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VIDEO of my Channel 4 Action News report is at this link. Pat Ford has been on leave with pay from his job as URA Executive Director since April. His deal approved the the URA board continues to pay him not only through the end of his contract at the end of this year, but for an additional six months through the end of June.

There is also a settlement for Ford's wife, the mayor's former press secretary, Alecia Sirk. City Solicitor George Specter will speak about that topic with reporters. Meanwhile: STATEMENT MAYOR RAVENSTAHL COMMENTS ON TODAY'S URA BOARD MEETING (PITTSBURGH) September 11, 2008 Mayor Luke Ravenstahl

The highly anticipated return of the series Mad Men finally pulled me in- the show is set in the early 60's in the legendary era of the martini lunch. Set in a high-power ad agency, it reminds me of the Billy Wilder classic The Apartment, with the subversiveness of Douglas Sirk, and 20/20 hindsight of Todd Haynes's Far from Heaven.

It seems that Bram Reichbaum of The Burgh Report and The Pittsburgh Comet isn't the only blogger to reveal having talked to U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan about the Pat Ford case. Check out this link to the satirical website "I Luv Luke". .

Here's a followup to Wednesday's post, "Pat Ford Update: Federal Prosecutors Interview Blogger": some breakout quotes from my interviews with Pat Ford's attorney and blogger Bram Reichbaum. You can watch video of my Channel 4 Action News report at this link. Pat Ford's Attorney, Lawrence Fisher: • "Let me say this to you.

My boy Sirk has dropped his Crew v Fire notebook, aka Deep Thoughts from Crewville. And to set the record straight, Duncan’s tie did look like a doily.

Pat Ford & Lawrence Fisher Here's an update on the Pennsylvania Ethics Commission's review of URA Executive Director Pat Ford. Since April 9th, Ford has on paid leave pending the commission's look into gifts that he and his wife, former mayor's Press Secretary Alecia Sirk, received from Lamar Advertising executive Jim Vlasach.

New Photos Added: Dolly Parton, Cary Grant, Mae West, John Ford, WRITTEN ON THE WIND, Sexy Smokers, Pope John XXXIII, Travis Bickle, etc. June 21st, 2008 by Scott Marks Drew Barrymore - 2 Photos from Cat’s Eye (1985) Howard Hawk’s Bringing Up Baby (1938) - 5 New Photos Added Celebrity

It’s Gay Pride Month, the 10th Annual Provincetown Film Festival kicks off this weekend and George “Mr. Sulu” Takei and Ellen DeGeneres are getting married (though not to each other, of course) in California (hooray California! And what’s taking you so long, New York and Vermont and Washington and Hawaii and Illinois and...y’know, all the rest of the country?)...

My boy Sirk is at it again with the latest in Crew-ville. Nothing like finding out about New Zealand wildlife,  Katie’s curls and Todd Yeagley. Big thanks from the boys for the love shown at the end of the article.