January 13-19, 2005	[2005 issue index]
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Left Behind A rare look inside North Broad's Divine Lorraine, a hotel with a heavenly past on the cusp of (commercial) resurrection. by Mike Newall

news

Fit for a King?: Why Philly doesn't have a street named after Martin Luther King Jr.—Doron Taussig

Cries for Help: Local Sri Lankans are working to help the relief effort in their homeland.—Dan Keashen

Moving On?: Campaign season reformers struggle to find postelection direction.—Jonas Raab

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

columns:

Political Notebook:Swearing Ins and Signing Offs—Mary F. Patel

Cityspace:600 Los Angeles Ave.: Hooray for Hollywood, Pa. — a little bit of California sunshine in the gray Northeast.—Tom Namako

Cityspace:H.O.M.E. Growin'—Sue Sierra

opinion

Loose Canon by Bruce Schimmel
It's Alive!

Slant by Steve Conn
What Would Alfred Do?

Slant by Duane Swierczynski
Sacred and Profane

Letters to the Editor: by the readers

special section

arts

Free Verse: PennSound makes digital poems as available -- and as free -- as a top 10 single.—Andrew Parks

A Record Low—David Anthony Fox

artspicks

Stick a Pork in It—Toby Zinman

Remembering the Lost—John Vettese

Filling the Void—David Anthony Fox

King and the Queen—Deesha Dyer

movies

Forest for the Trees: In The Woodsman, Kevin Bacon's paroled molester symptomizes larger ills.—Cindy Fuchs

Synergize This: In Good Company would be more likeable if its characters weren't.—Sam Adams

Screen Picks—Sam Adams

music

Music Is a Passport: An Irish piper of Traveller descent, Paddy Keenan builds on tradition with his big bag of tricks.—Mary Armstrong

soundadvice

DJ Nights—Sean O'Neal

musicpicks

Jean Grae—M.J. Fine

Philomel—Peter Burwasser

Scissor Sisters—Lori Hill

Bob Dorough—Shaun Brady

Drop the Lime—Andrew Parks

naked city

Scare the Pooh Out of You—Cory Frolik

Six Feet Under: A look back at the top five buried news stories of 2004.—Shaun Brady

how they'll lose: NFC Divisional Round vs. Minnesota—Brian Hickey

Icepack—A.D. Amorosi

mixpicks

Hand Me the Mic—Tami Fertig

The Young and the Tireless—Steve Cohen

food

No Tea, Just Simplicity: Leaving behind its formal tearoom past, Marigold Kitchen steeps itself in the earthy BYOB trend.—Maxine Keyser

Full Fare—Elisa Ludwig