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CONTENTS / Aug. 27-Sept. 3 4 I PHILLYNOW PW’s College Fest Free-4-All; Made in Philly; Food Truck Festivus; Five Dollar Comedy Week; and more!

12 I FEATURE Hey, college students—welcome (back) to Philly! Here’s what you need to know.

18 I FOOD Hai Street Kitchen offers fast, casual Japanese lunch.

19 I ARTS & CULTURE Music: In A.C., Revel is about to shut its doors—but first, Philly’s most upbeat rockers are going to blow the roof off the joint. Stage: Mauckingbird Theatre Company offers two classic plays and a saucy cabaret in its late-summer stagings. Screen: Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan mine the falseness of acting like oneself.

23 I PHRANKLY... Purplevania: Why is SeaWorld giving Pennsylvania politicians money? Voices: Thoughts on depression from inside the cloud. 26 I ADULT 26 I SAVAGE LOVE 30 I REAL ESTATE 32 I OPEN HOUSE

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Your girl GoGo: Singer GoGo Morrow is among the local acts performing at Made in Philly.

WHAT’S HAPPENING — BEFORE IT HAPPENS ... M US I C

Made in Philly

More than two years ago, when Jay Z and Mayor Nutter announced that Budweiser would help them throw a massive concert on the Parkway, the knee-jerk reactions blasted off like sparklers on Labor Day: screams of injustice, of misusing one of our city’s treasured public spaces. Then, the lineups that were announced for the first two summers at least threw a bone to a few Philly acts. But from the looks of 2014, localizing Made in America’s becoming less and less of a priority. Whatevs. For the second year in a row, World Cafe Live is doing its part to showcase home-grown talent as a foil to the EDM mollyfueled superfest happening two days later and a mile or so northeast. Aaron Camper, GoGo Morrow, Just Beano and Asia Sparks are but a few of the names on the roster’s long list of artists; there’s also a slew of DJs and supporting cats to flesh out a full-ass night of entertainment that’s all and only Philly. The specials will be on Yuengling and cap out at probably $5—a far cry from the $12 cans of Bud Light on deck at MIA. Philly’s music scene runs way deeper than what passes through and what venues can sell out. There are droves of up-and-coming singers, songwriters, rappers and producers out there grinding away at product or personas, and some worry that festivals like MIA work against the little fellas just trying to get booked. Mini-fests like MIP—and the following night’s PhillyMade party at the TLA—are earnest attempts to make lemonade from lemons and show Philadelphians and visitors alike that you probably shouldn’t come drop a corporate super-concert in our city limits and not expect the army of hometown creatives to sit by idly. No: We will spit, sing, and spin your ass off. // BILL CHENEVERT Thurs., Aug. 28. 7pm. $20. With Al 1Thing, Bamboo, Brianna Cash, Domi Jo, Ebony Joi, Goldie, Good Girl, The Hvddle, Joie Kathos, Khemist, Lombardi, Mont Brown & A.R.F., Phat Geez, Pradah, Ryshon Jones + Sean Falyon. World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St. 215.222.1400. philly.worldcafelive.com

Wed., August 27 STAGE

Reconciled

Written, directed and produced by Carshena Eunice Baker, the play is set in a town comprised of nosy neighbors, overbearing mother-in-laws, a busybody preacher’s wife and a son with a secret. 7pm. $20-$25. Walking Fish Theater. 2509 Frankford Ave. 215.427.9255. walkingfishtheatre.com MUSIC

Josh Groban

Multi-platinum singer Josh Groban is accompanied by the impeccable sound of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. 8pm. $29.50-$110. Mann Center of the Performing Arts, 5201 Parkside Ave. 800.745.3000. manncenter.org

Thursday, August 28 M USI C

The Bar-Kays, Lakeside, L.T.D., Glenn Jones, The Average White Band + Larry Graham

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7pm. $25-$65. The Dell Music Center, Ridge Avenue and W. Huntingdon St. 215.685.9560. mydelleast.com

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Made in America Street Festival

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Slam, Bam, Thank You Ma’am!

The August edition of Slam, Bam, Thank You Ma’am celebrates a day meant for procrastinators and impatient folks in front of the computer: National Race Your Mouse Day. The night will be as legit as this officially copyrighted holiday with competitions, drinks, food and good people. 7:30pm.

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Food Truck Festivus

This end-of-summer bash features outdoor games, Ben’s Beer Garden and food from trucks like The Cow and the Curd, Little Baby’s Ice Cream, Farm Truck Philly, Seoulful Philly, The Grill Cheese, LeMoNaDe and more. 6pm. Free. Franklin Square, 200 N. Sixth St. 215.629.4026. historicphiladelphia.org/ franklin-square TA L K

The Psychology of Cats

Nathanael Oster, VMD, associate veterinarian at the VCA Cat Hospital of Philadelphia, discusses the inner workings of cats as part of a series looking at human-pet relations. 11am. Free. Central Library, 1901 Vine St. 215.686.5322. freelibrary.org

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Budweiser’s very own six-horse hitch, the Clydesdales, make an appearance at the Urban Saloon this week. Watch the Eagles game, check out the PAWS dog adoption tent, have your team compete for prizes in the Philadelphia Cornhole League tournament and enjoy $3.50 drink specials. 6pm. Free. The Urban Saloon, 2120 Fairmount Ave. 215.232.5359. urbansaloon.com

Free. Pen & Pencil Club, 1522 Latimer St. 215.731.9909. penandpencil.org

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If you’re driving up Ridge Avenue tonight and feel the earth start to move, worry not: It’s just the seismic musical extravaganza going down at the Dell. The outdoor ‘round-the-way music venue closes out a truly momentous summer season with an amalgamation like no other: Consummate old-school funk-soul royalty the Bar-Kays, Lakeside, L.T.D., the Average White Band and the undisputed king of the funky bass, Larry Graham. A few of these outfits have been together since the late ‘60s, so of course they’ve since lost original members to drugs, disease, dreams of solo stardom (hey, Jeffrey Larry Graham Osborne!) and simple age, the latter fueled by the grueling demands of touring for decades. Indeed, between them, these stillamazing acts have been grinding for well over 200 years, so there’s no need for apprehension over tonight’s show quality. The Bar-Kays, Lakeside, L.T.D. and AWB generated so much dance-floor and onstage heat in their respective heydays, don’t be surprised if there are fire trucks on standby in the Dell parking lot. Glenn Jones is an ol’ pro—more the latter than the former. And bass guitarists in every genre have been biting Graham’s style, intentionally or not, since he stepped onto stages as a brother among the pioneering Sly and the Family Stone. Want to laugh the night away and party hearty with your still-spry grandmom and her hot-to-trot, gray-haired galpals? This is the night, y’all. It’s sure to be all the way live. // KENYA

PHILLYNOW Friday, August 29

WHAT TO DO IF YOU CAN’T BE IN PHILLY FOOD

Wildwoods Restaurant Week

Enjoy a four-course dinner at some of the finest restaurants along the Wildwood beaches. Though Aug. 29. Various locations. 609.729.9000. Wildwood, N.J. wildwoodsnj.com E VENT

Philadelphia Career Fair

Executive-level professionals and recent college graduates have the opportunity to meet with the hiring managers of sales, business development, marketing, retail and sales management in our area. Business attire required. Thurs., Aug. 28, 6pm. Sharp Crowne Plaza, 260 Mall Blvd., King of Prussia. unitedcareerfairs.com MUSIC

“Let Rock Rule” with Aerosmith & Slash

Aerosmith joins forces with award-winning rock guitarist Slash. Also featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators. Sun., Aug. 31, 7:30pm. $59.50-$195. Boardwalk Hall, 2301 Boardwalk, A.C. 609.348.7100. boardwalkhall.com CO M I C S

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If you only see two lady comic-book artists present their work for your enjoyment this week, be sure to make it Meghan Turbitt and Katie Skelly. The New York City-based duo—who create very-cool print and web comics independent of each other—will be coming though Philly to read and sign their oft-cynical, oft-feminist, always humorous offerings. Claiming her ideas come from the profane jokes she grew up with in her blue-collar Irish Catholic community in Rhode Island, Turbitt’s pages often depict short vignettes in a young woman’s life. One particularly funny and recent comic, #foodporn, partially depicts her at a pizza joint. She orders a slice and thinks to herself what a “loser” the smelly man behind the counter is. Soon, in her head, she turns him into a muscle-bound hipster and gleefully lets him cradle her in his arms as he handfeeds her the cheese slice. Skelly’s art is a bit more sci-fi. Her first notorious project was something called Nurse Nurse, which Skelly—who initially attended Philly’s Moore College of Art and Design as an undergraduate—called “a psychedelic comic about nurses in space.” Since creating that first comic in 2007, she’s printed it and 10 others, including her latest, Operation Margarine, in which two badass girls ride a motorcycle through the desert “holding their own against the elements, biker gangs and each other.” // RANDY LOBASSO

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Five Dollar Comedy Week

The affordable laughs continue in this week-long event of original comedy shows from local comedians. Tonight, activities include being a part of the jury for the comedy game show “Justify Your Love” or sitting through an hour of one-minute monologues. 7pm. $5. Through Sun., Aug. 31. Shubin Theatre, 407 Bainbridge St. fivedollarcomedyweek.com SCRE E N

Despicable Me 2

Hawthorne Park’s family movie night continues with a screening of the 2013

animated film Despicable Me 2. Round up your minions for some games and activities before the movie starts. 8:30pm. Free. Hawthorne Park, 1200 Catharine St. hecphilly.org M U SI C

Smooth Jazz Summer Nights featuring Valerie Simpson Summer is coming to an end with August’s final days, but not without one more evening of sultry tunes from the Penn’s Landing Smooth Jazz Summer Nights series. Singer-songwriter Valerie Simpson, of Ashford & Simpson, performs tonight. 7:30pm. Free. Great Plaza

at Penn’s Landing, Chestnut St. and Columbus Blvd. delawareriverwaterfront.com SHO P P IN G

Art Meets Fashion: A Pop-Up Shop Event

The weeklong event features a meet and greet with Funky Bijou and a one-of-akind art meets fashion night featuring a variety of all your pampering needs, including Happy Hour, Paint Night and Girls Night Out. Talented artists and jewelers will be showing off their creations as you enjoy food, drinks, music and more. 5:30pm. $20. Through Aug. 31. 3rd St. Gallery, 45 N. Second St. funkybijou.com

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MUSIC

Scott Weiland

Former frontman of Stone Temple Pilots puts on a show with his group, Scott Weiland and the Wildabouts. Sun., Aug. 31, 9pm. $19-$39. Golden Nugget, Huron & Brigantine Blvd., Atlantic City, N.J. goldennugget.com PERFORMANCE

Eric Kearns

The impressionist recreates the songs of singers of the past, including Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley and more. Mon., Sept. 1, 8pm. $15. Resorts, 1133 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, N.J. resortsac.com STAGE

Ain’t Misbehavin’

The golden age of Harlem nightclubs is alive and well in this fast-paced and toe-tappin’ world that brings you back to the raunchy and rowdy era featuring classic jazz songs “Honeysuckle Rose,” “Your Feets Too Big” and “Black and Blue.” Through Sept. 7. Bucks County Playhouse, 70 S. Main St., New Hope. bcptheater.org

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august 30 Nation Beat Nation Beat’s energy bridges folkloric Brazilian maracatu with classic NOLA roots music. They are rhythm gatherers, harvesting the fruit of 500 years of cultural crossbreeding, which is why the sounds of the northeast of Brazil and the southern United States blend together so seamlessly.

The Highwater Preachers The Highwater Preachers have been raising eyebrows in the burgeoning local bluegrass scene with their fresh, earnest takes on classic mountain songs.

EVENT

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Black Families Rock

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A day of seminars brings black families together to help build stronger, happier homes and increase awareness in youth education. The event also features games, workshops and the Gospel Fest Choir Competition. 10am. Free. Lincoln University, 1570 Baltimore Pike. blackfamilyrocks.com

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The funky sounds of the Big Easy hit Philly as the New Sound Brass Band bring their horns, brass and culture to town. The eightpiece band plays a combination of hip-hop, funk and R&B. 3pm. $15. City Tap House, 3925 Walnut St. taphouseucityticketleap. ticketleap.com

Sunday, August 31 EVENT

PHoHWEUR

Pronounced “power,” this weekend wellness retreat includes massages, reflexology, dance classes and more. Enjoy the soothing sounds of jazz vocalists and guest speakers Rhenda Fearrington and Alfie Pollitt. 6pm. $35. AIA, 1216 Arch St. philadelphia. jazznearyou.com

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Made in America: The Afterparty

If you missed the biggest music festival of the summer, then stick around for the after party. Rumored acts include DJ Shadow, SRG and more. 3:30am. $15-$30. Lit Ultra Bar, 460 N. Second St. 484.885.0227. litultrabar.club

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Labor Day at Franklin Square

Before the kids head back to school, spend one last day of summer at a carnival in Franklin Square. Enjoy carnival games, mini golfing, carousel rides and more. Noon. Free. Franklin Square, Race and Seventh sts. 215.629.4026. historicphiladelphia.org/franklin-square

Tuesday, September 2

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Saint Rich

Rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco

Former band mates of Delicate Steve, Steve Marion and Christian Peslak collaborated on a new sound, spirit and, ultimately, a new band, Saint Rich. Kicking off their five-day tour in Philly, the band performs songs from their debut album, Beyond the Drone, at Milkboy tonight. 8pm. $12-$14. 1100 Chestnut St. milkboyphilly.com

The whole neighborhood is sprouting horns, crushing furniture and demolishing flowerbeds as an outbreak of Rhinoceritis claims more victims. Follow two friends struggling to maintain their identity in the midst of this hilarious and symbolic disease. 7:30pm. $15. The Skybox: Adrienne Theatre, 2030 Sansom St. rhinoceros.brownpapertickets.com

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PHILLYNOW Wednesday, September 3

2014 FRINGE FESTIVAL SEPTEMBER 5 TO 21

(Clockwise from top left) Thee Idea Men, Ali Wadsworth, Damn Right! and DJ Royale.

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PW ’s College Fest Free-4-All As summer officially comes to a close and the pressures of a new academic year slowly begin to pile on, we at Philadelphia Weekly offer both greetings and a brief respite—via our inaugural free college festival. So come on out as we reaffirm Rittenhouse Square Park as an ever-lasting hotbed of good music and budding friendships. Following in the wake of this August’s 24th annual PW Concerts in the Park series, our brand-spanking new College Fest Free-4-All, presented by Xfinity, invites all those entering their fall semesters at any of the area’s colleges and universities—Temple, Drexel, UPenn, University of the Arts, St. Joseph’s, Villanova, et al—to set aside any supposed rivalries and ease into the season. On the one hand, we’ll be shining a spotlight on four awesome local musical acts acts, but even more so, there’ll be a crowd on hand to chat you up about all the amazing local cultural hotspots the city has to offer—which can be especially valuable if you’re a freshman adjusting to city life for the first time. And hey, it won’t matter whose colors you’re wearing. The “Free-4-All” celebration kicks off with a warm-up set courtesy of DJ Royale, who made waves as a contestant on the reality competition series Master of the Mix and spins at spots like Silk City, Recess and Whisper. Following him will be a trio of newish Philly-based talent starting with Damn Right!, a three-piece electro-pop group originally from Baltimore that prides itself on cutting edge production techniques and stellar live performances. Ali Wadsworth, a former contestant on NBC’s The Voice, is up next, and if the buzz surrounding her now-year-old debut solo album is anything to consider, it’s safe to say she isn’t going to let the city down. However, it won’t be a real party until headliners Thee Idea Men finally take the stage. The band, which recently delivered a new LP, New Level Shoes—complete with a record release show at Milkboy in late May—offers plenty of bouncy guitar work and feelgood songwriting to go around. // JAKE ABBATE 6pm. Free. Rittenhouse Square, 18th and Walnut sts. 215.563.7400. philadelphiaweekly.com

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Sittin’ In All-Stars

David Lynch Revisited

Crowd favorites Josh Lawrence and Francois Zayas kick off the special ticketed concert marking the beginning of jazz season. Other musical acts of the night include Grammynominated trombonist Jeff Bradshaw, spoken word artist Ursula Rucker and hip-hop producer Kokavi. 8pm. $20. Kimmel Center, 300 S. Broad St. kimmelcenter.org

The Philadelphia Film Society presents an in-depth look at the films of David Lynch— and the two-month series begins with a screening of Lynch’s 1977 debut Eraserhead. The project is presented in conjunction with the exhibit, David Lynch: The Unified Field, on view from Sept. 13-Jan. 11 at PAFA. 7pm. $7. Prince Music Theater, 1412 Chestnut St.

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2014 COLLEGE ISSUE

Step 1: Don’t Piss Off the Prof Hey, college students: Here are three Philly professors to tell you, straight up, what the people in front of your classroom do and don’t want outta you. By Josh Kruger | jkruger@philadelphiaweekly.com | Twitter: @jawshkruger

WELCOME, COLLEGE STUDENTS! MANY OF US WERE YOU NOT SO VERY LONG AGO. SO TAKE THIS ISSUE AS A HELLO FROM PHILLY TO YOU–AND COME JOIN US ON WED., SEPT. 3 FOR FREE MUSIC IN RITTENHOUSE SQUARE & GET TO KNOW THE CITY! PW’S COLLEGE FEST FREE-4-ALL: (Presented by Xfinity) 6pm. Rittenhouse Square Park, 18th & Walnut Streets. Music: Thee Idea Men, Ali Wadsworth, Damn Right!, DJ Royale.

elcome—or welcome back—to Philadelphia, America’s future! Surely, you’ve enjoyed a victorious summer making copies during your internship or discovering the cosmetic limits of spray tanning. Even at this late summer hour, though, there’s still time to prepare for your new year here in the city; after all, it’s never too late to prepare to do the right thing. For college students, of course, the “right thing” varies, and people’s perception of priorities and what’s right will depend on their role in the overall higher learning scheme. Your dormmate just wants you to give a heads-up if you’ve another young adult in your single bed, and your parents want you to make the most of their money by actually going to class (hey, call them once in a while, why don’t you?) Then there’s your instructors. Many are old. Some are young. Some are hot. Some are not. But have you ever asked them what they actually want from—or think of—you? Tom Waidzunas is an associate professor of sociology at Temple University. He says that despite the tiresome trope of young people having a “sense of entitlement,” he’s found that most students are human beings just like everyone else. In fact, he wishes students would actually have more demands: about office hours. “I wish students had more of a sense of entitlement about coming to office hours [and using me as a resource for engagement],” says Waidzunas. That type of dialogue and communication helps foster education both in and outside the classroom. “I like when students critically engage with the course and participate respectfully in discussion,” he explains, “both talking and listening to others. The best students take responsibility to exercise their right to learn, question the assumptions of the course material and are open to examining their own assumptions.” Waidzunas’ colleague, associate professor Dustin Kidd, agrees. “It bugs me when students have the misconception that learning is an individual experience,” Kidd insists, concurring with Waidzunas that learning is an interactive, organic process. “I’d rather facilitate an environment where my students learn from each other than one where each student simply internalizes whatever I say.” Retired science professor Dawn Munro, a veteran of teaching within the Ivy League and at prestigious universities abroad, was more direct. “With undergraduates, thinking is not always a strength,” she laughs. She seems to be enjoying the freedom of, and candor that comes along with, retirement. “Many seem, at times, to view college as an opportunity to party out of sight with parents. Hangovers, ‘not enough time’ to

read, an inability or unwillingness to read background texts, playing with cellphones during lectures,” she pauses, seemingly winding up for her glib analysis. “After all, texting is a priority!” Kidd doesn’t view technology as inherently problematic but very possibly annoying. After all, he likes to incorporate multimedia into the classroom. The author of the book Pop Culture Freaks, Kidd uses social media as a means to interact and learn about—you guessed it—pop culture and interactivity. It’s a double-edged sword, though, this Internet and texting age. “I use a lot of multimedia sources in my classroom

since I teach about media,” Kidd explains, “and students seem to like that a lot. But sometimes, some students see that as an opportunity to check out and focus on something else: texting, talking.” He pauses and almost stage-whispers: “That drives me insane.” It’s not just about paying attention, though. It’s also about keeping it real and not bullshitting your way through a class. Munro says it’s easy to tell if someone hasn’t done the reading. “On one occasion,” she says, “I invited a guy to come up and help me with the lesson and to do an outline on the white board. He winged it. I then asked the other students if they agreed with him, and he ended up looking like the ass that he was being,” Munro laughs, her light Scottish lilt taking away the seeming harshness of her statement and replacing it with good-natured jibing. “Very few people were nodding their heads

or agreeing with [the student who didn’t do the reading] because they had done the reading.” Munro stresses that reading source material is important as staying awake during class. “I’ve sometimes encountered vigorous snoring on occasion,” she says, thinking about the implications of her observation, “but maybe that was down to the quality of my presentation.” To remedy scholastic snoozefests, Munro says she just starts dialing up the volume until it works. “I’m soft spoken, so when they sleep, I have to speak louder.” Kidd says it’s important to prioritize your life as a new, bona fide adult. “If a major family emergency happens, please don’t come to me asking permission to miss class. Just go home! We can work things out when your situation is resolved,” he insists. Less amusing than snoring in class, making a horse’s ass out of yourself, or asking permissiong to go to the hospital is plagiarism. On many campuses, it can ruin your academic career. Everyone agrees that it’s easy to catch and a terrible idea. “I can definitely tell when a student has plagiarized a paper,” asserts Kidd. “Students often don’t realize how unique their voices are. Across a semester of in-call conversations and short writing assignments, I get a very strong sense of what each student ‘sounds’ like in print. When the voice changes, I immediately run a phrase through Google. Every time I’ve had the impulse to do so, I’ve found a source that was plagiarized.” Waidzunas matter-of-factly agrees. “Plagiarism is never a good idea.” Oh, and be friendly to your professors, too. “I’m always amazed at how often students ignore me when they pass me on campus,” Kidd observes. “Then, when I say hi and use their name, they seem shocked that I know who they are. My biggest classrooms aren’t that big! I can see you! I know what you look like!” So say hello for god’s sake. But above all else, college is about learning and growing. Despite her direct analysis of what not to do, Munro loves teaching and learning. “I get a great kick out of it, watching how people love to learn. I’m retired, and I’ve never stopped learning.” “Finding balance between personal growth and learning is key,” Waidzunas adds. “Build a diverse social network in college as part of learning.” Kidd agrees. “Work hard, be human, know your priorities. In addition to being students, [folks on campus] are also often working, having relationships, playing sports, pursuing hobbies. Everything in its place! But,” he adds, “there better be a place for my class, or you should withdraw.” n

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haring a dorm room may mean less personal space, but luckily, for new college freshmen in Philadelphia, there’s no shortage of areas in which to expand their interests. One’s college experience shouldn’t just be limited to their campus—the world’s much bigger than your student center and frat parties. The real benefit of living in Philadelphia is everything the city itself has to offer, from shockingly delicious holein-the-wall restaurants to a thriving local music scene. Whether high school graduation money is burning a hole in your pocket or you’re already feeling the dread of entering your financial aid office, Philly won’t disappoint. There are beautiful high-dollar boutiques and classy Center City restaurants, but there are also thrift stores and house shows that won’t break the bank.

your horizons. To get more for your dollar, target places like Philly AIDS Thrift or Buffalo Exchange. For cheap eats, check out places like Reading Terminal Market and the Italian Market, where families sell handmade goods and food at small stands. It’s a more authentic experience, where you’ll meet interesting people and see more of the population that calls Philadelphia home.

Eat food you’ve never tried Visit the Gayborhood for before. Philadelphia is a hugely di- nightlife. If you’re frustrated that you

verse city, which directly translates into a wide selection of cuisine. Don’t pass up the opportunity to educate your taste buds while you’re living in such a cultural mecca. Of course there’s time for American comfort food at your favorite brunch places, but add a healthy

can’t get into bars, you’re not alone. Luckily, the world is bigger than your two hometown pubs. Check out the fabulous, fun-filled Center City area from Chestnut to Pine streets and between 11th and Broad streets, affectionately dubbed the Gayborhood, where plenty of clubs have 18+ nights for college kids. Look to iCandy and Woody’s in particular for their college-friendly weekend nights with reasonable cover charges, considering you won’t be drinking in the club. When venturing outside the Gayborhood, check out Bamboo Bar for its 17-to-enter nights and raucous themes, like foam parties. You may still have a few years until you can order a whiskey sour, but at least you can get your dance on.

mix of foreign restaurants to your diet. Check out places like Almaz Cafe, where you can try authentic Ethiopian food, Q.T. Vietnamese Sandwich for a cheap and fulfilling Vietnamese hoagie, Hardena-Waroeng Surabaya for a heaping platter of Indonesian curries, and Ekta Indian Cuisine for samosas to die for.

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First of all, invest in a bike.

Yes, the SEPTA subway system is great; it’s affordable and can generally get you where you need to go—especially now that the trial period for the all-night trains on weekends has been extended. Cabs, though, are expensive. Thankfully, the City of Brotherly Love is easily one of the most navigable cities in the nation. The grid-like structure of the streets, almost entirely running north-south or east-west, makes it next to impossible to get lost here. Even the most directionally challenged can find their way without being glued to Google maps; the conveniently numbered northsouth streets will guide you to just the intersection you were looking for. Hop on that bike, and suddenly, it’s not a hassle to travel to Fishtown or South Philly, and with friendly and helpful staffers at stores like Fairmount Bicycles, you can easily keep your bike in top shape. Not to mention, you’ll likely spend less for one yearly bike tune-up than you would buying gas for your car in one month.

Plan to shop outside of the Center City District. It’s defi-

nitely tempting to go on weekend shopping sprees on Walnut Street, where you can get caught up in the glamour. Soon enough, however, you’ll realize how much money you’re blowing and see that shopping at Urban Outfitters all the time isn’t expanding

river for half an hour. The city is actually full of little pockets of nature, from Sister Cities Park at Logan’s Circle, located at 18th Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, to Liberty Lands Park near 3rd and Poplar streets. Just look a little farther than your immediate surroundings. Parks might not be right off campus, but on your bike, you’ll have no trouble getting to them.

Go for a run or bike ride on Kelly Drive. The city may seem like

a concrete jungle at times, but you can still get quality outdoor time in the right areas. Kelly Drive is a particularly gorgeous area that follows the Schuylkill River from the Philadelphia Art Museum (think Rocky steps) through beautiful Fairmount Park and into eastern Philadelphia. It should be high on your list of green space to venture into because of its awesomely accessible bike and walking path. It’s perfect for a long weekend bike ride when you have hours to spare, but also welcomes you on a weeknight when you just want to run along the

There are numerous ways for you to expand your musical taste without shelling out for concert tickets. Look into upcoming World Café Live Free at Noon shows, Underground Arts shows for local artist performances and even house shows near you. By picking up a copy of PW this week, you’re already ahead of the game. Keep doing so, and be sure to check the event listings online for cheap and little-known shows coming up. The bottom line: Explore while you’re here. Visit slightly spooky but mesmerizing historic places like Laurel Hill Cemetery and the Mütter Museum. Go to the Dollar Stroll on Baltimore Avenue, where you can eat and drink a selection of items for just a buck. Socializing on campus is very important, but your peers are more than those kids you meet in class. Get out there! Make it a priority to not just be a student in Philadelphia— instead, become a Philadelphian. n

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hen I was at St. Joe’s, there was one weekend toward the end of the spring semester where the entire school would congregate at Belmont Plateau for what was billed a “softball tournament.” While some softball was definitely played, the meeting’s real purpose, as far as I recall, was a massive end-of-the-year outdoor binge drinking event. So, at its end, tumbling and slurring my words, I hitched a ride home with two women—neither of whose names I recall—who had recently graduated from the Overbrook and Montgomery County-based college. I don’t remember how our conversation went, completely, but I do remember one thing they said: “Stay here as long as you can.” “Here,” of course, meant St. Joe’s, but if we’d been somewhere else, in a different circumstance, it’s likely their advice would have been the same: Stay in college, enjoy it, coddle it, because life’s pleasures are all downhill from here. That was early last decade. And things have gotten significantly worse out there for college graduates. Even in 2014, with the financial crisis-based Great Recession having waned, and with business booming again all over the nation, recent college graduates are still experiencing trouble finding work. Unemployment of college grads, says the Economic Policy Institute, is at 8.5 percent, according to figures based on an analysis between April 2013 and March 2014, and 16.8 percent of recent grads are “underemployed,” which means they’re either working part-time and waiting for a better gig to come along, or, say, they’re working a service job that they could have gotten without a degree. We were promised our dreams when we turned 22 and completed 18 straight years of schooling. But it’s not happening. White-collar entry-level jobs are moving overseas or, worse, getting automated. Employers are offering fewer benefits, and entire industries are disappearing. That’s why there are certain things to keep in mind, whether you’re graduating this coming winter, spring, or a year from now, or two.

Do anything. Whether you majored

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in English or finance, chances are, you’re not going to get the job you’d been hoping for upon graduation. (If you did, hey, congrats!) There are lots of people graduating college; there are lots of people still looking for work who graduated before you; there are lots of people, probably,

more qualified than you. Often called a “survival job,” low-end, low-paying employment often happens to new college grads or those well-developed in their careers but unemployed for an extended period. Thing is, I don’t care if you’re washing cars with a college degree or building sandwiches, wherever there’s a job, a work hierarchy and colleagues, there’s something to be learned. According to Dr. Randall S. Hansen, founder of college, career and job guide Quintessential Careers, in addition to earning basic income, a survival job can help job seekers gain confidence and respect from colleagues, which will serve as a leg-up when you finally land an interview for something you actually want. “While many of us may fantasize about a life of doing nothing, in reality, we have a strong work ethic—and even the most basic survival job makes us feel we are doing our part,” says Hansen, adding: “Most employers report having respect for unemployed job-seekers who are

writing jobs, and, perhaps surprisingly, almost none of them seem to carry the whiff of obvious bullshit.

Take “gigs.” Freelancing is a doubleedged sword. On the one hand, you have the potential to do something different every single day. On the other, you’ll probably spend at least half of those days sending out query letters for potential jobs. That said, once you get into it, you, young person who recently graduated from college, can build up a client base for continuing work, networking purposes and future references. Plus, unlike a typical office job where employees watch the clock, goof off and browse violent Internet porn when the boss is absent, when you freelance, you make your own schedule. Any work you don’t do, you don’t get paid for. Work you do, and get in on time makes you—and you alone—look like a star. As Coraline author Neil Gaiman told the University of the Arts 2012 graduating class: “You get work however you get

Your master’s degree in anthropology won’t necessarily get you that clerk job at Anthropologie. willing to work survival jobs as a means to support their families.” That said, you still have to interview for the job, and you still have to put yourself out there. When you do, according to a Monster.com survey, you shouldn’t let yourself come across as a know-itall who’s too good for cleaning dishes. Tighten your resume, de-emphasize some things that may overqualify you— in other words, your master’s in anthropology won’t necessarily get you the clerk job at Anthropologie—and cut out irrelevant work experience.

Craigslist is not your enemy.

Sure. People are on LinkedIn now. They’re networking online and using all sorts of boutique job search websites to help themselves out. But still, you can’t knock Craigslist. The online job/housing/dating/whatever board may have a dated code and format, but it was first. People know that, employers know that, and lots of them use the site everyday to find local candidates for local jobs. Case in point: As I look at the “Writing/Editing Jobs” page right now, there are 16 Philly area-based

work, but keep people keep working in a freelance world (and more and more of today’s world is freelance), because their work is good, because they are easy to get along with and because they deliver the work on time. And you don’t even need all three! Two out of three is fine.”

Do something else.

If you’re a traditional student looking for a job, don’t limit yourself to the 9-5 and hitting the gym after work everyday, watching Fallon and going to bed to do it all over again. That’s what you do when you’re old. Do something fun, because you’re probably in your 20s, and before you know it, you’re going to be in your 30s, and conversations will slowly begin focusing on when you’re going to pop out a baby. For now, join a band. Make a film. Paint. Take a weekend road trip to Kentucky. Do something that doesn’t suck. Right now, your hangovers aren’t that bad (considering). You don’t really need eight hours of sleep (unless you’re hung over) and you’re optimistic (relatively.) Mostly, though, you haven’t got years of work under your belt yet to create a perspective that tells you this is all for nothing. n

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still remember my first office gig, and the deep fear that lunchtime’s approach brought to my soul. This was New York in the late ‘90s, an internship I’d scored in the heart of Midtown, and everyday I faced the same fear: A salad on the one hand, probably sourced from the local shop on the corner, or a burger from the nearest Irish pub. The former, of course, wouldn’t be enough to carry me through the day, and the latter would leave me sluggish, fighting a Sisyphean battle against the ever-encroaching lethargy of the wholly predictable food coma. There were alternatives, of course, but man cannot live on turkey clubs alone … and as an intern, Japanese and Indian food, for example, were completely out of my price range. So I can fully understand why Hai Street Kitchen & Co., the new fast-casual Japanese spot, has proven to be such a popular addition to the city: It offers, at very fair prices for what you get, an excellent option for a lunch on the go that’s healthy, satisfying and quick. The midday crush of people spilling onto the sidewalk outside its South 18th Street location are testament enough to that. No wonder. Their Slammin’ Salmon roll is anchored by searedged tataki salmon brightened up with pickled mango, red onion, romaine, cucumber and a spicy gochujang sauce that, while there was perhaps a bit too much of it on a recent one, nonetheless worked well in tying it all together. Katsu chicken

bowl consisted of generous hunks of bird tightly ensconced within their golden-fried shells, on top of a sticky mound of rice and next to a bright green papaya salad, red cabbage and onion. You can add “crunch” to any item on the menu, and in this case, hand-smashed yucca chips did the trick nicely. The one aspect I’d work on here is the issue of balance. The Crunch roll, a spicy-mayonnaise-charged log with crispy shrimp tempura, could have used more shrimp, which got fairly lost in amid the rice and romaine. So did the asparagus. But the overall effect was still one of healthful, flavorful food despite this minor hiccup. And if you really want to be an office hero, offer to bring back a few for your colleagues. The cost is fair, the staff is friendly, and the walk back will give you a chance to polish off a to-go container of salty, sweet and snappy tempura corn kernels. If only Hai Street had been around all those years ago… 

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magine your feet pounding a determined rhythm alongside the railroad tracks on a cool, grey spring morning— that’s the beat. Imagine a grassy wind whipping across your face as mist-drops tap your skin willy-nilly—that’s the mandolin. Imagine the sun punching a beam of light through the icy clouds, barraging the sky till it turns blue despite itself—that’s the whistle riding atop the accordion. And imagine, suddenly, the train flying past you, slamming waves of motive force into your chest so you can’t tell your own heartbeat from the roar of the metal beast—that’s the drums, and the guitars, and the bass, and now you’re flying too. You’re listening to the Hooters.

The most variety of Indian cuisine on campus The Hooters’ Rob Hyman and Eric Bazilian helped close out the Spectrum a few years back— and this week they’ll do the same for Revel. (Photo by Rob Nagy) calls. “It was the first song we did,” he says, upon sitting down together to record the songs that would become the Band’s Jericho album, “and we all got along great.” That chemistry is in evidence on the track, which blends Bazilian’s mandolin, Hyman’s keyboards, Hudson’s accordion, Jim Weider’s acoustic guitar and Helm’s vocal to create a sound that’s as Hootery as it is Band-ish, turning Springsteen’s somber ode into a perversely celebratory romp. “They were true gentlemen,” Hyman says, taking a moment to pay homage to the late Helm, who died from cancer two years ago. “I loved his reading of Springsteen’s tune, and how he kept the sober lyric but added a little bounce and twisted joy to the proceedings.” Bazilian agrees: “Hearing Levon sing that— it gave ‘the Chicken Man’ a whole new meaning. You really pictured a guy with chickens in the backyard that he himself planned on slaughtering and eating.” And for all that he’s a huge Springsteen fan, Bazilian thinks their version of “Atlantic City” has earned a life of its own: “You can’t do a Springsteen song better than Springsteen—but I think they equaled it.”

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In recent years, the Hooters’ big summer concert tours have been in Europe; they’ve held onto mass popularity in Germany and Sweden even as their careers back home have gradually refocused around their various individual projects as songwriters, musicians and producers. And there are a lot of those. Together with Chertoff, Hyman produced last year’s EP The Dream Book by soulful Philly singer-songwriter Mutlu, blending reggae beats with R&B-inflected vocals and Turkish melodies. Hyman also enjoyed a flashback

moment last year, reuniting with longtime collaborator Cyndi Lauper on her 30th-anniversary tour to perform a live rendering of the She’s So Unusual album (on which the Hooters served as her band—that’s Bazilian’s guitar lick and Hyman’s synths you hear giving rise to the sound of the ’80s on “Girls Just Want to Have Fun”). Bazilian, for his part, has been collaborating with several young performers over the past year. He’s been writing, recording and releasing songs under the band name 88 with English singer James Bourne, of the hit rock group Busted (recently reborn as McBusted). And some of those songs have made their way over to the album Bazilian’s producing with West Virginia-born, New Jersey-based country singer Harmony Montclair. Meanwhile, along with fellow Hooters John Lilley, Fran Smith Jr. and Tommy Williams, both Hyman and Bazilian have also stepped out of their co-frontman roles to join the ensemble of Hooters drummer David Uosikkinen’s epic Philly supergroup, In The Pocket, which gathers local luminaries like Ben Arnold, Jeffrey Gaines and the Soul Survivors to reinvent new versions of classic Philadelphia pop songs. Staring down the barrel of the Hooters’ 35th anniversary year, though, Hyman finds joy in returning, time after time, to the ongoing back-and-forth of the collaboration he and Bazilian share. “There’s an amazing bond and respect and appreciation,” he says, “and there are some real differences, which make it what it is. It’s that smush, how the molecules bounce into each other. We kind of ebb and flow, and that keeps it fresh.” 

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When a couple of Penn undergrads start playing music together, as did Rob Hyman and Eric Bazilian, two science students in the early 1970s, and then proceed to keep playing music together for the following 40 years—as they’ve done as the songwriting core and dual vocalists of the Hooters, Philadelphia’s great rock band of the MTV era—the power of sheer statistics suggests that some odd synchronicities will arise over time. Here’s one: Five years ago, the Hooters played the Spectrum’s “Last Call” concert before that storied Philly arena closed forever. Now, this Saturday, the Hooters’ gig at Revel in Atlantic City marks the final weekend of live shows there as the bankrupt casino prepares to shut its doors for good. “It’s not our fault,” Hyman deadpans. “I swear.” While Revel’s brief, abortive two-and-ahalf-year existence as A.C.’s tallest building offers no comparison to the 42 years worth of memories the Spectrum accumulated as the colossus of Philadelphia’s sports and entertainment worlds, there’s nonetheless a compelling reason to head down the Expressway to catch its swan song: The Hooters, wherever they’re playing their uniquely genre-defying blend of rock energy, Jamaican backbeats, Celtic jigs and bluesy roots—even when it’s the otherwise staid Capitol rotunda in Harrisburg, where they were honored last year with a command performance—turn that stage into a hootenanny to make the rest of the world’s distractions fade into happy oblivion. Plus, here’s another bit of synchronicity: When the legendary folk-rock group the Band decided in the ’90s it was time to cover Bruce Springsteen’s “Atlantic City,” their producer at the time just happened to be longtime Hooters collaborator (and fellow Penn college pal) Rick Chertoff. So he called Hyman and Bazilian in to help the Band’s Levon Helm, Rick Danko and Garth Hudson reinterpret the Boss’s classic ballad of the shore town’s surreal, seedy underbelly. “’Atlantic City’ was amazing,” Bazilian re-

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n lieu of a full stage production for Mauckingbird Theatre Company’s late-summer program in their seventh season, Peter Reynolds, his partner, Brandon McShaffrey, and their third amigo, Lindsay Mauck, have decided to present A Mauckingbird Mix, for which they’re directing a couple legendary plays as staged readings—and, as an addition, livening things up with Miss Cast 5: College Edition. Why go this route? All of em’ are knee-deep in plans to get hitched: Reynolds to McShaffrey in November, and Mauck to her mate this very weekend. “We realized that we’re not doing a full-blown production because we’re all getting married,” Reynolds tells PW. He and McShaffrey, the company’s producing director, met in Chicago, and both orbit around Temple, where Reynolds heads the theater department’s musical theater program. It’s how they met Mauck, the troupe’s namesake. “Lindsay was a student of mine at Temple and just an incredibly savvy and hard-working, really sharp young person,” gushes Reynolds, Mauckingbird’s co-founder and artistic director. “And [she] has been a part of this since the beginning.” So seems the case with many Mauckingbird alumni—actors who’ve worked with he and McShaffrey over the years and, despite getting work in New York and elsewhere, still find a way to bring themselves back to Broad Street. Jennie Eisenhower, for instance, performed the role of Hedda Gabler in the titular role back in 2009, a landmark production for the company. She reprises a less-dramatic one as hostess of Miss Cast 5, billed as a cabaret of “songs sung by the wrong people.” Broadway tunes, pop and rock tracks will be performed, but “men sing songs about other men and women sing songs about other women,” says Reynolds. It fits in nicely with their longstanding company goal, he adds. “We look at classic texts and stories through a queer lens.” But the meat of A Mauckingbird Mix is in the landmark plays they’ve chosen to stage without grand sets or expen-

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The Trip to Italy In 2010, The Trip—a BBC series condensed to a feature film— followed Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, playing “Steve Coogan” and “Rob Brydon,” through Northern England as they ate well and tackled existential sniping and dueling Michael Caine impersonations, often at the same time. It could have been slight or dull; it was delightfully neither. They’ve reunited for The Trip to Italy, but while there’s plenty of lip service paid to the obligatory sequel, luckily none of it applies. If anything, The Trip to Italy edges out its predecessor in depth and scope. While there’s still plenty of meandering, Italy (alongside director Michale Winterbottom) gives momentum to their journey, and the film pivots neatly on differences in Steve and Rob since we saw them last. This year’s Steve is both more bitter and more gently resigned; it’s Rob who has to grapple with big decisions and looming crossroads between courses of pasta. Luckily, they still love having it out. Their one-upsmanship can become uncomfortable, especially when their barbs become downright poisoned before an audience—their Bond face-off is as sly as the “deaf people” riff is unnecessary—but more often, they play expertly off each other in several directions at once. Whether debating the virtues of old-school Alanis or arguing around mortality while standing over ashen bodies in Pompeii, their rapport manages to be equally hilarious and bleak. That bleakness, creeping over the film like an oncoming twilight, becomes a character of its own. Whether visiting cemeteries or discussing death on the beach, mortality is front and center. Even their film references circle back to things lonely and left behind. This newfound melancholy dulls their competitions, beautifully offsets their laughs and makes The Trip to Italy a journey well worth taking. (Genevieve Valentine)

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Jamie Marks is Dead This summer, Radius-TWC released Snowpiercer in a few dozen theaters and—just two weeks later–on VOD. It was considered a punishment, but Snowpiercer made $5 million in its first month. In a summer of franchise-swarmed multiplexes, VOD shouldn’t be underrated as a platform for lower-profile indies. Sundance vet Jamie Marks is Dead, an atmospheric ghost story, has a sameday limited-theatrical and VOD release, and it deserves to find its audience the new-fashioned way. From its opening, when loner Jamie Marks (Noah Silver) is discovered near a creek bed, his body bent like driftwood, Jamie deftly establishes an aesthetic of luminous grit. Director Carter Smith uses wide shots to build its sense of Midwest Gothic— hardscrabble jock Adam (Cameron Monaghan) is closed in by the lines of his mobile home, the deer hanging from the basketball hoop, a locker room doorway and the film’s mournful winter palette of washed-out browns and blues long before he realizes the nearness of Jamie’s ghost. The film, adapted from Christopher Barzak’s novel, wisely avoids a teen-whodunit in favor of a mood piece, with Adam struggling amid all the intense uncertainty in which teenagers are unwillingly steeped. Angry about his mother’s accident, fooling around with oddball Gracie (Morgan Saylor), Adam’s life is fractured enough that his connection with Jamie carries the inevitability of dream logic. The film’s central, leisurely question: Is Adam’s interest from guilt or fascination? Its leads make the most of this ambiguity. Monaghan’s a sympathetic, active observer, and Silver’s intensity makes Jamie piteous and uncanny by turns; between them, eye contact feels like an event. Jamie Marks is Dead has its tangents and melodramas, but at its core, it’s a quietly moody story of guilt, mourning, acceptance and the loves we lose in dreams. (G.V.)

Open wide: Steve Coogan (right) feeds his longtime pal Rob Brydon something tasty in The Trip to Italy.

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Best Friends Forever Brit funnymen Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan effectively mine the falseness of acting like oneself. By Genevieve Valentine // feedback@philadelphiaweekly.com

nce an actor reaches a particular level of success, there’s a nesting-doll of performances required of them: The ones they give onscreen have to be accompanied by the performance they present of themselves. This is, of course, no surprise; actors’ images have been forcibly tailored for public consumption since the advent of the studio system. As behind-the-scenes secrets become advertising and press tours obligatory, a public persona is as necessary as the performance itself. For an example of the endless double-act in question, look no further than the stars of the Marvel franchise, because whatever their actual level of enthusiasm for the superhero juggernaut, their job as Enthusiastic Actors has become as integral a part of their work as the actual films. In The Trip to Italy, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon tackle this head-on by revisiting—for the third time—their roles as slightly sideways versions of themselves. Both are already known for some degree of public selfhood: As well as being actors, both men are comedians, a sweet spot of being someone else in the guise of yourself, and the movie is a sequel to The Trip, in which they tackled the gastronomy of England’s North as “Steve Coogan” and “Rob Brydon.” However, they first appeared together in Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, as similar contentious versions of themselves, locked in one another’s begrudging orbit as actors competing for the larger role in their film adaptation-within-a-mockumentary. It’s a fascinating double performance, a more vicious iteration of Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry. Both of them play into and against public perception of themselves, a winking exaggeration of the real. Coogan is the irascible discontent who hasn’t let go of his dreams of stardom, while Brydon is the more affable and contented half, whose career takes off in The Trip to Italy. (Perhaps the most meta scene in either of the Trip movies is the one in which Rob Bryon-as-Rob Bry-

don makes an in-character audition tape for a role in a major movie.) And neither part’s a particularly flattering caricature. “Steve” and “Rob” are both still chasing youth through women and competition with one another, often in impressions of other people, in case they needed another layer to disappear into. They’re also experts at directly skewering one another, so pointedly that the humor occasionally becomes hard to watch. But The Trip to Italy keeps itself from being just a Round Two of existing grievances by approaching those barbs as a softer, more melancholy attempt to connect. They never stop the one-upsmanship, of course, but in Italy, things take a more contemplative turn, as if things unknown have been forgiven offscreen. This time, as Brydon mimics a talk show host reviewing the piecemeal successes of Coogan’s career, Coogan has no returning strike, and settles for cracking up. Whether their friendship extends offscreen is of minimal importance, technically. As with any pair of leads, chemistry is more important than verity, and the surrounding roles remind us we’re watching the play, not the making-of. But the uncanny valley they’ve established between themselves and their alter egos becomes the quiet unknown hovering beneath The Trip to Italy. It brings depth to throwaway comments (“You believe he’s living it; you don’t believe he’s acting”) and gives weight to the ironies of pretending to be “oneself.” When they stand before Edward John Trelawny’s grave, accusing him of being a Byron hanger-on, there’s a poignancy as they read from his tombstone: “These are two friends whose lives were undivided.” Though the Trip series isn’t operating at the deliberately staged remove of Tristram Shandy, watching the pair of them in the Trip duology is just as effective a treatise on the falseness of acting like yourself. Rather than trying to be honest, the Trips are a reminder that celebrity is a performance all its own. 

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2009, and where it licenses the right to use the beloved Sesame Street characters. A half-hour drive from Center City, Sesame Place—one of two SeaWorld-owned locations in the U.S. without any animal inhabitants— brings about $75 million worth of business to Bucks County each year. Langhorne is in Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick’s district, and he’s a vocal supporter of Sesame Place. (That said, the Republican is also a big animal welfare supporter, and received an honor from the Humane Society in 2013. He voted in favor of a recent amendment to an appropriations bill that would direct the USDA to update the Animal Welfare Regulations Act as it relates to captive orcas and other marine mammals—a bill SeaWorld spokespeople have specifically spoken out against.) In September 2013, about a year after disclosing his financial support from SeaWorld Entertainment, Fitzpatrick penned a letter to the Obama administration arguing that the Affordable Care Act’s new health care regulations were killing business at Sesame Place. “This law is hurting real people in my district and around the country,” he wrote, after SeaWorld announced the Pennsylvania park would be cutting some weekly work hours for its part-time employees so as not to have to provide healthcare benefits. As has been customary, anti-Obamacare conservatives have sought to lay the blame for docking hours to avoid offering basic benefits not with the corporations in question— like SeaWorld Entertainment, which brought in $1.5 billion in revenues in 2013—but, rather, with the healthcare law itself. In this case, when Fitzpatrick pointed to Sesame Place itself as the real victim, Sen. Pat Toomey—who’s remained mostly mum on SeaWorld—shared Fitzpatrick’s concerns on social media, noting: “Bucks County’s Sesame Place theme park will be forced to cut hours for 1,300+ seasonal employees. #Obamacare?” That same week, Toomey began a drive to defund Obamacare. Surely, Big Bird would be proud. 

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We’ve been talking a lot about suicide and depression since Robin Williams’ death. Writer Frank Hagen has been thinking about it since he was six. / Twitter: @phillyweekly

n the wake of Robin William’s highly publicized suicide, there has been a lot of discussion in both the commercial media and social media about depression and suicide. When these kinds of events occur, I’m always struck by the lack of insight into depression and mental illness that’s prevalent in our culture. Otherwise well-intentioned people say and do things based on faulty assumptions and misconceptions about depressed individuals. There is still tremendous stigma attached to mental illness, generating shame and anger that generally stifles the sort of proactive dialogue that could potentially help bring clarity to much of this misunderstanding. As someone who has had to deal with my own biological depression as well as that of family members and close friends, I have a strong desire to reverse this situation by speaking out. I am a writer from South Jersey who makes a living as an a consultant in the IT industry. As a systems engineer, I have provided support to clients in various fields, including financial, retail and government. I have a degree in philosophy; I focused on Chinese and Buddhist disciplines. I also have bipolar II disorder, and experience long periods of extreme depression and anxiety. This has been the case since I was a young child. I would say that by the time I was six years old, I was feeling overwhelming emotions. I was aware of death as something that was coming, that could not be stopped. The anxiety that comes with the fear of annihilation is with me at all times. Depression has disrupted my ability to have a “normal” life with “normal” relationships from kindergarten through until today. It is a factor that complicates everything. Dealing with typical stress is difficult, and dealing with unusual levels of stress is sometimes nearly impossible. When unavoidable events occur in life that, for someone without depression, would likely cause situational depression, it becomes very dangerous for me. Growing into an adult with a mental illness has required me to develop specific skills to be functional, mostly through the process of trial and error. It has been difficult to create stability for myself. The first time I went to college, I wound up in the third semester no longer attending classes and walking the streets to mitigate the pain that kept me from being able to sit still. I walked easily over 20 miles a day, and I slept only when I was too exhausted to torment myself any further. My father was dying, which was terrible—but many people have loved ones die without their own lives crumbling. This happened to me again when I went to graduate school for the first time. I was attending school in Hawai’i, where I could ride my bicycle to Waikiki every day. The landscape and climate were obviously beautiful. I had a job as an assistant to a faculty member which waived my tuition and payed me a salary. Even in this idyllic situation of being paid to live in paradise, I wound up not going to classes, staying up all night, and sleeping all day. I tried everything I knew, which by this time involved anti-depressant medications and meditation, but I could not get myself to focus on the work required. I wound up dropping out and going home to New Jersey. I’ve missed innumerable opportunites in my various careers, artistic successes, and relationships. I had to leave an ad-

mirable job working overseas making a good salary because I was overwhelmed by panic attacks and a horrible dysphoric sense of the world that was beyond hopeless. During the time I spent with the client, my work was great, and no one noticed, but I simply could not take the pain—and so made a careerdevastating decision to come home. (Because it was a government contract, I could not be shuffled somewhere else in the job, and I could not continue to be on the project.) Despite several decades of therapy, despite personal effort to develop tools to deal with depression and anxiety, and despite being on very strong medication, I have consistently found myself in the same struggle. I lost my marriage as a result of this illness. Yes, she knew who I was and what I suffered from before agreeing to marry me, and yes, we had different concepts of what it means to be successful. Do I now think I am better off having been divorced from her? Sure. But the reality is, if I wasn’t completely derailed by depression and overwhelmed by anxiety, our differences would have been less likely to become issues. And it was devastating and shameful for me to have my marriage fail. It’s too easy to say that the loss of our marriage was merely due to differences in perspectives and to ignore the reality that living with me—dealing with heavy emotions on a daily basis, despite whatever other qualities I have—was a cumulative burden that materialized in ways that my ex-wife did not expect and could not cope with. I was a caring husband who adored my wife, but given the circumstances, it was obviously not enough. Ultimately, my personality has been muted by this disease. Because I am constantly in my own way, I have been unable to

present to the world my true voice and the talents I value the most, which lie in writing poetry and novels and in making music. People who know me will say that I am a very funny person who makes them laugh, which is great—but I have more to offer than humor, as much as I love to laugh. Most of the projects I plan never make it beyond the preliminary stage, existing as fragments that remind me of my aspirations and failures. This is the disease I deal with, and it would be naive to say that it does not contribute to who I am as a person. But depression is not the totality of who I am. Like with any other disease, I do what is necessary to deal with it, but I am an otherwise capable adult with normal goals and responsibilities. Suffering from an ailment is not the same as being destroyed by it. Not everything is a tragedy, and I want to live my life. Personally, I have never been a stronger or more focused person than I am today; I’m optimistic for the future, while conscious that setbacks can occur. In the mass grief following Robin Williams’ death, one of the things people have asked a lot is: “How can someone so funny be sad enough to kill themselves?” In this regard, I think people are suffering from a kind of adaptive ignorance, in which their observational skills only report to their brain what they want to see. For my part, the great magic of Robin Williams’s comedy, as well as his dramatic roles, was that his pain was tangible in every performance. It was always there, for everyone to see. The transformation or channeling of this pain is what made him sublime. Am I projecting this onto Mr. Williams, given my own background? Perhaps, but I don’t think so. Even his beloved character Mork was more than a clown from outer space. Mork wrestled with the isolation of being from outside of this planet and trying to fit in—to translate those aspects of culture and thinking which are not in common with average human beings. In my marriage, and many other relationships, I, too, may as well have been from outer space and laid a giant egg with Jonathan Winters inside. The sense of isolation for me under the influence of depression is very powerful. There are few things harder to communicate to people than the phenomenon of feeling completely alone at parties where people are having fun, or when surrounded by people who love me. The hardest thing to explain is when a tremendous amount of love comes my way and, instead of lifting me up and away like a wave, the way you might expect, it simply dissipates, and not a drop of that love has an impact on the way I feel. When I am feeling this kind of isolation, people rarely seem to notice. It is an experience in my mind alone while I otherwise seem involved and enthusiastic. It is a disconnection from the events playing around me, and it it is an example of how someone can be so funny, or appear productive, and still be deeply depressed. Another thing that I hear people saying about suicides which touches a nerve for me is: “Too bad he didn’t love himself.” I can tell you that I love myself a lot. I think I’m great. I’m acutely aware of that fact that I have been blessed with many opportunities; that I am generally a very smart person with unique creative talents. When dealing with the overwhelming thoughts which come with depression, I may recriminate myself for things that I have or haven’t done, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t love myself. In full disclosure, I do find myself sometimes so frustrated that I really do think, “I hate myself.” But I don’t really hate myself. It is the frustration of feeling that what little control over my life that I have has been taken away by this illness. The darkest of days, usually, are when I look at myself and the promise of my life, and contrast it with the horrible perception that, in reality, I have achieved so little; that my talents have been wasted. It is a terrible feeling to imagine success for myself, and to see how I can obtain it, and then feel such inertia of being that I am CONTINUED NEXT PAGE >>>

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fers they have made. It doesn’t mean they are disingenuous. People really do care; I know that for certain. But our mundane, daily obligations are a powerful force in people’s lives, and they tend to take care of themselves first, as it should be. I would only ask that people become more aware of the power of involving themselves in others’ lives, and to simply make time for each other, because love and friendship are the greatest things. I mentioned above being in a state where the love of others does not always penetrate me as a depressed person. But being depressed doesn’t make me blind. I am aware of this love, and I keep this knowledge close to my heart. Knowing that I am loved is not on the same level as feeling it, but it is still magical stuff. If nothing else, it gives me the opportunity to express my love in return, which is a great weapon against depression—and a wonderful motivator. Ninety-five percent of the time that I can’t do anything for myself, I am still more than capable of doing something for someone else. And that may be all I need to get through the day. While all of this sounds very bleak, being depressed, even severely depressed, is kind of like being under a giant cloud: You don’t forget that the sun exists; you know that the rain will stop, and that the cloud will disperse. The same is true for most people who have come to adulthood dealing with mental illness. When the rain starts, you open an umbrella or go inside. When the wind whips you with chill, you put on a coat. If the weather turns really bad, you wait it out, and then you deal with the damage. You don’t sit around not living your life the whole time. And neither do we. It’s easy for everyone to become awkward and uncomfortable when something upsetting happens like a suicide, but you can relax. All the depressed people around you are not suddenly going to start killing themselves. The suicide homing beacon has not been set off. We have not received a directive from the mental-illness mother ship activating our selfdestruction modules. For the most part, we want to continue being alive just like you do. Just because I have to deal with the realities of severe depression doesn’t mean that I don’t enjoy my life. Every day, regardless of my mood, has something awesome to offer. Most days, I am active and involved with hobbies and responsibilities just like everyone else. I tell and laugh at jokes. I work toward my goals. Using the skills I have developed to deal with depression, I am able to mitigate the majority of problematic thoughts and feelings as they arise. I know so many people with mental illness who are doing the same thing. Please foster an awareness that allows you to move beyond the obvious when depression and other mental illnesses come into your life, whether it be on TV or in your bedroom. And if you believe that you may have a mental illness, know that for all that is tragic, there are also times of joy — and, of course, seek help. n

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incapable of moving toward that goal with more than the smallest gesture and a lot of useless intention. On those days when I feel that my life has been wasted, not just in terms of opportunity, but to have had a more full life, I sometimes think of ending my life. If not for the fact that I fear annihilation above all else, I may have already done so many times over. My love for myself, and the love others have for me, is not a factor. At such times, there is merely the weight of pain—and the overwhelming sense that this pain is insurmountable. No one takes joy in treading water endlessly. You either want to swim freely or get out of the water. This is the terrible junction of situational and biological depression I referred to earlier. For me, life is the answer, and there is always hope—but I would never judge someone who, having gone through similar experiences, came to different conclusions. Unfortunately, people often look at people who have committed suicide and say: “What a coward.” If the people throwing this sort of bullshit around could face the lifetime of repeated setback which is the life of most people with serious depression, they would know how much courage it takes just to show up to work, or attend a social gathering. In some cases, people are so overwhelmed, agitated, or confused that they put themselves into situations that escalate beyond their control, and they end their life violently out of desperation. But in most cases, the person choosing to end their life has had a long time to think about it. They have had to face knowing the pain it will cause their family and friends; they have had to think the process through, which can be very scary; and, finally, they have had to actually go through with the act of murdering themselves. That takes a resolute mind which, while not exactly bravery, is not cowardice either. Some people reading this will assume I support suicide. Having personally felt the anguish of losing a loved one this way, I am certainly not a fan. What I am saying, however, is that people in this situation are neither cowards nor are they selfish. They are worthy of love and respect. In the days following Robin Williams’s death, something else I heard a lot was: “If you ever feel like that, you can talk to me.” I am grateful for this outpouring of kindness. It is, however, contrasted with the reality that, under regular circumstances, people are generally unavailable. When I was going through the worst time I’ve had in recent years, I could barely get people to send me text messages, let alone join me in a cogent conversation over the phone or in person. Everyone has their reasons, which is fair—but in reaching out, I mostly encountered people busy with their innumerable responsibilities. If I needed an ear, it was then. I assure you that when someone has made up their mind to die, when their heart is truly in it, they will not be calling you to talk it out. The hysteria following Williams’s shocking death will fade, and people will forget the of-

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· 24 hour doorman · One block from Rittenhouse Square · State-of-the-Art fitness center · Seasoonal rooftop pool

· 24 hour doorman · State-of-the-art fitness center · Media room, resident lounge, conference room · Beautifully landscaped deck with seasonal · Pet friendly · All apartments have washers and dryers Spacious Studio with wood floors, an open kitchen, large marble $1,595 bathroom and north views towards Center City, 506 sf South facing studio with wood floors, an open modern kitchen, large marble both and lots of natural light 510 sf $1,710 Junior 1 bedroom on a high floor with wood floors, an open contemporary kitchen with breakfast bar and marble $1,800 appointed bathroom, 505 sf 1 bedroom plus den (can be used as a 2nd bedroom), 2 bathrooms, hardwood floors, open contemporary kitchen, 2 Juliet balconies overlooking a landscaped courtyard, 1473 sf $4,100

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116-118 Arch St Condo Converted Bldg with 1 Commercial condo (4) 1 BR condos and (2) bed condos fully occupied

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202 Jackson St 3BR/1.5BA Hardwood floors throughout, Updated Kitchen New washer dryer Finished basement and yard $254,900 Fishtown – 1301 N Front St #C Condo with parking 2BR/2BA Den HW Floors Open floor plan exposed beams, double skylights $265,000 443 S 51st St Recently renovated original features many new upgrades Open floor plan new windows

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1014 W Oregon Ave Fresh Renovated 3BR/1BA, Large 16x20 Concrete Patio

$179,000

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723 Hall St 3BR/1BA Bella Vista home close to Italian Market and Passyunk Square!

$299,900

Fishtown – 1757-59 Frankford Ave #5 Spacious New Condo units common outside area, Brand new Kitchen Bath and new ﬂoors and more

$299,900

228-30 Catharine St #2 Lovely Queen Village trinity style home, Courtyard 2BR/1BA in Unit laundry C/A

$235,000

Chinatown – 1100 Vine St P201 2BR Penthouse unit with HW Floors and a modern kitchen Pet Friendly

$320,000

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$239,900

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920 League St Well Cared for 3 Story home in the heart of the Italian Market eat in Kitchen, Modern Bath, New windows

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1023 S 18th St Unit B 1BR/1BA Brand New Construction A must See!

$269,900

412 Bainbridge St D Unique 2BR home with HW Floors, Custom roof deck and a modern BR

$280,000 $554,900

1534 Christian St Beautiful Home, Open Floor Plan HW Floors SS Appl, Rear Deck and More 520 Delancey St PRICE JUST REDUCED!!! Beautiful Colonial Mansion in cherished block of Society Hill

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NORTHERN LIBERTIES / NORTH PHILADELPHIA 1828 Green St #1R 2 BR/ 1 BA Condo, newly upgraded, Deeded parking

$240,000

813-17 N 5th St #301 Spacious Loft Style 2BR/1BA Condo in Prime location Private deck with bridge views

$269,900

666 N 8th St Brewerytown- 2317 N. College Ave, 3 BD 3.5 BA, Renovated w/ quality ﬁnishes. Laundry, roof deck, ﬁnished basement

Passyunk Square - 1207-09 E. Passyunk Ave- Business opportunity! 199 Sq Ft garage space with ofﬁce and 1.5 baths. Across from Geno’s steaks. Endless possibilities.

$314,000

Port Richmond – 3007 Richmond St Newly renovated duplex 1st unit 2BR/1.5BA, 2nd Unit 3BR/2.5BA C/A HW Floors, Yard

$319,900

Chinatown – 1100 Vine St P201 2BR Penthouse unit with HW Floors and a modern kitchen Pet Friendly

$320,000

Fishtown-1025 E. Columbia Street- Renovated 3BD/2BA home, large patio yard. Must See!

$339,000

Fishtown – 2336 E Cumberland St 4BR/2BA HW Floors custom woodwork newer windows deck kitchen renovated a few years ago $344,900 Fishtown – 813 E Girard Ave Great 4BR/1.5BA Stylish Home with Lots of Character

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Fishtown- 2415 Tulip St 3 BD/2.5 BA Corner property, newly renovated w/ quality ﬁnishes, new HVAC & Windows

$350,000

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Northwood/Frankford- 5220 Akron St 3 BD/1 BA Porch Front Home, Hardwoods, Fully Painted Kitchen

1524 N Hancock St #202 Bi-Level Unit open loft space HW Floors, Large Windows, 14 FT Ceilings, Open kitchen W/ Granite $329,000

Interboro (Delaware County)- 334 N Governor Printz Blvd, 4BD/ 2 BA Investment Property

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$337,000

Brewerytown- 2805 Poplar St 3 Story home with 5 BD/1 BA, Original details, Large yard

$350,000

842 N. Leithgow St 4 yr old new construction, 3 BD/ 2.5 BA, roof deck, luxury baths, hardwoods

$395,000

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$575,000

Graduate Hospital -2714 South St 19146 3 Floor 2BR/2BA

$369,900

939 New Market St Luxury 4BD/3.5 BA with Large Yard, 2 Car Garage

2201-3 N Front St Apt#3 Great Investment opportunity! Corner Property inc (3) 1 BR Apts, Catering Hall, New Roof

Frankford – 4441-49 Frankford Ave Opportunity to own a supermarket with gross receipts between $40K-60K a Month in Phila

UNIVERSITY CITY / WEST PHILADELPHIA 330 N Sloan St 2BR/1BA 670 Sq Ft W Powelton charmer, huge Yard CA , smart use of space throughout

$189,900

4629 Hazel Ave 6BR/2BA Large Sunny rooms with beautiful millwork & c.1910 details and coveted Catchment block

$499,900

4623 Cedar Ave 6BR/3BA Catchment area home with in law suite, Stunning orig details in pristine condition

$525,000

$385,000 East Kensington/Fishtown – 2321 Emerald St 4500 SF Garage and house Zoned RSA5

$395,000

3805-3807 Lauriston Brand New Luxury twin homes 3BR/3BA decks Gardens Garags 10 Yr Tax Abatement

$425,000

Reserve at Packer Park- 3408 Prima Court- NEW! 5Bdrm 3.5 Baths int eh Reserve with upgrades galore and 4 care parking! Must

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Bridesburg – 2138S Scattergood St Very solid investment property or ﬁrst time buyer opportunity! West Philadelphia- 6016 W. Thompson St Spacious 3BD/1BA home close proximity to great amenities

$47,000 $55,000

Strawberry Mansion – 2403 W Cumberland St Nice home Needs Updating but has Old World Details $55,000 Southwest – 6201-6205 Harley Ave Clean Vacant Land waiting to be built on, New Consruction going on everywhere Make an Offer! $69,800 $80,000 Port Richmond- 3185 Tulip St 3 BD/1BA Clean home on nice block $99,900 Northeast Phila – 2117 E Tioga St 3BR Home with Hardwood Floors Basement Best home on the block $159,000 North Phila – 3740 N Carlisle St Tremendous cash ﬂow opportunity as a single or multi family home Upper Olney – 6130 N Franklin St Beautiful home recently renovated in mint condition 3BR/1.5BA garage full ﬁnished basement $159,000 South Phila - 343 Gladstone St Meticulously maintained 3BR/1BA home easy access to shopping, restaurants highways and center city $169,900

$499,000

Fishtown – 1301 N Front St #C Condo with parking 2BR/2BA Den HW Floors Open ﬂoor plan exposed beams, double skylights $785,000 East Falls- 3601 Haywood St Large 5 BD/3BA 3-Story Home w/ Unique Finishes, Hardwood Flrs, Porch

$310,000

Old Kensington – 1954-58 & 1960 N 2nd St Commercial Investment opportunity! 3 Story Warehouse plus bar and garage $1,000,000 Frankford – 1101-3 Frankford Ave Ready for investors, 22.000 + Sq Ft Property is approx for 1 Commercial unit, 15 res Units W 1-1 Parking $1,800,000 Grays Ferry- 2501 Oakford St Vacant WH with lots of potential for residential conversion, commercial use, warehouse or ofﬁce space! $1,950,000i

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CENTER CITY LUXURY SALES

Avenue of the Arts

southern views, lots of natural light, great closet space, an open kitchen, balcony and

AcAdemy House 1420 Locust street

W/D, 873 sf

2 bedroom, 1.5 bath on a high floor with north and east city views, large great room and a W/D in the unit, 1019 sf $359,900 2 bedroom, 2 bath with wood floors, a renovated eat-in-kitchen, large and open entertaining space, panoramic western city views, 1314 sf $399,900

WHite Building 105 s. 12th street

1 bedroom loft with 18’ exposed brick barrel ceilings, exposed brick walls and ductwork, an open chef’s kitchen, high-end bathroom and wood floors, 898 sf $399,900

center city one 1326 spruce street

1 bedroom on a high floor with panoramic

Society Hill toWerS

1183 sf $469,900 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, completely updated

rittenhouse Square

Art Museum

$285,000

tHe pHilAdelpHiAn 2401 pennsyLvania avenue 1 bedroom overlooking the Art Museum with a large kitchen, spacious great room and excellent closet $199,900 space throughout, 1262 sf 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, updated kitchen, intimate northeast city views, excellent closet space, 1538 sf $299,900 Bi-level penthouse with soaring ceilings and window walls providing dramatic city views to the east and west; 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths,2 large terraces, $785,000 3278 sf

tHe BArclAy

1900 sf $1,249,900 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, original building details and modern updates

3 bedroom, 3 bathroom on a high floor

1830 rittenHouse squAre 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, wood floors,

tHe BArclAy 237 s. 18th street Corner 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom with original building details including high ceilings and oversized windows as well as high-end modern features such as an open chef’s kitchen, there are custom stained glass windows throughout and lots of natural light, 1900 sf $1,249,900

tHe WArWick 1701 Locust street One-of-a-kind bi-level penthouse with

$1,195,000

1 bedroom, wood floors, balcony, marble bath, excellent closet space, 765 sf $389,900 1 bedroom plus den (can be used as 2nd bedroom), 2 bathroom with 2 balconies overlooking the building’s landscaped courtyard, large modern kitchen, marble baths, hardwood floors, 1422 sf $729,900 South facing 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom with lots of natural light, an open designer kitchen, wood floors, marble baths, w/d, 1013 sf $799,900 1 bedroom plus den (can be used as a 2nd bedroom), 2 bathrooms, hardwood floors, open contemporary kitchen, 2 Juliet balconies overlooking a landscaped courtyard, 1473 sf $825,000 2 bedroom home converted to a custom 1 bedroom plus den, 2 baths, furnished, designer finishes and features, open floor plan, luxurious master suite, southern views, 1079 sf $885,000

Multi-level townhouse condo with 2 bedrooms and 2 baths, lots of natural light, high ceilings, wood floors, and a balcony overlooking the landscaped courtyard, 1602 sf $475,000

society Hill toWers 200 Locust street

1 bedroom, excellent closet space, floor-tofloor ceiling windows, panoramic southern views, 712 sf $259,900 1 bedroom, wood floors, floor to ceiling windows with breathtaking river views, potential investment opportunity, 700 sf $269,900 2 bedrooms, 2 bathroom, north and west treetop city views, wood floors, floor-to-ceiling windows, great living/entertaining space, 1183 sf $469,900

indePendence PlAce

Waterfront

pier 3 3 n. coLumbus bLvd. Updated 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom with a large balcony providing city, marina and bridge views; wood floors; an open and updated kitchen; and $339,900 lots of natural light; 1300 sf

pier 5 7 n. coLumbus bLvd.

Completely renovated 3 bedroom, 3 bath with a deck providing bridge and river views, 1 parking space in garage included, 2229 sf $399,900

penn’s lAnding squAre 313 s. 2nd st. #3b

1 bedroom, 1.5 bath with direct street access, one parking spot included, wood floors, an open updated kitchen, lots of natural light, 915 sf $369,900

PArc rittenHouSe 2080 sf $1,075,000 2 bedrooms + study, 2 baths, generous entertaining space

1173 sf $499,900 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, balcony, updated throughout

Spacious 2 bedroom plus home office, 2 bathroom with an open chef’s kitchen with stainless steel appliances and granite countertops, formal dining room, lavish master suite, marble bathrooms, excellent closet space and two private balconies overlooking the building’s landscaped courtyard, 2080 sf

$1,075,000 Custom penthouse, with 270 degree city views, a large balcony, open floor plan with chef’s kitchen and generous entertaining space, luxurious master suite, 1853 sf $2,000,000

tHe dorcHester 226 w. rittenhouse sq. Spectacular 2 bedroom, 2 bath with south-facing treetop views from all rooms, an open designer kitchen, beautifully appointed bathrooms, custom finishes throughout, 1281 sf $699,900 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom showplace with Rittenhouse Square and South Philadelphia views, a designer kitchen, luxurious master suite and custom updates throughout, 1826 sf $1,325,000

Washington Square

independence plAce 241 south 6th street

1 bedroom plus alcove, 1.5 baths, balcony providing south views, large bedroom with ensuite bath and walk-in $399,900 closet, 1118 sf 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom with balcony and treetop city views, wood floors, open updated kitchen, renovated baths, 1173 sf

1119 pine street

2 bedroom plus loft, 2.5 bath bi-level with one underground parking space, wood floors, updated kitchen and baths, open floor plan, lots of natural light, 2000 sf $650,000

620 pine street

Three story Washington Square townhome with 5 bedrooms, 4.5 baths, parking, an open kitchen, private patio and basement, 2740 sf $850,000

802 pine street

Beautifully maintained 4 bedroom, 4.5 bath overlooking Pennsylvania Hospital with an open floor plan, finished basement, 2 car parking, 2 kitchens and 2 living rooms (can be converted to 2 units), 3000 sf $875,000

stricklAnd roW 1014 spruce street

Allan Domb Real Estate 215.545.1500 • www.allandomb.com “wE CoopERATE wITh ALL REALToRS®”

$499,900

2 0 1 4 I P H I L A D E L P H I A W E E K LY 3 5

spectacular southern views and amazing natural light, marble bathrooms, a large kitchen appointed with high end finishes and appliances, 1565 sf $899,900 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom with 270 degree city views, hardwood floors, an open floor plan with chef’s kitchen, marble bathrooms, washer/dryer, 1978 sf

pArc rittenHouse 225 s. 18th street

22 st. JAmes court

P H I L A D E L P H I A W E E K L Y. C O M I A U G U S T 2 7 - S E P T E M B E R 3 ,

lots of natural light,updated eat-in kitchen, marble bath, beautiful original building details, 1136 sf $639,900

with 270 degree city views, hardwood floors, an open floor plan with chef’s kitchen and luxurious master suite, 1978 sf $1,250,000

Society Hill