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By Dan Packel
Drinking at Monk's—for the Children!
A line was stretched over half a block outside of Monk’s at 11:15 a.m. on a Monday. Russian River's Pliny the Younger was being sold for $15 a pour, and it was all in the name of Alex’s Lemonade Stand, a foundation looking to seek a cure for childhood cancer.
By Sharon Margolis
Cash-Only Bar
A tribute show is an excuse for urban atheists to pray together to the same musical gods—on this night, legendary country singers Johnny Cash and Hank Williams.
By Sharon Margolis
A Professional Drunk and Philly Native Makes It Big
Living Loaded: Tales of Sex, Salvation, and the Pursuit of the Never-Ending Happy Hour is the funny, compulsively readable memoir/survival guide from Playboy booze scribe and Philly native Dan Dunn. He stopped by Baby Blues BBQ in West Philly for a book signing last Thursday.
By Sharon Margolis
Sinful Sundays upstairs at Tabu Lounge and Sports Bar
Last Sunday marked the third weekly run of the up-and-coming show, set in the new Gayborhood venue’s intimate bar and lounge area. Admission is only $5, and comes with a free drink ticket, plus Happy Hour prices ... until midnight.
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- ARTS AND CULTURE: LUSH LIFE > Fight SAD with Suds at Winter Beer Fest
- ARTS AND CULTURE: LUSH LIFE > The Foggy History of the "Shelf of Shame"
- ARTS AND CULTURE: LUSH LIFE > BYO Vinyl at Prohibition Taproom
- ARTS AND CULTURE: LUSH LIFE > A Good-Time South Philly Bar
- ARTS AND CULTURE: LUSH LIFE > Local Comics on Bars and the Bards
- ARTS AND CULTURE: LUSH LIFE > Drink to Your Health
- ARTS AND CULTURE: LUSH LIFE > Christmas Spirits
- ARTS AND CULTURE: LUSH LIFE > Trying Out Tequila Rose
- ARTS AND CULTURE: LUSH LIFE > Spice Up Your Social Calendar
- ARTS AND CULTURE: LUSH LIFE > Philadelphia’s First Whiskey Week
- ARTS AND CULTURE: LUSH LIFE > Have a Beer With That Bird
- ARTS AND CULTURE: LUSH LIFE > A Lesson in Laphroaig (Scotch)
- ARTS AND CULTURE: LUSH LIFE > Who’s Doing Shots At J.R.’s?
- ARTS AND CULTURE: LUSH LIFE > Wouldn't You Love to Drink Alcohol for a Living?
- ARTS AND CULTURE: LUSH LIFE > Halloween Happenings Around Town
- ARTS AND CULTURE: LUSH LIFE > Cave Men
- ARTS AND CULTURE: LUSH LIFE > Bloktoberfest
- ARTS AND CULTURE: LUSH LIFE > Pumpkin Beer, You're in the Clear
- ARTS AND CULTURE: LUSH LIFE > SugarHouse Not That Sweet
- ARTS AND CULTURE: LUSH LIFE > We Asked People to Blow Us. They Did.
- ARTS AND CULTURE: LUSH LIFE > Talkin’ Turkey (Legs)
- ARTS AND CULTURE: LUSH LIFE > The Don Draper Experiment
- ARTS AND CULTURE: LUSH LIFE > Bars and Stripes
- ARTS AND CULTURE: LUSH LIFE > On The Rox
- ARTS AND CULTURE: LUSH LIFE > 2010 "Lush Life" Column Removed
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Jamie Crewe is Poisonous Relationship, and his excellent new house record is called “Garden of Problems”
By Bill ChenevertThose guys over at Butt Magazine are often on the cusp of great things of all different sorts: fashion, photography, music, writers, etc. They do stellar interviews that, somehow, read like high non-fiction. Yes, sometimes high like they’re done on weed (or poppers), but more like they elevate gay culture and talking about gay culture [...]
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On The Record: Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood, Eve, Pinata Protest, Demi Lovato, Bibio, and Wild Nothing
By Bill ChenevertMark Lanegan & Duke Garwood Black Pudding (Ipecac) Sounds like: The nearly 50-year-old Screaming Trees founder teams with a master composer/producer for darkly beautiful and haunting Americana. Free association: His dusty sadness is a perfect match for Garwood’s ambient score. For fans of: Quiet Dinosaur Jr. x Nick Cave, Damien Jurado/Seattle grunge, Waits. Eve Lip Lock (From the Rib/Sony/RED) Sounds like: The Philly native’s [...]
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Prince Royce Headlines Saturday’s El Zol Fest at the Festival Pier at Penn’s Landing
By Bill ChenevertIt’s funny how a cover can launch a career. And with Prince Royce, his 2010 version of Ben E. King’s “Stand By Me” shot him into the stratosphere of superstardom. The 24-year-old Bronx-raised singer, born Geoffrey Royce Rojas, has seen an astonishing amount of success in his first few years out of the gate. Growing [...]
