November 4–11, 1999 art First Friday Focus Clay Studio Annex Sadashi Inuzuka: River The trek up four flights of dark, narrow stairs in a building adjacent to the Clay Studio to see River is definitely worthwhile. Visitors emerge onto a…

November 4–11, 1999 six pick Intergalactic Jewish Music Festival Five years and the festival has already developed middle-age spread, running two weekends rather than one. The first weekend is planned as the mother of all dance parties — think rave…

October 28–November 4, 1999 critic pick|jazz George Garzone & Ben Schachter Hot sax alert: Local saxophonist Ben Schachter will be joined by Boston’s firebrand tenor and soprano player George Garzone at Schachter’s regular haunt, Saint Jack’s. Garzone is known for…

October 28–November 4, 1999 cover story CP Choice: Eats and Drinks Belly up to the bar: Ready to chow down at the Dutch Eating Place in Reading Terminal Market. Most incongruous culinary merger It was bad enough when Billybob’s, that…

September 16–23, 1999 music Turn On, De-Tune, Drop Out Terrastock’s little cousin, the psychedelic noise fest Insidious Spectacle. by Chris Nosal You’re likely to hear lots of noise coming out of the Khyber this Friday and Saturday. While that might…

September 9–16, 1999 critic pick|festival Professor F.C. Ouch’s Hot Rod Hoedown Professor F.C. Ouch’s Hot Rod Hoedown Throughout the ’70s and ’80s, Philly native Prof. F.C. Ouch (aka FurryCouch) worked at WXPN and local indie label RED (Bill Laswell’s first…

August 5–12, 1999 disc quicks|rock/pop Dieselboy A Soldier’s Story (Moonshine) Dieselboy, Philly’s own jungle majesty and resident DJ at “Platinum” every Thursday at Fluid, spews forth on his fourth drum ’n’ bass DJ mix album, A Soldier’s Story. The GI…

July 29–August 5, 1999 cover story Operation Whitewash The Internal Affairs case that haunts the police department. continued from here photographs by Sandor Welsh by Noel Weyrich On April 23, 1997, the first and only news item about the Creighton…

July 15–22, 1999 hit and run The Case of the Cockfighting Cops Three scandal-tainted police officers who were stripped of their guns and badgesby Police Commissioner John Timoney are now likely to return to patrolling the streets, following a decision…