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Cover Story

		Sky Wars Copters, yeah, they've got copters. But are local tv's megabucks toys worth the expense? by Frank Lewis & Scott Farmelant, Frank Lewis and Scott Farmelant
		sidebar
		Fighting without air support by Frank Lewis

Opinion

	LOOSE CANON
		Food Lyin' by Bruce Schimmel

	PRETZEL LOGIC
		Jaywalkin' Man Would Thomas Jefferson have waited for the light? by Howard Altman

	MAILBAG
		Letters to the Editor by the Readers

	I
		Growing Up On South It's not just a street — it's a classroom. by Rachel Winters

News

	CITY BEAT
		Northern Liberation Artists, developers and dreams come together in Northern Liberties. by Scott Farmelant

	HIT AND RUN
		Port Out To Pasture by Scott Farmelant	Not Giving His du by Scott Farmelant	Family Feud by Frank Lewis

		Let 'Em Eat Cake by David Warner	To Pay Or Not To Pay by Daisy Fried	Cage Aux Balls by Frank Lewis

		Business Breeds Better Business by Scott Farmelant	Precedent? Take Two by Scott Farmelant
		on media
		Satire or Smear? by Scott Farmelant

	POLITICAL NOTEBOOK
		Mary Frangipanni's Political Notebook by Mary Frangipanni

Arts

	CRITICAL MASS
		Men Have Called Me Mad: An Edgar Allan Poe Love Story O! the lurid, turgid prose of Poe! O! why bother to adapt it to the stage? by Toby Zinman	The Countess Cathleen Unlike Ozzie Jones' by Cary M. Mazer	Bare-Knuckle The dialogue gets slower and emptier, and in Act Two the play simply stops. The audience was nonplused to discover the play was over. by Toby Zinman

		Festival of New Performance III At an after-show discussion Christophe said he wants to do more mime-based work, and one can only say bravo to that. by Deni Kasrel	Chronicles of a Comic Mulatta: An Oreo/Choreopoem Luckett pleads for "merging with grace," for tolerance — having just spent the last hour and a half telling us how impossible that merging is in the U.S. by Toby Zinman	Performance In An Intimate Space by Deni Kasrel

		art
		Post-Modern Brides Dresses as traps, cakes with the knife already in — nuptial notions at the Gershman Y. by Robin Rice
		books
		The Green Pages A refreshing round-up of healthy-eats cookbooks. by Janet Ruth Falon
		reviews
		Three in the Back, Two in the Head While its dramatic logic moves us inexorably toward wanting to know the truth, the play's true interest resides in the complexity of its lies. by Cary M. Mazer
		theater
		Color Lines Does race divide Philadelphia theater? Sparked by playwright August Wilson, a national debate comes home. by Sara Davis

	20 QUESTIONS
		David Spade by Brian Howard

Movies

		The Sundance Kid A young animator from Gladwyne reports on his first trip to Bob Redford's movie schmoozefest. by Bill Tomlinson

	MOVIE SHORTS
		Gridlock'd	I'm Not Rappaport by a.d. amorosi	Meet Wally Sparks

		Shadow Conspiracy by Cindy Fuchs	Hamlet by Cary M. Mazer

Music

	ICEPACK
		Rapper's Delight Grandmaster Flash, Watts Prophets, Last Poets and the roots of hip-hop. by a.d. amorosi

Food

		jim quinn on food
		Go Fish The fresh tastes of Chinatown's North Sea.

Listings

	CRITIC PICK
		Danzig by Cara Castiglio and Amy Greene	Joe Christ Movie Night by Neil Gladstone	Shake & Grind by Jen Darr

		Jazz Explosion by Nate Chinen	Whirling Dervishes of Turkey by Mary Armstrong
		art
		Phoebe Adams/Carole Seborovski by Robin Rice
		classical
		Bach to Bach by Peter Burwasser
		movies
		Star Wars by Rachel Winters
		six-pick
		Abilene Grand Opening by Mary Armstrong

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