September 23-29, 2004	[2004 issue index]
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Home Away From Home Documenting the growth of Philly's Latino Community along North Fifth Street. Photo Essay By Michael T. Regan

news

Trolley Follies: Letitia McLendon's tale makes the pregnant-chad fiasco look like a borefest.—Deborah Bolling

Stage Setter: Bush and Kerry can thank Philly for next week's debate.—Angelina Sciolla

Stew's Beef: Chaka Fattah's ultra-conservative opponent wants a debate.—Jonas Raab

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

columns:

Political Notebook:Political Notebook—Mary F. Patel

Cityspace:The New Urbanism: A conference will address fresh starts for old Philadelphia.—Sandy Sorlien

Cityspace:A Lodge Called Hope—Cory Frolik

opinion

Loose Canon by Bruce Schimmel
Sleeper Issue The upcoming election may be raging on millions of television sets but the race in Pennsylvania could be won, in part, with one-on-one chats about a sleeper issue—the environment.

Slant by J.J. Balaban
Still Up for Grabs

Letters to the Editor: by the readers

special section

arts

Days of Wine and Couplets: Magazine magnate and vintner Felix Dennis balances Maxim with 16th-century rhyme.—Andrew Parks

Peter Bogdanovich—Interview by Frank Halperin

Book Quicks:Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutants: The Looting of the News in a Time of Terror—Andrew Milner

Theater:Last of the Boys—Toby Zinman

Theater:The Miser—David Anthony Fox

Theater:Jeb and Dash—David Anthony Fox

Theater:The Big Bang—David Anthony Fox

Theater:The Underpants—Toby Zinman

artspicks

Spirited Discussion—A.D. Amorosi

New Divas (and Divos) on the Block—David Shengold

All-Star Game—David Anthony Fox

movies

Missing Links: In search of a theme at Toronto 2004.—Sam Adams

New Id In Town: Libido takes over suburbia in A Dirty Shame.—Cindy Fuchs

Screen Picks

music

One Moment in Time: The world's only Olympic DJ carries the torch for trance.—Sean O'Neal

soundadvice—Deesha Dyer, M.J. Fine, Nicole Pensiero, Patrick Rapa and John Vettese

The Tide Is High: Silvertide finally plays Show & Tell.—A.D. Amorosi

DJ Nights—Sean O'Neal

musicpicks

Incredible String Band/Espers—Sam Adams

Marc Broussard—Nicole Pensiero

Kaki King—John Vettese

Monica McIntyre—Patrick Rapa

Keane—Lori Hill

naked city

Cell Phone Tag: Can Dodgeball.com do for socialites what Friendster did for recluses?—Brian Hodges

fineprint: Less words, more story.—Cory Frolik

Here's the Kicker—Brian Howard

How They'll Lose: Week Three vs. Detroit—Brian Hickey

Icepack—A.D. Amorosi

mixpicks

Headline News—Frank Halperin

Going Deutsch—Tami Fertig

food

Higher Power: The hilltop Teikoku gives an overview of pan-Asian cuisine.—Maxine Keyser

offthemenu—Juliet Fletcher