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

by A.D. Amorosi

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Published: Aug 3, 2010

August isn't the slow month it used to be with nothing but lousy movies and my birthday to celebrate. These days there's the Speck Food+Wine opening, the Material Girl launch, The Armchairs CD party and my birthday. Still, I expect y'all to be in Live Arts/Fringe Fest mode, waiting for last-minute changes and saving ducats for Sept. 15's Feastival, which Audrey Claire Taichman, Stephen Starr and Michael Solomonov co-host at Fifth and Fairmount's Festival Hub. That event may be the only night you'll be able to get booze at The Hub. Rumor has it the neighbors don't like-a-da-liquor. The stage space'll remain with showcases from Pig Iron and such. But what about the cabaret, old chum? That's where the best rumor comes into play. Looks like LA/FF and the Late Night Cabaret (Scott Johnston & Co. ) that Nick Stuccio exiled two years ago — after which Johnston's unofficial LNC held nights concurrent with the Hub's parties, therefore dividing the take — might be making peace. If so, there'll be several evenings of live cabaret at the new Festival Bar at the old Club Egypt on Delaware and Spring Garden where huge stages and bars loom large. An anonymous source says "this'll bring artists and drinkers who value the cabaret together." Have a drink. Let the healing begin.

► DJ secrets: While Isaac Jordan was telling me not to tell anyone he was leaving Philly, Silk City and National Mechanics for Barcelona, he was telling everyone else, as well. That handsome man'll be missed, even though we got another lovely DJ-related boy on deck. Dozia Blakey and his lady just had a son, Ajani. Serendipitously I was walking by Jefferson as Doz was coming out, dazed, with the great news. "I'm the godfather," wrote King Britt, Doz's old pal, from a tour stop in La Coruna, Spain. Congrats.

► Philly's advertently funniest songwriter, raunchy Mikey Galactic, holds his eponymous CD release gig Aug. 6 at the Balcony at the Troc with Funkharp and Dani Mari.

► Is Sulimay's Diner on Berks Street becoming a Sabrina's, therefore completing some sorta helllish triangle for the South Philly brunch devil?

► When a mutual friend told me Karen Gross of Sex & the Single Singer (a luscious cabaret act celebrating its fifth anniversary) was leaving publishing for music, all I thought was: There's two careers where money's no object. Nah. Karen's a bright girl. Yes she's leaving her gig as editor of Morris Visitor Publications in Philly (Where mag, to youse) on Aug. 16, after signing off on the September ish. "I'm spending more time nurturing and growing my career as a singer-songwriter and cabaret artist," says Gross, whom you can see here (youtube.com/karengrossmusic). Karen's also got a new PR/sales/marketing gig with City Food Tours. Whee.

 

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