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USA TODAY: Commissioner Rob Manfred made it explicitly clear Monday that Pete Rose will not only remain on baseball’s ineligibility list, but it will never change.Manfred made sure his ruling was as transparent as possible, and when he laid down the facts in his ruling, how can anyone in the world disagree with his ruling? “Really, there is no other decision,’’ former Commissioner Fay Vincent, whose office originally banned Rose from baseball in 1989, told USA TODAY Sports. “This is the right decision. Any criticism of it would be out of concern for Pete Rose. This is absolutely the […]
SNEAK PEEK: Star Trek Beyond
Scored with “Sabotage” by The Beastie Boys. In theaters July 22nd. PREVIOUSLY: The U.S.S. Enterprise Vs The Death Star RELATED: Six Year Old Watches Star Wars With His Dad And Asks Exactly 278 Questions RELATED: SNL’s Overgrown Star Wars Fanboy Super Nerd Spoof
THE UNIVERSE ACCORDING TO CHARLIE: The Hallmark Channel Is Totally Ruining Christmas!
BY CHARLIE C. Ah, yes. The season is here, and has been for the last 13 days, I think. Mistletoe hung where you can see, jingle bells, and promise of a holly, jolly, Christmas. But, this holiday is somewhat due to be overcast by the bad, and by that I mean Hallmark Channel Christmas movies. I HATE THEM!!! There are two channels, on right now, devoted in their entirety to display the worst movies that were ever made in the time on this here earth. And the worst part is is that wherever I go, they are playing somewhere. […]
CINEMA: Who’s That Girl?
THE DANISH GIRL (2015, directed by Tom Hooper, 119 minutes, U.K.) BY DAN BUSKIRK FILM CRITIC Just to make sure people didn’t think it was a film about a girl who loved pastries, the studio has been leaking pictures of Eddie Redmayne in all his cross-dressing elegance as the title character in The Danish Girl, another lush period piece from Tom Hooper, director of 2010’s Oscar-winning The King’s Speech, for months prior to the film’s release. In this post-Caitlin Jenner moment, The Danish Girl hopes to ride its subject into the money this holiday season. Too bad its story […]
CINEMA: The Girl Can’t Help It
THE DANISH GIRL (2015, directed by Tom Hooper, 119 minutes, U.K.) BY ELIZABETH MARIE WIEST Academy Award-winning director Tom Hooper’s (The King’s Speech, Les Miserables) thought-provoking new film The Danish Girl is the true story of Einar Wegener a failed Danish painter whose transition into Lili Erbe marks the first sexual reassignment surgical procedure ever attempted, and her story the first transgender biography ever recorded. The film depicts the evolving relationship of Einar (Eddie Redmayne) and his wife Gerda (Alicia Vikander), and how his gender identity crisis actually brings the couple closer together. The year is 1920. Einar and […]
INCOMING: The Best Show Comes Alive
INQUIRER: The Best Show is set in the mythical town of Newbridge, New Jersey — which is sort of the Lake Woebegone Of Lame — populated by a cast of hapless, deeply-flawed-but-somehow-likeable characters, voiced by Superchunk/Mountain Goats/Bob Mould Band drummer Jon Wurster, who take turns calling into the show each week to peddle their various strains of hilarious B.S. to a skeptical and bemused Tom Scharpling. There’s Philly Boy Roy, a Tastykake-chomping, Jersey-dissing, Rizzo-loving 700 Level-er with a wardrobe composed entirely of Philadelphia sports team jerseys and the occasional Wawa t-shirt. There’s Hammerhead, the aging hardcore (which he pronounces […]
President Obama Declares Kendrick Lamar’s “How Much A Dollar Cost” 2015’s Song Of The Year
DAILY BEAST: The president revealed his favorite track of the year, and it’s a reflective, Bible-quoting track from hip-hop’s most honest and introspective artist. Kendrick Lamar’s earth-shattering 2015 album To Pimp a Butterfly may have earned him 11 Grammy nominations, but here’s another accolade of which the rapper can boast: President Obama named one of Lamar’s songs as his favorite of 2015. In an interview with People, the president identified “How Much a Dollar Cost” as his most beloved track. The Bible-inspired opus comes toward the end of Butterfly and tells the story of a homeless man—whom Lamar assumes […]
The Things You Learn On Your First Day In Prison
BY ANDREW MCKENNA & WARREN LIPKA The first thing you learn on your first day of prison is fuck the dude that told you to “walk up to the biggest guy on the yard and punch him as hard as you can in the face.” That poser has never done any type of time past county drunk tank bullshit, or 30 days for public masturbation. A time and place exists to display the don’t-fuck-with-me vibe but to punch the biggest guy in the yard in the head on day one of your stay at the big house is extremely ill-advised […]
ARMIES OF THE NIGHT: Rahm Emanuel & The Death Squads Of The Chicago Police Department
Chicago police fired a Taser at this man and then dragged him down a hallway. Shortly after, he was dead. https://t.co/QUQmny8g6Q — AJ+ (@ajplus) December 9, 2015 NEW YORK TIMES: The Chicago police, facing almost daily protests and a newly announced Justice Department investigation, released footage Monday night showing a 38-year-old black man being shocked by a Taser and dragged down a hallway by officers in 2012. The man, Philip Coleman, later died at a hospital. A county medical examiner noted trauma on Mr. Coleman’s body, but said his death had been caused by an allergic reaction to a medication given […]
THE BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ BEFORE YOU DIE Last Night The Brothers Karamazov Saved My Life
Illustration by MICHAEL MAHLE BY ALEXEI ARCHER Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, widely regarded as one of the pinnacles of western literature, is a story of three brothers — Ivan, Dmitri, and Alexei — and their reunion in an unnamed provincial town in Russia, and the ensuing murder of their father, Fyodor Pavlovich. It is a novel that seeks to reconcile faith in God and atheism, free will and slavery, compassion and isolation. Although it was written in 1880, The Brothers Karamazov remains current in its approach and construction, utilizing modernist literary devices such as meta-narration, subjective reality and multiple points […]
REALITY CHECK: Farewell To Dr. Know Nothing
BY BEN LEHMAN As the Syrian conflict and the threat of ISIS continue to dominate national headlines, a major shift has occurred in the focus of the 2016 Presidential race. Foreign policy has taken center stage as the ongoing refugee crisis, the attacks in Paris last month, and most recently the shooting in San Bernardino have intensified the public’s concern over national security. Voters are making it clear they seek a President who has the knowledge and capability to protect them in times of crisis. Candidates have laid out their strategies to defeat ISIS and the broader threat of […]
GRAND OLD PARTY LIKE IT’S 1933: Heil, Donald!
MARKET WATCH: Donald Trump just went full Adolf Hitler with his proposal to keep all Muslim immigrants and tourists from entering the United States. At least that’s the takeaway from Tuesday’s front page of the Philadelphia Daily News, which shows Trump raising his arm in what looks like a Nazi salute. The headline pun: The New Furor. Backlash was swift, even among Republican Party notables. For one, former Vice President Dick Cheney, who told radio host Hugh Hewitt: “This whole notion that somehow we can just say no more Muslims, just ban a whole religion, goes against everything we […]