carving knife.

But he’s the bigger jerk.

My reasoning: He took up with another woman during his wife’s absence, and he allowed this other woman to move into the home he shared with his wife.

The other woman avoided conversations about the future because she was afraid of finding out that she didn’t have one; he avoided conversations about the future because he was afraid the other woman would pack up her pussy and leave if he told her she didn’t have one.

And then he tossed the other woman out on her ass the very day his wife returned to the States, giving her very little time to make other living arrangements.

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RELOCATING TO NORTHERN JERSEY?? Contact Sushant Criswell S i mon to h el p searc h for you r N E W h o m e. CO L DW E L L BA N K E R, 201-798-3300, 717-265-4073 Cris.

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GENERAL APARTMENTS Adorable RITTENHOUSE Apt- Near highways/Universities/30th Station.

Apt. features HW floors, lots of sunshine, new Pella windows, and W/D facilities in the building. The apt will be repainted to the colors of your choice! Avail. immediately.

Contact Amy at 267.218.5817.

SUMMER RENTALS N. WILDWOOD MALI KAI CONDOS. BEACH Blk., Ocean View, 1BDR, C/A, Pool, OffSt. Pkg. $8500 season 215-920-2304

22xx BLK S.BROAD Taking applications for 06/01. Very Lg, Very n i ce. $ 1 0 5 0/m o, i n c l h 2 o o n l y.

No pets. Call Don 10:30am-7pm, 215-450-8176

16TH & WALLACE 1BR, WD in bldg, Pet friendly. $725. 2BR’s avail. Call Tanya 215-922-6088

24 T H & B ROW N Great apt, CA, WD, Lg yard, Garage. $1525+. PMG 215-545-7007x303

21xx BLK SOUTH ST Taking apps for 06/01. 1BR Bilev w/Office. Incl h2o only. $1250/mo. No pets. Call Don 10:30am-7pm, 215-450-8176

9TH SPRING GARDEN BEAUTIFUL 2BEDR.,TILE BATH,HDWD FLRS., ALL APPLIANCES, A/C, SEC.SYSTEM. $1050/MO+. 610-304-0087

238 S.8th ST Renovated 1BR, WD, Pet friendly. $1200. Parking Available.

Call Tanya 215-922-6088

ART MUSEUM 2BR, HW floors, thru out. $975+. 215-247-3616

24TH & NAVAL SQ AREA WD, DW, CA, Backyard, Small office space.

F.bsmt. Nice block. Pet friendly. $1300+. 267-584-3647 30 1 S.1 9 t h St- R I T T E N H O U S E SQUARE: One Bedroom apartments, Available Mid-April & Beyond. MUST SEE TO APPRECIATE. Great Light, Hardwood floors, High ceilings, Plentiful closet space. $1,400-$1,800 per month. Call to Schedule an Appointment, 215-735-5757 OR E-Mail: DelanceyPlace@aol.com 9TH & BAINBRIDGE Nice 1BR, avail 04/01. Contact 215-687-5629. $850/ mo+utils paid by tenant 9TH & FITZWATER 1BDR APT. W/D,Stor./ Bsmt.,Avail.Soon. H/D flrs. No Pets.

215-915-5347

10TH & BAINBRIDGE-COMPLETELY RE-DONE. $725/MO. CRINITI RE 267-253-0071.

9TH & SPRUCE Gorgeous 1BR, all amenities, FP. Parking avail. $995+.

PMG 215-545-7007 x302

15th/Spruce: Charming Studio in Brownstone directly across from Kimmel Cntr, HW Flrs, Renovated Kitchen, Deco FP, Built in Bookshelf, Laundry. $780/Mo. Avail May. 215735-8030 Lic # 220402

BROAD & PINE Lg 1BR in beautifully renvtd bldg. Incl Heat. $975+. PMG 215-545-7007 x302

5xx DICKINSON Efficiency Studio.

3rd floor. $525/mo including utilities. 215-922-1625

MINUTES to CC. SOUTH PHILA. 14XX PORTER: Modern 1BR w/HW Flrs. $675. No pets. 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

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23RD & PASSYUNK 2BDR, rancher, handicap accessible, renovated. C/A $995. 215-467-8612

Remodled Lg 2BR/1BA, LR, Lg EIK, Patio, Bsmnt. WD, HWF, AC. $975+.

215-803-3602

THREE + BEDROOMS 10TH & SNYDER-4BEDRMS., 1ST FLR., 1.5BATHS, CARPET, FULL B S M T. , $ 1 0 0 0/ M O. + . 61 0 -30 40087.

FISHTOWN: Gorgeous Remodeled 3BR+ Off. WD in Bldg. Pet Friendly. $1000+.

Call Tanya, 215-922-6088

HOUSE FOR RENT 11TH & CHRISTIAN-GREAT LOC! 4BDRMS., 2FULL BATHS, C/A, H D W D/ F L R S . , D E C K , B K YA R D, W/D. MUST SEE! $2400/mo.+.

610-304-0087.

12TH & JACKSON 2BDR,yd,Bsmt,W/D, Refrig., C/A, Security Sys.H/D Flrs. $1100. 215-651-9190

HARRISBURG, PA: Thinking of m ov i n g? 3BR, 2.5BA townhome available, corner property. Spacious MBR suite w/WIC, Jacuzzi tub.

Separate Living, Dining and Family rooms, Office space, Eat-in kit w/ French doors leading to patio. 2 FP’s, WD, DW, CA. Garage. Well kept development w/Gym, Club, Pool, Fitness trail. Avail 06/05. $1700/ mo+ Utils. 717-805-6174 MANAYUNK/ROXBOROUGH: Spacious Stone Farmhouse, 6 Lrg Bdrms 2.5 Baths, HW Flrs, Fireplace, 2 Porches, Deck, Separate DR, LR, & Den, Modern Kitchen, Laundry, Private Driveway/Parking, 2 Car Garage, Huge Yard. $2900/mo.

215-482-0788 lic# 218436 QUEEN VILLAGE: 3BR, 2BA w/CA. $1650+. Call for details: 215-922-3910. mcolaizzo@comcast.net WEST PHILA 2BR, Nice block. CA, Bkyd, Near trans. $665/mo ($1665 to move-in). 215-715-0878

OFFICE SPACE

18TH & WALLACE Great 2BR 2BA apt, w/All Amens and Deck. $1295+.

PMG 215-545-7007 x303

1619 BAINBRIDGE Newly renvtd 1BR, C/A/H, Exp brick wall. FP. Pets OK. $700+ Gas/Elec. Water Free.

609-517-3245

STUDIO/EFFICIENCY

15th/Spruce: Large/Bright Studio in Charming Brownstone, HW Flrs, Lrg Closets, Onsite Laundry, Intercom Entry. $875/Mo. Aval. May. 215-7358030. Lic # 220402

15th/Spruce: Terrific 2Bdrm in Art Deco Hi-rise, Great location! Desk Attendant, HW Flrs, Onsite Laundry, Decorative Moldings, Wonderful City Views. From $1410/Mo. Avail June.

215-735-8030. Lic #219789.

S.PHILLY: 6th/Tasker

FISHTOWN 2sty apt, 2BR, 2BA, Jac tub. FP, W/W, $950/mo+ Utils. Call 215-669-7965

office Space ImmedIate occupancy 404 to 6,152 square feet in the boutique PSFS bank building on the corner of 7th and Walnut Streets. Views of Washington Square or the private courtyard. Secure access to the building as well as elevator service.

Offered by Stonehenge Advisors, LLC at 215-320-3777.

ITALIAN MKT: 10th/Federal 2BR, CA, 1BA, WD. $1350+. 215-922-3910. mcolaizzo@comcast.net Manayunk/Roxborough: Lrg 2bdrm, Renovated Kitchen/Bathrm, Patio/ Balc Laundry, Gym, Pool, Tennis/ Basketball Crts, Free Shuttle to Main Street Manayunk, Pets Welcome. From $1249/Mo. 215482-0788. lic# 218436.

N . L I B E R T I E S : 1 0 1 8 N .O r k n e y at George. 2BR house w/Lg kit, yard, Laundry, Wd flrs, CA. $1295+.

908-996-7120 Northern Liberties, 2BR, 2 New Ba t h ro o m s, Be a u t i f u l , N ew l y Renovated, Granite Countertops, Stainless Appliances, Hardwood Floors, Good Light, Central Air, Garbage Disposal, W/D, Large Backyard, No Pets, www.gasheart. com, 1138 N. 4th St., 215-4851015, $1200/month OLD CITY Bilevel Lof t-Style w/ CA, HW floors, Exposed beams, Skylites. Lg LR & EI-kit, DW, FP, 2 Lg Bedrooms w/Great closets, WD. Pet Friendly. Available Now. 215-925-7500 x213 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. 215925-7500 x213

OLD CITY

GALLERY-STUDIO-OFFICE SPACE ACROSS FROM PAINTED BRIDE ART CENTER 2300 sq. ft. space w/ Vine Street Front Door and large Windows and 10’ 6” ceilings. Plus 2300 sq. ft of usable basement. Back of space has 2 bedrooms/offices 1.5 baths and full kitchen. Living and work space adaptable to user needs.

MARINER’S COURT APT BLDG

215-925-7500 ext 213 OLD CITY, FRONT & MARKET: BILEVEL, CA, 600sq.ft. $850+Utls.

Renzi Management. 800-514-3235 www.renziproperties.com

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WASHINGTON SQ Office Space - Immediate occupancy of 404 to 6,152 square feet in the boutique PSFS bank building on the corner of 7th and Walnut Streets, with views of Washington Square or the private courtyard. Secure access to the building as well as elevator service.

Offered by Stonehenge Advisors, LLC at 215-320-3777.

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10TH & CROSS-2BEDRMS.,2ND F LR. , NE W CAR P E TS/ K I TC H E N FLR., TILE BATH, W/D, DECK.$950/ MO.+UTILS. 215-397-7075.

HOUSE FOR RENT 19XX SO. BONSALL ST 3bedrms.,1.5baths. $1150/mo.+utils.

Totally renovated. HDwd flrs., S/S Applicanes and More! Mins. from U Of Penn. 267-338-7932.

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TWO BEDROOM

TWO BEDROOM RITTENHOUSE SQ. AREA (2013 Walnut/4th Fl) 2 Bedrm, 1 Bath bi-level in brownstone. CA, Gas h e a t , DW, G D, W D, Ca r p e te d . $1250/mo+. 215-627-4414

P H I L A D E L P H I A W E E K LY March 30 - April 5, 2011

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REAL ESTATE FOR SALE

N LIBERTIES: 306 W.Wildey. Duplex 2BR/1BA, Central Air, Yard, Deck. $375,000. 302-250-5375

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Lombard & 19th Newly renov, mod studio, 1 & 2Bd's

$875-1700

$800-850 &Fab Spruce Mod 1Bd's,1W/D, C/A, heatdeck incl.

OldBroad CityBroad & 2Bd's, $800-850 $825-1375 & ultra Sprucemod Mod 1Bd's, W/D, C/A, heat incl.

RITTENHOUSE $850-995 Lombard & 9th 1Bd & 2Bd, w/d, hardwood, laundry $850-995 Lombard & Studio’s, 9th 1Bd2& 2Bd, w/d, hardwood, laundry Walnut & 23rdBright HW floors, Laundry. $720 $1950 University City 3Bd, bath, totally renovated $995-1100 Pine & 9th 2Bd's, h/w floors, W/D $995-1100 Pine 2Bd's, h/w floors, W/D Pine & 21stFab&19th & 2BD bi-level’s, H/W, Laundry. $1125-$1300 $995 $700 Spruce & 12th 2Bd, 1-1/2 bath, bi-level, laundryNice Studio Spring Garden Collonade-Extremely $995 Spruce & 12th 2Bd,H/W, 1-1/2Laundry, bath, bi-level, laundry Walnut & 20thSunny 1 BD’s, Elevator. $1095-$1350 $995-1350 Spruce & 16th Old World, 1 & 2Bd's, hardwood $995-1350 $600-675 Q.V. 3rd & Bambridge 1 THE W/W, C/A$950-1750 Spruce & 16th Old World, 1&& 2Bd's, 2Bd's, hardwood AVE OF ARTS Art Area Ultra Mod 1 & 3Bd's, W/D, Deck, Parking $950-1750 Art Area Ultra Mod 1 & Studio, 3Bd's, W/D,hardwood, Deck, Parking Broad & SpruceRenovated Studios & 1BD’s, W/D. Heat incl. $750-$1000 $375 Spring Garden & 19th Heat incl. $825-1375 Old City Fab ultra mod 1 & 2Bd's, deck $825-1375 Old City Fab ultra mod 1 & 2Bd's, deck QUEEN VILLAGE $1950 University & City18th 3Bd, 2Mod bath, totally renovated $625 Fairmount 1Bd, C/A, W/D $1950 City 2 bath, renovated Christian &University 1st1 BD’s, HW3Bd, floors, AC. totally $700$825 Spring Garden Collonade-Extremely Nice Studio $700 Spring Garden Collonade-Extremely Nice Studio $600 Mt.Q.V. Vernon & 21st Gret Studio, Yard, Laundry$600-675 Christian &3rd 5th-&New 1 & 2 BD’s kitchen $850-$1150 Bambridge 1 &w/New 2Bd's, W/W, C/A& W/W. $600-675 Q.V. 3rd & Bambridge 1 & 2Bd's, W/W, C/A South & 5th-Garden 1BD, AC,& Laundry. $700 $375$720 Wallace & 20th 1Bd, parquet floors, Spring 19th Studio, hardwood, Heatyard incl. $375 Spring Garden & 19th Studio, hardwood, Heat incl.

Bainbridge & 3rdEntrance Studio. $625$575 Fairmount & Private 18th Mod 1Bd, C/A, W/D $600 Aspen & 26th 1Bd, laundry $625 Fairmount & 18thW/W, Mod 1Bd, C/A, W/D

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ART MUSEUM $600 Mt. Vernon & 21st Gret Studio, Yard, Laundry $600 Mt. Vernon & 21st Gret Studio, Yard, Laundry $700 Wallace 1Bd,Bi-level, parquetW/W, floors,AC, yard Brown & 27th-&Lg20th 1BD’s, WD. Parking. $1000+ $700 Wallace & 20th 1Bd, parquet floors, yard $600 Aspen & 26th 1Bd, W/W, laundry Pennsyl. & Aspen 26th- Spac.

1BD,laundry H/W, Laun. Avail Now. $650-$700 $600 & 26thStudio 1Bd, &W/W, Many More aPartMentS availaBle!

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A Good Sign 22nd & Spruce – Very Cool Studio apt, Incl Heat.

Avail. Now! $650+ 23rd & Christian – Huge 1BR apt, Close to everything.

Great space. $825+ 13th & Spruce - Great 1BR apt in very cool building, Incl Hot water. $865+ 13th & Lombard - Very cool 3BR house on quaint street w/All amenities. $1550+

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FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF RENTAL UNITS

1 & 2 Bedroom Apartments, Condos & Townhouses ONE BEDROOM 1008 Spruce St 1 Bedroom, 1 Bath, hrd.flrs, fireplace,hi ceilings,laundry

$1,400.00

265A S. 4th St 1 Br.,. 1 Bath, bi-level loft br, wood carpets, parking, c/a, w&d

$1,400.00

P H I L A D E L P H I A W E E K LY March 30 - April 5, 2011

TWO BEDROOMS 1628 S. 9th St (Morris St) Two bedrooms, 1 bath, w/w carpet, w&d in the building 746 South St. (3R) 2 Brs., 1 Bath, small deck, c/a,w&d, wood floors Available 4/8/11

$700.00 $1,300.00

TOWNHOUSES 790 S. Front St 1 Bedroom, Den, 1 Bath Courtyard trinity,c/a,w&d garden,patio

$950.00

RITTENHOUSE SQUARE/FITLER SQUARE 22ND & KATER Two Bedroom Townhome, HW floors, C/A, D/W, Basement, W/D, Yard, Dog friendly.

AVAILABLE APRIL! $1,550 21ST & WALNUT Spacious One Bedroom, HW floors, C/A, High ceilings, Laundry on premise.

AVAILABLE APRIL!

$1,250

23RD & JUDSON Two Bedroom Townhome, HW floors, Basement, W/D, Lots of storage, Yard, Dog friendly. AVAILABLE MAY!

$1,375

21ST & LOCUST Charming Studio in Brownstone w/Private entrance, HW floors, Laundry on premise.

AVAILABLE MAY! $735

WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST/AVENUE OF THE ARTS/QUEENS VILLAGE

1027 Carpenter Beautiful 3 Brs., 2 Baths, parking, c/a, w/f, yard Avail. 7/1/11

$2,500.00

1323 E. Montgomery 3 Brs., 2 Ba, c/a, w&d, large decked-yard avail.4/15/11

$1,695.00

10TH & CLINTON Bright Studio on tree lined street, HW floors, All utilities included, Laundry on premise.

AVAILABLE MID-APRIL! $725

$7-$9 sq.ft.

2ND & MARKET Bi-Level One Bedroom, Modern appliances, Spiral staircase, HW floors, D/W, W/D, C/A. AVAILABLE NOW! $1,085

COMMERCIAL 25th & Wharton Sts. G-2 warehouses, garages, off., 800sq. ft to 16,000 sq. ft avail.

761 S. 4th St 900 sq.ft. retail store, C-2, plus basement, window a/c, yard

$900.00

1429 S. 23 rd St 2nd floor, 4500 sq.ft,C-3, bathroom, gas heat, c/a, ramp access

$1,500.00

838 South St. 600 sq.ft. retail store, hi-traffic block, bathroom, c/a, avail. now

$1,500.00

341 W. Girard Ave (NE Corner 4th & Girard) Retail store, C-2, 800 sq.ft.,bath, c/a,

$900.00

CALL RENTAL AGENT 226 South St.

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Large 2 story, 1 Bdrm maisonette $1295

BROAD & SPRUCE Two Bedroom in Highrise, Elevator, HW floors, Lots of lights, Gas included, Laundry on premises. AVAILABLE MID-APRIL! $1,235 11TH & PINE Cozy Two Bedroom next to Kahn Park, New kitchen, HW floors, Heat/Hot water included. AVAILABLE JUNE!

1117 Spruce Street www.michaelSingerrealestate.com

$995

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ART MUSEUM 2012 Brandywine St $519,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

GRAD HOSPITAL 2218 Catharine St $319,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

SOCIETY HILL 306 Cypress Ct $1 ,699,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

AVE OF THE ARTS 1420 Locust St #10N $369,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

PENNSPORT 117 Federal St $499,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

QUEEN VILLAGE 621 “G” S American St $299,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

RITTENHOUSE SQ 2213 Locust St $1 ,095,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

ART MUSEUM 1712 Green St #4 $369,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

ART MUSEUM 2401 Pennsylvania Ave #4A4 $499,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

WASH SQ WEST 903-05 Clinton St #1R $299,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

SOCIETY HILL 700-12 Locust St #A1 $1 ,025,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

AVE OF THE ARTS 1420 Locust St #6N $365,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

ART MUSEUM 879 N 22nd St $299,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

FITLER SQ 507 S 27th St $919,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

PASSYUNK SQ 1015 Federal St $365,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

GRAD HOSPITAL 1319 S 16th St $289,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

ART MUSEUM 1922 Green St $875,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

ART MUSEUM 827 N B ambrey St $365,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

CHINATOWN 111 N 9th St #703 $279,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

GRAD HOSPITAL 756 S Dorrance St $799,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

GRAD HOSPITAL 709 “B” S 18th St $359,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

WASH SQ WEST 802-10 Locust St #201 $729,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

RITTENHOUSE SQ 1810 Rittenhouse Sq #1208 $354 ,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

SOCIETY HILL 514 Cypress St $689,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

BELLA VISTA 609 Montrose St $350,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

WASH SQ WEST 314 S Iseminger St $629,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

ART MUSEUM 756 N Croskey St $349,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

RITTENHOUSE SQ 246 S 22nd St $599,999 Prudential Fox & Roach

GRAD HOSPITAL 2207 Kimball St $349,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

GRAD HOSPITAL 1526 B ainbridge St $599,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

ITALIAN MARKET 932-A Ellsworth St $349,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

QUEEN VILLAGE 213 Headhouse Ct $574 ,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

QUEEN VILLAGE 309 Monroe St $349,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

GRAD HOSPITAL 2023 Pemberton St $569,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

QUEEN VILLAGE 826 S 2nd St #2R $342 ,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

OLDE CITY 113 Bread St #3B2 $549,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

BELLA VISTA 732 Montrose St $339,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

BELLA VISTA 735 S 12th St #502 $499,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

QUEEN VILLAGE 705 S Phillip St $613,900 Plumer & Associates

WASH SQ WEST 1206 Panama St #B $499,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

SOUTH PHILA 1026 S Bouvier St $299,900 Mercury Real Estate RITTENHOUSE SQ 1901 Walnut St #14BE $2 , 250,000 Prudential Fox & Roach LOGAN SQ 2132 Race St $1 ,995,000 Prudential Fox & Roach SOCIETY HILL The Willings #105 $1 ,875,000 Prudential Fox & Roach SOCIETY HILL 503 Pine St $1 , 250,000 Prudential Fox & Roach SOCIETY HILL 143 S 2nd St #601 $1 ,100,000 Prudential Fox & Roach SOCIETY HILL 507 Addison Ct $950,000 Prudential Fox & Roach SOCIETY HILL The Willings #402 $907,850 Prudential Fox & Roach RITTENHOUSE SQ 1531 Pine St, #Unit C $799,000 Prudential Fox & Roach GRAD HOSPITAL 1429 Christian St $775,000 Prudential Fox & Roach SOCIETY HILL The Willings #404 $750,000 Prudential Fox & Roach RITTENHOUSE SQ 1901 Walnut St #3B $695,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

WASH SQ WEST 250 S Quince St $649,000 Prudential Fox & Roach RITTENHOUSE SQ 224 S 23rd St $629,000 Prudential Fox & Roach GRAD HOSPITAL 2228 Fitzwater St $600,000 Prudential Fox & Roach QUEEN VILLAGE 322 Fitzwater St $529,500 Prudential Fox & Roach

NO LIBERTIES 602 N American St $479,900 Prudential Fox & Roach POWELTON VILLAGE 328 N 39th St $475,000 Prudential Fox & Roach FITLER SQ 2425 Naudain St $439,900 Prudential Fox & Roach ART MUSEUM 1836 Brandywine St $425,000 Prudential Fox & Roach OLD CITY 101-11 Arch St #5G $425,000 Prudential Fox & Roach SOCIETY HILL 604 S Washington Sq #703 $422 ,400 Prudential Fox & Roach WASH SQ WEST 1305 Spruce St #TH2A $400,000 Prudential Fox & Roach QUEEN VILLAGE 771-75 S 2nd St, #Unit H $399,999 Prudential Fox & Roach PENNSPORT 223 Wharton St $379,000 Prudential Fox & Roach SOCIETY HILL 233 S 6th St #606 $375,000 Prudential Fox & Roach ART MUSEUM 827 N Pennock St $369,900 Prudential Fox & Roach LOGAN SQ 2200-28 Arch St #405 $369,000 Prudential Fox & Roach RITTENHOUSE SQ 1931 Spruce St #2B $369,000 Prudential Fox & Roach N LIBERTIES 1010 N American St $359,900 Prudential Fox & Roach BELLA VISTA 731 Fulton St $357,500 Prudential Fox & Roach QUEEN VILLAGE 1008 S. 2nd St $350,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

WASH SQ WEST 912 Spruce St #5 $259,900 Prudential Fox & Roach WASH SQ WEST 1136 Waverly St #1R $259,900 Prudential Fox & Roach SOUTH PHILA 1410 Jackson St $250,000 Prudential Fox & Roach PASSYUNK SQ 1126 Watkins St $249,900 Prudential Fox & Roach WISSAHICKON 213 Osborne St $239,000 Prudential Fox & Roach WASH SQ WEST 912 Spruce St #8 $229,000 Prudential Fox & Roach MANAYUNK 184 Maiden St $229,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

ART MUSEUM 2601 Pennsylvania Ave #904 WASH SQ $175,000 1024 Spruce St, #Unit A Prudential Fox & Roach $529,900 Prudential Fox & Roach FISHTOWN 1133 E Susquehanna Ave ART MUSEUM $169,900 756-58 N Bucknell St Prudential Fox & Roach $525,000 Prudential Fox & Roach ART MUSEUM 2401 Penna Ave #2B26 QUEEN VILLAGE $164 ,900 132 Kenilworth St Prudential Fox & Roach $519,900 Prudential Fox & Roach PO RT RICHMOND 2991 Tilton St $125,000 Prudential Fox & Roach 12-1:30PM SOCIETY HILL 428B Lombard St $214 ,900 Century 21 Advantage Gold 12:00-2:00PM RITTENHOUSE SQ 2036 Delancey St $4 ,5000,000 Plumer & Associates AVE OF THE ARTS 1352 South St, unit 314 $499,900 CITYSPACE 1:00-4:00PM COLLINGSWOOD, NJ The LumberYard Condos: 600 Atlantic Ave >From $210,500 Ma in Street Realty 1:30-2:30PM

RITTENHOUSE SQ 1629 Waverly St $339,000 Prudential Fox & Roach GRAD HOSPITAL 2232 S aint AlbansSt $325,000 Prudential Fox & Roach NAVAL SQ 2501 Christian St #401 $319,500 Prudential Fox & Roach

RITTENHOUSE SQ 210 W Rittenhouse Sq #1001 $999,000 Prudential Fox & Roach OLDE CITY 300 N 3rd St #301 $774 ,900 Prudential Fox & Roach FITLER SQ 624 S 27th St $645,000 Prudential Fox & Roach ART MUSEUM 2241 Wallace St $639,000 Prudential Fox & Roach QUEEN VILLAGE 1 Christian St #47 $615,000 Prudential Fox & Roach ART MUSEUM 2534 Brown St $549,000 Prudential Fox & Roach NAVAL SQ 507 Governors Ct $519,900 Prudential Fox & Roach GRAD HOSPITAL 705 S 16th St $499,000 Prudential Fox & Roach WASH SQ WEST 1117 Lombard St $479,000 Prudential Fox & Roach GIRARD ESTATE 2447 S Garnet St $464 ,000 Prudential Fox & Roach FITLER SQ 609 S B ambrey St $459,900 Prudential Fox & Roach RITTENHOUSE SQ 237-47 S 18th St #3E $450,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

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3bd/2bath newly renov. gran. counters, w/d, c/a, h/w Studio, h/w, full appliance package, laundry on site 1bd h/w floors on-site laundry french doors 1bd’s/1bath, h/w c/a shared roof top deck, laun.

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Willow Grove Ave 2 BD/1 bath, H/W, incl. heat, hot water & cooking gas $910 Willow Grove Ave Garages/storage spaces available $125 Willow Grove Ave 1bd/1 bath h/w on site parking, laundry on site heat, hot water and

Northern Liberties, 2 rooms available in 6BR House, 3 Bath, no pets, www.gasheart. com, 234 Brown St., 215-485-1015, $495 or $595

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10 minutes from Center City. Perfect for college students. Share utilities. Call 267879-8373 leave message

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415 Church Rd 1BD/1BA H/W Heat & Hot Water incl. Laudry 7901 High School Rd. 2BR/1bath, H/W heat and hot water Incl. laundry on site

$750 $950

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87 S. Lansdowne Ave 1BD/1BA, H/W, heat, hw/cook. gas incl., laundry $675 - $725 83 S. Lansdowne Ave 2BD/1BA, Heat, H/W, Cooking Gas inc., Laundry $850 - $950 89 E Baltimore Pike 2bd/1bath: H/W, big deck, new kitchen, inc: Heat, H/W $875 - $890

commercial sales/lease 11th & Cherry Sts 1st fl store front, 1550 sq ft + basment 1,400 sq ft. A/C, showroom windows, corn prop $2,400 /mo info call Bob 215-882-1187 319 N 11th St 3500 Sq Ft 1st fl back, great for office studios or work shop, high ceilings $2,900/month. Call Bob (215) 882-1187

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WASH SQ WEST 1124 Lombard St $439,000 Prudential Fox & Roach GRAD HOSPITAL 1920 Montrose St $425,000 Prudential Fox & Roach N LIBERTIES 805 N Lawrence St $399,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

QUEEN VILLAGE 927 Catharine St $519,500 Prudential Fox & Roach

GRAD HOSPITAL 1011 S 24th St $310,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

WASH SQ WEST 718 Rodman St $509,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

FISHTOWN 1465 E Montgomery Ave $279,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

ART MUSEUM 2401 Penna Ave #12A2 $472 ,500 Prudential Fox & Roach

WASH SQ 1012 Spru ce St #4R $274 ,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

FAIRMOUNT 830 N Stillman St $329,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

OLD CITY 112 N 2nd St #5A2 $459,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

PASSYUNK SQ 1232 S Iseminger St $269,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

ART MUSEUM 753 N Croskey St $305,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

QUEEN VILLAGE 423 Fulton St $447,500 Prudential Fox & Roach

U CITY 4742 Larc hwood Ave $265,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

GRAD HOSPITAL 2241 Fitzwater St #C $314 ,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

FITLER SQ 2429-41 Locust St #611 $446,500 Prudential Fox & Roach

QUEEN VILLAGE 918 S 2nd St $249,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

PENNSPORT 116 Alter St $289,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

FISHTOWN 1528 E Montgomery Ave $354 ,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

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GRAD HOSPITAL 2245 Fitzwater St $650,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

FITLER SQ 406 S Croskey St #B $486,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

ART MUSEUM 2401 Olive St $274 ,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

3:00-4:00PM SOCIETY HILL 210 W Washington Sq #10E $5, 200,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

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QUEEN VILLAGE 526-A Christian St $679,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

RITTENHOUSE SQ 250 S 18th St #102 $495,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

ROXBOROUGH 478 Kingsley St $229,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

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WASH SQUARE WEST 1012 Spruce St #3F $345,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

QUEEN VILLAGE 116 Queen St $529,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

PENNSPORT 1107 S 3rd St $349,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

SOCIETY HILL 832-36 Lombard St $3,500,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

WASH SQ WEST 1112 Spruce St #1R $399,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

FISHTOWN 2424 E Cumberland St $239,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

GRAD HOSPITAL 2407 Kimball St $282 ,500 Prudential Fox & Roach

ART MUSEUM 2401 Penna Ave #17B32 $525,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

ART MUSEUM 2536 Meredith St $337,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

RITTENHOUSE SQ 237-47 S 18th St #15B $2 ,999,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

GRAD HOSPITAL 2310 Pemberton St $389,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

ART MUSEUM 2414 Aspen St $239,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

PASSYUNK SQ 1518 S Clarion St $259,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

QUEEN VILLAGE 314 Monroe St $525,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

OLD CITY 103-7 Church St, #2 $333,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

RITTENHOUSE SQ 326 S. 21st St $1 ,999,999 Prudential Fox & Roach

U CITY 260 S 46th St $375,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

RITTENHOUSE SQ 1810 Rittenhouse Sq #610 $235,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

N LIBERTIES 721 Melon Pl #D $199,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

The Packard Motor Car Building: 317 N. Broad Street • 215-351-0930 The Old Quaker Building: 3514 Lancaster Avenue • 215-222-2233 The Metropolitan at Love Park: 117 N. 15th Street • 215-854-0729 The Lofts at Logan View: 1666 Callowhill Street • 215-569-9625 The Touraine: 1520 Spruce Street • 215-735-8618 The Chocolate Works: 231 N. 3rd Street • 215-351-1535 Open House Hours: Mon/Tues/Thu/Fri 10-6 Wed 10-8 • Sat 10-5 Sun Noon-5

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1601 locust street center city one 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, brand new, high ceilings, 1326 spruce street hardwood floors throughout, chefs kitchen, mag2 bedrooms, 2 baths, city skyline views, balcony, washer and nificent entertaining space, luxurious master suite, $9,750 dryer in unit, 1209 sf $1,895 3467 sf

rittenhouse square 1909 fitzwater street 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, wood floors, renovated kitchen and bath $1,500

1830 rittenHouse square

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

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1701 locust street Spacious Studio with city views, hardwood floors, marble bath, high-end kitchen, walk-in closet, 423 sf 237 s. 18tH street $1,375 2 bedroom, 2 bath, open kitchen, hardwood floors throughout, 180 degree city views, 1075 sf $2,875 tHe dorcHester

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226 w. rittenHouse square Studio, generous closet space, galley kitchen, over2031 locust street $1,300 1 bedroom, 1 bath, city view, 595 sf $1,350 looks landscaped courtyard, 528 sf Junior 1 bedroom on a high floor, balcony, excellent 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, corner unit, 928 sf $1,825 natural light, 609 sf $1,550 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, sunset views, excellent closet space, spacious living areas, 1164sf $2,300 tHe rittenHouse 3 bedrooms, unobstructed city views, bonus den/ 210 w, rittenHouse sq. study & nursery, generous living space, 2137 sf. 1 bedroom, 1.5 baths, hardwood floors, marble $3,750 baths, kitchen with upmarket stainless steel appli$2,875 ances and granite countertops, 1037 sf parc rittenHouse 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, large kitchen, baths apStudio, excellent natural light, wood floors, marble pointed in marble, oversized windows with mag$3,750 bath, open kitchen, 425 sf $1,435 nificent sunset views, 1318 sf 2 bedrooms plus den, new designer kit., 2.5 Junior 1 bedroom, lots of natural light, wood floors, marble bath, open kitchen, 493 sf $1,790 marble baths, huge balcony with city views, $6,950 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, wood floors, open kitchen, 2122 sf

marble baths, split floor plan, 1229 sf $3,250 society hill 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, wood floors, open upgraded kitchen, two spacious walk-in closets, marble baths, society Hill towers 1,080 sf $3,750 200-220 locust street

washington square stricKland row

1014 spruce street 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, bi-level, wood floors, open kitchen $1,700

independence place 233-241 s 6tH street 1 bedroom, 1 bath, private balcony, W/D, spacious $1,490 walk-in closet, 928 sf

tHe lippincott 227 s. 6tH street 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, hardwood floors throughout, open chefs kitchen, designers baths, great closets, 1710 sf

$4,250

HopKinson House 604-36 s. wasHinGton square Studio with alcove on a high floor overlooking $1,375 Washington Square, balcony, 600 sf 1 bedroom, 1 bath, high floor with a panoramic $1,490 river & city views, balcony, 778 sf Deluxe 1 bedroom, 1 bath on a high floor, balcony, Washington Square views $1,690 2 bedrooms, 1.5 bath, balcony, wood floors, generous closet space, 1200 sf $2,250

waterfront pier 3, 3 n. coluMbus blvd.

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, terrace, large kitchen, one garage parking space, 1300 sf $1,900

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Studio, great closet space, city views, wanaMaKer House $1,160 floor-to-ceiling windows, 504 sf 2020 walnut street 1 bedroom, 1 bath, high floor, floor-to-ceiling winunits include pool & fitness center dows with magnificent river & city views, 700sf studio, open kitchen, generous closet space, large $1,500 bay window, 548 sf $1,285 Corner 1 bedroom, 1 bath, woof floors, unob1 bedroom, 1 bath, high floor, open kitchen, $1,775 structed city views, 775 sf great closet space, 705 sf $1,490 2 bedrooms, 2 bath, floor-to-ceiling windows, 1 bedroom, 1 bath, renovated kitchen and bath, Society Hill views, 1200 sf $2,100 custom-built closeet, 705sf $1,550 2 bedrooms 2 baths, high floor, panoramic city 22 st. jaMes court views, 1200 sf $2,475 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, high ceilings, privateout-

door entrance, 1602sf

530 s 2nd street 1 bedroom, 1 bath, open kitchen, great closet space, bi-level 639 sf $1,250 1 bedroom, 1.5 bath, bi-level, deck, large living room, separate dining area, 989 sf $1,500

$1,995

coMMercial sPace

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

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2031 Locust Street

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3 bedrooms plus den, 3 baths, 2137sf- $3,750

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SOCIETY HILL ART MUSEUM RITTEnHOUSE Sq AT THE RITTEnHOUSE

215-627-6005 215-763-2100 215-893-9800 215-546-0550

To See the Following, Call Andy Oei 215.790.5230 2001 Hamilton Street #2114-Deluxe 2BR, Skyline Vuws, Wd Fl, Grmt Kit, All Utils Incl ........................................................................$1,950 136 N 2nd Street #3C-1,025+sqft 1br outdoor sp walls of windows Wood fl Gourm Kit ....................................................................$1,750 257 S 16th Street #6A-1bd/1ba. Incl Wat, Heat, Fit Center, Great Loc! Pet Friendly ......................................................................$1,595 257 S 16th Street #2C-Jr. 1bd. Incl Wat, Heat, Fit Center, Great Loc! Pet Friendly..............................................................................$1,300 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 1373 Farrington Road-Beautiful,clean,all new renov near City Ave & St Joe’s Univ ...........................................................................$1,400 2134 Locust Street #2F-1 bd in Rittenhouse Sq,granite ctr tops,SS appliances. ..............................................................................$1,550 2730 Parrish Street-Traditional row hm in Art Museum,3 bdrms + 1.5 bths....................................................................................$1,800 38 S 3rd Street #1-Contemporary space in Old City for use as retail or office....................................................................................$2,800 1936 Spruce Street #1-Spectacular corner office space,steps from Rittenhse Sq ...........................................................................$5,000 To See the Following, Call Ellen Rohlfing 215.875.3356 1709 Panama Street-1br, 1b, 1car private grge, new kit & b, hw flrs, sunny, W/D ...............................................................................$2,500 To See the Following, Call Johanna Loke 215.893.9800 200 Locust Street #6H-South view 1 bedroom + upgraded kitchen .................................................................................................$1,450 224-30 W Rittenhouse Square #2709-High floor 1 bedroom w/ balcony,South View. ................................................................$1,550 To See the Following, Call John Featherman 215.790.5221 1600-18 Arch Street #507-Hi-end stu @ the Phoenix gourm kit w/d fit ctr 24/7 security ..................................................................$1,395 1213-15 Locust Street #C-Pristine 1B/1den/1b in WashWest hi-end thru-out orig details .................................................................$3,250 2223 Locust Street #2F-Bi-level 2B/1b in Rit Sq, HW flrs thru-out, a/c, shared w/d ........................................................................$1,850 1324 Locust Street #315-Studio @ Arts Condos w/ Fit ctr 24/7 sec. all util incl ................................................................................$1,025 104-6 S 13th Street #6-Lrg 1B/1b in Wash Sq West hi-end kit & bath hi-ceil w/d, ac ..................................................................$1,750 241 S 6th Street #311-Reno 1B/1b at Independence Place, hi-end kit, w/d, 24/7 sec ....................................................................$1,595 814 South Street #2-Lux 2B/2b bi-level home on South St hi-end kit patio w/d ac ............................................................................$1,995 121-35 Walnut Street #204-3B/3.5b at the Moravian, high end, HW floors, 1 car grg .......................................................................$5,995

Tired of wasting money on rent?

To See the Following, Call Kathy Conway 215.440.8190 132 Kenilworth Street-3 bd/2 ba,pine flrs,cook’s kit,rf deck w/City & River views. .............................................................................$2,500 2200 Pine Street #105-1 bd apt w/hw flrs t/o,marble bth,kit w/ stone ctr-top,C/A......................................................................$1,500 934 S 2nd Street-Wonderful 3 bd/2 ba w/hw flrs,crown molding & small yard. ...............................................................................$1,600 834 S Front Street-4 bd/2.5 bth,hw flrs on 1st,2nd/3rd each 2 bdrms + full bth.......................................................................$3,000 1108 Spruce Street #5-Renov 1 bdrm condo w/hw flrs,hi ceil,C/A,wd-burning fpl............................................................$1,650 To See the Following, Call Kheon Benjamin 215.731.4106 1001-13 Chestnut Street #902W-1Bd/1Ba charming condominium all utilities included .................................................................$1,400 1001-10 Chestnut Street #401E-1BR/1BA-Loft Style Condo w/stun flr plan & fab spiral stairs ........................................................$1,300 To See the Following, Call Lisa Budnick 215.790.5227 1714 Locust Street-4fl bi-lvl 1BD /1.5BA.................................$1,700 To See the Following, Call Mark Wade 215.521.1523 315 New Street #103-2 bd/2 ba,lrg wndws,washer/dryer + parking. .................................................................................................$1,895 1352 South Street #202-1 bd/1.5 ba,hw flrs,granite& SS,exp duck work,Wall of wndws. ...............................................................$2,095 To See the Following, Call Mike McCann 215.440.8345 671. Franklin Place #E-2 bd/1 ba apartment w/hw flrs, marble bath and parking.................................................................................$995 134 Krams Avenue-3 bdrm + den,lrg backyard & full bsmt. .................................................................................................$1,500 609 N 34th Street #3RD FL-2 bd unit w/new kit,hw flrs,lots of wndws. .......................................................................................$975 335 N Water Street #C-Bi-lev commerical space or opportunity for res conversion .........................................................................$1,350 762 S 19th Street #1-1 bd/1 ba 1st flr unit,SS applncs,fantastic rear yard.............................................................................................$950 2633 S Chadwick Street-Renov 3 bdrm/1 bth,hrwd flrs,semi-fin bsmt,C/A,washer/dryer. ...........................................................$1,100 39 Strawberry Street #3R-Huge Bi-Level 1 bd/1 ba,tile kit,lots of closet. ......................................................................................$1,250 3425 Tilden Street-Cute 2-story 3 bd home in East Falls w/grg + porch front. ..............................................................................$1,050

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428B Lombard St. - 1BR Condo, Fabulous block, Great building w/only 3 units, Low Condo fees.

Call 215.208.5203 for more info or visit our Open House.

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Large New Home - PeNNsPort

1321 E. Moyamensing Avenue – 3 Bedrooms. 2 ½ Baths. 18ft. Wide. 10 ft. Ceilings. 2400 square feet.

Oversized Bedrooms. Den. W/D. Deck. Large Yard. $469,000.

NewLy reNovated graduate HosPitaL area

2025 Kimball Street – 3 Bedrooms. 3 ½ Baths. Den. 3 Story Home. Hardwood Floors. New Stainless Steel Appliances. Deck. W/D. $339,000.

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Price reduced – soutH PHiLadeLPHia

2208 Gerritt Street – 3 Bedrooms. Burned out Shell. $17,000.

2129 Sigel Street – 3 Bedrooms. $39,000.

House witH garage – grays Ferry – Price reduced

1517 S Corlies Street – 3 Bedrooms. Hardwood Floors. $39,000.

Near PassyuNk square

727 Dudley Street – Total Renovation. 3 Bedrooms.

Deck. Hardwood Floors. $135,000.

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soutH PHiLadeLPHia

1734 Reed Street - 3 Bedrooms. 2 Bathrooms. Central Air. Full Basement $65,000.

corNer BuiLdiNg Lots NewBoLd soutH PHiLadeLPHia viciNity

1441-43 Dickinson Street – Approx. 2500 sq ft.

Possible Seller Financing. $88,000.

An Independently Owned and Operated Member of the Prudential Real Estate Affiliates, Inc.

oxFord circLe/ castor

6600, 6602, 6604 Rutland Street – 6 - 1-bedroom apts. Office. Garage. 3 Buildings. $375,000.

wareHouse Near NortHerN LiBerties

1634 N Randolph Street – Warehouse. High Ceilings.

20 x 100. $125,000.

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During the pending-sale period,

buyers work to satisfy the contract contingencies such as those for inspections and loan and appraisal approval. Depending on how the contract is written, the buyers’ deposit is usually returned if they try in good faith to satisfy contingencies but are unable to do so.

Sellers should continue to entertain backup offers during the pendingsale period so that they don’t have to put the house back on the market if the transaction falls apart due to inspection-related defects or a low appraisal. A backup offer is one that’s made in secondary position, subject to the collapse of the first contract.

After all contingencies have been removed, a listing is often said to be sold. Usually, in this case, the transaction T H TI N HK IN CK I TCYI ST P YA S PCA EC . CEO . CMO M does close. But, with today’s stringent lender qualifying criteria, some deals fall apart at the last minute even after re thinking re thinking realreal estate estate the buyers have been approved.

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CONTINUED CONTINUED FROM PAGE 34 Likewise, the buyers might counter the sellers’ counteroffer and give them a few days to respond. If during that time and before the sellers have signed and delivered the counteroffer to the buyers, the buyers can withdraw it and buy another house.

The delivery aspect of the counteroffer process is very important. Just signing a counteroffer from the other party doesn’t mean that you have a ratified contract. It’s a good idea to have the person who receives a signed counteroffer to indicate in writing that the signed document has been received.

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265 Saint Josephs Way-I.M.PEI House, 3864sqft, garden, lg media rm, pkg space 734 Addison Street-Gorgeous 3BR/2+BA townhome. Spacious layout. 2 fireplaces.

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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 1920 Montrose Street-Modern Renovation, 4 Bed, 2.5 Bath, Hdwd Flrs, Finished Basement 1524 Rodman Street-Renovated 2 Bed 2 Bath, 17 feet wide, hdwd flrs, fp, master suite 2310 Pemberton Street-Graduate Gem 3BD/1.5Ba, 3 yrs young, complete renovation 1921 Kater Street-Reno 2BR den fully equip e-i-kit oak fl lrg cust bath w/seamless shower 1319 S 16th Street-N/C-Handsome facade,2200 sq ft,3 bd/2.5 ba,hrdwd flrs,fin bsmt,yard & deck 1028 S Colorado Street-Beautiful home w/incredible features,wide open flr plan & hw flrs t/o.

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LUXURY CONDOS AND CO-OPS 1706 Rittenhouse Square #23RD F-Picture yourself in the pleasurable comfort of this new 3BR/3+BA condo. $5,398,200 237 S 18th Street #9F&9G-Gracious living at the Barclay 2BR/3BA w/ gallery foyer. Exquisite $1,725,000 224-30 W Rittenhouse Square #1206-7-So.Balconies, renov. 2B+2.5B, Den, Suite w/lrg walk-in closet $1,149,000 210 W Rittenhouse Sq #1001-Recently renovated 3BR/2B at the Rittenhouse, 1862 sqft, breathtaking view $999,000 440 S Broad Street #1505-Symphony House 2B/den/2b + 1 CAR PKG. 150K++ less than dev unit! $855,000 237-47 S 18th Street #3E-Barclay, Generous 1BD/1ba, Luxury bldg- door staff, town car, gym $450,000 1811-19 Chestnut Street #606-Fab 2B/2b,wd flrs,open granite kit w/ bkfst bar,tax abate,pets ok $417,500 1901 Walnut Street #8C-Bring your architect. 1441 sf co-op has C/A+ wd&marble flrs pets ok $395,000 1420 Locust ##6N-2 bedroom,2 bth,completely upgraded,large terrace. $365,000 220 W Rittenhouse Square #4F-Upgraded larg 1br facing square w/d 900+sqft $349,000 2031 Walnut Street #3F-Unique condo in heart of CC High Ceils, original hw flrs & tray ceiling $299,000 111 S 15th ##1810-1 bd/1 ba,open floor plan w/modern bth & kit w/Granite/SS applns,W/D $297,500 7 N Columbus Boulevard #204-Lr/Dr,Eik,wood flrs,fpl,built-in,deck off top,bdrms on 2nd & 3rd Flr. $295,000 111 N 9th Street ##703-Upgrades galor Penthouse 1 bd/1 ba,modern elve bldg,tax abat. $279,000 1100 Vine Street #908-Grandview-1 bdrm + den,hw flrs,fresh paint,spacious closets. $242,500 1919 Chestnut Street #2209-Sunny 1BD Apt, high floor- full service co-op, parking, pool, gym $209,900 1324 Locust ##632-Renov studio,full size kitchen,grt invest,rented $1,050 subject to lease. $129,900

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241-45 Market Street-40 x 160,currently 29 prkng spaces-$200mo $1,750,000 238 Arch Street-Terrific Invest opportunity,hi traffic commercial area,4sty,8,000 sq ft +/$1,200,000 113 Bread St ##3B2-3 bd/2 bths,hrwd flrs,granite counters,Juliet blcny,grg prkng + tax abat. $549,900 1015 N Orianna Street-Deluxe 4BR/2+BA townhome. Family room, whirlpool tub. This is a real buy! $499,900 602 N American-4-Sty-twnhse,grg prkng,open flr plan,hi ceil,oak flrs,ceramic bths,tx abat. $479,900 1255 N Howard-3BR/2+BA,12ft ceilings,recessed lighting,granite & SS kitchen,2 CAR prkng. $429,900 19 W Wildey Street-Beautiful Rehab with NEW everything! 2 Bed. Den 1.5B $259,000 1109 E Dunton Street-2 bedroom,renovated trinity with large private yard. $239,900 1027-31 N 4th #Unit D-This unit has it all,rarely available layout at Cobblestone Crt. $225,000 231-235 N 2nd Street #208-Parking space,grt invst. for someone living or working in Center CIty. $20,000

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812 S Swanson Street-3 bd + den/3.2 bths,hrwd flrs,fpls,grdn,3 dks,2C grg.

795 S 3rd Street-Dimitri’s restaurant on 1st flr,2nd & 3rd flr 2 lrg sunny-1 bdrm apts.

104 Catharine Street-Duplex,Queen Village,2 bi-lev units,1 w/2 bd/1.5 ba,1 w/3 bd/2 ba,2C grg.

1018 Christian Street-3 bedroom with hardwood floor,new kitchen,walk-in closet + Jacuzzi.

1227-29 Christian Street #B-Condo 3 bd/3 ba w/prkng,cstm shower & Jac.,hw & stone in Kit & bth,2 dk.

620 Christian Street #1C&D-Double wide 2B/2b loft, fab light, fpl, C/A, fab shared grdn,1 car pkg 224 Monroe Street-Beautiful 3 bd/2 ba,den,yard,2 fpls,common courtyard.

609 Montrose Street-Cool 2 bd/1 ba,finished bsmt,decked in rear yard,newer kitchen & bath.

828-34 S 3rd Street #D-Fantastic 2 bedroom condo w/parking & deck,updated throughout.

621 “G” S American-Trinity located in private crtyd w/lrg grdn,2 bd/1 ba,hw flrs,exp brk.

1014 Salter Street-Trinity 1 bd/1 ba,staight stairs,bsmt storage,need work,grt opportunity.

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WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST 918-20 Spruce ##1-Brownstone condo-3 bdrm w/2-car tandem prkg,chef’s kit,2 new bth.

314 S Iseminger Street-Certified Historic 2 bd/3 ba,rear/side yards,roof deck,updated kit,fpl.

736-38 Pine Street #D-Beaut 2 bd/1.5 ba,den,renov kit & bths w/granite & SS,hw,roof dk,prkng.

1117 Lombard Street- Hi ceilings, LR, w f/p, Dr, Kit, patio/gdn, 3B, den, c/a 812 Lombard Street #26-Renov. 2BR/2bth TH. 2-CAR GARAGE. HW Flrs. Grt Light. Ideal loc 1101 Washington Ave ##302-2 bd/2 ba,2 car prkng,beautiful upgrades throughout.

1112 Spruce Street #1R-XL condo w/gran,,SS,wd flrs w/lrg lower lev w/lndry space,office & 2nd bd 903-05 Clinton ##1R-Renovated 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.

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ART MUSEUM 2534 Brown Street-Macos Builders New from top to bottom! 3Beds/2.5B Viking Kitchen The Works 916 N 30th Street- Fantastic new construction 3 bed/ 3.5 bath town home with custom finishes and one car garage 1524 North Street-3 yr old 3 br 2.5 BA townhouse, parking avail, 7 yrs on tax abatement 1712 Green Street #4-Renov. bi-level 2BR/2bth condo. Gran & S/S Kitch, HW Flrs 807 N Bucknell Street-Cute 3br/1b quiet street sep dining room patio 2601 Pennsylvania Avenue #904-800 SQ.FT 1BR/1BA, Modern Kitchen, Wood Floors, Gym, Doorman 1504 Mount Vernon Street #2R-3 Yr Old Charming studio,hw flrs,9’ceil,Kit w/Granite/SS & tile bath.

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111 Federal Street-Phase-1-7 ctm homes 1-3 bd/2.5 ba,media rm,fp,hw,grdn,dk,x-wide grg,tx abat $499,000 Lemon Flats-Except. design, 2br/2b, 1500sf, open, bright, private rf deck w/10 YTA $289,000-$318,000 631 N 12th Street #2-New Construc 2b,2b, 1200SF, super modern, lofty, bright, w/balcony 10YTA $289,0000

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

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

1246-54 E Montgomery Avenue #7-2BR/2bth condo. 1,140 Sq/Ft. Built in ë07. HW Flrs. Deck 4021 Dexter Street-Manayunk-3 bdrm/1.5 bath,ren. from top-bottom 2-sty row w/front porch.

238 Watkins Street-Pennsport 2 Bed, 1 Bath, Hdwd Flrs, Exposed Beams & Brick, Patio 1540 S Iseminger Street-Fantastic space,completely rebuilt in 2004,open floor plan,backyard.

1237 S 27th Street-Grays Ferry-Beautiful renovated 3 bd w/HW,new kit w/SS/Granite,lovely bkyd 1537 W Porter Street-Large 4BD/ 1ba South Philly Row, well maintained condition 7645 Elmwood Avenue-3 bd,corner Airlite,parking spot + garage,yard,hrwd floors,modern kitchen.

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Location

ART MUSEUM

Total Square Footage

Price

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

Monthly After Tax Cost

tHe PHilaDelPHian tHe PHilaDelPHian tHe PHilaDelPHian

1 bedroom, 1 bath, wood floors, upgraded kitchen, ample living space Renovated studio, wood floors throughout, open kitchen, large balcony with city skyline view Studio, open kitchen, new carpet, city view

1258 567 567

$189,900 $175,000 $129,900

$30,637 $26,306 $20,834

$1,751 $1,152 $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 acaDeMy House center city one

One bedroom, one bath, upgraded kitchen and bath, Juliet balcony, W/D 1 bedroom, 1 bath, panoramic southern views, Juliet balcony, renovated bath and kitchen 1 bedroom, 1 bath, spacious balcony, magnificent city views to the south, abundant natural light

705 705 873

$289,000 $249,900 $240,000

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

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

Location

RITTENHOUSE SQUARE

Total Square Footage

Price

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

tHe rittenHouse barclay lanesborougH lanesborougH barclay 1830 rittenHouse warwick conDoMiniuMs warwick conDoMiniuMs tHe rittenHouse two liberty Place warwick conDoMiniuMs Parc rittenHouse warwick conDoMiniuMs tHe warwick tHe rittenHouse barclay barclay 1900 rittenHouse Parc rittenHouse warwick conDoMiniuMs Parc rittenHouse warwick tHe DorcHester tHe DorcHester wanaMaker House Parc rittenHouse wanaMaker House warwick tHe DorcHester warwick conDoMiniuMs williaM Penn House

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

Tri-level penthouse with 1600 sq ft of terrace space, being sold unfinished, private elevator access 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, herringbone wood floors, EIK, crown molding and other custom finishes throughout, Rittenhouse Square views 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, upgraded kitchen, original hardwood floors and molding, lots of light 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, hardwood floors, 270 degree views, open kitchen, marble baths, custom closets, W/D 3BR, 3BA, Bamboo flrs., spac. Kit w/custom wood cabinetry, granite counter tops, marble baths, 3 exposures, gym and hotel services 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, completely renovated with high end finishes, views of Rittenhouse Square from every room 2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, hardwood floors, open floor plan with chef’s kitchen, panoramic city views 2 bedrooms + den, 3 baths, gourmet kitchen, marble baths, walk-in-closets, hardwood floors 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, terrace on pool club deck, open custom kitchen, marble baths, wood floors 2 bedrooms + den, 3 baths, sun-soaked, wood floors, open kitchen, marble baths 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, southern exposure from every room, marble baths, open chefs kitchen, maple hardwood floors 1 bedroom, 1.5 baths, eat in kitchen, beautiful sunset views, master suite with large marble bath Two bedrooms, two baths, hardwood floors, old world charm with modern features Two bedrooms, two baths, hardwood floors, building offers 24 hour doorman and gym, located on Rittenhouse Square 1 bedroom, 1 bath, Juliet balcony, upgraded kitchen and bath, lots of light, separate dining room, hardwood floors 1 bedroom, 1 bath, spacious living area, large marble bathroom, wood floors, high ceilings One bedroom, one bath, hardwood floors, marble bath, custom kitchen oPen sunDay 4/3 12:00-12:30PM 1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, open kitchen, hardwood floors, marble bath 1 bedroom, 1 bath, wood floors sunset view, marble bath, custom shutters 1 bedroom, 1 bath, high floor, balcony, excellent natural light, oPen sunDay 4/3 12:45-1:15PM 1 bedroom, 1 bath, high floor, balcony, excellent natural light, 1 bedroom, 1 bath, wood floors throughout, renovated kitchen and bathroom, bay windows with city views Studio with wood floors, marble bath, open kitchen and city view Studio, bay windows, open kitchen, generous closet space Studio, high floor with sunrise views, marble bath, open kitchen Studio, oversized windows, great closet space, view of landscaped garden Studio, high floor with city views, walk in closest, wood floors, marble bath 1 bedroom, 1 bath, city views, spacious kitchen

3,952 3,293 3,467 3,413 2,638 2,275 2,000 1,978 1,560 1825 1,614 1,272 1,614 1,296 1,037 1,050 1,075 1,085 751 712 765 697 740 723 704 497 548 345 583 423 825

$3,500,000* $834,620 $2,900,000* $666,258 $2,750,000* $636,038 $2,250,000* $579,879 $2,250,000 $511,632 $1,195,000* $309,704 $1,200,000* $174,122 $1,350,000* $181,323 $995,000* $242,439 $890,000 $217,453 $829,000* $115,051 $775,000* $201,948 $799,000* $190,486 $625,000* $149,666 $599,000* $147,283 $595,000* $143,766 $539,000* $133,706 $479,900 $71,388 $429,000 $60,944 $399,900 $53,426 $389,900 $55,623 $369,900 $52,163 $350,000 $51,698 $350,000 $51,614 $309,999 $46,421 $275,000 $39,472 $225,000 $33,344 $217,000 $30,900 $205,000 $30,641 $219,900 $32,772 $159,900 $24,513

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

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

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

2,468 2,423 2,117 1,133 700 700 1,286

$1,490,000 $995,000 $799,000* $399,000 $290,000 $275,000 $269,000

$298,000 $281,398 $207,313 $58,788 $42,577 $40,731 $41,367

$6,671 $5,841 $4,291 $2,562 $1,798 $1,733 $1,933

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 inDePenDence Place inDePenDence Place inDePenDence Place inDePenDence Place inDePenDence Place HoPkinson House stricklanD row stricklanD row inDePenDence Place inDePenDence Place inDePenDence Place inDePenDence Place

Bi-level penthouse, 2 bedrooms. 2.5 baths, 2 kitchens, impeccably finished throughout, amazing river and city views Penthouse, 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, wrap around balcony, high ceilings, eat-in kitchen, large master suite 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, east facing river and city views, modern kitchen, hardwood floors, balcony, laundry room 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, beautifully ren. kit. and baths, balc. with city and river views, hdwd. flrs. in living areas 2 bedroom, 2 baths, completely renovated with custom kitchen and designer baths, balcony, hardwood floors 1 bedroom, 1.5 baths, alcove, completely renovated with gourmet kitchen, designer bath, amazing closets Deluxe 1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony with views of Washington Square and the river, renovated kitchen and bath 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, bi-level, excellent natural light, wood floors, open kitchen, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, be-level, open kitchen, wood floors 1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, laundry room, excellent condition 1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, upgraded kitchen, new fixtures throughout 1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, excellent value 1 bedroom, 1 bath, wood floors throughout, upgraded kitchen and bath, custom closets, balcony

4,500 2,810 3,015 1,977 1,173 1,118 1,063 1,188 857 928 860 928 928

$2,295,000* $552,133 $1,250,000* $303,747 $1,250,000* $250,000 $799,000* $195,082 $559,000* $139,761 $479,900 $68,164 $329,000 $53,908 $250,000* $39,682 $259,900* $39,930 $299,900 $44,212 $295,000 $42,801 $290,000 $42,132 $269,900 $40,971

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

$1,985

$85,223 $57,483 $49,901

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

$889,056 $619,296 $607,268 $557,842 $501,005 $318,887 $373,141 $371,644 $273,743 $261,418 $246,527 $206,151 $203,258 $158,380 $170,623 $153,060 $146,037 $153,551 $126,052 $106,710 $120,077 $104,702 $113,035 $112,778 $91,365 $81,681 $68,417 $59,322 $64,172 $62,166 $63,419

$348,655 $298,478 $217,014 $128,086 $89,976 $86,724 $95,821

$588,133 $328,202 $319,246 $212,815 $140,111 $137,351 $115,998 $106,038 $98,839 $87,809 $87,347 $83,461 $87,301

$99,922

$1,989 $1,341 $1,164

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

$20,745 $14,450 $14,170 $13,016 $11,690 $7,440 $8,707 $8,672 $6,387 $6,100 $5,752 $4,810 $4,743 $3,696 $3,981 $3,571 $3,408 $3,583 $2,941 $2,490 $2,802 $2,443 $2,637 $2,631 $2,132 $1,906 $1,596 $1,384 $1,497 $1,451 $1,480

$8,135 $6,694 $5,064 $2,989 $2,099 $2,024 $2,236

$13,728 $7,658 $7,449 $4,966 $3,269 $3,205 $2,707 $2,474 $2,306 $2,049 $2,038 $1,947 $2,037

$2,332

$238 $190 $181

$296 $272 $271

$3,725 $2,632 $2,605 $2,351 $2,094 $1,321 $1,757 $1,795 $1,090 $3,623 $992 $855 $861 $631 $659 $619 $580 $613 $490 $486 $473 $416 $437 $435 $352 $319 $271 $240 $247 $226 $168

$1,466 $1,124 $844 $427 $302 $291 $303

$3,022 $1,511 $1,403 $961 $613 $620 $410 $1,135 $1,143 $327 $348 $302 $348

$347

Monthly After Tax Cost

$17,020 $11,818 $11,565 $10,665 $9,597 $6,119 $6,949 $6,877 $5,298 $5,085 $4,761 $3,956 $3,881 $3,064 $3,323 $2,953 $2,827 $2,969 $2,452 $2,003 $2,328 $2,027 $2,201 $2,197 $1,780 $1,587 $1,325 $1,144 $1,250 $1,225 $1,312

Monthly After Tax Cost

$10,706 $6,147 $6,046 $4,004 $2,656 $2,585 $2,297 $2,156 $1,986 $1,722 $1,690 $1,645 $1,243

Allan Domb Real Estate

* Based on 20% Down Mortgate

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the barclay 237 S. 18th Street Magnificent three bedroom, three and a half bath home with most rooms overlooking Rittenhouse Square, 2638 sf

indePendence Place 233 S. 6th Street Penthouse with three bedrooms and two and a half baths, wrap-around balcony, fireplace and magnificent views.

2575 sf

$2,250,000

$1,250,000

the WarWick 1701 locuSt Street

indePendence Place 233 S. 6th Street

Brand new three bedroom, three and a half bath home with 270 degree views, an open kitchen and marble baths. 2000 sf

Beautifully appointed two bedroom, two bathroom home with lots of light, a private balcony and panoramic views. 1977 sf

$1,200,000

$799,000

Wanamaker houSe

the PhiladelPhian 2401 PennSylvania ave.

$309,999

Sun-soaked one bedroom, one bathroom condominium with wood floors, renovated kitchen, separate dining area and excellent living space.

1258 sf

189,900

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Completely upgraded one bedroom, one bathroom residence with wood floors and large bay windows.

704 sf

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