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· Hot tip: More than 40 restuarants are participating in this Thursday’s “Taste Of Philadelphia” event, and tickets are only 15 bucks — if you pick ‘em up before the day of the event. Then, they go to $30, and suddenly, eating 28 different kinds of crab balls and things wrapped in bacon doesn’t really seem like it’s worth it. [PW]
· The Village Voice’s “Last Meals”-themed Food Issue was a mid-concept blunder straight outta the books of our local alt-weeklies, sure. (Note to every editor in town: Nobody cares about the clever themes you can squeeze into the inherent advertorial nature of your special issues. Just do them. We’re not dogs here, we take pills willingly. Just do the damn “Food Issue” or “Summer Guide” or “Holiday Guide” or whatever.) But we had to laugh when they awarded Manhattan cheesesteakery 99 Miles To Philly “Betsy Ross’ Last Meal” and then gave a shout-out to Pat’s and Geno’s. [VV]
· This settles it: Craig Laban is racist against hipsters. See if he can get through a review of Ida Mae’s without a “funky” here and a “funky” there (actually, we counted 4 “funky”’s). Yes, Craig, we are soooo funky with our “hipster hats” (wha?) and our, um, brunch; we’re a little curio or something you can collect, like lawn jockeys. But if you can roll with that, you gotta also roll with the bad news: By your definition, a hipster in Philadelphia is pretty much anyone who knows how to read and isn’t beating their kid. [Inky]
· And finally, some bona fide, non-hipster or non-non-hipster related good news: 14 medals were handed out to various Philadelphia beers at the Great American Beer Festival last weekend. Too bad none of them were PBR, right, guys? I mean, we’re all such vapid hipsters that we thought… oh, never mind, we’re bored with it already. [DN]