March 14-20, 2002	[2002 issue index]
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Chasing Shadows How our search for the 'Shadow Government' turned into an espionage investigation.

news

Waging War: The wage-tax debate is officially on—Jenn Carbin

No Parking: Some Fairmount residents see red over proposed zoning changes.

The Bellcurve: City Paper's weekly guage of Philly's Quality of Life

columns:

Political Notebook:Political Notebook—Mary F. Patel

opinion

Loose Canon by Bruce Schimmel
Politics, Taste and the Tomato

Slant by Peter Weigand
Après Enron

Mailbag: by the readers

book quarterly

U.S.A.BC's Jill Lepore on how American nationalism developed and
continues to develop through language.—Maura Johnston

Head Games Susan Minot talks about marrying philosophy and oral sex..—Meredith Broussard

Hidden Threat Radiance features characters who are scarier than the top-secret weapons they develop—Justin Bauer

Childrens Books: Harriet Behringer surveys some old favorites

fiction

A Child's Book of True Crime .—MJ Fine

Depraved Indifference .—Maura Johnston

Notable American Women .—Lauren Groff

non-fiction

Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative.—Andrew Milner

Tearing Down the Streets: Adventures in Urban Anarchy .—Sara Marcus

Not in Front of the Children: "Indecency", Censorship and the
Innocense of Youth .—Alex Richmond

Riot and Remembrance: The Tulsa Race War and its Legacy .—Alex Richmond

R&B (Rhythm and Business): The Political Economy of Black Music.—Cindy Fuchs

arts

Magnetic Fields Two sides of the music-video-art continuum: Shoot the Singer and Nick Zedd..—A.D. Amorosi

Dance:Up Close and Personal - Mark Morris Dance Group—Janet Anderson

Opera:The Marriage of Figaro—Steve Cohen

Theater:Short & Sweet - works by Samuel Beckett—Toby Zinman

Theater:A Suite In Two Keys—Toby Zinman

artspicks

Dance:Dancing on the Rim —Deni Kasrel

Theater:Send in the Clowns: Blue Open —Juliet Fletcher

Dance:Pucci: Sport —A.D. Amorosi

Art:Artistic Pride: Tseng Kwong Chi —Karen Williams

Theater:The Music Man —David Anthony Fox

movies

"Ending, It Ain't Nothing" The Melancholy complexity
of Last Orders—Cindy Fuchs

Keep It Simple And interview with Fred Schepisi, director of Last Orders—Cindy Fuchs

Chilly Style: Ice Age doesn’t break any ground, but it’s a frosty treat all the same..—Sam Adams

Screenpicks—Sam Adams

music

Voices Carry Claudia Acuña breathes fresh air into the art of jazz singing.—Nate Chinen

No Mas Nas: The diminuative Nas was done in 45 minutes.

The Question in How Fast Ex-Velocity Girl Sarah Shannon takes her sweet time..—M.J. Fine

The Gig—Nate Chinen

Beatbox—Ainé Ardron-Doley

DJ Nights—Sean O'Neill

musicpicks

Ralph Alessi and Modular Theater—Nate Chinen

Steve Wynn—Sam Adams

Cub Country—A.D. Amorosi

Sarah Dougher, Tami Hart, Mirah
and Kelly Slusher—Patrick Rapa

Funker Vogt—Helen Thompson

Frankenstein!—Andrew Ervin

Hood—Brian Howard

naked city

Metro Goldman Manor: The man behind the Center City boom asks us to Trust him.—A.D. Amorosi

First Look: Milkboy—A.D. Amorosi

icepack—A.D. Amorosi

mixpicks

World Views—Juliet Fletcher

Harlem Globtrotters—Ainé Ardron-Doley

Terrorism in Profile—Matthew Hotz

St. Patrick's Day(s)—Frank Lewis

food

The Book and The Cook: Our reviewer’s picks for The Book and The Cook.—Maxine Keyser

Under the Table—Marc Kravitz