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Fall Guide 2006 Autumnatic For The People Tomorrow the World The AVA gears up for its biggest, most ambitious season ever. —Steve Cohen Going Large A far-reaching music series at the Painted Bride is out to prove that size matters. —Deni Kasrel Force of Nature Park the Van Records escapes Katrina and unites Philly's most promising rockers. —John Vettese Van Champions Park The Van Artists —John Vettese Beautiful Contam-ination Cuban-born choreographer Marianela Boán puts dance in a box. —Janet Anderson

Dance, Opera, Theater, Visual Arts, Classical, Rock/Pop, Roots

Cover Story

Fall Guide 2006 Autumnatic For The People

Tomorrow the World The AVA gears up for its biggest, most ambitious season ever. —Steve Cohen

Going Large A far-reaching music series at the Painted Bride is out to prove that size matters. —Deni Kasrel

Force of Nature Park the Van Records escapes Katrina and unites Philly's most promising rockers. —John Vettese

Van Champions

Beautiful Contam-ination Cuban-born choreographer Marianela Boán puts dance in a box. —Janet Anderson

Dance —Deni Kasrel

Opera —Peter Burwasser

Theater —David Anthony Fox

Visual Arts —Robin Rice

Classical —Peter Burwasser

Rock/Pop —Michael Pelusi

Roots —Mary Armstrong

Jazz —Shaun Brady

Slant

Editor's Letter:

Loaded Argument —Duane Swierczynski

Slant:

Too Many Secrets Now is the time to push for better open-records laws in Pennsylvania. —Susan Schwartz

Loose Canon:

It's the Environment, Stupid —Bruce Schimmel

Feedback:

Letters to the Editor

Naked City

Click for Beer You still can't download a six-pack from the Internet. BeerRightNow.com, though, could be the next best thing. —Michael Benner

Running Numbers —Nick Norlen

Fine Print:

A Knight's Nose —Rachel Frankford

J'ai Dit, Pas D'Oignons! —Rachel Frankford

Paper Trail:

Paper Trail Our Back Pages, One Year At A Time

Icepack:

Icepack —A.D. Amorosi

News

The Exoneree A one-time convicted axe-murderer becomes the local death-penalty-abolitionists' frontman. —J.F. Pirro

Charter Bruise An anti-war resolution could test the limits of city government. —Jenna Portnoy

Two Minutes with...John Dean Former White House counsel, author —Jared Goyette

Philly Blunt:

Moments of Clarity —Brian Hickey

Political Notebook:

Sticks, Stones and Hurtful Names —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

The Pusherman Self-publishing Jamaican-born author Andre Porter pounds the pavement. —Zach Mortice

Artspicks:

Carving a Niche

Lit for Liberals —Billy Kekevian

FBI Files —Rachel Frankford

A Prayer for Owen Meany —Lewis Whittington

Theater:

Simple Simon —Mark Cofta

Arts Agenda

Last Chance Catch It or Regret It —Rachel Frankford

Picks:

Just Do It "Congress of Oddities: James G. Mundie's Prodigies" —Amanda McKenna

Accidental Tourist Ayun Halliday —Amanda McKenna

Word On The Street Talia Greene's "New Works"

In The Event That… You Podcast Your Therapy Sessions —Drew Lazor

Just Do It Martin Short Interviewed by Dick Cavett —A.D. Amorosi

Movies

Mercury Rising "Viva Pedro" charts the course of a shape-shifting director. —Shaun Brady

Field Work The Rock brings conviction to a cookie-cutter sports tale. —Cindy Fuchs

Screen Picks:

Screen Picks —Sam Adams

Cold Open:

Just another face in the crowd

Music

Bright Moment Philly's Trudy Pitts becomes the first jazz musician to play the Kimmel's Cooper organ. —Shaun Brady

Synth You Been Gone The PopNoise Festival gets bigger and bolder. —M.J. Fine

A Band, a Van, a Plan We're hitting the road with Pony Pants. —Patrick Rapa

Reconsider Me:

Found Horizons —M.J. Fine

soundadvice:

Get Out!!

Picks:

The Gossip/Erase Errata —M.J. Fine

Christine Sehnaoui —Shaun Brady

Big Easy Sunday —Mary Armstrong

Food

Call to Arms Philly chefs do octopus right. Which isn't quite as easy as you'd think. —Trey Popp

A Nation Divided —Elisa Ludwig

Feeding Frenzy —Drew Lazor

Watering Hole Castle Roxx Cafe —Jessica Loughery

Top 5 Bloody Marys —Amanda McKenna

What's Cooking —Jessica Loughery

The Agenda

Top of the Agenda:

Home Base Radical collectives explore the future of art —Rachel Frankford

Picks:

Just Do It Rudy Giuliani —Billy Kekevian

On The DL PigFest 2006 —Zach Pontz

In The Event That… You're Too Perverted for Blow-Up Dolls —Rachel Frankford

Just Do It "Are We in the Midst of WWIII?" —Shaun Brady

Just Do It "Herbal Medicine: Perception, Practice and Rational Use" —A.D. Amorosi

On The DL Message Board Party —Alex Richmond

Sex

Paper Doll:

The Gag Reflex —Ashlea Halpern