CBS 3 anchor Susan Barnett is all over national TV this week.
She's off to Los Angeles, where she will co-host "The Talk" on CBS Wednesday, along with Sara Gilbert, Aisha Tyler, Sharon Osbourne, Julie Chen and Sheryl Underwood.
On Friday she'll be seen on Anderson Cooper's CBS morning show "Anderson Live," which will not be live that day.
Barnett and Cooper recently taped the episode, on which they eat cheesesteaks and face off in a trivia contest from "House" star Hugh Laurie.
Cooper will be in town Thursday, and Barnett will introduce him at Temple University, where he will receive the school's Lew Klein Excellence in the Media Award.
Kim Kardashian's ex, Kris Humphries, caused a stir with the ladies in the club while hanging with teammates Marshon Brooks and C.J. Watson and Deron Williams.
The Sixers' Andrew Bynum, Jason Richardson, Thaddeus Young,Nick Young, Dorell Wright, Evan Turner, Jrue Holiday, Kwame Brown, Lavoy Allen were all spotted at the club, where DJ Aktive and DJ N9ne were spinning.
* MSNBC's Chris Matthews enjoyed an early dinner with family outside Garces Trading Company (1111 Locust) Sunday evening.
The Nicetown native and wife Kathleen were up from Washington, D.C., to visit their son Michael, his wife Sarah Staveley-O'Carroll and their baby daughter.
* Canadian rockers Rush ate dinner at Red Owl at the new Hotel Monaco Friday night. The band played at the Wells Fargo Center that night.
"I stopped impersonating an NFL coach over a year ago. Maybe Andy Reid should do the same," says attorney Steve Odabashian, who regularly dressed as Reid at home games for years and even appeared as the coach in Forman Mills commercials.
Friends of Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown threw her a surprise 60th birthday party Saturday night at Marathon Grill (19th & Market). U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah and his NBC10 anchor bride Renee Chenault-Fattah were there, as were Council members Marian Tasco, Wilson Goode Jr., Maria Quinones Sanchez, and Bill Green, Kelly Boyd of KB Consultants, and local NAACP chief Jerry Mondesire.
Janita Jones, known to Wired 96.5 listeners as Janita Applebaum, recently moved back to her native Portland, Ore., and has just joined the morning show at KDUK (104.7-FM). Jones and Beasley Broadcasting settled her 2008 race-discrimination suit against her former employer out of court.
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