Lloyd's, a new cocktail and whiskey bar, just opened up on East Girard to great reviews (4.5 star average on Yelp)
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Lloyd is my new favorite bar in Fishtown... and all of Philadelphia for the matter. With its cozy atmosphere, cool background music, and great friendly service, I've already become a regular in just the first couple weeks this bar has been open. From the food to the cocktails, Lloyd knows what they're doing and they are doing it right! This bar is just what the neighborhood needed and it will be a hotspot for...
Monday, November 12, 2012
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Art Gallery
Summer has started early, judging from the number of group shows already under way in Philadelphia galleries. Nature, rendered in almost every form imaginable, is the chief subject.
Sienna Freeman, Wexler Gallery’s director and an artist herself, is the curator behind Wexler’s “Wild Nature,” a gathering of four artists from across the country and Canada who envision nature through the lens of memory, dreams, and natural-history museum dioramas.
Curiously, while the majority of works are dark or disturbing in character, they are mainly white...
Indie Rock Fest
Philadelphia, PA - May 21, 2012. Indie Rock and Indie Folk fans in Philadelphia have plenty of reasons to stay in the city this Memorial Day Weekend. iRadioPhilly and The Fire have teamed to present Philadelphia's second annual Sundrop Music and Arts Festival. The weekend-long event will feature three days and two nights of the best multi genre music Philadelphia has to offer.The Sundrop Festival daytime shows on the outdoor stage are FREE admission and open to all ages from 1 to 8 pm. Night shows on the indoor stage in The Fire’s music room are...
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Zoo to Get More Parking
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The Philadelphia Zoo has plans to build a multi-level parking garage near the zoo grounds.
The zoo brings in 1.2 million visitors every year, and that’s a lot of cars to park. As a way to improve the parking situation, the zoo says it plans to build a parking garage, with completion slated for April of 2013.
“The parking garage itself will be located on Girard Avenue at 35th Street,” says the zoo’s Kenneth Woodson. “It’s a four-story structure and it will house approximately 685 cars.”
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Monday, March 5, 2012
Translating Japanese Fairy Tales
Japanese fairy tales are by turn both strange and exotic, yet also surprisingly familiar, for folktales of all sorts are tenacious having a tendency to get passed from village to village and to survive through generations across the world. Thus we have stories of the heavenly maidens and their magical shawls in both Greece and Japan, and motifs between Japan and Native American countries which are surprisingly similar. In many ways stories survived better in Japan then either of these two places thus while we...
