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It feels nice to be writing this post again. That's because it means it's summer. Things are a little different this year. Check out the "News" section and the events organized by region to help make the most of your weekends—as we Philadelphians would say—"down the shore."

Protest over national vs. regional chains, the never-ending debate over the place of cars and bicycles in our metropolises, professional sports scandals, remembering a solemn day, and being issued a search warrant - it all happened across our sites this week!

What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend.

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.