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ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: BBQ clams casino with chorizo sausage, beef brisket with smoked oxtail, wicked pulled pork sliders with bacon bits, etc.
Artie Lange and Nick DiPaulo will do their stand-up thing May 5 at the Tower. Be nice. Compliment their newly-syndicated-to-Philly Nick and Artie sports-talk show (10 p.m., weeknights, 610-WIP). Mention to Lange you'll buy Crash and Burn when it's published this November.
ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: BBQ clams casino with chorizo sausage, beef brisket with smoked oxtail, wicked pulled pork sliders with bacon bits, etc.
We need to play around with the top of Icepack Illustrated’s usual spring supper previews this week due to a special announcement. Eve, the one-time-Gilly’s Jeans-employee-turned-Ruff Ryder-rapper-turned-fashion-icon-turned-television-star hasn’t made a record in a minute or played many shows. Here I Am was supposed to be out in 2007 with production from Swizz Beatz and Pharrell Williams and songs featuring Eve’s singing rather than just her raps. But delays from her label interfered and everything was on hold, supposedly, until now with some of Here I Am’s tracks being readied for 2012 release (is the new album called Flirt?). Anyway, she’s playing Kung Fu Necktie on May 9 early (like 6 p.m.), sponsored by Reebok Classics. There’s an RSVP list floating around. Good luck.
Abington-based actor Daniel Spink, brother of film producer J.C. Spink (The Hangover) hasn’t just been busying himself filming From the Head with Matthew Lillard. Dan’s got his own song and music video up on YouTube and Yahoo — “The Carlton Dance” named for the geek on The Fresh Prince of Bel Air — and enlisted folk such as Ron Jeremy, Chris Evans (The Avengers), Rex Lee (Entourage), Stacy Keibler and David Hasselhoff (the star of Spink’s Don’t Hassel the Hoff) to show their faces. Check it.
Mike Cristaldi of Suzanne Roberts Theater fame and the GM of all that is Underground Arts and Underground Eats just told me that the liquor license is set in stone, the in-house restaurant is nearly ready to start firing, and that they’ve got a stand-up comedy Wednesday that’s sure to be ticklish. To test drive the kitchen, this Sun., May 6 at 2 p.m., UA is running The Philadelphia Sandwhich Experiment with Theo Peck and Nick Suarez as hosts/bosses and the professional likes of Tony Luke Jr., Michael Solomonov and Emilio Mignucci joining Philly’s sammich-making amateurs for a shot at a national cook-off title to be held at Brooklyn Brewery several months from now.
Get there and stay there at the UA until the night’s next event (but pay separate admissions, sneak) when the Peekaboo Revue host their “LAS VEGAS and BUSTed FUN-Raiser” at 6 p.m. This is the trip that they’ve been Kickstarting for awhile as Peekaboo needs the cash to pay for their bus trip to Vegas to compete for the heralded titled of “Best Troupe” at the Miss Exotic World/Burlesque Hall of Fame. Pay it in.
And before we leave the bun-and-meat world too far behind, remember that the Philadelphia Burger Brawl is May 6, 3 p.m., at everyone’s favorite sandwich emporium Fleisher Art Memorial, 719 Catharine St. Jen Carroll, Jason Cichonski and Matt Levin are amongst the artists who’ll be spreading ketchup and ground beef across the gallery’s walls. Click here.
The subject of my most recent cover excursion, chill-waving cloud-hopping South Philly-an Lushlife just had his duet with Das Racist rapper Heems, “Hale-Bopp Was The Bedouins,” remixed by Shabazz Palaces — the latter a local fave who has done some recordings at NoLib’s Boom Room.
Artie Lange and Nick DiPaulo will do their stand-up thing May 5 at the Tower. Be nice. Compliment their newly-syndicated-to-Philly Nick and Artie sports-talk show (10 p.m., weeknights, 610-WIP). Mention to Lange you’ll buy Crash and Burn when it’s published this November.
For the first of Davio’s cookbook author eat-n-read events, the 17th Street Italian steakhouse welcomed Boston-based BBQ-er Andy Husbands who came equipped with copies of his Wicked Good Barbecue and plenty of its recipes for Davio’s exec chef David Boyle to cook. “David did almost as good a job as I can and he only had 14 hours to do it,” said the tattooed Husbands whose BBQ clams casino with chorizo sausage, beef brisket with smoked oxtail, wicked pulled pork sliders with bacon bits and spatchcock fried chicken made for some hearty highlights of the big spiced-and-smoky meal. High fives all around go to Penns Woods Winery for the Davio’s/Husbands’ night wine pairings such as the Bancroft Rose, a bristling pink merlot. The winery is holding a Jazz and Wine Festival under the stars May 19. Check here for details. Husbands hung out in Philly overnight and made Italian beer pitsops at Alla Spinna and a bourbon run at Franklin Mortgage Co.
Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steak House and DiningOut magazine held a runway fashion show/donations-at-the-door event in support of Families of SMA, a crushing disease that atrophies the spine’s musculature. The Werkan family — Bill, Allison and baby Kiper — were the night’s worth guests of honor. It was the local mag’s fourth year hosting cover parties to benefit of a variety of charities.
Speaking of guests of honor and their hosts, the 10th annual Donors are Heroes and Gift of Life Donor Program soiree — “The Party” as it’s known — wowed the Four Seasons with food from Table 31 and STARR Events, some spin cycling from DJ Eddie Tully, and of course appearances from Don and Renee Freeman (founders of Donors Are Heroes), its Heroes of the Year honorees Bernard and Joan Spain and Fox 29’s Mike Jerrick, the night’s host, who was spied being thisclose to gal pal Michelle Chyatte in the hotel’s Swann Lounge.
WHOWHATWHERE: Closing down Walnut Street between 16th and 18th for Dead Man Down filming got you down? No worries. You at least, so far, got to spy Colin Farrell (when he’s not attending to spinning classes at Body Cycle Studio) applying makeup outside Buffalo Exchange, Terrence Howard getting sprinkled in the eye with busted glass and getting aid from Four Eyes and the two nearly shooting it out in the doorway of Urban Enoteca. Speaking of shoot outs, I bumped into Carla Guigino, star of the filming-in-Philly Political Monsters, while she was walking down Sansom and yakking somewhat testily on her cell phone. She’s got strong shoulders. I wasn’t going to bug her for a photo. No maaa’aaaaaam. Martha Stewart was signing copies of her new book, Martha’s American Food at Barnes & Noble in Princeton without seeming half as mean as she normally does. While The Weeknd was working it out on the stages of the TLA, Sean Combs and Meek Mill hung backstage and at the downstairs bar. New chief creative officer for Malibu Rum’s new flavor (really what is that job description?) Ne-Yo signed pre-purchased bottles of Malibu Red at PA Wine & Spirits. Before she performs at the new live space at Revel Casino in A.C., Beyonce and Jay-Z ate at Azure by Allegretti and stayed overnight at the hotel. Frankford Hall in Port Fishington was jumping last week with visits from Eagles’ guys Jeff Lurie and Brian Dawkins along with M. Night Shyamalan and his local crew’s wrap party for After Earth. Bobcat Goldwaith hung tough at Hotel Sofitel before being welcomed by Top Chef-ex Jen Zavala who brought a Shakes the Clown 20th anniversary cake to Frankford Hall. The UK’s IAMDYNOMITE hit up Radio 104.5’s iHeart Radio Performance Theater in Bala Cynwyd. Adrian Grenier and his Honey Brothers pop band stayed still long enough to get their portrait taken by Ice photographer Scott Weiner before they sold out the North Star Bar. And the Phillie Phanatic, the second most popular baseball mascot behind the Mets’ lousy fat ball guy, hung out at the Sandy Sprint, the ovarian cancer event on the grounds of Please Touch Museum’s 5K run.
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