Michael Klein writes about local people, places, and things three days a week in his column INQlings and contributes on video as "The Insider" on Philly.com. He also writes about the restaurant scene in his column Table Talk.
WIP without Angelo Cataldi in the morning?
Possible.
With less than two months remaining in his contract - and three months before WIP's signature Wing Bowl - there's nervous buzz around the sports-talk station that a new deal is not at hand between CBS Radio and its 20-year veteran.
- The envelope, please: Philly's radio awards
Rob and Maggie Wasserman, whose burger on the menu at Rouge on Rittenhouse Square is an institution, are branching into the burger biz.
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The man who knocked on the Center City hotel room door of actor Jamie Foxx, claiming he was Beyoncé Knowles' manager, will get court-supervised mental-health care for three years, under an agreement last week.
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Pickets are gone from Del Frisco's steak house in Center City as a nearly yearlong feud with subcontractors has all but come to an end.
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Your dry cleaner might not like what the Free Library of Philadelphia has planned for its annual fund-raiser, but "for us, it's the right thing to do," says Siobhan Reardon, president of the cash-strapped library.
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At 64, Rep. Bob Brady has a pretty good head of hair and a love of the Phillies. After setting up a customary politico food bet on the World Series, the Philly Democrat decided to canvass the New York-North Jersey House delegation with a high-stakes wager: The rep from the losing state has to shave his head.
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Tyson Wong Ophaso is the man behind the wok at Chew Man Chu, the modern noodle/dumpling house opening this week in the ground-floor space in the Symphony House at Broad and Pine Streets (215-735-8107).
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Things are looking up for the movie about the Immaculata College women's basketball team that Tim Chambers and Pat Croce shot here in 2007.
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It'll be scrapple meets apple on sports radio this week. Two ESPN stations - Philly's 97.5 The Fanatic and New York's 1050 ESPN - will simulcast their afternoon shows tomorrow, before the first game of the World Series.
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The youngest celebrator of the Phillies' National League pennant was 12-day-old Caleb Hamels, who joined a lavish party with a 1:45 a.m. start Thursday on the 57th floor of Two Liberty Place. His parents, Cole and Heidi Hamels, hosted.
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Six years after opening Augusto's in Warminster, chef Augusto Jalon has ventured into Huntingdon Valley for his second restaurant. Tavolo (2519 Huntingdon Pike, 215-938-8401), also an upper-end BYOB, occupies the onetime dentist's office between Philmont Avenue and Byberry Road last held by Stefano's.
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After nearly two weeks of lensing some of America's top women's softball players, filmmaker James L. Brooks decided he wanted some action.
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