DRUNKEN SPELLING BEE: B&B, South Street, Last Night [Photos by TIFFANY YOON]
BURMA: 22,000 Dead, 41,000 Missing After Cyclone
THE AGE: About 30,000 people are missing in Burma after this weekend’s devastating cyclone, in addition to a death toll of 15,000, Thai Foreign Minister Noppadol Pattama said after a meeting with Burma’s ambassador to Bangkok. Countries worldwide have promised help to the impoverished nation after the weekend cyclone killed 10,000 people in just one town. “This is much more awful and its scale much greater than what we first understood,” he said. Reports on Myanmar television reported the death toll in the town of Bogalay was at least 10,000 with 3000 listed as missing. The World Vision team have […]
RIP: Mr. Peabody & Sherman Creator Dead At 90
INQUIRER: Cartoonist Ted Key, 95, whose characters included a bossy maid and a time-traveling dog scientist, died at his Tredyffrin home on Saturday. Hazel made Mr. Key famous: The maid became a weekly feature in The Saturday Evening Post soon after he sold his first cartoon to the publication in 1943. He drew Hazel for 50 years. But younger readers may best remember Mr. Key’s animated characters – Mr. Peabody, the genius dog, and his boy, Sherman – that he drew for Rocky and His Friends. Mr. Key was born Aug. 25, 1912, in Fresno, Calif. He moved to Tredyffrin […]
HOT DOCUMENT: All Aboard The Love Train!
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NPR 4 THE DEF: Giving Public Radio Edge Since 2006
FRESH AIR Edgar Award-winning author Charles Ardai is founder of Hard Case Crime, a pulp-fiction publishing group that reprints classic crime stories as well as publishing new pulp. All Hard Case novels are published in mass-market paperback editions, much like the classic crime novels from the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s, with cover art inspired by images from the genre’s heyday. Under the pseudonym Richard Aleas — an anagram of his own name — Ardai writes crime fiction, too: His novels Little Girl Lost and Songs of Innocence detail the exploits of private investigator John Blake. Blake is no hard-boiled, flint-eyed […]
LISTEN LIKE THIEVES: NIN Gives Away New Album
NIN.COM: As a thank you to our fans for your continued support, we are giving away the new nine inch nails album one hundred percent free, exclusively via nin.com. The music is available in a variety of formats including high-quality MP3, FLAC or M4A lossless at CD quality and even higher-than-CD quality 24/96 WAVE. your link will include all options – all free. all downloads include a PDF with artwork and credits. For those of you interested in physical products, fear not. we plan to make a version of this release available on CD and vinyl in July. details coming […]
Q&A: It’s Too Late To Fall In Love With Sharon Tate
BY JONATHAN VALANIA Meet Roza Frykowska, 26, a recent emigre from Lodz, Poland. She is a barista at Cafe Ole in Old City. She is also an up and coming photographer, and recently started shooting for Suicide Girls. All of that would make her interview-worthy in and of itself in our book, but wait, it gets better, or worse, actually. Roza’s grandfather, the filmmaker Wojtech Frykowski, came to America in the late ’60s to establish a career in Hollywood, at the behest of his dear friend, Roman Polanski. Wojtech and his then-girlfriend, Abigail Folger, heiress to the Folger coffee fortune, […]
KILLADELPHIA: 2 More Dead Since U Went To Bed
INQUIRER: Investigators this morning are probing a double shooting in West Philadelphia that left two dead and riddled with bullets, police said. Officers were called at 12:38 a.m. to the 300 block of N. 62nd St. They found a 19-year-old woman shot twice in the chest and a 19-year-old man shot in the head and buttocks, police said. The woman was rushed to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania where she was pronounced at 1:20 a.m.; the man was taken to HUP where doctors declared him dead at 1:05 a.m. Police have no suspects or motive.
JOHN MCCAIN: C-Words Matter
IOWA POLITICS: Clive businessman Marty Parrish was escorted from Sen. John McCain’s town hall meeting by Des Moines police and members of the Secret Service after asking McCain if he had called his wife Cindy an expletive in 1992. Parrish, an ordained Baptist minister who holds a master’s degree in political science, was questioned by Secret Service agents before being released. He was not charged in the incident. Parrish asked whether McCain called his wife Cindy an expletive related to the female anatomy, as has been alleged in the book “The Real McCain,” written by Dem strategist Cliff Schecter. MORE […]
All Of This Happened While You Were Tanning
SUNSHINE SUPERMEN: Mehr & Sher Ali, Painted Bride, 5:34 PM BY JONATHAN VALANIA Sufi is the mystical arm of Islam, and Quawwali — a 700-year-old tradition of droning, kaleidoscopic incantations rendered hypnotic and ecstatic by a maze of tabla beats and hand claps — is the devotional music of Sufism. In Pakistan, Quawwali singers are part rock star, part holy man and spend years studying Sufi texts in preparation. Mehr & Sher (they are the two balding gentlemen on the stage) were taught by their father, a court classical singer in the Sikh principality of Patiala, now part of India. […]
KILLADELPHIA: Wanted, Dead Or Alive
INQUIRER: Philadelphia police this morning said they are looking for a 33-year-old city man in connection with the fatal shooting Saturday of Philadelphia police Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski. Police identified the suspect at large as Eric Floyd, 33, currently of Clearfield Street, Philadelphia. Police said Floyd had escaped from a halfway house in Reading, and is considered to be armed and dangerous. Police said at least three men were involved in the robbery and shooting of Sgt. Liczbinski, 39, on Saturday just before noon. Liczbinski was responding to the robbery of a bank inside a grocery store around 11:30 a.m. Saturday. […]
WARNING: Graphic Reality & Inconvenient Truth
UPDATE: “The Robert L. Capp collection at the Hoover Institution Archives at Stanford University contains ten photographs purportedly showing the immediate aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing. Mr. Capp was assigned to the occupation forces outside Hiroshima after World War II. According to to Mr. Capp’s oral history (available along with the photographs in the Robert L. Capp collection), he found these photos among rolls of undeveloped film in a cave outside of Hiroshima. Since making these photographs publicly available, I have received reliable proof that at least two of these photos are actually of the 1923 Kanto earthquake. While I […]