Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with BOBBY DARIN!

On Hyena Records, the first name in swingin hep cats and kittens or something. Hyena Records, because um, because the hyena, um, stands for, uh, um, Screw it, here' Bobby Darin with 'Mack the Knife'

This will mesh well with tonight's Music Series -- Are the Rolling Stones looking at December dates at The Rock?

The Rolling Stones could just be close to booking December 16 and 17 at the Prudential Center. This would be Mick and Keef's first trip back to perform in the Garden State since 2006 and first in the area since performing at the Beacon Theater in 2007.

The Prudential Center had this non-denial denial which we think bodes well:

Robert Sommer of Rock Entertainment Management did not shoot the rumors down, but he did say that the potential Stones dates were speculation at this point. Nothing is confirmed; fans are advised to keep fingers crossed.

Uh, shadoobie we'll be sad if this doesn't happen...

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Notable quoteables evening:

"I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather...Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car."

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It's a news roundup kind of day

Damned humid too...

The Garden Sate Parkway where I-95 crosses over is going to be down to one lane for up to six weeks after yesterday's fatal accident. You can read more on this traffic mess and more on the hopes it can be averted quicker than that can be found here.

Pretty much everyone living in North Bergen may or may not have gotten a subpoena.

Calling for a snowy winter here in the Garden State? Be careful, they called for one last year too.

The Yankees crushed the Red Sox 14-2 and in doing so won the American League East title (Again). They will play the winner of the one game playoff between the Texas Rangers and Baltimore Orioles while the Detroit Tigers will play the Oakland A's.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has this list of this year's nominees out. Notable nominees include Public Enemy, Heart, Donna Summer, Rush, Deep Purple and Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. No love for Bon Jovi once again this year.

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“Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose.”
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The Jersey City Desk reminds you to 'think pink'

If you've been down by the river the last couple nights and looked north you may have seen the George Washington Bridge sporting a new color -- pink! In honor and support of breast cancer awareness month the Port Authority have lit the GW Bridge pink to remind people of the cause.

More from the Jersey Journal: 
Those “necklace” lights on the bridge between Fort Lee and Upper Manhattan really are pink, to mark October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey officials say the lights 156 in all will remain pink for the entire month.

So find your cause or your charity and make sure to make a difference this October. Think Pink!

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Mad Magazine took a new look at the famed cover of The New Yorker and a New Yorker's view of the world looking west now seen by Apple® maps.

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We've said it before, the NYPD can be a shady bunch

And we have more corroboration thanks to our friends at Gothamist. Rashad Lewis is not the most upstanding citizen in the city. He was pulled over outside Bloomingdales on a routine traffic violation with the NYPD finding allegedly bogus credit cards. Oddly this is where the police seem to get pretty, well, shady.

While he was locked up, his Mercedes-Benz was supposed to be impounded. Alas, Lewis later received a ticket in the mail showing a traffic camera photo of his car running a red light on 12th Avenue and West 34th Street. Now if Lewis wasn't driving it it had to be a police officer. Lewis said the police took it for a joyride, the police had another explanation. It was being driven to the NYC impound yard in Queens. BUT, according to Lewis' attorney the ticket given out was the car on its way to Brooklyn, NOT The NYPD impound yard in Queens where he claimed his vehicle. Lewis also said when he got his car back it was dinged up and scratched.

It gets shadier people.

Lewis also has his iPhone taken by the police when he was arrested. So not only does it sure look like his Mercedes Benz was taken for a joyride, NYPD tried to take his iPhone on a joyride too. Lewis uses the app IGotYa which takes a photo of anyone who tries to enter the incorrect passcode on the phone and emails the pics to the owner.  If you follow this link you can see the cops trying to access Lewis' Iphone. Now the cops excuse (They always have excuses don't they?) is they were only trying to turn off the phone. Yeah, uh-huh, pull this one it plays jingle bells. You do NOT need to enter a pass code to turn off an iPhone. Johnny just did it three times to be certain. He's got the cop recording apps as well so hence the safety pass code, where video and pics are uploaded to his private email accounts. So the cops weren't trying to turn his phone off, that's a ridiculous claim. We can't say for sure but it would be our guess they wanted the information inside the phone, you know, a little warrantless snooping. That's just a guess but it sure makes a lot more sense than they were turning it off.

People, put a pass code on your phone, whether you decide to put recording apps on it that are sent to you secretly or you just want to protect your data, backup your phones and keep that pass code on it. Do NOT give the cops your passcode should they stop you. They need a warrant (as did the cops in NYC but we digress). Your passcode is to keep YOUR vital information safe and if cops (let alone typical lowlife crooks) would take your car on a joyride while you're locked up don't think for a second they won't "use" your phone.

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Amazing statistic if such things interest you. The Detroit Tigers are an old school baseball team. One of the teams you think about alongside the Yankees and Red Sox for longevity. They clinched the AL Central title tonight for the second straight year and this will be Detroit's first time in the playoffs in back-to-back seasons since 1934-35. Who knew?

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If you think bureaucracy in Jersey City is bad friends we pray you never have to deal with Edison

Simply a real head shaker in this story readers. A young lady is physically in Colorado with her car and yet one of the automated traffic lights (we've warned about these and the sheer lack of accountability they'd bring to local governments) in Edison ticketed her. Yes, even though she was in Colorado.

Take a few minutes and read on the sheer stupidity emanating out of Edison and the story of former NJ resident Lauren Morosoff, you'll find yourself angry is our guess...