From: University Notification To: REDACTED Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2007 2:33 PM Subject: Public Health Notice for University Community September 9, 2007 We regret to inform you that one of our students, Anne Ryan (C ’10), was hospitalized on Saturday with a critical illness and passed away early this morning. The University Chaplain and other Penn administrators were with the family and close friends last night and our collective thoughts and prayers are with them at this time. We are sending this e-mail as general public health notice to all members of the University community as Anne is now confirmed […]
VIET NOW: Local Heroes
INQUIRER: Interactive Map Of Local Iraq War Dead [click image to activate]
FRINGE DWELLER: Recommended
In DiversCity Indigenous Pitch Dance, 90 minutes Hot on the heels of last year’s Fringe comes this season’s fiercest group of dancers. With expertise in hip-hop, funk, modern, and hoofin’, this multi-ethnic consortium will deliver a dazzlingly diverse program. “Muscular, acrobatic, witty choreography: (Philadelphia City Paper) by Stephen Welsh’s Swerve, Illadelphlave, DaBoom, Surge, Underground Dance Works, DanceTron. Click Here for Showtimes * Late Night at the Tiki Bar Little Bunny Voodoo Presents Puppetry, 45 minutes Your swanky neighborhood tiki bar from the ’50s is in jeopardy. A powerful coffee chain has bought the building and plans a takeover within the […]
KILLADELPHIA: 5 More Dead Since U Went To Bed
BY MARI A. SCHAEFER INQUIRER STAFF WRITER Another violent weekend in the city has left five people dead and six injured in an 18-hour span. Two shootings involved on-duty Philadelphia police officers. As of last night, there were 291 homicides for the year.Around 1:15 a.m. yesterday, police responded to a 911 call after a woman threatened passengers on a SEPTA bus in North Philadelphia with an 8- to 10-inch butcher knife. Officers found a woman, identified by the Medical Examiner’s Office as Reora Askew, 38, address unknown, in Norris Square Park near Howard and Susquehanna Streets. As police approached, Askew […]
SPORTO: The Life Comcastic
BY MIKE WOLVERTON SPORTS GUY The Phading Philthies have lost 5 of the last 6, but are still in the race as we head down the stretch. Just last week things seemed so good. The four game sweep over the Mets was Amazing, especially the late inning heroics in the final contest. I’m not even a Phillies fan, but seeing the Mets lose is sweet. Too bad I missed the whole thing. Fuck You, Comcast! Now, I love baseball. I pay $159 per season for the MLB Extra Innings package on DirectTV. That means I get virtually every major league […]
FRINGE ANTI-REVIEW: Principles Of Uncertainty
BY ALLAN SMITHEE FRINGE CORRESPONDENT Was denied entry last night to Java Drama. Wasn’t on any kind of list plus the place was packed (sold out) which is a good thing; talking about the packed crowd not entry refusal. Also had problems getting into the Flamingo/Winnebago show the previous night but was finally allowed entry. Went to the box office (National Headquarters) last night and got everything straightened it out. Have tickets in hand for the rest of the shows I plan to attend. Happened to be walking down 2nd street after avoiding the First Friday art crush when I […]
HEAR YE: Animal Collective Strawberry Jam
NOW PLAYING ON PHAWKER RADIO * PET SOUNDZ: Animal Collective Waves The Freak Flag BY JONATHAN VALANIA Back in college — which was longer ago than I care to admit, so let’s just say some time after the Earth cooled but before the Internet — I lived in an old Victorian house that the college owned and subdivided into separate apartments. It was a gathering house for all the freaks and geeks who didn’t quite blend in with the frat-boy-cheerleader-chug-a-lug-date-rape ethos of the main campus. Across the hall my neighbors had set up a de facto commune of 24/7 hacky-sack […]
We Know It’s Only Rock N’ Roll But We Like It
PLEASE DON’T FEED: Panda Bear, First Unitarian Church, June 25th BY JONATHAN VALANIA FOR THE INQUIRER The great advantage of our shiny white iPod-abetted Information Age, where the far-flung chaos of recorded music has been organized and arranged into the orderly feng sui of alphabetized and easily-accessed mp3s, is that innovative music-makers like Panda Bear can connect the dots and create unexpected and stunning constellations of sound that cross the once un-breach-able barriers or time, space and genre. I can think of no better explanation, barring something being in the water, for the way that Panda Bear’s Person Pitch combines […]
REHAB: Open Letter To Amy Winehouse
DEAR AMY Amazing performance at the Mercury Prize show this past week, girl. You looked great — junky-skinny, but beautiful in your way, and hey, NOT covered in blood and scratches for a change. And yo, it was nice to see you in something other than those nizzasty jeans and ballet slippers. Your voice had me sobbing (or maybe it’s that song), and you looked genuinely happy to be doing something positive after the rough few weeks you’ve had. Congratulations. You proved it’s possible to be a functioning addict. Now go to rehab, and think about how much more amazing […]
RAW TAPE: Osama Bin Laden
EDITORIAL: Setting aside for a moment his pre-Age Of Reason worldview and psychopathic capacity to kill-without-feeling anyone that contradicts it, it must be said that Osama Bin Laden is a razor-sharp observer of world affairs, and as such his comments are no more or less credible than the average Fox News talking head. To wit: he says that despite the U.S. being the mightiest military power on Earth, 19 men flying planes into buildings were able to entirely change America’s compass. Who does not agree with that? And who, in hindsight, does not agree that the over-reaction to 9/11 was […]
TODAY I SAW…
BY JEFF DEENEY TODAY I SAW an older black woman in a stained white cook’s apron hunched over an ATM machine inside a Germantown pawn shop. Her left elbow was propped on top of the machine as she leaned in to read the blurry words on the beat-to-shit screen. In her hand she had her bank card and a scratch-off lottery ticket that said “FORTUNE COOKIE” across the top in the kind of Oriental-ish font you find on Chinese restaurant menus. The ticket was scraped clean, its symbols uncovered. The machine spat out $40 and she reached down to take […]
CINEMA: The Hotness
THE HOTTEST STATE (2006, directed by Ethan Hawke, 117 minutes, U.S.) NO END IN SIGHT (2006, directed by Charles Ferguson, 102 minutes, U.S.) BY DAN BUSKIRK FILM CRITIC For a guy who has been acting in films for over 20 years, something about Ethan Hawke remains uneasy on the motion picture screen. The characters Hawke specializes in are often cocky, moping cads who suffer easily and whose angst-ridden intellect has not won themselves any inner peace. My feelings toward the men he portrays has inescapably bled over into my thoughts about the actor as well, sensing him strain for a […]