DAILY NEWS: “STAY TUNED for a big announcement on Monday everyone!” So wrote a blogging juror who’s been deliberating for five days in the public corruption trial of former state Sen. Vincent J. Fumo, in a comment posted Friday on his Facebook Internet profile. The posting by Juror No. 5 — Eric Wuest of suburban Collegeville — raised questions: Is a verdict imminent? Did Wuest have third-party discussions about the trial as a result of his postings on Facebook and Twitter social networking Internet accounts during the 15-week trial and the ensuing deliberations? Last night, Fumo defense attorneys NiaLena Caravasos […]
NEWS CLUES: Like A Domestic Dispute Of The Truth
RAMPAGE: Husband Kills Wife, Boyfriend, Family, Then Self A Miami man upset by his estranged wife’s affair with a younger man intruded on a party early Sunday and killed her, the woman’s daughter, grandmother and boyfriend. Before cops could catch up to him, police said, he set his home and truck on fire, then shot himself. Detectives on Sunday afternoon were piecing together the carnage of what marked the second high-profile murder-suicide in three weeks in Miami-Dade County. Last month, a South Miami-Dade man killed his wife and two teenage daughters before killing himself. The shooting began shortly after midnight […]
HEAR YE: The Feelies The Good Earth
Now playing on PHAWKER RADIO! Because it’s the best record you never heard. VILLAGE VOICE: Though we may be the lone strangers on this one, companion-less contrarians careless of the compulsory crit-pick of Crazy Rhythms, likely the only thing writer Rick Moody and I have in common is our commitment of needle to the Feelies’ Good Earth vinyl over a thousand times apiece. Easy. This, the band’s second album — released in 1986, a good half-dozen years after their debut, Crazy Rhythms — served as the soundtrack to Moody’s own novelistic debut, 1992’s Garden State. (No, not that Garden State. […]
WEEK IN REVIEW: The Good News Flower Hour
The Good News Flower Hour #13 The week that was in just five minutes! Hosted by a stoned daisy with the obligatory voice of gawd. Funny. Sad. Good for you. Tastes great, less filling.
All Of This Happened While You Were Sleeping
CRAZY RHYTHMS: Making Time, Pure, 2:34 AM, Saturday [Photo: JONATHAN VALANIA]
NPR 4 THE DEF: Giving Public Radio Edge Since 2006
FRESH AIR Marianne Faithfull released her first album, 1964’s As Tears Go By, when she was 17. The album was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of the the Rolling Stones. Faithfull dated Jagger throughout the 1960s and became a fixture on the rock and roll party scene. After struggling with an addiction to heroin which left her living on the streets, Faithfull recovered and released several acclaimed albums, including Before the Poison and Kissin’ Time. She has also appeared onstage and in films, and she wrote her autobiography, Faithfull in 1994. Her most recent album — her 22nd […]
OPERA TAWK: Q&A With Bad-Ass Tenor Jason Collins
BY DAVE ALLEN Opera might be stereotyped as stuffy and uninteresting, but sex, violence and mayhem have always been part of the medium. Alban Berg’s 1925 opera Wozzeck takes these traditional elements and frames them, to startling effect, in a score of dissonant but sensual and compelling music. It’s a work that has never fallen easy on the ears of American audiences, but this weekend, Philly’s famed but deeply traditional Curtis Institute of Music, in a co-production with the Opera Company of Philadelphia and Kimmel Center Presents, is putting on this revolutionary work of early 20th-century modernism and, as a […]
PAPERBOY: Slow Jamming The Alt Weeklies
BY DAVE ALLEN Like time, news waits for no man. Keeping up with the funny papers has always been an all-day job, even in the pre-Internets era. These days, however, it’s a two-man job. That’s right, these days you need someone to do your reading for you, or risk falling hopelessly behind and, as a result, increasing your chances of dying lonely and somewhat bitter. That’s why every week, PAPERBOY does your alt-weekly reading for you. We pore over those time-consuming cover stories and give you the takeaway, suss out the cover art, warn you off the ink-wasters and steer […]
CINEMA: Bluebeard’s Castle
BLUEBEARD’S CASTLE (1963, directed by Michael Powell, 59 minutes, Germany) DER ROSENKAVALIER (1925, directed by Robert Weine, 73 minutes Germany) ANDREW’S VIDEO VAULT @ The Rotunda 4014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia PA Thursday March 12th 2009 8PM Free! BY DAN BUSKIRK FILM CRITIC British director Michael Powell crafted a steady stream of masterpieces over the last century, his love of art and music informing popular classics like The Red Shoes, Black Narcissus and Scorsese favorite Tales of Hoffman. Powell’s career went famously south after making the 1960 film Peeping Tom, a tale of a killer who films his prey that rivals […]
THIS JUST IN: Tom Waits Goes Gold, Goes Hollywood
[Photo by MICHAEL T. REGAN] TOM WAITS latest 3 CD set—Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards—has been certified gold by the RIAA® and will be released on vinyl by Anti- Records in the not-too-distant future. He has also collaborated with Kool Keith on N.A.S.A.’s recently released The Spirit of Apollo, which also features such diverse artists as David Byrne, Karen O and Ol’ Dirty Bastard. As for new material, Waits and his long time collaborator and wife, Kathleen Brennan, have begun writing new songs, which they plan to record this summer for an upcoming CD. (No release date at this time.) […]
GARDEN STATE: What NJ Makes, The World Takes?
INQUIRER: New Jersey’s pharmaceutical industry, its scientists and technicians and sales reps in the bright office parks and steaming lab complexes that sprawl across the state and down Route 202 into Pennsylvania, is folding in on itself. Merck, based in Whitehouse Station, outside Newark, said yesterday that it had agreed to absorb Schering-Plough, based in Kenilworth, about 25 miles west on I-78. To make the deal pay, Merck plans to shave about $3.5 billion from yearly expenses, equal to about a third of its operating costs. And Pfizer, of New York, is planning to buy Wyeth, based in suburban Madison. […]