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November 27-December 3, 2003

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A Special Education

One charter school's effort to beat the odds.

by Amy L. Webb
Photos by Michael T. Regan

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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 Contention

Loose Canon by Bruce Schimmel
Chatty Iraqi Cabbie

Slant by Jon Stein
Thumbs Down

Slant by Ed Schwartz
Thumbs Up

Letters 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

Screen Picks

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

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