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01 Oct 19:37
Parkway Corner Deli Opens
by Rachel Chernaskey
AlecbuggLooks real nice. They have outside seating!
Parkway Corner Deli Opens | Photo by HughE Dillon
The Parkway Corner Deli is opening today at 22nd and Spring Garden. The deli will be open from 7 a.m. until 11 p.m. Monday through Saturday, as well as from 8 a.m. until 9 p.m. on Sundays.
The deli will offer signature sandwiches such as the London Broil and Horseradish Cheddar and hot paninis such as the Apple, Smoked Ham and Brie. The menu also includes handcrafted burgers, a variety of breakfast dishes, kids items, and other classic deli options.
But perhaps more importantly, Parkway Corner Deli will be serving tons and tons of beer including draft beer via growlers.
More Photos from Parkway Corner Deli
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01 Oct 15:58
Here’s Brandon Moss, Whom Ruben Amaro Said Couldn’t Hit a Fastball, Burying a Fastball over the Center Field Wall in the AL Wild Card Game
by Kyle Scott
AlecbuggGo Phils
You may recall our posts about A’s All-Star Brandon Moss, who, in 2011, was in the Phillies’ farm system but was passed over in favor of hard-hittin’ John Bowker. The Phillies let Moss walk partly because he would’ve been an unknown entity on a contending team and partly because Ruben Amaro is an idiot. Amaro didn’t think Moss could hit Major League fastballs. But as it turns out, that’s exactly where Moss excels. His team lost last night, but he was hardly to blame. He had two home runs and five RBIs, including this BLAST to dead-center.
Good news? The A’s are going home (again) and we won’t have to be reminded of that boner. Instead, we can just tune in to watch Jayson Werth.
29 Sep 18:44
Coming Distractions: Here’s a trailer for the final season of Legend Of Korra
by Sam Barsanti
AlecbuggWhoa
Season three of Nickelodeon’s The Legend Of Korra just ended about a month ago, but the network isn’t wasting any time burning off the show’s fourth and final season. As we reported earlier this month, Nick will start uploading new episodes to its website every Friday starting on October 3, and now there’s an official trailer to give us a glimpse of what the next season will look like. As can be expected from an Avatar show, there’s a lot of kung-fu posing and elemental magic attacks, but what’s less predictable are all of the shots of mechs, Korra hacking off her hair, and the cool airbender wingsuits. Legend Of Korra will be jumping to three years after the conclusion of its last season this time around, so Korra’s new haircut is probably just the beginning of its interesting new changes to the ...
29 Sep 18:17
Kevin Sbraga’s Juniper Commons Will Be A 1980′s Theme Restaurant
by Jason Sheehan
AlecbuggAfter reading Ready Player One, I am ready as I'll ever be for this restaurant.
No, seriously. I mean, I wouldn’t believe me either, but this is straight from the man himself (via his PR team, of course):
“When you talk about the eighties, everyone focuses on the pop culture, not the food or drinks. While many chefs have forgone revisiting this decade, I’m excited to reinvent dishes that have been deemed passé, into quality dishes that guests will relate to today.”
See? 19-friggin’-80′s theme restaurant! Which is so totally and completely insane, that I already love it and want to go there for lunch right now–despite the fact that Kevin Sbraga‘s new Juniper Commons isn’t scheduled to open until sometime late this fall.
And according to press descriptions, it gets even better. “Juniper Commons brings the spirit of the decade to life with quintessential American dishes, reimagined “classic” cocktails, with Lionel Richie and Chicago on the playlist.”
There’s gonna be a raw bar (at which, one can only hope, Sbraga will have positioned a coterie of hard-eyed Patrick Bateman clones with slicked-back hair and those pinstriped contrast-collar shirts) and a gin program (dirty martinis, natch). Sbraga and his guys will be knocking out seafood towers and shrimp cocktails, French bread pizza for the kids, stuffed flounder, beef burgundy and cheesecake.
What’s that? You want a menu sample? Well I’ve got one:
Smoked Fish Platter
with salmon, whitefish terrine, bluefish, lentil salad, and housemade black bread
Fries with Eyes
beef fat fries with Cherry Pepper Aioli, Pecorino
Caesar Salad
prepared tableside with housemade croutons and dressing
Eggplant Parmesan
rings of panko-crusted eggplant topped with marinara sauce, locatelli, and parsley
Rotisserie Chicken
served with Marsala sauce and herb bouquet
Wood Roasted Prime Rib
cooked on the rotisserie and served with ox tail au jus and roasted garlic
There are a whole bunch of insider-y cook jokes in that list (the tableside Caesar, the parsley on the eggplant parm and the herb bouquet), all making reference to the terrible things that American chefs did to food back before any of us knew any better. And if Sbraga keeps true to form here, I’m also hoping to see some quiche, the total misuse of lemongrass in one dish, lots of raspberry vinaigrette, maybe a cedar plank salmon or something served “blackened” with a couple wine coolers on the side.
Oh, wait. He already thought of that. Again, from the announcement:
“Drawing inspiration from iconic brands such as Bartles & Jaymes, Juniper Commons is macerating fresh fruit with wine, clarifying the mixture, and adding bubbles to create a selection of unique wine coolers.”
Honestly, the possibilities for this kind of thing are mind-boggling. And the fact that Sbraga seems truly committed to this gag wacky scheme brilliant remaking of one of the darkest decades in American gastronomy just makes me like the guy even more. That’s some hardcore crazy right there. And I respect crazy almost as much as I do talent when it comes to the food world. Nice to know Sbraga’s got both.
As mentioned above, Juniper Commons is looking at a “late fall” opening at 521 South Broad. It’ll seat 140, be open 7 nights a week to start, with plans for adding lunch and brunch services.
I, for one, can not wait.
Juniper Commons [f8b8z]
The post Kevin Sbraga’s Juniper Commons Will Be A 1980′s Theme Restaurant appeared first on Philadelphia Magazine.
29 Sep 17:06
Just relax
“Hey how you doin lil mama? lemme whisper in your ear, Tell you sumthing that you might like to hear, You got a sexy ass body and your ass look soft, Mind if I touch it? and see if its soft - Ying Yang Twins”
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26 Sep 11:41
No Wake for Finnigan’s
by Arthur Etchells
AlecbuggShame
Michael Klein received confirmation that Finnigan’s Wake, which had been for sale for a year now, is under agreement for sale and is now officially closed. The sprawling complex at 3rd and Spring Garden had only been open infrequently recently after a long run as a spot that was one part frat party and one part political hang, frequently serving for fundraising affairs and victory parties.
No word on what will become of the 19,140 square foot building.
In news at other bars that targeted college kids and the recently graduated, Roosevelt Pub at 2220 Walnut Street has been totally cleared out. The bar seemed to lose business as it was covered in scaffolding for what seemed years, and a recent rebrand as the R Bar never seemed to take hold.
Sale pending for Finnigan’s Wake [The Insider]
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24 Sep 19:25
Newswire: AT&T now offering a $39 HBO Go/Amazon Prime package
by Katie Rife
AlecbuggINTERESTING
In an exciting development for people whose friends are all too broke to have HBO Go passwords they can share, AT&T is now offering a $39-a-month bundle through its website that includes broadband Internet and HBO Go. Oh, and Amazon Prime, who just kind of showed up. It was weird at first, but Amazon had a car and offered to drive, so everyone just shrugged their shoulders and went with it.
The new bundle is AT&T’s opening salvo in the cord-cutting wars, which soon will include Internet TV packages from Sony, Viacom, and Dish Network, as well as AT&T. Four providers, all mustering armies for battle against the corrupt, incestuous forces of Comcast so that the strongest among them may claim its rightful place as the One True King Of Streaming Content. If that analogy doesn’t make sense, don’t worry—it will once you ...
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23 Sep 16:32
7 C.I.A. Plots That Sound Like They Were Dreamed Up By A 12 Year Old
Thank God for the Freedom of Information Act. Aside from giving us insight we need to be more responsible stewards of a liberal democracy, it provides us with the endlessly entertaining experience of learning how the Central Intelligence Agency has been spending our tax dollars to make the world a more horrifying place. Although the C.I.A. has been doing their best to portray themselves as self aware via their Twitter account in recent months, it's important to remember how many completely batshit attempts at world domination preceded their covert-conquest of our hearts in 140 characters.
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17 Sep 00:32
thefingerfuckingfemalefury: SLEEP TIME IS NOW SWEET DREAMS...
SLEEP TIME IS NOW
SWEET DREAMS HUMAN
I WILL BE HERE, SHARING MY WARMTHS
I GOOD DOG
I KEEP MY HUMAN SAFE
11 Sep 16:28
Great Job, Internet!: Explore a thousand worlds at once with a new Minecraft art project
by William Hughes
AlecbuggNerdery
One of the pleasures of block-based-building phenomenon Minecraft is the sense of exploration it can engender. There’s a certain kind of wonder to be found in cresting a wooded hill, only to see yourself staring out over a vast, frozen ocean or densely packed jungle. The feeling is even more prominent in the game’s online worlds, where every twist of the path can lead to an elaborately crafted mansion or bizarre statue left behind by some past player.
The people behind the Minecraft Geological Survey, a massive effort to catalog information about 170,000 publicly posted Minecraft worlds, seem to agree with that sentiment. Using a small portion of their 12GB data archive, they’ve constructed “The Reef,” a downloadable map that takes “interesting”—i.e., containing signs of player action—chunks of different Minecraft worlds and stitches them together into a single map.
The result is a ...
05 Sep 17:03
Great Job, Internet!: Lego Infinite Jest is just slightly less expansive than its book form
by Rob Dean
AlecbuggInteresting project for an 11 year old
Rendering numerous English Literature theses lacking, an 11-year-old has been recreating scenes from David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest using Lego figures. Wallace’s magnum opus, an extraordinarily long postmodern tome about pop culture addictions, drug addictions, tennis, Canadian terrorists, and a whole host of things further explained in its copious footnotes, seems like an odd choice for inspiration to 11-year-old Sebastian Griffith. The whole exercise makes more sense once you learn that Sebastian’s father, Kevin, is collaborating with his son on the project.
The elder Griffith is an English professor at Columbus, Ohio’s Capital University and was inspired by Brendan Powell Smith’s The Brick Bible, a retelling of the New Testament using the versatile building blocks. Kevin finds passages from Wallace’s dense deconstruction of American obsessions that Sebastian can recreate as one still with his toys. There are some recurring pieces in the cast, most ...
21 Aug 18:53
While discussing the internet...
by MRTIM
AlecbuggBrilliant
(Thanks Allan!)
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13 Aug 17:28
How Superman Actually Keeps His Identity Secret
AlecbuggI don't even know if this is funny but i laughed a lot
13 Aug 17:28
Spirit of Zaphod
AlecbuggWhat?
0/0
Deep thought.
Whole sort of general mish mash.
“Dude, what happened last night?”
“I don’t know, man. I can’t remember anything after the third PGGB.”
“Didn’t that guy tell us you aren’t supposed to have more than two?”
“Psh. Please. He was a total dweeb. Did you see how he was dressed?”
“Yeah, that was weird. Hey, did he have a second head?”
“I’m still unclear on that, myself.”
“Say, who were those other two guys? One of ‘em said he was a reporter or something? He kept talking about the merits of towels.”
“Gah, I can’t remember. Something about a car. At least he had a personality. That other fella was pretty pathetic. Didn’t even drink any PGGBs. Just tea.”
“Hey, dude, while we're talking, let me ask you something: Do you ever feel like every original idea has already been hatched by the single mind of a genius, and that anything we have to add to the topic couldn’t possibly touch the pioneering and archetypal notions said genius shared with the universe before expiring way too early?”
“Huh?”
“Never mind. Just a lot of bathtime gurgles.”
12 Aug 18:32
Fett Lucky
AlecbuggNope, no, no no no, no way, bad, just no, not at all, wrong, just bad, no, no, can't, don't even wanna, wrong just no not at all
Harder, Fetter, Faster, Shirter.
Han after all.
Like the legend of the Phoenix
All trends help our earnings
What keeps ShirtWoot from hurting
The force from our beginning
We’ve gone too far
But you know who we are
These shirts buy us fast cars
And at least it’s not Jar Jar.
Come on and buy at least one
Nerd shirts can never be done
We know you like a good pun
We hope you’ll all buy Fett Lucky
Pop culture has no ending
That gift keeps on giving
Per se, it's not stealing
If you want to leave - wait, don't actually do that, please.
Come on and buy at least one
Nerd shirts can never be done
We know you like a good pun
We hope you’ll all buy Fett Lucky
Come on and buy at least one
Nerd shirts can never be done
We know you like a good pun
We hope you’ll all buy Fett Lucky
Come on and buy at least one
Nerd shirts can never be done
We know you like a good pun
We hope you’ll all buy Fett Lucky
(times a billion)
(imminent shower of money)
12 Aug 15:45
Dude, Push For Pizza
by Ellis Hamburger
AlecbuggThe future!
It's 3:00AM. You're hungry. Your buds are hungry. The Cool Ranch Doritos bag is long past empty. "Oh my God, there's an app for this," says your bro Scott. He pulls out his iPhone and taps a red icon labeled PushForPizza. Moments later Scott lets out a primal scream as he stretches out on the couch and slips his phone back into his pocket. "What just happened?" you think.
One minute passes. Five minutes pass. Ten minutes pass. The water is dripping from the kitchen faucet like drop.... drop. It could be an eternity until... Knock knock. A steaming hot pizza's here. Is this a miracle? No, this is real life. This is Push For Pizza, the one-tap pizza-ordering app. It remembers your credit card and lets you pick your favorite pizza place so...
12 Aug 15:43
Great Job, Internet!: Let A Better Queue help you navigate Netflix’s library with ease
by William Hughes
AlecbuggDefinitely needed
Netflix Instant’s large library of films is a great way to kill an afternoon or 300, but the interface has never been its strongest part. Though you can filter by genre and whether something fits the system’s nebulous definition of a “new release,” for the most part you’re left to wander the stacks on your own, lost in a forest of obscure films. That can be fun sometimes, but often you just want to find something good—or at least critically well-regarded—without wasting an hour clicking through menus.
Enter “A Better Queue,” a new API released in May by Dave Jachimiak, which allows you to filter the Netflix Instant library by genre, year of release, critical rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and number of reviews. Once you’ve found a movie you like, one click will take you to its entry on Netflix, and you’re ready ...
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