A Complete Guide To Filming Cops Behaving Badly

Artwork by SHEPERD FAIREY ACLU: Taking photographs of things that are plainly visible from public spaces is a constitutional right – and that includes federal buildings, transportation facilities, and police and other government officials carrying out their duties. Unfortunately, there is a widespread, continuing pattern of law enforcement officers ordering people to stop taking photographs from public places, and harassing, detaining and arresting those who fail to comply. Learn more » Your rights as a photographer: When in public spaces where you are lawfully present you have the right to photograph anything that is in plain view. That includes pictures […]

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NPR 4 THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t

  FRESH AIR Author of the bestseller Four Fish, Paul Greenberg explores why most of the fish Americans eat is imported while much of the fish Americans catch is exported and the implications of this imbalance in his new book American Catch: The Fight For Our Local Seafood. What’s the most popular seafood in the U.S.? Shrimp. The average American eats more shrimp per capita than tuna and salmon combined. Most of that shrimp comes from Asia, and most of the salmon we eat is also imported. In fact, 91 percent of the seafood Americans eat comes from abroad, but […]

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Former NSA Chief General Keith Alexander’s Response To The Snowden Disclosures? Ka-CHING!

Illustration by DONKEY HOTEY PHAWKER: Why give away the NSA’s secrets for free when you can make Wall Street pay through the nose for them? WIRED: Cybersecurity firms and snake-oil salesmen promising protection from online threats are ubiquitous these days, and it’s hard to stand out in such a crowded field—unless you’re the former leader of the world’s best hacking outfit. In that case, the promises you sell carry more weight—and a higher price tag. Which may well explain why Gen. Keith Alexander, the former head of the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command, has launched the consulting firm IronNet Cybersecurity. […]

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CINEMA: Skeleton Twin Powers Activate!

This looks promising. Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader are twin siblings navigating an awkward reunion after a 10-year estrangement. Wiig is quirky and conflicted — big stretch, right? — and Hader is gay and bitchy-but-funny, sorta like Stefon when he goes home to Long Island for Christmas and has to put the flaming party monster persona on ice for a few days. Co-starring Luke Wilson as Wiig’s ever-patient bo-hunk love interest. Some bad ’80s dreck lip-synching required. In the hands of any other actors this premise would be insufferable. It comes out September 19th. Can’t wait to see it.

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CORPORATE RIGHTS VS. INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS: All-Male SCOTUS Majority Votes To Allow Corporations To Deny Women Access To Health Care Procedures They Deem Too Slutty Or Sinful

  NEW YORK TIMES: The Supreme Court ruled in a 5-to-4 decision on Monday that requiring family-owned corporations to pay for insurance coverage for contraception under the Affordable Care Act violated a federal law protecting religious freedom. The decision, which applied to two companies owned by Christian families, opened the door to challenges from other corporations to many laws that may be said to violate their religious liberty. The coverage requirement was challenged by two corporations whose owners say they try to run their businesses on religious principles: Hobby Lobby, a chain of crafts stores, and Conestoga Wood Specialties, which […]

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RIP: Bobby Womack, Holy Soul Man, Dead @ 70

  NEW YORK TIMES: Bobby Womack, who spanned the American soul music era, touring as a gospel singer in the 1950s, playing guitar in Sam Cooke’s backup band in the early ’60s, writing hit songs recorded by Wilson Pickett and the Rolling Stones and composing music that broke onto the pop charts, has died, a spokeswoman for his record label said on Friday night. He was 70. Mr. Womack, nicknamed the Preacher for his authoritative, church-trained voice and the way he introduced songs with long discourses on life, never had the million-record success of contemporaries like Pickett, Marvin Gaye, Al […]

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TONIGHT: Pawk The Caw In The Hawba

  UWISHUNU: This weekend, the Delaware River Waterfront will transform from an urban riverside into a lush oasis with the grand opening of Spruce Street Harbor Park, the new pop-up park at Spruce Street and Columbus Boulevard. From Friday, June 27 through Sunday, August 31, the Delaware River Waterfront Corporation — the folks that brought us this past winter’s Waterfront Winterfest at the Blue Cross RiverRink — turns the Penn’s Landing Marina at Columbus Boulevard and Spruce Street into a pop-up summertime village. Considerably upgrading the perennial good times of summer on Penn’s Landing, Spruce Street Harbor Park provides a […]

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Q&A: Meet Bridget Everett, ‘C*nt-Rock’ SuperStar

  BY CHIARA MATRICCINO If it’s true that well-behaved women rarely make history, comedian/cabaret singer/self-described “cunt-rock”-er Bridget Everett is one for the history books. She is large and in charge and refuses to apologize for it. Instead, she owns it. Owns the shit out of it, to be exact. Onstage, she brings new meaning to the saying “shake what your mama gave ya.” Hilarity invariably ensues. Everett grew up in Manhattan, Kansas, where the notion of becoming a celebrated cabaret performer in New York City was but a pipe a dream. And yet, that’s exactly what she’s done. In addition […]

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Supreme Court Rules That Buffer Zones At Abortion Clinics Violate The First Amendment, But The Buffer Zone Around SCOTUS Does Not

Illustration via THE DAILY BANTER WASHINGTON POST: The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously struck down protest-free buffer zones around abortion clinics in Massachusetts as an unconstitutional infringement on free speech. But Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.’s ruling was a narrow one, pointing out that other states and cities had found less-intrusive ways to both protect women entering clinics and accommodate the First Amendment rights of those opposed to abortion. MORE THE WIRE: The new rules [about American citizens exercising their First Amendment rights outside of the Supreme Court] are more specific. They ban “demonstrations” from the plaza, which are […]

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