BY JOSEPH GAMBARDELLO OF THE INQUIRER An 18-year-old man was shot and fatally wounded yesterday afternoon outside a McDonald’s restaurant in West Oak Lane. Detectives were seeking the killer and a motive in the 1:17 p.m. shooting in the 2200 block of Stenton Avenue. The victim, not immediately identified, was taken with a stomach wound to Albert Einstein Medical Center and died at 2:10 p.m.It was the second fatal shooting of the day as the number of homicides in the city grew to 95. At 3:12 a.m., a 29-year-old man was shot multiple times in the chest in the 1300 […]
SPORTO: The 700 Level Needs Your Vote
The current issue of Sports Illustrated [not pictured, because quite frankly we prefer this old-school cover with our man McEnroe] features a poll where readers can decide which blog is the go-to for Phillies info. Congrats to all who were nominated: 700 Level, Beerleaguer, Phillies Flow, and The Phillies Fan Page. We don’t really have a dog in this fight, but we’re gonna go with our man in the cheap seats, Enrico Campitelli Jr., for two reasons: First of all, 700 Level is the all-time goddamn GENIUS name for a Philly sports blog. Second, Enrico is the only Philly sports […]
GAYBO: FIRST WE TAKE LOS ANGELES
BY TOMMY ZANE GAYDAR EDITOR Hollywood. Malibu. Beverly Hills. All calling cards for the rich and famous. But beneath that superficial veneer lies a dark side to L.A. living. Ramon and I took advantage of an airfare war in January and snagged cheap tix to L.A. Neither of us had ever been, mostly because I had always heard such awful things about the place. Still, the lure of sunshine and 75-degree days was strong, so off we went. Driving. Nobody walks in L.A. Having lived on the East Coast all my life, I’m quite familiar with the concept of traffic, […]
DOJ’s WHITE HOUSE LIAISON INVOKES THE FIFTH
“The potential for legal jeopardy for Ms. Goodling from even her most truthful and accurate testimony under these circumstances is very real,” says her lawyer. WASHINGTON — Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ liaison with the White House will refuse to answer questions at upcoming Senate hearings about the firings of eight U.S. attorneys, citing her Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination, her lawyer said Monday. “I have decided to follow my lawyer’s advice and respectfully invoke my constitutional right,” Monica Goodling [pictured right, at a law school alumnus picnic], Gonzales’ counsel and White House liaison, said in a statement to the Senate […]
We Know It’s Only Rock N’ Roll But We Like It
OK Go outshines top act Kicks Snow Patrol’s Motherfuckin’ Ass! BY JONATHAN VALANIA FOR THE INQUIRER Saturday at the Tweeter Center, it was OK Go’s night; Snow Patrol just headlined it.Snow Patrol, as you may well known, is the British band that had huge, ubiquitous hits with “Run” (a.k.a. the “Light Up” song) and “Chasing Cars,” which, thanks to some emotionally pitched placement in movies and TV dramas, have become suburban anthems for minivan malcontents everywhere – the kind of songs that make you want to open up the moon roof and pump your fist in the air. That’s the good […]
HEAR YE: SKY, BLUE, SKY
[NOW PLAYING ON PHAWKER RADIO: THE NEW ALBUM BY WILCO]
DN’s Philly Confidential Gives TODAY I SAW Props
BY DAVID GAMBACORTA I’m sure you’ve all noticed by now that reporters rarely, if ever, witness a crime that we end up writing about. Ninety-nine percent of the time, someone gets shot, our little breaking news pagers go off, and we dash out to the crime scene. But every now and then, someone comes along and tells us what it’s like when you fall into that other one percent. Super friends, meet Jeff Deeney. Jeff’s a local freelance writer who also doubles a social worker in our troubled town. He details his gritty and sometimes unpleasant encounters in a vivid […]
REVIEW: This Is Your Book On Drugs
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Bantam, 1968, reprinted 1999) BY MAVIS LINNEMANN BOOK CRITIC “You’re either on the bus, or off the bus,” Ken Kesey chants. On the bus. Off the bus. With the Merry Pranksters. Or with the squares. On the bus. Off the bus. This phrase — a meaty reality bite all by itself, repeated like a mantra throughout the book — marks the metaphysical divide that is at the center of Tom Wolfe’s raw account of the psychedelic counterculture in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, the legendary New Journalism chronicle of Ken Kesey (author of “One […]
NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS: Stagger Lee
WARNING: Adult language, explicitly articulated sex and violence and general whiteboy badass-ness.
NPR FOR THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
FRESH AIR With his band the MGs, Booker T. Jones created the classic instrumental “Green Onions.” But they were also the studio band for Stax Records, making music with soul artists such as Otis Redding, Ray Charles and Wilson Pickett. A new two-CD box set features Stax highlights and Booker T. is now back on tour. RADIO TIMES AYAAN HIRSI-ALI is an outspoken critic of Islam and defender of women?s rights. Her life story is detailed in her new memoir Infidel. In 2004, with director Theo van Gogh, she made Submission, a film about the oppression of women in conservative […]
HIZZONER ’07: Fattah Leading In Tribune Poll
PHILADELPHIA, March 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A recent poll among 400 registered African-American voters who said they planned to vote in the city of Philadelphia’s May 2007 Democratic Primary Election has provided evidence that black voters still rank Chaka Fattah first (27 %), and Dwight Evans second (18%), but that Tom Knox (now at 14%), has moved past Michael Nutter (9%) and Bob Brady (8%), since October 26-29, 2006, when the poll was last taken. While he still maintains a lead position among black voters, Fattah’s support has decreased from 33 percent to 27 percent; Evans and Brady have each increased […]
GUNCRAZY: Mother Of Four Shot In The Head
Cops said the woman had been shot in the back of the head and pronounced dead at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania shortly after 5 p.m. Police weren’t able to release the woman’s name, but a woman at the scene who claimed to be the victim’s aunt identified her as Yvonne Myrich. A 19-year-old was shot in the leg and taken to Mercy Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition. A man in his 30s was shot in the chest and taken to HUP, where he was listed in extremely critical condition. A 17-year-old male was shot […]