Proofreading Philly tries to capture typos, wordos, and all other kinds of grammatical mistakes that we see around the city. But we need your help! Email photos to us from your computer or your phone, and show the city that you care about good grammar. It's no secret that we love Five Guys Famous Burgers and Fries. We especially love them on days like today, when they're giving out free cake for no apparent reason.......

Ah, Fourth of July! It's time for parades, fireworks, and barbecues. Lots of barbecues. But surprisingly, barbecues, those gatherings amongst friends and family which serve no purpose other than to feed and, perhaps, inebriate one's nearest and dearest, can be a hotbed of rudeness – and around a hot grill, rudeness can equate to a certain degree of danger. Following are tips for having a polite and safe Fourth of July barbecue, whether you're......

It's drawing close to the day when all Phillyists must decide what to do with a day off in the sweltering heat - the Fourth of July. Do we hang around the city, deal with the onslaught of tourists dressed up in their red, white and blue best to sit on the parkway and listen to Hall and Oates? Do we sit around drinking beer and grilling burgers and dogs? Do we venture into the......

The 2007 Sunoco Welcome America! Festival launched yesterday (complete with live map to tell you where the festivities are, or, if you're like us, what parts of the city to avoid over the next few days). Between now and Wednesday, there's a ton of celebratin' to do, as part of Welcome America! or otherwise. We know that at some point, we'll be barbecuing some burgers and dogs, and watching fireworks are an absolute must,......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. Design a new burger for Wendys and you could win $25,000, and you might even see your burger on their menu in 2008. Runners up win free burgers for a year. Dude, awesome. We've got an idea for a burger: it's just a pile of bacon on a bun. What? That's just a bacon sandwich? Damn. Ah, well,......

Memorial Day is next Monday. This means very little in the scheme of commercial holiday celebrating, of course, except for the fact that it means a day off and, for whatever reason, official permission to wear white. And how, whether clad in white or not, do most people celebrate Memorial Day? With a barbecue. Duh. Unfortunately, five years in Philly haven't taught us any good spots to grill. We have our little Ikea grill that......

LAist is experimenting with blogging dates from J-Date, but finds the best men are found offline. Some date vicariously online and that is one reason why porn is big -- really freaking big -- so they ask if they should cover XXX since the heart of it lays in the city's San Fernando Valley. A writer grapples with her food porn photography obsession, another gets censored on Flickr, one gets scooped by the LA......

At some point yesterday, I realized that it had been a couple of days since I'd had any protein to speak of. And what I was getting was from my endless supply of dairy products: mostly Wawa milk and string cheese from Trader Joe's. But my body needed real, hearty protein. And iron. (I've been dragging and figured that not having enough iron could be a contributing factor. Never mind that I've been averaging four......

Before you even start, no, this has nothing to do with Philadelphia. But when somebody offers to send me a DVD about ninjas with the word "Shinobi" in the title, how am I supposed to say no?? So here I am, reviewing Shinobi: Heart Under Blade, a 2005 Japanese film released to disc in the States last month. So what's it all about? It's sort of Romeo and Juliet, but here R & J are......

Like Katie, I've been spending too much time at Ten Stone lately. On Friday night, we decided we really needed a change and so, at the recommendation of one of L2's fabulous bartenders, Katie and I, along with another Phillyist staffer, headed a block in the opposite direction toward Grace Tavern. It was a great recommendation: exactly our kind of scene. Small and crowded with good music and what seemed to be "our kind of......

I'd walked past Bootsie's several times before its opening, each time with mounting curiosity. The name sounded to me like a mecca for New Orleans-style comfort food, Louis Armstrong's version of "When the Saints Go Marchin' In" playing over the sound system. Then Daily Candy informed me that Bootsie's was a different kind of fast food experience. Burgers and dogs, but with gourmet ingredients. It wasn't gumbo, but they'd still have andouille sausage on the......

- It's official, Philadelphia's annual Fourth of July celebration on the Parkway will feature Lionel Ritchie and...U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito? Frankly, we're a little disappointed the former Commodore and the Justice aren't going to be doing a duet. (For a full-listing of events for the week long celebration, visit the America's Birthday website). (Via) - More bands are having their vans stolen on our city streets. Come on, now, Philly; haven't we......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Turns out teenage boys have always had the same interests, all the way back to Paleolithic times: spitting, sex, and killing things. (Via) We like to keep you up to date about the weather here at Phillyist, so you should know: there's a really freaking huge lightning storm going on right now...on Saturn. It's about 2,175 miles wide, which is bigger than the......

Brendan Benson plays at World Cafe Live tonight with The Greenhornes, whose recent EP, East Grand Blues, was produced by Benson. Benson's Alternative to Love is one of the year's better albums, providing all of the power hooks and choruses that our indie pop loving hearts could desire. Tonight's show at World Cafe Live (3025 Walnut Street, 215-222-1400) begins at 8 p.m. in the Downstairs Live venue. The intimate setting allows for Benson fans to......

We’re not going to say this cart has “the best cheesesteaks in town” because to make a claim like that, in a city like this, is just opening an enormous can.... Make –it-your-own-way choices range from pizza steak - which consists of griddled to perfection meat shavings smothered in tomato sauce and cheese, to chicken provolone and onions, to the works.... Located on the sidewalk of the PECO Building (corner of Market and 23rd), the cart is worth a major shout out to anyone who is on the eternal quest to find steak nirvana in a town that has taken meat, bread and cheese to gothic heights....

Maybe you've just taken in a free concert at Penn's Landing, or you're coming out of a show at the Ritz East, or you've just dug up a half-dozen early editions of the Waverly novels at the Book Trader. Whatever the reason, you're deep in the heart of Old City and you're craving just one thing. But since a torrid twelve-hour threesome with Brad and Angelina ain't likely to happen, you're willing to settle for......

As you may have already heard, this month's GQ released a list of the twenty best burgers in America, and two local Philly restaurants made the list. Sure, we didn't win, place, or show, but two burgers in the top five ain't bad, right? At number five are the Kobe Sliders that are served as a $15 appetizer at Barclay Prime. Phillyist would never have thought of serving Kobe beef, the butter-soft marbled meat from......

Summer's in full force, and with it comes the urge to grill up some old-fashioned barbeque. But sometimes burgers and franks aren't exactly what you're looking for. If you're watching what you eat, why not throw a tuna steak on the grill? Marinate it in some ginger, garlic, sugar and soy first, and then while it's grilling toss together some mixed greens and cherry tomatoes with a tasty vinaigrette, like the one below. When the......

Where is probably the only place in Philly that you can find a poor college student, a doctor, a biker, a businessman, a sorority girl, and a bleached socialite mingling with one another? Drinker's Tavern. Long before termed Mel’s “serenity hang-out” (a reference to MTV’s Real World: Philadelphia), this dark hole-in-the-wall bar has been getting Philly patrons drunk for nearly three years. Ridiculously drunk. For ridiculously cheap. Seriously, in a city where martinis are skyrocketing......