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What was a nice girl like Maria Garre doing with two truculent teens?

CAN THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY BECOME A FORCE AGAIN IN PHILADELPHIA? King Samir Shabazz, 35, stands in his bedroom readying for war. He slides on his black military pants, puts on the matching cargo shirt and twists the shirt’s buttons top to bottom. He laces his shiny black leather boots and fastens...

November Street wins a seat on City Council succeeding legendary civil rights activist Cecil B. Moore in the 5th District. His decision to challenge the Philadelphia icon attracts initial scorn. Despite failing health, Moore runs but dies before the May primary. Street later sponsors legislation to rename Columbia Avenue in the councilman’s...

  There is, perhaps, no more efficient way to remind yourself that you are no longer 22 than to walk the aisles of Urban Outfitters. For the postcollegiate slackerati it is a mecca of precisely modulated urban hipster cool, a time-warp thrift store aesthetic filtered through a retrograde prism of detached irony...

Like Jack and his magic beanstalk, Urban Outfitters President Richard Hayne turned a few hippie beans into a hip $700 million retail empire. There is, perhaps, no more efficient way to remind yourself that you are no longer 22 than to walk the aisles of Urban Outfitters. For the postcollegiate slackerati it...

Part skater, part punk, part neurotic crooner, Philadelphian Santi White fronts Stiffed, whose stripped-raw rhythm and eerie vocals have created so much buzz in the underground rock scenes in New York and Philadelphia that record producer Ryko and publicity hotshots Girlie Action (the White Stripes and Ryan Adams are also clients) approached...

1. His Hair Everyone knows that messy hair on a man connotes “sexy,” “natural” and sometimes even “genius”–he’s so clever he couldn’t be bothered to comb his hair! So sayeth Fallon’s goofy, rumpled locks. But really. As if he really just rolled out of bed moments before “Weekend Update” or the Video...

Solomon Burke is the Muhammad Ali of soul. He is widely considered to be the greatest male soul singer of all time by those who have made the genre their life’s work–critics, DJs, A&R; people. The competition is formidable: James Brown, Al Green, Otis Redding, Sam Cooke and lots of others. And...

David Bowie recorded his Philly pop-soul classic nearly 30 years ago. The "Sigma Kids" were with him then, and they'll be with him again next week when he comes to town.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY JESSICA GRYPHON � John DeBella has been a hippie and a punk. A winner and a loser. A hero and a villain. And now he just wants to be a nice guy. As if to prove it, he is going to start welling up in T-minus-three seconds. “I can’t remember...