Great White Spotted Off The Coast Of Jersey Shore

MYFOXPHILLY:  Beachgoers in Central Jersey may want to be little careful after a great white shark was spotted off the coast of Seaside Heights, N.J., the town made famous by “Jersey Shore.” The 12-foot shark was spotted 200 feet off the coast in Berkeley Township by a fisherman. That’s at the south end of the Seaside Heights beach. Seaside Heights is also the location of MTV’s popular “Jersey Shore” reality TV series.The Coast Guard can’t confirm the sighting independently. Beaches remain open. MORE

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Obama Tosses Chief Economic Advisor Under Bus

LOS ANGELES TIMES: A White House official said the president would have “loved” for Austan  Goolsbee to stay. […] No president likes to lose a trusted confidante — a role Goolsbee played as campaign advisor and then as senior government official. But for Obama, the problem isn’t so much personnel as policy. Goolsbee’s departure comes as a recent spate of troubling economic news is sparking fears that a full recovery could be years away. Unemployment rose to 9.1% in May — its second consecutive monthly increase — and housing prices have dropped to their lowest level since 2002. Obama has […]

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CONCERT REVIEW: The Roots Picnic 2011

[Photo by JONATHAN VALANIA] BY COLONEL TOM SHEEHY Philadelphia has always had its great musical and cultural traditions. From the Mummers and their string bands in the winter, to the Philadelphia Folk Festival and the Welcome America celebration on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway during the summer months, and now Philly has The Roots Picnic on Festival Pier every June. Walking onto the pier, you are at first taken by the sweep of the place. First there is the big stage. Big it surely is, but most importantly, the sound production is outstanding. Next, one would have to notice the floor. […]

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STYLE COUNCIL: Drexel’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design Annual Fashion Show

[Photos by SOCHEATH SUN] BY REBECCA GOODACRE On Saturday night Philadelphia’s Naval Yard played host to probably the most glamorous matriculating class in the city when Drexel University’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design mounted its annual Fashion Show celebrating the work of its most recent graduates.  With an international reputation and a forward-thinking, interdisciplinary approach to design, Drexel Fashion School produces undergrad and graduate collections of undeniable originality and flavor. The fashion show was stage at Urban Outfitters’ Corporate Headquarters and the contemporary décor and design of the building was the perfect backdrop to the several hundred […]

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SH*T MY UNCLE SAYS: Long Live Dr. Death Dignity

[Artwork by JACK ROUX] BY WILLIAM C. HENRY We ought to declare Friday, June 3rd, National Human Rights Day and nickname it JK Day in recognition of one of the human rights movement’s most honorable, tireless and least appreciated champions. It’s the day Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the perennially outgunned “David” in his valiant war against the rights robbing Goliaths of government and religion, finally got his oh-so-well-deserved enduring day of rest. God knows he gave it his best. I, for one, would like to express my sincerest sorrow over the passing of a man willing to spend more than EIGHT […]

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EARLY WORD: The Roots Of The Matter

Click HERE for tickets. You know you wanna! PREVIOUSLY: Like France, the picnic remains proof positive that, despite wild-eyed Tea Party protests to the contrary, socialism actually can work. Everyone brings something, we all share, and everyone lives relatively happily ever after — sometimes anyway. Such was the case at Saturday’s third annual Roots Picnic at the Festival Pier in Philadelphia. Senegal’s horn-y, percussion-heavy Baja and the Dry Eye Crew brought the world beats. Face-painted, ukulele-strumming one-gal-band TuneYards brought the weirdness. New Orleans rapper Jay Electronica brought the conspiracy theories (specifically the damning federal indictment of “Candyman”).  Detroit’s Mayer Hawthorne, […]

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TONITE: The Original Dirty Bomb

BEATPORTAL: After years of a seemingly unbridgeable divide between Detroit’s techno community and the city’s rock ‘n’ roll die-hards, the Dirtbombs come blazing through with a surprising rapprochement. The veteran garage rockers have recently released Party Store, a fiery collection of covers of Detroit techno classics. That’s right: the five-piece band tackles some of the greatest tunes in the canon—A Number Of Names’ “Sharevari,” Cybotron’s “Cosmic Cars,” Innerzone Orchestra’s “Bug in the Bassbin,” and even DJ Rolando’s “Jaguar”—in a bluesy, down ‘n’ dirty fashion complete with dual drum sets and fuzzed-out lead guitar reminiscent of Elvis’ Sun Studios sessions. MORE […]

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CINEMA: Back To The Future

X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (2011, directed by Matthew Vaughn, 132 minutes, U.S.) BY DAN BUSKIRK Certainly a step up from the last X-Men installment in 2006, the somewhat lush X-Men: First Class has so many intriguing elements I’m surprised how its impression vaporized once the film was over. The film is not without ideas: you’ve got the origin of the conflict between one-time friends Magneto and Professor X, the story of the mutant group’s birth, you’ve got Nazi Germany, Las Vegas, the Cuban missile crisis and January Jones decked out in leather like a refugee from Barbarella. Directed by British Matthew […]

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NEIL YOUNG & DEVO: Hey, Hey, My, My

DANGEROUS MINDS: Released only on VHS and Laserdisc in 1995, Neil Young’s film Human Highway, filmed in 1978, contains this marvelous footage of Young and Devo having their way with Hey Hey My My. Match made in heaven sez I ! Enjoy this excellent quality clip before the corporate music police take it down. MORE PREVIOUSLY: ‘NEIL YOUNG’ & SPRINGSTEEN: Whip My Hair PREVIOUSLY: Top 5 Things You Should Know About Neil Young Last Night PREVIOUSLY: DEVOLUTION FOR DUMMIES: Q&A With Mark Mothersbaugh, Composer, Painter, DEVO-lutionist

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WEINERGATE: The Plot Thickens

[Photo by BRANCO] POLITICO: The woman who was sent a lewd photo from the Twitter account of Rep. Anthony Weiner says she doesn’t think the New York Democrat’s account was hacked, but that he may have been trying to send the photo to a porn star with a similar name. Gennette Cordova, a 21-year-old college student from Seattle, posed for a photo shoot with The New York Post on Thursday and shared her side of the story. “Her name is Ginger — it makes sense he might have mixed us up,” Cordova said, referring to Ginger Lee, a stripper and […]

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