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Icepack

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


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Published: Jul 7, 2010

This week, people you've never met before will sweat on you and ask the most banal question in chat-up history: "Is-it-hot-enough-for-you?" They'll run the words together with a slight smile crawling across their faces while barely looking you in the eye. Avoid any desire to slap them in the snout or wipe that weak grin from their puss. The only thing hotter than the air you're breathing is jail.

► Solutions for self-cooling: Hang at Nick Lonchar's three-day science fair/Tesla b-day bash starting July 9 in-and-around the Indie Visitor Center and the Free Library (nikolateslaclub.com). Or follow velvet Thom Cardwell through the gay-ish QFest starting July 8. "Over 25 film fests, I've worn many hats, but having a film of your own (he co-wrote the locally filmed You Can't Have It All with director Jay Arnold) and preparing for its world premiére is giving me out-of-body experiences," says Cardwell. Thom finally gets what most filmmakers he's walked through the fest-process feel: "elation and petrification."

► That other flick-fest org, Philadelphia Film Society, just promoted Michael Lerman to artistic director and hired Tom Quinn (Magnolia Pictures) and Ryan Werner (IFC) as programmers of the Philadelphia Film Festival.

► Emily Litella Was Here: Rumor has it that one of the most recent letters between L&I and Sonny D'Angelo (of Italian Market D'Angelo Bros. butcher fame) had a typo; that he was making "sauces" and not the "sausage" that he crafts (not cooks). This after he had already explained the art of sausage stuffing to L&I (and been fined for not having food prep papers). With Spice Corner and several other Ninth Street bizzes, seems like L&I has been making more than its usual mistakes in the last several months.

► Now that chipper hardcore outfit Scareho broke the cherry on the Triangle Tavern and turned the red gravy Sout' Philly eaterie from lounge legend Dusty Gallo performance space to punk dive on July 4, is more rawk on its way there? Same for the Station Bar & Grill on McKean Street? Cock-rocking Great Vibration have a gig there in July. Ray's Happy Birthday Bar has rock. South Philly Bar & Grill has karaoke so noisy it's Merzbow-ian. Guess everybody's bored with waiting for Connie's Ric Rac to get a liquor license. On the jazz tip, there're the meatheads at Black Angus on South Street. They've been hitting it with live hard bop and true jazz (veal) chops of late.

► Speaking of Philly jazzbos, Jamaaladeen Tacuma — onetime bassist for Ornette Coleman's Prime Time — has finished For the Love of Ornette, an album with Coleman sax-ing up one track, a cover of a tune Ornette wrote for JT ("Tacuma Song") and 19-years-young Philly drummer Justin Faulkner. Stay tuned for label and release news.

(a_amorosi@citypaper.net)