September 30-October 6, 2004	[2004 issue index]
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Turning Lives Inside Out Temple professor Lori Pompa is a free woman, but she spends as much time in jail as she does outside. Why does she do it and why are others following? by Caroline Tiger

news

Run Against the Machine: A Penn grad faces big hurdles in his quest to unseat Bob Brady.—Trey Popp

Take a Stand—Jonas Raab

Crime Scene Intensification: Fairmount residents say the violence continues.—Dan Keashen

Monstrous Claims: Is Philly's job market rallying?—Brian Howard

Communication Breakdown: SEPTA veers into a potential $56 million trolley boondoggle.—Amy L. Webb

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

columns:

Political Notebook:Political Notebook—Mary F. Patel

Cityspace:Cyber Cities: Philadelphia ushers in a new kind of infrastructure.—Amy L. Webb

Cityspace:Ed's Good Fight—Jonas Raab

opinion

Loose Canon by Bruce Schimmel
Registration Inundation

Slant by Trish Boppert
Saving Grace

Letters to the Editor: by the readers

special section

arts

Hanging Around: Sculptor Edward Raffel and Ashley Gallery stay the course to pleasing effect in Northern Liberties.—Susan Hagen

Theater:Moving On Up—Lori Hill

Theater:Murder, He Wrote—Toby Zinman

Theater:Joyful Noises—Toby Zinman

artspicks

Love and Marriage—John Freeman

Dirty Dancing—Deni Kasrel

Wall to Wall—Lori Hill

Song And Dance Girl—David Anthony Fox

movies

Before the Revolution: The Motorcycle Diaries' complex, reverential portrait of the young Che Guevara.—Cindy Fuchs

The Power of Positive Swindling: How The Yes Men tricked Bush and the WTO into telling the truth.—Sam Adams

Screen Picks—Sam Adams

music

Romance of the Century: Dead Moon makes love in stereo and music in mono.—Brian Howard

soundadvice—Mary Armstrong, Deesha Dyer, M.J. Fine and John Vettese

John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats—Interview by Patrick Rapa

The Orchestra Is Striking—Peter Burwasser

Real World: WXPN only broadcasts from the same place World Café Live puts on shows. Why's everybody think the two are more than just friends?—A.D. Amorosi

DJ Nights

musicpicks

Blackrock—Deesha Dyer

Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra—Peter Burwasser

Morrissey—Lori Hill

Bloc Party—Maura Johnston

Okayplayer Sundays—Deesha Dyer

naked city

Etch-A-Mess: Getting tough on acid taggers.—Dan Kaplan

fineprint: Less words, more story.—A.D. Amorosi, Cory Frolik and Jonas Raab

How They'll Lose—Brian Hickey

Icepack—A.D. Amorosi

mixpicks

Moveable Fight—Juliet Fletcher

Market Growth—Juliet Fletcher

Dead Space—Tami Fertig

food

Morimoto and Moi: TV's Iron Chef passes a major culinary milestone in the service of a Philadelphia patron.—Bruce Schimmel

offthemenu—Juliet Fletcher