CBS 3: Philadelphia Police identified a person of interest in a series of sexual assaults in the Frankford section of the city. Authorities announced 26-year-old Dorrell Shaw is sought for questioning in connection with six similar attacks on women in the area. Police said Shaw is not currently linked to the attacks, but is wanted for a July 21 probation violation stemming from a burglary charge. Shaw previously lived in the area on the 5200 block of Marlow Street and is similar in description to a composite sketch recently released of a suspect in the Frankford attacks. Police are searching […]
Big Oil Keeps John McCain’s Balls In Jar On The Shelf
[Brave New Films: Big Oil Fuels John McCain‘s Straight Talk Express]
SPORTO: Sixers Make Iggy The $80 Million Man
BLEACHER REPORT: You’ve got to love the superlatives analysts use to describe up and coming stars in sports. From “freakish ability” to “a great motor” to “outstanding length”, the words roll of the tongue beautifully. Andre Iguodala is a guy who fits all three of those characterizations. He plays with heart and is a one of the fastest players in the NBA, turning on the motor for many a fast-break dunk. His length allows him to soar above the rim and his freakish ability guides him all over the court, on defense and offense. This past season, Iguodala was a […]
THIS JUST IN: Drive-By Truckers + Hold Steady Tour
THE DIRTY SOUTH WILL RISE AGAIN: Drive-By Truckers, The Fillmore, 3/27/08 The Drive-By Truckers are pleased to announce a 23-date co-headlining tour with their friends The Hold Steady, which stops at the Electric Factory November 8th. The bands will alternate who closes the shows throughout the tour, pre-sale begins Tuesday, August 19, and the public on-sale starts Friday, August 22. The tour is aptly named the Rock and Roll Means well tour. The name of the tour is taken from a lyric of one of Mike Cooley’s songs, “Marry Me.” The line is one of Craig Finn’s favorite lyrics (which […]
GLEN CAMPBELL: Gentle On My Mind
Circa 1967. Written by John Hartford.
ROCK THE CASBAH: Pakistan President Resigns; Threatened With Impeachment, Musharraf Don’t Like It
NEW YORK TIMES: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Under pressure over impending impeachment charges, President Pervez Musharraf announced that he would resign Monday, ending nearly nine years as one of the United States’ most important allies in the campaign against terrorism. Speaking on television from his presidential office here at 1 p.m., Mr. Musharraf, dressed in a gray suit and tie, said that after consulting with his aides, “I have decided to resign today.” He said he was putting national interest above “personal bravado.” “Whether I win or lose the impeachment, the nation will lose,” he said, adding that he was not […]
HEAR YE: Return Of The Wichita Lineman
Now playing on Phawker Radio! 1. Sing (Travis) 2. Walls (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers) 3. Angel Dream (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers) 4. Times Like These (Foo Fighters) 5. These Days (Jackson Browne) 6. Sadly Beautiful (The Replacements) 7. All I Want Is You (U2) 8. Jesus (Velvet Underground) 9. Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) (Green Day) 10. Grow Old With Me (John Lennon) * NPR FOR THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t JOHN PRINE [Highly Recommended] Join us for a two-hour visit with John Prine as he walks us through his life — from […]
GOLDFINGER: Officially The Greatest Of All Time
ST. JOHN BARNED-SMITH OLYMPIC CORRESPONDENT I owe you all an apology. The one day I don’t file a dispatch, all the shit hits the Olympic fan. First, Phelps won his seventh gold of the ’08 Games. Damn. But what a race! This was the 100m fly, which as you may recall, is one of Phelps weaker events – in that he is best in mid-distance events. Coming off the 50m mark, Phelps was in seventh place, and even heading into the final wall, it looked like he would lose. Then he pulled some weird half-stroke super-lunge, and ended up winning […]
White House Wants Local Cops To Spy On Americans
WASHINGTON POST: The Justice Department has proposed a new domestic spying measure that would make it easier for state and local police to collect intelligence about Americans, share the sensitive data with federal agencies and retain it for at least 10 years. The proposed changes would revise the federal government’s rules for police intelligence-gathering for the first time since 1993 and would apply to any of the nation’s 18,000 state and local police agencies that receive roughly $1.6 billion each year in federal grants. Quietly unveiled late last month, the proposal is part of a flurry of domestic intelligence changes […]
FIRE IN THE HOLE: You Sunk My Swiftboat!
BOOK ‘EM, OBAMO: Obama plunges into a murky sea of lies to fight Swiftboat assholes with disinfecting sunshine and reality-based facts. [Not pictured, knife clenched between teeth and can of whup-ass in back pocket] HUFFINGTON POST: As promised, Barack Obama’s campaign is hitting back hard against smear author Jerome Corsi’s New York Times best-selling book The Obama Nation. In an exhaustive 41-page PDF document entitled Unfit for Publication — a riff on Corsi’s 2004 Unfit for Command, which targeted John Kerry — the campaign documents every false claim they have been able to find in Corsi’s current tome. MORE FIGHT […]
THIS JUST IN: Frankford Rapist Strikes Again
NBC 10: Philadelphia police said a 37-year-old woman was sexually assaulted in her bedroom Saturday morning in Frankford, the third attack in the neighborhood in a week. Police said Saturday’s attack has similarities to three prior sexual assaults in the same area of Frankford over the last two months, two of which occurred last week. Investigators said the attacker pulled a chair up to a window and cut the screen to gain entry into the woman’s Dyre Street home. The victim’s children said she told them the assault occurred at about 4 a.m. The woman’s adult children told NBC 10 […]
PENNSYLTUCKY: Hope + Heavy Metal Thunder
Philadelphia, PA – Harleys for Obama will be revving their engines across the state of Pennsylvania this weekend. Harley-Davidson enthusiasts will saddle up their bikes and head to events in Wilkes-Barre, York, Pittsburgh, and Johnstown. They will speak out about John McCain’s “philosophical” opposition to all Buy American provisions that help our manufacturers – including a requirement that the Secret Service use American-made motorcycles. Barack Obama knows that the finest motorcycles in the world are manufactured right here in America, including in York, Pennsylvania. Obama supports the men and women of Harley-Davidson, one of the flagship companies of American manufacturing. […]