November 27-December 3, 2003 |
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A Special EducationOne charter school's effort to beat the odds. by Amy L. Webb |
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news
Joey Merlino Predicts a Big Victory: Visiting day with the former mob boss brings hints of a "bombshell."—Brendan McGarvey
Chicken Torture: An animal rights group takes on a local company.—Amy L. Webb
No Taxation Without Recommendation: What will come of the Tax Reform Commission's report now?—Daryl Gale
Gale Warning: Seeing Council Through Unjaded Eyes—Daryl Gale
Not Dropped Yet: City to decide fate of controversial pension plan.—Ralph Cipriano
Fineprint: Less words, more story.—Peter Woodall
The Bell Curve: City Paper's weekly gauge of Philly's Quality of Life
columns:
Political Notebook:Political Notebook—Mary F. Patel
Cityspace:Killing the Golden Goose: Urban uniqueness must be preserved.—Mitchell Gordon
Cityspace:Saving the Sameric—Amy L. Webb
opinion
Pretzel Logic by Howard Altman
Bones of ContentionLoose Canon by Bruce Schimmel
Chatty Iraqi CabbieSlant by Jon Stein
Thumbs DownSlant by Ed Schwartz
Thumbs UpLetters to the Editor: by the readers
arts
Drawing on Experience: From an illustrious past, the Philadelphia Sketch Club emerges into a new, community-minded future.—Lori Hill
Artquicks: More stuff going on this week...
Dance:From the Horse's Mouth—Deni Kasrel
Theater:For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again—Toby Zinman
artspicks
Edmund White—Gary M. Kramer
Company —Tricia Ferdinand
August Wilson—Keegan O'Connor
Kenneth Cole—A.D. Amorosi
Female Funny Fest—Debra Auspitz
movies
The Forest for the Trees: The Missing picks up interesting trails, but loses its way.—Cindy Fuchs
Ho Ho Hack: Terry Zwigoff coughs up Bad Santa.—Sam Adams
music
Test of Time: Nico said there'd be "These Days."—Michael Pelusi
Soundadvice: Get Out.
Beat Box—Ainé Ardron-Doley
DJ Nights—Sean O'Neal
musicpicks
The Philadelphia Orchestra—Peter Burwasser
Robbie Rivera—Sean O'Neal
Electric Mingus Project—Kyle Parker
Johnny Cunningham—Mary Armstrong
Sugar Town—Patrick Rapa
naked city
Radical Body Politics: Offensive T-shirts, and the auto-pornographer who creates them.—Bruce Schimmel
Icepack—A.D. Amorosi
mixpicks
6ABC/Boscov's Thanksgiving Day Parade—Alex Koppelman
Scriptwriting for Documentary—Keegan O'Connor
Peddler's Village Gingerbread House Display—Alex Koppelman
food
Q Lights! Q Action!: Sharpen your elbows and get in line -- Qdoba Mexican Grill has come to town.—Amy L. Webb
Geechee Girl Rice Café—Elisa Ludwig

