INQUIRER: A 15-year-old who reportedly lunged at police with a clothing iron was fatally shot this afternoon by an officer who responded to an emergency call for help from the teen’s mother in their Crescentville home, police said. Vanore said that at about 1:30 p.m., police responded to a 911 call for help on a domestic disturbance at a residence in the 600 block of Brill Street. Shortly after arriving, there was a confrontation with the teen, who “had an object in his hand that he was using as a weapon,” Vanore said. A police source said the object was […]
NEWS CLUES: It’s Like Adderall For Your Eyeballs
AWOL G.I. BUSTED IN GREAT PUMPKIN HEIST BENTLEYVILLE, Pa. — A soldier accused of deserting the Army and two other men tried to steal a 200-pound pumpkin from a grocery store, state police said. A trooper on patrol early Thursday saw a pickup truck driving fast out of the store parking lot with two men drinking beer in the truck bed next to the giant gourd, police said. One of the three men, Jordan Ivill, was arrested on a warrant accusing him of leaving the base at Fort Benning, Ga., without leave, police said. Summons charging the two other men […]
MISSION OF BURMA: Let My People Go!
[illustration by ALEX FINE] ASSOCIATED PRESS: A relentless crackdown on Myanmar’s pro-democracy activists showed no sign of easing with the junta announcing yesterday that 78 more people have been detained in spite of global outrage and new sanctions. The latest arrests, reported by the state-run New Light of Myanmar newspaper, brought to nearly 1,000 the number of people the military regime acknowledges holding in detention centers. In addition, it says 135 Buddhist monks remain in custody. RELATED: Who Swats A Butterfly With A Sledgehammer? U.S. CAMPAIGN FOR BURMA: Sign Their Petition For U.N. Action Here JIM CARREY: The Eternal Sunshine […]
VOX POPULI: People Are Strange
From Philly.com a few minutes ago: Hard to say what is more shocking and appalling: That 1502 people actually took the time to vote on such an issue or that 789 people actually want to duly deputize the underpants police. What’s next? Bad breath? Problem hair? Is this what you people want?
WORTH REPEATING: Dead Letter Office
BY DAN RUBIN INQUIRER COLUMNIST What happened to the mailboxes? That’s what Republican committeeman Jim Finnegan wanted to know this summer as he made his twice-a-week rounds through the narrow streets around Kensington and Allegheny. “There used to be three in front of the 7-Eleven at Kensington and Ontario,” Finnegan says. “Then one at Jasper and Ontario, one at Frankford and Ontario, and then one at Jasper and Westmoreland.” That was a few months ago. Now they’re gone. All told, he says, a dozen mailboxes from his division have disappeared. The U.S. Postal Service says it’s aware of the situation. […]
KILLADELPHIA: 4 More Dead Since U Went 2 Bed
INQUIRER: Early this morning, a man was shot dead on the 3900 block of Aspen Street in the city’s Mantua section, police said. The homicide was the fourth in the city since Friday. Early Saturday morning, a boy and a man were killed outside a North Philadelphia nightclub, and last night a man was arrested for fatally stabbing his brother yesterday. This morning’s victim was Theodore Jenkins, 36, who lived on the 3900 block of Reno Street, a few blocks north of Aspen. He was found at about 1:47 a.m., shot several times in the torso, and was pronounced dead […]
CINEMA: Masked & Anonymous
You could begin the story of Todd Haynes’s Dylan movie at the very beginning, about seven years ago, while Haynes was driving cross-country in his beat-up old Honda. But since Todd Haynes?s film about Dylan is as much about Todd Haynes as it is about Dylan (or maybe even more); and since Haynes is a filmmaker who, in midcareer at age 46, is doing his best to take the experimental into the multiplex; and, further, since those who don’t like the film are likely to consider it a kind of gorgeous indulgence, a bizarre experiment, the temptation is to skip […]
HOLLA: Jay-Z Finds 100th Problem & Bitch Ain’t It
BY JAMES DOOLITTLE If only the fine folks over at Jump the Shark weren’t so television-centric, they’d assuredly recognize that these last few weeks marked a bevy of downtrending “career defining moments” in the lives of hip-hop royalty…and Lansdale’s own Dwight Grant, whose run-ins with Johnny Law are more on point than anything birthed from his creative loins, if only sitcomish by design.Then again, considering how formulaic and rote hip-hop careers have become, why the hell aren’t they TV shows? * JIGGA WHAT? (Tuesday, 9PM – FOX): Beyonce questions Jay‘s manhood after Rocawear loses naming rights to the clothing line […]
MAILBAG: It’s A Fat, White, Closeted Thing…
DEAR PHAWKER, Oh please, what a stretch this is. Is shows the bias and desperation of the liberal media. Any thinking reasonable person can see there is absolutely no link between Lou Pearlman’s alleged sexual activities and donating money to a political candidate. It’s an orchestrated attempt to elect Democrats. How stupid do they think we are? DON L [The answer to your question is: Anybody voting Republican that is NOT white, super-rich and hiding something is, in our estimation, like a turkey voting for Thanksgiving. Just callin’ ’em as we see ’em. — The Ed. ]
SWEENEY TODD: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street
Directed by Tim Burton, starring Johnny Depp & Helena Bonham Carter. Due out Christmas.
WORTH REPEATING: Battlefield Of Dreams
“It had been four days since Meghan O’Sullivan left her job at the White House. Just four days since she gave up her Secret Service pass, her classified hard drive and her entree to the president. Four days since she gave up any day-to-day responsibility for Iraq. Too soon, evidently, for the dreams to end. “In fact, I was dreaming about Iraq last night,” she said. “And I woke up and thought, ‘When do you think this will stop?’” As President Bush‘s top Iraq adviser while the war sank into an abyss over the past few years, O’Sullivan lived it […]