July 12–19, 2001 books Mob Scene Bobby Simone recalls his glory days defending Philadelphia mobsters. The Last Mouthpiece: The Man who Dared to Defend the Mob By Robert F. Simone Camino Books, 340 p., $24.95 by Jim Barry Simone says:…

June 28–July 5, 2001 movies All Grown Up John Singleton on the mature Baby Boy. by Cindy Fuchs Taking the training wheels off: Singleton on his lead character’s bike. John Singleton is eating sushi when I walk into the Sony…

June 14–21, 2001 arts picks|art Moving Pictures Old City has had to grit its teeth and say goodbye to one of its longest inhabitants this month. Vox Populi, the forerunning artists’ collective that helped foster a new spirit in the…

June 7–14, 2001 naked city LIFE As We Knew It Life begins at the hop: Revelers take to the dance floor on Old City nightclub LIFE’s opening night. A fabled club’s metamorphosis from Revival to LIFE. by A.D. Amorosi Back…

May 31–June 7, 2001 cover story Jeff Gribler’s Highs & Lows Gotta dance: In Balanchine’s Who Cares? The good and the bad of 26 years at Pennsylvania Ballet, 1975-2001. Greatest moment: “I have two,” he says. “The first one is…

May 24–31, 2001 music|festival Get Your Jammies On Readers of a certain vintage may recall when there was no such thing as Jam on the River, the Penn’s Landing Corporation’s annual Memorial Day blowout weekend. The megashow evolved from the…

May 10–17, 2001 music Sweet Home American Street Edan Cohen’s Soundgun studio dips into southern soul with Burlap Palace. by A.D. Amorosi Muscle man: Soundgun’s Edan Cohen traveled to Alabama’s Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in the process of producing his…

March 29–April 5, 2001 political notebook Political Notebook by Mary Frangipanni Patel It’s a Neil Thing Restaurateur Neil Stein schmoozed and made nice with the bounty of politicos that poured into his restaurant Avenue B last Thursday night for Action…

March 15–22, 2001 on media Soundbites Stu and mini-stu? Anyone notice the resemblance between the Daily News’ Stu Bykofsky and Melvin Frohike (Tom Braidwood) from Fox’s The Lone Gunmen (below)? Hosts and producers of Wrestle This!, a local pro wrestling…