DAILY NEWS: Izim Greer, 19, was shot once in the head shortly before 3 a.m. Saturday inside a home on 65th Street near Gesner, said Homicide Lt. Philip Riehl. Greer was pronounced dead at 3:05 a.m. by medics on the scene, police said. Police arrested John Bradley, of Saybrook Avenue near 65th Street, and charged him with Greer’s slaying, Riehl said. He said the shooting had been prompted by a dispute over Bradley’s girlfriend. Shortly after 12:30 a.m. yesterday, police found the body of a 23-year-old man on 7th Street near Poplar, North Philadelphia. The victim had been shot in […]
NEWS CLUES: It’s Like Adderall For Your Eyeballs
Florida Gets Medieval On Ass Of GOP Legislator Caught In Potty Sex Sting Florida State Rep. Bob Allen’s troubles may only get worse. Seconds after he was convicted Friday of soliciting a sex act in a park bathroom, legislative leaders were discussing how to remove him from office. The lawmaker is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday for the second-degree misdemeanor charge and could face a maximum 60 days in the county jail and a $500 fine. Prosecutors said after the verdict was announced that they intend to seek jail time. Because of the nature of the crime, prosecutors said, Allen […]
NPR 4 THE DEF: Giving Public Radio Edge Since 2006
FRESH AIR Norman Mailer once wrote that before he was 17, he’d formed the desire to be a major writer. That wish certainly came true. One political campaign, two Pulitzer Prizes and an unprecedented level of controversy later, he became a literary grandee unlike any other. This interview originally aired on Oct. 8, 1991. ALSO Author Robert Kuttner writes in The Squandering of America that many of the economic policies and regulations established during the New Deal have since been replaced by a more business-friendly free market system. Kuttner is the founder and co-editor of The American Prospect. Here is […]
TONITE: Got 99 Problems
But getting into the Fillmore tonight ain’t one! Look for our INSTA-REVIEW later tonight…
WILLIE NELSON: Imagine
Save lives now!…What? You’re too busy, or too clever or too cool to ‘save lives now’? Which one is it? We need an answer. HURRY UP and pick one, people are dying!
IMAGINE: What $611 Billion Could Buy, Besides Bullets
BOSTON GLOBE: If the Bush administration succeeds in its latest request for funding for the war in Iraq, the total cost would rise to $611.5 billion, according to the National Priorities Project, a nonprofit research group. The amount got us wondering: What would $611 billion buy? 18 MONTHS OF FREE GAS FOR ALL U.S. drivers consume approximately 384.7 million gallons of gasoline a day. Retail prices averaged $3.00 a gallon in early November. Breaking it down, $611 billion could buy gasoline for everybody in the United States, for about 530 days. * CONVERT ALL THE CARS IN AMERICA TO ETHANOL […]
TODAY I SAW. . .
BY JEFF DEENEY TODAY I SAW a young white couple with two small kids, arguing underneath the 60 bus shelter at Frankford and Allegheny. Dad wore a white hooded sweat jacket, patterned with red-outlined skulls. The skulls were arranged arbitrarily, like they were piled on top of each other. He wore construction boots air brushed with graffiti tags along the uppers. His girl wore a Rocawear winter jacket that had a tight, knitted waist and fur around the hood. She had on skin-tight jeans that her redheaded children, one boy and one girl, clung to. Her complexion was pasty […]
SPECIAL REPORT: Ron Paul Drops Peace Bomb
And nobody got hurt.
TRUE OR FALSE: Ron Paul Is Our Kind Of Democrat?
[Photo by VIC SUEDE] FROM THE EDITOR: It is indeed a sad day when you have to go knock on the GOP’s door and ask to borrow one of their guys because ‘Hey, he’s our kind of Democrat.’ But alas that day has come…HOLD THE PHONE…what about THIS? Hmmm. Let us get this straight, Dr. Paul: you lent your name to an unnamed foundation and somebody there wrote that ham-fistedly bigoted Archie Bunker mumbo-jumbo under your byline? Hmm. Now don’t get us wrong, we think crucifying the utterer of every blunt, race-freighted remark is just a distraction from the thing […]
HONOR ROLL: Requiem For A Few Good Men
Four days before a deadline for Foreign Service officers to volunteer to go to Iraq or face the prospect of being ordered there, the State Department notified employees yesterday that “about half” of 48 open assignments there for next year have been filled. The plan to order diplomats to take posts in Iraq if enough volunteers cannot be found — the first time forced assignments have been contemplated since the Vietnam War — has been controversial within and outside the service. “If I need somebody to serve in Iraq, they have to serve there,” Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said […]
HEAR YE: Robyn Hitchcock I Often Dream Of Trains*
NOW PLAYING ON PHAWKER RADIO * From the swell new Yep Roc reissue box set
KILLADELPHIA: Pimpin’ Ain’t Sleazy?
BY GEORGE ANASTASIA INQUIRER STAFF WRITER It was a bold move by an ambitious, young rap mogul. At a time when authorities suspected he controlled a vast cocaine operation in Southwest Philadelphia, Alton Coles [NOT pictured] decided to shoot a video about that very world. New Jack City: The Next Generation would depict the violent rise of a fictional Southwest Philadelphia cocaine ring that used fear, intimidation and murder to take over the streets. Coles, under his hip-hop nickname “Ace Capone,” would star in the 2003 rap music drama as a ruthless cocaine kingpin. It was, federal authorities now allege, […]
We Know It’s Only Rock N’ Roll But We Like It
FIVE THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT DR. DOG LAST NIGHT AT THE FILLMORE 1. Dr. Dog loves their family and friends! What fun it was to watch the band’s entire entourage dance, carouse, and throw roses affectionately from off stage. It’s like being at a little girl’s beauty pageant, but there’s great music and you’re not bored senseless. Plus, nobody gets strangled in the basement at the end. 2. Dr. Dog knows how to pick their opening bands. Emily Lacy and her banjo put a fun spin on the Joanna Newsom formula, and Delta Spirit was equally enjoyable with their […]