ASSOCIATED PRESS: A bank has foreclosed on a $615,000 condominium owned by the head of the Philadelphia Housing Authority, who earned $350,000 last year leading the nation’s fourth-largest public-housing agency. Carl R. Greene, PHA’s executive director, bought the three-bedroom, 2,100-square-foot condo in the upscale Naval Square development in 2007. He put down $215,000 in cash and took out a $400,000 mortgage, city records show. Greene, 53, stopped making payments on or around April 1, and three months later owed more than $7,500 in missed payments and late fees, according to the bank’s July 27 lawsuit. MORE INQUIRER: Top Philadelphia Housing […]

BY JAMIE DAVIS MGMT are indie’s white knight.  Maintaining their cred whilst demolishing commercial radio and MTV, and the whole time managing to act like they really couldn’t care less.  The first album was brilliant, the second album was still brilliant, although completely bizarre, and MGMT remain beloved by almost everyone.  However, at their show Sunday night at The Mann it just didn’t seem to quite carry over.  In short, I was not feeling it, and I suspect neither were they. The Mann Music Center, with it’s tight-as-fuck security and boxed in seats designed for (I’m guessing)  enjoying Brahms with […]

BY MAVIS LINNEMANN We’ve all experienced it: You order the grilled chicken at your favorite restaurant and instead of a juicy, succulent, slightly smoked chicken breast, out comes a dry, bland, tough culinary abomination. It’s one of those menu items I avoid at all costs (even though it’s often the healthiest option) just because I’m afraid of what the final product might taste like. How do you avoid dry, tasteless grilled chicken? As cooks, we have a number of options: 1) Use bone-in chicken breasts and thighs because the bones help keep the poultry moist; 2) carefully monitor the internal […]

WIRED: The owner of an internet service provider who mounted a high-profile court challenge to a secret FBI records demand has finally been partially released from a 6-year-old gag order that forced him to keep his role in the case a secret from even his closest friends and family. He can now identify himself and discuss the case, although he still can’t reveal what information the FBI sought. Nicholas Merrill, 37, was president of New York-based Calyx Internet Access when he received a so-called “national security letter” from the FBI in February 2004 demanding records of one of his customers […]

RELATED: What Darren creates could be loosely defined as outsider music, the audio equivalent of outsider, or naive, art–a guileless tradition of untrained far-flung visionaries creating homespun works that defy the precepts of the academy and fly below the radar of the gallery circuit. Unschooled, idiosyncratic and often drug-damaged or clinically insane, outsider musicians are also blissfully unaware of the limitations of pitch, rhythm and melodic order–a freedom that sometimes enables them to break on through to new realms of sonic expression. Planting their freak flag in deep left field, outsider musicians command tiny yet rabid cults of fandom with […]

Susquehanna Center, Camden, Friday, 6:32 PM by Scott Colan RELATED: Original Kiss members Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons have always, and quite unashamedly, positioned themselves as entertainers rather than musicians, and Kiss as a brand as much as a band. So to them, sticking to the makeup, spandex, and platform boots they put back on in the mid-1990s and the pyrotechnics they’ve been peddling since the ’70s isn’t a lack of progress – it’s giving the people what they want. It’s good business sense. And considering the pitiful summer concert business of 2010, maybe it really is good business sense […]