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ICE CUBES: Such a sweet-ass tune
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ICE CUBES: Such a sweet-ass tune
➤ Forget the Freaks & Geeks marathon on IFC. Tritone is holding a party benefiting this summer’s Phreak N Queer Arts & Music Festival on March 19. The zombie-electro of Rainbow Destroyer, dragsters Nueva Gabor and Messapotamia Lafae and Eric Van Osten’s new gig Manscape (he’s Golden Ball and Umlaut) take part in the charitable bash meant to raise cash for the August fest.
➤ One time City Paper scribe, Idolator instigator and rare Sugar Town DJ Maura Johnston is now the music editor at the Village Voice. Yay her.
➤ The 30th Anniversary ACHIEVEability benefit, Food for Thought, is this Saturday March 19 at the Naval Yard (215-748-8804, achieveability.org) and some of the area’s finest food bosses will be there to honor Dr. Ian Smith of Celebrity Fit Club: Jonathan Adams (Pub & Kitchen), Dave Conn (JG Domestic), Peter Woolsey (Bistrot La Minette), Kevin Sbraga (recent Top Chef winner) and Marc Vetri hit for charity. Vetri might as well move to the Naval Yard. We spoke to him a few weeks ago and he rapped about his Naval Yard event in June, Great Chefs 2011 for Alex’s Lemonade Stand. Along with the usual locals and Top Chef honcho Tom Colicchio, Vetri just signed Iron Chef's Michael Symon and Vinny Dotolo of L.A.'s Animal to cook. If we’re going to talk about Top Chef we might as well mention that local chef (Coatesville I believe) Celina Tio will be a contestant on Bravo's Top Chef Masters (starts April 6) Tio is renowned from her days at the Ritz-Carlton.
➤ Upper Darby’s Todd Rundgren and Philly’s Daryl Hall reunite the 40th and latest edition of Live From Daryl’s House that just popped its top yesterday (lfdh.com). Only this time they did it at Rundgren’s home in Kauai, Hawaii and covered the Daryl Hall and John Oates’ rarity “Beanie G and the Rose Tattoo” and the Delfonics’ “Didn’t I Blow Your Mind This Time.”
➤ The Philadelphia Singers want your money. They deserve it. Michael Korn’s nearly 40-year-old organization will even sing for their supper and yours as Sunday March 20’s benefit dinner at Bistrot La Minette features authentic French bistro cuisine and performances by members of The Philadelphia Singers and Music Director/Conductor/TPS boss.
➤ After a successful pipe-organ filled Blindspot festival, look for Bowerbird to celebrate the life and work of avant-garde composer Morton Feldman for its next fest this summer.
➤ Martial Posture Studios at 2100 Chestnut St. and the illReality theater group sponsor Drunken Monkey and its events March 24-26 and March 31-April 2. Get there early and find out about their third annual Trickadelphia, a four day festival when Martial Arts Trickers from around the world gather in Philadelphia to celebrate and share the sport and culture of Tricking.
➤ Look for new singing/songwriting soul man BlaqMel, incendiary MC Kuf Knotz, and drummer Chuck Treece to join together to record Mel+Kuf’s “She’s a Lady” – a track the pair played live on air at the XPN Musicians on Call Benefit program. Such a sweet-ass tune. They may very well record it at Drexel’s sound studios which should blow every matriculating student’s minds at both colleges.
➤ WHOWHATWHERE: Who loves Mitchell & Ness sports gear at 12th & Chestnut)? Dropkick Murphys’ Ken Casey hit last week. So did Spike Lee when he was in town getting honored by the African American Museum. Speaking of having a basketball jones, Harlem Globetrotters’ Big Easy Lofton and Buckets Blake hung at Dave & Busters while in town for some b-ball at the Wells Fargo. Having nooooothing to do with basketball at all, performance art goddess/lecturer Karen Finley ran into old NYC buddy Ira A, better known in Philadelphia as “Needles Jones” at the Kelly Writers’ House. Since Gilbert Gottfried was spotted this weekend at Betsy Ross House and other park spaces in Old City when he wasn’t doing his stand up bit at Helium Comedy Club, it’s safe to say that he was in Philly when he sent out the tweets about Japan’s suffering that got him released from his Aflac voice-over gig. A couple miles away, we spotted E!’s Giuliana Rancic hosting a party at The Pool at Harrahs and Jersey Shore house mate Ronnie Ortiz-Magro at Dusk in Caesars in Atlantic City. What is going in the recently closed Mew Gallery spot at 906 Christian St.? Al Zaytouna Restaurant. Wow. The line for Sabrina's won't seem so lonely. George Manney's JC Dobbs documentary is looking for completion funds. For that, Kenn Kweder, Scot Sax, Nik Everett, Skip Denenberg, Peter Stone Brown, Paul Kurrey, and Jeff Washington play on March 20 at Philadelphia House (7312 Castor). Check the trailer below:
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