“Does This Make My Eyes Look Bluer?” by Kevin P. Ruin, the first in his “Slaughterhouse Starlets” series, via Etsy. And you thought Etsy had no edge!
MAURICE ROCCO: Beat Me Daddy
This is jazz musician Maurice Rocco. Born in Oxford, Ohio, Maurice Rockhold (1915-1976) later became known as a jazz musician who played the piano while standing up. He performed briefly with Duke Ellington. His career included musical performances in several movies during the 30s and 40s and he later toured in Europe and? Asia. He was murdered in Bangkok, Thailand while he was living there and performing at nightclubs. He was buried in Oxford’s Woodside Cemetery.
JAZZER: Lucky Old Souls
BY ZIVIT SHLANK With 2012 fully under way, the Lucky Old Souls concert series is back in action. To kick off the first concert of the year tomorrow night at Moonstone Arts Center (aka Robbins Books), LOS founder Matthew Feldman will be presenting two Philadelphia acts: The After Hours Trio + One and the Craig Ebner Quartet feat. John Swana. The former is a Philadelphia-based group headed up by singer Najwa Parkins, a recent graduate of Temple University’s Boyer College of Music and Dance, Najwa (whose name is Arabic for “secret conversation”) studied under the tutelage of vocalist Joanna Pascale […]
Q&A: With Online Privacy Expert Lori Andrews
The take away from I Know Who You Are And Saw What You Did is this: As an Internet user your rights are exactly none. Actually, that’s not true, you do have the right not to use it. But assuming you have waived that right, know that you are being watched, probed and profiled, your footprints are being tracked from your front door to the furthest reaches of the digital ether and back. They know who you are and what you did. Somewhere there is a file being kept on you. They know a thousand things about you. Preferences, locations, […]
You Know It’s Time To Go Home When You Literally Start Pissing On The People You’ve Just Killed
WARNING: Graphic Content RATING: NSFPWRLTWIAAHINE (Not Safe For People Who Really Like The War In Afghanistan And Hope It Never Ends) REUTERS: The Marine Corps said on Wednesday it would investigate a video showing what appear to be American forces in Afghanistan urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban fighters. The video could aggravate anti-American sentiment in Afghanistan after a decade of a war that has seen other cases of abuse. The Marine video release comes at a sensitive moment, with Washington trying to promote Afghan reconciliation as U.S. troops gradually withdraw from the country. The video, which was posted […]
Tina Fey & ?uestlove Settle Feud With A Two-Way Race To The Middle Of ‘The Hoagie Of Forgiveness’
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: You can take the girl out of Philly, but you definitely can’t take the Philly out of the girl. (Especially when said girl is Liz Lemon and an acceptable meal in said city is Pat’s cheese steaks and Tastykakes.) Tina Fey was ready to let her inner Philly girl out when she learned that fellow native ?uestlove told Andy Cohen during a visit to Watch What Happens Live that the 30 Rock star is “never nice to the Roots.” MORE
HOT DOC: The Last Picture Show?
Dear Friends, In early December we received a perplexing Christmas present from Moore College of Art & Design — a three-sentence email from their recently appointed Dean of Students Ruth Robbins, a person we had had no prior communication from (and indeed, had never even heard of). It said: “I am writing to notify you that your contract for Secret Cinema at Moore College of Art & Design is up for renewal as of December 13, 2011. We have decided not to renew the contract going forward. I wish you the best of luck with Secret Cinema.” Just like that. […]
What Part Of ‘Suck It’-gate Don’t You Understand?
BLINQ: From my couch Sunday night, I sent this email to my friend and colleague Matt Katz, he of the Christie Chronicles: you see this stuff about christie in exeter? was he saying what dave & i think he was saying??? (“dave” refers to husband, a former New Jersey political reporter-turned-author who also had his mind in the gutter, apparently.) Katz witnessed the exchange and was puzzled. Didn’t even think of that, he wrote back, adding that the remark sounded like one of Christie’s signature verbal smackdowns. MORE CHRISTIE CHRONICLES: I just heard “going down” as a reference to a […]
If You Are Going To Be A Media Monopoly/Major Cog In The Military Industrial Complex You Should At Least Have A Sense Of Humor About Yourself
NATURAL NEWS: The 1998 Robert Smigel animated short film “Conspiracy Theory Rock”, part of a March 1998 “TV Funhouse” segment, has been removed from all subsequent airings of the Saturday Night Live episode where it originally appeared. Michaels’ claimed the edit was done because it “wasn’t funny”. The film is a scathing critique of corporate media ownership, including NBC’s ownership by General Electric/Westinghouse. MORE
ARTSY: A Picture Worth Thousands Of Words
[“Mattress Flip” by ZOE STRAUSS] PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY: On the day that Boo was shot, a group of older male family members went to Dorney Park in Allentown. Boo [pictured above, right] stayed behind. Richards remembers that morning and her son’s last words to her. “My mom was cooking for Father’s Day. He came in and said, ‘Mom, I’m getting ready to be a dad.’” “I said, ‘You better leave something behind!’” Boo loved kids. He babysat family members often. His cousin Robyn, 25, was pregnant at the time. “He wanted to be the godfather,” says Robyn. “Every time he’d see […]
ANARCHY IN THE N.H.: Vermin Vs. Rick Santorum
SLATE: Around the corner, I spotted a familiar sight: Vermin Supreme, the anarchist/performance artist/perennial candidate who shows up to every locus of media shouting through a bullhorn and wearing a boot for a hat. For the last time this year, I saw Supreme pull his classic stunt, walking up to a window, placing the bullhorn on it, and yelling things to irritate the people inside. New Hampshire has extremely lax ballot standards, and all manner of harmless kooks can turn themselves into “presidential candidates.” Supreme’s schtick, mocking the presidential campaign process with dada stunts and “debate” challenges, isn’t new. What […]
EARLY WORD: The Internet Is Out To Get You
The Founding Fathers who drafted the U.S. Constitution protected important rights—from the right to privacy to the right to a fair trial. But now, online social networks are creating an entirely new set of questions and challenges regarding our individual rights. Colleges and employers routinely reject applicants because of publicly available information and photos found on social networking sites. Jurors post details on a case and ask their friends to vote on whether the defendant should go to jail. Marketing companies are facing lawsuits for allegedly collecting information about citizens based on our travels on the Web, without our knowledge […]
SIDEWALKING: Bridge Over Troubled Waters
George Washington Bridge in the rain, date unknown, by DAN BURKHOLDER