POTTSVILLE, Pa. – Dick Yuengling Jr., fifth-generation owner of the brewery that bears his name, called his employees together a few weeks before their labor contract was set to expire to talk about the future of the business. “Read between the lines,” he told them at one point, according to government documents on the management-union feud that followed. Depending upon whom you ask, Yuengling’s speech was either a pep talk to urge employees to work harder or an ultimatum to dump the Teamsters union, which is what they did. Union leaders say Dick Yuengling told the workers that he would […]
WOMEN ON THE VERGE: Another Texas Mom Kills Her Children, Then Herself
HUDSON OAKS, Texas – A relative found the bodies of a 23-year-old woman and her four small daughters hanging in a closet in their mobile home Tuesday morning, all of them dead but an 8-month-old, who was taken to a hospital, the sheriff said. The other children, ages 5, 3 and 2, had all had been hanged with strips of clothing and sashes, Fowler said. Neighbors in the rural community of 1,600 were stunned. Less than five years earlier, another Hudson Oaks family was torn apart when Dee Etta Perez, 39, shot her three children, ages 4, 9 and 10, […]
ZOGBY POLL: OBAMA IS THE ONE
Democrat Barack Obama is the top 2008 presidential contender in the United States, according to a poll by Zogby International. At least 46 per cent of respondents would support the Illinois senator in head-to-head contests against four prospective Republican nominees. Obama holds a three-point edge over Arizona senator John McCain, a six-point lead over former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, and a 17-point advantage over both former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and actor and former Tennessee senator Fred Thompson. In other contests, both New York senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and former North Carolina senator John Edwards lead Romney and […]
This Is What It Smells Like When Doves Cry
(AP) PHILADELPHIA A Philadelphia company has developed a perfume for the musician Prince. The perfume made by Revelations Perfume and Cosmetics is called “3121.” That’s also the name of Prince’s latest album. KYW: You Smell That? Smells Like ‘Sexy Motherfucker’!
1990s: See You At The Lights
Super-infectious guitar-pop from Glasgow mates of Franz Ferdinand. Resistance is futile.
Cindy Sheehan Quits Peace Movement In Disgust
[Artwork by ROBERT SHETTERLY] Sheehan said she had sacrificed a 29-year marriage and endured threats to put all her energy into stopping the war. What she found, she wrote, was a movement “that often puts personal egos above peace and human life.” But she said the most devastating conclusion she had reached “was that Casey did indeed die for nothing … killed by his own country which is beholden to and run by a war machine that even controls what we think”. “Casey died for a country which cares more about who will be the next American Idol than how […]
FUN WITH TOURISTS: Ordinance Would Forbid Telling Gullible White Trash Things Like Ben Franklin Invented The Internet & Washington Kept Dinosaurs As Pets
Tour guides will show you this city on foot, trolley, double-decker bus or horse-drawn carriage. But can you believe what they say? That is a concern of some Philadelphia hospitality officials, who worry that the city’s most valuable asset — its history — is being tarnished by unreliable tour guides who mix up dates and spice up the biographies of famous founders like Benjamin Franklin and George Washington. The issue has sparked debate and a led to a proposed ordinance to test and license guides. The Liberty Bell alone had 1.8 million visitors last year, and tourism in the region […]
TOM JONES: Kiss
The best part is where he goes ‘I think I better dance NOW!’
The Ben Franklin To Get New Coat — Finally
The rusty portion of the bridge at the Philadelphia end has waited many months for a new coat of paint while the governors of Pennsylvania and New Jersey squabbled over a proposed channel deepening of the river. But with the dispute settled May 17, the Delaware River Port Authority board is now ready to entertain bids on the Ben Franklin work, officials said. Contracts for the bridge jobs could not be awarded earlier because Gov. Rendell, the DRPA chairman, refused to call a meeting while the dredging issue was unresolved. This summer, the board is expected to choose a painting […]
KILLADELPHIA: #163 Was 16 — For A Little While
A 16-year-old boy was killed in a barrage of gunfire in the 2300 block of Watkins Street in South Philadelphia shortly after 4 p.m. Friday. The victim – homicide 163 – was identified as Rhamik Thomas of the 1700 block of Natrona Street in North Philadelphia. “Somebody walked up to him and gunned him down, using a 9mm gun,” Williams said. Police said more than 20 shots were fired at Thomas, who was pronounced dead at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania at 4:42 p.m. “We got a call of a man with a gun, and when we got […]
“Freedom Is A Light For Which Many Men Have Died In Darkness” — Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier
[Artwork by Joan-Myerson-Shrager] ASSOCIATED PRESS: As of Saturday, May 26, 2007, at least 3,451 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003.
THIS YOU MUST SEE: El Topo + Holy Mountain
[Artwork by JENNIFER LUI] BY DAN BUSKIRK FILM CRITIC Years ago I went to a party where esteemed film critic David Thomson was scheduled to attend. Before his arrival the host announced “He’s a fascinating guy, but he doesn’t want to talk to anyone about film.” “Send him home,” I remember thinking to myself. It’s like attending a party with Red Barber and not being about to bring up the subject of baseball. Since I’ve been writing about film for a few years now I see his point. Being introduced as a film critics is a conversation starter that doesn’t […]