…is equal to the love you make. RELATED: LONDON, March 8 (UPI) — British singer Paul McCartney has reached a $400 million agreement with iTunes for the distribution of the Beatles’ back catalog.
PAPERBOY: ‘Everything I Needed To Know About Hip-Hop I Learned From Lady B’ Early Edition
BY AMY Z. QUINN Like time, news waits for no man. Keeping up with the funny papers has always been an all-day job, even in the pre-Internets era. These days, however, it’s a two-man job. That’s right, these days you need someone to do your reading for you, or risk falling hopelessly behind and, as a result, increasing your chances of dying lonely and somewhat bitter. That’s why every week, PAPERBOY does your alt-weekly reading for you. We pore over those time-consuming cover stories and give you the takeaway, suss out the cover art, warn you off the ink-wasters and […]
A VERY SPECIAL CONTEST: How To Win Two Tix To Watch The Wire Finale With Mayor Nutter At City Hall!
Just answer this question: Who wrote (wrote, not performs) the song that plays during The Wire‘s opening credits? Send your answers ASAP to feed@phawker.com and you could be our very lucky winner! Why? Because we love you! UPDATE: We have a winner! The response was overwhelming, thanks to everyone for playing! PREVIOUSLY: Mayor Nutter To Host City Hall Screening Of The Wire Finale FRESH AIR ON WHYY: Novelist and screenwriter Richard Price discusses his latest novel, Lush Life, which follows the repercussions of a shooting on the Lower East side. Price has written extensively about the realities of inner city […]
BLOCKED: No Redeeming Social Or Educational Value
This just came in over the transom from a loyal Phawker reader and Philadelphia School District employee. It appears that Phawker has been deemed ‘Innappropriate For Our Educational Environment’ by the Philadelphia School District. Well, there goes our evil plan to turn the youth of Philadelphia into informed and engaged citizens. If Phawker is blocked at your place of employment, let us know at feed@phawker.com. Include a screen grab JPEG of block notice we will post it up like a red badge of courage. After all, nothing draws ’em in like the lure of the forbidden.
PBS FOR THE HUNGRY: ‘Philly Food’ Debuts Tonight
BY AMY Z. QUINN Goldenberg’s Peanut Chews, you say? Well, I’ve been suspicious of the little bites o’ peanutty goodness since back in ’05 when the company was sold to Just Born Inc. and they started tinkering with the recipes. But I can forgive, since no list of so-called Philly foods would be complete without my all-time favorite candy. For them alone, I’m planning to check out tonight’s premiere of a new WHYY original, The Philly Food Show, an Ed Cunningham production exploring all the usual local munchies and then some. Yes, cheesesteaks and hoagies and pretzels and scrapple (crisp, […]
WHY WE LIKE MIKE: He ‘Gets’ The Wire
PHILLY CLOUT: Mayor Nutter is such a huge fan of the gritty HBO drama, The Wire, that he has organized a special City Hall screening of the series finale Sunday night. Wendell Pierce, the actor who portrays affable Detective Bunk Moreland, is scheduled to attend. Nutter hopes other actors from the show will sign on also. City Representative Melanie Johnson said that after the 8 p.m. screening in the Mayor’s Reception Room, Nutter will host a question and answer session with the actors. Johnson said the roughly 100 tickets for the screening would be evenly divided between invited guests and […]
ROUND 2: Anonymous Vs. Church Of Scientology
Via YouFoundTheCard: On February 10th, 2008 over 7,600 people attended informational pickets in front of 108 Church of Scientology locations across 17 countries. From the single protester in Tokyo to the 500+ in London and Los Angeles there was not a single arrest or incident. Many of the protesters, in fear of Fair Game, wore masks and covered their faces. In fact at every single location there was someone from the Church of Scientology taking pictures or filming the picketers. The 10th was only the beginning. On March 15, 2008, there will be a wave of protests at Church of […]
PAPERBOY: Hollywood Options Ex-CP Editor’s Novel
BY AMY Z. QUINN Straight from the City Paper to Phillywood, Duane Swierczyinski tells me his novel The Blonde may be headed for the big screen. Actress Michelle Monaghan has optioned the rights to film the 2006 sci-fi thrilla, and we could easily see her playing the titular badass babe with a killer kiss. Though who plays Jack Eisley, the bitterly almost-divorced journalist? And will we find out through on-location shooting where that effed-up masturbation club really is? Here’s the official announcement: Film rights to Duane Swierczynski’s THE BLONDE, about a soon-to-be-divorced young father who is poisoned by a beautiful […]
WHEN PIGS FLY: Auditors Downsize Inky Circulation
ASSOCIATED PRESS: The Philadelphia Inquirer’s circulation numbers have been reduced after an adjustment by industry auditors. The Audit Bureau of Circulations cut the Inquirer’s posted Sunday circulation by 15,718 to 670,022 for the 12 months ended April 1, 2007. The weekday circulation count was adjusted down by 392 to 341,384. The change enlarges the Inquirer’s Sunday circulation decline from the March 2006 audited report to 5.7 percent, instead of the previous 3.4 percent decline. The weekday circulation decline for the 12 months remained at about 3.6 percent. The 15,718 reduction is unusually large in the newspaper industry, which typically sees […]
HIGH ROLLER: Q&A With Mob-Rocker Michael Imperioli, AKA Chris-tuh-fuh From The Sopranos
BY AMY Z. QUINN Life is, in fact, pretty sweet right now for Michael Imperioli. He’s the darkly handsome 41-year-old New York actor best known for playing Italian-American guys who meet untimely-yet-unsurprising ends, like that stutterin’ prick Spider from Goodfellas and everybody’s favorite cousin, Chrissy Moltisanti, on The Sopranos. As an actor, Imperioli has done stage work, TV (everything from Mitch Albom’s For One More Day to “The Simpsons” to “Law & Order”) and movies (including one of my own favorites, Household Saints). He and his wife, Victoria, have two kids; the couple are co-artistic directors of Studio Dante, a […]
JACK NICHOLSON: Hillary Endorsement
Wow, turns out every Jack Nicholson movie going back to China Town contains some thinly-veiled Pro-Hillary meme. And they say truth is stranger than fiction.
PAPERBOY: ‘Beer & Sports’ Edition
BY AMY Z. QUINN Like time, news waits for no man. Keeping up with the funny papers has always been an all-day job, even in the pre-Internets era. These days, however, it’s a two-man job. That’s right, these days you need someone to do your reading for you, or risk falling hopelessly behind and, as a result, increasing your chances of dying lonely and somewhat bitter. That’s why every week, PAPERBOY does your alt-weekly reading for you. We pore over those time-consuming cover stories and give you the takeaway, suss out the cover art, warn you off the ink-wasters and […]
MEDIA: Fox News Gone Wild!
One man’s propaganda is another man’s pornography. * VIDEO: There’s enough smut on FOX News to make an entire porn site! All the footage you see in the video aired on the FOX News Channel.