Philadelphia restaurateur avoids trial November 20, 2006 13:45 EST PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A celebrity chef has agreed to give free cooking lessons to the poor, as part of a deal to avoid trial on assault charges. Susanna Foo was accused of hitting a Philadelphia Parking Authority officer who ticketed a delivery truck outside her restaurant. As part of a program for non-violent first offenders, she’ll do 50 hours of community service and be on probation for six months. Prosecutors say they’ll withdraw charges of aggravated assault and recklessly endangering another person, but will keep open a simple-assault charge during Foo’s […]
BELIEVE IT OR NOT: Handcuffed Suspect Shoots Himself In The Head In The Back Of Cop Car
This reminds us of that old Monty Python sketch, The Twit of the Year Contest, wherein one of said ‘twits’ runs himself over with his own car. But that was comedy and this is tragedy, with more than a tinge of fishy odor: Police: Handcuffed Suspect Shoots Self A suspect shot himself in the head while in the back of a police car with his hands cuffed behind his back, police said Monday.Oliver Neal III, 26, was in critical condition, police told the Philadelphia Inquirer. It was not immediately clear whether Neal was trying to kill himself or if he […]
NUCLEAR MELTDOWN: Kramer Goes Macaca
This kind of shit you would expect from Newman, but Cosmo? Oy vey. WARNING: Offensive language, adult situations, and the excruciating spectacle of a once-beloved man committing career suicide.
LEGAL LANDMARK: Bloggers Can’t Be Sued For The Secondhand Smoke of Libel
Wow, if this ain’t legal manna falling from the heavens ‘neath the robes of the California State Supreme Court, we’ll name our first born Stare Decisis: Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) — The California Supreme Court said Internet publishers can’t be held liable if they post defamatory comments written by others, a victory for online companies like Google Inc. and Time Warner Inc.’s America Online Inc. The court, in a unanimous decision, said those claiming defamation can only sue the original source of the allegedly offending comments, not publishers or distributors, even if the distributor is an individual. Internet users are protected […]
NOW PLAYING: Put Your Hand In The Hand Of The Man Who Stilled The Water
On Phawker Radio. Why? Because We Love You. That’s Why. (Coming Wednesday, guest DJ Dandy Dan Buskirk explains why free jazz is nothing to be afraid of.)
HOLLA: Yo A.D. Let’s Just Backdafucup Un Momento, And J To The Hova BRUTHAS AND SISTAS!
THE WOOK REPORTS: Hold, up Amorosi. Gimme that Webster’s-ready recap of Jay-Z‘s “Hangar Tour” again, will ya? “Titled the Hangar Tour, the event had Jay-Z fly cross-country in his G5 jet to play 30-minute sets in airports and intimate venues beginning in Atlanta at 6:30 a.m., then Philadelphia, Washington, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Las Vegas.” [From Sunday’s Inky] No offense, holmes, but last I checked, the Electric Factory was about as intimate as Mark Foley at a sorority mixer. Sure, Saturday’s show was in the early a.m., but just because you share morning breath with a thousand other […]
GAYBO: Surefire Boy Magnet; ‘Phantom’ Must Be Stopped; And Our Queen On ‘The Queen’
TOMMY ZANE REPORTS: Ever get that feeling that you just can’t score? Do you go weeks, months, or (Goddess forbid) years without sex? I know it may seem hard to believe, but us gay folks can have a dry spell too, even the pretty ones. I have an answer for all you queer love losers out there — bring on the straight girls! That’s right — there’s nothing like some sexy, trendy and confident straight women to make your bod all the more attractive. Just this weekend, I was up in Chelsea on business and my dear friend Maria was […]
AS IT WAS WRITTEN: The Dems Won’t Win Until Hell Freezes Over Or Pynchon Publishes Again
PYNCHON’S INVISIBILITY By Theresa Duncan. “My silence was the silence of ten men.” –David Berman I don’t really think about Pynchon’s invisibility, because somewhere in the back of my mind I know that like the Cottingsley Fairies he hides from THEM but reveals himself to US. So he’s always there, you know, the game of fort/da forever over, because you can’t lose what you never had. Pynchon’s invisibility is so much more vivid, isn’t it? Than seeing some warmed-over wonder read at the 92nd Street Y and you have to go “that’s his voice?” matching it with the better one […]
CONSOLATION PRIZE: Q&A w/ Sir George Martin, Producer & Paterfamilias, Species Beatles Britannia
These questions were submitted to Sir George via email on behalf of the Inquirer, but unfortunately the answers showed up a day after the story ran. But as we often find ourselves saying ’round the Phawker water cooler, better late than never… PHAWKER: I am sorry to learn that a hearing problem makes a phone interview impossible. I am a HUGE fan, and would have savoured the sound of your proper English accent. Can you tell me about your hearing condition — I realize it’s a bit personal, but it is a bit like Beethoven — and how did it […]
Money $hot: STOP, HAMMER TIME!
GOOGLE MY EYES: Camille Escobedo, Che Phawker, November 18th into 19th, 2006 CITIZEN MOM REPORTS: Scene: Saturday night, Valaniaville. I’m sitting by the bar watching the dude from Beretta 76 do this insane Crispin Glover impression, and wondering why there seem to be so many wigs on hand. Good party, good buzz, meeting excellent new people. Elizabeth Fiend turns to me and says, “So apparently we need to choose a team.” “Why?” I say. “Is there an Olympics about to break out?” “No, for the feud.” “The feud? What? oh, that feud. Are you fucking kidding me? I refuse to […]
EARLY WORD: Good News For Jews
GOOD FOR THE JEWS debuts in Philadelphia Sunday, December 17, 2006 Doors at 6:30 pm, show at 7 pm Tin Angel, 20 S. Second Street Philadelphia, PA 19106 Tickets: $15
NPR FOR THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane Monday, November 20th Hour 1 The legacy of American economist Milton Friedman. Friedman was one of the first modern economist to successfully link economic theory to public policy. He was an advocate of free market principles, which made his ideas popular with the Republican Party, which advocated smaller government through tax cuts. We talk with JEREMY SIEGEL who worked with Friedman at the University of Chicago in the 1970s and is now a professor of finance at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Siegel is author of The Future for Investors […]