Phillyist: Return to Sender: Journalistic Misunderstanding

SuperBien

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:47:49 -0500

Finnegan's Wake sucks on a typical weekend for the very reasons Jillian describes in this post. While I respect and admire the charity work its owners do, that bar is notorious for attracting the drunk, loud, boorish, and obnoxious. It most certainly wouldn't be the first place I'd use in a photograph to advertise Northern Liberties, especially in a magazine like Business Week. Girls Gone Wild or Maxim, though? Definitely! Anyway, if the atmosphere Finnegan's Wake offers is your idea of fun, have at it and enjoy yourself. I feel it's best avoided and that a better time is to be had at Standard Tap. If that makes me a stuffy, fun-hating, elitist, then so be it. That is all . . .

gHo

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:07:47 -0500

I have to agree with the last comment, stuffy and elitist. In the first paragraph you say that you've been in NoLibs for "only a few months" then by the third you leap to "I'm willing to accept new people seeking its "up-and-coming"-ness". Well... how accepting of you, how gracious. You do realize that you are "new people," yes? I do agree that Business Week erred on the "up-and coming" label. NoLibs is not up-and-coming anymore... it's came-and-gone. Fishtown, Graduate Hospital and Passyunk E are the new Northern Liberties. Low rents, starving artists, diverse cultures and lower rates of gentrification. Who even reads Business Week anyway?

yetanotherdamneduselessaccount

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:15:31 -0500

Thanks.

Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:12:52 -0500

It's the name on my birth certificate and on my drivers' license. But most people just call me Jill. :)

yetanotherdamneduselessaccount

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:06:23 -0500

Is your name really Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey or is that just a nom de plume? I've been curious. Thanks.

cainiac

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 09:33:16 -0500

Come on people! Is this really necessary? Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey and everyone else. Don’t be fun haters. I think you are all being a little hypocritical, elitist and stuffy. Do you live in an ivory tower somewhere in the neighborhood? Jillian, you look rather young in that photo. Are you telling me you have never set foot in FWake or a bar like it and cut loose with a bunch of friends? Bars/clubs and the like are a right of passage. PS I live in NL. So I will make one last point, look at it from the author’s perspective. From the viewpoint of someone that does not know NL or FWake the picture seems fun and entertaining. Not to mention it has a unique and colorful facade and the words "NORTHERN LIBERTIES" on it. Like it or not, the wake is the first thing most people see when entering our borough. And it is a good member of the community. Don’t be so quick to bash people…people!

Ross Currie

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:45:23 -0500

Absolutely ridiculous to think that they'd use that photo for a writeup about NoLibs. There isn't a single hipster in the frame.

GeoffreyM

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:40:11 -0500

I'm so glad I didn't see that issue. Would have depressed me almost as much as a picture of Palin.

SuperBien

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:16:20 -0500

Amen Sister!!!!