Multiple locations including Rec & Royal, Xfinity Live, New Deck Tavern, Green Room, Cavanaugh’s Headhouse and more. Patrick’s Day Bar Crawl Philadelphia and Erin Express, comes with an official t-shirt and “green swag” (hats, beads, glasses, etc.). Paddy’s Day Pub Crawls taking place this year, typed with crossed-fingers. (I am genuinely worried somebody will do this and I hope that my putting this fear out there into the world means it can’t happen.) Okay, with all that in mind, here are some St. Don’t fight a parking kiosk or put a green derby on the Octavius Catto statue. Paddy’s Day articles about privilege, they’re thinking of the pub crawls and the roving bands of merry mischief-makers these events sometimes let loose on the streets like a ravenous river-dancer on a Knights of Columbus roast beef banquet.** If you don’t want to end up in a viral video/police report/photo beneath a headline that says “Philadelphians Are A Mess,” then try to behave yourself out there. Generally speaking, when opinion columnists write their post-St. TV coverage noon-3 p.m., on CW Philly 57. at 16th and JFK Boulevard, goes clockwise around City Hall then down Market, ends at 6th and Market Street. As a child I was dragged many times to this jubilant, working class parade, and those sense memories stay with me to this day.įree, Sunday, March 12th*, starts 11 a.m. While the banjos and fiddles march by playing “I’m Something Something a Four Leaf Clover” and “Irish Guys Are Smiling,” get yourself a plastic derby or some other green single-use souvenir and dance on the sidewalk like nobody but your ancestors is watching. Patrick’s Day Parade - the second oldest of its kind in the country. How’s that old saying go? Everybody tolerates a parade? Something like that. Though by Irish I don’t mean the people of Ireland, but the people of America who are, they’re pretty sure, descended from the people of Ireland, allegedly, at least on one side of their family, and what’s with all the questions? (No, I’m not doing 23andMe.) So let’s broaden the scope and say we’re all Irish. What can I say, we love saints, we love parties and we rarely say no to a parade. Paddy’s Day will be here sooner than you think, since our fine and respectable city has once again seen fit to make this single-day holiday a multi-weekend affair. Patrick’s Day events / Photograph courtesy of Getty Images
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