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*Yes, it's Wednesday. But we needed some extra time to prepare our new Foodsday Tuesday feature, Quick Nosh, which will feature snack-sized servings of food news that we couldn't dedicate a full post to. Check out the first one at the bottom of this post. Got a Philly food tip? Send 'em over!

Today is Repeal Day, the day we get to celebrate our Constitutional right to drink. That's right: the 21st Amendment, ratified exactly 75 years ago today, repealed the 18th (Prohibition) Amendment and gave us our booze back. To celebrate, several local establishments will be having drink specials ranging from one buck drafts at Memphis Taproom to price-adjusted-for-1933 ten cent beer at The Institute—for exactly 19 minutes and 33 seconds, starting at 7:33PM (that's 19:33 in military time). Click through to Foobooz for more details.

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This Wednesday The Institute of Contemporary Art hosts A Midsummer Night's Screening, two presentations that are connected to the current exhibition "karen kilimnik." The first presentation, which begins at 7:30 and will loop throughout the evening, is an episode of the classic TV show The Avengers entitled "A Touch of Brimstone." Detailing the exploits of the Hellfire Club, it was banned from American TV due to a little number Emma wears as "The Queen of Sin," which is worth the price of admission if you ask us. The episode was the inspiration for a piece in the exhibit, Kilimnik's The Hellfire Club episode of the Avengers (1989). Yup, that would be the one.