THE ROOTS LAUNCH SECOND ANNUAL ROOTS PICNIC! Starring THE ROOTS TV ON THE RADIO, THE BLACK KEYS SANTIGOLD, ASHER ROTH & MORE And a special performance: PUBLIC ENEMY performs IT TAKES A NATION OF MILLIONS TO HOLD US BACK backed by ANTIBALAS and THE ROOTS PHILADELPHIA’S FESTIVAL PIER AT PENN’S LANDING Saturday, June 6 @ 2pm Tickets Go On Sale This Friday, March 20 @ 10am Get tickets at LiveNation.com, 877-598-8696, EFC Box Office (111 Presidential Blvd, Bala Cynwyd, PA / cash purchase is service-charge free on-sale only) and Festival Pier (Columbus Blvd & Spring Garden St, Phila, Pa / […]
NEWS CLUES: Like A Domestic Dispute Of The Truth
RAMPAGE: Husband Kills Wife, Boyfriend, Family, Then Self A Miami man upset by his estranged wife’s affair with a younger man intruded on a party early Sunday and killed her, the woman’s daughter, grandmother and boyfriend. Before cops could catch up to him, police said, he set his home and truck on fire, then shot himself. Detectives on Sunday afternoon were piecing together the carnage of what marked the second high-profile murder-suicide in three weeks in Miami-Dade County. Last month, a South Miami-Dade man killed his wife and two teenage daughters before killing himself. The shooting began shortly after midnight […]
PIGS ON THE WING: AIG’S Outrageous Post-Bailout $165 Million Bonus Circle Jerk Billed To Taxpayers
NEW YORK TIMES: The American International Group, which has received more than $170 billion in taxpayer bailout money from the Treasury and Federal Reserve, plans to pay about $165 million in bonuses by Sunday to executives in the same business unit that brought the company to the brink of collapse last year.Word of the bonuses last week stirred such deep consternation inside the Obama administration that Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner told the firm they were unacceptable and demanded they be renegotiated, a senior administration official said. But the bonuses will go forward because lawyers said the firm was contractually […]
WEEK IN REVIEW: The Good News Flower Hour
The Good News Flower Hour #13 The week that was in just five minutes! Hosted by a stoned daisy with the obligatory voice of gawd. Funny. Sad. Good for you. Tastes great, less filling.
Ann Coulter’s Sultry Neo-Con Hate Bait Loses Lock On The Discretionary Spending Of The Dumb And Mean
CONDE NAST: Coulter’s latest book, Guilty: Liberal “Victims” and Their Assault on America, is something of a misfire by Coulterian standards. Of course, what constitutes a disappointment for Coulter would be a mega-hit for most authors; in its two months on sale, Guilty has sold 100,500 copies, according to Nielsen BookScan (a number that only reflects around 70 percent of actual sales). But with it moving steadily down the best-seller list, it looks certain that Guilty will fall far short of matching her earlier results. Her 2006 polemic, Godless: The Church of Liberalism, sold 279,100 copies in hardcover, according to […]
WORTH REPEATING: He Hit Me & It Felt Like A Kiss
E: Chris Brown‘s manager, Tina Davis [pictured, below right], who was rumored to be the woman whose text message played a role in the Feb. 8 altercation between Brown and Rihanna, has flat-out denied, via her attorney, ever having had a romantic relationship with the R&B star. “The relationship between Ms. Davis and Mr. Brown is that of manager and client,” declared attorney Marshall B. Grossman in a written statement issued Wednesday. “There has never been any other relationship. The rumors in circulation are false. There are no emails between Ms. Davis and Mr. Brown of the type which have […]
HOT DOCUMENT: The Tenacity Of Nope
—–Original Message—– From: Hale, Ellen Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 2:03 PM To: Hale, Ellen Subject: AP and the Obama Hope Poster Wednesday, March 11, 2009 AP Staff: The Associated Press today filed a countersuit claiming misappropriation of the AP photo underlying the ubiquitous Obama Hope poster and other materials by graphic artist Shepard Fairey. The suit claims “blatant violation” of AP’s copyright of the photo and seeks damages, injunctive relief and a declaratory judgment stating that the photo was used without permission. This is an important case for us. Licensing of AP content sustains our newsgathering and other operations. […]
EXPLAINER: How We Got So F*cked
If you haven’t been following the Jon Stewart Vs. CNBC cage match, CLICK HERE and get yourself schooled. Huffington Post just unearthed this 2006 interview with the execrable Jim Cramer, now a shouting head on CNBC, bragging about all manner of unethical and illegal activity he conducted back when he was a hedge fund manager — just one more carelessly tossed stone of self-interest that has reduced the hall of mirrors that was our financial sector to the sad pile of broken glass it is today. Here is some of what he said back in 2006: -On manipulating the market: […]
LOUT RAMPAGE: Madoff, Murder & Mayhem
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS: One wants him to rot in prison, another hopes he has to clean the penitentiary toilets and a few are praying Bernie Madoff meets up with jailhouse justice. Fuming victims of Madoff’s $64.8 billion Ponzi scheme said Tuesday’s news that the Wall Street scoundrel will be sent to prison for 150 years falls short of the punishment they desire. “He doesn’t have 150 years to live, but I hope his time in jail will be hell on Earth,” Joan Sinkin, 75, of Boynton Beach, Fla., said Tuesday. Madoff, 70, is expected to plead guilty Thursday to […]
HEMP FOR VICTORY: Twenty-Seven States Currently Considering The Legalization Of Medical Marijuana
Alabama – Alabama Legislature Considers Medical Marijuana Reform California – Tax and Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Connecticut – Connecticut Legislature Considers Medical Marijuana Reform Connecticut – Connecticut Legislature Considers Decriminalizing Marijuana Hawaii – Hawaii Legislature Considers Decriminalizing Marijuana Iowa – Iowa Legislature Considers Medical Marijuana Reform Illinois – Illinois Legislature Considers Medical Marijuana Reform Kentucky – Oppose Zero Tolerance ‘Drugged’ Driving Bill In Kentucky Maryland – Maryland Legislature Considers Medical Marijuana Task Force Maine – Maine Legislature Considers Expanding Decrim Law Minnesota – Minnesota Legislature Considers Medical Marijuana Reform Missouri – Missouri Legislature Considers Medical Marijuana Reform Montana – Montana […]
NPR FOR THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
SOUND OPINIONS Van Morrison recorded and released his masterpiece Astral Weeks 41 years ago, and to celebrate he released a live version of the album. This gave Jim and Greg a perfect opportunity to look back at Astral Weeks with a Sound Opinions Classic Dissection. Astral Weeks didn’t produce huge hits, but as Jim and Greg explain, this record is unique from any other in Van Morrison’s collection, and in fact, in rock history. It melds rock, blues, folk and jazz in such a way that makes it hard to define. The jazz musicians who contributed to this sound were […]
CHANGE: Obama Lifts Federal Stem Cell Research Ban
EDITOR’S NOTE: We urge anybody that has some moral or ethical problem with stem cell research to tell it to this man. [Video: McCaskill for Missouri TV ad featuring actor Michael J. Fox talking about Claire McCaskill and stem cell research.] CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: As promised during the campaign, President Obama has lifted federal restrictions on embryonic stem cell research put in place in 2001 by President Bush. In announcing the policy change Monday morning, achieved by executive order, the president also signed a memorandum aimed at shielding the federal government’s involvement in science from political influence. The dual moves […]
THIS JUST IN: Nutter Kills Trash Fee
INQUIRER: Mayor Nutter has canned a controversial but lucrative plan to charge Philadelphians for garbage service, saying there was too little time to enact the complex program before he presents his budget next week. By ditching the trash fee – which had evolved in recent weeks from a proposed $5 weekly charge to a per-bag fee – Nutter avoids alienating supporters who consider garbage removal a basic city service, and he escapes a tough fight with City Council, where many members had opposed the fee. But the decision will make it that much harder for him to close the city’s […]