DOWN WITH THE CLOWN: Author Steve Miller Spills The Faygo On Insane Clown Posse & Juggalos

BY MEGAN MATUZAK In 2011, the FBI and the DOJ issued a National Gang Threat assessment which designated the widely detested Insane Clown Posse’s fanbase of self-described Juggalos as a gang that was as dangerous as the Crips and the Bloods. The report cited violent lyrics, iconic symbols like the Hatchet Man and the fact that it seemed increasingly common for criminals to wear ICP shirts when they committed crimes. “Police departments across the country were already figuring that the Juggalos were easy targets, marks for their well-funded gang units to justify their existence,” writes Steve Miller [pictured, below right] […]

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HOT DOCUMENT: The Complete Dept. Of Justice Report On The Blatant And Unapologetically Racist Tactics Of The Baltimore Police Department

  EXCERPT: “BPD disproportionately stops African Americans standing, walking, or driving on Baltimore streets. The Department’s data on all pedestrian stops from January 2010 to June 2015 shows that African Americans account for 84 percent of stops 55 despite comprising only 63 percent of the City’s population. Expressed differently, BPD officers made 520 stops for every 1,000 black residents in Baltimore, but only 180 stops for every 1,000 Caucasian residents.” EXCERPT: “Illegal stops result in confrontations that can be avoided, the report said. In one case, police stopped a black man wearing a hoodie in a “high crime area” because […]

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KEEPIN’ IT REAL: The Price Of Authenticity

Dearly departed Fat Possum recording artist and Mississippi juke joint operator Junior Kimbrough   BY JAMES M. DAVIS “Full of mojo $300” read the Craigslist ad for a guitar speaker from the ’60s. It was a Jensen C12N, the same speakers that used to come stock in Twin Reverb amps. It was authentic is what the ad was trying to say, it would drive inspiration. Your rock star fantasy would be that much more impenetrable. You could buy a new Warehouse clone with the exact same specifications of the same speaker for a quarter the price, but there’s no denying […]

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OH CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN!: Captain Noah RIP

  6ABC: We lost a dear friend and TV legend today. Captain Noah truly was magical, and he helped shape the foundation of what Channel 6 is today. What we remember about Carter was he loved to make children smile, and he maintained a deep faith in the human spirit. For three decades, Carter and his wife Pat delighted viewers in Philadelphia, and across America. “Captain Noah and His Magical Ark” was produced here at 6abc, and syndicated to more than 20 television markets. At its peak, Captain Noah was one of the most watched Children’s television shows in America.Our […]

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BEING THERE: Coldplay @ The Linc

Photo by BEN BRINKER BY JONATHAN VALANIA FOR THE INQUIRER “I can’t tell you how happy we are to be in the City of Brotherly Love,” declared Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, who for reasons unclear ran around the Linc all night with an American Flag hanging out of his back pants pocket. “We are going to put on the best show we have ever put on!” For the next two hours, Martin and co. essayed the high water marks of their back catalog. Highlights included the beatific mopery of the aforementioned “Yellow,” the Olympics montage-worthy “Clocks,” the Woody Guthrie-esque benediction […]

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‘Now I Am Become Death, The Destroyer Of Worlds’

  BY WILLIAM C. HENRY President Eisenhower was oh so right. It didn’t have to happen. And, in fact, it should not have happened. On August 6th and 9th, 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Over 200,000 Japanese civilians — mostly women, children and the elderly — were annihilated. The dead included some two dozen American and Dutch prisoners of war. It didn’t have to happen. It should not have happened. There WERE viable alternatives. We could have dropped an atomic bomb on a far less densely populated area of Japan. We could have subsequently […]

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INCOMING: VHS Won

  Roving artist and makeshift film scholar, Bill Daniel, is back in the van with a program of videos retrieved from his milk crate media archive. The videos date from the late analog era in San Francisco, corresponding roughly between SF’s punk heydays and the first dot com boom. During this time Danielwas a participant in the Mission District collective Artists’ Television Access, where these video screened. The 80 minute program spans a range of forms from agit prop, pranks, activist documentation, video art, street journalism, anti-capitalist intervention, and plain old fun. The tapes are no-budget, raw and playful— most […]

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BE AFRAID: Trump Asked 3 Times In An Hour-Long Briefing ‘Why Can’t We Use Nuclear Weapons?’

[via @VICBURGERIV] NEW YORKER: So it feels like a double miracle to come across satire as vital and funny as that of Vic Berger. Berger, a video editor who works for the Web site Super Deluxe and collaborates with the comedy duo Tim & Eric, manipulates found footage to highlight and/or create moments of absurdity. His earliest work targeted a seemingly random cast of celebrities—a septuagenarian Chubby Checker, Emeril Lagasse, and Jimmy Fallon are favorite subjects—re-cutting videos of public appearances to focus on stray utterances, awkward gestures, or facial tics that hint at weird cracks in their seemingly anodyne personas.[…] […]

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CONTEST: Win Tix To See Chris D’Elia @ The Troc

  Chris D’Elia is an American stand-up comedian, actor, presenter, writer and comedy singer. He is known for playing Alex Miller on the NBC sitcom Whitney and for the role of Danny Burton on the NBC sitcom Undateable. He also does a hilarious Drake diss (SEE BELOW). Tomorrow night he kicks off a two-night, three-show stand at the Troc. There are two shows tomorrow — a sold out 7:30 pm show and a 10 pm show, and a sold out Friday show. We have a pair of tix for the 10 pm Thursday show to give away to some lucky […]

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