THIS JUST IN: Old City No Longer In Flames

UPDATE: Ordinarily, we don’t cover fires — better to let the shiny drones of the MSM earn their health insurance and bleached teeth doing wet-sock stand-ups in front of the charred, smoking husk somebody used to call home. Frankly, they are better at it, and besides that’s an all-day job all by itself. However, we have since decided that we WILL cover any fires that occur in our house or on our block. So we went down to ground zero and got the straight dope from Joe Picozzi, the Philadelphia Fire Department’s acting public information officer: A two-alarm fire broke […]

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COMING ATTRACTION: Film Festival Picks And Pans

Would you accept a ride from this guy? Probably not. Don’t be afraid. This is Dan Buskirk, our film critic. He’s harmless. This picture was taken a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away called San Francisco. Fact is, Dan doesn’t really look like this anymore and truth be told he gave us this photo with strict instructions that it only be used for his obituary — but frankly, we got tired of waiting for him to die. Anyway, Dan has barricaded himself in a secure undisclosed location where he is combing his beautiful hair and watching upwards […]

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PRESIDENCY: Obama Kicking Ass, Taking Names

April 4, 2007 — In a conference call with financial supporters this morning, the campaign of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., announced that it had raised an eye-popping $25 million, with almost all of it — $23.5 million — raised for use during the Democratic primaries and caucuses. The announcement puts him within striking distance of the total raised by his more experienced rival, frontrunner Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., who reported raising $26 million in this first quarter. More significantly it likely puts him at an advantage over Clinton when it comes to money raised for use in the primaries. Clinton’s […]

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All Of This Happened While You Were Sleeping

EXCUSE ME WHILE I KISS THE SKY: Albert Hammond Jr., TLA, Last Night [FLICKR] BY JONATHAN VALANIA FOR THE INQUIRER Perhaps the meanest thing you could say about Yours To Keep, the solo debut by Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr., is that it’s all craft and no personality. This is often the case when a background member of a popular band steps into the foreground with a solo project, armed with long-dormant songs but minus the compelling narrative a band like the Strokes has worked so hard and long to establish. And because we know so much — too much, […]

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We Know It’s Only Rock N’ Roll But We Like It

SMASH YR. HEAD ON THE INDIE-ROCK: Sebadoh Reunion, North Star, Last Night BY SIMONE SECCI FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT I’m not going to hide my excitement about seeing live one of my favorite band since I was 14, that implicates I guess that I can’t be totally neutral in judging their show and also that my expectations about it were pretty big. First band I found in front of me when I got to the North Star bar is Bent Moustache from Holland. They are, I have to say, a very powerful and unstoppable noisemaking machine, growling and sharp bass and guitar […]

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MEDIA: Philebrity Crows ‘EXCLUSIVE,’ Bets Ranch On Anonymous Source, Already Planning ‘Viking Funeral’

BREAKING/PHILEBRITY EXCLUSIVE: PW BOUGHT BY VILLAGE VOICE! This is what we are hearing from a top-level source, and how we are hearing it definitively before DMac did is just confusing and sad. Oh well. Au revoir, bitches! PREVIOUSLY: The Case Of The Vanished Owner, The Silent V.P. & The Newspaper That Got Scooped On Its Own Sale, Possibly

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