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EARLY WORD: The Mystery Tramp
Sharon Van Etten’s voice is front and center on new record Tramp, as well it should be. It’s an amazing instrument, strong and rich, yet her delivery is straight-forward, simple, and not ostentatious at all. She may be shy, but there aren’t many voices in rock that can carry a record so totally and effectively as Van Etten’s. The arrangements on Tramp are more varied and ambitious than on her previous releases, with as many rock songs as acoustic numbers. There are quite a few electric guitars on Tramp, which is somewhat new for Van Etten, but just as many […]
SIDEWALKING: The Last Picture Show
Westmont, New Jersey, 4PM by JEFF FUSCO
When The Cover-Up Is Worse Than The Crime
This is all very inside baseball, but we were all taken out to the ballpark some time ago, we’ve all got skin in the game now so it’s too late to say you don’t care who wins. If you have been paying attention in the last day or two, you know the following: The Philadelphia Media Network — the company that owns the Inquirer, Daily News and Philly.com — is looking to sell. There are two primary investor groups that have expressed interest. One group is led by ex-Guv Ed Rendell, and the other led by developer Bart Blatstein, the […]
DON’T EAT THE BROWN ACID: Lauryn Hill On LSD
VICE: A few weeks ago, a PR rep at Mohegan Sun Resort & Casino asked me to drive a few hours into Eastern Connecticut to interview Lauryn Hill. Now I like L-Boogie as much as the next guy. She’s known to not like white people all that much, Sister Act II has a great post-colon tagline (“Back In The Habit”), and The Miseducation Of… would have been perfect if it weren’t for the clips of kids learning between tracks. It seemed like as good a time as any to take a bunch of acid. The guy pictured above is my […]
MEDIA: Who’s Trying To Buy The Inquirer/Daily News & Why Can’t We Read About It On Philly.com?
NEWSWORKS: Are the owners of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News muzzling their own journalists to protect their financial interests? It sure looked that way if you followed the Daily News‘ PhillyClout blog Tuesday. Here’s what happened: Around mid-day reporter David Gambacorta wrote a post about a group of investors, headed by developer Bart Blatstein, who are interested in buying Philadelphia Media Network, the owners of both papers and Philly.com. That report listed the investors in the group, called Philly Hometown Media, LLC. (Last week it emerged that a different group of investors associated with former Gov. Ed Rendell has […]
Rough Draft Of Karen Handel’s Resignation Letter
February 7, 2012 The Honorable Nancy Brinker CEO, Susan G. Komen for the Cure VIA EMAIL 5005 LBJ Freeway, Suite 250 Dallas, Texas 75244 Dear Ambassador Brinker: Susan G. Komen for the Cure has been the recognized leader for more 30 years in the fight against breast cancer here in the US – and increasingly around the world UNTIL I TOTALLY EFFED IT UP WITH MY ANTI-ABORTION ZEALOTRY. As you know, I have always kept Komen’s mission and the THE GOOD CHRISTIAN women we serve as my highest priority (SECOND ONLY TO MY QUEST TO OVERTURN SETTLED CASE LAW SUCH […]
EXPLAINER: Dr. Ron Paul Explains ‘Honest Rape’
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RAWK TAWK: Q&A With Dr. Dog’s Eric Slick
BY TONY ABRAHAM Today marks the release of Be The Void, Dr. Dog’s sixth, and arguably best, album. Last week, Phawker got new Dr. Dog drummer Eric Slick to talk about the new album as he zig-zagged his way across the city, barely avoiding getting hit by passing vehicles and trying to keep a straight face while discussing the band’s on-tour farting prowess. Having joined up with Dr. Dog two years ago after the band parted ways with drummer Juston Stens, Slick brings a new energy to Dr. Dog, upping the tempo on those classic upbeat, yet slightly dissonant Dr. […]
INTERN: I F*cked John F. Kennedy
Mimi Alford, 69, claims she lost her virginity to John F. Kennedy while she was a White House intern and had an 18-month-long relationship with the president. It began in the summer of 1962 when an aide invited Alford, then 19 years old and only four days into her internship, to swim in the White House swimming pool. That’s where she unexpectedly met the 45 year old Kennedy, who immediately took a liking to her. Alford claims the president took her virginity when the two met in one of Jackie Kennedy’s rooms later that day. What followed was an affair […]
ARTSY: Mayhem Is My Business; Business Is Good
BY MIKE WALSH If you enjoy Weegee’s famous crime and disaster scene photos from the 1930s and 1940s (as who doesn’t?), get yourself to the International Center of Photography (ICP) in Manhattan where Murder is My Business, an exhibition of Weegee’s most famous photos recently opened. Weegee’s photos are fun, trashy, insensitive, and full of suffering and blood. What’s not to like? The great thing about this exhibition is that it includes wall plaques of information about the specific car crashes, tenement fires, suicide, and gangland murders depicted in the photos. It does not leave you speculating about why the […]
CINEMA: The Hipster In The Dell
Urban Farming is the topic of the timely documentary film, Urban Roots, which explores the urban farming phenomenon in Detroit, Michigan. Food grown locally in community gardens and urban farms is starting to make a positive impact for families faced with food challenge issues in Philadelphia. Drexel University will host the Philadelphia theatrical premiere of Urban Roots tomorrow night (Tuesday, February 7th) at 7:30 PM in the Bossone Research Center (3140 Market St.). After the screening, members of Philadelphia’s urban farming community and the film’s director, Mark MacInnis, will focus on Philadelphia urban farming and how to get involved. Prior […]
SIDEWALKING: No Surrender
On the wall, Mississippi Studios, Portland, OR, 2/6/12 by JONATHAN VALANIA