Dr Dog “The Ark” by Gary Breslin and Adam Kurland from gary breslin on Vimeo. Dr. Dog “The Ark” from Adam kurland on Vimeo. Currently touring the capitals of ‘old Europe’, the Dog comes home to the Starlight Ballroom on November 28th.
PAPERBOY: ‘All Pornography Is Local’ Edition
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 […]
BREAKING: PW Dumps Editor
THIS JUST IN: Tim Whitaker is no longer Editor of Philadelphia Weekly. DAN GROSS: Adamma Ince has replaced Tim Whitaker as the editor of Philadelphia Weekly, the paper’s parent company Review Publishing announced this evening. Whitaker, who led the newspaper since 1994 when it was still known as the Welcomat, learned today that he was being replaced. He has not returned a message we left at his home this afternoon. Ince spent 12 years at the Village Voice which she left last year as the New York weekly’s deputy managing editor. Anthony A. Clifton, the Englishman who owns Review, says he’s […]
ARTSY: A Hip Gallery Grows In The Dirty South
BY ELIZABETH FLYNN I’m sort of prejudiced about South Philly. I happen to think it’s the coolest neighborhood in town. When I moved here as a disgruntled center city bohemian — having been gentrified out of my fabulous CC apartment after 9/11 — it was still very Italian and Old World. But in the last five years I’ve watched the neighborhood change drastically as an influx of hipsters and Mexicans moved in to take advantage of the cheap rent and convenient access to the rest of the city. The recent evolution of 9th St from Federal to Washington is living […]
TONITE: Gargle In The Rat Race Choir*
Complaining is the release valve on life’s daily shit storm. It makes you feel better and sometimes it even brings change. Plus, it’s a great way to meet kindred souls with like-minded axes to grind. Tonight, the First Person Arts Festival, the only annual festival dedicated completely to documentary and memoir styled art, happens to be serving up a kvetching, grumbling, whining ensemble gathering for one purpose and one purpose only: to complain. The idea of a complaint choir was first hatched by two Finnish artists back in 2005. There happens to be a phrase in Finish that literally translates […]
NEWS CLUES: Like A Federal Bailout Of The Truth
UNSPEAKABLE ACTS: Husband Killed, Wife Raped In Upper Darby Home Invasion The “sadistic and brutal” attack began about 8:15 p.m., when a man broke into the couple’s home on Copley Road near Sansom Street while they were asleep upstairs, Chitwood said. The assailant beat the couple and demanded money from them, police said, and after they gave him all they had, he demanded more and continued to beat them. Bound with electrical wires from their own home, the couple was dragged downstairs, where they were stabbed and beaten with objects that police declined to identify. The assailant sent the wife […]
All This Happened When You Were Somewhere Else
HAIL MARY: You Better Gotta Believe, Victory Parade, Oct. 31st [photo by ELIZABETH FIEND]
THE SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS: Whatever Happens In Room 315 Stays In Room 315, Part 1
ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL: We Don’t Get No Education BY JEFF DEENEY Room 315 is a dumping ground of sorts; here are sent the students nobody else can or wants to teach. They are chronically truant, emotionally damaged, academically stunted and so disruptive that their presence makes mainstream classes unteachable. They haven’t yet offended badly enough for the School District to send them to Community Education Partners, or CEP, as the city’s three privately run discipline schools are called. CEP has a reputation for its hard-nosed student body and is sometimes less favorably referred to in the neighborhood as […]
KILLADELPHIA: One More Dead Since U Went To Bed
ASSOCIATED PRESS: PHILADELPHIA — Police say the shooting death of a 15-year-old boy in Southwest Philadelphia appears to be an accident. Police say the victim and another teen were sitting in a car and playing with a gun when it discharged Monday night. The victim was shot in the head. Police say a suspect has been arrested. MORE INQUIRER: Police Department statistics show that although homicides and violent crime are down in Philadelphia this year, the decline has not kept pace with Nutter and Ramsey’s targets. Homicides are down about 15 percent, not the hoped-for 25 percent, and violent crime, […]
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS: Start Dressing Like One
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NPR FOR THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
NEW YORK TIMES: George and Laura and Barack and Michelle | 1:50 p.m. Barack Obama and Michelle Obama have just arrived at the White House for their first visit. Their black sedan pulled up outside the diplomatic entrance on the South grounds. John D. Podesta emerged from the car first, followed by Mr. Obama, who turned around to help Mrs. Obama out of the car. Mrs. Obama wore an eye-popping cherry-red dress, and Mr. Obama a dark suit and blue tie. After shaking hands with Mr. and Mrs. Bush, the Obamas posed with them for a quick picture, ladies in […]
MIDNIGHT MOVIE: Christmas On Mars TONITE!
MONDAY NOVEMBER 10th 12 pm screening NATIONAL MECHANICS (Musical acts before the film at 10 pm) FREE 22 s. 3rd st National Mechanics Psychedelic rock band the Flaming Lips present Christmas on Mars: A Fantastical Film Freakout Featuring the Flaming Lips, a glorious science fiction film that marks the directorial debut of the Lips’ visionary frontman Wayne Coyne. Seven years in the making, Christmas on Mars features original music by the Flaming Lips (“The greatest U.S. band today” — The Guardian), with acting performances by all band members, and many others from their Oklahoma City-based team. Comedian Fred Armisen (Saturday […]
CONCERT REVIEW: David Byrne At The Tower
[Photo by DANNY CLINCH] BY JONATHAN VALANIA FOR THE INQUIRER David Byrne got his first of countless standing ovations Saturday night just five songs into his set at the Tower Theater, where he closed out the North American run of his ambitious tour in support of Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, his splendid second collaboration with Brian Eno. Not surprisingly, the ovation was occasioned by the first Talking Heads song of the night — “Houses In Motion” from Remain in Light — but it was more than just a beloved old song that elicited such a response from the […]