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If you want to ensure your membership in the intelligentsia, you can spend the occasional Friday night ambling in and out of the art galleries that line Old City's cobblestone streets. On the first Friday of every month, Old City galleries keep their doors open from 5PM to 9PM, to the art afficiandos and the alike. Admission to the galleries is free - so the only risk to your pocket book is if your passion for fine art overwhelms you and you make a purchase. But then, who can put a price on art appreciation? (Hmm, actually, we suppose gallery owners can.) September's First Friday event will take place this Friday, September 2nd in Old City.

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The Greek Picnic, which brings in thousands of students nationwide from nine college fraternities and sororities, happened Saturday. Even if you weren't there, you probably were affected by it. Police officers lined the streets in packs with nothing really to do. We saw groups of officers enjoying themselves and purchasing sodas on the relatively quiet Washington Ave. On Columbus Boulevard, though, officers weren't allowing any north-bound traffic onto I-95. Perhaps the only things more annoying than that inconvenience were the cars stopping on the road to ask what exactly was going on. Cars were forced to drive a few stop-and-go miles down the Boulevard until they were allowed onto 95. The police officers did their best at slowing down traffic, which must explain why let people run across the road at will. Philadelphia has now seen three large events go by without incident: Live 8, the Freedom America concert, and the Greek Picnic. While we're proud of our city, we find it a little unsettling that in order to achieve any semblance of peace, the city police must go out of their way to shut down simple conveniences of the city, like access to the highway, or in Live 8's case, access to the city. Still, we guess we'll take blocked roads and bored police officers over being the butt of a Jay Leno joke. It's all about compromise.