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The Food & Drink Issue: Soul Food

By PW Staff — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:03:21 PST

BURRRRRRRRPPPPP. Oh, sorry. We’ve been stuffing ourselves to the gills around here with soul food from every corner of this fair city. And in the Food & Drink Issue you can see where, exactly, we’ve been doing it. In “The Place,” we profile a longtime Philly soul staple,...

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The State of Philly Booze 2012

By Brian Freedman — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:43:12 PST

The lowdown on where and what to drink this year. Too often, we tend to drink the same stuff every time we go out. Here, then, is what a real New Year’s resolution should be about: Not exercising more, not curbing your road rage, but drinking better, and drinking more...

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Hey, Philly: Here Are a Few Places to Eat on Christmas Day

By Cristina Perachio — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:09:36 PST

Maybe you’re not celebrating Christmas but still want to celebrate. Perhaps the turducken house fire from Thanksgiving is still fresh in your mind. Or maybe you’re just looking to get drunk, eat some good food and escape your family’s particular brand of crazy. Whatever your...

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The New Year's Eve Guide

By PW Staff — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:38:19 PST

**Updated with new events! If the Mayans are right, this is the last time you’ll be ringing in anything. Lucky for you, there’s plenty of New Year’s Eve options to party away your last days. Whether you want to shake your groove thang, stuff your face or keep things low-key,...

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PW's Brian McManus Shares His Dive-Bar Obsession

By Brian McManus — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 05:57:11 PDT

A lot’s changed since 2005. The housing market’s collapsed. The economy has fallen to shit in every conceivable way. There are people living voluntarily outside City Hall. We got Obama. He got Osama. Martin Lawrence made a dozen more Big Momma’s. In nearly every way, the cozy life...

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Better Than Best: Bars

By PW Staff — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 05:27:40 PDT

Best Place to (Still) Extend the Weekend Waaay into Monday Ten years ago, the RUBA Club was a beloved Sunday night secret for the server set, a place where tired, artsy staffers melted memories of being harassed and demeaned away by wasting earnings on cheap slugs of liquor to fuel epic ping-pong...

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COOK Dive-Bar Food With PW’s Brian McManus and Tim McGinnis

By Brian McManus — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 05:01:38 PDT

Brian McManus loves you, Philly. He loves you so much, he wandered into your most storied, dangerous, booze-soaked haunts and wrote a book about them, Philadelphia’s Best Dive Bars: Drinking and Diving in the City of Brotherly Love. If one of the three Amazon reviews about it is to be...

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Six Drinks That'll Knock You on Your Ass

By Nicole Finkbiner — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 07:05:35 PDT

Treating yourself to an alcoholic beverage or two after a long day is all fine and dandy, but what about those particularly shitty (or joyous) times when a buzz simply isn’t enough? While we here at PW encourage you to drink responsibly, we also believe in...

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Old City's Art in the Age Takes Brewing Tradition to New Orleans

By Adam Robb — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:27:37 PDT

The first official flavor of this year's Tales of the Cocktail, New Orleans' annual celebration of the art of the mixed drink, was rhubarb. On Wed., Aug. 20, at the Hotel Monteleone, Philadelphia's Art in the Age hosted the first tasting room of the week inside two second-story conference...

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Wine Lists Around the City Are Better and More Affordable Than Ever

By Brian Freedman — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 05:43:12 PDT

At first glance, writing an interesting, cost-effective wine list in Philadelphia seems like it would be a perfect catch-22—or, more cynically, a no-win situation. There are the ever-present PLCB headaches to contend with. Then there’s the issue of pricing. In a BYOB culture like...

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PW Wine Quarterly Event Listings

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 08:17:20 PDT

Learn by Tasting Is wine a mysterious elixir that requires an alchemist’s notebook to decipher? If you have ever read the tasting notes in a wine magazine, you may think so: “the lush cranberry of this pinot noir is accented with a touch of marshmallow and a hint of tobacco-spiced...

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Lush Life: Some Winners (and a Loser) of Center City Sips

By Cristina Perachio — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 04:34:47 PDT

Center City Sips is a great idea in theory: $4 cocktails, $3 wine, $2 beers and half-priced appetizers from 5 to 7 p.m. every Wednesday, June to August. If only it weren’t for the crowds, seemingly always understaffed bars and popped collars (OK, that last one just bugs me personally). ...

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Philly's Beer Style? There Isn't Just One

By Brian Freedman — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 04:31:38 PDT

Belgian Trappists are renowned for their dense, complex ales. Berlin is justifiably famous for its bracing Berliner Weisse. But with all the attention that our own city’s brewing and drinking culture has received in recent years, the answer to one essential question is still open to debate:...

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PW's Picks for Philly Beer Week

By PW Staff — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 04:23:55 PDT

Untapped: Behind the Scenes With the Hammer of Glory In the misty recesses of time, two noble warriors embarked on a heroic quest to honor the nectar of the gods. To a great forge they dragged wood and steel, and in the fires they created a hammer so mighty that humanity would tremble at its...

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How I Almost Died (Twice!) Taking Pictures for Philadelphia's Best Dive Bars

By Michael Alan Goldberg — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 05:13:00 PDT

As I stood across the street from Peck Miller’s Bar on Ridge Avenue in Roxborough, snapping photos, a thirtysomething guy up the sidewalk watched me warily for a minute or two, then sauntered over. “You shuttin’ the place down or somethin’?” “Nah, I’m...

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PW's Brian McManus to Promote Dive Bar Book at the Pen & Pencil

By PW Staff — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 10:27:34 PDT

After a five year stint as a food and music writer at Houston Press, Brian McManus spent one year as that paper’s nightlife columnist. It almost killed him. Because, despite advice from sane people who loved him deeply, he insisted on venturing into the city’s most...

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Khyber Pass: Dingy Club to Charming Pub

By Brian Freedman — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 04:41:59 PDT

When word spread that the old Khyber would be donning the proverbial toque and going all gastro on the neighborhood, the news was widely met first with incredulity, then uncertainty and then, finally, resignation. It had been a solid run for the old music-and-beer-and-a-shot joint, but life moves...

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PW Editor Brian McManus Publishes Book About Philly's Dive Bars

By Nina Sachdev — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:58:30 PST

"The bars contained in this book are the city's most colorful, character-filled dives. But what exactly makes a bar a dive? To me, dive bars are like pornography: hard to define, but you know one when you see it. And, while one person's dive may be another person's upscale establishment,...

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The State of Philly's Cocktail Scene

By Brian Freedman — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 05:39:50 PST

My own revelatory moment happened, like it did for so many Philadelphians, at Southwark. I met a friend there late on a Saturday night, not in the mood to drink all that much but needing to get out of the apartment, and agreed to have a glass of whatever he’d ordered. Several minutes later, I...

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Drinking at Monk's—for the Children!

By Dan Packel — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 05:27:30 PST

The passers-by on 16th Street had a number of good questions, namely “What’s everybody waiting for?” The short answer was beer. “What do they give you, a case?” inquired another. He too was ambling past the line that stretched over half a block outside of Monk’s...

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