BY AARON STELLA Welcome everyone! This is the first edition of Truck Stop, where each week we’ll visit street vendors in different parts of Philadelphia to assist the common wayfarer in their travels and grub scavenging. Hey, don’t give me that look — if you ain’t too proud to get your news off the Internet, then you probably ain’t too proud to eat sushi off a truck. This week: Temple University, we are inside you. * THE CREPE TRUCK Location: Norris St., between 12th and 13th Cuisine: Phalanxes of sweet, savory and French-Mex crepes Ari Lolosidis, 21, Alex Gyftopoulos, 22, […]
MAILBAG: We Three Kings
Subject: Assistance From Iraq. From: “Sgt.James Clayton” <sgtjamesxclaytonx@myway.com> Date: Mon, July 14, 2008 4:23 am To: undisclosed-recipients:; Good Day, I hope my email meets you well. I am in need of your assistance. My name is Sgt. James Clayton I am in the Engineering military unit here in Ba’qubah in Iraq, we have about $5 Million US dollars that we want to move out of the country. My partners and I need a good partner someone we can trust. It is oil money and legal. But we are moving it through diplomatic means, to send it to your house directly […]
OFFICIAL: Comcast-Spectacor To Put Spectrum On Ice
INQUIRER: “This will be the final year of the Spectrum,” Comcast-Spectacor chairman Ed Snider announced this morning. “This has been one of the hardest decisions I’ve ever had to make,” he said. “The Spectrum is my baby. It’s one of the greatest things that has ever happened to me, but after a lot of thinking and discussions, we all feel it is in our best interest to close the Spectrum at the conclusion of the upcoming 2008-09 Philadelphia Phantoms and Kixx seasons.” That means the last game could come next spring. In its place Comcast-Spectactor is expected to build a […]
HEAR YE: Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago
Now playing on Phawker Radio! Because the dude abides. PREVIOUSLY: Creature Fears
Chutley Chokes, Drops F-Bomb, Sweeney Easily Amused
ASSOCIATED PRESS: NEW YORK — Josh Hamilton has hit a record 28 homers in the first round of the All-Star Home Run Derby at Yankee Stadium. The Texas Rangers’ slugger, back from drug and alcohol addiction that derailed his career, broke Bobby Abreu’s mark for one round with a dazzling display of power Monday night. MORE INQUIRER: Chase Utley is not much of a fan of the limelight. But Utley inadvertently put himself into the type of situation he loathes when he uttered an obscenity as he was introduced before the Home Run Derby tonight at Yankee Stadium. As Utley […]
BREAKING: Sarah Silverman Is Available!
ASSOCIATED PRESS: Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman have broken up, their publicists said Monday. “Jimmy and Sarah have no further comment,” Kimmel’s spokesman Lewis Kay told The Associated Press, confirming the split that was first reported on Vanity Fair magazine’s Web site. Silverman’s publicist, Amy Zvi, confirmed the breakup in an e-mail message to the AP. Zvi didn’t immediately respond when asked for further details. The pair dated for five years, and were one of Hollywood’s funniest _ and seemingly solid _ couples.
N.E.R.D.: Everyone Nose
Talk about cocainesexjams. Damn. [Hat tip to EVA LIAO]
MEDIA: The New Yorker’s Terrorist Fist Jab
HUFFINGTON POST: [Yesterday], the New Yorker released its cover for the July 21, 2008 issue — and the reaction was swift and furious. The cover by Barry Blitt, called “The Politics of Fear,” shows Michelle and Barack Obama depicted as the worst of the prejudiced, smearing characterizations that have dogged them over the course of the campaign: Michelle Obama as a revolutionary in military fatigues, packing AK-47 and ammo; her husband dressed like the Muslim he is stubbornly accused of being. Both of them stand in the Oval Office, with a portrait of Osama bin Laden behind them over a […]
HELLO DALAI: Tibetan Spirtual Leader Comes To Town
BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) — The Dalai Lama said Sunday that “it’s totally wrong, unfair” to call Islam a violent religion. The Tibetan spiritual leader, appearing at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, offered a defense of Islam in response to a question about the rise of violent religious fundamentalism. He added that he has made a point of reaching out to Muslims since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The Dalai Lama arrived at Lehigh on Thursday for a series of talks on a 600-year-old Buddhist text. He took a break Sunday to lecture on “Generating a Good Heart,” and afterward took […]
Vai Sikahema Kicks Jose Canseco’s Ass
And then adopts FIVE children. What a mensch!
BREAKING: Stella Owns Bud
BLOOMBERG: InBev NV, the maker of Stella Artois lager, agreed to buy Anheuser-Busch Cos. for $49.9 billion to become the world’s biggest brewer and gain almost half of the U.S. market for beer, according to a person with knowledge of the accord. The $70-a-share takeover of St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch is the second-biggest of a U.S. consumer-goods company and ends a month of court fights and public disputes over the future of the 156-year-old maker of Budweiser. Leuven, Belgium-based InBev will change its name to Anheuser-Busch InBev, preserving part of the U.S. company’s identity, said the person, who declined to be […]
Ocean Kills Three; Authorities Decline To Press Charges
ASSOCIATED PRESS: TRENTON, N.J. – Storm-driven waves and currents appear to have claimed the lives of three swimmers at the Jersey shore, authorities said Sunday. One swimmer drowned and another is missing following a Saturday evening swim off the Wildwood beach, while a swimmer died after being rescued from waves in Atlantic City on Saturday afternoon. The tricky surf is because of Bertha, now a tropical storm, far out in the Atlantic Ocean and approaching Bermuda. Coast Guard personnel, using a vessel and a helicopter, searched for the missing swimmer in Wildwood until 7:29 a.m. Sunday, when the effort was […]
All This Happened While You Were Sleeping
MCs Dozia & Red Richards + DJs Jafar Barron & mikefivedeuce, Patou, Last Night [Photos by ROZA FRYKOWSKA]