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Golden Girl, the saucy late-nighter on WUSL (98.9), is back on the air, two months after stepping out during a contract dispute.

Lisa Natson, on Power 99.
Lisa Natson, on Power 99.Read more

Golden Girl

, the saucy late-nighter on WUSL (98.9), is back on the air, two months after stepping out during a contract dispute.

GG (Lisa Natson) had sued Power 99, alleging that owner Clear Channel was doing nothing to further her career, including not pursuing a syndication deal.

Her attorney Joseph Marrone, saying that he sees a warming in the ties between Natson and Clear Channel, dropped the federal suit on Tuesday. Natson's contract expires in November.

While her fans heard reruns for two months, Natson says she was vacationing (Jamaica), "taking care of some business" and completing her book, Golden Girl's Sex and Celebrities: The Truth, The Whole Truth and the Naked Truth. She calls it a frank look at high-profile hook-ups, including a couple of her own. (Out in August.) Luther "Uncle Luke" Campbell will fete her at a welcome-back party Saturday at the Blue Horizon.

Angi Taylor's return

I's are dotted, T's are crossed and

Angi Taylor

is now officially part of

Chris Booker's

Q102 morning show, where she's been trying out for several weeks. She'll continue to be piped in by ISDN line from WBMX in Chicago, where she lives with beau

Dave Kampel

and their 2-year-old daughter,

Adriana

. Taylor, who signed a one-year deal, was part of the old

Chio in the Morning Show

(then on Q102) when she, pregnant, left Philly in 2004 to join Kampel in Chicago. He works behind the scenes for Clear Channel's Chicago cluster. (In a twist, Taylor must go to the station to do her Q102 work, while Kampel does his thing from home.)

By phone yesterday, Taylor said program director Rick Vaughn "called me out of the blue" after sidekick Jil Crapanzano was let go.

Hooray for technology. Taylor says she and the rest of the crew (Booker, Diego Ramos and Blaire Galaton) are linked by videoconferencing, "so I can hear and see everything they do." She'll fly in for appearances. "I'll be as visible as they are," she says. "But I'm not going out drinking with Booker every night."

More radio notes

Anthony Riley

, the singer arrested for performing in Rittenhouse Square earlier this year, will appear at 9 a.m. today on WXPN (88.5) with

Matt Riley

.

Robby Torres

will accompany on guitar.

Does the phrase "Famous 56. . . WFIL!" ring a bell? XM Satellite Radio's '60s channel will air a tribute to WFIL's top-40 past, including jingles, music and DJs, from 4 to 9 p.m. tomorrow. Host is Terry "Motormouth" Young, who did Philly air shifts on Q102 and the old WCAU-FM. (XM gives free, three-day trials at http://listen.xmradio.com.)

Partners: The Philadelphia Business Journal now feeds the "Delaware Valley Business Report" to KYW Newsradio (1060) at 6:55 a.m. and 4:55 p.m. weekdays.

Shuffling at Radio One, whose local stations are urban WPHI (100.3), gospel WPPZ (103.9), and adult urban WRNB (107.9). Days after operations manager Daisy Davis left, Elroy "R.C." Smith replaced her. Smith, a native of Bermuda, last managed an urban station in Chicago.

Seeing double

Photog

Bill Heuberger

got much mileage out of his shoot with model

Kendra Bentley

, from NYC's Wilhelmina agency - cover shots on the new MainLine and Bucks magazines. For Bucks - whose image was a last-minute substitution - Bentley lounges in a hammock with a slumbering guy, while on MainLine, she stands by the rail of a boat. Both glossies are published by

Andrew Cantor

and edited by

Marni Prichard Manko

.