[Photo by JONATHAN VALANIA] BY JEFF DEENEY The best news Ed Bisch ever read was splashed across the front pages of newspapers everywhere last week: “In Guilty Plea, OxyContin Maker to Pay $600 Million.” You see, Purdue Pharma, OxyContin’s manufacturer, is Ed Bisch’s white whale. Some say he’s obsessed. He can explain why. Six years ago Ed discovered his son, Eddie Jr., dead in his Fishtown bed. After finding Eddie’s body, Ed set out to confront his son’s friends and find out what had happened. He found them congregated on the same Cumberland Street stoop where they always gathered, even […]
THE EARLY WORD: Hesher-rific!
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NPR FOR THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
FRESH AIR During his early-’70s heyday, shock-rock icon Alice Cooper dressed like a ghoul, with a gaunt face and mascara-streaked eyes, performing cartoonishly violent onstage stunts. But he’s got more than that one dimension: Over the years he’s had friendships with Groucho Marx, Salvador Dali, and Peter Sellers, and his new memoir chronicles how he replaced his addiction to alcohol with an addiction to golf. It’s called Alice Cooper, Golf Monster: A Rock ‘n’ Roller’s 12 Steps to Becoming a Golf Addict.
THE AUDACITY OF HOPE: OBAMA IS COMING!
Tuesday, May 22, 2007 The Electric Factory Doors open at 4:00 p.m. Music by Philly’s own DJ King Britt CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS PTV RERUN: Interview With The Candidate MEDIA MATTERS: Lies And Falsehoods About Barack Obama [Special thanks to BarackObobble.com]
PORT AUTHORITY: NJ/PA Dispute Over Who Pays For Dredging The Delaware FINALLY Settled — We Do
ED KASUBA REPORTS: Those close to the negotiations have said the agreement being announced involves Pennsylvania paying for the entire project as well as disposing of all the dredge spoils. Sources also have said a new environmental impact study will be conducted. The Port Authority Board did not meet for the past year and a half because of the dredging stalemate. The Board also commissioned a study to consider the possibility of light rail service along Delaware Avenue, ending up at the South Philadelphia sports complex. KYW: Hey Jersey, This One’s On Us, Jerk-Ass! PREVIOUSLY: “With the congestion at West […]
DEADLY: Fire In The Italian Market Kills ‘Sunday’
MISS FIDGET REPORTS: It was Lombardis Breadstore, on 9th off of Montrose, 935 S Ninth. One woman was found dead in the second floor front room. Some guys from, I think, Canulli’s tried to save her but the flames were too intense. Very sad. I took the photos from 2:34 to approx 3:15 pm today. UPDATE: An intense fire in South Philadelphia’s Italian Market yesterday claimed the life of a 51-year-old woman, fire officials said. Firefighters entered the property and found the dead woman, identified by a family member as Domenica Lombardo. Known around the neighborhood as “Sunday” (the English […]
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…Win Tix To See Son Volt! The City of Philadelphia’s photo archive contains over 2 million images that date back as far as the late 1800s, i.e. the last time a Republican won in this town. In all seriousness, this is an INCREDIBLE visual record of the city’s evolution and a relatively new web site, PhillyHistory.org, is making it available for online consumption and purchase. To date, some 27,000 BILLIONS AND BILLIONS of images have been digitally scanned, at a rate of roughly 2,000 images a month. So, if you’ve been wondering why the line at Kinko’s is so goddamned […]
NPR FOR THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
FRESH AIR Department Of Justice Scandal Spotlights Pat Robertson Law School Pulitizer Prize-winning journalist Charlie Savage of the Boston Globe. He’s been writing about a Christian law school, founded by televangelist Pat Robertson, whose graduates have become influential in the Justice Department. One of those Regent University graduates is Monica Goodling, former top aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Remembering the Rev. Jerry Falwell The Rev. Jerry Falwell, founder and pastor of Lynchburg, Va.’s Thomas Road Baptist Church and an outspoken leader of the Religious right, died yesterday at age 73; we remember him with an interview recorded in the early days of Fresh […]
The Good News: Penn Researchers Find Baldness Cure; The Bad News: It Requires A Headwound
BY TOM AVRIL INQUIRER STAFF WRITER Today, University of Pennsylvania dermatologists report they have indeed performed this feat of biological renewal, regrowing a “mini-organ” that is a sore subject for millions of older men: hair. The researchers, whose findings appear in tomorrow’s issue of the journal Nature, said they cut out small pieces of skin in mice, thereby triggering a genetic pathway that normally goes dormant after embryonic development. New hairs grew on bare patches where follicles had been completely removed, and the process worked especially well when researchers artificially boosted levels of a special signaling protein. So far, the research […]
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HIZZONER ’07: Sam Katz Officially Bows Out Of Mayor’s Race, Says City In Good Hands With Nutter
The email arrived at 11:38 this morning – about 12 hours after Democratic voters chose Michael Nutter as their nominee for mayor. “Not that this will come as a surprise to anyone,” wrote Sam Katz to a reporter, “but I will not be a candidate for mayor in the general election.” Katz, a three-time candidate for mayor, raised that prospect late last month when he quietly changed his registration from Republican to “non-affiliated,” a move that set him up to run as an independent on the November ballot. But after Nutter’s win, Katz says he’s out. INQUIRER: All Is Well That […]