April 3- 9, 2003	[2003 issue index]
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Welcome to the World Around the globe in 150 films. by Sam Adams

news

GOP, Independents At-Large—Daryl Gale

Green: Machine?: Green Party of Philadelphia fields its first Council at-large candidate.—Juliet Fletcher

Target: Philly: City ports are on an al-Qaeda hit list. Plus, the scene at Al Mansour.—Brendan McGarvey

Bending Over For Bush—Daniel Brook

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

columns:

Political Notebook:Riding the Railroad—Mary F. Patel

Cityspace:Boyds Of A Feather: There is good reason -- and lots of precedence -- for saving the Boyd Theater.—Patrick Starr

Cityspace:Slum Of All Fears—Daniel Brook

opinion

Pretzel Logic by Howard Altman
Coalition of the Able

Loose Canon by Bruce Schimmel
Two Cover Boys

Slant by Lance Haver
Power To The People

Letters to the Editor: by the readers

arts

Last Chance: A look at two don’t-miss gallery shows closing soon.—Susan Hagen

Artsbeat:Artsbeat—Debra Auspitz

Theater:Some Like It Hot—David Anthony Fox

Theater:Big Love—Toby Zinman

Dance:Company B—Janet Anderson

Dance:Evidence—Janet Anderson

First Friday Focus:First Friday Focus—Lori Hill

artspicks

Sir Thomas Allen—David Shengold

Paradise City Arts Festival—Brian White

The Fabled 13th Puppet Uprising—Juliet Fletcher

James Joyce is Dead and so is Paris—A.D. Amorosi

Doug Anderson—David Warner

movies

On the Ball: Gurinder Chadha on making “the ultimate girl-power movie.”—Cindy Fuchs

On the Line: A phone-wielding psycho stalks a semi-sleazy publicist.—Cindy Fuchs

Screen Picks—Sam Adams

music

Yeah, You Know: Yeah Yeah Yeahs live up to the hype.—A.D. Amorosi

The Gig—Nate Chinen on Jazz

DJ Nights—Sean O'Neal

Beat Box—Ainé Ardron-Doley

musicpicks

The Philadelphia Singers—Peter Burwasser

The Notwist/Styrofoam—Brian Howard

Matthew Shipp/ Khan Jamal—A.D. Amorosi

Vienna Teng—Nicole Pensiero

Jazz Violin Summit—Kyle Parker

Crooked Fingers—Paul Burress

naked city

Changing Their Spots: Local institutions prove that with renovations, sometimes it’s the little things that make a big difference.—A.D. Amorosi

Icepack—A.D. Amorosi

mixpicks

Richard Belzer—Frank Halperin

2003 Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival—Paul Burress

J Camp/Jamaaladeen Tacuma/June Lopez—A.D. Amorosi

food

Room for More: The food’s still good, but a refurbished Living Room is not quite the full Monte.—Maxine Keyser

Book and Cook Hits and Misses—Maxine Keyser