INQUIRER: SEPTA officials defended a decision not to call for medical help when a bus driver reported that a passenger – who later died on the Nite Owl bus – was unresponsive and drooling and had wet his pants early Sunday. Agency spokesman Richard Maloney said Tuesday that it was “not that unusual” for bus or train operators to encounter passengers who were very intoxicated. In this case, Maloney said, the bus driver and supervisors believed that the man, Leonard Sedden, 68, was drunk and asleep. Willie Brown, president of the union that represents bus drivers, criticized SEPTA, saying the […]
SCRAPPLE TV NEWS: With A.P. Ticker
This week: All the local Pulitzer Prize news that fits.
BOOKS: Charles In Charge
Absence of the Hero: Uncollected Stories and Essays Vol. 2 1946-1992 By Charles Bukowski City Lights Publishers April 2010, 274 pp. BY PAUL MAHER JR. BOOK CRITIC Charles Bukowski, the ever-prolific even in death American novelist and poet, continues to satisfy the insatiable hunger of his vast cult-audience for more, not with bottom drawer rejected pieces, but with significant work that instills into his canon an ever-growing indication of his true importance as a man of letters. The posthumous shadow he casts across American lit only continues to loom larger with each passing year. Editor David Calonne has ably compiled […]
TECH: Why You Can’t Watch Hulu On Your iPhone
TECH CRUNCH: Developers and pundits can cry foul all they want about Apple’s lack of openness. But remember, companies are only open when it is convenient for them. The fight with Adobe has always been about making developers play by Apple’s rules. And right now they can make those rules because they have all the customers.In the desktop era, Windows had the most apps, which translated directly into sales. Today on mobile, the iPhone has the most apps and Jobs wants to keep it that way. Allowing Adobe or Microsoft to port apps developed for other devices to the iPhone […]
SIDEWALKING: Home Of The Union
Chester, 11:31 AM and 11:42 AM by JEFF FUSCO
MEDIA: DN Wins Pulitzer For ‘Tainted Justice’ Series
PULITZER: Investigative Reporting – Awarded to Barbara Laker and Wendy Ruderman of the Philadelphia Daily News for their resourceful reporting that exposed a rogue police narcotics squad, resulting in an FBI probe and the review of hundreds of criminal cases tainted by the scandal. MORE PHILLY CLOUT: The dynamic duo are celebrating in the DN newsroom where we’re told Ruderman just drank champagne out of her sneaker.You can check out their winning series “Tainted Justice” here. MORE PHAWKER: That is phucking excellent! RELATED: Ever since he died alone and forsaken in the back seat of a white Cadillac at 29 on New […]
BLACK TO COMM: Where The Mothership Go At?
WASHINGTON POST: It might be the most awe-inspiring stage prop in the history of American music and it belonged to funk legends Parliament-Funkadelic. Since the Mothership vanished in Prince George’s County in 1982, rumors of its whereabouts have mutated into local lore: It burned in a fire. It was disassembled. It was stolen. Scrapped. Kidnapped. Thrown in the woods. Chained to a truck by a drug dealer and dragged to funk-knows-where. The band’s most devoted followers say it flew off into space. This is a story about trying to find it. In concert, the Mothership was last spotted in Detroit […]
GRUMPY OLD MEN: Q&A With The Phillies’ Bill Giles
[Illustration by ALEX FINE] Bill Giles, The P.T. Barnum Of The Phillies, And The Creature He Brought To Life BY ED KING Pouring Six Beers at a Time and Other Stories from a Lifetime in Baseball is the new autobiography from Philadelphia Phillies’ longtime executive and partner, Bill Giles. The book, like the man I spoke to, has the jovial tone of a true dreamer. A Bill Giles tale is punctuated with knowing chuckles and the uncanny sense that the story is taking on new details since its last telling. Giles came to the public eye in the Philadelphia sports […]
HELL TO PAY: Dawkins & Hitchens Plan To Have The Pope Arrested For ‘Crimes Against Humanity’
TIMES ONLINE: Richard Dawkins, the atheist campaigner, is planning a legal ambush to have the Pope arrested during his state visit to Britain “for crimes against humanity”. Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, the atheist author, have asked human rights lawyers to produce a case for charging Pope Benedict XVI over his alleged cover-up of sexual abuse in the Catholic church. The pair believe they can exploit the same legal principle used to arrest Augusto Pinochet, the late Chilean dictator, when he visited Britain in 1998. The Pope was embroiled in new controversy this weekend over a letter he signed arguing that […]
GAMLBOR: All Bets Are On At Philly.com
EDITOR & PUBLISHER: The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Web site, Philly.com, has become the first newspaper to offer online sports betting in the United States. In a partnership with FanDuel, a British online betting company, visitors to Philly.com Instant Fantasy Gamescan play and win in one-day online fantasy sports games that pay off in real money. Bettors pick a team from players in scheduled Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association or National Hockey League games that day. If their team wins the fantasy contest, Philly.com says, there are “instant cash prizes — win tonight!” Users pay a $5 entry fee for each […]
THE SUPREMES: Goodbye John Paul
WASHINGTON POST: The rumors have been swirling for months, but Justice John Paul Stevens’s retirement announcement Friday drives home the reality that come October, for the first time in some 35 years, he will not emerge through the velvet curtains to take his place on the Supreme Court dais. It is a natural and inevitable evolution: the soon-to-be 90-year-old justice stepping aside, paving the way for a young president to anoint a new legal luminary to tackle the great questions of the day. It is a moment rich with possibilities but also one that warrants contemplation of the life of […]
TONITE: People Are Strange
When You’re Strange screens at 8:30 PM tonite at the Piazza WHEN YOU’RE STRANGE (2009, directed by Tom Dicillo, 90 minutes, U.S.) THE ECLIPSE (2009, directed by Conor McPherson, 88 minutes, Ireland) BY DAN BUSKIRK FILM CRITIC Some things never change. He’s still hot, he’s still sexy and he’s still dead yet I was still hoping that this new documentary on Jim Morrison, the lead singer of the 60’s pop band The Doors, would give us some original angle on the much-mythologized rock casualty. Perhaps the fact that it is distributed by Rhino Entertainment should have been a warning: When […]