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ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: Porn boys, Little Bars, Soul Queens and Who Wants To Marry an Octomon?
On Feb. 24, Lantern Theater Company celebrates it 18th anniversary and honors actress/director Ceal Phelan and long-time patron Gayle R. Smith with a charitable Night in Verona soiree at the Down Town Club (6th and Chestnut) where they'll stage a combat preview of the upcoming Romeo and Juliet, announce the 2012/13 season and silently auction off collector's items, including a first-edition Private Lives script.
ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: Porn boys, Little Bars, Soul Queens and Who Wants To Marry an Octomon?
Icepack in print went to press too early to fix it, but the show advertised on Little Bar’s calendar for Feb. 25 isn’t happening. Nor are any shows on the Little Bar calendar. As reported here, a chunk of Little Bar’s hirees (PVP bookers included) left after Saturday night. By Monday night, owner Michael D’Addesi informed the remaining staff that he had sold the bar operations (but not the building which has been long owned by his family) to an incoming restaurant concern (no names as yet) who have no interest in doing live music. Ta da. Anyone who fondly remembers that the 8th and Fitzwater corner used to house the D’Addesi’s Italian food palace Vesuvio will welcome a nosh.
Toy Soldier Ron Gallo and booking agent Marley McNamara tell me to watch out for Feb. 28’s Queens of Soul show at World Café Live. They’re saluting Nina, Aretha, Etta and Janis with locals such as Thom McCarthy, Ali Wadsworth (ask her about the day The Voice came calling) and Kate Faust doing the down-n-dirty work. Gallo will bite off a chunk of the evening as well as telling attendees that his band’s new EP, Tell the Teller, is nearly ready for release.
Before the end of 2011, I joked with Chinatown saloon owner Lee that he should open Hop Sing Laundromat on March 15, the Ides of March. Had a real Cesarean ring to it, don’t you think? Anyway, it’s starting to sound like March might work for the perfectionist Lee. He told Eater Philly as much. Or not.
Moore College of Art & Design has a new president in Cecelia Fitzgibbon, succeeding Dr. Happy Craven Fernandez, who held that post since 1999. Fitzgibbon is the director of Drexel’s graduate arts administration program and spent 16 years as a professor, director and head of Drexel’s arts administration and arts & entertainment enterprise programs. So entertain us and congrats.
The Barbary is hosting A Wilhelm Scream on Feb. 24. That’s big news for sing-song-y hardcore kids. An even bigger deal comes when Philly’s The Holy Mess and Lancaster’s legendary two piece 1994 opens for them. Yip. Show starts at 6:30.
Max Adler from Glee and local clothier ShoutBcause are making beautiful music together — a line of anti-bullying T-shirts. Adler plays a beefy gay character on Glee who has bullied tinier gay youths (Chris Colfer’s “Kurt”) as well as being bullied. See nobullytxt.com. http://www.nobullytxt.com/Default.asp
On Feb. 24, Lantern Theater Company celebrates it 18th anniversary and honors actress/director Ceal Phelan and long-time patron Gayle R. Smith with a charitable Night in Verona soiree at the Down Town Club (6th and Chestnut) where they’ll stage a combat preview of the upcoming Romeo and Juliet, announce the 2012/13 season and silently auction off collector’s items, including a first-edition Private Lives script.
American Idol singer Erika Schiff, the singularly named Gunner (now of Gunner’s World, previously of A Hole and a Heartbeat), Sherry Vine and Kevin Aviance are in some locally filming reality show starting in March as well as gearing up to celebrate Gunner’s porn-o-licious birthday party. No word yet on where and what-exact-date but we expect a mess in a dress when it happens.
WHOWHATWHERE: The DVD release party for Tim Chambers’ The Mighty Macs at The Independence Seaport Museum at Penn’s Landing had its share of top-tier chefs, with Jean Marie LaCroix, cheesesteak king Tony Luke Jr. and Concrete Blonde/Top Chef Jen Carroll. No. No. No. Those last two swear they are no pair. But every time someone mentions it, think of it as a drinking game and have a shot. Foo Fighters bassist Nate Mandel stopped by Milkboy last weekend for no reason in particular. Kim Kardashian hit QVC to talk up the fam’s K-Dash clothing line (a line of clothes and not just a makeshift rope on which to hang laundry, though that’d be funny). Right after American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert visited Q102’s iHeart Performance Theater in Bala Cynwyd, he announced he would be joining Queen as its vocalist for several shows in the UK to start. Soul swinger Havanah Brown also hit the Q102’s iHeart stage, leaving Tank to visits WDAS’s radio stages in Bala. Cameron Diaz breezed through the Ritz-Carlton on her way to several downtown eateries during her two-day stay. The Continental Midtown and Alma de Cuba shuddered in her wake. Cap-wearing comedian and 30 Rock actor Judah Friedlander did a surprise set at Helium when his pal Ted Alexandro was the night’s headliner. Schoolly D stopped by Farmers’ Cabinet to see the swinging Hot Club of Philly (there’s a mashup). If you want to see the Hot Club, check out the Brewer’s Plate soiree at the National Constitution Center on March 11 in the Farmers Cabinet’s private room. Tennis titan Martina Navrotilova and a small crew of pals hit Davio’s. U.S. Rep Bob Brady, union leader John Dougherty, Billy Paul, FMQB’s Kal Rudman and a couple of Danny & the Juniors members celebrated 98.1 WOGL’s Bob Pantano’s 35th anniversary of his Saturday Night Dance Party at Adelphia in Deptford. And Nadya “Octomom” Suleman didn’t just fight off Lisa Marie during a female pillow fight at the Warehouse in Woodlyn PA. She also barely fought off the fight’s promoter Damon Feldman who offered to marry Suleman — ring and all — despite the fact that he’s married. Love that guy’s gall.
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