THE DAILY: The lawyer for accused child molester Jerry Sandusky apparently likes his women young. Defense attorney Joe Amendola, 63, representing Sandusky in the sexual molestation case roiling Penn State and Joe Paterno’s legendary football program, impregnated a teenager and later married her, The Daily has learned. According to documents filed with Centre County Courthouse, Amendola served as the attorney for Mary Iavasile’s emancipation petition on Sept. 3, 1996, just weeks before her 17th birthday. The emancipation request said Mary graduated from high school in two years with a 3.69 grade point average and maintained a full-time job — but […]
CONTEST: Win A Copy Of Adam Gopnik’s The Table Comes First: Family, France & The Meaning Of Food
Longtime New Yorker staff writer and Philly Homeboy Adam Gopnik will be at the Free Library on Thursday to promote his new book The Table Comes First: Family, France & The Meaning Of Food. We’ll just wrapped a lengthy Q&A with Gopnik wherein we discussed writing, food, crime and punishment, the necessity of factory farming, the slow dissolve of print into the digital ether, the uncertain future of the New Yorker, the secret world of children’s literature, the enduring power of Tolkien, seeing Hendrix and the Incredible String Band at the Electric Factory, avant garde theater on South Street in […]
NPR FOR THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When U Can’t
FRESH AIR ED WARD: We know now that, starting with Western swing in the 1920s, country-music reflections of popular black music has a long history, so claiming that Elvis Presley was the first successful fusion of the two is just silly. The hillbilly boogie fad, however, has been largely overlooked in that history, although there were hundreds of records made in that style. It started with a guy named Arthur Smith in 1945. “Guitar Boogie” is by Arthur Smith’s Hot Quintet, which recorded it as a goof when there was some time remaining in a recording session. A straight-ahead boogie-woogie […]
SIDEWALKING: The Faces Of #OccupyWallStreet
Zucotti Park, NYC, Monday afternoon by MATTHEW SEPTIMUS
HOT DOC: Sandusky/Costas Interview Transcript
Costas: “Mr. Sandusky, there’s a 40-count indictment. The Grand Jury report contains specific detail. There are multiple accusers, multiple eyewitnesses to various aspects of the abuse. A reasonable person says, ‘Where there’s this much smoke, there must be plenty of fire.’ What do you say?” Sandusky: “I say that I am innocent of those charges.” Costas: “Innocent? Completely innocent and falsely accused in every aspect?” Sandusky: “Well I could say that, you know, I have done some of those things. I have horsed around with kids. I have showered after workouts. I have hugged them and I have touched their […]
CRACKDOWN: People’s Park Returned To The 1%
NEW YORK TIMES: Hundreds of New York City police officers began clearing Zuccotti Park of the Occupy Wall Street protesters early Tuesday, telling the people there that the nearly two-month-old camp would be “cleared and restored” before the morning and that any demonstrator who did not leave would be arrested. The protesters, about 200 of whom have been staying in the park overnight, resisted with chants of “Whose park? Our park!” as officers began moving in and tearing down tents. The protesters rallied around an area known as the kitchen, near the middle of the park and began building barricades […]
WOW: Jeff Mangum Tix Sold Out In 35 Seconds!
R5: We sold out in 35 seconds. No not because of scalpers or some weird hack or secondary market seller. It’s because lots of people wanted to goto the show (obviously). There was no crash or error. Literally thousands of people attempted to purchase tickets right at 12pm. We apologize to those who didnt get tickets and congratulate those who did. No promises but we are working on a potential second show and will keep everyone updated. We’ll try our best ! RELATED: I felt fortunate to be one of the 100-or-so people to see Jeff Mangum play his intimate set […]
U SHAN’T FIGHT CITY HALL: OccupyPhilly Votes For Pointless Confrontation; Mayor Happy To Oblige
[Photo by ROBIN ODLAND] ASSOCIATED PRESS: Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter said Sunday “intolerable” conditions at the Occupy Philadelphia camp and a lack of cooperation among protesters has forced him to beef up police presence at the tent city outside City Hall. The mayor said posting more uniformed officers in the Dilworth Plaza area has become necessary because of growing health and safety concerns and a fractured leadership at the camp that has left the city still pressing the protesters to move to make way for a $50 million construction project. “We are reevaluating our entire engagement and relationship with Occupy […]
SIDEWALKING: What, Me Worry?
Jerry Sandusky, LaGuardia Airport, this morning via TMZ PHAWKER: How is this guy allowed to get on an airplane? Is he not flight risk incarnate? Hang on, this just in… NEW YORK POST: The judge who freed alleged Penn State kid-sex fiend Jerry Sandusky on bail — with no strings attached — is a volunteer with the charity Sandusky mined for victims, it was reported last night. The explosive news came as Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett warned that there are likely more young men out there who were allegedly abused as children by the ex-assistant coach. Pennsylvania district Judge Leslie […]
SUPREME COURT: Bring It
NEW YORK TIMES: Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a challenge to the 2010 health care overhaul law, President Obama’s signature legislative achievement. The development set the stage for oral arguments by March and a decision in late June, in the midst of the 2012 presidential campaign. The court’s decision to step in had been expected, but Monday’s order answered many questions about just how the case would proceed. Indeed, it offered a roadmap toward a ruling that will help define the legacy of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. The court scheduled five and […]
CONCERT REVIEW: Noel Gallagher At The Academy
[Artwork by BAXTER ORR] BY JONATHAN VALANIA FOR THE INQUIRER Noel and Liam Gallagher always understood the importance of being obvious – fist-pumping guitar chords, bass lines that go bump-and-grind in the night, bobblehead drumbeats, “moon in June” rhymes bleated through the clenched teeth of Liam’s gloriously Lennon-esque whine – which is why Oasis ruled Britannia in the ’90s. In 2009, Noel Gallagher finally quit the champagne supernova of post-fame Oasis when the sibling rivalry with Liam escalated to total warfare, and he has just embarked on a solo career marked by the release of Noel Gallagher’s High Flyin’ Birds […]
SH*T MY UNCLE SAYS: America, Harms Dealer
BY WILLIAM C. HENRY “A Manhattan federal grand jury on Wednesday convicted Russian arms trader Viktor Bout of four counts of conspiracy to sell anti-aircraft weapons and other arms to purported Colombian rebels to kill Americans. He faces a term of 25 years to life in prison.” Thus began a Washington Post article last week describing the end of the two-decade-long career of the man known alternately as “Merchant of Death” and “Lord of War,” who shall live out the rest of his day in infamy as the most prolific independent purveyor of illicit weaponry ever to ply the detestable trade. […]
INCOMING: Charlie Murphy’s Law
He’ll be doing a four night run Club Helium starting next Wednesday. We talked to him about Chappelle, Rick James, BJs, LSD, pimps, cancer, Norbit, his wife’s death and who was funnier when they were kids — him or Eddie? Look for it tomorrow on a Phawker near you. UPDATE: Eddie Murphy is dropping out as the host of the Oscars telecast, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences said Wednesday, just one day after the show’s producer, Brett Ratner, stepped aside amid a storm of criticism over his use of an anti-gay slur. The hasty departures represented an […]