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......

Thanks to a tip from Consumerist, we hear that the majority of parking tickets in our fair city may not be, well, fair. Or, more to the point, they’re probably fair but they’re not actually valid and enforceable. According to a CBS special investigation, parking tickets given at 85% of the parking meters in Philadelphia are invalid. Apparently, there’s a law here in PA that says inspectors have to certify each and every parking meter......

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. UK researchers studying technology addiction are floating the idea that some devices like Blackberries should perhaps have labels on them warning that they may be addictive. (Via Jill, via Slashdot) CBS has just put up a bunch of episodes of their classic TV shows online, which can be streamed to your browser for free. This includes full-length episodes of Star Trek, Melrose Place,......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Ain't It Cool News claims to have found the final explanation for how Terry Gilliam will complete his film The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus now that the star, Heath Ledger, is dead: apparently Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell will all fill in for Ledger in "a weird sort of I’m Not There-esque tribute to the actor." Huh. Well, that......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. TCM 31 Days of Oscar (All week) TCM is celebrating the Oscars by playing Oscar-winning films pretty much all day, every day this month. It's a great way to catch up on some classic films you've never gotten around to watching. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (Mon, 9PM-10PM, Fox) John becomes separated from his mother and Cameron, and discovers the future may be even more bleak than......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. Life After People (Mon, 9PM-11PM, History Channel) - An interesting thought experiment: what would the Earth be like if human beings suddenly disappeared off of it? Of course, it's not all guesswork; they take a look at actual places that were abandoned by people and what happened in those cases. Moment of Truth (Wed, 9PM-10PM, Fox) - The debut of the new game show where contestants have......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (Mon, 9PM-10PM, Fox) - The second part of this new show's much-anticipated two-night premiere. You can bet this Phillyist will be watching, because part one was pretty freaking cool. Martin Scorsese Presents Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows (Mon, 8PM-9:30PM, TCM) - Great filmmaker Martin Scorsese narrates a profile of great filmmaker Val Lewton. Lewton was known for making extremely artful,......

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Hakim Glover, the cousin of the man who allegedly killed Officer Chuck Cassidy, pleaded guilty yesterday to charges of hindering apprehension and obstruction of justice. Glover is accused of helping his cousin flee to Florida. The Convention Center expansion project was halted on Christmas Eve when the Preservation Alliance of Greater Philadelphia obtained an injunction ordering wrecking crews to stop work. The preservationists want to save the two small but historic Broad Street buildings......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. BCS Championship Game: Ohio State vs. LSU (Mon, 8:15PM-11:30PM, Fox) - Woo hoo! It's the college football Super Bowl! Of course, the bittersweet thing is, this means college football is over for the season. But at least it'll go out with a bang. Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives (Mon, 10PM-10:30PM, Food Network) - This episode's theme is eateries that are open 24/7, and one of the places being......

The Phillies have signed free-agent Brett Favre…er, 33-year-old outfielder Geoff Jenkins (see the resemblance?) and 30-year-old starter/reliever Chad Durbin, continuing a rather dulling off-season for the Fightins. Is there any reason to get excited about these two players? Um, maybe…if the Phillies front office knows something we don’t. But that’s never really the case with these middle-of-the-pack guys. Do you still remember Rod Barajas? I didn’t. I had to look him up. Kyle Lohse?......

The saga of CBS 3 anchorwoman Alycia Lane has gotten even stranger. The Daily News reports that her first call upon release from NYPD custody was to Governor Edward Rendell. A spokesman for the governor,Chuck Ardo, said to the paper that she did it to "make sure he knew her side of the story because he is an opinion-maker and runs around in influential circles." And "I think she knew better than to ask......

The saga of CBS 3’s Alycia Lane continues. She has been divorced twice, appeared on Dr. Phil, was romantically linked to WCBS anchor Chris Wragge, and of course infamously sent bikini photos to a married man. All of this seemed to make her one of the darlings of the New York Post’s Page Six column of late. So it is not a shock that she got into some trouble in New York, more specifically in......

CBS 3 anchor Alycia Lane was arrested at 2:04 AM yesterday at the corner of W. 17th Street and 9th Avenue in NYC for allegedly punching a female police officer in the face. She was locked up in a New York jail cell as of yesterday afternoon. More on this story later. (Via Jason) TV star Bam Margera of West Chester, along with business partner and bar owner Don Moore, plans "to open a theater,......

UPDATE: Oops! I forgot links! I've added them now, and made a few other tweaks. What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer &c. (Tue, 8PM-9PM, CBS) - The extremely odd, but quite lovable, 1964 classic about the reindeer with the glowing red nose, the elf who really wants to be a dentist, a bunch of misfit toys, and the Abominable Snow Monster. CBS is also airing Frosty the Snowman and......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. Nova (Tue, 8PM-9PM, WHYY & WLVT) - This episode apparently consists mainly of footage of a war between termites and fierce, dragon-shaped army ants. The ants are used by a Cameroon tribe known as the Mofu to protect their huts and granaries from the termites. Good times! Wired Science (Wed, 8PM-9PM, WHYY & WLVT) - As always, a great big hodge podge of crazy applications of science......

You may have caught Walt Hunter’s report about sleeping Wackenhut security guards at the Peach Bottom Nuclear Power Plant in York County on CBS 3 (KYW) on Tuesday. Well that report was based on a three month investigation by Scott Weinberger from CBS 2 (WCBS) in New York, which is the sister station for CBS 3 in New York. The thing is that Hunter’s piece, which used video and interviews conducted by Weinberger, didn’t mention......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. You might have heard about a little game called Halo 3 getting released late last night/early this morning. Game|Life has the details on the midnight release party at a Best Buy in Manhattan, while Joystiq covers a non-launch in Boston and an actual, celebrity-infested launch in LA. Beware, however! Rumor is that the limited edition packaging for the......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. The Big Bang Theory (Mon, 8:30PM-9PM, CBS) - It's the debut episode of a new show about a couple of nerdy genius physicists (played by Johnny Galecki and Jim Parsons) who share an apartment and whose lives are disrupted when they meet their beautiful new neighbor (Kaley Cuoco). One of them inevitably falls in love with her on sight and subsequently - gasp! - entertains an illogical......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. Monday Night Football: Redskins at Eagles (Mon, 8:30PM-11:30PM, ABC & ESPN) - The Eagles have their first home game on a Monday night against a team they really should be able to beat. In fact, people are already calling this one a "must-win" game for the Eagles. We're trying to remain hopeful and confident... but last week's showing was pretty poor... SPAM: The Documentary (Tue, 11PM-12AM, Court......

It looks like John Bolaris, most famous for predicting a massive blizzard in 2001 that never happened, may be back in the forecast for WCAU. The recent announcement that WCAU meteorologist Doug Kammerer will be moving to KYW in February means that CBS 3 will be up one forecaster and NBC 10 will be down one. KYW was one of the stations that Bolaris was rumored to have talked to. Given the reports that his......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. Wouldn't you like to know what a bathroom is going to be like before you go in, just in case it's like that bathroom in Trainspotting? Well, that's what The Bathroom Diaries are for. Enjoy! (Via Sarah) Brett Ratner is going to direct Playboy, a movie about the life of Hugh Hefner. (Via Jill) It's a handheld bubblewrap......

Back in the mid-1970s, while visiting KYW-TV, actor Ted Knight - fully in-character as The Mary Tyler Moore Show's bumbling anchorman Ted Baxter - delivered a brief "news" update for channel 3. We find it a bit odd that a character from a CBS show would show up on the newscast of a local NBC affiliate (as KYW was at the time), but we suspect that it may have been a bit of promotion......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. Simon Schama's The Power of Art (Mon, 9PM-10PM, PBS [WHYY, WLVT]) - The guy in the title is a Columbia University art history professor, and in this new show he takes a look at famous artists: their masterworks, and crucial moments in their lives. In the debut, he's talking about Van Gogh and his painting Wheatfield with Crows (pictured here). Heartland (Mon, 10PM-11PM, TNT) - Another medical......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. Road Tasted (Tue, 9:30PM-10PM, Food Network) - Guess where Road Tasted is going this week? That's right, our very own Philadelphia! They'll be sampling cheesesteaks at Campo's Deli (uh, what about Pat's or Geno's??) and sweets at Franklin Fountain, amongst other things. Lil' Bush (Wed, 10:30PM-11PM, Comedy Central) - This is the debut episode of a new animated series following the adventures of a prepubescent version of......

...Jail: Paris is there, but as far as we're concerned, it's not for long enough. (Via CNN.) ...Jail, UPDATE: Three days? Three days and they let her out? WTF?! (Via NYDailyNews.com. NOTE: People is reporting "medical reasons." Yeah. Friggin. Right.) ...Heroism: We knew there was a reason why we still loved Cuba Gooding, Jr., even though he hasn't made a good movie since Jerry Maguire! (Via The Superficial.) ...Great Behavior: Oh, Akon! Will you ever......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. Creature Comforts (Mon, 8PM-8:30PM, CBS) - A new US version of the popular UK show created by Wallace & Gromit's Nick Park. It involves clay, stop-motion animated animals sharing their opinions on life. If it's anything like the original, the dialogue will consist of actual interviews with real people that end up being quite amusing when coming out of the mouths of gorillas and panthers. Unwrapped (Mon,......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Do you want to hear a rare album full of cheesy songs about your favorite members of the Justice League of America? Of course you do. So go download it here. (Via Peccable) While we're talking comic book characters, Marvel's doing an animated Doctor Strange movie, and it's coming to DVD August 14th. The website, complete with trailer, is here. Looks kind of......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. Heroes (Mon, 9PM, NBC) - It's the penultimate episode of the first season of Heroes. Hiro is supposed to learn the secret of his past, which will mean another awesome George Takei cameo. Rock on. An Affair to Remember (Mon, 8PM & 10:30PM, AMC) - There's nothing new about this classic 1957 love story, but if you've never seen An Affair to Remember, now's your chance. (BTW,......

CBS 3 Eyewitness News anchor Larry Mendte...