Editor's Letter: A Valentine’s Day Sampler
Please note: This article is published as an archive copy from Philadelphia City Paper. My City Paper is not affiliated with Philadelphia City Paper. Philadelphia City Paper was an alternative weekly newspaper in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The last edition was published on October 8, 2015.
This week's issue has plenty to tell you about warm romance and Cupid's pointed arrow.
Sick of winter? Who isn’t? But the good news is there’s relief in sight this weekend.
That’s because two holidays bookend the long weekend, with Valentine’s Day on one side and Presidents Day on the other. This week’s issue has nothing to say about the stone-cold guys on Mount Rushmore — sorry, George and Abe — but plenty to tell you about warm romance and Cupid’s pointed arrow.
Arielle Pardes makes her debut in our pages with a cover story that celebrates love, but with a City Paper twist. She talked to a half dozen couples who chose unusual venues to celebrate their weddings, and reports that they are part of a trend of favoring fun over tradition when it comes to exchanging wedding vows.
Deeper inside the paper, in the Food & Drink section, you’ll find a piece on that quintessential ingredient for Valentine’s Day — a box of chocolates. But, of course, we’re not talking about a Whitman’s Sampler. Food Editor Caroline Russock has found the most exquisite handmade chocolates, created by Tradestone Confections in Conshohocken. And she tells a delicious backstory: Two chefs, who met at Le Bec-Fin, have created chocolate jewels with unusual flavors. Pistachio citrus, anyone?
Our salute to the holiday takes yet a different turn online with the “Valentine’s Day Planner”. Dismissing pricey oysters-and-champagne tasting menus and boring long-stem roses, these Naked City blog posts provide cheap, fun and offbeat ways to honor your main squeeze.
Think an ’80s-prom-themed party would be cool? Our online events calendar and the “Valentine’s Day Planner” have all the details on the party planned at Pub & Kitchen on Friday night. Or, how about a romantic night out with champagne and pizza at Gennaro’s Tomato Pie in South Philly? You bring the champagne.
We have information in our events calendar, too, for readers who have soured on the holiday. Check out the “Ex-Files” edition of the First Person Arts Story Slam, the ever-popular anti-Valentine’s Day event, held this year on Friday night.
All of this is to say that when it comes to Valentine’s Day, we’re red, er, read, all over.
