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September 7-13, 2006	[2006 issue index]
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The Ugly Underneath
Can Science Untangle the Mess Beneath Our City Streets
by Amanda Gefter

2006 Philadelphia Live Arts &
Fringe Festival

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Cover Story: The Ugly Underneath Can Science Untangle the Mess Beneath Our City Streets —Amanda Gefter
Slant: Editor's Letter:; The Collapse —Duane Swierczynski; Slant:; Pirro Hears The Who How the legendary band helped shape my writing. —J.F. Pirro; Feedback:; Letters to the Editor
Naked City: Captain Caveman We sent our resident claustrophobe to hang out with cavers. What's the worst that could happen? —Denis Wilson; Running Numbers —Nick Norlen; Paper Trail:; Paper Trail Our Back Pages, One Year At A Time; Icepack:; Icepack —A.D. Amorosi
News: The Truth is Out There Somewhere Five years after 9/11, a local movement of skeptics takes shape. —Andy Greenberg; Lessons Unlearned What should we teach our kids about that unimaginable day? —Jenna Portnoy; Two Minutes With...Ellen Mariani 9/11 Widow —Xana O'Neill; Philly Blunt:; In Memory of Danielle Kousoulis —Brian Hickey; Political Notebook:; Who's on Seventh? —Mary F. Patel; The Bell Curve:; City Paper's weekly gauge of Philly's Quality of Life
Culture Shock: This Week in A & E
Arts: On the Fringe (and Live Arts) Reviewing the festivals.; Getting Better —Janet Anderson; Artspicks:; John Armleder —Rachel Frankford; Saving Faces —Rachel Frankford; Windy City —Steve Cohen; AM Radio —Nyjia Jones; Theater:; Grimm Reality —Mark Cofta
Arts Agenda: Last Chance Catch It or Regret It —Rachel Frankford; Picks:; On The DL "Face to Face" —A.D. Amorosi; Justify Your Existence The New York People's Improv Theater eight-week Intro to Improv Class; Just Do It "Factory Work: Warhol, Wyeth and Basquiat" —Andrew Parks; Day Tripper Sneaker Pimps USA —Drew Lazor
Movies: Opposites Attract A bourgeois crackhead and his teenage student bond in Half Nelson. —Cindy Fuchs; The Grains Came Time marches on in House of Sand. —Sam Adams; Screen Picks:; Screen Picks —Sam Adams; Cold Open:
Music: Headbanger's Delight Local metal label Translation Loss branches out while standout artists like Rosetta reinvent the riff. —Andrew Parks; Life After Death Pretty and indefinable, goth ends up in a box (and is finally happy). —John Darnielle; Hang The DJ:; Recognition Scene —J. Edward Keyes; soundadvice:; Get Out!!; Picks:; Radio Birdman —Paul Burress; Peter Tork/Monkees —Michael Pelusi; Fence Kitchen/Dilly Dilly —A.D. Amorosi
Food: Mushroom Trip A weekend festival sheds light on Chester County's famous fungi. —Carolyn Wyman; Small Bites The Rum Diary —Maxine Keyser; Feeding Frenzy —Drew Lazor; What's Cooking —Gwen Tuxbury; Top 5 Fish and Chips —Zach Pontz; Watering Hole B. Maxwell's Restaurant and Victorian Pub —Jessica Loughery
The Agenda: Top of the Agenda:; Center of Attention Responses, Reactions and Remembrances of 9/11 —Drew Lazor; Picks:; In The Event That… Your Other Car's a Horse-Drawn Carriage —Drew Lazor; Just Do It Hero Thrill Show —A.D. Amorosi; Justify Your Existence First Nationwide Hamster Ball Derby; Just Do It The Comedians of Comedy Tour —Nick Norlen; Day Tripper The York Fair —Rachel Frankford; On The DL "Are Professors Promoting Anti-Israel Attitudes on Campus?" —Amanda McKenna
Sex: Paper Doll:; Coveting Thy Neighbors —Ashlea Halpern