[an error occurred while processing this directive] January 8-14, 2004 artpicks The Hut Auction Art In the ’90s, there was no better place for found objects to come home to roost than The Hut. Artists Steve Stormer, Kate Bartoldus, Charlie…

[an error occurred while processing this directive] January 1- 7, 2004 cover story Back to Life Giant leaps: A June car accident left Abby Padilla comatose. The months since have brought miraculous recovery after miraculous recovery. Photo By: Michael T.…

[an error occurred while processing this directive] December 11-17, 2003 naked city Hats On, Again The cat in the hat returns: After 32 years with Dietz Hats, Oscar Pierce continues the legacy with his own shop, South Street Hats. Photo…

[an error occurred while processing this directive] December 11-17, 2003 musicpicks Cynthia Raim Classical In his half century of teaching at Curtis, Mieczyslaw Horszowski quietly but surely established himself as one of the most influential piano pedagogues of the 20th…

[an error occurred while processing this directive] December 11-17, 2003 music Staging a Coup

[an error occurred while processing this directive] December 4-10, 2003 mixpicks Dickens Festival by Keegan O’Connor At the Dickens Festival, tradition will be most apparent in the period dress worn by stilt-walkers, horse-drawn carriage drivers and visitors. A celebration of…

[an error occurred while processing this directive] December 4-10, 2003 artpicks Fran Lebowitz Books Before the amusements of Sedaris, Vowell, The Onion or Sex and the City, there was Fran Lebowitz: the single inheritor to the smart-not-smarmy, sarcastic, cosmopolitan crown…

[an error occurred while processing this directive] November 27-December 3, 2003 mixpicks Peddler’s Village Gingerbread House Display When I was little, I always wanted to live in a gingerbread house. I would crawl through the gumdrop door into a hallway…

[an error occurred while processing this directive] November 27-December 3, 2003 mixpicks 6ABC/Boscov’s Thanksgiving Day Parade New York has the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, and, well, Philadelphia has one too. Philadelphia, often unfairly, is used to taking a back seat…