One male was killed and two other males were injured in a shooting in South Philadelphia this morning. Officers were called to the 2300 block of Wilder Street after reports of the shooting just after 12:30 a.m. One person was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. One wounded victim was taken to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital; another was transported to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. One of the wounded victims was a bystander who was cleaning his porch, police said. No arrests have been made. Police said the male suspect used a handgun in the shooting. PHILLY.COM: […]
CONTEST: Write A Clever Caption And…
Win Tickets To See Gogol Bordello TONIGHT At The Troc! The City of Philadelphia?s photo archive contains over 2 million images that date back as far as the late 1800s, i.e. the last time a Republican won in this town. In all seriousness, this is an INCREDIBLE visual record of the city?s evolution and a relatively new web site, PhillyHistory.org, is making it available for online consumption and purchase. To date, some 27,000 BILLIONS AND BILLIONS of images have been digitally scanned, at a rate of roughly 2,000 images a month. So, if you?ve been wondering why the line at […]
KILLADELPHIA: The Suburbs Are Killing Me
Authorities have broken up an illegal gun trafficking network where guns were stolen from homes in the Philadelphia suburbs and sold on the streets of Philadelphia and Norristown. Seven people (one from Philadelphia, six from the suburbs) have been charged in connection with more than 40 burglaries in Montgomery, Chester, and Berks counties. Prosecutors say that over the span of about eight months the gang stole cash, jewelry, electronics — and more than 50 handguns and long guns which were then sold on the streets. Several of the guns were confiscated from a house on Franklin Street in Philadelphia, but […]
NPR 4 THE DEF: Giving Public Radio Edge Since 2006
FRESH AIR “There is a madness in Gaza now.” So says New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief Steven Erlanger, who joins Terry Gross to talk about the Palestinian power struggle that’s erupted recently and how the battles between the Hamas and Fatah factions are affecting life in the West Bank and Gaza. Erlanger has reported from all over the world, serving in Moscow, Bangkok, Prague and other cities. Prior to his tenure at the Times, he wrote for The Boston Globe. RADIO TIMES We discuss allegations that the Bush Administration has used the Department of Justice to promote partisan politics […]
BLOGGER: How Michelle Malkin Is Killing America
BY JONATHAN VALANIA The following is sadly indicative of just how desperate the Save The War movement is, and an appalling example of how the blogosphere has become the leading edge of the right wing’s efforts to muddy the war debate with meaningless distractions, fear-mongering, half-truths and outright lies. Allow me to explain. First there was an attempted murder-suicide in Willingboro. The murder didn’t take, thank God, but the suicide did: Air Force Senior Airman Jonathan Schrieken was casually unpacking his car in front of his Willingboro house on the evening of July 4. A moment later, he was fighting […]
VIOLENT FEMMES: Blister In The Sun
Funny, I don’t remember the ’80s looking like this or people dancing this badly. Maybe I was sick that day.
CRIME: And U Thought Reggae Was 4 Stoner Pussies
Five masked Jamaican men barged into [popular reggae] Club William Penn at 57th and Ludlow streets at about 3 p.m., said Lt. John Walker of Southwest Detectives. The would-be thieves intended to rob [bar owner Clinton] Horrit, who is also Jamaican, but shot him once in the leg when he confronted them at the front of the bar. Horrit, 45, was then shoved into a white Ford or Chevy van that was waiting outside his club, Walker said, and a nail-biting ransom plot quickly unfolded. “By that point, they were too far into it,” Walker said. “The captors used his […]
FORECAST: Viet Nam-Esque
ACCUWEATHER: High: 85 F RealFeel: 90 F Times of clouds and sun, warm and humid with a shower or thunderstorm
MEDIA: Diane Sawyer Clueless About Congress
During the July 17 edition of ABC’s Good Morning America, co-anchor Diane Sawyer falsely claimed that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) “vows to filibuster, talking all night to close out all topics besides a vote on Iraqi troop withdrawals.” Sawyer was referring to Reid’s plan to hold an all-night Senate debate prior to the July 18 cloture vote on a Democratic proposal to withdraw troops from Iraq. However, by planning to extend the Senate session throughout the night, Reid is not “vow[ing] to filibuster,” as Sawyer reported. Rather, he is highlighting the Republicans’ blocking of an up-or-down vote on […]
MILESTONE: John Coltrane On The Stairway To Heaven
BY JONATHAN VALANIA In its golden age, jazz was the radiator steam squealing out of the neon tenement soul of the postwar American night. Native son John Coltrane — who died 40 years ago today — was one those angel-headed hipsters tweaking the thermostat. You could bookend his sax mojo with the almost-pop My Favorite Things and the transcendental dissonance of Ascension. But Live at the Village Vanguard, Coltrane’s great white whale, swallows both of them whole. Recorded live over four nights in 1961, this box set captures Coltrane just as he was making the transition from mortal to immortal. […]
TODAY I SAW…
BY JEFF DEENEY “Today I saw…” is a series of nonfiction shorts based on my experiences as a caseworker serving formerly homeless families now living in North and West Philadelphia. I decided not long after starting the job that I was seeing so many fascinating and disturbing things in the city’s poorest neighborhoods that I needed to start cataloging them. I hope this bi-weekly column serves as a record of a side of the city that many Philadelphians don’t come in contact with on a daily basis. I want to capture moments not frequently covered by the local media, which […]
REVIEW: Young Jeezy, Nas & Ghostface Killah
Note: The following video is not recommended to be played at work, in an airport, in church, in the presence of children, and possibly in the privacy of your own home. It is presented here to allow you to hear the music of Young Jeezy, one of three hip-hop artists KingEd has become acquainted with over the past months. BY ED KING UNAPOLOGETIC ROCKIST A couple of months ago The Editor dropped three then-recent hip-hop releases on me: Young Jeezy‘s The Inspiration, Nas‘ Hip Hop Is Dead, and Ghostface Killah‘s More Fish. “I’d like to get your take on […]
The Future Of Newspapers Is NOT Writing About TV
Newspapers writing about television is like the cavemen writing about the dinosaurs, or vice-versa. Either way, you’re living in the past, man. Please move on. Everybody else has.