[“Plural Marriage?” by JESSICA HAGY for McClatchy Newspapers] So Mitt — while you’re all in a sharing mood, which is it? Boxers, briefs, or Magic Mormon Underpants? Yes, it’s Mormon week out there in primary land, and on Thursday, Romney took The Pledge, declaring Jesus Christ his Lord and Savior and saying that freedom and religion can be, like, friends with benefits but can’t actually be a couple-couple … or something like that. Actually, what he said was that while the government can’t, and he wouldn’t, pre- or proscribe a specific denomination, everybody should get religion. The quote was that […]
BREAKING: Police Shootout At Allentown Mall
It is with a curious mixture of pride and sarcasm that we report to you that our ancestral home — Allentown, PA — has just earned the dubious distinction of being the latest holiday shopping shoot-em-up story in the wake of Omaha. Admittedly, this is nothing to brag about but as This Is Your Mall On Guns stories go, it sure beat this and is WAY better than this. Likewise, we must give props to our old alma mater — the Allentown Morning Call — for being on top of shit and nailing this on all fronts: Over at the […]
THIS JUST IN: Wilco At The Tower
February 23rd, tix go on sale December 15th.
NPR 4 THE DEF: Giving Public Radio Edge Since 2006
FRESH AIR During the famously chaotic filming of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, another director was at work on the set: Documentary director Eleanor Coppola, the auteur’s wife. Her footage, along with cast and crew interviews shot a decade later, became the celebrated documentary Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse, which premiered on the Showtime cable channel in 1991. The documentary, which takes its title from the Joseph Conrad novel that inspired Apocalypse Now, has been described as a revealing insider look at how stressful moviemaking can be, as well as a deeply personal chronicle of one director’s battles with […]
MEET THE PHAWKERS: Like A Party In Your Pants!
And everyone is invited! BiG TeA PaRtY FUNDRAISER; PARTY; MOVIE NIGHT! Saturday Dec. 8th, 7-10 pm at Molly’s Bookstore 1010 S. 9th St., in the heart of the Italian Market $3 donation to get in; $5 raffle tix Watch the VERY first BiG TeA PaRtY episode and see our favorites. Party, Schmooze, Have Fun!
RECONSIDER THIS: My So-Called Life
BY EVA LIAO Here’s one for the kids of my generation, the kids who grew up stuck between the loud, crude fads of the ’80s and the comparably apathetic, bereaved children of today. Here’s to the victims of a less dramatic, and all-the-more innocent decade known as the ’90s. Last month the DVD series of My So-Called Life was released to the elation of the pathetically nostalgic, such as myself. It’s been 13 years since the show last aired on ABC, running only one season. The series came to an unexpected halt once lead actress Claire Danes, who was only […]
REALITY CHECK: On CP’s Baby ‘Mama Drama’ Story
BY JEFF DEENEY Doron Taussig’s City Paper article “Mama Drama” details the backlash from one grassroots women’s coalition against the escalation of foster care placements by the Philadelphia Department of Human Services. The escalation comes in the wake of scathing news probes into an alarming number of child deaths taking place under DHA’s watch. It’s a touchy subject that draws strong reactions from all sides: DHS feels like they have stepped up to the plate, doing what was absolutely necessary to stamp out a crisis. Conversely, any mother, no matter how incapable of adequately caring for a child she may […]
THE LINCOLN BITE: Curing Hunger With Just $5
BY COLLEEN REESE One of the pains of living in Philadelphia is gormandizing on entirely too much stuff. We snag our egg-and-cheese sandwiches off greasy trucks and never for a second wonder what’s truly in them — the egg-and-cheese that is, not the trucks. The guy at the deli knows your name and the names of your best friends and cousins, but we never really sit down and just breathe with them. So when I walked into joe Coffee Bar and it tugged gently at me to sit down for a little stolen moment, I was almost hesitant. I was […]
MONEY SHOT: Amy Winehouse Gobs Paparazzi
EDITOR’S NOTE: This may be the greatest celeb candid ever taken. It actually captures the loogie in mid-flight! Shades of Johnny Cash’s immortal middle finger! Seriously, give that guy a Pulitzer. And if anyone has earned the right to spit in the camera’s eye, it’s Miss Beehive 1965. God save Amy Winehouse. Please, God, we don’t ask for much. RELATED: The troubled singer Amy Winehouse finally has something to look forward to after receiving six Grammy nominations this afternoon. Winehouse, who has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons lately, received the second-highest number of nominations for the […]
Tom Ridge & The Selling Out Of Homeland Security
In its report, Homeland Security for Sale – DHS: Five Years of Mismanagement, CREW details billions of dollars in waste and mismanagement of taxpayer dollars, for example: —$24 billion has been spent, and at least $178 million wasted, on the failed Coast Guard Deepwater program; –over $600 million has been allocated for unworkable radiation border scanners; —$1.3 billion has been lost on the US-VISIT program, which was never fully implemented and –projected $2 billion loss on the SBInet “virtual fence” border program. MORE
PAPERBOY: Super-Dooper ‘All I Want For Christmas Is A Fat Sack Of AK47 Peace On Earth’ Edition
BY AMY Z. QUINN We know how it is: so many words to read, so little time to surf for free porn. That’s why every week, PAPERBOY does your alt-weekly reading for you, freeing up valuable nanoseconds that can now be better spent ‘roughing up the suspect’ over at Suicide Girls or what have you. Every Thursday 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 you towards the gooey caramel center of each edition. Why? Because we like you. ON THE COVER: CITY PAPER: […]
NEWS CLUES: It’s Like Adderall For Your Eyeballs
GET REAL ESTATE: Subprime Crisis Spurs Home Loan Interest Rate Freeze WASHINGTON — The Bush administration has hammered out an agreement to freeze interest rates on certain subprime mortgages for five years to combat an escalating number of home foreclosures, congressional aides said Wednesday. A person familiar with the matter said the rate freeze would apply to borrowers with loans made from Jan. 1, 2005, through July 30 of this year with rates that are scheduled to rise between Jan. 1, 2008, and July 31, 2010; likewise, the program would only be available for owner-occupied homes — to ensure the […]