The HEMP HEALS FOUNDATION is a 501 3(c) non-profit organization created by former Philadelphia Flyer tough guy Riley Cote. Riley’s quest is to help teach people the power of superfoods and the healing properties they possess and to promote a holistic healing approach by eating a nutrient dense diet including superfoods such as hemp seeds. These seeds are a distinct variety of the cannabis sativa plant and are a nutritional powerhouse. To raise public awareness, they hosted the first annual Hemp Heals Festival on Saturday, which featured live music, fine foods and hemp-related vendors. Phawker’s High Times Correspondent N.A. Poe […]

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Illustration by MIKE NUDELMAN via MARIJUANA.COM NEW YORK TIMES: In January, Colorado defied the federal government and stepped with both feet into the world of legal recreational marijuana, where no state had gone before. For seven months Coloradans have been lawfully smoking joints and inhaling cannabis vapors, chewing marijuana-laced candies and chocolates, drinking, cooking and lotioning with products infused with cannabis oil. They are growing their own weed, making their own hash oil and stocking up at dispensaries marked with green crosses and words like “health,” “wellness” and “natural remedies.” Tourists are joining in — gawking, sampling and tripping in […]

  THE NEW YORKER: The Stones had come to the States from England determined to play black R. & B. for a mainly white audience that did not know its Son House from its Howlin’ Wolf. They were already stars, and the T.A.M.I. producers had them scheduled to close the show. James Brown did not approve. “Nobody follows James Brown!” he kept telling the show’s director, Steve Binder. Mick Jagger himself was hesitant. He and Keith Richards were boys from Kent with an unusual obsession with American blues. They knew what Brown could do. In Santa Monica, they watched him from the […]

  BY DALLYN PAVEY It was September 30, 1967 when the Spectrum celebrated its grand opening with the Quaker City Jazz Festival. Herb Spivak [pictured, below left] booked the two day event that opened with Dizzy Gillespie playing the Star Spangled banner. Spivak, the founding partner of the original Electric Factory, originally wanted to be a geologist but soon discovered there were more financial rewards in rock and roll than in rocks so this nice Jewish boy from Wynnefield became the biggest buyer of talent in Philadelphia in the mid 1960s. Spivak remained an owner of Electric Factory Concerts until […]

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THE GUARDIAN: United Nations officials described the killing of sleeping children as a disgrace to the world and accused Israel of a serious violation of international law after a school in Gaza being used to shelter Palestinian families was shelled on Wednesday. At least 15 people, mostly children and women, died when the school in Jabaliya refugee camp was hit by five shells during a night of relentless bombardment across Gaza. More than 100 people were injured. Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, said the attack was “outrageous and unjustifiable” and demanded “accountability and justice”. The UN said its officials […]

  Beginning in September, the Philadelphia Film Society will take you on a two month journey through the acclaimed film works of David Lynch.  Through moderated discussions and in-depth conversations, we will immerse you into Lynch’s universe, featuring an on-stage conversation between Lynch and his long time friend, American journalist Kristine McKenna at the Prince Music Theater during his week-long visit to Philadelphia. This series is presented in conjunction with David Lynch: The Unified Field at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), the first major U.S. museum exhibition of PAFA alumnus David Lynch, on view from September 13, 2014 […]

  INQUIRER: Six Philadelphia police officers were arrested Wednesday in a predawn roundup and charged with robbing, kidnapping, and extorting drug suspects over a nearly seven-year period. The officers all were veterans of a narcotics squad that came under the scrutiny of a joint FBI-Police Department Internal Affairs investigation. According to a 42-page indictment, some of the officers allegedly took part in a game involving beating drug suspects for points. Others held one suspect from a balcony 30-feet above the ground and knocked out his teeth. The arrests come seven months after Ramsey first acknowledged a federal probe was underway […]