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Holiday Dining & Entertainment Guide 2005 Tidings of Comfort and Joy by Brian Howard

news

Show of Force: Will the Point Breeze police crackdown make a difference?—Doron Taussig

Gone With the Wind: Thieves use the city's library to bolster their DVD collections.—Jenna Portnoy

Map Quest: A group wants a stretch of Diamond Street renamed after the Rev. Paul Washington.—Jenna Portnoy

Two Minutes With...The American Cancer Society—Katie Young

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

columns:

Political Notebook:Judge Knot—Mary F. Patel

Cityspace:Crass Transit: Just because SEPTA runs like crap doesn't mean it has to look like crap.—Sandy Smith

Cityspace:To Market, to Market—Katie Young

opinion

Loose Canon by Bruce Schimmel
The Ring of Fear

Slant by David Faris
Bolt Action

Letters to the Editor: by the readers

special section

arts

Shall We Dance?: Two fans treat an underappreciated dance legend to her own exhibit.—Janet Anderson

Q&A: David Barquist—Interview by Susan Hagen

Theater:Stars Misaligned—Toby Zinman

Theater:Jurassic Jingles—David Anthony Fox

artspicks

Language of Love—David Shengold

Self-Evident—Deni Kasrel

Object Lessons—Lori Hill

Fish, Not Wales—A.D. Amorosi

movies

Home Front: Syriana's geopolitical tangles boil down to father-son issues.—Cindy Fuchs

Screen Picks—Sam Adams

music

About A Boy: The twists, turns and tall tales of Ramona Côrdova.—A.D. Amorosi

A Better Version?: Fiona Apple's Extraordinary Machine was reimagined and rebuilt. But was it progress?—John Vettese

Remembering Geoff Doring—Patrick Rapa

One Track Mind—Brian Howard

DJ Nights—Sean O'Neal

musicpicks

Roads Less Traveled—Peter Burwasser

Lyfe Jennings—Deesha Dyer

Brandi Carlile—Nicole Pensiero

Trio Mediaeval—Peter Burwasser

Sepia Trio—Shaun Brady

naked city

Pump and Grind: Inside a local party where men can go head over heels for, um, feet.—Ashlea Halpern

Running Numbers—Nick Norlen

Are We Cool?—A.D. Amorosi

Icepack—A.D. Amorosi

mixpicks

Call Boy: Confessions of a Phone-Sex Rookie—Drew Lazor

Live, Radical and Totally Queer—Kelly White

Haute Potato—Tami Fertig

food

Auld Lang Wine: Some holiday drinks should be forgot. Our wine columnist offers alternate cups o' kindness.—Peter Burwasser

Can You Stomach It?—Alex Richmond

Feeding Frenzy—Drew Lazor

What's Cooking—Pat Hogan

Top 5 Schmancy Spins on Junk Food—Danny Adler