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November 17-23, 2010 Cover PhoTogrAPh by miChAel AlAn goldberg

Gold Standard Recording studio execs look to recapture Philly’s famed music history.

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inside news & oPinion

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4 Letters 5 Lost in Space A new report details the ugly cost of vacant lots.

7 PhillyNow The DRPA

23 Run Don’t Walk Run, Mourner, Run’s tale of race, sexuality and bigotry is a must-see.

seeks more oversight with a citizens advisory board.

19 Calendar PW’s picks for the week.

25 Have Mercy How a surprise supergroup made one of the year’s most critically lauded albums at a breakneck pace.

27 Q&A Lady Alma.

33 A Farewell to Arm There’s worse to be trapped with than James Franco, but 127 Hours’ ADD direction is an ordeal.

33 Six Pack Six movies boasting one actor (mostly).

34 New Releases Marwencol, Leaving and The Next Three Days.

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24 Far From Paper-Thin Kirié artist Shu Kubo applies an old art form to a new era.

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Regarding Brian McManus’ article about the evolution of the city-wide special: I specifically remember drinking specials at B&B’s around 1996 to 1998, so it [originated] before 2001. In fact, it might have been even in the early 90s when I first had one. Also the owner is Jack “Prince,” not “Price”—a friendly bar owner if there ever was one.

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Regarding Michael Alan Goldberg’s article about selling wine and spirts inside Garces Trading Co.: I don’t agree with the CROLF. As a member of the public, I want to see this Wine Boutique succeed. It’s a breath of fresh air in a very stale, archaic state liquor policy.

I understand that the other restaurateurs are looking out for their interest, their viability and their access to similar opportunities, but I think it is going overboard to bring down another establishment’s achievement simply because they did not benefit from it. Especially when the public can benefit from it. If there was favoritism shown toward Garces so be it. It seems the PLCB wanted to institute a program and have it go successfully. Quite frankly, publicity increases the chance that the program succeeds.

GREGORY YOUNG

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Regarding Brian McManus’ article about the evolution of the city-wide special: I specifically remember drinking specials at B&B’s around 1996 to 1998, so it [originated] before 2001. In fact, it might have been even in the early 90s when I first had one. Also the owner is Jack “Prince,” not “Price”—a friendly bar owner if there ever was one.

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In a city this size, you would think that in these times of “conscious” eating, maintaining a vegan commitment would be easier than this by now. While the food at Blackbird is delicious and vegan, it remains in the “fast food” spectrum as far as “health” food. Since I haven’t gotten to Grindcore house yet, I cannot comment. I have, however, been to the Loving Hut numerous times. This top notch and value-priced vegan eatery has been given short shift indeed as far as PW is concerned. My vegan partner and I were thrilled to finally have a 100 percent vegan destination where we could grab a quick bite for a [more than] reasonable price. The array of choices, inviting scene, and lovely hosts deserve kudos!

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Lost in Space The ugly truth about vacant lots.

By Aaron Kase akase@philadelphiaweekly.com Jon Musselman stands on the corner at 19th and Berks, just a few blocks west of Temple’s campus. “See up here—three city lots, two PHA lots, a couple of private lots,” he says, gesturing toward an open patch of land, choked with weeds and trash. Next to the vacant lots stands a single house, comically

Philadelphia Housing Authority, Philadelphia Housing Development Corporation and the city’s Public Property department. The privately owned vacant properties are the city’s problem, too, with owners frequently missing or dead, meaning the only way the land can be developed is through a sheriff’s sale or eminent-domain seizure. With parcels as thin as 15 feet wide, buying sufficient square footage for development from multiple city agencies is a near impossible

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have been meeting since the summer to address vacant land, Abernathy says. First, they need a method to create one combined inventory, and to decide on how to streamline the sale process. “Are there instances where we’re comfortable disposing of a property at less than fair-market value and under what conditions?” he asks rhetorically.

Tax policy will also play a role. “Sheriff sales over the last several decades have been able to process about 100 properties a month,” Abernathy says. “Obviously that doesn’t give us the kind of numbers we need to clear up this backlog.” Better coordination with PHA is also a goal. “They’re part of the issue and have to be part of conversation,” Abernathy says.

Past efforts by the city to address vacant properties have met with only marginal success. The John Street-era Neighborhood Transformation Initiative was supposed to use $300 million to help the city acquire land when the owner was missing or negligent. Despite serious record-keeping flaws and management hiccups within the RDA, which was administering the program, the NTI funds did stimulate development up to a point, but there was never enough cash to go around. “We asked for 80 lots here and we got one,” Musselman says of the streets surrounding Habitat’s office.

Developers interviewed for this story credit former RDA Executive Director Terry Gillen for taking strides in cleaning up RDA record-keeping and placing properties for sale online in her two-year tenure, despite criticism that her rocky relationship with City Council caused delays on projects. Gillen’s departure two weeks ago leaves incoming Director Ed Covington with a huge task in front of him.

“With any new position, you look to get a handle simultaneously on the scope of the business and its activities,” says Covington, who came from a banking background and had spent five years in community lending for Wachovia, helping both for- and nonprofit developers acquire land parcels. Covington declines to offer his own vision of how to fix the city’s vacant land problem. “It’s a little early to be offering specifics,” he says.

However, Abernathy says that more news should be coming soon. “We’re hoping to make some high-level recommendations to the mayor at the beginning of January,” he says. As chairman of the RDA, Mayor Nutter has a special interest in finding a solution to the vacant land problem, but while his staff brainstorms, the developers can only wait and see. “Maybe I’m more optimistic than most people, but I see a lot of progress in the last two years,” Musselman says. However, he adds, “they’ve got a long way to go.” n

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illuminated in an Econsult report released last week that sheds light on what the empty lots are actually costing Philadelphia. The 94-page report neatly sums up the city’s challenge: “No single entity is responsible for acquiring, assembling, and disposing of vacant parcels, or for thinking about the entire inventory of parcels and making strategic land use decisions.”

Blight can reduce property values by up to 20 percent, meaning Philadelphia is short some $3.6 billion in property value citywide, with the greatest impact hitting already poor and vulnerable neighborhoods. What’s more, the city needs to deploy services to maintain the lots, such as police, fire and the Department of Licenses & Inspections. “We estimate the cost very conservatively at $20 million per year,” says Econsult Director Lee Huang. Finally, there is a strong correlation between vacant parcels and those delinquent on their taxes. Of the 40,000 empty lots, the report found that about 17,000 are behind on their taxes, two thirds of those for more than 10 years. “We’re all losing,” Huang says.

If the city reforms the mechanisms for property acquisition in the next five years, it could expect to see 3,400 vacant parcels turned into housing, creating 800 construction jobs per year and adding $44 million to the property-tax base. In turn, the city would expect to see a $35 million boost to various tax revenues over the five-year period.

Those estimates might even be low, since the analysis focused on the few areas of the city where market values for housing actually exceed building costs, where private developers would expect to jump in. Nonprofit CDCs like Habitat and others who use tax breaks and grants to reduce costs and operate in areas where private builders would never see a profit would expect to benefit from a streamlined acquisition process as well. “This larger issue of how a reformed system would facilitate affordable housing is also critical,” says Rick Sauer, executive director of the Philadelphia Association of Community Development Corporations, which commissioned the Econsult report in conjunction with the RDA. “If the amount of time to assemble those sites is reduced, that will also lower cost of development and stretch scarce dollars to allow more units to be built.”

The PACDC has its own ideas about how the city can better facilitate development.

“We need a single point of entry to the city, to allow a developer to submit one application to one agency and have the city assemble the site,” Sauer says.

The city is working on it. “We have a strategy on how to solve the problem but we

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challenge for which the city has yet to find a comprehensive solution.

“This is almost an epidemic in Philadelphia,” says Carolyn Placke, director of housing and community development for Project HOME, which builds single and multi-family houses for people transitioning out of homelessness. “We’re faced with the complexities of acquiring land either privately, or through RDA, or through PHA.” Each method of acquisition is fraught with obstacles. “It makes it very difficult to transform or revitalize an area,” Placke says.

Cicely Peterson-Mangum, executive director of the 2-year-old Logan Community Development Corporation, says the group is just delving into the complicated task of land acquisition. The CDC is trying to purchase the notorious “Logan Triangle,” a 35-acre plot of land east of Broad Street that has been empty since the 1980s, to develop an as yet-to-be determined mix of housing, retail and open space. Like other empty spaces in the city, the Logan Triangle is a

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skinny. On the other side of the house, more open space all the way up the block to Norris.

The nearly empty block with its lone dwelling is just yards away from the Habitat for Humanity headquarters, where Musselman has worked for 15 years.

“Even though we’ve worked here all these years, there are still places like this we can’t do anything with,” he says. “It can be impossible to get everyone together to get a parcel that’s worthwhile to build on.”

Over the last 25 years, Habitat has built about 70 houses on the blocks surrounding its office, but the streets are still lined with nearly as many vacant lots as homes.

Instead of families, the properties house broken glass, rubble and who knows what else buried in the morass.

About 40,000 vacant lots are spread across Philadelphia, like scabs festering on the city grid. According to a database provided by the city, more than 12,000 are publicly owned, controlled by various agencies such as the Redevelopment Authority,

mix of city, PHA and privately owned land.

It’s up to the city, “to assemble the land, clear title, satisfy the liens and consolidate it as one free-and-clear land tract,” Mangum says. “It could take years.”

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The DRPA seeks more oversight with a citizens advisory board.

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oversight. In practice, the committee will only have the power to make nonbinding recommendations. What’s that worth to an agency used to ignoring criticism and doing whatever it wants anyway? Chicken shit.

The port authority begs to differ. “I think [the committee] makes a very big difference,” says DRPA CEO John Matheussen. “It brings in the public to see first-hand what goes on at DRPA and PATCO, gives them a voice at the table and gives the board a different perspective.”

“This is an opportunity to hear directly from the traveling public,” he says. “I think it’s a very positive thing.”

But who among us would make an effective giver of recommendations?

Matheussen is vague about that. “Either a direct association with PATCO or with our bridges,” he says. “I think someone

summer. Like other quasi-independent public-agency brouhahas, it all started with a simple scandal (see: the downfall of Philadelphia Housing Authority head Carl Greene over missed mortgage payments).

In this case, Public Safety Director Michael Joyce (salary: $180,000) was caught letting his daughter commute across the Delaware River to school using a free toll pass borrowed from a colleague. Hot on the scent of a good story, the media started asking questions and brought into light other unsavory aspects of the authority: Five-figure car allowances; questionable salaries (Matheussen makes $219,000, for example); $1.4 billion in debt; and about $500 million spent over 12 years on development projects that have nothing to do with bridges and trains, like Lincoln Financial Field and the Kimmel Center.

It’s unfortunate that a misspent hundred million here or there hardly makes us bat an eyelash anymore. What’s really so offensive about the agency is its existence as a free-range pasture for the politically well-connected to draw big salaries and graze on toll-payers’ dollars. Since fees to cross the bridges will have risen from $2 a decade ago to $5 by next summer (though a vote at tonight’s board meeting could delay the hike, maintaining the current $4 charge for another year), the public has good reason to be concerned.

Matheussen acknowledges that the idea for the advisory committee comes during increased DRPA scrutiny. “This is a resolution that came in the time frame when there were some other reforms that were being suggested by governors [of Pennsylvania and New Jersey],” he says. “This goes hand-in-hand with trying to move the authority ahead and get more involved with the general public.”

Note that the DRPA already has oversight. Govs. Ed Rendell and Chris Christie could actually stop the bleeding in the chicken coop. They appoint 14 of the 16 DRPA board members, with the exception of two spots reserved for the Pennsylvania

treasurer and auditor general. The Pennsylvania governor can remove appointees, but has no veto power over the board’s decisions. The New Jersey governor has the opposite privileges. Together, they could stand up to stop abusive practices at the port authority, but for whatever reason have not. That could change if governorelect Tom Corbett, who has already declared his intentions to follow Christie’s lead in matters of government reform, decides to focus more on the agency than his predecessor. Although Rendell has accepted blame for the agency’s problems after his six-year run as DRPA board chairman ended last year, he has taken no action to correct the situation. Meanwhile, Rendell’s old law firm, Ballard Spahr, has received more than $3 million in legal fees from the DRPA since he has been governor.

It’s possible the governors can make a difference, but Christie isn’t off to a great start. In the middle of his alleged reform frenzy, he has called for a number of changes including an end to free toll crossings for employees and a ban on workers taking jobs at DRPA vendors within two years of leaving the port authority. Though Christie has put a stop to free tolls for the time being, his veto of a weakened set of rules the board passed about post-employment policies, among other things, just means old rules institutionalizing pillage and plunder are still in place.

To the good government advocates Committee of Seventy, the only solution lies with the governors. “They have to appoint people [to the board] from both states on merit, and people who will agree that they’re gonna cut out the waste and the favoritism and the cronyism,” says CEO Zack Stalberg.

The Committee of Seventy is skeptical about the effectiveness of an advisory council. “It has the feeling of a nice little gesture toward the public,” Stalberg says.

“It’s unlikely that a panel like this with no authority can bring about the fundamental change that DRPA needs. That is gong to require two governors from the two states getting together and deciding this is no longer a playpen for white-collar patronage.”

That said, for readers interested in applying, go for it. Applications are available on the DRPA and PATCO websites and at bridges and PATCO stations. The deadline to apply is Dec. 1. “I don’t want to discourage people from applying from the citizens’ panel,” Stalberg says. “I hope some serious activists apply, because a little screaming from the constituency is always a good thing.”

And maybe that’s the real role of an advisory committee. Chickens might not be able to fight back, but they can sure make a lot of noise. n

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To get to work and back. And it costs $4 every day for the poor chickens who live in New Jersey and work in Pennsylvania, or vice versa. Soon to be $5, even though the Delaware River Port Authority is sitting on a cool $55 million in discretionary funds.

Got a problem with that? Sign up to become a member of the DRPA’s new citizens advisory committee. Yes, that’s right. The DRPA, mostly famous for overcharging commuters crossing over the Delaware River and using the money to buy itself nice things, is now accepting applications for a new, 20-member panel.

But when the fox is in the hen-house, can an advisory committee of chickens really stop the slaughter? In theory, an advisory body could provide sorely needed

who has ambition to want to serve and be able to share their knowledge and opinions with our board; someone who is truly looking to share those attributes and make DRPA better.”

Also vague is how DRPA commissioners will decide who gets to be on the committee. “We’ll accept applications, screen them first to make certain we’ve gotten folks that have an ability to serve, and the board will make determination as to who will be chosen,” Matheussen says. Family members of DRPA employees and people doing business with the authority are banned from consideration, a surprising if positive caveat to those of us grown accustomed to the cozy nepotism and cronyism for which the authority is famous.

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P h oto g r a P h s by M i c h a e l a l a n g o l d b e r g

recording studio execs look to recapture philly's famed music history.

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industry—indeed, the national recording industry as a whole—as studios try to weather the forces that have beat it down over the past decade. Thanks to greed and excess, combined with a massive increase in music piracy, the major labels have collapsed, taking with them the fat paychecks that were the lifeblood of most large studios. Meanwhile, the recession and the painfully slow recovery has driven artists small and big to buy recording gear—which continues to get better and cheaper by the day—and craft albums on their own, rather than spend hundreds or sometimes thousands a day in a “proper” studio.

The level of attrition has been high. Many of Philadelphia’s big-name facilities—Studio 4, Indre, Kajem, even the legendary Sigma Sound for a while (more on that later)—have closed up shop, their owners either giving up in the face of adversity or stubbornly holding onto the old ways of doing things and being forced out of business. Other places, like The Studio, have somehow managed to hang on through these brutal times, but they, too, are feeling the squeeze and finally undergoing the process of changing their business models in order to survive. But in the midst of that gloom-and-doom, there is a surprising amount of optimism among studio owners, and there are even some new studio ventures sprouting up around town.

Though their approaches vary, some of the major players in Philly’s recording industry who spoke with PW appear bullish about the future of their business. And many think Philadelphia can enjoy a renaissance akin to the golden age of the late ’60s and ’70s, when big artists came to the city from far and wide to make their albums and tap into some of that Philly music magic.

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ust inside the doors of The Studio—one of Philadelphia’s premiere recording facilities—owner Larry Gold sits at the receptionist desk, smiling broadly as he clutches the neck of the cello he plays for three hours every morning. Standing next to the desk is a tall man dressed head to toe in black, long dark hair pulled back into a ponytail. He’s got a rock musician’s presence; perhaps he’s here working on an album.

“This is Sol,” Gold says, gesturing toward the man in black. “He’s gonna be sitting in with us. I’ll explain why in a minute.”

Gold puts his cello in its case, scampers through the expansive lobby—past a long wall displaying dozens of gold and platinum records, the fruits of his 40-year career in the recording industry—and briefly disappears into the bowels of his sprawling, 20,000-square-foot loft space on North Seventh Street, near the Electric Factory.

Sol eases into a cushioned chair; Gold returns and sits on the edge of his. He turns and smiles again.

“I’m retiring,” he says, then leans back in his chair and exhales, as if the cat he’s just let out of the bag weighed 500 pounds. “I’m 62 years old and I’m tired of running this place, so Sol here is gonna take over.”

“Sol” is 28-year-old Solomon Silber— producer, classical guitar whiz, frontman of the hard-rock trio Nomad Superhighway, former Yalie and, like Gold, a Philadelphia native.

“I’m just here to carry on the legacy that Larry has established,” says Silber, softspoken and serious.

“Larry Gold has never been good at restructuring,” says Gold, “and that’s what’s got to happen right now.”

The changing of the guard at The Studio is symbolic of the transitional period happening within the Philadelphia recording

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performing concerts around town before he was a teenager, Gold eventually linked up with nascent Philly songwriting team Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff and joined their house band, MFSB. At engineer Joe Tarsia’s Sigma Sound (which opened in 1968), Gold played on virtually every big Gamble & Huff-penned hit recorded by the O’Jays, Billy Paul, Harold Melvin & the Bluenotes, McFadden & Whitehead, Dusty Springfield and countless others.

In the ’80s and ’90s, after Gamble & Huff’s Philly Soul hit-making factory faded away, Gold became a cellist and arranger for hire, mentored local artists (including DJ Jazzy Jeff), and dove into production work at Sigma and Kajem, working with Boyz II Men, Freddie Jackson and others. In the mid ’90s, determining there wasn’t a truly great-sounding recording facility in Philadelphia, Gold gathered up his savings and took the plunge into The Studio. “I felt confident I could build a room that could sound really good,” he says. “In those days this space was dirt cheap. This part of town was a wreck.”

George Augspurger, arguably the world’s leading studio architect and acoustician, designed the recording and control rooms; Gold filled his studios with top-of-the-line analog and digital equipment, expensive microphones, one of the best grand pianos in the city, and tons of modern and vintage outboard gear. The Studio had its own electric feed, making it one of the cleanestsounding rooms in the city. “This is a studio,” says Gold, arms outstretched. “Most of these other places in town, I don’t call them studios. Everybody else does—that’s probably what takes business away from me. They call it a studio and they have one mic. I’m not saying you can’t make a record there, but I don’t see them as studios. I see them as pre-production rooms.”

Owing both to Gold’s facility and his reputation as a world-class musician and arranger, artists flocked to the place almost immediately—Gold tells a story about Tori Amos recording some sessions there in 1996 while Gold and his wife were still painting the kitchen. Gold brought in thenup-and-coming (now humongous) producer Rodney Jerkins and the pair co-crafted Brandy & Monica’s 1998 megahit “The Boy Is Mine” and Jennifer Lopez’s first No. 1 single, 1999’s “If You Had My Love.”

Soon, the Roots—who had cut their first albums at Sigma—migrated to The Studio (they now have their own studio space on the same floor as Gold), and the place became homebase for the burgeoning neo-soul movement, with Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, Common, Musiq, Bilal and others recording there regularly. “This place was real hot there for a bunch of years,” Gold says. “When we opened, it sort of doubled its business every year for the first six or seven years.”

Gold’s profile as a string arranger continued to grow as well—in the ’00s, superstars like Kanye West, Justin Timberlake, Mary J. Blige and R. Kelly have dropped by The Studio to work with him. But even with that client base, Gold admits that in recent years business has slowed down, that The Studio is currently operating with a skeleton staff, and the combined costs of the lease and equipment upgrades/maintenance (his high-end clients expect high-end gear … that works) are large. “This place has always managed to break even, even with a large overhead. But I’m not gonna lie to you—coming at a studio right now, as a strict businessman, it’s not a good situation. And as the business wanes you have to really now come up with clever ways of adding to the income of a place like this.”

But Gold doesn’t have the passion or the energy for that anymore—he considers himself a musician and arranger first and foremost, and doesn’t hide his distaste for the business side of things—which is why he’s selling The Studio to Silber (as part of the deal, Gold will stay at the facility to continue his arranging work and maintain the already existing client list, most of whom Gold considers dear friends). Silber says he has loads of ideas to get The Studio thriving again. Among them: An in-house label called Wiseman Records, which will handle everything from pre-production through final masters and packaged product; and an education arm of the facility called the Wiseman School of Record Production and Engineering. And in a more general sense, Silber aims to reach out to local Philadelphia artists, those beyond The Studio’s long-running focus on R&B and soul, and in particular young, aspiring acts. “We’ve got to expand the palette,” says Silber, who’s eyeing the worlds of mainstream- and indie-rock.

To that end, he’s bringing in a formidable collection of amplifiers, guitars and other instruments that The Studio conspicuously lacks. Silber also plans to stress the one-of-a-kindness of The Studio to those young artists who are dreaming big. Pointing to an issue of Billboard that sits on the coffee table in front of him, Silber says, “How many records on the charts in there were made at home, or at one of these small studios around town? This is a special place—there’s only a handful of places in the world with this type of gear and this type of vibe.”

But how are these fresh-faced artists supposed to pay for the privilege? Gold refuses to reveal his day rates, but Silber says he’s prepared to make things affordable and negotiate lower initial rates to help artists get on their feet, especially the particularly promising artists The Studio plans to develop in the hopes that they’ll become regular clients once they get big, ultimately getting a return on the investment.

And the new way of conducting business will also involve a heavy publicity campaign that’s expected to start in the next few months. In the past, Gold was happy for The Studio to be one of Philly’s bestkept secrets—the major labels and majorlabel artists knew it was here, but for the most part the public didn’t. For one thing, Gold explains, he wanted to protect the privacy of his famous clientele. For another, he didn’t need to solicit work—everyone came to him. And he loved being a behind-thescenes kinda guy. But times have changed.

“This all involves a highly public persona, and I don’t have a taste for that,” Gold says. Pointing to Silber, he adds, “He does.

And he’s gonna bring in a young thing, he’s gonna take a new approach that’s smart, that can work. If he can pull double the take within two years, he’s got a viable business. And I think he can do it. I did well enough—most studios don’t last 15 years. But now it’s time for someone new.”

“There’s this dumb business book called Who Moved My Cheese?” says gregarious veteran Philly producer/engineer Drew Raison, stifling a laugh. “The concept is that these two mice would always go to this big pile of cheese, and then the cheese got moved somewhere else in the maze and one

of the mice is sitting there saying ‘Duhhh, where’d my cheese go?’ and the other one went out and found it. Dumb book, but good concept—the one who goes to find the cheese, that’s [the one that's] gonna get it.

In this business it’s the innovative thinkers that are gonna get it, gonna make money.

And I’ll tell you flat out—at this point, I am not worried about the success of this facility.”

The facility he’s talking about is Philly Sound Studios, housed on the second floor of an old church deep in South Philly that’s also home to the Fifth Stone music school.

Along with his business partner, Mariano Mattei (who runs Fifth Stone with his wife, Joann), Raison has been transforming the space into an impressive recording environment over the past year. He calls the aesthetically gorgeous main recording room, with its high ceilings and wood floor “an unfair advantage in the realm of record studios—when you’re dealing with this kind of cubic footage and the acoustic benefit of a wooden ceiling on unique angles, it really offers a sonic footprint that I haven’t heard anywhere else but a converted church.”

The control room, meanwhile, features a vintage console and other gear Raison’s been stockpiling for years, some of which comes from his other studio, Big Sky Audio, out in Springfield, Pa., where for two decades he’s worked with the likes of Jeffrey Gaines, Steve Albini, Patti Griffin, Four Year Strong, Barenaked Ladies, Butch Walker, Anthrax and numerous others.

“The recording studio as we used to know it is dead, in my opinion,” he says. “It’s gone.

If I had to build this place from scratch and I didn’t own a lot of the equipment and I didn’t have the business model that I have, there’s not a chance I would have done it.”

The traditional recording situation where artists come in to capture their music on tape (or digitally) remains an aspect of Philly Sound’s business model because Raison still loves working with artists. He says he’d be foolish not to offer his unique acoustic space for a day rate, but says he’s not necessarily interested in the start-to-finish album-making process. “The majority of musicians can go out and for a tiny amount of money buy their own really nice home recording system. I’m going after bands that have limited funds and saying, ‘Come here, cut your basic tracks, take advantage of the sonics here, and then take your stuff home and mix it yourself if you want.’”

But part of Raison’s cheese-hunting expedition involves turning Philly Sound into a live venue on occasion to take advantage of the studio’s singular aesthetics—and its large, raised stage and professional lighting rig—and provide bands with valuable product. “For a pretty affordable price, a band can come here, play a live show with a 200 person audience, and walk away with a full CD-quality, 24-channel recording they can sell or use as promo, and three-camera broadcast quality video they can put on their site or YouTube or whatever. No other place can pull that off. And they get to keep the door. They can charge $10 at the

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Sigma’s also trying to develop its producers and engineers to add to the draw.

Bottoms says that one of his producers, Dilemma, “is like a fusion of Timbaland and [Black Eyed Peas’] will.i.am. I’m telling you, he’s the next.” The presence of another of Sigma’s co-owners helps: Trenton, N.J.-born producer and multi-instrumentalist Adam Blackstone, who is an in-demand touring bassist for the likes of John Legend, Pharrell and Jill Scott, and currently works as music director for Jay-Z, Kanye, Eminem, Janet Jackson, Maroon 5 and others.

“It all boils down to the people,” Bottoms says. “Make it about the team we’ve got, but when we get people in here, have a facility that they’re gonna be like, ‘Woooow.’”

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Brian McTear has been recording and producing bands at his Miner Street studio— originally based in Manayunk, now in Fishtown—for 17 years; artists like Bardo Pond, Matt Pond PA, Mazarin, Espers, and more than 100 others have passed through his doors. And over that time, he says, “If I had a nickel for every person who said, ‘You need an investor, you need someone to give you 100-grand and get all new equipment and build a really nice space,’ and all this stuff … man, I knew even back at the very beginning they could not have been more wrong.”

Rather than go into debt, McTear built up his studio slowly, learning how to use and incorporate each piece of gear he acquired.

He stuck to what he knew and liked: Indie rock. Through word of mouth he was always busy, filling a niche for bands that couldn’t afford the flashier studios in town, and he steadily reinvested his profits in his space.

Today, his facility—spacious and wellappointed, but modest compared to The Studio or Sigma—holds a tremendous array of gear both modern and vintage, expensive mics, and a console once used by the Talking Heads. Someone like Larry Gold might not consider Miner Street a “real” studio,

but the recordings that come out of McTear’s room certainly rival virtually anyone else’s in town.

“Most people in Philly started recording studios with the business model of working with the big labels and getting their money from them—our business model was we started working directly with bands,” McTear explains. “We came here and we met bands and we told them what we wanted to do and they came and paid us to do it. It wasn’t a lot of money, but we were booked solid. Sure enough, the business completely changed, and the people who continued to cling to that old model were killed. They all closed. I remember looking around a few years ago and suddenly we were the “big” studio in Philadelphia, and we were doing all right.”

But even though McTear played his cards right, he wasn’t immune to the nation’s economic downturn. In September 2008, following Wall Street’s financial meltdown, McTear says Miner Street’s phones stopped ringing. “Literally, it was like a light switch turned off.” It stayed that way for months, and then a year, before McTear—slowly resigning himself to the fact that he might have to shut down his studio—turned his attention to creating a nonprofit organization called Weathervane Music, an idea that had been in his mind since 2002, into which he could transition his career. “The studio was stopped dead in the water, and with the way the music industry seemed to be going away it was like, if we don’t start [Weathervane] soon it’s gonna be too late. And in a way it was just to tempt fate, to be like, ‘Oh yeah, studio business? Well, if you don’t hurry up and come back I’m gonna be past you and I’m gonna be doing something else.’”

McTear developed Weathervane as an entity in which he (at first with the help of other volunteers) would hand-select his favorite emerging independent artists from Philly and elsewhere around the country, have them come to Miner Street for a couple

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cool to look at the rooms, but you couldn’t make a record there. We wanted to make it so that if I went to Nashville and worked at Starstruck, which is Reba McEntire’s studio, and then came back to Philly to our studio, I wasn’t depressed, you know what I mean?

They’re on another level, so we decided in redoing this place, let’s do it at that level of excellence.”

Not that record-making was all that was on Bottoms’ mind. “I said to the other investors, ‘Look, if you guys aren’t writing songs, producing music, doing music for film, coming up with content, a studio’s a joke.’” Even the word “studio” is a dirty word—the facility is officially being rebranded as Sigma Sound Entertainment.

“I run around here ranting and raving saying, ‘If I ever hear any of you guys call this building a studio again ...’ I’m trying to create the mentality that it’s an entertainment complex.”

Bottoms says that Sigma’s a one-stop destination for artists—they can still make an album there, but they can also shoot a video or do other TV projects on the soundstage, they can consult with the new full-service marketing and promotions department, and they can throw an album release party in the lavish environs. They’re also looking to expand their operations into film, comedy, video games and more. In terms of recording artists, Bottoms insists there’s big money still out there to be had; that the facility, and the Sigma name and history, will bring in five-star clients—Kanye West is due later this month for a party, he says—which in turn will help subsidize the development of new artists. Like Silber at The Studio, Bottoms hopes to impress fresh faces, including lots of Philly artists of all genres, and make them clients for life. “Before Taylor Swift was Taylor Swift she was just a little girl who walked into a studio. We have the ability to see this great talent now, and instead of treating them like new talent, treat them like superstars.”

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In August of 1974, David Bowie, looking to shed his Ziggy Stardust glam-rock persona and vibe, came to Sigma Sound on North 12th Street to explore the Philly Soul sound on his wildly successful ninth album, Young Americans. The room he recorded in is gone now, but Sigma’s current owners—who are re-launching the venerable studio in January following years of limbo and ownership changes after founder Joe Tarsia first sold it in 2003—are going all in with a big-money, “If you build it, they will come” approach to entice big names to town once again. More than a million dollars has gone into ripping out and rebuilding the entire facility, purchasing the latest, hottest consoles and other equipment, building a huge soundstage, and generally amping up the “wow” factor.

“When I first got here the rooms were kind of antiquated—Sigma to me was on the way to becoming a museum,” says partowner Durell Bottoms, a Philly producer and songwriter who’s worked with Boyz II Men, P!nk, Vivian Green and others. “It was

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door or whatever they want. I don’t need or care to take the money at the door, I would rather the band put that toward the bottom line because it makes it more enticing to record here.” So far, Philly Sound has done “tester” live performances with pop-punk outfit All Time Low and American Idol winner Kris Allen; both concerts, says Raison, far surpassed his expectations.

On top of that, Raison’s using the facility for musical theater projects, voiceover work, composing TV theme music, shooting commercials, recording books on tape, even banquets and school dances. “You’ve gotta do what you’ve gotta do to stay in business, and we have a flexible space and open minds. If you just love recording bands then maybe this other stuff is kind of alien and icky and gross, but the reality is that there’s a lot of work out there and there’s a high profit margin. And to be honest, a lot of it is fun and fulfilling.”

Brian McTear says people who continued to cling to that old [industry] model were killed.

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The nonprofit Weathervane and for-profit Miner Street are distinctly separate entities (Miner Street serves as a Weathervane sponsor), and while McTear didn’t necessarily intend for Weathervane to help jumpstart Miner Street’s business, that’s essentially what happened. “I sort of knew that it was important to just keep people walking through the studio while it was slow; for the gear to keep getting used so things don’t break down, that kind of thing. And I figured it was just a good karma move. But people heard the recordings, they saw the videos, they saw the bands, they saw this was a cool place, and some projects came through because of it.” Indeed, this past May, he says, the lights seemed to flip back on, and he—along with studio engineers Amy Morrissey (McTear’s longtime girlfriend) and newcomer Jonathan Low—has since produced Van Etten’s critically acclaimed new album Epic and a bunch of new

tracks for Dr. Dog, with more work lined up.

Now, between Weathervane and Miner Street, McTear’s got two full-time gigs, and he couldn’t be happier. And he’s sticking to the same business model that helped make Miner Street last this long. “I feel great about what’s to come. There isn’t necessarily less money out there right now. Maybe there’s less money than if the major labels were your money source. But there’s more bands than ever right now that are electing to pay for records out of their pockets—they want a producer or engineer, they want that collaboration instead of trying to do it all by themselves. Let’s say the average band

nesses afloat. Certainly, Raison’s been around long enough that he remembers an era in Philadelphia in which some studios were actively poaching artists away from other studios, or flat-out trying to squash the competition. But he insists there’s little of that nowadays, that there is enough work out there for everyone if they know where to look and if they run a smart business, and that there’s a healthy level of respect and camaraderie between most studio proprietors. “It seems like there’s nothing but total support out there, and that’s beneficial to everyone. ” In fact, he says, there’s a regular meet-up

"I want to revitalize Philadelphia as a place where people come to make music.

That’s the greater goal." -Solomon Silber spends 30 to 40 percent less on records than they would have five years ago. But let’s all admit there’s at least 30 to 40 percent more bands. So the same amount of money is being spent, its just on a different number of projects, and as a producer/engineer you have to know what you’re doing and be efficient with your time and resources. And I’ve gotten pretty good at all of that.”

One might assume that it’s a dog-eat-dog world among local studio owners vying to get work from artists to keep their busi-

among dozens of Philly studio owners, engineers, mixers, gear distributors, and others to bolster that camaraderie and discuss issues that impact all of them. Young guns like Bill Moriarty (Dr. Dog, Man Man, Dice Raw), who just opened his own small studio in East Falls this month, and Jeff Zeigler (Kurt Vile, Pink Skull, Arc in Round), who operates North Philly’s Uniform Recording, have gotten involved, and they say it’s not uncommon for many local studios to borrow gear from one another, share expertise, or send their clients to others’ facilities for

aspects of the recording or mixing process best accomplished somewhere else.

“I think people who make records for a couple years figure out how to make a living at it,” says Moriarty, “and most people aren’t coming into it like, ‘I’m gonna make money,’—they’re like, ‘Wow, I’m in love with this record!’ and they’re passionate about making records. So after you do it for a while you start to respect other people who’ve also been doing it for years and have been through the same things you have.”

Bottoms thinks studio owners can go even further. “It’s getting there, but it’s not on a level with Atlanta, where you have all these high-powered individuals like Jermaine Dupri and Babyface and Dallas Austin and Missy Elliott who give each other so much love. I’d like to see more summits, more collaborations [between producers and facilities], an even more unified front where it’s like, ‘This is Philly, this is what we have to offer, we’re one.’ Let’s build this community on a whole ’notha level, because it’s gotta be great if we’re gonna compete with Atlanta or L.A.” Still, Silber says, “There’s two sides to what I’ll say. “No, I don’t want to steal anyone’s work. At the same time, I don’t think another place exists quite like The Studio. I want to make sure our place is a hub for Philadelphia. But the main thing is I want to revitalize Philadelphia as a place where people come to make music. That’s the greater goal, that helps everybody, and I think we all want that.” n

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Sun Airway Philly indie rock outfit the A-Sides died in 2008, just as two of its members were beginning a new project dubbed “Sun Airway.”

It took two years, but guitarist Jon Barthmus and drummer Patrick Marsceill finally released the group’s debut album just last month, on Secretly Canadian offshoot Dead Oceans. The band’s sound isn’t a stark departure from the rock jams of the A-Sides— Sun Airway has less meandering guitar solos and more meandering synth jams (in the best way possible), and the music is a bit more atmospheric and experimental—less Pavement, more Animal Collective. But easy comparisons belie Sun Airway’s ability to combine Philadelphia’s “Psychedelphia” history with indie rock sensibilities for beautifully crafted pop songs, uplifting melodies, ethereal vocals and quirky sound collages.

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Puzzlebox Philly-based Keith DeStefano is a late musical bloomer—he attended UArts to study painting—but the bassist/composer has made up for lost time with his enigmatic octet Puzzlebox. The group is Mingus-like in its swinging abandon and its aura of bluesy romance, not to mention its compositional seriousness. Fragments of baritone sax, trombone and flute leap out from an appealing tangle of reeds and brass. DeStefano’s ear leads him to longish pieces (six to 11 minutes or so) that are nonetheless tightly conceived, never overcooked. It’s all there on Puzzlebox’s two discs to date, Just When I Thought and this year’s sleeper gem A Place to Be, featuring the brightly promising Philadelphians Maxfield Gast (saxophones), Larry Toft (trombone) and more. DaviD r. aDler 9:30pm. $5. Tritone, 1508 South St. 215.545.0475. tritonebar.com

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TEDxPhilly (Burning Man - drugs + Apple Keynote presentation) x Mike Nesmith dinner party = TEDxPhilly. A satellite of the TED (that is, Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference, TEDxPhilly is a daylong ideafest of entrepreneurs, thinkers and machers in the fields of art, technology, music and design. Considering the challenges our fair city faces, many of the speakers have a social-justice bent to their work, like urbanagricultural advocate Nic Esposito and Stanford Thompson, director of youth music program Tune Up Philly. But performance artists and writers like poet Ursula Rucker and public-art proponent-cum-photographer Zoe Strauss will also engage in this epic mind-mingle. Tickets are technically sold out, but you can still apply for a spot on the waiting list. aleXanDra JoneS 9am. $75. Kimmel Center, 260 S. Broad St. 215.790.5800. tedxphilly.com

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Wave Currents Sounds appear and reappear in composer Olivia Block’s experimental soundscapes like wild animals darting through the forest.

Her pieces—populated by inhuman crackles, purring electronic oscillations and strains of low, woody winds—are perfect fuel for the imagination, ripe with implication while allowing for conceptual freedom. That’s why her collaboration with visual artists Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder is so intriguing: This duo of abstract filmmakers creates “live cinema”– shapes, rays and waves of light created in real time–with projectors and other mechanical devices. Wave Currents will transform the Ibrahim Theater into a sort of sensory stimulation tank, an opportunity to immerse oneself in abstract light and sound (and stave off Winter Hibernation Mode for at least a few weeks). a.J. 7pm. $10. International House, 3701 Chestnut St. 215.387.5125. ihousephilly.com

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t’s official: America needs a padded cell. We went from calling Obama the Messiah to labeling him the Antichrist in the blink of a batty eye, and 40 percent of Delaware voters opted for someone who at one point thought she was a witch.

Crazy times call for a crazy comedian, and luckily Trinidad has sent us Hazelle Goodman, a Renaissance woman with an artistic history of mental illness: Her self-titled (narcissistic, indeed!) HBO special was critically acclaimed, and she played a rivetingly unwrapped character in the TV’s Homicide. Hazelle turns up the crazy for the Philly premiere of her one-woman show, a hilarious, schizophrenic take on today’s hottest issues. From Jerrie Curl Ann, who politically protests from the toilet bowl, to a pro-Palin motivational speaker, Hazelle’s masterful display of multiple personalities is character change we can believe in.

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Bonerama’s four-trombone front line is capable of blowing out the nastiest vintage funk and modern masterpieces by Hendrix and the Zep. The N’Awlins ensemble—back in the day, they started out as a spin-off of Harry Connick Jr.’s band—is known for drilling deep brassy funk into a garage-rock sensibility that would do Little Steven proud. They’re changing up special guests throughout the tour, and Philly gets Kyle Hollingsworth of String Cheese Incident. We also get Bethlehem-bred all-star guitarist Steve Kimock, known for his work both in the Steve Kimock Band and taking a spin with every Grateful Dead-related band catering to the unwashed masses. All in all, it sounds like a deep-down dirty-good time. tara Murtha 8pm. $20-25. With Nate Wilson Group.

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With a highlight last month of a whirlwind lecture by Slovenian philosopher-celebrity (if such a thing exists) Slavoj Žižek, the 20102011 Penn Humanities Forum continues to explore questions of virtuality. Through April 2011, many reputable critical theorists and humanities scholars will explore dystopian and utopian manifestations and potentialities of new media and digital technologies through a series of free lectures. Tonight, director of Northwestern University’s Program in the Study of the Imagination Claudia Swan is delivering a presentation titled “Counterfeit Chimeras: Early Modern Theories of the Imagination and the Work of Art.” Through early modern poetry, visual art, demonology and philosophy, Swan investigates the imagination’s power to supplement material

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like rock bands. No such beef with Earl Greyhound, whose three members include lank-haired, skinny axe-man Matt Whyte, fabulously Afro’d bassist Kamara Thomas and monolithic drummer Rice Sheridan.

The music, too, is all 1970s throwback, with howled-out vocals, pummeling drums and the kind of annihilating guitar mayhem last spotted on the Physical Graffiti tour. The band’s website has a video of Whyte doing Zeppelin covers with Blues Traveler’s John Popper, but really, why bother when you’ve written “S.O.S.,” the best post-Zeppelin Zeppelin song ever? Jennifer Kelly

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Rammstein, and the digital chaos of Atari Teenage Riot for a piledriving electronic assault that’s come to be known as “aggrotech.” With a voice that veers between deep drama-dripping and heavily processed howls, LaPlegua offers his thoughts on self-medication, the voices in his head and worlds on fire. I’m partial to 2007’s perfectly titled What the Fuck is Wrong With You People?, featuring such ditties as the title track and “Fuck That Shit,” but Combichrist’s new Making Monsters is solid, too.

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t’s getting cold again, and who knows, we might be in for another snowpocalypse around these parts before long. Might be a smart idea to stockpile some warm, summery vibes in your frontal lobe for the dark, icy days ahead, and a gig from the Spanish electro-pop outfit Delorean will probably do the trick. Named, of course, after the iconic cocaine-funded supercar/ time machine in Back to the Future, Delorean’s dreamy synth melodies, gorgeously androgynous vocals and driving Balearic house beats can easily transport you to half-naked, sweaty, not-a-care-in-the-world mid-July dance parties at basements, backyards, clubs and beaches. Hold on tight to aptly titled songs like “Endless Sunset” and “Warmer Places,” from their recently issued Subiza; summer is a long eight months away. Michael alan GoldBerG

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Mary Reck was a hostess at Kildare’s Irish Pub in West Chester. She was killed by her boyfriend, who then shot himself. Mary was only 20 and had a 3-year-old daughter. This Saturday Celtic Spirit—a Philadelphia band dedicated to presenting the traditional folk music of Ireland and Scotland along with contemporary and original compositions—play a benefit for Mary at Kildare’s WC. Your $25 donation will go toward helping pick up the pieces of the lives shattered around Mary’s tragic death. A silent auction will also take place, and earlier in the day a portion of those registering for “Running of the Turkeys in West Chester” at $20-a-head will go toward helping Mary’s daughter too. The run is to help collect turkeys for John Debella’s turkey drop, and registration will cost you $20 ($10 for kids) and a frozen turkey, which you will run the one mile course while holding. Registration for the run is at 11 a.m. For those who want to give, but can’t make either event, you’re encouraged to make a check out to DMG Charity and mail it to 18 W Gay St. West Chester, Pa 19380. Attention: Sarah. Brian McManus 3pm. $25. Kildare’s West Chester, 18-22 W. Gay St., West Chester. 610.431.0770. kildaresirishpub.com

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Combichrist—sprung from the dark mind of Norway’s Andy LaPlegua—combines creepy Skinny Puppy/Ministry-style industrial/EDM, the pounding electro-metal of

ness. While it’s the definition of black and white and sad all over, Thompson’s lithe and whimsical lines make this one of the decade’s most visually striking graphic memoirs. Paul MontGoMery 7pm. Free. Brave New Worlds, 42 N. Second Street. 215.925.6525. bravenewworldscomics.com

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23 G. Calvin Weston + Sonic Mirror Legend goes that Philly favorite son G. Calvin Weston’s palms were rocketing rhythm from the time he was old enough to walk, where he’d pass the time banging the cars parked up and down his North Philly block.

A generation later and Weston’s heralded as one of the most legendary drummers of all time. Old heads will remember Weston from his stints with the Prime Time Band and John Luries Lounge Lizards while young bloods recognize his name from liner notes on records of funeral-jazz maestros Medeski, Martin and Wood and hip-hop progressive Tricky. For his latest project, Sonic Mirror, Weston has brought in Kevin Lee on guitar and Rob Silver White on bass for fiery jazz funk-fusion that will help rock snobs, jazz cats and jam band-y types hang in the same room, gliding along. t.M. 8pm. $8. With Whatever, The Living Sample + Funkchurch. Trocadero, 1003 Arch St. 215.627.1883. thetroc.com

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Blankets Tonight, the Brave New Worlds comics salon turns its attention to 2003’s Blankets for a look under writer/artist Craig Thompson’s covers. The semi-autobiographical and genuinely mammoth graphic novel centers on a boy’s evangelical guilt and the toll it takes on his artistic and sexual awakenings.

Thompson’s family values discipline, which he lacks. Convinced his wild imagination will lead to damnation, he stuffs his adolescent drawings in a garbage can and sets them ablaze. There’s little solace in sleep, as young Thompson wrestles for twisted sheets with a bedwetting little brother. He eventually finds cold comfort in his relationship with a girl named Raina, but intimacy and adult anxieties complicate their happi-

What is it these days with teen fantasy novels and vampires, amirite? Thankfully, Sir Salman Rushdie has taken it upon himself to change the discourse with his second children’s book, Luka and the Fire of Life. A follow-up to 1990’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories and dedicated to Milan, the author’s son, the novel follows 12-year-old Luka as he navigates a fantasy world of video games to save his father from a permanent sleep.

Having survived a fatwa, an assassination attempt, winning the Booker Prize (and the Booker of Bookers), marriage to Top Chef’s Padma and awkward movie cameos, any opportunity to see the author of The Satanic Verses and Midnight’s Children is probably a better use of time than re-reading Twilight. alli Katz 7:30pm. $15. Free Library, 1901 Vine St. 215.686.5322. freelibrary.com

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Story Dwellers

A chat with First Person Grand Slam hosts Elna Baker and Kevin Townley.

By Emily Guendelsberger emilyg@philadelphiaweekly.com

The Beach Boys. Belinda Carlisle. Depeche Mode. The incidental music before Elna Baker’s one-woman show at the First Person Arts Festival last week seems random, but there’s a theme.

“I just put ‘God,’ ‘heaven’ and ‘Jesus’ into iTunes,” says Kevin Townley, who with Baker co-hosted the festival’s Grand Slam storytelling competition. It’s a reference to his friend’s unique shtick—many of her extremely funny stories involve her Mormon faith.

Baker steered clear of stories she thought people might have heard, like the one on This American Life about working in a babydoll department the Christmas they sold out of caucasian babies, or the one about making out with a movie star old enough to be her grandfather (she doesn’t say who, but he’s half of her “all-time favorite screen kiss”).

Anyhow, most of that’s covered in her frequently hilarious memoir, The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance, with many more tales of growing up Mormon and overweight, then going to NYU, dropping 80 pounds and trying to date when alcohol, coffee and sex before marriage are off the table.

PW sat down to chat with the two emcees about the Talent Show, how it’s sometimes hard to stop narrating, and Elna’s all-time favorite screen kiss.

I’ll answer questions very candidly, then afterwards be like “bleurgh!” (shudders) I think I’ve gotten more cautious—like, “Hey, you don’t have to share everything with the world.” Some things are yours.

KT (to Elna): So, how’s your faith?

The Talent Show, right? Tell me more.

EB: I didn’t feel like there was a lot of vari-

ety in variety shows. It would be all comedy, or maybe the variety would be a comedian singing a comedy song.

KT: We’ve had magicians, storytellers, comedians, musicians, interviews, how-to demonstrations, some dancing—whatever.

EB: We lose money most of the shows, but for us it’s about—our last show had Eugene Mirman, John Hodgman, Ira Glass, Dave Hill, all for five dollars.

KT: We just know what it’s like to be broke and to still want to be entertained. It’s hard.

So we keep it cheap.

Elna, in your book you describe a Philadelphia weight-loss clinic that helped you lose 80 pounds, and mention a wall covered in a hoarderlike collage of before-and-after Polaroids. Are there pictures of you up on the wall now?

EB: Instead of my Polaroids, I had written

an article for Elle five years ago about how I’d lost weight and had plastic surgery to get rid of the extra skin. I wrote the doctor a thank-you card, and he framed the article and the card. When you go to check in, it’s right there, there’s my shrine. One picture from the article is me pulling all this skin away from my body, the other one is me after I had plastic surgery, in a bra. So it’s two naked mes on the wall. And it’s very large.

So what’s your favorite screen kiss?

EB: Screen kiss? Oh. (laughs) KT: Gone With the Wind!

EB: Well, if I answer that question, I’ll

reveal the essential secret of my book ...

I don’t know if I’d call it essential.

EB: A secret in my book.

KT: A libelous secret.

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Flashpoint Theatre gets its new season off to a magnificent start with the premiere of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s gripping one-act tragedy Run, Mourner, Run. McCraney is one of the most original and talented playwrights working in America today, and for scrappy Flashpoint to land Mourner’s first professional production is quite a coup. Flashpoint is an unpredictable company, at times producing plays by dramatists of questionable talent. But when they get their hands on good material, they get memorable results—and Mourner may be Flashpoint’s best production yet.

Adapted from a story by Randall Kenan, Mourner takes place in the backwater southern town of Tims Creek—a place where it’s tough to keep a secret. As in McCraney’s remarkable trilogy The Brother/ Sister Plays, Mourner’s majestically poetic language is reminiscent of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and incorporates other elements of Greek tragedy like a singing chorus, a single plot and alternating between dialogue and narration, with characters often commenting on their own thoughts and actions.

Percy Terrell (Brian McCann) is an ambitious, immoral man bent on owning all the valuable land in town. Standing in his way is Ray Brown (Gerard Joseph), town undertaker, richest black man in town and current owner of desireable land that’s been in his family for generations. Percy is clearly a villain, reasoning that “niggers shouldn’t own land that pretty,” as he goes about trying to get Ray’s land by any means necessary, which would make Brown the hero—and every good tragic hero needs a fatal flaw.

Ray’s happens to be young men—especially young white men. Percy finds out Ray’s secret, which leads him to give a ride to “a sweet-faced, dark-haired faggot with a broken-down Gran Torino” by the name of Dean Williams (Keith J. Conallen). Dean is

Run, Mourner, Run Through Nov. 20. $10-$20. The Adrienne, 2030 Sansom St. 215.665.9720. flashpointtheatre.org

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EB: I’d still probably get sued.

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that you’ve written; it’s true stories that have happened to you, but you’re also looking at it from a distance, like God must look down— if you believe in God—at what He’s created.

It can be startling; there are things about

rating what you’re feeling. I had to say “You know what, I’m going to have to take a break from writing for a little while, because the well is empty.” The more you write about what you’re experiencing, the less present you are, so you can’t draw from it later on.

KT: When you start looking at your life as if mining it for materials, you cease to live it. Like, I know I maybe am more willing to put myself into strange situations, because I know it’ll make a great story.

EB: You get kind of tired of yourself. I’ve taken on little projects—we host this show.

Run, Mourner, Run is a gripping tale of bigotry and sexuality.

November 17-23, 2010

Elna, for most of your life you had no doubt that God was literally watching over you. Do you think that predisposed you to see your life as a narrative?

EB: It is a strange position, because it’s you

If you spend too much time in the role of your own narrator, you start having trouble snapping out of it?

EB: You get a voice in your head that’s nar-

Run, Don’t Walk

a young man with a bleak future—he shares a run-down house with his chronically ill, chain-smoking mother (Amanda Grove) and is too buried in bills to leave his deadend job at the factory for a job where his sexuality isn’t at odds with local morality.

He does have one asset: He’s sexy as hell.

Percy makes the young man an offer: If Dean can get Ray into bed, and the factory foreman’s job (and its hefty salary) is his.

From the moment Dean accepts, there is a sense of tragic inevitability—we don’t know exactly what will happen, but we it will definitely end badly for Ray and Dean.

And director Matt Pfeiffer keeps the story hurtling toward the inevitable.

McCraney’s script is so alive with vivid imagery that the spare scenic design, a few weatherbeaten white clapboards along the walls, a tire swing and a couple pieces of cheap furniture, are all it takes for us to imagine the entire town of Tims Creek.

Conallen (who has become the go-to actor for Philadelphia’s small companies) is excellent as the desperate Dean. Beneath the beautiful exterior, Conallen suggests the weariness of a lonely, poor young man who has known nothing but despair and has no prospects. Dean’s not a bad guy, but it’s unclear whether he doesn’t fully understand the consequences of his actions or is so desperate for money he doesn’t care.

Joseph’s smooth-talking, arrogant Ray seems at first to be Dean’s opposite in every way. He’s rich, first of all; he likes to show off his impressive collegiate vocabulary the same way he shows off his new Cadillac. Ray looks like an Armani model at a tractor pull compared to most of Tims Creek’s men. But though he has a successful business and a beautiful wife and child, Ray, too, is lonely. Joseph brings a natural charisma, easily suggesting both Ray’s cool confidence and his passion when the two men become romantically involved.

Ray and Dean are complex and perceptively written; if the play has a flaw, it’s that McCraney doesn’t give the same treatment to all his characters. Percy and his sons are fairly stereotypical rednecks, and the only minor character who captures our interest is Ray’s religious wife Gloria, winningly played by young actor Aimé Kelly, who rejects the usual Bible-thumping caricature to present Gloria as compassionate, thoughtful woman.

But still. Mourner is a powerful and compelling production of work by a brilliant young American playwright, and a must for anyone with an interest in contemporary American theater. And since Flashpoint’s ticket prices are among the most affordable in town, nearly everyone can attend what might be the best play to appear on a local stage this season. n

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PW: Elna, in interviews you tend to get asked some very personal questions that would never be asked of a nonmemoirist. “So, how’s your faith?”

“How’s your diet?” “Made it past second base yet?” Is that strange?

Elna Baker: Yeah. I think that sometimes

yourself that you discover that sometimes you don’t want to discover.

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Art Far From Paper-Thin Kirié artist Shu Kubo applies an old art form to a new era.

By Alexandra Jones feedback@philadelphiaweekly.com Watching Japanese artist Shu Kubo at work, it’s clear that he’s a master craftsman. He seems part architect, part sculptor—and, with his tiny, meticulous knives, perhaps a little bit surgeon.

“The type of cut that I was intrigued [by] only could be approached by the blade, not from the pencil or pen or brush,” Kubo says.

“It’s a special edge.”

Kubo’s craft is kirié, pictures formed from cut and layered paper that look like illustrations when viewed head-on, but more like sculptures from other angles. His Paper Japonism, on display at Drexel, has a fascination with tradition and how it exists in the shapes of our modern world. Along with representations of samurai armor or centuries-old temples, there are city

"Dried Octopus," Shu Kubo pieces with items for sale at market, or soba noodles for lunch—even tourists checking out the Liberty Bell.

History, instinct and a bit of happenstance drew Kubo to paper as a medium. Traditional kirié originated centuries ago in Japan as a byproduct of kimono textile design—

printing the beautiful patterns on silk in the pre-industrial age required meticulously cut lacelike stencils from sheets of thick paper.

But Kubo fell in love with paper as a medium as an architecture student, making building models out of cut paper. He says that since happening upon that magic medium, he’s been cutting paper pretty much every day.

Kubo’s collection takes its name from the French term Japonisme; roughly, “the Eastern sensibilities’ influence on Western art.” Though his primary inspiration is his home country, many of the pieces in Paper Japonism flip the East-meets-West sensibility. Indeed, it's the everyday scenes of U.S. cities, paralleling Kubo’s renditions of fruits and octopus at Japanese markets, that draw attention to the versatility of kirié as an art form and of Kubo as an artist.

In addition to being a renowned contemporary artist, Kubo’s an official cultural ambassador for Japan, and there’s also a great deal of commercial demand for his work— his paperscapes are the clean, modern stuff that Apple and Ikea dreams are made of. But his approach to his art—and his subject matter, when he’s not carving out right-angled buildings—places tradition and history at the fore. His treatment of traditional subjects can create the same out-of-time feeling as examining actual artifacts. “Yoroi” puts samurai armor on display with the kind

of dramatic lighting you’d see in a history museum, and the richly colored boxes and pots of “New Year Dishes” might as well be in a fiberglass cube.

The modern-day subjects Kubo takes on are often less overtly clean and dignified, but the simplicity of his cuts sheds light on how complex and cluttered our current surroundings can be when compared to the past. “Overlooking Manhattan” incorporates New York’s famous buildings as a backdrop, but a decidedly unglamorous station wagon squats in the foreground. “Bagel” features a cute, almost cartoonish sandwich poised to be consumed by the viewer; the lunch cart where it was purchased and a yellow cab fill out the scene. Seaside markets, city streets or larger-than-life tourist-trap monuments— they all get the treatment.

It’s no surprise, then, that Kubo was taken with Philadelphia, a city whose identity is linked so strongly to its historical context.

His “Liberty Bell, Philadelphia”—one of the few works that includes people—places the one-time noisemaker in the foreground, with two tourists in the background, admiring the view of Independence Hall.

These hallowed spaces and places become the focus for the viewer and the people in the work. Cobblestones have to come before high-rises. And what is created—be it paper, glass or stone—should be made to last. n

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When singer/songwriter Joseph Arthur booked time in Carriage House studio in the Silverlake neighborhood of Los Angeles with acclaimed slide-guitarist, friend of 15 years and sometimes-collaborator Ben Harper, he didn’t know exactly what to expect. They hadn’t written anything yet, but figured they’d plunk something down in the studio, have a little fun and, by the time it was done, he’d have a tiny sideproject to add to his own burgeoning career.

Something like that.

What he got instead was a full-fledged band, new friends, a U.S. and European tour and a critically lauded album.

Add to that promotional appearances on Conan’s new TBS show (which included Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello sitting in) and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (where the Roots backed them up), and being joined onstage by the likes of Eddie Vedder and, whoa, can you say “HAPPY FUCKING SUPRISES”?

“It’s wild. It’s funny how some things manifest so quickly—come up with a band, a name, an idea—and to suddenly see T-shirts with the name on it, tour. It’s amazing,” Arthur says over the phone, en route to the San Francisco airport to catch a flight to L.A..

The band is Fistful of Mercy—a name Arthur came up with by altering the title of Sergio Leone spaghetti western A Fistful of Dollars. The album they recorded on the fly is As I Call You Down—a swaggering groove of an eclectic record that’s been described by critics as pop, folk, soul and many points in between. Perhaps the only common word you’ll see in reviews of the band and album is “supergroup.” Oh yeah, did we mention Dhani Harrison is in this thing too?

It started like this: Arthur, more than decade into a prolific solo career, had booked two shows in January at the famed Troubadour in L.A. He wanted to make the nights different from one another, and asked longtime friend and two-time-Grammy-winner Harper to join him onstage one of the nights. Harper joined him for both, and the overwhelmingly positive reaction from the crowd made the two turn the conversation about booking studio time and getting something going—one they’d had many times over the years—into reality.

In the meantime, Harper met Harrison—both avid skateboarders—at a skate park, where the two spent quite a lot of time. Harrison used to ditch school, smoke weed and listen to Ben Harper records when he was 17. He knew who Harper was. It wasn’t until the two talked music that Harper figured out he was talking to the son of Beatle George Harrison. He told his new friend about the Carriage House session he and Arthur had coming up, invited him to join.

The result was three massive double-days in studio, where the newly formed trio made fast friends and wrote and recorded nine songs.

Sounds impossibly hard.

“After making so many records as a solo artist it kinda takes the pressure off in a way,” says Arthur of the daunting task. “That was one aspect of it being a fast process that I think helped us, because it kept our egos out of it. We had an agenda of trying to get at least the framework of the album together in those three days and we had kind of an impossible workload, so it enabled us to come at each other in a way that made us come together as one.”

Part of the “fast process” that didn’t help, Arthur says, is that people keep referring to it, as though the speed at which it all went down and the special circumstances that helped create it didn’t allow them to write a cohesive record, and instead sounds like, as one commenter on No Depression said, just “three guys having a really good time.”

“I just disagree with that,” Arthur says. “I know the threeday album thing keeps going around, but it was a process.

The initial spark of it was three days, but we worked on it a good couple months after that in fits and spurts. But the ‘three-day’ thing is working against us in that way, and that’s come up. I think we made a really complete record. I really believe that. I think those songs, there’s some looseness there, but in a way that I think is beneficial to the album. I think these songs will survive the test of time. They’ll be around for 30 years from now. They’ll still hold up.”

Those songs run the gamut of style. Lead track “In Vain Or True,” has a quiet, Beatles-esque quality. “Father’s Son”— the song they’ve been performing on their many television appearances—is a meaty, cocksure campfire bruiser brimming with swagger and a gospel edge, punctuated with handclaps and a foot-stomping Baptist revival feel. The album’s title track is all three-part harmony—a trait beautifully strewn across the entire album—and deep lament.

Originally, Arthur and Harper just thought the album would be a sparse acoustic album. Harrison had other ideas about what it could be, and recruited legendary drummer Jim Keltner—who’s performed with the likes of George Harrison, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Joni Mitchell and the Rolling Stones—to play on the record. That changed it mightily.

“He made it a lot better,” says Arthur of Keltner. “Jim came in, and the moment he started playing it was obvious that that was the way forward. I’d call it acoustic soul music.

The thing about that record that I think is going to give it the energy to survive is we were discovering the process while we were making it. We didn’t discover the process to make the record—the record is the sound of us discovering the process. In that way, we’ll never be able to duplicate the record.

“It’s mainly like three people coming from an unconscious place and working together, just an acceptance and a celebration of this process that we discovered together.”

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Diplo Presents

N.E.R.D.

(Elektra/Warner Brothers)

(Mad Decent)

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and grimy, glitchy beats for a new kind of trip-hop that’s still evolving; here, a batch of Mad Decent friends’ contributions to the movement.

rell’s recycling bin of passed-up wayfarers and/or cracked-out rap rock monstrosities that can either be horrifying or drunken frat party ecstatic fun.

Free Association: A couple intoxicating bangers, but N.E.R.D. had its moment in 2002.

For Fans Of: Neptunes, Lenny Kravitz, Beck, Spank Rock, Funkadelic.

The Lady Killer

Sounds Like: The magic

behind Goodie Mob and Gnarls Barkley gets a full record of retroproduced soul gems, even some with that authentic cheesy ’70s feel.

Free Association:

Guess it depends on if you like “Fuck You” or not, it’s aiiiiight.

For Fans Of: James Brown, Outkast, Isaac Hayes, Prince, Al Green.

Blow Your Head

Sounds Like: Remixes

Free Association:

A sweet blend of video game blips, dirty rhythms and blunts.

For Fans Of: Rusko, Zomby, Major Lazer, Doctor P, Untold, Burial.

Q&A with Lady Alma

By Craig D. Lindsey feedback@philadelphiaweekly.com

Sounds Like: Phar-

North Lawrence Midnight Singers

Last Great Saturday Night (Just About Midnight Music)

Sounds Like: Local

quintet of twang-loving folksy rock that’s baked in sun, soaked in bourbon and radiating with old timey blues on their second strong full length.

Free Association: The country vibes do a good job of quieting the voice saying “Too jammy!”

For Fans Of: Traveling Wilburys, the Dead, Joe Strummer, the Band.

hero producer Dennis “Dego” McFarlane 4 called on Horton’s talents again for Two, the new, second album from Silhouette Brown, a project he formed with Bugz in the Attic producer Kaidi Tatham and singer/songwriter Bembe Segue. McFarlane and Horton will team up for their first Silhouette Brown performance in Philly at the Blockley’s “Pirate Radio Live” night on Tuesday. PW chatted with the San Diegoborn, Philly-based Horton, 42, about the sweet music she made with McFarlane and what to expect at the upcoming show.

So, did McFarlane call on you because of the 4hero work you two did?

No, I don’t think it was that. I think that, you know, dealing with Dego, he said that he enjoyed the first album [from Silhouette Brown]. However, the female vocalist [U.K. vocalist Deborah Jordan] was not strong enough. So, they knew that they wanted to use a vocalist whose voice was strong and very forceful, which he thought I had from working with me previously. But, I don’t think it had anything to do with the 4hero project at all. I just think it had something to do with the vocal skills, and him having the experience of working with me before, that’s how I ended up doing the Silhouette Brown project.

Norah Jones

Warpaint

Sufjan Stevens

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(Blue Note)

(Rough Trade)

(Asthmatic Kitty)

shocking and capable performance from the 64-year-old in a sparsely produced collection of piano-side drink-in-hand collection of standards.

you will: She plays well with others, and just about anybody/everybody will duet with her: Willie Nelson, Q Tip, Outkast, Dolly, Foo Fighters, etc.

L.A. girls who’ve proved their muster on this debut of arty indie pop with a post-punk darkness to it, nine long songs of wandering rockouts.

Confessions

Sounds Like: A

Free Association:

Cashing in on that big Sex And The City 2 moment, go ’head!

For Fans Of: Barbra, Judy, Bernadette, Rosemary, Peggy, Bette.

... Featuring Norah Jones Sounds Like: Say what

Free Association:

These aren’t the songs you hear in elevators and dentist offices.

For Fans Of: Diana Krall, Joni Mitchell, Jewel, Carole King, Paula Cole.

And we’ve been performing, you know, all summer long, because it was released in February.

Was there a big demand for Silhouette Brown to perform here?

Well, I can’t say there wasn’t a big demand, because there was. When the album was released, there was a very big buzz about when we were coming to Philadelphia. And I don’t think it has anything to do with people hearing the music. It’s the individual that’s going to pay to bring the individuals to perform it, you know. Lil’ Dave, DJ Junior, along with a few other DJs were supporting the project already. And so, at their parties, they would play different tunes from the album. So, does Philadelphia as a whole know who Silhouette Brown is?

No, but the heads knew who Silhouette Brown was, because they knew about the first project. It had to do with finances. You gotta put money into something to make it work. And nobody was willing to do that.

Well, the show is now here. What can we look forward to at the Silhouette Brown show?

Well, if anybody has seen a live Lady Alma show, that’s all. They’re getting Lady Alma doing Silhouette Brown. It’s the same vibrant, energetic show that I give when I’m doing Lady Alma. The difference is I’m doing Silhouette Brown’s music. So, it’s the same exciting, live and exuberant and happy show that I give as Lady Alma, just performing the Silhouette Brown music. n

The Age Of Adz

Sounds Like: Pretty

Free Association:

Blended chillwave and beach rock sure to do well with the young kids.

For Fans Of: Mazzy Star x Vivian Girls, Kate Bush x Beach House, Lykke Li.

Sounds Like: To long for the Michigan/ Illinois days is to feel like a teenager who’s never going to get laid; hysterical orchestral meditations inspired by Royal Robertson.

Free Association: Only you can add electro gltiches and flutes to Christian music, Sufjan.

For Fans Of: The Bible, apocalyptic visions, St. Vincent x Elliot Smith.

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That distinctive “iodine” taste, like you’re sucking on a Band-Aid? That’s peat, and Laphoaig Scotch—a single malt produced in small-ish batches on the tiny island of Islay—is crammed full of the stuff, giving it its long, dry, but-not-acidic smoke. As such, Laphroaig is a challenging spirit, one as loved by some as it is loathed by others.

So what is peat? It’s partially decayed vegetation matter with the consistency of clay that’s harvested as fuel in certain parts of the world. At Laphroaig, they smoke their barley with it for a long, long time, earning the title “the world’s most richly flavored Scotch Whisky.” A few years back, the stuff was hard to find in the city, but it’s catching on at new and old places alike. Here’s a handy guide, including cheaper and more expensive options.

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Cost: $8.80 Cheaper option: Dewars, $6.

For the baller in your party: He’ll have to take his funny money elsewhere. Most single malts at Nodding Head average around $8.80.

Time, 1315 Sansom St. Cost: 10-year, $12; Quarter Cask, $13.

Cheaper option: Glenlivet Nadurra 16-year, $6.

For the baller: Ardbeg 1990 Vintage, $24.

This swanky jazz lounge has two bars stocked with Laphroaig. Just don’t drink so much that you become a nuisance to doorman Rob, who will crush you!

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Cost: $8.99 Cheaper option: Jack Daniels, $5.49.

For the baller: Aberlour, $9.99.

Known for their extensive beer list, we were surprised they carried Laphroaig, but happy all the same.

Memphis Taproom, 2331 E. Cumberland St. Cost: $7 Cheaper option: Glenlivet, $6.

For the baller: Alberta Springs 10-Year, $12.

Cheapest Laphroaig we found. Love this place.

Cost: $10 Cheaper option: Dewars, $6.50 For the baller: Balvenie 15-year, $14.

Self-described as “your fathers bar,” Sassafras is wise from its 35 years and boasts an impressive list of single malts.

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Hours: Daily, 5pm-midnight.

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Cheaper option: Dewars, $8.

At cozy and dimly lit Happy Rooster, you can order your scotch and drink it in one of the plush leather booths with a touch of sophistication. (Rachel Stumpo)

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Cost: 10-year, $14; 18-year, $26; 30-year, $60.

Cheaper option: *cough* Laphroaig 10-year, $14.

For the baller: We’ll spare you the tears.

The restaurant has an extensive whiskey list (duh), and has nearly every type of Laphroaig the distillery makes.

They don’t have the 40-year though, which might be a good thing. That shit will make you hallucinate.

Hard as I try, I cannot seem to figure out what wonderful section of the Mediterranean Barbuzzo’s “pig popcorn” takes its inspiration from. Then again, I’m not sure it really matters—the Jenga-like tangle of soaked, boiled, scraped, smoked and 14-hour-dehydrated pig skin is so perfectly addictive that questions of regional authenticity vanish with the first snap of Styrofoam-light skin. Just remember the general pig-centricity of the Mediterranean basin, stop thinking and blissfully crunch away.

The dish is ingeniously cut with bright apple-cider and malt vinegar powders and the slow, sensual burn of espelette chile. The more vegetal heat given off by the side of horseradish aioli—the ultimate ranch-style dressing at heart—is a nice touch, but not wholly necessary: The cumin- and pecorino-dusted “popcorn” is great on its own.

So while Barbuzzo’s menu is inspired by Mediterranean countries—specifically Italy, Portugal, Spain and France, with a focus on the boot—Midtown Village stalwarts Marcie Turney and Valerie Safran aren’t content to slavishly follow standards. Rather, they’ve added their own twist to the Mediterranean’s classics, even if their tweaks are occasionally subtle.

Olives, for example, are as quintessentially Mediterranean a snack as you’ll find. They also have the potential to be painfully boring. Olives, oil, herbs, rough-hewn earthenware vessel: Seen it. Here, however, the nice assortment of gaetas, picholines, arbequinas and cerignolas is perked up by back-of-throat-tingling Portuguese piri piri chile, the perfume of orange zest and garlic, the crunch of porcelain-toned Marcona almonds and a crown of fried rosemary sprigs. It’s both exciting and comforting: uncommon bedfellows.

Impossibly moist short rib and pork shoulder meatballs are given an exotic steroid treatment with coriander, fennel and the genius addition of minced cornichons (that’d be French for gherkin). They’re also stuffed with oozy orbs of caciocavallo cheese whose nut notes play off the sweetness of the tomato sauce like an old-school, late-night talk show straight man, providing the base for the flashier parts to play with. When’s the last time the cheese filling in a

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Musseling in: Barbuzzo's fideua takes its place alongside Adsum's poutine as the best high-brow drunk food in town.

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Neon orange Calabrian chile oil and wild Sicilian oregano arrive as useful condiments for most of Barbuzzo’s excellent pizzas. Sliced fresh figs, gorgonzola dolce, walnuts, arugula, prosciutto and saba make for a notably sweet “fici” pie—the chile oil handily wrangles it back to a more savory tone. Uovo, with its bittersweet brusselssprout leaves, three-cheese sauce (fior di latte, caciocavallo and parmesan), house-crafted guanciale, egg and truffle oil, needs no help beyond a glass of Barbera and perhaps a cigarette afterward. The crusts are subtly yeasty with thin snappy exteriors, chewy insides, and inconsistently blackened bubbly bits that add a sense of rustic whimsy.

Fideua, essentially a less familiar take on paella with short vermicelli instead of rice, can now take its place next to Adsum’s foie gras poutine as the best high-brow drunk food in town. It’s stuffed with tender calamari bands, seatasting shrimp, mussels musky with saffron, and smoky, paprika-scented chorico. Those noodles, heady with the combined scents of the seafood peeking up throughout, as well as the intensely flavored broth in which they’re cooked, is impossible to stop forking.

Brussels sprouts roasted in a cast-iron dish with pancetta, blanketed with a layer of shredded caciocavallo cheese, heralded the arrival of the season with a lustiness these cooler weather favorites typically lack.

Barbuzzo’s few missteps are generally the result not of execution but of unnecessary complication. Strozzapretti, for all its original, deeply developed flavors (perfectly wilted wild arugula, cloud-light whipped ricotta, the almost North African exoticism of preserved lemon-walnut pesto, hen of the woods mushrooms roasted off in the wood-fired oven), struggled under the weight of that broadly expressive range of flavors. Great soloists don’t always make for the best bandmates.

And while the dishes come out as they’re ready, a bit more choreography would help to build a more thoughtful progression. It took a few bites of meatball to overcome the residual sweetness of the fici pizza that preceded. And fideua would have shown even better than it already did had it come before the meatballs.

But these are quibbles, and Barbuzzo, for my money, is the best restaurant Turney and Safran have opened yet.

Even desserts are humming along, from the mason jar of salted caramel with butterscotch pudding and chocolate crumbles to the tasting of chocolates, the four nibbles arriving on a paper map of the Mediterranean, resting atop their country of origin. The xocoa, with its Twix-like snap and dusting of espelette chile powder, is amazing.

Cocktails are subtle and in keeping with the menu—the Little Italian Redhead, with its hit of Aperol balanced out with lemonade, may single-handedly turn more Philadelphians on to Italian aperitivi. The wine list is smart, food-friendly and well-chosen; beers straddle the map from hot-afternoon Portuguese Sagres lager to chocolatepairable Smuttynose Robust Porter, and service is very well-informed.

No matter where Barbuzzo’s inspiration is drawn from, Safran and Turney seem to have found a recipe for success.

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The Noah (1975): Imagine The Twilight Zone’s beloved “Time Enough at Last” stretched out to two hours. With a hero who thinks he’s Noah. Who hears the voices of Sally Kirkland and Geoffrey Holder. Stalag 17’s Robert Strauss plays the last man on earth in a postapocalyptic dirge (in)famous for being tough to finish.

the savvy outdoorsman know-how and “ Allcan-do spirit don’t add up to much when your

arm’s crushed under a giant friggin’ rock. ” full-on swagger mode as Ralston, barreling across the ravishing landscapes on his bike so quickly that it’s a wonder any of the visuals even have time to register. He briefly flirts with two fetching young hikers (Kate Mara and Amber Tamblyn) but before long scuttles off on his way solo. Franco plays Ralston with a goofball charm that’s ever-so-slightly disconnected—even in the company of others, part of him seems to be off somewhere on his own.

So what’s a director with ants in his pants to do when his subject is rendered immobile? Ralston’s predicament doesn’t slow Boyle down in the slightest. The camera is here, there and everywhere in that crevasse, even zipping up the nozzle of Ralston’s water bottle for no apparent reason than to con-

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screen. Danny Boyle pictures are always entertaining, yet curiously hollow—there’s little time for thematic contemplation or character development in these headlong rushes. I don’t think I’m alone in enjoying the heck out of Slumdog Millionaire, then almost immediately forgetting that I ever even saw it.

Aron Ralston’s memoir, Between a Rock and a Hard Place, must have presented an irresistible challenge to the manic filmmaker. As you might recall from news stories at the time, in 2003 Ralston was on a solo mountain climbing expedition in Utah’s Blue John Canyon when he fell and got stuck in a narrow crevasse, his right arm pinned by a boulder. With no food, precious little water, and not a soul for hundreds of miles,

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127 Hours (2010): Not since Cast Away has a major film rested so much on a solitary actor. And it’s James Franco? The spotty one-time Daniel Desario brings his A-game as an outdoorsman reduced to self-amputation. If only his five-day ordeal wasn’t filmed like a Gatorade commercial— it’s X-treme Isolation. n

Ralston was trapped for five days, eventually freeing himself by sawing off his arm with the dull blade of a cheap multipurpose tool. It’s a grim survival tale—yet another reminder of why I seldom go outdoors.

Boyle, with adaptation help from Slumdog co-writer Simon Beaufoy, attacks it with his usual hyperkinetic brio. The opening of 127 Hours is perilously close to a Mountain Dew commercial, with James Franco in

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Moon (2009): An entire movie mostly populated by not only one but two Sam Rockwells? There’s not much else to recommend about Duncan Jones’ homage to Silent Running—the ’70s eco-space saga with Bruce Dern and three robots (albeit none voiced by Kevin Spacey). But that’s fine.

Director Danny Boyle’s default mode is exuberance. An immensely talented craftsman with an eye for vivid colors and peppy music cues, Boyle’s movies just can’t sit still, even when they probably should. As fine a film as it was, his Trainspotting presented the sedentary lives of heroin addicts with the incongruously frenzied energy of a coke binge. 28 Days Later even sped up zombies, with the walking dead sprinting across the

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Secret Honor (1984): Long before he was Lt. Bookman on Seinfeld, Philip Baker Hall was known as the only sentient being in Robert Altman’s claustrophobic Richard Nixon freakout. Cursing and ranting, Hall’s Tricky Dick stalks about the small, crimson office that is his well-earned tomb.

A rocky start: James Franco plays ill-fated outdoorsman Aron Ralston, the only actor for the majority of 127 Hours.

tinue the full-on sensory overload. At first Ralston addresses the dilemma as a simple physics problem, nothing that a couple of pulleys and fulcrums can’t fix. But it turns out that all his savvy outdoorsman knowhow and can-do spirit don’t add up to much when your arm’s crushed under a giant friggin’ rock. Things turn desperate, and Boyle heads inward.

127 Hours becomes a hallucinatory tour through Ralston’s inner life, with the filmmaker throwing so much junk at the screen I thought I saw a kitchen sink in there somewhere. We see random appearances of his forlorn parents, visions of an ex-girlfriend and, in one genuinely inspired sequence, Franco explains the situation to his video camera as if hosting a daytime talk show.

There’s no shortage of “stuff” going on in 127 Hours, but very little of it leaves a lasting impression.

For starters, Ralston is just not that interesting. Sure, Franco is a charismatic guy and you could certainly pick worse actors to get stuck in a ravine with for five days, but there’s not a lot of internal conflict going on here. Ralston feels guilty because he doesn’t call his mother often enough, which is hardly the stuff of searing character studies. In fact, it’s pretty banal. There’s elliptical mention of a girlfriend that he may have treated badly, but brief flashbacks to their breakup seem to have been staged at an NBA game mostly so Boyle’s camera can gallivant around the arena.

As usual, cinematographer Antony Dod Mantle (with an assist from Enrique Chediak) pushes the boundaries of digital video, with the colors cranked up to the point of distortion. Yet it’s all so busy, so self-consciously virtuosic, that the movie undercuts its own premise. Despite a commendable ick factor during the self-mutilation, there’s no real sense of catharsis when Ralston frees himself, probably because the movie is so cluttered that we never truly feel like we’ve been trapped. These five days fly by awfully quickly.

A story like this requires patience. It’s easy to imagine Werner Herzog turning it into a haunting meditation on nature’s cruel indifference. Perhaps Gus Van Sant, in hypnotic Gerry-mode, would have made us feel Ralston’s profound isolation. Boyle is just too revved up a showman to allow us any connection with the horror. Much like Slumdog, it’s way more interested in pleasing the crowd than the material warrants.

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Marwencol

B Review by Matt Prigge Evidently Werner Herzog had never heard of Mark Hogancamp, or he would have snapped up the damaged iconoclast to add to his vast damaged-iconoclast oeuvre.

Instead, it was neophyte documentarian Jeff Malmberg who discovered the Nowhere, Upstate New York resident who turned his yard into “Marwencol,” a 1/6-scale Belgian town circa WWII. In this romanticized utopia of life during wartime, a motley crew of action figures endures a living narrative of drunken camraderie, catfights (staged for the men, as a sign says), soap-opera drama and the occasional Nazi bludgeoning— all of it documented in several shoeboxes’ worth of action-shot photographs that belie a great eye. What’s the deal with that? In 2000, Hogancamp, then a nasty drunk, got into a bar fight so vicious he lost his memory. Mentally damaged and unable to afford insurance, he channelled his pain into Marwencol.

The pint-sized town is a dense map of his psyche, revealing much.

Most people in Hogancamp’s small town have an anthropomorphic analogue; should one of them piss him off, their action figure may suffer a bloody end. Hogancamp’s own doll has fallen in love with one of the town’s mere 27 women, which means so has Hogancamp.

His own sexuality isn’t fully explored within his creation, but he gets comfortable enough to reveal he’s an aspiring cross-dresser with a yen for high heels. It’s cute when, after he’s summoned to New York City to do an exhibition, he expects an antiquated version of the Village where everyone’s in drag.

Sympathetic bordering on reverential, Malmberg is still unsure how to handle his subject’s ascent/descent into becoming the next “outsider art” fad. What will happen to this gentle soul, let alone Marwencol, when the whole world— or at least New York scenesters and art-house movie patrons—is watching? Malmberg leaves that question unanswered, but his film remains a scenic tour through one man’s fragile mind. The experience is near-incantatory: Before the New York trip opens the film

up, we are trapped inside Hogancamp’s tiny world, where real life and the imagined blend hopelessly together and the thought of a middle-aged man playing with dolls seems not only sane but normal.

Leaving

BReview by Matt Prigge Much like Tilda Swinton’s lacquered honey in I Am Love, Kristin Scott Thomas’ trophy wife Suzanne in the French drama Leaving disses her husband for hot extramarital bonking in the great outdoors. The difference: Suzanne has gone Lady Chatterley, diddling not some young stud but the doughy help. Upon discovering his spouse prefers the company of fix-it man Ivan (Sergi López), hissable rich prick Samuel (Yvan Attal) is more appalled by her giant class leap than by the act itself, and driven to madness by the thought that this “clod” with a light criminal past could get his wife off.

Despite the odd bareback romp, Catherine Corsini’s succinct, remote drama is the rare affair saga to focus on the very real fallout when passion runs up against practicality. For reasons never made entirely clear, Suzanne is so crazy in love with her burly paramour that she’s willing to ditch her life of luxury for him, and she does.

But her ex takes his revenge, and as he uses his connections to deny Ivan contracts, Suzanne is stripped down to near-feral. It doesn’t take long for this pampered housewife with the architecturally cold house to steal her daughter’s perfume and try to pawn jewelry at gas stations—and even then the film isn’t done humiliating her. Corsini’s plot twists eventually strain credulity, and López, usually a fiery presence (in Dirty Pretty Things and Pan’s Labyrinth especially), is inexplicably passive and bland— perhaps because he knows this is his co-star’s show.

Thomas, once again kicking ass in her second language, singlehandedly atones for any structural clumsiness. Suzanne’s adoration for her man may make little sense on paper, but Thomas commits to it fully and fills in the blanks in Corsini’s script. As she plays it, Suzanne is on an obsessive self-destructive streak, rebelling against a cold husband and lifestyle. By the end she’s become unwatchably pathetic and crazy, and that elec-

tricity is exactly what a rickety film like Leaving needs.

The Next Three Days C+ Review by Matt Prigge

On date night, bourgie Lara Brennan (Elizabeth Banks) picks a fight with her boss and conscripts husband John (Russell Crowe) into parking-lot coitus. The next morning she’s arrested for murder.

John, a community-college professor apparently specializing in Conveniently Appropriate to the Plot English Lit, is unwilling or unable to accept that he may have married a psychopath. So he decides to do the most responsible thing for his young son: bust his wife out of prison.

A remake of the French thriller Pour Elle, The Next Three Days is nuts—rather, it’s alternately tedious, idiotic and nuts. Director Paul Haggis is a man defined/imprisoned by Crash, making it easy to forget he has a deep history in trash. (He’s credited with penning 196 episodes of Walker, Texas Ranger; on the less-shameful side, he helped re-boot Bond.)

Material as baldly genre as this requires a rush of energy so we can overlook the inanity, which he belatedly achieves with an admittedly enjoyable finale. Yet much of Days, particularly the protracted setup, plays like he’s still helming the Iraq War weepie In the Valley of Elah. The volleys for profundity clash amusingly with John’s mission, many of the details of which could be charitably described as knuckle-scrapingly moronic.

Scouring the net for crime tips (Google search: “how to break into a car”), John purchases a pistol and asks where the bullets go; later he figures ripping off drug dealers would be safer and easier than robbing a bank.

So that covers the tedious and the stupid—the nuts is John, who remains intent on freeing his spouse even after she all but confesses to the crime. “Rational thought destroys your soul,” he rhapsodies in voiceover, right before stating outright that he’s chosen to be insane.

Played by Crowe as a blank slate— gentle, slack-jawed and borderline Asperger’s—he’s a fascinating obsessive, whose goal trumps morality and logic. And if the movie containing him were better-made or didn’t utterly puss out in its final minutes, that might have been enough to excuse its many deficiencies. n

I have been married for 16 years and have three children. My marriage isn’t the best. I have strayed many times, and it’s always been with women. However, for years I have had a fantasy about being with a transsexual. I recently paid to be with a T-girl escort. She was flipping gorgeous.

She was the hottest fucking girl I have ever seen— absolutely gorgeous. She talked like a girl, looked like a girl, smelled like a girl—she was all girl, except for the unit. I have no interest in being with a man. Does seeing this T-girl make me gay?

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when we were together. Should I allow my marriage to dissolve due to our differences? I want my husband to love and accept me for the person I am, and I do not want to be controlled.

Won’t Be Controlled

Someone who wants to be loved and accepted for the person she is, WBC, shouldn’t mislead her gentleman callers.

That said, WBC, I assume your husband didn’t find out about the booze and cigarettes yesterday. So the booze and cigarettes, if those are the only reasons your husband gave for wanting to end this marriage, may symbolize a larger pattern of deceit that has long troubled your husband. Or it’s possible the booze and cigarettes are a face-saving dodge: Perhaps your husband is blaming the booze and cigarettes to avoid telling you some harsher truth and thereby spare your feelings. Or maybe there’s something about himself that he would rather avoid disclosing. (Another woman?

Another man? Another man and another woman?) Or maybe he’s an asshole and he’s blaming the booze and cigarettes in order to shift all the blame for the failure of this marriage onto your shoulders.

We can sit here speculating until your lungs turn black and dissolve inside your chest, WBC, and it’s not going to change anything: Your husband doesn’t need your consent to obtain a divorce.

Now, you don’t say whether your husband offered to stay if you quit drinking and smoking—and if he didn’t, WBC, then booze and smokes aren’t the issue—but you’re clearly unwilling to give up your indulgences to save your marriage, as you do not wish to be “controlled,” which means that your marriage is over.

I’m a straight guy. My former roommate calls all his ex-girlfriends “fucking bitches.” He went on a date with a neighbor. He told me that she was a “fucking bitch” and that she drunk-dialed him at 3 a.m. She told me, unprompted, that he drunk-dialed her several times at 3 a.m. after she refused to have sex with him. Do I have any obligation to warn women about him? I saw him on a date with a woman I know two days ago. Do I tell her what a douche this guy is, or do I let her discover it on her own?

What Would Dan Do?

If this douche weren’t so transparent—if women didn’t see through him instantly— Dan would feel obligated to warn his female friends. But as this douche is transparent, WWDD, Dan wouldn’t feel obligated to warn women away. Don’t get Dan wrong: Dan would still warn anyone he knew who (1) has a pussy and (2) isn’t a crazy bitch, because Dan’s a meddling douche. But Dan wouldn’t feel obligated. So it’s your call, WWDD. Do I have a duty to disclose to my wife that a guy licked my balls?

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There’s more to this question—a lot more— and I actually answered it already. BALLS’s question was the Savage Love Letter of the Day last Wednesday. Folks with the Savage Love app (SLAPP) for iPhone get the letter of the day delivered directly to their phones.

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You’re not gay, WOTWS, but you’re not exactly straight either.

There are other points along the gay/straight continuum, WOTWS, and anyone resourceful enough to track down a flipping gorgeous T-girl should be smart enough to figure out where he falls along the gay/straight continuum. But let me end the suspense: You’re a teensy, weensy bit bisexual, WOTWS, just another mostly straight dude who’s into women, into cock, and into women with cocks. But you’re not into dudes, not at all. Just women. And cock.

I’m going to catch hell for this, but hey, I don’t have three “Catcher” T-shirts for nothing: While you’ve got a touch of the bi—just a bit, mostly around your tonsils—you’re not obligated to identify as bi.

An awful lot of “rounding up” and “rounding down” goes on when it comes to sexual identities. There are bi women out there who round themselves up to lesbian because they’re with women or primarily attracted to women or afraid of mean lesbians who hate bi women.

(Some of those mean lesbians are, predictably enough, bi themselves.) Some bi guys in gay relationships round themselves up to gay; a small number of gays and lesbians round themselves down to bi in solidarity or something; and lots of bi men and women in straight relationships round themselves down to straight. (And there are gay men and lesbians—100 percent homos—who identify as straight. These closet cases aren’t rounding up or down; they’re lying.)

Backing way the hell up: Sexual identity is a combo platter. There’s who you wanna do, who you are doing, and who you tell people you are.

You can’t control who you wanna do—sexual orientation is not a choice—but you get to choose who you wind up doing and who you tell people you are. Don’t wanna have a miserable sex life? Do who you wanna do. Don’t wanna be a messy closet case à la Haggard, Craig, and Rekers? Tell the truth about who you’re doing.

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OLD CITY: 43 S.3rd Renvtd Bilev loft, 1500SF, HWF, WD, Skylite, HVAC. $1550+. 215-669-6955

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19XX SO.18TH ST Lg.1bedrm. apt.,3rd. flr. Pvt. entrance. A/C $600/mo+ utils. 215-465-8065.

one bedroom 21ST & LOCUST- Charming 1BR, HWF, DW, Laundry on premise, Heat/Hot water incld.

AVAIL NOW! $1,055+. MSRE, 215-925-RENT(7368), www.MichaelSingerRealEstate.com 22ND & FITZWATER VIC. 1BDR, 1st Flr., Spacious, Use/Bsmt.&YD. $875.Avail.Imm. 414-331-8034 22nd & SPRING GARDEN V.Cool apt w/ Lg Yard, Laundry. MORE. $875+. PMG 215545-7007 x303 301 South 19th Street- RITTENHOUSE SQUARE: One Bedroom apartment, completely Renovated by Award Winning contractor. Must See to Appreciate. State of the art Kitchen with Dishwasher and Garbage disposal, Granite countertops, High quality kitchen Cabinets, Refinished Hardwood floors, High ceilings, Plentiful Closet space. $2,100.00 per month.

Call to Schedule an Appointment, 215-735-5757 OR E-Mail: DelanceyPlace@aol.com 6600 Doral Street/a 1st floor -one bedroom, enclosed porch, full basement, w/w carpets good condition. Avail November 1. $680 month. 1st and last month rent and 1 month secruity deposit needed.

Call Frank 267-879-8373.

923 SPRUCE #1F $895/mo Corber 1bd/1ba w/parking, bsmt laundry & storage CALL MIKE MCCANN PRU FOX & ROACH 215-6276005/215-440-8345 9TH & MOORE-DUPLEX LG. 2ND FL. OFFICE & DECK. $650/MO.+. Call 215-334-1136.

ART MUSEUM: 26th & PARRISH LARGE w/ DRESSING ROOM, 1.5BA, HRDWD flrs WD bldg. $700+, Hot water incl. 215-236-4937 B E L L A V I S TA , L A R G E LV R M , D I N I N G A R E A . N E A R B U S WA L K C .C . N o p e t s .

215-681-4481 MANAYUNK/ROXBOROUGH: ALL UTILITIES INCLUDED! LARGE 1BDRM, Patio/Balc, Central Air, Prkg, Laundry, Oversized Closets, Modern Kitchen w/DW/GD, Pool, Gym Membership, Cats Welcome, Shuttle to Main St. 1st Month FREE on Select Apts. From $1035/Mo. 215482-4246. lic# 215101

RITTENHOUSE SQ. AREA (2013 WALNUT) One bedroom duplex in Old World Charm Brownstone. High ceilings, Carpeted, C/A, Gas heat. W/D, D/W. Small pet friendly. $995/ mo+. 215-627-4414

THE GRAND - Cherry Hill. Renovated 1BR’s starting at $1250/mo in luxury high rise.

All utils incld. FREE SHUTTLE TO CC PHILA. Balcony, WD. Clubhouse w/Infinity Pool, Game room and MORE. 24hr Doorman and Fitness room. (856)428-1840

1 6 4 1 W O L F S T. 3rd fl, 2BR, spacious, recent renovations, deck w/great view, W/D. $900/mo. Call Max 267-253-3485

1 7 T H & LO M BA R D Cool bilev apt w/All amens, PRKG. Avail 11/10. $1695+. PMG 215545-7007x302 21ST & PINE Elegant brownstone. HWF, HCeils, Incl heat. MORE. $1850+. PMG 215545-7007x302 5 0 0 A d m i r a l s W a y # 1 0 3 $ 2 1 0 0/m o 2BD/2BA unit, s/s appliances, lots of light CALL JIM ONESTI PRU FOX & ROACH 215-6276005/215-440-2052 8TH LOCUST, 2BDRMS PLUS GIGANTIC LOFT (POSSIBLE 3BDRMS), 1.5BATHS, PENTHOUSE w/PRIVATE ELEVATOR. ALL M O D E R N A M E N I T I ES. AC, H R DW D/ F L S WD, ETC. USEABLE common outside area, PARKING INCLUDED, (2)STORAGE AREAS. Pet Friendly w/restrictions. BEST OF THE BEST! $1995+elc. Parking AVL. Tanya 215-922-6088 or email tanya@ans_hrv.com 9TH SPRING GARDEN BEAUTIFUL 2BEDR.,TILE BAT H , H DW D F L R S. , A L L A P P L I A N C ES, A /C, S EC U R I T Y SYST E M . $ 1 1 0 0/ M O + .

610-304-0087 ART MUSEUM: Parrish/Bucknell Lg 2BR, 2BA. F.bsmnt w/Laundry. Backyd. CA. Sec System.

Incl heat. $1550/mo+. 215-873-5701

ITALIAN MKT: 10th/Federal

2BR, CA, 1BA, WD. $1350+. 215-922-3910. mcolaizzo@comcast.net MANAYUNK $1000 down, ONLY for 2BR luxury rental. NEW CONSTRUCTION. BRIDGEVIEW at M ANAYUNK . I n c l s : Wd fl rs, SS a p p ls, Marble BA, WD in unit, Handicap assesible, Clst spc & Res PARKING. Near shops, night life, restaurants, Pub trans. Call Nadia!

267-441-0601 nbilynsky@gmail.com www.

BridgeviewatManayunk.com M A N AY U N K / ROX BO RO U G H : Lrg 2bdrm, Renovated Kitch/Bathrm, Patio/Balc Laundry, Gym, Pool, Tennis/ Basketball Crts, Free Shuttle to Main Street Manayunk, Pets Welcome.

From $1220/Mo. 888-538-9667. Ask about how you can receive FREE Furniture for 1 Year! EXECUTIVE SHORT TERM FURNISHED SUITES AVAILABLE. lic# 218436 MANAYUNK/ROXBOROUGH: Large 2 Bdrm with Den, Washer/Dryer in Apt, Gym Membership, Private Entrance, Parking, Cats Welcome, Shuttle to Main Street Manayunk. $1155/Mo. Ask about Move-in Discounts! 888-633-9365.

Lic # 223386 OLD CITY (10 S.Front) Spacious 2BR, 2BA Duplex, 2500SF. Fantastic view overlooking Del. Riv. High ceilings, Exposed brick, CA, Gas heat, WD, DW, Wood floor, carpets BR’s. $1195/mo+, Avail Jan. 215-627-4414

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O L D C I T Y: E L F R E T H ’S A L L E Y Historic 2BR, FP, Den, Backyard, Oak floors. $1995.

718-793-2626 QUEEN VILLAGE-6TH & KATER Spacious 3B R h ou se +Den , HW fl o ors, Ea t-i n ki t, Basement, W/D, Great outdoor space, Dogs welcome. AVAIL. MID DEC! $1,875. MSRE, 215-925-RENT(7368), www.MichaelSingerRealEstate.com

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3BR, 2BA w/CA. $1650+. Call for details: 215922-3910. mcolaizzo@comcast.net

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1 5 t h & S p r u c e/ R i t t e n h o u s e S q u a re : PENTHOUSE Avail! One of a kind spacious bi-level penthouse in historic Art Deco High-Rise, 3bdrms/ 3 Full Baths/ 2 half baths, 4 Lrg Terraces w/Amazing City Views, Entertainment Rm w/ Wet Bar, New Kitch w/ Granite Countertops, W/D, CA, Vaulted Ceilings, HW Flrs. $3750/Mo. 215-735-8030.

Lic #219789.

124 LOMBARD, HEAD HOUSE SQUARE, SOCIETY HILL. “TOKIO B&B” STUDIOS. ($55-$100) DAILY rates. ($300-$500) WEEKLY rates. We also have MONTHLY ra t e s AVA I L . We b s i t e h t t p : / /s u s h i . madamesaito.com Call MADAME SAITO 215-922-2515

A Good Sign

OLD CITY 3BR Condo. $2,600. New custom paint, high end finishes, chef kitchen, in-unit washer & dryer. 1 parking spot. Available Dec 1st. 215-735-9933.

13TH & SPRUCE- Parker Hotel CC. Fully Furn’d Rms, no sec. deposit. Utils & housekeeping incld. WK: $165-$203; Day: $50-$66.

215-735-2300.

13th & Pine - Great 1BR apt, Large rooms, incl heat. $850+

PINE/10TH: 4BDRMS, 1.5BA, WOOD FLOORS $2290+ Pine R.E, 1503 Pine. 215-735-8896, website: www.pinere.com Rittenhouse Square: Enormous 3bdrm w/ 2 Full Baths in Beautiful Historic Brownstone, Full Size Washer/Dryer in Apt, HW Flrs, 2 Decorative Fireplaces, Hi Ceilings, Newly Remodeled Kitchen w/ Granite Countertop, Separate Dining Rm, Living Rm, & Family Rm, A/C, Spacious Rooms, Terrific Location! $2650/Mo. 215-735-8030. #216850 THE GRAND - Cherry Hill. Renovated 3BR’s starting at $2100/mo in luxury high rise. Great to share. All utils incld. FREE SHUTTLE TO CC PHILA. Balcony, WD. Clubhouse w/Infinity Pool, Game room and MORE. 24hr Doorman and Fitness room. (856)428-1840

house for rent 10TH & REED 5BDR, 1.5/B; 8TH & RITNER, 2BDR, 2/B; 9th & Oregon, 3BDR; good condition, w-to-w carpet. Available Immediately.

215-467-8612 1 1 T H & C H R I ST I A N - G R E AT LO C AT I O N !

4BEDRMS., 2FULL BATHS, C/A, HDWD/ FLRS.,DECK, BACKYARD, WASHER/DRYER. Must See! $2600/mo.+. 610-304-0087.

11TH & PORTER VIC. 3bdrms. All remodeled, hdwd.flrs.,new kit.,bath, new appliances. $1150/mo.+. 856-262-4369.

19TH & WOLF $1095/MO 3BD/1BA,renovated, hwf, w/d CALL JIM ONESTI PRU FOXX & ROACH 215-627-6005/215-440-2052 jonesti@mccannteam.com 20XX HEMBERGER ST Near public transportation/shopping centers. 3bedrms., 1bath, new kitchen, carpets, paint. $675/mo.+utils.

856-307-9166.

2 5 X X S A R TA I N S T. 3 B D R S ,1 . 5 b a t h s , newly-renovated. $1250 mo. + utilities.

215-816-0552 3XX DURFOR ST-AWARD ST.! Renov.,2BR.,NEW OAK FLRS.,ALL APPLS.,A/C.EXTRAS. $990.

215-849-4049.

BREWERYTOWN, 2BDRMS TOWNHOUSE, W/W, Pet OK $850+ Tanya 215-922-6088 email tanya@ans_hrv.com

HOME TO SHARE - NORTHEAST Loc. Single male needs help w/Cleaning/Organizing. Use of Whole house. Rent/Everything negotiable.

215-338-0546 Nor thern Liber ties, Nice 6BR House, Great Block, 234 Brown Street, Washer/ Dryer, No Pets, See www.gasheart.com, 215-485-1015, $595/month South Philly - 2 story house, full use of house. 10 minutes from Center City. Perfect for college students. Share utilities. Call 267-879-8373 leave message

artists studio space THE PAPERMILL- Community of Artist.

2825 Ormes St. Affordable Artist Studios staring at $100 for 130 sf. Four large floors of open or private studio space for Painters, Sculptors, Dance, Theatre, or Creative companies. A community of artist practicing their talents in custom sized studio workspaces. Short term, inexpensive rental of theatre and gallery spaces. Join our group on Facebaook for updates on our events and gallery spaces. Contact Wulfhart Management Group: Karyn 215-687-8391 or karyn@ wulfhartmanagementgroup.com

office space 1 2 T H & S P R U C E 1st floor Office available w/300SF. Pvt bath. $800+ Elec. Call 215-985-0600 9 T H & S P R I N G G A R D E N -1 20 0 S Q. F T. , BATHROOM, CARPETING, C/A/H. VERY C L E A N . G R E AT LO CAT I O N ! $ 1 5 0 0/m o.

610-304-0087.

OLD CITY, FRONT & MARKET: BI-LEVEL, CA, 600sq.ft. $850+Utls. Renzi Management.

800-514-3235 www.renziproperties.com

commercial space O L D C I T Y: 41 S. 3 rd Street level Commercial/Retail space, 950SF +Basement.

215-669-6955

garages for rent 1300 BLOCK S. JUNIPER 1/Garage-$1150.

Carriage house w/Studio apt. above 2 car garage. Also 1250Sq.Ft.ideal for contractor or commercial/industrial use. For Info.

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20th & Green - Adorable 1BR apt, HW floors, Lots of light. $895+ N.Liberties: 3rd & George- Great apt. HW floors, WD, DW, and parking. $1150+ 13th & Spruce - Great 1BR apt, Elevator building, Close to everything. $885+ www.propertymanagementgroup.com

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FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF RENTAL UNITS

1 & 2 Bedroom Apartments, Condos & Townhouses ONE BEDROOM 1100 Vine Street 1 Br., 1 Bth, c/a, w&d, w/w carpet, pet friendly, all utl. incl. $1,250.00 715 N. 6th St. 1 Bedroom, 1 Bath , c/a, w&d, wood floors

$825.00

Abbotts Square 1 Bedroom, 1.5 Baths,c/a,w&d, balcony avai. 12-1-10

$1,500.00

15th & Chestnut Lg. 1 Br, 1 Bth , c/a, w&d, elevator bldg., door-person

$1,800.00

1628 S. 9th lg. 1 Br. , Den, 1 Bath , w/w carpets, w&d in bst., yard

$700.00

TOWNHOUSES 2030 Brandywine St , 2 Brs., 2 Baths, deck, garden, w&d, a/c’s

$1,750.00

#1 Queen St. 3 Brs.,2.5 Bths, Gar., Hrd. Flrs., FP c/a, deck. Gard., great kit.

$2,500.00

2033 Bainbridge St 3 Brs, 1 Bth , w&d, W/F, yard Avail. 12/1/10

$1,500.00

204 S. 3rd St Large modern 3 Br. , 2.5 Bths., garage, 2 Decks, c/a, w&d

$2,850.00

408 Queen Large Beaut. Cont. 3 Brs., Den, 3 Bths,hrd.flrs.,c/a,w&d,nice kit. $3,250.00

COMMERCIAL

701 Walnut St 3rd Flr. Corner 500 sq.ft office/studio, artist,architect, nice lite, uti. inc.

25th & Wharton Sts. G-2 warehouses, garages, offices, 800sq. ft to 16,000 sq. ft available 761 S. 4th St 1100 sq. ft. retail store, bathroom, full basement, a/c unit

$700.00 $7-$9 sq.ft. $900.00

CALL RENTAL AGENT 226 South St.

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F R O N T S T. A R E A b ra n d n ew, 3 b d r m s, 2 f u l l b a t h s . G o rg e o u s ! $ 1 4 9 9/m o . C a l l 215-292-2176.

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three + bedrooms

N O RT H E R N L I B E RT I ES/ F i s h tow n New ly renovated, 3bd, YD, W/D, $950m, Call 215.463.2950.

November 17-23, 2010

RITTENHOUSE SQUARE!! 301 South 19th Street - OLD WORLD CHARM BUILDING, FRESH ON THE MARKET! One Bedroom-1 Bath apartment $1,600.00 per month. Available for Early December move in, Must see to appreciate. Hardwood floors, High ceilings, Plentiful closet space. Cat friendly. Call to schedule an appointment 215-735-5757 OR E-mail: DelanceyPlace@aol.com

15XX SO. BROAD ST-2BEDRMS.,TILE BATH, L A R G E , M O D E R N . $ 1 , 0 0 0/m o . + . C a l l 610-304-0087.

RITTENHOUSE SQUARE!! 326 South 19th Street- OLD WORLD CHARM BUILDING, FRESH ON THE MARKET! Two Bedroom-1 Bath apartments $2,000.00-$2,200.00 per month. Available for December move in, Must See to Appreciate.

Hardwood floors, High ceilings, Plentiful closet space, Cat friendly, Small Dogs welcome too.

Call to schedule an appointment 215-735-5757 OR E-mail: DelanceyPlace@aol.com

house for rent Manayunk/Roxborough: Spacious Stone Farmhouse, 6 Lrg Bdrms 2.5 Baths, HW Flrs, Fireplace, 2 Porches, Deck, Separate DR, LR, & Den, Modern Kitchen, Laundry, Private Driveway/Parking, 2 Car Garage, Huge Yard. $2900/mo. 888-538-9667 lic# 218436

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NORTHERN LIBERTIES, Huge Loft-type u n i t. NEW RENOVATIONS! Must See! HW floors & ceilings, CA, WD. 3rd & Brown. $1250. 215-512-0538.

two bedroom 10TH SPRUCE: LARGE 2BDRMS, 2FLOORS, 2DECKS AC, DW, GD. $1800. 215-872-6956

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EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY

All real estate advertised in this newspaper is subject to federal, state and local fair housing laws, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race; color; religion;sex; disability; familial; (presence of children); national origin; age (Pennsylvania and New Jersey); martial status or sexual orientation (Pennsylvania and New Jersey), or source of Income (Philadelphia only) in the sale, rental or financing or insuring of housing. This paper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which violates these laws. The law requires that all dwellings advertised be available on an equal opportunity basis. If you believe you have been discriminated against in connection with the sale, rent, financing or insuring of housing or commercial property, call HUD at 1-888-799-2085

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CENTER CITY LUXURY CONDOMINIUMS FOR RENT avenue of the arts ACADEMY HOUSE

2 bedrooms, 1 bath, city skyline view, hardwood floors, W/D, high-end finishes, 807 sf

$2,350

tHE wHitE bUiLDing

wAnAMAKEr HOUSE

1420 LOCUSt StrEEt units include all utilities, pool, gym 1 bedrooms, 1 bath, high floor, new kitchen and bath, excellent closet space, W/D, 705 sf $1,550 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, eat-in-kitchen, great closet space, 1314 sf` $2,290 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, hardwood floors, brand new kitchen and baths, 1314 sf $2,400

tHE ArtiSAn

1420 bAinbriDgE StrEEt Contemporary townhome with 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, gourmet kitchen, rooftop deck, marble baths, custom closets, 3100 sf $4,950

CEntEr CitY OnE 1326 SprUCE StrEEt

1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, upgraded bathroom, panoramic city view to the south, 873 sf $1,400

105 S. 12tH StrEEt

2020 wALnUt StrEEt units include pool & fitness center 1 bedroom, 1 bath, high floor, open kitchen, great closet space, 705 sf

$1,675

1 bedroom townhome, custom kitchen and bath, private street entrance, direct access to garage, 700 sf $1,690 2 bedrooms 2 baths, high floor, panoramic city views, 1200 sf $2,290

tHE LAnESbOrOUgH 1601 LOCUSt StrEEt

3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, brand new, high ceilings, hardwood floors throughout, chefs kitchen, magnificent entertaining space, luxurious master suite, 3467 sf $10,000

tHE wArwiCK

1701 LOCUSt StrEEt Studio, wood floors, city view, marble bath 345 sf $1,295

art museum pHiLADELpHiAn

2 bedrooms plus den, 3 baths, hardwood floors, unobstructed southern views, open kitchen, marble baths, 1582 sf $4,150

1 bedroom, 1bath, completely renovated, hardwood floors, balcony with Art Museum view, 1000 sf $1,900

3 bedrooms, 3 baths, hardwood floors, 270 degree views, marble baths, open custom kichen, 1978 sf $4,750

2401 pEnnSYLvAniA AvE

rittenhouse square 1909 fitzwAtEr StrEEt 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, wood floors, ren. kitchen and bath $1,500

tHE CArLYLE

2031 LOCUSt StrEEt 1 bedroom, 1 bath, city view, 595 sf

$1,450

2 bedrooms, 1 bath, corner unit, 928 sf

$1,875

1 bedroom with alcove, 1.5 baths, renovated kitchen, balcony with southern views, 1118 sf $1,850

1 bedroom, 2 bath, loft apartment with exposed brick, high ceilings, custom finishes throughout, 1312 sf $2,000

HOpKinSOn HOUSE

604-36 S. wASHingtOn SqUArE Studio, wood floors, new kitchen and bath, 450 sf $1,000 1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony with a southern view, great closet space, 778 sf $1,425 Deluxe 1 bedroom, 1 bath, high floor, balcony, renovated kitchen and bath, 1003 sf $1,600

StriCKLAnD rOw

1018 SprUCE StrEEt 1 bedroom, 1 bath, wood floors, high ceilings, fireplace, 765 sf $1,310

waterfront piEr 5, 7 n. COLUMbUS bLvD. 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, tri-level, bridge views, grand fireplace, two terraces, 2229 sf $2,250 piEr 3, 3 n. COLUMbUS bLvD. 2 bedrooms, parking space, river views, 1300sf $1,500

society hill SOCiEtY HiLL tOwErS

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, terrace, large kitchen, one garage parking space, 1300 sf

1 bedroom, 1 bath, Society Hill views, excellent value, 700 sf $1,295

commercial sPace

Corner 1 bedroom, 1 bath, river views, galley kitchen, 775 sf $1,650

1742 Sansom Street - 2nd floor retail space on highly trafficked corner or 18th and Sansom Streets, 1000 sf $1,500 NNN

200-220 LOCUSt StrEEt units include all utilities

2 bedrooms, 1 bath, Society Hill views, 1133 sf

floor-to-ceiling

windows, $2,000

$2,150

2031 Locust Street Professional Office Space in secure apartment building, 958 sf $1,500

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tHE rittEnHOUSE

AbbOtt’S SqUArE

2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, all rooms overlook Rittenhouse Square, large kitchen, seperate dining area, 1765 sf $3,950

1 bedroom, 1 .5 baths, balcony overlooking Headhouse Square, great closet space and natural light. $1,250

tHE bArCLAY

131 S. 18th Street - Prime 1st and 2nd floor retail space on high-end 18th Street shopping corridor, directly across from new 10 Rittenhouse condos $7,500 NNN

washington square

3 bedrooms, 3 baths, hrdwd. floors, panoramic city views, renovated kitchen and baths, 2,527sf $7,850

inDEpEnDEnCE pLACE

133 S. 18th Street – Ground floor corner retail space, excellent visibility on 18th Street shopping corridor $9,000 NNN

pArC rittEnHOUSE

1 bedroom, 1 bath, w/d, walk-in-closet, open kitchen 777 sf $1,455

1601 Locust Street - 1st floor and lower level of prestigious Lanesborough condo, ideal for restaurant or offices, 4700 sf $11,500 NNN

Studio, hardwood floors, bay window, eat-in kitchen $1,425

1 bedroom, 1 bath, high floor, balcony, W/D, 928 sf $1,490

210 w. rittEnHOUSE SqUArE

237 S. 18tH StrEEt

225 S 18tH StrEEt

530 S 2nD StrEEt

233-241 S 6tH StrEEt

1830 Rittenhouse - Prime Rittenhouse Square office space, 754 sf $2,100

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Wanamaker house

The WarWick 1701 LocusT sTreeT 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, wood floors, chefs kitchen, marble baths, walk-in-closets, 1986 sf $4,750/mo.

The riTTenhouse 210 W. riTTenhouse square 2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, wood floors, Rittenhouse Square views, marble baths, large kitchen, 1765 sf $3,950/mo.

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, high floor with

academy house 1420 LocusT sTreeT 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, large living area, excellent closet space, 1314 sf $2,290/mo.

Pier 5 7 n. coLumbus bouLevard 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, roof deck, parking space, bridge views, 2229 sf $2,250/mo

socieTy hiLL ToWers 210 LocusT sTreeT 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, intimate views of Society Hill, 1133 sf $2,000/mo.

2020 WaLnuT sTreeT panoramic city views, 1200 sf $2,290/mo.

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SOCIETY HILL ART MUSEUM RITTEnHOUSE Sq AT THE RITTEnHOUSE

215-627-6005 215-763-2100 215-893-9800 215-546-0550

You’re At Home With us.

To See the Following, Call Andy Oei (215)790-5230 1500 Chestnut Street #12C-Oversized 1BR /1BA, Granite Kitchen, Marble Bath, Doorman $1,700 1500 Chestnut Street #16E-Deluxe 1BR /1BA, Granite Kitchen, Marble Bath, Doorman $1,575 111 S 15th Street #1908-1BR/1BA, Granite Kit, Large Windows, Marble Bath, Gym, Drmn $1,500

To See the Following, Call Lynette DuFon 267-328-7426 1631 Locust Street #3RD FL-3rd fl,2 lrg offices w/fpl, 3 sm offices vuws of atrium

$6,000

To See the Following, Call Mark Wade 215-521-1523 817 n Taylor Street-2 bedroom,granite,SS,rear deck, full bsmt,W/D.

$1,750

To See the Following, Call David Snyder 267.968.8600 1027-31 Arch Street #405-Bi-level loft w/2 bd/2 ba,full kit, oversized C/T ba $1,775 2332-38 Carpenter Street #2B-2 bdrm units w/SS applns, bamboo flrs,cstm bath,w/d in unit.

From -$1,450--$2,000 327 S 12th Street #300-2 bd,granite counter tops,SS appl,hrwd flrs,w/d in unit $1,650 333 S 4th Street #2-1 bd/1 ba apt,orig hw flrs,kit w/breakfast bar. $1,450 1326 S Mole Street-Lr,Dr w/hw flrs t/o,Eik w/granite counters, new applns,3 bd. $1,100

To See the Following, Call John Featherman (215) 790-5221 130 S 18th Street #1701-2B/2.5b at 10 Rittenhouse finest fixt, t errace, vuws, & more

$6,995

To See the Following, Call Jessica Eary (215)546-0550 1350 Crease Street-4BR/4.5b, Family room, cathedral ceilings.

To See the Following, Call Johanna Loke (215)893-9800 102-22 Church Street #501-2 bedroom,2 bath with fireplace, 2401 Pennsylvania Avenue #5B23-Large 1 bedroom w/balcony & eat-in kitchen.

241 S 6th Street #209-Large 1 bedroom w/eat-in kitchen & balcony.

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Fr $344,750 2028 Kimball St. Gorgeous new construction, 3br/3ba, HWflrs, New appls & HVAC, Fin Bsmt $299,000 911 & 913 N. 28th St. 3br/2.5ba, HWflrs, Garage, Roofdeck, Custom Closets, Designer Kitchen Fr $385,000 4124 Apple St. 4br/3ba, New Construction, 2900 sqft, finished basement & roof deck $389,000 209 cuthbert St. #301 New Loft Conversion located in the heart of OLD CITY! Gorgeous model unit $389,900 1935 Kimball St. BRAND NEW! Beatiful 4br/3ba, Townhouse w/tons of details, roof deck, & fin bsmt $389,900 1228-1232 Arch St. Loft District Arch Street Exchange: 35 lofts w/maple flrs, 13’ ceil., s/s apps, granite tops, glass/metal From $399,900 backsplashes, slate baths, immediate delivery, 1yr paid prkng 2155 Montrose St. New (2400sqft) corner home across fr park. 3br/2.5ba, open flr plan, custom kit OPEN HOUSE $425,000 2514 Grays Ferry Ave. 3br/2.5ba; 2400 sqft; HWflrs; Recessed Lighting; Granite Counters, more $400,000 2516 Grays Ferry Ave. New construction; 3br/2.5ba; sec sys; master ste; roof deck; fin bsmt; garage $420,000 2518 Grays Ferry Ave. 3br/2.5ba; 2400 sqft; HWflrs; Resessed lighting; Granite Cnters; SS Appls $425,000 2520 Grays Ferry Ave. New construction; 3br/2.5ba; sec sys; master ste; roof deck; fin bsmt; garage $425,000 2522 Grays Ferry Ave. New construction; 3br/2.5ba; sec sys; master ste; roof deck; fin bsmt; garage $425,000 2524 Grays Ferry Ave. New construction; 3br/2.5ba; sec sys; master ste; roof deck; fin bsmt; garage $425,000 1346 crease St. PRIcE REDUcTION! 3br/4ba Green home, quiet st. Solar ready, 11ft ceilings, garage $429,000 1221 S. Philip St. 3br/2.5ba New constructions w/1 car garage, hwflrs, hi ceilings, open kit, deck $434,900 629-31 S. 13th St. #A Choose your finishes, 3br/3ba, fin bsmt, 660 sqft, Roof Deck! $599,000

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SOcIETY HILL / WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST 1109 Spruce St. Units 2R, 3R Your choice of two 1br/1ba units. 2R totally renovated w/granite & SS Kit Fr 1109 Spruce St. #4 New Listing! Totally rehabbed loft style condo. Deluxe granite & SS kitchen 606A Waverly St. Location! This is a lovely trinity! It’s a 1 Bedroom. Great for 1st time buyer/student 927 Spruce St. 2R Deluxe Jr. 1br/1ba w/new kitchen. Unit contains a queen size Murphy bed 255 S. Hutchinson St. New listing! Historic 2br/1.5ba on charming cobblestone street 1110 Lombard St. #12 Beautiful renovated 1br/1.5ba condo in Washington Mews!

1109 Spruce St. #1R Deluxe bi-level 2br/2ba totally renovated unit. Deluxe Granite & SS Kit 417 Gaskill St. #A & #B Quaint property, tucked inside a quiet block on the border w/Queen Village 265 S. 4th St. Gorgeous condo with low fees and deeded parking!

720 chestnut St. #D 2br/2ba, 1300sqft condo in boutique bldg. Hi ceilings, wood flr, granite & SS, FP 1110 Waverly St. 3br/2.5ba, 1526 sqft corner home, quiet cherry tree lined st. Move in ready. Garden 1206B Panama St. 3br/1.5ba with garage. Beautiful home with fireplace, roofdeck, and rear patio

OPEN HOUSE $189,000 OPEN HOUSE $185,000 $194,400 OPEN HOUSE $199,900 OPEN HOUSE $250,000 $275,000 OPEN HOUSE $299,000 $299,000 $320,000 $459,000 $599,000 $575,000

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2113 S. Opal St. 3br/1ba, lrg rooms, EIK, backyard. Great affordable home in South Philadelphia 1535 Ogden St. Build the home of your dreams on this nice sized lot! Great location just off Broad St. 1731 Ridge Ave. Buildable lot in the up and coming Francisville neighborhood. Be part of the revival!

2003 S. Newkirk St. Lovely open 3br/2ba home with a dream kitchen!

1502-4 Ridge Ave. Excellent commercial/residential devlpmnt opp! Zoned C2, 2 lots ready to build!

1926 S. 15th St. Well Maintained Triplex with Great Income Potential!

27 Osborne St. Cashflowing Duplex. 2+3 BRs. Grt loc, well maintained. Sep utils excpt water 1716 Monument St. Nicely renovated triplex. One block from Temple Campus 117 Sumac St. Huge Triplex , Great St. Sep. utilities & meters. Laundry. Long-term tenants in 2 units

SURROUNDING AREAS Wissinoming-5109 Walker St. Lovely home w/2br/1.5ba, fin bsmt, garage, front & rear yards!

Northeast-4619 Sheffeield St. 3br/1ba, Well-designed home, nice yard, 1-car pkg, bsmt laundry Port Richmond-250 Belgrade St. Nicely kept 3br/1.5ba,lrg rear & side yard, EIK, 2nd flr laundry Port Richmond-3293 chatham St. Beautifully renovated 2br/1.5ba rowhome Mount Airy-6667 Musgrove St. Lovely 3br/1.5 ba! Huge KIT, yard, qualifies for .5% below FHA! Holmesburg-4313 Rhawn St. Great 4 Bedroom home. Large backyard and new remodeled Come see for yourself!

East Falls-3688 Stanton St. 4br/1ba, 3-story home in East Falls. Wall to wall carpets, lrg Kit, lrg yard East Falls-3424 crawford St. Charming 2br/1ba w/lrg yard, HWflrs, Mod Kit w/SS appls, near SEPTA East Falls- 3527 Sunnyside Ave. Delightful 2br/1ba home in move-in condition, grt outdoor space Torresdale-113 Village Lane 3br/1.5ba, C/A, lrg driveway, inground pool, newer appls, lrg bsmt

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GRAD HOSPITAL 752 S Dorrance St $815,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

OLD CITY 38 N Front St #1E $389,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

RITTENHOUSE SQ 1515 Locust St #500 $995,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

RITTENHOUSE SQ 1901 Walnut St #11A $1 , 295,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

FITLER SQ 420 S 26th St $469,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

QUEEN VILLAGE 314 Monroe St $549,900

QUEEN VILLAGE 732 Christian St $579,000 Plumer & Associates

QUEEN VILLAGE 717 S Philip St $719,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

ART MUSEUM 2601 Pennsylvania Ave #312 $350,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

SOCIETY HILL 503 Pine St $1 , 250,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

BELLA VISTA 714-22 B ainbridge St #2 $445,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

QUEEN VILLAGE 1030 Montrose St $419,000 Plumer & Associates

N LIBERTIES 964 N Leithgow St $699,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

OLD CITY 315 Arch St #404 $349,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

SOCIETY HILL 604 S.Washington Sq, #1110 Hopkinson House $299,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

RITTENHOUSE SQ 1922 Rittenhouse Sq $1 ,190,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

BELLA VISTA 934 S 10th St $439,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

WASH SQ WEST 1012 Spruce St #3F $345,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

RITTENHOUSE SQ 1632 Spruce St #100 $995,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

FITLER SQ 2425 Naudain St $429,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

SOCIETY HILL 604 S.Washington Sq, #1215 Hopkinson House $269,000 Prudential Fox Roach

RITTENHOUSE SQ 340 S 17th St $675,000 Prudential Fox & Roach GRAD HOSPITAL 2101 Catharine St $624 ,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

RITTENHOUSE SQ 1632 Spruce St #200 $995,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

AVE OF THE ARTS 1326 Spruce St #504 $399,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

SOCIETY HILL 506 Pine St $649,000 Coldwell B anker Preferred

QUEEN VILLAGE 610 S Front St $2 ,600,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

BELLA VISTA 726 S 11th St $729,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

QUEEN VILLAGE 752 S 3rd St $389,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

GRAD HOSPITAL 2011 Catharine St $574 ,900 Coldwell B anker Preferred

QUEEN VILLAGE 128 Kenilworth St $729,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

ITALIAN MARKET 932-A EllsworthSt $379,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

RITTENHOUSE SQ 224 S 23rd St $659,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

GRAD HOSPITAL 2232 S aint AlbansSt $359,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

BELLA VISYA 720 S. Percy St. $270,000 Coldwell B anker Preferred

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SUNDAY 11/21 12:00-1:00PM RITTENHOUSE SQ 1805 Pine St $2 , 290,000 Prudential Fox & Roach SOCIETY HILL 516 Pine St $2 , 250,000 Prudential Fox & Roach AVE OF THE ARTS 1501-03 KaterSt $1 ,600,000 Prudential Fox & Roach RITTENHOUSE SQ 1820 Rittenhouse Sq #1102 $1 , 395,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

RITTENHOUSE SQ 2027 Rodman St $569,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

12:00-2:00PM ART MUSEUM 713 A Shirley St $317,000 Prudential Fox & Roach WASH WEST 1024 Spruce St A $529,900 Prudential Fox & Roach ART MUSEUM 905 Corinthian St $599,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

12:30-2:30PM QUEEN VILLAGE 525 Fitzwater St. #15 $239,000 Coldwell B anker Preferred

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NAVAL SQ 500 Admirals Way #408 $429,000 Coldwell B anker Preferred

WASH SQ WEST 1109 Spruce St. #4 $185,000 Coldwell B anker Preferred

3:00-4:00PM SOCIETY HILL 210 W Washington Sq #PH $2 ,500,000 Prudential Fox & Roach RITTENHOUSE SQ 1924 Rittenhouse Sq $899,000 Prudential Fox & Roach RITTENHOUSE SQ 250 S 18th St #902 $799,000 Prudential Fox & Roach SOCIETY HILL 210 W Washington Sq #2SW $725,000 Prudential Fox & Roach PACKER PARK 2940 S Broad St $599,900 Prudential Fox & Roach SOCIETY HILL 312 S Philip St $575,000 Prudential Fox & Roach WASH SQ WEST 420 S Jessup St $555,000 Prudential Fox & Roach GIRARD ESTATE 2449 S Garnet St $549,999 Prudential Fox & Roach

WASH SQ 1126 Rodman St $429,000 Prudential Fox & Roach QUEEN VILLAGE 771-75 S 2nd St, #Unit H $419,000 Prudential Fox & Roach N LIBERTIES 223 Fairmount St $399,000 Prudential Fox & Roach LOGAN SQ 2301 Cherry St #4J $399,000 Prudential Fox & Roach LOGAN SQ 2301 Cherry St #12E $382 ,500 Prudential Fox & Roach PASSYUNK SQ 1333 S 10th St $359,000 Prudential Fox & Roach FISHTOWN 2514 Sepviva St $215,000 Prudential Fox & Roach WASH SQ WEST 928 Irving St $209,900 Prudential Fox & Roach CHINATOWN 1010 Race St #8K $179,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

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NAVAL SQ 2421 Grays Ferry Ave $519,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

LOGAN SQ 2301 Cherry St., 12 ìEî Riverís Edge Condominium $382 ,500 Prudential Fox & Roach

OLD CITY 209 Cuthbert St. #301 $389,900 Coldwell B anker Preferred

GIRARD ESTATE 2447 S Garnet St $495,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

N LIBERTIES 223 Fairmount St $399,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

BELLA VISTA 732 Montrose St $339,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

OLD CITY 309-313 Arch St. #308 $319,000 Coldwell B anker Preferred

PENNSPORT 404 Federal St $479,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

RITTENHOUSE SQ 509 S 21st St $439,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

ART MUSEUM 756-58 N Bucknell St $549,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

SOCIETY HILL 604 S Washington Sq #1110 $299,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

WASH SQ WEST 1109 Spruce St. # 3R $180,000 Coldwell B anker Preferred

N LIBERTIES 805 N Lawrence St $459,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

N LIBERTIES 805 N Lawrence St $459,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

RITTENHOUSE SQ 202 W Rittenhouse Sq #2606 $1 ,795,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

AVE OF THE ARTS 1215 S Juniper St $545,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

WASH SQ WEST 1233 Lombard St $299,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

WASH SQ WEST 1109 Spruce St. # 2R $225,000 Coldwell B anker Preferred

BELLA VISTA 620 Christian St #1C&D $456,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

PENNSPORT 404 Federal St $479,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

ART MUSEUM 2524 Aspen St $549,000 Coldwell B anker Preferred

RITTENHOUSE SQ 336 S 21st St $1 ,495,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

RITTENHOUSE PLAZA 1901 Walnut St #7F $539,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

ART MUSEUM 937 N B ambrey St $199,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

GRAD HOSPITAL 2155 Montrose St $450,000 Coldwell B anker Preferred

RITTENHOUSE SQ 509 S 21st St $439,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

GRAD HOSPITAL 2421 Grays Ferry St $519,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

BELLA VISTA 919 Christian St $329,900 Coldwell B anker Preferred

RITTENHOUSE SQ 2125 Pine St $1 , 395,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

FITLER SQ 609 S B ambrey St $479,900 Prudential Fox & Roach

QUEEN VILLAGE 131 Catharine St $248,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

WASH SQ WEST 255 S. Hutchinson St $250,000 Coldwell B anker Preferred

GRAD HOSPITAL 1920 Montrose St $439,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

SOCIETY HILL 312 S Philip St $575,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

RITTENHOUSE SQ 1805 Pine St $2 , 290,000 Prudential Fox & Roach

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The Lanesborough 1601 Locust street

parc riTTenhouse 225 s. 18th street

Entire floor 3 bedroom, 3.5 bathroom home, 270 degree views, high end finishes & features throughout, 3419 sf

Brand new with 2 bedrooms plus den, 2 baths, very large windows overlooking the center of the Square, upgraded finishes, 2221 sf

$1,900,000

$1,395,000

The phiLadeLphian 2401 pennsylvania avenue

independence pLace 233 s. 6th street

Bi-Level penthouse with 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, large balconies, 16’ ceilings, 4207 sf

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, custom renovations throughout, balcony, fabulous Washington Square & Locust Walk view, 1173 sf

$699,000

$579,000

The riTTenhouse 210 W. rittenhouse square

academy house 1420 Locust street

Studio, wonderful sunset view, large marble bathroom, hardwood floors, 583 sf

1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, high floor, wood floors throughout, updated kitchen and bath, 861 sf

$379,900

$245,000

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ART MUSEUM

open sunday 11/21 2:00 - 2:30pM

Duplex penthouse, 3BR, 2.5BA, balc. w/panoramic city and Fairmount views, high ceilings, bright & sunny throughout 4,049 sf of completely customizable space that can be designed to the buyer’s desire 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, unobstructed city skyline views, wood floors, large balcony, 2017 sf

open sunday 11/21 1:30 - 2:00pM

1 bedroom, 1 bath, brand new kitchen and bath, wood floors, Art Museum view 2,205 sf of completely customizable space that can be designed to the buyer’s desire

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Total Square Footage

Price

Minimum Income Monthly Cost Monthly Tax Total Incld. Mtg, Condo Savings in a 31% for 10% Down Cash Fee & Taxes Tax Bracket Required Financing

Monthly After Tax Cost

4,207 4,049 2,017

$699,000* $179,830 $271,026 $599,900* $153,493 $243,586 $579,900* $149,496 $191,032

$6,324 $5,684 $4,457

$852 $646 $698

$5,471 $5,038 $3,760

1000 2,205

$289,900 $275,000

$43,267 $40,731

$96,341 $86,724

$2,248 $2,024

$309 $291

$1,939 $1,733

$57,483

$1,341

$190

$1,152

Renovated studio, wood floors throughout, open kitchen, large balcony with city skyline view

567

$175,000

$26,306

Location

AVENUE OF THE ARTS

Total Square Footage

Price

Minimum Income Monthly Cost Monthly Tax Total Incld. Mtg, Condo Savings in a 31% for 10% Down Cash Fee & Taxes Tax Bracket Required Financing

Monthly After Tax Cost

the grande acadeMy house acadeMy house center city one acadeMy house acadeMy house center city one

Bi-level penthouse, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, wood floors, large high-end kitchen 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, renovated kitchen and master bath, large balcony One bedroom, one bath, upgraded kitchen and bath, Juliet balcony, W/D 1 bedroom, 1 bath, high floor, balcony with panoramic views of the city to the south, excellent closet space, W/D 1 bedroom, 1 bath, panoramic southern views, Juliet balcony, renovated bath and kitchen 1 bedroom, 1 bath, high floor, wood floors throughout, updated kitchen and bath 1 bedroom, 1 bath, spacious balcony, magnificent city views to the south, abundant natural light

1,437 1,111 705 897 705 861 873

$475,000 $375,000 $289,000 $259,900 $259,900 $245,000 $240,000

$65,578 $56,157 $42,702 $41,412 $39,043 $37,511 $36,972

$2,824 $2,473 $1,772 $1,720 $1,661 $1,710 $1,563

Location

RITTENHOUSE SQUARE

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Penthouse, 2 bedrooms, 2 full baths, 2 half baths, high end finishes and appointments throughout, balcony with city views 3bedroom+den, 3.5 baths, marble foyer, formal dining rm, sunny eat-in kitchen, 10’ ceilings, moldings, oak herring bone floors, 3 gas fireplaces 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, brand new, very high ceilings, his and hers master baths, custom kitchen, exquisite detail throughout.

Tri-level penthouse with 1600 sq ft of terrace space, being sold unfinished, private elevator access 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 270 degree views including Rittenhouse Square, chefs kitchen, upgraded throughout 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, study/den, open floor plan, coffered ceilings throughout, chefs kitchen, luxurious master suite 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, herringbone wood floors, EIK, crown molding and other custom finishes throughout, Rittenhouse Square views 2 bedrooms plus den, 2 baths, den/study, high ceilings, oversized windows overlooking Rittenhouse Square, upgraded custom kitchen, sun soaked master suite 2 bedrooms plus den, 2.5 baths, large balcony over Rittenhouse Square, open kitchen, hardwood floors, marble baths 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, upgraded kitchen, original hardwood floors and molding, lots of light 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, hardwood floors, 270 desgree views, open kichen, marble baths, custom closets, W/D 3BR, 3BA, Bamboo flrs., spac. Kit w/custom wood cabinetry, granite countertops, marble baths, 3 exposures, gym and hotel services 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, completely renovated with high end finishes, views of Rittenhouse Square from every room 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, terrace on pool club deck, open custom kitchen, marble baths, wood floors 2 bedrooms + den, 3 baths,gourmet kitchen, marble baths, walk-in-closets, hardwood floors 2bedrooms, 1.5baths, windows overlooking Rittenhouse Square, old world charm, spacious kitchen, formal dining room 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, southern exposure from every room, marble baths, open chefs kitchen, maple hardwood floors 1 bedroom, 1.5 baths, eat in kitchem, beautiful sunset views, master suite with large marble bath Two bedrooms, two baths, hardwood floors, old world charm with modern features Two bedrooms, two baths, hardwood floors, building offers 24 hour doorman and gym, located on Rittenhouse Square 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, hardwood floors, marble bath, rooftop pool club and skyline view One bedroom, one bath, hardwood floors, marble bath, custom kitchen Studio, city views, large marble bath, hardwood floors, excellent natural light 1 bedroom, 1 bath, wood floors throughout, renovated kitchen and bathroom, bay windows with city views Studio, high floor with city views, walk in closest, wood floors, marble bath Studio, high floor, view of Rittenhouse Square, wood floors excellent closet space

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$3,500,000* $834,620 $2,900,000* $666,258 $2,750,000* $636,038 $2,500,000* $579,879 $1,975,000* $475,252 $1,900,000* $510,871 $2,195,000* $511,632 $1,395,000* $349,934 $1,075,000* $306,402 $1,295,500* $309,704 $1,290,000* $174,122 $1,350,000* $181,323 $995,000* $242,439 $839,000* $201,948 $829,000* $115,051 $725,000* $145,000 $625,000* $149,666 $599,000* $147,283 $595,000* $143,766 $550,000* $133,706 $497,500 $119,226 $399,900 $53,426 $379,900 $55,358 $319,000 $46,421 $229,900 $32,772 $215,000 $33,082

Location

SOCIETY HILL

Total Square Footage

Price

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Entire Floor Residence, 2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, custom open kitchen, designer baths, panoramic river and city views 2 bedrooms plus den, 2.5 baths, hardwood floors, high-end open kitchen, designer bathrooms Two bedrooms, one bath, parquet wood floors, washer/dryer, unobstructed river views, floor-to-ceiling windows Corner 1 bedroom, northwest view, wood floors in living room, updated kitchen One bedroom, one bath, river views, custom kitchen and bath One bedroom, high floor, river view, investment opportunity 1BR, 1BA, magnificent river views, high floor, wood floors throughout Raw space that can be customized to the buyers desires, hotel services and amenities available

2423 2,117 1,133 775 700 700 700 1,286

$1,200,000* $281,398 $799,000* $207,313 $399,000 $58,788 $329,900 $47,977 $297,500 $43,513 $290,000 $42,577 $275,000 $40,731 $269,000 $41,367

Location

WASHINGTON SQUARE

Total Square Footage

Price

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3 bedrooms, 3 baths, east facing river and city views, modern kitchem, hardwood floors, balcony, laundry room 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, open chefs kitchen, upgraded bathrooms, hardwood floors, balcony 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, hardwood floors, upgraded kitchen and baths, granite wet bar 1 bedroom, 2 baths, plus den, completely renovated with custom kitchen and designer baths, balcony, hardwood floors 1 bedroom, 1.5 baths, alcove, Washington Square views, completely upgraded throughout 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, wood floors, balcony, southern exposure Deluxe 1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcomy with views of Washington Square and the river, renovated kitchen and bath 1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, laundry room, excellent condition 1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, excellent value

3,015 1,977 1,977 1,173 1,118 1,200 1,063 928 928

$1,250,000* $250,000 $975,000* $234,783 $769,000* $187,954 $579,000* $139,761 $499,900 $71,144 $349,900 $56,515 $350,000 $53,908 $299,900 $44,212 $290,000 $42,132

WATERFRONT

Total Square Footage

Price

Total Cash Required

1 bedroom, 1 bath, wood floors, balcony, high end finishes in kitchen and bath

924

$239,900

$42,318

$572 $396 $296 $299 $272 $260 $271

Minimum Income Monthly Cost Monthly Tax Total Monthly Incld. Mtg, Condo Savings in a 31% After Tax for 10% Down Cash Fee & Taxes Tax Bracket Required Financing Cost

$889,056 $619,296 $607,268 $557,842 $522,588 $505,196 $501,005 $362,728 $304,997 $318,887 $373,141 $371,644 $273,743 $206,151 $246,527 $217,432 $158,380 $170,623 $153,060 $146,037 $116,911 $106,710 $114,993 $91,365 $62,166 $66,762

$20,745 $14,450 $14,170 $13,016 $12,194 $11,788 $11,690 $8,464 $7,117 $7,440 $8,707 $8,672 $6,387 $4,810 $5,752 $5,073 $3,696 $3,981 $3,571 $3,408 $2,728 $2,490 $2,683 $2,132 $1,451 $1,558

$3,725 $2,632 $2,605 $2,351 $2,124 $2,101 $2,094 $1,511 $1,320 $1,321 $1,757 $1,795 $1,090 $855 $992 $2,938 $631 $659 $619 $580 $447 $486 $401 $352 $226 $4248

Minimum Income Monthly Cost Monthly Tax Total Incld. Mtg, Condo Savings in a 31% for 10% Down Cash Fee & Taxes Tax Bracket Required Financing

$298,478 $217,014 $128,086 $98,340 $90,659 $89,976 $86,724 $95,821

$6,694 $5,064 $2,989 $2,295 $2,115 $2,099 $2,024 $2,236

$1,124 $844 $427 $344 $309 $302 $291 $303

Minimum Income Monthly Cost Monthly Tax Total Incld. Mtg, Condo Savings in a 31% for 10% Down Cash Fee & Taxes Tax Bracket Required Financing

$319,246 $235,988 $198,717 $140,111 $135,733 $122,407 $115,998 $87,809 $83,461

$7,449 $5,506 $4,637 $3,269 $3,167 $2,856 $2,707 $2,049 $1,947

Minimum Income for 10% Down Financing

$90,810

Monthly Cost Incld. Mtg, Condo Fee & Taxes

$2,119

$17,020 $11,818 $11,565 $10,665 $10,070 $9,687 $9,597 $6,953 $5,796 $6,119 $6,949 $6,877 $5,298 $3,956 $4,761 $4,251 $3,064 $3,323 $2,953 $2,827 $2,281 $2,003 $2,282 $1,780 $1,225 $1,310 Monthly After Tax Cost

$5,841 $4,291 $2,562 $1,951 $1,806 $1,798 $1,733 $1,933 Monthly After Tax Cost

$1,403 $1,053 $868 $613 $524 $417 $410 $327 $302

$6,046 $4,453 $3,769 $2,656 $2,643 $2,439 $2,297 $1,722 $1,645

Monthly Tax Savings in a 31% Tax Bracket

Monthly After Tax Cost

$315

$1,804

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$3,348 $2,869 $2,068 $2,019 $1,933 $1,970 $1,834

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Total Square Footage

$143,483 $122,944 $88,613 $86,520 $82,852 $84,440 $78,608

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