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		Another Country

Opinion

	SLANT
			Alone in a Crowd Every year the Pennsylvania Society of Newspaper Editors holds its annual Keystone Awards Banquet, honoring what it considers the outstanding achievements in journalism for the past year. It was at this banquet last Saturday at the Hilton in Harrisburg that I got my customary cold slap of reality along with the pork medallions and strawberry pie. by Daryl Gale

	LOOSE CANON
			On the Edge All I wanted were sharp knives. Just kitchen knives. But I didn't suspect that getting hooked on a fine edge could drive one over.... well, you get the point. by Bruce Schimmel

	PRETZEL LOGIC
			Messing With Texas Looking back, Allan Jackson says the lack of a lunch offer should have set off alarm bells about the people to whom he was about to sell his company. by Howard Altman

	MAILBAG
			Letters to the Editor Alexia More, Clifford Hritz, Jill Howard Church, Julia Steiman by the Readers

News

		On the Beaten Path A contingent of park preservationists want to end mountain biking in the Wissahickon -- and the park commission is at least listening. by Gwen Shaffer			Surly Temple Two Temple law alumni carry on their campaign to discredit the school's dean. by Senna Waldo and Frank Lewis


	CITY BEAT
			Ready to Talk Sal the hitman says he is willing to tell the court about his alleged drug experiences with mob turncoat Ron Previte. by Jim Barry

	HALL MONITOR
			Assist and Tell Illegal immigrants living in Philadelphia frequently hesitate to call on the police for help because they fear it will lead to being carted out of the country. by Gwen Shaffer	A Clean Political Fight Members of the cleaning staff at City Hall are busting out more than their mops and rags. by Gwen Shaffer	High Performance Progress on the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts is evident every time you pass by it on Broad Street and see more glass panels gleaming from its roof. by Gwen Shaffer


	MEDIA
			Soundbites --from letter in Monday's Daily News, from reader upset about cursory coverage of Perry Como's death. by Frank Lewis	Process of Elimination PNI and a union dicker over the terms of downsizing. by Frank Lewis	By the Numbers by Frank Lewis


	POLITICAL NOTEBOOK
			Poltical Notebook When Eric Weinberg and David Urban began the Young American PAC (YAP), they had no idea six years later that the organization would still be alive and kicking. by Mary Frangipanni Patel

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

Arts

	ART
		Goddess Worship For the past seven years, Marilyn Pappas has been working with Herculean tenacity on her Muse Series, a group of life-size embroidered pictures of Classic Greek sculptures of women on linen. by Susan Hagen

	THEATER
			New York Report King Hedley II, Madame Melville, The Producers by Toby Zinman

	ARTS PICKS
			art
			School's Out, Art's Up With the end of the academic year in a college town comes a bonus for non-academics: the annual shows of student artwork. (through June 3) by David Warner
			dance
			National Tap Dance Day Tap dancing is all about making a joyful noise with one's feet. (Friday-Sunday) by Deni Kasrel
			spoken word
			Erotic Word A Go Go Get freaky. Sensual. Sexy. Romantic. Edgy. Hot. Sticky. Provocative. Political. (Sunday) by Ainè Ardon-Doley

	ART PICKS
			theater
			Amazing But True! Timing is, of course, everything. This is again obvious to the Interact Theatre Company, who will conclude their season with the U.S. premiere of Jason Sherman's It's All True. (starting Friday) by Chris Cummins

Movies

		Crash! Boom! Splat! Pearl Harbor kicks up a racket and falls on its face. by Sam Adams			What Goes Around... The director of The Circle -- shaped by life in Iran, but shaping it as well. by Sam Adams

			Screen Picks Moon Over Broadway/ Original Cast Album: Company/ Don't Look Back; Far East by Sam Adams

Music

		Just Say Grow An expanded arsenal means a deeper Bardo Pond. by Chris Nosal			Litmus Test CP's roundup of DJ mixtapes. by Sean O'Neal

			Bring the Noise A clamorous escape to Chicago for the Noise Pop festival. by Sam Adams	Disc Quicks Beauty Pill; Moods for Moderns; Land Speed Record!; Manic Street Preachers	The Gig Nate Chinen on Jazz by Nate Chinen

			Sisterly Love Girl power at Sistahs! by Ainè Ardron-Doley
			festival
			Get Your Jammies On Readers of a certain vintage may recall when there was no such thing as Jam on the River, the Penn's Landing Corporation's annual Memorial Day blowout weekend. (Saturday-Monday) by Brian Howard

	SCENE AND HEARD
			Lightfoot, Young Heart At 62 years of age, Canadian folk man Gordon Lightfoot doesn't show much wear. by Chris Nosal

	CD REVIEWS
			dance/electronic
			The Avalanches Since I Left You by A.D. Amorosi
			hip-hop
			Rasheeda Dirty South by Hamida Kinge	The Crooked Man There Was A Crooked Man by M.F. Di Bella
			rock/pop
			Mogwai Rock Action by Chris Nosal	The Push Stars Opening Time by Rosemary Darigo

	MUSIC PICKS
			hip-hop
			Andy Smith Hip-hop and Philly has always been a winning combination. (Tuesday) by Sean O'Neal
			rock/pop
			Placebo "Dazzled, doused in gin," goes Placebo's self-descriptive "Taste in Men," the clicking, clattering Cure-like intro to Black Market Music. (Friday) by A.D. Amorosi	Papa Grows Funk Don't infer that Hammond B-3 boss John Gros' band Papa Grows Funk sounds like the greasy groove of the Neville family's Funky Meters ensemble. (Wednesday) by A.D. Amorosi	Grant Hart Tired of being overshadowed by Bob Mould despite having written many of Hüsker Dü's best songs, Grant Hart exited the band hoping to raise his profile. (Saturday) by Sam Adams

			Mercury Program What is it about a vibraphone that soothes the savage beast? (Sunday) by Brian Howard
			roots
			Caryn Lin Seeing Caryn Lin jamming at the Folk Festival after-hours party, noting how seamlessly she added her electric violin lines to anything thrown at her, it was easy to imagine she'd grown up folkie. Wrong. (Saturday) by Mary Armstrong

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

Naked City

		See How They Run How does it feel to be on VH1's rockin' reality show? by Alex Richmond			Reality Check

			Icepack by A.D. Amorosi

Food

		Bistro on the Schuylkill South-of-France charm with a river view (and great crabcakes). by Maxine Keyser			Under the Table So who's in charge at the restaurant(s) formerly known as Dock Street? by Marc Kravitz


Listings

	MIX PICKS
		The Black Crowes/Oasis Watching members of rock bands fight is fun. Watching family members fight: also fun. Watching members of rock bands who are also family fight: The greatest pleasure of them all? by Michael Pelusi			All’s Fairs It's not summer yet, it's better. Before this city becomes a sticky goo of heat, humidity and tourists you should really get outside and enjoy yourself. When was the last time you enjoyed yourself? by Patrick Rapa

			Buffster Zone Poor Buffy. Chosen to rid the world of vampires and other nasties, she's also cursed with constant boy troubles and a stupid name. (Friday) by Debra Auspitz	Art Felt Given that Henry Moore once defined a sculptor as one "obsessed with the form and shape of things... [of] anything and everything," he might be duly surprised to find that nowadays, sculpture is largely an artform designed only to be looked at. (through July 8) by Juliet Fletcher

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




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