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ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: Le Bar, Le Britt, Le Joey Eye, Le TenSix
Georges Perrier wants his name back.
ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: Le Bar, Le Britt, Le Joey Eye, Le TenSix
Sacre bleu: Georges Perrier wants his name back. The French chef who sold Le Bec Fin to Nicolas Fanucci was pleased last year that the new owner wanted to keep Perrier’s flame burning with a namesake basement boite, Chez George. This year, not so much: Word has it that Perrier needs his name back for his own business concerns and enterprises, vite vite. With swift dispatch, the recently re-done room will now be known as Le Bar.
Philly boxing giant Joey Eye is taking over Harrah’s Philadelphia Casino in a big way starting Jan. 26. The cut man/promoter has a huge lightweight bout brewing between Lebanon PA’s Esteban Rodriguez and Victor Vasquez. Eye will fill that bill with seven other matches, starting at 7 p.m. Put up your dukes.
Shake Shack, Danny Meyer’s burger chain (number one at 20th and Sansom is still packed daily), is indeed opening its second Philly link as the cornerstone of Drexel’s Chestnut Square complex along the 3200 block of Chestnut. Students can get the shake on by autumn 2013.
After a fine performance from his classically tinged Data Garden (video here), King Britt has involved himself in a new still-unnamed documentary that he’s filming with Shabazz Palaces’ Tendai Maraire and Atuanya Priester — a journey in Zimbabwe with “the spirit of Dumisani Maraire as our guide in reason” according to the Philly DJ.
It’s a King Thing, the Britt-unrelated hard pop act from New Jersey, will hit up Johnny Brenda’s Jan 25. Bits and pieces of It’s a King Thing used to be Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start, so yes yes to that.
May I just add that last Thursday’s opening of TenSix Club on 17th and Walnut was the best intimate dance night that I’ve had in a decade. Gorgeous crowd. Lush pumping sounds. Strong drinks. Swell private VIP front room. It was like Fluid at its peak, the back room at Revival and the DJ booth at G-Lounge all rolled into one. Why, it was even better than the Walnut Room — the name of that same above-Alfa address. Good job, gents.
The recently married Ali Waks-Adams, a Philly-food journeywoman if ever there was, just got a new gig as the hostess of the first Philly Dishcrawl, a national community-based start-up matching cuisines and communities. What better neighborhood to start, February 19, than South Philadelphia’s East Passyunk Avenue. Reservations start here.
WHOWHATWHERE: The folks from Mitchell & Ness (Jon Yuska, Denita Brown-Lundy) and producer/MC Big K.R.I.T. made nice when K. introduced his flagship store exclusive new limited edition snapback hat and crew sweatshirt to M&N last weekend. In-between gigs and preceding shows in Reading and Atlantic City (don’t ask how it is we didn’t get him — for shame), Morrissey and his lookalike bodyguards shopped at both FYE on Chestnut Street (word has he stayed at the Ritz Carlton) and hit up Long in the Tooth on 20th and Sansom for a big vinyl purpose. Can’t he get promos? Moz also drank at Triumph Brewing in Old City. Young pop monster Ryan Beatty visited Q102 iHeart Radio Performance Theater in Bala. Two of the kiddie stars from that new Jeremy Irons scare-fest, Thomas Mann and Zoey Deutch of Beautiful Creatures, stopped by Macy’s Cherry Hill for a bigtime autograph session. Donovan McNabb, you remember Donovan McNabb. He was at a Paul Mooney’s performance at Helium last weekend. Swell. The biggest rockstar of all, Rebbetzin Miriam Shemtov, the co-founder of Lubavitch Bucks County, was the centerpiece of last night’s Bubby’s Cookoff at Vie. Man, were those veal and mushroom dumplings good. The Kishke was even better.
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