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COVER STORY 8 Reporting for Duty Two photojournalists hit the streets to find answers to the city’s gunfire crisis.

PHILLYNOW 6 Metal of Honor Warren Holzman is determined to keep our cityscape beautiful.

SCREEN 30 Girl, Interrupted Turn Me On, Dammit! digs into the heady, woozy mix of angst and ardor that characterizes puberty.

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Feedback Rick Rolls On Regarding Randy LoBasso’s feature on the rise and fall of formerpresidential nominee Rick Santorum: Once Santorum exhausted states heavily populated with tea baggers, thrice-born Christians and intermarried first cousins, his message of extreme right-wing fanaticism met a brick wall. That anyone is surprised is itself a surprise, but moderate Americans need to be vigilant against his theocratic message. The snake has retreated to its dark hole, but is still alive!

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Once again, the elite GOP and media has managed to carpet bomb and sway the voter with the negative ads from a moderate. Santorum is what most patriotic American voters are looking for in a conservative Republican. However, the GOP “crowned” Romney long ago.

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Rough Riders Regarding Randy LoBasso’s story about legislation to deter attacks on SEPTA workers: I understand that it is a problem, and I do not encourage people attacking SEPTA operators. However, this type of legislation basically states that people who belong to certain occupations are more worthy than others. Case in point, my mother is a nurse, but if someone attacked her, the perpetrator would not get as much of a penalty as if my mother was a police officer (and believe me, she has saved more lives than the average cop). People who assault should be sanctioned, but if we enhance penalties based on occupation, it basically makes it so that the lives of certain people are more important than others.

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f for most of us the Ben Franklin Bridge is virtually invisible through familiarity, for Warren Holzman— who says the span is “one of the greatest pieces of steelwork I’ve ever set eyes to”— it’s a constant source of inspiration.

“When you walk across it and really examine some of the more artistic details, they tell the story about not taking the cheapest, fastest path,” he says.

“They tell the story about enhancing peoples’ experience—that aesthetics are on an equal footing with function.”

Holzman is one of a small cadre of local metal artisans who exist not only as a link to Philadelphia’s glorious industrialcraftsmanship past, but who are determined to add character and flair to an ever-evolving cityscape that seems to grow increasingly homogenized and dull.

The 40-year-old has certainly done his part to liven up our area for more than a decade. That’s his impressive steel canopy over Standard Tap’s rooftop deck, recently constructed with the same (now-archaic) hot riveting technique used to build the Ben Franklin Bridge.

Holzman’s intricate and expressive gates, railings and doors adorn private residences all over town. He was hired for ongoing metalwork, following the old established style, at the magnificent Bryn Athyn Cathedral. And he’s been commissioned by the city to create numerous pieces of public art, from the eye-catching 12-foot arch at Port Richmond’s Campbell Square Park to his forthcoming Martin Luther King Jr.inspired lectern-shaped sculpture slated for South Philly’s Hawthorne Park.

“We like to keep it kinda dirty and dark,” laughs the tall, lanky Holzman in the office of Iron Studio in Fishtown— which he and his small crew have inhabited since 2002—on a recent afternoon as he gestures with a knuckle-tattooed hand toward the sprawling shop. It’s an appealingly grungy maze of metal and machinery; projects sit in various stages of completion while modern tools share space with the anvils and hammers blacksmiths have used for millennia.

Born in Yonkers, N.Y., Holzman never built a thing until he arrived at Kutztown University, where he fell under the spell of one of his professors, renowned sculptor Phoebe Adams. After working with several artistic mediums, he discovered metalworking and was hooked. “This is gonna sound really strange, but when the piece of metal’s hot and I strike it with whatever tool and it seems to move just enough—never too much and never too little—it’s almost like I can taste that in my mouth,” he says. “There’s a satisfaction that’s almost on your palate.”

Holzman’s version of college experimentation included following the instructions in a 1950s issue of Popular Mechanics to build a forge out of a trash can, and teaching himself taxidermy using the frozen squirrels, mice and

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Iron man: Warren Holzman forges metal at his Fishtown workspace.

bats he scavenged around campus one winter. He combined animal and metal in attention-grabbing sculptures for his senior art project, which met with both acclaim and some outrage: “The vegans weren’t really into it.”

Following graduation, Holzman attended craft schools, but with the birth of his first child in 1996, he did the responsible thing and got a “real job”: Maintenance welder at a lead smelter near Reading. “It was the worst experience of my life,” he says. “It was unsafe, I worked for a drunk, and the other welder on the gang was a Pagan motorcycle guy who just got out of prison who was an angry dick and would threaten people.”

Five months in, blood tests on his infant son came back with elevated lead levels, so Holzman bailed. At a new (and much better) welding job, his boss discovered Holzman’s artistic talent and let him use the shop after-hours for his own work.

For the next four years, Holzman built tables, railings and more for an expanding client base—including pal William Reed, who was getting ready to open Standard Tap—and reinvested his earnings in his own machinery. Holzman eventually migrated to Philly, settled into a Mt. Airy home with his wife and two kids, and opened his custom Iron Studio shop, where he subsidizes his more artistic, time-consuming projects for individual clients with steady work from museums and large corporate clients like Urban Outfitters. On this day, the shop’s main space is filled by huge

pieces of rust-colored steel destined to be stairs at an Anthropologie store.

“I guess it is a compromise, but with everything we do there’s a creative intent,” says Holzman. “It’s hard for me to draw a line in the sand where ‘This is for money’ and ‘This is for personal fulfillment.’ I think I have a good balance.”

The recession hit Iron Studio hard, but Holzman bounced back strong. Last year, he says, was his most profitable to date. Still, there are challenges. Not competition from other independent metalshops or the steelworkers union, which has no interest in the kind of work Holzman does. Mostly, it’s the impact of America’s vanishing manufacturing and industrial economy. “When I first started, there was a lot more steel around, a lot more different kinds of steel, and the quality was better,” he says. “Now I call the steel yard up for a certain profile or shape common 10 years ago and they don’t make it anymore. It’s worrisome.”

There’s also the scourge of “value engineering”—a phrase Holzman hears frequently from clients with tight budgets who are looking to cut corners, which typically means sacrificing aesthetics for function. But he does his best to convince them that art matters, not only for his own soul but for work he hopes will last for many lifetimes.

“I bring part of myself and share it with people. I do what I can and try to do it well because it’s my legacy, it’s what I’ve got to contribute to our community.

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idnight comes and

nights, the city of Philadelphia has gone a full day and night without a homicide.

The relief doesn’t last long.

Just before 1 a.m., the scanner resting in photojournalist Joe “Kaz” Kaczmarek’s lap crackles to life: report of shots fired at 40th Street and Girard Avenue.

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Kaz has been driving around the city with journalist and fellow crime-scene vet Jim MacMillan for hours when the call comes in.

They’re a few miles away. Kaz turns around and floors it. “Right now the heartbeat is going,” he says. MacMillan co-pilots, calling out when it’s clear to turn.

The car barrels west on Girard toward a bright blur of blue and red flashing lights. When they get within a few feet of the scene, Kaz slams on the brake and holds the wheel with his left hand while he grabs for his camera with the right. The camera clicks in rapid rat-a-tats as cops heave a bleeding man into the back seat of a police cruiser. A woman is heard yelling, “Where the fuck are you taking him?” over and over as the cruiser lurches backward, skids out and speeds east down Girard, siren screaming.

“I feel sick,” MacMillan says.

Kaz jumps out of the car. MacMillan stays behind with the equipment and takes notes. It starts to drizzle. In the street, copper casings glint as flashlights sweep over them. A baseball hat splattered in blood rests on the sidewalk. Cops on the scene say that the victim, a 20-yearold black man, was shot several times in the chest, stomach and right arm in the middle of 40th Street. After he was shot, he limped down Girard toward a pizza parlor bar joint, leaving a gruesome, 15-footlong trail of blood in his wake. He staggered into the bar, where someone inside called police. Through the glass front door, patrons can still be seen smiling and sipping cocktails.

Across the street, a woman stands on the corner, watching police tape off the area.

“I was just with him,” she says of the victim, who is her sister’s baby’s father. “This is crazy. I need to call people.” She wanders off.

A young black man walking by shouts into the air. “What is up with Philadelphia? Why do they be killing people for no reason?”

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“You can tell when shit is about to happen,” he says to no one in particular. “The wind moves funny.”

Kaz stalks the perimeter of the tape, shooting the scene from every angle. He steps over a puddle of blood in the street and points it out to one of the officers. As he wraps up, the Philadelphia Police Department’s official crime-scene photographer arrives. She kneels down and draws a small circle around the hat with chalk and snaps a photo.

Back in the car, MacMillan is already iPhone-editing video he shot of pulling up to the scene. In a few days, he’ll post the video to GunCrisis.org, an “open-source journalism experiment” he launched last month that aims to explore the city’s homicide-by-gun epidemic and possible solutions while carefully, purposefully, avoiding slipping down the rabbit holes of the gun-policy debate.

“The gun debate has been around as long as I’ve been alive,” says MacMillan, 51. “I’m looking for new solutions. I’m not interested in the gun rights debate from either side or blaming the police, or the mayor, or city budget. I want to know what we haven’t talked about and I want to know who is doing things that work. I just want to know what’s going to work.”

MacMillan doesn’t know what solutions will curb the gunfire crisis in Philadelphia, and he doesn’t yet know how to financially sustain the independent, new-media project he envisions, either. What he does know is that murder by gun is the most important story in Philadelphia—in national newspapers, it’s the story of Philadelphia— and that it needs to be explored intensely, from every angle, with every journalistic resource in the city.

“First thing I’m trying to do is build a community of like-minded people and start to gather information on all the other individuals and organizations in the city working on it,” says MacMillan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and 17-year veteran of the Daily News. “It’s open-ended. I don’t know how it’s going to play out but I want everyone to participate.”

“The goal is to reduce gun deaths and find replicable solutions,” he continues. “[I’ll] chronicle effective efforts already in progress, both near and far. And I am wondering if we can enhance their success by bringing them to new audiences.”

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of the country’s 10 biggest cities, Philadelphia far exceeds the national averages for both the number of homicides and the percentage accomplished with a gun. Of 316 homicides last year, 85 percent were the result of a gun, all owned illegally.

Nationally, 67.5 percent of all homicides are committed with a firearm, according to FBI data from 2010, the latest available.

Running counter to the national trend, Philadelphia’s murder rate has already surpassed 2008 and is on track to rise to levels not seen since 2007, when the city saw over a murder a day.

Activists and advocates are taking a

kitchen-sink approach: Anti-violence signs hang in the hallways of A.B. Day Elementary School in East Germantown, a typical Philly school in which three-quarters of the students are economically disadvantaged; grassroots organizations purchase billboards and hand out fliers; at Temple University Hospital on North Broad Street, which takes in about 500 gunshot victims a year, emergency room physicians try to make teenagers think twice about pulling the trigger by covering them with bullethole stickers as they lie on gurneys.

In January, after a night when three teens were shot and killed, Nutter called the shooter “a dog” and begged Philadelphians to stop being “idiots and assholes.”

Two weeks later, he announced that the city set aside $500,000 for a special fund

night, but it hasn’t helped solve much.

Philadelphia is at Pennsylvania’s mercy: Gov. Corbett earns an A+ from the lobbying arm of the National Rifle Association, and the NRA is only growing in power and influence.

Media coverage hasn’t helped, either.

The well-intentioned editorials calling for gun-policy reform keep coming, to no avail. And studies show that the “if it bleeds, it leads” school of play-by-play daily reporting, when it provides no context and shoddy framing, can actually hurt communities by either desensitizing residents to violence or unnecessarily heightening fear.

“There was a time I thought it was helpful to just witness every gun death and now we know that too much of that can de-

Photos from the GunCrisis project: Markers indicate evidence at a crime scene. in order to dole out $20,000 rewards for tips leading to fatal-shooting arrests.

While introducing the initiative at Strawberry Mansion High School, the district with the highest homicide rate, Nutter called it a “game-changer.”

No one has claimed a reward yet, according to the PPD. Policy-based solutions seem simple: fewer guns would equal fewer deaths. But to a large extent, the city’s gun-control efforts are thwarted by Pennsylvania’s preemption laws, which make it illegal for cities and municipalities to enact gun-control laws stricter than the state’s.

The bottom line is that politicians and activists can talk gun policy all day and

sensitize people,” says MacMillan. “So I’m trying to temper the situation. Here’s a gun death, [but] here’s a video on a solution.”

The idea for GunCrisis snapped into focus for MacMillan last fall, after attending a two-day conference for journalists hosted by the Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma, a project of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. The workshop was specifically designed to guide Philadelphia journalists in how to report on youth violence more responsibly and more productively. Speakers at the conference included public-health experts who encouraged attending journalists to frame youth violence as a public-health epidemic.

After absoring all of these progressive ideas, MacMillan began the seemingly endless research into urban gun violence and how a new-media project could both document the problem and help to solve it.

But he needed to get back on the streets, so he called up Kaz. “The most important thing [I’m getting] out of the field research was the normalization of this nightmare,” MacMillan says.

“Nothing had changed in the four years since I stopped covering crime scenes, nor probably for decades before. It made me decide to rock the boat.”

The Boston-raised photojournalist spent more than a decade walking and driving around chasing photos for his “Street Level” column in the Daily News.

In 2004, he took leave from the DN to travel to Iraq, where he earned a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of more than 200 war missions while embedded with U.S. military forces for the Associated Press. In 2006, he took another leave to study the effects of PTSD on photojournalists at the University of Michigan.

In MacMillan’s online portfolio, the juxtaposition of photos snapped in the city with those taken in the desert is practical, but also poignant: He sometimes notes that more people have been gunned down in Philadelphia since 9/11 than died in the crumbling towers.

After returning from Iraq, MacMillan grew increasingly interested in the intersection of journalism and trauma and new-media models. While he wasn’t sure of the exact direction of impactful, sustainable journalism, he was pretty sure it wasn’t happening at 400 N. Broad St. In 2007, he took an early buyout.

He spent the last few years studying the impact of violence on communities and exploring the impact media could have on reducing that violence. In 2007, he was an Ochberg fellow at the Dart Center. He taught classes in “Journalism and Psychological Trauma” at Temple University, “Multimedia and Social Media Journalism” at the University of Missouri and “Peace and Conflict Journalism” at Swarthmore College. Meanwhile, he built his own indie-journalism following online.

Today, he has more than 79,000 Twitter followers and more than 43,000 subscribers on Facebook.

“It’s been a struggle, but I’ve built my own audience without them,” says MacMillan. “I miss my old job like crazy, but that doesn’t exist.”

These days, the Philadelphia Inquirer has only two full-time day reporters dedicated to cops and crime. General assignment reporters pick up night crime.

The Daily News, which won a Pulitzer in Investigative Reporting for an expose of alleged corruption in the PPD’s Narcotics Unit in 2009, has historically had more staff dedicated to crime, but newsroom sources say that since the last editorial takeover, they have been advised to cover less crime—even as the city threatens to succumb to it.

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One source, who spoke on condition on anonymity, said it has been stated “verbally, a number of times” that advertisers do not want their ads to appear alongside heavy crime coverage. “It was counterintuitive,” says the source. “Because that was always the pillar of the papers.”

That shift is plainly visible from the outside. A local blogger recently fumed when the DN cover featured a nude model to accompany a story on naked yoga the morning after two teenagers were gunned down with machine guns while joyriding on stolen ATVs. Today, instead of a column like “Street Level,” the paper publishes “Street Gazing,” which features fashion and society photographs.

MacMillan envisions GunCrisis filling in the gap between rising homicides and shrinking watchdog coverage. Between teaching gigs and researching the project, MacMillan posts several GunCrisis website updates, Facebook updates and regular tweets on @GunFireNews. On nights out with Kaz or on day-trips to rallies and memorials, he posts original observations and photos, along with headlines, analyses of anti-gun programs in other cities and data-driven graphics. While he’s at it, he re-tweets messages from residents. “I’m almost certain I would carry a gun if I lived in Philadelphia,” writes one. “Besides the murder rates, I’m proud to be from Philadelphia!” writes another.

Yet despite the project’s progressive perspective, multimedia production and social-media distribution model, the actual reporting process—getting out and looking at the problem up close—is decidedly old school.

These days, Kaczmarek, a freelancer, is the first reporter to the scene when gunfire explodes in the middle of the night. In the morning, he becomes a businessman, making phone calls and sending out emails to sell his bounty. He notes that no one seems to be competing with him. Kaz, who has never been employed by a newspaper, has won a slew of awards such as Distinguished Visual Journalist from the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association. His work has appeared in The New York Times and the Washington Post, among others— not to mention hanging on the walls of the Philadelphia police headquarters.

“Who have I seen come along that tried to give a crap about the streets? So many kids tell me they want to be in my field, and I tell them, ‘Just show up,’” he says, throwing his hands in the air.

Kaz, 44, has been called ‘Philadelphia’s Weegee’—a reference to the famous 1930s New York City crime-scene photographer Arthur Fellig, nicknamed for the supposed sixth sense (“Weegee” is a phonetic take on Ouija) that helped him beat cops to a scene.

“What makes Kaz different is that almost everybody washes out,” says MacMillan. “I think some people see it as sort of glamorous or fun at first glance, running around like cowboy, but you know what? That doesn’t last very long at all. What stays

with you in the long run on a superficial level is sunburn and frozen toes and not getting to a restroom when you need to … on a more serious level, the traumatic experiences stay with you as well.”

Eleven years ago, Kaz was an amateur photographer and police dispatcher who wanted to be a cop. A hard-boiled kind of guy, he’d drive around listening to the scanner just to get to know the city better.

One day, after getting laid off from his dispatcher job, Kaz was standing on Delaware Avenue chowing on a hot dog when a huge fire broke out near the warehouse painted with a giant American flag mural commemorating 9/11. He grabbed his camera out of his car, got the shot, then walked into the Daily News office and sold the roll.

“The editor said, ‘Here’s more film, go

City to head out for the night. He heads north.

They banter like the buddies they are, busting each other’s chops about who knows the most obscure alleyways, creative shortcuts that will get them there the fastest and other tools and tricks of the urban crime beat.

“The way you arrive is what matters,” says MacMillan. “You don’t burst on the scene and disrupt it, and you don’t act like you’re hiding anything. In my language, you act like you’re walking up to mail a letter.”

“Walk the last 20 feet,” agrees Kaczmarek. “[Mayor] Nutter could be hanging from a burning building, but you walk the last 20 feet.”

They come up on the Jin House Chinese,

Photos from the GunCrisis project: Photojournalists Jim MacMillan and Joe Kaczmarek document on a nightly basis the up-close details of homicide-by-gunfire. and do it again,’” he says. “And my aspiration of becoming a member of law enforcement went out the window. I was hooked on photojournalism and I haven’t looked back since.”

He’s been doing it almost every night ever since, the hardest-working unemployed full-time crime reporter in the city.

It’s one of the first warm spring nights of the year and the streets are bustling with people enjoying the weather. In Philadelphia, summer arrives edged in a sense of dread.

“There’s bad mojo in the air,” says Kaz, who just picked MacMillan up in Center

a corner store and Chinese restaurant at Tulip Street and Longshore Avenue in Tacony. Flowers, candles and halfdeflated balloons drape against the wall.

A banner across the top of the storefront reads: “Remember Xiang Huang.” They pull over. Haung, 27, and his wife Jin and their daughters moved from China to Philadelphia just last year. In late January, two masked men entered the store and shot him point-blank in the chest as Jin watched from a few feet away, clutching their infant daughter Anna to her body. Huang’s other two daughters were upstairs.

MacMillan says this scene reminds him

of another one.

“A man was killed in a market in West Philly in the afternoon and I was there when [his] wife got there and was notified,” he says. “I can still hear her voice.”

After so many years out in the streets, Kaz can click off grim scene after scene like a mental zoetrope, and he does. But he didn’t even witness the scene that bothers him most. In 2008, his mother spotted a couple arguing as she exited an Acme food store in the Northeast. She watched as a man pulled out a gun and shot the woman in the face.

“Guy blew her away,” says Kaczmarek.

“And my mom continued from Acme back down to our house in a catatonic state.”

Kaz rushed home from a police officer’s funeral to comfort her.

They’re interrupted by a burst of static and the dispatcher’s voice blaring through the scanner: Nine shots were just fired on a residential street.

They rush to the address but there’s not much to see when they arrive, just a few cops waiting for the crime scene unit to show up. No victim or shooter yet.

It the stillness of the evening, the street looks idyllic behind the fence of yellow crime-scene tape. Red, white and blue fringe zigzags between the houses; a hopscotch board is painted on the asphalt. But even with cops right here, neighbors who live across the street from one another shout at each other from their respective stoops, as if the street is a moat.

Joe snaps stills while MacMillan sets up his tripod to film video. Then, a call comes through: Police believe they just arrested the shooter skulking around outside a known crack house just a few blocks away.

They pack up and head over.

The dilapidated building is a rowhouse chiseled out from the rest of the block flanked by empty lots strewn with debris.

Down the street, neighbors slide open windows, watch and listen in the dark.

The suspect, a young black man, sits in the backseat of a cruiser in handcuffs.

Police are looking for the gun. The front door is riddled with bullet holes. Casings— all different kinds—litter the sidewalk.

Police officers donning bulletproof vests and gloves slowly open the door and disappear inside. It smells like weed. Inside, police find a disposable cell phone, a gun and an American flag folded into a triangle and wrapped in plastic. The officer removing the flag from the house carries it in his fingertips, holding it far away from his body, as if it’s a dead animal.

MacMillan takes photographs and tweets updates to GunCrisis followers.

Inspired by the film The Interrupters— a story of three street-savvy “violence interrupters” working for a program called CeaseFire in Chicago who reduce gun violence by mediating beefs between groups and talking kids out of retaliation—MacMillan hopes to ultimately parlay the footage and reporting into a full-length documentary about gunfire in Philadelphia.

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“I need to buy some gear for the documentary and polish up some old skills. At the same time, I need to reignite some old relationships with anti-violence groups— and launch new ones,” MacMillan says.

To do it, he just cleared his schedule to dedicate his entire summer to building up the project. Until then, the partnership is mostly him and Kaz, driving around, paying for gas out of pocket.

On a different night, the guys are driving past crumbling castles of Germantown when Kaz spins the car around and races toward the Frankford section of the city.

Police just shot a 20-year-old suspect in the head after fleeing from the scene of an armed robbery.

According to police, the man flashed a gun in his waistband at the clerk in 7-Eleven. The cashier ran and hit the panic button. The suspect left with nothing, then robbed a convenience store across the street. Police, already responding to the call from 7-Eleven, arrived on the scene and spotted the suspect running down a residential street. They say the suspect pointed his gun at an officer, who shot him.

Except for the police presence, the street is quiet and still. A thick fog has drifted in, coating everything in a thin screen of what looks like blue smoke. One neighbor comes out onto his porch and watches from across the street, but all other doors stay shut and windows stay dark. A gun lies next to a puddle of blood on the sidewalk marking where the suspect went down. A cell phone and what looks like eight small bags of marijuana lie a few inches away.

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then chimes, indicating a voice message.

The phone rings every few minutes for at least an hour. MacMillan stares at it from behind the crime-scene tape. He mentions that survivors of disasters like the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007 have reported being haunted by the endless ringing of victims’ phones.

Chief Inspector Scott Small and Internal Affairs arrive on the scene. A freelance videographer for network news, an old buddy, shows up. He’s the only other reporter at the scene. While awaiting official word on the shooting, the threesome catch up on old cohorts from the newsroom, about people who left for new jobs and reporters who are still hanging there.

The video camera shines a bright light on Small, and the three reporters huddle in front of him as he makes his statement.

The suspect is in critical condition.

The videographer glances down at his cell phone. He has to get going soon; the network wants him to leave to go film some fog for the morning news report. “It’s all about the weather,” he shrugs.

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There are few finer uses of Tumblr than “Rides a Bike” (ridesabike.tumblr.com), Inquirer film critic Steven Rea’s parade of images devoted to classic Hollywood stars astride two-wheelers.

Updated “twice or thrice a week,” Rea’s site offers shots of instant happiness, as well as careless law-breaking: Terry Melcher perched on the handlebars of mom Doris Day’s Schwinn; Doris Day inside a basket; Dorothy Malone riding with no hands; and not a helmet in sight. To commemorate the release of the site’s inevitable coffee-table book, Rea will discuss his wares, along with bike-related cinematic miscellany courtesy of Secret Cinema.

Avoiding the usual suspects (Bicycle Thieves, Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, Rad ), the evening instead showcases the 1933 tongue-in-cheek bike history Handlebars, ’50s bike trickster Paul Gordon and ’70s educational films, plus François Truffaut’s earliest surviving work, Les Mistons, in which boys obsess over Bernadette Lafont’s fetching biker. MAtt PriGGe

7:30pm. $5. Frankford Hall, 1210 Frankford Ave. 215.634.3338. philadelphia.nerdnite.com

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Your not-so-secret mission, should you accept it, is to attend this 1960s spy-themed party and mingle while dressed to kill in your finest Mad Men gear, deceptive defective wear and sleek mod attire. Browse the art show or track down the double agent and ask them what your secret mission is in order to win prizes and spy gadgets. Ladies who think they could be a femme fatale can enter the Bond girl contest to win a photoshoot with local pin-up artist Dr. Sizzle and other swanky gifts. Music by Gommy Dreco, Kacie Marie and the Sharkskins add to the ambience. Ashley Kole 8pm. $5. North Bowl, 909 N. Second St. 215.238.2695. northbowlphilly.com

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The Fractals The ’90s brought us lots of things, some of them easily forgettable—America Online, the Tamagotcihi, the Macarena. But it also brought us things we’ll never forget—Bill Clinton’s cigar acumen, MC Hammer’s pants and, of course, Philly guitar wizards Huffamoose, the fractured remains of which still plug in their amps under a new moniker, the Fractals. A decade of making music together in their current form means these guys lay down tracks with skill and precision that redefine every old-school notion you had about pop-punk. Relive the ’90s and enjoy the bands born-again success, but please, leave the pager at home. GAbrielle chePurny 11pm. $7. With Hello Cleveland + Crobot. The Grape Room, 105 Grape St. 215.930.0321. graperoommusic.com

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Whether you’re an unadventurous eater hoping to expand your culinary horizons or a foodie on the prowl for a new favorite spot to dine, you’ll find exactly what you’re looking for this week on Passyunk Avenue. Under one giant tent, 21 restaurants located along the avenue will serve up samples of their signature dishes and drinks.

Nosh on Ms. Goody Cupcake’s decadent confections, Chiarella’s pasta dishes, El Zarape’s spicy tacos and much more. Outside the tent, browse the street festival which will feature local vendors and a craft market. After the event, head over to Birra’s outdoor beer garden for a free concert featuring Cheers Elephant and other local indie bands. NICOLE FINKBINER

Every year, there are a handful of super-hyped albums that become required listening if you want to remain a “hep cat,” as the kids say. Since you seem like you’re “out of sight” (another common “street” saying), if you’re reading this, chances are you already have the Weeknd’s debut album/mixtape House Of Balloons. Coming seemingly out of nowhere, the Weeknd—aka 22-year-old Abel Tesfaye— released Balloons as a free download, the first of a critically acclaimed trilogy in 2011. It wasn’t long until music writers were canonizing the singer, comparing him to Michael Jackson.

Though not an apt comparison just yet, Tesfaye is incredibly talented, creating some of the freshest R&B in years. Throughout most of the Weeknd’s songs, there’s a depraved, yet profoundly sad, atmosphere that almost challenges Frank Ocean to see who can sing the filthiest lyrics more smoothly. (Surely, Nate Dogg is smiling down upon us.) BRYAN BIERMAN

Noon. $30-$50. East Passyunk Ave., between Dickinson and Morris sts. visiteastpassyunk.com

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In addition to all the prime real-estate and the fact that it’s quickly become one of the city’s hottest art district, one of the best things Fishtown has going for it is being one of Philly’s oldest riverfront neighborhoods. Attracting thousand of people each year, Shadfest celebrates the environmental significance of the neighborhood while helping to raise money for Penn Treaty Park. This year’s festivities include live music, arts and crafts, environment education kiosks, food and beer. The centerpiece of the festival is, of course, the Kenzinger Challenge Run, a three mile scavenger hunt challenging runners to scour local breweries and taverns collecting information and completing various activities including a Beer Boot Camp at Philadelphia Brewing Company. N.F. Noon. Free. Penn Treaty Park, 1199 N. Delaware Ave. fishtownshadfest.netw

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As America’s first rape-crisis center, local nonprofit Women Organized Against Rape (WOAR) has been working to eliminate all forms of sexual violence while serving the needs of victims 24 hours a day since 1971.

In honor of Sexual Awareness Month, they’re asking Philadelphians, especially survivors of sexual abuse, to join them for an afternoon of raising awareness and speaking out against this violence. The event begins with a march that starts at Love Park and ends at the Independence Visitor Center. Once there, activists, legislators and, most importantly, survivors, will speak. PW Senior Editor Nina Hoffmann, who has written about her experiences being a survivor’s partner, will also share her story.

If you or anyone you know is struggling in silence, this event can help you make a step toward taking it all back. N.F.

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Even devoted fans of fright flicks need an occasional break from creepy creatures and gallons of gore. To prevent burnout, the evil impresarios behind Exhumed Films are taking a hiatus from their usual horror fare and presenting a 12-hour program of exploitation films. Beginning at 11 a.m., they’ll turn on the projector and let it run nonstop, showing seven sleazy features and a bunch of shorts and trailers, all not available for home viewing. Exactly what viewers will see remains a mystery, but knowledgeable sources speculate that biker gangs, kung fu and women in prison will make their appearance, along with lots of bared breasts. Fans who need to rest their eyeballs can step into the lobby to shop for all manner of DVDs and enjoy snacks courtesy of Little Baby’s Ice Cream and Blowfish Bakery.

Hop online to purchase tickets in advance; this one’s guaranteed to sell out. RAYMOND SIMON 10am. $25. International House, 3701 Chestnut St. exhumedfilms.com/exfest2012

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partner Miss Pussycat adds some vocals and frequently precedes the show with her resplendently offbeat puppetry. His music frequently features borderline cheesy drum machines dance beats and swirling garage-inflected organ played with a joyous, unaffected abandon reminiscent of Jonathan Richman. Though he generally favors big carnivalesque textures, he remains a mad scientist at heart, willing to incorporate just about anything—as demonstrated on last year’s more moody and sedate, sampledriven Sucre Du Savage. Much of it was conceived or recorded while he was behind glass as a live exhibit at New Orleans Museum of Art. He’s certainly a one-of-a-kind artifact.

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Since 2002, the Tribeca Film Festival presents Lower Manhattan with a cinematic event each spring which spans several days and theaters. While the festival this year just wrapped up on Sunday, you can still experience some of the movie madness this week in Philly. The Awesome Fest has teamed up with Tribeca Film to screen four new releases over two nights at the Trocadero. Each night, $3 grants you admission to two films and a beer. Tonight, catch Jenna Fischer in The Giant Mechanical Man followed by Death of a Superhero. Tomorrow, check out Booker’s Place: A Mississippi Story and French thriller Sleepless Night. A.K.

alf-naked mermaids and running-Juggalos-withmeat-cleavers might not be the most cerebral tattoos in the world, but what about one of the complex Zermelo-Fraenkel Axioms across the forearm, or a Thomas Edison schematic on the shoulder? Yale professor and New York Times science essayist Carl Zimmer’s fabulous new book, Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed, spotlights some amazing body art from folks whose love of biology, mathematics and astrophysics has truly gotten under their skin. Tonight, the always engaging Zimmer swings into town to discuss his tome.

He’ll be joined by talented tattoo artist Mandy Sauler, who works at Penn Medicine creating tattoos for scar camouflage—she also specializes in 3D nipple tattoos for breast cancer patients—to talk more about the intersection of science and ink. MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG

8pm and 10pm. $3. Trocadero, 1003 Arch St. 215.922.6888. thetroc.com

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Ruins Drummer Tatsuya Yoshida wore out four bass players in his quest for punk-prog-jazznoise ecstasies, though not before laying the groundwork for Lightning Bolt, inspiring Mike Patton and collaborating with everyone from the Boredoms to Derek Bailey to Keiji Hano. He now performs alone as Ruins, just a drummer, but one who more or less re-invents the concept moment to moment.

A sweaty, physical, yet oddly cerebral improviser, he batters intricate multi-textured rhythms on the kit, while simultaneously shouting, crooning, moaning and managing a bank of looped instrumental sounds.

This is less like an evening of solo drumming than a controlled explosion in a Buddhist temple—visceral, precise and spiritually riveting. JENNIFER KELLY 8pm. $8 With Child Abuse, Inzinzac + Gun Muffs. Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St. 215.291.4919. kungfunecktie.com

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Whether the myriad Philly restaurants proudly boasting the names of their farmers and suppliers right on the menu are driven by PR or passion is a matter up for debate. But considering some of the truly God-awful factory-farmed food stories in the news of late—from pink slime in beef to feces and arsenic in chicken—it’s hard not to welcome these forward-thinking joints with arms (and mouths) wide open, no matter the intent.

Enter Russet, a BYOB owned by husband-and-wife team Andrew and Kristen Wood. Housed in a converted rowhome in Rittenhouse, it crafts a daily menu around a few choice local ingredients. The simple, rustic atmosphere inside exhibits a sleek, European flair that mirrors the restaurant’s purposely limited Italian and Frenchinspired menu, which is broken down into “1st,” “2nd” and “desserts.” It’s printed double-sided on a half sheet of unlaminated recycled paper, with, naturally, a list of suppliers (Green Meadow Farms, Lancaster Farm Fresh Coop) to put your weary mind at ease. Before you’ve even taken a bite, Russet has sung you a Siren Song of Sustainability.

About that first bite: a single plump scallop poached in butter with raw pea-tops and blood orange slices set atop portobello duxelle. The scallop is light, and the portobello duxelle is savory and earthy. Alternating bites of grassy pea-tops and bright, acidic blood orange freshen the plate.

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Hand-rolled garganelli pasta comes with spinach, a sunny-side-up egg and crispy, thick-cut guanciale— unsmoked Italian bacon made from pig jowl or cheek.

After breaking the egg yolk to coat the pasta, the resulting taste is that of a deconstructed carbonara, but the spinach gets lost in all the gooey, creamy flavor.

The vicious-sounding stinging nettles are an ingredient that pops up on several dishes throughout the menu. The stinging nettle chitarra pasta is a lovely, vibrant green, brightened with lemon, spring garlic, and salty with anchovy and Parmigiano-Reggiano. At once tart, sweet and salty, it’s one flavor-packed pasta.

Stinging nettles also make an appearance on the American red snapper entree, alongside Jerusalem artichokes and tomato fondue. The tomato fondue adds a powerful sweet-acidity to each bite. The nettles are sauteed, but retain ample crunch. The Jerusalem artichokes are neither artichokes nor from Jerusalem (discuss!), but actually the tubers of a kind of sunflower. In this dish, they’re roasted, and taste like a hybrid potato/parsnip.

Also from the “2nd” menu items, the beef daube provencale: no steak knife required here; your fork will easily pull the tender beef apart. Charred ramps add to the heartiness of the stew, although the crispy polenta that sat underneath it all became a bit soggy soaking it up. Beef fat wins again. It always does.

Kristin serves as Russet’s pastry chef, offering up several country-style desserts (like rhubarb-brown butter tart with honey ice cream and candied ginger) as well as ice creams and an artisanal cheese plate.

The heirloom apple mille-feuille with butterscotch custard, almond nougatine, calvados cream and cider syrup tastes like the best of a state fair, but the calvados cream, thick but not tooth-ache sweet, elevates the dessert to a more elegant standard. Another favorite, the bittersweet chocolate budino with poached sun dried cherries and black pepper creme fraiche—complex, it starts mild, gets sweet, turns tangy and finishes peppery—is a standard dense chocolate cake that pops with tart dried cherries.

“Farm-to-table,” “garden,” “local,” “sustainable,” “organic”: these have become buzzwords in the restaurant industry, one that seems to look more and more like a living, breathing Portlandia skit each time a new spot flicks on its Edison bulbs and plants an herb garden on its roof. But why be cynical? It may be a trend, but the food’s great—and that’s no fad. n

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Instead of relying heavily on the text to communicate the story (the method usually employed by directors over-enamored with the Bard’s language), Cromie tells the story visually. Utilizing Natalia de la Torre’s spectacular costumes and Maria Shaplin’s creative lighting to create a series of evocative shadow effects, the production employs approximately 40 puppets, including hand puppets with wonderfully detailed facial expressions. That, combined with nearly two gallons of blood, give us a visual feast of mayhem that recalls the gory thrills of Paris’ infamous Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol.

Exploiting the numerous seat boxes and small doorways in Lisi Stoessel’s smartly functional set that resembles a small chapel, puppets and actors are tortured, maimed, executed and dismembered with alarming regularity. At one point, some are served to unsuspecting guests for dinner.

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f you’ve always thought the Bard a bore, the Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre’s extravagantly theatrical Titus Adronicus should change your mind about theater’s most revered dramatist. Director Aaron Cromie turns the Bard’s bold work into a spectacularly gleeful bloodbath that is both intense and insanely entertaining.

Shakespeare’s first tragedy has been undervalued and outright denounced by many 20th-century critics. But instead of apologizing for Titus’ lack of poetic beauty and insight, Cromie embraces its bombastic oratory, perverse sense of humor and appalling violence.

Like Shakespeare’s late-career masterpiece Hamlet, Titus is a revenge tragedy that leaves a shocking number of corpses in its wake. Other than the relatively high body count (and Titus’ 14 murder victims easily trumps Hamlet’s eight relatively tame deaths), the plays couldn’t be more different.

Whereas Hamlet explores the psychological complexities of its title character and the role destiny plays in determining our fate, Titus is an attempt at sheer entertainment from a young playwright hoping to create a box-office hit. Historical accounts indicate that the play was popular with the rowdy Elizabethan audiences that flocked to the first production. Because the play was written by theater’s resident genius, directors often approach Titus with an inappropriate sense of gravitas. Cromie doesn’t make that mistake; the result is one of the season’s most wildly entertaining productions.

Smartly edited to a quick 100 minutes, the action is set in ancient Rome. As the play begins, the Romans—under the leadership of the great warrior Titus Andronicus (Rob Kahn in a shrewd and satisfying portrayal)—have successfully defended Rome against the invading Goths (though we’ll soon see that the Romans are every bit as barbarous). Meanwhile, Saturnius (a deliciously depraved Jered McLenigan) and his brother Bassianus (Davon Williams), sons of the late emperor, are arguing about which of them has claim to their father’s throne.

With Titus’ backing, Saturnius prevails. As the new emperor, he announces he’ll make Titus’ daughter Lavinia (Lesley Berkowitz in an effectively pitiable portrayal) his bride.

Unfortunately, nobody bothered to ask Lavinia her feelings. So, with the help of her brother, Lavinia elopes with her true love, Bassianus. Perturbed at what he views as a treasonous act, Titus kills his son, an exceptionally stern and surprising response, especially considering that 21 of Titus’ 25 sons were recently killed in the war. Saturnius decides instead to marry the queen of the Goths, Tamora (a fierce Caroline Crocker), who was captured along with her three deplorable sons and her Moor lover, Aaron (portrayed with shocking ruthlessness and

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“At its simplest, “ explains Aaron Levy, executive director of the Slought Foundation, “the party will consist of a celebration of cats.”

He was referring to the opening reception for Utterly Precarious: Carolee Schneemann in 5 Parts, a soiree of cat-friendly connoitering designed by internationally renowned artist and Pennsylvania native Carolee Schneemann. To set the mood, she’s ordered two hockey goals, which she plans to push together, cover with leaves and deck with raw herring. Human-accompanied cats are invited to frolic in this “sheltered environment,” but must RSVP. If you’re a cat, the going’s good. If you’re not, the obvious questions spring to mind: isn’t this courting allergies, inviting a cacophony of yowls or creating a Pied Piper of Philadelphia situation in which stray cats stream in from the streets and trample wellmeaning spectators in a mad rush for the herring? Levy seems remarkably unfazed by the pet project: “We have a history at Slought of taking on projects, the outcome of which is not assured, that entail a certain amount of risk.” What he could have added, but didn’t, is that Schneemann’s work has often perched across a dead fish in a raunchy straddle between the artistic and the pornographic.

In “Meat Joy” (1964), scantily clad actors writhed playfully in an orgy of raw fish, chickens and sausages; in “Interior Scroll” (1975), Schneemann read from a scroll that she slowly unfurled from her vagina. While these projects profoundly shaped how we think about the body, sexuality and gender, and prefigured the explosion of feminist artistic production that came hot on their heels, Levy points out that Schneemann has been curiously absent from museums. “Her work has met with a great deal of institutional resistance,” he says. The current show, which is a partnership between multiple institutions, will feature five films recently acquired by the University of Pennsylvania (to be screened at Slought), a conversation with the artist at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, a master class and an artist-led tour of the Philadelphia Art Museum.

As one of the most important feminist artists of the post-war period, Levy points out that “a project like this is long overdue.” And he gets particular satisfaction from not just screening the films, but seeing them officially added to Penn’s library collection: “There’s a relation for us between depositing these films in the archives and showing them at the gallery.” But is there a relation between all this and the cat party?

At least in Philadelphia, this sort of petindebted artistic production rings a bell. In fact, it’s been a big year for big-name tributes to small pets. Last fall, performance artist Laurie Anderson’s Forty-Nine Days in the Bardo at the Fabric Workshop and Museum

Cat lady: Felines have been Carolee Schneemann’s pets, but also her collaborators.

featured a series of massive charcoal drawings dedicated to (and featuring) her deceased rat terrier, Lolabelle. During the accompany performance, Anderson told the audience that she’d once convinced famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma to play a concert for dogs with her in Italy. Apparently, he’d always dreamed of such a thing.

Like Anderson, Schneeman will bring a bit of auteur to an otherwise zany idea. For example, the raw herring suspended from the netting of the hockey goals echoes the raw fish lobbed from body to body in “Meat Joy.” And the cats? “Cats have been her pets, but also her collaborators,” Levy says. Her cat, Kitch, starred in multiple video works as did Vesper and Cluny in numerous photographs.

Although cat attendance is highly encouraged, humans are also allowed to fly solo (although without a cat, herring will cost you $1). “We also need some leaves,” Levy adds, “so if anyone wants to bring some, they’re more than welcome.” n Cat Party/Opening Reception, April 26, 6:30-8:30pm.

Through May 31. The Slought Foundation, 4017 Walnut St. 215.701.4627. sloughtfoundation.org. RSVP your cat at kitch@sloughtfoundation.org

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By Matt Prigge mprigge@philadelphiaweekly.com Hans Christian Andersen (1952): With exceptions, authors’ lives are rarely as dramatic as the worlds they invented. That’s why they became authors. This poses a problem for filmmakers. Apart from dubious claims of secret royal lineage and some homoerotic correspondences, the life of Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen isn’t terribly interesting. On the other hand, he did write The Ugly Duckling, Thumbelina and The Little Mermaid. For this splashy musical, the writing team—which included Ben Hecht and Moss Hart—decided instead to make “a fairytale about the storyteller” (played by Danny Kaye), whose parade of lies routinely segues into more faithful representations of his work.

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962): Like Hans Christian Andersen, this George Pal spectacular mixed bullshit biopic-ing with recreations of their tales. Not that you have many chances to see it: filmed in three-screen Cinerama, its source allegedly fell into disrepair, although TCM airs a nice copy bi-annually and word has spread of a 65mm negative, waiting to be struck.

Time After Time (1979): What if H.G. Wells (Malcolm McDowell) had invented a time machine himself? And then used it to pursue Jack the Ripper to 1979 San Francisco? As charming as its premise is ludicrous, Nicholas Meyer’s comic thriller is made all the better by the palpable chemistry between McDowell and female lead Mary Steenburgen (who subsequently married).

Gothic (1986): The famed time Mary Shelley, in company with Lord Byron and John William Polidori, dreamt up Frankenstein has cropped up in Bride of Frankenstein, Haunted Summer and Roger Corman’s Frankenstein Unbound, boasting Michael Hutchence as Percy Shelley. Ken Russell also made predictable mincemeat out of it, whipping out an orgy of decadence and haunted house shenanigans that, as with most of his “historical” films, never happened.

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Kafka (1991): Upon scoring a hit and the Palme d’Or with Sex, Lies and Videotape, Steven Soderbergh proceeded to alienate most with this moody, B&W ode to Franz Kafka (Jeremy Irons, predictably nervy), in which the nobody author runs afoul of a not-exactlyKafkaesque plot. As far as author fan fiction goes, it fares better than …

The Raven (2012): Roger Corman made a pretty penny popping out faithless Poe adaptations in the ’60s. Then again, he never had the writer himself (here, John Cusack) solve Poe-inspired crimes. n

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aging hormones aren’t just for teenage boys, but movies about them almost always are. That particular gender imbalance gets a healthy correction with this droll Norwegian comedy, adapted by Jannicke Systad Jacobsen from a novel by Olaug Nilssen.

Calling it a coming-of-age story would invite too many awful puns, as Turn Me On, Dammit! begins with our 15-year-old Alma (Helene Bergsholm) furiously masturbating on the kitchen floor, much to the confusion of the family dog. Alma’s a big fan of the “Wild Wet Dreams” phone sex line, upon which cheesy fantasies and avuncular advice are dispensed in pretty much equal measure by a friendly fellow named Stig. Too bad Mom’s getting home from work early today …

The opening scene—and that unfortunate title—suggest prurient provocations that the rest of the picture has little interest in pursuing. With uncommon sensitivity, Jacobsen digs into that heady, woozy mix of angst and ardor that characterizes puberty.

It’s a time when every little problem seems like the end of the world, which can be hard to handle when you’re also perpetually horny. We see teenage boys go through this in films all the time, but I’m hard-pressed to recall one that’s interested in what it feels like for a girl.

Growing up in rural nowhere Skoddeheimen—a place so dreary that every time Alma passes the city’s lone sign, she flips it the bird—there’s not much to choose from besides the grocery store and the turnip plant.

Turn Me On, Dammit! is told from Alma’s point of view, with a wonderfully inarticulate voice-over narration and frequent surreal dips into her fantasies—which often quite hilariously emphasize how little she has yet figured out about sex. But despite the screenplay’s first-person perspective, Jacobsen shoots in an overcast haze, keeping an intriguingly muted tone that emphasizes the universe’s flat, deadpan indifference to our heroine’s overheated personal travails.

Alma’s got a thing for Artur, a classmate played with impeccably studied blankness by Matias Myren. He plays electric guitar for the choir and may even grow up to be a catch one day, but Artur ain’t quite there yet. At a loss

Bird watching: Alma (Helene Bergsholm, left) and her friends are tired of their dreary hometown.

for words outside the school dance, he simply unbuttons his pants and pokes her in the leg with his erection. I think we’ve all seen smoother pick-up routines.

But Alma is naturally thrilled, until she makes the mistake of confiding in best friends Ingrid (Beate Støfring) and Sara (Malin Bjørhovde.) With her busty baby-fat and OCD-constant application of lip gloss, Ingrid is the small school’s queen bee, and unfortunately for Alma, she also had her eyes on Artur. When confronted with the rumor, the pubescent lummox immediately denies it (because really, what would you do?) and Ingrid goes ballistic.

Alma’s immediately nicknamed “Dick-Alma,” and mocked mercilessly everywhere from the school bus to bathroom stall graffiti. Even bestie Sara, who passes for a bohemian activist in Skoddeheimen by becoming pen pals with Texas death-row inmates, is powerless against the mass wave of conformity, because ever since way back in the days of the Bible, communities have always banded together when it comes to ostracizing dirty girls. (In many ways, this is a better film about bullying than Bully.)

But no matter how hurtful the behavior of Alma’s classmates, Jacobsen keeps a light touch and a wider view of the world that our heroine gradually grows into. (The best perspectivecheck arrives when Sara breathlessly recounts the incident with Artur’s penis in a letter to one of her condemned pen pals, eventually conceding that he probably has other things to worry about right now.) With a lesser actress in the lead, it would be

Turn Me On Dammit!

Grade: B+ Director: Jannicke Systad Jacobsen Starring: Helene Bergsholm, Malin Bjørhovde and Henriette Steenstrupn easy for Turn Me On, Dammit! to lapse into histrionics, but in Bergsholm’s brave, incandescent performance we can see a dawning awareness that all this drama is really no big deal.

Clocking in at a slender 76 minutes, Turn Me On, Dammit! is full of understated grace notes and oddball characters given moments to unexpectedly rise to the occasion. I loved the nosy neighbor who insists she would never spy on anybody, before producing a spiral notebook chronicling everybody’s comings and goings over the past several weeks. But my favorite is Stig, the phone-sex operator, who is often more than happy to just chat, and strangely enough is the only person around to assure Alma that her urges are perfectly normal. (Such a shame that he bills by the minute.)

Somehow, Jacobsen has managed to make a film about a horny teenage girl that never once feels creepy or leering. There’s a buoyancy to Turn Me On, Dammit! that, combined with the smallness of the story, underlines the very welcome message: While sexual desire can often be confusing as hell, it’s also nothing to be ashamed of.

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The tumultuous life (and mysterious death) of the Gothic writer would provide more than enough inspiration for a motion picture.

Indeed, freaks far and wide from Sylvester Stallone to Michael Jackson circled an Edgar Allan Poe biopic at one point or another during the past couple decades. But instead, since people in Hollywood have shitty little limited imaginations, we get stuck with The Raven, a dreary police procedural with barely a passing interest in literature that feels more like the pilot for an hour-long CBS program: CSI: Nevermore.

The gimmick here—and boy is it a howler— is that back in 1849 Baltimore there was a mad serial killer hell-bent on re-enacting all his favorite scenes from Poe’s stories.

The author himself has long ago fallen into obscurity, drunkenly trying to hustle his persnickety literary criticism, inexplicably wooing Alice Eve’s age-inappropriate Emily, who proves her devotion by poorly reciting lines from “Annabel Lee” all the time. Her father (Brendan Gleeson) does not approve, at least not until that pesky, mysterious psycho starts restaging murders from the rue morgue and making nasty use of a pit and a pendulum.

Luke Evans fumbles uncomfortably with his lines as the detective who drags Poe himself into the investigation. And I’m sorry, but John Cusack was just not cut out for period pieces.

Despite the silly goatee and a cape, he’s still always going to come off as a motor-mouthed middle-aged hipster. Trying in vain to mimic the steampunk insouciance Robert Downey Jr. brought to Sherlock Holmes, Cusack’s Poe is flippant, callow and never once remotely believable as an author of anything besides the actor’s own proudly illiterate Tweets.

Director James McTiegue, who was also behind the disastrous V For Vendetta, has no sense of scale. The Raven is a protracted television-sized whodunit shot in medium close-ups with a severe lack of extras. The mystery’s eventual reveal feels comically arbitrary, totally unmotivated, and just as well could have happened several reels earlier without impacting the story in the slightest.

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“No one wants to work here now,” exclaims the harried school director (Danielle Proulx) after one of her teachers hangs herself in a classroom. Few filmmakers want to dwell on the overly practical aspects of the fallout from a tragedy, and French-Canadian director Philippe Falardeau has the deadpan chops to make that film. It’s Not Me, I Swear, Falardeau’s previous effort, possessed the requisite eccentricity to tell of the most destructive precocious 10 year old since Neil Jordan’s film of The Butcher Boy. But despite an opening stretch that suggests a darkly comic treatment of material usually handled soporifically, Monsieur Lazhar is not that movie. It’s something both more familiar and more unusual, in some ways a more odd combination than the much-hoped-for darkly comic movie about suicide.

He arrives with pure pep: Monsieur Bachir Lazhar (Mohamed Fellag) shows up in the school director’s office looking to replace the deceased teach, even though an ad has yet to be placed. His pluck, combined with the Oscar nomination this Quebecian drama netted, would suggest Lazhar will become our latest inspirational movie teacher, ready to raise the dead woman’s class of fourth graders out of the mire to standing atop desks when he’s inevitably sacked by the school’s cowardly overlords. But Lazhar’s entrance is a red herring: he’s a meek sadsack, with his own past tragedy to contend with. Reserved and bottled up—and only twice busting out the Irritating Robin Williams Sad Smile—he’s not even revealed to his young charges that he’s an Algerian refugee, purely because “it’s not in the curriculum.”

Its rare spouts of emotion muted and earned, Monsieur Lazhar is best defined by what it isn’t than what is, and what it isn’t is boilerplate genre fodder. That doesn’t mean it’s not thin, and in fact it is. Where It’s Not Me, I Swear was packed with idiosyncratic detail, Monsieur Lazhar finds Falardeau paring his schtick down. He goes too far: A little of Lazhar and his students struggling to keep their shit goes a long way. And while the film is allergic to cliches, it runs out of things to do before its meager length has elapsed. n

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raditionally, the music film genre has been dominated by the well-trod-upon classics: Don’t Look Back, Gimme Shelter, Stop Making Sense, ABBA: The Movie.

The evolution of cheap, decent film equipment has meant a proliferation of small, niche-y indies, all begging for an outlet. Hence, XPN’s first Music Film Festival. A collaboration with the Philadelphia Film Society—whose last iteration of the Philadelphia Film Festival had a music film sidebar—this weekend cavalcade introduces the new and potentially not-yet-famous to those interested in the intersection between music and cinema.

The event, programmed by the Society’s Michael Lerman, boasts an impressive diversity. Roger LaMay, general manager at XPN, says that, for its first outing at least, half the slate is “XPN-centric.” That explains the doc on Paul Williams and fest closer Under African Skies, director Joe Berlinger’s (Paradise Lost) doc on Paul Simon’s tumultuous trip back to South Africa to commemorate Graceland. But there are also films outside the XPN bubble, with offerings on soul (Charles Bradley: Soul of America), the Warped Tour (No Room for Rockstars), Girl Talk (Girl Walk: All Day) and Gustav Mahler (Of Love, Death and Beyond ).

Here, we preview a few of the films.

All screenings at Penn’s Annenberg Center, 3680 Walnut St. 215.898.6702, unless otherwise noted. Find more info about the fest at xpn.org.

The immensely talented and—when he’s not terrifying—hugely charming Robert Carlyle should have a bigger career than the one he’s had. Hopefully, people will see writer/director Marshall Lewy’s modest drama California 10, in which Carlyle plays a Britpop star turned farmhand in rural Cali. The immigration and familial crises that crop up are boilerplate, but 10 receives plenty of ballast not only from its effortlessly charismatic star but its brutal revelation of what life does to musicians of faddish bands. It’s as though someone made a film about what happened to that one guy from Menswear.

(Fri., 5:20pm and Sun., 3:15pm.)

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Gustav Mahler’s second and most popular symphony receives a featurelength annotation, which peppers the composition with constant context.

Scholars, academics, philosophers and theologians weigh in on a piece borne out of its composer’s insecurity and fear of death. Plowing through its five movements, Jason Starr’s doc reveals an artist doubling down on his shtick after the hostile reaction to his first symphony, sketching a transporting masterwork that cowers before mortality before embracing what its maker hopes is a transcendent afterlife. (Sun., 5:15pm)

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Dave Boyle’s Surrogate Valentine— an agreeably shambling indie about a sadsack singer-songwriter (Goh Nakamura, as himself)—is so modest it would never ask for a sequel. It got one anyway. The lone carryover from this fall’s Philadelphia Film Festival, the B&W Valentine finds Nakamura’s thirtysomething troubadour paired with an obnoxious grotesque of a TV actor (Chadd Stoops) for familiar but likable road trip shenanigans, grounded by a casually realistic look at an artist successful enough to just squeak by. Daylight Savings, made just a year later, adds more ambitious cinematography to what’s nearly more of the same, with Nakamura again hitting the road, this time with a disreputable ex-con cousin (Michael Aki) and a newly broken heart. Both twisty narratives benefit from the unfailingly low-key charm of Nakamura, who at one point confesses to a potential conquest, “I don’t know how to talk to girls. I guess if I did, I’d have nothing to write about.” Which, c’mon, is such a line. (Valentine: Sat., 1:10pm. Savings: Sat., 3:10pm.) n

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Outlandish enough to send you to Google to prove its legitimacy, Ryan unleashes Ryan Avery, who, when the doc was filmed over four years ago, was a baby-faced teen dropout who formed schticky bands Best Friends (a cappella), Father’s Day (thrash, plus fake mustaches) and Night Wolf (electronic and drums and some melodies).

Their lack of craft enrages a local art-

ist, who proves infinitely oblivious to the obvious hilarity of a grown adult starting a rivalry with kids barely out of puberty. The product of an unhappy, albeit unspectacular, childhood, Avery lives to embody the point where real anger becomes entertaining, although the more the filmmakers delve into his psyche, the more it seems their unsurprising explanations are simply ruining the fun. (Fri., 9:35pm and Sat., 3:05pm.)

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living room for movie theaters, where you can’t dance. Instead you get to watch others: This featurelength music video starts with a ballerina (Anne Marsen) who, inspired by the shotgun marriage of Ludacris to Sabbath, busts out of her studio to frug about New York City. Director/cinematographer Jacob Krupnick effortlessly bottles up the exuberance of Girl Talk’s juxtapositions, even if his own mash-up of image to sound lacks structure or, usually, reason. At its best Girl Walk is a thrilling city symphony, where a young woman’s moves increasingly enrapture a metropolis of jaded denizens; at its worst it’s a cheesy city symphony, as witnessed in the shopping spree episode. (Fri., 9pm. World Cafe Live)

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You trained your body not to come when you were with your boyfriend, and it’s going to take some time to undo that training. But if you can squirt when you masturbate alone, WSID, you can squirt with your boyfriend. And here’s how you can get there: Masturbate with your boyfriend in the house but not in your room.

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You might even wind up in a long-term relationship.

Now, sometimes people hook up with strangers precisely because they wanna have sex with someone they don’t know and don’t expect to see again. And that’s not always a bad idea: Having sex with someone who you don’t expect to see again can be very liberating. A girl who can’t let herself go with a guy she’s dating—maybe she fears being slut- or nympho-shamed by a boyfriend—will grind the dick off a hookup.

And it can be easier to ask someone you don’t expect to see again to do something kinky. Say a straight boy has always wanted a girl to put him in her panties and peg his ass. He could ask a girlfriend to do that for him, sure, but the stakes are higher. What if she freaks out and dumps him, and blabs to her friends—and his—about why she dumped him?

People who divide the fuckable world into those they care about (and can’t open up to sexually) and those they don’t care about (and can open up to sexually but won’t date) wind up having awesome sex with people they don’t know and lousy sex with people they marry.

That’s not a good strategy for anyone interested in a successful—and sexually fulfilling—longterm relationship.

So here’s what you should do, HOPE: Be uninhibited with your hookups while treating them like people you might actually see again and insist on being treated that way in return.

Don’t hook up with people who treat you like shit; don’t treat the people you hook up with like shit. Even if you know you’re not going to see someone again—maybe they’re not someone you would date or circumstances are such that you couldn’t date them even if you wanted to (business trip, European vacation, spring break, etc.)—treat your hookups with kindness, respect and gratitude.

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19th SPRUCE: STUDIO SEP. KITCHEN. June 1. INCLDS water $850+ George Gay RE, 215-563-6724 21ST & WALNUT Spacious Studio w/All utils incl, High ceilings, Laundry on premise. AVAIL JUNE! $1035/mo. MSRE, 215-925-RENT(7368), www.MichaelSingerRealEstate.com 5XX DICKINSON Efficiency. 2nd floor. Utilities Included. $575/month. 215-922-1625

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RITTENHOUSE 1bd, 1ba, roof deck, h/w, w/d, c/h/a, $1200/+ utl. 215-336-8920

12TH & WALNUT 1BR+ Office, HW floors, CA, DW, Laundry on premise. AVAIL JUNE! $1125/mo+. MSRE, 215-925RENT(7368), www.MichaelSingerRealEstate.com

THE CHATHAM (20th & WALNUT) Spacious Studios & 1BR in High-rise, Doorman bldg w/ Mag Western & Southern exposure, View of Rittenhouse Sq, HW floors, Laundry on site, High floor, Prof managed. AVAIL NOW! ALL UTILITIES INCL. FROM $1275/mo. MSRE, 215-925-RENT(7368), www.MichaelSingerRealEstate.com

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1424 PORTER, NEW, MODERN HRDWD, 1st/fl $700, 3rd/fl $650. 3mos to move in. 610-909-9025 15TH and SPRUCE: Large 1BD in sought after location. Beautiful art-deco details, front desk attendant, HW floors, onsite laundry, updated kitchen, wonderful city views. From $1130/mo.

Available May. 215-735-8030. Lic #219789.

16TH & BAINBRIDGE Very cool apt, All Amenities.

Avail now. $875+. PMG 215-545-7007 x302 1811-19 CHESTNUT #503 - $1800/mo 1BD/1BA unit, with c/a, hdwd flrs, granite & stainless kitchen, w/d. CALL LYNDA KREVITZ, PRU FOX & ROACH 215-627-6005/215-521-1565 21xx LOMBARD ST w/Loft, HW flrs, Deck, WD, CA. $1050/mo+. 215-205-3773

2408 S. LEE - $1095/mo 3BD/1BA with enclosed porch, new kitch, hdwd flrs, basement, yard.

CALL STU COHEN, PRU FOX & ROACH 215-6276005/215-275-0800

17th SPRUCE: LARGE BI-LVL, SEP, LR, DNG RM 1.5BA, DW, ROOF DECK HRDWD, W/D/bsmt. INCLDS ht/ht-wtr $1500+elc George Gay RE, 215-563-6724

25XX S. CHADWICK ST. 3BDRS, 1.5Bths, C/A, W-to-W carpet. $1100+ utilities. 267-716-1335

OLD CITY: SPACIOUS, BRIGHT 2BA, BI-LV CAC, HRWD, HI/CLGS UPDATED KIT/BA, WD/apt. June $1595+ 215-733-0480 www.CentraAssociates.com

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BROAD & RITNER 3rd flr., modern, C/A, Heat, Deck. W/D on premises. Water incld. $750+ utilities. 215-913-9866

RITTENHOUSE SQ AREA: 2BR Townhouse, WD, DW. Pvt Rear yard. $1700/mo+ utils. Call 215-922-3910 or email chrimi@comcast.net

BRAND NEW TOWNHOMES IN EAST FALLS!4407 DRIFTWOOD LANE, PHILA., PA 19129 2BR/2.5BA/1 Car Gar.. 1857 sq.ft.June 2012 Move In $299,990 From I 76; Take the Lincoln Drive/Kelly Dr. exit, stay left towards Ridge Ave/Kelly Dr, bear left on ramp towards Ridge ave/Kelly Dr, turn left on Ridge Ave, Right on schoolhouse lane, right on Founders Place. call stephanie or Missy at 215-844-8888 www.westrum.com BRAND NEW TOWNHOMES IN EAST FALLS!4401 Driftwood LANE, PHILA, PA 19129 2BR/1BA/940 Sq. Ft.June 2012 Move in $174,990 From I 76; Take the Lincoln Drive/Kelly Dr exit, stay towards left Ridge ave/Kelly Dr, bear left on ramp towards Ridge Ave/Kelly Dr, turn left on Ridge Ave, Right on Schoolhouse Lane, Right on Founders Place. call Stephanie or Missy at 215-844-8888

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room for rent 124 LOMBARD the HEART OF CENTER CITY, SOCIETY HILL, HEAD HOUSE SQ. “TOKIO B&B” STUDIOS. WALK to HISTORIC LOCATIONS, RESTAURANTS, PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION. TOURIST are WELCOME! Reasonable daily rates ($55-$100) wkly rates ($300-$500) Also available special monthly rates. Website http://sushi.madamesaito.com MADAME SAITO 215-922-2515

RITTENHOUSE SQUARE/FITLER SQUARE THE CHATHAM (20th & WALNUt) Spacious Studios & One Bedrooms in High rise, Doorman bldg w/Magnificent Western & Southern exposure, View of Rittenhouse Square, HW floors, Laundry in site, High floor. Professionally Managed. AVAILABLE JUNE! All UTiliTiEs inCl. FROM $1,275 21st & LOCUst Charming Studios in Historic Brownstone, HW floors, Laundry on premise.

AVAILABLE JUNE! HEAT/HoT WATEr inCl. $735 21st & sPRUCE Cool Studio, Heat/Hot water included, HW floors, Bright & Cheery, High ceiling, Laundry on premises. AVAILABLE JUNE! $975 21st & WALNUt Spacious Studio w/All utilities included, High ceilings, Laundry on premise.

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WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST/AVENUE OF THE ARTS/OLD CITY THE iMPEriAl (BroAD & JUniPEr/sPrUCE sTs.) Sunny Studio w/Private entrance, HW floors, A/C, Laundry in bldg.

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2Nd & MARKEt Modern One Bedroom in Old City with Loft, Beautifully renovated, HW floors, D/W, W/D, High ceilings, Bath & 1/2.

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2ND & MARKET Mod 1BR in Old City w/Loft, Beautifully renovated, HW fls, D/W, W/D, High ceilings, 1.5BA. AVAIL NOW! $1375/mo+. MSRE, 215-925-RENT(7368), www.MichaelSingerRealEstate.com

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22nd & Spruce – Adorable Studio apt, Includes heat. $750+

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OLD CITY (6 S.Front St/4th Fl) Bright, Spacious, 2bdrm, 2 bath, approx. 2000 S/F, facing Del. River w/view of BF Bridge. C/A, Gas heat, W/D, D/W, G/D, Carpeted. $1475+/mo. Avail.

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530 W GIRARD #4 - $2400/mo 3BD/3BA, den, chef’s kitchen, roof deck CALL RICH FRAVEL, PRU FOX & ROACH 215-627-6005/215-416-2701

129 MOUNTAIN - $1,000/mo 2BD/1BA with beaut hdwd flrs, private decked yard and skylights! CALL PAM THISTLE, PRU FOX & ROACH 215-627-6005/215-247-3750

OLD CITY (6 S.Front St.) 2BR or Office combo.

Overlooks BF Bridge & Del River. High ceiling, WD, DW, GD, CA, Gas heat, Tiled bath & Kit. $1195/ mo+. 215-627-4414

CORNER 9TH & SPRING GARDENOffice/Store,1100-1200/ sq.ft.Great Locat!$1500mo+ 610-304-0087

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17TH CHESNUT: INCREDIBLE, MODERN, LGE BI-LVL, 3BDRMS, 3.5BATHS C/AC, ALL AMENITIES WD/fl. Avl 6/1. $3000+ George Gay RE, 215-563-6724

20TH & JACKSON VIC. 3bdms., newly renov., Front porch, hdwd flrs., Washer/Dryer, $975/mo.+. CALL 215-432-6222.

2901 S. SMEDLEY 2Flr - $800/mo Beautifully renovated 1BD/1BA with private deck, hdwd flrs, w/d. CALL JIM ONESTI, PRU FOX & ROACH 215-6276005/215-440-2052

ADIRONDACK LAKE, NY: OFF MARKET since 1947 former Scout Camp. 2 lake cabins 147’ lakefront $119,900 5 acre cabin on Portaferry Lake $149,900 www.LandFirstNY. com 1-888-683-2626

room for rent 13TH & SPRUCE- Parker Hotel CC. Fully Furn’d Rms, no sec. deposit. Utils & housekeeping incld. WK: $165-$203; Day: $40-$56. 215-735-2300.

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old CiTy/soCieTy hill society HiLL toWers 200-220 Locust street 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, unobstructed river view from all rooms, wood floors, 1200sf

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wAshingTon squAre Hopkinson House

10 Avenue of tHe Arts

tHe dorcHester 226 W. rittenHouse sQuAre

1 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, hardwood floors, oversized windows, designer kitchen and

Studio, high floor, oversized windows, good closet space, 573 sf $1,400

Efficiency, high floor, river and south city views, 415 sf

Studio, high floor, partial view of Rittenhouse Square, galley kitchen, 573 sf

$1,445

1 bedroom, galley kitchen, highfloor, balcony, Washington Square view

Studio, newer kitchen and bath, balcony, 528 sf

$1,540

from all rooms, 843 sf

tHe residence At tHe ritz cArLton

$3,250

baths, 1042 sf center city one 1326 spruce street

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, balcony, city skyline view from all rooms, generous living/ $2,150

entertaining space, 1200 sf

2 bedrooms plus den, wood floors, open renovated kitchen, private

Studio, wood floors, large marble bathroom, western views,

deck overlooking Pine Street, indoor parking space included, 1999 sf $2,250

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, high floor with panoramic city views, excellent

riTTenhouse squAre tHe cArLyLe 2031 Locust street

condition, 1418 sf

1 bedroom, efficient floorplan with separate living room, 514 sf $1,290 1 bedroom, large kitchen, sunrise and city views, 607 sf

$1,450

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, 270 degree city views, separate dining room, 1079 sf

$2,300

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, sunset city views, newer kitchen, 1022sf $2,400 $4,350

$4,850

1 bedroom, open kitchen, with newer appliances, balcony, w/d, walk-in

marble baths, expansive balcony, 2122 sf

closet in bedroom, 934 sf

$1,550

1 bedroom, balcony, lots of light, W/D, 928 sf

$1,590

$7,500

220 West rittenHouse sQuAre 2 bedrooms plus den, 2.5 baths, balcony, greenhouse, large living room and separate dining room, kitchen has new SS appliances, 2464 sf $5,680 WAnAmAker House 2020 WALnut street Studio on a high floor with city view, open kitchen, separate dressing

Studio, western city view, open kitchen, marble bathroom with stall

1 bedroom, high floor with unobstructed city views, large bay windows,

area, 548 sf $1,495

open kitchen, 704 sf

$1,390 $1,825

Studio, wood floors, walk-in closet, marble bathroom, beautifully

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, eat-in kitchen, large bay windows, 1200 sf $2,675

$1,525

3 bedroom plus den, 2.5 bathroom townhome on Walnut Street, 3 floors, recently

appointed kitchen, 423 sf

renovated kitchen and baths, 1900 sf

tHe bArcLAy 237 s. 18tH street cabinetry, hardwood floors throughout, 825 sf

$2,175

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, corner unit with lots of light, updated kitchen, beautiful hardwood floors throughout, 1050 sf

$3,250

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3 bedrooms, 3 baths, large and light-filled rooms throughout, designer kitchen and baths, wood floors, custom built closets, 2527 sf

$7,500

$810

grAduATe hospiTAl nAvAL sQuAre 500 AdmirAL’s WAy 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, wood floors, newer kitchen and bath, gated community with pool and health club, 1175 sf $2,125

1830 Rittenhouse Square – Rittenhouse Square professional or personal office space in boutique, doorman building, 754 sf Rittenhouse Square, 1857 sf

$975

$3,000 NNN

1601 Locust Street - 1st floor and lower level of prestigious Lanesborough condo, ideal for restaurant or offices, 4700 sf $10,000 NNN

2031 Locust street

210 West rittenhouse square

3 bedrooms, 3 baths, large livingroom, 2137 sf

Penthouse, 2 bedrooms plus den, 2.5 baths, new custom kitchen, large balcony, 2122 sf

$4,350

$1,590

250 S. 18th Street – Prime ground floor corner retail/office space on

ArT museum tHe pHiLAdeLpHiAn 2401 pennsyLvAniA Avenue Studio w/balcony, Fairmount view, open kitchen, 570 sf

$2,750

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Studio, wood floors, updated kitchen and bath, boutique building less than two blocks from Rittenhouse Square

balcony, parking space, 2229 sf

$4,200

313 soutH 18tH street

1 bedroom, updated kitchen with stainless steel appliances and cherry

wATerfronT pier 5 7 n. coLumbus bouLevArd Tri-level, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, fireplace, excellent closet space, large

WArWick 1701 Locust street shower, 412 sf

$2,800 independenCe plACe 233 - 241 s. 6tH street

2 bedrooms plus den, 2.5 bathroom penthouse, new designer kitchen,

3 bedrooms, 3 baths, large living room and separate dining room, spacious kitchen, 2137 sf

$1,600

1119 pine street

tHe rittenHouse 210 W. rittenHouse sQuAre 583 sf

$1,050

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4432 Sansom St 3rd flr. (Penn area) 1 bedroom, 1 bath, new stove, wood floors, plain apt. $695.00 $1,050.00 161 Poplar (Northern Liberties) Lg. 1 Bedroom, 1 Bath,c/a, w&d, full basement. June 5, 2012 $600-$675 2224 S. Broad St.(Wolf St) 1 Br., 1 Bath & STUDIOS, w/w carpet, w&d in basement 4 avail. $1,250-$1,275 1712 Pine St 1 Bedroom, 1 Bath, c/a, hrd. Floors, washer & dryer in the building (2 avail) $675.00 1307 N. Marshall St (Northern Liberties Area) 1 Bedroom, 1 Bath, wood floors $800.00 919 McKean St 1st flr, 1 Br., 1 Bath, yard, new kitchen new bath avail May 15, 2012 $1,450.00 130 Bread St (The Castings)Courtyard Large 1 Br., 1 Bth., c/a, w&d, hrd.flrs.

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1010 Race St Large studio in an elevator building, central air, washer & dryer 2224 S. Broad St Studios 1 Bedroom, 1 Bath, w/w carpet/tile 1307 N. Marshall St (Northern Liberties Area) Large 2 Brs., 1 Bath, w&d, central air 626 S. 10th St 1 Bth, wood flrs., fireplace, c/a,laundry in bldg. Avail June 9

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8 S. Front St. 1000sq.ft.,hrd.flrs.,new kitchen & baths, large deck great view, central air, w&d

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236 Spruce St 2 Bedrooms, 1.5 Baths, wood floors, garden, bst, w&d, avail May 15, 2012

215.627.6005 215.763.2100 215.893.9800 215.546.0550 215.232.5148 w/d a/c all util inc ....................................................................$2,600

2601 Pennsylvania Avenue #126-Oversized 2 bed, 1,210 Sq.Ft,

2429 Locust Street #420-1B/1b loft at Locust Point hi-end high

gourmet kitchen, spa bath.......................................................$1,850

ceils a/c w/d fit ctr .................................................................$1,750

2101 South Street #201-Oversized 2br soaring ceilings, new

1324 Locust Street #315-Studio @ Arts Condos Great loca Fit ctr

kitchen & bath, 1mo free .........................................................$2,475

24/7 sec util incl ......................................................................$1,025

2101 South Street #310-Large 1br skyline vuws stainless kitchen

111 S 15th Street #1801-Luxurious 1B/1b @ the Grande hi-end kit

new bath 1mo free ..................................................................$1,750

modern bath w/d a/c ..............................................................$1,995 2128 Saint James Street-4B/2.25b home in English Village finished

314 S 12th Street #1R-Restored 1 studio apt w/hw flrs, full kit, 333 S 4th Street ##3-Upgraded 1 Br apt w/hi ceilings, hw flrs, exp brk, kit w/island .......................................................................$1,675 To See the Following, Call James Labonski (215) 521-1552 2545 S Reese Street-3 Br/2 Ba, granite/SS kitchen, hw floors, 940 sq ft. ........................................................................................$1,300 1602 Spruce Street #1F - Retail Store in Rittenhouse Sq, 700 sq ft .................................................................................................$3,600 1602 Spruce Street #3F - 2 bedroom, 2 bath, modern kit, hrwd flrs, washer/dryer in unit ................................................................$2,695

SOUTh PhILADELPhIA 2038 So. 22nd Street - Two Master Suites.

New Front. Granite. Hardwoods. Finished Basement. $185,000.

2030 S Mildred Street - 2 Bedrooms. $75,000.

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215-465-3733

$900.00 $600-$675 $900.00 $1,100 $1,600.00 $1,850.00

bsemnt orig detail....................................................................$4,000 224 W Rittenhouse Square #2909-Renovated Jr 1B/1b at Dorchester, hi-end kit & bath, balcony.....................................$2,100 2018 Walnut Street #16J- Upgraded 1B/1b in Ritt Sq area, a/c, 24/7 sec, fit ctr, pool.........................................................................$2,100 To See the Following, Call Mike McCann (215) 440-8345 1811 Chestnut Street #503-N/C-1 Br/1 Ba, hw flrs, granite, SS applns, C/A, washer/dryer........................................................$1,800 2344 Perot Street-3 Br/2.5 Ba, hw flrs, Lr w/fpl, gourmet kit, SS appln, PARKING. .......................................................................$2,950 2408 S Lee Street-3 Br/1 Ba w/enclosed porch, hw flrs, newer kit, granite ctrs ..............................................................................$1,095

To See the Following, Call Johanna Loke (215) 893-9800

2901 S Smedley Street #2ND FL-1 Br/1 Ba unit w/deck, hw flrs,

219 S 18th Street #410 - Large 1 bedroom with south views, avail-

updated kit & bth, washer/dryer .................................................$800

able 7/7....................................................................................$2,300

530 W Girard Avenue #4-Bi-level unit 3 Br/3 Ba + den, Lr w/exp brk, Chef’s kitchen. .........................................................................$2,400

To See the Following, Call John Featherman (215) 790-5221 To See the Following, Call Suzin Kline (215) 440-7505

backyard a/c w/d ....................................................................$2,500

50 S 16th Street #4407- Celestial 1 BR/Den/2 BA condo totally

1420 Locust Street #21F-2B/2b @ Academy Hse upgrd unit balcony

furnished w/river view.............................................................$6,895

WalnUt & 23rD WalnUt & 23rD loCUst & 21st CHestnUt & 20tH WalnUt & 22nD

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Bright Studio, HW floors, Great closet space Large 2BR, HW floors, in Courtyard Bldg Bright Studio’s in Brownstone, Closet Galore!

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sprUCe & 13tH Bright, large, Studio’s. HW floors, Laundry loMbarD & 9tH Fab 1BR Bi-level, HW floors, C/A, Private entrance Walnut 2Bd's,2 hardwood, laundry room Studio, W/W, Laundry $770-995 sprUCe & 16tH& 23rd 1 &Cozy Locust 1Bd's, laundry, Mod&2BR, 2BA, W/W,heat C/A, incl.

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$750 $1200 $750- $800 $1200 $900 $825- $875 $1050 $750 $1375

$850-950 Pine & 21st 1Bd's, hardwood, heat incl., yard $700-1000 Pine & 22nd 1 & 2Bd, hardwood, heat incl. $750-1100 Lombard & 23rd 1 All &2Bd, A/C 1BR’s, HW floors, bainbriDGe & 5tH NEWbi-level, Ultra Mod W/D, C/A, Deck. $875-1000 $1200- $1300 Chestnut & 20th Ultra mod See! 1Bd's, C/A, great location A Must $875-1700 Lombard & 19th Newly renov, mod studio, & 2Bd's $770-995 Walnut & 23rd 1 &12Bd's, hardwood, laundry $800-850 $575-1000 Locust & C/A, 21st heat Studios & 1Bd's, laundry, heat incl.

Broad & Spruce Mod 1Bd's, W/D, incl. $850-950 Pine & 21st 1Bd's, kitchen. hardwood, heatthe incl., yard $850-995 Lombard 9th 1BdGreat & 2Bd, w/d, hardwood, laundry See pennsylvania & &26tH Studio’s w/Eat-in Art Museum from your $700-1000 Pine & 22nd 1 & 2Bd, hardwood, heat incl.

Pine & 9th 2Bd's, h/w W/D & 23rd 1 &2Bd, bi-level, $995-1100 $750-$775 frontfloors, steps. $750-1100 Lombard A/C $995location $875-1000 Chestnut & 20thlaundry Ultra mod C/A, great Spruce 1-1/2 bath, tHe breWery: 28th&&12th parrish2Bd,Fab, Mod 1BRbi-level, Bi-level, W/W, C/A, 1Bd's, W/D, PARKING!!!! $1100 $875-1700 & 19th Newly renov, mod$995-1350 studio, 1 & 2Bd's Spruce & 16th Old World,Lombard 1 & 2Bd's, hardwood $800-850 Broad & Spruce Mod 1Bd's, W/D, C/A, heat incl. $950-1750 Art Area Ultra Mod 1 & 3Bd's, W/D, Deck, Parking $850-995 Lombard & 9th 1Bd & 2Bd, w/d, hardwood, laundry $995-1100 &Mod 9th h/w floors, W/D $825-1375 9xx n. 3rD New1 Super 12Bd's, & 2 BR, HW floors, Stainless steel appliance Old City Fab ultra mod &Pine 2Bd's, deck $995 Spruce & 12th 2Bd, 1-1/2 bath, bi-level, laundry University City 3Bd, bath, totally $1700 w/2Granite, W/Drenovated in unit. PARKING! Across $1950 from Park! $995-1350 Spruce & 16th Old World, 1 & 2Bd's, hardwood Spring Garden Collonade-Extremely Nice $950-1750 Art Area Ultra ModStudio 1 & 3Bd's, W/D, Deck,$700 Parking $825-1375 City Fab ultraC/A mod 1 & 2Bd's, deck $600-675 Q.V. 3rd & Bambridge 1Old & 2Bd's, W/W, $1950 University City 3Bd, bath, totally Greenbrier: offGarden Main street Affordable 1BR & 22BR’s, Parking! $375 $695-$850 Spring & 19thCute Studio, hardwood, Heat incl. W/W,renovated $700 Spring Garden Collonade-Extremely Nice Studio Fairmount & 18th Mod 1Bd, $600-675 Q.V.C/A, 3rd W/D & Bambridge 1 & 2Bd's, W/W,$625 C/A $375 Spring Yard, Garden & 19th Studio, hardwood,$600 Heat incl.

Mt. Vernon & 21st Gret Studio, Laundry $625 Fairmount 18th Mod 1Bd, C/A, W/D $700 sprUCe & 16tH & 20th 1Bd, Parking Spot $200 Wallace parquet floors,&yard $600 Mt. Vernon & 21st Gret Studio, Yard, Laundry $250 soUtH & Aspen 26tH & 26th 1Bd,Garage W/W, Wallace laundry & 20th 1Bd, parquet floors, yard$600 $700

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SOCIETY $340,000 original restored features, pine floors, and a $650,000 Fitness center, roof top Beautiful 739 and sun condo plethora of charm and character on a friendly pool, garage, security Mustin Ln, filled bi-level 2BD/2BA Villanova Renovated Cape with soaring ceilings, wood parquet floors, Efficiencies, on 1.2 acre 1&2 5+BD, 4.5BA, and wonderful stainless kitchen master suite tree-lined block! $1,000,000 Bedrooms available. with balcony!

524 Christian #C $637,500 825 Beechwood Dr., $150,000 Lower Merion $350,000 Rarely-offered 4BD/3.5BA townhome in a 3 BD, 1.5 BA, 3 car garage ART MUSEUM $395,000 gated community with an au-pair suite, garage • 2601 Pennsylvania Ave #801 - At Museum Large 1BD, 1BA Condo, $216,700 870 N. 401Pennock BRodman Street$340,000 Hidden River Rd, • 1108 - Washington Sq West parking, fireplace, hardwood flooring, stainless Penn Valley Gorgeous Row w/2 Car Garage, $1,100,000 Wonderful4BD,2BD/1.5BA with garage, deck, 2.5BA, on • 844 N. 28th St - Art Museum Area steel appliances.

1.81 Acre, wooded Corner Lot, 100% Occupied!master $500,000 lot. $600,000, granite and stainlessTriplex, kitchen, gorgeous Rnt $3,900/mo • 1833 Spruce Street - Rittenhouse Square 3 BD, Renovated Bi-level Condos $2,650/mo bedroom suite, built•in wet bar.

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$560,000

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$495,000

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$925,000

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427 views, Queen2/2 St-+Beautiful story, 2 bedroom, 1 bath trinity, & garden. $1400 parking, 4bdrms, 3.5H/W, bths,EIK garden, 2 1/4bths, fp & lrg garden. $445,000 details, 225 Catharine St - Beautiful 3 BR + Den, 4 BA,details, H/W, details GraniteREDUCED ktchn, grdn & 2 car parking. $3500

2107 Bainbridge Incredible 3 + media/2.5 Deck & Garden $749,000

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720 S. Front Street River Views + great real roof garden. Truly a Jewel!

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795 S. 3rd Street

Prominent corner property with renowned Dimitri’s Restaurant as 1st flr tenant + two 1 large bedroom apartments. $599,000

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812 S. Howard Street Q.V. great rehab, 2 bdrms, lrg bth, fp hrdwd flrs t/o & garden REDUCED $289,000

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Between 6th & 7th off of Fitzwater 3 Lots $350,000

1235-47 Crease Street - Great Investment opportunity, 8200 sf.

Warehouse (90x100) $349,900

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335 Christian

128 Pemberton St

4 /3.5 2 Car Parking

Multi 5/4 + Deck & Garden $649,900

RED $549,900

New 229 Fulton Street C Concordia Place - Lovely pristine hm w/ 2 bdrms, 2 bths, hrdwd flrs, fp, deck & lovely private garden. $339,900

753-757 S. Marshall St

2136 W. Passyunk Girard Estate Area 1st Floor Commercial space (Dr’s Office) + 2 bdrm apartment w/ separate entrance, 2228 sq. ft & shared driveway. $269,900

623 S 6th 3 Condos 1/1 + Deck, TA From $299,000 1 SOLD

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129 Manton Street

Incredibly well kept 3 bdrm, 1.5 bth hm w/ semi-finished basement, side and rear yard. $279,900

2107 Bainbridge A true WOW house, ultra modern, to die for kitchen & 2.5 spa bths, 3 bdrms, & media rm, deck & garden $665,000

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732 S. 3rd St - Meredith School District, 3 great outdoor spaces, 2 fp’s, hrdwd flrs t/o, 3 bdrms + den/family rm, great kitchen &2.5 bths, lovely garden courtyard & 2 fab. decks. $575,000

744 S. 4th Street- Meredith School District - Queen Village fabulous loft like space. 1600sf., huge rooms, high ceilings, 2 lrg bdrms + a huge deck and your own private entrance. $2150

Terrific 3 BR/1BA home w/hrdwd flrs & central air. REDUCED $325,000

1210 S. 3rd Street Beautiful 4 bdrm, 2 bth hm with high ceilings, hrdwd flrs, tile, granite and outdoor space. REDUCED $350,000

830 S. 2nd Street Magnificent gated crtyd hm w/prkg, 4 bdrms, den & family rm, hrdwd flrs, 2 fp’s, 2 juliet balconies, garden & roof top patio. $799,900

725 Kimball Street

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208 Watkins Street 132 Manton Street - Lovely 3 story 1905 E. Moyamensing Beautiful large open & spacious hm w/ 2 bdrms + den, 1.5 bths, A rare find! Porch front hm w/4 BRs, fp, & nice yard.

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1352 South Street Unit 214

Fabulous 1 bdrm condo, 1200 sq. ft, open & dramatic, 15ft ceilings, hrdwd flrs t/o, stain-

506 Catharine Street

1321 S. 2nd Street

426 Federal Street 3 story, 4 bdrm home on nice block, large eat-in kitchen, laundry room & side yard. Needs some TLC. $199,900

2001 Catharine St.

Beautiful corner property w/ garage, 2700

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Beautiful 3 bdrm, 2.5 Great commercial Space, 800 sq. ft, approved for indoor/outdoor seating  Carestio Adele Gerngross & Mike rehabbed last yr. Currently a coffee shop with $1200. hr. conceirge. bath.

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Independently owned and operated member of the Prudential Real Estate Affiliates, Inc. Beautiful 3 bdrm, 2.5 bth hm w/hrdwd flrs t/o, fp, vaulted ceilings, finished basement & roof Jeff Kauffman Tory Gargano deck $2,650

Lee Ann Hartl ey Deidre less Quinn steel appliances, granite counter tops Ivon & Cowell

1020 S. 2nd Street 3rd Flr.

Very nice 2 bdrm, 2 bth apartment w/ hrdwd flrs, granite kitchen, central air and washer dryer. $1700

rented

744 S. 4th Street

rented

Fab. loft like space, 1600 sq, ft., 2 lrg bdrms, private entrance & huge deck. $2,150

601 W. Montgomery Avenue Unit 308

Spacious 2 bedroom, 2 bath condo with hrdwd flrs, washer, dryer, central air, balcony & parking. $1800

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REDUCED $469,000 776 S. 2nd St - Very nice 2 Bedroom, 1 Bath Bi level apartment w/ CA + Lg Deck. $1350 810 S. 3rd St –Beautiful large 3 BR + Den home with hardwood floors t/o, yard + parking. $2500 1119 E. Palmer St –N/C 3 BR + Media Rm, 3 BA, H/W t/o, Fp, Lg Garden + 3 car parking. $2500 400 Spring Garden-N.C Commercial Space Available-800 to 1600 Sq Ft. Call for Details

$3,999,000

The National Terrific Designer Unit, beautiful details, 3 bdrms, 2 bths, hrdwd flrs, deck & prkg. $449,900

714-22 Bainbridge St -13 Condos with Garage Parking - 2/2- Gardens & Decks. FROM $379,900

Great Rental

228 West Washington Square

New York Upper East Side lifestyle at Philadelphia prices. Cosmopolitan, Classic Townhouse directly on Society Hills Wash. Square Park. 4 bdrms, + family rm + library, 6 bths, elevator, garden, deck and parking.

1923-1925-2021-2023 Parrish N/C 3 to 4 BR TA From $469,000

111 Federal Street - Beautiful home, 2800 sq ft, 3 bdrms + den, 2.5 bths, garden, deck, garage & basement, tax abatement. $525,000

Large, extra wide 20x77 corner property, Builders home, 3/2.5, hrdwd flrs, 2 fp’s, media rm, terrace, deck, garden & garage $414,999

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Open Sun 2-4, 8 Rex Ave, #5 Chestnut Hill - $342,000

RESERVE @ PACKER PARK 3507 TREVI COURT This Home Has it ALL!!

Gorgeous interior corner home/ extra long driveway w/ additional parking pad, beautiful sideyard leading to the best backyard sanctuary in Philadelphia!

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This lovely three bedroom/ two and half bathroom Rex Court condominum offers one of Chestnut Hill’s best locations! The spacious living room has a working fireplace and opens to a beautiful courtyard ready for outdoor entertaining. This fine home has hardwood floors throughout, a modern kitchen w/ granite counters and backsplash, stainless appliances, kit island, ceramic floor, and large dining area with custom built-in shelves. Upstairs, the master bedroom has an updated full bath with two additional lightfilled bedrooms and another full bath. This lovingly maintained and updated home is full of conveniences including underground parking right outside a private entrance, laundry w/ new washing machine and dryer, and central air w/ new compressor.

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204 W Washington Square #6NW-Spectacular 3 Br/3 Ba unit, bonus rm,wide open Lr/Dr,tx abat & Valet PRKING $1,395,000 504 Delancey Street-Renovated 4 Br/2.5 Ba w/refin pine flrs,3 wd-burning fpls,newer kit & bths. $775,000 16 Saint James Court-Gorgeous 2BR+office/2bth home on cobblestone Street. PRKG avail $544,900 338 S 3rd St-2 Br/2 Ba home offers a den,sun dk,wd flrs t/o,mstr suite,wd-burning fp,C/A $525,000 42 Saint James Court #26-Bi-level 2 BR/2 Ba condo/soaring ceilings,wd parquet flrs,SS kit,mstr suite $475,000 233 S 6th Street #606-Well priced one bedroom w/alcove at Independence Place,1.5 bath,balcony $339,000 200 Lombard Street #643-1 Br condo in Abbott Sq,bright space,bclny,fitness center in bldg & PARKING $235,000

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512 S Front Street-Terrific investment opportunity,River & Park Views,zoned C2.

722 W Norris Street-Investment opportunity by TempleU. 5BR/2bth. Rented thru 6/12

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715 S Bancroft Street-10 Sold 1 Left Platinum New constr Single home w/2-CAR PRKG & Tax Abate 752 S 19th Street #3B-3 BR/2 Ba flat w/private deck off LR,hwflr’s,kit w/SS & granite,hi ceilings

$399,000

812 S 21st Street-Updated 3 BR/2.5 ba end of row home w/sun-filled LR,hw flrs,fin bsmt,deck.

$350,000

1516 Catharine ##4-Great 1 Br condo,hw flrs,SS appliances,hi ceilings,washer/dryer included.

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2316 Delancey Pl-Luxurious 4BR/4+BA townhome. Lots of space. Elevator, double ovens.

2504 Delancey Street-Perfection! Gorgeous 5BR/3BA townhome. Really roomy. Shows off superbly.

1515 Locust Street #900-Gorgeous 3BR/3BA condo. Generously-sized. High ceilings. $1,195,000 317 Vine Street #506-See this luxurious 2BR/2+BA condo. Pantry. Ultimate traditional charm! $799,900 275 S 19th Street #2ND FL-2200sqft full flr w/elev opening into res 2br+ study & 2b windows facing SW $795,000 1515 Locust Street #501-Exceptional 2BR/2+BA condo. Security system. Elevator, high ceilings. $725,000 1901 Walnut Street #13F-Gracious 2BR/2+BA condo on a corner lot. Pantry, breakfast room. $625,000 212 Race Street #2C-Beautiful 2-bedroom condo. High ceilings, central air. Charm and comfort! $499,000 500 Admirals Way #312-Naval Sq Condo PRKG 2BR/2B beaut finishes taxabate pool fitness low mo fees $489,000 111 S 15th Street #P204-2BR/2BA PENTHOUSE, Views, Gourmet Kitchen, Marble Baths, Doorman $449,000 111 S 15th Street #2301-Stunning oversized 2BR/2BA, Views, Gourmet kitchen, Marble baths, Doorman $425,000 500 Admirals Way #203-Naval Sq Condo PRKG 2BR/2B beaut finishes taxabate pool fitness low mo fees $418,500 115 Brown Street #B-Deluxe, 3BR/3BA corner-lot condo. Security system. High ceilings. $415,900 1900 Hamilton Street #801-2BR at the Tivoli. HW flrs, S/S&Gran Kitch. Hi-end finishes. PRKG $399,900 2401 Pennsylvania Ave #4A4-3BR/2.5bth light filled condo. Art Museum vus from lrge balcony $399,000 104 Church Street #4-Bi-lev 1 Br/1.5 ba,exp brk wall,kit w/granite/SS,gorgeous ba w/stall shower $375,000 1901 Walnut Street #8C-Bring your architect. 1441 sf co-op has C/A+ wd&marble flrs pets ok $349,000 1717 Spring Garden, #Unit A-Gated parking,extra large 1 Br,modern bth,Old World Charm Red’D- $299,900 250 S 13th Street #5A-Fantastic 1 br w/ gorgeous grmt kit h/w flrs abundant light & high ceilings $264,900 2001 Hamilton Street #2115-Deluxe corner 2BR Condo, 935 SF, PARKING, Doorman $249,000 1626 Spruce Street #4-1 Br/1 Ba condo,this is a corner unit,kit opened up to LR,W/D in unit. $247,500 721 Melon Place #D-Renov. Light-filled 3BR condo w/PRKG & Tax Abte. Pet Friendly $190,000 1010 Race Street #7G-Fantastic condo 1 Br/1 Ba + den,hrdwd flrs,exp brick,convenient location. $149,900 3900 Ford Road #11S-2 Bedroom,1.5 Bath, C/A,PARKING,terrace,1230 sq ft. $142,000

rITTEnHOUSE SqUArE 1710 Pine Street-4 Br/4 Ba + 2 Half Ba,1 Car Grg Prkng,DR,den,office,sun dk,rf dk,fin bsmt.

1901 Walnut Street #13C-2 Br/2.5 Ba co-op @ Rittenhouse Pl,formal LR/DR,modern kit,hw flrs t/o.

417 S 26th Street-Adorable 2Br/1.5 Ba w/gated crtyd,hrwd flrs,Juliet blcny,SS & granite kit.

1702 Lombard Street-Fantastic 3 story 3br/2b w/b fp, h/w fl, great kit & lrg grdn + fin bsemt 1629 Waverly Street-Lovely 2 BR Trinity with lots of light, brick patio 1624 Spruce Street #3R-Great 1 Br apartment w/granite kitchen,hw floors,lrg Br,central air.

37 S 20th Street #8B-Penthouse condo 1Br/1Ba,hw flrs,SS applns,granite ctrs,tx abat.

35 Hamilton Circle-Deluxe 1,675+ sq. ft 3 bed, 2.5 bath home, PARKING, private patio 2715 Swain Street-New kitchen, stainless and granite, new bath, h/w floors, c/a, patio.

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$899,000 $789,900 $679,000 $639,000 $575,000 $550,000 $549,000 $469,900 $459,000 $425,000 $409,900 $349,900 $349,000 $341,999 $325,000 $295,000 $234,900

WASHInGTOn SqUArE WEST 903 Clinton ##2F-Beautiful 2 Br/2 Ba condo w/fpl,granite kit w/SS applns,Parking Available. $525,000 1221 South Street #1223C-2 bedroom w/PARKING,balcony,granite & SS,lrg kit island,custom closets. $289,500 $419,000 1008 Spruce Street #1M-1 Br/1.5 Ba condo w/hw flrs,fpl,cstm kit,cstm ba,crtyd,pool & deck. $214,900 $299,000 $559,900

870 N 28th Street #113-Beautiful bi-level condo 1 Br/1 Ba,fpl,hw flrs,new ba,gated PARKING

$209,000

1430 N 30th Street-3 Br/2 Ba,C/A,wood flrs, restored & renovated porch front home

$169,900

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$627,500 $499,000

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$125,000 743 E Passyunk Avenue-3 BR/2 full Ba,open Lr w/fpl,open kit,hw & tile t/o,garden + garage.

733 S 2nd Street-Pristine 4 Br/2.5 Ba,new kit,hrwd flrs,2 Fp’s,formal DR,bsmt,deck & grdn.

852 Independence Court-Luxury 3BR/3+BA townhome offering an inviting feeling. Security system.

848 S Swanson Street-3 Br/3.5 Spa Ba,hw flrs,gas fpl,upgraded kit,fin bsmt,roof deck & garage. $2,950,000 719 S Philip Street-Bright 3 Br/2.5 Ba home w/Deeded Prkng,cook’s kit,hrwd flrs,fp,grdn & deck. $1,980,000 201 Queen Street #2-Bi-level unit1 st flr & lower lev w/2 full suites,3 full Ba,deeded PARKING. 104 Catharine Street-Duplex,Queen Village,2 bi-lev units,1 w/2 br/1.5 ba,1 w/3 br/2 ba,2C grg.

114 Fitzwater Street-Adorable 2 BR/2 Ba home w/rf dk,den,grdn,SS kit,pine flrs,orig features t/o 759 S Marvine Street-Sun-filled 2 Br/2 Ba w/oak flrs, patio, roof deck, updated kit & mstr suite.

1001 S 3rd Street-4BR/3.5bth new const w/Tax Abatement. Spacious. Nice finishes $1,695,000 822 S. Swanson-Single fam used as duplex,3 bdrm,3.5 ba,C/A hrwd flrs,2 dks,garden. $539,900 720 S Front Street-2 Br + den,dressing rm,spa Ba,hrwd flrs,Eik,roof garden w/river views. $495,000 924 S 2nd Street-Historically certified 4 sty home,5 Br/1.5 Ba,basement,attic,nice yard. $489,000 336 Pemberton Street-Lovely twnhse in Q.V w/parking,roof deck,2 fpls,2 Br/2 Ba,garden/TV $309,000 725 Kimball-Terrific 3 Br/1 Ba home w/new kit,roof,hw flrs,4 yr old HVAC system. $289,900 710 S Leithgow Street-Townhouse on tree-lined Queen Village Street,all upgraded.

725 Earp Street-Cute 2 BR/1.5 Bath with finished basement, HW floors and nice sized patio

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2230 Brandywine Street-Renovated 3 BR/2.5 Ba home w/rf dk,oak hw flrs,GE SS kitchen,mstr suite.

110 S Front St #600-Lux 2 Br condo w/flr to ceiling wndws,hw flrs,granite ctrs/SS appln + Prkng $1,199,000 33 N 3rd Street ##3-Unique 2 Br/2 Ba Old City Flat,high ceil,den/study,wd flrs,gas fpl. $799,000 4335 Pine Street-Lovely & Spacious single in CATCHMENT. 5BR/2bth, offc, Family Rm 813 N Orianna Street #A-4 Br/3 spa Ba,fin bsmt,European chefs kit,muti dks,grdn/outdoor spc,tx abat $599,900 317 Vine ##111-2 Br/2 Ba w/hw flrs,ceramic tile bths,granite countertops,SS applns,parking $482,500 4525 Locust Street-Beautiful 5BR +Den/2.5bth twin on quiet block in CATCHMENT 113 Bread St ##3B2-3 Br/2 Ba,hw flrs,granite counters,Juliet blcny,GARAGE PARKING + tax abat. $449,900 45 University Mews-3BR+ office/den, 2bth TH w/GARAGE PARKING in CATCHMENT. C/A 113 N Bread ##7F-Lovely 2 br/2 ba condo Lr/Dr,kit,granite,brkfst bar,cherry wd flrs + blcny $445,000 51 N Front Street #503-Penthouse Studio w/River/ Bridge views,exp brk,hw flrs,new Kit & Ba $144,500 47 University Mews-Contemporary 2BR/1.5bth TH w 2-Car PRKG. Deck & Amazing Light

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$625,000 817 S 5th Street #1, 2, 3-Hi-End New Constr. Sustainable 3 full-flr flats w/elev. MEREDITH $575,000 300 Salter Street-New Construction in Queen Village - 3Br 2.5b w/ den & GARAGE, Tax Abated

2001 Catharine Street-Corner property 3 Br + den.2.5 Spa Ba,fpl,cherry flrs,dk,grdn + fin bsmt.

$499,000 $475,000 $355,000 $265,000

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1818 S Broad Street-Grand 4BR/2.5bth w/family rm. & office. Extraordinary Character 13028 Trina Drive-Fantastic 3 Br/2.5 Ba w/yard & garage,deck,fin bsmt & mstr suite 152 Tree Street-Lovely corner home w/PARKING,open flr plan, Modern kit,hw flrs,deck off Br 2725 S 9th Street-Upgraded home w/rear PRKNG, 2 Br + office, fin bsmt, SS applns & wd flrs.

4334 Shelmire Avenue-Pleasing 3-bedroom townhome. Central air, ceiling fans. Garage.

5636 Thomas-3 Bedroom porch front row,nice convenient location,needs updating.

1236 N Alden Street-4 Br,2 story,nice original character,freshly painted,pergo flrs.

5927 Springfield Avenue-Very spacious 3 bedroom,garden,patio,garage.

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827 N 20th St Reduced! 3BR/2.5BA, C/A, S/S kitchen, 7 years young Finished Basement and Garage 2301 Cherry St #12A Spacious 2BR/2.5BA with River and City Views, Garage Parking, Private Balcony 1608 Addison St 3 Story with 2 Lg BR/2BA, Wood burning fi replace, gourmet kitchen 326 S Smedley St Stunning Rehab on quaint block, Great Natural light, Pristine condition

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1207 S Broad St Restored Brownstone mansion, 4BR/4.5BA, formal LR &DR, Newer Kitchen, Multi parking and garden 251 S 25th Street Diamond Residence – Elegant Modern Home on the Park – All New Construction – 215-582-7909

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NEW CONSTRUCTION 2643 Tulip St 3BR/2.5BA, HW Floors, and Walk out balcony $179,000 525 Fitzwater #11 Abbotts Court.com 2BR/1.5BA, Gated Courtyard, Gourmet Kitchens, hardwood floors, Cash flow Opportunity OPEN HOUSE $229-253K 1514 Christian St Unit B Large 2BR/2BA OPEN HOUSE $299,000 1514 Christian St Unit A Large 2BR/2.5 home in Graduate Hospital OPEN HOUSE $325,000 2115 Carpenter St #A Bi-Level 2BR/2BA townhouse style with private rear deck $325,000 1217 Mount Vernon St #2 Modern 3 Story 3BR/3BA with Private Parking, 10-Yr abatement OPEN HOUSE $380,000 1007 S Fairhill St 3BR/2.5BA Home in Queen Village, HW Floors, Deluxe Kitchen OPEN HOUSE $400,000 4417 Saint David’s St New Construction townhomes just a short walk away from downtown Manayunk with amazing Features $450,000

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309-13 Arch St #402 1br/1ba 2 LOFTED SPACES IN POPULAR Hoopskirt lofts, Low fees and abatement thru 2017 $274,900 320 Race St Unit D Distinctive 2BR/2BA condo w Hi Ceilings, Oversized windows, Exp.Brick, City Views OPEN HOUSE $349,000 309-313 Arch St #507 1BR/2BA, tax abatement, lots of light, HW floors, open layout and Parking behind the building OPEN HOUSE $359,000 1215-21 Wood St #3 2BR/2BA with 2 Car Parking, Convenient to Temple University $425,000 112 Elfreths Aly Historic one of a kind home on cobble st, 3BR/2BA, yard, Fireplace OPEN HOUSE $629,900 SOCIETY HILL / WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST

250 S 13th St 2G Large 2 Rom 1 bath condo with high ceiling, huge walk-in closet and great light OPEN HOUSE $175,000 250 S 13th St 4F 1BR/1BA condo with High ceilings, Hardwood floors, Large closet and great light OPEN HOUSE $267,900 250 S 13th St 3E Large fully renovated 1BR/1BA Corner condo with high ceilings, lots of windows and great light OPEN HOUSE $269,000 1318 Addison St fully renovated 2BR/1BA, dedicated street parking, HW floors, fi replace, deck, patio $277,900 540 Cypress St Quaint completely upgraded 2BR/1.5 BA on cobblestone Street OPEN HOUSE $374,900 1111 Locust St #2G High Ceilings, Huge Kitchen, Lrg Living space, Parking available Every Thursday 5-6:00PM OPEN HOUSE $379,999 250 S 13th #10D 2BR/2BA, Corner unit with lots of light, HW Floors, High Ceilings and PARKING OPEN HOUSE $389,900 250 S 13th St 11D Spacious 2BR/2BA with living room, Dining room, Newly renovated kitchen, lots of light and high ceilings OPEN HOUSE $440,000 736-38 Pine St #J 3BR/2BA Bi-Level condo in restored Victorian Mansion with Parking, 3 Yrs tax abate OPEN HOUSE $575,000 238 Spruce St Georgian style 3BR/3BA home blending historic charm with modern comfort OPEN HOUSE $690,000 241 S. 6th St. #2002 2br/2ba, Den, Beautifully renovated, move-in condition 1,788SF $739,000 220 Locust St. 6B REDUCED! 3B/3B, Spectacular River Views $879,000 250 S 13th St 14B Incredible 3BR/2BA Penthouse with Large Landscaped terrace with extraordinary Views OPEN HOUSE $899,000 1111 Locust St #10F Corner Penthouse Views of River, Maple flooring, 2 terraces, tall windows Every Thursday 5-6:00PM OPEN HOUSE $1,046,000 507 S Philip St 4BR/3.5BA, garage, 4 stories, elevator, 3 decks $1,119,000 520 Delancey St Gorgeous 1820 Mansion ìon Cherished Stî $1,349,000 QUEEN VILLAGE/ BELLA VISTA / GRADUATE HOSPITAL / SOUTH PHILA.

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1516 Catharine St #5 Awesome Value: Perfect alternative to renting, or a turnkey investment, Great condo in a Great Location $125,000 705 Pierce St spacious Rehab, 1BR + bonus room, CA, garage, SS appliances $149,900 1728 S. 18th St. 5br/3.5ba 1680sqft w/HW fl rs, security sys, SS appl, & granite counters $200,000 1007 S Chadwick St 2BR/1BA renovated open floor plan HW Flrs throughout, updated kitchen, Lrg Yard, $239,900 1721 Webster Webster St Tree Lined Block, Hardwood floors, Fireplace, Patio space OPEN HOUSE $249,900 708 S Perth St B Unique Property with Large Back patio, remodeled Kitchen and bathroom Saturday 1:30-2:30 OPEN HOUSE $275,000 770 S Front St #109 Modern 2BR/2BA located in a secure courtyard offers a modern kitchen, C/A and more $299,900 727-29 S 7th St #2F Spacious 2BR/1BA Newly painted and upgraded, HW Flrs, High Ceiling, Lg Deck Saturday 3-4PM OPEN HOUSE $264,900 422 Dickinson St Brand New massive and gorgeous renovation, 3BR/2.5BA, Private rear garden OPEN HOUSE $309,000 735 Montrose St Charming 3BR Featuring Large rear Patio on one the best blocks $340,000 613 S 26th St Spacious 3BR/1BA home offering great layout, Large kitchen, C/A and Patio for Entertaining $349,900 1020 S 18th St Large 3BR/2.5BA with HW floors, SS appliances, granite, Master Suite, Large Yard $355,000 617 Reed St #200 Fully renovated 2BR Condo 1 Car garage, Extra storage, Must See! $399,900 935 E Moyamensing Queen Village Gem $389,900 1839 Christian St 5 yr old home 3/BR/2.5BA, Great layout and tax abatement $415,000 1125 Christian St Gorgeous, Spacious, Large Backyard, Large Bedrooms, Granite and Marble Baths Saturday 12-1PM OPEN HOUSE $405,000 1432 Catharine St New Construction, 4BR/4.5BA with 2 Car Parking, Roof deck, Amazing Master suite and more OPEN HOUSE $625,000 760 S 2nd St 4BR/3.5BA, 2 Car Parking, Terrace, Roofdeck, 2 fi replaces, HW Floors, Custom details and built-ins Saturday 12-2 and Sunday 1:30-3:30 OPEN HOUSE $849,900 2401-25 Washington Ave Very Large Corner Lot on North side of Washington Ave close to CHOP $2,190,000 NORTHERN LIBERTIES / FISHTOWN / NORTH PHILADELPHIA 652 N 8th Street new Construction 2BR/2.5BA Modern kitchen and 2 Car parking 425 W George St 4BR/1BA renovated in 2005, Great price for Northern Liberties 813-817 N. 5th St #202 Amazing 1900sq ft 2 bedroom plus office loft condo with parking!

OPEN HOUSE $269,900 $269,000 $284,000

COMMERCIAL/INVESTMENT 1300-1302 Spruce St 4000+ SF, Commercial Retail Space. Ideal Use: Bank, Restaurant, Professional Offices – Add’tl 2000 + SF Basement (2) Car Parking 6011-13 Market St DBL Wide Commercial Reduced 1609 E Passyunk Commercial property on the Square, Rare Opportunity 1246-56 S 17th St Over 17,000 SF of Prime Real Estate Ripe for Development 301 MacDade Blvd Auto Repairs Business including all Equipment, Great visibility on busy MacDade Blvd 305 Cherry St Rare Commercial opportunity in Old City

$40SF $299,000 $435,000 $650,000 $695,000 $799,900

SURROUNDING AREAS Kensington – 2031 N Howard St Vacant Lot, Ready to Build 18x62 $20,000 Fishtown – 2231 Coral St Vacant Lot $26,000 West Phila – 5709 Malcolm St Investment Opportunity and short Sale Reduced $30,000 Kensington – 2823 N Mutter St Great Investment: Well maintained 2BR with newer furnace, roof and updated electric and plumbing $30,000 Point Breeze – 2220 Manton St Lot on excellent block in the Point Breeze neighborhood, Skyline View! $34,900 West Phila – 926 N Fallon St 4BR/1BA Not a Short Sale, Not Bank-Owned – A nice home in move in condition $37,900 Fishtown – 1543 N Front St Lot attractive for Investors and developers $47,600 West Phila- 231 N 52nd St Large house, spacious kitchen, separate dining room, high ceilings $60,000 Hunting Park – 1619 W Butler St Duplex, Rent Ready, Great Cash Cow Potential $60,000 Point Breeze – 1510 S 20th St Investor Special! Large 4BR Shell in rapidly developing area $60,000 Port Richmond – 3156 Tilton St Gread 2BR/1BA home on nice block in heart Port Richmond $60,000 Kensington – 110 Thompson St Lot $65,000 North Phila – 1826 W Thompson St Opportunity to develop on nice size lot $65,000 Fishtown - 2116 E Lehigh Reduced! Tenant Occupied, Great Investment $70,500 Delaware Co – 216 Mulberry St DBL Wide Corner property with Parking $94,900 Fishtown - 2342 E Harold St Newly renovated, 2BR1BA, Extended kitchen $109,000 Southbrook Park- 1922 S 28th St 3BR renovated home with front yard, fi nished basement, central air rear deck and driveway $169,900 Fishtown – 2652 Memphis St Recently renovated 3BR/1.5BA features a new kitchen and bath, HW Floors and C/A $169,900 West Phila – 110 N 49th St Triplex, Great Option for owner-occupant looking for tenants to cover mortgage $175,000 Point Breeze – 1443 S Bancroft Totally renovated 2BR/1BA Home OPEN HOUSE $189,900 Oak Lane – 1245 Medary Ave Lovely large Victorian Home in move in condition, Featured in many design magazines Saturday 11-2PM OPEN HOUSE $199,500 East Passyunk – Gorgeous 2BR/1BA on quiet street, Updated, Hardwood fl rs, granite counters SS appl, all newer systems $218,500 Germantown – 6360 Sherman St 4BR, HW floors, Spacious Living room, Orig molding, Hi ceilings, Yard OPEN HOUSE $225,900 Fishtown – 1301 N Front St D 2BR/2BA at Thompson St Lofts, Orig Ireonwork, Wxp Brick & beams, fi replace, Spa-like baths $259,000 East Falls – 3904 Henry Ave 5BR/3.5BA Stone Colonial, formal LR & DR, Private fenced in yard OPEN HOUSE $475,000 Quakertown - Haycock/Lake Nockamixon Area – 2141 Mountain View Dr Gorgeous 8 Yr old 4 BR home nestled on private wooded 10.5 acre lot very close to Lake Nockamixon $499,900 Merion Park – 523 Putnam Rd Highly sought after area, Impeccably maintained with beautiful Stone Cape $585,000 Fishtown – 159-61 Richmond St 4 Car Garage complement all the unique characteristics of this Awesome home $650,000 Fishtown – 2666-72 Coral St Pub with 3 apts, up to 20 Car parking lot $895,000

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ART MUSEUM / logAn SqUARE river’s edge

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Townhome style condo with 3 bedrooms and 2.5 baths, beautifully appointed chef’s kichen, designer master bathroom, roof deck

The PhiLadeLPhiaN

1778 sf

The PhiLadeLPhiaN

$379,900

The WarWick Parc riTTeNhouse

1,397 sf

$210,000

Parc riTTeNhouse

570 sf

$159,900

1Br, balcony, wood floors, updated kitchen and bath, custom walk-in closet in bedroom oPeN suNday 4/29 • 1:15 - 1:45Pm

studio, open renovated kitchen, private balcony, Fairmount views

1900 riTTeNhouse

1Br, 1Ba, Juliet balcony, upgraded kitchen and Ba, lots of light, separate dining room, hardwood floors 1,085 sf $479,900 1Br, 1Ba, hardwood floors, marble Ba, custom kitchen 712 sf $399,900 1Br, large kitchen, marble bathroom, wood floors 637 sf $359,900 oPeN suNday 4/29 • 2:15 -2:45Pm

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The riTTeNhouse WaNamaker house The WarWick

studio, generous living/sleeping space, open kitchen, large bathroom appointed in marble 578 sf studio, wood floors, large marble bath, panoramic sunset view 583 sf 1 Br, wood floors throughout, bay windows in all rooms, excellent condition 704 sf studio on penthouse floor with high ceilings, open kitchen, wood floors and marble bathroom oPeN suNday 4/29 • 3:00 -3:30Pm 410 sf

academy house

2 Br plus den, 2 Ba, south views from all rooms, updated kitchen and master bath 1,451 sf

$525,000

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academy house

3 Br, 2.5 Ba, lots of natural light, high floor, generous entertaining/living space 1,524 sf

$479,900

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academy house

1 Br, excellent natural light, wood floors Throughout, french balcony, south views from all rooms 724 sF

$269,900

academy house

Junior 1 Br, high floor, western city views

$219,900

624 sf

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1Br, high floor, river view, investment opportunity

BaNk BuiLdiNg

RiTTEnhoUSE SqUARE

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BarcLay

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floors, 3 gas fireplaces The riTTeNhouse

3,293 sf

Bi-level penthouse with dramatic sunset views of the city, lavish entire flat master suite, great entertaining space 4,455 sf

Parc riTTeNhouse

WaNamaker house

$1,400,000

$1,090,000

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, corner unit with lots of light, updated kitchen, beautiful hardwood floors throughout

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, eat-in kitchen, large bay windows with city views

1,050 sf

$610,000

1,198 sf

$539,900

700 sf

$269,900

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3Br + den, 3.5Ba, open floor plan, chef’s kitchen, marble bath, north and south city views 2,421 sf

The BarcLay

$1,475,000

3 bedrooms plus den, 2 baths, 690 sf private landscaped terrace, custom kitchen, wood floors throughout 1,707 sf

The WarWick

$2,295,000

3 bedrooms, 3 baths, all rooms overlook rittenhouse square, 2 sets of Juliet balconies, lavish master suite, brand new 1,709 sf

Parc riTTeNhouse

$2,900,000

$235,000

raw space that can be designed and built into a custom home overlooking independence mall 3,068 sf $1,150,000 Brand new 2 Br + den, 2.5 Ba home, lots of natural light, wood flrs, open chef’s kitchen, designer Ba, services available from adjoining omNi hotel 2,025 sf $1,100,000 opportunity to create a custom home in a luxury, boutique condominium building on independence mall 2,017 sf $549,900 2 Br, 1 Ba, parquet wood floors, washer/dryer, unobstructed river views, floor-to-ceiling windows 1,200 sf $399,000 completely renovated corner 1 bedroom, wood floors throughout, city and bridge view, open custom kitchen 775 sf $324,900 1 bedroom, open kitchen, wood floors, unobstructed river views from all rooms 712 sf $279,900

BaNk BuiLdiNg

3 Br + den, 3.5Ba, marble foyer, formal dining rm, sunny eat-in kitchen, 10’ ceilings, moldings, oak herring bone

$329,900 $319,900 $300,000

W W W. P H I L A D E L P H I A W E E K LY. C O M

CENTER CITY LUXURY CONDOMINIUMS FOR SALE!

hoPkiNsoN house iNdePeNdeNce PLace iNdePeNdeNce PLace hoPkiNsoN house

Bi-level penthouse, 2Br. 2.5Ba, 2 kitchens, impeccably finished throughout, amazing river and city views 4,500 sf $2,295,000 2Br, 2Ba, beautifully renovated throughout with open kitchen and designer bath, wood floors, balcony 1,387 sf $699,900 1 bedroom, open chef’s kitchen, designer bathroom, wood floors, great storage space, balcony with river and south city views 778 sf $325,000 1 bedroom, 2 baths, balcony overlooking Washington square, brand new appliances in the kitchen, custom built-ins throughout 843 sf $309,900 1Br, 1Ba, balcony, laundry room, excellent condition 928 sf $299,900 1Br, 1Ba, wood floors throughout, upgraded kitchen and Ba, custom closets, balcony 928 sf $269,900 studio, high flour, southview, separate dressing area 415 sf $209,900

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The WarWick 1701 LocusT sTreeT

Corner 1 bedroom, completely renovated throughout with custom finishes, city views, 775 sf

3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, high floor with magnificent city vistas, 1524 sf

3 bedrooms plus den, 3.5 baths, north and south views, like-new condition, 2421 sf

$479,900

$1,090,000

condo Fees $1,099

Condo Fees: $1,416

condo Fees $534

Taxes $374

Taxes: $484

Taxes $228

monthly cost after Tax to own $2,848

Monthly Cost After Tax To Own: $5,151

$324,900 monthly cost after Tax to own $1,902

Allan Domb Real Estate 215.545.1500 • www.allandomb.com “wE COOpERATE wITh ALL REALTORS®”

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Jennifer Stuart 484-300-0382

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