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ICE PACK ILLUSTRATED: Octomon, Chris Brown, doggie brunch and James Drake
Octomom Nadya Suleman will be in NJ for a Damon Feldman Celebrity Boxing bout June 29 on at Pennant East (141 Crescent in Bellmawr) where she'll fight Jen Posner of 102.9 WMGK's John DeBella Show while wearing soft, large gloves. Oy.
ICE PACK ILLUSTRATED: Octomon, Chris Brown, doggie brunch and James Drake
Octomom Nadya Suleman will be in NJ for a Damon Feldman Celebrity Boxing bout June 29 on at Pennant East (141 Crescent in Bellmawr) where she’ll fight Jen Posner of 102.9 WMGK’s John DeBella Show while wearing soft, large gloves. Oy. Real Housewives of New Jersey’s Kim G is guest ref and you can see the whole sordid affair on battlecam.com if you dare.
Philly DJ/producers Bombé (Tim Shaw) and Mr. Caribbean (Luis Angel Cancel) joined forces for a self-released mix tape based on the premise of dipping the chocolate of James Blake into the peanut butter of Drake. The weird mash-up result is titled James Drake (simple, right?) and Pitchfork liked it enough to give it a 7.6 rating. Couldn’t they have given it an 8?
Claudia Gould, the director of the Institute of Contemporary Art at UPenn, just appointed Alex Klein as the ICA’s new program curator. Klein is an artist from LA and is looking to reconfigure the ICA’s website into a potent extension of the museum. Go, girl. Further up the road, Richard Hodges, the visionary director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, is leaving his post in June of 2012.
Everybody’s talking about how Sept 23-24’s Popped! Fest in FDRPark with Girl Talk, The Shins, Panda Bear, Kreayshawn and Cults is going up against the NoLibs-based Philadelphia Film & Music Festival scheduled for September 22-25. But does no one care about the punk rock Red Bull Riot Fest East date at Festival Pier on Sept. 24 with Descendents, X and CP’s own Rodney Anonymous and his Dead Milkmen? That’s the sleeper sell.
PhillyCAM’s team of independent lensers and cineastes is getting ready to move into a new location at 699 Ranstead, a permanent home for its television studios with the ability to cablecast programs live.
A benefit involving pizza? Sure, I’m in. Johnny Brenda’s is having an event on June 25 with Neutral Milk Motel (really?), Pattern Is Smoothment (is this Pattern is Movement under a swankier name doing R&B hits? You bet), and The Flying Lasagna Brothers to raise cash for Pizza Boy to buy a proper oven. Do it.
Fox 29’s Good Day’s Mike Jerrick signed on for three more years at the television station. Also, Q102 personality and programmer Maxwell signed on for two more years at Philly’s CHR leader.
City Paper feature subjects and all-around prog-rockers The Red Masque take on the Balcony at the Troc June 29 with Philly’s Theopolis James, Wynrise and The Tragics in tow.
Square 1682’s new BYOD (bring your own dog) brunch for pooches starts this Saturday with a special menu from Chef Guillermo Tellez, a gift bag from Doggie Style and on-site peeps from Operation Ava, a no-kill rescue, adoption and education center to do their own barking. Bet my greyhound Django would love this.
WHOWHATWHERE: Fans and photogs were pissed that Chris Brown’s beefy guards didn’t let them shoot the singer (after a three hour wait) when he booked Whisper on Sunday for a private post-concert party after Philly’s 100.3 FM The Beat Super Jam 2 affair at Camden’s Susquehanna Center. The blond Brown, who was triumphant at the concert, ate at Loews Hotel’s Sole Food, hit Whisper and literally threw money on the crowd. Luckily my photographer Scott Weiner and I heard about the Whisper clusterf%7#$ before we got to the door so we didn’t have to bother. The Beat Super Jam 2 news came when Philly’s Meek Mill, a recent signee to Rick Ross’ Maybach Music label, held what seemed like a release party for Self Made Volume 1 CD on stage with old pal Freeway jumping on stage. Happened to hit the High Note Café at Francoluigi’s Pizzeria and caught drummer Billy Jones and guitarist Sonny Troy as well as other Philly jazz cats like pianist Tom Adams. Sounds like a plan’s afoot at the High Note. Bruce Campbell from TV’s Burn Notice and the messy horror Evil Dead flicks drank and dined at Time during the weekend Wizard World Philadelphia Comic Con. Ex-76ers main man Billy King stopped by Rogues’ Gallery to catch a DJ set by old pal Bobby Startup last week. King used to be a Startup fan when the spinner was at Bar Noir. After a pit stop at Q102 studios, Selena Gomez did a massive meet and greet at King Of Prussia Mall. Cheers/Dancing with the Stars’ Kirstie Alley was spotted at the Brickette Lounge in West Chester after she worked her Organic Liaison diet program magic on QVC. Yes, we have eyes in West Chester.
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