PHILLY.COM: An 18-year-old man was shot in the back at 4:19 p.m., less than a half-hour after his graduation from Strawberry Mansion High School, authorities said. The shooting took place in the 1700 block of North Broad Street, where the high school’s commencement ceremony at Temple University’s Liacouras Center ended at 3:55 p.m. The man, whom police would not identify, is in critical condition at Temple University Hospital.
Two Plus Two Not Adding Up To Four In Police Raid
DAILY NEWS: Moffat said he was handcuffed and placed in a patrol car while police entered the building, began a search and arrested the other three residents. Moffat said once the search began and L&I officials were called, he told Wilson that he owned the property and could show him a deed inside, but that Wilson wasn’t interested. He asked what they were accused of.”You’re not being charged, you’re being investigated,” he said Wilson told him. At another point Wilson said, “call it a kidnapping.” Then after about two hours, Moffat said, he was taken to jail. “We’re going to […]
KILLADELPHIA: 2 Dead, Seven Shot, One Stabbed
INQUIRER: Two people are dead and three others in critical condition in separate shootings across Philadelphia overnight, police said this morning.Since just after 7:30 p.m. last night there have been seven shooting incidents in the city and in Overbrook an woman was stabbed numerous times. James Lewis, 17, was shot in the back of the neck in the 3100 block of Rorer Street in Kensington at 10:21 p.m., said Officer Christine O’Brien. Lewis, of the 1900 block of East Monmouth Street in Kensington, was taken to Temple University Hospital and pronounced dead at 10:39 p.m. No arrests were reported. At […]
THIS JUST IN: Philly Wireless Lives To Die Another Day
INQUIRER: A group of local investors will rescue the city’s trailblazing wireless network from what seemed like imminent shutdown, with a new for-profit company that will replace Earthlink Inc. as the system’s operator, according to multiple sources close to the deal. Although the details of the deal were unclear yesterday, the new company is said to be considering an advertising-based business model that would provide free Internet access to all, or at least in those places where the spotty network is available. Earthlink charged $20 a month for the service. The sources said little, if any, taxpayer money would be […]
All Of This Happened While You Were Sleeping
PEACE CORPS: War On Drugs, Johnny Brendas, June 7th [Photos by TIFFANY YOON] BOSS, I’m sorry this is so late, but I have a good story: The day after the show I had work all day and then hopped a bus to New York and counted on getting a seat on the Boltbus, because the buses are equipped with Internet. Didn’t happen. Then I was hoping when I got to Brooklyn I would have the opportunity to use my sister’s Internet at her apartment, but I couldn’t get a hold of her until Monday afternoon. A friend from out of […]
THIS JUST IN: Bloomsday Started Six Minutes Ago!
WHEN: TODAY, Monday, June 16th from Noon – 7 p.m. WHERE: Rosenbach Museum & Library, 2008-2010 Delancey Place, Philadelphia WHAT: The Rosenbach Museum & Library celebrates its 16th annual Bloomsday today. The Rosenbach, home of James Joyce‘s original manuscript for Ulysses, holds this Philadelphia tradition every year on June 16th, drawing hundreds of friends, neighbors, Joyce enthusiasts, book-lovers, and curious passersby to Delancey Place. Bloomsday is free and open to the public and features readings on the steps of the museum from some of the city’s most interesting business, creative, and media personalities, along with a special exhibition of Joyce […]
TRAGIC: Cops Seize 52 Pounds Of Harmless Vegetation
By STEPHANIE FARR Philadelphia Daily News Six men who were busted with 52 pounds of marijuana in Upper Darby on Saturday are finding that the grass isn’t always greener on the other side. [Obligatory bad drug pun in the lede, because, hey, pot busts ARE FUNNY, setting up law enforcement source for…] “They’re in a black hole,” said Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood. [ …the punchline. Good one, Mr. C.] Upper Darby narcotics detectives, state police and members of the Delaware County Drug Task Force were overcome by the stench of $90,000 worth of marijuana [NOT pictured, above] when […]
KILLADELPHIA: Wouldbe Teacher Snuffed In S. Philly
INQUIRER: Beau Zabel, 23, came to Philadelphia from Minnesota six weeks ago, eager to experience urban East Coast living and to become a math teacher in the city school system. He found a place to live through roommates.com in South Philadelphia near the Italian Market, and took a temporary job at the Starbucks at Fourth and South Streets.He recently updated his page on myspace.com, which proclaims his optimism: “Just waiting for life to begin.” But his life ended at about 1:30 a.m. today, when police said Zabel was ambushed as he walked home from the midnight shift at the coffee […]
WORTH REPEATING: Riddle Me This
Reckoning ÷ Crooked Rain Crooked Rain = Around the Sun? BY JONATHAN VALANIA Twenty-four years ago — let’s just pause and think about that for a sec, 24 years ago! — R.E.M. released Reckoning. It was the much-anticipated sophomore release by the underground’s then-favorite sons of the South. The album made good on the kudzu-crusted promise of the band’s bewitching and ultimately confounding debut Murmur, radiating a murky but hopeful aura to an alt-world grown weary of punk’s safety-pinned doom and goth’s spider web of gloom. “I’m the sun and you can read,” they sang, or at least that’s what […]
FLAG DAY: If Betsy Ross Worked At Staples
DESIGN & INNOVATION: What do you get when you combine Flag Day, the home of America’s most famous flagmaker and 8,000 Post-It® Super Sticky Notes? The world’s largest American Flag made of Post-it Notes, say officials at Philadelphia’s Betsy Ross House — and you can be a part of the action. This Flag Day, Saturday, June 14, the Betsy Ross House will be the site of a Guinness World Record attempt. The Post-It Note flag will be assembled on panels that will then be laid out to form the traditional “Betsy Ross Flag” with 13 stars arranged in a circular […]
CINEMA: WTF Is Happening?
DEADLINE HOLLYWOOD: Also beaten up badly has been the other newcomer this weekend, M. Night Shyamalan’s first R-rated horror thriller The Happening from 20th Century Fox. The Mark Wahlberg starrer started out No. 2 Friday even after film critics and writers alike seemed intent on reviewing the writer-director-producer instead of the movie. (Only 11% positive on Rotten Tomatoes.) With a nasty tell-all book and several film flops behind him, Shyamalan no longer is the popular suspense moviemaker celebrated for his early hits like The Sixth Sense and Signs. Instead, he’s been branded as the hopelessly arrogant has-been, with media outlets […]
LIBERTY MEDAL: Goes To Ex-Commie Stooge Turned Lifter Of Iron Curtain Turned Louis Vuitton Pitchman
WIKIPEDIA: Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, born March 2, 1931 in Privolnoye, Stavropol Krai), is a Russian politician. He was the last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the last head of state of the USSR, serving from 1985 until its collapse in 1991. Gorbachev’s attempts at reform — perestroika and glasnost — as well as summit conferences with United States President Ronald Reagan, contributed to the end of the Cold War, and also ended the political supremacy of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He was awarded […]
LAST SPLASH: No More Teachers, No More Books
DAILY NEWS: Girls from Center City’s Hallahan High School celebrated the last day of school in the traditional way today, with a dip in Swann Fountain at Logan Circle. Rising sophomores, juniors and seniors are the ones that take the splash. The tradition is believed to be at least 50 years old, and it’s a durable one – in 2001, when a drought led the city’s fountains to shut down, the Hallahan girls arranged for the Philadelphia Fire Department to shower them from a fire hose. MORE [Photo by ALEJANDRO A. ALVAREZ / PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS]