February 6-12, 2003	[2003 issue index]
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Continental Drift Hey Europe! Why don't you love us anymore? by Michael Freund

news

Peace Out: Activists wonder why Comcast pulled the plug on an antiwar ad set to run in Washington during the State of the Union speech.—Daniel Brook

The Old Lion Has Died—Daniel Brook

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

columns:

Political Notebook:Judicious—Mary F. Patel

Cityspace:Big Shoulders, Big Ideas: The lessons of Chicago would play well here.—Joanne Aitken

Cityspace:Ahead of the Section 8 Ball—Daniel Brook

opinion

Loose Canon by Bruce Schimmel
Local Heroes

Slant by Tracy Quan
Sex and the Cell Phone

Letters to the Editor: by the readers

arts

Blair Brown—Interview by Toby Zinman

First Friday Focus—Lori Hill

Signs of the Times—Susan Hagen

Rising to the Challenge—Robin Rice

James Wyeth—Interview by Lewis Whittington

Artsbeat:Artsbeat—Debra Auspitz

Theater:Cowboy Mouth—Toby Zinman

Theater:The Drawer Boy—Toby Zinman

Theater:King Hedley II—David Anthony Fox

Books:Falling Through the Net: No-Collar samples the bitter aftertaste of the dot-com boom.—Maura Johnston

artspicks

Doug Varone and Dancers—Janet Anderson

Trapeta B. Mayson—Ainé Ardron-Doley

The Flaming Idiots—Deni Kasrel

Group Motion Inside Dance Workshop—Deni Kasrel

On The Edge Of Your Seat: Popular Theatre and Film in Early Twentieth-Century American Art—A.D. Amorosi

Martin Gilbert—Elisa Ludwig

movies

Shhhh: The Quiet American muffles its politics.—Sam Adams

The Art of War: Max imagines Hitler as an artist gone awry.—Cindy Fuchs

Screen Picks—Sam Adams

music

The Core: The Apples in Stereo find their seeds.—A.D. Amorosi

Review: Relache Ensemble—Peter Burwasser

Suite Spot—Peter Burwasser on Classical

DJ Nights—Sean O'Neal

Beat Box—Ainé Ardron-Doley

musicpicks

Greg Tardy—Kyle Parker

Napalm Death—Paul Burress

Devendra Banhart—Sam Adams

The Cleveland Orchestra—Lou Camp

J.T. Donaldson—Sean O’Neal

The Used—Andrew Parks

Butch Walker—Maura Johnston

Hip Hop Hoodios—M.J. Fine

naked city

Forever in Blue Jeans: Denim gets a makeover at Center City's newest pricey nightspot.—A.D. Amorosi

Hot Chocolates: The 10 best chocolate things in Philadelphia.—Francine Maroukian

Six American Chocolate Classics

Icepack—A.D. Amorosi

mixpicks

Polite Madness—Patrick Rapa

Monsters, Ink—John Vettese

On The Money—Ainé Ardron-Doley

Change Is Good—A.D. Amorosi

food

Par For The Course: The Wooden Iron is like a country club without the greens (unless you count the salad).—Maxine Keyser

offthemenu—Frank Lewis