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February 9–15, 2006	[2006 issue index]
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The Big Miedo
How rumors of an immigration sweep crippled city restaurants and scared local Mexicans into hiding.
by Doron Taussig

Culture Shock
This Week in A & E

A New City Paper Feature

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Cover Story: The Big Miedo How rumors of an immigration sweep crippled city restaurants and scared local Mexicans into hiding. —Doron Taussig
Slant: Editor's Letter:; Spare Change; Slant:; Let Them Have Nukes If Iran wants weapons of mass destruction so bad, who are we to stand in their way? —David Faris; Loose Canon:; Black Hate Radio —Bruce Schimmel; Feedback:; Letters to the Editor
Naked City: High Infidelity Why monogamy is soooo passe. —Meredith Lindemon; Web Site Of The Week —Brian Howard; Running Numbers —Nick Norlen; Bad Idea Factory Bad Manimals; Fine Print:; Dirty Calendar for Neighborhood Cleanup? —Meredith Lindemon; Icepack:; Icepack —A.D. Amorosi
News: Tax Burdened A University City cleanup group could soon seek neighborhood tithing. —Jenna Portnoy; No Loitering in the Hall —Doron Taussig; Was It Worth It? —Alexandra Zendrian; Two Minutes With...N.J. Weedman —Brian Hickey; Escorting Disaster New cocaine allegations surface in underaged call girl's death. —Brendan McGarvey; Philly Blunt:; 380 —Brian Hickey; Political Notebook:; Legal Opposition —Mary F. Patel; The Bell Curve:; City Paper's weekly gauge of Philly's Quality of Life
Culture Shock: This Week in A & E —Nick Cassway, Jonathan Houlon, Andrew Repasky McElhinney and Shelley Spector
Arts: Story in Song A new opera gets its libretto from Toni Morrison, but much of its vocal talent from Philly. —Peter Burwasser; Leaves of Absence Walt Whitman Arts Center won't celebrate Black History Month. Why should it? —Helen i-lin Hwang; Artpicks:; The Life of Bryan —Brian Howard; Those Were the Days —Alex Orgera; Lit Up —Deesha Dyer; Rare Find —Peter Burwasser; Last Chance Catch It Or Regret It —Elizabeth Thomas; Accidental Tourist Christina Dodd —Pat Hogan; Just Do It Help a Puppet Out —Ellen Minsavage; Dance:; How the Western Was Won —Janet Anderson; Theater:; Freedom Rising —David Anthony Fox; A Life at Sea —Mark Cofta; Home Fires —David Anthony Fox
Movies: Not Dead Yet The Western rides again, heading south of the border. —Cindy Fuchs; Slavery Is Freedom Lars von Trier on the liberating power of restrictions. —Sam Adams; Screen Picks:; Screen Picks —Sam Adams
Music: Detroit Jazz City? Pianist Geri Allen steps out of the shadows to rep her hometown. —Shaun Brady; Found in the Shuffle On Classical —Peter Burwasser; Under The Rock Life/Time/Original —Michael Pelusi; One Track Mind —A.D. Amorosi; soundadvice:; Get Out!!; Picks:; Espers —Sam Adams; Adrian Belew/School of Rock —Nicole Pensiero; Simon Rattle —Peter Burwasser; Cuong Vu Trio —Shaun Brady; Wu-Tang Clan —A.D. Amorosi; DJ Nights:; DJ Nights —Sean O'Neal
Food: Old-World Charms Not much has changed at Villa di Roma -- and that's a good thing. —Maxine Keyser; Cupid Cooking Academy —Carolyn Wyman; Feeding Frenzy —Drew Lazor; What's Cooking —Pat Hogan; Watering Hole —Josh Chamberlain; Top 5 Aphrodisiac Dishes —Kristin Detterline
Sex: Paper Doll:; Managing a Trois —Ashlea Halpern
City Week: List Cap:; Getting Phresh —Deesha Dyer; Mixpicks:; In The Event That…Your Evangelical In-Laws Are Coming to Town Darwin Day and Evolution Teach-In —Christian Polidoro; Word On The Street "Destroy Your Liver" Night Upstairs at the Khyber; What We Heart Zip Away Shopper; Where We Won't Be Fall-in-Love-With-IKEA-Kitchens Event; Justify Your Existence Twisted Karaoke