City Paper Choice 2010

The Big Vision Issue


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Published: Oct 20, 2010

LEADER OF THE PACK: Helen Gym (center) and members of the AAU are photoï¿½graphed Oct. 15 at 440 N. Broad St., the School District of Philadelphiaï¿½s headquarters.

Last year, after we ditched the classic City Paper Choice approach in favor of the Big Vision Issue, we wondered whether it would be a one-off thing.

An annual ode to the city's forward thinkers and ambitious dreamers? Wouldn't we run out, like, right away? 'Would we go back to naming the '"Best Place to Read What Is The What In Public" the very next year?

Oh, cynical us.

The happy answer is that the city's got more than enough worthwhile doers, planners and believers to keep this love train rolling ad infinitum.

This year's Big Visionaries — nominated by CP staff and contributors, and voted on by our editorial board — is a whole new crew. We've got a cardboard puppeteer, and a type-defying DA, and a muckraking-documentary filmmaker, and a folksy baseball manager, and a group of Asian-American student activists, and whole bunch of other Philadelphians who are either already out there changing this city for the better, or are about to.

Think of this issue not simply as the best Philadelphia has to offer, but a glimpse of what Philadelphia can be, what it will be in the future.

(bhoward@citypaper.net)

City Paper Choice/Big Vision Nominating committee

A.D. Amorosi, Mary Armstrong, Nancy Armstrong, Justin Bauer, E. James Beale, Jeffrey C. Billman, Shaun Brady, Peter Burwasser, Mark Cofta, Paul Curci, Adam Erace, M.J. Fine, Brian Howard, Carolyn Huckabay, Gary M. Kramer, Drew Lazor, Natalie Hope McDonald, Josh Middleton, Holly Otterbein, Patrick Rapa, Robin Rice, Neal Santos, Isaiah Thompson, Char Vandermeer, John Vettese, Julia West, Carolyn Wyman