Los Angeles-based retailer American Apparel  has been making headlines for its raunchy ads and even raunchier CEO for years. But this time the trouble is a bit bigger. On Tuesday the country’s largest clothing manufacturer’s stock plummeted 25.9 percent and has since been subpoenaed over a change in accounting firms. All this financial jargon is already confusing but it shows the serious hole the company is in.

The Walnut Street favorite’s stock has fallen 67 percent this year while the New York Times blames the mess on a poor management team (which no doubt includes CEO Dov Charney). The company’s debt is also at a staggering $120.3 Million, which for a company that only went public in 2006 is pretty steep.

Its unfortunate because, while they’re business seems mismanaged, the company also stands for some pretty good things. An advocate for LGBT and immigrant rights, American Apparel is deeply rooted in youth movements. Additionally all American Apparel garments are made in the country. We’ll have to see what happens in the next few months. It seems like liquidation is in the near future.

In an effort to raise awareness, the new Found Theater Company is organizing a benefit concert at Quig’s Pub on Friday August 13.

It looks like the line-up is:

Pete Bradley

Robert Carlton III

Claire Fuller (of American Idol)

Victor Gennaro

and DJ Sara Cederberg

With special performances by Found Theater Company members and friends; Kathryn Sullivan, Lee Minora, Claire Lenahan, and Sara Doherty.

It is certainly an eclectic mix of performers, ranging from the bluesy style of Fuller to Gennaro’s rock n’roll upbeat anthems. What’s exciting about the event is the fact that it is basically Found’s premiere event. Their 2010 production titled Tales is set to open on September 3rd, as a part of the Philly Fringe Festival. Under the directorship of Fullbright Scholar Felipe Vergara (Something with Wings), the show is sure to be a total mind-fuck.

On August 13, you can drink up and mingle with company members and the cream of the Philly Theatre crop. Only $7.00 gets you in the door and the event lasts from 7:00-10:00 PM. Also raffles will be given out (which should definitely include free tickets to Tales!).

Quig’s Pub is located at 1714 Delancey Pl. (above Plays and Players), Philadelphia, PA 19103. For more info go to talesatthefringe.blogspot.com.

A few days ago, the internet was a roar (which is much closer to yelling in a crowded room) with news of a ‘christwire’ article on how Bill Murray is the spawn of Satan. If you haven’t seen the article, you can check it out here. Below, we’re listed some of the best quotes from the article:

What this man symbolizes is far more ruinous than California’s buffet dinner of liberal socialist philosophies, homosexual lifestyles and pre-teen consumerism. No, what Bill Murray means to America is the acceptance and celebration of an ultimate apathy. He is a weak man, a murderer of lambs, a despicable hedonist who waves the white flag welcoming the end of American moral and economic primacy. He is a harbinger of our death as a culture, the death of that preëminent philosophy of faith married to capitalism that has saved the world countless times from repression and annihilation. Bill Murray is a fatal disease and the sad news we bring you today is that your children have been infected.

He has also been spotted by gossip reporters and police investigators showing up uninvited at “hipster” parties in places like Williamsburg, Brooklyn, once a Jewish enclave now a secret community of bearded 20-somethings wasting their parent’s hard-earned money on cocaine and clothes. Yes, he likes to slip into crowds half his age, squeeze the smooth young legs of Sarah Lawrence grads while joking with indie-band drummers about German poets, groping young men in Union Square Park, asking for change and warning them to tell no one, or singing to Japanese schoolgirls as they shower. One notorious urban legend recounts how Murray encouraged a subway train of young people to strip off their pants at midnight while he sang to them. (Evidence: “Sad Bill Murray: Accosting People In Union Square” and “Bill Murray Reads Poetry to Construction Workers”.)

Mr. Murray likes to play the gentle, befuddled older man, one who could ask a child to help him find a puppy in a quiet corner of a public park. Yet once you agree, it’s too late. You’ve been drawn into his celebrity orbit, like some delicious secret Bill has deigned to share with the modest creature that is you. Yes, this is the Bill Murray experience, showering the simple with his celebrity charm in the dark alleyways of America. But what is the endpoint here? The pattern is familiar to criminologists and it’s not hard to draw similarities to the lives of Jeffrey Dahlmer or John Wayne Gacy. Murray has not yet been charged with anything more than narcotic arrests and drunk driving, but at the very least parents should be deeply concerned. Is it not better to be safe than sorry when dealing with a man who may be the next national scandal for his bloodthirst and perversion? Would you not do everything in your power to protect your children from death and failure?

That’s right: Bill Murray is a serial murderer. Not only that, but hipsters are dangerous and Willimasburg a “secret” community (he’s definitely attempting to make this into a cult-like area).

This is Al Pacino.

This is Al Pacino doing a coffee commercial.

This grocery list was found in a parking lot in Seattle.

I’m going to stop searching my neighbor’s and friend’s medicine cabinets for secrets and go straight to their pantries. (P.S. The dildo/whip list immediately followed by the rest of the groceries without even a line to separate was priceless).

Oh. My… This seems seems familiar…

Yeah, um, you know that show that no one likes, but everybody watches? No, no. Not that one, the other one. Well, someone decided that it would be a great idea if they took that concept and turned it into something slightly less degrading but all the more depraved. That’s right, your favorite show, Jersey Shore, is being turned into a porn flick.

In what I call a stroke of ‘genius’, “Writers”/directors Spock Buckton and Brian Bangs of Zero Tolerance Entertainment are shooting the film. Although, both fail to realize that all they actually needed to do was un-blur the shots and take night footage from the show on any given day. Wonder who’ll play/lay Snooki?

(Source: Gawker)

At a completely unnecessary press conference where 2 people plus all of Fox News showed up, Rush Limbaugh announced that he is in perfect health. Thousands of hopefuls crossing their fingers for the news of Rush Limbaugh’s possible impending doom were thoroughly let down. As Limbaugh went to the podium, he took the opportunity to praise America’s health care system. Saying that he was treated wit the utmost care and got in and out very quickly with sufficient service to boot. He failed to point out that health care actually favors the wealthy in this country. And, for a man that tips up to $5000 when he eats at a restaurant, it’s a wonder that you didn’t come out of that hospital as Superman.

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