June 30-July 6, 2005	[2005 issue index]
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Tour de Forced Ever wonder what tourists see when they come to visit historic Philadelphia? So did we. also: the bell curve Philadelphia History Edition Hostel Takeover Mike Newall goes where Old City tourists crash on the cheap: Bank Street.

news

Home Bound: Two unorthodox homeless programs make for unusual allies.—Doron Taussig

Park Placement: The Schuylkill River Skatepark Project grinds forward.—Brian Howard

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

columns:

Political Notebook:How to Win Friends—Mary F. Patel

Cityspace:2000 Green Street: What's the deal with the Latin-style homes in a sea of Fairmount brownstones?—Doron Taussig

Cityspace:Parallel Universe Parking—Sara Satullo

opinion

Loose Canon by Bruce Schimmel
The Stalled Mall

Slant by Charles Bischof
Live8 Is Not Enough

Letters to the Editor: by the readers

special section

arts

first friday focus—Lori Hill

artspicks

Poets, Verses, Khyber—Deesha Dyer

Camera Camouflage—A.D. Amorosi

We Are Family—Karen Williams

In the Bedroom—Toby Zinman

movies

End Times Two: This is the way the world ends -- or is this?—Sam Adams

Love on the Run: A rich girl falls for a Moroccan bank robber, but is it l'amour fou or merely fascination?—Cindy Fuchs

Screen Picks—Sam Adams

music

Shocked Tactics: Why Michelle Shocked only has three new albums.—M.J. Fine

Gotta Keep Moving: Kendall Roark's 3onTuesday is a low-key listening night for the ADD set.—Patrick Rapa

The Live8 Drinking Game: Not much explanation needed here. If we're gonna make it out of this thing alive, we're all gonna need to get good and loaded. Here's the plan:

blistered in the sun: Notes from the (Sounds of the) Underground—Jesse Delaney

DJ Nights—Sean O'Neal

musicpicks

Digable Planets/ J-Live—John Vettese

SlaskiFest8—Brian Howard

Freeway—Deesha Dyer

naked city

Take a Gander: The local hands behind, and up in, kids' DVD star Miles The Goose.—A.D. Amorosi

Pound for Pounding: Is Hopkins still the toughest SOB out there?—Brian Hickey

Running Numbers—Nick Norlen

The Verdict Is In—Doron Taussig

CNN Requiem: The bullies finally won.—Joey Sweeney

Icepack—A.D. Amorosi

mixpicks

Taken By Fourth—Tami Fertig

food

Turn off the Tapas: Lula is weighed down by hyperbole and too-too-full plates.—Elisa Ludwig

Hometown Cooking—A.D. Amorosi