November 11-17, 2004 food Laying the Cornerstone H-BOMB: Avram Hornik, (with Jeremy Duclut, back) juggles Noche, Bar Noir and Amedeo. Two forays into new cuisine and a surprise purchase help build the house of Hornik. by A.D. Amorosi The phones…
October 28-November 3, 2004 naked city The Grand Designer life of the party: Evantine Design’s Brian Kappra in his massive supply warehouse. Photo By: Michael T. Regan Gala planner Brian Kappra is on the job, even when he’s the guest…
October 7-13, 2004 music icepack by A.D. Amorosi You’re having your espresso, snug in the “Free Neil” T-shirt you won in a psyche strip poker game (way more revealing than just losing your pants) from one of Rouge’s staff kids,…
October 7-13, 2004 music Notes from Underground TOUGH ENOUGH: “Life has gotten harder,” says Stinking Lizaveta’s Cheshire Agusta (center). “So have we.” Photo By: Michael T. Regan The West Philly Three makes a fourth. by A.D. Amorosi Calling the decade-old…
October 7-13, 2004 cover story Daddy’s Girl Bedroom wisecracker Amy Sohn brings a father-daughter yarn to the 215. by A.D. Amorosi Which Amy Sohn best suits your needs? The often ribald first-person humorist who made “Female Trouble” for New York…
September 30-October 6, 2004 music icepack by A.D. Amorosi It’s never too soon for kitsch: Seeing American Idol‘s Ryan Starr drained dry on The Surreal Life is a keen, careening example. But with breast-man Russ Meyer lionized again, P. Diddy…
September 23-29, 2004 music icepack by A.D. Amorosi James Brown said “It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World.” But it’s looking more like a woman’s world, despite homophobic Pa. Sen. Rick Santorum not wanting Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie running their…
September 16-22, 2004 musicpicks Jake Fairley Rock/pop Best known to alterna-heads as one half of Uncut the post-punk crotch-rockers who made a minor buzz in Canada with Those Who Were Hung Hang Here Jake Fairley has another life.…
September 16-22, 2004 music icepack by A.D. Amorosi “Philadelphia” got some TV time this week: We had the boorish children of MTV’s The Real World: Philadelphia. The wound-tight Wharton-ites on NBC’s The Apprentice (but we’re not counting bow-tied Raj Bhakta…
