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ICE CUBE: Egypt-ian revival

POSTED: Friday, September 17, 2010, 10:03 PM

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Ice Cubes are all the juicy details A.D. Amorosi couldn't cram into Icepack. Read on to get yer gossip on. Now that the LiveArts/Fringe Fest has summoned the beast that was Egypt — DelAve's premier indoor deeeesco of the late '80s and '90s — for its nightly Festival Bar, some of the cleverer dicks from a bygone era decided to go further, harder and with so many more BPMs. Egypt was owned and operated (then) by Joe Grasso, Larry Cohen and Barry Gutin, who have all gone on to tonier projects — Union Trust, Cuba Libre amongst them — so some of the original crew got Gutin's blessing and will hold a reunion at KatManDu Trenton tonight, Sept. 17 (katmandutrenton.com). Robbie Tronco, Chuck Addis, Jeff Rice and Yaman Coskun are involved, and KatManDu's publicist, George Polgar, is in on the fun, too. "This is somewhat of a history lesson of course since back in the early '90s we were all in fierce but friendly competition," says Polgar, who reminds Delaware Avenue friends that KatManDu in Philly ended in 2002. Since opening in 1997 in Trenton under the ownership of Chicago financier Steve Hirsh, it has kept the big dance club vibe going, along with a steady dining and huge catering and banquet business. The only thing bigger than that vibe was the one at Egypt — high ceilings, high hair, high times. Polgar reminds me that in three weeks KatManDu Trenton will be reborn with the Peter Cooper Ironworks Pub named for the historic register building it occupies. (The "KatManDu" identity will remain, with an indoor and outdoor portion rechristened Peter Cooper.) But tonight, in the breeze, everything will be lit in cheap neon and bathed in brassy house music a la Club Egypt. Behold.

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