Kristen Lombardi scrapes up news about a new machine designed to ferret out drug smugglers among prison visitors is targeting grandmothers, substance-abuse counselors, and other innocent bystanders

Dan Kennedy looks at a deliciously bitchy new book kicks the world's most reviled media couple, Tina Brown and Harry Evans, while they're down -- but not yet out.

Seth Gitell says Brian Joyce and Cheryl Jacques may seem very different, but they have a lot in common -- especially if you're a Ninth District voter. If one of them doesn't drop out of the congressional race, the socially conservative Stephen Lynch will face a splintered opposition.

Chris Wright says that after 30 years of neglect, the dream of undersea living is making a modest comeback — but this time, it’s just for fun ;

Dorie Clark reports on City Council wrangling

In Talking Politics, Seth Gitell notices that Tom Finneran’s new congressional lines are just as gerrymandered as before, and don’t even create a minority-majority district.

In the Phoenix editorial, we ask: Where’s the outrage over the death of Genoa protester Carlo Giuliani?

In Out There, Anrew Weiner gets a Carson Daly haircut.

In Urban Buy, Nina Willdorf cleans shit up.

Plus, this just in:

PAY RAISES : Jacques’s generosity
RIGHTY TIGHTY, LEFTY LOOSEY : Sinister sandman
ACTIVISM : Anti-racing activists get ballsy
ATTITUDE : Commodify your dissent
MEDIA : This time, it’s really over
THEATER : Play on!
SUMMER SIZZLE : Now we’re cookin’
TALKING POLITICS : Keeping the Eighth together