Philadelphia Weekly 10-23-2014

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CONTENTS / October 22-29 ON THE COVER: “Terror Behind the Walls,” photographed by J.R. Blackwell.

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Barrymore Awards; 215 Festival; BalletBoyz; Halloween nightlife; and more.

13 I FEATURE What ghosts might be living in the old Lazaretto quarantine hospital?

15 I FOOD Dizengoff ’s pita plates hit the lunch spot.

16 I ARTS & CULTURE Music: Todd Rundgren’s sold-out spring show gets a fall follow-up at the Keswick.

Arts: Locust Moon Comics’ Little Nemo tribute might be the graphic novel of the year.

Stage: Dice Raw on The Last Jimmy.

Screen: Birdman and Whiplash both ponder the transformative power of art.

Books: What to read for LGBT History Month.

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Science: Ebola’s not gonna getcha.

The Uncomfortable Whole: Don’t tell me my weird beliefs aren’t real.

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Get lit: The 215 Festival is taking South Street by storm for four fun-filled days.

WHAT’S HAPPENING — BEFORE IT HAPPENS ...

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215 Festival

The creative minds and inspired souls of Philadelphia’s literary world are all set for another annual celebration of talented writers, poets, authors and the visionaries who publish them. The 215 Festival is back in full force, flush with readings from critically acclaimed scribes, DJing librarians, jam sessions with typewriters and even a junk/treasure auction. Founded in 2001, the yearly fest has been dedicated to vitalizing Philly’s literary community by showcasing some of its most powerful and dynamic voices. The four-day gathering is being held exclusively on South Street this year, at some of its most famed spots, such as Jim’s Steaks, Tattooed Mom and Brickbat Books.

The festival’s Thursday-night kick-off features readings by Poet Laureates’ Soledad Alfaro-Allah and Frank Sherlock at Headhouse Square, and on Friday, a very special Bibliodiscotheque party, presented by Literary Mixtape, will highlight truly-ingenius people DJing books instead of music, celebrating the great writers of Czechoslovakia. The Type-In, a jam session of clickclacking manual typewriters, will be held during the Pumpkin Fall Fest on Saturday, with contests, prizes and a typewriter swap and sale for old-school aficionados. Way-cool The Head & The Hand Press will host its “Farmers Market,” paying special tribute to the relationship between literature and agriculture by creating a program where, like small scale farming, shareholders pay an upfront fee for a number of books they’ll receive in the Fall and Spring, giving them special access to the season’s crop of books. Other participating Philly publications include Apiary Magazine, American Poetry Review, Ixnay Press, Philadelphia Review of Books, Gigantic Sequins and Bedfellows.

Curated by the tireless Joey Sweeney of Philebrity.com infamy, the 215 Festival will effectively mesh Philly’s lettered world with Philly’s DIY music, film and visual art scenes. It’s expanded from previous years, so get yourself to South Street and be treated to a vibrant array of activity that’ll make all lit-geeks and proud poetry dorks salivate with excitement. // LERA SALMON Thurs., Oct. 23 through Sun., Oct. 26, various times and venues. 215festival.org

Wednesday, October 22 TALK

Ebola: Truth and Myth

Ebola. Fear of the word is spreading way faster than the disease. But this outbreak of panic isn’t much different from those that erupted when the world first learned of other communicable diseases. Dr. Edward Jasper, head of the Jefferson Bioterrorism and Disaster Preparedness Center, separates the facts of Ebola and other similar diseases from the falsehoods that are infecting our conversations.11:30am. $5-$25. World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, 1 S. Broad St. 215.561.4700. wacphilla.org D RINK

Witch CRAFT Beer Crawl

Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble. Scale of a dragon, lizard’s leg, blood of a rat; Register at Garage for a stamp card and witch hat; Fly to 13 local bars and restaurants for spooky fun; Then bring your stamp card to Adobe Café for prizes when you’re done. 5:30pm. $6.66. East Passyunk Ave. Business Improvement District, 215.336.1455. visiteastpassyunk.com

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BalletBoyz

British dance troupe BalletBoyz makes a stop in Philly on its U.S. tour, with a performance choreographed by Russell Maliphant and Liam Scarlett. Led by former Royal Ballet dancers Michael Nunn and William Trevitt, the critically-acclaimed all-male ensemble blends dance performance with music and film. 8pm. $20-$60. Annenberg Center, 3680 Walnut St. 215.898.3900. annenbergcenter.org TAL K

An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe

Anne Louise Williams, noted historic interpreter, will recite some of Edgar Allan Poe’s works, while integrating them with outside observations and discussion from his contemporaries. 6:30pm. Free. Central Library, 1901 Vine St. 215.686.5322. freelibrary.org AU THO R

Valerie Plame

Plame was the victim of a highly publicized scandal when senior members of the Bush administration leaked information to the press about her position as a covert CIA officer.

Now an author and a consultant for the Santa Fe Institute, Plame will discuss her newest book, Burned, the second installment of her fictional spy series with co-author Sarah Lovett. Noon. Free. Central Library, 1901 Vine St. 215.567.4341. freelibrary.org CO M E DY

Bent But Not Broken: A Disabled Sketch Show

Directed by Samantha Russell Craig, this two-night performance uses humor to eliminate some of the misconceptions and stigmas surrounding disabilities. Through Oct. 24. 9pm.

$8-12. Philly Improv Theater, 2030 Sansom St. 267.233.1556. phillyimprovtheater.com STAGE

The Haunting of Hill House

Just in time to scare the wits out of Halloween enthusiasts, BrainSpunk Theater hosts an interactive production of Shirley Jackson’s book The Haunting of Hill House, widely considered the best horror novel ever written. 7pm. $15-$25. Christ Church Neighborhood House, 20 N. American St. Through Nov. 1. brainspunktheater.com SCREEN

Druid Underground Film Festival

Billy Burgess will host an unconventional evening featuring some of the most bizarre films known to man. The event features various shorts—experimental, comedies, and dramas—all united by their outrageously weird nature.

7:30pm. $5. Philadelphia Mausoleum of Contemporary Art, 531 N. 12th St. 267.519.9651. philamoca.org STAGE

Detroit

Dark comedy exposing the underlying tension behind the middle class’ pursuit of the American dream. 8pm. Through Nov. 9. Suzanne Roberts Theatre, 480 S. Broad St. philadelphia theatrecompany.org TO UR

Ghosts of Philly

Explore Philadelphia’s haunted past, with stops at City Tavern, Carpenter’s Hall and Pennsylvania Hospital, and listen to stories of love, betrayal, and murder featuring our city’s past residents. 7:30pm. Free Tours by Foot, 229 Arch St. 267.712.9512. freetoursbyfoot.com/philadelphia-tours

Friday, October 24 FUNDR AISER

Gravedigger’s Ball

The annual fundraiser of the Friends of Laurel Hill Cemetery features dinner, drinks, desserts and a silent auction. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the event, which donates all proceeds to the public accessibility and preservation of the cemetery. 7pm. $125-$350. Crystal Tea Room, 100 Penn Square East. 215.228.8200. gravediggersball.weebly.com STAGE

Great Expectations

Six actors portray more than 40 characters in the Victorian classic about love, class struggle and education. The play is directed by Matthew Decker. Through Dec. 14. $15-$36. Arden Theatre Company. 40 N. Second St. 215.922.1122. ardentheatre.org OUTDOOR

Pop-Up Cities P E RF OR MA N CE

An Evening with Kathleen Battle

730pm. $30-$85. The Kimmel Center, 300 S. Broad St. 215.670.2300. kimmelcenter.org

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Boo at the Zoo

Explore the Extinction Graveyard, search for your favorite animals in the Scarecrow Scavenger Hunt, and trick-or-treat at stations around the zoo at this annual spooky celebration. The spectacle also features storytelling, games, crafts, live music and a costume parade. 10am.

Free with park admission. Philadelphia Zoo, 3400 W. Girard Ave. philadelphiazoo.org

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Kathleen Battle sounds like Kate Bush at the opera. By that, I mean Battle has a notoriously “little” and high voice—an operatic soprano—but only when she wants it to sound that way. When she lets it rip, your eyes’ll bug and your hair will raise. The youngest child of seven, from Portsmouth, OH (a two-hour drive to Cincy, where she went to school on scholarship), she was told at age eight that she had a gift. She’d been taking private lessons and teaching music when a friend told her to audition for Thomas Schippers at the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in ‘72. She got the part, and her opera career took flight. Since then, the renowned diva has performed all over the world in pretty much every opera of note—and won five Grammys and an Emmy, plus an NAACP Hall of Fame honor, along the way.

Battle was raised in the AME church, so she’s certainly no stranger to spirituals, especially the classics like “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands,” and she’s recorded a few, too, like, “Oh, Lord, what manner of man is dis?” Tonight, she celebrates the stirring, inspiring anthems of the Underground Railroad, songs that kept unimaginably courageous spirits hopeful and high, helping cementing slaves’ resolve for freedom. She’ll be aided by the wonderful Cyrus Chestnut on piano, harpist Riza Printup and the Philadelphia Heritage Chorale. And an hour before curtain, there’s a free panel discussion featuring local spiritual leaders, historians and archivists. // BILL CHENEVERT

US Airways Premier World MasterCard brings three German cities, Dusseldorf, Munich and Frankfurt, to Dilworth Park during Oktoberfest this week. Visitors can collect a passport that will be stamped at each destination, win prizes and learn about how each city celebrates Oktoberfest. Noon-6pm. Free. Dilworth Park, 1 S. 15th St. 215.440.5500. ccdparks.org

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PHILLYNOW Saturday, October 25

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

Bill O’Reilly + Dennis Miller

Can a pseudo-, almost involuntary comedy tour be called Bolder and Fresher for three years straight?

Maybe it should be dubbed Bolderer and Fresherer? You know, since Dumb and Dumberer’s already taken? 8pm. $78-$128.

Tower Theater, 69th and Ludlow streets, Upper Darby. 215.922.1011. thetowerphilly.com

Bourbon and Burgers

Enjoy four burger courses prepared by executive chef Joe Deamer, each paired with a specially-chosen bourbon. The quarterly dining event also features a live performance from singer/songwriter Tyler McClure. Wed., Oct. 22, 6pm. $45. World Cafe Live, 500 N. Market St., Wilmington, Del. worldcafelive.com COMEDY

David Spade

The Emmy-nominated actor returns to his comedic roots following his Comedy Central special, My Fake Problems. Fri., Oct. 24, 9pm. $45-$75. Harrah’s Resort, 777 Harrah’s Blvd., Atlantic City, N.J. 609.441.5000. harrahsresort.com SCREEN

Atlantic City Cinefest

Celebrating the art of film with screenings of original shorts, documentaries and feature films. Through Oct. 26. Dante Hall Theater, 14 N Mississippi Ave., Atlantic City, N.J. 609.347.2162. downbeachfilmfestival.org FESTI VA L

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Pumpkin Fall Festival

Howl-O-Ween Hound Day

PGMC Fall Ball Masquerade

The Headhouse District encourages Philadelphians to embrace the fall season with free pumpkin decorating, Halloween storytelling and hayrides. Shop at the fall bazaar, and listen to the South Street Ukele Club play live, or catch a circus performance and magic show.

Noon. Free. Historic Headhouse Square, Second St. between Pine and Lombard sts. southstreet.com

Celebrate Halloween with your furry friend; hit up the nail clipping spa and souvenir photo booth, then stop in for a behavior therapy session with your pooch. The best dressed pups can take home cash prizes. Proceeds benefit the Philadelphia K-9 Unit, whose heroic dogs will take the day off to join in on the fun.

10am. Glen Foerd on the Delaware, 5001 Grant Ave. 215.632.5330. glenfoerd.org

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24 Hour Horror-thon

Murals & Mimosas

Exhumed Films hosts a 24-hour screening of classic, rare and big-budget horror flicks, with trailers, shorts and other horror-film treasures thrown in as well.

11am. $30-$40. International House, 3701 Chestnut St. 215.387.5125. ihousephilly.org

Sip some sweet mimosas before venturing out on a guided tour of nearby murals. After the tour, rest your legs with a brunch special at Hotel Palomar.

10am. $50. Square 1682, 117 S. 17th St. 215.925.3633. muralarts.org

Bid for a hot air balloon ride, weekend package in D.C., acting lessons, Flyers tickets and a lot more at the third annual black-tie optional fundraiser for Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus. VIP guests get an exclusive performance by hostess Miss Richfield 1981. 7pm. $135-$200. Liberty Ballroom of the Marriott Hotel, 1201 Market St. 215.731.9230. pgmc.org PAR T Y

Fall Fest + Spooky Saturday

Celebrate autumn with live music and dozens of craft tables presented by Nice Things Handmade. Kids can enjoy free pumpkin decorating, trick or treating, a costume contest, a dance party and more. 11am. The Singing Fountain, 11th St. and Passyunk Ave. visiteastpassyunk.com

Sunday, October 26

MUSIC

Mötley Crüe

The classic heavy metal band embarks on their final tour with special guest Alice Cooper. Fri., Oct. 24, 8pm. $74.25-$199. Borgata, 1 Borgata Way, Atlantic City, N.J. theborgata.com FOOD & DRINK

Oktoberfest

Authentic German food, beers and live entertainment. Oct. 25-26, noon. $5. Trump Taj Mahal, 1000 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, N.J. 609.449.1000. trumptaj.com STAGE

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Raise the Woof

The Penny Dreadful Show

Morris Animal Refuge teams up with comedians to support the welfare of homeless animals. Proceeds from the stand-up comedy tour go directly to the Refuge, a 100-percent publicly funded organization that has been helping Philadelphia’s homeless animals since 1874. 7pm. $35. Helium Comedy Club.

2031 Sansom St. 215.496.9001. heliumcomedy.com

Mötley Crüe

Eclectic burlesque troupe Envoute presents The Penny Dreadful Show, a flashback to the macabre streets of London in 1889.

Gothic horror, the vengeful undead, squalor and decay are twisted into Envoute’s unsettling Halloween vignette. Try your luck with games of chance, a costume contest and fortune tellers. 7pm. $10. L’Etage. 624 S. Sixth St. creperie-beaumonde.com

The 39 Steps

Comedic whodunit featuring more than 150 characters played by a cast of four. After Richard meets a mysterious woman in a theater in London, he finds himself being chased by police for a murder he did not commit. Through Oct. 26. Bristol Riverside Theatre, 120 Radcliffe St., Bristol. brtstage.org

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pre-inspection yourself if you know what you’re looking for, and knowing what you’re looking for can help you prevent little problems from growing into costly and unmanageable ones.

To help homesellers deal with this issue before their homes are listed, a free report entitled “11 Things You Need To Know To Pass Your Home Inspection” has been compiled which explains the issues involved.

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Philadelphia- According to industry experts, there are over 33 physical problems that will come under scrutiny during a home inspection when your home is for sale. A new report has been prepared which identifies the eleven most common problems, and what you should know about them before you list your home for sale.

Whether you own an old home or a brand new one, there are a number of things that can fall short of requirements during home inspection. If not identified and dealt with, any of these 11 items could cost you dearly in terms of repair. That’s why it’s critical that you read this report before you list your home. If you wait until the building inspector flags these issues for you, you will almost certainly experience costly delays in the close of your home sale or, worse, turn prospective buyers away altogether. In most cases, you can make reasonable

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Simply put, Theatre Philadelphia’s Barrymore Awards are like Philadelphia’s version of the Tonys. Since 1994, the awards and their selection process have only gotten more prestigious and transparent, meaning there’s no real secrets here. There are 50 nominators and 12 judges who actually get to nearly 100 area professional productions; this year, the process yielded 140 nominations in 26 categories. Oh, sorry: Didn’t you know? Philly’s a boomtown for theater. Azuka, 11th Hour, the Arden, Lantern, 1812 Productions, Inis Nua— these are just a handful of the dynamic and boldly-talented local companies producing outstanding work.

At stake tonight is a bunch of money, really, in addition to the prestige. On the latter front, Theatre Philadelphia has instituted a vetting process that tags certain productions ticket purchase-worthy—which is pretty cool ‘cause you can get Barrymore Recommended while your production runs, and hungry theater-goers can nab tickets to peer-reviewed and approved shows. But on the former tip, they do more than line recipients’ pockets: They encourage creatives to stay here and keep working. F. Otto Haas Award for an Emerging Philadelphia Theatre Artist nominees Liz Filios, Aime Donna Kelly, Bi Jean Ngo, Daniel Perelstein and Mary Tuomanen have a lot to look forward to tonight. So do the hopefuls for the Virginia Brown Martin Philadelphia Award, given to “plays that best lead audiences to a better understanding of the unique experience of particular segments of our global community.” We’re raising our glasses to Theatre Exile, Delaware Theatre Company, Theatre Horizon, Simpatico Theatre Company and Flashpoint Theatre Company. // B.C. 7pm. $50-$125. Merriam Theater, 250 S. Broad St. 215.893.1999. merriamtheater.com

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Richard Blanco

In 2013, Richard Blanco became the first immigrant, first Latino and first openly gay poet ever to read at a presidential inauguration. In The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood, Blanco writes about growing up the son of Cuban immigrants and his attempts to understand his place in America. 7:30pm. Central Library, 1901 Vine St. 215.686.5322. freelibrary.org

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Harry Shearer: Nixon’s the One

Harry Shearer, known for his work on The Simpsons and This is Spinal Tap, discusses his popular UK television series Nixon’s the One. During the show, Shearer recreates real audio conversations Richard Nixon had while in the White House. 6:30pm. $18-$20. World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St. 215.222.1400. philly.worldcafelive.com

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Henry V

First Person Arts StorySlam

Once more unto the Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre for a performance of Henry V. Grab your band of brothers to see director Aaron Cromie bring the classic story of the war-torn underdog back into the spotlight.

7pm. $20-$35. Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre, 2111 Sansom St. phillyshakespeare.org

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PHILLYNOW Monday, October 27

Spin together a short narrative about mischief in a five-minute performance at this month’s StorySlam. The winner receives a $100 prize and the appreciation of a room full of anecdote enthusiasts. 8:30pm. $15.

L’Etage, Sixth and Bainbridge sts. firstpersonarts.org/storytelling

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Boiling in the blood of Philadelphia through the works of Edgar Allan Poe and David Lynch is a tradition of noir, characterized by cynicism and moral ambiguity. Join the experts and creators of noir fiction as they read their stories and share their tricks of the

trade over a five-day convention. Explore the tales of loners, psychopaths and obsessives and delve into the details of Dr. Seuss’ noir, Jewish noir, existential noir and more.

American novelist and literary critic Eric Williamson serves as keynote speaker. 9pm.

Through Nov. 2. Misconduct Tavern, 1511 Locust St. noircon.com

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Halloween: 15 Dance-Floor Blowouts Peter Sterling Halloween Ball

WICKED: 6 Evil Parties

Philadelphia’s sexy burlesque show is resurrected once again in the fourth annual Peter Sterling Halloween Ball, featuring Philadelphia’s DJ Perry Angelozzi and drag host Brittany Lynn. A creative costume could win you a three-night stay at the Excalibur Resort for four guests. Fri, Oct. 24, 8pm. $40. DoubleTree by Hilton, 237 S. Broad St. 267.357.4891. petersterlingevents.com

Sin your way through six ghastly venues under one roof, including the NBC Arena with live performances by Go Go Gadget and multiple DJs. More than $4,000 in cash prizes will be awarded to costume enthusiasts. Fri., Oct. 31, 8pm. $15-$60. XFINITY Live!, 1100 Pattison Ave. halloweektickets.com

Walk the Dead Carpet

Missing Robin Williams or Joan Rivers? Come dressed as your favorite dead celebrity or TV/movie character at Walk the Dead Carpet to compete for prizes. Music will be provided by DJ Nicky K. Fri., Oct. 31, 8pm. $10$20. Paddy Whacks, 150 S. St. 215.464.7544. paddywhackspub.com

Monsters Ball 2014: Dark Fairy Tales

This sixth annual extravaganza showcases a paranormal print studio, silent horror films, a costume contest, fairy tale trivia, a Halloween-themed art exhibit and more.

Sat, Oct. 25, 8pm. $10-$75. Artworks Trenton, 19 Everett Alley, Trenton, N.J. 609.394.9436. artworkstrenton.org

FREAK SHOW: A Philadelphia Horror Story

Get your freak on in the newly renovated Union Trust building, and dress in your best outfit for a chance to win cash prizes. Enjoy a three-hour open bar and an all-night Fireball shot special as the DJ lineup spins your favorite dance hits. Fri., Oct. 31, 8pm. $40-$50. Union Trust, 414 Chestnut St. halloweentickets.com

Fireball Whisky Halloween Bash

Taking the concept “hot party” literally: Enjoy a buffet and Fireball drink specials, as well as $500 in cash prizes for best fire attire. DJ Stux will keep the dance floor burning up all night. Thurs, Oct. 30, 8pm. $0$5. Ladder 15, 1528 Sansom St. 215.964.9755. ladder15philly.com

A Nightmare on Broad Street

MONSTER MASH-UP at the Painted Bride

It’s high-energy techno music from Worldtown Sound System—plus rock band Cask & Co. at the Bride’s Halloween spectacular. Thurs, Oct. 30, 9pm. $15.

Painted Bride Art Center, 230 Vine St. 215.925.9914. paintedbride.org

Boo! A Frightful Night of Drag Delight

AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania, which provides free legal services to Pennsylvanians with HIV/AIDS, presents this gala featuring witches, ghosts, ghouls and a few drag queens too. Thurs, Oct. 30, 6pm. $50-$100. Bahdeebahdu, 1522 N. American St. 215.587.9377. aidslawpa.org

Halloween The Ball

Henri David rises from the grave for the 45th year to present Halloween The Ball.

Fight to claim costume prize money for best celebrity lookalike, most hysterical and most horrifying outfits. Fri. Oct. 31, 9pm. $25-$60.

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Trick or treat: Lucky Strike’s Heaven & Hell party. (Photo by Al B. For)

Playboy centerfold Colleen Shannon, dubbed the “world’s sexiest DJ,” headlines one hell of a night, featuring a “dancer erotica” show amid the drapes 50 feet in the air. Explore six different party themes under one roof and wear your sexiest costume to compete for more than $10,000 in cash and prizes. Sat, Nov. 1, 8pm. $15-$50. XFINITY Live!, 1100 Pattison Ave. 267.443.6415. halloweentickets.com

Dracula’s Graveyard Dracula’s Ball

Party to dark electro-rock music from Spider Lillies and up-tempo tracks from Interface, along with hit music from a premier DJ lineup at this moody Halloween dance party open to all ages. Fri., Oct. 31, 9pm. $18.50.

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Heaven & Hell Halloween Party

Lucky Strike’s eighth annual costume party offers the chance to win trips to Vegas and Aruba. Enter the third-floor party room for a heavenly time with DJ Bizz playing throwback dance hits, or dare to walk into

Hell in the second-floor lounge where a special guest DJ spins today’s hottest tracks.

Fri., Oct. 31, 8pm. $10-$20. Lucky Strike, 1336 Chestnut St. 215.665.9501. bowlluckystrike. com

Ghosts & Goblins Halloween Party

Dress up in your awesomest ghost or goblin costumes and compete for cash prizes in this seventh annual Halloween bash featuring a three-hour open bar. Rock out to music by Stellar Mojo live on stage and DJ 2 Cool C in between sets. Fri., Oct. 31, 8pm. $10-$30. Mad River Manayunk, 4100 Main St., Manayunk. 215.482.2666.

North Shore Beach Club transforms into a ghastly graveyard for a spooky celebration with multiple bars and a beer garden.

Compete for cash and prizes in a costume contest and dance the night away with DJ Dracula. Sat., Nov. 1, 8pm. $0-$40. King’s Oak, 1031 Germantown Ave. 215.923.3014. kingsoaklane.com

Vampires + Vixens

Philadelphia’s long-running Halloween bash brings nine hours of sexy dancers, premier DJs and drink specials. Snag some pics with celebrity photographer and socialite Kirill while you’re there. Sat., Nov. 1, 9pm. $15-$35.

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Ghosts on the Delaware South of the city, an old immigrant quarantine station lures paranormal spirit hunters and serious historians to explore common ground.

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tionists, the government—and a University of Pennsylvania historian who’s not as turned off by the paranormal contingent as he used to be.

‘they told us to turn our flashlights off’

‘I should have known about it’ It was 1793. Philadelphia was the nation’s capital, and a Yellow Fever epidemic was sweeping through the streets. The disease, then referred to as “Yellow Jack,” would kill 4,000 to 5,000 people—10 percent of the population—and drive out thousands more. The same scourge would return three more times over the next four years.

Though outbreaks of disease like cholera and smallpox were not infrequent along the Atlantic seaboard at that time, Yellow Jack was the most devastating up to that point. The epidemic led to stronger health codes, cleaner streets and the nation’s first urban water system. It also led to rampant fear—not much different than the paranoia Ebola has spawned this fall on Fox News.

Immigrants, particularly were a source of Americans’ anxiety, and an easy target of blame for the disease.

So in 1799, the Board of Health purchased 10 acres of land on Tinicum Island, seven miles from the city—which, at that point, was considered a far journey from Philadelphia. There the city built the Lazaretto Quarantine Station, where health officials inspected immigrants entering the United States. Named for Lazarus, the pa-

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When she’s not hosting her paranormalissues talk-radio show, The Shadows Radio on the Internet station Para-X, Rebecca Brumble takes calls from people who want her to investigate whether there’s a spirit at large in their home.

A big part of what she does is recording EVPs: electronic voice phenomena. Sometimes, ghost hunters find, when you sit in the empty silence of a possibly haunted place long enough, you can hear—something. If your recording device picks it up, too, that’s an EVP. Most ghost hunters worth their sweat have experienced them, though skepticism insists on pointing out the range of things other than ghosts that might have caused those noises.

There was something about the Lazaretto, Brumble says, right from the very first time she went in. That’s where Jen was pelted with a pebble. That’s where they believe they heard a Yellow Fever victim asking for help and a child calling for her mother.

In addition to audio recorders, the SPIRIT crew also carries cameras. One wonders: Wouldn’t it be easier to capture images of ghosts on video during the day?

“Places like this, you usually have to go in at night,” Brumble says. “It’s quieter. There are less people around, less cars, less people walking their dogs or things like that.

Noise can really put a cramp in what you’re doing, especially when you’re in a public space like this.”

Plus, she notes, when her group gets tapped to hunt in a private residence, those clients are more likely to be home at night in the first place—and, therefore, that’s when they’re likely to see or hear whatever may be lurking in their living space. So that’s when SPIRIT assumes they’ll have the best chance to communicate with it, too.

Though the group lists a host of recordings as evidence on their website, Brumble says sometimes the best way to experience a ghost is with no recording equipment at all. “Part of the problem with gadgets and things you see on television shows is that people are so focused on them, they forget to experience the surroundings,” she says.

“Plus, when you’re focused on your flashlight and your recorder and stuff, you’re more likely to make noise. We’ve actually

had a lot of times where the spirits told us to turn our flashlights off.”

One thing that ghost hunters say gives them a leg up in making contact: knowing whose spirit might actually be haunting a place. That’s why Brumble has spent a lot of time networking with the living folks who’ve been working in recent years to restore the Lazaretto as a historic landmark, including Tinicum Township officials as well as local historians and preservationists. And what she’s learned along the way might just be even more fascinating than SPIRIT’s search for ectoplasmic wonders.

Like so much of Philadelphia history, what happened at the Lazaretto served as a blueprint for life in the rest of the nation— and an entryway into it. According to one estimate, as many as one out of every three Americans may be able to trace their ancestry back to this very building.

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n the darkness, it’s hard to tell who’s doing what. Or whether there’s someone off camera playing a trick. Or if everyone’s been told to create the same reaction to something happening for dramatic effect. Or whether Jenn has been hit at all. But she swears someone just threw a rock at her. And though the walls around her are crumbling, with little concrete bits sitting in piles all over the squeaky floorboards of the 215-yearold Philadelphia Lazaretto building, Jenn is quite certain that it’s this pebble that just flew out of nowhere and hit her—this pebble that doesn’t match any of the other debris in the room, that looks like it came, somehow, from outside.

That was four years ago. Now, sitting on the Lazaretto’s front porch by the light of day, Rebecca Brumble looks up from the laptop screen where she’s playing this footage. “That was one of the few times she walked out very sure there was something in the room with her,” says Brumble, a professional conent author, based here in Delaware County’s Tinicum Township, who also leads the ghost-hunting gang in question, SPIRIT of Pennsylvania.

Since Brumble’s group first began looking for spirits inside the Lazaretto—a former quarantine facility for 19th-century immigrants that now stands empty on the banks of the Delaware River—they swear they’ve heard all sorts of things. The audio recordings they’ve made inside the building include an assortment of strange sounds that do indeed resemble muffled voices. “I am, please leave,” one seems to say. “Mommy,” burbles another. A third: “Please help me.”

Whether or not these are the pleas of literal ghosts, the Lazaretto is surely full to overflowing with metaphorical ones. As it turns out, the historic, two-story brick building is less well known than it deserves; in its heyday, it touched more lives than almost any one structure in the United States. And today, in its decrepitude, its shadowy whisper is enough to pull together a strange assortment of factions around Tinicum: ghost hunters, preserva-

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tron saint of lepers, the Lazaretto predated Ellis Island in New York and Angel Island in San Francisco, and directly led to similar quarantine stations all over the world.

A hospital on the grounds quarantined and treated those immigrants found to be sick, and buried the dead all over the wooded plot. Sometimes, travelers had more noteworthy stories: In one instance, in 1800, 118 African bondsmen came through the Lazaretto after the U.S. had confiscated cargo bound for a notorious slave trader in Cuba. The ship was brought to Philadelphia; all the men were given the last name Ganges and handed over to the Pennsylvania Abolition Society.

Over the course of the next hundred years, New York City grew gradually more prominent in American affairs, and, eventually, more and more immigrants coming from Europe began entering through Ellis Island. A new quarantine station opened farther down the Delaware River, in Marcus Hook, and the Lazaretto closed in 1895 after almost a full century in operation.

It reopened as a sporting and aviation club in 1915. Two years later, it would become a training site for the Army Signal Corps, which set up the country’s first seaplane base to train flyers.

The building, according to history professor David Barnes of the University of Pennsylvania, may be one of Philadelphia’s—and American history’s—best kept secrets. “I had never heard of it before I came to Philly, and Penn, in 2002,” he says.

“And I specialize in 19th-century public health, so I really should have known about it.”

Barnes was “blown away” by the building, he says, when he first happened upon it early last decade. “It just stopped me in my tracks,” he remembers. “Somebody had put a lot of time and effort and money and people into this enterprise.”

Vacant now since 1972, the building on the Delaware has been through a series of owners and seen ongoing struggle between would-be developers and the municipality—not much different from what’s gone on with the Divine Lorraine in Philadelphia. And like that Broad Street landmark, the Lazaretto is often explored by thrill-seekers; photos taken in and outside the building are displayed across the Internet.

But while the Divine Lorraine attracts artists, this hidden Tinicum gem attracts ghost hunters.

Cities would be ‘wiped out’ The township itself finally bought the property in 2006, declaring it would build a fire station, community hall and parking lot on the site. A historical preservationist group, Friends of the Lazaretto, quickly fought back, saying such a build-up would

disturb the aesthetic and historic appeal of the building and grounds. A cooperative was created, went to work in conjunction with the township—and today, all interested parties are working to restore the main quarantine building as well as constructing a new township administrative facility. Grant money for the project has been secured, and initial examinations of the building are underway.

There are more hands in the project than just the preservationists and the township, though. The ghost hunters have a stake, too.

Brumble and her colleagues have worked to raise money to help with the Lazaretto’s restoration. The catch: They’d like to see a museum set up downstairs commemorating the centuries of history they believe has led to their own spiritual discoveries.

The history of the Lazaretto, however, has remained mostly mum until Barnes— who’s currently about halfway through writing a 300-page book on the place—began publishing his research online. “There were no great discoveries there,” he says.

“You can’t point to the Lazaretto and say, ‘That’s the place where the polio vaccine was discovered,’ or something like that.

There were no famous doctors or famous patients there.”

In other words, there’s been no iconic narrative to hang on the Lazaretto. It was created during a time of both fear and experimentation—out of necessity. Philadelphia’s survival hinged on it. During times of epidemic disease in American history, there was a prominent, and real, worry that entire cities would be wiped out. “And when I say ‘wipe out entire cities,’ I don’t mean killing the entire population,” Barnes explains. “I mean killing 10 percent of the population, thus causing the other 90 percent to abandon the city. Luckily, that never happened.”

When Barnes began meeting with everyone else who was interested in preserving the Lazaretto, he was dubious about

the idea of partnering with ghost hunters.

“When I first came into contact with them,” he remembers, “I thought ‘Holy crap, this is the last thing I need to be mixed up with: a bunch of ghost hunters. I’ll be the laughingstock of the historical profession.’”

But his attitude shifted when he realized the paranormal community shared a common interest with pure history: the desire to restore the building in a way that doesn’t disturb those spirits that may still have something to teach the living.

Many of the ghost hunters are passionate history buffs, Barnes says. “Some of them are serious historical researchers; some of them have been able to find things about the Lazaretto that I haven’t been able to find—and I consider myself an excellent historical researcher.”

‘I don’t talk to Grandpa’ Mark Davis is one of those. Davis, a former host of The Shadows Radio, explored the Lazaretto as a ghost hunter three times before introducing the spot to Brumble in 2009. He’s checked out lots of old, purportedly haunted buildings throughout Greater Philadelphia, and is as interested in their mundane history as the paranormal stuff.

The Lazaretto isn’t the most haunted place he’s seen in the area, he says—that prize would go to Fort Mifflin—but he has felt things there.

But what? He’s not sure. He describes the feeling you get when ghost hunting as similar to déjà vu—or to walking in your house as a kid, not seeing or hearing anyone but knowing someone’s there.

“Everybody has some level of what we’ll refer to as a psychic ability,” Davis says.

“Everybody’s born with it. Everybody has it. Typically, as we grow older, we learn to turn it off. Doing paranormal investigations, I have turned it back on.”

The scientific community, of course, has been trying—and failing—to identify and measure such extrasensory abilities for decades. As far as the academic establishment can show, there’s no solid, re-

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search-based evidence that psychic powers are real.

For that matter, while Davis believes there’s something at work in the Lazaretto, he doesn’t believe that EVP recordings from the site prove anything. “The Lazaretto is right on a river, and you’re near a firehouse. There are a lot of radio waves flying around, so who’s to say we didn’t pick up some of those at the Lazaretto?”

When Davis engaged in ghost hunting, he says, he would challenge himself rigorously: He’d write down what he was sensing, and if someone else agreed, he knew there was something going on in the house.

Sometimes it’d be a feeling—sometimes it’d be initials related to whatever or whoever he may have been hired to investigate.

Isn’t that like what the TV psychic John Edward does? “No,” he says, immediately, offended by the insinuation. “I don’t sit there and say I’m talking to Grandpa and have Grandpa say, ‘How are you doing?’”

People are too quick to believe something they witness is a ghost, he says: “Ninety-nine-point-nine percent of the time it’s not. You need to try to find that .1 percent—and that’s not easy.”

‘This is exactly the sort of place’ So, is the Lazaretto haunted? Mark Davis says it is. Rebecca Brumble says it is, and says her recordings back her up.

Here’s one thing we can say for certain: If ghosts are real, this is exactly the sort of place they’d haunt the shit out of. It’s old, it’s decrepit, it’s got 215 years of history for someone or something to take hold of.

There are pieces of wall missing, the ceiling’s crumbling, and, aside from planes taking off from the nearby Philadelphia International Airport, it’s incredibly quiet.

And, for a century, it was filled with the human drama of people arriving tumultuously in America during a time when illness ran more freely rampant than it does today. The strong emotions that filled the building are easy to imagine: families torn apart when some were sick and some were healthy; children locked away in separate wings from their mothers and fathers; the newly dead buried daily.

David Barnes, the Penn history professor, suggests that, in the end, it doesn’t really matter whether the spirits of the Lazaretto are real or just a figure of speech.

“I do not believe in ghosts,” he says. “I still have a hard time getting over my initial gut reaction to the question, which is just: No. But if a ghost hunter or a haunted house gets people to the Lazaretto—gets people to experience it in any way—I’m thrilled.” n PW writer Randy LoBasso is the winner of the Pennsylvania Newsmedia Association’s 2014 Distinguished Writer Award.

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Return of the Runt Todd Rundgren’s sold-out spring show gets a fall follow-up at the Keswick.

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Mary Lambert Oct. 22, North Star Bar. The saucy singer on “Same Love” will keep you warm on her Heart On My Sleeve debut outing. northstarbar.com Marsha Ambrosius Oct. 23, Theatre of Living Arts.

Mprynt, Brianna Cash open, but Miss Marsha’s the bona fide boss tonight. tlaphilly.com

Bryan Adams Oct. 23, Tower Theater. Look out: Canada’s chief rocker’s latest LP features covers of songs by Smokey, Chuck Berry and the Manhattans. venue.thetowerphilly.com Jeffrey Gaines Oct. 24, Tin Angel. The gifted longtime guitarist from Harrisburg’s got the perfect accompaniment to your evening’s mental musings. tinangel.com

Neon Hitch Oct. 25, District N9ne. Another Englander in town to show her mettle brings the badassery of her Yard Sale Tour to fellow eleutheromaniacs. districtn9ne.com

David Uosikkinen’s In the Pocket Oct. 25, Ardmore Music Hall. The all-star Philly supergroup’s latest reinvented classic: Hall & Oates’ “Fall in Philadelphia.” ardmoremusic.com Capital Cities Oct. 26, Electric Factory. The pop duo teaming Ryan Merchant and Sebu Simonian are fresh off their opening run for Katy Perry. electricfactory.info

Brother Ali Oct. 27, Union Transfer. Despite being legally blind, this white-boy rapper with a Muslim beard has more vision—and heart—than most of today’s MCs. utphilly.com Meat Puppets Oct. 27, Underground Arts. Cass McCombs shares the bill with these artistically influential alternative-music forerunners. undergroundarts.org Lo Fang Oct. 28, Johnny Brenda’s. The enimatic classical strings-playing crooner-cutie is en route to worldwide dominance. johnnybrendas.com

ven when Todd Rundgren was a kid growing-up in Upper Darby, the budding pop genius had a passion for music.

Although his dad barred rock songs from being played in the house, he didn’t mind the boy learning the Gilbert & Sullivan songbook or playing that rickety piano that was stashed in his grandmother’s attic. Of course, that didn’t stop a teenaged Todd from growing his hair long, listening to the Beatles and forming the Philadelphia-based Nazz, his first band, in 1967. During that period, Rundgren also began penning songs, with the beautiful “Hello It’s Me,” which first appeared as the B-side to Nazz’s psychedelic debut “Open My Eyes,” being his first.

With Rundgren singing lead and strumming guitar, the Yardbirdsinspired group was being groomed for Monkees-style fame. Appearing on the cover of 16 before their self-titled album was even released, Nazz initially had more press than success thanks in part to their manager Michael Freeman, a former publicist. “He was a better publicist than he was a manager,” Rundgren once joked.

The band dealt with much infighting during the two years in which they released two albums. While most singer/songwriters in their early 20s might’ve been content with being a pin-up poster boy, its leader didn’t want to be a mere pop star—he wanted to stretch the bounds of creativity. Rundgren, who would later call Nazz, “a very interesting experiment,” broke away from the band to begin his storied career as producer, engineer, balladeer and glam rock superstar.

Nazz released a third album Nazz III using Rundgren-penned songs, but with his vocals removed. (As shrewed Philly guys, they knew not to cut off their noses to spite their faces.)

Immersing himself in recording technology much like his sonic spiritual godfathers Phil Spector and Brain Wilson, Rundgren taught himself to play the studio as though it was an instrument. He also was an early endorser of synthesizers and Moogs in his music. After hooking-up with Bob Dylan’s manager Albert Grossman, who started Bearsville Records in 1970, Rundgren recorded his solo album Runt, which contained the soulful pop single “We Gotta Get You a Woman,” and set sail on an musical journey that’s been anything but predictable.

In the beginning, Rundgren’s solo sojourn began with him paying homage to classic pop craft as perfected by Bacharach and David, as well as his songwriting shero Laura Nyro. With songs like “It Wouldn’t Make A Differance,” “Can We Still Be Friends” and an updated version of “Hello It’s Me,” he could’ve just kept churning out the hits

The ever-popular tortured artist: Music maven Todd Rundgren.

(Photo by Danny O’ Connor)

and sailed through the 1970s as an American version of Elton John.

Whatever personal formula Rundgren followed while making his best-selling 1972 double album Something/Anything?, which Uncut magazine once dubbed “the missing link between The Beatles and Sign ‘O’ The Times,” could’ve been used over again indefinitely, but when the press started referring to him as the male Carole King, he knew it was time to change his style. He’s been a musical chameleon ever since, as his stalwart fans—like those who packed his sold-out March Sellersville Theater show—will testify.

In the 45 years since Rundgren first went into the studio alone, he has composed brilliant concept albums, including the influential A Wizard, A True Star, packed stadiums with his prog-rock unit Utopia, produced Meat Loaf’s 50-million seller Bat Out of Hell and had an old track (“Bang On a Drum All Day”) turned into a popular Carnival Cruise commercial. Still, no matter what he does, runt-turned-giant Todd Rundgren has always stayed true to himself.  Wed., Oct. 29, 8pm. $29.50-$39.50. Keswick Theatre, 291 N. Keswick Ave., Glenside. 215.572.7650. keswicktheatre.com

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Misfits

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ormed in Jersey in 1977 with now-legendary vocalist Glenn Danzig at the helm, Misfits were one of the most influential bands of punk and hardcore’s late ‘70s/early ‘80s heyday, thrilling the moshing masses. Then, before you were born, they broke up. In the ‘90s, when bands like The Offspring and Green Day brought punk into the mainstream, former Misfits bassist Jerry Only and his brother, band guitarist Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein, wanted to cash in, too. So they fought Danzig over the rights to the name and logo, and won, releasing two albums throughout the decade, one of which featured libertarian punk singer Michael Graves (and was actually pretty good). Since then, his brother’s bounced, so Only’s the last Misfit standing, selling merchandise at stores like Hot Topic like it’s nobody’s business, and with him center stage, they’ve put out a disgusting, sad cover album, 2003’s Project 1950, and a sleepy 2011 LP called The Devil’s Rain. If a 2013 live record is any indication, Only doesn’t think his current incarnation of the trio sucks, and he plays a lot of new stuff at their shows, alongside ex-Black Flag guitarist Dez Cadena and drummer Eric Arce.

This spring, Danzig unsuccessfully sued Only, wanting a share of that sweet, sweet Hot Topic cash. ‘Cause honestly, why should the single most talent-challenged Misfit keep all the money? | Fri., Oct. 24, 9pm. $35. With The Holy Mess, Goddamnit + Private Instigators.

Theater of Living Arts, 304 South St. 215.922.1011. tlaphilly.com. | RANDY LOBASSO

The Haunting of Hill House

Adapted by F. Andrew Leslie

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A Dream Woke From Slumber Locust Moon Comics’ new Little Nemo tribute book might just be the graphic novel of the year.

By Brooke Bolander // feedback@philadelphiaweekly.com

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n the beginning—before Garfield and Peanuts, Nancy and Doonesbury, Hägar and Blondie and a thousand other four-panel funnies relegated to the outer fringes of the Sunday papers—newspaper comics were literal giants. Rainbow-hued, massive in scale, they took up entire broadsheet pages, and the space and freedom afforded their artists resulted in some of the most intricate, beautiful work the medium has ever produced. First and foremost among these was Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo In Slumberland, an Art Nouveau wonder set inside a little boy’s dreams.

In the world of Little Nemo, giant Thanksgiving turkeys gobble down houses. A grand dirigible sails to Mars, silhouetted against a yellow moon. Circus elephants stride towards the reader, looming larger and larger with each progressive panel. McCay, a lifelong artist who got his start painting portraits at an amusement park as a boy, had previously found some cartooning success in the pages of the New York Herald, but Little Nemo, which ran between 1905 and 1927, was his pride and joy—and it shows in the level of artistic prowess on display. He didn’t just raise the bar, he broke it over his knee.

Over the following decades, the Sunday comics shrank until they were little more than talking heads, pushed and clipped to fit neatly between advice columns and obituaries and op-eds. But the thing about the best, most universal dreams is that they don’t die; they are infectious, resilient, inextinguishable, passed on from dreamer to dreamer like phantasmagorical batons. This month, 109 years after the first Little Nemo comic saw print—and ten years after Sunday Press cleaned up and collected many of the best strips in the essential hardcover So Many Splendid Sundays!— Philadelphia’s Locust Moon Press is publishing Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream, a massive, oversized graphic-novel tribute book that’s a stunning love letter to McCay and his most famous creation.

The table of contents is a jaw-dropping who’s-who of comic greats, all jostling to pay homage to the little boy in the pajamas and his headful of wonderful fancies. Twentyone inches tall and 16 inches wide, the book is roughly the size of a small life raft, each page crammed to capacity with details that spill across panels in a frame-bursting tumble of color and delirious movement. It’s an impressive feat of art and publishing that has to be seen in the flesh (or pulp) to be fully appreciated.

“I think there’s a huge variety of reasons for Little Nemo’s continuous cult of fans and admirers,” says Josh O’Neill, cofounder of Locust Moon Comics, whose West Philly shop is also home to its publishing operation. “The founding of Slumberland was an act of sorcery: McCay’s world is so alive on the page, so detailed and lush and enchanted, that you can’t help but want to return again and again. Little Nemo’s pleasures are not the pleasures of story or characterization—they’re the pleasures of discovery, exploration, majesty, enthrallment. These strips are paper universes; you Above: A page by Peter and Maria Hoey from Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream.

want to be a part of it and climb inside. I think a huge part of the artistic impulse is the urge to talk back to the work that moves you— and this book gave its participants a chance to have a conversation across a century with a man who inspired them.”

McCay’s admirers in the comic world are certainly eager to have that conversation, if the book’s contributor list is any indication. Paul Pope, Charles Vess, Peter Bagge, J.H. Williams III, Craig Thompson, Michael Allred, Jill Thompson, Bill Sienkiewicz, Paolo Rivera—seemingly everyone in the field turned out, from upand-comers to indies to elder statesmen.

“Sharing the Sunday Press Nemo editions with customers and friends became a ritual,” O’Neill explains. “Poring over those epically huge and beautiful tomes with true inheritors of McCay’s passion and originality like Rob Woods, Farel Dalrymple, J.G. Jones and many others, talking over McCay’s inspirations and influences, we were privileged to watch genius-level comic makers inspect, admire, and do the same thing we were always trying to do: crack the code, demystify the mastery, answer the question: How did he do that? Like with all the best magic tricks, there was no finding the secret. The way that McCay weaved his spell, the way he controlled your perception and infiltrated dormant places in your imagination were unfathomable and irreplicable ... Those sessions of baffled worship were the birthplace of this anthology.”

Locust Moon ran a Kickstarter campaign earlier this year to fund the book’s creation, with an initial goal of $50,000. It reached that goal and promptly tore a hole through the netting and out the other side, finishing at a whopping $154,478.

Those who attend Locust Moon’s annual comics festival in University City this weekend will have a chance to see the

finished product first-hand; the rest of us will be able to get our hands on it when the anthology, currently available for pre-order on Locust Moon’s website, hits shelves in late November—just in time for the holidays. Until then, we’ll have to wait, be patient, and dream beautiful dreams.  Locust Moon Comics Festival: Sat., Oct. 25. 10am–6pm.

Guests include Paul Pope, Bill Sienkewicz, Dean Haspiel, Denis Kitchen and more. The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St. Donations at the door.

Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream book release party: Sun., Oct. 26. 7pm. Free. Locust Moon Comics, 34 S. 40th St. 267.403.2856. locustmoon.com

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Incarceration Nation No More

Rap prince Dice Raw has some stark realities to share in The Last Jimmy, the stage dramatizaion of his 2013 LP.

By Sheena Lester // slester@philadelphiaweekly.com

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crisply-casual Ozzie Jones saunters onto the Freedom Theatre’s John Allen Jr. stage from its right, playfully doing gym-quality squats to show his laughing stagehand pals how much his ailing back has improved. It’s of the rare moments of humor amid the very-serious business the veteran director and his mix of specially-selected pros are deeply engaged in and preparing for: dramatizing the stark, gripping verses of Karl “Dice Raw” Jenkins’ late 2013 album Jimmie’s Back, an LP inspired by legal scholar Michelle Alexander’s revelatory book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.

First presented at a “Sittin’ In” session at the Kimmel Center back at the start of the year, The Last Jimmy has morphed over the spring and summer from a pitch-black hip-hop satire into a pitch-black hiphop musical set in a courtroom, interspersed with Dice’s hypnotic verses, bold, haunting dialogue by noted writer Phillip S. Brown and the skilled fervor of Rennie Harris’ sure-fire choreographic touches.

It’s a passion project driven by The Roots collaborator’s urgent need to stem the tide of mass blackmale jailings and help raise a flag to alert those on the outside that even more troubled times lie ahead should his and others warnings so unheeded. For two days this week, they’ll be sounding the alarm in North Philadelphia.

PW hung out with Dice after an evening rehearsal to get details.

is kind of what embodied exactly what I was kind of thinking. It really gave a stripped-down, penetrating way to look at theater, so I was like I’m going to do it just like Mike did it. I wanted [mine] to be a oneman show, but I was like Is there going to be instruments or is there not going to be instruments? Then Lets get some musicians. You know what? Lets make it sound like a courtroom. So it just got bigger and bigger—and then we added dance to it. It just grew and grew conceptually. I’m looking forward to seeing it, too, just like everybody else.

Who were you building with? What did your team look like, and how did you present the idea to Ozzie [Jones, its director]?

Ozzie was in the thing we did at the Kimmel. He played the judge. We did a few rehearsals because the Kimmel only gave me a month notice. We went in a couple times, and it kind of just came together.

The musicians were very good—Mosaic Flow, who I used. I used Dominique Superstar, who has been a long time singer/songwriter locally here in Philadelphia. He used to live in L.A., and he was an actor; he had been on TV. So I just kept the same people I had been working with from the beginning. Ozzie loved it so much, plus, one of Ozzie’s passions—as well as mine—is being focused on our communities, educating young black males and keeping them out of prison and trying to do anything that we can do to use our art and creative voice to try and steer people in a different direction.

And the fact that he is a veteran producer and

one of the shining stars of Philadelphia stage can’t hurt, right?

No. He knows theater, definitely. He kicked our butts.

What do you hope the audience gets from the play that might be different from what they get from your record?

The main thing I want people to get from the play— and the album—is a call to action and to wake up anyone who doesn’t know what is going on about mass incarcerations, privatized prisons or how hard it is for these street experts to get reentry into society. You know the way that it is with these small laws—the marijuana or even cocaine laws or handgun laws, when he basically lives in a war zone.

These are the necessities that you use to survive, so if you are put in a position where you have to fight and you have to live a certain way, then you live that way and you get arrested for it, then you [come to realize] it was a mistake, and you want to function as a full member of society, it is harder for you to do that now. Eight million fellas lost the right to vote just a couple weeks ago. That’s what I want people to take away from it. I want them to take away a sense of urgency to do something when they get home, even if it is to sign a petition—which we are going to have via the Lighter Sentencing Act. I want to educate them on the election that is coming up the week after the show. That is basically all I want to do because that’s how I was, listening to the audiobook. I felt like I had to do something. There was a sense of urgency.

Is it possible that black folks’ desensitization stems from the fact they tend to also be the victims of those crimes for which many so many are being jailed? Would our community’s attitude be different if those filling prisons weren’t going there mostly for victimizing the very ones from whom they seek compassion?

Basically, a crime usually happens like 50 feet or 200 feet away from where you live. So if we started doing crimes [further] away from where we live, or started robbing those people at the same kind of alarming rate, yeah, it would be real different—and they’d be cracking down on people way harder.

Black people need to just make it important to try and get our kids the right education that they need. That’s where everything starts. I don’t think we take our education seriously, and being an 8th grade dropout, I know for a fact that we don’t take our education seriously. I didn’t take mine seriously, and I pay for it every day. I don’t necessarily pay for it financially, but [I do] when I go to business meetings or I go talk to different people in different forums who may have gone to Princeton, Harvard or wherever. Some things are a learning experience for me, where they are practicing what they learned and then mastered over the years.  Fri. and Sat., Oct. 24 and 25. 8pm. $30. Freedom Theatre, 1346 N. Broad St. 267.687.1764. freedomtheatre.org

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Are there any stage plays or productions that you looked to as examples of what you wanted to create on stage with The Last Jimmy, or captured what you wanted your audiences to walk away with emotionally?

Definitely Mike Tyson’s one-man show. For me, that

Man on a mission: Dice Raw on the streets of North Philadelphia. The Last Jimmy plays the Freedom Theatre this weekend. (Photo by J.R. Blackwell)

What tired rhyme did he get that nonsense from?

That was his own imagination. I think hip-hop’s problem is that a lot of these rappers make light of incarceration, of being locked up, and they have never been locked up. They make light of selling drugs or selling handguns or living a certain kind of life they have only seen in the movies. But when it is projected, and you are using that, saying This is why I’m successful, when children see that, they look on TV and think Damn, that is the key to success. If I’m looking to be like that rapper, forget my creativity, forget learning anything about music— I need to learn how to sell coke. Also, there’s this whole seriousness that has been taken out of jail.

I heard a guy warn someone, like ‘Yo, you are going to jail, and you are going to get raped,’ and the other dude’s like, ‘No, man. I’m not going to get raped. All the gay sex that happens in prisons now is consensual.’ That is what he told me. The fact that somebody made light of it—they were like, ‘I’m not worried about that. That don’t happen no more, I’ll be fine.’

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PW: I know that your Jimmy’s Back LP was inspired by Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow. Can you share your evolution from reading that book into conceptualizing your record, then creating this production?

DICE RAW: A friend of mine, Tayyib Smith, was like, ‘Yo, man, you have to read this book.” This was in 2011. He was like, ‘You got to read this book,’ and I was like, “Ahh … all right, man. Give me the book.”

So, he gave it to me, and he was like “Did you read it yet?”—and this was like a day later. He called me a week later, and he just kept calling me, like ‘Yo, I am serious. You need to read this book.” So, one day I bought the audiobook and listened to it on the train ride on my way to New York, and I was just blown away by it. I was shaken up about it. So, I immediately [thought] the only thing I can do to offer my assistance is to do kind of what she did, which was write a book. Since I make rap songs, I want to do an album that outlines what is going on with reentry, the young people getting locked up at such an alarming rate, the stop-and-frisk scenarios and the rapes that are actually going on in the prison system. All the statistics were coming at me so strong, and then I started noticing that it was coming from different places, too.

Do you feel like the black community has a certain kind of detachment around mass incarceration as an issue?

Oh, yeah. Definitely. That comes from people being just being desensitized to the seriousness of what incarceration represents. I heard a kid say, ‘Yo, I’m going to jail, but it is nothing. Every gangsta must bid, so if I’m really a G, I have to go to jail because it is a rite of passage.’

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Birdman, or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance (Director/Writer: Alejandro González Iñárritu)

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f the title doesn’t tip you off, then be assured: Birdman isn’t just the deeply meta story of an actor (Michael Keaton) trying to restart a career that stalled after his blockbuster success as superhero Birdman. It’s a story about art, as Keaton’s Riggan Thompson tries to survive the behind-the-scenes disasters rattling the previews for a Broadway play of which he’s writer, director and star, while keeping his heart—and trying to ignore the Birdman voice aggressively haunting him.

Writer and director Alejandro González Iñárritu (often passionate, rarely subtle) exults in all the contrasts between the confines of the stage and the freedom of the camera. Bookended by rapid-fire bursts of dreamlike imagery, cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki drags the camera through the theater’s narrow hallways and vaulted ceilings to achieve the masterful effect of a whole movie in a single take.

And while the lens can get caught in eddies—this is a film blissfully unconcerned with chronological directness and always interested in two people commisserating or fighting—the audacious attempt creates its own suspense, as you wonder what you’re missing, dread the next corner or cringe through onstage disaster. The troupe becomes willing prisoners as claustrophobia sets in and suggests some artistic pursuits are more punishment than pleasure.

The script is less oblique; attempts to spread the show-business cynism evenly among actors, crew, press and audiences get undercut

by Iñárritu’s unsurprisingly sympathetic conviction that the artist heroically risks the most. Luckily, his ensemble is up to the task: Naomi Watts and Andrea Riseborough wring what nuance they can from slender roles, and Keaton, Emma Stone and Edward Norton deftly handle both deeply vulnerable and highly fevered moments. With its cast as counterweight, Birdman moves from a clever ouroboros to a passion project, rendered with confident artistic flourish. (Genevieve Valentine)

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Whiplash (Director/Writer: Damien Chazelle)

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wo movies come out this week that question what art demands of the artist. In jazz-music nightmare Whiplash, the answer is obvious: Everything. Its crucial follow-up question is How does art make monsters? The answer, so far as Whiplash gives any, lies within another monster: Fletcher (the electrifying, chilling J.K. Simmons), the music-conservatory teacher who thinks the most dangerous words in English are “Good job,” a horror-movie mentor whose apparent perfectionism manifests as terrorism. In his hands, Studio Band becomes a gauntlet that drives people to wash out—or worse.

Into this trap walks Andrew (Miles Teller), a freshman who, at first, seems like any student in Fletcher’s class determined to be perfect: first for love of the music, then to avoid humiliation, then for reasons that become darker and harder to know. Teller’s performance is unselfconscious and determined—you believe the blood on the cymbals—so though Simmons gnaws through the screen with every glance, Teller’s a suitably brutal canvas. Writer-director Damien Chazelle occasionally trips over his own efficient cinematic shorthand: the bursts of frenetic editing convey Andrew’s deteriorating perspective infinitely more efficiently than does his abortive flirtation with Melissa Benoist, a feminine blip across a masculine narrative. And man, is it ever. Whiplash is pointedly about masculinity as much as about music. There are no women in Studio Band, “effeminate” behavior is policed as minutely as the notes, and Fletcher preys on it all.

Perhaps it’s inevitable that the battle of wills between Fletcher and Andrew becomes much less about the notes than about who can tough it out. In fixating on that tete-a-tete, the film’s final act—while as brutally visceral as what’s come before—becomes a bit too caught up in what it’s critiquing. But maybe that’s part of the point: Sooner or later, everybody buys into the monster. (G.V.)

The professor from hell: Versatile actor J.K. Simmons plays a tyrannical music-conservatory teacher in Damian Chazelle’s Whiplash.

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A Portrait of the Artist

Birdman and Whiplash both suggest a refreshingly ignoble version of the transformative power of art—and its pursuit.

By Genevieve Valentine // feedback@philadelphiaweekly.com

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ometimes double bills make themselves. This week’s new releases include Whiplash, in which a jazz student discovers how far he’ll go to reach perfection, and Birdman, in which a has-been actor discovers how far he’ll go to reach legitimacy. Neither topic, of course, is new. Artists have been using their mediums to question the nature of art and the toll it takes for pretty much as long as there’s been formal acknowledgment of art. And cinema loves them all. The history of Best Picture nominees is up to its ankles in lauded movies about artists going to the brink for their passions.

Though there are variations on the theme, the cinematic consensus is generally that great art demands the ultimate sacrifice, and quite often, the artist becomes a monster in pursuit of that ephemeral moment in which art and artist become one. Unless it’s satire, of course, in which case artists are neurotic narcissists who are either impossibly jaded or painfully earnest. For showbiz navel-gazing at its very best/worst, see Soapdish, which deploys regrettable stereotypes in its pursuit of soap-opera structure, but is a sharp enough satire to give us such gems as, “David’s going to help me produce my one-man Hamlet off-Broadway, and the world is going to rediscover a major talent!”

In fact, it’s hard to watch Birdman and not think about that line. The film itself can’t quite decide if it’s satire—the pursuit of Art is painted as ultimately fruitless yet all-consuming, and amid the straightforward takedowns of thespian self-seriousness is a genuine admiration for the toxic process of it all. And no matter how ridiculous the movie paints them—mind you, this is a movie that offers up actors as opportunistic bisexuals, unstable chaos machines and hallucinating Birdmen on the verge of a nervous breakdown—it feels for them, too. Star Michael Keaton (in a slightly meta performance) parries a critic’s takedown of movie actors with desperate need for recognition of the risk an artist takes. And minutes after attempting to

force himself on his girlfriend onstage, Edward Norton’s character gets a self-deprecating moment of introspection that’s meant to make us, if not pity him, at least understand him.

Amid the seemingly single-take film, we linger onstage with the actors as if caught up in rehearsals despite ourselves. And why not? This is a universe in which love of the art is its own reward; skill or talent, it’s all just another form of love.

Whiplash believes no such thing. The movie’s made a name for itself in the bone-chilling performance of J.K. Simmons as Fletcher, the music-conservatory instructor who terrorizes his students. And Whiplash carries that dark outlook from the very beginning, with an ingenue (Miles Teller’s Andrew) whose drive eclipses his love. Whether or not Andrew enjoys the music is utterly beside the point. He might have dreamed of what others played, but under Fletcher’s expertly cruel tutelage, the music becomes nothing more than a weapon in an abusive relationship. Here, art is laughable—the only person seen enjoying music in the entire film is Fletcher himself, playing at a low-key jazz bar. Instead, Whiplash suggests that those who succeed have become monsters (or always were), bound to self-destruct for things they’re long past loving. Though the central relationship could have channeled any discipline, at its best, the movie provides both a painfully stifling psychological portrait and a brutally honest look at the way the pursuit of art chews up so many. And even then, Whiplash offers no solutions. Those without a particular drive are given only cardboard-cutout sketches of characters, suggesting if you’re not suffering, you’re not alive at all.

Despite giving each hero a crumb of history amid a banquet of defeats, the movies are, admittedly, something of a stressful double-header. On the other hand, both suggest a refreshingly ignoble version of the transformative power of the pursuit of art, with art as the bicycle and artists as fish. And maybe that’s an art all its own. 

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TRUST IN THE TIME OF EBOLA

Delve into a rich history of finding love—and self—in the face of persecution.

By Bill Chenevert // bchenevert@philadelphiaweekly.com

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went to a heterosexual wedding celebration in Raleigh, North Carolina recently, and as the gay-allied couple were tying the knot, homosexuals across the state were rejoicing the 4th Circuit Court-issued decision that essentially said Nah. We’re not tryna hear that anti-marriage litigious nonsense anymore. Of course, this is certainly a direct result of the June 2013 U.S. vs. Windsor Supreme Court decision that says DOMA is unconstitutional.

As I coasted in a rental car back to PA, I tabbed through my social medias to see swarms of queers and allies flooding the Gayborhood’s streets for OutFest. Now, like Pride and Equality Forum, I see these giant festival-like celebrations of our queer identities as lovely for the folks who are looking for that kind of thing—yet sad for the ways in which they just become an excuse for day drinking.

Pepper those feelings with my growing paranoia that baby gays don’t care about the rich history of struggling through familial rejection, love in the face of persecution and boldly telling stories that were downright illegal in certain times and places, and I am compelled to make this plea: Please read a gay book this month.

Please? I’ve even made it easy for you via these recommendations: First, the one I read in the passenger seat, Martin B. Duberman‘s Stonewall (1994, Penguin Group USA), is awesome. Talk about humanizing a movement. Duberman masterfully weaves the stories of six seemingly disparate and disconnected individuals who find their activist voices slowly but surely. The Stonewall Riots are definitely oft-cited as the powder keg that sparked the gay rights struggle, but to hear the narratives of these people’s lives—from pubescence and young adulthood to their evolution into emboldened and brave queer men and women—has got to be one of the best ways I could imagine celebrating LGBT History Month. The queer life that began with romantically pining for classmates and fellow campers in 1950, it could be said, is a far, distant cry compared to the queer life that begins in 2000.

One of my favorite queer books of all time is A Boy’s Own Story by Edmund White (2009 reprint, Viking Penguin), onethird of White’s autobiographical trilogy and a groundbreaking work of queer storytelling. It’s a narrative that was striking for 1982: It doesn’t hold back and makes no apologies. White shows us the sexy, the ugly, the depressed, the drugged, the thrilling and the dangers of gay life before Will & Grace, the It Gets Better campaign and even AIDS. Of course there’s the locally beloved (for its bookstore namesake) and iconic James Baldwin novel, Giovanni’s Room (1956, Vintage). Baldwin’s masterpiece is absolutely beautiful for a few simple reasons: The prose is killer, the characters are very realized, and the tragedy of lives lived with confusion and hurt transcends homosexuality and goes for the jugular of humanity.

Want something a little more modern? Maybe a little less heartbreaking? You’ll find it in Mark Haddon‘s A Spot of Bother (2006, Doubleday). It’s not really a romping, rollicking comedy (though there are laughs), but the story of Jamie and Tony’s boyfriendship will strike you with familiarity. The story’s built around Jamie’s dad, George, but like lots of great novels, it’s a powerful story of family and how we navigate expectations and notions of belonging.

Last spring, I read The Art of Fielding (2011, Back Bay Books),

and it is a wonderful read from Chad Harbach. It’s really the story of Guert Affenlight and Henry Skrimshander, the Westish College president and its heroic star short stop, accordingly. It’s somewhat of a baseball novel, but it’s much more about surrendering to your gut, to instinctual desire, no matter when or where it hits you. You could also dig into Alan Hollinghurst‘s incredible output, starting with the arresting The Line of Beauty (2005, Bloomsbury, USA). It’s just so good. There’s a great BBC mini-series rendering of it, too, and that’s just as powerful and breathtaking as the novel. I read it in two or three nights because I needed to know what was going to happen to Nick Guest, a protagonist that’s so easy to connect with and get behind.

Of course, there’s Christopher Rice’s pulpy thrill-flavored macabre, Michael Chabon’s brilliant explorations of boyhood and manhood, Larry Kramer’s in-your-face crowning achievements and Jeffrey Eugenides’ stirring exploration of gender identities.

The list goes on. In fact, consider exploring Flavorwire’s 50 Essential LGBT fiction works, The Good Men Project’s Best LGBT Books of All Time list, Buzzfeed’s 27 Must Have Summer Queer Reads list and the massive Goodreads’ LGBT-tagged list forum.

So, get yourself to a library or bookstore, grab a Kindle or whatever. Please. (I ain’t too proud to beg.) We are much more than the Gayborhood and Facebook. We are people who have stories that need to be told. We are lovers who hurt and long just like our heterosexual kin. We are complex individuals with incredible wit and humor. And all this depth and complexity is right there for the taking. You just have to reach out. 

A scientist throws down the gauntlet.

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t’s been over a decade since I first negotiated with an unhinged, irrational human being in a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse. That time, the topic was vaccines. Bless my initial clumsy attempts to convince a fellow citizen to not risk the life of their child and the lives of others in their community; my hands shook, and my throat seemed to collapse in on itself. I recall heat raging on the sides of my face as spectators clustered in an anticipatory mob, waiting for a single verbal misstep. My years of careful study and internship hadn’t prepared me for this; no degree, fellowship or fact could penetrate the mocking refrains hurled my way: Shill. Sheeple. I did my own research. I don’t need a fancy degree to understand complex hosttransmission dynamics—I’m not stupid, you know. And then the death blow: I won’t do something just because you tell me.

Of course you won’t. And now, 10 years into our little tango, into my death-defying attempts to rescue you, I am done arguing. Just go ahead.

Shoot the hostage.

Look, I get it. From tweed-festooned blowhards spouting their impenetrable ivory tower academese, to corrupt government officials trying to cover their asses, it’s hard these days to find a scientist to like, let alone trust. Trust in public figures isn’t sexy or fashionable. It doesn’t have that ring of smart liberal (or libertarian) cache to say, “I trust the director of the CDC when he says I won’t get Ebola.” After all, we don’t want to be followers.

We’re savvy. We know they’re not telling us the truth—they’re just protecting another campaign contributor or pharma multinational. Right?

Well, frankly, nobody cares if you trust the government or not. You sound patently ridiculous demanding organic vaccines and GMO-free face cream, and railing against The Man every time someone suggests the occasional Diet Coke won’t kill you and you should probably get a flu shot. And you should. Flu season is serious. This year and every year.

Fact is, iconoclast science denier, Doctor of Google Search, imbiber of cleanses and fearer of plastics: You don’t have the leverage in our little game anymore. The jig is up. Thanks to science—specifically, an enlightening study by Brendan Nyhan et al., peer-reviewed by the American Academy of Pediatrics, examining parents’ responses to education about how vaccines work—I now have some solid evidence for something I have always suspected: You don’t listen to anything I say, and anything I say will backfire. The more you plead for facts, and the more enthusiastically I provide them, the more you disregard that very evidence.

So I’m done. No longer will I capitulate to your demands for explanation only to be told I am patronizing you—and yes, we get it, you’re not stupid. No more will I attend workshop after seminar after symposium during which the great scientific minds of my generation puzzle over how to reach you and make you understand so you don’t kill yourself with the next unregulated supplement or spread a disease that ends up killing a bunch of infants. I don’t care anymore whether or not you spend the rest of your dull life rocking back and forth in a corner, petrified of the latest hybrid apple.

Because let’s face it: You care about my findings, or scientific evidence in general, about as much as Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson cares about Kim Kardashian’s latest take on string theory.

Frankly, I have important shit to do. Despite your fairly constant whining, I am sworn to protect you and to create the conditions under which you can lead a healthy, happy life. But I am beginning to take serious ethical issue with my position as perpetual sales-scientist. I have long held a solemn commitment to public health, a discipline created to protect the health, well-being and human rights of entire populations of people. Instead of honoring that commitment, I’m spending a lot of my time worrying that my communication of new Ebola information—no, we are not closing the damn borders—isn’t achieving the perfect Brian Cox-meets-Anderson-Cooper tenor for you.

I can no longer talk you through your next diet as entire communities of your fellow humans collapse under the burdens of poverty and disease. I can no longer afford to coddle you. You are on your own. And considering your facility with Google, I suspect you’ll be just fine without me.

Just don’t forget that flu shot. // JAIME ANNE EARNEST Jaime Anne Earnest, M.P.H., is a native of Philadelphia and Delaware (but not New Jersey), and is currently a life-sciences research scholar in the UK.

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Those who take stock in astrology—otherwise known as a third to half of Americans, based upon another poll released this year—say that communication breakdowns are common during these periods and that important decisions should be avoided altogether. I don’t like to admit to superstition, but I’m frustrated to say there is a direct correlation between my moodiness and these times.

Or, maybe, I’m just actively observing a coincidence because I’d like to feel there’s a grand reason for my mood cycles.

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Not much. And there’s really no difference in believing that I’m feeling moody because of Mercury’s apparent retrograde motion, or because a ghost is haunting my apartment, or because God is smiting me. In each case, there’s no real way to satisfactorily prove, or disprove, the belief.

That, of course, is why we don’t allow faith-based beliefs to get all up in government. Do you really want Shirley MacLaine looking into her crystal ball to dictate monetary policy?

We oftentimes forget that faith is a belief in something absent evidence. That’s why I think that when ghost hunters go out and try to record audio of someone’s dead grandmother, they’re doing something rather silly. Isn’t it enough to simply have the faith that something exists, particularly if you need that belief to justify the universe’s pain and chaos?

Apparently not. Because we’ve got fundamentalist Christians building museums trying to prove their belief that dinosaur bones are only a few thousand years old. We’ve got television mediums trying to prove that people’s dead relatives are still hanging around to offer love and forgiveness. And I’ve spent entirely too much time trying to convince myself that Mercury is the real dickhead in my life, instead of, you know, me.

Maybe, just maybe, instead of trying to pin down a meaning to the universe, I should just live in it. 

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o my colleague Randy LoBasso went looking for ghosts around an old, abandoned building outside Philadelphia. (See page 13.) Some people—like, about five people out of 7 billion on earth—say the place is haunted.

Oooooo, spooky. Or, you know, not.

While I’d love to think that my grandmother, who died in 1988, is somehow still around, I have a hard time wrapping my head around the idea. Practically speaking, I’m not sure what Mom-Mom would want with the tawdriness of life on earth; what, she’s floating about like Casper, making electric appliances short-circuit and tapping me on the shoulder in the dark?

Doesn’t she have better things to do? Set loose from fleshy constraints and embedded in the infinite wonder of creation, what could my dead grandmother’s spirit possibly need in Bella Vista?

People who believe in ghosts, who even hunt for ghosts, tend to take a less esoteric and more everyday view of ghosts than I might. In their minds, these spirits exist alongside us, often trying to communicate message somehow. This belief is popular: A 2013 HuffPo/YouGov poll found that 45 percent of Americans believe in ghosts in some way or another. A third of Americans believe that ghosts or spirits can and do interact with (and harm) the living—and almost as many of us, 28 percent, believe they personally have been in direct contact with the netherworld.

I’m not sure what’s more frightening: The prospect that a pissed-off specter might beat me up, or that we trust a political system wherein 28 percent of its voters think any given tomorrow might involve a chat with the dead.

Riding the wave of our belief in ghosts are the television psychics: folks who not only cannot ever specifically predict the future, but who also transparently fish for “hits” in their audiences.

“I’m sensing an ‘A,’” the modern day fortuneteller will ask the audience, eyes closed, arms outstretched, “Or is it an ‘E?’ ‘B’?”

“My husband’s name was Brad,” some abruptly hopeful person will shout from the audience. Bingo! Welcome to the circus of human pain, featuring homo sapiens as the dancing bears, ridiculous animals desperately grasping for meaning in a chaotic and often sad universe.

Me, I take a generally cynical view of charlatans, psychics, and so-called ghost hunters. Of course—to be fair, I should note for the record that, lately, I’ve been concerned about Mercury’s retrograde cycle.

Yes, that would be astrology.

See, a few times a year, I notice that I get a little raw emotionally. My typically sharp communication skills become blunted, and everything everyone does pisses me off. Invariably, during these times, Mercury is, in fact, in retrograde motion.

For those unfamiliar, “Mercury in retrograde” basically means that, three or four times a year, an optical illusion causes it to appear, from our vantage point on Earth, that Mercury’s orbit has reversed itself and the planet is revolving

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I’m a 20-something married trans guy in an openish marriage. In the online hunt for a guy to have some aboveboard, under-the-sheets fun with, I run into snags because I’m trans (I disclose on my profile) and because I’m married. I’m baby-stepping my way toward an offline search for guys, going to events hosted by the local gay pride center. I’ve been thinking of not wearing my wedding ring at these meet-ups, as I worry it says I’m taken and off-limits. Would it be dishonest for me to present myself as unmarried as long as I make it clear that I’m not looking for romance?

Totally On-Limits Dude My response is likely to wind up on antigay websites, so let me preface it with this: We only started hearing that monogamy wasn’t just the cultural expectation/default setting for married couples but a crucial, essential, definitional element of marriage when same-sex couples began to press for marriage rights.

Married heterosexual swingers were fucking around decades before the marriage-equality movement got off the ground. And religious conservatives, while not fans of swinging, never argued that nonmonogamous heterosexual couples weren’t really married or that they should be barred from marrying. So it seems that monogamy—like children and religion—only defines marriage when same-sex couples want to marry.

Anyway, TOLD, you don’t have to be married to be monogamous or monogamous to be married— and most gay male couples, married or not, aren’t monogamous. So go ahead and wear your wedding ring. While a wedding ring on a straight married man will be assumed to mean “taken and off-limits,” the same assumption doesn’t apply in the case of a married gay man. If someone at one of the events you’re attending is interested in you, he’s likely to flirt with you first and make polite inquiries about your marriage (monogamous? Open? Poly?) second. Your trans disclosure is likelier to be the bigger deal— and a far bigger obstacle for most (but not all) gay men—than your wedding ring. Good luck.

My husband recently admitted that he masturbates once a day, sometimes twice. My confusion stems from the fact that we have sex once a day, sometimes twice. We’ve had problems in the past with him staring at other women (everyone does it, but I do feel discretion in front of a spouse is required) and with him wanting more novelty in bed (watch porn, wear lingerie, use toys). I’ve always had the higher libido and the more positive attitude toward sex in all of my relationships, but right now, I feel overwhelmed and, honestly, a little put off. I want to feel GGG again, but am having trouble. What do you think?

Whence This Feeling?

The guys you were with before you met your husband—all those sex-negative/less-sex-positive guys with their lower-than-yours libidos—did you ever complain about them? Did you ever think about writing me a letter asking how to get those guys to be a little more adventurous in bed? And now you’re complaining about being with a guy who has a higher libido and who is just as sex-positive as you are? My advice: Stop pathologizing your husband.

You probably didn’t appreciate it when past partners made you feel like your libido was a problem. Your husband’s libido isn’t a problem either. If you’re not interested in porn, lingerie or toys, say so. But look on the bright side: You’re lucky enough to be with a

guy whose libido exceeds your own (for a change!), so your needs will never be neglected. Yahtzee.

I recently moved to a new apartment where most tenants are retirees—I am a 25-year-old. My SO and I enjoy loud play. She is very vocal, which happens to be one of my biggest turn-ons. I’m worried we are being too loud. My old place had thicker walls and younger neighbors. I am concerned not only that we are waking up my neighbors, but that we may find ourselves on the receiving end of a noise complaint. Is there a way to politely bring the topic up with my neighbors to see if we’ve been bothering them?

Stressing Over Unwanted Neighborly Disputes If your neighbors haven’t made it an issue, why would you want to make it one? Maybe thinner walls and older ears resulted in a wash, leaving your older new neighbors just as insulated from your loud sex as your younger old ones used to be.

I am an adult hetero woman, and I have a recurring fantasy that gives me pause. I was never abused as a child, and I have ABSOLUTELY NO sexual interest in children. However, in my fantasy, I am 9 years old and being seduced by a gorgeous man in his 30s. It ends with us having intercourse. I don’t feel guilty—no harm done, after all—but I do feel strange. Help me out: Fight the fantasy? Or is it OK? Kinky In Distress You’re not fantasizing about having sex with children—excuse me: You’re not fantasizing about raping children—you’re fantasizing about being a child who is “seduced” (read: raped) by a gorgeous man (read: a rapist). Your fantasy is unrealizable except through consensual “age play,” a kink that has not been linked to pedophilia. So while your fantasy is very deeply squicky (VDS), no one is harmed when you indulge yourself in your VDS fantasy. But be careful with whom you share it, lest you wind up attracting an actual pedophile (someone who wishes you were a 9-year-old girl) or repelling someone who can’t wrap his head around the essential harmlessness of your VDS fantasy. (Some recommended reading for you: The Toybag Guide to Age Play by Bridgett “Lee” Harrington.)

Now that fecal transplants are all the rage for correcting gut microflora imbalances, when are we going to hear about the healing benefits of sharing anal toys?

Sharing Is Caring, Kids The poop being used to treat microflora imbalances is “strained, centrifuged and frozen,” according to a report in The New York Times. This medicinal-grade poop now comes in pill form, and researchers predict that these shit pills—administered orally— could save the lives of 14,000 Americans every year.

(I call on President Obama to appoint a microflora imbalance czar.) Since the poop in your butt hasn’t been strained, centrifuged and frozen, sharing anal toys is unlikely to provide the same health benefits to your partners.

So the advice around plugs and other ass toys remains the same: no sharing during play, abort if santorum is present, wash toys with hot water and soap before reuse. However, we may need to revise the insult “eat shit and die” in light of this new lifesaving/shit-eating treatment. 

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Michael J Aster.................. unit 2429 Sharita Butler ................... unit 3003 Cary Coleman.................... unit 5080 Justin Michael Desantis .... unit 2524 Ronnie Dean ..................... unit 4120 Daynell EA Nicholson ........ unit 2029 Marcia Gomez .................. unit 5055 Shandel Gregory ............... unit 5090 Annette Rech .................... unit 2041 Deandre J Jackson ............ unit 5191 Jeffrey McBryde................. unit 5109 Deborah E Samuels .......... unit 2514 Mary F McClennan ............ unit 4033 Lynne Sanders .................. unit 1356 Clifton Reed .................... unit 5009B Ernest G Savoy .................. unit 2010 Alfred J Walker JR .............. unit 1104 Ebony J Thomas ................ unit 5128

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1606 LOCUST: SMALL BUT WELL LOCATED. GREAT VIEW of ST. MARKS from your FRENCH WINDOWS. Hot Water & Heat Included. Up to Two Months Free. $1075 Manny (267)325-2593 171 GRAPE, #171: $1325/mo 1BD/1BA at BridgeView in Manayunk! 1.5 blocks from Main St. C/A, W/D, eat-in ktchn, small pets welcome! CALL STUART COHEN BHHS FOX & ROACH 215.627.6005/215.558.2105 23RD & PINE- Cozy 1BR in desirab l e n ei g h b orh ood , Ca r p et in g , Ample closets, Laundry in bldg, Pvt entr. AVAIL NOW/NOV! $985 MSRE, 215-925-RENT(7368), www.

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Easy walking distance downtown, Temple University, Hahnemann University Hospital, Community College of Philadelphia, Drexel Med School, PMA, The Barnes, Rodin, Whole Foods and Starbucks. First month and security deposit with all applications. $50.00 application per applicant and pet deposit. $1300/ mo. 215-779-5479

THE CHATHAM: 20th & WALNUTSpacious Studios & 1BR in High rise, Doorman bldg w/Magnificent Western & Southern exposure, View of Rittenhouse Square, HW flrs, Laundry on site, Prof managed. AVAIL NOW! ALL UTILS INCL. FROM $1225/mo.

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267-254-1914 WASHINGTON SQ WEST: 501 S.9th St., Charming 2 bed home with patio garden, dressing room & high end kitchen. $2400/mo John Brown, BHHS Fox & Roach, LP. Direct: 215-440-8173

22ND & FEDERAL Great neighborhood, C/A, H/W,all brand new. W/D, back yard. $975/mo. 215-292-2176 231 9 S. CA R L I S L E : $ 1 4 0 0/m o 3BD/1.5BA just a block off Broad! New eat-in ktchn, full bsmnt, C/A, W/D, open floor plan, freshly painted bdrms!!

CALL AME GOLDMAN BHHS FOX & ROACH 215.267.6005/215.868.3532 5TH & LOMBARD- Beautiful contemporary 3BR Townhome on peaceful treelined street, Pvt GARAGE PARKING INCLUDED, 2.5BA, HW flrs, W/D, C/A, Courtyard entrance, Bsmnt w/Lots of storage space. AVAIL NOW! $2750/ mo+. MSRE, 215-925-RENT(7368), www.

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SUN., OCT. 26TH 11:00AM-12:00PM Washington sq. West 1029-33 spruce st., 303 $279,000 Bhhs Fox & roach

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12:00–12:30PM art museum the philadelphian 2401 pennsylvania ave $765,000 allan domB

12:00-1:00PM graduate hospital 2104 south st. #3 $295,000 Bhhs Fox & roach Bella vista 801 south st. e $539,000 Bhhs Fox & roach pennsport 1230 e. moyamensing st. $300,000 Bhhs Fox & roach south philadelphia 1318 mcclellan st. $225,000 Bhhs Fox & roach pennsport 333 tasker st. $385,800 Bhhs Fox & roach

1:30-2:30PM Bella vista 744-746 s. 10th st. $1,750,000 Bhhs, Fox & roach queen village 842 s. 3rd st. $849,999 Bhhs, Fox & roach art museum 700 n. pennock st. unit 201 $239,900 Bhhs, Fox & roach rittenhouse square 1707 pine st. $879,000 Bhhs, Fox & roach

society hill 22 s Front st. $539,900 allan domB

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queen village 419 Fulton st. $459,900 Bhhs, Fox & roach

society hill toWers 200 locust st. $469.900 allan domB

passyunk square 1927 s. 12th st. $259,900 Bhhs Fox & roach

graduate hospital 1812 FitzWater st. $499,000 Bhhs, Fox & roach

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queen village 208-210 FitzWater st. $499,900 Bhhs, Fox & roach

society hill 245 s. 7th st. $825,000 Bhhs Fox & roach

rittenhouse square 1707 pine st. $879,000 Bhhs, Fox & roach

rittenhouse square 2127 tryon st. $500,000 Bhhs Fox & roach

society hill 308 lomBard st. $895,000 Bhhs, Fox & roach society hill 305 gaskill st. $679,900 Bhhs, Fox & roach Bella vista 744-746 s. 10th st. $1,750,000 Bhhs, Fox & roach pennsport 109 Federal st. $479,900 Bhhs, Fox & roach point Breeze 1924 manton st. $329,900 Bhhs, Fox & roach queen village 114 kenilWorth st. $689,000 Bhhs, Fox & roach

graduate hospital 800 s. 19th st. $989,900 Bhhs Fox & roach

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12:45–1:15PM WaterFront - pier 3 3 n columBus Blvd. $319,900 allan domB Washington square independence place 241 s. 6th st. $499,900 allan domB

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pennsport 118 emily st. $229,900 Bhhs, Fox & roach

passyunk square 617 reed st. #302 $499,000 plumer & associates

queen village 518-20 carpenter st. $695,000 Bhhs Fox & roach

rittenhouse square 1730 pine st. #4 $310,000 Bhhs Fox & roach

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Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, 33 Bd/2 Ba; 1830 Addison St.sqRittenhouse Sq. 314Bedrooms 400 delmar Street, Bedrooms $175,000 to $225,000 OPEN SUNDA 11Roxborough AM - 1 PMSq. 353 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, Bed/4.3 Bath; 7,320 ft Colonial $2,300,000 $525,000 OPEN SUNDA Y 2 4 PM Open House Sunday 2p-4p $525,000 1830 Addison St. Rittenhouse Sq. Includes real estate tax • Noto transfer 1830 Addison St.Bryn Rittenhouse Sq. 2 Bedrooms 3 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, 1830 1440 Addison St.Road, Rittenhouse Sq.tax 2427 Carpenter Street, Graduate Hospital 710 Preston Avenue, Mawr, Renovated 4 Bd/2 Bed/2Bath; 1880 sq ft End Unit $167,000 $525,000 3$525,000 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, $250,000 $400,000 49 Cornell Rd., Bala Cynwyd flat Rock Penn Valley Addison St. Rittenhouse Sq. Addison St.sq Rittenhouse Addison St. Rittenhouse Sq. 31830 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, 3Bd/2 Bed/2.1 Bath; 1,800 ft Twin $375,000Sq. 31830 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, $525,000 31830 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, 4206 Pechin Street, Roxborough $525,000 5Bd/2 Bed/4.1 Bath Colonial for rent $5,000/month 3 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, 3 Bedrooms $400,000 to 12-6pm $500,000 3 431 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, 3BD/1.1BA; Townhouse $329K Sq. 3 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, Open Sun 11-4pm | Mon 1830 Addison St. Rittenhouse Montgomery Avenue, Merion Station 5BD/2.2Ba 3,314 Sq. Ft. Colonial 1830 Addison St. Rittenhouse Sq. $525,000 $525,000 $525,000 $525,000 $525,000 4 Bed/1.1 Bath; sq ft Twin Sq. 273 Meeting House Lane, Stationtax 6$525,000 Bed/4.2 Bath; 5500 ft Colonial $1,025,000 1830 St.1,649 Rittenhouse Includes real 9-6pm estate tax •Merion No transfer Tues-Fri | Sat 12-3pm 31830 Bd/2 Ba; Street, RenovatedTownhome, 1830 Addison St. sq Rittenhouse Finished, LL/month $549K Sq. 510 S.Addison 11th Wash Square West 31830 Bd/2 Ba; 5 Bed/4.2 Bath; 5,442 sqft French Colonial $1,170,000 AlsoRenovatedTownhome, forWalk-out RentSt. $5,500 Addison St. Rittenhouse Sq. Addison Rittenhouse Sq. $1,575/month 1830 Addison St. Rittenhouse Sq. 3$525,000 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, 31407 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, 3 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, 1811 Brooks Road, West Chester $525,000 3 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, 1212 Weybridge Lane, Wayne 3 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, County Line Rd., Bryn Mawr 3BD/2BA; 3-Story Twnhome C/ASquare $339K Open Sun 11-4pm | Mon 12-6pm 2301 Cherry Street 4Q, Logan 4 Bed/2.1 bath; 2829 sq ft colonial on $525,000 $525,000 3Bed/3.1bath; 3,580 sq ftState 2 story colonial in desirable $525,000 $525,000 $525,000 707 Conshohocken Cynwyd Rittenhouse Sq. 2.0 acres. $560,000 Tues-Fri 9-6pm | Rd., SatBala 12-3pm 3 1830 Bed/ 2.1Addison Bath; 1778St. sq ft Condo at Riverview 1830 Addison St. Rittenhouse Denbigh. $745,000 5BD/3BA; Renovated Colonial Sq. 1830 Addison St. Rittenhouse Sq. 1519 Swain Street, Art Museum Area 1830 Addison St. Rittenhouse Sq. 1830 Addison St. Rittenhouse Sq. 818 Aubrey Avenue, Ardmore, Renovated 1025 Barr Lane, Gladwyne 1830 Addison St. Rittenhouse Sq. 4BD/2BA; Colonial in college Park 33Bd/2 $450,000 1830 Addison St. Rittenhouse Sq. Bd/2Ba; Ba;RenovatedTownhome, RenovatedTownhome, 1830 Addison St. Rittenhouse Sq. 3 3Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, Acres; Walk Train 3 Bd/2 Ba; Sq. RenovatedTownhome, 4bd/3.1Ba 2625 Ft; Renovated Cape $500,000 43/4 Bed/3.1Bath; 2,400to sq ft Twin $724K $425,000 3BD/2.1BA 1,552 Sq. Ft Townhouse $525,000 3 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, $525,000 $525,000 $525,000 5236 Master Street, Philadelphia 3$525,000 Bd/2 31,598 Bd/2 Ba;Ridgewood RenovatedTownhome, 1230 Road, Bryn Mawr Sq.Ft; 1-Car Attached Garage $349K 739 Ba; BuckRenovatedTownhome, Lane, Haverford, Renovated 5 Bed/4.2 Bath; 6755 sq ft French Estate w/pool, $1,875,000 $525,000 4 Bed/2.1 Bath; 2,200 sq ft Twin $425,000.

4 Bed/1 Bath; 1,600 sq ft End Unit Townhome Renovated, Central Air; Finished LL $399K $525,000 $525,000 1245 Hollow Rd., Penn ValleySq. 1830 Addison St. Rittenhouse Sq. Open House Sunday 2p-4p Also for Rent $9,000 /month.

1830 Addison St. Rittenhouse Open House Sunday 2p-4p 1830 Addison St. Rittenhouse Sq. $79,000 190 Presidential #301 The Corinthian 33 Chestnut Avenue, Bala Cynwyd 257 Tomkenn Road, Wynnewood 3 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, 1830 Addison Rittenhouse Sq.l 4BD/4.1Ba Contemporary 1727 Fitzwater St.,St. #A -flr, Graduate Hospita 34Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, 1830 Addison St. Rittenhouse Sq. 3 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, 1830 Addison St. Rittenhouse Sq. 1438 Snyder Ave. 2nd South Phila.

Bed/2.1 Bath; 2748 sq ft Colonial Rent for 3 Bed/1 Bath; Townhome For rent $1,750/month 3$525,000 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, 3BD/3.1BA, 2700 Sq.Ft w/ Balcony 5,620 Sq.Ft. $1,500,000 Townhouse $350K 3$525,000 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, $3,000/month 3$525,000 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, 264 W. Montgomery Ave. #101, Haverford 22BD/1.1BA Bed/1Bath for rent $950/month.

700 Ardmore Ave #207, Ardmore 1 Bed/1 Bath; 827 sq ft Condo at the Mansard House $199,000. $525,000 $525,000 $525,000 Updated; For Rent $4,700/month or $749K 1830 Addison Sq. 4316 flemingStreet StSt. 2ndRittenhouse fLR, Manayunk 3508 Hamilton - Powelton Village bed 2.1 bath;St. 1,152Rittenhouse sq ft Renovated Sq. Mallard St. Lane, Chester SpringsSq. 18302 Addison 18301546 Addison Rittenhouse Townhome In Haverford Village $227,500 5.10 acres lot w/stream $140,000 1 Bed, 13,300 Bath For Rent $850/month 3 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, 1830 Addison St. Rittenhouse Sq. 4BD/3.1BA; Sq. Ft. REDUCED $635k 31348 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, 1830 Addison St. Rittenhouse Sq. 3 300 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, 1830 Addison St. Rittenhouse Sq. Bobarn Penn Valley Lawrence Road, Broomall,Ardmore Renovated 1526 Knox Drive, Road, Wynnewood 2636 Chestnut Street, $525,000 3 Bd/2 RenovatedTownhome, 4316Ba; fleming St 1st fLR, Manayunk 3 Bed/3 Bath; 2,000 sq ft Ranch $400,000 3$525,000 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, Charming 3 bed/2bath colonial in South Ardmore 3$525,000 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, 5BD/4.1BA, 5588 Contemporary 1333 South Street - Washington Square West 3BD/1.1BA Twin w/ Attached Garage Open House Sunday 2p-4p Park. $400,000. Open House Sunday 2p-4p 2 Bed/2 Bath For Rent $1,250/month $525,000 $525,000 $525,000 728-730 Preston Avenue, Bryn Mawr, Renovated 1830 St. Rittenhouse Sq. Duplex Addison w/ Parking; Separate Utilities $499K 1,280 Sq. FtRittenhouse 1830 St..89 Rittenhouse 200Garage; Simpson Road, Ardmore 2-3 Addison Car Acres $879K Sq. St.sq Sq. 51830 Bed/2.1Addison Bath; 3,000 ft$199,900 Traditional $665,000 2351 N.Ba; orianna St. Temple university & 2 apartments) $435,000 3 Bd/2 RenovatedTownhome, 3Commercial Bd/2 Ba;(office RenovatedTownhome, 20 W dartmouth Road, Bala Cynwyd 3 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, -- OAK HILL PENN VALLEY -1501 S. 12th Street - $25,000 Passyunk Square Lot 0.01 acres 759 Conestoga Road, Berwyn 4 Bed/2.1 Bath; 2,761 sq ft Split-level $565,000. $525,000 $525,000 $525,000

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Historic, meticulously restored architectural gem.

An art collector’s dream. 6 beds, 4.2 baths. Bright, airy, spacious rooms; L/R, D/R, EI Kit, Den, Lib, Sunrm, Gym. Sep apt w/kit, bed, L/R, W/D. 2 sty, 3 car gar, 6,184 sqft, 0.46 acre lot.

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Large Three Bedrooms, 3 Bathrooms, Deck, Central Air, Hardwood Floors. $199,000.

1143 S. DorraNce Street

3 Bedrooms, 3 Bathrooms, Finished Basement Close to Washington Ave. $209,000.

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2307 S. BuckNell Street 2 Bedrooms, Porch Front, $79,400.

graduate hosPitaL area 1606, 1621 weBSter Street

Renovated, 2 Bedrooms, 3 Bathrooms, Finished Basement, $369,000 Each.

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Total Renovation, Two Master Suites, Hardwood Floors, Large Yard, $269,000.

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Approximately 9,500Sq Ft on one floor, High Ceilings, Overhead Door on 4th Street, $599,900.

Vacant Lot in 19146 2308 Gerritt Street 14x50 Ft, $25,000.

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$989,900

Bella Vista

$679,000

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Super unique 2BD/2BA with a loft condo with garage parking, refinished original hardwood floors, soaring ceilings and much more at the corner of 10th & Bainbridge! The kitchen and dining room area boasts a soaring 15’ ceiling with wood beam ceilings, track lighting, and a large window with beautiful views…and that’s just the beginning!

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Washington Square West

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215-465-3733

Old City

$475,000

Fantastic 2BD/2BA tri-level unit with a den, penthouse office/3rd bedroom and a roof deck with incredible views all located on a cobblestone street in a truly unique neighborhood! One of only 3 units in the condominium, this abode boasts a bright bedroom, great eat-in kitchen and a roof deck with breathtaking views.

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$1,189,000

Beautiful renovated and absolutely stunning 3 bedroom plus a den, 2.5 bath home with 1-car parking, hardwood floors, 2 zoned heating and air and approximately 4 years left on the 10 year tax abatement!! The den has a cozy gas fireplace and private deck and the top floor has a large deck with great views! Don’t miss!

Spring Arts

$419,000

Beautiful 3BD/3BA condo unit in pristine condition with parking and a tax abatement! Boasting a modern kitchen with dark wood cabinetry, stainless steel appliances & a bar counter and bedrooms with great natural lighting, a walk-in closet and more, this unit is all you’d want and more!

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Grand spacious home on several parcels of land, beautiful detail throughout, gated garden with private terraces, 3-4 car garage. Ideal for entertaining

620 S AMERICAN ST QUEEN VILLAGE Open Sunday 10/26 1:30-2:30PM

Dramatic Cecil Baker designed home, 5br, 3b, 3 story atrium, chef’s kitchen, garden, 1 yr paid parking

$2,600,000 Call Izzy Sigman

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429 N 13TH ST 4G

617 REED ST #302 PASSYUNK SQ NEW LISTING! Open Sunday 10/26 1-2PM

Wonderful loft, 1br, 1b, +/1678sf, new kitchen & bath, custom built-ins, 11 large windows, 12’ ceilings $539,000 Call Franz Rabauer

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334 S 3RD ST SOCIETY HILL Open Sunday 10/26 1:30-2:30PM

Contemporary 2br, 2.5b, f/p, 2 decks, incredible light throughout $718,000 Call Margaret Szumski

130 SPRUCE ST #19B PENN’S LANDING SQ NEW LISTING!

Recently updated 1br, 1b condo, h/w flrs, indoor deeded parking, pool

Spectacular bi-level penthouse loft, 2br, 2.5 b, +/1589sf, original architectural & machine age details, private wrap around deck, 2 car garage parking

$349,000 Call Izzy Sigman

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FEATURED QUEEN VILLAGE RITTENHOUSE

3 Story Victorian Row NEW LISTING SQUARE BELLA VISTA Duplex Just Renovated!

1 Bedroom 1 Bath $335,000 $339,000 MLS 5965620 MLS 5787044

Powers Brangan

215.893.9920 Rittenhouse Square 2000 Pine Street Philadelphia, PA 19103

215.247.3600 Chestnut Hill 8039 Germantown Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19118

604 ANNIN ST PASSYUNK SQ NEW LISTING! Open Sunday 10/26 11:30-12:30PM

Rehabbed 2br, den, 2b, custom closets, deck, patio $299,999 Call Cecile Steinriede

Charming Condominium NEW$339,000 LISTING

Alexandra

226 South Street

215 922 4200 QUEEN VILLAGE FISHTOWN Duplex Open Floor Plan

$369,000 3 Bedrooms 2.5 Baths

MLS 6471895

3 Bedrooms SQUARE1.5 Baths FAIRmOUNT

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$549,900 Call Scott Neifeld

Gorgeous new construction with 4 bedroom $329,900 3.5 bath townhome a MLS home 5965611 classic facade with contemporary interior. Smart system, 10 year MLS 5784384 Tax abatement, and 1 car garage. $850,000

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$499,000 Call Scott Neifeld

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768 S MARVINE ST NEW LISTING!

1 Bedroom 1 Bathwith garage Contemporary townhome MLS 5950613 $225,000 parking.

MLS 5777406

$599,900

Powers Brangan PENNSPORT CENTER CITY MLS 6471881

NEW LISTING 3 Bedrooms State of the2artBaths Loft FISHTOWN Condominium $239,000

Large renovated brownstone 2 Bedrooms 2 Baths in the MLS 5956986 heart of$489,555 Fishtown. 18 feet wide, MLSfloors 5746449 hardwood throughout.

$329,000 MLS 6471151

CENTER CITY NORTHERN

UNIVERSITY CITY UNDER CONTRACT UNIVERSITY CITY Sunny Townhouse FITLER SQUARE Sunny Townhouse

Perfect location! Beautiful 33 Bedrooms 2.5Baths Baths Bedrooms 2.5 townhome on a tree lined street. $242,500 $259,900 Living and dining area with MLSbeam 5790241 MLS 5790241 exposed ceiling.

$799,000

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PROPERTY

The Residences at up, featuring three bedrooms, master suite, and roof deck with THE MURANO beautiful city in views.

Satring the $329,000

The Residences

$400,000s at THE MURANO

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1-2 $379,000 1208 SAINT JAmES ST 1 Bedroom 1 Bath

FAIRmOUNT Starting

$369,999 MLS 6449724

$649,000 MLS 6468616

MLS 5897864 Lovely townhouse $269,900with an inviting open floor and a gas fireplace.

MLSplan 5744269

in the $400,000s

Commercial opportunity. Extremely rare opportunity to own a 3 story (with usable lower level, making 4 story) property.

CENTER CITY LUXURY SALES

avenue of the arts

AcAdemy House 1420 Locust street

Junior 1 bedroom on a high floor with lots of natural light, great closet space and an updated kitchen, 624 sf $247,500 Completely renovated south facing 1 bedroom with hardwood floors, an open kitchen, great closets and a Juliet balcony, 706 sf $279,900 2 bedroom, 1.5 bath on a high floor with north and east city views, large great room and a W/D in the unit, 1019 sf $359,900 2 bedroom, 2 bath with wood floors, a renovated eat-in-kitchen, large and open entertaining space, panoramic western city views, 1314 sf $399,900

center city one 1326 spruce street

2 bedroom, 2 bathroom, city views to the north, great closet space, 2 balconies, W/D, 1209 sf $399,900

society hill towers

1183 sf $469,900 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, completely updated Open Sunday 10/26 12-12:30pm

rittenhouse square

1830 rittenHouse squAre

2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, wood floors, lots of natural light,updated eat-in kitchen, marble bath, beautiful original building details, $639,900 1136 sf

rittenHouse sAvoy 1810 rittenhouse square tHe BArclAy 237 s. 18th street

Corner 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom with original building details including high ceilings and oversized windows as well as high-end modern features such as an open chef’s kitchen, there are custom stained glass windows throughout and lots of natural light, $1,195,000 1900 sf

tHe wArwick 1701 Locust street

1 bedroom overlooking the Art Museum with a large kitchen, spacious great room and excellent closet space throughout, 1262 sf $199,900 Art Museum facing 1 bedroom with a 24’ balcony, recently updated kitchen and bath and W/D, 1262 sf $289,900 Bi-level penthouse with soaring ceilings and window walls providing dramatic city views to the east and west; 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths,2 large terraces, 3278 sf Open Sunday 10/26 12:00 - 12:30pm $765,000

1 bedroom, excellent closet space, floor-tofloor ceiling windows, panoramic southern views, 712 sf $259,900 1 bedroom, wood floors, floor to ceiling windows with breathtaking river views, potential investment opportunity, 700 sf $269,900 2 bedrooms, 2 bathroom, north and west treetop city views, wood floors, floor-toceiling windows, great living/entertaining space, 1183 sf Open Sunday 10/26 12-12:30pm $469,900

tHe pHilAdelpHiAn 2401 pennsyLvania avenue

society hill

22 s Front street

22 st. JAmes court

Multi-level townhouse condo with 2 bedrooms and 2 baths, lots of natural light, high ceilings, wood floors, and a balcony overlooking the $425,000 landscaped courtyard, 1602 sf

the Barclay

2 bedroom, 2 bathroom, parking space in building’s garage, open floor plan, hardwood floor, chef’s kitchen, floor-to-ceiling windows, 1203 sf Open Sunday 10/26 12-12:30pm $539,900

indePendence Place

williAm penn House 1919 chestnut street

South-facing studio in this highly coveted cooperative on a high floor with lots of natural light, wood floors and an open kitchen, 462 sf

pArc rittenHouse 225 s. 18th street

$155,000

1 bedroom, wood floors, balcony, marble bath, excellent closet space, 765 sf $389,900 1 bedroom plus den (can be used as 2nd

bedroom), 2 bathroom with 2 balconies overlooking the building’s landscaped courtyard, large modern kitchen, marble baths, hardwood floors, 1422 sf $729,900

South facing 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom

with lots of natural light, an open designer kitchen, wood floors, marble baths, w/d, 1013 sf $799,900 1 bedroom plus den (can be used as a 2nd bedroom), 2 bathrooms, hardwood floors, open contemporary kitchen, 2 Juliet balconies overlooking a landscaped courtyard, 1473 sf $825,000 2 bedroom home converted to a custom 1 bedroom plus den, 2 baths, furnished, designer finishes and features, open floor plan, luxurious master suite, southern views, 1079 sf $885,000

pier 3 3 n. coLumbus bLvd. Updated 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom with a large balcony providing city, marina and bridge views; wood floors; an open and updated kitchen; and lots of natural light; 1300 sf Open Sunday 10/26 12:45-1:15pm $319,900

pier 5 7 n. coLumbus bLvd. Completely renovated 3 bedroom, 3 bath with a deck providing bridge and river views, 1 parking space in garage included, 2229 sf Open Sunday 10/26 1:30-2:00pm $369,900

Parc rittenhouse

1173 sf $499,900 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, balcony, updated throughout OPen Sunday 10/26 12:45-1:15Pm

1900 sf $1,195,000 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, original building details and modern updates

270 degree city views, hardwood floors, an open floor plan with chef’s kitchen and luxuri$1,150,000 ous master suite, 1978 sf

waterfront

Spacious 2 bedroom plus home office,

2 bathroom with an open chef’s kitchen with stainless steel appliances and granite countertops, formal dining room, lavish master suite, marble bathrooms, excellent closet space and two private balconies overlooking the building’s landscaped courtyard, 2080 sf $1,075,000 Custom penthouse, with 270 degree city views, a large balcony, open floor plan with chef’s kitchen and generous entertaining space, luxurious master suite, 1853 sf

tHe dorcHester 226 w. rittenhouse sq.

$2,000,000

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

independence plAce 241 south 6th street

1 bedroom plus alcove, 1.5 baths, balcony providing south views, large bedroom with ensuite bath and walk-in closet, 1118 sf Open Sunday 10/26 1:15-1:45pm $375,000 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom with balcony and treetop city views, wood floors, open updated kitchen, renovated baths, 1173 sf Open Sunday 10/26 12:45-1:15pm $499,900

1119 pine street

2 bedroom plus loft, 2.5 bath bi-level with

one underground parking space, wood floors, updated kitchen and baths, open floor plan, $650,000 lots of natural light, 2000 sf

Spectacular 2 bedroom, 2 bath with south-facing treetop views from all rooms, an open designer kitchen, beautifully appointed bathrooms, custom finishes throughout, $650,000 1218 sf 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom showplace with Rittenhouse Square and South Philadelphia views, a designer kitchen, luxurious master suite and custom updates throughout, $1,295,000 1826 sf

620 pine street

Hopkinson House 604 s. washington square

stricklAnd row 1014 spruce street

Three story Washington Square townhome

with 5 bedrooms, 4.5 baths, parking, an open kitchen, private patio and basement, 2740 sf

802 pine street

$850,000

washington square

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

South facing 1 bedroom with lots of natural light, balcony galley kitchen and great closet $279,900 space, 778 sf

Sun-soaked bi-level with 2 bedrooms, 1.5 bath, wood floors and a recently renovated $289,900 kitchen, 857 sf

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One-of-a-kind bi-level penthouse with spectacular southern views and amazing natural light, marble bathrooms, a large kitchen appointed with high end finishes and $849,900 appliances, 1565 sf 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom with 270 degree city views, hardwood floors, an open floor plan with chef’s kitchen, marble bathrooms, $1,175,000 washer/dryer, 1978 sf 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom on a high floor with

society Hill towers 200 Locust street

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Sun-soaked studio on a high floor with $179,900 south views, 461 sf

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