March 13-19, 2003	[2003 issue index]
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Cable Excess A channel-flipping journey through Philadelphia’:s vast TV wonderland. by Debra Auspitz, Lori Hill and Patrick Rapa

news

Too Legit to Quit: Billy Ciancaglini, budding lawyer and a relative of mobsters, is fighting hard to make good.—Deborah Bolling

Women In Black: No Iraq Attack: Local women plan post-war civil disobedience.—Daniel Brook

Petitions Filed -- No Fatalities—Daryl Gale

Independently Wealthy: Philly’s quirkiest newspaper may not make a lot of money, but it is rich in quality.—Deborah Bolling

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

columns:

Political Notebook:Bleu Haze—Mary F. Patel

Cityspace:High Hopes: The design for One Pennsylvania Plaza is a blueprint for excellence.—Harris M. Steinberg

Cityspace:Jacobs' Ladder—Daniel Brook

opinion

Pretzel Logic by Howard Altman
Whistles Blowing

Loose Canon by Bruce Schimmel
How Many Should Die?

Slant by Evert Eden
Forty Answers

Letters to the Editor: by the readers

arts

Model Image: The fragmented personae of Veruschka.—Robin Rice

Books:The Game Is Ova: Heredity fashions an engaging tale from the ethics of reproductive science.—Justin Bauer

Theater:The Crucible—Toby Zinman

Theater:The Fever—Toby Zinman

Theater:Q&A: Sebastian Bach of Jesus Christ, Superstar—Interview by A.D. Amorosi

Opera:Cosi Fan Tutte—Lou Camp

artspicks

Tere O'Connor Dance—Janet Anderson

Shut Up and Dance 11—A.D. Amorosi

Macbeth—David Shengold

Line Dance—Deni Kasrel

Monsters, Mickey and Mozart—Juliet Fletcher

movies

Wide Open Spaces: Frederick Wiseman’s documentaries give reality time to breathe.—Sam Adams

Web Pierce: Spider delves into a madman’s mind, but leaves the door open a crack.—Sam Adams

Interview: David Cronenberg—S.A

Backwards Thinking: Irréversible’s reverse philosophy undoes the logic of vengeance.—Cindy Fuchs

Screen Picks—Sam Adams

music

Playing the Joker: Deirdre Flint talks shop and loses her religion.—M.J. Fine

The Sound and The Fury: Matt Pond is naughty by nature (not ’cause he hates ya).—Patrick Rapa

The Beatmaster: Isn’t it about time King Britt made a hip-hop album?—A.D. Amorosi

Beat Box—Ainé Ardron-Doley

DJ Nights—Sean O'Neal

musicpicks

The BellRays—Sam Adams

Uri Caine's Goldberg Variations—Kyle Parker

20 Miles—Paul Burress

Alô Brasil—Mary Armstrong

Rainer Maria/ Mates of State—Patrick Rapa

naked city

Sara Spills Some Beans: How to cook with a dirty old Frenchman and other secrets from TV food star Sara Moulton.—Interview by Marc Kravitz

firstlook: Conventional wisdom states,—A.D. Amorosi

Icepack—A.D. Amorosi

mixpicks

Worlds Intertwined: Etruscans, Greeks and Romans—Brian White

Suck My Treyf Gender—Sara Marcus

food

Who's Cooking?: A guide to the tastiest prospects in this year’s edition of The Book and the Cook.—Maxine Keyser

offthemenu—Brian White