Jaeatyet?

The battle is over, Paesano's 152 W. Girard in Fishtown/Nolibs, has one the honor of "Best Italian Hoagie in the Philadelphia Area."

New "six-stool, mostly takeout eatery" that just opened after Thanksgiving. "Delectable mix of mortadella, prosciutto and ham ... perfect amount of sharp provolone ... a dark green lettuce ... on a crispy seeded roll," Macnow writes. "Folks, we have ourselves a winner."

I do have to agree, Paesano's has been open for almost a year now and has amazing Italian food and sandwhiches. Paesano's was opened by Peter McAndrews owner and Chef of Modo Mio, (located right across the street from Paesano's.) Everything on the menu is amazing, upon entering you are always greeted with a friendly face, but you may have a hard time finding a stool, they have limited seating but I would sit anywhere to get a Paesano's sandwhich. They have daily specials up on the board and always find a minute to strike up a conversation with you while they are cooking in front of you and running around with orders. Most items on the menu are under $9, but dont forget to bring your wallet cause they are cash only. Paesano's is a must eat for anyone!

Duh Weekend

Another week has gone by and hopefully the weather will stay nice again (we found the most ridiculous graphic above), lets start off with:

Art for the Cash Poor: Sat and Sunday at the Crane Arts building in Fishtown. 1-6pm at 1400 North American Street. Cheap Art, Free Music, and good food and drink. It was fun last year and hopefully even more fun this year.

Art + Soul Food June 13th! Art Plus Soul Food is a celebration of Food and Art taking place this Saturday between 6-9pm in the Brewerytown section of Philadelphia. This all takes place between the 2600-2900 block of West Girard and is a quick bike ride or Green Line trolley ride down Girard.

The Piazza, a follow up to last weeks amazingness with Questlove of the Roots and a huge free concert that took place, Sundae is bringing it back this weekend! Sunday 12pm-2am Tons of fun and to much to describe, just get your ass their.

Always Sunny!

The YoCoPros are huge fans of "Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia," for those of you you haven't seen it it based on five characters Rob McElhenney (originally from philly), Glenn Howerton, and Charlie Day, Danny DeVito, and Kaitlin Olsen whom all work or are partners in Paddy's Pub which is very unsuccessful bar is South Philadelphia (not real.) Anyway, the show follows the characters, whom are all self absorbed and selfish, in there ridiculous exploits. Basically its a show about nothing but its funny as hell. Its also great to see local neighborhoods and landmarks within the show, and local references too like Logan Circle, Bon Jovi, Wawa, Delaware Ave, and Kensington was even mentioned last season when Dennis (Glenn Howerton) was admitted to the Kensington Rehabilitation Center (He meets Rob Thomas and Sinbad their).

Around this time of year the crew comes back into town to film local shots and they are here this week! Check out where they will be and when, and watch the show (its free)!

Trustafarians?

Ever wonder how your hipster or artsy friend can work a minimum wage job for 4 hours a week but still be able to go out and party and buy that new Iphone or Mac? The answer is mommy and daddy. As areas in major metropolitan cities like New York (Willamsburg), and Philadelphia (Fishtown), have see huge gentrification efforts over the past 10 years, many of the Gen Y hipsters are finding financial troubles in the current market situation. Parents are no longer able to float their kids the money they need to sustain a seemingly carefree life. This great NYT article goes into detail about the issues these up and coming areas are facing along with what is happening to the 20 something YoCoPros that reside their.

Running, Beer, Friends and Fun in Fishtown

The YoCo's good friend and colleague Annette Monnier, fellow artist and Outreach Coodinator at The Clay Studio is a member of The Fishtown Beer Runners!! And we think this is an amazing concept....why didn't we think of it?!

The Concept
The Fishtown Beer Runners combine responsible running with responsible drinking in the interest of science. They gather once a week to run three to five miles, and conclude each run at a pub for a beer or two.

Their Goals are as follows:

1) To encourage people to exercise by running (or walking)

2) To provide friendly camaraderie for all who hate to exercise

3) To promote the responsible enjoyment of QUALITY beer

4) To support local tavern owners and breweries

5) To promote a ban on spandex


Runs are Thursdays @ 7:00 PM sharp and Saturdays @ 11:30 AM sharp. Start location is 2346 E. Susquehanna Avenue in beautiful Fishtown.

The Homeless Stay Wired

In the US there are about 3.5 million US residents (about 1% of the population), including 1.35 million children that are homeless. It's an alarming number to fathom, and there are 4,000 persons who are homeless on any given day in Philadelphia. I recently found this WSJ article that absolutely amazing, it spoke about how homeless people are adapting and incorporating computers and technology into there lives. We can see how it was just a matter of time before more and more middle income people become homeless, but are able to salvage the very least to stay connected to "Reality". Check out the article here, and lend a hand!

The Next Areefa

We are sure most of you have seen the new Cricket Wireless commercials, if you haven't its a newer cell phone company to this area and there slogan is Respect (Along with Aretha's song). One particular ad has Youtube vids of people singing "Respect," one girl in particular is ridiculously good, and apparently she's only 10 years old. Her name is Lukeja Poland and she is sick! I couldn't believe it after hearing the respect song and then I listened to "I Will Always Love You," and "Take a Bow" and they are even better. This girl is gonna have a long and successful career ahead of her.

A New Eye for Design in Budapest

Looks familiar... Northern Liberties??

Article from the NY Times:

By EVAN RAIL

Published: June 7, 2009

ON sunny afternoons, Budapest’s central square, Erzsebet ter, is bustling with skateboarders, tourists in open-top buses, guests from the high-end hotels nearby and visitors to the Godor Club, a cool cafe and performance space.

But even considering the square’s normally busy standards, I was surprised by the number of people when I arrived there one Sunday this spring. More to the point, I was surprised by what had brought them in: WAMP, which stands for Hungarian Design Market in Hungarian). The monthly design market features more than 100 vendors who sell local clothing, furniture and accessories in the shade of the square’s former bus depot.

“Every month we choose a topic,” said Bori Mester, one of the market’s organizers. “And it’s all different kinds of Hungarian design: toy designers, furniture designers, industrial, jewelry and fashion designers.”

Although cultured travelers have long had many reasons to visit Budapest — outstanding wine, glorious music, hip night life — it is probably safe to say the local sense of style was not among them. And yet the city has an emerging design scene unlike almost anything I’ve found in the former Eastern bloc. Beyond each monthly WAMP (www.wamp.hu), Budapest Design Week takes place in October and Budapest Fashion Week each April.

The city is also the base for The Room, an inch-thick international fashion and art magazine with texts in English and Hungarian, and up-and-coming clothing labels like Nanushka, which regularly pick up praise on English-language style blogs. There are creative industrial designers as well, like Ivanka, which just showed off its remarkably expressive and fluid home furnishings made from concrete at the Milan international design fair.

Read the rest of the article:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/travel/07journeys.html

2 Legit to Stop!

Flash mobs have been around for a while now, if you dont know what it is this is what Wwwwiki says: A flash mob (or flashmob^[1]) is a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual action for a brief time, then quickly disperse. The term flash mob is generally applied only to gatherings organized via social media or viral emails, rather than those organized by public relations firms or for a publicity stunt.

Anyway some are funny, some are for protests, and awareness some violent (like this week in PHL), others are just plain Hammer-Licious.