Bloktoberfest

On Saturday, I had quite the dilemma on my hands. You see, for months on end, I had been hyping up Mt. Holly's Witches Ball to my friends. I had attended the last two years and loved that...

I'm what you might call a festival-phile. As my friend said when he ran into me at yet another festival for three weeks in a row "if there is a festival in Philly Melissa P. is there!" True...

Had I had even considered reviewing Bloktoberfest before I would have done so 5 years ago when it was Graduate Hospital's event of the year! But since that time I've have seen it grow into a big...

The morning of Bloktoberfest dawned cold and rainy--I was worried that the event was going to be canceled, but luckily the weather pulled through and I made my way down to the festival, eagerly...

As a lover of all things Graduate Hospital, Bloktoberfest is pretty much a personal holiday for me. South Street West is typically a quiet, calm, particularly uneventful area of Center City. Sure,...