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October 3- 9, 2002

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Dag… People’s Best & Worst Dressed issue dogs Philly ladies Eve, Pink and Jill Scott for lousy sartorial sense. Supwitdat? (Ladies, you seen that same ish’s purses carried by Kelly Osbourne? Maddie Powers, Sofitel gift shop, Le Petit Bijou.) At least Rolling Stone hooked up fashionable rockers The Bigger Lovers -- four stars -- for Honey in the Hive. “Maybe this’ll help pay for a new van, seeing as our old one was totaled en route to our record release show at The Khyber,” says drummer Pat Berkery.… Rumor to the effect of Transit selling or sold is null and void: no deal.… While DJ Brendan Olkus and Soul Travelin’ crew drive the funky-music bus from Alma to Anjou starting Sun., Oct. 13, I, DJ A.D., kick off every-first-Sunday, Broadway-glam-disco brunches at Bump Oct. 6.… Blue in Green (Seventh and Sansom sts.) finally goes “After Dark” every Thursday and Friday with DJ Junior.… Philly’s Billy Mann went from writing for Celine Dion and Carole King to producing Art Garfunkel’s Everything Waits to Be Noticed with Maia Sharp and Buddy Mondlock.… Looks like a long week of locals christening the Dilworth Inc.-booked Club 218, with Oct. 3’s Preacher Curls/The Wise & Foolish Builders and Oct. 5’s Chino (Paul of Monkey 101)/Revelogic gigs. Revelogic finished two new tunes with producer Ron A. Shaffer (Tricky, Interpreters) with a full CD set for winter 2003.… WhoWhatWhere: After painting Bar Noir red with PhilaFilm’s Sharon Pinkenson and PR person Kathy Bomboy, Patrick Warburton (Puddy on Seinfeld) dragged them along on a shopping spree the next day. While Bill Cosby ate fish grilled with olive oil at Le Bec-Fin and Stephen Root (NewsRadio) and Michael Starr (Dumb and Dumber) supped on Kobe beef carpaccio at Buddakan, Coldplay drummer Will Champion hit the Fire for September/Bumrunner, sticking around to sing tunes.… House-ho Carl Michaels is spinning Marmont every Wednesday. Not DJing. Just spinning.… New and improved Saigon Slimm joins Cee Knowledge, Love Syndicate, Townhall and Mutlu for the all-state Unity Movement Tour. First stop -- The Khyber, Oct. 5. Same night, across town, Stargazer Lily celebrate the release of their Phil Nicolo-produced CD The Lift and the Drag at 1616.… mUdpEopLe DJs Edwin, Lorne and Argo welcome Fugamma3 shirts to their murky Media Bureau monthly Oct. 4.… Guitarist Steven LaFashia and drummer Michael Leavy wisely left their jobs with Isle of Q and Mercy River to form the rip-snorting Jealousy Curve, debuting Oct. 5 at Grape St.… The Troc launches its Soul Series on Oct. 3 with MTV’s Qudoos and Black Lily-ite Ryva Parker giving awards to Kenny Gamble and Bunny Siegler and performances by NY Undercover’s Malik Yoba, Jazmine Sullivan and N’Dambi. (Come say a fond adieu to promo mistress Angela, who’s moving blocks away to work for NARAS as an administrative asst./press rep.) Plus, if you want to see John Heyn and Jeff Krulik’s film Heavy Metal Parking Lot, check the Troc on Oct. 4.… After packing Circa last week, PYROnitelife gets wine-drunk with “Wines of the Mediterranean” at Monte Carlo Living Room (150 South St.) on Oct. 4.… As Stef Renee’s floating-funky Groove shuts down its weekly open-jam for a bit (looking for a permanent venue?), rumor has Bynum Bros.’ lease on Brave New World/Soul Sanctuary up on Oct. 5 with no commitment yet to renew. With two ZanzBlues and Warmdaddy’s going strong, who knows?… What was up at Doc Watson’s last week? Rumor has bands getting zip-money, ensuing riots started by the evening’s booker, barstools thrown, broken monitors, liquor stolen and 8-balls taken from pool tables. That’s the last straw!… Fuzzy Box and tbtmo bring back “Hologram” to La Tazza Oct. 3 with Azusa Plane jamming good atop Sean O’Neal spinning, along with Collette Carter, Arkitekchur and Rob Mall.… Neu-jazz group Fuzzbase (Phil Yaeger, Barry Meehan, Chris Cuzme, Doug Herlinger and Tim Motzer) make a Tritone debut Oct. 6, and then back Ursula Rucker for 215Fest at the North Star Oct. 18.… Dave, Chris and Jerry -- the heroes of Superhero -- recorded four new tunes at Rasheed Wallace’s Direct Hit Studio with George J, Andy DiTaranto and Tony Pappa. Catch the wry rock-out at St. Joe’s U Oct. 4 and at the Balcony Oct. 17.… Oct. 5 and 6: Don’t go near the German Society of PA’s Ratskeller (611 Spring Garden St.) unless you want to get Yards Ale and Deutsch snacks by City Tavern boss Walter Staib.… Not even announced: Bowie -- The Tower, Oct. 21. David Live all over again!

We sadly say bye to Princes of Babylon (played their last show at The Fire last week), and happily say hello to Jaxon Christopher Graham, newborn babe of photogs Chris Meck and Jim Graham. Happy b-day to Pif boss David Ansill and Static DJ Reno, to Conduit in Trenton for celebrating one year and to Jugo/Matt Durington/Botany 500’s Soul Samba at Silk City, turning two Oct. 4.

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