I’m going to stop kidding myself. I love hipster bars, for what I think are really good reasons. For starters, hipster bars are run by hipsters. Crafty, creative, pretentious hipsters. If there is one thing hipsters do well, it’s the following list of three things:
Okay, so the TLA isn’t really a bar, it’s a venue for live shows on South Street. It’s not technically in South Philadelphia either, because South Street is really just the south side of center city Philadelphia. As such, it’s frequented by all sorts of people, for all different …
I’m not going to be flowery, or tell a great big story about this place. Simply put: It’s a hipster mecca, nestled in a terrible neighborhood. Luckily for the patrons inside, they blast Arcade Fire loud enough to drown out the distant screams, gunshots, and sirens; all sounds of …
Anybody that knows me well knows that my favorite place to drink is the P.O.P.E (or Pub On Passyunk East). If you’ve ever been there, you can probably figure out why. The POPE is located in the fully gentrified section of South Philadelphia known as Passyunk Square (right …
It’s Saturday. Like most people, I like to use Saturday morning to reflect on what happened the night before. This is not unlike Sunday morning, except on Sunday morning, I tend to be a bit more hungover. I relocated back to good ol’ Philly a few months ago, and was …
