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ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: Bar AIDS drinks for charity. Lauryn Hill rocks onward. Franklin Mortgage rocks upward. Fette Sau inches closer.
Hurry up. If you pick the right place and start drinking right now - could be booze, could be espresso - a percentage of today's proceeds (Thu., Sept. 27) goes to helping fund four local HIV/AIDS service organizations.
ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: Bar AIDS drinks for charity. Lauryn Hill rocks onward. Franklin Mortgage rocks upward. Fette Sau inches closer.
Hurry up. If you pick the right place and start drinking right now — could be booze, could be espresso — a percentage of today’s proceeds (Thu., Sept. 27) goes to helping fund four local HIV/AIDS service organizations. That’s the third annual Bar AIDS Philadelphia, the local beneficiaries are ActionAIDS, the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania, Mazzoni Center and Philadelphia FIGHT and you can call 215-981-3328 or hook up with Bar AIDS Philadelphia on Facebook and Twitter for more info.
Before she hits the Electric Factory with Nas on Nov. 7, Ms. Lauryn Hill will drop that single on Ruffhouse that Chris Schwartz gave me the exclusive news on in August. The track is “Black Rage” and its message is, according to the press statement, meant to be “a juxtaposition to the statement ‘life is good,’ which she believes can only be so when issues of racial inequity are resolved.” Life is Good happens to be the name of Nas’ recent #1 album.
If you’ve driven past Stephen Starr and Joe Carroll’s Fette Sau on Frankford Ave. you know that its wooded smokehouse is ready for smokehouse goodness. But what about a date for the bee-u-tiful BBQ? Folks close to the situation say somewhere in the Oct. 9-15 range.
A little over a year ago,75 members of Chester, PA’s Macedonia Seventh Day Adventist Church began raising donations and investing over $100,000 to create a community center for their parishioners and their immediate neighbors. Now that Better Living Center (1917 W. Sixth St.) holds its grand opening on Sept. 30 at 2 p.m. “We believe that the city of Chester is turning around despite great economic challenges and we just wanted to give a helping hand to the people of Chester and DELCO, it is the right thing to do as Christians,” says pastor George Jackson in a statement about a center dedicated to serving all clients regardless of race, religion, or orientation.
Hard to believe Kyle Costill’s Bands in the Backyard is only a year old. Hopefully they’ll serve cake and have funny hats for Sept. 28’s one-year anniversary show at Johnny Brenda’s starring Faux Slang, Turning Violet Violet, Heyward Howkins, the Arc in Round DJ crew (?!) and a pop up from Snowbird Vintage. Yay you.
David Carroll and Larry Berk’s little ole one-time Bar Noir hot spot on 18th St. — now the Franklin Mortgage & Investment Co.’s dark basement bar — has done well for itself. So well, that the crew are expanding upward into the Liquid Hair Studio above it. No word yet what it all means or what’ll be served. Funny though, that was long Carroll’s plan for Bar Noir back in the day, ‘cept he couldn’t get the hair salon to vacate. Times change and money talks louder than it did a decade ago.
Producer/actress Shoshanna Ruth and director/actor Oliver Donahue do double duty on this week’s Oct. 3-5 run at Sex and Violence: A Primal Show in two acts at Quig’s Pub atop Plays and Players on Delancey St. Two companies (95 Runagates and GDP Productions) collaborate on this bolder, brighter, bawdier and way more bruising remount of the 95 Runagates’ production of A Brief History of Bar Brawls that took place St. Patrick’s Day, 2011. “I wanted a chance for people to see burlesque that really says something. burlesque that moves beyond what we normally think and really challenges our ideas of aggression and love,” says Hill.
WHOWHATWHERE: If we haven’t said quite enough yet about Brian Dwyer’s Frankford Ave. saucy emporium Pizza Brain, let the fact that the Dead Milkmen stopped by for a pie be the final seal of approval. Spangled cover boy Carson Kressley showed up late but showed up nonetheless to his Philadelphia Style fashion issue party at Sofitel last Thursday. The Queer Eye guy looked swell and kept the crowd enthralled so that anyone who left for and came back from the absolutely dazzling Philadelphia Collection runway soiree below the Comcast Center that same night had something to gawk at. First he was here then he left town now he’s back: Glee guy Cory Monteith showed up for work again on the McCanick set (Philly’s David Morse is its star and co-producer) and filmed on the west end of South and Bainbridge. Catch him before he glees again. Brit-folk-soul sensation Ed Sheeran made a day out of his post-Sunday-sold-out-Festival-Pier-show Monday. He visited Fox’s foxy Mike Jerrick on the set of Good Day Philadelphia then dropped in on Q 102’s Maxwell at the station. The America’s Favorite Voices tour, featuring contestants from The Voice season one — Tony Vincent and Juliet Simms — did a performance and a meet-n-greet at Parx Casino in Bensalem. No word if they hit the tables. South African songwriting sensation Elan Lea hit up Q-102’s iHeart Radio Performance Theater and made quite a handsome showing. Probably not as dashing though as my future-forward hip hop favorite Lupe Fiasco who hung out at the studios hawking his brand new Food & Liquor 2: the Great American Rap Album.
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