WARNING: This comic features stories about the Philadelphia Phillies players. If you are NOT familiar with the Phillies 2011 roster than you might not appreciate the humor. Content is suitable for all ages. Mild cartoon violence. Dugout Phunnies is the work of Philadelphia artist, David Jablow, and comedian, Jon Goff. David Jablow recently garnered positive press for the opening of his “do it yourself Doodler” at Bambi Gallery in Northern Liberties. More details about that project can be found here. Jon Goff performs in and hosts comedy shows throughout Philadelphia, including Bedtime Stories, Welcome to the Terrordome, Ministry of Secret […]
We Know It’s Only Rock N’ Roll But We Like It
Misstallica, Johnny Brendas, 10:32 PM last night BY JONATHAN VALANIA
‘I ALMOST DIED A HUNDRED TIMES’: Q&A With Marwan Riyadh, Drummer For Acrassicauda
BY JONATHAN VALANIA Baghdad metallurgists ACRASSICAUDA have survived Saddam’s thugs, al Qaeda goon squads and assorted jihadist jerks — all of whom tried to silence them, under threat of death or imprisonment — but can they survive Fish Town? Find out tonight when they rock Johnny Brendas, along with all-girl Metallica tribute band Misstallica. On the eve of a U.S. tour, we got Acrassicauda drummer Marwan Riyadh on the line to talk about life in a war zone when you’re young, Iraqi and just wanna rock the fuck out — which is easier said than done, because if American bombs […]
THE AUDACITY OF DOPES: Rove Calls Common ‘A Thug’; Palin Outraged, Though Not Anti-Rap, Mind You, She Knows The Words To ‘Rapper’s Delight’!
ROLLING STONE: The right wing shows no signs of letting the manufactured controversy over Common’s White House invitation die. Even though last night’s Evening of Poetry went off without a hitch, Fox News and other right-wing outlets continue to devote ever more attention to the issue. At the event, Common didn’t address the firestorm surrounding his 2007 poem “Letters To The Law” – which conservative pundits have seized upon as evidence of his anti-Americanism. Instead, he read a work that referenced both Martin Luther King Jr. and President Obama, who hugged the Chicago rapper at the end of the evening. […]
Yes Men Launch Phony ‘Coal Cares’ Social Media Campaign For Kids, Offering ‘My Little Pony’ Inhalers
POYNTER: On Tuesday, the largest private coal company in the world, Peabody Energy, launched a campaign to provide free My Little Pony and Justin Bieber-themed “Puff-Puff” inhalers to kids 18 and under. As part of this humanitarian campaign, Peabody pledged to donate $500 towards a lung-replacement procedure for every 1,000 inhalers ordered through the “Coal Cares” initiative. Peabody, which launched a “Coal Cares” website to advertise the campaign, hoped to tackle the stigma associated with asthma by giving away a variety of colorful and hip inhalers to dignify the use of asthma medication. “For kids who have no choice but […]
WORTH REPEATING: The Wandering Eye Of Newt
[Illustation by DONKEY HOTEY] “Newt will always love America. Unless it gets cancer.” — Jane Wiedlin [via TWITTER] ESQUIRE: She was married to Newt Gingrich for eighteen years, all through his spectacular rise and fall, and here she is in a pair of blue jeans and a paisley shirt, with warm eyes and a big laugh and the kind of chain-smoking habit where the cigarettes burn right down to the filter — but she’s quitting, she swears, any day now. We’re having breakfast in a seaside restaurant in a Florida beach town, a place where people line up in sandals […]
SIDEWALKING: Love Shack
Somewhere on Route 5, 11:32 AM by JEFF FUSCO
NPR FOR THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
FRESH AIR Singer-songwriter Anna McGarrigle says it took her a long time before she was able to listen to recordings of her performing with her sister Kate (ex-wife of Loudon Wainwright; mother of Rufus Wainwright), who died of cancer last year. She was 63. “It took me a few months,” McGarrigle tells Fresh Air‘s Terry Gross. “And then I had to do a lot of listening to things and I thought, ‘I’m just going to grit my teeth and do this.’ But every now and then, I heard her sing something and sometimes it would be so unexpected … […]
THE DONALD: Turns Out He’s A Big Gov. Bloodsucker
LOS ANGELES TIMES: Donald Trump, the developer and would-be presidential candidate, portrays himself as a swashbuckling entrepreneur, shrewder and tougher than any politician, who would use his billionaire’s skills to restore discipline to the federal government. In his disdain of big government, however, Trump glances over an expensive irony: He built his empire in part through government largesse and connections. From his first high-profile project in New York City in the 1970s to his recent campaigns to reduce taxes on property he owns around the country, Trump has displayed a consistent pattern. He courted public officials, sought their backing for […]
TONIGHT: Palace Brothers
BY MATTHEW HENGEVELD Digable Planets’ Ishmael Butler, aka Butterfly, may have spent the better part of the last decade on on the “whatever happened to…” list, but he’s back in black with his new project, the altogether mind-blowing Shabazz Palaces, which plays Kung Fu Necktie tonight. Late next month, Shabazz Palaces will drop the most def Black Up, the first hip hop album to be released on Sub Pop records in the Seattle label’s two decade-plus history. It might have taken them a while to get started, but as a rap label Sub Pop is already batting a thousand. Black […]
TONITE: You Got Your Mahler In My Schoenberg!
BY DAVE ALLEN In classical music, it’s common to observe the anniversaries of long-ago births of the all-time greats with year-round performances of their works. They seem to crop up all the time; last year marked the bicentennials of two Romantic heavyweights, Frederic Chopin and Robert Schumann. These observances can lead to some transcendent moments: I remember hearing a broadcast of bells ringing in Salzburg, Austria, in honor of the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth in early 2006, and then performing his Requiem, left unfinished at his death, later that year. The death of a composer, though, seems like a […]
WORTH REPEATING: Why I Voted For Nutter
Because Michael Nutter has got game: he speaks in complete paragraphs, with subsections A., B., and C. and attendant footnotes, which also have their own subsections A., B., and C. He has run a campaign of ideas — smart, principled, and aspirational — for solving just about every problem this city faces, while his opponents have offered the usual empty sloganeering, racial semaphore and coded entreaties to their respective bases. If that makes you a wonk or a nerd — well, you can call me Potsie. Because Michael Nutter is the only Democrat running for mayor whose child attends a […]
EARLY WORD: The Least Trusted Name In News
Two long-time editors from the award-winning satirical news organization The Onion, Chad Nackers and Joe Garden, will be at Drexel tomorrow night to deliver a multimedia presentation on pop culture, politics and today’s media landscape. Chad is a senior writer who joined the Onion staff in 1997. A native of Appleton, Wisconsin, Chad moved to New York with the Onion in 2001, fulfilling his dream of living in a city covered in the world’s finest grime. Joe was born in Chicago and raised in rural Wisconsin. He started at the Onion in Madison, WI in 1993, and created the recurring […]