23, 000,000 Approximate number of cable subscribers Comcast will have after it splits the resources of bankrupt Adelphia Communications with Time Warner, according to online technology trade magazine tmcnet.com. The FCC voted 4-1 July 13 in favor of the sale, and despite a condition intended to prohibit both companies from making regional sports programming unavailable to rivals, Comcast SportsNet was exempted. The article quotes FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, the vote's lone dissenter, as calling the exemption inexplicable and saying that "residents of Philadelphia are still stuck without competitive choice." Say what you will, Copps. Twenty-three million subscribers that technically don't have a choice can't be wrong.

317 Estimated number of issues worked on by arts editor Lori Hill during her tenure at City Paper. Lori is parting ways after July 26, and it'll take another 317 issues for everyone to get over that.

26 Number of restaurants participating in University City Dining Days, which ends tonight, July 27. The offer includes a prix-fixe three-course dinner at participating eateries for $20, $25 or $30, excluding tax, alcohol and gratuity. I would have told you about this sooner, but trust me, you can afford only one three-course meal. And I don't mean financially, tubby.

7 Number of previously unreleased tracks on the forthcoming Hall and Oates' compilation, The Philadelphia Years, to be released Aug. 1.

$5 Price of reprints — available at www.zoestrauss.com — taken by self-taught Philly photog and "chronicler of Philadelphia's mean streets" Zoe Strauss, whose Ramp Project exhibit at the University of Pennsylvania's Institute of Contemporary Art ends July 30. I would have told you about this sooner, but trust me, you can afford only so many $5 photos. And I don't mean that in a sensory-overload kind of way, brokey.