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ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: Who's booking Snooki? Where's Tony Luke Jr.? Why did Keith Peirce write a tribute to Rick D?
How much longer do we have to wait for Brian Dwyer's dough-n-gravy museum/old-school pizza shop opening?
ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: Who’s booking Snooki? Where’s Tony Luke Jr.? Why did Keith Peirce write a tribute to Rick D?
With Little Baby's Ice Cream gearing up for tomorrow's brick-and-mortar opening, what of their neighbors, Brian Dwyer and his Pizza Brain crew who helped get the party started between them when they partnered for the double wide location on the 2300 block. How much longer do we have to wait for Dwyer’s dough-n-gravy museum/old-school pizza shop opening? “Since day one we always planned to have Little Baby’s first, and us second,” says Dwyer. “Hopefully we’re not too far behind.” The last time I was at Pizza Brain, the reclaimed tin roof was up with the shelving and peep holes of Dwyer’s curated cheese-arium being readied so it should be ... very soon.
Keith Richard Peirce of Northern Arms Philly fame hasn’t been around for a minute. A Hemingway-esque exile in Florida’s gulf is what Peirce has become. Now, though, Peirce is getting ready to move back home to Philly between September and October with plans including a new Northern Arms record. Good, good. But what about right now? In the immediate, Peirce and Eric “Whorehouse” Bandel just recorded what they are calling a hymn to Rick Dombrowski, the late, great Rick D whose shuttered-n-sold Tritone on South Street just re-opened (courtesy Chris Fetfatzes and Heather Annechiarico of Hawthornes) as The Cambridge on Aug. 1. It's now a sour-beer-bottle-heavy, six-pack-to-go-selling pierogi, chicken and corned beef joint. The song that Peirce and Bendel wrote is called “Last Horse” and it’s a swet send off to an old friend. “Eric drove 1,300 miles — from Brooklyn to the Gulf Coast of Florida — just to work on this song,” says Peirce. “We wrote a germ of it right after Rick died and it bothered us over the years for not finishing it. We knew we had to. Eric could have waited until I returned but he drove here and we locked down the house for four days, wrote the rest and recorded it. I'm glad we did it this way.” As Peirce “certainly wants everyone who loved or cared about him to have it,” he is planning a possible iTunes drop shortly. Keep you posted.
This week, the calendar-girl-spiked Varga Bar updated its menu to include the long-awaited much heralded Lobster-Pot-for-Two with crab-stuffed Maine lobster, mussels, clams, shrimp, scallops and chorizo sausage. Into the frying pan with that pot, man. Cool.
When we met Maria Liberati at a Davio’s book signing dinner, the Philly-area chef/author (she splits her time between Bucks County and a house in the old country, Italy) she let it slip that she was in talks to do a television show for NBC 10 digital. The deal is done and the show is on. “We will be traveling to Italy any second and will start pre-production work in August and September in Tuscany,” says Liberati’s friend and publicist Debbi MacArthur, hoping to begin production in late autumn. “The producer and its production companies are located in Tuscany, the same company that co-produced the In the Heart of Tuscany web-inar series with Marisa Tomei and Rocco DeSpirito for Bertolli Olive Oil about two years ago. In the meantime, Maria will be meeting with sponsors during her trip to Italy. The plan is to bring on Italian as well as USA sponsors for the production. The first 10 episodes of the series will be filmed in Tuscany but aired in the U.S.” Good on you, lady.
WHOWHATWHERE: ➤ No sooner than wife Glamorosi, our greyhound Django and I stopped shooting and covering the father-and-son team of Richard Dreyfuss and Liam Hemsworth filming Paranoia at Bardascino Park on my block, the Mayor and Miley Cyrus (more dressed than this) showed up. My neighbors only referred to her as “Hannah Montana” — Cyrus not Michael Nutter. Paranoia now shifts to Twenty Manning (with the not-so-elusive Julian McMahon in the scene? I ran into him the other night sans my camera and he was a sweetheart) and the Kimmel for shoots. ➤ Tony Luke Jr. made two top-tier appearances this week. The first found him judging the now infamous (and damn near sun-showered out) Vendy Awards food truck soiree at 39th and Market on Saturday. Yay to Mark Coates’ Smoke Monster. The next time we saw him was the next day, Sunday, when he stopped by the East Passyunk Avenue Car Show and Street Festival. Maybe he ogled the lavender and white 1939 Chevy Sedan on display. Maybe he helped celebrate Ms. Goody Cupcakes' first anniversary on the Avenue with a fresh-from-the-oven car cake on display. ➤ Pregnant Jersey Shore meatball and New York Times best-selling author (!?) Snooki signed copies of her new Gorilla Beach book and got a sandwich named after her novel at the grand opening ribbon cutting of Earl of Sandwich at the Showboat Casino in Atlantic City. With her was her baby’s daddy, Jionni Lavalle. I just got a headache from writing that bit. ➤ Soulsonic Michael Lynch stopped by WDAS FM to hang out with on-air lady Patty Jackson. Funk punks Slighty Stoopid hit up Radio 104.5. Young rap god Lupe Fiasco hit up Power 99 studios in Bala. OK, they showed up late but at least they made it. ➤ To promote their upcoming flick The Campaign Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis add their signatures to a commemorative copy of the Constitution in honor of it's 225th anniversary and got chatted up by some Flyers and Eagles at the National Constitution Center. Tony Luke's Sandwiches at Front and Oregon (see above in junior sizes) sent cheesesteaks, roast pork and chicken Italiano to CBS 3 when Farrell and Galifianakis did Talk Philly at the station. ➤ We might not have gotten too close to her when she spent time ib Philly rehearsing her upcoming tour with Enrique Iglesias, but we got within ten rows of Jennifer Lopez and Iglesias when they played Boardwalk Hall on Sunday. She also made a point of hitting up the crap tables at Revel. Thanks for keeping the economy working, J-Lo.
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