CINEMA: The Very, Very Bad Lieutenant

RAMPART (2011, directed by Oren Moverman, 108 minutes, U.S.) BY DAN BUSKIRK I thought it was an interesting move when film producer Edward Pressman issued a second, unconnected chapter to the 1992 film Bad Lieutenant, going from Abel Ferrara directing Keitel as a corrupt cop in gentrifying New York to Warner Herzog helming a tale of pain-wracked Nick Cage in post-Katrina Louisiana. Although unaffiliated to the Bad Lieutenant films, Rampart exists for the same reason: to provide a tough star vehicle, in this case for Woody Harrelson as a loose cannon cop in post-riot Los Angeles. Surrounded by an exceptionally […]

SANTORUM: Colleges = Obama Indoctrination Mills

CBS NEWS: Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said Thursday that President Obama wants more young adults to go to college so they can undergo “indoctrination” to a secular world view. In an hour-long interview with conservative television host Glenn Beck, Santorum also defended his record on abortion and his vote in favor of President George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind education law. On the president’s efforts to boost college attendance, Santorum said, “I understand why Barack Obama wants to send every kid to college, because of their indoctrination mills, absolutely … The indoctrination that is going on at the […]

Google Glasses To Give User ‘Terminator’ Vision

NEW YORK TIMES:  People who constantly reach into a pocket to check a smartphone for bits of information will soon have another option: a pair of Google-made glasses that will be able to stream information to the wearer’s eyeballs in real time. According to several Google employees familiar with the project who asked not to be named, the glasses will go on sale to the public by the end of the year. These people said they are expected “to cost around the price of current smartphones,” or $250 to $600. The people familiar with the Google glasses said they would […]

TONITE: It Was 25 Years Ago Today…

[Illustrations by ALEX FINE] EDITOR’S NOTE: This year Radio Times turns 25. To mark the occasion, The Kal & Lucille Rudman Institute for Entertainment Industry Studies at Drexel University has invited Marty Moss Coane to come celebrate with a live interview career retrospective at Ruth Auditorium (125 Nesbitt Hall) tonight at 6:30. This event is free and open to the public. In honor of Radio Times hitting the quarter century mark, we dug up our Q&A with Marty from 2007. BY JONATHAN VALANIA How do we love Marty? Let us count the ways: The way she picks Philadelphia’s brain every […]

COOKIE MONSTER: How To Make The Marketing Industrial Complex Stop Tracking Your Every Move

FRESH AIR: One of the fastest-growing online businesses is the business of spying on Internet users. Using sophisticated software that tracks people’s online movements through the Web, companies collect the information and sell it to advertisers. Every time you click a link, fill out a form or visit a website, advertisers are working to collect personal information about you, says Joseph Turow, a professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. They then target ads to you based on that information. On Wednesday’s Fresh Air, Turow — the author of the book The Daily You: How […]

Occupy Wall Street Announces Plans For A National Assembly In Philadelphia On The Fourth Of July

ASSOCIATED PRESS: A group of protesters affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement plans to elect 876 “delegates” from around the country and hold a national “general assembly” in Philadelphia over the Fourth of July as part of ongoing protests over corporate excess and economic inequality. The group, dubbed the 99% Declaration Working Group, said Wednesday delegates would be selected during a secure online election in early June from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. In a nod to their First Amendment rights, delegates will meet in Philadelphia to draft and ratify a “petition for a […]

With President Rick Santorum’s Help, Megadeth Will At Long Last Vanquish Metallica Once And For All

METALSUCKS.NET: Suckalo Adam Ellsworth sent us the below photo of a painting a friend made for him. That’s a good friend – the painting is apparently an EPIC 30” x 30” without the frame. It portrays, in Adam’s words, “Dave Mustaine fighting a manticore with James Hetfield’s face while Vic Rattlehead cuts off Kirk Hammett’s hair in the background.” And there’s the Metallica/Megadeth feud summed up in a nutshell. MORE MOTHER JONES: On his rise to the top of the Republican charts, Rick Santorum has picked up plugs and plaudits from media and entertainment luminaries including Glenn Beck, the Duggars, […]

Progressive Turncoat Allyson Schwartz Trying To Get OccupyPhilly Challenger Kicked Off The Ballot

POLITICO: Nate Kleinman, the Occupy Philadelphia protester who is running for Congress against Representative Allyson Schwartz, will have to head to court to defend his right to stay on the ballot. Last Tuesday, Kleinman’s campaign submitted more than 1,500 signatures to the election board, meeting the 1,000-signature requirement for entry in the race. But Schwartz’s office is contesting those signatures, and with them Kleinman’s right to run for Congress. “We’re going to court,” Kleinman’s deputy campaign manager Patrick Morgioni told me minutes after Schwartz’s office filed its papers this afternoon. “But I’m very optimistic,” he added. “Case law — and […]

HOARD IN THE USA: Ancient Artifacts Of His Bossness Found At The National Constitution Center

BY COLONEL TOM SHEEHY Bruce Springsteen was a hoarder; he kept things. Whether it was press clippings, leather jackets, album cover mock ups, guitars, reviews from Crawdaddy magazine, or posters and flyers made for some of the earliest gigs he ever played, it seems as if he held on to everything. And now, many of the dozens of Boss artifacts which Springsteen accumulated over the years have been gathered together for the world to see in From Asbury Park to the Promise Land: The Life and Music of Bruce Springsteen, currently on display through September at the National Constitution Center. […]