Mayoral candidate Tom Knox amused observers in a City Hall courtroom yesterday when the businessman whipped out an emery board and began filing his nails, according to an e-mail sent to us from the courtroom. The well-groomed Knox attended a hearing regarding U.S. Rep. Bob Brady‘s status on the May primary ballot. He and state Rep. Dwight Evans are supporting a challenge over Brady’s financial-disclosure forms. [Via Dan Gross]
GUNCRAZY 2: Cops ‘Put Down’ Gun-Wielding Motorist
Philadelphia police last night shot and killed a man who allegedly pointed a handgun at officers after a traffic stop in Kensington.The confrontation — the fifth deadly shooting involving police this year — occurred about 9:30 p.m. near Cambria and Rosehill Streets. Police late last night were poring over the scene and did not divulge many details of what happened. Some witnesses, however, said the shooting occurred after a white Plymouth sedan heading east on Cambria was pulled over just past Rosehill, in front of a brick rowhouse. The driver exited the vehicle with a gun in his hand, they […]
GUNCRAZY: 8-Year-Old Suspended For Toy Gun
An 8-year-old girl who took an authentic-looking toy gun to school in Delaware County on Monday will be suspended for 10 days, police said yesterday. The girl, a third grader at Highland Park Elementary School in Upper Darby, thought the gun was real, township Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood said. She took it because she knew her older brother would not be able to walk her home from the bus stop that day, as he usually did, Chitwood said. “She’s afraid to walk home from the bus stop alone, so she takes this gun with her for protection,” Chitwood said. INQUIRER: […]
MONOPOLY: TV Fans Chafing From New Backdoor Assault, Decry Lack Of A Courtesy Reacharound
Comcast Corp. is giving some viewers a little agita by pushing HBO into its more expensive digital-cable tier just weeks before The Sopranos begins its final season.The change doesn’t sit well with some customers, who see it as reducing their service or forcing them to pay more for channels they already have. “I guess the thing that bothers me is, the service is bad and rates keep increasing,” said Alan Letofsky, one of many customers who recently received a notice from Comcast saying they would need a digital-cable box to keep HBO, which telecasts The Sopranos. “We just don’t want […]
ELEPHANT 3: Baltimore Tells Stampy To Bacdafucup
The Philadelphia Zoo’s three African elephants will not move to the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore, which announced today that it has delayed the expansion of its elephant habitat and would not be able to accommodate Petal, Kallie and Bette this spring as planned. Officials at the Philadelphia Zoo, which is closing its elephant exhibit, said they are working with the Association of Zoos and Aquariums to find another home for the animals. Dulary, the Philadelphia Zoo’s Asian elephant, is still scheduled to move to the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee, most likely in April. INQUIRER: Alas, The Great Philly-Pachyderm Assimilation Experiment […]
HEAR YE: A Minute By Minute Review Of New Wilco
[NOW PLAYING ON PHAWKER RADIO: SKY BLUE SKY THE NEW ALBUM BY WILCO] Yesterday over at Rock Town Hall, Ed King ‘live blogged’ the new Wilco album, instantaneously reviewing it as he listened to our stream. WARNING: We do not recommend you try this at home — or even over PW, after all Mr. King is a trained professional and a hardened veteran of many unpopular rock wars. (RTH also has this nifty YouTube for fans of horticulture.) Here’s what he wrote: BY ED KING If you don’t have it yet or haven’t found another place to check out Wilco’s […]
TODAY I SAW…
BY JEFF DEENEY “Today I saw…” is a series of nonfiction shorts based on my experiences as a caseworker serving formerly homeless families now living in North and West Philadelphia. I decided not long after starting the job that I was seeing so many fascinating and disturbing things in the city’s poorest neighborhoods that I needed to start cataloging them. I hope this bi-weekly column serves as a record of a side of the city that many Philadelphians don’t come in contact with on a daily basis. I want to capture moments not frequently covered by the local media, which […]
GAYBO: BEYOND THE BEYOND
BY SARA “I’m Not Gay But I’m Willing To Learn” SHERR GUEST COLUMNIST While Tommy Zane is on vacation this week, I’ll continue to advance the gay agenda, since according to Margaret Cho, fag hags are the fabric of gay society. However, if I get my pronouns wrong, please remember that at the end of the day, I’m a boring old straight girl in an eight-year relationship who hasn’t worn a pair of pants since the end of the Clinton administration. But, having gone through puberty during the early years of MTV, I love a man in eyeliner and a […]
NPR FOR THE DEF: Giving Public Radio Edge Since ’06
FRESH AIR Record producer Joe Boyd was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He first became involved in music promoting blues artists while a student at Harvard University, and in 1964 made his first visit to Britain, returning the following year to establish an overseas office of Elektra Records. He was eventually to settle in London.He became best-known for his work with British folk and folk rock artists, including the Incredible String Band, Martin Carthy, Nick Drake, John Martyn, Fairport Convention and Richard Thompson. Some of these were produced by his own production company, Witchseason. He also co-founded London’s UFO Club and […]