REUTERS: Police said they were seeking several missing people and the toll could rise to 98, in the worst case. Breivik hated “cultural marxists,” wanted a “crusade” against the spread of Islam and liked guns and weightlifting, web postings, acquaintances and officials said. A video posted to the YouTube website showed several pictures of Breivik, including one of him in a Navy Seal type scuba diving outfit pointing an automatic weapon. “Before we can start our crusade we must do our duty by decimating cultural marxism,” said a caption under the video called “Knights Templar 2083” on the YouTube website, […]
SIDEWALKING: This Wheel’s On Fire
Ocean City 9 PM last night by JEFF FUSCO
SH*T MY UNCLE SAYS: The Abortion Of Justice
[Illustration by IMJUST80] BY WILLIAM C. HENRY Guilt “beyond a reasonable doubt” is one thing — not guilty “because I didn’t actually see it happen” is an entirely different matter. More on that later. First, a little background. Why do we seem to be more interested in seating ignorant, uninformed, malleable juries, than in arriving at reasoned, rational verdicts. Why does our criminal justice system place such a premium on seating jurors who know little or nothing about what’s taking place in the world around them? Why does a system that claims to place “fairness” and “equality” on such a […]
CINEMA: Meat The Press
TABLOID (2010, directed by Errol Morris, 88 minutes, U.S.) BY DAN BUSKIRK FILM CRITIC Documentary master Errol Morris’ last couple features were such dark tales that the timing seems right for the good-natured naughtiness of his new film, Tabloid. The still-evolving scandal around Rupert Murdoch and the News of the World threatens to give this film a contemporary resonance but no, Tabloid‘s tale of true love gone criminally awry doesn’t reflect on the the doings of the rabid press. Instead, Morris uses his all-powerful Interrotron to examine Joyce McKinney, the one-time sex pot at the center of the 1977 sex […]
EARLY WORD: The Pot Republic
Watch the full episode. See more FRONTLINE. FRONTLINE’s primetime monthly newsmagazine returns with three new stories, leading with a timely report from the frontlines of marijuana legalization in California. The bulk of the marijuana consumed in the United States used to come across the border from Mexico, Canada and elsewhere. Now, more than half of it is believed to be home grown in California, where an enormous black market has emerged under the cover of the state’s medical marijuana law. With more than a third of all states now experimenting with some form of legalization and decriminalization — and several […]
RIP: Lucian Freud, Searing Portraitist, Dead At 88
[“Francis Bacon” by LUCIAN FREUD] NEW YORK TIMES: Mr. Freud, a grandson of Sigmund Freud and a brother of the British television personality Clement Freud, was already an important figure in the small London art world when, in the immediate postwar years, he embarked on a series of portraits that established him as a potent new voice in figurative art. In paintings like “Girl With Roses” (1947-48) and “Girl With a White Dog” (1951-52), he put the pictorial language of traditional European painting in the service of an anti-romantic, confrontational style of portraiture that stripped bare the sitter’s social facade. […]
EARLY WORD: XpoNentialFestivalidocious
[Photo by DAVID SIMCHOCK] BY MEREDITH KLEIBER The only thing that promises to be more scorching than the weather for the 18th annual XPoNential Music Festival this weekend is the music being played there. WXPN, University of Pennsylvania’s public radio station and home to the beloved World Cafe, will be hosting the three-day festival for a seventh consecutive year at Camden’s Wiggins Park. Festival-goers will enjoy panoramic views of the Philly skyline, particularly breathtaking at sunset, while dancing to musical acts performing on the River Stage. In between River Stage sets, lay your blanket out on the lush grass and […]
SIDEWALKING: Hot Town Summer In The City 2
Cambria Street 11:44 AM yesterday by JEFF FUSCO
EARLY WORD: She And Hymn
BY MEREDITH KLEIBER Most bands typically travel by tour bus, hiring one or multiple drivers to chauffeur them around the country from shows to hotels and vice versa. Lucy Tight and Wayne Waxing, however, don’t really fit the definition of “typical”. Better known as the self-described “stomp-grass punk folk” duo Hymn For Her, Tight and Waxing traverse the country in their 1961 Bambi Airstream, fully loaded with myriad instruments, recording equipment, dog, and four-year-old daughter. The Airstream functions not only as their primary form of transportation, but also as a recording studio — Tight and Waxing recorded their album Lucy […]
JUDAS PRIEST: Open Letter To Archbishop Chaput
PHILADELPHIA SURVIVORS NETWORK OF THOSE ABUSED BY PRIESTS: We were disappointed in how Charles Chaput responded to abuse claims as the archbishop of the Denver archdiocese, especially his work to defeat statute of limitations reform in the Colorado legislature. We suspect that the fears held by church leaders in Philadelphia of similar reform are one of the reasons that Chaput was promoted. However, his past record is not as important as the tone he will set for the future. After years of cover-ups perpetrated by Cardinal Justin Rigali, the Archdiocese of Philadelphia deserves better. Survivors of abuse do not deserve […]
CINEMA: There Will Be Blood
BY ALEX POTTER Terrence Malick averages about one film every seven years, but it’s always worth the wait — he is widely regarded as a director’s director and A-List actors wait in line to work with him. He has not made a film that critics don’t consider great. His new one, Tree Of Life is no exception. If you like that, you’ll like Badlands, Malik’s bleak, beautiful 1973 directorial debut, starring a young and very James Dean-esque Martin Sheen and the always-great Sissy Spacek as young lovers on a killing spree across the American prairie. Set in the Badlands of […]
SIDEWALKING: Hot Town Summer In The City
Love Park by MEREDITH KLEIBER
TOM WAITS: For No One
RELATED: ‘Tom Waits For No One‘ was created when two animators, dying to test out a new use for rotoscope, the method of tracing over live action film frame by frame, happened upon a Tom Waits performance at the La Brea Stage in 1978 purely by accident. After viewing the live show, Bruce Lyon and John Lamb, knew it would be the perfect test song for their unique process. So the pair visited Waits at the infamous Tropicana Motel and after getting the okay, they set to work using five cameras, six takes and 13 hours of footage to assemble […]