Rick Ross girlfriend Ming Lee shared a photo of the group together on Instagram and you can see Nicki Minaj and Meek Mill cuddling up together on the right.
Good Monday Morning. Hope you had a great weekend. I’m working on my PhillyMag column regarding a fun party I went to on Friday night at Stratus Lounge. Besides being a fabulous party, I noticed that Stratus Lounge has tented over the entire rooftop lounge & it’s heated. This is a game changer and will definitely help the winter doldrums for a bar that celebrates the great outdoors.
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trying to emulate the red carpet aisle style of Salma Hayek’s ivory ball
gown,
Kinda cute, and they’re having a nice sale too.
It’s been awhile since I’ve reminded you to sign up to receive daily updates on PhillyChitChat.com It’s the easiest way to stay up on the parties that are happening, and upcoming in the City. Thanks! After putting your email in here, you will receive a verification email. Remember to click on that link and that’s all you have to do. In the future I will be having special giveaways only available for subscibers.
Happy 20,000th Twitter Follower today. And as I built up my twitter (& instagram) following over the past 6 years, I sometimes neglected my blog and posted a lot of what used to be tidbits that I used to post here on PhillyChitChat. Over the past few months I’ve run into readers and they’ve told me they miss seeing those items on PCC as well as #WoofWoofWednesday; Going forward I’m going to post these tidbits again, a couple times a week, everyday at 3PM I’m going to publish an additional fun column for you to enjoy (Today though I’m publishing this much earlier.) Thank you for the feedback specifically yesterday Joan, Megan and Suzan who I ran into yesterday and told me they aren’t on SM, they get all their news from PhillyChitChat.
This is the old Liberty Travel office, which is moving down the street in the 1500 block of Chestnut Street.
I had this for lunch today, with Lynsie Solomon at McCormick & Schmidt. It was good
Good Friday morning. This is one of those events that escaped being published. It fell on a Saturday where I had 2 other events that evening, in the middle of the social season. Although I never had a chance to publish it I did give it a lot of twitter love as it was a great showing.
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University hosted their annual gala in November to kick off their popular exhibit Chocolate: The Exhibition which runs until January 24, 2015.
Nancy Warren, Ken Warren, Board of Trustees of the Academy of Natural Sciences and Cynthia P. Heckscher, Managing Director of Philadelphia Office at Diversified Search, LLC
The Saturday before Christmas Mike and I hit three parties. We went to our traditional Mark Segal Holiday Party and our friends Marty. This year we were invited to Vince Fumo and Carolyn Zinni. As someone who lives a block away from the grand, beautiful brownstone, and enjoyed the years of the storied house decorated beautifully during the holiday’s I was thrilled to finally see what it looked like inside. (For years I also gave architectural tours of Spring Garden and the Fumo has was on the tour.)
Earlier this year I met former Senator Vince Fumo and Carolyn Zinni at an event at Eastern State Penitentiary. We were introduced by the former president of the board Cindy Wanerman, who told me how the senator saved ESP from the wrecking ball. Over the past few months I ran into the couple at various charity events, and got to know them a little. I was really honored that they invited Mike and I to their holiday party. It wasn’t to photograph it, but of course I want to capture as much of Philadelphia life as I can.
Former Councilman Frank DiCicco, former Senator Vince Fumo and Senator Larry Farnese
Diane Johnson DiCicco and Christian DiCicco. He has the best attorney website which describes his work.
My Bankruptcy Attorney
Lt Mike Stack (r) , his wife Tonya (l), Sen Fumo and Mike Stack’s mom.
OMG he turns 18 and blew up the social circuit this year. Garrett Getlin Snider. He’s a college student, on the scene and a seriously philanthropic. He runs his own foundation and consults on his grandfather’s Ed Snider foundation. Next up Garrett Snider will be hosting a very special evening benefiting the
Vetri Foundation for Children:
Ann Catania and Sen Fumo
Peter Nero, later in the evening he tickled the ivories. He’s with Sheila from NYC.
The spread was impressive.
Happy New Year indeed Vince Fumo and Carolyn Zinni.
Here are the photos to Mark Segal’s party which I attended after leaving the Fumo Party.
Tuesday was Philadelphia’s first snow day. As an added bonus the Christmas tree’s around town were still up so I headed out the door to capture a few of my favorite sites.
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I love the parquet floors and spacious rooms. It captured the old world charm that I imagined apartments on the Square would have.
 OK this is exactly the kind of photo I imagine of always taking of the square at dusk, on a snowy day with the holiday lights a glow. #BucketList |
Actress Vivica A. Fox and reality star Kate Gosselin celebrated the premiere of “Celebrity Apprentice” at a private screening hosted by Comcast and The Neat Company at the Comcast Center Monday night.
Reality star Kate Gosselin and actress Vivica A. Fox with David L. Cohen, Executive Vice President of Comcast Corporation VP Comcast is showing them how to search for their names
using the Comcast Voice Recognition Remote X1 by Xfinity. Looking on is Jeff Dickerson, Chief Executive Officer, and John Demming, Executive Director Corporate and Financial Communications of Comcast. (This is the moment Kate’s biography and all the shows she’s appeared in appeared. Can I say it was hard to get a decent shot with both gals looking up with a decent look on their face, the one I submitted to my wireservice is better but I can’t use it here if I hope it gets picked up by the national media.)
Right before the screening several people greeted the guests as well as Mayor Michael Nutter. There was also a raffle for some great Neat Company products. What’s Neat Company: The Neat Company: desktop and wireless
scanners to help you transform your receipts, documents and business
cards into information that works for you. Plus you can store them on their cloud, or even your own. I need this, my life is a mess. My 2015 paper mess can’t be like what 2014 has been.
Neat donated $20,000 to Kate’s charity “Camp Barnabas,” during the show because
she was the project manager and won the Neat Challenge. At the viewing party, it was announced that Neat will be donating an additional $2,000 each to Camp Barnabas and Vivica A. Fox’s charity “Best Buddies International.” Neat Board member Ron Kaiser also
donated $5,000 apiece to each charity.
Many of the Kate Gosselin fans on twitter yesterday were tweeting that Kate’s new beau was in the crowd. I didn’t see him, nor did I see the bodyguard. I told the twitter peeps I would put up random crowd shots to see if they saw him.
Comcast/Freelance Photographer Joe Kaczmarek got some great shots from this hard to shoot from angle.
Vivica is rocking HerveLedger with Laboutin pumps she tweeted. Kate
looks fabulous, I wish I had asked her what she was wearing. I had no idea she had a Winnie the Pooh tattoo on her
ankle. The girls are obviously good friends and very respectful of each
other, so whatever might have transpired during the filming has waned.
Vivica is one feisty ie direct women, I imagine she’ll have a run in
with nearly everyone. I think after this filming she will be the
“breakout” star as was Joan Rivers was. Joan always said it was the
Celebrity Apprentice that revived her career. Kate she’s going to get
swept up and married after this show, she’s so smokin hot, and you
#KateGosselin people know I had a very public twitter fight with Kate in
2012, but that’s old news. Time does change people, the other night I watched her close, she genuinely seems to be very happy, and pleasant.
IF she’s reading this she is no doubt saying that’s where I know you
from. When we were first introduced her eyes got big and I think she was
thinking, how do I know this guy. Anyway Katers I know you’re going to
have a field day with me, as you did yesterday on Twitter. But I really
feel this way.
If you’ve walked by the Sterling Apartments at 18th and JFK Blvd. you’ll notice that it is undergoing a major renovation. They seem to have kicked out most of the retail rentals including my beloved 7-11 on the corner of 19th and JFK.
I was wondering what was going to go into the space where the 7-11 was, which they have now taken over the store next to it to make it into a gigantic space. Last night after attending a private screening of Celebrity Apprentice with Kate Gosselin and Vivica Fox at the Comcast Center, I noticed that lovely orange sticker on the window. So excited as it indicates that Old Nelson Food Company, currently they have two locations one inside 30th Street Station and the other at 2000 Chestnut St . According to Yelp, they serve delicious sandwiches, treats from around the world, and they have takeout and a little grocery store. No word on when it will open, especially because the space is pretty raw as you can see.
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