Results tagged “beer”

It's Friday. Friday means beer. Let's get the weekend started with some NFL picks. As always, HOME TEAMS in caps:

Recently we received a request from an out of town reader for our non-touristy recommendations for the best local spots. More specifically our favorites in Food, Galleries, Booze, Books, Clothes, Music, "Women" (back to this later) and "Any other cool shit that you think people who are into eating, drinking, art, reading, music, etc. would like to see." Well, we like to appease so we'll give it a shot. Oh, and dear reader, we're not a hipster either, so if you accidentally wander into hipster territory based on our solid normal person advice, sorry. It can't be helped. It's Philly. They're everywhere.

   

*Yes, it's Wednesday. But we needed some extra time to prepare our new Foodsday Tuesday feature, Quick Nosh, which will feature snack-sized servings of food news that we couldn't dedicate a full post to. Check out the first one at the bottom of this post. Got a Philly food tip? Send 'em over!

It's a three-day weekend. Are you still at work? Is your mind home while your body hangs out in the office for a few more hours? No, you're probably working really hard, so you can enjoy the long weekend without a bunch of crap to come back to on Tuesday.

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Savor that lager tonight and celebrate the Yuengling's two million-barrel production, which brings it closer than ever to beating Sam Adams. And since the big boys (think Anheuser-Busch and MillerCoors) have been bought out by overseas outfits, that would make Yuengling the best-selling American-owned brewery. Although we're big fan's of Sam's wheat beer, there's nothing quite like a locally-brewed bottle of lager to cleanse the palate and clear the mind. Of course, it also bears mentioning that many a blurry night of karaoke has come and gone, leaving only a crowd of empty lager bottles in its wake.

Red cups, ping-pong balls, an 8-foot long table and a couple of pitchers of your favorite throwaway beer made for a great night of drinking in college. Sooner or later (hopefully sooner) you graduated, maybe took that beer pong table with you and set up your new life as a functioning adult. Before too long, you probably glanced at that lonely-looking table in the corner of your living room or basement and thought that maybe, you had outgrown that favorite of collegiate activities. Eventually that table soaked in Coors Light, ramen noodles, fond memories (and maybe a little vomit) made its way to the garbage, never to be heard from again. Enter longtime friends Jerry Piscatelli, Sal Laudano and their brainchild, the Port-O-Pong.

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It's even kosher for Passover.

Don't knock it: Eddie Alvarez goes from Kensington street brawling to Mixed Martial Arts superstar.

Sure we want more, but we're Philly, i.e. we know they'll choke.

Proofreading Philly tries to capture typos, wordos, and all other kinds of grammatical mistakes that we see around the city. But we need your help! Email photos to us from your computer or your phone, and show the city that you care about good grammar.

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Improv drummer + YouTube = World domination. Kinda.

Despite the very high stakes, our emergency response system is still sorely lacking.

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The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment.

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment.

It's preview time: Second Season Arts to be exact. And CP has calendars for you in Visual Art, Dance, Theater, Rock/Pop, Jazz, Roots and Classical/Opera.

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Today is Repeal Day, the day we get to celebrate our Constitutional right to drink. That's right: the 21st Amendment, ratified exactly 75 years ago today, repealed the 18th (Prohibition) Amendment and gave us our booze back. To celebrate, several local establishments will be having drink specials ranging from one buck drafts at Memphis Taproom to price-adjusted-for-1933 ten cent beer at The Institute—for exactly 19 minutes and 33 seconds, starting at 7:33PM (that's 19:33 in military time). Click through to Foobooz for more details.

The recent election made us wonder what we could do for our country, and PW's Holiday Guide has some suggestions on what you can do for your city, in the form of nine charities to consider helping out this holiday season, including the Philadelphia Student Union.

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The new face of HIV may surprise you.

You probably haven't heard, but there was an election, and not to spoil it or anything, but the Dark Side didn't win.

It's almost over, but we know how stressful watching those election returns can be. Best to go out, grab a beer, and hunker down with some friends to see if your candidate is in, or out. Foobooz has a run down of some local watering holes where you can camp out for the evening, many with food and drink specials. You know, in case the elected guy can't actually fix the economy with a swish of his wand, and you need to make that beer money last through Inauguration Day.