DOWNLOAD: The United States Of America Vs. Lawrence Mendte [PDF] PREVIOUSLY: Feds Slap Mendte With Snooping Felony, Ex-Anchor Looking At Zero To Six Months In Jail [Hat tip to ROWDY YATES]
WORTH REPEATING: No Prayer For The City
BY MIKE NEWALL The shooting went down in the Chestnut Court Apartments courtyard at Seventh and Chestnut streets in South Camden. It was 8:40 p.m. on Father’s Day. The night was hot, the air heavy, and the neon sign above Eddie’s Liquor cast a dull yellow light across the desolate intersection. Jason Santos, a 23-year-old with a 2-year-old daughter, a promising job with the Camden County Board of Education and a clean record, was sharing beers with a friend when he ran into Alvin Santos (no relation) and Ricky Gonzalez.* Alvin is Ricky’s uncle. Alvin is 25; Ricky, 17. Both […]
TRAGIC: Cops Seize 500 Pounds Of Kind Bud, Say They Have NO Plans To Sell It To The Smoking Public
[PHOTO SOURCE: Google Images] INQUIRER: A multi-million dollar marijuana ring has been reduced to ashes with the the seizure of 500 pounds of cannibis cannabis and the arrests of two men with ties to the Philadelphia region, authorities said. The men, who will be identified at a press conference later this morning, are accused of shipping “bales” of the weed to Delaware County for distribution around Philadelphia. Investigators have valued the captured marijuana at $2 million. In Folcroft Township on Thursday, state and federal agents seized a crate packed with 220 pounds of potent pot that had been shipped from […]
BREAKING: Feds Slap Mendte With Snooping Felony, Ex-Anchor Looking At Zero To Six Months In Jail
INQUIRER: Former CBS3 anchor Larry Mendte was charged today with hacking into the personal e-mail of onetime colleague Alycia Lane 537 times from January to May of this year and sharing the information with a Philadelphia Daily News reporter. “This case … went well beyond just reading someone’s e-mail,” said a statement from acting U.S. Attorney Laurie Magid, who charged Mendte, 51, in an information with one felony count. He is not expected to surrender today. Mendte poked into the accounts from his seat at the CBS3 anchor desk, from his vacation home and even once from a computer at […]
BREAKING: Liz Phair To Perform Guyville At TLA
In celebration of the 15th year anniversary of the groundbreaking album Exile in Guyville and its reissue by ATO Records, Liz Phair will perform the entire album at three engagements: August 27 at Theater of the Living Arts in Philadelphia; August 28 at 9:30 Club in Washington DC; and August 29 at The Paradise in Boston. Tickets go on sale Wednesday, July 23 via Ticketmaster.
TRUCKSTOP: The Best Meals On Four Wheels
BY AARON STELLA Welcome my fellow hungry Americans to another edition of Truck Stop, where each week we’ll visit street vendors in different parts of Philadelphia to assist the common wayfarer in their travels and grub scavenging. Hey, don’t give me that look — if you ain’t too proud to get your news off the Internet, then you probably ain’t too proud to eat sushi off a truck. This week: the University City area, so whether you’re ambling around Drexel or Upenn, or just on your daily commute through 30th street station, this one’s for you. DENISE’S SOUL FOOD RESTAURANT: […]
NPR 4 THE DEF: Giving Public Radio Edge Since 2006
FRESH AIR The Dark Knight lived up to its hype. The latest installment in the Batman film series set records with its opening weekend, taking in an estimated $155 million at the box office. Spider-Man 3 previously held the record, taking in $151 million last year. Director and screenwriter Christopher Nolan and actor Christian Bale are two of the driving forces behind the blockbuster’s success. The Dark Knight is the third collaboration for the pair, who previously worked together on Batman Begins and the dueling-illusionists thriller The Prestige. Nolan first made a name for himself with the Oscar-nominated low-budget hit […]
We Know It’s Only Rock N’ Roll But We Like It
Pitchfork Music Festival, Union Park, Chicago, Sunday [Photos by TIFFANY YOON] PREVIOUSLY: More pix and our Pitchfork Fest Diary
NEWS CLUES: Like A Post-BBQ Beatdown Of The Truth
Shyamalan To Shoot Next Flick At Soon-To-Be-Built Phillywood Studio GROUNDBREAKING on an $85 million Hollywood-style movie-production studio in Delaware County won’t begin for at least a couple months, but one director already wants to shoot his next film there: M. Night Shyamalan. The studio’s developers – Philadelphia real-estate attorney Jeffrey Rotwitt and Santa Monica, Calif.-based Pacifica Ventures – say they could be only days away from securing crucial tax breaks. Their Sun Center Studios would be built in Chester Township on the 33-acre site of the Tri-State Sports complex. They also are in advanced negotiations with Paramount Pictures – which […]
KILLADELPHIA: 9 Shootings, 9 Wounded, 2 Dead
INQUIRER: Philadelphia police yesterday found the bullet-riddled body of a 21-year-old man who was sitting inside a car parked in the driveway of a home in West Philadelphia. Sgt. William Gallagher identified the man as Raheem Ellis and said he lived near 1400 N. 56th St., where his body was found around 2 a.m. Police were called after receiving a report of shots being fired. Ellis was shot multiple times with a 9mm handgun, police said. He was pronounced dead at Hahnemann University Hospital. An unidentified woman in her 40s was found shot to death in Southwest Philadelphia this morning, […]
We Know It’s Only Rock N’ Roll But We Like It
LIVE AND DIRECT: Pitchfork Music Festival, Union Park, Chicago, Illinois TEXT & PHOTOS BY TIFFANY YOON It’s day one here in beautiful Chicago. After driving from one Marriott hotel to another, hoping one of them was ours, we finally pulled into our hotel parking lot sometime around 4am. We were meeting friends that hooked us up with a cheap deal at a Marriott hotel (one of the guys works at a Marriott in Philadelphia) and we were supposed to rendezvous with them at the hotel sometime around 8pm the night before. We had some complications along the way, the driver […]
AMERICAN IDIOT: Philly Woman’s Self-Inflicted Financial Woe Is Metaphor For The National Economy
NEW YORK TIMES: “I was very proud of myself when I bought the house,” Ms. McLeod explained. “I thought I would live here till I died.” Adding to her burden, however, was about $25,000 in credit card debt she had brought from her marriage. Because her husband did not have a regular salary, all the cards were in her name. After she had been in the house for a year, a friend who was a mortgage broker suggested she consolidate her debts into a new home loan. The property had appreciated by about $30,000, and once again she put no […]
AUTOPSY: Kenneth Keith Kallenbach Killed By Death
INQUIRER: The comedian Kenneth Keith Kallenbach died of complications from cystic fibrosis, according to an autopsy report released yesterday by the Delaware County medical examiner. Kallenbach’s family has alleged that he did not receive the proper medical treatment for his condition while in the county prison and that his health deteriorated dramatically. Kallenbach, 39, was best known as a member of the “Wack Pack” on Howard Stern’s radio show. He suffered from the inherited disease and died April 24 at Riddle Memorial Hospital after being transferred from the George W. Hill Correctional Facility in Thornbury, where he had been held […]