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Tinsel & Tine: Quick Philly Weekend Recap (Todd Douglas Bailey “Going Up”)
As I’ve mentioned, I moved exactly 1 month ago to West Philly from Mt. Airy and this past weekend was the first time I really took advantage of how convenient the 34 Trolley is to get into Center City Philadelphia – 15 minutes flat to go from 48th & Baltimore to 13 & Market! – So now there’s no more looking for parking, paying for parking or fear of meter running out and getting a ticket, no more expensive Regional Rail ride or driving to Ridge Ave to get the infrequent #9 bus, which sits in traffic on the Schuylkill (Rt 76) and most thankfully, no more taking the H…
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Philly Spotlight: WORLD CUP COLLECTION LAUNCH PARTY Philly Phaithful and Live, Breathe, Futbol
Dan is the President of Philly Phaithful which specializes in originally designed Philadelphia sports apparel: t-shirts, sweatshirts, hats, hoodies, jerseys for both men & women. He quit a great job with ESPN 6 years ago to pursue his passion for sports, particularly Philly sports and begun building Philly Phaithful; with the help of his cousin, in the beginning, the two just worked out of Dan's apartment.
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Acclaimed Broadway Musical ONCE Coming to Philly!
I’ve only seen the movie Once – well, once, in the theater in 2006, two years before starting Tinsel & Tine, so I never wrote about it, but it’s always stuck with me. There’s a strangely magical simplicity to this little love story between a Dublin guitarist / singer-songwriter (Glen Hansard) who makes a living by fixing vacuum cleaners and this Czech girl (Markéta Irglová) who plays piano when she gets a chance, and does odd jobs by day and takes care of her mom and her daughter by night. The soundtrack also struck a chord with me – particularly the song “Falling Slowly”, which I still listen to fairly…
