PEACE BE UPON YOU: Lupe Fiasco, Trocadero, December 7th, 2006 [FLICKR] EVA SAYS: The boss saw great talent and predicted that with this great talent will come great success, but I was skeptical of all the hype surrounding Lupe Fiasco. The New Kanye, he said. It only goes to show why he is master and I am young grasshoppa. (Laying it on a little thick, don’t you think?–Ed.) As per the Power 99 DJs hosting the show, Lupe Fiasco was just nominated for three Grammys, including Best Rap album for Food & Liquor. He had the crowd from the get-go […]
COVER WARS: Whose Artfag Kung-Fu Is Stronger?
The CP‘s royal billiard Tanenbaum actually pops quite nicely at this size, but when you pull it out of the box and hold it in your hands for some reason it just screams WE ARE OUT OF IDEAS. Which only makes PW‘s smashing pumpkin orange navel-gazer seem more brilliant than it actually is. Still, outies are sexy. WINNER: PW, by a landslide
GUNCRAZY: Man Shoots ‘Cheerleaders’ Lapdancer In Bizarre Murder-Suicide Death-By-Stripper Attempt
(KYW 1060) PHILADELPHIA A double shooting at a South Philadelphia strip club left a dancer and customer fighting for their lives. Police said the shooting happened just after 9 p.m. Thursday at the Cheerleaders Gentlemens Club on Front Street and Oregon Avenue. Harmony Adams, a 31-year-old dancer, was shot in the back of the neck by 49-year-old Larry McGuigan, a regular customer, who shot himself in the head. Both victims remain in critical condition at Jefferson University Hospital. There is no word on a motive. Philadelphia Police said they are working to determine whether the shooting was accidental or intentional. […]
HIZZONER ’07: Shitastic Schools, Crushing Poverty and Spiralling Gun Violence All Take Backseat To Dreadlocked Man Rotting In Prison 300 Miles Away
U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah (D., Phila.) doesn’t think Mumia Abu-Jamal got a fair shake from the legal system that convicted him of killing Philadelphia policeman Daniel Faulkner. But Fattah, a mayoral candidate, voted Wednesday to condemn the French city of St. Denis for renaming a street after the celebrity inmate – a renaming that proponents said was intended to focus world attention on the same alleged injustice long criticized by Fattah. Fattah’s vote, on a purely symbolic resolution sponsored by outgoing U.S. Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (R., Pa.), represented his latest effort to grapple with an issue that remains a political […]
EARLY WORD: Requiem For Palookaville
PW: “His paintings are of bagmen and boxers, ninth street peddlers and mobsters, broken women, beautiful women, celebrities, historical figures, Philly icons, loan sharks, and so on. They are honest and raw and moving and tell a little bit about what its meant to be alive today.”
Stop The Presses: It’s Official, Philebrity Is Megaphone Of THE MAN, Phawker Is Soapbox Of THE PEOPLE
Breaking: Tierney Speaks To PN Rank & File, Makes Stunning Use Of Bold Italics December 7, 2006 To: PN Employees From: Brian Tierney An Open Letter to Employees: At the very beginning of negotiations with our unions, I said that I would treat our discussions with confidentiality and respect, and not negotiate in public. However, with all the rhetoric going around, I feel we must separate some facts from fiction. Let me highlight a few examples. We are not proposing to take away anyone’s pension benefit. The Pension Fund is federally guaranteed. We are only proposing to no longer make […]
Philly Fastfood Dumps To Double As SUV Fuel Pumps
“Gov. Rendell today announced $3 million in grants under Pennsylvania’s Alternative Fuel Incentive program. Groups in the Philadelphia region received slightly more than $700,000 of the money. The largest local grant went to City of Philadelphia Fleet Managment, which received $351,217 to buy 1 million gallons of biodiesel and storage tanks. Philadelphia Fry-o-Diesel L.L.C. was awarded $250,000 to construct a commercial refinery that can process trap greese from restaurants to produce 3 million gallons of biodiesel. Philadelphia Fry-o-Diesel had previously recieved a $369,696 contribution from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection towards its pilot plant.Bucks County transport received $25,000 for […]
The Kama Sutras Will No Longer Assume The Position:
CLUB PLANS ON HALTING SEX PARTIES COOPERSBURG, Pa. — The party’s over for a controversial sex club in Lehigh County. For $60 a couple, there was dancing, a buffet, and 12 hotel rooms for private get-togethers. But a judge ruled that’s a violation of zoning rules.Officials said the Silhouette Showbar has tentatively agreed to stop hosting sex club events. The settlement is only tentative until a written agreement is signed by the parties and approved Monday by the borough’s Zoning Hearing Board, borough solicitor Maryann Higgins said.Bruce Young, co-owner of Coopersburg Holdings Inc., owner of the Silhouette, said he understood […]
GUNCRAZY: Villanova Campus Locked Down After Gunman Shoots At Cops 10 Times Then Audits A Few Classes
Villanova University’s south campus [NOT pictured, left] was on lockdown most of Wednesday morning as police searched the grounds for a gunman who opened fire on three Radnor officers in nearby Bryn Mawr. Six dorms and a cafeteria were located in the school’s lockdown area. Some morning classes were also canceled at the university. Radnor police called off the search at Villanova around 10:20 a.m., and classes resumed about an hour later, university spokeswoman Barbara Clement said. NBC10: Can’t Help But Feel That ALL of the Main Line Was Let Down Tonight *About this picture
GUNCRAZY: From The Dept. Of Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
Boy Shot In Groin Outside North Philly Theater PHILADELPHIA — A 16-year-old male was shot in the groin on Wednesday outside of a North Philadelphia movie theater.The shooting occurred outside the Pearl Movie Theatre, located at Oxford and Carlisle streets, next to Temple University’s campus.The boy was reported to be in critical condition.There was no information as to a possible suspect or a motive. NBC10 News reported that the weapon used in the shooting was a Tech-9 semi-automatic pistol. NBC10: Can’t Help Feeling That ALL Of North Philly Was Let Down Tonight PREVIOUSLY: Blatstein Gives Folks Seven More Screens To […]
FASTFOOD NATION: Taco Bell Shitstorm Not Playing Well In Tiananmen Square, Not At All
BEIJING, Dec. 7 (Xinhuanet) — The Taco Bell E. coli connection continued to grow Wednesday when the fast-food chain shut down all of its restaurants in Philadelphia after the bacteria outbreak in three states was linked to a food preparation and distribution center in New Jersey. […] “I have contacted company officials and asked that they voluntarily close all 15 of their establishments in Philadelphia until they are given approval by the health department,” said Philadelphia interim health commissioner Carmen I. Paris in a statement. XINHUA: ???????!
Stop The Presses: MEXICAN STANDOFF After Talks Breakdown Over Pension Fund Deal-Breaker, From The Look Of Things Christmas May Have To Be Cancelled
SGT. BYKO REPORTS: Today, the Company refused to move on its plan to freeze the pension fund. It wouldn’t budge on its desire to take full control of our fund away from the joint board of trustees. The Company wants all that power as it, and it alone, seeks a multi-employer plan in which to place the frozen fund. The Guild negotiating team told the Company it would go into a multi-employer pension fund, but it would not relinquish its place in the decision making process. Under the Guild plan, the pension trustees — composed of an equal number of […]
Puff The Magic of The LUCKY DRAGONS
NOW PLAYING ON PHAWKER RADIO: Windows by The Lucky Dragons To be honest, we don’t know shit about these guys. Walk into AKA Music the other day and these sounds — sounds we had never heard before — are quietly fragmenting and recombining into new fractals in the background. It seems to be annoying most people in the store but we like it. A lot. What is this? we ask the clerk sitting at the register, poring over his Nancy comic. Without looking up, he just grunts something that later we figured out to be: “It’s Windows, the new album […]