It literally does not get any more rock n’ roll than this. They rock the Electric Factory TONIGHT! You have been warned.
AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM: New Study Declares The U.S.A. Is The Greatest Fattest Nation On Earth!
A new study published in the BMC Public Health says global obesity represents the biomass equivalent of an extra billion people on the planet. The United States Of America represents only 5% of the global population but takes up one third of the global biomass. Asia, on the other hand, contains 61% of the world’s population, but only 13% of its biomass. Woo-Hoo! USA! USA! USA! Worth watching if only for the scenes of a psychotic, blood-spattered Ronald McDonald slaughtering a barn full of cows with a submachine gun. I’m lovin’ it!
BREAKING: Man Man To Headline 2nd Street Fest
2ND Street Festival today announced they will again partner with the Philadelphia Folksong Society (PFS), the nonprofit parent of the Philadelphia Folk Festival, for the 2nd Street Festival in Northern Liberties on August 5th. With the help of the PFS and the increased support of area businesses and sponsors, festival attendance nearly doubled last year to over 16,000. The festival will expand even beyond last year’s footprint, but will again offer art and craft vendors, kids programs, on-street beer gardens, and four stages of roots, hip-hop, indie folk and rock, reggae, world music, DJs, and more. The initial lineup announced […]
SIDEWALKING: Stand By Your Man
Pedobear outside the Sandusky trial, Bellefonte, PA, 10:21 AM by @BillWadell CNN: The defense team for Jerry Sandusky, accused of sexually abusing 10 boys over a 15-year period, rested on Wednesday without the former coach taking the stand. Defense attorney Joe Amendola had told reporters earlier to “stay tuned” to see if the former Penn State defensive coordinator would testify. It was thought his testimony could provide the opening that prosecutors needed to introduce new evidence against the former coach. In a segment that wasn’t included in NBC’s November 2011 broadcast of an interview with Sandusky, he told Bob Costas […]
Suddenly Bobby Clarke Is A Rob Zombie Fan
DEADLINE: Rob Zombie will write, direct and produce Broad Street Bullies, a film about the Philadelphia Flyers hockey team that evolved from a cellar-dwelling expansion team into a team that racked up victories and penalty minutes in equal measure during the 1970s. Zombie, known for his head-banging music before transitioning to genre films like House Of 1000 Corpses and Halloween, is making a departure with this film, sort of, because the Flyers’ brutal style of play is genre-worthy and has the makings for a hockey film on the order of the 1977 sports film classic Slap Shot. […] Zombie […]
SUMMER BUMMER: Albany’s Blue Meanies Kill New York State Marijuana Decriminalization Bill
NEW YORK TIMES: The demise of the proposal came amid a last-minute push to tie up loose ends before the close of the session, which is scheduled to conclude on Thursday. All legislative seats are on the ballot in the elections this year, and Republican senators have pointedly refused to take up several issues that are avidly sought by Democrats in the Assembly but that might upset conservatives, including the marijuana bill and a measure to raise the state’s minimum wage. Mr. Cuomo unveiled his marijuana proposal two weeks ago, promoting it as a way to end the high […]
WORTH REPEATING: Being Justin Timberlake
ESQUIRE: Justin Timberlake and I are standing in our underwear in his hotel suite. He’s wearing white boxers and a wifebeater. I’m wearing plaid boxers and back hair. We met maybe two minutes ago. “I can’t believe how quickly you got my pants off,” I say. “It’s a gift,” he says. Timberlake’s open suitcase sits next to the window in the bedroom. He is a fastidious packer. In the other room, a buffet has been laid out, with platters of fruit, big cookies, and cans of pop. He’s eaten only cookies, and yet he has a very flat stomach. […]
WORTH REPEATING: Dearth & Taxes
DAILY NEWS: Last Thursday City Council vote to put off the Actual Value Initiative property tax fix for another year came as no great surprise. But that lack of surprise is testament to how complicated the fix for a broken tax system has become, and with every new data point and economic analysis on AVI that was released, it got even more so. Within a matter of weeks, the estimated aggregate value of the city’s properties dropped by $40 billion, which drove up the necessary millage rate to a point where early expectations of AVI — that many homeowners would […]
FORECAST: Hot As Sh*t
INQUIRER: Monday’s watch has become a warning: Wednesday and Thursday should see record-challenging heat. Call it an I-95 corridor scorcher, with temperatures expected in the upper 90s from Richmond, Va., to Boston, which could see 101 on Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service. Philadelphia’s forecast high of 97 Wednesday is just 1 degree shy of the record, set in 1931, and Thursday’s expected 99 would tie the mark set in 1923. MORE
CONTEST: Win Tix To See Sharon Van Etten @ UT
Who doesn’t like Sharon Van Etten? I’ll tell you who: Dicks. That’s who. Since we know for a verifiable fact that no dicks read Phawker (I can’t talk about this too much because the Patriot Act blah, blah, blah but when you click on Phawker your permanent record comes up and it is instantaneously vetted for dickish behavior, like driving around with your dog on your roof, eating a man’s face off, defending Jerry Sandusky in the court of law, that kind of thing) it is safe to assume you would be interested in two tickets to see Sharon Van […]
THEATER REVIEW: Reasons To Be Pretty
BY BRANDON LAFVING In case you hadn’t guessed already, the title of Neil LaBute’s Reasons to be Pretty is a slight misnomer. It’s meant to be ironical and stuff. A more accurate title would be: It sucks to be ugly, and beautiful people suck too. It is what happened when Murphy (the proverbial Law-writer), immigrated to the States and wrote a Broadway show. In Philadelphia Theater Company’s production, the curtain opens on blatant proof. The irate Genevieve Perrier (Steph) has just been informed that her own boyfriend drunkenly described her face as “plain.” Incredulous, she wants him to say it […]
CONTEST: Win Tix To See Neil Hamburger @ JBs
[Artwork by AYE JAY!] Gregg Turkington, AKA Neil Hamburger, is not a terrible comedian, he just plays one on stage and screen. With more than a dozen albums and EPs stretching back to the mid-90s, Turkington has put a lot of time and effort into maintaining his status as The Least Funny Man In America, Possibly The World. Consider his 2010 performance at The Reading Music Festival in the UK: His entire set was booed and derided by the capacity crowd, with chants of “You’re shit and you know you are!”. As the set progressed bottles and other projectiles were […]
NPR 4 THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When U Can’t
FRESH AIR Eighty years ago, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster created the iconic comic book character Superman, but it took several years of rejections before they finally sold him to Detective Comics Inc. in 1938. The distinctive superhero made his first appearance in the comics in June 1938 — and since then has appeared in radio dramas, TV shows, video games, newspaper comics and countless films. How has the Man of Steel evolved over the past eight decades — and what has made him so popular? Those were the questions that intrigued biographer Larry Tye, whose book Superman tells the […]