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ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: Hop Sing, Top Chef, Meek Mill, Federal Donuts and more
Tonight tonight, just like the song from West Side Story goes, Friday May 25, is the evening that Hop Sing Laundromat, Chinatown's nearly hidden gem, opens according to Eater this morning. Drinks will cost you ten bucks - cash (this weekend only).
ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: Hop Sing, Top Chef, Meek Mill, Federal Donuts and more
Condolences to the family and friends of Sam Mickey from Morning Glory, the sunshiny diner on S. 10th Street. Mickey passed quietly after a long bout with cancer. Very quietly. So quietly that many of us in the same neighborhood as Morning Glory didn’t know about this until Fergus Carey (another neighbor of Morning Glory) said as much. When Glamorosi and I first moved into the Italian Market, Morning Glory was our kitchen away from home. Carey mentioned that there is a good chance that the folk from the Glory will put on a benefit in Mickey’s name hosted by manager Jenny Greer on June 8 with its monies going to the Wellness Center. Stay tuned.
Tonight tonight, just like the song from West Side Story goes, Friday May 25, is the evening that Hop Sing Laundromat, Chinatown’s nearly hidden gem, opens according to Eater this morning. Drinks will cost you ten bucks — cash (this weekend only).
Before they play Jay Z’s Made in America fest in Philly, localite Meek Mill and his boss Rick Ross drop “So Sophisticated” here.
Top Chef: The Tour, not to be confused with Top Chef: The Amusement Park or Top Chef: The Breakfast Meat will have its day on LOVE Park May 30 when Philly’s Jen Carroll goes head to spatula against Eli Kirshtein. Three shows: 10:30 a.m., noon and 1:30 p.m.
Kudos to Philadelphia Real Estate Blog for finding out that Michael Solomonov’s chicken-licking-fingering Federal Donuts is taking over the Video Liquidators locale at 1632 Sansom St. Maybe.
We started hearing the buzz last week and now it’s true-all-true: Giovanni & Pileggi, the long time salon to the stars of Rittenhouse Row, is now relocated to Midtown Village’s S. 11th Street strip at a smaller wider space than in its previous incarnation.
We’re sorry we missed North Broad’s Alla Spina dollar Mortadella Hot Dog day. We implore Marc Vetri to do so again soon.
First it was a Syd Barrett cover and now it’s Phil Lynott. That’s the journey Mike Pomranz is on. The Philly expatriate who started the hard-psych-popping World Blanket posted his take on Thin Lizzy’s surprisingly ruminative “Got to Give it Up” this week.
Yeahyeahyay to Overbrook High/Temple U grad Jamira Burley who just got named by Mayor Nutter to the post of executive director of the Philadelphia Youth Commission. Her first job? Getting Nutter to at least move on up to the ’80s with those raps of his.
With Fior d’ Italia of San Francisco closing its gravy jar, Ralph’s in the Italian Market is now the oldest Italian restaurant in the USA with 112 years of Dispigno family meatballs.
Soul singing lounge singer Jesse Kyle, is touting her single, “Un Cri d’Amour” with this. If you don’t like seeing her on the small screen, you can catch the real time actual size version of her most Fridays at Ruth Chris steakhouse in King of Prussia.
WHOWHATWHERE: We’re hearing that both Harrison Ford (for a PSA taping) and Brad Pitt (for a Revel break) will be in the tri-state area over the next 10 days. Maybe they’re throw together a Devil’s Own reunion Eek. No. Jon Houlon did some quick thinking when his gig opening for god-of-Americana Butch Hancock at the Tin Angel went south. Houlon went west, to Fergie’s and got the show swiftly relocated there. Country cooking LeAnn Rimes and husband Eddie Cibrian went for target practice at my neighborhood’s Philadelphia Archery & Gun Club at Ninth and Ellsworth last week. Lots of semi-automatic guns a-blazing. After that, pals in Rittenhouse said she hit up a. kitchen for a pre-Keswick Theatre nosh. Also in that neighborhood, Bradley Cooper who ate at Parc with his mother Gloria for the Rit Row Festival. The Phils’ Cole Hamels also visited the Rittenhouse Row Fest. While scintillating soul-hop crooner Stefano hit up Q102’s iHeart Radio performance theater, the shiny new wave-y likes of Hot Water Music and Garbage (who’ll play Atlantic City’s House of Blues May 25) stopped by their neighboring 104.5-FM. Also notably hanging in AC was Bam Margera who hit up Revel’s O2 Lounge and scruffy Adam Levine who hit up Revel’s Tap Room Grille before his Maroon 5 played the first concert (that’s right, Beyonce wasn’t the first gig) at Revel’s Ovation Hall. On the night that his new Trespassing debuted at number one — a first for an out-gay artist, Adam Lambert was hanging backstage at Wells Fargo Center for the Q-102 Springle Ball, mingling with the young likes of Cody Simpson and Hot Chelle Rae and the old likes of Train. Then there was Non-Comm 2012, the leading alternative AOR radio convention that set up shop at World Café Live for several days last weekend. Norah Jones hit it after her gig at the sparkling Barnes Foundation opening. So did Rufus Wainwright, Willie Nelson, Joe Jackson (who looked al little like Waylon Flowers and Madame while playing bits of his new album The Duke to David Dye and assembled guests) and Dr. John (who got a sneak peak of a documentary that the WXPN crew filmed of him in New Orleans. Most notoriously though, guitarist and serial big mouth John Mayer had a wee bit of a freakout during his time at Non-Comm. All must have been well though as he showed up hanging with Andy Cohen on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live.
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