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I have a new favorite park. Well, a new favorite park that I probably will not get to visit all that often because it's a bit far from where I live and I don't have much business in its neighborhood. I'm talking about Coxe Park, on Cherry Street and Beechwood Street (which interestingly enough, Google maps is unable to find. It's between 21st and 22nd streets.)

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Sometimes, I forget that there are certain parks in Philadelphia that I absolutely love. Take Logan Square (or Logan Circle, depending on your grasp of geometry). I hadn't been there for a long while, until this past weekend when I spent a few hours reading on the grass there. At the center of Logan Circle is the Swann Fountain, which was designed and created by Wilson Eyre, Jr. and Alexander Stirling Calder in honor of the founder of the Philadelphia Fountain Society, Dr. Wilson Cary Swann. The fountain is (in my mind) the most magnificent fountain in the city, and I think the vast number of people who visit Logan Circle just to jump in the fountain during the summer agree with me. (Side note: you're not actually allowed to swim in the fountain. "No Swimming" is pretty clearly painted around the fountain. But people do it anyway. And the faint smell of chlorine in the air when I was there last suggests to me that the city is going to look the other way on this issue.) It is also known as the Fountain of the Three Rivers as the three Native American figures in the center of the fountain were meant to represent Philly's three main waterways: the Wissahickon, the Schuylkill, and the Delaware. The fountain's design is a bit fun: there are turtles and frogs scattered around its perimeter, and the three figures in the center are each holding swans (haha, get it?). The geyser in the center of the fountain can shoot water up to fifty feet in the air.

We much prefer days like this one.

If it's spicy, chances are I'll like it. Thai, Szechuan, Mexican, Japanese, or Indian: if it leaves my lips a little tingly and my sinuses a little clearer, it's generally okay by me, which is why I was excited to try out the newly-opened King of Tandoor in Logan Square.

Well, it's one way to keep cool.

You know what we're thinking about today? We're only 21 days away from The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull...Beware the link, the signature music plays right away, and loudly, too.

and the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, Logan Square.

Summer can be hard in the city, what with the smog and humidity and the cement oven beneath our feet. Phillyist plans to balance sticky subway air with some getting back to nature, and you can too. Greater Phildelphia Cares has a bunch of volunteer opportunities that will connect you with the soil. Which we hear is nice and cool once you dig down a few inches.

Fun around town, for $10 or less:

This week, we've got another theatre quote from Shakespeare because, as it turns out, the Bard was totally meta. This one is from Hamlet, and it comes at the end of a very long monologue (did you know that Hamlet is the talkiest of all Shakespeare's characters?) during which Hamlet schemes to have his uncle admit to killing his father. The entirety of the well-known quote, which isn't even a complete sentence, is: "...the play's the thing/ Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king." Now, on with the listings!

We can't help it. Whenever anyone so much as mentions , we get "Defying Gravity" stuck in our heads. Or "Popular." Now, on with the listings!