Dan Gross: Say goodbye to Renegade
Renegade, the nation's premier rock cover band, features Your Humble Narrator on bass, Punk Rock Boot Camp founder Brian Adoff singing, Hail Social's Matt Maraldo and Richie Roxas on drums and guitar, Hey Angel's Dave Adoff on guitar, and Jeff Ziga, of Affirmative Action Jackson, on keyboards. If you miss this show, you may never see Renegade . . . until the reunion tour.
Sweatheart, the Yah Mos Def and DJ Russ Alexander are also on the bill. The 21+ show starts at 9 and costs $8.
Temple's 'In Conflict'
is invited to Scotland
The Temple University production of "In Conflict" has been invited to stage its show in August at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland for a monthlong run. The play is based on the book of firsthand accounts by former People Paper reporter-turned-NYU professor Yvonne Latty of U.S soldiers who served in Iraq.
The student actors have raised $20,000 from private donors for the trip, but they are $20,000 short of making this happen.
"In Conflict" will also play the Philadelphia Live Arts/Fringe Festival in September, and then opens off-Broadway at the Barrow Street Theater, where it will run for at least four months. For info, or to donate to the students' travel fund, e-mail Scott Braun at SBraun@temple.edu.
Radio guy's got new crime school
B101-FM owner Jerry Lee is now the namesake of two criminology institutes. Cambridge University has just dedicated the Jerry Lee Centre of Experimental Criminology. In 2001, the University of Pennsylvania opened the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology.
'Girls of Philly' now trademarked
After three years of applications and
appeals, GirlsofPhilly.com has been able to trademark "Girls of Philly" with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. We wrote in December about the site, full of scantily clad local babes, being threatened by MasterCard over a radio spot that parodied the credit-card company's "Priceless" campaign. Now they can go after others who use their phrase.
Throughout July, GirlsofPhilly.com will donate $5 from any new memberships to the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, online at fallenheroesfund.org.
What's goin' on . . .
Bravo's "Top Chef: The Tour," will be at Penn's Landing this weekend as part of the Sunoco Welcome America! Festival. Bravo and Comcast are presenting the culinary show, with season-three winner Hung Huynh on Saturday, and season four's Spike Mendelsohn. On Sunday, Mendelsohn and season four's Nikki Cascone will be there. The shows are at 10:30 a.m., noon and 1:30 p.m. There are also tastings that can be reserved at bravotv.com/thetour.
* 610 WIP's Rhea Hughes
will guest-emcee the Two Funny Guys show featuring WIP's Joe Conklin and Big Daddy Graham Sunday at the Borgata. Tix are still available for the 9 p.m. show at the Music Box.
Len Barry's written a book
Singer Len Barry, who was Len Borisoff when doing the "Bristol Stomp" and other hits with the Dovells, has just published a semi-autobiographical novel "Black Like Me," which he co-wrote with his son Spencer Barry, aka Spencer Borisoff. Published by England's Bank House Books, it's available in stores and through Barry's Web site at LenBarry.com. The book comes with a CD of Barry singing a soundtrack to the story, which can also be heard on his site.
Havertown hottie in new movie
Havertown native Jennifer Sciole is in "One, Two, Many," starring "Stuttering" John Melendez, now on DVD. Sciole, who graduated from Haverford High and St. Joe's, plays comedian Jeffrey Ross's cross-eyed girlfriend in the comedy. *
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