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January 6, 2000

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Cover Story

Editor’s Note
The Boy
by Elizabeth Rollins
Judge’s Comments: Fiction
by Lisa Zeidner
Judge’s Comments: Poetry
by David Acosta
After revolutions
by Gabeba Baderoon

Opinion

SLANT

Play-it-again Sham
by Aaron M. Larkin

LOOSE CANON

Earthbound
by Bruce Schimmel

MAILBAG

Letters to the Editor
by the Readers

News

CITY BEAT

Bell Curve
City Paper's weekly gauge of Philly's Quality of Life
Face the Fat
Penn researchers want to know what Atkins does to your health.
by Jen Darr
Not With a Bang…
Southwark’s two 26-story towers will be imploded in about two weeks. Residents living just a stone’s throw away say they have been told little about what to expect.
by Gwen Shaffer

HALL MONITOR

Inauguration Footnotes
by Gwen Shaffer
Budgeting the Budget
by Gwen Shaffer
Touchy Feeley Goodbye
by Gwen Shaffer
Kush Push
by Gwen Shaffer

HIT AND RUN

If Not Y2K, Why?
by Gwen Shaffer

ON MEDIA

Howe’s New Voice
by Frank Lewis
Good Riddance, Charlie Brown?
by Vance Lehmkuhl

Arts

ART

Did Rodin Make Giant Watermelons?
Two Tyler grads turn their art training into profit – and potato chip costumes.
by Fern Sternberg

BOOKS

Stormy Weather
Hurricane Carter’s fight for justice may be over, but his biographers are still dueling over the truth.
by Sam Adams

20 QUESTIONS

Pat DiNizio
interview by Ed Condran

Movies

Blown
Denzel notwithstanding, The Hurricane is more gust than gale.
by Cindy Fuchs
In Bloom
P.T. Anderson’s sprawling epic is an excessive movie about excess.
by Cindy Fuchs

Music

Audiophile
Franklin’s Brian Sokel steps out on his own with AM/FM.
by Brian Howard
Savoy Shuffle
by a.d. amorosi

ICEPACK

icepack
by a.d. amorosi

DISC QUICKS

     jazz

Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Left Hook, Right Cross
by Philip Booth

     rock/pop

Crooked Fingers
Crooked Fingers
by Brian Glaser
Mondii
1:P
by a.d. amorosi
Maire Brennan
Whisper to the Wild Water
by Nicole Pensiero
NOFX
The Decline
by John Osborn
The Crüxshadows
Mystery of the Whisper
by Helen H. Thompson

Naked City

Arcadia
by Brian Howard and Patrick Rapa
The Next Wave
Clothing boutiques in Old City — the Big Kahuna or just a splash?
by Helen i-lin Hwang
Guest List — Your Favorite Things
Chris Griffith (publisher of Elevator Service zine) and Carol Rodan, owners of rodan vs. griffith boutique

LOOT

Mosaic Collection
by Fern Sternberg
Soda Perk
by Merav Bushlin

Food

Franco-American
Is it a brasserie? Is it a brewpub? Whatever you call it, Dock Street’s a satisfying experience.
by Maxine Keyser

Listings

SIX PICK

Inside the News
by Brian Howard
Hot Wheels
by Brett Burton
Palomar
by Patrick Rapa
Lady Bird
by Lori Hill
Johnny’s Dance Band
by a.d. amorosi
The Hope Zone
by David Warner

CRITIC PICK

     funk

Mark Boyce
by a.d. amorosi

     hip-hop

Urban Legends
by K-C Bajai

     movies

Homecoming
by Sam Adams

     rock/pop

Patti Rothberg
by Nicole Pensiero
Preston Reed
by Nicole Pensiero
Wesley Willis
by a.d. amorosi

     theater

Pub Theater
by Fern Sternberg
2000 Voices
by Fern Sternberg
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