December 24–31, 1998 music Green Machine Blackthorn, the Philly Irish-American community’s best-kept secret, blows its cover band image. By Frank Lewis   Un-covered: Blackthorne reveals its Other Side with an album of original songs Technically speaking, that’s true. But Blackthorn…

November 19–26, 1998 on media Race Against Time You get in a fight at work one night. Not a big deal, really—confrontations are fairly common in your business. You bear your teeth, speak your piece, the other guy does the…

October 29–November 5, 1998 city beat Tower Struggle   Jamie Wyper is one of many Roxborough residents opposed to the construction of a new digital broadcast tower in the area. Roxborough residents are fighting a plan to build yet another…

October 22–29, 1998 city beat ‘Bless This Unknown Boy’   Box Cops: Vidocq Society member Sam Wieinstein (left) and Detective Tome Augustine reviews files in an office of the Vidocq Society photo: Sandor Welsh by Frank Lewis Like it was…

September 24–October 1, 1998 cover story Big Marty Really Does Want To Be Mayor But why? That’s the question that dogs Martin Weinberg, Frank Rizzo’s political strategist, as he charts a mayoral course for himself. by Frank Lewis Weinberg in…

February 5–12, 1998 cover story Dispatches from the Drug War: The first in an occasional series about Philadelphia’s flourishing underground drug economy. Dr. Yes After seven years, six sting operations and two raids, the state finally arrested Dr. Robert Trollinger…

March 5–12, 1998 city beat Civil Injustice Russ Wylie thinks an important part of the Civil War has been forgotten. by Frank Lewis When Gen. George Pickett’s division charged across the field at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, soldiers…

December 26, 1996–January 2, 1997 city beat All That Razz In May, a man caught spray-painting a sign claimed to be the biggest wall writer in town. Now the cops say it ain’t so. By Frank Lewis   Long before…

October 23–30, 1997 cover story The Devil Went Down To Jersey He’s been terrorizing the Pine Barrens for centuries now, so why can’t the Jersey Devil get any respect? And why do so many upstanding citizens swear they’ve seen him?…