TRENTON, N.J. – It took nearly seven hours and the demolition of a bathroom for rescue workers to remove a more than 700-pound woman from her home, officials said. Rescue workers arrived at about 5:45 p.m. Monday to the woman’s home after responding to reports she had fallen and injured herself in her second-floor bathroom, said Trenton Fire Department Battalion Chief Gregory Gore. They didn’t get her out until after midnight. The undertaking ended up involving dozens of emergency medical responders and firefighters from Trenton and neighboring Ewing. Firefighters eventually had to dismantle the toilet and radiator, and rip out […]
Motel Worker Questioned In AC Hooker Serial Killings
EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, N.J. — A former maintenance man at the Golden Key Motel, near where the decomposing bodies of four streetwalkers were found face-down in a muddy sewer ditch in November, underwent a daylong interrogation as authorities searched his Salem County home.The Atlantic County Prosecutors Office would neither identify the man nor confirm whether he was being held in the probe of the four murders. A source confirmed this morning that the daylong interview took place yesterday and that bags of evidence had been collected at the man’s white, woodframe home in Alloway Township in a rural area of […]
THE EARLY WORD: Whip It Good!
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TODAY I SAW…
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 the local media, […]
All Of This Happened While You Were Sleeping
THIN WHITE DUKE OF THE STRATOSPHERE: Sonic Boom, JB’s, Last Night [FLICKR]
MEDIA: Feds Arrest CBS Staffers For Filming Conditions At War Veteran’s Hospital
PHILADELPHIA — TWO CBS 3 staffers were detained Thursday by officers assigned to the Veterans Administration Hospital (39th & Woodland) for videotaping without permission.The pair were caught “in an area of the nursing facility where they were not allowed to be,” Rich Manieri, U.S. Attorney’s office spokesman, told us Friday. A female photographer was fined $150 for disorderly conduct after putting up some sort of struggle when confronted, and was also fined $50 for trespassing and $50 for unauthorized photography. A male producer also received the lesser two fines. VA officers confiscated a videotape from the CBS 3 crew and […]
TONY CONRAD: Ten Years Alive On An Infinite Plain
WIKIPEDIA: Tony Conrad (born Anthony S. Conrad in 1940 in Concord, New Hampshire) is an American avant-garde video artist, experimental filmmaker, musician/composer, sound artist, teacher and writer. His father was Arthur Conrad, who worked with Everett Warner during World War II in designing dazzle camouflage for the US Navy. Conrad’s most famous film, The Flicker (1966), is considered a key early work of the structural film movement. The film consists of only completely black and completely white images, which, as the title suggests, produces a flicker when projected. When the film was first screened several viewers in the audience became […]
MAILBAG: ‘Not if they were giving out free cocaine and BJs’
The following was forwarded to us by a reader, along with the quote above: Dear [Redacted], I received your complaint this morning about our decision to convert the TLA into The Fillmore Philadelphia. Being a huge live music fan myself I can understand your attachment to the TLA name. All I can ask is that you give us a chance. This is not just a name change. We are putting hardwood floors in the club, changing the decor to reflect rock and roll history — and Philadelphia rock history specifically. We are bringing chandeliers into the venue. After select shows […]
CHIX WE DIG: Marty Moss-Coane, Host & Executive Producer of WHYY’s Radio Times & Total Babia Majora
BY JONATHAN VALANIA How do we love Marty? Let us count the ways: The way she picks Philadelphia’s brain every day for two hours, leading listeners through two completely different, but somehow relevant, topics of interest — with confidence, class and MILF-y aplomb. The way she never loses her cool or raises her voice or engages in ad hominem attacks, and expects her guests and callers to do the same; how she enforces that covenant with the gentle firmness of a Cub Scout den mother. The way she and her girlfriends — back when they were teenagers — sometimes went […]
JUNK SCIENCE: A Spring Clean For The May Queen
BY ELIZABETH FIEND The vernal equinox, AKA spring time, occurs when the earth is tilted so that the sun is directly over the equator at high noon. In this momentary balance of light and dark, we are halfway between summer and winter. Mid-points have been celebrated through out the ages and around the world. In ancient Babylon, the New Year occurred at the spring equinox. The ancients of America oriented their giant earthwork mounds to equinox sunrise points. Celtic Pagans lit fires at dawn to cure ills, renew life and protect crops. Today, we party in Cancun. Or we clean. […]
HEAR YE: Amy Winehouse/BACK TO BLACK
“What kind of fuckery is this/You made me miss the Slick Rick gig” — Amy Winehouse, “Me & Mr. Jones” [NOW PLAYING ON PHAWKER RADIO]
LIVE REVIEW: Toots & The Maytals, Sweet & Dandy
BY S. FITZGERALD LODWICK In 1962, Toots Hibbert moved to Kingston, Jamaica and formed the original incarnation of The Maytals. Last night — some 45 years later– the TLA was graced with appearance by the godfather of reggae and the show he put on would shame men half his age. This diminutive, aging Rastafarian played one of the most dynamic two and a half hour sets I’ve ever had the pleasure to witness, and whaled with a voice that sounded like it could easily last another hundred years. As those of royalty often do, Toots showed us, with mellow aplomb, […]