December 4-10, 2003	[2003 issue index]
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EXCLUSIVE REPORT: NEIGHBORHOOD TRANSFORMATION INVESTIGATED

news

City Hall Capistrano: Starlings flock to Dilworth Plaza like clockwork.—Trish Boppert

Trevor's All Grown Up: Twenty years later, he's still looking out for the homeless.—Rob Gerth

Gale Warning—Daryl Gale

No More Pencils, Books?: The school district mulls its worst-case scenario.—Daryl Gale

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

columns:

Political Notebook:Political Notebook—Mary F. Patel

Cityspace:Futurama: Philadelphia should sell tomorrow as much as it sells yesterday.—Nora Barry

Cityspace:Philly Area Firsts: A Timeline of Media and Information Technology—Nora Barry

Cityspace:Asian Businesses Unite—Helen i-lin Hwang

opinion

Pretzel Logic by Howard Altman
Phil in the Blanks

Loose Canon by Bruce Schimmel
Savage Elf

Slant by Juliet Fletcher
This Time, It's Personal

Letters to the Editor: by the readers

arts

Objects of Affection: How to make browsing in art galleries an opportunity for giving.—Susan Hagen

Shopping List: A road map for holiday gallery-going.

artspicks

"Separate Tables"—Peter Burwasser

Fran Lebowitz—A.D. Amorosi

Virgil Marti—A.D. Amorosi

Swing Shift—Janet Anderson

Something Wonderful Right Away—Lori Hill

Renée Fleming—David Shengold

Off the Wall's 25th anniversary celebration—Jenn Carbin

"Ahead"—Deni Kasrel

movies

The Whole World is Watching: A hijacker captures the eyes of Brazil in Bus 174.—Sam Adams

Die By the Sword: For a movie about Japan, The Last Samurai sure looks like a Tom Cruise vehicle.—Cindy Fuchs

Screen Picks—Sam Adams

music

Technical Ecstasy: Microhouse maven Matthew Dear finds heaven in the dirty, secret side of techno.—A.D. Amorosi

Sound Advice: Get Out.

Captain 'Hook: Getting the spin from Tigerhook's Randall Jones.—Sean O'Neal

DJ Nights—Sean O'Neal

musicpicks

American String Quartet—Lou Camp

Iris DeMent—Sam Adams

Soul Position—A.D. Amorosi

Ryan Adams—A.D. Amorosi

Relâche—Peter Burwasser

naked city

Say, You Want Another Revolution?: A new karaoke video game puts pitch above perfection.

Icepack—A.D. Amorosi

mixpicks

Dickens Festival—Keegan O'Connor

Brendon Small, Jon Benjamin and Eugene Mirman—Maura Johnston

Pass the Mic! Tour—Ain Ardron-Doley

food

Month of Sundaes: With fresh fish and perfectly simple desserts, August's in the sun.—Elisa Ludwig

Hello in Many Languages—Jenn Carbin