Finding Philly

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If you’re in Center City between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve you should make your best effort to stop by the Wanamaker Building and check out the Chrismas Light Show. Not only is this building loaded with great Philly history and the largest working pipe organ in the world, but it’s a great place to do some holiday shopping and watch a cool light show on your lunch break.

More pics and trivia in the extended…

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An art gallery has opened in south philly and it’s about damn time.  We have blocks of prime real estate in the Italian Market/9th Street Market area and the fruit/veggie vendors can only do so much to keep this historic area of the city vibrant.  DiBruno’s and Claudio’s, Talluto’s and Esposito’s and a number of (really good) mexican joints work together in symbiosis to keep it going but there are *easily* a half-dozen prime storefronts that, in any other halfway decent city would be snapped up by people with business.

So where are they and what are they doing?  I’ll sit here and pontificate with my Chestnut Delight (thanks to the Chestnut St. Smoke Shop WHAT!?).  Please join me and comment as I’ve only lived in this fine city for three years now. Continue Reading »

This is a short and sweet little story that starts with me moving to Philly a few years ago and noticing the sticker art around the city.  It ends with a local artist’s art opening last night at a slick streetwear shop in Chinatown.  Read on for some pics and the full scoop.

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After a brief hiatus, we’re back! There was a short time there where the official Finding Philly camera was misplaced. It took the cleaning of both our rooms to find it but we’ve got it again. I won’t say whose room it was in – even though that person was pretty sure it was in the OTHER person’s room, and the OTHER person feels a little righteous poking and tickling is order.

This post is one I’ve wanted to do for a long time. It’s a bit related to my Walk to Work post . It’s about three artists whose work I see every day when I’m walking to and from work. Each of them has product that they sell but they’ve chosen to go out and decorate the city they live in, each in a very different way. Keep on this way to find some pictures…
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