Arrests made in $300,000 robbery Two men dressed as Wal-Mart employees hit the Northeast Phila. store after hours. One in custody was an employee. BY JAN HEFLER INQUIRER STAFF WRITER Two men clad in standard Wal-Mart blue “How May I Help You?” smocks held up the discount store in the Lower Northeast early yesterday, netting more than $300,000 from a safe and enjoying less than a day of euphoria before city police made two arrests last nightAs the investigation continued toward midnight, Sgt. Joseph Gindele of the Northeast Detective Division said he expected two more arrests.One of the men already in […]
STOP THE PRESSES: 457 Articles About THE STRIKE Add Up To A LOT Of Dead Trees And Not Much News
Taken as mash-up, the incompleteness of this moment, repeated over and over again, is actually quite hypnotic and we find it helps to pass the time until some actual news happens, here you try… Papers, Union Continue Contract Talks Houston Chronicle — United States – 7 hours ago WASHINGTON POST By JOANN LOVIGLIO AP Writer. — 2006 AP. PHILADELPHIA — The largest union at Philadelphia’s two biggest newspapers resumed contract … Philly Papers, Union Talks to Continue Forbes, NY — 19 hours ago By DEBORAH YAO 12.03.06, 1:58 AM ET. The largest union at Philadelphia’s two biggest newspapers reported some progress […]
HIZZONER ’07: Turns Out The Saidel ’07 Mayoral Campaign Nothing More Than CHINESE FIRE DRILL, Candidate Pulls Plug One Week After Announcing Candidacy; ‘What A Rush!’ Sez These Chix
This is a metaphor, people. HIZZONER 07: Maybe It’s The Snappy Name, But We Are Really Likin? This Jonathan Guy From YOUNG PHILLY POLITICS: Jonathan Saidel Makes Me Go, ?Hmmmm? During Bob Brady?s riffing, he started introducing other local politicians in the room, including ?future Mayoral candidate Jonathan Saidel. The reason I bring this up is that I had never seen Saidel speak in person, and frankly do not know a lot about him. But, I would have to say, his speech very much surprised and impressed me, mainly for the fire with which it was delivered. And then, when […]
ARTSY: I Often Dream Of Trains
By SIMONE SECCI ROME CORRESPONDENT Who was Giorgio de Chirico and why should you care? You bet. Almost certainly, the ’50s American school of Abstract Expressionism wouldn’t even existed without him. Considering that this Italian artist whose career was extremely long but so shortly relevant to art history probably seriously influenced the most important surrealist artists of the day, people such as Max Ernst and Salvador Dali. And so it followed that surrealism created a birth place for the upcoming American Abstract Expressionism, people like Jackson Pollack and William De Kooning. But his influence doesn’t just end in the American […]
HEADLINE OF THE WEEK: Supreme Court Takes ‘Bonghits 4 Jesus’ Case, After Telling NY TIMES They Don’t DO Press Freedom Cases; LORD HELP US!
Court takes ‘Bong Hits 4 Jesus’ case By MARK SHERMAN ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court stepped into a dispute over free speech Friday involving a suspended high school student and his banner that proclaimed “Bong Hits 4 Jesus.” The justices agreed to hear the appeal by the Juneau, Alaska, school board and principal Deborah Morse of a lower court ruling that allowed the student’s civil rights lawsuit to proceed. The school board hired former Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr to argue its case to the high court. Morse suspended Frederick after he displayed the banner, with its reference […]
We Know It’s Only Rock N’ Roll But We Like It
EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED: Illumina, Johnny Brendas, December 1, 2006 [FLICKR] EVA SAYS: Whenever I see Illumina, I like to imagine myself up there with them, jumping, dancing, and harmonizing all the live-long day. If only I could play an instrument, the cowbell even, maybe I could aim to be half as cool as these guys. Their whole LET’S START A BAND rockchestra steez is irresistibly fun — what with the cute Asian keyboardist, singing all cute and Asian-like, a small string section demurely rocking out and some crazy drummer in the back blowing on a whistle so sincerely you’re reminded […]
Now Playing On PHAWKER RADIO: How I Learned To STOP WORRYING About Chaos AND LOVE Free Jazz
CURATED BY DAN BUSKIRK CLICK HERE FOR TRACK LISTING & LINER NOTES “Kudos…this is a very well done and probably important series.” — DAVID DYE
BRITNEY’S VAGINA MONOLOGUES: Fanning The Flames of FIREcrotches Everywhere, Phawker Contributors Offer Gender And Generational Perspectives On Celebrity Pussy Galore
BRITNEY SPEARS, PLEASE PUT AWAY YOUR VAGINA BY MOTHER PHAWKER What I’m trying to tell you, dear Brit, is that you can hang out with Paris and Lindsay and Nicole or whichever tarts you choose, but YOU ARE NOT LIKE THEM. Not by virtue of talent, or beauty, or wealth, or skinniness. No, Mrs. Federline, when you gave birth to your two sons, you became unlike women who don’t have children. Hang out with your single, childless girlfriends all you want. Go out and party — you’ve been in the house changing diapers for two years, you’ve earned it. But […]
Cover Wars: Whose Artfag Kung-Fu Is Stronger?
Allow us to break the code on the City Paper’s cover: Nobody felt like cranking out a cover story over Thanksgiving so they farmed it out to poetess/childhood sex abuse survivor/activist Samantha Barrow who gets on her hawg and workshops her way across the U.S. of A. swinging heavy-duty sharp-as-an-axe free verse like Shiva The Destroyer: Why I am grateful for my sexual traumas, particularly the childhood stuff Because I earned every poem / orgasm the hard way stroking with sutures my heart to my cunt loving my body more intimately since she has wrestled me down with […]
TEE VEE: If We Knew Then What We Know Now…
WARNING: Offensive language, adult situations, and rewriting of history.
STOP THE PRESSES: Let The Measuring of The Circumference Of Each Side’s Sack Commence
THIS JUST IN FROM SGT. BYKO: CWA BOARD APPROVES GUILD STRIKE AS BARGAINING CONTINUES The Communications Workers of America executive board has authorized International President Larry Cohen to call a strike at The Inquirer and Daily News if the local bargaining committee believes talks have broken down and there is no alternative. Local President Henry J. Holcomb was informed of the our parent union?s decision by James J. Short, CWA district vice president for Pennsylvania (District 13), and Linda K. Foley, the Guild’s international president. Holcomb received the news at a meeting in Short’s Center City office with Foley participating […]
NPR FOR THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
FRESH AIR ON WHYY Actor John C. Reilly co-stars in the hit film Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby with Will Ferrell, which will soon be released on video. Probably best known for his association with writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson in the films Hard 8, Boogie Nights and Magnolia, Reilly got his start with the Chicago-based drama troupe The Steppenwolf Theatre. His other films include The Perfect Storm, Dolores Claiborne, The Thin Red Line, Chicago and The Aviator. This interview originally aired on Aug. 7, 2006.