Inqlings: Traffic reporter's ticket tale
Fox29 traffic reporter Dorothy Krysiuk has gotten out of a tough spot. She acknowledges that she recently negotiated with the Philadelphia Parking Authority over about $1,200 in parking tickets on her BMW. She says she's out $700.
Fox29 traffic reporter
Dorothy Krysiuk
has gotten out of a tough spot.
She acknowledges that she recently negotiated with the Philadelphia Parking Authority over about $1,200 in parking tickets on her BMW. She says she's out $700.
The discount is not unusual. Hearing examiners "try to work with you," says
Linda Miller
, deputy executive director of the authority, while not addressing Krysiuk's case specifically. "If you're blatant, then they look at it differently."
Real real estate
The Kimmel Center on the Avenue of the Arts cost $265 million. Another Kimmel center - the one in Palm Beach, Fla., that clothing czar/philanthropist
Sidney Kimmel
actually has lived in - is on the market for only about a third of that. The West Philly cabdriver's son is asking $81.5 million for his
Thierry Despont
-designed spread on South Ocean Boulevard on a stretch of beachfront known as Billionaire's Row. The place, on five-plus acres, has a 66-foot-long swimming pool lined with Murano glass, 27-zone air- conditioning, and a professional kitchen boasting 10-burner Viking gas range and seven dishwashers.
Kimmel, who in January 2007 sold his condo in the Rittenhouse Hotel for $3 million, told me in late 2006 that he and wife
Caroline
have been spending more time in California, where his film-producing interests lie. The Kimmels last year bought
Johnny Carson's
old place in Malibu for $40 million.
Details on the Florida pad abound. Google the address "1236 S. Ocean Blvd." or visit the Real Estalker blog (
» READ MORE: http://realestalker.blogspot.com
).
Brush with disaster
Action News
morning anchor
Matt O'Donnell
was seeing beige last week. While covering a pep rally at the Arc of Philadelphia/Philadelphia Developmental Disabilities Corp., he leaned against a wall as he took notes. That wall, however, had just been painted as part of a community-service project, and O'Donnell was left with two large stripes on his gorgeous suit jacket. Executive director
Bruce Hulick
urged O'Donnell to send him the cleaning bill, but O'Donnell gallantly waved that off.
What's cooking
Northeast Philly native
Jennifer Carroll
yesterday reported for her first day as chef de cuisine at 10 Arts, the
Eric Ripert
-backed restaurant under construction at the Ritz-Carlton. With the opening of 10 Arts, expected about May 20, the R-C's upscale Grill restaurant off the lobby will become private-event space.
Briefly noted
A lot of helium changed hands last week as the old Channel 6 Zooballoon at the Philadelphia Zoo was deflated after nearly six years and a new one (same size, different look) was inflated. The zoo says it holds 220,000 cubic feet of helium, the equivalent of 200,000 basketballs. Though it's up now, official launch is today and public rides start tomorrow.
Talker
Dom Giordano
is to tape an interview with Gen.
David Petraeus
, the top U.S. commanding officer in Iraq; it's due to air at 9 p.m. tomorrow on his WPHT-AM (1210) show.
East Oak Lane's
Victoria Wells
promises something extra at tomorrow's reading/signing session for her new romance novel,
A Special Summer
. (The YouTube trailer is linked at
» READ MORE: http://go.philly.com/wells
.) She and fellow author
Gayle Jackson Sloan
will bring in an instructor for free salsa-dance lessons; signings are 5 to 7 p.m., dancing starts at 8, at North by Northwest (7165 Germantown Ave.).
In the theater, they say that timing is everything. Last Tuesday, actor
Jeffrey Coon
's wife,
Hattie
, went into labor with their second child - a few hours before the opener of the Walnut Street Theatre's new production of
The Odd Couple
, in which Coon plays poker-loving buddy Vinnie. Coon left that night's show in the hands of an understudy, and
Jackson Oliver Coon
was born early Wednesday.