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Yesterday I wrote a great piece over at Philly Mag on the Puppy Love Event. So adorable. Here are a few pixs, then a link to take you over to some more pups and stories.

*must be 21+ to attend
*tickets include wine, beer, and a bite-size sensory tasting by Chef Shola Olunloyo
*tickets must be purchased in advance, capacity is limited

Packed house. aLoft has been killing it with these special events, bringing in Philadelphia Eagles players like Michael Vick, DeSean Jackson for signings, as well as Power 99 and Q102 for radio gigs. Plus the rooms are modern and affordable, and the location is convenient.

 Event Hosts Mina Say What, from Power 99 and Plex from
Monster House Entertainment.

I was walking down Chestnut Street yesterday and noticed the sidewalk closed in front of the former Union Trust Steak House.

as an orange sign on the door read “TEMPORARILY CLOSED FOR PLUMBING REPAIRS” at the time, and then it was reported later that the restaurant would not be opening again.

 and that if repairs weren’t made by March 6, the City had the right to tear down the building.

I would hope that someone, anyone, The City itself would move to save this tremendously important architectural gem the building which also once served as The Union Trust Company Bank. The 19th century Greek revival building housed the Union Trust Steakhouse restaurant, which opened with great fanfare in 2/9/09, and suffered under the collapsing economy and glut of high end steak houses. (This story reminds me of when the old Brasserie Perrier facade collapsed in 2009 after the restaurant had abruptly closed earlier that year.)

Bancroft School celebrates 20th anniversary with Butterfly Ball

Read more: http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/out_and_about/Bancroft-School-celebrates-20th-anniversary-with-Butterfly-Ball.html#ixzz2KivIENTJ

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Valentine to the Market at Reading Terminal Market
When: Saturday, February 23, 7-11 p.m.
Where: Reading Terminal Market, 51 N 12th Street
Cost: $125 in advance, $150 after Valentine’s Day, $100 for 10 or more tickets, $75 for ages 21-35, $300 for patron tickets
get tickets
now – www.partyticketsonline.com/valentine

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ALCON ENTERTAINMENT’S “BEAUTIFUL CREATURES” ENCOURAGES FANS

TO SEEK OUT THEIR FATE THIS VALENTINE’S DAY!

BURBANK, CA – February 5, 2013 – To celebrate Valentine’s Day and the theatrical

release of Alcon Entertainment’s supernatural love story “Beautiful Creatures,” Warner Bros.

Pictures encourages movie lovers to exercise sweet indulgence. On Wednesday, February 13th in

chocolates to lucky fans.

“Beautiful Creatures” confections can be Claimed locally at the Macy’s of Cherry Hill

Mall in the Junior’s Department between the hours of 6:00pm – 8:00pm by seeking out someone

wearing a “Beautiful Creatures” shirt and pronouncing, “I want to be Claimed.”

ZOEY DEUTCH and THOMAS_MANN at Macys Cherry Hill, NJ in January when they did a meet and greet.

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ABOUT “BEAUTIFUL CREATURES”

Oscar® nominee Richard LaGravenese (“The Fisher King,”“P.S. I Love You”) directs the
supernatural love story “Beautiful Creatures” from his adaptation of the first novel in the best-
selling series by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl.
Ethan Wate (Alden Ehrenreich), 17, has had the same recurring dream for months. A
mysterious young girl is waiting for him on a Civil War battlefield. Ethan desperately wants to
be with her, but there is an unknown danger—and each time a lightning bolt cracks like a
gunshot, killing Ethan before he ever reaches the girl. The danger of this strange dream world,
however, is preferable to Ethan’s waking existence in Gatlin, South Carolina, a small,
conservative Southern town that hasn’t caught up to the 21st century, where nothing ever changes
and nothing ever happens. But Ethan’s mundane world is shaken up with the arrival of Lena
Duchannes (Alice Englert), the beautiful and enigmatic niece of Macon Ravenwood (Jeremy
Irons), the reclusive owner of gothic Ravenwood Manor. Ethan finds himself immediately drawn
to Lena, even though destruction seems to inexplicably follow her and it becomes apparent that
she is a Caster, with powers beyond her control. The town, led by conservative Mrs. Lincoln
(Emma Thompson), wants her banished. Even Gatlin’s all-knowing librarian, Amma (Viola
Davis), is afraid history may repeat itself—a history of family secrets and a curse that looms for
Lena as she approaches her 16th birthday. It is that time when a Caster is chosen by the forces of
either the Light or the Dark. But Lena’s fate may already be sealed by the curse that draws both
her and Ethan into a tangled web of spells and peril from which there may be no escape.
“Beautiful Creatures” stars Alden Ehrenreich (“Tetro”), Alice Englert (“Ginger &
Rosa”), Academy Award® winner Jeremy Irons (“Reversal of Fortune”), Oscar® nominee Viola

Davis (“The Help,” “Doubt”), Emmy Rossum (TV’s “Shameless”), Thomas Mann (“Project X”)
and Academy Award® winner Emma Thompson (“Howard’s End,” “Sense and Sensibility”).
Rounding out the cast are Eileen Atkins, Margo Martindale, Zoey Deutch, Tiffany Boone, Rachel
Brosnahan, Kyle Gallner, Pruitt Taylor Vince and Sam Gilroy.
The film was produced by Erwin Stoff (“Water for Elephants”), Academy Award®
nominees Andrew A. Kosove and Broderick Johnson (“The Blind Side”), Molly Mickler Smith
(“Something Borrowed”) and Oscar® nominee David Valdes (“The Green Mile”). Yolanda T.
Cochran served as executive producer, with Steven P. Wegner co-producing.
The behind-the-scenes team includes Academy Award®-winning director of photography
Philippe Rousselot (“A River Runs Through It”), production designer Richard Sherman (“Gods
and Monsters”), editor David Moritz (“Jerry Maguire”) and Oscar®-nominated costume designer
Jeffrey Kurland (“Bullets Over Broadway”). Music is by thenewno2.
Opening February 14, 2013, Alcon Entertainment presents a 3 Arts Entertainment/Belle
Pictures Production, “Beautiful Creatures.” The film has been rated PG-13 for violence, scary
images and some sexual material. It will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros.
Entertainment company.

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Cupid’s Undie Run in Philadelphia

Do-gooders brave the cold—in their underwear!—to raise money for the Children’s Tumor Foundation.

Last week was the kick off to New York Fashion Week at Lincoln Center

and it seems like we had our own fashion week here in Philly as there were events popping up all over. It started with the The Red Ball Fashion Preview at Macy’s Center City hosted by Alicia Vitarelli, 6ABC’s Anchor/FYI Reporter and Renée Cardwell Hughes, CEO of the Southeastern Pennsylvania chapter of the American Red Cross

There was so many great fashions on the runway that I didn’t catch as I was out the door to the next event.

 

A little ways up Chestnut Street, The Philadelphia Incubator, which is also sponsored by Macy’s, had a Pop-Up shop party at Knit Wit (1729 Chestnut St), which goes until 2/14/13

The Philadelphia Incubator: Elissa Bloom, Executive Director, Textile and fashion designer‘s Melissa D’Agostino, Autumnlin Atelier, Kaitlyn Elizabeth, Moriamo Johnson and Latifat Objinmi

 Susan Slawson, Recreation Commissioner and Melissa D’Agostino with one of her creations. You’ll recall two weeks ago I wrote that Mrs Nutter wore her dress to the Academy Ball.

The 2012 class of Designers-In-Residence will complete their residency
at the Fashion Incubator at the end of February when a new crop of
eager, talented fashion designers will be introduced in the beginning of
March.

Further up Chestnut Street I hit the  Hope Chest Center City is hosting Brews, Bras, & Bling, a men’s happy hour and shopping event, hosted by WMMR’s Marisa Magnatta at the Hope Chest at 1937 Chestnut Street

Alex Digiacomo, Dave Levenson and Matthew Nadu with the beautiful models of The Hope Chest

DJ Eddie Tully and hosted by Marisa Magnatta, with Dan Cronin, Chorus Communications

Jen Rosen, Hope Chest Owner, with Philadelphia MC Wyo and Marisa Magnatta. WYO won the raffle for the Chase Utley shirt. He tells me he’s going to donate it to a charity organization for auction.