Need help filling your Easter basket?
SweetTooth now occupies a former sweet spot familiar to many Philadelphian’s, The Pink Rose Pastry Shop
According to an article by Drew Lazor of MealTicket at the City Paper:
Philly dessert fanatics lamented the January loss of the venerable Pink Rose (630 S. Fourth St.), but it didn’t take very long for the corner space to snag a new operator. Scott Lean, whose family owned the business from roughly 1998 to 2005. Philly’s Sweettooth is the city’s best source to soothe your cravings. With over 250 candies, chocolates, nuts and dried fruits we have something for everyone. All the Pink Rose’s signature kitsch-enware (Where’s the sign. do you know McGillin’s bar takes in those iconic old signs and hangs them on their wall, HINT HINT!) is gone to make room for a big selection of around 250 treats sold by the quarter pound (price isn’t finalized, but it’ll be less than $3): dried fruits, nuts, 10 varieties of malt balls, Pez, gummis, sour stuff, all manner of chocolate, licorice, sugar-free choices and so forth. Why such a dentist-damning concept? “I love sugar,” laughs Lean, who holds a tech job down in Old City full-time.
Scott say that SweetTooth has something for everyone, and I would agree like this Crystal Rock candy (remember making this in high school?) , malt balls and soon pop rocks and vintage candy.
SweetTooth has all your Easter Basket needs, and is opened on Easter for the last minute baskets. Parking can be a little tough in the area, I’m gonna suggest Scott take phone order & run my next package of candy out to my car parked by the fire hydrant. But you really should go in the store to get the full flavored colorful atmosphere. Also Scott hopes to at some time add a couple tables so you can be surrounded by all the sweet stuff as you enjoy your treasures. Here are a few of Scott friend’s who have stopped by for a treat.
email: phillysweettooth@gmail.com
phone: 215.923.8800
address: 630 S. 4th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19147

Delilah’s 2010 Entertainer of the Year Contest was held last week, and moi was a celebrity judge. I had a great time. This was the first time I had been in a strip club since I went to Minnie’s to see Tiny Tim’s ex-wife Miss Vicki dance to Tip-Toe thru the Tulips and other numbers.

Delilah’s, will award over $12,000 in cash and prizes at its annual Entertainer of the Year Competition, Wednesday, March 24th 2010.

This highly anticipated event will deliver powerful performances from some of Delilah’s most dynamic dancers as they compete for the coveted title, “Entertainer of the Year 2010”.

The evening begins at seven o’clock with select open bar sponsored in part by Grey Goose Vodka and Corona Light Beer.

To seduce your palate, gourmet butlered hors d’oeuvres will be prepared by Delilah’s award winning culinary team.

Alycia Thomas, Buffy Morgan (Marketing Director) and Rae are your bottle girls at the club
I brought along my co-worker/friend Grayson and his girlfriend Nicky Manning. Nicky has a successful business called Bizarre Boudoir where she makes the hottest lingerie and corsets. So I know they would have an absolutely fabulous time attending the Entertainer of the Year event with me.
Upstairs in the VIP/Judges lounge I found my buddy in gossip Dan Gross, and his lovely wife Holly Maher. And their friend who I never saw again after this picture.
Amy Shantz, Jamie Reibenback, Jessica Scott and Alexis Small were in attendance. And I believe were all judges too. I love how Jamie is wearing color. Color is really all the rage this season girls.
VIP spread included shrimp and snow crab claws.
Gary Thorpe, Ted Adams, Marilyn and Jack Kellmer (who you will recall was recently in the Michael Klein’s column for providing jewelery to Mariah Carey when her’s broke right before she performed at a recent concert at the Tower. He got a few tickets for his trouble, but never got to meet the diva.), Alexis Small, Jessica Scott, Buffy Morgan
Buffy is giving the judges instructions. there were rules on judging. Appearance, Talent, Routine, something else, legs
No pictures could be taken during the contest, but some of the dancers had themed pieces. I twittered to my followers that it was like watching a drag show, there was lip singing, their was dance movements, dollar bills being thrown on to the stage, but in the end there was a whole lot less clothing on the real girls.
Although I did take this one of Julio Rosario was another judge and was very popular with the shot girls behind me who occasionally would drop a glove or some clothing material on my lap and ask me to buy them a shot.

3rd-Alyssa and her show GaGa Oh La La (altho I gave her 8’s & 10’s BECAUSE this girl could work a pole like no one’s business and she even did a zip line across the stage, how the heck did she loose?) she killed her chances when she basically stated as one of her dislikes:
Darling Politics and Poles do not mix, but for her efforts she brought home $2,000

One of the judges did get a souvenir from Alyssa Gaga

2nd Place went to Randi and her show Queen of the Revolution (Prince Themed Dance). Not too much of a pole dancer, I was really basing my vote on the pole. Although most of the judges and crowd enjoyed the Prince theme. Winning $3,000

The winner of $7,000 was hot sexy Gabriella and her show Carnival de Brazil. She was a beauty, her costume divine, but I don’t recall any pole action.

The dancers gave the judges gifts. I of course loved the cupcake from the entertainer who did the “Desperate Housewife” Skit, she also was terrific on the pole, but lacked energy to remain a contender. The cupcake was good though.
Foxy would love for you guys to visit her M – Fr 11AM – 7PM; Also in the crowd that night, Sabrina Tamburino-Thorne, Steve Thorne, Lauren O’Dorisio, John Collabelli, Kristin Foote, Hacina Saadi, several Eagles players, and a few more notables. This was a major night not only for the contestants but also for the social set of Philadelphia, as I had heard it was in years past.
Richard Brian Penn and Glenn Zieve

Monique Crawford, Tal Jacobsen, Jill Jacobsen and Stephanie Rybczyk
All in all I had a wonderful time at Delilah’s. It wasn’t at all like I envisioned as it looked like one of those night clubs from years gone by. There was a nice VIP and table section where I saw plenty of couples enjoying the shows, as well as a couple who were enjoying massages from some of the girls working there. The guests that enter the doors are consenting adults and it is all about fantasy. Delilah’s 100 Spring Garden Street
Philadelphia, PA 19123-3134
(215) 625-2800

My friend Andrea Helfrich, from Richboro, Pa and a student at West Chester University, was crowned Miss Philadelphia 2010 Saturday night her mom texted me this morning. (Ok I’m actually closer friends with her mom)

Here with her mom Susan Helfich in 2007. You can see where Andrea gets her good looks from.Andre, was last year’s first runner up and named Miss Keystone 2009 (who knew there was one>), wins a $10,000 scholarship in this years contest. (Who knew you could run again and again til you captured the crown/title?) Here she is with her mom at the charity event “Let Them Eat Cake”. I think this was the photo that ran in Michael Klein’s column last year.
Megan Smith, Brownstone Pr (Megan’s co-founded Dancing with the Philadelphia Stars which is Sunday 4/18/10 at the Penns Landing Hyatt) and Andrea Helfrich, who will be making one of her first public appearances at the Donor’s are Hero’s event – The Party on Friday 4/16 at the Bellevue. Please support both these events as I am personally involved with both of them.
Thanks to my friend freelance photographer Robert Mendelson for the following photo. Robert covered a lot of events on Saturday night, including Holly Robinson Pete at the Please Touch Museum’s event: Children with Autism and the Miss Philadelphia contest.
Miss Philadelphia 2010 Andrea Helfrich

Spring Is In The Air as the Flower Show returns to Macy’s Center City! The show is staged in the Grand Court, the site of Wanamaker’s Flower Shows from the 1930s through the early 1970s. Center City will be transformed into a wonderland of spectacular gardens, where magic reaches new heights and floral fantasies take flight!

This year’s show features different varieties of exotic trees, flowering plants and brilliant color as far as the eye can see! Take a guided tour or stroll through our enchanting gardens at your own pace. And, don’t miss our hot air balloon centerpiece, overflowing with lush spring flowers that will make your spirits soar! The Macy’s show will be staged in the Grand Court and will feature varieties of exotic trees, flowering plants, and a hot-air balloon centerpiece. The show will include special in-store events, sweepstakes, cooking demonstrations and seminars. Sunday at 2pm Philly’s own Patty LaBelle cut the ribbon to open the show in the Center Court near the Eagle “Meet Me At The Eagle.” She arrived appropriately on at Philadelphia trolley to the red carpet, wearing a Michael Kor’s beautiful springtime outfit with of course Loubotin pumps. (I would walk on fire hot coals to see Patti LaBelle, I am a huge fan. I’ve seen her in concert more than a dozen times.) The second annual Macy’s Flower Show, “Spring Is in the Air,” from March 28 to April 11 at the Center City Philadelphia store, Market and Juniper Streets.
Go to the Main Floor during the show to enter for a chance to win* a cruise to the Bahamas & Florida aboard Norwegian Jewel ? Macy’s Philadelphia GM Jim Kenny, with Miss Patti and WDAS Radio DJ Mimi Brown as our MC of the day. a cruise vacation where the options are endless! Courtesy of Norwegian Cruise Line, this 7-day cruise for four with oceanview stateroom accommodations will set sail from New York. While on board, your schedule is completely up to you! Norwegian’s signature Freestyle Cruising® is al l about giving you the freedom and flexibility to have your style of vacation.

For more info click here.
And by all means support our Macy’s, I know it’s a difficult economy but we are lucky to finally have this great department store in Center City in this historic building, and I don’t want to lose it. Now if they carried big and tall sizes I would definitely shop there more, but nowadays I can only buy socks and cologne. UPCOMING EVENTS: Family Fun Day 4/10 2PM Afternoon of fun presented by the Academy of Natural Sciences, The Insectarium and the Please Touch Museum with Face Painting and Balloon Art (sounds fun, I’ll be there.) Then 4/10 3PM Princess Party for little girls to brush up on their etiquette. 3rd Floor Kids Dept.

Octopus Alert…. Octopus Alert…. Octopus Alert…. Tinto, chef Jose Garces’ wine bar and restaurant just procured a 35 lb octopus from Alaska (see picture.) The giant cephalopod has been out of frigid waters for only 48 hours. Starting this evening at 5 pm, it will be available served Basque style.
Chef de cuisine Dave Conn will create a traditional Spanish Pulpo Gallego dish. The octopus will be poached in red wine vinegar, lemon and various aromatic spices, then sauteed and served with potato confit, smoked paprika and fiddlehead ferns (the first of the season).
Pictured L to R – Chefs Andrew Sabin, Dave Conn and Anthony Scuderi at Tinto If there is any left over, you can look for a cured octopus dish starting Monday.
Tinto is located at 114 S. 20th Street – 215-665-9150 – www.tintorestaurant.com.

Philadelphian’s fancy themselves a welcoming bunch and no matter how many new hotels open in the City, none compare to the history and majestic address at 1701 Locust Street Philadelphia, Pa. the Radisson-Plaza Warwick Hotel . Last week I attended their grand reopening of the 2nd floor cocktail room and hallway in which they updated the decor to a much more modern current style. I am very familiar with these rooms, as well as the food and grand ballroom as my sister was married at the Warwick a little over 4 years ago and I have attended more than a few parties in this storied hotel.

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Plaza Warwick Hotel was originally constructed in 1926. This is what the hallway looked like before the renovation. (Shots from the day my sister signed her contract for the wedding reception 2005)and it’s new updated look. (I’m standing in almost the same place but shooting to the right)With 301 handsomely appointed rooms, this historic yet modern downtown Philadelphia hotel is located just off the world-renowned Rittenhouse Square, the city’s most prestigious residential, commercial and business district.

Dena Robbins and Julia Robbins
gone are the dark colors of the room, and mirrors. I can see what the Radisson-Warwick did was bring the room into the light. Although it is still magnificent and rich with history, it’s not your grandmother’s debutante dated room anymore.
April Ostach, Samantha Boyle, Angie Costa and Amy Murray
Sae-Hee – When I asked what restaurant he worked for, as the sushi was so good, he said the Radisson-Warwick. Sometimes I’m so clueless.
The GPTMC Crowd – Missy Logan, Katie Regenye, Eric Smith and Meredith Endlow. Note the new carpeting, less dizzying then the darker color from before. I’ve partied in this room before during more than a few victourious election parties my first one being Bill Clinton’s win for president, Mayor Nutter, Sen. Larry Farnese and recently President Obama’s win. And one losing campaign Sam Katz for Mayor. I remember when the Sam Katz campaign was so excited that they booked the Warwick before the Democrats. It was a big thing as the Warwick is considered lucky. Unfortunately for Sam that year it wasn’t.
Grand Staircase with it’s old chandelierand the new chandelier and updated staircase. Much more modern, colorful, current.Lynn and Bill Armstead
Rachel Branson, Simone McBean, Jasmin Senior, Sheila Corbett
Patricia Glancy, Jim Caouette, Gwendolyn Grey and Michael Glancy.
Joanne Cunningham, Director of Sales and Marketing and her team.
Cori Moskow, Gloss PR and her team

Lori Frankel, Gina Sole and Jim Riker
Ellie Friedman, Israeli Consul and Bob Kohn
Beginning Monday Tavern 17 will begin a New Happy Hour (you’ll recall that when Gerard Butler was in town filming Law Abiding Citizen, he stopped into Tavern 17 three times to eat):
$1.00 slider; $2.00 Draft $3.00 Spring Fling $4.00 Wine $5.00 pound of Peel and Eat Shrimp7 days a week – these five items from 5pm – 7pm
Five items priced from $1 – $5 each 7days a week nightly

Sorry the blog entry is late today, plus if you are looking for your entry I am behind, no surprise. I’ve been out every night for the past 2 weeks, and will now be taking 2 weeks of not attending social events, I think. But I have a lot to catch up on and will be doing entries every day (& a special one on Easter), and as always if you want to hire me I will cover your event, and if you have a celebrity sighting I will go out and shoot that. Today is another series of shots I’ve taken from around town that include my thoughts. If you go to any of these places, just tell them you read it on PhillyChitChat. Thanks Parking Wars: When attending theater in the center city district, you no longer have to pay outrageous parking fees like this one at the Kimmel Center $22 or the one around the corner at 15th & Spruce $20
Take your car to The Symphony House where the Suzanne Roberts Theater is 480 South Broad Street (Broad & Lombard). ( It’s only 2 blocks from the Kimmel Center at Broad & Spruce) PARKING is $12; I hate giving away my secret, but it irritates with these highway robbery parking prices.
If you are attending the Forrest or Walnut Street Theater there’s an equally inexpensive parking garage on 11th Street between Walnut & Locust, owned by the same company and only $9 to park in the evening.

Absolute Abstract has great Philadelphia prints, and they are inexpensive. Store is on 13th Street between Chestnut & Walnut Streets
Ryann Richardson Miss Philadelphia hands over her crown this weekend to a new Miss Philadelphia. Ryann is sweet, attends Philadelphia University and has a great career in communications ahead of her.

Pageant: March 27th – Drexel University
Tickets: $25
Get your tickets by calling
the Philadelphia Theater Ticket Office at 215-735-1903

There’s a guy at the Rocky Statue who will lend you boxing gloves and shoot your photo for a buck. Now that’s a bargain. Oh and he has hand sanitizer for you to use in between glove wearings.
Open House 107 South 13th Street sells those cute Banner Bags I told you about a few weeks ago; they’ve been selling like hot cakes and were out when I stopped by, but I did see these other bags they sell. Canvas distinct Philly bags they designed themselves also $20. If you stop by tell them PhillyChitChat sent you. In fact if you stop at any of these places tell them you read it here, thanks. That way they’ll let me come again and shoot things of interest.
Philadelphia Home Art Garden (PHAG) is closing. I was thrilled for them when they moved their cute sweet store from 12th Street to a gigantic store on Walnut, but wondered how they were going to do it. Then all hell broke loose and the economy tank. Look at what happened to Foster’s in Old City a similar fate. Now they have moved back to a sweet spot 33 North 3rd Street. I hear PHAG is going to do all their business online which is great, but I would love it if they found a sweet spot in the neighborhood to open a boutique again. The two guys running it are super nice. 30% – 40% SALES right Now.
Meritage 500 South 20th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19146-1302
(215) 985-1922

They have amazing deserts. This is the Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Bombe and it was amazing. Probably the most amazing dessert I ever had. Stop by for dinner and drinks, and get dessert or just stop by for dessert. So amazing, and for a few more dollars they do a wine pairing.
I enjoyed dinner there last week with Matt Vlahos and Jimmy Contreras. This is the very popular korean taco everyone is talking about. So very good.
Demi Moore retweeted something @anniemal said. If you are on twitter, you must follow @anniemal, so funny, raw and honest.
Not a fan of the design of the new Jewish Museum at 5th & Market. Looking forward to completion and Ingra Saffron’s take on it. What is up with that muted orange?
Mission Grill at 19th & Arch Streets so funny. I love when I come across funny signs in the City.
Mike and I saw “How to Train Your Dragon” last week. We loved it, your kids will love it, and parents won’t be bored. Mike says it’s a cross between ET & Avatar. He’s right. Your kid will want to own a dragon after seeing this 90 minute movie.
Oh I will be going on a diet again, I know I’ve said that, and I have gone to one too many eateries lately and chosen the not so Weight Watchers meal, but I’m heading back to the gym, and weight watchers and working on my speedo body. If Perez Hilton can do it, and he looks so good, I’m going to do it too. I have to.
Not a fan of this Sex and the City 2 poster. LAME. I’m thinking I might head to NYC to cover the red carpet premiere as I am such their fan.
Saw this advertisement in a local chester newspaper, wow.
I was at my friend Sue Fee’s house the other day for her daughter’s 4th Birthday. I forgot that on their kitchen window a celebrated artist friend did this rendition of a baby Sue on her kitchen window for Sue’s 30th Bday party 10 years ago.
I went to Sampan again and had lamb chops for dinner, but I stress that their lunch is the best bargain in town. A complete lunch, sandwich, soda & drink for $7 – $9. They also have noodle dishes and salads for the same combination. 124 South 13th Street. Here’s their advertisement in the new issue of WHERE Magazine “Flavors that Stick”

My favorite on the menu now.

TUESDAY I didn’t see the really super duper long line for opening day of 500 Degrees as I had to buy my Lady Gaga tickets for the 9/14/10 show and didn’t arrive until 1PM, but when I did get there the line was impressive, and it had started to rain, but that didn’t stop the folks from enjoying a few of the specials on opening day of 500 Degrees, (Five Hundred Degrees or that little symbol I can’t find on my keyboard.)
The easy to order menu. 500º is a joint love affair of Rob and his wife Maggie Wasserman (owners of Rouge on Rittenhouse Square), as well as their staff including Chef Matt Zagorski and his team who will be running the operation.
I like the yellow sign on the counter that says any pix taken today can be used for promotional purposes without pay or notification.
I’m hungry
Fresh buns and burgers ran out at 3:30PM, and I heard they had to close for an hour to get more delivered. All and all it was a successful first day.
Lookie here who I found. Krystina Kennedy of the newly formed Fat Kids Approve blog about food. Now seriously, she is not fat, I know fat, and she’s not it, but anyway she writes a fun blog about food and she’s got good taste and a keen sense of burgers. (I actually just radomly picked her and Moria Phillips out of the crowd to shoot too). Krystina (rt) told me that she’s a big fan of the Rouge Burger, but found the 500 Degrees burger more manageable.
I love that they have counter seating as well as 2 community tables
My co-worker Sofia & her friend. They waited about 30 minutes in line at which point they gave up on their buy 1 get 1 free.Notice the signage has changed again and this is the final one, simple, perfect like their burgers. Thanks to the many foodie bloggers (Foobooz, MealTicket, GrubStreet Philly to name a few), Neff & Associates and Michael Klein the word got out and the opening was a huge success. I love great ideas, openings, burgers and I love how food has become the new celebrity in Philadelphia. Over 600 burger were sold yesterday. I hear there was a line all night long.
The only thing I was disappointed in was the bathroom, no mirror to do a teeth checking. Plus who wants to walk around with a milkshake mustache. So be forewarned, bring a little compact when you go to 500 Degrees. (I previously wrote about 500 degrees HERE when I did the taste testing a few weeks ago.)
Tonight (from Dan Gross’ column last Thursday:
This job is harder than it looks Atlanta Falcons veteran Aaron Beasley, comedian Tim Adams, Mixed Martial Arts fighter Julio Rosario and HughE Dillon of PhillyChitChat.com will join Your Humble Narrator as judges March 24 at Delilah’s (100 Spring Garden) for the gentlemen’s club’s Entertainer of the Year 2010 contest. The event, which will award more than $12,000 in cash and prizes starts at 7 p.m. Admission at the door is $20.

Was a Slam Dunk for Philabundance The Nine Hour Business Networking Party
Where Guests watched the One-And-Done Tournament was hosted by Philadelphia based-law firm Zarwin Baum DeVito Kaplan Schaer Toddy, PC and HUB InternationalWhile many of you were sneaking peaks at the kick-off games of the NCAA on your work computers, I was hired to cover the largest NCAA March Madness party in this city. About 1000 friends, colleagues, clients, family and politicians gathered at the Top of the Tower in the Bell Atlantic Building, on the 51st Floor for one gigantic party, with food, spirits and at least 5 gigantic TV’s to watch the game on. (And this was their 8th Annual March Madness Party. The best kept unique watching experience in the City.)
Alan Cosnoff of Philabundance, Gary DeVito, Zarwin, Stacey Kracher, Robb Lanham Chief Sales Officer at Hub International, Mitchell Kaplan, Zarwin
Nancy Landy, Nicole Raco and Eunice Lee checked in the guests many of who were made up of colleagues, friends, clients and politicians.

DA Seth Williams and Partner at Zarwin Mitchell Kaplan
Gregory Kelleher, Philabundence and Mike Keba, Giant Food Stores

Food and spirits were served all day long and it was delicious.

One of the sponsors for the event included US Legal Support
Jeff Mayerson, Director of Sales, Northeast at U.S. Legal Support, Inc. and attorney Erin Elmore
State Rep candidate Gregg Kravitz who is running in the 182nd district, Hal Hershgordon, and Sharif Street, who is running for State Representative in the 190th District

Andrew Laver and Anne Nikolaus

Maureen Burling, Ronald Burling and Mike Quick. Maureen was a huge fan of Mike Quick, and was so excited to meet him. Her boys are going to be so envious she said.

I’m outta the running, I picked Villanova to win it all. I thought it was there year.
Guests were asked to bring canned goods or a donation to be collected by Philabundance, the region’s largest hunger relief organization fighting hunger and malnutrition in the Delaware Valley.
Alan Kurtz, AK Consulting & running for Sheriff in Philadelphia County hands Alan Casnoff, Philabundence a personal donation.
David Oh and John Katrina, Katrina Consulting

Barry Sable, Kelly Alexander and Jenine Neff

The Cigar Room was most popular with men with a smattering of women who partook

The Cigar Room was sponsored by US legal Support, which supplied the cigars too.
Erin Elmore offers Howard Silverman a stogy.
Cigar Room
The silent auction and donations collected raised more than $6,750 for the regional charity and more than 1,200 pounds of canned and boxed goods were collected at the March 18th event.
Philabundance provides a full plate of services to close to 500 member agencies in 10 counties, who serve approximately 900,000 low income residents. Philabundance provides food to approximately 65,000 people per week, at an aggregate cost of less than 30 cents permeal. In 2009, Philabundance, distributed 17 million pounds of food in the Delaware Valley.

Les Hassett, Lou Lombardi, Chris Scarafile, Bill Finnegan, Gary Williams, Mike Fitzpatrick and Brian Sherlock
Dan Gross – Philly Daily News Columnist and Bill Ross, Newspaper Guild.

Jill Fisher Esq., Marc Neff – Law Offices of Marc Neff, and Michelle Neff
Stephanie and Brendan Smith. Brenden tells me that Smith’s won the Olympic Barstool Competition, Swift Tap won and New Wave won the Bronze. Together all five competing bars raised $2500 for the Police Athletic League. He runs one of my fav eateries – smiths restaurant
Paul Smith and Candice Woods. Paul used to work at my law firm Kohn, Swift & Graf and has gone out on his own to start a copy, print and everything office. Look for Zarwin attorney Patricia Holden to speak at the National Business Institute seminar about ‘Key Issues and Case Law Update’ on April 29 in Philadelphia. Details available at http://www.nbi-sems.com/ Amber Goins, Stacey Kracher and her twin Anne Nikolaus
Former Philadelphia Eagles, and current WYSP Philadelphia Eagles Commentator Mike Quick, With Norman Zarwin, Hon Roxanne Covington, and Shelton Mercer. Shelton tells me that this Saturday 3/27/10 he is involved in a charity organization “Philly Feeds Haiti”
It was a fun time, and many folks were checking off win on their brackets, until the next day, damn you Villanova. Thanks for having me, the views were fantastic, and it was cool to see such an interesting, one of a kind event in Philadelphia. Who wouldn’t want to do know or do business with these folks and secure an exclusive invite to this party in 2011???