May 17, 2013
Night Market Fairmount did not disappoint. How could it, really? The weather was gorgeous. The food vendors were out in droves. The beer was flowing. There were multiple stages with live music. Eastern State was open late and rocking out. And people came out in force. And sure, there were some lines at a lot [...]
Read more»April 30, 2013
A piece of cool news that Team Uwishunu is pretty excited about: Visit Philly’s With Art Philadelphia™ Website won a Webby Award today. The With Art Philadelphia™ website is Visit Philly’s website dedicated to showing off Philadelphia as an amazing destination for lovers of art, newcomers to art and everyone in between. We launched it [...]
Read more»April 9, 2013
We were hoping it would return and now it’s official — Jay Z’s Made in America Music Festival is returning to Philadelphia. The festival is coming back to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway for Labor Day Weekend 2013. The two-day festival will be hitting the streets of Philadelphia on Saturday and Sunday, August 31 and September [...]
Read more»April 5, 2013
Graduate Hospital is a great neighborhood for walking. It’s also a great neighborhood for awesome bars. So why not combine those two great characteristics into a single great event? Enter Sprung, a springtime pub crawl on Saturday, April 27 brought to you by the good people from the South Street West Business Association. A $5 [...]
Read more»March 28, 2013
La Salle takes on Wichita State tonight in the Round of 16 in the NCAA Tournament. The game, which takes place in at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, starts at 10:17 p.m. and airs nationally on TBS. Here are five quick reasons you will want to tune in and cheer on the Explorers. 1. [...]
Read more»March 13, 2013
Golf fans in the Philadelphia area should be getting pretty excited. This June, for the first time in more than 30 years, Philadelphia will host one of golf’s four majors. The 2013 U.S. Open will be played at the Merion Golf Club in Ardmore from June 10-16. Philadelphia last hosted a major championship in 1981, [...]
Read more»March 1, 2013
[Philadelphia has a pretty great-looking skyline. There are countless places around the city that offer awesome vantage points. With Skyline Spotting, we'll highlight some of our favorites.] Did you know that City Hall has an observation deck? It does. While the city’s tallest building — the Comcast Center — unfortunately does not have a publicly [...]
Read more»February 26, 2013
It has been a pretty long time coming — more than two years since the project was first announced — but the wait is finally over. The new South Street location of Honey’s Sit ‘n Eat is here. And we are not going to lie — we were pretty excited (and maybe in a little [...]
Read more»February 25, 2013
Yes, the Harlem Shake meme may have already had its 15 minutes, but when the Phillie Phanatic takes over The Today Show offices in New York City and gets a bunch of workers to wear Phillies gear for an impromptu Harlem Shake video, like he did earlier today, we’ll bite. Solid shake, Phanatic. Solid [...]
Read more»February 25, 2013
Happy Birthday to Pierre-Auguste Renoir, born on this day in 1841. Did you know that with a 181 works by the celebrated French impressionist artist, the Barnes Foundation is home to the largest single collection of works by Renoir in the world? Wandering through gallery after gallery at the Barnes, you can marvel at the [...]
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