April 7-13, 2005	[2005 issue index]
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Crawling From the Wreckage From Serbia to Rwanda to Great Britain, surviving war is only the beginning. by Sam Adams

news

Family Reunion: A local human-trafficking victim will soon rescue her parents from Vietnam.—Helen i-lin Hwang

Life Stories: An anti-abortion feminist takes her case to Penn.—Hannah Yi

Divine Intervention: A North Philly landmark is up for sale.—Mike Newall

Outbreaking News: Reported hepatitis C cases on the rise in homeless community.—Doron Taussig

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

columns:

Political Notebook:Barney Rabble—Mary F. Patel

Cityspace:Milking It: Is the old Harbisons Dairies milk bottle a piece of "commercial archaeology," or just a sky-high lump of rust?—Kate Salute

Cityspace:Square Pegged—Doron Taussig

opinion

Loose Canon by Bruce Schimmel
Recipe for Insanity

Slant by Nick Norlen
Schoolhouse Glock

Letters to the Editor: by the readers

special section

arts

Pattern Recognition: Four artists plus one curator equals The New Plaid.—Robin Rice

Book Quicks:Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood—Andrew Milner

Theater:Foul Territory—David Anthony Fox

Theater:Stand-Up Comedies—Toby Zinman

artspicks

Moved by History—Deni Kasrel

Squeeze Play—Duane Swierczynski

Underground Ink—John Vettese

Dishing It Out—A.D. Amorosi

Glassy Couture—Deni Kasrel

Spoken Like a True Poet—Natalie Hope McDonald

movies

Blown Apart: Monsieur N. deconstructs Napoleon's last days.—Cindy Fuchs

Up the Middle: Fever Pitch turns a hanging curve into a meatball.—Cindy Fuchs

Screen Picks—Sam Adams

music

Cross-Pollination: Tori Amos gets organized.—M.J. Fine

soundadvice

local cd reviews

Four-Handed Complement—Peter Burwasser

DJ Nights—Sean O'Neal

musicpicks

Shivkumar Sharma—Mary Armstrong

Eluvium—John Vettese

Ana Egge—M.J. Fine

Rated Rookies—Peter Burwasser

John Tchicai Trio—Shaun Brady

naked city

Big N'yuks: Inside one man's Stooges shrine.—J.F. Pirro

It's Just Some Weed—Cory Frolik

Running Numbers—Nick Norlen

Bad Idea Factory: Ethnic Name Cleansing—Carolyn Wyman

You Can't Do That On Television—Joey Sweeney

Icepack—A.D. Amorosi

mixpicks

Charmed—Patrick Rapa

Vision Quest—Deesha Dyer

Double-Cherry Sunday—Juliet Fletcher

food

Meat Markets: At four new purveyors of pork, beef or barbecue, dinner comes in any color as long as it's red.—A.D. Amorosi

offthemenu—Juliet Fletcher