TONIGHT, Aug. 6th, ON CABLE TV, Philadelphia BiG TeA PaRtY’s Chew on This, written and hosted by Elizabeth Fiend part of DUTV’s Special Indy Movie Presentations Time: 8:53 pm, EST (15 min.) Comcast channel 54 or 62 Chew on This (15 min.) Part game show, part food show and all parts fun, this video is a feast of eye candy and an earful of information, full of Philly food facts and fun fur hats. BiG TeA PaRtY creates their own quiz show by playing the games Dicey Dinner and Tic Tac Tofu. Even Ben Franklin, one of America’s greatest thinkers […]
We Know It’s Only Rock N’ Roll But We Like It
WHAT’S NEW, PUSSYCAT: Tom Jones, Resorts, Atlantic City, Last Night [SLIDE SHOW] BY JONATHAN VALANIA Last night, I took my mom to see Tom Jones in Atlantic City for her 67th birthday — cue up an image of a horned-up blue-haired old lady, and then multiply it by a thousand and you start to get an idea of that scene Sunday night at Resorts’ Superstar Theater. Can’t honestly say that mom turned me onto a LOT of music when I was a kid, but two faves — The Mamas & The Papas and Tom Jones — inhabit a special place […]
TAO OF EVA: Made In Taiwan
BY EVA LIAO TAIPEI — Most people probably think of Taiwan as some freaky place way over there in Asia where all their shit is made. And by and large, that is true. Your favorite sweater from Urban Outfitters? The 24-piece Tupperware set you got on sale at Costco? The bike seat you had to replace ’cause yours got stolen last weekend? In all probability they are “Made in Taiwan.” But this tiny little island holds a great personal significance to me for it also happens to be the place where my parents were born and bred, long before they […]
KILLADELPHIA 2: Hot Lead Is The New Thorazine
Witnesses and cops gave various accounts of what happened in the 30 minutes from when cops arrived at Henry’s house in Ogontz until her son was shot dead shortly before noon. Did 23-year-old Jason Henry lunge at police with a 14-inch butcher knife, giving an officer no choice but to shoot, as the police claim? Or was Henry simply trying to regain his composure after being stunned by a Taser gun, as witnesses claim? The only thing cops and witnesses agree on is that Henry began throwing sharp objects — including a knife and a drill — out of a […]
KILLADELPHIA: 1 More Dead Since U Went To Bed
BY KYW’s HADA KUZNITS Homicide detectives are investigating the city’s 252nd murder so far this year. They say it happened around 6:00am Sunday morning near Broad and Fitzwater. Police were flagged down by a passing motorist who tipped them off that there had been a shooting. They found a man lying dead in the street at 731 South Broad Street. The victim had been shot twice — once in the back and once in the leg. He was taken to Jefferson hospital where he was pronounced dead at about 6:30am. Homicide detectives say they have spoken to witnesses but so […]
INCONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION: Serf & Turf
EDITOR’S NOTE: Inconspicuous Consumption is a new weekly Phawker feature by mystery columnist ALLAN SMITHEE. According to Wikipedia, “Alan Smithee is a pseudonym used between 1968 and 1999 by Hollywood film directors who wanted to be dissociated from a film for which they no longer wanted credit. It was used when the director could prove to the satisfaction of a panel of members of the Directors Guild of America (DGA) and Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers that the film had been wrested from his or her creative control. The director was also required to keep the reason for […]
THE EARLY WORD: Macho Libre
Lucha Libre — hugely popular in Mexico — involves jumping off stuff, flips, crazy whacked-out holds, multiman tag-team matches and of course secret identities protected by masks. The only thing that could stop you from loving Lucha Libre is that la frontera is 2,000 miles away. Thank goodness for Chikara, the professional wrestling association that hosts Lucha Libre events here in Philly. Best part? They’re holding a dynamite 10-match event. A mere $15 gets you the whole shebang, including “Trios Action” with Delirious, Cheech and Cloudy going up against Soldier Ant, Fire Ant and the terrifyingly named Worker Ant.–ALLI KATZ […]
CINEMA: Bergman, Antonioni, Apatow
BY DAN BUSKIRK FILM CRITIC SAN FRANCISCO — As Philly slowly melts into its mid August stew I slipped off this week to San Francisco, where it is a good twenty degrees cooler and I can lounge around in my sweater all week and entertain some thoughts other than, “Geez, it’s frigging hot today.” The plan was to relax and maybe file some wildly irrelevant pieces on the Pacific Film Archive’s Max Ophuls festival or Alpha video’s reissue of Jean Hersholt‘s Dr. Christian series. Instead, my ride to the airport arrived with the news of Swedish director Ingmar Bergman‘s death, […]
TONITE: The ONLY Band That Matters — Seriously
BY SHAUN BRADY/CITY PAPER Negativland is best known as the prankster collage band whose sample-heavy cut-ups both indulge in and comment upon copyright infringement as a critique of corporate control (most notably the infamous U2 EP which got them sued by Island Records and not at all liked by Casey Kasem). They’ve also garnered attention with media hoaxes such as the one documented on 1989’s Helter Stupid, when the band claimed that their song “Christianity Is Stupid” had been implicated in an actual axe murder in Minnesota, which was then reported as fact by several media outlets. “Our work continues […]
NEGATIVLAND: Gimme The Mermaid
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THE EARLY WORD: All Things Must Pass
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THUG LIFE: Hustle And Flow
I was young then, and at the time, everyone around me saw jobs as, “That’s for the older people.” But whatever was going on that was quick money, I was involved in it. And being used to that planted me stiff to the point where this is what I wanted to do, and I ain’t wanna do nothing different.–Hareem BY JEFF DEENEY Once a hustler, always a hustler? It’s a crucial question: can ex-offenders change their stripes? Can a habitual criminal be rehabilitated? There are passionate arguments from both sides; social service providers who work with at risk […]