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Recently picked as the Green Party’s VP candidate, the longtime Philly activist says she’ll shed light on PA’s ballot-access woes.

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hiladelphia activist Cheri Honkala has been fighting for poor people’s economic rights for the last 25 years, most notably for her efforts to keep families in their homes. But it wasn’t until recently— 2011, actually—that she got involved in party politics. And being as her service can be defined as one of unorthodoxy, she chose a unique position, sheriff, and a unique party: the Green Party.

For those familiar with her work, it seemed a natural fit. The Green Party is further left than the establishment Democratic Party and too cynical to think its views of democracy and social issues still have a place in the two-party system. Its members count social justice, nonviolence, community-based economics and sustainability among the party’s key values, and the votes Honkala garnered (she got 6 percent of the citywide vote) in last year’s sheriff’s race helped shed light on how these issues impact the poor.

And what Honkala lacked in hard votes, she made up for in party registration. Local Green Party spokesman Chris Robinson notes that registration in Honkala’s Kensington neighborhood is up more than 50 percent, the highest turnaround in the city.

Now, the 49-year-old has been chosen to run for vice president on the national Green Party ticket, alongside presidential nominee Dr. Jill Stein. It’s a big deal for the Philly activist, but before they can campaign, they’re going to need to get on the ballot—a feat that’s easier said than done. Many Greens—most notably, Ralph Nader (now an Independent)— have been struck from the ballot in Pennsylvania due to ballot-access rules that keep third parties off the ballot. In a March 2012 PW cover story, we reported that Pennsylvania has been called one of the worst places in the world for representative democracy.)

Honkala was at the Green Party National Convention in Baltimore this past weekend, but managed to catch up with us to talk about what she hopes to bring to the national ticket.

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Were you surprised you were chosen as potential vice president of the United States?

I was totally blown away. I knew my name was on a list because I received a letter from the Stein campaign saying could they put me on a list of possibilities but never ever did I believe for one moment that I would be chosen.

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How did you come to the decision to accept the position?

When I got the letter, I began thinking about it and I just decided that if Jill Stein’s campaign and folks around the country really think that I would be best suited to run for VP then I have a responsibility to do it. So I kind of knew that if I was chosen that there would be no way in hell that I could say no.

You’re kind of a newcomer to the Green Party. Did you expect to move up this quickly?

The thing is that many of the Greens are involved in different social-justice work across the country. So although I’m a new person to the Green Party, folks are familiar with my work for the last 25 years and I think that they know that I’ve begun to really help in bringing low-income folks across the country and people of color into the party across the country.

Last time we spoke about this race—before you were picked to be vice president—you mentioned you were a Jill Stein supporter.

The woman has a great deal of integrity. She’s very serious about running for president.

It’s not something that’s just symbolic, and I think she has some really good ideas and she has really championed the issue around single-payer health care, Medicare and Medicare for all, for a very long time. Right now—and of course, myself, at many times in my life not having health insurance, and basically everybody I know not having health insurance or having substandard health coverage ... it was a no-brainer because she has really touched on an important issue, which is this question of health.

She really has raised environmental issues that low-income folks have had to deal with living in communities where there’s various environmental problems and high rates of cancer and miscarriages and a whole host of other things. She understands the whole nutrition piece. And all of those things that are fundamental, that low-income families have to deal with.

What do you hope to add to that basic platform?

I think what I bring is a bridge to a whole different section of folks in this country, and those are the homeowners that are trying to hold on to their homes and inner-city youth and seniors that are living in nursing homes and the disabled. I really feel like I can help put the spotlight on some of these issues that aren’t being talked about in either the Obama or the Romney campaign and I’m really serious because Mitt Romney keeps acting like he’s talking to poor whites in America or like he cares about or supports their issues and he really doesn’t.

Many groups you’ve mentioned have often been taken for granted or known to vote Democrat. How do you expect to take on the Democratic Party if you start moving into those voting blocs?

Well, one, I really hope to stay alive in the process and that’s not a joke. Because some

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Street fighter: Activist Cheri Honkala (right) protests sheriff’s sales on foreclosed homes in front of the First District Plaza on Market Street in West Philly last year.

of the worst gangsters I’ve met have come from the Democratic Party and of course they aren’t going to be happy. For years—I know what it’s like to do voter registration in low-income communities, and the Democrats get very angry when you’re doing that independent of their party, because they want to make sure that they maintain a certain amount of numbers and that number doesn’t really grow unless it’s for whatever candidate that they want to have in office at the time.

Because behind the doors that we knock on, people don’t know what is the Green Party, they don’t know there’s another choice. All they hear about is the Tea Party, but they don’t know that there are people who are raising a lot of these economic issues and they aren’t associated with the Tea Party; they are associated with the Green Party and they look just like them, and we’re serious about making this a real viable party in this country.

Regarding that, there have been problems getting the Green Party on the ballot in Pennsylvania. What is currently being done to combat that?

Now that folks are finding out that I’m the VP candidate, I have literally received hundreds of calls and emails and Facebook [messages], and you name it, with people asking to help.

And we have until, I believe, August 1st. I think that if people are serious about getting myself and Jill Stein on the ballot—and that we are in crisis right now in Pennsylvania because we have a backwards state and we don’t have ballot access—then perhaps they’ll go out there and pick up one sheet and get 35 signatures. I know that people are having ’round-the-clock conversations, there’s go-

ing to be a Pennsylvania caucus here at the National Convention and people are really sounding the alarm on the importance of that. But it’s truly unfair: Democrats and Republicans only have to get 2,000 [signatures] and we have to get 40,000, because we’re sure if we get the [required] 20,000, that will be challenged in court.

Does the campaign have a precise number on how many signatures have been collected?

I think we need like another 30,000 signatures.

Do you plan on shedding light on this issue at all during the national campaign?

Absolutely. People can’t believe how backward it is, and the article that you wrote [July 11 at phillynow.com] is being sent everywhere because they don’t really understand how backward Pennsylvania is.

Do you and Jill plan on coming to Pennsylvania soon to campaign?

Yes. Basically, the campaign has really been focusing on matching funds in each of the states and … focusing on that ballot access and collecting the signatures and the convention. The next period is going to be about visiting every single spot in the country and of course Pennsylvania is incredibly important right now, for some of the stuff you talked about, and because, historically, Pennsylvania represents a whole lot of things when it comes to presidential elections. n A version of this story was published July 13 at phillynow.com.

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Over the past decade, staff photographers at media outlets have been laid off left and right, and veteran editorial, wedding, portrait and commercial photographers have seen their livelihoods undermined by a legion of semi-pro shutterbugs all too willing to provide images for a fraction of their fees or even just the thrill of publication and a photo credit.

And yet earlier this year, after years of nibbling at the edges of a photography career, Albert Yee took the plunge into full-time photo work. Is he crazy?

“Maybe,” laughs the 32-year-old, “but there’s still jobs out there to be had if you’ve got the skills, some luck and are willing to put in the hours for the hustle.”

Everybody is a photographer, Yee allows, but talent still counts for a lot.

“Any schmuck can get any camera they want,” he says, “and the learning curve is much quicker with digital, but you still have to be able to do it on the job consistently in a pressure situation, put it all together in the clutch moment, which not everyone can do. There’s still people out there who understand that and value that and will pay you for that.”

Yee’s got a solid client base to prove it: He shoots regularly for Grid magazine, for Reading Terminal Market, for Prudential Fox & Roach realtors and a host of companies big and small around the region. Portraits, executive headshots, editorial, events, food photography, concert photography, architecture and interiors—he does it all to make a living. “It’s cool if you’re real good at one thing and you specialize at it, but if you’re a portrait artist and a client goes, ‘Hey, I need a product shot,’ and you don’t know how to do it, then you’re screwed and you just lost $1,000 or something.”

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Known in his neighborhood as “the kid with the camera” growing up just north of New York City, Yee started considering a career in photography, specifically photojournalism, in the early ’00s after covering a mayhemfilled World Trade Organization

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protest in Washington, D.C. (while he was attending American University and majoring in new media studies).

On the front lines of the demonstration, watching activists clash with cops—“It was pretty crazy, but kind of a charge”—he came away with some powerful images and began photographing other political- and social justice-themed events.

After graduating, though, Yee says his parents, both Korean immigrants, dissuaded him from photography in lieu of a more traditional, stable job.

“You know, they want you to be a doctor or a lawyer,” he smiles.

Yee and his then-girlfriend Katie (now wife) moved to Philly in 2004, and he briefly worked in a sales position at Philadelphia Weekly, followed by a marketing stint at Philly Car Share, database work for SEPTA, and a job at local-food-evangelists Fair Food’s Reading Terminal Market stand. All the while, he wandered the city’s streets snapping photos; he shot weddings and other events for friends; and he networked his way into the occasional pro shoot, which multiplied through word of mouth and people noticing his impressive Flickr stream.

Finally, he saw an opportunity to make that side gig his main gig and he took the leap—with the blessing of his parents. “They’ve seen how I progressed and they know I can make it work,” he says. “Over the past six months, I was having to reschedule

shoots because of my regular jobs and it just got too annoying. At this point, I have enough clients who call regularly, which is definitely nice and there’s definitely some luck involved, being in the right place at the right time, but I’ve also worked really, really hard to make this my reality.”

As a “generalist” photographer, Yee says the job is never boring. One day he might shoot a developer’s new condo building in Northern Liberties.

Another day he could be photographing Bhutanese refugees working a garden in South Philly, or foodie events at the Market, or harried CEOs with only a few minutes to spare for a head shot before running to a shareholders’ meeting.

Yee still manages to find time for personal projects like his ongoing “Hands That Feed Us” series— compelling images from the dozens of Delaware Valley farms, dairies and markets he regularly visits, reflecting his passion for and advocacy of sustainable foods and the farm-to-table movement.

“I love that all of that’s going on around here, and that there’s also opportunities here to make a living at [photography] if you try hard enough,” he says. “It might not always seem like it, but Philly’s a great city for working photographers.” n Workin’ It is written by staff writer Michael Alan Goldberg, who peeks into the lives of working professionals each week.

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This week, he’ll play Philly—and local hip-hop scholar James Braxton Peterson explores why the revelation is a landmark cultural moment. // feedback@philadelphiaweekly.com or a long time now, I’ve been saying that Frank Ocean has restored my faith in R&B, the previously soulful black music genre that has been co-opted by mainstream corporations and misrepresented by the mediocrity brought to bear by dudes with wack names and even wacker music. Armed with razor-sharp writing skills, careful songcraft and a decidedly defiant hip-hop soul, the 24-yearold New Orleans native has strode onto the music landscape and quickly made fans of popular music’s brightest stars: Adele, Nas, Prodigy, Jay-Z. Ocean’s genredefying 2011 mixtape, Nostalgia, Ultra, represents “originality that has been lost in R&B,” points out Philadelphia-based rapper Cee Knowledge, formerly of the Grammy Award-winning trio Digable Planets. “Most R&B songs are made to fit the radio format, and a lot of [Ocean’s] topics aren’t very mainstream-friendly. He brings up subjects that some people are scared to talk or even sing about.”

It’s true: If Drake and Chris Brown were to hold a lyrical boxing match, Ocean would win, gloves down. In “Swim Good,” he contemplates existential transcendence and suicide, crooning: “I’m about to drive in the ocean/I’ma try to swim for something bigger than me.” In “American Wedding,” he revises the Eagles’ “Hotel California,” keep-

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ing the music but layering it with lyrics that deconstruct the institution of marriage: “Just an American wedding/They don’t mean too much/They don’t last enough/ We had an American wedding/Now what’s mine is yours/American divorce.” I wouldn’t have thought it possible to so effectively repurpose such an iconic melody, but I’ll never again hear “Hotel California” without thinking of Ocean’s sense of the vulnerable, transitory nature of an institution that many want to claim exclusively for heterosexual men and women.

For a young, up-and-coming artist to so recklessly distinguish himself from the pack of celebrity wannabes and auto-tune crooners—to come along, fuse together musical subgenres in an uncommon way and prove that pop music can still have real heft and substance—is not unheard of, but it is always amazingly refreshing. That was last year, though. Now, as Philadelphia prepares for Ocean’s sold-out concert next Wednesday at Union Transfer, a few things have changed.

Two weeks ago, in the wee hours of Independence Day, Ocean took to his Tumblr account to post a letter—reportedly meant to be part of the liner notes of his stellar debut LP, Channel ORANGE— poignantly detailing his first love, a simmering summer crush that was devas-

tatingly unrequited. As he recounts the realization of the depth of his feelings and the fact that they would not be reciprocated, he writes: “Imagine being thrown from a plane. I wasn’t in a plane though.”

Lines in his letter are not unlike lyrics in some of Ocean’s evocative, stripped-down songs. But for many of his fans and cultural critics alike, the most striking aspect was not Ocean’s uncanny ability to express the depths of human emotion and experience.

The most surprising feature was Ocean’s admission that his first love was a man.

“I sat there and told my friend how I felt,” Ocean wrote. “I wept as the words left my mouth. I grieved for them. Knowing I could never take them back for myself. He patted my back. He said kind things. He did his best, but he wouldn’t admit the same. He had to go back inside soon. It was late and his girlfriend was waiting for him upstairs.

He wouldn’t tell the truth about his feelings for me for another 3 years. I felt like I’d only imagined reciprocity for years.”

Simple and direct, just like his artistry, Ocean’s words immediately reminded me of how he challenged me to reconsider popular R&B, a genre I had all but forsaken.

His honesty is both poignant and startlingly brave at the same time: He must have understood that the revelation could have unpredictable ramifications for his career

trajectory, for his whole life—but his desire for personal liberation outstripped all else. It’s precisely the same quality that’s most beautiful about his music. And within minutes of his Tumblr post, the Internet— especially social media—went wild.

Donja Love, a black, gay Philadelphia playwright and director, was one of the countless thousands of Ocean fans who took to Twitter to weigh in and to see what all the others had to say about his admission. “Some people were proud and accepting,” he notes, “but some others were just hateful, saying they wouldn’t listen to his music anymore, that they would delete his songs from their iTunes accounts.

I wondered if these people would have been so direct if they weren’t hiding behind a computer screen.”

Ocean’s missive, Love notes, opens the door of possibility for other individuals to understand what a black man can be.

“Those not a part of the LGBT lifestyle may have a certain, limited idea of a black gay man,” he says, “but there are a multitude of black gay males out there who do not fit into our [stereotypical] notions of it.”

This unexpected conversation has sparked a revolution in public and private discussions about sexual identity in black culture. It has also called into question the ways in which we decide to make distinc-

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Ocean’s announcement is not, technically, a hip-hop first. Cultural historian and blogger Davey D cites DJs Page Hodel and Blackstone, as well as other less-well-known hip-hop acts like Invincible, Katastrophe, Dutchboy and Deep Dickollective. Still, Ocean’s high profile puts him in a whole different arena from these predecessors—and raises the question, for some, of whether he’s “hip-hop enough to count.”

The constituents and artisans of hip-hop culture have always policed its boundaries zealously, mostly to defend against its inevitable co-opting by mainstream forces. Along the way, hyper-masculinity of the hetero kind has been seen as a central feature of the music—so much so that many hip-hop heads think of R&B as being a “softer” form of black musical expression, and thus a more appropriate place for someone like Frank Ocean to express his love for another man. While that’s hardly a universal attitude, it’s pervasive enough that it’s produced some interesting discussion between music pros trying to process why fans are responding to Ocean specifically in the context of hip-hop.

“I’ve always thought of Frank Ocean as an R&B singer,” Public Enemy icon Chuck D told an NME reporter at July 6’s Open’er festival in Gdynia, Poland. “When people say that this is a hip-hop first, it’s not really, because he’s not a straight rapper—no pun intended. He may be part of Odd Future, but he’s a singer … I commend Frank Ocean for coming out and saying it, but it’s not a first because there’s plenty of black male gay singers. Even when they don’t admit it, you kind of know. If you heard somebody like—I don’t want to say a name, because people will talk—but like [for instance] somebody in the Wu-Tang Clan or something—if they came out, then that would be groundbreaking.”

Cee Knowledge agrees: “It’s like the mainstream media always loves to mix hip-hop and R&B for some reason. Like it was all one thing, but it’s not. Hip-hop does have some singing in it, and R&B does have some rapping in it, but I would assume, if I was an R&B singer, I would definitely want to be thought of as an R&B singer, not as a hip-hop artist.”

As traditional “real black man” ideals begin to erode in the face of recent cultural forces, though—metrosexual fashion sensibilities, sexually revolutionary songs like MURS’ “Animal Style,” the hugely popular emotive style of current rap superstar Drake—many of these distinctions begin to fold in upon themselves.

Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, the author and former Penn professor who’s now a regular commentator on MSNBC, suggests to PW that it’s hair-splitting to suggest that Frank Ocean somehow doesn’t belong to hip-hop.

“First, he sings for the Odd Future collective,” Dyson says, “and then he sang on one of hiphop’s recent classics, Watch the Throne, with

two of the biggest hip-hop legends, Jay-Z and Kanye West. Frank Ocean may have cosigned their song that there’s ‘No Church in the Wild,’ but in the wilderness of same-sexuality struggling for survival in a heterosexual state, he’s damn sure established a powerful sanctuary.”

Dyson points out the rampant tendency toward bromance in hip-hop as an important

didn’t just display his courage, but he also challenged hip-hop culture finally to face some of its demons.” Dyson called Ocean’s letter “courageous, unavoidably symbolic and collective. It’s courageous because it represents a gifted artist on the rise, at the beginning of his career, publicly contesting heterosexual orthodoxy. It is symbolic and collective because it carriers the weight of all

“Even when [hip-hop artists] express same-sex affiliation and masculine solidarity, they’ve got to be careful to distinguish that from the suggestion of homosexuality via the phrase ‘No homo.’ Well, Ocean’s coming out says: ‘Yes, homo.’ And it’s not just a meaningful gesture for him, but for all those artists unsure of their nontraditional sexual orientations and for those unsure about how they fit in.”

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factor in understanding the significance of Ocean’s words. “Even when [hip-hop artists] express same-sex affiliation and masculine solidarity, they’ve got to be careful to distinguish that from the suggestion of homosexuality via the phrase ‘No homo.’ Well, Ocean’s coming out says: ‘Yes, homo.’ And it’s not just a meaningful gesture for him, but for all those artists unsure of their nontraditional sexual orientations and for those unsure about how they fit in.”

Three days after the Ocean story broke, Dyson appeared on fellow scholar Melissa Harris-Perry’s MSNBC weekend morning show to talk about the significance of an artist whom hip-hop heads love and follow professing his love for another man. HarrisPerry framed the discussion: “In speaking his truth so boldly and honestly, Frank Ocean

queer artists who have to tangle with a generation of hip-hop artists who’ve built their reputations on machismo, bluster and brutal heterosexuality.”

The two rightly noted that one liberating aspect is that Ocean does not assign any static category—gay, straight, bi—to this deep meditation on his first love. Instead, we are left to consider the full spectrum of human sexuality. Interestingly, Ocean’s previous endorsement of marriage equality came before President Obama’s, and before many of hip-hop stars and stalwarts followed suit. On Nostalgia, Ultra’s “We All Try,” Ocean sings, “I believe that marriage isn’t between a man and woman, but between love and love”—a lyric much simpler than a political statement and far more powerful. This is the substance at the heart of his music’s quality. And isn’t

that, as Nas says, most important?

For all of the commentary and punditry surrounding, supporting and scrutinizing Ocean’s moment of truth, we must appreciate what it means for young people. While Philly has its own thriving gay and lesbian communities, neighborhoods and media, many LGBT youth of color nonetheless struggle to find their way and their place in a broader society that still subscribes to the textbook homophobia that leads to violence and discrimination.

From where I sit as a longtime scholar of hip-hop, fundamentally the most powerful branch of youth culture in my lifetime, Ocean’s connection to those kids matters more than any genre distinction, and certainly more than straight folks’ fears about LGBT realities.

Ocean’s honesty about his own life is a beacon for young people—especially young people of color who struggle, sometimes unsuccessfully, to figure out how to live in a society that sometimes openly hates them.

“Especially in the African-American community, instead of beating each other down, we really need to be building each other up,” says Donja Love, the local playwright. “So many outside forces are already trying to tear us down that we really need to make the effort to praise and support one another.” Even though he and others will concede that we have a long way to go in order to achieve true equality, these kinds of gestures by public figures can significantly impact the lives of those who need it most. In this case, that’s millions of hip-hop fans here—and everywhere Ocean’s music permeates—who wrestle with the strictures of the heteronormative world in which we live.

Being a gay brother in the City of Brotherly Love has both its challenges and its triumphs, Love says. “We have a ways to go, [but] people can be extremely liberal and extremely accepting.” Ultimately, he believes that the real struggle with one’s sexuality is internal—the constant concern about what other people, meaning straight people—think about and see in their encounters with gays. Ocean’s openness, Love claims—and the fact that he’s a popular black male artist—will help those Philadelphians, who now, like he did in the past, struggle with their own sexual identities and the capacity for the community to accept and embrace them. He echoes a popular LGBT slogan: “It does get better. But only when you become more comfortable with who you are.” n James Braxton Peterson is the director of Africana Studies and associate professor of English at Lehigh University. He is also the founder of Hip Hop Scholars LLC, an association of academics dedicated to researching and developing the cultural and educational potential of hip-hop, urban and youth cultures. Follow him on Twitter: @DrJamesPeterson. PW news intern Caroline Newton also contributed reporting to this story.

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Shonen Knife floated ashore on a Kurt Cobain endorsement, and it was hard not to be instantly smitten by their cheery smiles, their charming songs about sleeping all day sung in thick accents, and their infectious cover of The Runaways’ “Cherry Bomb.” Today, the trio is still going strong, handing out smiles like candy and keeping it simple with their three-chord Beach Boys-meets-the Ramones romps. Tonight, the dream of the ’90s is alive in Philly. briaN McMaNUs

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48 Hour Film Project Last weekend, more than 20 local filmmakers and their crews set out to create the best short film possible. The catch: They’d have to do it in just 48 hours. Upping the ante even further, each of the participating groups were randomly assigned a movie genre a few minutes before the start of the competition, as well as a character, prop and piece of dialogue that had to be included. Now, the public will have a chance to see what sort of cinematic masterpieces they were able to conceive. The films are only seven minutes long and, in previous years, the winning films have gone on to be screened at major film festivals like Cinequest and South by Southwest. Nicole FiNkbiNer 7pm and 9:30pm. $10. International House, 3701 Chestnut St. 215.387.5125. ihousephilly.org

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Dollar Stroll Baltimore Avenue in West Philly tends to have a sleepy vibe, with the neighborhood’s myriad bikers making way for leisurely sidewalk strollers. Denizens are known to spend hours over raw brunches at Atiya Ola’s Spirit First Foods after their reiki healing sessions at Studio 34.

The raw food and the spiritual services will stay, but the mellow pace will kick it up a notch at the Dollar Stroll this evening. Expect packed sidewalks and lines as you pick up delectable tofu skewers at Vientiane café, peach cobbler at Elena’s Soul, iced coffee at the Green Line Café and beer at Queen of Sheba—all for just $1. If you’re a visitor to the West, there’s no better time to sample the neighborhood’s diverse offerings. allyN Gaestel 5:30pm. $1. Baltimore Ave. universitycity.org

Murder By Death Frontman Adam Turla’s cavernous basso reverberates over dark, rocking Americana given ballast by cellist Sarah Balliet. The Indiana quintet’s songwriting skills have progressed dramatically across their five full-lengths. A religious studies and English major, Turla delves into issues of good/evil, sin/redemption, vengeance and responsibility. Even beyond the colorful stories, Turla’s booming voice tops dynamic, oft-brooding arrangements that conjure a foreboding, cinematic air. Tonight they’ll be playing five rarely-heard songs off their debut LP, Like the Exorcist, But More Breakdancing, to celebrate its 10th anniversary, and will perhaps offer previews of their forthcoming sixth album. chris Parker

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Reworked, refined and rewritten by Kennedy during the two-week PlayPenn New Play Development Conference, Too Much focuses on a grief-stricken widow who (to her daughter’s growing alarm) has spent the year following her husband’s death locked in a bedroom composing her own obituary. An honest, frank exploration of how grief can occupy space in our mind, body and soul, director Josh Hecht’s cast features some of the area’s finest talent, including Nancy Boykin, Dan Kern and the versatile Dan Hodge. J. cooPer robb 8pm. Free. The Adrienne, 2030 Sansom St. playpenn.org

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entomologically curious into the pitch black of the New Jersey Pine Barrens for some quality time with arthropods, arachnids and many other crawly specimens. Bring a flashlight to navigate the dense sylvan terrain in search of Jersey’s rainbow-colored beetles and giant moths. You’ll learn about the various methods of bug collection, how to identify insects that thrive at night and, most importantly, you’ll actually have a constructive reason to roam the woods at night with a flashlight. abiGail brUley

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Global Fusion Festival Philly’s annual Global Fusion Week celebrates our vibrant multiculturalism all across town through music, food, dance, crafts and storytelling—and the indisputable highlight each year is the Global Fusion Festival.

Today’s free, eight-hour “Rhapsody” concert is headlined by R&B superstar Brandy, who’ll bring a bittersweet mood to the festivities: The title of her forthcoming album, Two Eleven, signifies not only her birthday but the day her friend and musical hero Whitney Houston died. Expect much Whitney tributizing during her set. Among others on the bill: R&B/jazz crooner Kenny Lattimore, New Orleans singer (and Tyrese/Chris Brown/Estelle collaborator) Luke James, Philly’s own pop-R&B upstart Cody Kamhar and L.A. singer-songwriter Elle Varner, who teamed up with the Roots for a live performance earlier this year to deliver her own Whitney tribute. MichAel AlAn GoldberG Noon. Free. Various locations, globalfusionfestival.com

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The creators liken watching each film to visiting a separate room in a mysterious apartment building. They’re even providing a guide to lead the timid from one room to the next. It’s hard to say what exactly awaits unsuspecting visitors, but with titles like The Smell of My Hand and Living Skin Cells, chances are this will be provocative cinema. Only 50 patrons

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Aerosmith/Cheap Trick The best-selling hard-rock band of all time has weathered blood feuds, drug addiction, the downward spiral of the music industry and even Steven Tyler’s run as resident loose cannon on American Idol. Disbanded at the height of its fame in the late ’70s, Aerosmith re-formed in the mid-’80s, inaugurated with Run-DMC’s now-classic rock-rap hybrid “Walk This Way,” and adapted like salamanders to a new video and Internet-dominated industry. Now, with over a quarter-century in their rear-view mirrors, Aerosmith continues to put on one of rock ’n’ roll’s best shows, with Tyler hip-shimmying and mic-twirling up front, Joe Perry holding down the band’s hard-riffing foundation, and lifers Brad Whitford, Joey Kramer and Tom Hamilton cranking swaggering, strutting vamps for a loyal Blue Army.

Cheap Trick, the band that set the template for power pop’s crunching riffs and sugary, high-pitched melody in hits like “I Want You to Want Me,” kicks things off. JenniFer Kelly 8pm. $49.50-$149.50. Wells Fargo Center, 3601 S. Broad St. wellsfargocenterphilly.com

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Puppet Manifesto Cropping up at coffee houses, clubs and fringe festivals around the country, puppet slams are an open-mic show for aspiring puppeteers. For this debut show, the slam will introduce audiences to an array of short puppetry vignettes, embracing various different performance aesthetics such as mask work and object theatre. This isn’t your average kid-friendly puppet show; the slam would probably make Mister Rogers roll over in his grave. There’ll be live music, a performance by the house troupe F.O.P.I. (Found Object Puppet Improv) and short film screenings in between sets. At the end of the night, the performer with the most applause wins a quirky prize and an invitation to compete at their next slam in October. n.F. 7pm and 9pm. $15. Walking Fish Theatre, 2509 Frankford Ave. bsomeday.org

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Having just found a new home at the Arden, the inspiring group will revive one of the most heralded Broadway musicals of all time: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific. Tickets include a reception and a meet and greet with the actors. There will also be a silent auction with all profits benefitting the program. n.F.

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4pm. $5-$25. Arden Theatre, 40 N. Second St. 215.922.1122. ardentheatre.org

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23 Iceage If you’re thinking, “How many more of these freakin’ CGI squirrel films are they gonna make?” then it’s obvious you have popular children’s movies mixed up with the Scandinavian punk band of the same name. OK, fine, we don’t really believe anyone’s ever gotten the two confused, but the group Iceage does have a lot in common with the Ray Romano-as-woolly mammoth series: Weirdly enough, they’re both cold, slick and huge fans of Bauhaus. Bursting out of the Danish rock scene early last year, the teenaged Iceage were quickly welcomed to the rest of Europe and the U.S. with open arms. As it turns out, no matter the country, people love fast noise and rhythm-heavy punk jams, so their occasionally gloomy debut New Brigade fit right in. Come see why. bryAn bierMAn

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24 Igor Butman’s Moscow State Jazz Orchestra Russian tenor/soprano star Igor Butman was once singled out for praise by a fellow saxophonist who happened to have a day job as president of the United States. What President Clinton likely heard in Butman was a laid-back yet authoritative swing, rooted in post-bop and able to hold its own in more modern groovebased environments. Those skills served Butman well as a U.S. resident in the late ’80s and early ’90s, when he worked with such masters as Gary Burton, Lionel Hampton and Billy Taylor. Fronting a 15-piece, all-Russian big band, Butman has returned to the states for a jaunt that includes stops in New York, D.C. and, of course, Philly. And don’t be surprised if local luminaries join the parade. dAVid r. Adler 7pm and 9pm. $15. Chris’ Jazz Café, 1421 Sansom St. chrisjazzcafe.com

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n a recent Wednesday afternoon in Manhattan, the line at Shake Shack stretched nearly to the entrance of Madison Square Park. Tourists and New Yorkers alike waited, mostly patiently, for the beloved single-patty burgers with cheese, lettuce, tomato and “Shack Sauce,” as well as an assortment of hot dogs, crinkle-cut fries and custards. The weather was warm; the sun was shining; no one seemed particularly perturbed by the wait, which extended to nearly a half-hour from the back of the line to the window, and an additional 15 minutes or so once the order reached the kitchen.

This is the magic of Danny Meyer’s Shake Shack, which began in 2001 as a hot-dog cart in the park adjacent to his Eleven Madison Park restaurant and has since grown into a multicontinent phenomenon. The waits are long; the lines are legendary; the burgers, fans insist, are well worth it.

And it’s true: Shake Shack is exceptionally reliable, both at the original New York location—no longer a mere street cart but a permanent building, albeit one with no indoor seating— and at the shiny new Philly outpost at 20th and Sansom streets.

The signature Shack Burger is grilled and topped without fail by a melted slice of cheese, crisp leaf lettuce, tomatoes that are red almost beyond expectation and Shack Sauce, a creamy pinkish concoction that recalls the tang of Thousand Island dressing with none of the bitterness or bite. Crinkle-cut fries are crisp and 14-carat golden, with or without their signature cheddar-American blend cheese sauce—a treat that makes our hometown cheese, Whiz, look like the processed, unnatural mess that it is. These are the basics of burgers, done simply and right.

Meanwhile, custards are spectacularly creamy and rich, and even the iced tea-lemonade “Fifty/Fifty” is notably on point: tart, bitter, refreshing and without the cloying sweetness of most versions.

It’s hard to quibble with Shake Shack on its own merits. But like all restaurants, this one exists in the world, surrounded by people (largely waiting in line) and neighbors (who offer superior versions of both their signatures) and hype (20 minutes for

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a fast-food burger on a Thursday at 9 p.m.?), and although it’s impossible to blame the restaurant for its own popularity, it’s similarly impossible to extract the routinely delicious food Shake Shack serves from the sometimes crippling wait that accompanies it.

There are a lot of places to get a good burger within a few blocks of Rittenhouse Square—whether your preferred mode is diner simplicity (Five Guys) or trendy (500 Degrees) or upscale and well-heeled (Rouge).

Likewise hot dogs (Underdogs) and frozen dessert (Capogiro). With that context in mind, it’s hard not to wonder: Given the choice, who would

stand in line for yet another fastfood joint when that wait could just as easily be spent at a table looking forward to one of Center City’s many unique dishes?

The answer, as it turns out, is: an awful lot of us. There’s a simple appeal to a classic burger or dog paired with a beer and a shake or custard on a hot summer day. (And, hey, the menu even offers a brief but respectable wine list.) So—is Shake Shack an exciting addition to that corner?

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1410 Mt. Vernon St. 215.600.0017. allaspinaphilly.com 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. (Leah Blewett)

American Sardine Bar 1800 Federal St. 215.334.2336. americansardinebar.com Cuisine: American comfort.

Eating here is a two-faced experience, both forward-looking and retro, a throwback to a time when comfort trumped detail, but of-the-moment in its occasional willingness to leap-frog convention and play in the sandbox of more modern flavor combinations. How else to explain the Frosted Flake-crusted and fried PB & J? It’s with the simpler constructs that ASB is at its most charming.

Grilled cheese embodied the holy trinity of sensations for this Norman Rockwell construct. The bread is perfectly crisped up in copious amounts of butter, the cheese tucked inside stretched from the teeth with each bite as if performing for a commercial, and the tomatoes, even out of season, brought enough acid to balance out the fattiness. Quintessential beer food. More than anything, though, what matters most here is how well the food works with the real centerpiece, the real reason most people will likely end up stopping by repeatedly: to enjoy a few beers with a bite to eat. (B.F.)

Blue Cat

1921 Fairmount Ave. 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.

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The names of Hop Sing Laundromat’s signature cocktails pay homage, in one way or another, to America. The “Montana Payback” is named after the Battle of Little Bighorn. “A Failed Entertainment” was the working title of Infinite Jest. “Nevermore” is in honor of Edgar Allan Poe. The new craft-cocktail bar’s owner, Lêe, spent months driving around the U.S., exploring its various food and drink cultures; aside from clever drink names, the experience left him resolved to build a place whose bartenders would serve high-quality well liquors without snooty pretension. For all its colorful quirk, Hop Sing pulls it off brilliantly. (B.F.)

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Cuisine: Modern, creative American.

This ambitious restaurant in the former Ansill space in Queen Village is well on its way to becoming one of the city’s most interesting, rewarding destinations. The skate arrives curled up like some sort of loose nautilus shell, its butter-browned flank a visual reference to the addictive whole-grain mustard crisps off to the side.

A massive portion of thick, subtly gamy duck magret, the center glistening like a ruby, found its counterpart in a silky puree of smoked butternut squash. Banh cam—the beloved glutinous rice and mung bean spheres of Vietnam—are made the chef’s own with the addition of truffle and rosemary for aromatics, white beans instead of mung, and mashed potato flakes for texture. The result is reminiscent of an oversized, gnocchi-like orb encased in a lace-thin carapace, a fresh, successfully idiosyncratic homage. Get in while you can.

I have a feeling, in another few months, once the national press “discovers” it, landing a table will be a justifiably difficult endeavor. (B.F.)

M Kee

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 crackercrisp skin that’s a beautifully deep shade of mahogany. Order too much of this and bring it home. It’ll make an amazing nextday snack. (B.F.) PHILADELPHIA

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20 S. 18th St. 215.988.0898. nomnomramen.com Cuisine type: Ramen, ramen, ramen.

Ramen has the potential to be one of the more deeply comforting and affordable meals around, and Nom Nom Ramen is doing a nice job of promoting it. Shio is arguably the standard-bearer here: It’s built on the base of a tonkotsu broth, amped up with salt and white soy sauce, that’s been simmered with pork bone. Shoyu is more savory still—the addition of soy sauce highlights the meatiness of the broth. Karai miso sizzles with a pleasant, tingling heat.

The broth itself, a creamy miso tonkotsu, glows sunset-toned, and the sweet-earthy black garlic sauce atop the pork belly provides an excellent counterpart. All of these are wonderfully successful meals-ina-bowl; if you work in the area, it’s a great under-$10 lunchtime option. Or dinner. Or night-out snack. (B.F.)

the sweetness of the eggs themselves.

The breakfast sandwich is a massive, fat torpedo, the eggs just drippy enough, the chihuahua cheese melting throughout, the homemade chorizo sizzling with a low-level spice that’s more implied than realized; porkiness is the focus here.

All in all, an appealing addition to our ever-expanding base of weekend-morning dining options. (B.F.)

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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 everexpanding pizza-stakes. All of the pizzas are framed by a dough that’s crafted in-house. Straightforward margherita di buffala pizza benefited from the palatefilling 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.)

The Pickled Heron 2218 Frankford Ave. 215.634.5666. thepickledheron.com Cuisine: Contemporary American by way of France.

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. Caramelized brioche underneath it all adds crunch and heft. Seared scallops are tender clouds drifting on sunchoke puree and a scattering of toothsome fava beans, the entire dish brightened by a judicious squeeze of lemon. (L.B.)

Rebel Rock Bar & Bites 100 Spring Garden St. 215.925.1606. rebelphiladelphia.com Cuisine: Bar food with a side of music.

The house mac ’n’ cheese is creamy, bright

and big enough to share, whether served plain or studded with lobster meat or bacon; it’s compulsively eatable, and on two separate occasions, I found myself cleaning the plate. Gravy fries, beneath melted cheese slices and savory dark brown gravy, are the stuff that hangover cures are made of. Braised pork sliders arrive three to an order, with sweet and savory pulled pork studded with apples generously piled onto fluffy, buttered and grilled buns. (L.B.)

Russet 1521 Spruce St. 215.546.1521. russetphilly.com Cuisine: Italian and French-inspired 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-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)

Square Peg 929 Walnut St. 215.413.3600. squarepegrestaurant.com Cuisine: American classics with a twist.

Square Peg’s Sunday brunch menu offers enough tweaks to keep things interesting.

Grilled cheese is stuffed with mac ’n’ cheese; it’s a gluttonous, satisfyingly uncomplicated dish, successfully mixing the gooey and the crisp. An omelet is filled with a smoked goat cheese that highlights

1536 E. Passyunk Ave. 215.551.2500. statesidephilly.com Cuisine: Contemporary, casual American, focusing on domestic (and local) ingredients.

Executive Chef George Sabatino plays with sourness, sweetness and perfume with an alchemist’s sense of fine-tuning. Beets are punched up with coriander and bay leaf; cauliflower makes a remarkable partner for raisins and turmeric. Pork liver terrine is a chunky, funky wonder, the gaminess of the organ both unabashed and primal in the best sense. Small portions and big flavors are the focal points. Don’t fight the temptation. Stateside seems custom-made for eating a little too much, drinking a little too much, and regretting none of it.

(B.F.)

Vedge

1221 Locust St. 215.320.7500 Cuisine: Ambitious, creative vegan.

Vedge, which resides in the stunning space once occupied by Deux Cheminées, does more to bridge the chasm between the artificially distant worlds of the omnivore and the vegan than any restaurant I’ve ever visited. Grilled gochujang tofu boasts three (three!) separate rounds of marinating and arrives in a shallow pool of smoked miso dashi, crowned by a translucent lace of yuba “cracklin,” and accompanied by an edamame puree: soy beans four ways, each of them remarkable.

Roasted golden beats are layered on pumpernickel with smoked tofu, avocado, capers and a cucumber dill sauce to perfectly embody the satisfying richness of a smoked salmon sandwich. (B.F.)

Vernick Food & Drink

2301 Walnut St. 267.639.6644.

Cuisine: Internationally inspired American bistro. vernickphilly.com One of the most exciting new entries into Philadelphia’s ever-expanding restaurant scene, Vernick presents food that’s inventive yet rooted, global in inspiration yet American at its core. Start with red and gold beets dressed up with a redwine vinaigrette, squares of nutty-sharp Moliterno cheese and sweet pistachios candied with fennel seeds. Move on to pork blade medallions; mustard greens and marmalade; flavorful potato ravioli.

Finish with an impossibly moist carrot cake whose cream-cheese-and-fromageblanc-vanilla icing is as addictive as anything in the city. (B.F.)

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Mazeppa Proves It’s No Fluke Spring Awakening is the young company’s first sleeper hit of the summer.

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eed more proof the Great White Way isn’t the only fertile ground for memorable nights out at the theater? Look no further than Mazeppa Productions’ thrilling staging of the rock musical Spring Awakening, the best of the company’s offerings since its debut last year. Founded by artistic director Rob Henry and managing director Brian Seamen, Mazeppa made its mark with Summer 2011’s reimagining of Pippin and a children’s musical, Dear Edwina. But the third time’s clearly the charm: They’ve delivered Philadelphia theater’s first sleeper hit of the season.

Adapted from the controversial 1892 Frank Wedekind play of the same name, Spring Awakening is set in late-19th-century Germany and includes instances of rape, child abuse, masturbation, homosexuality and suicide—even a headless corpse.

Not exactly mainstream fodder, the play was immediately banned and took nearly 15 years before it finally appeared on stage again. Even then, it was often censored or quickly shut down by authorities.

Ably aided by Duncan Sheik’s music and Steven Sater’s book and lyrics, the modern version is slightly tamer and less surreal than Wedekind’s original, but it retains the play’s eroticism and tragic vision of an authoritarian society in which teenagers are taught to fear their elders and kept ignorant about sex and their changing bodies.

Bolstered by Seaman’s realistic set, director Henry moves the story’s setting to what looks like a late 1950s/’60s soda shop where teenagers hang out after school. The choice of what is often considered America’s last era of innocence suits the story nicely, and Henry uses his youthful cast’s natural mix of child-like joy and innocent charm to create a production that feels far more spontaneous and authentic than the slick Broadway production (which, nevertheless, captured a staggering eight Tony Awards). Large cast shows typically suffer from inconsistency in the actors’ talent level, a problem that you would expect to be multiplied when the ensemble is as young as the group assembled here is. Under Henry’s direction, there isn’t a single false note, missed step or inauthentic performance.

The moment the production begins

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You, me and he: Spring Awakening stars (from left) Nate Golden, Jim Hogan and Breanna Pursell.

with Breanna Pursell’s assured yet effectively vulnerable rendition of the opening number, “Mama Who Bore Me,” we know we’re in for something special. Pursell gave local audiences a hint of her talent earlier this season in Bristol Riverside Theatre’s staging of Gypsy, but as the naïve Wendla, one of Awakening’s three primary characters, she has a part that allows her to display the full range of her abilities, not the least of which is her pure and powerful voice, which she modulates with the expertise of a veteran musical theater performer. Pursell’s performance alone would make Awakening worth a visit, but it’s only one of the show’s many pleasures.

Among the male leads, Jim Hogan is excellent as Wendla’s boyfriend, Melchior. The son of the only adult we meet who possesses even a modicum of compassion, Melchior is the most mature of the teens, but in this totalitarian society ruled by powerful and corrupt institutions, unsanctioned knowledge can be dangerous. Even so, Melchior’s confidence makes him more capable of handling the pressures of school than his best friend, Moritz—played by Nate Golden in a performance that signals the arrival of a future star. Like Wendla, Moritz is dangerously ignorant about sex and the powerful physical and emotional changes occurring in his adolescent body. In a rigid society in which sex is considered shameful and forbidden outside of wedlock, the youths are ill-equipped to handle the challenges of adulthood, and the consequences

of the ignorance imposed on them by parents, teachers and the church are severe.

In addition to the three leads, strong performances are turned in by Billy Kametz, who is marvelously arrogant as the savvy gay teen, Hanschen, and Ian Monaco as Hanschen’s sweetly naive boyfriend, Ernst. A long, passionate kiss between the two is one of the production’s most effective scenes.

Sheik’s rock score is filled with catchy showstoppers, but no song sums up the teenagers’ attitude toward their lives as well as the anti-authority punk anthem “Totally Fucked,” which energized the packed house of theatergoers. Tapping into the nihilistic rage celebrated by the pioneering punk band the Sex Pistols, the blistering song is the one moment when the students assume control of their lives. Exuberantly choreographed by Dawn Morningstar, the production’s dance numbers also play to the strengths of the young cast.

Unless it proves to be a total fluke, Spring Awakening makes Mazeppa a welcome addition to the city’s musical theater scene and a company to watch. If indeed part of its mission is to “showcase emerging musical theater artists,” the level of talent on display in Spring Awakening gives just cause to be very optimistic about the future of Philadelphia stage. n Through Sat., July 28. $20-$25. Christ Church Neighborhood House, 40 N. American St. mazeppaproductions.org

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Stellar shows at three local galleries mirror summer’s brightness and lightness.

By Katherine Rochester krochester@philadelphiaweekly.com

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hen the gallery scene is diffused and diverse, an arts writer can feel like a schizophrenic: frantically looking for patterns in random phenomena, hoping nobody notices that half the time, it’s probably all in our heads.

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in Daphne reward careful looking and give Holding’s flat-footed thesis a simple elegance. Matt K. Brett’s “Untitled Plywood Box” (2012) looks like a bright blue USPS mailbox, but its familiar hue hails not from post-facto paint but rather from a set of preconditions: Brett used only the top sheets of plywood from industrial pallets to sculpt the box, all of which are already stained a standard blue. Jack Henry’s “Core Samples” (2010) perform a similar sleight of hand. From a distance, they look like columnar, swirling abstractions. But up close, they’re more like melted and tightly moulded junkyards.

They’re studded with objects like plush Spider-Man toys and gift-wrap baubles that have no rightful place in the language of abstraction.

Through July 31. FJORD, 2419 Frankford Ave. 215.837.2980. fjordspace.com

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Most juried shows suffer from a disparity of visions. It’s practically unavoidable when you mix an open call for art with guest jurors who are likely working together for the first time. But Vox VIII is tight, focused and entirely in step with

the profusion of handcrafted color on display at Tiger Strikes Asteroid and FJORD. Jurors Ruba Katrib and Marlo Pascual have stacked the galleries with an array of colorful sculptures and paintings that revel in gunky, hand-hewn materiality.

Latex, ceramic, thickly coated paint, pure pigment, oil residue, wallpaper, epoxy, resin and balloons drip, slide and gel in every room. It sounds chaotic, but it’s actually dynamic— a unified front of chipper, oddball objects. Of course, not everything adheres. Marcelino Stuhmer’s theatrical recreation of Orson Welles’ famous fun house shoot-out scene in “The Lady from Shanghai” (1947) is a bit of an outlier. With its blackand-white palette and sparkling faux glass, “Get Ready to Shoot Yourself” (2009/2012) deploys an entirely different—albeit thoroughly seductive—sort of theatre from the suggestively organic forms that mutate through the rest of the show.

But herein lies the strength of the exhibition: It’s able to persuade us that all these objects belong together anyway. n

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For its third exhibition, newcomer gallery FJORD presents a selection of works grouped loosely under the rubric of the double take: Curator Liam Holding hopes that small reversals in seemingly familiar objects will subtly shift the way we see the world. In many ways, it’s a modest proposal; isn’t that what most interesting art does anyway? But the overall strength of the objects

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For an artist who has shown mostly paintings in Philadelphia, Ryan McCartney’s solo show, Breaks to Make, sports very little canvas. Instead, he’s turned his hand—and brush—to wood. Ringed by six wall-mounted paintings, two wooden floor sculptures steal the show. At first, “Dog Years“ (2012) looks like a giant atticus, complete with spools and beads for counting. But two irregularly shaped crimson discs deliciously upset the balance. They tilt at different angles, making a soup out of the linear time and suggesting a more mystical conception of accountancy.

“Some Architecture“ (2012) pushes these esoteric allusions even further. Grouping together exquisitely carved feathers, eggs and a skull atop a chair, “Some Architecture” presents a whimsically figurative yet mystically arranged still life. Both sculptures glint with the careful craftsmanship of an old-fashioned toymaker, their burnished primary colors seeming to fade and intensify according to patterns of beloved and repeated handling.

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The spellbinding Beasts of the Southern Wild creates a world of wonder from a child’s magic mind.

By Matt Prigge mprigge@philadelphiaweekly.com Touch of Evil (1958): Though “director’s cuts” are a cottage industry, rare is the one that actually reverses a film’s reputation. Gutted to 95 minutes by its producers, who also graffiti’d credits onto one of the finest tracking shots in history, Orson Welles’ last American film was restored to a more meaty 108 minutes in 1976. In 1998, editor Walter Murch did one better, following Welles’ instructions to devise an even longer cut that more accurately portrayed its director’s haunted vision.

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973): Sam Peckinpah spent the majority of his last Western drunk on the set, but in reality, he was making a devastating masterpiece, using the tale of William Bonney to portray the death of the West. Audiences would have to wait till 1988 to see this version: Execs cut his down to 106 minutes, and it was only restored to its 122-minute version four years after its maker had died.

Heaven’s Gate (1980): Critics and audiences were already hip to the absurdly troubled production of Michael Cimino’s grim anti-Western—laid out brilliantly in United Artist exec Steven Bach’s book, The Final Cut—by the time it lurched into theaters, at a seriously maimed 149-minute cut. The tide turned somewhat when Los Angeles’ Z-Channel aired the full 219-minute version, and while it’s still problematic, few could sanely call this version one of cinema history’s worst.

Once Upon a Time in America (1984): Perhaps it was understandable that most American studios didn’t want to release a 269-minute epic, Sergio Leone’s swan song or not. But initially releasing a 139-minute version, which made the events chronological? Unpardonable.

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Kingdom of Heaven (2005): For whatever reason, Ridley Scott is the king of films saved by director’s cuts. Blade Runner was rescued years after its disastrous debut. And on video, he was able to flesh out a Crusades epic that felt truncated and incoherent when in theaters.

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Margaret (2011): The contract dictated Kenneth Lonergan’s troubled sophomore effort could run no longer than 150 minutes. While the newly released “extended edition” more closely approximates its maker’s vision, that doesn’t disqualify the theatrical cut. Humanity, in effect, received two intentionally messy masterpieces for the price of one. n

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he damndest thing you’ll see this summer, first-time director Benh Zeitlin’s Sundance sensation Beasts of the Southern Wild is a junkyard rhapsody that seems to be inventing its own cinematic language as it goes along. Deliberately abstracted with a fractured syntax, this folk tale about a young girl’s coming-of-age plays like Days Of Heaven by way of The Road Warrior.

Our heroine, 6-year-old Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis), lives with her rough but well-meaning drunkard father, Wink (Dwight Henry), in a ramshackle dirt-poor New Orleans outskirt called the Bathtub. Cut off from the rest of the city by a massive levee, it’s a self-sustaining fishing and farming community of dirty undershirts and crawdads, where everybody seems to be hammered most of the time and in desperate need of a shower. There’s a big storm brewing on the horizon, but the movie doesn’t dare call it Katrina.

Zeitlin isn’t particularly interested in making a socio-political time capsule about poverty. He instead pushes the movie into a heightened realm of mythic grandeur. The camera shares Hushpuppy’s POV, staying low to the ground and gazing upward in gloriously grainy shallow-focus 16mm.

Beasts of the Southern Wild is a marvel of oddball sights, purple narration and blaring Zydeco music that surfs waves of almost primal emotion.

Daddy’s dying of a heart condition, and Hushpuppy is soon going to have to face this world she can barely understand all on her own.

There’s a rugged, survivalist joy to the proceedings that works rather incongruously against the constant squalor. Meticulously designed so that almost every shot is as cluttered as humanly possible, the Bathtub is a remarkable feat of production design, and the movie has a strange affection for these outsiders who are stubborn enough to stay put and drink their way through a disaster. Evacuation is for sissies, I guess? Their romanticized bravado slightly skirts the real question as to where these people could even go if they wanted to leave?

A lot of ink has been spilled by detractors questioning Zeitlin’s right to make this picture in the first place.

Daddy’s girl: Quvenzhané Wallis (left) and Dwight Henry shine in Beasts.

Along again comes the tired argument that some well-off white dude from Wesleyan shouldn’t be directing movies about poor people. This kind of class-warrior criticism, usually fired at female directors like Lena Dunham and Sofia Coppola, strikes me as spectacularly inane. Filmmaking is the most ridiculously expensive of all the arts, and thus almost exclusively the provenance of so-called “rich kids.”

To deny an artist the opportunity to explore cultures other than his or her own over questions of “authenticity” would leave us with nothing but mumblecore movies and Duplass Brothers doodles.

Such arguments are also a denial of empathy, something with which Beasts of the Southern Wild overflows. Wink is, for all intents and purposes, a terrible father. Brusque, borderline abusive and rarely sober, he’s still doing his best to prepare Hushpuppy for a life that’s hardscrabble even during the happiest of times. Henry is a nonactor, by the way, who runs a bakery in New Orleans.

He shouts most of his lines, but the vaguely flummoxed quality of his performance conveys the desperation of a parent who knows he’s in over his head.

Hushpuppy is indeed a handful.

Wallis was only 6 years old during filming, and she brings an indomitable spirit to the pint-sized survivor.

We spend most of the movie trying

Beasts of the Southern Wild Grade: A Director: Benh Zeitlin Starring: Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry and Levy Easterly to process the world through Hushpuppy’s eyes, with her grandiose, often confounding narration as the only foothold in a sea of clattering, foreign images. (My favorite is her observation, upon visiting a hospital and eyeing life-support machines, that these city people plug their sick animals into the wall.)

The visual wonders on display here include prehistoric aurochs—Maurice Sendak-inspired warthogs thawed out from the melting polar ice caps and stampeding into Hushpuppy’s subconscious. There’s also a boat made out of a pickup-truck bed, a dead crocodile stuffed with dynamite and a floating dancehall in the middle of the gulf that seems to have arrived from somewhere beyond the Thunderdome.

Beasts of the Southern Wild casts a spell that defies any easy explanation.

I’ve seen the picture twice now and still have a hard time telling anybody what it’s about. The harshness of the environment is conveyed with a child’s wonderment and fear, while emotions run raw and overwhelming. Yet somehow, the triumphant final shot sends you soaring out of the theater. n

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Audre Lorde-The Berlin Years 1984-1992 The life of Audre Lorde—in her words, “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,” as well as Columbia professor and the official poet of the state of New York from 1991 to her death in 1992—has been covered by many.

So, kudos to the doc by activist Dagmar Schultz, which focuses exclusively on the many trips she paid to West Berlin. There, she encouraged and emboldened the city’s black population, all the while arguing that it’s not differences that divide us but people not dealing with them. Home footage, including much on group meetings, highlight this intimate work, which is as moving when it’s covering her life as it is when she is succumbing, with an ever-defiant face, to cancer.

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Sassy Pants Haley Joel Osment’s game turn as a swishy gay teen with a lip ring, tats and frequently no shirt is the main draw of this indie comedy, but beware of buyer’s remorse: His role is merely supporting, complimenting a thumbtwiddling tale of a less interesting character coming out of her shell. Ashley Rickards plays a mousy home-schooled teen who runs away from her domineering mother (Anna Gunn) and into the home of her once-closeted dad (Diedrich Bader). Gunn tries to shade her monster with traces of vulnerability, but the rest is paint-by-numbers, and by the time the score is drenched in earnest indie rock, it’s not even theoretically funny. (M.P.) Fri., July 20, 9:30pm; Sun., July 22, 5pm, Ritz East, 125 S. Second St.

Kiss Me Like last year’s Weekend, Alexandra-Therese Keining’s Swedish romance unearths the kind of plot that would have been told in ’90s gay cinema just to judge the state of homosexuality today. The results here are less exciting: Ruth Vega Fernandez whimsically cheats on her fiancé with a woman (Liv Mjones), but it becomes quickly apparent that the sexuality of the characters is largely unimportant, as homosexuality has, especially in Sweden, become essentially normalized. Change a couple lines of dialogue, and this could be a standard hetero affair saga.

Keining and her actors do their best to infuse the proceedings with some freshness, and would have gotten away with it, too, were it not for that dim third act. (M.P.) Sat., July 21, 12:15pm, Ritz at the Bourse, 400 Ranstead St.; Sun., July 22, 7pm, Ritz East, 125 S. Second St. Cheryl Dunye, a Temple grad who segued from post- Go Fish gay indies (The Watermelon Woman) to a disastrous Hollywood stint (My Baby’s Daddy), rematerializes with this colorful, energetic porn hybrid, a light farce that just happens to include the odd penetration shot. Papi Coxxx plays a character of fluctuating gender identity who winds up the sex partner to a woman and her visiting mother. This builds to a climax that genuinely pushes a button, but the tone

* Nate & Margaret

Depicting the May-September friendship between a nascently gay teen (Tyler Ross) and a grouchy 50-something (“Roseanne’s” Natalie West), Nathan Adloff’s feature debut is as likable as its leads, which is to say extremely. Though Adloff has worked with the likes of Joe Swanberg and Frank V. Ross, his version of an Amerindie is more modest and retro, content to simply sketch an unlikely friendship amidst life’s various disappointments. Bonus points for the section on Margaret’s floundering standup career, which features some believably terrible amateur jokes. (M.P.) Wed., July 18, 7pm; Thurs., July 19, 5pm, Ritz East, 125 S. Second St.

A Perfect Ending The latest from Nicole Conn, she of the obnoxiously purple ’90s gay “classic” Claire of the Moon, ladles relentlessly sappy music over the romance between an uptight middle-aged trophy wife (Barbara Niven), who claims to have never achieved orgasm, and an unfailingly patient call girl (Jessica Clark), who likely has more patience with Niven’s reluctance than the viewers. This is pure Red Shoe Diaries territory, albeit minus the return to hetero “normalcy.” If only Conn had another directorial trick than the dissolve or if the script didn’t run out of ideas once the two (quite belatedly) hook up, unless you count cribbing Erich Segal as an idea. John Heard also pops up, reminding you that the scene-stealer of Cutter’s Way deserved a better career. (M.P.) Sat., July 21, 7pm; Sun., July 22, 2:15pm, Ritz East, 125 S. Second St.

Au Pair, Kansas J.T. O’Neal’s debut film has a number of winning qualities, including its rural Kansas setting and an attractive cast. This quirky comedy stars Traci Lords as Helen, a widow trying to rebuild her life after the death of her husband, a bisexual who inspired both love and resentment in her. Left with two young boys, Helen hires a male au pair from Norway.

Oddmund, played with amiable charm by Håvard Lilleheie, is an overgrown boy who makes up for his difficulties with English by speaking the universal language of soccer. The movie’s offbeat tone is reinforced by Helen’s conversations with her husband’s ghost and colorful characters like the attractive butch lesbian sheriff and the cross-dressing art teacher. Viewers, however, can only suspend their disbelief so much. When Oddmund’s attempt to help one of Helen’s sons is misconstrued as an inappropriate sexual advance, the movie takes a darker turn, one that doesn’t ring true. That feeling is compounded by the nagging sense that a crucial scene or two was left on the cutting-room floor. (R.S.) Fri., July 20, 7:30pm; Sat., July 21, 9:30pm, Ritz East, 125 S. Second St.

* Taking a Chance on God

This slender doc tells of John McNeill, a Jesuit priest who became one of the first members of the cloth to argue—with a master’s grasp of scripture, ethics and morality—that gay relationships are healthy and should be embraced by churches. McNeill, who outed himself on national TV, was first silenced by the church, then removed, which had the ironical effect of making his beliefs more widespread. The film doubles as a history of gay rights, revealing, among other things, that the current pope once penned a screed condemning homosexuals and saying that any violence they receive was brought on by themselves. So, that’s fun. (M.P.) Sat., July 21, noon, Ritz East, 125 S. Second St. n

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is never less than giddy and playful, and the end product has the formal excitement of Dunye’s famed student films, including “interviews” with the actors as they break character. (M.P.) Wed., July 18, 8:15pm; Fri., July 20, 9:30pm, Ritz at the Bourse, 400 Ranstead St.

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Early in this eye-opening documentary by openly gay director Andrea Meyerson, jazz vocalist Ginger Berglund recalls thinking that “a fantastic bass player would not want to be a middle-aged woman.” Yet that’s precisely what her friend and fellow musician John Leitham yearned to become.

A talented, in-demand player, Leitham performed regularly with notables like Mel Tormé, but hid his true self from peers. Only in the privacy of his home could he be Jennifer, the name given to him by the woman he eventually married. Since undergoing gender reassignment surgery in 2002, Jennifer’s life has improved dramatically. Now living openly and leading her own band, she finally seems comfortable in her skin, a point made

by Doc Severinsen and others interviewed.

Sure, there were difficult moments, including a painful divorce and a serious medical complication that occurred during surgery,

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Iran’s first transgender drama—about a preop woman (Offside’s Shayesteh Irani) trying to escape the clutches of her disapproving father (Homayoun Ershadi)—is bold, if little else. Irani plays Adimeh, whose travels wind up involving a young taxi driver (Ghazal Shakeri), who grows from an initially unwitting accomplice to her seen-the-light defender, and though Negar Azarbayjani’s film touches on the country’s gender issues—girls can feel like boys, but after a certain point, they have to be regulated to the shackled life of a woman—the story rarely feels more than rote. Only Ershadi, the relaxed, haunted star of Abbas Kiarostami’s A Taste of Cherry, complicates this simplistic drama, eventually suggesting that what motivates him is badly misdirected love. (M.P.) Sat., July 21, 5pm; Sun., July 22, 2:30pm, Ritz at the Bourse, 400 Ranstead St.

but Jennifer appears to be adapting well to her new life. She’s even begun playing the bass while standing, something she avoided in the past for fear of looking like a girl.

Although Jennifer’s private life is never fully revealed, that’s a quibble. Throughout, the director focuses on the two most important things in Jennifer’s life: her music and being transgendered. (Raymond Simon) Thurs., July 19, 7:15pm; Fri., July 20, 5pm, Ritz East, 125 S. Second St.

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Katy Perry’s buoyantly marzipan goodygoody persona makes for an often confounding mismatch with all those lyrics about kissing girls, doing too many shots and showing her your peacock. Perry presents herself as a curiously asexual sex object, sort of like Strawberry Shortcake in hot pants with sparkly pinwheels on her boobs. Katy Perry: Part Of Me tries to be an authorized, carefully scrubbed infomercial, charting the pop star’s meteoric ascent (which turns out to have been five years in the making) via bland reality-show interview segments and 3-D performance clips from Perry’s spectacularly gaudy Candy Land-themed 2011 tour.

Yet there’s a similar disconnect at work in this “documentary,” during which directors Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz struggle valiantly to stay on message while real-life problems keep simmering in the margins.

Of course, we get the rags-to-riches story of plucky young Katy, that fiercely talented daughter of a couple of hardcore Pentecostals who wouldn’t even let their little girl watch The Wizard of Oz because of all that pesky witchcraft. She eventually escapes to L.A. and struggles with renowned starmaker collaborators like Glen Ballard and

It’s unlikely, at 52 years old and over 20 years into his career, that Todd Solondz is going to change. He’s said as much himself, at least in the words of a minor character in Palindromes : “People always end up the way they started out. No one ever changes.” But they can make slight alterations. As he reaches the abdomen of his life, cinema’s arguable darkest comic filmmaker—whose films are so bleak, so cynical, so unflinching about modern American mediocrity that they rarely produce genuine laughs—has made a film that at least ditches the usual meek, easily bullied protagonist of most of his films.

Meet Abe (a wonderfully game Jordan Gelber), a mid-30s, porcine loser who lives with his parents, one (Mia Farrow) whom he ignores, the other (Christopher Walken) also his reluctant employer. He collects toys; he drives a ridiculous yellow Hummer. Of course, he is loudly and energetically unaware of these deficits: Impatient and dickish when he wants something, he is also the first Solondz lead to not only ask someone out, but to do so in the first scene. Unfortunately, that woman turns out to be Miranda (Selma Blair), who historically would have been the Solondz protagonist: Mousy, depressed and so hopped up on anti-depressants, she can barely communicate. The assertive Abe essentially tricks her into an engagement, and after their first kiss, she earnestly crows, “Oh my god, it wasn’t horrible.”

That line is typical Solondz, but this relationship doesn’t have the typical Solondz one-note toxicity. Instead, they develop a strange kind of symbiotic warmth, one that survives and grows even as Abe increasingly succumbs to fantasies (including being hit on by a cougar receptionist) and, of course, the typically sadistic plot turns of his filmmaker’s script. Solondz is still Solondz, and sometimes hilariously so: Shots of Toys “R” Us, which Abe frequents, with the logo blurred are reminiscent of the bold red block used to completely obscure the MPAA-disapproving sex scene (with Blair) in Storytelling— an amusing fuck-you to authorities. Less witty is the “ironic” use of vapidly optimistic pop music (“Now is the time to reach for the sky!”), an easy running gag-type Solondz should have ditched at least two films ago, if not five. n

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Grade: BReview by Matt Prigge

The Matrix before finally breaking through “just by being herself.” Or so it went down, according to the movie.

But lurking on the sidelines like impending doom is Russell Brand, the tiresome British comic who parlayed his 15 minutes of U.S. fame into 20 by becoming Perry’s short-term husband. It’s sadly fascinating to trace the slowly dawning despair in this perky starlet’s eyes as she exhausts herself

chasing down Brand all over the world in between tour dates, putting on her best brave face for meet-and-greets with fans.

There’s only so much formula the filmmakers can shellac over their subject’s increasingly obvious heartbreak, and a couple of stray, shockingly revealing closeups of Perry in Part of Me’s final stretch feel far too honest and revealing for such a gimcrack setting. n

this one features buccaneers, too: A motley crew of villains, led by monkey Peter Dinklage, who sail a ship-shaped ice chunk.

Continental Drift scores a couple yuks from Wanda Sykes as Leguizamo’s crabby grandmother, but the funniest joke is Leguizamo mocking the last picture: “It didn’t make much sense, but it sure was exciting.”

This one makes less sense and is thunderously vanilla, in part because instead of stocking its vocal cast with ringers (like Aziz

Ansari, wasted as a rabbit) it goes with pop stars (J-Lo, Nicki Minaj, Heather Morris) whose schtick is sounding exactly like themselves. It’s corporate synergy and safety over invention and excitement, complete with a homily about the importance of family, a sentiment completely new to the world of family entertainment. As for the Maggiecentric Simpsons short that precedes the feature: At least it confirms that Ayn Rand’s true legacy is as a killer sight gag. n

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The ice age in the Ice Age series technically ended somewhere during the second outing, Ice Age: The Meltdown. Sadly, each entry has made more money than the last, thus necessitating more sequels, thus necessitating more lapses in science and history. Few are hopefully taking their kids to these pictures for education, which is good because as the fourth outing—Ice Age: Continental Drift—posits, the supercontinent Pangaea broke up after the most recent Ice Age (about 10,000 years ago) and not, oh, 200 million years ago. Even Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs—truly one of the most insane titles ever concocted by functionally intelligent people—at least came up with a movie reason for dinosaurs to be still be bumming around tens of millions of years after their extinction.

Then again, talking science is surely more thrilling to today’s ADD-addled kid than Ice Age: Continental Drift, a painfully mediocre enterprise that’s not even fun to mock. This time, our central trio—dull wooly mammoth Ray Romano, testy saber-toothed tiger Denis Leary (audibly bored) and dim sloth John Leguizamo—are set adrift atop an ice floe thanks to the violent shifting of plate tectonics. Few Americans saw Aardman’s fairly charming The Pirates! earlier this year, so there should be little carping that

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XPoNentially Better 18 reasons to skip Delaware for Camden this weekend.

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dd that some of the region’s biggest summer festivals (not including some Jay-Z Parkway thing) all fall on the same weekends. For the two full-weekend bonanzas starting Friday and aimed at largely the same audience— WXPN’s XPoNential Music Festival in Camden and the Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Del.—Jersey wins hands down.

There are a million reasons why. Here are just 18 of them.

1) Wilco (XPN) vs. Death Cab for Cutie (Firefly). Ben Gibbard might bring the cute tattooed girls around, but Death Cab never wrote Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, as close to indie rock’s Sgt. Pepper’s as we’ll ever hear.

2) The Lumineers (XPN) vs. Walk the Moon (Firefly). We really like Walk the Moon’s bouncy, carefree pop, but the Lumineers’ “Ho Hey” is easier to remember and sing along to than WTM’s still really delightful “Anna Sun.” The “Anna Sun”

4) Counting Crows (XPN) vs. Wallflowers (Firefly). These two were joined at

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the hip from “6th Avenue Heartache.”

But for those who like their ’90s alt-pop delivered by someone who flat-out refuses to sing his original lyrics or melody— thereby completely thwarting annoying sing-alongs—Counting Crows take it.

Also, Adam Duritz’s hair still looks like a pineapple, and that’s really fun.

5) The Hold Steady (XPN) vs. The Black Keys (Firefly). Both are about as pure, back-to-basics rock ’n’ roll as these festivals get, but only Hold Steady concerts feel as religious as church—without all the God bothering, mostly.

6) War on Drugs (XPN) vs. Cold War Kids (Firefly). The War on Drugs heated

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up just as the Cold War was dying down, and not like Obama’s doing anything to end the War on Drugs anytime soon. Plus, a civil battle between War on Drugs and Work Drugs (XPN) would be a nice sidestage match.

7) Kaki King (XPN) vs. Jack White (Firefly). Guitar virtuoso who’s recognized by music snobs to be one of the greatest living players of the instrument, or guitar virtuoso who’s recognized by music snobs to be one of the greatest living players of the instrument—and is also a chick?

8) JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound and J.D. Souther (XPN) vs. J. Roddy Walston and the Business (Firefly). JC and J.D. outnumber J. Roddy. Forget music; that’s just math.

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9) The money. XPN is a nonprofit and regularly touted as one of the top public radio stations in the country. Firefly’s top two sponsors are Bud Light and Ketel One. Where should your dollars go?

10) Delta Rae (XPN) vs. The Felice Brothers (Firefly). The sibling super-

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video is arguably best of the year, but you don’t watch music videos at summer festivals.

3) The price. The $55 member three-day pass for XPN is still cheaper than the cheapest one-day pass for Firefly. And with the Firefly three-day passes long ago sold out, XPN costs way less any way you slice it.

power of Ian, Eric and Brittany Hölljes against Ian, James and Simone Felice.

Sounds like an even matchup, right?

Sorry, Simone left the band in 2009.

Math wins again.

11) John Wesley Harding’s Cabinet of Wonders (XPN) vs. John Legend (Firefly). The latter is both a literal and

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figurative Legend. (OK, not really literal; his last name actually is Stephens—he changed it after graduating from Penn.)

Harding’s Cabinet is an interdisciplinary vaudeville showcase that features multiple legends, including Old 97’s frontman Rhett Miller, writer Rick Moody, comedian Eugene Mirman and, of course,

Harding himself. None of these Cabineteers, as they’re called, is as smooth as Legend, but the mixture should be bizarre and wonderful.

12) Dr. Dog (XPN) vs. Chiddy Bang (Firefly). Both are serious hometown pride, but Dr. Dog has been repping Philly harder and longer.

13) Ozomatli (XPN) vs. Mariachi El Bronx (Firefly). Los Angeles’ Ozomatli have a day named after them in the City of Angels. The Bronx, meanwhile, is gentrifying more by the day.

14) Lee Ranaldo Band (XPN) vs. Girl Talk (Firefly). Girl Talk prominently sampled

Young the Giant). Don’t mess with Texas.

16) Avett Brothers (XPN) vs. the Head and the Heart (Firefly). Both have gorgeous down-home harmonies. But the Avetts like to shout some, too.

17) Mike Doughty (XPN) vs. The Flaming Lips (Firefly). You might think the Soul Coughing frontman’s spoken word is weird—until you hear the Flaming Lips’ 1997 album Zaireeka: Four different CDs that you had to play all at the same time.

Even in 1997, who had four CD players?

18) The city. Dear, Philly: We have, like,

15) Rhett Miller & The Serial Lady Killers (XPN) vs. Matt Costa (Firefly).

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Miller’s joy-filled, sky-high Texas-chunk leg kicks or Costa’s sunshine California pop? Firefly already has a ton of other Californians (Bassnectar, Silversun Pickups,

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Credence: Breakwater Revival A classic ‘70s band from Philly returns to funk out World Cafe Live.

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releases of the year and a welcome debut from a talent with the courage to write powerful songs about same-sex love.

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reakwater burst forth in the 1970s, confident that its sound would grow like ivy and choke back the dominance of bands ruling the airwaves, like the Ohio Players, Tower of Power, and Earth, Wind and Fire.

A funk-heavy Philadelphia crew that emerged from a music scene flowing with hits the hard way, Breakwater cranked out covers and original cuts at block parties, rec centers and bars in and around town. It paid off.

They signed to Arista Records. Singles crept into radio rotation and up the music charts. All seemed set.

And Gene Robinson Jr., a founding member and lead vocalist, stood ready for the fame and fortune.

It wasn’t to be, at least in that iteration. By the mid’80s, they had broken up and drifted apart.

Now, in the second decade of a new millennium, Breakwater has re-tooled and re-emerged, outlasting even their old label. They’ll bring their classic sound, with a few new twists, to World Cafe Live on Saturday.

“We tell anyone, ‘Come on out if you want to have a good time and party,’ because that’s what we do,” Robinson says.

Their self-titled debut set off many a party in 1978.

The 1980 follow-up, Splashdown, made waves too, peaking at No. 33 on the Billboard R&B charts, largely on the strength of its smooth, mid-tempo single, “Say You Love Me Girl.” Their songs still find some airplay on classic R&B formats, but not quite enough to make Breakwater a household name for the uninitiated.

“It’s funny,” Robinson says. “Certain places that did get a taste of Breakwater fell in love with it. There are some people in pockets of the country and overseas who know us. Then I could go across the street, and they don’t know who we are.”

That plight is not uncommon. Poor marketing and label neglect—the tandem industry kiss of death— forced the crew from its limelight quest back to Life As Normal. Some fared well; others, not so much.

For Robinson, sliding back to earth meant picking up an IT career, now nearly at the 30-year mark, along with marriage, four kids and a suburban home.

The death of fellow founding member Kae Williams

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Twin Shadow Confess

(4AD Records) Sounds Like: The sophomore LP from this

George Lewis Jr. and Prince lookalike is a synthheavy and ’80s-worshipping set of shiny, bright songs on love, lust and yearning.

Free Association: He even wears cut-off leather gloves, vests and quirky top hats!

For Fans Of: Peter Gabriel x M83, Neon Indian + the Cure/the Smiths, chillwave.

Aesop Rock Breaking the silence: Breakwater circa 1978.

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Jr. in 2008 drew them all back. They realized they still had that creative itch, a desire to finish what they started years ago. It’s just five of eight members playing now, though. Turns out, this isn’t an endeavor short of complexities for 50- and 60-somethings.

After all, there are careers to juggle, families to consider, lives to manage away from the stage. Even assembling for a publicity shot is complicated, let alone rehearsal times or travel dates.

“You hear from folks, ‘I got Bible class that night;’ ‘I have to get my kids or grandkids,’” Robinson says, laughing. “It’s not like when you’re in your 20s, and all you have to do is play.”

That doesn’t mean they have forgotten how to jam.

Older, pudgier, maybe, but Breakwater is still in it to win it. They’re even finishing up a new CD and a label is pending. But their second date with destiny isn’t. n

Long Island, N.Y.-born emcee after five years of silence, a divorce and a label fight. He’s back— and sicker than ever.

Free Association: A heady mix of sick beats, wicked flow and dense lyricism.

For Fans Of: El-P/Atmosphere, KRS-One + EPMD x Slick Rick, triumphant revivals.

Sat., July 21, 6pm. $25. World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St. 215.222.1400. worldcafelive.com.

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Total Dust (Polyvinyl Records) Sounds Like: The debut of duo Brian

Borcherdt (Holy Fuck) and Leon Taheny (producer, Death From Above, 1979) is a sad yet pretty, wispy LP of gentle indie rock.

Free Association: These eerie atmospherics could effectively accentuate a 1990s prom scene.

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Despite their frankly appalling dress sense (imagine a disparate gaggle of geek-chic librarians as styled by visually impaired hipster fashionistas), and a certain irritating ubiquity amongst the music press cognoscenti, there’s much to love about Hot Chip. Namely, that aside from creating some of the finest albums of the last few years, they’re one of those bands that manages to deftly combine the euphoric rush of the dance floor with a sly, cerebral brand of shiny pop that retains a considerable degree of warmth and emotion, plus no uncertain wit. To that end, they’ve become part of a long lineage of great British bands that have deftly fused the politics of dancing with affairs of the heart, a la the Pet Shop Boys and New Order. And that, most certainly, is not a bad thing. (Neil Ferguson)

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My husband is my first partner, so I have no past experience to draw from, and porn hardly seems the proper inspiration: visually exciting (for a guy) but no visible technique other than some extreme deep-throating, which I am incapable of, as I have a sensitive gag reflex. Is there anything nonstandard but fun that you (or your fans) could suggest? I’m not exactly vanilla, so I’m willing to try pretty much anything at this point.

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Seeing as I think saying, “You’re doing it wrong, do it better, but don’t ask me how I want it done,” is an asshole move, TIWDIW, I’m tempted to give asshole advice. Something along the lines of “take a swig of Tabasco sauce immediately before popping his dick in your mouth.”

You seem like a nice person, TIWDIW: a good sex partner, GGG, open to constructive criticism.

But “I grow weary of your blowjobs, they bore me—do something about it!” isn’t constructive criticism. It’s destructive criticism, the kind of feedback that can leave a sex partner feeling inadequate and self-conscious. To be constructively critical, your husband needs to come through with some suggestions and direction—something more helpful than “surprise me.” (I bet he’d find that mouthful of Tabasco sauce surprising.)

Now, maybe your husband has no clue what he wants you to do. But that’s still no excuse for “Your blowjobs bore me. Fix it! Creatively!” Your husband should’ve tossed out some suggestions, invited you to do the same, and you two should’ve given ’em all a whirl until you found a few new tricks that worked.

Minor unfairnesses slosh around relationships like water in the bottom of a canoe, of course, but “Be creative!” in this context isn’t just unfair, it’s paralyzing. Putting all the responsibility for busting out new tricks on the shoulders of the person whose blowjob/assfucking/bondage skills have been criticized rarely results in the criticized person busting out new and mind-blowing blowjob/assfucking/bondage moves. A destructively criticized sex partner is apt to shut down. So your husband isn’t just guilty of unfair behavior here, TIWDIW, he’s guilty of self-defeating behavior.

Meaning, you may be able to give better head—we all have room for improvement—but this is not the way to go about getting better head from you.

Finally, TIWDIW, you mention that your husband was your first partner. Can I ask how many women he’s been with? If the answer is “not many,” then I would respectfully suggest to your husband that his frame of reference may not be large enough to craft an informed critique of your technique. For all he knows, you give amazing head. (Cue the straight men who’ll tell your husband that he should be happy he’s getting blowjobs at all.) But routine can make even the best blowjobs seem boring. So it may not be the how of your blowjobs that bore him, TIWDIW, but the when and the where. Give him the same old head in a new and exciting place (outside?) or in a new and exciting circumstance (his hands tied behind him?) and see if that doesn’t make your blowjobs exciting again.

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I was upset by the letter last week about the devotee who posted pictures of her disabled girlfriend’s body online without permission. I cannot speak for all devotees, but I was disgusted by the behavior. As a devotee, I do find particular disabled bodies more attractive and sexually appealing than most “able” bodies. But physical attraction is only a starting point. In order for a relationship to move forward, there must be attraction on other levels and compatibility on an interpersonal level, and there must always be mutual respect. I wanted to put this perspective out there for people who, like GIMP, are wary of devotees. In any “group,” there will be people who are perverted and disrespectful. But when a devotee acts up, it contributes negatively to an already misunderstood attraction.

Good Dev In Canada A programming note: People typically write to me when someone has done them wrong or when they’ve done someone wrong. When the bad actor in a particular situation is someone like a devotee—the kind of person who is unlikely to be out to friends and family members about their deeply stigmatized sexual identity and/or interest—my readers can’t weigh what they’re learning about this one particular devotee against what they know about the other devotees they know and love … because the other devotees they know and love aren’t out to them about being devotees. It’s something to bear in mind, gentle readers, when someone with a rare or deeply stigmatized sexual interest makes an appearance in the column.

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GIMP’s letter appears to have been a fake.

There’s a disturbed person lurking on the web who pretends to be a woman in a wheelchair, as a number of readers wrote to inform me, and this person has peddled the exact same story before.

A fake letter is going to make its way into the column from time to time—there’s no way to verify every letter—and as every question that does make the column is a good hypothetical to every Savage Love reader save one, I try not to get too worked up about the odd fake question. But it is a problem when a fake question contributes to the negative public perception of a group of people whose sexual desires are already so stigmatized.

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This paper will not knowingly accept any advertisingfor real estate which violates these laws. The law requires that all dwellings advertised beavailable on an equal opportunity basis. If you believe you have been discriminated againstin connection with the sale, rent, financing or insuring of housing or commercial property,call HUD at 1-888-799-2085 real estate for sale LAND FOR SALE: CAMERON COUNTY, PA - 7.7 AC R ES W I T H ST R E A M FRONTAGE, STATE FOREST FRONTAGE electricity, public road frontage. Near Sizerville State Park. $59,900. Owner financing. 800-668-8679 SOUTH PHILA: ALL NEW GORGEOUS TOWNHOUSE 3BDRMS, 1BA, AC, hrdwd, new carpet, granite kit and bath. $450/ mo. $2500req. 215-292-2176 SP WHARTON ST. VIC. ALL NEW! A/C, 3BDRS, Bath $450 mo.;$2500 Down 215-292-2176

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9TH & PINE Charming Studio in Brownstone, Hi Ceilings, HW Flrs, Sep Kitch, Intercom Entry, Onsite Laundry. $785/Mo. Avail Sept. 215-735-8030.

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one bedroom THE CHATHAM (135 S.20TH) OPEN H O U S E S AT, 1 2- 4 P M S p a c i o u s Studios/1BR’s in High-rise, Doorman bldg w/Magnificent Western & Southern exposure, View of Ritt Sq, HW flrs, Laundry on site, High flr. Prof managed. AVAIL OCT! ALL UTILS INCL. FROM $1,275. MSRE, 215-925-RENT(7368), www.MichaelSingerRealEstate.com WOODSTOCK & PARRISH Grt 1BR w/ Huge EIK, Avail now. $995 incl heat.

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1315 N 6TH STREET 2 bedroom newly renovated, avail now $995/ MO 215-883-0542 13TH & RACE- Adorable 2BR townhome, HW flrs, Outdoor Patio, W/D, Basement, Dog friendly. AVAIL AUGUST! $1485.

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19Th & CALLOWHILL Fab 2BR w/All amens. Deck, Garage. $1650+. PMG, 215-545-7007x303 23RD & PINE- Spacious 2BR across from Fitler Sq Park, HW flrs, Laundry on premise. AVAIL SEPT! HEAT/HOT WATER INCL. $1685. MSRE, 215-925RENT(7368), www.MichaelSingerRealEstate.com 318 BAINBRIDGE ST, C - Beautiful restored brownstone. Lovely 2 bdrm bi-level unit with 2 baths, central air, hrdwd flrs & large garden. $2500. CONWAY TEAM. PRU, FOX & ROACH, 215.627.6005/215.440.8190 671 FRANKLIN PLACE, E: $1,100/ MO 2BD/1BA, 1-car parking, lovely courtyard setting, coin w/d, CALL MIKE MCCANN PRU FOX & ROACH 215-627-6005/215-440-8345 732 M E LO N P L , C : $ 1 ,1 0 0/ M O 2BD/1BA, 1-car parking, detailed landscaping, great location, CALL MIKE MCCANN PRU FOX & ROACH 215-627-6005/215-440-8345 ART MUSEUM AREA-TEMPLE AREA: 17TH/GIRARD 2BR, or LRG 1BR HW flrs t/o, C/A/H, DW. WD in bldg. $950/mo+.

Avail Immediately. 215-651-4653 C.C. Ultra Mod BROWNSTONE 2BR, Mble BA/Jac, WD, HWF, AC, Patio. $1150/mo+. 215-463-7374 CENTER CITY-SOUTH 22ND ST(SPRUCE) NEW LUXURIOUS, SPACIOUS, SECURE 2BEDRMS., ULTRA KITCHEN W/GRANITE COUNTERTOPS AND APPLIANCES, W/D, C/A, HARDWOOD, VISUAL INTERCOM ENTRY, IPOD READY W/INTEGRAL DOCKING AND STEREO SYSTEM. WALKING DISTANCE TO UNIV. OF PENN. BLKS. AWAY FROM RITTENHOUSE SQUARE. NO PETS. $2,400/MO.+UTILS. CALL 215-755-6900.

GRAD HOSP: HUGE BI-LVL, 2BD+DEN, DECK, HRDWD, SS APPLS. JAC, GRANITE, DW, GD, WD AC. Small dog. $1500+ 215-817-3504 OLD CITY (6 S.Front St.) 2BR or Office combo. Overlooks BF Bridge & Del River. High ceiling, WD, DW, GD, CA, Gas heat, Tiled bath & Kit. $1150/ mo+. 215-627-4414

three + bedrooms 13TH & WALNUT Huge 3BR, Avail Now. Close to everything. $1650+.

PMG, 215-545-7007x302 1807 S 18TH: $1,300/MO 3BD/1BA bi-level, newly renovated, brand new flooring, granite kitchen, c/a, CALL JIM ONESTI PRU FOX & ROACH 215-627-6005/215-440-2052 2814 POPLAR ST, 3: $1,700/MO 3BD/1BA bi-level, hardwood floors, spacious bedrooms, lovely location, CALL MELANIE MCCONNELL PRU FOX & ROACH 215-627-6005/215-521-1533 T E M P L E U. A R E A 3 B R b i - l eve l , c/a, hw/flrs, near EL, asking $1150 215-704-6967

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

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

house for rent 22xx Bainbridge St: 5 bedrooms 2 full baths newly renovated in great neighborhood, close to everything.

Available immediately $3000.00 monthy call 215-681-8088 BEAUTIFUL 2BDRM ROW HOUSE, FISHTOWN Marble & Granite, H.I. Effc furnace, C/AC. 25XX SEPVIVA ST. $975+. 215-333-8833 H A R R I S B U RG, PA : Th i n k i n g of m o v i n g? 3 B R, 2 . 5 BA tow n h o m e available in suburban Harrisburg, corner property. MBR w/WIC, Jacuzzi tub. Sep Living, Dining and Family room, Office space, Eat-in kit w/ Fre n c h d o o rs l ea d i n g to p a t i o/ mini pvt garden. 2 FP’s, WD, DW, CA. Garage. Well kept development w/Gym, Club, Pool, Fitness trail.

Avail Aug. $1450/mo+ Utils. Pets negotiable w/Fee. Ref/Credit check req. Sumitds1@yahoo.com ITALIAN MARKET 9XX LEAGUE ST 2bedr. ultra mod. TOTALLY NEW! Call Villa Realty 215-271-0600 ITALIAN MKT. Wide tree lined street, 3bedrms., freshly painted. new carpets.

Plain well-kept. Near CC. $950/mo.

Call Bill 610-909-5870.

PENNSPORT (3rd/McKean) Newly ren 2BR house, CA, HWF t/o, WD, DW. Nice yard & Bsmt. $1100/mo.

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Aug.1st. 267-402-8017

room for rent 124 LOMBARD the HEART OF CENTER CITY, SOCIETY HILL, HEAD HOUSE SQ. “TOKIO B&B” STUDIOS. WALK to HISTORIC LOCATIONS, RESTAURANTS, PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION. TOURIST are WELCOME! Reasonable daily rates ($55-$100) wkly rates ($300-$500) TOURIST ARE WELCOME! WE also OFFER SPECIAL monthly rates. Website http:// sushi.madamesaito.com MADAME SAITO 215-922-2515 13TH & SPRUCE- Parker Hotel CC. Fully Furn’d Rms, no sec. deposit. Utils & housekeeping incld. WK: $165-$203; Day: $40-$56. 215-735-2300.

artists studio space

ARTISTS STUDIO SPACE THE PAPERMILL- Community of Artists.

2825 Ormes St. Affordable Artist Studios starting at $100 for 130 sf. Four large floors of open or private studio space for Painters, Sculptors, Dance, Theatre, or Creative companies. A community of artists practicing their talents in custom sized studio workspaces.

Short term, inexpensive rental of theatre and gallery spaces. Join our group on Facebook for updates on our events and gallery spaces.

Contact Wulfhart Management Group: Karyn 215-687-8391 or karyn@wulfhartmanagementgroup.com

office space

22XX S.BROAD ST Former Dr’s office etc available. Move-in-condition.

Negotiable lease terms for motivated Doctor, Lawyer, Indian chief. Call Don 10:30AM-7PM 215-450-8176

10TH & OREGON 2nd flr. office, Full bath, $750/mo.utils incl. Pvt. ent.

215-755-1899.

commercial space

12TH/PINE Great store w/Amazing street exposure. Avail 09/01. $995+.

PMG 215-545-7007x304

business opportunity-sales

PARTNER SOUGHT FOR PHILLY PUBLICATION A real turnkey bus w/G re a t p ro f i t p o te n t i a l . M a ny other perks in being a partner.

Please call John, 1-877-803-2756 for more info.

TANNING SALON Fully equipped, Turn-key operation. Call for appt.

610-544-5553.

business property

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

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Beautiful 2BD/2.5BA tri-level condo with den, incredible roof deck, and penthouse office/3rd bedroom, all on a cobblestone street with breathtaking views!

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852 N. Taney

$215,000

$259,900

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$369,900

Highly coveted 3BD/2BA home with oak flooring, stainless and granite kitchen plus open yard, complete with a custom tile bath, plenty of natural lighting, and a stunning master suite.

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$619,000

Brand new construction, 3BD/2.5BA home with crown moldings, a granite kitchen with BOSCHE appliances, and iron railings, complete with a large decked garden with 8 foot privacy fencing and a deck off of the 3rd floor suite.

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$8,000,000

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1028-30 S. Randolph $430,000 Beautiful, move-in ready 4BD/2BA home with parking, hardwood floors, large windows featuring a granite kitchen and a decked in patio perfect for entertaining!

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Tri-level condo unit with garage parking, balcony, and chandelier, also featuring many exquisite amenities and tons of natural light.

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$450,000

Lovingly restored 3BD/2BA home plus den, featuring a greenhouse, fantastic garden, high ceilings, wood burning fireplace, stainless kitchen, and a beautifully landscaped yard.

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$889,000

Contemporary and uniquely designed 4BD/3.5BA home with 2-car parking, 4000 sqft of luxury living, open maple staircase throughout, 2 dens, 2 balconies + rooftop deck, and tremendous oversized master suite!

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

229 Fulton Street C Concordia Place - Lovely pristine hm w/ 2 bdrms, 2 bths, hrdwd flrs, fp, deck & lovely private garden. $324,900

512-16 S. Front St. Investment Opportunity - Commercial - 7820 Sq. Ft., River Views, Terrific Space & Location. $1,900,000

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

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216 Christian Street F- Beautiful like new Courtyard hm w/ 2 cr prkg, 3 full suites, Office, 3.5 bths, hrdwd flrs t/o, fab. LR w/ fp & 13’ceilings, 2800 sq. ft, lovely grdn & large deck. $699,000

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

1210 S. 3rd Street Beautiful 4 bdrm, 2 bth hm with high ceilings, hrdwd flrs, tile, granite and outdoor space. REDUCED $324,900

830 S. 2nd Street 3100 sq. ft. gated crtyd hm w/prkg, 4 bdrms, den & family rm, hrdwd flrs, 2 fp’s, 2 juliet balconies, garden & roof top patio. $699,900

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2236 S. 3rd Street Very nice extra lrg 3 bdrm hm, back room that could be used as den/office, hrdwd flrs, good light & yard. $189,900

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

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710 Addison Street - Society Hill New Listing. Wow! 1900sf., 2 bdrms + den, 2.5 bths w./garage, hrdwd. flrs. & garden $559,000

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1101 S. 2nd Street Coming Soon Phase 3. Great N/C w/ 3 bdrms, 2.5 bths, hrdwd flrs, deck & garage. $499,000

201 Queen Street - Unit 2 - Historic Acme Piano Building. 2000 sq. ft bi-level condo, 2 bdrms, 3 bths, hrdwd flrs, beautiful foyer with elevator to take you to a terrific common roof deck + 1 deeded prkg spot in lrg attached garage. $550,000

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

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1420 Locust Street Unit 15 E Academy House A larger 1 bedroom unit, 861 Sq. ft with new kitchen and bath. $289,900

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321 Pemberton- Live Street& work from home in this 812 Baths, S. Howard Street 3rd & Bainbridge space. 2 bedrooms +den,1.5 335fabulous Christian This Wonderful House Deck has it all!+1700 Sq space on 1st Fl. $3000 Q.V. great rehab, 2 bdrms, lrg floors, Gallery Fab. Mansion home with 2 car Ft -hardwood Location - Meredith School District - A Lovely bth, fp hrdwd flrs t/o & garden 427 Queen StBeautiful 3 story, 2 bedroom, 1 bath trinity, H/W, EIK & garden. $1400 parking, 4bdrms, 3.5 bths, garden, Landscaped Gated Courtyard - 4 Bdrms, 2 bths- 2 REDUCED details, details $749,000 - Beautiful 3 BR + Den, 4 BA,details, H/W, Granite ktchn, grdn & 2 car parking. $3500$289,000 Fp’s -225 GreatCatharine Light & SpaceSt- Bsmnt - Good Storage $425,000 Space and a Lovely 776 S. 2nd St -Garden.

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

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440 S Broad St OPEN FRI SAT,SUN 12-5PM or by Appointment Only One 1BR left and a select few of 2BR’s and 2BR’s with Den. 95% Sold.

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229 Chestnut St #3 Modern, Large 1 Bedroom Condo Featuring an open floor plan, 10Ft ceilings, lots of light $275,000 6-10 S Strawberry St #4 Awesome 2BR/2BA condo in historic old city visit http://www.6-10sstrawberry.com for pictures and details $369,900 317-319 Vine St #403 Spacious 2BR/2BA condo with parking and outdoor space, Come live in York Square OPEN HOUSE $499,900 108 Arch St #901 3BR/3.5BA, Very High End finishes, parking, terrace and sweeping river and bridge views in a doorman building $1,299,900 SOCIETY HILL / WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST 250 S 13th St #7A Sunny 1 BR/1BA condo with High ceilings, large rooms, eat In kitchen and custom closets OPEN HOUSE $249,000 250 S 13th St #4F 1BR/1BA Condo with Hi Ceilings, Hardwood Floors, Large closet and great light OPEN HOUSE $267,900 1111 Locust St #2G High Ceilings, Huge Kitchen, Large Living space, Parking available $379,999 OPEN HOUSE Every Thursday 5-6:00PM 250 S 13th St 11D Spacious 2BR/2BA with living room, Dining room, Newly renovated kitchen, lots of light and high ceilings OPEN HOUSE $405,000 220 Locust St 6B-C 3BR/3BA, 17 Windows River Views over 2000 Sq Ft $859,000 105 Pine St Contemporary, spacious Society Hill Townhome, Newly redone master Suite with Garage $949,000 1111 Locust St #10F Corner Penthouse Views of River, Maple flooring, 2 terraces, tall windows $999,999 OPEN HOUSE Every Thursday 5-6:00PM 507 S Philip St 4BR/3.5BA, garage, 4 stories, elevator, 3 decks $1,090,000 520 Delancey St Rarely offered Stately wide Mansion on one of the most coveted blocks in town 3200 Sq Ft with 3 Bedrooms 1,349,000 QUEEN VILLAGE/ BELLA VISTA / GRADUATE HOSPITAL / SOUTH PHILA. 2101 Kimball St #1 Modern 2BR Condo featuring a mix of clean materials and high efficiency systems $215,000 2232 Pemberton St 2BR/1BA, Freshly painted, Seperate DR and Open Kitchen, Large backyard, More info at www.2232pembertonst.com $315,000 735 Montrose St Charming 3BR Featuring Large rear Patio on one the best blocks $309,900 613 S 26thSt Spacious 3BR/1BA home offering great layout, Large Kitchen, C/A & Patio $344,900 935 E Moyamensing REDUCED! A Queen village Gem $350,000 719 S 15th St Traditional Style and the latest fixtures come together in this striking Graduate Hospital rehab $369,000 825 Fitzwater St 2BR/1.5BA home with Deck and Garage $429,900 1018 S 19th St Gorgeous, Bright, 3 Story, Pristine 3BR/3.5BA plus 1 Car garage, finished basement, Large Kitch, S/S , granite, Roof Top Deck, 8 yrs tax abate, Home Warranty OPEN HOUSE $475,000 754 S 15th St This 3BR/3.5BA Graduate Hospital Rehab is the right blend of elegance and sophistication $600,000 235 Catharine St 5BR/4.5BA with 2 Car Parking, 3800 Sq Ft of Living space, Expanded and Renovated in 2007, Rear Zen Garden OPEN HOUSE $785,000 760 S 2nd St 4BR/3.5BA, 2 Car Parking, Terrace, Roof deck, 2 fireplaces, HW Floors, Custom details and built-ins $819,900 NORTHERN LIBERTIES / NORTH PHILADELPHIA PHILADELPHIA

1219 Randolph St 1F Updated 2BR/2BA condo with Hardwood floors, C/A, finished basement & Flagstone Patio $209,900 206-8 Brown St #4 Fantastic Condo in the Heart of Northern Liberties $225,000 OPEN HOUSE Saturday 7/21 from 12-1:30PM 930 Randolph St 3BR/4BA C/A, S/S Kitchen, Green Outdoor Space, New paint & Carpet $339,900 UNIVERSITY CITY / WEST PHILADELPHIA

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612 N Pallas St Newly renovated 4BR/2BA house with fenced in rear yard 4201-15 Lancaster Ave The entire triangular lot at 42nd St Lancaster Ave and Brown St 7 Lots Zoned C2 over 8000 Sq Ft 4343 Sansom St Gorgeous well-maintained University City Home 4702 Springfield Ave Beautiful Queen Anne Victorian , Center hall Much original detail, C/A, Garden 518 S 46th St 5BR/3.5BA Pristine twin w/in law suite on corner of Catchment Area two most blocks

$69,900 $299,000 $399,000 $438,500 $539,900

West Phila – 1330 N Hobart Investment Opportunity REDUCED

$18,900

Fishtown – 2231 Coral St Vacant Lot

$26,000

West Phila – 5839 Christian St 3BR/1BA, Calling all Investors: Renovation opportunity on a great Cobbs Creek block

$26,000

West Phila – 5709 Malcolm St Investment Opportunity and short Sale Reduced

$27,000

West Phila – 926 N Fallon St 4BR/1BA Not a Short Sale, Not Bank-Owned – A nice home in move in condition

$37,900

Kensington – 2810 D St Investment Opportunity! Huge 3 Story Commercial property for Sale

$34,900

West Phila – 5228 Pentridge Investment-Short Sale

$39,900

Olney – 5252 N 10th St Investment Opportunity

$40,000

West Phila – 5842 Windsor Investment Property

$45,000

Germantown – 5239 McKean Ave Spacious 5BR2BA home with 2 Car garage in need of your finishing touches

$59,000

West Phila – 1455 N Edgewood St 3BR/1BA, completely move-in ready home. Stop Paying your Landlord’s Mortgage!

$65,000

Southwest Phila – 2644 S 67th St Great Sized 2BR/1BA home on quiet block

$66,000

Fishtown – 2517 Emerald St Solid Fishtown home is a perfect starter home or for investor

$75,000

Point Breeze – 1227 S 17th St REDUCED! Point Breeze Duplex, Great Investment opportunity

$79,000

Point Breeze – 1328 S 24th St 4BR/1BA porch front home on Wharton Sq Park Perfect for first home or turnkey rental

$97,500

Old Kensington – 2043 N 3rd St Huge! 3Story home has 5BR/2BA well kept by tenants

$109,900

South Brook Park – 2630 McKean St 3BR/1BA C/A, Garage, hi Ceilings, Basement, Deck and Open Kitchen

$134,500

Overbrook Park - 1709 West End Dr 3BR home with 1 full & 2 half baths in Overbrook Park

$134,900

Fishtown – 3138 Unruh Ave 3BR/1.5BA home with Garage and drive parking

$156,000

Fishtown - 5423-25 Walnut St Great Potential!! Big single family, sold together with Auto repair Shop next door

$159,900

Cobbs Creek – 6230 Carpenter St A Fabulous, Spacious home in the Cobbs Creek area

$219,000

Fishtown – 528 E Thompson St Contemporary 3BR/1.5BA featuring hardwood floors, recesses lighting, modern kitchen and rear patio

$234,900

Fishtown – 1301 N Front St #F 2BR/2BA at Thompson St Lofts, Orig ironwork, 20Ft Ceiling, Gas Fireplace, Double Skylights

$259,000

Penns Landing – 3 N Columbus Blvd#TD442 2BR/2BA South facing condo with amazing river views and parking at amenity rich Pier 3

$250,000

West Mt Airy – 401 Wellesley Rd Gorgeous Custom 3BR home in Mt Airy with Garage and Man Cave

$299,999

Fishtown - 1362 Columbia Ave Brand New Rehab 3BR/2.5BA in popular Fishtown

$324,000

Manayunk/Roxborough – 336 Leverington Ave New Construction,3BR.2BA, 2 Car Parking, Decks, 10 yr Tax Abatement

$339,000

Fishtown – 1247-51 E Columbia St #8 Leed Certified, 2yr old 2BR/1.5BA condo with parking roof deck and balcony

$375,000

Gwynmere – 125 Runnymede Drive Beautiful 4BR/2.5BA single home in Lansdale. Full finished basement, Large back Deck

OPEN HOUSE $375,000

West Mt Airy – 612 Cliveden St Just Move In! 7BR/4BA, Garden and off street parking

OPEN HOUSE $534,900

Chestnut Hill – 20 W Bells Mill Rd Historic 1891 Queen Anne jewel filled with modern comforts in private 1/2 Acre

$725,000

Fishtown – 2666-72 Coral St Pub with 3 apartments, up to 20 Car parking lot

$799,900

Fishtown – 1329-35 E Montgomery Ave Amazing Mid-Century 4BR home with Open floor plan & Upgrades + 4 Car Garage and large backyard $875,000

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