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Icepack

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


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Published: Dec 1, 2010

You haven't heard from Burning Brides' Dimitri Coats since 1999? That's OK. Philly's dark-eyed rawk-stah is in a punk supergroup, Off! with Steven McDonald (of Redd Kross), and Keith Morris (of the Circle Jerks and Black Flag; he's also a bobblehead now, courtesy Phoenixville's Clint Weiler's Aggronautix). Off! dropped a Vice label 4 EP box before Thanksgiving. What does their pedigree have that Brides didn't? "Two more penises and the first Black Flag singer," says Coats. "Pound for pound, I think we have more hair, too. And we have way shorter songs. Finally, no one has to listen to me sing." He misses his old friends and haunts. "Philly's changed from what I hear but Record Exchange is still around which is one of the reasons [real-life bride] Melanie and I moved there in the first place — that and the orgy scene."

In celebration of the Germantown-shot Night Catches Us' national rollout, Philly director Tanya Hamilton hosts a Dec. 5lunch and screening at AMC Loews Cherry Hill (meetup.com/reelblack).

With all the back 'n' forth checking on Mike Stollenwerk's Fathom Seafood House (200 E. Girard at Shackamaxon, looks like it'll open in days, YAY), I finally hit its neighbor The Soup Bar, the literal hot spot serving 100 varieties of broth. Anything with barley is a party on Girard.

Jammers and open mic jazz-bos take note: Bossa-jazz chanteuse Dena Miranda and her ensemble do their own showcase, welcome sit-ins and open the finale of their Swingin' Affair to all players every first Monday of every month (starts Dec. 6) at National Mechanics. Meanwhile, third Wednesdays at Tritone (starting Dec. 15) are called Avant Ascension, wherein trombonist Larry Toft and sax-man Dan Peterson do their thing then open-jam-sesame to all.

Legendary magazine/smoke shop Paper Moon is shining again at 520 S. Fourth St. "It won't be a full moon for about two weeks because the magazine distributor misplaced my paperwork," says Bill Curry. "But I have great greeting cards and my lending library's operating."

Newtown-based writer/actress Tatiana Bachus' St. Lewis Productions has a show it's pushing to the networks called Life with Alicia. Look for web-isodes to feature Vivica A. Fox.

Talk about nu-Philebutantes all you want. They ain't new. Cathy McCoy, the Miss Pennsylvania runner-up who created a self-named charm and modeling school was a gawgeous Philly socialite who painted the town nightly, hanging with Kippee Palumbo and written up by my gossipy forefathers Jerry Gaghan ( Daily News) and Frank Brookhouser ( Inquirer). McCoy, the mother of club-owner/broker David Carroll, passed this week. She was a hell-of-a-party and she will be missed by all.

More ice? Nice. Citypaper.net/criticalmass.

(a_amorosi@citypaper.net)