POSTED: Wednesday, October 27, 2010, 6:40 PM
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| Photo | Scott Weiner |
| Pete Rose attends Prince Music Theater Oct. 24 to promote the Philadelphia Film Festival's
4192: The Crowning Of The Hit King. |
Ice started here. But it ends here. Y'hear?
Ladies and gentlemen, the
Rolling Stone ... mag ... dot.com ... senior editor! Applaud for ex-
Philadelphia Weekly and
New York Observer writer
Doree Shafrir, who just got the senior editor gig at
rollingstone.com.
My corner Pan-Asian eatery
Le Viet (1019 S. 11th) does Halloween all spiced up with a demonically hot three-night run of
Hell Night, Oct. 29 to 31 (more info at
Meal Ticket).
After months of dusty windows and cracked glass, the once-swank
Strongbox got served. Not with bottle service, but with big
close-down signage from its landlord.
Ex-TLA dude
Richard Wolff's
Breaking Glass Pictures isn't just releasing new cult phenoms such as
Ticked Off Trannies with Knives (showings throughout the U.S. with several midnight Philly screenings to come). He's dropping a slew of DVD rarities, too — both domestic (the animated
Rock & Rule's 25th anniversary edition, starring
Iggy Pop) and foreign (
Taxi Zum Klo). The
Bryn Mawr Film Institute will hold a midnight screening of
TOTWK — Tribeca 2010's most controversial film — on Nov. 5; Breaking Glass will screen
TOTWK along with other Big Picture pictures at a mini-Wolff-fest at
National Mechanics Nov. 15 with cats like
Jeremy Dyen (dropping his
Battery CD soon) providing the music.
Poker table games're gonna hit
Parx Casino. Yay. This means I don't have to wait until
Harrah's and
Foxwood get their shit together in my li'l ol' South Philly neighborhood: On Oct. 29, Parx executives, dealers and team members will hold
mock poker tournaments in the 24 table poker space. Are you all in?
Philly's musty grooving
Experience Kef (yell at sometime CP scribe
Ptahhh Gabrie) and the loved-locally
Matt Duke perform
Peter Gabriel's "So" in its entirety on Halloween at
World Café Live. What a lovely, bizarre idea. Speaking of WCL, one of its food friends,
Amy Selevan, is taking over off-East-Passyunk's
Lucky 13 chef duties. I'm hungry just thinking about it.
Last week, we had
Wes Pentz doing
Blackberry TV ads in a suit,
talking about Rusko and contributing to
Die Antwoord's
$O$ album. Now, Philly's
Diplo is dropping a dubstep compilation from his mausoleum-home-bound label,
Mad Decent, called
Blow Your Head Volume 1: Diplo Presents Dubstep, and it first single with
Lil Jon, "U Don't Like Me." And what's a crunk-meets-dubstep single without a
vintage video-game-y clip where Dip looks like Kraftwerk's
Ralf Hutter, right?
Heavy metal thunder, or at least a very sexy karaoke version of hair metal, happens every Thursday night at the
Wonder Years in KensoFishington. It's called "Shout at the Devil" and it's hosted by
Madam Striga — Jodi to her pals — and the ever-Winger-like
John Cecil Price.
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| Photo | Scott Weiner |
| Tony Danza meets Mayor Michael Nutter Oct. 25
before the Teach event at the Baptist Temple. |
WHOWHATWHERE: Hooters
Eric Bazilian and
Rob Hyman stopped by the Gypsy Saloon in Conshohocken for drummer
David Uosikkinen's launch event for
In the Pocket: Essential Songs of Philadelphia to benefit Settlement Music School. >>
Richard Bush from The A's and Beru Revue's
Greg Davis hit it and quit, too. >> Before her show with Phoenix and Waaves at the Tower Theater,
Jenny Lewis was looking fab-not-folksy while shopping along at the 69th-and-Market shops. You go, gurl. Meanwhile
Phoenix supped at the
White Dog Café in University City before playing the Tower. >> When brown-eye-shadow enthusiast
Tony Danza met
Mayor Michael Nutter before the A&E
Teach event at the Baptist Temple at Temple U , no one booed. >> The
Brent Celek celeb server event at
Morton's the Steakhouse (for the Take Flight Foundation) netted
Merrill Reese, the Eagles play-by-play announcer, as emcee and servers such as
Tony Luke Jr. and Celek's fellow Eagles past and present
Harold Carmichael,
Todd Herremans and
DeSean Jackson. >> Another less-loved Eagle,
Michael Vick, ate at
Darling's Diner in the Piazza last weekend. This is what he does when he's not killing dogs or helping
Chris Rock to
kill his own acting career. Fuck Chris Rock forever. >> Michael Vick can go on unscathed and celebrated while Phillies legend
Pete Rose — subject of the Philadelphia Film Fest's
4192: The Crowning of the Hit King — goes unwanted by the ballers, for what? Gambling. Rose was at the
Prince Music Theater to watch the film. It was a nice day. >> And somewhere not so far away that very day, another losing Phillie,
Chase Utley was at brunch at Jones. Sob.
Fishtown's
GERM man
David E. Williams gets out of the beghborhoood when he opens for
Legendary Pink Dots on Nov. 1 at the
M-Room, which happens to be across the street from where he first opened GERM. Williams will soon have a new 7-inch four-song vinyl EP to sell. Stay tuned.
