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ARCHIVES . 2009

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January
January 1st 23rd Annual Fiction Contest by Patrick Rapa	January 8th Meet Your New Neighbor How slot machines are secretly designed to seduce and destroy you, and how the government is in on it. by Isaiah Thompson	January 15th Second Season Arts Preview by Carolyn Huckabay
January 22nd Pyramid Scheme A Drexel professor has some concrete answers about how the pyramids were built. by Patrick Rapa	January 29th Prepare for the Best A guide to surviving — and thriving in — Philadelphia's new green future. by Paul Glover
February
February 5th Fearless Factor Strawberry Mansion crooner Jazmine Sullivan makes the jump from Black Lily prodigy to Grammy phenomenon. by Drew Lazor	February 12th Coatesville is Burning In 2009, there's been a rash of arsons in this small Pennsylvania town. And the fires keep happening. by Mike Newall and Doron Taussig	February 19th Olney the Lonely Peering through the kaleidoscope of one of Philly's most diverse and overlooked neighborhoods. by Brian Howard
February 26th They See A Darkness Inside the world of the Quay brothers, animation's masters of the macabre. by Shaun Brady
March
March 5th Snare and Tear Local improv drummer hits YouTube daily. by Shaun Brady	March 12th Believe it or Not Meet the reluctant face of Kensington's radical Christian movement. by Isaiah Thompson	March 19th It's a Jungle Out There Will your favorite indie book store survive or be swallowed whole? by Jakob Dorof
March 26th School Ties Two education docs feature local instructors asking their kids to think outside the box. by Sam Adams
April
April 2nd Do You Want More?!!!??! The Champs Return by E. James Beale	April 9th The Style Issue What is Philadelphia style? by Felicia D'Ambrosio	April 16th Riding Dirty Kayaking through the dead center of Philadelphia. by Brian Howard
April 23rd Lush With Cash Can e3 put the green back in banking? by Andrew Thompson	April 30th City Employees Who They Are, What They Do, What They Make by Doron Taussig
May
May 7th In Bloom Philly's neighborhood food co-ops are dreaming big. by Patrick Rapa	May 14th The Impossible Dream How an NYC theater luminary and a Center City holy man brought Quixote — and a cast of pro and homeless actors — to a Broad Street church. by A.D. Amorosi	May 21st Ultimate Summer Fun Guide 2009 There's something to do every day. by Molly Eichel
May 28th She's On A Mission T. Desiree Hines will change the way you think about trans Philadelphia. by Carolyn Huckabay
June
June 4th Biketopia How to make Philly a cyclist's paradise. by Isaiah Thompson	June 11th There's a Book for That This summer, read what you need when the time is right. by Carolyn Huckabay	June 18th What Does It Take to Make the NBA? And does Dionte Christmas have it? by E. James Beale
June 25th The 10 Best Cheesesteaks You've Never Had Let our expert expand your grease-stained horizons. by Carolyn Wyman
July
July 2nd Soldiering On Meet the people who fought — and continue to fight — our wars in the Middle East. by Charles Cieri	July 9th Oh, Baby QFest goes family-friendly with a slate of gay parenting movies. by Shaun Brady	July 16th Steamrolled! The soccer stadium barrels its way into Chester. by Isaiah Thompson
July 23rd Gimme What You Got Brash and ballsy MC Amanda Blank is here to take what's hers. by A.D. Amorosi	July 30th Little Kid, Life Sentence Pennsylvania has more juvenile lifers than any other state in the union. Stacey Torrance knows. He's been in jail since he was 14. by Matt Stroud
August
August 6th The Sound and the Glory Jazz Drum prodigy Justin Faulkner is ready for the big time. by Shaun Brady	August 13th Strip Search Philly: What do your comics say about us? by Patrick Rapa	August 20th The Secret Lives of Artists Eight local artists tell us how they pay the bills. by Molly Eichel
August 27th Too Cool for Shul Rabbi/band leader Menachem Schmidt has seen Philly's Lubavitch community grow to new heights. But is its progressive orthodoxy too good to be true? by Andrew Thompson
September
September 3rd One Less Four choreographers imagine a world without [fill in the blank]. by Deni Kasrel	September 10th No Justice, No Peace One of the longest-running and last-surviving anarchist newspapers in the country, West Philadelphia's The Defenestrator continues to deliver the news nobody else sees fit to print. by Matt Stroud	September 17th Close for Comfort Salon culture is on the rise as local art lovers make a case for intimacy. by A.D. Amorosi
September 24th City Paper Choice '09 We Can See For Miles: The Big Vision Issue by Brian Howard
October
October 1st Living in a Box Welcome to the Welcome House (or: How Design Philadelphia will reinvent the city). by Nathaniel Popkin	October 8th Children of the Sword How one man sired a legion of Philly freaks. by Bill Meagher	October 15th Magic Words How Maurice Sendak unleashed a multimedia monster with 10 little sentences. by Lauren F. Friedman
October 22nd Melody Gardot In the studio with Philly's secret jazz superstar. by Patrick Rapa	October 29th The Milkmen Cometh From the barely edited journals of Rodney Anonymous by Rodney Anonymous
November
November 5th Top 20 Spectrum Moments The Building Wanted Blood by Patrick Rapa