PREVIOUSLY: TODAY I SAW two 16-ft. moving trucks parked back-to-back in front of Mantua Hall, their loading ramps extended so they almost touched each other. Every day is moving day now. The building is slated to be emptied by the end of the year, and while most families have already left there are still some stragglers waiting for the Philadelphia Housing Authority to approve their new scatter-site placements. PHA is paying for the families to relocate, so the moving trucks come in pairs and when one leaves another arrives. The shrill, intermittent symphony of ear-piercing smoke alarms going off about […]
BEANIE AGONISTES: Sigel Facing 3-Month Lock-Up
ALL HIP-HOP: Philadelphia rapper Beanie Sigel will spend the next three months in prison, after he was accused of violating his probation for a third time yesterday (March 28). Probation officials revealed that Sigel provided a false urine sample and tested positive for Xanax and Percocet five times over the past month. Sigel, who admitted to being addicted to the painkiller and muscle relaxer, was originally sentenced to six months house arrest in January, after a second probation violation. In that case, a federal judge found that Sigel took an unauthorized trip to Atlantic City, New Jersey, and had contact […]
All Of This Happened Whie You Were Sleeping
TURBO CHARGE: Turbo Station, Trocadero, Last Night, [Photos by TIFFANY YOON/CLICK TO ENLARGE]
We Know It’s Only Rock N’ Roll But We Like It
THE DIRTY SOUTH WILL RISE AGAIN: Drive-By Truckers, The Fillmore, Last Night BY JONATHAN VALANIA FOR THE INQUIRER The Drive-By Truckers write songs about the dirty South, where life is hard and folks die soft and squishy and often emphysemic, dirty deeds get done dirt cheap, and everyone goes to church but nobody really goes to heaven. These songs are like the weeds in the cracks of the trailer park, or the pile of broken beer bottles in the woods, or the lipstick traces on the stubbed-out Kools overflowing the ashtray. Oh, the things they have seen. It also bears […]
LIVE & DIRECT: From Clinton Headquarters
On Monday we will have a report from Obama headquarters.
PAPERBOY EXTRA: Channel 3 Pink-Slips 11 Jobs?
Did CBS3 just lay off 11 employees? We’ve got a call in to Station Manager Michael Colleran and will update you when he does. In the meantime, feel free to give us the skinny in the comments or via email, if you’re the shy type.
ARTSY: Now Hanging On A Bus Stop Near You
UPDATE: Thanks for all those who bought the print in support of OBEY and OBAMA. Unfortunately, the print is sold out and we do not plan on producing another edition. The edition was released earlier today with great response. The PROGRESS screenprint was exclusively available through OBEY and the HOPE offset print will be distributed by the OBAMA Camp as an awareness campaign. I believe with great conviction that Barack Obama should be the next President. I have been paying close attention to him since the Democratic convention in 2004. I feel that he is more a statesman than a […]
KILLADELPHIA: Subway Beatdown Kills One
INQUIRER: A 36-year-old man died yesterday afternoon within an hour of being beaten by four youths on a SEPTA platform a short distance from City Hall and the Center City Starbucks store where he worked. The attack happened in view of passersby and a transit policeman who was unable to help. Police said last night they had charged one of the teenagers, a 16-year-old student at Simon Gratz High School, with murder and conspiracy in the beating death of Sean Patrick Conroy, who lived in South Philadelphia and managed the Starbucks at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, 12th and Market Streets. […]
Puerto Rico Gov. Arrested In City Hall Probe
BY JOHN SHIFFMAN OF THE INQUIRER Puerto Rico’s governor and four Philadelphians, including prominent fund-raiser Robert M. Feldman, were charged this morning in San Juan with federal campaign-finance related crimes.The investigation of Gov. Anibal Acevedo-Vila, a Democrat who faces re-election this year, was triggered by the FBI’s Philadelphia City Hall corruption probe in 2003. Feldman, who raised more than $1 million for Democrats, including U.S. Sen. Bob Casey Jr. and Gov. Rendell, was a former business partner of Ronald A. White, the late power-broker who was the lead defendant in the Philadelphia corruption case. In the Philadelphia case, Feldman was […]
BREAKING: Mumia Taken Off Death Row
INQUIRER: In a major victory for world-famous death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal, a federal appeals court today refused to reinstate his death sentence for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that Abu-Jamal must be sentenced to life in prison or get a chance with a new Philadelphia jury, which would decide anew whether he should get life in prison or be sentenced — again — to death. At the same time, the judges upheld his first-degree murder conviction, rejecting Abu-Jamal’s claim that he deserves an entirely new trial […]
PENNSYLTUCKY: The Shocking Death Of Kirsten Taylor
INQUIRER: A Pennsylvania man, who electrocuted his wife during kinky sex, faces murder charges after a coroner ruled her death a homicide, authorities said. Kirsten Taylor, 27, was found Jan. 23 unconscious and suffering from severe burns on her nipples in her York County mobile home. She was rushed to York Hospital where she was pronounced dead, police said. Her husband, Toby Taylor, was charged the next day with involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment by the Lower Windsor Township police. He was arrested and released after posting $100,000 bail.The county medical examiner yesterday ruled Kirsten’s death a homicide and the […]
COPS: Fraternal Order Of Popo Endorses Johnny Doc
INQUIRER: One of Philadelphia’s most influential unions will throw it’s political might today behind a powerful union boss in his first bid for public office. The president of The Fraternal Order of Police said Lodge 5 board members unanimously voted last night to endorse John Dougherty in his run for the First State Senatorial District. The FOP represents 14,000 active and retired Philadelphia police officers. Dougherty, 47, has led the city’s electricians’ union for 15 years. He is running for the seat left vacant by former foe Vincent Fumo, who announced his retirement from public life March 12 after suffering […]