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ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: El Malito in his Captain America Undies, Pauly D and Joe Piscopo with Smoking Joe
I'd be remiss if I didn't mention Cuba Libre's 10th anniversary this month. I stopped by the three-tier Old City emporium of Cuban delicacies and found a new menu produced by executive chef and partner Guillermo Pernot exceptional as always. Not only has the king of the ceviche produced four new raw and marinated faves (try the big eye tuna) Pernot is doing a truffle and citrus marinated octopus to die for and a different Hemingway-inspired fish item (I had the marlin) throughout July. Plus Pernot's filled the mezzanine with a gallery's worth of photos that he snapped during his last trip to Cuba. Look too for new signage to go up on the front of Cuba Libre any day. "After 10 years, it's about time we got something up so that people knew we were here," laughs CL co-owner Larry Cohen who has been scouting new Cuba Libre locations in Atlanta and Boston.
ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: El Malito in his Captain America Undies, Pauly D and Joe Piscopo with Smoking Joe
The last time I happened onto a performance from El Malito — Philly’s Puerto Rican hustler of electro-hip hop and not the Mexican gangster wanted for murder — he was at Rogue’s Gallery with DJ Starkey and he was taking down his pants during “Platypus” to reveal Captain America underwear. Oh my. You can see that here if you so choose. Movie product tie in or not — and by overwhelming demand — El Malito’s next appearance at Rogue’s is this Friday July 8 with special guest Shawn Kilroy, another performer who may very well drop his drawers if you ask nicely.
July is Adena Halpern’s month. The Philly-raised scribbler that I interviewed last year (see here) was a writer on the Jen Aniston/Kevin Spacey/Charlie Day comedy Horrible Bosses which opens this week as well as the author of a new novel, Pinch Me, that’s due out next week. Brava.
In March 1981, Cyndy Drue interviewed Bono for her KYW-TV The Rock N’ Roll Show. In anticipation of U2’s show at the Linc on July 14, Drue and Bono’s first ever American TV appearance will air on Larry Kane’s Voice of Reason show on the Comcast Network at 9:30 p.m. on July 10. I’ll have more from Drue next week about that 1981 show at the Bijou U2 was in town for.
Goldstar Park is where the South Philly Food Co-Op sets up camp for the next several Thursdays starting July 7 at 7 p.m. Aloha.
I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention Cuba Libre’s 10th anniversary this month. I stopped by the three-tier Old City emporium of Cuban delicacies and found a new menu produced by executive chef and partner Guillermo Pernot exceptional as always. Not only has the king of the ceviche produced four new raw and marinated faves (try the big eye tuna) Pernot is doing a truffle and citrus marinated octopus to die for and a different Hemingway-inspired fish item (I had the marlin) throughout July. Plus Pernot’s filled the mezzanine with a gallery’s worth of photos that he snapped during his last trip to Cuba. Look too for new signage to go up on the front of Cuba Libre any day. “After 10 years, it’s about time we got something up so that people knew we were here,” laughs CL co-owner Larry Cohen who has been scouting new Cuba Libre locations in Atlanta and Boston.
The Village Green-booked Philly Film and Music Fest for September scored Deadmau5 and Dead Milkmen plus a rare performance of Los Angeles by the band what made that town (and punk itself) burn, X.
July 7 isn’t just the launch party for Philly.com/Food at Reading Terminal Market. The 11 a.m. bash for the dot.com site that Inky writer Michael Klein left daily gossip for is also a fundraiser for Philabundance, The Food Trust and MANNA with chefs Jen Carroll, Aaron McCargo Jr., Kevin Sbraga and Jack McDavid in the market’s center.
According to the New York International Film Fest’s spring awards ceremony, the Best Director of a Documentary went to George Manney for Meet Me on South Street, The Story of JC Dobbs. Hit it.
Le Bec-Fin’s kitchen makeover ends on July 8. Yay new oven knobs. While we wait and anticipate its downstairs Le Bar Lyonnais reopening and renaming (August!) LBC readies its Bastille Day Sidewalk Festival from 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. on July 14. Look for executive pastry chef Cedric’s mini-pastries.
Traveling through another dimension never seemed as sexy as it does when Walking Fish Theatre presents a garter-and-bustier-clad glimpse into ’50s television The Thighlight Zone, a burlesque reconfiguration of the sci-fi series. Lurid aliens and robots, sure. But how sexy can you make Rod Serling? Check it and see this Thursday July 7 through July 9.
Speaking of extended runs and fun, Philly nu-soul poetess/singer Alexis GoldenLover has a three day stint starting July 8 which includes (respectively) Grey’s Lounge, The Blockley’s presentation of the Android+ Music Festival (with Discount Heroes, Shon Penn, Blaqmel and Coco Sol) and Sunday’s Laff Out Loud Productions’ combination American Idol karaoke and fish fry at Parkside Banquet Hall (49th & Parkside Ave.) . See you at the fish fry.
When one-time homeboy Pete Donnelly hits Kung Fu Necktie this weekend (July 10, with Doomed to Obscurity) ask him about his new role as a member of NRBQ. You have to be a monster musician to play with Terry Adams, the driving force behind the 40+ year old NRBQ. Donnelly was a member of Adams’ solo brigade, the Terry Adams Rock & Roll Quartet since 2007 as its bassist until Adams turned Donnelly into a full time NRBQite with a new CD out next week Keep This Love Goin’ to show for their efforts.
WHOWHATWHERE: Philly’s Amos Lee hit Washington D.C. on the Fourth of July holiday to perform for 1,200+ troops and military families at the third annual “Salute to the Military USO Concert” on the White House South Lawn. The event was hosted by President Barack Obama to commemorate 70 years of the USO’s support of America’s military community. Meanwhile we caught Obama at the airport trying to get out of Philly after Tea Party protesters griped at him during a Democratic cash-raising fund drive that reportedly netted the prez over a million dollars. Also in town and around. Emily Osment was a guest at the Penn’s Landing Fam!Jam over the weekend. Sporting types Bernie Parent and Smokin’ Joe Fraiser visited Joe Piscopo when the comedian launched his Club Piscopo at Resorts in AC. And what’s a summer without a member of a reality-based Garden State comedy (It is comedy, right) at the amusement park? That’s why we have DJ Pauly D from Jersey Shore, back at Seaside Heights, riding the rails with his dad in tow, yo. R Kelly, along with his entourage and some overdressed ladies, was sighted Monday morning at Boston Market on Welsh and hte Boulevard, day after his sell out show at the Mann.
Stop with the El Molito already. So he's an aggressive egoist who wants to badly make it in the Philly socialist music scene. Thing is their not even postmodern enough. Molito is prefab, premature and not very good. Please stop pushing it. There is better Latino sounds to be had locally, mostly made by Cuban men standing in trucks playing through 15 watt amps.— posthumanhero
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