WHO/WHAT: Slice (Italian Market location) WHERE: 1180 South 10th Street, Philadelphia PA 19147 (10th and Federal) CUISINE: Genuine Italian South Philly Pizza Pie VIBE: Humble, low key, simplicity. The interior is a combination between a pizza parlor and an upscale Italian restaurant, offering a full view of the kitchen where you can actually watch your food get made fresh. Weather permittig, I always bypass the indoor dining for the outdoor tables that offer a surprisingly scenic view of Capitolo Park. The staff is astonishingly friendly, offering a family atmosphere where everyone from the wait staff to the owner has […]

  New Vile viddy directed by Tom Scharpling — he of the shot-by-shot remake of Til Tuesday’s “Voices Carry” video — and featuring our boy Collin Keefe, ex-Grubb Street blogger, as royal thug/yes man for the Fresh Prince of Fishtown.

  City Hall, yesterday by JIM MACMILLAN

  VICE: Anyway, Bowie finally came out of the backroom surrounded by his minions, who seemed to have doubled in size behind the closed door. As he was bidding Andy a fond farewell, I slipped over to him and said, “Mr. Bowie, I was wondering if you’d be willing to do an interview for PUNK…” Without speaking, Bowie grabbed the Suicide record out of my hands and his entourage swept him down the hall, into the elevator, and outside to a waiting limo, which presumably swept him off to the next fabulous event. I didn’t even have time to say, […]

  THE GUARDIAN: The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America’s largest telecoms providers, under a top secret court order issued in April. The order, a copy of which has been obtained by the Guardian, requires Verizon on an “ongoing, daily basis” to give the NSA information on all telephone calls in its systems, both within the US and between the US and other countries. The document shows for the first time that under the Obama administration the communication records of millions of US citizens are being collected […]

  Howdy. Posting will be light today. Got a very full interview schedule today including noted Constitutional scholar/Supreme Court expert/George Washington Law School professor/Brookings Institute Fellow/legal affairs editor for the New Republic/ex-New Yorker staff writer and frequent New York Times Magazine contributor Jefferey Rosen, who’s now running the NCC, and this lady, who plays the TLA on June 20th. She should be calling in a few minutes. If you don’t hear from me in a few hours, send lawyers, guns and money.

  USA TODAY: Black people are arrested for possessing marijuana at a higher rate than white people, even though marijuana use by both races is about the same, the American Civil Liberties Union reports in a new study. The analysis of federal crime data, released Tuesday, found marijuana arrest rates for blacks were 3.73 times greater than those for whites nationally in 2010. In some counties, the arrest rate was 10 to 30 times greater for blacks. An overall increase in marijuana possession arrests from 2001 to 2010 is largely attributable to drastic increases in arrests of black people, the […]