June 15–22, 2000 hall monitor A Lot of Appeal A Common Pleas Court judge has given his approval for a controversial parking lot in Fairmount, backing a Zoning Board decision and spawning the likelihood of at least three legal appeals…

April 13–20, 2000 theater Rising Son Kathleen Pirkl Tague as Callie and Sala Iwamatsu as Sara in Stop Kiss. Stop Kiss Delaware Theatre Company, 200 Water St., Wilmington, DE, through April 16, 302-594-1100 It’s not easy to situate Diana Son’s…

January 13–20, 2000 on media Ad Hocking News staffers at KYW Channel 3 were ready to walk off the job last week in reaction to the blurring of the sacrosanct separation between news and advertising. Industry sources say the newsroom…

December 7–14, 2000 book quicks|nonfiction The Girls: Sappho Goes to Hollywood By Diana McLellan St. Martin’s, 448p., $26.95 “Mercedes, for whom no mountain of feminine resistance had proved too high, now planned to conquer the Everest of love in Hollywood,…

December 7–14, 2000 book quicks|fiction What Night Forgets By Don Yorty Herodias, 279 p., $24 It’s 1979, and John Wengert is a Pennsylvania poet looking for inspiration in Mexico. Upon arriving in Oaxaca, he meets up with an old chum…

January 6–13, 2000 critic pick|rock/pop Wesley Willis From the streets of Chicago to your own hometown, Wesley Willis has sung America’s song — that of city-dwelling daydreams and night jobs. On records like 1996’s Rock ’N’ Roll Will Never Die…

January 6–13, 2000 books Stormy Weather Hurricane Carter’s fight for justice may be over, but his biographers are still dueling over the truth. by Sam Adams Even those whose familiarity with Rubin “Hurricane” Carter extends no further than Bob Dylan’s…

November 2?9, 2000 movies Getting Their Fix Phone alone: A desperate Burstyn makes contact with the outside world Requiem for a Dream?s Ellen Burstyn and Darren Aronofsky on the sweet rush of moviemaking. by Sam Adams Ellen Burstyn says she?s…

December 31, 1998–January 7, 1999 music|great 98 Strong Music, Weak Year In a year when the charts were dominated by milquetoast divas and manufactured singing groups, there wasn’t an overwhelming amount of innovative music in 1998. Perhaps the most important…