BY ALEXANDER POTTER To mark the 10th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks, The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology is hosting a special exhibit of ground zero artifacts — a broken pair of eyeglasses, smoke-damaged visitor badges, a partially melted keyboard — entitled EXCAVATING GROUND ZERO: FRAGMENTS FROM 9/11. The 15 items are on loan from the National September 11 Memorial Museum at the World Trade Center and will be on display at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology through November 6th. Contextualized by the proximity of ancient artifacts in the adjacent, permanent exhibits at the […]
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PMN To Lure Online Subscribers With Free Tablets
BY ALEXANDER POTTER Philadelphia Media Network (PMN) President and CEO Gregory Osberg today announced the launching of Project Liberty, a series of initiatives to boost digital readership, including a new subscription drive that will provide free Android tablets to subscribers of digital editions of the Inquirer and the Daily News, as well as philly.com. It is the first initiative of its kind undertaken by a major newspaper in the United States, said Osberg during a press conference this afternoon at the Academy of Natural Sciences. When Phawker asked how many online subscriptions PMN would need to compensate for the plunging […]
CINEMA: The Man Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest
[Illustration by NOMA BAR] BY ALEXANDER POTTER In America in the late 1960s and early 1970s, real life was truly more shocking — and infinitely more sleazy — than fiction. The resignation of a disgraced president was still fresh in citizens’ minds, and the stench of corruption permeated the walls of every bureaucratic institution in the nation. Likewise, the Big Apple was rotting from the inside out: Garbage collectors went on strike, leaving fetid mountains of refuse to pile up on the city’s streets; the murder rate was skyrocketing to an all-time high; and to add insult to injury, president […]
WASILLA WITCH TRIALS: Sarah Palin Never Actually Banned A Book, But It’s Not Like She Didn’t Try
ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS: WASILLA — Back in 1996, when she first became mayor, Sarah Palin asked the city librarian if she would be all right with censoring library books should she be asked to do so. According to news coverage at the time, the librarian said she would definitely not be all right with it. A few months later, the librarian, Mary Ellen Emmons, got a letter from Palin telling her she was going to be fired. The censorship issue was not mentioned as a reason for the firing. The letter just said the new mayor felt Emmons didn’t fully […]