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ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: Wrestlers hammering gophers. Brat Packers at the Library. Restaurants hating on Restaurant Week.
They'll give away $10 gift cards to customers who tell them their Restaurant Week woes and horror stories.
ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: Wrestlers hammering gophers. Brat Packers at the Library. Restaurants hating on Restaurant Week.
I’m not certain at this point who likes Restaurant Week. It short changes diners, wait staffs and misrepresents most every fooderie that enters this limp dick enterprise. That is why I say God bless to Arch Street’s sweetest BYOB Chloe. Not only is its owners/operators Mary Ann Ferrie and Daniel Grimes damn entertaining (and celebrating their 30th wedding anniversary). Old City’s nicest pair host an Anti-Restaurant Week promotion where they’ll give away $10 gift cards to customers who tell them their Restaurant Week woes and horror stories. And no, a dozen of ’em doesn’t get you $120 off.
When big name wrestlers go to Dave & Buster’s what do they do first? Play the way aggressive “bang on the gopher” game near the row of skeeball tables or rip apart the rack of ribs? If you’re as curious as I am, hit up D&B’s at 2 p.m. on Oct. 7 to meet, greet and get autographs from WWE star Edge from South Carolina and ECW sensation Tommy Dreamer from Yonkers.
The good folk at Dark Horse will one day soon become employees of Cavanaugh’s Head House and its Café Bar. The deal has been in place forever. It’s only now — or soon — that the liquor license is ret to transfer.
While its curator Butch Cordoba is off sleeping in a window up town (BoConcept) Ven and Vaida on S. Third Street (next to National Mechanics, know it by its still-fenced in street repair) shows off the work of photographer Amie Potsic and her activist Chinese art inspired by political dissident Ai WeWe.
We’ve been hearing for weeks that it would be a toss up between Neal Patrick Harris and Hugh Jackman and it looks as if Wolverine won: The 156th Academy of Music Anniversary Concert and Ball on Jan. 26, 2013, will be hosted by Jackman, a man whose soul and dancing feet are still inhabited by Peter Allen. Tickets for the show and not the ball go on sale Oct 17. Look for the Philadelphia Orchestra’s new music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin to be in on the fun as well.
WHOWHATWHERE: Last week, 40th Street’s Harvest Seasonal Grill & Wine Bar in University City opened its newly designed two floor doors (the space used to be a Marathon with an unfortunate live space upstairs) to an all under-500-calories menu and deep mahogany and stone touches. I’m not sure I lost weight nibbling on prosciutto-wrapped prawns and several Bluecoat gin/orange bitters/Prosecco cocktails, but I think this is a steady part of my new diet. Radio maven John DeBella was at Harvest with me to enjoy the proceedings. Brown-bang-wearing Beth Orton hit up the newly mural-ed up Fork etc. on Market Street right before she played the Trocadero last week. Yum on both counts. Modern Family Emmy winner Sofia Vergara hit up the Barnes Museum with her fiancé. Who even cares what his name is. Café Ole had a visit from either The Ravonettes or The Noisettes. There were “ettes” there, and one of them was blonde. Everyone wins. The cute little pop boys of White Arrows hit up Radio 104.5's iHeart Radio Performance Theater in Bala as did the harder Two Door Cinema and Civil Twilight. Mostly though, photographer Scott Weiner and I have been spending our time at the Free Library. Like David Byrne did, we dashed straight from his Tower Theater show with St. Vincent in Upper Darby to the Free Library where he read and signed copies of How Music Works. We got an exclusive entrée into Wyclef Jean’s backstage inner sanctum when he read from Purpose, An Immigrant's Story. We hit up the Junot Diaz/Samuel R. Delany double-header right before they left the building. Mostly though, we were rapt to see the cutest and always most literate of the Brat Packers, Andrew McCarthy — travel writer renowned — when he stopped by the Free Library to read from and sign copies of The Longest Way Home. He really is the ginchiest.
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