It’s interesting that a lot of people demand music during sex.

We mean, occasional background noise — sure. But are there really people out there — besides those responsible for WB shows in the 1990s — who require a sex playlist?

Billboard thinks so. Reuters reports that the music mag recently compiled a list of the 50 most popular songs about sex, mostly based on chart performance.

Sadly, the majority of the top 10 aren’t sexy at all. We guess there’s a difference between being “about sex” and “sexy.”

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Dr. Drew makes an adjustment {thanks, AP}

The increasingly bizarre celebreality world, “Celebrity Rehab” is a highway accident you can’t help but slow down to gawk at.

And Season 3 (premiering 10 p.m. Thursday, VH1) sounds like a serious crash. Ringleader/unabashed publicity hound Dr. Drew Pinsky has called this season “the most difficult.”

He may have a point, because the cast (which we have a hard time referring to them as, since they’re sick and in need of real help) is particularly more f’ed up than usual. A look at five of those seeking 21 days of help this year. JORDAN BARTEL, B

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{thanks, The Baltimore Sun}

Towson Catholic shut down. City trash pickup was cut to once a week. Water main breaks were a weekly occurrence. And a Hopkins student killed an intruder with a samurai sword.
Signs of the apocalypse? No, just a typical year in Baltimore and environs.
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A box is filled with marijuana plants at the San Francisco Medical Cannabis Clinic {thanks, AP}

If you had asked him two weeks ago, Zach Brown would have said he didn’t think marijuana legalization would happen in his lifetime.

Things have quickly changed. Brown, the president of the University of Maryland, College Park chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, now is optimistic the country will see significant change in perhaps two decades.

“It seems up until this point, we’ve been working against the wind in a way, pushing our goals to hard opposition,” Brown said. “But there’s now a rapid growth of support. The winds have changed, and we’re riding with them now.”

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She wanted to get out of there. She knew she would.

When she was 5, Sonja Sohn would crawl atop a generator behind her home in Tidewater Virginia. Her father would lie beside her. “I’d ask, ‘What’s the difference between an astronomer and an astrologer?’” she says. “He saw where I was going.”

He told her she could be a lawyer. She liked hearing that. But she also knew it wouldn’t be easy: Drugs permeated the streets of her rough neighborhood, drugs she’d later experiment with.
Sohn’s life would be a balancing act — between wanting to help others and having the resources and background to do so; escaping an abusive situation at home and having the guts to run away; filling life roles as mother, friend, actor and feeling fulfilled.

It’s a similar unwieldy line Sohn’s character on HBO’s Baltimore-set crime saga “The Wire,” Det. Kima Greggs, had to walk — Kima could be tough-as-nails one scene and show heartbreaking vulnerability the next.

After all these years, Sohn’s standing straight on life’s tightrope. “A lifelong purpose has meant a lot of me,” says Sohn. “I’ve been on that search since I was 5 years old.”

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Baltimore City Council is scheduled to introduce legislation tonight that would surcharge suburbanites and out-of-staters who buy drugs in the city.

In addition to any criminal penalties, nonresidents of Baltimore could receive a $1,000 ticket to cover the cost of their arrest. Baltimore City residents are exempt from the fine because they pay (or should pay) taxes. Said William Cole, the councilman who sponsored the bill: “These civil citations serve as a way to extract our pound of flesh.”

However, the exemption of Baltimore City residents is raising some questions.

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Baltimore City Council is fighting it out with Mayor Dixon over a bill that changes the zoning code for residential drug-treatment facilities and other group homes.

As it stands, any group home with more than four residents requires City Council approval, but Council members tend not to support the homes because they are unpopular with their constituents. The “new” legislation — which City Council has essentially ignored for the past six years — would allow any group home with fewer than nine residents to open in any neighborhood without Council approval.

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If your life is in danger, make sure you have an audience.

The State’s Attorney’s Office will not prosecute a homicide in Baltimore unless two witnesses are available to testify. This policy is an effort to bump up conviction rates, which were subpar when relying on only one witness. The lone witness often changed testimony or simply “disappeared.”

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Residents in Baltimore County are protesting plans for a new methadone clinic in their community.

The clinic is set to open on Belair Road in Perry Hall. Nearby residents — the closest of whom would be 90 feet away — are upset that the clinic will be located so close to their homes. Zoning laws require medical clinics to be 750 feet from the nearest home, but the clinic owner has applied for an exception.

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