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Published: May 19, 2010

My advice to run-amok Flyers fans — especially those with the M-F-ing goal horn at South Philly Bar & Grill — is paraphrased from Don Rickles: Calm it, hockey pucks.

► Hey, one not-so-loud or orange thing that I learned during da weekend's Italian Market Festival, other than that people love DiBruno Bros.' pepperoni-onna-stick and that I look good naked (glamorosi.blogspot.com), is that the Bonuomo meat market building where the Rizzo mural resides (to say nothing of its wealth of Mayor Frank memorabilia in the window) just got sold after being in the B family for almost 80 years. I'm hearing that Philly lawyer Nick Nastasi bought it to open a Sicilian trattoria dedicated to his mama's recipes. Geddaouttaheyah. OK, Nick, as long as you keep the mural, we're good.

► Hey 1980s, kids who weren't even born when you started are DJ-ing your music. Good. Shawn Ryan'll do it May 22 at Kung Fu Necktie (he's got Freddie Mercury/David Bowie posters all over town). Then Tracy Buchholz and Carl Michaels do free queer-centric weekly Sundays at Woody's with 80 cent drinks-n-shots. Make mine a spritzer.

► Sad but true: Celebrity Boxing CEO Damon Feldman has been sending e-mails to friends/fans that he might get out of the biz. Doesn't gubernatorial wannabe Tom Corbett have better things to do than give Feldman a career-quitting hard time? If Feldman goes, there'll never be women hitting each other with 3-feet-wide cotton-filled gloves or arm wrestling with Eddie Munster again. Wise up, Corbett.

► Charity begins at home: Birds for Arms, The Fractals Orchestra (Kevin Hanson bringing tons of lady vocalists to the mic to cover Fractals tunes), Seizure Salad (featuring TuPhace's sonic pardner Charles Patierno) and The Hot Club of Philadelphia do a Jazz-for-Haiti benefit jam at National Mechanics May 24.

► OK, so you missed it when King Britt did stuff for the Miami Vice soundtrack. Nobody saw that. So how 'bout you listen for him on HBO's third shot at True Blood? Britt's "New World in My View" with Sister Gertrude Morgan'll appear on the True Blood v. 2 CD, too.

► Old friends Kenn Kweder and Jon Houlon host their annual Bob Dylan b-day celebration May 24 at Rembrandt's. While Dylan turns 69, Charlie Gracie, Joe Conklin, Andrew Lipke, Dani Mari, Big Daddy Graham and countless others will take on the bard hard.

► Last week in CP's Naked City section I wrote about City Council's proposal 100267 to screw up promoters of live events. Promoters — keep on writing me with your weird thoughts and ideas as how to beat the bill as it stands.

► More ice at citypaper.net/icepack.

(a_amorosi@citypaper.net)