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More than 2,200 years separate 25 sixth graders at Eliza B. Kirk-bride School, 1501 S. Seventh

St., and Qin Shi Huang, the fi rst Emperor of China, but the students have spent the last three months contemporizing the sig-nifi cance of the leader’s fi nal request.

Through the Delphia Art Partners Pro-gram at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, they have become budding archaeological experts, constructing clay models akin to the fi gures meant to guard the head’s tomb mound and a plaster display of

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early April visitors to the South Philadel-phia sports complex fi gure to arrive with abundant expectations. Hoping to pair the area’s athletic prowess with culinary and entertainment options, Comcast-Specta-cor, The Cordish Companies and Comcast

Corp. representatives united at 1100 Pat-tison Ave. to disclose the fi rst phase com-ponents of Xfi nity Live! Philadelphia Dec. 15. Their project stands to use the address as a hub for 55,000 square feet of enjoy-ment and ingenuity.

Ladders, lifts and ropes met the eyes of the morning participants as they inspected space whose overseers are moving forward with a nearly four-year-old idea. Donning suits and hard hats, the guests will gladly swap their attire for shorts and caps when a

collection of spots opens April 5. Cordish is tackling its fi rst stadium-area,

$60-million endeavor minus any public subsidies and with an even fi nancing split with Comcast-Spectacor. With a reputation for opulence, the Maryland behemoth soon may enjoy more success courtesy of the plan’s centerpiece, The Philly MarketPlace. The parties expect to add other eateries shortly, but Reed Cordish, vice president

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8 Make it a Mummery new yearAs times get tough, the Fancy Brigades Association hopes to sustain a cherished tradition as it aims to entertain fans and attract new spectators Jan. 1.

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Booked for New Year’s Day Jim Bradley, left, of the

Fancy Brigade Associa-tion, hands local residents Mia Iannacone, right, of the 2700 block of South Cleveland Street, and Jor-dyn DeMarco, middle, of the 300 block of Jackson Street, their winning tickets to the Jan. 1 Fancy Brigade Finale Show at the Penn-sylvania Convention Cen-ter where they will serve as guest judges. Across the bridge, Mrs. Morgan’s Osage Elementary School fi fth-grade class, bottom left, was literally jumping up and down in the school library about the news that Kara Duffett, bottom right, and Mark McCafferty, bot-tom left, have earned seats at the table. SPR

“I’m spending the holiday with my family. I’ll be cooking and having my grandson over, along with my children and any family or friends who want to come out are more than welcome.”

Charlotte Smith,1800 block of Moore Street

“I’m just spending it at home. My family from outside of Philly are coming to visit me here.”

Todd Schwartz,2400 block of South Watts Street

“[I’ll be] hanging out with friends and enjoying everyone’s company — just celebrating, ringing in the new year, staying local in South Philly.”

Jennifer Nagle, 29th and Dickinson streets

“I’m going with my girlfriend to her family’s house in western PA.”

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SPARE A LIGHT?: Customary snowmen wilt when light hits them, but this fortunate fellow on the 2700 block of South Smedley Street loves his luminous luck. His candy cane neighbors and other elements of the fl ashy thoroughfare prove that residents are ready to receive their North Pole friend. This jolly gent will enjoy being Santa’s bright wel-comer. SPR

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The South Philly Review’s 2011 Year in Review contest ended Monday with multiple entrants

answering all 15 questions correctly. A random drawing of the knowledgeable participants led to the selection of Vic-toria Valania of the 200 block of Morris Street as the winner of a $50 gift certifi -cate to the advertiser of her choice, Vic-tor Piccione of the 2300 block of South Woodstock Street as the $75 victor and Anthony Swanson of the 2700 block of Porter Street as the $100 champion. The Review thanks all who entered. For all of the inquiring minds out there, here are the questions and correct re-sponses.

1. Sister Mary Paula Beierschmitt wishes to have a shrine dedicated to the Virgin Mary under which of her titles? Our Lady of Guadalupe

2. Hockey star David Melaragni earned a spot on the Selects Hockey-Q Team, which allowed him to play in which European countries? Sweden and Latvia

3. City Council President Anna Verna an-nounced her retirement in January. For how many years has she been a City employee? 60

4. Teacher Hope Moffi ett nearly lost her job last school year for her opposition to the School District of Philadelphia’s plans, since enacted, to modify this school. Charles Y. Audenried Sr. High School

5. SEPTA conducted a pilot program through which it consolidated service on this route. 47

6. The Ss. Neumann-Goretti High School boys’ basketball team ran its undefeated streak against Catholic League foes to 50 with a last-second win against which school? St. Joseph’s Prep

7. Girard Academic Music Program teach-er Amanda Bankert spent part of the summer giving instruction in this country. Uganda

8. The South Philadelphia High School robotics team competed in the national championships in this city. St. Louis

9. Teacher Elisabeth Raab tested her tal-ents on this show. “Jeopardy!”

10. The Jacob and Esther Stiffel Senior Center closed in the summer after how many years of operation? 83

11. This lauded food fi gure helped to re-vive business at La Stanza Restaurant and Catering. Robert Irvine

12. The Pennsylvania Horticultural Soci-ety helped this playground to build a gar-den with edible goodies. Chew

13. This school received a visit from re-tired U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Andrew Jackson

14. CHI Movement Center held dance lessons to improve the lives of patients bat-tling this condition. Parkinson’s disease

15. Dr. Angelo Milicia retired as princi-pal of the Girard Academic Music Program after how many years? 16 SPR

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Duo robs national chainPolice are searching for two armed men who stole

more than $35,000 from a Snyder Plaza store. By Amanda L. SnyderReview Managing Ed itor

A pair of robbers fl ed from a Pennsport retail store with wads of cash prior to its opening Monday.

The duo forced its way inside Marshall’s, 2000 S. Swanson St., at 4:53 a.m. by push-ing an employee, who was in an alley taking out the trash, back in the building and onto the fl oor, Detective Danielle Tolliver of South De-tective Division said. They then escorted him to the front of the store where the perpetrators the staff at gunpoint and demanded money.

One stayed with three employees in a locked break room while the other ac-companied the manager to the offi ce and demanded she unlock the safe and hand over its contents, Tolliver said. The gun-man fi lled bags and boxes with $35,000 to $40,000. The thieves wheeled off the cash on a dolly after locking the manager with the employees in a break room.

The suspects were described as black with light complexions, 6 foot to 6-foot-2; hav-ing medium builds; and wearing navy blue hoodies, blue jeans, black gloves and masks, according to the Police Public Affairs Unit. One was carrying a navy blue Nike draw-string bag.

To report information, call South De-tectives’ tip line at 215-685-1635 or visit phillypolice.com/forms.

Repeat offender

A man struck a Grays Ferry sporting goods store twice within two months.

The offender entered Golden Sports, 3005 Grays Ferry Ave., at 7:09 p.m. Dec. 15 and shook the owner’s hand at which time the businessman recognized him from an Oct. 27 robbery, Detective Danielle Tol-liver of South Detective Division said. As he tried to race out of the store, the thief pulled him by his shirt and shoved him back behind the register. He then pulled out a knife and ordered the victim to open the register. He took about $120, but de-manded more cash, so the owner added $80 from his pocket.

The perpetrator, who was described as black with a light complexion, age 25 to 30, 5-foot-9 to 5-foot-10; having a medium build; and wearing a green hoody, strolled out of the store in an unknown direction.

He is believed to be the same culprit of the fall robbery in which he held the owner at gunpoint and stole $500, Tolliver said.

To report information, call South De-tectives’ tip line at 215-685-1635 or visit phillypolice.com/forms.

Watch snatchA man was assaulted and robbed of his

belongings, including his Rolex, after ex-iting the subway early Friday.

The 39-year-old exited the train at the Ells-worth-Federal station of the Broad Street Line at 12:15 a.m., Detective Danielle Tol-liver of South Detective Division said. As he proceeded up the stairs, two men followed him and another male stared at him from the top of the stairs of the Federal Street exit.

When he reached the street, the man punched him multiple times and sliced him with a box cutter on his left hand, neck and face, Tolliver said. The duo that was following him stood as lookouts and then snatched his wallet, which contained identifi cation and $138, and his Rolex watch that is valued at $4,500. The trio fl ed east on Federal Street.

A passerby transported him to Method-ist Hospital.

The attacker was described as black and age 18 to 20; having a beard; and wearing a black hoody and black jeans while his accom-plices were described as black, age 18 to 25 and wearing gray hoodies and black jeans.

To report information, call South De-tectives’ tip line at 215-685-1635 or visit phillypolice.com/forms. SPR

Contact Managing Editor Amanda L. Snyder at [email protected] or ext. 117. Comment at southphillyreview.com/news/po-lice-report.

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There are a variety of ways to prevent crime, but locals in a two-by-seven-block span are thrilled that the City

not only is lending an ear, but offering its services to combat its biggest demons.

“I was glad because I wanted to see some-thing done in Point Breeze that’s long-term,” Betty Beaufort, of Garnet and Reed streets, said of the PhillyRising Collaborative.

The Managing Director’s Offi ce project coordinates existing City amenities in se-lect crime-ridden, low-quality neighbor-hoods with its inhabitants paving the way. Since July, Assistant Managing Director Adé Fequa has been meeting with those re-siding 19th to 21st streets and Reed Street to Snyder Avenue. Fequa turned their three main worries — vacant land, blighted buildings and littered alleys; lack of youth engagement; and safety concerns — into an action plan aimed to correct them.

“This is a commitment and we’re going to sign off on it,” Fequa said.

PHILLYRISING KICKED OFF last year in North Philly’s Hartranft, where crime dropped 15.9 percent after a year, and has extended to eight areas. It has 24 in its sights includ-ing a section of Grays Ferry and one in the 3rd District dubbed Greenwich Lovely.

So far, he has facilitated a resident-led walkthrough Oct. 25 with various City agen-cy representatives that netted about 40 ser-vice requests that either have been resolved or had a violation issued, Fequa said.

Refl ecting the broken-window theory, the repairs serve as deterrents, 1st District Capt. Lou Campione, who believes a crime reduc-tion has occurred south of Moore Street, said.

“The focus there is to repair the broken window and work with the community to improve the quality of life by organizing cleanups and doing the proactive activities to reduce crime,” he said.

Covering north of Moore, Capt. Anthony Washington’s 17th District offi cers are as-sisting to keep the troubles at bay.

“The offi cers have basically been pro-active in looking and fi nding more alleys and problem locations and reporting them to my staff,” he said.

While it’s too early to measure Philly-Rising’s infl uence on crime, he said, it is expected to be positive.

“I believe it’s very progressive and that it’s been defi nitely a good thing for the neighborhood and the community,” he said. “The residents have seen fi rsthand the results of the PhilyRising facilitators

getting things done.”Fequa coordinated two cleanups last month,

but the alleys’ conditions surprised him. “I pulled a Christmas tree out of there

from last year,” he said of one of the now clean passages. “That’s how often people go down there.”

The efforts also have benefi tted his of-fi cers, Campione, who has personally at-tended the cleanups, said.

“They appreciate what is going on,” he said. “They have the information. They have the knowledge. They’re willing to accept their part of the obligation to work together with the community to achieve the goals.”

With an absence of youth havens except for Dixon House, 1920 S. 20th St., commu-nity partners are working to prevent young-sters from resorting to crime, Fequa has linked up locations with programs through-out the coverage area to keep them from crossing rival gang territories, too.

“You got all these kids doing ‘bad things,’ but then we don’t have any programs,” Fequa said.

A major partnership will feature Dominic McFadden, son of Gene McFadden — half of McFadden & Whitehead, which popu-larized the 1970s’ “Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now” — has vowed to mentor children at a virtually unused recording studio at Wil-son Park, 2200 S. 25th St.

“We might not have money, but through our network of bringing people together … [we’re] adding the volunteer hours of people who make more than our City government,” Fequa said of the collaborative’s budget, which is cost-neutral aside from salaries.

Even youngsters who already have had run-ins with the law will receive guid-ance with Family Division Administrative Judge Kevin Dougherty’s help.

“‘Aw bad kids can’t come?’” Fequa said of what some may say as he shook his head. “We want bad kids. … We want to engage them. We’re not going to forget about those kids.”

Since results take time, there is no set timeline, so Fequa will move on to the next neighborhood when the time is right.

“We want to be able to do it right,” he said. “We don’t want to do it too fast or too slow. … We want to make sure the vision presented to us is seen.”

Fequa hopes to tackle every alley when cleanups resume in the spring and to see a substantial drop in crime before moving on.

“When we get to that point where people are sustaining projects and creating them on their own, that’s when we’ll know,” he said. SPR

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By Mark MossReview Spec ial Contr ibutor

As kids, we could walk a few blocks and enter a new parish. Today, with the declining number of churches,

the cohesiveness of our communities is dwindling. Mummery is one of the few re-maining things that binds people together to better South Philly neighborhoods and families.

As other neighborhood meeting spots close, Mummer clubs, now more than ever, have become the new center of our worlds — where people come to relax, learn, work together and relate socially.

In 1947, as World War II and its effects drew to a close, the newly formed Fancy Brigade division — one of the fi ve mak-ing up the Philadelphia Mummers Parade — started to assimilate itself into the city’s culture not only as a gathering place, but also a place to mold, shape, protect and nurture children.

The brigades’ responsibility is to stick to the values the initial brigade member-ship put forth, yet its ultimate goal is to put on the most spectacular shows and adapt to the general public’s new entertainment standards and demands. Today, with fond memories of past captains, this uneven ground ahead is not lost on current Fancy Brigade Association leaders. The wall they have to climb over to successfully proceed in the current declining economic state is exhaustive as fi nding ways to raise show funds certainly will have to be addressed.

Years ago, the parading Mummers were not the only reason to attend the South Broad Street festivities.

For neighborhood inhabitants, as well as those that had moved away to started new careers and families, meeting up with family and friends on New Year’s Day was a cherished objective. Standing along the parade route while taking an occasional nip and then running to a nearby home to get warm and grab hot soup, delicious ham, freshly baked holiday cookies and homemade red wine were traditions that would not be missed.

In 2012, how are the changing interests of the general public to be addressed?

As the Comics don their acid-tongued political and social satire, the Wenches feature their jubilant revelry, the Fancies illustrate beauty and pageantry and the String bands showcase their brilliant mu-sical presentations, the Fancy Brigades must continue to end the parade each year on a high note that not only tops the year before, but leave the crowd gasping in de-light and wanting more.

Past leaders diligently laid out the framework of the Fancy Brigades, so its new leaders’ jobs are to change with the times and be innovative, yet, still true to Mummer tradition. Sharing that passion for Mummery with your own children and family is a joy and is a way to move forward and encourage a new generation to understand that the brigades has value.

The blue-collar people come together to collaborate in the spirit of competition, but also celebrate it in an admirable way.

Americans, carry the weight of many burdens such as the future hope of a peace-ful world. While Mummery doesn’t cure cancer, calm Mother Nature or end wars, it does, even if just for a moment, ease the tensions of the people. Like a cheesy real-ity show or great sporting event, the Fancy Brigades’ shows are a guilty pleasure that cannot be resisted.

COME DECEMBER, PUNCH lists are posted in each Fancy Brigade clubhouse. This is a signal that the yearlong planning of the four-and-a-half minute shows are entering the fi nal stages.

Final group lists have been posted to bring full circle drills that have been imag-ined, planned, rearranged and fi nalized.

While the monumental task of working on Brigade fl oats will probably go on until the very last moment, the course has been set in motion for the presentation of the most commanding and entertaining per-formances ever to grace a stage.

One right turn from east Oregon Avenue on to Broad Street Jan. 1 each year is an exciting venture. With that turn, comes

the sight of all of the familiar faces in the crowd greeting you with joy along the parade route. The march up Broad leads each Brigade closer to what they’ve been working on since Jan. 2 of the previous year. With the approach to the Pennsylva-nia Convention Center, comes the walk up the ramp that leads to the performance hall and the excitement of knowing that, in a few moments, all of that heart-pounding energy will be expended trying to perform with all of your might and to the best of your ability. As you line up behind the cur-tain, you hope the show you are about to put on is all you’d hoped it’d be and that the crowd enjoys it.

For some of us, our lives have become a series of complications and struggles as we rely on one another, fi nd redemption in succeeding, put on the best shows pos-sible and join the community to fi nd ways

to sustain the art of Mummery.Looking back to our past leaders — our

great-grandparents and grandparents, neigh-bors, fans and others close to us who have passed on — we realize things that already have been accomplished will not be our last great memory. Those that are gone will nev-er be forgotten. We will take their memory with us forever. It is with that spirit that we turn to our children and embolden them to spread their wings, look outside the box and decipher what the future requires for Mum-mery to succeed as an art. As we hold fast to the belief that Mummery will be around forever, we have to ensure the fact and hold that goal in our grasp.

We hope we’ve done all we could to pass on our passion for perfection to the art of Mummery. We have to take a leap of faith that all we’ve taught our kids has been ab-sorbed and retained so that they can pass it onto to their children.

We can eternally taunt ourselves, ques-tioning whether we’ve done enough to sustain Mummery’s future path, but our only consolation is knowing only God knows where we go from here and trust that it will be enough. SPR

Carmen D’Amato, Pete D’Amato, James Bradley, Vincent Buono, James Julia, Dan-ny Tursi and Jessica Tursi also contributed to the series.

Visit fancybrigade.com Purchase tickets for the Fancy Brigade Finale at comcast-tix.com.

Comment at southphillyreview.com/news/fea-tures.

This is the third in a three-part series previewing the Jan. 1 Fancy Brigade Finale Show at the Penn-sylvania Convention Center.

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The Jokers NYA are hoping to deliver another prize-winning performance Jan. 1 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.

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items abounding in their Passyunk Square community.

In his fi rst year at the school, art instruc-tor Peter Metcalfe arranged to have his pu-pils participate in the program, which links learning institutions with professional art-ists for 30-hour residencies. Having part-nered with the museum for three years at North Philly’s William D. Kelley School, the resident of 29th Street and Snyder Av-enue sought to intensify his grant history by offering teacher Nicole Del Quadro’s class extra chances to perform critical thinking. His plan united Kirkbride with Charlene Melhorn, who came to the building with an affi nity for understanding the relevance of the emperor’s terracotta warriors to modern life and the repercussions of a discovery in Xi’an, the Shaanxi province’s capital.

“The kids have thoroughly enjoyed their involvement,” Metcalfe said Monday.

Metcalfe, also an instructor at Universal Audenried Charter High School’s South Philadelphia Talent Center, 3301 Tasker St., welcomed the learners before joining Melhorn, who made her 10th visit since their Oct. 17 introduction, for a review of concepts and vocabulary. The Delphi Proj-ect Foundation sponsored their relation-ship and provided $500 for art supplies and two museum trips. The fi rst excursion occurred Oct. 28, completing a busy two-week period that set in literal motion their two-component task.

The fi rst aspect centered on applying an-cient Chinese history to the students’ civic knowledge. In 221 B.C., Huang became the premier emperor of unifi ed China. He died 11 years into his reign yet had his leg-acy cemented through the Terracotta Army, a clay outfi t consisting of thousands of sol-diers and hundreds of chariots and horses meant to protect his spirit in the afterlife.

Farmers digging a water well discovered the life-sized works in 1974 near the mau-soleum, prompting numerous archaeologi-cal studies and jeopardizing the diggers’ livelihood. The fi rst Kirkbride meeting in-formed the students of the farmers’ plight, yielding empathy and interest in creating their own burial protection sculptures with air dry clay and modeling tools.

“Experimentation factors into my work,” Melhorn said. “I kept looking for ways to establish connections between the past and the present, and the Xi’an warriors kept coming up.”

Each class included a focus and a theme, a studio activity and media use. The fi rst six meetings involved discussions of mu-seum galleries to increase awareness of East Asian art pieces’ purposes. The fi rst two-hour gathering bore the models, fi g-ures standing around six inches.

“I had heard of the warriors, but I have enjoyed learning about how to relate them to today,” Northeast Philly’s Alexander Roc said after Metcalfe distributed the cre-ations to his charges for painting.

An October neighborhood walk to in-spect sites and retrieve discarded items they could deem artifacts helped Alexander and his peers to begin the second part of their mission. A visit to the former Moyamensing Prison, now an Acme, 1200 E. Passyunk Ave., gave them historical perspective, as they learned poet Edgar Allan Poe spent a night there for public drunkenness and abo-litionists Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman comforted a prisoner there. They collected items such as chip bags, fl ip-fl ops, goggles, lighters, phone chargers, plastic bottles and transpasses to create personal boxes to form one exhibition piece.

Subsequent weeks saw them building frames, pouring molds after inserting their objects, digging and partially carving out the found items, arranging them to estab-lish a sense of uniformity and recording individual stories. They completed their colorful concoction Dec. 12, with delivery

of the 5-by-5-foot product to the museum occurring last week. The 135-year-old landmark chooses six schools each year, with South Philly landing half of this year’s spots. Joining Kirkbride at the Art Partners Student Exhibition in the mu-seum’s Education Corridor through Jan. 29 are George Sharswood School, 2300 S. Second St., whose eighth-graders worked on a shark project and John H. Taggart School, 400 W. Porter St., whose eighth-graders looked at various forms of abuse, including that of the environment.

“This is my fi rst class that has ever done something like this,” Del Quadro, in her third full year at Kirkbride, said.

The resident of the 12th and Porter streets will accompany her learners Jan. 6 when they observe their handiwork at the museum. She has noticed the project’s ef-fect on their work ethic.

“It makes them more excited about learning,” she said. “It’s like the coolest thing ever to them.”

NUMEROUS NORTH AMERICAN cities have hosted exhibitions of the army and artifacts

from the mausoleum, including Atlanta, Ga.; Santa Anna, Calif.; Washington, DC; and Canada’s Montreal and Toronto. The Kirkbride bunch enjoyed gathering its own version Monday, painting the warriors and discussing the lessons picked up from be-ing involved in the program.

“I tried to make a really strong fi gure,” Alexander said as he applied black paint to serve as his warrior’s pants.

He found a motor oil can on their local trek and made it the centerpiece of his box. Melhorn has made him so enthused about using clay that he has an idea for anyone who might be looking for a last-minute Christmas gift for him.

“I am so interested that I want a pottery wheel,” he said.

Gabrielle Sheridan, who located a video game on the march, carefully tended to her fi ghter. Learning of the warriors enthused the resident of the Fourth and Tasker streets so much that she plans to investigate more Chinese artworks.

“I just fi nd the history so interesting because we can try to see what the past means to different cultures,” she said after completing her fi ghter’s mane.

Melhorn regularly replaced the water for the students as they applied their strokes and fl ashed smiles as they anticipated eat-ing popcorn and viewing a movie on the warriors.

“They are engaged and excited,” she said, citing the blending of archaeologi-cal science and present experiences as the residency’s best aspect. “Their voices and stories are important, too.”

Their recordings will join the exhibition, and Kevin Trejo, who located a faucet for the display, is eager to hear his refl ections.

“I had no art background,” the resident of Eighth and Dickinson streets said. “From the project, I’ve learned I like art more than I thought.” SPR

Contact Staff Writer Joseph Myers at [email protected] or ext. 124. Comment at southphillyreview.com/news/features.

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Kirkbride’s participants will keep their renditions of ancient Chinese figures. Their experiences next year will include a trip to see their project’s second element.


Shining in fi rstL ower Moyamensing Civic Association has awarded the vic-

tors of its Holiday Decorating Contest.Residents cast more than 6,000 votes on the nonprofi t’s web-

site last week with a home featuring blue lights and snowmen on the 2500 block of South Sartain Street, pictured, receiving the most support. Voters awarded an adobe on the 2500 block of South 11th Street and on the 1100 block of South Fitzgerald with second and third place, respectively.

The contest was open to residents and business owners with-in its boundaries of Snyder to Oregon avenues and Eighth to Broad streets. The winners were announced Dec. 15 at its holi-day party. SPR Photo prov ided by Tom Eub ig

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Dubbed “the crown jewel of Xfi nity Live! Philadelphia,” the Spectrum Grille promises a sophisticated dining experience with chops, seafood and steaks. Nightly cocktail parties also will occur.

Gathered on the former site of the Spec-trum, the lauded arena whose 44-year presence ended in May after six months of demolition, the prominent fi gures behind the deal addressed their brainchild’s role in building the local economy and bolster-ing the notion of South Philadelphia as a recreational destination.

“This is a great day for all of us,” Com-cast-Spectacor President Peter Luukko said of the latest step in actualizing a dream that began as Philly Live! in Janu-ary 2008.

Lauding Citizens Bank Park, 1 Citizens Bank Way; Lincoln Financial Field, 1101

Pattison Ave.; and the Wells Fargo Center, 3601 S. Broad St., he said the locations needed an amenity. That thinking spurred him and chairman Ed Snider to partner their 37-year-old sports and entertainment company with Cordish, the country’s larg-

est developer of entertainment districts.“We wanted an area for people to have

some fun,” Luukko said in the vicinity of a section that should lead patrons’ crusades for contentment before, during or after a game or concert or separate from the exist-

ing venues’ offerings.The current sites welcome eight mil-

lion souls annually, Snider said, so the man whose company owns the Flyers, the Wells Fargo Center and four Flyers Skate Zone community ice skating and hockey rinks set out to sate physical and diver-sional appetites. After Luukko revealed the development will yield 750 full- and part-time jobs, Snider followed with a brief overview of the initial phase, which Cordish believes will have two successors. He noted the original 350,000-square-foot vision needed adjustments because of the rough economy but vowed that the fi rst product will wow its attendees.

“This is the fi rst phase of what is going to be a phenomenal complex,” the 78-year-old seer said.

He said the 1996 construction of the Wells Fargo Center helped Comcast-Spec-tacor to devise a deal with the City to look for what he termed a “connector,” an entity to assist with growth. He praised Cordish as the force that will help him to show his appreciation for South Philadelphia’s fer-vent sports fans and concertgoers.

“Xfi nity Live! Philadelphia will be the most exciting venue of its type anywhere in the world,” he said.

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The 48-year-old Comcast Corp. uses its namesake as the brand for its triple play design, comprising digital cable, cable Internet ac-cess and cable telephone services. Responsible for developing, pro-ducing and distributing entertain-ment, news and sports for global audiences as the majority owner and manager of NBCUniversal, it serves millions and will offer plenty of technological goodies to the local masses.

“This area has such potential, and this district will build upon the vibrancy and history of the South Philadelphia sports com-plex,” Comcast Cable’s Executive Vice President and Chief Operat-ing Offi cer Dave Watson said.

A BUSINESS CENTENARIAN at 101, Cordish has developed numerous urban entertainment zones in the United States — including St. Louis, Baltimore and Houston — and sought to add Phila-delphia because of its possessing three key intangibles.

“We look for cities with great potential, tireless political leadership and local com-panies that could serve as operators,” Reed Cordish said as his father, David Cordish, nodded approvingly. “We found them in Philadelphia.”

Famous and perhaps infamous for their aggressive play, the Flyers won the Stanley Cup in 1974 and ’75 and will serve as the theme behind The Broad Street Bullies Pub, which will feature memorabilia from the franchise’s golden era and will offer a mix of gourmet hamburgers and traditional pub fare, along with nearly 50 drafts on tap. Live acoustic entertainment will make evening outings exercises in music appreciation.

Other Cordish markets have used the Professional Bull Riders Association to present western-themed sites, so South Philadelphians will mimic other diners by visiting the PBR Bar and Grill. The restau-rant will serve Tex-Mex cuisine and host country and southern evening rock parties complete with a mechanical bull.

Suds lovers can sate their desires at The Victory Beer Hall. Along with craft beers from the region and across the country, patrons will fi nd a stage for live entertain-ment and a 2,000-square-foot patio featur-ing a fi re pit and offering a panoramic sky-line view. Snider foresees the site’s future as a massive boon that could result in “a fourth stadium experience.”

So that supporters can catch the efforts of the complex’s athletes, Xfi nity Live! will make history by hosting the fi rst NBC Sports Arena. Fans will witness a 32-foot diagonal LED HD television, with LED

Rings displaying a sports ticker. As with the other locations, visitors will have the ability to host events there. The develop-ment’s outside space will attempt to rival the rest through an the Xfi nity On Demand Theater. A 24-foot wide LED video board will show sports contests and family-ori-ented movies. An adjacent 300-foot artifi -cial turf fi eld will host various activities.

Already a congested expanse, the com-plex often proves a traffi c nightmare, but the Xfi nity Live! team, whose creations will be open daily, have prepared to accom-modate its customers. The trio has planned at least 2,000 new parking spaces and has set aside 20,000 spots for patrons. Days without events will include free parking. When the complex is hopping, free park-ing will be available one hour after the fi -nal event begins. These moves guarantee that the public will have free parking after 9 p.m. for 95 percent of the year, accord-ing to an Xfi nity Live! release.

“We are going to be a great spot for pre-game and post-events, but we will also be a destination in and of ourselves,” Reed Cordish said before showing a video of what the space will resemble.

The short presentation drew smiles, in-cluding grins from former Philadelphia Mayor and Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell and Phillies chairman and part owner Bill Giles. The Xfi nity Live! project is court-ing employees and will oversee a Wells Fargo Center job fair on a to be deter-mined date.

“I can’t wait for it to open in a little more than three months,” Snider said of the ven-ture. “We’re confi dent it will be a tremen-dous success.” SPR

Contact Staff Writer Joseph Myers at [email protected] or ext. 124. Comment at southphillyreview.com/news/features.

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Bella Vista Town Watch holds a zoning meeting 7:30 p.m. Jan. 10. Palumbo Rec Center, 700 S. Ninth St.. P.O. Box 63955. 215-627-0057. [email protected]. bvtw.org.

Broad Street West Civic Association meets 7 p.m. Jan. 10. Guerin Rec Center, 16th and Jackson streets.

Capitolo Playground meets 7 p.m. Jan. 9. 900 Federal St. 215-685-1883. face-book.com/capitoloplayground.

Chew Playground Advisory Council meets 6:30 p.m. Jan. 3. 1800 Washington Ave.

East Passyunk Crossing Civic Associa-tion and Town Watch meets 7 p.m. Jan. 9. 1729 S. 11th St. 215-339-0400. [email protected]. epcrossing.org.

Friends of Cianfrani Park meets 7 p.m. Jan. 3. 721 S. Eighth St., or Palumbo Rec Center, 700 S. Ninth St. [email protected]. cianfranipark.org.

Hawthorne Empowerment Coalition, 1318 Catharine St., holds its zoning meet-ing 7:30 p.m. Dec. 27. and general meet-ing 7:30 p.m. Jan. 10. Hawthorne Cultural Center. 1200 Carpenter St. 215-735-1225. [email protected]. hecphilly.org.

Lower Moyamensing Civic Associa-tion holds its monthly happy hour 4:30-6:30 p.m. Jan. 11 at Bomb Bomb BBQ Grill and Italian Restaurant, 1026 Wolf St. P.O. Box 37522. [email protected]. lomophilly.org.

Newbold Neighbors Association holds its Clean and Green meeting 6 p.m. Jan. 9 at Ultimo, 1900 S. 15th St. [email protected]. newboldneighbors.org.

Passyunk Square Civic Association meets 6:30 p.m. Jan. 3 and zoning meets 7 p.m. Jan. 10 at South Philadelphia Older Adult Center, 1430 E. Passyunk Ave. P.O. Box 18052. [email protected]. passyunk.org.

Pennsport Civic Association meets 7 p.m. Jan. 11. E.O.M., 138 Moore St. 1837 S. Sec-ond St. 215-462-9764. pennsportcivic.org.

Point Breeze Civic Association is reg-istering youth ages 7 to 13 for tutoring classes at its offi ce 1518 S. 22nd St., and boys ages 10 to 16 for basketball 6:30 p.m. Mondays at Universal Vare Charter School, 2100 S. 24th St. 215-755-6628.

Point Breeze Community Development Coalition meets 6 p.m. Jan. 4. South Philly Homes Inc., 1444 Point Breeze Ave. 215-334-4430. sphinc.com.

Queen Village Neighbors Association is a drop-off site for “Feel the Warmth” a nonprofi t collecting gently-used coats for those lacking winter wear. Call or e-mail to coordinate a drop-off time. 405-25 Queen St. 215-339-0975. [email protected]. qvna.org.

South of South Neighborhood Associa-tion holds its safety meeting 6:30 p.m. Jan. 9 at its offi ce, 1901 Christian St. 215-732-8446. southofsouth.org. SPR

Neighborhood gatheringsCheck out what’s happening with localcivic associations and town watches.

RebranchingInstead of tossing it to the curb, haul

the undecorated evergreens to a City Sanitation Convenience Center, Domi-no Lane and Umbria Street, State Road and Ashburner Street or 63rd Street and West Passyunk Avenue, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays to Saturdays or drop it off at one of three area tree-cycling events Jan. 7. The City will not recycle trees set out with trash.

East Passyunk Crossing Civic Association and Town Watch, Lower Moya-mensing Civic Association, Newbold Neighbors As-sociation and Passyunk Square Civic Association will accept tannenbaums 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Jan. 7 at Columbus Square Park, 13th and Reed streets.

Meanwhile Queen Village Neighbors Association, South Street Headhouse Dis-trict, Whole Foods, South Street Police Mini-Station, and greenlimbs will hold their tree-cycling event 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Jan. 7 at Whole Foods, 929 South St.

Lower Moyamensing, Marconi Area Residents Civic Organization, New-

bold Civic Association and South Philadelphia Communities Civic Association also will collect tim-

bers 1 to 4 p.m. Jan. 7 at Mar-coni Plaza, Broad Street and

Oregon Avenue. A $5 donation is re-

quested at all events to defray costs of turning the lumber into wood chips. SPR

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A Newbold resident bringsHanukkah to life in anexploration of the holiday and Judaism inan original work at the Painted Bride.

By Jess FuerstReview Contr ibutor

At age 13, Mary Tuomanen celebrated Christmas with her family. At age 30, she seeks the truth about Hanuk-kah by playing a 13-year-old girl onstage at Old City’s

Painted Bride Art Center. “I grew up in a Christian household,” Tuomanen, of Tasker

and Bancroft streets, said. “I’d been more interested in Judaism recently because I also was in a play [with] the Lantern [Theater Co.] called ‘New Jerusalem.’” That was a really great primer for the play I’m in now since I’m playing someone coming to terms with their Judaism.”

Tuomanen plays Rachel in Gas & Electric Arts’ “Hershel and the Ha-nukkah Goblins,” an original production playing through Dec. 30. Ra-chel, who recently lost her father, time travels from 2011 to explore her faith during 19th-century Russian pogroms with Hershel as a guide.

“We had the book in front of us and then basically it was improvisations,”

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Tuomanen said of the children’s story of the same name that the work is based on. “… each time we’d settle into some scene and then the playwright Jackie Goldfi nger would take it all home and take all the best lines and add some better lines and come back with a fi nal scene.”

The script, which was written in this man-ner over several months, was fi nalized a few weeks ago, leading up to the fi rst dress rehearsal that took place Saturday night.

“[It was the] fi rst time with all the music, which is basically another character in the script. It’s amazing. Gregg Mervine com-posed the music specifi cally for the piece. It’s klezmer and it’s dark and rich and gor-geous. It shows the journey of the story.”

The inclusion of the character of Rachel is an addition to the original story by Eric Kimmel. Together, Rachel and Hershel outwit the town goblins, who are prevent-ing the villagers from celebrating Hanuk-kah. Rachel also is battling her own de-mons, with the passing of her father.

“I’m a [13]-year-old girl so we sort of had to go back to our [13]-year-old selves and remember how important our emo-tions felt and how we began to defi ne our personalities, what you like and what you don’t, how your opinions might be differ-

ent from your parents and how that strug-gle begins at that age,” she said.

Tuomanen has been taking on a string of challenging roles, including a recent turn with Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre as Hamlet. Ironically, this helped her get into the character of Rachel.

“The process was bizarrely similar. Hamlet is also pretty adolescent. It’s that feeling of betrayal when you realize your parents are fallible and they are not there to serve your own desire and needs,” Tuo-manen said. “That seems to also be present in the character of Rachel.”

TUOMANEN MADE HER way to Philadelphia by way of Massachusetts. After boarding school in New Hampshire, she attended Ohio’s Kenyon College where she studied theater and playwriting.

“Bizarrely, acting was defi nitely not what I thought I’d be doing,” she said. “I had done acting at Kenyon, but the school is really geared toward writing. I knew it would be a hard life. I never expected to make a living at it.”

Upon graduation, Tuomanen was drawn to Kentucky where she had secured a job with the Actor’s Theatre of Louisville.

“It was a young company and once you fi nish there, they take you to do a show-case in New York so a lot of people were

fed into New York City afterward,” Tuo-manen said. “I was only in New York for a short time. I didn’t like New York. It was the actor’s life like I didn’t want to have, which was scrounging for money, living paycheck to paycheck.”

As Tuomanen grappled with her next move, she remembered exercises in physi-cal theater that had piqued her interest, so she went to Paris to study at Ecole Interna-tionale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq.

“I was there for two-and-a-half years. It’s a two-year program. The fi rst year is 99 students and then the second year they cut it down to 20-odd students. It’s a very com-petitive program,” Tuomanen said. “It’s hard because the French pedagogue is so different. It’s a lot more harsh than nurtur-ing and loving. But I really do feel I got a lot out of the school. And I’m really happy that I have this peculiar set of skills that I can bring to he table in Philadelphia.”

And bring it she does in “Hershel,” as well as other works such as “Between Frames,” which is what led her to be cast as Rachel, and in “A Paper Garden,” a Fringe piece she and collaborators staged at a warehouse at 21st Street and Washing-ton Avenue.

“We took over the upstairs fl oor and set up a machine shop installation, a whole universe there that people could walk

around in,” Tuomanen said. “It had high ceilings because one character was on stilts the whole show and it ended up being a re-ally interesting space to work with so other companies have worked there after us.

“That’s the great thing about Philly and the Philly Fringe. You discover spaces that you wouldn’t normally go to, especially when you are a company with peculiar needs.”

Tuomanen is now settled in Newbold, across the street from her collaborator, Aar-on Cromie. Next up for the versatile actress is “Vainglorious,” where she will be taking on the role of Napoleon in a ‘promenade’-style piece that has the audience standing and moving through the work.

Until the end of the month, however, Tuomanen will continue to take the stage as Rachel and she encourages theatergoers to experience the same journey.

“’Hershel’ is a show with so much joy in it, it’s very wise and funny — funny for both adults and children,” she said. “It’s just a huge celebration and I think to feel a lot of the joy, and the rich sense of it, it takes into account a lot about grief and pain, and as a result is able to be as funny and as rich as it is.” SPR

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R. Kurt OsenlundMovie Rev iewer

Water for Elephants

The year’s prettiest piece of crap, “Water for Elephants” is sucked dry of what-

ever drama and romance graced the pages of Sara Gruen’s swoony source material, leaving the dusty-shiny lensing and art di-rection the only elements to admire. As a pair of big-top canoodlers, Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon have oil-and-water chemistry, while Christoph Waltz, who’s typecast as Witherspoon’s villainous ring-master hubby, is rendered toothless by the fi lm’s insistence on rapidly tidying up con-fl icts and using his animal cruelty as noth-ing but a sentimental ploy.

Hall Pass

Disheartening evidence of the Peter-Pan inertia so prevalent in American

comedy, “Hall Pass” is another crude at-tempt to validate the fi rst-world problems of middle-class manboys nearing middle age. Though married to beautiful women played by great, wasted comediennes Jen-na Fischer and Christina Applegate, two pals (Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis) are so bored with domesticity they need a week away from it (only to realize, in a stew of transparent pap, that they really love their wives). The whiff of male en-titlement reeks to high heaven, as the Far-relly Brothers get swept up in the storm of witless gag-fests they helped to create.

Vanishing on 7th Street

Eco-allegory meets religious hogwash in “Vanishing on 7th Street,” a super-

natural thriller that attempts to indict man-

kind’s wrongdoings but instead becomes one of them. Barely phased by his char-acter’s apocalyptic circumstances but for when it’s time to crank up the histrionics, Hayden Christensen gives a performance as half-baked as the “Ghost”-inspired shadow demons that devour anyone who hasn’t charged their fl ashlight batteries.

Killer Elite

If you simply must see Jason Statham and Clive Owen numbingly square off as two

growly secret agents, then be forewarned that the loud, yet lifeless “Killer Elite” also contains one of the year’s most uninvolv-ing and incomprehensible plots, an aim for global relevance that’s entirely for naught, and yet another bottom-of-the-barrel role for Robert De Niro. Too bad the title “Just Shoot Me!” was taken.

I Don’t Know How She Does It

Sarah Jessica Parker’s insistence on making even her fans hate her comes

into full, unwatchable bloom in “I Don’t Know How She Does It,” an archaic em-barrassment of a feminist comedy that, in addition to employing every possible audi-ence hand-holding trick, sets women back about fi ve decades. The worst choice for the role, Parker narrates the fi lm with that ultra-familiar Carrie Bradshaw contempla-tion, making the new character impossibly unconvincing and, not to mention, coldly disregarding the “Sex and the City” devo-tees who’ll loathe this movie.

The Mighty Macs

A Philadelphia production that the city would do well to wipe off its résu-

mé, the wildly amateurish “The Mighty Macs” makes needlessly cryptic its tale

of 1970s Immaculata women’s basketball coach Cathy Rush (Carla Gugino), while also delivering more sugary, on-the-nose mush than anyone should have to suffer in 97 minutes. The fi lm does a spectacular disservice to all involved with its real-life subject matter, trading the articulation of stakes and details for nun-friendly zingers like, “Was that ‘Amen’ or ‘I’m in?’”

Answers to Nothing

Grossly unaware that multi-character, hyperlink narratives are about as in

vogue as Myspace, Matthew Leutwyler’s L.A.-set “Crash” wannabe lets its out-of-touch tastelessness spread through every contrived nook and cranny, from vulgar, out-of-left-fi eld dialogue to cringe-in-ducing character quirks. All of it refl ects the fi lmmaker’s own poor judgment and alarming lack of empathy, a major prob-lem for a fi lm that’s supposed to be all about complex feelings.

Season of the Witch

Clearly reaching for some kind of despicable record, Nicolas Cage

gives the year’s worst male performance in “Season of the Witch,” an unspeakably terrible medieval horror fi lm that sees the screamy actor deliver his most absurdly serious, awkwardly hilarious work since “The Wicker Man.” What’s this hid-eously photographed debacle all about? Holy warrior Cage has to cart a presumed spell-caster to a far-off church, carting her through countless implausibilities and pages of ear-poisoning dialogue before throwing down with Satan in the worst computer graphics sequence this side of the Syfy channel.

X-Men: First Class

Unintentionally funny and unwittingly offensive to a fault, “X-Men: First

Class” makes an epic joke of the entire X-Universe, defecating on the comic book brand’s beloved mythology, and reducing its resonant themes to baldfaced hokum. As it winds back the clock to the swing-ing 1960s, when archenemies Magneto (Michael Fassbender) and Professor X (James McAvoy) were still nickname-free pals, manages to stick it to blacks, gays, Jews and fanboys alike, while serving up one lame setpiece after another. That it’s worse than both “X-Men: The Last Stand” and “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” speaks devastating volumes.

Cowboys & Aliens

Has anyone ever fl ubbed high-concept camp more thoroughly than Jon

Favreau does with “Cowboys & Aliens”? What could have been a fi ne slice of genre-mashing fun is the year’s most boring and stupefying blockbuster, packed full of slug-gish pacing, depressingly derivative plot turns, queasy melodrama, and preposterous excess, like a mysterious babe (Olivia Wil-de) who’s in fact a space alien capable of resurrection. The pairing of humorless cur-mudgeons Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig dashes all hopes that Indiana Jones and James Bond might make a dynamic duo, and by the time the movie fi nally decides to offer any kind of knowing amusement, the desperate yearning for it to end has long since taken top priority. Lots of bad fi lms hit screens in 2011, but none so unbearable as this sci-fi /western washout. SPR

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of 2011From manboys to mutants to aliens in the Wild West, the freaks came out in this year’s lousiest films.

Nicolas Cage in“Season of the Witch”

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It happened one season

His name is Tim Tebow. He is a second-year quarterback for the Denver Broncos. He has defi ed

the football insiders, the so-called experts, who proclaimed he couldn’t be a NFL quar-terback. He has shamed the cynics who dripped with scorn at this embodiment of a naive Goody Two-shoes. And while these self-styled experts and realists continue to doubt him, Tebow’s teammates and fans have no such doubts. The legend grows.

It is not as if Tebow has come out of no-where. He graduated from the University of Florida after leading that school to two national championships, but the NFL scouts were not impressed. There is a certain mind-set in pro football about how a quarterback should stylistically perform. If you do not conform to their profi le, the NFL establish-ment is likely to look down its nose at you. Some say he throws like a girl — worse, a left-handed girl.

Despite his storied Florida career, Tebow, the nation’s top-rated high school quar-terback and Heisman Trophy winner as a sophomore, was selected 25th in the 2010 draft. After he mostly backed up starting quarterback Kyle Orton as a rookie, Tebow started the last three games of the season. He impressed no one. His head coach, Josh McDaniels, was fi red and his team did not make the playoffs.

Denver hired John Fox as its head coach this season. Neither Fox nor Vice President of Football Operations John Elway believed Tebow had the requisite skills to be a suc-cessful pro quarterback. Elway, a virtual leg-end in Denver, had been one of the greatest quarterbacks in NFL history. His opinion carried weight beyond Denver. Tebow re-turned to the bench this season except for a couple of brief appearances, through the fi rst fi ve weeks. During that time, the Broncos lost four games and appeared headed for yet another season out of the playoffs.

The football fans in Denver were restive. They knew of Tebow’s brilliance at the col-legiate level. Football insiders notoriously mock fans for their emotional approach to the game. Fans are tolerated. Most organiza-tions want fans to pay their money, cheer for the home team and defer to the experts.

That is especially true in Philly where the head coach only hears the cheers, but never the chants for him to be fi red. Sometimes fans are ahead of the curve. The Denver fans fi gured, what is there to lose by giving

Tebow a chance? Fox reluctantly yielded to fan pressure and, in desperation, started Tebow. Knowing Tebow could not run a normal pro offense where passing skills are a huge part, he tailored the offense to Tebow’s running and leadership skills. Tebow’s statistics were awful at times. The experts keeled over laughing at this anach-ronism of a football team, but the Broncos won anyway. It wasn’t only that Denver was winning; it was the way they were winning.

Miraculous comebacks became a weekly occurrence. Denver magically rose to fi rst place in its division. What made Tebow’s success especially startling was that for the fi rst three quarters of each game, he was horrible. It seemed as if he were waiting for the waning moments of games to per-form his heroics. Because of his unorthodox throwing style and his modest statistics, Tebow’s doubters remain unconvinced. And despite his impeccable off-the fi eld behav-ior, Tebow fi nds himself in the middle of a controversy fi restorm.

There are two main reasons why the mere mention of Tebow ignites debate. Foremost, the pro football insiders don’t like to be wrong. They cling to the notion that there is only one way for a quarterback to be suc-cessful in the NFL. They scoff at Tebow’s success, downplay his responsibility for the victories and emphasize Denver’s admitted-ly excellent defense and terrifi c place kicker as the reasons why the Broncos are winning, but Denver had the same defense and place kicker in the fi rst fi ve weeks and they still lost. Indeed, Denver has been very lucky in many of their close wins. But NFL history suggests even luck has it limits.

Some media and fans root against Tebow because of his religious fervor. He wears his religion on his sleeve, but so do some other players, such as Eagles’ Jason Avant, who are actually well-liked by the same critics. Why the controversy over Tebow? The dif-ference might be that Tebow appeared in a pro-life TV ad with his mother. Pro players normally shy away from controversial sub-jects. But with all the negative publicity sur-rounding professional athletes these days, how important is that ad?

Surely we have seen this movie before. It is directed by Frank Capra and stars either Jimmy Stewart or Gary Cooper. An angel played by Thomas Mitchell touches a last-place team with magic dust. Suddenly that team, heretofore a dismal failure, begins winning against all odds. At Christmas, children leave cookies and milk under the tree for the almost mythic hero. “He isn’t real,” the cynics cry. The miracle of Mile High City can’t last forever.

The cynics miss the point. Miracles are not supposed to last forever. The important thing about a miracle is that it happened at all. SPR

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“The Wizard of Oz”continues to melt hearts with its message of the value of home 2 and 7:30 p.m. Dec. 27-28. Tickets: $20-$85. Merriam Theater, 250 S. Broad St. 215-893-1999. kimmelcenter.org.Kwanzaa: Paint the Story celebrates the seven principles of the African-American holiday and in-cludes a traditional African folk tale that participants will use for inspiration 4:30 p.m. Dec. 28. Charles Santore Branch, 932 S. Seventh St. 215-686-1766.

Live shows> Peter Nero and The Philly Pops: Through Dec. 22. Tickets: $28-$111. Kimmel Center, Verizon Hall, 260 S. Broad St. 215-893-1999. kimmelcenter.org.>The York Street Hustle Holiday Spectacular: 9 p.m. Dec. 22. Tickets: $6. World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St. 215-222-1400. worldcafelive.com.>Drew Nugent and the Midnight Society: 5 p.m. Dec. 23. Tickets: Free-$16. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 26th St. and the Benjamin Franklin Pkwy. 215-763-8100. philamu-seum.org. >The Fabulous Shpielkehs: 5:30 p.m. Dec. 23. Free. Kimmel Center, Commonwealth Plaza, 260 S. Broad St. 215-893-1999. kimmelcenter.org. >En Fuego: 9:30 p.m. Dec. 23. Tickets: $8-$10. Milkboy, 1100 Chestnut St. 215-925-6455. milkboyphilly.com.

>The Boombox Collective: 8 p.m. Dec. 23. Free. Upstairs at World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St. 215-222-1400. worldcafe-live.com. >Ruby the Hatchet: 10 p.m. Dec. 23. Tickets: $8. The Tro-cadero, 1003 Arch St. 215-922-6888. thetroc.com.>Jazz Jam: 5:30 p.m. Dec. 26. Free. World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St. 215-222-1400. worldcafelive.com. >Earl Phillips Big Band: 7 p.m. Dec. 27. Tickets: $12. Chris’ Jazz Cafe, 1421 Sansom St. 215-568-3131. chrisjazzcafe.com.

>Project/Object Performing The Music of Frank Zappa: 8 p.m. Dec. 27. Tickets: $17-$20. Downstairs at World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St. 215-222-1400. worldcafelive.com. >Temple Men’s Basketball versus Buffalo: 7 p.m. Dec. 28. Tickets: $12-$35. Liacouras Center, 1776 N. Broad St. 800-298-4200. liacourascenter.com. >Valencia: 7:30 p.m. Dec. 28. Tickets: $15-$18. Electric Fac-tory, 421 N. Seventh St. 800-745-3000. electricfactory.info.

>The New Deal with Sonic Spank: 8 p.m. Dec. 28. Tickets: $20-$30. Theatre of the Living Arts, 334 South St. 215-922-1011. livenation.com.

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>Make and Take Holiday Crafts foster joy 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays through Dec. 24 Free. Historic Philadelphia Center, Sixth and Chestnut streets. 215-629-4026. historicphiladelphia.org.

>George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker dances through Dec. 31. Tickets: $20-$140. Academy of Music, 240 S. Broad St. 215-893-1999. academyofmu-sic.org.

>Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins entertain through Dec. 31. Tickets: $16-$25. Painted Bride Art Center: 230 Vine St. 215-925-9914. paintedbride.org.

>The Dickens Christmas Village offers a stunning look at 19th-century life in London through the eyes of the lauded novelist 10 a.m.-7 p.m. through Dec. 30 and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Dec. 31. Macy’s, 13th and Market streets. 215-241-9000. wanamakerorgan.com.

>The Reading Terminal Market Railroad presents an interactive 500-square-foot train display with train lines that travel through miniature scenery including a Christmas Village and a snow-covered countryside 10 a.m.-6 p.m. through Dec. 31. 12th and Arch streets. 215-922-2317. reading-terminalmarket.org.

>A Very Furry Christmas allows the Sesame Place gang to excite visitors with shows, music, rides, shopping and time with Santa through Dec. 31. Tickets: $13.99-$19.99. 100 Sesame Road, Langhorne. 866-464-3566. sesameplace.com.

>The Comcast Holiday Spectacular delights the masses with captivat-ing music and imagery from George Balanchine’s “The Nutcracker” and includes a magical sleigh ride through the snow covered Pennsylvania coun-tryside, a 64-piece orchestra and more 10 a.m.-8 p.m. weekdays through Jan. 1. The Comcast Center, 1701 John F. Kennedy Blvd. visitphilly.com.

>Ho, Ho, Home for the Holidays offers free adoption of most dog breeds and reduced prices for cats through Jan. 2. Pennsylvania SPCA, 351 E. Erie Ave. 215-426-6300. pspca.org.

>The Blue Cross RiverRink Season includes an indoor heated facility with a game room, snack bar and other delights through March 4. Colum-bus Blvd. and Market St. 215-629-3218. riverrink.com.

>Hazelita Fauntroy and St. Simon the Cyrenian Episcopal Church present selections from Handel’s “Messiah,” carols, hymns and spirituals to honor all who have served in the military 6 p.m. Dec. 23. Suggested donation: $10. 1401 S. 22nd St. 215-468-1926.

Winter Classic Spectator Plaza: Dec. 31-Jan. 2. Free. Fan festival just outside the gates of Citizens Bank Park, 1 Citizens Bank Way. nhl.com. fl yers.nhl.com.

Flyers versus Rangers Alumni Game: 1 p.m. Dec. 31. Tickets: $20-$100. Citizens Bank Park, 1 Citizens Bank Way. 800-298-4200. comcasttix.com.

Penn State University versus Neumann University: 8 p.m. Jan. 4. Tickets: $10. Citizens Bank Park, 1 Citizens Bank Way. 800-298-4200. comcasttix.com.

Adirondack Phantoms verus Hershey Bears: 7 p.m. Jan. 6. Tickets: $10-$50. Citizens Bank Park, 1 Citizens Bank Way. 800-298-4200. comcast-tix.com. SPR

“Disney on Ice: Dare to Dream” fea-tures the heartening tales of Rapunzel, Flynn, Maximus, Princess Tiana, Prince

Naveen, Cinderella and Prince Charming through Jan. 1. Tickets: $13-$85. Wells Fargo Center, 3601 S. Broad St. 800-298-4200. ComcastTix.com.

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>The Wailers: 8 p.m. Dec. 28. Tickets: $22.50-$35. World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St. 215-222-1400. worldcafelive.com.

Museums/exhibits/galleries

>American Swedish Historical Museum: “17 Swedish Designers,” through Jan. 29. Cost: $35-$40. 1900 Pattison Ave. 215-389-1776. ameri-canswedish.org.

>Da Vinci Art Alliance: Da Vinci Holiday Art Exhibition and Sale, through Dec. 27. 704 Catharine St. 215-829-0644. davinciartalliance.org.

>Fleisher Art Memorial: “Wind Challenge 2,” through Feb. 5. 719 Catharine St. 215-922-3456.

>Fleisher-Ollman Gallery: “Paul Swenbeck: Dor and Oranur,” through Feb. 18. 1616 Walnut St. 215-545-7562. fl eisherollman.com.

>Independence Seaport Mu-seum: Drawn to the Water: Artists of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Capture our Region’s Waterways, 1830-Present” and “It Sprang from the River!” both through Dec. 31; Annual Fam-

ily fi reworks-viewing party 4-6:30 p.m. Dec. 31. Free with admission; Buccaneers Ball 8:30 p.m. Dec. 31. Tickets: $175. 211 S. Columbus Blvd. 215-413-8655. phillyseaport.org.

Special events>Free Haircuts for Students help low-income families. Contact United Communities Houston Center, 2029 S. Eighth St. 215-468-1645 ext. 226.

>Wounded Warrior Project Com-edy Show honors service members who suffered duty-connected inju-ries on or after 9/11 8-11 p.m. Dec. 23. Tickets: $25-$30. The Laff House Comedy Club, 221 South St. support.woundedwarriorproject.org.

18th annual New Year’s Eve Parties on Ice includes opportu-nities to skate and to see stunning fi reworks displays 5 and 11 p.m. Dec. 31. Tickets: $20-$30. Blue Cross Riv-erRink, Columbus Blvd. at Market St. 215-893-1999. riverrink.com. tickets.ticketphiladelphia.org.

Kids’ New Year’s Eve Countdown replaces the typical dropped ball with a square and guarantees views of fi reworks from Penn’s Land-ing 6 p.m. Dec. 31. Free. Franklin Square Park, Sixth and Race streets. historicphiladelphia.org.

The Fancy Brigade Finale enter-tains noon and 5 p.m. Jan. 1. Tickets: $4-$17. Pennsylvania Convention Center, 1101 Arch St. 267-639-8483. fancybrigade.com.

Theater/dance/opera>RENT: 7 p.m. Through Dec. 23. Tickets: $5-$10. The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St. therotunda.org.>A Very Special Ladies and Gentlemen Christmas Special: Through Dec. 23. Tickets: $12. Playground at the Adrienne, 2030 Sansom St. 877-985-2844. comedys-portzphilly.com. >Motherhood the Musical: Through Dec. 31. Tickets: $45. Society Hill Playhouse, 507 S. Eighth St. quinceproductions.com.>Noel and Gertie: Through Dec. 31. Tickets: $30. Walnut Street The-atre, Independence Studio on 3, 825 Walnut St. 215-574-3550. 800-982-2787. walnutstreettheatre.org. >Private Lives: Through Dec. 31. Tickets: $10-$56. St. Stephen’s Theater, 10th and Ludlow streets. 215-829-9002. lanterntheater.org.>This is The Week That Is: Through Dec. 31. Tickets: $20-$36. Plays & Players Theatre, 1714 Delancey St. 215-592-9560. 1812productions.org.>The King and I: Through Jan. 8. Tickets: $55-$95. The Walnut Street Theatre, 825 Walnut St. 215-574-3550. walnutstreettheatre.org.

>Why Torture Is Wrong and The People Who Love Them: Through Jan. 8 Tickets: $10-$30. Adrienne Theatre, 2030 Sansom St. 215-563-7500. newcitystage.org.

>Charlotte’s Web: Through Jan. 29. Tickets: $16-$32. Arden Theatre Company, 40 N. Second St. 215-922-1122. ardentheatre.org.

>Babes in Toyland: 10 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. Dec. 22. Tickets: $8.95-$13.50. Kimmel Center, Perelman Theater, 260 S. Broad St. 215-893-1999.kimmelcenter.org.

>Moo Shu Jew Show: 6 p.m. Dec. 24. Tickets: $65-$150. Joy Tsin Lau Restaurant, 1026 Race St. 215-545-4400. gershmany.org.

>The Magic Flute: 1 p.m. Dec. 27 and 7 p.m. Dec. 29. Tickets: $10-$18. Prince Music Theater, 1412 Chestnut St. 215-569-9700. princemusicthe-ater.org.

COMMUNITYChurches

and congregationsBryant Baptist Church has a food and clothing ministry 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Wednesdays; movie and lunch minis-try every fourth Saturday of the month. 1140-44 S. 19th St. 215-732-4140.

Lighthouse Baptist Church hosts youth Bible classes for school-aged children and teens 7 p.m. Wednes-days and 9:30 a.m. Sundays. 2400 S. Broad St. Brother Robert Nacci, 215-681-6238 or [email protected]. 215-389-2626. libcphiladelphia.com.

>Mount Hebron Baptist Church will hold clothing and items give-aways 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Dec. 22-23. 215-336-8163; holds prayer and Bible study experience noon-2 p.m. Wednesdays. 1415 Wharton St. Sister Edna Peoples, 215-921-4532.

St. Anna’s hold discussion group 5 p.m. Tuesdays. 1815 S. Alder St. Sister Elaine, 267-761-9573.

>St. Richard of Chichester holds Christmas Eve Pageant and Liturgy 4 p.m. Dec. 24. 18th and Pollock streets. 215-468-4777. strichard-church.org.

HealthGuerin: Smoking Cessation Pro-gram 6:15-7:45 p.m. Wednesdays. Free. 267-765-2319. [email protected]; Step, Pilates, disco and Zumba classes. 16th and Jackson streets. Call 215-385-2037.

>Methodist Hospital holds a Bereavement Support Group 1-2:30 p.m. Fridays through Jan. 13. 2301 S. Broad St. 1-800-533-3669. jefferson-hospital.org/methodist.

>Older Adult Program at Fels South Philadelphia Commu-nity Center: Birthday Party 11:30 a.m. Dec. 22. Free; Intergenera-tional New Year Celebration 10:30 a.m. Dec. 30. Free; Nintendo Wii Games 12:15 p.m. Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Free; Tai Chi 12:15 p.m. Mondays. Free; Art Workshop 12:30 p.m. Mondays. Cost: $1-$3; Enhance Fitness Class 9:30 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:30 a.m. Free. 2407 S. Broad St. 215-218-0800.

Starr Garden Playground hosts 12-step Nicotine Anonymous meetings 7-8 p.m. Tuesday. 600 Lombard St. 215-686-1782. Debbie, 267-591-3275.

VeteransSupport Homeless Veterans is announcing its intent to incor-porate. The organization aim to provide supported permanent housing and services to homeless U.S. veterans, while promoting com-munity involvement and awareness. supporthomelessveterans.org. SPR

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Stuffi ng isn’t just for that other end-of-the-year holiday. Chris-tina Maiellano’s Sweet Apple Sausage Stuffi ng is savory and pairs well with poultry or even as a stand-alone side dish.

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American/Continental Carman’s Country Kitchen: 1301 S. 11th St., 215-339-9613, $Fitzwater Café: 728 S. Seventh St., 215-629-0428, $$Fuel: 1917 E. Passyunk Ave. 215-468-FUEL, $$

Royal Tavern: 937 E. Passyunk Ave., 215-389-6694, $

Sabrina’s Café: 910-12 Christian St., 215-574-1599, $$ South Philly Bar & Grill: 1235-37 E. Passyunk Ave., 215-334-3300, $

Asian International Smokeless Barbeque: 600 Washington Ave., 215-599-8844, $ JC Chinese Restaurant: 748 Mor-ris St., 215-334-1056, $$

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Coffee/Café/SweetsAnthony’s Coffee House: 903 S. Ninth St., www.italiancoffeehouse.com/anthonysitaliancoffee, 215-627-2586, $

Fast BreakKey Food Pizza: 1846 S. 12th St., 215-551-7111, $Sarcone’s Deli: 734 S. Ninth St., 215-922-1717, $ Vincenzo’s Deli: 1626 S. Ninth St., 215-463-6811, $

FrenchBeau Monde: 624 S. Sixth St., 215-592-0656, www.creperie-beau-monde.com, $

ItalianChiarella’s Ristorante: 1602 S. 11th St., 215-334-6404, www.chiarellasristorante.com, $$Cucina Forte: 768 S. Eighth St., 215-238-0778, $$ Dante and Luigi’s: 762 S. 10th St., 215-922-9501, www.danteandluigis.com, $$

Franco’s HighNote Cafe: 13th and Tasker streets, 215-755-8903, www.francoandluigis.com, $$

Karina’s Restaurant: 1520 E. Passyunk Ave., 215-218-0455, $$

La Cucina Varallo: 1635 S. 10th St., 215-952-0504, $$

La Fourno: 636 South St., 215-627-9000, www.lafourno.com, $$

Mamma Maria: 1637 E. Passyunk Ave., 215-463-6884, www.mamma-maria.info, $$$

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Pizzeria Pesto: 1925 S. Broad St., 215-271-6840, www.pizzeriapesto.com, $$Ralph’s: 760 S. Ninth St., 215-627-6011, www.ralphsrestaurant.com, $$ Ristorante Pesto: 1915 S. Broad St., 215-336-8380, www.ristorantep-esto.com, $$Saloon: 750 S. Seventh St., 215-627-1811, www.saloonrestaurant.net, $$$

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Victor Cafe: 1303 Dickinson St., 215-468-3040, www.victorcafe.com, $$

Villa Di Roma: 936 S. Ninth St., 215-592-1295, $$

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Restaurant La Lupe: 1201 S. Ninth St., 215-551-9920, $$

Taqueria La Veracruzana: 908 Washington Ave., 215-465-1440, $$

Middle Eastern Bitar’s: 947 Federal St., 215-755-1121, www.bitars.com, $

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Fast Break Nick’s Charcoal Pit: 1242 Snyder Ave., 215-271-3750, $

MediteraneanMazza: 1100 Jackson St., 215-952-2600, $

MexicanLos Gallos: 951 Wolf St., 215-551-1245, $$

ItalianBomb Bomb Bar-B-Que Grill & Italian Restaurant: 1026 Wolf St., 215-463-1311, $$ Criniti Pizzeria and Ristorante: 2601 S. Broad St., 215-465-7750, $$Johnnie’s: 12th and Wolf streets, 215-334-8006, $Medora’s Mecca: 3100 S. 13th St., 215-336-1655, $$ Ralph & Rickey’s: Seventh St. and Oregon Ave., 215-271-6622, $

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When I read the Warsaw Café was to close, I wondered which type of food would replace the res-

taurant’s Eastern-European cuisine. I was hoping for a Hungarian restaurant. I’ve al-ways lamented Philadelphia does not have a place for chicken paprika, cucumber sal-ad, goulash and Hungarian crepes.

Although my culinary wish was not granted, Sandy and I thoroughly enjoyed our recent dinner at Jasmine Rice, a three-month-old Thai BYOB in Center City. It was a cold blustery night, but we warmed up as soon as we were shown to a com-fortable table for two.

The interior has a glowing, calming effect with the walls covered in soft col-ors. The music on the sound system was just right as was the lighting. Our server opened the New Zealand sauvignon blanc that we brought and I eyed up the menu knowing immediately and instinctively which items to order.

I adore Thai cuisine because the dishes always catch your eye. The mix of colors, fl avors and textures play an important part in the fare. Sandy is relatively new to Thai food. Unfortunately for me, she cannot eat cilantro. It does not agree with her. Julia Child could not stand this fragrant herb either. So I shied away from dishes containing cilantro.

First up were delectable Thai basil meat-balls ($5.99), which were prepared with ground, beautifully seasoned pork and beef marinated with fresh Thai basil, chili pep-pers, roasted garlic and light soy sauce. Six

came to the order and we could have eaten more. Julienned carrot and Napa cabbage added color and texture. Bits of fried basil leaves were downright delicious.

Crab nuggets ($6.99) were balls of crab-meat and shrimp ground into a mousse-like consistency, wrapped in a thin, bean thread shell, fried crisp and served with a pickled plum dipping sauce. These beau-ties just melted in our mouths. I particular-ly liked that the sauce was not too sweet.

Sandy will never say no to mussels, but had never tasted curry. I was a bit apprehensive but decided on the green curry mussels ($7.99) because I knew the sauce would not be too spicy. Well, she adored them. We received a plate fi lled with steamed, cooked-just-right mussels bathed in a green curry sauce laced with fresh Thai basil.

“Gosh, these are good,” my sister said as she slurped a mussel into her mouth.

Now I think she can graduate to other curry dishes.

For the entrées, I selected beef thani ($13.99) and crispy, duck-fried rice ($15.99). Thinly sliced beef was seasoned and sautéed with garlic, fresh mushrooms, onions, red and green bell peppers and scallions and fi nished in a light oyster-fl a-vored soy sauce. We both liked the mix of ingredients and the richness of the brown sauce imparted a most pleasant fl avor. A mound of steamed white rice came with the beef.

I could eat duck twice a week. Sandy says yuck. Crispy roast duck was hacked

into serving pieces and placed atop jas-mine rice stir-fried in a mild curry with onions, snow peas, cherry tomatoes, green beans and pineapple chunks. The duck was semi-boneless for easy eating. It was succulent with crispy skin and ten-der meat.

“Try a little,” I said as a cut a small boneless piece of the breast and dipped it into the beef brown sauce from our other entrée.

She did. No comment. She has a mental thing with duck, but at

least she sampled it.Service was perfect. Several women

took fi ne care of us and the other patrons at Jasmine Rice. We also noticed a brisk

take-out business.My sister surprised me as we bundled

up and went out into the cold night.“Let’s try it for lunch,” she said.Three tips of the toque to Jasmine

Rice. SPR

Jasmine Rice306 S. 16th St.215-546-0818

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SeafoodAnthony’s Saloon: 2351 S. Front St., 215-468-5222, $$Snockey’s Oyster House: Second St. and Washington Ave. 215-339-9578, www.snockeys.com, $$

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Jasmine Rice, which opened three months ago in Center City, is a BYOB special-izing in Thai cuisine. The establishment serves both lunch and dinner.


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Jasmine RiceBy Phyllis Stein-Novack

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By Phyllis Stein-NovackFood Columnist

Christmas falls on Sunday, the tradi-tional day for Italian-Americans to make gravy. I have watched men

and women of all ages lovingly prepare big pots of this tasty staple. Some add pork ribs, a veal shank, sausages and meatballs to the simmering tomato sauce.

Since my Italian-American friends, who hail from Southern Italy, feast on any number of fi sh dishes on Christmas Eve, I thought it would be a fi ne idea to share a recipe for authentic tomato gravy.

I enlisted the aid of Theresa Belfi ore, nee Avallone, who arrived in my home kitchen with her arms laden with fresh ingredients. What makes this gravy differ-ent from all others?

Avallone Tomatoes. Nearly two years ago, Theresa and

her son, Stephen, decided to can Jersey Fresh tomatoes and sell them online and in stores. Theresa decided to can the to-matoes as a birthday gift for her brother Frankie Avalon.

“He really has everything,” she said of her big brother. “We have a poster with a photograph of our mother Mary and de-cided to use it for our label.”

When I spoke with Theresa on the phone she told me emphatically “I am not a chef. I don’t cook from recipes. I cook by taste and feel.”

I put on some coffee and we set out to

make gravy. Theresa uses sweet sausage and forms meatballs using a mixture of ground beef, pork and veal, which you can fi nd in any supermarket.

I always use San Marzano tomatoes, so I could not wait to taste Avallone Toma-toes, which, by the way, carry the “Jer-sey Fresh” logo on the label. I opened a 28-ounce can, dipped in a spoon and swooned over the rich ripe tomato fl avor Jersey farmers capture when growing their crop year after year.

Theresa and her famous brother grew up in South Philadelphia. Although Frankie, who is just 13 months older than his sister, graduated from South Philadelphia High, 2101 S. Broad St., Theresa went to Ed-ward Bok Technical High School, 1901 S. Ninth St., and married when she was 20.

“I moved to Cherry Hill nearly 40 years ago,” she said. “We always loved music in our house because my father taught himself how to play the piano, guitar and drums. I don’t play an instrument, but I love to sing.”

I pulled out my big, red Le Creuset pot and arranged a mise en place for Theresa.

“I’m your sous chef, you tell me exactly what you want me to do,” I said.

I heated olive oil in my pot and add-ed the sausage to brown while Theresa chopped a large onion. Once the sausage was browned, she added the onion and chopped fresh garlic. We added the toma-toes, fresh chopped basil and dried oreg-ano to the pot and simmered it for about 20 minutes. Then we set out to make the

meatballs.“I prefer them soft,” Theresa said as she

mixed the ingredients together in a big, stainless steel bowl.

As we prepared the mixture, Theresa told me her son, Stephen, loves to cook.

“He makes his own pasta. None of us are picky eaters. We eat everything,” she said.

As the gravy simmered, I learned Tanya, her 18-year-old granddaughter, is in col-lege and found it fun to cook with Ste-phen in their Cherry Hill home. I’ve never made fresh pasta, but my instincts tell me he would be a great teacher.

■ Theresa Belfi ore’s Gravy ■

Ingredients:Olive oil to coat the bottom of a large

pot1-1/2 pounds of sweet sausage, sliced

into 3-inch chunks1 large onion, diced6 fat garlic cloves, chopped2 28-ounce cans of Avallone crushed

tomatoes1 handful of fresh basil leaves, choppedKosher salt and freshly ground black

pepper, to tasteSprinkling of dried oregano1-1/2 pounds of ground beef, pork and

veal mixture3 extra-large eggs, beaten3 to 4 slices of top-quality white bread,

crusts removed, soaked in water and squeezed out

About 1 scant cup of grated Parmesan 1 handful of Italian parsley leaves,

chopped2 fat garlic cloves, fi nely choppedVegetable oil for frying the meatballs

Directions:Heat the olive oil over medium-high.

Add the sausage and brown on all sides. Add the onion and sauté for about fi ve minutes. Add the garlic and sauté for a few minutes more. Lower the heat, add the tomatoes, salt, pepper, basil and oregano. Blend well. Place the lid askew and sim-mer for about 20 minutes while you form the meatballs.

Place all of the remaining ingredients, except the vegetable oil, in a large mixing bowl. Blend carefully with your hands. Heat the vegetable oil in a large skillet. Working in batches, carefully form the meatballs and brown them on all sides. Once they are browned, add them to the pot.

Bring the contents of the pot to a boil, lower to a simmer, replace the lid askew and simmer for one hour.

Serves four to six.

Note from Phyllis: I added a sprinkle of hot pepper fl akes to the gravy. Edward, Sandy, Cousin Carl and I sat down to a delicious dinner. Any pasta works well here. SPR

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The younger sibling of a legendary South Philadelphia crooner mixes up the gravy pot with her Jersey Fresh crushed tomatoes.

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HoroscopesBy Mystic TerryPsychic Reader

L i f e s t y l e s

Sing we nowACROSS 1. Freeway exit 5. Part of the arm 10. “The King __” 14. “I __ saw, I...” 15. Glanced 17. Marshy spot 20. Line from a Christmas carol 23. Four qtrs. 24. Lack fi rmness 25. Colorful fl ower 26. Heavyweight champ of 1937 28. Where swill is served 29. Down 31. T-shirt size 34. Explosive letters 35. Oman’s location 36. Steering prop 39. Dessert choice 40. “¿Cómo __ Ud.?” 41. Line from a Christmas carol 48. Bluebonnet and others 49. Get comfy 50. David’s victim 54. Grandma 55. Fight 58. Start of a marriage 60. Like a numskull 61. Finale 62. O. J. trial judge 63. “__ Rock”; Simon & Garfunkel hit 65. Football 67. Evens 70. Sticks 72. Put in 75. __ to; like 77. Item worn above the waist 78. Ad follower 81. Find out 82. Ms. Ullmann 84. Garfi eld or Taft 86. Hard swelling 87. 1917 revolutionary 88. Church reader 90. Pen name 91. Line from a Christmas carol

97. Single time 100. Counter’s start 101. Suffi x for advert or expert 102. Mr. Ladd 103. __ double take; look again 104. Parts of the respiratory system 106. Hero alternative 107. Three in a row 110. Jolly fellow 112. Walkways 117. Calendar abbr. 119. Western Indian 120. Line from a Christmas carol 125. Three months 126. Sunbathed 127. Word of welcome 128. In just a minute 129. South African Dutchmen 130. Celebrity DOWN 1. Pep __ 2. Left Bank buddy 3. Disarray 4. Artist who had a blue period 5. Perpendicular wing 6. __ Linda, CA 7. Ruth’s second husband 8. Ark. ’s neighbor 9. Sentence opener for the hesitant 10. Offi cial envoy: abbr. 11. Conjunction 12. Practice 13. Dramatic villain 14. Blood problem 16. Perishes 18. Closes 19. Time spent at a task 20. Sunday paper inserts 21. Over 22. Took a bit 27. RR building 30. Small amount

32. Word with line or mail 33. Ring around the collar 35. Beast of burden 36. Tall pillar 37. Cruising 38. One not to be trusted 40. Way out 41. Rib, for one 42. Zest 43. Give for awhile 44. Mauna __ 45. Sudbury’s prov. 46. Greek classic 47. Poke 51. Printer’s need 52. “Do __ say, not...” 53. Coop resident 55. High school course: abbr. 56. Ring-shaped island 57. Little one

59. Met production 64. Sewer inspector’s entrance 66. Oil exporter 67. Warfare 68. Food eaten in the desert 69. __ ball; enjoy oneself 71. Premium cable channel 72. Ailing 73. Originally named 74. Word with Juan or José 76. Tiny amounts 78. __ Glaudini 79. False deity 80. Second of 24 83. Prohibited 85. Type of acct. 86. Nada 89. CCCII halved 90. Stovetop sight 92. Ed Asner role

93. __ Arbor, MI 94. Retriever, familiarly 95. Distribute 96. Door fasteners 97. Takes too much, for short 98. Webster and others 99. Lake vessel 104. Useful rope 105. Sediment 107. King, for one 108. Hoosegow 109. Els’ peg 111. Christmas poem opener 113. Q-tip 114. Jay __ 115. Slave 116. Prophet 118. Temporary shelter 121. Additionally 122. Traveler’s stop 123. Koch and Bradley 124. Letter from Greece

hCAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19): Professional aspirations are calling, but a partner will block your

progress. You may want to attend to this person’s needs and it may be a necessary sacrifi ce. Lucky number: 921.

AAQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18): Seeking out an expert will assist the pursuit of higher learning.

Obtain a tutor or consultant who has a lot of experience and wisdom to share. Lucky number: 307.

SPISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20): Mundane tasks hamper the desire to learn more about how the

world works. Embrace the responsibilities and then re-turn to the more interesting and soulful endeavors. Lucky number: 859.

DARIES (March 21 to April 20): You will run into obstacles while trying to create order at home. You

may not be able to fi nd something, gadgets need fi xing or a neighbor will interrupt your efforts. Lucky number: 437.

FTAURUS (April 21 to May 20): Tie in socializ-ing opportunities with personal projects. Appear at

gatherings with networking opportunities. Achievements will speak for themselves. Lucky number: 216.

GGEMINI (May 21 to June 20): A look at per-sonal fi nances could lead to disappointment. Plans

to go to a concert or treat a special someone will not fi t into the budget. Creativity may go a long way to salvage what should be a good time. Lucky number: 791.

HCANCER (June 21 to July 22): A purchase made for the home should work out well. Look for some-

thing useful to make life easier. A family becomes more accepting of your lifestyle. Lucky number: 166.

aLEO (July 23 to Aug. 22): You will fulfi ll respon-sibilities around the home with satisfying results.

Focus on what needs cleaning, organizing and fi xing. Lucky number: 892.

sVIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22): A family mem-ber may interfere with your love life. You may

want nothing more than to indulge in amorous together-ness, but this person’s problem will vie for your attention. Lucky number: 086.

dLIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22): Taking a direct ap-proach with your intentions may fi rm up partner-

ship hopes. Being with a soul mate becomes more impor-tant than playing the fi eld. Lucky number: 684.

fSCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21): Unrequited pas-sion may be the result of a frustrating romance. A

fl irtation that seemed promising could go as far as it’s go-ing. It may be time to look elsewhere. Lucky number: 329.

gSAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21): Taking your responsibilities seriously and doing a great job will

impress an infl uential person. This shouldn’t be hard to do if you don’t fool around. Lucky number: 542. SPR

To inquire about a personal reading, call Mystic Terry at 215-467-5162. Comment at southphillyreview.com/arts-and-entertain-ment/horoscopes.

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From Marie’s Family and MineMerry Christmas and a Safe New YearTo Our Family and Friends

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❤ Marie Clark ❤ Marie Hanahan ❤

❤ Marie ❤ Mom ❤ CharlieTo My Mother ❤ Brother ❤ Sister

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To Our Dad

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can hug you! we will all be together again someday. we miss you so much!

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patrickhe years have passed but not the love

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can hug you! we will all be together again we will all be together again wsomeday. we miss you so much!we miss you so much!w

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Family Family F ,amily,amilyom

stephen purvensrest in peace

1 2 . 2 7 . 1 9 4 4 - 1 2 . 7 . 2 0 1 1Happy 67th birthday. Always in our hearts.

Love, Uncle Jack, Aunt Cass, Jackie,Marie & Bobby, Niece Kim Trotter & Family

in loving memory of my son

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happy 35th birthday from kiesha, davey, kierra. from mom eileen, love you very much!

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Thinking of you often, wishing you were here to brighten up our Christmas as you did for

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Ethel (Dolly) CollinsWishing you a Merry Christmas and missing you more every day. Merry Christmas!Franny, Michael & Susan & Family

Dominic Pinto1988 - 2006Dom, it’s Christmas again. The sixth Christmas without you, your smile and your jokes. We love you and miss you so much. You will be forever in our hearts.

Merry Christmas Dom!Love, Mom, Tony & Family

September 23, 2011, age 94. Wife of Michael; beloved mother of Michael Jr., Joan (Butch)

Buchanico, Gar; sister of Helen Ruggiano;

loving grandmother of 6 grand-children and 6 great grand-children.

Interment was private. Sadly missed by

husband Michael.

JulIa “JuleS” (nee Zalewski)

Bezotsky

You are with us everyday in our hearts forever and ever.

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To touch your face, kiss your cheek,and hug you tightNever, ever, would I let you out of my sight

I must be content with the memories you’ve left in my heart

And dream dreams, where there we are never apartMissing you more than words could sayCelebrate with Jesus and tell Him I said

“Happy Birthday” Love Mommy

Merry Christmas and Happy New YearForever missed by your family and friends

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Chickie & FrankPagliaccetti

Missing you on this holiday & always!Love, Frank & Patty, Johnny & Colleen, Joey & Lisa, Jimmy & Jill, Ronnie & Rodger, Anthony & Frank,

Grandchildren & Great-Grandchildren

Miss You Mario!HappY HolidaYs!

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Keep trying each moment, to stay in His graceI came here before you to help set your place.

You don’t have to be perfect all of the timeHe forgives you the slip, if you continue to climb

To my family and friends, please be thankful todayI’m still close beside you, in a new special way.

I love you all dearly, now don’t shed a tear‘cause I’m spending my Christmas with Jesus this year.

WE ALL LOVE AND MISS YOU SEAN! FAMILY & FRIENDS. Merry Christmas Angel, we love & miss you. Love always, Aunt Pat, Jenny & Marco

To My Parents

“SiS” and Joe LingoThe pain goes deeper, but we hide it better; it clings to me like a favorite sweater. We’ll come to where you’re laid to rest and decorate it, we’ll try our best. There will be tears as we stand and pray, as we remember our past holidays. We miss you so much it’s hard to bear, we cry a lot but we don’t care. You’re gone from sight, but not from our hearts, so in a way we’ll never be apart. So Merry Christmas to a Mom and Dad who were the best parents we ever could have had. Candy canes, kisses and hugs are sent above, along with our undying love.Missing you, needing you, wanting you, and loving you eternally. - Patti

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I miss you with all my heart. I love you my son. Love, Dad, Alexus and Bianca

Merry Christmas

Anthony M. DiMatteo Jr.

“ELAY”

Michael Finacaro“Mike Finn” 12.26.41 - 7.9.93 Merry Christmas & Happy Birthday. I will Love You Forever! - Jeannie

Another year has come and gone without you; the sadness and

the emptiness still remain in our hearts. Wishing you were here

to share them with; and though you are around us in spirit; it just doesn’t feel the same with out you

here. We love and miss you.

Love always & foreverJoe, Jo-Jo, Nicole, Danny, Laura, Grandchildren & Great-Grandson

Jo Ann Iannuzzi12.17.56 • 2.25.09

Happy Birthday & Merry Christmas To our Angel

Gaeton “Guy” LoBiondo

1/15/44 • 12/18/09 “Perhaps they are not stars,

but rather openings from heaven where our lost ones shine down to let us know they are happy.”

Always on my mind Forever in my heart

Love & Miss You Always, Angela

RemembeRing

bob and alice HaRvey

Gone 24 and 18 years already, how can that be?!

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

(Daddy’s favorite time of year!)& Happy Birthday mommy!

We love & miss you both so much. love, madeline and Jack

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Though he donned a prominent num-ber and backed up its connotations with many end-zone appearances,

Sharif Smith eschews arrogance. Success can test modesty, but four years of stellar runs and throws for Horace Furness High School, 1900 S. Third St., have not altered the humility of the former resident of 16th and Ellsworth streets. His accomplish-ments, though, have endeared him to his teammates and coaches, who retired his No. 1 jersey following Nov. 23’s inaugural South Philly Bowl at the South Philadel-phia super site, 10th and Bigler streets.

Smith is the fi rst Furness student-athlete to receive such an honor, and his career tallies place him among the city’s elite runners.

His 4,457 career rushing yards rank fi fth-best in city history. He twice earned All-City designation and appeared four times on the All-Public teams. In a run-heavy offense, he still passed for 928 yards and 10 scores.

“I’m a leader but a quiet one,” the senior said last week at The Academy at Palum-bo, 1100 Catharine St.

A sponsorship agreement lets schools lacking certain sports partner with more fortunate institutions, so Smith lent his talents to the Pennsport-based Furness Falcons while nurturing other gifts at Hawthorne’s Palumbo. The pact proved profi table for coach Anthony Pastore’s squads and culminated with the pre-Thanksgiving battle against Prep Charter High School, 1928 Point Breeze Ave.

“Holiday-related games should be local,” Pastore, of Broad and Porter streets, said of teaming with West Passyunk’s Huskies to make his star’s swan song a bragging rights contest.

Smith moved to Kensington at 12 and came to Pastore’s attention while a middle school defensive end, quarterback and tight end.

“I liked his desire to win,” he said of deciding to suit up for Pastore, the lone head man in the Falcons’ history.

Owning a similar mindset, Smith crafted a quartet of colossal campaigns. In 2007, his future comrades dumped all 11 con-tests in their premier year, but last month’s fi nale gave Furness a chance to tally his tenure’s 27th win. He scored from one yard out for his 50th career rushing touchdown and added a 22-yard gallop to paydirt.

Also a defensive back, Smith saw the Huskies even the affair late to force over-time. His fi nal career rushing attempt re-sulted in a three-yard score, with the pres-sure immediately reverting back to him

and the defense. With help from Bor Bor Kessley, a fellow senior back and All-Pub-lic AAAA Silver selection, Smith, also the owner of 12 interceptions, made a great tackle to secure a 20-14 victory.

“That was a big one,” he said of the stop he tabs a chief moment from his career.

Another milestone memory occurred minutes later, when Pastore and athletic director Dave Connolly presented him with a glass frame containing his jersey.

“I could not have accomplished anything without my teammates,” Smith said with his trademark humbleness.

The decision to honor the playmaker came easily to Pastore, who also serves as a Palumbo security offi cer.

“My easiest job is praising Sharif,” the leader said. “We fi gured retiring his number

would be just one way to pay him back for putting the Furness Falcons on the map.”

The thought of placing his unit among the city’s elites once intimidated Smith, who struggled when attempting to moti-vate his fellow Falcons.

“I had to grow up fast, and I did,” the prospect said of summon-ing his resolve and guid-ing a system that relies on agile legs and minds.

This year presented a new task, as he inherited

the full-time quarterback role.“I had more pressure but enjoyed it,”

he said.He wishes the season had more games for

leadership improvement purposes but antici-pates enhancing them before he makes his collegiate selection from many courters in-cluding Villanova, West Chester and Slip-pery Rock universities.

“I have to prepare myself, yet I’m sure those around me will continue to rub off,” he said.

WHILE HIS TEAMMATES will busy themselves Dec. 30 with New Year’s Eve plans and resolutions, Smith will be in Edgewater, Md., resolving to score touchdowns. He will play for the North in The Chesapeake

Bowl, a game uniting standouts from fi ve states and the District of Columbia.

“I am pretty happy about being involved,” Smith said of being among the 50 players to land a spot on the North’s roster.

He expects many occasions to fraternize with the top guns and yearns to pick up tips on how to muster a burgeoning desire to improve as a player and as a person. In the former role, he has few superiors.

Coming off a winless opening season, the Falcons needed immediate contribu-tions, and he did not shy away from ex-ecuting. In his fi rst game, he gained 130 yards, kickstarting a year that would pro-duce 930 yards and six victories. Six more wins came the next year, with Smith regis-tering 1,205 yards to help Pastore to clinch his fi rst winning season.

The workhorse bettered his output last year with 1,254 yards, as the Falcons tri-umphed nine times. They slipped to six wins this year, but Smith racked up six games of at least 100 yards and 1,068 hard-earned total yards. He suited up 42 times in his career and achieved 22 games where he hit at least the century mark, with his high of 256 coming in an ’09 game.

“Again, my teammates should receive the credit,” Smith said.

They will be able to offer more support when he participates in May’s Philadelphia Eagles City High School All-Star Classic at Lincoln Financial Field, 1101 Pattison Ave. By then, he will have made his postsecond-ary pick and have completed his time on Palumbo’s basketball team, for whom he earned All-Public status last year.

He plans to major in social work, a fi eld that will help him to foster his interest in working with children.

“I’ve helped members of my family and liked being there for them,” the 18-year-old, also a volunteer assistant junior var-sity football coach for Furness, said.

By no means done with Pastore, Smith has already determined his coach’s role in his life.

“I’ve just learned so much from him,” he said of the man who has opened his home to him for many holidays.

“He had chances to go to bigger pro-grams, but he stuck with Furness,” Pastore said. “He’s a special kid.”

Smith looks forward to receiving his SAT scores and to growing academically and emotionally.

“The focus is there,” he said. “I’m ready.” SPR

Contact Staff Writer Joseph Myers at [email protected] or ext. 124. Comment at southphillyreview.com/sports/features.

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5463409 *111 Federal 3 BD,2.5Ba,den,deck,garage,new home $499,000

5716469 *1101 S. 2nd 4 BD,2.5Ba,garage,new construction $499,000

5920700 *112 Federal 6 BD,3 Ba,4 Car Garage,Circa 1835 $525,000

5760258 *1100 S. Front Corner Commercial,Restaurant + Apt. $599,900

5979279 *115 Wharton 3 BD,2,5Ba,fin.bsmt,roof deck,newer hm $615,000

Whitman5728265 *332 Daly 1 BD loft style,2 sty row,needs tlc $99,000

5742708 *418 Tree 2 BD,updated,move-in condition $109,900

5906666 *425 Durfor 2 BD,fin.bsmt,well kept,very elegant $120,000

5906666 *425 Durfor 3 BD,fin.bsmt,c/a,move-in condition $129,900

5670088 *344 Roseberry 3 BD,good affordablestarter home $129,900

5885662 *2510 S. 6th 3 BD,h/w,nice move-in condition $135,000

5924311 *320 Fitzgerald 3 BD,1.5Ba,nice,clean,well maintained $149,900

5927551 *2724 S.Sheridan 3 BD,1.5Ba,fin.bsmt,c/a,updated home $149,900

5876699 *2445 S. Lee 3 BD,1.5Ba,fin.bsmt,c/a,parking,updated $169,900

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5930545 *2545 S.Galloway 3 BD,1.5Ba,fin.bsmt,c/a,modern hm $175,000

5343149 *343 Wolf 3 BD,1.5Ba,large hm,needs updating $179,900

5873004 *114 Durfor 3 BD,1.5Ba,fin.bsmt,c/a,h/w,beautiful $189,900

5957490 *2352 S. Lee 3 BD,1.5Ba,fin.bsmt,c/a,renovated hm $189,900

5981054 *130 Ritner 3 BD,c/a,h/w,renovated,spacious home $199,900

5882783 *2416 S. Philip 3 BD,1.5Ba,wood fls,newly renovated $209,900

5877957 *225 Tree 2 BD,c/a,h/w,newly renovated home $220,000

5851387 *2339 S. Lee 3 BD,porchfront,modern,deck,yard $224,900

Jefferson square & West ofDickinson square Park5713803 *513 Manton Garage,875sf,16x65 lot size,zoned R10 $94,500

5852488 *716 Sigel 3 BD,1.5Ba,starter hm or investment $109,000

5979584 *719 Watkins 3 BD,1.5Ba,affordable starter hm $110,000

5914857 *1619 S. Orkney 3 BD,c/a,h/w fls,needs updating $119,000

5956361 *434 Emily 3 BD,1.5Ba,fin.bsmt,c/a,h/w,renovated $134,900

8795520 *1817 S. 5th 4 BD,2 Ba,c/a,h/w,spacious,renovated $175,000

5979552 *611 Fernon 2 BD,2 Ba,fin.bsmt,c/a,h/w,renovated $189,900

5933485 *426 Federal 4 BD,needs some updating,At the Park $199,900

5878740 *415-17 Moore C2 Garage,3680sf,on a 31x116 lot $269,900

5956270 *434 Federal 3 BD,2.5Ba,fin.bsmt,c/a,deck,newer hm $379,900

east Passyunk crossing5819937 *2024 S. Darien 2 BD,good starter hm or investment $97,000

5920966 *1930 S. 8th 3 BD,1.5Ba,needs updating,spacious $119,900

5952030 *924 Dudley 2 BD,very clean,move-in condition $165,000

5941028 *1922 S. Jessup 2 BD,lovely modern home,updated $182,500

5874412 *1943 S. 12th 4 BD,1.5Ba,traditional,very spacious $189,900

5964052 *1609 S. Iseminger 2 BD,2 Ba,needs updating,well kept $199,900

5898535 *1012 McKean 3 BD,2 Ba,c/a,spacious,beautiful hm $199,999

5973011 *1721 S. Iseminger 3 BD,1.5Ba,h/w,move-in condition $264,900

5800471 *1713 S. 8th Triplex,1+1+1,separate utilities $265,000

5908312 *915 Emily 2 story garage,C2,4870sf,full kitchen $269,900

5957497 *1941 S. Jessup 2 BD,fin.bsmt,c/a,modern,renovated $269,900

5916524 *1257 Moore 3 BD,c/a,h/w,patio/garden,nice hm $289,000

5831751 *1316 Morris 5 BD,2.5ba,fin.bsmt,c/a,huge Twin $389,900

5774832 *1807 S. Broad Quad. 2+1+2+1,3146sf,updated apts. $485,000

5908423 *1823 E. Passyunk Duplex,1+3,c/a,15x100 lot,C2 zoning $500,000

5941902 *1715 S. 13th 4 BD,4 Ba,fin.bsmt,c/a,patio,renovated $699,900

5953934 *1903-05 S.Broad Office Building,7881sq.ft.,C2 zoning $850,000

Passyunk square5926246 *824 Earp 2 BD,fin.bsmt,needs some updating $160,000

5980062 *1241 S. Juniper 2 BD,updated,move-in condition $245,000

5904501 *1329 Annin 1 BD,1.5Ba,c/a,h/w,deck,garage,new $265,000

5900954 *1335 Titan 3 BD,2.5Ba,fin.bsmt,den,c/a,new hm $289,000

5936223 *813-15 Ellsworth Garage+Loft Apt.3623sf on a 70x67 lot $409,900

5947114 *814-32 Latona Development Opportunity,73x147Lot $1,000,000

neWbolD5978652 *1433 S. Hicks 2 BD,clean/plain,freshly painted,new w/w $88,000

5867296 *1729 S. Bancroft 2 BD,needs updating,convenient area $89,900

5980759 *1442 S. 16th 3 BD,needs updating,very spacious $90,000

5943790 *1523 S. 18th 3 BD,very spacious,needs updating $125,000

5880071 *1335-37 S.18th Duplex,2+2,Extra lot,developing area $139,000

5951903 *1626 S. 18th 6 BD,2 Ba,needs updating,huge home $139,900

5846861 *1922 S. 18th 4 BD,1.5 Ba,c/a,h/w,spacious,updated $145,000

5956889 *1712 S. Mole 2 BD,1.5Ba,c/a,h/w,newly renovated $174,900

5944091 *1415 Ellsworth 3 BD,3.5Ba,shell,partially renovated $180,000

5801695 *1324 S.Broad,#2R 2 BD,2 Ba,h/w,deck,brownstone condo $194,750

5878582 *1413 Ellsworth 3 BD,1.5Ba,beautiful move-in condition $229,900

5861985 *1429 Wharton Corner Commercial,2 stores+2 Apts. $399,999

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25XX s. reese st. $99,8873 bedrOOMs, 1 baThrOOM

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