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You’re having a bunch of hollow-legged friends over to cook out before booing Sheryl Crow taking in the fireworks on the Parkway. Problem is you haven’t picked up a single foodstuff for your exceedingly elaborate Mediterranean-inspired menu yet — and you gotta work late Friday night. What to do?

Before you stock up on a stack of Tombstones, peep game: Di Bruno Brothers’ Emilio Mignucci tells Meal Ticket that about 90 percent of the businesses in the Ninth Street Italian Market will be open tomorrow, July 4, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Typically the strip is shuttered up for Independence Day, but since the Fourth falls on a Saturday this year, most all vendors have made the decision to open (adhering to traditional Sunday hours) to accommodate folks like you. What’s more, most of the merchants will be selling $5 coupon books packed with clippable discounts you can use during your last-sec shopping sesh.

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Brendan “Spanky” Hartranft and Leigh Maida, who already have two hits on their hands with Memphis Taproom and Local 44, have just signed a lease for challenge numero tres — they’re taking over G-Ho’s Yello’bar (2425 Grays Ferry Ave.) and converting it into Resurrection Ale House.

The couple will soon begin renovating and reconceptualizing the interior of the bar, which opened at the corner of Catharine and Grays Ferry in the spring of 2007. (Yello’bar just never quite hit its stride, despite a recent facelift.) A few years back, Hartranft and Maida actually used to live in the ‘hood, right near where The Sidecar is now.

How will Resurrection differ from the first two beer-toting gunboats in the Spanky/Leigh armada? Memphis is set apart by chef Jesse Kimball’s suds-spiked menu, while West Philly’s 20-tap Local 44 is a little more like a beer bar that also offers tasty complementary plates. Resurrection will do the beer right, but it’ll also be notably food-forward. “We’re focused (as always) on a stellar craft beer list, but we’re equally focused this time on the dining side of things, too,” says Maida in an e-mail. “For now, we’re sort of working under the term ‘beer bistro’ as a guiding principle.” No chef has been hired just yet.

Resurrection — Maida explains that the name’s a nod to the reemergence of the greater Graduate Hospital area, plus it sounds a little Belgian — is aiming to open the first week of September. They’re working on securing a keg of the Belgian-style Resurrection Ale from Bmore’s Brewer’s Art for the opening.

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A Drosophila melanogaster trap with victims

‘Tis the season for juicy local cherries, sticky Mexican mangoes and beer, beer, beer. What do all these things have in common? Fruit flies — species Drosophila melanogaster, poetically Greek for “dark-bellied dew lover” — enjoy them even more than we do, and if you leave one strawberry on the counter for even a second, the petite pests will invade your kitchen.

WikiHow has a multi-pronged battle plan for fighting a major infestation, but if you have just an annoying few settling into your banana bowl, you can get rid of them quickly by using their alias against them: They are also known as vinegar flies.

In a small glass or cup, pour an inch of apple cider vinegar and a few drops of liquid dish soap. The flies will be attracted to the cider vinegar, then be taken down by the soap and summarily drowned. Winner, you.

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Nothing says USA like a deluge of dairy treats. Head down to the Great Plaza at Penn’s Landing from noon to 5 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday for the Welcome America!  Super Scooper All-You-Can-Eat Ice Cream Festival.

A minimum $5 donation per person goes to the Joshua Kahan Fund while snagging you all the frozen cream you can lick from Ben & Jerry’s, Häagen-Dazs, Edy’s, Breyers/Good Humor, Bassett’s, Turkey Hill, Jack & Jill, Philadelphia Water Ice and more.

Held every Fourth of July weekend in Philly, the fundraiser is now in its 11th year. To date it’s raised more than $700,000 toward finding a cure for pediatric leukemia.

Super Scooper All-You-Can-Eat Ice Cream Festival, Fri.-Sun., July 3-July 5, noon-5 p.m., Great Plaza at Penn’s Landing, Columbus Blvd. at Chestnut St., delawareriverevents.com

Eulogy owner Mike Naessens’ Beneluxx Tasting Room (33 S. Third St., 267-318-7269, beneluxx.com) is a little more Euro than your average bar, but that doesn’t mean they can’t get down with the Fourth. To celebrate Uncle Sam’s 233rd b-day, the subterranean destination’s offering some all-American dealage this Friday and Saturday. They’re doing a $9 cheese threesome featuring Nancy’s Hudson Valley camembert (NY), Jasper Hills clothbound Cabot cheddar (VT) and Point Reyes blue (CA), as well as a red, white and brewed American beer flight (Victory Storm King, Pennichuck Pompier, Bell’s Two-Hearted) for just $6. Get both brought to your table for $13.

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Learn to make these three demonic eggs

Rick Nichols profiled Supper chef/owner Mitch Prensky’s many variations on the classic deviled egg in last week’s Inky, providing key tips for hard-boiling eggs without that creepy green ring to piping egg filling from a portable Ziploc bag.

Well, we love deviled eggs as much as we love Nichols, so we’re expanding on his theme with even more deviled egg recipes courtesy of chef Prensky After the jump, learn to make his Vadouvan Spiced Deviled Eggs with Roasted Cauliflower and Mint, Horseradish and Steak Deviled Eggs and Sriracha Deviled Eggs to bring down the house at your next family barbecue.

Taste Supper’s devilish bounty all this month, where $9 buys you an even dozen of Prensky’s imaginative egg output.

Supper, 926 South St., 215-592-8180, supperphilly.com

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The Meal Ticket faithful have heard me rag on before about beer cocktails, those lowbrow mixtures of brew, hard liquor, juices and even wine, and now our favorite food section has picked up on the trend.  Yesterday’s New York Times profiled a few beer-loving bartenders, chefs and resto owners who are daring to blend and offend brewers.

Philadelphia gets represented by London Grill co-owner Terry Berch McNally, who was tapped to talk about the inspiration behind London’s new beer cocktail program.

Indeed, the inspiration for the beer drinks that Terry Berch McNally serves at the London Grill in Philadelphia was Rudi Ghequire, brewer of Rodenbach beer in Belgium, who “suggested we add things like grenadine and cassis to his beer,� she said. “You sell more beer this way, and you make more money.�

Scope London’s full list of creations after the jump.

RELATED: Infuriating Brewers: A guide to beer cocktails [2Dec08]

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Sometimes, you just gotta Mexify the Fourth of July. Cantina Dos Segundos (931 N. Second St., 215-629-0500) is doing just that this Saturday from noon to 4, offering half-price pitchers of ‘ritas, mojitos and sangria in addition to “Mexican-style” dogs and burgers grilled out on the sidewalk. DJ Kyle Miller will spin.

If you’ve ever dreamed of running your own speakeasy or bringing your grandmother’s cuisine to the masses, the Girard Coalition, Inc. is presenting a free workshop on how to open a restaurant on Tuesday, July 14.

Paul Kimport of the Standard Tap and Johnny Brenda’s, Munish Narula, president of Tiffin Indian Cuisine and Alfredo Aquilar, founder of Las Cazuelas will speak, as well as answer questions, on the hazards of opening and running a restaurant in Philadelphia.

The workshop is free but space is limited, so reserve a spot now by emailing thulse@girardcoalition.org or visting girardcoaltion.org/restaurantworkshop.

How to Open a Restaurant Workshop, Tue., July 14, 6 p.m., Girard Coalition, Inc., 704 W. Girard Ave., 215-825-8821, girardcoalition.org