Hunting Park Student Podcast
Hunting Park Christian Academy (grades pre-K through 8) now has a daily podcast with a scripture reading from The Message by one of the school’s 200+ students. [Via PhillyFuture]
Cereality Now Caters
Cereality Cereal Bar and Café now offers local and distance catering for your party, meeting, or event. Choose from their breakfast bowl combos (Your Cereal. Our Way™), granola bars, parfaits, and custom blended boxes (Your Cereal. Your Way™). The Philadelphia store is located at 37th and Walnut Streets in University City.
Meetup.com
Meet new people or learn more information about a topic! Meetups are regularly scheduled events around the Philadelphia area with a variety of groups for every interest. You can join an existing group or if there’s no interest for you, create your own! Subscribe to an RSS Feed of the next 100 events.
Center City Restaurant Week
From 19-24 February 2006, restaurants participating in this year’s Center City Restaurant Week offer exciting dinners (3-course minimum) for as little as $30. Find a participating restaurant or get more info from the Phila Restaurant blog.
Happy Birthday, Ben!
“Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary invites you to join in the national celebration honoring the life and enduring legacy of one of our most remarkable founding fathers.” Local festivities are listed on the Calendar page by selecting “Pennsylvania” under Events Near You in the left menu.
University City Dining Days
University City Dining Days is eight days (Jan 12–19) of spectacular dining opportunities at participating restaurants in University City, Philadelphia. Guests will enjoy a three-course prix-fixe dinner at participating restaurants.
City Hall Security
New security measures will be implemented at City Hall in April 2006. Visitors will enter only through the northeast entrance, covered by guards, metal detectors and x-rays. Ground floor offices such as the Records Department or the City Commissioners will remain open to the public. [Via Daily News, 6ABC.com, and Metro.]
Upcoming.org
Find local events or add your own for others to discover at upcoming.org’s Philadelphia Metro section.
Mysteries of Old Philadelphia
I read a lot of historical fiction, mostly mystery novels. Books from Anne Perry and Victoria Thompson fill my shelves. There’s a great little series of books by Mark Graham set in post-Civil War Philadelphia, about Wilton McCleary, a police detective and war veteren, as he works his way through several cases.
The Killing Breed, based [...]
Late 1970s SEPTA Map
I posted a photo of this map to my flickr account: the map itself is on the north wall of a pedestrian tunnel just past the old Penn Square subway entrance south of City Hall. I’m estimating it to the late 1970s. It is definitely older than 1984—the Center City Commuter Connection didn’t open until [...]