It won't be called the Beat, says Radio One spokesman Amir Khan, who wouldn't comment when we asked whether the station would be called Hot 107.9, like the hip-hop station in Atlanta.
Paranormal Ambler
"Paranormal State" star Ryan Buell will be in Ambler Tuesday to screen his new self-funded movie, "American Ghost Hunter," at the Broad Axe Tavern (901 E. Butler).
Buell made the film with his "Paranormal" colleague Chad Calek. The documentary investigates a series of suicides and claims of paranormal activity in Calek's home state of Iowa. The guys chose to bypass the studios by doing a grassroots campaign of screenings around the country, promoting it largely on Twitter and Facebook, Buell says. For more information, check out aghthemovie.com.
OUT AND ABOUT
* Sonic Youth frontman Thurston Moore dined Tuesday at Village Whiskey (118 S. 20th) before his show at the First Unitarian Church (2125 Chestnut).
* Phillies pitcher Vance Worley stopped for a chicken cheesesteak at Talk of the Town (3020 S. Broad) a couple of days back.
Charitably minded
* Your Humble Narrator will be guest bartending from 7 to 11 Tuesday night at CJ & Eck's (384 Shurs), in Manayunk, to raise money for the Lemon Drops team which is walking/running in the Alex's Lemonade Stand Lemon Run, on Nov. 13. There's a $5 cover, and all tips go to the charity. There are $2 domestic bottled beers and $3 well drinks. Hope to see you there.
* The Greater Philadelphia District of the Zionist Organization of America honors 1210 AM WPHT host Dom Giordano at a gala Thursday at the City Avenue Hilton. A kosher dinner and open bar is featured at the event; Jonathan Tobin of Commentary magazine is the keynote speaker. ZOA national president Morton Klein will speak, as well.
For info or tix, visit zoaphiladelphia2011.eventbrite.com/
* "Basketball Wives" star Jennifer Miller hosts the Guess Who's Coming to Dinner conversation with Inquirer fashion columnist Elizabeth Wellington and CW Philly's Kharisma McIlwaine at 8 p.m. Sept. 9 at the Waterview Lounge (1020 N. Delaware). Tickets for the conversation and dinner are $50 and proceeds benefit the Stop the Madness Foundation. For tix: waterviewlounge.
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Let them eat cake
Arcadia University will welcome students today with a huge cake from the Charm City Cakes bakery, in Baltimore, featured on the Food Network's "Ace of Cakes." The cake is a replica of Arcadia's Grey Towers Castle and will be cut at 4 p.m. in front of the real castle.
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