Kensington native and Bucks County artist Frank Grobelny figures he's reinvented himself five times, but he's finally found himself in the process. It's a refreshing notion.

At 31 tracks, the compilation makes a strong case for Top Choice Clique as a great lost hip-hop collective, a kind of Naughty By Nature if Naughty By Nature weren't mostly terrible.

Proponents say that amended dog laws will finally protect the pups in Pennsylvania's infamous puppy mills and help law enforcement catch abusers. But to owners worried about reconfiguring or rebuilding kennels, regulating temperature or paying extra vet bills for things they've always done themselves, the proposals seem draconian and punitive.

Beneath a bashful facade, McFarland's work was brawny in its linguistic mastery.

Known as "Fat Herb" on the force, and Dan "The Cop" on sports talk radio 610 WIP, the 6-foot-4, 275-pound policeman is returning to the station's Wing Bowl XVI Feb. 1 at the Wachovia Spectrum, but not before hosting a preliminary event, an All-Cop Wing Bowl, the week prior on Jan. 24 at the Eggs' Nest at Revere Street and Roosevelt Boulevard.

In the early '90s, Lloyd told Temple: "No deal." When Korean investors offered him cash for the building, he didn't even ask why they were interested. Then, when drug dealers shot at his door, he declared war. He set their office — a couch on a corner opposite the rink — on fire.

In superhero land, a "shazam" always turned Billy Batson, an otherwise common orphan, into Captain Marvel. In time for this week's arrival of Hanukkah, one "oi-vey" and Al Wiesner's Jewish comic book superhero, Shaloman, is up, up and away.

HB: Sammy and I were post-game radio guests, and we missed the [team] bus. It was the Depression, so we didn't have a cent between us. We had to hitchhike.

"It was pretty weird, almost surreal, because a lot of people — including Buddy Ryan — thought our games wouldn't count, but they ended up costing them," Repko says. "He let his assistants do all the work, and didn't say two words to us. He was a figure head."

The law, the first to protect high school journalists since 1995 and the only one to lump high schools and colleges together, makes students entirely responsible for their media.