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Dan Gross began working at the Philadelphia Daily News in 1998 while studying at Temple University. His local gossip column covers the behavior, and often the misbehavior, of celebrities as well as entertainment news, and more. It runs Mondays through Thursdays in the Daily News and on Philly.com.
 
 
Posted 07/03/2008
SURE, YOU could see John Legend and the fireworks on the Parkway to celebrate July 4, but true patriots might not want to miss the farewell performance of Renegade tomorrow at Johnny Brenda's (Frankford & Girard).
Posted 07/02/2008
PEYTON AND Eli Manning have won Super Bowls, but how quickly can the quarterbacks lick the icing from a Double Stuf Oreo?
SONGBIRD Jill Scott announced during a show at Carnegie Hall last week that she was engaged to her drummer "Little" John Roberts after he came out from behind the kit to give her flowers and a passionate kiss. The Philly-raised Roberts, who tour
IT'S OFFICIAL. Kyle MacLachlan's not nearly as creepy as many characters he's played. The "Desperate Housewives" actor sounded frightened by our description of the Mutter Museum (19 S. 22nd) Thursday night at a party for opening festivities of the Water Club, Atlantic City's luxury hotel by Borgata.
DAN GROSS is on vacation.
WHAT KIND OF jerk spends $33,000 on a bottle of booze? The Union Trust Steakhouse (717 Chestnut) may soon find out.
FOX 29 sports director Don Tollefson's contract at Fox 29 was not renewed yesterday, a station spokeswoman has confirmed. Tollefson, 55, returned to Fox 29 Sunday night after being out since early April recovering from a car accident, but was off air Monday night, when the station told us he was "back on leave."
U.S. SEN. Arlen Specter is bumping elbows with many more people than usual these days. Literally. The Pennsylvania powerhouse can't shake hands for fear of germs while battling cancer, so he's been greeting people with a gentle elbow tap.
JOCELYN KIRSCH, on house arrest in the area, could be living somewhere on the Main Line. Kirsch was spotted Thursday afternoon shopping in Suburban Square and possibly leaving the Ardmore Farmers Market. She was accompanied by a large bodyguard type, says our spy, who knew that he had seen Kirsch because of the ankle bracelet on her leg.
SCOTT STORCH, the former Roots keyboardist and producer at Center City's Sigma Sound Studios, owes more than $500,000 in taxes on his $10.5 million home in Miami, reports the Miami Herald's Joan Fleischman.
JOCELYN KIRSCH, the 22-year-old former Drexel student under house arrest somewhere in Philadelphia, had a court hearing Monday in San Rafael, Calif.
ALTHOUGH "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" won't be shooting at the Center City office of the Philadelphia Soul, the FX comedy series will soon re-create the team's office on its set in Culver City, Calif.
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