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Amorosi on the news, nightlife, gossip and bitchiness beats.

by A.D. Amorosi

Before we start the battle between the old white Republican guy and the young African-American Democrat guy, let's pause and remember how Michael NutterEd Rendell really liked Hillary Clinton, and embraced her bosom to theirs, and how those guys have discarded her like some slut in a Hubert Selby novel. Men. and

►Word has Mark Bee's still-constructing Beer Garden behind-n-around Silk City tripling Silk's size and welcoming 250-plus more heads. Hear that Bloodbath and Dunmire? More feet and mouths to feed.

► Maniacal light boxer/Art for Cash Poor flyer drag model (nize beehive!) Warren Muller and interior-ist RJ Thornburg (no beehive) finally moved from their fire-damaged old studio on Cherry Street to their new bahdeebahdu on American Street in NoLibs. (See Arts, p.30.) They're so frickin' cheery they relocated, they've got two parties: their official opening and the after-party gig for the Crane Arts' Art for the Cash Poor event, both June 14. Buy a bulb from Warren. Buy cheap stash from artisans like Nick Cassway (check his ditzy shirts here nickcassway.com/fuzzymonsters). Rinse and repeat.

► Things we got in the mail: a tiny yellow Mexican toy wrestler for July's opening of Distrito — Jose Garces Federale-district fooderie — I can see going nicely with the chili-marinated lamb chops. A basketball to go with Danny Govberg and Ashley Cofone's Butterfly Ball preview party at G, June 17 for their Living Beyond Breast Cancer cause. To the hoop.

► Comic/friend to transvestites Danny Ozark officially welcomes the beautiful (non-tranny) folk mistress Dani Mari as his co-co-host to the Monday Night Club; open mic-everything at le Balcony June 16.

► Though no one will confirm or deny, rumor has it that Shampoo — everyone's fave Goth-balling/gay-bash-having dance club — has a letter of intent-to-buy from the McFadden's peeps — they who just opened J.L. Sullivan's. Another good rumor: The chat regarding new live venues in Fishtown has moved from Avram Hornik/Four Corners (he threw his hat in the ring months ago) to the kids from Badminton Stamps who apparently have ties to someone's kid whose pop ran A&M and want to open a smallish spot for fall. Then I heard the Azure space on North Second that Steve Simons might've got for his Cantina-like Mexican diner cost near a half-million.

► Don't look. That's Carly Simon doing June 20's Free at Noon event at World Café Live.

► Before O.N.E. at Rittenhouse owner Chris Twardy gets to the business of hosting Broadzilla's bad boy DJs June 13 and good girls The Baraness and DJ Glitz June 20, he's gottagotta put down some money on the Giovanni's Pizzeria space he just bought with his dad at Sixth and Oregon first.

► Keep your eyes and ears peeled during June 12's Bravo network A-List Awards. Taped at Manhattan's Hammerstein Ballroom with Kathy Griffin and her usual batch of D-list doyens in the crowd, first-season Project Runway victor Jay McCarroll can be heard hollering something like, "You're the only one. The other wives are just pretend rich!" at Real Housewives of New York City's Bethenny Frankel.

► DJ Art Cuebik's last Let Me Ride bash at Fluid happens June 13 with lotsa B-more club spinners in his midst. It is a bad-luck day. Sob.

► Philly ex-pat writer/producer David Brind just wrapped Dare — his quick 'n' dirty flick starring Emmy Rossum, Alan Cumming and Sandra Bernhard — last week. We know nothing of its storyline. But what a mess of a cast.

► Tattooed exec chef Matthew Levin brings Maine's Arrows boys — chefs Mark Gaier and Clark Frasier — to his Lacroix June 17 with Nubian goat cheese, poached lobster and sommelier Eric Simonis in the house. Yum.

► Calls are already being made: When Van Morrison isn't busy at the Tower Theatre (July 10 and 11) coaxing $350 from your wallet, he'll be hanging with old pal/Philly rockabilly legend Charlie Gracie — maybe onstage, maybe at a recording studio to sing on something new Gracie is working on.

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► Jersey's answer to the question "What if Dr. Dog did Zappa's Joe's Garage in its entirety?" — the shockingly poppy Lemons Are Louder Than Rocks — drop their debut CD at World Café Live June 12. Find out how loud and how lemony two boys named Dan can be.

► We'll never know what the good-luck charm was — Scott Johnston's mom perhaps — but on only their second shot at the crown of "Best Troupe" at the annual Miss Exotic World Pageant held in Vegas over the weekend, Peek-A-Boo Revue won. Congrats.

► Oshone Malik— poet, MC, barber — brings his words, not his scissors, to Glam June 15, with a klatch of his rapper/prose spitting pals.

► Hey Airspace gallery at 40th and Chestnut. What's that you're flashing? "Peep Show" starts June 13? That's a lot of skin that Delia King and Kathryn Sclavi are showing.

► Hey, nobody usually gives a rag about Flag Day. That is until Betsy Ross House on Arch Street goesfor the Guinness book gold for "largest flag made of Post-It notes." Get to the Bets by June 14 sign-in and write a ditzy message. Jerry Blavat did it. Greg Luzinski did it. Stephen Colbert did it. You do it.

(a_amorosi@citypaper.net)