The Week Ahead: Levelled-Up Hoags Vs. The Dumpster Fire Piñata
Our Monday heads-up to the things that you’re going to want to read/do/eat/watch/listen and look forward to.
Consider the hoagie. In the immediate beforetime, we were noticing that levelling up your hoags at home was turning into a new citywide pastime, but in the pandemic, it seems to really be a thing right now. This week, you can either get in on the ground level of Hank’s Hoagies, or get your hands dirty at home courtesy of Hoagie Dom, the anonymous hoagie impresario whose IG account has become a local must-follow. Hoagie Dom’s Calabrian Chicken Cutlet recipe looks amazing —we’ve been eyeballing them for two months already — but it takes two days. As it happens, you (probably) have two days (at least, though, hey 2020, who knows)!
Meanwhile, our friends at Rally are reopening today! We talked with Meredith from Rally on our podcast back during Lockdown I (coming soon: Lockdown II), and how they’ve managed throughout the last six months has been a testament to both their inventiveness and tenacity. After doing a grip of outside pop-up collaborations throughout the summer, their new get-in-get-out setup might be a study for how coffee shops do their thing moving forward.
Gear up for NaNoWriMo with Toho. Speaking of Lockdown II, you may want to start looking around for things to do, oh, say, come November. As it happens, November is the annual National Novel Writing Month aka NaNoWriMo, and well, if not then, when? If you’re looking to get lithe with what we once called “word processing,” Philly’s Toho Publishing has their monthly 1,000-Word Workshop coming up later this month, and there’s a host of local writing workshops (many with online options) over at Literary Philly.
Why are the Proud Boys organizing and showing up so much in Philly? This explainer is helpful.
Is it to soon to ask what you’ll be doing for New Year’s Eve? We only mention it because pre-orders of the 2020 Dumpster Fire Piñata are now live, courtesy of Philly’s Resting Gift Face, a team of gift-curators and frequent-flyer fundraisers.
And finally, this week’s to-do list: