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browse	November 5th, 2009 Top 20 Spectrum Moments The Building Wanted Blood by Patrick Rapa You could call it a bad omen that the roof blew off the five-month-old Spectrum during the Ice Capades in 1968, but I think the arena was just asserting itself. »»
COVER STORY . Also In This Week's Cover Story Top 10 Spectrum Music Moments The Boss, The Who, Bowie, U2 ... by A.D. Amorosi Top 10 Spectrum Sports Moments Hexy, Laettner, Moses, Wilt ... by Patrick Rapa Color Guard More (in)famous characters who lit up the Spectrum.
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browse	October 29th, 2009 The Milkmen Cometh From the barely edited journals of Rodney Anonymous by Rodney Anonymous When we heard that the Dead Milkmen were officially back in the picture — playing shows, making new music — and blowing it out with a big Halloween bash at the Troc, we gave frontman Rodney Anonymous a word count and set him free. »»

browse	October 22nd, 2009 Melody Gardot In the studio with Philly's secret jazz superstar. by Patrick Rapa Between the last note of Melody Gardot's opening song at the Kimmel and the first report of one hand against the other triggering an avalanche of applause, there's a sliver of near-silence. And from some anonymous voice in the audience, a single word fills the fleeting moment. "Wow." »»

browse	October 15th, 2009 Magic Words How Maurice Sendak unleashed a multimedia monster with 10 little sentences. by Lauren F. Friedman While plenty of books from childhood are remembered nostalgically and still others are simply forgotten, Where the Wild Things Are is, for many, beloved not only for what it was then, but for what it means now. »»

browse	October 8th, 2009 Children of the Sword How one man sired a legion of Philly freaks. by Bill Meagher for another accomplishment. Almost single-handedly, Red Stuart, who at 58 is the world's oldest active sword-swallower, has helped bring to Philadelphia one of the country's most up-and-coming sideshow scenes. »»

browse	October 1st, 2009 Living in a Box Welcome to the Welcome House (or: How Design Philadelphia will reinvent the city). by Nathaniel Popkin Collaboration is intrinsic to Design Philadelphia, now in its fifth year the nation's largest and most ambitious celebration of design's potential to remake the world. Day to day, it's what fuels so many of the city's most inventive artists, designers and software developers. »»

browse	September 24th, 2009 City Paper Choice '09 We Can See For Miles: The Big Vision Issue by Brian Howard This wasn't a normal year. We just couldn't wrap it up with a normal City Paper Choice issue. »»