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Snowday Specials

Sequoia — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:22:48 +0000

The radio and internet are all like, blah blah blah, East Coast crippled in massive snow, and I look outside and see a damp sidewalk. Well, snow day specials are still happening, including this super cute one from Tria: (straight cut-and-past from the email)

TODAY AT BOTH CAFES¬†¬† Milk and Cookies for Grown Ups

Remember when you and mom baked oatmeal cookies on snow days? You don’t?¬†Well, on this snow day¬†we’re doing our own comforting take on milk and cookies: Brooklyn Cookie Jar Porter ($4¬Ω / 16 oz draft),¬†brewed with¬†oatmeal, raisins and vanilla, perfectly paired with a¬†LeBus Oatmeal Raisin Cookie ($1¬Ω). Wine more your thing? Enjoy some gulpable Mother’s Milk Shiraz¬†(specially priced at $7) from Australia’s First Drop Winery.

Sorry, but we have to draw the line at reading you a bedtime story.

Thursday, Februray 25
Starts at noon at Tria Rittenhouse
Starts at 4 pm at Tria Wash West
No reservations – just show up

Cute! I will keep this updated as employees send their corporate tweets and update their facebook fan pages.

Snow Delays

Sequoia — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:45:24 +0000

I’m such a slacker. It was a tremendous pain to walk two blocks to the mailbox today, so as my bus isn’t running, I wasn’t exactly jazzed to hike up to the gallery today. So I called out. I’m not the only one, apparently. Although the bars in this town manage to nobly soldier on, blizzard or not, the art openings are not so lucky. Thus far I have heard:

Darla Jackson‘s opening of “While you were out . . .” at the Philadelphia Art Alliance tonight has been rescheduled for Thursday, February 18th from 5-7:30pm.

Matt Tomezsko‘s opening which would have been tomorrow will now be Friday March 12th from 6:30-9:00 and there will be a taco bar by Qdoba.

The Freeman‘s auction of part II of the Lehman Collection has also been rescheduled Friday, February 19th at 11am. I’ve only been to one art auction before and I had so much fun. Seriously. It was fascinating to see the variety of work and how some things would sell way under market value and some prices would become so inflated in a bidding war. No reserve on any of the works in this sale. Check out the works available online, where you can also download the catalog.

Meanwhile, Art in the Age wants you to know that their event with Reverend Michael Alan making dream catchers is still on for tonight, *UPDATE* also postponed until Thursday, February 18th at 6:30pm. Check the comments for the info..

Know of anything else that was supposed to happen yesterday/today/tomorrow that’s being moved?

Snow Day Specials

Sequoia — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:16:22 +0000

Let it Snow

I discovered the last time that it snowed that lots of bars and restaurants panic over the loss of business (especially since it seems as though the extreme weather has fallen on the weekends.) To try to lure people out they send out “hey, we’re still open” e-mails with specials. Now, I’m not subscribed to every restaurant mailing list in Philadelphia by far, but here are a few specials I know are happening today. Feel free to leave any others in the comments. Then if you’re hale and hearty, strap on the snow boots and support your local businesses.

Fork Restaurant (306 Market Street) is offering a complimentary “Blizzard” (LaColombe coffee, chocolate mint liqueur, kahlua and fresh whipped cream)! Just mention the e-mail. Valid only with the purchase of a dinner entree.

Tria Rittenhouse Square (123 S.18th Street) and Tria Washington Square West (1137 Spruce Street) – Are both offering Sunday-school style specials today. St. Joseph Syrah ’02 – meaty Rh√¥ne red. $5 Ewephoria – crunchy sheep’s milk Gouda. $5 Dogfish Head World Wide Stout – massive 18% rarity. $5 Starts at noon. Today only.

Brauhaus Schmitz has been open since the early AM for Konferenz Channel which is some . . . soccer thing. They’re offering a German breakfast of Brotchen, cheese, salami, ham, hard-boiled egg, butter and nutella! Specials include $1.50 Koelsch while FC Koeln plays and $4 beer specials for Franziskaner, Warsteiner and Hausbrau.

There is a metric crapton of Super Bowl Specials happening tomorrow, so perhaps people are waiting on this snow thing until it looks like we know what the weather is going to do. Surprised I haven’t heard anything yet from Varga or Foy’s . . .