REPUBLICAN candidates Danny Alvarez for district attorney and Terry Tracey for Controller waged sharp wit and had huge crowd at Stu Bykofsky’s Variety Club Charity Night bringing together candidates to quip jokes. Photo by Bill Myers.

HOST Columnist Stu Bykofsky welcomes District Attorney Seth Williams to the stage. He was prepared. Photo by Bill Myers.

NJ Dem. Candidate Newark, NJ, Mayor Cory Booker took a few and gave a few swipes when called up. With him, left, is Variety Club. CEO Jeff Lograsso. Photo by Bill Myers.

PARENTS AND children line up outside State Rep. Rosita Youngblood’s office at 300 block of Chelton Ave to collect free back-to-school supplies. Photo/ Rory McGlasson

IBEW LOCAL 98 Business Manager John J. Dougherty speaks to crowd at fundraiser he hosted at Doc’s Union Pub in South Philadelphia for Congressman Bob Brady. Big crowd packed inside tavern on two street in South Philadelphia to welcome Democratic Party Chairman.

MAYOR MICHAEL Nutter joins City officials to open the Philadelphia Safety Collaborative, the new, co-located site of the Department of Human Services Sexual Investigation Unit, the Philadelphia Police Department’s Special Victims Unit and the Philadelphia Children’s Alliance.

MEMBERS OF Point Breeze Organizing Committee march along Pt. Breeze Avenue to protest for Affordable Housing, Public Education, Jobs and Freedom, that also commemorated 50th anniversary of the March on Washington hosted by Point Breeze Organizing Committee on Saturday. Photos/Rory McGlasson

DEVELOPER ORI Feibush stands inside OFC REALTY Coffee House on Saturday, hours after some body vandalized the property early Saturday morning. Feibush believes the person responsible for the shattered windows has ties to the Point Breeze Organizing Committee. The Point Breeze Organizing Committee deny these claims.

Gary Broderick rallies crowd at 20th and Federal march against OCF Realty last weekend in Point Breeze.

PHILADELPHIANS can be spotted in this picture before Dr. Martin Luther King statue in D.C. Her group attended 50th anniversary of Dr. King’s famous ‘I have a dream’ speech.