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JUDGE SETS DATE FOR FUMO CORRUPTION TRIAL
PHILLY.COM: U.S. Senior District Judge William H. Yohn Jr. yesterday scheduled the corruption trial of state Sen. Vince Fumo and three associates for next Feb. 25.
We Know It’s Only Rock N’ Roll But We Like It
SMASH YR. HEAD ON THE INDIE-ROCK: Sebadoh Reunion, North Star, Last Night BY SIMONE SECCI FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT I’m not going to hide my excitement about seeing live one of my favorite band since I was 14, that implicates I guess that I can’t be totally neutral in judging their show and also that my expectations about it were pretty big. First band I found in front of me when I got to the North Star bar is Bent Moustache from Holland. They are, I have to say, a very powerful and unstoppable noisemaking machine, growling and sharp bass and guitar […]
MEDIA: Philebrity Crows ‘EXCLUSIVE,’ Bets Ranch On Anonymous Source, Already Planning ‘Viking Funeral’
BREAKING/PHILEBRITY EXCLUSIVE: PW BOUGHT BY VILLAGE VOICE! This is what we are hearing from a top-level source, and how we are hearing it definitively before DMac did is just confusing and sad. Oh well. Au revoir, bitches! PREVIOUSLY: The Case Of The Vanished Owner, The Silent V.P. & The Newspaper That Got Scooped On Its Own Sale, Possibly
COMING SOON: DEVOlution For Dummies
An in-depth Phawker Q&A with Mark Mothersbaugh, founder of DEVO, scorer of just about every movie you have ever seen, and acclaimed visual artist. Look for it Friday!
700 Pound Trenton Woman Falls Down, Can’t Get Up
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 […]