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This winter, Penn’s Landing’s Blue Cross RiverRink celebrates 20 years of ice skating on the Delaware River by transforming the annual waterfront rink into a veritable winter wonderland.

Opening right after Thanksgiving Day on Friday, November 29, Waterfront Winterfest takes the perennial good times of Blue Cross RiverRink to a whole new level, transforming Penn’s Landing into a pop-up holiday village a for 33 days between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve with a Four Corners Management-run bar and restaurant, pop-up garden-style landscaping, a light and video show, and a retail shopping experience.

Read on for a rundown of what’s coming to Penn’s Landing and get ready to practice your triple axel and sip craft brews beside the fire. Count us in.

The Layout

 
A wintertime tradition for 20 years, the Blue Cross RiverRink, an Olympic-size rink overlooking the Delaware River, remains the centerpiece of the souped-up waterfront winter village.

To extend the diversions beyond the skating rink, the Delaware River Waterfront tapped David Fierabend of Groundswell Design Group, the same architecture firm that created this past summer’s PHS Pop-Up Garden on Broad Street.

This year, the skating rink location will be transformed into a daily wintertime festival with shipping containers repurposed into retail shops, and food and drink served in a fabricated forest setting with pine trees, fire pits, rustic seating and signage.

Waterfront Winterfest opens on Friday, November 29 — Black Friday — and is currently slated to be open daily, 11 a.m. to 1 a.m., through January 5.

Of course, some special hours will be announced in the coming months for Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. Plus, expect one heck of a bash for New Year’s Eve in conjunction with the 6 p.m. and midnight fireworks presented by SugarHouse Casino.

The Restaurant

 
The good people who operate Morgan’s Pier in the summertime — Four Corners Management — bring the team up the Delaware River shore to operate the Waterfront Winterfest’s temporary restaurant.

The pop-up will feature a 400-person warming tent and American-style beer garden dubbed The Lodge, with chef George Sabatino at the kitchen’s helm to serve a variety of seasonal fare. Plus, look for other partners from the Philadelphia culinary scene to contribute their talents throughout the Waterfront Winterfest.

The Craft Village

 
As for holiday shopping, the crafty folks behind the Art Star Craft Bazaar are curating a winter-themed retail experience with vendors housed inside repurposed shipping containers.

A group of rotating vendors will peddle a range of goods — kids items, clothes, jewelry, posters, pottery and more.

The craft village will be open Fridays to Sundays, with additional holiday hours to come.

The Light Show

 
Illuminating the scene, Waterfront Winterfest will display an immersive 3-D light show designed and created by Ricardo Rivera of Klip Collective. Bright Lights, Big Santa will re-imagine old timey holiday light shows with Klip’s patented projection-mapping technology, synced music, festive color, lights, hip hop beats and, reportedly, dancing elves.

The light show is set to go off every evening on the hour, from 5 to 11 p.m.

Stay tuned for more on what promises to be a sensational wintertime destination.

Waterfront Winterfest
When: November 29-January 5, 11 a.m.-1 a.m.
Where: Penn’s Landing, 101 South Columbus Boulevard
Cost: Pay as you go
More info: www.delawareriverwaterfront.com

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Scaring people is hard. Scaring New Yorkers is even harder.

It's clear that the folks behind the prank in the video above know a thing or two about how to successfully freak out even the most skeptic seen-it-alls. And what they execute is as impressive as anything you'd find on a high-budget Hollywood set.

The skilled pranksters constructed a fake wall inside West Village coffee shop 'Snice Cafe in NYC, installing a cable and pulley that send an stuntman unsuspecting patron flying up into the air. Chairs, books, and tables are all remotely controlled, giving the illusion that a young woman's anger-induced, out-of-control telekinesis is behind a room full of moving objects.

Anger? Telekinesis? A young woman? Hmmm.

If this all sounds suspiciously timed with and thematically linked to the release of the new "Carrie," then you're on to something. The folks behind the horror re-imagining set up the crazy prank as a way of getting the word out about the movie. And look, it worked!

"Carrie," starring Chloe Grace Moretz and Julianne Moore, hits theaters on October 18.

Conan drives the mean streets of Los Santos but is most concerned with trying to flirt at the strip club.

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As difficult as it is to contain one's undying love for Dolly Parton, it is only made more difficult after drinking straight whiskey out of a Mason jar. This is the struggle of Seth Weitberg, whose sloppy-yet-loving story of Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner is one of Drunk History's best yet. While other storytellers incite laughter with vomiting and slurred speech, the sincere adoration in Weitberg's drunken speech is what makes it so great. Happy Endings' Casey Wilson and The Mighty Boosh's Rich Fulcher reenacting the tale in Weitberg's exact words is equally enjoyable. Highlights include the real story behind Parton's first solo hit, "Jolene," and Weitberg's howling rendition of "I Will Always Love You." Comedy Central only has clips available, but the whole thing is up on Jezebel.  

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‘Tis the season for seafood, and you’re in for a real feast on Wednesday evenings at Route 6.

Stephen Starr’s New England-style seafood house Route 6 aims to fulfill your seafood craving with a returning evening promotion, Crab Wednesdays.

For just $7 a pop, enjoy jumbo Maryland blue crabs from 5 to 10 p.m. on Wednesday evenings. Last summer, the promotion required folks to purchase at least three crabs to score the deal, but this year, there is no minimum purchase.

In addition to heavily discounted crabs, sip $12 pitchers of craft beer.

Choose from Harpoon UFO, Neshimany Creek, County Line IPA, Sam Adams Summer Ale, Narragansett Lager and Victory Prima Pils.

Talk about a deal.

Your dinner plans are set, head out to Route 6 on North Broad Street and get crackin’.

Route 6 Crab Wednesdays
When: Wednesdays, 5-10 p.m.
Where: Route 6, 600 N. Broad Street
Cost: Pay as you go
More info: www.route6restaurant.com

Sony plans to launch an online, paid TV service by the end of the year, poised to hit the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 and high-definition TVs, the Wall Street Journal reports. Sony has inked a deal with Viacom, the American media company, to carry Viacom cable channels on an internet-based TV service for Sony products, the report says.

Sony intends to stream on-demand programming and cable channels online, and the service includes a "recommended programming" feature, partly influenced by content providers and partly based on an algorithm of a user's viewing habits, the site says.

Viacom's channels include MTV, Comedy Central, BET, Logo, VH1 and Spike. On June 26, Sony renewed a trademark for "PlayStation TV," covering hardware and streaming services.

Report: Sony to launch online TV service on PS4 by end of year originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 15 Aug 2013 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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