Philadelphia Police this morning have arrested a 16-year-old male in connection with a double shooting last night in the Frankford section that left two Philadelphia police officers wounded. The two plainclothes narcotics officers were shot as they tried to serve an arrest warrant in the 2000 block of Oxford Street at about 6:30 p.m. One officer was shot in the leg, the other was hit in the hip. They were treated at a local hospital and released. Both were recovering at home this morning, police said. The teen, who police say lived at the house at 2013A Oxford St., will […]
TODAY I SAW…
BY JEFF DEENEY TODAY I SAW a long line of people waiting to turn their cell phones in at the Criminal Justice Center. That’s the first stop on the way to criminal court; everyone stands in a line that snakes through the lobby for five minutes before handing over their phones to a white guy in jeans and a sweatshirt who stands in front of a big box with hundreds of sliding compartments. He’s usually listening to classic rock radio but today he was singing the Eagles fight song while furiously snatching phones and handing out numbered plastic chips […]
NEWS CLUES: It’s Like Adderall For Your Eyeballs
FBI SEZ: Blackwater Guards Massacred 14 Unarmed Iraqi Civilians WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 — Federal agents investigating the Sept. 16 episode in which Blackwater security personnel shot and killed 17 Iraqi civilians have found that at least 14 of the shootings were unjustified and violated deadly-force rules in effect for security contractors in Iraq, according to civilian and military officials briefed on the case. The F.B.I. investigation into the shootings in Baghdad is still under way, but the findings, which indicate that the company’s employees recklessly used lethal force, are already under review by the Justice Department. Prosecutors have yet to […]
INSTA-REVIEW: 10 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT JAY-Z AT THE FILLMORE LAST NIGHT
1. I can’t prove this, but I am pretty sure he doesn’t have anywhere near 99 problems. I would be surprised if he has more than four or five problems. And in all likelihood, they are of the broken shoelace variety. 2. To the best of my knowledge, he has not made a false move in his life. Even when he was dealing drugs, he played the game, the game didn’t play him. 3. Exhibit A would be the fact that he, like, gets to bang Beyonce every night. 4. No matter what happens next, he will be remembered as […]
NEWS CLUES: It’s Like Adderall For Your Eyeballs
THIS JUST IN: Dead Horse Found In North Philly PHILADELPHIA – Officials say a North Philadelphia block filled with horse stables has at least one rotting horse carcass and many more neglected horses in deplorable conditions. Officials from the city and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals went to the block Tuesday afternoon in response to an anonymous tip. They say tons of horse manure was piled up inside the stables. The dead horse was found partly buried behind one of the buildings. One man who says he keeps horses there says he and his friends care […]
INSTA-REVIEW: Five Things You Need To Know About Melt Banana At First Unitarian Last Night
1. Lead singer Yasuko O. is cute as pie, which is a delightful contrast to her seemingly bad-ass reputation. Live, she barks, chokes, shriek and screeches her incoherent English lyrics just as she would on any album. But then she stops to take a breather and she’s all smiles and peace-fingers. 2. My guess is that 75% of last night’s crowd has an Asian fetish going on (which is fine by me). When Yasuko stopped mid-set and said to the crowd, “we have tee-surts, um… tee-shuts, hehehe, tee-shirts!” half the crowd swooned at the sound of her adorably broken English […]
SECOND OPINION: 5 MORE Things You Should Know About Jay-Z Last Night At The Fillmore
H TO THE IZZO: Jigga, The Fillmore, Last Night 1. Live hip-hop could use more live instrumentation. Jay-Z’s 8 piece band, plus DJ, breathed new life into classics like “99 Problems” and ” P.S.A” giving them the deep kick and crunchy shred that only a live band can deliver. 2. Black is gangsta. From Hov’s upside down Betsy Ross Flag (the one with thirteen stars) T-shirt with black stripes instead of the traditional red, white and blue version, to the band decked out in vintage black suit vests, white shirts and black ties — Hov’s political statement can be summed […]
NEWS CLUES: It’s Like Adderall For Your Eyeballs
SHINING PATH: How Richard Gere Got His Buddha On As Richard Gere tells it, it was in 1978 that he literally and figuratively found his humanitarian path. “After [the film festival at] Cannes I went to India and Nepal,” he recalls. “It was outside of Pokhara, at the edge of the Himalayas, I took a walk through a village. There were no vehicles. I saw a hand-lettered sign that said, ‘Tibetan refugees.’ I walked up the path and it was otherworldly — it had a Brigadoon or Lost Horizons quality. Their minds and hearts were different from anything else I […]
TONITE: Melt Your Banana
BY EVA LIAO Melt Banana is/are/was/always will be cool because A.) they’re Japanese, B.) they have mad style and C.) they are the reigning lords of zig-zaggy schizoid, make-you-want-to-thrash-until-you-vomit, one minute songs that blur the line between music and seizure. They’ve been around since 1992, which makes them pioneers of sorts in the Japanese noise rock scene. They’re lead singer is a precious little Japanese girl who you might otherwise mistake as the girl down the street who does your dry cleaning. Lead singer Yuksuko O. will rape your eardrums with incoherent shrieking. Everything will move very, very fast. You […]
KILLADELPHIA: 3 More Dead Since U Went 2 Bed
DAILY NEWS: Izim Greer, 19, was shot once in the head shortly before 3 a.m. Saturday inside a home on 65th Street near Gesner, said Homicide Lt. Philip Riehl. Greer was pronounced dead at 3:05 a.m. by medics on the scene, police said. Police arrested John Bradley, of Saybrook Avenue near 65th Street, and charged him with Greer’s slaying, Riehl said. He said the shooting had been prompted by a dispute over Bradley’s girlfriend. Shortly after 12:30 a.m. yesterday, police found the body of a 23-year-old man on 7th Street near Poplar, North Philadelphia. The victim had been shot in […]
TONITE: Got 99 Problems
But getting into the Fillmore tonight ain’t one! Look for our INSTA-REVIEW later tonight…
IMAGINE: What $611 Billion Could Buy, Besides Bullets
BOSTON GLOBE: If the Bush administration succeeds in its latest request for funding for the war in Iraq, the total cost would rise to $611.5 billion, according to the National Priorities Project, a nonprofit research group. The amount got us wondering: What would $611 billion buy? 18 MONTHS OF FREE GAS FOR ALL U.S. drivers consume approximately 384.7 million gallons of gasoline a day. Retail prices averaged $3.00 a gallon in early November. Breaking it down, $611 billion could buy gasoline for everybody in the United States, for about 530 days. * CONVERT ALL THE CARS IN AMERICA TO ETHANOL […]
TODAY I SAW. . .
BY JEFF DEENEY TODAY I SAW a young white couple with two small kids, arguing underneath the 60 bus shelter at Frankford and Allegheny. Dad wore a white hooded sweat jacket, patterned with red-outlined skulls. The skulls were arranged arbitrarily, like they were piled on top of each other. He wore construction boots air brushed with graffiti tags along the uppers. His girl wore a Rocawear winter jacket that had a tight, knitted waist and fur around the hood. She had on skin-tight jeans that her redheaded children, one boy and one girl, clung to. Her complexion was pasty […]