Results tagged “takeout”

Get in one last beach read: PW folks and others give their recommendations for late-summer reading. Also, independent bookmongers show what we’re really buying.

) has such a big under-age following that The Troc, whose balcony we always count on as a place of over-21 refuge, opened the upstairs to all of the teenagers who deigned to go up. I have a feeling that if I die and go to hell, it will be something like that.

When I first saw that SEPTA was conducting a campaign to cut down cell phone conversation on their trains, I have to say I was skeptical. No amount of pandering, I thought, would stop passengers from making incredibly urgent calls to talk about the prior night’s debauchery or the conflict at work that only a complete narcissist could spend more than five seconds thinking about. But, alas, I have to say the signs with the juvenile clip art seem to be working. In the last couple of weeks, I’ve definitely heard less high-maintenance drama queens whining about why the demise of their one-month relationship is the end of the world. Makes me think that SEPTA might want to get the five-year-olds at their advertising agency started on some other ideas. Campaign slogans have been provided.

...You Got Served (Process Served): Does anybody feel anything but schadenfreude for Lindsay Lohan anymore? (Via The Superficial.)

Although I could make this a big gender issue, I won't. The fact of the matter is that men are usually stronger than women, but not always. I actually have plenty of female friends fully capable of carrying much heavier loads than several of my male friends. So the following, very brief, "Monday Manners" post is meant to be a universal plea for kindness:

Some of us are not exactly Martha Stewart in the kitchen. There's help for those that want a nice, traditional Thanksgiving dinner at home, but don't want reach into a turkey's ass to nab the goody bag of extra parts.

Are you watching your calories? Your carbs? Your saturated fats? No? Good, because in that case Phillyist has the lunchtime restaurant for you. Fellini Cafe has opened up a relatively new location in Center City, and they are serving up monster portions of tasty pastas and sandwiches to the hungry or to those who want to make $6 cover a generous meal for two.

Let’s be honest: sometimes we just feel like hurting other people. Co-workers, friends, spouses, strangers. But we have the ability to suppress that impulse, which is what sets most of us apart from the beasts. What also sets us apart is our ability to create fake weapons that look and feel like the real thing, allowing us to take out this aggression without actually maiming, mutilating, or disfiguring anyone.