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ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: ?uestlove is an Okayplayer. Meek has more tickets available. Harrison hits R2L and Parc. Brauhaus Schmitz knows what VIPs want.
There's a live bootleg of '80s faves Blondie making its way to market which has several tracks culled from a soundboard mix from a November 1978 show at Philly's Walnut Street Theater that I dare tell you I attended as a yout along with other cool WST gigs such as those with Talking Heads, Undertones and The Clash. Picture This Live can be found here.
ICEPACK ILLUSTRATED: ?uestlove is an Okayplayer. Meek has more tickets available. Harrison hits R2L and Parc. Brauhaus Schmitz knows what VIPs want.
I know that you know that I know how busy a man ?uestlove is. Drumming on and composing for the next Roots album. Working for Jimmy Fallon. Making a helluva fried chicken. Yet, it’s obvious that Okayplayer.com, ?uest’s ministry of information and merch since 1999, has been on his mind. It used to also be a record label that he watched over like a hawk until 2004. Okayplayer’s final offering was the True Notes Vol 1 compilation. That is until now, as ?uestlove has announced the label’s re-launch as a digital-only (for now) outlet with albums coming from Atlanta rapper/producer Danny! (another man with a punctuation mark in his name, great minds, right) and recording engineer/break beats maker Young Guru. Danny!’s Payback album comes out on Sept. 25, Young Guru’s instrumental album Essentials Vol 1 is due for Oct. 9 release. Catch some zzzs, Q.
Brauhaus Schmitz on South Street may indeed be currently busy with construction and bulging outward into its neighboring address. But that hasn’t stopped it from thinking about what’s important: Oktoberfest and what VIPs who’ll attend their German-based beer-and-brat boom really need: more bathrooms. The Schmitz is running a VIP package special for their Sept. 29 bash where $100 gets you elite usage of five private bathrooms, a VIP food list and your own beer stein with six tix to fill it. Hit up 267-909-8814 or brauhausevents@gmail.com.
There’s a live bootleg of ’80s faves Blondie making its way to market which has several tracks culled from a soundboard mix from a November 1978 show at Philly’s Walnut Street Theater that I dare tell you I attended as a yout along with other cool WST gigs such as those with Talking Heads, Undertones and The Clash. Picture This Live can be found here.
I’ve been keeping my eye on DJ Jugo Stevcic ever since he opened his NoLibs’ Café Chismosa several months ago. Now he’s just getting around to crafting his first big meal deal, the Piki Piki Supper Club which he’s crediting its name and inspiration to his dear late pops, Jugo Sr. “Piki Piki is his term for a meal that is shared at festive occasions when friends and family come together to celebrate life over great food, drink & music,” notes Jugo Jr. This monthly supper club, starting Aug. 25 at 8 p.m., pays homage to his dad with one long table that seats a dozen — a BYOB five-course meal plus dessert for $35. Jugo insists that you book ahead no later than the Wednesday before the event (Aug. 22).
Speaking of booking early, of course you had to get tickets to Philly emcee Meek Mill Aug. 25 show at TLA early. It sold out in less than an hour. Luckily for you, the Maybach Music label prince just opened the phones on tickets to yet another Aug. 25 show at 11 p.m. Howzat? Sadly though his due-on-Aug. 28 debut artist album, Dreams and Nightmares, just got moved to autumn to take advantage of back-to-schoolers who just caught Mill on his first long-ass headlining tour. Schmart.
Speaking of booking even earlier, April 11-15, 2013’s Top Chef: The Cruise (oy) starts its reservations on Aug. 16, will be hosted by the show’s Gail Simmons and Tom Colicchio and will feature two area chefs familiar to those who love the Bravo network program, Philly’s Jennifer Carroll and NJ’s Mike Isabella amongst others. Feel the burn.
Forget all those Miley Cyrus new haircut snaps from her shopping trips to King of Prussia for a sec. They can’t top TMZ’s take on West Chester’s own Bam Margera who was caught trying to get on a plane all drunked-up. Can’t a man have an occasional tipple?
Ellen Yin wasn’t going to let a little departing chef (Terrence Feury) trouble her tony tasty Fork restaurant enterprise in Old City. She just nabbed New York City’s Eli Kulp, the ex-chef de cuisine of Torrisi Italian Specialties. Fork it.
If Bob & Barbara’s is good enough for John Hodgman and Paul F. Tompkins (they stopped at the B&B then Little Pete’s after a show at Plays and Players), it’s good enough for you. Especially every second Monday of the month. That’s when bassist Max Guerin (you know him from Absinthe Drinkers, Philly’s theatrical faves who, though quiet in 2012 so far, have their own new plans afoot), members of his New Pony blues ensemble and jazzbos Jay Davidson and Larry Toft let loose on two post-happy hour sets that keep you drinking and jiving throughout the day-into-night time hours. This is seriously the best Monday night party in some time and the bartender pours some mean tall vodka drinks.
Pat’s and Geno’s must be truly getting nervous now. The June-announced arrival of Underdogs — Bob Amar’s gourmet weiner-y whose first beef-n-pork shop is on S. 17th — to the Ninth Street steak-sandwich strip mall is now due for early September.
WHOWHATWHERE: Thanks to my good friend lunching at Parc and my new spy at R2L for giving me the dirt on the now-in-town shaved-headed Harrison Ford. Here to start work on Paranoia, the shades-n-t-shirt wearing Han Solo flew in, hit up Parc first for lunch (with Philly-based actor/pimp having a hard time Terrence Howard sitting nearby which is weird because he was then spotted that day with Philly Film Org doyenne Sharon Pinkenson down the block from me at the Saloon — man these guys can eat) before heading to the film’s offices. Later that eve, Indiana Jones, Paranoia director Robert Luketic and several others noshed at Daniel Stern's high-in-the-sky R2L, sat in the same Table 94 and ate much the same meal my buddies and I did. Plus Ford was witnessed rapping with Stern about the fine points of good food. I’m still hoping that Ford throws Paranoia co-star Gary Oldman off a plane like he did in Air Force One. Luketic, make it happen. Curbed has been saying that Ford’s living quarters are located at the Rittenhouse Plaza so send your note-bearing pigeons there, The annual Garry Maddox-Stephen Starr Barbecue Challenge found the winning ex-Phillies player and judges such as Cherry Bomb food trucker (it’s coming soon says Zavala) dealing with 60 chefs, amongst whom Carolina Blue Smokehouse and Taproom of Pitman, NJ was the big belt wearing champion. Blond pop sensation Cody Simpson was all over Philly before he hit up the Susquehanna Center on Aug. 10. We spotted him while visiting Q102’s iHeartRadio Performance Theater in Bala Cynwyd, the same spot where we witnessed indie-icons Cracker stop at 104.5. Lastly, we caught a most rare and unique experience — Paul Banks, legendary folk guitarist and vocalist from Denmark — doing a house concert with Rustic Music owner Ed Russakoff. Good on them.
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