POSTED: Thursday, December 16, 2010, 8:00 PM
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| Photo | Scott Weiner |
| Flo Rida (left) with Q102 DJ Maxwell |
⤠They ain't waiting:
Metrocorp/
Philly Mag's buyout of
Art Etchells'
Foobooz and the happy reunion of he with ex-Foob advisory board head
Kirsten Henri (now the mag's food editor) starts
here, now. Next up for Etchells is helping Foobooz expand to Metrocorp's Boston mag food brand.
⤠Caterwauling comic/singer
Mikey Gallactic brings something akin to season cheer and strippers
and Dani Mari (who now has a new job booking corporate events at
Triumph, so no more pushing office furniture for her) to the Troc's
Balcony on Dec. 18.
⤠Right now you can hear
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band's Asbury Park
Carousel House show, which he played last week to celebrate that
Darkness on the Edge of Town reissue,
The Promise, at
VEVO.com through Jan. 1, 2011.
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| Photo | Scott Weiner |
| Jazmine Sullivan pictured at a very private studio performance at Power 99 in Bala Cynwyd, Dec. 10. |
⤠This new name sounds even less catchy: The 2010 Philly-filmed
The Dark Fields (starring
Robert DeNiro,
Bradley Cooper) will now be titled (soft, dull drumroll, please)
Limitless (oy — how generic) with a current opening date of March 18, 2011.
⤠While I'm waiting for
Stephen Starr's gastropubbery
The Dandelion to open on 18th Street, maybe I'll hit my own neighborhood g-pub,
Devil's Den. Oh wait — chef
Paul Trowbridge just took over for
Alex Ureña. Aright.
⤠When you go to
The Red Masque/
Radio Eris WOMB concert at
M Room on Dec. 18, tell Masqueraders
Lynnette Shelley and
Brandon Lord Ross that you spied them as extras in
the temple scene (the "dark warriors" on the left) for "The Poisoner," a vid for the new track from Philly folk-psych expats
Fern Knight. The dour yet snappy tune is from Fern's recently released CD
Castings.
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| Photo | Scott Weiner |
| Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino signs copies
of Here's The Situation at Bookends
in Ridgewood, N.J., Dec. 12. |
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Tashan is what
Munish Narula is calling his 777 S. Broad St. spot, and
Sylva Senat (ex at
Buddakan) is its chef. Love that.
⤠We don't know much yet about what goes on during Trash Tuesdays at
Barberella but from the looks of its vavavavoom vixenish poster, we should check it.
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Bela Shehu's
Editors Event tonight, Dec. 16 — the one where she's showingoff her new NINO designs — runs 2-4 p.m. and again 6-9 p.m. at 1639 Fitzwataaaaaaaaaah.
⤠The Art Deco
Vault Ultra Lounge at 470 N. Second is going to be this weekend's home to a whole kittenkaboodle of weird celebrity:
The Real Housewives of Atlanta (
Nene Leaks,
Sheree Whitfield and
Kim Zolciak) and the
Diddy Black-Tie Gala After-Party is there on Saturday, and the
Jamie Foxx listening party for his new CD
Best Night of My Life is on Friday — it's all part of the
Joy to the World gala to benefit area families in need. While the festival starts off at
North Bowl with comedian
Kevin Hart, rapper
Fabolous and model
Melyssa Ford tonight, Dec. 16, and makes a stop at the Ritz-Carlton where Diddy hosts the black-tie Joy to the World benefit gala, the whole weekend wraps up again at the Vault by like 3:30 a.m. Check out
joytotheworldfest.org, or wait to see the photos here next week.
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WHOWHATWHERE: There was that post-
Jingle Ball with
Flo Rida at
Q102 studios where he and
DJ Maxwell made sweet together and Philly homegirl
Jazmine Sullivan did a private jam at
Power 99's offices. ⤠There was some muscle-bound fun to be had with
Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino signing copies of
Here's The Situation at
Bookends in Ridgewood, N.J. ⤠Kids, KIDS designer
Jac Vanek loves the '90s, the U.K., not eating meat and greeting screaming fans at Bloomingdale's
Short Hills Mall store in N.J. ⤠There was even some stuff I didn't see that you loverly peeps told me about, like ex-Eagle
Vince Papale eating a sandwich at
Talk of the Town and
America's Got Talent host
Nick Cannon spinning tracks from wife
Mariah Carey's Christmas CD at
Borgata's
mur.mur while he was on call to DJ.
⤠Want to send
Wesley Snipes something at his Lewis Run, Pa., prison cell now that the U.S. Marshal's Office has incarcerated him for a three-year sentence for failing to pay his taxes? FindPrisoners.com will give you his number and address so that we can write him and send him porno mags.
⤠The
Kimmel Center just named new board members — Dr.
Keith Leaphart, founder and owner of
The Leaphart Group,
Roman "Not Ronald"
McDonald from
First Genesis Financial Group and
Joseph Redling, CEO at
NutriSystem. Get me some sugar and good
Liza Minelli seats, boys.
⤠WHAT THE FRANK?
Friday With Frank,
Sid Mark's just-turned-55-year-old radio show at
WPHT-AM will end on Dec. 31, 2010.
Sunday With Sinatra remains but C'MON. Sinatra at night is best. At least they took off
Glenn Beck and
Sean Hannity, too.
