RADIO TIMES WITH MARTY MOSS-COANE A multi-year Federal investigation into State Senator Vincent Fumo has resulted in a 139-count indictment that alleges he defrauded the state Senate out of $1 million, used a nonprofit group for personal and political gain, and conspired with his staff to engage in an elaborate cover-up. Marty will talk with two Philadelphia Inquirer reporters who have followed the investigation, CRAIG McCOY and JOHN SHIFFMAN. INDICTMENT: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA VS. VINCENT FUMO [PDF]
GAYBO: My Bologna Has A First Name; Norwegian Woody’s; Paris Is Burning & We Don’t Need No Water
BY TOMMY ZANE Woody’s, the Judy Garland of of Philly cocktailing, has a new look, some new staff and new owners, so I finally dragged my ass over there to check out what all the bitching is about. The first floor looks the same, without some of the nasty bartenders I had grown to hate. So far, so good. The drink prices are up and the drinks are much weaker — thumbs down, new owner Michael Weiss. If there was one thing Bill Wood was known for in Philly, it was a strong drink. Even straight friends went there knowing […]
PHYSICAL GRAFFITI: Suffer The Children
13th & South, October 22, 2006 [Photo by MooCat] ASSOCIATED PRESS: Marine Chopper Down, All Seven Aboard Killed
You’re A Good Man, David Lynch
David Lynch on Product Placement WARNING: F-bombs.
1.5 Million Women To Sue Pants Off Wal-Mart
SAN FRANCISCO Feb 6, 2007 (AP)? A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest private employer, must face a class-action lawsuit alleging as many as 1.5 million former and current female employees were discriminated against in pay and promotions. The ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholds a 2004 federal judge’s decision to let the nation’s largest class-action employment discrimination lawsuit go to trial, possibly exposing the Bentonville, Ark.-based retailing powerhouse to billions of dollars in damages. “Plaintiff’s expert opinions, factual evidence, statistical evidence and anecdotal evidence present significant proof of a […]
ROY ORBISON: In Dreams
A candy colored clown they call The Sandman.
WINTER COMES JUST ONE DAY A YEAR
So quit whining. Seriously.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: First, let me say we are positively flattered to rank up there with Monkeyfister and Daily Pulse — feels like we’ve arrived. Second, ordinarily we couldn’t care less if this guy fucked rocks, as long as the rocks were consenting adults. Whatever gets you through the night, man. But this guy runs with a pack of Christo-fascist Elmer Gantrys that used their considerable influence over their mega-church flocks to whip up a lot of misinformed and gullible people into a baseless hysteria about gay people, just so they could turn out the vote for their RNC taskmasters. We […]
EARLY WORD: SUGAR DITCH REVISITED
Yo La Tengo After Party: Troc Tix Stubs Gets You In For Half Price
NPR FOR THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
RADIO TIMES Marty speaks with MICHAEL OREN about his new book, ?Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1176 to the Present.? He is a senior fellow at the Shalem Center. His last book, ?Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East? won the Los Angeles Times Book Award. FRESH AIR ON WHYY When Elif Shafak’s novel The Bastard of Istanbul was published in her home country, the best-selling author was accused of “public denigration of Turkishness.” She was eventually acquitted. ALSO, In his new book, Dr. Michael Stein uses the stories […]
MIRACLE CURE: Ted Haggard, Disgraced Evangelical Preacher, Now “Completely Heterosexual,” Thank God
DENVER – One of four ministers who oversaw three weeks of intensive counseling for the Rev. Ted Haggard said the disgraced minister emerged convinced that he is “completely heterosexual.” Haggard also said his sexual contact with men was limited to the former male prostitute who came forward with sexual allegations, the Rev. Tim Ralph of Larkspur told The Denver Post for a story in Tuesday’s edition. “He is completely heterosexual,” Ralph said. “That is something he discovered. It was the acting-out situations where things took place. It wasn’t a constant thing.” Ralph said the board spoke with people close to […]