Philly Chit Chat

Friday at Noon, the Daily News will celebrated “50 Years of Twistory” – the biggest, hippest, twistin’-est “Twist” party in history – at Dilworth Plaza, next to City Hall. Headlining the hip-swiveling bash is none other than Chubby Checker, whose world-changing version of “The Twist” was released 50 years ago today.

They wanted to break a record with the number of people Twisting, but the turnout didn’t allow it as it was hot and a holiday week. Not many folks in town.

The Women Doing The Fly:

Chubby as you see, isn’t as chubby as he used to be. He has his own line of healthy snacks and he’s 68 years old of rocking hot twisting.

4 Years ago when I lived in NYC on a paralegal assignment for 18 months, I noticed Philly things. Since I didn’t have a Philly Blog at the time these photos just sat on my computer, and since I have such a wonderful filing system, not, I just came across them. I’ve only been a “professional” photographer for 3 years, so all these were shot with a 4 mpxl point & shoot so they might not be up to snuff in clarity.I didn’t know there was Philadelphia BBQ, but it was a big seller on the Upper East Side
I saw it with Rosie & Harvey Fierstein, thankfully a pairing only once in a lifetime. You can see Fiddler on the Roof until Jul 18 2010 at theWalnut Street Theatre | 825 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, 215-574-3550. Mike and his mom saw it last week and LOVED IT.
52nd & 7th Ave (2006)

Tastykake advertised in Times Square. If Twitter was invented I would have Twitpic this shot. (follow me @iphillychitchat or create a list just for me, cause I tweet a lot)
Look familiar.
This too. This is in Tribeca. I think here in Philly it’s called World Park, and it’s near where?

After she left Philly, she landed in NYC in front of the Seagram’s building. No longer there though, I have no idea where it is now.
There’s a couple in Philly, but this one is about the same size as the one on U of P’s campus. This is 54th & 6th Ave
The Umbrella Man when it was in front of the Urban Outfitters Office.
This building is in Brooklyn and looks a lot like the one

in the Gayborhood.

This ad is in the gayboorhood of Chelsea at 24th & 9th Ave, a block from where I lived

Last week, Brad Heffler and his two sons Jason and Josh were the guests of Stuart Scott on the live, national edition of ESPN Sports Center. Right in the middle of all of the Lebron James hoopla, the Phillies game ended and after saying the Phillies lost the game 7-5, Stuart said, “I have a couple of big Phillies fans right next to me in the studio who are probably crying right now about them losing to the Braves again. Let me give a shout-out to Josh and Jason Heffler who came up from Philly.”

There was a surprise baby shower for expectant mother CBS3’s Lesley van Arsdale thrown by her good friend Aditi Roy and Kelly Boyd at the Union League in Philadelphia, Pa on Saturday June 16. (PhillyChitChat was invited to cover it, but I had a family event that day. Thanks to Kelly Boyd for sending me a few pictures.)
Aditi Roy, Lesley van Arsda and Kelly Boyd
Lesley and sister Ashley at shower. Is that from Tiffany’s?
The flowers were gorgeous by Michael of Pure Design. The best in Philly. We had the shower in the front reception room with the sun streaming in.
A few week ago I hinted that one of Philly’s socialites had packed up her house and moved to the Mainline. It’s Kelly Boyd. Here she is with her man bob Nantucket yesterday on the Westmoor Club yacht the Belle. Her business remains in Philadelphia on Rittenhouse Square, and she just signed a few more clients. So she’s busy.
Update: Congratulations to Kelly Boyd of KB Consultants and Dr. Robert Kreb, who practices sports medicine at Pennsylvania Hospital, who were engaged over the weekend in Nantucket.
Boyd, 43, and Kreb, 65, have been dating since last fall, and she recently moved into his Main Line home. The couple, who have each been married before, are planning an intimate ceremony but haven’t set a date.

Since I just wrote about the McCord/van Kempen visit to Chelsea last week in my Philly Mag Column I thought I would post these shots of their signing last month here on Philly Chit Chat.
McCord and Simon van Kempen will appeared at the Border’s bookstore in Center City to discuss Little Kids, Big City: Tales from a Real House in New York City. According to the couples’ website: “Writing with unique & humorous insight into the challenges facing city parents today, Alex and Simon use their own hard-won experience as a springboard to discuss a host of parenting topics, including baby s first six months, traveling with infants, hiring caregivers, disciplining, dealing with accidents, dining out, making the most of urban life, & scheduling time for non-urban escapes. A must for fans and parents!”(source)

Anthony Young Natalie Warren Katelyn Panaro, Isaih Clemmons Adina Vanaman skipped a business class at the Art Institute to make the signing. They did tell their teacher that they would be meeting the couple and promised to make up the work. They also told me that after spotting the celebrity couple walking around Center City, they looked on my site to see why they were in town, and saw the signing scheduled on the right side margin where I put such info.

Meet the man, Michael A Nutter.