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ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: Partings and sweet sorrows
I even co-hosted the show once and I never used the word "fuck" even though I thought the word "fuck" repeatedly. Sorry to see it go.
ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: Partings and sweet sorrows
Not every loss is equitable to another. The end of a life is more important, crucial and sad than the demise of a mere television show. I’m saying this so that y’all don’t get upset by my grouping of sorrow-filled endings at the top of Icepack Illustrated. Let’s commence with the death of Tony Goldman. He developed Manhattan’s Upper West Side then pretty much created the idea of SoHo in the ’60s and ’70s and turned those areas from dilapidated to desirable. Miami’s South Beach in the ’80s came next with a similar formula to what he used in NYC, the erection of privately-owned chef-driven restaurant/bars, tony boutiques, nouveau riche condos and such, the usage of existing properties. By the late ’90s Goldman turned his attentions to Philly’s beat up 13th Street red-light area, freaked city councilmen out with his request for tax-increment financing, and re-made this city starting on that block. I was lucky enough to get one of the first ever interviews with Goldman when he came to Philly. I and was (and am) glad to call him a friendly acquaintance.
I can’t say I knew Kyra Kruz, a lovely part of Philly’s transgender community, but my heart always goes out to the boys and girls who bravely respond to what their souls tell them to do with their bodies. That she was slaughtered with no regard in a Fishtown field is a pathetic indication of what this city truly is beyond the bullshit of gentrification. A memorial candlelight vigil will be held tonight (Thu., Sept. 13) at William Way, 13th and Spruce — the same neighborhood that Goldman made glittering.
The next two losses have equally personal value but for far less crucial reasons. Tomorrow is the end of NBC10’s 10! Show after 8 years of broadcasting. Silver foxy Bill Henley was a handsomely funny host of the thing, sometimes with Jillian Mele, LuAnn Cahn and Lori Wilson. Mostly though, I guess for my purposes, he was partnered with my pal Lauren Hart a the Loews Hotel on Market Street. That’s where I spent the largest part of my mornings as 10!’s live on-air music correspondent. I even co-hosted the show once and I never used the word “fuck” even though I thought the word “fuck” repeatedly. Sorry to see it go.
Know who else I’m sorry to see go? Patti Klein. She has long been one of this city’s coolest and most thoughtful (and diligent, the woman worked her ass off for her clients and the press) restaurant PR peeps and she’s retiring from the Philly biz. “It is time my darling, but please be assured that I will be around,” Klein said when I contacted her in amazement that she was ending her Restaurant Collection email blasts and publicity work.
OK, in happier news (I think) Evan Prochniak’s Jolly’s Dueling Piano Bar on Locust Street is renaming itself Duel. It’s a rock ’n’ roll piano bar now, so don’t try requesting Sondheim or Cole Porter, buddy. Your slamming keys men include Joe Snyder, Tony “T” DeCarolis, “Wildman” Joe Marchetti and Stu Shames. Check here http://duelpianobar.com/ for their 2000+ song list.
Katherine Young, bassoon player extraordinaire, has a quartet that’s inspired by the Art Ensemble of Chicago. That wonder would be enough to stop me cold if it wasn’t for the fun fact that she’s releasing an album, Pretty Monsters, and holding its release party Sept. 19 at The Rotunda, presented by our good jazz-bo friends in Ars Nova.
Ralph’s, the oldest Italian restaurant in the U.S. (it opened in 1900) and a personal neighborhood friend of mines, hasn’t done anything new since it added a bay leaf to their family’s gravy like 92 years ago. So don’t you think that they’re getting a little ahead of themselves opening a new Ralph’s inside the new Sheraton Valley Forge Sept. 27? Slow down, Ralphie boy.
WHOWHATWHERE: Forgot to mention this a minute ago, but Councilman David Oh and Rocio Perez from Oh’s office attended George Manney’s South Street debut of his Meet Me On South Street, The Story of JC Dobbs at Dobbs. That’s a mouthful. “The Councilman is very supportive of our projects and Philly pop music as a whole and they both went home with our film’s t-shirts,” notes Manney. The Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation held their Transcending Their Boundaries: The Children of Terezin opening event at the Free Library on Wednesday with Dr. Robert Rehak from the Czech embassy as the night’s special guest. Celebrity Boxing Federation promoter Damon Feldman and Michael Lohan, are currently in Los Angeles filming their episode of Judge Alex. The former wants $5000 because the latter failed to appear at several boxing appearances. I’ll never get back the minute and 14 seconds it took to write that last sentence. Or this one: Feldman has already gone the court television route before with Judge Pirro after he was sued by Tailor Made from I Love New York for something that I’m choosing to block from my memory. New young soul man Marcus Canty hit up Power 99’s Bala Cynwyd studio, dancing and shouting the entire time. Nicole Cashman and Melanie Johnson hit up the opening of The Philadelphia Collection 2012 at the Art Museum’s Perelman Building Tuesday night. Keep your eyes and lashes peeled for additional events this coming week. Radio 104.5 FM had its final block party of the summer at the Piazza at Schmidts with Zeale and hot new pop chart topper Imagine Dragons on display before the rains fell.
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