The Owlery

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Monthly Archive: March 2014

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Chestnut Hill Restaurant Month runs through March

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March is Restaurant Month in Chestnut Hill, so customers who haven’t had enough of the food deals from the past Center City District and East Passyunk Ave restaurant weeks have an entire month to enjoy what the places in Chestnut Hill have to offer. From now until March 31, Sundays-Thursdays, restaurants such as Chestnut Grill & Sidewalk Café and Mica will be participating in $15 lunch and $25 dinner specials.

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Food cart husband and wife team halted on restaurant plans

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The husband and wife team Chef Benjamin Miller and Cristina Martinez, who operate their food cart at 8th and Watkins streets on Sunday mornings, have halted operations on establishing their South Philly Barbacoa restaurant at Isaiah Zagar’s warehouse located on Watkins Street. According to Passyunk Post, Miller gave a presentation early January to the East Passyunk Crossing Civic Association’s zoning committee on opening their own restaurant in the space but “met considerable resistance from the neighborhood about a restaurant opening there.”

Miller and Martinez are still looking for a suitable location but for now, they will continue to serve their immensely popular slow-cooked lamb and pancita steamed in maguey leaves in their food cart. You can find them outside Las Rosas Bakery in South Philly early Sunday mornings starting from 6 a.m. until 2:30 p.m.

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Schoolboy Q keeps performance lively despite laryngitis

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The notorious bucket hat-wearing Schoolboy Q, also known as Quincy Matthew Hanley, wasn’t going to let a little case of laryngitis ruin the second day of his Worldwide Oxymoron tour. The West Coast rapper shoved his hands deeper into the pockets of his long, camouflage jacket and beamed at his audience as they belted back his lyrics, allowing for his voice to get some rest.

The rapper seemed as energetic as ever to perform his latest hits from his newest album, “Oxymoron,” released Feb. 25, as he danced around the stage of the Trocadero Theatre on March 3. Audience members were transported into a bouncy house of bucket hat-wearing adolescents screaming out lyrics to “Studio” and “Collard Greens” verbatim.

Q traveled back to the days of his first album, “Setbacks,” to perform “Figg Get Da Money,” and his second, “Habits and Contradictions” to perform “Hands on the Wheel” and “There He Go.”

The lyrics lent themselves toward a theme of thankful, more specifically, a thankfulness toward Schoolboy Q’s daughter, who he gave a shout out to as he sang one of his more emotional songs, “Blessed.”

After his initial spurts of energy, Q’s fatigue and voice loss got the best of him during his last song, “Man of the Year.” However, to solidify the end of the set, he performed the song again, getting every person to put his or her hand in the air.