Hey remember The Broad Street Diner, the grey lady of Broad and Ellsworth? It used to be “A Place For Ribs.” Now it’s “A Place Stephen Starr May Turn Into A Chic Restaurant That I Can’t Afford.” (Sorry, didn’t mean to be snarky. Starr's done a lot for Philly.) According to Food and Drinq, Mr. Starr has signed a letter of intent, applied for a liquor license, and begun kicking around some ideas of what......

When Phillyist went on the Unemployment Diet, we lost fifteen pounds. While it probably wasn't a terribly healthy way to lose weight, we were a lot closer to our target weight than we had been in the months prior, and we looked and felt better than we had in some time. Then we started dating the boy and he saw to it that our inability to afford food didn't have an impact on our ability......

The South Beach Diet people were out at 12th and Filbert this morning, across from the Reading Terminal Market, handing out free breakfast bars and filming...something...in the back of their van. Some kind of weird softcore porn video? No, probably not. Probably they were trying to make passers-by feel like they were on the beach in the middle of a (finally actually frigid) Philly winter. Or something. Anyway, that lady in the swimsuit waved......

Our friends at Parisist get the lead today, because they wrote to let us know that they're still alive. We're glad, Parisist; we were really worried! Stay safe! Parisist wishes to inform you that there is no civil war in France. DCist: The Chinese are trying to make commies out of us all, and they're using pandas to do it. Houstonist: "Man gets really attached to bus, threatens driver." Ha. Bostonist: Mmm... bacon! Seattlest: Do......