HOLIDAY IN CAMBODIA: Dengue Fever, Johnny Brendas, Last Night TEXT & PHOTOS BY TIFFANY YOON The sold out show was sardine-packed with super fans that kept the energy and spirits high at Johnny Brenda’s, despite the sauna-like conditions. (During Chicha Libre’s set, a woman fainted from the heat and had to be taken away by an ambulance, but is said to be in good condition.) The off-the-boat Cambodian superfans in the crowd bought the band Hennessy shots throughout the night. Cambodian pride spread through the room. One of these fans, sporting braces, repeatedly screamed out “sixteen! sixteen!” Begging for a […]
FYI: Sunday Is UFO Awareness Day
PENNSYLVANIA MUTUAL UFO NETWORK presents PHILADELPHIA UFO AWARENESS DAY! Sunday, July 13, 10AM-5PM Germ Books + Gallery, LLC Are we being visited by beings from other worlds? Do Flying Saucers really exist? Is the World Ready for Disclosure? To answer your questions, in order: Yes! Hell yes! & Don’t be ridiculous! MUFON Investigators will be on hand to answer your questions regarding the UFO Phenomenon! File a confidential sighting report, join MUFON, or find out how to become an investigator. This event will be coordinated by MUFON investigator Bob Gardner, who was all over local TV and radio last week […]
BON IVER: Creature Fear
[Dir. by SCOTT LODWICK] RELATED: Ingrid Betancourt Is Free! RELATED: Bon Iver Appears At the First Unitarian Church July 31st
TONITE: 5 Things U Should Know About Dengue Fever
1. Dengue Fever, the disease, “is manifested by a sudden onset of fever, with severe headache, muscle and joint pains (myalgias and arthralgias—severe pain gives it the name break-bone fever or bonecrusher disease) and rashes. The dengue rash is characteristically bright red petechiae and usually appears first on the lower limbs and the chest; in some patients, it spreads to cover most of the body. There may also be gastritis with some combination of associated abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting or diarrhea. Other symptoms include: bladder problems; constant headaches; severe dizziness; and uncontrollable laughing,” according to Wikipedia. Dengue Fever, the band, […]
WORTH REPEATING: The Last Word
PUNK ROCK MOMMY: If you are reading this, it means I have passed. I decided to put some final thoughts together in the hope that it will be of comfort to my friends and family. But also to those of you I never met but who felt a connection to me through this blog. Blog. I hate that word. It is so silly and trivial. I thought of this as an online journal. One designed to keep my loved ones aware of what was happening to me. I wrote as honestly as I was able. I have looked at many […]
Meehan, Grandstanding Bush Appointee, To Step Down
INQUIRER: U.S. Attorney Patrick Meehan this morning told his staff that he intends to step down as the top federal prosecutor for the eastern part of Pennsylvania and practice law. Meehan, a former aide to U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter (R., Pa.) and former Delaware County District Attorney, will hold a news conference this afternoon to formally announce his plans. Meehan, 52, a Republican from Delaware County, was nominated by President Bush for the powerful federal position in August 2001. During his tenure, prosecutors in his office won convictions in a number of corruption cases, including those involving former City Treasurer […]
MILESTONE: S.O.S. Celebrates 100 Years Of Distress
TIMES ONLINE: “Send SOS,” one of the Titanic’s radio operators supposedly said to another after the famous ship struck that infamous iceberg. “It’s the new call and besides this may be your last chance to send it.” That “new call” is 100 years old today, and people around the world who owe their lives to that piece of Morse code may reflect this morning on its importance. In the past century, “SOS” has become a firm part of popular culture used in everything from DIY programme titles to Abba hits. But it began life in a far more serious setting […]
HECKUVA JOB: The Scaredest Man In America
Tragi-comic dispatch from the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank, wherein Phillip Swagel, Assistant Secretary of Treasury for Economic Policy stutters, sputters and mutters his way through an anxiety-riddled yet curiously half-hearted attempt to spin the latest economy numbers. Milbank dryly reports that 16,000 jobs were lost last quarter and speculates that many of them must have been journalism jobs, judging by the shockingly sparse attendance. It’s all fun and game until you realize that the economic fortunes of 300 million Americans are in the hands of men like this — straw men so easily blown over by the first strong wind […]
STUDY: Mushrooms Produce Religious Experiences
REUTERS: The “spiritual” effects of psilocybin from so-called sacred mushrooms last for more than a year and may offer a way to help patients with fatal diseases or addictions, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday. The researchers also said their findings show there are safe ways to test psychoactive drugs on willing volunteers, if guidelines are followed. In 2006, Roland Griffiths of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and colleagues gave psilocybin to 36 volunteers and asked them how it felt. Most reported having a “mystical” or “spiritual” experience and rated it positively. More than a year later, most still said […]
THE FLEET FOXES: White Winter Hymnal
[Dir. by SCOTT COLAN]
KYW Silences Dem Ad Critical Of ‘Grand Oil Party’
THE HILL: A Philadelphia news radio station has rejected a Democratic ad that features an impersonator of President Bush thanking GOP congressional candidates for supporting the “Big Oil” agenda. Philadelphia KYW-AM Vice President and General Manager David Yadgaroff said his station decided not to run the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) ad because it was worried its listeners would be misled. “As an all-news station, we were concerned that our listeners would have been misled by usage of an impersonator in the creative delivery,” Yadgaroff said in an e-mail sent to The Hill. The ad was part of a $100,000 […]
GAMBLOR: Guv To Ask Casinos To Move Off River
DAILY NEWS: Claiming that “the political landscape has changed” in the battle over casinos in Philadelphia, Gov. Rendell said yesterday that he will meet with operators of two proposed gaming houses about abandoning their Delaware River sites. Rendell spoke a day after two powerful Philadelphia legislators – State House Appropriations Committee chairman Dwight Evans and State Sen. Vince Fumo – threatened the operators with legislative recrimination if they didn’t agree to relocate the casinos. Rendell said in an interview that opposition to the sites by the lawmakers and by Mayor Nutter were reason enough for him to convene a meeting […]
FREE SPEECH AIN’T FREE: The $400 Million Man
[Artwork via 23/6] NEW YORK TIMES: Limbaugh informed me that I was the first journalist ever to enter his home. Mary Matalin, the Republican consultant, calls the place “aspirational,” which is one adjective that fits. The place, largely designed by Limbaugh himself, reflects the things and places he has seen and admired. The massive chandelier in the dining room, for example, is a replica of the one that hung in the lobby of the Plaza Hotel in New York. The gleaming cherry-wood floors are dotted with hand-woven oriental carpets. A life-size oil portrait of El Rushbo, as he often calls […]