Yes, it’s the song from that Zales commerical. BlaKRoc = The Black Keys + Billy Danze + Jim Jones + Nicole Wray. Very foxy.
EXIT THE PHAROAH: Mubarak Resignation FAIL
[Artwork by DonkeyHotey] NEW YORK TIMES: President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt prepared to address the nation Thursday, with government officials indicating that they expected him to step aside, and Egypt’s military announcing that it is intervening in state affairs in an attempt to stop a three-week old uprising. The military declared on state television that it would take measures “to maintain the homeland and the achievements and the aspirations of the great people of Egypt” and meet the demands of the protesters who have insisted on ending Mr. Mubarak’s 30-year rule. Several government officials said Mr. Mubarak is expected to […]
NPR FOR THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
FRESH AIR If you’re a fan of The Office, you may have seen Ed Helms, who plays Andy Bernard, occasionally whip out a banjo and bang out a few tunes. On today’s Fresh Air, Helms brings his own banjo to the studio and sings bluegrass tunes with his band, The Lonesome Trio. He also discusses his new comedy Cedar Rapids, in which he plays Tim Lippe, a naive insurance salesman who’s never left his small hometown, let alone ventured into a hotel room for a night. But after he’s sent to represent his insurance company at a convention in a […]
PAPERBOY: Slow-Jamming The Alt-Weeklies
BY DAVE ALLEN Like time, news waits for no man. Keeping up with the funny papers has always been an all-day job, even in the pre-Internets era. These days, however, it’s a two-man job. That’s right, these days you need someone to do your reading for you, or risk falling hopelessly behind and, as a result, increasing your chances of dying lonely and somewhat bitter. That’s why every week PAPERBOY does your alt-weekly reading for you. We pore over those time-consuming cover stories and give you the takeaway, suss out the cover art, warn you off the ink-wasters and steer […]
CINEMA: Cat Scratch Fever
THE BLACK CAT (YABU NO NAKA NO KURANEKO) (1968, directed by Kaneto Shindô, 99 minutes, Japan) BY DAN BUSKIRK FILM CRITIC Yesterday, the Inquirer reported yet another story of a soldier who had committed suicide after returning from the war. The idea of a soldier being haunted by the things he has seen in battle is an ancient one, and the story gets a mesmerizing telling in director Kaneto Shindô’s 1968 film The Black Cat. The classic ghost story has a free screening tonight at The Bellevue, as part of a weekly six-film series presented by Japanese culture impresario Eric […]
ERYKAH BADU: Gone Baby, Don’t Be Long
Erykah Badu – Gone Baby, Don’t be Long from beeple on Vimeo. Directed by Flying Lotus.
RUMBO: Rewriting History For Fun And Profit
MOTHER JONES: In his new book, deftly titled Known and Unknown, former Defense Secreatry Donald Rumsfeld insists that he and the Bush-Cheney crew did not purposefully misrepresent the WMD case for the Iraq war: “The President did not lie. The Vice President did not lie. Tenet did not lie. Rice did not lie. I did not lie. The Congress did not lie. The far less dramatic truth is that we were wrong.” He does acknowledge that he made a “few misstatements.” In the book, Rumsfeld claims that he should have referred to “suspect sites.” But, he says, his “few misstatements” […]
McFadden’s Executive Arrested On Sex Crime Warrant
ASSOCIATED PRESS: Harry Hayman, director of operations for the two McFadden’s Bars in Philadelphia, has been arrested on a warrant from Arizona charging him with sexually abusing employees at bars he owned there, officials said today. Hayman, 42, [NOT pictured, right] was picked on Tuesday up by Philadelphia police and U.S. marshals and, according to Philadelphia court records, released this morning after posting $15,000 bail. After a half-dozen employees of Hayman’s bar and grill in Glendale, Ariz., complained about his behavior in April, he reportedly has refused all attempts by police or prosecutors to talk to him. A Maricopa County […]
ALBUM REVIEW: RJD2 We Are The Doorways
BY MATTHEW HENGEVELD March 6, 2007. The date isn’t etched on my brain, but suffice it to say that it signified my loss of faith in one of hip-hop’s most talented producers, RJD2. He’s part of the electronic-hip-hop movement that has been defined as everything from Wonky to Chillout to Trip-hop. Whatever the genre, it’s really hard to find fault with the music. His 2007 album Third Hand should have been an album of head-nodders, not head-scratchers, which was the case when RJ abandoned his hip-hop roots and offered up this anemic electro-pop medley. At the same time, he left […]
NPR FOR THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
FRESH AIR Lawrence Wright‘s cover story in the current edition of The New Yorker reports on the Church of Scientology and focuses on why screenwriter and director Paul Haggis resigned from the organization in 2009 after spending nearly 35 years with it. Haggis, who directed Crash and wrote the screenplay for Million Dollar Baby, spoke with Wright about his reasons for leaving the church and the response from his fellow Scientologists. Wright tells Fresh Air‘s Terry Gross about the detailed fact-checking process his article went through — The New Yorker assigned five fact checkers to the story and sent the […]
CONCERT REVIEW: Miranda Cosgrove At The Keswick
EDITOR’S NOTE: We sent our two snarkiest concert reviewers to the Miranda Cosgrove concert at the Keswick Theater on Sunday and asked them to give it the Siskel & Ebert treatment. And guess what? They like it! Well, kinda. For the benefit of anyone over 21, Cosgrove is the star of Nickelodeon’s iCarly show. JAMIE DAVIS: I found the night to be blindsidingly fun, watching the Nickelodeon spectacle onstage in all it’s plastic glory. I was expecting to show up and make snide comments until someone cried, but it was just too- awesome. I believe we called it Blink-182 without […]
GEEK ALERT: Glee Live! Is Coming To Town
DAILY NEWS: The cast of “Glee” will perform June 8 at the Wells Fargo Center, the venue just announced. MORE
Urban Outfitters To Hire 1,000 Over Three Years
INQUIRER: As he heads into the May primary, Mayor Nutter is touting his success at bringing jobs to Philadelphia, including an announcement expected Wednesday that Urban Outfitters Inc. will add 1,000 jobs at the Navy Yard over the next three years. The apparel retailer, whose headquarters are in Philadelphia, had for some time occupied five buildings at the Navy Yard. Nutter’s announcement would mark the completion of the company’s efforts to secure rights to six more, bringing the total to 11. The company currently employs about 1,500 people at the Navy Yard, said David Ziel, who oversees store and headquarters […]