Philadelphia’s bi-annual restaurant week has been extended for a second week. The devastating economy is most likely the cause behind the second week of discounted dinners. For $35 at participating restaurants, diners can get a minimum of three courses.
Restaurant week runs until February 6th, for a list of participating restaurants and menus click here.
Hurry up, reservations fill up fast.
If you picked up the paper today, you were probably confused by the giant image that looks something like the love child of a crossword puzzle and a barcode. But then, after reading Online Editor Dave Isaac’s article, you learned about QR codes.
When you flipped to Page 4 of the Opinion section, you were probably confused again upon seeing this:
Ironic as it is, this is a map showing the below-basic literacy rates in these areas. In the paper, as you probably noticed, it is not labeled. But, here’s the fun part: it’s a test! If you look at Voice of the People at the bottom of Page 5, you’ll see that the question reads, “Philly has a 22 percent below-basic literacy rate. Is literacy really important?” The 22 percent in the question corresponds with the 22 percent shown for Philadelphia on the map. A-ha! If you realized that, give yourself a pat on the back — you are not part of that 22 percent. If you needed this blog post to tell you, congrats, you’re about as literate as the staff members (who will not be named) who forgot to label the map in the first place.
Hope you learned something new today, via your own means or Broad&Cecil. And get the hang of those QR codes, they’re the next big thing.
Philly has been named as the fifth most walkable city in the United States.
It’s so exciting that they made up the word “walkable” (at least, according to Microsoft Word). Nice, isn’t it? At least it gives us something good to brag about.
At one point, we were fat. And apparently still, we’re ugly, as The Temple News reported. And now, we can walk places.
Check out this link to see where your Philadelphia neighborhood ranks. Or, go here for the overall rankings, and see how San Francisco, New York, Boston and Chicago beat us.
A bright yet subtle change may be soon coming to the Philadelphia skyline. But as with most additions to Center City, controversy is high.
Two Liberty Place, what is now the third-tallest building in Philadelphia, dwarfed by its big brother One Liberty Place and the new Comcast Center, may soon be donned with 11-foot high illuminated letters over the 38th and 39th floors advertising a new tenant, Unisys Corps.
However, other tenants – the ones who are in the process of moving into the luxury condos in the same building – are not too thrilled.
The condo owners are afraid the red lighting will reflect into their living rooms and hurt the overall value of their condos. The city, on the other hand, supports the act, saying it will show the world that Philadelphia is the place to be for a corporate home.
Let a tenant in the Empire State Building try to pull off something like this, one homeowner said.
As an AP reporter notes, the Liberty Place towers like to break tradition. When constructed, One Liberty Place broke the unwritten “Gentlemen’s Agreement” when built in 1987, which ‘said’ no building should be built higher than William Penn’s statue atop City Hall.
Oops.
Photo courtesy philly.com.
