January 1320, 2000 hit and run Holy Homos, Batman! A fiendish plot to poison the minds of erotica buyers everywhere with visions of Batman and Robin doing the nasty has, thankfully, been thwarted. Simon & Schuster, standing up for right-thinking…
January 1320, 2000 music Fang Club Concert promoter/label head Patrick Rodgers is at the forefront of Phillys secretly burgeoning goth scene. by Helen H. Thompson Patrick Rodgers, head of Dancing Ferret Concerts, might well be Dracula. Draped in long lines…
January 1320, 2000 hit and run Bolden Fallout Melchor Martinez, a 39-year-old psychotherapist who ran the PAMM (Pavlo Arias-Melchor Martinez) Resources Center, became the latest person to go to jail after a 1995 City Paper investigation into Latino mental health…
October 1219, 2000 hit and run Tearing Down The House DREAM HOUSE: A WHITE House before the damage (above) and after (right). If you passed by Bird Park at Third and Arch in the early part of September you got…
March 916, 2000 six pick Kathy Rose If youve ever seen New York filmmaker/performance artist Kathy Rose, you know that as vibrant animation dances on a projection screen, Rose and her cohorts do the same onstage often wearing colorful…
November 916, 2000 hall monitor A-loan At Last It is “comforting” to learn the city is banking a $295 million budget surplus from last fiscal year, City Council President Anna Verna commented last week, adding that the money could quickly…
December 2330, 1999 critic pick|roots Jewish Christmas If its got a reed, Kenny Ulansey can play it. Before anyone had heard of Kenny G, Kenny U was popping up everywhere on soprano sax from an eight-year stint with Relache…
December 916, 1999 hit and run Mumia and Coke No Joke Plagued by false rumors that they are funding groups in support of convicted copkiller Mumia Abu-Jamal, Coors Brewing Company and Coca-Cola Bottling of Philadelphia have had to ask the…
December 916, 1999 art Wont Get Scourged Again James Paul Kocsis: tireless self-promoter or neglected genius? by Jen Darr The telephone rings. “Hello. Its James-Paul-Kocsis-world-famous-artist.” He introduces himself as if the last three words were part of his name. Even…
November 1118, 1999 city beat A Tiff Over TIF Tax increment financing: Development lure or costly drain on the school system? by Jen Darr New York developer Tony Goldman couldnt downplay his delight back in June, at a forum on…
