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MEDICAL MARIJUANA: High Anxiety
NEW YORK TIMES: “I’m so totally paranoid I can’t stand myself,” said the distributor, who runs a nonprofit group here that grows and sells marijuana for medicinal purposes and who insisted on meeting in the privacy of a hotel room. It was not meant to be this way. New Mexico’s new medical marijuana law was intended to provide safe, aboveboard access to the drug for hundreds of residents with chronic pain and other debilitating conditions. By licensing nonprofit distributors, New Mexico hoped to improve upon the free-for-all distribution systems in some states like California and Colorado, where hundreds of for-profit […]
Under Pressure From Homeland Security, American Apparel Fires 1,800 Undocumented Workers
LOS ANGELES TIMES: American Apparel is in the process of firing all of its undocumented workers, under pressure from the Department of Homeland Security — a move that will cause as much real harm to Los Angeles as it will imaginary good. Taking away as many as 1,800 jobs that pay $10 to $12 an hour plus benefits will probably drive those workers into an underground economy or into sweatshops, maybe into crime, maybe homelessness. They and their children will be more susceptible to poverty and hunger and more likely to require public assistance. There are those who believe that […]
DUH: Masked Lout Steals Phillies World Series Rings, Leaves Behind His Name And Home Address
[Photo by ELIZABETH ROBERTSON] INQUIRER: After three World Series rings where stolen yesterday from a Phillies office, police arrested a mask-wearing fan who was kicked out of the game earlier for being rowdy. Matthew Mervine, 22, of Berlin Borough made detectives’ work easy, because, not only was he videotaped stealing the rings, he had just left his real name, address and phone numbers on a job application, police said. Apparently, Mervine, who wore a rubber skull mask to yesterday’s game against the Rockies, found his way to the Phillies offices after being kicked out of the game with other fans […]
GREATEST HIT: ‘Today I Saw’ Revisited
BY JEFF DEENEY TODAY I SAW two fresh faced white kids in almost military looking black overcoats, starched slacks and gleaming patent leather shoes canvassing a bleak stretch of 19th Street near Wingohocking, an area of North Philly pocked with crack markets and tiny row houses covered in flaking paint. They were standing under an awning on one of the small front porches that lined the block. One of the kids banged repeatedly on the door while the other peered through the blinds, trying to see if someone was home. After waiting a minute they moved on to the next […]
LISTEN LIKE THIEVES: “South Philly (Drug Days)”
ALL ABOUT THE MUSIC: “South Philadelphia (Drug Days)” is featured on Clap Your Hands And Say Yeah frontman Alec Ounsworth’s forthcoming solo-album, Mo Beauty (ANTI- Records) which was recorded in New Orleans and produced by Philadelphia native, Steve Berlin, of the band Los Lobos. The album is scheduled for release on Tuesday, October 20. Download it HERE.
BREAKING: Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize
BLOOMBERG: U.S. President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,” the Nobel Committee said in Oslo today. Obama, 48, last year was elected the first black U.S. president on a platform of extracting the U.S. from the Iraq war while increasing focus on an eight-year conflict in Afghanistan. Obama is the third sitting U.S. President to be awarded the prize, following Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 and Woodrow Wilson in 1919. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter won in 2002. MORE GLENN GREENWALD: As critical as I’ve been of […]
Bill Clinton Awards Spielberg The Liberty Medal
INQUIRER: Steven Spielberg has grown accustomed to praise. One of the world’s most successful filmmakers, ever, anywhere, he has received Oscars and honorary doctorates, won awards for public service and humanitarianism, and been granted nearly every superlative a man of art, thought, and heart could imagine. But he still seemed sincerely moved last night to be joining the ranks of the distinguished recipients of Philadelphia’s Liberty Medal. “I am very, very genuinely humbled by this,” Spielberg said after bowing his head so former President Bill Clinton, chairman of the National Constitution Center, could slip on the red, white, and blue […]
SEX IN THE CITY: Men I Have Dated
BY GLORIA MARIS In the early 1990s I was halfway through my undergrad degree, and my high-school boyfriend invited me to his wedding. He had gone to a small state university out West, while I stayed in the mid-Atlantic to finish high school and start college more locally. We’d kept up the long-distance relationship for a while, going through a fortune in long-distance dimes (this was the olden days, before everyone had e-mail); but eventually he fell in love with a fellow engineering student, and they married in the summer after his college graduation. It wasn’t the first time I’d […]
GUNCRAZY: Glock-Packing Soccer Mom Shot Dead
INQUIRER: Meleanie Hain, the soccer mom who openly sported a holstered Glock 26 at a daughter’s games, and her husband, Scott, were found dead of gunshot wounds last night at their Lebanon, Pa., home, according to police. “Some media outlets have gone to the stretch of calling it a murder-suicide,” said Chief Daniel Wright. “The coroner’s office and the police are calling it a death investigation.” Police believe no one else was involved, however, Wright said. “Daddy shot Mommy!” was yelled by children running from the Hain house early last evening, neighbors told the Lebanon Daily News. The Hains’ three […]
I, GAMER: Got Live If You Want It
BY ADAM BONANNI The many failed conversations I’ve had with my dad are proof it’s not easy to explain to a non-player the appeal and the import of video games, but Video Games Live, an orchestral tribute to the cultural importance of video game music, aims to do just that by delivering an accessible experience of gaming without all that cumbersome pushing of buttons and such. Video Games Live, which comes to the Kimmel Center on Sunday, is the brainchild of game composers Tommy Tallarico and Jack Wall, who have scored hundreds of game titles. There will be lights, there […]
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 […]
THE EARLY WORD: Wild Things
Exclusive Where the Wild Things Are Advance Film Screening & Benefit Fundraising event supports the Rosenbach Museum & Library Wednesday, October 14 @ The Ritz East WHEN: Wednesday, October 14, 2009; Reception at 6:30 p.m. Film at 7:30 p.m. WHERE: The Ritz East – Landmark Theatres, 125 South Second Street, Philadelphia (Between Chestnut and Walnut Streets, Front and Second Streets) ADMISSION: Tickets for the advance screening and benefit are $100 per person. Children’s tickets are available for $20 (one adult ticket must be purchased for every child’s ticket purchased). The ticket price includes complementary beverages, hors d’oeuvres, and popcorn, and […]