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CONTENTS / Oct. 29-Nov. 5 4 I PHILLYNOW PhillyBloco Halloween Bash; Red Speedo; Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival; and more.

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16 I ARTS & CULTURE Books: Terry Mutchler details her secret relationship with a state senator. Music: Phil Nicolo’s ‘Eve of Deconstruction’ breaks down and builds up key tracks in his and others’ stellar careers. Stage: Monday’s glamour-filled Barrymore Awards salute our city’s best in stage. Screen: Art and Craft and Nightcrawler.

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11 Critical HomeHome Inspection 11 Critical Traps to be Aware of Inspection Traps to be WeeksofBefore Aware WeeksListing Before Listing Your Home for Sale Your Home for Sale Philadelphia- According to industry experts, there are over 33 physical problems that will come under scrutiny during a home inspection when your home is for sale. A new report has been prepared which identifies the eleven most common problems, and what you should know about them before you list your home for sale. Whether you own an old home or a brand new one, there are a number of things that can fall short of requirements during home inspection. If not identified and dealt with, any of these 11 items could cost you dearly in terms of repair. That’s why it’s critical that you read this report before you list your home. If you wait until the building inspector flags these issues for you, you will almost certainly experience costly delays in the close of your home sale or, worse, turn prospective buyers away altogether. In most cases, you can make reasonable

pre-inspection yourself if you know what you’re looking for, and knowing what you’re looking for can help you prevent little problems from growing into costly and unmanageable ones. To help homesellers deal with this issue before their homes are listed, a free report entitled “11 Things You Need To Know To Pass Your Home Inspection” has been compiled which explains the issues involved. To order a FREE Special Report, visit www.phillysbesthomes.com/ inspection.asp or to hear a brief recorded message about home to order your FREE copy of this report call toll-free (800) 560-2075 and enter 3003. • You can call any time, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Get your special report NOW to learn to ensure a home inspection doesn’t cost you the sale of your home.

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No tricks, just treats: Philly Bloco’s raucous sonic magic will cast a spell at their Halloween Bash. (Photo by Marie Ubaldini)

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PhillyBloco Full disclosure: I’m not that into Halloween. I won’t hate on your creative costuming or over-the-top preparations for the big day, including pumpkin-carving, haunted-house hunting, and hey, have fun trotting those zombied-up kids ‘round your neighborhood—or wealthier others’, if for no other reason that to further piss off people like the rich bitch who recently complained to Dear Prudence—for some trick-or-treating. But if you insist on donning a “sexy” costume or even just a $5 wig and stumbling around Center City like a drunken child, I will hate—and hate hard. So this grand spectacle of a night, I must say, is pretty much the perfect solution if you’re looking for a dance-friendly, worldly way to celebrate the year’s most colorful holiday: PhillyBloco and Tropicalismo are going to turn you inside out with Latin vibes for their big Halloween Bash the night after Halloween. Go ahead, then—forgo the lowest common denominator, and instead turn your Halloween weekend into a multi-evening, multi-cultural fest of disguise-donning revelry. PhillyBloco is huge, both in local esteem and size-wise: They’ve got 12 drummers, an electric and bass guitar, a horn section, accordion and a bombastic Brazilian dance troupe. That’s like 20-plus folks giving you full-on Rio realness. Meanwhile, Tropicalismo is the project of Juanderful Juan and Greg “Gregzinho” Scruggs, and they’re committed to turning revelers into dancing ghouls, they say, with “both old-school rhythms and nu-skool riddims from Latin America, Africa and the Caribbean.” As we’re getting funky underground, our friends south of the border will be celebrating the Day of the Dead, an international—but particularly Mexican—send-up to the souls lost to death, a beautiful tradition that dates back 3,000 years. And listen, fellow Philadelphians: I do not want to see any of you in sexy Ebola nurse or abusive Ray Rice get-ups. Yeah, those are real things, apparently. Party heartily, yes. Just don’t shame yourselves—or our city, ‘kay? // BILL CHENEVERT Sat., Nov. 1, 8pm. $15. Underground Arts, 1200 Callowhill St. undergroundarts.org

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Myths & Monsters

Centaurs and cyclopes come to life at Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School’s live figure drawing event celebrating mythological gods and goddesses. Try your hand at creating your own masterpiece; no drawing experience is necessary, and materials will be provided. 6pm. Free with museum admission. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2600 Benjamin Franklin Pwky. 215.763.8100. philamuseum.org FOOD

Think Local, Give Local

Support Philadelphia’s immigrant community at the third annual Garces Foundation gala, featuring dozens of dishes showcasing locally-sourced ingredients. VIP guests can enjoy a chef tasting dinner prepared by Chef Garces, Kevin Sbraga, Peter Serpico and more. Proceeds benefit Recipe to Save More, the foundation’s initiative to provide job training, medical care and fresh food for immigrants and their children. 6:30pm. $200. Kimmel Center, 300 S. Broad St. 484.533.7193. garcesfoundation.org

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A National Book Critics Circle Award winner and published essayist, feminist and social justice writer Katha Pollitt makes an empowered argument for a revival of the pro-choice perspective in her new book Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights. 7:30pm. $7-$15. Central Library, 1901 Vine St. 215.686.5322. freelibrary.org

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Steroid use, doping, performance-enhancing drugs—there’s been a surge in news reports of professional athletes using the stuff in recent years, especially in major league baseball. And that’s what’s at stake in Red Speedo, Theatre Exile’s latest production, which begins previews tonight before its Nov. 5 official opener. (FYI: “Pay What You Can” Night is Tues., Nov. 4.) Brian Ratcliffe will take on the role of Ray, a competitive swimmer on the eve of Olympic trials. Just about to score a huge deal with Speedo, Ray finds a cooler full of performanceenhancing drugs, and I’m certainly curious about his subsequent choices. What constitutes fairness? What do people actually owe each other? Those are the questions playwright Lucas Hnath started with. Hnath’s not that into sports; he came to the topic of doping with a genuine interest: Why are people so upset about this? Other Red Speedo characters are going to be just as scrutinized and murky as Ray. His brother is “somebody who is a lawyer who’s become dissatisfied with working at a firm and interested in maybe moving into athlete representation of some kind,” Hnath explains. “There might be a question about the degree to which he’s doing this out of deep caring for his brother or is he doing something to his own advantage—and how do you determine that line?” An ex-girlfriend gets involved. So does a coach. And once you’ve dived in, you’ll feel like you are, too. // B.C.

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All Hallows Eve Bash

Rittenhouse Square’s organic, vegan cafe, P.S. & Co., hosts a Prohibition-era themed Halloween bash stocked with a gluten-free, plant-based menu of cocktails and edibles. Dance the night away with jazz/swing band Drew Nugent and the Midnight Society, and compete in the Halloween costume contest. All proceeds benefit the Humane League of Philadelphia and the Red Paw Emergency Relief Team. 7:30pm. $45. P.S. & Co. 1706 Locust St. puresweets.com

beef and beer buffet, and wear your best costume for the chance to win special prizes. 7pm. $66.90. Penn’s Landing, 101 Columbus Blvd. 866.455.3866. spiritcruises.com PAR T Y

Halloween The Ball

Henri David rises from the grave for the 46th year to present Halloween The Ball. Compete for prizes in best celebrity lookalike, most hysterical, most horrifying outfit and much more. 9pm. $25-$60. The Grand Ballroom of the Sheraton Hotel, 201 N. 17th St. 215.732.7711

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International House’s Night of the Philly Dead celebration features a makeup artistry table by NickieRenee to transform guests into one of the undead before hitting the zombie-themed dance floor party. TV Chef Barbie Marshall provides craft beer and cocktails, and DJ Skeme Richards spins funk, soul, classic and hip-hop. 9pm. $20-$65. International House Philadelphia, 3701 Chestnut St. ihousephilly.org PAR T Y

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ST YLE The Hard Rock Cafe pays homage to National Breast Cancer Month in the last event of its Pinktober series to benefit the PA Breast Cancer Coalition. The original fashion show designs will be auctioned off, and guests can also enjoy music, drink specials and a costume contest. 9pm. $17-$20. 12th and Market sts. 215-238-1000. hrcphillymusic.com

Dracula’s Ball

Lucky Strike’s eighth annual costume party offers the chance to win trips to Vegas and Aruba. Enter the third-floor party room for a heavenly time with DJ Bizz playing throwback dance hits, or dare to walk into Hell in the second-floor lounge where a special guest DJ spins today’s hottest tracks. 8pm. $10-$20. Lucky Strike, 1336 Chestnut St. 215.545.2471. bowlluckystrike.com

Party to dark electro-rock music from Spider Lillies and uptempo tracks from Interface, along with hit music from a premier DJ lineup at this moody Halloween dance party open to all ages. 9pm. $18.50. Trocadero Theatre, 1003 Arch St. 215.925.9259. draculasball.com

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It’s a nerdtastic Old City throwdown as Geekadelphia and Indy Hall team up to throw a very specific costume bash: come dressed as your favorite emoji! 8pm. Free. Tattooed Mom, 530 South St. geekadelphia.com

Boos & Brews Halloween Cruise

Hop aboard the Spirit of Philadelphia to experience Halloween in the land of Captain Hook and Neptune. Enjoy a

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Saturday, November 1

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A Night of Amiri Baraka

Experience the work of the prolific poet, author, professor and playwright who passed away earlier this year. Thurs., Oct. 30, 8pm. $6-$8. Stockton College, Dante Hall Theater, 14 N. Mississippi Ave. Gallloway, N.J. 609.347.2162. stockton.edu/dantehalltheater PART Y

Trunk-or-Treat Block Party PJFF centerpiece film Run Boy Run screens Sat., Nov. 8

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Through Sun., Nov. 16. Various times and venues. $7-$220. pjff.org

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

Patti Austin

Singing since the age of four, Grammy Award-winning vocalist Patti Austin has wowed audiences all over the world, and has been featured on recordings with Quincy Jones, Diana Ross, Luther Vandross and others. 8pm. $30. Annenberg Center, 3680 Walnut St. annenbergcenter. org

Etherium: A Halloween Costume Ball

A magical night of music and dancing features a special performance by Alchemy Dance Company. DJ AnubisRex will be spinning dubstep and gothic/industrial hits to keep the party going. 9pm. $40-$50. University of the Arts, Dorrance Hamilton Hall, 320 S. Broad St. etherium. ticketleap.com/2014ball/details WA L K

Step Out: Walk to Stop Diabetes

Join the largest diabetes walk in the country, which has been taking place for more than 20 years and has raised more than $175 million for the cause. 9:30am. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2600 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy. 610.828.5003 stepout. diabetes.org

Jeff Ross

Stand-up comedian and celebrity roaster extraordinaire brings the funny to A.C. Sat., Nov. 1, 9pm. $24.50-29. Borgata, 1 Borgata Way, Atlantic City, N.J. 609.317.1000. theborgata.com FESTIVAL

Annual Festival of Fine Art and Crafts

A two-day juried event featuring the finest selection of goods handcrafted by local artisans. Shop for handcrafted jewelry, ceramics, wood, photography, prints and more. Nov.1-2. Noyes Museum of Art, 733 Lily Lake Rd. Galloway, N.J. 609.652.8848. noyesmuseum.org

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Dracula’s Graveyard

North Shore Beach Club transforms into a ghastly graveyard for a spooky celebration with multiple bars and a beer garden. Compete for cash and prizes in a costume contest, and dance the night away with DJ Dracula. 8pm. $0-$40. King’s Oak, 1031 Germantown Ave. 215.923.2014. kingsoaklane.com FE STIVAL

Muge Lithuanian Festival

Celebrate Lithuania’s rich cultural heritage at the 38th annual Muge Lithuanian Festival, with two days of live music, folk dancing and family fun. Sample irresistible balandeliai, kugelis and fried bread, and explore cultural exhibits. Nov 1-2. $3-$5. Lithuanian Music Hall, 2715 E. Allegheny Ave. 215.739.4831. lithuanianmha.org/clubs-and-activities/ muge-lithuanian-fair/

Andi Dorfman & Josh Murray

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Epic Saturdays: Andi Dorfman & Josh Murray

When Andi Dorfman left sleazeball and permanent-stain-on-the-franchise Juan Pablo in the dust on the last season of The Bachelor, she won over America and scored herself the leading gig as The Bachelorette. Out of the 25 men vying for her affections, she chose fellow Hotlantan Josh Murray. This week, the duo hosts the Pool After Dark’s Epic Saturday party, with music by DJ Hollywood and the Beatclan. Sat., Nov. 1, 10pm. $20. Harrah’s, 777 Harrah’s Blvd, Atlantic City, N.J. 609.441.5585. thepoolafterdark.com

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Teeming with wondrous stories of humor, heart, struggle and survival, the always-compelling Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival is back for its 34th iteration, presenting 17 premiere films from eight countries at an array of welcoming venues. As usual, every film on tap for 2014 is practically mandatory viewing, but if there’s one entrant not to be missed, it’s Joachim Prinz: I Shall Not Be Silent, which details the courageous life of the late great rabbi-civil rights activist who fought long and hard for equality for Jews in Germany and blacks in segregated America. Among the PJFF’s sure-to-satisfy special events are an exclusive screening of Etgar Keret: What Animal Are You?, Gur Bentwich’s hour-long examination of Israel’s beloved scribe on tour in New York City, an evening punctuated by Keret’s post-show reading and book signing. Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Maggie Gyllenhaal nab camera time in the film fest favorite The Sturgeon Queens, a short celebrating the scrumptious legacy of the century-old ultraappy Russ & Daughters with its surviving elders. Speaking of shorts (and elders), Acadamy Award winner The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life—which captures the amazing grace of Alice Herz-Sommer, the world’s oldest living Holocaust survivor—has a late-morning showtime before a robust program with a guest performance by pianist Regina Shenderovich. And director Talya Lavie will both converse with PJFF Artistic Chair Iris Dreschler and mingle with attendees after the highly anticipated premiere of her acclaimed debut, Zero Motivation, one of the hits at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. All that’s sandwiched between Anywhere Else, the touching indie charmer set for a gala opening night kickoff, and the perfect closer that is the tribute-paying documentary Above and Beyond, directed by acclaimed filmmaker Roberta Grossman and produced by Nancy Spielberg. (Yep, Steven’s sister.) // SHEENA LESTER

Bring your family and decorated automobile for trick-or-treating out of the trunks of cars. Prizes will be awarded for best-decorated vehicle. Fri., Oct. 31, 6pm. Free. Second and Chestnut Avenues, Wildwood, N.J. 609.522.2955. wildwoodsnj.com

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Take an anatomical tour of the world’s creatures, and explore the biology and physiology of goats, giraffes, chickens, bulls and more. See what the various organs of different animals look like and how they compare to humans’. Through April 12. $8-$29. Franklin Institute, 222 N. 20th St. 215.448.1200. fi.edu

An all-acoustic performance of traditional Tejano and Mariachi folk songs performed by the Grammy Awardwinning band. 8pm. $45-55. Merriam Theatre,1500 Walnut St. 215.790.5800. kimmelcenter.org

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Jug-Baby: An Autobiography

A one-woman show featuring puppets, animation and live music. Two parents place their newborn baby in a jug in order to mold it into something they can sell to a circus. When the baby is released, it has no gender or identity to call its own. 7pm. Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St. therotunda.org

F E S T I VA L South Street Headhouse District’s Day of the Dead Festival offers a parade of dancers, puppets and mariachis honoring the dead. Don your best costume and head down South Street, where there will be music, face painting and familyfriendly activities. 2pm. Free. Philadelphia Magic Gardens, 1020 South St. 215.413.3713. southstreet.com

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First impressions are everything. That’s why Career Wardrobe is hosting this day-long event for unemployed or underemployed women who want to make a better first impression

in-person and online. The women will receive a professional outfit and makeover, networking practice, professional head shot and help in updating a LinkedIn profile. 9am. Free. Career Wardrobe, 21 S. 12th St. Suite 110. 215.568.6693. surveymonkey.com/s/workit112014

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Mary Poppins

Based on the classic Disney film, Mary Poppins follows a magical nanny who appears at the Banks household to care for young Jane and Michael. Adventure follows as they encounter dancing chimney sweeps and other colorful characters. Through Jan. 4. $72-$82. Walnut Street Theatre, 852 Walnut St. 215.574.3550. walnutstreettheatre.org S TAG E

Bad Jews

Comedic play featuring two cousins battling over a family heirloom. Daphna, the “real

Jew” with the Israeli boyfriend, feels she’s entitled to her grandfather’s necklace over cousin Liam, who has brought his shiksa girlfriend Melody to the funeral. 7:30pm. $36.25. Through Nov. 30. Walnut Street Theatre, 825 Walnut St. 215.574.3550. walnutstreettheatre.org STAG E

Detroit

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

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Ghosts of Philly

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

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Learn the art of neon sign at this design workship with Len Davidson. Davidson runs his own neon design business, as well as the Neon Museum of Philadelphia, which contains his 100-piece collection of vintage neon signs. Artists, architects, designers or anyone who wants to work with neon is encouraged to attend and bring their own materials. 9:30am. $40. Philadelphia Center for Architecture, 1218 Arch St. 215.569.3186. philadelphiacfa.org

Philadelphia Museum of Art Contemporary Craft Show Arts and crafts aren’t just for little kids and rocking chair-bound grandmothers. Hailing their fiber, metal, leather and glass masterpieces from around the country, over 195 contemporary fine craft artists will once again show off and sell their prized possessions at the 38th annual Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, benefiting our fabled museum’s efforts in acquisitions, special projects and programming, This year’s four-day spectacle has reeled in some Philadelphia favorites, including ceramics stalwarts Jennifer Martin, who throws pots while blindfolded at Old City’s Clay Studio, and Liz Kinder, who started out creating tableware for celebrity chefs and now fashions colorful works out of her Kensington workshop. Don’t forget weaver Claudia Mills either, whose brightly colored rugs pop out as she crafts them on her loom in her Powelton Village studio. Bring your checkbook, or you’ll regret it. And once you see that brilliance on full display, you might even be inclined to pick out some materials of your own and get crafty. As in past fests, the 2014 Craft Show fun includes meet-and-greets, on-site artist demonstrations and a festive craft beer social night featuring drinks from five Pennsylvania breweries. Today’s opening celebration at 4pm gives collectors a sneak peek at the showcased pieces and includes a cocktail buffet. // JILL CASTELLANO Thurs., Nov. 6 to Sun., Nov. 9. $5-$20. The Pennsylvania Convention Center, 1101 Arch St. 215.684.7930. pmacraftshow.org

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New York Times bestselling author Archer Mayor teams up with former Philadelphia District Attorney Lynne Abraham to compare notes on their experience with crime. Mayor’s latest novel, Proof Positive, is the

25th installment in his Joe Gunther mystery series. 7pm. Free. Central Library, 1901 Vine St. 215.686.5322. freelibrary.org

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Time to Undo Corbett? We’re Well past ready to see the back of our current governor. If We vote tom Wolf Into offIce, here’s What he’ll be facIng. by randy lobasso |

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f polls are any indication, Tom Wolf is set to win the gubernatorial election next Tuesday; as of this past week, even conservative estimates show he’s leading Gov. Tom Corbett by seven to nine points. So: What will it mean if he wins? In laying out his “Fresh Start” campaign over the past year, Wolf has made a lot of promises detailing his determination to be the anti-Corbett. Here are a few of those promises and PW’s assessment of whether or not he’ll be able to accomplish them.

campaign that he would not raise taxes. Wolf wants to change that. His website says he’ll push for a 5 percent severance tax on shale profits. Can he get it done? Yes. Both Republicans and Democrats have called for a severance tax. Like lots of ideas in Pennsylvania, it’s failed to pass so far because of a lack of unified political will and incompetence. If Wolf is serious, he can get at least a light bill through the legislature.

Tax the Marcellus Shale. About two-thirds of Pennsylvania sits on top of the Marcellus Shale natural gas well, yet we tax the companies that make money extracting that gas (via fracking) at among the lowest rates in the country. “Natural gas produced in Pennsylvania exceeded $11.8 billion in 2013, yet natural gas producers pay among the lowest effective production tax rates in the country,” states the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center. “Companies paid $223 million in impact fee for gas produced in 2013.” The taxes are so low—less than 2 percent—because Gov. Corbett promised during his first election

four years, Governor Corbett has used issues from tax revenue to Kermit Gosnell to Obamacare to slash and burn abortion and other women’s health services in Pennsylvania. Wolf has vaguely argued against such regulations and vowed to fight for women again. Can he get it done? No. The maddening fact is, Pennsylvania’s abortion restrictions were happily rubber-stamped by a large, bipartisan contingent of Republicans and Democrats (including Northeast Philly Rep. Brendan Boyle, who’s likely heading to Washington to represent Philly and Montgomery County in Congress next

Undo Corbett’s restrictions on women’s health care. Over the last

tweet feedback to @phillyweekly year). At least in the short run, Pennsyltucky’s so-called “values” representation is too much for one person to overcome.

Decriminalize marijuana. As Philadelphia Weekly has reported, over the last couple years, there’s been a major shift among state Democrats as it pertains to marijuana’s recreational and medicinal usage. Just this year, Philly has decriminalized possession of small amounts of the stuff; by the time the most recent Democratic primary came around, all viable candidates for governor were willing to go on record supporting decriminalizing the stuff statewide. That includes Wolf, even if he hasn’t made the issue a focal point since securing the nomination. Can he get it done? Maybe, but not immediately. As Philly proved, even when support for such an issue is way up over 70 percent, it’s still difficult to get all parties involved to agree on specific policy. It’ll probably take at least a couple years of talks and debate just to get municipal and state police on board with the idea of handing out tickets for pot possession instead of slapping on handcuffs. Then there’s the legislature! And don’t expect such talks

Vote on Tuesday: How to go about doing that

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here are you supposed to go vote? What is the ballot going to look like? What sorts of initiatives do you get to vote on, in addition to the candidates for office? If any of those questions are looming large in your mind as you ponder what you’ll be up to on tuesday, you’re in luck: the committee of seventy has got your back. the completely nonpartisan nonprofit group has been keeping an eye on elections in philadelphia since 1904, when it was founded to fight the everpresent forces of political corruption in the city. go to seventy.org and you’ll find a full guide to this year’s election, including a complete rundown of all the candidates; plain-language explanations of the three ballot initiative questions; and user-friendly links to the state’s website to see where your polling place is.

and debate to be at the top of Wolf’s list of priorities.

Fix education.

The state’s public education system in general, and Philadelphia’s school district in particular, are currently, in a word, fucked. It’s not all Corbett’s fault— after all, much of the cash added to public ed during Rendell’s tenure came from the federal stimulus—but he’s certainly got blame to share. At the very least, education is not a priority for this governor, who’s cut more than $1 billion from ed spending over the past four years. Wolf wants to disband the Philadelphia School Reform Commission— which many believe is one major contributor to our own district’s budget crisis—and restore funding cuts. Can he get it done? Hopefully. It’s going to take a combination of taxes, pension reform and political capital we’re still not sure he has. It looks virtually impossible for Philly schools to make any more cuts than they already have, a fact the current governor seems not to care about, even a little. That Wolf is at least talking about this is a sign of hope—but then, as the past six years in Washington, D.C., have shown, we need more than just hope to get change. n

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lenn Davis is just about the only politician you’ll ever meet who doesn’t go out of his way to make sure you know right up front that’s he’s a military veteran. “I’m proud of that, but that doesn’t make me honorable,” he says, chatting over a bite at the McDonald’s at 56th and Vine. “I was a veteran of a foreign war—but I grew up. I realized I was fighting for corporations, and if I’m out in Iraq or wherever, who’s fighting for my family on the street?” Now, after several post-military careers—including a stint doing maintenance at this very fast food chain—Davis is the chair of the oft-floundering Green Party of Philadelphia, and he’s running for state representative in the 198th District against Democrat Vanessa Lowery Brown. Brown made headlines earlier this year when she was named as one of five Philly pols to take a bribe in a state Attorney General’s office-conducted sting operation, and almost lost her Democratic primary because of it. PW talked with Davis about his campaign and what might lie in the Green Party’s future.

How has the campaign been going, in your opinion? The campaign has been going fine. This is a grassroots campaign—no big business. The truth is getting around; I’m getting support. We already made history by getting on the ballot, so we take a lot of pride in that. Now… we’re just trying to capitalize on that and win the game.

What do you mean, you already made history? I mean a Green Party member making it on the ballot in a mainly Democratic area with a demographic who, first of all, don’t know who the Greens are, and everything like that. [Nonetheless] we were

supposed to turn in 300 signatures—and we turned in 800.

When you knock on doors and explain you’re from the Green Party, what’s the initial reaction from people? The initial reaction isn’t so much to the Green Party at first. It’s like, “OK, I’ll sign. Let’s get another person in there, another voice.” They just want something different. People are disenfranchised with the two-party system.

How long do you think that’s been going on—and have you always felt disenfranchised? Before I became a Green, I was always independent and voted Democratic… and just felt that there was something wrong. I came across [local activist] Cheri Honkala’s campaign for sheriff [in 2011], and it spoke to me with that zero foreclosure policy... That sucked me in.

I’ve been covering the Green Party since I’ve been a reporter. And everyone has always said, “We want the party to grow, we’re ready for the party to grow.” Yet around every turn, there’s always some obstacle that stops it from happening. Earlier this year, gubernatorial candidate Paul Glover didn’t even collect enough signatures to make the ballot. Why do you feel now is the time? Looking at the Green movement [nationally], before they were running candidates, they were the best. That’s why in 1999, they were able to say, “Let’s run somebody.” [Consumer advocate Ralph Nader ran for president in 2000 on the Green Party ticket.] And they had a pretty good turnout for the first time. CONTINUED ON PAGE 23 >>

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Rampant outrage this month over the commencement speech Pennsylvania prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal delivered remotely to Goddard College in Vermont led to a startling conclusion: the dismantling of free speech rights in Pennsylvania. A week ago, Gov. Tom Corbett signed what’s being called the “Re-Victimization Act,” which will allow a district attorney, crime victim or attorney general to file a civil complaint against an inmate or former offender who wishes to speak publicly if said public speaking would cause “a temporary or permanent state of mental anguish.” It’s a bill so vague, “it is unclear what behavior is prohibited,” according to ACLU of PA executive director Reggie Shuford. “Essentially, any action by an inmate or former offender that could cause ‘mental anguish’ could be banned by a judge.” There’s a direct line from Abu-Jamal’s college commencement speech to the legislation—which, as it happens is also in direct conflict with the First Amendment, according to the ACLU. No matter, though. 2014 is an election year. It’s October, and the Republican incumbent is down in the polls. So, Gov. Corbett traveled to Philly for the bill’s signing, after it was fast-tracked through both houses of the Legislature. But how did we get here? Mostly through a series of smear campaigns, outrageous claims in the name of fear politics and the apparent unbelievability that an activist convicted of murder more than 30 years ago may have something interesting to say. Before, during and after Abu-Jamal’s

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LGBT HISTORY

Out From the Shadows After hiding her relationship with a state senator, Terry Mutchler details their ill-fated love—and its politics—in Under This Beautiful Dome.

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Under This Beautiful Dome feels so raw, right from the beginning. This book is going to outrage people who don’t want to read or hear this story. My great hope is to get it out into the world so people can avoid this in their own lives, no matter what their situation is—to be living candidly, honestly. But also to never forget the incredible change in ideology related to gay marriage across the United States. That not too long ago, it was a much different picture. Right. 30 years ago it was downright illegal to hold hands and kiss in public. We’ve come a long way, and we still have a long way to go in some places. I hope that this book will just be one significant story to put on the record. I was struck by how challenging it must have been to, well, grieve. Yeah, it was crazy. In retrospect, we went through these ex-

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Does it not give you a little smirk to see President Obama at least mildly responsible for the sea change of gay acceptance? I can only imagine Penny would be so proud. You know, obviously I share that view. I think that first she would be extremely proud of having a fellow Illinoisan in the White House. If Penny were not, by now, the first female governor of Illinois, she certainly would have been in President Obama’s cabinet. I think she would have been happy. And I do think that’s a great debt of gratitude that is owed to the president for his focus on gay and lesbian rights. 

t was 1997, and I was running my fingers along the dust-strewn shelves, pacing back and forth as I stared at the rows of smarmy pulp-novel covers, searching for one particular kind of science fiction writer. One who could reflect my life and my future back to me. Because I knew there had to be at least one—right?—just one queer, black sci-fi writer out there, among the stacks, among the stars. Bookstore after bookstore, though, I left confused, bereft and actually kind of hurt. This was pre-Google, remember—before the Tumblrand Facebook-fueled blossoming of queer-empowered film, art, music and literary movements we take for granted today. Perhaps I could have asked the local librarian, but as a 20-something in the South, I wasn’t even sure how to phrase my query. Ultimately, the way I discovered the writing of Samuel Delany, grand master of science fiction—that’s not hyperbole; his peers gave him a plaque that says so—was the same way many folks discovered punk rock or avant-garde film: A friend handed me a copy of one of his books, Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand, and casually mentioned the author was bisexual. “Oh, neat,” I thought, as I stood mesmerized by the cover: a swirl of golden suns cascading around a disheveled man who looked as if he was stumbling through a portal in deepest space. Then I saw something that almost made my head explode: the “About the Author” page, where a picture of Delany, rosy cheeks on smooth brown skin, cropped-tight afro and thick glasses, portrayed a subtle, academic coolness—OMG HE’S A BLACK NERD!—that rocked my universe. It is almost impossible to sum up how this novel has affected me: in my writing, my mode of thinking, and even my dress style. A book about freedom and slavery and possible futures, its tale is born out of the loneliness and othering that so many gay men feel; its themes resonate with clarity on attraction, on star-crossed love and the universal acceptance of one’s true self. And all this told through a richly plotted, poetically rendered sci-fi epic! While many radicals, punks and back-packers of the late ’90s to early ’00s carried around with them such enigmatic bibles as Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth or Hakim Bey’s TAZ or Daniel Quinn’s Ishmael, I had Stars. Though he’s written much about his years in New York City, Samuel Delany—Chip, to his friends—has been a mainstay on the Philadelphia literary scene for decades. Teaching as a professor of English and creative writing at Temple, insisting on sharing his new works at community venues like Giovanni’s Room and Robin’s Books, Delany’s been at the forefront of visualizing new ways to bring science fiction’s wonderful, speculative ideas to the imaginations of readers across generational lines. Yet while the spritely, white-bearded author’s work has been honored at the global level, here in Philly, he remains in the trenches with us. What perplexes many of us nerds is that Delany’s groundbreaking role as a brilliant, queer, black sci-fi novelist has been somewhat placed on the cultural back-burner—as if his relevance as an inspiration to countless writers hasn’t been cosmic. I mean, sure, anyone can go on YouTube and find Samuel Delany reading and lecturing and being interviewed; he’s not a secret, and he’s not shy. But in an era when a sort of black, gay avatarship (if you will) within media is becoming more palpable, we would be wise to revisit this man’s writing. I’m asking, world: Can we have pages and pages written about him, cover stories on gay newspapers and magazines, documentaries and stage plays already? It’s the least we can do for one of the greats of American literature—for the powerful, out gay man who, to say nothing of his award-winning essays, novels and short stories, gave us these sentences: “I have a fire in my eyes. I have that whole collapsing sun in my head. The light balled up a rainbow and stuffed each socket full. That’s what I’m seeing now, you highlighted there, a solarized ghost across hell from me.” The man who taught us to dream with him. // ALEX SMITH

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Alex Smith is a writer, artist and organizer using speculative fiction as a medium for change. He is a charter member of the DIY sci-fi collective Metropolarity.

By Bill Chenevert // bchenevert@philadelphiaweekly.com enny Severns lived and died in Decatur, IL, achieving immense success in politics and governance in her 46 years before succumbing to cancer. She was an Illinois state senator, deeply involved in the Democratic National Party and narrowly lost bids for Congress, lieutenant governor and secretary of state. She was a mentor to then-fellow state Sen. Barack Obama. She was also a practicing lesbian. And her partner for years, Poconos-born Terry Mutchler, conspired with her to keep their five-year union as secret as possible, going so far as parking miles from their shared home to quell curiosity. It was the 1990s, and pretty much no one—especially public servants and politicians—lived openly and honestly. Mutchler, the first female Illinois State House AP correspondent, was 27 when she met Severns, who was 41, and fell so deeply in love with the political dynamo that she would’ve done anything— and ultimately did—to protect Severns’ career. The two became inseparable, even when Mutchler decided to take an AP post in Alaska to flee from their closeted lives after Severns was diagnosed with a second round of cancer. When she returned to Illinois, Mutchler doubled down on their love, enrolled in law school and became Severns’ press aide. She was an ardent and tireless supporter for the rest of her partner’s too-brief life, helping her through chemo and doing her best to calm those brutal last days of pain and suffering. Upon Severns’ death, things got real bad. Although Severns’ two brothers were quite kind, her twin sister and her father shut Mutchler out and made it appear that she was a woman her sibling had taken in and treated with kindness, but little else. She was locked out of her own house and denied access to Severns’ personal effects. She was erased from the funeralplanning process and proceedings and left out of eulogies. Despite how in love Mutchler and Severns were, as the latter’s family grieved, they mostly pushed the former away. With her new book, Under This Beautiful Dome: A Senator, A Journalist, and the Politics of Gay Love in America, from which she’s reading at the Free Library on Monday, Mutchler is coming clean about their devotion and the agony she endured with not only the loss of her great love, but also the harsh reality of having to defend their relationship’s legitimacy.

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travagantly elaborate ruses just to be together. And that was driven by a lot of things—Penny’s job, my job, our own homophobia, or at least mine. One of the remarks I get about the book from reviewers is that it would almost be comedic if it weren’t so sad. We just went to every extreme to hide this relationship. Your Alaska adventure, in retrospect, was kind of halfbaked, right? Penny was diagnosed with breast cancer, and I was convinced that I had caused this because we were lesbians. I felt that it was a punishment. I ended up making a deal with God in the height of emotional stress about Penny being diagnosed: If he would heal her, then I would leave Penny. I framed it from a career standpoint and said that I was taking this job in Alaska to solve our ethical dilemma. It was a very fucked up time, you know, we were in love with each other, but it was very complicated, and we were both twisted. And our lives were so twisted in a braid of lies about our lives that it was just one more strand of craziness. Things are definitely different for men and women growing up now coming to terms with their desires, but years ago, it was a totally different world. I think it’s a whole different world, not just in content, but also in accessibility to information. One of the things that struck me about when Giovanni’s Room closed, one of the owners talked about how Giovanni’s Room was the place to go when there was no place to go to get information, to get support. Now young adults have the Internet and a whole different world to access support and information. You certainly didn’t see it in the media in a positive way 40 years ago. You weren’t reading about how lesbian parents or gay parents are adopting. You weren’t reading about wedding planning or things like that. I think that my story with Penny is certainly a microcosm of the best and the worst of a lesbian relationship in the 1990s. It doesn’t seem insignificant that Penny and President Obama were professionally tight. Right after Penny’s funeral, then-Sen. Obama gave an interview to ABC news that I was just watching because I’m going to be on The Rachel Maddow Show in a couple of weeks. [Pres.] Obama talked about how Penny was a very close friend and how she was a visionary. When he came to Springfield, she showed him the political ropes, and they enjoyed a kind of mentor relationship.

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Terrapin Moo-Hoo It’s Halloween week, and for the young and young at heart, that means ridiculous costumes and gobs and gobs of sugary treats. Sadly, we craft beer aficionados aren’t going to be getting bottles of beer in our Halloween bags—we’re not living in a utopia, after all—but if we were, the perfect bottle would be Terrapin’s Moo-Hoo. Creamy milk stouts are a delight all on their own, what with their cotton candy sweetness and Lando Calrissian smoothness, but add a heap of chocolate to them and you’ve just created heaven in a glass. Indulge yourself at the Pour House Westmont and 320 Market Cafe, where this beer is currently on draft.

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Spring House Braaaiins! If George Romero’s brain-hungry zombies craved orange matter instead of grey matter, they’d probably be able to sate their supernatural hunger with Braaaiins! by Spring House, a small brewery out of Conestoga, Pa. Brewed with copious amounts of fresh pumpkins yet only mild spicing, it’s the sort of chewy, gooey beer that is ideal for satisfying a Halloween-inspired sweet tooth. The finish is surprisingly dry, meaning this is a pumpkin beer that pairs well with food. And the name? Well, there really aren’t many beers better suited for the Halloween season, are there? At 7.1 percent, too many of these will make you feel like the walking dead the next morning, so go easy when you try some at P.O.P.E., Blue Dog Tavern, Brick & Brews and other locations.

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DuClaw 31 What’s the scariest day of the year? Depending on who you ask, it’s either the day after you forgot your anniversary—or October 31st. Both can result in deep scars to your psyche, but only one has a beer named after it. DuClaw’s 31 begins life as a Munich dunkel, a deep ruby-colored lager with full-bodied sweetness and herbal bitterness. If you’re going to celebrate Halloween, however, you’ve got to give it a twist. Cinnamon and nutmeg is balanced with malts that suggest caramel, figs and a hint of burnt brown sugar, allowing 31 to go down easier than a bag of Halloween candy. See for yourself at City Tap House, Devil’s Den and Bainbridge St. Barrel House.

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he faux-taxidermied deer head was crowned with shimmering, gold-glittery antlers, and the fried, pickled green beans were impeccably crisp. For my almost-four-year-old daughter, this represented the apex of her short life thus far. Sparkles! Delicious fried things! For me, it was an auspicious start. Those tempura-sheathed spears, each one bright and sweet and perfectly hugged by a textbook layer of deep-fried batter, embodied so much of what Beast and Ale excels at: Providing the sort of comforting eats that all too easily could devolve into cliche in the wrong hands but that here, when all the moving parts are wrangled into submission, is raised to the level of the unexpectedly inspired. I felt that way about a recent wing special, too—in general. Thaiish in flavor and approaching the crispness of Korean banchan in texture, these crisp-skinned beauties luxuriated in a shimmering, salty-sweet-spicy glaze, and each bite was a study in the importance of balancing high-wire levels of sweetness, saltiness and heat. The first three bites were spectacular. But then, with each subsequent one, I found myself craving something to cut it all, some sort of roundness against which all those higher toned flavors could bump up against: A clever riff on an aioli, perhaps—something, regardless, to frame those flavors. (The side cup of more of the same sauce made little sense in context.) Cauliflower dip then, borne to the table in a cast-iron vessel, went some way toward achieving that. Whipped to the texture of ricotta and joined by a bit of black-olive tapenade, this was delicate and subtle and exceptionally thoughtful. Smeared onto crostini, each slice glistening with olive oil, it showed just how much potential this kitchen has. Too often, some aspect of a dish’s seasoning got away from it. Fried chicken flesh was as moist as you’d ever hope, a result of its bath in buttermilk. But the crust—delicious with its lively hit of peppercorn—could have been thicker: I just wanted more of it. The problem, however, arose with the polenta atop which the bird was served: It was so salty that, after a few bites, we just couldn’t fork any more. The bones of a great dish are there—it just didn’t quite achieve its potential in the incarnation I experienced. The burger, on the other hand, is well worth swinging by Manayunk for. We seem to have moved into a far more varied burger phase of our city’s sandwich life. Years ago, when I first moved back to Philly, the vast majority of them were of the two-palms-thick variety, moist monsters that were delicious, unarguably, but so uniform in construction that their style calcified into some sort of groundbeef orthodoxy. Now, finally, we have choices: Thick ones; spruced-up fastfood-style patties; and, of course, Beast’s riff : Two four-ounce patties stacked on upon the other with an Oreo-like center of melted American cheese, crisped-up edges from their stint on the heat, and a simple topping of dijonnaise, some lettice and tomato, and (unfortuntely too sweet) pickle slices. It’s a simple construct, but its pleasures are far greater than its relatively modest appearance would suggest. What it lacks in glamour, in other words, it makes up for in honest, rib-sticking enjoyment. And it’s perfect with the solid selection of beers here. I loved mine with the excellent hand-pumped ale from Ambler’s Forest and Main: Room-temp and with barely perceptible bubbles, it accompanied everything beautifully. (And at $3 during happy hour, it was thankfully easy on my bill, too.)

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Angus and Julia Stone Oct. 29, Union Transfer. After all these years in the game, Rick Rubin still knows how to pick ‘em. utphilly.com RL Grime Oct. 30, Electric Factory. The bass music badass kicks off a tour ahead of his anticipated VOID album, due out mid-November. electricfactory.info Run the Jewels Oct. 31, Theatre of Living Arts. Formidable emcees El-P and Killer Mike return to school fools, with more chemistry than Dow. tlaphilly.com Scythian Oct. 31, Ardmore Music Hall. Let’s hope and pray everyone in this Celtic rock band’s evolved on samesex marriage. ardmoremusic.com Cold Roses Nov. 1, MilkBoy Philly. These Philly guys said it best: Whoever said rock and roll was dead must have just given up. milkboyphilly.com Rhett Miller Nov. 1, World Cafe Live. Levee Drivers’ August John Lutz II opens up for the singer-songwriterOld 97’s fronter. philly.worldcafelive.com

Behind the Breaks: Prince Edition Nov. 2, Kung Fu Necktie. Eight producers compete for bragging rights and more, using specially-selected Prince songs to make beats. kungfunecktie.com Los Lobos Nov. 2, Merriam Theater. Happy 40th anniversary, you groundbreakers you! This show’s set to be all-acoustic and all-amazing. merriamtheater.com

Panama Wedding Nov. 4, Boot and Saddle. The pop quartet’s “All of the People,” off the Parallel Play EP, is one damn infectious jam. bootandsaddlephilly.com

Screaming Females Nov. 5, Johnny Brenda’s. Jersey’s venerable punk rock trio promised a new LP this year. Where the heck is it already?! johnnybrendas.com

tudio 4 owner Phil Nicolo was playing around with some friends, namely Ropeadope Records’ co-founding father and Baby Loves Disco don Andy Blackman Hurwitz, when the inspiration and impetus presented itself for tonight’s Eve of Deconstruction event at World Café Live. The two like to fool with isolated recording tracks, meshing teased-out vocals, percussion and guitars. Kind of like remixing. “Over the years, it’s like baseball trading cards between producers and engineers, and sometimes you trade multitracks,” says Nicolo, the legendary Grammy-winning producer who’s worked with some true giants in the biz: the Stones, the Police, Aerosmith, Dylan, Billy Joel and the Hooters among them. As co-creating half of the Butcher Bros. alongside his record label-founding brother Joe, the Temple grad and adjunct professor also worked with folks like Cypress Hill, Nine Inch Nails and Luscious Jackson. Anyway, Nicolo was tweaking and twisting, in this specific circumstance, the Beatles’ “Revolution,” and Hurwitz overheard it on his phone. Here was Nicolo, clearly having a blast toying with the isolated vocals of John Lennon screaming “Alright!” and George Harrison’s wild guitar antics. “Even if I wasn’t a total music nerd, I would totally dig this. You mind if I send this around?” is how Nicolo describes what Hurwitz put to him. Hurwitz sent it to World Café Live booker Laura Wilson, who, like most, was like: This is awesome. Let’s make this happen on stage. “Alright, yeah. What the hell? Let’s do it,” was Nicolo’s response. Now, the modern remix is ubiquitous—the reworking of layers of a song that come to the remixer in cool bits and pieces. They can listen to and play with just the rhythm section or the bass guitar or the vocals, lead and/or background. How the remixer manipulates and mutates these parts is what essentially makes a new piece of music. Nicolo did it with a version of the Police megahit “Message in a Bottle,” a track he produced and remixed in the ‘90s to great effect; the song even charted again due to its modernity. “What you can do is pump up the rhythm section. You’ve got the kick on one and the snare on two and the rhythm guitar on three,” he says of his sonic retooling. “We all know Motown was great, but when you listen to that rhythm section, it’s almost like a hip-hop track. The coolest part for me is when you solo the lead vocal. That is just iconic. And you hear the detail, and you hear the emotion of that singer. That, to me, is worth the cost of admission.” The Fab Four will definitely be a part of Eve’s offerings, as their songs are billed alongside music by the Police, Zep and Stevie Wonder slated to be explored by the master. Wonder’s “Superstition” is almost definitely gonna get messed with. Marvin Gaye tracks will, too, and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is guaranteed to be. Of the last, Nicolo says the tracks are “spectacular,” and we’ll hear “details you’ve never heard before,” he claims. “It sounds like George is playing the

The music whiz at work: Master producer Phil Nicolo. (Photo courtesy Dallyn Davey/Dish PR)

guitar part with boxing gloves. Like a 13-year-old is playing in his basement.” Nicolo’s not trying to knock Harrison, he notes, or “knock these guys off their pedestals,” but it’s just the context of the track. The sum of all the parts makes these timeless recordings that we all know so well, but “there’s magic here,” he says, “and when you get down to it, a lot of it is the attitude and the energy of the performance”—pieces he’ll show us in all their weird beauty. He sees it as an opportunity for Beatles and classic-rock geeks to see and hear things in recordings they never have before. Eve of Deconstruction isn’t exactly a Q&A or lecture, but Nicolo will definitely share some morsels of knowledge with his audience because, as he notes, “I’m not there because I know every little detail about these records. I know a lot. [But] it’s fascinating,” he says, “As I dive into these recordings, I’m learning so much more.” Don’t ask him, though, if Paul McCartney was playing a Hofner bass or a Rickenbacker guitar. He does have some back story gossip on “Superstition.” It was written for Jeff Beck, but Berry Gordy said “Fuck Jeff ”— and Beck was understandably pissed. Allegedly, Jeff was playing the drums for the demo, Wonder came in and riffed on it, and the rest is music history. “That’s a Stevie groove in my mind,” Nicolo says. “But who knew?”  Wed., Oct. 29, 8pm. $15. With Trevor Gordon Hall. World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St. 215.222.1400. worldcafelive.com

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The Down Past Passyunk players: The talented cast of Interact Theatre Company’s Down Past Passyunk take the stage to accept its Independence Foundation Award for Outstanding New Play at Monday night’s Barrymore Awards gala at the Merriam Theater. (Photo by J.R. Blackwell)

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Filios also took home the prestigious F. Otto Haas Award for an Emerging Philadelphia Theatre Artist, which is “presented annually to a theatre artist who shows outstanding promise in the field and is dedicated to working in the Philadelphia theatre company.” Consider it a Best New Artist-type thing. The other big winners were Charlie DelMarcelle and Theatre Horizon’s I Am My Own Wife. DelMarcelle took home the Barrymore for Outstanding Leading Actor in a Play, and the play itself won the other big one: the Virginia Brown Martin Philadelphia Award, which shouts out “theatre that illuminates the ways we live and interact with others as we seek to build community.” The other big grabs of the night? InterAct Theatre Company’s wins for Outstanding Overall Production of a Play and the Independence Foundation Award for Outstanding New Play for Down Past Passyunk; Arden Theatre Company’s Parade, which nabbed wins for Outstanding Leading Actor in a Musical (Ben Dibble), Outstanding Supporting Actor (Derrick Cobey) and Actress (Kenita Miller) in a Musical; Lantern Theater Company’s A Child’s Christmas in Wales for wins in Outstanding Set Design and Outstanding Ensemble in a Play and Montgomery Theater’s showing from The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!), which won for Outstanding Ensemble in a Musical.  For the complete list of the night’s winners, visit theatrephiladelphia.org.

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he Philadelphia theater community took center stage as a collective Monday night at the Merriam Theater, where 26 Theatre Philadelphia Barrymore Awards were handed out to honor and celebrate some of the city’s boldest and brightest performances. And even though a few rookies got welcome encouragement to stay and create in Philadelphia, it might have been the 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, Carla Belver, who stole the show with a deeply moving acceptance speech. When she began her career at Temple and then Villanova as a single mother, Belver told a rapt audience, there was one guild to join. She and a few others created the Philadelphia Theatre Company, and now, decades later, she was floored to see nearly 25 local companies nominated. Times have definitely changed. And in the time that Belver became deeply allied with People’s Light & Theatre in Malvern, the Philly theater community has exploded. Inis Nua Theatre Company won the June and Steve Wolfson Award for an Evolving Theatre Company, which seeks to “recognize, promote and reward creativity, growth and excellence.” Inis Nua, which means “new island”—they focus on stories that are born of the UK and its isles—took home one of the highest honors of the night: Outstanding Overall Production of a Musical for Midsummer [a play with songs]. The director, Kate Galvin, also took home Outstanding Direction of a Musical, and Liz Filios won for Oustanding Leading Actress in a Musical.

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n aimless cipher gets sucked into the world of freelance news footage, prowling the streets at night to film disasters—and maybe to start staging some. It’s no surprise Nightcrawler wants to make you uncomfortable: The setup’s so determinedly cynical, it feels like the kid in the back of the class poisoned Drive’s lunch and is just waiting for a payoff. But we’re a cynical culture by now, so from the first neon watercolors of the Los Angeles skyline, it’s clear we’re in for dark times. Nightcrawler instead makes its audience complicit in its gravity by the gallowshumor affability with which it presents all its slow-building terrors. Such a premise requires a fixed center, and Jake Gyllenhaal is happy to provide. Newshound Lou is a career-defining performance from behind a bloody camera, his eyes shifting slowly in a gauntly reptilian face, delivering monologues of Powerpoint seminar tips with a creepy earnestness that serves as personality. And despite cinematographer Robert Elswit’s camera, whose kinetic swing gets used like the dreadful gaze that can’t help but seek disaster, Gyllenhaal holds the camera effortlessly with every loaded wait. Riz Ahmed’s nervous Rick is a perfect counterpoint to Lou’s unflappable distance, providing an occasional, canny glimmer of conscience. It’s the only conscience with which Nightcrawler, a beautifully hopeless black comedy of modern media, concerns itself. It’s also a twisted superhero origin story, and the more we know of the world he’s filming, the more unnerving it becomes when the camera lingers over the glittering nightscape, or when James Newton Howard’s score rises triumphantly as Lou breaks a law to make a better shot. It’s a modern-noir portrait of the way we eat our news, but amid the media, Nightcrawler slowly turns its unblinking eye on something darker. And much closer to home. (Genevieve Valentine)

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aking a documentary is inevitably going to be an editorial affair. And if the possibility of objectivity was still in question, Art and Craft presents Mark Landis. The art forger has duped over 40 museums with his work, but as they’re donations, he’s technically not engaged in criminal activity. There’s a distinct heist-movie atmosphere in scenes where he dons a clerical collar as a ruse or explains his favorite backstories—but the camera follows him to mental health appointments following up on his teenage schizophrenia diagnois. And sliceof-life glimpses of Landis dipping Melba toasts in margarine are intercut with bursts of enthusiastic, (if slow-motion) chat as he works on a Picasso he’s planning to place. Art and Craft is a film clearly fascinated and puzzled by Landis in equal measure: Is this a laid-bare portrait of a con man, or is the documentary just another con? As if hoping for answrers, the film presents former Oklahoma City Museum of Art employee Matthew Leininger, whose quest to get Landis to retire makes him the movie’s foil; whether he’s a hero or a hound is one of the many questions that directors Sam Cullman, Mark Becker and Jennifer Grausman try carefully not to answer. Leininger is right, of course, that Landis is taking advantage of museums who crave new art and new visitors. But as the movie progresses, the shots of Landis working brushstroke by brushstroke intercut with talking-heads Leininger’s fixation feel more like a parallel obsession than a chase. The relationship between obsession and outcome is as complicated and hard to define as anything else in Art and Craft. By the time Landis attends an exhibit of forgers’ work (including his) celebrating the craft behind imposter art, and Leininger confronts him, the documentary’s sure that whatever they discuss, there are no easy answers. (G.V.)

Into the night: Jake Gyllenhaal as sinister news junkie Lou Bloom in the thriller Nightcrawler.

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Just how much “anti” do you want in your antiheroes? The con-man crazed Art and Craft and creepy Nightcrawler beg the question, amid others. By Genevieve Valentine // feedback@philadelphiaweekly.com

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here’s no shortage of antiheroes at the box office this month. October offers prime real estate for horror, but it’s also the first glimpse of the awards-season horizon, and studios are releasing some Whiplashes amid the Ouijas. For a traditional antihero, there’s John Wick, a surprisingly sleek, out-of-nowhere action flick about a hit man who emerges from retirement to kill approximately 80 people to avenge his dog. The whole venture ends up marginally more noble and miles more fun than it sounds. And if you prefer a more cultured flavor of internal conflict, look no further than Art and Craft, a documentary that peels back psychological layers from famed art forger Mark Landis. His complicated psyche makes his art seem equally an attempt at connection and the grifter seeing what he can get away with, and the film seems at times to be less concerned with the details of his work than whether their subject is the movie’s protagonist or antagonist. But this autumn also feels gleefully nihilistic. The Guest, another full-throttle throwback, has an antihero who quickly descends into a critique of masculinity amid a bloodbath. And then there’s Nightcrawler, an almost impossibly savvy thriller that quietly exults in its own careful moral bankruptcy, asking its audience to examine their complicity in watching bad guys do bad things. Jake Gyllenhaal, looking positively sepulchral (and hypersebumed, a thin film he can never seem to scrape away), presents one of the fall’s most memorable creeps in the recent pantheon of characters too pervasively unsettling to earn the title of antihero. Lou Bloom is a nighttime news hound whose lack of charisma renders him almost invisible, and when he turns to filming disasters, it’s practically a superpower. But despite the many neon-noir markers of the film and its satire of the news media that makes carrion-bird behavior a profitable enterprise, Nightcrawler owes as much to American Psycho as anything else. Patrick Bateman would be horrified to hear it, of course. That sta-

tus-hound serial killer wouldn’t deign to let Lou Bloom touch one of his business cards. (They’re both self-aware cogs in a capitalist wheel, but that’s not something they have in common with each other—that’s the thing they have in common with us.) But the same capitalism-as-game-manual blood runs in both their veins, which is a depressingly effective technique for success, and for each of them, it’s the only thing about life they can intuit. In Nightcrawler, Lou dragging bodies into place is less creepy than the middle-management aphorisms he rattles off as he and his assistant race toward a downed plane. And neither holds a candle to the moment he cheerfully blackmails Rene Russo’s news executive into a sexual relationship, a coercive setup played for laughs later—the grim sort, where the world’s sinking, and you realize the absurdity of Lou’s evil, as banal and faux-transparent as it is, means he’s going to win. It’s a crucial marker separating him from the antihero. You know an antihero will win, somehow, if he’s stuck to his code; those like Lou win by using our own codes against us. It’s all funny, which makes things better and worse. Director Dan Gilroy might well have looked to American Psycho here, too, since Nightcrawler’s wide streak of gallows humor has roots in the miles-long foreshadowing and cognitive dissonance of someone awful impressing the world with the sheer scope of his ambition. (In James Newton Howard’s score, one of the creepiest underpinnings in a film made entirely of creepy underpinnings, the music rises triumphantly along with Lou’s psychology.) Sure, he moved a body, but if the shot’s great, what else matters? Following a central cipher can be a lot to ask of an audience; following one in a movie like Nightcrawler, which dares us to fight being complicit, asks even more. And unless you’re feeling particularly staunch, maybe see the happily complicit John Wick when you’re feeling better about just how much “anti” you want in your heroes. 

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work on time. Despite being from the Midwest, where I got two decades of legit winter, Polar Vortex 2013 was the second hardest season of my entire life. For months on end, it seemed, no one flourished or basked—we merely endured. Eventually spring came. Then summer raced by. And now: fall. And while I appreciate that here in the mid-Atlantic, we still enjoy the luxury of seasons—for now—I’m not able to enjoy this autumn at all. Because I know winter is coming. I suspect it’s some kind of low-level PTSD, an unconscious terror that associates the shorter hours of daylight and dropping temperatures with the imminent feeling of exhaustion and perpetual physical trauma. Even the slight wind and cold of the last couple weeks has sent me scampering indoors and turning down invitations to go out at night. I’ve already booked trips out of town for December, February and March—and dropped one of my classes in anticipation, just so I can save myself one frozen roundtrip ride a week. It’s a matter of self-preservation. Pumpkin spice lattes? No. Just no. I’m twitching in reaction to anything that celebrates the time of year. As for Halloween, well, that still warrants excitement—but it’s gonna be more of an apocalypse party, as I prepare to hunker down once again. Here’s hoping we can be nicer this time around. 

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Getting a committee person on a local ballot is probably the easiest thing a third party can actually accomplish. How come the Green Party hasn’t picked that up yet? Because I haven’t been chair long enough yet.

Good answer. That’s something I want to implement, but it’s hard... One of the reasons I ran is, when you ask people who their state rep is, they don’t know. Politicians don’t talk about the real issues affecting the 18- to 35-year-old citizen, then they don’t vote because they feel disenfranchised. If you start focusing on them, maybe they’ll start caring again and say, hey, there’s a representative who is actually for us. Have you attempted to hold a debate with Rep. Brown, or have you engaged her at all? No. I really haven’t. I engaged her beforehand. I have people telling me she’s scared and I should. I try to look at the grassroots aspect of it, though—I didn’t want this to be a smear campaign because she’s in the news for what she’s got going on. Really, I want to engage the people who support her; I want to know what it is that they support. I just felt as though I need to be old-fashioned—I have to talk to the people about the issues. To debate her is to debate the Democrats. I don’t need to do that. I want to find another demographic that understands how to vote. ■

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care about your kids, your nephews, your nieces, your neighbors. He has other priorities. In Corbett’s Tea Party paradise, oil and natural gas companies don’t get taxed as they extract the state’s natural resources. This is unlike every other state in the nation, including our neighbor West Virginia. Sharon Ward, executive director of the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center thinktank, says that’s ridiculous. “Pennsylvania could have a severance tax that is more comparable to other gas producing states,” she told the Wall Street Journal, “without any particular impact on the industry.” Ward’s group is one of many advocating for small changes to Pennsylvania’s tax code that would provide a desperately needed boon to things like public education. Corbett doesn’t care, though. If he did, he’d already have offered any serious kind of response to the Philadelphia schools crisis. He and his fellow Republicans haven’t. And they certainly won’t if we reward them with another four years in the governor’s mansion. Here’s the important thing: Just not voting for Corbett isn’t good enough. That’s still one vote that’s absent from the “Kick him out” pile. And those absences add up. Philadelphians need to use the fact that we are the most populous county in the

state to balance out all the red-county Tea Party lunatics. Because they’re certainly going to vote. That’s why you have to actively get up and vote for Tom Wolf. I’m going to. Because despite Wolf leading Corbett by at some seven to nine points in the latest polls, I know well—with a sinking pit of dread in my stomach—that those poll numbers only actually matter if each one of us follows through on Election Day. You might call me a pessimist, but my real problem is Democrats routinely find themselves disappointed thanks to their own supporters not turning out on Election Day to vote. Remember: Why was George W. Bush even elected president in the first place? It wasn’t just because of a Supreme Court decision and rampant voter suppression efforts, though those both played their role; if just a few thousand more Gore supporters had bothered going to the polls in the first place, the history of the past decade would have looked startlingly different. Alternative-universe fantasies aside: Here and now in Philadelphia, it’s clear that the Republicans who’ve held power for the past four years just don’t care about your kids. Corbett’s ilk have such a profound ideological objection to taxing oil and gas corporations that they’d rather let Philadelphia public schools twist in the wind instead of making rich energy companies pay their fair share to do business in the state. Urban schoolchildren? Your sons and daughters? Corbett’s crew only cares about them for photo ops and commercials. I really disagree with that worldview, and I think most Philadelphians do, too. The only way we can disagree with these folks in a way that actually matters, though—the only way to keep these kneejerk Republicans who despise Philadelphia from continuing to make a bad situation even worse—is by voting for Tom Wolf on Tuesday. So just do it. Do it for the next kid who might grow up to be president if and only if he has the right opportunities early on. Do it for your son or your daughter or your neighbor. Do it for Philly. Vote for Tom Wolf. Don’t just say it. Go do it. 

one thing. And you have to realize that we’re grassroots. This is the people’s money; this is not corporations’ money. And once people spend money on these campaigns and see it’s not going anywhere, they get disillusioned, you know? [But now] we’ve been on the rise since 2011, when Cheri Honkala started running. Then Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala ran [as the national Green Party’s 2012 presidential ticket]. We got some new members, we’re getting some awareness that this is another party. I’m trying to instill this [understanding] now—we do not have committee people and board members. We need to start from the bottom and work our way up.

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few months ago, while the state Democratic primaries were going on, I insisted in these pages that citizens have every right to abstain from voting. While this is certainly true, there’s an asterisk: There are some cases where your community plain and simple needs you to take action. Tuesday’s election for Pennsylvania governor is one of those cases. That’s why, my earlier rant about civil disobedience notwithstanding, I intend to vote for Tom Wolf, and I encourage my fellow Philadelphians to do the same thing. Because no matter what any of think us think Wolf might be able to accomplish in Harrisburg, we’ve already seen what Corbett has “accomplished,” and it’s been disastrous. Never even mind the rest of the state for a second—Corbett’s been disastrous for Philadelphia. And we have an obligation to head to the polls on Tuesday and vote for that disaster to stop. Caring that much can be scary, I know. Trust me, I’d rather sit at home and mock the talking heads on cable news for being sensationalistic morons. Instead, I’m going to get off my ass, go cast a ballot and nervously watch the returns, praying that the outcome will be something I can accept. For the past four years, we’ve seen just what Tea Party-style governance looks like under the Corbett administration. Simply put: Our Republican-led state government has ignored a massively devastating public education crisis, like the one Philadelphia’s kids are currently trying to survive, in favor of tax giveaways to the oil and gas industry. Oh, sure, it’s possible to parse Corbett’s budgets cynically and argue that he didn’t “really” cut the $1 billion we can see he did from public education spending—a recent installment of the York Daily Record “Pa. Fact Finder” series comprehensively details all the creative ways politicians have been trying to spin the numbers—but once you wade through all the bullshit, it remains crystal clear that Corbett’s done nothing to actually help fix the broken Philadelphia school district. As a reminder: Philadelphia is the most populous city in the state. There are more schoolchildren here than anywhere else in Pennsylvania. But Philly, Corbett doesn’t

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play. That’s not a problem. Inconsideration used to be a problem (disposing of shitty tampons where his family members might find them), but he’s knocked that off, right? So the only remaining problem is that he’s putting things in his ass that aren’t designed for assplay. If you don’t want your son abusing any cucumbers or mixing spoons or Oscar statuettes that might be lying around your house—and if you don’t want to have to rush him to an emergency room in a few months to retrieve something that gets stuck in his ass—consider purchasing a few ass-appropriate toys for him, i.e., one or two small silicone butt plugs with flared bases. He’ll be mortified when you give them to him, POPS, but no more mortified than you were when you found those shitty tampons. Buying sex toys for kids is a hurdle most parents can’t clear. If it’s not something you can do, then you’ll have to turn a blind eye to any toothbrushes you might find in sinks over the next few years. You’ll also want to thoroughly wash cucumbers before consuming them. Say your boyfriend has a spanking fetish, and he spanks other women with one particular belt— but not you, because you don’t like it, but you’re OK with him making dates to spank others—and he wears that particular belt all the time, even though you’ve asked him not to. Ass Spared, Feelings Hurt Equal parts inconsideration (on his part) and insecurity (on your part) are combining to create unnecessary drama. If spanking is so central to his identity that he has to wear his spanking belt every day, you may be the wrong girlfriend for him. If seeing an easy-to-overlook reminder of his fetish leaves this hurt, you’re less OK with those spanking dates than you pretend to be, ASFH, and he may be the wrong boyfriend for you. I recently came across a pair of my ex-girlfriend’s lacy panties in an old pair of shorts I haven’t worn in years. I love wearing women’s panties, and I almost hit the floor when I found them. I was a mess after this girl dumped me. I was devastated. To this day, I have not found closure. This is where it gets tricky. A part of me wants to keep them because it’s so hot that they’re hers. I’m happy with my current girlfriend—I love her— but these panties really turn me on. The other part tells me to “show some respect” and get rid of them. Is this an ethical or moral issue? By keeping them, am I driving a wedge between me and my girlfriend? Old Panties Protocol You’re entitled to your memories and your keepsakes. And if a pair of panties can drive a wedge between you and your current girlfriend, OPP, then your relationship is made of pretty flimsy stuff. If an old pair of panties doesn’t destroy it, the next strong breeze will. Keep the panties, I say, but put them away somewhere that isn’t easily accessed—in a box in your storage space, on a high shelf in a closet—so you aren’t tempted to haul them out every time you want to have a wank. But now and then, maybe when the girlfriend is out of town, I don’t see the harm in retrieving your ex-girlfriend’s panties and enjoying a nice, long, leisurely wank down memory lane. And finally, OPP, closure isn’t something you find. It’s something you do. 

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12:00-12:30pM rittenhouSe Square the WarWick: 1701 LocuSt St. $849,900 aLLan DomB re

12:00-1:00pM avenue of the artS 337 S. hickS St. $579,900 aLLan DomB re BeLLa viSta 760-62 S.8th St. $410,000 BhhS fox & roach, LLc

art muSeum 700 n. Pennock St. - unit 201 $239,900 BhhS fox & roach, LLc

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4000 + Sq Ft 4/3.5 Elevator Deck 2 Car Garage & TA

PennSPort 109 feDeraL St. $479,900 BhhS fox & roach, LLc

rittenhouSe Square 2127 tryon St. $535,000 BhhS fox & roach

oLD city 317 vine St. unit 210 $335,000 BhhS fox & roach, LLc

PennSPort 510 DickinSon St. $359,950 BhhS fox & roach

rittenhouSe Square 1730 Pine St. #4 $310,000 BhhS fox & roach oLD city 20 S. Letitia St. from $329,000 BhhS fox & roach Society hiLL 233 S. 6th St. #1201 $875,000 BhhS fox & roach oLD city 335 n. front St. a $475,000 BhhS fox & roach WaShington Sq. WeSt 1220 Panama St. $350,000 BhhS fox & roach art muSeum area 2927 W. girarD St. $389,900 BhhS fox & roach Port richmonD 2547 PickWick St. $224,900 BhhS fox & roach Point Breeze 1338 S. coLoraDo St. $217,000 BhhS fox & roach

queen viLLage 782 S. 5th St. $599,000 BhhS fox & roach, LLc

graDuate hoSPitaL 2104 South St. #4 $295,000 BhhS fox & roach

Society hiLL 308 LomBarD St. $895,000 BhhS fox & roach, LLc

graDuate hoSPitaL 2520 kimBaLL St. $412.000 BhhS fox & roach

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4/2.5, patio,deck & finished basement $369,000

133 Salter Street Fab. N/C

PaSSyunk Square 2107 Bainbridge 1018 morriS St. Incredible 3 + media/2.5 2 1/2$340,000 BA + Deck 3 Car Deck & Garden $749,000 Prng $1,350,000 BhhS fox & roach

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queen viLLage 3550 Sq Ft 3 + Den/4.5 3 BalconiesDeck Garden + 518-20 carPenter St. Garage TA $979,000 $695,000 BhhS fox & roach

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

N WaShington Sq. 3 WeSt L’EAU Jay-Z & Beyonce 1030-32 SPruce St. #102 1 Christian St #22 125 Ellsworth—Phase III Development 24 Condos Pennspoint 3 to 4 + den /2.5 3/2 Deck + $575,000 2/2 Parking TA Gar TA From $499,000 + Parking RED $499,000 From $399,000 BhhS fox & roach

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fiShtoWn 1241 creaSe St. B queen viLLage3rd & Bainbridge - Live & work from home in this fabulous space. 2 bedrooms +den,1.5 Baths, $419,999 hardwood floors, Deck + Gallery space on 1st Fl. $3000 419 fuLton St. 427 Queen St- Beautiful 3 story, 2 bedroom, 1 bath trinity, H/W, EIK & garden. BhhS fox & $1400 roach $459,900 225 Catharine St - Beautiful 3 BR + Den, 4 BA, H/W, Granite ktchn, grdn & 2 car parking. $3500 776 S. 2nd St - Very nice 2 Bedroom, 1 Bath Bi level apartment w/ CA + Lg Deck. $1350 BhhS fox & roach, LLc 810 S. 3rd St –Beautiful large 3 BR + Den home with hardwood floors t/o, yard + parking. $2500 rittenhouSe Square 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 2:00-3:30pM 1902 WaverLy St. queen viLLage $425,000 208-210 fitzWater St.   BhhS fox & roach $499,900 BeLLa viSta

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Addison St.Hr Rittenhouse Sq. tax 31830 Bedrooms $400,000 to transfer $500,000 24 Maintenance Includes real estate tax • No Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, 3 3Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, 1 Bedrooms $175,000 to $225,000 3 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, 3 Bd/2 Ba;Floor RenovatedTownhome, Open plan with 3000 Sq ft 3 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, 2032 Latimer Street, Rittenhouse Square real estate tax • No transfer tax 3$525,000 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, 2 Bedrooms $525,000 3Includes Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, Open Sun 11-4pm | Mon 12-6pm G $525,000 $250,000 to $400,000 N IRittenhouse $525,000MAIN LINE SuBuRBS DftRittenhouse $525,000 1830 Addison St. Sq. N Studios $115,000 to 12-3pm $150,000 2 Bed/2 Bath; 795 sq Trinity $385,000 1830 Addison St. Sq. Tues-Fri | Sat E $525,000 517 old9-6pm forge Road, Media 1830 Addison St. Rittenhouse 1830 Addison St. RittenhouseSq. Sq. $525,000 PRenovatedTownhome, 1310 fenimore Lane, Gladwyne $400,000 toacres $500,000 Bd/2 Ba;RenovatedTownhome, 1830 Addison St.YRittenhouse Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, Bed/2.1 Bath; 2696 sqft Colonial on 1.37 $499,900. 33 Bd/2 Ba; 1830 Addison St.sqRittenhouse Sq. 314Bedrooms 400 delmar Street, Bedrooms $175,000 to $225,000 OPEN SUNDA 11Roxborough AM - 1 PMSq. 353 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, Bed/4.3 Bath; 7,320 ft Colonial $2,300,000 $525,000 OPEN SUNDA Y 2 4 PM $525,000 1830 Addison St. Rittenhouse Sq. Rock Valley Sq. Includes realflat estate tax • Penn Noto transfer tax 1830 Addison St.Bryn Rittenhouse Sq. 2 Bedrooms 3 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, 1830 1440 Addison St.Road, Rittenhouse 2427 Carpenter Street, Graduate Hospital 710 Preston Avenue, Mawr, Renovated 4 Bd/2 Bed/2Bath; 1880 sq ft End Unit $167,000 $525,000 3$525,000 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, $250,000 $400,000 49 Cornell Rd., Bala Cynwyd 5 Bed/4.1 Bath Colonial rent $5,000/month Addison St. Rittenhouse Sq. Addison St.sq Rittenhouse Addison St.for Rittenhouse Sq. 31830 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, 3Bd/2 Bed/2.1 Bath; 1,800 ft Twin $375,000Sq. 31830 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, $525,000 31830 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, 814 N 23rd St, Art Museum $525,000 3 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, 3 Bedrooms $400,000 to 12-6pm $500,000 3 431 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, 3BD/1.1BA; Townhouse $329K Sq. 3273 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, Open Sun 11-4pm | Mon 1830 Addison St. Rittenhouse Meeting House Lane, Merion Station 5BD/2.2Ba 3,314 Sq. Ft. Colonial Montgomery Avenue, Merion Station 1830 Addison St. Rittenhouse Sq. $525,000 $525,000 $525,000 $525,000 $525,000 $525,000 4 Bed/2.1 1,796Rittenhouse sq ft townhomeSq. 5 Bed/4.2 Bath; 5,442 sqfttax French Colonial $1,170,000 1830 St. Bed/4.2 Bath; 5500 ft Colonial $1,025,000 Includes real estate • No transfer tax Tues-Fri 9-6pm | Sat 12-3pm 31830 Bd/2 Ba;Bath; RenovatedTownhome, 1830 Addison St. sq Rittenhouse Sq. Finished, Walk-out LL $549K 510 S.Addison 11th Street, Wash Square West 361830 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, Addison St. Rittenhouse Sq. $525,000 Addison Rittenhouse Sq. Also for RentSt. $5,500 /month 1830 Addison St. Rittenhouse Sq. 3$525,000 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, 1212 Weybridge Lane, Wayne 31407 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, 3 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, $525,000 3 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, 3 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, 1811 BrooksLine Road,Rd., WestBryn ChesterMawr County 3BD/2BA; 3-Story Twnhome C/ASquare $339K Open Sun 11-4pm | Mon 2301 Cherry Street 4Q, Logan 3Bed/3.1bath; 3,580 sq ft 2 story colonial12-6pm in desirable $525,000 $525,000 $525,000 4 Bed/2.1 bath; 2829 sq ft colonial on $525,000 $525,000 707 Conshohocken State Cynwyd Rittenhouse Sq. Denbigh. $745,000 Tues-Fri 9-6pm | Rd., SatBala 12-3pm 3 1830 Bed/ 2.1Addison Bath; 1778St. sq ft Condo at Riverview 1830 Addison St.$560,000 Rittenhouse 5BD/3BA; Renovated Colonial Sq. 2.0 acres. 1830 Addison St. Rittenhouse Sq. 1519 Swain Street, Art Museum Area 1830 Addison St. Rittenhouse Sq. 1830 Addison St. Rittenhouse Sq. 1025 Barr Lane, Gladwyne 1830 Addison St. Rittenhouse Sq. 4BD/2BA; Colonial in college Park 33Bd/2 $450,000 1830 Addison St. Rittenhouse Sq. Bd/2Ba; Ba;RenovatedTownhome, RenovatedTownhome, Aubrey Avenue, Ardmore, Renovated 1830 Addison St. Rittenhouse Sq. 3 3818 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, 3/4 Acres; Walk to Train $724K 3 Bd/2 Ba; Sq. RenovatedTownhome, 4bd/3.1Ba 2625 Ft; Renovated Cape $500,000 3BD/2.1BA 1,552 Sq. Ft Townhouse $525,000 4 Bed/3.1Bath; 2,400 sq ft Twin $425,000 3 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, $525,000 $525,000 $525,000 5236 Master Street, Philadelphia 3$525,000 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, 31,598 Bd/2 Ba;Ridgewood RenovatedTownhome, Sq.Ft; 1-Car Attached Garage $349K 1230 Road, Bryn Mawr G Townhome 739 Buck Lane, Haverford, Renovated NUnit IFinished $525,000 D 4 Bed/1 Bath; 1,600 sq ft End Renovated, Central Air; LL $399K 5 Bed/4.2 Bath; 6755 sq ft French Estate w/pool, $1,875,000 $525,000 $525,000 EN Hollow Rd., Penn 41245 Bed/2.1 Bath; 2,200 sq ft Twin Valley $425,000. P 1830 Addison St. Rittenhouse Sq. 1830 Addison St. Rittenhouse Sq. 1830 Addison St. Rittenhouse Sq. Open House Sunday 2p-4p Also for Rent $9,000 /month. $79,000 Open House Sunday 2p-4p 190 Presidential #301 The Corinthian 3 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, 1830 Addison St. Rittenhouse Sq.l 4BD/4.1Ba 1727 Fitzwater St., #A Graduate Hospita 3 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, 1830 Addison St.Contemporary Rittenhouse 3 Bd/2 RenovatedTownhome, 1830 Addison St. Rittenhouse 33Ba; Chestnut Avenue, Bala Cynwyd Sq. 605 New Gulph Road, Bryn MawrSq. 1438 Snyder Ave. 2nd-flr, South Phila. 3$525,000 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, 3BD/3.1BA, 2700 Sq.Ft w/$1,750/month Balcony 6Bed/4.1Bath; 4,416 ft colonial $525,000 5,620 Sq.Ft.sq$1,500,000 Townhouse $350K 3 Bed/1 Bath;RenovatedTownhome, Townhome For rent 3$525,000 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, 3$525,000 Bd/2 Ba; 22BD/1.1BA Bed/1Bath for rent $950/month. 700 Ardmore Ave #207, Ardmore $525,000 264 W.For Montgomery Ave. #101, Haverford $525,000 $525,000 Updated; Rent $4,700/month or $749K bed 2.1 bath;St. 1,152Rittenhouse sq ft Renovated Sq. 1830 Addison Sq. 4316 flemingStreet StSt. 2ndRittenhouse fLR, Manayunk 3508 Hamilton - Powelton Village 18302 Addison 1 Bed/1 Bath;Addison 827 sq ft Condo the Mansard HouseSq. $199,000. 1830 St.atRittenhouse Townhome In Haverford Village $227,500 1 Bed, 13,300 Bath For Rent $850/month 3 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, 1546 Lane, Chester SpringsSq. 1830 Addison St. Rittenhouse Sq. 4BD/3.1BA; Sq. Ft. REDUCED $635k 31348 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, 1830 Addison Rittenhouse Sq. 3 Bd/2 Ba;Mallard RenovatedTownhome, 1830 Addison St. Rittenhouse Bobarn Drive, Penn Valley 1526 KnoxSt. Road, Wynnewood 2636 Street, Ardmore 5.10Chestnut acres lot w/stream $140,000 $525,000 3 Bd/2 RenovatedTownhome, 4316Ba; fleming St 1st fLR, Manayunk 3$525,000 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, Charming 3 bed/2bath colonial in South Ardmore 3$525,000 Bd/2 Ba; RenovatedTownhome, 300 Lawrence Road, Broomall, Renovated 5BD/4.1BA, 5588 Contemporary 1333 South Street - Washington Square West 3BD/1.1BA Twin w/ Attached Garage Park. $400,000. Open House Sunday 2p-4p 2 Bed/2 Bath For Rent $1,250/month $525,000 $525,000 3 Bed/3 Bath; 2,000 sq ft Ranch $400,000 $525,000 1830 St. Rittenhouse Sq. Duplex Addison w/ Parking; Separate Utilities $499K 1,280Avenue, Sq. $199,900 1830 St..89 Rittenhouse 2-3 Addison Car Acres $879K Sq. 1830 Addison St.FtRittenhouse Sq. 200Garage; Simpson Road, Ardmore 728-730 Preston Bryn Mawr, Renovated 2351 N.Ba; orianna St. Temple university & 2 apartments) $435,000 3 Bd/2 RenovatedTownhome, 3Commercial Bd/2 Ba;(office RenovatedTownhome, 53Bed/2.1 Bath; 3,000 sq ft Traditional $665,000 Bd/2 -Ba;OAK RenovatedTownhome, HILL PENN VALLEY -1501 S. 12th Street - $25,000 Passyunk Square Lot 0.01 acres 759 Conestoga Road, Berwyn 20 W dartmouth Road, Bala Cynwyd $525,000 $525,000 $525,000 DING

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AcAdemy House 1420 Locust street Junior 1 bedroom on a high floor with lots of natural light, great closet space and an updated kitchen, 624 sf $247,500 Completely renovated south facing 1 bedroom with hardwood floors, an open kitchen, great closets and a Juliet balcony, 706 sf $279,900 2 bedroom, 2 bath with wood floors, a renovated eat-in-kitchen, large and open entertaining space, panoramic western city views, 1314 sf $399,900

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

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Updated 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom with a large balcony providing city, marina and bridge views; wood floors; an open and updated kitchen; and lots of natural light; 1300 sf $319,900

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Completely renovated 3 bedroom, 3 bath with a deck providing bridge and river views, 1 parking space in garage included, 2229 sf $369,900

Parc rittenhouse

1173 sf $499,900 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, balcony, updated throughout

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

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

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3 bedroom, 3 bathroom on a high floor

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Open Sun 11/2 12:00-12:30pm $849,900

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$155,000

pArc rittenHouse 225 s. 18th street

1 bedroom, wood floors, balcony, marble bath, excellent closet space, 765 sf $389,900 1 bedroom plus den (can be used as 2nd bedroom), 2 bathroom with 2 balconies overlooking the building’s landscaped courtyard, large modern kitchen, marble $729,900 baths, hardwood floors, 1422 sf South facing 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom with lots of natural light, an open designer kitchen, wood floors, marble baths, w/d, $749,900 1013 sf 1 bedroom plus den (can be used as a 2nd bedroom), 2 bathrooms, hardwood floors, open contemporary kitchen, 2 Juliet balconies overlooking a landscaped courtyard, $825,000 1473 sf

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

washington square

$2,000,000

Hopkinson House 604 s. washington square

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

independence plAce 241 south 6th street

1 bedroom plus alcove, 1.5 baths, balcony providing south views, large bedroom with ensuite bath and walk-in closet, 1118 sf $375,000

2 bedroom, 2 bathroom with balcony and treetop city views, wood floors, open updated kitchen, renovated baths, 1173 sf $499,900

1119 pine street 2 bedroom plus loft, 2.5 bath bi-level with one underground parking space, wood floors, updated kitchen and baths, open floor plan, lots of natural light, 2000 sf $650,000

620 pine street Three story Washington Square townhome with 5 bedrooms, 4.5 baths, parking, an open kitchen, private patio and basement, 2740 sf

$850,000

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

stricklAnd row 1014 spruce street Sun-soaked bi-level with 2 bedrooms, 1.5 bath, wood floors and a recently renovated kitchen, 857 sf $289,900

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One-of-a-kind bi-level penthouse with spectacular southern views and amazing natural light, marble bathrooms, a large kitchen appointed with high end finishes and appliances, 1565 sf

williAm penn House 1919 chestnut street

2 bedroom home converted to a custom 1 bedroom plus den, 2 baths, furnished, designer finishes and features, open floor plan, luxurious master suite, southern views, 1079 sf $885,000

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

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

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