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CONTENTS // SEPT. 26 - OCT. 2

1500 Sansom St. I 3rd Floor Philadelphia, PA I 215.563.7400 Classified Advertising: 215.563.1234 Classified Fax: 215.563.6799 Editor in Chief Stephen H. Segal Senior Editor Nina Hoffmann Managing Editor Anastasia Barbalios Arts & Culture Editor Sheena Lester Senior Writer Tara Murtha Staff Writer Randy LoBasso Art Director Drew Phillips Contributing Writers Jeffrey Barg, Leah Blewett, Sean Burns, Bryan Bierman, Bill Chenevert, Nicole Finkbiner, Brian Freedman, Craig D. Lindsey, Hayden Mitman, Jennifer Kelly, Cristina Perachio, Matt Prigge, J. Cooper Robb, Katherine Rochester, Katherine Silkaitis, Tonya Pendleton Contributing Photographers Jeff Fusco, Felicia Perretti, J.R. Blackwell, Karrisa Olsen, Ashley Catharine Smith

FEATURE STORY

10 I MR. NUTTER GOES TO WASHINGTON

The mayor’s prominence in the national spotlight is better for Philly than you think.

PHILLYNOW 6 I NEWS BRIEFS

Editorial Interns Caroline Newton, Jenine Pilla, Anthony Trivelli

A Kensington coffee shop serves more than Joe; anti-violence funding; new rules for bicyclists.

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8 I THE BREAKDOWN

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Distribution Manager Philip E. Metz (ext. 148)

Philadelphians tell Gov. Corbett what they think of his priorities.

PHILLYNOW [Q&A]

SKA Coffee Shop Why it’s “the miracle on Kensington Avenue.”

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ensington Avenue might be the city’s most maligned thoroughfare.

You’ve either seen firsthand the distressed streetscape or have heard stories of the drug activity, prostitution and crime that is all too common there. In an August 2011 PW cover story, we profiled the city’s Top 10 drug corners, which are all on or around Kensington Avenue. And you know the hardships are many when they aren’t known only to locals.

The Daily Mail in London recently wrote, “On Philadelphia’s Kensington Avenue, the desperation is palpable.”

But right at the center of it all—in “the belly of the beast,” as manager Jimmy Gee refers to it—stands SKA coffee shop (which stands for Summerfield Kensington Avenue), a unique outreach effort that the Summerfield-Siloam United Methodist Church initiated in August 2011. Dan Roth, pastor of the Fishtown-based church, and Gee recently spoke with PW to detail some of the work SKA has done in the past year in an effort to help addicts, prostitutes and those who are down on their luck improve their lives.

What makes SKA different from rehab clinics?

Dan Roth: Well, it’s not like AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) or something … the primary purpose is to have it open and available for an extended period of time, (the shop is open until at least 8 p.m. most nights and nearly midnight Fridays and Saturdays) so, it can be

known as a place where people can come and get help.

Jimmy Gee: It’s a place where someone who’s sober can come and have coffee or a snack, and it’s also a place where we try to do whatever is necessary to help someone get sober or help them stay sober … We can help get them to AA and NA oriented programs, but we can also get them leads for housing, clothes and food.

Why did you want to create a place like SKA? DR: Well, it was never really about making money. At first, we were stretched really thin and we didn’t know if we had the resources.

But, I spent a lot of time in prayer about it and I really felt that it was something God wanted us to do ... The church came-- up with seed money. We started it off with just $1,500. It’s a place where if someone comes in and they want to get to a sober house or recovery or get a sponsor, they can do that.

A cup of faith: Dan Roth, pastor at Summerfield-Siloam United Methodist Church, serves as director of SKA, the Kensington coffee shop and outreach center. (Photo by James Schubauer)

on the local community?

JG: That’s not just what it’s about. It’s easy to help people who want help. We are out here in the belly of the beast, man. Prostitutes are across the street, right there. But, this is a blessing, because we get to talk to all these people. This is where we need to be.

JG: Yeah, at least. It’s the miracle on Kensington Avenue, man ... People come in here, and I can tell they’re sick, and we get to talking.

Next thing you know, I’ve got them in the car on the way to detox.

JG: It’s just talking. I was an addict for 18 years, an alcoholic for 53. In fact, today (Tuesday, Sept. 18) is my anniversary. Thirty years off of heroin … You just talk. Tell them about what makes you happy, the blessings we get free from it, and they’ll ask “How do I do that?” It takes an addict to help an addict sometimes, and you can do a lot just hanging out having a cup of coffee ... That’s what it’s all about, helping somebody else. (Hayden Mittman)

You’ve been on the avenue for more than a year. Have you seen SKA make an impact

How are you able to connect with an addict or a prostitute in order to be able to help?

SKA is located at 2416 Kensington Ave. For more information, visit skaphilly.com.

DR: That’s the thing. I’d say we have sent at least 100 people to sober or recovery houses, probably well over that.

[FUNDING]

Philadelphia Gets Two Anti-Violence Grants From the Feds ast week, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency awarded two anti-violence grants to Philadelphia. The first invites Philly into the National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention, and includes a $20,000 planning grant. The second is $1.5 million that will fund Philadelphia CeaseFire—our local branch of the antigun program—over three years. The money is arriving just in the nick of time: CeaseFire ran out of funds way back in the spring after stretching a start-up grant out for two years.

CeaseFire sends outreach workers with roots in target communities and experience in gun culture—in other words, reformed criminals—to defuse potentially deadly situations. In the parlance of the program, which

views gun violence as a disease, the outreach workers “interrupt” the spread of gun violence through direct action. They try to talk people out of retaliating.

In 2010, when Philadelphia Ceasefire received start-up funding from the state, they set up shop in Strawberry Mansion—technically, the 22nd District’s police service area designated PSA2—because it had one of the worst homicide rates in the city. The pilot program showed promise. “We saw about a 36, 37 percent decrease in homicide by handgun in our target area,” says CeaseFire Director Marla Davis-Bellamy. The positive effect appears to have rippled out, too. The neighborhood just south of the target area, PSA4, “saw a decrease of 70 percent during the fiscal year July 1-June 30.”

But at the start of the summer, amid reports of a spike in violence—Memorial Day weekend alone saw 27 shooting victims and six homicides—no one was funding the city’s premier evidence-based violence-prevention program. In June, the United States Conference of Mayors, of which Mayor Nutter is president, officially endorsed the CeaseFire model. Yet the $1 million initially proposed by Nutter for the program was then chopped to $200,000

by City Council, and that money remains untouched. To keep CeaseFire going, Temple University’s School of Medicine quietly picked up the slack and supported the program—based in the school’s Center for Bioethics, Urban Health and Policy—through the summer.

Now, the $20,000 in Justice Department

money may be used to analyze how to spend that $200,000 in an effort to specifically address youth violence, according to Michael Resnick, the city’s director of public safety.

“We know there are a lot of city agencies and contractors ... doing different things around youth violence prevention, but we really haven’t taken a coordinated look at it. Maybe we need to see [youth-violence prevention] as something distinct from our overall crimefighting plan.”

After accidental injury, homicide is the leading cause of death for people ages 10 to 24 years old, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Of the 318 homicides in Philadelphia last year, 154 victims were 25 years old or younger. (Tara Murtha)

PHILLYNOW [TRAFFIC REPORT]

Dear Bicyclists: Your Days of Brazenly Breaking Traffic Laws Are Numbered.

Love, Philly and car parking penalties—will not change, which probably means every single biker in the city will be prone to a ticket this fall. Last year, between May and October 2011 (during the mayor’s initial “Give Respect, Get Respect” campaign to foster friendly bicyclist-driver relations) 26 cyclists received citations in Center City, and 1,142 got warnings. It’s assumed those warnings will become tickets in 2013—but it’s really up to the police. “As far as enforcement, it falls to the police, so we’re at their mercy when it comes to that,” notes Sean McMonagle, Squilla’s legislative assistant.

Also part of the effort: The city is codifying its Complete Streets handbook, which provides rules of the road for Philadelphians. An edit of the manual is currently being vetted at public meetings and will play an integral part of the final bill—and future projects.

The handbook’s changes will ensure that upcoming street projects include mandatory accommodations for drivers, bikers and pedestrians; specifically, timing of traffic signals to minimize delay, promotion of an extended bicycle network through the city and discouraging potential obstructions when planning future street projects. “[The handbook change is] going to provide a pretty clear and transparent way for how those decisions get made and that’s going to help ensure the policy,” adds Stuart. “[The city’s streets] are going to look different and stronger.”

(Randy LoBasso)

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efore the year is over, the much-anticipated Complete Streets Bill, proposed in Council to increase safety for both bicyclists and drivers, will come up for a vote. Originally planned for a May showing, the bill, worked on in conjunction with the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, was held due to the city budget debate that lasted throughout the spring. The group now says it’s hopeful for a vote by October or November.

Complete Streets, sponsored by Councilmembers Mark Squilla, Kenyatta Johnson, Blondell Reynolds-Brown and Jim Kenney, includes concessions and safety precautions for both cyclists and drivers. The legislation would impose a $100 fine on a bicyclist going through a red light; it would prohibit opening a car door into traffic (unless safe to do so); and would prohibit parking in bike lanes, which, if you take a look at philly.mybikelane.com, or at any bike lane in the city on any given day, is already a problem.

Currently, bicycle infractions elicit a $3 ticket. The $100 fine will bring Philadelphia up to Pennsylvania state law fine standards.

Bicyclists already aren’t allowed to go through red lights (or speak on cell phones, or ride on the sidewalk), just as motorists already aren’t allowed to park in bike lanes.

The Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia considers the bill a compromise. “We have been having productive meetings with the administration about [the bill],” says Sarah Clark Stuart, campaign director of the Bicycle Coalition. “We’re still waiting for what they come back with, then we have to meet with Councilman Squilla and we’ll know [what the final version will look like].”

As for possible amendments, Stuart notes the main policy changes— like the red light

PHILLYNOW // THE BREAKDOWN

Heckuva Job, Tommy

City-vs.-state tension was in full bloom last week as Philadelphians told Gov. Corbett what they think of his priorities.

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By Tara Murtha // tmurtha@philadelphiaweekly.com ast week, Gov. Corbett was in Philadelphia to participate in a townhall meeting hosted by conservative radio personality Dom Giordano at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. You may have heard: It didn’t go well.

Security insisted that guests were not allowed to bring “large bags” or backpacks into the museum’s auditorium, but local activists—many from Decarcerate PA, Act Up Philadelphia and Fight for Philly—somehow snuck giant banners into the room anyway. And in a scenario that played out like a bizarro episode of Pee-wee’s Playhouse, activists leapt to their feet shouting whenever the governor—he’s the bizarro Pee-wee in this metaphor—mentioned certain things. Those triggering phrases—“voter ID,” “Marcellus Shale,” “teachers,” “education,” “pensions,” “jobs,” “death penalty,” “General Assistance cuts”—represent only some of the issues that your typical Philadelphian activist beefs with Corbett on, mind you, but they’re a good start.

It went like this: The governor said, “Marcellus Shale,” so someone yelled, “It’s poisoning our water!” A bit later, when a guest asked about 40 schools closing in Philadelphia, Corbett asked that the crowd bear with him. Someone shouted, “We’ve been bearing with you for two years!”

As protesters shouted and chanted, the governor stayed cool as a cuke—as opposed to Giordano, who’d point people out of the crowd (“This lady in the red!”) and yell for police to kick them out.

With mayhem erupting all around him, Corbett would lean back, pluck a folder off the table and theatrically study the papers inside, whatever they were.

At one point, though, he broke stride and engaged with one of his angry guests. He’d been talking jobs. “The number one strategy is to try to get everyone a job,” he said. A woman shouted, “Good job!”

She was being sarcastic. Her point was that he hadn’t done a good job of creating good jobs. Corbett responded literally, as if she’d been elaborating upon his talking point: “Yes,” he said, “a good job. I agree!” Then a small smile spread across his face and he pressed his finger to his lips as if to say, “Shhhhh.”

That image—of a distant, sarcastic overlord who tunes out any objections to his decisions—pretty much sums up how many Philadelphians see Corbett.

And for good reason. In the two years that Philadelphia’s been “bearing with” him, he’s made cuts that disproportionately impact Philadelphia.

Most recently, he carved $150 million out of this year’s budget by cut-

crowd, which by that point was standing and chanting, “Corbett go home!” Then, more protesters gathered outside the museum’s side exit, yelling at him through the door. Police cleared the space so the governor could make his way out; the group of 70 or so people screamed as his SUV made its way past them and slipped into the Parkway traffic.

(It was all much more dramatic than

As protesters shouted and chanted, the governor stayed cool as a cuke. With mayhem erupting all around him, Corbett just theatrically studied his folder full of papers. ting General Assistance (GA) funds. GA, in effect since the Great Depression, is a last-resort, temporary assistance program. By definition, beneficiaries are “unemployable” and most are disabled. In Pennsylvania, participants in recovery programs and victims of domestic violence fleeing abusers qualified for GA with a nine-month lifetime cap. Payment varied by county, but the average payment was $205 a month.

The cut went into effect Aug. 1. Approximately half of the 68,000 Pennsylvanians who relied on those funds—1 in 200—are Philadelphians.

At the town hall, when Corbett recommended that people who used to rely on GA funds should go find other programs, a social worker yelled back, “There are none!”

The crowd kept interrupting to articulate their concerns—and they were articulate, actually—until the meeting was cut short by half an hour. Just before 9 p.m., Corbett walked off stage to jeers from the

the boos that had rippled through a Philly crowd the week before, when Corbett spoke at an event honoring Muhammad Ali with the Liberty Medal at the Constitution Center.)

It’s not just Philadelphians who are disappointed in Corbett. The Quinnipiac poll from July—right after the budget— showed an all-time low approval rating of 36 percent. The needle moved up 2 points in August, while Franklin & Marshall’s August poll came in with a lower approval, at 28 percent.

But Corbett isn’t likely losing any sleep over it—he admits he ignores polls the same way he ignores protesters. When asked about poll numbers last year, he said, “I always feel that the only poll that counts … will be the re-election day in 2014.” ■ The Breakdown is written by senior writer Tara Murtha, who regularly reports on urban violence, policy, gender, and any other social-justice issues we can think of.

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By Randy LoBasso // rlobasso@philadelphiaweekly.com

n February, the Republican presidential primary was still very much alive. Candidates Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich were all vying for the top spot—and knocking President Obama every step of the way. So the president’s campaign, still mired in a slumping economy, did what anyone would do: They called in the cavalry. Suddenly, clots of political supporters appeared in city halls, community centers and campaign offices in all 50 states with a clear message: If you attack the president with verbal smears, we will be there to set the record straight.

Locally, the president had the city’s top dog in his corner, and an eager one at that.

“We’re here today,” Mayor Nutter said from the second floor of City Hall, “to make sure people know the truth about what the president has done while in office and to respond to and anticipate the Republican attacks. Unfortunately, we’ve seen these attacks already and know they’ll be coming soon to Pennsylvania.”

With that, Nutter and several Philly politicians (including District Attorney Seth Williams and Controller Alan Butkovitz) announced the local arm of Obama’s “Truth Team”—a political force out to stop the socalled lies and smears against the president.

“Mitt Romney has already proven,” the mayor said, “that he will literally say anything to distort the president’s record, and his own.”

Less than two months later, Romney was the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. And Nutter was leading the charge against him—starting with a campaign call in April. Romney “doesn’t believe” in millionaires paying their fair share, Nutter told the press. Regarding Romney’s refusal to release 10 years of tax returns: “It begs the question,”

Nutter said, “What is Mr. Romney hiding?”

That was the beginning of the onslaught of invective Nutter would relentlessly hurl at Romney and the national GOP as campaign season heated up. In press calls, at live appearances and on television, Nutter would go on to call Romney greedy, seductive, a bad governor, deportation-happy, a teary-eyed child—even “a joke.”

His skillful attacks and campaign messaging have made him one of the president’s most reliable surrogates in the 2012 race.

And since then, unlike several of his Democratic colleagues throughout the country, he’s remained consistent in these attacks on the former Massachusetts governor; he’s never relented, never been hesitant to repeat Obama talking points on the stump and on national television.

All of which has led many in our city to ask the question: Could there be a more opportunistic motivation behind Nutter’s presidential punditry? Some imaginative Philly media think so—as they tend to whenever one of our fancier politicians cozies up to a president. Maybe, they’ve said, Nutter’s campaigning for Obama because he wants a job in Washington.

Maybe. But even for political calculations, that’s a bit simplistic.

Here’s the more complicated reality: The Obama era has changed the way cities interact with the federal government—partly because of Obama’s policies, partly because of the blowback to his polarizing presidency.

And while Nutter’s national grandstanding might seem as though he’s neglecting Philly, it might actually be one of those most valuable political assets our city’s got.

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The extent to how involved the NutterObama relationship really is begins with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. That bill, signed during Obama’s first month in office, intended to use the $787 billion authorized by Congress for a myriad of projects, including education, infrastructure and providing a short-term halt to the free falling economy.

But little reported by the national media was the new environment of inter-municipal competition created by ARRA’s rules, which have made getting money from the federal government harder. It began with $100 billion of stimulus money that went into education. While most of the funds were meant to keep schools—and their employees—above water, $5.3 billion of it was tied up in grants for which cities needed to apply, and compete.

Most notable was the Race to the Top program, which handed out education money based on point-based criteria such as improved teacher performance, computerization and other projects. Between 2009 and 2011, Pennsylvania received $41 million in Race to the Top grants—and earlier this month, the Philadelphia School District was one of 892 school districts around the country competing for a combined $400 million in new grants.

While the school funds are perhaps the most well-known of the competitive grants, the Obama administration has made this process standard. And it’s served Philadelphia in ways the old method of doing things via formula grants—noncompetitive awards based on predetermined formulas, like population, poverty rate, etc.—probably couldn’t. Especially with the way federal cash dried up after the stimulus.

Time magazine senior correspondent Michael Grunwald, who wrote a book about the stimulus package titled The New New Deal, calls this Obama’s “quiet bureaucratic revolution.”

“The quiet races to the top in everything from transportation to energy innovation to lead-paint removal programs [are] really starting to change the way Washington spends money,” he tells PW. “Instead of spreading money around the country like peanut butter to anyone who checked all the required boxes for their project, the stimulus asked revolutionary questions like: Does your project make any sense? The idea that a project needed to be shovel-worthy as well as shovel-ready—and that bureaucrats would have to make subjective judgments about economic and environmental benefits rather than serve as compliance officers—is a new thing.”

The most recent Philly competitive grant success story came toward the beginning of the summer, when the city got $3.125 million from the federal government to train police

officers, via a COPS grant. The COPS program has awarded more than $12 billion to local police forces since 1995; it funds a portion of the salary and benefits for officer and deputy hires for three years. Of the 226 local U.S. law enforcement agencies competing for a slice of the $111 million up for grabs in 2012, Philly, along with Chicago and L.A., received the most officers: 25.

The money didn’t come easy; in fact, the city had been turned down for the same grant just a year earlier, and hadn’t gotten such funds since 2009. And in light of last summer’s flash mobs and the uptick in the city’s murder rate through 2012, the city government—specifically, Nutter’s new federal affairs director, former Redevelopment Au-

needs, we weren’t at the top of their list.

Luckily, Nutter has a friend in Washington.

And was able to make his pitch straight to the feds.

“Part of the success here is that Mayor Nutter is known by the Obama administration,” says Gillen. “They know he’s good. They like him. They probably would like to be as helpful as possible—I can’t prove any of this, but … I do think the mayor’s relationship with the Obama administration has helped us to get them to consider proposals and ideas that they might not otherwise consider.”

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Those proposals and projects have included new green investments throughout the city. The 2010 TIGER Grant, for example,

juNE-Nov 2008

“Part of the success here is that Mayor Nutter is known by the Obama administration.

They know he’s good. I can’t prove any of this but... I do think the mayor’s relationship with the Obama Administration has helped us to get them to consider proposals and ideas that they might not otherwise consider.” thority head Terry Gillen—needed to come up with an outside-the-box plan for some cash.

“People think you pick up a phone and make a phone call and they send you a bundle of cash,” says Gillen, “and it’s really not that way.”

In January 2012, representatives from the Department of Justice made an appearance at the U.S. Conference of Mayors winter meeting in Washington. They were there specifically to talk about upcoming COPS grants.

Gillen had set up an appointment with the representatives; after her initial meeting, Nutter—then the conference’s vice president—was brought in to discuss why COPS’ maximum funding should be raised from 10 to 25 police officers, which is how many Philly wanted. He argued that there needed to be a “carve-out for large cities” who need more police and whom it costs more to train police.

“They didn’t give us any feedback either way, but said they would think about it,” says Gillen. Six months later, Philadelphia received funds for 25 police officers, who were to be either veterans who served in the military after 9/11, or re-hires, as was COPS’ 2012 standard.

What’s notable about Philadelphia receiving the most funds is that, according to the federal government’s assessment of our

handed out $23 million in transportation funds for bike lanes in Philadelphia and Camden. It’s part of a system that will eventually connect trails throughout the Delaware Valley and South Jersey.

The TIGER Grant, author Grunwald says, “is the perfect example of a project that wouldn’t have fit into one of the boxes. It doesn’t fit into the highway program, or the transit program or the safety program. So whether or not a project like that got funded would have, in the past, been completely dependent on whether your local congressman has sway over the Appropriations Committee or the Transportation Committee.”

With Obama’s new rules, it’s not just about checking boxes; you’ve gotta make your case. “The big change in the Obama administration is that the quality of your work has to be really, really good,” Gillen adds. “There is a lot more competition, but it’s competition with guidance … A lot of people argue that in the Bush administration, there was a lot of competition with No Child Left Behind. But they’re forgetting that with failing schools, if you got a failing grade, nobody helped you get past failure. So what they’re trying to say is that, ‘You didn’t quite cut it here; but here’s what you can do different, and we’re going to help you do that.’”

That’s why Nutter put Gillen in charge of directly communicating with the federal

Nutter Goes NatioNal: Tracking the mayor’s prominence outside Philly May 2007 Obama sends out campaign email endorsing Rep. Chaka Fattah over Councilman Michael Nutter in the Philadelphia mayoral race. “All his life,” Obama wrote in the email, “Chaka has been a true champion for Philadelphia’s neighborhoods.”

juNE 2007 Nutter endorses Hillary Clinton in the presidential race: “I met with both Sen. Clinton and Sen. Obama last year, and I made my judgment based on their experience and policy ideas.”

Obama wins the primary. Nutter begins campaigning for him throughout Pennsylvania, alongside fellow Clinton partisan Gov. Ed Rendell.

FEbruary 2009 The Obama administration changes the rules on how municipalities receive federal money.

FEbruary 2010 Philadelphia receives majority of $23 million in TIGER Grant dedicated to Philly and Camden for bicycle and road improvements.

ocTobEr 2010 Nutter leads a Philly rally alongside Obama, Rendell, gubernatorial candidate Dan Onorato, and senatorial candidate Joe Sestak. Nutter is booed so loudly during his speech, he stops and attempts to begin a “Yes we can” chant. It doesn’t work.

NovEMbEr 2010 Nutter appoints former Redevelopment Authority head Terry Gillen as director of federal affairs in the Mayor’s Office.

juNE 2011 Mayor Nutter becomes vice president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. Calls cuts in spending by Tea Party freshman class the “great retreat by the federal government.”

juLy 2011 Nutter goes on The Rachel Maddow Show, says the federal government needs to act like adults: “We don’t have time for this type of game-playing and brinksmanship.”

ocTobEr 2011 The U.S. House and Senate both reject the president’s Recover America Jobs Act. Nutter holds a press conference on the 40th Street Bridge to publicly disapprove.

NovEMbEr 2011 Nutter wins re-election over Republican Karen Brown with about 75 percent of the vote. His media campaign for a second Obama term begins.

May 2012 Nutter attacks Romney’s history at Bain Capitol. “When anyone tries to discuss that issue or his experience, we see the crocodile tears come out and the claim that those who want to explore his record don’t believe in capitalism.”

juNE 2012 Using Philadelphia Weekly reporting as a guide, Talking Points Memo asks if the Obama campaign has a new favorite East Coast mayor: “Is Michael Nutter the new Cory Booker?”

juLy 2012 Mitt Romney gives a speech to the NAACP, and is booed. Nutter suggests Romney got himself booed on purpose in order to shore up a racist voter base.

SEpTEMbEr 2012 Nutter speaks at the Democratic National Convention on the same night as President Obama.

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government. She started Nov. 3, 2010, the day after the midterm elections—which were especially bad for Democrats both in the federal government and in Pennsylvania.

She joked at the time: “The job got harder in the last 24 hours, so I’m a little nervous about it.” Even today, she notes the House going from a large Democrat majority to a large Republican majority has “been a big problem” for the city.

Securing funding for local projects became even harder in April 2011, when Obama and Congress eliminated earmarks as part of a deal to avoid a government shutdown.

Sending federal money to individual districts would no longer be approved by Congress in one massive back-pat of a spending vote. It’d have to come from local politicians working together—and it’d have to be approved by the president’s administration.

By that point, though, Nutter had already seen the writing on the wall. In October 2010, he and then-Gov. Ed Rendell took to D.C. to ask for money—specifically, for infrastructure funds. Closing I-95 for three days in 2008 due to a crack cost $60 million in lost productivity, Nutter told the feds. He also asked for a $5 billion expansion of Philadelphia International Airport and a $30 million upgrade to SEPTA’s fare system, which we didn’t get. And any projects thereafter would be difficult with the new Republican leadership. When the president introduced the Rebuild America Jobs Act in November 2011, it was immediately denounced as a “second stimulus” by Republican politicians like Sen. Pat Toomey.

Nutter, not surprisingly, saw it differently.

He held a press conference on top of the 40th Street Bridge “to advocate for sustained infrastructure investment by the federal government.” The jobs bill, it was estimated, would have put an estimated 5,307 people to work on bridge, highway and other infrastructure projects in Philadelphia. “[Obama] has proposed the most comprehensive plan to put Americans back to work in at least 30 years,” Nutter said.

The bill never even made it to the Senate.

It did, however, help fuel Nutter’s nationwide blitz to talk up the president.

“At a time when voters loathe Washington, they may be more receptive to voices coming from closer to home,” wrote Politico reporter Alexander Burns on the eve of the Democratic National Convention. “As Obama defends his economic record, it’s his party’s mayors who can speak most directly to the impact of policies such as the Recovery Act.” Luckily, Obama has a friend in Philadelphia—one prepared to take the president’s pitch straight to the voters. Which is why Nutter made dozens of appearances on CNN and MSNBC this summer, and spoke on dozens of press calls with other mayors throughout

the country. And he hated on Mitt Romney through it all.

“The guy is a joke,” Nutter said of Romney on July 12, appearing alongside Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed. “He’s not for real. He’s a character playing a role and virtually perpetrating a fraud on the American people.”

It’s these blistering attacks, and defenses of the Obama record, that have led to speculation—as seen in news reports from Newsworks, the Daily News and Philadelphia magazine—that Nutter would abandon Philadelphia for the White House come Obama’s second term. But all speculation involving Nutter’s move has been just that.

The Obama campaign would not comment on the topic, and Nutter’s press secretary Mark McDonald, naturally, denies it categorically: “There are no such plans [for Mayor Nutter working in a second Obama term].

There is no expectation of that. The mayor is not thinking at all about that. What he’s thinking about is running the city of Philadelphia to the best of his ability [and] help President Obama win widespread support in Philadelphia and the surrounding counties and carry the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and that’s about it.”

McDonald, a former Daily News staffer, likely remembers similar speculation from his days as a journalist. During President Clinton’s re-election campaign in 1996, local media and political insiders believed the same thing about then-Mayor Ed Rendell. A Daily News article from 1996 notes a rumor that the former mayor would be offered a cabinet position in a second Clinton administration.

Then, as now, the rumor was denied by everyone except “Philadelphia’s political community.” Then, as now, Philadelphia’s mayor spoke at the Democratic National Convention. And locally, the media was obsessed with what the mayor thought of his own national image.

Here’s one important difference: The rumors surrounding Rendell came as he’d brought the city out of a fiscal crisis. Nutter’s largest success, thus far, has probably been the same as the president’s: coping with a slow recovery amidst a frustrated public. Which isn’t enough on which to base the rest of his career. It’s safe to say that if Nutter were to leave City Hall mid-term, his career in elected politics would be over.

So for now, Nutter’s both with us and with them. We can’t do without the federal government’s cash, and the government can’t do without big-city Democrats spreading its message. These days, all politics are local except, it seems, local politics—and neither side can afford to do it any differently. n Want to know what else Mayor Nutter said about Mitt Romney and the GOP during this election season? Visit philadelphiaweekly.com for a Top 5 list of the mayor’s best attack quotes.

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R. Stevie Moore has been home recording since the late 1960s and, over the course of 40 years, has released more than 400 albums via his R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club (later CDR Club). He’s technologically omnivorous, as well as prolific, adapting to the age of YouTube—with more than 100 clips from every decade of his career—and Bandcamp to distribute his music. His performances are free-form, flitting from toss-away experiments to spoken-word rants to gemlike psychedelic pop songs. It’s outsider art polished to lapidary beauty, and lately an inspiration to lo-fi mainstays like Ariel Pink and John Maus. JENNIFER KELLY 9pm. $10-$12. With Ecce Shnak + the Interest Group. Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave. johnnybrendas.com

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THE STATE OF YOUNG PHILLY

You might look around at the city of Philadelphia and wonder—as much good as there is, when will the city rise to another level? You’ll find one answer at the 3rd Annual State of Young Philly, where a fresh generation of 20- and 30-somethings will offer bright, bold new ideas on how to improve the city in education, economy and sustainability. Among a variety of events during the two-week series is an open competition—the YIP Challenge—designed to encourage young Philadelphians to not only introduce new ideas to improve the city, but immediately act upon those plans. The winner of the competition will be announced at the Final Showcase on Oct. 13 at the University Arts’ Hamilton Hall. REGINALD HALL JR.

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BRAT ROCKPILE

Philly Fringe ain’t over just yet, folks! Brat Productions, the musical masterminds behind the 2011 Fringe hit 24-Hour The Bald Soprano, are giving audiences one last chance to catch their latest epic rock ‘n’ roll double header. Madi Distefano, Brat’s founding artistic director, will kick off the evening with her international award-winning solo show about the end of Boston’s underground punk scene, Popsicle Departure, 1989. Next, Brat all-star Jess Conda blends theatrical spectacle with live music in the glam rock cabaret, “Eternal Glamnation,” which features a selection of tunes from the likes of David Bowie and Queen.

Audiences can expect both performances to serve up a generous helping of sex, drugs, ear-piercing rock ‘n’ roll and a whole lotta glitter. The best part: One ticket gets you into both rockin’ shows. NICOLE FINKBINER 9:30pm. $25. Underground Arts, 1200 Callowhill St. undergroundarts.org

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ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT

With their innovative 1992 debut 3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life Of..., Arrested Development cemented their spot in hip-hop history. In the vein of progressive groups like Sly and the Family Stone before them, the Atlanta-based AD curated a group comprised of diverse musicians and creative folks hoping to spread a message of spirituality and humanity. The collective included leader Speech, spiritual advisor Baba Oje, vocalist Dionne Farris, dancer Montsho Eshe, Rasa Don, DJ Headliner (followed by DJ Kemit) and several other members with varying backgrounds. Though their Billboard chart-dominating first LP marked the height of their success, and personnel has shifted in the years since, Arrested Development released their ninth recording, Standing at the Crossroads, last month. And 3 Years’ 20th anniversary is worth celebrating. TONYA PENDLETON 8pm. $17-20. With The Rebel Yell + Philadelphia Slick.

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With the keen foresight that people of the future would want to see the bad haircuts and worse manglings of language of Reagan-era metalheads, filmmaker Jeff Krulik made Heavy Metal Parking Lot, which chats with young tailgaters at a 1986 Judas Priest show in Largo, Maryland. A famous bootleg-turned-institution, it is a vision at once hellish, endearing and comic. (“I’d jump his bones,” one lady says of Rob Halford, Priest’s gay frontman.) This fantastic idea has yielded a cottage industry of like-minded videos, some from Krulik himself, including Parking Lots on Neil Diamond and Harry Potter. Krulik will be present at PhilaMOCA to discuss his life, including a storied stint working public access, and show his work. That means HMPL, but also the hugely warm Ernest Borgnine on the Bus, a 1995 travelogue that hangs with the late Oscar winner as he laughs, raps on positive thinking and generally proves

For singer Shemekia Copeland, blues is in the blood: Her father is Texas blues legend Johnny Copeland. And like blues queens before her, the lady Copeland’s voice is a big, robust expression of life, love and the struggles of humanity. Although she was born in Harlem, N.Y., Copeland’s family ties helped her establish her own career after, as a teen, her pop’s failing health made her realize she wanted to continue the family’s musical legacy.

Now in her early 30s, she’s worked with blues stalwarts Buddy Guy, who plays guitar on “Ain’t Gonna Be Your Tattoo,” and Dr. John, plus shared stages with the likes of Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton. Her six albums have helped crown Copeland the new “Queen of the Blues,” a distinction bestowed on her at the Chicago Blues Festival in 2011, where she was literally presented Koko Taylor’s crown

by Taylor’s daughter, Cookie. Copeland’s latest LP, 33 1/3, was released this week to stellar re-

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It’s been a crap year for people with both brains and uteresus. What the world needs now is to get Doc deep in ‘90s riot-girl vibes, no? Yes. With that in mind, Dear Althea is the gateway plug into the latest Sugar Town showcase. From the Dick-less Dale beach-party shimmy of “Oh, Today” to the head-bobbing booby-bounce of “Girl V. Ex-Lover,” what we want now is chug after sweet chug of electric lady riffs. Joining in on the beautiful beats are the Pretty Greens—you used to know them as Go-Go’s tribute band Lust2Love—and Kate Ferencz. Billed as “a little Le Tigre, and a little bit Kimya Calvin K,” Ferencz has got a deliciously strange range, scraping weird sounds and words off the walls of those jagged hallways of acute anxiety that keep narrowing and narrowing until you have to write it all down in one big burst on the nearest napkin. That’s better. DJ set by Avalon Clare. TARA MURTHA 9pm. $10. Tabu, 200 S. 12th St. 215.964.9675. tabuphilly.com [EVENT]

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GO WEST! CRAFT FEST

While the slew of local holiday craft festivals are still a ways away, there’s no time like the present to support local artisans and independent businesses. For its fall edition, the beloved West Philly craft extravaganza has invited more than 50 of the region’s best artists and crafters to sell their creations—home goods, accessories, bath and body products, screen-printed tees, original artwork and more. Some of the vendors you’ll definitely want to keep your eyes peeled for: Seam Poets, Topstitch Design, Treat Shoppe Charms, Foxglove Factory, Exit 343 Designs and VIX Emporium. There will also be live entertainment every hour, including performances by Preservance Swing Band, the Citywide Specials and Tinycircus. Should you work up an appetite while navigating through the sea of one-of-a-kind treasures, Black Orchid will serve up its vegan specialties, along with a handful of other local food vendors. A rain date is scheduled for Sunday. N.F. 11am. Free. The Woodlands Cemetery, 4000 Woodland Ave. [MUSIC]

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In 2009, America was introduced to Two Door Cinema Club via their critically acclaimed EP Four Words to Stand On, then in 2010 came their lively dance-rocker Tourist History, and it wasn’t difficult to like the results. With lead vocalist Alex Trimble sounding like Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard, and with driving tunes that fans of Phoenix and Bloc Party could dance themselves silly to, it was easy to see why their album was so widely adored.

Fast-forward to 2012, and their latest, Beacon, sees them going in a slightly new direction. Heavier on the synths this time around (“Next Year”), with dashes of disco-era sounds (“Handshake”) and a

desire to slow things down on the first half of the record (“Sun”), the band has definitely matured.

That’s not to say they’ve forgotten what worked before, though, as tracks like “Sleep Alone” recall the fast-paced tunes of Tourist History, while “Someday” features some of Trimble’s trademark tongue-twisting word play. BRIAN PALMER 8pm. $26.50-$29. Electric Factory, 421 N. Seventh St. 215.627.1332. electricfactory.info

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Zoos are cool and all, but let’s be honest: We’d all much rather smother animals in hugs and kisses while cooing in an embarrassing baby voice. At Sproutfest, more than 20 animal rescues will bring plenty of animals in need of smothering love! For three years in a row, Finding Shelter Animal Rescue has organized Sproutfest in honor of Sprout, an abandoned, blind Chihuahua found on the side of the road two years ago. Aside from the potential adoptees, there will be food, vendors, entertainment, games and raffle prizes. Even if you’re not in the market for a little friend, this event is sure to be the cat’s meow. CAROLINE NEWTON 11am- 3pm. Free. Upper Merion Township Building, 175 W. Valley Forge Rd., King of Prussia. findingshelter.org [MUSIC]

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InterAct Theatre Company celebrates its 25th anniversary with a special season opener. Hosted by the dean of Philadelphia actors, Tom McCarthy, the night is a trip down Memory Lane to the beginning of the Philadelphia theater renaissance. “Philadelphia has a long theatre tradition,” explains InterAct’s producing artistic director Seth Rozin, “but it wasn’t until 25 years ago that the professional theatre boom really started.”

Founded in 1988, the same year the Arden Theatre Company made its debut, InterAct has devoted the past quarter-century to producing plays that explore issues of political, social and cultural relevance. Tonight, the audience will be treated to personal stories from prominent local theater artists, like Grace Gonglewski and Frank X, and playwright Thom Gibbons, whose spectacular plays 6221 and Permanent Collection are among the company’s landmark world premieres.

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7pm. Free. Adrienne Theater mainstage, 2030 Sansom St. 215.568.8079. interacttheatre.org [TALKS]

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The library’s getting a little spicy tonight. The ever emotional, patriotic and dramatic Wyclef Jean will be talking about his new book Purpose: An Immigrant’s Story and singing some classic acoustic jams. From the mean streets of Port-au-

Prince, Haiti, to the perhaps meaner Brooklyn and Newark, N.J., avenues, Clef wants to make sure you hear his version of his story. Much of the book focuses on his love triangle with singer Lauryn Hill and his (still) wife Claudenette, and the passionate boom and bust of the Fugees. To justify the salacious dishing, Clef told CNN, “Someone’s going to end up writing it in history so I have to make sure that I write the truth.” ALLYN GAESTEL 7:30pm. $15. Central Library, 19th and Vine sts. freelibrary.org

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TUES 2 [MUSIC]

SWITCHFOOT

San Diego’s favorite righteous rockers have made a career out of doing the unexpected. Whether breaking out of the Christian music ghetto to sign with a major label or singing about some of the messier aspects of faith that most artists would avoid like the plague, Switchfoot has long stepped to the beat of their own drum. It’s for this reason that their latest album, Vice Verses, is arguably their strongest yet; the band really shines on epic numbers like “Restless” and the closing track “Where I Belong,” where notions of the eternal come to the forefront. Singer Jon Foreman is as razor-sharp as ever with his observations, especially on “Selling the News,” a hip-hop-meets-spoken-word-meets-rock ditty whose unflinchingly honest evaluation of society’s need for instant gratification is spot-on. B.P. 7pm. $23.50. Theater of the Living Arts, 334 South St. 215.922.1011. tlaphilly.com

Experience Michel Gondry’s surrealistic ode to soured love all over again, with a live soundtrack.

The Bethlehem-based, roots-rock, jazzy duo, XVSK will play along with a screening of the flick, creating a 360-degree viewing experience. The twosome includes Trevor Exter on cello and percussionist John Kimock blending in and out between rhythm and melodies, marking time code with drum beats and filling the air with an overload of sentiment. The music is the perfect accompaniment to the dream-like examination on love, loss and regret. ABIGAIL BRULEY 7pm. $10. PhilaMoca, 531 N. 12th St. philamoca.org [EVENT]

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What’s better than supporting local business and dressing up like your favorite Japanese videogame character? Hardly anything. After six successful mini conventions, J1 Studios is back with J1-Con: an event chock-full of anime, cosplay, card games, video games and vendors. Not only will there be a talent show and a cosplay competition, J1-Con is featuring a rad, bad and totally mad dance party with DJ Cutman, a video-game music mix-master. And if you’re not convinced yet, live performances by hip-hop duo Law 27 and R&B/ soul artist Alexa Gold should win you over. There will be $5 tournaments happening throughout the day for you competitive cats, plus three feature films playing all day. C.N. 8pm. HeadHouse Restaurant, 122 Lombard St. 215.922.1223. j1studios.com

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efore last week, I’d never actually eaten a veggie burger and thought to myself, “You know what, I might actually order this again.” It’s not that there aren’t some great vegetable patties out there; it’s just that I’d never found one that even came close to what a juicy mountain of ground beef accomplishes.

And while this one, at the appealing new Spencer ETA Burger up by Drexel, still won’t be replacing beef burgers in my eating life, the way it’s prepped makes it an absolutely solid option not just for vegetarians, but also for carnivores who want to dabble in slightly healthier dining once in a while. Much of this success is a result of the philosophy espoused at Spencer ETA Burger: That the toppings make the burger. So while the patty itself was perfectly fine, the accompanying accoutrements were what lifted it above the mass of ashen examples elsewhere around town.

I ordered mine as a Greek burger. The Vesuvius of sweet roasted bell peppers, the tangle of spinach capped with tomato and grilled eggplant, the funky black olive tapenade and tangy feta, the onion-chickpea-cucumber slaw, the roasted garlic aioli—all of it lent the veg patty an excitement it’s rarely lavished with.

The homemade toppings here take center stage, not just over the meatless burgers but over the beef as well. The meat is fine, mind you—plenty juicy and seasoned with a deft hand—but the toppings tend to be so generously applied, and occasionally so baroque in their constituent combination of components, they simply steal the proverbial show.

The Tomahto Daddy is a good example. Check out the dense pleasures of the herbed and panko-fried tomato slice, the creaminess of the melting American cheese, and the caper-flecked riff on a Big Mac’s special sauce. Even the Southwest Gobbler turkey burger worked well: The lean meat remained remarkably juicy—not always the case with ground poultry—and was helped along by an excellent, almost roasty tomato buffalo sauce and a lusty, chipotle-kissed, bluecheese/red-onion dressing. These were joined by bell peppers, black beans, corn, pepper jack and crispy strips of tortilla.

Big daddy: The Tomahto Daddy is topped with a panko-fried tomato slice and special sauce.

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It’s all drunk-food par excellence, fatty and carby enough to absorb all kinds of booze, but far more flavorful and better assembled than that classification typically implies. It makes sense that this is the brainchild of the team behind Sabrina’s; in fact, a number of the preparations here seem to share a good bit of DNA with those beloved brunch spots dotting the city. (There’s one across the way from Spencer, also in Ross Commons, and it’s doing well, especially now that the students are back.)

There are occasionally missteps. Dr. I’s Burger, a sort-of nighttime equivalent of Sabrina’s breakfast burrito with huevos rancheros sauce, guacamole, and lime sour cream, never quite makes it past the too-starchy application of beans I found on mine. And the Ultimate Spencer Burger, lavished with sweet poached apples, raspberry-red-onion-herb ketchup and cheddar, needs real pork bacon, not the dry strips of turkey bacon being used right now.

But these are quibbles, and the overriding philosophy that seems to be guiding Spencer ETA Burger is one of joyous gluttony. Roll up your sleeves, tuck into a burger or two, and enjoy the ride. Tear into a couple of fried cheddar-jalapeno polenta sticks, their crusts generous and

crisp, the centers nicely reliant on the actual flavor of corn, and a kick at the end of it all prepping you for the next one. Or a tangle of sweet potato fries, the perfume of cinnamon somehow perfect this time of year.

For a long time, Philly’s meat-loving orientation has undoubtedly fueled an explosion of remarkable burger patties; give me Pub & Kitchen’s Churchill burger any day and I’ll be a happy guy indeed. Spencer ETA Burger, though, has convinced me that the topping-centric school of thought deserves to be explored more extensively. ■

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The Pickled Heron

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

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

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

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

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

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700 S. Fifth St. 215.923.1620. tapestryphilly.com Cuisine: American casual.

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

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

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

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

Ramen has the potential to be one of the more deeply comforting and affordable meals around and Nom Nom Ramen, 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.)

1521 Spruce St. 215.546.1521. russetphilly.com Cuisine: Italian and French-inspired menu focused around local ingredients.

Russet, a B.Y.O.B housed in a converted rowhome in Rittenhouse, crafts a daily menu around a few choice local ingredients. Hand-rolled garganelli pasta comes with spinach, a sunny-side-up egg and crispy, thick-cut guanciale—unsmoked Italian bacon made from pig jowl or cheek. After breaking the egg yolk to coat the pasta, the resulting taste is that of a deconstructed carbonara. Stinging nettles make an appearance on the American red snapper, alongside Jerusalem artichokes and a tomato fondue that adds a sweet acidity to each bite. (Cristina Perachio)

Stateside

1536 E. Passyunk Ave. 215.551.2500. statesidephilly.com Cuisine: Contemporary, casual American.

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At Tapestry, you really can’t go wrong with a brew and almost anything fried. Order a Ballast Point Piper Down Scottish-style ale from California and tear into a plate of fried chicken, a salty, dizzyingly crispy, thick-crusted plateful that’s among the better versions in the city right now. The vegetarian chili is also a standout: the pinto, cannellini, red kidney and black beans are all relatively toothsome despite the fact that they’re canned, and the sweetness of paprika and cooked-down tomatoes lend it contrast. The burger, though nothing unique, nonetheless acquitted itself admirably; the 80-20 chuck is ground fresh at Rivera’s and Nydick’s Agiato in Manayunk. Pizzas are generally a solid go-to as well with their leopard-spotted and yeasty crusts. With a few tweaks here and there, Tapestry will reach its potential and do the very pleasant space justice. In the meantime, stop by, check out the new brews and tear into that fried chicken. (B.F.)

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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 custommade for eating a little too much, drinking a little too much, and regretting none of it. (B.F.)

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

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

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Another Slice of Heaven With grit and imagination, the Wilma Theater continues its exploration of Tony Kushner’s epic Angels in America.

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Joe confided to her that he was gay, has found work at the Mormon Visitor Center. His estranged wife, Harper (the very affecting Kate Czajkowski), who became suicidal when Joe moved out, is slowly, fitfully beginning to emerge from her depression. Even the closeted HIV-positive Republican lawyer Roy Cohn (played magnificently by Stephen Novelli) is beginning to come to terms with his diagnosis.

Perestroika, with its relative calm following the calamitous conclusion of Millennium, is better suited to Zizka’s strengths as a director. Throughout her brilliant career, the majority of Zizka’s best plays are more intellectually engaging than feverishly passionate, and the big ideas Kushner tackles in Perestroika suit her talents perfectly. With the AIDS epidemic and the fall of the Soviet Union serving as the two primary catalysts for change, in Perestroika, Kushner contemplates the nature of progress. It’s a far-reaching examination that concerns itself not only with individual change, but also how societies, the planet and the entire cosmos are being torn apart and reassembled.

Zizka’s sharp, imaginative direction is not the sole reason for Perestroika’s success. The entire cast of Millennium Approaches returns for Perestroika, and without exception, their performances are vastly improved. Whereas Millenni-

um featured one stand-out performance in James Ijames’ wonderful portrayal of Belize, the heroic drag queen nurse, Perestroika features several terrific performances. Particularly good is Maia DeSanti, who is both elegant and ominous as the Angel that visits Prior. Flying with astonishing grace, she is both beautiful and terrifying, and instead of humanizing her, the dry, mechanical cough DeSanti employs only adds to the Angel’s sense of otherworldliness. Perhaps no actor is more improved than Mary Elizabeth Scallen. Portraying four disparate characters—including Hannah, a deceased Ethel Rosenberg, an elderly rabbi and Roy Cohn’s pushy male doctor Henry—Scallen loses herself so fully in each character that one would never guess the four were being played by a single actress.

Despite the suffering brought on by the changes in their lives, the characters in Perestroika eventually move beyond the past and step into an uncertain future. As Prior eloquently states in the play’s conclusion, “We won’t die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come. The great work begins.” n Through Oct. 21. $39-$66. Wilma Theater, 265 S. Broad St. 215.546.7824. wilmatheater.org

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ow that the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe is over, it’s time for the city’s established, subscriber-based companies to begin rolling out their new seasons. This week, the Wilma Theater opens its season with an impressive production of Tony Kushner’s masterpiece Perestroika, the second play in Kushner’s epic Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes.

The Wilma staged Angels’ first part, Millennium Approaches, last spring as the final production of its 2011-12 season. Despite the earlier production having garnered seven Barrymore Awards, the Wilma’s Perestroika is superior in every regard. While director Blanka Zizka’s production of Millennium was capable, even excellent at times, it was an angry, chaotic play, and the Wilma’s staging lacked the necessary sense of outrage and disorder. In it, the central character Prior (Aubrey Deeker) has just been diagnosed with the HIV virus, joining the growing community of gay New Yorkers who are contracting AIDS. It’s 1985, and the disease is decimating an entire generation of gay men. But no one in Millennium goes untouched by the illness, regardless of their health, religion, race or sexual orientation; its characters find that their lives are being irrevocably changed. The play ends with an angel crashing through the ceiling of Prior’s apartment, announcing that “The messenger has arrived.”

It is from this wreckage that Perestroika—the term most widely known as Mikhail Gorbachev’s mid-’80s program of economic and political reform in the Soviet Union—begins. It is still 1985, and the AIDS epidemic continues to ravage New York’s gay circles.

However, whereas Millennium ended with a tremendous crash, in Perestroika, the initial shock of witnessing the world unravel is starting to wear off. Prior is beginning to come to terms with both his medical diagnosis and the departure of his longtime boyfriend, Louis (Benjamin Peterson), who moved in with a previously closeted Mormon law clerk named Joe (Luigi Sottile, in an assured, vulnerable performance).

Joe’s mother, Hannah, who left Salt Lake City and moved to New York when

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We don’t have to win you over?

No way. It was a very easy move. I’m living in that place full-time now. I love this city.

So the intimacy is something to be valued and not an indicator, to you, that one of your goals should be to widen the audience or get more people through the door?

I think that’s a misunderstanding about really addressing the different needs of different audiences and diversifying audiences. You’re trying to make this available and engaging to so many people at different levels, so it should be about the depth of our experience with art and artists and cultural institutions.

Education is an essential component of museum programming today. However, the Education Department at the ICA was disbanded a few years ago. Is that because ICA felt that, as part of the University of Pennsylvania, its whole program could be considered education?

That’s exactly right. I think the very, very bold move on behalf of the curatorial team here and the leadership at this institution was eliminating the Education Department and reshaping the institution to have a program curator and a publications curator, in addition to a senior and associate curator. This was not a flippant idea made to follow some trend or something. It was simply because we are already in an educational institution, and so everything we do—by its very nature—is educational. It’s extraordinary to go to an intimate Excursus program organized by curator Alex Klein, where you could be one of four

The ICA’s 50th anniversary is coming up.

What excites you most about the history and future initiatives of the ICA? I look at that group of folks who were engaged in the culture wars, sparked by the Robert Mapplethorpe show in 1989 at the ICA, which is taught over and over again. For me, that’s really historic and important. It was a time in American art history and in the history of artists that I think you’re going to see a lot more people responding to because it totally changed the nature of artist-run spaces.

It polarized and forced into positions groups of people who hadn’t worked together before. The arts communities’ response there was not dissimilar to the communities’ response to AIDS, to the American wars, to Occupy. I get really excited thinking about the work that’s going to come out in response to our recent history and the archive of this institution. n

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By Matt Prigge // mprigge@philadelphiaweekly.com The Story of the Three-Day Pass (1968): Melvin Van Peebles took the long way to becoming Hollywood’s first black director. Unable to impress American execs, he wound up in France, where he wrote plays, novels, and even translated Mad magazine. One of his novels, an interracial romp, proved the basis for his Nouvelle Vague-ish debut.

Hollywood finally took notice, flew him home—and were shocked to see their new hire was African-American; they assumed he was French. He proceeded to make the 1970 studio comedy Watermelon Man, and the rest is history.

The Man Who Sleeps (1974): How does one translate avant-garde prose to filmmaking? Georges Perec’s 1967 novel A Man Asleep is told in the second-person, with the narrator talking to a student who drops out of society without leaving Paris. All Perec (and co-director Bernard Queysanne) did was add visuals and an atmospheric score.

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The Great Train Robbery (1978): Before the Michael Crichton film bash of the ‘90s, there was the Crichton film bash of the ‘70s. That includes the director’s own directorial output, including this bland version of his own bestseller, plus Westworld and later the Tom Selleck-Gene Simmons robot spider thing Runaway.

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Tough Guys Don’t Dance (1987): In the ‘60s, Norman Mailer embraced no-budget experimental cinema. Beyond the Law, Wild 90 and Maidstone were hotly divisive, but nothing compared to the ire that engulfed his version of his 1984 trash noir novel. Once Razzie-fêted, it’s more accurately read as a gonzo campfest. Mailer even intentionally included Ryan O’Neal’s infamous reading of the line “Oh God, oh man,” cried ad infinitum, against the actor’s protestations.

The Exorcist III (1990): John Boorman’s Exorcist II had presumably killed the franchise dead with its incomprehensible batshitness. But William Peter Blatty, novelist of the original, took a belated whack anyway. Adapted from his 1983 novel Legion, the result is as sedate as Exorcist II was insane, though its one great scare—involving a hallway and a crash zoom—is a doozy.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012): In which Stephen Chbosky himself turns his epistolary novel into a traditional coming-of-age saga. Hey, better him than someone else. ■

Two Great Stars That Star Great Together More joint scenes with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis would’ve made the twists-and-turns-filled Looper even better.

By Sean Burns // sburns@philadelphiaweekly.com y far the funniest moment of Rian Johnson’s nifty sci-fi thriller arrives when a frustrated Bruce Willis sits at a diner with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, his 30-years-younger self. The latter tries to start picking apart paradoxes and plotholes, while Willis just sneers that they don’t have time to get into the nuts and bolts of time travel. He says they’ll be there all day, and he’ll have to diagram everything out with straws.

It’s a clever way of telling the audience not to think too hard about what we’re watching and just go along for the ride.

Looper is a pretty good ride.

Gordon-Levitt stars as Joe, a sullen, miserable drug-addicted hitman working for the mob in the not-too-distant future of 2044. Turns out time travel was invented but quickly became illegal, so only gangsters use it. They beam back targets from three decades since, and hired assassins called “loopers” blow these guys away and quietly dispose of the bodies. See, there’s no forensic evidence when you’re sending your victim to be murdered 30 years ago.

Joe is stockpiling bars of silver in his basement, and learning French for a move abroad whenever he finally gets out of this nasty business. “I’m from the future, you should go to China,” mutters his hilariously bored boss, deftly played

by Jeff Daniels. It’s a soulless, ugly job, but Joe doesn’t seem to mind much. Until the day he’s supposed to kill ... himself.

Willis is able to outfox the kid because he knows all his moves. They’re his own, after all. He’s old, weary and beat down after too many decades of being a remorseless criminal. The best parts of Looper bring the young and old Joes face-to-face, with the persnickety Willis saying, “I am going to save your worthless life.”

There’s more. Much more, in fact. Johnson is the kind of filmmaker who will never be faulted for a lack of ambition. He burst onto the scene with 2005’s crafty high school noir, Brick, and followed it up with the more expansive and significantly less-charming The Brothers Bloom. Johnson is a very clever man, if sometimes a

Call it self-control: Bruce Willis (right) gets a grip on himself—his younger self, played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt—in Looper.

bit too clever for his own good.

Looper roars out of the gate with a vision of the future that’s just slightly off from our own reality. Skipping the standard-issue Blade Runner dystopia set design, Johnson takes great pains to keep the picture grounded in recognizable reality, setting most of the picture in workaday diners and old farmhouses.

A few fashions and word choices are slightly off-kilter, but, for the most part, his 2044 could be right now.

The main event here is Gordon-Levitt’s young Willis impression. Despite the distracting prosthetic nose, it’s an uncanny collection of squints, slow-burns and long exhales. (He basically acts like my college pals and I did every time we rewatched The Last Boy Scout after coming home drunk.) Johnson has never worked with a movie star like Willis before, and the most satisfying portions of the picture genuflect at the altar of Willis-ness.

In his wheelhouse as a sullen, heartbroken badass, Willis’ costumes are even a throwback to his Pulp Fiction getup, and sometimes I think we forget how well he wears a T-shirt soaked in blood. Ah, if he had only smoked cigarettes. Willis is easily the best movie smoker since the 1940s.

I’m afraid to give away too many of Looper’s twists and turns, but it is safe to say that after a very busy first hour, the movie settles down into something more thoughtful and less visceral, with Gordon-Levitt kicking drugs while holed up at a farm owned by a shotgun-toting, extremely appealing Emily Blunt. There is much ado about a future crimelord, with Willis going full Terminator in an attempt to alter the timeline and save his wife’s

life. If this means killing little kids, then so be it—he knows how they’re going to grow up. Credit Willis and Johnson for pushing the picture into such uncomfortable territory, complete with a shocker of a shot that momentarily drops the John McClane references and reaches back to Henry Fonda in Once Upon a Time in the West.

Looper is a neat little movie that leaves you with the nagging feeling it could have been so much more. Gordon-Levitt and Willis are only onscreen together for a handful of moments, which is too bad because those scenes provide an emotional hook for the entire picture. There’s a young man meeting his older self, saying, “I’m not going to grow up to be you.” The old man looks back, disgusted at what he used to be. Johnson gets a bit too fussy with the crafty plot developments to follow that emotional throughline as far as it needed to go.

But I did admire a sequence in which Johnson puts all the existential dilemmas on hold and just gives Willis a couple of machine guns in a complex full of disposable henchmen. It’s Johnson’s most endearing fanboy flourish, as if the filmmaker is saying: “Look, I’ve got Bruce Willis in my movie. We need at least one scene in which he just kills the shit out of everybody.” ■

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Stephen Chbosky’s YA novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower was written in the epistolary form, unfolding as a series of letters written by its socially retarded high school freshman hero to a never-revealed source. The film version, adapted and directed by Chbosky himself, isn’t so radical. The action has been reformatted into a traditional narrative, the prose converted to traditional voiceover. The result only makes what follows feel like a generic coming-of-age saga, complete with another genre mainstay: a boring, tabula rasa protagonist whom we’re repeatedly assured will age into a brilliant writer.

However much of this smoothed-out Perks is unique at all is due to its time setting. The outsider teens of the early 1990s have had few, if any, cinematic offerings to call their own, and Perks revels in a dead era of mixtapes, of seeing The Rocky Horror Picture Show live, of swooning to David Bowie’s “Heroes” on the radio, but not knowing what it was until months later. (Despite being an ‘80s teen himself, Chbosky sets the tale early in the next decade, and the mash of eras means everyone listens to the Smiths or L7.) Logan Lerman, who’s 20, plays the 13ish lead Charlie, a hopelessly stunted kid who enters high school expecting daily beatings. Instead, he lucks his way into a circle of misfit seniors led

by Sam (Emma Watson) and her flamboyantly swishy stepbrother, Patrick (Ezra Miller).

What follows is conventional but, thanks to the period, a slight twist. Charlie scores an inspirational teacher in Paul Rudd, slowly accrues confidence and learns to stand up to mean jock bullies. But he also only scores platonic love, save an amusing comic stretch where he winds up in a relationship with a goth girl (Mae Whitman) whom he’s not into, only because he’s too nice to say no. The life of the suburban teen will likely never be immune to the same batch of cliches, and while it’s easy to dwell on Perk’s shortcomings— most glaringly, a rushed subplot involving child abuse—it’s also easy to recognize the things it does just right, starting with Watson, perfectly cast as the unobtainable, older dream girl. ■

True to the title, there’s no unifying theme to the anthology Stars in Shorts—just a procession of familiar faces, belonging to actors of varying degrees of stardom, starring in varying degrees of medocrity, each one at least thoughtfully brief. (Or in two cases, briefish.)

The wattage of the star has no gauge on quality, otherwise Steve—a neighbor-fromhell comedy starring Colin Firth and Keira Knightley—wouldn’t be forced, shrill and, Firth’s innate Firthness aside, mostly charmless. Watching Firth play nuts is less dubious, though also less fun, than watching Judi Dench in Friend Request Pending, whose only joke is watching olds talk social media.

Single jokes are a hallmark of mainstream short cinema, and they define the two— two!—separate shorts written by Neil LaBute.

After-School Special beholds as single dad Wes Bentley awkwardly hits on Sarah Paulson at a Chuck E. Cheese’s-type establishment, and the strangely touching nonseduction that follows is undercut by the kind of dumb twist ending that makes people hate LaBute.

At least you won’t see it coming, whereas the one in the playwright/filmmaker’s Sexting—75 percent an unbroken medium shot of Julia Stiles ranting into the camera—is foreseeable even before its gets going.

Not Your Time is more meaty: Longtime editor Jay Kamen’s Hollywood satire details an aspriring filmmaker (Jason Alexander) who only gets offers once he announces he’s committing suicide, although one could rustle up more than a few for whom that plan didn’t work. The Procession, in which a mother and son (Lily Tomlin and Jesse Tyler Ferguson) muck up the funeral of a woman they never knew, is the package’s lone almost-bright spot: a collection of decent gags that gets out before its welcome is overstayed.

Prodigal, the anthology’s lone serious entry is, alas, “serious,” with Kenneth Branagh reliably hammy as the baddie in what is a revival of the psychic kid thriller, like The Fury or Firestarter, only banged out in a clean 25 minutes. The conclusion is nakedly open for a sequel feature-length augmentation or TV show when not existing at all would have been preferable. ■

The rap against Adam Sandler is that he often finds an exotic location where he can fly out all his friends to make a crappy movie while having a nice vacation. Hotel Transylvania is kind of fascinating, as it gathers Sandler’s whole crew together for a weekend at a resort, except this one is animated. So they never really went anywhere.

The movie never really goes anywhere either, but it’s not awful. Sandler stars as Dracula, doing one of his goofy voices and running a highly regarded spa where the Universal Monsters can vacation for a weekend without worrying about those pesky humans with all their pitchforks and torches. Kevin James is Frankenstein’s monster (of course), and in a weird bit of casting, Cee-Lo plays The Mummy. David Spade is The Invisible Man, and Steve Buscemi steals the picture outright, voicing The Wolfman as a henpecked, defeated dad who has far too large of a wolfpack to deal with right now.

Directed by Genddy Tartakovsky, the fanboy favorite who created Samurai Jack and a surprisingly un-shitty Star Wars cartoon for television, Hotel Transylvania is seriously confused, right down to the character design.

Sandler’s Dracula and James’ Frankenstein are broad, cartoonish line drawings, while Buscemi’s Wolfman and Jon Lovitz’s Quasimodo are fully-rendered CGI creatures. The movie doesn’t seem sure what it’s supposed to look like from scene to scene.

Far too much time is spent on the mawkish relationship between Sandler and his 118year old daughter Mavis (Selina Gomez), who is just hitting puberty and aching to see the outside world. Andy Samberg shows up as a hippy-dippy hitchhiker with a big backpack and banal stories about life on the road, at which point a part of me yearned for the gofor-broke, perverted scatology of Samberg’s and Sandler’s criminally underrated That’s My Boy. It’s just terribly pleasant, that’s all. Buscemi’s novel approach to removing stray sheep from the road rocks the movie into the territory where co-writer Robert Smigel (of TV Funhouse fame) often dwells. But such moments are few and far between. ■

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Somewhere, there exists a sick rule that says any mildly amusing indie, especially one about a depressive 30-something male— and particularly one written, directed by and starring the same person—must turn “serious” and at least moderately heavy deep into the second act. As with recent detritus Sleepwalk With Me and The Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best, there’s a ticking time bomb in Liberal Arts, which begins—and, for a good while, stays—a moderately funny and even sometimes incisive comic love story with an overqualified cast and a writer/director/star who oozes low-key charm.

Best known as the lead character no one remembers on How I Met Your Mother, Josh Radnor affably plays Jesse, a mid-30s admissions officer who falls for Zibby (Elizabeth Olsen), a precocious 19-year-old student at his rural alma mater. Instant clicking during a campus visit leads to letter writing—via actual hand-written and -delivered letters— which leads to Jesse realizing that dating someone 16 years one’s junior actually becomes less skeezy upon entering middle and old age. Still, Jesse finds it difficult to cope with such collegiate fixtures as roommates, cafeterias, sleeping late, genuinely enjoying Twilight-ish fiction and unsullied virginity.

These are issues the hero of the recent Hello I Must Be Going—also concerning a 30-something’s relationship with a 19-yearold—didn’t have to face. That would seem to make Liberal Arts the more honest film, and perhaps it would be had it not proceeded from a comedy that took on the pangs of May-December relationships head-on to a generic drama in which our hero Learns What’s Right. As it’s ultimately revealed, every side character—including professors Richard Jenkins and Allison Janney, weirdly hammy Greek chorus Zac Efron and a sadsack kid really into David Foster Wallace—exists so that our lead can grow up. This is grating narcissism, and the film was a lot more fun when it allowed its supporting cast to doodle up the sidelines. Olsen in particular works expressive, grounded wonders on a character written as pure MPDG, once again brightening a film, like Silent House and Peace, Love & Misunderstanding, that in no way deserves her. ■

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The Afghan Whigs, one of the most acclaimed bands of the ’90s, reunite for a throwback tour.

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TJ Kong and the Atomic Bomb The first time I heard TJ Kong and the Atomic Bomb was 2008 at the Blue Room in South Philly, drummer Dan Martino’s former house-turnedvenue, where Martino and guitarist/vocalist Dan Bruskewicz’s rollicking, harmonica-charged cover of “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” gave gravely blues a punk backbeat. Since then, the band—now a four-piece with Kevin Conner on lead guitar and Joshua Machiz on upright bass— has become one of the most adored acts in the city, and Thursday night, they’ll drop Manufacturing Joy, their second full-length, with an album release show at Johnny Brenda’s.

Although the group has a wide swath of influences, their whiskey-tinged sound is deeply rooted in the same folky Americana highlighted in musicologist Alan Lomax’s classic archival field recordings from generations ago, which Bruskewicz says helped motivate the new record. “When me and Dan [Martino] first started recording, we were doing it very, very lo-fi. And what was sort of our inspiration was some of these old blues recordings. They just had one mic, and the creativity of it came from the performance, not the recording. That’s what we sort of brought to it from the beginning.”

The boys recorded half of Manufacturing Joy in a Fishtown warehouse and the other half on their four-track tape machine. “This time we went back to our original idea of recording very raw, and if it doesn’t sound good, at least it will sound real,” says Bruskewicz. Their live-in-thestudio approach is a smart one, evidenced by shit-kickers like “Friday Night Guy” or the alluring beauty of opener “Rock ‘N Roll Club Bathroom Cocaine Blues.”

Although the band is self-releasing Joy for download on Bandcamp and iTunes, the CDs for sale at their party will feature bonus tracks and extra artwork at a lower price. Bruskewicz and I note that while CDs are becoming outdated, bands continue to release their music on older formats, like cassette tapes. When I joke that Edison wax cylinders will be the next wave, Bruskewicz laughingly confesses they’ve already considered it. “A friend of mine actually said that the other day, that we should just start recording everything on wax cylinders. We’d spend $100,000 and just make five and sell them for $50,000 apiece. Then we’ll start a new trend.”

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he part of the show you paid for is over,” announced singer Greg Dulli a couple blistering hours into what would be the Afghan Whigs’ last Philly show, circa fall 1998. “This part is called lagniappe.”

The custom of lagniappe is rooted in Dulli’s adopted New Orleans hometown, where giving the customer an extra special something for free is part and parcel of French Louisiana culture. And this something proved extra special indeed, as Dulli and his bandmates continued to tear through the Whigs’ soulpunk catalog till none of us could stand any longer.

At least that’s how I remember it. Dulli remembers that tour differently. Namely, the drugs.

“That last tour was a very Rolling Stones Exile on Main St. vibe,” he says on the phone from Los Angeles. “Sometimes, it worked.

Sometimes, it was the right atmosphere for the situation. And sometimes, I felt like I talked too much, and everything I said was infinitely interesting to me, but perhaps not so much to other people.”

He doesn’t play shows high anymore, which makes this fall’s highly anticipated Afghan Whigs reunion—with bassist John Curley and guitarist Rick McCollum—a unique opportunity for a second act in a field that offers few of those. Something unexpected, something extra—lagniappe, perhaps.

“I feel kind of present and in the moment when I play live now, and that was not the case on the last Whigs tour,” he says. “Some of those shows just got sloppy, and I feel like I’m honoring the material and showing it the love that I probably didn’t at the end there.”

Irrespective of the conflicting memories of the Whigs’ tour behind 1965—their final album, a soul-drenched magnum opus that bled baby-making rock and expertly blended ’90s alt rage with a ’60s Motown heart—a reunion tour was never inevitable. After the band members parted ways more than a decade ago, Dulli went on to release progressively darker albums under monikers including the Twilight Singers (a loose amalgamation of the lead singer and his sidemen of choice) and the Gutter Twins (with Screaming Trees frontman Mark Lanegan). Whigs songs rarely, if ever, surfaced in setlists, and the Twilight Singers and the Gutter Twins developed fan bases of their own.

Back up in it: The Afghan Whigs are back to making beautiful, baby-making rock.

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Then, two years ago, Dulli tried out a small acoustic tour, including a wild night at Johnny Brenda’s, and deeper Whigs cuts suddenly found their way back. It had finally been long enough that a reunion was not such a wacky idea after all.

“That was not a farewell tour back then,” he says of the 1965 tour. “The last show we played, we didn’t know that it was the last show. And I think that’s for the best.”

Now that they’re finding their rhythm again, the band has been able to reach into their back catalog and, after dusting off the bones, find gems they didn’t necessarily even know were there.

“It’s been cool to reinvent a couple of these songs without doing some sort of 2012 makeover,” Dulli says. “These are good songs.

A couple of ’em needed editing for punch factor—for me. But with the editing, it’s very exciting. It’s almost like a new song.”

“Son of the South,” for example, was a track from 1990’s Sub Pop-released Up in It. The band came back to it after reuniting, but something wasn’t working quite right.

“It had a really long intro, and halfway through the intro, I was like, looking for someplace to go lie down,” says Dulli. “And I’m like, ‘What if I cut these eight bars off and cut to the piston action?’ And as soon as I cut to the piston action, I look forward to playing that song every night.”

Reviews from the first leg of the tour have the Whigs as tight as ever, with them giving equal time to the punkier early-’90s tracks and the latter-period soul rockers. They’re even improvising their way into new songs, much as they did in their heyday.

“A lot of the Gentlemen songs got written onstage,” Dulli recounts of the album considered by many literati to be the band’s masterwork. “I’ve gone back and heard tapes of early versions of songs that were on Gentlemen with gibberish for lyrics. That’s happened a few times on this tour.”

He used to think that was the drugs playing. Now, he says, it’s something different.

“I would tend to kind of keep riffing at the end of something, especially if I was altered, and I’ve noticed that maybe it wasn’t the altered factor because I’m not altered now, and I still do it,” he says. “I think it’s just kind of an inherent instinct to see where else the car can drive. Maybe I get in the driveway and decide to go through the fence and around the backyard a couple times to eat donuts.”

Altered or not, plenty of older Afghan Whigs fans—and newer Twilight Singers and Gutter Twins fans—are as curious as ever to see where that car will go. n Thurs., Sept. 27, 8:30pm. $34.50-$45.

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Most memorable moment: The audience’s instinctive groans and gasps as the two male performers launched several feet in the air off a seesaw, not always landing gracefully.

Scene stealer: Alexandra Royer. She made both the Russian bar and aerial hoop her bitch. (N.F.)

The Truth About Love (RCA) Sounds like: The Doylestown native’s done us proud on her sixth release—and her first full LP of original content since 2008. It’s packed with top-notch ecstatic pop snark.

Free association: She even pulls off two songs with Fun guy Nate Ruess and Eminem.

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I Bet On Sky (Jagjaguwar) Sounds like: The Amherst, Mass.-born legends of alt rock ride again on this excellent batch—their 10th—of guitar solo sickness, mumbly vocals and fuzzy feedback.

Free association: Not so heavy, but maybe their best since their rebirth in 2005.

For fans of: Nirvana x Sugar + Yo La Tengo, Wire/Pavement/Minutemen, marijuana.

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The Spirit Indestructible (Interscope) Sounds like: Boy, is this whack—not nearly as good as the Timbaland-sponsored Loose.

In fact, it seems like her voice somehow got crappier in the past six years.

Free association: Her producers did her no favors. “High Life” is comically horrible.

For fans of: Fergie x drunk Rihanna + Kelis, deflated M.I.A. x Shakira, train wrecks. (B.C.)

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The Sound of the Life of the Mind (ImaVeePee/Sony) Sounds like: The first track blows, but after a couple spins, you start to realize that this LP’s pretty much everything you want it to be after 13 years.

Free association: Vivid blasting Whatever and Ever Amen, playing Twisted Metal 2.

For fans of: The Rentals, Mercury Rev/Eels, Beck x Randy Newman, the ‘90s. (B.C.)

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Bend Beyond (Woodsist) Sounds like: The freaky, lo-fi folk outfit from Brooklyn experiments and tweaks to great precision their fantastic spin on psychedelic noise that’s gentle and beautiful.

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For fans of: Animal Collective x Iron & Wine, Quilt + Crazy Horse, long hair, ponchos. (B.C.)

Corin Tucker Band

Kill My Blues (Kill Rock Stars) Sounds like: A searing, blistering new batch from the Sleater-Kinney alum that manages to rip harder, louder, faster and more angrily than the brilliant 1,000 Years.

Free association: Tucker yelps and screams like the old days. Deliriously satisfying.

For fans of: Wild Flag x PJ Harvey + Marnie Stern/Scout Niblett, howling feminism. (B.C.)

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Bob’s Burgers

Sundays, 8:30 p.m., Fox Captive audience: Archer/King of the Hill fans, alt-comedy nerds, people who think Matt Groening is finished and Seth MacFarlane is Satan.

Moment of truth: The third-season opener of the adorably zany, animated Fox sitcom you should be watching has the titular burger joint becoming a de facto biker bar for a grieving motorcycle gang. Also, Louise (voiced by hilariously high-strung Daily Show correspondent Kristen Schaal) goes on a destructive tear when a bully confiscates her precious bunny-ears hat. Once again, you really should be watching this.

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Key & Peele

Wednesdays, 10:30 p.m., Comedy Central Captive audience: African-Americans—especially those who know who Hannibal Buress is; people who still hold on to the hope that Chappelle’s Show might come back.

Moment of truth: The Tosh.0 channel smartly gave MADtv vets KeeganMichael Key and Jordan Peele another season to display their sophisticated yet side-splitting sketch comedy. (Think Portlandia, but for black hipsters.)

Among the skits for the second-season opener: “found footage” of Barack Obama as a young, weed-smoking BMOC, the story of how Mary Magdalene chose Jesus over her pimp and a So You Think You Can Dance? parody that’s easily one of the funniest things I’ve seen all year.

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Thurs., Sept. 20, Philadelphia Museum of Art Overall vibe: Indie filmmaking crossed with Main Line posh, as local screenwriter/actress Sarah Megan Thomas and director Ben Hickernell debuted their rowing-club drama Backwards (in theaters now) to a glammed-up audience of friends and colleagues.

Most memorable moment: A quasi-acoustic trio of the Hooters took to the steps of the museum’s Great Stair Hall to perform their original theme song, “If I Should Fall Behind,” from the film’s soundtrack.

Scene stealer: Turned out the Live Arts Festival unintentionally conspired to make the screening feel like an Oscar-bound red-carpet premiere, as, immediately outside the museum’s front doors, the simultaneous debut of the Open Air public art project meant a crowd of thousands were ooh-ing and aah-ing at all the mega-spotlights criss-crossing the sky. (Stephen H. Segal)

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Akin to: A dinner party at which David Sedaris, Mary Roach and Marlon Brando are trying to out-monologue one another.

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I was wondering what you think about the Folsom Street Fair, the annual gay leather/fetish/ BDSM street fair in San Francisco. Do you think it is still a socially relevant display? Or do you think that in this time when we are fighting for civil rights and equality, it does more harm than good?

Better Displaying San Francisco I’m pretty sure that the Folsom Street Fair remains socially relevant—and highly so—to folks in the leather/fetish/BDSM scene in San Francisco. It’s also relevant to anyone who believes in freedom of sexual expression. (For an idea of what Folsom looks like, and to see the scale of the thing, search for “Folsom Street Fair” on YouTube.)

And it’s important to emphasize that the Folsom Street Fair, which took place last weekend, isn’t exclusively gay. Thousands of straight kinksters attend every year. About the only difference between the straight attendees and the queer ones is that no one claims that the kinky straight people at Folsom make all heterosexuals everywhere look like sexcrazed sadomasochists. (For the record: Sex-crazed sadomasochists are my favorite kind of sadomasochists.)

Straight people, of course, aren’t fighting for their fundamental civil rights. Kinky straights can marry in all 50 states, after all, and no one is pledging to kick kinky straights out of the armed forces or to write anti-kinky-straight bigotry into the U.S. Constitution. So maybe it’s not the same—maybe it’s not as politically risky—when straight people come out in bondage gear, leather chaps and pony masks. But straight people are a big part of Folsom, too.

But you didn’t ask about kinky straight people.

You wondered if the Folsom Street Fair was harming the struggle for LGBT equality.

The Folsom Street Fair has taken place on a Sunday in September in San Francisco every year since 1984. Pride parades have been taking place on a Sunday in June in cities all over the country since the early 1970s. And every year, we hear from concern trolls about the damage that’s supposedly being done to the LGBT rights movement by all those drag queens, go-go boys, dykes and leather guys at Pride or Folsom or International Mr. Leather.

But everyone acknowledges—even our enemies—that the gay rights movement has made extraordinary strides in the 43 years since the Stonewall Riots in New York City. We’re not all the way there yet—we have yet to secure our full civil equality— but the pace of progress has been unprecedented in the history of social justice movements. The women’s suffrage movement, for example, was launched in the United Sates in 1848. It took more than 70 years to pass the 19th Amendment, which extended the vote to women. In 1969, at the time of the Stonewall Riots, gay sex was illegal in 49 states. Gay sex is now legal in every U.S. state, gay marriage is legal in six states and our nation’s capital (and in all of Canada), and gays, lesbians and bisexuals can serve openly in the military. (The armed forces still discriminate against trans people.) And we’ve made this progress despite fierce opposition from the religious right, a deadly plague that wiped out a generation of gay men, and—gasp—all those leather guys at Folsom and the go-go boys and drag queens at Pride.

We couldn’t have come so far, so fast if Folsom or pride parades were harming our movement. And I would argue that leather guys, dykes on bikes, gogo boys, and drag queens have actually helped our movement, BDSF. They demonstrate to all people that our movement isn’t just about the freedom to be gay or straight. Our movement is about the freedom to be whatever kind of straight, gay, lesbian,

bi or trans person you want to be. And freedom, as Dick Cheney famously said, means freedom for everyone—from pantsuit-wearing POS sellouts like Mary Cheney and Chris Barron to kinky straight people and hot gay boys in harnesses.

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that cities with big pride parades and events like Folsom are more tolerant and more accepting of sexual minorities than cities that don’t have big gay parades and fetish street fairs. If an event like Folsom were actually counterproductive, BDSF, you would expect San Francisco to be less tolerant and less likely to back equal rights for sexual minorities, not more likely.

And finally, BDSF, any attempt to shut down the Folsom Street Fair—or to ban drag queens, go-go boys, dykes on bikes, or leather guys from pride parades—would be so poisonously divisive that it would do more harm to our movement than a thousand Folsom Street Fairs ever could.

I’m a female in a relationship with a male. My boyfriend recently told me that he bought a set of butt plugs for himself. He said he’s happy to use them alone if I’m not interested. I don’t mind the idea of him using them when we are together, and I would also be more than willing to peg him if he wanted me to, but I hesitate to tell him.

I’m worried this will lead to him suggesting we play in my anal territory, and I am really uncomfortable with this idea. I have IBS; my lower digestive tract and I don’t get on well. I do not trust my body enough to feel comfortable trying that, and I don’t think I could look my boyfriend in the eye again if he put a finger up my butt and something terrible happened. I know when it comes to guys wanting anal sex, your stand is that he should take it first if he wants to give it. So if I am unwilling to take it in return, do I forfeit any right to do my boyfriend with a strap-on?

I’m Being Selfish?

Turnabout is fair play and reciprocity is important, yes, but a person can have a legit physical limitation that makes certain sorts of reciprocal turnabouting impossible. Such is the case with you and your butt.

You have a perfectly good reason to avoid being on the receiving end of anal play, IBS, and I can’t imagine that your boyfriend—who is obviously interested in his end receiving regardless of whether yours does—is going to object to your offer to plug him or peg his ass even if he isn’t allowed to plug, peg or fuck yours.

Yes, Dan, there are still plenty of straight guys out there who are put off by women who go “too fast,” and oral sex on the first date is typically perceived as too fast. It’s part of a misogynist mind-set, IMHO, that says women who are too sexually assertive are not “relationship material.”

Or maybe it’s some ancient male fear of the insatiable nympho who will drain his male power by overwhelming him sexually. Or, more generously, maybe these men think going too fast just speaks to poor judgment (although straight men rarely apply that logic to themselves). Whatever the cause, I’ve experienced it myself, and I found the solution to be to date more sex-positive feminist men who take responsibility for their half of the pacing. I’ve found that feminist men actually appreciate women who are sexually assertive while many nonfeminist men are happy to accept the attentions of sexually assertive women while at the same time harboring contempt for us.

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$695,000

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$569,900

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

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Terrific 3 BR/1BA home w/hrdwd flrs & central air. REDUCED $308,000

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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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NORTHERN LIBERTIES / NORTH PHILADELPHIA

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

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930 Randolph St 3BR/2BA, C/A, S/S Kitchen, Green outdoor Space, New Paint & Carpet, Nearly 2000 Sq Ft

$324,900

1124 E Oxford St Custom Built 3 Story 1998 Sq Ft 4BR/3BA home, Yard, Master Suite/Bath

$415,000

Wi n n e r s

Penn Center House

$99,500

2021 Cambridge St Totally Rehabbed 3BR/1.5BA, Perfect for fi rst time home buyers!

627 N 18th St #102 Historical Carriage House 2BR condo and Courtyard

OPEN HOUSE $229,000

411 Brown St #R Private Gated Community, One car Secured Deeded Parking, 3/BR/2.5BA, Large Kitchen,

OPEN HOUSE $247,000

French Doors, Master Suite with Cathedral Ceilings

$425,000

414 Olive St Unique double carriage house 2BR, Den custom gourmet kit, wood fl , Garden, FP, exp Stone, brick beams

$469,000

875 N Taylor St 2BR/1BA Townhome, Newly renovated kitchen, Hardwood Floors

$279,900

1704 Wallace St #102 2BR/2BA upgraded bi-level condo with backyard

$299,000

2301 Cherry St #4C Sunny spacious Multi Level 1BR/1.5BA, Balcony, Parking, renovated Kitchen, All assessments paid

$299,000

2620 Poplar St REDUCED! Duplex Consisting of 1BR/2BA Nicely updated, Convenient to all

$299,000

1510 Mt Vernon St Lovely 4BR/3.5BA in Fantastic Art Museum Location!!!

$450,000

853 N 23rd St 4BR, Private Patio, Lovely Hardwood flooring, and Great Classic Features

$479,999

602 N 21st St Incredible 3 Story 3BR/2.5BA home with fi nished basement and Large Patio

$499,000

RITTENHOUSE SQUARE / FITLER SQUARE / AVENUE OF THE ARTS

1033 N 3rd St Beautiful Northern Liberties Townhome with Attached Garage

$475,000

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

$485,000

UNIVERSITY CITY / WEST PHILADELPHIA 5228 Pentridge Investment – REDUCED Short Sale

$29,900

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

$189,000

Powelton Village – 3800 Spring Garden St Turnkey Investment: University City Triplex with Separately Metered units that are updated

$349,000

-546-2700 2220 Manning St Beautiful homelocated on the prettiest block in Center City in the Rittenhouse/Fitler Sq Area

OPEN HOUSE $359,000

1733 Rodman St JUST REDUCED! 3BR/2.5BA home on a quiet block in Rittenhouse Sq Area

$479,900

1709 Lombard St Rittenhouse Sq Home that Charms with Traditional Character and Modern comforts, with Garage!

212-24 S 24th St #2413 Gorgeous Townhome with a Brand new Cook’s kitchen 3BR/2.5BA with Roof Deck

NEW CONSTRUCTION

$650,000

OPEN HOUSE $734,900

Fishtown – 157 Richmond St New Construction with Parking, Hardwood Floors, Granite Counter-tops, Energy Efficient Windows $199,000

23 S 23rd St #4L Best Buy, 2400 Sq Ft 2BR/2BA + Den, 2 Balconies, Gourmet kit, Parking, HW Floors, Fireplace TWILIGHT OPEN 9/26 FROM 5-6:30PM $784,500

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

$249,000

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

Spring Arts – 1217 Mt Vernon St #2 3BR/3BA new Construction, Gated Entry, Gated parking

and 2BR’s with Den. 95%

1233-35 Bainbridge New Construction, 2BR Condos in 12 Unit Boutique Bldg, Private Balconies

Sold. From $499,900-900,000

2050 Pine St Rehab, 3BR/2BA Library, Gourmet Kitchen, Decks, Garden, suite with dual sided fi replace

OPEN HOUSE $939,000

OPEN HOUSE $359,000

OPEN HOUSE 9/29 AND 9/30 FROM 12-4:00PM $379,000 426 Moyer St New Construction 3BR/2BA with Bamboo floors, Finished Basement, Roof Deck, Rear Yard

OLD CITY / LOFT DISTRICT / CHINATOWN

$399,900

Bella Vista –1233-35 Bainbridge Penthouse in 12 Unit Boutique Building, Breathtaking roof deck Views 229 Chestnut St #3 Modern, Large 1 Bedroom Condo Featuring an open floor plan, 10Ft ceilings, lots of light

$249,000

OPEN HOUSE 9/29 AND 9/30 FROM 12-4:00PM $649,000

SOCIETY HILL / WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST

COMMERCIAL/INVESTMENT

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

200-10 Lombard St #609 Panoramic Views across the river from bridge to bridge from the balcony of this Pristine 1BR Condo

OPEN HOUSE $239,000 250 S 13th St #7A Sunny 1BR/1BA with High Ceilings, Large rooms, eat-in Kitchen and custom closets

OPEN HOUSE $249,000

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 OPEN HOUSE $949,000 507 S Philip St (Liberty Court) 4BR/3.5BA, 4 Stories, Elevator, Garage 3 Decks

$1,090,000

QUEEN VILLAGE/ BELLA VISTA / GRADUATE HOSPITAL / SOUTH PHILA. 525 Fitzwater #11 3BR/2BA New Construction, Gated Entry, Gated Parking

$499,900 SURROUNDING AREAS

$229,000

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

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Kensington – 2770-80 Jasper Huge Warehouse

Grays Ferry – 1307 S 32nd St 868 SQ Ft Lot in Gray’s Ferry (Near Wharton). Zoned for R10 (now RM1)

$12,000

Fishtown – 2231 Coral St Vacant Lot

$26,000

Point Breeze – 1421 S 19th St 1,120 SQ Ft Deep Lot.. Zoned for Residential, near Grad Hospital and University City

$39,000

West Phila - 5842 Windsor Investment Property: REDUCED

$29,900

Southwest Phila - 2125 S 71st St Short Sale

$40,900

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

5222 Spruce St 4BR/1.5BA, Yard, Porch, Large Living Room, Dining Room Hardwood Floors

$115,000

Fishtown – 2440 E Cumberland St Price Reduced, Large 4BR, Needs some cosmetic updates but priced to sell OPEN HOUSE $236,500

in a great location

$183,900

$325,000

Fishtown – 2161 E Letterly St Charming, Spacious, Modern with Original Details, 2BR/1BA, Garden, HW Floors and More

$185,000

758 S Hicks St Granite, SS Kitchen, Brick paved Patio, 3rd Floor deck, Gas Cooking, Fireplace

$329,000

Fishtown – 2440 Cumberland Large 4BR home in Fishtown

$188,900

935 E Moyamensing REDUCED! A Queen Village Gem

$350,000

1515 Carpenter St #A New Construction 3BR/3BA condo with Roof Deck

747 S 17th St #1 3BR/2.5BA Bi-Level with fi nished Basement and backyard, Open Floor plan, SS Appl, Granite Hw Floors throughout and much more!

OPEN HOUSE $365,000

845 S American St one Car Parking, Entirely Renovated, New Balcony, bamboo Flooring with Great Light

$369,900

1013 Carpenter St 3BR/2BA, Rear Private Parking, Full Finished Basement

$419,000

OPEN HOUSE

Fishtown – 157 Richmond St New Construction with Parking, Hardwood Floors, Granite Counter-tops, Energy Efficient Windows

OPEN HOUSE $424,900 Fishtown – 1342 E Berks St #C Rare Green Home, 3BR/.2.5BA and 2 Car parking, Gourmet kitchen W/ Dumb Waiter to Roof Deck

127 Monroe St Fully Rehabbed 2BR/2BA in Meredith Catchment

$425,000

2548 Montrose St Beautiful New Construction with 1 Car Garage!

$439,000

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

1222 Catharine St Beautiful Rehabbed Townhome across the st from Hawthorne Park!

$500,000

Chestnut Hill – 20 Bells Mill Rd Just Reduced! Rare fi nd in the heart of Chestnut Hill.

1808 Christian St 3BR/2 Full BA 2 half bath with Garage

OPEN HOUSE $575,000

1507 Bainbridge St A Luxurious, Newer Townhome In Graduate Hospital

$650,000

$199,000

Horsham Twp – 215 Fairway Rd GREAT NEW PRICE! This huge 4BR/3BA Stone Rancher on beautiful 1.5 Acre lot!

OPEN HOUSE $439,900 $534,900

gracious Queen Anne Built in 1891

$650,000

Fishtown – 2666-72 Coral St REDUCED! Pub for sale 3 Apartments, up to 20 Car Garage Parking Lot

$749,000

*PLEASE SEE THE OPEN HOUSE TIME FOR THIS PROPERTY IN THE OPEN HOUSE DIRECTORY.

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CENTER CITY LUXURY CONDOMINIUMS FOR SALE! Avenue of the Arts ACAdEMY HOuSE

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

$269,900

THE WARWICk pARC RITTEnHOuSE

THE RITTEnHOuSE

1BR, 1BA, hardwood floors, marble BA, custom kitchen 712 sf $399,900 1 bedroom, corner unit with south and east views, hardwood floors, marble bathroom, galley kitchen 686 sf $389,900 1 bedroom, south views, spacious kitchen, hardwood floors, walk-in closet in master bedroom 651 sf $379,000 1 bedroom, high floor, panoramic city views, lots of natural light, open kitchen 704 sf $349,900 Studio, generous living/sleeping space, open kitchen, large bathroom appointed in marble 578 sf $345,000 Junior 1 bedroom, open kitchen, wood floors, walk-in closet in bedroom, marble bathroom 528 sf $319,900 Studio, wood floors, large marble bath, panoramic sunset view 583 sf $319,900

dORCHESTER THE WARWICk

1 bedroom, balcony, seperate dining area, large bedroom, north and west views 848 sf Junior 1 bedroom, wood floors, marble bath , open kitchen, sunrise city view 531 sf

pARk RITTEnHOuSE

rittenhouse squAre 2031 dELAnCEY STREET

dramatic 5 story town home, completely renovated throughout, beautifully restored original details, garage, elevator, outdoor space

BARCLAY

WAnAMAkER HOuSE pARC RITTEnHOuSE

OpEn SATuRdAY 9/29 • 12:00 - 2:00pM

3,293 sf

BAnk BuILdIng

$1,750,000

SOCIETY HILL TOWERS

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, magnificent city and river views, lots of natural, open chef’s kitchen, brand new master bath OpEn SundAY 9/30 • 12:30-1:00pM 1515 sf $599,900

$1,475,000

SOCIETY HILL TOWERS

2 BR, 1 BA, parquet wood floors, washer/dryer, unobstructed river views, floor-to-ceiling windows 1,200 sf $399,000 Corner 1 bedroom, totally furnished, renovated throughout with custom finishes and features, magnificent city views 803 sf $379,900 OpEn SundAY 9/30 • 1:00-1:30pM

SOCIETY HILL TOWERS $1,050,000

$610,000

1 bedroom plus den, 2 baths appointed in marble, wood floors, open kitchen, balcony 1237 sf

$600,000

dORCHESTER

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, south view with lots of natural light, balcony, spacious living room area, 1281 sf

$550,000

WAnAMAkER HOuSE

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

$539,900

1,198 sf

SOCIETY HILL TOWERS

SOCIETY HILL TOWERS Corner 1 bedroom, completely renovated throughout, chef’s kitchen, designer bath, 803 sf

$379,900 Condo Fees: $549 Taxes: $232 Monthly Cost After Tax to Own: $1,846

$269,900

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220 W. WASHIngTOn SQuARE Entire floor 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom home, Washington Square views, custom finishes and features throughout 3,720sf sf $1,995,000 IndEpEndEnCE pLACE Bi-level penthouse, 2BR. 2.5BA, 2 kitchens, impeccably finished throughout, amazing river and city views 4,500 sf $1,800,000 THE LIppInCOTT 2 bedroom plus den, 2.5 bathroom residence overlooking Washington Square, open floor plan, high end finishes throughout, parking space in building included 2716 sf $1,275,000 STRICkLAnd ROW 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, bi-level, wood floors, open kitchen, 857 sf $299,900 IndEpEndEnCE pLACE 1BR, 1BA, wood floors throughout, upgraded kitchen and BA, custom closets, balcony 928 sf $269,900

pIER 5 918 sf

700 sf

wAterfront

220 W. RITTEnHOuSE SQuARE Completely Renovated , 1 bedroom, open chef’s kitchen, designer bathroom, partial view of Rittenhouse Square, no detail left undone

1BR, high floor, river view, investment opportunity

$450,000

3 bedrooms, 3 baths, bridge and river views, updated kitchen, generous entertaining space, deck 2229 sf $325,000

THE LIppInCOTT 2 bedrooms plus den, 2.5 baths, overlooks Washington Square, high end finishes throughout, 2716 sf

$1,275,000

THE dORCHESTER Corner 1 bedroom, balcony, north and east views, large living room with separate dining area, 848 sf

COndO FEES: $2,007

$359,900

TAxES: $555

COndO FEES: $558

MOnTHLY AFTER TAx COST TO OWn: $6,139

TAxES: $276 MOnTHLY AFTER TAx COST TO OWn: $1,808

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Raw space that can be designed and built into a custom home overlooking Independence Mall 3,068 sf $1,150,000 Brand new 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom, furnished, all custom finishes, high barrel ceilings, exposed brick, 2101 sf $1,100,000 Brand new 2 BR + den, 2.5 BA home, lots of natural light, wood flrs, open chef’s kitchen, designer BA, services available 2,025 sf $1,100,000 from adjoining OMnI Hotel 3 BR,3 Baths, completely renovated, hardwoodfloors, river and city views 1866sf $779,900 OpEn SundAY 9/30 • 12:00-12:30pM

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

$359,900 $299,900

society hill

BAnk BuILdIng

SOCIETY HILL TOWERS

3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, 270 degree city views, wood floor, chef’s kitchen, marble baths 2000 sf

THE BARCLAY

pARC RITTEnHOuSE

3 bedrooms, 3 baths, all rooms overlook Rittenhouse Square, 2 sets of Juliet balconies, lavish master suite, brand new 1,709 sf

THE WARWICk

$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

$3,600,000

3 BR + den, 3.5BA, marble foyer, formal dining rm, sunny eat-in kitchen, 10’ ceilings, moldings, oak herring bone floors, 3 gas fireplaces

THE RITTEnHOuSE

6160 sf