BY JEFF DEENEY My interest in Chester’s gang problem that resulted in this week’s City Paper article “Home Turf” began a couple months back when I stopped to gas up a rented U-haul at the Sunoco station on 9th and Kerlin Street on the city’s Westside. I had just moved some stuff into a storage facility off I-95 in nearby Chester Township and was on my way to return the truck. I pulled up to the pump and went to pay cash at the register. In the two minutes that I was gone some punk came along and spray painted […]
FRINGE REVIEW: Sweet By-And-By
BY AARON STELLA Unlikely rebel rabble-rouser Joe Hill, a Swedish immigrant and union songwriter of the early 20th century union strikes, takes center stage in the sepia spotlight of Dan Rothenberg’s Sweet By-and-By. False promises pervade Hill’s life: in his dealings with God, that he will always provide for and reward the righteous; the American dream, that the sweat of man’s brow is solely his, and cannot be cheated; and that all the working class needs do, according to land and factory owners, is to work harder and hustle longer (even if wages are cut) to alleviate their economic misery. […]
TONIGHT: Jesus Is Magic
Feat. ex-Flaming Groovies. Tonite at Johnny Brendas with Beretta 76 & The Donuts.
ELEPHANT GUN: John McCain’s House Of Pain
Our completely unfair and totally biased analysts tonight will be Amy Z. Quinn, aka Citizen Mom, recently converted Obama supporter/longtime Hillarycrat dead-ender, and Jonathan Valania, aka ME, who was right about Obama, and most other things, all along. We join the fourth night of the RNC in Minneapolis with Cindy McCain about to take the stage… 9:40 PM me: omg shoulda seen the Cindy McCain movie she beat back genocide 9:41 PM with just a single adoption and a few strategically placed cases of Anheuser Busch products Citizen: Hey, that beer money’s paying the bills, she can be the Queen of […]
HOT DOCUMENT: Letter From Alaska
[EDITOR’S NOTE: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED] TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, I am a resident of Wasilla, Alaska. I have known Sarah since 1992. Everyone here knows Sarah, so it is nothing special to say we are on a first-name basis. Our children have attended the same schools. Her father was my child’s favorite substitute teacher. I also am on a first name basis with her parents and mother-in-law. I attended more City Council meetings during her administration than about 99% of the residents of the city. She is enormously popular; in every way she’s like the most popular girl in middle […]
All Of This Happened While You Were Sleeping
I’LL BE YOUR MIRROR: Aleksandra Berczynski performs How Do I Love Me?, Pll Gallery, Fringe Fest, Last Night [Photos by ROZA FRYKOWSKA] “This theatrical experiment marks Aleksandra Berczynski’s Fringe acting debut with her minimalist one-woman show. Inspired by The Bard’s Sonnets, Berczynski explores the budding beauty, love, and artistic yearning of a young woman, discovering the most gorgeous thing…” MORE FRINGE PICKS: It’s A Bird! It’s A Plane! No, It’s…. stuporwoman Tania Isaac Dance Featuring the stunning, vibrant movement style of St. Lucia-born choreographer Tania Isaac, stuporwoman is an operatic and humorous fairytale of motherhood and parenting in the twenty-first […]
JUNK SCI: If Cows Could Break Home Run Records
BY ELIZABETH FIEND LIVING EDITOR In a stunning consumer victory the biotech behemoth Monsanto announced on August 8th that they want to dump their business of producing rBGH and hope to find a buyer for the product. rBGH is a lab produced, genetically modified artificial growth hormone that is being administered to about 15-17 percent of America’s milk producing dairy cows. r = recombinant which means it’s artificially produced in a lab; BGH, Bovine-Growth-Hormone is the common description for the hormone bovine somatotropin (BST) sold to dairy farmers under the commercial name of Posilac. The label on a bottle of […]
THE EARLY WORD: Tuff Enuff?
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PAPERBOY: What’s Black & White & Dead All Over?
BY DAVE ALLEN 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 steer […]
HURRICANE SARAH: A Pitbull In Lipstick
Our completely unfair and totally biased analysts tonight will be Amy Z. Quinn, aka Citizen Mom, recently converted Obama supporter/longtime Hillarycrat dead-ender, and Jonathan Valania, aka ME, who was right about Obama, and most other things, all along. We join the third night of the RNC in Minneapolis with Rudy Guiliani about to take the stage… 9:53 PM me: are you watching CNN? Citizen: no, cspan PUT IT ON me: WTF no Citizen: i’m not riffing on the friggin’ cnn anchors and shit me: only got CNN put it on 9:54 PM Citizen: Eff these pundits no i want to hear the […]
RAW FOOTAGE: Beat The Press
[“Peace officers” at work: Police Intimidate Press at RNC & Brutalize Protesters] The violation of the First Amendment will not be televised, for obvious reasons.
NPR FOR THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
FRESH AIR Conventional wisdom has it you can tell a lot about a person by the company he or she keeps. But, what if posterity makes a big mistake in judging a famous somebody’s friends; wouldn’t that blunder then trigger a huge misreading of the chief person of interest? There you have the reasoning underlying Brenda Wineapple‘s fascinating new book, White Heat, that explores the relationship between Emily Dickinson and one of her closest confidants, Thomas Wentworth Higginson. For decades, Higginson has been derided by Dickinson scholars and fans as a kindly oaf; a Victorian man of minor letters damned […]
KILLADELPHIA: Death In The Afternoon
INQUIRER: A Philadelphia man was shot dead yesterday afternoon on a street in the city’s Kensington section, police said. Keith Bolden, 31, was lying on the 800 block of Thayer Street with a gunshot wound to the chest when police found him about 2:30 p.m. Emergency crews took Bolden, of the 5100 block of Saul Street, to Temple University Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 4:35 p.m., a police spokeswoman said. Investigators have no motive or suspect in the slaying. MORE INQUIRER: Two men found dead yesterday in an apartment above a North Philadelphia car stereo store had […]