EXCUSE ME WHILE I KISS THE SKY: Albert Hammond Jr., TLA, Last Night [FLICKR] BY JONATHAN VALANIA FOR THE INQUIRER Perhaps the meanest thing you could say about Yours To Keep, the solo debut by Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr., is that it’s all craft and no personality. This is often the case when a background member of a popular band steps into the foreground with a solo project, armed with long-dormant songs but minus the compelling narrative a band like the Strokes has worked so hard and long to establish. And because we know so much — too much, […]
JUDGE SETS DATE FOR FUMO CORRUPTION TRIAL
PHILLY.COM: U.S. Senior District Judge William H. Yohn Jr. yesterday scheduled the corruption trial of state Sen. Vince Fumo and three associates for next Feb. 25.
We Know It’s Only Rock N’ Roll But We Like It
SMASH YR. HEAD ON THE INDIE-ROCK: Sebadoh Reunion, North Star, Last Night BY SIMONE SECCI FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT I’m not going to hide my excitement about seeing live one of my favorite band since I was 14, that implicates I guess that I can’t be totally neutral in judging their show and also that my expectations about it were pretty big. First band I found in front of me when I got to the North Star bar is Bent Moustache from Holland. They are, I have to say, a very powerful and unstoppable noisemaking machine, growling and sharp bass and guitar […]
MEDIA: Philebrity Crows ‘EXCLUSIVE,’ Bets Ranch On Anonymous Source, Already Planning ‘Viking Funeral’
BREAKING/PHILEBRITY EXCLUSIVE: PW BOUGHT BY VILLAGE VOICE! This is what we are hearing from a top-level source, and how we are hearing it definitively before DMac did is just confusing and sad. Oh well. Au revoir, bitches! PREVIOUSLY: The Case Of The Vanished Owner, The Silent V.P. & The Newspaper That Got Scooped On Its Own Sale, Possibly
700 Pound Trenton Woman Falls Down, Can’t Get Up
TRENTON, N.J. – It took nearly seven hours and the demolition of a bathroom for rescue workers to remove a more than 700-pound woman from her home, officials said. Rescue workers arrived at about 5:45 p.m. Monday to the woman’s home after responding to reports she had fallen and injured herself in her second-floor bathroom, said Trenton Fire Department Battalion Chief Gregory Gore. They didn’t get her out until after midnight. The undertaking ended up involving dozens of emergency medical responders and firefighters from Trenton and neighboring Ewing. Firefighters eventually had to dismantle the toilet and radiator, and rip out […]
Motel Worker Questioned In AC Hooker Serial Killings
EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, N.J. — A former maintenance man at the Golden Key Motel, near where the decomposing bodies of four streetwalkers were found face-down in a muddy sewer ditch in November, underwent a daylong interrogation as authorities searched his Salem County home.The Atlantic County Prosecutors Office would neither identify the man nor confirm whether he was being held in the probe of the four murders. A source confirmed this morning that the daylong interview took place yesterday and that bags of evidence had been collected at the man’s white, woodframe home in Alloway Township in a rural area of […]
THE EARLY WORD: Whip It Good!
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TODAY I SAW…
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 the local media, […]
All Of This Happened While You Were Sleeping
THIN WHITE DUKE OF THE STRATOSPHERE: Sonic Boom, JB’s, Last Night [FLICKR]
MAILBAG: ‘Not if they were giving out free cocaine and BJs’
The following was forwarded to us by a reader, along with the quote above: Dear [Redacted], I received your complaint this morning about our decision to convert the TLA into The Fillmore Philadelphia. Being a huge live music fan myself I can understand your attachment to the TLA name. All I can ask is that you give us a chance. This is not just a name change. We are putting hardwood floors in the club, changing the decor to reflect rock and roll history — and Philadelphia rock history specifically. We are bringing chandeliers into the venue. After select shows […]
CHIX WE DIG: Marty Moss-Coane, Host & Executive Producer of WHYY’s Radio Times & Total Babia Majora
BY JONATHAN VALANIA How do we love Marty? Let us count the ways: The way she picks Philadelphia’s brain every day for two hours, leading listeners through two completely different, but somehow relevant, topics of interest — with confidence, class and MILF-y aplomb. The way she never loses her cool or raises her voice or engages in ad hominem attacks, and expects her guests and callers to do the same; how she enforces that covenant with the gentle firmness of a Cub Scout den mother. The way she and her girlfriends — back when they were teenagers — sometimes went […]
Cover Wars: Whose Artfag Kung-Fu Is Stronger?
WINNER: DAILY NEWS?
KILLADELPHIA: Settled Scores Reach 104
INQUIRER: After hitting 100 homicides, Philadelphia witnessed unrelenting violence over the weekend, with the gruesome discovery of a woman’s body with a plastic bag tied over her head and three men felled by gunfire. Police said no arrests had been made in the homicides, which boost the city total to at least 104, higher than that of some larger cities in the country. Victims of three other unrelated shootings early yesterday were in critical condition last night. “It was a gory night,” said an officer who declined to be named. MORE *PLEASE NOTE: Our recurring GUNCRAZY column, wherein we try […]