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ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: PFF VOD, Gotta Guy, Boozophilia and I am not Geddy Lee.
Keep your eyes out for Playbook director David O. Russell and co-starring Philly folk Brea Bee and the mistress of the Tiffin-Tashan empire Madhu Narula, to hit the red carpet tonight.
ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: PFF VOD, Gotta Guy, Boozophilia and I am not Geddy Lee.
When last I spoke with J. Andrew Greenblatt, he was taking over the Roxy Theater and talking about this week’s start of the next Philadelphia Film Festival. What wasn’t reported during our chat was the fact that the PFF was hooking up with fest sponsor Comcast Xfinity, to launch a Festival Video On Demand (VOD) channel. The channel allows viewers the opportunity to view a small handful of narrative films included on PFF screens this coming week along with shorts and additional festival ephemera, some for free, some for rent. Plus, with the rise of non-theatrical releases hitting the VOD market on a daily basis, Greenblatt and co. will use the Comcast partnership to premiere flicks through the aegis of PFF’s curatorial programming. With Bradley Cooper not coming out for Silver Linings Playbook, you might as well stay home and watch PFF. Psyyyyche. Keep your eyes out for Playbook director David O. Russell and co-starring Philly folk Brea Bee and the mistress of the Tiffin-Tashan empire Madhu Narula, to hit the red carpet tonight.
Local PR boss Peter Breslow has been telling me all about his pal Jeff Moore of Greater Media Radio fame who started a cool networking group, Gotta Guy, during the swelter of the summer. Since June, Gotta Guy has gone viral, with its initial events jumping from just a few guys in a tent talking up the fine points of Philly entrepreneurial enterprise to 50 guys and the women who loved business in on what Breslow calls “the testosterone-fueled action.” Tonight, Oct. 18, Breslow acts as host of Gotta Guy’s third installment at Chima Brazilian Steakhouse (19th and JFK) at 6 p.m., with a locally brewed craft-beer tasting and a meat-a-thon to go with it.
I’ve been meaning to congratulate Jose Garces on his recent successes. Within the last 10 days, the Iron Chef and restaurateur gave readers and eaters a taste of his new cookbook The Latin Road Home at J.G. Domestic with several slow roasted pigs as his special guest. The next night, he and his wife Dr. Beatriz Garces hosted a fundraiser for their brand new nonprofit organization, The Garces Family Foundation at the Kimmel Center with an assembly of this city’s top chefs (including Top Chef Kevin Sbraga) helping him feed donors and prepare diners for Garces own boutique Kimmel restaurant, Volver. Then on Monday, Garces read from his new book at the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Central Branch. Just saying. Have a Molson and relax a few days. You deserve it.
Adam Weiner’s lean mean Philly rockabilly outfit Low Cut Connie was hanging at Ray’s Happy Birthday the other night. Not just for a cheap drunk or owner Lou Capozzoli’s jokes, though Lord knows both are the greatest reasons to roam Ray’s. Low Cut Connie filmed a video for their new single, “Boozophilia,” at the East Passyunk saloon in preparation for a big show at Johnny Brenda’s on Nov. 9.
Starting this weekend, Union Transfer gets just a little bit hipper when it introduces Hip City Veg fare to the live location’s diet. Make mine a veggie wrap and White Buffalo, please. Plus, anyone who knows A.D. knows that I veer toward carb-free and gluten-free diets yet dine out with delicious regularity. That’s why I’m digging on the always decadent Davio’s gluten-free beer dinner menu (like G-free potato gnocchi with puttanesca sauce) paired with gluten free beer selections courtesy Magners and Redbridge. The whole thing runs Oct. 22-28.
With the Rolling Stones’ 50th anniversary tickets in London running over $700 a seat, what will seats run you at Jagger/Richards’ Newark, NJ shows in December? And what of potential Philadelphia dates being looked at by the Branson/Dainty tour booking team?
When Philly.com’s The Insider announced that Nan in University City would close forever due to owner Kamol Phutlek’s long time illness, I shed a tiny tear. Nan was a swell Indian noshery with a nice price point and Phutlek was the guy who opened the still-cherished (now gone) La Panetiere on Spruce Street. Sob.
Randy Now from the Record Collector must have read my hard power pop story in this week’s City Paper. His BYOB booking of Norway’s The Dahlmanns with The Jellybricks and The Deadbeat Poets (if your band has a “the” at its start, you’re power pop) on Oct. 20 is totally on the big melodic garage pop tip. Plus, the show of “The Coolest Songs in the World” award winners from Little Steven’s Underground Garage on Sirius/XM Radio show is free. The Dahlmanns alone are worth the price of admission with their first full length All Dahled Up recently followed up by an EP Dumb Me Down featuring its taut title track written for the Dahlmanns by Francis McDonald of Teenage Fanclub. Sick.
This week, new GM Anna Schneider and chef Terence Feury open Tavro Thirteen in the faraway land of New Jersey. Start looking in earnest on Oct. 22, T-13’s start date.
WHOWHATWHERE: So I stopped by Hotel Monaco’s Red Owl Tavern and Stratus Lounge again last Friday night the day after the mayor and the marching bands had laid hands and cut ribbons and was with a few friends dining. Several people in attendance — diners, waiters — asked me and my pals if we were in Rush and would I sign an autograph. Not knowing whether to be insulted or aghast by their question, I signed nothing Geddy Lee-ish and went on with my meal only to find out that Rush was in town, reserved a table and dined at Red Owl. So I ask myself — am I in Rush? I’ll never know for sure. Eva Longoria dined with a large party of pals in a private room at Pod after her Desperate Housewivesy chat at the Wharton School last week. I will never NOT report on who hits up S. Broad Street’s biggest big man’s clothing shop Torre. Last week, Mark Rosenfeld up his wide tall doors to Detroit Lions’ Nick Fairley, Corey Williams and Sammie Hill. That’s a big heart Mark, Eric Bazilian stopped by drummer/documentary filmmaker George Manney’s benefit for Paul Kurrey the other night at the Legendary Dobbs. The Hooter joined in with Manney’s Last Minute Jam Band for a version of “One of Us” and the event was a money-raising success. The video evidence can be found here. This week, pal and Icepack photographer Scott Weiner did a lot of hanging at local radio stations and caught the likes of Breaking Laces, Silverspun Pickups, Bobby V, Breaking Laces, Wombats, Vampires Everywhere, Atlas Genius and The Tender Trap in posing action. But most of all, Scott wanted to share with Icepack readers some photos of one of his favorite subjects, friend and senator, Arlen Specter who passed away this week. Thanks, Scott.
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