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TECH: 7 Things To Consider Before Buying An iPhone
BY MARIA GODY OF NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO Apple’s iPhone isn’t even for sale yet, but already, consumers are lining up to purchase the gadget. But do you really need the iPhone? Here are seven factors to consider before you buy: 1. The Cool Factor: As is true for many other Apple products, the iPhone’s biggest “I want that” factor is its sleek styling. “If you love Apple, you love their gadgets, you have an iPod, you’ll be one of the first in line,” says Kent German, senior editor for cell phones at CNET.com, a technology news and reviews site. The […]
THE AFTERLIFE: No One Here Gets Out Alive
MARTIN LUTHER: Is So Not Amused, circa 1529 BY AMY Z QUINN There’s a scene from The Sopranos a couple of seasons back when Paulie Gaultieri storms out of his pastor’s office in indignation after learning that all the cash he’d given the parish over the years wouldn’t keep him out of Hell when he died (God forbid). I’m reminded of that this week after learning that in recognition of its 200th birthday, the Archdiocese of Philadelphia is offering its flock a gift — plenary indulgences, designed to shorten the time a sinner spends in Satan’s Waiting Room, aka purgatory. […]
EXIT INTERVIEW: Steve Volk Kicks Ass
BY JONATHAN VALANIA As we reported earlier this week, PW Senior Writer Steve Volk — obsessive Bowie-phile, tireless chronicler of all things Beanie, daring dissector of the unholy marriage of crime and justice in this city, intrepid shiner of the Fourth Estate’s disinfecting sunshine upon the dark places where gay meets meth — is leaving the alt-weekly to take a staff writer gig at Philadelphia Magazine. We’ve known Steve a long time and aside from his impressive paper trail and his storage locker full of journo awards — hey, look at this, Steve Volk just took Second Place in the […]
HOT DOCUMENT: The Day The Music Died
Philadelphia, PA — June 22, 2007 — WXPN, the nationally-recognized leader in Triple A music and a noncommercial radio service of the University of Pennsylvania, today announced that it wlll join other Internet radio providers in a “Day of Silence” to protest higher royalty rates expected to go into effect on or after July 15th. Silence is what Internet radio may sound like after that date because of a royalty rate hike scheduled to go into effect. The new rates will also be retroactive for 17 months and payment will become due to the SoundExchange collection organization under the terms of […]
NPR FOR THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
FRESH AIR Frank Burd and Ed Klein are Philadelphia public school teachers who were attacked on the job. Both Burd, a math teacher, and Klein, a music teacher, talk about the difficulties of teaching in inner city schools. RADIO TIMES Hour 1 A conversation with two Philadelphia School principals. BARBARA ADDERLEY, principal of Stanton Elementary School in North Philadelphia and STERLING GARRIS, principal of Blaine Elementary School in Strawberry Mansion have been lauded for dramatic academic turnarounds in their schools. We talk with them about how they have achieved success despite enormous obstacles. Hour 2 Presidential historian ROBERT DALLEK‘s new […]
State Senate Moves To Undermine Philly Smoking Ban
HARRISBURG – The state Senate wrote loopholes into a proposed statewide smoking ban last night and approved language that would strike down Philadelphia’s more restrictive rules against lighting up in public places. All of the action came in a sweeping amendment, which passed, 29-21, after two hours of debate over the balance between public health and individual liberties. The amendment — which exempts casinos, private clubs, cigar bars and some taverns from the proposed ban — also bars municipalities from enacting any smoking ban tougher than the state’s. INQUIRER: Smoking In The Boys’ Room Still Allowed
PORTER WAGONER & DOLLY PARTON:
“Last Thing On My Mind” circa 1967, when Miss Parton was all of 21.
DNA: Cops Say There’s Now TWO Toe Suckers
(CBS) PHILADELPHIA Police are searching for two suspects in connection to a series of attacks on woman in which their toes are fondled, sources have said. The sources have told CBS Philadelphia that DNA tests now reveal not just one, but two separate predators are targeting women. Beginning last November through January, seven women were victimized by an attacker who sexually assaulted the women and fondled their toes. In the latest attack, a woman in her 20s was walking in the 1700 block of Panama Street at about 2:45 a.m. when she was attacked by an unknown male armed with […]
REVEALED: Vince Fumo’s Private Dick
At the same hearing, Fumo’s private eye, Frank D. Wallace, spoke in public for the first time and said his sleuthing for Fumo had been “one-third Senate business, one-third political, and one-third personal.” Wallace also revealed that he had performed electronic “sweeps” of Fumo’s legislative offices and home, as well as of offices and homes of Fumo allies, but had balked at continuing to do them once he became aware that a federal investigation was under way. He said he told a top Fumo aide, “I thought it would be obstruction of justice” to continue. INQUIRER: Riddle Me This Batman […]
OK, Then Is THIS Your Alligator?
[This] gator is not to be confused with the nearly five-footer that Mullen helped bag Thursday in Pennypack Creek, less than a mile downstream in Bryn Athyn. That gator was taken to the Elmwood Park Zoo in Norristown. Mullen, Warminster Township’s public-works director, said he believed that both gators were “dumped” by the same pet owner, who had tired of them. INQUIRER: I Call The Big One Bitey PREVIOUSLY: Now Be Honest — Is This Your Alligator?
REVIEW: Porter Wagoner, THE WAGONMASTER
BY ED KING ROCK CONNOISSEUR My in-laws live in a rural part of Pennsylvania. They’re not what I’d call “country folk,” but they live around more country folk than I ever met growing up in Port Richmond. Driving up their street, I always appreciate that ranch house with shutters in the shape of fiddles surrounded by musical notes. “That’s gotta be one serious country fan’s home!” I’d think to myself, but never shared the thought with anyone but my wife. Then one day, seemingly out of the blue, my father-in-law said, “Let’s take a walk. I want you to meet […]
NPR 4 THE DEF: Giving Public Radio Edge Since 2006
FRESH AIR Jarvis Cocker founded “Arabacus Pulp” (named after a tradeable commodity seen by Cocker in an economics class) at the age of 15 while he was still at The City School. After numerous line-up changes, and a shortening of the name to just “Pulp,” they eventually found fame in the 1990s with the success of the albums His ‘n’ Hers (1994) and Different Class (1995). Cocker invaded the stage at the 1996 BRIT Awards to protest against Michael Jackson‘s performance. Jackson performed surrounded by children and a rabbi, while making ‘Christ-like’ poses and performing his then-recent hit, “Earth Song“. […]