A legendary South Street theater's laid vacant for more than 40 years, and Karl Dranoff's ready to give it new life. Plus more South Philly news, opinions, and entertainment.
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Review Staff Writer t Tuesday’s Historical Com- mission hearing in City Hall for hardship status on the property known as the Royal Theater, 1524 South St., a representative from Dranoff Properties, 755 S. Broad St., explained the many ways in which the property, as is, can’t function without a massive structural overhaul. The hardship is needed because the the- ater’s protected as a historical prop- erty, particularly the northern, South Street-facing façade — there’s even a restriction on the deed in place by the Pennsylvania Historical and Mu- seum Commission (PHMC) that pro- tects the architecture of the space. “No construction, alteration, reha- bilitation, remodeling, demolition, site development, ground distur- bance, or other action shall be un- dertaken or permitted to said prop- erty without prior written permission from the Commission,” it states. It’s one of the many hurdles Carl Dranoff’s development idea for the theater will have to clear, but it seems like it’s on the right track. The life- time Philadelphian’s looking to ex- pand on the impact of his South Star Lofts at the northeast corner of Broad and South streets. “This project will be dramatic and will restore one of the historic and prominent sites on this corridor,” the Center City resident, who was born at Mount Sinai hospital, said. “In its present form, it could not be re- developed, that was the purpose of the hardship application, to illustrate and analyze potential options, all of which have come to a dead-end for the past 45 years. To transform it, we can transform the property and retain the historical prominence and create a new jewel along South Street that will be very compatible and addi- tive to the vibrancy of South Street that we’ve seen over the last several years.” The proposal, assuming the Histor- ical Commission approves the hard- ship (and it seems members will on July 10), would mostly just keep the façade and build a mixed retail and residential property larger than the Staff Photo by Bill Chenevert Happy 4th of July
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t Tuesday’s Historical Com-mission hearing in City Hall for hardship status on the property known as the Royal Theater,
1524 South St., a representative from Dranoff Properties, 755 S. Broad St., explained the many ways in which the property, as is, can’t function without a massive structural overhaul. The hardship is needed because the the-ater’s protected as a historical prop-erty, particularly the northern, South
Street-facing façade — there’s even a restriction on the deed in place by the Pennsylvania Historical and Mu-seum Commission (PHMC) that pro-tects the architecture of the space.
“No construction, alteration, reha-bilitation, remodeling, demolition, site development, ground distur-bance, or other action shall be un-dertaken or permitted to said prop-erty without prior written permission from the Commission,” it states.
It’s one of the many hurdles Carl Dranoff’s development idea for the theater will have to clear, but it seems
like it’s on the right track. The life-time Philadelphian’s looking to ex-pand on the impact of his South Star Lofts at the northeast corner of Broad and South streets.
“This project will be dramatic and will restore one of the historic and prominent sites on this corridor,” the Center City resident, who was born at Mount Sinai hospital, said. “In its present form, it could not be re-developed, that was the purpose of the hardship application, to illustrate and analyze potential options, all of which have come to a dead-end for
the past 45 years. To transform it, wecan transform the property and retainthe historical prominence and createa new jewel along South Street thatwill be very compatible and addi-tive to the vibrancy of South Streetthat we’ve seen over the last several years.”
The proposal, assuming the Histor-ical Commission approves the hard-ship (and it seems members will onJuly 10), would mostly just keep thefaçade and build a mixed retail andresidential property larger than the
Staff Photo by B ill Chenevert
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he complainants notified authorities that they were on the 900 block of South Fourth Street at 2:30 a.m. when a car pulled up behind them, Detec-
tive Danielle Tolliver of South Detective Division said. Two females exited the ve-hicle, with one wielding a pry bar and the other a can of Mace.
The initial complainant became in-volved in a struggle for her purse after a blast of Mace hit her in the face, with the aggressors demanding “Give it up.” The other victim attempted to run away upon seeing her friend sprayed, but one of the offenders chased and struck her with the bar. She was able to take the weapon away from the offender and chased the individ-uals back to the car, which she classified as a late 1900s/early 2000s gray or silver four-door, possibly a Mazda that she last saw heading southbound on Fourth Street. She described the first at-large criminal as black, 17 to 18 years old and 5-foot-4; having a thin build and a dark complexion; and wearing a blue head scarf; and the sec-ond as black and 20 to 25 years old; hav-ing a medium build; and wearing a white T-shirt and a blue and white head scarf.
To report information, call South De-tectives at 215-685-1635, text PPDTIP (773847) or visit phillypolice.com/forms.
Police arrested a Northeast East Philly man for supposedly burglarizing a South of South entity.
On June 22, the manager of the Con-struction Mall Corp., 1501 Washington Ave., arrived at work to open up and found the back gate lock cut, Detective Danielle Tolliver of South Detective Division said. He checked the location and realized curb traps and rolls of torch down rubber roof-ing paper, valued at $53,000, had gone missing.
He inspected the video surveillance sys-tem and saw an unknown man place a plas-tic bag over the rear yard camera two days earlier. Based on the footage, authorities arrested Nicholas Casparro and charged him with criminal conspiracy, criminal trespassing, theft and burglary. He had not posted his $50,000 bail as of press time and awaits a July 14 preliminary hearing.
Authorities are hoping surveillance footage can help them to nab a man wanted for burglar-ies in Girard Estate and Point Breeze.
The at-large indi-vidual gained entrance to Rita’s Water Ice, 1901 Oregon Ave., at 3 a.m. June 15 and shortly after forced open cash registers, taking an undetermined amount of money before fleeing north on 19th Street. Six days later, he gained entry to the Orien-tal Chinese Restaurant, 1801 S. Broad St., at 4:40 a.m. by removing the door locks’ cylinders. He also rid the site’s cash hold-ers of their contents before fleeing across South Broad Street and onto the 1300 block of Moore Street.
To report information, call South Detec-tives Division Det. McKenna with DC#15-01-022706, text PPDTIP (773847) or visit phillypolice.com/forms.
Police detained a man who supposedly shot another male in Point Breeze.
The complainant told authorities that on June 20, he suffered a single gunshot wound to the back while near the 1700 block of Federal Street. According to De-tective Danielle Tolliver of South Detec-tive Division, a family member transported him to Methodist Hospital, with medical personnel then taking him to Thomas Jef-ferson University Hospital, where over-seers listed him in stable condition.
Processing the scene, authorities gath-ered evidence relevant to the crime and ar-rested Bernard Peterson, of the 2200 block of South Woodstock Street, June 24. They charged the 32-year-old, who had not posted his $875,000 bail as of press time and who awaits a July 31 status hearing, with possession of an instrument of crime, attempted murder, simple and aggravated assault, recklessly endangering another person and firearms violations.
Three gun-wielding individuals robbed a Dickinson Square West establishment.
At 8:03 p.m. June 20, police responded to a call from the Oasis Mini Mart, 1612 S. Sixth St., and met the complainant/owner, learning from her that the trio entered the location armed and barking for money, Detective Danielle Tolliver of South De-tective Division said. She opened the reg-
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ister, with the lead offender grabbing $400 and leading the other two out of the store, with the victim last seeing them heading northbound on Sixth Street toward Tasker Street.
She described all three as black males with thin builds, standing 5-foot-8 and being 20 to 25 years old. The lead aggres-sor wore a white hoodie, while the others donned black and gray attire.
To report information, call South De-tectives at 215-685-1635, text PPDTIP (773847) or visit phillypolice.com/forms.
Authorities arrested a Pennsport man for supposedly stealing an auto not far from his residence.
On June 20, while working in the area of the 52nd Street Market Frankford Line station, two SEPTA police officers, through a tip from someone who had watched surveil-lance video of an auto theft on the 100 block of Alter Street, approached Quin-ton Hartwell to ask some questions, but the 22-year-old allegedly ran from them. They eventually tracked him down on the 4900 block of Olive Street and detained him.
They had been looking for the Pennsport inhabitant for his reported theft of a ve-hicle on May 31. In that incident, surveil-lance footage captured someone entering the car shortly after 4:45 p.m., with the complainant reported it missing at 8 a.m. June 1. Law enforcement officials located the item on the 300 block of Market Street two days later, with Hartwell purportedly fleeing the scene once police had discov-ered it.
Authorities charged the resident of the 1200 block of South Hancock Street with receiving stolen property, unlawful tak-ing, unauthorized use of auto and resist-ing arrest. He had not posted his $75,000 bail as of press time and awaits a July 7 preliminary hearing.
A man became a victim of a gun-toting figure in Bella Vista.
At approximately 2 a.m. June 20, police ventured to the 1000 block of South Ninth Street for a report of a robbery in prog-ress, Detective Danielle Tolliver of South Detective Division said. The complainant noted that as he walked northbound on the stretch, a stranger approached him on a bike.
The individual pulled out a small black handgun, pointed it at the male and de-
manded money and his cell phone. The complainant gave him $10 but said he did not have a phone, leading the offender to shout “Give me your cell phone, or I’ll shoot you.” The victim ran off and flagged down a police officer, who helped to sur-vey the area with negative results. The uninjured man described the offender as black, 20 to 25 years old and 5-foot-10 to 6 foot; having a thin build; being clean-shaven; possessing a weapon; and wear-ing a red hoodie and blue jeans.
To report information, call South De-tectives at 215-685-1635, text PPDTIP (773847) or visit phillypolice.com/forms.
The Queen Village Neighbors Associa-tion (QVNA) issued a Monday release to inform residents of an ongoing scam.
According to the civic entity, a man has started going door-to-door to ask for donations for the victims of the South Carolina-situated church shooting. Ap-pearing very legitimate, he claims to be petitioning in conjunction with nearby Mother Bethel African Methodist Epis-copal Church and has claimed people’s names and signatures to go along with the pilfered cash contributions. Mother Bethel Church has informed QVNA that its overseers do not know the man and are not taking donations.
Police detained a Grays Ferry man for allegedly stabbing a male in their neigh-borhood.
Responding to a call for a person with a weapon, authorities ventured to the 2100 block of Taney Terrace at 3:50 a.m. June 12 and encountered the complain-ant bleeding severely from his right leg, Detective Danielle Tolliver of South De-tective Division said. He pointed in the direction of a fleeing man and informed them he was the perpetrator.
They stopped him on the 2100 block of Bailey Terrace and arrested him following their recovery of evidence related to the crime, which the victim said occurred as a result of the offender attempting to steal a flat screen that he had intended to sell to a neighbor. They charged John Bell, of the 1900 block of South 29th Street, with possession of an instrument of crime, simple and aggravated assault and reck-lessly endangering another person. The 50-year-old had not posted his $25,000 bail as of press time and awaits a July 23 preliminary hearing.
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hiladelphia’s changing — South Philly especially. As Center City and University City max out at their development capacities, the sprawl’s
heading south. What are we to do about it? How can we brace ourselves for the next decade of shifting neighborhood dynamics in a way that’s inclusive, not exclusive? And how can we effectively welcome communities to the table whose primary language isn’t English? These are a few of the questions that Mural Arts Project (MAP) is going after with a new project based out of a rented empty lot on 632 Jackson St. called Playgrounds for Useful Knowledge.
“We rented it from the lot owner and the lot owner lives in South Philadelphia” but not in the immediate vicinity, reported MAP project manager Shari Hersh.
They arrived there in mid-May and will engage the immediate communities through September. The lot, technically, has no playground, and it’s not really a park — it’s closed off except for when it’s in use. But there are plenty of opportuni-ties to use the space, and MAP’s still iron-ing out the fine print.
“We’re going to have people be able to use it, we’ll have someone come unlock it for them and lock it when they go [but] people are always welcome if anyone’s in there,” Hersh explained.
On Monday, they held an “action,” a phrase they’re using to describe the mul-tiple spats of scheduled programming that aim at enriching community-building efforts and opening dialogues between seemingly disparate citizens. Actions strive to expose and emphasize “useful knowledge,” a phrase being used to articu-late the ways in which citizens may have loads of helpful information that they’re both not sharing with near neighbors and could benefit many if they shared.
“People have so many strengths, but the community is fractured by language and ethnicity, and this is a project about
helping the community imagine pathways to getting [successful outcomes],” Hersh said.
This project’s a big collaborative ef-fort and not just on behalf of MAP and residents of Whitman and Pennsport. A big partner is Cohabitation Strategies, an international architecturally-concerned agency that specializes in protecting and bolstering communities endangered by greed, gentrification and unjust public policy that favors the rich.
Members of the Cohabitation Strategies team have been interviewing residents to ask them about their lives, hopes and con-cerns for the neighborhood. Hersh says they contain thoughts on “their relation-ships to the different communities and how that makes them feel and what they dream about, what they’d like to see hap-pen — some people talk about a lack of green space and a desire for greater green spaces.”
The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage is involved, too. It has provided some fund-ing, and Italian artist Lucia Sanroman’s an independent curator who was asked by Mural Arts to audit their successes and propose projects that would more success-fully engage communities.
“In 2013, Pew gave Mural Arts a very interesting grant that was focused on invit-ing three art curators to come and see and
assess their art practices as well as sug-gest new programs,” Sanroman said. “I in-vited artists, urban planners, thinkers, and intellectuals to come to Philadelphia for the year and to sort of do an urban map-ping to discuss what area of Philly could be best served with engagement and how that could be achieved. Play is a powerful tool, and the concept of useful knowledge is also powerful.”
BETH MCCONNELL IS the policy director at the Philadelphia Association of Commu-nity Development Corporations (PACDC), and she lives on the 2000 block of South Darien Street. Mural Arts reached out to McConnell as a nearby neighbor and for her expertise in community engagement.
“The way that they approached me about it initially was we’re a group of artists from around the world that care deeply about civic participation and the creation of art but art that’s about something that’s happening in neighborhoods and commu-nities,” McConnell said. “So not just art for art’s sake — art with a purpose.”
Certainly, that’s part of MAP’s heri-tage: from graffiti removal, working with former prisoners, art education and com-munity-engaged mural projects. But this is a project whose goal isn’t necessarily a piece of public art.
“Their goal of using art as a way to en-
gage people is a really accessible way to get folks around the table as opposed to ‘Hey, everybody, let’s go have a meeting about gentrification,’” McConnell joked. “I think as the city is changing so much in so many different neighborhoods; new immigrants are moving in, people with wealth and developers who want to invest are moving in and they’re looking for the next neighborhood, the next place to go now that Center City and University City are built up and expanding. People in this neighborhood see change coming, and they want to be a part of that change.”
Cohabitation Strategies’ Miguel Rob-les-Duran and Emiliano Gandolfi were at Monday’s action and spoke about how architecture and policy can threaten com-munities.
“One of the main principles of our orga-nization is to look for ways of developing without displacement — we believe that can happen. Old neighborhoods can be transformed,” Robles-Duran said.
“It’s a matter of urban policy and what policy is catering to. The policy that Phil-adelphia has created around housing and development” is catered to the wealthy, he noted. “This is completely unjust and unfair, and there are much more balanced ways of growing a city. We’ve seen them historically.” The idea that “gentrification is natural, we don’t buy it. It’s produced by politicians, bankers and developers.”
Their investigations report approxi-mately 300 empty lots in the area, most of them privately owned, and the hope is that they’re not all handed over to folks from outside of the neighborhood or city.
“These lots are disappearing but not for the type of development that people would like to see,” the planner added. “The anal-ysis we have done in this neighborhood — in five years it’s going to be absolutely transformed.”
Hersh encourages anyone in the neigh-borhood, especially community groups seeking a space to commune, to call her cell MAP cell phone (267-972-3944) to request access. There are urban ecology/gardening workshops on the last Satur-day of every month, youth art classes on Tuesday and Thursday mornings (July 22 to Aug. 27), and a big art action event planned for Sept. 19.
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existing theater. “Instead of it being a vacant blight, it
will become a large new anchor that will beautify the street and provide a steady stream of business for residents and retail uses on the ground level,” Dranoff said.
The proposal calls for 45 apartments with 20 underground parking spaces and 7,100 square feet of retail with 140 feet of frontage, four stories at its highest, and a mix between one- and two-bedroom apartments.
In its current state, it’s nearly 8,500 square footage with 30-foot ceilings, it’s not on a corner, and it’s larger than most retailers want. The historically African-American theater was a treasure to the largely black community decades ago, and Dranoff’s team laid out analyses of number-crunching efforts that sought to return the Royal Theater to its original us-age. But the numbers don’t make sense – there’s no way to profit from that model in 2015.
Dranoff says he’s tight with Kenny Gamble who, along with CFO Shahied Dawan, runs Universal Companies, which has owned the Royal since ’00. They’re working together on this project, though it doesn’t downplay the changes that have occurred on and near South Street in the past couple decades.
“We really looked at it from the very be-ginning as a mainstay in the community, and it’s totally reflective of so many en-tertainers in the African American com-munity in South Philly,” Universal Vice President Eve Lewis said.
She said the neighborhood used to be
“70 percent African American to 30 per-cent Caucasian. It’s reversed – the neigh-borhood’s changed. A lot of people that still remain here are living in the units that we constructed, and that’s on both sides of Broad Street.”
AT TUESDAY’S HEARING, Dranoff’s repre-sentative from Econsult Solutions laid out the potentials they ran the numbers for: retail only, a movie theater with one (400 seats) or two (175 seats each) screens, a live performance venue, only residential, and mixed use retail/residential or retail/commercial. None resulted in a profit. They even analyzed profit per screen from local movie theaters – the average theater has 7.8 screens in Philadelphia (at its low-est end, the Ritz has a screen revenue of $160,000 a year). As for a theater, they pointed to the unsure futures of the Prince Theater, the Suzanne Roberts Theatre, Society Hill Playhouse, 507 S. Eighth St., and Plays & Players. It was mentioned that House of Blues passed on the space and settled on the 125-year-old Ajax Met-
al Company building in Fishtown. There are a few protestors to this partic-
ular Dranoff vision, the most viable in the more than 40 years developers have tried and failed to move the project forward. Mostly, they’re near neighbors who want the property to be townhomes.
“The latest proposal to demolish every-thing except for the front façade has been the most realistic proposal,” Jim Camp-bell, an architect with a practice on the 1500 block of South and a residence on the 1600 block, said. “There are people in the neighborhood who wanted million-dollar townhouses – they didn’t like the idea of 20 cars parking, which is minis-cule, they didn’t like the idea of renters.”
But Campbell says the history of the theater hasn’t been ignored.
“There’s a big sentiment in the neigh-borhood to preserve some of the history of the Royal Theater, about who built it and what population did it serve,” he noted. “It’s an important piece.”
South of South Neighborhood Associa-tion (SOSNA), which was deferred to by
the Center City Residents Association, is all for Dranoff’s vision. Lauren Vidas, SOSNA’s chair, said she has neighbors who’ve been in the neighborhood since the 1960s and ’70s who lived through the potential for a crosstown expressway but since they’ve stuck around, their main corridor’s experiencing a renaissance.
“It’s like the phoenix of corridors, it’s coming back strong and vibrant and busi-nesses who have been here for ages are getting a second or third wind,” said Vi-das. “What this venue meant to the city and the African American neighborhood that surrounded it – how do we respect and honor it?”
She concluded that the near neighbors surely “recognize that the future of the corridor is different from its history.”
Matt Levinson, the owner of 2012-born Quick Fixx, 1511 South St., and resident of the 1500 block of South Street for about five years, also sits on the South Street Business Owners Association.
“Since I opened, there have been about eight places open on the two blocks of 1500 and 1600,” he said.
As for the Royal, he says he and his fel-low business owners are “cautiously opti-mistic. I know there are a few hurdles to get through with the Historical Commis-sion, but we’re excited and optimistic that it’s finally going to happen.”
He’s less gentle about the opposition. “They have really fought this thing tooth
and nail,” but rather than $1 million town-homes upping property value, he argues, so could vibrancy on South Street. “A strong commercial corridor a half-block from your house will appreciate your val-ue, too.”
Contact Staff Writer Bill Chenevert at [email protected] or ext. 117. Com-ment at southphillyreview.com/news/features.
One-on-one computer tutoring for seniors daily by appointment; LEGO Club 2 p.m. July 2; Preschool Science 10:30 a.m. and BINGO 2 p.m. July 3; English as a Sec-ond Language Conversation Group 1 p.m. and Yoga for All Levels 6:30 p.m. July 6; Baby Storytime 10:15 a.m., Toddler and Preschool Storytime 11 a.m. and Family Movie 1 p.m. July 7; Chess Club 1 p.m. and Minecraft Club 4 p.m. July 8. 932 S. Seventh St. 215-686-1766.
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Thursdays 1 p.m. July 2; Minecraft Club 2 p.m. July 3; Teen Movie Monday 2 p.m. and LEGO Club 4 p.m. July 6; Teen Craft Tuesday 1 p.m. July 7; Minecraft Video Club 4 p.m. and Arabic Class for Children 5:30-7 p.m. July 8. 2437 S. Broad St. 215-685-1758.
Summer Thyme Cooks 9:30 a.m., Teen Summer Thyme Cooks noon, Teen Maker Thurs-days 3 p.m. and Let’s Speak English 6:30 p.m. July 2; SmART Readers: Art and Literacy Program 2 p.m. July 3; Baby and Toddler Story Time 11 a.m., SmART Readers: Art and Literacy Program 2 p.m. and Teen Media Mondays 3 p.m. July 6;
Preschool Storytime with Miss Leigh! 11 a.m. and Teen Tuesdays 3 p.m. July 7; The Lion’s Whiskers performed by Catskill Puppet Theatre 10:30 a.m. July 8. 1901 Vine St. 215-686-5322.
Big Game Day 2 p.m. July 2; Summer Reading Sto-rytime 10:30 a.m. July 7. 1201 S. 23rd St. 215-685-1899.
The Teen Scene 2 p.m. July 2; The Wonder of Movies: Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb 2 p.m. July 3. The Summer of Wonder Reading Game: Teen Scene 2 p.m. June 25; The Summer of Wonder Reading Game: The Movies 2 p.m. June 26; Computer Help for Beginners noon
and The Summer of Wonder Reading Game: Book and Craft 2 p.m. June 29; The Summer of Wonder Reading Game: Travel and Science 2 p.m. June 30; The Summer of Wonder Reading Game: Board Games 2 p.m. July 1. 1935 Shunk St. 215-685-1755.
Wee Ones Story-time 10 a.m., Ready to Read Storytime 11 a.m. and Teen Thursdays with Movies and Gaming 4 p.m. July 2; Computer As-sistance 1-6 p.m. July 2, 7 and 8; Science Monday 2 p.m. July 6; LEGO Club 2 p.m. and Story & Poetry Slam Series for Teens 4 p.m. July 7; Arts and Crafts 2 p.m. July 8. 200 Snyder Ave. 215-685-1754. SPR Visit freelibrary.org.
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, 11th and Whar-ton streets, holds a Captain’s Townhall Meeting 6 p.m. July 8 at the district. 215-686-3030. phillypolice.com/districts/3rd.
meets Wednesday nights 7:30 p.m. at 1549 S. 29th St. 215-200-8575.
holds a monthly meeting 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. July 2 at the rec center, 1800 Ellsworth St.
holds a Volunteer Meeting 7 to 7:45 p.m. July 7 at Mt. Moriah Church, 410 Wharton St. [email protected]. dickinsonsquarewest.org.
, 1904 E. Passyunk Ave., hosts Passyunk Passeg-giata every Wednesday through Labor Day with shops and happy hours running until 8 p.m. along the Avenue; and PassyunkShops, a promotion where punchcards (10 per card, $10 per punch) are pulled for gift certificates and prizes. 215-336-1455. [email protected]. visiteastpassyunk.com.
hold Kids Night Bike Parade and a Movie (“Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom”) 6 to 10 p.m. July 8 at the park, 300 Washington Ave. jeffersonsquarepark.org.
hold a monthly meeting 7 to 8 p.m. July 8 at the park, S. 22nd and Carpenter streets; and recommend the Julian Abele Park Farmer’s Market 2 to 7 p.m. on Tues-days.
hold Mario at the Movies, screening “To Catch a Thief” (1955), July 8 at the park, S. Sec-ond and Queen streets.
hold “Yoga @ your Library” every Wednesday. Kids at 5:30 p.m. and adults at 6:30 p.m. at the Library, 200 Snyder Ave. 215-685-1754.
holds a Public Zoning Meeting 7 p.m. July 8 at the Prudential Bank Meet-ing Room, 1834 W. Oregon Ave.; and is signing up participants for a Spirit of
Philadelphia luncheon cruise July 15 ($50 for members, $55 for non-members). gi-rardestateneighbors.org. [email protected].
, 2433 S. 15th St., is registering for a Spirit of Philadelphia luncheon July 15 (Tickets are $55 and include tranporation, food and entertainment). 215-717-1971. car-ingpeoplealliance.org.
meets 7 p.m. Thursdays. Epiphany of Our Lord-Church, 1121 Jackson St. 215-334-1035.
holds a Farmer’s Market 2 to 6 p.m. Tuesdays at S. Broad St. and Sny-der Ave. [email protected]. lo-mophilly.org.
, holds a Neighborhood Walk 7 to 8 p.m. July 7 and monthly on first Tuesdays (contact [email protected] for details). [email protected]. newboldneighbors.org.
holds a General Meeting 6:30 to 8 p.m. July 7 at Annunciation BVM Church Hall, 1511 S. 10th St. (Dickinson St. en-trance). [email protected]. passyunk-square.org.
, 405 Queen St., holds a free concert with The Philadelphia Orchestra 8 to 10 p.m. July 2 at Penn’s Landing, Co-lumbus Ave. between Walnut and Market streets; and Yoga for All Levels on Mon-day nights 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Charles Santore Library, 932 S. Seventh St. 215-339-0975. [email protected]. qvna.org.
, 1901 Christian St., rec-ommends a Farmer’s Market on Thurs-days 3 to 7 p.m. at S. 18th and Chrsitian streets; holds a Grays Ferry Triangles cleanup 10 to 11 a.m. July 5 at the Trian-gles, Grays Ferry Ave. and South St.; and recommends a Stanton Community Part-ners Meeting 6:30 to 8 p.m. July 6 at the school, S. 17th and Christian streets. southofsouth.org. 215-732-8446.
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r. Janet Monge has merited much acclaim for her professional proficiency, but unlike many scientists who have castigated the carefree components of their careers, the
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“No matter where we look, there’s a treasure trove of data desperate for interpretation,” the Pennsport inhabitant said from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, where she serves as a curator of physical anthropology. “This project became a global endeavor to communi-cate across boundaries and make connections among the past, present and future.”
The exhilarated expert noted the product, which comprises 26 research articles addressing mummy studies accomplished mainly through CAT scans, magnetic resonance imaging and endoscopy, stems from a 2011 Penn Museum-situated symposium that tackled the lessons that remains can inspire. Consist-ing of investigations from lands such as Denmark, Egypt, Korea and Peru, it reinforces her infatuation with cross-disciplinary endeavors and further vali-dates mummification as the means to help forms to achieve some form of immortality.
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An eternal student of the departed, Mon-ge believes the content of the collection will provide ripened examiners, budding enthusiasts and green individuals with an admiration for the global family. Once one enhances or initiates that acknowledg-ment, she will gladly welcome that person as a fellow temporary custodian of a seg-ment of human history.
“My whole job is to figure out the past,” Monge said. “That really rings my bell. I have an obsession with trying to use and glean the tools that help us to learn about the people of bygone eras. With this is-sue of ‘The Anatomical Record,’ it’s clear to me that conservation not only of these bodies but also of the sheer joy of analyz-ing who has witnessed life before us is, pardon the pun, a pretty timeless treat.”
HAILING FROM A family of Italian immi-grants who settled in West Philly, the good doctor matured through Delaware County stints in Havertown and Upper Darby. One might suppose that such a connoisseur of
constant questioning would have begun her methodical mission very early in life, but Monge did not come to count anthro-pology as an interest until her undergradu-ate days at Penn State University.
“I didn’t really see myself at a disad-vantage because pretty early on, I became extremely enthused about inquiring about humanity and grasping as much as I could on what defines us and how we’ve grown and developed,” she revealed. “Human evolution, human biological differences and human culture spurred me, and they’re still the key to capturing insights and shar-ing views.”
Acquiring her doctorate from the Uni-versity of Pennsylvania, Monge began to drag the past out into the light more ear-nestly and has deemed herself quite fortu-nate to foster a sense of belonging through the Ivy League institution.
“I’d like to think I possess a strong mor-al compass,” she said with an uproarious laugh, “and I’m thrilled to point myself in the direction of work that really bolsters the quest for answers.”
Holding that passion and insight must drive everything that someone chooses as a vocational pursuit, Monge rejoices in
regaling registrants at Penn and Princeton University with tales of field stops in plac-es such as Africa, Australia and Europe. If she were not so humble, she could also tout the discovery of the world’s oldest known bone tumor and curator duties for the Penn Museum’s “Human Evolution: The First 200 Million Years” and “Year of Proof: Making an Unmaking Race” ex-hibitions, the former marking the largest National Science Foundation grant in the museum’s 128-year history, a $1.7 million endowment.
“I see my accomplishments from a dis-tance,” the simple scientist said of her feats, which include international speak-ing engagements, expert testimony assis-tance in criminal defense cases, forensic consultation chores for law enforcement officials and interaction with homicide detectives in pursuing leads. “I still treat everything I do as if I were a child. There are so many people in the scientific world who are careerists. They want only self-promotion, and that’s all that results if we forget that our jobs should be fun.”
That is not to say her tasks do not involve the occasional touch of sadness, including her identification of blunt-force trauma as
the cause of death for several of the men buried at Duffy’s Cut, a stretch of rail-road tracks near Malvern where in 1832, 57 Irish immigrants hired to lay the line perished from what many claimed was a consequence of a cholera pandemic. As a Penn Museum release in conjunction with the issue’s unveiling notes, though, Monge wishes to promote “new and meaningful data about our shared human past.”
“I’m not one to knock the present,” the director of the site’s fossil casting pro-gram, which produces more than 3,000 bones representing all phases of human and primate evolution, said of contempo-rary matters, including her assisting the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University dental schools in showing that children are exhibiting signs of dental and skeletal maturation earlier than youngsters from a generation ago. “It’s vital to see how the present takes cues from the past. It’s all relative and fascinating, too.” SPR
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are hits with questioning kids and the museum stays open longer with Thursday Nights at the Museum 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. July 2. Tickets: Free-$17. Please Touch Museum, Memorial Hall, Fairmount Park, 4231 Ave. of the Republic. 215-581-3181. pleasetouchmuseum.org.
bears the second night of fireworks at the park 6:35 p.m. July 2. Tick-ets: $12-$125. Citizens Bank Park, 1 Citizens Bank Way. 215-463-1000. phillies.mlb.com.
are worth the trip with two nights of infamous explosions, July 3 on the beach and Boardwalk and July 4 at the Marina District. Both shows at 9:30 p.m. Free. Atlantic City, NJ. atlanticcitynj.com.
dazzles with his legendary guitar skills 8 p.m. July 3. Tickets: $32.50-$59.50. The Keswick Theatre, 291 N. Keswick Ave.,
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presents “Despicable Me” with games and activities for kids starting at 5 p.m. plus free popcorn! 6 p.m. July 6. Free. XFINITY Live!, 1100 Pattison Ave. 267-443-6415. xfinitylive.com.
hit the Camden Waterfront with their infectious hard rock 7 p.m. July 6. Tickets: $42.50-$75. Susquehanna Bank Center, 1 Harbour Blvd., Camden, NJ. 856-365-1300. livenation.com.
is down to the semi-finals, so the Phunniest of the Phunny are left to get you laughing big July 7-8. Tickets: $10-$18. Helium Comedy Club, 2031 Sansom St. 215-496-9001. heliumcomedy.com.
, star of “Reality Bites” and “Wet Hot American Summer,” brings her humor to Philly 8 p.m. July 8. Tickets: $24. World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St. 215-222-1400. worldcafelive.com.
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The culmination of eight days of free programming is considered by many to be one of the best days of the year - the 4th of July Jam on the Parkway, this year with the Roots, Miguel and Jennifer Nettles. You can party all day with an Independence Day Parade throughout Historic Philadelphia (11 a.m. to 1 p.m.), a Birthday Party with Betsy Ross and the Termini Bros. at the Vistor Center (1 p.m.) or the Party on the Parkway, from 20th Street to Eakins Oval (noon to 7 p.m.). Through July 5. Tickets: $24.50-$29.50.
Lincoln Financial Field, 1020 Pattison Ave. themarvelexperiencetour.com.
Through July 12. Tickets: $20-$95. Walnut Street The-ater, 825 Walnut St. 215-574.-3550. walnutstreettheatre.org.
Through July 10 at Ninth and Wharton streets, July 14-19 at 15th and South streets. Tickets: Pay-What-You-Can ($15-$20 donation encour-aged). 215-802-1105. beardedladiescabaret.com.
Through Aug. 2. Tickets: Free-$12. National Museum of American Jewish History, 101 S. Independence Mall East. 215-923-3811. nmajh.org.
Through Aug. 16. Tickets: Free-$14. The African American Museum in Philadel-phia, 701 Arch St. 215-574-0380. aampmuseum.org.
Through Aug. 23. Tickets: Free-$8. American Swedish Historical Museum, 1900 Pattison Ave. 215-389-1776. americanswedish.org.
Through Aug. 30. Tickets: Free-$15.95. The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway. 215-299-1000. ansp.org.
Through Sept. 6. Tickets: $8-$29.50. The Franklin Institute, 222 N. 20th St. 215-448-1200. fi.edu.
Through Sept. 7. Tickets: $8-$14.50. National Constitution Center, 525 Arch St. 215-409-6600. constitutioncenter.org.
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Through Sept. 13. Free-$25. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2600 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy. 215-763-8100- philamuseum.org.
Through Sept. 27. Free-$20.
Philadelphia Museum of Art,
2600 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy.
215-763-8100- philamuseum.org.
Through Nov. 1. Tickets: $10-$15. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archae-ology and Anthropology, 3260 South St. 215-898-4000. penn.museum.
Ongoing. Tickets: Free-$14.50. Indepen-dence Mall, 525 Arch St. 215-409-6600. constitutioncenter.org.
Through Jan. 3. Tickets: $7.95-$29.95. The Franklin Institute, 222 N. 20th St. 215-448-1200. fi.edu.
Through Jan. 3. Tickets: $8-$14.50. National Constitution Center, 525 Arch St. 215-409-6600. constitutioncenter.org.
July 2-4. Tickets: $15-$28 Helium Comedy Club, 2031 Sansom St. 215-496-9001. heliumcomedy.com.
7 p.m. July 2. Tickets: $23. Theatre of the Living Arts, 334 South St. 215-922-1011. lnphilly.com.
10 p.m. July 2. Free. Medusa Lounge, 27 S. 21st St. facebook.com/NSFWparty.
10 p.m. July 2. Tickets: $5. Franky Bradley’s, 1320 Chancellor St. 215-735-0735. frankybradleys.com.
July 3-5. Tickets: $10-$20. Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St. 215-232-2100. utphilly.com.
5 to 8:45 p.m. July 3. Free-$20. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2600 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy.
215-763-8100- philamuseum.org.
7 p.m. July 3. Tickets: $45. Borgata Festival Park, 1 Borgata Way, Atlantic City, NJ. 866-820-4553. theborgata.com.
7:30 p.m. July 3. Tickets: $5-$10. Painted Bride, 230 Vine St. 215-925-9914. paintedbride.org.
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p.m. July 3. Tickets: $10. Under-ground Arts, 1200 Callowhill St. undergroundarts.org.
11 a.m.-1 p.m. July 4. Tickets: Free-$13.50. Independence Seaport Museum, 211 S. Columbus Blvd. 215-413-8655. phillyseaport.org.
Noon to 3 p.m. July 4. Tickets: $18 (includes museum admission). Independence Seaport Museum, 211 S. Columbus Blvd. 215-413-8655. phillyseaport.org.
2:30 p.m. July 5. Tickets: Free. The Barnes Foundation, 2025 Ben Franklin Pkwy. 215-278-7000. barnesfoundation.org.
8 p.m. July 6. Tickets: $3. The Trocadero, 1003 Arch St. 215-922-6888. thetroc.com.
6:30 p.m. July 7. PhillyCam, 699 Ranstead St. 215-735-9600. moonstoneartscenter.org.
6:45 p.m. July 7. Tickets: $20.
Susquehanna Bank Center, 1 Harbour Blvd., Camden, NJ. 856-365-1300. livenation.com.
8 p.m. July 7. Tickets: $28.50. Theatre of the Living Arts, 334 South St. 215-922-1011. lnphilly.com.
5 to 8 p.m. July 8. Tickets: Free-$10. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 3260 South St. 215-898-4000. penn.musuem.
7 p.m. July 8. Tickets: $5-$10. Painted Bride, 230 Vine St. 215-925-9914. paintedbride.org.
7:30 p.m. July 8. Tickets: $25. Theatre of the Liv-ing Arts, 334 South St. 215-922-1011. lnphilly.com.
8:30 p.m. July 8. Tickets: $10. Boot & Saddle, 1131 S. Broad St. 267-639-4528.bootandsaddlephilly.com.
8:30 p.m. July 8. Free. FringeArts, 140 N. Columbus Blvd. 215-375-
7744. fringearts.com.
BalletX’s Summer Series takes flight in tribute to Adam Hougland, a favor-ite choreographer of the young con-temporary ballet company July 8-12. Tickets: $22-$40. The Wilma Theater, 265 S. Broad St. 215 -546 -7824. balletx.org.
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t is that time of year again, and we are not talking about the summer. Tomato season has come around, and Diane Pecca likes to use this section of the calendar to bring a little of the southern states to local homes.
The Girard Estate resident uses common kitchen ingredients to create her Fried Green Tomatoes recipe. Serve them as appetizers, as the inhabitant of the 2300 block of South 16th Street usually does, or whip them together if spontaneity strikes. Pecca noted her daughter recently returned from West Virginia, where dwellers have begun serving the delicacies on sandwiches with dipping sauce complements. That sounds like the seed of enjoying a great meal!
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tephen Starr is Philadelphia’s most prolific restauranteur. He has a keen sense of what types of restau-rants people enjoy, and goes to great
lengths to include diversity of cuisines and price points.
As I wait for new South Philly restau-rants to open, I thought it a good idea to revisit a few places, from time-to-time, to determine whether they are still up to standards. Since I reviewed dinner at Jones years ago, I decided to experience lunch/brunch this time around.
Jones may be my favorite Starr restau-rant, as it never disappoints. It is a fam-ily restaurant — on my recent visits, moms, dads and children were tucking into burgers, salads and the restaurant’s famous made-from-scratch tater tots. The establishment serves La Colombe coffee, which is always a plus. The lunch/brunch menu offers dishes for everyone’s tastes.
Once upon a time, in a city about 1,200 miles away, I enjoyed lox, eggs and on-ions. The city is North Miami Beach and the restaurant was the famous Rascal House.
When I saw Jones makes this breakfast classic ($11), I had to order it. The chefs dice slightly salty belly lox and onions into tiny pieces. The eggs were gently scrambled exactly the way I enjoy them. Tater tots are not just for kids, as I adore them. They were slightly creamy inside and toasty brown crunchy outside. A toasted onion bagel with a hint of poppy seeds was the real deal and included a small round of cream cheese topped with chives.
The Cobb salad ($14.50) is large enough to share. It is not a composed version, rather a large bowl of tossed ingredients including romaine lettuce, kale, turkey, bacon, avocado and blue cheese tossed in a red wine vinaigrette. I asked our waiter for some made-from-scratch blue cheese dressing.
The ALT ($9.75) is one of my favorite sandwiches in the city. It is prepared with ripe avocado, lettuce, red ripe tomato and mozzarella served on multi-grain toast. It comes with a pile of hot shoestring french fries. They are not as thin as the fries served at The Continental, another Starr establishment, but they fill the bill nicely.
I have often written that The Devil’s Den serves one of the best burgers in South Philly, and I still enjoy them. Jones offers a cheeseburger ($12.50) with a choice of cheese and caramelized onions. It is prepared with Angus beef and arrives to one’s liking. The aforementioned fries come with the burger.
Some delis offer a brisket sandwich. It is usually made with thinly-sliced beef and can be served hot or cold. Jones offers one ($13.75) made a little differently. The sea-soned tender brisket is cut into chunks and piled onto a not-on-the-sweet-side seeded brioche bun. I also liked the sauce, as it added juice and flavor to the beef. Fries and homemade coleslaw are the perfect side dishes for brisket.
The potato pancakes ($7.50) tasted like they came from mom’s kitchen. Like the tater tots, they are homemade. Grated potatoes are mixed with a bit of onion, formed into latkes and fried crisp in oil to a golden brown. Sour cream and apple-sauce simply make them better.
Service is first-rate. On my visits, Jones was doing brisk business. Still, we never had to wait long, and coffee mugs were filled throughout lunch and brunch.
Jones serves American fare at its best. Simple dishes prepared with fresh ingre-dients have been its hallmark for a num-ber of years.
For evening outings, Jones serves Thanksgiving dinner with all the trim-mings year-round, and it is downright de-licious.
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et to celebrate their second wedding anniversary in November, Ferry and Debby Takili cannot really consider themselves newlyweds, but the two
have maintained a steady relationship with novelty in another sense. As the owners of Lil’ Java Philly, 1739 W. Ritner St., they have come to complement the overseers of neighboring Sky Cafe as over-the-moon offerers of Indonesian cuisine.
“Not too many people know about our food, so we wanted to give them some-thing different,” Ferry Takili said of op-erations at the Girard Estate eatery that he and his spouse opened in February. “It’s exciting and scary all at the same time to be taking this step.”
The residents of 19th Street and Snyder Avenue secured the space last summer and intended to team with the groom’s moth-er to helm the site. When the matriarch moved to Los Angeles, the West Passyunk inhabitants valiantly proceeded with their venture and have triumphed through in-creasing traffic, particularly because their selections acknowledge not only their homeland but also influences from Chi-nese, Dutch, French and Indian culinary endeavors. With respect to delicacies from their Southeast Asian turf, the partners specialize in East Javanese style, which the husband noted consists of sweet and spicy elements. Eager to ingratiate their foreign flavors with local taste buds, they elected to share their recipe for Gado-gado.
“Many people request it and talk about how good it is,” Debby Takili, the loca-tion’s chef, said of the vegetable-centric goodie. “It’s great for vegetarians, too.”
The popular item, which like every op-tion, including American breakfast staples, is available every day, with the BYOB’s
version serving at least five.“It was like an atomic bomb going off,”
Ferry Takili said of becoming a business-man. “We’ve startled to settle and want to educate people on our food.”
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Philly’s Own Retires
Linda Di JosephDirector of Security and Services at Wells Fargo
If the work you have done can truly speak for you it would say you are a leader who understands good service to the people who follow you.
I have watched you hire, train and groom many people over the course of your career, your life as a dedicated worker to the Philadelphia Flyers, Sixers, Soul and
Concerts has forever changed the lives of others for the better!
You have built a family a community and a life of work! I am so proud of you and I am looking forward to our next journey for the rest of our life!
CONGRATULATIONS! God bless you - We love you
Love your husband John; children John, Lauren, Stefanie & Steven;Grandson Nicholas Giovanni
Jake Christopher TORRES
Many Happy Birthday Wishes From
Mommy, Daddy, Louie and Family and Ralph
Your birthday is here, our little man is turning 3! Every day is an adventure; you are always eager to learn and explore new things. You brighten everyone’s day with your big smile and your cheerful, “Hi!” We love you more than words can say. We wish you the happiest of birthdays! May every year be better than the last and
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Happy 10th Wedding Anniversary!
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Thank you for supporting me, cleaning my clothes, taking care of me,
and giving me two of the best gifts a man could ever want;
a family to call my own and all the love that I could ask for.
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Here is to many more years, “hand in hand”!
With all my love,Louis
JADE MARICE FULLERCONGRATULATIONS TO
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Everyone in the Jackson family is extremely proud of you!!!
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Born February 1, 1926, passed away June 9, 2015, re-joining her loving husband, Armando “Monty” A. Marchegiano, and her brother, Vincent James Ar-gentiero, Jr..Eleanor attended Vare Elementary School, gradu-ated from South Philadelphia High School in 1945, worked at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard until just before the birth of her fi rst child in 1948, and later was a Dress-Fitter until retiring from John Wana-maker’s Tribout Shop.Her favorite pastimes were cooking, sewing, gar-dening, talking to friends and family on the phone, listening to favorite music, watching a variety of programs on television, and shopping for bargains. She enjoyed daytime reading on her back porch, sit-ting “out front” talking with neighbors, and weekly card games with “the girls”, when she often served her own baked goodies or had them taste her latest “experiment.”Saint Richard’s Parishioner since 1949, she is sur-vived by her offspring Marianne LaBrecque, Evelyn Smith, Michael and wife Marianne, Lorraine Fiora-vanti, grandson Andrew Marchegiano, sister Ange-lina Pepa, and many nephews, nieces and cousins, all who already miss her giggle and warm smile.The family wishes to express their special thank you to the staffs of Methodist Hospital and Hospice, Phil-adelphia Ambulance and St. Monica Manor, and to the many home-health caregivers who so diligently provided much needed assistance to Eleanor over the last few years.
Eleanor M. Argentiero Marchegiano
Gayle (Bitty)Broadnax Burns
It’s been three long years and there are still tears.
The day you left our lives made it very diffi cult
to survive.You’re forever in our hearts and will never ever depart.
Sadly missed by husband Cephas, daughter Atiya,
granddaughter Lailah,
family & friends
September 7, 1949 – June 29, 2012
Wishes to express their sincere gratitude to all of our family
and friends for the overwhelming compassion extended to us during
our time of loss.
The family of the late
VINCENT MINORE, JR.
CONGRATULATIONS to
Who graduated from SS. Neumann & Goretti H.S.on June 5, 2015 with
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Good luck and best wishes for your future.
With all our love,Mom, Dad, Mike family
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SPISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20): It is good to think in terms of boosting your income. Apply
for a better-paying position or launch a business. You may need to give some ideas further consideration, but do not let this stop you from moving forward. Lucky number: 651.
DARIES (March 21 to April 20): Do not let a flatterer take advantage of you. You’ve al-
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Review Managing Ed itor
ichael DiFrancesco has never had any hangups in holding himself to high standards to acquire what he wants, be it an academic goal
or an athletic pursuit. Always physically blessed, the 18-year-old has become a studious standout, too, with his combined talents helping him to gain acceptance into Temple University, where, as a pre-ferred walk-on for the football team, he will look for collegiate success to rival that of his high school prowess.
“I’m eager for what’s to come,” the resident of Broad and Pollock streets and recent graduate of Ss. Neumann-Goretti High School, 1736 S. 10th St., said of his North Broad Street-based odyssey, which he commenced Monday through a sum-mer class. “Especially with the football team, I have a few dream scenarios, so I’m excited.”
Distinction as a preferred walk-on means the Marconi inhabitant will not head to the squad as a scholarship recipient, but he loves the idea of applying his skills so as to achieve that title by his junior year. He found Temple, which bested suitors such as Blooms-burg University and the University of Pittsburgh, appealing partly because of its proximity to home but also because of its pigskin program’s increasing stature.
“I think I’m going to fit in really well,” the fitness fanatic said of bolstering his body for the rigors of Division I action. “There’s a good group of guys, especially among the linebackers, so I want to con-tribute and help us to win the [American Athletic] conference championship. That’s a huge aspiration I have.”
If he can aid the Owls in landing that crown, he will continue to count himself as a member of a laudable club, with his senior season at his East Passyunk Cross-ing-based alma mater having initiated a cherished tenure as a victor. The Saints walloped West Catholic 34-12 in Nov. 8’s Catholic League AA final, halting the
Burrs’ 52-game winning streak against parochial opposition and endowing their insti-tution with its first grid-iron plaque in 60 years. They granted backers another four quarters of joy a week later by downing Prep C h a r t e r , 1928 Point B r e e z e Ave., 12-6 f o r t h e C i t y A A c h a m p i -onship
a t t h e South Phila-delphia super s i t e , 1 0 t h and Bigler streets.
“Both un-f o rg e t t a b l e , just timeless memories,” Di-Francesco said of the triumphs t o w h i c h h e contributed as a linebacker and a fullback, tal-lying a 19-yard catch in the latter role ver-sus their West Passyunk-situ-
ated adversary. “Everything we’d worked so hard for finally came our way.”
The locals capped what would be-come a 9-5 slate by earning a state playoff destruction of Springfield (Montco) at the super site, with the entire campaign of success lead-ing numerous players, including
DiFrancesco as a double First-Team honoree,
to receive league kudos.
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back and the experience they’ve gotten, I wouldn’t be surprised if they did it again,” the proud alumnus, who also claimed First-Team AA All-State merit, said. “I’m happy that I was able to be a part of something so great. Now it’s time for new challenges.”
THOUGH FOOTBALL HAS become the foster-ing force behind his athletic maturation, it once had competition from other sports, including baseball, which he tagged as a beloved pastime through his days at St.
Richard School, now St. Pio Regional Catholic School, 1826 Pollock St., and basketball, which he considered a slam dunk of an obsession until his junior year. Following participation in touch leagues, he transitioned to tackle football through involvement with the St. Monica School unit and excelled as a multi-position presence, with the culmination of his el-ementary school years, much like the end of his secondary school stretch, infusing him with additional fascination for the unknown.
“I knew I’d have to step it up,” he said of enrolling at Neumann-Goretti, which united him with brother Chris. “I came in with a new coaching staff, and everyone was committed to fielding a great team. When I look back, I’m going to feel so happy that we made so many people so
proud of us.”DiFrancesco also heightened his own sense of satisfaction through
his academic diligence, with one date with the ACT and
four brushes with the SAT further proving his al-legiance to being a well-
rounded young man.“Nothing is really that intimidating
because I know what I’m capable of,” he said of beginning this phase of his life, which will include distinction as a criminal justice major. “I know there will be come battles, but that’s part of grow-ing up.”
With a clearly defined team goal, Di-Francesco added that he has a personal passion, too, namely to earn a starting role, with thoughts of facing off against the Penn State University Nittany Lions especially desired.
“I feel pretty prepared,” he said of han-dling the novelty. “I’m staying on top of my strength and conditioning, so that’s going to be a plus as I make the adjust-ments.” SPR
Barry Playground, 18th and Johnston streets, seeks instructors for its tutoring, martial arts, tumbling, yoga, zumba fitness and other health options classes. Contact Anthony, 215-685-1886, or [email protected].
Chew Playground, 18th Street and Wash-ington Avenue, accepts free registrations Monday through Friday from 3 to 7 p.m. for its flag football season, with games oc-curring 10 a.m. Saturdays. Call Bud, 215-526-8381, or Octavia, 215-685-6596.
Ss. Neumann-Goretti High School will hold a free football camp July 11 at Mc-Nichol Field, 2600 Moore St., for fifth- through eighth-graders. Contact Coach Concannon, [email protected], or Coach Gillespie, [email protected].
Neumann-Goretti baseball product Josh Ockimey is batting .333 for the Boston Red Sox’ Lowell Spinners minor league club. The 2014 draft pick and lefty slug-ger has knocked in nine runs while also scoring six times. He also hit a home run Monday. Fellow Neumann-Goretti alum-nus Albert Baur, a recent Pittsburgh Pirates draft pick, is hitting .280 for the West Vir-
ginia Black Bears. He has tallied seven hits and has scored four runs.
Murphy Recreation Center, 300 Shunk St., is holding basketball registration for 13 and younger and 16 and under action, with games occurring Mondays and Tues-days. The cost is $40 and includes T-shirts, ref fees and trophies. The 13-and-younger league runs through July, and the 16-and-younger one will go from July through August.
Rizzo Rink seeks lifeguards to work at Sacks Pool, Fourth Street and Wash-ington Avenue, this summer. Applicants must be at least 16 years old, pass a lifeguard screening and complete train-ing. The cost for the class is $100, with the site paying for it if people pass. Call 215-685-1593, or send e-mail to [email protected].
The South Philadelphia Tennis Associ-ation will offer coed camps for ages 7 to 16 through Aug. 7 at Barry Playground, 1800 Johnston St. The times will be 9 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., with costs being $50 to $150. Contact Bryan Hughes at 215-528-0196 or [email protected].
on’t Shoot... I Want a Future, under 2012 South Philly Review Difference Maker Ella Best, presented the Legends Basketball Tournament Saturday at the Marian Anderson Recreation Center, 740 S. 17th St. The day lauded three deceased locals and featured male and female competitors.
Comment at southphillyreview.com/news/briefs. --- Photo Provided by Ella Best
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