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Rights of Passage It took more than a decade of confusion, pain and even abuse before PennDOT rewrote its controversial transgender policy. Will the state follow suit? Page 9
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21 Helluva Time On his latest, Eric Benét stops living in the shadow of his reputation by reuniting with the music of his past. 23 Fake Can Be Just As Good
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Regarding Aaron Kase’s recent cover story about Iraqi immigrants settling into Philly: Contrary to what people and the media may believe, there are other sections of this city to live in besides the Northeast, South Philadelphia, and West Philadelphia that deserve fresh blood in the form of immigrants who set up businesses and could help to revitalize decayed neighborhoods. (Hey, other people pay taxes, too.) I’m sure those Iraqi immigrants will be welcomed with open arms in the Northeast. NOT! DONNA DI GIACOMO
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tried stripping the board’s power, slashing members’ salaries, calling for their resignations and holding elections in which 71 percent of the public voted for the BRT’s complete abolishment. The city’s tried everything short of freezing board members with liquid nitrogen, but if the Terminator is any guide, they wouldn’t find that any more of a hindrance than the attacks they’ve already weathered. Because the next time citizens appeal their official property-assessment values, guess who’ll be there to hear their pleas? None other than our new, all-time favorite invulnerable chunk of bureaucracy, the Board of Revision of Taxes. Yes, despite all the obstacles
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Forget the cinema, we’ve got all the science-fiction action we need right here in Center City. Continually defying death and annihilation, the Board of Revision of Taxes has proved itself to be the T-1000 of city agencies, impossible to destroy under any circumstances. Remember how in Terminator 2 Arnold Schwarzenegger kept shooting and blowing up the T-1000 but it refused to die, instead reconstituting itself from a pool of liquid metal? No matter what tricks and ploys the city pulls out of its sleeve to eliminate the BRT, the board manages to gather itself back together and soldier on. So far the Nutter administration has
started several times thanks to the BRT’s repeated efforts to claw its way back into power. Despite the BRT’s amazing resiliency, all good movies must come to an end sometime. While the T-1000 was a more advanced Terminator than Schwarzenegger, Arnold did defeat it in the end by blasting it into a pool of molten metal. The BRT is a more advanced form of intractable bureaucracy, resistant to whatever efforts this city can throw at it. But the agency as we know it will eventually fade into the history books through attrition if nothing else. Four of the seven board members who were around while the BRT gained its reputation for crookedness, cronyism, corruption and incompetence are already gone—two were replaced last spring, and there are currently two more vacancies due to recent resignations, including Chairwoman Charlesretta Meade’s quiet departure two weeks ago. A request for comment to the BRT’s office was not returned, unsurprisingly. But it’s not just the personnel that’s at issue; it’s the method of appointment and a power struggle between the three branches of government. The appeals board was to be appointed by agreement between the mayor and City Council, whereas the BRT members are assigned by judges in a process that in the past had been marred by an emphasis on political connections over qualifications. The Nutter administration is hoping his picks will be considered by the judges for the two current openings. President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas Pamela Dembe says the next two BRT appointees likely won’t come until November at the earliest, and she hasn’t seen the list of mayoral nominees yet. “Going forward, if we treat it like a business based on what skills are needed and how do we get applicants that have those skills, it can be a different kind of thing,” Dembe says regarding allegations that the appointments have been too political in the past. The mayor’s nominees hope they get chosen, too. “I believe my contribution would be the same in whichever capacity I would be appointed or enabled to join the board,” says lawyer and realtor Sherman Toppin, another presumed member of the stillborn appeals board. “I’m eager to serve the citizens of Philadelphia.” If he does, it will be under a label that has become infamous in the city: Ladies and gentlemen, your Board of Revision of Taxes! n
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thrown in its path, the BRT will continue to play a relevant role in property valuations in Philadelphia. How’d they do it this time? After all, residents overwhelmingly voted in favor of annulling the BRT in May and creating two separate agencies for assessing properties and hearing appeals. The city spent all summer setting up an Office of Property Assessment and Board of Property Assessment Appeals, and seven new nominees for the appeals board were set to be approved by City Council last week. But in a shocking turn of events, the state Supreme Court ruled last Monday that the city was powerless to strip the BRT of its ability to hear appeals. Darrin Pinkett, a local realtor who had been tapped to serve on the new appeals board, was surprised by the state’s decision. “I thought it was pretty much a done deal,” Pinkett says. “I was under the impression that the BRT was a city department that city would have control over.” Instead, the court ruled that only the state government can put the BRT to sleep once and for all. “It was very disappointing. I’m hoping they can work something out where I can still serve,” Pinkett adds. The Mayor’s Office has tried to put a positive spin on the ruling. “You always hope to have a decisive, comprehensive win, but as you parse through the opinion you realize that you really got everything you needed and validated everything you were fighting for,” says Managing Director Richard Negrin, noting that the city’s move to separate assessments from appeals was allowed to stand. “[The BRT] was hearing appeals of their own assessments,” he says. “If they had overturned that piece, I think we’d be talking about something very different.” Note that wildly inaccurate assessments are what led to the exposure and unraveling of the BRT in the first place—most houses in Philadelphia are undervalued, which costs the city hundreds of millions in tax dollars. Richie McKeithen, head of the new assessment office charged with cleaning up the BRT’s mess, says there’s still no timeline for a re-do on property values. “We’re at a point of trying to clean up a lot of our data,” McKeithen says. “We’ll set out a plan and do field inspections, march throughout city as much as we humanly can to collect and correct data.” Last winter, the city had estimated that it would take about two years to come up with new values, but the process has been stopped and
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News & Opinion Private Practices Illegal parking lots mean lost tax revenue for the city. By Aaron Kase akase@philadelphiaweekly.com
Free ride: A Park America lot outside Drexel University with no parking license on file.
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says before the recession, L&I inspectors used to visit his lots all the time and go into detail looking for violations. “They’d check the clock, the lighting, the drainage,” he says. “The parking booth to keep the man out of the weather. Even uniforms. If men don’t have uniforms, violation.” When the struggling economy forced the city to cut back on its resources, L&I stopped coming around. It sounds like a load off the shoulders of operators, but in fact the relaxing of regulations had allowed these illegal parking lots to flourish. To address the problems, Councilman Jim Kenney introduced a bill last Thursday that would turn private-lot enforcement over to the Philadelphia Parking Authority. “It authorizes the PPA to go in and make sure the business is in compliance and has proper licenses,” says Sarah Sachdev, Kenney’s director of legislative affairs. “It also requires parking businesses to display their business privilege license number on their signs and to accept credit cards.” If enforcement does increase, more tax dollars should start rolling in to the city, but the Parking Association isn’t putting in all this work—an estimated 200 to 300 hours to compile the reports—just for the Revenue Department’s benefit. They’re hoping that if the city sees increased revenues, the 20 percent parking tax can be relaxed a point or two so they can erase some red ink from their own accounting books. “We’ve been losing money the last two years,” Zuritsky says. “It’s not impossible for parking companies to go out of business.” n
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on file for the Market Street property, nor for several other Main Street lots. Zuritsky estimates gypsy lots cost the city at least $1 million to $3 million annually in unpaid parking taxes alone, to say nothing of business taxes, payroll taxes, real-estate taxes, use and occupancy taxes and “special district” taxes charged in Center City and other neighborhoods. Stretched out over several years of noncompliance, the city could be looking at tens of millions in uncollected revenue. L&I says it’s working on it. “We are currently reviewing the list and are investigating the validity its claims,” says Director of Operations Michael Maenner. “We then take the list and perform field checks to discount or verify its claims.” When L&I finds a violation, it gives the owner 35 days to comply by getting proper zoning and fixing other problems. If the issues are not resolved, L&I can order the owner to cease operations at the lot. Maenner says L&I found many of the lots listed to be properly zoned, but the Parking Association says verifying compliance might be more complicated than the city understands. Some of the addresses are zoned as private parking lots, which don’t allow operators to charge customers. Other areas are properly zoned for valet parking, but the lots where the cars are parked aren’t zoned. Some of the addresses belong to schools and churches, which are classified as nonprofit and do not pay realestate taxes, and therefore aren’t allowed to charge, either. Bob Spear, co-owner of Old City-based EZ-Park, a Parking Association member,
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Danielle Finnegan has never been more excited to go to the DMV. She even got dolled up for the trip, her fingernails coated in hot pink polish, top button on her light pink blouse undone, barrette clipped tightly to her light brown hair. After nearly 60 years living as someone else, she is eager to tell PennDOT who she really is. “Finally,” cries Finnegan, the first transgender individual in the state to take advantage of PennDOT’s recent policy change on gender. “No one can argue with the fact that I am a female.” As of Aug. 25, PennDOT no longer requires sexual reassignment surgery for a gender change to one's license. There are many who identify themselves as transgender yet opt out of sexual reassignment surgery. State LGBT groups helped PennDOT become aware of these issues in order to craft new guidelines. Under the agency’s revised policy, a transgender person still needs to prove that he or she is living full-time as the preferred gender. But that proof can come in the form of verification from a social worker or licensed medical or psychological caregiver. PennDOT spokesman Craig Yetter says the shift in policy follows a similar change implemented on June 10 by the U.S. Department of State regarding transgender persons’ gender markers on U.S. passports. He adds that PennDOT also considered “policies already existing in 26 other states and the District of Columbia.”
The agency quietly implemented its policy change after more than a year of talks between representatives of EqualityPA, TransCentral PA and PennDOT. Ted Martin, head of EqualityPA, says the change aims to prevent too-often uncomfortable and sometimes dangerous situations for transgender individuals presenting their IDs in daily situations. “This simple and cost-free change in policy will make lives better,” he says, “and that’s really the most important point in all this.” Finnegan, a male-to-female (MTF) transgender individual, was ecstatic when she got the call about the new policy the morning it went into effect. “I was like a little kid waiting to get … candy,” she says. The 64-year-old immediately printed out the new forms, which were posted at TransCentralPA.com, filled them out, faxed them to her doctor’s office in Carlisle and then called the doctor. “I told her, it’s about a 40-minute ride [to your office]; I’ll see you in 40 minutes.” As she busied herself with the formalities of legally changing her gender, Finnegan was unaware that she was about to become the first person in Pennsylvania to be affected by PennDOT’s new policy. “I didn’t care so much about being first … I was just happy to finally have [official documentation] in my hand.” Within hours of receiving her new license, a photograph of Finnegan with her new ID was sent out as part of a TransCentralPA
press release, aptly titled “Success!” “Think of the number of times you have to present a driver’s license just in daily life,” says Lee Carpenter, a professor at Temple Law School and former lawyer for EqualityPA. “It can be while you’re stopped by police, but it could be getting carded in a bar. For most people a driver’s license is the only ID anyone ever has and [they have] to present that picture ID over and over again. This gender marker often caused trouble.” For Finnegan, the new policy is a longawaited civil victory. “It was so important to me,” she says of changing her gender status. Especially since almost every doctor she’s ever seen in her life told her she was nuts. “It’s like, ‘Yeah, Danielle, you’re not mentally crazy. There’s nothing wrong with you. Even the state of Pennsylvania recognizes that you’re truly female. And here’s the license to prove it.’” She adds: “After so many years of suffering … to be able to get up in the morning … put my hair in a ponytail … put on slacks or a skirt, whatever … and just be myself. Not thinking ‘I have to act like a boy.’”
Danielle [born Daniel] Finnegan’s life had been defined by repression. Born in 1946 with male genitals, she knew from the age of 5 that she was a girl. “I was just very emotional,” she says. “Very into feminine things like cooking or baking. I wanted sparkly things. My mom would get so frustrated because if a button or string was missing on one of my sweaters, I didn’t want to wear it. If it wasn’t soft, I didn’t want to wear it.” Finnegan says her mother used to joke about her personality, saying, “Oh Danny, you should have been a girl.” Her response, “I am a girl,” was thoroughly laughed off by her mother. Finnegan’s father was an alpha-male type who she says beat her regularly. His answer to everything was physical. “It was my father’s idea that you had to do tough things and that would toughen you up. But … that’s not the way life really is. When tough things come along, we have to try to survive them, but it doesn’t change the nature of the person who deals with it.” She remembers gravitating toward other girls at a young age, but being rejected. “I wanted a girlfriend,” she says, “but not like a boy wants a girlfriend. I wanted someone to talk to and someone to share my feelings and thoughts with, but all the girls just saw a boy’s body.” Faced with the pressure of living life as a male, Finnegan ran away from home at 16. “I tried to live my life as a boy, but it’s not who I was.” On her own, she earned a GED, served in Vietnam and took community college classes upon her return to the States. Later on, she opened and operated her own fluids components company out of Harrisburg. Finnegan remained trapped living as a male throughout adulthood,
and it wasn’t until 2006—at the age of 60—that she was able to come clean with those around her about who she really was. It took a therapist’s advice to seek out information on the Internet before she could come out. That’s how she found TransCentralPA, a Harrisburg-based nonprofit group dedicated to providing education, outreach and meetups for “Transgendered individuals, their Significant Others and to other persons who have a personal or professional interest in a Transgendered person or in gender behavior or theory in general.” As a full-fledged member of TransCentralPA, Finnegan travels across the state giving talks on transgenderism and counsels young people dealing with their condition. Having counseled so many transgender individuals through Trans CentralPA, the policy change is personal to Finnegan on several levels. She says that in the United States, an individual can be held 72 hours before being charged with a crime. For transgender people, many of whom have been brought in for confusion relating to their identity, 72 hours is more than enough time for something terrible to happen. “If the transgender individual’s driver’s license says male, you can be thrown into a holding cell with males. Do you know what’s going to happen to you? You’re … fortunate if you survive more than 10 to 15 minutes,” she says.
Records made public by the Police Ad-
visory Commission suggest that Cleveland Joyce Taylor was one such survivor. Under the old rules, Taylor, a MTF transgender person, had to be identified as a man on her license, even though she lived her life as a female. According to the PAC, Taylor, then 42, was pulled over for a traffic violation in North Philly on the night of Jan. 12, 1998. The officer on the scene, Donna Mumford, ran Taylor’s plates and the car came back as stolen. Mumford was soon joined by Officer David Williams. Both officers later tesified that they were under the impression that Taylor was a woman. But after seeing her driver’s license, Williams began referring to Taylor as a man. During his testimony he said: “I had a male driver’s license and well, I seen male driver’s license and I seen a female behind the wheel. I didn’t make the determination.” Taylor was taken to the 35th Police District station on charges of driving a stolen vehicle. What happened to Taylor while in police custody is unclear, but a month after the incident she filed a citizen complaint against the Police Department alleging that she was “subjected to a pattern of offensive and inflammatory verbal abuse while being processed” at the precinct. The complaint further stated that the abuse was based “entirely on her status as a transgender person.” The alleged harassment included Officer Antoine Leslie telling a female officer
would be “unfair, unjust, unreasonable and unjustifiable.” Lawyers for the then-Center for Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights, mentioned in PAC documents, were contacted, though when called for comment had no recollection of the case. Amara Chaudhry of the Mazzoni Center says the most updated information available concerning the case is the hearing in front of the PAC in 2000. She says such cases are rarely brought to trial because of transgender individuals’ fear of having their personal issues brought up by defense lawyers. In addition, the prosecution has to “show the municipality has failed to train these police officers, failed to supervise and failed to do anything about it.” Taylor could not be reached for comment by press time.
Philadelphia LGBT activist and gov-
ernment worker Kathy Padilla is, like Finnegan and Taylor, one of an estimated 3 million transgender people in the United States. She says PennDOT’s recent change in policy was totally necessary. “With the new [post-9/11] rules, everything has to match … who wants to get pulled over by the wrong police officer on a dark road?” Padilla has been advocating on transgender issues since 1984, when she began volunteering at the Outreach Institute of Gender Studies in Provincetown, Mass. She came to Philadelphia about 15 years ago and has since served on Gov. Ed Rendell’s transition team, was a commis-
sioner of the PAC and a member of Mayor Michael Nutter’s LGBT Advisory Board. She also worked with the Obama administration’s transition team and wrote and published a paper on transition issues for Change.gov. In spite of Padilla’s and others’ work, as well as the progress that’s been made, Pennsylvania remains behind the times. House Bill 300, which would add transgender individuals to employment antidiscrimination policies in the state, has been stalled since 2009. Perhaps most ironic, considering PennDOT’s progress, is SEPTA’s lack of it. As has been massively reported, SEPTA has continually blocked transgender individuals’ and others’ requests for the removal of gender markers on its Transpasses. Riders Against Gender Exclusion have held rallies and protests continually over the past two years, most recently this spring with a drag-show event at Suburban Station in which several members of RAGE spoke out against what they call SEPTA’s discriminatory policies. RAGE has claimed “harassment, economic hardship, and lack of access to public transportation due to this policy,” according to its Facebook page. RAGE claims the gender-sticker requirement by SEPTA has forced its transit workers to become “gender police.” Members of RAGE met with SEPTA General Manager Joe Casey last fall but it failed to bring about a change in policy. A community forum is currently in the works to take
place Oct. 20 at Philadelphia FIGHT, in which a SEPTA riders’ Bill of Rights will be drafted. RAGE member Nico Amador says that while there has been “no new news” this summer regarding getting M/F stickers taken off Transpasses, “I think [PennDOT’s new policy] is a positive thing to say the least. It shows that other transportation agencies are taking transgender identity issue seriously.” Ted Martin of EqualityPA agrees. “We of course have encouraged SEPTA and the Pittsburgh Port Authority to do the same thing [as PennDOT],” he says. “Obviously if the state department can do it with passports and the state can do it with drivers licenses and all these other places can do it without issue, it’s certainly something they can pay attention to.” There are no plans, as of yet, for EqualityPA to move for an official policy change with SEPTA. Padilla says discrimination doesn’t stop there. Since no national or state laws exist that would protect transgender individuals from employment discrimination, many end up jobless and homeless. When this becomes the case, transgender individuals can be denied places in singlegender shelters because of their condition. “There are official policies against [shelter denial] in Philadelphia,” she says, “but policy and reality often contradict each other … Just because the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, that doesn’t mean racism stopped.”
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who was questioning Taylor: “That’s not a woman, that motherfucker is a man.” And an unidentified officer in street clothes asking Taylor, “What the fuck are you looking at? You’re the fucking cross-dresser or you’re a fag-assed man in woman’s clothes.” It was and is standard procedure to place suspected transgender criminals in cells by themselves. However, according to PAC documents, on this particular night, Leslie claimed to have “no empties for the motherfucker. I’ll put this bitch in [cell] number 10, with whoever is in [cell] number 10.” While walking Taylor to the back, Leslie opened a desk drawer, took out a wrapped condom, gave it to an “apparently relatively inexperienced officer,” and told him to take the condom to the back and “watch and see what goes on.” The PAC would later conclude that Leslie’s actions were “primarily motivated by his own prejudice against Ms. Taylor’s transgender status, or against transgender persons in general.” Further, “the other three instances of verbal abuse by Officer Leslie consisted of gender-based remarks, specifically and clearly aimed at ridiculing Ms. Taylor’s transgender lifestyle.” Officers in the station that night denied seeing any abuse or hearing profanity. Nevertheless, the PAC concluded that the officers were “less than candid,” and recommended that they be repremanded. The PPD rejected PAC’s rulings and said that taking action against the officers
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was quick and predictable. The American Family Association of Pennsylvania said of transgender people and the policy following the Aug. 25 change, “Those are individuals who are confused about which sex they are; they say they are born in the wrong body … And so PennDOT is going to allow these individuals to basically choose whichever sex they want on their driver’s license and state-issued identification cards.”
to use the women’s locker/shower room, and he presents a driver’s license which says he is a woman these facilities must allow him to use the women’s locker room!” AFA of Pennsylvania released “Action Steps” for rescinding this policy, including contacting your state senator, representative and PennDOT. “Let’s see just how interested they are to hear from you about THIS issue,” the action steps read. AFA of PA also warns its readers about Pennsylvania HB 300, which would amend the
“People used to think, in the past, someone like me is a boy with a mental condition, but it’s just the opposite,” says Finnegan. “I’m a girl born with a physical condition.” The AFA claims its main concern is with bathrooms and showers and Diane Gramley, AFA Pennsylvania president, blames our state’s politicians for failing to stop PennDOT from changing its policy. “Rather than try to counsel these people,” she said, “[politicians are] affirming the lifestyle they’ve chosen.” “Does your local YMCA or pool require photo ID?” another article from the site asks. “If so, then if a man comes in wanting
Pennsylvania Human Relations Act and make it illegal to discriminate with regard to “employment, housing and public accommodation” based on “gender identity or expression.” Gramley says her group attempted to communicate to PennDOT its concern with the new policy. “They haven’t gotten back to us,” she says, “but they do know there are folks out here concerned about
the policy change.” Finnegan says she has tried to feel bad for such groups and rhetoric, but can’t because after all, “they’re adults.” Her son even received hate email after the Harrisburg Patriot detailed Finnegan’s partaking at a gay-rights rally in the state capital. She believes they mistakenly found her son’s email instead of hers. “They told him he was going to burn in hell, he was going to be condemned, and one of them even closed with the statement: ‘You have been warned.’ He didn’t know if they were going to stalk him or what.” “It used to upset me more,” says Finnegan regarding such conservative groups. “They’re basically formed by people who have very strong opinions that aren’t based upon medical fact but upon emotional points, and often you can trace the root of the emotion back to some religious opinion.” What they don’t understand, she says, is that she was born with a genetic condition. Even those who accept transgender individuals at their word are often unclear about the science. “People used to think, in the past, someone like me is a boy with a mental condition, but it’s just the opposite,” says Finnegan. “I’m a girl born with a physical condition.” The American Association for the Advancement of Science researcher Eric Vilain announced at a 2005 meeting in Washington, D.C., that, “The biology of
gender is far more complicated than XX or XY chromosomes and may rely more on the brain’s very early development than we ever imagined.” Speaker William G. Reiner agreed that “The most important sex organ is the brain.” Gender identity conflicts in the United States are classified in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV as “gender dysphoria.” Earlier this year, France became the first country in the world to remove gender identity from its list of mental diseases. Though gender identity is classified within the books in the U.S., it’s unclear as to whether official U.S. policy points to it being an “illness,” especially since the recommended treatment calls for helping patients deal with the stress of their difference—not “clearing up” or “curing” said difference. Very often, if the means are available, a psychologist may recommend sexual reassignment surgery as a solution. Finnegan is one of those people who has not yet had surgery for personal reasons. She’s therefore the model individual for whom PennDOT’s policy was based. Doctors agree she’s a female and now, so does the state of Pennsylvania. “When you live a repressed life in any form, having a freedom given to you, no matter how small, helps relieve the pressure you’ve felt because of that repression,” she says. “I’m a female. I can just be myself now.” n
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BANNED BOOKS Hide your kids, hide your wife! In honor of Banned Books Week, local luminaries help the Free Library and the American Civil Liberties Union defend the First Amendment by delivering selections from their favorite literary lightning rods
7:30pm. Free. Central Library, 1901 Vine St. 215.686.5414. freelibrary.org
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The Books The Books’ new album The Way Out is filled with sonic landscapes dotted with shuddering gongs, synth renditions of folk melodies, dial tones of telephones and vocal samples from old self-help cassette tapes. And once again, it becomes clear that the Books are not making music to dance to, sleep to, make out to, or do anything to. It’s its own beast, a mashup of sounds and emotions that defy any genre or preconceived notions about music. Since the release of their first album in
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and flashlight reads. Folkie John Wesley Harding and authors Greg Frost and Merrie Jones will be celebrating the steamy, the violent, the politicized and everything else that gets panty-bunching parents and conservative whack-jobs bent out of shape. Judy Blume’s teens will explore their sexuality; Winston will rail against Big Brother; Atticus Finch will defend Tom Robinson and Heather will have two mommies—you know, horrible, degenerate things that erode America’s moral fiber and compromise the sanctity of marriage. Just leave your children at home so they don’t learn to accept others and value the written word. Lauren Smith
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2002, the Books have shown to be masters of artful cacophony, dichotomy and non sequitors—the spoken-word samples of love letters, religious sermons, life narratives and scientific lectures are buoyed by interplay between rhythm, dynamics, harmonies and dissonance— and their live shows come with full visuals from old VHS tapes. Katherine SilKaitiS
spare your conscience grief. Catered by Vieux Carre Absinthe, this silent benefit is bound to get a little loud. Cause digging deep, whether into pockets or souls, should be thoroughly rewarded. Sharon MargoliS
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InLiquid Benefit What’s a better deal than art? Seriously. It makes life a lot more interesting, and it requires, like, a nail to mount it with. Lucky for us, InLiquid’s hosting its annual silent auction, placing works from hundreds of local artists and businesses on the bidding block. Given the current age of spiritual waste etc., Keith Sharp’s trippy image of an ivy threshold to the unknown might just stretch your mind right. But whether you’re stirred by the surreal or a Marc Jacobs clutch, you can keep the object of your awe and
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7:30pm. $25. With Midlake. Theater of the Living Arts, 334 South St. 215.922.1011. livenation.com
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ROGUE WAVE Rogue Wave honcho Zach Rogue has made a career of turning lemons into lemonade, shit into fertilizer, or whatever idiom you prefer. After losing his dot-com job and enduring personal hardships in the early ’00s, he channeled that despair into the California indie-rock outfit’s moody, compelling 2002 debut Out of the Shadow. Less than two years ago, Rogue was laid up for several months with serious back issues that threatened his livelihood, but from his bed he crafted a batch of upbeat, misery-defying, hook-laden indie-pop songs for the band’s latest gem, Permalight. He’s better now, and given how great Rogue Wave was at the Mann two summers ago, opening for Death Cab for Cutie, we anticipate a tremendous show this evening. Michael alan goldberg
connie’s Ric Rac Re-opening When Connie initially named her shop on Ninth Street the ‘Ric Rac,’ what she really meant was ‘bric-a-brac,’ an assortment of fascinating junk. Decades later, with the Ric Rac reopened as a performance space run by her musician son and her comedian other son, the venue stays true to the concept with stage acts that run the gamut. Following a hiatus, Connie’s is bringing comedy back to the market with a show featuring members of 6th Borough, who have co-opted a ukulele player for their act, as well as something surely salacious from club owner Frank Tartaglia. On top of the entertainment, Connie’s promises to feed you chicken in its most popular and least healthy form: It’s free, and it’s fried. abdullah Saeed
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ixelated carnage has come a long way since Donkey Kong hurled his first barrel and that intrepid Jump Man, and the Autumn Society’s latest gallery showing chronicles that bloody, button-mashed history with Video Game Gore. Local artists re-imagine the grisliest, spine-busting finishers of their latch-key youths in a showcase celebrating first person shooters, arcade fighters and sidescrolling slobberknockers. Whether you like your interactive atrocity rendered in 8, 16, 32, 64-bit or beyond, you’ll likely find a snapshot of virtual brutality vivid enough to transport you to those halcyon days of callused, Cheetos-powdered fingers, scrounging down to depths of your pockets for one more quarter. Stock up on health packs, save your progress, and get ready to feel anemic. Paul MontgoMery
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Beloved by everyone from the late John Peel and Kurt Cobain to Liam Gallagher, Teenage Fanclub have spent 20 years now as Glasgow’s prime purveyors of good vibes and gentle bonhomie. That’s pretty much two decades of single mindedly pursuing a template they’ve honed to near-perfection—that of glorious chiming guitars a la Big Star, Buffalo Springfield and the Byrds, and celestial melodies intertwined with harmonic arrangements that would have put the young Brian Wilson to shame. They’ve become a little more reflective, almost autumnal and melancholic in outlook of late, as befits a band now firmly into their middle years. But their fans adore them and so they should, for the Fanclub continue to go onwards and ever upwards, a band who make music to love and fall in love to. Just having them around makes the world a better place. neil FerguSon 8pm. $18.50-$21. With the Radar Brothers. Trocadero, 1003 Arch St. 215.922.6888. thetroc.com
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otello The Opera Company of Philadelphia opens their 35th season tonight with Verdi’s debatably greatest opera, Otello, an adaptation of the Shakespeare tale of jealousy, racism and manipulation. Tenor Clifton Forbis, of the Met, La Scala and the Opéra National de Paris, stars in the demanding lead role (a marathon he’s well
known for performing) as the Moorish general of the Venetian army who (SPOILER ALERT) is manipulated into strangling his innocent wife Desdemona and destroying his life by a nasty guy named Iago. The plot is certainly a downer (“God is cruel and man was created in his image,” sings Iago in “Credo in un Dio crudel,” and that’s a pretty good encapsulation of the tone), but the music is some of Verdi’s most beautiful and difficult—and the opera still has those supercheap tickets available so you can get your culture on for the price of a couple frappucinos. eMily guendelSberger
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Amir ElSaffar’s Two Rivers The new Painted Bride season revs up with Amir ElSaffar, an Iraqi-American trumpeter whose music in recent years has also emphasized his singing and santoor playing. ElSaffar’s 2007 release Two Rivers was deep stuff: an energized, personal hybrid of jazz and Iraqi maqam, featuring horns and rhythm section as well as the non-Western oud and buzuq. Lately he’s delved into Azerbaijani mugham vocalizing (the as yet unrecorded Within/Between); explored a synthesis of maqam and Persian dastgah with Iranian-American saxophonist Hafez Modirzadeh (Radif Suite); and played some straight-up trumpet with Danilo Perez’s 21st-Century Dizzy project. This week he revisits the Two Rivers concept with the premiere of a new extended work. david r. adler 8pm. $25. Painted Bride, 230 Vine St. 215.925.9914. paintedbride.org
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The Vaselines The Vaselines were done the first time almost before they started, recording just one full album, Dum-Dum, prior to breaking up in 1990. They caught a break posthumously when Kurt Cobain picked up a copy of the EP Dying for It and covered two of the band’s messy, fizzy pop songs on Incesticide (and one more on Live on MTV). The Vaselines toured America with Nirvana in 1990, and now, somewhat unexpectedly, they’re back, toting the first album of new material in two decades. Even more surprising, it’s pretty good—running a bit shorter on the feckless charm, but making up for it with craft and wry humor. JEnnifEr KElly 8pm. $18. With Jeffrey Lewis. First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St. 215.821.7575 r5productions.com
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’50s fashion show Break out your circle skirts and stilettos—Mad Men fever strikes again at one of Philly’s favorite happy hour spots. The Emmy Award-winning show further demonstrates its stylish influence at the fourth annual Valanni fashion show to kick off Philadelphia Fall Fashion week. Celebrating the Jackies and Marilyns (well, mostly the Marilyns, after all, some do like it hot) of the world, modern clothing influenced by vintage ‘50s trends from Sorella, Franklin Square, Three Sirens Boutique, Vamp, Senor and South Moon Under will walk the runway. Whether you’re a sexy screen siren or elegant first lady-type, best sip those top shelf James Bond vodka martinis. A real lady never downs her liquor. Bring your own Don Draper or Tony Curtis. Whichever your poison may be. AlliSon Krumm 10pm. Free. Valanni, 1229 Spruce St. 215.790.9494. valanni.com
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Menomena Mines , the latest LP by Portland-based indie trio Menomena, sounds torn between reproducing Pitchfork-sanctioned tropes and pulling toward mainstream radio play. While some may love how they so smoothly reference the Killers, Coldplay, the National and the White Stripes, it’s a letdown after 2007’s promising Friend and Foe , where their idiosyncratic compositions and pop-zaniness were more clearly displayed. The power of that LP’s first three tracks— “Muscle n’ Flo,” “The Pelican” and “Wet and Rusting”—still resonates such that the live experience will surely captivate, transporting listeners to a time before Pavement reunited to destroy the last bits of indie dignity and Arcade Fire sold out two nights at Madison Square Garden. E.S.
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ecession? What recession? DoubleR digit unemployment? Whatever. A whopping 43.6 million Americans—14.3 percent—living in poverty? Ugh. Why do you have to be such a motherlovin’ buzzkill? Last Thursday, legalized gambling finally made its way to Philly despite neighborhood protests in Fishtown and an entire world history’s worth of mounted evidence that casinos are never really a good idea for a community, and boy howdy did we greet it with open arms, The Greatest Depression be damned. Traffic was backed up all the way down Delaware Avenue by cars inching along in a single file line to get into the place. Not a spot could be found to park in on the usually pretty desolate Frankford Avenue. SugarHouse was 10-pound sausage in a five-pound casing kind of packed. But you know that already, because chances are you were there along with what seemed like the rest of the city. Total mob scene. So packed, in fact, that by the time the entire editorial staff of PW got to there for our class trip, all the seats in front of each of the 1600 slot machines, 40 table games and two bars had already been taken by people eager to chance it with unfavorable house odds. By the looks of things, SugarHouse paid for itself on opening night. Now, it would be unfair to review SugarHouse based on this one night. But then again, it’s a casino, and not being fair is pretty much how they stay in business. So here’s a rundown of some of what to expect at the shit show once you inevitably give in to your curiosity about it and head on down. The Crowd Did we mention it was packed? Every nook and cranny of the cavernous gaming floor was filled with people cramming twenties into Sex and the City slot machines or letting it ride on the roulette wheel. One completely tanked middle-aged black guy we saw was cozied up to the former, carefully balancing a hoagie on his lap while smoking a cigarette. The game allows
you to chose which character you’d like to be represented as. After giving it some serious thought, he went with Charlotte and then ashed on the floor. The casino has designated smoking areas, but no one seems to pay much mind to where they are. They smoke everywhere, and as such there were cigarette butts ground into the floor and snubbed out on a fair number of the machines in nonsmoking areas. This is why we can’t have nice things, Philly. That is, of course, provided you think a gaudy casino is a nice thing. The Service “I don’t drink, and don’t know what any of this stuff is.” That’s a quote from our waitress, and she’s not kidding. A sample conversation with her went something like this: “I’d like a Dead Guy, please.” “What’s in that?” “I’ll have a Blue Moon.” “What’s in that?’ Other conversations she just had with herself: “We’re out of something … let me see that menu ... Yes, the Dogfish Head? We’re out of that one, I think. I’ll have to check. Who would order something called a Fishdog Head? Sounds gross.” Leaves for 15 minutes, comes back. “Yeah. Out of it.” (They were out of Dead Guy and Blue Moon, too.) “I don’t drink” seemed to be our waitress’ mantra, repeated often and loudly as both an excuse for her performance and a warning about whatever expectations we might have had. It got us to wondering if the rest of the SugarHouse employees went through as little training or a screening as our waitress seemed to. I can imagine a roulette dealer spinning the wheel, the ball coming to rest on 30 Red, on which a lucky someone has placed $500 worth of chips. “Fuck yes!” he yells, hopping up and down excitedly. “I won!” The roulette dealer stares at him blankly. “You did? I’m not a gambler. I don’t know how this works.” The Games You’ve got a choice between slots, Pai Gow poker, mini baccarat, virtual poker, roulette and craps. You will lose at them all. We took our chance with slots, putting $20 in a dollar-a-spin slot machine. It lasted us roughly three minutes. We walked away with 15 cents. n
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Mainstream arguments for same-sex marriage are motivated by trad liberal notions of equality and inclusion, but many radical queer activists hold that these foundations conceal harmful consequences under a false banner of social justice. The Against Equality collective articulates this perspective, challenging the queer race toward inclusion in status-quo institutions like marriage, and the military and prison systems. As the founder of the collective’s digital archive Ryan Conrad argues, this hetero-mimicry blindly reproduces the for-profit medical industrial complex, the traditional yet outmoded nuclear family model, and the glaring injustices necessitated by a capitalist economic arrangement. Having recently completed their first printed anthology, Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage, several contributors will bring the ruckus to Wooden Shoe Books tonight for a public discussion. Elliott SHArp
music and history. While the Staple Singers were responsible for 1970s hits like “I’ll Take You There” and “Respect Yourself,” they were also an intrinsic part of the civil rights movement, through both a family friendship with Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., and through the release of inspiring songs like “Long Walk to D.C.” and “Freedom Highway.” While the Staple Singers officially disbanded in 1994, Mavis Staples has kept both the music and legacy of her family alive and well. At age 61, she’s just released a new album, produced by Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, and she shows she’s perfectly capable of tender, soulful ballads and rip-roaring R&B tunes. K.S.
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It’s antihero time at Grizzly Grizzly—in video, two artists parody classic heroes with acts of mock-heroism against the non-monsters of clutter, trash and darkness. Chris Carroll’s short videos deal with the man/nature relationship, all ominous foreplay with no payback. In his Branta Branta series, a two-second clip of a goose attacking a goose decoy is stuttered to rock backward and forward; in repetition, the animal’s action is mesmerizing and poignant, eternal violence and eternal failure. In another video, the artist walks waistdeep in a river running under a small stone bridge, disappearing into the darkness under the bridge to light a flare, which burns out like Dirty Harry’s gun misfiring— promise dissipated. Madeline Stillwell’s video are of herself locked in mock-heroic battle with piles of architectural debris. It’s
6pm. Through Oct. 31. Grizzly Grizzly, 319 N. 11th St. grizzlygrizzly.wordpress.com
Sandy Kim and Logan White
Sandy Kim and Logan White are living the dream—at least, the dream of many a teenage would-be photographer—doing photo shoots for indie bands and fashion catalogs and saving their more experimental stuff for the gallery. San Franciscobased Sandy Kim’s works are sometimes whimsical and sometimes gritty, but always suggestive of an intriguing greater context in which they were taken. Most enviably, she’s done multiple photo shoots on tour with post-punk musical duo Girls, following them down to SXSW and capturing every gloriously grungy, druggy moment of the trip. In general, she produces photographs that are unabashedly sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll with an element of mystery. Logan White’s photos are similarly provocative, but with a hazier aesthetic. The look isn’t dissimilar from that of an Urban Outfitters catalogue, which isn’t as trite as it sounds—she shot one of the retailer’s most recent lookbooks. Teendream status aside, her more interesting work is far from catalogue-friendly, deeply probing notions of gender and sexuality through artfully-orchestrated imagery: half-naked women spread-eagled in bathtubs, immersed in opaque smoke, and lithe young men pulling up thigh-highs or splashing around in string bikinis. In an interview with Re/Visionist magazine earlier this year, she was quoted saying: “I see the body as a messenger, and in decorating the body I can control the message.” This practice of White’s is eminently present in her work, in which bodies are constantly bedecked and contorted into gorgeous compositions. The opening reception will feature a live musical performance by Tough Knuckles. (Emily Crawford) n 7pm. Through Oct. 29. Space 1026, 1026 Arch St. 215.574.7630. space1026.com
Writing With Spirit Ghost-Writer tackles a tough topic with great dialogue. By J. Cooper Robb jrobb@philadelphiaweekly.com Sandy Kim and Logan White are truly A play about writing may not seem like a great idea—there’s a limited amount of drama in staring at a blank computer screen or sheet of paper. But the creative process is precisely what Michael Hollinger delves into in his subtly compelling new play Ghost-Writer, currently receiving its world premiere in a polished production at the Arden Theatre Company. Easily the area’s top playwright, Hollinger has had more than his share of success (the marvelously amusing Incorruptible, the magical Tiny Island, and the probing, realistic drama Opus), and GhostWriter is the seventh of his plays to make a world premiere at the Arden over their 16-year relationship. It’s his sparest work to date, and this story about the solitary and often lonely world of the writer is also his most personal play, reinforced by the fact that the central role is played by his wife, Megan Bellwoar. Set in 1917, the story focuses on the novelist Franklin Woolsey (Douglas Rees) and his secretary Myra Babbage (Bellwoar). Myra is Woolsey’s typist (note: the usage of first name for the woman and last name for the man is part of the play, we’re not just being patronizing), and at first she acts as little more than a machine dutifully transferring his dictated novel onto paper. As their relationship deepens, however, her role changes to that of a muse and a collaborator—and eventually more. Although there's a lot of debate over the merits of commas vs. semicolons and other grammatical minutiae, Hollinger’s writing is agile and the characters are compelling enough that our attention never wavers. When Woolsey dies midsentence, Myra continues the unfinished novel—not as author, but as typist, insisting that the writer is still dictating the novel to her from beyond the grave. “They are his words. I come. I sit. I wait for the words to come,” she explains. This claim doesn’t sit well with his widow (Patricia Hodges), who is understandably possessive of her husband’s memory. Everything we see in Ghost-Writer is through Myra’s eyes and colored by her memories. The room in which the pair work is dominated by the items that were most important to her—a gramophone, a typewriter, a teapot, the view through the window of clouds symbolically laden with rain that refuses to fall, a telephone that rings with annoying regularity—but, in David P. Gordon’s scenic design, their
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This month at Jolie Laide, brushstrokes hatch out patterns, yarn explodes into knitted bedlam and insulation is caked in Neapolitan stripes. Though their choices of medium are different—paint, yarn, building materials—Andrew Holmquist, Mike Andrews and Easton Miller share a delight in dynamic textures and surfaces. Holmquist plays with the possibilities of paint application—grimacing faces bite into his textural paint blurs, with jagged teeth and sharp eyes reminiscent of de Koonings’ women. Andrews creates tangled tapestries—knitting mishaps and unhinged potholders raveled into outlandish quilts. His works are messy eruptions of yarn: Sheila Hicks’ wall hangings unspooled and grafted onto Grandma’s homemade sweaters or gigantic scarves knitted by Timothy Leary. And Miller has apparently riffled through fabric stores, Home Depots and coin-operated toy dispensers to turn up the textiles, polymers and keychains he incorporates into his painting-sculpture crossbreeds. Foam insulation crawls in contours over and under lattices of acrylic paint, rabbit’s-foot keychains dangle from canvases of basketball covering and red eyes glare out of a noodly plane of fireplace and pond sealants. Their triple stare is penetrating: This is art that encroaches on your space—and looks back at you. (Lauren Smith)
a mix of acrobatics, dance and slow-motion Hollywood disaster scene as the artist— done up as a trash-picking Tarzan—rolls on the floor amidst broken windows, plywood, dropcloths, ropes and plaster debris. The piece could stand in contrast to the great guerilla feminist performance artist Valie Export, who actually had to be quite nervy when doing things like walking into a full Munich art-house theater in crotchless pants and encouraging people to look at her (the title of that 1969 work, the point of which was to draw attention to women’s passive depictions in cinema, was Aktionshose: Genitalpanik, which somewhat entertainingly translates to Action Pants: Genital Panic). Stillwell’s piece is almost a parody of Export, and kind of pitiful, perhaps purposefully so. But, like Carroll’s work, it still manages to feel oddly grand and mythic. (Roberta Fallon)
The Great Dictator: Megan Bellwoar and Douglas Rees in Ghost-Writer, at the Arden.
prominence is subtle and not immediately obvious. Same with the positioning of Myra’s desk, chair and typewriter, which seem to jut out slightly from the rest of the stage—it allows Myra to simultaneously exist in both the past, where most of the play’s action takes place, and the present, being interviewed by an unseen guest. Director James J. Christy never seeks to imprint his own vision on the play—no eerie lighting to suggest a possible spectral presence, for example. Instead, it’s an intimate, quiet production that puts the focus on Hollinger’s words and the strong performances of Bellwoar and Rees. As Myra, Bellwoar is the essence of restraint as a woman who keeps her emotions in tight check. Clad in an unflattering frock and old-school granny glasses that scream schoolmarm or old maid, Myra chooses her words carefully and rarely shows passion. Only once does she get angry, and the depth of her sudden rage is thrilling—Bellwoar plays the moment beautifully, letting loose with a torrent of popping “p’s” so ferocious it sounds like she’s spitting firecrackers. Rees is likewise excellent as the novelist. His commanding presence gives him a larger-than-life quality, yet Rees’ Woolsey is so resolutely cordial that he’s never intimidating. He shows genuine concern when he keeps Myra working late, causing her to miss a dance lesson with her neverseen boyfriend. As Woolsey and Myra draw closer, Rees allows us to see Woolsey’s guilt as he struggles with thoughts of infidelity. The question of whether Myra is actually receiving the words via literary séance or just a lonely woman desperate to hang on to Woolsey’s spirit is never answer, but that’s OK—Ghost-Writer is a play of questions, not answers. Likewise, Hollinger isn’t offering explicit information on the origins of creative inspiration. In this quiet, gentle play, “I come. I sit. I wait for the words to come,” seems as thorough an explanation as we’re going to get. n Ghost-Writer Through nov. 7. $29-$48. Arden Theatre Company, Arcadia Stage, 40 n. Second St. 215.922.1122. ardentheatre.org.
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On his latest, Eric Benét stops living in the shadow of his reputation by reuniting with the music of his past. By Brian McManus
bmcmanus@philadelphiaweekly.com It can’t be easy being the guy best-known for cheating on Halle Berry. Shit like that sticks, and stick it has throughout a good deal of Eric Benét’s career. He’s the original Jesse James, the guy who proved all men are dogs—even the one married to what many consider the world’s foxiest fox. But as each year passes the gap between Benet and his most notorious deed widens, and with his new album Lost In Time he attempts to add more distance. Lost In Time, out Nov. 23, seeks to recreate the “golden era” of the R&B of the 1970s, and its first single, “Sometimes I Cry,” is a soulful, passionate show-stopping lament to loves almost lost. It’s the best song on the radio right now, reminiscent of some of the genius work D’Angelo did on Voodoo. We caught up with Benét—in Philly last week at the Loews Hotel—in advance of his upcoming World Cafe Live show to talk about the album, the music of his youth and the assumptions people make anytime he writes a “Oh, I miss you baby” song.
Is the song about anyone we know? Uh, you know, it’s one of those things where people, whenever you’ve had a very high-profile and public breakup … anytime I write a song about “Oh, I miss you baby” people will assume … yeah, but, no. It’s not about that particular situation. Do those assumptions irritate you or does it just come with the territory? It comes with the territory. But I just have to understand that there are many, many assumptions made about that whole situation and me, and what I’m thinking and what I’m feeling. I’m just glad that people are, you know, it’s now the second question asked. The first question is “Damn, who’s that singing that song?” As long as the first question asked is about my music, then it just comes with the territory I guess. “Always A Reason.” A couple songs on the record are very reminiscent of that old Philly sound and this is definitely one of them. I think it’s the perfect marriage of a classic melody with a classic lyric. Speaking of “old Philly sound,” the song “Paid” guests Eddie Levert of the O’Jays. Eddie kind of adds validity to my project. There were so many O’Jays’ songs that were the soundtrack of my life growing up. And he was on my wish list. When my cousin George and I started working out the structure of “Paid,” there was no one else—if he would’ve said no I don’t know what the hell I would’ve done with the song. But he heard it and loved it. In your life and career have you known many back stabbers? [Laughs] As you get older and wiser you get better at seeing through bullshit and I like to think that I have. Like when I was younger, oh my god man, there were some deals that I signed and people that I worked with that I, in retrospect, am like “How could I have been so stupid?” But maturity has its perks. Do you care to name names? Absolutely not. n
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You recorded this album in your hometown of Milwaukee. Did that affect the tone or sound of the album at all? What’s the difference recording there as opposed to a place like Los Angeles? To tell you how or where a song comes from technically, I can’t tell you, but what I can tell you is that it all has to do with mood and emotion. so I definitely am in a different place emotionally when I’m around my family and when I’m around my mother and I’m around the places where I learned how to ride a bike for the first time. A lot of that love and a lot of that comfort translates into the music
Let’s talk about some of the tracks on the album, starting with the first single, “Sometimes I Cry.” That song is about the threshold that we stand in when you’ve all but moved on from somebody who you used to be, and in some ways still are, in love with. You know that there’s no way you’re going back and getting together. It’s ancient history, but there are still times when you’re left alone and something may remind you emotionally of them or take you back, and you know those times happen more and more infrequently. The song is about standing right there before it’s all completely gone. It’s a sad time to have to move on sometimes, but necessary.
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With Lost In Time you say you wanted to write a record that sounded like it was recorded somewhere between 1972 and 1976. How did you go about doing that? We used a lot of the microphones that were used back then, and the production approaches were pretty much the same as they used back then. You wouldn’t separately track the bass and guitar and drums, they would all be in a room looking at one another. Just count it off, and play— that’s how all the songs were recorded. I would come throw a vocal on top of it with as much passion and as little technology and computers as possible. We used lots of strings, lots of horns. Even lyrically—there was a lyrical approach back then that was a lot more poetic and less obvious when it comes to sexual things that was beautiful and resonating. I really wanted the structure of the songs to be like they were back then, too, where people weren’t afraid to write bridges that took the song somewhere else as far as chord structures. I don’t think that magical and prolific time in music can ever be truly recaptured again, but on this record it was something we shot for. I grew up in this era. I’m a child of the ’70s and it’s when I fell in love with music. And the music of that era, in my humble opinion, was far superior than some of the computerized and cookie-cutter songs put out today.
somehow. I don’t really know how that happens in the same way that when I’m just about to fall asleep I’ll hear some beautiful melody or some arrangement. I don’t know exactly where that comes from, but the feeling of whatever that melody is when it hits me has a lot to do with where my headspace is at the time.
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down, acoustic and a capellatype arrangements with Björk plus B-sides which would be totally boring if Bitte Orca wasn’t so crazy good. Free Association: Is this supposed to tide us over through the snoozey Bjork wave? For Fans Of: Deerhoof, Man Man, nerd geniuses.
homeboy and frontman for Cursive’s first solo LP after a snowy stint in Montana is a pensive, emotional reflection on girls. Free Association: A whole record of musings about past love; done before and better. For Fans Of: The Good Life, Uncle Tupelo, Bright Eyes, selfrighteous single men.
(La Societe Expeditionnaire)
legend famous for his reclusive ways has returned to the fold with a listenable range of lounge, electro, jazz, funk and noise. Free Association: Weird lo-fi gems that make you want to keep listening. For Fans Of: Ariel Pink, Steely Dan on acid, Beck’s “Loser” days.
Sounds Like: Debut of Lehigh Valley’s whispery and ambient creep rock haunts you with great effect. Free Association: You’d think these guys were from Iceland via Munich; PA not so much. For Fans Of: Sigur Ros, Radiohead, Cocteau Twins.
(Universal/Island)
Sounds Like: Buzz band from (Young God) Sounds Like: The N.J. Brooklyn’s major label-distrib- Sounds Like: Post-punk goth native keeps on chugging
uted debut is an irresistible blend of old school emo, new wave, indie and surf rock. Free Association: Every once in a while, the hype might actually be worth something For Fans Of: The Smiths x the Shangri-las, Joy Division x the Zombies.
legends’ first new material in almost fifteen years is solid as ever; dark and droney noise. Free Association: If you think they went soft over time, sounds like they’re pissed again. For Fans Of: Sonic Youth, Bauhaus, Wire, Angels of Light, Skin.
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flavored power rock that’s not very difficult to digest but not exciting either with vaguely political catch phrases that are a bit corny. Free Association: Classic case of loving the Fall but not being nearly as good. For Fans Of: Jesus Lizard, the Wedding Present, Klaxons.
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for Kiss. They were kicked off the tour after five or six dates. • In 1983, Mötley Crüe played the Us Festival in front of 370,000 fans, propelling their second album Shout at the Devil to no. 17 on the charts. • During a party in 1984, Vince takes his friend, Razzle, drummer for the Finnish glam band Hanoi Rocks, for a ride to the liquor store four blocks away. Drunk and coked up, Vince crashes the car, killing Razzle instantly and severely injuring the two passengers in the other car. As punishment, he is allowed to go on tour to pay for a $2.6 million dollar settlement. After the tour, he serves 18 days in jail, whereupon he enjoys free beer from the guards as well as the company of a groupie allowed in from said guards. • His second wife Sharise was a mud wrestler at a strip club. She would bear his third child, Skylar, who tragically died of cancer in 1995. • Vince hates Grey Poupon mustard. • Vince was either kicked out of, or quit Mötley Crüe in 1992. His replacement, John Corabi, was a total failure, as was neil’s solo career. The band reunited in 1997. • Vince used to rent his Malibu beach house to the porn industry for video shoots. • Vince’s third wife Heidi left him for a plastic surgeon, claiming spousal abuse including a karate kick to the abdomen. • Vince spent 10 days shooting the reality show The Surreal Life. Fellow housemate MC Hammer would end up officiating Vince’s fourth wedding ceremony. • At 48, Vince has already had three facelifts. n
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• Vince is dyslexic, a fact he unsuccessfully uses to try and argue that he doesn’t really care to read anyway. • Vince’s first child was born while Vince was still in high school. The mother, Tami, moved in with his parents. He moved out. • His first gig is entering lipsync contests at the local roller rink. He wins regularly and is actually able to get laid repeatedly as a result of his virtuosic ability to not actually do anything creative. • Thanks to his growing lipsync notoriety, Vince is recruited to sing for a new cover band called Rockandi. • Rockandi became the undisputed kings of the LA yard-party circuit (whatever that is), drawing the attention of not only the skankiest girls in town, but also the likes of a fellow by the pseudonym of nikki Sixx. Before long, like-minded pussy hounds and shameless hucksters Tommy Lee and Mick Marrs join in and quickly name themselves Mötley Crüe. • Vince’s now infamous crotch adorns the cover of Mötley Crüe’s first album, Too Fast for Love. • The Crüe signs to Elektra records. • The boys establish themselves on their first tour as the hard-partying, oversexed madmen they end up being for well over a decade. • Three of the four original members live in an LA apartment they dub the Mötley House. They are eventually evicted for never taking out the garbage that has piled up on their balcony. • Their first attempt at pyrotechnic effects was essentially putting a flammable gel on nikki’s boots and seeing how long he could burn ... in the apartment. • Vince has been married four times. • Their first domestic tour was opening
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It would be ill-advised to expect Chaucer from Vince neil’s new autobiography. But even with assistance from ghost writer Mike Sager, Tattoos & Tequila reads like a coked-up Fun with Dick and Jane, only much less interesting and hopelessly obsessed with big tits. That a bona fide internationally known rock star, notorious for his outrageous behavior the world over, manages to reduce his own life to a rote and robotic highlight reel is no mean feat. So listen up, if you had to pick a rock bio you fully intended to pretend to read, Tattoos & Tequila is the one!
despite the tepid success post-musicforthemorningafter, now with Frank Black at the decks, but he’s still boring. Free Association: A man who manages to make Adult Top 40 lamer than it already is. For Fans Of: Semisonic, the Jayhawks, trying too hard.
Sounds Like: Leeds punk-
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Nastasi performs equally well with light and heavier dishes, more straightforward preparations and overtly complex ones. Philly-style eggs Benedict, for example, could easily have teetered over the edge into the realm of overwrought, schmaltzy brunch caricature. But through a formidable sense of vision and balance, it worked, and managed to embody old-school Philly dining. An unabashedly firm pretzel roll—essentially a bagel round, it’s custommade for Green Eggs Cafe by the Philadelphia Pretzel Factory—was layered with cream creese, a moist slice of dijon-herb-roasted (then grilled) pork loin, a perfectly jiggly poached egg and béarnaise sauce. If every component had merely been decent, it would still have been one of the best hangover remedies in the city. But with this offering, as with so much else here, the details elevated it to something altogether more interesting. The rosemary perfume still clinging to the pork, the acidic lift brightening up the béarnaise, the generously scattered salt flecks clinging to the bottom of the pretzel roll electrifying each bite—something so seemingly familiar is rarely this exciting as a result of its details. On the lighter side of things (on the other end of the health spectrum, you could argue) was the quinoa porridge, which I sincerely hope will become more common around town. It’s prepared perfectly here,
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The Lady in the Lake (1947): Forcing audiences to see through a character’s eyes, the point-of-view shot is a neat trick—and usually used sparingly. Before he settled on Citizen Kane, Orson Welles at one point wanted to make his first film all-POV. It's clear how wise he was to abandon the idea in another actor’s big directing debut, Robert Montgomery’s The Lady in the Lake, which puts us into the eyes of Phillip Marlowe (Montgomery, off-screen) as he converses, kisses, slaps and blows smoke onto an uncomfortable-looking supporting cast. Only once, during an underlit carcrash sequence, is it more than a cheap gimmick, or less than giggle-worthy. Dark Passage (1947): Something was in the air in 1947. For the first third of this noir, based on the David Goodis novel, we see through the eyes of someone with the voice of Humphrey Bogart. On the lam, he eventually has his face surgically altered, at which point we can finally confirm that our lead truly is Humphrey Bogart. Robocop (1987): The hard-earned apex of Paul Verhoeven’s hyperviolent satire locks us into the unblinking gaze of our notquite-dead hero as scientists heartlessly dehumanize him and make him into the titular cyborg, treating him humanely only when liquored up.
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“Why would I want to go see a movie about Facebook?” my dad asked a couple weeks ago. Well, that’s the catch, isn’t it? Then again, Citizen Kane wasn’t much interested in the newspaper industry, using a media magnate as an entry point to a Strange Days (1995): Kathryn Bigelow’s story that was a mite more concerned hyperbolic dystopia, written by ex James with loneliness and megalomania. “The Cameron, predicted a 1999 where people Facebook Movie,” as it has been dubbed can record what they see with a device by most folks, obviously aspires to be plugged into their brain, allowing them a millennial Kane, dropping allusions to to relive precious (or not-so-precious) Welles’ classic left and right and roping moments. This means POV interludes of in The Great Gatsby and Faust for good people falling to their deaths, having sex measure. It’s the ostensibly simple story or cupping Juliette Lewis’ breasts. of a bunch of friends who screwed each other over while building an unexpectedly popular website, yet this thing is shooting Doom (2005): To answer the question “Why else would it exist?” this take on the for the high-falutin’ moon, reference-wise. It also plays like gangbusters. first-person shooter actually becomes a As far as pure, propulsive entertainfirst-person shooter for a couple minutes. ment goes, The Social Network is a giddy It’s just like the real deal, only you’re two-hour rush of hot-blooded vertiginous watching someone else play! Awesome! dialogue and cucumber-cool cinematic curlicues. The unlikely pairing of florid, Enter the Void (2009): In which artheart-on-his-sleeve West Wing writer house maximalist Gaspar Noé solves Lady Aaron Sorkin and clinical, profoundly dysin the Lake’s problem: use POV to induce peptic Fight Club director David Fincher a trance. Our hero (who blinks!) is killed, has proved unexpectedly revelatory. then hovers around a neon-drenched A 162-page script (Hollywood’s usual Tokyo. Two and a half hours of subjective formula dictates a-page-a-minute) blurted cinema later, we’ve finally seen something out in just under two hours, the movie that uses this trick for good. n is a barrage of intoxicating, rapid-fire
chatter. Fincher is more than up to the task of finding sly pictorial counterpoints throughout, and upon first viewing one is often faced with the choice of whether to look or listen. The audio-visual virtuosity is almost overwhelming.
“I’m sorry, Mr. Kane, but Rosebud has still not accepted your Friend Request.” This story by now is an urban legend. Dorky outcast Mark Zuckerberg (fearlessly played by Jesse Eisenberg without a single sop toward audience sympathy) got dumped and drunk one night and set Harvard’s campus on fire by swiping photos of co-eds for a “which chick is hotter” online contest after hacking the university’s “Facebook” intro site for undergrads—and that one evening of spurned, shitfaced dickishness spawned a multibillion-dollar industry. Legal issues abound. Questions still remain as to who was where for what and when, particularly with regard to two behemoth WASP twins (both played, thanks to some nifty digital trickery, by Armie Hammer) who hired Zuckerberg to
code their exclusive Harvard dating site. The Social Network zips back and forth from dorm rooms to deposition rooms, spinning the story into two separate timelines. But the movie isn’t so much concerned with legal ramifications or questions of authorship as it is with class differences and a level playing field in our tech-savvy here-and-now—revenge of the nerd. Hammer’s Aryan Übermenschen Winklevoss twins (amusingly dubbed “The Winklevi” by Zuckerberg) are the kind of handsome, old-money bros some of us were unfortunate enough to meet in college. These dudes accept success as a birthright and expect everybody else to play by their rules. Zuckerberg, with his creepy, unblinking antisocial tendencies, stuffed a middle finger in the mouth of the Harvard oldboy hierarchy. He’s a heroically petulant outsider (his Jewishness is only obliquely referenced, but figures largely in the saga nonetheless) and it’s only when Justin Timberlake’s Sean Parker, co-founder of Napster, grabs onto Zuckerberg like a leech and seduces him into a new world of dance clubs and Silicon Valley venturecapitalist millions that the Faustian elements of the tale begin to take their toll. Timberlake, by the way, is extraordinary. Lit from beneath for maximum Mephistophelian overtones, he’s the snake in the grass who is able to sever Zuckerberg’s lifelong friendship with the site’s co-founder, Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield), introducing our furious antihero into that late-night world of hot girls and very bad drugs that the old school rules always walled off from his nerdy, tattered-hoodie-wearing ass. “Every creation myth needs a devil,” pronounces Rashida Jones’ lawyer during one of the movie’s more regrettable on-the-nose one-liners. Nobody familiar with his work will be surprised that Sorkin sometimes has a tendency to overwrite. But even clangers like that one are counterbalanced by the movie’s keen empathy with its characters. I understand Zuckerberg is less-than-pleased with this portrait, but having watched countless interviews with the world’s youngest billionaire, I found him oddly sympathetic here. The last shot is a doozy, though. Sorkin and Fincher might as well be saying: “I’m sorry, Mr. Kane, but Rosebud has still not accepted your Friend Request.” n
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My Dog Tulip, the film that opens this week from acclaimed animators Paul and Sandra Schuette Fierlinger, looks like the work of a human, not a computer. The lines are squiggly and unpolished, the movement of characters and objects deliberately rough; it lacks the cold precision of, say, a Pixar product. It looks for all the world like it was drawn by hand—and, despite the fact that My Dog Tulip was animated completely on computers, it was. Stay with me. The Fierlingers, who have been partners in animation and marriage since the early ’90s, work out of their cottage on the Main Line. Paul (who also teaches at Penn’s School of Design) does the drawing; Sandra, who studied fine art at PAFA, does the colors, and they share the rest. The producers were so worried about having such sparse credits that they stuck anyone remotely associated with the film, including members of a bank that loaned them money. The Fierlingers used to work on paper, but for My Dog Tulip relied on a Wacom tablet. Animating on paper, Paul says, takes an enormous amount of time. “When you use a real-life eraser, it smudges things. You have all these crumbs on the paper. Paper can withstand only so many erases, and then you have to pick up a new one.” With paper, he says, deadlines can result in cut corners: you don’t draw every single frame, resulting in a jittery image. Plus, with the tablet, “the pencil is always sharp.” Using an electronic stylus, Paul draws on the tablet’s darkened screen, a little bigger than an iPad. He doesn’t look down as he draws; his strokes pop up on a computer monitor in front of him. Everything Paul and Sandra would use in real life— brushes, pencils, charcoal, crayons, watercolors—
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More than just a summary for people too lazy to pick up a bestseller, the movie version of Freakonomics (though still quite unnecessary) can be viewed as a survey of the many ways people today make documentaries. Cutesy, moody, stylishly controversial, faux-verité—all are accounted for in this spotty omnibus project, which parcels out four of the book’s sections to five documentarians (The King of Kong’s Seth Gordon took the short transitional items) who are as a group responsible for some of our era’s most overrated nonfiction blockbusters. The resultsare varied—not least in tone. Morgan Spurlock predictably brings the cutesy (ditto Gordon) to his section on name choice—whether, for example, employers (consciously or not) discriminate against applicants with “black” names. The Super Size Me dickhead’s “look, Ma, no stunt” stunt is annoying, but the substance of Freakonomics authors Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner’s research overpowers their director’s perky attempts to ruin it. The piece on crookedness in sumo wrestling improves with a tonal 180, oozing Errol Morris menace. Strikingly mysterious imagery abounds as the absurdly prolific Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Darkside, Casino Jack, the forthcoming Elliot Spitzer doc Client 9) gradually ties an exposé of a nation’s hallowed ritual into America’s squandered trust in scheming bankers. Stuck with the shortest straw, Why We Fight’s Eugene Jarecki tackles the book’s most controversial chapter: Levitt’s dodgy claim that the precipitous drop in crime around 1989 is due not to better policing, but to Roe v. Wade. Levitt theorizes in the book that an untold number of unwanted kids who would have been raised by a single
parent and had difficult, impoverished lives—statistically, much more likely to commit crimes than wanted children—were simply never born. The film’s most succinct entry, it stylishly mixes animation with live action in arresting, prickly ways; the use of It’s A Wonderful Life is wonderfully tasteless. The capping piece from Heidi Ewing and Rachey Grady (Jesus Camp) brings the tone back to Spurlockian bubbliness, not treating the subject of whether struggling students can be bribed into doing better with even minimal seriousness. So that’s two out of five—not bad for a film with no decent reason to exist. Arrive late, leave early—better yet, just read the book.
Enter the Void ABy Matt Prigge Last year, as you may recall, James Cameron released a film made with the budget of a midsized, third-world country. His intentions were noble: He wanted to give people something new—a reason to go to the movies, an overwhelming event that could never be replicated at home. Avatar was huge and immersive; it was also Dances With Smurfs. Gaspar Noé also wants to give you something new: a movie as an experience. With Enter the Void, he’s certainly done it, and with considerably less groan-worthy content (although there is some). He’s just done it in a way that will alienate 90 percent of viewers. Noé’s gimmick: just under 2 1/2 hours of subjective cinema. We see through the eyes of low-rent American drug dealer Oscar (Nathaniel Brown) as he hangs with friends, walks around Tokyo and does drugs, cuing a block of psychedelic colors and undulating spiky spirals. Police eventually gun him—and us—down, a moment as traumatizing in its way as the extreme bits in Noé’s notorious (and great) Irreversible. The afterlife, it turns out, hews close to the Tibetan Book of the Dead (helpfully mentioned in the first of the film’s four sections). Oscar revisits scenes from his turbulent life on shuffle; after this incredible setpiece, almost an hour in length, his soul (and the camera) floats about the ceilings of those left behind, including his stripper sister (Paz de la Huerta, as usual naked and
polymorphously perverse). It’s a nifty experiment niftily pulled off, but Noé can’t do anything simple. The film is awash with awesomely tacky neon, long BJ scenes, glowing green dicks, aborted fetuses and a climactic sight surely never before committed to film. And perhaps to atone for the (probably intentionally) stoner-deep philosophizing, it throws in aggressive but maddeningly unresolved incestual subtext. Oscar and sis, orphaned at a young age, are so close he ogles her naked and she lovingly devours his ear with her whole mouth. More than once, Oscar’s soul travels inside the eyes of a man ravaging her. Enter the Void is a milestone in cinematic maximalism. That it’s also beyond messedup is just an added bonus.
Waiting for Superman BBy Sean Burns An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim really loves depressing the shit out of you. And if chronicling the impending end of the world wasn’t enough, he also showed us a shambling, senior citizen Jimmy Page in It Might Get Loud. For his most downer doc yet, Guggenheim sets his sights on our country’s troubled public school system, with predictably dire conclusions. Painting a giant “kick me” sign on the back of powerful teacher’s unions, Waiting For ‘Superman’ presents an alarming array of statistics, often visualized by snarky cartoons. I won’t pretend to be knowledgeable enough on the subject to debate the veracity of many of the blanket assertions, but I’m willing to admit he’s overlooking some larger issues regarding systemic poverty and social inequities, while the tricky matter of private funding is elided altogether. Then again, it looks awfully cushy to have a job where it’s impossible to get fired, even if you just read the newspaper while your students shoot craps on the classroom floor. (The hidden-camera footage of D.C. school conditions is appalling.) It’s impossible not to be moved when Waiting For ‘Superman’ follows a handful of promising young inner-city kids aching to find placement in their local, thriving charter schools. Firebrand educator Geoffrey Canada, president of the Harlem Children’s Zone, explains the unwieldy title, as he’d always imagined George Reeves swooping in to rescue a broken system. Canada’s impressive charter schools stick to high standards and full accountability, and from the evidence on screen they seem to be making
a difference—even though I’m still not sure where all the money’s coming from. The final reel is almost unbearable to watch, as the children’s futures are surrendered to a lottery. Depending on the luck of the draw, these kids could end up on the path to either college or jail. It’s a sickening thought, and however flawed, Guggeheim’s film should at least jump-start a discussion.
Jack Goes Boating D+ By Sean Burns Wait, is this the one where Philip Seymour Hoffman plays a loser? One of our finest actors and his own worst enemy, Hoffman has ghettoized himself lately in cloying sad-sack roles. Here, he pushes the boundaries of schmaltz, making his directing debut with a desperately cutesy adaptation of a play by longtime pal Bob Glaudini that reeks of condescension. At his borderline-autistic, mouth-breathing worst, Hoffman stars as a stunted idiot who grows silly dreadlocks and gets shoved into blind dates with Amy Ryan’s cuckoo, damaged wallflower. Both are ostensibly adults who live in New York City, yet act like brain-damaged children. Hoffman, for example, listens to the same reggae song on an endless loop, because “it’s positive,” and somehow at middle age he has never learned how to work a stove. Hoffman’s antisocial hyperventilator whimpers a lot, deciding for no explicable reason that he must learn how to swim in order to impress this oddball woman who clearly wants to have sex with him. (At the movie’s cringiest, she speculates aloud about “being ready for penis penetration.”) There’s some frank drug use and freewheeling infidelity by co-stars John Ortiz and Daphne Rubin-Vega, but these characters all overdose on writerly quirks, never once acting remotely like recognizable human beings. Hoffman seems to be aiming for the raw, childlike heartache of P.T. Anderson’s Punch-Drunk Love (a film in which he happened to give a great performance) yet lacks the chops to create a context in which the loony behavior makes any sense. Hoffman is capable of so many shadings, it’s a shame to see him constantly falling back on same schmucky skill-set as of late. Ditto for Ryan, who has delivered a handful of electrifying turns in recent years, yet here recycles her tremulous goofball routine from The Office. I have an enormous amount of affection for these two, but Jack Goes Boating made me wish they’d both drown. n
I’m a straight college guy, age 21, and I share a house with some buddies and a couple. This couple has been together for four years. They’re both quite sexual. Both of them have stated an openness to polyamorous situations. She started flirting with me three weeks ago, and flirting turned into no-sex threesomes with her and her BF every few nights. I’m perfectly fine with poly, or I wouldn’t be doing this, but it feels a bit awkward fingering her or sucking on her nipples while her boyfriend is in the room, or even the same bed. Both of us guys are straight and have no desire to see the other naked, so there’s none of that going on. I’ve got no beef with guys who like beef, but being in a sexual situation with another guy makes me uncomfortable. And anyway, I feel like he’s the “primary” one, the one she loves and kisses, so I move over whenever he shows interest. This is reinforced because she said that she didn’t feel comfortable kissing other guys and I get the impression that he’s not entirely happy that I’m cuddling and/or fingering his girlfriend while he plays Dawn of War five feet away from their bed. I’m fine with being the “secondary” guy. But I’d much rather have some privacy if we are gonna try to get each other off. But this is tough, since there’s nowhere else in the house to go other than their room. Incidentally, we haven’t told our other housemates about this, although they could probably put two and two together; she screams in orgasm, and half an hour later I say good night and go to my room. Any advice for making the situation more comfortable for all involved? Can’t Think Of A Clever Name
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STUDIO/EFFICIENCY 1 61 6 K AT E R Extra Lg Efficiency, Bay windows, Skylite, HW floors, EIK. In townhouse. WD h/up. Pets allowed. $750+. 484-716-1474 1902 Spring Garden St. Great studios. H/W, laundry. From $500. Call WRPG 215-636-0100 or 215-546-9247 19th CHESTNUT RITTN. HSE SQ area: STUDIO, SEP/EIK $700+ 215-735-8414. 3 39 C H R I ST I A N ST L a rg e studio with separate kitchen Available NOW $695/MO 215917-8835 9TH & SPRUCE- Adorable Studio, HW flrs, AC, Close to all. $750+. PMG 215-545-7007 x302
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2 bedrooms, 2 baths, eat-in-kitchen, great closet space, 1314 sf`
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1 bedroom, 1 bath, wood floors, great condition, 850 sf
$1,450
balcony with southern views, 1118 sf
1 bedroom, 1 bath, high floor, open kitchen, great closet $1,595
$2,750 street entrance, direct access to garage, 700 sf
$1,750
2 bedrooms 2 baths, high floor, panoramic city views,
art museum
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tHE WHitE bUiLDinG 105 S. 12tH StrEEt 1 bedroom, 2 bath, loft apartment with exposed brick,
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905 LOMbArD StrEEt Four story townhome, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, renovated, roof deck, one car garage, 1792 sf
$2,600
2 bedrooms, 2 baths, brand new kitchen and baths, high floor with panoramic city views, 1200 sf
Studio, large windows, wood floors, dressing room, 608sf
$950
GrEEnSHirE 700 pEnnOCk StrEEt
$2,750
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great closet space, 778 sf
rittenhouse square tHE CArLYLE 2031 LOCUSt StrEEt
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Waterfront piEr 5, 7 n. COLUMbUS bLvD. 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, tri-level, bridge views, grand fireplace, two terraces, 2229 sf
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1 bedroom, 1 bath, 607 sf
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1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, high floor with southern
Studio, hardwood floors, marble bath, city views, 345 sf
HOpkinSOn HOUSE 604-36 S. WASHinGtOn SqUArE 1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony with a southern view,
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2 bedrooms, 2 baths, private garage parking, townhome, 1272 sf
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1 bedroom townhome, custom kitchen and bath, private high ceilings, custom finishes throughout, 1312 sf $2,000
2 bedrooms, 2 baths, hardwood floors, brand new kitchen and baths, 1314 sf
1 bedroom, 1 bath, laundry room, balcony, WIC, 928 sf
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2 bedrooms, 2baths, terrace, large kitchen, one garage
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2 bedrooms, 2 baths, wood floors, open custom kitchen,
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Corner 1 bedroom, 1 bath, river views, galley kitchen, 775 sf
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designer baths, panoramic city views from high floor $5,000 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, floor-to-ceiling windows, Society Hill views, 1133 sf
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pArC rittEnHOUSE 225 S 18tH StrEEt $1,750
1 bedroom, high floor, wood floors, W/D marble bath 708 sf
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1830 Rittenhouse - Prime Rittenhouse Square office space, 754 sf $2,100
131 S. 18th Street - Prime 1st and 2nd floor retail space $2,000 on high-end 18th Street shopping corridor, directly across from new 10 Rittenhouse condos $7,500 NNN
Junior 1 bedroom, wood floors, marble bath, open kitchen 506 sf
apartment building, 958 sf
133 S. 18th Street – Ground floor corner retail space, ex-
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cellent visibility on 18th Street shopping corridor $9,000 NNN
530 S 2nD StrEEt 1 bedroom, 1 .5 baths, balcony overlooking Headhouse Square,
$2,100 great closet space and natural light.
1601 Locust Street - 1st floor and lower level of prestigious Lanesborough condo, ideal for restaurant or offices,
$1,295 4700 sf $11,500 NNN
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S.BROAD (AVE of ARTS) Penthouse Ultra mod, Mrble BA/Jac. WD, HW. $875+. 215-463-7374
ART MUSEUM Large 2BR, 1BA, LR/DR, HWflrs, WD, AC, Deck. $1250+. Avail now. 215-803-3602
Spring Garden & 20th. Fab studios a n d o n e b e d ro o m s, H / W, l a u n d r y. $595-$795. Call WPRG 215-636-0100 or 215-546-9247
ITALIAN MKT: 10th/Federal 2BR, CA, 1BA, WD. $1350+. 215-922-3910.
C.C. 11XX WALNUT: GREAT LOCATION! VERY LARGE 3BDRMS, appx, 2000sqft. NEW STOVE & FRIGE. WD hkup $1600+. (215)651-6242
two bedroom 15TH ST (Ave Arts Area) 1st fl 2BR, Garden patio, WD, Mrble BA/Jac. $995+. 215-463-7374 15XX SO. BROAD ST-2BEDRMS.,TILE BATH, LARGE, MODERN. $1,000/mo.+. Call 610-304-0087. 1 8 X X S . 4 T H ST. N ew l y- re m o d e l e d , deck. Avail. Immed. $750+ utilities. Jack 215-768-3929 21ST & PINE Fab apt, HWF, HCeils, Incl heat. MORE. $1995+. PMG 215-545-7007 x302 22ND & PARRISH Fab apt w/2BA, Den, HW flrs, Deck. $1450+. PMG 215-5457007 x303 3RD/RACE, HISTORICALLY CERTIFIED BLDG with a MODERN FLAIR! S.S. APPLIANCES, BLT-IN MICRO, WORKING GAS FIREPLACE, HRDWD, 2PATIOS, 2BA, CA, DW, GD, WD Steps to GYM. Minutes to I-95. $1850. S&S Properties. 267-402-8017 4 2 X X S P R U C E , U N I V E R S I T Y C I T Y. SEPTA, SHOPPING. LAUNDRY $725 Avl NOW. (215)651-6242 500 Admirals Way #103 $2200/mo 2BD/2BA unit, s/s appliances, lots of light CALL JIM ONESTI PRU FOX & ROACH 215-627-6005/215-440-2052
8TH LOCUST, 2BDRMS PLUS GIGANTIC LOFT (POSSIBLE 3BDRMS), 1.5BATHS, PENTHOUSE w/PRIVATE ELEVATOR. ALL MODERN AMENITIES. AC, HRDWD/FLS WD, ETC. USEABLE common outside area, PARKING INCLUDED, (2)STORAGE AREAS. Pet Friendly w/restrictions. BEST OF THE BEST! $2195+elc. Parking INCLUDED. Tanya 215-922-6088 or email tanya@ ans_hrv.com
9TH SPRING GARDEN BEAUTIFUL 2BEDR.,TILE BATH,HDWD FLRS., ALL APPLIANCES, A/C, SECURITY SYSTEM. $1100/MO+. 610-304-0087 ART AREA, 2BA, 2FRPLCES, HRDWD/ flrs, PVT ENTRANCE, LRG DECK, JACUZZI tub, WD. Great Neighborhood. $1495+. 215-353-6636 ART MUSEUM, LARGE 2bdrm, 1bath, OPEN FLOOR PLAN W/W, D/W, WASHER DRYER. Freshly painted clean and bright. $1195+ Call 267-254-6930
MANAYUNK/ROXBOROUGH: Charming 2Bdrm, Bright, Oversize Closets, All New Carpets Throughout, Intercom Entry, Onsite Prkg, AC, Updated Kitchen/Bathrm. Heat/Water/Gas Incl. 1st month free on select apts! From $1020/Mo. 215-482-9032. lic# 218586 PASSYUNK SQ New rehabbed 2nd floor 2BR apt. CA, HW/flrs, WD. $950+. 215465-4565 RITTENHOUSE SQUARE!! 326 South 19th Street OLD WORLD CHARM BUILDING, Fresh on the market. Two bedroom-1 bath apartments $2,200.00 per month. Available for EARLY/MID-NOVEMBER move in. Must see to appreciate. Hardwood floors, High ceilings, Plentiful closet space, Cat friendly, Small dogs welcome too. Call to schedule an appointment 215-735-5757 OR E-mail: DelanceyPlace@aol.com RITTENHOUSE SQUARE AREA 20XX Cypress Street, FABULOUS, 2-Bedroom, huge Bi-Level, 1 1/2 baths, 3rd & 4th Floors of owner occupied brownstone. Cen a/C, D/W/, G/D, W/W carpet, W/D on premises. Avail immed. Small pets possible, restrictions apply. $1950 per mo., plus elec. email kjpel@verizon.net or 215-439-8948 for further info and appt.
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MANAYUNK/ROXBOROUGH: Lrg 2bdrm, Renovated Kitch/Bathrm, Patio/Balc Laundry, Gym, Pool, Tennis/ Basketball Crts, Free Shuttle to Main Street Manayunk, Pets Welcome. From $1220/Mo. 888-538-9667. Ask about how you can receive FREE Furniture for 1 Year! EXECUTIVE SHORT T E R M F U R N I S H E D S U I T ES AVA I L A B L E . lic# 218436
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Studios 125-175 – 1BDs 175-275 – 2BDs 275-450 – 3BDs 400-500
2 Springhouse Lane, Havertown 4BD, 1 Full, 2 Half BA, Farmhouse on 0.7 acre lot, $695,000
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626 Black Rock Road, Bryn Mawr 3BD, 3.5BA 2,785 SqFt Contemporary on 2.5 acre lot $1,600,000 or $4,000/mo
838 newkirk st #e1, art museum area 2BD 1.5BA PARKING $600,000 4523 Ritchie st, manayunk 3BD, 2.5BA Renovated Row $325,000 923 mount Vernon st, spring Garden 4BD, 2.5BA, 1830sq ft Row w/ 1 car parking $400,000 2101 market street #804, Rittenhouse sq 1BD, 1BA Unit at The Murano, 1 Car Parking, $435,000 2945 Poplar, 3BD, 1BA Row $269,000 or rent $1,300/mo
1387 Bartlett Road, Chesterbrook – 3BD, 2.5BA 3016sq ft Row, $345,000 668 Woodcrest, Ardmore 4BD, 2BA Twin, $299,000 or $1,600 1051 Lemar Cir, Merion Station 4BD, 3BA 3475sq ft Cape on .84 acre lot w/ pool $700,000 336 David Drive, Havertown Spacious 4BD, 2.5BA Split Level overlooking Merion Golf Course in Paddock Farms, $365,000
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1225 Shackamaxon St. Units 14,17,18 19125 FISHTOWN Fr $289,900 1109 Spruce St. # 2R 19107 WASHINGTON SQ. WEST $225,000 1109 Spruce St. # 3R 19107 WASHINGTON SQ. WEST $180,000 713 A Shirley ART MUSEUM $317,000
September 29 - October 5, 2010
813 N Stillman ART MUSEUM $324,900 FISHTOWN 1836 Cedar $344,900 SOCIETY HILL 520 S 4th $429,900 ART MUSEUM 2533 Swain $429,900 RITTENHOUSE SQ 1904 Waverly $459,900
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WASH WEST 1225 Panama $459,900
QUEEN VILLAGE 314 Monroe $559,900
11:45 - 12:15PM
SOCIETY HILL 100 Pine Street $1,250,000
NORTHERN LIBERTIES 451 Fairmount ##1 $350,000
QUEEN VILLAGE 616 S American $999,999
NORTHERN LIBERTIES 451 Fairmount ##2 $350,000
SOCIETY HILL 306 S Front Street $999,000
813 N Stillman $324,900
RITT SQUARE 2018-32 Walnut ##7D $329,000
RITTENHOUSE SQ 1632 Spruce Street #200 $995,000
SOCIETY HILL 504 Delancey $950,000
FISHTOWN 1836 Cedar $344,900
RITTENHOUSE SQ 111 S 15th St #2310 $325,000
Queen Village 19147 408 Queen Street $599,995 Plumer & Associates
SOCIETY HILL 520 S 4th $429,900
PENNS LANDING 7 N Columbus Blvd ##212 $324,900
ART MUSEUM 2533 Swain $429,900
WASHINGTON SQ WEST 1035 Spruce Street #102 $315,000
RITTENHOUSE SQ 1904 Waverly $459,900
ART MUSEUM AREA 1615 Green #Unit C $315,000
WASH WEST 1225 Panama $459,900
PASSYUNK SQUARE 1420 S Juniper $310,000
SOCIETY HILL 803 Lombard $599,900 SOCIETY HILL 304-06 S American $599,900 RITTENHOUSE SQ 1917 Panama $875,000
Queen Village 19147 732 Christian Street $599,000 Plumer & Associates Queen Village 19147 778 S Front Street $499,500 Plumer & Associates 12:00-2:00PM Sunnyside Ave. 19129 EAST FALLS $245,000 ART MUSEUM 905 Corinthian $599,000 12:00-2:30PM 525 Fitzwater St. #9 19147 QUEEN VILLAGE $239,000 12:30-2:00PM 320 Race St. #2 19106 OLD CITY $347,000 12:45 - 1:15PM Avenue Of The Arts 19102 1420 Locust Street From $399,900 Allan Domb Avenue of the Arts 19107 250 S 13th Street $263,900 Allan Domb
12:00 - 1:00PM ART MUSEUM 713 A Shirley $317,000
QUEEN VILLAGE 314 Monroe $559,900 SOCIETY HILL 803 Lombard $599,900
Queen Village 208 Carpenter Street $299,900
SOCIETY HILL 304-06 S American $599,900
FISHTOWN 2434 E Cumberland Street $299,000
RITTENHOUSE SQ 1917 Panama $875,000
ART MUSEUM AREA 792 N. Taney $299,000
SOCIETY HILL 504 Delancey $950,000
RITTENHOUSE SQ 111 S 15th Street #1705 $299,000
Queen Village 19147 408 Queen Street $599,995 Plumer & Associates
WASHINGTON SQ 1012 Spruce Street #4R $284,900
Queen Village 19147 732 Christian Street $599,000 Plumer & Associates Queen Village 19147 778 S Front Street $499,500 Plumer & Associates
1:00-3:00PM 4616 Hazel Ave. 19143 UNIVERSITY CITY $629,000 1100 S. Broad St. #503B 19146 GRADUATE HOSPITAL $225,000 1:00-4:00PM COLLINGSWOOD, NJ The LumberYard Condos: 600 Atlantic Ave, 08108 Starting at $210,500 Main Street Realty 1:30-2:30pm Queen Village 728 S. 3rd Street, 19147 $479,000 PFR 11:00 - 11:30AM Society Hill 19106 210 Locust Street From $275,000 Allan Domb Society Hill 19106 421 Chestnut Street $269,000 & $875,000 Allan Domb Washington Square 19106 604-36 S Washington Square $350.000 & $379,900 Allan Domb
ART MUSEUM AREA 2215 Ogden Street $309,000
12:00- 1:00 RITTENHOUSE SQ 2039 Delancey Place $3,975,000 12:00-1:30 OLD CITY 101-11 Arch Street #5G $465,000 BELLA VISTA 815 S 7th ##2 $449,000 BELLA VISTA 1101 Washington Avenue #710 $439,900 FITLER SQ 207 S 24th Street #2F $429,999 RITTENHOUSE SQ 202-10 W Rittenhouse Square #2303 $425,000
THE ELLINGTON 1500 Chestnut Street #8G $269,000 SOCIETY HILL 200-10 Lombard ##635 $262,500 RITTENHOUSE SQ 1500 Chestnut Street #10E $259,000 MANAYUNK 100 Leverington Av ##46 $259,000 South Phila 418 Tasker Street $225,000 PENNSPORT 238 Watkins Street $219,900 OLD CITY 301 Race Street #107 $219,000 ART MUSEUM 2401 Penna Ave ##4B30 $199,900 CHINATOWN 1010 Race Street #8K $179,900 NORTHERN LIBERTIES 212 Brown Street #4A$1,400 12:00-2:00PM
GRADUATE HOSPITAL 703 S 17th Street $385,000
Society Hill 300 Walnut Street $1,799,000
RITTENHOUSE SQ 224 W Rittenhouse ##1616 $364,500
SOCIETY HILL 522 Delancey Street $1,575,000
ART MUSEUM AREA 2611 Parrish Street $359,000
FITLER SQ 2403-5 Waverly Street $1,299,000
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RITTENHOUSE SQ 1531 Rodman Street $359,000
Washington Square 19106 233-241 S 6th Street From $290,000 Allan Domb
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FITLER SQ 2422 Naudain Street $849,000
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12:30-2:00PM Race St. #2 19106 OLD CITY $347,000 12:45 - 1:15PM Avenue Of The Arts 19102 1420 Locust Street From $399,900 Allan Domb Avenue of the Arts 19107 250 S 13th Street $263,900 Allan Domb 1:00-3:00PM
RITT SQUARE 2128 Cypress Street $799,900
4616 Hazel Ave. 19143 UNIVERSITY CITY $629,000
SOCIETY HILL 241 S 6th Street ##1805 $724,900
1100 S. Broad St. #503B 19146 GRADUATE HOSPITAL $225,000
Queen Village 245 Monroe Street $695,000 WASHINGTON SQ WEST 411 S 13th Street $695,000 QUEEN VILLAGE 716 S Philip $639,000 ART MUSEUM AREA 655 N 24th Street $625,900 SOCIETY HILL 26 Saint James Ct ##42 $619,900 SOCIETY HILL 304-06 S American $599,900 Northern Liberties 600 “A” N. American $599,000 ART MUSEUM AREA 905 Corinthian $599,000
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QUEEN VILLAGE 752 S 3rd Street $399,900
BELLA VISTA 515 S 10th #A $549,900
ITALIAN MARKET AREA 932-A Ellsworth $395,000
SOCIETY HILL 312 S Philip $575,000
UNIVERSITY CITY 4826 Hazel Avenue $390,000
ART MUSEUM AREA 756-58 N Bucknell $579,900
1:30 -2:00PM Rittenhouse Square 19103 1701 Locust Street From $399,900 Allan Domb Rittenhouse Square 19103 1601 Locust Street $2,750,000 Allan Domb 1:30 - 2:30 PM RITTENHOUSE SQ 2125 Pine Street $1,595,000
SYMPHONY HOUSE 440 S Broad Street #2203 $590,000
Society Hill 734 Addison Street $1,295,000
ART MUSEUM AREA 756-58 N Bucknell $579,900
RITTENHOUSE SQ 1830 Rittenhouse Square #7A $1,250,000
WASHINGTON SQ WEST 420 S Jessup Street $579,000
SOCIETY HILL 223 Delancey Place $1,100,000
SOCIETY HILL 312 S Philip Street $575,000
RITTENHOUSE SQ 1901 Walnut Street #17D $995,000
MT AIRY (WEST) 630 W Upsal Street $559,000 WASHINGTON SQ WEST 515 S 10th #Unit A $549,900 QUEEN VILLAGE 132 Kenilworth Street $529,900 QUEEN VILLAGE 307 Catharine Street $529,000
1:30-3:00 The Rittenhouse 210 W Rittenhouse Sq ##1107 $995,000 RITTENHOUSE SQ 1632 Spruce Street #100 $995,000 RITTENHOUSE SQ 1901 Walnut Street #21B $989,000
BELLA VISTA 732 S 6th $619,000 N. LIBERTIES 964 N Leithgow $749,900 Rittenhouse Square 19103 2120 Pine Street $899,000 Plumer & Associates Queen Village 728 S. 3rd Street, 19147 $479,000 PFR 237-41 Bread St. #5 19106 OLD CITY $635,000 2155 Montrose St. 19146 GRADUATE HOSPITAL $450,000 209 Cuthbert St. 19106 OLD CITY $389,900 309-313 Arch St. #308 19106 OLD CITY $319,000 927 Spruce St. #2RP 19107 WASHINGTON SQ. WEST $219,900 927 Spruce St. #2R 19107 WASHINTON SQ. WEST $199,900 1515 Manton St. 19146 GRADUATE HOSPITAL $209,000 2:00-4:00PM GRADUATE HOSPITAL 2135 Catharine $389,900
Northern Liberties 223 Green Street #B $594,000
ART MUSEUM AREA 2626 Brown Street $519,900
RITTENHOUSE SQ 210 W Rittenhouse Square #1005 $945,000
RITTENHOUSE SQ 111 S 15th Street #2003 $580,000
ART MUSEUM 2401 Penna Ave ##12A2 $499,000
RITTENHOUSE SQ 1901 Walnut Street #12B $819,000
ART MUSEUM 2401 Penna Ave ##17C47 $379,000
RITTENHOUSE SQ 23 S 23rd Street #2G $575,000
WASHINGTON SQ WEST 718 Rodman Street $499,000
QUEEN VILLAGE 128 Kenilworth Street $799,000
Queen Village 1008 S. 2nd Street $374,900
GRADUATE HOSPITAL 1540 Christian St $569,000
QUEEN VILLAGE 728 S 3rd Street $479,000
NORTHERN LIBERTIES 964 N Leithgow $749,900
NAVAL SQUARE 2501 Christian ##101 $369,500
NAVAL SQUARE 203 Governors Court $479,000
RITTENHOUSE SQ 340 S 17th St $699,000
OLD CITY 129 Cuthbert ##2 $365,000
BELLA VISTA 934 S 10th Street $474,900
SOCIETY HILL 105 Naudain Street $649,000
RITTENHOUSE SQUARE 1725 Delancey Place #1 $365,000
LOGAN SQ 2301 Cherry Street #9B $449,900
GRADUATE HOSPITAL 2101 Catharine Street $649,000
GRADUATE HOSPITAL 2234 Saint Albans $364,900
WASHINGTON SQ WEST 1119-25 Pine Street #103 $449,900
QUEEN VILLAGE 732 S 6th Street $619,000
BELLA VISTA 1119 Montrose Street $349,900
BELLA VISTA 714-22 Bainbridge ##2 $445,000
OLD CITY 112 N. 2nd ##H1 $599,900
QUEEN VILLAGE 731 S American Street $334,900
OLDE CITY 133 N Bread St ##C3 $429,900
QUEEN VILLAGE 131 Catharine #1 $248,000
RITTENHOUSE SQ 23 S 23rd Street #2F $325,000
FITLER SQ 2425 Naudain Street $429,900
GRAD HOSPITAL 2234 St. Albans $364,900
Naval Square 2501 Christian ##401 $319,500
QUEEN VILLAGE 319 Catharine Street $419,000
OLD CITY 129 Cuthbert #2 $365,000
QUEEN VILLAGE 133 Queen Street $285,000
LOGAN SQ 2301 Cherry Street #3P $399,900
ART MUSEUM 2626 Brown $519,900
BELLA VISTA 625 Kenilworth Street $539,000 RITTENHOUSE SQ 210 W Rittenhouse ##1404 $500,000 ART MUSEUM 2521 Brown Street $485,000 RITTENHOUSE SQ 111 S 15th St #P204 $484,000 ART MUSEUM AREA 2009 “C” Wallace $479,000 Sunnyside Ave. 19129 EAST FALLS $245,000 ART MUSEUM 905 Corinthian $599,000 12:00-2:30PM 525 Fitzwater St. #9 19147 QUEEN VILLAGE Fr $239,000
BELLA VISTA 714-22 Bainbridge ##7 $389,900
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2142 Christian St. Charming 4br townhouse, 2.5 baths, HWflrs and gorgeous yard 3224 S. Sydenham St. Britain Estates, 4br/2.5ba, EIK, FR, MBR, C/A, HWflrs, 2 Gas FPs, 2-car Pkg 104 Captains Way 3br/2.5ba, 2-car parking, lrg deck, spacious LR & BR, custom lighting 2011 Catharine St. New Listing! 2-car pkg., Totally rehabbed 3br/3.5ba, deluxe kit w/granite & SS 2548 S. 9th st. 1st flr. features orig. HW flrs., 2nd flr. tile, recessed lighting, full kit
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1stn Quarter Award Winners wColdwell a rBanker d Preferred Wi n er s 1601 Spring Garden St. #G109 Great Value in Historic Colonnade Bldg. Luxuy at an affordable price! 2601 Pennsylvania Ave. #1115 Fabulous Art Museum Condo 1832 Green St. #E Fab Jr. 1br. Completely redone with high end modern finishes 1832 Green St. #C Gorgeous Condo Conversion. All high end finishes. Fabulous locations 1832 Green St. #F Fab 1br/1ba Condo. Completely redone with gorgeous high end finishes 1832 Green St. #D Fab 1br/1ba Condo. Completely redone with modern high end finishes 2601 Pennsylvania Ave. #422 Art Museum area 1br/1ba with upgraded kitchen and appliances 2001 Hamilton St. #2125 Hi flr, Incredible Views! Ugrades! Nicest 1br/1ba Cityview’s North Tower 2724 Girard Ave. Renovated Victorian; 5br/2ba C-2 Zoning, live/work; orig details & Lrg EIK 1719-21 Wallace St. #102 Amazing Bank Owned Property in Excellent condition-A steal! 885 N. Stillman St. Lovely Spacious Home on a Sunny Tree-Lined Street in the Art Musuem Area! 853B N. 28th St. 2br/1ba, 1 car garage, large rear deck, central air 1714 Wallace St. Bi-level 2br/2ba. Gourmet KIT, FP, HWflrs, 500sqft, bi-level private roof deck! 851 N. Taney St. 3br/1ba rehabbed property on a great street! Lovely granite KIT w/HW t/o 831 Corinthian St. 3br/2.5ba; 1623sqft; Large Living/Dining Space; Wood Cabs & Concrete Cntrs 774 N. Croskey St. Gorgeous, 3br/2.5ba, h/w, recessed lighting; yard, 300sqft roof deck, views 2102 Brandywine St. TH, open flr plan on 1st, 4br/3ba, deck yard, Bright home, charming St. 2524 Aspen St. Just Reduced! Stunning Victorian on favorite Art Museum block!
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NORTHERN LIBERTIES / FISHTOWN / NORTH PHILADELPHIA
1725 N. Lambert St. 3br/1ba. Totally renovated in Temple area. Lrg KIT w/white countertops $95,000 2425 E. Huntingdon St. 3br/1.5ba gorgeous rehab, hwflrs, new kitchen w/granite, ceramic tile baths $144,900 2722 E. Albert St. 3br/2ba 5 star rehab w/large open layout, yard, granite counters, hwflrs, quiet st OPEN HOUSE $189,900 416-418 E. Thompson St. Price Reduced, 2br+loft, 3car parking, lrg yard, EIK $389,000 1225 Shackamaxon St., #18 New Listing! $399,900 919 N. Front St. #H Pristine 3br/2.5ba end-unit townhome: Garage, deck, patio, view & upgrades t/o $449,000 901 N. Pen St. #R2802 Beautiful Magazine quality 3br/4ba PH in the Regatta at Waterfront Sq. $1,999,500
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5616 Berks St. 3br/2ba. Great 2-story home with large front yard, deck, 1 car garage w/extra parking 29 S. 51st St. Spacious home in West Philadelphia in move-in condition 204 N. 65th St. Super-looking duplex in Carroll Park, fin bsmt, income producer or in-law suite 1126 S. 48th St. 6br/2ba Victorian w/orig details 3 blocks fr Clark Park. Needs some elbow grease 252 S. Saint Bernard St. 3br/1ba recently rehabbed home w/garage, hwflrs, orig detail t/o, lovely st 826 S. 51st St. Brand new large 4br/2.1ba, C/A, large read deck off kit, FP, finished basement 403 S. 51st St. Charming 6br/2ba Tin, hwflr, enclosed porch, 2800sqft, gourmet kit, yard 4530 Regent St. 7br Rehab, refinished floors, new windows, new porch, steps from Clark Park 3525 Hamilton St. PRICE REDUCED! Not built like this anymore. 3+story, 4br Victorian, porch 519 S. 46th St. Pristine 6br/2.5ba Tudor-style, in Catchment area w/GARAGE. Fabulous must-see 4616 Hazel Ave. Century-old home 6br/3.5ba in the catchment area with custom restoration in 2006 OPEN HOUSE
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1642 Lombard St. #C Adorable one bedroom trinity--sought-after neighborhood! No Condo Fees! $229,000 37 S. 20th St. #3B Wonderful Light Filled 1 Bedroom! Upgraded! $239,900 2018-2032 Walnut St. Fully upgraded 1br condo, Luxurious Wanamaker House. SS Appls, HWflrs $345,000 1516 South St. #2A Lrg, Dramatic bi-level 2br/2ba, boutique conversion walk to Rittenhouse Sq. $400,000 1901 Walnut St. #12C Very mod 2br/2.5ba New York loft, Brazilian Cherry flrs, limestone counter $400,000 1737 Chestnut St. #301 Location and Space – on one flr. 2 Mstr Stes w/baths. HWflrs, grt light $589,000 1701 Locust St. #2005 Warwick Condominium: Split 2 br/2.5ba high floor, great views $597,500 2413 Manning St. Reduced 2+br/2+ba, garage home xtra wide 4-story townhome in Fitler Sq. Charming Block OPEN HOUSE $610,000 1607 Kater St. Amazing Home w/Garage Pkg! 3br/3/5ba, Den, Patio/Garden, Fabulous Roof Deck! $684,900 418 S. Taney St. Park side home, 3+br/2+ba, LR w/FP, sep DR, EIK, Wd flr, patios, 2FP’s, garage $995,000 2128 Spruce St. 4-5br Townhouse located in Rittenhouse Square $1,450,000
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1100 Vine St. #601 Sunny condo w/gym, new pergo floors and breathtaking skyline views! $159,900 104-106 Arch St. #1 Wonderful Historic Building! Amazing Space for the Price in this Area! $174,000 309-313 Arch St. #606 1br/1ba loft condo includes SS appliances and Silestone counters $225,000 125 Cuthbert St. #A & #B Two 2br condos in historic carriage house on quaint street,freshly painted façade OPEN HOUSE Fr $229,900 201-59 N. 8th St. #212 1br/1ba, Lrge rooms, Dark hardwood floors, Modern kitchen, Broad windows $298,000 51 N. 2nd St. #F Fab 1br/1ba w/den & FP, quiet street, updated kitchen & bath, HWfloors, must see OPEN HOUSE $339,900 320 Race St. #2 Urban Modern meets Old City Character. 2br/2ba; exposed brick & beams $355,000 201-59 N. 8th St. #213 Luxury Living in an Elegant 1br/1ba in the Metroclub. Designer touches, pkg $357,000 317 Vine St. #503 Bi-level Penthouse in Old City for Great Price! 2br/1.5ba, Terrace, huge windows $450,000 104-106 Arch St. #2 Wonderful Historic Building! Best Value for Square Footage in WHOLE CITY!! $574,900 237 N. Bread St. #5 Gorgeous bi-level 3br/3ba w/awesome views from 2-tier roof deck OPEN HOUSE $635,000
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1109 Spruce St. Units 2R, 3R Your choice of two lovely 1br units. 2R is totally renovated, 3R has orig kitchen OPEN HOUSE Fr $189,000 927 Spruce St. #2RP Deluxe open style 1br/1ba w/PARKING. Renovated kit & bath, wood flrs, low taxes $229,000 1012 Spruce St. #1M Beautiful Tri-Level Condo in Strickland Row Community! $285,000 1109 Spruce St. #1R Deluxe bi-level 2br/2ba totally renovated unit. Deluxe Granite & SS Kit OPEN HOUSE $299,000 241 S. 6th St. #910 Priced to sell. Fully upgraded large 1br, grt view w/balcony. 1 yr free pkg OPEN HOUSE $324,900 1110 Waverly St. 3br/2.5ba, 1526 sqft corner home, quiet cherry tree lined st. Move in ready. Garden OPEN HOUSE $599,000 1206B Panama St. 3br/1.5ba with garage. Beautiful home with fireplace, roofdeck, and rear patio OPEN HOUSE $625,000 506 Pine St. Just Reduced! $679,900 250 S. 13th St. #14B 3br/2ba Penthouse Apartment with Large Terrace $899,000
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NEW CONSTRuCTION (10 YEAR TAX ABATEmENT) 800 N. 48th St. New Construction! From OPEN HOUSE $225,000 309-313 Arch St. Loft condos in the heart of Old City w/vintage HWflrs, high ceilings & more $259,900 767 S. Cleveland St. Brand New! Pre-Construction! 3br/2ba, 2-Story Townhouse, Ready 12/10 $325,000 709 S. Mole St. New Construction ; 3br/2.5ba; Fin Bsmt; HW flrs; Granite Counters: SS Appls $339,900 209 Cuthbert St. Newly renovated loft building in the heart of Old City! Modern kitchens & baths-must see! Fr $344,750 2028 Kimball St. Gorgeous new construction, 3br/3ba, HWflrs, New appls & HVAC, Fin Bsmt $350,000 911 & 913 N. 28th St. 3br/2.5ba, HWflrs, Garage, Roofdeck, Custom Closets, Designer Kitchen Fr $385,000 4124 Apple St. 4br/3ba, New Construction, 2900 sqft, finished basement & roof deck $389,000 1935 Kimball St. Brand New! Beatiful 4br/3ba, Townhouse w/tons of details, roof deck, & fin bsmt $389,900 2155 Montrose St. New (2400sqft) corner home across fr park. 3br/2.5ba, open flr plan, custom kit OPEN HOUSE $425,000 761 or 763 S. Chadwick St. 3-Story, 3br/3ba, garage, finished bsmt, roof deck & deck off kitchen $525,000 759 S. Chadwick St. 3-Story, 3br/3ba, garage, finished bsmt, roof deck & deck off kitchen $549,000 757 S. Chadwick St. 3-Story, 3br/3ba, garage, finished bsmt, roof deck & deck off kitchen $559,000 755 S. Chadwick St. 3-Story, 3br/3ba, garage, finished bsmt, roof deck & deck off kitchen $569,000 629-31 S. 13th St. #A Choose your finishes, 3br/3ba, fin bsmt, 660 sqft, Roof Deck! $599,000
COmmERCIAL/INVESTmENT 1003 N. 40th St. Amazing Opportunity to own 2 large lots. Sold w/1005 N. 40th 1005 N. 40th St. Amazing Opportunity to own 2 large lots. Sold w/1003 N. 40th 1716 Monument St. Nicely renovated triplex. One block from Temple Campus 1536 W. Erie Ave. Large lot blocks from Temple Med Sch. Plans, Permits & Zoned for 12 apts 2340 S. Hemberger St. Turnkey luncheonette business & building with 1br apt, all equip. inc. 828 w. Ritner St. Storefront with 2 renovated apartments and finished basement
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SuRROuNDINg AREAS Lansdowne-213 Wynnewood Ave. 3br/1ba in Lansdowne, Needs Rehab $62,500 Mayfair-4115 Glendale St. 3br/1.5ba. Great home! 1 car pkg, hwflrs, high ceilings, full bsmt, lrg kit $109,000 Port Richmond-3293 Chatham St. Beautifully renovated 2br/1.5ba rowhome $129,900 Northeast-254 E. Albanus St. Amazing Over the Top Renovation! $139,900 Holmesburg-4313 Rhawn St. Great 4 Bdrm. home. Large bckyd. and new remodeled. Come see for yourself! OPEN HOUSE $195,000 Overbrook-839 N. 63rd St. Amazing price. Gorgeous 6br Victorian, orig details, garage, 4car drvway $199,000 East Falls-3688 Stanton St. 4br/1ba, 3-story home in East Falls. Wall to wall carpets, lrg Kit, lrg yard $230,000 East Falls-3424 Crawford St. Charming 2br/1ba w/lrg yard, HWflrs, Mod Kit w/SS appls, near SEPTA $230,000
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RITTENHOUSE SQ 50 S 16th Street #4106 $1,150,000
FITLER SQ 420 S 26th Street $489,000
SOCIETY HILL 113 Naudain Street $995,000
PENNSPORT 404 Federal Street $479,900
RITTENHOUSE/FITLER 2211 Panama $799,900
BELLA VISTA 904 S Alder Street $269,000
QUEEN VILLAGE 905-7 S 2nd Street $799,000
QUEEN VILLAGE 131 Catharine ##1 $248,000
BELLA VISTA 920 South Street ##7 $749,900
SOUTH PHILA 2612 S 11th Street $229,900
SOCIETY HILL 210 W Washington Square #2SW $725,000
QUEEN VILLAGE 777 S 3rd Street ##4 $204,900
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SOCIETY HILL 210 W Washington Square #5NW $1,425,000
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Catchment 312 S Philip Street-Charming 4 bd/1.5 ba,lots of original details,refinished pine flrs,hi ceil. $575,000 233 S 6th Street #306-Independence PL 1 bd/1.5 ba,flr to ceil wndws,lrg blcny. $389,900 200-10 Lombard Street #635-1 bd/1 ba completely upgraded,on-site fitness center,24 hr concierge. $262,500 $1,725,000 604-36 S Washington Square #211-1 bd unit w/beautiful southern exposure,hrwd flrs,balcony. $219,900 1936-38 Delancey Place-Double wide carriage house, elev, 2-3 car grge, 2br suites + guest suite 2125 Pine Street-1870 Mansion extensively renovated in 2010. 5br/4b and garden $1,595,000 2040 Waverly Street-4 bd/2.5 ba,new facade,mechanicals,roof,terrace,C/A + 4 car grg. $1,080,000 210 W Rittenhouse Sq ##1107-Renov 1 bd,403 sq.ft,refin flrs,fresh paint,new kit,csmt flr plan. $995,000 $519,900 1706 Rittenhouse Square #23RD F-Picture yourself in the pleasurable comfort of this new 3BR/3+BA condo. $5,298,200 420 S 21st Street-3-Story residence w/full flr mstr suite + 2nd flr 2 bdrms + full ba. $399,000 1830 Rittenhouse Square #3A-Eloquence! Gorgeous 3BR/4+BA condo. Cozy fireplace, pantry. $4,700,000 1830-32 Manning ##1-Adorable crtyrd house steps from Rittenhouse Sq,rf dk,wd flr,exp brk. $199,900 1601 Locust Street #1300-Modern condo designed by Wesley Wei. Detailed full flr, windows on 4 sides $2,750,000 1027-31 N 4th, #Unit R-1 bd/1 ba in Cobblestone Court,Kit w/ granite/SS,low condo fees & tx abat. 1901 Walnut Street #PH-21A-Spect. PH on Ritt. Sq, 3B+study/4ba, double hght LR ceil, 2 huge terraces $2,395,000 1901 Walnut Street #14BE-Architecturally designed in the NY gallery Style, 3br=study, 4.5b $2,250,000 1820 Rittenhouse Square #402-Elegant 3Br/3.5ba condo with unparralleled treetop views of the Square $1,950,000 237 S 18th Street #9F&9G-Gracious living at the Barclay 2BR/3BA w/ gallery foyer. Exquisite $1,825,000 2012-30 W Girard Ave.-Grt development opportunity,building,land,blue prints,permits & approvals. $1,849,900 $519,900 1531 Pine Street #D-4BR/3.5B bilevel condo with large private deck in the Ritt Hs Sq area $1,299,000 2626 Brown Street-Beautiful 4 bd/2.5 ba,hardwood flrs,master bdrm suite,patio,roof dk. $485,000 1830 Rittenhouse Square #7A-Fab contemp apart, vuws of Park 2bds, + sit room/den. Gorge kit. 3 bths $1,250,000 2521 Brown Street-Beautiful 4BR/2BA, hw flr,, t/o, c/a, mast br suite $429,900 50 S 16th Street #4106-2 Bed/2.5 Bath Corner Unit, Decorator Furnished, 24/7 Concierge $1,150,000 2533 Swain Street-Charming 3 bd/2 ba,beautiful hrwd flrs,contemporary kit,patio,garden. $199,900 440 S Broad Street #1505-Symphony House 2B/den/2b + 1 CAR PKG. 150K++ less than dev unit! $888,000 2401 Pennsylvania Avenue #4B30-1 bedroom in pristine condition,grt closet space, balcony $159,900 275 S 19th Street #2nd Fl-2100 square feet surrounded by windows Elevators open into your residence $875,000 1504 Mount Vernon Street #2R-3 Year old charming studio,hw flrs,9’ ceil,Kit w/granite/SS,tile ba. $119,000 210 W Rittenhouse Sq ##1402-New upscale,furnished luxury condo,1050 sq.ft,1 bd/1.5 bath. $659,000 2601 Pennsylvania Avenue #415-Upgraded Studio, New Kit., newer bath, gym, doorman 1420 Locust ##17K-3 bd/2.5 bth,wrap-around terrace,excellent closet space,24 hr doorman $534,900 1901 Walnut Street #14C-Sunny lrg 2br, 2b,(assessment paid) corner unit in elegant Deco building $485,000 1500 Chestnut St #10H-Great Buy! Luxury 2BR/2ba, granite kitchen, marble baths, doorman $369,000 112 N. 2nd ##H1-2 bedroom,2 baths,garage parking,private yard $599,900 111 S 15th ##1810-1 bd/1 ba,open floor plan w/modern bth & kit w/granite/SS applns,W/D $324,000 112 N 2nd Street #4H-2 bd/2 ba,flr to ceil wndws,hw flrs T/O,upgraded kit,tx abate. $429,900 2001 Hamilton Street #515-Corner 2BR Condo, 935 SF, PARKING , Balcony, Doorman $299,500 837 N 2nd ##305-Bi-level 2 bd/2.5 ba,hrwd flrs,granit,deck + garage prkng. $395,000 111 S 15th Street #1705-Bright Corner 1BR/1B, Gourmet Kitchen, Marble Bath, Drmn $299,000 451 Fairmount Avenue #1-3BR/2+BA condo,kitchen w/SS/granite,luxury finishes & green details. $350,000 241 S 6th ##311-One bedroom,South views, newly painted,new carpet,washer/dryer. $249,900 36 Strawberry Street #35-900 Sq Ft flat,Blk granite kit, huge storage, stylish $284,500 301 Race ##303-1 bd/1 ba,granite & SS kit,Jacuzzi,hrwd flrs,loads of storage. $199,900 1500 Chestnut Street #3H-1BR/2BA, 1,010 SQFT, Gourmet Kitchen, Marble Baths, Doorman $249,000 231-235 N 2nd Street #208-Parking space,grt investment for someone living or working in Center CIty. $20,000 655 N 24th Street-TH w/garage parking, lg brick deck, 4BR, huge EIK, FP, gorgeous wd fls. $625,900 207 S 24th Street #2F-Loft-like light filled 2BD, 1ba condo. Roof deck & garage parking $429,999
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Rarely availableThe 2BD/2BA double corner unit with Beautifully renovated 2BD/1BA, finished 2608 S 9th Street $189,900 Lofts at Pennsport http://520South4thStreetPHL.com/ amazing light, floor to ceiling windows, updated basement, custom kitchen, large rear yard, lovely kitchen with granite countertops! Lovely 3BR, 2.5BA, spacious, nu drs, yard, A/C, Luxurious lofts in fabulous building! 2 bi-level kitchen, tons of 4 closets! Now is truly the time to buy! Interest rates amazing details throughout! w/w crpt, cust wndw treamnts, mdrn EIK, abund 1612 S. 8th $359,900 lofts and 2 penthouses with private decks to are the lowest in years! There are many 241-43 Chestnut E $749,900 2118 Carpenter $494,900 cabinets. choose from! These are a must-see! Stunning 2BD/2.5BA, an abundance of natural New construction, 2700sf 3BD/2.5BA, finishedVery large, renovated, 3 story, 5 bedroom, 2.5 great homes out there and many sellers light, private elevator, Juliet balcony, large basement, deck, yard, gorgeous woodwork, bath, corner home, finished basement, Dudley $194,900 will pay closing costs! 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Wallace #101 $229,900 ed living/dining room,$2,790,000 all new kitchen with stain1212 Durfor Street $459,900 1726 $149,900 $364,900 Charming True grandeur, 5BD/5.2BA, library, den, wet 1904 Waverly Gorgeous, bi-level 1BD/1BA, 12ft ceilings, home with 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, new 808 S 7th $575,000 Wide 3BD/1.5BA, eclectically styled, custom less steel appliances, hardwood Nicerear 3 BR, 1 hardwood BA, AS-IS, w/w crpt, A/C,floors, EIK, fireplace, picture granite Charming 2BD/2BA, yard, floors, hardwood and stainless bar, 10 fireplaces, elaboratefloors, details,new 2 car cherry floors, lovely kitchen with stainless steel Spacious 5BD/2.5BA, finished basement, large kitchen, bamboo floors, gorgeous garden. wood-burning fireplace, suites. garage! air on desirable block! appliances, andrear niceyard, rear yard! window,two fullbedroom tiled BA, yard, gaskitchen. stv, great locale. high ceilings, excellent condition. Berber Carpet and central
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$3,435
$974,357
$22,735
$4,348
$18,387
$707,490
$16,508
$3,545
$12,963
$457,161
$10,667
$1,792
$8,875
$7,461 $2,744
$1,263 $425
$6,198 $2,319
$4248
$1,310
$125,499 $129,242
the lenoX • 250 s. 13th street Please meet our rePresentative in the lobby 966
$263,900
$40,309
$93,139
the warwick • 1701 locUst street $373,141 $106,710
the lanesBoroUgh • 1601 locUst street
250 s 17th street
the Barclay • 237 s. 18th street
1830 rittenhoUse sqUare the rittenhoUse • 210 w. rittenhoUse sqUare $319,365 $117,582
the dorchester • 226 w. rittenhoUse sqUare
“wE coopERAtE with All REAltoRs”
•
1 BEDROOM 1 BEDROOM
$2,556
$410
Allan Domb Real Estate
4:00-4:30pm 3 BEDROOM
$460
$2,707
academy hoUse • 1420 locUst street
Please meet our rePresentative in the lobby
Studio, high floor, view of Rittenhouse Square, wood floors excellent closet space
3 BEDROOM
$3,016
$115,998
September 29 - October 5, 2010
stuDiO
$129,239
$224 $1,234
Please meet our rePresentative in the lobby 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, completely renovated with high end finishes, views of Rittenhouse Square from every room 1,560 $995,000 $143,558 Studio, city views, large marble bath, hardwood floors, excellent natural light 583 $379,900 $55,444
3:00-3:30pm
$5,253
$1,458 $6,293
Please meet our rePresentative in the lobby 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, upgraded kitchen, original hardwood floors and molding, lots of light 2,275 $1,295,500 $203,598
3:00-3:30pm
$1,308
$62,474 $269,695
Please meet our rePresentative in the lobby 3 bedrooms+den, 3.5 baths, marble foyer, formal dining rm, sunny eat-in kitchen, 10’ ceilings, moldings, oak herringbone floors, 3 gas fireplaces 3,293 $2,900,000 $262,402 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, herringbone wood floors, EIK, crown molding and other custom finishes throughout, Rittenhouse Square views 2,638 $2,195,000 $320,490
2:15-2:45pm
$6,561
$281,166
P H I L A D E L P H I A W E E K LY
3 BEDROOM
$2,024 $1,748
$27,582 $125,319
Please meet our rePresentative in the lobby 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, original wood floors, excellent closet space, W/D, formal dining room 1,350 $429,900 $79,127
2:15-2:45pm
$390 $301
$975,000 $799,000
Please meet our rePresentative in the lobby 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, brand new, very high ceilings, his and hers master baths, custom kitchen, exquisite detail throughout. 3,467 $2,750,000 $362,406
1:30-2:00pm
$2,414 $1,748
1,977 1,977
Please meet our rePresentative in the lobby 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, hardwood floors, 270 desgree views, open kitchen, marble baths, custom closets, W/D 2,000 $1,290,000 $174,122 One bedroom, one bath, hardwood floors, marble bath, custom kitchen 712 $399,900 $53,426
1:30-2:00pm
$103,454 $87,813
Please meet our rePresentative in the lobby
1 bedroom, 1 bath, wood floors, open gourmet kitchen, bay windows bring excellent light, large living area
1:30-2:00pm
Monthly After Tax Cost
independence place • 233-241 s. 6th street
Please meet our rePresentative in the lobby 1,111 $375,000 $56,241 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, renovated kitchen and master bath, large balcony 2 bedroom 1.5 bath corner unit, courtyard view, new kitchen and baths 1,019 $309,900 $52,547
12:45-1:15pm
Monthly Tax Savings in a 31% Tax Bracket
hopkinson hoUse • 604-36 s. washington sqUare
2 bedrooms, 2 baths, open chefs kitchen, upgraded bathrooms,hardwood floors, balcony 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, hardwood floors, upgraded kitchen and baths, granite wet bar 1 bedroom, 2 baths, plus den, completely renovated with custom kitchen and designer baths, balcony, hardwood floors 1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, laundry room, excellent condition
12:45-1:15pm
Monthly Cost Incld. Mtg, Condo Fee & Taxes
the Bank BUilding • 421 chestnUt st.
Please meet our rePresentative in the lobby 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, wood floors, balcony, southern exposure 1,200 $379,900 $59,268 Deluxe 1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcomy with views of Washington Square and the river, renovated kitchen and bath 1,063 $350,000 $53,908
11:45-12:15pm
Minimum Income for 10% Down Financing
society hill towers • 210 locUst street
Please meet our rePresentative in the lobby 2 bedrooms plus den, 2.5 baths, hardwood floors, high-end open kitchen, designer bathrooms 2,117 $875,000 $128,466
11:00-11:30am 2 BEDROOM 1 BEDROOM
Total Cash Required
Please meet our rePresentative in the lobby Corner 1BR, Southeast view, wood floors in lin living room, updated kitchen 775 $329,900 $40,1437 1BR, 1BA, magnificent river views, high floor, wood floors throughout 700 $275,000 $40,767
11:00-11:30am
2 BEDROOM
Price
W W W. P H I L A D E L P H I A W E E K LY. C O M
condo open House Tour: ocTober 3
583
$215,000
$33,082
$66,762
$1,558
the philadelphian • 2401 pennsylvania avenUe Please meet our rePresentative in the lobby
Duplex penthouse, 3BR, 2.5BA, balc. w/panoramic city and Fairmount views, high ceilings, bright & sunny throughout 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, unobstructed city skyline views, wood floors, large balcony, 2017 sf 1 bedroom, 1 bath, brand new kitchen and bath, wood floors, Art Museum view 1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, upgraded kitchen wood floors
4,207
$699,000
$186,019
$441,365
$10,299
$1,864
$8,434
2,017 1000 1127
$595,000 $289,900 $239,900
$94,567 $43,514 $36,789
$217,633 $104,190 $91,940
$5,078 $2,431 $2,145
$759 $342 $284
$4,319 $2,089 $1,861
215.545.1500 • www.allandomb.com
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