September 16-22, 2004 cover story Marketing 215 Illustration By: Don Haring, Jr. City Paper‘s crash course in making a good city great. by Brian Howard We’re clicking our heels here, people. We’ve long known the town Billy Penn built is…
September 16-22, 2004 cover story Marketing 215 Illustration By: Don Haring, Jr. City Paper‘s crash course in making a good city great. by Brian Howard We’re clicking our heels here, people. We’ve long known the town Billy Penn built is…
September 9-15, 2004 slant Philly’s Own Al Capone Paul Vallas shouldn’t shelf teachers’ seniority. by Christopher Paslay When school district CEO Paul Vallas first came to Philadelphia, I thought he was the best thing since Cheez Whiz. Here was the…
August 12-18, 2004 cover story Twists of Fate Having stumbled into a high-profile mob trial, Chris Warren has become one of the city’s go-to lawyers. Ron White couldn’t be happier about it. by Brian Hickey Office of Christopher Duff Warren…
August 5-11, 2004 slant One for the Road Drunken-driving laws border on unconstitutional. by Radley Balko When Keith Emerich of Lebanon, Pa. went to the hospital for an irregular heartbeat, he told his doctor he was a heavy drinker: a…
July 29-August 4, 2004 Renter’s Guide Off- Campus Report LA SALLE UNIVERSITY The Brother Augustine Center for Off-Campus and Commuter Students can provide Explorers with lists of landlords renting homes near campus (215-424-7570). Nightlife: Nightlife is scarce in this mostly…
July 15-21, 2004 naked city The Good, the Band and the Ugly THE WINNER IS?: Kevin Laibson and Easily Amused nearly ruled a Battle of the Bands. A lawyer is looking into charges that Coyote Ugly’s Battle of the Bands…
June 10-16, 2004 cover story The Sleep Wit’ the Fishes Tour Photo By: Michael T. Regan by Brian Hickey Nothing says mob like a real, old-fashioned, broad-daylight payback murder. Not severed horse heads. Not Big Pussy dead in the water…
June 3- 9, 2004 slant The Blame of the Game Gene Mauch took one for the team in ’64. by Scott Schaffer No one took the Phillies seriously in the spring of 1964. Why would they? The franchise had set…
June 3- 9, 2004 slant The Blame of the Game Gene Mauch took one for the team in ’64. by Scott Schaffer No one took the Phillies seriously in the spring of 1964. Why would they? The franchise had set…