“I Saw An X-Ray Of Girl Passing Gas” live at the Trocadero, Saturday night.
TONITE: The Blood Orange Side Of The Moon
NEWSDAY: If you want to see the full moon aglow in a dramatic range of colors — a shift that could be anything from bright orange to blood red to dark brown or dark gray — then look out your window starting at 8:43 p.m. Wednesday. Starting then and lasting for the next three hours and 26 minutes you’ll be able to watch the complete saga of the last visible total eclipse of the moon in North America until 2010, according to officials at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. FORECAST: Obscured By Clouds
FUN WITH TOURISTS: Ordinance Would Forbid Telling Gullible White Trash Things Like Ben Franklin Invented The Internet & Washington Kept Dinosaurs As Pets Etc.
BY NICK POWELL CITY HALL CORRESPONDENT In the interest of ensuring historic accuracy in the city’s burgeoning tourism industry, a long-threatened bill was finally brought before the Committee of Parks, Recreation & Cultural Affairs today that would amend a Philadelphia law and require all Philadelphia tour guides to be certified. The bill, sponsored by Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown, was met with a very mixed reaction from those giving testimony and otherwise. * The bill itself, Brown said, will be implemented in two phases before being brought before the City Council. They will first test the certification requirement, including an application […]
THIS JUST IN: The Beast & The Dragon Adored, Again
Spoon has begun confirming cities and venues for its April 2008 victory lap of the United States. Confirmed dates as of press time are: Wed/Apr-02 Kansas City, KS @ Uptown *# Fri/Apr-04 Chicago, IL @ Vic Theatre *# Sat/Apr-05 Cincinnati, OH @ Bogarts *# Sun/Apr-06 Detroit. MI @ Emerald Theater *# Mon/Apr-07 Pittsburgh, PA @ Carnegie Music Hall *# Wed/Apr-09 New York, NY @ Terminal 5 Thu/Apr-10 Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory * Sat/Apr-12 Norfolk, VA @ Norva *# Mon/Apr-14 Atlanta, GA @ Centerstage *# Wed/Apr-16 Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Revolution *# Fri/Apr-18 Nashville, TN @ Vanderbilt University (Rites of […]
TODAY I SAW: There Will Be Bloods
BY JEFF DEENEY TODAY I SAW the whitewashed statue of a saluting soldier on the corner of 61st and Grays Avenue (no, not Gray’s Ferry) in the Southwest. The statue is surrounded by protective, thigh-high black iron gating and red, white and blue-painted poles. The soldier is dressed in a World War II uniform and wearing a side cap; the statue itself is on a crumbling slab of concrete next to a tiny brown brick VFW Hall. There are a handful of obvious crack houses on tiny Glenmore Street, which runs parallel to Grays Avenue. You can tell they’re hit […]
Five Things You Should Know About THE SPICE GIRLS @ The Wachovia Center Last Night
1. The biggest difference between the Spice Girls circa ’98 and this time around is that the power dynamic has clearly shifted. Where Baby and Ginger were once clearly the most popular members of the group, last night the loudest screams came anytime Posh and Scary stepped out in front. For that you can thank David Beckham, Perez Hilton and “Dancing With The Stars.” 2. Speaking of Emma Bunton, I’m happy to report that she’s long since left behind the pigtails and baby doll-dresses matched with white knee-socks and heels. The same cannot be said of many young women in […]
TONITE: Here Come The Warm Spice MILFs
BY AMY Z. QUINN So here’s the thing. Ten years ago when my niece Deanna was but a sprout and the Spice Girls weren’t yet the Spice MILFs — hell, there wasn’t even a Posh n’ Becks yet — I managed to score a pair of tickets to their show at what is now the PNC Arts Center in Holmdel, NJ. Suffice to say, this permanently secured my position as Coolest Aunt Ever — or so I thought. A few days before the show, Ginger Spice abruptly quit the group, sending little girls worldwide, Deanna included, into paroxysms of grief. […]
JUST IN: Philly Superdelegate Declares ‘Yes We Can’
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Barack Obama has picked up a third endorsement from Pennsylvania’s Democratic superdelegates. Former Philadelphia city councilwoman Carol Ann Campbell says she made up her mind Saturday after a telephone call from the Illinois senator’s wife, Michelle. Campbell says they talked for nearly 90 minutes , about the problems of the handicapped, children being raised by their grandparents and the importance of religion in their lives. Campbell, who’s previously said she was undecided, says she’s comfortable with what she heard and decided on the spot to support Obama over New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. With Campbell’s endorsement, […]
REVENGE IS A DISH BEST SERVED COLD: Principal Claims He Embezzled To Avenge His Abuse By Priests
BY SAM WOOD OF THE INQUIRER The former principal of Burlington County’s only Catholic high school said he embezzled from the school partly to get back at the church for sexual abuse he endured as a teenage seminary student.An attorney for Joseph Lemme raised the alleged abuse in a plea for leniency at Lemme’s sentencing in Superior Court last week. Lemme, principal at Holy Cross High School from 2002 to 2006, received a five-year prison term on Friday for stealing more than $415,000 from the school, which struggled with declining enrollment and financial problems during Lemme’s tenure. Lemme 51, of […]
EARLY WORD: If You’re Going To San Francisco
…you’re gonna miss the Spank Rock show on Friday.
KILLADELPHIA: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
INQUIRER: Joseph Kelly Sr., 77, was eastbound on the Expressway about 1:50 a.m. when he spotted the man in the wheelchair stuck on the expressway’s outer eastbound lane near the 15th Street off-ramp. The wheelchair was facing traffic heading in the wrong direction. It was not immediately clear why the man in the wheelchair was on the expressway or how he had become stuck. Kelly stopped his minivan on the right shoulder, got out of his vehicle and crossed three lanes of traffic to offer help to the wheelchair-bound man, police said. As Kelly pushed the wheelchair back toward the […]
We Know It’s Only Rock N’ Roll But We Like It
HAIRWAY TO STEVEN: Gibby Haynes w/ Paul Green School Of Rock, Trocadero, Sat. 1. Despite recently turning 51, Gibby looked relatively healthy, trim — trademark beer gut not withstanding — and positively boyish with his hair cut short in the style of the day. His voice remains the full-moon bullfrog croak of yore. And his only concession to age or the passage of time, aside from a pair of stylish frames and thick corrective lenses, was a sheet music stand with all his song lyrics, which he utilized like a teleprompter. Between every song, with a Yuengling lager in his […]