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A tattoo inspired by a medical image of Anomie Fatale's brain unfurls across her porcelain shoulder. "A friend of mine saw my MRI and said, 'It looks like a sea horse,' " Fatale, 24, explains. "So I took it to my tattoo artist and said: 'Trace it. . . . Put it on me.' " The Bellmawr resident writes edgy, melodic rock songs with titles like "Palinopsia," the name for an optical disturbance that's among the debilitating symptoms of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. About four years ago, Fatale was diagnosed with the connective-tissue disease, which creates havoc in the joints, spine, and elsewhere.

Pottsgrove Middle School was evacuated this morning because several students were hospitalized after passing out, but investigators found no environmental hazard in the building. A call about medical emergencies at the school, located at 1351 N. Hanover St., came in shortly after 10:15 a.m., according to Montgomery County dispatchers. The Pottsgrove School District said three students fainted during a choral practice. As medical responders were treating those students, others reported that they felt light-headed or dizzy.

THUGS IN PHILLY steal everything from cash to copper. Wednesday night, they stole a famous guitar allegedly worth $20,000. Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore reported on the band's Facebook page Thursday that someone had pinched his 1960 Fender Jazzmaster around midnight from the Best Western hotel on 22nd Street near Hamilton. "It's Thurston's iconic Sonic Youth black Jazzmaster with all the stickers on its body," according to the Facebook post. "A police report has been filed.

INSIDE A bare-bones office in the corner of an Old City union warehouse, members of the local Occupy movement are sitting in a circle beneath fluorescent lights, plotting their next move. It's not quite the same vibe, though, as last year, when hundreds of Occupiers staked a claim on Dilworth Plaza for 56 days. No one here has a bullhorn. No one's disguising himself with a bandanna or a Guy Fawkes mask, or planning to go march against something corporate. These seven or so people are sharing bagels and clementines, taking notes together, and earnestly discussing how to help those who lost everything in Superstorm Sandy.

As I browsed my Facebook page over Labor Day weekend, I noticed a friend had shared a link about his mother's story that was published in The Inquirer. I could not resist making a contribution of my own because I did not become friends with Jeremy Albelda in Philadelphia. Instead, we crossed paths in Buenos Aires, where we shared the same goal: to become immersed in a Spanish-speaking culture and experience life as newly proclaimed "world citizens. " We have since gone separate ways, finished our collegiate careers and traveled to various corners of the globe.

My sister-in-law, who lives in Manhattan's East Village, recently e-mailed me about the moment the power, out for nearly a week, suddenly returned. With the neighborhood in darkness, the computer and TV screens all black, life had seemed to stop. "And then without warning or fanfare, the screen jolted back on like nothing had happened, and it all was a giant black dream. " It's a perfect image of a binary world, at what happens to be our most binary time. On Tuesday, we stepped behind a curtain and chose: him or her, him or him, yes or no. That privilege has obvious limits.

Imagine if Mayberry had a psychiatric hospital. Or if a psychiatric hospital had a Mayberry. That's how the "Ancora kids" think of the unusual company town in Camden County they once called home. In 1955, New Jersey built about 100 single-family rental homes for patient-care, clerical, maintenance, and other workers at its new Ancora Psychiatric Hospital near the facility's main entrance on Spring Garden Road in Winslow Township. Surrounded by woods and close to Ancora Lake, Edgewood Homes was a picturesque patch of postwar suburbia where children could enjoy the outdoors, while being exposed to the realities of mental illness.

Two teenage brothers who live on the same Clayton block where the body of a missing 12-year-old Gloucester County girl was found and her bicycle recovered were charged Tuesday with her killing. Autumn Pasquale was lured to a home in the 300 block of East Clayton Avenue where the brothers, 17 and 15, lived with the prospect of getting parts for her bike, Gloucester County Prosecutor Sean Dalton said. She died of "blunt-force trauma consistent with strangulation" but was not sexually assaulted, according to preliminary findings, he said.

SEARCHERS returned from the forests and fields Sunday night, their voices hoarse from calling Autumn's name, and those who loved her the most huddled close together in Clayton, holding fast to hope. Meanwhile, at 8:16 p.m., a 15-year-old Clayton boy logged onto Facebook and, along with nearly 17,000 other people across the country, clicked "Like" on the FIND AUTUMN PASQUALE page. But authorities say Justin Robinson knew exactly where Pasquale was - because he allegedly had lured her to his home on East Clayton Avenue on Saturday afternoon and then beat and strangled the seventh-grader with the help of his brother, Dante Robinson, 17, before they stuffed her into a blue recycling container.

Lane Goodwin, 13, a small-town boy who won a huge Facebook following for his thumbs-up attitude about his cancer, has lost his battle with the disease. He died Wednesday night, eliciting an outpouring from his heartbroken followers. The announcement of Lane's death came on his Facebook page, which had 369,000 followers as of Thursday. The announcement said the boy from Beech Grove, Ky., who loved fishing and soccer had "gained his angel wings. " Lane was an avid St. Louis Cardinals fan, and some Cardinals fans held up signs in support of Lane during the baseball playoffs.