INQUIRER: “It’s not listed with a broker yet, but will be soon,” archdiocesan spokesman Kenneth Gavin said of the property at 114 S. Princeton, which stretches a full block along the Boardwalk and is assessed at $6.2 million. The retired priests who had planned a stay at Villa St. Joseph by the Sea were recently told that their reservations would be canceled as of Saturday, the end of the archdiocese’s fiscal year. Facing a $17 million operating deficit and a price tag of at least $11.6 million for its response to the 2011 Philadelphia grand jury report on clergy sex […]
TRAGEDY: Lorenzo’s Pizza, Legendary South Street Supplier Of Supper For The Shitfaced, In Flames
Photo by SHARON GEKOSKI-KIMMEL via Philadelphia Inquirer NBC PHILADELPHIA: Flames broke out at Lorenzo’s and Sons Pizza on South Street (near 3rd) Wednesday morning. The one-alarm fire broke out around 10:25 a.m. at the pizza shop known for its mega slices, late-night hours and no nonsense ordering. One firefighter was taken to Hahnemann Hospital in stable condition with a leg injury, firefighters said. No other injuries were reported. Firefighters say it didn’t take long to bring the fire under control but damage was already done. The famous storefront sign had to be cut to allow ventilation. An NBC10 cameraman on […]
When Nora Ephron Interviewed Bob Dylan In 1965
Q: How do you work? A:Most of the time I work at night. I don’t really like to think of it as work. I don’t know how important it is. It’s not important to the average cat who works eight hours a day. What does he care? The world can get along very well without it. I’m hip to that. Q: Sure, but the world can get along without any number of things. A:I’ll give you a comparison. Rudy Vallee. Now that was a lie, that was a downright lie. Rudy Vallee being popular. What kind of people could […]
LISTEN LIKE THIEVES: New Raveonettes
This teaser from their forthcoming Observator album, due out in September, is pretty mind-blowing. They seem to have replaced black-and-white B-movie noir for witchy post-hippie Hotel California noir. It’s only fitting that it was recorded at L.A.’s Sunset Sound, where The Rolling Stones mixed Let It Bleed given that this song has all the satanic majesty of “Gimme Shelter.” It makes the ghost of electricity howl in the bones of your face. You have been warned. DOWLOAD: “Observations” [mp3]
Q&A w/ Jad Abumrad, Co-Host Of WNYC’s Radiolab
BY JONATHAN VALANIA If you are not already down with the broadcast brilliance that is WNYC’s Radiolab you are doing your life wrong. Every week co-hosts Jad Abumrad [pictured, below left] and Robert Krulwich [pictured, below right] create cinema between your ears. Each episode explores a big-picture topic — time, space, sleep, identity — and comes at it from four or five different angles, co-mingling seemingly disconnected sub-narratives into a lattice of cognition, uncannily mirroring the through lines of consciousness itself. It’s a show about understanding, that, when it works, and it pretty much always does, triggers understanding. Which is […]
ALGORITHM & BLUES: Orbitz Gouging Mac Users?
U.S. NEWS WEEKLY: According to the Wall Street Journal, online travelagency Orbitz is experimenting with showing Mac users different, sometimes pricier travel options than PC users based on the search and purchase behaviors of the site’s customers. Back in October, Orbitz found that users accessing the site from a Mac-based browser spent as much as 30 percent more a night on hotel reservations and were 40 percent more likely to book more expensive 4- or 5-star hotels. The company has used that data in conjunction with several other factors to modify the way Mac customers see travel options in order […]
CONTEST: Win Tix For Norah Jones @ The Mann
(We have two pairs of tickets to see Norah Jones at the Mann on Thursday to give away to the first two lucky Phawker readers to email us at FEED@PHAWKER.COM that can tell us the name of her father. Put NORAH in the subject line. Include your name and mobile number for confirmation. Good luck and godspeed!) BY JONATHAN VALANIA It’s another lazy Sunday morning coming down. You are awakened by the sunshine streaming through the open windows and the sound of the Brooklyn streets outside coming alive. Oddly, Danger Mouse is laying next to you, on his […]
SIDEWALKING: Always Keep On The Sunny Side
Outside Paddy’s Pub, Race St., 2:09PM by JONATHAN VALANIA
THE BLACK CROWES: Sometimes Salvation
Last week, when we posted this Hives video we said ‘it literally does not get anymore rock n’ roll than this.’ Turns out we were wrong. This is at least as rock n’ roll, maybe more. And yes, that’s Sofia Coppola as the strung out hipster/model chick Chris Robinson beseeches. Play f*cking loud or don’t play it at all.
Oompa Loompa-esque PA House Republican Majority Leader Mike Turzai Says Voter ID Law Will Supress The Minority Vote And ‘Allow Governor Romney To Win The State Of Pennsylvania
POLITICO: Pennsylvania state House Republican leader Mike Turzai [pictured, below right] said this weekend that the state’s new voter ID law will “allow” Mitt Romney to win the state in November, according to a report. “Pro-Second Amendment? The Castle Doctrine, it’s done. First pro-life legislation – abortion facility regulations – in 22 years, done. Voter ID, which is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done,” Turzai said at Saturday’s Republican State Committee meeting, according to PoliticsPA.com. Pennsylvania Democratic Party spokesperson Mark Nicastre told the website that the Republican House Majority Leader’s “admission that Voter ID only […]
NPR 4 THE DEAF: Being Alec Baldwin
Photo via Men’s Journal FRESH AIR Alec Baldwin stars in two movies this summer — and they couldn’t be more different. In Woody Allen’s To Rome with Love, Baldwin joins an ensemble cast including Jesse Eisenberg, Ellen Page, Roberto Benigni and Penelope Cruz as they romp around the Eternal City — running into trouble, weathering existential crises and falling in — and out — of love. Meanwhile, in Adam Shankman’s Rock of Ages, the big-screen adaptation of the jukebox Broadway musical, Baldwin dons long locks and joins Tom Cruise, Russell Brand, Bryan Cranston, and Catherine Zeta-Jones in homage to ’80s […]
EXTRA! EXTRA!: Mr. Phawker Goes To Washington
DAILY NEWS: We’re surprised he cleared Secret Service security, but Phawker.com editor Jonathan Valania was at the White House on Friday interviewing President Obama’s press secretary, Jay Carney, about his love of indie-rock veterans Guided By Voices. The interview is to appear in the October issue of Magnet. Like the local music magazine, which had been on hiatus, Guided By Voices is also back, after more than five years apart, and plays the Trocadero (1003 Arch) on July 6. Carney revealed his affinity for the Ohio-based Robert Pollard and his GBV cohorts last year. The interview was rescheduled a […]
MAN VS. BABY: Steve Volk Gets Pregnant
PHILLY MAG: The plan was to drink a few beers and listen to a couple of friends talk about fatherhood. Both had new babies, around nine months and four months old, respectively, and I hoped the conversation would confirm my own, slowly blooming desire to be a father myself. “So, let’s hear it,” I said, after we sat down and ordered our first round. “Tell me all about the joys of fatherhood.” One friend, who is dark by nature, averted his eyes and stared at the table. The other snorted derisively. And over the next half hour they talked about […]