June 12-18, 2003	[2003 issue index]
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Summer Fun Issue '03 Introduction Make Way For Ducklings The newest, oddest way to tour Philly. Small Ball A whole new meaning to fantasy baseball. Painting Al Fresco A summer crash course in watercolors. Connecting Flight A five-hour journey ends a century of separation. Salon Selective Comfort hair, perfect tans and other lessons learned during a day of summer beauty. Swim Fan An underwater wonderland and fearsome creatures of the deep collide in a scuba-diving adventure at the aquarium. Sun and the Single Girl How to get a perfect nude tan.

Road Rage A fantasy on wheels almost makes the grade. Up The Creek Kayaking is a prehistoric thrill. The Noise of Summer Circle the shows you want to go to Endless Summer CP’s calendar of arts events will keep you busy for the next three months. Recent cover stories...

news

Baby Blues: A daycare center’s closing leaves parents wondering what to do next.—Deborah Bolling

Gale Warning: Jannie For Prez?—Daryl Gale

Eat At Home: A group of advocates is urging Philadelphians to buy their food from local farmers who use humane, sustainable farm practices.—Jenn Carbin

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

columns:

Political Notebook:The New Prohibition—Mary F. Patel

Cityspace:Bell's Hell: The new home of the world’s most famous gong is a blow to liberty.—John Andrew Gallery

Cityspace:Free the Mall! Close the Mall!—Daniel Brook

opinion

Pretzel Logic by Howard Altman
AAN One More Thing

Loose Canon by Bruce Schimmel
Jeremy Nowak: Money Organizer

Slant by Doug Patton
Hill Of Beans

Letters to the Editor: by the readers

arts

Worlds of Wonder: “Cabinets of Curiosities” is a magical journey through time and spaces.—Robin Rice

20/20 Vision: Snyderman Gallery celebrates 20 years in the furniture business.—Lori Hill

Theater:Frankie Avalon—Interview by A.D. Amorosi

Theater:A Picasso—David Anthony Fox

Theater:BigSmorgasbord WunderWerk—David Anthony Fox

Books:Caren Lissner—Nancy Armstrong

artspicks

“A Night at the Casbah”—Lori Hill

Baseball panel discussion—Andrew Milner

Louis Faurer: A Photographic Retrospective—John Vettese

Sherman Alexie—John Freeman

Bloomsday Celebration—Lori Hill

movies

Deadly Passions: Guy Maddin on his sensual, threatening Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary.—Sam Adams

Bad Faith: The shoddy Capturing the Friedmans betrays its already beleaguered subjects.—Sam Adams

Under Arrest: Ron Shelton’s anticop movie cop movie.—Cindy Fuchs

Screen Picks—Sam Adams

music

In iPod He Trusts: DJ Botany 500 inserts his brain into a little white box and rents it out.—Patrick Rapa

Angelo Cho—Peter Burwasser

Beat Box—Ainé Ardron-Doley

The Gig—Nate Chinen on Jazz

DJ Nights—Sean O'Neal

musicpicks

Ed Harcourt—Andrew Parks

Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra—Peter Burwasser

Erin McKeown—Nancy Armstrong

Electric Six—Paul Burress

Tiësto—Sean O’Neal

Kathleen Edwards—Nicole Pensiero

Ted Leo/Pharmacists—Brian Howard

X—Sam Adams

naked city

Bubble Rap: The “King of Hot Tubs” shares some steamy tales.—Debra Auspitz

boxscore: Rating the week in TV.

Icepack—A.D. Amorosi

mixpicks

Zoobilee 2003—A.D. Amorosi

Ex-Exchange—Juliet Fletcher

Black Relationship Healing Retreat—Ainé Ardron-Doley

food

Better Late Than Never: Inclement weather has delayed the pick-your-own berry season.—Elisa Ludwig

offthemenu—Juliet Fletcher