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Mary Seton Corboy, owner of Greensgrow Farms in Kensington, shows Philly how to be successful in urban agriculture.

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ow ludicrous was the notion of urban agriculture to most Philadelphia residents just 15 years ago?

Mary Seton Corboy still laughs as she recalls going to the Department of Licenses & Inspections in 1997 to get approval to transform a vacant block (and former EPA Superfund site) on Cumberland Street in North Philly into a hydroponic lettuce farm.

“The girl at the counter, she said to the others, ‘Come on out here—you know how I said the other day we’ve seen it all? This lady wants to grow lettuce in Kensington!’”

The whole office roared as though Corboy had just dropped a Chris Rock routine on them. “They said, ‘We have no idea what the hell you’re talking about, but who cares, it’s Kensington.’ They stamped the thing and said, ‘You know what? Don’t come back.’”

Today, urban farming is all the rage, and Corboy’s acre-sized, widely lauded Greensgrow Farms has become the model for how to succeed in agriculture within big-city limits. Farmer-in-chief Corboy, 54, presides over a virtually year-round, multifaceted operation that employs a staff of more than 20. There’s a thriving nursery of vegetables and flowers. A Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program that provides regular shares of produce and other foods from Greensgrow and dozens of farms within 100 miles of Philadelphia to its 500 subscribers. And workshops open to all Philadelphians about how to grow in tiny urban spaces.

During a tour of the grounds under the early morning sun, the petite Corboy— who’s all at once gruff, kind, self-deprecating, potty-mouthed and a joy to be around—explains she was as unlikely a person to become a farmer as Kensington was a place to establish a farm.

“I didn’t know a damn thing about growing anything,” Corboy laughs. Raised in D.C., she came here 30 years ago to attend Villanova, eventually earning a master’s degree in political science. Her father worked for the Department of State, and for a time she thought she’d follow in his footsteps.

But ever the free spirit, Corboy instead became a chef, then a ranch-hand out in Wyoming, and then, for much of the ’90s, she worked on the grounds of painter Andrew Wyeth’s Chadds Ford estate. There, she learned about agriculture but also became something of a beloved bungler—

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Cream of the crop: Greensgrow Farms founder Mary Seton Corboy’s roots are in Kensington.

driving a riding mower into a river her first day, and another time accidentally chopping down the Wyeth family’s favorite apple tree. “They found it humorous to keep me around to see what I could fuck up next,” she says.

In ’97, she and friend Tom Sereduk, a chef and grower, teamed up to start Greensgrow with the idea of cultivating and delivering high-quality lettuce for

local chefs like Marcie Turney (now of Barbuzzo), Fork’s Anne-Marie Lasher and others. With a $40,000 loan from Ben Franklin Technology Partners, the pair put down roots on a cheap parcel of land in a scarred section of Kensington once occupied by a galvanized steel plant. The neighbors were cautiously welcoming yet skeptical. Corboy, a steadfast proponent of sustainability and healthy eating, avoided

foisting her values on the locals.

“You can’t tell a Philadelphian what to do,” she says. “They’re not gonna think you’re the greatest fucking thing since sliced bread because you’re growing weirdlooking lettuce in a place they wanted to be a bowling alley or a Wawa.”

The first three years were tough. Lettuce season was only a few months long and profits were slim. The pair had a nasty falling-out over finances and Sereduk left (they’ve since repaired their friendship).

Corboy considered closing Greensgrow, but “at that point we were known for being urban farmers, and I just couldn’t fail publicly.”

Corboy saved the business by growing and selling flowers to extend the farm’s season. Greensgrow steadily expanded, but then a bigger crisis came in 2004 when Corboy was diagnosed with endometrial cancer and given only months to live.

Chemotherapy and radiation saved her life; she’s been cancer-free for five years, but treatment took its toll, and these days she can’t work the soil in the hot sun quite like she used to.

Usually, she’s found in the Greensgrow offices handling the business end of things, but Corboy’s still a farmer at heart—making the rounds every day, getting dirt under her nails, feeding the worms for compost. “It doesn’t get any more basic than that,” she says. “Sometimes when you’ve been in meetings all day, it’s like, lemme go outside and put my hands in the shit, literally. That still gives me a thrill.”

The neighborhood’s better than it was, but Corboy still has to deal with thieves scaling the fences in the night and stealing refrigerators, snowblowers and metal pipes—not to mention drunks who’ve tried to swipe the chickens or Greensgrow’s mascot and superstar, Milkshake the pig.

Corboy takes it all in stride, and notes that with Greensgrow’s sterling reputation, the city finally seems to get it. She hopes they keep that in mind when they consider what to do with the vacant factories and abandoned lots dotting the landscape just blocks from her farm.

“Greensgrow is a place that was considered totally unusable, totally abandoned, and without a big capital infusion we managed to turn it into something that’s a positive for the community,” says Corboy.

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They might be creepy, but they’re VIPs of our ecosystem. And they’re dying.

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ry this: Approach a random kid and say, “Hey, kid! There’s a bat!”

Most likely, the kid will run away in terror, screeching like a hyena. That’s because bats have a bad rap: It was ingrained in our brains at an early age that they are bloodsucking nocturnal bastards that violently swarm while we sleep. They are demonic beasts that wanna bite and kill. Or, at the very least, they want to get their bat-kicks by swooping down and getting stuck in our hair.

Either way, they are almost always associated with the bad guys (See: Dracula), or troubled heroes whose magnanimity is often questionable (See: Batman).

This is all bullshit. Bats are actually gentle creatures—aside from a few blood-

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sucking species found in Latin America—but even those want little to do with humans. Those commonly found in the United States just wanna hang in caves and in our attics during the winter, and, in the warmer months, eat insects.

More importantly, bats are an integral part of our ecosystem. They are the primary predators of nighttime insects, including various kinds of pests that like to ruin crops. They consume stink bugs, spotted cucumber beetles, corn earworm moths, emerald ash borers and their larva. All of this saves Pennsylvania farmers about $74 per acre—or about $277.9 million per year. Which means fewer harmful pesticides are used in the foods we eat.

Not to mention that in just one hour, a single Little Brown Bat eats about 1,000 mosquitos. So, when you’re sitting in the park sucking down PBR tallboys and not being eaten alive by skeeters (which also transmit diseases to humans and livestock), thank the bats.

But this is all changing for the worse.

Large swaths of our bat population are being wiped out by White Nose Syndrome (WNS), a fungus that grows on the faces and wings of bats. Transmitted from bat-to-bat, the fungus preys on colonies during hibernation, when bats’ strength is already low, and they naturally suppress their immune systems—namely, conditions that optimize the spread of WNS. Since 2006, when scientists first

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detected WNS in North American bat populations, an estimated 5.5 million to 7 million bats have died across 20 states. According to the Austin, Texas-based bat advocacy organization Bat Conservation International (BCI), many locations are reporting 100 percent mortality rates. Two of the six impacted species—Little Brown Bats and Big Brown Bats—are the most common in the Philadelphia area. Some scientists have predicted that, in 20 years, and without drastic action, the Little Brown Bat could become extinct. Cave biologists studying cases of WNS in Pennsylvania bats claim there has already been a 90 percent to 95 percent drop in the state’s Little Brown Bat population.

“If we look at this in human terms, it would be like the flu of 1918,” says Katie Gillies, a biologist with BCI, which is currently researching various biocontrols for the fungus in an attempt to prevent the disease by getting in front of its transmission process. “I think what we’ll see in the coming years is—because of this change in the bat community—a huge increase in night insects. So farmers will have to respond to that by, unfortunately, increasing the use of dangerous pesticides … and pass that cost along to the American consumer.

“It’s unprecedented, it’s devastating and we’re going to see the additional negative consequences very soon.”

So far, WNS has not spread to attic and roof-dwelling urban bats. According to BCI and Gary Stolz, a refuge manager at Philadelphia’s John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge, WNS has not been detected in Philadelphia. But the impact WNS has had on American bat populations has already been devastating. While it may take years for humans to experience any direct consequences, it’s only a matter of time.

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the attention of some local artists, who have organized a benefit show at South Philadelphia’s Grindcore House to help projects aiming to prevent, control and research WNS. Empty Night Skies, which runs through June 13, features 69 bat-inspired pieces (the prices range from $5 to $300) made by more than 60 artists. The majority are local, though artists from five other states, and from Australia and Indonesia, submitted work.

And all proceeds will help BCI’s war against WNS. Two of the benefit organizers, Michael Bukowski and Jeanne D’Angelo, first learned about WNS when they came across a bat watcher’s guide book, from which they learned that Pennsylvania’s Canoe Creek State Park was one of the best places to

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Blown Away Wind energy is sucking the life out of our bat population. s the United States looks to green technology to keep up with rising energy costs, wind energy has become a beacon of hope. Pennsylvania now ranks 15th in the nation in wind energy, and wind farms in our region have been honored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

But there are problems.

Even if all the wind farms in Pennsylvania were utilized, they’d still only make up for about 6 percent of needed electricity in the state. And, ironically, they also seem to be messing with nature: One unintended consequence of the installation of wind turbines has been a massive increase in bat deaths. Bats seem to be drawn to them, and scientists can’t figure out why. But they do know that the rapid decline in our bat population—which is crucial to general insect control—is really bad news.

“A high [bat] fatality rate was observed at a wind farm in West Virginia in 2003 and from that point on, we began seeing high fatality rates in Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and then different rates across the country,” says Dr. Cris D. Hein, coordinator of the Bats and Wind Energy Program for Bat Conservation International.

“So it became an issue that needed to be addressed quite rapidly, as wind development grew in the early 2000s.”

Each year, an estimated hundreds of thousands of bats are killed after colliding with, and getting shredded by, wind turbines. Last year, Pennsylvania’s 420 turbines killed an estimate 10,000 bats, according to the state Game Commission. And that has left scientists with a conundrum: Between the repurcussions of global warming and the shrinking oil supply, going green is inevitable. So how do we stop the destruction of nature—the very nature we’re attempting to save?

Hein says wind farms kill most bats during migration season, from July through the end of September—“though that does vary a little bit from site to site.” He says three species of bat are most affected: hoary bats, silver-haired bats, and red bats—all of which are migratory tree bats and play a central role in the ecosystem.

Especially Pennsylvania’s.

Which means their demise is really, really bad. Why, you ask?

Because, if you listen to Elton John’s groovy soundtrack to 1994’s The Lion King, there’s this thing called the Circle of Life, and it exists outside the world of the animated jungle.

So, the more people build on bats’ natural habitat and shred them to pieces, the more pesticides are used to keep the bugs away from our food supply. And the more our food suffers, the more expensive it becomes.

Bat Conservation International, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the American Wind Energy Association and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy, then, formed the Bat and Wind Energy Cooperative in 2003 to develop “solutions to minimize or, where possible, prevent mortality of bats at wind power turbines.” Especially as the Nature Conservancy predicts up to 2,900 Pennsylvania turbines by the year 2030.

Hein says the organization ran into its first snag early on, when scientists realized they don’t really know why bats are attracted to wind turbines. Just that they are.

“We quite often would find bat carcasses at wind sites,” says Kim Lengel, the Philadelphia Zoo’s director of conservation and general curator. “There was concern and since then they have only gotten worse as the bat population in Pennsylvania and other parts of the country decreases.”

Now, BCI is doing studies to determine whether bats and wind turbines can co-exist peacefully.

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commissioned a two-year study in Columbia and Schuylkill counties, in Pennsylvania, randomly selected 10 turbines in the areas and fitted them with bat deterrent devices—“an acoustic device,” Hein says, “that would generate a noise that would disrupt a bat’s ability to locate the turban plate”—to see if it made a difference.

In the first year of the study, 2009, researchers estimated 21 percent to 51 percent fewer bats were killed per deterrent turbine. The second year, twice as many hoary bats and four times as many silver-haired bats were killed per control turbines than at deterrent turbines during the trial period. It’s an area of research, Hein says, that’s ongoing.

“Bats are in a critical situation and Pennsylvania is right in the heart of it,” says Lengel. “People understand their role in the ecosystem, and whether that translates into ‘I want to spend more money on energy,’ is a different question.”

Hein says the country’s lag on going green may have an effect, too. The earth’s warming may have as of now unknown effects on the migratory policies of Pennsylvania’s bat population, too, which could change the way deterrent systems affect the creatures.

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“Western culture has a negative image of bats,” adds D’Angelo, who contributed four paintings. “But that’s also why punk and metal music communities love them so much. Unfortunately, this sort of contributes to the stereotypes, and is detrimental to conservation efforts. It’s a double-edged sword, but this is a way for us to give something back to an animal we use a lot in our work, and that’s an

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Literary Death Match Ding ding ding! It’s time for the third local round of the internationally acclaimed series Literary Death Match! Hosted by Painted Bride Quarterly, this round finds four topnotch writers laced up and in the ring, where they’ll read their best work to win approval from a tough audience and points from a panel of judges. Competitors include American Poetry Review editor Elizabeth Scanlon, Barrelhouse Review co-founder Mike Ingram, Stories V! author Scott McClanahan, and Apiary Magazine editor Ras Mashramani. Philadelphia Inquirer book editor John Timpane, acclaimed photographer Zoe Strauss and yours truly will be on hand to judge the ish out of their efforts. The previous two editions sold out in advance, so get your tickets early, and let the bloodbath begin! tArA MurthA 8:15pm. $7-$10. World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St. 215.222.1400. worldcafelive.com

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Brutal Truth The world is probably going to end very soon.

No more work, no more taxes, no more burgers, no more nothin’. Errr, at least that’s what grindcore metal band Brutal Truth seems to think. Formed in 1990, the doomsdaypredicting four-piece consists of founding members Dan Lilker (ex-Anthrax, Nuclear Assault), Kevin Sharp (Venomous Concept), and Richard Hoak (Total Fucking Destruction). Erik Burke (ex-Lethargy) joined them in 2006 after the band’s seven-year hiatus.

They released End Time last year on Relapse, which is their nastiest album since the break.

With a post-apocalyptic cityscape in the background, a skeleton hand grips a globe on the album cover; inside the sleeve are 23 rotten tracks filled with hate. Satan only knows what the hell Sharp is ranting about, but his despair is believable. This is the end, beautiful friend, and Brutal Truth is its splendid soundtrack. elliott shArP 7pm. $15. With Nasum, Dropdead + Backslider.

Barbary, 951 Frankford Ave. myspace.com/ thenewbarbary

Wed., May 23. Through June 3. Christ Church Neighborhood House, 20 N. American St. anonymousbodies.org

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been deemed the best sketch group in the city by their peers and were an official selection of the 2012 Chicago Sketchfest. Now back from whatever binger they were on, the two have devised a new half-hour’s worth of sketches, which they’ll be unleashing on the public this week. The bros are two-time winners of the “Dirtiest Sketch in Philadelphia Competition,” so it’s safe to say their latest material isn’t for the prim and proper. niCole Finkbiner 9pm. $10-$12. Philly Improv Theater, 407 Bainbridge St. 267.233.1556. phillyimprovtheater.com

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Chuck Prophet and the Mission Express Chuck Prophet lives in San Francisco and Chuck Prophet loves San Francisco. Since hitting the city in 1983 to attend college, the musician has grown so smitten with S.F. that he just wrote a whole album about it. Temple Beautiful takes its title from a now-defunct punk venue that sat right by a temple run by infamous cult overlord Jim Jones, and the rest of the record is awash with references to local culture: the Halloween festivities in the Castro neighborhood that ended after a 2006 shooting; Giants legend Willie Mays; the 1978 assassination of politician/gay icon Harvey Milk; and so forth. Backed by the Mission Express, Prophet’s pleasant, not particularly idiosyncratic rock carries itself like alt-country, adding unobtrusive punk and psychedelic flourishes to twangy, misty-eyed guitars. The man also does a mean “London Calling” cover that he’ll hopefully bust out during his WCL show here. reyAn Ali 7pm. $16-$20. World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St. worldcafelive.com

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Colin Powell Tonight, controversial media target, four-star general and two-time Secretary of State Colin Powell promotes his latest book, It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership, in a conversation with Inquirer political columnist Dick Polman. Like him or not (and 76 percent of voters do), Powell is one of the most influential public figures in the United States. He covers his many life lessons in the book, along with advice on adopting sound public leadership. The event will feature a

Q&A segment in which the audience will have a chance to grill Powell on all matter of politics and on the current administration. AbigAil bruley 12:30pm. $15. Central Library, 1901 Vine St. 215.686.5322. freelibrary.org

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25 Arts on South Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens is expanding its artistic corridor down South Street’s Headhouse District with a yearlong program that turns abandoned retail spaces into art galleries. Every fourth Friday, the abandoned spaces bring the work of local artists to life with snacks, DJs and music. This month, Charles Barbin’s solo work will be featured at 327 South Street. Barbin is one of many artists working on the Mural Arts Program’s new project highlighting Philly’s hip-hop royalty, the Roots. Local businesses are also getting in on the action; The Bikery will feature the socially conscious work of students from Congreso de Latinos Unidos’ after-school program. And Paradigm Gallery will feature the contemporary, whimsical work of street artist Nosego. Allyn gAestel 5-8pm. Free. Various locations. facebook. com/artsonsouth

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Black Dice These Brooklyn experimentalists compose soundtracks for our post-apocalyptic future.

There are no words, only the sputtering thrum of malfunctioning machinery, limping along like Battlebots disabled by their stretch in the Thunderdome. Beneath the spark-spewing sputter and static exists a heartbeat. For while Black Dice’s noisy excursions conceive a world on the edge of disintegration, intimations of structure and even musicality persist. This struggle against chaos cultivates a poetic air even while their sixth album, Mr. Impossible, continues their push into more warped electronic-driven tones, like war bleeding into space, artfully blending the destruction of Japanese noise pioneer Merzbow and the dance-floor pep of LCD Soundsystem. Chris PArker

8:30pm. $10. With Far-Out Fangtooth + Nah. Underground Arts, 1200 Callowhill St. undergroundarts.org

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Kiss Me Deadly In director Robert Aldrich’s 1955 take on the gumshoe genre, it isn’t the crooks you need to worry about, it’s the detective. Mike Hammer

11:30pm. $5-$7. Bryn Mawr Film Institute, 824 W. Lancaster Ave. 610.527.9898. brynmawrfilm.org

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Party for Pooches Thinking of adopting a dog? Do you like partaking in open bars and eating appetizers? You can do both at the same time at Operation Ava’s Party for Pooches. For 30 biscuits, you can imbibe for three hours, snack on finger food and watch adoptable dogs saunter up and down a runway with or without adorable hats on. Proceeds go toward helping Operation Ava rescue animals from overburdened shelters and educate children on responsible pet ownership and improving their communities. a.b.

7-10pm. $30. Shampoo Night Club, 417 N. Eighth St. 215.922.7500. operationava.org

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Created and hosted by writer Dana Rossi, this monthly storytelling series from New York City invites five guest writers to get on the mic to tell hilarious or heart-wrenching stories they forever associate with a song from their past. During this special one-night-only show here in Philly, you’ll hear how prolific local storyteller Hillary Rae discovered the true meaning behind the lyrics of The Vapors’ 1980 hit “Turning Japanese” and why playwright, stand-up dramedian and six-time First Person Arts Story Slam winner E. Eric Thomas can’t get enough of Patti LaBelle’s “New Attitude.”

Other featured storytellers include music journalist Maria Raha and Tyler Melchior from 1812 Productions. n.F.

It’s rather fascinating that even as the Barnes Foundation celebrates the opening of its shiny new museum on the Parkway, this morning it hosts a spectral modern-dance installation that channels the strange, otherworldly beauty of decaying architecture. In the arresting 20-minute “Awakened Ruins”—created by Philly’s Tori Lawrence Co. dance company—five female bodies caked in clay, moving to a melancholy score breathed by a violinist and pianist, evoke the sadness and grandeur of spaces eroded by time, the elements and fading memories. Amid a week of events at the Barnes, Awakened Ruins promises to be one of the most poignant moments of all. miChaEl alan gOlDbErg

8pm. $10. L’Etage, 624 S. Sixth St. 215.592.0656. creperie-beaumonde.com

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Sat., May 26, 11pm. $5. Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St. 215.291.4919. kungfunecktie.com

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29 OBN III’s I’d like to tell you OBN III’s “had me” when they declared on their debut 45 they’d like to “get a party together and suck our own dicks,” but I’m afraid you’d misunderstand me. So let’s just say they won me over with their irreverent charm and don’t-give-a-shit attitude. Since then, these Austin boys have released two other seven inch singles and an LP, and the whole gaggle of them shimmy, swagger, chime and party like Iggy and Chilton pounding case after case of Tecate in the desert sun. Since their records seem to leap from the turntable in drunken revelry, it’s a safe bet you might walk home stinking of stale brew and man sweat, but I’m sure you’ll get over it. TOnY rETTman 8pm. $8. With Far Out Fangtooth, True Gold + Pussy Dogs. Silk City, 435 Spring Garden St. silkcityphilly.com

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9am. Free. Barnes Foundation, 2025 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy. barnesfoundation.org

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hink Ke$ha if Ke$ha would once and for all admit that she eats brains,” said Philebrity of the sass-divas Rainbeaux Bite and Brian Reignbow, who make up Rainbow Destroyer’s particular flavor of “Zombie Pop.” But rainbows are only one piece of this fabulous fundraiser for the second annual Phreak N Queer festival happening in August. The night will feature six stellar acts: “postgender character surrealist” and jaw-droppingly good contemporary dancer Messapotamia Lefae and costume extraordinaire Alaya Richmin of the Dumpsta Players will travel north from their usual Bob and Barbara’s haunt to join the Liberty City Drag Kings, PW’s Most Talented New Drag Queen Tammy Faymous, and Ms. Mary Wanna. Top it all off with dancing to tunes spun by DJ’s Lucky 7 (700 Club, Trestle Inn) and Evil V (Tabu, Terri’s) and you may never leave. Emma EisEnbErg

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Now celebrating 10 years of classic cabaret/ burlesque-style entertainment, the babes and boys of Philly’s award-winning neoburlesque show will soon be heading to Las Vegas to compete for “Best Troupe” at the 2012 Burlesque Hall of Fame. But before they go, audiences will have a chance to wish them all broken legs and popped pasties as they perform their steamy new show at the Troc.

As the beautiful dancers get you feeling hot and bothered with their twirling tassels and titillating dances, house band the Striptease Orchestra will have you bumping and grinding in your chair—while hilarious hosts Joey Martini and Count Scotchula may just have you falling out of it. n.F.

New City Stage Company concludes its season this week with two productions at the Adrienne Theater. At 3 p.m., NCSC presents the world premiere of award-winning playwright Mac Rogers’ strangely compelling Asymmetric. A unique look at the war on terror featuring a killer cast, the play focuses on a CIA agent interrogating a traitor who’s suspected of leaking sensitive information to terrorist groups intent on America’s destruction. At 6 p.m., catch Sam Shepard’s and Joseph Chaikin’s stream of consciousness one-acts Savage/Love and Tongues, which the company mounted to great acclaim at the 2011 Philly Fringe. To save some cash, order your tickets for Asymmetric online using the code “Doubleheader” and for every Asymmetric ticket you purchase you’ll get a complimentary ticket for any performance of Savage/Love and Tongues. J.C.r.

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he Quintessence Theatre Group concludes its season with an inconsistent production of Anton Chekhov’s landmark work The Seagull.

The first of Chekhov’s four plays, The Seagull ’s production at the Moscow Art Theater ushered in a new era in theater history. Unlike the melodramas that have traditionally dominated Russian theater, The Seagull is a tragicomedy. It was so radical that it demanded an entirely new approach to acting. Instead of the exaggerated gestures and emotions favored by actors in melodrama, MAT co-founder Konstantin Stanislavski (who directed the company’s staging of The Seagull ) created a technique for a more realistic style of acting that remains the staple of most theater today.

Although Stanislavski’s production marked the birth of modern theater, Chekhov felt that the director neglected the play’s humor (a charge Chekhov continued to make with each subsequent production of his work by Stanislavski).

If Chekhov’s assessment was correct and Stanislavski underemphasized play’s comedy, he isn’t the only one. Since the night Seagull opened at MAT in 1898 (the show’s world premiere two years earlier in St. Petersburg was an unmitigated disaster), directors have struggled to marry the play’s humor with the overwhelming sense of futility as the characters repeatedly fail to fulfill their deepest desires.

Director Alex Burns’ production succeeds in striking the right tone, particularly in conveying the play’s cynical sense of humor (thanks to the performance of William Zielinski as the town doctor). The problems with Quintessence’s production are Burns’ pacing (which at times is achingly slow) and the uneven cast, whose performances range from spectacular to one-dimensional.

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Albert Coombs Barnes was a man of letters—the short, cheeky kind that you might scrawl as a practical joke or mail to an errant dignitary. Which is exactly what he did. The inaugural special exhibition, Ensemble: Albert C. Barnes and the Experiment in Education, displays an impressive selection of Barnes’ personal correspondence, written—with especial relish, it seems—to hoity toity types who presumed to set up viewing appointments to see the art at the Merion location. He roundly denied them (but welcomed bluecollar workers and the underprivileged).

His excuses were impressively impertinent: In one letter, he regretfully declined an eager businessman because he was otherwise engaged in attempting to break the world record in goldfish eating. In another, he rebuffed a wealthy patron by claiming he was attending to the urgent matter of listening to the birds sing. Barnes regularly took on other personas in his letters, including various lowly secretaries of “Dr. C. Barnes,” and even the canine voice of Fidèle, his dog.

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Like the taught arch of a perfectly plucked brow, moldings (that’s architect-speak for a decorative border at the top of a wall) are essential for making whatever lies beneath them pop. But they haven’t been in architectural vogue for quite some time. “We’re modernists and molding isn’t our language,” says Billie Tsien, principle architect at Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, the firm that designed the new Barnes building. So the architects were delighted to find out that when it came to distaste for molding, they were in good company. Matisse didn’t like the molding beneath his site-specific mural at the Barnes, either. So, in an act of charitable reparation, the architects were only too happy to update its design.

“Learning molding was like learning Portuguese,” jokes Tsien, who ultimately created a design based on African textiles of the sort that Matisse had avidly collected.

“These defining lines give the art ensembles their integrity and definition. Getting rid of the molding would have been like shaving off your eyebrows.”

Lesson: As in architecture, so in life: Don’t shave your eyebrows. But you probably already knew that.

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ground, a rain tank releases water into the city storm system at a slow rate, and a cistern collects water and pumps it back through an on-site irrigation system. The architects begged for a solar parking lot canopy to reduce irradiated heat from the black asphalt, but apparently, $150 million can only buy you so much: “We lost some battles,” says Olin, “but in the end, we won the war.”

Lesson: Local may be practical, but when it comes to LEED certification, the grass is always greener on the outsourced side.

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A successful $200 million capital campaign, several denied motions to challenge the court’s holding and reopen litigation, a membership roster that has now swelled past 20,000, and a stunning 93,000-square-foot building later, and you’d assume that the battle to keep the Barnes in Merion was, well, lost. Tell that to the three protesters from Friends of the Barnes Foundation who rallied outside the press preview last week. “You can’t escape us!” they taunted me good-naturedly, forking over a packet of anti-Barnes in the Parkway literature. One sheet featured a cartoon of Barnes Foundation Executive Director and President Derek Gillman

oinking like a pig on all fours while snuffling up city and corporate money from the “Barnes Trough.” Less tongue-in-cheek was a succinct list of the Friends’ grievances and a promise that “the work of the Friends to educate the public about the history of this institution and struggle over its fate will continue.” But if the paltry group of protesters outside the press preview was any indication, the fight will now continue more out of loyalty than urgency.

Although the Barnes staff slyly ushered the press from New York through a back entrance in order to skirt the Friends, a few local reporters noticed the modest rally. “The protesters keep dwindling,” remarked a man from a suburban paper.

“They should!” his colleague chimed in.

It seemed to be the prevailing opinion, as those who couldn’t care less about local politics queued up for a champagne tasting.

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Does pursuing a LEED platinum certification mean lots of locally sourced materials? Not quite. “I often get asked if the plants are local,” says Laurie Olin, Partner at OLIN and landscape architect of the new Barnes campus. “In fact, very few are.” Like the paintings on the walls and the plants in the original arboretum in Merion, architectural and landscape elements at the new Barnes campus were collected from around the world. Red Japanese maples line the main walkway, Orsini tile from Italy glints on the outdoor fireplace, Ipe teak from Brazil covers portions of the floor and stairways, and limestone quarried in the Negev dessert in Israel wraps the building in a rich, golden skin. So if they’ve so lavishly outsourced, where do they score those environmental brownie points? A lot of it has to do with water reuse. An infiltration basin beneath the parking lot allows storm water to seep back into the

If these walls could talk: Room 6 of the new Barnes Foundation building on the Parkway.

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While the Barnes holds one of the premiere collections of impressionist and post-impressionist paintings in the world, you may start to see some contemporary art in the galleries as well. That’s because in order to have amassed 181 Renoirs, 69 Cezannes, 59 Matisses and 46 Picassos Barnes had to buy them young and he had to buy them fresh. “Barnes was committed to contemporary art and we plan to show it here,” vows Judith F. Dolkart, deputy director of Art and Archival Collections and chief curator of the Gund family. But new art won’t be joining the original masterpieces where they currently hang. In acquiescence to the Indenture of Trust, which stipulates that “all paintings shall remain in exactly the places they are at the time of the death of the Donor and his said wife,” the size and layout of the original galleries from Merion have been meticulously replicated and painstakingly reproduced to reflect the display at the time of Barnes’ death in 1951. However, with the addition of

a 4,300-square-foot special exhibition space, Dolkart sees the opportunity to revive Barnes’ flair for the artistically outré: “In presenting contemporary art, we are honoring Barnes’ vision.”

Lesson: Don’t be a philistine. What might look like a travesty today may later end up in a $200 million shrine.

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By Matt Prigge mprigge@philadelphiaweekly.com “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah,” Song of the South (1946): No doubt most people at Disney would like to send every copy of this splashy musical about a merry slave plantation into the sun. Unfortunately, it contains one of the company’s most beloved songs.

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“Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door,” Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973): No one saw Sam Peckinpah’s devastatingly grueling anti-Western when it was released (in gouged form), but it wasn’t completely unloved. Star Kris Kristofferson was nominated for a BAFTA while a Grammy nomination went to its ethereal soundtrack, done by co-star Bob Dylan. His work, including one of his most beautiful tunes, atones for his “acting,” his appearance being the producers’ idea, not Peckinpah’s, who was so divorced from popular music he assumed Dylan’s last name was spelled “Dillon.”

“You Light Up My Life,” You Light Up My Life (1977): Wait, there’s a movie, too? And one possibly even more gross than the song it birthed?

“Against All Odds,” Against All Odds (1984): Taylor Hackford’s loose reworking of Out of the Past did alright at the box office. But it didn’t do nearly as well as its soundtrack, which features if not the greatest breakup song then the greatest got-dumped song, every line a dagger in your broken heart. It began Phil Collins’ strange trend of writing monster hits for not-very-successful movies: Next came “Separate Lives” for White Nights (also by Hackford) and his cover of “Groovy Kind of Love” for Buster, which would have been his acting breakthrough had anyone seen it.

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“Tears in Heaven,” Rush (1991): What’s sadder?

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I doubt many would make a case for 1997’s Men in Black as a great picture of our time, but I seem to recall it being comparatively light on its feet, and smart enough to get in and out at around 90 minutes. Cleverly cashing in on the rapport between Will Smith’s overly ingratiating schtick and Tommy Lee Jones’ deadpan belligerence, it was the kind of picture you watched once, and enjoyed mainly because it didn’t insult your intelligence and the movie theater had air conditioning.

The gimmick, adapted from an old, out-of-print comic book by Lowell Cunningham, found these two mismatched partners working to keep tabs on a flood of intergalactic illegal immigrants swarming their way around New York City with a lot of Rick Baker makeup effects and moderately amusing bulging eyeballs and lizard tails.

Cute idea, seeing N.Y.C. as the ultimate cosmic melting pot, and as far as such things go it was fine, I guess. (Again, I haven’t seen it since 1997, when Batman and Robin was playing across the multiplex hall and everything else looked wonderful in comparison.)

So why Men in Black III, and why now? The first bloated, instantly forgettable sequel earned few fans a decade ago, and the God’s honest truth is that I had to go look up my old review just to remember what it was about.

But as Will Smith continues his sad journey from “promising young movie star” to “CEO Of Smith Family Dynasty Entertainment Properties,” such tried and true commodities are apparently inevitable, no matter how tardy.

He now spends his days fashioning his children into box-office juggernauts, turning down risky projects. Despite his maddeningly ubiquitous celebrity, Will Smith hasn’t appeared in a movie in a full four years. Men in Black III must have seemed like a sure thing on paper. It started shooting without a screenplay in September 2010. And despite many stops, starts and gossip items, we’re finally seeing the result.

Cannily accounting for the monumental indifference of his co-star,

Special K: Josh Brolin (left) as the a young agent is eerily awesome. Will Smith is, well, there,

Tommy Lee Jones, Smith himself reportedly came up with the idea for this installment. After an outbreak at the lunar prison holding facility, Jones’ Agent K is murdered by some sort of slobbering reptile creature played to little comic effect by Fight of the Conchord ’s Jermaine Clement, in a role Sacha Baron Cohen turned down.

(Yeah, the part is so awful somebody actually chose to go make The Dictator instead.) Only catch is, this particular rascal can time-travel, so Jones was actually murdered in 1969, forever altering the future.

Forget for a moment that Agent K’s premature death would result in Will Smith never becoming an agent in the first place, because Men in Black III shrugs off such paradoxes with the same casual nonchalance with which it disposes of characters like Rip Torn’s Agent Zed, here granted a dry-eyed funeral shortly after the opening credits.

Because this is a summer blockbuster in our day and age, Smith’s Agent J is now saddled with a ton of daddy issues that never appeared before in the series, lamenting his absent father with maudlin qualities odd for such slight comedy.

Amusingly enough, Tommy Lee Jones could care less. He’s barely in the picture. Shot mostly from behind, so I assume his stand-in could take over the bulk of Agent K’s onscreen activity, this gruff national treasure burps a couple of priceless one-liners and politely sneaks out of camera range to go play golf or something.

Which leaves Will Smith floundering

Men in Black III Grade: D+ Director: Barry Sonnenfeld Starring: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin around 1969, having mysteriously discovered a way to time-travel himself in order to prevent his partner’s murder.

The movie tantalizingly teases a road not taken when someone casually mentions, “this wasn’t exactly a good time for your people.”

Are we exploring social issues? No, forget it. We’re instead stuck with a slog of awfully dated special effects and inaccurate period gags.

There’s an eerily awesome performance by Josh Brolin as the young Agent K, aping his No Country for Old Men co-star Tommy Lee’s testy bleats, complete with prosthetic ears. A Serious Man’s Michael Stuhlbarg tags along as some sort of alien who claims to be able to see all possible futures, but his main job is to talk our characters out of making logical decisions because the army of seven uncredited screenwriters can’t otherwise unpaint the corners they’re stuck in.

By the end I almost felt bad for Smith, who invests so many dewyeyed close-ups into the misty-eyed third act, I presume none of the yesmen in his entourage stopped and did enough math to point out that all these sappy, late-game twists would make his character at least 50 years old. n

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ust because Nikka Costa has a YouTube channel called “Nikka’s Box” doesn’t mean she prefers to be in one.

The former international child pop star-turned-wild-haired, funk/soul chanteuse (daughter of late producer/ Frank Sinatra arranger Don Costa) launched her viral-video page early last year, before she released her EP PRO*WHOA in June. Already 60 videos deep, the channel sees Costa doing live performances, either performing her own songs or covers that are often requested from fans. Occasionally, she’s accompanied by special guests like Raphael Saadiq, Doyle Bramhall II and Adam Lambert. “It’s just another platform,” says Costa, on the phone from her Los Angeles homebase. “It’s another kind of way to, you know, express myself when I don’t have a whole lot of touring or anything going on. And it’s a good opportunity to kind of get with other artists and do something that’s not a lot of pressure and can be a little bit of a hang. And I hope to do more of that kind of thing.”

The channel is also a chance for Costa to do some silly things, like do a rap version of the contemporary bedtime story Go the F**k to Sleep with sitcom vet Jenna Elfman or engage in a beat-box battle that’ll have you wondering if she does have some verbal sound-effects skills. (“I’ll never tell.”) Perhaps her silliest episode was also one that prompted YouTube to restrict it for general audiences due to adult content. It was a minute-long clip that had Costa promoting PRO*WHOA topless, a black bar with her EP’s title covering her naughty bits.

“What’s a girl gotta do to get her music heard,” she says in the clip.

“Honestly, that episode was really kind of an afterthought,” she explains. “It was literally seven minutes—we filmed it and it was over. And it wasn’t really thought of very much because it doesn’t really show anything and it’s not really a big deal. But, you know, in America, it became a big deal. We got censored and it was all in the papers and everything.

Hopefully, people come back for, you know, the kind of funny episodes and the ones where we sing songs and whatever the channel provides.”

These days, the 39-year-old Costa knows she needs to do whatever she can to get folks’ attention. The rock/ electropop-fueled PRO*WHOA was released independently, on her own label, Go Funk Yourself, which she runs with her husband/longtime producer Justin Stanley. After spending most of the last decade under the thumb of

At any Costa: Singer Nikka Costa remains independent.

major label Virgin, which released her albums Everybody Got Their Something (a masterpiece—just sayin’!) in 2001 and Can’tneveverdidnothin’ in 2005, Costa prefers to release music on her own, without being scrutinized by label execs.

“I think, as artists, we should be left alone to an extent to explore and to see what will come of being left alone,” she says. “I think that there are so many artists that are kind of steered by these huge corporations and what direction they should go, what kind of song they should sing. I mean, it can get really down to the minutia, where you end up not even being an artist but just being kind of a puppet. And I think that’s why music—popular music—is so similar to each other and there’s not a lot of variety.

“I was always arguing and always coming up against obstacles,” she continues, “and so, creatively, being independent is a far better kind of choice/ option for me, because it’s really—you can just do it, you know?”

However, being your own boss in the music industry can have its limitations.

Without a major label backing you, you don’t have the tools—a marketing and promotional team, for instance—needed to get your music out there. “It’s a very difficult situation, because it takes a lot of money to get things out there, and, you know, I’m not a millionaire,” says Costa.

Not to mention that doing things on your own can leave you quite tired. This explains why she hasn’t done a follow-up to PRO*WHOA, which was supposed to be one of many EPs she would drop over time. “That was the plan,” she says, laughing. “We had a lot going on. I had a lot going on. We were touring and I was doing ‘the Box.’ And, basically, I just didn’t find enough time to kind of really

sit down and get another EP together in time to fulfill that dream. I’m also a mom, so time is super-precious.

“Obviously, I have songs in the can that exist that I could’ve easily slapped on an EP and said, ‘OK, here’s the next one.’

But, unless it feels really, really right to me, I tend to prefer not to put anything out until I’m really super-happy with it.”

Nevertheless, she continues to go on tour and wow people with her live shows (although she says she’ll take some time off after this lap of shows). She also has famous friends who often call on her for her pipes. When he went out on tour last year, Prince often hollered at Costa to join him onstage, doing tunes like Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love.”

“We’ve been friends for over 10 years now,” she says. “So, every now and again, I’ll get a phone call, you know—‘Come up and sing with me’ or ‘Open up for me’ or something like that. So, it’s always a treat and an honor. We always try to, you know, move things around to be able to share the stage with him.”

So, with friends in high places, her enthusiastic work ethic and an easily addictive YouTube channel, Costa is happy to have, if not a huge fanbase, a dedicated one. “I’m just doing what I can and getting it out there as far as I can,” she says.

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Bands of Brothers There are cult bands, and then there are bands that are actual cults.

By Bryan Bierman feedback@philadelphiaweekly.com When a band has a small, yet very devoted fan base, some people—mainly music writers—describe them as having a “cult following.” Presumably, this analogy upset actual cults in the late ’60s, as a few then began flirting with the music biz (Charles Manson, the Process Church of the Final Judgment, Peoples Temple) before realizing they should stick to their crazy day jobs. Whether or not it was a conscious decision, over the years a handful of groups have highlighted the similarities between rock bands and cults. In advance of Friday’s Polyphonic Spree show at the TLA, here are a few artists who truly blur the line.

The Polyphonic Spree The most famous “cult” band around, this choir-pop act features almost two dozen members, including “leader” Tim DeLaughter. Although New Jersey’s Danielson Famile did it first, the Spree have adopted the matching robes synonymous of religious groups, consider themselves a “family,” and are always happy. Sunshine-y pop tunes?

Identical garments? An appearance on Scrubs ? Definitely a cult.

Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band During the year leading up to the recording of their überunique and essential Trout Mask Replica album in 1969, the Magic Band lived on a commune in California, where they would rehearse for 14 hours a day with barely any food or contact with the outside world. Captain Beefheart, aka Don Van Vliet, would routinely attack the band members mentally and physically until they obeyed his commands. Oddly enough, it worked—the group was so tight that they recorded most of the double album, which would go on to be viewed by most as an avant-garde masterpiece, in a little over six hours. So if you look past the deep emotional scars, it was worth it.

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Bloom (Sub Pop) Sounds Like: Relent, because it’s a lovely record of deliriously pretty dream rock, full of lush sadness and celebratory beauty, sublimely blended over 10 blooming tracks.

Free Association: Worth investing in so you can play it loud and in full (over and over).

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(Interscope) Sounds Like: Super-fly and hype hiphop from the Baltimore emcee who’s Diplo and M.I.A.-approved, her debut is more bangin’ than anyone thought it would be.

Free Association: The perfect soundtrack for booty poppin’ and absurd dance moves.

For Fans Of: Lady Sovereign x Amanda Blank, Santi + Missy x Dizzee Rascal, summer.

Heart on: The cult of Polyphonic Spree.

American alternative to the hippie-ridden ’60s, the group was backed by the ultra right-wing group Moral ReArmament (which purportedly had Nazi ties), as well as giant corporations such as Exxon, Enron and Halliburton, which benefitted from their “everything is perfectly fine” message. According to the 2009 documentary Smile ‘Til It Hurts, the rotating casts of young members (who pay a large tuition to join) were not only barred from sitting next to the opposite sex, but were persuaded into joining arranged marriages that controlled the number of children they could have. In other words: Cult!

The Ramones Think about it: They looked the same, their names were the same, even a lot of the songs were the same. Any new recruits were forced to obey these rules, brainwashed by the chants of “Gabba Gabba Hey!” “I Wanna Be Sedated” is a song about accepting, zombie-like, these rules. Honest.

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Critic’s Pick Simian Mobile Disco Simian Mobile Disco is an unpredictable and often totally absurd project, and that’s very much a marvelous thing. The London-based team of James Ford and Jas Shaw specialize in lively electro-house that’s the aural equivalent of consuming a bag of Skittles dunked in cayenne pepper. That said, SMD’s music isn’t the sole reason they’re worth your attention. The duo’s videos are even brassier and more mind-bending than their sonics. The geometry-heavy clip for “Cerulean” off the new Unpatterns looks like the result of an MP3 program visualization screen going sentient and sucking down a handful of LSD cubes. Looking into SMD’s past videography, the design porn of “Audacity of Huge” is worth an immediate YouTubing if only to see how it brings word-salad lyrics such as “Tammy Faye milk money butterscotch” and “honeydipped tennis wear just for play” to brightly colored life. (Reyan Ali) Thurs., May 24, 10pm. $10. Voyeur Night Club, 1221 Saint James St. voyeurnightclub.com

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The Only Place (Mexican Summer) Sounds Like: Bethany Cosentino is a polarizing woman; love her stoner, cat-loving ways or hate her sing-songy California fuzz, here’s fodder for the lovers—it’s not bad.

Free Association: More subtle and complex than Crazy For You, which should be easy.

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Exister (Rise Records) Sounds Like: The Gainseville postpunks’ eighth and first in eight years is as solid as the rest of their discography; classically angry, loud, cathartic and a little screamy.

Free Association: They are the bridge between simply loud rock and balls-out punk.

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R.A.P. Music (Williams Street) Sounds Like: The sickly produced (by El-P) thuggish, ruggish return to prominence for the OutKast associate is harder and sicker than anyone ever dreamed he could be.

Free Association: Does everyone else love 2003’s “A.D.I.D.A.S” as much as we do?

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Trespassing (RCA) Sounds Like: Idol ’s most notorious second place loser’s second LP is more club-friendly and house-flavored than before.

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ART MUSEUM / logAn SqUARE river’s edge

The PhiLadeLPhiaN

RiTTEnhoUSE SqUARE COnT.

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

1900 riTTeNhouse

bathroom, roof deck

1778 sf

$349,900

riTTeNhouse savoy

studio, open renovated kitchen, private balcony, Fairmount views

570 sf

$159,900

The WarWick Parc riTTeNhouse Parc riTTeNhouse

AvEnUE of ThE ARTS academy house

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

$479,900

academy house

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

$269,900

academy house

Junior 1 br, high floor, western city views

$229,000

624 sf

The riTTeNhouse WaNamaker house

baNk buiLdiNg

socieTy hiLL ToWers

1br, high floor, river view, investment opportunity

socieTy hiLL ToWers

The riTTeNhouse

3,293 sf

4,455 sf Parc riTTeNhouse

The WarWick

3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, 270 degree city views, wood floor, chef’s kitchen, marble baths, 2000 sf

The dorchesTer

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, balcony atop rittenhouse square, wood floors, renovated throughout 1231 sf

WaNamaker house

$2,295,000

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

The barcLay

$2,900,000

bi-level penthouse with dramatic sunset views of the city, lavish entire flat master suite, great entertaining space

$1,475,000 $1,125,000

$725,000

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

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

1,050 sf

$610,000

1,198 sf

$539,900

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

socieTy hiLL ToWers

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

studio, generous living/sleeping space, open kitchen, large bathroom appointed in marble 578 sf studio, wood floors, large marble bath, panoramic sunset view 583 sf 1 br, wood floors throughout, bay windows in all rooms, excellent condition 704 sf

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

baNk buiLdiNg barcLay

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

socieTy hiLL ToWers

700 sf

$269,900

wAShingTon SqUARE iNdePeNdeNce PLace

bi-level penthouse, 2br. 2.5ba, 2 kitchens, impeccably finished throughout, amazing river and city views 4,500 sf $2,295,000 220 W. WashiNgToN square entire floor 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom home, Washington square views, custom finishes and features throughout 3,720sf sf $2,100,000 hoPkiNsoN house 1 bedroom, open chef’s kitchen, designer bathroom, wood floors, great storage space, balcony with river and south city views 778 sf $325,000 hoPkiNsoN house 1 bedroom, 2 baths, balcony overlooking Washington square, brand new appliances in the kitchen, custom built-ins throughout 843 sf $299,900 iNdePeNdeNce PLace 1br, 1ba, wood floors throughout, upgraded kitchen and ba, custom closets, balcony 928 sf $269,900 hoPkiNsoN house studio, high flour, southview, separate dressing area 415 sf $209,900

academy house 1420 LocusT sTreeT

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

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

The WarWick 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, 270 degree city views, like-new condition, 2000 sf

$1,125,000

$479,900

Condo Fees: $1,169

condo Fees $1,099

Taxes: $400

condo Fees $534

Taxes $374

Monthly Cost After Tax To Own: $4,917

Taxes $228

monthly cost after Tax to own $2,848

monthly cost after Tax to own $1,902

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$309,900

$479,900

SociETy hill baNk buiLdiNg

RiTTEnhoUSE SqUARE

1br, 1ba, Juliet balcony, upgraded kitchen and ba, lots of light, separate dining room, hardwood floors 1,085 sf 1 bedroom plus den, 2 baths, lots of natural light, penthouse floor, side-by-side washer and dryer 1,544 sf 1br, 1ba, hardwood floors, marble ba, custom kitchen 712 sf 1br, large kitchen, marble bathroom, wood floors 637 sf

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