On Wednesday, the crew heads back downtown to the Westin Hotel to wrap up a bloody gun battle in a banquet room.
Bearded
Flyers players
Sergei Bobrovsky,
Claude Giroux,
Danny Briere,
Scott Hartnell,
Braydon Coburn, and
Mike Richards had a certain Rip Van Winkle look last week. They shot a Verizon wireless commercial on the ice of the Wells Fargo Center. Plot: The team decided not to shave for the whole season after recording an undefeated 82-0 record.
Briefly noted
"The Art of the Beatles," a free art/memorabilia show based on the Fab Four, sets up Wednesday through Dec. 24 at Montgomery Mall. Featured will be a photo of
John Lennon taken by Philly's
Scott Weiner outside of Channel 6. Wednesday is the 30th anniversary of Lennon's slaying.
J.P. Mascaro & Sons' 123,700-pound food donation earned the trash hauler a four-hour Preston & Steve broadcast. The WMMR morning show's Camp Out for Hunger drew 527,285 pounds of food for Philabundance, the most collected in the event's 13-year run. Last year's largest business donor, Subaru of America, was second, with 119,988 pounds of food. For a second consecutive year, the nonbusiness group with the largest donation was the Second Street Irish Society, with a donation of 6,029 pounds, winning a skating party for up to 500 at the Blue Cross RiverRink.
Sightings
Why "Happy Chic" guru
Jonathan Adler was spotted here in September while browsing shops on the 1600 block of Walnut Street: On Monday, Adler will open his 13th free-standing boutique, taking the former Foster's Homeware at 33 N. Third St. in Old City. He will attend a Dec. 15 party at the shop.
Through his publicist, actor Seth Green denied an "INQlings" report that he and his wife, Clare Grant, dined recently at Bridget's 8 West in Ambler.
Contact columnist Michael Klein at mklein@phillynews.com. Follow his blog at http://go.philly.com/insider and on Twitter @phillyinsider.
