[via PHILA READYNOTIFYPA] SEPTA Service Interruption Is In Effect as of Tuesday, November 3, 2009 @ 3:00 a.m. Transport Workers Union, Local 234 has announced a work stoppage as of 3:00 a.m. this morning. SEPTA is prepared with an alternate service plan for customers, but asks for patience and understanding as some of services become unavailable and others that are running may experience heavier than usual customer use. The following important service information contains useful travel tips to assist riders as Bus, Subway, and Trolley service is discontinued. The following services will not run: Broad Street Line and Broad-Ridge Spur […]
SEPTA GIRL: Feets Don’t Fail Me Now
BY PHILLY GRRL Oh, SEPTA! What a day. This morning started out so well. [9:23 AM ] While on my way to Walnut and 12th to catch the 42 Bus, I saw an elderly black man wearing a black fedora and a dark maroon coat running to the bus stop in front of the Reading Terminal. As the bus came closer to 11th and Arch, his cane caught a crack in the sidewalk and he lurched forward, his senior citizen card falling from his hand. Before I could get to him, the bus driver pulled to a screeching halt and […]
WORLD SERIES: Phils Pound Back Yanks 8-6 To Stay Alive; Chutley Beats On The Brats With A Baseball Bat
Phillies 8 Yankees 5 FINAL RELATED: In a quick and touching reaction, Major League Baseball paid tribute during Monday night’s World Series game to Michael Goldsmith, the law professor who died Sunday of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Goldsmith had been honored in Yankee Stadium on July 4 on the 70th anniversary of Lou Gehrig’s classic speech. After the condition, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, was diagnosed, Goldsmith wrote a guest column in Newsweek, calling on Major League Baseball to do more to fight the disease that killed Gehrig on June 2, 1941. In response, Major League Baseball held ceremonies in […]
BREAKING: New Spoon Album Comes Out Jan. 26th
NASTY LITTLE MAN: Britt Daniel, Jim Eno, Eric Harvey and Rob Pope — collectively known as Spoon — have confirmed the release date of their first album in over two years and seventh overall: Transference will be released in the U.S. on Merge Records on the 26th of January 2010. Produced by the band, Transference is made up of 11 new gems that honor the Spoon tradition while pushing the envelope of the band’s sound ever further. “Before Destruction” opens proceedings with a transfixing air of foreboding before “Is Love Forever?” and “The Mystery Zone” kick in with hooks that […]
KILLADELPHIA: The Guns And The Damage Done
EDITOR’S NOTE: In today’s edition of the Daily News, Dana DiFilippo takes an in-depth look at the shadowy world of illegal gun-trading, how weapons get in the hands of the young and the reckless and the damage done. One of the names that figures in the story is Nazir Gary, aka ‘Nazzy,’ who was gunned down in 2007 and subsequently became one of the subjects of Jeff Deeney’s VALLEY OF THE SHADOW series on Phawker. The following is an excerpt from DiFilippo’s must-read story and the installment of VOS that ran back in 2007. DAILY NEWS: In the life of […]
REVIEW: Curio Theater Company’s The Weir
[Photo by KYLE CASSIDY] BY AARON STELLA Dictionary.com defines a “Weir” as: A low dam built across a river to raise the level of water upstream, typically to power a millrace. Fair enough. “A drink precedes a story” (Irish Proverb). Ah, now we’re getting somewhere. In either case, water the humble or water the enthraller runs in grooves carved by forces interacting, much like the vague exchanges that occur in conversation. Now imagine an unadorned Irish pub in the small town of Carrick, where a loyal few frequent, and each comes with a weighty pocket’s worth of stories. The jovial […]
WORTH REPEATING: All Hail The Paper Boy
DAILY NEWS: They call him Number One, and after 50 years Jim Phelan has earned the nickname. Phelan, 69, started delivering the Daily News in 1959, following in his father’s tracks. Number One (or Fancy Feet, as they called him back when he wore his trademark black-and-white saddle shoes) is the longest-serving driver in the Teamsters local that delivers the paper. In fact, Phelan’s supervisor, Jim DePasquale, said that when Phelan told him about his years of service, “I thought he was lying. . . . Then I looked up his hiring and seniority list – and he’s Number One […]
Q&A: With ACORN Founder Wade Rathke
BY JONATHAN VALANIA FOR THE PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY For all the bad press that ACORN has received in the media in recent years — according to Lexis Nexus, from 2007-2008 there were 4,468 newspaper and wire stories that mentioned ACORN — the general public remains largely uninformed about what ACORN is and what exactly it does, outside of signing up Mickey Mouse to vote every four years. In short, ACORN, which stands for the Association of Community Organizations For Reform Now, provides a voice for the voiceless, advocating, organizing and agitating on behalf of the poor and disenfranchised — registering them […]
TONITE: Hail Mary, Full Of Grace
[Photo by ELIZABETH FIEND] BY MIKE WOLVERTON SPORTS GUY I was working on a theory yesterday at the start of the Eagles game. It went like this: for (probably) the first time in baseball history, the outcome of an NFL game would affect the World Series. After the Phillies Game 3 loss Halloween night, I figured that if the Eagles lost on Sunday afternoon, the fans at the Phillies game Sunday night would have a sense of impending doom, a fear of a totally lost weekend. And this is the kind of atmosphere that could carry over to the players, […]
WORLD SERIES: No Joy In Mudville
GAME FOUR: Yankees 7 Phillies 4
POTUS: When The Circus Comes To Town
[Photos by TIFFANY YOON] BY JONATHAN VALANIA For most news outlets, an invite from the White House Press office to cover the arrival and departure of Air Force One is old hat, and on this day most didn’t bother sending anyone to document the wheels down/wheels up of the President’s private bird at Philadelphia International. But Phawker was there with bells on. As you may have heard by now, the President of the United States was in town today for a sum total of two hours to make the case one last time for New Jersey to re-elect fellow Democrat […]
THEATER: Walking Fish’s Good Puppet Of Szechwan
BY LINDSAY HARRIS-FRIEL ARTS CORRESPONDENT Getting tired of people throwing around the word “socialism” without knowing what it means? How about trying to be a good person in a bad world’ You might need to have a chat with the good Shen Teh next week at Walking Fish Theatre. Who’s the good Shen Teh? Well, she’s a really nice girl. In fact, she’s so nice that the gods gave her enough money to get out of prostitution and start her own tobacco shop. Unfortunately, her modest prosperity attracted an army of freeloaders. She had to resort to some extreme measures […]
WORLD SERIES: Yanks Take Game Three 8-5
MLB: Alex Rodriguez belted the first video-reviewed home run in World Series history to support another winning Andy Pettitte effort as the Yankees defeated the Phillies, 8-5, in Game 3 of the Fall Classic on Saturday at Citizens Bank Park. Nick Swisher and Hideki Matsui also homered for the Bombers, who overcame Jayson Werth’s two-homer evening as Pettitte won his Major League-leading 17th postseason game, guiding the Yankees into the drivers’ seat with a 2-1 World Series lead. MORE BUZZ BISSINGER: The list of offenses that Philadelphia sports fans have committed over the years is endless, some funny, some just […]