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Screw fat old Ben Franklin and his 300th birthday. This city should be celebrating a real revolutionary, the man without whom there’d be no America. In Philadelphia,” babbles the radio, “everyone is reading about Benjamin Franklin … ” The madness has been going on for months already, since the Greater Philadelphia Tourism...

An Internet comic strip is another new frontier for the experimental filmmaker. Tweedle Dumb: The eight short episodes revolve around a raging apelike guy in an undershirt, filled with gas and venom.   DumbLand B You’ll Like It If You Like: South Park, Beavis and Butt-Head, David Lynch movies. David Lynch has found...

An Internet comic strip is another new frontier for the experimental filmmaker. Tweedle Dumb: The eight short episodes revolve around a raging apelike guy in an undershirt, filled with gas and venom. DumbLand B You’ll Like It If You Like: South Park, Beavis and Butt-Head, David Lynch movies. David Lynch has found the...

An Internet comic strip is another new frontier for the experimental filmmaker.     DumbLand B You’ll Like It If You Like: South Park, Beavis and Butt-Head, David Lynch movies. David Lynch has found the Internet, and it’s not pretty. His Internet comic strip DumbLand, now available on DVD from his wide-ranging pay site...

… Chamillionaire Real name: Hakeem Seriki Age: 26 Hometown: Houston. Some background: Chamillionaire started off on Houston’s Swishahouse label with Paul Wall. They left in search of more money, put out the Get Ya Mind Correct mixtape and eventually parted ways on bad terms. Before his major label deal, Chamillionaire’s Mixtape Messiah (2004) was infamous on the streets and sold...

Me and Frank Acclaimed NBC TV correspondent Andrea Mitchell recalls how she made her journalistic bones covering former mayor Frank Rizzo. By the time Frank Rizzo ran for mayor in 1971, I was covering politics for KYW Radio, having graduated from the police and schools beats. Rizzo’s Republican opponent was Thacher Longstreth,...

A court-ordered settlement led to sweeping reforms within the Police Department following the 39th District scandal. Nine years later oversight and vigilance no longer seem a priority.

Two decades ago Frankie Smith wrote and recorded "Double Dutch Bus," one of the first hip-hop songs ever. Though the song went gold, Smith never got what was owed him, thanks to a coke-dealing Main Line dentist who needed a tax shelter to hide his m

BLACK HAWK DOWN D- Director: Ridley Scott Starring: Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Tom Sizemore About as empty-headed as you’d expect from a collaboration between the two nitwits who last year brought you both Hannibal and Pearl Harbor, Black Hawk Down is a stupefying marathon of noise, gore and other assorted forms of audience abuse....

PHOTOGRAPHS BY JEFF FUSCO AND KRYSTEN LITTLES   When Beenie Man, aka the “King of the Dancehall,” flashes his joyful smile, women scream. When he circles his hips, they damn near faint. His energy is magnetic, his smile easy, his dancing finely tuned. “A lot of men in here don’t know how...