Marketing 215

City Paper's crash course in making a good city great.
by Brian Howard

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Selling Philly

The City That Loves Your Beer

Get Rocked

Bring Your Pooch and Kitty

Reel World Philadelphia

Don't Leave Us This Way

Philly Is for Families — No Really, It Is

You've Gotta Have More Art

Ambition from Afar

Pedal Push

The Unsinkable Joan Myers Brown

Right About Now

Stepping Up to the Podium

september 9

Poll Position

Brace yourselves, Pennsylvanians. At their NYC gala, the Republicans said you're their key to keeping the White House.
by Amy L. Webb

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Crashing (for) the Party

september 2

Unconventional!

by Lori Hill

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Political Science

Brotherly Loves

Places, Everyone!

Aural Presentation

Rooting For the Home Team

Hijacking History

Catching a Cab (or two)

From Beatles to 3-D Poems

For Your Consideration

august 26

Lesson Plans

Schools CEO Paul Vallas will announce a sweeping new education-reform package next week. But are his goals realistic?
by Amy L. Webb

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At Issue:Public Education

Down With Bureaucracy

august 19

Game, Set, Life

On the old site of a notorious housing project, kids from North Philadelphia are preparing for the future by playing tennis.
by Deborah Bolling

also:

august 12
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. —Brian Hickey

august 5
Holding Out Hope:LGBT delegates took a voluntary back seat at the DNC. With a Kerry victory, they think their time will come. —Mary F. Patel

july 29
Doomed To Repeat:Forty years ago, political deceptions plunged the U.S. into war. A Navy pilot from new hope, whose photographs helped escalate conflict in Vietnam, wants you to know the same thing happened in Iraq. —David S. Barry

july 22
Lethal Direction:The Defender Association of Philadelphia has kept all its clients off DEATH ROW. So why can't it get a bigger caseload? MONEY. —Susan Phillips

july 15
Wild In The Streets:Ten years in, the Philadelphia Gay and Lesbian Film Festival adjusts to its own success. —Sam Adams

july 8
The Cost to Know WHYY:For Philadelphia's public broadcaster, the quest for funds has brought both innovative programming and questions about journalistic integrity. —Amy L. Webb

july 1
As The Borough Turns:In Darby, where politics is a soap opera, Mayor Paula Brown is both hero and villian. —Deborah Bolling

june 24
Love, actually:Former City Paper columnist Sarah Dunn, after years in sitcom writing, gets bitten by the novel bug. —Lori Hill

june 17
Snitch Work:Who says there's an innocent man on death row? The prolific jailhouse stoolie who helped put him there. (Part one of two.) —Tom Lowenstein

june 10
New Paths:Go exploring this summer right here in your hometown. —Debra Auspitz

june 3
I Was a Federal Informant:The incredible story of one man, seven government agencies, a Jamaican drug ring and a North Philly community center. —Amy L. Webb