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ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: JoPa and WooHa. WitOut winners. Which Kelly is your coach. Your week in loss
This week in loss is a big hard one.
ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: JoPa and WooHa. WitOut winners. Which Kelly is your coach. Your week in loss
This week in loss is a big hard one. Tattooed love boy/burly chef Matt Levin left Walnut Street’s Square Peg but not the Cohen/Gutin fiefdom as he will still make elegant fare for their Brulee catering concept.
Legendary free rock radio jock/folk singer Michael Tearson was sadly let go from his decade-plus WMGK-FM gig with no goodbye-shift yet thankfully can still be heard on Sirius XM.
Dan Gross. Ah Dan Gross. He jumped from his gossip spot at the Daily News and Philly.com (full disclosure: I work there, too) as well as his head position at the Newspaper Guild of Greater Philadelphia to do God-knows-what. I’ll miss Dan there, it was nice knowing that I had someone solid reporting on the same beat as I.
I’ll miss all these boys, truly. Luckily, the Eagles got a new coach and PYT just released a burger taco with a 100% bacon shell. Really, in so many cases, bacon cures a lot of ails.
Dani Mari isn’t just the hostest-with-the-mostest when it comes to Philly’s open mic scene. She’s got one career as a cosmopolitan singer-songstress and now, yet another, as the lead lady of Lockets, a local dream pop act with synthesist/loopy loop based guitarist Todd Mendelsohn. The pair dropped one single “Camera Shy” in 2011, before ushering forth its eponymous end-of-2102 full length vinyl LP through London’s Beautiful Strange. It’s glowing, shimmering softly cinematic stuff and you can buy an album from the pair when they open this week’s mega Widowspeak show at Kung Fu Necktie, Jan. 23.
Al Pacino has been courted to play Penn State’s Joe Paterno since before the coach’s death in the face of controversy. Now it looks as if that film, tentatively titled Happy Valley, will start filming this year with none-other than Philly favorite director Brian Blow Out De Palma, Wall Street producer Edward R. Pressman and scripter David McKenna (American History X) on the case. No word as to whether they’ll film close to Penn State’s home field yet.
There are many ways in which we should be honoring Jersey/Upper Darby doyenne/poet/punk Patti Smith. May I suggest starting with the Bryn Mawr College Katharine Hepburn award medal ceremony on Feb. 7 with Smith being recognized for her contributions to all arts and their feminine twists? There’s a reception at Goodhart Hall with Patti before the ceremony and tickets are $175. Information here.
I’ve been in love with the healthy touch-screen-centric stir-fry-fabulous Honeygrow ever since I hit it up for a Meal Ticket in June 2012. This morning, Honeygrow’s Justin Rosenberg added a second location to his ez-made kingdom at 16th and Sansom. The second Honeygrow is located at 169 East City Ave.
Is there nowhere else they could do this: Burger King is testing its new sandwich, the Philly Original Chicken (with American cheese and cheese sauce?!) at the Columbus Blvd BK. Hmm.
We got so busy writing about his sister Zoe Strauss last year that we forgot to mention repeatedly the career of young brother Cosmo Baker and his sparkling continuous DJ career. This week you got-to-got-to-gottogotto get to his dot com for his new mix, Songs We Listened To A Lot in 2012 with Scratch Bastid. You’ll be glad you did.
You like hip hop’s Big K.R.I.T. You like shopping for rap gear at Mitchell & Ness. What makes you think that you won’t like the two of those things in collaboration with the other? K.R.I.T. is doing a limited edition hat with M&N and will have a party to celebrate the pairing Jan. 18, in-store, 2-5 p.m. That’s early for hats, but we’ll get there.
WHOWHATWHERE: We’re fine with the whole Chip Kelly Eagles thing. I think we’re fine with it. Yet, it’s weird. The day that Lurie and co. announced Big Chip as the new Iggles head coach, South Philadelphians spotted Brian Kelly, coach of the Notre Dame football team, at the Starbucks on Broad and Jackson in the coffee shop’s biggest comfiest chair. Seeing him there made peeps think that the Fighting Irish candidate — the one who appears to have dedicated a game ball to fake person — was the Philly’s Kelly of choice. Class of ’93 UPenn guy John Legend was in Philly Jan. 16, not to sing or concertize but to lecture at Irvine Auditorium about all things gloriously MLK. Bravo, that smarty pants. I’m happy and excited for the 69 Philly-finalists for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s Knight Arts Challenge (all names can be found here knightarts.org). There are certainly solid ideas to be found amongst this lot and good luck there. I just happened to be more aroused by the list of victors that came out of Sunday night’s WitOut comedy awards at World Café Live. Not a one of the night’s winners such as recent-Philly-expat-back-for-the-night-comic Aaron Hertzog (listed here) have any good ideas as to help this city’s esthetic base other than to make its inhabitants spit vodka through their noses and make fat jokes. See whole bunches of the WitOut awards here. Quaint cool singer songwriter Conor Maynard did his thing at Franklin Mills earlier this week. No word if he went for an Orange Julius (hang on, do they even still make Orange Juliuses?) The Joy Formidable hit up Radio 104.5 iHeart Radio Theater in Bala and oddly enough they were fairly joyful. Bethenny Frankel did it. Andrea Bocelli and David Foster will do it. We spied Melania Trump doing it this week — shilling things, namely jewelry — at QVC in West Chester.
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