POSTED: Thursday, September 23, 2010, 7:30 PM
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| photo | Scott Weiner |
| Uncle Nino Giaimo and Vinny Guadagnino pictured at the End Of Summer Bash with Vinny Guadagnino and MTV Realworld Brad Fiorenza at The Dizzy Bulldog in HOCKESSIN DE on Sept. 18. |
If you've read
Icepack, you know that I find our footballling
Eagles one hard proposition to love.
Andy Reid betrays his first string QB and all human dignity by making dog killing
Michael Vick the season's starting quarterback because he had a good game. Yet on the nice side of the ledger (And I hate seeing anyone laid off) but the Eagles let go
Hank Bassett WHICH IS ONLY OK BECAUSE IT MEANS WE'LL GET
KENDRA THE FRIG OUT OF TOWN FASTER.
My old block and my new block: The street I once lived on, Letitia in the OC, just opened PBR,
Philadelphia Bar & Restaurant. That's bartenders
Shawn Gormley and
Nick Moore's gastro-pubbery spot at the Market/Letitia corner and I'm hearing the veal cheeks are sweet and succulent.
Then there's the block I live on now — S. 10th Street. That block's captain
Jonn Klein (
from The Dive) has very sneakily worked on what's become
Watkins Drinkery on the 1700 block. Starting this Friday, he'll have food on floor one (some of
Modo Mio's old staff'll handle that) and dart boards, pool tables and Pac-Man video games on floor two. Did 10th Street just get its own 700 Club? I believe it did.
Philly pinhole photographer
RA Friedman is having a good week. After he caught an editor's eye for his role in NYC's
Steampunk Saloon during the
Dumbo Arts Festival. Now he's opening up a pop-up vintage photography space at 641 South St. on Sept 24. Get your photo taken.
You liked it when
Jay Schwartz screened
The Jungle during at his usual
Secret Cinema haunt. You'll love it when he, producer
Harold Haskins and several members of the 12th and Oxford street gang that the film follows hit
Scribe Video Center (4212 Chestnut) on Sept. 24 for a screening of the 1967 documentary that made it onto the Library of Congress' National Film Registry.
WHOWHATWHERE: Wanda Sykes and her wife ate at
Parc. That's cute.
Elisabeth Shue hung at the
Sofitel with her husband. But she's married to
Davis Guggenheim who directed
Waiting for Superman and
An Inconvenient Truth. Has Sykes' wife saved the planet or fixed the school system? I bet not.
Mayor Nutter hit
Chris' Jazz Café and had the bbq chicken and mac-n-cheese, yes he did. Plus Nutter has proclaimed Oct. 25
Eddie Lang Day in honor of the Philly-fave guitarist who collaborated with legendary local violinist
Joe Venuti. Speaking of Italians, while
The Situation is sweating his way through
Dancing with the Stars,
Vinny G is hitting birthday parties in Delaware with his
Uncle Nino like the one documented in photo-form above. And hey, that Delaware
Funkey Monkey club event on Sept. 25 table flipping
Teresa Guidice (
Real Housewives of New Jersey) that we told you about two weeks ago has become a look-a-like contest. Same difference.
Tucker Max signs
Assholes Finish First at Borders on Sept. 30. Same difference.
Phil Sumpter, newly-returned to Painted Bride (as director of marketing & communications) called and asked me "How's your salsa game?" And to that I say, how's yours, mang? Maybe he and I will face off Sept. 25 when the Bride opens its season with
Salsa Caliente — a live Latin dance party series featuring area orquestas like
Foto Rodriquez y Charanga la Unica, an event which dovetails nicely into Hispanic Heritage Month.
Also in venue PR+marketing, the
Kimmel's
Dafni D. Comerota, has returned from pregnancy leave with a brand new baby Elise and a handful of new show initiatives like
The XX (Oct. 4 at the Merriam) and
Kathy Griffith (Nov. 5 at Academy of Music).
The Philadelphia Collection — the
Mayor's Fashion Week to you — starts Sept. 23 and where dovetailing is concerned nothing dips and slips nicer into autumnal sartorial splendor than a
Rittenhouse Row Fall Gathering like Sept. 29's jawn at the Comcast Center. Where else can you find
International Supersport DJ Schoolly D,
Duke & Winston and
Joan Shepp? No. Where.
While my money is on the
Univox screening of
Conan with
TJ Kong & The Atomic Bomb, (Sept. 23, KFN) and the
Prophase label
Notekillers/
Kohoutek noise show (Sept. 23, M Room) at the start of the
Philly Film + Music Fest, the head of the
F/M Fest,
Joe Lekkas has other ideas. "I'm super excited about the
Dead Milkmen and
Black Landlord pairing as I was a fan of both the DM and
the Goats in my younger years," says Lekkas referring to Friday's World Café Live show. "I'm also digging the live scoring of
Attack of the Giant Leeches at WCL and the
Tribute-palooza at the Troc with
Misstallica,
Queen Diamond and
Dirty Diamond. That should be fun as hell." Should be.
