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Cover IMAGe CoUrTeSY oF LITTLe BABY’S ICe CreAM 1500 Sansom St., Third Floor Philadelphia. 215.563.7400 Classified Advertising: 215.563.1234 Classified Fax: 215.563.6799 Editor in Chief Stephen H. Segal Senior Editor Nina Hoffmann Managing Editor Anastasia Barbalios Arts & Culture Editor Sheena Lester Senior Writer Tara Murtha Staff Writer Michael Alan Goldberg Art Director Drew Phillips Listings Nicole Finkbiner Contributing Writers Jeffrey Barg, Leah Blewett, Sean Burns, Bill Chenevert, Brian Freedman, Aaron Kase, Craig D. Lindsey, Randy LoBasso, Brian McManus, Cristina Perachio, Matt Prigge, J. Cooper Robb, Katherine Rochester, Katherine Silkaitis Contributing Photographers Jeff Fusco, Felicia Perretti, J.R. Blackwell, Karissa Olsen, Ashley Catharine Smith Editorial Interns Olivia Hutchinson, Fiona Lockyer, Marissa Marzano, Caroline Newton, Bill Morse, Ning Shao Advertising Director Amy Stoller (ext. 144) Retail Account Executives Ray Cross (ext. 164), Isaac Friese (ext.

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PhillyNoW 6 Fracking Unbelievable Did you know natural-gas drilling is to blame for Satanism?

cAleNDAr 12 PW ’s Picks for the Week Ghostface Killah, 2nd Street Festival, Magic Burlesque and more to see and do around town.

stAge 16 GayFest Back for 2012 This year’s expanded lineup ranges from a Laramie sequel to transgendered comedy.

cUltUre & FooD 18 Phreak N’ Queer A four-day celebration of LGBT culture.

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screeN 22 Sparks Misfires An attempt to skewer the “Manic Pixie Dream Girl” phenomenon goes very wrong.

24 BlackStar Film Festival Goes Global Philadelphia’s first black movie fest since 2007 wants you on board.

MUsic 26 Aesop’s New Fables After a five-year break, the emcee returns with an enigmatic new LP.

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Little Baby’s is a new kind of Philly dessert company—one that makes subversive art at the same time it’s making ice cream.

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ydraulic fracturing, or “fracking”—the process of pumping water and chemicals into the ground at a pressurized rate exceeding what bedrock can withstand to harvest sweet, sweet natural gas—was an inevitability in Pennsylvania. There’s big money in this new kind of drilling; both candidates for governor in 2010 were eager to welcome the gas companies with open arms. Environmentalists, of course, have a pesky tendency to ask how such things might be impacting the whole ecosystem in the long term, not just the economy in the short term—and, indeed, they’ve suggested that fracking may contaminate our water supply. After the controversial documentary Gasland brought information about fracking to the mass consciousness, the process has subsequently found itself at the heart of several scientific mysteries and conspiracy theories you may not have heard of. And, damn, if any of these are true, we’re all in grave danger. Grave!

1. Maybe Fracking Caused Mass Bird Deaths…

In 2011, birds across the country randomly began falling out of the sky.

Most of those incidents occurred in Arkansas and Louisiana, near fracking sites in the Bible Belt. People inevitably blamed God’s wrath (and President Obama) for the oddity. Local authorities, meanwhile, claimed the deaths were totally normal, despite the fact that scientists couldn’t explain why.

But what science often lacks, the Internet provides. Message boards at AboveTopSecret.com claim there’s a direct link between the birds and fracking: Drilling could’ve caused a methane leak. And that gas could’ve drifted up into the atmosphere. Then, lightning hits the toxic gas cloud at the exact time a flock of birds is going by and BOOM!—a mess of dead birds fall to the earth.

2. …and Fish Deaths...

In 2009, as many as 65,000 dead fish washed up along Dunkard Creek, which runs through both West

Virginia and Southwestern Pennsylvania, near a hydraulic fracturing site. According to a report in the Earth Island Journal, “Many of the fish were bleeding from the gills.” It was one of the worst disasters in the region’s history.

But like the bird deaths, there was no smoking gun. Nothing could explain the deaths, which included other water creatures like salamanders and insects.

Recent fracking in the area was called the likely culprit—along with coal-mine acid drainage in the region, and other earthharvesting activities.

United States. That number jumped to 50 in 2009, 87 in 2010 and 134 in 2011. And what could be to blame for this? Fracking! The Ohio Department of Natural Resources recently said fracking was likely to blame for 12 earthquakes that hit the region and placed a moratorium on six Youngstown, Ohio, wells. But hey, no worries—Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior David Hayes said most earthquakes in the U.S. have been “fairly small” as of late—like the one that shook your office last summer.

3. …and Human Illness...

Late anti-fracking activist Carl Stiles of Bradford County, Pa., died earlier this year after living with illnesses he believed were brought on by shale gas drilling near his home. Stiles, who had intestinal cancer, abandoned his property last year after a toxicologist found barium, arsenic and other volatile organic chemicals in his blood. The radioactivity in his home was nearly seven times the EPA standard limit. And still, no one can say for sure if hydraulic fracturing chemicals were the cause of Stiles’ death.

Additionally, Stacey Haney, of Washington County, Pa., watched her dog, her neighbor’s dog and their family’s pet goat die after leasing out some of their land to drillers, according to news reports. Her son was hospitalized twice with mouth ulcers and other complications. All tested positive for arsenic.

5. ...and STDs...

Last summer, Rep. Mike Sturla (D-Lancaster) took the whole “drilling” thing way too euphemistically when he claimed out-of-state natural-gas workers were coming into Pennsylvania and “spreading sexually transmitted disease amongst the womenfolk.” Specifically, Sturla pointed to a Troy Community Hospital study that noted “an increase in sexually transmitted diseases” and “drug use and specifically ‘bath salts’” near fracking sites. When Sturla’s comments were called “hate speech” by Republicans, he hastened to make clear that he doesn’t think of our fine Pennsylvania women as “womenfolk”—he just figured those carpetbagging drillers do.

4. …and Earthquakes...

Fracking is in itself sort of like a small earthquake done at an incredibly controlled pace. It’d make sense, then, that messing with underground bedrock might lead the earth to do a little jiggling.

Researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey noted for the last three decades, until 2000, “seismic events” averaged 21 a year in the

6. …and, of Course, Satanism If even one of the above conspiracies is true, it’d seem weird that Harrisburg is ignoring them. Could something more sinister be at play? According to user Frack You! on another fracking forum, the answer is a resounding yes.

“I started thinking,” the user writes, “who really knows what the real purpose of these ‘deep well injection programs’ really is? They are boring down into the Earth and making earthquakes and flammable water—how do we know that this isn’t some sort of deep-Earth Satanic ritual?”

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Little Baby’s Ice Cream doesn’t want you to just eat dessert. Little Baby’s wants you to experience it.

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ete Angevine, Jeffrey Ziga and Martin Brown, the three co-founders of Little Baby’s Ice Cream, picked a hell of a day to unveil their new business. May 21, 2011: Judgment Day, according to an attentiongrabbing Christian end-times cult, wherein the entire planet, Philadelphia not excluded, would be consumed by earthquakes, rivers of fire and various other unpleasantries.

But doomsday be damned, it was also the annual Trenton Avenue Arts Festival, featuring the ever-popular Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby. And Little Baby’s Ice Cream was pedaling its own odd contraption through the streets to the revelry: a large, custom-made, blue-andwhite

tricycle covered in flashing lights, bearing a freezer box packed with tubs of bizarre ice cream flavors—Earl Grey Sriracha, Peanut Butter Maple Tarragon and Balsamic Banana among them—and blaring something like traditional music-box ice cream melodies, only reconfigured into trippy ambient soundscapes. Like Mr. Softee meets Brian Eno. Between the tricked-out trike (dubbed “Flavor Blaster One”), their ice cream-making equipment and some rented kitchen space, the trio had sunk seven months of planning and $14,000 — most of their collective savings—into the venture, and they were mad nervous. Would their dessert experiment be a hit, or would it crash and burn?

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As it turned out, the people went apeshit.

Little Baby’s sold out of all its flavors lickety split. The apocalypse never happened.

“We saved the world—” says Angevine.

“—with ice cream!” finishes Ziga.

Since then, Little Baby’s has increased its fleet to four tricycles that appear regularly at Morgan’s Pier and the Garden Variety weekend market in Northern Liberties, plus block parties, street festivals, outdoor concerts, private corporate luncheons, the Punk Rock Flea Market and other events.

Last Friday, at the Philadelphia Mobile Food Association’s pop-up food truck roundup in Brewerytown, Little Baby’s boasted double the line of any other vendor, and when they ran out of ice cream, a man came up to Angevine and begged to lick the tubs clean.

(Angevine politely refused.)

They’ve also established a popular kiosk inside Union Transfer, and they sell pints of their concoctions at such area stores as The Foodery, Green Aisle Grocery and Mariposa Food Co-op. They’ve got a staff of 14 parttimers. And on Friday, they’ll throw open the doors of Little Baby’s Ice Cream World Headquarters—their new shop at 2311 Frankford Ave. in East Kensington, which is attached to the forthcoming Pizza Brain pizzeria and museum.

In just a year, the upstart company has already become the most exciting development in ice cream in a city known for a couple of centuries as the “ice cream capital of the world.”

Not bad for three guys with zero culinary or business experience before all of this.

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Prior to birthing Little Baby’s, the three founders were fixtures in the local music scene. Angevine, 28, played drums with the noisecore outfit Satanized and Philly/N.Y.C. dance-punks the Flesh. Ziga, 30, has drummed for power-punks Armalite and

the post-hardcore band Gods and Queens.

And Brown’s a trumpeter lauded in avant-jazz circles who’s also played with the Man Man offshoot ensemble Whales and Cops.

The idea for the company started off as a joke between Angevine and Ziga, who first met at a rock ‘n’ roll summer camp a decade ago. In 2009, says Ziga, the pair were throwing around ridiculous ideas, “like starting a band that does Christmas arrangements of Yes songs,” when Ziga suggested they open an ice cream parlor. “I thought he was an insane person,” laughs Angevine.

But the seed was planted. Angevine started making ice cream at home, and was soon inspired to try some crazy flavor combos in the summer of 2010 after a trip to the celebrated Humphry Slocombe ice cream parlor in San Francisco, where flavors like prosciutto, foie gras and “Secret Breakfast” (toasted cornflakes and bourbon) are on the menu. One of Angevine’s own favorite early inventions: Zayda’s Spicy Chinese Mustard ice cream.

“I came to recognize that ice cream is a blank canvas,” he says, “and you can just let your imagination go wild.”

Around the same time, Angevine discovered that Brown, another long-time friend, was also making ice cream at home, though he was perfecting more traditional flavors, like Rocky Road. In November of 2010, the three got together at Angevine’s kitchen table and decided to start up Little Baby’s as “a hobby, a fun thing to do on weekends,” with taste buds pointed toward the experimental rather than the classic flavors. (“We are not going to make better chocolate ice cream than HäagenDazs,” Angevine notes, “so what’s the point?”)

Brown enrolled in Penn State’s worldrenowned, week-long Ice Cream Short Course; Ben & Jerry’s founders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield are among its many notable graduates. In the hours between their regular jobs—Angevine did administrative work at the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, Brown did similar work at the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, and Ziga worked for concert promoter Sean Agnew’s R5 Productions— the trio refined their ice cream-making skills and flavor development at a commissary on North Broad St., where they hand-crafted all of their product (production now occurs in the kitchen of their new Frankford Avenue shop). Following their successful debut at the Trenton Avenue Fest, they began treating the company like it was a band.

“That was the frame of reference we had,” Ziga explains. “We were booking ourselves [at events], there’s the gear we’re bringing, you basically have to perform, and you hope there’s enough people there to make it worthwhile.”

Worthwhile it was. Weekend business was so profitable that the three quit their jobs at the end of last year (and have largely stopped playing music as well) to make Little Baby’s their full-time endeavor. Though they all consider themselves hardwired for risk-taking, two of the three founders have endured neardeath experiences that reinforced the idea of

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pursuing a promising opportunity: In 2007, Angevine underwent a liver transplant after acute liver failure put him in a coma for a week. And last November, Gods and Queens were touring Europe when their tour van crashed—Ziga shattered his collarbone and bruised some ribs, and he still can’t believe none of them were killed. “Life is short,” says Ziga, “so I’m just gonna make ice cream.”

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“It’s still kinda funny I’m doing this considering how not-food-world I am,” says Angevine.

“None of us are.”

That’s fairly hard to believe when you taste Little Baby’s ice cream. It’s exceptionally rich and velvety, owing to the 16-percent butterfat content that allows the stuff to be marketed as “super-premium.” The complex flavors are balanced perfectly, whether it’s the delicate, citrusy bergamot getting a nice-but-not-toopotent slap of sriracha, or the way the slightly bitter, anise-like tarragon downshifts the sweetness of the maple syrup/peanut butter union.

“It would be irresponsible not to make something delicious,” Ziga laughs.

Appropriately enough, Little Baby’s makes what’s known throughout the business as “Philadelphia-style ice cream,” referring to the combination of milk, cream, sugar and flavorings. (“French-style” or “custard-style” involves egg yolks.) The company gets its dairy from Trickling Springs Creamery in Chambersburg, Pa.—which touts its “happy cows” and low-temperature pasteurization method for tastier product—and uses organic, locally sourced ingredients for flavoring. They also make several nondairy (vegan) flavors using coconut or almond milk as the base, and they’re as rich and robust as their animalfatted counterparts.

It’s masterfully crafted stuff. But during their early trial-and-error stage last year, Angevine admits, there were a few misfires. Like, say, Champagne-and-Lucky-Charms ice cream.

“It was disgusting,” he says.

“It was way funnier on paper,” Ziga admits.

And then there was Duck Sauce Vanilla.

“It tasted awesome, but the duck sauce

Little Baby’s cofounder Pete Angevine mans one of the company’s tricycles at an event in Brewerytown.

has a weird consistency so it was kinda like eehhhhaaahhhhhh,” says Ziga. “Something like that, you gotta deconstruct the duck sauce, which is basically preserved apricots and vinegar, so maybe we’ll try that again someday.”

Little Baby’s has 21 flavors in the rotation now, from out-there concoctions like Hawaiian Pizza (which includes candied pancetta and pineapple), Vanilla Molasses Goldenberg’s Original Dark Peanut Chews and Strawberry Pinkpeppercorn to the almost-normal Coconut Chai, Bourbon Bourbon Vanilla and Birch Beer Vanilla Bean.

Out on the streets, they’ve seen the same scenario play out thousands of times. “People look at some of the flavors and they’re like, ‘Ewww, that sounds nasty!’ says Angevine.

“And then they try it and they’re like, ‘Whoa, this is pretty good’—tellin’ us like we didn’t know.”

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“Ice cream is a blank canvas—you can let your imagination go wild.”

—Pete Angevine, Little Baby’s Ice Cream

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Making weirdly delectable (or, perhaps, delectably weird) ice cream is just part of the fun for Little Baby’s—the endeavor’s as much conceptual art project as dessert option.

The tricycles are just the beginning, though it’s worth noting that Angevine and Philly musician Jon Guez spent much time creating the “Music for Ice Cream” trike tunes by tweaking an old-fashioned music box from an old ice cream truck, then feeding it into a generative computer program to twist the melodies into ever-changing sonic shapes.

It’s an example of the guiding principle behind everything Little Baby’s does. “It’s something that kind of appears to be very familiar and recognizable and maybe even nostalgic—like, ‘I know this, I know what that sound means, it means ice cream’—yet it’s just wrong somehow,” Angevine explains.

Likewise, their new World Headquarters— designed with help from artist Jason Hsu of Space 1026—is intended to be a little disorienting. The garish colors, clashing patterns (zigzags are big here) and oblong shapes are inspired by two sources: the Memphis Group—a collective of Italian designers and architects active in the ‘80s whose aesthetic has been described as “a shotgun wedding between Bauhaus and Fisher-Price”—and Pee-wee’s Playhouse.

And then there’s the disturbing and hilarious Little Baby’s promotional video on YouTube, in which an androgynous being— part human, part living ice cream—sits in a cone with a creepy smile while holding and ogling a cone in which a smaller version of itself sits smiling and ogling a smaller version of itself sitting in a cone, and so on ad infinitum in a recursive loop, while the deep voiceover

implores, “If you want to lick something, lick us.” (As seen on PW’s front cover.)

“We love the absurd,” Angevine says. Ziga explains that the trio is heavily influenced by the Situationist, Dada, détournement and culture-jamming art movements of the 20th century that engaged in pranks and spectacles and subverted common experiences as social or political statements, or simply to make life interesting. “I fully well admit that I have problems with the status quo,” says Ziga, “so that’s part of what I bring to any table I’m sitting at.”

And so they’re dreaming up more weirdness. Guerilla projections around town. A Rube Goldberg-style change dispenser on the World HQ ceiling. (“A completely inefficient system that takes two minutes to give you your change, but how fun is that?”) Even a vending machine that’s actually a “crane game” where you put your dollar in and try to get an ice cream sandwich—“and maybe you won’t get it!” Ziga says, cracking up.

“It disrupts the everyday,” says Angevine, “and that’s what we’re after.”

It’s A Feeling

“It’s a feeling”—that’s the Little Baby’s slogan.

On one level, it refers to ice cream’s universal appeal. “It’s an emotional experience that just about everybody can relate to,” Angevine says.

But on another level, it’s about creating a new feeling in people, one they might normally be reluctant to open themselves up to, and that’s what the weird flavors and visuals and sounds and stunts are all about. For Little Baby’s, ice cream is not only the blank canvas to add any flavor you can dream up, it’s also the delivery system for the philosophy that lots of great, exciting things exist in the world if you’re willing to step outside the box.

“Ice cream’s a comfortable vessel in that it’s something you’re familiar with, but really this is a front to give you a new way of looking at life,” Angevine says. “Ice cream brings people together and makes them happy—there’s no arguing that—but I think we found this cool way to do that and still slip in something that messes with people’s expectations and gives them this new, weird, memorable experience.”

“Obviously someone’s not gonna be transformed after eating an ice cream cone from our shop—I don’t think,” says Ziga. “But maybe it’ll nudge people in an interesting direction, where they’ll be more open to trying things out of their comfort zone.”

“The best way to explain the ‘feeling’ is it’s this sensation of being confused and grateful at the same time,” Angevine concludes. “It’s just like my experience making and listening to music, where it’s bizarre and you have no frame of reference and you’re like, ‘I don’t know what’s going on here, but I love it!!’

That’s the best feeling. I want that to happen in your mouth.” n The new Little Baby’s Ice Cream parlor opens Fri., Aug. 3, 5pm. 2311 Frankford Ave. littlebabysicecream.com

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Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre completes its triptych of no-charge Bard performances with the staging of Cymbeline. One of Shakespeare’s most hypnotic and compelling works, the play is neither a comedy nor a tragedy. Director David O’Conner takes an appropriately imaginative approach to the unique and surprisingly contemporary tale of romance and identity reclaimed; the director’s productions are known for their intimacy and immediacy. Starring nine students from the company’s Classical Acting Academy, the spare staging has the actors playing a variety of musical instruments. Combining Shakespeare’s lyrics with an original score by actor Pat Lamborn (who is also a professional jazz bass player), O’Conner says the music is intended to “support and sometimes enchant the scenes.” J. coopEr roBB 7pm. Free. Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre, 2111 Sansom St. phillyshakespeare.org

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In the face of destruction, murder, widespread injustice, illness and poverty, sometimes the only way to deal is through laughter and sarcastic comments. Well, that, and creating art worthy of a show that culminates with a rock concert. Laughing in the Face Of … is a one-night exhibit of humorous and absurd artwork embracing contentious themes by 10 local and regional artists and three bands.

After the exhibit, the show will move online with video, a photo tour and artist links.

Beyond the paintings, prints and illustrations, the show features performance art, video, Seth Gutierrez’ symbolic credit-card cake and Jeremiah Johnson’s snarky “Dream Homes,” made from unopened credit card applications.

At 9 p.m., the lights dim for M.T. Bearington’s songs about the impending apocalypse, Cymbals Eat Guitars’ indie rock and the Heavy Sweater Band’s charming folk pop.

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Beloved Philly playwright, actor and storyteller Eric R. Thomas questions the meaning of marriage with his signature blend of humor and heartbreak. Page 14

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System of a Down There are two rules in life that will remain unchanged and wholly true throughout time.

Number one, of course, is “He who smelt it,

dealt it.” The second: Whenever you hear System of a Down’s blisteringly goofy hit “Chop Suey,” you have to drop whatever it is you’re doing and sing along at top volume. WAKE UP! Even after all these years, those first words of their 2001 smash go off like a starting gun, and the rest is an all-out sprint of grooves, stops, starts and soaring operatic vocals by Serj Tankian. You are helpless in the face of its power. That SOAD’s songs got under the skin and infected listeners with bouts of sing-a-long and a hefty dose of politics is what set this Armenian four-piece apart from the middling backwater Nu Metal tools that crowded the late-’90s/early-aughts landscape. It’s why they’re still memorable today. And why you had no choice but to sing along, whether you wanted to or not. Brian McManus 8pm. $29.50-$65. Susquehanna Bank Center, 1 Harbour Blvd., Camden, N.J. livenation.com

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Ghostface Killah It’s officially been 20 years since the Wu-Tang Clan came on the scene, a ruckus-bringing order of New York MCs who, along with Jay-Z, Nas and the Notorious B.I.G., re-energized East Coast hip-hop in the ’90s. There’s a good chance the remaining living Clan members (pour out some liquor for ODB, of course) may drop some new music sometime this year to commemorate this anniversary. At this point, we’d be happy if Ghostface dropped some new ish on us. Perhaps the most acclaimed of the Wu-Tangers (remember all the critical praise he got when Fishscale dropped in ’06?), Ghost hasn’t released an album of new material since Apollo Kids in 2010. We hear his 10th album, the oft-delayed Supreme Clientele Presents …

Blue & Cream: The Wally Era, is slated for an early 2013 release. To make sure this happens, somebody should get Natalie Portman to say in an interview that she needs more “dirty rap” in her life. Remember how Ghostface ran with that and came up with some of his rawest music for 2009’s Ghostdini: Wizard of Poetry in Emerald City album? Hey, every good artist needs a facilitating muse. craiG D. LinDsEY 9pm. $25-$27. With Sheek Louch, Saigon, Jawnzap7 + B.A.R.S. Murre. The Trocadero, 1003 Arch St. thetroc.com

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Nunn and Alex Grubard. Special guests include the Lucas Brothers, who’ve appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and Michael Che from John Oliver’s New York Stand-Up Show. Wear your best black, and bring your cloves. abigail bRuley 7:30-11pm. $10. Underground Arts, 1200 Callowhill St. undergroundarts.org

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Miniature Tigers Miniature Tigers was an indie-buzz band back when the global economic meltdown was just getting going, earning now-anachronistic plaudits like being one of Rolling Stone’s Best MySpace Bands of 2006. By 2010, the band had moved to Brooklyn (from Arizona), taken up with the Morning Benders and Neon Indian and begun to experiment with a shinier, sleeker, synthier sound. “Gold Skull,” produced by Neon Indian, led the way toward a gleaming, home-disco style. Mia Pharoah took it even further, mimicking Prince’s clean sound and dirty lyrics in cuts like “Sex on the Regular” and “Female Doctor.” They’re not mini; they’re major. JenniFeR kelly 7pm. $10-$12. With Strange Seasons + Team Spirit.

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high as ever. But if any of that genre’s bands deserve a serious second run, it’s these virile ska-core kings, whose combination of chunky hooks, perceptive lyrics and sensible grit—not to mention Dicky Barrett’s guttural crooncroak—still hold up. Live from the Middle East, their 1998 album recorded at the venue of that name in the outfit’s hometown of Boston, captured the Bosstones as their crowdriling, sweat-generating best, and if the group can muster up a third of that vim today, this show promises anarchy of the most blissful sort. Reyan ali 7pm. $27.50-$30. The Trocadero, 1003 Arch St. thetroc.com

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PhillyBloco Party Take a little samba, mix it with some funk and sprinkle on some reggae, and you get a worldmusic cocktail that aims to get your bon-bon shaking all night. PhillyBloco is promising earth-shaking rhythms, boundless energy and serious fun in the form of Brazilian carnival music at their upcoming dance party at World Cafe Life. The group will feature 12 drummers (!) a horn section, an accordion, electric and bass guitar as well as Brazilian dancers on stage, all to bring the blocos of Rio de Janeiro to University City. Lace up your dancing shoes and make sure you stretch before you join in— one of the testimonials on their website says a woman needed a hip replacement from all of the shaking. Fiona lockyeR 9pm. $14. World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St. 215.222.1400. worldcafelive.com

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Tonight, your whole family will be talking dirty. As part of a series of workshops related to farming and gardening, the Penn State Extension Master Gardeners is presenting discussions at the new University City compost facility, the Dirt Factory. Beginning with the “Urban Soils” workshop, you can learn about the composition of city dirt and how to perform a proper soil test. Next up, Loretta DeMarco leads “Let’s Talk Tools,” a discussion about the best equipment to satisfy your green thumb. All Dirt Factory events in this series are free to the public and will also feature special raffles and giveaways. aSHley kole

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Barring any unforeseen occurrences, no period will ever be as fruitful for the Mighty Mighty Bosstones as the 1990s. With soundtrack spots on Clueless and Friends, ’97’s “Let’s Face It” and “The Impression That I Get” making marks on the Billboard charts, and ska’s mainstream prosperity in the decade’s latter half, the Bosstones rode as

Magic Burlesque Tonight, Anthony Salazar will mesmerize you with magic while burlesque beauties blow your mind with their bump and grind. Magic Burlesque makes the creative connection between a classic burlesque performance and a magic show, capturing the energy of vaudeville live on stage. You won’t believe your eyes as three scantily-clad performers sing and dance in a traditional burlesque routine. Salazar is an award-winning sleightof-hand illusionist, whose shows are a combination of comedy, magic and audience participation that is guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat. katelynn HaRtman 8pm and 10:30pm. $38. Grasso’s Magic Theater, 103 Callowhill St. 215.413.2917. grassosmagictheatre.com

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New Edition Over the years, veteran teen-pop/R&B group New Edition hasn’t exactly been the most

unified of crews, especially in their later years when they performed as full-grown men.

When all six members did a reunion tour after the release of their 1996 album Home Again, it soon became a common occurrence for one or more members to sit out certain shows, a result of egos clashing to the point where some had to go and regenerate. But now, as the men celebrate their 30 years in show bidness—and especially since their most notorious member, Bobby Brown, tragically lost his ex-wife Whitney Houston earlier this year—this forever-soulful sextet, the men whose slow jams fueled the soundtracks to many of our high-school dances, are now there for one another, realizing they are at their best when they’re on one accord. And since New Kids on the Block and Backstreet Boys have spent the past year on tour together, reminding everyone they’ve still got it, don’t you think it’s essential these guys show everyone who set off this boy-band ish? c.d.l.

7pm. With Salt-N-Pepa + El DeBarge. $39.75$125. The Mann Center for the Performing Arts, 52nd and Parkside Ave. 215.878.0400. manncenter.org

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2nd Street Festival The Philadelphia Folksong Society invites everyone to get out of their houses and come to their 4th annual festival, an extended block party that fills the streets with food, music, arts, crafts, workshops and, most importantly, a beer garden. This year has four music and event stages featuring musicians including Chris Kasper, Man Man, the Great Unknown and the Doublewides. Sierra Nevada, Sly Fox and Yuengling will be featured in the beer garden, and a complete list of sponsors can be found on the festival’s website. Community Energy will be providing wind power for the day so the event is carbon neutral, and a Liberty Lands Tent sponsored by Triumph Brewery will donate 100 percent of the proceeds to Northern Liberties Liberty Lands Park. bRenda HillegaS Free. Noon-10pm. N. Second Street, between Germantown Ave. and Green St. 2ndstfestival.org

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Always a Bridesmaid Following his sold-out production Overexposed: A Slightly Awkward Peep Show, local performer, playwright and six-time First Person Arts Story Slam winner R. Eric Thomas is back with a brand-new solo storytelling show.

Beginning in the pew of a black church in Baltimore and ending at an alter, the 80-minute dramedy exposes the true definition of love and marriage, questioning what it means to the gay community, as well as to the individual and God. According to Thomas, the show is about the next step, both for gay rights and

for anyone at that awkward point in life when “you stop getting invited to keggers and start getting invited to showers.” nicole FinkbineR 7pm. $15. Plays & Players Theater, 1714 Delancey Pl. 215.735.0630. quinceproductions.com

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The Internet Something overlooked by the countless media outlets who showered Frank Ocean with praise after his vague half-coming-out a few weeks ago was that—hello?—one of his very own Odd Future band members, Syd the Kyd, has been a very vocal out lesbian since the group came on the scene. Furthermore, she made it very public with the October release of her video for the woozy hit “Cocaine.” The song is from Syd’s OF side group collab with producer Mike Martian, the Internet, and the video saw her walking hand and hand and making out with another woman. It went unnoticed by the mainstream media, but since much of the maelstrom surrounding her and the Wolf Gang is born online, it was on fan sites, YouTube comments and band message boards that her sexuality was dissected, parsed and unpacked, not in magazine think pieces. And so, it seems, as L-Boy not-so-delicately put it on OF’s last album, “Syd’s gay ass” will be free to continue “putting her clit on other bitches’ nipples and shit” in relative peace. b.mc.

7:30pm. $13. With Kilo Kish. The Barbary, 951 N. Frankford Ave. 215.634.7400. r5productions.com

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Punk Rock, Mental Illness & Recovery Craig Lewis will tell you up front: He’s a punk rocker who’s been struggling with mental illness his whole life. In 1988, shortly after picking up his first copy of Maximum Rocknroll, Lewis was briefly institutionalized, kicking off two decades in which punk and emotional instability were inextricably linked. During that time, the unpredictable punk known as Crusty Craig became a fixture of the Boston scene, booking shows, publishing Upheaval (a zine covering global hardcore), and singing in numerous bands, including Weapons Grade.

Yet, the same scene that nurtured his creativity and organizational skills also encouraged his risky behavior. Fortunately, an encounter with a helpful therapist enabled Lewis to begin managing his symptoms and planning for the future. Today, he’s a certified peer specialist recognized for his ability to relate to clients and offer them practical coping skills. For this talk, Lewis is sticking to the DIY ethos, stepping in front of the mic and speaking frankly about his recovery. It’s an inspiring tale and as punk rock as you can get. Raymond Simon 7pm. Free. Wooden Shoe Books, 704 South St. 215.413.0999. woodenshoebooks.com

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hiladelphia’s LGBT community has for years been among the most enthusiastic, devoted supporters of the city’s theater companies. And although the Wilma Theater notably presented two plays focusing on gay characters this past season, the lives of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and the transgendered are only sporadically represented and explored in local productions.

This month, however, LGBT experiences take center stage at GayFest, which runs from Aug. 3 to Sept. 1 at Plays and Players Theater’s 55-seat Skinner Studio.

Produced by the 4-year-old Quince Productions and its enterprising artistic director Rich Rubin, the four-week festival includes four full mainstage productions, three staged readings of new plays exploring gay themes and what the festival is labeling eight “one-night stands” featuring a variety of artists from multiple disciplines.

Last year’s inaugural GayFest, which ran only three weeks, included three mainstage productions and one staged reading, making this year’s event considerably larger in both the number of presentations and the length.

Rubin says that the expansion is due to the overwhelming success of GayFest 2011, allowing it to better represent the diversity of the LGBT community. “With the one-night stands, the diversity of the presentation is as great as the diversity of the subject matter,” he says. “They are so different from one another, everyone is likely to find at least one show that appeals to them.”

The biggest production, in both cast size and name recognition, is the Teutonic Theater’s docu-drama The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later. The follow-up to the company’s masterpiece The Laramie Project, the sequel returns the troupe to Laramie, Wyo., the site of Matthew Shepard’s heinous murder, an act that stunned the nation. Like the original, the script is based on interviews company members did with Laramie’s residents to explore the impact the crime, and the media frenzy that followed, had on the previously tranquil town. Quince’s staging marks the play’s first full production with a Philadelphia cast.

Rubin is equally excited about the festival’s world premiere production of Mike and Seth from acclaimed New York playwright Daniel Talbot, the author of Slipping, a hit at last year’s GayFest. Commissioned by Quince specifically for the festival, the plot focuses on a gay and straight man who are lifelong friends. Described as both poignant and sexy, the play takes place in a hotel room where the buddies are holed up the night before the straight man’s wedding.

Also included among the four full productions are Holly Hughes’ outrageously funny The Well of Horniness, a lesbian take on the noir genre which follows two female private

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investigators as they attempt to solve a murder with a seemingly endless number of suspects. Rounding out the mainstage shows is The Crumple Zone, a dark comedy about three gay roommates from the imaginative playwright Buddy Thomas, who penned the sly comedy Devil Boys from Beyond, another surprise GayFest 2011 hit. The three staged readings include F.J. Hartland’s Mother Tongue, about the world’s worst standup comic, and Sarah Pappalardo’s Cold.

GayFest kicks off on Aug. 3 with Misters and Sisters, a cabaret-style show about young gay boys from the sassy N.Y.C. dance troupe The Bang Group. Other “one-night stands” include transgender standup comic Rae Drew’s unique mix of rap, poetry, trans and drag comedy LOL@Gender, Daniel Student’s provocatively titled The Daniel Student Gay Porn Viewing Party and Josh Hitchens’ original one-man show Guilty but Insane: A Confessional Monologue.

GayFest isn’t the only spot to find theater this month that looks at the world from a LGBT perspective. A few blocks away, Philadelphia’s leading gay theater crew Mauckingbird Theatre Company is staging a production of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing from a queer perspective.

Unlike Mauckingbird, however, not all of Quince Productions’ shows each season include a LGBT theme, and Rubin hopes that GayFest will attract heterosexual theatergoers as well. “The main goals for GayFest,” he says, “are to present as wide a spectrum of GLBT theater and as much new theater as possible to the widest possible range of audiences.” n Aug. 3-Sept. 1. $5-$25. Plays and Players Theater, Skinner Studio, 1714 Delancey St. 215.627.1088. quinceproductions.org

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“Ultimately, this festival is about celebrating DIY, underground and marginalized artists who are constantly pushing their medium forward,” says local DJ and LGBTQ adolescence specialist Kate Gormley, an organizer of the event and one of the dozen or so volunteers who’s working to pull this shindig together.

Organizers harnessed the buzz accompanying last summer’s inaugural event as they planned this year’s blowout. Consequently, PnQ 2.0 looks to be more fabulous than the first. “This year’s festival will be bigger, better and gayer than last year,” Gormley promises.

A major improvement from last year is the inclusion of more allages programming and alcohol-free events, like Super Phreak, an opening night exhibit of queer artists, and Saturday afternoon’s Family Day at Liberty Lands Park, held in conjunction with Raices Latino Pride.

Leave the kiddies at home for the rest of the fest, though. Friday night’s queer sock hop, Hot Rods and Mustang Sally, features a drag and burlesque extravaganza for girls who are boys who like boys to be girls.

Mixtress of Ceremonies, the Notorious OMG, will keep the party going, but the real fun comes courtesy of the performers: curvy cutie Miss Mary Wanna and smooth-talking stud Rough RydeHer, also known as this year’s Mr. Gay Pride.

The phreaks will be out on Saturday for Homo Rama, a mash-up of pop punk and dance grooves. The roster includes the Shondes, who combine the Shangri-Las and the Ramones, and homegrown rappers Sgt. Sass. “We like mixing punk, electro, and hip-hop together for a high-energy night,” says PnQ organizer Sara Sherr, who is also a member of local comedy drag troupe

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Queer electro diva Nicky Click will also bring her eclectic catalog to Homo Rama before embarking on a national tour. Fond of wigs and wedding gowns, Click promises an unforgettable show: “Let me tell you, I am not traveling all day from New Hampshire to not entertain the audience to the maximum. When I hit the stage, I am the No. 1 diva on earth and love myself to the fullest and want to share self-indulgence and command attention and do this in a loving, funny, satirical way.”

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ad my brilliant colleague Nathan Rabin only thought to copyright the phrase “Manic Pixie Dream Girl,” he’d probably be a billionaire by now.

The most incisive little nugget of critical shorthand since Spike Lee’s “magical Negro,” Rabin’s now-ubiquitous meme was originally coined to describe Kirsten Dunst’s character in Elizabethtown—one of those nonthreatening, vaguely sexless, endearingly quirky and whimsical cuties who has no life, desires or interests of her own and exists only as a screenwriter’s device to facilitate the dour male lead’s eventual selfactualization. (See also: Natalie Portman in Garden State or Zooey Deschanel’s career.)

The inherent artifice of the MPDG phenomenon is the subject of Ruby Sparks. Or at least it is some of the time. Penned by 28-year-old actress Zoe Kazan, the movie’s better moments question what male authors are looking for in their female characters and how writing women as mere vapid support structures is an act of cowardly denial.

Unfortunately, those stray thoughtful concepts are buried in one confused picture.

Wrapped up in confounding literary conceits that probably played great on the page, hobbled by one of the least appealing lead performances of this or maybe any year and directed with tone-deaf inconsistency at every turn, Ruby Sparks is a floundering mess.

Paul Dano stars as Calvin Weir-Fields, a hideously unpleasant young man who we are told wrote The Great American Novel when he was just a teen, but nowadays just wallows around in self-pity and writer’s block. His shrink allows him to clutch a teddy bear during therapy, and he seems to have a weird complex about his dog.

One night, Calvin falls asleep and imagines meeting Ruby Sparks (played by Kazan herself), a walking, talking index of Manic Pixie Dream Girl affectations, right down to the bangs and kooky stockings. Suddenly, he can’t stop writing about her. No, it’s not literature. It’s not even a story. He’s just writing an awful lot about some chick he wishes he knew.

And then Calvin wakes up to find Ruby Sparks making breakfast in his kitchen. Directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, who previously helmed Little Miss Sunshine, have no clear idea how to handle the screenplay’s leap into magical realism. We’re stranded for far too long in Calvin’s visually stultifying empty white apartment, and they never find a way to nail down any sort of consistent logic behind Ruby’s existence.

This is exactly the kind of gimmick that Charlie Kaufman always makes look so easy.

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All wet: Zoe Kazan (left) and Paul Dano miss the mark.

Ruby Sparks Grade: C Starring: Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan take a look at Ruby Sparks for comparison’s sake. The movie wastes enormous amounts of screen time just getting Calvin to believe that she’s not a hallucination. Stalling for so long leaves the audience space to ask way too many questions, which is always fatal when it comes to such absurdist conceits.

Eventually, we are finally allowed to leave that horrid eyesore of an apartment, as Ruby does what MPDGs do and teaches Calvin to loosen up and enjoy life. Who cares if he made her up in his head, and this is all kind of playing out like Weird Science with a library card? They’re having fun, dammit!

The movie gets more interesting, though far more unpleasant to sit through, when Ruby finally gets a life and some friends of her own. Calvin begins to resent her independence, and takes back to the typewriter to start “fixing” their relationship. Here’s where Dayton and Faris’ lack of control torpedoes the movie, pushing sickly comic concepts into heavy-duty dramatic territory with often disastrous results. We’re also stuck back in that damn Kubrickian apartment.

Dano is the biggest problem. His droopy demeanor is fine for supporting characters but intolerable in leading roles; The more Ruby Sparks reveals Calvin as a petulant, controlling adolescent, the more one wants to just make like Daniel Day-Lewis and cave in his head with a bowling pin.

There’s no shortage of great ideas submerged somewhere in the muddle of Ruby Sparks, and for such a lousy movie, it has prompted a lot of interesting conversations about what men want from women. Too bad it’s such a slog to actually sit through. n

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n the new documentary The United States of Hoodoo, Darius James, an African-American writer and expat, journeys from his home in Berlin back to the U.S. His father, a sculptor and painter interested in African spirituality, has died, and his passing inspires James to wander the country, looking for manifestations of African roots throughout the country.

He finds it everywhere: in music, in art, in dance, in food. Sometimes the connection is obvious. Sometimes the original intent has been obscured or forgotten, as is the case with African masks: created for spiritual power, now treated as mere art on museum walls. Sometimes the work has been creatively modified, as with a Seattle artist who took certain African fabrics, including soundsuits, and coopted them for dance pieces.

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As it happens, Hoodoo’s trek for African roots succinctly encapsulates the intent of the BlackStar Film Festival, a new panAfrican program in which the film will be making its U.S. premiere. The festival takes its name from the Black Star Line, the shipping line created in the early 20th century by Jamaican political leader and black nationalist Marcus Garvey to facilitate the transporting of goods throughout the global African community.

For Maori Karmael Holmes, artistic director of BlackStar, it’s not just a namecheck: Garvey’s basic hope—to unite the African diaspora, at least in a figurative sense—is the same as the festival’s curatorial and thematic backbone.

“I’m interested in global black independent cinema. What I’m not interested in is a conversation about black Hollywood,” Holmes says. “Politically, the stuff I want to see is not what would be interesting to Hollywood. They want to make money, and I want to see art.”

The inaugural BlackStar, which runs from Thursday through Sunday in venues around the city, was only supposed to be a handful of films, but Holmes says

it quickly ballooned. She didn’t accept submissions (at least this year) and found films by reading about them on blogs and/ or through the connections she’s made through school and the festival circuit, which she once rode along with her 2005 film Scene Not Heard.

True to its global bent, BlackStar boasts films from or about Jamaica, South Africa, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Hoodoo is an American/German co-production, and both countries are represented in Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years, an intimate doc on the African-American lesbian poet. Brazil is represented by the docs Chamber of Echoes, in which local Raphael Xavier covers hip-hop dance in Rio’s favelas, and Capoeira: Fly Away Beetle, on the country’s art form. Adopted ID arguably covers the most ground, with a British filmmaker following a Canadian adoptee on the hunt for her family in Haiti.

But even the American work exhibits a great diversity. “Sometimes I think what happens with people of color in the U.S. is, one person gets to win. And then everyone needs to represent that person,” says Holmes. “It’s not that you don’t want that person to win, but there are other voices. With black Hollywood, there are these assumptions about black American life. If you think about Tyler Perry, everyone’s Christian, everyone’s heterosexual, everyone’s working class.” The BlackStar seeks to prove otherwise. “It will be nice to see the diversity of black life, not only globally, but even in films from the United States.”

Soul Food Junkies, the closing night film, is an energetic and incisive documentary on Southern cooking that celebrates its history and deliciousness while stressing that it’s best consumed in moderation. Less represented on screens is the lead in the short A Lover’s Call: a devout D.C. Muslim who falls for a woman he mistakenly IDs as one of his own. And some ultra-talented Philadelphia artists get play too; among them, singers Res and Bilal are the respective centerpieces of The Res Documentary, of which a 15-minute preview will be shown (followed by a Q&A with the lady herself and the film’s director, Steve Zegans), and the short film Being Bilal.

Holmes is particularly enthusiastic about Andrew Dosonmu’s Restless City, a story of a young musician that distinguishes itself through gorgeous cinematography, for which it was feted at last year’s Sundance Film Festival. For Holmes, it’s the kind of low-budget film black

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filmmakers should make more often. “I always hate to speak for all black people, but I often think we’re not exploiting what exists,” she says. “We’re trying to do Hollywood rather than thinking, ‘I have five dollars. I’m going to make a five-dollar film.’ There’s no black mumblecore.”

But a movement of such films is swelling. That includes Restless City which, like about half of BlackStar’s wares, has already played at least near Philadelphia: It screened in Cherry Hill as part of AFFRM, a collective that releases black indies into national theater chains. Ava DuVernay, who runs AFFRM and whose I Will Follow was its first release, will be at BlackStar to screen 20 minutes from her latest, Middle of Nowhere, a drama for which she became the first AfricanAmerican woman to win Best Director at Sundance.

Holmes wanted to include another Sundance film, Terence Nance’s An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, but it was instead snatched up by the upcoming Philadelphia Film Festival, which requires premieres. She describes it as “an experimental love story” that’s only “black” because Terence is and his subjects are. “Why do black filmmakers always have to deal in blackness?” she

asks. “Why can’t we just tell beautiful stories? Wes Anderson is one of my favorite filmmakers, and sometimes I just want to ape his style and put faces of color in his scenes.”

BlackStar isn’t Philadelphia’s first specifically black film festival, but it is the first in ages. Mike Dennis, who runs the longtime screening series Reelblack Presents—and whose doc Leaked: Night at the Five Spot, on the now-defunct Black Lily and its players, will screen at BlackStar—says it’s the first of its kind since Darrell K. Henderson launched the International Black Film and Media Conference, which ran in 2006 and 2007. “Before then,” he says, “Philly was the largest city in the U.S. without its own annual African-American film festival.”

As for future iterations of BlackStar, Holmes says, “I don’t want it to get bigger.

I want it to get deeper.” But even as she seeks more money and even more visiting filmmakers, though this year features plenty, she wants to keep it small and intimate. “I’d like it to have this small boutique feeling, where you remember everyone at the festival. Where you make relationships. And you keep going.” n BlackStar Film Festival: Thurs., Aug. 2-Sun., Aug. 5. $5-$75. For venues and times, visit blackstarfest.org.

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an Francisco-based rapper Aesop Rock is on a star fleet cruiser many universes away surrounded by droids. He has been strapped to a chair, and a nine-inch needle hovers just in front of his left eye. Right before the Master Droid instructs one of his drones to plunge the needle through Aesop’s skull and into his brainstem to extract the coded government secrets contained within, a giant giraffe/turtle hybrid storms into the room, guns blazing.

Only not really.

The above is an imagined scenario attempting (poorly, perhaps) to temper your mind, prime your senses and get you into a certain headspace.

This is Aesop Rock (Birth name: Ian Mattias Bavitz) we’re talking about, so you’ll need to get nice and comfy with abstract thoughts, fantastical anecdotes and futuristic somethingor-others. There’s a lot to process in Aesop’s musical matrix. Ideas fly at you one million miles a minute. Anything can happen, and likely will.

His new album, Skelethon, is his first solo in half a decade—that’s a lifetime in hip-hop. “I guess the reason for taking my time with the solo stuff is merely that I didn’t feel like it,” says Aesop point blank over email. “There were a million things going on, and it’s been a weird five years.”

There are a few specific things that may have contributed to the weirdness Aesop alludes to: 1) Aesop’s best friend died. 2) Aesop’s longtime label, Definitive Jux, shuttered. 3) He found a new home, Rhymesayers Entertainment, the headquarters to hip-hop notables like Brother Ali, Atmosphere, MF Doom and Philly’s own Freeway. And 4) Aesop produced Skelethon himself. None of its 15 tracks bear the fingerprints of his longtime producer/collaborator Blockhead, though the two remain close.

There’s also this little nugget of a quote he gave Pitchfork in May: “I have slowly become a more and more isolated person in every facet of my life, perhaps to an unhealthy extent. I wouldn’t want to work with me.”

He seems alone on that front. In those five years, he’s produced a fulllength record for Felt (Slug & Murs), released a record with his group Hail

Mary Mallon (featuring Rob Sonic and DJ Big Wiz, with whom he’s currently touring) and recorded an album with the Moldy Peaches’ Kimya Dawson as the Uncluded.

“I pretty much stay busy with music all the time,” he says.

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And, as always with Aes, those words are a thorny labyrinth. On Skelethon, things are darker than ever. The dystopia he paints is more dystopian.

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And yet, Aesop’s style is so alien, it’s hard to hear the influence of any other artist in his own music.

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“Both Snoop Dogg and MC Joe Shmoe are one click away from you at all times now. I guess the difficulty lies in finding a way to make people click in your direction.”

“Luckily,” he continues, “I don’t own a label and never wanted to, so I just need to do my best to make quality music and leave the rest up to other people ... In many ways, my actual goals haven’t changed at all. It’s more the industry that has changed, but the industry has always been something I avoided like the plague.”

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If your wife enjoys porn, doesn’t smut-shame you for enjoying porn, and wants to check out your browser history because she finds it titillating to review your recent porn picks, then stop clearing your browser history.

But if your wife hates porn and smut-shames you for watching porn, WHACK, then keep clearing your browser history. She’s not angry that you’re keeping secrets. She’s angry that you’re watching porn and she’s trying to create a lose-lose scenario for you. Watch porn and don’t clear your browser history? Get in trouble for watching porn. Watch porn and clear your browser history? Get in trouble for watching porn. The only way you can avoid getting in trouble? Stop watching porn.

And we both know that ain’t gonna happen, right?

So keep clearing your browser history, WHACK, which is the courteous thing to do. And ignore the wife when she tries to make you feel guilty about watching porn because that kind of inconsiderate, controlling, smut-shaming behavior shouldn’t be tolerated. (My response presumes that your porn consumption is moderate, WHACK, and that you’re not neglecting the wife’s needs for emotional and sexual intimacy in favor of alone time with your laptop. If your habits are immoderate and/or you’re neglecting her, then your wife has every right to be furious—at you, WHACK, not porn.)

I’m gay and so is my insanely attractive boyfriend. We have been dating for a year now. His attractiveness isn’t a problem … until it is. He enjoys getting compliments, and he gets them frequently from other gay guys. I am happy when he’s happy, but the frequency with which guys make passes at him has started to make me uncomfortable. I told him this, and he tells me he isn’t going to tell them to stop because he doesn’t see what the problem is. He tells me that it’s not like he’s making passes back and most of the time he insists I’m misinterpreting an innocent interaction. These guys are actively flirting with my boyfriend, and he takes it as a compliment! Am I being appropriately protective or am I being a jealous douche?

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If your friends—yours and/or his—are making passes at your boyfriend, SAP, then you have a right to be angry. Good gay etiquette dictates that friends either refrain from making passes at insanely attractive guys who have boyfriends or that they make passes at the insanely attractive guy and his boyfriend. If your friends are making the passes at your boyfriend only, or they’re making passes at him and/or you when they know your relationship is exclusive, then you and your boyfriend need to let your disrespectful and/or clueless friends know that they’re being huge assholes.

But there’s not much you can do about strangers making passes at your boyfriend, SAP, particularly if your boyfriend enjoys the attention— and it sure sounds like he does.

You’ve got a hot boyfriend, SAP, and that has its perks. But it has drawbacks, too. Putting up with other people innocently hitting on your boyfriend is the price you’ll have to pay to be with this insanely attractive guy. Willing yourself to take these passes and your boyfriend’s clear enjoyment of them in stride, SAP, is a wiser course than allowing something that’s outside your control to become an ongoing source of conflict in your relationship.

Staying with friends of friends in their guest suite and discovered a “funnel gag” sitting on the floor next to the bed. My best guess is that it fell there after its last “use,” as it was on the side of the bed nearest the wall and could have been overlooked during cleanup. Do I say something? What’s the etiquette in a situation like this? What do people use these things for?!?

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People don’t use them to “water” stubborn plants, GAG. The proper etiquette in a situation like this is to ignore the mislaid sex toy. Leave the gag where you found it and say nothing about it to your hosts, your mutual friend or any syndicated sexadvice columnists. Whether your hosts stumble over the gag after your visit or realize it’s missing and slip into their guest suite to retrieve it during your visit, GAG, your discretion will allow your hosts to tell themselves that you didn’t discover it.

I’m a senior in college and a lesbian, and I have a question about strap-on etiquette. My previous girlfriend and I bought one together, and I really enjoyed being on the receiving end of it. When we broke up, she took it since she felt like she had “bonded” with it. My current GF and I have been thinking of getting one, but I’m not sure how I feel about another joint purchase. I don’t know if our relationship will last after I graduate next spring, and the prospect of having to get a new toy every time I break up with someone isn’t appealing. Would it be reasonable, as a generally receptive partner, to buy a strap-on that I can bond with and ask future partners to use it?

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A strap-on isn’t a funnel gag, STRAP. By which I mean to say …

Even if a strap-on is a joint purchase, even if it was purchased for the pleasure of the person “on the receiving end,” it’s not uncommon for the wearer of a particular strap-on—the person on the giving end—to come to regard the strapon as an extension of her body and bond with it. Such was the case with your ex. And even if your ex had allowed you to keep that strap-on, STRAP, odds are good that your new girlfriend would also have seen that old strap-on as an extension of your ex’s body and insisted on it being replaced.

My advice: Go halfsies on a new strap-on—on the harness and the dildo—and one or two other sex toys of comparable value and utility. If the relationship ends, your new ex-girlfriend keeps the strap-on, you keep the funnel gag.

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

STUdIO/ EffIcIENcY 1606 LOCUST - Great Loc. Aug $ 8 0 5 + e l e c & Sept. $810, small but INCL elec. Both INCL Heat (215)806-1526 9th/Pine: Charming Studio in Brownstone, Hi Ceilings, HW Flrs, Sep Kitch, Intercom Entry, Onsite Laundry. From $785/Mo. Avail Sept.

215-735-8030. Lic # 216245 THE ROOSEVELT (2220 Walnut Street) - Beautifully renovated apts. in the RITTENHOUSE SQUARE AREA of Philadelphia. STUDIO’S starting at only $765/mo. and ONE BEDROOMS starting at only $965/mo. Call 215-640-8880 for an appointment.

lOfTS American Lof ts (212 Brown Street)- 1 & 2 bdrm units, pet friendly, great views most with b a l co n i e s. Fro m $ 1 55 0. CO N WAY TEAM. PRU, FOX & ROACH, 215.627.6005/215.440.8190

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2062 LOMBARD ST, 1: $1,295/MO 1BD/BA corner unit, hardwood floors, newer kitchen, private entrance, c/a, CALL JIM ONESTI, PRU FOX & ROACH 215-627-6005/215-440-2052

335 N. FRONT ST, A: $2,350/MO 2BD/2.5BA tri-level condo, den, roof deck, penthouse office/3rd bedroom, c/a, CALL MIKE MCCANN PRU FOX & ROACH 215-627-6005/215440-8345

ITALIAN MARKET 9XX LEAGUE ST 2bedr. ultra mod. TOTALLY NEW! Call Villa Realty 215-271-0600

CENTER CITY 1308 Pine Street 1BR, Hw/fls $895/mo 215-883-0542 or 215-917-8835 OLD CITY: Front/Arch Fab apt w/ high-end appls. HWF, PARKING. $2300+.

PMG 215-545-7007x110 R i tte n h o u s e Sq u a re : 1Bdrm in Beautiful Victorian Brownstone, HW Flrs, AC, Onsite Laundry, Intercom Entry, Short Walk to Park & Shops. $1315/Mo. Avail Sept. 215-735-8030.

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PAC K E R PA R K 1st.flr.2BDRS,HD/ Flrs,(garage optional). Exc. cond. avail.immed. 215-467-8612

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

12TH & LOCUST Great 2BR, 2BA apt, all Amenities, Deck. $1575+.

PMG 215-545-7007 x302 13TH & WALNUT Huge 2BR, Avail Now. Close to everything. $1650+.

PMG, 215-545-7007x302 19Th & CALLOWHILL Fab 2BR w/All amens. Deck, Garage. $1550+. PMG, 215-545-7007x303

17XX S. 8TH ST. 2nd flr. apt. No Pets $650+ utilities. First, last, one month’s security. 215-271-6658

18XX S.4TH ST. 1st.Flr.2BDR mod.,newlyrenov.,W/D,HD flrs,$750 mo.+ utlities.

215-768-3929

1500 BROWN ST, C: $825/MO 1BD/1.5BA split level unit, open eat-in kitchen, many lovely details throughout, c/a, CALL RYAN MCCANN, PRU FOX & ROACH 215-627-6005/215-558-2118

309-13 ARCH: $2,200/MO 2BD/2BA, loft den, hardwood floors, wood beam ceilings, c/a, CALL MIKE MCCANN PRU FOX & ROACH 215-6276005/215-440-8345

16TH BAINBRIDGE: NEWLY RENOVATED, 2ND/R $800/INCLUDES Heat Ht/ Wtr, WD/bldg. 267-231-2900

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

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9TH & SPRING GARDEN. MOD.2ND FLR. A/C,HDWD FLRS., GREAT LOC. $1100/ MO+UTILS. 610-304-0087,

ART MUSEUM AREA- Conv to CC/ TEMPLE U. 17th/Girard 2BR or LRG 1BR, HW flrs t/o, C/A/H, DW. WD in bldg. $1150/mo+. Avail Immediately.

215-651-4653

318 Bainbridge Street, C- Beautiful restored brownstone, lovely 2 bdrm bi-level unit with 2 bths, central air, hrdwd flrs and large garden. $2500.

CONWAY TEAM. PRU, FOX & ROACH, 215.627.6005/215.440.8190

1 1 T H & C H R I S T I A N - L O V E LY MOD.4BR,2BTH,DECK/YD/C/ A,W/D,HDWD.FLRS. GREAT LOC! $2400+UTLS. 610-304-0087 1 Queen Street #10- Gorgeous 3bdrm + den, 2.5 bths, hrdwd flrs, fp, garden, deck & garage. $2800.

CONWAY TEAM. PRU, FOX & ROACH, 215.627.6005/215.440.8190 505 S. 10TH UNIT, 1: $2,900/MO 3BD/2.5BA, 1-car parking, hardwood floors, finished basement, rooftop deck, c/a, CALL ANDREA BOELTER PRU FOX & ROACH 215-627-6005/267975-9402 FRONT & RITNER. 3BEDRMS. LOADED WITH EVERYTHING. $1300/MO. AVAIL. AUG.1ST. 215-651-9190.

HARRISBURG, PA: Thinking of moving? 3BR, 2.5BA townhome available in suburban Harrisburg, corner property.

MBR w/WIC, Jacuzzi tub. Sep Living, Dining and Family room, Office space, Eat-in kit w/French doors leading to patio/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

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

215-465-4565 SOCIETY HILL: TWNHSE, 2BDRM, 1BATH, DEN, CAC, HRDWD, FRPL, YRD, WD, DW, GD. $2,000+. 215260-1585 Q U E E N V I L L A G E : 2 B R To w n house, WD, DW, CA, Rear yard. $1650+. Contact mcolaizzo@ comcast.net Q U E E N V I L L AG E : C/AC, G R E AT LIGHT, 2BDRMS, 2BATHS, HRDWD, PAT I O, F R E E Z E R, DW, G D, W D, b a se m e n t. $ 1 65 0 + Atte n t i ve Management. Avail NOW! 267402-8017

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.

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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

EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY All real estate advertised in this newspaper is subject to federal, state and localfair housing laws, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation, or discriminationbased on race; color; religion;sex; disability; familial; (presence of children);national origin; age (Pennsylvania and New Jersey); martial status or sexual orientation(Pennsylvania and New Jersey), or source of Income (Philadelphia only) in the sale, rentalor financing or insuring of housing.

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

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& 19th Newly renov, mod$995-1350 studio, 1 & 2Bd's Spruce & 16th Old World,Lombard 1 & 2Bd's, hardwood Broad & Spruce Mod 1Bd's, W/D, C/A, heat incl. $950-1750 Art Area Ultra Mod 1 & 3Bd's, W/D,&Deck, Parking Lombard 9th 1Bd & 2Bd, w/d, hardwood, laundry & 9th 2Bd's, h/w floors, W/D $825-1375 Old City Fab ultra mod 1 &Pine 2Bd's, deck Spruce & 12th 2Bd, 1-1/2 bath, bi-level,$1950 laundry University City 3Bd, 2 bath, totally renovated Spruce & 16th Old World, 1 & 2Bd's, hardwood Spring Garden Collonade-Extremely Nice Art Area Ultra ModStudio 1 & 3Bd's, W/D, Deck,$700 Parking City Fab ultraC/A mod 1 & 2Bd's, deck $600-675 Q.V. 3rd & Bambridge 1Old & 2Bd's, W/W, University City 3Bd, 2 bath, totally renovated $375 Spring Garden & 19th Studio, hardwood, Heat incl.

Spring Garden Collonade-Extremely Nice Studio Fairmount & 18th Mod 1Bd, Q.V.C/A, 3rd W/D & Bambridge 1 & 2Bd's, W/W,$625 C/A Spring Yard, Garden & 19th Studio, hardwood,$600 Heat incl.

Mt. Vernon & 21st Gret Studio, Laundry Fairmount & 18th Mod 1Bd, C/A, W/D $700 Wallace & 20th 1Bd, parquet floors, yard Mt. Vernon & 21st Gret Studio, Yard, Laundry Aspen & 26th 1Bd, W/W, Wallace laundry & 20th 1Bd, parquet floors, yard$600 Aspen & 26th 1Bd, W/W, laundry

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Green & 20th - Fab 1BR, HW flrs, Laundry spring Garden & 19th - Great Studio’s, HW flrs, Laundry spring Garden & 20th - Lg. Studio & 1BR’s, HW flrs, Laundry parrish & 27th - Sunny Studio’s, HW flrs, Laundry aspen & 26th - Bright Studio & 1BR’s, HW flrs, Laundry aspen & 24th - Great Studio’s & 1BRs. Eat-in kit, Laundry

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spruce & 16th - Parking Space Avail NOW!

$975 $550-$725 $745-1000 $725-$775 $675-$800 $730-$880 $195

Queen Village 924 S. 2nd Street $329,900 PRUDENTIAL, FOX, & ROACH Queen Village 929 S. 2nd Street $699,900 PRUDENTIAL, FOX, & ROACH

Many More apartMents available!

Annmarie or John (215) 636-0100 Nancy or Ellen (215) 546-9247

Washington Sq West 318 S. Juniper Street $649,900 PRUDENTIAL, FOX, & ROACH

Graduate Hospital 1905 Webster Street $285,000 PRUDENTIAL, FOX, & ROACH

12:00-2:30PM Northern Liberties 815 N. Orianna St “B” From $549,900 PRUDENTIAL, FOX, & ROACH 1:00-3:00pm Cherry Hill, NJ 30 Cameo Dr $624,900 PRUDENTIAL, FOX, & ROACH 1:30 - 2:00PM Society Hill Society Hill Towers 200-220 Locust St $259,900 Allan Domb

Society Hill Towers 200 - 220 Locust Street $379,900

Northern Liberties 609 Poplar Street $599,900 PRUDENTIAL, FOX, & ROACH Bella Vista 913 S. 10th St $469,900 PRUDENTIAL, FOX, & ROACH Queen Village 114 Carpenter St $384,900 PRUDENTIAL, FOX, & ROACH Bella Vista 716-718 S. 11th Street Unit 100 $539,900 PRUDENTIAL, FOX, & ROACH Old City 113 N. Bread Street (aka 130 N. 2nd Street) $399,900 PRUDENTIAL, FOX, & ROACH Queen Village 253 Fulton Street $349,900 PRUDENTIAL, FOX, & ROACH

Allan Domb

2:00-4:00PM Fitler Square 417 S.26th Street $429,000 PRUDENTIAL, FOX, & ROACH

3:00-4:00PM Delmar Village 601 Grant Ter., #47 $98,900 PRUDENTIAL, FOX, & ROACH Graduate Hospital 770 S. Dorrance Street $700,000 PRUDENTIAL, FOX, & ROACH

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Totally upgraded 2br, 2b, exquisite kitchen & baths, patio, pool, deeded parking, move in!

$560,000 Call Izzy Sigman

Spacious 3br, 2.5b, h/w flrs, f/p, deck, courtyard, garage parking

$1,695,000 Call Karen Joslin

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715 S PHILIP ST

626 S AMERICAn ST

Huge 3br, 2.5b, deck, garden, courtyard setting, gated deeded parking

$549,000 Call Michele Golembeski

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Historic 2br, 2b, Meredith School area, original wood floors.

$329,000 Call Maryellen Cammisa

15th & KATER ST

Bold contemporary, 4br, 2.5b, +/-3,000-5,600sf, chef’s kitchen, roof deck, 2-car garage, optional elevator, 10 yr tax abatement

$1,200,000-$1,400,000 Call Scott neifeld 753 S 8TH St A BELLA VISTA

Newly renovated 2br, 2b condo, h/w flrs, custom kitchen, new roof, basement storage, new price!

$329,999 Call Jody Volpe

226 South Street

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Museum quality Colonial restoration, 6br, 5b, den, basement, original detail, garden, 2 car parking

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326 SPRUCE ST SOCIETY HILL

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ld two so Artisan II 1431 Bainbridge (8 Homes)

4000 + Sq Ft 4/3.5 Elevator Deck 2 Car Garage & TA $2,000,000

Have you ever had a dream about owning your own New New New New 815 N. Orianna Deeded Queen Village Park716-18 S. 11th Street #100 929 S. 2nd Street - Shot Tower 114 Carpenter Street 253 Fulton Street - Something Special A&B A Real WOW! 2 BR, 2.5 BA, Pristine 6 Unit Bouing Space?

WELL SOMEPlace. Newer home finished by Beautiful Rehab. 2 lovely bdrms, 2 – Detail & Character, 2 BR, 2 BA, 2 FP, Catharine St tique Elevator246 Bldng.

4.5 Yrs St Remaining on Tax Ab,221 Carpenter 318 Fitzwater a high end N.Y. Designer.

4 bdrmStreet PristineBeautiful DREAMS COME Flrs, 2 Decks,TIMES Great Kitchen & Baths, full baths, 2 Fp’s 3/2 & beautiful Gardendesigner kitchen,hrdwd Bi Level,Home.

1700 Sq3/2.5 Ft, Xtra Wide, Gar Prkng, Super Contemporaries Hrwd “The Dragon House” Exposed Brick, Beautiful Block & Meredith + den, 2.5 bths, fp, hrdwd flrs, flrs t/o, fp, finished basement & Hrwd Flrs Cook’s Kitchen, One of the Largest + lg garden $650,000 4 + office/2.5 Garden & Garage. $435.000 TRUE. We have 7garden, deeded School District. $349,900 deck + Parking. pretty garden. $384,900 Lot size$699,900 19x136 $1,250,000 Common Roof Gardens $539,900 5 Great Homes spots available in a secured Queen Village Location.

Artisan Rittenhouse From $549,900 Artisan 733 S. 2nd Street 1805 Lombard $67,500.00 Great house, 3200 sq. ft, 4 bdrms, 1501-1503 Kater 2800 sq. ft (+), 4 bedrooms, (10 Homes) HURRY 2 ALREADY 5600 Sq Ft 4/3.5 2.5 bths, 2 fp’s, full bsmnt, hrdwd 4000 + Sq Ft 4/3.5 4 baths, media room, Elevator Roof Deck TA SOLDflrs, new kitchen, deck & garden.

Elevator Deck 2 Car 2 Car Garage

Garage & TA fireplace, finished basement, $2,500,000 $2,500,000 balconies, Garden, Parking & 1107-1121 N. Howard Tax Abatement 1101-1115 N. Hancock

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3 + Den/2.5 H/Wo & k 95% f as H/W, Bsmt + Gar & TA Garden for$499,000 From $509,000 sold

743-45 E. Passyunk Ave-Wonderful extra wide rarely offered Foster Wilson Designed Home on the Golden Mile in the Meredith catchment. 3 bdrms, 2.5 bths, hrdwd & tile flrs t/o wd burning fp, finished basement, lrg landscaped garden & patio + 1 cr garage. $899,000

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848 S. Swanson Street 5 year old fabulous home. 3 bdrms + family rm, 3.5 bths, fp, hrdwd flrs, deck & garage. $639,000

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127 Monroe Fab upscale Builder’s Hm 2+ Den/2 Garden RED

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Location! Historically Certified 3.5 story hm, beautifully restored facade, 5 bdrms, 1.5 bths and nice yard. Needs Rehab. $329,900

133 Salter Street Fab. N/C

3550 Sq Ft 3 + Den/4.5 3 BalconiesDeck Garden + Garage TA $979,000

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502 Delancey 4+Off/3 F & 3/2 Deck + 2 1/2 BA + Deck 3 Car + Parking RED $499,000 Prng $1,350,000 n ti o

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

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113 N. Bread Street # 2B - THE NATIONAL (a.ka. 130 N. 2nd St.)- Best Deal in Town. 1352sf., 3 bdrms., 2 bths, hrdwd flrs., deck & garage. $399,900

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

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

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1312 S. Howard Street- Large 3 bdrm home with hrdwd flrs, brick FP, high ceilings and yard. $249,900

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. $184,900

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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

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

725 Kimball Street

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

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1514 E. Moyamensing Ave 426 Federal Street 132 Manton Street 2417 Delancey Street-Custom 213 Wolf Street - Rarely offered completely rehabbed hm, 3 bdrms, Lovely 3 story hm w/ 2 bdrms + den, Large, extra wide 20x77 corner property, Designer home! Pristine, attention to details, 3 story, 4 bdrm home on nice block, Builders home, 3/2.5, hrdwd flrs, 2 fp’s, library/den, high ceilings, decorative 1.5 bths, non- working fp, & yard on large eat-in kitchen, laundry room & incred. main suite w/ private deck & fp, T h e A w a r d W i n n i n g K a t h y , P a t r i c k a n d t h e C o n w a y T e a m 215.440 .8190 media rm, terrace, deck, garden & garage lovely 2nd bdrm + office, true cooks kit. 2 side yard. Needs some TLC. $199,900 FP & hrdwd flrs. $289,900 the side. $245,000 $414,999 fp’s,hrdwd flrs & lovely garden. $729,000.

123 Cuthbert Street Fabulous huge multi unit building

with.3 c units.

One, 1 bdrm unit, one www.conwayteam om 2 bdrms unit and one studio unit.

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

228 West Washington Square

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

753-757 S. Marshall St

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

Great Rental

incredible mansion Home on tHe sq.

201 Queen Street - Unit 2 - Historic Acme

sold

321 Pemberton Street This3rd Wonderful House has -itLive all! 1700 Sq Ft from 812 Baths, S. Howard Street & Bainbridge & work home in this space. 2 bedrooms +den,1.5 335fabulous Christian Location Meredith School District - A Lovely Q.V. great rehab, 2 bdrms, lrg hardwood floors, Deck + Gallery 1st Mansion Fl. $3000home with 2 car Landscaped Gated Courtyard - 4 Bdrms, 2space onFab. 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, bths- 2 Fp’s - Great Light & Space - Bsmnt REDUCED details, details $749,000 225 Storage Catharine - Beautiful 3 BR + Den, 4 BA,details, H/W, Granite ktchn, grdn & 2 car parking. $3500$289,000 - Good SpaceStand a Lovely Garden.

776 S. 2nd$425,000 St - Very nice 2 Bedroom, 1 Bath Bi level apartment w/ CA + Lg Deck. $1350 810 S. 3rd St –Beautiful large 3 BR + Den home with hardwood floors t/o, yard + parking. $2500 1119 E. Palmer St –N/C 3 BR + Media Rm, 3 BA, H/W t/o, Fp, Lg Garden + 3 car parking. $2500 400 Spring Garden-N.C Commercial Space Available-800 to 1600 Sq Ft. Call for Details

505 S. 10th Front A- Wonderful 3 bdrm, 2 bth home with deeded, gated parking, hrdwd flrs, 2 fp’s, finished basement, deck & landscaped community garden. $525,000

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

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

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913 S. 10th Street Beautiful total rehab, 4 bdrms, 2.5 bths, FP, hrdwd flrs, full finished basement, deck & garden area. $469,900

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Piano Building. 2000 sq. ft bi-level condo, 2 720 S. Front Street River Views + 1530 S. Myrtlewood St 3 bths, hrdwd flrs, beautiful foyer with Beautiful 2 story porch front home, 3 bdrms, great real roof garden. Truly a Jewel! bdrms, to take you to a terrific common roof hrdwd flrs, semi-finished basement & nice 2 bdrms + den, beautiful kitchen & elevator deck + 1 deeded prkg spot in lrg attached size back yard. $89,900 bath. REDUCED $342,500 garage. $550,000

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125 Ellsworth—Phase III Pennspoint 3 to 4 + den /2.5 Gar TA From $499,000

basement $369,000

104 Catherine Street truc 429 Fulton Street 111 Federal Street - Beautiful home, s WOW! Q.V. Duplex each withongarage, Beautiful 3000 sq. ft hm with 3 ve Location! Location!

2.5 story Historically 2800 sq ft, 3 bdrms + den, 2.5 bths, one 2 bdrm unit & 1 3bdrm C unit + bdrms, 3.5 bths, den, hrdwd flrs, De Circa 1760, 3 bdrms, 1bth w Certified Home garden, deck, garage & basement, w e solarium & Garden central air, garden, deck and garage. e N N details, fp & gardn. $334,900 original tax abatement. $525,000 $549,000 $3100 128 Pemberton St 335 Christian 623 S 6th 3 Condos Garage Rosa Court— 825 S. 2nd St tHe best deal 1 Christian #49 pending Multi 5/4 + Deck 3/2.5 Garden + 1 car 4 /3.5 2 Car Parking 1/1 + Deck, TA 3 /2 From $549,000 Duplex Great Corner & Garden $649,900 Pkng $499,500 RED $549,900 From $299,000 1 SOLD Property RED $379,000

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600-02 N American N/C 3/2.5, Bsmt Garden, Garage, & TA From $650,000

245 Monroe Street Great Floor plan 4/2.5,Deck Grdn & Grg. RED $795,000

Courtyard Home. 2/2.5 Deck Garage $369,900

1118 E. Moyamensing New4/2.5, patio,deck & finished

1000 sq. ft2/1 Prkng, Tx Abmt , lg grdn. $399,900

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

$749,900

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121 Cuthbert Street - Fabulous huge corner multi-unit property with two 1 bdrm apartments. Hrdwd flrs, exposed brick, windows surround, wood burning stove & tons of storage. $599,900

2338 Fitzwater A& C Condos 1/1 TA

810 S. 2nd St “A”

118 Catharine St

All This and Meredith AwardSchool Wining,3500 sq. ft, District. grdn & grg. $1,300,000

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1352 South Street Unit 214

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

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318 Bainbridge Street C

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Beautiful restored Brownstone, lovely 2 bdrm bi-level unit with 2 bths, CA, hrdwd flrs & large

Lee Ann Hartl ey Tory Gargano Deidre less Quinn steel appliances, granite counter tops Ivon & Cowell garden. $2500

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Beautiful 3000 sq. ft hm with 3 bdrms + den, 3.5 bths, hrdwd flrs, 2 fp’s, deck, garden & Mike Carestio Adele Gerngross $3100 garage.

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317 Vine Street Unit 210

36 N. 3rd Street, 2nd Floor

1600 sq. ft, 2 bdrms, 2 bths, 10 ft ceilings, floor to ceiling windows, hrdwd flrs, fp, roof deck and 1 car parking. $3000.

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Beautiful light filled 1 bdrm apt with parking, Fabulous kitchen, 24 hr concierge and washer/ dryer. $1800

215.627.6005

429 Fulton Street

1 Queen Street # 10

$499,900

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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Gorgeous 3 bdrm + den, 2.5 bth home with hrdwd flrs, fp, garden deck & garage. $2800

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ART MUSEUM / logAn SqUARE PhiLaDeLPhian

RiTTEnhoUSE SqUARE COnT.

1 bedroom, large balcony, completely renovated kitchen, designer bathroom, wood floors 1156 sf

$199,900

The WarWick

1Br, 1Ba, hardwood floors, marble Ba, custom kitchen

WanaMaker house

1 bedroom, high floor, panoramic city views, lots of natural light, open kitchen 704 sf

712 sf

Parc riTTenhouse

studio, generous living/sleeping space, open kitchen, large bathroom appointed in marble

Parc riTTenhouse

Junior 1 bedroom, open kitchen, wood floors, walk-in closet in bedroom, marble bathroom

The riTTenhouse

studio, wood floors, large marble bath, panoramic sunset view

578 sf

AvEnUE of ThE ARTS acaDeMY house

2 Bedrooms, 1.5 Baths, high Floor With city Views, W/D

1019 sf

$369,900

acaDeMY house

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, high floor, eat-in-kitchen, generous entertaining space 1314 sf

$357,500

acaDeMY house

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

$269,900

BarcLaY

Bank BuiLDing

The riTTenhouse

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

The WarWick

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

The DorchesTer

2000 sf 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, balcony atop rittenhouse square, wood floors, renovated throughout 1231 sf

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

1,198 sf

$1,100,000

Brand new 2 Br + den, 2.5 Ba home, lots of natural light, wood flrs, open chef’s kitchen, designer Ba, services available 2,025 sf

$1,100,000

socieTY hiLL ToWers

2 Br, 1 Ba, parquet wood floors, washer/dryer, unobstructed river views, floor-to-ceiling windows

socieTY hiLL ToWers

corner 1 bedroom, totally furnished, renovated throughout with custom finishes and features, magnificent city views

1,200 sf

$399,000

oPen sunDaY 8/5 • 2:00 - 2:30PM

803 sf

$379,900

socieTY hiLL ToWers

1Br, high floor, river view, investment opportunity

700 sf

$269,900

socieTY hiLL ToWers

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

$259,900

oPen sunDaY 8/5 • 1:30 - 2:00PM

wAShingTon SqUARE

$1,475,000

220 W. WashingTon square entire floor 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom home, Washington square views, custom finishes and features throughout 3,720sf sf

$1,050,000 inDePenDence PLace $725,000

The LiPPincoTT

4,500 sf

$1,800,000

2716 sf

$1,275,000

2 bedroom plus den, 2.5 bathroom residence overlooking Washington square, 2 bedrooms plus den, 2 baths, large balcony with panoramic southern views, open kitchen

1937 sf

$790,000

inDePenDence PLace

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, balcony, open chef’s kitchen, designer baths, wood floors

1,387 sf

$699,900

inDePenDence PLace

1Br, 1Ba, wood floors throughout, upgraded kitchen and Ba, custom closets, balcony 928 sf

$269,900

The DorchesTer

The WarWick

1 bedroom, all rooms have river views, wood floors, open kitchen, 712 sf

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

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

$259,900

$1,050,000

$725,000

Taxes $216

condo Fees $974

Taxes: $400

Monthly cost after Tax to own $1,754

Taxes $482

Monthly Cost After Tax To Own: $4,917

Condo Fees: $1,169

Monthly cost after Tax to own $3,434

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august 1 - august 7, 2012

condo Fees $559

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PHILADELPHIA

inDePenDence PLace $610,000 $550,000

$2,100,000

Bi-level penthouse, 2Br. 2.5Ba, 2 kitchens, impeccably finished throughout, amazing river and city views

open floor plan, high end finishes throughout

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, corner unit with lots of light, updated kitchen, beautiful hardwood floors throughout 1,050 sf

WanaMaker house

$2,295,000

$1,150,000

Brand new 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom, furnished, all custom finishes, high barrel ceilings, exposed brick,

$2,900,000

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

1,709 sf

The BarcLaY

$319,900

raw space that can be designed and built into a custom home overlooking independence Mall

from adjoining oMni hotel

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

4,455 sf Parc riTTenhouse

$319,900

583 sf

3,068 sf

Bank BuiLDing

3,293 sf

$329,900

528 sf

2101 sf

floors, 3 gas fireplaces

$349,900

SociETy hill Bank BuiLDing

RiTTEnhoUSE SqUARE

$399,900

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