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Browse This Issue: January 10th, 2008

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Underworld:
Gossiped Girls
Despite an apparent mob fetish, Alycia isn't the only local TV gal to (allegedly) go wild.
by Gabriele Valentine
"Tell Alycia, welcome to the criminal enterprise. She doesn't want to cover us; she wants to be one of us," says Ruth Ann Seccio, former mistress of mob-boss-turned-rat Ralph Natale. In fact, Seccio thinks more highly of Lane since she was arrested last month for allegedly slugging a female New York City police officer.

The Bell Curve
City Paper's Quality-o-Life-o-Meter
New police commissioner Charles Ramsey has less than a month to develop a strategy addressing Mayor Nutter's declared "crime emergency." "I've got a plan right now," says Ramsey, holding up the double DVD set of 28 Days Later with deleted scenes and bonus features. "But I gotta warn you, things are going to get worse before they get better." Plus 1

Coffee Clash
by Kishwer Vikaas
At 3 p.m. Friday, Annie DiAntonio entered the Philadelphia Zoning Board's meeting room. She was a half-hour early for the hearing about her plan to

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Who's Watching the Watchers?
A police-oversight agency is shuttered.
by Tom Namako
Edwin Pace, deputy director of the city's most powerful law enforcement watchdog, is used to sorting through stacks of police documents, using that information to author reports that exceed hundreds of pages.

Philly Blunt:
Gimme More Negativity
All's well when Britney brings rock bottom to Philadelphia.
by Brian Hickey
First, I was going to hit the state store across the street and grabsome plastic-bottle vodka along with a couple cans of Red Bull. Then,it was off to Rite Aid to pick up Vicodin, Ritalin, Zantac, NyQuil andthe best over-the-counter sleeping and diet pills that company moneycould buy.

Political Notebook:
Meeting the New Boss
by Mary F. Patel
A high-level VIP donor party was held earlier in the evening at Urban Outfitters, near the Terminal. According to guests who attended, and who did not want to be named for obvious reasons, it was a disaster with long lines for drinks, little food and very loud music that did not impress the 500 or so attendees who complained as they drifted in the main reception.

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Rock Bottom
The lowest of Philly's low.

 
 
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