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[0 ] Eagles beat writers Les Bowen of the Daily News and Jeff McLane of the Inquirer feud on Twitter, then throw punches in person. It ends with Bowen lopping off McLane’s hand and suggesting they rule Philadelphia’s print media coverage of the 1-and-3 foot-ball team together as father and son.

[ +1] The Franklin Institute announces plans for a $10 million expansion after re ceiving its largest donation ever. It’ll just be storage lockers full of corp ses in un dig nified poses. Gawking is free with ad mission. Poking them with a stick costs extra.

[ -2 ] A Glenside man is charged with extortion after threatening to post sex tapes of his girlfriend on the Web if she doesn’t pay him $3,000. “I almost went along with it,” she says. “But then I thought: Who pays for porn anymore?”

[ +2] A Berks County dog’s burned paws are hea ling after he’s injected with stem cells, tho ugh some experts say the dog healed on his own. Others say Jesus did it, but even the dog knows that’s bullshit.

[ -3 ] A necropsy reveals that a whale that washed up in Brigantine had been shot in the jaw. N.J. Gov. Chris Christie wept openly at the death of his spirit animal.

[0 ] Ex-mayoral candidate Al Taubenberger hires a polling company that asks negative questions about all Republicans running for City Council, including himself. “Aw geez,” sighs Taubenberger. “I can’t do nothin’ right.” Then he goes to look at his watch and orange juice all over himself.

[ -6 ] Police arrest a Delaware woman and a Philadelphia man after learning she plan-ned to sell her newborn to him for $15,000. Dude, don’t you know cops are just wait-ing at the border trying to catch baby-tax dodgers?

[0 ] A new 8,500-square-foot, $5.9 million Welcome Center opens on Pennsylvania’s border with Delaware. According to cur-rent conversion rates, that’s 19,666.67 babies! And, about 17,000 babies can fit inside! (Assuming two per square foot, plus wiggle room.)

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TRUTH BE TOLD?Chasing down rumor, reality and political power in Southwest Philly. By Daniel Denvir

I t started with mysterious newsletters signed only “N.T.” arriving at the front doors of the small and tidy rowhouses lining the nar-row streets of West Shore, a neighborhood in Southwest Philly.

“Article 100 B” is dated July 29, 2011. 11 o’clock. This edition of the newsletter purports to offer a “solution to the new tax increase that’s going to hit the seniors in the community in a bad way.”

The author, however, mainly deals with local real estate.“A young friend of mine was telling me that he was going to buy a

building from Billy V,” it reads. “I replied, back to him, he is not going to sell you the building because the building is purchased with the secret funds. They buy the building just to let it sit and fall. If he sells it to you they will kill him. No bet!!”

“Article 100 C” is dated Sept. 5, 2011, 2 p.m. Its ruminations are more wide-ranging . One assertion is that the neighbor-hood association is involved in shady business “connected to the Councilwoman.” The “feds have now took over the investigation” of some missing funds, alleging that “they charged the taxpayer $350.00 to have a baby shower in the playground.” The community will have to meet somewhere secure to discuss the matter. The playground might be “Bugged and the Phone is probably Tapped.”

➤ “I THINK THEY’RE pretty good,” said a butcher who goes by

Mommas, sitting on her friend’s front porch. “Lets you know what’s going on.” Mommas doesn’t know who writes the newsletters, but said she saw two young children deliver them.

“Some of the stuff, I don’t understand what he’s talking about,” said neighbor Gloria Rahim, suggesting I visit a nearby block cap-tain. When I walked up to her porch brandishing the newsletter, the block captain, Lucille Fletcher, immediately identified its author: “That’s my brother.”

Lucille Feltcher, 76, is a fixture here and beyond. A 1983 Sports Illustrated profile de scribed her life as a licensed boxing judge and the mother of two local boxing champions. She answers the phone

with a message that varies only by time of day: “Praise the Lord, good morning.”

One person she does not sing the praises of is longtime City Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell, explaining the fervor

behind her brother’s cryptic newsletters: “We’re getting sold out.” Blackwell’s late husband, former Congressman and City Councilman Lucien Blackwell, “would have never done anything like that.”

Done anything like what? Neighbors are struggling to compre-hend and control violence and poverty on the one hand, and rising property values in an expanding “University City” on the other. In such a context, the newsletters, like the social bonds that make up any neighborhood, take time to unravel and read clearly.

➤ “THERE ARE TWO separate issues,” explained Kevin Brown, a neighbor. And he doesn’t really care about the second one. What

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The newslet-ter “lets you know what’s going on.”

WHO KNEW: Lucille Fletcher provided the

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he wants to talk about is Narie Grayson, who directs the 48th and Woodland Recreation Center and who Brown alleges stole money.

Bank records show that checks were cashed, including some made out for cash, signed by a man named John Ross, dated up until March 18 — the day before Ross died. Ross’ obituary says the former City Commissioner employee and Democratic committeeperson had a “very special relationship” with Blackwell.

A checkbook full of blank checks with Ross’ signature were found in the playground office . The City Inspector General conducted a full report, said Parks and Recreation Commissioner Susan Slawson, and while it found “financial discrepancies,” it didn’t uncover theft.

“The woman is a minister,” said Blackwell about Grayson. “I’ve known her for years.”

“Everyone in this neighborhood who has a city job knows Jannie Blackwell,” said Brown, who accuses Blackwell of working for the University of Pennsylvania’s interests and against locals. “This is what goes on. This is ghetto politics.”

➤ “DON’T FORGET ABOUT us, Jannie,” a protester yelled as City Council met last week to discuss a proposed overhaul of the zoning code, a process usually described as a good-government effort to streamline woefully out-of-date rules that stymie development. At least in one case, however, activists say the zoning code update has been hijacked by special interests — and by Blackwell.

Fletcher and her neighbors are concerned about what is, depend-ing on your perspective, either a re-entry facility or private prison slated for 5213 Grays Ave.: 400 beds for prisoners, 100 beds for ex-offenders, and a day reporting center for parolees. Community activ-ists are trying to convince a judge to overturn the facility’s zoning

variance, and thus keep it from opening. But the developers have a Plan B: Blackwell has proposed guidelines to add “re-entry facility” as a new use category in the zoning code, thereby making one easier to open. The developers say that language is part of the problem: Neighbors misinterpret the project since documents must list the site as a “private prison.” The other problem, according to Blackwell, is political.

“They were misled intentionally by [state Sen.] Anthony Williams,” said Blackwell, regarding the purpose of the center. “It’s a re-entry program. The people are frightened, and I feel sorry for them.”

Blackwell and Williams, who have a long-running distaste for one another, form the two centers of gravity around which

the constellations of West and Southwest Philadelphia politics orbit. Both are scions of legend-ary politicians : Jannie’s late husband Lucien, and Anthony’s father Hardy, a pioneering state senator . There’s a lot of history

between them: U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah ousted Lucien Blackwell in 1994 with Hardy Williams’ support, and Hardy Williams broke with other black politicians to support Ed Rendell’s successful 1991 campaign for mayor, where Rendell beat Lucien Blackwell and another black candidate.

The current struggle over the re-entry facility is “about power and who has power in the area,” Blackwell said. “[Williams] says he’s not gonna fight, but he fights me any way he can.”

So what gives Vision-Nary Community Re-Entry Centers (VCRC), the company that plans to open the facility, power? A call to the company’s listed number was answered at Dr. David

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A struggle about “who has power in the area.”

✚ Truth Be Told?<<< continued from previous page

SHARE HER STRENGTHOur cover story about HIV-positive Mount Airy pas-tor and AIDS activist Andrena Ingram [“Preaching Out,” Josh Middleton, Sept. 29] caused citypaper.net commenter katied01 to cheer: “Good for her for turning her life around and being strong and selfless enough to share her story with others. She is certainly a great role model now!”

STICK IT TO ’EMIn his review of Thai spot Sawatdee [“Mellow Hello,” Adam Erace, Sept. 29], Erace complained that it’s a place “where you have to ask for chopsticks.” Wait a minute there, said John J.T.: “Know how to get chopsticks in Bangkok? Eat at a Chinese restaurant! Asking for chopsticks in a Thai res-taurant guarantees you will not be getting a true Thai level of spice. And truthfully, the real stuff is too hot for farangs.”

FIRED UPA “Man Overboard!” column about the accessibility and prevalence of high-powered guns on Philly streets [“Gun Occupied,” Isaiah Thompson, Sept. 22] inspired many people to comment — and dis-agree. Wrote cerberus413: “Why is it that anti-gun nuts never seem to whine about the people per-petrating the crimes? How many times are these individuals repeat offenders? Ninety to 95 percent of the time? I easily lose count of how many times I hear ‘repeat offender … out on bail.’”

JIDinPhilly elaborated: “What you fail to under-stand is that the incidents you mentioned about gun violence in the city were committed by people who aren’t allowed to have guns in the first place. Children and felons are two examples of people not allowed to possess a gun. They are already breaking the law [if they have a gun] and no new law would have any effect on them. Any more gun control only hurts me, the law-abiding citizen. The criminal does not care about gun laws, or most laws for that matter. So why would we add more restrictions and laws that have no effect on these animals? It’s a rhetorical question, of course. Gun crime is not a gun problem, it’s a people problem.”

And NPhilly noted: “It’s a Pennsylvania License to Carry Firearm, NOT a Philadelphia LTCF. Why should Philly have the ‘right’ to pass its own restrictive gun laws?”

✚ We welcome and encourage your feedback. Mail let-ters to Feedback, City Paper, 123 Chestnut St., 3rd Floor, Phila., PA 19106. E-mail editorial@citypaper.net or com-ment online at citypaper.net. Submissions may be edited for clarity and space.

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Watt’s Vineland, N.J., medical office. the company includes former Delaware Prison commissioner Stan taylor and former wardens. records show that a lawyer named Darwin beauvais, who up until March sat on the Zoning code commission that is rewriting the zoning code, represents Vcrc. blackwell appointed beauvais, her former lawyer, to the commission.

Political connections, however, are how things get done, and there is a clear need to help former pris-oners reintegrate: ex-offenders with stable employ-ment are less likely to commit another crime. “It’s about creating something positive,” blackwell said.

but neighbors don’t want it. “If these prisons are so great, why isn’t there one in the bala cynwyd area?” asked resident Lilliana Davis.

➤ Last thursday, FLetcher invited me to a meeting of block captains. they discussed the assault of a neighbor, a blanket drive, a campaign to get young people to pull up their pants, and blackwell’s support for the re-entry center/prison.

“this neighborhood has become a dumping ground,” said Gregory benjamin, the group’s presi-

dent. “Ain’t nobody trying to dis-respect her. because I voted for her. We can disagree.”

I came to track down Fletcher’s brother, newsletter author Nathaniel turner, a bespec-tacled man who talks in the same cadence in which he writes. Whenever turner spoke, people got angry — once when he called for civil disobedience, once when he suggested that white com-munities had similar problems, and once when he dropped the f-bomb. All at the same meeting.

“Nate, you say some things that you shouldn’t,” said benjamin.

During the meeting, Fletcher told the crowd that she had heard that Penn was planning to take over the Kingsessing rec center, while the University of the Sciences had its sights on the 48th Street playground. though it sounded implausible, the room nodded in assent. It’s hard to separate fact from fiction when you can’t control what’s happen-ing on your block.

(daniel.denvir@citypaper.net)

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“Ain’t nobody trying to disrespect her. I voted for her.”

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a remarkably agile and increasingly far-reaching institution: Unelected and largely unfettered by bureaucracy, he might be called something of a Center City monarch.

The viaduct is just the latest of Levy’s many ambitious dreams for Philly. And it’s exactly the kind of project he just might pull off: slightly im-

possible, somewhat contentious and probably on his own terms.

OF HIS VARIOUS radical ideas, perhaps the most radical idea Paul Levy ever had — and, it would turn out, the smartest — was to believe that the filthy, neglected, crime-ridden Center City of the 1980s was Philly’s ticket to success.

He had already abandoned one city, coming to Philly after getting laid off from teaching public schools during a 1972 budget crisis in New York. He worked at a toy store on South Street, and then in a series of political jobs centered around housing, including a stint at the city’s Office of Housing and Community Development and in an organization called the Central Philadelphia Development Corp.

In 1991, City Council authorized a new entity: the Center City District (CCD), a “business improvement district,” legally its own quasi-municipality, with Levy in charge. Its mission was to improve life in Center City, and it had the power to im-pose an extra surcharge from property owners in the district to do it.

The early days of the CCD seem rather quaint. One of its earliest initiatives, called “Make It a Night,” was to persuade businesses, most of which closed as soon as offices did, to stay open to the wee hours of 8 p.m.: “A lot of change comes from gradual improvements,” Levy explains.

The program expanded to advertising, street cleaning, tree planting — and then to bigger goals. As the housing market bubbled upward, Levy and his organiza-tion tried to persuade owners of vacant office space to convert to condos. It proved a smart decision: Businesses might not have moved en masse to Center City throughout the ’90s and ’00s, but people did. In 2005, as condos boomed, the district began to tax them, as well.

And there seem to be few voices of dissent, aside from an ongoing lawsuit by Center City resident (and millionaire) Tom Knox and former Pa. Supreme Court justice Russell Nigro, who allege that Levy’s decision to grandfather pre-2005 condo owners out of the tax is illegal. Center City, everyone agrees, looks the best it has in decades. And Levy, almost everyone agrees, deserves some credit for it.

In 2006, he received the prestigious Philadelphia Award for his work in Center City. In the past decade, a handful of copycat improvement districts have sprung up, such as the Old City District, which credited Levy’s work as its inspiration. The CCD, though, remains the foremost example; when Old City decided to do its own street cleaning, it simply rented his workers and machines.

“Paul is almost singularly effective in terms of taking an idea and showing how it can happen,” summarizes Sam Little, president of the Logan Square Civic Association. “That’s one of the reasons he’s everywhere.”

INCREASINGLY, PAUL LEVY is everywhere.As Center City has become cleaner and wealthier, the CCD has taken on a

broader role — not always welcome by all. His support of a stadium and casino in Chinatown earned him that neighborhood’s wrath. His drive to reduce the home-less presence in Center City provoked the ire of social services advocates — though CCD, he’s proud to point out, has hired the formerly homeless as street cleaners.

Levy’s even taken up the cause of public education, recently addressing a Society Hill crowd on the need to get involved in the city’s public and charter schools.

“I couldn’t possibly disagree with him more about the casino,” acknowledges schools activist Helen Gym, “but he genuinely cares about quality education for Philadelphia kids. It’s not something you often find in the business community.”

The CCD has expanded geographically, as well — past its own borders, in fact. In June 2010, the CCD began to engage in a series of public improvements on the Parkway, which lies outside its assessment district. Levy has authorized street cleaning in Chinatown, even though that neighborhood, too, lies outside his dis-trict. He even presided over the building of a fountain in Headhouse Square

— more than a stone’s throw from the CCD, though not so far, as a few crit-ics pointed out to City Paper, from his own Society Hill home. “Families love it,” Levy explains.

Levy’s been able to skip past the ostensible boundaries of his orga-nization thanks to the surprisingly complex and brilliantly powerful construction of his organization. The CCD is, effectively, three or-ganizations operating as one, each with Levy at its head. It’s a legal municipality, periodically reautho-rized by City Council. It’s also, ef-fectively, a nonprofit: Technically, it “partners” with the nonprofit orga-nization the Central Philadelphia Development Corp., which shares the CCD’s office, staff and leader (Levy). Unlike the CCD, it’s a 501(c)3 cor-poration, eligible to receive tax-free donations from foundations. It’s also a foundation: Levy is the executive director and CEO of the Center City District Foundation. Levy’s salary as

head of all three organizations is just over $350,000, with benefits.

The CCD is, effectively, whatever it wants to be, an arrangement that affords Levy tremendous author-ity over an enormous budget — not always a bad thing in a city that has to hold fundraisers to keep swim-ming pools open. “This is what’s going to happen all over the city in the near future,” says Deputy Mayor of Planning and Economic Development Alan Greenberger. “You’re going to see these quasi-public and quasi-pri-vate partnerships … all in the mix to make things happen.”

Others see a worrisome concen-tration of power. More than one former staffer interviewed by CP described the CCD’s processes as being highly internal and largely unaccountable, driven almost en-tirely by Levy himself.

“You can call up and say, ‘My street is dirty,’ and they’ll come clean it,”

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THE CCD’S PROGRAMS HAVE EXPANDED PAST ITS OWN BORDERS.

PARK PLACE: Levy has gotten behind the proposed park on the Reading viaduct, a plan opposed by a group of Chinatown residents. PHOTOGRAPH BY MARK STEHLE

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says one former staffer. “But when it comes to how the money’s spent, there’s maybe 20 people with a direct line to Paul.”

“Here you have a private group within a sub-group of private people who make all the deci-sions. … One of the things that makes CCD so effective is it has a strong leader. He wants to get

stuff done, and he gets stuff done.”

THE CENTER CITY District’s upcoming renovation of Dilworth Plaza, the “front yard” of City Hall, is without doubt the most ambitious and grandiose project Levy has taken on yet. And some call it his biggest coup.

Created in the mid-’70s, along with the two adjacent public plazas “as pedestals for buildings, rather than parks for people,” as Inquirer architecture critic Inga Saffron has opined, the plaza has long been criticized for its bleak surface, fortress-like walls and general unpopularity.

Levy has been kicking around the idea for a large-scale renovation for Dilworth Plaza for some time. The details have evolved, but the gist involves covering over the plaza’s large holes that access the lower level and creating a wide, traversable space — part of which could become an ice rink — with new subway entrances that lead to a renovated, public-art-imbued transit access area below. The design has earned a great amount of praise.

In August 2010, the CCD submitted an application for a Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant, part of the 2008 National Recovery Act. The move surprised some city insiders: According to several sources, SEPTA, which also submitted a TIGER grant proposal for its long-awaited New Payment Technology (aka “smart cards”), had expected that the powers-that-be would support it. TIGER grants, after all, were for transportation.

Instead, that October, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced that the CCD had been awarded $15 million in capital funding for Levy’s Dilworth proj-ect. Suddenly, the CCD was in charge of arguably the most visible public project in years. City insiders say the planning community was caught off guard.

“SEPTA had New Payment Technology, the City Hall station is crumbling, the streets department had put in for bridgework,” explains one source. “We knew CCD had submitted, but no one took it seriously.”

With the grant money in CCD’s hands, SEPTA now faced the prospect of possibly having to undertake the renovation of the City Hall station — a feat of enormous engineering complexity — ahead of its own plans. Still, SEPTA has apparently gotten on board since. “Make no mistake,” says Byron Comate, director of strategic planning and analysis for SEPTA. “There’s a strong partnership here.”

Levy pooh-poohs the idea that he stepped on any toes. “Three grant proposals went to the federal authorities, and Mayor Nutter had signed off on all three,” he says.

But also of concern to some was the speed with which the Dilworth plan was moving. There was the issue, suddenly, of leasing a major, prominent public prop-erty to the privately run CCD. On Dec. 8, Council’s Committee on Public Property and Public Works held a hearing on a bill that would lease the plaza to Levy’s or-ganization for 30 years. The bill, introduced only six days prior, was surprisingly sparse: Just over two pages, it contained virtually no detail regarding how author-ity over the public space would be handled in its transfer from public to private hands — a point that bothered a few Council members.

“I mean, we have minimal influence over what you do,” Councilman Darrell Clarke pointed out at the hearing, asking for reassurance that the city would retain sub-stantial control over public events. Later in the hearing, Clarke noted, “The whole district prerogative thing works most times, but, you know, this is City Hall.”

“We understand that our authority is derived from this City Council,” Levy re-sponded. “You have our word.”

There was also the issue of public input and buy-in. Only one person appeared at that hearing in opposition: John Gallery, executive director of the city’s Preservation Alliance, who charged, “I have been involved in every public meeting on Dilworth Plaza in the last two years. I have not seen anything whatsoever in a year.”

The idea that Levy sometimes left the public out of his planning process is one that

clearly irks him, and which he hotly disputes. Asked about public involve-ment in the design for Dilworth Plaza, Levy provided CP with a list of some 59 presentations he’d given between spring 2008 and July 2011.

But Gallery isn’t the only one to have brought up this point. In February, the Inquirer’s Saffron, not-ing that the project was moving with “unusual speed,” wrote that some people were “upset that the project hasn’t had the same level of public back-and-forth as a city-run proj-ect” and that Levy had promised to present the newest plans “just days before hearings at the city’s Art and Historical Commissions.”

Levy responded with a sarcastic letter to the Inquirer — “If a project is publicly presented 43 times but a reporter is not there, did the presen-tations occur?” — but also a blitz of new presentations.

Several people interviewed by CP contrasted that experience with the

planning process for the city’s wa-terfront redevelopment plan, which included public sessions, workshops, citizen feedback periods and other op-portunities for broad public involve-ment. While Levy’s presentations have tended to be held before small groups of important people, such as boards of directors, city department heads and residents of Residences at the Ritz-Carlton, Penn Praxis pre-sented the waterfront plans to a diz-zying number of community groups — “the exact antithesis of how CCD operates,” as another former CCD staffer puts it. “Enormous public en-gagement, multiple meetings with all of the stakeholders … Paul just doesn’t operate that way.

“He’s a very brilliant guy, and I don’t throw that word around. He’s honest, he’s a straight-shooter, and he totally believes in what he’s doing. He just doesn’t give a shit what other people think.”

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PUBLIC BUY-IN IS ”THE EXACT ANTITHESIS OF HOW CCD OPERATES.”

ON THE REMAKE: A large-scale renovation of Dilworth Plaza would include covering over the current submerged levels.

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“I’m a total fan. It’s so un-Philadelphian to have somebody stake out a plan and pursue it,” counters attorney Steven Huntington, for-mer president of the Center City Residents’ Association. “He’s gone from ‘A’ to ‘B’ — that’s something to be admired.”

“He does have a lot of power, but he made it all himself. Nobody gave this to him,” says another longtime fan of Levy’s work. “A lot of people would like to have done what he’s done, and are jealous that they didn’t.”

ABOUT A WEEK ago, I was invited to a presentation by Levy on the Reading viaduct project — the ambitious dream, festering for a decade, to turn a piece of Philadelphia blight, a neighborhood problem no administration has solved thus far, into a remarkable elevated park. I had assumed the presentation was being held in response to the uproar over the creation of a Callowhill Neighborhood Improvement District a few weeks before — in other words, that Levy’s intent was to assuage disgruntled neighborhood residents and sell them on his idea. Then I realized it had been scheduled for 4 p.m.

The presentation, it turned out, was for a small handful of reporters, including the head of the Inquirer’s editorial board. Within a week two editorials appeared in the Inquirer, one backing the park, and the other saying the NID was a good idea.

It had been, to be fair, a heck of a presentation. In person, Levy is hardly regal: He’s affable, ex cited, infectiously optimistic. In PowerPoint slide after slide, a gar-bage-strewn track became a walking path; a rusty trestle became a vine-covered urban sculpture. A dis aster became a dreamscape.

For years, the idea of the viaduct park had been the decidedly underdog cause

of a few passionate neighborhood residents, notably John Struble and Sarah McEneaney. Since Levy’s com-ing on board, that’s changed. To Levy, the benefits are obvious: Such a park would spur investment and revital-ize an area so tantalizingly close to downtown it could become Philly’s next neighborhood success story. It is, for Levy and his organization, a Center City vision.

But it’s located at the epicenter of another vision, that of Philadelphia’s century-old Chinatown community to survive in the face of a slew of other Center City visions that have threatened to destroy it: Market East, the expanded Convention Center, a proposed stadium, the Vine Street Expressway, the pro-posed relocation of Foxwoods Casino. Chinatown residents unapologetical-ly fought each, sometimes losing but often winning. As Levy strays farther from his Center City kingdom, he’ll have to become less the monarch and

more the statesman.So far, despite the acrimony over

the proposed NID, Chinatown’s lead-ership still seems open to the via-duct park idea, provided it includes affordable housing. Levy’s laid out some ideas already, and Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corp. ex-ecutive director John Chin tells CP he finds them intriguing.

Last weekend, I climbed (illegally) onto the viaduct to see it for myself. Looking across the city skyline from that lonely, elevated track, it’s hard not to start dreaming.

“Any landscaper, any landscape architect we take up there, they just drool,” agreed Struble, the longtime viaduct proponent, later on the phone.

“Look, here’s what I think about Paul,” Struble suddenly volunteer ed. “If he was in Boston or New York or Chi cago instead of Philly, they’d all be saying, ‘How come we don’t have some-one like him here in Philadelphia?’”

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HIPS DON’T LIEBelly dancers unveil the hidden power of an underappreciated art form. By A.D. Amorosi

D espite its modern associations with late-night entertain-ment at dimly lit Moroccan restaurants, belly dancing — from the chiffon costumes to the Arabic music to those

sultry, sexy solos — is steeped in tradition. Without losing sight of the ancient movement genre’s rich history and customs, Philadelphia’s Barajagala Tribal Bellydance troupe sets the bar higher, or at least on a different plane: to be something freer, more modern, more uniquely theatrical.

Weaving Egyptian, folkloric, flamenco and Rajasthani dance steps with San Francisco tribal stepper Carolena Nericcio’s genre-bending Fat Chance Belly Dance moves, Barajagala prides itself on unchoreographed group motion. The improvisational parade is led by a dancer at stage left — decked out in a traditional costume embellished with textiles and jewelry, showcasing her individuality — who uses hand and head cues to introduce new movements.

“In its purest form, it is totally improvised — the format, the moves, who will the leaders be — all are created on the spot,” says Barajagala founder Irene Reinke, who holds tribal stepping classes in West Chester and Narberth. She’s inspired by Nericcio, who cre-ated the form and often speaks about being “filled with the goddess spirit” — but only if the proper posturing is achieved. “You will see a similar carriage in Argentine tango dancers and flamenco danc-

ers,” Reinke says. “Sometimes men are confused because they are expecting something else when they watch. I heard one man trying to explain it to a group of men by saying, ‘It’s sensual and sexy, but they’re not trying to seduce you.’” Indeed, belly dancing is alluring and undulating — but it’s not about sex, it’s about strength.

Troupe member Pamela Hall feels deeply empowered by the art form. “It’s only danced with groups of women, and the energy, power and beauty of the dance can enrich your self-esteem — so much so,” Hall points out, “that psychotherapists have been known to use belly dance as part of their treatment to increase their

patients’ self-confidence.”“I consider it to be the jazz of

dance forms,” says fellow mem-ber Alicia Fisher, who describes feeling something click in her body when she began study-ing with Reinke and moving

forward as a performer. “I got a certain feeling — like some maternal lineage was activated that led all the way back to ancient temple dancers. I could feel it in my mitochondria.” Fisher was drawn to the idea of learning a new movement vocabulary based entirely on sub-tle cues and transitions. “I also love that it’s all about women step-ping up as leaders and then allowing space for other women to lead,” says Fisher. “This collaborative co-creation between dancers to me is a metaphor for how we live our lives — women together celebrating themselves and each other.”

(a_amorosi@citypaper.net)

✚ Barajagala Tribal Bellydance presents Mystique, Sat., Oct. 8, 8 p.m., $10, HeadHouse Restaurant, 122 Lombard St., second floor, btribalbellydance.com.

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➤ LONG BEFORE I started packing Ice for your reading pleasure, I did Billboard singles chart reports — essentially filling jukeboxes around the world from a little old record biz one-stop just doors away from J&J Trestle Inn up north on 11th Street. The former shot-beer-and-strip joint for ladies will-ing to peel down to their bikinis was the weirdest post-work happy hour spot a boy like me could’ve imagined. Kids. Fast forward to January 2010, when Icepack dropped the exclusive word that Mad Decent Mausoleum owner Wes “Diplo” Pentz had purchased the Trestle Inn. What a scoop! Except it was wrong. Now skip ahead to today, when there’s finally legit news to be had, thanks to actual owners Josette Bonafina and Ian Cross. Within the next week or so, Inn’s whiskey and go-go-girl vibe will be ret to rip, with peeps from Peek-A-Boo Revue and one-time Shampoo management in on the big peel and reveal. A soft opening should occur sometime between Oct. 7 and Oct. 10, with a DesignPhiladelphia burlesque hairstyle event on Oct. 13. ➤ Now that the Weiss brothers’ gloriously grimy Woody’s bar in the Gayborhood is shined up to new luster with designer beers and brilliant light systems galore, there’s a sad word going around that Tre Rios, longtime GM of the whole Weiss Philly operation (Voyeur, Woody’s), is leaving the bros. Say it ain’t so. ➤ For those who haven’t heard: Three-4-Tens’ psych-pop guitarist Jamie Mahon has gone the way of hard distorted soul and skuzzy Black Keys-ish blues with his new band, St. James & The Apostles. They’ll take part in a night of rockabilly, rap and R&B at Little Bar, Oct. 7, with Full Blown Cherry and members of Sgt. Sass in tow. Hallelujah. ➤ SugarHouse Casino is getting ready to build that additional garage it’s long been discussing, perhaps a little bit shorter than intended — yes — but with just enough room to leave your kids unattended to for loooong stretches of time far from the doors of the betting parlor. Yowzah. ➤ Don’t forget, Jake, it’s Chinatown that has your next big dark Night Market: Oct. 6, 7 p.m., 10th and Race. Look for non-neighbors like Say Cheese, Pitruco Pizza and Chewy’s to join with the banh mi salesmen from Vernalicious for a lion-roaring good time. ➤ Martin Hoeger from Philly’s power pop monster Illinois has been in the planning stages of a train-resembling South Hampton bar and American fusion-food-filled grill called Steam: A Pub Evolution. If you hear them looking for money or see something on Kickstarter, send a buck. ➤ Philly jazz-bo pianist Orrin Evans starts a Third Thursday monthly at Society Hill Playhouse starting Oct. 20 with future guests including Duane Eubanks and Wade Dean. Thankfully. ➤ Ice gets illustrated at citypaper.net/criticalmass.

(a_amorosi@citypaper.net)

icepackBy A.D. Amorosi

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CYMBAL OF STRENGTH: Irene Reinke, whose troupe performs this

weekend in Headhouse Square, says belly

dancing helps her feel as though she is “fi lled

with the goddess spirit” — but only if she gets

the postures just right.

NEAL SANTOS

“It’s sexy, but they’re not trying to seduce you.”

[ talking fast and spinning faster ]

THE IDES OF MARCH[ B ] IF GEORGE CLOONEY had even one ounce of whimsy in him, he might have affixed a telling subtitle to his new campaign-trail thriller — The Ides of March: Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Game. The director and star asserts that even the most vigor-ous idealist will eventually get stuck by the dirty needle that is American political amo-rality, whether enterprise, avarice or pure necessity lead to the inoculation. Of course, Clooney also tests our jaded bounds by suggesting that altruism can still thrive in the rotted Petri dish of public office. Talking fast and spinning faster, Stephen Myers (Ryan Gosling) is a real up-and-comer, press secretary to Mike Morris (Clooney), the liberal governor vying for the Democratic presidential nomination. But he doesn’t just view the job as a career ladder with a built-in paycheck — he really believes that Morris will improve peoples’ lives once he moves into the White House. But that doesn’t mean he’s guileless — while Paul Zara (Philip Seymour Hoffman), Morris’ chain-smoking bulldog of a campaign manager, has trouble coaxing his steadfast candidate into fielding back-alley offers, Myers connects with his boss on an intellectual plane, unof-ficially serving as chief ethical navigator and straight-talk counsel. But since no one in the game can stay clean for long, Myers is soon painted into a nasty corner, stuck in a Mexican standoff involving rival campaign manager Tom Duffy (Paul Giamatti), nosy Times reporter Ida Horowicz (Marisa Tomei) and (duh) a comely Betty of an intern (Evan Rachel Wood). Clooney starts and ends The Ides of March with impressive preci-sion, bottling the brawniest chunk of Myers’ trajectory without burning minutes on his rise or eventual fall. In this way, the film circumvents trite Shakespearean commen-tary on the travails of ambition, using its time on the dais to discuss a difficult vocation that all but requires you to screw yourself over. —Drew Lazor

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➤ electronic/pop

He’s given us one minor masterpiece already this year — Acid House Kings’ strummy, sunny Music Sounds Better With You — but that’s hardly stopped Swedish popsmith Johan Angergård from gear-ing his shy, whispery croon right back up and teaming with longtime pal Henrik Mårtensson for The Sea of Memories (Labrador), their full-length bow as Pallers. Atmospheric, autumnal electro-pop, brimming with elegance and muted melancholy. —K. Ross Hoffman

➤ pop

Oh so silent oh so long, Mr. Jens Lekman reminds us just what we’ve been missing with the delectably dense An Argument With Myself EP (Secretly Canadian). Over some of the sparkliest, most lovingly detailed grooves of his career — effervescent Afro-pop, plas-ticine twee-funk, soupy yacht-reggae — the gallant Göthenburger peruses and ponders the debatably ethical society of his hometown (and the world over) via personal anecdotes, romantic professions, driving directions, absentminded small talk, socio-political critique and, of course, plenty of jokes.

—K. Ross Hoffman

➤ rock/pop

He’s earned his rep as a sideman (for Birdie Busch, John Francis, etc.), but those who know Craig Hendrix’s songwriting have been waiting for him to take center stage. This week, his band Auctioneer celebrates the release of its self-titled debut EP, and it’s an engrossing set of tunes recalling the psych-theatrics of Grizzly Bear as readily as the intimate character-studies of Leonard Cohen. In his striking baritone Hendrix draws us into the lives of voyeurs (“The Loser”) and damaged spouses (“One Lover”), with an acute sense of introspection and sympathy. Auctioneer plays Johnny Brenda’s tonight (Oct. 6, johnnybrendas.com). —John Vettese

➤ jazz

Armenian-born piano prodigy Tigran

Hamasyan begins his first solo collection, A Fable (Verve), with the scratchy, music-box-like sound of “Rain Shadow,” setting the stage for an album as much about pining nostalgia as it is about virtuosity. The distant whistling on “What the Waves Brought,” the silent-movie melodrama of “Mother, Where Are You?” the downcast harmonies in “Someday My Prince Will Come” — all make for rich, dark storytelling. Tigran Hamasyan Trio plays Chris’ Jazz Café tonight (Oct. 6, chrisjazzcafe.com). —Shaun Brady

LA LIBERTÉ!

➤ THE OPERA COMPANY of Philadelphia has gained international acclaim for its random acts of culture, including outbursts of Verdi in Macy’s and Reading Terminal Market, to the delight and astonishment of unsuspecting shoppers. On Friday night, OCP pulled something on an even grander scale, their first simulcast of a live Academy of Music production, on the lawn at Independence Mall.

They picked an ideal opera , Bizet’s Carmen, with its comic book-like dramatic lines and familiar melodies. And the largely excellent performance featured bold, if unsubtle, characterizations, led off by the smoking hot Carmen of mezzo-soprano Rinat Shaham. Up-and-coming Canadian tenor David Pomeroy played Don José, the victim of Carmen’s allures, as an even bigger blustering idiot than usual. Both were nearly upstaged by secondary roles. Philly favorite Ailyn Pérez, whose velvety tonality and wonderfully natural stage presence remind me more and more of the late great soprano Victoria de los Angeles, gave a glowing performance of the country girl Micaela, the yin to Carmen’s yang. And Jonathan Beyer portrayed Don José’s rival, the bullfighter Escamillo, with a strikingly handsome and vibrant baritone.

The immense undertaking was extremely well executed, with only small tech glitches. The 17-by-33-foot screen looked sharp, and the sound was punchy and well balanced across the lawn. Even the filler material was decent: cutesy interviews with the cast and production team, as well as the inevitable re-broadcasts of those random acts of culture. The typically corny Philly rah-rah promos were also unsurprising, pouncing on the remarkable happenstance that nearly the entire cast, including Shaham, trained in Philadelphia, either at Curtis or the Academy of Vocal Arts.

One random act that could not be accounted for was the weather, and the drops began to fall at the downbeat of the overture. The thousands dwindled to hundreds by the time Don José plunged his knife into Carmen’s heart, with many, including your erstwhile correspondent, crowding under the eaves of the visitor center. Still, the response was impressive, with more than 5,000 pre-registering to attend the free event. Let’s hope this becomes a tradition here in this opera-loving city.

(p _burwasser@citypaper.net)

suitespotPeter Burwasser on classical

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No one in the game can stay clean for long.

Both were nearly upstaged by sec-ondary roles.

BODY POLITIC: Ryan Gosling plays straight-talk counsel to George Clooney’s gorgeously coiffed

presidential candidate in The Ides of March.

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[ arts & entertainment ]

TO THE CLOUD

➤ IT CAN BE hard to read just what’s on the page. This was the case with David Foster Wallace’s The

Pale King. Published after his suicide, the novel was concerned with boredom, despair … and suicide.

But even novels without such a direct correspon-dence to biography still show the scars of their conception. This isn’t all that strange, really — we all know about single mother J.K. Rowling’s rise out of poverty on a broomstick, or Martin Amis’ tooth-fixing advance for The In formation. Some writers are perfectly happy to direct your atten-tion toward the outside, like Helen DeWitt, who has been especially frank about the hustle she’s gone through to get a second novel, Lightning

Rods (New Directions, Oct. 5), into print.Lightning Rods would be an underachiever of a

second novel if it weren’t for the shadow cast by her first book. The Last Samurai made DeWitt a house-hold name for its audacity; Lightning Rods, written a decade before Samurai, inverts the Willy Loman myth by giving us a salesman with a sexual fantasy instead of a dream, who succeeds in selling his own personal kink as the solution to workplace sexual harassment. But if we’re to believe that 10 years of DeWitt’s career has been handicapped by her success, then the layer of dust on Lightning Rods’ sexual politics only gums things up.

Paul La Farge’s Luminous Airplanes (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Sept. 27) also arrives after a decade’s layoff in publication, but the slim volume carries no moss. Instead, it comes as an element of a multimedia “immersive text” that provides digres-sions from and commentary on the central narra-tive locked down in old-fashioned printed pages.

This kind of hybrid trumpets the anxieties of a publishing industry desperate to bridge a digi-tal gap; it’s fortunate for La Farge that his novel lends itself so well to multiple formats. Luminous Airplanes in print is a small-bore domestic drama, centering on a dotcom-boom-era programmer jour-neying home to upstate New York to pack up his grandparents’ house. Put on the page, this could turn into a House of Leaves-style mess. In its cur-rent form, however, it’s cleanly divided between a focused, bound book and its online supplement.

But for all of La Farge’s focus in print, it’s hard to

fight the suspicion that the novel is an accessory of, or posterior to, its backstory. Airplanes jumps back and forth in time, sapping narrative drive for dramatic iro-nies. Plus, characters occasionally refer to events or conversations that happened in earlier scenes but went unreported. One expects that La Farge could reproduce that conversation, that his char-acters’ world is complete and fully imagined but stored someplace outside of the novel. And that recourse to the cloud renders the book itself nearly unnecessary.

Erin Morgenstern’s The Night

Circus (Doubleday, Sept. 13) has no such problems. If anything, she’s exuberant and overabun-dant; she has a great imagination for striking images and involved processes, and a great facility for turning those images into sen-tences and paragraphs. At one point, in describing the Cirque des Reves, Morgenstern takes

us inside a tent with an expand-ing number of different rooms, each one competing to outdo the previous; her imagination is capacious, incredible, often very beautiful. Her meticulous imag-ery is especially surprising, con-sidering that The Night Circus came about as a National Novel Writing Month project, one of an untold number of books started a few Novembers ago.

But Morgenstern’s clockwork inventions make it clear that The Night Circus wasn’t just dashed off in 30 days (she’s admitted to working on it three Novembers running before working it into its final jewel-box form). The book’s glittering surfaces are strong and engaging enough to prop up a plot that’s sometimes vague and foggy — as good an argument as any that, no matter how interest-ing the novelist’s backstory, what ultimately counts is the stuff she puts down on the page.

(j_bauer@citypaper.net)

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sculptures, paintings and mixed media by 28 artists. Pay close attention to Alice

Whealin’s ink, beehive-like drawings, Marjorie Grigonis’ word art and Robert

Aiosa’s wooden sculpture. Opening recep-tion Fri., Oct. 7, 6-9 p.m., free, through Oct. 29, Projects Gallery, 629 N. Sec ond St., 267-303-9652, projectsgallery.com.

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“Girlfriend” (pictured, right) has a lot of awkward moments. Which is apt, because Jake Dibeler’s funny -sad (and sometimes sad -funny) per formance piece is about being a horny, unsure teenager in the 1990s. Such moments may include tighty whities, unex-pected nudity and bad dancing — all of which are as hilarious as they are uncomfortable. Just as personal is Heather Bregman and Katie Dean’s “Experimental Mas-

sage.” The video and performance piece explores how self-examination “can be hu-miliating when witnessed by others, but also how it maintains the po tential to lead us out of the darkness.” Fri., Oct. 7, 8 p.m. (doors open at 7 p.m.), free, 1524 Frankford Ave., 301-412-7547, eexxttrraa.com.

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➤ HIGHWIRE GALLERY

In the press release for Ted Mosher’s exhibit “New Work,” his oil and watercolor paintings (pictured, left) are explained as “almost abstract.” Perhaps a better description would be “almost figura-tive.” Examining them is like admiring clouds — in one second, an image looks just like an elderly man with a big nose; in another, it’s a bouncy balloon. Mosher, a Highwire Gallery regular, also has a black belt in color. His hues are lush and delectably warm. As a bonus, the exhibit also includes Mosher’s ceramic pieces and works by BYO

Print, a local print co-op. Opening reception Fri., Oct. 7, 6-10 p.m., free, through Oct. 31, Highwire Gallery, 2040 Frankford Ave., 215-426-2685, highwiregallery.com.

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This eponymous duo exhibition by Catherine O’Connell and Stephen Blackburn is more lighthearted and genuinely thrill-ing than you might expect for a show about shapes. O’Connell’s paintings are all lines, colors and forms, and they’re all very pretty. Meanwhile, Blackburn’s gravity-defying sculptures — composed of found objects and welded steel — often appear as if they’re about to topple over. They’re also known to resemble humorous-looking ani-mals. Opening reception Fri., Oct. 7, 6-8:30 p.m., free, through Oct. 15, LGTripp Gallery, 47-49 N. Second St., 215-923-3110, lgtrippgallery.

➤ MUSE GALLERY

Speaking of excellence in line, hue and form, Diane Lachman

is exhibiting her oil and watercolor paintings in “Color

Conversations.” Where O’Connell’s work is subtly beauti-ful, Lachman’s abstracts are strikingly lovely. It’s no won-der Lachman has taught color theory at the University of Pennsylvania for years. Opening reception Fri., Oct. 7, 5-8 p.m., free, through Oct. 30, Muse Gallery, 52 N. Second St., 215-627-5310, musegalleryphiladelphia.com.

➤ PROJECTS GALLERY

“Abstraction” is the first of many Projects Gallery shows that will examine the various genres used by today’s artists. Such a series is ambitious, to be sure, but it’s also welcome in a time when there simultaneously seems to be too few and too many artistic genres. Not to mention mediums: This exhibit includes drawings, prints,

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➤ BREAK THE MOLD

Can we ever move beyond MOVE? In a sense, no: The day that will live in infamy cemented MOVE’s inclusion in our city’s history.

If you lived in Philadelphia back in 1985, as I did, you can’t easily forget the images of a bomb being dropped on Osage Avenue, and the ensuing fire, which destroyed an entire block of homes and killed 11 people.

That incident still instigates heated discussion, as can the very mention of the namesake revolution-ary activist organization.

Because Brotherly Love is inspired by MOVE, you might expect this show to have a socio-political bent. It does, but it’s not heavy-handed. Instead, olive Dance Theatre (oDT) offers an abstract movement-based tone poem that meta-phorically explores dimensions of struggles for personal and civil rights.

The seating area at the Painted Bride is arranged so the performance happens in the center of the audience. This makes for an intimate experience: We’re spectators, but not wholly separate from the action. Video is projected onto screens shaped like shards. These panels are set apart just enough that we can only partially discern what’s happening; our

view is skewed and fractured. A soundtrack with music by

the Roots, the Beatles and New Orleans brass bands provides simpatico accompaniment to seg-ments featuring oDT’s individual brand of hip-hop breakdance. It’s a fluid, expressive style that’s earthier and more natural than a lot of other breakers. The troupe’s

crew of fine dancers — Jamie Merwin (also the company artis-tic director), Mark Wong, Kelly Snell and Lao Song — don’t delve into breakdancing’s familiar tricks, like head spins and back-flips. But being true breakers, they exude fierce energy as they share stories through movement that’s dearly heartfelt. Sept. 30, Painted Bride Art Center.

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THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE II (FULL SEQUENCE)A haiku: Volunteers neededfor the greatest Halloween costume of all time. (Not reviewed) (Ritz at the Bourse)

THE IDES OF MARCH|BRead Drew Lazor’s review on p. 19. (Ritz Five, UA Grant)

MARGARET|A-Trapped in a six-year limbo by some combination of legal wrangling and editorial indecision, Kenneth Lonergan’s belated follow-up to 2000’s You Can Count on Me is a post-9/11 movie stripped from its cultural context, and possibly stronger for it. The subject, as tipped by the titular Gerard Manley Hopkins poem, is the corrosive power of unfocused grief, which falls on Anna Paquin’s Manhattan high school student after she contributes to a fatal bus accident. Lonergan tracks the tragedy’s ripples over the course of the fi lm’s two-and-a-half-hour sprawl (cut down to size by an uncredited Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker), fi ltered with occasionally infuriating ac-curacy through the prism of a bright and sullen teenager. Margaret is a mess, wandering down blind alleys, develop-ing characters and abruptly forgetting them, but it feels as if it was always meant to be. The most viscerally potent confrontations, between Paquin and her frazzled single mother (J. Smith-Cameron) or the victim’s tetchy best friend (Jeannie Berlin), reach white-hot temperatures but illuminate only indirectly; the true cost is spread across lives rather than lanced in a single eruption. Perhaps the most eloquent and unnerving shots are of crowds tripping in slow motion along the city’s sidewalks, or of skyscrap-

ers looming overhead, silent monuments to the slim but ineradicable possibility of a sudden end. —Sam Adams (Ritz East)

REAL STEEL|C-By the year 2020, according to Real Steel, human boxers will be replaced by pugilistic robots engineered to provide fans with maxed-out levels of mechanized carnage. But Shawn Levy’s Super Bowl advertisement of a movie, a roughshod cocktail of father-son melodrama and sporting theatrics, also asserts that shameless commercialism will remain a huge part of the on-canvas experience in the future, if the fi lm’s brazen handling of product placement is any indication. Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman), a once-promising boxer turned hapless robo-fi ght promoter, is always hunting for his next quick buck, which explains his apprehension toward spending a summer with his estranged Bieber-headed son, Max (Dakota Goyo). Con-veniently, his precocious seed also has a deep love for the robo-fi ghting arts, and the two bond over the crunch of metal on metal, training a scrap-heap sparring machine called Atom to defeat bigger, stronger opponents with sweet-science speed and craft. It doesn’t take long for Levy (Night at the Museum, Date Night) to set Atom on course to clash with Zeus, the top dog of the fi ght game owned by Jerry Jones-esque Farra Lemkova (Olga Fonda) and walking, pouting Japanese tech-genius stereotype Tak Mashido (Karl Yune). The actual fi ght sequences, a mix of CGI, animatronics and real-life consulting from boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard, are an honest blast, but it’s hard to get riled up for the theatrics with innumerable Hewlett-Packard, Budweiser and Microsoft brand drops sliming across the screen. —Drew Lazor (Pearl, UA Grant, UA Riverview)

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IN ASSOCIATION WITH EXCLUSIVE MEDIA GROUP AND CRYSTAL CITY ENTERTAINMENTCOLUMBIA PICTURES AND CROSS CREEK PICTURES PRESENTA SMOKEHOUSE/APPIAN WAY PRODUCTION RYAN GOSLING GEORGE CLOONEY PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN

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THUNDER SOUL|BYou may never have heard of the Kashmere Stage Band, but there’s a good chance you’d recognize their sound. My own revelation during this Jamie Foxx-produced doc came when I realized that the sample underlying Handsome Boy Modeling School’s DJ Shadow-produced “Holy Calamity” came not from some obscure ’60s soul great but from a high school concert band. At a time when more and more schools are seeing their arts budgets slashed, Thunder Soul serves as a reminder of the redemptive power of music — and of an inspirational teacher. As Conrad Johnson himself says of his students at an inner-city Houston high school, “I didn’t just teach music, I taught them how to be men.” The fi lm recounts how the stage band scene in the 1970s was largely dominated by white bands playing square, neutered versions of big band charts. Johnson instead incorporated his students’ tastes into his own compositions and supplemented them with choreography that could have earned these teenagers the house band spot on Soul Train. Looking back, those students realize how the confi dence they were given by their experiences reinforced the infl u-ence of the concurrent black power movement. Three decades later, many of those former band members, who all readily attest to their misspent youths, reunite for a concert despite the fact that many of them hadn’t touched their instruments since grad-uation. The resulting concert, with an ailing 93-year-old Johnson in the front row, would be a treacly moment of uplift if it hadn’t been so earned. —Shaun Brady (UA Riverview)

THE WAY|C-Martin Sheen makes an unlikely

Dorothy, but son Emilio Estevez nonetheless turns the Camino de Santiago into a new-age yellow brick road in his latest directorial effort. Estevez appears briefl y as a spiritual seeker suffering from a midlife crisis, who dies one day into his travels along the famed pilgrimage route in northern Spain. Meaning only to collect the body, Sheen instead is inspired to make the trek himself, spreading his son’s ashes along the way. Despite his gruff protests, he collects a mismatched band consisting of a hard-partying Dutch-man (Yorick van Wageningen), an embittered woman trying to kick her smoking habit (Deborah Kara Unger) and a cynical Irish author with a bad case of writer’s block (James Nesbitt). There’s never much doubt that this unlikely group will bond and help one another through their respective crises, and Estevez

rarely misses an opportunity to stop by the side of the road and indulge in platitudes and life lessons. The bulk of the journey is accompanied by montages scored by songs that have invariably seen better days in other fi lms, including by-now-familiar tunes by Nick Drake and The Shins. The scenery is gorgeous, though, and serves better as a tourist ad for the Camino than as a motivational tract. —S.B. (AMC Neshaminy, AMC Plymouth Meeting)

WEEKEND|B+Movies ought to be reality-based, and in 2011, conventional hetero relation-ships are no longer the only option worth pursuing. That said, Weekend

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isn’t a gay movie the way The Bird-cage is, but a romantic drama about two polar opposites who fall into a relationship. Russell (Tom Cullen) is reserved and quiet, looking for that special someone, while Glen (Chris New) is more boisterous and friend-with-benefi ts-seeking. Yet after meeting one night in a bar, they fall for each other, and wind up spending the weekend together like any hard-in-lust couple might: chatting, toking, having lots of sex. But when Glen lets it slip that he’s moving to Oregon, Russell must confront his feelings, quickly. Weekend is no race against the clock, but it raises the question: How much impact can someone have on your life in just two days? —Brian Wilensky (Ritz at the Bourse)

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50/50|BJonathan Levine’s new fi lm is being touted as a “cancer comedy” from the Apatow camp that basically consists of Seth Rogen reacting to his best friend’s potentially fatal condition with hilarious one-liners. But that description is a false diagnosis. Will Reiser’s script, based on his own experience as a young cancer survivor, takes a more nuanced approach, perfectly willing to fi nd comedy in a horrible situation but equally unafraid of venturing into downright sentimental territory. It lunges too far in each direction at times, but Joseph Gordon-Levitt evens out the fi lm’s uneasiest tonal shifts, conveying a range of warring emotions from rage to frustration to incomprehension. —S.B. (UA Grant, UA Riverview)

DETECTIVE DEE AND THE MYSTERY OF THE PHANTOM FLAME|A-The time is 689 A.D., and Empress Wu (Carina Lau), China’s fi rst female ruler, is awaiting her coronation. While Detective Dee (Andy Lau) objected to a woman assuming power, he has since been released from prison to fi gure out why folks are spontane-ously bursting into fl ames. Dee is a keen observer, following everyone’s motivations — even those of his plucky bleach-blond sidekick, Offi cer Pei (Deng Chao), who could be behind the “spooky pandemonium.” Detective Dee may rely too much on CGI, but it is so damn entertaining that viewers won’t mind. —Gary M. Kramer (Ritz Five)

MACHINE GUN PREACHER|DPitched somewhere between Hotel Rwanda and Rambo, Machine Gun Preacher tells the true story of Sam

Childers, a junkie biker ex-con turned contractor/preacher/defender of chil-dren in Sudan. Unfortunately, director Marc Forster typically operates only at a single speed: overwrought. Sam stabbing a hitchhiker in a strobe-light frenzy is suddenly usurped by him vomiting and pleading for help; his baptism, construction of a new church, and decision to become a missionary in Africa follow with bludgeoning force. Gerard Butler bulldozes his way through the role, showing the charac-ter’s intensity but never hinting at any deeper motives. —S.B. (Ritz East)

WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER?|DAnna Faris is Ally, a recently fi red woman deeply concerned about her “number” — that is, the number of people she’s slept with, which cur-rently stands at 19. Faris is her usual bubbly, amiable self, but her presence isn’t nearly enough to rescue this fl at, predictable comedy. For reasons that aren’t entirely convincing, Ally enlists the support of her neighbor (Chris Evans) to help her track down her exes, hoping to rekindle an old fl ame and fi nd “the one” without hitting the big 2-0. Despite a handful of amus-ing moments, the humor is mostly unoriginal; one running joke appears to be straight out of Bridesmaids. The fi lm is rich in stock characters and unfunny gross-outs, but as Ally rushes from man to man, it’s frighten-ing to think what the movie teaches its young audience. —Matt Cantor (UA Grant, UA Riverview)

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THE BALCONY1003 Arch St., 215-922-6888, thetroc.com. Scream 4 (2011, U.S., 111 min.): The Ghostface Killer returns to Wood-

sboro after a decade-long hiatus. Mon., Oct. 10, 8 p.m., $3.

BRANDYWINE PEACE COMMUNITYUniversity Lutheran Church, 3637 Chestnut St., 610-544-1818, brandy-winepeace.com. The Battle of Algiers (1966, Italy, 121 min.): An account of the Algerian Revolution, the “bloodiest” uprising of the century. Sun., Oct. 9, 5:30 p.m., free.

INTERNATIONAL HOUSE3701 Chestnut St., 215-387-5125, ihousephilly.org. The River (1951, In-dia/France, 99 min.): Three Bengalese teenage girls learn a few life lessons when they each fall in love with an American soldier. Wed., Oct. 8, 7 p.m., $9. Sound on Film: Two by Luke

Fowler: A screening of two experi-mental fi lms by Scottish contemporary artist and musician Luke Fowler. Wed., Oct. 12, 7 p.m., $9.

MEDIUM RARE CINEMA7141 Germantown Ave., regrettablesin-cerity.com. Paperhouse (1998, U.S., 92 min.): A bored little girl transports herself to a world inspired by her drawings. Thu., Oct. 6, 7 p.m., $7.

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10.6[ cabaret ]

✚ LOOKING PRETTY AND SAYING CUTE THINGSHollywood glamour puss Mae West gets spotlight treatment in Cabaret Red Light’s latest, Looking Pretty and Saying Cute Things. Combining burlesque, puppetry and vaudeville, the

show shines a spotlight on the obscenity trials the star under-went, and explores themes like indecency, capitalism and femi-nism along the way. “My back-ground is comedy and cabaret work, so in that way Mae and I are very similar,” says lead ac-tress Jess Conda. “We both have a brassy boldness.”

—Francesca Crozier-Fitzgerald

Thu.-Sun., Oct. 6-9, $11-$25, Adrienne Theater Skybox, 2030 Sansom St., 484-995-3431, cabaretredlight.com.

FRIDAY

10.7[ rock/pop ]

✚ MALAJUBESeems like Montreal pop four-some Malajube fi nally stabi-lized its mood. In 2006, the band’s breakout record, Trompe-l’œil, was a pitchy, ebullient, de-

lightful mess of jangling guitar, sing-along verses (for those who can sing in French, that is) and doubletime refrains. By 2009 the high had crashed and the follow-up, Labyrinthes, explored dark, moody corners of the soul with nervy synthesizers guiding the way. This year’s La Caverne splits the difference — again we fi nd the players happy, but not overly so. We hear more keyboards than guitars, but they have a positive new wave bounce to them. It’s as though Malajube — older, optimistic, more learned — is leading us out of darkness as we listen.

—John Vettese

Fri., Oct. 7, 9 p.m., $10-$12, with The Besnard Lakes, Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 877-435-9849, johnnybrendas.com.

[ lgbtq ]

✚ WOMYN OF COLOR CONFERENCEThe Elements Organization and Temple University’s Women’s and LGBT Studies depart-

ments are sponsoring this three-day symposium designed to stoke the fl ames of conversa-tion among LGBTQ women of color. Under the banner “Fertile Ground: Womyn Revealed, Re-vived, Renewed,” this year’s 21 workshops focus on the health and status of the modern LG-BTQ black woman, and the keynote speaker is award-win-ning powerhouse poet Sonia Sanchez. Students, take note: A plethora of scholarships will be made available exclusively through the conference.

—Brandon Baker

Fri.-Sun., Oct. 7-9, various times, $25-$45, Temple University Student Center, 1755 N. 13th St., ourelements.org.

[ visual art ]

✚ O. HENRIETTA FISHERThe Hex Factory is break-ing a gentleman’s agreement — they’re about to kiss and tell. The Kensington gallery space will be hosting the carnal works of O. Henrietta Fisher,

paintings and drawings that lay bare the artist’s passions. “My work refl ects intimate mo-ments, within a sexual relation-ship, where power is shifted, slightly or drastically, between partners,” says the artist, who will be in attendance at the First Friday reception.

—Meg Augustin

Fri., Oct. 7, 5-9:30 p.m., free, through Nov. 30, The Hex Factory, 2080 E. Cumberland St., 917-375-4982, zaubereigarten.com.

SATURDAY

10.8[ jazz ]

✚ AARON GOLDBERGPianist Aaron Goldberg’s virtuo-sic chops fall under the spotlight on his latest CD, Bienestan, a collaborative effort with fel-low modern keyboard master Guillermo Klein, who handles

the compositional end of the col-laboration. The material for this trio performance, however, will likely harken back to his own 2010 album, Home, on which he unleashes his prodigious skills on rhythmically driven originals and tubes by Theloni-ous Monk and Stevie Wonder. He’ll be joined by drummer Greg Hutchinson, whose deeply etched grooves for trumpeter Roy Hargrove bode well for drawing out Goldberg’s percus-sive inclinations.

—Shaun Brady

Sat., Oct. 8, 8 and 10 p.m., $20, Chris’ Jazz Café, 1421 Sansom St., 215-568-3131, chrisjazzcafe.com.

[ electronic/pop ]

✚ JAMES BLAKEAfter a series of hype-hon-ing, increasingly abstract and unorthodox EPs last year, this preternaturally boyish, blurry-faced Briton dropped a game-changing self-titled debut — ostensibly helping to make the world safe for dub-

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DON’T GET IT TWISTEDThe Twisted Tail’s grill-driven menu veers on and off course. By Adam Erace

THE TWISTED TAIL | 509 S. Second St., 215-558-2471, thetwistedtail.com. Open Mon.-Sat., 11 a.m.-2 a.m.; Sun., 10 a.m.-2 a.m.; kitchen open till 1 a.m. nightly. Appetizers, $7-$12; entrées, $10-$32; desserts, $7-$11.

I n retrospect, it’s clear the bartender was just trying to help. Looking for missing lunch menus, he shuffled and bumbled about like Lurch on a leisurely scavenger hunt. Behind the bar,

at the host desk, in the kitchen, he paged through the Twisted Tail, the handsome new bourbon hall and “juke joint” in the old Headhouse Square Kildare’s, as one might a magazine in a doctor’s office. “Fuck are they?” he murmured, half to himself, half to us.

I now assume that this aloof bro’s unpreparedness and subsequent inattentiveness was a careful ploy aimed to get us to leave before being subjected to some awful eats. It had to be. Surely no server at a restaurant of this one’s ambition and polish could be so mind-bog-glingly inept with only two customers to wait on in the middle of a weekly lunch shift.

It’s hard to say which was worse during this initial visit to the Twisted Tail: the service or the food. I’d have to give the edge to the former, but only barely. Roasted on coals and served with sprightly

watermelon-rind chow-chow and habañero cocktail sauce, the “pri-mal” Blue Point oysters were like shriveled gray prunes. The butter-milk-fried chicken sandwich lacked flavor. While the “fire-roasted” burger, mined with poblano chilies and topped with pepper jack and chipotle ketchup, had plenty, it was way overcooked. “Dueling ribs” (tough barbecue-glazed St. Louis, dry Japanese-style boneless beef, slimy pacu) dueled only for worst in show.

I’ve got to think chef Michael Stevenson, a South Philly native who worked in New York and D.C. before coming home to cook at the Moshulu, can do better. And I’ve got to think owner George Reilly, a Brit who’s labored 15 years behind the bar before opening the Twisted Tail, has trained his staff better. A follow-up visit steered by an affable, attentive and knowledgeable server proved at least one of the two true. The cooking, though markedly better on the whole, still

suffered from inconsistency.Dinner began promisingly, with succulent,

smoky lamb sliders licked with tangy, calen-dar-correct cranberry aioli. With the brioche-hatted baby burgers and a slender pint of

Dock Street pumpkin ale within arm’s reach, it was easier to drink in the details woven into these charcoal-gray surroundings: the oval por-traits of music legends hanging on the wood-paneled walls, the luxuri-ous grain in the Shaker-style chairs, the checks presented in old CD cases. Upstairs, a lounge wallpapered in sheet music hosts live blues five nights a week, opposite a room furnished with a shuffleboard, a fireplace and its own Tuesday-night dart league. The Twisted Tail is an entire entertainment complex in one sartorially resplendent package.

Back downstairs, my server arrived with “primal” chili, way more

FIRST DRAFT➤ THE NAME “MOE’S TAVERN” probably reminds you of the dingy watering hole where Homer and his buddies like to get loose. Unfortunately, this moniker has a much more negative connotation in Philadelphia, as a Fishtown nuisance bar that was connected to the 2009 beating death of a baseball fan outside Citizens Bank Park. But Moe’s shut down for good in early 2011, and the stained-glass sign bearing that ill-famed name has been replaced with the logo of a brand-new establishment. The Interstate Draft House, which opened last week, is the utter opposite of what once was.

The names behind the new concept are recog-nizable to anyone familiar with the north-of-Old-City restaurant scene: Bob Bitros, former owner of Azure (now Cantina Dos Segundos), and his son, Brandon. Bitros cites the recent boom in area open-ings (Kraftwork, Frankford Hall, Fathom, Loco Pez, Barcade) as a motivator for putting down roots. “This part of town is changing,” says Bitros, who’s been in the industry long enough to witness similar business shifts occur in Old City and Northern Liberties.

The Draft House seems tiny on the outside, but opens up to a surprisingly large space, including a 13-stool bar, an 11-table dining room and a secluded back patio. Moe’s old “game room” — and by that I’m talking about an area with a billiards table, a flat-top Donkey Kong game and a few video poker machines that might or might not pay out depending on how cool you were with the bartender — is now a brand-new kitchen, churning out duck carnitas tacos, brown butter scallops, Sabrett’s hot dogs and coriander-roasted salmon. Former Azure chef Julio Rivera, who’s worked with Jose Garces and Guillermo Pernot, is running the show, putting out a well-priced, sharing-friendly menu that features well-loved Azure dishes like his grilled filet tips.

The multi-ethnic food approach pairs with Interstate Draft House’s 16-tap craft beer selec-tion, which is Brandon’s specialty. They have a local focus, with lines dedicated to Yards, Weyerbacher, Dogfish Head and Philadelphia Brewing Co., but also branch out into respected American breweries like Allagash, Ommegang and Rogue (the “Interstate” part of the name).

Interstate Draft House is just off the main drag of East Girard Avenue, which Bitros believes has the potential to become the next Second Street. “I think we will have a great impact,” says Bitros. “All the places that have opened are very positive.”

(editorial@citypaper.net)

✚ Interstate Draft House, 1235 E. Palmer St., 267-455-0045. Open Tue.-Sun., 4 p.m.-2 a.m.

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OUT LIKE A LAMB: Twisted Tail chef Michael

Stevenson’s succulent, smoky lamb sliders,

served on baby brioche rolls with cranberry aioli.

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Crisp | This healthful New York-based falafel chain unveiled its first Philly spot last week. Vlad Uchenik and Paul Ferker, financiers who came across the brand while working in NYC, have taken over the space briefly housed by Falafel Factory for the all-veg concept, which offers a variety of themed-out falafel sandwiches on pita baked in-house (above). Options include the Mexican (with fresh guac, corn, salsa and nacho chips) and the Africa (peanut sauce, sweet potato, corn, tomato, scallion, habañero harissa); you can also build your own or opt for unorthodox fried-chickpea preparations like falafel burgers and piz-zas. 32 S. 18th St., 267-324-3936, eatatcrisp.com.

Loco Pez |Fishtown’s Crazy Fish Saloon is now Loco Pez, a Mexican-themed taproom from Joe Beckham, owner of Alfa. The cash-only joint dispenses craft beer (six on tap), tequila (25 labels), specialty cocktails and a Mexi street-food-influenced menu (tacos, burritos, burgers, etc.). Keep an eye out for all the Easter eggs — fluorescent-lit fish tank, Family Guy pinball machine and, of course, a Pez dispenser collection — that ramp up the kitsch factor of the interior. 2401 E. Norris St., 267-886-8061, locopez.com.

Lucky’s Last Chance | Promising a “little spin on what Manayunk has seen before,” Lucky’s Last Chance is a new Main Street bar offering a heavily crafty beer selection and a clever burger-forward menu. Mike Gartner and Chris Barnes are doing six beers on tap and 28 in bottles to com-plement chef Pat Brady’s menu, which features options like a PB&J bacon burger and the cheese-stuffed “Jucy Lucy” style famous in Minneapolis. Upstairs is a dance-floor where the focus is on electronic and house music. 4421 Main St., 215-509-6005, luckyslastchance.com.

➤ LITTLE VITTLES

New chef at Zinc (246 S. 11th St.) — Nanina Scriber, a veteran of NYC’s Benoit. ➤ Mike Stollenwerk has sold Little Fish and Fathom to concentrate on Fish, which he is currently relocating from 1708 Lombard to 1234 Locust. ➤ Bistrot La Minette (623 S. Sixth St.) launches weekend lunch service this Saturday, Oct. 8. It will run Saturdays and Sundays from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Got A Tip? Please send restaurant news to drew.lazor@citypaper.net or call 215-735-8444, ext. 218.

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feedingfrenzyBy Drew Lazor

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CUT THE STRINGSYou wrote me a letter telling me that your mom came to visit you in prison! I am happy to know that she did that. You requested me that I come there to see you and I am telling you once again. I am not the prison chick, I am not going to some prison to see you. Sorry but our relationship is over we are just friends and even though it is hard to deal with that is life! I think that you and I aren’t on the same path any-more and it is time to cut the strings..I will always love and care for you but us being together is better if we are apart!

DEAR LIARI fi nd myself sitting on your fl oor staring at a picture I drew for you a couple months back. You lay behind me comfortably on your bed, snoring like a beast. I couldn’t help but to start crying. My eyes soaked in your lies. In my hand laid your phone, and in my ears played loud music from the iPod that I have given you. I read the messages nearly a thousands times. It was clear that the last seven months of my life were a lie. “I love you babe, we should totally fi nish fucking, now show me what you got.” it was also clear that I was being cheated on. The funny part was, this woman...excuse me girl, wasn’t even from Philadel-phia. My boyfriend has been cheating on me with a woman in east bubble fuck somewhere. I love you. You should know that. I mean, I have never done so much for someone in my life. I was your servant... You are throwing me away for someone in bubble fuck?! REALLY?! You need to think about what you are do-ing mister? You know what men do for a woman like me?! Dear Liar, Guess what...? You’ll fi nd out.

DREAMInsane/Sane. I’ve been on the left side of the slash for some time now. No reality for us. Just dreams. I tried to be your friend. I did do all I could until one day I couldn’t no more. If a person has a take it or leave it attitude then so do I. I don’t have much time anymore. Here Here to the fucking Alphabet. Or it may come down to math. Shove hundreds and hundreds of people together and you are bound to be attracted to someone. I really don’t know why this is happening to me. I chose my life. And still living it. And here it is! A work of art that is a peice of work that’s a lot of work! Should I embrace the fact that I am treated like a disease? Some days I could just love it to fucking death. And other days I just want to die. Sometimes on a good day I am the slash.

FALL BLUESThis is the time that you take your loved one and coddle over and over again! You make sure you have everything in the house that is needed and you go into your warm shell. Nobody is going to stop you and nobody will disturb you! Be happy that this is where your heart is, be happy that you have found your match! When it comes to love fall is the best time to really see what your mate is made of! I am in love with being in love!

FISHTOWN BIKE THIEFSEnough is enough two things not one of you newsy mother fuckers in this neighborhood seen anybody walking around with a set of four foot fucking bolt cutters come on now! and two you junkie piece of shit that’s been stealing these bikes someone is gonna catch your ass and i hope it’s someone that had a bike stolen and your forced to walk home with sed bolt cutters lodged deeply up your ass if your from

the neighborhood shame on you and the family that raised such an inscect with the lowest of morrals if your not stay the fuck out this is not your shopping mall stay on your side of the tracks and steal an already stolen bike and you fi shtown residents if you hear a noise look out your window if you see something that’s not right call the fuckin twenty six district give them a reason to patrol the other half of where they are supposed to be and if you ever stole anything from fi shtown weather it been a bike a scooter a fuckin neighbors newspaper fuck you burn in hell eat shit die and may you be burried in it it’s where you belong.

LADIES ARE YOU SERIOUS?

I sat in my car to observe a beautiful well dress woman in her short and skirt and stilettos get out of her car, walk inside the gas station, pay for the gas and return to her vehicle, remove her gas cap and nozzle while her man or an ignorant, lazy man sat in the front seat texting on his cell phone. Really!! Ladies, unless a male is under age or handicap you should not be pumping your own gas. it doesn’t matter if its your car!! And if this is the man you are dating, kick his ass to the curb because he’s showing you now what he will be as time goes by. I see this all to often. Women what the hell is your problem? If you don’t seek respect his disgusting, trifl ing ass won’t give it a second thought. I won’t even address these guys opening a car door or allowing you to walk thru

any door fi rst. Unless your extremely desperate and its just about getting some sex I apologize, I’m sure that’s why he didn’t get out the car. He doesn’t give a damn about what he looks like to you either.

LONG TIME BITCHI know that you are waiting for me to call you but bitch don’t hold your fucking breath! I am not going to call nor do I miss talking to your ass! I am actually good without hearing from you! You complain over and over about getting older but listen dummy, there is nothing that you can do about it! There is no makeup or surgery that can hold back the hands

of time for you! I think that you might know it but you wanna keep hearing yourself complain over and over! Why do you think that I haven’t called...not interested. I haven’t spoken to you in over a month or so! Feels so fucking good to go through my own shit alone!

MY FRIENDIt hurt my heart to hear the story of how you were in love and then you ended up getting the short end of the stick in the long-run! It really made me think about what life is really about and how things hap-pen for reasons sometimes that we can’t control! My heart was compelled to reach out to you and listen to you! I am here for you and I think that you know this already! Keep your chin up because you are still

around, if you need me you know where to fi nd me!

NOT WORTH IT!I have came to a big conclusion that you are not worth my time! I am not going to keep pursuing you over and over like a fool! I am done when I get home I am going to erase your face from my fucking screen saver! Honestly I don’t know why you sent it to me if you knew that you weren’t going to be sticking around for anything! The sooner I erase your texts and stuff the better off I will be! I am too sexy of a person, to good of a person to deal with these childish games! Have fun and you’ll never see Atlantic City on my dime...believe that!

SOMETHING IS WRONG!Something has to be wrong if a person like me is not attached with anyone! I am really tired of the laziness of these men! The bullshit the lies and the absolute disrespect with everything! If you are in a relationship and you are happy then I send my congratulations, but if you are searching over and over! Just be careful! There are so many men out there that are full of shit and they come in all shades and sizes!

STUPID LOUD BITCHPicture it I am in my house minding my own busi-ness and all I hear is my stupid ass neighbor talking all loud. I could hear this stupid bitch through my headset. What kind of shit is that. Just because you speak doesn’t mean you have to talk loud! The the bitch slams the fucking front door! You dumb bitch! I can’t believe that you slam that door without any fucking regard of who is around you! If I was to slam my door you would have a fi t and probably come over banging on my fucking from door with your bald-headed self, you supposed to be a woman and you look like a old man! I hate you. I wished you never moved into my neighborhood.

THIS WEEKENDI planned something really nice for us, for us to get together and relax and talk crap and laugh. I don’t know what happened. If someone was occupying your telephone are they even giving you the mes-sages. I wonder sometimes because I am at my wits end calling and calling. Did you even fucking care? When you texted me and asked was I alright was that all a lie? If so what really did you think that you were accomplishing? I know that things happen for a reason and I shouldn’t be too mad! But, still gets at me why the fuck do people play so many games!

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surprisingly mild?19 “Te ___” (hymn title)20 Miss Scarlett’s game21 Record player parts23 “The Fifth Beatle” Sutcliffe25 The guy who always dyes eggs in

springtime?27 Cigarette ingredient28 Palme ___ (Cannes Film Festival

prize)29 Tool that breaks ground30 Humble dwelling32 It’s a little dirtier than “bum”35 Hail ___39 Fictional spy who’s really a giant

department store founder?42 Cubs all-time home run leader43 Attachable brick brand44 Spot in the water45 Emerald, for one47 Hot Topic founder ___ Madden49 Some fish bait50 Command for this flan-like dessert

to jump in my mouth already?55 “...___ and buts were candy and

nuts...”56 Shout after an unhappy return

57 Perched upon59 Squawk Box network60 Announcement/event of

September 2011, or what hap-pened to the theme answers

64 End in ___65 Swiss painter Paul66 Flightless birds67 Rick of the radio68 Pig’s digs69 Late jazz musician who insisted

he was from Saturn

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1 Word in many beer names2 Give guns to3 Full of a liquid metal4 Insignia5 Turn-of-the-century place to

get high6 Key near F17 ___ Apso8 Seaweed varieties9 Nightmares10 “Divided by” symbols (BE OIL

anagram)11 French city where Joan of Arc died12 Claim on some Chinese menus15 Alan ___ (pseudonym used

by film directors)18 Roman emperor who fiddled

around22 Role reprised by Keanu in 200323 Wild guesses24 Deed not to be done26 Rub out

31 Competes on the street33 Bad toupee34 Thread holder36 Baseball Jr. nicknamed “Iron Man”37 ___ Cakes (Food Network show)38 8-bit units40 Herbal remedy from trees41 Rosie, et al.46 Brain waves monitor: abbr.48 Tail end50 Seed plant (DC CAY anagram)51 ___ Carlo52 “Memories of You” pianist Blake53 Cambodian currency54 Like some needs58 Where North Shore surfers go61 Richard of 1990s talk-show fame62 Egypt and Syr., from 1958-196163 “Don’t do drugs” ad, for short

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marketplaceDesktops/Laptops & Repairs/ Upgradesnet ready. Incl MS Ofc, $175 215.292.4145

Arcade video games pinball machinejukebox. Trade for home generator sys-tem tntquality@aol.com 215.783.0823

BRAZILIAN FLOORING3/4", beautiful, $2.50 sf (215)365-5826

CABINETS GLAZED CHERRYBrand new, solid wood/dovetail. Crownmolding. Can add or subtract to fit kitchenCost $6400. Sell $1595. 610-952-0033

10 piece dining room set, black lacquer,$500. Call (215)968-2428

BDRM SET: Solid Cherry Sleigh Bed,Dresser, Mirror, Chest, & 2 Nite Stands.High Quality. One month old, Must sell.Cost $6000 ask. $1500. 610-952-0033

BED A brand new Queen pillow top mat-tress set w/warr. $229; Full $220; King$299. Memory Foam $295. 215-752-0911

BED: Brand New Queen PillowtopMattress Set w/warr, In plastic. $175;Twin $140; 3 pc King $265; Full set $155.Memory foams avl. Del. avl 215-355-3878

Bedroom Set brand new queen 5 pc esp.brown $489. Del Avail 215-355-3878

Dining Room Suite $500: Ducks Un-limited by Kincaide. Table, 2 leaves, 2 armchairs, 4 side chairs, china cabinet andhutch. Solid Pine in good condition.(484)574-9631

New Mattress Sets: $99, Twin, Full orQueen. Delivery Avail, 215-307-1950

Hot Tub 2011 6 person, 7ft. w/loungerwaterfall, LED color lights, Never installed.Factory warranty & cover. Still in wrapper.Cost $7000; Sell $2995. 610-952-0033

Tutoring for Math, Spanish & SAT:www.TutorDelphia.comCall 267-482-0627

All Phillies Post-season home games &All Eagles home games. Upper lvls & low-er lvls, call for pricing, 305-370-2033

BUYING EAGLES SBL’s & TICKETS

CALL 215-669-1924EAGLES TIX FOR SALE - Below Cost2nd level. All games available.

Call 267-975-4379

NEW BOOK: What you need to knowhttp://www.itsthejobsstupid.com

33&45 RECORDS HIGHER $ REALLY PAID

** Bob 610-532-9408 ***33 & 45 Records Absolute Higher $

* * * 215-200-0902 * * *Books -Trains -Magazines -Toys -Dolls - Model Kits 610-689-8476

Coins, Currency, Gold, Toys,Trains, Hummels, Sports Cards. Callthe Local Higher Buyer, 7 Dys/Wk

Dr. Sonnheim, 856-981-3397Diabetic Test Strips! $$ Cash Paid $$Local pick-up, Call Martin 856-882-9015

Diabetic Test Strips needed pay up to$10/box. Most brands. Call 610-453-2525

I Buy Anything Old...Except People!antiques-collectables, Al 215-698-0787

JUNK CARS WANTEDUp to $250 for Junk Cars 215-888-8662

Lionel/Am Flyer/Trains/Hot Whls $$$$Aurora TJet/AFX Toy Cars 215-396-1903

SAXOPHONES, WWII, SWORDS, relat-ed items, Lenny3619@aol 609.581.8290

Bella Vista: 8xx S 8th St 3br/2ba $2400+ utils. Fabulous 3 BR w/ jacuzzi tub.

Call 215-247-5555 ext. 208

700 N. 4th St. Lg. 1BR $750Modern kitchen, dishwasher, garbage dis-posal, w/d, refrigerator, fireplace decor,courtyard. Call (856) 582-7482

2020 Walnut St. 1BR/1BA $1,530Wanamaker House . Exercise Spa & roof-top pool included. Avail 11/1 215-545-1865

15xx 9th St. 2BR Heat inclnew w/w crpt, no pets. (856)858-4830

16th & McKean 1br/1ba $600+elec1 mo+2 sec, refs, no pets. (267)230-0171

1100 S 58th St. Studio, 1br & 2br aptsnewly renov, lic #362013 267-767-69591900 S. 65th St. 2BR AptNewly renov, Lic #400451, 267.767.6959

63xx Elmwood Ave 1Br $5253rd flr, nice & clean. 267-716-8090

64th & Woodland 2 BR 1st flr $7001st, last & sec., basement 267-882-5999

72XX Lindbergh Blvd 2br $750 +utilsnewly renovated, 215-651-0057

9xx S 58th St lg 2 BR $600+ utilsfresh paint, section 8 ok, 215-416-5862

1420 N 52nd St. 2 BR $700+utilstriplex, very clean, private entry, securitydoors, 2 blocks from mall, 267-588-1777

38xx Fairmount Ave. 1BR $500$50 non refund. app. fee. 215-964-8157

4122-24 Ogden 1br & effic $400-550+,1st fl, new renov, tile kit/ba 215-519-7336

48xx Walnut St. 3 BR $695fully renov, hrdwd flrs, 866-832-6319 x3

4xx N 52nd St Efficiency $435+utilsfreshly remodeled, 3rd flr, 267-582-8841

5100 Spruce St 2br $700+hrdwd flrs, elec ht Move in 267-255-8372

540 N. 52nd St. 1 BRNewly renov. 267-767-6959 lic# 333911

5530 Jefferson St. 2br $6252nd floor. 2 months rent. 215-921-2769

5818 Vine St. Efficiency $500+utilspacious, elec heat, (215)688-1363

58xx Cedarhurst 1BR $550+ utilsLR, kit, bath,$1100 move in, 267.210.3899

58xx Chestnut St. 2BR $850+utils.EIK, ceramic tile, kitchen, bath, laminitefloors, close to D52 bus and Market St. L.Call 215-694-4001

60th & Market 2br section 8 okMust See. Call 215-885-1700

W. Phila 3 & 4 br apts Avail Now1st Mo. Rent Special 215.386.4791 or 4792

Golf View Apts nw carpets 1br/1ba $695www.perutoproperties.com 215.740.4900Various 1, 2 & 3 BR Apts $595-$850www.perutoproperties.com 215.740.4900

Balwynne Park 2 BR $840+W/D, C/A, W/W, Garage. 484-351-8633

52xx Montgomery studio $550+elecrenov, grd. level, XL upgraded ba., den,drivwy ent. should have car, 610.331.4064

22nd & Somerset 2 BR bi-lvl $700+utilw/w $2100 move in req., (215)237-4737

31xx Ridge Ave. 2BR $700 incl. elec.ceramic tile kitchen, bath, close totranporation. Call 215-694-4001

32xx W Huntingdon 2 BR $700 +utilslarge 2nd floor, hardwood,

1st/last & 1 month sec. 215-463-2403

1,2, 3, 4 Bedroom FURNISHED APTSLAUNDRY-PARKING 215-223-7000

1735 W. Oxford St. lrg 1BR $600heat incl., 1st flr, renov., new kitch & bath.Open House Sat. 3-5pm. 215-932-850020xx W Oxford Studio $425+ utils1st, last, sec, student discount 215.483.434423xx N 17th St 1br Efficiency $475+elec$1425 move in, Eat in kitch. 215.651.656435xx N Bouvier 3brall brand new, fully renovated, spacious,pet friendly, great block, open houseSaturday at 2pm. Call 732-993-3634

50xx N 10th St. 2br $585+eleclarge apt, 1st, last & security 215.791.2125

6021 N. Park Ave 1 BR $595+2 months & security. (215)480-6460Front & Olney clean 2BRnewly renov,W/D,must see 267.254.8446

Residential Life: Studio, 1Br & 2Br aptsSpacious & Bright Apts near LaSalle Univ.Regional Leasing Office-5600 Ogontz AveCall or Come in M-F 9a-5p 215.276.5600Section 8, Students & Seniors Welcome.

1 BR & 2 BR Apts $715-$835spacious, great loc., upgraded, heat incl,PHA vouchers accepted 215-966-9371

Please be awarePossession of exotic/wild animals may

be restricted in some areas.

pets/livestock

everything pets

Persian Kittens, beautiful pure breds$450/ea. Call (215)765-8434

AMERICAN BULLDOG Pups: 7 left,NKC/UKC, Parents on site, $1000. Takingdeposits, call to reserve: 610-551-2673

Beagle Pups AKC, hunting/field triallines, vet checked, all current vaccina-tions, started scent training 215-547-6314

BEAGLE PUPS AKC, s/w, health guar,$150-$200. 856-228-7877

Boxer Boxer Puppies: AKC, Whelped8/9/11 $750 856-996-5593

BOXER PUPPIES AKC $700 5m/4f CallEddie @ 856-534-9010 avail 10/05

BOXER PUPS - AKC, fawn, vet checked,s/w, family raised, $750, 610-286-7610

BOXERS, ACA, 1st shots, vet checked,dewormed. Must see! Call 717-392-3436

Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, M&F,AKC Reg., (610)547-6681

Cavalier Spaniel Cavalier King Charleshapppy pups in 4 color akc reg, ch. pedshealth. cert. 610 857 0165

CAVANESE - CAVALIER K C Scrossed with Havanese. Adorable littlefurballs. $900 and up. Havanese Pup -pies waiting list. Call 215-538-2179

CHIHUAHUA PUPS - M, shots & wormed,chocolate & white, $400, 215-938-7656

COCKER SPANIEL Pups, Home Raised,Champion bloodlines. 856-299-0451

COLLIES - good w/ kids, vet exams, AKCbeauties. SW, Blue, Tri, 856-825-4856DACHSHUND pups, mini long hairs, AKC,vet checked, 1st shot. 856-785-2441Doberman Pinscher Pups, champ bloodlines AKC reg. ready now. 717-629-3726DOBERMAN PUPS: AKC Greattemperament, extra large, M & F, shots,wormed, tails, dews & ears donerobinswoodkennels.com (609)296-3627Doberman Pups AKC, s/w, M & F, tailsdone, fawn, red, blk & tan 717-808-3632English Bulldog & Bulldoggie Mix, M, 16wks, wht, shots, $300 215-254-0562

ENGLISH BULLDOG Pups - ACA, Bothparents on property. Ready for new home.$1500. Call 717-336-0510

ENGLISH BULLDOG PUPS, AKC,Females, white and brindle, raised withTLC, $1,400. Call (717)445-6089

ENGLISH Bulldog pups FCI/AKC, Champbloodlines 1yr health guar, 610-533-0589

English Bulldog Pups, parents onpremises, papers, shots, de-wormed, vetcertified, Call 215-696-5832 (Bensalem)French Bulldog Pups 4 females & 2males, shots, wormed, micro-chipped,family raised. $1700 check us out atourfrenchbulldogs.com 856-629-7881German Shepherd Pups, AKC, 3F., ready10/4, parents on site. $400. 215.338.2617GOLDEN RETRIEVER PUPS - AKC, 6 Male,1 Female, $2000, 856-834-6578

Great Dane puppies , Harliquen and Mer-les, Parents on Premises, Health Guaran$1200 484-678-6696

HAVANESE pups: ACA, shots & wormed,M & F, parents on premises, 5 AKC cham-pions in pedigree. $800. 610-932-3110Irish Setter Pups, AKC Ch line, home rai-se, exc temp,full coats, POP 717.786.8290Labrador Retriever Beautiful AKC Familyraised. Champ blood. $950 570-547-6362Maltese Puppy $500 Vet Checked & isup-to-date with all shots 856-873-1360.

Mini Schnauzer 10wks, shots, wormed,salt & pepper M & F, $375. 610-446-3211

NORWEGIAN ELK HOUND PUPSAKC, shots & wormed, family farm raised,No Sunday calls, $200, 717-278-8444

Olde English Bulldogge pups: $800 &English Mastiff pups $900. Familyraised, vet checked, ready 717-445-5086Old English Bulldog pups: IOEBA reg, M/F,S/W, 10 wks, $600. 267-259-0187Pek-a-Poos, furball, love muffins, creamcolor,12 wks, 3F, 3M, $400, 215.747.3636Pit Bull Pups, s/w, registered, black, 3M,3F, 10 weeks, $450. 215-834-1247

Pitbulls, 8 wks, $150. Chocolate rednoseFem, also black male, shots 215.254.0562POODLE PUPPIES: Standard, 3 cream sis-ters, 7 & 1/2 mos. Home raised, must go!$400/OBO. Call 610.489.3781Poodle & Shih-Tzu Fem. mix, white & gray,9lbs, 13 months, $300. (215)254-0562POODLES Std, AKC, blk, M/F, champ pa-rents, shots, ready now. 856-304-7487Poodle Standard Puppies. Chocolates &blacks with parti gene. Home raised withboth parents. Akc registered with shotsand health certificate. Ready to go. Happyand Smart! 900.00 firm. 610-757-1021Poodle toy, pups, choc. 2M, CKC, $400.treasuredpoodles.com 610.845.3652Pug Pups, ACA very friendly & playful, allshots, ready, 2F, $400. (717)341-8865Rottweiler Puppies: AKC, German,

tails clipped, shots, $500. 267-270-5529Rottweiler Pups - AKC, shots andwormed, family raised, health guarantee.Ready 10/5. Call (717) 768-8157SHIH TZU Pups - ACA, shots, wormed,vet checked. $250. 717-813-1580WHOODLE PUPS - Wheaten TerrierHybrids, M/F, $475-$600, 610-248-3241YORKIE PUPPIES: home raised, AKC reg.

Starting at $650, 215-490-2243YORKIE PUPS: ACA, cute, friendly, readynow, $395. Call 717-283-6783Yorkie Pup, sm. male, AKC, vet chkd,beaut. doll face, $875/OBO, 856.218.8883

jobsChild Care: 3 days/wk, light housework.car required, Resume: dexterpa@att.netHousekeeper, errands, PT-FT, 5 yrs exp,refs,car,bkgd chk,Overbrook,215.290.2100

Caregiver/Companion 35 yrs+ exp. Car-ing woman desires position. 215.386.0360Gentleman w/Truck Desires Work

Moving & Junk Removal. 215-878-7055

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233 W. Queen Ln 1BR $5003 month’s rent to move in, 215-223-75474617 Wayne Ave 1br $450 incl. heat &hot water, large renovated eat-in kitchen.Call 215-303-3605 or 215-416-27575220 Wayne Ave. Studio, 1 BR & 2 BRnewly rehab, 267.767.6959, Lic# 5075685321 Wayne Ave. Effic. $550 1br $6001 mo. + sec, avail now (215) 776-6277607 E. Church Lane 1BR & 2BR apts.nr LaSalle Univ,267.767.6959 lic# 494336Germantown 1Br $750+electile bath w/ jacuzzi, modern kit, walk-incloset, deck. 215-848-5513

Germantown 2BR (4 rooms)Close to SEPTA. Call (267) 577-2502

Greene St. 2 BR $700+2 mo dep, 1 mo rent. 267-338-9870The Fieldview Apts: 705-15 Church LnComfortable Living- Historic Germantown1br $750, 2br $850 Gas,Water,Heat FreeClose to Septa,Grocery,Eatery & LaSalle U.Call for appt. 215-276-5600 M-F 9-5

Cotton & Tower St. 2BR/1BA $1,200215-518-1275

DOMINO LN 1 & 2 BR $745-$875Renov, prkng, DW, near shopping & dining,mve-in special, 1st mo free. 215-966-9371

7XX N. 63rd St. 1BR $600 Beautiful studioapt close to public trans. Cer. tile, clg fan,modern appliances 609-315-125983xx Forest Ave 2Br $725+utilsspacious, 1st floor duplex. 215-782-8007Rex & Crefield 2 Br $1995+utilsFull Furn. $2500. Architecturally dramat-ic bi-lvl, palladian window, 2500 sq. ft.,hdwd flrs, 2 car parking. 215-869-8015

12xx Champlost Ave 2br $750nw w/w, gar, updated kitch 267.297.998314xx W. 71st Ave 1 BR $625utilities included, close to transporationand shopping. Call 215-574-211117xx Conlyn St. 1br $625+utils2nd flr, priv. entry, 2mo sec 267.968.344719xx W. 65th Ave. 2br $799recent remod., Sec 8 ok (215)500-01342xx W. Grange 3br/1.5ba $745+utils1xx W. Grange 1br/1ba $565+utilsbeautiful apt, yard, 215-805-645567xx Woolston Ave 1br $525+utilsw/w crpt, private entry, move in cond,avail now, $1050 move in 215-758-712968xx 13th St. 1Br $650+elec/gas, quiet location, 215-924-064875xx Thouron St. 1 BR $525

Eat-In-Kitchen, fresh paint,Available now. Call 215-464-9966

Monmouth St. 1BR $525Remodeled, section 8 ok, 267-984-8522

42xx Frankford Ave studio $425+utilslarge, newly renovated, 215-559-928946xx Penn St Efficiency $400Newly remod, good cond. 215-436-50724840 Oxford Ave Studio, 1br & 2br aptsLdry,24/7 cam lic# 214340 267.767.69594900 Oxford Ave. 1BR $5501st floor, you pay elec. & gas, free washerfor use, available now. Call 215-744-899050xx Penn St. 4BR $1250renovated, section 8 ok 267-230-26005741 Charles St. 1br $600+utils6624 Jackson St. 1br $600+utilsrenovated, Call 215-259-8666Ditman St. 1 BR apt $700+utilsw/d, fridge, yard, Sec 8 ok, 215-632-5763Frankford & Oxford 1 BR $580Also Efficiency, $500, Utilities includedWe speak Spanish, 215-620-6261

Margaret St. 1 BR $595+ utilsbeautiful, newly remodeled, 215-526-1455

2217 E. Cumberland StudioNewly renov. 267-767-6959 lic# 356258

301 W Byberry 2br/2 full ba condo $998open flr plan, patio w/storage, lg bkyd,w/d, d/w,pool,tennis court, 973.876.96454647 Adams Ave Studio, 1br & 2br aptsNewly renov. 267-767-6959 lic#4333146812 Ditman St. 1 BRprkg,lndry fac.Lic# 212751 267-767-6959Academy & Grant 2BR $760+2nd flr,w/w, c/a,off st prkg 856.346.0747

Bustleton/Bowler 2br/1.5ba $850+utils2nd flr, central air, w/w, d/w, garage,back yd, avail 10/1, 215-429-9310, lv msgPhilmont 2BR duplex, 2nd flr $820+C/A, bsmnt, yard, garage, (215)752-1091

Rhawnhurst 3br/2ba $950+Large 2nd floor duplex, dish washer, garb-age disp, a/c, new paint, 215-354-0069TACONY 1BR $450+utils

Call 215-355-3548

Upper Darby: Clinton Rd. 1br $600+utils2nd flr duplex, newly renov (484)461.1828

Manayunk: house share, $650/mo.includes utils. Call (215)303-9573

18xx N 27th St Rooms $500-$600+dep,Lg clean, furn’d room, comm. kit, all utilsincl, easy access to trans, 267-809-3809

22nd & Allegheny , $85/week, sharekitchen & bath, SSI OK, 267-973-039722nd & Hunting Park, renov, lrg rm, furn$85-$95 wk 2nd week free 215.960.160023xx N. 17th & 21xx N. 28th - rooms,use of kitch/ba, $95/wk, 215-651-65642500 W Lehigh, Studio, pvt BA, Ent & Kit$135/wk, $405 mv in, 267.250.076128xx N 27th St: Furnished rooms, utilsincluded, $100/wk, SSI ok, 267-819-568330th & Allegheny Large, beautiful, newlyrenov., starting $300/mo 267-997-0907

30th & Wharton, newly renovated rms,SS accepted, $80/wk 215-888-2476

34xx N 18th clean rm, quiet house, $450/mo. use of entire house 267.670.266242xx Frankford, $450/mo 2nd Flr rm,private entr, kit & Ba, clean 267-979-04134521 N. Broad, large rm, $450/mo. $500move-in. 267.595.5089 or 856.553.20944900 MARVINE ST: $110/wk, kitchenpriv., no smoking/drugs. 215-436-206050th & Girard Newly renovated houseclean rooms $100-$120wk (267)784.567153xx N. Broad, 1 BR, furn, AC, 2 TVs,etc.Also single room avl, 267.496.644855th/Thompson furn $115/$135 wk frigmicro priv ent $200 sec. 215-572-883356xx Wyalusing large clean rooms,$90-$110/wk. Call (215)917-1091

61st/Race St. Private entrance,use of kitchen, w/w carpet, great loc!$440/mo. $490 move in. 267-997-5212

61st & Walnut - New Rooms To Rent$350 to move in, Call (267)-586-8404

61xx Chew Ave, Mt. Airy, 2xx Melville,Univ City, $85-$100/wk. 215-242-9124

63rd & Market; 21st & Mckean.; 13th &York, C & Allegheny. SSI/disability ok,washer/dryer avl, call 215-290-8702652 Brooklyn, $125 week. $375 to movein. Furn w/refrige, no kitch 215-781-80496th & Erie vicinity $400/mo +$100security deposit. Call (215)207-81517xx W. Ruscomb, nice room, quiet block,shared kit/ba, $100/wk. 267-259-44779th/Erie: $80/wk. 25th/Oxford, N Phila.no smoking or drugs, 267-629-0255AFFORDABLE ELEGANCE - Large rms forrent in the Strawberry Mansion area, fullyfurn w/priv ba, & everything new. Rangingfrom $125-$150 weekly, Only those thatwant the best need call owner, Bobby(267)471.0501 (Drug free environment)

Broad & Allegheney rms, kitchen use$90/wk. $330 move in. (267)338-9345

Broad & Hunting Park, lg furn room, newlyrenov, must see, $100/wk, 215-552-5200

Broad & Hunting Pk, 60th & Market,fully furn., $200 security, $85-$105/wk.SSI OK. 215.954.3864 or 267.784.9284

Broad & Olney deluxe furn rms priv ent.$110 & $145/wk Sec $200. 215-572-8833

Broad & Somerville clean, furn, newlydecorated, near transp. 215-455-7488

Frankford, room in apt, furn, no drugs,near El, $85/wk+ $300 sec. 215-526-1455

Germantown Area: NICE, Cozy RoomsPrivate entry, no drugs (215)548-6083

Germantown Ave, rm prv BA, $140/wkpaid bi-wkly & 2 week dep. 267.338.9870

Germantown,furn rms, renovated, sharekitch & BA, $125/wk. 215-514-3960

Germantown newly renov rms, special$250 down, $90-$100wk 267.339.1122

Germantown Rms, $120/wk utils inc,shared kit/ba, $500 move in 215.849.5861

• Hunting Park • 55th & GirardShare Kitchen & Bath, $350 & upNo sec dep, SSI OK. 215-758-7572

Hunting Park: Fully Furn Luxury Rms.Free utils/cable, Call 267-331-5382

Hunting Park, Kensington, Germantown,Olney, W. Phila, S. Phila, Mt. Airy. $85-$125/wk. Great loc. SSI ok. 215-668-4812

LaSalle Univ. Area Renov ROOM FORRENT, hw flrs, 1.5 Shared ba, full sharedkitc, Patio $500mo inc utils 215-850-6618

Logan $110/week, $350 sec depfurn room, no drugs. 215-313-9462

MT. AIRY (Best Area) $135/week.SSI ok, 215-730-8956

NE/Oxford Cir Fresh Clean Share Bath& Kitchen. Laundry onsite & cable. $550per month Unfurnished 150sqft mediumroom with New paint & carpet. $340 tomove-in. SSI or SSD Ok. ABSOLUTELY NODRUGS 215-605-0056

N. Phila: 22xx Lehigh Ave., Shared kitch-en & Bath, $100-$10/wk. 267-816-3058

N Phila furnished room, $100/wk.$400 to move in. Call (215)221-4737

N. Phila: Furnished rooms, $100/wk.Call 267-499-7056

N Phila Furn, Priv Ent $75 & up . neartransp, no drugs or alcohol 215-763-5565

N. Phila: Newly renovated, private entryuse of kitch $90-$125/wk 267.702.8688

N Phila/W Phila/Logan,pvt ent,$75-$110wk, pvt BA/kit, $140 wk 609-877-0375

OLNEY: Fisher & Franklin. MT. AIRY:Montana & Chew. S. PHILA: 21st & Sigel.$100/wk. Call 267-736-8375

S. Phila: vicinity of 29th & Gerritt, LargeNEW room for rent $125+ deposit,washer/dryer 215-647-2467 ID needed

SW and West Philadelphia $125-$150priv rm & ba, clean & new. 215-939-5854

SW Phila: Buist Ave. Germantown& Oaklane: Wister St. $400/mo,215-908-7810 or 267-586-8592

SW Phila, Rooms for Rent, share 1 ba, kit&w/d,$250/mv-in,$115/wk, 267.934.7426

SW, W & N Phila, large room for rent,utils incl, newly renovated (215)768-7059

Temple area, lg furn, shared kit/ba, ca-ble, priv ent $100-$130/wk. 215.852.3915

Temple Hospital Area 3rd flr $95 week$250 move in. Weekly only. Income verifi-cation, 215-225-0852 between 5pm-7pm

W. PHILADELPHIA ROOMFOR RENT 215-747-2522

W. Phila Furn Rms, SS & Vets welcome,No drugs, $100/wk & up 267-586-6502

W Phila & G-town: newly ren lg, lux rms/apts., ALL utils incl, SSI ok 267.577.6665

Wynnefield: 21xx Wanamaker St.$100/week. (215)879-0248

Large Victorian 4br/2ba $1800+utilskitch w/all appl’s, great rm. 215-321-0395

12xx S Bonsall St 3br $750Newly renov 1st, last, sec 215-483-43441744 S Ringgold St. 3br $725+utilsw/w carpet, section 8 ok, (610)202-983319xx Wilder St. 2br $900newly renov, sec 8 ok. 267-467-01402055 Mercy St 3 BR/1 BA $775+utilsrenovated row house, yard, 856.803.636921xx S. 21st 4br/1ba $900+newly renovated, full bsmt, 215-275-7477

20xx Simpson 3 BR $725/morenov, hdwd flr, Sec. 8 ok, 215-424-278526xx S. Carroll St. 3br/1ba $825$2475 move in, fin bsmt 215-365-456765XX Allman 3br, 1.5 ba NICE, hdwdflrs, air 1st flr, sect 8. (610)212-1947.

65xx Regent St. 3 BR $725+ utilsbackyard, washer, Call 215-964-411369th & Buist 3br $750+utilsopen porch, $2250 needed,215-821-885871xx Guyer 3BR $825+utilsopen front porch, nice backyard, terrific st

"The Landlord That Cares"Tasha 267.584.5964, Mark 610.764.9739Elmwood Area 3/4brmodern, sec 8 approved, (215)726-8817

Near Airport 2 BR $800newly renovated kitchen, granite tops, mi-crowave, new ceramic tile bath & win-dows, hardwood floors, 215-694-4001

2xx N. Wilton St. 4BA $800 plus UtilsNew kit & bath HW Flrs, lrg yd, Sec Sys.$2400 req. 215-919-87005121 Springfield Ave. 1 BR $5502nd floor, rear. Call 215-765-5008

58th & Arch 3 BR $850+ utilsporch, area rugs, Sec 8 ok, 610-649-900959th & Market 3br/1.1ba $750+utilcredit check, renovated. 215-464-9371

3xx N 64th St 3 BR $1000$3000 mve in,1 & 2 BR avl, 267.972.9693910 Kenmore Rd. 3BR $1,200+utilsbeautiful hdwd flrs throughout, garage,new kitchen, back deck w/ grill & patiofurniture incl., avail. immed 610-896-5152Rhoads St. 3BR/2.5BA $1250+utilsa must see, fin. bsmnt, 215-253-9447

12xx N. 30th St. 2br/1ba $725+utils(Brewerytown) newly renov, washer/ dry-er, fridge, stove, backyard (267)228.453819xx Stanley St 3br $7005 min to Temple, newly ren 267-549-158624th & Lehigh Area Sect. 8 oknew paint, near transp, (610)337-224425xx N Gratz St 3br/1ba $699+utilswasher, lrg kitch, sec 8 ok (215)425-369628xx Ringgold 3br $725+utilsrenov, w/w crpt, Sec 8 OK (215)424-278532xx N Marston St. 3br/1ba $750+utilsnwly ren., 1st, last, 1 mo sec. 267.255.1895

7xx W Rockland 4br/1.5ba $1100fully renov, sec 8 ok. 267-467-0140

48xx N. Fairhill 4BR $1,400 + utilsnewly rehabbed, Sec. 8 ok, 215-264-2340533 W. OLNEY AV. 2br apt 1st flr $6502 mo. sec, 1 mo. rent (215) 888-202559xx 4th St. 3BR 1B HW Rehab, yrd,deck. $875/mo.+ 215-880-9238

8xx N. 50th St. 3br $775Sec 8 OK. 215-848-5072

14xx E Weaver St. 3BR $1200 +utilsw/w, A/C, mod kit/BA, gar, clean bsmnt,quiet block,$3600 move in, 215-758-7129

2xxx Middleton 2BR $650+utilsNewly renovated, Section 8 approved,

near transp. Available now 215-680-2538

19xx E Monmouth 4br $1000+utilsw/w cpt, sec. 8 ok, no pets 215-778-601135xx Braddock St, 19134 PHA SEC 8 OK2 br, 1 ba, 1 blk from public transp, frontporch, back yard, washer, dryer, refrig.$700/month, plus util. 215-946-6000

15xx Foulkrod St. 2 BR $650newly updated, back deck, 215-869-22832037 Granite St 2BR/1BA $650+basement, backyard. Call 215-917-0020

11xx Sanger 3br/1.5ba $900+utilsupdated, off st pkg, fin bsmt 215.601.518221xx Scattergood St. 3BR50xx Ditman St. 4BRSection 8 approved. Call 215-205-99104742 Loring St. 3 BR $900/mo.completely renov, Sec 8 ok, 917-667-41015xx E. Godfrey Ave 3br single $1300new kitchen, pool, lrg yrd (215)742.5822

5xx Vankirk 3 BR $800+ utils14xx Higbee 3 BR $800+ utils59xx Castor Ave 3 BR $900+ utils

Call 215-725-7079Frankford & Cottman 3 BR $975new garage, great shape, 215-579-1773Parkwood 3br/1.5ba $1150c/a, w/d, no pets, garage 267-984-1412

ANDALUSIA 3br/2ba $2650/moUnique opportunity to live on 100 acrehistoric estate, late 19th century ranchsytle bungalow, short commute to Phila &NY. Please Call (215)639-2078ANDALUSIA 4 br/2.5 ba $2500/moDelaware Riverfront, Unique opportunityto live on 100 acre historic estate, late19th century reconverted stable, shortcommute to Phila. & NY. (215)639-2078

2511 Madison Ave. 4BR $1,100/mo.Newly renovated, front porch, deck, largeside yard. Sec. 8 ok. Call 610-656-6840Exton 4BR/3.5BA $1750108 Neyland Ct. Newly upgraded. Close toMall, highways & Turnpike 610-308-4488

DARBY 3Br/1BA $94039 N. 10 St., Section 8 ok 856-816-3884

Cinnaminson 4Br/2Ba $1500$2000/sec., available NOW, small cleanhouse w/ garage, A/C. 609-504-3355

Camden 22xx Baird Blvd 3br 1.5ba $1200garage, renov, sec 8 ok. (609)868-3023Cherry Hill: Garden State Dr. 3br $3000furn., family rm & dance rm 609.868.3023

North Cape May 3br/2ba $1300+utils1.5 mo. sec. dep, no pets (610)353-3804

Park Avenue 2003 $8300only 51k mi., very gd cond. (215)293-9655

CORVETTE 1966 $38,000Mosport green, 300/327 4 speed conver-tible, nice driver. Call 610-637-2763

Ram 1500 Big Horn p.u. 2008 $12,500crew cab, cap, Hemi, 1 owner, loaded, asnew, 100k, must see! 215-601-6665

FORD 2001 Luxury Hightop ConversionVan, original mi., very nice, senior citizen,Must sacrifice today $5,975. 215.922.2165

LEXUS ES350 2008 $23,400Black, cashmere int. 33K, 302-584-0631

Town Car Signature Series 2003 $990576k mi., exc. cond, loaded (215)293-9655

S40 TURBO T5 2006 $11,99598k mi., AWD, leather int., sunroof, heatedseats, exc cond, black (215)886-9740

Gulf Stream Yellowstone 2007 $28,000White 29,999 mi, gas, 3 slds, 1awning,

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Mustang 1965 $25,000/oboConv, New int. must see! 484-571-1988

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Accord EX 1998 $3900exc cnd, all rec. 119k mi. 516-643-1990

BUICK LeSABRE 1997 $2,500VGC, 79K, PA Inspected. 610.203.6561

Cadillac 1999 Sedan Deville $3675Lux 4 dr, cold a/c, full pwr, orig pamperedmi, woman driver, Carol 215-922-5342

Chevy Cavalier 1999 $2,6004 cylinder, 55k, auto, white 610.825.3533

Chevy Cavalier LS 1999 $22504 dr, loaded, 82k, good car 215-847-7346

Chrysler LHS 1995 $995all pwr, 3.5, 106k, insp., 215-620-9383

Ford Explorer 4WD 1996 $19505spd,119k,new ins,runs new 215.620.9383

FORD F-150 PICK-UP 2002 $3,800V-8, 1 owner. Call (215) 840-4860

Ford Focus 2003 $5000 firm2 door, loaded, 80k miles, garage kept,excellent cond, 2nd owner (215)370-1197

FORD Freestar 2004 $4000 obo120k, newly ins, new brakes & battery, exccond, for info call Musa, 267-515-9229

FORD TAURUS SE 1999 Asking $1,6504 door, loaded, clean, 215-518-8808

GMC JIMMY 1998 $2,250Auto, 4x4, loaded, inspctd, 215-722-1599

INFINITI I-30 2000 $4,400/OBO93k, exc cond, new insp, (610)918-7301

Jaguar S Type 2004 $6975Economy 3.0, 4 door, sunroof, simply Ex-quisite, few original miles, 215.928.9632

Mercedes 420 SEL 1987 $3,900Doctor kept, maroon, 115K. 856-357-4324

Oldsmobile Alero 2003 $4700/obo4 dr, 4 cyl., insp, 96k mi., 215-301-6187

Plymouth Grand Voyager 1999 $1,850loaded, insp., AC, exc. cond. 215-722-1599

PONTIAC VIBE wagon 2003 $4800auto, mint, new tires/insp, (215)806-9721

Toyota Carolla DX 1995 $2600CD, 114K, insp., black, alarm 215.900.6299

VW Jetta Wagon 2002 $5000diesel,45 mpg,loaded,125k, 856.453.5955

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