By Randy LoBasso
Move the tally marker up to six. Two more women have approached the infamous Philadelphia Housing Authority Board to informally complain about having been sexually harassed by PHA head Carl Greene. Their complaint is informal, in that, they want to make their situations known in order to put these incidents behind them, former mayor and [...]
By PW Staff
What to do in Philly this week.
By Michael Alan Goldberg
Sweden’s Dungen come to town this week behind their sixth studio album, Skit I Allt. We caught up with Dungen main man Gustav Ejstes for a spirited round of “Fill in the Blanks.”
NEWS AND OPINION > COVER STORY
By Randy LoBasso
A look at SEPTA's never-ending delays in plan funding and contracts and how it spends what little money it has, gives us no indication that a shift into modernity is coming any time soon. And though the authority’s decisions are often clouded in secrecy, it’s probably a lot further away than SEPTA cares to admit.
Pat Tillman was a natural propaganda figure, a smart, good-looking jock who turned his back on a starting position for the Arizona Cardinals to enlist in the military shortly after 9/11. Tillman was killed during a friendly-fire clusterfuck in which at least one of his compatriots still insists involved no enemy combatants whatsoever, but that isn’t what many would have you believe.
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If you’re having a hard time communicating your interest in fondled-while-asleep sex, just memorize this: “It turns me on to get fondled up and aroused into sex while sleeping.”...
But mostly what catches your eye at Tailhook is the honest-to-God-real-deal rocket launcher behind the bar. You do not want to walk your fuckin’ tab here....
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Did the claims lack merit when it was just the students, parents, teachers, civil-rights advocates, politicians and various other concerned citizens making them? Now that...
Akron/Family have always been a wild and woolly experience notable for the Kumbaya exultation of their live performances and loose-limbed, genre-spanning experimentation...
Philadelphia Police Department spokesman Lt. Frank Vanore calls the case of the stolen water “strange,” but for Duane Mashore, who was arrested and locked in a cell for...
In the cesspool of modern romantic comedy, a flawed but ultimately adequate film like Going the Distance feels like a masterpiece. A so-called chick flick that doesn’t...
When you write about music you end up on the email lists of every publicist in the industry. I usually delete the irrelevant emails. Sometimes I reply with a little snark....
Make no mistake: This is the kind of movie with a shot of a guy counting a huge stack of bills, actually mouthing the word “wow.” But there’s no shame in making audiences...
Undeterred by the area’s bleak reputation, Cobre and Coos have claimed territory in what they hope is the foreground of North Broad’s revitalization. In the last year,...
The Philadelphia Gay Men's Chorus, the largest LGBT chorus in the region, has nearly tripled its membership and its budget in the last six years....
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For decades Philly’s tow-truck industry has...
