Dear FBI or Whom It May Concern, The above missive was submitted to us whole by our Living Editor Elizabeth Fiend, an admitted anarchist. For what it’s worth, we agree with almost all of what is said above, except for the fact that ‘dissent’ is misspelled and that always sends the wrong message. But barring that, we are willing to accept whatever consequences you are dishing out these days to people exercising their First Amendment rights. Thanks in advance, Jonathan Valania EDITOR-IN-CHIEF THE CLASH: Know Your Rights
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 […]
Tonight We’re Gonna Party Like It’s 19 Fourth Of Julys
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HEAR YE: Can’t Tell Me Nothing Mixtape
BY JASON FLEURANT Kanye West‘s abiding belief in himself is often misconstrued as arrogance. So it’s only fitting that the never-could-hold-his-tongue MC would drop a mixtape/single called “Can’t Tell Me Nothing.” After all it was that same motto that fueled the Chi-Town native to reach for his dreams and become such a success, while the world stood against him. Mixed by A&R Plain Pat, the mixtape features numerous G.O.O.D artist and affiliates. Getting fans excited for the forth coming LP is three cuts from Common’s “Finding Forever.” His official single “The Game” which has legendary DJ Premier doing cuts […]
DANDI WIND: Flooded Grass
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NPR FOR THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
FRESH AIR Singer Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, who helped bridge ’50s doo-wop and ’60s rock ‘n’ roll, are celebrated in a new four-CD box set called Jersey Beat. The group released two dozen Top 40 hits, including “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Sherry” and “Walk Like a Man.” Jersey Boys, the Tony Award winning Broadway musical, is based on the lives of the Four Seasons. RADIO TIMES While Michael Moore’s new documentary SiCKO doesn’t tell the complete story of the our health care crisis, it does raise important issues about the failures of our system. Jonathan Cohn has been writing […]
BREAKING: I’m Feeling A Disturbance In The Force
PHILADELPHIA — All men may be created equal, but all voices are not. Actor James Earl Jones read excerpts from the Declaration of Independence in his unmistakable baritone on Tuesday, the day before Independence Day. The reading took place at the National Constitution Center during the unveiling of one of four surviving copies of the Magna Carta. The nearly 800-year-old “Great Charter,” which helped inspire the Declaration, is on loan from Great Britain’s Lincoln Cathedral. It will be displayed for three weeks beginning Wednesday. ASSOCIATED PRESS: The Magna Carta, Eh? WIKIPEDIA: “Magna Carta was originally written because of disagreements between […]
PHILLY MAG: Did CIA LSD Create Our Monster?
John Cassidy, Heidnik’s best friend in Philadelphia: I met Gary in ’74 or ’75 in Philly. He claimed the Army gave him LSD while he was in Germany. Sometime over there, he had a nervous breakdown. A legitimate, real nervous breakdown. And then he said he got this brilliant idea. He said, when he came out of it, why the hell should I come out of it if I can get disability? He formed his own religion after he left the Army. I believe it was originally just a tax scam, but towards the end he was believing that stuff. […]
NO FUN: Jersey Gets Medieval On Firecrackers
But State police major John Hunt says the other message in the crackdown is for parents who believe fireworks are a rite of passage and sparklers can’t be harmful to children: “Would you let your child put their hand over an open flame? And yet a sparkler has the propensity of burning at 1200 degrees Fahrenheit or more, depending upon the phosphorous and magnesium, some of the chemical makeup.” KYW: Where The Nanny State Meets The Police State
GAMBLOR: The Fart Of The Deal Part II
In the immortal words of Nelson Muntz: Ha-ha!
DISCLOSURE: 150 NJ Sex Offenders On MySpace
TRENTON, N.J. – Nearly 150 convicted New Jersey sex offenders had profiles on the social networking Internet site MySpace.com, with more than half either probation or parole, the state attorney general said Tuesday. “We have the proof in hand to confirm the worst fears of New Jersey’s concerned parents and educators , that sex offenders are active on Web sites used by children and teenagers,” Attorney General Anne Milgram said. The names of the registered sex offenders were turned over to the state after the Attorney General’s Office issued a May 21 subpoena. A second subpoena was served on June […]
KILLADELPHIA: 1 More Dead Since You Went To Bed
Just before 11:30 p.m., police found a man with multiple gunshot wounds in the 2400 block of Morris Street in South Philadelphia, police said.He was pronounced dead at the scene minutes later, according to Officer Beth DiDonato. Terence Foman, 29, lived in the 6200 block of Pine Street in the Cobbs Creek section of the city. Police are looking for motives and suspects in the case, which is the city’s 204th homicide this year, DiDonato said. (Although 206 cases were initially reported as murders, two were later ruled to have occurred in self-defense.) [via the INQUIRER]
BREAKING: BUSH COMMUTES LIBBY SENTENCE
WASHINGTON — President Bush spared former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby from a 2 1/2-year prison term in the CIA leak investigation Monday, delivering a political thunderbolt in the highly charged criminal case. Bush said the sentence was just too harsh. Bush’s move came just five hours after a federal appeals panel ruled that Libby could not delay his prison term. That meant Libby was likely to have to report soon, and it put new pressure on the president, who had been sidestepping calls by Libby’s allies to pardon Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff. “I […]