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ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: Bardo's benefit. Sigourney's sorrow. Jenna's jam. Tiramisu's switcheroo.
The oddly-painted pianos and the mini-golf is cool, but we're really starting to dig The Porch at 30th Street Station all on its own. Anytime during nightfall that I hop on a train to NYC, I can grab a designer brew.
ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: Bardo’s benefit. Sigourney’s sorrow. Jenna’s jam. Tiramisu’s switcheroo.
The mother of Philadelphia intergalactic noise-psych acts, Bardo Pond, joins with Alabaster Museum and the Rotunda for a Laserium-like happening (Eyegate II handles the acid visuals) that doubles as a benefit for Tom Carter. Bardo’s gentle psychedelic brother got hit with acute pneumonia while touring Europe and needs assistance with medical costs. Joining B-Pond on July 20 is Kohoutek, Rhyton and NYC’s Guardian Alien.
After previewing The Industry for Meal Ticket, I finally made my way there. Try the panko crusted testa. Italians call it “Head in a box.” Mwhahaha. Owners Dave Garry, Heather Gleason and chef Pat Szoke just started serving “the city’s only public staff meal,” Sundays, 10 p.m.-1 a.m. guests get an ever-changing plate of what they serve to the staff after the evening’s service, for $6 per plate. Mwhahaha.
If you see Sigourney Weaver or the cast of the filming-in-Philly USA Network’s Political Animals, say something nice. July 15’s premiere brought in just 2.6 million viewers during the extended broadcast at 10 p.m. (only 675,000 of adults 18-49, and 834,000 viewers in the adults 25-54 range: important demographics for advertisers). Animals’ numbers weren’t bad but they weren’t great.
For the 10th anniversary of its Diamond G String Awards on July 25, Delilah’s Gentlemen’s Club and Steakhouse (I still don’t know anyone who has eaten a steak there after a full decade) will bring in retired porn star Jenna Jameson to host the strip-dance competition with $10,000 prize.
Lose a wiener, gain a rib rub: Jose Garces has given up the ghost of Abe Frohman. Or at least Abe’s Wursthaus, as the 13th Street brat boite is back on the buying block. Stephen Starr on the other hand has co-opted Brooklyn’s Fette Sau rub-centric BBQ for his next-to-Frankford Hall location, ending the long (well, three weeks) speculation as to what he’d open along Johnny Brenda Row. By the way, the Fette Sau concept, eat by weight, is something I believe that Philly’s BBQ Nick’s Charcoal Pit does.
Philly’s fabulous fetish community can be found gathering at the annual Libertine Ball July 21. Only this year, Passional/Sexplatorium have added a space-adventure theme to the red-assed proceedings, an Intergalactic Asylum if you will. Starlight Ballroom on N. Ninth welcomes you.
Bobby Rydell has had it tough, what with DUIs and physical health issues. AP reports though that Philly’s native son got a liver and kidney transplant at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and is ready to help raise awareness about organ donation.
Philly jazz chanteuse Mary Ellen Desmond pops the cherry on a new venue for cool-man-cool live music, the long-running Tavern 17 at the Warwick on S. 17th Street, July 21. Desmond takes to the stage with Bill Schilling and Lee Smith.
Charlie Hustle just got a reality show. Kind-of. One-time Philllie Pete Rose and his fiancé Kiana Kim signed on with the TLC network to test the reality show waters for five episodes following his life as an ex-baller and hers as a one time Playboy model. It’s nothing I’d bet on.
The oddly-painted pianos and the mini-golf is cool, but we’re really starting to dig The Porch at 30th Street Station all on its own. Anytime during nightfall that I hop on a train to NYC, I can grab a designer brew.
The Q-Fest 2012 film extravaganza started in a flurry of fluffed and whipped booziness (Amber Rose at Table 31) and reaches its finale this weekend with screenings of A Perfect Ending, the scandalous flick staring Morgan Fairchild, John Heard and Erika Schiff. We’re bluer-than-blue that Fairchild can’t make it, but we got Schiff, so yay that.
What-the-what? Overnight, Il Portico on the 1500 block of Walnut St. has morphed into Tiramisu. That one-time hot spot with the world’s best artichoke dish, was forever a Jewish/Italian culinary fixture on Fifth-off-South. Both Il Portico and Tiramisu are brands long owned by Alberto DelBello. Let’s see how this plays out. He has Il Tarfufo in Manyunk too.
WHOWHATWHERE: Miley Cyrus and fiancé/Paranoid star Liam Hemsworth have been walking their dog Ziggy in Rittenhouse Square and Hemsworth’s co-star Amber Heard hit Giovanni & Pileggi. But where is Gary Oldman? In two days, he’ll be in 2012’s biggest film, The Dark Knight Rises, in which he’s damned heroic. Is no one psyched? Does he have to wear a fucking cape and cowl? Tip me when you see him. Thanks. The Boss Rick Ross made himself a presence when he hit Power 99 to discuss his Maybach Music comp Self Made v. 2 and his Def Jam effort, God Forgives, I Don’t. Singer Conor Maynard made himself less of a presence when he hit the neighboring Q102’s iHeartRadio Performance Theater, whatayagonna do. Be on the lookout for Harper Hill from CSI: New York who happens to be traipsing around Philly for 1982, a crack-cocaine-themed indie film co-starring Ruby Dee, Bokeem Woodbine and Keri Hilson. Shooting sched reportedly has the cast here for four weeks on a million dollar budget. The rarely-touring hardly promoting Black Box Revelation stopped by Radio 104.5 FM the other day to chat about their new album. They’ll hit Johnny Brenda’s on Sept 20. Line up.
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