STANDARD & POOR’S: New York, Oct. 2 (LCD) – Philadelphia Media Holdings earlier this week missed a Sept. 30 deadline to make interest and principal payments due on its senior loans, sources said. The company had been operating under a loan forbearance agreement that ran through Sept. 10. That forbearance was not extended.The newspaper concern has not been able to access its revolving credit due to a covenant breach. The RC was reduced to $35 million as part of the waiver agreement. Philadelphia Media in early June did not make an interest payment on a mezzanine loan after senior lenders […]
BYKO: Who Let The Dawgs Out?
BYKO: Curious: Who took the revealing vacation pictures obtained by Cole and lovingly posted on the station’s Web site? All 14 pictures show [City Councilman Wilson Goode Jr. and legislative aide Latrice Bryant], in casual clothes — down to a skimpy sundress and a bikini for her — during an August 2005 trip to Jamaica. Did they work on legislative affairs day and night? Or just affairs? Several City Council observers were stunned by the pictures. “It’s the first time I’ve ever seen him smiling,” said one. And, boy, was he smiling. Hell, even I’m smiling. In six shots, Bryant […]
KILLADELPHIA: One More Dead Since U Went 2 Bed
INQUIRER: Police this morning identified a 53-year-old man who was shot to death in Brewerytown last night. Steven Tucker, of the 2300 block of Seybert Street in North Philadelphia, was found shortly before 8:30 p.m. in the driver’s seat of a 1994 gold Mercury Grand Marquis suffering gunshot wounds to his chest. He was taken to Hahnemann University Hospital and was pronounced dead at 8:53 p.m. No arrests were reported. MORE
GAYDAR: Let’s Get Baked!
BY AARON STELLA GAYDAR EDITOR It happened on the fairest of Thursdays that I had the pleasure of lunching with two of Brooklyn’s hottest new specialty bakery owners, Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito. Lately, A-list celebrities have been helping to disseminate news of their revamped line of sugary, and not so sugary treats. Lewis and Poliafito’s Sweet and Salty Cake was recently featured on Martha Stewart; their brownies were featured on the Today show and selected as one of Oprah’s favorite things. And now, for the first time, the duo share some of their treasured secrets in BAKED: […]
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: This Land Is Your Land
Let’s take it back. Click HERE to register to vote. Monday is the deadline to register in Pennsylvania. UPDATE: The Obama campaign registered some 21,000 new voters on Saturday. Democrats now hold a million-plus new voter advantage over Republicans in Pennsylvania. ROLLING STONE: On Saturday, Bruce Springsteen kicked off three days of Vote For Change concerts on behalf of Barack Obama with a powerful acoustic set that drew estimated 50,000 to the Ben Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia. Cutting a distinctly Woody Guthriesque profile in rolled up flannel, denim and a halo of tousled hair, The Boss stood atop a 30-foot […]
EARLY WORD: Laugh Clown, Laugh
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THE BOSS: We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident
“Hello Philly, I am glad to be here today for this voter registration drive and for Barack Obama, the next President of the United States. “I’ve spent 35 years writing about America, its people, and the meaning of the American Promise. The Promise that was handed down to us, right here in this city from our founding fathers, with one instruction: Do your best to make these things real. Opportunity, equality, social and economic justice, a fair shake for all of our citizens, the American idea, as a positive influence, around the world for a more just and peaceful existence. […]
EARLY WORD: Born In The USA
[Illustration by ALEX FINE] EDITOR’S NOTE: Steal this poster! Grab it, blog it, put in on your MySpace, Facebook it, email your friends, print it out and hang it up. If anyone wants to print this out poster-sized hit us back at feed@phawker.com and we will send you the hi-res version. RELATED: We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident RELATED: This Land Is Your Land MCCAIN CONCEDES MICHIGAN: John McCain is pulling out of Michigan, according to two Republicans, a stunning move a month away from Election Day that indicates the difficulty Republicans are having in finding blue states to […]
RUMBLINGS: Is McCain About To Pull Out Of PA?
HUFFPO: Democrats cheered on Wednesday when news broke that John McCain’s campaign was abandoning Michigan, pulling down its ads and sending staffers to other states. Almost immediately, an organization called Progress Michigan let loose with a taunt, demanding that McCain keep pouring resources into the state in order to explain to voters his “support for outsourcing” and the “failed economic policies” of the Bush administration. Many speculated that McCain would now turn his focus to Pennsylvania. But United Steelworkers International president Leo Gerard tells the Huffington Post that the state could soon go the way of Michigan. “We’re seeing — […]
5 Reasons Fleet Foxes Was Better Than Whatever Weird Beard Hootenanny You Went To Last Night
SO HAPPY TOGETHER: The Fleet Foxes, Starlight Ballroom, Last Night Fleet Foxes endorse banjo virtuoso Frank Fairfield, and you probably should too. Foxes’ opener, armed with a banjo, a few guitars, a fiddle, and a rocking chair, mesmerized the crowd for thirty minutes with indecipherable lyrics and a deluge of either sweat or tears. I’m keeping my fingers crossed for tears, though, in the interest of sheer manliness. Fleet Foxes know how to captivate Philadelphia’s hipster/old people/lumberjack scene. Back to the 215 for the second time in just a few months, the Foxes packed the Starlight with more flannel than […]
LIVE & DIRECT: Parsing The Veep Debate In IM
UPDATE: CNN/OPINION RESEARCH CORPORATION POLL Who Did the Best Job In the Debate? Biden 51% Palin 36% QUESTION Regardless of which candidate you happen to support, who do you think did the best job in the debate – Joe Biden or Sarah Palin? *** Our analysts tonight will be Citizen Mom and Jonathan Valania. Here we go… 8:57 PM Citizen: Wheeeee! I’m leaving CNN on because I am mesmerized by the neon spaghetti lines and the pie charts 8:59 PM me: so, any predictions? Citizen: Hmmmmm 9:00 PM I think they’ll both have a few carefully-placed zingers but neither […]
PAPERBOY: Special ‘Men Behaving Badly’ 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 […]
ARTSY: Pretty On The Inside
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