Expect word shortly that actress CCH Pounder (Capt. Claudette Wyms on FX's The Shield) will host this year's Marian Anderson Award gala on Nov. 17, as Maya Angelou and Norman Lear get their humanitarian prizes at the Kimmel Center.
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Philly just landed its second Bollywood flick.
Mumbai's Dharma Productions, taking advantage of Pennsylvania film-tax credits and a weak dollar, is setting up for the November shoot of a still-untitled romantic thriller starring real-life couple Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor.
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The burritos, tacos and quesadillas are finally rolling out at the new location of El Fuego (2104 Chestnut St., 215-751-1435), which opened about 10 weeks behind schedule because of assorted construction delays.
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A Hollywood film is taking a serious look at Norristown Studios at Studio Centre, the production facility being built at the old Sears site in Logan Square Shopping Center in the Montgomery County seat.
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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.
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Melograno's neighbors near Fitler Square moaned earlier this year when they learned that Rosemarie Tran and Gianluca Demontis' lease would not be renewed at 22d and Spruce Streets. Their tiny but airy Italian BYOB had drawn a following in its nearly five years.
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Danny Bonaduce as the new morning host on WYSP? It could happen, as talks at the highest levels of WYSP parent CBS are in the works to import the Delaware County-born child star-turned-media personality, now doing a one-hour talk show for CBS's KLSX in L.A. Also being considered is sidekick Shila.
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Sixers newcomer Elton Brand might be a good shooter, but he's gotten himself a steal. Or is that a steel?
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The restaurant space at the Jenkintown SEPTA station has had a few incarnations over the last two decades: Greenwood Grille, Stazi Milano, Station Grill, and Jonathan's American Grille.
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Restaurateur Judy Wicks buys local produce and meats. "Why not water?" asks Wicks, owner of University City's White Dog Cafe.
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For The Blood, his debut CD, Philly actor/rapper Ryan Banks draws on a horrible part of his life: the 1996 murder-suicide of his mother and her friend.
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The lonely life of a chef in training: Four days a week for seven weeks, Willingboro's Kevin Sbraga has been holed up in the kitchen of a closed restaurant near Washington Square as he practices for next weekend's U.S. finals of the Bocuse d'Or, considered the Olympics of cooking.
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