Nails

MUCH TO HER dismay, West Philly native Eve, is the star of the Internet's newest celebrity sex video. The 30-second clip, dated Nov. 20, 1999, shows a man using a sex toy on the naked Martin Luther King High graduate while he pleasures himself. The man has been identified by the New York Daily News as Bad Boy Entertainment producer Stevie J. A spokeswoman for Eve, formally Eve Jihan Jeffers, told the New York tab that the tape was made "years ago with her boyfriend of over two years.

RE CHRISTINE Flowers' op-ed on the New Jersey gay-marriage decision: Her article was right on. I wonder how many people, when they go to vote, actually take the time to do background checks on the judges they vote for? The liberal-left judicial branch of federal, state and even local jurisdictions is attempting to force their interpretations and agendas on all of us - whether we like it or not. As an ex-public official, I've lived this. Unfortunately, people are too stupid or lazy to realize that it's happening.

Q: I've had a fungus infection of the large toes for at least 14 years. All efforts, topical and internal, have failed to kill it. My doctor says he can only slow the infection down, but cannot cure it. Any advice? A: Try griseofulvin (Fulvicin), a prescription oral anti-fungus remedy. You would have to take it for several months to eradicate the yeast, particularly in the nailbed. As an alternative, buy herbal La-Pacho tea (in health food stores or supermarkets), steep it and soak your feet in it twice a day. Q: What cause nocturnal leg cramps, and what can be done for them?

A township employee who had just been fired by his foreman took out his frustration by clubbing another worker over the head with a wooden board, police reported. Keane Daniels, 20, of the 500 block of Haverford Court, Ardmore, fled the township garage on Kromer Road after the incident Monday morning, Radnor police said. Police then issued a warrant for his arrest on charges of aggravated assault, simple assault, reckless endangerment and terroristic threats. Rich Sonier, the public works employee who was struck twice in the head with the board, was treated at Bryn Mawr Hospital, said Township Manager Robert M. Crofford.

The cops who stopped a van in Montgomery County in January 1987 got a surprise when they opened a 55-gallon drum and found a body stuffed inside. The body was that of German Arrango Vargas, 32, who had made the mistake of annoying a gang of North Philadelphia drug peddlers, police said. Vargas' end was not pleasant, according to testimony yesterday by Ramon Santiago, a gang member who is cooperating with authorities. On Jan. 9, 1987, the day before the murder, Santiago said, Vargas, whom the gang members suspected of cheating them, was tied up and left next to nine bulldogs on the second floor of a garage on Marshall Street near Cambria.

Fred Wilson, 31, made a hit recording in 1995, but he didn't get to hear it until he got to a courtroom. That's because it was a secret tape recording made by a police informant in which Wilson admits he sent two hit men to the West Oak Lane home of a building contractor to rob and kill him on Oct. 4, 1996, said Assistant District Attorney Edward McCann. On the tape, Wilson calls the slayers of Benjamin Milla, 40, of Fayette Street near Washington Lane, "cold-blooded killers," men who "make sure" they finish off their victims, because "that's the way they work.

If you had asked Jade Starling what "The Beautyworx" was five years ago, she probably would have shrugged her shoulders. But today, the lead singer of the local pop band Pretty Poison will tell you that that it's the only place she'll go to have her trademark nails done. That, said Starling, 28, is because the only person she trusts to do the elaborate airbrush artwork on her nails is Lois Burak, owner of the Beautyworx. It's a perfect match - a musician who wanted to be a beautician seeking out a beautician who wanted to be a musician.

Cutting a pet's nails is a task detested by even the most experienced animal owners. Dogs and cats will fight like tigers to avoid it, but it is a necessary task. Neglected nails can grow painfully into the pet's footpad. They can also ruin your carpets, furniture and curtains. Train the pet to accept nail-clipping as you would brushing. Put it on your lap or lying close to you. Stroke it and then, casually, touch its feet. Do not try to clip. Handle the pet, with increasing attention to the feet, for a week before attempting to clip.

Riverton Country Club's Dorothy Porter made the third hole in one of her illustrious career to highlight the first day of the Jane McCullough Hamilton Invitational tournament yesterday at Huntingdon Valley. Porter, a former U.S. Women's Amateur and U.S. Women's Senior Amateur champion, teamed with partner Maryann Hajduk for a better-ball score of 75 and a share of second place. Green Valley's Jan Albert and Philmont's Bonnie George will take a 4-shot lead into today's second of four rounds after posting a 71. Phila.

Donald Ray Adams shot and killed two men in an alley in 1990, but spared the life of a woman eyewitness. The oversight proved costly. The witness testified this week at his trial, and yesterday a Common Pleas jury convicted Adams of first-degree murder for one killing, and second-degree murder for the other. Judge Carolyn E. Temin ordered a sentencing hearing for tomorrow. Assistant District Attorney David Desiderio will ask the jury to sentence Adams, of Warnock Street near Rockland, to die. Evidence shows that Adams had approached Darryl Patterson, 33, of Cecil B. Moore Avenue near 31st Street, on Dec. 22, 1990, to buy cocaine.

Interest in 76ers associate head coach Michael Curry from other teams with coaching vacancies "will be high," according to league source with knowledge of the situation. On Thursday, when Doug Collins resigned his post as head coach after three seasons, majority owner Josh Harris acknowledged that Curry would be among the candidates to interview for the vacancy. Collins and the team agreed that Collins would move into an advisory role with the team. On the same day that Collins resigned, Cleveland and Detroit fired their coaches, Byron Scott and Lawrence Frank, respectively.

The Phillies played their ninth game of the season Wednesday night at Citizens Bank Park, and infielder Freddy Galvis has started none of them. General manager Ruben Amaro Jr. admitted that it is a concern that needs to be addressed. "Sometime soon - probably," the general manager said. "We kind of take it day by day. " Galvis has made three pinch-hitting appearances and is hitless with a strikeout. He flied out in the eighth inning Wednesday. Manager Charlie Manuel still believes the young infielder will benefit most by being on the big-league roster.

THIS Labor Day weekend, Philadelpia will all bow down to the U.S.'s one true monarch: Queen Bey. Beyonce will top the bill of the Budweiser Made in America festival, taking place Aug. 31 and Sept. 1 on the Ben Franklin Parkway. Nine Inch Nails will share headlining duties with Beyonce, who is also set to play the Wells Fargo Center on July 25. The event, of course, is curated by B's hubs, Jay-Z , who was not announced as a performer. Other acts on the bill include the legendary hip-hop group Public Enemy , rapper Kendrick Lamar (along with his Black Hippy crew, including Ab-Soul , Jay Rock and Schoolboy Q )

When it was over, and the Baltimore Ravens had hung on to win, 34-31, the several hundred football fans gathered at a South Jersey restaurant let out a Super Bowl-sized yell for the pride of Audubon: game MVP Joe Flacco. "We feel so proud to be from Audubon. He put Audubon on the map," said Janice Frankowsky, who lives around the corner from Flacco's parents, Steve and Karen, and went to high school with the couple in Haddon Township. Flacco, 28, who played quarterback at Audubon High, had fixed up dozens of his family members with tickets to the Super Bowl in New Orleans.

KENDRA G., a former radio personality at 100.3 The Beat and Hot 107.9, lives in Atlanta these days, working as a correspondent for the AXS TV network. But when she needed her fingernails done last month, she drove all the way back to Philly and headed straight to Ann's Nails at 23rd Street and Ridge Avenue. "I swear by that salon," said Kendra, whose nails are metallic silver, some of them completely encrusted with clear Swarovski crystals. "I can't find anyone in Atlanta to do them, and that says a lot," she said.

South Jersey home builder Bruce Paparone is taking no chances. His crews began preparing work sites to keep damage to a minimum as early as Friday, as Hurricane Sandy's direct hit on the region became evident on the computer models. To remove anything that could blow around, Paparone said, "all loose items were removed or covered. Portable toilets were tied to dumpsters, and all loose lumber loaded into garages. Forklifts were put on top of open lumber piles. " Monday, he said, contractors and other employees were told to stay home.

With feds' help, 7 nailed in drug-distribution ring * 7th Street near Cambria, Kensington Seven men from Kensington, Fairhill, Hunting Park or North Philadelphia are each facing 17 drug and conspiracy charges after authorities on Tuesday busted them in a heroin-distribution ring. The bust occurred after U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder sent 50 officers to Philadelphia as part of a surge in federal law enforcement to help the city address violent and drug-related crime, said Tasha Jamerson, spokeswoman for the District Attorney's Office.

As far as auditions go, Domonic Brown had a good night, Vance Worley provided mixed results, and the Phillies continued to look toward the future, because the present has not been very encouraging. After struggling with Bronson Arroyo for eight-plus innings, the Phillies could not solve closer Aroldis Chapman for the second straight night in a 3-2 loss to the Cincinnati Reds Wednesday at Citizens Bank Park. Brown had a double, hit his first home run of the season, made a sensational catch in right field, and gunned down a runner at the plate.

Philadelphia Police are searching for a suspect caught on surveillance camera during two violent West Philadelphia nail salon stick-ups. A store surveillance camera appears to have caught a clean shot of the suspect in the two hold-ups, said Lt. John Walker, of Southwest Detectives. Around 11 a.m., Thursday, the gunmen burst into the Myly Nail Salon on the 6200 block Lansdowne Avenue, and put a small black handgun to the store owner as she was working on a customer. The gunman told the woman "to shut up unless you want to die," Walker said, before fleeing with $100.

SAN FRANCISCO - Of the 17 players within 5 strokes of the lead who had a legitimate shot to win the U.S. Open entering the final round, the name of Webb Simpson didn't stand out on a list with Jim Furyk, Graeme McDowell, Ernie Els, and Tiger Woods - former Open champions all. That didn't matter to Simpson. Even though he was 6 strokes out of first place after 36 holes and 4 back entering the final 18, he knew he had the game to win, if only he could keep his composure over the beast that was the Lake Course at the Olympic Club.