Men, this will serve you well at sea.
DEATH OF A SALESPERSON: 10 Things I Won’t Miss About Tower Customers
By SARA SHERR: 1.Mouth-breathers who hug the cart of refiles that I’m trying to put away. This is the same crap that’s been sitting in the racks for the last two months. If I put a bunch of Keak the Sneak CDs on a cart, does that make them suddenly more attractive and awesomely collectable? 2.People who ask stupid questions in order to make a conversation with me. Yes, we?re going out of business. Nope, there’s nothing left. Yep, that pesky downloading. 3.People who can’t read. I understand the Philadelphia public school system is in a shambles and it’s hard […]
EAKINS STAYS HOME! HOORAY! OUR RICH PEOPLE ARE RICHER THAN THEIR RICH PEOPLE! HOORAY!
As announced yesterday, a consortium of the local moneyed class has pulled out their checkbooks and stopped the Wicked Witch of Walmart from getting her flying monkey paws on our Eakins masterpiece. Maybe next time we can rally $60 million in a coupla weeks to, say, build a new school or put some new books in the Public Library or something. Still, let us applaud the following: Leonore Annenberg ($10 million to the Gross Clinic effort) is the widow of Walter Annenberg, the publisher and U.S. ambassador to Britain. She is the president, chairman, and sole director of the Annenberg […]
SHADES OF JACK AND THE BEANSTALK: You Mean $68 Million Clams Coulda Bought All This Stuff Instead?
FROM ATTYTOOD: 68,000,000: Dollars that could hire 170 new Philadelphia police officers for five years, or 850 officers for one year, based on official estimates of $80,000 a cop for salary, benefits and training. 68,000,000: Dollars that could almost completely close the current yawning budget gap currently faced by the Philadelphia School District, estimated now at $73.3 million. The gap has led to a series of painful cutbacks, such as the elimination of 175 administrative jobs. 68,000,000: Dollars that could hire roughly 124 new social workers for 10 years in city’s Department of Human Services (based on average city salary […]
Cover Wars: Whose Artfag Kung-Fu Is Stronger?
Well, it would appear that the worm has finally turned. After weeks of being shut out by PW, the Daily News and even our own Election Day dead pachyderm cover, CP comes back stronger than ever. Truly, Evan M. Lopez‘s cover illustration is the finest aspirational visual representation of Christmas in the 215 since, like, ever. Seriously, we take our hat off, Sir. Meanwhile, PW‘s cover may well be pink and scrapplicious at first glance, but if you squint real hard you can almost see the marks from the hands-free headset they used to phone this one in. It just […]
CHEAP SUNGLASSES: Diddy Rip Off Local Electro Dude’s Rip-Off Of Kraftwerk? Or Diddy Not?
You be the judge. DIDDY.COM: Look How Rich I Am, Bitches! PREVIOUSLY: Kilroy Waz Herre KRAFTWERK: Take Off Those Aviators And Fight Like A Man!
GAMBLOR: Neighborhood Associations Say Casino Choices Smell Like Graft, Plan Panopoly Of Legal Challenges To This ‘Monkey Business’
To the south, Paul Boni, a board member of the Society Hill Civic Association, said his group will “do all we can to prevent this from happening.”In the case of Foxwoods, they may have leverage. Foxwoods has proposed to mitigate the traffic problems in South Philadelphia with a southbound off-ramp from Interstate 95, an idea that city analysts say has not been approved or funded, and that could cost the public $100 million. But in a Dec. 14 letter to the gaming board, Boni and Donald Ackerman of the Queen Village Neighbors Association noted that their groups are parties to […]
BLACK & WHITE: Cosby In Town Tonight To Scold Black People For Keepin’ It Real, Says Nothing Fabulous About Being Ghetto, So Pull Up Yer Pants And Stop Calling Each Other Nigga, Etc.
[F]or one of his national series of “call-outs,” urging parents and the community to take responsibility, especially for the vulnerable young in the black community.Cosby created controversy in 2004 when he criticized some poor black parents, saying they had failed to stress education or otherwise take responsibility for their children’s behavior, including dropping out of school, getting pregnant, cursing and bandying about the n-word. In a series of gatherings in cities around the country, Cosby has continued to stress personal responsibility. Tonight’s “call-out” will begin at 6 p.m. and is free, but seats are first-come, first-served, said Bilal Qayyum, of […]
Gaming Board Picks Foxwoods And SugarHouse Gang; DiCicco Smells A Rat, Plans To File Suit To Reveal Which Varmints Have Cheese On Their Breath
by KYW’s Mike Dunn The Philadelphia city councilman whose district includes both of the sites chosen says politics, not merit, prompted the Gaming Board?s approvals. And he?s taking it to court. First District councilman Frank DiCicco is disappointed by the two choices -? particularly the selection of the Foxwoods bid for a casino at Delaware Avenue and Reed Street: ?I have always felt that Foxwoods was the worst site.? He says the traffic problems there are already enormous and will only get worse: ?There?s total gridlock today. And (with a casino) you raise the level of vehicles by somewhere between […]
REVIEW: He Coulda Been Somebody
ROCKY BALBOA (2006, directed by Sylvester Stallone, 102 minutes) BY DAN BUSKIRK As the press cheers the return of Rocky Balboa to the big screen, you have to ask yourself: Is the public really crying out for another round with this mug, after 30 years? If the Riverview, the only movie theater in South Philly, draws only a three quarters-filled house at the advance screening, I’d say signs point to this fighter’s legs finally giving out. Hearing the promising advance word, I’ll admit to being vaguely optimistic that, against all reason, the man who wrote the arm-wrestling epic “Over the […]
MOHAMMED RAFI: Jaan Pehechaan Ho
From Ghostworld, of course, and before that, the 1965 Bollywood smoker Gumnaam, but we can’t help but think that if we made John Waters our envoy to Iraq, Baghdad night life would start to look, and for that matter sound, a lot like this. This, Mr. President, is OUR suggestion for the New Way Forward.