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June 13-19, 2012

Cover photograph by Kyle Cassidy

Wednesday, June 27

ON THE COVER: Korea and Vietnam veteran Tom Murtha of Philadelphia has tattoos honoring his military service and his late wife, Maria.

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14 War Paint Philly photographer Kyle Cassidy’s new book explores why military veterans got the tattoos they did.

PHILLYNOW 10 Workin’ It The owners of Kung Fu Hoagies have successfully combined their two passions: martial arts and veggies.

On the Web PhillyNOW

A new bill seeks to defund Planned Parenthood, and it’s not at all what it seems.

Gotta have Wawa: That’s what a Nazi group said when it hacked the hoagie shop’s website!

ARTS & CULTURE 25 Calendar PW ’s picks for the week.

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FOOD 30 Subtle Like a Brick

The place is lovely. Wish we could say the same of the meal.

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STAGE 34 How SoLow Can You Go The third annual festival gets “down and dirty.”

35 Not Just a Pretty Face Reasons to be Pretty is a thoughtful play about being shallow.

ART 36 Hot, Wet Art Vox Populi’s exhibit of

Daddy dearest: The ultimate Father’s Day gift guide.

Make Major Moves Coming here: We’d like to bring your attention to the Scissor Sisters and Hot Chip.

Film New releases: Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap (pictured below).

male erotica oozes with visual metaphors.

SCREEN 38 Rock and a Hard Place The big-screen adaptation of Rock of Ages fails to impress.

MUSIC 42 Nude Awakening For Nude Beach, it’s all about straight-up rock music.

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Team Edward Weighs In Regarding Matt Prigge’s review of “Bel Ami,” starring Robert Pattinson: Did you see the same movie as me?

I liked the film. Very near the book.

While not a great film, it is entertaining and Pattinson is moving up the ranks. He is more than Edward Cullen.

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Maybe you should consider a job change since you are definitely not qualified to critique this film.

You seem to hate Robert Pattinson. I’m sure your opinion does not matter in the least to anyone.

Mr. Pattinson could buy and sell you. He is one of the most popular actors in Hollywood. I read somewhere that there was a “journalist” that used to write bad reviews about James Dean back in the day. One day, karma bit him in the ass when his job required him to interview Mr. Dean. Mr. Dean refused the interview, but granted it to all the other journalists that requested one. The old saying, “Be careful whose toes you step on today, as they may be connected to the ass you have to kiss tomorrow” applies to you. Maybe a job change for you should be in order. McDonalds is always hiring.

SIERRA, via philadelphiaweekly.com

Everyone is entitled to an opinion, and I would never expect one to like something just because I did. However, I am really disappointed with the tone of your review. Surely, you were taught to do better work in journalism school. I do think Pattinson has potential that is still untapped. It is essential that he find the right vehicle and director. He does seem to have staying power and a very enthusiastic fan base.

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Singing a Different Tune Regarding Leah Blewett’s review of the Walnut Street Supper Club: This “review” was mean-spirited, nasty and unfair. Eight of us recently went to Walnut Street Supper Club; every one of the eight is a regular diner at Center City restaurants, and every one of the eight raved about the food, service and live entertainment. The manager Blewett called a “boob” could not have been more professional and accommodating. We were told the entree prices had been reduced by $5 the week before we arrived “as a response to the recession.” The entrees ranged from $18 to $24, which was a bargain for top-of-the-line steak and fresh seafood dishes. In addition to everything else that is terrific about Walnut Street Supper Club, owner Ralph Berarducci is one of the most generous and charitable restaurateurs in the Delaware Valley. So not only are you getting fine food, service and entertainment at reasonable prices, but a portion of your bill will be used to help feed some of Philadelphia’s hungry and homeless individuals.

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Hoagies’ Heroes The owners of food cart Kung Fu Hoagies have successfully combined their two passions: martial arts and veggies.

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Paul Davis laughs as he stirs a pot of seitan “chicken” in sesame-peanut sauce. Next to him, partner Steve Renzi cuts and guts fresh hoagie rolls from Cacia’s Bakery in South Philly.

“We’ve had a couple nicknames,” says the soft-spoken Davis. “Some people call us the ‘Tofu Dragon.’”

The actual name of the cart is Kung Fu Hoagies—a vegetarian/vegan venture that longtime pals and South Philly residents Davis, 31, and Renzi, 30, launched in mid-March. On weekends, the duo sets up at Clark Park; during the week, they’re typically at Passyunk Avenue and Dickinson Street for the lunch rush. They use daily Facebook and Twitter updates to let their followers know where they’re gonna be, and after just three months, they’ve garnered steady lines of customers, glowing Yelp reviews and lots of buzz on the street about where to get a cheap, kickass vegetarian banh mi or noodle bowl.

And the kung fu thing isn’t just a gimmick. Five nights a week, Davis and Renzi take classes at Seven Mountains Kung Fu in Center City, where teacher Phuoc Phan instructs them in That Son Vo Dao, a Vietnamese martial art that originated in China. Davis has been studying it for years; Renzi got into it a year ago.

“It’s changed me so much as a person, and I don’t know if we’d be doing [Kung Fu Hoagies] without it and without our teacher,” says the gregarious Renzi, adding that Phan has advised the pair on everything from traditional Vietnamese recipes to the artwork that adorns the cart.

Davis, a talented visual artist, crafted the cart’s dragon and calligraphy. He’s pretty talented in the food department, too. A Pittsburgh native, Davis has worked in kitchens his entire adult life, including cooking here in Philly at Whole Foods and at Monk’s Cafe, as well as restaurants in

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Seitan worshippers: Steve Renzi (left) and Paul Davis operate Kung Fu Hoagies, a vegetarian/ vegan food cart that serves up Vietnamese favorites.

Seattle and San Francisco. Meanwhile, West Chester native Renzi used to cook at Whole Foods and Downey’s on South Street, then became a social studies and special ed teacher at Kensington High School for the Creative and Performing Arts for four years before resigning last year.

Last fall, the duo—both vegetarians— hatched the Kung Fu Hoagies idea, choosing a cart over a food truck because of both the lower initial investment (less than $10,000) and the fact that they both wanted to be out on the street interacting with customers.

“I guess a lot of people who know me kind of expected this,” Davis says of the venture. “Like, ‘Oh, it’s another one of Paul’s crazy ideas’ ... But because this brought together all the aspects of my life, I had confidence it would work.”

Initially, the plan was to serve vegetarian hot dogs, but that quickly changed to Vietnamese and Chinese cuisine since that was what the pair were eating all the time.

“It’s nice to be putting out healthy, tasty food,” says Davis. “I guess Philly can use that, and there aren’t any other food trucks or carts doing quite what we’re doing, but we’re not trying to force people to change. People seem to like it, and good food is good food, I guess.”

Davis and Renzi spent months perfecting recipes—a couple of banh mi varieties, a coconut-lemongrass “beef” curry over noodles, an orange-

BBQ “beef” hoagie, side dishes like spicy cucumber, jicama or noodle salads, and more—and going through the process of getting permits to operate their cart on city sidewalks.

Since March, 15-to-18-hour workdays, seven days a week, have become the norm. They’re up before sunrise to get the rolls and head to a commissary in Upper Darby where they do much of the prep work—pressing and marinating tofu, chopping vegetables, frying noodles, pickling daikon and carrots, making sauces. Then it’s back to the South Philly garage where they store the cart, loading it up with food and drinks, hauling it to the day’s location, and setting up. At the end of the day, it’s thorough cleaning, then off to kung fu class. More hours are spent doing touch-ups and other maintenance on the cart, filling propane tanks, running errands and thinking up more recipes and future ideas for the business.

Both guys average about four to five hours of sleep a night. “It’s a grind, but it’s worth it,” says Renzi, acknowledging that the job doesn’t leave room for relationships or even really hanging out with friends—unless their friends drop by to visit them at the cart. Davis and Renzi have talked about a food truck or even a storefront someday, but for now it’s all about the cart.

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“The sliding scale saved my life,” says Kelly. “I couldn’t afford $150, even once a year. So to be able to pay $10 and get all the literature I needed regarding lumps in your breasts [and so on], they really make it a one-stop shop.”

“I’m gay,” she continues, “so I didn’t really need the reproductive side much.”

These days, Kelly goes to another doctor, but she remains grateful to Planned Parenthood for being there when she needed it. “Without [Planned Parenthood],” she says, “I really would have been up a creek without a paddle for getting any type of medical help.”

Kelly is just one of thousands of Pennsylvanians who have relied on Planned Parenthood and other low-cost health centers for affordable medical care.

In 2011, Planned Parenthood’s 42 health centers in Pennsylvania cared for more than 120,000 men and women.

They provided about 200,000 STD tests and 40,000 cervical-cancer screenings, and detected more than 5,000 abnormal pap tests (if left untreated, the abnormal cells can lead to cancer). They also, of course, provide birth control and abortion services.

Even though the organization’s records show that 95 percent of services provided are preventive, if Harrisburg’s Republicans get their way, they’ll sacrifice all those general medicalcare services just to make it harder for low-income women to access abortion— which, by the way, is a legal procedure.

To wit, Rep. Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler County) recently introduced a bill that would sever all state funding to health centers in Pennsylvania that also pro-

vide abortion services.

Pennsylvania law already prohibits state funding for abortions.

So how would this bill protect women in any way? It doesn’t. This is just another counterfeit bill, one of a long string of them being pushed by politicians who pretend to protect the health of poor women in Pennsylvania while actually working to demolish their access to health care.

Spotting counterfeit bills can get confusing, but fear not: You don’t have to follow politics closely to learn how to detect a fake.

The first clue is in the bill’s title. In Pennsylvania, if a Republican-backed bill purports to positively impact women’s health, preserve women’s rights or protect religious liberty, it likely doesn’t intend to do any of those things. At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised to hear about a Republicanbacked resolution to rename the uterus the “our-terus.”

Metcalfe’s bill title? “Whole Woman’s Health Funding Priorities Act.” Bingo.

Defunding pap smears, cervical cancer screenings and birth control in order to shut down abortion services is not prioritizing anything but a culture war.

The second way to spot a counterfeit bill is to consider the sponsor. Metcalfe is well-known throughout the state as a vehement social conservative with little prior interest in women’s health.

Next, ask yourself who actually wrote the bill; agenda-driven shills rarely bother to write their own. These days, special-interest groups write boilerplate, fill-in-the-state-name legislation, then pass them off to hacks who spin them to the locals. Metcalfe’s was written by the Susan B. Anthony List, a pro-life political-action committee, and the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian group.

The next step in spotting a counterfeit bill is to check out who is standing up there next to the legislator as he or she introduces it. Standing next to Metcalfe we see Diane Gramley, a spokesperson for the Pennsylvania chapter of the Mississippi-based American Family Association (AFA), a group with a mis-

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For AIDS?” asked Gramley, apparently forgetting that AFA co-hort Bryan Fischer recently announced that God will cure AIDS when gays stop having sex.

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Tattooed purpose Philly photographer Kyle Cassidy spent four years capturing the stories that U.S. military veterans wanted to immortalize on their bodies.

PW presents an exclusive excerpt from Cassidy’s new book of photos and interviews, War Paint: Tattoo Culture & the Armed Forces.

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Jon Wright didn’t want to go to Vietnam; he got drafted. He was only there for eight months in 1966 and ’67, but something he saw there still keeps him from sleeping at night. “I didn’t want those eight months to be my life,” he said, “but I’ve realized that those eight months are my life.” To help come to terms with that, he got two tattoos: one for his unit—the Fourth Battalion, Ninth Infantry—and one to remember the people who went to Vietnam but never left.

My understanding of the military got more complicated the more I worked on this book; the more vets I met and photographed; the more days I spent in airports, VFW halls and living rooms, listening to grandfathers, mothers, brothers, sisters. I heard stories of love and loss and success and failure; of profound attachment, overwhelming sadness, and a camaraderie seemingly unknowable by anyone who hadn’t gone through it.

I may be the last un-tattooed person of my generation. I’ve always felt that I’ve never done or experienced anything that I’d still want to remember the same way 40 years from now. That may have been different if I’d been in the military. As I saw my friends coming back from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and Bosnia, memorializing events and people and experiences on their skin, I wanted to draw attention to what they’d been through—and I realized that someone should be writing these stories down.

Because if we, as a country, are going to send people to fight, I felt we owed them, at the very least, some time to listen to them when they come back.

Some stories are sad, some are happy, most are mixtures of the two. The first tattoo I photographed was on the arm of an 84-year-old man who’d parachuted into France on D-Day and who lost a leg at the Battle of the Bulge. He had a tattoo memorializing his brother who’d been killed fighting in Italy.

Sometimes tattoos are signposts, cross-generational invitations to conversation and friendship, symbols of ebullient pride. Sometimes they’re secret, coded messages that few will understand, and other times they’re completely private; no amount of scrutiny will reveal their meaning.

War Paint isn’t a book about the bravest warriors or the most beautiful tattoos, it’s a book about ordinary people put in extraordinary circumstances.

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Jeremy Willett Sergeant, Communications Chief, United States Marine Corps, 1997-2007 / OIF1 Feb. 2003–July 2003 with Communications Platoon, Headquarters and Service Company, 6th Engineer Support Battalion, 4th Marine Logistics Group / OIF2 Aug. 2004–Feb. 2005 with Bridge Company “A,” 6th ESB, Joint Task Force June 25, 1997–Nov. 10, 2007

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ix months after boot camp I realized that I still wanted to get a tattoo—I wanted to give myself a mature buffer before I got it, since it was going to be my first tattoo—I started scouting and researching, going to tattoo shops, reading magazines, looking at various tattoos that other Marines had. I started to come up with an idea of what I wanted to have—it was frustrating at first because a lot of the tattoos I saw out there were very cartoon-like, and I didn’t want anything like that. Then I came across one at Captain Jack’s over on Hawthorne, in Portland, Oregon—it was the right detail and image, I had to modify it and customize it, getting it grey scale, getting rid of some extra ornamentation.

Then between my two deployments, I did my back piece—a large tribal phoenix—my friend Nate Hudson at Optic Nerve designed it—it was a difficult time frame for me—I felt very displaced coming back from my second tour—reality was so much better there—the sun came up, you woke up, you did your work for the day—it was very hard but you had an idea of what you needed to be doing, there wasn’t so much... clutter, there weren’t so many distractions—you did your work, the sun goes down, you go to sleep, and you get up the next day and do it all over again.

Coming back here, the lights, the sounds, were so much more intense. So many more factors that are bombarding you all of a sudden—I felt out of place and was dealing with some difficult times—one of the reasons I wanted to get a phoenix was because of its deep meaning—internationally, with many cultures—the idea of rebirth.... and I had some scarification done to go along with it—I like to look at people’s tattoos, but I really like when they have a story behind it.

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William James Cryer E4, United States Marine Corps, Sep. 16, 2001–April 16, 2010 / 2nd Recon Battalion

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his one is an eagle with the stars and stripes on it, and it has the T initials “USMC” for United States Marine Corps. I just got out of boot camp and I was enthusiastic about getting a military tattoo, I wanted to show it off and I thought everybody had the same tattoos so I wanted to think about something that would be original but would also be patriotic. I went to the parlor and was looking through their stuff and combined a flag with an eagle, it’s a flag with the stars and stripes in it. I wanted it to symbolize freedom and patriotism, but I wanted him to put “United States Marine Corps” at the bottom so that people would know that I was a Marine. It’s my favorite piece because it was my first piece, I’ve grown close to it. When people see it they usually say, “Oh, you served?” and shake my hand and say, “Thank you for what you’ve done.” It’s very gratifying that people appreciate what I’ve done and they see it through my artwork.

I got the tattoo on my chest on this side because I wanted it over my heart. It’s the Marine Corps and Semper Fi; Sempter Fidelis means “always faithful,” it’s the Marine Corps motto. I wanted to get this over my heart so that whenever I got down I could always look at it and remind myself that I’m a Marine and that I need to carry myself as a Marine and that I’m part of a brotherhood… I know that whenever I’m in front of a flag and I put my hand over my heart, I’m putting it over the Marine Corps emblem too.

This one on my neck I got because I wanted people to really see this one. I have a lot of people that will come up to me and say, “Semper Fi!” when they see it. At the bottom it says “Marine Recon” which is the job I did, I was Force Recon and I got that there because it’s the upper echelon of the Marine Corps and I’m so proud to have done it—it’s the greatest thing I could have done with my life. It’s like a shining beacon to me, a symbol of what I’ve done.

I got deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, I also spent six months of reconnaissance missions in Kosovo, back when Slobodan Milošević was doing the ethnic cleansing; I was part of the peacekeeping mission. Going from Boston to Kosovo was very different.

The people were friendly, they were going through a lot of things, I was glad to be a part of that, to help those people, it was gratifying.

That was a lot of urban terrain, too, in that way it was like Iraq, a lot of close encounters, it was basically going against another military, they were organized just like us, they were trained just like us, it was like two swords meeting each other. A lot of the job was building-to-building, doing sweeps in a five-man recon team, check the rooms for bombs, insurgents, you’re looking on the stairs, on the bannisters, for wires, sometimes there’s civilians— sometimes you can’t tell between friend or foe, and that’s the hardest thing. Sometimes the enemy would have a bomb strapped to a kid, or hide weapons on someone that’s innocent, and when you walk into a room, sometimes you can’t tell—it’s splitsecond reactions, you have to know if that person’s a threat.

Kosovo prepared me for Afghanistan and Iraq, I learned that wars aren’t won alone, that you can lean on the brother next to you, you work as a team to get the job accomplished. I’m a Marine and it’s the greatest thing I could have done with my life.

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decided when I was in Afghanistan that I was going to work on two full-sleeve tattoos. The right side was going to be “heaven” and the left side was going to be “hell”—evil and good, just like Afghanistan. I was in the most dangerous part of that place for a year and I learned to take the good with the bad—roll with the punches—you can’t really effect everything in life; sometimes you just have to take it. In Afghanistan I realized nothing is completely good and nothing is completely bad, some things just are. That’s all that mission was. It was just bad throughout the day, and when the day’s over you realize that it wasn’t as bad as you thought it was when you were in it.

My main mission was to inform the infantry people that went outside the wire what was going to happen to them when they got on the road. Informing them of where they would most likely get hurt and how to avoid it—lots of IEDs—no matter where you went, it was a bad trip, it was just hot spots everywhere.

I get really frustrated sometimes because I feel like we’re really fighting the other forgotten war—when I got home for leave, a lot of my friends were joking that Afghanistan wasn’t that bad— they just didn’t even know. And they don’t know that it’s not all bad—we’re doing good things—we’re training the Afghan people to do better for their country, to fight against the people that aren’t going to do them any good; nobody understands that we were doing good over there—that it wasn’t just going outside of the wire and killing people.

I got this tattoo in November of 2007, at the Lucky Dog Tattoo Shop in Seaside. Bob Roughton did it. I took my boyfriend out with me, he got a little tattoo, too, then four hours later, I got mine. It was kind of sunny down in Seaside, which is unusual, so we went down to the beach. I used to live there for 14 years, so it was a lot of me getting caught up on what had changed and what it looked like. We walked on the beach, went and looked at my old house and then went to dinner. I joined when I was 17, that was four and a half years ago.

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got this paratrooper tattoo after D-Day. Me and Johnny Martin got a pass for London. When you go on a pass overseas in England you hitchhike. All the trucks are going your way, they take you, then you get off and another truck picks you up. We wound up at an Air Force base, a Royal Air Force base. We got something to eat and a couple of pilots come over to us and started talking to us and they said, “You want to come to Scotland?”

“You gotta be kidding!” They were fighter pilots, they had these Spitfires, so Johnny got in one and I got in the other one. It took about 12 minutes, we got to Edinburgh, Scotland.

That’s when we got the tattoos. Drunk as a skunk. If I was sober I never would have gotten it, but I was drunk. We had a good time up there. Edinburgh, 1944. Right after D-Day. Drunk. I would never get tattoos sober. Johnny Martin, he just died about a year ago. When we come back, I went up to see him right after the war. He lived up in Columbus, Ohio. [My wife] Frannie and I went to see him and he said to me quietly: “Don’t tell my mom I have a tattoo, and don’t tell her I drink.” He was nothing but a souse! You can’t hide the damn tattoo, and you can’t hide the fact that you drink. And when they found out, they blamed me. So I took the blame.

This one here [left arm], you can just about see, it’s a cross and it’s got my brother’s name on it—“Dunc,” that’s my brother who was killed in Italy, that was his nickname “Dunc,” that’s like a cross with a wreath on it. He’s buried in Cassino, Italy. That’s the last one I got done.

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Reta and her son, Robert Rae E3, United States Marine Corps, 2002-2006 / Tattoos by Jim Quinn, Inkjam

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obert: The tattoo on my forearm, my unit symbol, I was with Third Battalion, Second Marines, weapons company.

It’s the EGA—Eagle, Globe, and Anchor—with a sword and the letters “OIF,” Operation Iraqi Freedom; 0/3-31—that was my MOS, machine gunner, and on the inside of my arm I have two spent rounds, shell casings, and my buddy’s name and the date he was KIA on our deployment and I was hit by an IED myself—you can’t really get an IED tattoo, so I did the next best thing, I got a frag-grenade with someblast behind it.

Reta: My tattoo says “Marine daughter, wife, mom.” My father served, my husband served, my sons served, and my daughter did a stint in the Army. My grandfather served in Vietnam and then my dad served in Desert Storm; both of my boys served in Iraq. Sending a child to war is... hell. You want to support them as hard as they can—you’re proud, because very few people are standing in line today to serve in our military. I saw my mom go through it; I met my husband shortly after he got home from Beirut; and I had two boys who went through in the Marine Corps, so it’s been a family thing. We don’t always necessarily agree with our children’s decisions... no parent wants to bury their children first. We prayed night and day when my oldest was in Iraq. I’ve never been so scared in my life. But I was proud of him—if you love them, then you make the sacrifice with them.

I was on Mass. Ave. coming home from work, about 1:30 in the afternoon, and I got a phone call and it was my Bob and he says, “Mom, I’ve been hit and I’m hurt, I’m alive but I’m hurt.” And then the phone went dead. I was screaming into the phone, “Rob, Rob, Rob, talk to me!” but there was nothing.

And we went three days and there was no information no calls ... nothing. And we didn’t know if he was dead or alive. As long as there’s a breath left in them, they let them call home.

I didn’t know how bad he was, and the pain and sorrow of losing a child—I was not prepared to sacrifice a child. And then a week and a half later I got a call that he was recovering and in the Iraqi hospital. And I’ve never been so grateful in my life, but I still wanted my son home. And when he arrived in North Carolina back from Iraq—I’ve never been so happy to see someone in my life, so happy. He’s been my savior.

I got my tattoo when Bob was still overseas, after he was injured.

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he second time I got shot I was in Iraq. We were riding in a convoy and I had my arm out the window and this random bullet just hit me in the arm. I said, “Hey! I just got shot!” Someone behind me said, “Are you dead?” I said, “No” and they said, “Well, wrap that shit up.” So I wrapped a bandage around my arm and about a half-mile up the road we hit an IED and our vehicle rolled over. I hit the roof on the inside. My heart stopped and they brought me back with the paddles, it’s just like in the movies. I remember I was completely numb and they paddled me and it was like going from being asleep to falling off the bed into a tub of ice water. I was in the hospital for 11 months after that. I got a tattoo of a zombie right over the bullet scar because I’d been dead and I came back. I have a tattoo for every bad thing that happened to me in the Army. I have 18 tattoos.

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Kyle Cassidy is currently photographing science-fiction writers and their desks, as well as assembling a collection of portraits of roller derby players. Read more about both on his website, kylecassidy.com, or follow @kylecassidy on Twitter.

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Marissa Nadler Waifish, fey, small-boned and big-eyed, Marissa Nadler looks too delicate to lift an acoustic guitar, let alone coax spine-chilling folk-toned melodies from one. Her voice is as silky and gorgeous as her pale-white skin.

She’s also a savvy businesswoman; over the last couple of years, she has established her own label to record, distribute and promote her music. Autonomy seems to agree with her. She’s coming off a pair of self-released albums, last year’s self-titled and this year’s Sister, that mark her best, most unworldly work yet. JeNNiFeR Kelly

Fri., June 15, 10:30pm. $12. Underground Arts, 12th and Callowhill sts. 267.586.9093. bratproductions.org

9pm. $10. With Faces on Film. Johnny Brendas, 1201 N. Frankford Ave. johnnybrendas.com

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limited involvement with Yellow Submarine, an animation spectacular that recycles some song favorites—plus drops a couple unreleased tracks, including the George gems “Only a Northern Song” and “It’s All Too Much”—while voice actors rock passable Fab Four imitations. Alas, United Artists deemed this insufficient, thus necessitating the disastrous Let It Be documentary. Bad for the Beatles, good for humanity: Though Submarine, newly restored (again), is more fun before returning to hippie Pepperland—and debatably peaks early with the grim, photorealist “Eleanor Rigby” segment—director George Dunning and crew create psychedelia whose playfulness doesn’t require drugs.

Partly because it is drugs. MaTT pRigge

Oh, and he also played “The Hug Guy” in that Dave Matthews Band video. N.F.

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Did you know that when this longtime comic isn’t grossing everyone out or making Liz Lemon’s life difficult as Frank Rossitano on 30 Rock, he’s busy taking calls from the Pentagon, teaching karate to exotic dancers and being the greatest ping-pong player in the world? These are just a few of the many outlandish claims of greatness Friedlander will make when he rolls into town to perform as his alter-ego, “The World Champion.”

Though his trademark slogan-adorned trucker hats and massive black glasses make him one of the most recognizable faces in comedy, you may not realize that Friedlander has actually penned his own book and appeared in more than 20 movies including Zoolander, Meet the Parents and Wet Hot American Summer.

Kimbra In light of the incredible yet unlikely popularity of Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know,” the world has naturally focused on the song’s Belgian-Australian protagonist.

But the female who adds a verse and backup vocals to the track deserves attention, too. The 20-something New Zealander, also known as Kimbra Johnson, shares Gotye’s taste for tenderhearted, lean pop that avoids too much polish or studio gimmickry. Her 2011 debut, Vows, contains two different-sounding examples of this aesthetic. The coffeehouse come-on of “Settle Down” is built out of Kimbra’s warm, agile voice, handclaps, breezy background harmonies and particularly wiry instrumentation. Meanwhile, the cool “Cameo Lover” starts with sparkling croons and a sparse club beat before exploding into an exhilarating bubblegum chorus. ReyaN ali 7:30pm. $29.50-$36.50. With Foster the People + Tokyo Police Club. The Mann Center, 5201 Parkside Ave. manncenter.org

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7pm. $5-$9. International House, 3701 Chestnut St. 215.895.6535. ihousephilly.org

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Yellow Submarine For reasons that defy logic and taste, the Beatles were not terribly pleased with Help!, their second theatrical motion picture.

Throw in the more or less deserved hostility that greeted their Magical Mystery Tour TV special, and the quartet were understandably leery of completing their three-film contract with United Artists. Hence, their painfully

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Busa. Next up is local sketch troupe American Breakfast, four funny locals who enjoy each other’s company. Finally, ManiPedi will take the stage; if you’ve never seen five uninhibited, trucker-mouthed girls cracking offbeat jokes while donning adorable onesie pajamas, you’re in for quite a treat. After the show, the audience is welcome to stick around and join the lovely quintet for a dance party. N.F. 9pm. $10. Connie’s Ric Rac, 1132 S. Ninth St. 215.279.7587. conniesricrac.com

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The Daily Show Writers The writers and producers of Comedy Central’s satirical news program The Daily Show are constantly heard, but not often seen.

Their jokes, exhaustive research and clever political parallels are the stuff we’ve come to know and love over the years—not to mention the stuff that has earned the show 16 Emmy awards. Tonight, we meet three wheels in the show’s circuit: Co-executive producer Adam Lowitt and writers Hallie Haglund and Josh Rabinowitz step out from behind the big, blue curtain and into the spotlight. abigail bRuley 7:30pm. $10. Tin Angel, 20 S. Second St. 215.928.0770. tinangel.com

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Selfless of the Earth” show serious promise, but we’ll wait and see if the potential of their fourth record materializes. r.A. 3pm. $12. The Barbary, 951 Frankford Ave. r5productions.com

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Philly Punx Block Party While the annual Philly Punx Picnic is well over a week away, it’s never too early to start running on party mode. The Punx Block Party offers food, music and a DIY flea market with hoards of vendors selling records, crafts, new and used clothes and punk accessories. Grab something to eat and wander around the block or stick around for live music from bands with names that would make your parents cringe: Rubbish, the Shakes, Artificial Limbs, Dead People Screaming and more. Grindcore House, Creep Records, Crash Bang Boom and other rad institutions will be giving away prizes to support the 2012 Punx Picnic fundraising raffle. Ashley Kole Noon-8:30pm. Free. 1500 block of S. Taney Street. phillypunxpicnic.blogspot.com

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Mausoleum Horror Convention This week, the Philadelphia Mausoleum of Contemporary Art hosts a festival filled with films, games and workshops dedicated to the wildness and weirdness of horror. Catch members of the Divine Hand Ensemble show off their classical-driven violin skills, take in a kooky sex-education performance from Screw Smart, or watch Mr. Deadguy’s horrorthemed burlesque show. If you still haven’t had enough of the strange and obscure, catch the 10 p.m. screening of two oddly entertaining movies—Manborg (about a half man, half robot) and Comforting Skin (in which a woman’s tattoos come to life). BrendA hillegAs 11am. $7. Philadelphia Mausoleum of Contemporary Art, 531 N. 12th St. philamoca.org

Bloomsday

Bloomsday is a worldwide celebration of the day Leopold Bloom made his odyssey through Dublin in James Joyce’s masterpiece novel Ulysses. Our very own Rosenbach Museum & Library houses the only complete manuscript of the novel written in Joyce’s own hand, so it’s fitting that they host one of the world’s largest Bloomsday celebrations each year.

Joyce enthusiasts will lead the event with lively readings of this classic work. Bring your copy of Ulysses and flip through the pages with fellow literature lovers. Writer, broadcaster and BBC host Frank Delaney will be the featured reader at the event. Delaney hosts a podcast series called Re: Joyce, which deconstructs, examines and illuminates Ulysses in five-minute broadcasts. KAtelynn hArtmAn

Verse Some breakups just aren’t meant to last. In February 2009, Providence, R.I. hardcore outfit Verse went kaput after a six-year run.

But by last December, the foursome were together again, citing burnout and problems on the home front as the cause of their shortlived death. Although Verse hasn’t added any original flourishes to the hardcore scene, it’s good to have the band’s not-too-raw, grueland-grits style back inciting mosh pits and sweat-soaked dog piles. Next month, Verse releases Bitter Clarity, Uncommon Grace, which vocalist Sean Murphy says focuses on life lessons and problems his friends and family have experienced. The self-flagellating staccato riff and avalanche of a chorus on “The

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Destroyer Vancouver’s Dan Bejar is going on two decades of writing ramshackle, whimsical indie rock under the nom de guerre Destroyer. Over the span of nine albums, plus a few EPs, the sometimes-collaborator of the New Pornographers has written slightly odd, often atonal, tunes that are uplifting and full of vim and vigor. With his inimitable voice—an earnest, gravelly, quasi-falsetto— omnipresent, Bejar has morphed from the noise-rock/folk-troubadour of his early days to shoegaze-inspired Happy Mondays dance beats to the new-age and easy-listening influences found on his most recent album, 2011’s Kaput. Bejar’s verbose lyrics, full of vignettes and non sequitors, tie together his guitarand key-driven melodies and dynamic vocal stylings. KAtherine silKAitis 8:30pm. $16-$18. With Sandro Perri. Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St. utphilly.com

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Philadelphia FIGHT Prison Re-Entry Summit Philadelphia FIGHT’s 10th annual Beyond the Walls: Prison Health Care and Re-entry Summit explores the trials and tribulations affecting our ever-growing incarcerated population.

Bringing together former prisoners, healthcare providers, probation officers and prison staff, the summit presents a series of informational workshops aimed at educating the public about incarceration. Workshops like “I’ll Have the Fed Combo With Lettuce, Tomato, and Mayo” and “What to Expect When Giving Birth While Incarcerated: The Tale of a Prison Doula” will reveal and relate intimate details of incarcerated life and shed light on a issue that truly affects us all. BrAd ForBes 8:30am. Free. Pennsylvania Convention Center, 12th and Arch sts. 215.985.4448. fight.org

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eil Hamburger’s brand of comedy is never exactly comfortable.

It’s an amalgam of hostility, obscenity and piety-puncturing, all delivered in a restless, pacing, semi-rant, drink in hand, as Hamburger belts out unanswerable questions like: “Whhhhhhhhhhy did God create herpes?”

Hamburger has a peculiarly combative relationship with his fans, who invite and even clamor for his abuse. People who sit near the front are, quite often, drawn into the melee, derided as “Zipper Lips” if their performance is unsatisfactory. Still, you don’t want to get carried away. There’s a whole subset of YouTube devoted to Hamburger-eviscerating hecklers, which is funny as long as it’s not you. J.K.

Tues., June 19, 9pm. $12-$14.

With Duncan Trussell and Doogie Horner.

Johnny Brendas, 1201 N. Frankford Ave. johnnybrendas.com

Since 2007, the creators of Stripped Stories, Giulia Rozzi and Margot Leitman, have hosted steamy storytelling events in which audiences are encouraged to divulge, muse and laugh at their own sexual misadventures.

The show severs barriers and preconceived notions about the way we talk about sexuality; Your dirty laundry is being aired, and it’s embarrassing, refreshing and strangely delightful. Amidst the hosts’ frisky, blunt and awkward moments, expect a high-caliber show as Elna Baker, Dave Hill and Dava Krause grace the stage to tell their own enticing tales. tushArA JewAhAr 8pm. $12-$15. Union Transfer, 1024 Spring Garden St. strippedstories.firstpersonarts.org

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open-mic night. In addition to an original piece, all artists must each perform one Beatles song. Each performance is judged by a panel—which includes WCL staff and a sponsor representative—and if an artist wins for the week, they’ll be invited back at the end of the month for the Best of Philly Rising. There, each of those performers will show off their best in a full set, in hopes of winning exclusive discounts on studio time and an editorial feature in Origivation magazine. These monthly winners have a chance at the Annual Prize Package: a consultantion with Mad Dragon Records CEO Marcy Wagman, a music video shot by GGM Productions, a bunch of promotional posters and assistance recording and releasing an E.P. How’s that for getting by with a little help from your friends? A.K.

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s a committed omnivore, I make it a policy never to apply human feelings or emotions to the flesh I eat. Give a cow pasture to wander through, a chicken all the space and freedom it requires. But when it comes to their slaughter, I chalk it up to a food-chain sort of thing: We’re higher up than they are, so we eat them. It’s the circle of life.

Hakuna matata. Cue the Elton John.

But I have no hesitation when I say the following: The skate that I had to gnaw my way through at Brick gave its life for no apparent reason.

Because I could have derived as much pleasure from a baseball mitt, or an under-hydrated flank of salt-cod.

This wing was so overcooked that it had taken on the texture of dried-out chicken, was seasoned unevenly, and plated, amateurishly, with barelyroasted grapes, bland cauliflower, and a brown butter sauce as characterful as Celine Dion singing “No Sleep Till Brooklyn.”

It was just one in a series of vaguely depressing missteps. Our waitress kept on forgetting which beers were out of stock, which resulted in our having to order multiple times. The list itself is inconsistent, with some selections noted in their entirety and others simply with the brewer’s name.

So which Sly Fox will you have?

Which Lagunitas? You’ll have to ask; it’s not specified in writing.

The space itself retains a sense of neighborhoody sophistication, with enough light coming in from the sidewalk to brighten up the tables near the windows—as well as cozier, more indirectly lit corners to sit in that offer a greater sense of intimacy. In this sense, its balance of conviviality and romance is thoughtfully achieved and is one of the highlights of an evening there.

But the food really burrowed into my soul and elicited a deep, break-upstyle depression. An order of duck nachos was a plate of—wait for it—four chips. Each was topped with a forgettable duck confit, a glop of crema, and pedestrian avocado mousse. The chips were straight from a bag and heading toward stale, and seasoned with a spice blend as electrifying as an afternoon at the DMV. There also was no perceptible acid or other sign of life in this overpriced hillock of mediocrity. Chicken fried rock shrimp were encased in a gluey carapace that was made additionally repellent by a

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Try the brunch: Brick’s stuffed French toast is made with cannoli cream and Baileys.

buffalo-wing-style sauce and “Maytag aioli” whose juxtaposition of funkiness and high-toned heat did a disservice to actual Buffalo-style anything I’ve had recently.

A bowl of clams with remarkably dull chorizo proved that the addition of lots of butter does not, in fact, make everything better. Rather, when it’s unaccompanied by enough acid or seasoning (even given the white wine in it), it merely makes things heavy. The sad kernels of corn, the pieces of tomato, and the sporadic clove of roasted garlic did little to lift the occasionally gritty clams beyond the level of the piddling. Lamb burger, ostensibly a signature dish (it’s set apart from the surrounding items by a square frame on the page), was overworked to the point of meatloafiness in texture.

Its crown of mahogany-toned “spicy onion jam” leaned far too heavily on an almost molasses-like sense of sweetness that obliterated the

Manchego and all but a whiff of the meat’s gaminess. The fries, which I’d been hoping would redeem this Hindenburg of a sandwich, were underfried and floppy.

Desserts demonstrated the same sense of confusion in concept and carelessness in execution. The so-called “Brickwich” was a slab of flavorless ice cream slapped between two thoroughly generic chocolatechip cookies. The brownie, also devoid of much flavor, was served in a martini glass, a trend I’d thought had mercifully died five years ago. And serving a square-edged brownie in a triangular martini glass makes the physicality of eating it unsurprisingly difficult.

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Nomad Pizza 611 S. Seventh St. 215.238.0900. nomadpizzaco.com Cuisine: Considerate, well-constructed pizza.

This is as neighborhoody and pleasant as it gets, a charming oasis from the craziness of South Street a block away, and a great entry to the city’s ever-expanding pizzastakes. All of the pizzas are framed by a dough that’s crafted in-house.

Straightforward margherita di buffala pizza benefited from the palate-filling milkiness of the cheese.

Against the simple, elegant San Marzano sauce and gentle dusting of sea salt and pepper, this pizza worked on a deeply primal level. (B.F.)

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Cuisine: Italian and French-inspired, daily changing menu focused around local ingredients.

Russet, a B.Y.O.B housed in a converted rowhome in Rittenhouse, crafts a daily menu around a few choice local ingredients. Hand-rolled garganelli pasta comes with spinach, a sunny-side-up egg and crispy, thick-

1002 Race St. 215.238.8883 Cuisine: Wide-ranging Chinese.

M Kee is the kind of place you root for: The service couldn’t be nicer or more accommodating, and the restaurant itself, with its cheery orange accents and uniforms, is welcoming. The highlights are probably what you’d expect—they’re hanging right in the window.

Excellently named “roast pig” is just that: Tender rectangles of remarkably “porky” pork, each resting beneath a layer of cracker-crisp skin that’s a beautifully deep shade of mahogany.

Order too much of this and bring it home. It’ll make an amazing next-day snack. (B.F.)

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1921 Fairmount Ave. 267.519.2911. bluecatrestaurant.com Cuisine: Latin-inspired comfort food.

Blue Cat’s airy, friendly atmosphere, casual and competent service, and comfortable pan-Latin food bring new freshness and life to its Fairmount neighborhood. Salmon filet, beneath a gorgeous crust from the cast-iron skillet, is a simple, delicate dish, topped with a mango salsa as straightforward as it is bright.

Chacarero, a riff on the Chilean sandwich, is piled high with avocado, string beans, red pepper and grilled chicken; this is a sandwich that’s as filling as it is unexpectedly good for you. (Brian Freedman)

cut guanciale—unsmoked Italian bacon made from pig jowl or cheek.

After breaking the egg yolk to coat the pasta, the resulting taste is that of a deconstructed carbonara. Stinging nettles make an appearance on the American red snapper, alongside Jerusalem artichokes and a tomato fondue that adds a sweet acidity to each bite. (Cristina Perachio)

Cuisine: Italian gastropub.

Defying expectations is the name of the game at Alla Spina, where Marc Vetri’s widely acclaimed hospitality gets a lowbrow make-under to match the cuisine. Pig tails are fried, rendering the considerable fat succulent and the strands of meat both crisp and redolent with piggy goodness—think crunchy bacon and fatty pork belly, twisted together around a bone not unlike a chicken wing. Awash in fennel agrodolce and topped with the filmiest hint of fennel fronds, they are best eaten with your fingers, a lip-smacking treat that manages to be at once sweet, sour, salty and rich. (L.B.)

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The Pickled Heron turns out a seared foie gras that ranks among my favorites in town, expertly cooked to buttery tenderness without a hint of over-searing and served over a golden raisin and black pepper jam that is both a sweet foil and a thoughtful complement to the faintly metallic character of the foie.

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How SoLow Can You Go?

The 3rd annual festival dedicated to solo artists gets “down and dirty.”

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n the tiny studio space at Yoga 34 in West Philly, local actor and playwright Chris Davis looks exhausted as he attempts to bring his experimental one-man show, Drunk Lion, to life.

Scrutinizing every inflection and gesture, the 30-year-old morphs seamlessly into an array of bilingual characters—both man and beast—all while periodically breaking the fourth wall to translate bits of Spanish dialogue or deliver a humorously poignant monologue in English.

“Theatrically speaking, this is by far the hardest task I’ve given myself,” the South Philly says of the show, which tells the tale of an unlikely friendship formed between an alcoholic Mexican lion and a foreigner who doesn’t know a lick of Spanish. “I want to match the meaning, feelings and guidance of my own words.”

With the exception of the obvious fictional elements, the show is largely inspired by Davis’ time living in Mexico, where he taught English for three years.

“I like to think I’m honoring some sort of memory of it,” says Davis, whose last play, Lion (El Lion), was a surprise hit at 2011’s Live Arts and Philly Fringe Festival; it later earned “Most Original Script” at the 2011 Philadelphia Urban Theatre Festival. As for his obsession with lions, it all stems from a snuff video he saw of a man being mauled by a lion, playing on a TV in the middle of a huge Mexico City marketplace.

“No matter what I did, I could not get that particular image of the lion out of my head,” he says. Which is why, after the play was sitting in his drawer for about a year, he decided he needed to bring it to life.

Now, Drunk Lion will be one of more than 15 original solo works debuting over the next 11 days as part of the 3rd Annual SoLow Festival, a grassroots event dedicated to the artistic growth and creation of solo artists.

“A really good solo show, I think, allows you to see inside the performer’s soul, in a sense,” Davis says. “They are entirely vulnerable.”

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Thomas Choinacky and Amanda Grove, the SoLow Festival allows artists the rare opportunity to conceive work with little to no financial risk. Meanwhile, with admission to most shows ranging from donations of $5-$15, audiences have more to gain than lose.

“Since we have erased money and financial investment from this equation, we can focus on real artistic growth,” says Grove, 36. “I want artists to use the festival as

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They think they can dance: Thomas Choinacky (left) and Scott McPheeters in this year’s SoLow show, Off the Chain. a platform for taking risks and making mistakes.”

There is no application fee or screening process, and 100 percent of revenue goes straight back into the artists’ pockets.

Rather than paying to rent a space, the shows will be held at various nontraditional locations and venues around the city—from coffee shops and bars to community centers and a few of the performers’ own homes.

For its show, 5th Floor, Bright Light Theater Company will even be taking audiences on a mysterious elevator ride inside the Foremost Building in South Philly.

According to Grove, local businesses have been surprisingly supportive the last three years, opening not only their spaces to artists, but their services as well. “I was shocked when my neighborhood community center said, ‘Sure! Do you need chairs, too?’”

With almost twice as many performances, this year’s festival will be the largest one yet. The diverse lineup of shows include Meghann Williams’ Peep Show, a sound and sculpture experiment at the Viking Mill in Kensington, and Choinacky’s production, Off the Chain, in which he and dancer/choreographer Scott McPheeters examine dance from an entirely new perspective.

Appropriately, all of this year’s SoLow performances have been given the theme “down and dirty,” a term used in the theater community to describe a low-budget show with not enough resources.

“It’s ‘down and dirty theater’ when you have 20 people crammed into a tiny dressing room that is leaking from the ceiling,” Grove jokes.

And while this would normally be perceived as a negative, the participating

artists embrace it. “This is the first show I’ve put zero dollars out for,” says Davis, adding that he also doesn’t expect to make much in return. Yet, having become recently unemployed, he’d probably never get to play a drunk Mexican lion if not for this festival.

“I have to memorize my play and I don’t have anyone telling me to, so it’s important to stay motivated,” Davis says following his rehearsal.

“That’s also the reason I like doing it, though—I have almost complete independence.” And despite the difficulty of playing both a man and a lion, he manages to pull off an incredibly entertaining performance. n June 14-June 24. Various times and locations. solowfestival.blogspot.com

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Philadelphia Theatre Company’s Reasons to Be Pretty is a thoughtful play about being shallow.

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Trouble in paradise: Greg (Daniel Abeles, left) called his girlfriend Steph (Genevieve Perrier) ordinary, and it didn’t go over well. that Steph’s reaction is that of a vain, absurdly narcissistic woman, the play falls apart. Perrier’s performance, however, suggests that Steph’s response is perfectly normal, and we empathize with the insecurities that fuel her anger toward Greg.

Both natural, charming actors, Perrier and Abeles complement each other nicely and their chemistry makes the post-break-up scenes between Greg and Steph especially poignant.

In addition to the excellent cast, Mileaf receives strong contributions from the production’s team of designers. Particularly good is Vince Mountain’s scenic design, which puts the characters’ and their obsession with physical beauty in a noticeably bland and nondescript world

that includes an unappetizing food court at a mall and the dull, dreary factory where Greg, Kent and Cary work. The production is also aided by Janus Stefanowicz’s costumes that in many instances reveal as much about the characters sense of self as LaBute’s dialogue.

A fascinating play that draws a clear distinction between petty machismo and real manhood, Mileaf’s commanding production of LaBute’s play proves once again that PTC is the place to go in Philadelphia for serious contemporary American drama. n Through June 24. $25-$59. Suzanne Roberts Theatre, Broad and Lombard sts. 215.985.0420. philadelphiatheatrecompany.org

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misogynist who is pretty much devoid of any redeeming qualities.

Abeles’ Greg, conversely, is as likeable a fellow as we’ve encountered on any stage this season. The right-fielder on the factory baseball team, Greg is an average-looking guy who is unaccustomed to being the center of attention. Forced into an uncomfortable, no-win situation by Kent’s infidelity, Greg is Pretty ’s most intriguing character.

His journey toward maturity is by far the most compelling element in LaBute’s shrewdly crafted play.

Greg is the play’s central character, but the production’s success hinges on the actress portraying Steph. Greg’s comment about his girlfriend’s looks is the catalyst that sets the story in motion. If we perceive

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hiladelphia Theatre Company concludes its up-and-down season on a very high note with Neil LaBute’s Reasons to be Pretty. Following The Shape of Things and the incendiary Fat Pig, Pretty is the final play in LaBute’s loosely connected trilogy about America’s obsession with physical appearance.

A deceptive work, Pretty initially appears to be little more than a profanelaced, darkly humorous battle of the sexes.

There are verbal exchanges between the two male characters and separate conversations between the play’s two women that illustrate the stark differences between the way guys and girls talk about relationships. But under director Maria Mileaf’s careful guidance, the gender differences take a back seat to what LaBute has to say about responsibility, physical attractiveness, and the connection between selflessness and maturity.

One of LaBute’ strongest attributes is that his plays are devoid of fussiness or unneeded exposition. In Pretty, he wastes no time getting to the point. The inciting incident happens early in the play when Greg (the sensational Daniel Abeles) makes an off-hand remark about his girlfriend Steph’s face to his best friend, Kent (Paul Felder). The remark (made in confidence) is not particularly hurtful or insulting—he basically describes her face as ordinary. However, when Steph (Genevieve Perrier) is informed of Greg’s comment by her best friend (and Kent’s wife), Carly (Elizabeth Stanley in a perceptive portrayal), she’s incensed.

Before the incredulous—some might say clueless—Greg knows what hit him, Steph strikes back and, amidst a flurry of insults, abruptly ends their four-year relationship.

A shocked Greg turns to Kent for support, but the infantile Kent thinks only of his own pleasure. Instead of consoling his friend, he incessantly brags to Greg about his own sexual prowess, crudely describing his sex life with both Carly and the new girl at work—while his Carly is pregnant with their first child.

Few directors are as adept at casting as Mileaf, who again proves she has a keen eye for talent in selecting the four actors who give life to LaBute’s complex characters.

Felder is not an actor of unlimited range, but the aggressive Kent suits his muscular acting style—complimented by his strapping physique—perfectly. Felder’s Kent is a typical bully, a selfish, egocentric

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Vox Populi’s exhibit of male erotica oozes with visual metaphors.

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ainting Bitten by a Man is a twoperson exhibition resolved to spread the cheeks of painting and take a dip. “I’ve been interested in ways that people can fuck with painting—literally,” explained Andrew Suggs, executive director of Vox Populi Gallery and curator of the current show, which pairs Brian Kokoska’s homoerotic paintings of leatherheads with mixed-media artist Jonathan VanDyke’s desire to squeeze the history of modern painting for its, shall we say, creative juices.

If Painting Bitten by a Man is a show about dealing with the legacy of Modernism as queer painters, then it breaks down roughly as follows: Kokoska paints, and VanDyke takes a bite. In many ways, Kokoska uses traditional media (oil on canvas) to treat traditional subjects (eroticism and desire). But while the type of desire Kokoska depicts may have long scintillated beneath the hard-nosed varnish of many an Abstract Expressionist painting, his pictures bring queerness to the forefront. He paints closely cropped vignettes of men giving and taking pleasure from one another. Rainbow tongues explore gaping mouths, tentacular fingers penetrate red ears, and a leather boy cuddles his daddy in a moment of unexpected tenderness.

On a conceptual level, much of VanDyke’s work is more fastidiously historical than Kokoska’s. He pecks away at painting, but he doesn’t always draw blood. VanDyke’s photographs, in which pages from art history textbooks have been overlaid with contemporary snapshots of guys fooling around, are often so thoroughly legible that the pairings fall flat. Example: Pollock’s Lavender Mist (1950) is paired with a naked frat boy pouring beer down his chest. Here, VanDyke compares the dripping paint in Pollock to the beer dripping off the bro’s genitals; it’s been said before—and better—by Warhol.

While these drips may run dry, those in VanDyke’s sculptures and performance are thickly, deliciously and perversely wet. In a series of wall-mounted sculptures, colored paint drips seductively from holes and tubes onto the floor. It’s all sexual seepage—a pitiful and more powerful response to Pollock than a can of beer.

Cordoned Area (2011-2012), a threehour performance for two dancers who are also lovers, set the tone for the rest of the exhibition at the opening reception.

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Sexual seepage: Mixed-media artist Jonathan VanDyke’s photographs depict snapshots of guys fooling around over pages from art-history textbooks. dancers David Rafael Botana and Bradley Teal Ellis duked out a powerfully improvised match. Throughout the performance, they added paint to their bodies, the cumulative traces of which remain visible on the walls, pillars and floor of the gallery. Unfortunately, if you missed the opening night performance, you’re left trying to recreate its dynamism from the stain left in its wake.

Similarly, unless you visit the exhibition on Saturdays, you won’t see Van Dyke’s dripping sculptures in action (they couldn’t afford paint for the other days). In both cases, the residue of dried

paint is much less interesting than the gunky, messy rumble responsible for its secretion. Although Suggs should be commended for coaxing painting off the wall, the result that visitors will see on most days of the week is more timid than the raunchy possibilities promised by the press release: to queer paint’s “historical resonance and contemporary application.”

Nevertheless, there are moments of provocation that spark regardless of performative and kinetic constraints. A filmic, Dutch-angle shot of hands pleasuring a dripping asshole in Kokoska’s Finger Linger (2011) stands as one. Another is

VanDyke’s Everyone I Ever Loved (2008), a video installed behind a wall and accessible only through a peephole. The hourlong loop shows a stationary man staring at a painting with his back to the viewer.

In the absence of any other action, the mind begins to wander; rather than tacking a conceptual course through the video, the accumulated kinkiness of the rest of the show lures you down a less traveled and more titillating path: There’s a hole in the wall. What will you do with it? n Through July 1. Vox Populi Gallery, 319 N. 11th St. voxpopuligallery.org

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The big-screen adaptation of Rock of Ages fails to impress.

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By Matt Prigge mprigge@philadelphiaweekly.com The Seventh Victim (1943): Late in his career, Mark Robson made the camp classic Valley of the Dolls and Earthquake, arguably the nadir of ’70s disaster movies.

Few would immediately ID him as the same filmmaker who made this goth-friendly mood piece about a coven of Greenwich Satanists. Robson cut his teeth first as an assistant editor for Orson Welles, then for the almost-asbrilliant, no-budget RKO producer Val Lewton, helming not only Victim but also the horrors The Ghost Ship, Isle of the Dead and more. Robson wandered far from his origins, and although he was twice nominated for directing Oscars, one of them was for Peyton Place.

Messiah of Evil (1973): Writer-director Willard Huyck hasn’t worked much since Howard the Duck, which is understandable. (He also made the notoriously ramshackle early Eddie Murphy-Dudley Moore bomb Best Defense.) But this George Lucas pal—who also co-wrote American Graffiti—made, along with wife Gloria Katz, a dreamlike debut, one of the few horror films to feel faithfully H.P. Lovecraftian (and without actually adapting him).

The Duellists (1977): Yes, Ridley Scott made Alien and Blade Runner. He also made 1492, A Good Year and Robin Hood, possibly the most boring movie of all time.

In short, he’s sketchy, even within his decent films. But he kicked off his career with great confidence, adapting a Joseph Conrad short into a dense and gorgeous period thriller that even overcame the bizarre casting of broadaccented Yanks Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel among a cast of Brits.

Roger & Me (1989): Or maybe Michael Moore simply didn’t seem obnoxious and unfunny the first time.

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Tremors (1990): With a neo-monster movie perfectly calibrated between funny and terrifying, Ron Underwood seemed to have laid claim to resourceful modern genre entertainments. But for some reason he then made corn: City Slickers and Heart and Souls. And, most sadly, The Adventures of Pluto Nash.

Speed (1994): Jan de Bont was a first-rate cinematographer who palled around with Paul Verhoeven and turned Die Hard into one of the greatest cinemascope films ever made. Unfortunately, he went Icarus: Following a fleet directing debut, he proceeded directly to Twister, Speed 2, The Haunting and the second Tomb Raider. He hasn’t worked since 2003. Good work, hubris. n Speed

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know that in the history of cinema there have probably been worse movies than Rock of Ages. I’m just having a hard time trying to think of one right now.

Pulverizing, excruciating, incompetent—the pejoratives finally fail me.

An hour into this thing, I turned to a colleague and groaned aloud: “I want to murder myself.”

A bit of backstory: Rock of Ages is based on the smash Broadway hit, which used cheeseball 1980’s hairband anthems as the template for yet another jukebox musical. It’s the kind of glossy, corporate turd that you can imagine a shit-ton of Midwestern tourists eating up and then binging on chicken wings at a Times Square chain restaurant as soon as the show is over. Everything here has been so sanitized for mass consumption, Director Adam Shankman should keep his ServSave Certificate next to his DGA card.

Julianne Hough, the Dancing with the Stars vet who played the 35-yearold teenager in the recent Footloose remake stars as just a small-town girl, living in a lonely world. She took the midnight train (actually it was a bus) from podunk nowhere, but at least her fellow passengers were kind enough to launch into an awful rendition of Night Ranger’s “Sister Christian,” just so we all know how pure she is.

She lands a job at the Bourbon Room, one of those crazy rock ’n’ roll clubs run by a startlingly miscast Alec Baldwin, who keeps Russell Brand around as his comic-relief lackey. I daresay Baldwin has never seemed so adrift, wearing a terrible wig and vaguely humoring the awful material.

He’s the consummate urbane New Yorker out of his league as a sleazebag Sunset Strip loser. Looking like he’s suffering from irritable bowel syndrome in cheetah-print shirts, Baldwin suffers mightily through the movie’s barrage of bad hair days, eventually making out with Russell Brand in a number that might as well be called: “Gays, Aren’t They Hilarious?”

The entire future of the Bourbon Room depends on the whims of one Stacee Jaxx, a rock ’n’ roll icon played with no shortage of commitment by Tom Cruise. The hardest-working man in show business, Cruise has recently demonstrated that he will

Out of tune: Alec Baldwin (left) has never seemed so adrift. Tom Cruise is exhausting to watch.

dangle his 50-year-old self off giant skyscrapers just to amuse audiences, but he brings that same relentless go-for-broke energy to Stacee, and I must repeat myself after what I said during Tropic Thunder: He’s a relentless performer, but there’s nothing more painful than watching Cruise try to be funny. His laser-focused, tireless work ethic is like Kryptonite for comedy. He’s just exhausting to watch.

So we have the blah-blah-blah plot of Julianne Hough meeting the charisma-deficient Diego Boneta, and they both look like they’re about to fall in love amid all the nonsense and sing-alongs, and then the movie does something seriously sadistic. I thought Rock of Ages was finally over, but I’d only seen the first act of a Broadway show. An hour into this thing, the movie resets itself and starts over again from scratch.

I feel like I watched it twice. The gob-smacking 123-minute running time finds room for Catherine Zeta-Jones as an uptight, Tipper Gore wannabe—the crusading wife of a local politico (Bryan Cranston) who’s too busy getting handcuffed with rosary beads and spanked with votive candles by naughty nuns to pay much attention to her anti-rock plight.

Where did this subplot come from, and what kind of director gets a bad performance out of Bryan Cranston?

Shankman did a fairly decent job helming the musical adaptation of Hairspray, but he’s at a loss with this

Rock of Ages Grade: F Director: Adam Shankman Starring: Julianne Hough, Diego Boneta and Tom Cruise

shoddy material. The jukebox mashups of cruddy ’80s songs are set on sorry soundstages without a whit of light or transcendence, and the entire film is bathed in the same ugly neon as Joel Schumacher’s Batman sequels.

An early scene with Zeta-Jones singing Pat Benetar in a church is granted fewer than six extras, and the movie’s lazy cheap-o approach becomes inadvertently hilarious.

Our bland lead, Diego Boneta, hangs out at Tower Records and makes a few speeches about how rock ’n’ roll is salvation, but the ersatz re-arranged Broadway showtune versions of these songs make the opposite of an argument for the music.

It doesn’t help that they’re all AutoTuned to death and performed by a cast that frankly can’t sing their way out of a paper bag.

It says something about Rock of Ages that when Quiet Riot’s “Cum on Feel the Noize” plays over the closing credits, the audience breathes a sigh of relief. At last, this is real rock ’n’ roll? And I’ll meet you at Applebee’s for some wings after the movie. n

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While always respected and collected, German visual artist Gerhard Richter only achieved superstar status midway through the previous decade. Perhaps Corinna Belz’s observant doc Gerhard Richter Painting wouldn’t exist without that stature bump, but in many ways it tries to act like that never happened—as though he wasn’t the planet’s current highest-paid artist. That’s not hard: Richter is no vacuous Thomas Kinkade populist. When Belz catches up with him, in the lead-up to an exhibition at the Tate Modern last year, he’s doting on massive canvases of splattered colors. “Painting is another form of thinking,” he can be heard proclaiming in a film taken from his younger days. “I don’t like the ones I understand.”

The Richter we get in Painting, now 80, is far cagier, less quotable, but more approachable and self-effacing. When asked how fame has affected his methods, he says, with a chuckle, that it’s left less time for work. Much of Belz’s film takes him away from fawning journos, historians and collectors, capturing him as he hides away in his studio, alone— save the director and her pesky camera operators. The best parts of Painting observe him doing just that: He’s more manual laborer than moneyed bon vivant as he drags

I think it’s the music that bugs me most in these pictures. Why must almost every Sundance hit be accompanied by a noodling acoustic guitar drone that underlines just how lighter-than-air and quirky every goddamn scene is?

Safety Not Guaranteed probably isn’t a terrible movie. For starters, it boasts a fine lead performance from Aubrey Plaza, who, week in and week out on NBC’s Parks And Recreation, makes eye-rolling disdain into something weirdly sexy. Here, she plays a put-upon intern at a trendy magazine, stuck doing all the work for her layabout boss while writing a feature about a local yokel who placed a classified ad seeking a partner for his time-travel adventures.

No, it doesn’t seem like much of a story.

And print media budgets being what they are, it’s hard to grasp the shocking allocation of resources devoted to following around a mentally ill chain-store clerk who practices kung-fu and claims to know hidden secrets of the universe. Played by producer Mark Duplass—who has been showing up in entirely too many movies lately—he’s got an awful haircut and a denim jacket, rambling at great length to anyone who will listen about the space-time continuum.

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More interesting still is when the documentary subject becomes self-aware. Richter seems tolerant, but vaguely perturbed by the crew. About halfway through, Richter turns to the camera and, as gently as possible, announces that he no longer feels comfortable being filmed while he works. (Although they can still follow him doing other, less mesmerizing activities.) It’s a moment that, come to think of it, should be in more documentaries.

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Nude Awakening For Nude Beach, it’s all about straight-up rock music.

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ude Beach are something of an anomaly in Brooklyn, N.Y.’s music scene. Why? Well, they’re just three normal dudes in normal clothes who play straightforward guitar-based rock music. No funny haircuts. No flavor-of-the-month posturing. No abstract, electronic beeps or farts anywhere in their music. Just rockin’ tunes. Nothing more and nothing less. Quite a concept, don’t you think?

Their recent self-released LP—appropriately titled Nude Beach II—is packed with chiming guitars and heart-on-sleeve lyrics that reference early Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, making it the first good-vibe platter of the BBQ season. Somewhere inbetween the headaches of releasing their own album, going on tour with that much-loved Brooklyn-based band the Men, and doing a damn fine live session on the prestigious WFMU radio station in Jersey City, Nude Beach were kind enough to answer some of our questions. What swell guys!

You just released your second LP on your own after dealing with another label for the first one.

Why was that?

We shopped the record around a bunch and no one really went for it. We realized that a lot of labels are caught up in crazy deadlines and schedules. Basically, they don’t have time to consider new bands much. We always talked about putting our own records out and saved up some money. Then the Men asked us to do some dates with them and we figured we should have the LP for those shows. It’s been a great experiment. We got the record to a lot of awesome people. We’re pretty much [sold] out of it!

What do you most look forward to when coming into Philly?

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Celebration Rock (Polyvinyl) Sounds Like: Their debut, PostNothing, was just as awesome as this one. They’re both loud and incredible fun.

Free Association: It’s a little dumbeddown but even more fist-pumping than before.

For Fans Of: No Age x Sonic Youth, harder Strokes + Cheap Trick, angry anthems.

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The Stoned Immaculate (Warner Brothers) Sounds Like: The Louisiana-bred stoner, who’s been working the underground through multiple labels and mentorship from Master P and Lil’ Wayne, outshines them both.

Free Association: Lazy ’70s-flavored beats makes raps about THINGS sound awesome.

For Fans Of: Wiz Khalifa + Big K.R.I.T., Kid Cudi x Wale, spliffs and Impalas

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Nude Beach: Don’t worry, they’re fully clothed.

I think I might touch on this whenever I talk to you guys, but where does Nude Beach—a band free of hairdos and vintage synthesizers—find themselves on the trendy Brooklyn and New York scene?

There’s a lot of cool stuff going on in New York but also a lot of not-so-cool stuff. It’s a big city, ya know? Hardcore shows have gotten really violent. Punks seem bored when we play. It’s hard being a band that fits in socially but not musically. We do think ‘indie rock’ is a boring thing, though, and want to try to avoid getting too lumped in with any of that. However, in a way it does feel like things in New York are changing and it’s exciting to think about what the music scene might be like in a couple years. n Nude Beach perform Tues., June 19, 8pm. $12. With Reigning Sound.

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Sounds Like: Andy States is a local man who’s teamed up with a drummer and Youth Lagoon’s producer for lighthearted summery guitar rock.

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Would you characterize this short-term-dating text-message dumping as spineless, flaky, a reasonable reaction to the issues she’s facing, or what? What are the standards of a classy exit in the digital age?

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If there’s nothing you love more than vagina— really? Not your mom? Not even oxygen?—then you’re definitely not gay. You could be bisexual, I suppose, or heteroflexible. But I’m thinkin’ what you are is 16 years old and horny as shit. If a talking skunk with a French accent walked into your room and offered you a blowjob, you’d probably say yes. Letting that skunk blow you wouldn’t be proof that you’re a zoophile—or a Francophile— just proof that you’re so horny you decided to shoot (into a skunk’s mouth) first and ask questions (“I let a skunk blow me—WTF?”) later.

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Finding fault with how—reading some previously undetected character flaw into the method your ex employed to dump you—is often the ego acting in its own self-defense. You’re hurt she hurt you, and you’ve latched on to the dumpedby-text issue so you can tell yourself that you were mistaken about her, that you didn’t have chemistry, that there really wasn’t something special here. Nope, she’s a scumbag. Dumpingby-text proves it.

Two quick things: Getting dumped in person sucks, getting dumped over the phone sucks, getting dumped through snail mail sucks, getting dumped via text sucks. Getting dumped sucks.

It would’ve hurt just as much if she had dumped you via Goodyear blimp or if she had shown up in person to tell you herself. And while dumpingvia-text was viewed as a cold move 10 or 15 years ago when texting technology was new and texts were uniformly brief and inscrutable, these days, people do most of their communicating via text.

So old notions about text-message dumpings— they’re not classy!—don’t apply these days. A longish, thoughtful, and well-written text message is now a legit way to dump someone. Particularly someone you’ve been dating for only two months.

Let’s say your girlfriend had waited until she was back in town so she could dump you faceto-face, SMS. What if you had met someone you liked and passed on an offer to hang out and/or hook up in the days, weeks or months between the time your girlfriend made up her mind to dump you and her arrival back in town? Then you would be complaining about how you passed on a date with a woman who—hey, you never know— could’ve been your soul mate while your ex was stringing you along.

Finally, SMS, the best course of action when you’ve been dumped by someone you really liked—someone you would still be dating if it were up to you—is to accept the bad news with as much grace as you can muster. The world is full of couples that got back together after a breakup, and your odds of being in one of those couples shrink if you act like an asshole about being dumped (which it doesn’t sound like you’re doing) or if you convince yourself your ex is an asshole for dumping you (which it sounds like you’re doing). Good luck.

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19th and Morris Corner Store + 2nd Floor Apartment. $120,000.

1615 Carpenter Street Carriage House. Graduate Hospital. 3-car parking. $335,000.

1613-27 Germantown Avenue 9600 sq. ft. on 1 Floor. Light Industrial. $399,000.

254 Heather Road Corner Renovated Duplex in Upper Darby with Parking Lot. $179,000.

421 N. Union Street Powelton Village. Renovated 3 Bedroom.

Corner. Hardwood. Open Floor Plan. $149,000.

1945 Sigel Street 3 Bedrooms in Newbold. $39,900.

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19XX SNYdER AvE Commercial propety with nice apartments $180,000.

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 time buyer, move right in $42,900.

1XX MERCY ST . - Total rehab, fireplace, H/w floors t/o two bed.

1.5 bath, finished basement. $210,000.

NEW CONSTRUCTION 20XX TITAN Three Bedroom, 2.5 Bath, every amenity possible, contemporary with all the style of center city outstanding finishes.

289,000

2XX EARp ST. - House in need of EllSWORTh - Four renovation, two bed, $125,000. 22XX bedroom shell, located in the 18XX S. fRONT ST - Nice hot developing Point Breeze Modern kitchen, Four Bedrooms. area of South Philly. Reduced to $77,500.

Hardwood floors $219,000.

18XX MANTON ST. New 18XX S. 2Nd ST. - Vacant land, construction, 360 view of center city, master suite with corner lot 16x69, $105,900. breakfast bar, Three bdrms, two full and one half baths, finished 15XX S. 2Nd ST - Main St. 2 1/2 basement. $309,000. story home, three bedrooms, neW JerSeY large yard. $185,000.

17XX S. 2Nd - two family home, street to street, parking, $275,000.

2101 S. hOWARd ST - corner Snyder, large two bedroom, $159,000.

14XX S. ORIANNA ST. Needs total renovation $109,000.

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71XX phOEbE plACE - well 18XX E. hUNTINgdON ST. - maintained, four bedroom, 1.5 Total rehab, 3 bdr, 2 1/2 bath. baths, close to shopping center. $182,000. $159,000

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dENNISvIllE - bANk fOREClOSURE 6XX pETERSbURg Rd. 4 bedroom - 2 full baths. $299,000.

2131 S. bROAd ST. - Rental Unit, commercial, 1st floor. $1,250.

LotS XX SEARS ST (pENNSpORT) 40 x45 Build your dream home.

2038 So. 22nd Street Beautifully Renovated. 2 Master Suites.

Powder Room. Finished Basement. $179,000.

2431 Manton Street

FOR SALE

Gutted shell. Ready for Rehab. $32,500.

1815-17 S 6th Street Over 4000 sq ft Corner. Open Floor Plan. $188,500.

Italian mrkt. 11th & Carpenter lg 2br, 1.5ba in great cond. FP, C/A. Full flr. spacious & open mstr br w/studio/loft/cath ceiling and deck. Lg 2nd br w/den/office. lg cer tile ba., ceramic tile flr, EIK.10’ ceiling in liv/din area, hwd flr., stained & leaded gls wdws., door vest., mirrored walls, patio, unf bsmt. $295,000

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$649,000

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$589,000

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$389,000

200 Locust Street 9A

$329,900

1535 S Iseminger Street

$265,000

This 4 bed/2 bath is a true work of Art! The respect for architecture and design is evident in this stunning restoration of a classic Spring Garden Victorian Townhouse. At every turn you’ll be impressed by the attention to detail, wonderful natural light, and spaciousness of this gorgeous 2700+ sq ft home.

Spectacular contemporary residence features dramatic living room, formal dining room, newer kitchen with sliding glass doors to outdoor dining, gleaming hardwood floors, 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, family room, laundry room, incredible basement storage and attached garage parking! All at an incredible value!

Light filled, corner home, in the heart of the Italian Market! Spacious rooms and tall ceilings add to the comfort of this 3 bed/2.5 bath home. Features include a top of the line custom kitchen, finished basement, hardwood floors, spacious closets, patio garden and spectacular roof deck with unobstructed skyline views!

Gorgeous, move-in ready 2 bedroom corner unit at the Society Hill Towers features an upgraded kitchen, marble bathroom, refinished hardwood floors, customized closets and floor-to-ceiling window with dramatic City and Society Hill views.

Newly rehabbed 2 bedroom with open floor plan, bamboo floors, recessed lighting, granite/stainless kitchen, cozy private patio, updated windows and beautiful tiled bath. Situated in the Heart of the vibrant Passyunk Square neighborhood

rentaLS 17XX ORIANNA ST. - garage for rent $950.00 22XX SO. bROAd ST. - prof. office space,1st fl.& basement $1,800.00 mnt.

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$1,695,000

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$385,000

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RiTTEnhoUSE SqUARE COnT.

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

1778 sf

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studio, open renovated kitchen, private balcony, Fairmount views

570 sf

$159,900

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$269,900

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$229,000

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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 1 bedroom, open kitchen, wood floors, unobstructed river views from all rooms 712 sf $269,900

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700 sf

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1Br , floor-to-ceiling windows, lots of light, updated kitchen and bath.

700 sf

$249,900

624 sf

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3,293 sf

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The DorchesTer

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

$1,475,000 $1,050,000

$725,000

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

1,050 sf

$610,000

1,198 sf

$539,900

wAShingTon SqUARE 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 inDepenDence pLace Bi-level penthouse, 2Br. 2.5Ba, 2 kitchens, impeccably finished throughout, amazing river and city views 4,500 sf $1,800,000 hopkinson house 1 bedroom, open chef’s kitchen, designer bathroom, wood floors, great storage space, balcony with river and south city views.

778 sf $309,900 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 floor, southview, separate dressing area 415 sf $199,900

hopkinson house

The DorchesTer

The WarWick

1 bedroom, open chef’s kitchen, designer bathroom, wood floors, balcony, 778 sf

2 bedroom, 2 bathroom overlooking Rittenhouse Square, balcony, updated kichen and baths, 1231 sf

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

$309,900

$1,050,000

condo Fees $495

$725,000

Taxes $176

condo Fees $974

Taxes: $400

Monthly cost after Tax to own $1,718

Taxes $482

Monthly Cost After Tax To Own: $4,917

Condo Fees: $1,169

Monthly cost after Tax to own $3,434

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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

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

CENTER CITY LUXURY CONDOMINIUMS FOR SALE!