Icepack: A.D. Amorosi on the news, nightlife and bitchiness beats
Please note: This article is published as an archive copy from Philadelphia City Paper. My City Paper is not affiliated with Philadelphia City Paper. Philadelphia City Paper was an alternative weekly newspaper in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The last edition was published on October 8, 2015.
Philly TV has forever had its characters, from the gently bizarre (W. Carter Merbreier, aka Captain Noah) to the genuinely bizarre (Joseph Zawislak, aka Dr. Shock) to any number of Ron Burgundy-esque newscasters (Mort Crim, anyone?). One of the medium’s nicest people is Lauren Hart, a longtime friend and co-worker (we did NBC 10’s The 10! Show together). Hart — who’s also a noted singer-songwriter and the anthemist of choice at Flyers games — left TV for a moment to make 2013’s Awakening and get married to La Colombe coffee guy and TV adventurer Todd Carmichael. After making a video late last year for “Last One Standing,” the song she penned for her beloved Flyers, Hart must have caught the TV bug again. She returns to Philly television with All Hart, a look-see at local A&E on WMCN 44, debuting tonight, March 13.
Pat Rapa, who wrote this week’s cover story on The War on Drugs, should be happy about this TV item: Mount Airy-bred comedian/bow tie enthusiast Paul F. Tompkins is making a pilot for a single-camera comedy about a family on permanent vacation for ABC, with SNL’s Molly Shannon as his wife and Tessa Albertson and Moonlight Kingdom’s Charlie Kilgore as their kids.
Kyber Bernstein is having its best weekend ever. His North Second Street nightclub LiT Ultra Bar will celebrate its second anniversary on the very same night (Sat., March 15) that he’ll host LiT’s now-annual White Party. The next night, March 16, marks the debut of LiT’s new biweekly gay-ish party bi at Sundown with Los Angeles’ Perry Twins DJ crew and Philly’s own disco Lolita, Robbie Tronco.
Multi-award-winning Philadelphia scribe and 2014 BOMB magazine poetry contest judge CA Conrad hasn’t put down his pen in weeks. Along with his newest chapbook, Full Moon Hawk Application that’s available from Assless Chaps Press, Conrad just released PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN (were you high when you said this?), an adaptation of the film script Capote, on Worms Press. “Rest In Peace tortured soul,” writes Conrad.
On the Icepack homefront: My wife Glamorosi recently celebrated the 12th anniversary of her jewelry biz, and Dead Sexy, Paula Conway's Walking Dead book that featured Glamorosi’s skull earrings, just went into its second edition. And this past Sunday, she was a on BlogTalkRadio.com’s new Urban Woman Radio show to discuss her Lifetime Network Dance Moms coverage at glamorosimagazine.com. She’ll be back next Sunday, too. Brava.
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