May 22-28, 2003	[2003 issue index]
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Why They Couldn't Kill Kenney or Mariano And what that means for November's Street-Katz fight. Reported by Howard Altman, Deborah Bolling, Daniel Brook, Daryl Gale, Brian Hickey and Mary F. Patel

news

Paint and Suffering: Northern Ireland’s graphic, political murals inspire Philly’s Jane Golden to bring the cities’ artists together.—Jenn Carbin

Love (Park) Is All They Need: A diverse group lobby for skateboarders.—Daryl Gale

Blackwell's About-face—Daryl Gale

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

columns:

Political Notebook:Not Yet Over the Hill—Mary F. Patel

Cityspace:Inside Out: Preserving historic interiors.—John Andrew Gallery

Cityspace:Towering Infernal—Daniel Brook

opinion

Pretzel Logic by Howard Altman
Bubkes For Democracy

Loose Canon by Bruce Schimmel
JoAnn Weinberger: Literacy Cheerleader

Slant by Tracy Quan
Waxing Polemic

Letters to the Editor: by the readers

arts

Three's a Charm: A trio of shows that made the grade.—David Anthony Fox

Stolen Glances: Mark Shetabi lets us look through his peepholes.—Susan Hagen

Books:Lighten Up: Elise Juska on writing yourself out of a funk.—Kevin Plunkett

Book Quicks:Anna Maxted reading—Alex Richmond

artspicks

Bratwrst 㚳—Debra Auspitz

"Lets' sit upon the ground ..."—Toby Zinman

Red—Helen i-lin Hwang

Jonathan Schell—Andrew Milner

artsquicks: More stuff going on this week

movies

Pros Poem: Old hands Johnny Hallyday and Jean Rochefort make beautiful music together.—Sam Adams

Family Natters: A nebbish-out-of-water classic gets hit with the useless remake stick.—Ryan Godfrey

Screen Picks—Sam Adams

music

A Man Up: Father and Lilys frontman Kurt Heasley takes responsibility for the band he keeps rebuilding.—Brian Howard

The Couple That Plays Together: Megan and Mason Wendell run Canary Publicity all day and make music all night in The Method and Result.—Patrick Rapa

Juliet Fletcher on Blur: Is there a proper name for the impulse in art students to wave around glo-sticks?—Juliet Fletcher

Beat Box—Ainé Ardron-Doley

DJ Nights—Sean O'Neal

musicpicks

Al Green—Paul Burress

Mondo Generator—Sam Adams

Fog/Dosh/Beans/ The Majesticons—A. D. Amorosi

Simply Jeff—Sean O’Neal

DAT Politics—Chris Nosal

Cobra Verde—Brian Howard

Karan Casey—Mary Armstrong

The Rapture—Sam Adams

Mr. Len—Sean O’Neal

naked city

The Mississippi Diaries: Out of Place writing contest Winner—Joy Bouldin

Icepack—A.D. Amorosi

mixpicks

The Stars Come Out at Night Gala—A.D. Amorosi

NBA Rhythm n' Rims—Ainé Ardron-Doley

Youth Media Jam—Paul Burress

food

Horse Raise: New chef Ben McNamara expands Dark Horse’s horizons.—Elisa Ludwig

Hot Plate: Add Salt To Taste—Jenn Carbin