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FEATURE STORY

10 I EVERY DAY IS A SICK DAY One woman’s tale of living with a chronic illness.

PHILLYNOW 8 I NEWS BRIEFS

An MMA promoter moves to Port Richmond; voters getting the boot; takeaways from Mayor Nutter’s DNC speech.

ARTS & CULTURE

Retail Account Executives Ray Cross (ext. 164), Monica Kanninen (ext. 145), David Muir (ext. 118), Brittany Resnick (ext. 149), Nancy Schure (ext. 159)

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FOOD 20 I OCCASION TO CELEBRATE

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OUTDOORS 26 I TRANSFORM AND ROLL OUT Even a jaded Philly girl turns giddy on a Segway.

STAGE 27 I THE COOL AND THE CRUEL

Death. Rock n’ roll. Post-apocalyptic dance. The Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe digs deep in 27 and Some Other Mettle.

ART 30 I SISTERLY AFFECTION

Brotherly love isn’t the only thing Philly’s got going for it, as this all-female exhibition shows.

SCREEN 32 I RUN RIGHT PAST

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MUSIC 36 I WHAT HAPPENED, YO?

A diehard Phillies fan pens a heartfelt open letter to Made in America attendees who forgot to represent.

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37 I MEDICAL STUDIES 42 I ADULT 44 I SAVAGE LOVE 49 I OPEN HOUSES 47 I REAL ESTATE

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LETTERS exactly that. Some of the people I’ve photographed in the street HAVE received help. In the near future, and with their permission, I look forward to photographing them in their new residences.

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Photo Finish In response to John Paul Titlow’s list of nine Philadelphians to follow on Instagram: I think @heyrizzo deserves a shout out for his extensive and beautifully artistic coverage of street art. Consistently frequent updates, also.

Disasters on the Delaware

Opens Friday

Just the Facts Regarding Michael Fichman’s article about an app that follows the money behind campaign commercials: I’d be more interested in an article detailing who these PACs are and who they’re funding.

Who’s playing both sides? This article is too PR for me.

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Picture Imperfect

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Regarding Annamarya Scaccia’s story on photographer and recovering alcoholic Charlie O’Hay:

If you think that people get out of homelessness all the time, why don’t you take pictures of that? You get great photos of hurt, pain and everything you talk about goes against that. You profit and exploit what you go against? If everyone does have a name, why don’t you try and give them dignity too?

Don’t we already have enough people exploiting us. Jerk.

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Charlie O’Hay’s response: The city’s DBHIDS and I are currently working together to do FOLLOW US

ON THE WEB PHILLYNOW

Propaganda, or satire? We have questions about a weird web graphic making its rounds on the Interwebs.

Ad man: 15 Mitt Romney commercials you won’t see in PA.

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Live Arts & Philly Fringe: Not sure what to see? We’ve got reviews galore!

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Well-deserved honor for Douglas Bovitt.

Good dude, good shots.

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I just went through every one of the feeds.

Two or three deserve to be here. There are way more Philly IGers that are more deserving and blow these feeds away. And yes, they are little guys. Cmon, really? One of the feeds was mostly of the dude’s cat.

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I agree with almost of all of what’s been said (I’m very happy to have been included, but I’m also confident there are many who deserved to be included but were not), but I would like to applaud Titlow for his insightful words about what Instagram is and what it means.

Unlike other social media (and I’d hesitate to even include Instagram as social media), it is all about the image. It really has become a democratizing, world-wide gallery for millions of serious artists/photographers.

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Typical Philly. This is a really dumb article and a dumb list. There is one woman on the list?

Awesome. We women-folk must have a long way to go to prove ourselves on ye ol’ Instagram. I’m gonna get right on that.

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What’s up with people taking photos with their cameras and then posting them through Instagram? I find that kind of lame and missing the point.

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Fran Evans

The local mixed-martial arts promoter starts over.

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You’ve got an October show coming up in Port Richmond. Do you plan on staying at that gym long-term?

I’m really set on the next year or two to open a facility in a rougher neighborhood. I want it more borderline, where people from Port Richmond will still go, but I want it in a rough area. I want to get access to the kids, give them an opportunity to train.

You mean like Kensington?

Yeah ... I really want something right off of the York-Dauphin [El stop]. I want to help out the community by teaching kids martial arts and getting them involved, but also giving people who wouldn’t have the chance to be able to train because of the pricing. Let’s face

it, mixed-martial arts is $150 per month to go to gyms, and the quality of the coaches at them gyms are pretty decent, but the gyms that are 80 bucks, and 90 bucks … they just don’t have the qualifications to teach people.

So, it doesn’t make sense for you to go to one of those gyms ’cause all you’re getting is a heavy bag and a class to run around in a couple nights a week. I think if I can get access to these kids, I can give ‘em a place to come in. I can teach them myself, but I’m gonna bring in coaches.

I’m gonna take a run with them and say ‘Look, this is for a cause.’ I think I’ll change a lot of people’s minds about what MMA is. People are making money off of this, and a lot of people think it’s all about the money and I want to prove to people there are people who care. I care enough that I’m gonna give back to the community.

How do you think MMA can help kids?

It helped me change my life. I grew up in Kensington … I had the right parents that helped me and I still chose to get in trouble and be a knucklehead. A lot of kids don’t have access to mixed-martial arts so they don’t have an outlet to plug in. They have an opportunity [with this] sport to change their lives and their families’ lives. Boxing is so much easier for them to get access to, so I just want to make it more accessible for them, and I know [it takes] discipline because mixed-martial arts is a lifestyle; you don’t just train MMA and fight. You train, you eat right, you live right, you think

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ocal mixed-martial arts promoter Fran Evans, 28, hit a bump early this year with his local outfit Locked in the Cage, a small MMA company based in Port Richmond (profiled in an August 2011 issue of PW). The South Philly arena, where he’d been holding his fights, folded. His public relations assistant left, and a match he later held in Bucks County flopped. It made him ponder his future in the business, and come to a not-so-shocking conclusion: He grew up in Kensington, lives in Port Richmond and has his office right off Aramingo Avenue; that’s what he knows, so that’s where his shows should be based. He hired a new staff and is working on a new gym in Port Richmond.

He says he’d eventually like to open an MMA after-school program.

about things right. Consequences matter to you, because everything is life has consequences and martial arts is the same way.

You make a wrong move, you’re gonna get hurt.

So, you think there’s discipline you learn in MMA you can’t get from boxing?

The discipline that’s involved in being a mixed-martial artist, there’s no way you’re going to get that from boxing, or even

wrestling. Guys I knew who were wrestlers, today, they … work hard every day. It’s the same with MMA. But martial arts embeds that into your brain: Work hard. Live right.

You are always looking at the next thing you can achieve to make you more successful.

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Another Push to Purge PA Voters From the Rolls second voter-ID hearing is set to begin in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Sept. 13. But what’s been less talked about in-state is the push for a ‘voter purge’ in Pennsylvania and elsewhere.

The purge talk began when newly elected Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) decided in February 2011 that it was time to clean up the state’s voter rolls of undocumented immigrants and others who might be voting when, in fact, they shouldn’t. The story went mainstream earlier this year in the shadow of the voter-ID mess, in which plenty of Florida citizens who’d been legally living in the Sunshine State for decades were suddenly being forced to prove their citizenship.

Then the U.S. Department of Justice got involved, attempting to stop the state from

challenging voters’ legality on civil-rights grounds. (Like voter-ID, a vast majority of those on the purge rolls, and therefore affected, are minorities.) Florida sued back, and the effort remains in limbo.

One of the groups initially pushing for the voter purge in Florida is True the Vote, a nonprofit run by conservatives (and affiliated with conservative legal group Judicial Watch) dedicated to encouraging “volunteer activism in the election process and to ensure that the votes of legal citizens are not canceled out by illegal voters including felons, illegal immigrants and dead people,” according to the group’s president, Catherine Engelbrecht.

As it turns out, Pennsylvania may be next on her list.

True the Vote says its efforts are legal, according to Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act, which says states are required to make a “reasonable effort” to clean up voter-registration rolls. But, like voter-ID, many have called the effort one that’s been conducted in a partisan manner—and one that singles out swing states (like us).

In fact, there are lawsuits filed by both True the Vote and Judicial Watch in several other states, including Pennsylvania, to purge more voters from the rolls. Judicial Watch also notes it has found “voter rolls [that] appear to contain the names of individuals who are ineligible to vote” in the commonwealth.

“We are considering other lawsuits,” Jill Farrell of Judicial Watch tells PW by email.

Meanwhile, the group is assembling an army of election-watchers to descend upon polling places on Election Day. Farrell says she’s trying to stop another 2000 presidential election—in which President Bush won the state of Florida by just 537 votes after more than 180,000 voters and paper ballots were stricken—from taking place. The irony, of course, being that it was Democrats who felt screwed in Florida that year, not Republicans.

“The 2000 presidential election was decided by just over 500 votes in Florida, creating a national nightmare,” she says. “When 180,000 potential votes in Florida (or Indiana, or anywhere else for that matter) are in question, it is only common sense that something be done to correct the problem.” (R.L.) ■

PHILLYNOW

ayor Nutter, after being both bumped and allegedly promoted from last Wednesday’s Democratic National Convention speaker schedule to Thursday, gave a speech just before 7 p.m., which is almost prime time. Oddly, it ended just 4 minutes and 36 seconds later.

Mostly about public education, Nutter’s speech was highly anticipated in the local and national media, but few mentioned his performance afterward. Here are three takeaways from the mayor’s speech to America.

2. Was this really a promotion?

When Twitter started blowing up with announcements of Nutter getting bumped, it looked huge. After all, he was now set to speak the same night as Obama. Nutter even called the change “way beyond anything that I could have imagined.” Then, the text of his speech showed up in my inbox, at 513 words. I figured, or at least hoped, it was just an excerpt.

It wasn’t.

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“When I first got [the news], I textmessaged the head of Homicide.

I didn’t want to put down the words ‘I heard she had passed.’ … I couldn’t bring myself to type the words.”

—Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey, on Kathryn Battle, 57, who died of breast cancer on Sept. 3. As the PPD’s victim’s assistance officer, Battle helped families of murder victims fill out paperwork to claim state funds for funeral expenses. Visit phillynow.com to read senior writer Tara Murtha’s remembrance of her friend and next-door neighbor.

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1. He got off on the wrong foot.

The irony was biting as Nutter got on stage and spoke of public education— one of the many aspects he has hit Republican Mitt Romney on in the past, specifically when the mayor taunted the presidential contender during his visit to a school in West Philly.

But look at our own school district’s recent track record. As it happens, we are losing public money, workers and schools to a system that’s been failing for decades at both the city and state levels. This is not necessarily the mayor’s fault. But he didn’t exactly play to his strengths when he started the speech with an education lesson.

3. Someone had to have muzzled him.

If there’s one thing we can tell about Nutter, in his year-long journey carrying Obama’s water in Philadelphia, it’s that he has, well, feelings about Romney. And they are not good feelings. In previous appearances and press calls, Nutter has called Romney, “a joke”; said the Republican candidate has “never seen a Latino that he didn’t want to put out of the country”; and “wants to get rid of police officers, firefighters and teachers all across the United States of America.” He even said Romney “cries crocodile tears” when he gets attacked

by Democrats. Nutter’s rhetoric on Thursday featured very little of that tenacity and even fewer Obama talking points he sticks to when on CNN and MSNBC. Instead, it was more a “we’re all in this together” talk—partly to show off his street cred (as he spoke of his family and his childhood in West Philly) and partly to separate the philosophies of the two major parties. (R.L.) ■

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When a chronic illness keeps sending you back to the hospital, the challenge is to keep on keeping on. Jennifer Clare Burke explains.

ou wouldn’t think I’d have to learn this the hard way, but since I did, let me share: Never schedule an anal probing on Friday the 13th.

July, 2012: Moments before my colonoscopy, two techs on my right and an anesthesiologist on my left gazed benevolently at me as I tensed in the gurney.

“There’s a puddle of blood near my butt,” I said. “I don’t want you to be concerned by that.”

“You’re bleeding?” asked the older tech.

“My IV malfunctioned when my wrist was near my tush. It was all blood spurts and hilarity. The nurses wrapped the bloody stuff in a pad so I wouldn’t see it.” “…OK.” “I’m in the mood to take a nap.”

“We’re in the mood for you to take a nap,” agreed the anesthesiologist, as the three of them gently rolled me onto my side. When the whitish stuff they injected into my arm began to irritate the vein, I felt at least a halfsecond of empty, divine falling before the nothing.

In the summer of 1998, I still thought of myself as a healthy 24-year-old. And yet I often felt an increasingly nagging, nondescript sort of awful as I walked to class from the parking lot of the university where I taught composition to aspiring med-school students. I felt feverish and oddly fatigued.

On a gut level, I knew something was wrong. Still, I looked for mundane explanations. Surely my busy schedule or my workouts were causing the joint and muscle pain that had been gradually getting worse. With fair, sensitive skin, I blamed the unusual rashes on any number of irritants. Finally, though, I had to admit that there was simply no justification for why schlepping students’ papers and books to and from class created an agony in my hands, elbows and shoulders.

I went to see my primary doc. Finding my

joints red and swollen, she tried to manipulate my knuckles; I jumped and instinctively pulled my hands away from her. “I think,” she said, “you need to see a rheumatologist.”

“What’s that?”

“Someone who treats autoimmune disorders like lupus, which might be going on here.”

“What’s that?”

Lupus, as she told me, is an inflammatory condition that can’t be cured, but the symptoms can be managed—including the joint pain, crippling fatigue and unrelenting stiffness that had brought me to her office. (For more details, see “Quick Facts About Lupus,” Page 12.)

It was a helpful answer. One that nonetheless neglected to predict the number of inpatient stays I have since encountered, or the intensity of the burning pain that has sometimes sent me shrieking and rolling on the cold kitchen floor.

My doctor said something else that day that has stuck with me: “You’ll find a way, just as you do with everything else.”

Well—sort of. I have somewhat successfully managed my incurable condition for 14 years now. But there hasn’t been any one way. Rather, I’ve had to keep finding ways, plural, as each new curveball from disease or complications has forced multiple, ever-changing solutions to living on the daily edge of crisis.

I didn’t know, precisely, that a month and a half ago I would wind up with another inpatient notch on my IV tube—yet I have lived for more than a decade constantly anticipating that something will go kapow!

I keep on with life, doing all the things people do. Except for those occasional moments when I find myself in a panicked, agitated state because I’ve made the mistake of thinking about the future too hard while resting too little. At such times, worry and physical discomfort come together, leaving me with the strong impulse to simply wander away from myself.

But back to my colonoscopy, which had been prompted by a particularly bad threeweek-long bout of irritable bowel syndrome that prevented me from keeping food inside my body for more than a few minutes.

I came out of anesthesia after the procedure slowly and without grace. I assume my then90-something-pound weight had much to do with that. I vaguely remember sipping juice to elevate my sugar and talking; friends and family later informed me that what I actually said was, “The guy next door is farting, and it’s loooooud,” at which point I was hushed, as apparently I was guilty of the same crime. Then I undressed completely, casting the hospital gown aside, and put on my sneakers. I was ready to go home now!

I was helped with the rest of my clothing at that point, so an embarrassing public spectacle was avoided—but I was still trashed. Fortunately, I didn’t have to drive myself home, where, thinking my day finally over, I heated a frozen TV dinner to eat and literally fell into bed.

Within an hour, I barfed the juice from the hospital as well as a distinct portion of the dinner. Now the anesthesia was fully worn off, and a migraine pounded unbearably. Not a headache—I know nothing of these mildly irritating headaches other people describe.

I’m talking about a migraine.

I went to the ER. I explained to them that the last 24 hours had been an exercise in How to Trigger a Barfing Migraine. The emergency docs gave me fluid and drugs: Zofran (for nausea) and Dilaudid (for pain). I was in serious enough discomfort that I varied from my usual self-restraint and asked for more of the narcotic, pushing aside the knowledge from previous experience that it would likely leave me feeling dopey and hung over. For the moment, I just needed to enjoy the absence of pain. I went home.

I slept off the migraine treatment. Roughly six hours later, I woke up puking in strangling

agony. The rest of that frozen meal paid me a visit: completely undigested and without bile.

I knew that was bad. My insides weren’t functioning.

I work as an independent contractor— writing, mostly, plus other gigs—because I’ve learned over the years that there’s no way for me to be sick on someone else’s schedule.

Working a strict 9-to-5 isn’t sustainable when those are the hours when medical specialists, physical therapists and infusion suites need to see you.

On good days—in good months—I take my daily meds, my weekly shots and try to keep up with my physical therapy workouts at the gym or at least at home. In July 2011, one of my docs had me commit to a strict gluten-free, dairy-free diet that reduced my IBS and other inflammatory issues. I keep up with blood work, and I try to keep up with whatever new problems arise. So far in 2012, I’ve dealt with a sinus scope after too many bloody noses during a sinus infection; some highly inconvenient scleritis incidents; and treatments to reduce the swelling of a chronically angry knee. I sleep much more than my peers, and my need for rest over-determines my life. I keep a towel in the car to throw over the exposed skin on my left side: I don’t want the sun hitting my neck, shoulder, arm or hand while I’m driving to avoid the rash, burn and resulting feeling of ick.

Then there are the sick times. In 2000, the pain in my legs was unbearable, so I reluctantly accepted a walker. In the years since then, I’ve occasionally used it during some rough times, but the need has lessened as my knowledge of proper self-care has increased.

Just this year, I had to turn my car around on the road within 10 minutes of leaving home because scleritis hit so severely in one eye that I couldn’t properly drive; the tearing and the intensity of the pain forced the eye shut. It was a bizarre phone call to my boss to explain

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that suddenly, my eye didn’t work. Because I’m on treatment that’s immunosuppressive, it’s not uncommon that I take longer to fight infections; currently, I’ve been on treatment for an infection since May 4, which I hope I can finally conclude when I see my doc on Sept. 26.

I am enormously privileged to receive a level of medical care that keeps me (mostly) functional in the midst of serious health incidents and ongoing daily disease. I pay $445 a month for my health insurance premium. I have a $50 copay for my office visits; there is the deductible per year, out-of-network items and items not covered at all, such as visits with a pain specialist for $250 a pop. It adds up fast, yet I am absolutely blessed compared to many Americans who have medical problems that are far more severe, but who lack health insurance—or the funds to cover medical costs, sometimes even with insurance.

This sick life is precisely why my husband and I live with my 85-year-old mother and are likely to until we’re more financially stable. The living arrangement, while sometimes challenging, allows all three of us to conserve costs and to care conveniently for her needs. These savings have allowed me to continue repaying my student loans without lateness or default and to repay completely my private student loans; to pay for my health insurance premiums and other medical costs; and to put money aside in a disability fund for periods of disease-induced joblessness.

When people suggest that I should “live a little,” I find this joyful attitude—which works in their healthy lives—laughably naive. They need a lesson in Sickie Math: the common denominator is being a little more screwed than my (mostly) healthy peers can readily grasp, those peers who can more or less count on being able to rise from bed the next day to be good employees. I possess none of that reliability from my body, so I possess none of that reliability in my finances. I act accordingly.

Friday the 13th, still: I was now at the hospital for the third time today, a mustard yellow barf bin readily placed in my waiting, spastic hand by a hospital volunteer. A tech led me to a familiar room made of curtains, leaving me with the instruction to have my insurance card and driver’s license out, which I already did.

I took off my clothes to step into a medical gown, and two things happened simultaneously: first, a nurse entered with a tray of IV goodies, from tubing to blood sample vials, and second, a wave of retching grabbed me.

I had already placed the bin strategically on the bed. My aim, well practiced by now, nailed the target. Solid minutes of heaves, whistling breaths and thick splatter elapsed as the nurse kept her back to me. I was mostly standing, sort of, on my own, tolerating what my body did. She busied herself with putting patient information stickers on vials and entering data into a computer. Finally, I was left somehow dry-mouthed but also string-drooling into the bin, my fists on either side, supporting my weight. My face reddened with the heat of ex-

ertion, tears pulsing from the strain.

As if nothing had happened, the nurse turned to me cheerfully and kept strict eye contact: “Would you like some help with that gown?”

The gown was still folded neatly on the bed.

I appreciated the polite concession to my dignity, even as I wondered what she thought of the pathetic naked woman, dressed only in sneakers and cut-off running socks, unable

It didn’t take long before I knew by the feel of it that this IV was turning bad. Pink dots of irritation materialized under my skin—and started moving. The unit nurse pulled the line and called an IV specialist to come try again; meanwhile, my arm started bruising along the vein.

I’d had far worse from similar procedures—but this one hurt, so much that I couldn’t use the hand. Brushing my hair ventured into pure Three Stooges territory.

The nurse cheerfully asked: “Would you like some help with Quick Facts that gown?” I appreciated the About Lupus polite concession to my dignity, Lupus is a disease in which the immune system mutinies against even as I wondered what she the body, mistaking its healthy tissues for a hostile invader. The thought of the pathetic naked resulting inflammation may cause and/or damage to joints, woman, dressed only in sneakers pain skin and organs. and cut-off running socks, bare The Lupus Foundation of America estimates tits wobbling freely over a bin of that approximately 1.5 million Americans have a form of lupus. regurgitated food. to control the body’s grotesque play, bare tits wobbling freely over a bin of regurgitated food.

A doctor came in and immediately decided to admit me. Next came a young resident, her immaculate hair pulled back into a sparkling barrette that glowed even in the dull hospital lighting. She confirmed several of my suspicions: Sometimes the intestines can “fall asleep” after a colonoscopy and need time to come around, which accounted for why food was coming up in its original form. Also, the pre-colonoscopy cleansing regimen had been a one-size-fits-all package—overkill for someone weighing less than 100 pounds.

Now the doctor ordered I be put on Zofran (again), Dilaudid (again), and Pepcid (for nausea and stomach acid control). I was also given Decadron, a corticosteroid, to assist with conquering the migraine and to help my fried adrenal system. Ah, I haven’t explained that part yet: After years of taking daily steroids to treat the lupus, my adrenal glands no longer function normally on their own. Thus, when the body experiences trauma, I need some help.

Enter the Decadron.

I’d already had two IVs earlier in the day. By now, my body was dehydrated and no longer cooperating, and it took two nurses four tries to land the latest IV in my right wrist. So it goes as the health dominoes flop one after another.

Over the course of the next several hours, the next IV line, in my left wrist, eventually broke into a thick greenish bruise, this one characterized, thankfully, more by pressure than by pain.

Meanwhile, the IV specialist expressed concern that the first injury had altered circulation to the right hand. We watched it. I didn’t let her or the unit nurse touch it for a while. Eventually the circulation improved, but not without that scare over how much damage had occurred.

That’s chronic, systemic illness in a nutshell: I went in for a basic procedure involving my digestive system, and ended up having to worry about a potentially bad injury to my right hand’s functioning.

There was a period about five years ago when the illness was so bad that I couldn’t work at all for months on end. I knew I couldn’t keep draining my aging parents’ bank accounts— my father was still alive then—no matter what sort of crisis I might be experiencing. So I applied for welfare. It was a painful slap, as much so as the disability itself, for a multiple-degreeholder who’d always been determined to live independently.

Years later, long after my health had more or less stabilized and I was working more than one job simultaneously, I continued carrying the expired welfare card in my wallet as a reminder of how bad things could get—and of

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I came out of anesthesia slowly and without grace.

I vaguely remember sipping juice and talking.

Friends and family later informed me that what I actually said was: “The guy next door is farting, and it’s loooooud.” the fact that I could rally and get past those times.

In 2010, I taught senior college students in their final semester before graduation. They asked a lot of questions. Questions about writing research papers for other classes, how to write a personal statement, how to behave in interviews and offices, and whether post-grad degrees would ultimately give them security.

This last topic led to job talk and money talk— all of which they didn’t realize they were predicating on the idea of having healthy bodies well into the future.

“Look, wait a minute,” I said one day. “Here’s the best way for me to give you something to think about in your financial projections.”

I grabbed my purse from the instructor’s desk and retrieved the food stamps card from my wallet. I covered it. “OK, I’m going to show the class something, and you tell me what it is.”

No sooner had I lifted it to their eye level when the shriek of “FOOD STAMPS!” echoed off the institutional fluorescent lights.

“Yes. Tell me when I needed them?”

A raised hand. I nodded at the student. “After your degrees,” he said.

“Correct. You’re having this money discussion as if everything out there is a sure shot if you just plan well enough, or if the job just comes through. Yes, you should plan—a lot, and very carefully. But there will always be the unexpected, the thing that cuts you at the knees, the thing that derails you and makes you whine about life not being fair. And you’ll have to think now about cultivating the resources as a full adult out of college to get through those times.”

I explained the nature of sickness, the time on food stamps, and the time afterward when

I could actually buy better quality food that aided my health without feeling the density of money guilt and even worse money anxiety. I talked about my career decisions in the midst of student debt, caring for a family member with terminal cancer, and getting work that I enjoyed. I didn’t think that disease got me off the hook as long as I could still contribute in some way, and I needed them to know that.

When I later invited an admissions representative from a local school’s postgraduate program to speak in class, students pelted her with financial aid questions and wanted information on the recent graduating class’ loan repayment rate and employment rate. I had given them a practical planning tool to guide their decisionmaking and to heighten their research efforts: fear.

The hospital released me on Saturday the 14th, once I proved that I could eat chicken like a “normal person.” During the car ride home with the windows down, I welcomed the wind that made my braid swish into my face. My hair smelled like the detergent used on hospital linens.

I might not be able to predict the exact time, location or nature of my next sickie trip, and I don’t have to. It’s enough to know with visceral certainty that it will come. n Jennifer Clare Burke is a writer based in the Philadelphia area. An expanded edition of her novel A Life Less Convenient: Letters to My Ex, about the struggle to maintain a romantic relationship through chronic illness, will be published by Homofactus Press in early 2013.

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Part of the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe, Feastival was created two years ago when the festival decided to come together with some of the city’s world-class restaurants to celebrate both our artistic and culinary scenes. The event will be co-hosted by three local culinary icons: Steven Starr, Michael Solomonov and Audrey Claire Taichman. Attendees will be able to sample foods from chefs Jose Garces, Marc Vetri, Georges Perrier and Michael Schulson, all while watching live performances by artists from around the world. Some of this year’s presenters include Reading Terminal Market, Rittenhouse Tavern, Shake Shack, Sugar Philly Truck, Table 31, Union Trust Steakhouse and Vintage Wine Bar & Bistro. BRENDA HILLEGAS 5-9pm. $250-$350. Pier 9, 121 N. Columbus Blvd. phillyfeastival.com

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Want to hear some amazing stories about local happenings? Want to be inspired by the people who live in this city with you? The 10th installment of Ignite Philly is headed to Johnny Brenda’s for an evening of speakers who will entertain and educate you with all of the great ideas they are bringing to life here in Philadelphia. The event features a series of stories told in five-minute increments. Some of the topics you’ll learn about are urban mechanics, creating a universal Philly, comics on the web, a brief history of herringbone and many more. Tickets are going quickly. Grab one, and be inspired. B.H.

While the term flugtag means “flying day” in German, this display of homemade aviation is more often associated with sinking than soaring. The Red Bull-sponsored Flugtag invites courageous teams to launch their flying machines from a 30-foot high deck. All of the odd aircrafts must be human-powered and may not weigh more than 450 lbs. Despite the regulations, it seems that there is no limit to the imaginations of those who compete. Pictures and video footage of past events feature a flying baseball bat, a Flyers zamboni and bug-shaped planes. You can check out the 33 teams when the hangars open at noon, but the first flight takes off at 1 p.m. ASHLEY KOLE

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He may be straight out of Compton, but Kendrick Lamar is no gangsta rapper. He and his musical clique Black Hippy are more interested in giving back to the ‘hood than bringing any more negativity to their doorsteps. Born Kendrick Lamar Duckworth, the 24-year-old says he is influenced by the late Tupac Shakur, particularly after witnessing the filming of the latter’s “California Love” video when Lamar was just 8 years old. Thug life isn’t his aim, as he saw plenty of it in his own family, but Lamar wants to have the same kind of critical and commercial acceptance as his idol. To that end, his many mixtapes and independently released recordings led to the respect of heavy-hitting peers like Dr. Dre, Snoop, Drake, The Game and a major label record deal with Interscope and Aftermath via his Top Dawg imprint. His first official single, “The Recipe,” featuring Dr. Dre, was released earlier this year, and his major label debut, Good Kid, m.A.A.d City, drops soon. But he’s only new to those outside of his already widespread reach.

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Whether we’re 4 or 40, we all have a special place in our hearts for Disney. Especially since they keep churning out some pretty great films—Brave, The Muppets, Secretariat, The Avengers. Presented by D23, “The Official Disney Fan Club,” this “Fanniversary” celebration has sold out in every city it has been held in so far this year and is expected to draw hundreds of fans when it comes here to Philly. Hosted by a Disney archivist and a D23 team member, the two-hour presentation features rare film clips, audio tracks, concept art, photography and behind-the-scenes stories, many of which have never been heard or seen before. Your trip down Memory Lane will include more than 40 Disney milestones spanning 75 years, from Goofy’s first-ever on-screen appearance in 1932 to the opening of the popular Star Wars attraction at Disneyland. You can also expect plenty of classic Mickey Mouse cartoons. NICOLE FINKBINER 7pm. $25. Penn Museum, 3260 South St. 215.898.4000. penn.museum [EVENT]

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Pallid organs play, ghastly screams bellow, lights flicker, stomachs turn, craft beers and veggie burgers are served—it’s carny night at National Mechanics, where Dr. Zanzibar’s Olde City Sideshow perform their vaudevillian macabre for your delight and disdain. Watch, mouth agape, as the merry band of freaks do some good ol’ fashioned sword swallowin’, face nailin’, flame blowin’, bed-ofnails layin’, bug eating and other grisly acts for your dining and drinking accompaniment. Watch, drink and be disturbed. ABIGAIL BRULEY 9pm. Free. National Mechanics, 22 S. Third St. 215.701.4883. oldecitysideshow.com

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Indiana, but now the band is split between Denver and Philly. Their show here in their half-hometown this Saturday is truly going to be special: It’s at FDR Park, a splendid patch of grass that hasn’t hosted a big concert on its grounds since the Beastie Boys co-kicked it live there during 1994’s Lollapalooza. It’ll be great to see Lotus’ impressive and much-talked-about light show in the park. Fellow lightshow enthusiasts Ghostland Observatory are also on this expansive bill, so this thing will truly be a spectacle to behold. BRIAN MCMANUS

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Halfway through Mature Themes, Ariel Pink’s latest release, there’s a song called “Schnitzel Boogie,” which celebrates the Austrian cutlet dish. On paper, that might sound like “Weird Al” Yankovic territory (“schnitzel” is among the top three funniest food names, ahead of “waffles” but behind “whoopie pie”), though it’s actually a slice of Beach Boys-y melodicism. Near the end of the song, Pink repeats the word “schnitzel” endlessly, and while you’re lost in its dreaminess, you forget how ridiculous it all is. But that’s Ariel Pink—he’s strange. Often on his lonesome, Pink has spent years recording hundreds of songs on primitive equipment, inspired by lo-fi prognosticator R. Stevie Moore, who’s been doing the same since the late ‘60s. In 2003, some of Pink’s recordings made it to the hands of fellow weirdos Animal Collective, who signed him to their record label and gave his music a much wider audience.

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WEST PHILADELPHIA R&B FEST

At the 7th annual West Philly R&B Fest, live music will be playing, and food offerings from the area will be available to members of the city, regardless of neighborhood. To entertain the little ones, there will be a Kids Zone featuring a moon bounce and other fun activities. Also, West Philly will be bringing out its finest cars from the garage, as the second annual car show takes place. But this fest isn’t all fun and games: The Partnership CDC, which strives to bring affordable home-ownership, financial education and commercial corridor revitalization to the west and southwest parts of the city, will be providing free health screenings and information about neighborhood concerns and community resources.

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Lotus’ fourth full-length album finds the band moving in a decidedly more electronic direction, while staying true to their organic roots. The result is an album worthy of its self-titled status—the band’s singular sound and spirit runs through those 11 road-tested tracks, which are all streaming on their website. The guys got together in

Once known simply as the Philadelphia Distance Run, this annual 13-mile marathon regularly draws more than 20,000 runners from across the globe, raising millions of dollars for a total of 19 local charities. But while the course has been the site of five World Records over the years, the sidelines are where the real excitement’s at. At every mile along the route, spectators will find local cheerleading squads and dance teams shaking their pom-poms as part of the “Spirit on the Course” competition, as well as themed water stations and an eclectic mix of live music ranging from punk to jazz. That’s PHOTORUN.NET

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Bon Iver’s music plays like the soundtrack to someone’s roller coaster of a love life, reveling in the soaring highs and crushing lows with an uncommon sort of gratitude and appreciation.

From the sparse, desperate stories on their acclaimed 2008 debut, For Emma, Forever Ago, to the falsetto-heavy, ambient dream folk of their latest release, 2011’s Bon Iver, Bon Iver, they leave no emotional landmark untouched. In fact, they take the notion of such things to the extreme on Bon Iver, Bon Iver by naming many of the tracks after cities (“Perth,” “Calgary” and “Lisbon, OH” are just a few), as though to denote where monumental experiences have taken place. It is a creative stroke of genius that underscores their continued ability to give their songs dramatic scenery and setting, so that the songs themselves are more than just a collection of words and emotions—they become truly cinematic experiences. BRIAN PALMER 7:30pm. $29-$49. With Anais Mitchell. Mann Center for the Performing Arts, 5201 Parkside Ave. 215.878.3305. manncenter.org

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9pm. $16-$18. With Phèdre + BODYGUARD. Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St. 215.232.2100. utphilly.com

The Friends of Schuylkill Banks invite you to come and spend an evening enjoying the simplier things in life during a laid-back outdoor fete under the Walnut Street Bridge. Guests will enjoy complimentary food, drinks and sweets from several local sponsors, including Victory Brewing, Little Baby’s Ice Cream, Pitruco, the Dapper Dog, Penn Woods Winery, Pure Sweets and Magner’s Cider. Compete with strangers and friends in fun lawn games or bring a blanket and some chairs and simply watch as the sun sets over the river. Local swingabilly group Delco Nightingale will have you bopping your head and shaking your hips to their rockin’ swing tunes.

Proceeds for the event will help FOSB continue to improve and maintain the river banks. N.F.

right—13 different stages, 13 different bands. Once participants have crossed the finish line, a post run concert will begin with headliner Haley Reinhart.

On Friday and Saturday, the marathon will also sponsor a Health & Fitness expo at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. N.F.

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One of Anthony Hamilton’s most winning strengths—perhaps the one strength that keeps him going as an in-demand R&B performer—is that when he sings, you actually believe every word. Compare any of his songs to one performed by, say, Trey Songz. While both men’s vocal styles are wildly different, North Carolina native Hamilton has that smoky, church-bred drawl, while Songz belongs in that same whiny, callow-sounding club where Chris Brown, Drake and founding member Usher all have custom-fitted letterman jackets.

Hamilton has that seasoned conviction in his performing that guys like Songz sorely lack. (Keep it real: Didn’t you have a “Negro, please!” moment the first time you heard Songz’s hit “Neighbors Know My Name?”) But on the other hand, Hamilton, a former backup singer for D’Angelo, has >> Rock ‘n’ Roll Half-Marathon

always been a performer whose music engulfs you with his grown-ass-manliness. He knows people are looking for R&B that’s just as adult as they are, not music that seems to only exist to make bobbleheaded, tramp-stamp-plagued teen girls shriek in delight. There’s a maturity, sophistication and believability in every song this distinguished Southern gentleman drops. He may not be a love face-making panty-wetter like Songz and other cats of his ilk, but Anthony Hamilton is that rare breed of R&B singer: He seduces and stimulates you just by being a gotdamn man. CRAIG D. LINDSEY 7:30pm. With Estelle. $39.50-$85. Tower Theater, 69th and Ludlow sts., Upper Darby. 610.352.2887. thetowerphilly.com

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Electric Jungle, the new Philly Fringe production from Found Theater Company, seeks to answer the question: “What does sound do to us?” according to director Phoebe Schaub. Part of the immersive theater movement that changes the relationship between actor and audience and puts theatergoers inside the show, Jungle amplifies the visceral style of theater that has made Found one of the city’s most compelling alternative theater companies. The show explores our responses to sound and music by ushering the audience through three distinctive spaces. The first is an antechamber that Schaub describes as a “sterile white chamber” filled with pre-recorded sound comprised of “text, music, and digital tones.” The two subsequent spaces are a surprise, but we can reveal that they immerse the audience in worlds that represent the evolution of sound from the natural to the technological. Schaub says there is little in the way of dialogue spoken by the actors, but rather the narrative is forged primarily through songs and imagery that take the audience on a journey from a simple sigh to the pulsating rhythm of an amplified five-piece band. J.C.R. 7pm. $15. Painted Bride Art Center, 230 Vine St. 215.413.1318. livearts-fringe.org

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Making its debut in Philadelphia, this documentary explores the undiscovered history of punk band the Clash. From their early gigs to their legendary Shea Stadium concert in 1982, The Rise and Fall of the Clash allows the audience to watch the evolution of the British punk icons. Just over 90 minutes, the film features previously unseen footage of the band and interviews with individual band members. While the film recently screened at the CBGC Festival in New York City, this intimate viewing includes special performances by the High Five as well as Blayer Pointdujour & the Rockers Galore.

Following the film, there will be a discussion with director Danny Garcia, a longtime fan who coproduced the project with David Mingay. A.K. 7pm. $10. The Trocadero, 1003 Arch St. thetroc.com

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n a recent Wednesday, sitting at the bar at the excellent new location of Village Whiskey at Revel, I found myself awash in a feeling I tend not to experience in Atlantic City all that often: relaxation. It was kind of weird.

I’m no Situation. I don’t hit the G.T.L. trifecta before going out to get my proverbial swerve on at the A.C. clubs. I don’t drink the fluorescent-green “Dude” flavor of vodka from Three Olives. (Yes, it’s an actual bottling, and it looks like either Gatorade or a urine sample.) But still, whenever I’m in Atlantic City, I tend to find a surge of electricity buzzing through my body; it’s like an energybased contact high. And while it’s great for a while, it tends to wear thin after a night.

Which is all to say that my time at the bar at Village Whiskey was a most unexpected sort of enjoyable. Not that it’s a low-energy place—quite the opposite.

All the new Jose Garces outposts at Revel, in fact, have found a remarkable balance between the comfortable, the honest and the exciting. In other words, they have kept their souls and retained the core of what’s made them so successful in Philly, even in translation.

This is no easy trick. Anyone who has dined at big-name chefs’ casino restaurants knows that it’s a hit-or-miss proposition. At their best, they offer guests a chance to experience a bit of the magic that garnered their namesake chefs such acclaim in the first place, albeit often in a significantly bigger format. At their worst, they are poorly veiled excuses for restaurateurs to capitalize on their hard-earned reputations without having to deliver nearly the same quality they did in their original locations. (For instance, the last time I ate in an Atlantic City celeb-chef showcase, I couldn’t shed myself of the feeling that I was being shaken down: The food was plenty enjoyable, but between the outrageous prices and the constantly darting eyes of the managers and servers, always on the lookout for a more important table, I felt less like a welcome guest than some sort of anthropomorphic ATM.) I think a lot of the success of the three Jose Garces enterprises to find their way to Revel—Village Whiskey, Amada and Distrito, the latter with a Guapos

Good Garces: Amada, like its sister restaurants Village Whiskey and Distrito, stays classy in a casino setting.

Tacos truck adjacent to it, twinkling in its technicolor beer-cap suit—is thanks to the nature of the organization itself.

Over the years, Garces has remained the same soft-spoken, approachable person he was in the beginning. Iron Chef is a title he wears as lightly as a linen suit.

That sort of humility impacts everyone within the company, from management to floor staff to the kitchen itself. And in the process, it leads to employees who seem genuinely at ease.

When I asked Maureen behind the bar at Village Whiskey how business had been since Labor Day, she told me that it’s been quiet as expected, but that she was OK with that; it was a nice break from the craziness of the holiday weekend. But then, unbidden, she started to sing the praises of the organization, to say how much she enjoyed working there. That’s not the sort of Formica-like response you expect to encounter at the hot new A.C. casino. (Actually, I’ve found that Revel has more soul than you’d expect, and even with its architectural grandeur and visually stunning design, it manages to feel far more intimate than its sheer scale

would imply.) Her candor, her deeply felt humanity, seems to me to be of a sort with what I know of Garces and his team, starting here in Philadelphia And the food at Revel worked just as well as it does here in Philly; all the little details have made it across the bridge unaffected. Herb-lifted cherry tomatoes in their mason jar with sides of housewhipped ricotta and gently glistening crostini at Whiskey; lima and fava bean salad all bright and taut in its warm vinaigrette at Amada; ropa vieja tacos, tender and spicy-sweet at Distrito. All these dishes have retained exactly what makes this food so memorable here— balance, clear flavors and a sense of proportion.

Cynical as this shore-ambivalent critic tends to be, I’ve been won over by these new locations, and without reservation.

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FOOD & DRINK Recent Reviews 1410 Mt. Vernon St. 215.600.0017. allaspinaphilly.com Cuisine: Italian gastropub.

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

Blue Cat

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

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Blue Cat’s airy, friendly atmosphere, casual and competent service, and comfortable pan-Latin food bring new freshness and life to its Fairmount neighborhood.

Salmon filet, beneath a gorgeous crust from the cast-iron skillet, is a simple, delicate dish, topped with a mango salsa as straightforward as it is bright. Chacarero, a riff on the Chilean sandwich, is piled high with avocado, string beans, red pepper and grilled chicken; this is a sandwich that’s as filling as it is unexpectedly good for you.

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Stateside

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

Executive Chef George Sabatino plays with sourness, sweetness and perfume with an alchemist’s sense of fine-tuning. Beets are punched up with coriander and bay leaf; cauliflower makes a remarkable partner for raisins and turmeric. If you’re in the mood for a de facto pickle back to wash down your whiskey, this is the place to do it, especially considering Stateside’s generous whiskey offerings. It’s with these more comforting dishes that Stateside is at its best. Pork liver terrine is a chunky, funky wonder, the gaminess of the organ both unabashed and primal in the best sense. Bone marrow and truffle sausage is the kind of dish that would give any self-respecting doctor nightmares.

Follow the same logic as the rest of the meal: Small portions and big flavors are the focal points. Don’t fight the temptation. Stateside seems custom-made for eating a little too much, drinking a little too much, and regretting none of it. (B.F.)

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M Kee is the kind of place you root for: The service couldn’t be nicer or more accommodating, and the restaurant itself, with its cheery orange accents and uniforms, is welcoming. The highlights are probably what you’d expect—they’re hanging right in the window. Excellently named “roast pig” is just that: Tender rectangles of remarkably “porky” pork, each resting beneath a layer of cracker-crisp skin that’s a beautifully deep shade of mahogany. Order too much of this and bring it home. It’ll make an amazing next-day snack. (B.F.)

This is as neighborhoody and pleasant as it gets, a charming oasis from the craziness of South Street a block away, and a great entry to the city’s ever-expanding pizza-stakes. All of the pizzas are framed by a dough that’s crafted in-house. Straightforward margherita di buffala pizza benefited from the palatefilling milkiness of the cheese. Against the simple, elegant San Marzano sauce and gentle dusting of sea salt and pepper, this pizza worked on a deeply primal level. (B.F.)

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

Ramen has the potential to be one of the more deeply comforting and affordable meals around and Nom Nom Ramen, on 18th Street just off of Market, is doing a nice job of promoting it. Shio is arguably the standard-bearer here. It’s built on the base of a tonkotsu broth, amped up with salt and white soy sauce, that benefits from having been simmered with pork bone. Shoyu is more savory still—the addition of soy sauce highlights the darker flavors of the broth, the meatiness of it. Karai miso sizzles with a pleasant, tingling heat. The broth itself, a creamy miso tonkotsu, glows sunset-toned, and the sweet-earthy black garlic sauce atop the pork belly provides an excellent counterpart. All of these are wonderfully successful meals-in-a-bowl; if you work in the area, it’s a great under-$10 lunchtime option.

Or dinner. Or night-out snack. (B.F.)

The Pickled Heron turns out a seared foie gras that ranks among my favorites in town, expertly cooked to buttery tenderness without a hint of over-searing and served over a golden raisin and black pepper jam that is both a sweet foil and a thoughtful complement to the faintly metallic character of the foie. Caramelized brioche underneath it all adds crunch and heft. Seared scallops are tender clouds drifting on sunchoke puree and a scattering of toothsome fava beans, the entire dish brightened by a judicious squeeze of lemon. (L.B.)

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

Shake Shack

2000 Sansom St. 215.809.1742. shakeshack.com Cuisine: Burgers, dogs, shakes, custards.

The signature Shack Burger is grilled and topped with a melted slice of cheese, crisp leaf lettuce, tomatoes that are red almost beyond expectation and Shack Sauce, a creamy pinkish concoction that recalls the tang of Thousand Island dressing with none of the bitterness or bite. Crinkle-cut fries are crisp and 14-carat golden, with or without their signature cheddar-American blend cheese sauce—a treat that makes our hometown cheese, Whiz, look like the processed, unnatural mess that it is. Custards are spectacularly creamy and rich, and even the iced tea-lemonade “Fifty/Fifty” is notably on point: tart, bitter, refreshing and without the cloying sweetness of most versions. (L.B.)

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521 Catharine St. 215.351.1550. ulivophila.com Cuisine: Seasonal Italian-Mediterranean BYOB. This is a kitchen that finds its inspiration in Italian and Mediterranean classics, and then proceeds to tweak or chef-ify them into something more modern, more comforting, without losing what’s always made them so beloved in the first place. Fried polenta was perfect for a blustery winter’s night, each fluffy-centered cornmeal and semolina baton encased in a perfectly golden crust and complicated by both fontina and parmigiano reggiano, as well as an anchovy-spiked salsa rosa. Tagliatelle was also masterfully crafted, each silky ribbon just rough-sided enough to hold onto a perfect amount of accompanying rosemary-scented pork-leg ragu, all succulent and dense-flavored.

Rosemary cake with a lemon-zipped ricotta marching across the plate justified bringing a bottle of good Moscato d’Asti to pop alongside. Chef Scarpone will likely have exactly what he aims for once again: a friendly, successful BYOB that neighbors can call their own, and that’s worth the drive (and the fight for parking) to visit. (B.F.)

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2301 Walnut St. 267.639.6644. vernickphilly.com Cuisine: Internationally inspired American bistro.

One of the most exciting new entries into Philadelphia’s ever-expanding restaurant scene, Vernick presents food that’s inventive yet rooted, global in inspiration yet American at its core. Start with red and gold beets dressed up with a red-wine vinaigrette, squares of nutty-sharp Moliterno cheese and sweet pistachios candied with fennel seeds.

Move on to pork blade medallions; mustard greens and marmalade; flavorful potato ravioli. Finish with an impossibly moist carrot cake whose cream-cheese-and-fromageblanc-vanilla icing is as addictive as anything in the city. (B.F.)

Square Peg

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

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

Grilled cheese is stuffed with mac ’n’ cheese; it’s a gluttonous, satisfyingly uncomplicated dish, successfully mixing the gooey and the crisp. An omelet is filled with a smoked goat cheese that highlights the sweetness of the eggs themselves. The breakfast sandwich is a massive, fat torpedo, the eggs just drippy enough, the chihuahua cheese melting throughout, the homemade chorizo sizzling with a low-level spice that’s more implied than realized; porkiness is the focus here. All in all, an appealing addition to our everexpanding base of weekend-morning dining options. (B.F.)

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ike any self-respecting Philly native, I wouldn’t be caught dead posing for a photo in front of the Love sculpture or cheesing it up from atop one of those double-decker buses. Still, if my only chance to ever ride a Segway means having to affiliate with a group of middle-aged out-of-towners in hideous hiking shoes, then I am more than willing to put my pride aside for an afternoon.

“We’re gonna get shit thrown at us,” my friend Jess laughs nervously before meeting up with our group near the DeTours Touring headquarters in Old City.

“Well,” I say, “at least we’ll be moving targets.”

One of two local companies in the Segway tour biz, DeTours offers daily tours six days a week, seven months out of the year. Owner Rasa Vella started the company in July 2010, only about a year after taking her first Segway tour in Paris.

“I had originally wanted to work in the adventure tourism market in Latin America,” the 32-year-old says. “But the idea of running my own tours in Philly seemed too good to pass up.”

Segway city tours are increasingly popular, and the reason is pretty simple: They allow you to cover a greater distance in less time, all while feeling like you’re one of the Jetsons. “I think people are curious about Segways,” Vella says.

“They’re weird looking and they don’t make sense how you can stand up on two wheels.” On the flip side, she notes, “Thanks to Paul Blart [from Mall Cop] and Weird Al Yankovic, they are labeled as dork machines.” This may explain why she hired Keith, our affable super-hunk tour guide.

In addition to the company’s more touristy cheesesteak- and mural-themed weekend tours, DeTours offers a choice of two city routes on weekdays: the budget-minded 90-minute Blue Route for $55, which at least zips past all the main Philly attractions (Independence Hall, Reading Terminal Market, Elfreth’s Alley, etc.), and the more comprehensive three-hour Orange Route, which also includes Rittenhouse Square and the Schuylkill River Trail for $79.

Jess and I had opted for the Blue Route—but before we hit the itty-bitty streets of Old City, Keith leads us to a back parking lot where we sign waivers, strap on goofy helmets and receive a brief

Chariots inspire: Segways make tourist stuff a lot less lame.

“machines, not toys” lecture. Finally, after some individual guidance, we’re free to test these bad boys out for ourselves.

It’s true—Segways really are as easy to master as you’ve heard. I can’t really explain the science behind their selfbalancing abilities, so let’s just say it’s magic. All you do is gently displace your weight forward to go forward and gently squat when you need to slow down.

Yes, it looks as awkward as it sounds— ”like you’re doing a number two,” Keith says. As the eight of us whirl around, I laugh at how much we look like a bunch of giddy 12-year-olds in a schoolyard.

When we hit midday traffic in Center City, though, that laughter quickly stops. Going full-speed—a “mere” 12 mph, which feels faster than it sounds—I nearly rear-end a few of my tourmates as I swerve around construction blockades and a homeless man duking it out with the air. Fortunately, Keith clearly excelled at Frogger as a child. With just a signal of his hand and a flash of his beautiful grin, he has pedestrians and truck drivers parting like the Red Sea. (Oddly enough, according to Vella, DeTours hasn’t had a single car-Segway collision in the past three years. In fact, out of more than 3,000 riders, she says only four have ever been unable to complete their tour due to injury, adding that simple scrapes and bruises are more common—and usually the result of the person doing something stupid.)

On every block, we seem to elicit at least one hilarious reaction. At City Hall,

a woman eyes our parked vehicles so intently, it’s as if she’s scheming either to steal one or to eat one. On Locust Street, an elderly man asks if we’re part of a flash mob.

At a newly paved stretch of sidewalk near Jefferson Hospital, Keith takes a break while letting us run laps like racecar drivers and go in circles like dogs chasing our tails. And speaking of dogs, my puppies are already barking at this point. So I take a deep breath a few minutes later as we approach several cobblestone blocks. “You’re about to feel the difference between fake cobblestone and real cobblestone,” Keith warns from ahead of the pack.

He’s not kidding. I think a toe just fell off.

As for the educational aspect of the tour, most of Keith’s spiel whizzes past me because, obviously, I’m too busy leering at his perfectly chiseled biceps to listen. I do, however, catch a few fun facts I wasn’t aware of: Did you know our Chinatown is the third largest in the country?

When it’s time to dismount an hour and a half later, I have to admit that getting to see the city through the rose-colored glasses of a tourist for an afternoon felt refreshing. And though I may have received the death stare from two or three (or 12) locals along the way, I know that most were just jealous of my sweet ride. ■ DeTours Segway tours of Philadelphia: 267.324.5408. detourstouring.com

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The Cruel and the Cool Death. Rock n’ roll. Post-apocalyptic dance. The Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe digs deep in Some Other Mettle and 27.

Some Other Mettle

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Through Sept. 16. $18-$35. Plays and Players Theater, 1714 Delancey St. 215.413.1318. livearts-fringe.org New Paradise Laboratories, one of the city’s most successful experimental theater compa-

nies, returns to the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival with its bewildering but often captivating production of 27. After experimenting recently with theater that exists in both the virtual and natural worlds, 27 returns NPL to its roots, focusing on two subjects that have often been featured in the work of artistic director Whit MacLaughlin: death and rock n’ roll.

Created by MacLaughlin in collaboration with company members, the play gets its inspiration from the eerie straggle of rock stars who have perished at the tender age of 27, a group that includes Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and, most recently, Amy Winehouse. The six actors in the cast don’t bear uncanny resemblances to the performers they portray. Kevin Meehan certainly isn’t a dead ringer (no pun intended) for Morrison, the Doors’ charismatic front man; the same is true for Cobain’s Matteo Scammell, Julie Frey (Winehouse) or Allison Caw (Joplin). Still, there are hints regarding the characters’ identities, mostly from the bits of songs that are sung, mumbled or

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Living out loud: Applied Mechanics’ Some Other Mettle.

With the lights out: The cast of New Paradise Laboratories’ 27.

strummed on electric guitar by a character identified in the program only as Guitar (Alec MacLaughlin). There’s no sense of joy, however, in any of them; whether it’s Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” or Hendrix’s “Hey Joe,” 27’s renditions have none of the vigor of the original recordings, but rather a strange, >> continued on Page 41

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From the moment you enter Jolie Laide Gallery for Some Other Mettle, Applied Mechanics’ remarkable young performers take you captive, dragging you deep below the soil into their elaborate and equally bizarre post-apocalyptic world. And for the next 75 minutes, you are left speechless as you watch them drag their sweaty, half-naked bodies across the floor, contort and convulse their paint-covered limbs and expel beastly growls from the pit of their stomachs.

The cast’s commitment to their characters is almost unworldly. Add the clever costumes, props and set design, and you have an experience so intensely visceral that you still feel haunted by it several hours later.

In Applied Mechanics’ usual “choose your own adventure” narrative structure, the show utilizes the entire multi-room gallery space, giving audience members the option to follow certain characters and slowly piece together different storylines. Obviously, this is an exciting way to experience live theater.

There’s just one very big problem: This time, there’s doesn’t appear to be much of a story for you to piece together.

At the very beginning, Some Other Mettle’s audience is given a quick intro to the peculiar plot and although largely convoluted, you take a way a few key phrases and run with them. But as you eagerly chase after the characters, no logical progression of events ever seems to emerge. In fact, the interaction between the five lost souls eventually become a blur. Much of this is due to the communication barrier. One minute the cast would be speaking in tongues or riddles, and the next they’d be making loud animal noises. You were lucky to catch the few bits of dialogue in clear English.

Now, there’s nothing wrong with making the audience work or leaving them to form their own conclusions. Nor is there anything wrong with making them uncomfortable. But to suck the audience into this world ready to suspend their disbelief only to make them feel alienated? Well, that just seems a little cruel. (Nicole Finkbiner)

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Sisterly Affection on Display in Ladylike Brotherly love isn’t the only thing Philly’s got going for it, as this all-female exhibition shows.

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By Nicole Finkbiner // nfinkbiner@philadelphiaweekly.com f you happen to detect a sweet yet spicy aroma in the air on Friday evening, don’t be alarmed. It’s probably just all the magnificent estrogen radiating from Fabric Row. Joining forces with the week-long, citywide fashion and style extravaganza better known as the Philadelphia Collection, Paradigm Gallery will open its new all-female exhibition, Ladylike, with a night of art, design and a whole lotta girl power. And considering that Fabric Row was once the city’s ultimate fashion hub, it’s only befitting that several neighboring retailers and businesses will be joining in on the festivities.

With featured artwork such as textiles, crafts, illustrations and graphic design, Ladylike is essentially a smorgasbord of Philly’s female artistry. “This exhibition really explores and celebrates what women bring to fashion, design and art,” says fiber artist and Paradigm co-founder Sara McCorriston. “It’s extremely important that we reflect on how times have changed and celebrate how many incredible female artists there are.”

Friday’s reception will specifically highlight the work of textile, fiber and jewelry artists, including Alexandra Emeric’s colorful wool neck ornamentations and McCorriston’s silk and wax sculpture, “I Once Was a Homeless Lampshade.”

“The process involves boiling silk in vinegar and dyes with objects tied into it,” the 24-yearold McCorriston explains. “Then I had lots of fun molding the fabric to the upside-down found lampshade and filling it with various waxes until it felt done.”

There will also be a live project by local artist Stefanie Fuoco that entails a canvas dress and several balloons filled with heavy latex paint and a presentation on women’s fashion of the 20th century by Beth Dincuff Charleston, an assistant professor at N.Y.C.’s famed Parsons The New School for Design.

On Sept. 28, as part of Arts on South’s Fourth Friday openings, the gallery will then host a second reception, shifting the focus to the visual artists, most of whom will be in attendance discussing their individual works during a Q&A session.

As for the greater meaning of the exhibition as a whole, featured artist and co-curator Stephanie Struse stresses what it’s not: “a show of exclusionary connotations.”

“Unexpectedly, this exhibition made me realize how feminine artwork can be just that by being created by a female, and it’s OK that you can tell,” McCorriston adds. “Terms like ‘feminine’ and ‘ladylike’ have so many different meanings, and in this exhibition, the

Ladylike events

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What a Lady Likes: Peruse the latest collections of several local female clothing and accessory designers, as well as the new works of local female artists.

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Ladies Night: In addition to a small showcase of local artwork and live music by Phillybased singer-songwriter Gretchen Elise, the chic, urban/European hair salon will have surprise live hair art going throughout the night.

Customers will also receive 15 percent off any hair products.

5:30pm. Follicle Hair Studio, 741 S. Fourth St. 267.251.8179. folliclestudio.com Walk Like a Lady: Treat yourself to a pair of shoes from the boutique’s autumn shoe and boot collection and receive 15 percent off.

Shoppers will also enjoy live music and cocktails. 5:30pm. Bus Stop Boutique, 727 S. Fourth St. 215.627.2357. busstopboutique.com

I feel pretty: Caitlyn McCormack’s frilly frock.

terms are visually defined very well.”

Collectively, the works don’t really scream “I am woman; hear me roar” nearly as much as you might expect. Rather, many simply play with the notion of what “lady” means in this day and age. For example, Crystal Shephard’s “She’s Fabulous” piece, which features memorable quotes from the 2004 film Mean Girls in pink embroidery. (“She’s a life ruiner—she ruins people’s lives!”) “It’s just the complete opposite of being ladylike,” Shephard jokes.

Perhaps most interesting is how, despite their different individual aesthetics, many of the artists actually seem to have found inspiration in similar things. Namely, heartbreak, hair and the biggest of all—dessert. That’s right; cupcakes, ice cream, gelato. These ladies really like their sweets.

“I like the idea of upholding this tradition of showcasing female works, specifically with this group of ladies,” Struse says. “I feel their works embody the tone and styles of their generation: free, intelligent and fun.” ■ Opening Reception: Fri., Sept. 14, 5:30pm.

Fourth Friday Reception: Fri., Sept. 28, 5:30pm.

Through Oct. 13. Paradigm Gallery + Studio, 803 S. Fourth St. 267.266.0073. paradigm-gallery.com

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By Matt Prigge // mprigge@philadelphiaweekly.com Always Leave Them Laughing (1949): As the cliche goes, comedy is a serious business, and who better to suck the fun out of the art than ... Milton Berle? For his first—and only—starring picture role, Uncle Miltie went semiautobiographical, playing a vaudeville comic struggling to make it big while fending off accusations of plagiary. Berle himself was often accused of stealing jokes, but surely only being half-funny is more egregious, especially when the other half is a warmed-over melodrama in which our hero’s ego is repeatedly waxed by hot women like Ruth Roman.

Lenny (1974): Lenny Bruce’s daring and tragic life overshadowed his actual comedy even before this Great Man Biopic portrayed him as a martyr of free speech first and a pretty amusing fella a distant second. Dustin Hoffman’s cocktail party impersonation is nearly there, while director Bob Fosse, hot off Cabaret, nearly kills himself using self-conscious artiness to avoid the genre’s cliches, to little avail.

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Punchline (1988): One of Tom Hanks’ early glimmers of deeper talent is present in this vaguely ‘70s-style drama about the desperation of the comic scene, with Hanks as an obsessive, self-destructive asshole and could-be star opposite, alas, Sally Field.

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Bamboozled (2000): Spike Lee’s angriest and most savage film concerns comedy, natch. Damon Wayons’ self-hating TV exec pitches an openly racist show that hails back to the minstrel days, only for it to become a big hit. The bloody ending goes too far, but Lee made his point.

Nate & Margaret (2012): The difficulties of trying to do stand-up when you’re not that funny—or at least don’t yet have a voice—are realistically portrayed in this sweet indie, about the lived-in and unlikely friendship between a gay teen and a middle-aged frump played by Roseanne’s Natalie West.

Sleepwalk With Me (2012): If you, for some reason, long to see Ira Glass actually fuck up, imbibe his first screenwriting credit, in which he and cohort Mike Birbiglia find an underexplored area of stand-up—what does a comic do when s/he starts scoring laughs from bitching about his/her relationship without said paramour’s awareness?—then, soon as it’s established, unceremoniously drop it. Just like the other good ideas it has, annoyingly. ■

Run Right Past Birbiglia’s Sleepwalk With Me The Ira Glass-produced monologue extension may as well be called Public Radio Goes to the Movies.

By Sean Burns // sburns@philadelphiaweekly.com leepwalk With Me is an extension of a This American Life monologue by contributor Mike Birbiglia, produced by hipster God-head Ira Glass, that takes a great 10 minutes or so of radio and stretches it out to an almost interminable 80-minute running time onscreen, with no idea what to do with the visuals.

You’ve probably heard this routine by now. I believe it started on the spokenword circuit, before Glass picked it up on his PRI radio show. Short version: Mike is an aspiring standup comic not in love with his fiancée, and his anxiety manifests itself in a weird sleepwalking disorder. Weeks on the road result in a somnambulistic breakdown, and he has to make a few life choices. The end.

This is a great radio bit. Birbiglia has a frankly conversational tone that’s awfully ingratiating. The problem is that somebody decided this was a movie—and it is not. He spends the early reels talking directly into the camera, which, in this digital video, DIY aesthetic, reeks of amateur hour. Nobody bothered to outsize this interior monologue into an actual motion picture. So, from the get-go, it’s like we’re watching some overblown, under-photographed version of a story we’ve already heard.

Another problem: Birbiglia is indeed charming, but he’s also at least 10 years older than he was when the actual tale took place, sort of like The Rum Diary or that awful movie version of Rent in which everyone seems weirdly middleaged, when they should really be in their 20s for anything happening onscreen to make sense.

It’s also not that much of a story. Playing the rhythmically renamed Matt Pandamiglio, Birbiglia graduates from openmic nights to the road comedy circuit, much to the dismay of his aforementioned gal (Lauren Ambrose). His apprehension over this nonstarter of a marriage becomes a potentially dangerous sleep disorder, and that’s pretty much all there is to the movie. No subplots here; move along.

It put me in mind of the great Spalding Gray, who spent most of his bizarre,

Let’s do it: Lauren Ambrose (left) and Mike Birbiglia star in Sleepwalk With Me.

wide-ranging auto-biographical monologue Gray’s Anatomy ducking marriage with his longtime companion by seeking countless, arcane and quite often insane holistic medicines for an eye infection.

Filmed (badly) by Steven Soderbergh in 1996, the movie version is missing the stage production’s reluctant groom subtext, for reasons of a then-recent divorce that was probably obvious to anyone paying attention.

Birbiglia is clearly no Spalding Gray, and it’s doubtful anyone could be, in all honesty—I consider Gray to be one of the greatest artists of our time, and his 2004 suicide hurt me in a way no celebrity death has ever before or since—but this slender little weed of a film speaks to the narcissism that has popped up all over podcasts and radio shows in his absence. Gray’s uniquely plainspoken monologues, so often filmed with the storyteller seated behind a desk with no props, save a notebook and a glass of water, invited us to listen to his words and conjure an imaginary movie of our own. Sorry, but having the lead actor talk into the camera in a variety of New York settings is just a wan approximation.

Sleepwalk With Me is almost acceptable while you are watching it, but nothing about the movie lingers in the mind. Birbiglia, who also directed along with Seth Barrish, might not be the best

judge of his own material. He becomes a bit grating over the long haul. Indifferently photographed at best, the movie is supposed to power through on the strength of the main character’s monologue, shedding his suburban trappings and slowly becoming the great standup comic he always dreamed of being.

Well, I get that we’re supposed to be watching a learning curve here, but Birbiglia ain’t all that great a comedian.

Right now, he’s telling bittersweet autobiographical stories on public radio instead of jokes on the road, if you know what I mean.

The other biggest problem here is that there’s not really enough movie for it to be a movie. Stretched to the breaking point at an hour and 20 minutes, Sleepwalk With Me never really stakes a claim for being any more than a slight film festival diversion.

And you’ve probably heard it all before. ■

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Reviewed by Sean Burns Shot two years ago and sitting on a shelf ever since, The Cold Light of Day is one of those lousy multinational productions usually cobbled together from some Israeli drycleaner’s fun-money hoping for a quick buck on the direct-to-video circuit, with a couple of big stars in small roles to goose the proceeds. It was called Shadow Chaser when it played in Japan a while back. Neither title makes any sense.

We’ve got Henry Cavill, who is playing Superman next year, as an awkward, recently bankrupted brat on an ill-fated family vacation in Spain with his bulldog Dad (Bruce Willis) and a lot of unpleasantly expository dialogue. More sooner than later, the rest of his family is taken hostage, and Willis exits the picture on the lookout for the nearest check-cashing place. It seems there have been some CIA shenanigans, and something to do with angry Mossad agents. Mostly this all leads to Cavill’s hapless banker dude jumping off buildings, taking bullets and discovering his inner Jason Bourne, adrift in a foreign country where he doesn’t know the language, probably because it provided the production with the most appetizing tax shelter. Sigourney Weaver slums it in style, at one point even busting out an Uzi as Willis’ untrustworthy ex-partner in crime. (How

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much I would have wished to see a movie just about those two.) Cavill’s accent fluctuates hilariously from something approximating American to his native English, and he’s so whinily uncharismatic in the lead that I found myself longing for Ioan Griffudd.

Director of the weirdo epic JCVD, Mabrouk El Mecheri tones it way down here, opting for something more like what an anonymous hack like Roger Donaldson

might have helmed in 1992. He’s got a cool way of swooping the camera around various landscapes just before the action shots, establishing the geography with a distinct sense of purpose. But it’s still deadly dull once those bullets begin to fly.

The more it went on, the more I envied Willis, who was probably enjoying a cheeseburger in an undisclosed location far away from the rest of this claptrap. ■

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Reviewed by Matt Prigge Kenneth Lay died unpunished. Robert Miller—the shady businessman at the center of the corporate thriller Arbitrage—not only lives, but gets to suffer, well, some of the consequences of his white-collar crimes.

It should be easy to hiss at Miller, who has been borrowing appalling amounts of money so he can sell off his flailing business at a pretty penny, accidentally kills his mistress (Laetitia Casta), flees the scene and, perhaps knowingly, embroils in this mess Jimmy (Nate Parker), the struggling son of his former chauffeur.

Miller was once to be played by a presumably weary and gruff Al Pacino.

Instead he’s played by Richard Gere, who’s all wrong. Gere specializes in emo pricks: absurdly wealthy and powerful men viewers would pelt with popcorn if Gere didn’t play them with self-pity. In theory, that muddies Arbitrage’s moral waters: The bulk of the narrative finds Miller frantically trying to evade capture, yet the more Miller acts heinously, the more Gere amps up the puppydog eyes.

Arbitrage has been self-consciously erected as a warmly lit (and overly studied) neo-noir, where the viewer is forced, by the standards of classical storytelling, to root for a baddie. But the balance is off. Gere tips the scales too much in his favor, and his comeuppance, when it finally comes, only

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reinforces the notion that Miller isn’t the corporate world’s only—or even worst— fuckhead. Tim Roth doesn’t help, with his obnoxious and hammy dogged detective.

Writer/director Nicholas Jarecki is part of the Jarecki dynasty, whose members, Andrew (Capturing the Friedmans) and Eugene (Why We Fight), tend to be decent documentarians who misstep when they turn to fiction (see—that is, don’t see—Andrew’s All Good Things). Despite Arbitrage’s concep-

tual flaws, Nicholas at least weaves in some knowing details, like the way detectives wear mittens around moneyed suspects but turn the lives of low-income minorities like Jimmy into waking nightmares. Otherwise, the best you can say about Arbitrage is that it’s the first film in which Brit Marling has, if too briefly, lived up to all her hype, even if it does unforgivably waste the great Chris Eigeman (Metropolitan, Kicking and Screaming) as a mere exposition machine. ■

The reissue of Finding Nemo in trendy 3-D, which makes the whole film look niftily like it’s happening in a fish tank—which, of course, it partly is—comes as Pixar’s once-sterling stock has been on an apparent decline. With their last two pictures—the cynical and superfluous Cars 2 and the “merely” perfectly adequate (though at least interesting, if still simply off ) Brave—the mix of comedy, heart, thrills and first-rate technology has finally gone wobbly. When it came out in 2003, Nemo seemed, from the ads, like it could have been the company’s first bum note. Instead, its rather obvious excellence proved doomsayers wrong. Today, it reveals a brand that has ever so mildly lost its touch and likely won’t get it back with its next project: another cash-in sequel, this time for Monsters Inc. (And further down the docket, one for Nemo itself.)

Then again, Toy Story 3 was only two pictures ago, so perhaps it’s not yet time to pen the Pixar obit. Still, seeing Nemo again, it’s hard not to find oneself reminiscing on a collective that may not shine so bright again. One trusts it’s not too blasphemous to say the “Pixar touch” isn’t too terribly inferior to the “Lubitsch touch,” the term that signified the magical stamp, difficult to put into words, that director Ernst Lubitsch pounded onto his charming films. Emotional without being maudlin, sentimental without being trite, actually, Nemo leans a touch too heavily on sentiment, even if it does that to remind us not about the importance of family or some swill, but about the importance of chilling out and not being a super overprotective monster parent. It also has cinema history’s only respectable fart gag. (Certain less respectable ones are fine.)

Even moreso than other Pixars, Nemo is a machine, and once it gets going—and it does take some time—it’s a treasure trove of lovely, oft-hectic sequences: the meeting with the vegesharks, the deep ocean riffing between Albert Brooks and Ellen DeGeneres, performed over a black screen; the crazed crew of a dentist’s aquarium, who’ve become diehard dental nerds. Back in the day, this was the acme of mainstream animation. Today, Pixar can’t even best so-so Aardman outings like The Pirates! ■

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First off, let me say congratulations on attending what I’m sure was the first festival for a lot of you. How was it? Did you get to bask in the glory that is Rick Ross? Would you still leave your family to run away with D’Angelo?

Did you stay away from the brown acid?

Now that we’ve exchanged pleasantries, let me get on with what I have to say, and please don’t be mad if it stings a little.

What the fuck? You let Jay-Z come to our city, perform his ode to New York, “Empire State of Mind,” and you didn’t boo him off the stage? For realsies? OK, full disclosure, I wasn’t there. (Things are still weird between Bey and I, but I’m not gonna get into that here.)

The point is, I heard things. And what I didn’t hear was you telling “the new Sinatra” to take that shit back to the concrete jungles from whence he came.

Now, maybe you’re asking, “What’s your problem? What do you have against that song? Why am I yelling at a newspaper?” Oh, how quickly we forget. Allow me to take you back to the “summer of love,” fall of 2009. (Pretend everything gets blurry and there’s harp music in the background.)

I was a young lad—OK, three whole years younger—and thanks to our beloved Phillies, I, like many of my fellow citizens, was riding a summer-long high that continued into the postseason. Our path to a World Series repeat was going swimmingly—Ryan Howard was on an incredible tear, we were all officially in love with Cliff Lee, and local workers planning to attend another parade down Broad Street began planning their fake illnesses. But then, some things went wrong.

For one, the National League Championship Series against the Dodgers aired on TBS, whose only advertisers at the time seemed to be George Lopez’s upcoming talk show and the Hass avocado council. These commercials were shown so many times that by Game 3, America had already made its decision never to watch Lopez Tonight or eat avocados. (It also didn’t help that both were completely unnecessary products.) In spite of that horrific ordeal, the Phils beat L.A. and advanced to the World Series, though no amount of guacamole propaganda could match the power of Hova.

Meanwhile, Jay-Z’s “Empire State of Mind” had been out for a few months prior to the ’09 World Series, and like most of his hits, we didn’t mind it—actually, we kind of enjoyed it. It had a great beat (sampling the

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King (and queen) of New York: Guess what, Mr. and Mrs. Carter? This ain’t Brooklyn.

Moments’ gorgeous classic “Love an a TwoWay Street”), Alicia Keys’ insanely catchy chorus, and the fact that Jigga was repping his hometown was certainly nothing new, nor did it bother us. It was no “Streets is Watching,” but whatever.

Then we heard it 200 times in one week.

Then the single was officially released. Then it was announced that the song was going to be performed live before Game 1 at Yankee Stadium. That did bother us. More importantly, it scared us.

No matter how good Charlie Manuel and the boys were or the amount of momentum they had, any Phillies fan would be lying if they said they weren’t at least a bit nervous about facing the Yanks. They’ve almost consistently been the best team in baseball since Joe DiMaggio sold his soul to the Devil in 1935. (Allegedly!) The last thing we needed was one of the biggest stars on the planet hyping them up with an inspiring megahit about their city, especially live before a game.

That’s why I drew a sigh of relief when it was announced that the “Empire” performance before the series opener was halted because of rain, proving that even God hates the Yankees. Unfortunately, Jay-Z must have some dirt on the Almighty, because the song was

rescheduled and performed for Game 2. Six nights later, the New York Yankees walked away with the Commissioner’s Trophy.

That’s no coincidence.

Obviously, one could make the argument that the Phillies lost the World Series because of the number of runners stranded in scoring position, a shaky bullpen, Howard’s 13 strikeouts (a World Series record), subpar outings from our starters, Manuel leaving Pedro Martinez in too long, or just straight up being outplayed. That, of course, is all ridiculous; it was definitely the song’s fault. It shouldn’t even have been a surprise, either—everything Jay-Z touches turns to gold. (Although, the jury’s still out on the Brooklyn Nets.) In the aftermath of this loss, the Phillies’ playoff appearances have slowly gone downhill, this season’s been a mess, and I owe hundreds of dollars in gambling debts. (Not for baseball though—I bet that Lopez Tonight would be on the air for 10 years.)

Now, flash-forward to a week and a half ago: Jay-Z, curator of Budweiser’s Made In America festival, trots right into the center of Philadelphia to once again shove “Empire State of Mind” in our faces, when all of a sudden ... nothing. Nothing happened. He performed the song, and the crowd cheered. He

didn’t even do the admittedly corny concert schtick where you change the location in the song to the name of the city you’re playing in (“Now you’re in Phil-ly…”) What happened, yo?

We’ve booed people for way less. We just booed Madonna at the Wells Fargo Center because she wasn’t on time! Did you all forget this? Did the song’s hook sweep you up? Were you just not drunk enough? I understand that the fest was called Made In America and was supposed to promote unity—and sell $11 Bud Lights—but still. New York, though?

If the roles were reversed, I would hope the Philly artist being booed would take it in stride. We’re rivals; it’s what we do. And in all honestly, I don’t have a problem with Jay-Z, New York City or avocados. But fuck them.

Your pal, Bryan Bierman P.S. How did Jay not do anything off Reasonable Doubt? You had Memphis Bleek already there on stage, and he couldn’t throw the crowd “Coming of Age?” P.P.S. If you see Bey-Bey, tell her I still have her phone charger. And that I’m sorry. ■

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When you first started, you sang exclusively in English.

As a child from a typical conservative Indian family, it was considered extremely prestigious to attend an English medium school. So from a very young age, I was trained to think in English.

Even today, I can’t even think of lyrics immediately in my language. I have to come up with lyrics in English and then I translate. It was also considered very cool in India to sing in English. [Laughs.]

It was only much later, when I was 26, faking my English, that I realized it was not who I was. When I started writing lyrics in Hindi and Kannada, I began singing with much more conviction.

Today, I can’t imagine myself singing a whole song in English. Ten years from now, I don’t know what language I will sing in. Swahili? Who knows? [Laughs.]

Right now, I am trying to sing in my father’s tongue, Tamil. As a rebellious son to my father, I was very adamant that I

wouldn’t learn his language. But now I wish I had.

Your songs encompass many cultures, not just Indian.

People think there’s only three kinds of Indian music: classical music, Bollywood music and Punjabi music. As much as independent music crusaders hate Bollywood, it has the reach and appeal that no other form of music has in India. But there’s so much more happening. The Indian independent scene is huge. We are very Western-influenced and clever at adapting to and borrowing from cultures from around the world. But at the core, we’re very Indian.

Which artists do you draw inspiration from?

I am inspired more by the philosophies behind how musicians make music than types of music. For instance, Sting’s lyric-writing capability could be considered literature tomorrow. It could be in textbooks. I also love the philosophy of making people happy through music, so I turn to musicians like Bob Marley. And I really admire Fela Kuti, who created an uprising with his music and brought the whole of Africa together. Those kind of musicians inspire me.

Your first time playing the guitar was spurred by a bet. Tell us that story.

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The characters in 27 are not nearly as curious as the play’s setting. Described vaguely as a “new encampment,” there is a “Happy Birthday” banner strung across a wall, with balloons, an overstuffed couch, a table, pillows and a small hibachi. The space’s most notable feature is a large “star hole,” an opening in the rear wall surrounded by the sort of flashing neon lights that might decorate a third-rate Vegas motel.

Yet despite the room’s festive, bohemian appearance and the inhabitants’ penchant for drinking beams of light from large, glowing plastic party cups, there is no sense of merriment whatsoever. Instead, it feels more like a waiting room, a stop-over intended to move passengers from one place to the next. The characters occupy much of their time intently sitting or standing in odd mannequin-like poses. When they move, they often do so forcefully, in manic bursts of energy, and there is a zombie-like quality to their repetitive physical routines. Each has a signature unique to each character, but they all share a sense of futility.

The primary clue as to their exact whereabouts comes with the surprising and noisy arrival of a visitor. In one of 27’s excellent special effects, hurricane force winds shake a side wall violently, and the room is filled with the

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Often disturbing and darkly humorous, 27 lacks the playfulness and cheery decadence of the NPL’s earlier works, but is the company’s most muscular, physical and visually compelling work in years. (Thom Weaver’s penetrating lighting design, in particular, is enormously effective.) The production is never dull, but also isn’t dramatically satisfying. And considering the work’s bleak depiction of the afterlife, we’re left with the impression that for these troubled but brilliant musicians, death does not provide a sense of eternal peace. (J. Cooper Robb)

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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.

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studio/ efficiency 1 0 T H & C L I N TO N - S t u d i o o n beautiful tree lined street, HW fls, Pullman kit, laundry on premise.

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Very Nice unit. Oct. $850+elec INCL Heat (215)806-1526 220 LOCUST ST, 6E: $1,175/MO 1BD/1BA studio apar tment, 24hr doorman, utilities and cable TV included in monthly rent, c/a, CALL LYNDA KREVITZ PRU FOX & ROACH 215-627-6005/215-421-6998

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1 523 C H R I ST I A N ST Small 1BR, 1st floor. Avail Now! $810/Mo 215883-0542 15TH and SPRUCE: Large 1BD in sought after location! Beautiful art-deco details, Renovated Kitchen, HW Flrs, Front Desk Attendant, Onsite Laundry, Wonderful City Views. $1300/ mo. Avail Nov. 215-735-8030.

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THE CHATHAM (135 S.20TH) OPEN H O U S E S AT, 1 2- 4 P M S p a c i o u s Studios/1BR’s in High-rise, Doorman bldg w/Magnificent Western & Southern exposure, View of Ritt Sq, HW flrs, Laundry on site, High flr. Prof managed. AVAIL OCT! ALL UTILS INCL. FROM $1, 325. MSRE, 215-925-RENT(7368), www.MichaelSingerRealEstate.com 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.

two bedroom 14XX RITNER 3Apts.-Renov.,W/D Hook-up. 1st/Last/1mo’s sec. 856304-6227, 215-467-8223 9TH & SPRING GARDEN 2ND FLR., MOD. ALL APPLS.,A/C, NEWLY RENOV. $1200/MO.+. 610-304-0087.

12TH & LOCUST Great 2BR, 2BA w/ Fab patio & so much more. $1450+.

PMG, 215-545-7007 x302 22ND & WALNUT. Very cool 2BR apt w/HW flrs, Close to everything. $1275+. 215-545-7007x303 774 S CLEVELAND ST: $1,400/ M O 2BD/1BA, private rear yard, new walls and floors, c/a, CALL JIM ONESTI PRU FOX & ROACH 215-6276005/215-440-2052 BELLA VISTA: 2BR apt, Avail 10/01. $975/mo+ utils. No Pets. Contact Larry, 215-687-5629

three + bedrooms 1 QUEEN STREET, #10: Gorgeous 3BR+ den, 2.5 bth home with HW floors, FP, garden deck & garage. $2800.

CONWAY TEAM. PRU, FOX & ROACH, 215.627.6005/215.440.8190 703 S.3rd St- LIVE & WORK in this Terrific Property - Studio + 3 BR/ 2.5 Bths, 2600 Sq Ft & Fab Roof Deck. $3200. CONWAY TEAM. PRU, FOX & ROACH, 215.627.6005/215.440.8190

PASSYUNK SQU Modern 2BR house w/New kitchen, CA, WD, HW floors t/o, DW. Nice yard. $1295/mo+. 267-254-1914

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 703 S.3rd St- LIVE & WORK in this Terrific Property - Studio + 3 BR/ 2.5 Bths, 2600 Sq Ft & Fab Roof Deck. $3200.

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

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21ST and POPLAR Huge 3BR house, HWF t/o and SO MUCH MORE! $1795+.

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2542 S 7TH ST: $925/MO 2-story, 3BD/1BA, wide open yard, CALL PAUL CHIN PRU FOX & ROACH 215-6276005/215-440-2049 435 N GROSS ST, $895/MO 3BD/1BA, wide open kitchen w/ new appliances, porch, rear yard, CALL STUART COHEN PRU FOX & ROACH 215-627-6005/215275-0800 614 S. FRONT STREET - QUEEN VILLAGE. Incredible River Views, 5100 sq. f t, 20 x 76, four suites and huge family room, 5.5 bths, FP’s, garden and the best deck in town - 360 degree views. $6,000.

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Port Richmond 2525 E.Thompson Street $300,000 Prudential, Fox, & Roach

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Queen Village 848 S. Swanson St $639,000 Prudential, Fox, & Roach

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STUDIO 2224 S. Broad St Studios and 1 Bedroom, 1 Bath, w/w carpet/tile 3 available

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TWO BEDROOMS 505 Christian St 2 Bedroom, 1 Bath, hrd.flrs., c/a, w&d, nice kitchen Avail Nov. 10, 2012

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TOWNHOUSES 2335 Christian St Beautiful, 2 Br., 1 Bath,hrd. flrs., nice old details, c/a, w&d, yard

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719 S. Philip Street Great house with deeded parking, 3 bdrms + sitting rm, 2.5 bths, hrdwd flrs, fp, private deck & parking. $574,900

A larger 1 bedroom unit, (In Pristine Condition) 861 Sq. ft with new kitchen and bath. $289,900

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

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

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

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

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316 Greenwich Street

Complete Rehab, 3 bdrms, 1.5 bths, Cherry hrdwd flrs, fab. kitchen & bath & lrg yard. $249,900

335 Christian

128 Pemberton St

4 /3.5 2 Car Parking

Multi 5/4 + Deck & Garden $649,900

RED $549,900

From $299,000 1 SOLD

Place. Newer home finished by a high end N.Y. Designer. 4 bdrm + den, 2.5 bths, fp, hrdwd flrs, garden, deck + Parking. $699,900

753-757 S. Marshall St

1530 S. Myrtlewood Sttruc 121 Cuthbert Street - Fabulous huge Beautiful 2 story porch front home, ns3 bdrms, corner multi-unit property with two 1 bdrm Co hrdwd flrs, semi-finished basement & nice apartments. Hrdwd flrs, exposed brick, w e windows surround, wood burning stove & size back yard.N$89,900

623 S 6th 3 Condos Garage Rosa Court— The BesT deal 1 Christian #49 pendinG 3/2.5 Garden + 1 car 1/1 + Deck, TA 3 /2 From $549,000

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220 Manton St Great New Listing with Garage, 3/2 Full & 2 half Baths, Fp, Hrwd Flrs, Deck & Garden. $389,000

111 Federal Street - Beautiful home, 2800 sq ft, 3 bdrms + den, 2.5 bths, garden, deck, garage & basement, tax abatement. $515,000

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

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

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

104 Catherine Street WOW! Q.V. Duplex each with garage, one 2 bdrm unit & 1 3bdrm unit + solarium & Garden $549,000

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

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

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Dockside 717 S. Columbus Blvd S. Swanson Street 2 bedrooms +den,1.5 Unit 712 - Live & work from home848 812 Baths, S. Howard Street 3rd & Bainbridge in this fabulous space. old fabulous home. 3 bdrms Wonderful north facing with space5onyear Q.V. great rehab, 2 bdrms, lrg hardwood floors, Deckstudio + Gallery 1st Fl. $3000 great views and aStterrace, Terrific3kitchen + family1 bath rm, 3.5 bths,H/W, fp, hrdwd flrs, bth, fp hrdwd flrs t/o & garden 427 Queen Beautiful story, 2 bedroom, trinity, EIK & garden. $1400 & Ba, Hrwd Flrs + 1 Car deeded Parking. deck & garage. $639,000 REDUCED 225 Catharine St - Beautiful 3 BR + Den, 4 BA, H/W, Granite ktchn, grdn & 2 car parking. $3500$289,000 $250,000 776 S. 2nd 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

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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

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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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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

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1514 E. Moyamensing Ave 335 Christian 2417 Delancey Street-Custom 132 Manton Street Large, extra wide 20x77 corner property, Designer home! Pristine, attention to details, Lovely 3 story hm w/ 2 bdrms + den, Fab. Mansion home with 2 car Builders home, 3/2.5, hrdwd flrs, 2 fp’s, 4bdrms, 3.5 bths, garden, incred. main suite w/ private deck & fp, 1.5 bths, non- working fp, & yard on Aparking, 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 media rm, terrace, deck, garden & garage lovely 2nd bdrm + office, true cooks kit. 2 details, details, details $749,000 the side. $245,000 $414,999 fp’s,hrdwd flrs & lovely garden. $729,000.

123 Cuthbert Street Fabulous huge multi unit building

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204 Christian St.

Historically Certified, 2+ Den, 2 BA, Hrwd Flrs, Fp, Yard & Deck. $1750

614 S. Front Street - Queen Village.

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$499,900

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Incredible River Views, 5100 sq. ft, 20 x 76, four Gorgeous 3 bdrm + den, 2.5 bth home with hrdwd suites and huge family room, 5 1/2 bths, fp’s, flrs, fp, garden deck & garage. $2800  Jeff Kauffman Torythe Gargano Adele Gerngross garden and best deck in town - 360 degree Mike Carestio 3rd Stfo r o u r co mp le te in ve nto ry, weeviews. $6,000 Visit703 our S website kly o pen hou se s, add ition a l p ictu res a nd mo re particula rs.

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1900 JFK Blvd #1615 REDUCED! Rarely Available 2BR/1BA CO-OP in the Penn Center House

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$105,000

824 S 51st St 3 Units: Super-Solid income-producing property on appreciating block just off Baltimore Ave

$189,000

$139,000 $175,000 $200,000 $247,000 $279,900 $299,000

927 S Saint Bernard St 6BR/2.5BA Old-School West Phila House, Space, Light, Orig details, 1 Year old Heater, well-maintained

$250,000

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1919 Chestnut St #2323 Rarely available! Studio co-op with Parking and pool (fees) OPEN HOUSE 1213-15 N 15th St Fantastic Development and Rehab opportunity in buzzing Francisville and Temple U housing neighborhood 2937 W Harper St Reduced! Renovated 2 Bedroom with Hardwood floors, Exp Brick and Roof Deck 627 N 18th St 2BR/1BA spacious Condo in Historical Carriage House 875 N Taylor St 2BR/1BA Townhome, Newly renovated kitchen, Hardwood Floors 2301 Cherry St #4C REDUCED! Sunny Spacious multi Level 1BR/1.5BA, Balcony, Parking, and Renovated Kitchen

4543 Sansom St Gorgeous well-maintained University City Home

$385,500

4702 S Springfield Ave Beautiful Queen Anne Victorian; Wide entry hall, Much orig Detail, Eat In Kitchen, Garden, C/A

$425,000

4641 Spruce St Gorgeous Multi-family Property in University City

$525,000

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853 N 23rd St 4BR, Private Patio, Lovely Hardwood flooring, and Great Classic Features 30th St Corner, 3BR/1BA with Deck and Garage

OPEN HOUSE $479,999 $499,900

642 N 8th St New Construction in Northern Liberties offering 2 Bedrooms, 2.5 Baths, Modern kitchen and 2 Car parking

$269,900

1517 Melon St Light fi lled 3BR/4BA, Garage, roof Deck, tax abatement, Garden Upgrades

OPEN HOUSE $589,999

525 Fitzwater St 2BR/1.5BA Gated Townhome Community

$239,000

1734 Blair St 3BR/2.5 BA with Yard in Fishtown New Construction

$249,000

RITTENHOUSE SQUARE / FITLER SQUARE / AVENUE OF THE ARTS 2220 Manning St Beautiful home located on the prettiest block in Center City $349,000 1608 Addison St Charming 3 Story townhouse in the Rittenhouse Sq & Greenfield and GREENFIELD SCHOOL DISTRICT! 2BR/2BA with a straight stair, Ready to be your home! $415,000 1733 Rodman St 3BR/2.5BA home on a quiet block in Rittenhouse Sq Area $499,900 440 S Broad St OPEN FRI SAT,SUN 12-5PM or by Appointment Only One 1BR left and a select few of 2BR’s and 2BR’s with Den. 95% Sold.

From $499,900-900,000

1542 Christian St Unit B New Construction, Large 2BR/2BA home in Graduate Hospital

$299,900

2115 Carpenter St Unit A new Construction! Bi-Level 2BR/2BA townhouse-Style with private rear deck

$325,000

426 Moyer St New Construction 3BR/2BA with Bamboo floors, Finished Basement, Roof Deck, Rear Yard

$399,900

-546-2700 OLD CITY / LOFT DISTRICT / CHINATOWN 229 Chestnut St #3 Modern, Large 1 Bedroom Condo Featuring an open floor plan, 10Ft ceilings, lots of light $249,000 10 S Letitia St Renovated 2BR Condo,Classic loft style, Hi Ceilingsm HW Floors, Exp Brick,Huge windows, Mod Kitchen +BA, C/A, Tax Abatement $299,000 SOCIETY HILL / WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST

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Mantua – 3815 Wallace St 15x96 Residential Lot for Sale

$10,000

Mantua – 3817 Wallace St 15x96 Residential Lot for sale

$10,000

West Phila – 1330 N Hobart Investment Opportunity – REDUCED!

$15,900

Fishtown – 2231 Coral St Vacant Lot In Fishtown

$26,000

Kensington – 727 E Willard St Large 3BR/1BA home, Perfect for fi rst-time Home buyer

$29,000

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

$34,900 $39,900

250 S 13th St #2G Large 2 Room 1 Bath condo with High ceilings, Huge walk-in closet and great light

OPEN HOUSE $165,000

West Phila - 5842 Windsor Investment Property: REDUCED

250 S 13th St #4F REDUCED! 1BR/1BA condo with high ceiling, Hardwood floors, Large closet and great light

OPEN HOUSE $239,000

Southwest Phila - 2125 S 71st St Short Sale

$41,900

250 S 13th St #7A Sunny 1BR/1BA condo with High Ceilings, Large rooms Eat-in kitchen and custom closets 250 S 13thSt #4D 1BR/1BA condo with High Ceilings, Hardwood Floors, Large Closet, Great light, Southern Views

OPEN HOUSE $249,000 $265,000

Southwest Phila – 2127 S 71st St 3 Bedroom and 1 Half Bath

$44,900

250 S 13th St #11D Spacious 2BR/2BA condo with LR, DR, Newly renovated kitchen, Lots of light, High Ceilings OPEN HOUSE $405,000 730 Rodman St A Light fi lled Home with Hardwood flooring, Exposed Brick, Fireplace and Parking $475,000 105 Pine St Contemporary, Spacious Society Hill Townhome, Sumptious Master Suite with Garage/ 2 Car parking $949,000 507 S Philip St 4BR/3.5BA, garage, 4 stories, elevator, 3 decks $1,090,000 520 Delancey St Rarely offered Stately wide Mansion on one of the most coveted blocks in town 3200 Sq Ft with 3 Bedrooms $1,349,000 QUEEN VILLAGE/ BELLA VISTA / GRADUATE HOSPITAL / SOUTH PHILA.

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1923 Pemberton St REDUCED! 2BR/1BA ON DESIRABLE Grad Hosp. block, Right home to rehab and a great place to live 1834 Christian St Unit B Brand New 2BR/2BA Townhouse Style condo with Private deck, Near All 2232 Pemberton St 2BR/1BA, REDUCED! Freshly painted, Separate DR and Open Kitchen, Large backyard, More info at www.2232pembertonst.com 758 S Hicks St Granite, SS Kitchen, Brick paved Patio, 3rd Floor deck, Gas Cooking, Fireplace 1834 Christian St Unit A Brand New Bi-Level 2BR/2.5BA Townhouse Style condo, Private rear garden, Near All 935 E Moyamensing REDUCED! A Queen Village Gem 719 S 15th St Traditional Style and the latest fixtures come together in this striking Graduate Hospital rehab 752 S Darien Great Fixer upper on a rare , Huge, lot 16x95 in Meredith School District!

1808 Christian St 3BR/2 Full BA 2 half bath in Graduate hospital area 754 S 15th St 3BR/3.5BA Graduate Hospital Rehab is the right blend of elegance and sophistication 1507 Bainbridge St A Luxurious, Newer Townhome In Graduate Hospital 112-120 Christian Huge Warehouse, Awesome Development site

$251,900 $310,000 $315,500 $329,000 $350,000 $350,000 $369,000 $409,000 $575,000 $600,000 $650,000 $1,500,000

Southwest Phila – 2644 S 67th St 3BR/1BA, Freshly painted home on a nice quiet block

$57,500

Kensington – 2124 E Somerset Huge 3BR/1.5BA

$69,900

Elmwood – 6159 Wheeler St 3BR/1BA Home In SW Phila

$90,000

North Phila – 2109 W Master St Large 6BR/2BA house with updated Kitchen and W/W carpet

$92,000

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

$92,500

Francisville – 1514 W Stiles St

$95,000

Stonehurst – 7245 Brent Rd Well Maintained 3BR, Front yard, Patio, Freshly painted, Skylight, Fully Carpeted basement

$98,900

Temple University – 2221 N Camac St Great Investment Opportunity by Campus

$114,900

Port Richmond – 2570 E Ann St Awesome end unti 3BR/1BA rowhome in Port Richmond, Check out www.2570eann.com for Pics and details $124,900 Nicetown – 3540 N 15th St

$125,000

East Germantown – 630 E Chelten Ave Multi-Unit (2) 2BRUnits with separate entrances, Side yard

$135,000

Fishtown – 2726 E Albert St Recently Remodeled 2BR/1BA home on a quiet block 139,900 Fishtown – 2440 Cumberland Large 4BR home in Fishtown

$188,900

Italian Market – 725 Washington Ave 5BR/2.5BA with a full basement and tons of potential

$239,900

Somerton – 13053 Dorothy Dr 3BR/2.5BA with garage with all of the extras in place – Finished basement, landscaped rear yard OPEN HOUSE Close to everything check out www.731wynnewood.com

NORTHERN LIBERTIES / NORTH PHILADELPHIA

$250,000

Walnut Hill – 731 Wynnewood Rd #38 Remarkable Townhome in Walnut Hill with Parking, $299,900

930 Randolph St 3BR/2BA, C/A, S/S Kitchen, Green outdoor Space, New Paint & Carpet, Nearly 2000 Sq Ft $339,900 411 Brown St #R Private Gated Community, One car Secured Deeded Parking, 3/BR/2.5BA, Large Kitchen, Large French Doors, Master Suite

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

$289,999

Manayunk/Roxborough – 336 Leverington Ave New Construction, 3BR/2.5BA, 2 Car Parking, Decks, 10 yr Tax Abatement

$344,900

with Cathedral Ceilings 224 W George St A Gorgeous Townhome in Northern Liberties with Garage!

Fishtown – 1121 Shackamaxon St New Construction 3BR/2.5BA, Parking, Roof deck, Gourmet kitchen, Open layout

$449,900

Fishtown – 1342 E Berks St #C Rare Green Newer Construction home with Parking!

OPEN HOUSE SUN SEPT 9TH 1-3PM $425,000 $485,000

Check out www.1342eberks.com for pics and details UNIVERSITY CITY / WEST PHILADELPHIA 4935 Reno St Shell, Great Opportunity for an investor 5228 Pentridge Investment – Short Sale 5113 Hadfield St 2BR/1BA contemporarily Renovated home off Baltimore Ave, No attention to detail spared

$21,000 $34,900 $134,900

$449,900

Kensington – 2770-80 Jasper Huge Warehouse

$499,900

West Mt Airy – 612 W Cliveden St 7BR/4BA, Garden + Off Street Parking, Move In Condition

$534,900

King of Prussia – 305 Hughes Rd REDUCED! 4BR/2BA Split-Level, garden, Parking, 3 Acre wooded setting

$569,000

Fishtown – 2666-72 Coral St REDUCED! Pub for Sale with 3 Apartments up to 20 Car parking lot

$749,900

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$1,975,000

5 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, highly coveted block, formal living space, large master suite, outdoor space 4560sf

parc riTTenhOuse

$2,900,000

Bi-level penthouse with dramatic sunset views of the city, lavish entire flat master suite, great entertaining space 4,455 sf

1828 deLancey sTreeT

$399,900 $349,900

SociETy hill

RiTTEnhoUSE SqUARE 2031 deLancey sTreeT

The riTTenhOuse The WarWick

1Br, 1Ba, hardwood floors, marble Ba, custom kitchen 712 sf 1 bedroom, high floor, panoramic city views, lots of natural light, open kitchen 704 sf studio, generous living/sleeping space, open kitchen, large bathroom appointed in marble 578 sf Junior 1 bedroom, open kitchen, wood floors, walk-in closet in bedroom, marble bathroom 528 sf 1 bedroom, south views, spacious kitchen, hardwood floors, walk-in closet in master bedroom 651 sf studio, wood floors, large marble bath, panoramic sunset view 583 sf Junior 1 bedroom, wood floors, marble bath , open kitchen, sunrise city view 531 sf