NEW YORK TIMES:  People who constantly reach into a pocket to check a smartphone for bits of information will soon have another option: a pair of Google-made glasses that will be able to stream information to the wearer’s eyeballs in real time. According to several Google employees familiar with the project who asked not to be named, the glasses will go on sale to the public by the end of the year. These people said they are expected “to cost around the price of current smartphones,” or $250 to $600. The people familiar with the Google glasses said they would […]

[Illustrations by ALEX FINE] EDITOR’S NOTE: This year Radio Times turns 25. To mark the occasion, The Kal & Lucille Rudman Institute for Entertainment Industry Studies at Drexel University has invited Marty Moss Coane to come celebrate with a live interview career retrospective at Ruth Auditorium (125 Nesbitt Hall) tonight at 6:30. This event is free and open to the public. In honor of Radio Times hitting the quarter century mark, we dug up our Q&A with Marty from 2007. BY JONATHAN VALANIA How do we love Marty? Let us count the ways: The way she picks Philadelphia’s brain every […]

FRESH AIR: One of the fastest-growing online businesses is the business of spying on Internet users. Using sophisticated software that tracks people’s online movements through the Web, companies collect the information and sell it to advertisers. Every time you click a link, fill out a form or visit a website, advertisers are working to collect personal information about you, says Joseph Turow, a professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. They then target ads to you based on that information. On Wednesday’s Fresh Air, Turow — the author of the book The Daily You: How […]

ASSOCIATED PRESS: A group of protesters affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement plans to elect 876 “delegates” from around the country and hold a national “general assembly” in Philadelphia over the Fourth of July as part of ongoing protests over corporate excess and economic inequality. The group, dubbed the 99% Declaration Working Group, said Wednesday delegates would be selected during a secure online election in early June from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. In a nod to their First Amendment rights, delegates will meet in Philadelphia to draft and ratify a “petition for a […]

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POLITICO: Nate Kleinman, the Occupy Philadelphia protester who is running for Congress against Representative Allyson Schwartz, will have to head to court to defend his right to stay on the ballot. Last Tuesday, Kleinman’s campaign submitted more than 1,500 signatures to the election board, meeting the 1,000-signature requirement for entry in the race. But Schwartz’s office is contesting those signatures, and with them Kleinman’s right to run for Congress. “We’re going to court,” Kleinman’s deputy campaign manager Patrick Morgioni told me minutes after Schwartz’s office filed its papers this afternoon. “But I’m very optimistic,” he added. “Case law — and […]

BY COLONEL TOM SHEEHY Bruce Springsteen was a hoarder; he kept things. Whether it was press clippings, leather jackets, album cover mock ups, guitars, reviews from Crawdaddy magazine, or posters and flyers made for some of the earliest gigs he ever played, it seems as if he held on to everything. And now, many of the dozens of Boss artifacts which Springsteen accumulated over the years have been gathered together for the world to see in From Asbury Park to the Promise Land: The Life and Music of Bruce Springsteen, currently on display through September at the National Constitution Center. […]

DAILY NEWS: His life threatened by a “dissident group of Black Muslims,” Malcolm X found himself guarded by a phalanx of city police on his arrival for a late-night radio broadcast with WDAS DJ Joe Rainey on Dec. 29, 1964. It had been a year since Malcolm X broke with the Nation of Islam, and numerous threats had been made against him, including that night at the station, said Wynne Alexander, the daughter of WDAS’ then-general manager Bob Klein. About 75 cops, armed with shotguns and police dogs, combed through the woods around the station, then housed near Fairmount Park, on […]

Today AP explains one of the most vexing mysteries of our time: why is food so delicious?

BY ZIVIT SHLANK JAZZ CORRESPONDENT Philadelphia-based trombonist, composer and local jazz scene advocate Ernest Stuart is a man of ambition and passion.  He’s been an in-demand fixture on the jazz, funk, R&B, neo-soul and hip hop scene for years having played with the likes of The Roots, Billy Paul, Jaguar Wright, Captain Black Big Band and Red Baarat, among others. In addition to maintaining a manic performance schedule, he released his first independent CD last year called Solitary Walker, and produces and arranges for artists including Philadelphia vocalist Chrissie Loftus. Ernest has been co-spearheading an effort that could have immeasurable […]