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A.D. Amorosi takes the piss.
OK, since it's that week again, let me think of a First Person Festival thing; something multidisciplinary with provocative, documentary, real-lifey stuff by a respected author (namely me) that's relevant. Well, I know Fox Philly 29'll be dropping the NFWJBB (Naw-Fucking-Way-John-Bolaris-Back) bomb. So. How 'bout when I worked for CBS 10 doing this weekend TV show where for our first bit we made up some Twin Peaks shtick (with Henri David behind the velvet curtain to boot) with Bolaris as our Special Agent Dale Cooper talking about eating pie and slurping joe with all that Lynch-Badalamenti jazz playing in the background? I'm certain I don't even need to go beyond just telling you that even happened to make First Person Fest gold.
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► If there were a label that housed Tom Waits and Nick Cave, wouldn't you wanna be on it? So Philly's Man Man headed to ANTI-.
► First thing to know about the After Dark Horrorfest that hits the Riverview etc. from Nov. 9 to 18 is that its "8 Films To Die For" are horror and not porn despite one film (Crazy Eights) starring Traci Lords — funny since that cinemascapade is produced by/starring one Dan DeLuca. But this is not "Long Dong DeLuca," as the columnist is known in the halls of the Inky, but rather the Brooklyn cat from Rocket Science. Also notable amongst the festival's producers is Jersey expat Esther Goodstein, whose Casual Productions made Nightmare Man (think The Mask-meets-Rosemary's Baby) starring Richard Moll. "I'm so excited," screamed Goodstein when home last week about opening on 350 screens, her Cherry Hill AMC one of them. But it's hard to tell if she was more excited about her Casual's first flick (Pretty Cool Too! and the short Love Is Love to follow) or that she got to ride a float with the 8 Films filmmakers ("and the Suicide Girls") in the Halloween parade in Greenwich Village. Esther loves a parade.
► FreshOut Media is the label behind Philadelphia Slick's funk-did-lee-icious debut Culture Industry. Check it and them Nov. 10 at North Star with Nouveau Riche attached.
► While waiting to talk to the Feury brothers about their multimillion-opening-in-Villanova-in-November Maia restaurant, we found out two things. One: It's opening February '08. Two: They hired Melissa Monosoff — ex-sommelier at the Fountain at Four Seasons, Striped Bass and Avenue B — as beverage director. She's looking to school Main Liners about nontraditional wines. Cool 'dat. But bad 'dis: We knew it looked bleak, but Butcher's Cafe in the ItalMarket is fini with CEO/chef Todd Bergman now at le New Wave Café. Hope they serve Todd's battered tilapia.
► "Exodus Bulldornadius" is Eric Carbonara's contribution to Locust Music's Wooden Guitar series. It's Andalusian Roma-Flamenco and Hindustani stuff and he'll debut it at Big Jar Nov. 8.
► The last time I saw poets CAConrad and Frank Sherlock they were hanging with Code Pink kids at the fuck-Judge-Teresa-Carr-Deni rally. This week they come indoors with me and Betsy Andrews for Nov. 13's ActionAIDS benefit at the Troc Balcony starring Absinthe Drinkers, Ish Klein and more: thetroc.com.
► As quierolatino.com readies its January '08 launch, look for Univision 65 to sponsor "Celebrando Nuestra Musica" with Afrotaino Productions as its hosts Nov. 8 at Tierra Colombiana (4535 N. Fifth) with Latino stars galore.
► After guest chef-ing for PAFA's charity Bacchanal!, Jean-Marie Lacroix does his own thing — celebrate his Ritt Row Lacroix's fifth anniversary Nov. 19 — with Dinner: Impossible's Robert Irvine at the helm.
► While you wait for Kidd Chris' next WYSP move, another 94.1 FM DJ made a move: "My voice box will now be heard exclusively on 93.3 WMMR," says Jacky Bam Bam of his late-night weekends. "Hey, awake is the new sleep."
► While I can't tell you how psyched I am to dress mod in thin-lapelled sharkskin for Collab Gallery's "Designing Modern" opening gala/dedication Nov. 10 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman Building, I want to know why Ellsworth Kelly appeared at the main building last week.
► If you're looking to benefit breast cancer research, the FDR label's got a way: a 21-song CD, About a Girl, featuring locals like Grammar Debate, the Successful Failures and the Rigbees doing famed lady-named songs (e.g. Velvet Underground's "Stephanie Says") for charity bucks with a North Star show Nov. 9 to prove it (fdrlabel.com). The next night, Nov. 10, Hank's Cadillac singer Kim Alexander benefits Children with Diabetes Foundation (her daughter has Type 1) with the Knife & Fork Band, etc. at World Café Live and a re-release of comp All the Wild Wonders featuring They Might Be Giants (cwdfoundation.org).
► Delicious cabaret chanteuse/saw player Nicki Jaine wants to celebrate Marlene Dietrich's 106th b-day Nov. 8. Who'll stop her? Jaine, Mary Bichner, Ray Ashley and Tim Warneck do Dietrich at the Stockton Inn (stocktoninn.com).
► Along with the delight of wishing my dahling wife Glamorosi happy-b-day and my bud/DJ Evan Gusz the same (not exactly the same, yo), I wanted to return to that First Person thing. But with sadness — by saying good night and good-bye to my Grandmaunt Mae, the Amorosi fam matriarch, who passed away this week. I was her "angel of love" growing up. And now she's mine.
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