City Paper Web Archive 2005

Jim Warren Meets Vampirella: He built a multimillion dollar empire out of monster magazines, plastic skulls and dirt from Count Dracula's estate, only to lose it to real-life terrors.

Left Behind: A rare look inside North Broad's Divine Lorraine, a hotel with a heavenly past on the cusp of (commercial) resurrection.

Spring Forward: 2nd Season Arts Preview

Let's Go.: 33 ways to reinvent, rethink and recharge our beleaguered transit agency. Other cities around the world have cool public transportation systems. Why can't we?

How They'll Lose: Super Bowl vs. New England

Damaged Goods: Once arrested and charged with framing a drug dealer, two Philly cops deal with life back on the job.

Out of the Abyss: Once isolated, young breast cancer survivors now find strength in numbers. This weekend, thousands will meet in Philly to find a way out of the darkness.

Home & Design Space Invaders : Twelve design pros reveal the secrets of cheap chic.

In the Name of His Father: George Martorano is serving one of the longest federal sentences for a nonviolent offense in America. Is it because he wouldn't drop the dime on his late dad?

Music Issue Spring '05

100% More Pulp!: At last: the winners of City Paper's 19th Annual Fiction Contest

Uncivil Unions: As same-sex couples fight for marriage rights, activists say domestic violence is getting the silent treatment.

Buried Alive: An inside look at the sudden death and unprecedented resurrection of Y100.

Crawling From the Wreckage: From Serbia to Rwanda to Great Britain, surviving war is only the beginning.

Hop Heaven: Our intrepid reporter hauls hops and wrangles wort in attempt to brew a pre-Prohibition lager -- with the help of Victory Brewing, of course. Belly up to the bar and savor the results for yourself.

ShortChanged: $115,000 in missing government funds may not seem like a lot, but it's everything to the residents of Hunting Park.

Industrial Evolution: Meet the painters, potters and printmakers who are transforming a Port Richmond textile mill into a hive of creativity.

Crime Choppers: A successful program for at-risk youth faces a fiscal death.

Emergency Breakdown: Why Philadelphia's 911 really is a joke.

Restraining Disorder: Our juvenile justice system is among the best in the nation. So why are kids ending up hurt? Or, in one case, dead?

Road Companies, Brutes and Safecrackers: >An exclusive excerpt from Allen M. Hornblum's Confession of a Second Story Man the first history of the Irish burglary team from K&A that terrorized the East Coast during the 1950s.

"Make no mistake about it: I was going to kill someone.": Race, drugs and retribution at a local military base.

Ultimate Summer Fun: 140 rocking, sporty, sexy, artsy and straight-up insane activities for each and every damn day of the Philly summer.

Why can't we keep them? They're young, bright and want to cure what ails Philly.

Shelf Life Summer Book Quarterly '05

Tour de Forced Ever wonder what tourists see when they come to visit historic Philadelphia? So did we.

Bottoms Up: Taylor Mead, underground movie legend and Warhol superstar, christens the Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival.

Trash Daze: Why budgetary constraints and lack of enforcement leave Philadelphians to grapple with refuse.

PressureCookers: A Penn undergrad says clutch hitting can be measured mathematically. But will math and science help the Phillies thrive in the stretch run?

Ms. deYoung Goes to Washington: A Philly native wants Americans to realize how wasting Billions in Iraq is ruining our lives at home.

A Prayer for Grays Ferry: Race, recreation and redemption in a troubled South Philly neighborhood.

Everywhere Man: For more than 20 years Chuck Treece has been Philly music's jack of all trades. A behind-the-scenes look at the man behind the scene.

Cheap Bastards: Seems like all anyone wants to talk about these days is how freakin' affordable Philadelphia is.

Under the El: Artists, dancers and artisans are fighting to save Frankford. But it's tough to overcome a history of violence.

special issue: fringe/live arts preview
The Next Stage: The big festival's hunger for new venues leads to points west.

Michael Nutter Is Not As Boring As You Think: Which is a good thing, considering he wants to be your next mayor.

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Fall Guide 2005
Revelations: King Britt finds God in the meticulous resurrection of a lost soul sister.

The Food Maze: Why Can't Philly's Poor Eat?

The Path of the Righteous Man: How Rick Santorum became the nation's evangelical poster boy.

Fall Book Quarterly '05

The Music Issue
Better Music Through Chemistry

Frost Bit
How to stay warm this winter without burning stacks of cash.

The Un-peopled Paper
Knight Ridder is forcing the Daily News to spike a fifth of its jobs.

City Paper Choice Awards

Court Jester

Holiday Gift Guide & Book Quarterly

Gone

Holy War

Holiday Dining & Entertainment Guide 2005

Lancaster Avenue

Oh You Shouldn't Have (Again...)

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