GERMANTOWN – June 5, 2007 – Philadelphia’s homicide total jumped by 2 again overnight. Police are investigating a pair of deadly shootings that happened within 15 minutes in Germantown. Around 2 a.m, police were called to the intersection of Broad and Lindley streets in Logan. A 52-year-old man was shot 3 times in the chest. He was taken to Einstein Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Then, about 15 minutes later, another person between 25 and 30 years old was killed in a shooting. The second one happened in Germantown near the intersection of Church Lane and Baynton Street. That […]
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 […]
BREAKING: Scooter Gets 30 Months Behind Bars
WASHINGTON — I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby [NOT pictured], former chief of staff to Vice President Cheney, was sentenced today to 30 months in prison and fined $250,000 for lying to investigators about his role in leaking the identity of an undercover CIA officer. [Appealing for leniency] Theodore V. Wells Jr., the lead defense attorney: “the weight of being so publicly humiliated should factor in to some extent… He has fallen from public grace. It is a tragic fall, a tragic fall.” WASHINGTON POST: Justice Is Served! Come And Get It!
DOPEY: The Bud Was Kind, The Cops Less So
David Pellicott, a resident of 3rd Street near Monroe, was arrested by undercover narcotics cops who had been informed that Pellicott was selling 10 pounds of hydroponic weed for $50,000, according to officials from the Montgomery County District Attorney’s office. Cops searched Pellicott’s Queen Village apartment and recovered $247,450. Officials said the pot Pellicott sold was grown in Canada and contained an especially potent mix of tetrahydrocannabinol — THC — producing a powerful hallucinogenic effect. DAILY NEWS: Reportedly It Made Side Four Of Physical Graffiti Sound Fucking Awesome!
COSBY: ‘Stop Waiting For Jesus!’
Comedian Bill Cosby took to the streets of his native Philadelphia yesterday to rally residents against gun violence, and delivered a defiant challenge to those who believe the solution would be heaven-sent. “Stop waiting for Jesus to come,” he told a crowd of about 300 people from the steps of Bible Way Baptist Church at 52d and Master Streets, and urged the adults to be better parents and guides to children. “The revolution is in your neighborhood . . . in your streets . . . in your apartment . . . in your mind,” he said, telling parents to […]
COPS: ‘Boy In The Bag’ Killed By Dick In A Box
The mother of a little boy whose 1994 murder was so unremarkable that his anonymous corpse lay unclaimed in the Philadelphia morgue for more than a decade pleaded guilty today in his death and agreed to testify against her husband, who she says battered the boy to death. Alicia Willis Robinson, 34, who gave birth to the child who forever will be known as Boy in the Bag, pleaded guilty to a charge of hindering apprehension in exchange for an agreement to serve five years in prison. As part of the plea deal, she will testify against Lawrence Robinson, 38, […]
KILLADELPHIA: One More Dead Since U Went 2 Bed
Philadelphia homicide detectives are looking for a gunman in connection with a mid-afternoon homicide in Logan. It happened just before 3pm outside the Rite-Aid at Broad St. and Wyoming Ave. Police say the man was shot in the thigh and was rushed to Temple University Hospital where he died about 15 minutes later. There is no suspect and no motive in the case at this time. KYW: That Makes 169 Dead In 155 Days
PINK FLOYD: Somewhere Over The Rainbow
Pretty remarkable, really.
NPR FOR THE DEF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
FRESH AIR Husband-and-wife team Win Butler and Regine Chassagne lead the band Arcade Fire [PICTURED], an art-rock outfit that hails from Montreal. The seven-member band, which deploys everything from piano, sax and violin to dobro, harpsichord and hurdy-gurdy, has two albums to its credit: Neon Bible and 2004’s Funeral. PLUS, Steven Bach‘s biography Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl examines the filmmaker who celebrated the Nazi ideal and created the Third Reich’s iconic images in Triumph of the Will and Olympiad. Bach details Riefenstahl’s ruthless, opportunistic ambition, analyzes her “self-righteous entitlement,” and explores her relationships with Hitler, Goebbels and […]
GAYBO: Gee Your ‘Hair’ Smells Terrific!
BY TOMMY ZANE GAYDAR EDITOR When “Hair” debuted on Broadway in April, 1968, it changed the face of the world forever. The self-proclaimed “American tribal love-rock musical” was an ever-growing cacophony of rebellious noise representing race relations, anti-war sentiment and the sexual revolution. America was in the midst of a major cultural rift between the status quo and the non-conformist, and progressive thinking of a younger generation. “Hair” was heard loud and clear, not just on Broadway, but all over the radio with Galt MacDermot’s instantly classic compositions “Aquarius/Let The Sun Shine,” “Good Morning, Starshine” and the emotionally evocative ballad, […]
We Know It’s Only Rock N’ Roll But We Like It
SET THE CONTROLS FOR THE HEART OF THE SUN: Roger Waters On The Dark Side, Wachovia Center, Friday Night [PHOTOBUCKET] BY JONATHAN VALANIA FOR THE INQUIRER It was pretty much 40 years ago today that Sgt. Pepper taught the other bands to play like they were Picassos with guitars, and after that songs were replaced by statements — grandiose, interconnected, deeply ruminative — and albums were no longer mere collections, but high concepts. Arguably, Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon is the highwater mark of rock’s evolution from low pop to high art. Some 34 years after its immaculate […]