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Cover Story

		Vital Signs The stories behind the urban icons we live with every day. by Jen Darr
		sidebar
		More Signs of the Times A further selection of signs worth preserving.

Opinion

	LOOSE CANON
		Food For Thought by Bruce Schimmel

	PRETZEL LOGIC
		Summit Up Secret Service Sadists and other tales of a gala gone gaga. by Howard Altman

	MAILBAG
		Letters to the Editor It would be cruel and ironic to restrict speech in the very neighborhoods where democracy was born. by the Readers

News

	CITY BEAT
		Deportees New laws may send longtime American residents back to an unwelcoming Ireland. by Frank Lewis	Presenting... the Oprahs? In a civic-spirited mood, we volunteer these post-summit awards. by Daisy Fried

	HIT AND RUN
		White Noise by Frank Lewis	Helmut Newton or Dirty Old Man? by Frank Lewis	Rejects Rejoice by Neil Gladstone

		Black and Blue and Read All Over by Daisy Fried	Seven the Hard Way Channel 7 operator Jerry Leazer says a former employee allegedly assaulted and spat on him and his attorney. by Neil Gladstone
		on media
		Buzz Buzz Buzz by Brian Howard

	POLITICAL NOTEBOOK
		Mary Frangipanni's Political Notebook by Mary Frangipanni

Arts

	CRITICAL MASS
		Black Water My only hope is that Oates, coming back to the novel after five years, now realizes that Kopechne/Kelly's death was not tragic at all but simply pointless. by Cary M. Mazer	Abundance by Toby Zinman	Flamenco Ole! Ravel's by Robert Ackerman

		The Great American Hero Believe it or not, it's just Bill Paxton. by a.d. amorosi	Children of the Revolution by a.d. amorosi	Flame by Jeannine DeLombard

		A Hot Roof by Brian Howard	Invented Worlds by Sol Louis Siegel	Lilian's Story by Margit Detweiler

		Swann by Ruth & Archie Perlmutter	Also Recommended and Also-Rans
		gyrate
		Khyberbia The Khyber puts on a happy face. by Margit Detweiler
		more must see pfwc, and a few also rans.
		Brassed Off! by Margit Detweiler
		open book
		Private Lives The best bios — like a new book on Joseph Cornell — know their limits. by Jim Gladstone
		reviews
		The Ruling Class Jiri Zizka has given by Cary M. Mazer

	NOISES OFF
		My First Lady Long before Ellen, there was Eleanor — and Hick. by David Warner

	20 QUESTIONS
		Jamie Nabozny by David Warner

Movies

		Traveling Men <B>Traveller by a.d. amorosi

	MOVIE SHORTS
		Anna Karenina	Austin Powers	Breakdown

		Commandments	Drunks by Neil Gladstone	Pink Flamingos by Daisy Fried

		Warriors of Virtue

Music

	ICEPACK
		The Beautiful and the Damned The fabulousness of fashion, the ugliness of everything else. by a.d. amorosi

Food

		jim quinn on food
		Basic Basil Grow it, freeze it, eat it — but don't put walnuts in the pesto!

Listings

	CRITIC PICK
		Sixpec? by David Warner	The Sea and Cake/Rex by Brian Howard	Fugazi by Brian Howard

		Kali Lela Colton by Deni Kasrel	Fires In the Mirror by David Warner
		festival
		PrideFest by David Warner
		performance
		Jo Andres by a.d. amorosi
		six pick
		Philadelphia Furniture Show by David Warner

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