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Recently we received a request from an out of town reader for our non-touristy recommendations for the best local spots. More specifically our favorites in Food, Galleries, Booze, Books, Clothes, Music, "Women" (back to this later) and "Any other cool shit that you think people who are into eating, drinking, art, reading, music, etc. would like to see." Well, we like to appease so we'll give it a shot. Oh, and dear reader, we're not a hipster either, so if you accidentally wander into hipster territory based on our solid normal person advice, sorry. It can't be helped. It's Philly. They're everywhere.

Hey, did you hear? Some baseball team won the National League pennant.

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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.

Today and tomorrow, South Philly is celebrating the 9th Annual Sorrento Cheese Italian Market Festival. If you’ve never been to the Italian Market (do you even LIVE in this city?!?), or even it’s just been awhile, this weekend is a great opportunity to go down and get your cuisine on.

With all that went down this week, we thought we'd cheer everyone up by giving everyone a double dose of dogs.

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Once a week, Phillyist will be visiting a different block in town and letting you know what's discovered there. This may or may not be an excuse to validate random wandering - either way, if you've got suggestions for places to check out, send them along! Though I don't get to the Italian Market as much as I'd like to, this block is one I assumed I knew inside and out. Pizza at Lorenzo's and...

Since changing from Jake’s Real Italian Pizza & Grill to Milano’s Pizzeria & Grill, the pizza has improved at this South 10th Street restaurant across from Thomas Jefferson Hospital.

Philadelphia is home to some really bad pizza, and even if you expect bad pizza sometimes you are really surprised. Tony A’s Pizza (four locations in the Philadelphia area) most definitely offered one, since this small chain offered up some of the worst pizza we ever enountered in our life.

The Eagles are once more victorious (took long enough!) and that means it's okay to throw a party next week when they play. And what's essential to any football-oriented gathering? That's right! Wings!

You might expect good pizza from a place claiming to be "real Italian." But most restaurants that use a place in the name to make you think you're getting authentic quality usually aren't any good. Jake’s Real Italian Pizza & Grill is no exception to this rule.

Update: A few more sites have been added, and a few other fixes have been made.

Philly Pita Pit opened late this summer and I finally made it over about a month ago. (Good thing Phillyist has such quick turnaround, eh?) Philly Pita Pit was impressively fast, especially for 12:30 on a weekday, and has a pretty sizeable menu to choose from (in addition to pitas, they also make breakfast, salads, and smoothies). It was like going to Subway, but with more options and better toppings. I loaded my grilled chicken pita with feta cheese and veggies (all free!), and I was quite happy with the results: my meat was tender, not dry, and had a good flavor to it, and all the veggies were fresh. My companion, however was unimpressed with his falafel, claiming he'd had better from area food trucks (which I have no trouble believing.) The Pita Pit is on my way to and from work, but if it weren't on my path, I doubt I would have known about it at all. They haven't been advertising much, but they're affordable (especially if you like toppings but hate to pay for them), and the food is both tasty and healthy compared to most other fast food. They're right between a Subway location and Joe's Pizza, and while I'm loyal to Joe's, I think I'd be more likely to recommend the Pita Pit for lunch. It's different, it's fresh, and it's probably a little less likely to kill you (depending on what you order, that is).

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To get the sauce to cheese ratio harmoniously balanced, the spiciness of the sauce flawless, the dough consistency just so , never mind any type of toppings it’s a wonder the industry makes 32 billion a year. Two Red Boots, a knock off of the East Village-based pizzeria combining New Orleans and Italian type fare, happens to be a great slice. There are sauce options (mild, house, calabria or marinara)to please every palate, a whimsical array of toppings (andouille, tasso, barbecue shrimp and Creole chicken in addition to all the staples) and the delicious cornmeal crust lends itself to a chewy, crunchy and satisfying texture . Located on 21st and Chestnut, they are open seven days a week 11:00 AM until 10 PM – until midnight on Friday and Saturday -- and they deliver (in more ways than one).

It was just the other day that Phillyist mentioned how West Philly and University City were a haven for the adventurous gastronome. Apparently, someone at the University City District (warning: slow-loading Flash components) agrees, because they just released a University City Ethnic Dining Guide. You can either download the pamphlet and print it out, or you can find one of the twenty-thousand or so copies that the UCD folk plan to distribute around town (coming soon to a trash-choked gutter near you!). On first glance, the guide offers a pretty decent primer to some of the better-known ethnic dining places in the neighborhood. For some reason it skews heavily towards the African eateries in the area, listing three or four times as many of those as any other cuisine. Also, some of the classifications are a tad suspect: Cafe Paris isn't really French food so much as a regular neighborhood coffee shop with French pretensions, and Allegro Pizza is about as Italian as Taco Bell is authentically Mexican. Still, the little twelve-page booklet is attractive, and the map in the back is quite handy if you happen to be in the neighborhood and have a sudden craving for Pakistani food (or Greek, or Japanese, or what have you). It doesn't beat a knowledgeable local -- or Phillyist, natch -- but the University City Ethnic Dining Guide is definitely worth keeping around anyway.