SPORTO: Bring On The ‘Skins

BY MIKE WOLVERTON SPORTS GUY Well, that was kinda boring. In an “I’m glad it was boring” sort of way. Some big second half passes and a couple of scores made this look like a dominating Eagles performance, but most of this game was a snoozer. Thank the painfully inept Jaguars offense. You’d like to be able to credit Philadelphia’s defense for making Jacksonville look so bad, but this was more about the Jags than the Eagles D. Jacksonville QB David Garrard was inaccurate, indecisive and incontinent in the face of the Eagles pass rush. Garrard completed just 13 of […]

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TIPPING POINT: Tow Truck War Claims Another Life

INQUIRER: A tow truck driver was killed early Sunday in Philadelphia’s Kensington section after he was struck by another tow truck operated by a driver with whom he had argued, police said. Ray Santiago, 30, a driver for Siani’s Towing, was hit by a truck driven by Glen McDaniel, 25, in the parking lot of O’Reilly’s Pub at Frankfort and Lehigh Avenues at about 2:45 a.m., police said. MORE UPDATE: Following the argument, Santiago drove his truck into the parking lot of O’Reilly’s Pub across the street and McDaniel followed him, Cohen said. That’s when McDaniel ran over Santiago, backed […]

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Ex-Mayor Questions The Current Mayor’s Blackness

STREET:  [Nutter is] not a black mayor, he’s just a mayor with dark skin. […] I basically gave him a huge opportunity to win over the people of this city, without any interference from me. I don’t think he’s done that. [There is] huge unrest, disgust, and dismay [in the black community] . . . about the performance of the mayor. MORE NUTTER:  It is really astounding to me that at a time of great economic distress, the former mayor, seemingly in an obsessive fashion now, would spend so much time focused on racially divisive comments and statements with seemingly […]

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We Know It’s Only Rock N’ Roll But We Like It

LCD Soundsystem, Making Time, Last Night by JONATHAN VALANIA BY PELLE GUNTHER  If Daft Punk met an indie rocker and had one beautiful electro indie child, LCD Soundsystem would most definitely be that child. The concert was held in the Philadelphia Naval Yard at the Naval Cruise Terminal. It was like something out of a raver’s dream, giant warehouse, full of DJ’s, dance music, lights and people, most of whom were tripping a little, even if it was just from the sheer noise and wild light shows. Coming off their very successful new release, This Is Happening, the band had […]

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CONTEST: Win Tix To See My Dog Tulip

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 27 7:00PM Screening PENN DESIGN  MEYERSON HALL    1st FLOOR GALLERY                              210 SOUTH 34TH STREET                         (entrance in plaza) First reader to email us at FEED@PHAWKER.COM wins two tix to Monday’s screening and Q&A with the filmmakers. Include a cell # for confirmation. Good luck and godspeed.

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‘I Will Stop The Whole Nation From Having Sex’

WASHINGTON POST: A Democratic source unearths video of Christine O’Donnell in 2003, answering clearly and unequivocally in the affirmative when asked: “You’re going to stop the whole country from having sex?” At the time, O’Donnell was with the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, a conservative group she later sued for gender discrimination. The exchange, on Scarborough Country on November 13, 2003, is an argument between O’Donnell and Eric Nies, then with the Moment of Hope foundation, about whether to counsel kids to have safe sex. MORE PREVIOUSLY: Christine O’Donnell ‘Dabbled In Witchcraft’ PREVIOUSLY: The Thirteen Dumbest Things Delaware Senate Candidate Christine O’Donnell […]

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WORTH REPEATING: The Embiggening Of Sugarhouse

INGA SAFFRON: Because of its diminutive size, Sugarhouse’s damage to the waterfront may appear minimal now. But the owners are already wrapping up an expansion plan that will triple its footprint to include more slots and tables, a concert venue, and banquet hall, as well as a 74-foot-tall garage for more than 3,000 cars. SugarHouse will look a lot less benign when its facade is four blocks long instead of merely two. And even after the garage replaces the surface parking lots, the big gap between the casino’s front door and the street will remain. Although SugarHouse is the region’s […]

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CAT SCRATCH FEVER: 20 Kittens Found In Freezer

DAILY NEWS: Denise Merget, the Upper Darby cat hoarder who allegedly pulled a .38-caliber revolver on ASPCA officials this month when they tried to confiscate her 55 cats, was apparently running some kind of kitty morgue out of her mother’s house, police say. Police and health officials searched the Ardmore Avenue house on Wednesday and found 20 frozen cats in a freezer. The house happens to be right across the street from an alleged brothel that was shut down last week. The cats, which were wrapped in plastic bags, were various ages, but mostly babies, police Superintendent Michael Chitwood said. […]

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CINEMA: The Friendster

WALL STREET JOURNAL: The film—which premieres Friday night and will be widely released Oct. 1 by Sony Corp.’s Sony Pictures—takes as its narrative framework two lawsuits over the company’s origins. Facebook later settled the cases. On Friday, Mr. Zuckerberg will announce on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” that he is donating $100 million to the public schools in Newark, N.J.— his first major act of philanthropy. Facebook’s efforts to combat the film stretch back to the 2009 publication of Ben Mezrich’s book, “The Accidental Billionaires,” upon which the film is based. “Ben Mezrich clearly aspires to be the Jackie Collins or […]

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PAPERBOY: Slow-Jamming The Alt-Weeklies

BY DAVE ALLEN Like time, news waits for no man. Keeping up with the funny papers has always been an all-day job, even in the pre-Internets era. These days, however, it’s a two-man job. That’s right, these days you need someone to do your reading for you, or risk falling hopelessly behind and, as a result, increasing your chances of dying lonely and somewhat bitter. That’s why every week PAPERBOY does your alt-weekly reading for you. We pore over those time-consuming cover stories and give you the takeaway, suss out the cover art, warn you off the ink-wasters and steer […]

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