October 17-23, 2002	[2002 issue index]
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Here We Are Now THE MUSIC ISSUE Where They Were Then: Old-heads recall the scene The Hangman: Pages of rock history Punk Calling: Frank Blank remembers Getting to The Point: the historic Bryn Mawr club (plus Those Were the Frickin' Days: Rolling Stone's David Fricke) The Lowdown: Whatever happened to The Low Road? (plus Deep Thoughts with The Low Road) Tearing Down the House DJ: the life, death and rebirth of Narayan Sevier Weathers: Matt's back Hot Again: Jazz legends in a box

Long Way Back: Britney Fox still rocks All You Zombies: Hooters High No More Monkey Business: the evolution of Chino Changing of the Guard: Laguardia's roots and branches Home Records: CDs by people who live near you

news

Pitching Fright: Entrepreneurs are tapping the lucrative market of wet-your-pants entertainment.—Ted Mann

Split Decision—Daniel Brook

Soundbites—Deborah Bolling

The Bell Curve: City Paper's weekly gauge of Philly's Quality of Life

columns:

Political Notebook:Tracking the ISTAR—Mary F. Patel

City Space:Philly By Numbers—Alan Greenberger, Hole-ier Than Thou—Daniel Brook

opinion

Pretzel Logic by Howard Altman
Fantastic Voyage

Loose Canon by Bruce Schimmel
Sparanoia

Slant by Clark DeLeon
There's Something About Amiri

Letters to the Editor: by the readers

arts

Spontaneous Combustion: Dance, drums and tabla combine to light up the Painted Bride.—Deni Kasrel

Out of this World—Susan Hagen

Theater:He Talks Pretty—David Anthony Fox

Theater:Lee Blessing

artspicks

Family Affair—Debra Auspitz

Quilting Bucks—Helen i-lin Hwang

From Chippendale to Talavera—Lori Hill

Moving to the Desert—Deni Kasrel

Stage Flight—Debra Auspitz

Phantom Planet—Debra Auspitz

movies

What Nobody Expects: A startling film combines the talents of two filmmakers.—Cindy Fuchs

Michael Moore—Sam Adams

Home on the Range: Bowling for Columbine may be scattershot, but it hits plenty of targets.—Sam Adams

Adam's Crib: Adam Sandler plays a manchild (again), but troubled (for once), and gives P.T. Anderson a boost.—Sam Adams

Screen Picks—Sam Adams

music

Smart Bombs: The Def Jux crew bring the noise and the news.—A.D. Amorosi

Beat Box—Ain� Ardron-Doley

DJ Nights—Sean O'Neal

The Gig—Nate Chinen on Jazz

musicpicks

Atmosphere—A.D. Amorosi

Salif Keita—A.D. Amorosi

Sleater-Kinney/Yeah Yeah Yeahs—Sam Adams

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band—Sam Adams

Parks & Wilson—Sean O’Neal

The Anniversary/ Burning Brides—Chris Parker

Skeleton Key—Maura Johnston

naked city

Spy Another Day: It's endless adventure when you're hanging out with superspy Cate Archer.—Juliet Fletcher

Icepack—A.D. Amorosi

mixpicks

Supernatural Soap—Debra Auspitz

Tribal Council—Kristina Weise

Just Looking—Kristina Weise

food

Hurry Up and Wait: Decent food but slooow service at Cafe Monticello.—Daryl Gale

firstlook—A.D. Amorosi