October 30-November 5, 2003	[2003 issue index]
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CP Choice 2003 Introduction: "Keep your eyes and ears open. "That's what we tell our staffers and contributors every winter. Eat great food! Drink decadent drinks! Avoid trendy traps!: Our choices in the world of food and drink. Good Morning: Breakfast, brunch, whatever you call your morning- to late-morning meal, is (health-wise) the most important and (trend-wise) the most social meal of the day.

Drink Up: Everyone thinks the bar around the corner from his or her apartment is the "best neighborhood pub." Blech!: Around this place, where everybody loves their food fresh and free, something's amiss when a conference-table spread goes untouched. Cheesy Choices: Guess all of the advertising by the dairy industry is getting to us. We had a number of milk-product awards to dole out this year. DJs, bands, actors, dancers, TV and more: Our raves and rants on the year in arts and entertainment. Everything we love and hate about life in the big city. Hall of Shame: Every year, CP asks its staffers and contributors to suggest "best" and "worst" awards for this issue. Ice Storm: In this abbreviated anti-everything rant, your favorite mean-ass gossip reduces everything he's hated -- so far -- about the year, to a simple, sour list.

news

Big Visions, Too Little Foresight: NTI is moving along ...slowly.—Amy L. Webb

Fineprint: Less words, more story.—April Brown

Rave Reviews for Safer Streets—Daryl Gale

Welcome to Katzland: Street's blight initiatives leave some in the Northeast feeling left out.—Amy L. Webb

Election Forecast—Laina Yanni Hill

Are You Ready for Some Football?

Gale Warning: Wake Me When It's Over—Daryl Gale

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

columns:

Political Notebook:Katz to Street: Your Days of Cronyism are Over—Mary F. Patel

Cityspace:Wharf Rat: Keep Penn's Landing in the public realm.—Harris Steinberg

Cityspace:Plan on the Plaza—Amy L. Webb

opinion

Pretzel Logic by Howard Altman
What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been

Loose Canon by Bruce Schimmel
Chain Public Radio

Slant by Howard Altman
John Street for Mayor

Letters to the Editor: by the readers

arts

Right Here, Right Now: Eddie Izzard is a man of many moments.—Sam Adams

Artsbeat—Debra Auspitz

Artsquicks: More stuff going on this week...

Theater:Retreat from New York: Forget Moscow, current New York theater is less than enchanting -- but there's hope on the horizon.—Toby Zinman

Theater:Sounding Off: Musicals in New York range from the huggable to the shruggable.—David Anthony Fox

Theater:The Fantasticks—Toby Zinman

Books:War Journals: Three writers tackle the Iraq problem from the frontlines.—Joel Tannenbaum

Book Quicks:Triangle: The Fire That Changed America—Andrew Milner

artspicks

Roko Kawai and Sachiyo Ito—Deni Kasrel

Hold Please—Keegan O'Connor

Hedwig and the Angry Inch—Joel Tannenbaum

Pete Dexter—A.D. Amorosi

Joe Conason—Sam Adams

movies

Essential Logic: Or, The Human Stain: Can white men play the blacks?—Sam Adams

Screen Picks—Sam Adams

music

Welcome Back: Longtime Philly rockers get another shot at the big leagues in Laguardia.—A.D. Amorosi

Sound Advice: Get Out.

suitespot—Peter Burwasser on Classical

Crouching Cat, Hidden Power—M.J. Fine

Unforgiven—Brian Hickey

The Walkmen: Wake-Up Bomb—John Vettese

Beat Box—Ainé Ardron-Doley

DJ Nights—Sean O'Neal

musicpicks

DJ Dexter—Sean O'Neal

Pat Metheny Solo & Trio—Kyle Parker

Po' Girl—M.J. Fine

Junior Senior—Maura Johnston

naked city

Ghoulies, Mutant Turtles and a Voodoo Doll: Freaks and geeks united? It must be Halloween. —Chris Newborg

Icepack—A.D. Amorosi

mixpicks

"Doing Justice: The Path of Peace" with Oscar Arias Sanchez—Keegan O'Connor

Balls and Chains—Juliet Fletcher

Adrienne Vittadini—A.D. Amorosi

food

Choosing Sides: The Tenth Street Pour House straddles the line between brunch nook and Cajun cookout.—Patrick Rapa

Brisket Pace—Elisa Ludwig