January 30-February 5, 2003	[2003 issue index]
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Tough Enough Ozzie Wright Jr. is a veteran educator and a black belt-certified kicker of butt. Now he"s taking on his toughest job yet: principal of his alma mater, beleaguered West Philly High. by Daryl Gale Photographs By Michael T. Regan

news

Developing Dilemma: Does Mayor Street have a problem with the vision thing? Street At the Crossroads, second in a series.—Daniel Brook

Blondes and Bikers: Hello Hollywood and more news from the Wheels of Soul.—Brendan McGarvey

Fuss-Budget—Daniel Brook

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

columns:

Cityspace:Landing A Message: How Philadelphia can learn from past failures to develop a brighter future for the Delaware River.—Patrick M. Starr

Cityspace:Dead On The Water?—Daniel Brook

opinion

Pretzel Logic by Howard Altman
Groucho Diplomacy

Loose Canon by Bruce Schimmel
Plastic, Fantastic

Slant by Spencer Witte
Back From Iraq

Letters to the Editor: by the readers

arts

Boom Town: CP's dance critics take a look at all four evenings of DanceBoom! at the Wilma.—D.K and J.A

Artsbeat:Artsbeat—Debra Auspitz

Opera:La Traviata: Verdi Good—David Shengold

artspicks

A Night with Dame Edna—David Anthony Fox

Face Time—Lori Hill

Party On, Garth—Deni Kasrel

Stephen Dubner—Andrew Milner

For the Love of Pig Iron!—A.D. Amorosi

movies

Chrome Alone: The pretty but empty Biker Boyz earns its “z.”—Ryan Godfrey

Screen Picks

music

Billy the Kidder: Will Oldham is being difficult.—A.D. Amorosi

Time and Tide: Jon Langford talks about death and going it alone.—Sam Adams

Beat Box—Ainé Ardron-Doley

DJ Nights—Sean O'Neal

musicpicks

Sam Jayne, Sam Beam, James Mercer—Chris Parker

Miguel Zenón Quartet—Kyle Parker

The 90 Day Men—Paul Burress

Erykah Badu—Elisa Ludwig

Joe Strummer/Clash Tribute—A.D. Amorosi

Benny Golson Quartet—Kyle Parker

Neil Finn/Rhett Miller—Sam Adams

naked city

Vital Statistics: Baseball Reference's Sean Forman finds strength in numbers.—Brian Howard

firstlook—A.D. Amorosi

Icepack—A.D. Amorosi

mixpicks

D.C. Cabaret—Frank Halperin

New Year's Flockin' Eve—Helen i-lin Hwang

food

Curtain Up: La Viola's a pleasant refuge -- especially after the theater crowds thin out.—Maxine Keyser

foodpick: Teresa's Buffet—Elisa Ludwig