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			cp choice 2000
		CP Choice: Food What’s on the menu? What’s on tap? Where do you want to eat?			CP Choice: City Where’d you get that? What did you pay? How’s life in the big city?

			CP Choice: Arts Who’s the artist? Where’s the show? What do you do for Fun?	CP Choice: Best of Beer	The Power to Choose Americans like choice. Hence, The Mall of America. John Wanamaker and Sam Walton. Dish-TV. by David Warner

			CP Choice: Best of Breakfast	CP Choice: Cheap Dates by Helen Thompson	CP Choice: Best & Worst of Biking by Patrick Rapa

			CP Choice: Two-Way Street by Gwen Shaffer	CP Choice: To the Max Maxine Keyser on the year’s best and worst restaurants. by Maxine Keyser	CP Choice: Ice Storm 2001 The Ammies know where you live. by a.d. amorosi



			Readers’ Choice

Opinion

	SLANT
			Silence Under the Stars Is there another Freddy Mann around? by Allen Sommers

	LOOSE CANON
			My False Teeth "What would Hamlet do?" I thought, gazing at an exact, plaster-cast replica of my teeth by Bruce Schimmel

	PRETZEL LOGIC
			Peace Now As far as I’m concerned, the Iraqis have it half right when it comes to me personally. I’m a sloppy Jew, not a filthy one. by Howard Altman

	MAILBAG
			Letters to the Editor Fran Toscani; Artemis Blink; Ileen Green; Mike Kaplan by the Readers

News

	CITY BEAT
		Put Up Yer Dukes In the race for the 200th Legislative District, incumbent LeAnna Washington and challenger Dexter Watson really, really, really don’t like each other. by Daryl Gale			Fired Up on Chestnut Tenants at 1300 Chestnut Street are refusing to pay rent in a Ron Caplan high-rise with no certificate of occupancy. by Ralph Cipriano

			Waiting for Mumia Police are bracing for Abu-Jamal’s court-mandated visit. by Noel Weyrich	Committee of Secrecy A champion of open government prefers to keep its own financial books closed. by Noel Weyrich

	HALL MONITOR
			Airing Their Differences If Philadelphia’s air was already thick with smoke, it is now even thicker with tension. by Gwen Shaffer	Shootin’ from the Hip A "gun verification" bill introduced in City Council last week would require gun owners to confirm annually that the weapon remains in their possession. by Gwen Shaffer	Bridge Game After being closed for six years, the Germantown Avenue Bridge in Chestnut Hill is finally getting rebuilt. by Gwen Shaffer

			Hard of Hearing City Council will listen to plenty of testimony during the next few weeks. by Gwen Shaffer	Payback Is Now a Bitch Overdue book holders, beware. Library fines aren’t just nickels and dimes anymore by Robert McCunney

	HIT AND RUN
			Trial Run Four months have passed since the Republican Convention, but Philadelphia is still attracting national attention. by Gwen Shaffer

	ON MEDIA
			Separation anxiety Philadelphia Newspapers Inc. has worked out the details of its buyout plan with the Newspaper Guild, the union representing Inquirer and Daily News reporters and photographers, so now the real speculating can begin. by Frank Lewis	Ad It Up A national campaign finance reform organization is beating up on WPVI-Channel 6 for devoting an average of just four minutes per evening to political campaign coverage. by Gwen Shaffer	Soundbites Inquirer reporter Angela Couloumbis recently served on the jury for a medical malpractice suit in which the plaintiffs were represented by Inky legal nemesis James Beasley, Sr. by Frank Lewis

			Steve Leaves Philadelphia magazine editor Stephen Fried packs it in after just 20 months behind the big desk. by Frank Lewis

	POLITICAL NOTEBOOK
			Political Notebook On Monday night local Democrats were swinging from the chandeliers in the final crunch days before the November 7 general election. by Mary Frangipanni Patel

	BELL CURVE
			The Bell Curve City Paper’s weekly gauge of Philly’s Quality of Life.

	HALL MONITOR.
			Off the Streets Children who plan on being outside in public places after dark will have to remember to keep checking their watches if they want to stay out of trouble, and so will their parents. by Robert McCunney

Arts

	CRITICAL MASS
		Creep Shows A Halloween guide for culture vultures. by Fern Sternberg, Helen Thompson, HT, a.d. amorosi, David Warner, Lori Litchman, LL, DW, FS, Sam Adams and ada

	THEATER
			Sister, Sister An unmemorable memory play owes too much to TV. by David Anthony Fox

	DANCE
			New to You "Innovations," the sequel of sorts to last week’s popular Balanchine program, demonstrated that the company continues to perform beautifully. by Robert Ackerman

Movies

		Which Witch is Which? The director of the Blair Witch sequel on the difference between reality and fiction. by Sam Adams			Once More Into the Woods Blair Witch 2 pokes fun at the movie that spawned it. by Cindy Fuchs

			Screen Picks The week in rep film, TV and video. by Sam Adams

Music

	20 QUESTIONS
		Branford Marsalis Branford Marsalis, now 40, has been in the spotlight for two decades now. by Nate Chinen

			And Your Caged Bird Can Sing by Michael Pelusi	Icepack Sometimes art is about the biz. Take the fact that DJs and club owners have been ringing me looking for solutions to the LCB/L&I clampdown on till-6-a.m. jams. by a.d. amorosi	Word Power? DJs rule the day at Word of Mouth. by Hamida Kinge


	SCENE AND HEARD
			Club Sandwich by Sean O’Neal	Moby by Amy Phillips

	DISC QUICKS
			hip-hop
			Mystikal Let’s Get Ready by Damon C. Williams
			jazz
			Sun Ra & His Myth Science Arkestra/Sun Ra and His Astro Infinity Arkestra/Sun Ra and His Arkestra When Angels Speak Of Love/Pathways To Unknown Worlds/Friendly Love/The Great Lost Sun Ra Albums: Cymbals & Crystal Spears/Greatest Hits: Easy Listening For Intergalactic Travel/Lanquidity by a.d. amorosi
			rock/pop
			J. Mascis + The Fog/Meat Puppets More Light/Golden Lies by Lorne Behrman	Toshack Highway Toshack Highway by Sam Adams	Idaho Hearts of Palm by Sam Adams

			sound effects
			Martha Stewart Living Spooky Scary Sounds For Halloween by Helen Thompson

Naked City

		Border Lines: Chinatown Another in an occasional series on the look and texture of Philadelphia neighborhoods. by photography by Kass Mencher

	LOOT
			Spooktacular Stuff Ah, Halloween. Time for plastic witches on brooms, cottonball cobwebs and bratty little kids begging for sweets. by Megan Curran

Food

		Oh, Delilah The soul food queen cooks up something tasty in Old City. by Maxine Keyser

Listings

	SIX PICK
		Sara Lee Ever since she got her start playing bass for Gang of Four in the 1970s, Sara Lee has logged countless hours in the shadows. (Monday) by M.J. Fine			Rachel’s/Matmos The teaming of chamber-string septet known as Rachel’s and the morose two-man electronic unit Matmos makes a distant avant-classical noise that’s neither heavenly nor hellish. (Sunday) by a.d. amorosi

			Big Gay Shows Big Gay Al, this is your weekend. (Friday–Sunday) by David Warner	Lew Tabackin Trio At a recent gala in Manhattan’s posh University Club, guest Lew Tabackin left his table just as dinner was served. (Saturday) by Nate Chinen	Hip-Hop 2da Head Hip-hop is no laughing matter. Consider the fact that last night a DJ saved someone’s life. (starting Wednesday) by Hamida Kinge

			Audubon’s Last Exhibition John James Audubon is known primarily for his realistic paintings of birds. However, his interests went beyond the avian. (starting Saturday) by Chris Cummins

	CRITIC PICK
			electronica
			Miles Maeda How deep can deep house get? Soulful, yes. But spiritual — religious even? (Friday) by Sean O’Neal	The Inzec Tour The Swiss electronic label Inzec combines the Swiss forces of watch-making precision and sumptuous chocolate for a sticky morass of moody sounds and frozen house music. (Saturday) by a.d. amorosi	DJ Swingsett NYC’s DJ Swingsett has recently evolved from being the tight jazzy hip-hop-flavored jungle DJ to a diverse and sophisticated smoothie. (Wednesday) by Sean O’Neal

			opera
			Figaro! Figaro! The Marriage of Figaro turned out to be Mozart’s most-performed stage work, and it’s his most human and touching opera. (Thursday, Saturday, Sunday) by Steve Cohen
			rock/pop
			Life After Hell? Squirrel Nut Zippers’ new single, "Bedbugs," is one of their earliest compositions, but wasn’t released until now because, well, it sounded like "Hell." (Thursday) by Vance Lehmkuhl

	BEAT BOX
			The Beat Box Hip-hop happenings. by Ainè Ardron-Doley

	DJ NIGHTS
			DJ Nights A selective guide to who’s spinning what and where. by Sean O’Neal

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