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ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: Heidecker rips ships. Bourdain in simpler times. Feastival starts strong at Sampan. Benny Krass comes alive.
Philadelphia's Video Pirates do what their name infers: rip and clip precious booty and throw it up for the world to see. Happily, the VP crew shows off "Horrors" July 28 at International House, with swipes of commercials from Krass Brothers clothiers and the classic rock dawn of WYSP when Randy Kotz was still happily a regular on-air jock.
ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: Heidecker rips ships. Bourdain in simpler times. Feastival starts strong at Sampan. Benny Krass comes alive.
“Recently, I read that Bob Dylan’s new album Tempest will feature a 14-minute song about the Titanic,” starts expatriate Philadelphia comedian Tim Heidecker innocently enough on a recent blog post. “I wrote this song to see if I could beat the Master to it. I can’t wait to see how close I got to the real thing.” With that, one half of the Tim & Eric team, unleashed a teaser (you gotta pay for the whole thing) to his own eerie 14-minute epic. Good luck.
Philadelphia’s Video Pirates do what their name infers: rip and clip precious booty and throw it up for the world to see. Happily, the VP crew shows off “Horrors” July 28 at International House, with swipes of commercials from Krass Brothers clothiers and the classic rock dawn of WYSP when Randy Kotz was still happily a regular on-air jock.
When weiner wonks Hawk Krall and Holly Moore judged this week’s hot dog cook-off at Hot Diggity on South Street, one of the immediate area’s top notch spaces took home the prize. Not nouvelle chef hot spots like Supper or Pumpkin or Brauhaus Schmitz. Marrakesh won — the forever-on-Leithgow-Street home to the best in Philadelphia’s Moroccan cuisine. I haven’t been there in a minute but love their lamb dishes, their private copper-table dining rooms and the manner in which their waiters pour hot tea from six feet above your table. Go. But don’t ask for hot dogs. I’m pretty sure they don’t serve them.
Further down the block on South Street this weekend, another longtime tradition gets upheld: the Midnight Movie at the Theater of the Living Arts. Live Nation tested the waters back in May and return to the scene of the crime for the next several Saturdays with John Waters’ Pink Flamingos (July 28), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Aug. 4) and Mommie Dearest (Aug. 11). Bring your own toast to toss.
Remember when life was simpler? When hot dog water enthusiast (thanks Pen & Pencil) Anthony Bourdain was just a heavy -smoking, leather jacket-wearing Leonard Cohen-lookalike trying to sell some books and NOT the foodie icon Philly lusts after? I do. I found this chat with him from 2001 when he stopped to meet me at L’Ange Bleu hawking copies of Kitchen Confidential. They’s all growed up.
Not since the East Side Club lived on the block has there been a new bar to speak of along 13th and Chestnut (there was that lounge spot in the basement of the nearby Scientology building with millions spent on it that never materialized). But if Teddy Surias of Finn McCool’s and Prime Lounge has his way, there’ll be a kinda-swanky beer garden going up at ye old Mitchell & Ness space at 1318-20 Chestnut. Here’s hoping. And for you Scientologists, The Master has a few trailers out now. Enjoy.
Boarders with the inside track have known forever that FDR Skatepark deep in South Philly is the place to be. Live Arts/Fringe Fest folk know it too.Now there’s a book celebrating that fact: FDR Skatepark: A Visual History with snaps from 25 international photographers and chats with the skaters. Get it.
Hey, it ain’t my name so don’t blame me for Amoroso’s Bakery leaving West Philly for Camden if it happens like they say it might. For the record, things have been tumultuous for Amoroso’s for some time. Last year (June 23) I reported how an Amoroso’s bakery strike screwed up lunch around the tri-state area when they delayed deliveries to hundreds of hoagie and steak shops. Stay soft brothers.
WHOWHATWHERE: Michael Schulson’s Sampan was the center of the universe this week where Nick Stuccio’s Live Arts/Fringe Fest was concerned. That’s because Feastival had its cocktail-n-nosh pre-reception on S. 13th Street. Not only did Stuccio salute the upcoming fest, he thanked Audrey Claire Taichman and Tony Bourdain’s best bud Michael Solomonov for throwing Feastival (Sept. 12, at Pier 9, 121 North Columbus Blvd.) which helps defray LA/FF costs. I thank Schulson for edamame dumplings and his new cucumber margarita. Soccer? I don’t even know her. That’s the only MLS All Star joke I would’ve had for L.A. Galaxy guy David Beckham who stopped at Palomar’s Square 1682 with his teammates for a meal. Right before we left John Collabelli’s Philadelphia Style magazine’s party for his annual Best of Style Awards bash at Vie (on N. Broad), Terrence Howard stopped into the bash, resplendent in crème colorings. Nice. Temple alumna and one of the Harlem Globetrotters’ newest stars Fatima “TNT” Maddox hit the mound at the Milwaukee Brewers game against the Phillies at Citizens Bank Park. Not to be confused with the Collective, the far poppier Animal Kingdom hit up Radio 104.5’s iHeart Radio Performance Theater during their promo tour of the east coast. Grouplove also made a stop at Radio 104.5 while Ray J’s big sister, Brandy stopped at Power 99 before performing along the at Penn’s Landing for Charlie Mack’s weekend soiree. Large-lipped Mob Wives sensation and star of her huge new VH-1 program Big Ang hit up The Pool at Harrah,s in Atlantic City. We don’t know why but Jerry Maguire baby head Jonathan Lipnicki was also in attendance. Lastly, my bud Scott Weiner and his daughter Mariel love their Warped Tour bands. So we set them up backstage at Camden’s Susquehanna Center and let them go wild with the likes of Taking Back Sunday, Ballyhoo!, Troy Harley, All Time Low and Cherry Bomb.
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