MYRA MORTON couldn’t give her husband more children, but her younger, thinner romantic rival in Morocco was apparently ripe and ready to conceive.That, according to authorities, was why hubby Jereleigh Morton, 47, was to fly off to the North African country last Sunday — to impregnate his second wife, Zahra Toural, in hopes of having a son. The trip, Montgomery County authorities contend, was why Myra Morton, also 47, killed her husband with two gunshot blasts to the head while he slept in their million-dollar Whitpain Township home early Sunday. Authorities yesterday also contended that the family’s $6 million in […]
OUTRAGEOUS: Pregnant A.C. Woman And Baby Dead After Pointless Road Rage Incident
A pregnant South Jersey woman who was run over last week by a raging gang member as her horrified husband watched has died of her injuries, police said. Rosa Maguire, 27, was severely brain injured when she was struck Aug. 1 by an SUV driven by an alleged member of the Bloods gang. The Cumberland County woman, who was three months pregnant, died last night in Atlantic City at AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, authorities said. It appears her unborn baby also died. “It looks like the child was a victim, as well,” said Capt. Al Della Fave, spokesman for the […]
DOJ REPORT: Let’s Talk About Drugs, Baby
BY JEFF DEENEY MEAN STREETS EDITOR What’s up with drugs? By that I don’t mean, “Dude, who’s holding?” or “which set’s got the bomb bag today?” I’m talking bigger picture stuff. Like, what’s up with drugs, what’s happening in the Philadelphia region? Who are the weight movers and high-level traffickers out there making sure there’s plenty of powder for your nose on a Friday night? This isn’t exactly the kind of information you’re going to come by talking to guys with bad neck tattoos on Kensington Avenue, and anyone who knows and is willing to talk about it probably can’t […]
CRAZY: Moscow Cat Lady
The good news is 130 homeless cats now have a roof over their heads. The bad news is it’s the SAME roof.
THE EARLY WORD: What We Do Is Secret
Freeway – What We Do Lyrics (feat. Beanie Sigel, Jay-Z) [Freeway] Man if I get rocked, this shit for my kids nigga It’s that real shit… [female singer, repeated throughout the verses] Even though what we do is wrong… We still hustle ’til the sun come up Crack a 40 when the sun go down It’s a cold winter Y’all niggaz better bundle up And I bet it be a hotter summer, grab a onion Yes the ROC gets down, you hot now, listen up Don’t you know cops’ whole purpose is to lock us down? And throw away the […]
MAILBAG: Question The Parking Authority
Folks, The Parking Authority never does anything for the benefit of drivers, businesses or even the city government. The PPA operates purely as a greedy, ever-expanding for-profit business. It primarily benefits them, period. And they are not even answerable to city government, so why should they consult with anyone about how to run their business? Their payroll is always growing; it seems they have a ticket-writer assigned to every block, and they continue to slap stickers over every parking sign, changing the hours on a daily basis. If left to their own devices there eventually will be 24 hour limits […]
ETHICS: The Last Days Of Modern Rock OR How I Learned To Start Worrying About Conflict Of Interest
SHAKE HANDS WITH DEATH: Live’s Ed Kowalczyk Meets His Maker * BY JONATHAN VALANIA I still remember the stern lecture I received from the Inquirer’s A&E editor about journalistic ethics, standards of conduct and the necessity of avoiding even the appearance of impropriety, real or imagined. This was back in 2000 when I first started reviewing concerts for the paper and the circumstances that occasioned this lecture stemmed from a thumbs down review I had written of Y-100‘s annual Feastival, wherein all the big Modern Rock stars of the day fly in and play for free in exchange for the […]
COMING ATTRACTION: Rick Moody Q&A
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REPORT: White People And Cocaine Use Down Sharply
WASHINGTON — Cocaine use by U.S. workers is at its lowest rate in at least a decade, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy said Thursday. It cited a 16 percent drop in positive workplace drug tests for cocaine in the first six months of this year, based on the experience of the leading American tester. The decline coincides with tight supplies and rising prices in many U.S. cities, according to a drug market intelligence report released by John Walters, the office’s director. Emergency room visits for cocaine-related problems also are down, Walters said in an interview. While […]
REVIEW: Dweezil Ripped My Flesh
THE THINKER: The Tenacious Z On The Throne BY JONATHAN VALANIA FOR THE INQUIRER An ingenious crank with the ears of Stravinsky and the soul of Alfred E. Neuman, Frank Zappa is credited in the straight world with a handful of novelty songs (“Valley Girl,” “Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow”) and as a result a dubious rep as the hippie forefather of Weird Al Yankovic. When in fact he cuts much deeper than that. Always more of a musician’s musician than a give-the-rabble-what-they-want kind of guy, Zappa made albums — bizarre, labyrinthine hybrids of jazz, rock, prog and doo-wop shot […]
NPR FOR THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
FRESH AIR Matt Weiner, a TV writer and producer who landed an Emmy and a Writers Guild Award for his work on HBO’s The Sopranos, has created a new show. It’s an AMC drama series called Mad Men, set in the fiercely competitive world of Madison Avenue ad execs in 1960s New York. PLUS, Ayub Nuri was working with foreign journalists in Iraq as a fixer — a war-zone interpreter, guide, source-finder and occasional life-saver. Nuri worked with increasing autonomy until he became a reporter with his own byline. He wrote about his experiences in The New York Times Magazine […]
INTRODUCING: Question The Parking Authority
It is a sad state of affairs when the most effective government agency in this city is the Parking Authority. 911 is a joke. The cops are trigger-happy at the most inappropriate times and MIA at the most crucial. DHS actually kills children and the Housing Authority can barely keep a roof over its head. And good luck getting anywhere with City Hall if you don’t have a council person on your payroll. But, overstay your meter welcome by just one hot minute and you are fucked for $25 courtesy of the men (and women) in baby blue. God forbid […]
Bush Disses Gas Tax Hike To Pay For Bridge Repairs
WASHINGTON – A week after a deadly bridge collapse in Minneapolis, President Bush dismissed Thursday raising the federal gasoline tax to repair the nation’s bridges at least until Congress changes the way it spends highway money. The Democratic chairman of the House Transportation Committee proposed a 5-cent increase in the 18.3 cents-a-gallon federal gasoline tax to establish a new trust fund for repairing or replacing structurally deficient highway bridges. More than 70,000 of the nation’s bridges are rated structurally deficient, including the bridge that collapsed over the Mississippi River last Wednesday. The American Society of Civil Engineers says repairing them […]