BY TOMMY ZANE GAYDAR EDITOR Okay, so Ramon and I split up. I don’t want to talk about it — suffice it to say, he’s an asshole. While licking my wounds, let’s eat bon-bons and trawl YouTube together. We’ll commiserate and I will show you something most straights aren’t supposed to see: The Top Five Most Horrifyingly Bad Queer Clips On The Net. C’mon! Let’s get gay the Gaybo way — without ever having to leave your chair! Or, gay — you can get it on computer now. 5-Liberace and His Diamonds Liberace was the original “sister,” all dolled […]
PROMOPHILIA: ‘What Kind Of Fuckery Is This?’* You Made Me Miss THE ARCADE FIRE Gig!
The Amy Winehouse show has been moved from the TLA to the Elecrtic Factory and moved up a day — to the same day as Arcade Fire at the Tower. This is like being handed a scalpel and having to decide which half of the siamese twins lives and which half dies. Damn you, Gods of the Guest List! WHY? WHY DO YOU MOCK ME SO? *From “Me And Mister Jones” by Amy Winehouse, now playing on Phawker Radio (along with Arcade Fire and new Wilco)
HOT DOCUMENT: ‘I will miss this newspaper and you’
[To The Inquirer Staff:] For the past five years I have served as the Managing Editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer and it has been a service of great joy and, at times, of great turmoil. But it has always been the most interesting, challenging, vexing and rewarding thing I have done in my professional life. Now, however, after much thought, I have decided it is time to do something else. I am leaving to accept a partnership offer with a private-investment firm directed by a man I have come to like and admire over the past eight months. That man […]
BREAKING: Anne Gordon, Managing Editrix, Is Leaving The Inquirer
AND THEN THERE WERE NONE: Pictured from left to right, Anne Gordon (with head down), Amanda Bennett, former editor of Inquirer, Joe Natoli, former publisher of the Inquirer. Developing…
LIVE AND DIRECT: Chaka Fattah For The Deaf
JONATHAN VALANIA REPORTS: When you live blog at WHYY, this is what you see. For reasons still not quite clear, you cannot sit in the actual studio with Marty and Chaka Fattah and if you ask why they say “Look, you seem like a nice kid. You don’t want me to get Patrick Stoner to come in here and straighten you out, do ya?” No, siree, you say, shaking your head vigoriously. And so, you are escorted to a nearby conference room where you watch radio on the television — in this case a Hi-Def flat-screen curiously framed by Barney […]
We Know It’s Only Rock N’ Roll But We Like It
WISH U WERE HERE: Beretta 76, Rick D Tribute, Tritone, Last Night
KILLADELPHIA: Homicide # 137 A Done Deal
Police chalked up the city’s 137th homicide of the year Sunday around 1:30am in the city’s East Germantown section following a triple shooting. Officers have been busy interviewing a number of people. Shots rang out in the 1900 block of Stenton Avenue just outside Charlie’s Little Spot bar. It was a triple shooting that left a 31-year-old woman dead and two men wounded. KYW: Drunks + Guns = Last Call
For Your Consideration…
[By TOM TOMORROW via HUFFINGTON POST]
THE POLYSICS: I My Me Mine
Crazy, man.
HIZZONER ’07: Inquirer Endorsement Butters Nutter
In an editorial appearing tomorrow, The Philadelphia Inquirer will endorse former City Councilman Michael Nutter in the May 15 Democratic primary race. The newspaper’s editorial calls Nutter “the most promising package of achievement, persistence, smarts and vision.” The endorsement said Nutter, 49, “is easy to imagine on the national stage as the fresh voice of a resurgent Philadelphia, changing the narrative from one about bloodshed, corruption and dysfunction to one about new ideas, new energy, new partnerships.” INQUIRER: The editorial board said three other candidates “don’t measure up.” It dismissed the candidacies of Reps. Bob Brady and Chaka Fattah. It […]
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WHEN THE ELEPHANTS CAME TO TOWN: Dick Armey Jokes And Grand Old Partying With Jack Valenti
BY TOM TOMORROW At the Republican convention in Philadelphia in 2000 I hung out with Dave Barry and his cartoonist posse (Mike Luckovich, Walt Handlesman, Chip Bok, and Rob Rogers). The thing about hanging out with Dave Barry is that he’s (a) famous and (b) innately likeable, and as a result you end up in some really odd situations. For instance: we were sitting in a hotel bar when we were introduced to Jack Valenti, who invited us to a party he was co-hosting with Mark Foley (yes, that Mark Foley). When we got there, we had some trouble getting […]