December 12-18, 2002	[2002 issue index]
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--City Paper Holiday Dining Guide--

news

O'Riled: A. Bruce Crawley shouts with Fox's Bill O'Reilly about the Daily News.—Deborah Bolling

The Fire This Time: A man was arrested for torching Congressman Fattah's office.—Daryl Gale

Pole-Vaulting: Another group of Eastern-European gunsels makes its mark.—Brendan McGarvey

I'll Gladly Pay You on Tuesday For a Hamburger Today—Daniel Brook

Soundbites: New Stinky at the Inky—Deborah Bolling

The Bell Curve: City Paper's weekly gauge of Philly's Quality of Life

columns:

Political Notebook:Final Talley—Mary F. Patel

Cityspace:Lucky 13: Developer Tony Goldman has spurred new growth in a long-blighted neighborhood.—Patrick M. Starr

Cityspace:No-Can-Do Atty-Tood—Daniel Brook

opinion

Pretzel Logic by Howard Altman
Confessions of a Bag Man

Loose Canon by Bruce Schimmel
Death Takes A Holiday

Slant by Gerardo Razumney and Mariano Sana
Diablo Domingo

Letters to the Editor: by the readers

arts

Feeling the '50s: CP's theater critics go Crazy for 1812 Productions’ stellar homage to 1950s comedy.—David Anthony Fox and Toby Zinman

Taste Treat: Kitsch and high art cohabitate at Wexler Gallery's current show.—Susan Hagen

Dolls to Remember—Robin Rice

Dance:Paul Taylor Dance—Janet Anderson

Opera:The Consul—Lou Camp

Opera:David Daniels—David Shengold

Theater:Striking 12—Steve Cohen

Books:The Scar: The Scar doesn’t quite match its predecessor, but in falling short, it still flies high.

artspicks

Philly-Nutt-Crak-Up—Kristina Weise

Cirque loize—Deni Kasrel

Santa Claus is Coming Out—Debra Auspitz

Artifacts of the Improbable—Paul Burress

movies

Cleaning Up: Jennifer Lopez plays down-to-earth to live out on-screen fantasy.—Cindy Fuchs

Just Beat It: Fun with percussion in the rousing Drumline.—Cindy Fuchs

Screen Picks—Sam Adams

music

Sound Judgments: Nostalgia, varnish and acoustic doors: tuning Verizon Hall to the Orchestra -- and expectations.—Peter Burwasser

Progress Report: Year one in the Orchestra's new home.—Peter Burwasser

Rick Henderson—A.D. Amorosi

Kara Lafty—Interview by Patrick Rapa

Philadelphia Orchestra—Peter Burwasser

Beat Box—Ainé Ardron-Doley ( applesz6@aol.com

DJ Nights—Sean O'Neal

musicpicks

The Greg Osby Four—Nate Chinen

The Go/The Witnesses/Gregg Foreman/The Trauma Queens—A.D. Amorosi

Zwan—A.D. Amorosi

Elliott—Chris Parker

North Star Shines—Mary Armstrong

naked city

Murality Tale: A new book lets you take home the images that make up our neighborhoods.—A.D. Amorosi

Icepack—A.D. Amorosi

mixpicks

Show Me the Monkeys—Chris Cummins

Uhuru Furniture Benefit Art Auction—Paul Burress

Cards by Howard Watson—Kristina Weise

food