• Look out, local gourmands! You might have to go elsewhere for your foie gras in the future. City Councilman Jack Kelly has proposed a ban on it, on the grounds that to create it, geese and ducks are force-fed until their livers are many times their normal size, a procedure which is cruel and torturous. Huh. Well, we guess that's a good reason. We wouldn't be the first place to ban foie gras production, either; more than a dozen countries, including many in Europe, have banned it, and California passed a law to phase it out by 2012.
• Don't expect a warm welcome if you barge into a Philly household with a knife and start waving it around! Somebody who tried that Tuesday night at a house on Broad Street near Wyoming Avenue ended up with a meat cleaver to the head. The cleaver was wielded by the woman of the house, who swung it at the intruder as soon as he pointed his knife away from her. Nice!
• The old Liberty Bell Pavilion has been packed up and shipped off, and to an unlikely destination: Alaska. There about 85% of the pavilion will be transformed into a "Remembrance Park" in Anchorage, where a reproduction of the Liberty Bell will be displayed. Aww, isn't that sweet? A little piece of Philly way up in Alaska.

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