NOW PLAYING ON PHAWKER RADIO! WHY? BECAUSE WE LOVE YOU! BY ED KING ROCK EXPERT Please stay with me tonight until I fall asleep. I’m afraid I may be entering the belly of the beast. Unlike you, I’ve never gotten into Cat Power. I’ve got enough of my own troubles; I don’t need to live vicariously through hers. The sultry voice only goes so far with me. The coffee-table soul she’s been getting into over the last couple of releases is better than what she used to do, but I don’t entertain too often. Those few I do entertain want […]
Thieves Open New Drive-Thru Window At Diesel Jeans
PHILADELPHIA (CBS 3) — Philadelphia Police said a pair of brazen thieves used a car to break into a high end clothing store in Rittenhouse Square early Friday morning. Two suspects wearing ski masks reportedly backed their vehicle through the front window of Diesel Jeans near 15th and Walnut Streets just before 6 a.m. “Glass exploded, went everywhere. They hopped out of the car,” said witness Daniel Hancotte. “Both of the guys went inside the store and cleaned off a bunch of shelves.” Hancotte said the thieves pulled up to a nearby mailbox and backed up like they were making […]
POST TV: Life After Cable
BY DAN BUSKIRK FILM CRITIC Me and the wife haven’t looked back after getting rid of the digital cable a year or so ago, what with the ubiquity of DVDs and our entertainment energies drifting towards the internet, television programming has begun to seem superfluous. While killing time with Google’s video search engine recently I was surprised to see that there is a poor man’s “On Demand” function on-line as well. On the Google.com homepage you’ll need to go to the upper left-hand corner and click on “more,” then “advanced search” and from there I chose to search for videos […]
PAPERBOY: ‘10,000 Men Missing In Action’ Edition
BY AMY Z. QUINN Like time, news waits for no man. Keeping up with the funny papers has always been an all-day job, even in the pre-Internets era. These days, however, it’s a two-man job. That’s right, these days you need someone to do your reading for you, or risk falling hopelessly behind and, as a result, increasing your chances of dying lonely and somewhat bitter. That’s why every week, PAPERBOY does your alt-weekly reading for you. We pore over those time-consuming cover stories and give you the takeaway, suss out the cover art, warn you off the ink-wasters and […]
LIVE REVIEW: 5 Reasons Why Vampire Weekend Was Better Than Whatever Overhyped, Pitchfork-Approved, Ivy-League Indie Rocker Show You Saw Last Night
1. Vampire Weekend have not let the hype get to them. Even after hoards of Internet accolades, including the incredibly rare handjob from Pitchfork, the band humbly took the stage, played their songs, smiled a lot, and called it a night before 10:30. Classy fellows, they are. 2. Vampire Weekend, despite their tender age, have already achieved live perfection — each song off of their debut record was recreated with note-for-note flawlessness. Standouts included the opener “Mansard Roof,” the crazy-danceable “A-Punk,” and the sing-a-long “One (Blake’s Got a New Face).” 3. Vampire Weekend’s drummer, Chris Tomson, is a Unitarian! You […]
BREAKING: Back From Black?
Via her publicist: World renowned and 6 time Grammy nominee Amy Winehouse will perform via satellite link-up to the 50th Annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, February 10. Broadcast live from a London studio, Amy will make her hugely anticipated return to the stage. Amy is nominated for an amazing 6 Grammy Awards at Sunday’s ceremony, including Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Pop Female Performance for ‘Rehab’, Album of the Year, Best New Artist, and Best Pop Vocal Album for Back to Black. This is unrivalled for a female British artist. While she had hoped to join […]
We Know It’s Only Rock N’ Roll But We Like It
OXFORD COLLAR: Vampire Weekend, First Unitarian, Last Night [Photo by MICHAEL DONOVAN]
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MEDIA: Dumb & Dumber
BY AMY Z. QUINN For reasons that continue to elude us — newsroom cutbacks, perhaps — The Ottawa Herald, in the great state of Kansas, invited one of their pressmen (the guys that actually operate the giant presses that print the paper) to write a guest Op-Ed about Barack Obama. In the process, all involved manage to perpetuate every bullshit scary Obama The Islamo-Fascist Manchurian Candidate Internet meme in one giant, paranoid, journalistically-retarded swoop. From Wonkette: Well, now comes another bad idea … maybe even worse. The Democratic Party actually intends to put a Muslim fundamentalist in the White House. […]
NPR 4 THE DEF: Giving Public Radio Edge Since 2006
FRESH AIR In 1966, Romanian dictator Nicolai Ceausescu sought to boost his nation’s population by criminalizing abortion, declaring, “The fetus is the property of the entire society… anyone who avoids having children is a deserter who abandons the laws of national continuity.” 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, a new film by director Cristian Mungiu, explores the ramifications of Ceausescu’s ban two decades later; it’s 1987 and two college women negotiate Bucharest’s gloomy, paranoid black market in an effort to secure an abortion. New York Times critic Manohla Dargis calls the film, which won the top prize at this […]
MAILBAG: Question The Parking Authority
DEAR PHAWKER, I just received a parking ticket from Philly [even thought I have] never been there. I live in Fayette County PA. The ticket I received [says that] I never replied to the first one so the fine nearly tripled. I took it to my local state rep. He said he is over run with bogus philly tickets and will do his best to help. After asking around, I have come across several people with the same complaint. [Seems] like Philly is being run by Boss Hog and Rosco. Rich From Pennsyltucky
TONITE: Vampire Can Mating Oven
NOW PLAYING ON PHAWKER RADIO! WHY? BECAUSE WE LOVE YOU! BY ED KING ROCK EXPERT Vampire Weekend play a sold out show at First Unitarian Church tonight. If you can’t get in you’re not alone. Your parents were probably shut out too. The band’s debut album and style of music, which they cheekily refer to as “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa,” “Upper West Side Soweto,” “Campus,” and “Oxford Comma Riddim,” goes down easy, so easy that I’m sometimes reminded of “Escape (The Piña Colada Song).” I’m sure they get more questions about raiding their parents’ Paul Simon and Peter Gabriel record […]
BREAKING: Romney Folds Tent, Goes Home
WASHINGTON POST: Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney will suspend his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, according to sources within his inner circle. A number of those sources said the decision would be announced in his speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee conference this afternoon in Washington, D.C. “I must now stand aside, for our party and our country,” Romney said in remarks prepared for his appearance and released by his campaign. “If I fight on in my campaign, all the way to the convention, I would forestall the launch of a national campaign and make it more likely […]