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SUDDENLY BEING CALLED ‘DOUCHEY’ IS THE LEAST OF PYT’S PROBLEMS: Man Shot Dead Outside The ‘Home Of America’s Craziest Burgers’
CBS NEWS: One man is dead after a shooting outside a popular restaurant in Philadelphia’s Northern Liberties neighborhood.The incident apparently started around midnight inside the P.Y.T. bar and lounge at Germantown Avenue and Hancock Street, according to Philadelphia Police Captain Frank Palumbo. “From the information we’ve gathered so far, the defender and the victim along with some other people were inside the restaurant at some point, made their way outside, and that’s where the shooting occurred, somewhere outside the restaurant.” The victim, identified only as a 25-year-old from Upper Darby, was pronounced dead around 2:30 this morning. MORE RELATED: PYT […]
CONCERT REVIEW: The Dirty Dozen Brass Band
[Photo by MEREDITH KLEIBER] Last night, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band brought a little taste of N’awlins to The Blockley in west Philly where they greeted fans of all ages with a blistering, crowd-pleasing performance. The band, which is touring in celebration of their new album, Twenty Dozen, delivered a mixed bag of old and new tunes that had feets stompin’ and asses shakin’. Their signature funk-jazz fusion is a breeding ground for improvisation, providing each member a chance to display his musical dexterity. The Dozen, who has sustained several lineup changes over its 35-year career, is grounded by original […]
EARLY WORD: Time To Get Your Spider-Man On
Spidey senses are tingling. On July 3rd, Sony Pictures releases “The Amazing Spider-Man”, the much-anticipated reboot of the popular superhero franchise minus Toby Maguire. The new Peter Parker is Andrew Garfield from “The Social Network”. The new film features a few elements from the Spider-Man comic books that the Toby Maguire series lacked. Firstly, Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) does not have the power to shoot webs out of his forearms but creates mechanical webslingers to do so. The filmmakers also chose to not use Mary Jane as Peter’s love interest but Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone). Gwen Stacy was Peter Parker’s […]
CINEMA: Moonage Daydream
MOONRISE KINGDOM (2012, Wes Anderson, 94 minutes, U.S.)?? BY DAN BUSKIRK FILM CRITIC Critic’s darling director Wes Anderson has, over the course of six films and change, honed a precious, man-child cinematic aesthetic that is the recognizable manifestation of a nerdy, never-ending adolescence. In modern times, the word “nerd” has been reclaimed as a badge of honor and we admire the studious for their ingenuity but Wes Anderson brings to mind a certain kind of nerd. I’m getting a picture of the kind of awkward intense kid whose parents bankroll his basement project of recreating the whole town in 1/100th […]
TONIGHT: Divine Intervention
BY MIKE WALSH POP ACADEMIC Matthew Sweet’s Girlfriend was released in late 1991, just four weeks after Nirvana’s Nevermind, but it took another six to eight months of word-of-mouth before it became a hit. That was probably because very few people had heard of Sweet prior to Girlfriend. But within a year, the record sold a half-million copies. It is now considered a power pop classic, and Sweet has toured the country the last nine months playing Girlfriend in its entirety. Sweet, who will perform Girlfriend beginning to end World Cafe Live tonight, grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska, and moved […]
CINEMA: Begin The Begin
PROMETHEUS (2012, directed by Ridley Scott, 124 minutes, U.S.) BY DAN BUSIRK How Ridley Scott could’ve stayed away from sci-fi all these years is beyond me. The 75-year-old director has had successes over the years, from his Oscar-winning Gladiator and his influential war flick Black Hawk Down, but nothing has stoked the eternal interest 1979’s Alien and 1982’s Blade Runner continue to enjoy. With Prometheus, Scott returns not just to sci-fi but to his Alien franchise, which since its James Cameron-directed sequel in 1986 has floundered in the hands of mostly well-meaning directors who have failed to make something out […]
CONTEST: Win Tix To See Reggae In The Park
Time is short, so let’s just cut to the chase. It’s summer. The sun is warm and the grass is green. Very green, if you get our drift. That can only mean one thing: It’s time for Reggae In The Park, featuring the legendary Jimmy Cliff headlining at The Mann tomorrow along with Luciano, Beres Hammond, Trevor Hall and many, many more, mon. (sorry, had to) We have a pair of tix to give away to the first reader to email us at FEED@PHAWKER.COM with the words EVEN THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES GOT HIGH in the subject line. […]
TONIGHT: Rock N’ Roll Suicide
Institute of Contemporary Art will offer a rare screening of the druggy David Bowie documentary Cracked Actor 7 PM tonight @ International House WIKIPEDIA: Cracked Actor is a 53-minute-long BBC television documentary film about the pop star David Bowie. It was filmed in 1974. At the time he was a cocaine addict and the documentary has become notorious for showing Bowie’s fragile mental state during this period. It was made by Alan Yentob for the BBC’s Omnibus documentary strand, and was first shown, on BBC2 in the UK, on 26 January 1975. The documentary depicts Bowie on tour in […]
CAR TROUBLE JUST GOT LESS FUNNY: Click And Clack, The Tappet Brothers, Call It Quits
NPR: Tom and Ray Magliozzi, aka Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers, the comedian mechanics who host NPR’s Car Talk, will tell their listeners this afternoon that as of this fall, they’ll no longer record new programs. But their weekly call-in series will continue to be distributed by NPR drawing on material from their 25 years of show archives. “My brother has always been ‘work-averse,’ ” says Ray, 63. “Now, apparently, even the one hour a week is killing him!” “It’s brutal!” adds Tom, 74. The brothers have been taping Car Talk at WBUR in Boston for 35 years, and […]
THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT: CDC Study Says Teens Now Smoking More Marijuana Than Tobacco
CBS: A study from the CDC finds tobacco use among teens continues to decline, but there is some alarming news in this study.The government study shows more teens are smoking pot than are smoking cigarettes.The study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention surveys over 15,000 teens across the country looking at all kinds of risky behavior in 2011.And while only 18 percent of teens reported smoking a cigarette in the past 30 days, a higher percentage – 23 percent — say they smoked marijuana in the past month. MORE PHAWKER: ‘Alarming’? To who? RJ Reynolds? RELATED: Andrew Cuomo […]
INTRODUCING: Heyward Howkins
Heyward Howkins celebrates the release of Hale & Hearty at The 5th Side Saturday June 7th
CONTEST: Win Tix 4 Jonathan Richman @ UT
[Illustration via EDGEART] If Jonathan Richman didn’t already exist, we would have never thought to invent him, which is a testament to both his originality and the shortcomings of our collective imagination. For more than 35 years, Richman has been a tireless advocate of hopeful romanticism, rugged individualism and unyielding optimism, travelling the world like some post-modern Jimmy Stewart with a guitar telling anyone that would listen that, despite all the hard-bitten cynicism that surrounds him, it’s still a wonderful life. He is, in short, the immaculate heart on the dirty sleeve of rock n’ roll. Years from now – […]