BY DAVE ALLEN 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 steer […]
CINEMA: Guess Who’s Coming To The White House
ANDREW’S VIDEO VAULT @ The Rotunda 4014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia PAThursday November 13th 2008 8PM Free! THE MAN (1972, directed by Joesph Sargent, 93 minutes, U.S.) HAIL (1973, directed by Fred Levinson, 88 minutes, U.S.) BY DAN BUSKIRK FILM CRITIC Thirty-six years ago, it took the mind of Twilight Zone-creator Rod Serling to imagine the audacious history we’re now living. His 1972 script for The Man tells the story of the first African American President of the U.S. and there could be no more timely booking for this obscurity’s reappearance than tonight on a Presidential double-bill at Andrew’s Video Vault. […]
ROGUING: Sarah Palin STILL Hating On Ayers
[CNN TRANSCRIPT 11/12/08] BLITZER: Because, you know, during a campaign, every presidential campaign, things are said, it’s tough, as you well know, it gets sometimes pretty fierce out there. And during the campaign, you said this, you said: “This is not a man who sees America as you see it and how I see America.” And then you went on to say: “Someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he is palling around with terrorists who would target their own country.” PALIN: Well, I still am concerned about that association with Bill Ayers. And if anybody […]
BREAKING: PW Dumps Editor
THIS JUST IN: Tim Whitaker is no longer Editor of Philadelphia Weekly. DAN GROSS: Adamma Ince has replaced Tim Whitaker as the editor of Philadelphia Weekly, the paper’s parent company Review Publishing announced this evening. Whitaker, who led the newspaper since 1994 when it was still known as the Welcomat, learned today that he was being replaced. He has not returned a message we left at his home this afternoon. Ince spent 12 years at the Village Voice which she left last year as the New York weekly’s deputy managing editor. Anthony A. Clifton, the Englishman who owns Review, says he’s […]
ARTSY: A Hip Gallery Grows In The Dirty South
BY ELIZABETH FLYNN I’m sort of prejudiced about South Philly. I happen to think it’s the coolest neighborhood in town. When I moved here as a disgruntled center city bohemian — having been gentrified out of my fabulous CC apartment after 9/11 — it was still very Italian and Old World. But in the last five years I’ve watched the neighborhood change drastically as an influx of hipsters and Mexicans moved in to take advantage of the cheap rent and convenient access to the rest of the city. The recent evolution of 9th St from Federal to Washington is living […]
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NATIONAL ENQUIRER: C-Mac Cheating On J-Mac?
NATIONAL ENQUIRER: The ENQUIRER’s exclusive bombshell expose as Sen. John McCain‘s wife, Cindy, is caught with another man! Not only that but multiple witnesses have caught the pair lip locking on several other occasions. “I couldn’t believe I was watching Cindy McCain passionately kissing and hugging another man!” That’s the stunned reaction of an eyewitness who says he watched in shock – and snapped photos – as the former presidential candidate’s wife romantically kissed a long-haired man who resembles “a washed-up ’80s rock musician.” Sources told The ENQUIRER investigative team the pair have been seen at concerts and sporting events […]
TONITE: Gargle In The Rat Race Choir*
Complaining is the release valve on life’s daily shit storm. It makes you feel better and sometimes it even brings change. Plus, it’s a great way to meet kindred souls with like-minded axes to grind. Tonight, the First Person Arts Festival, the only annual festival dedicated completely to documentary and memoir styled art, happens to be serving up a kvetching, grumbling, whining ensemble gathering for one purpose and one purpose only: to complain. The idea of a complaint choir was first hatched by two Finnish artists back in 2005. There happens to be a phrase in Finish that literally translates […]
HOT DOC: Apply Now For Your Piece Of The Bailout
TAXPAYERS FOR COMMON SENSE: Got a pen? Taxpayers for Common Sense has obtained the application needed to get a piece of the bailout pie. We’re all for streamlining and paperwork reduction, but at only two pages long, it’s shorter than some credit card applications. And you could get up to $25 billion. Don’t worry about oversight. Since the Inspector General position for the bailout requires congressional confirmation, the spot hasn’t been filled. Nor has a joint House-Senate special oversight committee.Bills and Change Don’t delay, applications are due by 5:00 pm on November 14, and there’s still $125 billion out there […]
NEWS CLUES: Like A Federal Bailout Of The Truth
UNSPEAKABLE ACTS: Husband Killed, Wife Raped In Upper Darby Home Invasion The “sadistic and brutal” attack began about 8:15 p.m., when a man broke into the couple’s home on Copley Road near Sansom Street while they were asleep upstairs, Chitwood said. The assailant beat the couple and demanded money from them, police said, and after they gave him all they had, he demanded more and continued to beat them. Bound with electrical wires from their own home, the couple was dragged downstairs, where they were stabbed and beaten with objects that police declined to identify. The assailant sent the wife […]
NPR 4 THE DEF: Giving Public Radio Edge Since 2006
FRESH AIR Since joining the Howard Stern Show in 2001, comic and actor Artie Lange has revealed his personal demons to millions of radio listeners. His new book, Too Fat To Fish, recounts anecdotes from Lange’s past, from his stint as a cab driver in New Jersey to his struggle with drug addiction, obesity and depression. Born to a working-class Italian-American family, Lange was a regular on the sketch comedy show Mad TV. His film credits include Elf, Old School and Beer League, which he wrote and starred in. PREVIOUSLY: God Save Artie Lang, Please FRESH AIR In early June […]
All This Happened When You Were Somewhere Else
HAIL MARY: You Better Gotta Believe, Victory Parade, Oct. 31st [photo by ELIZABETH FIEND]
THE SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS: Whatever Happens In Room 315 Stays In Room 315, Part 1
ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL: We Don’t Get No Education BY JEFF DEENEY Room 315 is a dumping ground of sorts; here are sent the students nobody else can or wants to teach. They are chronically truant, emotionally damaged, academically stunted and so disruptive that their presence makes mainstream classes unteachable. They haven’t yet offended badly enough for the School District to send them to Community Education Partners, or CEP, as the city’s three privately run discipline schools are called. CEP has a reputation for its hard-nosed student body and is sometimes less favorably referred to in the neighborhood as […]