August 19-25, 2004	[2004 issue index]
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Game, Set, Life On the old site of a notorious housing project, kids from North Philadelphia are preparing for the future by playing tennis. by Deborah Bolling

news

Wage Rage: A city-owned nursing home owes $123,000 in back wages to poor residents who provided cheap labor.—Brian Hickey

Stop-Work Order: A landscaper's efforts to help a mother commemorate her slain child with a park are put on hold.—Deborah Bolling

A Pox on Their House: The Vietnamese imperial family says a local masseur who claims lineage is lying.—Helen i-lin Hwang

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

columns:

Political Notebook:Political Notebook—Mary F. Patel

Cityspace:Design for Dummies: The cycle of urban decay starts with poor planning.—Steve Conn

Cityspace:Big Oil as Conservationists?—Tasha Kates

opinion

Loose Canon by Bruce Schimmel
George Is a Zealot

Slant by Amy L. Webb
Missing the Guv's Point

Letters to the Editor: by the readers

special section

arts

Words and Guitars: Soaking up the summer's hits (and misses) on the music-book shelves.—A.D. Amorosi

Dance:Mental Wealth—Janet Anderson

Theater:The Merry Wives of Windsor—Toby Zinman

artspicks

Two Times A Lady—Natalie Hope McDonald

Good Sports—Deni Kasrel

The Man and the Myths—Joel Tannenbaum

Wilde at Heart—Toby Zinman

Strangely Familiar—Andrew Parks

movies

Scattershot: She Hate Me is most interesting when it makes the least sense.—Sam Adams

Kicking Against the Chicks: Spike Lee's got a point to make, and if he offends lesbians, so be it.—Sam Adams

Across the Great Divide: In a futuristic society, borders and boundaries are tougher to cross.—Cindy Fuchs

Screen Picks—Sam Adams

music

Brand New: Brand Nubian revives its hardcore consciousness for a new (Bush) era.—A.D. Amorosi

soundadvice—A.D. Amorosi, Andrew Parks and Patrick Rapa

hearhere: All of Your Failures Are Training Grounds.—Patrick Rapa

DJ Nights—Sean O'Neal

musicpicks

Sweet Harmony Traveling Revue—Sam Adams

Bad Wizard—A.D. Amorosi

El Boxeo—M.J. Fine

Mascott—Patrick Rapa

Greek/Rummage—Deesha Dyer

naked city

A Pill for Your Problems: Can Prozac Man save the day?—Brian Howard

fineprint: Less words, more story.—Brian Hickey

Web site of the week—Brian Howard

Icepack—A.D. Amorosi

mixpicks

Set Schedule—A.D. Amorosi

Talking Your Way Out—Juliet Fletcher

Bump In the Night—Tami Fertig

food

Pick Your Battles: Can one self-serve lunch buffet ever rise to gourmet status? Should it bother?—Juliet Fletcher

This Way, Jose—Joel Tannenbaum