>>> Kicking off the Music Issue, CP’s Duane Swierczynski basks in Poe warfare and PNA accolades, announces a shorter and squarer paper starting next week, and incurs the wrath of Port Richmond. For the next Cityguide, guys, why not get behind the Port Fishington revolution and just use the photo of Atlantis you’ve already got in the archives? [CP]
>>> Metro debuts new columnist Marc Lamont Hill, a young Temple prof perhaps familiar from his blog, Myspace page, and Popmatters clips (zuh?). In his first Metro outing, he speaks frankly about our city’s lost neighborhoods: “The last time I checked, joblessness and crack had something to do with it, too.” Not a bad start. [Metro]
>>> Similarly unafraid of mincing words, a doc from the Children’s Hospital is quoted in an AP story about the God-fearing masses’ fear of vaccines. Hey, if dinosaurs and condoms don’t exist, why should this newfangled devil medicine? [NY Times]

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