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  • A Simple Twist of Fey

    In tonight’s premiere episode of 30 Rock–NBC’s other new series set behind the scenes of a late-night sketch comedy show–Alec Baldwin’s slightly absurd newly promoted studio boss tells Tina Fey’s head writer he wants to attract a male audience to the…

  • Savage Politics

    Our sex-columnist-turned-political-trash-talker is coming here from Seattle to make sure Santorum gets whipped but good.

  • Flex Appeal :: Philadelphia City Paper. 25 Years of Independent Journalism.

    Fourteen years ago, when Morjorie Newlin was 72, her neighborhood supermarket had 50-pound bags of kitty litter on sale. Without anyone to help her carry the bags back to her house, she struggled mightily under the load. Never a particularly…

  • Living Night-mare

    Has M. Night Shyamalan lost his goddamn mind?   That’s the only logical excuse for Lady in the Water, the Philly-based writer/director/egomaniac’s convulsive seizure of narcissism that’s so nakedly personal—and also so unintentionally, hilariously revealing—watching the movie feels a bit like…

  • Broad Street Media Aquired by Donnelly Distribution

        CHERRY HILL, N.J. – JULY 15 – Richard Donnelly, president of Donnelly Distribution (Pennsauken, N.J.), announced today that he has acquired Broad Street Media and its affiliates. The Philadelphia-area community newspaper and magazine group publishes more than a dozen separate…

    • Jul 18, 2006 - 8:03 pm
    • News
  • The English Patient

    A man gets lost in the Philadelphia health system “What is this, fucking Kafka?” and lives to tell about it. I’m writing these notes in the ER blitzed off my tits on Vicodin and synthetic heroin. Outside in the corridor…

  • Top 5 of the Moment

      Roots, “Don’t Feel Right” There’s a moment that passes at the beginning of the Roots’ new single, just as the bare drum intro gives way to a forceful cluster of snippeted samples, which should let fans of the band…

  • Top 5 of the Moment

      Roots, “Don’t Feel Right” There’s a moment that passes at the beginning of the Roots’ new single, just as the bare drum intro gives way to a forceful cluster of snippeted samples, which should let fans of the band…

    • Jun 14, 2006 - 7:34 am
    • Arts
  • Brian Tierney Makes a Pledge

    On the first day, the announcement was greeted with relief.More than a hundred people crammed into a conference room at 400 N. Broad St.-headquarters for The Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News-to meet the city’s unlikely new media king: Brian Tierney. For the occasion, Tierney…

  • Third and Indiana

      A couple weeks back, as activist CB Kimmins drove to a candlelight vigil on Clearfield Avenue, he took a wrong turn. “I drove onto Indiana,” he said, “where I saw an enormous number of drug dealers.” In some circles…