BY DAN BUSKIRK, FILM CRITIC APOCALYPTO (2006, directed by Mel Gibson) CASINO ROYALE (2006, directed by Martin Campbell) DEATH OF LAZARESCU (2005, directed by Christi Puiu, Romania) DELIVER US FROM EVIL (2006, directed by Amy Berg) THE DEVIL & DANIEL JOHNSTON (2006, directed by Jeff Feuerzeig) I AM A SEX ADDICT (2006, directed by Caveh Zahedi) THE KING (2006, directed by James Marsh) LITTLE CHILDREN (2006, directed by Todd Field) MUTUAL APPRECIATION (2006, directed by Andrew Bujalski) WASSUP ROCKERS (2006, directed by Larry Clark) Is not gloom in the very air we breathe, or am I seeing the world through […]
Cover Wars: Whose Artfag Kung-Fu Is Stronger?
Last week CP struck a decisive blow against the tyranny of PW’s seemingly unbreakable Cover Wars winning streak. But this week the Empire has struck back. Hard. So jump down, turn around and pick a bail of cotton, City Paper, because PW is the master now. What’s that you say? ‘Only a master of evil, Darth’? Perhaps, Rabbit. Perhaps. Still, all this is good news for people who STILL read alt-weeklies. Hands down the most singularly disturbing alt-weekly cover of the year, PW’s music issue rocks the dumbly-named Man, Man on the cover, dubbing them Band Of The Year and […]
NPR FOR THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
ON FRESH AIR TODAY: Thom Yorke is the lead singer and songwriter of the band Radiohead which has released six critically acclaimed records and explored the boundaries between rock and electronic music. Spin,magazine named Radiohead’s OK Computer the number one album of the past twenty years. Thom Yorke’s new solo CD The Eraser is his first release without the band. This interview originally aired on Jul. 12, 2006. ALSO: Singer and songwriter Stuart Murdoch is the front man of the indie pop band from Scotland, Belle & Sebastian. The seven-member band includes a guitarist, bassist, keyboardist, violinist, cellist, drummer and […]
Edwards Declares Candidacy Smiling Knee-Deep In Katrina Muck, AKA The Dark Goo Of Compassionate Conservatism’s Lies, Says ‘Heckuva Job’ Still Half-Assed
Seeking to take advantage of the slow news days after Christmas Mr Edwards launched his campaign in the backyard of a house damaged by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans last year. Wearing jeans and an open-necked shirt, Mr Edwards, 53, worked with local youngsters to repair the house, his labour interspersed with interviews on America’s breakfast news programmes. “I’m here in New Orleans… to announce that I’m a candidate for the presidency of the United States in the election in 2008,” he said. “To show what?s possible when we as Americans, instead of staying home and complaining about somebody else […]
GUNCRAZY: Two Teens & Amputee Critically Wounded In West Philly Trifecta After Chinese Takeout Spat
(AP) PHILADELPHIA Three people were injured, including two teens, after gunfire erupted in West Philadelphia Wednesday evening. Police said two teens and a 58-year-old [NOT pictured, right] were shot near the intersection of 57th and Walnut just before 7 p.m. ?We had a group of males in the 100 block of S. 57th Street firing a gun,? said Lieutenant John Walker of the Philadelphia Police. Officials believe the three victims were just innocent bystanders in an act of senseless violence. One 14-year-old was shot in the back and was taken to the Children?s Hospital of Philadelphia in critical condition. Authorities […]
NOW IT CAN BE TOLD: Ford Actually Died In 1996
[googlevideo]-89770458144460734[/googlevideo] WASHINGTON POST: Offers a beyond-the-grave pardon or ‘Do Over’ to 43.
BREAKING: Sovereign Bank Prez Says ‘Smell Ya Later,’ Exercises ‘Hissy Fit’ Clause Of Contract After Not Getting CEO Chair, Invokes Hobo Prayer On Way Out Door, ‘I Quit, Now Pay Me Millions!’
Sovereign will pay [Alan H.] Fishman a $4.56 million lump-sum cash payment, as well as other severance compensation valued at $2.58 million. Fishman’s other severance compensation includes an annual lifetime retirement benefit of $532,000, a pro rata portion of his annual bonus of about $758,000, and accelerated vesting of his equity awards valued at $1.29 million. Fishman, who was also chairman and chief executive of Sovereign Bank’s New York division, will also receive three years’ health coverage after he resigns, the company said. MARKET WATCH: OK, A Million-Plus Annually For Life? No Problem! More Than Three Year’s Health Coverage? What […]
NPR FOR THE DEAF: John Hodgman Is NOT A PC
FROM All Things Considered September 5, 2006: John Hodgman is a very funny man. The writer and humorist is a sometime contributor to the public radio show This American Life and cable television’s The Daily Show. Currently, he is getting even more TV exposure in an ad campaign for Apple computers, in which he plays a tweedy, lumpy and awkward PC opposite a relaxed, cool, slim young man, who is a Mac. Hodgman is also author of The Areas of My Expertise — an almanac of random, fascinating and utterly unreliable information — which is coming out in paperback. A […]
Turns Out William Penn Was A Godamn Hippie! Please God, Don’t Tell Rizzo, It’ll Kill Him AGAIN!
[Photo Courtesy of PhillyHistory.org] The City of Philadelphia’s photo archive contains over 2 million images that date back as far as the late 1800s, i.e. the last time a Republican won in this town. In all seriousness, this is an INCREDIBLE visual record of the city’s evolution and a relatively new web site, PhillyHistory.org, is making it available for online consumption and purchase. To date, some 18,000 images have been digitally scanned, at a rate of roughly 8,000 images a month. So, if you’ve been wondering why the line at Kinko’s is so godamnned SLOW, well, now you know. Phawker […]
NPR FOR THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
ON FRESH AIR: Lead singer and songwriter, Ray Davies started The Kinks in 1964 with his brother, Dave. His latest album is the solo effort, Other People’s Lives. Said to be the pioneers of the rowdy garage band genre of rock music, The Kinks had many hits including “You Really Got Me,” “Lola,” “All Day and All of the Night” and “Tired of Waiting for You.” This interview originally aired on Apr. 3, 2006. It’s been thirty years since the Heartbreakers debuted with their album Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers. Petty’s most recent album, and his first solo album in […]
THE WHO: ‘You Are All Forgiven’
For the last 20 25 years everything after Live At Leeds.
GUNCRAZY: Slayer Bells Ringing Out In Point Breeze OR The Mysterious X-mas Death of #402
Reginald Branham became a computer whiz while at Overbrook High School in the 1980s, earning a four-year scholarship to Drexel University and becoming a computer executive. In recent years, however, he had turned his attention to fixing up bars. On Christmas night, Branham, 37, was shot dead at his latest bar, Cognac Corner in the 1400 block of South 21st Street in Point Breeze, making him the city’s 402d homicide victim of the year. Police were not talking about a motive yesterday, but on the street outside the bar, those who said they knew Branham spoke of a possible hit […]