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Philadelphia’s best liquor stores
Dan McQuade ranks the best of Philadelphia’s Wine & Spirits shops with helpful notes about what you’ll find nearby and how long the lines get […]
Theodore Netter Wants to Sell You Wine and Whiskey
We spotted this spectacular 1910 photo of Market Street looking west towards City Hall on the Old Images of Philadelphia Facebook page today. The whole […]
U.S. Postal Service Wants to Free You From the PLCB
The U.S. Postal Service is thinking about delivery alcohol as a way to not lose $16 bilion dollars every year. Donahoe said delivering alcohol has […]
State Senator Rails Against that “Damn Sheetz” in Liquor Hearing
Sheetz, that backwatery, red-headed stepchild of a convenience store, is lobbying for liquor privatization so that it can sell beer. Boosters say it will create […]
Drivers Actually Got Busted This Weekend Smuggling in Booze from Delaware
It’s no secret that Pennsylvanians routinely disobey the state law forbidding them from buying and transporting booze back from Delaware and Jersey, where it’s typically […]
Diddy Was in Harrisburg Yesterday, Pimping His Vodka
Diddy, aka Sean Combs, is an official endorser of Ciroc vodka. Which explains why the erstwhile rapper was in nightlife, USA, yesterday meeting with the […]
Del Frisco’s Bought Over $1 Million In Wine and Booze Last Year
We were impressed back in October 2012 when we learned that Center City red meat emporium Del Frisco’s had purchased nearly $900,000 worth of wine […]
Powerful Liquor Privatization Foe Pulls a 180. Or Does He?
Last week, National Review lambasted Pennsylvania GOP State Senator Chuck McIlhinney for standing athwart Pennsylvania’s liquor privatization effort. A couple days later he was on […]
University City Will Get a New Liquor Store
Check out the week’s most interesting posts on Philadelphia magazine’s real estate blog, Property. University City has been without a liquor store since the Wine […]
National Review Bashes PA State Stores
But are you surprised? National Review, taking aim at PA’s admittedly quirky state liquor laws, makes the case that social values conservatism and union-dominated machinism […]
Corbett’s Liquor Privatization Problem: History Isn’t on his Side
Tom Corbett is not the first Pennsylvania governor to try and privatize the state liquor stores. (Though, with much of his agenda stifled, unrealized, or […]
Video: Union Chief Goes Berserk Over LCB Privatization at State Capitol
Mayor Nutter wasn’t the only one getting interrupted this week. Yesterday, state liquor employees union chief Wendell Young IV loudly and repeatedly heckled a pro-LCB […]
Pros and Cons of Latest Liquor Privatization Bill
Dan McQuade reviews Governor Tom Corbett’s latest proposal to privatize the Pennsylvania liquor system. The Good: Beer can be sold at grocery and drug stores. […]
He’s Doing It! Corbett Plan to Privatize State Liquor Stores Imminent
Says the Inquirer of the plan: “It will be big, and it will be bold.” Corbett, fresh off a completely non-controversial and universally loved plan […]
This Weekend: Beware the Liquor Police
Subsequent to yesterday’s story on Union Trust closing its doors, probably, in part, because they can’t legally serve booze, we’ve learned about quite a few […]