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Fall is a busy time for Phillyist, and as such we don’t really get to put in as much volunteer face time as we do in the slow days of summer. So ‘tis the season to poke around and find some easy and painless ways to support local causes.

By Jake Dobkin

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets.

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you.

I have to admit to getting excited when I was walking through the Gallery this morning on my way to work, reached that mysterious white box that's gone up next to the escalator at the 9th and Market exit, and saw a sign on it reading "Starbucks Coming Soon."

(and / or MTV) after Philadelphia was freed from our own season of whinging twenty-somethings, you'll have a chance to check out The King of France tonight at The North Star, along with Robbers on High Street.

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.