March 17-23, 2005	[2005 issue index]
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		100% More Pulp! At last: the winners of City Paper's 19th Annual Fiction Contest Intro by Duane Swierczynski Winner: Dane's Geld A Fairy Tale By David J. Snyder Devil's in the Details Mystery By Craig McDonald The Reluctancy of Bria Romance By Shari Lee Goode
also: Book Quarterly All-Fiction Special! Recent cover stories...

news

Green Genes: Not Irish? Here's how to talk a good game today.—Mike Newall

Speed Bump: A Traffic Court judge cries foul over a promotion snub.—Brian Hickey

Big Bother: Press coverage of new Fairmount Park cameras irks the cops.—Doron Taussig

Zack of a New Trade: The long-time Daily News editor becomes a different kind of watchdog.—Doron Taussig

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

columns:

Political Notebook:Sharif for Candidate At-Large—Mary F. Patel

opinion

Loose Canon by Bruce Schimmel
High-Rise Smackdown

Slant by Nancy French
Life in the Big City

Letters to the Editor: by the readers

special section

arts

Exquisite Corpus: Slicing up eyeballs, lobsters and the rest of Dali's oeuvre.—Susan Hagen and Robin Rice

Alphabet City—Harriette Behringer

Theater:Out of the Park—Toby Zinman

artspicks

Life Cycle—Steve Cohen

Camera Obscura—John Vettese

The Girl Who Could Fly—David Anthony Fox

Cruz Control—Deni Kasrel

Tragic Kingdom—Sam Adams

movies

Inverted Drama: The Upside of Anger gets it backwards.—Cindy Fuchs

April Reign: Raoul Peck's shattering docudrama outstrips Hotel Rwanda's pat catharsis.—Sam Adams

Screen Picks—Sam Adams

music

Irish Rovers: Wandering Irish experimentalists Solas toast their hometown on St. Patrick's Day.—Mary Armstrong

suitespot: Peter Burwasser on classical—Peter Burwasser

Aligning the Planets: The remarkable rebirths of Henry Grimes and Marshall Allen.—Shaun Brady

It's a Quintet: Mark Christman on Ars Nova's first five years of nomadic jazz.—Shaun Brady

DJ Nights—Sean O'Neal

musicpicks

Susie Suh—Nicole Pensiero

Slint—Brian Howard

Mack Dubb Mix Tape Release Party—Deesha Dyer

naked city

Viva Bam Bam: The naked truth with WYSP jock and Cheerleaders host Jacky Bam Bam.—A.D. Amorosi

Media Madness—J.F. Pirro

Fun, Like a Face Kick—Mike Newall

Icepack—A.D. Amorosi

mixpicks

Your Pain, Fashion's Gain—A.D. Amorosi

'Pack Mentality—Tami Fertig

Skeptics and Antiseptics—Nick Norlen

food

Bianca Slate: Finally, a Filoni production with less frou-frou.—Maxine Keyser

The Pope of Beers—Brian Howard