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ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: It's always sunny at Emmaline. It's partly cloudy for Sammy.
First Jay Z's 40/40 Club in Atlantic City announces it'll stay shuttered...
ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: It’s always sunny at Emmaline. It’s partly cloudy for Sammy.
First Jay Z’s 40/40 Club in Atlantic City announces it’ll stay shuttered for good (they battened down the hatches during Hurricane Sandy and never re-opened since), Now comes word that Sammy Hagar’s AC outlet, Sammy’s Beach Bar is dead in the water. Mr. Can’t Drive 55 can’t come to an agreement with Caesars Hotel and Casino Entertainment group. Word has it that Hagar will look to other area casinos for a partner. You saw how things worked out between Hag and Eddie van Halen, so there’s that.
Brittany Lynn is a drag revolutionary, being that she was the first ever drag Mummer. At the very least, she is the tallest of Philly’s drag doyennes. Tonight, March 14, Lynn will host “Get Sacked” at Sugarhouse Casino starting at 6 pm. Nothing dirty. Philly’s LGBT athletes will join Lynn, her Drag Mafia and the Andre Richards Salon for a night of good clean gown-wearing frolic.
Bankruptcy plans will not deter Revel Casino’s nightclub from moving forward with HQ Nightclub. Its bosses at Angel Management and EMM Group are gearing up to open the HQ this May — all 45,000 square-foot of it.
Who throws a party where attendees get empty beer glasses and are told to refill them plentifully throughout the bash the day after Philly’s first of three increasingly messy St. Patrick’s Day celebrations? Brewer’s Plate, the now-annual tasting event from Fair Food, who held their 2013 go-round at the National Constitution Center on Sunday with local brewers teaming up with local chefs, restaurateurs, growers and cheese mongers. Some 700 paying participants drank up and ate up. My very favorite offering came from the South Philadelphia Tap Room (pork rillettes on a salt-and-pepper potato chip with black radish and pickled mustard green) and its brewer’s paring, the Commonwealth Traditional Dry Cider from Philly Brewing Company. Legendary local food writer Rich Nichols and new author Judy Wicks were in attendance at the B-Plate.
Last weekend, Philly actor and producer Sonny Velozzi and his fellow producers and crew from the LGBT thriller Jane held a film-fund-raising benefit at the William Way Center with half a dozen different “Janes” vying for prizes. This weekend, Fri., March 13, the Jane crew return to where they’ve been filming scenes — the Daydreams strip tease bar at 5200 Unruh — for yet another benefit. Plenty of folded up one dollar bills at this bash to be certain.
Who could fill the shoes left open at WPHT by Michael Smerconish’s recent announcement that outta-there come April (heading for SiriusXM’s POTUS politics network) and the recently departed talker Buzz Bisinger? Fox News talking head and conservative figurine Dick Morris has announced he’ll take the spot that Steve Matorano and Rich Zeoli have been holding down nobly for a minute. Hmm.
Fans of 1904 Chestnut, the Industry/Pearl complex and Tuesday’s announcement (and accompanying orange sticker) that the Mac’s Tavern Crew from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia fame is coming to that address will recall I mentioned as much in December 2012 so good on them. This also happens to be the same space that Brendan Bring’Em holds the keys to for his Emmaline club space that I wrote about here. Yes. Things are about to get very interesting.
The Philadelphia History Museum, AL DIA newspaper, Temple University Press and Temple Libraries celebrate their joint publication of 200 Years of Latino History in Philadelphia TONIGHT March 14 at the museum. Get in early, the deal starts at 5 p.m.
WHOWHATWHERE: Stephen Starr and his crew at STARR Events unveiled their North Broad Street Commissary Tuesday by bringing the night’s invited guests into its silvery large scale kitchen and having every one eat fresh from the still steaming pots and pans. Best food party I’ve been to in some and edamame dumplings and veal ravioli to die for. S. Epatha Merkerson — Lt. Anita Van Buren on Law & Order to you — hit up International House to screen and discuss a documentary she co-directed, The Contradictions of Fair Hope. Both Sandra Lee and NYC Real Housewife Ramona Singer did personalized bottle signings of their respective booze and wine at the Brilliant! Philadelphia International Flower Show at the Pennsylvania Convention Center this week. Hot shot pop-ster Jake Miller welcomed Q's newest DJ, Prolifik at Q102 iHeart Radio Performance Theater in Bala this week. The Dropkick Murphys were all over town this week before their sold out shows at Electric Factory. Dropkicker Ken Case stopped into the Wells Fargo to watch the Flyers/Penguins game and the entire band stopped at Radio 104.5’s studios. Speaking of Electric Factory, its booking maven Bryan Dilworth and AEG booking boss Jon Hampton were but two of the local concert industry titans (hey Live Nation’s Michael Lessner) who visited John DeBella’s Comfort Food Comfort Fest soiree at Vie on Wednesday night. Best of show were those short rib taco jawns from El Vez. Meanwhile, Lessner’s daughter Rachel — the designer and creator of Strut-This sportswear is in town from Los Angeles this weekend visiting the fam. Bensalem’s Clay babe Christina Perri stopped by her older brother Nick Perri’s solo show the other night at TLA. He also reunited with his band Silvertide on stage. Angry Coheed and Cambria didn’t seem half as pissed off as they usually do when they stopped by Radio 104.5’s stations. There are happy couples — like locally raised Marc Mezvinsky and his wife Chelsea Clinton who just soaked $10 million into a pad in NYC — and there are un-happy couples like one-time Philly dwellers, actor Liam Hemsworth and popstar Miley Cyrus who just busted up. We heard she used to annoy Hemsworth with her self-obsessed ways and nag the poor boy/cheater while he was here filming Paranoia in Philly last year but we didn’t think it would come to this. Sob.
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