PHILLY.COM: John (Jack) Slivinski Jr., the Philadelphia firefighter who got in hot water by posing shirtless for a charity calendar, was found dead at his Lawndale home Saturday. Police and colleagues said the cause was suicide. Slivinski, 31, a former Marine who followed his father into the department, was praised Sunday as a gutsy firefighter who won a spot on the department’s elite rescue unit. MORE RELATED: Since joining the Philadelphia Police Department in 2003, Officer Deona Carter has been heralded by her supervisors as a “reliable” cop with “sound judgment.” The 29-year-old officer’s Internet fans also rave about her […]

Among other things we ask her to clarify her jaw-dropping claims that the infamous UFO crash at Roswell was actually a Nazi-designed flying saucer piloted by children surgically disfigured to look like ETs, sent by Stalin to trigger mass hysteria in the U.S. a la War Of The Worlds. Look for it tomorrow on a Phawker near you!

FRESH AIR What does it really mean for the brain to experience pleasure? That’s the question neuroscientist David Linden asks in his new book The Compass of Pleasure: How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, Vodka, Learning, and Gambling Feel So Good. In it, he traces the origins of pleasure in the human brain and how and why we become addicted to certain food, chemicals and behaviors. Linden is a professor of neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the chief editor of the Journal of Neurophysiology. When he spoke with Fresh Air‘s Terry […]

NBC PHILADELPHIA: A 35-pound bag of human vomit was found in the parking lot of a Bed Bath and Beyond in Radnor – for the second time in a week. An employee of the Delaware County store found a big white bag containing a medical waste container full of vomit two Sundays in a row – May 29 and June 5, police say. The employee found the vomit-filled containers in the same spot each time: under a tree, 10 parking rows from the store entrance, police say. MORE

BY MATTHEW HENGEVELD This album would have been commercially successful if it had come out during the Detroit hip-hop boom of 2009, when people were salivating for more Black Milk and anything else Detroit-related. However, Milk let this album basque in the sun, grow with age and hone-in on sculpting a quintessential “Black Milk” style. Black Milk has been sampling guitar licks and dialing down the pitch for a while now, a technique that works well for him. However, his newest release Album of the Year suffered from overproduction, uncatchy hooks and drum breaks too complex for hip-hop. Though not […]

Ryan Dunn crash site, Route 322, 7:45 PM last night by JEFF FUSCO PREVIOUSLY: Ryan Dunn Toxicology Report PREVIOUSLY:  RIP: Ryan Dunn, Human Cannonball, Dead At 34

NEW YORK TIMES: President Obama plans to announce Wednesday evening that he will order the withdrawal of 10,000 American troops from Afghanistan this year, and another 20,000 troops, the remainder of the 2009 “surge,” by the end of next summer, according to administration officials and diplomats briefed on the decision. These troop reductions are both deeper and faster than the recommendations made by Mr. Obama’s military commanders, and they reflect mounting political and economic pressures at home, as the president faces relentless budget pressures and an increasingly restive Congress and American public. Mr. Obama’s decision is a victory for Vice […]