Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Bucket List June 15-20: Philadelphia, The Greatest CIty Never Sold

This week in Philly, enjoy free or close events, festivals, happy hours and restaurant specials. 

Wednesday, June 15:  Center City Sips will take over the city around 5 with $4 cocktails, $3 vino, $2 brews and half-price appys at participating restaurants in Philly, and I think we will all just be happy there's less beer and more of any other form of alcohol after last week. Hint: Their weekly 20th birthday party with giveaway is at Moriarty's Pub on 1119 Walnut. Bonus: Following Sips, the Philly Tweet Up is tonight at the Helium Comedy Club on 2031 Sansom St., and one drink means watching the 8 p.m. show for free - and it's Paul Mercurio of The Daily Show (with Jon Stewart) so it should be worth it. Also going on - free concert at Penn Treaty Park. It's a band I've never hear of, but Philebrity is putting on the show so Waterfront Wednesday will probably rock your world. Plus, did I mention its free? Wednesday is so obviously more Friday than Thursday ever was, even when Thursday was the new Friday. Definitely the weekday to miss your bedtime, so put your big kid panties on and get ready to rock.
Thursday, June 16:  If you're working in Philly and can afford to take a lunch break (or you can duck out of your office without the boss noticing), slip out to the PHS pop-up, open from 12-2. At night, try Opa Restaurant's Weekly Thursday Block Party, Opa Glendi - instead of a fashion show, it's a cultural band called Platypus. So if you missed Waterfront Wednesday, think about spending a thrilling Thursday with Opa's music act. Furthermore, for those who like Center City Sips or First Friday, you are going to like Old City Social, from 6-8 p.m. on Thursdays. With $3 Hoegarden, Don Q and Sky Vodka bevys, the only thing that could make a night in Old City better is half-priced appetizers - which is, coincidentally, at 20+ restaurants. Hm, so what could make it better now?
Friday, June 17: Conshohocken Restaurant Week started on June 13 and will continue rolling until Sunday. Best bang for buck in my opinion is at Isabella, Flannigan's Boathouse and Guppy's Good Times for $20, but some of the $35 prix-fix menus are well worht the price. This guide to Conshy Restaurant Week tells you where is worth going. Also, at 7:05 is kickoff for the Phialdelphia Soul, our city's arena football team. Usually, this doesn't warrant a mention, but tonight is Car-load Night, so if you can fit a clown car worth of bros in your car they all get in for $50 bucks. So like, 10 bros, $5 each? Puts the Philadelphia Soul on my list tonight...
Saturday, May 18: 618 Music & Arts Festival will blow up Penn's Landing with electronica music, truly making Festival Pier worthy of it's name (because we all know what happens at Burning Man, really). Get tickets ASAP unless you want to miss out on Shwayze, and everyone else. plus so many events going on for the Summer Solstice celebration I can hardly wrap my head around it. The Kimmel Center has organized them all nice and neat for you, so you can enjoy all 40 Summer Solstice events from noon until the solstice well over at 2:30 in the morning. Definitely do the Sa Va Fashion Show at 6 at the Perelman Theater, because in case you forgot what the last one was like here's a reminder. Tip: Check in to Kimmel on foursquare between 11:30 and 1 a.m. and score a free drink ticket.

Sunday, June 19: Happy Father's Day! On Thursday, I will post a Budget Events article for Father's Day. I can tell you that Awesome Fest will be showing Toronto Film Festival's top flick in the Piazza at Schmidt's. You should go, if only to make fun of Canadian's after (unless the Nooks beat the Bruins, in which case they deserve at least a week of less mocking.)

Monday, June 20: Taste of the Nation: Philadelphia Edition will be taking over the Loews Hotel (no hardware for sale here). It's a little pricey, but for same amount you may spend on an extremely expensive and totally unaffordable dinner, you can taste gourmet eats from a multitude of local restaurants instead of just one. Plus, the proceeds benefit a bunch of charities. Worth splurging on? Probably. So eat to end world hunger...

For More Events this Weekend: As usual, scope out uwishunu.com For events in Philadelphia, so udonthavetowishuknewbecauseuknow. If you're trying do Philly for free or cheap, read the Examiner.com Page for Philadelphia Budget Events. Also, you can follow me on twitter for constant updates about events! Wait - one more: if you're going to be at the shore this weekend... DrinkPhilly: Jersey Shore edition will tell you how to avoid (or find) guidos and good fun.

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