WIKIPEDIA: Anoushka Shankar (Hindi: ??????? ????), b. June 9, 1981, is a sitar player and composer in the United Kingdom. She is the daughter of Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player, and Sukanya Shankar. Through her father, she is the half-sister of Grammy Award winner Norah Jones. Anoushka was born in London. When she was eight years old, her father began training her in the sitar. She gave a public performance at the age of thirteen; since then she has become a world famous sitar artist. The Indian Television Academy, Asmi, and India Times chose her as one of four Women […]
We Know It’s Only Rock N’ Roll But We Like It
BY DAVE ALLEN A two-night stand is a rare thing, and a preview yesterday of this mini-Warped Tour lineup, with left-wing ragers Rise Against headlining, wouldn’t have done any good — Night One was sold out. So here’s the top five reasons to check out Night Two tonight at the E-Factory. 1) Any moment iron-throated Rise Against singer Tim McIlrath roams the stage without a guitar. It’s been said that mics are for singing, not for swinging, but McIlrath makes a strong case for their non-vocal use. With him stationed behind the mike stand with a guitar, they’re just another […]
BONNIE & CLYDE: ‘Bonnie’ Gets Five Years
INQUIRER: Jocelyn S. Kirsch, the former Drexel University student who pleaded guilty to engaging in a bold identity-fraud scam, was sentenced this morning to five years in prison. “This sentence properly punishes the defendant, provides full restitution and protects the public,” said U.S. District Judge Eduardo C. Robreno at the close of a two-hour hearing this morning. The judge said the crimes were serious. “There’s no apparent object to these acts other than greed and a desire to fuel a lavish lifestyle,” said Robreno. “A message must be sent out from this sentence that credit card fraud will not pay.” […]
HEAR YE: The Spinto Band Moonwink
Now playing on Phawker Radio! The Spinto Band play First Unitarian Tonite!
THE EARLY WORD: Boyd Rice Is A Very Bad Boy
EXCLUSIVE EAST COAST BOOK SIGNING SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 7PM GERM BOOKS BOYD RICE STANDING IN TWO CIRCLES THE COLLECTED WORKS OF BOYD RICE STANDING IN TWO CIRCLES is the first definitive and comprehensive compendium of the works of BOYD RICE, one of the most provocative and controversial underground figures of the post-punk era. A pioneering noise musician and countercultural maven, from the late 1970s to the present Rice has worked in an array of capacities, playing the roles of: musician, performer, artist, photographer, essayist, interviewer, editor, occult researcher, filmmaker, actor, orator, deejay, gallery curator and tiki bar designer, among others. […]
CALLING ALL COMMIES: Beware Of Drunk Bikers
[via PENNSYLVANIA FOR JOHN MCCAIN] McCain-Palin Motorycle Rally, Philadelphia Free Beer, plus bikers is unbeatable. Please sign up with Chris Hill at: chillfactor1068@yahoo.com I need a favor from each of you. On Sunday 26 October at 1400hrs, I am leading a motorcycle caravan around the city to get at the communists making all manner of noise. We’re going to ride from the Chinatown McCain campaign office at 1008 Arch St, Philadelphia, PA. We’ll bash around Center City, through South Philly out to the Northeast and then back, with flags a flying and pipes roaring. If you ride and want to […]
THE BEATLES: The End
And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make. [Dir. by SCOTT COLAN] DANA MILBANK, WASHINGTON POST: I have to say the Secret Service is in dangerous territory here. In cooperation with the Palin campaign, they’ve started preventing reporters from leaving the press section to interview people in the crowd. This is a serious violation of their duty — protecting the protectee — and gets into assisting with the political aspirations of the candidate. It also often makes it impossible for reporters to get into the crowd to question the people who say vulgar […]
NPR FOR THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
FRESH AIR The New Yorker‘s chief political correspondent, Ryan Lizza, explains Joe Biden’s relationship with Barack Obama — and why taking on less often means doing more as vice president. Lizza’s article “Biden’s Brief,” about the Democratic vice presidential candidate, appears in the Oct. 16 issue of The New Yorker. ALSO, Emmy-winning director and producer Larry Charles has a penchant for the ridiculous — witness his credits, which include Borat, Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Now, Charles wants to turn his latest film, Religulous, into an HBO series. RADIO TIMES Hour 1 Analysis of last night’s third and final presidential […]
PAPERBOY: Special ‘Fuck Joe The Plumber’ 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 […]
PHILLIES WIN PENNANT! PHILLIES WIN PENNANT!
Please resist the urge to shoot your gun into the air. NEW YORK TIMES: The Phillies captured the National League pennant Wednesday night at Dodger Stadium, with Cole Hamels silencing the Los Angeles Dodgers, 5-1, in Game 5 of the N.L. Championship Series.
TONITE: The Old Man’s Last Stand
[Illustration by JAY BEVENOUR] Tune in tonight for the snarkiest, most unabashedly liberally-biased debate coverage on the Internet! You may not learn anything, but it will make you feel better. Tonight’s analysts will be JONATHAN VALANIA and CITIZEN MOM. Starts around 9 PM. You betcha 8:50 PM me: yo Citizen: Where ya been, slacka? 8:51 PM me: saving up my superpowers of snark CNN? Citizen: Yeah, I can’t live without the neon noodles anymore meaning, the squiggley lines me: I like following Gergen’s combover it’s like a soap opera and a whodunnit 8:52 PM all at once Citizen: Soledad O’Brien’s hair is getting […]
LASSO OF TRUTH: Wonder Woman Is Anti-Palin
THE HILL: Lynda Carter, who played Wonder Woman on television in the 1970s, slammed Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin as the “anti-Wonder Woman.” Carter made her remarks in response to a question from Philadelphia Magazine about comparisons between Wonder Woman and Gov. Palin (Alaska), the GOP’s first veep nominee. “She’s judgmental and dictatorial, telling people how they’ve got to live their lives,” Carter added. “And a superior religious self-righteousness … that’s just not what Wonder Woman is about. Hillary Clinton is a lot more like Wonder Woman than Mrs. Palin. She did it all, didn’t she?” Carter said that […]
THE HATE NOISE: Anthrax Hoaxes Shutdown Obama Campaign Offices In Philadelphia And New York
CBS: PHILADELPHIA (CBS 3) — A threatening letter containing a suspicious powder forced evacuations at a Barack Obama campaign office in South Philadelphia Tuesday afternoon. According to police, a letter with a suspicious powder was sent to an Obama-Biden field office in the 1500 block of Christian Street. The letter was apparently opened by a volunteer at the office.”The letter was somewhat threatening in nature and it contained a substance that we believe to be a hazmat,” Captain Mike Gillespie said shortly after the incident. Police, fire and hazmat crews responded to the scene shortly after a 911 call was […]