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A week’s worth of local Craigslist hijinks.

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Sometimes, to quote that awful Taco Bell commercial, you just want something cheesy and melty. But if you're like me, there's little—short of being very, very broke or very, very drunk—that will persuade you to patronize Taco Bell, so when the craving hits, you must look elsewhere. And as entertaining as it was to watch Mayor Nutter really enjoy his margaritas at the Love Park Mexican Post last week, I didn't find my meal there to be nearly cheesy or melty enough. (Odd, because looking at the menu, you'd think there was nothing there but cheesy and melty.)

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you.

Londonist got the big scoop of the week with what may be the first images of notorious street artist Banksy in action. They also got on a runaway train without an operator provoking a response from the transport authorities. Elsewhere, London's answer to Central Station is about to open for business, and Londonist got a sneak preview. Meanwhile, spooky goings-on beneath London Bridge, where a cache of skeletons provided an apt story for Hallowe'en.

Much to our surprise, the world actually continued turning this week, and things kept happening! Here's some of the latest stuff that's been going down in Philly and the surrounding area.

Slaking your thirst for crazy internet junk since a week ago (yes, in blog world we celebrate milestones as meaningless as one week! Also, shut up).

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.