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ICE ILLUSTRATED: Playing up the bloody parts
If anybody can make the Bard seem like a dirtball writer for Sin City it's Philly PR guy Peter Breslow. Along with sending out splashy emails tagged "Rape, Murder and Decapitation coming to Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre Company" Breslow filmed bits of Aaron Cromie's upcoming (April) take on Titus Andronicus and played up the bloody parts. Breslow also reminds viewers that the production "is rated R. Minors under the age of 17 will not be admitted without a parent or guardian." Get your tix at phillyshakespeare.org.
ICE ILLUSTRATED: Playing up the bloody parts
Jerry Blavat, the Geator, the first original Boss (the one with the hot sauce): it was a delight to see him spinning at the Philadelphia Art Museum’s Art After 5 event last Friday celebrating photographer Zoe Strauss with co-DJ mate King Britt. This weekend though Blavat shows off his finest hand when he commences the 10 year of rock ’n’ roll ’n’ soul master classes at the Kimmel Center. Crooner Ben E. King, New Jersey’s Shirley Alston Reeves of the Shirelles, original Latino pop superstar Chris Montez, and Philadelphia’s own girl group doyenne Darlene Love and disco brethren The Trammps join with Blavat for the Jan. 28 bash.
If anybody can make the Bard seem like a dirtball writer for Sin City it’s Philly PR guy Peter Breslow. Along with sending out splashy emails tagged “Rape, Murder and Decapitation coming to Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre Company” Breslow filmed bits of Aaron Cromie’s upcoming (April) take on Titus Andronicus and played up the bloody parts. Breslow also reminds viewers that the production “is rated R. Minors under the age of 17 will not be admitted without a parent or guardian.” Get your tix at phillyshakespeare.org.
Before it becomes a South Street brat-n-brew mini-mall (following an expansion into its neighboring furniture store), Brauhaus Schmitz and its chef Jeremy Nolen are going for big game (okay, little game). On Feb. 2, Nolen will mix it up with Top Chef Jennifer Carroll, Jeff Michaud (Osteria) and Peter Woolsey (Bistrot La Minette) for a meal of duck, venison, wild boar, hare and wood pigeon. Wood pigeon? Aww don’t hurt the wood pigeon. (I’m thinking of that Colbert Report joke on cat stew from the other night, the same show with Philly’s Terry Gross celebrating 25 years of Fresh Air.)
As seen on Naked City: Dancing Ferret promoter and label owner Patrick Rodgers has agreed to hook up with GOP candidate Ron Paul to be his Pennsylvania delegate and throw a fundraiser at National Mechanics.
Not only did Kung Fu Necktie get its liquor license renewed/fixed up. KFN finally turned its wide long-empty upstairs green room space into a pool/bar hang, away from the cramped live music floor.
I bought a Philadelphia basketball team and all I got was this lousy t-shirt: There have been zero Will Smith After Earth M. Night Shyamalan sightings as yet. But the new 76ers co-owner is scheduled to appear at Wells Fargo Center to get his team ownership jersey.
Philly POPPORN writers Spock Buckton, Brian Bangs and Meat Ball are part of the just released 3rd Degree Films epic Pink Lips. Their grandmothers are proud.
Rather than debut April 5 as planned, XFINITY Live! Philadelphia will open grandly in time for Bruce Springsteen’s E Street shows, March 28. X-Fin is promising that a big name act will be there for the March 30 super-opening ceremony.
WHOWHATWHERE: Cashman & Associates PR were all over the Sundance Film Festival’s Philadelphia Industry Lounge and its umbrella-ed list of locals like the Greater Philadelphia Film Office and brand name sellers like 611 Lifestyle, Denim Habit and Mitchell & Ness. A good, bad and ugly of film peeps grabbed swag from Philly‘s Industry Lounge: Ice T and his lady CoCo, William H. Macy (who grabbed a 611 scarf), Mario Lopez, Andie MacDowell, Chris Kattan (from SNL), Christina Hendricks (from Mad Men), Nick Lachey (from The Sing-Off), Mehcad Brooks (Necessary Roughness, True Blood), Luke Campbell of 2 Live Crew and Angela Kinsey from The Office. The Cashman folk were particularly fond of having Night Catches Us star Anthony Mackie who, with Kerry Washington, shot the Black Power Movement-based flick here last year. Kal Rudman, the Today Show’s one-time “Philly Connection” reunited with anchor Jane Pauley and executive producer Steve Friedman — Today alumni all — at Drexel for a special 60th anniversary celebration of the iconic NBC morning show. Also on hand was TV Guide business editor Stephen Battaglio, author of From Yesterday to TODAY. Adam Duritz of the Counting Crows was in Malvern to see Fallow at the People’s Light & Theatre. Jersey Shore’s Jenny “J WoWW” Farley brought her beau Roger Mathews out for a night on the town at The Pool at Harrahs in Atlantic City. She even wore her glasses. Before selling out the TLA with Jersey Shore’s Dena in the audience, The Wanted hit Q102’s iHeart Radio Performance Theater in Bala Cynwyd. The day before ex-governor Ed Rendell headed to Harrisburg to bug new governor Tom Corbett about the proposed assets test for area food stamp recipients, he was spotted with a blond-lady-date at JG Domestic.
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