Since my work history at the local alternative weeklies has somehow become a matter of public interest, I feel obliged to set the record straight: I was NOT “shitcanned” from the PW last week. That happened TWO YEARS AGO, and really, that was a matter of them being just as tired of me as I was of them. If I can blow my own horn for a moment, only a month prior to my dismissal I had swept a couple entire categories at the Keystone state journalism awards and walked away with a buncha First Place plaques from the Society […]
Top Eight Reasons The Whole Slots On The Delaware Farce Smells Like Ass
From Young Philly: 1) A Democratic Governor, and a powerful Democratic State Senator, both from Philadelphia, decide that the best way to fuel economic development in Philadelphia is to put big slot barns down in the middle of neighborhoods. We can’t get the real changes we need to level the property tax and school funding inequities, so instead we take old ladies’ social security money as they feed it down a one armed bandit. Awesome. Of course, the jobs that are coming are generally low paid. And, there is very little in promises that the jobs will even stay, as […]
ET TU JOHNNY: FBI Comes To Union Boss’ House, And Not For A Picnic
Kiss of death for Doc? By DAVE DAVIES When FBI agents showed up to search union leader John Dougherty‘s South Philadelphia home last Friday morning, they took pictures of the house, sources said. […] Dougherty is associated with several entities that have received grand-jury subpoenas over the last year, but the search of his home is the most direct engagement yet between Dougherty and federal investigators. Dougherty has not responded to requests for comment on the search, which was reported in yesterday’s Inquirer. Dougherty, 45, is business manager for Local 98 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and one […]
Ding-Dong The Witch Is Dead: CLEAR CHANNEL MONOPOLY SOLD OFF FOR SPARE PARTS
The $18.7 billion deal is one of the biggest among recent acquisitions of public firms by cash-rich buyout groups. SAN ANTONIO, Texas – Clear Channel Communications Inc., the nation’s biggest operator of radio stations, said yesterday that it had agreed to be acquired for about $18.7 billion by a private-investment group. The transaction would be one of the biggest deals in which a publicly traded company has been taken private, and it showcases the vast sums that buyout groups have been able to assemble for acquisitions. […] Clear Channel’s shares jumped $1.24, or 3.6 percent, to $35.36 on the New […]
STATING THE OBVIOUS: Santorum NOT To Run For Prez, Says Wife Would Kick His Fuckin Ass, In So Many Words
Santorum: No oval office run Some backers sought an ’08 campaign, but he said: “Absolutely, positively not.” By Carrie Budoff Inquirer Staff Writer Don’t expect to see Sen. Rick Santorum’s name on the 2008 presidential ballot. “Absolutely, positively not. Absolutely not,” Santorum said yesterday on The Michael Smerconish Show on WPHT-AM (1210). “My wife would throw me out of the house if I do anything in ’08.” Even though he lost his Senate seat last week by 18 points to Democrat Bob Casey Jr., some supporters hoped he would still fill the social conservative niche on the Republican ticket. William […]
THE WALLS HAVE EARS: Hamas Was Herre And The FBI Was Listening
Hamas-case jury hears tapes of 1993 Philadelphia meeting By Jeff Coen Tribune staff reporter November 17, 2006 A federal judge Thursday refused to stop the trial of two men accused of activities supporting the militant Islamic Palestinian group Hamas, rejecting their attorneys’ argument that an organization’s meeting should be protected by the 1st Amendment. Lawyers for Muhammad Salah of Bridgeview and Abdelhaleem Ashqar of Virginia moved for a mistrial after prosecutors began playing secret recordings of a 1993 meeting known as “the Philadelphia conference.” The gathering saw 20 supporters of Hamas, including Ashqar, discussing strategies for handling “the movement” in […]
LISTEN CLOSELY: And You Can Almost Hear Sweeney’s Panties Bunching Up
Well, we heard talk of this, and somebody finally sent us a link, seems we made the short list of essential Philly media on WXPN’s listener survey. Not bad for only a month outta the womb. Again, we could not be more proud or horny! *? 11.?How often do you read the following local publications? Never Occasionally Regularly ” + labelText + “ Philadelphia Inquirer LibertyNet Philadelphia Philly.com CityPaper Philadelphia Magazine Philadelphia Daily News Philadelphia Weekly Philebrity.com the Metro Philadelphia Style Magazine Philly Edge Phawker.com ?WXPN: Not Just For Marxist Lesbian Folk Music Anymore
GOT BENERGY: See What Happens When Even One Hung Over Hipster Drags His Sorry Skinny-Jeaned Ass Off The Couch And Actually Shows Up For His Moving Job For A Change
Dollar Gains Against Euro After Philadelphia Index Strengthens By Min Zeng Nov. 16 (Bloomberg) — The dollar rose against the euro after a report showed manufacturing in the Philadelphia area advanced for the first time in three months. The data reduced speculation that the Federal Reserve will cut borrowing costs early next year. The dollar extended gains after Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President William Poole said today the U.S. economy is not “out of the woods” on inflation. Fed Bank of Chicago President Michael Moskow said “some additional firming” of policy may be needed. […] The Fed Bank […]
IMMODEST PROPOSAL: Get Your Wallet Out, Bitches!
Leaders in the city’s art, business and political communities are scrambling to raise $68 million in six weeks so a treasured Thomas Eakins masterwork will not be removed from its only home. Officials acknowledge that matching the record-setting sum for the lifelong Philadelphian’s 1875 painting, “The Gross Clinic,” will be a challenge. However, they said they have to believe that they can prevent the departure of an irreplaceable part of the city’s cultural history. Let’s get out the old abacus and figure out how much each of us has to pony up to keep “The Gross Clinic” within the gates […]
EARLY WORD: The Inaugural White Columns Annual
At The Cerealart PROJECT ROOM November 17, 2006 – January 17, 2007 149 N. 3rd Street, Philadelphia PA 19106 WHITE COLUMNS: More Artsy, Less Fartsy
STOP THE PRESSES: Rumblings From The Smoking Volcano Of Fear And Loathing That Is 400 North Broad
READERS IN THE KNOW REPORT: Sounds like the ugliness is about to begin. Just heard that Business Editor Bob Rose is leaving to take a job at Smart Money magazine. This morning, the talk in the newsroom is that Mark Frisby, head Gannett-bot publisher of the Cherry Hill Courier-Post, is coming on board as — get this: Vice President for Acquisitions. Frisby is one of the acolytes of former C-P publisher Robert T. Collins, who oversaw Gannett’s slash-and-burn takeover of the Asbury Park Press in the 1990s. During the first year of Gannett’s ownership of the Press, the newsroom underwent […]
Early Word: DO THE MONSTER MASH!
Wednesday November 22nd @ The Starlight Ballroom! 460 North 9th Street Philadelphia $5 9pm Steven Bloodbath, John Redden, Ian St. Laurent, Finger on The Pulse Dj’s
We Know It’s Only Rock N’ Roll But We Like It
THE FADING CAPTAIN SERIES: Robert Pollard, World Cafe Live, November 14th, 2006 [FLICKR] EVA SAYS: He drank tequila straight from the bottle, and smoked half a pack of cigarettes, and kept dipping into the cooler by the drum-kit for yet another Miller Lite, like a bear dipping paw into a honeypot. He did high kicks and cute little backflips and twirled his mic in the air like a helicopter. Backstage, he polished off the last of the tequila and gave his most ardent acolytes a boozy, back-slapping audience, some high-fives included. You?d think it was Pete Doherty at a Libertines […]