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July 24, 1997

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Cover Story

Mickey Mouseville
The Disney Company is building a city out of a palmetto swamp in Central Florida. Will it be a Celebration of a new way of living, or the fruition of founder Walt's fascist city-state daydreams?
by Matthew Richter

     sidebar

Down Wit Da Mouse
Local urban planners say Celebration's no different than anywhere else.
by Daisy Fried

Opinion

LOOSE CANON

Self-Mocking Vampires
by Bruce Schimmel

PRETZEL LOGIC

Smithspotting
From psychic friends to friendly concierges, everyone thinks they've seen Judith Smith.
by Howard Altman

MAILBAG

Letters to the Editor
by the Readers

News

CITY BEAT

A Fine Mess
Judge Seamus McCaffery takes his traveling night court to South Street.
by Frank Lewis
Nuts About the Park
Eight months after it opened, and eight years after the first shovel full of dirt was turned, residents are still squirrelly about Philly's most expensive pocket park.
by Jennifer Rauch
The Terminated
La'Shaira Cooke is one of thousands to be kicked off a federal program that pays medical bills for poor children.
by Daisy Fried

HIT AND RUN

Bix Nixed
by Brian Howard
Making a Point the Old Fashioned Way
by Daisy Fried
Pressing Charges
by Frank Lewis
New Brooks Looks
by Nate Chinen
Street Shot
by Kass Mencher

ON MEDIA

Jenn X
by Daisy Fried
Goodbye, Mr. Media
by David Warner
Personal Best
by Howard Altman
The Great (Sports) Debate Is Over
by Jared Klein
Surf's Up
by Jared Klein

POLITICAL NOTEBOOK

Mary Frangipanni's Political Notebook
by Mary Frangipanni

Arts

CRITICAL MASS

     art

House of Books
Paging through a paradoxical show at the renewed Art Alliance.
by Robin Rice

     reviews

Arms and the Man
Over the course of the play, we learn that Sergius is a fake. But it's disastrous if we know all along that the
by Cary M. Mazer

20 QUESTIONS

Scotty Moore
by Jen Darr

Movies

MOVIE SHORTS

Air Force One
by Howard Altman
Con Air
by Cindy Fuchs
La Promesse
by Cindy Fuchs
Mondo Plympton
by Neil Gladstone
Mrs. Brown
by Cindy Fuchs
Tetsuo II: Bodyhammer
by Cindy Fuchs
Contact
by Cindy Fuchs

Music

The Paul deLay Band
by a.d. amorosi

ICEPACK

This Does Not Compute
Is it time to believe the electronica hype?
by a.d. amorosi

DISC QUICKS

     hip-hop

Deep Concentration: the Future of Experimental Hip-Hop
by Brian Howard

     jazz

Richie Cole
by Nate Chinen

     rock/pop

Primus
by Brian Howard
Yoko Ono
by Neil Gladstone

     roots

The Planet Sleeps
by Nicole Pensiero

Food

     jim quinn on food

Eat At Joe's
A Chinatown veteran returns to his old cooking grounds.
by Jim Quinn

Listings

SIX PICK

Cheap Trick, the Muffs, and Flipp
by Geeta Dalal
Cuban Film Festival
by Jen Darr
Lilith Fair
by Margit Detweiler
Plympton Face to Face
by Brian Howard
The Artist (uh, y'know, Prince)
by Neil Gladstone
Ravi Coltrane Quartet
by Nate Chinen

CRITIC PICK

     art

Too Jewish?
by Daisy Fried

     jazz

Charlie Hunter Quartet
by Nate Chinen
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