Item! If you live in Center City and enjoy drinking, you have no excuse for missing the first night of Center City Sips, wherein 37 bars around here offer up $2 beers, $3 wine and $4 cocktails 5-7 pm every Wednesday this summer, through August 30. A list of bars and their specials are here.

Is there another non-profit business improvement district within these 80-odd blocks of Center City which loves you enough to do this? No, of course not. Now go, have some drinks, you crazy kids.

Also, if you're bored, stop by the Shops at Liberty Place plaza on Market and 16th and watch CCD drop 400 beach balls. That should be something. Cancelled due to inclemency.