NPR For The Deaf: We Hear It Even When You Can’t

Today on Fresh Air: Entertainment expert Neal Gabler‘s new book is Walt Disney: The Triumph of American Imagination. Gabler was given complete access to the Disney archives to write a biography that begins when Disney was just a glimmer of an idea and ends at the entrance to the Walt Disney mausoleum. Gabler is also the author of An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood, and Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity. Gabler is a senior fellow at the Norman Lear Center for the Study of Entertainment and Society in the Annenberg School for Communications at […]

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Hot Document: Inky/DN Guild Negotiations Update

Monday, October 30, 2006 — We are pleased to announce that on Saturday, October 28th we reached a tentative agreement on “non-economic” issues with our Paperhandlers union. We appreciate all the hard work on both sides of the table that allowed us to reach this agreement. Negotiations also took place over the weekend with the Newspaper Guild. While the Guild provided PN with a counter-proposal on Advertising issues, we remain far apart. PN has negotiations scheduled with our unions over the next two days, and we remain optimistic that we will reach agreements with all but the Guild close to the […]

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GAYBO: My Big Gay Tummy, Why Jersey Is For Sister Lovers & The Return Of Judy Garland Park

TOMMY ZANE REPORTS: One of my dear friends always thinks he’s fat. He has, like, 2% body fat. Still, on and on with the food games, skipping lunch, just a salad, etc. He’s a transplant from Iowa, so what does he know about Philly eating? I, on the other hand, have adjusted quite well to the two great Philly pastimes: eating cheesesteaks and laying down, preferably at the same time. I’m not fat, mind you, and I get lots of sexercise to burn it off — I think that’s the key to being sensibly trim. But this bitch is fucking […]

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Hotel Association Protests New Issue of Philly Mag, Says Murder City Cover Story Will Scare Off Guests, Also Didn’t Like Low-Blow Valania Quote In Sweeney Hagiography

PHILADELPHIA — A regional hotel association is urging its members to think twice before putting the latest edition of Philadelphia magazine in guest rooms, saying the cover story on the city’s homicide rate could scare away visitors.The Greater Philadelphia Hotel Association represents 85 members in the Delaware Valley, including the operators of nearly all of Center City’s 10,200 hotel rooms. Ed Grose, the group’s executive director, said the article could end up hurting business.“I recommend that you review your position on what effect this article and cover will have on your guests who are staying in your guest rooms,” Grose […]

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NOW PLAYING: Is That The Surrealistic Pillow-Folk & Dope-Rock Ragas of El Goodo On Phawker Radio? Well, TURN IT UP, man!

Hey kids, hope you dug the Lupe Fiasco, we kept it up a little longer than planned because we love you — and also we just now figured out how to do the upload music to the blog thingee with the tubes and wires and the sparks and the smoke coming out. We may not be the brightest and we may not be the best, but by god, we are the surest. About everything! That’s one of our many mottos, PHAWKER: WE’RE SURE. Anyway, wanna tip you off to the new tuneage on Phawker Radio. (Click here for user’s manual) […]

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ADVERTISEMENT: We Are Not Your Mother, Your Mother Is At Home…

All drunk-up again. Watching “Deal or No Deal.” ASK MOTHER PHAWKER instead. Sure, you could always call and ask mommy, but that will just turn into a whole ‘thing.’ EVERY TUESDAY & THURSDAY What with the shouting and the running and the exploding and the crying. ONLY ON PHAWKER. There is a rumor out there that Mother Phawker is actually Valania wearing his mom’s flesh tuxedo in some kinda bizarre Ed Gein homage. No, no and no. First of all, you sick fux, my mom is alive and well and driving me NUTS, bless her heart. Besides, she would never […]

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Cover Wars: Whose Artfag Kung-Fu Is Stronger?

Alright, we’re finally catching up with the alt-weeklies’ breathless pace of publication and we’re actually doing this in almost ‘real time.’ Despite that bit of unpleasantness with the City Paper earlier this week, and our tenuous grasp on gainful employment with PW, we vow to remain objective. And this week, it’s a toss-up: Both papers have fairly killer covers, so hats off to all involved. PW rocks the Yankee Hotel vertigo shot for Steve Volk’s I-spent-a-night-there-last-week story on the creepy ol’ Parker. CP goes with a gorgeously retro cartoon recreation of that classic image of car show babia majora showing […]

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