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12 I SATIN AND STEEL

Novelists Solomon Jones and Karen Quinones Miller encompass the light and darkness of life in the city.

PHILLYNOW 8 I NEWS BRIEFS

Black Republicans who disagree with Obama; sports and the LGBT community; Mumia around the world.

10 I THE BREAKDOWN

10 questions for living in a post-Roe v. Wade world.

11 I WHY WE COSPLAY

One man’s take on why Halloween’s so important.

ARTS & CULTURE 20 I CALENDAR

The xx; Don’t Sing the Blues For Me; Salman Rushdie and more. PLUS PW’s Halloween nightlife guide.

FOOD 24 I LE BECKONING

A fresh perspective on the allure of Philly’s swankiest restaurant.

STAGE 30 I LAST DANCE

Pennsylvania Ballet principal dancer Arantxa Ochoa kisses the stage goodbye after Giselle.

ART 32 I PHILLY ON THE COUCH

Two shrinks psychoanalyze the City of Brotherly Love.

SCREEN 34 I CLOUD ATLAS

Even at its worst, this insanely ambitious film has nary a cynical moment.

MUSIC 40 I VETS ABOUT TO ROCK

The 12 participants in the reality show Bands of Brothers prepare for a World Café Live benefit.

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LETTERS Blonde’s Ambition

In response to Matt Prigge’s Q&A with Sharon Pinkenson, executive director of the Greater Philadelphia Film Office: Sharon, Joan and the gang at GFPO are doing an amazing job for filmmakers—both studio and indie (like me). A million thanks to them for their tireless efforts.

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Kudos to Sharon and her incredible efforts to make Philadelphia the backdrop for countless movies, and her battle to increase the PA Tax Credit Program. Her (and her hair) are legendary.

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ANONYMOUS via philadelphiaweekly.com

Film production may be the backbone of the industry, but it’s only a small part of the film world. There is no real pre- or postproduction scene in Philly at all. And all of these big productions that come into town aren’t bringing that many jobs. All of the skilled trade positions and union jobs are all New York guys. If you’re serious about making it in production, you’re not staying in Philly. All these shoots hire a few scouters and some assistants and then turn all of the other low paying P.A. jobs into free internships for students. But it does help the local economy, it’s just silly for Sharon to take so much credit for EVERYTHING. She’s done a lot of good and there’s no need to diminish that, but it’s insulting to everyone else in the city to lay claim that she’s the sole reason why anything happens here.

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ON THE WEB PHILLYNOW Green presidential candidate Jill Stein sues the Commission on Presidential Debates.

PW STYLE Who’s got the better merchandise, Obama or Romney?

Money Matters Regarding Tara Murtha’s column about Voter ID: That’s the beauty of America and the light that draws immigrants in. Freedom of speech, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. There are those who would abridge or take away our freedoms one piece at a time. Everyone should be able to vote if they are legal citizens of the U.S. America does not have a two-tier citizenship, but the Tea/ Republicans have tried to legislate just that.

The “Dream Act” was discussed, developed and decided back during 2001-2006 and signed off and scheduled to be brought to the Senate floor in 2010. Tea/Republicans failed to deliver the required votes and it languished in committee. These actions across the nation smack of bigotry and discrimination. Voter disenfranchisement is the tool of the Tea/Republicans to shut down voters.

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You need to do it the proper way. If you come here illegally and steal citizenship, no one will respect you as a man. It’s not color, its values. If you don’t have the integrity to obtain citizenship the proper way than you are a thief and do not deserve respect.

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Eye on the Prize

In response to J. Cooper Robb’s feature on the Barrymore Awards: As an important member of the theater community—an audience member—this is very good news. The excitement, the competition, the honors all add to the sense of how important our cultural life is in this area.

Despite the constant funding issues, we’re hot and the Barrymores keep the heat on.

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PHILLYNOW [ELECTION 2012: STALKING MITT ROMNEY]

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Some Philly Blacks Respectfully Disagree with President Obama itt Romney isn’t the most popular guy in black America. Polls conducted throughout this campaign season have told us that his support amongst African-Americans is at 0 percent. Plus, he’s been fighting the campaign in the suburbs of places like Ohio, Florida and Colorado. Not exactly the inner cities.

But that doesn’t necessarily mean he has no black supporters. There’s a large contingent of black Republicans in Philadelphia, which includes about 15 ward leaders and registration estimates in the thousands. And while few of us were paying attention, many of them formed a small coalition called the Philadelphia Republicans of Color. Their emblem has a picture of Abraham Lincoln’s face over a map of Philadelphia. They sell Philly ROC mugs and T-shirts! And before you stop reading, know this: They’re not crazy.

Take Lewis Harris. The 62-year-old leader of the 29th Ward has joined a chorus of local black Republicans who’ve set aside the proto typical right-wing attacks and have gone out of their way to make a point about policy in the 2012 debate—mostly, why the AfricanAmerican community needs to be involved when the Republican Party’s priorities are written.

Harris is the former CEO of the Wharton Center in North Philadelphia, which houses several affiliated nonprofit agencies, and last made headlines when he opened a North Philly office for Sam Katz’s 2003 mayoral run in the same building. Over the last decade, he

has run for numerous offices as a Republican, Democrat, Independent and Green. A Republican now, he and says he doesn’t hate President Obama—quite the opposite—but it’s Romney who’s the natural progression from where we are as a nation.

“I think Obama was beautiful for blacks,” says Harris, who was elected to be a 2012 Republican delegate for the 2nd Congressional District this summer. “I love him. I love his family, the way he carries himself. Everything about him is great.”

OK, not everything.. Harris thinks Obama isn’t business-minded. And that’s what he says we need over the next four years.

Which is why Romney has come around at the perfect time to speed up the country’s economic reconstruction, Harris says. “Now, I think, at this point, we need someone unemotional, with a business background, who can give us a business plan. [Romney] doesn’t even have to listen to advisers because he already knows how to run a business [and] he’s been very, very successful at it.”

Romney has also had success in the polls this election while ignoring the black community—something Harris more or less understands. “I haven’t seen a lot of inroads by [the Romney] campaign into the black wards.

And it may be logical to assume that they’re concerned that even if they supported some of the black wards, those people may not vote for Mitt. It might be money for a lost cause … I think it’s a political move to save money and not look like a fool to pay people

to vote against you.”

Harris also says he’s along for the ride not necessarily because he believes in everything the Republican Party does (he doesn’t), but because if the black community wants the power he believes it deserves, it has to get involved in conversations from both sides.

One candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives has been attempting to do this since returning home from several tours in Iraq in 2010. North Philly Republican Robert Allen Mansfield is a Tea Party supporter of small government, with strings attached. In a previous profile in PW, PW the one-time Democrat calls himself a “hip-hop Republican” who understands a social safety net is needed and became disenfranchised with Democrats and switched his party to Republican due to what he often sees as the handout culture in black communities, fueled by

the left.

But Mansfield, too, is careful to not hit the president on many of the issues Republicans and anonymous message-boarding conservatives have over the past four years. “I’m not going to disrespect the president,” he says of his campaign’s desire to stay on the issue of the 2nd District. “His healthcare bill is the new health-care law. I’m not going to call it Obamacare.”

Many on the right have intentionally called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act “Obamacare” to make Americans believe the law is a government takeover of the healthcare system.

Both Harris and Mansfield believe it’s phrases like those and others—like Michelle Obama’s nickname of “Moo-Shell” in conservative pits of the Internet—that make blacks so afraid of crossing over to the Republican party.

“We have to stop all kinds of nonsense,” Harris notes. “But you cannot do it from the outside. You have to go in.” (Randy LoBasso)

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Drexel Launches Blog Dedicated to Sports and the LGBT Community rexel professor Ellen Staurowsky had long been thinking about the various issues the LGBT community faces in sports.

And when she attended a couple recent conferences with other scholars and athletes, she realized she wasn’t the only one with concerns about the challenges associated with coming out. During a meeting at Texas A&M University last spring, she decided that an easily accessible project, compiling LGBTin-sports resources in the same place, had to be created. Luckily, she had the wherewithal to do it.

“As I listened to that conversation, I realized

that being here at Drexel, we have the kinds of resources that could put together this kind of venture and showcase for scholars and activists,” she says. So earlier this month, Staurowsky, a professor in the Department of Sport Management, and several students and activists, launched LGBT Issues in Sport: Theory to Practice, a blog run through Drexel University that provides details on this sensitive, growing issue.

Staurowsky says the blog will serve as the “largest database that will provide research on LGBT issues that we’re aware of.”

Since its launch on Oct. 11, five contribu-

tors have written about studies into the “heterosexist climate of college athletes,” transgender inclusion in school sports and reporting on convicted Penn State pedophile Jerry Sandusky.

The issue of coming out in sports, Staurowsky says, has become more prevalent in recent years, as athletes, well-known for antigay locker room humor have openly condoned homosexuality, and, like the Phillies, created It Gets Better videos. Patrick Burke, talent scout for the Philadelphia Flyers, has begun a similar project called You Can Play, which seeks to limit “locker-room

slurs” in professional and school sports, and judge athletes solely on their ability to, you know, play their sport. Former NFL player Wade Davis recently came out after retiring, though has admitted he wishes he’d done so earlier.

“This group of athletes is not going to wait for that first professional athlete to come out,” Staurowsky continues. “There is such a movement right now [for LGBT athletes] to take control of their own lives.” (R.L.) Visit stream.goodwin.drexel.edu/ lgbtsportresearchnet/ for more information.

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1. Romney thinks Iran may have a point. He apparently agrees with that country’s 14th-or-so most powerful leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, that our debt makes us weak. What other pointers does he want to take from Iran’s president?

2. Something about bayonets? I don’t know. Obama said there are fewer bayonets today than there were way back when, but the Republican “research” Twitter account said Marines still use bayonets—which makes Obama wrong!

Or, rather, proves a moot point, since Obama never said bayonets no longer exist. Eh, details.

4. I repeat: We learned that both mainstream presidential candidates are cool with “drone technology” and will continue using it for the foreseeable future. That particular subject was given less than five minutes of the hour-and-30-minute debate.

5. Romney is absolutely stuck in the right-wing echo chamber, repeating the same Hannitized talking points about the president’s “apology tour” and “tension with Israel.”

6. Mayor Nutter has an opinion on who won the debate. He says Romney won—hahahaha! Like you’d believe that.

No, here’s some of his statement, sent out shortly after the debate ended at 10:30 Monday night: “President Obama’s leadership and Mitt Romney’s total lack thereof were on full display at tonight’s foreign policy debate ... I honestly don’t think any undecided voter out there had reservations about Romney’s complete lack of foreign policy experience and specifics heard a thing tonight that would alleviate those concerns … Personally, I get very nervous hearing the guy who derided President Obama’s decision to end the war in Iraq as an ‘astonishing failure’ dodge questions about whether he’d ever end the war in Afghanistan and rattle his saber at Iran.”

7. How about some new Pennsylvania presidential polls? You like that?

Garvis PA: Obama, 48 percent; Romney, 45 percent Angus Reid PA: Obama, 52 percent; Romney, 42 percent Morning Call: Obama, 50 percent; Romney, 45 percent Let Freedom Ring PA: Obama, 48 percent; Romney, 44 percent Last week, a Republican Party-commissioned “SHOCK POLL” showed Romney leading by 4 points in Pennsylvania. It continues to be the only poll showing the candidate leading here, in the history of the world. (R.L.)

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3. Fox Nation (a Fox News Republican media headline aggregate—with boobs!) is the absolute dumbest site on the web, and, I believe (though cannot prove) the testing site for what Fox’s negative narrative about President Obama will be in any given week. One of their headlines last night during the debate: “Obama’s Last Stand—Will He Answer for Benghazi Cover-Up?” Another: “Obama Appears Snarky, Angry, Unpresidential in His Last Debate.” There was not one negative headline about the Republican, obviously.

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Who cares? It’s just a foreign policy debate in which both candidates agree on the use of drone warfare and neither is asked about our secret overseas prisons!

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Questions for Romney’s Would-Be Post-Roe v. Wade World

By Tara Murtha // tmurtha@philadelphiaweekly.com

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n the first presidential debate, women’s health care was the only thing more ignored than moderator Jim Lehrer. Funny, since it was one of the biggest talking points in both campaigns all year. Then in the vicepresidential debate, abortion was briefly addressed by V.P. Joe Biden and Republican candidate Paul Ryan—a disappointing question by moderator Martha Raddatz that couldn’t have been more counter-productive. While abortion is a sensitive topic that can evoke strong emotions, we’re not talking around a kitchen table here. Mitt Romney has stated that he will work toward overturning Roe v.

Wade. That is tantamount to introducing a new health-care system for American women.

Here’s the issue: There’s no such thing as ending abortion via a policy, Constitutional amendment or conservative Supreme Court justice nominee—because there is no “ending abortion.” There’s only ending access to safe abortion. Which means there’s no reason to believe that a post-Roe health-care system for women would not look a lot like it did pre-Roe. “Estimates of the number of illegal abortions in the 1950s and 1960s ranged from 200,000 to 1.2 million per year,” according to the nonprofit

3. “Rape exceptions” needs clarifying. Would the rape need to be confirmed by a doctor for a woman to qualify for a safe abortion?

Would the assailant need to be convicted before the victim could obtain an abortion? If so, how would you accelerate these cases quickly enough to allow for safe abortion?

Guttmacher Institute, which studies reproductive health. In 1965, illegal abortion accounted for 17 percent of all deaths attributed to pregnancy and childbirth that year.

Today, 47,000 women die preventable deaths as a result of complications from unsafe abortion around the world.

Roe v. Wade isn’t a matter of beliefs, no matter how much the politicians and churches want to frame it that way. If a presidential candidate suggests something as radical as working toward overturning Roe, there are details we need to know. Here are 10 key questions:

is relying on the state. Would you support programs to DNA-identify the fathers, then garnish their wages to help support the child?

How much would these programs cost?

7. Would there be enhanced sentencing for violence against women from partners who do not want them to have the baby so they don’t have the forced expense? What would those laws look like?

4. Thirty percent of women impregnated by rape choose to carry the pregnancy to term.

Would the rape-father have any custody rights or financial obligation? Currently, rape-fathers have rights in 31 states. How would you change that? Would a conviction be required to sever his parental rights?

1. What is the projected preventable death toll for American women after Roe v. Wade is overturned? Surely you can’t suggest a policy guaranteed to increase preventable deaths and not calculate them.

2. Explain the sentencing guidelines for women obtaining illegal abortions or who are selfaborting. And what about the doctors? If a woman became ill while self-aborting, what would emergency room protocol be? Is mental illness included in “for the life of the mother?”

How is that determined?

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8. Ryan co-sponsored a bill that claimed a human egg obtains “all the legal and constitutional attributes and privileges of personhood.”

A bill like this would outlaw many types of contraception. What types of contraception would it outlaw? How would such a law be enforced?

5. In a post-Roe plan, more babies would be born into poverty. Do you know how many more? What programs would you offer for this windfall? How much would health care for these children cost? Where will the money come from?

9. Are you aware of the correlation between contraception use, unwanted pregnancy and abortion?

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6. If “no sex without consequences,” is the theme, let’s talk about the fathers of children whose mothers would have chosen abortion.

An absentee father whose child is on welfare

The Breakdown is written by senior writer Tara Murtha, who regularly reports on urban violence, policy, gender and social-justice issues.

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Why We Cosplay We are born naked. Everything else is a costume.

By Jared Axelrod // feedback@philadelphiaweekly.com hobby of cosplay. Cosplay enthusiasts enjoy dressing and inhabiting characters; think of it as Halloween without having to wait until Oct. 31. It’s motivated by that impulse to be recognized—not just as fans of the characters whose clothes they wear, but as people who share something deeply spiritual with those characters’ essences. Something that’s important to them. It has to be; cosplay is a hobby that requires a great deal of time, money and attention to detail. Anything that motivates a person to go through all that effort has got to affect them personally.

I speak from experience. I don’t even want to think about the hours I’ve spent on my ever-evolving Batman costume, much less the huge amount of cash I’ve sunk unto it. Since its first iteration back in 2004, the Batman suit has gone through five masks, four pairs of boots, three pairs of gloves and two capes.

I have sewn and resewn spandex unitards; hand-stitched pleather glove-fins; and glued with various adhesives an array of bat-silhouettes on my chest. I paid dearly for a top-ofthe line, hand-sculpted and -cast urethane cowl that was simultaneously a work of art and a torture device, turning out to be such a poor fit for my oddly-shaped melon that I was unable to breathe properly.

While I have worn this costume to Halloween parties and science-fiction conventions, I didn’t make it for any one specific event. I made it because I want a Batman suit. Which of course really means this: I want to be seen as Batman. Sure, I’m not a vigilante champion of justice—but I do help the people I meet, in my own small way. Giving $10 to someone on the street or helping a friend get a job is not the same as saving the city from deadly laughing gas, I realize. Which is why I don’t don the cape and cowl every day.

RuPaul once said, “We are born naked. Everything else is drag.” We are all the costumers of our own wardrobe, but we’re hampered by the dictates of our daily lives. The oft unspoken yet unarguable rules about what is “appropriate” attire for school, for work, for public, suppresses our individuality in our dress.

It can be hard to be recognized when you’re dressed like everyone else. Which is why Halloween and cosplay are such a release—why these costumes, frivolous and insubstantial as they may be, are so important. They allow us, if just for one night a year, to be ourselves.

See page 22 for PW’s roundup of Halloween events.

Above: Jared gets into character as a hapless henchman from The Venture Bros. Below: The infamous Batman suit. (Photos by J.R. Blackwell)

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here’s a scene in Mobius’ acid-tinged graphic novel Airtight Garage where one character, bundled up in an extravagant coat of purple fur, turns to his companion, The Archer, and asks, “Why do you wear that mask?” The Archer, who’s decked out in a dream-logic version of a superhero costume, - complete with underwear on the outside, re” sponds simply: “So that I can be recognized.”

It seems counterintuitive. Especially in this age of online handles and anonymous comments, when we’re constantly hearing about trolls and identity thieves hiding behind false facades. Surely masks and costumes are not d meant to reveal; they exist to hide, to obscure, to transform.

And yet, when we select our Halloween costumes, we are consciously choosing how we wish to be seen. We want to be recognized, not as schoolchildren or underpaid interns or office workers living lives of quiet desperation, but as the scary, sexy, colorful people we know we are on the inside. We don’t want to disguise ourselves—our very selves—we want to unveil them.

For example: When I was 6 years old, I wanted to have a tail. I discovered this because my mother made me a devil costume for Halloween, with an attached forked tail, and I loved it. The costume also had soft, felt horns, which were nowhere near as cool as the tail. I liked having a tail so much I asked for a dragon costume the next year, which I wore long after Halloween ended. It was an adapted dinosaur pattern, with a full jumpsuit and upright scales down the back. And the tail! The tail on that costume was thick with polyfil stuffing, and wagged like a tail ought to when I moved my hips. It was a proper tail.

I grew too tall for the costume that summer, my shoulders no longer slipping into the scaly sleeves. Just as well, really; the next Halloween, I wanted to be Robin Hood.

But for that short period of time, it felt right to be a boy with a tail.

Halloween, as we celebrate it, is perhaps the most American of holidays, cobbled together from the autumn festivities of a variety of cultures, all gussied up with bombast and a sympathetically egalitarian message: You can be whoever you like for Halloween. While the holiday itself remains identified with a ghoulish tint, your Halloween finery need not be limited to ghosts and goblins. With costumes, at least, everything is permitted.

This pick-your-persona spirit has spilled out from the holiday into the year-round

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olomon Jones, 44, and Karen E. Quinones Miller, 54, have much in common. Both were newspaper journalists in this town—Miller at the Inquirer, Jones at the Daily News (and, previously, here at PW). Both attended Temple and later taught there. Both are now Essence-bestselling authors, with new novels out this month. And both are lucky to be alive.

Miller grew up in Harlem, where she earned her respect on streets that gave it grudgingly. Jones grew up in North Philly, where the struggle for survival was seemingly neverending. The two learned strikingly similar lessons—among them, that adversity can always be overcome, if one has the will to fight.

That common realization would come in handy.

For Jones, it was a lesson that would redeem him after his struggle with drugs and homelessness in the 1990s. For Miller, it would help her battle through a brain tumor in 2005.

For both, their respective determination to rise above their circumstances led to prolific writing careers here in Philadelphia, followed by acclaim from readers across the country.

Miller’s provocatively titled An Angry-Ass Black Woman (subtitle: “A Novel Based on True Life—Her Life”), published by Simon & Schuster imprint Karen Hunter Books, has been making waves since Oct. 2; The Dead Man’s Wife, the latest in Jones’ Detective Mike Coletti series, arrived in bookstores just last week. Days before their joint book-signing and reading at the Free Library on Nov. 1, Miller and Jones sat down to talk to each other about their lives, their books and the amazing journeys that shaped two of Philadelphia’s most distinctive storytelling voices.

Solomon Jones: I still remember when we met over 10 years ago. You were protesting the closing of a black bookstore in the Gallery at Market East, and you reached out to me to join the effort. I guess you could say you were an angry-ass black woman even then. Which leads me to my first question: You’ve been connected to stories and causes in Philadelphia for so long. Why do you set all your books in Harlem?

Karen Quinones Miller: Because Harlem is always in my heart. That’s how I identify myself. I’ve lived in Philadelphia for 25 years now, but when I’m out of town and people ask where I’m from, I always say “I’m from Harlem, but I live in Philadelphia now.” I love Philadelphia, but I’ve never quite understood it. I don’t quite get it. In Harlem, everybody is real, and that’s not to say Philadelphia isn’t, but in Harlem, everybody is real, and they’re very raw, and I don’t find that in Philly. Not to the extent that Harlemites are. A lot of times in Philadelphia, when I’m arguing with someone, I have to figure out what they’re really saying.

SJ: What do you mean?

KQM: In Harlem, a lot of the fights are over

respect, not about material things. So in Harlem, if someone ripped off your chain, and you had a chance to get back at them, it’s not to get the chain back. It’s because they disrespected you. In Philadelphia, they want that chain back.

SJ: That’s because we want our stuff in Philly. That’s not going to change. But what’s changed about Harlem since you left?

KQM: When I grew up, Harlem was something like 95 percent black and Puerto Rican. It’s much more culturally diverse now. And while diversity is a good thing, that diversity— through gentrification—has destroyed the Harlem that I knew. I believe a strong community is one where children live with their parents and, when they grow up, move out, but move to a place within that same community. Like South Philadelphia, Harlem was a place where generations of families lived.

But people can’t do that in Harlem now because when people move out of their parents homes, they can’t afford to move into that same community because along with gentri-

Then my parents got divorced when I was about 14, and we went to North Philadelphia and moved in with my grandmother. It was a place where we were all poor, but we were all in it together. It was a little bit harder, and I had to grow up. And I think I see a little of that in my writing now. I think all parts of Philadelphia, actually, are reflected in my writing because I feel I’m part of Philadelphia. So it would naturally be the place where I set my novels.

KQM: You’re one of the more prolific writers I know in Philadelphia, Solomon, and I’ve always enjoyed your works—starting with your first novel, Pipe Dream, back in 2001. What made you start writing in the first place?

SJ: I’d gone through an addiction when I was in my early 20s. As a result, I’d lived on the street for a time, and I’d seen everything from prostitution to vicious assaults to gunplay. I’d lived in shelters and been to rehabs and slept in abandoned houses. In the mid-’90s, when I was coming out of that, I started working as a doorman for a condominium while I was go-

“When they told me I had a tumor, I didn’t get scared —I got pissed. Man, I didn’t have time for no damn brain tumor.”

—Karen Quinones Miller

fication came such high real-estate prices that native Harlemites can’t afford to purchase, so the younger generation is being forced out.

To me, it’s the demise of Harlem as I knew it.

The culture is quickly changing, and soon the old culture will have completely disappeared.

But I want people to know about the Harlem in which I grew up, so I write about it. It’s my way of preserving the memories—both good and bad.

But what about you? I write about Harlem, but you do the same for Philadelphia. Why? SJ: Because I love Philadelphia. I was born and raised here, and I find it fascinating. I grew up in two different parts of Philly. I started out my life in West Oak Lane, a working-class neighborhood. Everyone had two parents, and, in most houses, that worked well. Of course, there were problems, too. In one home, the dad might be beating up his wife and kids, and in another, the dad was a drunk, and in yet another, the mother was running the street. But for the most part there was a nuclear family.

And everyone knew each other’s family.

ing to school at Temple University. There was a woman there named Susan Jacobs who I met when she volunteered at the shelter where I was staying, and she gave me a Macintosh to do my homework. So I started using it. And about this time I was reading a book called The Gold Coast. It was written in chunks—in scenes—and I thought, “I can do that.” So I started writing my own novel. And I started by writing about what I really knew: the streets.

Nine months later, I had Pipe Dream.

KQM: So Pipe Dream was largely autobiographical?

SJ: Yes and no. The main character in the novel is named Black, and that was my name on the street. You never use your real name in the streets; everyone has a street name. So I was called Black, and that’s what I named my main character. In the streets, you use whatever you have at your disposal to survive. While some people used guns, knives and violence to get around the challenges on the street, Black used his brains. That was me. That’s how

I survived those times. The other characters in the book are composites of other people I came across during that period in my life. The plot, however, wasn’t necessarily something that actually occurred in my life.

KQM: I know you had a hard time getting Pipe Dream published. How did you feel when you finally found a major publishing house that was interested in releasing your book?

SJ: Vindicated. When I sent out query letters, the agents I contacted were telling me that I obviously had some talent, but that they couldn’t connect to the characters. Pipe Dream was a story about four crack addicts running from the police, and stories like that weren’t being written at that time. Then I managed to connect with Random House, which had this new imprint called Strivers Row, and they loved the book, and they really got behind me and the book. There were a few other authors who signed with Strivers Row all about the same time, and they really gave us backing. They sent me on tour when the book first came out in 2001, and they really spoiled me. (Laughs) It led me to believe that’s how things are done all the time, but it isn’t really like that.

Tell me about your first book.

KQM: My first book was Satin Doll. I couldn’t find a publisher or even an agent because they felt that Satin Doll was a little bit grittier than those “sister girl” books that everyone was writing at the time, with three or four women looking for men and going through relationship problems. Satin Doll wasn’t like that. It was about four women who grew up in the streets trying to find not just love, but themselves. And back then, in 1999, most of the “sister girl” books were about middle-class women. Satin Doll was about women who grew up poor in Harlem and didn’t necessarily have the cleanest type of backgrounds. The main character, for instance, had dropped out in eighth grade, ran the streets, ran into major trouble and went on to get a degree in journalism at Temple, like me.

SJ: How else did your own life parallel Satin Doll?

KQM: At the time I wrote it, I was a reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer, but I felt like I was living in two worlds. Every weekend, I would go to Harlem and hang out, and every Monday, I would come in—sometimes with bloodshot eyes and liquor still on my breath—and write news for the paper. I felt like I was essentially living two lives, and that if the Inquirer was to find out who I really was, they would throw me out of the newsroom. But on the other hand, I felt if the streets found out who I had become, they would ostracize me. I had the struggle of trying to live in two worlds and feeling comfortable in neither. Like the protagonist in Satin Doll, I had dropped out of school in the eighth grade and ran the streets as if I were in

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a Nascar race. And it was much later in life that I finally cleaned myself up, moved to Philadelphia and got a degree in journalism. So, you can see I was writing what I knew and what I was still struggling to reconcile. But when I tried to get it published, I had agents tell me they loved the writing, but they felt like it was too gritty. They told me they’d take it in a heartbeat if I would change the story and make it more like Terry McMillan. Problem was, those stories weren’t the kind I lived or was interested in writing about.

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SJ: So you self-published. But how were you able to do it? Self-publishing was a lot more expensive than it is now.

KQM: I took out a loan from the credit union, used my daughter’s college-fund money and borrowed money from my brother, Joe Quinones, the only one in my family who ever seemed to have money. I purchased 3,000 books and had no idea how to sell them. I had never sold anything in my life, and when I look back now, that lack of experience was a good thing. Marketing class would have told me how to sell 3,000 books in a year, which was my goal. But because I didn’t know how to go selling 3,000 books in a year, I got my hustle on, and when I turned around, I had sold 3,000 books in six weeks. I put fliers up all over the city. I gave out postcards on street corners and used all the techniques in the street to sell and promote my book. I learned a lot of bad habits in Harlem, but some of them came in handy. If you can hustle drugs, you can hustle books. If you know how to hustle, then you know how to get your hustle on, whether it’s gold chains or socks or books on the street.

We’ve talked about how both of our debut novels paralleled our lives, but what about your subsequent novels? You’ve written about drug addiction. You’ve written murder mysteries. You’ve written detective stories.

Tell me, how do you come up with your story ideas?

SJ: I get a lot of ideas from my wife, LaVeta.

She’s the smart one. We both went to Temple University. She was the one who went through my first book, and said, “Wow, you have some talent.” She edited it and made it marketable and coherent. She’s my sounding board. She’ll see something and say, “You have to write something with that in the storyline.” And I bounce all my ideas off of her.

Like with The Dead Man’s Wife—I wanted to write about somebody who was going through struggles with their marriage because I think that’s where I was when I was I plotting the book out. We’ve been married 12 years, and you go through emotional ups and downs and financial ups and downs, and the whole time, you’re growing. Fortunately, we’ve grown together, and we’re stronger for it. So, while The Dead Man’s Wife is a story about relationships, it’s also a suspenseful mystery.

It’s about a woman who is accused of killing

her husband, goes on the run to prove her innocence, and in the course of uncovering the mysteries of her husband’s life, she discovers the biggest mystery of all—her husband may not actually be dead.

KQM: Do you always write about your own life when you write a book?

SJ: No, but the important thing for me is to actually want to write whatever it is I’m writing about. Some writers get to the point where they’re writing to just keep cranking something out; they’re writing what they think people want or whatever is selling in the market.

But I think you really should write what you’re passionate about because readers are smart, and they can tell when you care about your story. For instance, my first novel, Pipe Dream, came out of my personal experience. And

only tell black stories, whatever that means. I tell human stories. I write about people, and people—at their core—all want the same things; we just go about getting them by different means. I will say this, though: I have a real affection for black people, and I want to explore that a little more in my next book. Because black people just strive and survive in spite of everything. The economy goes down, and some people jump out the window. Black people shrug and say, well, we didn’t have anything anyway. There’s a different stress about black people that I admire and love.

What about you? You’ve written six novels since Satin Doll, and they’ve been about a few different subjects. How do you think your writing has changed over the years?

KQM: I think my writing has matured. Satin Doll will always be a sentimental favorite of

“As black authors, people expect us to only tell black stories, whatever that means. I tell human stories.

I write about people—and people, at their core, all want the same things. We just go about getting them by different means.”

—Solomon Jones

while I’ve written really good books that came almost exclusively from research, like The Last Confession, the story that comes from personal experience is probably more powerful than the ones that come from research. The thing is, though, whichever method you choose, it has to be a story that you, the writer, care about.

That way, the reader will care about it, too.

KQM: I know that the main protagonist in your past few books is white, even though you’re black. You don’t find that too often. James Patterson comes to mind as an exception, but tell me how and why you write main characters with a race different than your own.

SJ: There are characters of every hue in my books, and I do that because it’s real life, and it’s interesting to see how people respond to that. As black authors, people expect us to

mine, largely because it was my first book that not only mirrored my life; it also really changed my life. But as I have gotten older, I see life a little differently. I see my life with different eyes and see other people’s lives through more mature eyes. Every book I’ve written has been around a character who mirrors me. I’m not just someone who grew up in Harlem, not just someone who’s a single mom, not just someone who grew up poor, and not just someone who struggled to change my life. I’m all of that and much more. And so all of my characters have different aspects of my personality. There’s the selfish me, the mature me, the generous me and plenty of other me’s. I write about each of them at different times. In the beginning of my writing career, I think I was stuck at writing about what was affecting me at the time.

It took a long time before I could get to

the point where I could write a book like An Angry-Ass Black Woman. In this book, I’m telling the true story of my life, and I’m not hiding behind a character. Because when you’re hiding behind a character and people ask, “How much of this is you?” you can say whatever you want. It took a brain tumor and the threat of death for me to be able to write the true story of my life. An Angry-Ass Black Woman is about me growing up in Harlem during the ’60s and ‘70s—all of the hard times and the good. A father going in and out of psychiatric hospitals.

A mother trying to make it the best way she could for her. Growing up amongst predators and fighting not to become a victim, you know? I tell it with a little bit of bitterness, but also with a lot of humor. Because though we had hard times, we also had fun and got into a helluva lot of trouble. It’s almost like a female version of Manchild in the Promised Land.

SJ: How did you find out you had a brain tumor?

KQM: It was 2005 or 2004. For about a year, I had been having problems and bouts of disorientation. I was teaching at Temple University and living in Mt. Airy. I also went to school at Temple, and later I was teaching at Temple.

Now keep in mind, I had lived in Mt. Airy ever since I’d lived in Philly. The house I was in at the time, I’d been living in that house for eight years while I was going back and forth to Temple. One day, I’m going down Venango Street, and I get to a stop sign and couldn’t remember what I was supposed to do next. I panicked, and as I was panicking, I figured out it was a panic attack, and I grabbed my cell phone. I couldn’t remember how to operate it, and so I just pressed a button to talk to the last person I’d talked to, and I asked him if he knew who I was. He said he did. I said, “Good, because I need someone to come get me.”

That gentleman’s name was Butch Cottman, a community activist here in Philadelphia. Ten minutes later, he and another person came and got me, and they took me home.

SJ: Wow. So how did you react when you heard the diagnosis?

KQM: Believe it or not, when they told me I had a tumor, I didn’t get scared—I got pissed because I didn’t have time to have a brain tumor. I had a deadline for a book with Simon and Schuster. My daughter was in her senior year in high school at Central, and I had to help her with the prom. I’d just found out that one of my books had been nominated for an NAACP Image Award, and I had to go to California. And I had to plan an engagement party for my brother. Man, I didn’t have time for no damn brain tumor.

SJ: When did you decide to write about it?

KQM: In between the time of the diagnosis and the surgery, I had the idea to write this book. My twin sister, Kitty, was living with me

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I said, “I ain’t scared o’ death. Let that bitch come pulling on my sleeve, and she’ll know better than to fuck around with an angry-ass black woman.”

SJ: That is such a controversial title. What made you decide on it?

KQM: Because that’s what I am. And it’s funny, because so many of my friends, when they heard the title, said, “Karen, you don’t come off like an angry woman.” But I am an angry woman, and thank God I am. I actually embrace my anger. In my opinion, anger is one of the things that can propel you forward in life. It’s anger that has helped me rebel against being a victim and do something so that I wouldn’t be in a situation where I could be victimized. So I consider anger a good thing.

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That doesn’t mean I go around yelling at people, but it does mean I don’t sit around and let people—or life—crap on my head.

marriage, and she gets out of it, and her former husband marries her next door neighbor.

The new wife starts calling the main character and telling her she’s being abused. They put together a plot to kill the husband. The second wife does it, but the first wife gets framed. Here’s the thing: I’m never going to write that story. You see, the first time I came up with how the husband was going to be killed, it was by a hit-and-run. The second time I wrote it, the husband was hit by a car and dragged half a mile. The third time, I had him tied to a chair with his hands behind his back and his face is painted with acid. All of these things soothe me when my former husband calls and pisses me off. Now if he gets on my nerves, I just go down to my computer and kill him on the screen. Depending how bad he gets on my nerves dictates how gruesome his death is going to be. If I couldn’t kill him on screen, I might be tempted to kill him in real life. So, writing keeps me out of jail.

I’m sure you know what I’m talking about, Solomon.

SJ: I do, because writing not only kept me out of jail; it kept me out of the grave. If I didn’t write, I wouldn’t be here, because life on the streets would’ve killed me. You know, I recently bought the Daily News, and I read about them closing down the Ridge Avenue Shelter, which is a place where I went when I was trying to get clean. I slept in Bed 65. I’ll never forget it. So, you know, hearing about them closing it down brought back so many memories and made me wonder what’s going to happen to men who are trying to get their lives together. I mean, it’s nice that Stephen Starr has a catering kitchen there now, and the area is gentrifying. But what’s going to happen to the man who’s trying to get clean? What’s going to happen to him? How is he going to get off these streets and get back to his wife? How is he going to get back to his children? How is he going to get his life back? What’s going to happen to those people? I wonder because those people are me. I started writing while I was at the Ridge Avenue Shelter—first for the Philadelphia Tribune, and then for myself. Doing that literally changed my life. So, yeah, I know what you mean when you say writing keeps you out of jail. Because writing has kept me alive. n

SJ: Is that why you write?

KQM: I write to keep my ass outta jail. I have this idea for a story, and I’ve had this idea for years. There’s a woman who was in an abusive

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WED 24 [THEATER]

BEHIND THE EYE

Gas and Electric Arts continues its tenaciously innovative celebration of bold female playwrights with its new production of Carson Kreitzer’s acclaimed work Behind the Eye. The play focuses on the life and career of Lee Miller, a glamorous model who abandoned the pages of Vogue to become the muse of such prominent 20th-century artists as Picasso, Cocteau and, most notably, Man Ray, with whom she also had a romantic relationship.

The visually provocative play has a dreamlike quality in which “the boundaries between time and space, image and memory, emotion and reflection collide, contract and collapse,” says director Lisa Jo Epstein. Mixing real and imaginary moments with linear and nonlinear threads, Epstein says watching the play is akin to rummaging through a collection of unshuffled photographs that eventually reveal both the realism of the era and the surrealism of this enigmatic woman’s singular approach to life. J. COOPER ROBB 7pm. $16-$26. Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre, 2111 Sansom St. 215.407.0556. gasandelectricarts.org

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FRI 26 [EVENT]

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LADIES FIRST: HIPHOP HERETICS

Lil Kim and Nicki Minaj have traded angry barbs, tweets and verses for years. Azealia Banks has lashed out at both of them. Missy Elliott wishes she had a magic wand to make the ladies all get along. Women in hip-hop have continued feuding and fighting, clawing their way to the top in a field that seems to have space for only one queen at a time. Tonight, an eclectic crew from Philly’s hiphop scene gathers for a lively discussion about the ever-evolving, ever-contentious world of women in hip-hop. The event is part of an ongoing Art Education Roots 101 series facilitated by the Mural Arts Program. Philly’s hip-hop royalty, the Roots, are working on a mural in South Philly celebrating the city’s vibrant musical culture; coinciding events will continue until the unveiling next year.

ALLYN GAESTEL

6pm. Free. Art Sanctuary, 16th and Bainbridge sts.

215.685.0753. muralarts.org [MUSIC]

POWERHOUSE 30

Power 99’s annual Powerhouse concert is celebrating its 30th year with three nights of shows, including two dedicated to “Up and Comers” and “Old School” artists, culminating with this star-studded “Main Event.” First and foremost, Rick Ross is going to be there—the Rick Ross. (Well, not the Rick Ross, he’s a famous drug dealer; we mean Rick Ross, famous “drug dealer.”) If you’re like us, there’s a good chance that your summer was soundtracked to Ross’ God Forgives, I Don’t and his tales of $24,000 toilets. The night’s other headliner is Trey Songz, who—through his aquatic innuendo-filled slow jam, “Dive In”—spent the

OCTOBER

THURS 25

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CAT POWER

For far longer than we care to remember, the Chan Marshall live experience was a byword for barely contained chaos, a freak show of sorts that brought out the vultures in her audience. On record, at least, she remained consistently great, but onstage, beset by a multitude of personal demons—stage fright, mental-health issues, drug and alcohol abuse among them—she became a poster child for wayward erraticism, a car crash waiting to happen. Which, frankly, sucked big time. Happily for her, and us, she seems firmly back on track, with a punchy, vibrant new LP, Sun, which bristles with intent. It’s easily her best album in years, radiating positivity, purpose and a break from the past. She was, and is, a singular talent, and it’s a real kick just to see her back on top again. NEIL FERGUSON 8:30pm. $30-$33. Electric Factory, 421 N. Seventh St. 215.627.1332. electricfactory.info summer misleading listeners into thinking pool sex isn’t as difficult as it actually is. Also appearing at Powerhouse 30: Meek Mill and Wale (Rick Ross’ MMG labelmates), Keyshia Cole, the R&B songstress and reality TV star, and 2 Chainz, who is ... well, he’s 2 Chainz. BRYAN BIERMAN 6pm. $20-$151. With Big Sean, Miguel + French Montana. Wells Fargo Center, 3601 S. Broad St. wellsfargocenterphilly.com

OCTOBER

SAT 27 [EVENT]

PHILADELPHIA BIKE EXPO

The annual two-day Philadelphia Bike Expo returns this week with a slew of new exhibitors and

workshops. In addition to a selection of craft beers, food from several award-winning local food trucks and the popular yearly “Fastest Mechanic Contest,” there will nonstop workshops and seminars both days, tackling everything from “Selecting the Right Gear for Bicycle Touring” to “Tubing Selection and Frame Design.” Tickets to the expo also cover your admission to Saturday’s two main off-site events: The 2012 Bicycle Fashion Showcase featuring the biggest trends in biking gear from Philadelphia University design students, and the Halloweenthemed VikingCat race. NICOLE FINKBINER Through Oct. 28. $8-$25. 23rd Street Armory, 22 S. 23rd St. phillybikeexpo.com [MUSIC]

DINOSAUR JR.

In a way comparable only to a few others of their era, Dinosaur Jr. has been a major influence on

modern rock ‘n’ roll. But after spending nearly a decade on hiatus—and close to two without the original lineup, the sludge-gods released Beyond in 2007, defying nearly all expectations by being the rare reunion record that holds up against the band’s earlier works. The classic trio of J Mascis, Lou Barlow and Murph returned with 2009’s Farm, proving that their creative comeback wasn’t just a one-shot deal, while simultaneously giving the group their highest-charting album. Continuing this trend, Dino is touring behind their recently released 10th album I Bet On Sky, properly getting the admiration they deserve from a whole new generation of fans. In addition, the band is celebrating the 25th anniversary of their classic You’re Living All Over Me by releasing Chocomel Daze, a full 1987 live concert recorded in the Netherlands. B.B. 8pm. With Shearwater. $28-$30. Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St. 215.232.2100. utphilly.com

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COMEDY ACADEMY GRADUATION

An attorney, a 20-year-old virgin, a flight attendant and five other budding comics will step in front of the microphone today, and for the first time, they’ll serve up fresh five-minute sets to a living, breathing audience. Philadelphia Comedy Academy holds its graduation ceremony tonight at Helium. Catch these aspiring comics today before they hit Richard Pryor-status, and start booking sitcoms. JESSICA FOLEY 3:30pm. tkprice. Helium Comedy Club, 2031 Sansom St. 215.496.9001. heliumcomedy.com

OCTOBER

SUN 28 [THEATER]

DON’T SING NO BLUES FOR ME

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8pm. $30. With Chairlift. Electric Factory, 421 N. Seventh St. 215.627.1332. electricfactory.info

OCTOBER

TUES 23 [LECTURE]

POLICE BRUTALITY AND TERRORISM

The Delaware Chapter of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty will host a candid discussion tonight about ways to take action within our communities to confront police brutality. Speakers from across the country who have lost loved ones or been affected by police brutality will speak out about their experiences and answer questions.

They will be joined by a panel of activists including Ron Hampton, founder and former executive director of the National Black Police Association, and Ramona Africa of the MOVE organization.

The discussion will be led by activist Amir Amma.

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In 2007, Salman Rushdie was knighted by Queen Elizabeth for his services to literature. So he’s Sir Salman Rushdie now. Sir Salman’s celebrated literary career turned messily political in 1989 after the publication of his fourth book, The Satanic Verses when Iran’s spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa, or religious edict, calling for Rushdie’s execution. This started a spiraling and spellbinding descent into hiding followed by an ascent into high society for the author, which he recounts lengthily in his new memoir, Joseph Anton. Writing in the third person, he reminisces on dodging death squads and rubbing elbows with his ever expanding array of celebrity friends. Never particularly self-effacing, Rushdie’s night at the library will surely be pithy, anecdotal and opinionated. A.G. 7:30pm. $15. Central Library, 19th and Vine sts.

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First World Theatre Ensemble begins its two-year stint as the resident theater company at the Community Education Center in West Philly with its production of Don’t Sing No Blues for Me. Set during the late 1970s in a barbershop that serves as the unofficial community center in a small North Carolina town, the play concerns a young man named Choice. Choice is in town to attend the funeral of a mother he never knew and to search for a father he’s never met. One of the few companies in Philadelphia dedicated to exploring the African-American experience, the residency at CEC is a big opportunity for First World, which, like many small companies, has struggled at times to find affordable space to present its work. The first of the company’s four productions this season, Sing is helmed by gifted director Ozzie Jones, who captured a welldeserved Barrymore Award for his direction of Freedom Theatre’s long-running holiday musical Black Nativity. J.C.R.

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HALLOWEEN NIGHTLIFE GUIDE OCTOBER

WED 24 WITCH CRAFT BEER CRAWL

Twelve watering holes along E. Passyunk Avenue will be taking part in this annual event, each one offering a $3 special on a different seasonal craft beer (in addition to their usual brews and grub) and handing out stamps for crawlers to collect.

Those who collect five stamps will be entered into a drawing to win a $300 gift certificate from participating bars or an equally cool runner-up prize.

A stamp card can be purchased for exactly $6.66 at the Bottle Shop, the proceeds of which go toward the neighborhood’s cleaning and greening efforts.

NICOLE FINKBINER

5:30pm. $6. Various locations along E. Passyunk Ave. visiteastpassyunk.com

OCTOBER

THURS 25 THRILLOWEEN MASTER CLASS

Admit it—ever since you saw Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video, you’ve been dying to learn how to move like that cool army of zombies. Well, now’s your chance. In fact, for this special extended impact jazz class, the instructor will teach you not one, but two different variations of the iconic dance routine. Dancers of all levels are welcome, and don’t worry, it’s not as hard as it looks. If those Filipino prisoners can do it, so can you. Although everyone should come dressed comfortably, those who come in costume will receive a Halloween treat. N.F. 7pm. $5-$13. Jeanne Ruddy Dance, 1515 Brandywine St. 215.645.2717. phillydancefitness.com

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OCTOBER

FRI 26 QUEER FEAR CABARET

Part Kit Kat Klub, part Witches’ Sabbath, this decadent evening of dress-up, make-believe and genderfuck is designed to put people in the Halloween mood. Trans chanteuse Mx Justin Vivian Bond headlines the show, while local troupe the Bearded Ladies kick things off with their bent take on pop, politics and pleasure. Bond, who starred in the 2006 movie Shortbus and won a Lambda Literary Award in 2012 for the memoir Tango, is no stranger to the stage, so expect witty repartee and passionate singing. Come in costume or arrive early to purchase a last-minute getup courtesy of Philly AIDS Thrift. RAYMOND SIMON 7:30pm. $20-$25. William Way Community Center, 1315 Spruce St. 215.732.2220. waygay.org

OCTOBER

SAT 27 24HOUR HORRORTHON Proudly presenting its 15th annual holiday horror film screening, Exhumed Films takes over the International House for a full 24-hour fright fest.

The event will screen 14 feature-length films, both popular titles and rare treats, plus whatever other

oddities are worth showing. While the specifics on what movies, shorts and trailers are being presented remain under wraps, audience members are promised a blend of scary slashers, zombie gore and sci-fi terror. Grindcore House, Black Orchid Foods, Blowfish Bakery and Little Baby’s Ice Cream will provide the fuel to get you through till the gory end. ASHLEY KOLE 11am. $35. International House, 3701 Chestnut St. ihousephilly.com

JOHNNY UTAH’S HAUNTED HOEDOWN

Take a ride on Johnny’s infamous mechanical bull or grab your partner and do-se-do into the wee hours during this annual five-hour Halloween extravaganza. In addition to the usual blaring country-rock, there will be a costume contest and specialty cocktails. Guests have three different ticket options to choose from, including an “all-access” pass, which will let you roam over to McFadden’s next door. General admission includes one free drink and other specials from 9 to 11 p.m. N.F. 9pm. $5-$40. Johnny Utah’s, 461 N. Third St. 215.987.5760. johnnyutahsphilly.com

PEX HALLOWEEN

Last year, the PEX Halloween Ball hosted 3,000 bloodthirsty partiers onboard the 900-foot, 57,000-ton Battleship New Jersey. This year, they resurrect the madness with PEX staples Lee Mayjahs and DJ Everyday and a teeming horde of performers and general awe-inspirers. Costumes are expected, with sea-themes encouraged (pirate, shark victim, jellyfish), while you partake in activities on the dock and on a floating platform.

If you’ve never had the PEX experience, your time is nigh. If you have, missing this will surely haunt you. BRAD FORBES 10pm- 4am. $40-47. U.S.S. New Jersey, 62 Battleship Place, Camden, N.J. thephiladelphiaexperiment.org

WITCHES AND WOOFS

October is the only time of the year when it is actually acceptable to dress your dog in a ridiculous outfit, so take advantage this week. Hosted by

the Washington Square West Civic Association, Witches and Woofs is a Halloween treat for you and your canine friend. Enter your pooch in the costume contest (judged by PW’s Arts & Culture Editor Sheena Lester), check out the pet resource tables or just enjoy the tunes, crafts and snacks.

The event benefits the Morris Animal Refuge, a rehabilitation center that hasn’t turned down an abused or abandoned animal for 135 years.

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11am. Kahn Park, 11th and Pine sts. morrisanimalrefuge.org

SEX DWARF HALLOWEEN PARTY

This two-part New Wave-themed Halloween extravaganza kicks off on the Troc’s Balcony, where DJ Robert Drake will have folks working up a sweat with his unique mix of ‘80s rock. At midnight, all are welcome to a screening of the 1975 cult classic, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, which will feature live musical accompaniment from the folks at Transylvanian Nipple Productions. Awards will be given out for best costume, so get creative. N.F. 8pm. $10. The Troc, 1003 Arch St. 215.922.6888. thetroc.com

OCTOBER

SUN 28 SEVENTY SCENES OF HALLOWEEEN

Luna Theater Company adds to the chill in the air with its revival of Jeffrey M. Jones’ unique psychological horror-comedy Seventy Scenes of Halloween.

Young married couple Jeff and Joan are waiting for trick-or-treaters on a typical Halloween night when things start to get spooky, and hungry ghosts and verse-speaking monsters come to visit. For Luna’s presentation, director Aaron Oster says he’s significantly rearranged the 30-year-old piece based on essential thematic elements and story lines. “I think if an audience comes in expecting an easy-to-follow, linear story, they’re likely to be confused and perhaps disappointed” says Oster. “The audience has to work to come to their own individual understand-

ing of what the play is saying.” If you’re looking for a play that provides both goosebumps and an intellectual challenge, Seventy is a welcome alternative to the usual Halloween fare. J. COOPER ROBB 2pm. $15-$30. Skybox @ The Adrienne, 2030 Sansom St. 215.704.0033. lunatheater.org

OCTOBER

TUES 30 GHOST HUNTING TOUR

Why celebrate All Hallows Eve with a bunch of intoxicated strangers at a bar when you can spend it with some disturbed ghosts? Armed with easyto-use EMF (electromagnetic field) meters like the ones used in Ghost Hunters, you’ll discover the paranormal activity of old cemeteries and one of two haunted colonial-era mansions in Society Hill: The Powel House and the Physick House. From mysteriously darkening lights to disembodied footsteps, all sorts of unexplainable experiences have been reported inside these houses during the past 70 years.

Bring your camera in case you too should happen to rouse up any spirits from the other side. N.F. 8pm. $22. Signers Garden, Fifth and Chestnut sts.

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OCTOBER

WED 31

HENRI DAVID HALLOWEEN BALL

Henri David’s annual Halloween Ball is time honored decadence at its finest. Beginning humbly as a small gathering in 1968, the Ball has since evolved into the premiere Halloween party in Philadelphia. Tickets are $25 if you should choose to participate in the glam, and $75 if you wish to observe the madness in plainclothes. If you go with the former, your bravery could be rewarded in one or more categories of the famous midnight costume contest. Either way, could you really pass up the opportunity to experience a level of overt sexuality most will only see in Soft Cell music videos? ANTHONY TRIVELLI 9pm. $25-$75, Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel, 201 N. 17th St. 215.732.7711

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Visiting Le Bec Fin has traditionally been an experience most of us would only have once or twice in our lives—and that only if we were lucky. I was born and raised in Philadelphia, and didn’t eat there for the first time until 2008. In that regard, it was kind of like attending the Super Bowl: You spend a long time waiting to go, a good bit of money once you do, it lasts for hours, and it’s a memory you can carry with you for the rest of your life, even if you never do it again.

A recent three-hour dinner there was my first since the restaurant came under new ownership last year. Since my editor won’t let me fill this whole newspaper with the minutiae of the richly layered, multifaceted evening at the table, I’ve come up with a Top 10 list of what I learned—including the exciting news that, for the first time, Le Bec Fin is about to start offering some less expensive dining options for those who aren’t up for the whole shebang.

1. The Omelet Yes, an omelet. At dinner. As part of a $150 fixed-price menu. And the kicker? It’s absolutely an integral part of the experience. Most of us, I think, have gone through life having tucked into a series of good to very good omelets. But when’s the last time you took that first bite of one and stopped dead in your tracks? Which is what makes this one so remarkable: It arrives at the table looking fairly innocent: Nothing new here, you think, and then wonder why it’s on the menu in the first place. But then you take the first bite, and the world becomes silent for a bit, fuzzy around the edges. The hen egg is dense, yet still, somehow, impossibly light. The sharp nuttiness of the Cabot’s Clothbound Cheddar plays off the bibb lettuce draped over top. And then the truffle comes in, perfuming it all like what I imagine the land beyond the pearly gates will smell like when I finally eat too much and my heart inevitably gives up trying to pump so much butter through my decrepit veins, and I pass into the great restaurant in the sky. This is an omelet like you’ve never had before.

2. The Beef Few things bother me more than going to dinner and seeing that the smallest steak you can order is a 12-ouncer. I’m all for abundance—this is still the land of plenty, kind of—but a nearly one-pound slab on my plate always seems more like a challenge to my manhood than an invitation to eat. And then, of course, there’s that whole biochemical reaction whereby our brain, seeing that it’s getting all kinds of wonderful fat and salt,

Le Beef: Greenery and bacon flecks raise Le Bec Fin’s meat to new heights of magnificence. (Photo by Felicia Perretti) tells our mouth to keep on eating, often well beyond the point of fullness. (OK, that’s not exactly how it works, but you get the point.)

Here, however, the beef—the last of the savory courses before the cheese—is a perfectly portioned little brick that, after having aged for 32 days, has been transmogrified into the perfect intersection of beef’s minerality and an earthy, rich funkiness that reminded me of mushrooms or blue cheese. On its own, it would have been magnificent. With bacon-flecked Savoy cabbage, cloud-light potato confit, and a wink-wink application of Dijonnaise, it embodied exactly why you go to dinner at a place like Le Bec-Fin: because at its best, it changes what you think certain ingredients are actually capable of tasting like.

3. The Pierogi Yes, pierogi: The Polish-grandmother clas-

sic. At a fine French restaurant. It’s part of the vegetarian menu du jardin (“the garden menu”) and a highlight of the meal. Whisperdelicate pasta is wrapped around a fluffy, melting filling of ricotta and stinging nettles.

It arrives all pan-browned and comforting, and is then anointed by one of the servers with a generous dollop of sweet-onion creme fraiche. I found myself taking extra-large bites of this course. And you know what? No one looked askance at me. I think it’s universally understood that great pierogi—like great dumplings in many cultures—deserve to be eaten with gusto and abandon, no matter where you are.

4. The Sunchoke Royale and Mushrooms Somehow, Chef Walter Abrams has managed to take the gnarly, scraggly sunchoke and reimagine it as a custard with all the richness

of meat and a flavor that is essentially a concentrated essence of its own identity. And the foraged mushroom dish—like the beef, it’s the last of the savory courses in the vegetarian menu before the cheese—is a stunner. The mushrooms change regularly (they are actually foraged by a gentleman in Montgomery County named Phillip, who brings them to the restaurant), but the memory of the dish likely will not. Imagine all the meatiness of steak, the earthiness of the forest after an autumn rain, and the comfort of your favorite wool blanket.

5. The Foie Gras California has banned its sale. Vehement protests pop up every few years against restaurants that serve it. Arguments abound over how this fattened goose or duck liver is produced. But after the first bite of Le Bec’s

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7. The Service I’m always amazed by how many people who’ve never eaten at a place like Le Bec assume that the service is going to be snooty, that every male employee dons a monocle and possesses a permanently extended pinky-finger, and that every female employee will be more judgmental than your in-laws.

But here’s the thing: That’s not how these kinds of places operate. In general, I’ve found that the more haute cuisine-y the restaurant is, the more competent the service, and the more you can just relax and enjoy yourself. And here, the service was in top shape: Watching the team weave around the table with their bottles, utensils, glasses, plates and more, was not all that different from being at the ballet. It was all amazingly elegant, unobtrusive, and it seemed like the staff was really enjoying themselves. Which in turn allowed our table to stop worrying about anything else besides conversation and the seriously delicious food.

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9. The Price Much has been made of the fact that Le BecFin’s dinner options were limited to elaborate, gorgeous $150 tasting menus, and lunch to a two-hour, $55 commitment. New owner Nicolas Fanucci has obviously been listening: Starting this Friday, there will also be a four-course, $85 dinner option—and a three-course lunch alternative for $39. As far as the wine list, it is, of course, easy to find pricy bottlings of legend. But perhaps unexpectedly, there is a lovely selection of excellent, thoughtful options in the under-$100 category, as well. In our phone interview, Fanucci told me that he wants Le Bec to not just be a place for birthdays and anniversaries, but also for a nice night out that can be considered alongside our city’s other great restaurants. He also will be rolling out new iPad-based menus, which will arrive at the table fully customized for each guest. So: You’re a vegetarian? Or a pescatarian? Your menu will only feature dishes that fit your personal dietary requirements. And in a smart nod to our digital world, customized menus can be printed for guests, posted to Facebook and more.

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The menu at Blue Belly takes us on a barbecue flavor odyssey through Korea, St. Louis, Jamaica, Mexico and more. For all that, it’s a simple and affordable lineup, broken up into sandwiches, smoked meats and sides: It’s all so easy to navigate and makes grabbing a quick sandwich on the way home from work very simple. Standing at the pinnacle of the sandwich menu is the Korean beef sandwich; the meat is tender, juicy and full of sweet and savory flavor. Delightfully sour kimchi mixes with sweet pear ginger vinaigrette, threatening to reinvent your concept of what’s fundamental to the palate. It’s all topped with crispy shallots and sprinkled with sesame seeds that add an extra pop of nutty flavor. (Cristina Perachio)

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1029 Race St. hopsinglaundromat.com Cuisine: Flawless $10 cocktails.

The names of Hop Sing Laundromat’s signature cocktails pay homage, in one way or another, to America. The “Montana Payback” is named after the Battle of Little Bighorn. “A Failed Entertainment” was the working title of Infinite Jest. “Nevermore” is in honor of Edgar Allan Poe. The new craft-cocktail bar’s owner, Lêe, spent months driving around the U.S., exploring its various food and drink cultures; aside from clever drink names, the experience left him resolved to build a place whose bartenders would serve high-quality well liquors without snooty pretension. For all its colorful quirk, Hop Sing pulls it off brilliantly. (B.F.)

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

Ramen has the potential to be one of the more deeply comforting and affordable meals around and Nom Nom Ramen, on 18th Street just off of Market, is doing a nice

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

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PITRUCO PIZZA

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Some of the most remarkably successful thin-crust pizzas in the city are being served up from a trailer retro-fitted with a Valoriani oven and hooked up to the back of a Ford F-150. The crust here is the key: Their recipe is ingenious, providing just the right balance of snap and chew. It takes on a hint of smoke from its stint in the oven, and this sets off the yeasty sweetness in ways both beguiling and addictive. That sweetness is on beautiful display with the deceptively difficult-todo-well margherita pizza. The heightened acid of the simple raw tomato sauce finds a willing dance partner in the subtle rounds of buffalo mozzarella. Spicy garlic pie takes the same base as the margherita but amps it up with a generous application of red chile flakes. Make sure to get the optional dusting of pecorino, which brings a sense of finality to each bite and softens the spice heat. (B.F.)

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251 S. 18th St. 215.732.2412. rittenhousetavern.com Cuisine: Fresh and seasonal American fare.

With an attentive staff and a private garden for outdoor seating, the Tavern makes for a lovely night out in the city. The prosciuttowrapped figs with Gorgonzola and honey offer a salty crunch on the outside and a burst of sweetness from the fig. Another notable dish is the five day-boat sea scallops, their tops seared to perfection, bathing in an amaranth truffle butter sauce with fresh and tender chanterelles and turnips. Don’t ignore the summery desserts like the cherrygraham-cracker tarte, lovingly paired with crunchy pistachio ice-cream. Cherry and seasalted fudge squares come complimentary with the check. (C.P.)

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Spencer ETA Burger is doing burgers in a new way: with loads of toppings. As a meat-eater, I never had the desire to try a veggie burger but upon trying the patty from Spencer ETA Burger, I’ve concluded

that veggie burgers are a solid option for vegetarians and non-vegheads looking for a healthier option. I ordered mine as a Greek burger: The Vesuvius of sweet roasted bell peppers, the tangle of spinach capped with tomato and grilled eggplant, the funky black olive tapenade and tangy feta, the onion-chickpea-cucumber slaw, the roasted garlic aioli—all of it lent the veg patty an excitement it’s rarely lavished with.

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

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

Vedge, which resides in the stunning space once occupied by Deux Cheminées, does more to bridge the chasm between the artificially distant worlds of the omnivore and the vegan than any restaurant I’ve ever visited. Grilled gochujang tofu boasts three (three!) separate rounds of marinating and arrives in a shallow pool of smoked miso dashi, crowned by a translucent lace of yuba “cracklin,” and accompanied by an edamame puree: soy beans four ways, each of them remarkable. Roasted golden beats are layered on pumpernickel with smoked tofu, avocado, capers and a cucumber dill sauce to perfectly embody the satisfying richness of a smoked salmon sandwich. (B.F.)

VIETNAM HOUSE

901 Race St. 215.413.2828 Cuisine: Casual Vietnamese.

If it isn’t hard enough to differentiate between all of the Vietnamese restaurants in Chinatown, another one has been added to the scene, but this one is less forgettable.

A friendly staff and a relaxed space make for a pleasant atmosphere. Add that the price per dish doesn’t exceed $6.25 and suddenly this place is your new fave Philly spot. While most of the menu is familiar, subtle flavors and attentively cooked meat send Vietnam House to the forefront. An unfussy dish of Broken rice with BBQ chicken arrives with the classic garnishes of sliced tomatoes, cucumbers and broken rice but the chicken is perfectly charred on the outside while maintaining a moist center. Wash the meal down with an iced coffee with condensed milk and you’ll never sleep again. (B.F.)

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hen a great athlete retires from the game, we always hope they go out on a high note. Ballet dancers are no exception; they are as much athletes as they are artists.

And like many a pro quarterback who doesn’t know when it’s time to quit, many dancers conclude their careers after their skills have been diminished due to age and injury.

Happily, this is not the case with local legend Arantxa Ochoa. A performer with the Pennsylvania Ballet since 1996 and principal dancer for the last 12 years, Ochoa is transitioning from the stage to classroom. Since September, Ochoa has been leading the faculty of the School of Pennsylvania Ballet; in January, the recently opened school is scheduled to move into the Ballet’s new home at the Louise Reed Center for Dance on North Broad Street. While beginning her tenure as a teacher, Ochoa is simultaneously bringing down the final curtain on her on-stage career this weekend with a farewell performance as the title character in the company’s magnificent production of Giselle at the Academy of Music. (Performers are subject to change, but Ochoa is scheduled to perform Oct. 28.)

“I had already made the decision to retire [before the company announced its 2012-13 season], and then I found out that Giselle was going to happen, and I thought how perfect that was,” says Ochoa. “When you are a little girl dreaming of becoming a ballet dancer, you dream of playing Giselle. From the music to the story to the steps, there is so much in the role, and there is a lot of opportunity for acting, which I enjoy.”

Her acting ability is one of the elements that separates Ochoa from other dancers. Roy Kaiser, Pennsylvania Ballet’s artistic director, refers to her as a “full artist.” “Arantxa is a wonderful technician,” he says, “but she also has the ability to fully immerse herself in a role, and there is a presence about her on stage that is completely engaging.”

Ochoa, who is married to former principal dancer Alexander Iziliaev, now Pennsylvania Ballet’s photographer and videographer, says she enjoys the acting challenges that come with “story ballets” like Giselle, a far cry from the shorter

The final curtain: Pennsylvannia Ballet principal dancer Arantxa Ochoa is shown in rehearsals for Giselle. (Photo by Alexander Iziliaev)

works that the Pennsylvania Ballet also stages. “I love the two- and three-act ballets like Romeo and Juliet and Sleeping Beauty. I love to act. People want to see the steps, but I love to develop a character that I can fully express on stage.”

Her decision to retire from it now, she confesses, is hard to put into words. “It’s the right time. Other performers always say that you will know when the time comes. I never thought that I would, but then something clicks, and you just know it’s time to move on and try other things.” And while she’s had her share of injuries—including breaking her fifth metatarsal—she says that the physical demands of ballet are only one factor in her decision to retire. “It’s a little bit of everything. It is your mind, as well as your body. I’ve had a wonderful career.

And it is just the right time.”

What will she miss most? Ochoa mentions the audience first, but says she’ll also miss the arduous rehearsals.

Despite the grueling hours—9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday with performances on the weekend—she admits, “I will miss the work you do with your partner before you go on stage.”

It is this work ethic that Ochoa stresses with her students. “I think people don’t realize how much hard work is involved because they just see the beautiful part.

There are a lot of things that a dancer

needs, but I tell my students that hard work is most important,” she says.

Perhaps the most gratifying thing about Ochoa’s retirement, says Kaiser, is that she’s still in her prime as a performer. “It’s always sad to see a dancer’s performing career end, but in Arantxa’s case, she’s doing it of her own choice.

She’s not retiring because of an injury or something else,” he explains. “It’s her decision, which is always a very positive thing for a dancer.”

And, as Ochoa’s performance in Giselle proves, she’s still at the top of her game.

Featuring Adolphe Adam’s lushly romantic score, the Pennsylvania Ballet’s production is visually stunning (John Hoey’s lighting design is wondrous) and emotionally affecting. In the title role, Ochoa’s dancing is precise and elegant, and she truly captivates in a performance that is both subtle and breathtakingly passionate.

As Kaiser observes, “there is a natural evolution in a ballet company. Will one dancer step in and fill (Ochoa’s) shoes?

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Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Imagination Almost fifty years after the major victories of the civil rights movement, African Americans continue to have a vexed relationship to American citizenship and the civic myth of the United States as the land of equal opportunity and justice for all. In “Sites of Slavery ,” Tillet examines how contemporary African American artists and writers such as Mary Francis Berry, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Bill T. Jones, and Kara Walker reconstruct “sites of slavery” — the allegations of a sexual relationship between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, the characters Uncle Tom and Topsy in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” African American tourism to West African slave forts, and the legal challenges posed by the modern reparations movements — in order to challenge our national amnesia about slavery and model a racially democratic future.

Tillet is assistant professor of English and Africana Studies at Penn.

Tillet has written for the Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, The Nation, NPR, and The Root. She is also co-founder of A Long Walk Home, Inc., a non-profit organization that uses art therapy and the visual and performing arts to end violence against girls and women.

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f cities could speak, would they turn to a shrink? Given Philadelphia’s baggage, it might be a good idea.

That’s what the advisory panel at Temple Contemporary thought when they invited psychoanalyst Robert Kravis of the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia to join Jeffrey R. Ray, senior curator at the Philadelphia History Museum at the Atwater Kent, to host an evening of urban therapy. With a wink to Sigmund Freud, Philly On the Couch aims to unpack Philadelphia’s fraught history via a psychoanalytic study of its historical objects. It’s a crazy idea, but it just might work.

PW spoke with Kravis and Ray days before what’s sure to be a compelling night of discussion.

How did you prepare for this event?

Ray: I thought I’d look at the sweep of the city’s history, and I approached it from moments of crisis and compromise.

Here, in this city founded by William Penn—the first actual place in the world since the Roman Empire where freedom of religion could be expressed in Western culture—Penn arrives in 1681, and in 1682, the brig Isabella arrives, and a hundred or more Africans are sold into slavery within the hour. So, from the very start, there’s what Philadelphia wants to be, and then there’s what it is.

Kravis: One way of describing psychoanalysis is “the mind in conflict.” If we take conflicting values and then say, ‘OK, in an individual, there are conflicting impulses and prohibitions, and they have to be resolved in a certain way,’ then the resolution is often referred to as a compromise solution. We thought maybe we could approach the kind of thing Jeffrey was just talking about (the Quaker values on the one hand and slavery on the other hand) as just such a conflict and ask, ‘So, how did that get resolved?’ And what might it have to do with the formation of, let’s say, the personality of the city?

Usually, in psychoanalysis, the patient talks and you listen.

Kravis: Right.

So, you’re going to have a very different role in psychoanalyzing

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I guess to some extent, Jeffrey is going to be the patient or the voice of the patient ...

Ray: I was just realizing that!

Kravis: ... and rather than treating this as if it were a session in the consulting room, we’re treating this as an exercise in applying psychoanalytic principles to understanding the evolution of the city.

Jeffrey aside, it seems like you’ll necessarily be anthropomorphizing Philadelphia to a certain extent.

Ray: There’s definitely a character about the city, but getting to that is very hard.

Can a collective organization like a city and the people in it be construed and understood as an individual? Is there a persona to Philadelphia? Philly on the Couch is maybe one very fun, hard, reasoned and accurate way of taking a look at it.

Kravis: Do cities have characters? I think most people would agree that

they do, but to go beyond that and say, ‘OK, what is the character of a particular city?’ I don’t think anyone can do that question justice. But if you pick certain events and say, ‘OK, this is interesting; look how this worked out. How can we understand the outcome here?’ then maybe one way of understanding it is by thinking about conflict and conflict resolution and compromise formations.

Another perspective is narcissism. How do we develop a good feeling about ourselves as people? How do we develop a good feeling about the city we live in?

It is a little bit [tongue-in-cheek] because, as Jeffrey was indicating, psychoanalysts and historians don’t really analyze cities. But it’s fun to take the concepts and see if they work. ■ For the entire conversation with Ray and Kravis, visit philadelphiaweekly.com.

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SIX PACK Six Films Featuring Yellowface

By Matt Prigge // mprigge@philadelphiaweekly.com Madame Butterfly (1915): Like blackface, the trend toward passing Caucasian actors as Asians has existed since cinema’s near-earliest days. When director Sidney Olcott adapted John Luther John’s novel about an American lieutenant who marries a 15-year-old geisha, he ran into a slight snag: not the 15-year-old part, but the Japanese part. Mary Pickford got the lead, but the two fought relentlessly over his desire she play it more “Japanese.”

Pickford won out, which may be for the best.

The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933): This entire list could be films from the 1930s, when non-Asians were constantly cast as Asians: the various Charlie Chans, Peter Lorre’s Mr. Moto, Boris Karloff and Myrna Loy in The Mask of Fu Manchu, Luise Rainer’s Oscar turn in The Good Earth. The most regal can be found in Frank Capra’s terrific pre-code drama, with Danish-born Swede Nils Asther playing a fearsome but kind warlord who falls for American Barbara Stanwyck—a rare case, at the time, of not only international but interracial romance.

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Dragon Seed (1944): Even postwar Asian actors had trouble getting decent roles in Hollywood productions.

While they were often cast in sinister roles, the meaty Asian roles went to, of course, Caucasians, including Katharine Hepburn as a Chinese woman standing up to the Imperial Japanese Army.

>> Dragon Seed

The Conqueror (1956): John Wayne as Genghis Khan.

Laugh all you want, but ignore the makeup and the dialogue clunkers, and this is a not-bad western. It was shot in Utah, near a nuclear weapons testing site that very likely contaminated the cast and crew.

7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964): Not long after Mickey Rooney’s infamous turn as bucktoothed Mr. Yunioshi in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Tony Randall starred in George Pal’s fantasy as the shape-shifting head of a magical circus, whose most prominent caricature is a broad Asian stereotype—a lovable, broad Asian stereotype, but a weird, dated stereotype nonetheless.

Cloud Atlas (2012): No doubt meant to reflect co-director Lana (formerly Larry) Wachowski’s own gender reassignment, this pricy epic finds the same actors freely taking on different characters, ages, genders, even ethnicities. Still, try not to chuckle at those forced—in the futuristic “Neo Seoul” segment—to pass as Asian. Technology changes, but Asian makeup is always embarrassing. n

Cloud Atlas’ Revolutionary Spirit Helps It Soar Even at its worst, this insanely ambitious film has nary a cynical moment.

By Sean Burns // sburns@philadelphiaweekly.com ’m relieved we recently scrapped the letter grades here at PW, because a movie like Cloud Atlas renders them irrelevant. This mammoth, passionate and sometimes just plain goofy adaptation of David Mitchell’s 2004 novel is precisely the kind of grandiose folly that can cause a critic to tear his hair out at one moment only to gasp in awe just a few minutes later. Since its premiere last month at the Toronto Film Festival, I have heard Cloud Atlas described by some folks as the best movie of the year, while others call it the worst. The truth is that it usually feels like both at the same time.

Directed by Wachowski siblings Lana and Andy, splitting duties with Run Lola Run’s Tom Tykwer, this insanely ambitious film explodes Mitchell’s carefully constructed nesting doll stories into a single, centuries-spanning continuum where past, present and future overlap, as do recurring themes of enslavement and escape. The all-star cast keeps popping-up playing different (but sometimes oddly similar) characters in each disparate tale, often wearing elaborate prosthetic makeup that ranges from the sublime to the ridiculous—a turn of phrase which sort of sums up Cloud Atlas in a nutshell.

In one scene, we’re upon a ship at sea in 1879, where moneyed young Jim Sturgess is rethinking his casual racism whilst also being poisoned by a nefarious doctor (Tom Hanks, wearing an unfortunate putty nose). The next, we’re watching the slapstick hijinks of Jim Broadbent as a modern-day literary publisher accidentally committed to a nursing home he mistook for a hotel. Then, it’s the 1970s, and Halle Berry is a journalist investigating tendrils of corruption creeping around a nuclear power plant.

Blink and you’ll miss the flip to Korea in 2144, as The Host’s Doona Bae finds herself the unlikely leader of a clone insurrection. There’s also a doomed love affair between Ben Whishaw and James D’Arcy in 1931. Oh, and did I mention this is all framed by Hanks and Berry trudging across a wasteland, dodging cannibals and speaking pidgin English some 150 years after the apocalypse?

Yeah, I had a tough time following all that myself. The first 40 minutes or so of Cloud Atlas’ nearly three hours is such

Get a grip: Halle Berry (left) and Tom Hanks trudge across a post-apocalyptic wasteland while dodging cannibals in the extraordinarily filmed Cloud Atlas.

rough sailing, at times I found myself wishing for a cheat sheet or some sort of graph just so I could keep all these characters and storylines straight. (Helpful hints: Whenever Hugo Weaving is onscreen, he’s usually the bad guy, and Hugh Grant is always an asshole.)

And then something odd happens: The movie settles into a groove. I’m not much of a fan of the Wachowski’s Matrix saga, but their underrated Speed Racer wore down my defenses with its giddy, everything-plus-the-kitchen-sink cinematic gusto. Similarly, Tykwer always struck me as more technician than artist, but there’s no denying that his pictures throb with momentum. Constantly shuttling here and back again while the separate stories slowly begin to philosophically mirror one another, Cloud Atlas finds a propulsive rhythm that clarifies as it goes along. It gets better.

There is some extraordinary filmmaking here, cutting on similar camera movements and matching character placement within the frame for seamless transitions between eras. Everything is always hurtling forward simultaneously, whether it’s Berry and Keith David in a scrappy blaxploitation-inspired shootout or Bae’s hyperkinetic escapes in a future dystopia that play out like the Matrix sequels we all wish the Wachowskis had made instead.

It also can be awfully tacky. (In particular, Hanks’ and Berry’s post-apocalyptic

Jar-Jar speak made me wish I was deaf.) A lot of the time, Cloud Atlas feels like D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance by way of Zardoz.

Yet the kitsch factor is weirdly in keeping with the picture’s ardent, disarming sincerity. There’s not a cynical moment in these three hours, and the actors throw themselves into their roles with wild, foolhardy abandon. The multiple performances aren’t just a gimmick, as the Wachowskis and Tykwer desperately want us to see similar conflicts writ large and small over the enormity of human history, resolved only by bravery, compassion and reaching out to other, similarly marginalized people we were foolishly taught to fear.

Unlike most cold, mega-budget spectacles, Cloud Atlas feels deeply personal, almost hand-crafted. There’s an obvious corollary here between co-director Lana (formerly Larry) Wachowski’s recent gender reassignment and the movie’s mutable approach to identity. Even at its most risible, this oddball picture has a groovy, inclusive spirit that seems downright revolutionary in this sterile, blockbuster age. ■

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By Matt Prigge // mprigge@philadelphiaweekly.com y all accounts, the 21st Philadelphia Film Festival, which began Oct. 18 and ends Sunday, has enjoyed great turnout and from Day One, when David O. Russell’s award season favorite, Silver Linings Playbook, set the wowed-audience bar. Since then, dozens of other narratives and docs—some given props here last week—have dazzled and confounded Philly cinephiles with equally welcome intensity. But just because PFF’s winding down doesn’t mean it’s letting up. Here’s a selection of notable films among the rest of the fest, with starred recommendations.

★ ALASKALAND

Nigerian-American Chukwuma (Alex Obukudom) is a former hood trying to go straight, but the prejudices of normal society—and the cruel whims of director Chinonye Chukwu’s screenplay—are keeping him down. Major and supporting characters get repeatedly put in the hospital, and everyone shouts too much, but the whole thing is at least lensed beautifully by cinematographer Dave Selle.

His smart, widescreen compositions are stunners, even when he’s not trained on Alaskan vistas.

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THE ATOMIC STATES OF AMERICA

Local documentarian Don Argott toggles between loving profiles tied to music (Rock School, Last Days Here) and activist polemics (The Art of the Steal, this). The unifier is a yen for the common man who tries to make a difference. Co-directed with Sheena M. Joyce, this exposé of nuclear power—which paints it as a science humanity is not yet ready to safely harness—is no mere exposé, in part because it grounds its findings to regular people. Atomic finds folk in nuclear locations like Long Island and Harrisburg who’ve gone from citizens to grassroots activists, if only because no one else would do the grunt work.

They call bullshit on regulations that simply adjust the regulations to benefit the suppliers instead of punishing wrongdoing. This is fine angry muckraking, but one that doesn’t get so lost in facts that it forgets the people they affect.

★ THE COMEDY

In Rick Alverson’s relentlessly unpleasant drama, Tim Heidecker plays a bored, rich Williamsburg asshole who’s an obnoxious prick to everyone he encounters, from the male nurse attending to his sick father to taxi drivers to girls he wants to fuck at parties. More divisive than Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie

A love life, under the scope: Terence Nance explores the affairs of his heart in the dreamy, relentlessly original The Oversimplification of Her Beauty.

(Eric Wareheim pops up as one of his buddies), it’s also funnier, if in a fucked-up way.

Heidecker’s gabby hellspawn voices praise for Hitler (“If you take the murder out of the equation, he was like a male cheerleader”) and Timothy McVeigh (“I didn’t know this, but apparently that building had it coming”); what little plot there is involves occasionally tempting him with redemption, only for him to turn it down, one time at the last second. A character study hasn’t been this wonderfully unwatchable since Ronald Bronstein’s even more brilliant Frownland.

FUTURE WEATHER

“I like science because it helps you measure changes,” crows 13-year-old Lauduree (Perla Haney-Jardine), the brilliant but troubled hero of Jenny Deller’s feature debut. A heartfelt, well-acted but too fussy indie in the Sundance mold, Future Weather follows our

bookworm as she contends with school and being abandoned by her mother (Marin Ireland). The Francophile-named Lauduree fears for her future, just as she fears global warming, a connection that’s a touch too neat and screenwriterly. Subtle in places, unsubtle in others, it does, however, speak to a unique generational concern, with Lauduree representative of kids who now have to literally fight for their future. And it’s always nice to see Amy Madigan, who plays Lauduree’s ornery grandmother.

★ MIAMI CONNECTION

There are always diamonds hidden in the rough of bad cinema history, so credit the Alamo Drafthouse, the salty theater chainturned-distributor, with unearthing this delightfully under-sensical 1987 martial-arts extravaganza. Streets of Fire re-imagined with neither a budget nor acting chops, it memo-

rably pits coke-dealing biker ninjas against a tae kwan do-rocker contigent, one of whom models his looks after John Oates. Though it never reaches the absurd heights of Raw Force or Lady Terminator—whose reps are still relatively obscure, while this scores a ride on the festival circuit—it comes close, particularly whenever Korean star/writer/casting director Y.K. Kim inventively mangles the English language. More important, you’ve likely never seen synth rock performances wherein the band does high kicks. Book these guys at the Troc.

ONLY THE YOUNG

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More of the best of the fest: Gary Bond’s schoolteacher has a real scream of a time on holiday in Australia in 1971’s Wake in Fright (above). Rich hipster jerk Tim Heidecker (below) amuses—if you want to call it that—in The Comedy.

off, get dye jobs and talk to these suddenly present documentarians, and the best parts of the film offer an impressive undiluted entrée into a rarely legitimately explored world.

But the filmmakers go too far, eventually getting caught up in what’s not terribly interesting personal business. Lacking a deeper perspective on its characters, the film winds up stretched out and redundant, even at only 69 minutes.

★ AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF HER BEAUTY

Original and so much more, Terence Nance’s relentlessly naval-gazing feature debut abandons narrative for a restless, shape-shifting experiment in self-documentation. Nance’s love life, as with many neophytes, is the focus, a subject that has consumed him so much that it comprised earlier shorts. One of those, 2010’s How Would You Feel?, winds up spliced into his long player, which starts with him worrying about a would-be one-night-stand and spirals into a look at his past relationships, his paranoia about “The Cosby Effect”—being an African-American in an age with few legitimate problems—and concerns that he’s not

adequately representing the female side. Live action gives way to dreamy animation, the personal gives way to the universal, and you will not see anything remotely like this at the PFF or elsewhere.

★ SISTER

French filmmaker Ursula Meier follows up her surreal, Isabelle Huppert-commanded family drama Home with the more grounded confines of a Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardennesstyle drama set in the Alps. Roaming among jet-setting resort tourists, young Simon (Kacey Mottet Klein) steals gear from the rich and sells it back to them, all to buttress the paltry income made by housecleaner Louise (Léa Seydoux), his sister—or so we’re told. As in Home, a near-reckless mid-film gear shift throttles both the characters and us, and though Meier seems to be impersonating the Dardennes more than herself, even fauxDardennes is welcome, particularly when it makes room for both Martin Compston (Sweet Sixteen) and Gillian Anderson.

★ WAKE IN FRIGHT

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prominence in Australia at the same time as tasteful exports like Picnic at Hanging Rock, began in earnest with a film that made the country look like a hellish wasteland. Before he made First Blood and Weekend at Bernie’s, Canadian director Ted Kotcheff shocked Cannes with this 1971 grueler, in which a frustrated, bookish school teacher (Gary Bond) finds his Sydney holiday scuttled when a

layover in a nowhere town results in a threeday bender. Instead of beach sex with his hot girlfriend, he winds up with shit beer, aborted coitus and killing baby kangaroos alongside a shirtless Donald Pleasance. That he survives is the worst punishment of all. ■ For showtimes and venue information, visit filmadelphia.org.

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Rita Ora at the Trocadero A rainy, dreary day doesn’t mute the high energy of the latest English import to hit U.S. shores. After all, that’s normal weather in London, where Rita Ora, the platinumhaired singer who’s had three U.K. numberone singles in “R.I.P,” “How We Do (Party) and “Hot Right Now,” harks from, by way of Kosovo. She may be on fire across the pond, but was virtually unknown in the U.S. until she hooked up with Jay-Z’s Roc Nation. Her debut Ora, released in the U.K. in late August, debuted on top and is already gold.

Though she’s still new to the game, Ora knows the first rule of success: Align yourself with the best. To that end, she’s toured with Coldplay and hit with the Drakepenned “R.I.P,” which also features British rap star Tinie Tempah. In the Rihannameets-Katy-Perry with a touch of Neneh Cherry mashup that is Ora’s vibe, there’s a fresh sensibility, as well as a lot of edgy fashion—”I like to surprise people,” she says—placing her squarely amongst current U.K. It-girls like Estelle and Jessie J. But it’s onstage that Ora, who’s done several a capella performances in her U.S. press run, including MTV’s famed Unplugged series, truly shines.

“It was nice to see so many people knowing my songs,” Ora says of her Philadelphia debut on the Made in America concert stage last month. “I just like to have a lot of fun on stage. I think people are surprised when I sing live. With my bigger songs, they like to see what I’m wearing and the videos, but when I get a chance to sing live and sing it more stripped back, I think that gives a different level to it. People can see a different angle to me.” (Tonya Pendleton) Sun, Oct. 28, 8 pm. $25-$27. With Iggy Azalea + Havana Brown. The Trocadero, 1003 Arch St., 215.922.6888. thetroc.com

eality television might have taken over MTV, but there’s about as much music involved in shows like Jersey Shore and 16 and Pregnant as there are inspirational moments.

Rather, reality television’s rise over the decade has been used to document humanity’s self-destruction from individual standpoints, with little sense of humor. Unlike most reality TV producers, Cherry Hill, N.J., residents Steve Holtzman and Lou Faiola think a hearty mix of good sounds, good vibes and an effort to honor military members’ service might be the cure to what ails the genre. That’s why they created Bands of Brothers, an online reality show that puts war veterans—and, initially, strangers—suffering from PTSD together to make beautiful music. Now in its seventh week, the show will culminate on Veterans Day with a concert featuring the vets at World Café Live in University City on Sunday, Nov. 11.

The first six Bands of Brothers episodes find the 12 veterans—whose stints span about 20 years of service between them—getting to know each other, practicing their instruments, then being put into groups based upon their respective strengths. Eventually, three final bands are formed and stay together through the show’s entirety, playing—as it eventually happens—three distinct styles of music: one soul, one alt-rock and one pop-rock.

Philly resident and drummer Jerry Grantland, one of the Bands of Brothers’ participants, says the show’s uplifting nature isn’t just a guise for the viewing audience. “People are tuning into Real World [to watch] people throwing beer bottles at each other,” he tells PW. “Meanwhile, here is just an uplifting story about people coping with the problems in their lives through music. I actually found the motivation to go out and seek help because of these episodes and because of the show and because of these other vets.”

The Army veteran, who started playing drums as a child so he could jam with his guitar-playing father, says music has always helped him cope, and Bands of Brothers has helped him realize there are a lot of musicianveterans suffering with PTSD out there. After all, even before Bands of Brothers premiered, “the drums were my only escape from everyday,” he says, “from whatever is going on in my brain and whatever I’m thinking about.”

Grantland and his peers were surrounded by renowned musician-mentors—guys who’ve remained behind the scenes, writ-

Rockin’ in the free world: Bands of Brothers stars Jerry Grantland (left) and Erica Glenn, both military veterans, perform on Episode Six of the web reality show.

ing songs and performing with brand-name artists—who bring them up to speed on working together and meshing their styles.

Among them: Mark Rivera, longtime musical director for Billy Joel and the Ringo Starr All Starr Band; Mike Visceglia, who’s worked with Suzanne Vega, and Kasim Sulton of Utopia.

As the show progresses, the trio of mentors bring on other area musicians, like The Hooters’ founding member Eric Bazilian, to help out. Between them alone, they span about a century of musical history.

Unlike almost all reality television, the characters do not hate one another—quite the opposite. Bands of Brothers turns reality entertainment on its head by casting people to work together and encourage each other—a twist you could only believe if those same onscreen characters were veterans of U.S. military. What the show lacks in on-screen physical and emotional violence masquerading as drama, it makes up for in its stars describing their time overseas, their return to the states and what about the horrors of war resulted in their common diagnoses. In each episode, a vet is given the chance to talk about his or her “journey” to the present, and, inevitably, most involve the instance that set off the PTSD and gratefully, their road back to what most of them now describe as a normal-ish life.

At one point, Marine and Gulf War vet

Erica Glenn, a singer in the band with Grantland, describes a bombing she witnessed in Saudi Arabia in 1991. It was, she says, “the biggest boom ever in my whole life. It shook the ground it shook our tent. Everybody fell to the ground … After that, I was never the same. I was shook up, my hair fell out. It just went haywire for me.” She describes how she couldn’t be in the dark after that, which limited the time she and her young son had often spent going to the movies in Philadelphia.

She also turned to drugs. It wasn’t until 2008 that she was able to bring herself to get help from a veteran’s hospital—a 17-year span she partially blames on her tough military training, which seems to be typical of veterans suffering from PTSD. At the end of the day, the music—and the Bands of Brothers experience—has connected Glenn, Grantland and the other 10 participants in ways that go far behind the studio and stage. “I really didn’t know that there are a lot of people that are in the same boat that I’m in now,” Grantland says. “It made me feel a little bit less weird about the situation.”

Bands of Brothers can be found on tv.bandsofbrothers.org. New shows are added each Thursday. For tickets to the Nov. 11 benefit at World Cafe Live, visit philly.worldcafelive.com.

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Mort Drucker: Five Decades of His Finest Works

The Origin of Love (Casablanca) Sounds like: The 29-year-old Lebaneseborn Brit’s third LP is a return to the sheer pop joy of his 2007 debut, and it’s full of catchy, cutesy confections.

Free association: Coming out did him good. This one’s brimming with pop energy.

For fans of: Scissor Sisters x Freddie Mercury + Robbie Williams, frivolity, sparkles.

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Foreword by Michael J. Fox (Running Press) In summary: A compendium of the great MAD magazine cartoonist’s movie and TV parodies from the ‘50s through the ‘90s: “James Bomb,” “American Confetti,” “Raving Bully,” “Family Tides,” etc., brought to us by Philly-based publisher Running Press.

Akin to: What illustrated storyboards of Hollywood’s biggest movies would have looked like if they’d all been scripted by Weird Al. Author fun fact: In an introductory Q&A, Drucker confirms that his parodies were frequently written before he or any of the MAD editorial team had the opportunity to actually watch the movies being mocked. (Stephen H. Segal)

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Jiaolong (Merge) Sounds like: The excellent debut of Caribou’s Dan Snaith is electronic opuses of dance that play with repetition, samples, keys and grooves masterfully.

Free association: Finally! Inspired dance music that uses dubstep as a foil.

For fans of: Daft Punk/Matthew Dear, Hot Chip, 3am Voyeur basement balls. (B.C.)

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Information Retrieved (Temporary Residence) Sounds like: The California strongholds of moody, mathy indie rock deliver on their fifth and first in five years, and they definitely don’t care about trends.

Free association: The same sound that hooked us a decade ago, and it’s still good.

For fans of: Death Cab x Modest Mouse + Yo La Tengo, simpler times, consistency.

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Local Business (XL Recordings) Sounds like: Punk is back, they exclaim, and you believe it when you hear these Jersey boys rip through 10 new brilliantlytitled tracks of loud, smart rock.

Free association: For those times when humanity never ceases to piss you off.

For fans of: Nirvana x Neutral Milk + Gaslight Anthem, snarling post-punk rage.

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The Haunted Man (Capitol) Sounds like: The ever-arty 32-year-old Pakistani Brit Natasha Khan is a wunderkind of songwriting; on her third, she’s gone darker, simpler and less dancey.

Free association: She’d make a helluva dinner party guest—talented and elegant.

For fans of: Kate Bush, Mirah x Tori Amos, Siouxsie/Bjork/Fiona, dreamfolktronica.

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ON THE IDIOT BOX Richard Hammond’s Crash Course

Mondays, 10 p.m., BBC America Captive audience: Anglophiles, Top Gear heads, people who love watching celebrities do crazy, life-threatening shit.

Moment of truth: Brit TV presenter/Top Gear co-host Richard Hammond returns to America for another season of his Dirty Jobs-esque reality show. After spending last season going around the country and working on heavy machinery, the second season has him taking on some adrenaline-pumping stateside occupations, including working at a Harlem barbershop. Since the amusing first episode had him taking on duties as a stuntman—jumping off bridges, being set on fire, etc.—we can only assume this chap will get into more dangerously sticky situations as the season progresses.

Emmy or phlegmmy: Emmy. (Craig D. Lindsey)

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Mondays, 9 p.m. Logo Captive audience: Drag queens, ladies who look and act like drag queens, fans of general cattiness.

Moment of truth: Are you ready for a bunch of dudes who wear loud-ass ladies’ clothing and call each other “bitch” all the time?

Well, that’s what you’re gonna get as the cross-dressing, realityshow contest returns. This time around, 12 beloved contestants from the previous four seasons—yes, Latrice Royale is back!—return to compete and vamp/camp it up, while host RuPaul continually steps in and out of drag, serving up one groan-worthy, double entendre after another. Man, this is so damn good! Laughs galore, for days.

Emmy or phlegmmy: Emmy, bitches. (C.D.L.)

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Fridays, 8 p.m., NBC Captive audience: Munsters fans, supernatural-TV watchers, those people who actually went to the theater and saw Dark Shadows.

Moment of truth: After making a big deal out of reviving The Munsters for the 21st century, NBC is seeing if audiences will take a liking to the pilot, which is now airing as a “Halloween special” in the hopes that it’ll possibly become a series. Judging by the uneven, more creepy than campy hour, it’s hard to tell if folks will dig this version, which has Jerry O’Connell and Portia de Rossi as a straight-out-of-a-fashion-spread Herman and Lily, a hammy-as-hell Eddie Izzard as a ravenous, bloodthirsty Grandpa and Brit actress Charity Wakefield as the cute niece who’s spookier than all of them.

Emmy or phlegmmy: Phlegmmy. (C.D.L.)

Thursday, Oct. 18, Annenberg Center and R2L Overall vibe: Big-screen glam as Silver Linings Playbook director David O. Russell and author Matthew Quick turned out for a postscreening Q&A in West Philly.

Most memorable moment: The 90-second span of time circa 11:30 p.m. when anyone standing at R2L’s dessert table munching on red velvet cupcakes would have seen an uncanny Kevin Smith lookalike walk past—followed in short order by a Glenn Close lookalike—and finally, Film Office chief Sharon Pinkenson, Meg Ryaning up the joint with sparkly cheer.

Scene stealer: Hey! Was that a PW newspaper box looking all cinematic during a key scene in Silver Linings Playbook? Get outta here! (S.H.S.)

Herman Cain: College Truth Tour 2012

Friday, Oct. 19, Temple University Overall vibe: Attentive, yet confused. College students in pressed suits and canvas backpacks simultaneously praised and criticized the former Republican presidential candidate as he spoke of his infamous “9-9-9” tax plan, the American dream and Meat Lover’s Pizza.

Most memorable moment: Cain’s less-than-perfect rendition of the “Pokémon” theme song, telling students that when it comes to dreams, “you gotta catch ‘em all.”

Scene stealer: A surprise endorsement of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert that led even the most skeptical to applause. And to his critics, an enthusiastic “Eat your heart out. I does not care!” (Jenine Pilla)

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From Hood River, Ore., to your local beer store. henryweinhards.com Here’s the dish: It’s one of three newish offerings from the famed brewery.

Description: This “affordable” and “uncomplicated” IPA is smooth, mild and, well, woodsy. It’s easy on the tongue, but smells like a Busch pounder left out on the beer pong table too long.

Yum or yuck? Woodland Pass could be more yum than yuck, but the bottle may have been skunked in transit. Buy me a draft, and I’d try it again. (Roland Weary)

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Free association: “Put It Down” has got somethin’ that’s not on the rest of the disc.

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But the alarming statistic Lauer cited—which was used to justify all sorts of proposed crackdowns on online porn—turned out to be total bullshit. Way, way back in 2005, Seth Lubove, a writer for Forbes, traced the stat back to its source.

The Today show got it from the Boston Globe, the Boston Globe got it from Family Safe Media, “a small firm in Provo, Utah, [which] is in the business of scaring parents into buying software to protect their kids from Internet smut.” Family Safe Media got it from Internet Filter Review, a website that markets content-blocking software.

Internet Filter Review got it from The Drug of the New Millennium, a self-published book about the dangers of porn addiction. Lubove tracked down the self-published author, and guess what? He couldn’t recall where he got that stat. Somewhere along the line, Third Way, “a Washington think tank that helps Democrats grab on to redstate issues,” was seriously pimping the bogus stat to credulous conservative Dems.

Lubove reviewed actual research done by legit social scientists—a real study! A statistically significant population sample! A random-sample survey!—and reported that most kids don’t start actively seeking out online porn until age 14.

So you’re not too late, DAD. Now, here’s what I think you should tell your son about porn: There’s a lot of it out there, some of it’s pretty fucked up, and he can get in huge and potentially life-derailing trouble if he gets caught downloading the wrong kind. You should tell your son that the sex in porn bears about as much resemblance to real-life sex as action movies bear to real-life life. And warn him that a lot of porn is made by and for guys who have no other sexual outlets, i.e., guys who have no wives, no girlfriends and no hope. Many of these guys— many, not most, but many—are angry and resentful, and their anger and resentment is a poison that creeps into a lot of porn; sometimes the poison is obvious, sometimes it’s not. If you put it in your straight son’s head that the poisonously misogynist shit he’ll see in some porn is there to appeal to angry losers who can’t get laid, DAD, your son will be less likely to internalize it.

Finally, DAD, if your son is watching porn, he’s masturbating. Tell him to vary his routine: left hand, right hand, firm grip, loose grip. You don’t want your son to ruin himself for partnered sex by using the “death grip”—a fist clenched tighter than any human throat or pussy can clench. And send him to makelovenotporn.com for a brisk, sex-positive porn-versus-reality check.

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After a couple months, my long-term boyfriend came back into the picture. I told him I’d been seeing other people, but that I wanted to make things work between us. All good, right? Wrong! I love him so much, and I think we could have a very happy life together, but when we have sex, it just seems so dull and average. Do I sacrifice an amazing sex life for a happy life with the man I love? Help!

Missing Amazing Sex You’re not going to be happy having safe, boring, predictable sex with Mr. Long Term for the long term, right? Not after all that wild, passionate, unpredictable sex with Mr. New Guy. So if things don’t improve, your relationship with Mr. Long Term is doomed. So you have nothing to lose by slapping your cards down on the table, MAS. Tell Mr. Long Term the truth: The sex has to get better. Now, maybe Mr. Long Term is the problem (he could be lousy at sex) or maybe it’s the combo of you and Mr. Long Term that’s the problem (maybe you two just don’t click sexually), and the relationship is doomed no matter what you do. But there’s a chance your problem is a relatively common hang-up, MAS. It’s possible that you, or Mr. Long Term, or you and Mr. Long Term feel inhibited during sex because you’re in love, and people who are in love are supposed to have sex one way (you’re supposed to make safe, boring, predictable love). But people who aren’t in love—people like you and Mr. New Guy—are free to have sex another way (they’re allowed to have wild, passionate, and unpredictable fucks).

Give Mr. Long Term permission to fuck you like he’s never going to see you again. Fuck each other like the stakes are low—fuck like it’s casual, fuck like it could end at any time. The “lovemaking” inhibition can be literally fucked to death, if it’s indeed the problem here, and once you’ve fucked it good and dead, you’ll see that you can have a happy life, a committed relationship, and wild, passionate, unpredictable sex—with the same person! But you gotta want it bad enough to fuck for it.

I’m a straight woman in a monogamous, longdistance relationship with a man. Last weekend, I went out with my roommate, took some E and did way too many tequila shots. We stumbled home and ended up fingerbanging each other. I have never had sexual feelings for her, and she says she doesn’t have them for me. Do I have to tell my boyfriend about this indiscretion? It was a strange, one-time thing that I plan on never doing again.

Not a Lesbian I Think If it was a one-time thing, if you learned your lesson, if you’re sure it won’t happen again, if you didn’t contract anything, and if there are no fetuses gestating (which, barring a miracle, is not an issue for you), you don’t need to disclose this indiscretion. Chalk it up to the E and the tequila, change your sheets, scrub under your fingernails, and spare your boyfriend the upsetting details.

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SUMMONS IN THE PROBATE COURT STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF RICHLAND IN THE MATTER OF: BENJAMIN F. HOOK CASE NUMBER: 2012 GC40 00051 TO: SHAWN HOOK, DWAYNE HOOK, AND ALTHEA HOOK YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Petition in this action, a copy of which was filed in the Richland County Probate Court on April 24, 2012, and is hereby served upon you by publication and to serve a copy of your Answer to the said Petition upon the subscriber at her office, Franchelle C. Millender, 1441 Main Street, Suite 725, Columbia, SC 29201, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof upon you, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the Petition within the time aforesaid, the petitioner in this action will apply to the Court for the relief as requested in the Petition.

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Charming Condominium $339,000 $499,000 1 Bedroom 1 Bath MLS 5950613 MLS 6120958 $225,000 MLS 5777406

Powers Brangan PENNSPORT CENTER CITY GERMANTOWN

3 Bedrooms State of the2artBaths Loft Spacious Brand New Condominium $239,000 Home 2 Bedrooms MLS 59569862 Baths 4 Bedrooms $489,5552 Baths MLS 5746449 $219,000

MLS 6109444

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1104 PINE ST

Triplex with amazing bilevel 3br, 2b owner’s unit.

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$1,199,000 Call Izzy Sigman

802-04 S 6TH ST #4

Pristine 2br, 1b trinity, f/p, h/w flrs, private garden

$224,000 Call Michele Golembeski

226 South Street

215 922 4200 QUEEN VILLAGE FISHTOWN Duplex Open Floor Plan

$369,000 3 Bedrooms 2.5 Baths $329,900 MLS 5965611 MLS 5784384

MLS 6071607

CITY 22UNIVERSITY Heather Lane UNIVERSITY CITY

Sunny Townhouse Sunny Townhouse LEVITTOWN 33 Bedrooms 2.5Baths Baths Bedrooms 2.5

$189,900

$242,500 $259,900 MLS 6085259 MLS 5790241 MLS 5790241

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$379,900

Convenient Location Walkers Paradise! $379,000 1 Bedroom 1 Bath 3MLS Bedrooms, 5897864 Bath MLS 5744269

MLS 5933122

Starting in Unit the Beautiful 3rd Floor 1 Bedroom 1 Bath $400,000s MLS 6120497

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New York Upper East Side lifestyle at Philadelphia prices. Cosmopolitan, Classic Artisan Rittenhouse Artisandirectly II Townhouse on Society 1805 Lombard 1431 Bainbridge Hills Wash.

Square Park. 7000 (10 Homes) (8 Homes) 4000 Sq Ft 4/3.5 sq. ft. 4+ bdrms, + family rm +4000 + Sq Ft 4/3.5 Elevator Deck 2 Car Elevator Deck 2 Car Garage & library, 6 bths, TA elevator, garden, Garage & TA $2,500,000 $2,000,000 deck and 2 car parking.

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2107 Bainbridge Incredible 3 + media/2.5

Deck & Garden $749,000

216 Christian Street D

pretty garden. $384,900

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

776 S. 2nd St - Very nice 2 Bedroom, 1 Bath Bi level apartment w/ CA + Lg Deck. $1350 810 S. 3rd St –Beautiful large 3 BR + Den home with hardwood floors t/o, yard + parking. $2500 pendInG 1119 E. Palmer St –N/C 3 BR + Media Rm, 3 BA, H/W t/o, Fp, Lg Garden + 3 car parking. $2500 400 Spring Garden-N.C Commercial Space Available-800 to 1600 Sq Ft. Call for Details

business opportunity currently used as a day care. Pristine condition, terrific location, 2300 sq. ft, handicap accessible, full lavatory + powder room and nice outdoor space.

$450,000

335 Christian

128 Pemberton St

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

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512-16 S. Front St. Investment Opportunity - Commercial - 7820 Sq. Ft., River Views, Terrific Space & Location. $1,900,000

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505 S. 10th Front A- Wonderful 3 bdrm, Location! Historically Certified 3.5 253 Fulton Street - Something Special story hm, beautifully restored facade, 5 2 bth home with deeded, gated parking, Detail & Character, 2 BR, 2 BA, 2 FP, bdrms, 1.5 bths and nice yard. Needs hrdwd flrs, 2 fp’s, finished basement, Hrwd Flrs, Great Kitchen & Baths, Adeck w a& rlandscaped d W i community n n i n ggarden.

K a t h y , P aRehab. t r i $329,900 c k a n d t h e 2Exposed CDecks, onw a Beautiful y T eBlock a m& Meredith Brick, $480,000 School District. $349,900

12 Queen Street - Meredith School District.

Pristine beautiful historic rehab, 4 bdrms, 2.5 bths, 2 fp’s, hrdwd flrs t/o + deck. $3000

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Ivon Cowell

703 S 3rd Street

Great Location. 1st floor designer studio + fabulous owners unit, 3bdrms, 2.5 bath and roof deck Jeff Kauffman $3200 Tory Gargano

1 Queen Street # 10

Mike Carestio

A great house. Large Federal Period home in Northern Pennsport. 5 bedrooms, hardwood floors, high ceilings and great kitchen and bath. $2300

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

316 Greenwich Street

Complete Rehab, 3 bdrms, 1.5 bths, Cherry hrdwd flrs, fab. kitchen & bath & lrg yard. $234,900

1529 E. Moyamensing St. Wonderful Federal Period home, 5 bdrms, 1.5 bths, den/family rm, beautiful random pine flrs t/o, 12ft ceilings, 2400 sq. ft., 2 fp’s and yard. $319,900

710 Addison Street - Society Hill New Listing. Wow! 1900sf., 2 bdrms + den, 2.5 bths w./garage, hrdwd. flrs. & garden $544,000

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725 Kimball Street

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

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2236 S. 3rd Street Very nice extra lrg 3 bdrm hm, back room that could be used as den/office, hrdwd flrs, good light & yard. $184,900

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312 Gerritt Street

1211 S. 3rd Street

113 Wharton Street Tastefully Rehabbed. 3 bdrms, 1.5 bths, fp, hrdwd flrs, finished basement/family rm/media rm & lrg garden. $369,000

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Gorgeous 3 bdrm + den, 2.5 bth home with hrdwd flrs, fp, garden deck & garage. $2800

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Northern Pennsport. A lovely home with 2 bedrooms, hardwood floors and pretty garden. $1500

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New 1014 E. Moyamensing St. Wonderful

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New 1611 Brandywine St Pristine 6 yr old, 3200 Sq Ft, 2 Car Prkg, 4 BR/4.5 Bths, garden & 2 decks. TA. $749,900

753-757 S. Marshall St

4 /3.5 2 Car Parking RED $549,900

From $299,000 1 SOLD

New 208 Queen Street - Great 5 yr. old rehab in Meredith School District, 2/2 hrdwd flrs, fp, fin. bsmnt, deck & balcony. $469,900

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

220 Manton St & work from home848 S. Swanson Street 2 bedrooms +den,1.5 3rd & Bainbridge - Live in this fabulous space.

Baths, 812 S. Howard Street old fabulous home. 3 bdrms Great New Listing with Garage, space5onyear hardwood floors, Deck + Gallery 1st Fl. $3000 Q.V. great rehab, 2 bdrms, lrg + family1 bath rm, 3.5 bths, fp, hrdwd flrs, 3/2 FullQueen & 2 half Fp, Hrwd Flrs,2 bedroom, 427 St-Baths, Beautiful 3 story, trinity, H/W, EIK & garden.bth, $1400 fp hrdwd flrs t/o & garden deck & garage. $599,900 & Garden.

225Deck Catharine St -$389,000 Beautiful 3 BR + Den, 4 BA, H/W, Granite ktchn, grdn & 2 car parking. $3500 REDUCED $289,000

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From $549,900 2800 sq. ft (+), 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, media room, fireplace, finished basement, balconies, Garden, Parking & Tax Abatement

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

1714 Memphis Street unit 117 Spectacular Designer Corner Condo.

1 bdrm, 2 bths, 1 car deeded parking, hrdwd flrs t/o &, 15’ ceilings. $349,900

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

Great Rental

1923-1925-2021-2023 Parrish N/C 3 to 4 BR TA From $469,000

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on 114 Carpenter Street ructi st 2 Beautiful Rehab. 2 lovely bdrms, n Co full baths, designer kitchen,hrdwd w flrs t/o, fp, finishedNebasement &

Pkng $499,500

3550 Sq Ft 3 + Den/4.5 3 BalconiesDeck Garden + Garage TA $979,000

incredible panoramic river views, 2000 sq. ft, Pristine courtyard hm tucked away in a secured 3/2.5, hrdwd flrs t/o, huge terrace, prkg gym, quiet setting. 3bdrms + den/family rm, 3.5 bths, 2800 sq. ft, hrdwd flrs, 13’ ceilings, lovely garden, pool, spa & 24hr concierge. $849,000 lrg roof deck & 3 car parking. $649,900

1 Christian St #22

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133 Salter Street Fab. N/C

Great neighborhood.

Development Opportunity, 4 story + basement. building Sq. ft. 24,500, total land Sq. 1118 E. Moyamensing 4/2.5, patio,deck & finished ft. 22,000. basement $369,000 Call for details. $3.5 M

Dockside #1217 - North facing, end unit,

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

710-12 Rear S. 7th Street (a.k.a. 714 nt Bainbridge) - Brand me New. Fab 2 story lop(loft like) wide open Carriage house e v space w/garage prkg, 2/2.5, hrdwd flrs, De w 2 dcks Ne & lrg garden space. $549,000

810 S. 2nd St “A”

1000 sq. ft2/1 Prkng, Tx Abmt , lg grdn. $399,900

$435.000

813 N. Orianna A, B & C 815 N. Orianna A&B d Super Contemporaries l o s three 5 Great Homes

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

1420 Locust Street Unit 15 E Academy House

A larger 1 bedroom unit, (In Pristine Condition) 861 Sq. ft with new kitchen and bath. $275,000

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920 S. 2nd St. Beautifully rehabbed sq. ft, 4 bdrms, 2.5 bths, 2 fp’s, full bsmnt, 2 bdrm hm w/ hrdwd flrs, exposed hrdwd flrs, new kitchen, deck & garden. All brick, granite countertops & cozy patio.

This and Meredith School District. $289,900 Monthly Parking Available. $749,900

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600-02 N American N/C 3/2.5, Bsmt Garden, Garage, & TA From $650,000

245 Monroe Street Great Floor plan 4/2.5,Deck Grdn & Grg. RED $795,000

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Dockside 717 S. Columbus Blvd 716-18 S. 11th Street #100 Unit 712 A Real WOW! 2 BR, 2.5 BA, Pristine 6 Unit Boutique Wonderful north facing studio with Elevator Bldng. 4.5 Yrs Remaining on Tax Ab, Pristine great views and a terrace, Terrific kitchen Bi Level, 1700 Sq Ft, Xtra Wide, Gar Prkng, Hrwd Flrs & Ba, Hrwd Flrs + 1 Car deeded Parking.

Cook’s Kitchen, One of the Largest Common $250,000 Roof Gardens $499,900

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118 Catharine St

Wining,3500 sq. ft, bths, full of details & character + lovelyAward gardens. grdn & grg. $1,300,000 $1.3 M ed uc d Re 1 Christian #40 Condo

Best N/C .3 + Den/4.5 2 car Rentals - Great Views! garage, TA $1,599,000

246 Catharine St Beautiful Home. 3/2.5 2 Fp’s + lg garden $650,000

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627 N 18th St #102 Historical Carriage House 2BR Condo and Courtyard OPEN HOUSE $247,000 875 Taylor St Cute and Chic 2BR/1.5BA with Back yard A must See! $279,900 2620 Poplar St REDUCED! Duplex Consisting of 1BR/2BA Nicely updated, Convenient to all $299,000 1937 Poplar St 4BR/2.5BA Pristine Rehab/New Construction, 2 Car Parking, Roof Deck, HW Floors $450,000 $275,000 853 N 23rd St 4BR, Private Patio, Lovely Hardwood flooring, and Great Classic Features $479,999 747 N 26th St Beautiful Renovated Victorian Home over 3500 Sq Ft, 4Bf/2.5BA, C/A, Large yard, Steps to the Museum $675,000

5839 Christian St 3BR/1BA Calling all Investors: Renovation Opportunity on a great Cobbs Creek Block $24,000 5228 Pentridge Investment – REDUCED Short Sale REDUCED $24,900 4621 Pine St #G405 3BR/3BA Condo – space of a house & convenience of an amenity rich building, Lovely original details $269,000 418 N 41st St A Fantastic Triplex in University City $290,000 4948 Hazel Ave 5BR/2.5BA—All new Elec, Plumbing, dual-zone HVAC, redesigned and renovated kitchen and more $319,000 4637 Pine St D605 Beautiful light fi lled top floor Garden Court Apt… 4BR/2.5BA with updated kitchen $329,500 4543 Sansom St JUST REDUCED! Wonderfully maintained 4BR/3.5BA Home U/Penn JUST REDUCED! $339,900

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2220 Manning St Beautiful home located on the prettiest block in Center City in the Rittenhouse/Fitler Sq Area OPEN HOUSE $345,000 1615 Lombard St The Perfect Combination of Historic Character with Modern Comfort in Rittenhouse Square $537,900 1728 Addison St Beautiful Rittenhouse Home that combines Comfort with Contemporary Style $650,000 1709 Lombard St Rittenhouse Sq Home that Charms with Traditional Character and Modern comforts, with Garage! $650,000 212-24 S 24th St #2413 Gorgeous Townhome with a Brand new Cook’s kitchen 3BR/2.5BA with Roof Deck $734,900 400-440 S Broad St #908 Symphony House Luxury 2BR/2BA condo with Lux. Resort amenities, 1 Year free condo dues purchased by 11/30/12 OPEN HOUSE Fri-Sun 12-5:00PM $799,000

Fishtown – 157 Richmond St New Construction with Parking, Hardwood Floors, Granite Counter-tops, Energy Efficient Windows $199,000 1204 S 17th St Ultra Chic New Construction in Graduate Hospital, 3BR/2.5BA Open Floor plan with custom features, Private roof deck , fi n Basement and tax abatement $325,000 1734 Blair St 3BR/2.5 BA with Yard in Fishtown New Construction $234,000 Bella Vista – 1233-35 Bainbridge St #D new Construction 2BR Condos in 12 Unit boutique building-Private Balconies OPEN HOUSE 10/27 & 10/28 FROM 12-4PM $339,000 Bella Vista – 1233-35 Bainbridge St #B new Construction 2BR Condos in 12 Unit Boutique building-Private Balconie OPEN HOUSE 10/27 & 10/28 FROM 12-4PM $350,000 426 Moyer St New Construction 3BR/2BA with Bamboo floors, Finished Basement, Roof Deck, Rear Yard $385,000 Bella Vista – 1233-35 Bainbridge St #E New Construction 2BR Condos in 12 Unit Boutique Building-Private Balconies OPEN HOUSE 10/27 & 10/28 FROM 12-4PM $419,000 1233-35 Bainbridge #PH4 Penthouse in 12 Unit Boutique Building, Breathtaking roof deck Views OPEN HOUSE 10/27 & 10/28 FROM 12-4PM $649,000

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$250,000 $240,000 $319,000 $545,000

SOCIETY HILL / WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST 250 S 13th St #2G Large 2 Room 1 Bath condo with High ceilings, Huge walk-in closet and great light OPEN HOUSE $165,000 250 S 13th St #4F REDUCED! 1BR/1BA condo with high ceiling, Hardwood floors, Large closet and great light OPEN HOUSE $239,000 250 S 13th St #11D REDUCED! Spacious 2BR/2BA condo with LR, DR, Newly renovated Kitchen, lots of light, Hi ceilings OPEN HOUSE $390,000 1326-42 Spruce St #2601 2BR/2BA Condo Fantastic View Great Location TWILIGHT OPEN 10/25 FROM 5:30-7PM $449,900 730 Rodman St A Light fi lled Home with Hardwood flooring, Exposed Brick, Fireplace and Parking $475,000 420 S 11th St 4BR/2.5BA fully renovated rowhome, All Modern Updgrades. A Must See! $865,000 105 Pine St Contemporary, Spacious Society Hill Townhome, Sumptious Master Suite with Garage/ 2 Car parking $949,000 520 Delancey St Society Hill Mansion Built in 1862 with 3BR/2BA and Garden $1,299,000

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QUEEN VILLAGE/ BELLA VISTA / GRADUATE HOSPITAL / SOUTH PHILA. 1007 S Chadwick St Renovated 2BR home with open Floor plan, HW Flrs, Large yard & updated Kitchen & Bath $219,900 525 Fitzwater #11 3BR/2BA New Construction, Gated Entry, Gated Parking OPEN HOUSE $236,500 525 Fitzwater St #9 2BR/1.5BA Gated Townhouse community OPEN HOUSE $250,000 1834 Christian St Unit B Brand New 2BR/2BA Townhouse Style condo in Grad Hosp, Private deck, Near All!! OPEN HOUSE $310,000 758 S Hicks St Granite, SS Kitchen, Brick paved Patio, 3rd Floor deck, Gas Cooking, Fireplace $329,000 127 Monroe St Gorgeous Rehab 2BR/2BA, Finished Basement, granite counters, Top of the Line appliances $400,000 1013 Carpenter St 3BR/2BA, Rear Private Parking, Full Finished Basement $405,000 2548 Montrose St Beautiful New Construction with 1 Car Garage! $425,000 2229 Saint Albans Exquisite update 3 story 4BR/2.5BA on a Wonderful block OPEN HOUSE $429,000 2212 Montrose St 3BR/2.5BA, Washer/Dryer, Finished Carpeted Basement, Fiberglass Roof deck $484,900 1222 Catharine St Beautiful Rehabbed Townhome across the St from Hawthorne Park! $479.000 1808 Christian St 3BR/2 Full BA 2 half bath with Garage OPEN HOUSE $575,000 1507 Bainbridge St A Luxurious, Newer Townhome In Graduate Hospital $639,000 123-25 Monroe St Gorgeous Home 4BR/4.5BA double lot, 2 Car Garage, Rear yard, HW Flrs, Granite, Fireplace, Viking Appl OPEN HOUSE $1,000,000 729-731 S Marshall St 4BRA, Superb Double Wide Home in Bella Vista with 2 Car Garage! $1,250,000 NORTHERN LIBERTIES / NORTH PHILADELPHIA 642 N 8th St These Modern homes are 20 Ft wide and have great layouts with gourmet kitchens $269,900 930 Randolph St JUST REDUCED! Grat block 4BR/2.5BA Family Home, HW Floors, Exp brick OPEN HOUSE $314,900 414 Olive St Unique double carriage house 2BR, Den custom gourmet kit, wood fl , Garden, FP, exp Stone, brick beams $459,000 1033 N 3rd St Beautiful Northern Liberties Townhome with Attached Garage $475,000

COMMERCIAL/INVESTMENT Kensington – 2770-80 Jasper Huge Warehouse Northern Liberties – 614 N 2nd St Great Commercial Investment – 3 Units occupied, restaurant, 1BR/1BA with Deck, 2BR/2BA W Deck

$399,000 $975,000

SURROUNDING AREAS Grays Ferry – 1307 S 32nd St 868 SQ Ft Lot in Gray’s Ferry (Near Wharton). Zoned for R10 (now RM1) $12,000 West Phila - 5842 Windsor Investment Property REDUCED $24,900 Fishtown – 2231 Coral St Vacant Lot $26,000 Point Breeze – 1421 S 19th St 1,120 SQ Ft Deep Lot.. Zoned for Residential, near Grad Hospital and University City $39,000 Hunting Park – 1941 W Hunting Park Ave 3BR home in Hunting Park currently rented, Perfect for investor looking for positive cash flows $35,000 2002 Cleveland St Lot 14x45 in Temple University area $45,000 2001 Cleveland St Corner Lot 14x45 In Temple University Area $45,000 1832 W Montgomery Ave Lot 16x69 at the prime location of Temple University $80,000 Northwood – 1517 Rosalie St 3 BR/1BA Rowhome on a small block with Finished basement $85,000 1901 W Montgomery Ave Corner Mixed Use Lot 17x60 $98,000 Southwest Phila - 2125 S 71st St Short Sale $40,900 West Phila – 711 N 42nd St 5BR/2BA – Fixer Upper, New Electric, Water, roof, Plumbing installed $43,000 Grays Ferry – 2314 Ellsworth St 16x17 Deep Lot for sale in Grays Ferry Zoned R10A residential, easy access to PHL airport and 76 $49,000 Southwest Phila – 2644 S 67th St 3BR/1BA, Freshly painted home on a nice quiet block $57,500 Kensington – 2744 Kensington Ave Commercial Multi Unit 4 (1) Bedrooms in the path of development $55,000 West Oak Lane – 1928 Dallas Rd 3BR Home in West Oak Lane includes Garage, Backyard Deck $74,900 West Phila – 1045 S Ithan St 3BR/1BA Brand New everything; Roof, Windows, Elec, & Plumbing, C/A Exp Brick, SS & MAPLE kitchen $79,900 Fishtown – 1832 Memphis St Attention investors Prime location $84,900 5222 Spruce St 4BR/1.5BA, Yard, Porch, Large Living Room, Dining Room Hardwood Floors $115,000 West Oak Lane – 1535 67th St Move right In! Bright 3BR/1.5BA, HW Flrs, Open Kitchen, Sep DR, Freshly Painted, New Carpets, Large basement, Close to public Trans $130,000 Mayfair 3138 Unruh Ave 3BR/1.5BA home with Garage and driveway parking!

OPEN HOUSE $135,000 Fishtown – 2608 E York St Great Location in Fishtown TLC Needed $139,900 Germantown – 6209 Morton St 4BR/2BA, Garage, Master Suite, remodeled Kitchen and bath $139,000 Fishtown – 1815 Memphis St 3BR/2BA with Bath Master Suite on the 3rd Floor in the heart in the heart of Fishtown $249,900 Pennsport – 1637 S Hancock St New Renovation, HW Floors, Granite counter, tumbled Stone backsplash fi n Basement OPEN HOUSE $249,900 Fishtown – 1125 E Columbia Ave 3 Chic Condo lofts just listed in Historic Candy Factory from $279,000-$329,900 Manayunk – 336 Leverington Ave New 3BR/2.5BA, Decks,Fin Basement, 2 Car Parking, SS Appl, 10 Yr Tax Abatement $339,000 Manayunk – 340 Leverington Ave New 3BR/2.5 BA, Decks, Garage, Full Automation System, 10 Yr Tax Abatement $364,000 Chestnut Hill – 182 E Benezet St Fabulous Stone Victorian on a Favorite Chestnut Hill Block $399,900 Fishtown – 1309 E Berks St Large home in the heart of Fishtown, 3BR/2.5BA, Deck C/A Tax Abatement $415,000

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