THE THURSDAY REPORT...

Goooooooooooooooood morning! We've got THE DIRTY HEADS in for a show today...just announced LIGHTS OVER PARIS for September 22 (the first of about 6 more shows we've lined up, including that much-hyped BIG BIG BIG name act)...new venue, The Stage Door. Keep Q92 loud to score them tix!

Btw, Happy Rosh Hashanah to the Jewish folk!
Here's some shtuff...







THE TRAGEDY...
Rich Cronin, the lead singer and founder of the late-1990s boy band LFO, has passed away after a long battle with leukemia. He was 35.

LFO, or the Lyte Funky Ones, were best known for the 1999 summer smash “Summer Girls,” which included the “I like girls that wear Abercrombie & Fitch" line.

The video for their follow-up, “Girls on TV,” featured Cronin’s then-girlfriend Jennifer Love Hewitt. I personally liked "Every Other Time" and "Sex U Up (The Way You Like It)".
The band split in 2002.

In 2005, Cronin was diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia. Friend Chris Kirkpatrick, formery of NSYNC updated his Facebook last night with the message “RIP to a great friend Rich C.” Lance Bass also tweeted the message, ”Sad sad day that Rich Cronin died – was an amazing guy.”









THE LAWSUIT....
A former bodyguard is suing BRITNEY SPEARS for sexual harassment...and he also accuses her of abusing her own children.

Fernando Flores claims that Britney was constantly throwing herself at him, and making sure he saw her in revealing and / or see-through clothing.

Yeah. HOW DARE she do that! (???)
And he claims that on two separate occasions, Britney sent him on errands...and made sure that when he returned, he saw her, "having vigorous sexual relations."

She also pulled the CLASSIC move where she'd summon him for some reason, and when he showed up, she'd be NAKED.

I've yet to encounter a problem with any of this. Just sayin'.

Britney didn't much care if the kids knew mommy was having sex. Flores says that one time when she was staying at a hotel in California, Britney was, "loudly having sexual relations while her two children were in the suite with her."

It's not clear if the kids SAW anything, or were even in the same room. The lawsuit doesn't specify that.

Flores also claims that Britney once took his belt and whipped her son Sean Preston with it . . . which left Flores, "shocked, horrified and deeply disturbed."
In another bizarre incident, Britney allegedly fed her sons crabmeat...even though they have SEAFOOD ALLERGIES.

And when the boys started throwing up, Britney refused to let Flores or the nanny help them. In fact, she told them, quote, "Mind your own (effing) business!"

Flores also says that Britney once told the kids, "Mommy is white trash."

It should be noted that Flores reported all of this to the L.A. County Department of Children and Family Services. They investigated and decided his claims had NO MERIT. So there ya go.








THE SNOOKSTER
This is kinda funny. Yesterday afternoon, Snooki tweeted: "Ugh, stuck in Newark traffic is no fun. OMG why I got a stick shift I will never know. Stop and go traffic...I'm killin' myself here :("

And LESS THAN AN HOUR LATER, the Mayor (!!!) of Newark, New Jersey, CORY BOOKER...who was apparently hanging out on Twitter at the time...saw it, and responded...are you ready:

"Snooki! I'm the mayor...Where R U...so I can give u a ticket 4 texting & driving. We need revenue!"
Yes, that's the mayor of Newark responding to Snooki...on Twitter...using the super-professional-looking Twitter shorthand. Amazing!







THE NEW MUSIC...
KINGS OF LEON have released the video for their new single, "Radioactive". It's the first single off their next album, "Come Around Sundown", which comes out October 19th.

A word of warning: If you're hoping for a hard-hitting rock 'n' roll video...you might want to scale back your expectations...a lot.
It's not a bad video...although the first half seems like a dated commercial for orange soda. To put your expectations in place: The band runs around a field in the country, playing with a bunch of overdressed kids. Here it is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPBbMbKSZrQ








THE ROAD...
USHER...YEAHHHHHH MAN...is hitting the road this fall. You'll have to drive up to Detroit if you want to see him though.
http://www.usherworld.com/pages/tour







THE STRESS FACTOR...
Sure, Mormons can't drink alcohol, they can't smoke, and they can't look at porno. But apparently, they don't NEED those things to calm down like the rest of us do. According to a new study, Salt Lake City, Utah, is the LEAST stressful city in the U.S.

The rankings were compiled by the website Portfolio.com. They used 10 factors to figure out a city's stress level: Unemployment, income growth, poverty, heart disease, weather, ozone, robberies, murders, traffic, and the mortgage situation.

And when it's all added up, Salt Lake City came out as the least stressful of the 50 largest metro areas in the U.S.

The top 10 least stressful cities are: Salt Lake City...Virginia Beach-Norfolk...Minneapolis-St. Paul...Raleigh, North Carolina...Austin, Texas...Oklahoma City...Denver...San Antonio...Kansas City, Missouri...and Phoenix.

Now...On the other side of things...Detroit is the most stressful city in the country by a pretty large margin.

And we're at #3! The top 10 most stressful cities are: Detroit...Los Angeles...Cleveland...Riverside, California...St. Louis (the people here need to move to the other side of the state)...New York...New Orleans...Chicago...Birmingham, Alabama...and Miami-Fort Lauderdale.
http://www.portfolio.com/resources/Portfolio-2010-Metro-Area-Stress-Rank.pdf







Alright, hitting "publish post" on the blog...you have a great Thursday!