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ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: Doogie Horner, Hell's Kitchen, Mad Dragon, QFest 2012, etc.
You say you're itching for another film festival? The always be-scarved Thom Cardwell informed me, while dining at La Veranda's 25th anniversary dinner, event that QFest 2012 will run July 12-23. "We're not ready to announce any details of films, celebrities, award recipients or guests, yet," he said while fiddling with his scarfy pocket square, as you can see from my accompanying photo. Stay silken, T.
ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: Doogie Horner, Hell's Kitchen, Mad Dragon, QFest 2012, etc.
You say you’re itching for another film festival? The always be-scarved Thom Cardwell informed me, while dining at La Veranda’s 25th anniversary dinner, event that QFest 2012 will run July 12-23. “We’re not ready to announce any details of films, celebrities, award recipients or guests, yet,” he said while fiddling with his scarfy pocket square, as you can see from my accompanying photo. Stay silken, T.
Lo these many months that Spruce Street Coffee/Espresso has been closed (it only moved a block away to a longer building with higher ceilings and re-named itself Odd Fellows Café), we kept waiting to see what would move into the old 11th Street spot. Ta da — it’ll become an as-yet-unnamed juice bar. Real juice, not weird euphemism juice. Hmm.
The Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts 2013 is looking like it’ll be time-machine-themed (rather than French or German or any central location) with stops along the historical continuum at the Berlin Wall, at Philly’s signing of the Declaration of Independence and a few Civil War locations. Stay tuned.
Drexel U’s MAD Dragon record label is Making Moves. That’s the kinda-mehhh name of a truly delicious series of 7-inch limited edition vinyl singles and digital doo-dads curated and produced by Philly’s Motion City Soundtrack who have a double dog in this race as the tracks also get released via their Boombox Generation label. The hard and hearty Brick + Mortar from Toms River, NJ along with The Company We Keep, Goldrush and A Great Big Pile of Leaves will release singles, be part of a makin-of Making Moves DVD produced by Drexel’s film and video students. Eventually there will be a box set of all Making Moves stuff.
I got my eyes on the Trocadero this week, starting on May 19 with the Reggie Watts’ comedy cavalcade. Philly’s own Doogie Horner opens the show, and there’s a ’50s-through-’80s DJ dance bash upstairs in the Balcony, post-Watts, with Market East’s SnaKpaK and DJ Jesse Tyler. On May 22, the Balcony stays open for the wack-jazz jam with string-finger Nick Millevoi’s Archer Spade duo and the newest band from saxophone colossus David Fishkin. The West Philadelphia Orchestra reed guy couldn’t think of a name for his act so he went with The Mystery Ensemble. Bring a list of names when you see him and remember he sometimes hands out ice cream during his Balcony shows. Head back downstairs to the main stage on May 26 as Peek-a-Boo Revue introduces new members, new moves and big racy peel-offs. They’ve been trying to get money for their Las Vegas Burlesque Fest bus trip and started raising cash two weekends ago at Underground Arts.
Back in late November a designing-mind friend of mine told me that she was in talks with Walgreens for their up-coming super-swank upper-crusted location at Broad and Chestnut, formerly Borders Book Store. I wrote about it here without giving away the name of the designer. Now Naked Philly and Hughe Dillion have seen the (orange) signs with a zoning application and news of a salon, a restaurant and coffee/juice bars.
Local legal eagle Simon Rosen, along with Pelham Parkway Entertainment and We Eat Our Young promotions, offers up a mixed-bag Philly-client showcase May 17 at Milkboy Philly with Andrew Lipke, Christee Lenee, Felicia Punzo, Carmen Magro and a lady named Heidi. I’m big on Heidi.
Just announced: Two area chefs are going to be on television (Christina Wilson, once of Mercato and Lancaster PA catering chef Barbie Marshall), namely Hell’s Kitchen on Fox, starting June 4. One TV chef, Paula Deen, is going to be in the area, Atlantic City’s Food & Wine Fest, July 26–29, joining already-announced Anne Burrell (Food Network’s Secrets of a Restaurant Chef).
Eerie folkie Michael Chapman gets his own tribute album on the Tompkins Square label starring Meg Baird, Thurston Moore and Lucinda Williams as well as a date with Bonnie “Prince” Billy at the Troc, June 24.
WHOWHATWHERE: A Night at Franklin Square hosted a delightfully odd mix of locals when it was held last week, most of all a couple, I rarely see out — Missy Martin and her fiancé Phillies GM Charlie Manuel. Local on-air jock/Mummer Jacky Bam Bam brought Dee Snider of Twisted Sister and Celebrity Apprentice fame to the Preston and Steve Show before hauling Snider’s ass to Barnes & Noble. Once there, Snider happily signed copies of his totally upbeat autobiography Shut Up and Give Me the Mic, his hot new solo CD, Dee Does Broadway and took photos with me who. I’m looking totally Spinal Tap, doing my best Dennis Eaton Hogg label-suit impersonation. Jose Garces Catering took care of Radio 104.5’s fifth birthday show backstage at Festival Pier where bands such as Civil Twilight, Cake, Flogging Molly and Incubus noshed on empanadas and more. Travis Porter and Stefano visited Bala Cynwd’s iHeart Radio Performance Theater this week, respectively to hang out at Power 99 and Q102’s studios. While Jersey Shore boy, Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino hung with his immediate family at the launch of his Origination Series sunglasses at The Eye Shoppe in New Hope, Real Housewives’ Jersey girl Teresa Giudice spent a pre-Mother’s Day Friday doing a cooking demonstration with her mom at Parx in Bensalem. Abondanza.
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