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ICE PACK ILLUSTRATED: Cooking for ?uesto, Jazz with the Coz and Why the Spice Stopped Flowing
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ICE PACK ILLUSTRATED: Cooking for ?uesto, Jazz with the Coz and Why the Spice Stopped Flowing
Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson isn’t just looking for chefs, amateur and professional for his as-yet-unnamed Philly food thing that he tweeted the other day. (Interested? Send a 90-second video of yourself to questlovesfood@gmail.com and wait for questions back like: What would you make for ?uest if you could only make one dish?) The Roots drummer is also going to want you to cook backstage for the Roots Picnic on June 4.
Remember I told you that Jolly Weldon was taking his pianos and going home — I mean, house, I mean Academy House? Weldon did just that, pulled out the 88s from Jolly’s Dueling Piano Bar at 2006 Chestnut St. and moved them to Locust St.’s Academy House with an expected March 25 opening.
While getting ready for her March 2012 Philadelphia Museum of Art mega-solo-show, photographer Zoe Strauss realized she doesn’t have enough of her famed I-95 images — the ones she used to shoot and sell cheap ($5 cheap). Strauss needs them for record-keeping as well as to be considered for the show and its catalog. Can you help? Got some? Get in touch with Grace Ambrose, Strauss, PMA intern, at grace.ambrose@gmail.com.
Alchemy and Intent, a new paint/print show opened March 22, at the Philadelphia Board of Ethics, 1441 Sansom St, 2nd floor. It will be on display until May 31. (Artists’ reception May 12, 5 p.m., with Bobbie Adams, Rachel Citrino, Linda Dubin Garfield, Pia De Girolamo and Tom Hlas.) Besides being mesmerized by snaps I’ve seen of the work, I’m equally enthralled by the Philadelphia Board of Ethics and that the office “charged with providing ethics training for all city employees and enforcing city campaign finance, financial disclosure, and conflict of interest laws” (according to its Web site) has opened itself as an exhibition space.
On the heels of releasing Mikronesia’s Sick with Silence and preparing to drop Gemini Wolf’s Infinite Sand Dunes, Philly’s earSNAKE label makes its downloads part of a charity thing. Buy an earSNAKE label item and 100% of the proceeds go to Japan relief funds.
Radio Eris and DJ David S. Aponte hit Hoi Polloi Studios, (in the Amber Street Studios Building) at 3240 Collins. The eerily odd Eris is currently recording a whole handful of new songs for its summer-due CD.
It finally happened: The Spice Warehouse — the famed spice holdings megalopolis on 11th Street in South Philly — has closed its doors and will soon be on the open market for sale. Sadly, this also means that Paul Pirozzi aka Wharton Tract’s vintage studio and Spice House label will have to relocate. Parting. Sweet sorrow. All these things are true.
WHOWHATWHERE: While in town for their lengthy stay, Furthur’s Bob Weir, Phil Lesh and the Deadheads who love them were in and out of the Sofitel Hotel. Closer to my block, L.A. Law’s stars Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker were spied eating at Le Virtu on East Passyunk. It wasn’t a surprise that Bill Cosby showed up at the Clef Club’s all-star benefit for Odean Pope and that saxophonist’s bipolar disorder charity. Still, it was nice to see Cosby in a Temple sweatshirt (what else?) chatting with the Pope on-stage. When the 2011 Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony was aired on Fuse TV on Sunday, there was Jerry Blavat, clear as day, singing “Sweet Caroline” with inductee Neil Diamond, pal Lloyd Price and a slew of rock luminaries. The Geator always hits the R&RHoF ceremonies and his writings can be found in the programs, this year in dedication to another inductee, Darlene Love. Talking about the old songs being the best songs: Yes, the Philadelphia Film Society’s partnership with the Friends of the Wanamaker Organ at Macy’s yielded one of the finest events of recent memory when it screened Metropolis, Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent sci-fi classic with live accompaniment from grand court organist Peter Richard Conte. But the nicest thing about the VIP pre-event was going into the rarely used Greek Hall where wine and hors d’oeuvres were served and there was film and theatre-organ music played by Wurlitzer organist Rudy Lucente. I nearly cried when he played songs from Oklahoma! The ever-caustic Tabatha Coffey of Bravo’s Tabatha’s Salon Takeover (her salon is New Jersey for those who want a trim) was nice as pie at her Barnes & Noble book signing for It’s Not Really About the Hair. Remember last week when I asked Greater Philadelphia Film goddess Sharon Pinkenson about how things were going with films that had long been in talks to shoot in the area but got sidetracked by the question of tax credits? (Governor Corbett gave the good thumbs up to the promised credits and threw in $60 million more.) Things are looking weird for the Brad Pitt-produced World War Z that was supposed to start filming here this summer. According to New York magazine’s entertainment blog The Vulture, Paramount may pull the plug on the zombie flick if they can’t get more financial help for a film already budgeted at $125 million. The Vulture says Paramount is talking to David Ellison, a movie financier. I say call Sydney Kimmel — Philly’s resident Hollywood bankroller.
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