We've had friends who lived or worked near Old City tell us before that they had trouble finding fast, cheap, non-pizza food in the neighborhood. Nonsense, we'd say. There are so many restaurants in Old City, surely, there must be a slew of options for a quick lunch on the go. The hungry tourists have to eat something, right? Well, yes and no. Sure, there's the food court at The Bourse, and about a......

Philadelphia has one of the highest rates of police shootings in the country. The Daily News takes a look at what's being done about it, and is pretty underwhelmed. Apparently "many of the officers involved in these shootings are back to their regular street beats, even though most incidents are still being investigated without a determination that the officers were justified in firing their weapons." Due to the fact that local schools had received recalled......

What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend. Academy Award Nominated Animated Shorts Academy Award Nominated Live-Action Shorts Wow, this is totally cool: the Ritz at the Bourse is actually screening all the animated and live-action short films that have been nominated for Oscars this year. These films are usually quite difficult to see, so this is a really neat opportunity. Showing at: Ritz at the Bourse George Romero's Diary of the Dead It's......

Tuesday The Philadelphia Orchestra begins this week of concerts with the unforgettable Beethoven 9. Mann Center; 8 PM; $10-$50 Wednesday Hear the angelic voices of the Keystone State Boy Choir as part of the Holy Trinity's Brown Bag Lunch Series. Holy Trinity (Rittenhouse Square); 12:30 PM; FREE The Philadelphia Orchestra, along with the acclaimed Itzhak Perlman as soloist, will give a somewhat "spanish"-themed concert with works by Chabrier, Berlioz, and Mendelssohn. Mann Center; 8......

The Philly Orchestra is finally back in town. Hooray! Wednesday Soprano Maria Traub, also a French and Italian professor, comes to the Holy Trinity's Brown Bag Lunch series for a program of operatic favorites. Holy Trinity (Rittenhouse Square); 12:30 PM; FREE Wednesday, Thursday, Friday The Philadelphia Orchestra presents programs of Mozart, Beethoven, and Tchaikovsky respectively. The Beethoven concert boasts a rather odd slogan of "9 symphonies in 90 minutes" and will feature one movement from......

So you thought that Starbucks was finished with its quest for total domination in the land of hot caffeinated beverages? Maybe they are. They are not, however, finished with their domination of early morning (and even mid-afternoon) munchies. Tomorrow (Tuesday, May 22), Starbucks will be launching its new warm food platform. With this platform will come five breakfast sandwiches and two lunch sandwiches. If you’re more of a bagel, pastry or cookie Philadelphian, don’t......

Philly PD is hoping DNA evidence will help them catch the armed attacker robbing and molesting women in and around Center City. And frankly, so are we. (Hoping the DNA evidence will catch them that is - not armed, attacking and molesting women. Just for the poorly-constructed sentence record.) The Inquirer and Daily News may be facing a strike - at least according to a strongly worded Newspaper Guild memo, which is encourging employees......

Our weekly look into the odd, strange and bizarre at one .org. Is this like Mystery Date? “Dumbass” isn’t very creative, but “your teeth are nasty” is, so you’re our oh SNAP! of the week. You go and take it to those “shiny spandex wearing, road hogging” cyclists. Right on! Fight the power! Discussion of the week: Lunch. Normally, I wouldn’t post something that so obviously makes fun of South Jersey girls, but this......

Phillyist was on the 44 bus the other day, when we noticed this helpful (?) message scrawled in the area just behind the driver's seat where a more standard informational poster should be. Now, everything this bit of graffito claims is true - the 44 does not stop on Arch or Race or at 52nd and Market (although Phillyist is quite sure there is some form of bus stop at some of those locations)......

Last week, we led with Hamlet, and this week we're continuing the trend with a quote from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. The full quote is: "We keep to our usual stuff, more or less, only inside out. We do on stage the things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit being an entrance somewhere else." In this scene, it is revealed......