Tomorrow, Bono comes to town to accept the 2007 Liberty Medal at the National Constitution Center. Of course your humble correspondent will be there, though the wireless situation on-site doesn’t sound promising so you may have to wait until it’s over. That’s ai’ght, it builds character. Actually, there are two recipients of the $100,000 prize, Bono and DATA, for their joint efforts to fight poverty and disease in Africa. President Bush v. 1.0 (the Constitution Center’s chairman) will present Bono, while National Constitution Center CEO Joe Torsella will do the honors for Jamie Drummond, DATA’s executive director. The webcast begins […]
You Might Feel Some Pressure: City’s Official Boob-Crusher FOUND! ‘Girls’ Breathe Sigh Of Relief
Caught this earlier today on Heard In The Hall: The “out of control” Philadelphia Health Department lost a $67,000 mammogram machine, does not keep track of its prescription drug deliveries, and fails to remove expired drugs from its prescription stocks, City Controller Alan Butkovitz said Tuesday morning in releasing an audit of the beleaguered agency. Read the report here. But fret not, uninsured Philly women at risk of breast cancer! Your crack civil servants (the breast and brightest?) are on the case and the machine has been found! Jeff Shields updates: In order to avoid widespread panic, we inform you […]
EARLY WORD: In One Ear And Out The Other
Fujiya & Miyagi TOMORROW at JB’s, w/Dirty On Purpose $12. R5
HOLLA: THE MONSTER MILE, PART I
BY JAMES DOOLITTLE 10: 15 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 23 The first thing you note is just how gorgeous a day it truly is, with the sun all hot and bothered, yet it’s oh so cool in the shade of your ride’s interior. It’s the kind of Sunday morning that almost makes you want to go to church. Almost. Being indoors would place you away from Mother Nature’s good intentions, and in much the same situation as your current one — trapped in a stuffy congregation, inching along in a 10-mile procession toward an exit ramp that in all likelihood doesn’t […]
CINEMA: Super Happy Japan Rock Fun Time!
Between “The War” and “Dancing With The Stars,” anyone leaning toward the “total nerdbucket” end of the cultural scale will be at home in front of the ‘tube tonight. No worries, that just means more room for you at the International House, which at 7 p.m. shows the rare 1968 Japanese rock film Go Forward! BY DAN BUSKIRK FILM CRITIC The Beatles are so ubiquitous 37 years after their break-up that their music finds ways to wriggle into your life whether one invites them or not. So where can a fan go after they’ve worn out their records and the […]
Tough Boys Running The Street, Taking Bullets
Within the space of a few hours in West Philly yesterday, a rookie cop barely old enough to drink was shot in the face yet chased the suspect on foot for blocks, and an 18-month old boy at the playground with his Dad took two bullets meant for another man. Officer Richard Decoatsworth, 21, was seriously wounded by a close-range shotgun blast after he approached a motorist who was driving a battered blue Buick suspiciously at 9:05 a.m. in West Philadelphia, Commissioner Sylvester M. Johnson said. . . . After he was shot on North Farson Street near Market Street, […]
ETHNIC CLEANSING: Iran Free Of Gay Menace
Ahmadinejad also rejected criticism of human rights in his country, notably persecution of homosexuals: “In Iran we do don’t have homosexuals like in your country,” he said, sparking loud laughter from the audience. “In Iran we do not have this phenomenon. I do not know who has told you we have it.” [Reuters] RELATED: Iranian Queer Organization Ring A Bell?
KILLADELPHIA: 2 DEAD SINCE U SAID ‘ADIOS’
Early yesterday morning, a North Philadelphia man died after being shot multiple times near Eighth and Somerset Streets. Brian Harvin, 27, lived in the 2800 block of North Darien Street. He was shot about 1:45 a.m. and pronounced dead at Temple University Hospital about a half-hour later. Early Saturday morning, a man died after being shot after being shot in the head on the the 200 block of Ramsey Street in West Philadelphia. Nalin Tilghman, 29, lived in the 5800 block of Cedarhurst Avenue, also in West Philadelphia. The shooting happened shortly after 2 a.m., and Tilghman was pronounced dead […]
COMING ATTRACTION: Fast Times, Fumes, Fear And Loathing At Dover International Speedway
Tomorrow on Phawker BY JAMES DOOLITTLE
JUNK SCIENCE: Are We Having Fun Yet?
BY ELIZABETH FIEND LIVING EDITOR A special mom/editrix asked me to look into the frenzy surrounding the recall of thousands of toys due to the use of lead paint. She probably was interested in learning exactly how dangerous these toys are to her young tot. She probably didn’t expect that the question would send me into an anti-capitalist seizure. Which it did. What I’ve learned is that you really can’t separate these “accidents” — the lead paint in toys, the tainted pet food, the contaminated toothpaste — from corporate greed and the people’s losing battle against neoliberalism. Unsure what neoliberalism […]
Tehran-On-Hudson: Free Speech Or Bad For The Jews?
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — terrorist, Holocaust denier, extremist dictator, lover of the whole suit-no-tie look — will speak today at Columbia University, ahead of his appearance at the U.N. tomorrow. DEVELOPING Through a spokeswoman’s recorded message on a telephone line set up to respond to inquiries about the speech, [Columbia President Lee] Bollinger said the university’s commitment to “understanding the world as it is and as it might be” required engagement at times with “offensive and even odious” beliefs. “It is a critical premise of freedom of speech that we do not honor the dishonorable when we open a […]