HELLO NASTY: Beastie Boy, Festival Pier, Tonight

The misery and brutality of Darfur, that most unhappy region in western Sudan, was splashed across the walls of the Constitution Center Monday night, accompanied by eerie, mournful Sudanese traditional music. … The event drew in handfuls of curious passersby and marked the final day of the DARFUR/DARFUR exhibition at the center. DARFUR/DARFUR is a  digitally projected photography exhibition depicting the ongoing genocide in Darfur, Sudan. Every night for the past week  images from  internationally acclaimed photojournalists were projected  on the front facade of the National Constitution Center and on the two west facades on 6th Street. [via DIGPHILLY]

I am a student at a small Midwestern college, I never thought the letters to the Penthouse Forum were true until…Heh-heh. Um, you weren’t supposed to see that. In other news, Phawker has been invited to a special Beastie Boys press conference tonight at the Festival Pier in advance of next week’s tonight’s concert. And in the interest of making New Media your bitch work FOR you, dear readers, WE ARE GONNA LET YOU ASK THE BEASTIE BOYS ANYTHING YOU WANT. How many times have you gotten into an argument with your buds about the Beastie Boys — and been, […]

PHILADELPHIA – Actor, comedian, and former Temple football letterwinner Bill Cosby helped the Owls unveil their new uniforms for the 2007 season on Tuesday at Lincoln Financial Field. Head coach Al Golden and former head coach Wayne Hardin were also on hand to help promote the season opener against Navy on Friday, August 31 at 7:30 PM. The jerseys are solid cherry or white, with collar and sleeve trim in the opposite requisite color. The collars will be trimmed with diamonds to reference Temple founder Russell H. Conwell’s “Acres of Diamonds” lecture. The Temple “T” will be featured at the […]

LOS ANGELES — In an unexpected move, Phil Spector’s attorneys said they could conclude defense testimony today in the music producer’s trial. Spector’s witness list included scientific-evidence heavyweights such as Michael Baden and Henry Lee, and testimony was expected to stretch into next week. But defense attorney Christopher Plourd said yesterday outside the presence of the jury that three or four minor witnesses would be called today to testify about what was discovered on actress Lana Clarkson’s computer. Spector, 67, won’t be called to testify. Prosecutors said they were surprised by the announcement, but would work to have witnesses ready to […]

(CBS News) WASHINGTON Former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld defended himself and took no personal responsibility Wednesday for the military’s bungled response to Army Ranger Pat Tillman’s friendly-fire death in Afghanistan. Rumsfeld, in his first public appearance before Congress since President Bush replaced him with Robert Gates late last year, reiterated previous testimony to investigators that he did not have early knowledge that Tillman was cut down by fellow Rangers, not by enemy militia, as was initially claimed. Tillman’s death attracted widespread public attention because he walked away from a lucrative career in professional football to join the Army after […]

Kinda sucks the high hard one that people have to pay mad money just to have their showbiz dreams shattered. Shame on you, Lil’ Wayne.

Wow! First, Person Of The Year and now this*? We are touched and, well, almost sorry we ever called Time irrelevant and, with its week-long lead time, completely beside the point in the age of nanosecond news cycles. Almost. *Time linked to our John Roberts epilepsy post and, like, a bazillion of people came to Phawker.

First came this video… To which the Edwards campaign responded with this video… And finally, this video… After Nixon’s 1968 Peace Feint, Watergate, Willie Horton (or the toned down version where the scary black man that will rape your wife and kill your family if Michael Dukakis is elected was merely implied, not explicitly shown) Gennifer Flowers, the Great Swiftboat Slander — is anybody starting to notice a pattern here? A lattice of coincidence? A vague constellation of recurrence, perhaps? Happens about every four years…always to the detriment of one party and the benefit of another…Is this ringing a bell? […]