Comments on: Rumblings: Go Ahead, Mess With The Bull. See What Happens. http://www.philebrity.com/2007/10/26/rumblings-go-ahead-mess-with-the-bull-see-what-happens/ philly's longest-standing cityblog Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:04:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: lord_whimsyhttp://www.philebrity.com/2007/10/26/rumblings-go-ahead-mess-with-the-bull-see-what-happens/comment-page-1/#comment-3256 lord_whimsy Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:30:32 +0000 http://www.philebrity.com/2007/10/26/rumblings-go-ahead-mess-with-the-bull-see-what-happens/#comment-3256 “The 32-story mixed-use tower flounces onto venerable South Broad Street like a sequined and over-rouged strumpet.”Were it only so! Unfortunately, it isn't that interesting or fun. Looks to me like the architectural equivalent of a mauve-lovin' frumpy pencil-skirted marketing hag in sneakers.Mrrrreaaaowww...Hisss! “The 32-story mixed-use tower flounces onto venerable South Broad Street like a sequined and over-rouged strumpet.”

Were it only so! Unfortunately, it isn’t that interesting or fun. Looks to me like the architectural equivalent of a mauve-lovin’ frumpy pencil-skirted marketing hag in sneakers.

Mrrrreaaaowww…Hisss!

]]> By: C. The Impalerhttp://www.philebrity.com/2007/10/26/rumblings-go-ahead-mess-with-the-bull-see-what-happens/comment-page-1/#comment-3255 C. The Impaler Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:54:02 +0000 http://www.philebrity.com/2007/10/26/rumblings-go-ahead-mess-with-the-bull-see-what-happens/#comment-3255 Yes, the "curb market" ain't all that "Italian" anymore, but it's not like the market consists simply of tables and bins placed along the curb. Aside from one Korean grocer, I think the bulk of the people who've built up clout and capital to occupy the STOREFRONTS along the 9th Street market make a fair argument for keeping the Italian market name. I mean does anyone call Chinatown China-Vietnam-Malaysia town or just Asiatown? Yes, the “curb market” ain’t all that “Italian” anymore, but it’s not like the market consists simply of tables and bins placed along the curb. Aside from one Korean grocer, I think the bulk of the people who’ve built up clout and capital to occupy the STOREFRONTS along the 9th Street market make a fair argument for keeping the Italian market name. I mean does anyone call Chinatown China-Vietnam-Malaysia town or just Asiatown?

]]> By: chuck63http://www.philebrity.com/2007/10/26/rumblings-go-ahead-mess-with-the-bull-see-what-happens/comment-page-1/#comment-3254 chuck63 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:47:20 +0000 http://www.philebrity.com/2007/10/26/rumblings-go-ahead-mess-with-the-bull-see-what-happens/#comment-3254 The original "name" is 9th Street Curb Market, it only got tagged with "Italian" because they were the prevelant ethnicity for so long when in actuality it was a veritable European Union of vendors down there...but because you couldn't readily tell them apart it became the "Italian Market" by default. Now that many of the vendors are CLEARLY not European, with many Asians and Mexicans / Central Americans finding a place along the street we get the lament that "it's not Italian down in the Italian Market anymore." Let'a all call bullshit on that and embrace 9th Street as "9th Street". The original “name” is 9th Street Curb Market, it only got tagged with “Italian” because they were the prevelant ethnicity for so long when in actuality it was a veritable European Union of vendors down there…but because you couldn’t readily tell them apart it became the “Italian Market” by default. Now that many of the vendors are CLEARLY not European, with many Asians and Mexicans / Central Americans finding a place along the street we get the lament that “it’s not Italian down in the Italian Market anymore.” Let’a all call bullshit on that and embrace 9th Street as “9th Street”.

]]> By: sluggerBhttp://www.philebrity.com/2007/10/26/rumblings-go-ahead-mess-with-the-bull-see-what-happens/comment-page-1/#comment-3252 sluggerB Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:55:28 +0000 http://www.philebrity.com/2007/10/26/rumblings-go-ahead-mess-with-the-bull-see-what-happens/#comment-3252 Holy Shit, Inga Saffron. I wish she were my mother and my lover."The 32-story mixed-use tower flounces onto venerable South Broad Street like a sequined and over-rouged strumpet."God, she outdid herself with this one. Holy Shit, Inga Saffron. I wish she were my mother and my lover.

“The 32-story mixed-use tower flounces onto venerable South Broad Street like a sequined and over-rouged strumpet.”

God, she outdid herself with this one.

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