BY JONATHAN VALANIA A Phoenixville man, hired by the GOP to register voters, was arrested today in Viginia for throwing a bag of voter registration forms in a dumpster in Harrisonburg, Virgnia on Monday — the last day you could register to vote in the upcoming election. Colin Small, 23, pictured above, a field director for the Republican National Committee and a former Congressional intern, was charged with eight felonies and five misdemeanors related to the incident. Reportedly, there were eight completed voter registration forms recovered from the dumpster. It all started on Monday, when Rob Johnson, a store […]
CINEMA: What Is And What Should Never Be
BY JESSE LUNDY LED ZEP CORRESPONDENT So I’ve been looking forward to going to see the Led Zeppelin movie Celebration Day since I saw that it was going to be playing in Philadelphia. I broke my rule of never stepping foot into the Riverview Theater on Delaware Ave–recently reviewed by Albert Y. on citysearch.com as “The absolutely worst place you can ever imagine you could go to attempt to watch a movie.” I did it for the Zep. When I got there, about 75 people were already in the theater. Lots of graybeard classic-rock looking dudes who surely fought […]
Win Tix To See Father John Misty @ Union Transfer
From WIKIPEDIA: On May 1, 2012 Joshua [Tillman, formerly of Fleet Foxes] released the album ‘Fear Fun’ under his new moniker ‘Father John Misty’.[15] When discussing his motivations behind the creation of the name ‘Father John Misty’, Tillman paraphrases Philip Roth: ’It’s all of me and none of me, if you can’t see that, you won’t get it’. What I call it is totally arbitrary, but I like the name. You’ve got to have a name. I never got to choose mine.”[16] A couple of months prior to the release of the album a video was released for the […]
SH*T MY UNCLE SAYS: Old Wine In A New Bottle
BY WILLIAM C. HENRY The surprise appearance of George W. Bush at Tuesday’s debate, albeit in the form of a question from an undecided voter — as in ‘please tell us Governor Romney how you will NOT be just like George W. Bush’ — reminded me that I almost feel sorry for the guy. Almost. I suppose I could be accused of heresy for feeling the way I do about George Bush’s ostracism from all of impolite Republican society lately. Maybe it’s more a feeling of genuine puzzlement than anything else. I mean, it seems like the guy just […]
SIDEWALKING: Tower Of Power
City Hall, 9:01 Am by JEFF FUSCO
Bloomberg To Pump $12 Million Into Congresssional Races To Elect Centrist Bi-Partisan Problem-Solvers
Artwork by JERRY MILLER NEW YORK TIMES: Seeking to reshape a national political debate he finds frustratingly superficial, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York is plunging into the 2012 campaign in its final weeks, creating his own “super PAC” to direct millions of dollars in donations to elect candidates from both parties who he believes will focus on problem solving. Mr. Bloomberg, a billionaire and a registered independent, expects to spend from $10 million to $15 million of his money in highly competitive state, local and Congressional races. The money would be used to pay for a flurry of […]
ROMNEY TO THE BOSSES OF AMERICA: Tell Your Employees ‘Vote Romney Or You’re Fired!’
ATLANTIC: Mitt Romney wants your vote. And if you’re a small business owner, he wants your employees’ votes as well and insists that there’s nothing wrong with giving them a little guidance this election cycle. On June 6, Romney led a conference call with support from the über-conservative National Federation of Independent Business and — to cut to the chase — urged the bosses on the call to persuade their employees to vote for him in the upcoming election. “I hope you make it very clear to your employees what you believe is in the best interest of your enterprise […]
Win Tix To See GZA Perform Liquid Swords
We have a pair of tickets to see Wu Tang Clansman GZA perform his legendary 1995 solo album Liquid Swords beginning to end at The Troc on Saturday for the lucky 13th reader to sign up for our mailing list (to the right of this post, under the masthead). Signing up to our mailing list gets you special content alerts and early warnings about special promotions and concert ticket giveaways. And rest assured your email address will never be sold or shared with anyone, we promise upon pain of death. Us not you. So, let’s get you into a […]
DEAR TERRY GROSS: Enough With The Gershwins!
Artwork by ANDY WARHOL Terry, we love, ya. We listen every day. The best in the biz, etc. We plug the show all the time and happy to do it. You name-checking us is our ringtone, fer chrissakes! But enough with the friggin’ Gershwins already! Especially when there is so much awesome music going on these days and so little of it finds its way onto Fresh Air. A Google search combining “Fresh Air” and “Gershwin” yields 430,000 results! We just had one of those LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE-style meltdowns, but with GERSHWIN instead of BRITNEY — and we’re not even […]
THE RELATIVES: Let’s Rap
This is a whole lotta awesome going on. Formed in 1970 by Dallas gospel singer Rev. Gean West and his brother Tommie, The Relatives bridge the gap between traditional Gospel, Soul and Psychedelia. And after 40+ years, they’re finally about to release their debut album on Yep Roc in Feb 2013.
Obama Wins Debate, Romney Loses Meme War
WASHINGTON POST: “Binders Full of Women” is this week’s Big Bird. The minute Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said the phrase, social media exploded. And women’s issues, which were absent in the first debate on Oct. 3, were front and center Tuesday night as the first woman in 20 years – CNN’s Candy Crowley – moderated the town hall forum. Romney said the phrase while answering a question that first went to President Barack Obama about inequalities in the workplace and fair pay for women. Obama answered the question by focusing on the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, which […]
DIE ANTWOORD: Fatty Boom Boom
This is exactly 42 times more punk than the Sex Pistols in their prime, and this isn’t even punk music. Let the buyer be weird, and hurry up and watch it before Lady Gaga sues them into the Stone Age.
SIDEWALKING: Rockets’ Red Glare
Flag at half mast in honor of Arlen Specter, Federal Courthouse 3:52 PM by JEFF FUSCO PREVIOUSLY: Arlen Specter Has Left The Building