Dear Wegmans: This past weekend, I discovered your awesomeness. I had to go to the Cherry Hill Mall for a new pair of glasses. There's no LensCrafters in Center City and I didn't have the time or energy to go to King of Prussia. But what to do in that hour between picking out my glasses and picking them up? Brunch, and then a trip to see you for dinner ingredients and snacks for......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: Get Your Vegan On: Hands-on vegan cooking demonstration led by Club VEG at Whole Foods (2001 Pennsylvania Ave), 6:30PM. $5 (register here: 215-557-0015) Not for Vegans: Ben & Jerry’s 30th Annual Free Cone Day at their Rittenhouse (135 S 18th) and West Philly (216 S 40th) locales from noon to 8PM. Free Rebecca Pronsky: Rebecca Pronsky, Bronwen Exter, and Carsie Blanton at Upstairs at World Café Live (3025......

Michael Nutter wants to make college possible for more Philadelphians. As it stands, only 18% of Philadelphia residents have college degrees. A better educated community means a better economy, so he intends to adjust the budget to benefit the Community College of Philadelphia in an effort to achieve a higher percentage of educated citizens. This is all wonderful. So how come there are thousands of college grads without jobs? Sure, maybe we have jobs, but......

Don’t know about you, but when we think about driving in the city we start to get slight palpitations. Part of it could be that we’re used to walking and Septa; the thought of paying exorbitant amounts to park in UCity on a Friday night convinces us that the El isn’t so bad after all. Plus, there’s storage: when we were living on the outskirts of Center City a parking spot would have cost 2/3......

A column about how we Philadelphians can start thinking about controlling consumption and protecting our world in small increments. One of the more frightening things heard recently -- more frightening than the prospect of another Clinton presidency -- is the fact that there is a vortex of trash twice the size of Texas swirling and growing in the Pacific Ocean. It sounds like something from a science fiction movie called When Trash Attacks!, but sadly,......

I don't usually plan my dinner menus out ahead of time. Rather, I buy whatever protein (a) looks fresh or (b) is on sale at the grocery store/farmer's market, and plan my menu from there. Once in a while, it means cooking things that I've never cooked before. On rare occasions, it means cooking things I'm not sure I've ever eaten before. (I'm a rebel like that.) Recently, I found myself at Whole Foods......

Proofreading Philly tries to capture typos, wordos, and all other kinds of grammatical mistakes that we see around the city. But we need your help! Email photos to us from your computer or your phone, and show the city that you care about good grammar. We don't know who Single is, but the apostrophe placement above indicates that Whole Foods* is throwing a party for him this evening. He must be some guy! *Which Whole......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: Small Changes: Smells Like Teen Spirit and Building a Broken Mousetrap, two films by Jem Cohen, presented by the Small Changes film screening series at the International House (3701 Chestnut), 7PM. $7 Solstice Film Series 07: Third installment of the Solstice Film Series, a showcase for short independent films, at National Mechanics (22 S. 3rd), 8PM. Free Single Mingle: Perfect Pairings Tasting Event, benefiting Philly PAWS (the Philadelphia......

This week ended with the launch of the seventh and final Harry Potter installation. But while the world was consumed with Pottermania, it's important to remember that there were more serious things going on in the world, too – two of them in -Ist cities. Sampaist was shocked when a passenger jet crashed into the center of Sao Paulo, killing at least 200 people. The airplane, an Airbus A320, skidded off the runway at the......

Whole Foods Market down at 10th and South is hosting a fundraiser for Nexus today. Nexus is an artist-run, non-profit gallery space committed to "supporting local emerging and experimental artists engaged in new art practices." Shop at Whole Foods today, and 5% of your order will go toward sponsoring Yummy, an upcoming Nexus exhibit focusing on the vast impact food has on contemporary society. The exhibit will bring together artists of local and national......

Memorial Day is next Monday. This means very little in the scheme of commercial holiday celebrating, of course, except for the fact that it means a day off and, for whatever reason, official permission to wear white. And how, whether clad in white or not, do most people celebrate Memorial Day? With a barbecue. Duh. Unfortunately, five years in Philly haven't taught us any good spots to grill. We have our little Ikea grill that......

And if you haven't been through the garden across from the Whole Foods on South Street, you should really make a point of donating the few bucks and taking a visit, especially now that the weather has taken a turn for the lovely.......

I still hate Valentine’s Day. I’m still bitter and I will still want to throw brightly colored, probably already stale Necco hearts at anyone who wears pink or red today. But, I’m lazy. And bitterness requires more energy than a general acceptance, so Philadelphia, here’s my Valentine of sorts to you (feel honored, I’m not even sending one to my parents): 10 Things I Love About Philadelphia (In no particular order) 1. Brunch at Sabrina’s......

On Tuesday, the American -ists will be celebrating democracy and hitting the polls, letting politicians know what they really think. It just made us wonder: if it were up to the -ist-a-verse, what would we be voting for? Londonist votes for better skincare, alternative spaces for art, cute little birds and the men who keep them, and concrete. Lots of concrete. Shanghaiist votes for one of the Bee Gees and Air Supply (it's a double-ticket),......

Phillyist loves pizza and is always on the lookout for a good slice. This is the first in an ongoing series of pizza reviews in and around the city. If you were to walk by Sarcone’s Bakery on 9th Street, you would probably just assume that it's yet another typical, family-run, Little Italy bread bakery - the kind you can find anywhere between Baltimore and Boston. You would also probably never expect them to......

We are counting down the hours to five. Have been since Monday. And now the weekend's almost here! Good thing our fellow -ists will be here when we're back. Austinist: Whole Foods is run by hippies. Parisist: Read French? Visiting Paris? You need to know about this site. Bostonist: We don't think they look similar at all! SFist: Flipper! Chicagoist: But porn probably won't make you fat. Sampaist: Apparently, they like zombies in Brazil, too.......

I went to Crescent City for Restaurant Week and I'm only just now getting to write about it because of (a) Fringe and (b) life, but since everything on their Restaurant Week menu is also on their normal menu, no harm no foul. The Restaurant Week experience, of course, is a little different (a 9 p.m. dinner reservation means you don't really order, you just accept what's left), and that's where my biggest problem......

Celebrate Ben Franklin's 300th birthday with the Bikini Bandits and Phillyist! (NSFW). Speaking of Mr. Franklin, send in a picture of Ben (or Ed Rendell) with a red tongue and win a free t-shirt. And they might have the next YearlyKos in Philly. You know who's going to be upset about those Bikini Bandits? The Houston school system. Houstonist also reports on some redevelopment shenanigans over a landmark theater. LAist's sex advice column on......

Hey, have y'all been using our new "Recommend this" feature at the bottom of each post? This week we're bringing you the "Most Recommended" posts from across the -ist world, as well as recommending some of our own. Phillyist thinks that readers recommended this post the most because "most of our quieter readers (probably) agree with us that rude commenting sucks." Know what else sucks? Philly's not getting the Olympics, but they are getting thinner.......

It's hot, and that means it could be pretty difficult to keep your energy up between breakfast and lunch, or during those last few hours of your workday. Neither your wallet nor your waistline can afford to have two full lunches, but you are falling asleep at your desk. So what's a working stiff to do? The answer? Snack. Snacking is actually a good thing. In fact, it's recommended that you eat five small......

Sometimes, our sister -ists just take us by surprise, is all... Austinist: Rockstars smoke weed? Gothamist: People like to screw bikers over? Seattlest: Mangoes are annoying to slice? Chicagoist: Professional athletes smoke weed? Shanghaiist: Cab drivers can be skeevy? Houstonist: You shouldn't roof your house with flaming shingles? (No, really, we're puzzled by the context of that one.) DCist: People are addicted to Whole Foods? LAist: You can die of dehydration? Image via these nice......

Although this weekend probably won't be much fun (we have to finish unpacking all those boxes), Friday is still a day of promises. Our promise? Letting you know what our brothers and sisters in -ist land are up to! Austinist: Are tripping babies as fun as stoned housepets? Must be, because otherwise, the mother of this child is just a bad parent. Sampaist: Brazil is crazy for futból. (We inferred that much from cognates and......

San Francisco is proud host of a new reality show called "How to Get the Guy" that's unfortunately not a descendant of Will and Grace, Queer Eye, The L Word, American Idol etc. Also a biodefence lab is coming to the East Bay and SFist teaches wine pairing. Getting on the wrong train sucks. Getting on the wrong train and becoming the victim of what will later be described as a "stabbing spree" really sucks.......

We're not sure what's going on, either, but if you're looking to avoid the clouds, check out what our sister sites are up to! Gothamist: We think our friend met this guy once. Or he's got a cousin in Philly. Torontoist: No thanks, we've got a standing appointment with Edward Scissorhands. Houstonist: He didn't escape -- he was just at the top of a very steep hill! LAist: That depends on what your definition of......

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. It's not hard to find a turkey all cooked perfectly and ready to be expertly carved. A word of warning, however: plan ahead. Place your order now. Boston Market serves up a mean turkey, and......

In 1997, a group of cunning arts folk decided that Philadelphia was really missing out on something. With all of the alternative culture in the city, Philadelphia needed a Fringe Festival, much like those held in Edinburgh and New York City. The Philadelphia Fringe Festival is now two separate, concurrent festivals: The Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and the Philly Fringe (PLAF) , both of which kick off tomorrow and run for sixteen days thereafter.......

Indie rockers Pelican (Chicago natives, except for Laurent, who made his way to Chicago via Northwestern University from France) are currently promoting their new album, The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw. The group is in town for their show tonight at the North Star Bar. Drummer Larry Herweg kindly spared some time to talk to Phillyist about their name, their music and life on the road: Ya’ll been described as the “instrue-sorcerers.”......