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ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: Dylan eats, Philly gets Paranoid, Byko cats around, Granite Hill grows, Marky Ramone makes sauce
Tashan publicist and all around gadabout George Polgar told me Tuesday morning that Bob Dylan ordered take out before his Monday night show at the Wells Fargo Center.
ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: Dylan eats, Philly gets Paranoid, Byko cats around, Granite Hill grows, Marky Ramone makes sauce
Tashan publicist and all around gadabout George Polgar told me Tuesday morning that Bob Dylan ordered take out before his Monday night show at the Wells Fargo Center. Not just any old meal but a nosh (a largish nosh at that) from Tashan delivered to his dressing room. Weirdly enough, he used his real name (Robert Zimmerman) after paging through the modern Indian menu from which he got four orders each of gol gapa, goc naan, tandoor shrimp, lamb chops, Afghani chicken kabab and the Mangalorean sausage. That’s a big order. I hope he gave some to Charlie Sexton, his guitarist. So skinny that boy.
Greater Philadelphia Film Office doyenne Sharon Pinkenson says the second round of Paranoia shooting is “scheduled for second week December.” That’s a wrap.
After George Perrier's collaborative dinner with Al Paris at Heirloom the master French chef must have wanted to lighten his load — which is why he unburdened himself of cookware and the like in his still-for-sale Chestnut Hill home according to Craigslist, Curbed and Dan Gross.
If you like happy hours but hate to drink, shame on you. OK, no shame. Sazz and Briar Vintage, the next-door-neighboring girl and boy antique clothier at 60 and 62 N. Third are having big storewide sales with 40-30 percent off of scores of stylish goods on Black Friday, Nov. 23. I buy all my monocles there.
When the Daily News’ Stu Bykofsky writes me about cats, I worry that he’s not getting out enough. Then my photographer spies Stu at the Chris Matthews party for Philly Style magazine’s Men’s Issue at Barclay Prime and I know everything is fine. But what about the cats, man? What about the cats? Byko has penned a part fiction/part fact-based book called Cats are Supermodels. Since I know Stu to be, like me, more of a dog man, how could the columnist ergo reconcile himself to writing about pussies? “I suspect a hole in the universe,” says Bykofsky who goes to say that the kitty the book is based upon “belonged to a woman then in my life and when she left she didn’t take her own cat with her. Why don’t I turn him into the shelter? Because he bites and scratches and would be put down. I can’t do that because what he is isn’t his fault.” That’s a sterling sentiment. You can read a bit of Cats are Supermodels for free as well as purchase the Stu-iniversity Press published book for $10.95 at catsaresupermodels.com.
This weekend in Oaks, PA is the free-for-all 26th annual Not Just Rock Expo featuring local rock doc Denny Somach, folks from Lynyrd Skynyrd and Vanilla Fudge, and the poster boy for the Friday-Saturday affair, Mark Bell, better known as Marky Ramone. The second Ramones drummer now has a band, Marky Ramone’s Blitzkrieg, and a radio show, “Marky Ramone’s Punk Rock Blitzkrieg” on Sirius XM. “My mission is to keep real rock ’n’ roll alive and the combination of the two is unstoppable,” says Bell/Ramone from Manhattan. But along with preaching the gospel of punk at Oaks’ expo, he is selling two things: 1) Himself via an Interactive Meet And Greet Entertainment (IMAGE) experience. “Gary Sohmers, the organizer of the event, told me about how so many people buy phony autographs and collectibles. He figured out how authenticate it and make it legitimate,” says Ramone who will sign for fans via a live video-cam-and-internet hook up. “This is the real deal. I would love to do this as much as the fans want me to do it.” 2) The other thing Ramone/Bell will sign and sell is Marky Ramone’s Brooklyn’s Own Marinara Pasta Sauce. See, his grandfather was a chef at the 21 Club and when the Ramone was a starving musician, he always ate pasta and gravy. “My manager said if we could get into the food business, what would be your favorite thing to sell? And I have great memories and love for great pasta sauce, so there it is.” When I remind him of my vowel-filled nomenclature, I let him know that neither of his names sounds too Italian. So what gives, Bell? “I’m Italian, but I love a good corned beef and chopped liver sandwich. When we make the sauce, we have a special mix-tape filled with my favorite rock songs, and every jar is filled while certain songs are playing. Besides the best ingredients blended a certain secret way, each jar is filled with great music, like Dave Clark Five, Ramones, Phil Spector, Bad Religion and the Stones.” Gabba Gabba abondanza.
The Live Arts/Fringe Fest is touting its 2013 run dates as Sept. 6-21. Will the Live Arts Center at the lip of Delaware Avenue be ready by then as discussed in my May cover story? All signs point to yes.
WHOWHATWHERE: What happened when Stephen Starr met the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s CEO Timothy Rub for dinner? They invited a bunch of their media friends and fam to Starr’s Granite Hill at the PMA not only for a second anniversary soiree celebrating their pairing. They reminded eaters how damn good the food is (the chateaubriand was aces), how great the place looks at night (trolleys took us from the Rodin where the cocktail reception was to Granite Hill with dessert in the museum’s star-lit balcony) and how far Starr has come from rock clubs, chicks and vodka. That said, my question for Starr was simple: What is it going to take to get Granite Hill open on nights other than Friday until 9 p.m.? Nothing was solidified by Starr but a little bird having nothing to do with the restaurateur and his organization claims that come February and the Valentine’s holiday, there’ll be an additional night added onto Granite Hill’s dining schedule. After being named “Best Web Series Shot In Philadelphia” at last week’s FirstGlance Film Festival, My Ruined Life writer/producer/director Lee Porter and his cast and crew celebrated the victory and prescreened bits of MRL’s second season at L’Etage last weekend. “We released episode one and will be taking a break now for the busy holiday season,” said Porter. “Episodes will return on an almost weekly basis for the entire winter/spring starting the first Sunday in January 2013.” Philadelphia Eagle Brent Celek hung out with 94 WIP’s Dan Klecko and a bunch of staffers at Dave and Busters. No whack-a-moles were hurt during their meeting. Not even Darth Vader could stop AFSCME district council cats 33 and 47, along with other Philly union folk, from raising picket signs in front of the Kimmel Center where the Marion Anderson Award went to basso profundo actor James Earl Jones. I watched host Terrence Howard nervously call Jones “Big Daddy” since the two did Cat on a Hot Tin Roof together (the night’s other guest Phylicia Rashad was in that same Broadway production) and opera singer Lawrence Brownlee rock the mic (to say nothing of a swell tux) before JEJ gracefully accepted his honors as Gregory Peck, Oprah Winfrey and Harry Belafonte had before him.
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