Gamble & Huff and Phillies honor music greats Friday night

SOUL SINGER

Joe Simon

("Drowning in the Sea of Love"),

jazz bassist Gerald Robert Veasley and WDAS radio star

Patty Jackson

will be honored by Philadelphia International Records and the Phillies on Friday night at Citizens Bank Park.

The ceremony, starting at 6:30 p.m., before the Phils beat the Diamondbacks, is part of the 13th annual Phillies African American Heritage Celebration presented by The Sound of Philadelphia, in honor of Black Music Month.

Legendary music producers Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff will present the honorees with the Phillies Gamble & Huff Community Partnership Award.

The festivities will include Bunny Sigler singing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" and Dan'yelle Williamson, who's starring in Sister Act at the Walnut Street Theatre, singing the National Anthem. There also will be pregame and in-game performances by ODUNDE365's presentatation of the Universal African Dance and Drum Ensemble. Plus in-game music from the archives of The Sound of Philadelphia.

Celebrity boxing promoter

Damon Feldman

, who's working on bringing his unique brand of ring match-making to reality TV, is returning to Los Angeles in September for a fight featuring

Lindsay Lohan

's undefeated father,

Michael Lohan

(3-0, including a knockout over

Survivor

contestant

Jonny Fairplay

), doing battle in the squared circle against former Bash Brother

Jose Canseco

, who once fought to a draw against

Danny Bonaduce

.

Refereeing the bout will be Tori Spelling's husband Dean McDermott.

The battle will take place on Hollywood Bad Boy Night on Sept. 17 at an L.A. venue TBD.

"They both have fought for me before," Feldman said. "Both are athletic and both come to fight."

Bernie Sanders may still be running for president, but Larry David - who's been playing Sanders on Saturday Night Live - has nevertheless decided to get back to work playing himself.

HBO announced Tuesday that David's mildly (wildly?) autobiographical comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm would return for a ninth season, thus answering the question I (and TV critics everywhere) have been asked an untold number of times since the eighth season ended nearly five years ago, on Sept. 11, 2011.

Now, of course, you'll want to know when the new season begins, and that HBO is not yet telling us, probably because David's not yet told the network.

Asked why he decided to come back, David said in a statement, "In the immortal words of Julius Caesar, 'I left, I did nothing, I returned.' "

Kaitlin Olson

, who has become a household name thanks to

It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia

, said during the L.A. press event for

Finding Dory

that she will star in another TV series this fall.

"I am doing a television show in the fall called The Mick for Fox," Olson told Daily News Comics Guy Jerome Maida. "I'm very excited about it and it just got picked up.

"It's about a woman named Mickey who's kind of a piece of work," she laughed."

Olson made it clear she still will be doing the show that has become almost as synonymous with the city as cheesesteaks.

"I'll be doing Sunny in the springtime and The Mick in the fall, so I am super-excited! I'm very proud of how it all turned out. It's gonna be really funny!"

* Cooking like

Martha Stewart

is about to get easier. Martha is getting into the billion-dollar meal kit business. Subscribers will get a box shipped to their door with Stewart's recipes and all the ingredients, including pre-measured raw meat, fish, vegetables and spices.

Usually when we get raw meat in the mail it's a bad thing.

Martha & Marley Spoon kits start at $48 a week for two meals for two people and go up to $140 for four family meals. Prep and cook time is less than 40 minutes.

"It is, I think, the way to cook for the future," Stewart said.

At the rate Tattle is going, the way to cook for the future is Ramen noodles.

- Daily News wire services

contributed to this report.

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