BY JOE PAONE IGGLES CORRESPONDENT The fans, flat all day, sullenly filed out of the Linc more or less in silence. Few could muster the legendary anger to, as we often do, bitch and moan LOUDLY about the pitiful state of affairs. Sunday’s atrocity against the Detroit Lions was, in terms of the tenor of the crowd, much like the Eagles’ last game at the Vet, when Ronde Barber ripped our hearts out and stole a Super Bowl appearance we believed was rightfully ours. Much as after that game, you could hear a pin drop on the way to […]
DOPE: The Hustlers That Came In Out Of The Cold
BY JEFF DEENEY “Hustlers Anonymous is a fellowship of members whose lives have become unmanageable due to the choices they have made. The only requirement for membership is the desire for a better life and a willingness to take certain suggestions. Many of us have experienced negative consequences as a result of our hustler lifestyle: incarceration, broken families, police harassment, and near death experiences. Due to the lure of the streets we have time and again chosen the seemingly easy way out over our mothers, children and our own personal freedom. If you are tired of handing over control […]
CONTEST: Win Tix To See An Exclusive Press Screening Of The New Led Zep Concert Movie
UPDATE: Tonight’s screening has been postponed to Monday night. Been a long time since we rock n’ rolled, hmmm? (Actually, it’s only been a few hours, but stick with me, I’m going somewhere with this) Tomorrow Monday night at 7:30 PM there will be a special press screening of the new Led Zeppelin concert film Celebration Day at the Rave in University City. We have pair of tickets to give away to the 24th Phawker reader to sign up for our mailing list. In addition to email updates about new and special Phawker content, mailing list subscribers get special advanced […]
CONTEST: Win Tix To See Menomena
These guys ain’t no joke, but this video is f*cking hilarious. We have a pair of tix to see them tomorrow night at Union Transfer for the 12th person to sign up for our mailing list (SEE right, below masthead). Go on. What are you worried about? That we’re gonna leave a bag of flaming dog poop on your door step? No, no, no. Not your physical address, your email address. What are we going to do? Leave a bag of flaming dog shit on your email doorstep? Is there such of a thing? Oh, who can keep up with […]
CONTEST: Win Tix To See Pete Townshend @ Penn
Currently promoting his new autobiography Who I Am (see below), Pete Townshend will be speaking at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology on Wednesday at 7 PM. This event is COMPLETELY sold out, but we have a pair of tickets to giveaway to the 27th reader to sign up for our mailing list. The sign up window is just to the right of this post at the bottom of the masthead. (Don’t worry, we will never share or sell your email address, unless you do something really bad on national television and the cops make us […]
ARTSY: An Extremely Rare And Factual Q&A With Cartoonist & Illustrator Extraordinaire Chris Ware
BY RITA BOOK* In the hands of Chris Ware, the funnies aren’t particularly funny. Unless, that is, lonely misfits and their existential lives of quiet desperation is your idea of comedy gold. Ware’s deeply felt, darkly told and beautifully illustrated stories, including the partly autobiographical “Jimmy Corrigan” and “Rusty Brown,” have won awards in the U.S. and abroad, drawn comparisons to “Ulysses” and Duchamp, and landed the Chicago-based cartoonist on bookshelves, museums and galleries, The New York Times, The New Yorker and Esquire. Ware’s latest, the groundbreaking and gorgeous “Building Stories,” has already been called his magnum opus and a […]
CONTEST: Win Tix To See The Raveonettes
This track from their new album, Observator, is pretty mind-blowing. They seem to have replaced black-and-white B-movie noir for witchy post-hippie Hotel California noir. It’s only fitting that it was recorded at L.A.’s Sunset Sound, where The Rolling Stones mixed Let It Bleed given that this song has all the satanic majesty of “Gimme Shelter.” It makes the ghost of electricity howl in the bones of your face. You have been warned. We have a pair of tickets to see The Raveonettes @UnionTransfer tomorrow night to give away to the 20th reader to sign up for our mailing list. […]
CONTEST: Win Tix To See Animal Collective
Artwork by BALDERDASH Because we love, you we have a pair of tickets to see Animal Collective tomorrow night at The Mann to give away to the 20th lucky Phawker reader to sign up for our mailing list. The sign up window is just to the right of this post at the bottom of the masthead. (Don’t worry, we will never share or sell your email address, unless you do something really bad on national television and the cops make us eat saltines under hot lights until we crack, because, we must admit, we would not hold up long under […]
JUDGE: On Second Thought, Maybe Ramming Through A Voter I.D. Law Just Months Before A Presidential Election Is NOT Good For Democracy
NBC NEWS: A Pennsylvania judge has blocked enforcement of the key section of a voter identification law which the state legislature enacted and Republican Gov. Tom Corbett signed last March, meaning that the law will not be in effect for the Nov. 6 election. Judge Robert Simpson said that even with the streamlined procedures that state officials proposed to make it easier for voters without ID cards to obtain them, “the proposed changes are to occur about five weeks before the general election, and I question whether sufficient time now remains to attain the goal of liberal access” to ID […]
CONCERT REVIEW: Alabama Shakes
Alabama Shakes exploded onto the music scene in 2011 with the release their first single “Hold On” and followed up the single with their highly anticipated debut album, Boys and Girls. Last night at the Electric Factory, the Shakes delivered everything the album promised and more. Launching into their set with “Party” and “Hang Loose,” they had the audience hooked from the get-go. Frontwoman Brittany Howard shifted effortlessly from a shy croon to a bombastic crescendo that made the hairs on the back of your neck sit up and take notice. Setting down her guitar for “Be Mine,” she stomped […]
EARLY WORD: There Will Be Blood
Alpha Beta house is the oldest and most elite sorority in the world. Some of the most influential politicians, celebrities and scientists are Alpha Girl alumnae. After performing long hidden rituals, some of the sisters suspect that their good fortune is tainted by demonic evil. They quickly realize firsthand that the consequences of their curiosity are much more gruesome than any of them could have possibly imagined. Welcome to Alpha Girls, the new horror movie written and directed by Tony Trov & director Johnny Zito, a pair of South Philly natives who still live in the neighborhood they grew up […]
Win Tix To See Godspeed You Black Emperor!
MXDWN: Sunday night’s headliners, Canadian ensemble Godspeed You! Black Emperor, pretty much have ATP to thank for renewed interest in their work, and their own interest in making new work. GY!BE were dormant until they played and curated ATP’s Nightmare Before Christmas in 2010; full tours and studio rumors blossomed afterwards. It’s easy to plant the post-rock label on them, but GY!BE aren’t just about the jam. Twenty minutes of music at a time aren’t jams, they’re damn near statements. Lit by their signature projection loops and surrounded by an ocean of amps, pedals, picks and other sound modifiers, they […]
Cop Supervisor Brings Knuckle Sandwich To Squirt Gun Fight: Punches Unarmed Woman In The Face Then Sucker Punches Her When She’s Down
PHILLY CONFIDENTIAL: A Philadelphia police supervisor hit a Puerto Rican Day reveler twice in the head so hard yesterday that the blows sent the woman to the ground and then she was charged in the incident, according to police and a video posted on YouTube Sunday. When the video begins, it appears several revelers are spraying water on the street and on the police officers. It is unclear if the woman is one of them, but she does have what appears to be a water bottle in her hand. A police supervisor in a white shirt seems to zero in […]