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ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: Melissa Bang-Bang, Brian Dwyer and pretty boy Ryan Seacrest
You can never have too many burlesques around town. This weekend there are two thrillers. With the backdrop of Penn's Landing's tall ship Gazela behind them Cabaret Red Light take on the tale of the Pirates of Ponzi with pasties, bustiers and live gypsy swing music by the Blazing Cherries from July 17 to 19.
ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: Melissa Bang-Bang, Brian Dwyer and pretty boy Ryan Seacrest
You can never have too many burlesques around town. This weekend there are two thrillers. With the backdrop of Penn’s Landing’s tall ship Gazela behind them Cabaret Red Light (Melissa Bang-Bang, Annie A-Bomb, Cubby Altobelli, Kimberlie Cruise) take on the tale of the Pirates of Ponzi with pasties, bustiers and live gypsy swing music by the Blazing Cherries from July 17 to 19. Va-va-voom. Further up north at Port Fishington’s Walking Fish Theater — after selling out last weekend’s three night run of the comically campy sci-fi sexy The Thighlight Zone, Aurora VonDyke, Tesla Tease and the rest of the girls and boys will be back for another three-day run July 17-19. Hit both burlesques.
Unless my instincts are wrong, mega-pizza enthusiast Brian Dwyer (we last wrote about his benefit at Johnny Brenda’s where he was vying for a mighty pizza oven) will get the zoning he seeks for the 2313 Frankford address for Pizza Brain. That’s his planned pizza restaurant (that’s where that oven is going), museum and live performance space, and the spot where the Guinness Book of World Records will visit to consider his massive pizza ephemera collection for record status.
The Hot Club of Philadelphia was such a swinging hit at 12th & Walnut’s Farmers Cabinet that they’ll be there July 16 and July 22 for repeat dinner performances. “It is fun and character building and we’re boffo there — we’re like the Beatles in Hamburg — but if someone knocks over one of those kerosene lamps onto the bear head, all bets are off,” jokes HCPhilly’s guitarist Barry Wahrhaftig. BarWar will back up City Paper interview subject Marty Grosz at the Mermaid Inn on July 23, and is prodding HCPhilly to play WHYY’s Sept. 2 event at Penn's Landing for an advance screening of the new Ken Burn's film series Prohibition.
I grew up mere blocks from botanist John Bartrim’s gardens and always wanted to have a picnic there. On July 17, Philly Stake is doing it. That organization is a traveling dinner party where good food gets mixed with the good conversation of green projects and community-related ideas. $20 from 5 to 8 p.m., with an optional tour of Bartram’s with curator Joel Fry. Take that trip.
Reality: In the Blonde’s Erika Schiff is on this week’s Investigation Discovery I Married a Mobster series as “Love Majewski”, the person Angelina Jolie's character was based off of in the film Gone in 60 Seconds. Schiff was at a screening/wrap party in Tribecca last week where she made a grand entrance with the real Love Majewski (“she's my new bff,” laughs Schiff) and Drita D'avanzo of VH1's Mob Wives. Love makes appearances on 20/20, The View and The Today Show promoting the series and the episode titled "Love Hurts." July 17 is the first airing of Spike TV’s Bar Rescue, the show where bar consultant Jon Taffer brings wrecked saloons new life. Philly’s Swanky Bubbles (now Sheer) and Downey’s are on the docket for that premier BUT if you’re paying attention, Philly.com found out that Downey’s is a tax scoffer. Check the Department of Revenue's website and you’ll see that Downey’s owes the city $125,881.10. One-time Hell’s Kitchen contestant, Haddonfield, N.J.'s Ralic’s Steakhouse executive chef Ed Battaglia got ex-Cake Boss assistant Toni Walton to make desserts for the Steakhouse. Walton is from Cherry Hill and is getting ready to do her own thing Sweet T’s Bakeshop. Check a video HERE.
After being on the road the last three months with bands he considers his influences (Face to Face, Strung Out) and another that launched his career (Blitzkid) guitarist and singer Andrew “Stripes” Winter is glad to be home. Not only will he feted on his birthday at Hard Rock Café July 15. His power pop band Reckless Dodgers will play with El Fuego and Uncontrolled for the Becca Lane Media, Davis Concert Staging (DCS), Gashouse Radio, and Hard Rock Cafe Philadelphia Present partnership. “I can’t even begin to tell you how good it feels to be home with the boys,” says Winter. “The ground feels right in Philly, and there’s no better way to celebrate a homecoming on my birthday than this. I couldn’t be more stoked.” DCS and Lane will host another networking happy hour at Hard Rock July 18 (it’s private, punks) as DCS continue on with their happy hours on Wednesdays at the Rock.
Michael Schulson’s Sampan just launched a summer cocktail list that works exquisitely with his Japanese menu: Chambord Spritz (how '80s!), Gin Saketini, Plum Tea (vodka with plum oolong tea and mint — dag) and a self-named Sampantini with Beefeater 24 gin with aloe vera and cucumber. I’ll have two of those
WHOWHATWHERE: Twilight’s Jackson Rathbone (also in Night Shyamalan's Last Airbender but don’t hold that against him) and his band 100 Monkeys played the Theater of the Living Arts. Yeah, I didn’t know either. If the names Mike Cahill and Brit Marling sound familiar to y’all cineastes, good. Their Another Earth was the hit of the 2011 Cinefest Film Festival here in Philly, the closing night film to be exact. “We were stoked to come back to Philadelphia, especially with such an illustrious crowd in tow," says Cahill of last week’s screening for science nerds at the Franklin Institute before hitting the Sofitel for a night’s sleep. Look for my interview with the director/co-writer on Critical Mass during the week of Another Earth’s opening, July 29. After walking off the Jersey Shore show and away from their Seaside Heights bunks, Vinny and The Situation walked back on, to do laundry, to smoke cigs. Photog Scott Weiner has the proof. Stick to New Jersey for the moment Audrina Patridge and her new boyfriend, BMX sensation Cory Bohan, hit Dos Caminos at Harrahs in Atlantic City. Yay them. Luca Sena and The Revolution House at Second & Market streets welcomed Jerry Blavat, Marnie Old and John Bolaris with his Fox29 crew to its VIP grand-opening Wednesday night. The pizza with prosciutto, arugula and figs was pretty great. That thing that I mentioned ages ago about American Idol's Ryan Seacrest's Foundation launching at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia tomorrow? A closed-circuit, multimedia center that allows kids to interact with music and DJ equipment and get hospital access to videos, new songs and such called The Voice? Seacrest will be at the hospital tomorrow, Friday July 15, for the big launch.
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