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ICE PACK ILLUSTRATED: Nichole, Nikki, Frankie, Bradley and Brown Betty
How do we know when Spring is officially here? When DJ Lee Jones says so. His Sundae bash on May 15 celebrates the hot streak in the Shampoo parking lot and at Silk City's beer garden throughout the entire day.
ICE PACK ILLUSTRATED: Nichole, Nikki, Frankie, Bradley and Brown Betty
How do we know when Spring is officially here? When DJ Lee Jones says so. His Sundae bash on May 15 celebrates the hot streak in the Shampoo parking lot and at Silk City’s beer garden throughout the entire day.
The Piazza at Schmidts’ newest renter? A casual drive by and an orange sticker reveals that it’s Raw, the Gayborhood sushi haunt that is taking over the much valued ex-Speck space.
When you hit the Third Annual Benefit Cabaret for the Nichole Canuso Dance Company on May 13 at Underground Arts at the Wolf Building, congratulate her for winning $50,000 from the Knight Arts Challenge that she and the likes of Pig Iron, Live Arts, Mighty Writers and Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby got (all to the tune of $2 million+). Ask her for a loan.
Congrats to Lora and Kenny Eris. Last weekend, the long-together (and living in sin, damn them) couple finally tied the knot at the Radio Eris compound in West Philly during which time no avant-garde band in Philly played a gig as every weirdo in the tri-state area was on 52nd Street.
The Art Star Craft Bazaar is at Penn’s Landing this weekend and that means NoLibs’ Erin Waxman and Megan Brewster of Art Star are playing curator to dozens of Etsy denizens and bands picked by Jack McBrearty of The Mural & The Mint. It’ll be sunny out. Buy some sock monkeys.
Speaking of that strip of land where Art Star is, Icepack mentioned months ago that Brown Betty Dessert Boutique was moving from Liberties Walk to 722 N. Second Street. It is true. The old spot closes officially May 15 and reopens at the new place around May 21.
Zee Bar. I will get my usual after-hours martini on for the fifth year running on May 12 for anniversary party #5. Two olives please.
You know that lot next to East Passyunk Ave.’s Cantina Los Caballitos where everybody smokes and runs their dogs? It looks as if CLC is breaking down a wall to put seating on the grassy (soon, concrete) knoll. The only thing more exciting on East Passyunk than that seating explosion is the fact that Le Virtu’s own expansion to its lawn, a space called Campo and its debut Abruzzese roasted suckling pig party was so successful, look for Chef Joe Cicala to usher out more pig dinners. The heady beers from Phoenixville’s Sly Fox Brewery, Easton’s Weyerbacher and Cooperstown, New York’s Ommegang helped.
Just back from Europe and boy are his arms tired. Guitarist Eric Carbonara on May 14 at the Random Tea Room (713 N. 4th) with fellow oddball instrumentalists Alex Turnquist and Liam Singer.
Purely by accident, my wife Glamorosi and I walked down Philly’s first porous street — Percy between Christian and Catherine, Ninth and Tenth — right before Mayor Nutter and Councilman Frank DiCicco televised their press conference. Me? I saw cameras, thought it was director Charles Dutton’s Must Be the Music (Schoolly D told me he just got a gig in this film) on the block and started asking questions.
Beardo: congrats to Zahav/Percy Street co-owner Michael Solomonov whose cooking won him the James Beard Foundation’s award for best chef, Mid-Atlantic division.
WHOWHATWHERE: Bradley Cooper was in town for Hangover 2 press and supped at Parc for lunch on Tuesday and at RDL on Monday. Stay off the rich foods, Coop. Frankie Avalon, here in his hometown for the Jerry Blavat’s Mother’s Day show at the Kimmel Center, was spied at the Ritz Carlton with his family, at Positano Coast, and with the Geator, at my neighborhood’s Monsu twice. Before his Susquehanna Back Center show Bruno Mars hit Q102’s Xfinity Performance Theater in Bala Cynwyd, the very spot where R&B diva Shontelle played days earlier before selling out the Troc the other night. And along with catching Mia Farrow at Philly’s Marian Anderson Awards on Tuesday night, I’d be remiss if I didn’t show off Scott Weiner’s photos of my favorite hair metal scribe Nikki Sixx who just happened to be at Barnes & Noble Rittenhouse Square autographing copies of his new tome This is Gonna Hurt.
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