Friday Saturday Sunday, one of Center City's longest-running restaurants (at 21st and Rittenhouse for 36 years), has just started allowing patrons to bring their own wine without corkage. Not beer or spirits.

A few years ago, owner Weaver Lilley struck a blow for sanity by pricing all bottles at $10 over his cost.

"I wasn't making a fortune off wine anyway, so why not?" Lilley told me.

Philly bartender/server Sam Murray won $50,000 on Friday’s episode of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and became the last contestant to qualify for the show’s “Million Dollar Tournament of Ten,” which starts Monday.

Murray will face a $1 million question on Wednesday (12:30 p.m., 6ABC). 

Murray, who worked over the summer at Octo Waterfront Grille and is known for his sharp memory, once took a 22-person table’s order without writing it down. And yes, he got it right.

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Ryan Seacrest in the Comcast Center lobby.

Working under the radar and with no media blitz, Ryan Seacrest hosted his radio show and his E! News show from Philly on Friday.

He was here on business. (Supposedly on Saturday, he's headed to Happy Valley to see the Penn State-Ohio State football game.)

Though Q102 carries his radio program, Seacrest did not visit its Bala Cynwyd studio.

To save time, the multitasking mogul did his audio hits from a suite at the Four Seasons and used the lobby of the Comcast Center, about a block away, to shoot the E! show.

Comcast, which owns E!, saw its signature video wall used as a backdrop.

Due to what reps call "a personal family matter," Rob Thomas’ show at the Borgata Event Center in Atlantic City on Friday (11/6) has been postponed until Saturday, December 19.

His reps also announced the postponement of Saturday's show in Uncasville, Conn.

All tickets purchased for the original date will be honored.

Sonic tips that its first Philadelphia drive-in will begin serving at 6 a.m. Nov. 16 (after a VIP ribbon-cutting event at noon Friday, Nov. 13).

Address: 2201 E. Butler St. (at Aramingo Avenue) in Port Richmond.

Sonic adherents (Cherry Limeades, Tater Tots, Extra-Long Cheese Coneys) view these openings as somewhat of a religious experience.

Hours will be 6 a.m. to midnight.

There are a few Sonics in the 'burbs nowadays, including Lower Bucks locations at 1525 Street Rd. in Bensalem and Levittown Shopping Center (Levittown Parkway and Route 13 in Tullytown).

NBC10’s Terry Ruggles will settle up his World Series bet with the Today show's Matt Lauer on Friday (11/6).

Ruggles bet Tony Luke's cheesesteaks to Lauer's hot dogs from Nathan's.

Tony Luke III will cook a dozen around 3 a.m., and Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corp.'s intrepid Cara Schneider will run the sandwiches up the New Jersey Turnpike to hand-deliver them to the Today crew at 30 Rock.

Ruggles and Lauer will talk up the bet at some point on the Today show.

(Lauer spent about five minutes at WCAU back in the late 1980s, well before Tony Luke's got into business.)

Fox29 will shut down the 300 block of Market Street in front of the station from 7 to 10 a.m. Friday (11/6) for an early Veterans Day festival.

Among the gadgets on display will be a 25-foot search-and-rescue boat, a humvee, a replica of an F-22, a rock climbing wall, and basketball and football displays.

The Valley Forge Military Academy and College band, drill team, and choir will perform. 

Robert Moon, who's owned Shiroi Hana on 15th Street near Locust for a dozen years, is planning a Japanese sushi/noodle house called Doma at 1822 Callowhill St., next to the newish King of Tandoor, down the block from Sabrina's and Kite & Key, and across from the Rose Tattoo.

Moon, who describes his concept as "special-occasion dining at neighborhood prices," hopes to open in late December or early January.

Merchants along this Franklintown strip are thinking long-term, as they're behind the forthcoming Barnes museum on the Parkway.

Benny Lai and the family of Vietnam will close Vietnam Cafe -- their West Philly BYOB at 814 S. 47th St. -- after dinner this Sunday (11/8).

They will resurface in their new, larger space next door on Nov. 17.

The new Vietnam Cafe (816 S. 47th St.) used to be Abbraccio. For 30 days, it will run as a BYOB and then pick up a liquor license -- making it similar to the original Vietnam in Chinatown at 221 N. 11th St.