ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: Legend, Tiberino, Jerky, Kal and pals

POSTED: Thursday, November 8, 2012, 2:00 PM

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Let’s start with two worthy charities, shall we? Everyone should be flooding into Atlantic City to keep that town afloat fiscally. All the casinos and hotels, quite frankly. Revel, the new kid on the block, is pushing that agenda with its nightclub, Revel’s HQ, donating all ticket and door sales from this weekend’s entertainment to Hurricane Sandy relief in AC. Check out, Bambin AN21 and Afrojack, the toast of Jay-Z and Grandmaster Nutter’s Made in America fest this summer. Then there’s 102.9 MGK’s 11th annual John DeBella Turkey Drop with its partner City Team Philadelphia. On Nov. 20 starting at 6 a.m. DeBella and his mustache will broadcast live and accept monetary and turkey donations at Love Park on 16th & JFK Blvd. They’re looking to top last year’s goal of 10,000 turkeys that will go out to less fortunate families, individuals and shelters in the area. Do that.

It’s nice that Penn grad John Legend still ID’s Philly as his home. He’s doing this show, My City, My Music on Fuse TV (see Comcast Xfinity On Demand) where he’ll speak with Jose Garces at Distrito and White Dog Cafe manager Michael Hodges, both near the campus he loved.

The Tiberino family will not be denied. While muralist Raphael Tiberino goes small starting Nov. 9 (at Locust Moon Books at 34 S. 40th) and shows off paintings, prints and dread-and-sex filled sketches that you catch him doing while bartending at the Troc, his whole clan (dad Joe, sister Ellen) pull out the stops for a big-screen showing of their most recent film, The Mural which, unless my scene hit the cutting room floor, I’m in. Nov. 15. Trocadero. Yes yes, y’all.

I don’t talk about parties past that I’ve been to but may I please make mention of “the jerky for gentlemen” Side Project Jerky who made a major showing during last week’s First Friday jeans-and-booze bash at Art in the Age? Marcos Espinoza, Mark Novasack and Dan Olsovsky founded the company and the chewy meat was the hit of the bash, washed down with that Root and ginger beer.

Subcircle turns light forms into performance art and live motion into light waves — for 15 years yet. You can celebrate Jorge and Niki Cousineau and co.’s work on Nov. 10 at the Maas Building (1325 N. Randolph) with Christy Lee, Scott McPheeters, Christina Zani, Dito van Reigersberg, Amy Pickard, Rosie Langabeer, Totally Super Pregnant, DJ Manu (hi Emmanuelle!) and Je Seok Koo on board for the bash.

Go by Lorenzo’s Pizza on South Street. You won’t see much, what with the post fire ravaged boarded-and-papered-up windows keeping y’all at bay. But Naked Philly reports that there is work going on inside and that the fabled doughy red reconstruction will be complete by March 2013.

After what they tell me was a blazing video shoot at my neighboring Ray’s Happy Birthday Bar for its single, “Boozophilia,” Low Cut Connie will rip through their album, Call Me Sylvia at the North Star Nov. 9.

There’s a cool James Bond documentary on EPIX, out just in time for Skyfall, that mentions how a local ornithologist and an employee at the Academy of Natural Sciences was the name inspiration for author Ian Fleming’s Agent 007. Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007 makes the claim that while Fleming was writing 1953’s Casino Royale in Jamaica he needed a name for his dapper British hero, happened onto a book called Birds of the West Indies, saw the author’s name — Dr. James Bond — and turned the teacher into a spy and that was that. Jolly good.

Get out of Dodge. The Walnut Street Theater’s president and producing artistic director Bernard Havard is celebrating his 30th anniversary there on the heels of opening his new show The Music Man starring Jeff Coon: 250+ productions, 55,000+ subscribers, expanded the Walnut from its usual main stage season to include the Independence Studio on 3, a kids’ series and more, to say nothing of having to deal with all those actors? Buy that man a cocktail.

I met Smoke Trucker/Bebe’s BBQ man Mark Coates long before he left the Italian Market and dished dirt for my 2010 Ninth Street cover story. Bebe’s was my go-to BBQ one block from my house. Sadly though, he’s totally gone — not just from eyesight but from Philly itself as he’s returned to his family down South.

Gone forever but not forgotten is Philly born trumpeter Ted Curson who passed away Nov. 4 in Montclair, N.J. at age 77. Curson, who worked extensively with bassist Charlie Mingus and saxophonist Archie Shepp, started recording with pianist Cecil Taylor in 1959 and made his own first album as a leader, Plenty of Horn, in 1961 with fifteen solo records to follow.

WHOWHATWHERE: I’m cheery as cherry pie that Barack Obama won the presidential election. You have to admit though, you were worried. The crowd at Montgomery County Community College in Blue Bell was worried as President Bill Clinton yakked at them. Noisy old Motion City Soundtrack hit up Radio 104.5’s iHeart Radio Performance Theater while doing a round of Philly PR stops. Chris Isaak stopped into Famous 4th Street Deli on 19th Street before his gig at Harrah’s Chester casino. Philanthropist/FMQB boss Kal Rudman hung out with two old friends at two different universities in the last few weeks, John Oates at Temple U and Nile Rodgers at Drexel. Jay Leno performed at the Jewish Federation Of Greater Philadelphia’s Main Event at the Marriott Hotel this weekend.

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