July 1724, 1997 cover story Missing By Frank Lewis Judith’s son Craig and husband Jeffrey searched the city for a week after her disappearance. Jeffrey Smith can’t get comfortable. Seated in the small conference room of his Boston law firm,…
July 1724, 1997 cover story Missing By Frank Lewis Judith’s son Craig and husband Jeffrey searched the city for a week after her disappearance. Jeffrey Smith can’t get comfortable. Seated in the small conference room of his Boston law firm,…
July 310, 1997 city beat Washington’s Crossing (Into the Burbs) By Frank Lewis Julia Lehman/City Paper Rev. Lanxton Washington Philadelphia soon stands to lose yet another business. L. Washington and Associates, a security company based on Parkside Avenue near the…
June 1926, 1997 city beat Top FOP Cop Won’t Stop ACLU Bop Show me the money, says police union head. By Frank Lewis The Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) Philadelphia Lodge 5 and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of…
June 1219, 1997 cover story Ground Xero How two college classmates and a rundown little bar spawned Philly’s latest restaurant revival despite the occasional feud. By Frank Lewis Julia Lehman David Mantelmacher Julia Lehman Philipe Daouphars “Try this,” says…
May 815, 1997 cover story A Hard Nut Will Chestnut Street ever share in the downtown boom? By Frank Lewis Market Street is alive with shoppers to the east of City Hall, and with briefcase-toting suits to the west. Walnut…
May 18, 1997 city beat Deportees By Frank Lewis Maybe if they’d brashly toasted the Queen’s death, or at least pounded the bar in anger once in a while, they might have looked like the dangerous terrorists the American government…
April 1724, 1997 cover story The Philadelphia Experiment How the friendship of Becky Washington and Alan Hunter paved the way for a revolution in public housing. By Frank Lewis When Vince Lane toured South Philadelphia’s notorious Southwark Plaza…
March 1320, 1997 cover story Green Day Irish culture from Center City to Seoul, it’s not just for St. Patrick’s Day anymore. By Frank Lewis It’s Sunday night, the band is playing thousand-year-old music, and still the place is…
March 613, 1997 city beat Dubious Honor Sarcastically, an architectural group bestows an award on owners of the decaying Naval Home. By Frank Lewis In January, the American Institute of Architecture’s Philadelphia chapter announced it would bestow its first…
