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CONCERT REVIEW: Yo Gabba Gabba! Live
BY MIKE WOLVERTON SPORTS GUY I hadn’t been to the Mann since the mid-80s. I was in high school and they had a sweet system going to promote underage drinking. Any time there was a show, beyond the fences in a semi-wooded area of which I have only the fuzziest recollection, there would be kegs set up. How many? Twenty, fifty, a thousand, who knew? But it was beer paradise for thirsty 16 year-olds who otherwise had to take their chances and trek to that “special” distributor in Springfield that (almost) never carded. Outside of the Mann, you’d just pick […]
SIDEWALKING: Gentle Ben
‘Ben Franklin, Love Park, 8/25 by JEFF FUSCO RELATED: What The Hell Happened To Old City?
JUDAS PRIEST: Parents Tape Daughter & Priest Having Sex, Sue Church For Getting Her Pregnant
ASSOCIATED PRESS: A Pennsylvania couple secretly videotaped a Roman Catholic priest having sex with their then-17-year-old daughter in the basement of their home and are now suing, saying he got her pregnant. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Berks County Court, alleges that the Rev. Luis A. Bonilla Margarito carried on a sexual relationship with the teen while he was the chaplain of Reading Central Catholic High School and she was a senior there. The girl’s parents became suspicious and installed a camera in their basement, where Bonilla and the teen were spending large amounts of time. The camera recorded the […]
Stoking White Fright For Fun And For Profit
GLENN GREENWALD: Virtually every Fox News/right-wing-talk-radio controversy relies on scaring economically anxious white Americans into ignoring the prime cause of their economic insecurity — plundering by Wall Street bankers, abetted by the government they own — and focusing instead on some manufactured menace from powerless racial and ethnic minorities: black people preventing them from voting (New Black Panthers), stealing their elections (ACORN), and treating them unequally (Shirley Sherrod and Eric Holder’s Justice Department); Muslims who want to conquer their country and celebrate over their Christian corpses (the Triumphalist Ground Zero Mosque); invading, marauding Latino armies coming to steal their property and rape […]
CINEMA: Happiness Is A Warm Gun
MESRINE: KILLER INSTINCT (2008, directed by Jean-François Richet, 113 minutes, France) BY DAN BUSKIRK FILM CRITIC The first of a two-part robbing, shooting and killing jamboree, Mesrine: Killer Instinct is a dazzling vehicle for French superstar Vincent Cassel, Cassel burst into the scene in 1995 as the violent ghetto youth Vinz in the controversial La Haine and has shown himself to be surprisingly flexible in French productions and Hollywood films, appearing in Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Twelve and Thirteen and even providing a voice in Shrek. Like Bogart he has a face that can seem simultaneously handsome and homely and standing […]
HARRY SHEARER: The Big Uneasy
DAILY BEAST: “I was in London last fall when President Obama was paying his three-hour and 45-minute visit to New Orleans—slightly less time than it took to play the Super Bowl game,” Shearer tells me. “He referred to the flooding—in passing—as ‘a natural disaster.’ I just hit the roof. I went, ‘OK, blogs and radio and all the other things I’ve been doing clearly aren’t enough. I know what the next step is.’ And it was this.” “This” is The Big Uneasy, Shearer’s powerful documentary about the real culprit in the disaster that befell New Orleans five years ago—the Army […]
RAWK TAWK: Q&A With Marah’s Dave Bielanko
BY JONATHAN VALANIA All you youngin’s are probably too new here to remember all this, but there was a time back around the turn of the century when Marah — a scrappy little roots-y, beer-lovin’ band of street-urchins from South Philly-by-way-of-Conshohocken — was being groomed to be the second coming of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band circa The Young, The Innocent & The E-Street Shuffle. Marah was always essentially the brothers Bielanko — Dave, the rakish, boozy street poet with the soulful rasp and the uncanny capacity to channel the heart of the common man and Serge, the […]
WATCH: Cartoonish Religious Bigotry Gets Animated
HUFFINGTON POST: The Taiwanese have done it again. Next Media Animation has released a CGI recreation of all the recent events surrounding the Park51 controversy and anti-Muslim incidents with immaculate detail. The video covers the heated confrontation between anti-Park51 protesters and a random African American construction worker. Then it moves on to the protests over a proposed mosque in Murfreesboro, TN and a Florida church’s plans to burn Korans to honor 9/11 victims. MORE
FRINGE PREVIEW: The Festival Bar
BY ARTHUR SHKOLNIK The Festival Bar, now in its third year, is an after-hours space which opens its doors for the duration of the Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe. The former home of Club Egypt in Northern Liberties (Spring Garden and Delaware Ave.) has been revamped with eye-catching visual art and modern media installations in preparation for the 16-day, all-inclusive array of genre-spanning entertainment. The Festival Bar has become the verified hot spot for thousands of festival-goers seeking after-hours recreation, and during the week features a motley assortment of nightly cabaret, including but not limited to: live stage performances, […]
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 […]
DAY OF THE DEAD: Police Find 72 Bodies Killed By A Drug Cartel On A Ranch Near The Border With Texas
DAILY MAIL: The bodies of 58 men and 14 women have been discovered in Mexico – the latest victims of the country’s brutal drugs war. Soldiers made the gruesome find in a raid on a remote ranch near the border with Texas. The victims are thought to have been executed by a rival gang in a turf war for control of the region and drug routes into the United States. The Golfo cartel and rivals Los Zetas, composed of elite soldiers who deserted the Mexican army, are former allies who fell out a few months ago. The massacre came to […]