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First, let me start with a confession: I am an East Coast girl - Philadelphia born and raised. This means two things in relation to this post: (1) I don't have that inherent knack that allows people to eat burritos without the contents eventually exploding out of the tortilla and (2) when it comes to SoCal and Tex-Mex versions of Mexican fare, I am in no way qualified to discuss what's authentic. I can, however, tell you what I like. And what I like is the chorizo burrito at El Fuego on Walnut Street. It's extremely tasty.

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Obsessive Friends fans who live in Philadelphia: your dream has come true. "That guy who played Ross," sometimes known as David Schwimmer, will be in town this weekend. Conveniently enough (and having nothing to do with press at all), Schwimmer's new film, Duane Hopwood, is opening at the Ritz Five this weekend.

http://www.fox.com/reunion/">Reunion, which is a new twist on the old six-good-looking-young-friends theme. The tagline is: "In 1986 they were best of friends. By 2005, one will be murdered. All will be suspects." Each episode is another year, and the characters go from age 18 to 38 during the course of the season. It's an interesting concept, but it sounds like it would make a better movie than TV series—how could they possibly make a second season? The creators of Reunion deserve some props for originality, so this one might be worth checking out.

If you tuned into 100.3 FM on your radio dial a few months ago, there was a good chance you would have heard Modest Mouse or Queens of the Stone Age. There was also a chance that you would hear that “Closing Time” song that has somehow survived as a jukebox legend (we point the finger at drunk sorority girls). But, that’s the tradeoff, as is the case with almost every radio station: take the good with the bad. But Radio One had the notion that Philadelphia needed yet another hip hop station and turned Y100 into The Beat, which apparently bangs the best hip hop and R&B in town. So Phillyist asks you, “Whatever happened?” It’s a cliché, it’s tired, and it’s true: you really don’t appreciate things until they’re gone. Alternative music fans throughout the city mourned the day Y100 died. Not because it was the best station, but because, for all its flaws, it was the only station playing alternative music. Now that it’s been killed we’re realizing how devoid our airwaves are of alternative rock options. The other rock stations, 93.3 WMMR and 94.1 WYSP, have tried to accommodate this gaping hole by mixing in some newer stuff that we may have heard on the fallen Y100 like the Foo Fighters, The White Stripes, and Stone Temple Pilots. Classic rock, though, is their thing. Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, AC/DC, and Aerosmith are too popular with their listeners for them to make any drastic changes. New and alternative, while not entirely accurate in its application to Y100, is something that this city’s radio dial desperately needs. It makes no sense that the 5th largest city in the country doesn’t have an alternative music station. At last count we’re up to 27 hip hop and R&B stations, one good college station, one oldies station, and a handful of others constantly rotating Three Doors Down and Nickelback. What we need is another option. We need a station like Y100 to come back, even if they have to play Semisonic from time to time. Image credit: Matt Groening (The Simpsons)