POSTED: Thursday, February 3, 2011, 6:00 PM
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| Nutter & Rendell at the JCC Maccabi Games |
⤠Even newer news than the news we already have on R5: We see this show announced at the
Live Nation website - Tower Theater: (2/5 @ 10 a.m.) Live Nation and R5 Productions Present
Fleet Foxes â May 21, 9 p.m. â and we ask, huh? Is
Sean Agnew going to pair with everyone? He does shows with AEG and will probably pair with
Bowery Presents when Spaghetti Warehouse II: The Scungilli Concert Hall opens on Spring Garden. Does this show signal a new détente between R5 and Live Nation? "I don't think it will lead to more shows. It may? This was a very unusual circumstance," Agnew wrote me. "The band who has always been extremely nice to us (R5) and invited us to co-promote the show.
Live Nation Philadelphia graciously agreed to their request to bring us on board. It's really rare for a band (or their agent) to reach out like they did and I was quite flattered. Hopefully the show will do well and we can use the money from that one to help out a smaller band or two who would normally not be able to play the church." Aw...
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⤠Two shots at happy hour: The sweet looking new
Kokopelli Tequila Bar and Restaurant kicks its big agave bar thing on Feb 3, at the usual happy witching hours. The Franklin Mortgage & Investment Co. goes for something a little more educational, Italian and
Nick Lowe-themed with the Roman bitter Amari and the "Cruel To Be Kind" menu featuring cultured cocktails such as Paper Plane (credited to Sam Ross of New York's Milk & Honey) and Hanky Panky (brainchild of Ada Coleman @ The American Bar at London's The Hotel Savoy) And what the hell is
Local 44's Baby Momma Happy Hour. If I had kids I'd be drinking all hours. Heyo...
⤠My very favorite spooked out gallery/bookstore
Germ (yes, the one from the hearts and minds of
David E. Williams and the late
Jennifer Bates that closed Jan. 31) will open its doors one last time. "And we mean it man," notes Williams, when talking about its First Friday, February 4 event. Williams also notes that Germ's famed UFO Discussion Group, hosted by
Chris Augustin of
www.aliensthetruth.com, will still meet on the second Thursday of every month in a new spot,
Essene Market and Cafe, starting Feb. 10. First round of Martian baked tofu is on me.
⤠Philly's answer to what happened if
Bill Withers slept with
Lucinda Williams â
Amos Lee â just released his fourth CD
Mission Bell, and it debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart. S'aight that...
⤠The
Tiberino Family â Raph, Ellen T, Gabriele, Ellen P and Papa Joesph â get out of Poweltown Village for their Kindred Spirits show at
Sande Webster Gallery this First Friday with a reception on Feb. 11. A must...
⤠While word hit from the
Sundance Film Festival, that
Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles, directed by Willow Grove's
Jon Foy, won the U.S. Documentary Competition Directing Award, two things hit me. This was the flick that we wrote about exclusively and, more importantly, is about Amorosi's favorite subject: Northern Liberties/Erode & Disappear frontman/pigeon enthusiast/Toynbee tile obsessive
Justin Duerr. Can't wait for a local screening.
⤠We loved
Fred Knittel when he was doing his rustic rootsy Folkadelphia show on KDU, dig it now that it's Folkadelphia on Y-ROCK on XPN and will probably adore that Sunday showcase he'll get going at
Johnny Brenda's starting Feb. 6 with the
Spinning Leaves & Hezekiah Jones then Feb. 20 with
Lewis & Clarke and winding up with
Feb. 27's
Meg Baird & Arborea gig.
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WHOWHATWHERE: Almost forgot that aspiring Philly.com columnist
Ed Rendell joined
Mayor Nutter to welcome the
JCC Maccabi Games - a weeklong international sporting event for Jewish athletes' aged 13 to 16, held each year in North America and in Philly this summer â to town last week. ⤠OK. We know
Paul Simon and
Renee Fleming were the highlights (along with my split tux and pince nez) of the weekend's
154th Academy Ball. But what the h-e-l-l was Academy president
Joanna McNeil Lewis doing with
R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills? Does he have
Collapse Into Now to promote? Meanwhile Rhymin Simon was spotted heading into Morimoto days before his big shoe. ⤠Speaking of doing stuff before you got to be somewhere in Philly, porn star/candidate
Mary Carey is here for Wing Bowl. But no sooner than we hear she hit Sampan (like
Robert Plant, he of porn star hair, did last week) for a bite on Tuesday night, we see that
Hughe Dillion got nice shots of her hitting 10Arts with Top Chef (not that top, but we love her)
Jennifer Carrol, then Rouge. Surely Carey will hit fellow porny guy
Ron Jeremy's post-Wing-Bowl bash at Delilah's on Feb. 4. Surely. Bet I can guess a future porn star. ⤠That might be what new Jersey Shore cast member
Deena Nicole Cortese has to do once the Shore dries up if she doesn't save money and quit that drinking like she did at McFaddens. â¤
Ryan Howard was spied at
Del Frisco's with his Philadelphia Eagles cheerleader gal pal
Krystle Campbell. No porn there. ⤠And please no porn:
Weird Al Yankovic hit Barnes & Noble to sign, meet then greet for
When I Grow Up...
