Happy to network

Young, hip professionals from around the ’burbs are tuning into a new network during Happy Hour

By Sarah Baicker

Philly EDGE Correspondent

            In Montgomery County, happy hour isn’t just for sweet deals on beer and drinking away memories of the workday.

Art with an EDGE  

In this issue, you’ll find the stories of artists from inside and around Philadelphia, who illustrate that art, created by and for young adults, is very alive in the region.

The Heads of State

Multimedia duo skirts politics for serious indie cred

name:             Jason Kernevich / Dustin Summers

Picture perfect  I   Meet Holland’s Shannon James, Playmate of the Month May 2007

By Michael Lello
Philly EDGE Correspondent

Phair-weather phans?

From McNabb to Smarty Jones to the Phils: when do fans turn ugly, and why?

By Michael Lello
Philly EDGE Correspondent

Ryan Howard and Chase Utley wave to their adoring fans crammed on the city sidewalks as the float makes its way down Broad Street. Brett Myers pumps his fist and Pat Burrell shares a laugh with Jimmy Rollins as the teammates brush confetti from their smiling faces. 

LOVE/HATE

Some of the most beloved, and despised, sports figures in Philadelphia sports history, in no particular order.

New at the ballpark

5 new features at Citizens Bank Park in 2007(besides Freddy Garcia and Wes Helms)

- The Scoreboard Porch at Harry the K’s has “All You Can Eat Wings” available during Alley Hour (the first hour the ballpark gates are open) every Wednesday.

Choice Ladies
Five up-and-coming women of song, and the suburbs

by Paul Mick
Philly EDGE Correspondent
 
In our Greater Philadelphia metropolis of over 5 million people, covering a full 10 county region, you could say that of these five uncommonly gifted female singer/songwriters with an aggregate average age of just over 25, each is decidedly one in a million.

Dallin Applebaum, Irene Molloy, Krista Parrish, Laura Shay and Sharon Little, indie artists all, while clearly only a fraction of the current cavalcade of new women in song, do represent the Delaware Valley quite nicely.

Is that a bar in your pocket…?

New sites help direct drinkers to bars

To plan for his Erin Express bar tour, Brent Beddis, a 24-year-old from Philadelphia, printed out a map from MapQuest and marked, in pen, the location of each bar with a circled "A" – "P." The circled letters corresponded to a key at the bottom of the page, where he wrote down the name of each bar and the exact street number. By the end of the night, the page was wet with beer and the ink was smeared.

Long, green trip

Erin Express makes the rounds

By Ainsley Maloney

Philly EDGE Correspondent

"(This is the) only day it's socially acceptable to be an alcoholic," says Mike Barker, 24, of Philadelphia while on the 2007 Northeast Erin Express last Saturday (March 10).

Indeed. The bar-to-bar bus shuttles that occur in and around Philadelphia each March can be a convenient solution to a beer-lover’s problem: getting around safely.

The Vagina dialogue

A former Philly resident celebrates her ‘naughty’ part

By Ryan Alan

Philly EDGE Correspondent

Former Philadelphia resident Jessica Delfino, an alumnus of the Art Institute of Philadelphia, doesn’t beat around the bush.

In fact, the acclaimed and self-proclaimed “dirty folk” comic-musician isn’t shy about sharing the most intimate of personal insights.