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Cover Story

		Can I Kick It? Careful, before you get f-d up two times. by Mars Blackmon			We Got Game Shoes, booze, ballers and beats: The marketing frenzy behind the 2002 NBA All-Star Game by A.D. Amorosi and Daryl Gale

			City Paper's All-Star Party Guide	Oh Yeah, the Game Who and what to look for at the FU Center on Sunday. by Luke Cavanagh

Opinion

	SLANT
			On the Blight Track Now that Mayor John Street has worked out a power-sharing compromise with City Council, the city will float a $295-million bond issue, in what is called the "Neighborhood Transformation Initiative." by Ed Schwartz

	LOOSE CANON
			Data Rape To do anything more than just look you over, police must first show some reasonable cause. by Bruce Schimmel

	PRETZEL LOGIC
			Bon Ton Roulette Over the next several days Philadelphians are going to have to ask themselves a very difficult question: Who do you fear more, bin Laden or bin Drinkin'? by Howard Altman

	MAILBAG
			Letters to the Editor by the Readers

News

		Skin Head Butting Two groups committed to fighting racism are now fighting each other. by Daniel Brook			Mardi Brawl This year, vow police and pols, things will be different on Fat Tuesday. by Jenn Carbin

			The Bell Curve City Paper's weekly gauge of Philly's Quality of Life.	Political Notebook How is former Philadelphia Police Commissioner John Timoney doing in his new job? by Mary F. Patel

	HALL MONITOR
			No Way Street John Street's refused to veto, refused to sign and apparently hasn't asked any questions about a legislation that spokesperson Frank Keel says Street views as "incomplete."

	MEDIA
			Soundbites Radio station Y100 has been dragged into the increasingly hostile fracas surrounding next Tuesday's expected Mardi Gras celebration on South Street. by Frank Lewis

Arts

	ART
		Quiet Strength by Nikki Roszko			A Joyful Noyes A South Jersey museum raises an artful racket. by Susan Hagen


	THEATER
			Judge Dreck It is a playwright's special gift to be able to take dull, ordinary lives and make them dramatic: vivid, engrossing, important. by Toby Zinman

	BOOKS
			High and Low New York intellectual Robert Warshow split his regard between the erudite and the entertaining. by Frank Halperin

	ARTS PICKS
			art
			Print Love-In Does a Hallmark card really justify your love for your sweetheart or family member? (Sunday) by Sean O'Neal
			dance
			Tamar Rogoff We're all suffering a bit of post-traumatic stress disorder these days, so choreographer-filmmaker Tamar Rogoff's "Daughter of a Pacifist Soldier" is likely to feel very contemporary to Painted Bride audiences over its six performance run. (starting Thursday) by Janet Anderson
			theater
			Puppet Love As if the works of Italo Calvino weren't shadowy enough, Pig Iron Theatre Company, one of Philly's best known and most innovative experimental theater troupes, is presenting a piece based on Calvino's tales using shadow puppets. (through Feb. 24) by Debra Auspitz	The Burger Girl Jingle Theatrix kicks off its fifth season this week with a new play, The Burger Girl Jingle, by Michigan playwright Ken Prestininzi. (through Feb. 24) by Debra Auspitz	I’ll Be Seeing You Before writing off I'll Be Seeing You as yet another World War II drama, consider the production's twists. (through March 3) by Karen Gross

			Poe Woe In 1843, when Henry Beck Hirst's brief biography of Edgar Allan Poe, who was at the height of his fame, appeared in the Philadelphia Saturday Courier; it was peppered with inaccuracies, all supplied by Poe himself. (Thursday) by Juliet Fletcher	Can We Talk? In Dael Orlandersmith's Yellowman, making its world premiere at the Wilma next Wednesday, Eugene and Alma, two lovers in the Deep South, find themselves fighting their own self-hatred, trapped by the sins of their parents. (starting Monday) by Janelle Julien	Deaf, Dumb and Blind Throughout its innumerable permutations, performances, filmings and re-stagings, the Who's Tommy has always concealed a barely-hidden secret: It doesn't make a damn bit of sense. (starting Tuesday) by Sam Adams


Movies

		What’s the Story? Does Todd Solondz's shock have value? by Sam Adams			Beating the Fix Despite the movie's contrived plot, some of Monster's Ball's performances shine through. by Cindy Fuchs

			Screenpicks Jay Rosenblatt; Ghost World; Monty Python by Sam Adams

Music

		Mountain High by Mary Armstrong			Plaix On Local producer/DJ Vikter Duplaix finally gets his Kicks. by Hamida Kinge

			Crumb Bred Music director James Freeman notes that Orchestra 2001's pairing of George Crumb's "Ancient Voices of Children" and Gustav Mahler's "Song of the Earth" has not, to his knowledge, been attempted before. by Peter Burwasser	The Beat Box And after the show, it's the after-party.

	CD REVIEWS
			classical/new music
			Handel Complete Violin Sonatas, Andrew Manze, violin; Richard Egarr, harpsichord by Peter Burwasser
			electronic/dance
			Detroit Grand Pubahs Funk All Y'all by A.D. Amorosi
			folk/world
			Beppe Gambetta, Carlo Aonzo, David Grisman Traversata: Italian Music in America by Mary Armstrong
			hip-hop
			Nas Stillmatic by M.F. Di Bella
			jazz
			Bix Beiderbecke, Frank Trumbauer and Jack Teagarden The Complete Okeh and Brunswick Bix Beiderbecke, Frank Trumbauer and Jack Teagarden Sessions (1924-36) by Nate Chinen

	MUSIC PICKS
			folk/world
			Eileen Ivers To those who know the breadth of Eileen Ivers' fiddling, simply identifying her as the "musical star of Riverdance" is trivializing. by Mary Armstrong
			rap
			Tha Liks Snoop and Cypress may indeed like the weed. (Monday) by A.D. Amorosi
			rock/pop
			Ted Leo/Shannon Wright Last time in town, Ted Leo gave a brief "no offense" explanation for continuing to play "Abner Louima v. Gov. Pete Wilson," at his loud and tight live shows. (Sunday) by Patrick Rapa	Varnaline If the Beasties hadn't taken the phrase "Slow and low, that is the tempo" for their own, Anders Parker could have claimed it. (Friday) by A.D. Amorosi	Hallelujah That's a fine name for this nine-month-old Willow Grove trio. (Thursday) by Patrick Rapa


Naked City

		Get Yer Kicks Ubiq has a way with shoes. by Rick Valenzuela			Icepack There's more to this week than b-ball, sneakers and rumored guest lists filled with Madonnas, Arnolds and Bruces. by A.D. Amorosi


Food

		I Yearn, Chef Morimoto will satisfy your yen for the new and unique. by Maxine Keyser			Under the Table by Marc Kravitz


Listings

	MIX PICKS
		Kindred's Upper Room Reminiscing on the good old days, back when Kindred used to spark a fire opening the Black Lily every week? (Wednesday) by Ainè Ardron Doley			Are You Ship-Shape? There's no denying that life on the ocean wave has been somewhat glamorized. (Saturday) by Juliet Fletcher

			Ask Alice While the nation's terror-stricken eyes have turned towards Afghanistan, some big things have happened in Washington, D.C. (Monday) by Matthew Hotz	A Buck for a Hunk Hey ladies! Alllll the ladies! Are you lonely? (Tuesday) by Karen Williams

	DJ NIGHTS
			DJ Nights by Sean O'Neal

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