LIVING
August 20, 2000 | By Jonathan Valania, FOR THE INQUIRER
When you overfill a draft of Guinness, and a fluffy ring of foam slowly works its way down the pint glass, that's called a "bishop's collar. " Barkeep lingo, don't you know. No word yet on how the bishops feel about this, but if they happen to stop by the Bishop's Collar, a laid-back corner bar/sidewalk cafe in Fairmount, they needn't worry about sloppy tap work perpetrated in their name. "This is the one place you can't get a bishop's collar," says Megan O'Neill, who co-owns the place with Jeff Keel, allaying concerns about the pouring skills of her bar staff.
NEWS
June 9, 1999 | By Rusty Pray, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Taras W. Sawchyn, 34, manager of a family-owned corner bar in Kensington, died Friday of injuries he suffered in a one-car accident on Aramingo Avenue. Police said Mr. Sawchyn was alone and heading south on the Aramingo Avenue ramp that connects to Delaware Avenue about 11:30 p.m. when the 1981 Oldsmobile Cutlass he was driving mounted the concrete median, then slammed into an Interstate 95 abutment. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The results of an autopsy were pending, authorities said.
RESTAURANTS
October 1, 2000 | By Craig LaBan, INQUIRER RESTAURANT CRITIC
In the Technicolor glow of stained-glass poultry, Rose Parrotta is stomping her feet to Johnny Cash, reliving her wilder days in the apple orchards of New York and filling her Happy Rooster with an infectious energy boost. She welcomes friends to her little restaurant in a playful headlock, leading them around the thick brass bar pole. Even diners unknown to this diamond-studded dynamo get a blast of her charisma. She preens like Vanna White beside her ambitious chalkboard menu, discoursing on everything from her hand-scribbled boutique wine list ("people want forward fruit, but I won't give it to them!"
NEWS
April 6, 1999 | By S. Joseph Hagenmayer, INQUIRER SUBURBAN STAFF
Charles "Poppy" Sharp, 67, the fiery Camden civil-rights leader and founder of the Black People's Unity Movement who first challenged the city's power structure and then became a kingmaker in the city's mayoral elections, died Sunday morning at Virtua-West Jersey Hospital Camden from complications of cancer and diabetes. In his final years, both Mr. Sharp and the BPUM were part of the establishment. But in the late 1960s and the 1970s, "Poppy," as he was widely known, was the man who most forcefully brought civil rights and 1960s-style black activism to Camden.
NEWS
June 11, 2010 | By Michael Klein, Inquirer Staff Writer
There is self-service for gasoline at the pump, soda at the fast-food joint, and groceries at the supermarket. Next time you're at a corner bar, how about you get your own beer? Tir na Nog, a pub in the Phoenix, at 16th and Arch Streets, recently rolled out a two-tap self-service beer bar that seats six to eight people, the first of its kind in the city, and among the first on the East Coast. "Everybody wants to be a bartender," manager Ken Merriman said Wednesday night as patrons pulled their own brews.
NEWS
May 13, 2011 | Inquirer Staff Report
A patron was shot and killed inside a corner bar in Point Breeze early today, police said. The victim, in his early 20's, was pronounced dead at 12:23 a.m. inside the Holiday Cafe on the 1800 block of South 18th Street, police said. He had been shot in the head. Investigators were seeking a description of the shooter and trying to establish a motive, police said. Contact the Inquirer Online News Desk at online@phillynews.com or 215-854-2443. Follow the Inquirer at www.Twitter.com/PhillyInquirer and www.Facebook.com/PhillyInquirer
NEWS
December 1, 1988 | By Kathy Brennan, Daily News Staff Writer
You slip a C-note to a quiet guy sitting at the corner bar, the bar with the melted ice-cube windows and the red neon Schlitz sign and the barstools with the ripped vinyl seats, and you whisper, "Blue Note in the seventh in Atlantic City. " The next day you come back and he slides an envelope under your wet beer glass. "He came in at 15-to-1," he says. He doesn't smile. You do. Can it ever be the same? Can well lit, orderly and, for cryin' out loud, legal betting ever replace the neighborhood bookie?
NEWS
January 21, 1988 | By JOHN F. MORRISON, Daily News Staff Writer The Associated Press contributed to this report
Frank Cascerceri is playing David to Bruce Springsteen's Goliath, and he doesn't even have a slingshot. All Cascerceri has is a corner bar in the Northeast, a 50- by 20-foot joint where 50 people is a crowd. But the rock star and two music companies have come down on Woody's Pub with a federal lawsuit because the bar dared to play such Springsteen numbers as "Pink Cadillac," "I'm On Fire" and "Dancing in the Dark" last summer without a license. The songs were played by a disc jockey who works the bar on Tyson Avenue near Brous four nights a week.
NEWS
April 14, 1992 | By Lea Sitton, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
At least eight people were injured, some seriously, when a man opened fire early today with a shotgun inside the Hadfield Lounge in Southwest Philadelphia, police said. A witness said two men had quarreled outside the corner bar, at Hadfield and 57th Streets. After one of them entered the bar, the other followed him inside and began shooting about 12:30 a.m. There were about 30 people inside at the time and more than eight may have been injured, police said. The identities of the attacker and most of the victims were not immediately available.
NEWS
May 26, 1992 | by Joe Clark, Daily News Staff Writer
Mary Jo Deitch - M.J. for short - has come a long way since Lou's and Pete's. Has gone a long way too. Lou's and Pete's was a hole-in-the-wall neighborhood bar somewhere in Bridesburg. You couldn't call it a corner bar because it wasn't on a corner. It was in the middle of the block, which is why it was "so tiny. " It was where M.J. would while away Thursday nights sipping Seagram's while her husband-to-be tried his darndest to shoot a decent game of darts. Deitch still spends Thursday nights in Bridesburg.