http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/michael_klein RSS Feed for Inq Col Michael Klein en-us Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:28:01 GMT http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/michael_klein/20091110_Inqlings__Fountain_gushing_with_a_5.html Philadelphia has a five-star restaurant again. The Fountain at the Four Seasons last night was elevated for 2010 by Forbes Travel Guide (formerly Mobil). http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/michael_klein/20091108_Inqlings__Cataldi_says_WIP_contract_talks__quot_more_difficult_quot_.html 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. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/michael_klein/20091105_Inqlings__Foxx_s_visitor_to_get_help.html 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. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/michael_klein/20091105_Table_Talk__First__Rittenhouse_Square__next__a_burger_joint.html Rob and Maggie Wasserman, whose burger on the menu at Rouge on Rittenhouse Square is an institution, are branching into the burger biz. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/michael_klein/20091103_Inqlings__Steak_house_pickets_have_gone_home.html 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. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/michael_klein/20091101_Inqlings__Free_Library_puts_the_fun_in__un_.html 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. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/michael_klein/20091030_Bob_Brady__Series_scalper__so_he_hopes_.html 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. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/michael_klein/20091029_Inqlings___Mighty_Macs__film_has_a_shot.html 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. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/michael_klein/20091029_Table_Talk__A_true_pan-Asian_mans_the_pans_at_Chew_Man_Chu.html 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). http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/michael_klein/20091027_Inqlings__On_radio__sounds_like_Series.html 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.