September 23, 2011
Union Transfer, the new music venue located at 10th & Spring Garden opened to acclaim this week and promises a whole lot more awesome sets to come. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah opened at the venue. They’ll be followed by The Felice Brothers, Mogwai and Shellac through the end of this month. Other shows to [...]
Read more»September 15, 2011
Philadelphia’s truly authentic German Bierhall Brauhaus Schmitz will hold its 3rd annual Oktoberfest street party on Saturday, September 24 starting at noon. Brauhaus Schmitz’s biggest festival yet will shut down South Street for an all-day party with live music, a pig roast, and of course, all the German beer you can swallow. Better yet, Brauhaus [...]
Read more»April 26, 2011
Everyone has a hankering for a good burger every now and again (and again). But what if you want to sample all of the city’s best burgers at a single event? Enter the Philadelphia Burger Brawl, coming Saturday, June 4, tickets for which are now officially on sale. Eighteen of the biggest burger boasters in [...]
Read more»February 28, 2011
Oyster shucking is a delicate art, and Oyster House has just the way to showcase it. On Saturday, March 26 at 2 p.m., the popular center city bar and restaurant will be hosting its second annual Shucking Contest. Professional and amateur oyster shuckers from around the Philadelphia region will compete for huge cash prizes. With [...]
Read more»August 27, 2010
This Sunday at the McFadden’s at the Ballpark, you can enjoy beer, baseball, and… puppies! McFadden’s is hosting its third annual Beerfest at the Ballpark from 2–6 pm with brews from more than 20 breweries to sample, like General Lafayette Inn, Longtrail, Magic Hat, Red Hook, Troegs, Victory, Weyerbacher, and many, many more. Tickets for [...]
Read more»August 17, 2010
Recently the owner and chief mixologist of Rum Bar, Adam Kanter, served us up the tastiest, most popular, and most unique rum cocktails that he has on his summer tiki cocktail list. I will preface the following individual drink descriptions by saying that each and every cocktail we tried is truly unlike any other drink [...]
Read more»July 13, 2010
I recently stopped by the Mexican Post at Love Park with a friend to try their revamped menu. The traditional house favorites are still there, but it now includes new and exciting authentic Mexican dishes, specialty cocktails, and sweet sangrias. The touched up food menu features fun appetizers like the Camarones Acapulco – bacon-wrapped jumbo [...]
Read more»June 29, 2010
I’ve done my fair share of running races to benefit research in the hunt for cures. Some of you may not be the running kind, so for those of you who would still like participate in a race for the cure, why not bike instead? Biking tends to be easier on the joints and such, [...]
Read more»June 16, 2010
The Arden’s production of Sunday in the Park with George is quite an eye-opener. Art lovers abound will appreciate every aspect of this play – from the revolving narrative of Georges Seurat’s famous painting Sunday on La Grande Jatte to the astonishing light show that the Arden staff presents in Act II. Sunday is surprisingly [...]
Read more»May 24, 2010
For its season-ending performance, the Arden Theatre has chosen Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George. This Pulitzer Prize-winning musical will run for approximately one month starting June 2nd. Sunday in the Park marks the twelfth Sondheim production in the company’s history and the first time the Arden will use Sondheim’s complete original orchestrations, [...]
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