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Cover Wars: Whose Artfag Kung-Fu Is Stronger?
In the future we will all live on the Internet, where, abetted by the micro miracles of nanotechnology, we will build vast hive-like colonies within the circuitry of microchips, convert ourselves into JPEGs and climb inside the New Frontier. It will be just like Tron, but with Kraftwerk doing the soundtrack. There will be no need for cars or oil or the wars that come with them, we’ll just attach ourselves to an email and type in the addy to wherever we wanna go; for vast distances, instead of flying, we will simply upload and download ourselves. And, most importantly, […]
GAMBLOR: Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
SLOTS CRIME STATS In the first four months of 2007, Pennsylvania State Police troopers assigned to gaming-enforcement offices at the Philadelphia Park Casino & Racetrack in Bensalem and the Harrah’s Chester Casino & Racetrack in Chester reported these crimes: Philadelphia Park: 29 thefts 17 forgeries or counterfeit bills 5 assaults 1 illegal firearm 11 drug investigations 1 public intoxication 2 harassments Harrah’s Chester: 34 thefts 1 robbery/purse-snatching 8 forgeries or counterfeit bills 6 harassments 1 domestic disturbance 1 indecent assault 1 criminal mischief/vandalism 1 fugitive from justice 2 outstanding warrants served DAILY NEWS: Casino Royale With Cheese Sleaze
REPORT: Global Warming Goes Downtheshore
The Shore: Inundated Boardwalks and Receding Beaches –North Wildwood could be turned into an island, separated from Wildwood Crest by shallow flooding from across New Jersey Avenue. –Cape May Beach would face accelerated erosion, and on average, Shore beaches could retreat inland between 50 and 150 meters. Camden: Water Supply at Risk –Camden could find increasing levels of salt water in its drinking water, since global warming-induced sea-level rise would push the salt front higher up the Delaware River. If the salt front reaches the Camden area, the city may have to shut its water supply wells and find an alternate […]
GITMO: Another Inmate Commits Suicide
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A Saudi Arabian detainee died Wednesday at Guantanamo Bay prison and the U.S. military said he apparently committed suicide. Critics of the detention center said the death showed the level of desperation among prisoners. Also Wednesday, a Canadian detainee fired his American attorneys, leaving him without defense counsel ahead of his trial, his former U.S. military attorney told The Associated Press. The detainee, Omar Khadr, is still to be arraigned and is one of only three of the roughly 380 Guantanamo prisoners to be charged with a crime. The military did not identify the detainee […]
VIET NOW: Amputees Returning To Battlefield
In an about-face by the Pentagon, the military is putting many more amputees back on active duty — even back into combat, in some cases. Previously, a soldier who lost a limb almost automatically received a quick discharge, a disability check and an appointment with the Veterans Administration. So far, the Army has treated nearly 600 service members who have come back from Iraq or Afghanistan without an arm, leg, hand or foot. Thirty-one have gone back to active duty. Most of those who return to active duty are assigned to instructor or desk jobs away from combat. Only a few […]
DAVE & BUSTED: ‘Playground For Grown-Ups’ Named In Illegal Immigrants’ Class Action Lawsuit
PHILADELPHIA — The 14 plaintiffs — most from Mexico — worked for Rosenbaum-Cunningham International Inc., a Palm Beach, Fla.-based janitorial firm. In Philadelphia, the company placed workers in Dave and Buster’s Inc., the restaurant chain that has a popular waterfront outpost in the city. Rosenbaum-Cunningham and three top executives were indicted this year in Michigan on federal charges they harbored illegal immigrants for profit and failed to pay the federal government more than $18 million in employment taxes. The charges are still pending. The immigrants say they worked as many as 110 hours a week cleaning kitchens, washing floors and scrubbing […]
THE EARLY WORD: Goldberg’s Rubes
[Photo by STEVE DUFALA] Originally presented as a workshop performance at the 2002 Philly Fringe, machines, machines, machines, machines, machines, machines, machines was a runaway hit with standing-room only houses and an extended run. Newly reimagined and performed by original co-creators Gabriel Quinn Bauriedel and Geoff Sobelle, of Pig Iron Theatre Company, with rainpan 43 co-founder Trey Lyford, the play is a physical and comic send-up of America’s obsession with technology and security. Through a unique blend of clowning and engineering, machines, machines, machines, machines, machines, machines, machines reveals the claustrophobic bunker of three paranoid brothers so fixated on protecting […]
TODAY I SAW…
[Photo by JONATHAN VALANIA] BY JEFF DEENEY “Today I saw…” is a series of nonfiction shorts based on my experiences as a caseworker serving formerly homeless families now living in North and West Philadelphia. I decided not long after starting the job that I was seeing so many fascinating and disturbing things in the city’s poorest neighborhoods that I needed to start cataloging them. I hope this bi-weekly column serves as a record of a side of the city that many Philadelphians don’t come in contact with on a daily basis. I want to capture moments not frequently covered by […]
NPR FOR THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
FRESH AIR The 60th Cannes Film Festival drew more than 4,000 journalists, so it’s possible you’ve heard a little something about the hits and misses there. Michael Moore screened a damning documentary about the U.S. health-care system, while singer Norah Jones made her acting debut in a film from Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar-Wai. Critic-at-large John Powers reports on other high- and low-lights. RADIO TIMES Finding humor when everyone thinks you’re a terrorist. We’ll talk with one of the founding members of the Axis of Evil comedy group, and one of their regular guest comedians. MAZ JOBRANI, is an Iranian-American who […]
MAIL BAG: “Good Taste Is The Enemy Of Creativity” — Pablo Picasso, Spanish Cubist Painter, 1881-1973
J, I’m sure you knew what I was gonna say before you even opened the email, but that shit is in poor taste.These gifs provide a very cheap shock, and it’s the cheapness and casualness that I believe underscores both of our points. I understand that you are trying to put a shocking face on violence in Philadelphia because you think it’s being ignored to a certain extent. However, it comes off as childish and unthinking because of its comic nature and the ease and frequency with which you put up those types of graphics. Your motives are unclear and […]