A bill now pending in the Pennsylvania legislature would legalize video poker in Pennsylvania's 5,000 private clubs and social halls. Speaking of gambling, the Borgata yesterday ejected a smelly poker player from the casino after receiving complaints from other players. The 440-pound man had been playing for 17 straight hours, and now he wants an apology. PETA has named Citizens Bank Park the most vegetarian-friendly sports venue in North America for the second year in......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: Slamming: The theme of this month’s First Person Story Slams: “caught.” At L’Etage (624 S 6th), 7:30PM. $10 Take the Ferry: Sunset Jazz Series presents Average White Band at Wiggins Park (Mickle Street and Riverside Drive in Camden), 8PM. Free Keep It Local: Local author Hakim Woods reads from his Stevy Bonneville Walace: A Philly Urban Hip Hop Black Psychological Studied Short Novel, set in West Philly, at......

Oh boy, just look at all the articles about the Larry Mendte case. Apparently Mendte hacked into the email of Alycia Lane 537 times in 146 days, and did so wherever he was around the clock, from home, his desk at work, his Shore home in Ocean City, and even the Union League. He then passed on the information he obtained to a Philadelphia Daily News gossip columnist, in order to undermine Lane's ongoing......

"On the last day of the fiscal year, Gov. Rendell and legislative leaders struck a deal on a $28.2 billion state budget, averting a repeat of last year's employee furlough and partial government shutdown." The Inquirer examines what it meant (for the players and their families) for a team from Camden's Cramer Hill neighborhood to play T-ball on the White House lawn yesterday. A Daily News reporter gets a few minutes with John McCain.......

Dear Iron Maiden: I'll admit that when I first arrived at your show in Camden last week, I had no idea why I was there. (Other than the fact that Ross had an extra ticket and I was being a dutiful girlfriend.) I was wearing black, yes, but that was a coincidence. I don't own any shirts with your logo on them. I know three of your songs. I think I may have been......

How has the Delaware River Valley changed in the last fifty years? Well, for starters, we seriously doubt anyone would ever utter the words "Our equally industrious, equally prosperous neighbor, Camden, New Jersey" today.........

Commissioner Charles Ramsey has ordered an Internal Affairs investigation into how the suspect that cops had cuffed and put in the back of a patrol car somehow drove off in the vehicle on Sunday. It appears that the suspect "slipped his hands under his feet and then squeezed through an opening in the Plexiglas panel separating the back and front seat." The question is, how was he then able to start the car? A police......

The teen with charged with plotting a Columbine-style attack on Plymouth Whitemarsh High School was ordered to enter a juvenile treatment program near Pittsburgh yesterday, but not before the judge sharply criticized the boy's mother, saying the relationship between the two was "the most unhealthy I've seen in a long time" and that the woman was "not very good at being a mother." Three attacks on young girls have been reported in Camden since......

Even though we kinda just bitched you out for not going to smaller venues and supporting smaller artists, we would love it if you joined us tonight over the bridge at Camden's large outdoor venue, The Tweeter Center. Yes, we're sure there will be a lot of emo and punk kids there but for whatever it's worth, it's going to be an experience and hopefully a fun one. The 2007 Honda Civic Tour features five......