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ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: Runways, Rogues and Rumor(s)
Do I now need to reconsider the darkened hot-dog-smelling after-hours journo club now that it's been given windows and new furnishings? Hmm. I'll bite.
ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: Runways, Rogues and Rumor(s)
F/M Fest and Village Green head man Joe Lekkas may have been busy with his booking gigs this month, but that didn’t stop him from playing a gig (he’s a fine guitarist and singer, you know) on his birthday at the Troc’s Balcony with an old pal, Three-4-Tens’ Jamie Mahon, who made his debut with his ferocious hard soul blues band St. James & the Apostles and its new eponymous CD. Find it. Buy it.
There’s still several days left to the mostly fashion-forward Philadelphia Collection’s show-of-shows. One of its highlights was the 18th annual Phashion Phest, hosted and produced by the ever-loving Sharon Phillips Waxman. I loved that it was held the under-used rotunda area of Liberty Place with a catwalk made up of two up-and-down escalators. Smart.
After several weeks of Facebook alerts about its house-d up bookings and décor, Rumor at 1500 Sansom — the Joe Grasso-owned, Mark Marek-run dance-and-VIP club on the basement level of ye old Roy’s spot — was to open privately tonight, Sept. 22. Until it didn’t. Now, the pre-opening and Rumor’s regular opening will happen Sept. 24 with its 1,500-square-foot bank vault for VIP seating, 45-foot-long bar featuring an illuminating stone bar top and floating oval-shaped orbs.
Which reminds me: The Pen & Pencil — do I now need to reconsider the darkened hot-dog-smelling after-hours journo club now that it's been given windows and new furnishings? Hmm. I’ll bite. America’s oldest press club has been featured on writer/teacher Jim MacMillan’s dot.net and received kind words at Foobooz. I’ll be the judge of this.
Philly’s lame B101 — WBEB 101.1 FM — got the Major Market Station of the Year Award at the 2011 National Association of Broadcasters' Marconi Radio Awards. And poor WYSP had to become a sports station. Ugh. Other indie acclaim comes this month now that Details’ October issue has written sterling things about Midtown Village’s restaurants (including Bindi, which closes this weekend, and Frohmans Wursthaus, which is now open), and GQ says sweet things about our clothing shops and Johnny Brenda’s.
My man pots and pans Jerry Blavat appears at Molly’s Bookstore in the Italian Market Sept. 27 to sign copies of You Only Rock Once, his new autobiography that has just gone onto into second printing — a big deal, that.
Georges Perrier’s sexy new basement boite below Le Bec-Fin, Tryst, opened last week and I must say we dig the intimacy of the narrow space (it looks like the Love Boat), Chef Nicholas Elmi’s late-night menu and the handful of strong vodka-ginger Moscow Mules that put me in a great mood.
If you’re sacred of South Philly’s skate punk fast the Trowels, perhaps you will love as I do Zwaanendale — thee Trowel’s sexier soulful rock ’n' roll trio that’s playing Little Bar Sept. 24 with Radio Eris offshoot the Cocktail Murderers and a video presentation on post traumatic stress disorder shot by Jen Serbu with music from Jen Othmer.
WHOWHATWHERE: Rogues Gallery on S. 21st isn’t just a place for a good meal, an occasional fab open mic bash and a swell sonic soliloquy from the likes of DJ Royale. When that DJ started his “Roxanne” party last Thursday, he got a visit from nightclub habitué Michael Nutter. The mayor hung out for quite some time and of course did his Sugarhill Gang routine. Thespian Mark Webber came home to pay tribute and stump for his mom, Cheri Honkala, the Green Party candidate for Philadelphia sheriff, at the Bochetto & Lentz law firm’s offices. Reggae-rific pop sensation Sean Paul hit the Q102 performance theater in Bala Cynwyd for a laugh and a few tunes. Jersey Shore’s Ronnie Ortiz-Magro stopped at Bamboo nightclub before his 15 minutes of fame is getting ready to end. Emmy hostess Jane Lynch signed copies of her new Happy Accidents at Bookends in Ridgewood, N.J., after she wrapped the big awards night. One-time Philadelphian Kendra Wilkinson hit Bookends, as well, to sign Being Kendra. The Playboy bunny will do likewise in Philly at Barnes & Noble too soon for comfort.
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