Icepack

Amorosi on the news, nightlife, gossip and bitchiness beats.

by A.D. Amorosi

Philly: Is your sewage backed up? Is your foie gras eating you up? Did your Intensified night die and your White Ts and White Belts jam move and you didn't know? For all that bad, you ain't losing your Bada Bing like Jersey will when The Sopranos wraps, after which there'll be no reason to head to anyplace other than A.C. in N.J. I won't predict a finale ... oh, OK, you twisted my arm: Tony lives, Carmella dies. Good. Nag. But you should hit Satin Dolls in Lodi — the real Bada Bing — and pour a 40 for Silvio.

► We know Hugs for Puppies picketed Di Bruno's off Rittenhouse for selling foie gras wit' truffles. But the Di Bruno Bros can console themselves after having won a spot in the Liberty Property Trust Comcast Center for a gnocchi-teria along with a Georges Perrier-Chris Scarduzzio restau-bar or two. Snap.

► By the way, cross your fingers as Peek-A-Boo Revue heads to Vegas' "Best Burlesque Troupe" competition at the 50th Anniversary of Miss Exotic World at Krave June 9. Victor Fiorillo and Dito van "Graham Cracker" Reigersberg just returned from Vegas' Flamingo where they closed the "American in the Arts" conference (due for Philly in 2008). "Dito played a deranged Betsy Ross," says Fiorillo of his singing partner.

► While readying his Strippers Brawl June 14 (still undisclosed location!) boxing promoter Damon Feldman hit upon a celebrity boxing idea: Fox's Rob Guarnio vs. Q102's Rocco with a battle of the publicists preceding them. "Peter Breslow 's accepted," says Feldman. "I need David Neff." That's June 8 at Top 5 Bar and Grill, in case Neff and Breslow clients need PR that night.

► We don't have details 'cause he won't reveal 'em, but King Britt — already having a better life than you —— got a Pew Foundation grant regarding music composition. But it's more than just music he tells me. "Man, I cried when I heard," says Britt. "It's a prestigious honor." Stay tuned. Or ask the Pew awardee when he spins at a strip bar: Cheerleaders' "Glitter" June 7 with Tronco, Dozia and Brian Sanders ' Junk in tow for the disco-themed event.

► Another DJ celebrating a best week ever (10 years of Remedy at Fluid) is Cosmo Baker who married his gal Tova in Connecticut. Lots of Freeway 'n' Peedi spun at le reception. Congrats.

► While we botched the label George Simon Stanford's just signed with (Mercury, not Epic) there's no mistaking Liam and Me. They signed to Thrive in time for July 4 to 8's Brotherly Shove 2007 Troc fest. Now, booking guy Joe Mahoney 's busy with BroSho. But that won't stop him from reuniting the ska-punk Stupidhead he had with Pat Berkery ("he hates that he had that band," jokes Joe of Pat) for Kathy James-Dollard/Tommy T's Dobbs reunion of bartenders, doormen and bands Stalin's Daughter (the late Rick D' s group), Hairy Phlegmball and Spy Violet at Tritone June 9.

►There's a fake meth lab at the Convention Center's American Industrial Hygiene Conference this week. Ask for something "Amber" and see how authentic it is.

► Sounds like some local peeps're screaming "nevermore" at The Raven. Not only did Jukebox Zeroes/Fishnet Stalkers yank June 3's gig from its stage after finding they couldn't use Raven's PA or bring full drum kits "cause it's too loud and the club had noise violations," says Peter Santa Maria of what he heard from the gig's booker. "Plus, it sounds like the owner doesn't really wanna have bands in his club." Owner Jon Hunter , who just got married and is on his honeymoon, laughed. He wants bands. "We get loud and like having a good time inside The Raven," he says. As if that weren't enough, Danny Ozark from Notebook's open-mic monologue Mondays at the Balcony (June 11) used to spin old-school hip-hop vinyl and co-host "Sour Grape" Tuesdays with Jon Connor at Raven. Until they put his vinyl rarities in the trash ("procured from my days as morning-show producer at Power 99," says Ozark) after what Ozark calls a money haggle. "Our show was attended by lots of GlaxoSmithKline folk who took the mic to get their 'bitch on' and there I was out on the street like I was Tawana Iverson." Ozark'll be moving "Sour Grapes."

► WHOWHATWHERE: The Voice Institute's gala at Westin Philadelphia's ballroom got impressive vocal performances from coach Margaret Baroody, Dr. Bob Sataloff and Robert Goulet, who did not crawl along the ceiling. Jimmy Rollins' Arthritis Foundation soiree at Lucky Strike with fellow Phillies Chase Utley , Pat Burrell (and Ryan Howard — Barry Bonds ' date/bitch at 32° over the weekend) may've benefited the cause. But Rollins' first ball was in the gutter. Philly poets got love: First Robin's Bookstore's Gil Ott tribute and book award hosted by CAConrad hooked up Tim Peterson for Since I Moved In. Then the Tiberino Museum's screening of The Mural, shot at Bacchanal in 1985, welcomed legendary local scribe Paul Grillo out from self-imposed exile. Danny DeVito and a party of peeps from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia supped Caesar salad and pappardelle pasta at Portofino on Walnut. And auteur Eli Roth (who we'll have words with next week) jokingly expressed his feelings about getting jokingly booed before Hostel: Part II unspooled at Ritz Bourse: "What the fuck, Philly?"

► Wanna fight childhood cancer? Join Audible , Kenneth Masters and Ultragrrl June 8 at Khyber for an Alex's Lemonade Stand fundraiser. Wanna contribute to Mommy's Light Lives On drive for motherless children? Join Michele Malin Seidman, Dana Bank and company at Theory Suburban Square, June 7, for a champagne-filled shopping session. Wanna give InLiquid money? Hit Art for the Cash Poor at Crane Arts Building June 9 and 10.

(a_amorosi@citypaper.net)