September 8-14, 2005	[2005 issue index]
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Michael Nutter Is Not As Boring As You Think Which is a good thing, considering he wants to be your next mayor. by Jenna Portnoy

news

Holy Steamroller: A North Philly woman fights plans to demolish her home for a "faith based" school.—Lee Norsworthy

Fresh Meet: America's future is wide-eyed, and hungover, at Penn's move-in day.—Mike Newall and Doron Taussig

Fallen Soldiers—Brian Hickey

Was It Worth It?—Christopher Schwartz

Penn's Landing a Local Mob Movie?: As George Martorano yearns to help Katrina's victims, Sean's little bro mulls a film.—Brendan McGarvey

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

columns:

Political Notebook:Spongebob Mayorpants?—Mary F. Patel

Cityspace:1800 Tusculum St.: Rocky Balboa slept here -- and neighbors are still reeling from the punches.—Duane Swierczynski

opinion

Loose Canon by Bruce Schimmel
Cute Ad, Stupid Move

Slant by Trey Popp
Shock and Awe in the Big Easy

Letters to the Editor: by the readers

special section

arts

Hello, Dollars!—David Anthony Fox

artsquicks—Lori Hill

Theater:Space Camp—David Anthony Fox

Theater:Dead Zone—Toby Zinman

Theater:No One's There—Toby Zinman

artspicks

Flash Photography—Lori Hill

A Good Hunch—Steve Cohen

Up on the Roof—Lori Hill

movies

Undone: An Unfinished Life lets the seams show.—Cindy Fuchs

Little Things Mean a Lot: A fine-edged Murakami adaptation that's a minor gem.—Sam Adams

Screen Picks—Sam Adams

music

Sherman's March: West Philly musicians get mobilized with CDs, shows and a sense of community.—M.J. Fine

Calm Down: Feist flips the format and finds her voice.—M.J. Fine

And the Winner Is...: After years of writing songs across state lines, Windsor for the Derby finally settles down in Philadelphia.—Andrew Parks

Blogs Have More Fun

DJ Nights—Sean O'Neal

musicpicks

Seu Jorge—A.D. Amorosi

Philadelphia Ceili Group Festival—Mary Armstrong

The Dandy Warhols—M.J. Fine

Sigur Rós—Nicole Pensiero

Lesley Gore—M.J. Fine

naked city

Mercy Mission: Can Jim Wallis save God from the Right?—Helen H. Thompson

how they'll lose: Week One at Atlanta—Brian Hickey

Running Numbers—Nick Norlen

Blog Progs: Eavesdropping on the poli-blog con.—Nick Norlen

Starr Blazer—Brian Howard

We Are Reaching a New Low: FX's Over There: Do we have to?—Joey Sweeney

Icepack—A.D. Amorosi

mixpicks

Speed Freaks and Joyriders—Callye Morrissey

One Nation Under God?—A.D. Amorosi

Get in the Ring—Callye Morrissey

food

Nesting Instinct: Nido's proprietors make a Neopolitan home in South Philly.—Maxine Keyser

off the menu—Carolyn Wyman

what's cooking—Pat Hogan

Top 5 Imitation Meat Plates (No Veggie Burgers Allowed)—Andrew Parks

feeding frenzy—Drew Lazor