March 28-April 3, 2002	[2002 issue index]
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The Style Issue City Paper's Spring look at fashion, attitude and cheap shopping.

news

Politics 101: Old-School Tactics in Villanova Elections—Jenn Carbin

Being John Street: A long strange trip inside Hizzoner's head.

No Accounting for Waste: The Arthur Andersen shredding scandal hits home for thousands of employees and families.—Trish Boppert

Jockeying for Position

Independence Day?—Daniel Brook

The Bellcurve: City Paper's weekly guage of Philly's Quality of Life

columns:

Political Notebook:Political Notebook—Mary F. Patel

opinion

Pretzel Logic by Howard Altman
Pretzel Logic

Loose Canon by Bruce Schimmel
A Moral Lawyer

Slant by David Thornburgh
Whither Taxation

Slant by Brian Howard
Laugh Like an Egyptian

Mailbag: by the readers

special section

arts

Parsons Projects: Choreographer David Parsons enthusiastically expounds on his career and his latest work, premiering in Philly next week.—Janet Anderson

John Stachowicz—Debra Auspitz

Books:Making It Up: Atonement explores fiction's power to make things right.—John Freeman

Books:Fletch Live—Patrick Rapa

Book Quicks:Book Quicks—Meredith Broussard

Dance:Having a Ball—Deni Kasrel

Theater:Christian Rock—Debra Auspitz

Theater:Water Pip Down—Toby Zinman

Theater:Seam Stealer—Toby Zinman

Theater:Missing Link—Debra Auspitz

artspicks

movies

House Boo-tiful: Panic Room offers a few scares, but we've been down these halls before.—Cindy Fuchs

Hush: What Time Is It There? proves there is nothing so sad as stillness.—Sam Adams

Screenpicks—Sam Adams

music

Girls' Town: Sugar Town celebrates one year of women who rock.—Patrick Rapa

Deep Healing: Were Sasha and Digweed sent here to save you?

The Gig—Nate Chinen

Beatbox

musicpicks

Antipop Consortium—A.D. Amorosi

Plaid—Juliet Fletcher

Mstislav Rostropovich—Peter Burwasser

French Kicks—Maura Johnston

Herbie Hancock/ Dianne Reeves—Nate Chinen

Poncho Sanchez—Nate Chinen

Peter Brštzmann—Nate Chinen

Angelique Kidjo—A.D. Amorosi

Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise—Brian Howard

naked city

Denim Nation: Diesel adds drama to buying a pair of jeans.—A.D. Amorosi

Club Nostradamus—A.D. Amorosi

icepack

mixpicks

Recovered Memorabilia Syndrome—A.D. Amorosi

The View From Pakistan—Josh Levandoski

John Canemaker—Sam Adams

food

Page-Turner: This year’s Book and the Cook charmed this critic.—Maxine Keyser

Under the Table—Marc Kravitz