Accused Date Rape Dude Led Rich Fantasy Life

– Owned a 9mm Beretta pistol, which he named “Priscilla,” and would “talk to it as if he were Elvis.” – Claimed to kill people for the CIA, including a friend who went through secret-agent training, flunked out, and had to be killed on Marsalis’ order because “he knew too much.” – Said he had a helicopter on stand-by in case he was needed to flown to the White House. – Would call her to report he was crawling around in caves in Afghanistan hunting terrorists. – Trained as an astronaut so he would have something to do “after he […]

GRUMPY OLD MEN: Q&A With The Phillies’ Bill Giles

[Illustration by ALEX FINE] Bill Giles, The P.T. Barnum Of The Phillies, And The Creature He Brought To Life BY ED KING Pouring Six Beers at a Time and Other Stories from a Lifetime in Baseball is the new autobiography from Philadelphia Phillies’ longtime executive and partner, Bill Giles. The book, like the man I spoke to, has the jovial tone of a true dreamer. A Bill Giles tale is punctuated with knowing chuckles and the uncanny sense that the story is taking on new details since its last telling. Giles came to the public eye in the Philadelphia sports […]

TODAY I SAW…

[Photo by JONATHAN VALANIA] BY JEFF DEENEY “Today I saw…” is a series of nonfiction shorts based on my experiences as a caseworker serving formerly homeless families now living in North and West Philadelphia. I decided not long after starting the job that I was seeing so many fascinating and disturbing things in the city’s poorest neighborhoods that I needed to start cataloging them. I hope this bi-weekly column serves as a record of a side of the city that many Philadelphians don’t come in contact with on a daily basis. I want to capture moments not frequently covered by […]

Main Line Nanny Basher Is The New Face Of Evil

According to the criminal complaint in the first incident, [banking heiress Susan Tabas] Tepper threw all the food on the floor, told the nanny to clean it up and then struck her in the chest with a bag of carrots. The complaint said Tepper [NOT pictured] then attacked the woman by pushing her into the refrigerator and striking her on the head with a telephone handset. Tepper then pulled Salinas’ hair, scratched her face, broke her glasses and tried to push her down the stairs, it said, and then yanked Salinas’ pocketbook away from her and took about $800, believed […]

FIGHT CITY HALL: Key Cog In The Democratic Machine Pleads Guilty To Charge Of Bribing A.C. Councilmen

BY GEORGE ANASTASIA INQUIRER STAFF WRITER A high-profile North Philadelphia Democratic Party ward leader pleaded guilty to a bribery charge yesterday, admitting he paid at least $12,100 to two corrupt city councilmen in Atlantic City in exchange for their help in setting up business deals there.Carlos Matos, who married into one of the most politically active families in Philadelphia, entered the plea during a hearing in Camden before U.S. District Court Judge Robert B. Kugler. Matos, 58, is the son-in-law of City Commissioner Marge Tartaglione. His wife, Renee, is a chief deputy city commissioner. Matos has worked in the office of […]

TOMORROW: The Return Of Grumpy Old Men

MEET YOUR MAKER: Bill Giles, The P.T. Barnum Of The Phillies, And The Creature He Brought To Life “Bill Giles came to the public eye in the Philadelphia sports scene as the Master of Fun and Games, fearlessly orchestrating wacky promotions that pied-pipered sell-out crowds into the then-state-of-the-art Veterans Stadium. Following the franchise’s lone World Championship and the sudden sale of the Phillies to a group put together by Giles, he briefly enjoyed acclaim as caretaker of the Phillies’ most glorious era, before one too many lineups scribbled on cocktail napkins branded him as Bumbling Leader of the infamous Gang […]

TODAY I SAW…

[photo by JONATHAN VALANIA] BY JEFF DEENEY “Today I saw…” is a series of nonfiction shorts based on my experiences as a caseworker serving formerly homeless families now living in North and West Philadelphia. I decided not long after starting the job that I was seeing so many fascinating and disturbing things in the city’s poorest neighborhoods that I needed to start cataloging them. I hope this bi-weekly column serves as a record of a side of the city that many Philadelphians don’t come in contact with on a daily basis. I want to capture moments not frequently covered by […]

KILLADELPHIA: 1 More Dead Since You Went To Bed

A triple shooting left one man dead in Germantown last night. Police said a gunman opened fire on Henley Street near West Manheim shortly after 8 p.m. A 29-year-old man, whose name was not released, was hit multiple times and died at Albert Einstein Medical Center at 8:38 p.m. Two unidentified men — one 21 years old and the other 29 — were wounded. Both men were listed in stable condition at area hospitals. DAILY NEWS: One Less German In Germantown OVERHEARD: “This is a lot more about community, about the lack of any centering force within the black community, […]

MEDIA: Daily News Gets A New Boss

Executive Vice President Mark Frisby will take over as publisher of the tabloid, Tierney said. Tierney will remain President and CEO of the Daily News. “This shows we’re going to actually step on the gas and invest more in the Daily News,” Tierney said. Brian Tierney — the CEO of the company that owns the Philadelphia Daily News and the Philadelphia Inquirer — announced today that he is appointing a new publisher for the Daily News. Frisby came to the company last fall after serving as publisher of the Courier-Post in Cherry Hill, N.J. He will continue to supervise production, […]