[“Billy Idol On Wood” by SHEPARD FAIREY] ALTERNATIVE PRESS MAGAZINE PRESENTS: “Side Show” – Art by Musicians Friday January 2nd, 7pm at T&P Fine Art Gallery. RELATED: A Hip Gallery Grows In The Dirty South (Details after the jump)
REWIND 2008: The Year In Movies We Loved
BY DAN BUSKIRK Looking over this list of favorite film experiences of the last year I’m stuck on the idea that my recommendations might be misleading. Particularly with Harmony Korine’s Mister Lonely and with both the Van Sant films, the power of the experiences seem especially diminished by their transition from theater event to home video. Watching Diego’s Luna’s Michael Jackson impersonator break-out his best Jacko moves in front of a Paris skyline in the opening of Mister Lonely or Christopher Doyle’s breathless camerawork in Paranoid Park were visceral experiences in the theater. At home, what can I say: results […]
REWIND 2008: The Year In Obama
[EDITOR’S NOTE: New and improved, with more content than ever!] Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s Obama in the White House, the Democrats in control of Congress and the motherf*king Republicans down in flames. If this is a dream, we don’t wanna wake up. Join with us now as we stroll down the memory lane of our in-house commentary and analysis on the 2008 Presidential election (for our complete coverage CLICK HERE). Like Same Cooke prophesied in 1963, a change has come. Truly a once in a lifetime moment in this American life. […]
REWIND 2008: The Year In Music We Loved
DEMOCRACY IS MESSY: Phawker Best of 2008 staff meeting. [Photo by PAUL PUGILESE, Copyright 2008] ***OUR FAVORITE ALBUMS OF 2008*** (In No Particular Order) BON IVER For Emma, Forever Ago Classic story: Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy goes to cabin in the Wisconsin woods and, over the course of three months of complete isolation and living on nothing but venison and Leinenkugels, records confessional folk/rock masterpiece with the hope of catching the ear of the girl he lost, and catches the ear of the world instead. This is pretty much the story of Bon Iver — AKA Justin […]
TO OUR READERS: Happy New Year!
“Let’s hope it’s a good one, without any fear.” RADIOHEAD: Nude[Dir. by SCOTT COLAN] * REWIND: 2008 The Year In Yoon 2008 [Photos by TIFFANY YOON]
THERE WILL BE BLOOD: They Might Be Giants
[Photo by SUSAN ANDERSON] BY DAVE ALLEN It might sound like an insult to call a band’s sound cartoonish, but in the case of They Might Be Giants, it’s really not. I first encountered their music on the FOX cartoon show Tiny Toon Adventures in a kind of music video where the character Plucky Duck acts out the song “Particle Man,” getting pummeled by a variety of heavily-muscled of the professional wrestler-meets-comic book superhero type. The band’s wry, funny lyrics mesh with the arch musical sensibilities of the two core members, John Flansburgh and John Linnell — organ, accordion and […]
REWIND 2008: The Year In Giant Rock Pix
? [Photos by TIFFANY YOON, JONATHAN VALANIA, PAUL PUGILESE, MICHAEL DONOVAN, JEFF FUSCO, DAVE ALLEN] * BREAKING: Court of Common Pleas Judge Idee Fox just ordered Mayor Nutter and the Free Library of Philadelphia to halt their plans to shutter 11 branch libraries after 5 p.m. tomorrow. MORE * NPR FOR THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t FRESH AIR While his Office character may take himself seriously, actor Rainn Wilson seems to be all about the laughs. Wilson plays beet-farming, archery-loving middle-management kook Dwight Shrute on the NBC hit television series. Now, Wilson is trading his crossbow for a […]
CLUSTER & ENO: Ho Renomo
WARNING: Extremely beautiful. WIKIPEDIA: Anna Pavlovna Pavlova (Russian: ????? ????????? ????????) (12 February 1881 [O.S. 31 January]–23 January 1931) was a Russian ballerina of the late 19th and the early 20th century. She is widely regarded as one of the most famous classical ballet dancers in history and was most noted as a Principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev. Pavlova is most recognised for the creation of the role The Dying Swan and with her own company, would become the first ballerina to tour ballet around the world.
SIGH: Zooey Deschanel Engaged To Ben Gibbard
[Image via INDIE ROCK OLYMPIC SKETCHES] PEOPLE: Zooey Deschanel [pictured, left] is ready to walk down the aisle, PEOPLE has learned. The actress and singer, 28, and Death Cab for Cutie singer Ben Gibbard [drawn, above], 32, who is also in the indie band the Postal Service, got engaged before the holidays, a source confirms. Deschanel, currently starring in Yes Man opposite Jim Carrey, also released her first album, Volume One, in March with her band She & Him. Her rep was not available for comment. MORE CELEBRITY BUZZ: There has been some confusion over who, exactly, has won the […]
HEAR YE: Raphael Saadiq The Way I See It
Now playing on PHAWKER RADIO! WALL STREET JOURNAL: It’s been a big week for R&B performer Raphael Saadiq, whose critically acclaimed new album, The Way I See It, has just been named iTunes #1 Best Album of 2008. With an average customer rating of four-and-a-half-stars, The Way I See It is praised in an iTunes online review for “inhabit(ing) the atmosphere of late-Sixties Motown and Philadelphia International, incorporating the distinctly echo-laden drum shuffles of Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye, as well as the swelling string choruses of the Delfonics and the Stylistics … music pours from this performer as easily […]
CINEMA: The Trouble With Marley & Me
BY JONATHAN VALANIA So, just got back from holidaying at my sister’s down in the Dirty South. (Oh, it was lovely, thanks, you’re a lamb for asking) And as is the Christmas tradition, Uncle Jon gave his sister and her hubbo a 2.5 hour respite from the rigors of parenting and took my nephews (ages 8 and 10), niece (age 4), and my mom (age 68) to the movies. We went to see Marley & Me, the movie version of Inquirer columnist John Grogan’s best-selling book, based on his reportedly wildly popular newspaper columns about life with Marley, AKA the […]
MEDIA: The Curious Case Of The Man Shot For Talking At A Brad Pitt Movie That Became A Global Headline, And The 3 Men Shot Dead In One Day That Did Not
INQUIRER: Three shootings yesterday in Grays Ferry, Kensington and West Oak Lane left three dead and three in critical condition, police said. All the victims were male, and all were shot on the street. No arrests had been made as of last night. Just before 6 p.m. in the 1300 block of Harmony Street in Grays Ferry, two men in their 50s were shot. One, age 56, was shot once in the head, the other on the right side of his body. Both were pronounced dead at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. About 6:30 p.m. on the 800 […]