ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: Free Mütter. StarChefs and DoGooders aflutter. Me and Mayor Nutter.

The booze-and-balling North Bowl team in NoLibs will open South Bowl at the old Thomas Colace building at 19 E. Oregon Ave.

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ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: Free Mütter. StarChefs and DoGooders aflutter. Me and Mayor Nutter.

POSTED: Thursday, February 28, 2013, 2:10 PM

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There’s word going around the East Passyunk Ave. community that some of its fathers are considering buying up a part of the block of Broad Street immediately off Passyunk (the old Lubelles, the dollar store, etc.) for a large-scale parking garage. That’ll be perfect for what they hope is the bourgeoning rush of Yunk patrons.

Dr. Noel Zayas and Bruce Welk have been doing their gay-ish “SuperStar” party at Devotion (the old Shampoo space) for the last several weeks. No one has had too much to say about those gigs one way or another. That may very well change come March 23 when the promoting pair host the Shut Up & Dance SuperStar after party at the Ritz Carlton. Bet they don’t go back to Devooo after that.

Some of your old friends in Philly have new jobs that will keep them in town and in our face. Bright-and-boldly red-headed Gigi Lamm, a directress of publicity at the Philadelphia Museum of Art joins Running Press Publishers as their senior publicist next week. She’ll duck out right after the “Great and Mighty Things” outsider exhibition opens. There are also hirings going on at the newly-purchased Prince Music Theater as its owners (Herb Lotman’s 1412 Chestnut Street Corp. team of investors) just brought on one-time Mann Music Center magnate James E. Hines as the Prince’s new director.

There’s a Phuc Putin Pussy Riot Support Fund benefit gig administered by the Voice Project. (Check them out here.)

at the Raven Lounge March 3 and the lineup is a doozy: Everyone Except Me, Vintage Kicks, Bulldog Bros. But only one of the acts, Andrew Winter and the Reckless Dodgers, actually played in Mother Russia. Winter brought his Dodgers to open for Blitzkid (he plays in that band as well) in Moscow and had his photo taken in front of the Grand Cathedral.

Priscilla Queen of the Desert just opened at the Academy of Music and it’s a gorgeous display of disco diva drama, splashy drag theatrics and Aussie accents heavier than Walkabout. Smashing. The show runs until March 3 and co-stars locals such as Pottstown’s Ralph Metzler and Reading’s Brent Frederick alongside members of Prissy’s one-time Broadway run. On the opening night though, one-time CP staffer Josh Middleton (now at Philly Mag’s G-Philly gay-centric web site) wound up on stage as part of the post-intermission line dance where cast members enlist audience members. If you can’t wait for Middleton to tackle more drag theatrics on stage, read his bit on Philly’s own queen of drag, Martha Dito Van Graham Cracker and the controversy about whether on not this diva should be allowed to read to school children here.

I’m not certain that going to the Lit Ultrabar and NOT knowing who is front of you is a good idea but there it is: a masked ball anniversary party on March 3 with a 14-year-old theme (Eyes Wide Shut) staler than Seth MacFarlane’s Oscar jokes about The Accused. On the not-so-dangerous side of the Lit ledger, Alloyius McIlwaine’s Cultures Clothing Co. will be a big part of Feb. 28’s monthly RAW: Natural Born Artists. Tonight there will also be a screening of Faces in the Mirror, a film from Boyd Tinsley (of Dave Matthews Band). Hey as long as he doesn’t do any music, we’re cool.

New Yorker magazine gives props to our signed-to-a-major-label-newly-out-of-bankruptcy-ready-to-kick-classical-ass Philadelphia Orchestra after its Carnegie Hall gig where they rocked Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, yo

Anyone missing that C level of thriller-horror-suspense-huh that Do No Harm brought to Philly, fear not: West Philly-bred director Dom Franklin just started filming The Church at First Corinthian Baptist Church at 51st and Pine with Ashley Williams (The Human Centipede) and Clint Howard (the latter a brother of Jay-Z’s buddy Ron Howard). Boo.

To celebrate 150 years of its existence (and to alert the world that its annual Mütter Ball is approaching on April 6), the Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia will open free of charge for two days, March 2 and March 3. Limited numbers of tickets will be available at the door and guests are asked to reserve free admission in advance.

On the actual date of the anniversary, March 4, the actual anniversary of the museum gets a ceremonial ribbon-cutting at 10 a.m. on the College’s front steps with councilman-at-large David Oh hooking up the MMoTCoPoP with a Council Resolution in honor of the historic event. “We are very excited to celebrate 150 years of being disturbingly informative,” said George M. Wohlreich, MD, FCPP, director and CEO.

The Passyunk Post alerted us to the latest in bowling news: The booze-and-balling North Bowl team in NoLibs will open South Bowl at the old Thomas Colace building at 19 E. Oregon Ave. Sweet. P-Post goes onto mention that South Bowl may also offer billiards and batting cages as part of your drinking-and-sporting pleasure.

Last week, while The Who rocked Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall, the night’s sponsor 102.9 WMGK-FM and Revel Casino held its much publicized Who's Best Battle Of The Bands where local acts Final Vinyl, The Dead Poets and Them Bones competed for $500 and a performance contract with Revel (uh oh, is that invisible ink I see?). The winner: Them Bones of Atco, NJ. Yay them.

WHOWHATWHERE: Talking about the W-w-w-h-o, Roger Daltrey stopped at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in the name of Teen Cancer America, a charity focused on pediatric hospitals and youth cancer treatment. CHOP’s other kid-focused hot spot, the Ryan Seacrest Studio, got a visit from Twilight author Stephenie Meyer who was on her promo tour for her new flick The Host with stars Max Irons and Jake Abel. The Host trio hit up the Free Library’s main branch and the Ritz 5. Jersey Shore’s J Woww made a splash at Dusk at Caesars Casino in Atlantic City last weekend. Lots of side-boob coverage captured by photog Scott Weiner who managed to get those same images on TMZ. Also down the shore, Matchbox 20 and American Idol winner Phil Philips sold out the Borgata that same night. On that same afternoon, Phillips visited MIX 106.1 iHeart Radio Performance Theater in Bala Cynwyd. Other visitors to the Clear Channel radio complex were nu-jack soul man Keith Sweat at WDAS FM and odd pop-sters Bad Books who hit up Radio 104.5 FM’s studios. I ran slap-bang into Mayor Michael Nutter at the first annual PhillyDoGooder Awards at Hamilton Hall. The well-attended event from Kevin Colahan and David Gloss from Here’s My Chance gave props to City Representative Desiree Peterkin-Bell, the executive producer of Philly.com Leah Kauffman, PhillyChitChat’s HughE Dillon, Working Film Establishment, PathWays PA and the Sandy Rollman Ovarian Cancer Foundation. Worthy winners all and the debut party was a smash. (PS while DoGooders got the mayor, Nick Stuccio and his FringeArts ceremony got ex-Gov. Ed Rendell). Talking about smashes, right down the block from Hamilton Hall, on that same night was the StarChefs event at the Kimmel Center. The two-day affair hosted by the on-line culinary mag starchefs.com and chef Adam DeLosso of Garces Catering (night one the Honorees Dinner, was atop R2L) was like an Australian outback walkabout for Philly chef groupies, phood phreaks, drinks-doyennes and anything having to do with braising, beefing and chilling. I had more delicious lamb and salmon dishes in one night than I have in my life. Will BYOB’s owner/exec chef Chris Kearse gave me a huge welcoming bear hug, namesake chef/owner Kevin Sbraga showed surprisingly great reflexes by blocking my fake-me-out-rope—a-dope punch and Jen Carroll, in town from her NYC restaurant digs at Concrete Blonde, was decked out in a swank black and gold gown thingie. That StarChefs jawn was a gorgeous night and an amazing show of Philly’s culinary rising stars and well-heeled veterans.

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