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ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: Brad, Will, Stripes and Rob Zombie
Here's a little known fact regarding the murder of famed Navy SEAL, sniper and author Chris Kyle.
ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: Brad, Will, Stripes and Rob Zombie
Here’s a little known fact regarding the murder of famed Navy SEAL, sniper and author Chris Kyle. The U.S. military’s notably most lethal sniper, 38, was killed last Saturday in Texas by a fellow soldier and supposed friend Eddie Ray Routh. Police are still looking at the troubled suspect and his reasons for the slaughter. Lost in the tragedy is the fact that Kyle’s best-selling autobiography, American Sniper, was purchased last year for Bradley Cooper to star in, the first project for Cooper’s Warner Bros.-based production company, 22nd & Indiana. Authors Jason Dean Hall are writing the script with producers Andrew Lazar and Peter Morgan behind Cooper. No word as to whether anything has changed in the wake of the shooting, save — quite sadly — for the ending.
Michael’s Saloon at 12th and Mifflin is white trash. Proudly, I might add. The South Philly dive bar is hosting “White Trash Weekends” with a sonic mix of country & western music and punk rock to go with its $2 brews. Oi.
Monopoly’s newest gamers are obviously pussies. After a month long “Save Your Token” contest thrown by its distribution company Hasbro Gaming, a cat got nominated as the newest Monopoly game piece over the iron. I loved the iron, you fuckers.
In what seems like years since we first wrote about it, Tony Rim’s Corner Foodery (1710 Sansom) with John Taus is finally open. Fans of The Corner and The Foodery rejoice.
Since I love my greyhound Django more than I love myself (and that is A LOT) I’m over-fucking-joyed that the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (PSCPA) is having a “Puppy Love Valentines Party” Feb. 12 at the 23rd Street Armory. There’s food from Smokin’ Betty’s and Devil’s Alley, a red carpet scenario with paparazzi for the star kittens and pooches and plenty of homeless pets in need of good — no, great — homes. Tickets are $40.
It’s looking as if chef/restaurateur Chris Scarduzio’s off-on take-over of Artisan Boulanger Patissier at 12th and Morris is on again. Artisan will finally head to 12th and Mifflin as intended and Scarduzio will open some Italian eatery or another.
After his recent Euro-Russian tour as part of the horror-hardcore Blizkid, Andrew “Stripes” Winter returns home to Philly to unleash Be Prepared, his debut album. Winter was supposed to have played Level Room several weeks ago for a release party until that place unceremoniously pulled the plug on its shows for now. Stripes, whose own music is a cool cross between the Avett Bros and Green Day, has been making this first-album of his for some time. “Honestly man, this album is a culmination of countless nights sleeping on floors, driving all night and poisoning my body with truck stop food,” says the constantly touring Winter. It took him several years of relationship-making and cast-building to complete this first album of his. Hit up Milkboy Philly tonight, Feb. 7, for the CD-release bash. It was worth the wait.
Word is also going around about the Prohibition Taproom folks. While awaiting word on when Pro Tappers Mike and Jeniphur Pasquarello would open the then-up-and-coming Bufad pizzeria back in November, I caught wind of the B-Side, a hard-carved butcher block hot spot with a bar. It’s an abattoir lounge. I LOVE THIS. By the way, Bufad opened last week and the B-Side is taking its time making meat-based booze-soaked goodness its mission.
This weekend’s Philadelphia Tattoo Convention has a unique first time sponsor in Breaking Glass Pictures. The releasing/distribution film co, is gearing up to promote the drugs-fast times flick K-11 with a booth and screeners on hand, Here’s a video of what to expect.
While BG’s Evan Gusz is busy manning the booth, BG Pics boss Richie Wolff has been holed up at Sundance promoting his Gus Van Sant-produced Laurence Anyways, buying films such as Amelia’s 25th and hanging with Harry Potter.
WHOWHATWHERE: Sam Weil and other friends of the late great NYC photographer/AIDS activist Brian Weil showed up at Wednesday night’s first ever retrospective exhibition for the snapper at the ICA on 36th Street. Opera Philadelphia’s American Repertoire Program has a new board boy and it’s David Hyde Pierce. The big-bearded thespian showed up at last weekend’s Opera Philadelphia Gala at the Loews Hotel. Hopefully nobody called him Niles. Philly radio stations got a small slew of visitors to its studios: Keaton Simons and Vicci Martinez hit up Mix 106.1, Biffy Clyro stopped by Radio 104.5 and Kat Graham was all over Q102. Will Smith and Sister Souljah did a talk at Temple University’s Performing Arts Center for her new novel, A Deeper Love Inside: The Porsche Santiaga Story. Lastly, remember back in June when I wrote that Rob Zombie had picked up the option on the story of the Broad Street Bullies, Philly’s brawling winning ’70s-era Flyers, with approval from the front office and everything? Well, Zombie finally made his way to Philly this week, hitting up Wells Fargo Center with original Bully Bernie Parent, supping at Xfinity Live! and going through old news clips and the Flyers’ back pages. No word yet if Zombie will stay for Flyers owner Ed Snider’s wedding party (to Lin Spivak) Feb. 23 at University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
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