KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Republican Rudy Giuliani was admitted to a hospital Wednesday night for flu-like symptoms, his campaign said. The former New York City mayor felt the symptoms while campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination in Missouri, and they soon became worse, campaign spokeswoman Katie Levinson said. The mayor decided to go to a St. Louis hospital and spend the night there, she said. “The symptoms worsened as the day wore on and shortly after taking off from Chesterfield, Missouri, for New York the mayor became uncomfortable enough that our plane returned to the airport in Chesterfield,” Levinson […]
THE TAO OF EVA: Live At Budokan
BIG IN JAPAN: Tokyo, Circa Yesterday by EVA LIAO Hey Boss, Tommy Lee Jones has done a series of commercials (ten, to be exact) for a coffee called BOSS. Here’s the site that can link you to all of them. If you’re short on time, check out numbers 3 and 7 particularly. Because they’re all in Japanese, I’ll break down the general plot. Tommy Lee is an alien living amongst humans to get a better understanding of planet earth. Bit by bit he realizes life on earth sucks, but his love for Boss coffee makes up for its shortcomings. Enjoy! […]
NPR 4 THE DEAF: Giving Public Radio Edge Since 2006
FRESH AIR Based on an Upton Sinclair novel, Paul Thomas Anderson‘s new film There Will Be Blood stars Daniel Day-Lewis as an oil prospector in the earliest days of the industry. Anderson’s other films are the Oscar-nominated Boogie Nights and Magnolia, and Punch Drunk Love, starring Adam Sandler. PLUS, Fresh Air‘s book critic looks back at a busy year and selects the books that linger in memory as the calendar page turns. Her favorite fiction included Richard Russo’s Bridge of Sighs, Min Jin Lee’s Free Food for Millionaires, and Last Night at the Lobster, by Stewart O’Nan. Nonfiction picks: The […]
NEWS CLUES: It’s Like Adderall For Your Eyeballs
KILLADELPHIA: The Softest Bullet Ever Shot An unidentified man died overnight, apparently after a bullet that entered his left arm traveled to his heart, police said. The bullet did not go through his arm into his chest, but rather somehow found its way to the man’s heart, police said. The man, believed to be in his mid-30s, was found outside around 2:30 a.m. at 16th Street and Erie Avenue in Hunting Park. He was taken to Temple University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 3:34 a.m. Police are looking for witnesses. Anyone with information is asked to call homicide […]
TODAY I SAW…
BY JEFF DEENEY TODAY I SAW an ambulance slowly snaking east through heavy traffic on Allegheny Avenue. It came to a stall halfway through the intersection with Kensington Avenue, where traffic stood clogged, cars line up from nose to tail. The ambulance driver loudly laid on the horn and cleared a narrow path to sneak through. Once out from under the El the ambulance swung around, making a u-turn and pulling up right to where I was standing on the northeast corner. When the EMTs got out they looked around, trying to spot the person who made the 911 call. […]
CINEMA: Merchant Irony
ATONEMENT (2007, directed by Joe Wright, 130 minutes, U.K.) BY DAN BUSKIRK, FILM CRITIC What would the holiday season be like without another stuffy European period piece designed for a matinee with your granny? They’d be much the same for those of us who do our best to avoid the never-ending string of Merchant Ivory-style costume weepies made to sate the appetites of the blue-haired denizens of the art houses. Still, like a bad restaurant with a convenient location, I find myself occasionally checking in on the repressed sex and waistcoats genre, usually coming to the conclusion that I shouldn’t […]
DELIVERANCE: The Ballad Of Huck And Dogboy
UTOPIA ANIMAL RESCUE: (Miller County, Arkansas) Two boy scout counselors, 17 year old Clayton Frady and 18 year old David [Huckabee], the son of Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, have admitted to catching a stray dog during their summer session at Camp Pioneer in Hatfield, AR, and hanging the dog by his neck, slitting his throat and stoning him to death. Camp officials, who did not report the crime to law enforcement officials, have admitted that the act did occur and have fired the boys from their positions. However, no charges have been filed against the young men. Arkansas State Police […]
Amy Winehouse Arrested For Perverting Justice
LONDON (Reuters) – Troubled soul singer Amy Winehouse was arrested on Tuesday as part of an investigation into perverting the course of justice, London police and her publicist said. The 24-year-old, whose husband Blake Fielder-Civil is being held on remand accused of inflicting grievous bodily harm and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, went to a London police station to be arrested in agreement with police. “It was voluntary and pre-arranged,” a representative at her publicity agency said, asking not to be quoted by name. In a statement, the Metropolitan Police said: “A 24-year-old woman has been arrested by […]
DIRT BOMB: The John Edwards ‘Love Child’ Blues
THE NATION: If the story is true, John Edwards is finished as a contender for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. The story is the National Enquirer cover piece — which will go on the racks at the supermarkets and drug stores of Iowa, New Hampshire and the other 48 states Wednesday morning — that claims the former senator from North Carolina is the father of a soon-to-be-born “love child.”The article claims Edwards, who has long burnished an image as the consummate family man and whose wife Elizabeth is a key player in his campaign, had an 18-month affair with female […]
IN THE FAST LANE: Corporate Media Will Eat Itself
BY AMY Z. QUINN Talk about buzzkill. This time yesterday, I sat down to write one of my snarky open letter thingies to Alycia Lane. Something about how it’s never OK to punch a cop, even a bitchy female one who’s getting in your face, but that if Lane was trying to exert her journalistic rights in taking pictures of an altercation, then maybe — just maybe — she’d be able to save her $700,000 a-year job. I mean, around the time of Rich Eisen-gate, I started to really believe someone up in NYC (a frenemy from Ronkonkoma still upset […]
NPR FOR THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
FRESH AIR Frank Morgan, a bebop-jazz sax player who modeled his playing style after Charlie Parker’s, died Dec. 14 at age 73. After some early successes, Morgan succumbed to heroin addiction, which led to 30 years of crime and imprisonment — and an absence from the stage. But while he was in jail, Morgan did play with other inmates; most famously, he and Art Pepper formed a small ensemble at San Quentin. The Washington Post reports: “Once asked why so many jazz musicians became addicts, [Morgan] replied: ‘It’s about being hip. Jazz musicians would rather be dead than not be […]
HOT DOC: Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon
Dear jonathan, Last weekend, I was proud to travel through Iowa with John Edwards during his “Main Street Express” bus tour as he met with caucus goers and discussed his specific ideas for providing universal health care, ending the war in Iraq, stopping global warming, and taking back our government from the powerful corporations and special interests who run it. Now, I am happy to help him kick off his final push before the caucuses. Today, John’s campaign is launching a great new video you really should check out. It’s a movie trailer, actually — a preview of all that […]
RIP: Producer Joel Dorn Dead At 65
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Veteran record producer Joel Dorn, who worked with such artists as Roberta Flack, Max Roach and the Neville Brothers, died of a heart attack on Monday in New York. He was 65. Dorn, a one-time disc-jockey at a Philadelphia jazz radio station, was perhaps best known for his work with Atlantic Records’ prestigious jazz stable between 1967 and 1974. Working alongside the label’s jazz chief, Nesuhi Ertegun, he brought a pop sensibility to works by musicians such as Roach, Herbie Mann, Les McCann and Eddie Harris, Mose Allison and Rahsaan Roland Kirk.Dorn once said his two […]