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One of Philadelphia's longtime favorite restaurants, Panorama (Front and Market streets), is unveiling new dishes this summer and a few lucky Tattle readers are going to get to try them.
Two winners will each receive a free dinner for two and one free flight of wine per person chosen from Panorama's huge selection. (A flight is five tasting-size glasses which arrive in a rack designed by owner Luca Sena.)
To have a chance to win, send an e-mail to tattlecontest@philly news.com by Thursday at noon with your name, address, phone number AND the words Aragosta Napoletana, the name for the delicious poached lobster over broccoli rabe with sweet pea and truffled mascarpone. Other new dishes include a pan-seared softshell crab with saffron sorbetto and a homemade cannoli shell filled with chocolate and ricotta mousses, topped with pistachios. It's ridiculously good. But you are free to order whatever you'd like.
Only one entry per e-mail address. The two winners will be picked at random. Good luck.
Tattbits
* Chicago
and Earth, Wind & Fire have toured together for years but billboard.
com reports the two groups may pair up for an album.
Chicago's Robert Lamm says that a Chicago/EWF album "would sound big. It obviously has to genetically reflect where the two bands are coming from sonically and writing-wise, but I'm hoping that something new could emerge; something modern, something contemporary that the sum of the two bands is greater than, so that's my fantasy of what it could be."
Two groups with a combined 70 years of experience team up to make "something modern"?
That's a fantasy.
* Geena Davis ("A League of Their
Own") told graduates at Maine's Bates College that it's critical for young people to see more women in movies and TV.
"Society can only benefit if women are at the table," she said.
The founder of the aptly named Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media told the graduates Sunday that studies show kids are seeing "a very unbalanced world," with three male characters for every one female.
Sounds like "The Bachelorette."
* The pitch: "Baby Mama" meets psycho drama.
The Hollywood Reporter says Halle Berry is in talks to star in "The Surrogate," to be directed by out-there visual stylist Paul Verhoeven ("Total Recall," "Basic Instinct," "Black Book").
Based on the 2004 book by Kathryn Mackel, the story centers on a couple who learn that the surrogate they hired to carry their baby is insane.



