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In Wasilla, they don't know about all the love between Philly and New York.

Bobbi

and

Garry Adair

of Montgomeryville were on a down elevator last Sunday at the Westin in Center City - he in a Phillies shirt, she in a

Donovan McNabb

Eagles jersey - when the door opened.

In stepped Alaska Gov.

Sarah Palin

and her security guys. Palin wore a New York Rangers sweater with "Palin 08" on the back.

Bobbi Adair greeted the veep candidate and asked what she was up to.

Going for a run, Palin replied.

"Not in that shirt you're not," Adair says she told her.

Which explains why Palin jogged in a green No. 5 jersey, topped by a pink cap. News anchors later praised her sartorial sense.

Adair, who still has Palin's Rangers sweater (which the two swapped in the elevator lobby), has been promised a replacement McNabb jersey from the Eagles. No word on whether Palin wants hers back. "If she wins, I hope I get invited to the inauguration," Adair says.

Martin Hamann

gave notice last week from the executive chef's post at the Four Seasons Hotel, whose Fountain Restaurant and Swann Lounge sit high on many dining best-of lists. Hamann, 50, is bound for the Union League, now revamping its kitchens and dining; it's enjoying rosy times as more members are living downtown. (Its chef of 20 years,

Dan Reilly

, is leaving.) The Delco-raised Hamann, who succeeded

Jean-Marie Lacroix

seven years ago, is proof that top chefs don't need a fancy pedigree or Euro breeding. The former Bulletin truck dispatcher, who studied at the Restaurant School, is known in the kitchen not only as "Chef" but also as "Hambone" (a corruption of his last name) or just "Marty."

You know chefs wear white, but how about the Man in Black?

Shane Cash

, a nephew of country-rock legend

Johnny Cash

's, will be exec chef at Butcher & Singer, the steak house opening this month at Striped Bass' old corner at 15th and Walnut Streets. (Was that song

really

titled "A Boy Named Sous"?) Two other big steak houses have been on the downtown docket, but it's unclear when they'll debut; Del Frisco's (15th and Chestnut Streets) is still saying "mid-November," and Union Trust (717 Chestnut St.), which had been targeting mid-October, is being held back till early February.

The Eagles are playing the Redskins today. Tight end

Brent Celek

's big day will be tomorrow, when he marries

Susie Johnsen

, his girlfriend of five-plus years, at the Union League.

The game plan fell into place only recently, says Johnsen, 28, a brand manager for Miller Lite. "Neither of us wanted a big wedding - just our families," she says. Since the parents and grandparents will be in from Ohio this weekend, Johnsen drafted florist

Ann Catania

of South Philly's Ten Pennies to handle arrangements. (Before they bought a house in South Philly and settled in together, Johnsen says, Celek, 23, would greet her at the airport with Five Guys cheeseburgers and a bouquet from Catania's shop.)

Johnsen says Celek teammate

Stewart Bradley

will stand in as best man because Celek's younger brothers, both college players, can't make it. Honeymoon? Maybe later, she says.

The 2009 "One Book, One Philadelphia" selection - the Free Library- and city-sponsored book - will be announced next week. It will be

The Soloist

, by Inquirer-turned-L.A. Times columnist

Steve Lopez

. It's the tale of

Nathaniel Ayers

, a musician who is schizophrenic and homeless. The movie version, starring

Jamie Foxx

as Ayers and

Robert Downey Jr.

as Lopez, will be out Nov. 21.

Philly ad man

Steven Grasse

now says he's been playing us for 10 years. The head of Gyro Worldwide says such in-your-face projects as his campaign seeking $58 trillion in British reparations, his Old City shop known as G-mart, his ad campaign for "Derrie-Air" airlines ("the more you weigh, the more you pay"), and his

Bikini Bandits

movie series were really all part of a large work of conceptual art he calls

The Arcadia Project

. Grasse is now out with the fifth piece of the project: the photo book

Virus

, a "history" of Gyro, written in lofty academic style by "Harriet Bernard-Levy, Ph.D." and published by "Gold Crown Press" (whose address is a strip club in Saskatchewan). Grasse wants to position himself alongside such artist-satirists as

Damien Hirst

and

Jeff Koons

. He dubs his next work

My Life on the Internet

, for which he will have interns assemble everything ever written about him on the Internet. Narcissistic? "All art and artists are narcissistic," he says.

South Philly's Fleisher Art Memorial (719 Catharine St.) has assembled hundreds of artists to design 4-by-6-inch cards that will be sold for $50 each from 4 to 7 p.m. today as a benefit. The kicker is that the artists' names are on the back, and can't be seen till the cards are bought.

Just when you thought all was quiet in the war between the steaks, specifically the South Philly sandwich rivals Pat's King of Steaks and Geno's, here comes another salvo. Two years ago, Geno's "This is America: When ordering please speak English" sign raised all manner of stink. On Oct. 14, a sign is due to go up outside Pat's. Created for owner

Frank Olivieri

by linguist

Mike Ellis

, it will say: "Free English lesson with purchase of a cheesesteak." Ellis says Geno's

Joey Vento

was not wrong to put up his sign, "but he's provided no solution to the problem. Obviously, Pat's won't be teaching college-level linguistics, but anything is better than the nothing they're teaching at Vento's."