AGENDA

Icepack

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

by A.D. Amorosi

Published: Feb 23, 2011

  • There are two late-night scenes in Rittenhouse — always have been. There're sleek spots like G and après-heurs venues Whisper and the incoming Rumor. And there're the nice-n-nasty unofficial spots like the late Bar Noir (now the Franklin ) and Pen & Pencil, a gold standard for the black-hearted and boozed-up to mingle happily. (Tangent: The Mansion was a dirtball hellhole and I don't mean that with an ironic, cool kind of detached awesomeness. 'Twas a stink pit and all those who sailed her should be glad she died an unceremonious death.) Recently, there's been an up-n-comer in the ranks, on the third floor of the other P&P ( Plays & Players ): Quig's Pub, a musty must-be for the late-night drinker. You don't have to quote Eugene O'Neill to get in, and they pour strong. With that, the dusty journalists-only haven Pen & Pencil around the corner has lost some of its shine. But now that the Philadelphia Tribune 's Bobbi Booker got added to the board of guvnahs, the party's restarting. Booker turned the Pencil out during the wake for her late beau, Freddie Sutton, in true New Orleans fashion. She'll put lead in the Pencil. Maybe they'll start pouring heavier, too.
  • Speaking of Bar Noir, that's where George Manney held Clutch Cargo electro-jams back in the day. DJ Bobby Startup, Manney and BN owner David Carroll are hosting one of my old-club-themed reunion nights at National Mechanics Feb. 28 to show off new Clutch Cargo tracks.
  • Jolly for Jolly Weldon. He's bringing Jolly's Dueling Piano Bar to one of my fave old now-vacant spaces, the Academy House on Locust. No definitive word on what he'll do with the battling 88s at Jolly's on 20th and Chestnut.
  • Doylestown's Justin Guarini may be sad his Broadway debut, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, was closed down, but he got another gig already in the Green Day spectacular American Idiot, starting March 1.
  • What evil do these two got brewing? Emilio Mignucci at Di Bruno has new cheese, a collab with Steve Grasse 's Art in the Age and its Root liqueur. Di Bruno's Root-brushed Winnimere cheese, made by Vermont's Jasper Hill Farm, will be sold starting March 1. Watch for spring sampling events at Di B's Italian Market home base (March 5), Rit-Row and its new Ardmore Farmers Market locale.
  • Fave comment on Wednesday's closure of UPenn's La Terrasse comes from an anonymous (to you) source: "It'll rise again with new ownership. The Ivy League manifesto requires at least one French bistro on campus at all times."
  • WHYY ain't just for fund drives. Last seen at last week's Franzschubert reunion, earnest Andrew Lipke debuts his epic The Plague at their studios with Azrael Quartet Feb. 24. Give till it hurts.
  • Ice till it hurts at citypaper.net/criticalmass.

     

    (a_amorosi@citypaper.net)

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