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June 20-26, 2002
music
Summer in the city -- this city -- means restau-habitués pretending to like curbside boozing while dodging fumes and fast cars. (Anyone been injured yet? If not, can we change that?) But this season we’ll be dodging Jennifer Lopez and her beard Ben Affleck (or is she his beard?) when the duo traipses through Philly to film Kevin “Don’t Call Me Silent Bob” Smith’s Jersey Girl. Talk about the sum of all my fears. Expect an overuse of the phrase “J.Lo” and constant rumor (mostly from me) about wheretheyat. One question: Why don’t they shoot in fucking New Jersey? Hey, if you think that’s good, Scott Speedman and James Marsden are in town filming The 24th Day. Huh.… If Lopez ain’t enough teenybop for you, howz’bout Britney Spears? Two locals, “Polish Larry” Wnukowski and Michael Cottrill, filed a lawsuit against Britney, stating that songs on Oops!…I Did It Again (including its title tune) were based on songs they submitted to Spears. The duo -- Dobbs regulars who put together George Manney’s Geo Sound studio -- allege that they wrote, copyrighted and recorded “What You See Is What You Get” and submitted it to Britney’s biz-buds. “I remember working on the demo with Larry and Mike in 1998 here at Geo,” says Manney. Wait. Didn’t I write the “Oops”?… Chefs Ed Vadden, Roberta Adamo and GM Harry Kratz’ll finally open Penn’s “pasta laboratory” at the Inn at Penn in August. That’s very near Stephen Starr’s Pod. No worry. Starr, after opening Jones, will head toward the Barclay Hotel to open an opulent bo#206te, with Paris-based designer India Mahdavi dolling it up.… Multimedia mood-chronicler Tim Motzer (Global Illage, Jazzheads) put out a down-low-glitchcore mix CD, Nu Cultures, on his 1K label, compiling and re-coagulating his own diverse fractured fuzak into fab new form. Motzer’s also debuting a website (www.1krecordings.com), finishing the third live CD with his Fractal Ark and gearing up for two shows at Bar Noir, June 24 and July 8, with vexing vocaliste/collaborator Ellie Perez.… I’ve made fun of Club KamaSutra’s racy ads, but, on a serious tip, club boss Dr. Mark, due to health problems caused by a plane accident, will cease his role in CKS’s day-to-day operations. The nearly 7,000-member base and 20 employees will only see him at Friday and Saturday suck-fests.… I never saw Star Wars, so I have no idea what Shampoo’s doing with a till-6 a.m., retro-Lucas-themed outdoor The Dark Side party June 22 with turntablist DJ Z-Trip, Jedi battles and, someone told me, Phoenixx dressed up as someone named Princess Leia? Kids.… Look up at the corner of 16th and Chestnut: What’s missing? The long-legendary jeweler Bailey, Banks & Biddle. Though BB&B moves soon to a tony area locale, that block of Chestnut’ll be eaten by discount clothiers, who enter the grand BB&B building by year’s end.… Last week’s Eltro-centric spectacular “Rashomon Effect” at the Parlor has sprouted flowers. One bloom, from Jorge Sandrini, is an EP (the first of eight) of chillingly ascetic techno he calls Celsius. Bloom No. 2 is the off-Eltro-project City of Horns’ Cluster of Apes CD. Bloom No. 3 is Rick Henderson’s The Wayward Wind test-driving material from Wait for Green at Spaceboy’s Courtyard, June 22, 2 p.m.… Gourmet lunch/breakfasteer DiPrimio’s is set to open this week at 37 S. 19th St.… Cue’s Vincent Wonder kicked off the liquid/icy Tantrum Wednesdays at Fluid June 19, with the promise of further freezing.… This June 21, Tony Sparacino’s Lucky Lounge at LaTazza acts as a pre-Shut Up & Dance date (the actual thing occurring June 28 at the Mann). So shut up and pay him.… Britain’s filmcentric webthingie urbanchillers.com (in conjunction with Apple computers) is showing area-filmed clips from Colony, a mini-movie by locals Rick Webb (director/editor), Kathleen Lafferty and John Begley (writers) and actors Dorothy Begley and Tito Altamar, whose band I Will I recorded the tune “Encephalon” that’s strewn through the movie.… Talking about film -- check out Five Spot’s Monday movie night. Starting at 7 p.m., the evening features local flicks picked by local director Andrew Repasky McElhinney, photographer Ed Eberwine III and editor Mike Brand. Get boozed up and yell at them.… Speaking of booze and yelling, Needles Jones brings his one-man world tour (OK, he did it at Tritone and in Maryland. That’s far!) of A Life Well Squandered to Nostradamus June 21. Needles also throws Hard Liquor’s Psydde Delicious b-day “performance salon” Proud Mary at Tritone June 20 with Greg Giovanni, Helen Back, Julie Davids and mo’ in tow. “We’re going to make him do something heterosexual,” said Jones. As well as celebrating Rock Tits’ one-year anniversary, owner/barman Rick D celebrates his b-day at Tritone July 3 (free barbecue) as well as that club’s one-year anniversary (July 18) and Needles’ b-day (July 25), making this South Street saloon the McDonaldland of burly avant-jazz/punk rock/dangerous drag b-day spots: the type of place Mayor McCheese would get drugged and fucked at. Book early. Another birthday ’allo goes out to Cozmic Cat, who celebrates such at SoMa June 23.
