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11 Lights, Camera, Freedom The first Free Speech Film Festival honors true stories from around the world.

PHILLYNOW 9 Mother Nurture A Philly mom launches

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Philly mom launches a traveling nanny agency for parents in the arts community.

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f anyone knows that the best ideas are often borne out of dark times, it’s Kristin Perry.

Back in 2007, Perry was a single mom in her mid-20s with an infant son named Sammy, living in a tiny studio apartment at Seventh and Girard, laboring to get by with weekend bartending jobs in Northern Liberties, and generally angry and frustrated by her lot in life.

Still, she was determined to care for Sammy her way—keeping him in cloth instead of disposable diapers, making all of his baby food with organic vegetables and fruits from local farms, refusing to use bleach on his sheets, and surrounding him with creativity. A visual artist embedded in Philly’s indie music and arts scene, Perry reached out to her like-minded friends in the community to look after her son while she worked her late-night shifts at the 700 Club.

“I was worried—if I’m going to leave my son with somebody, who would I want him around? I would want him around somebody like me,” she says.

Perry soon ditched the bartending work to become a nanny, looking after kids whose parents were involved in the city’s arts community. That’s when the idea hit.

“There should be a cool childcare agency for artists and people who live an alternative lifestyle like we do,” she recalls thinking at the time. And so she founded just such an agency: ChARTer Nannies.

Nearly five years later, and with three partners, Perry, 31, oversees a growing national operation that specializes in matching creatively minded nannies in Philly and elsewhere around the country with artist-parents who travel regularly— musicians out on tour, authors doing book tours, actors on far-flung sets, etc.—and who need to hire someone to look after their kids full-time out on the road with them. Among ChARTer Nannies’ client list: The Flaming Lips, Sheryl Crow, the Strokes, Band of Horses and the creators of the hit Nickelodeon show Yo Gabba Gabba!, which spun off an equally popular touring concert production.

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It wasn’t easy getting from Point A to Point B. Perry, who moved here from her native upstate New York 10 years ago after graduating from SUNY-Albany with a psychology degree, had solid childcare credentials—she’s either babysat or nannied kids since she was 11 years old, and has done tons of volunteer and paid work with special-needs children. But finances were tight. For three years, she struggled to get the agency up and running, shuf-

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Queen of the nannies: “If I’m going to leave my son with somebody, who would I want him around?

I would want him around somebody like me,” says Kristin Perry, hugging her 5-year-old son Sammy.

fling through company names, websites and business plans. “I knew a lot of people who needed the service and friends who needed the work, but I was just having a tough time raising my son alone and working full-time as a nanny and trying to start a business. It wasn’t happening.”

Then, in 2010, a friend introduced her to Julia Knapp, who’s not only the head of wardrobe for Yo Gabba Gabba! but also serves as travel nanny for Mates of State, the Connecticut indie-pop duo that’s become known as much for their blog about touring with two young daughters in tow as their music. Knapp told Perry that Mates singer-keyboardist Kori Gardner and one of the band’s former nannies, Erin Abbott, had been thinking about starting

a similar agency. Knapp suggested they all get together.

“I was thinking that Erin and Kori were probably, like, ‘Who is this girl with our idea? We must meet her and destroy her!”

Perry laughs. Instead, Perry’s business plan was enthusiastically received and the four ladies partnered up at the end of 2010. “Once we joined forces it went from me being totally overwhelmed to this amazing, supportive group of empowered, awesome women,” she says.

While there’s no shortage of nanny agencies in Philly, or local nannies advertising on Craigslist, ChARTer Nannies fills an important niche for the city’s creative community, especially since over the past

ChARTer Nannies fills an important niche for the city’s creative community, especially since over the past several years, more and more bands coming out of Philly’s vibrant music scene have become viable national touring acts. several years, more and more bands coming out of Philly’s vibrant music scene have become viable national touring acts, and more and more of those bandmembers are becoming parents. And that’s on top of classical musicians and other artists around the city who are away from home for long stretches of time.

Given the nature of the work, Perry— who serves as the agency’s point person for prospective nannies—says the screening process is both rigorous and unique. “It’s pretty rare you’ll find nannies like ours at other agencies, and not everybody’s cut out to be a ChARTer Nanny,” she says. “Obviously, sometimes you get the ‘Oh, I wanna go on tour with a band!’ and it’s like, ‘Well, actually there’s also this thing about a child you need to take care of …’ But aside from getting references and doing background checks I ask them things like if they’re artists themselves, if they’re vegetarian or vegan—since most of our clients are—and if they’re familiar with alternative education methods like Montessori or Waldorf, since that’s also important to a lot of our clients.”

Perry notes that business has slowly increased mostly through word of mouth.

And with their roster of nannies expanding, the agency is more able to provide services to Philadelphians who might not be traveling musicians but still need a nanny well-versed in alternative lifestyles to look after their kids during a vacation or on a longer-term basis.

“I don’t think people feel comfortable just hiring the neighbor kid anymore, or someone who doesn’t get you or what you want for your kids,” says Perry. “This all started because I got so much support for Sammy and myself from my own community, so I want our company to feel like a community.” n

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Lights, Camera, Freedom

Philadelphia’s top poet-turned-culturalambassador launches the first international Free Speech Film Festival.

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et’s get the strange bit out of the way up front: Only one film is being screened for the general public during the inaugural Free Speech Film Festival. That’s a bit of a stretch to most people’s understanding of the concept of a film festival. But Margaret Chew Barringer, the woman behind the event, has a long-term vision of what it can accomplish and what it can become.

In the wake of recent revolutions in the Middle East and Africa—and of international civil-rights debates ranging from Iran to America’s own cities—she’s determined that putting out a global call for films about those sorts of topics should be a powerful tool for spotlighting both the issues and the documentary storytellers working hard to present them. “People are killing themselves for freedom,” says Barringer, the chairwoman of the nonprofit American INSIGHT, which is producing the festival. “We have a huge responsibility to do this well.”

In this case, “well” means a twoyear-long build culminating on Wed., May 16, when attendees at the festival’s big awards ceremony at the American Philosophical Society will be treated to a screening of the as-yet-unrevealed winning film, a talk with its filmmaker,

a presentation honoring the other five finalists, and speeches by luminaries that include former U.S. State Department policy director Anne-Marie Slaughter and longtime Philly radio DJ Bob Craig.

Of the six finalist films, five hail from America, though only two are set here.

Oppression of women is the topic of both the Iranian-set I Am Neda and A Balloon for Allah, the fest’s lone foreign-produced work, which zeroes in on the Abrahamic religions in Cairo, Istanbul and Oslo, Norway. There are also films on Chinese human rights (Free China: The Courage

to Believe), Afghanistan and Iraq (This Is Where We Take Our Stand), illegal surveillance by the U.S. government from the ’50s through the ’70s (Cointelpro 101) and, perhaps inevitably, Occupy Wall Street (#whilewewatch).

There’s talk of screening some more of the finalists over the summer, either in the city or online; there are also plans in the works to distribute them in schools for educational viewing. Barringer estimates that it takes about six years for a film festival to build a real name for itself, and she’s eager to let this one mature at

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its own pace.

“Quality is far more important than quantity right now,” she says. ”The public is fed up with hype, and hungry for meaning.”

Barringer is a warm and approachable poet, filmmaker, multitasking organizer and technology cheerleader prone to chuckling. (Chatting about her work, the 66-year-old Philadelphia native laughs self-consciously while quoting Lady Gaga about “looking for the edge of people’s nervous systems.”)

In 1983, Barringer founded the American Poetry Center, which sought to make art more accessible through then-budding forms of technology. Under her watch, the organization sponsored readings, classes, symposia—and, eventually, a seven-yearlong cultural exchange with the USSR’s Soviet Writers Union. It also, over a decade’s time, built Pennsylvania’s Poetry Month into a massive statewide literary initiative that subsequently evolved into National Poetry Month, now administered by the Academy of American Poets.

Bringing Soviet poets and artists to America further fueled Barringer’s passion for the cause of free speech, and in 2005 the American Poetry Center

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changed its name to American INSIGHT, broadening its scope to include history while moving its work onto the Internet— in particular, social media. “Some people were annoyed that we shifted from poetry to history,” Barringer recalls. “The Greeks had one god for both. Her name was Clio.

Greeks took it for granted that poetry and history were both about storytelling.”

Career-wise, Barringer was a late bloomer. In her 20s, she was a mother; she didn’t attend college till her 30s. The fact of returning to school in adulthood, combined with her more recently diagnosed dyslexia, has focused her sharply on the need to embrace technology and communicate effectively with youth. “I have a nerdy gene,” she laughs, though “it took me a while to accept it.

“Every day for the last 15 years, I’ve been living among 20-year-olds to learn their technology,” she says. “I suddenly realized they’re staying the same age as I get older.” She talks about how there’s a “severe generational chasm” between old and young. “It’s not a gap. It’s a chasm.

The Internet has changed life on earth …

That’s what happened when the printing press was invented. There were revolutions and total chaos when the people got the power. And that’s what’s happening now, globally.”

She sees the Internet’s worldwide network of easy video distribution as the people’s communication tool of the future. “The video,” she says, “is the new typewriter.”

That conviction is why, her poetry background not withstanding, Barringer has spent the last two years of her life putting together the Free Speech Film Festival.

One important decision she and her board made was that all the submissions should be short-form—from 60 seconds to 60 minutes, no longer. “The long-form documentary is over,” Barringer claims.

“YouTube clips and sound bites mimic the advertising world that has saturated the minds of millions of people all over the globe since they were very small. Their brains have been imprinted, and there is no going back … If you can’t say it quickly, you can’t say it at all.”

Though such sentiments suggest the

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festival is all about reaching a youth audience, Barringer is careful to stress that its aim is to include everyone. It’s not only intergenerational, it’s nondenominational and, as she frequently points out, nonpartisan. And as soon as word of its launch spread through the film-festival world, she says, the Free Speech Film Festival promptly began receiving submissions from all over. Ultimately, there were 72 entrant films from 17 nations.

“One of [Barringer’s] main objectives is to give a microphone, a stage, a spotlight to people who might not have it otherwise,” says Jake Paine, an American INSIGHT board member who started as one of Barringer’s interns (and now works as editor-in-chief of the hip-hop website HipHopDX.) The festival’s judg-

ing process, he says—which took place over the course of the winter and considered input from close to 50 film viewers from the ranks of American INSIGHT’s supporters—involved looking for a synergy between content and form, although the former was more important than the latter: “It’s great for a festival to not get so caught up about craft but [focus first on] content and substance.”

That principle is further in evidence with the speakers lined up for the festival’s awards ceremony, who lack Hollywood-level name recognition but more than make up for it in substance and relevance to the topic at hand. “Whenever you have to analyze why you believe in free speech, you challenge yourself,” says

presenter Karen Curry, a former NBC and CNN bureau chief and current Drexel University staff member. Being asked to speak at the festival made her recall a defining moment in her life: As a student activist, she participated in taking over a campus building. When she returned home, her father, a police officer, refused to admonish her actions, even though he did not share her beliefs. Curry learned a profound lesson from that: Sometimes you have to defend speech you don’t agree with.

Another presenter, C.K. Williams, a poet and translator who teaches at Princeton University, plans to focus on education. He’ll read a poem from his latest work about the Texas textbook scandal,

Free China: The Courage to Believe

Freedom Flicks Six documentaries will be honored as finalists at the Free Speech Film Festival’s awards ceremony. One will be named the festival’s winner and screened in its entirety.

A Balloon for Allah: A look at the oppression of women among the three Abrahamic religions of Cairo, Istanbul and Oslo, Norway.

This is Where We Take Our Stand: Three veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq testify to their experiences.

Free China: The Courage to Believe: The peaceful spiritual movement that swept through China in the 1990s is examined through the experiences of a mother.

I Am Neda: The festival’s shortest film concerns the true story of a woman who fought for freedom amidst tyranny and oppression.

Cointelpro 101: The history of illegal surveillance by the U.S. government from the 1950s through the 1970s. #whilewewatch: A film about Occupy Wall Street told from the inside. —M.P.

in which the Texas school board has tried to eliminate or downplay the importance of, among other things, evolution, climate change and Thomas Jefferson. “We tend not to think about [a school curriculum] in terms of free speech,” Williams says.

“But it is a form of speech—perhaps the most crucial form of speech. When you’re distorting education, you’re distorting minds.”

“Everyone has a very different understanding of what constitutes free speech,” says Barringer. “Which is beautiful.”

She’s reluctant to speculate too far about what the festival’s future will look like, although she notes she isn’t opposed to the possibility that it could become entirely Internet-based. That’s because the documentary-film scene—like the broader journalism field in general—is in a state of flux, struggling to adapt to viewing patterns that are increasingly moving online, from the public space to the private. The minimalist structure of the Free Speech Film Festival in its first year reflects an entire medium that isn’t sure of its next step, of how it will incorporate the growing number of citizen journalists armed with nothing but smartphones and Internet connections.

This has both its perks and drawbacks.

“It’s good to let a lot of voices into the media and to give voice to people to tell their stories,” Curry says. Yet she notes that grassroots storytelling in and of itself isn’t a guarantee of high-quality work, either: “I still believe in journalistic rigor. Before you go and put something up on your blog—or if you work for an organization—you should do the due diligence that you would expect in the journalistic world.”

Barringer seems to find as much value in the process of exploring these topics as in any one specific end result. “There are millions of us out here,” she says, “who are feeling both highly empowered and completely abandoned” by the 21st-century media landscape. “I believe that this is the first time in the history of mankind that generations have grown so far apart so quickly ... and the brains of our children and grandchildren have been imprinted by external corporate technologies from the very start.”

In any case, it seems appropriate for the Free Speech Film Festival to cultivate such discussions in the city that long ago hosted the defining conversations of American liberty. “We’re opening the future of free speech to filmmakers from all over the world, many of whom are very much without it,” Barringer says. “They look to America for guidance on how to handle freedom.” n

The Free Speech Film Festival’s screening and awards ceremony will take place at the American Philosophical Society, 427 Chestnut St., on Wed., May 16, at 7 pm.

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Ride of Silence Chris Phelan organized the first Ride of Silence in Texas after cyclist Larry Schwartz was hit by a bus and killed in May 2003. Since then, the Ride has spread to cities across the country to commemorate the many people killed or injured in bicycle-related accidents.

This week, the Ride of Silence spreads worldwide with an anniversary event that hopes to include hundreds of cities and countries. In Philly, it all kicks off at the art museum with a brief ceremony followed by a eight-mile, police-escorted ride. Participants are asked to remain silent during the ride and to follow all laws, wear helmets and not exceed 12 mph.

There are no sponsors, no registration fees and no souvenir T-shirts. Instead, the Ride of Silence focuses on increasing awareness and riding with intention. Ashley Kole 6:45pm. Free. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 26th St. and the Benjamin Franklin Pkwy. rideofsilence.org

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“Punk is dead” exists in the great stratum of insipid perspectives, floating somewhere between “Gays shouldn’t be allowed in the military,” “The world is flat,” and “Tim Burton still makes good movies.” Should you ever run into someone backing that incredibly daft argument about the genre, bust out Hot Water Music’s “God Deciding,” a song that originally appeared on the Gainesville, Fla.based band’s 2002 split with Alkaline Trio.

Aesthetically, it sounds little like OG punk— it’s too earnest and finely produced to fit in the class of 1980—but the track carries an inspired, revelatory energy, the defiant desire to bring power abusers to trial, and Chuck Ragan’s irrepressible, gristmill-like growl. All those traits make “God Deciding” deeply punk at heart, and the Clash would have almost certainly given it a smashed Fender of approval.

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popular film of the same name, this week.

Hugo Vera plays the role of the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature that was revered by his countrymen. In this tale of fiction, Neruda, who is exiled to an Italian island due to his leftist politics, teaches his postman to love poetry.

Il Postino launches CCOT’s brand new “Hispanic Opera Initiative” which is an ongoing effort designed to introduce the Hispanic and Latino communities to the beauty of opera. lAuRA GoldmAn

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Vintage Kicks Vintage Kicks sing about everything from the 1 percent and Wall Street to surfing gnarly waves with a catchy, pop-punk infused chorus-verse-chorus formula overflowing with “hey, hey’s!” and “oh, uh-oh’s.” Slightly reminiscent of that ’90’s “What’s My Age Again?” trio, this Philly five-piece formed less than two years ago, but you’d never know it giving a listen to their seasoned-sounding 10-song EP, King Geek. Despite their youth, Vintage Kicks know when to pay respects to a fallen source of inspiration. As evidence, see their recently released YouTube video of the keyboard-heavy cover of late Beastie Boy Adam Yauch’s “I Don’t Know,” and dance to the revamped classic. GAbRielle chepuRny

Sex-positive activists Pleasure Rush and ScrewSmart have come together to celebrate National Masturbation Month in style.

Creamium is a lighthearted celebration of self-love, that mixes equal parts education and entertainment. Make sure to check out the Destination Masturbation Stations, designated spots throughout the lounge where local sexperts will cheerfully discuss groovy goings-on around the city. Or pit your masturbatory know-how against fellow enthusiasts in a tongue-in-cheek game show modeled on the board game Cranium. The evening is all in good fun, but it also has a serious purpose. Although few people today believe chronic wanking leads to hairy palms, a combination of lingering shame and misinformation still prevents some from exploring their own bodies. Participate fully in the fun, but please, leave all handy high-jinks at home. RAymond simon

The annual Rittenhouse Row Spring Festival showcases the best fashion, food and entertainment that Rittenhouse has to offer.

Attendees can enjoy samples from Top Chef contestant Jennifer Carroll, food from the seven Stephen Starr restaurants in the neighborhood and cocktails from a few of the bars and lounges. The neighborhood’s best boutiques will also display this season’s beauty and fashion trends with an all-day fashion show with frocks from Knit Wit, Joan Shepp, Arcadia Boutique and more. sydney scott

9pm. $5-$10. Tabu Lounge, 200 S. 12th St. 215.964.9675. screwsmart.com/events

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Kinetic Sculpture Derby Mechanical chickens, giant wheels made of plastic irrigation piping and a moving house made of more than 1,000 CDs: just a few of the beautiful eyesores from last year’s Kinetic Sculpture Derby. The Mummers meet Kensington fixie culture in this parade/ derby/design competition that brings together people-powered moveable creations, each representing a certain recognizable theme.

The vehicles will make their way through the streets of Kensington to the delight and horror of local residents, and will end up back near the starting line for a mud-pit finish to test each mobile’s true strength and tenacity. Prizes will be awarded in categories such as “best engineering” and “best breakdown,” and delicious food, beers, music and unique vendors will be on hand to make a day of it.

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Noon. Free. Kensington, Trenton Ave. and Norris St. kinetickensington.com

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Italian Market Festival Besides being the oldest and largest working outdoor market in the U.S., the Italian Market is home to more than 100 merchants; it’s one of the very few places in the city where you can get a bushel of bananas, a vinyl record and a slice of pizza all on the same block—and for less than $5. Celebrating the unique charm and diversity Ninth Street has to offer, this annual event guarantees to stimulate all of your senses simultaneously. In addition to the array of vendors lining the street and serving up every Italian delicacy possible, there will be a craft market featuring the handmade creations of local artists and three stages providing a mix of live music around the clock—from popular party hits to classic rock. N.F. 10am. Free. Through Sun., May 20. South Philly, Ninth St. between Fitzwater and Federal sts. italianmarketphilly.org

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When editor Michael Montlack invited 100 gay male poets to write about the women who inspired them, some submitted odes and elegies, others sonnets and free verse; but they all responded with genuine love. The result is Divining Divas, an anthology celebrating the special emotional and intellectual bond between gay men and those otherworldly women inhabiting a realm far beyond the family home. The contributors, some of whom will discuss their work at this reading, acknowledge the lasting mark these women have left on them. Of course, Judy and Marilyn are

represented, but so are Gracie Allen and Julia Child. There’s even room for She-Ra and Miss Piggy. Come pay your respects and share your epiphany. R.S. 5:30pm. Free. Giovanni’s Room, 345 S. 12th St. 215.923.2960. queerbooks.com

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Damien Jurado Damien Jurado, who sings and writes songs (but we hate to call him a “singer-songwriter” because of all the baggage that term usually implies), has put out approximately 184 albums since 1995. Not one of them is a dud.

Seriously. Even Bob Dylan dropped dogshit like Down in the Groove, but so far everything Jurado’s touched with his stark, modern-folk sensibilities and husky, spooky tenor has been amazing. His new Maraqopa is remarkable.

Maybe not all stark and folk, though—there’s some major psych-pop jams happening, but he still keeps it moody and dark. It’s probably going to sound exceptional live. Marc Wolfson Pinansky opens: He sings, plays guitar, whistles and loves cats. MIcHAEl AlAN goldbERg 9pm. $12. With JBM + Marc Wolfson Pinansky.

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Yoga on the Steps Inhale deeply, stretch and jump out of bed early this Sunday for a morning of community healing on the steps of the Art Museum.

A one-hour open-air yoga class on the iconic steps will start your day off right. The class is designed for everyone, so both beginners and advanced yogis will benefit. After class, stick around for a light, organic breakfast, and browse the healthy living expo where yoga studios and vendors will offer samples, suggestions and merchandise. All proceeds benefit Living Beyond Breast Cancer, a support organization for women facing the disease. Bring your own mat or towel and enjoy a morning celebration of health and solidarity with people affected by breast cancer. AllYN gAESTEl 8:30am-12:30pm. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 26th St. and the Benjamin Franklin Pkwy. yogaonthesteps.org

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PAC director Damon Bonetti and designer Katherine Fritz set the play in Hollywood’s Golden Age, a move that emphasizes the parallels between Marivaux’s heightened physicality and the screwball film comedies of the 1920s and ’30s. Paintings by Madeline Adam that are inspired by the production will be on view both in BST’s gallery and within the context of Fritz’s onstage scenic design.

The rare Monday showing is a special Industry Night performance but the general public is welcome to attend, meaning tickets will go fast. J. coopER Robb 8pm. $15. Broad Street Ministry, 315 S. Broad St. 800.838.3006. brownpapertickets.com

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The renowned artist, poet and philanthropist is co-founder of the popular Def Poetry Jam series and has penned multiple books. This week, he comes to the Vivant Art Collection to participate in “The Role of an Artist, Collector, and Institution in the Urban Art Community,” a discussion on the contributing roles of the art world and the impact in the urban-art community. On Wednesday, Simmons will read from his poetry collection, Deep in Your Best Reflection: Poems in 160 Characters at the African American Museum. Both events will feature an art tour that visits the city’s Mural Arts Program, the Barnes Foundation and the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts. RYAN K. SMITH Tues., May 22, 6-9pm. Free. Vivant Art, 60 N. Second St. vivantartcollection.com

The Buddy Holly Story On Feb. 2, 1959, Buddy Holly boarded a plane that tragically crashed, killing Holly, Richie Valens, the Big Bopper and the pilot.

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ith Don Draper and Co. back on television and a nationwide cocktail renaissance that shows no signs of slowing down, the time couldn’t be riper for a restaurant like the Walnut Street Supper Club. Housed in the space that was known for 38 years as Portofino, this self-consciously swanky dinner spot aims to transport guests back to what we’re told are the good old days: Frankie and Dean-O crooning onstage, a thickcut steak or heaping helping of pasta on every plate and starry-eyed diners taking it all in as suave waiters ferry icy martinis to and fro.

The effect, however, is disappointingly incomplete.

Much of the charm of 1960s supper clubs came from the machismo of the performers, the swagger of the men and the hip-sway of the women through dimly lit, smoky rooms, where an illicit affair seemed ever imminent. The Walnut Street Supper Club is a well-lit, bi-level dining hall with no smoke, no discernible swagger and very little sex appeal. Effete—but charming!—servers tend to guests between turns at the microphone, where an able pianist accompanies them through song choices that run the gamut from Billy Joel’s “New York State of Mind” to standards like “Someone to Watch Over Me.” The effect is less that of a smoky supper club than it is audition season at the nearby University of the Arts.

It should be noted that this is not meant to be a restaurant that appeals to everyone; those who groan at the thought of attending an off-Broadway revue or roll their eyes at themed parties would find little to love about this throwback affair. The problem is that even diners with a soft spot for the crooners—and for simple, classic ItalianAmerican fare—are never quite swept away by the disjointed fantasy on display.

Service, at times affable, tends toward overbearing. An overzealous floor manager makes it a point to approach every table in the house and offer his business card, intoning flatly about the restaurant’s private dining facilities and happy-hour offerings. My mother—emboldened and

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Penne for your thoughts: The pesto pasta at Walnut Street.

perhaps inspired by a “Dean Martin” Manhattan with applejack, Cherry Heering and Dubonnet—exclaimed, “What a boob!” as soon as he was out of earshot.

Other house specialty cocktails are similarly named: the “Barbra Streisand” features prosecco, St. Germain and pineapple juice, while the “Rat Pack” Old Fashion is Knob Creek muddled with strawberries, in lieu of cherries. None is particularly noteworthy, but none is offensive. Wines by the glass are aggressively basic (yes, that’s Beringer white zinfandel representing rose), though on both my visits the service team paired them ably with the food.

That food, though, was largely uninspired and frequently poorly executed. The pan-seared goat cheese is a puck, breaded and fried, served with scarcely a drizzle of the lingonberry compote promised on the menu. A seafood medley martini is, in fact, a doughy seafood cake, served hot (and in a martini glass, for no obvious reason) and accompanied by saffron aioli that more closely resembles tartar sauce and cocktail sauce that is, effectively, ketchup.

Beef carpaccio overpowers delicate petals of meat with a greasy mess that included the texture of capers and artichokes but none of their vinegary bite. The flavor is dominated by waxy Parmigiano and a dearth of olive oil.

Entrees were occasionally more successful. Pork tenderloin is, well, tender, and sauced with a brandy-Dijon demi that is a welcome compliment; the side of “risotto” that is, in fact, mac ’n’ cheese with rice marauding as mac, is not as welcome. A New York strip steak is similarly tasty, though cooked to a definite medium and not the medium rare my guest requested.

Herb-crusted grouper lacks flavor, though the lemoncaper sauce helps. Lobster ravioli is dense and oversauced. The chef’s reason for leaving the baby lobster tail on top in its shell is difficult to dissect and yielded flecks of calcified crunch that rendered the sauce inedible. And the standard-bearer of Italian-American cuisine, fettucine alfredo, is a cheese-less disappointment; the pasta is properly cooked, but the sauce is miserably bland.

Desserts, presented on a tray rather than a menu, are the stuff of diner-cake cases: tiramisu that is light and tasty but not made in-house, and chocolate-topped cheesecake that would be at home in your grocer’s freezer aisle. Sharing a slice while our server gamely performed a frothy, little-known Kander and Ebb tune, “Sara Lee,” my dinner guests and I felt less like the Drapers and more like the audience at “Dinner! The Musical,” not quite able to suspend our disbelief far or long enough to enjoy the show. n

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Tale of Two Cities A man’s effort to protect his sons comes at a cost.

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nis Nua Theatre Company concludes its eighth season with Director Tom Reing’s stylish production of playwright Enda Walsh’s The Walworth Farce.

Walsh’s bizarre tale takes place in a rundown London tenement (Meghan Jones’ set is so exaggeratedly shabby it makes a condemned row house seem palatial by comparison) occupied by Dinny (Bill Van Horn in the finest performance of his long career) and his two sons, Blake (Harry Smith) and Sean (Jake Blouch).

They have maintained this exact routine for 20 years. They clearly follow the creed that the show must go on.

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Conceived by Dinny as a way to explain the family’s flight from Ireland, every night the three re-enact the events that led to their hasty departure. Too young to clearly remember all the details, all Blake and Sean know about that night comes from Dinny’s account. A stickler for details, Dinny serves as the director and plays himself in their nightly farce.

The older son, Blake, portrays all the female characters; Sean plays the men, and is also responsible for procuring the essential props for each night’s show.

As an added incentive, the evening is capped off with the presentation of an “acting trophy” to that evening’s finest performer. Dinny is the judge—and also the only recipient of the award.

The macabre farce the family performs each night is as strange as it is complicated.

The only member of the family who leaves the flat is Sean, who makes a daily trip to the supermarket to fetch the props for that evening’s performance

Acting out: Dinny (Bill Van Horn, right) forces his sons Blake (Harry Smith, left) and Sean (Jake Blouch) to recount a harrowing journey night after night.

(roast chicken figures prominently in their little production and doubles as the family’s dinner). They have maintained this exact routine for 20 years. They clearly follow the creed that the show must go on.

The turning point in Walworth comes late in the first act with the arrival of a visitor named Haley (Leslie Nevon Holden). Sean mistakenly brought home the wrong bag from his day’s shopping, and Haley, who works at the market and has a crush on Sean, has helpfully shown up with the missing groceries. Haley’s unanticipated appearance heightens the already palpable sense of tension and foreboding that has been building throughout Walworth’s first act, and while the play’s conclusion

is surprising, in retrospect it is also inevitable.

The details in Dinny’s story never change, but Sean eventually questions the tale’s veracity. “Is any of this story real?” he hesitantly asks his father. “It’s my truth,” Dinny replies defiantly. Adding as perhaps a way of justifying his version of the events, “We’re making a routine here to keep the family safe.”

Like an OCD sufferer who relies on routine to give a sense of order to their lives, the family’s nightly performances are a safe harbor in a city they view as being both hostile and foreign.

Incapable of facing the horrors of his past, Dinny draws on the Irish legacy of storytelling to create an alternate history where he is the hero of the story

and Ireland is a magical land filled with green pastures.

Unfortunately, the fantasy life Dinny has constructed for his sons comes at a considerable cost. Dinny’s farce has a dehumanizing effect on them. Under Dinny’s dictatorial direction, Blake and Sean are forced to repress their own identity and adapt the fictional roles prescribed by their father. Like an actor who plays the same role night after night, year after year, the sons have never had the opportunity to develop a sense of self.

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But that doesn’t mean that Kelly declined to take certain creative liberties.

While heavily researched, the set and costume design are also strictly stylized.

As is only appropriate to the subject of dinosaurs, a certain amount of evolution came into play: “I actually went to the trouble of making a hair piece. I latched little extensions into a hair cap and it looked so terrifying!” The paper mache wig he now sports instead is both dashing and uncanny.

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misanthropic hero. “Solitary labor is a theme that’s come up in my work,” says the artist, who has also performed as Robinson Crusoe, Teddy Roosevelt, Superman, and—epically—Hercules. “I attempted to complete the 12 labors of Hercules,” recalls Kelly, who translated the mythic dictate to clean the Augean stables in a single day into a Philadelphian vernacular when he showed up to muck the stables in Northern Liberties. As a native and historically verified Philadelphian, Cope’s saga took arguably less adaptation.

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f cats dream of mice, and mice dream of cheese, then do paleontologists dream of dinosaurs? Artist Ryan Wilson Kelly, who impersonates Philadelphian paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope (1840-1897) in his performance and installation at Napoleon Gallery, insists that they do: “Cope had been prone throughout his life to recurring dreams about being attacked by dinosaurs,” says Kelly, who spins Cope’s fever dream into a richly suggestive pageant about aspirations of greatness lodged at the bottom of a bottle.

The Sleep of Reason, a collaborative endeavor between Kelly and curator Jordan Rockford, uses Cope’s recurring nightmare as an allegory for the cyclical futility of the creative process. “There’s that sense of anti-climax and, of course, that sense of a solitary endeavor,” says Rockford, gesturing around the set in which Kelly has just performed an approximate re-enactment of Cope’s last few hours. The design is at once baroque and ingeniously simple. Large sheets of cloth (canvas tarps from Home Depot) hang over each gallery wall, exquisitely illustrated to suggest the cluttered shelves of Cope’s study at 21st and Pine streets; unidentified but undeniably ancient shards of bone (painted wood putty) litter the floor; and slimy specimens (Styrofoam dipped in wax) languish in large glass jars. Red-velvet curtains and a single scansion separate the performance space from the audience, creating the sensation of a museum display come to life.

During the performance, Kelly paces the study, shuffles papers, takes notes and feverishly compares bones. Channeling Cope—who was, at the time, ensnared in the “bone wars,” a bitter rivalry to name as many specimens as possible—Kelly-as-Cope seems grimly determined but only moderately productive. He stops work every few minutes to clutch his stomach (Cope apparently died from a gastrointestinal disease). Prophetically, ‘Drinker’ was Cope’s middle name, and Kelly mimes his debilitating self-medication routine by swigging regularly from a little flask and then passes out on a cot in the corner and begins to dream. Meanwhile, images from Cope’s subconscious rise up on a projection screen behind him.

While Sleep of Reason might stand as his most literal riff on the torture of creative genius, it’s not the first time Kelly has channeled the demise of a

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By Matt Prigge mprigge@philadelphiaweekly.com Brink of Life (1958): Soon after doing a film about death (The Seventh Seal), Ingmar Bergman made one about birth. It was no less pessimistic. Of the three women who take up residence in a maternity ward, both Ingrid Thulin and Eva Dahlbeck suffer miscarriages while Bibi Andersson, having already had one abortion prior, contemplates another.

Happy belated Mother’s Day! Rosemary’s Baby (1968): Roman Polanski’s classy film based on a trashy Ira Levin bestseller uses a satanic fertilization to examine the dehumanizing aspects of pregnancy. Take away the devil-worshipping neighbors and you still have the chilling experience of watching Mia Farrow recoil at her changing body and changing life.

Hail Mary (1985): A student named Marie finds herself knocked up, despite the fact that she’s never had sex. Sound familiar? Jean-Luc Godard’s modern-day reworking of biblical lore reduces the tale to a woman coming to grips with her changing body. The liberal use of casual, full-frontal nudity, coupled with the obvious blaspheming, predictably drew the ire of Pope John Paul II, who criticized without condemning a film that depicted holiness entirely from the woman’s point of view.

Baby Blood (1990): Before there was the absurd French blood-a-thon Inside, in which Béatrice Dalle tries to remove a woman’s fetus with cutlery, or even Jan Svankmajer’s Little Otik, wherein a barren couple will life into a hungry tree stump, there was Alain Robak’s comedy in which a pregnant woman’s womb is invaded by an alien parasite and demands a steady diet of fresh blood.

Citizen Ruth (1996): The most savage film about abortion mocks both anti- and pro-choice sides, with Laura Dern (never better) as glue-sniffing white trash who just happens to be freshly preggers. Both sides seize upon her, and though both get belittled and satirized, one comes out a lot less dirty than the other.

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Sacha Baron Cohen, the tall, spindly improvisational comic genius behind Borat and Da Ali G Show, has a way of burrowing into his characters. Part of the brilliance of Borat is his unwavering commitment to the Kazakhstani journalist’s gigantic moustache and cheap suit, living for so long inside the role that a lot of bystanders still won’t stop talking about how bad he smelled. Baron Cohen’s milieu is guerrilla theater, springing his racist, monstrous caricatures on unsuspecting camera subjects, gradually coaxing out the worst in people for our shock and awe, not to mention amusement.

You won’t find any of that in The Dictator, Sacha Baron Cohen’s safe, scripted folly and the first picture of this kind he’s attempted since 2002’s woebegone Ali G Indahouse (a film so lousy it never quite secured an American theatrical release). I understand that Borat’s massive popularity precluded another stunt pulled on passers-by, with 2009’s Brüno offering ample, sad evidence that a comic can only pull such rabbits out of his hat exactly once. Still, this is extremely dire material—feeling more like one of those Saturday Night Live movies from the early 1990s than the work of our sharpest contemporary satirist.

Cohen, who also co-wrote the screenplay, stars as General Admiral Aladeen, the thick-witted despot of a fictional, oil-rich North African country called Wadiya. (Tellingly, the movie bends over backward more than once to remind us that he’s “not an Arab.”)

A pampered baby with a penchant for ordering the execution of his countrymen whenever he’s not busy paying for sex with American celebrities, Aladeen is a hysterically ignorant, petulant child. Suffering from the egomania endemic of most tin-horn despots, he’s fixed Wadiya’s Olympics and Golden Globes so he always comes out on top, and even changed a hundred or so words in the country’s dictionary to match his surname.

So far, so funny. An opening title card dedicates the movie “in loving memory of Kim Jong-il,” and The Dictator initially mines a familiar brand of comedic discomfort, with Baron Cohen’s usual jaw-dropping, anything goes one-liners pushing the provocation into transgressive territory.

But then that stupid plot kicks in. On

What a dic: General Admiral Aladeen goes to New York to tell off the United Nations; instead he ends up at a vegan co-op.

a trip to New York City where he plans to tell off the United Nations, General Admiral Aladeen is kidnapped and tortured, losing his enormous (fake-looking) beard in the process.

Replaced with a body double by his nefarious second-in-command (Ben Kinglsey doing nothing with a role that offers even less), Aladeen finds himself broke and adrift in lower Manhattan.

So, of course he winds up working at a vegan food co-op run by Anna Faris’ wide-eyed, hairy-armpitted hippie.

A sterling scene-stealer in too many terrible movies, Faris is given little to do here besides smack her forehead in frustration at Aladeen’s all-encompassing ignorance. Their interactions are awful, to say nothing of the forced love story that’s being shoved down our throats. Turns out this dictator just wanted to be cuddled?

Teaming up with a nuclear scientist (Jason Mantzoukas), Baron Cohen’s dictator suffers from every tired fish-out-of-water comic scenario you’d expect from a Mike Myers movie.

Director Larry Charles’ flat sitcom staging is enough to make one long for The Love Guru.

Baron Cohen’s particular brand of humor is so pushy and unpleasant, it clangs against The Dictator’s wan setups and hackwork scenarios. A Wadiyan chorus singing “Everybody Hurts” or “Let’s Get It On” in a madeup language doesn’t change the fact that the movie’s lazy enough to use both songs as punch lines. As if ach-

The Dictator Grade: D+ Director: Larry Charles Starring: Sacha Baron Cohen, Anna Faris and Ben Kingsley ing to top Borat’s already legendary naked fist-fight, Baron Cohen lays on the gross-outs, accidentally pooping on somebody’s head, and filming an entire sequence from a POV inside a woman’s vagina. Such moves stink of desperation, and what’s even worse is that none of them particularly funny.

Occasional shocking one-liners remind you that we’re in the presence of a pushy genius, but Aladeen’s simply not enough of a character to sustain these slender 83 minutes. Starting with that phony beard, he’s Baron Cohen’s least fleshed-out creation, existing purely as a delivery system for crude zingers and seriously lazy story set-ups. A jarringly insightful late-movie monologue calling out the U.S. for being disturbingly similar to dictatorships gets buried beneath the love story subplot blather.

The thrill of Da Ali G Show or Borat was in watching Baron Cohen insinuate his outrageous caricatures into deadly serious surroundings. The Dictator has no such nerve, existing in an alternate cartoon reality where the satire doesn’t sting. n

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The thoroughly shitty What to Expect When You’re Expecting makes two movies look better than they deserve. First, Bridesmaids, because any welcome trendsetter inevitably yields a plague of opportunistic, unsightly copycats. (Just ask Pulp Fiction.)

Second, and far less deserving, He’s Just Not That Into You, which at least offered a smattering of plots specific to its gimmicky self-help source. What to Expect, “based” on Heidi Murkoff ’s and Sharon Mazel’s classic 1984 pregnancy guide, steals the title from its source and little else, exploiting a name brand to sell a lame ensemble comedy that’s more interested in warmedover gross-out gags than plumbing the dark sides of childbirth.

Indeed, there’s a very dark movie lurking inside What to Expect, which features miscarriage, infertility and all manner of unpleasant and grotesque side effects brought on by pregnancy. But all those are depressing, and the filmmakers, rather than at least twist them into a dark comedy, go with a relentlessly sunny vibe, with potentially heavy crises solved via sitcom convenience.

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That Mansome is still mildly watchable is a testament to how good a fit its filmmaker is to this somewhat interesting topic. It’s still lazy: The talking heads are largely famous and largely men, and few bother going deep on whether looking good brings one confidence or simply makes one a narcissist, or if gender questions are a result of feminism or just a return to the distant past, when real men didn’t dress like goddam slobs.

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Grade: CReview by Matt Prigge Give Morgan Spurlock credit: He’s savvy.

He’s got a good thing going, cranking out documentaries with gimmicks so basic that he wins simply for doing it before anyone else. Never mind that few would feel compelled to “reveal” that McDonald’s is unhealthy (Super Size Me), that not all Muslims are terrorists (Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? ), that advertising dominates all (The Greatest Movie Ever Sold ).

Mansome—even typing that word makes me err toward self-harm—is Spurlock’s second theatrical documentary currently making the rounds, apart from the festival circuit-rider Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope. (A Star Wars reference—nobody does that!) The subject is the evolving definition of masculinity, particularly given the rise of such buzz words as metrosexuality and manscaping. It’s a not uninteresting subject, if not an earth-quaking one, and it requires a mind serious enough to do some actual journalism, plus a sense of humor willing to mock both men who are overly concerned with their appearance as well as the douchebags (like Adam Carrola) overly concerned that they’re diminishing traditional masculinity.

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But even for such a frivolous topic, Spurlock treats it with little seriousness. He shows us intense beardos who participate in beard competitions, athletes who shave off all their hair, even those on their fingers, and inundates us with a length-paddingly extended hang-out session with old-timey barbers. Spurlock, for once, keeps himself mostly out of the picture—save a requisite dare in which he shaves off his dickheadish ’stache—and instead turns to Judd Apatow’s Rolodex to dream up quips, periodically turning this into a theatrically released episode of Best Week Ever.

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as they plan on adopting an Ethiopian orphan, or whether indie food-truck owner Anna Kendrick (deserving much better) will reunite with the Abercrombie rent-a-hunk (Chace Crawford) after their accidental fetus perishes.

There’s also Cameron Diaz as a preggers reality TV star struggling (not too much) to find common ground with her baby daddy (Matthew Morrison); Elizabeth Banks attempting to do something as her character suffers fetus farts; and Dennis

The opening of Surviving Progress, a doomsday doc in the guise of a dynamic cine-essay, openly, if somewhat clumsily, quotes 2001: A Space Odyssey : An ape in a lab fumbles around with a pair of plastic letter L’s. As it starts to figure out a way to use them in a matter that would betray its intelligence, the film cuts to footage of a spaceship. But, as hinted in the title, progress isn’t always positive. Advanced hunting amongst early man helped contribute to the extinction of some of the animals they were pursuing, points out author Ronald Wright, who cites that as an example of what he calls a “progress trap,” where solutions for short-term goals often also prove short-sighted, resulting in long-term catastrophe.

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Oddly, the latter is one of the aspects that makes Surviving Progress more tolerable: it still holds out hope. Or at least it’s more calm. Ray’s and Crooks’ filmmaking, evenly divided between interviews and striking imagery, is serene and introspective, only borrowing a couple moves from Godfrey Reggio (Koyaanisqatsi ). Ditto the talking heads, even as they point out, for example, that should our global civilization fail, there are no other significant ones to take its place, as there were following the demise of Rome or Babylon. Or at least the hugely impressive roster of experts it rounds up—including Jane Goodall, Margaret Atwood and, briefly, the sound of Stephen Hawking’s computer—remain unusually sober, at worst resigned to the fate they see as inevitable if no one enacts serious change. There’s even traces of a perverse satisfaction should they be proven right that civilization is little more than a failed evolutionary experiment. n

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Neither fish nor fowl, director Richard Linklater’s hybrid whatzit takes a too-strangenot-to-be-true tale from the tabloids and fleshes it out halfway, relying on eyewitness testimony and documentary devices to fill in all the scenes that nobody probably felt like writing that day.

Jack Black stars as the title character, a swishy mortician in a tiny Texas town.

He’s the kind of guy who used to politely be called “a confirmed bachelor,” and spends his evenings accompanying elderly women to musical-theater revues. For reasons that never do become clear, Bernie takes a shine to Shirley MacLaine’s super-rude old lady, and despite her not having a single ingratiating character trait, the two enjoy tropical vacations and have a grand old time spending her late husband’s money.

That is, until Bernie shoots her in the back and stuffs her in a meat freezer.

The trial becomes a circus, with Matthew McConaughey’s grandstanding small-town sheriff riding the headlines for all they’re worth. If there’s any reason to see the picture, it’s McConaguhey. Wearing wide, rimless glasses and an exceedingly silly hat, the actor sends up his heartthrob image with tedious pontificating and self-aggrandizing publicity stunts.

But Linklater is too content to leave the camera on townspeople from Carthage, Texas, talking to the camera. I presume some of these folks are the real deal while others (including McConaughey’s mom) are hired pros. Either way, it’s lazy screenwriting, handing over all your exposition and detail work to people who just speak it all out loud, unimaginatively, into the lens.

Actual scenes with Black, MacLaine and McConaughey start to feel like over-acted interruptions to the documentary we’d rather be watching.

I suppose this is the part of the review where we’re all supposed to applaud Jack Black for playing an actual character instead of just doing his usual screaming Jack Black thing, but I’m still not buying it. Always too big for whatever scene he’s in, Black prances along doing dainty things with his hands and adopts a phony honeyed accent. During the closing credits, Linklater makes sure to show us footage of Black studying the real-life Bernie, because that makes it all more believable? n

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As the irritating stereotype goes, most female comedy protagonists tend to be great at their jobs yet terrible at their lives. Give the indie romance Losing Control credit for originality: Its hero, Samantha—a biology grad student played by an Amy Adams-y Miranda Kent—is bad at both her job and her life. Brainy and ambitious enough to study at Harvard, Samantha’s pet project is a “Y-Kill” protein, which will help eliminate Y-chromosomes bearing genetic illnesses.

Never mind the ethical quandaries about a protein that can dictate gender—writer/ director Valerie Weiss never does, despite being a biology grad herself—because Samantha’s never been able to make it work more than once. And never mind her elite credentials: Our lead is a clumsy airhead with a permanent open-mouthed expression of exasperation who greets the proposal of her longtime Asian Studies boyfriend (Reid Scott,Veep) with a bizarre scientific line that no scientist has ever uttered: Because she has little to compare their romance to, his love for her isn’t verifiable.

To scientifically (or “scientifically”) prove his sincerity—as though his wanting to go next level after what looks like years of romantic suffering weren’t evidence enough—she decides to go on a series of dates with movie stereotypes not even inventive enough to be lame: a douchebag lawyer who calls everyone “douchebag,” a polyamorous freak, one of those wacky performance artists. It’s like North for people who think art-house movies are automatically brainier than mainstream fare, or even those who’d assume a movie about a scientist by a scientist wouldn’t be insultingly stupid.

Losing Control never takes itself seriously, which is supposedly its defense against the left-field conspiracy plot climax, or even its curious racial humor. Having a Jewish mother who insists Samantha don a hat bearing a glowing Star of David gets a pass, if not comedically. Less so the Asian jokes, including a Chinese student whom no one can understand. Foreigners, huh! Indies like this give not only “festival favorites” a bad name, but also, as per its director, dramatic career shifts. n

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Hair tactics: Comedian Reggie Watts’ act evokes the spirit of Andy Kaufman.

Provenza saw what I was doing at the beginning and loved it. He introduced me to other comedians who appreciated the more disparate elements of comedy, and so I had a bit of a built in support group, for lack of a better term. A lot of those guys told me I reminded them of Andy Kaufman.

There was a precedent already set for what I was doing. Now, I’ve been doing it for so long that people are just like ‘Well, he does what he does and that’s fine.’”

Among the lovers of the disparate elements of comedy, fans of Watts’ doing what he does, was Conan O’Brien, who tapped him as an opener for his wildly successful and instantly soldout Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour in 2010.

Watts has also appeared on O’Brien’s show several times.

Now, as the big man with the funny hair and funny voices rambling in a stream of conciousness and rapping about fuck-shit stacks gains exposure, he’s no longer confusing audiences.

They’re growing with him, becoming accustomed to his “kind of nonlinear, musically oriented comedic performance,” which he’s been working on since high school in one form or another.

“It’s surreal,” says Watts of his success, now putting away those dishes.

“I can’t say I envisioned being able to make a living doing this when I started back then.”

Watts’ act may lack obvious punch lines. But his life, it turns out, is chock full of them. n

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Watts’ act is funny, but not in the same way, say, a Chris Rock or Louis C.K. standup special is funny. There are no traditional set ups, and, hence, no traditional pay offs. As a result, the audience doesn’t have the laugh cues they’re accustomed to when watching a guy tell jokes and funny anecdotes into a mic from a stage. That’s where the early confusion came in.

“I don’t consider what I do standup, necessarily,” says Watts. “But there are elements of standup in it.”

Watts is the conductor of a train that rarely stays on track. Only the train is a rollercoaster. And that rollercoaster is in the dark. You never know what’s coming next. Audiences at Watts’ performances laugh out of sync and at different times. They come in spurts from different parts of the room. They’re sporadic.

Some comedians begrudge him for what he does on stage. They are old-school traditionalists who see Watts breaking from the pack with his funny voices that go nowhere and fancy loop pedals and beat boxing.

To them, he’s not a joke writer or a comedy craftsman, but a clown. They see his uniquness as a crutch.

Add to Watts’ unique performance his equally unique appearance—a rotund man of mixed ethnicity hovering around 6 feet with the world’s most impressive and impressively teased afro—and, early on at least, there were lots of hardboiled cynics.

“Luckily,” Watts says of the inevitable blowback, “[comedian] Paul

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The first paragraph was going to be in the voice of a pirate. He’d just discovered a treasure; treasure that contained—you guessed it—Reggie Watts, an unlikely comic success, a rare gem.

The second was to be written in the voice of a cowboy waxing rhapsodic about Watts’ trailblazing performances.

From there, I would switch to a stodgy entertainment lawyer explaining to his colleagues why Watts was destined for obscurity, and why they shouldn’t represent him: “There are no punch lines !”

The first draft of this article was experimental. It was avant-garde. It was creative. But, mostly, it was just fucking terrible. Because I can’t do what Reggie Watts does. No one can.

In fact, I can’t really even describe what he does. So I ask him to do it. “I say it’s a kind of nonlinear, musically oriented comedic performance,” he says.

Typically, Watts comes out on stage in character: an elderly black man, a British aristocrat, a—I don’t know— leprechaun with leprosy (I told you, I can’t do this), flowing between each without breaks or explanation. He then might beat box into a series of loop pedals, sing over said loops in an impressive falsetto and craft an original composition before your very eyes. From there, he might sing “Fuck Shit Stack,” his song about stacking the word “fuck” on top of the word “shit” for the purposes of full curse maximization and effeciency, which also serves as a send-up of hardcore gangsta rap that’s equal parts low- and high-brow. (“Where my gerunds at?”)

So, yes, “typically” was the wrong word to use up there. Because there’s nothing typical about what Watts does in front of an audience. Nothing traditional. It changes every night.

“I use everything I come in contact with as inspiration,” Watts, 40, says over the phone from his Brooklyn apartment while, it sounds like, washing dishes. “Every day I’m scanning everything I come in contact with, taking it all in in bits and pieces, anything that strikes me as odd or funny. I might have a conversation

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hilly five-piece East Hundred just ended their impressive eight-year run with a show last week at Johnny Brenda’s to a room packed full of family, friends and fans. The band played through a gigantic 20-song set of material from their entire catalog, a few unreleased songs, favorite covers and one new song, written for the occasion. After two encores, champagne toasts and many thank yous, the band waved goodbye and stepped down from the stage they had played so many times. We sat down with frontwoman Beril Guceri for a retrospective on the life and times of East Hundred.

How was the show? A fitting finale?

It was fabulous. It was just a huge team effort to put it together. I just wish more people elsewhere, outside of Philly, could have been able to be there. We wanted to end on a positive note and give back to fans and friends who supported us for so long.

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East Hundred had considered calling it quits several times before. What was it that ended up being the breaking point?

We always felt, all along, that we had things to do. There were always new songs to work on, and the mindset was always, “Let’s keep going with these, until we have the opportunity to record them professionally and release them.”

With no industry support, you just eventually get burned out, doing everything on your own. But there’s really a multitude of reasons. I don’t like to think of it as a break up, but rather, we’re just all going our separate ways.

[Drummer] Will Blair has already expressed the notion that there will be some other musical project, and that those who are interested will continue playing. Does that interest you?

It’s hard to imagine not playing music. It’s a primal instinct.

Personally, I’m constantly writing music and lyrics. Right now, I think it’s too soon to talk about a new project. I’m just trying to take a breather. I’ve had people approach me about working on a solo project, but I have no idea when that would happen. And even then, I’m not sure I would pursue it like I did East Hundred.

Is it hard for five people to all remain happy and stay on the same page?

In a five-person democratic society, everyone has to feel good about the songs. It’s very hard. I think there’s a need for a little more stability in our lives. We spent all of our free time on this band, and there was almost no flexibility.

Apart from that, there’s paying bills, personal dynamics and changing musical tastes.

How did your band measure success? Was East Hundred successful in your eyes?

I think I can speak for the whole band in that we all felt we were incredibly successful. We did everything on our own.

We never had PR people. We never had a solid manager. We built a whole infrastructure and established relationships with bands, venues and music-industry people. We constantly heard positive feedback from people whose opinions we really trusted. Artistically, I think we were as successful as we could have been. When you start getting emails from people in Germany and New Zealand telling you how much they love your music, that’s fucking success! n

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Here’s what you do: Get in a time machine and go warn your younger self not to make the same mistake that so many women make in their 20s.

That is, dumping guys with relatively harmless, easily indulged kinks—the foot fetishists, the guys who wear panties, the guys who want their girlfriends to wear superhero costumes while they peg their ass—because kinky guys are “weird,” “not normal” or “probably gay.”

Backing way the hell up for a moment: I’ve been writing about sex and relationships, men and women, kinky sex and vanilla sex for 20 years.

It is my informed opinion that men typically become aware of their kinks when they’re teenagers.

Many women, on the other hand, don’t seem to become aware of their kinks until they’re in their 30s or 40s. Maybe it has something to do with the sexual peak, which men are believed to hit in their teens and women in their 30s, or maybe it simply takes women longer to overcome the misogynist slut-shaming that they’re subjected to as girls.

Whatever the cause, I’ve seen it happen again and again: A woman tosses aside a series of decent but somewhat kinky guys until she finds a guy whose sexual interests are “normal.” And that’s the guy she marries. Then, 10 or 20 years later, she develops some “weird,” “not normal,” “probably gay” sexual interests of her own. Now she wants to spice things up, but—fuckadoodledoo—20 years ago, she dumped a nice kinkster and married a total sexual dud instead.

So here’s what you do: Get in a time machine and go tell your 20-something self not to dump someone because he’s kinky, WHIP, because one day you’re going to come into your own kinks.

And when that day comes, you’ll want to be able to say something like this to your husband: “So, hey, you know how I’ve been jerking you off with my feet/letting you wear my panties/dressing up like Aquagirl and fucking your ass for the last 19 years? It’s been a lot of fun, honey, and you know I love you and you know I love your kinks. But it’s payback time. I just finished reading this book, and it really turned me on and now I wanna get canned and you’re going to can me.”

If you don’t have access to a time machine, WHIP, tell your husband that while he may be happy with the way things are, you’re not. Which means things have to change.

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I’m stumped, Dan. In the novel Fifty Shades of Grey, which has been the subject of much discussion due to its controversial subject matter (a young woman gets involved in a BDSM relationship), the term “canning” is used numerous times. Despite my best efforts, I cannot find a definition for this practice. Who else can I turn to but you?

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I’m a 43-year-old woman, married for 19 years, and I need your help! Like most middleaged moms, I read Fifty Shades of Grey. I understand that it is fiction. But it has motivated me to spice things up in the bedroom.

The problem is that my husband is a dud. He’s not open to trying anything that isn’t missionary or doggy. That’s the extent of it. I feel as if I’ve tried everything. He’s happy with the way things are. Period. What do I do?

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It isn’t, SPANK, at least not in Seattle.

“There is an expectation of privacy in a bathroom stall,” says Seattle Police Department spokesperson Sergeant Sean Whitcomb. “So obviously, what people do there is their personal business.”

If things went down exactly as you described, SPANK, you’re not in any legal danger, as you were doing your own private business in the privacy of a bathroom stall. The guy who peered into your stall, however, could be in trouble.

“Here’s the irony: The person peeping into the stall is the person we’d be interested in talking to,” says Whitcomb. “You don’t need to be peeping into the stall to see if someone is using it, and looking into a stall long enough to make a determination as to what the person is doing in that stall, exactly, is an indication that you’ve been looking a little longer than you need to.”

So, yeah, if anyone is going to jail here, SPANK, it’s the peeper who reported you to the office tower’s crack security team, not you.

HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA! Forgive me for laughing, SPANK, but I’m having a hard time keeping a straight face. If someone called the actual cops about a toilet wanker—and not, say, the Seattle Police Department’s polite and reasonable spokesperson—it’s the wanker who’ll wind up in handcuffs, not the caller. Beat cops don’t generally give the benefit of the doubt to guys rubbing ’em out in public toilets. They’ll assume you were cruising the toilet or, worse yet, that you’re the kind of perv who gets off to the sounds and smells of other men taking craps, and they’ll arrest you.

women all over the world aren’t fantasizing about having themselves canned by kinky billionaires.

A person can survive—a person can even enjoy—a good thrashing. But being sealed in an airtight container? Not so much.

Full disclosure: I may be the only sex writer on earth who has yet to read Fifty Shades of Grey. While I plan to avoid it, just as I’ve avoided watching “2 Girls, 1 Cup” (and for similar reasons, i.e., I’m easily nauseated), I think it’s wonderful that this book is inspiring a whole new generation of American women to get their kink on.

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

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

three + bedrooms 9TH & SPRING GARDEN 2ND FLR., MOD. ALL APPLS.,A/C, NEWLY RENOV. $1200/MO.+. 610-304-0087.

10TH & SNYDER APARTMENT, 4BDRS,2ND FLR.,Lg.Tile BATH,CARPET, $1200/ MO.+. 610-304-0087.

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

house for rent 4TH & LOMBARD 3BR Townhome on quaint street, HW flrs, CA, DW, WD, 2BA, Outdoor patio, Bsmnt, Dog friendly. AVAIL JULY! $1965.

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

ART MUSEUM: 26xx Parrish 3BR, 2.5BA TH, Garage, Rear yard, CA, WD. $1900/mo+ Utils. 267-939-4959 EAST PASSYUNK: Clean 2 Bdrm/ 1 bath house in perfect location.

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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 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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15TH and SPRUCE: Beautiful Art Deco High-rise Studio Apt, Desk Attendant, HW Flrs, Updated Kitchen, Onsite Laundry, Intercom Entry, Amazing Location! From $990Mo. 215-735-8030. Lic #219789.

THE CHATHAM (20TH/WALNUT) Spacious Studios/1BR’s in Highrise, Doorman bldg w/Magnificent Western & Southern exposure, View of Ritt Sq, HW flrs, Laundry on site, High flr. Prof managed. AVAIL JUNE! ALL UTILS INCL. FROM $1,275. MSRE, 215-925-RENT(7368), www.MichaelSingerRealEstate.com

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11:30AM-1:00P.M. ritteNhouse square 1806 ritteNhouse square #2002 $875,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

11:30AM-1:00PM uNiversity city 4231 regeNt square $445,000 coLdweLL baNker PreFerred

12:00-1:00P.M. beLLa vista 505 s 10th st $484,900 PLumer & associates queeN viLLage 246 Fitzwater st $369,900 PLumer & associates

washiNgtoN sq west 239 s hutchiNsoN street #e $799,900 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach ritteNhouse sq 2224 ritteNhouse square $788,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach society hiLL 241 s 6th ##701 $749,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach ritteNhouse sq 1740 NaudaiN street $689,900 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach graduate hosPitaL 2012 Fitzwater street $650,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach NortherN Liberties 991 N 5th street $640,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach graduate hosPitaL 1801 “b” moNtrose $614,900 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

baLa cyNwyd 39 uNioN ave $805,000 PLumer & associates

art museum area 2401 PeNNsyLvaNia aveNue #11b24 $609,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

society hiLL 308 s 2Nd street $1,399,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

society hiLL 508 Lombard street $600,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

ritteNhouse square 1719 ritteNhouse square $1,399,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

queeN viLLage 526 christiaN street #b $600,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

12:00-1:30P.M. NavaL sq 2420 grays Ferry ave $515,000-$659,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach mt airy (west) 621 w sedgwick street $449,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach society hiLL 603 addisoN street $389,900 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

12:00 - 2:00P.M. wyNNeFieLd heights 4718 coNshohockeN ave $149,999 coLdweLL baNker PreFerred abiNgtoN 341 Forrest ave $449,900 coLdweLL baNker PreFerred ritteNhouse square 2220 maNNiNg st $359,000 coLdweLL baNker PreFerred

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sPriNg arts 627 N 10th street $350,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach graduate hosPitaL 1835 christiaN street $560,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach society hiLL 227 s 6th ##4Nw $1,292,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach ritteNhouse square 1701 Locust ##1414 $1,200,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

society hiLL 536 Lombard street $585,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach art museum area 545 N 23rd street $574,900 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach art museum area 1512 meLoN street $559,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

uNiversity city 431 s 43rd street $395,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach ritteNhouse square 1903 sPruce #1F (aka #1b) $385,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach washiNgtoN sq west 914 sPruce #9 $379,900 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach art museum area 2214 PoPLar $378,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach beLLa vista 608 kimbaLL street $349,900 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach PeNNsPort 1210 s 3rd street $339,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach graduate hosPitaL 812 s 21st street $339,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach maNayuNk 156 krams aveNue $339,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach LogaN sq 2301 cherry street #3P $329,900 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach PeNNsPort 344 whartoN street $325,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach graduate hosPitaL 1707 carPeNter street #a $309,900 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach graduate hosPitaL 1538 christiaN street #3 $299,999 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach PassyuNk square 1021 cross street $299,900 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

queeN viLLage 201 queeN street #2 $550,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

graduate hosPitaL 1707 carPeNter street #b $293,900 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

society hiLL 338 s 3rd st $525,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

queeN viLLage 812 s howard street $289,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

beLLa vista 753 s warNock street $519,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach.

graduate hosPitaL 1705 carPeNter street #b $289,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

queeN viLLage 639 cathariNe street #101 $510,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

washiNgtoN sq west 1104 Lombard ##43 $279,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

LogaN sq 2200 arch street #314 $499,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach art museum area 2401 PeNNsyLvaNia aveNue #6b35 $449,900 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach ritteNhouse sq 312 s chadwick st #1r $445,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach PeNNsPort 105 maNtoN street $435,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

FitLer square 2134 PiNe street #2 $279,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach PassyuNk square 1535 s isemiNger $269,900 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach roxborough 590 JamestowN street $224,900 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach art museum 2601 PeNNsyLvaNia aveNue #147 $209,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

NortherN Liberties 445 oLive street $429,950 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

art museum 2401 PeNNsyLvaNia aveNue #15b23 $200,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

society hiLL 293 Locust street $895,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

queeN viLLage 822 s. swaNsoN $409,900 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

art museum 2601 PeNNsyLvaNia aveNue #146 $199,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

queeN viLLage 806 s 2Nd street $845,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

graduate hosPitaL 1523 rodmaN street $399,900 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

whitmaN 347 tree street $195,900 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

society hiLL 113 NaudaiN street $895,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

art museum 2601 PeNNsyLvaNia aveNue #126 $190,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

12:00-2:30P.M. washiNgtoN sq west 250 s 13th st 4F $267,900 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

12:00-5:00P.M. aveNue oF the arts 440 s broad st $499,900-900k coLdweLL baNker PreFerred

12:30-1:30P.M. waLtoN Park 11758 coLmaN road $190,000 coLdweLL baNker PreFerred washiNgtoN sq west 250 s 13th st #2g $175,000 coLdweLL baNker PreFerred washiNgtoN sq west 250 s 13th st #6b $335,000 coLdweLL baNker PreFerred washiNgtoN sq west 250 s 13th st 11d $440,000 coLdweLL baNker PreFerred sPriNg arts 1217 mouNt verNoN st #2 $380,000 coLdweLL baNker PreFerred graduate hosPitaL 1018 s 19th st $495,000 coLdweLL baNker PreFerred

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society hiLL 715 PiNe ##5 $479,900 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

society hiLL 143 s 2Nd street #303 $1,149,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

art museum 840 N 26th street $479,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

oLd city 112 N 2Nd street #6b $1,050,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

art museum 836 coriNthiaN aveNue $473,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

washiNgtoN sq west 1030 sPruce street #200 $995,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

queeN viLLage 238 queeN street #1 $460,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

1:30-2:30P.M. uNiversity city 4702 sPriNgFieLd ave $438,500 coLdweLL baNker PreFerred society hiLL 631 PiNe street $1,500,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach society hiLL 231 deLaNcey street $1,395,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach oLd city 108 arch street #902 $1,395,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach oLd city 241-43 chestNut #uNit g $1,250,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

2:30-4:00PM society hiLL 143 s 2Nd street #204 $899,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach FitLer sq 2329 Locust street $829,500 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

beLLa vista 750 s marviNe st $649,750 coLdweLL baNker PreFerred

queeN viLLage 830 s 2Nd - #uNit a $799,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

FishtowN 2462 emeraLd st $184,900 society hiLL

FitLer sq 2316 Lombard street $769,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

540 cyPress st $374,900 coLdweLL baNker PreFerred queeN viLLage

queeN viLLage 733 s 2Nd street $749,900 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

525 Fitzwater uNit 4 $229-253k coLdweLL baNker PreFerred queeN viLLage 1007 FairhiLL st $400,000 coLdweLL baNker PreFerred queeN viLLage 720 s FroNt street $349,900 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach art museum 2601 PeNNsyLvaNia aveNue #651 $129,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

1:00-2:00P.M. symPhoNy house 400-26 s broad street #2704 $1,250,000

1:00-2:30P.M. FitLer square 251 s 25th st $1,975,000 coLdweLL baNker PreFerred wissiNomiNg 5418 tackawaNNa st $109,000 coLdweLL baNker PreFerred 1:00-3:00P.m. art museum area 2001 hamiLtoN street #1401 $319,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

art museum 2813 browN street $729,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach ritteNhouse square 1919 PaNama $715,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach washiNgtoN sq west 318 s JuNiPer street $689,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach ritteNhouse sq 2101 market street #907 $629,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach beLLa vista 811 kater street $625,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach ritteNhouse square 1714 sPruce ##5 $577,500 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach PassyuNk square 1203 s JuNiPer street $529,900 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach NortherN Liberties 717 N haNcock street $500,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach uNiversity city 4335 PiNe street $499,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach oLd city 317 viNe ##111 $482,500 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

beLLa vista 759 s marviNe street $459,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach ritteNhouse sq 111 s 15th street #P204 $449,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach art museum 2001 hamiLtoN street #1806 $399,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach washiNgtoN sq west 1326 sPruce street #2503 $379,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach beLLa vista 915 baiNbridge street #201 $359,900 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach queeN viLLage 924 s 2Nd street $349,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach ritteNhouse sq 1600 arch street #1115 $349,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach queeN viLLage 718 s raNdoLPh street $329,900 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach FishtowN 1126 e wiLt street $329,900 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

society hiLL 210 w washiNgtoN square #10sw $1,950,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach society hiLL 210 w washiNgtoN square #9se $1,600,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach society hiLL 204 w washiNgtoN square #6Nw $1,395,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach queeN viLLage 123 moNroe street $1,100,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach oLd city 110 s FroNt st #600 $1,099,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach ritteNhouse sq 1901 waLNut street #12d $1,075,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach ritteNhouse sq 1922 ritteNhouse square $990,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach beLLa vista 1101 washiNgtoN aveNue #v6 $795,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach queeN viLLage 524 christiaN street #c $619,900 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach FitLer square 417 s 26th street $479,900 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach beLLa vista 763 s marviNe street $439,900 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach FairmouNt 2708 FoLsom street $419,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach graduate hosPitaL 752 s 19th street #3b $399,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

uNiversity city 4527 saNsom street $329,500 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

PeNNsPort 1317 s 2Nd street $369,900 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

beLLa vista 1123 kimbaLL street $325,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

art museum area 870 N PeNNock street #b $340,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

society hiLL 114 NaudaiN #uNit c $324,999 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

graduate hosPitaL 1727 Fitzwater #uNit a $329,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

ritteNhouse sq 1802 PiNe street #4 $319,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

beLLa vista 609 moNtrose street $310,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

Port richmoNd 2525 e thomPsoN street $315,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

art museum 2917 ogdeN street $307,500 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

aveNue oF the arts 111 s 15th street #1801 $310,000 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

itaLiaN market 702 maNtoN street $274,900 PrudeNtiaL Fox & roach

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To See the Following, Call Andy Oei (215)790-5230 2601 Pennsylvania Avenue #126-Oversized 2 bed, 1,210 Sq.Ft, gourmet kitchen, spa bath ......................................................................................... $1,850 2101 South Street #310-Large 1br skyline vuws stainless kitchen new bath 1mo free .......................................................................................... $1,750 To See the Following, Call David Snyder 267.968.8600 2351 Christian Street #1F-B-Great 2 Br/1 Ba bi-level condo,bamboo flrs,granite kit,W/D ..................................................................................... $1,155 2134 Locust Street #4F-Charming 1 Br Apt w/hw floors,SS appln,granite ctrs,balcony. ............................................................................ $1,750

w/d a/c all util inc .................................................................... $2,600 2223 Locust Street #2F-Bi-level 2B/1b brownstone in Rittn Sq HW thru-out hi-ceil......................................................................... $1,995 2429 Locust Street #420-1B/1b loft at Locust Point hi-end high ceils a/c w/d fit ctr .................................................................. $1,750 1324 Locust Street #630-Studio @ Arts Condos Great loc Fit ctr 24/7sec all util incl .................................................................. $1,000 1518 S Broad Street #3-2B/1b @ brownstone in South Philly 3rd fl walk-up HW fl kit ..................................................................... $1,095 2128 Saint James Street-4B/2.25b home in English Village finished bsemnt orig detail.................................................................... $4,000 To See the Following, Call Mike McCann (215) 440-8345

To See the Following, Call John Featherman 215-790-5221 1824 Addison Street-Bi-level 1B/1b on quiet st in Ritt Sq fp a/c w/d gas cooking ............................................................................. $1,500 1618 Latimer Street-Spacious 2B/Den/1.5b in Ritt Sq area HW frs backyard a/c w/d ..................................................................... $2,500

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305 Brown St (Northern Liberties) 1500 sq. ft.office or photography/music studio, hrd. Floors $2,200.00 25th & Wharton Sts. G-2 warehouses, garages, offices, 800sq. ft to 16,000 sq. ft available $7-$9 sq.ft.

404 South St 1200 sq.ft, retail store, bath, c/a, high traffic great block NNN $4,000.00 413 S. Broad St across from Symphony Hse. Approx 2500 sq.ft. bi-level offices, c/a.1.5 bths $2,500.00

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50 S 16th Street #4407-Celestial 1 BR/Den/2 BA condo totally furnished w/river view............................................................. $6,895

1811 Chestnut Street #503-N/C-1 Br/1 Ba,hw flrs,granite,SS applns,C/A,washer/dryer. ..................................................$1,800 609 E Thompson Street-Modern 3 bedroom/1 bath home w/ exposed brk and fireplace. ................................................$1,200

To See the Following, Call James Labonski (215) 521-1552 3751 Main Street #605-Corner unit 2 Bedroom/2 Bath with balcony + PARKING. .............................................................................. $1,850 3751 Main Street #708-2 Bedroom/2 Bath with Balcony + PARKING. ................................................................................................. $1,575 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-3 bedroom,2 bath,hardwood flrs,Parking,(1500 sq.ft.) .......................................................... $2,600

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2062 Lombard Street-1 Br/1 Ba apt,hw flrs,newer kit,Lr,W/ D,good storage space. .......................................................$1,395 733 Melon Place #D-2 Br/1 Ba,washer/dryer tenant pays cooking gas/electric. ....................................................................$995 1110 Mount Vernon Street #1-2 Br apartment,hrwd flr,yard,SS applns,new wndws............................................................$1,295 1535 S 28th Street-Renovated 3 Br/1 Ba,new flrs and wndws,lrg EIK.

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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 Suzin Kline 215-440-7505

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tHe rittenHouse 210 W. rittenHouse squAre Studio, western city views, large bathroom appointed in marble, 583 sf $1,575 Studio, wood floors, large marble bathroom, western views, 583 sf $2,250 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, high floor with panoramic city views, excellent condition, 1418 sf $4,750 2 bedrooms plus den, 2.5 bathroom penthouse, new designer kitchen, marble baths, expansive balcony, 2122 sf $7,500

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pArc rittenHouse 225 s. 18tH street Studio, South views, wood floors, marble bath, 475sf $1,550 Junior 1 bedroom, open kitchen, large marble bath, wood floors 532 sf $1,850 1 bedroom, wood floors, large galley kitchen with granite counters and stainless $2,100 steel appliances, marble bath, 693 sf

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17XX s. 2nd - two family fOrECLOsurE home, street to street, parking, 6XX PEtErsBurg rd. bElla ViSTa $275,000.

4 bedroom - 2 full baths.

2101 s. HOWArd st - corner $299,000.

13XX fitZWAtEr st. - New Snyder, large two bedroom, rEnTal construction, four bedrooms, $159,000. two baths large side yard, Ave of 14XX s. OriAnnA st. Needs 2131 s. BrOAd st. - Rental Unit, 5XX POrtEr st. - large three bedroom, finished basement c/a $139,000.

10XX WintOn st - cute two bedroom, large kitchen, nice front $135,000.

26XX diCkinsOn st - 3 bedroom, great for investor or first

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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 508 Lombard Street-Beautiful 3 Br/2.5 Ba w/GARAGE PRKNG,cstm kit,gas fp,lovely mstr Br. 16 Saint James Court-Gorgeous 2BR+office/2bth home on cobblestone Street. PRKG avail 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 211-25 S 4th - ##103-Stunning 2 Br/2 Ba 1st flr unit,soaring ceiling,beautiful kit,hrwd flrs T/O 604 S Washington Square #3115-Renovated 1Br/1Ba(778 sq ft)facing south with balcony off living room.

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

1722 N Hancock Street-27,000 s.f. Warehouse in developing area,grt for condo conversion.

1722 W Norris Street-Investment opportunity by TempleU. 5BR/2bth. Rented thru 6/12

LUXURY CONDOS AND CO-OPS

813 N Orianna Street #A-4 Br/3 spa Ba,fin bsmt,European chefs kit,muti dks,grdn/outdoor spc,tx abat 317 Vine ##111-2 Br/2 Ba w/hw flrs,ceramic tile bths,granite countertops,SS applns,PARKING 301 Race Street #519-Large,bright,studio condo w/ sleeping alcove,lots of closets,pet friendly.

51 N Front Street #503-Penthouse Studio w/River/ Bridge views,exp brk,hw flrs,new Kit & Ba $1,395,000 104 Market Street #401-Studio on top flr,Brazilian cherry flrs,granite counters,SS appliances. $600,000 $544,900 $525,000 $525,000 2001 Catharine Street-Corner property 3 Br + den.2.5 Spa Ba,fpl,cherry flrs,dk,grdn + fin bsmt. $244,000 755 S Dorrance Street-3 Br/2 Ba upgraded t/o,Kitchen w/granite & SS, + private rear patio.

1523 Rodman Street-Charming 2 Br/1.5 Ba home w/garden,exp brk,fpl,granite kit & 2nd flr patio.

752 S 19th Street #3B-3 BR/2 Ba flat w/private deck off LR,hwflr’s,kit w/SS & granite,hi ceilings 1516 Catharine ##4-Updated 1 Br condo w/high ceilings,hw flrs,SS applns + washer/dryer. $1,900,000 $1,105,000 $245,000 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.

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P H I L A D E L P H I A W E E K LY May 2 - 8, 2012

1515 Locust Street #900-Gorgeous 3BR/3BA condo. Generously-sized. High ceilings. $1,195,000 1901 Walnut Street #12D-Gorgeous 3BR/3BA condo. High ceilings. Fine flourishes throughout! $1,075,000 317 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 1600 Arch Street #618-2 Br facing Love Park,Kit w/SS/granite,2 full bths,wood flooring in LR. $549,000 212 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 #A-3BR/3BA corner-lot condo. Security system. High ceilings, ceiling fans. $399,900 115 Brown Street #B-Deluxe, 3BR/3BA corner-lot condo. Security system. High ceilings. $399,900 2401 Pennsylvania Ave #4A4-3BR/2.5bth light filled condo. Art Museum vus from lrge balcony $399,000 1901 Walnut Street #8C-Bring your architect. 1441 sf co-op has C/A+ wd&marble flrs pets ok $349,000 250 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 $249,000 115 Brown Street #D-Rewarding 2BR/2BA condo on a corner lot. Security system. High ceilings. $240,000 1010 Race Street #6E-Chic-1 Brnm + Den,granite + SS,A/C,wd flrs,elevated bldg. $189,900 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.

RED’D- $139,900

OLDE CITY/NORTHERN LIBERTIES 110 S Front St #600-Lux 2 Br condo w/flr to ceiling wndws,hw flrs,granite ctrs/SS appln + Prkng 112 N 2nd Street #6B-3 Br/2 Ba Penthouse condo w/ river views,2 blncy’s,hrwd flrs,2 C Grg PRKNG. 33 N 3rd Street ##3-Unique 2 Br/2 Ba Old City Flat,high ceil,den/study,wd flrs,gas fpl.

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1602 Spruce Street-Fantastic location-6 Unit bldg w/4 apartments,1 store,1 restaurant.

1704 Delancey Street-Gracious 2-bedroom townhome. High ceilings. Provides luxurious living!

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 1624 Spruce Street #3R-Spacious 1 Br condo in Rittenhouse,SS applns,Hw flrs, C/A,pet friendly.

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

1626 Spruce Street #4-1 Br/1 Ba condo,this is a corner unit,kit opened up to LR,W/D in unit.

ART MUSEUM

QUEEN VILLAGE AND BELLA VISTA

$599,900 $482,500 $159,500 $144,500 743 E Passyunk Avenue-3 BR/2 full Ba,open Lr w/fpl,open kit,hw & tile t/o,garden + garage. $115,900 830 S 2nd - #Unit A-4 Br/3.5 spa Ba,hw flrs,2 fp’s,garden,fab roof deck,10 yrs old,3,072 sq ft.

733 S 2nd Street-Pristine 4 Br/2.5 Ba,new kit,hrwd flrs,2 Fp’s,formal DR,bsmt,deck & grdn. $625,000 $479,000 $399,900 $399,000 $125,000

$749,000 $679,000

811 Kater Street-Semi-detached 3 Br/2.5 Ba w/1 car garage,SS kit,2 gas fpl,mstr suite,rf dk.

$625,000

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.

$549,000

1001 S 3rd Street-4BR/3.5bth new const w/Tax Abatement. Spacious. Nice finishes

$425,000

822 S. Swanson-Single fam used as duplex,3 bdrm,3.5 ba,C/A hrwd flrs,2 dks,garden.

$409,900

336 Pemberton Street-Lovely twnhse in Q.V w/PARKING,roof deck,2 fpls,2 Br/2 Ba,garden/TV

$341,999

$2,950,000 725 Kimball-Terrific 3 Br/1 Ba home w/new kit,roof,hw flrs,4 yr old HVAC system. $1,980,000 1123 Kimball Street-Restored 2 Br/1.5 Ba w/decked in yard,wd flrs,cstm kit & ba,fin bsmt.

$325,000

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

$310,000

725 Earp Street-Cute 2 BR/1.5 Bath with finished basement, HW floors and nice sized patio $1,999,000 $599,999 $539,900 $495,000 $479,000 254 S 11th Street-Triplex-2 apartments and 1 commercial space $289,900 $249,000 505 S 10th Street #I-3 Br/2.5 Ba corner unit w/1 CAR PRKNG,hrwd flrs,wd-burning fpl,rf dk,grdn. $247,500 903 Clinton ##2F-Beautiful 2 Br/2 Ba condo w/cherry flrs,fpl,granite kit,PRKNG AVAIL.

$234,900

$595,000 $564,000 $525,000

LOGAN SQUARE

$499,000 1818 S Broad Street-Grand 4BR/2.5bth w/family rm. & office. Extraordinary Character $349,999 1429 Wharton Street-4 Unit corner bldg,Deli + salon + 2 very large 1 Br updated apts,hw floors $265,000 2725 S 9th Street-Upgraded home w/rear PRKNG,2 Br + office,fin bsmt,SS applna & wd flrs.

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WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST

4335 Pine Street-Lovely & Spacious single in CATCHMENT. 5BR/2bth, offc, Family Rm 45 University Mews-3BR+ office/den, 2bth TH w/GARAGE PARKING in CATCHMENT. C/A 47 University Mews-Contemporary 2BR/1.5bth TH w 2-Car PRKG. Deck & Amazing Light

$1,099,000 817 S 5th Street #1, 2, 3-Hi-End New Constr. Sustainable 3 full-flr flats w/elev. MEREDITH $1,050,000 715 S Bancroft Street-10 sold 1 LEFT Platinum New constr Single home w/2-CAR PRKG & Tax Abate $799,000 300 Salter Street-New Construction in Queen Village - 3Br 2.5b w/ den & GARAGE, Tax Abated

$789,900

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

$419,000 $299,000 2200 Arch ##706-Bright 2 Bd /2 Ba,1310 sq ft,24 Hr Doorman,DEEDED PRKNG,pet friendly $209,000 2424 S 20th Street-Comfortable 4-bedroom townhome full of potential. Central air. $169,900

NEW CONSTRUCTION

$799,000

335 Christian Street-3BR/3.5BA QV Mansion w/ detail & character,dk,grdn + 2 CAR PARKING.

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.

870 N 28th Street #113-Beautiful bi-level condo 1 Br/1 Ba,fpl,hw flrs,new ba,gated PARKING 1430 N 30th Street-3 Br/2 Ba,C/A,wood flrs, restored & renovated porch front home

UNIVERSITY CITY/POWELTON VILLAGE

$899,000

$499,900 $239,900

AROUND TOWN

322 Reed Street #1F-Bi-level 2 Br/2 Ba,hw flrs,high ceilings,2007 renovations,outdoor space.

4334 Shelmire Avenue-Pleasing 3-bedroom townhome. Central air, ceiling fans. Garage. $627,500 $575,000 5636 Thomas-3 Bedroom porch front row,nice convenient location,needs updating. $499,000 5927 Springfield Avenue-Very spacious 3 bedroom,garden,patio,Garage.

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23xx So. 3rd (Store 2B/r mod. apt)

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Francisville

$379,900

$1,050,000

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Adorable 2BD/1BA with rooftop deck, hardwood floors, gorgeous granite + stainless kitchen, and private, red bricked yard, all on a charming, cobblestone street with brick sidewalks!

Northern Liberties $650,000

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$425,000

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Brand new luxury construction featuring 4BD/3.5BA extra wide home (3,700 sq. ft, including finished garage), featuring 2 dens, garage, elevator, stainless 717 N. Hancock $500,000 kitchen + appliances, 3 Juliet balconies, rooftop deck, Spacious, high quality newer 3BD/2.2BA home with and custom floors!

1-car garage parking, modern stainless kitchen, finished basement w/ high ceilings, huge patio and a stunning master suite!

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$625,000

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$439,900

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Beautiful semi-detached 3BD/2.5BA home with 1-car garage, gorgeous stainless kitchen, 2 gas fireplaces, 717 N. Hancock $500,000 huge master bedroom, flagstone patio and rooftop New construction 3BD/3.5BA home w/ 2-car garage, deck with stunning skyline views! den, private yard, Juliet balcony, hardwood floors, gas fireplace, stainless and granite kitchen, and 4th floor penthouse with wet bar and rooftop deck!

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$565,000

WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST

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112 N. 2nd 6B

$1,050,000

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$369,900

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$379,000

Newly constructed 3 bedroom/2.5 bathroom townhouse! Enjoy solid wood floors, large windows, a true cook’s kitchen, marble bathrooms, roomy closets, roof deck, patio garden, finished basement, and attached garage parking!

Tax abatement pending.

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Live above it all in this spacious 2 bedroom/2 bathroom condo with spectacular skyline views! Features include an open kitchen with gas cooking, separate dining area, sliding glass doors onto a private terrace, large walk-in closets and reasonable monthly fees. Rental parking in building can be transferred to Buyer.

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Lg. eat-in kitchen w/granite, center island, stainless steel appliances & butler’s pantry. Great room w/cathedral ceiling, skylights & FP. Master Suite w/vault-ed ceiling, dressing rm & lg. Master bath w/Jacuzzi tub & skylights. Full fin. basement w/ multiple rms & a full bath. 2 zone heat/AC, central vac, wooded lot…. Realistically priced at $519,000

CHERRY HILL/SIENA 4 BR, 3 full & 2 half baths home w/ 2 car gar. 2 story FR w/new carpet & gas FP. Eat-in Kitchen w/center island, 42” cabinets, tile backsplash & sliders to deck.1st Flr Office w/newer carpet.

Master Suite w/ sitting area & gas FP. Master bath w/ jacuzzi & cust. tile work. Lg. walk in closet. Fin basement w/ rec area, powder rm, wall/wall carpet & tons of storage . 2 zone heat/AC. All stucco exterior. ….Realistically priced at $679,999

VOORHEES ESTATES AT MAIN 3 BR, 2.5 baths w/over-sized 2+ gar. FR w/ gas FP & sliders to extended deck.

Updated kitchen w/lg. granite island w/bar seating, prof appliances & limestone flr. Master Suite w/tumbled marble bath & lg. dressing rm. 2nd Level loft can be 4th BR. Fin. basement w/built-ins, gas FP, wet bar, wine refrigerator & pwdrrm.2 zone heat, zone A/C. ..Realistically priced at $499,900

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ART MUSEUM/LOGAN SQUARE 938 N 29th St Lovely 3BR/1BA Renovated home with Original charm 895 N Stillman St Well-Maintained, Recently Renovated End of Row 2BR/1.5BA with Ultra Modern Kitch, HW Flrs, Exposed Brick, Fin Basement 411 S 19th St #1 Fantastic Rittenhouse Unit with 1BR/1.5BA walking distance to shops and restaurants!

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

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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!

1025 Mount Vernon St Huge recently renovated 6-7 BR with CA and HW Floors blocks from Spring Arts Point

Wi n n e r s $285,000 $310,000 $359,900 $339,900

RITTENHOUSE SQUARE / FITLER SQUARE / AVENUE OF THE ARTS 1324 Locust St #1229 Cute Studio in the conveniently located Arts Condo building, Don’t miss out on this one!

Call Skye Michiels for details 1425 Locust St #3A Large 1BR/1.5BA Aria Condo with storage, walk-in closets, marble bath, SS app, dual zone heat/cool $365,000 1608 Addison St Charming 3 Story with 2 Large BR/2BA in Rittenhouse Square, Wood burning Fireplace, HW floors, gourmet kitchen $420,000 OPEN FRI SAT,SUN 12-5PM 440 S. Broad St. Only one 1BR left and a select few of 2BR’s and 2BR’s with Den. 95% Sold.

From $499,900-900,000 1207 S Broad St Restored Brownstone mansion, 4BR/4.5BA, formal LR &DR, Newer Kitchen, Multi parking and garden $619,900 251 S 25th Street Diamond Residence – Elegant Modern Home on the Park – All New Construction – OPEN HOUSE 215-582-7909 $1,975,000

$264,000 $284,000 $295,000

UNIVERSITY CITY / WEST PHILADELPHIA

5002 Florence Ave 4BR/1Ba in great location, Needs some work but has great bones 811 S 51st St. 3bed/2.5bath twin top to bottom renovation where old & new blend seamlessly not a detail overlooked 542 S 48th St B 3BR/2BA on lovely shared Courtyard, Quiet rear unit with private deck, fireplace, CA and more 4300 Pine St #C106 1BR+ Den condo Designer Kitchen , HW floors, walk-in closet, Tax abatement 4813 Regent St Restored Victorian twin W/sweet orig details on side street near Clark Park 4252 Osage Ave 3BR/2BA Catchment area move in condition, great starter home. Condo with tax abatement and low fees 4200 Pine St #402 2BR/2BA with Parking, tax Abatement and top of the line finishes in historic Trumbauer Mansion 4253 Regent Square Charming corner property, 5BR/2BA, overlooking Clark Park and Mill Creek Garden, Penn Alexander 4231 Regent Sq Updated 4BR/2BA Victorian with Cook’s kitchen, Garden, and central air, Penn Alexander 527 S 41st St Catchment Area, 5BR/2.5BA, 2 Car parking, Historically Certified, Fully Updated 518 S 46th St 5BR/3.5BA Pristine twin w/in law suite on corner of Catchment Area

$139,900 $250,000 $290,000 $320,000 $350,000 $350,000 $365,000 $438,500 $445,000 $525,000 $550,000

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309-13 Arch St #402 1br/1ba 2 LOFTED SPACES IN POPULAR Hoopskirt lofts, Low fees and abatement thru 2017 $274,900 319 Vine St #109 One Bedroom luxury condo @ York Square, Granite, SS Kitchen with Breakfast bar, Huge walk in closet $275,000 309-313 Arch St #507 1BR/2BA, tax abatement, lots of light, HW floors, open layout and Parking behind the building $359,000 6-10 S Strawberry St #4 Awesome 2BR/2BA condo in historic old city visit http://www.6-10sstrawberry.com for pictures and details $379,900 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

2643 Tulip St 3BR/2.5BA, HW Floors, and Walk out balcony $179,000 525 Fitzwater #4 Abbotts Court.com 2BR/1.5BA, Gated Courtyard, Gourmet Kitchens, hardwood floors, OPEN HOUSE $229-253K 650 N 8thSt 2BR/2.5BA Modern kitchen 2 car parking in gated lot $269,900 1514 Christian St Unit B Large 2BR/2BA $299,000 1514 Christian St Unit A Large 2BR/2.5 home in Graduate Hospital $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 Brand new Construction 3BR/2.5BA Home in Queen Village, HW Floors, Deluxe Kitchen $400,000 4417 Saint David’s St New Construction townhomes just a short walk away from downtown Manayunk w/ amazing Features $450,000 1928 Kimball St New Construction 3BR/3BA, Roof Top Deck, Center City Views, Garage and 10 Year Tax Abatement

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1516 Catharine St #5 Awesome Value: Perfect alternative to renting, or a turnkey investment, Great condo in a Great Location $125,000 228 Catharine St #3 2BR/1BA in Meredith Catchment, Visit Http://www.228.catharine.com for details $149,900 2214 Catharine St Solid House Needs Rehab, Great Block, Selling As Is $215,000 1115 Emily St New Totally Renovated 3BR/1BA, 1175 SQ Ft, C/A, Granite, Stainless, HW Floors thru out, Prime Locations 1721 Webster St Tree Lined Block, Hardwood floors, Fireplace, Patio space $249,900 708 S Perth St B Unique Property with Large Back patio, remodeled Kitchen and bathroom $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 1514 Christian St #B New Construction with Large 2BR/2BA $299,000 727-29 S 7th St #2F Spacious 2BR/!BA Newly painted and upgraded, HW Flrs, High Ceiling, Lg Deck $264,900 422 Dickinson St Brand New massive and gorgeous renovation, 3BR/2.5BA, Private rear garden $299,900 735 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 $349,900 617 Reed St #200 Fully renovated 2BR Condo 1 Car garage, Extra storage, Must See! $399,900 301 Christian St Amazing home located in Meredith Catchment, visit http://www.301christian.com for pictures and details $399,900 1839 Christian St 5 yr old home 3/BR/2.5BA, Great layout and tax abatement $415,000 232 Queen St #C Sunny 2BR/2.5BA with Parking, Roof Deck, SS appl in a courtyard, Close to parks & Shopping $415,000 1125 Christian St Gorgeous, Spacious, Large Backyard, Large Bedrooms, Granite and Marble Baths $405,000 1018 S 19th St Pristine, 3BR/3.5BA Ready to Move-in! Roof-Top Deck, Garage, Finished Basement OPEN HOUSE $495,000 747 S Chadwick St Terrific Location 3BR/2.5BA with open floor plan, Garage, deck, Patio and Garden.

Saturday 5/1912 from 12:30-2PM OPEN HOUSE $525,500 1432 Catharine St New Construction, 4BR/4.5BA with 2 Car Parking, Roof deck, Amazing Master suite and more $609,000 750 S Marvine St Gorgeous 4BR/3.5BA, Completely Renovated with Roof-Top Deck and Gated Parking !

OPEN HOUSE $649,750 760 S 2nd St 4BR/3.5BA, 2 Car Parking, Terrace, Roofdeck, 2 fireplaces, HW Floors, Custom details and built-ins $849,900 2401-25 Washington Ave Very Large Corner Lot on North side of Washington Ave close to CHOP $2,190,000

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 $40SF 6011-13 Market St DBL Wide Commercial Reduced $299,000 1609 E Passyunk Commercial property on the Square, Rare Opportunity $435,000 1246-56 S 17th St Over 17,000 SF of Prime Real Estate Ripe for Development $650,000 301 MacDade Blvd Auto Repairs Business including all Equipment, Great visibility on busy MacDade Blvd $695,000 305 Cherry St Rare Commercial opportunity in Old City $799,900 SURROUNDING AREAS Kensington – 1544 Adams Ave Solid Property, good Potential for rental. $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 w/newer furnace, roof & updated electric & 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 West Phila – 6049 Irving 3BR/1BA meticulously maintained home, recently updated throughout, A Must See! $59,900 West Phila- 231 N 52nd St Large house, spacious kitchen, separate dining room, high ceilings $60,000 Kensington – 110 Thompson St Lot $65,000 North Phila – 1826 W Thompson St Opportunity to develop on nice size lot $65,000 Southwest Phila – 2644 S 67th St Great Sized 2BR/1BA home on quiet block $66,000 Delaware Co – 216 Mulberry St DBL Wide Corner property with Parking $94,900 Wissinoming – 5418 Tackawanna St 3BR/1BA home $109,000 Port Richmond – 2550 E Ontario St Nicely Remodeled 3BR/1BA, Great Opportunity for a first time home buyer $134,900 Wynnefield Heights – 4718 Conshohocken Ave Charming home near Farimount Park, Bala golf Course and St Joe’s, Parking Included OPEN HOUSE $149,999 Somerton – Well cared for Somerton home on a large lot, Needs updating $150,000 Overbrook Park – 6548 Harlan St Beautiful 3BR/2BA home with lovely front Yard $154,900 Southbrook Park- 1922 S 28th St 3BR renovated home with front yard, finished basement, C/A rear deck and driveway $159,900 Manayunk – 108 Kalos St 2BR/1.5BA, Great Block, Large Kitchen With Island, Deck and Finished Basement $169,900 Fishtown – 2462 Emerald St New, Totally Renovated 2BR/1BA Certified Energy Efficient Home $184,900 Point Breeze – 1443 S Bancroft Totally renovated 2BR/1BA Home $189,900 Abington – 2833 Miriam Ave Four Bedroom home in great Roslyn neighborhood, Needs TLC but priced to sell $215,000 Pennsport – 2021 S Philip St New Totally Renovated 2BR/1BA, finished Basement, Grantie, Jacuzzi tub, Hardwood floors, Gorgeous $225,000 Fishtown – 1129 E Palmer St 3BR/2.5BA, HW Floors, Modern Kitchen, Large Master bedroom and rear yard $239,900 Fishtown – 1301 N Front St D 2BR/2BA at Thompson St Lofts, Orig Ireonwork, Wxp Brick & beams, fireplace, Spa-like baths $259,000 Manayunk – 4143 Main St St Fantastic location for any business, Commercial Space and 2 apartments with large open Space, Great Deal $259,900 Temple University – 1633 N 20th St Gorgeous remodeled Multi-Unit Cash flow opportunity near Temple University over $3,300 month rental income $265,000 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 Lower Merion – 523 Putnam Rd 3BR/2.5BA, Impeccably Maintained, Granite, Eat in Island Kitchen, HW Floors, SS and More $569,000 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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$479,900

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$269,900

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$229,000

624 sf

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1,709 sf

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$269,900

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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 brand new 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom condo, wood floors, designer baths, custom chef’s kitchen, exposed brick and high ceilings throughout 2,017 sf $995,000 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 $309,900 1 bedroom, open kitchen, wood floors, unobstructed river views from all rooms 712 sf $269,900

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$439,900 $399,900 $359,900

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1,050 sf

$610,000

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1,198 sf

$539,900

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bi-level penthouse, 2br. 2.5ba, 2 kitchens, impeccably finished throughout, amazing river and city views 4,500 sf $2,295,000 2 br plus den, 2 baths, panoramic river and city views, updated kitchen, lavish master bath, wood floors throughout 1961 sf $875,000 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, 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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3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, high floor with magnificent city vistas, 1524 sf

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$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

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