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You would think that the godfathers of thrash metal would be intimidating figures to talk to. When Phillyist had the opportunity to sit down with Slayer (MySpace) bassist/vocalist/co-founder Tom Araya, that's exactly what we thought. Boy, were we wrong. Sitting with Araya was sitting with a sage of heavy metal, a gentle spirit with a vast musical background who just happens to front the greatest thrash metal band the world has ever seen. It was pretty damn incredible.

Of all the chefs we met at last weekend's Atlantic City Food and Wine Festival, Guy Fieri seemed most like he belonged in New Jersey—even though he's a California boy. Personable, at ease in his surroundings, and completely un-self-conscious (unless you're trying to capture him mid-"Hunch," as you'll see below), Guy's exactly what you'd expect him to be if you're a fan of Diners, Drive-ins and Dives. And above all, he's funny. Before we got our chance to chat with him, he taunted the husband one of the event's hostesses for allowing his wife to drive a minivan before insisting that she yodel his introduction. We didn't even get five minutes of Guy's time, but we got at least ten minutes worth of interview material with this fast-talking winner of the second season of The Next Food Network Star. And, as you'll see at the bottom of the interview, he said we can buy him a sandwich sometime. We fully intend to follow through.

• The Supreme Court has agreed to determine whether shareholders can sue Merck over Vioxx's failures.
• The state seems unimpressed by Philly's proposed one percent sales tax hike.
• New Jersey is revisiting a bill to allow liquor sales in grocery stores. If passed, Pennsylvania will be one of only four states without that ability.

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Budget Travel recently published a piece called 25 Reasons We Love Philadelphia. Of course, they include the mandatory cheesesteak reference. But they do us justice in their mention of that most magnificent of creepy-ass ruins, Eastern State Penitentiary, the homegrown fashions of Vagabond Boutique, and the (literally) artful hotel The Independent. There's bound to be something on the list you didn't know about (like the Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby), or maybe just never took advantage of, like the 9,200 acres (!) that make up Fairmount Park.

We wish we could be this thrifty!

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The best part of this video is definitely the contents of the wad of cash.

These guys are obviously actors... but we bet you've seen people just like them hitting up Pat's and Geno's, so does it really matter?

A few months ago, we asked readers to tell us where we can eat cheaply and quickly in Old City. We got some great feedback (this Phillyist eats at Gianfranco Pizza Rustica at least once a week, much to the chagrin of her personal trainer), and now we'd like to add another spot to the list: Independence Al Fresco, next to the Independence Visitor Center.

You know... we knew that cheesesteaks were unhealthy. But a thousand calories apiece? These kids will be in worse shape than Morgan Spurlock.

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The PA Guv is meeting up with New York Senator and 2008 Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at City Hall. The Inquirer reports that the 1:15pm meeting was added to her schedule late last night.

Raise your hand if you don't love YouTube/Viddler/Google Video/etc. Okay, that one guy raising your hand? You probably just want to scroll past this post, because it probably won't interest you in the slightest. To the rest of you, here are the fifteen videos we've posted in 2007 that I'm still entirely too proud of myself for finding. (The video embedded here didn't make it to the list, but deserves honorable mention if only because it's a locally-produced response to one of the best SNL musical numbers in a decade.)

Dear Philadelphia:

A show we've never heard of on the Travel Channel just visited our fair city. Here's what they think of some of our native cuisine....

Phillyist loves food. A lot. So much so that when we’re trapped at our desk unable to nosh, we spend a good deal of time online looking at food-related items and salivating on our keyboard. A particular form of torture pleasure is checking out local food blogs and listings so we can fantasize about restaurants and markets that we could be enjoying that very second if it weren’t for the dastardly need for full...

We found out about this yesterday on Foobooz, and figured it bore repeating here.

There must be something in the Cheez Whiz, since Rick Oliveri, the owner of Rick’s Philly Steaks in Reading Terminal Market, is again in some hot water. The last time that Rick, a member of the original Pat’s Steak’s family, was in the news, was last October, when he was getting sued by relative Frank Oliveri Jr. over references to Pat’s Steaks in the promotional materials for his Citizens Bank Park location.

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What with Paris Hilton's release earlier this week and the upcoming celebration of American Independence (sorry, Londonist!), we've been thinking a lot about freedom. Freedom to vote, freedom to choose, and most importantly, freedom to blog. Here are a few things we're happy we've been free to blog about this week.

If you try to search Google for Tacconelli's Pizzeria you may, depending on your choice of keywords, find either the original store in Philadelphia or the splinter faction in New Jersey. Perhaps taking a cue from the myriad of splinter cheese steak factions found in Philadelphia, there are two Taconelli’s. Don’t get fooled and schlep out to Burlington County, but instead go to the original in the Port Richmond section of Philadelphia.

Is N.Y.P.D. Pizza on South 11th Street across from Thomas Jefferson University Hospital going to be the next pizzeria to face the wrath of the New York City Police Department? Perhaps, given the fact that a similarly named chain of pizzerias based in Orlando has incurred the wrath of New York’s Finest and is getting sued for having a logo that is a doppelganger for the NYPD logo and selling faux-NYPD gear - all without being official licensees.