May 24, 2001
[2001 issue index]
Cover Story
Another CountryOpinion
SLANT
Every year the Pennsylvania Society of Newspaper Editors holds its annual Keystone Awards Banquet, honoring what it considers the outstanding achievements in journalism for the past year. It was at this banquet last Saturday at the Hilton in Harrisburg that I got my customary cold slap of reality along with the pork medallions and strawberry pie.
by Daryl Gale
LOOSE CANON
All I wanted were sharp knives. Just kitchen knives. But I didn't suspect that getting hooked on a fine edge could drive one over.... well, you get the point.
by Bruce Schimmel
PRETZEL LOGIC
Looking back, Allan Jackson says the lack of a lunch offer should have set off alarm bells about the people to whom he was about to sell his company.
by Howard Altman
MAILBAG
Alexia More, Clifford Hritz, Jill Howard Church, Julia Steiman
by the Readers
News
On the Beaten PathA contingent of park preservationists want to end mountain biking in the Wissahickon -- and the park commission is at least listening.
by Gwen Shaffer
Two Temple law alumni carry on their campaign to discredit the school's dean.
by Senna Waldo and Frank Lewis
CITY BEAT
Sal the hitman says he is willing to tell the court about his alleged drug experiences with mob turncoat Ron Previte.
by Jim Barry
HALL MONITOR
Illegal immigrants living in Philadelphia frequently hesitate to call on the police for help because they fear it will lead to being carted out of the country.
by Gwen Shaffer
Members of the cleaning staff at City Hall are busting out more than their mops and rags.
by Gwen Shaffer
Progress on the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts is evident every time you pass by it on Broad Street and see more glass panels gleaming from its roof.
by Gwen Shaffer
MEDIA
--from letter in Monday's Daily News, from reader upset about cursory coverage of Perry Como's death.
by Frank Lewis
PNI and a union dicker over the terms of downsizing.
by Frank Lewis
by Frank Lewis
POLITICAL NOTEBOOK
When Eric Weinberg and David Urban began the Young American PAC (YAP), they had no idea six years later that the organization would still be alive and kicking.
by Mary Frangipanni Patel
BELL CURVE
City Paper's weekly gauge of Philly's Quality of Life.
Arts
ART
Goddess WorshipFor the past seven years, Marilyn Pappas has been working with Herculean tenacity on her Muse Series, a group of life-size embroidered pictures of Classic Greek sculptures of women on linen.
by Susan Hagen
THEATER
King Hedley II, Madame Melville, The Producers
by Toby Zinman
ARTS PICKS
art
With the end of the academic year in a college town comes a bonus for non-academics: the annual shows of student artwork. (through June 3)
by David Warner
dance
Tap dancing is all about making a joyful noise with one's feet. (Friday-Sunday)
by Deni Kasrel
spoken word
Get freaky. Sensual. Sexy. Romantic. Edgy. Hot. Sticky. Provocative. Political. (Sunday)
by Ainè Ardon-Doley
ART PICKS
theater
Timing is, of course, everything. This is again obvious to the Interact Theatre Company, who will conclude their season with the U.S. premiere of Jason Sherman's It's All True. (starting Friday)
by Chris Cummins
Movies
Crash! Boom! Splat!Pearl Harbor kicks up a racket and falls on its face.
by Sam Adams
The director of The Circle -- shaped by life in Iran, but shaping it as well.
by Sam Adams
Moon Over Broadway/ Original Cast Album: Company/ Don't Look Back; Far East
by Sam Adams
Music
Just Say GrowAn expanded arsenal means a deeper Bardo Pond.
by Chris Nosal
CP's roundup of DJ mixtapes.
by Sean O'Neal
A clamorous escape to Chicago for the Noise Pop festival.
by Sam Adams
Beauty Pill; Moods for Moderns; Land Speed Record!; Manic Street Preachers
Nate Chinen on Jazz
by Nate Chinen
Girl power at Sistahs!
by Ainè Ardron-Doley
festival
Readers of a certain vintage may recall when there was no such thing as Jam on the River, the Penn's Landing Corporation's annual Memorial Day blowout weekend. (Saturday-Monday)
by Brian Howard
SCENE AND HEARD
At 62 years of age, Canadian folk man Gordon Lightfoot doesn't show much wear.
by Chris Nosal
CD REVIEWS
dance/electronic
Since I Left You
by A.D. Amorosi
hip-hop
Dirty South
by Hamida Kinge
There Was A Crooked Man
by M.F. Di Bella
rock/pop
Rock Action
by Chris Nosal
Opening Time
by Rosemary Darigo
MUSIC PICKS
hip-hop
Hip-hop and Philly has always been a winning combination. (Tuesday)
by Sean O'Neal
rock/pop
"Dazzled, doused in gin," goes Placebo's self-descriptive "Taste in Men," the clicking, clattering Cure-like intro to Black Market Music. (Friday)
by A.D. Amorosi
Don't infer that Hammond B-3 boss John Gros' band Papa Grows Funk sounds like the greasy groove of the Neville family's Funky Meters ensemble. (Wednesday)
by A.D. Amorosi
Tired of being overshadowed by Bob Mould despite having written many of Hüsker Dü's best songs, Grant Hart exited the band hoping to raise his profile. (Saturday)
by Sam Adams
What is it about a vibraphone that soothes the savage beast? (Sunday)
by Brian Howard
roots
Seeing Caryn Lin jamming at the Folk Festival after-hours party, noting how seamlessly she added her electric violin lines to anything thrown at her, it was easy to imagine she'd grown up folkie. Wrong. (Saturday)
by Mary Armstrong
BEAT BOX
Hip-hop happenings.
by Ainé Ardron-Doley
Naked City
See How They RunHow does it feel to be on VH1's rockin' reality show?
by Alex Richmond
by A.D. Amorosi
Food
Bistro on the SchuylkillSouth-of-France charm with a river view (and great crabcakes).
by Maxine Keyser
So who's in charge at the restaurant(s) formerly known as Dock Street?
by Marc Kravitz
Listings
MIX PICKS
The Black Crowes/OasisWatching members of rock bands fight is fun. Watching family members fight: also fun. Watching members of rock bands who are also family fight: The greatest pleasure of them all?
by Michael Pelusi
It's not summer yet, it's better. Before this city becomes a sticky goo of heat, humidity and tourists you should really get outside and enjoy yourself. When was the last time you enjoyed yourself?
by Patrick Rapa
Poor Buffy. Chosen to rid the world of vampires and other nasties, she's also cursed with constant boy troubles and a stupid name. (Friday)
by Debra Auspitz
Given that Henry Moore once defined a sculptor as one "obsessed with the form and shape of things... [of] anything and everything," he might be duly surprised to find that nowadays, sculpture is largely an artform designed only to be looked at. (through July 8)
by Juliet Fletcher
DJ NIGHTS
A selective guide to who's spinning what and where.
by Sean O'Neal
Curtains!
