Dan Gross: Delilah's co-owner Greta Shamy dies
CONDOLENCES to the family and friends of Greta Shamy, co-owner of Delilah's (100 Spring Garden), who died Tuesday at 65.
CONDOLENCES to the fam-
ily and friends of Greta Shamy, co-owner of Delilah's (100 Spring Garden), who died Tuesday at 65.
Shamy died in Boca Raton, Fla., where she lived with husband Joseph. The Shamys also co-own Zee Bar, which daughter Jennifer runs, next door to their long-running gentlemen's club.
News of Shamy's death hit Delilah's staffers hard yesterday.
The club has an upcoming staff party, as well as its annual public holiday bash, which club management briefly considered canceling. But we're told they decided to hold it, knowing Shamy would have wanted the parties to go on.
A club spokeswoman did not return a request for comment about Shamy's death yesterday. A cause of death was not known yesterday.
Julianne Hough shows Mercy
"Dancing With the Stars" professional Julianne Hough will perform at Merion Mercy Academy tomorrow afternoon. The budding country singer is being brought in by 92.5 WXTU-FM, which held a text-message contest in which Merion Mercy students sent in the most texts to win a concert at their school. For more info, visit 925xtu.com, which may broadcast the show.
* In other radio news, former
awards-show crasher, party promoter and Man About Town Nicholas "Sixx" King has a new weekly show on 100.3 The Beat, from 6 to 10 Sunday nights.
Out and about
_ Rehabbing Phillies slugger Chase Utley and World Series MVP Cole Hamels hung out a few nights ago at Rouge (205 S. 18th) with a handful of friends.
* Jose Canseco and Danny
Bonaduce will talk trash to each
other at an open-to-the-public press conference at 1 p.m. Dec. 12, promoting their upcoming fight. The media event is at Anthony's Ristorante (4990 State) in Drexel Hill. The fight is Jan. 17 at the Ice Works (3100 W. Dutton Mill) in Aston. For additional info, visit CelebrityBoxing.TV.
* The Navy League of the Uni-
ted States Philadelphia Council is hosting a number of events this weekend related to the Army/Navy game as part of the league's Operation Liberty Welcomes program. For a list of happenings, visit navyleaguephilly. org.
Spooky show shoots at Betsy's
The Sci-Fi Channel's "Ghost Hunters" show taped at the Betsy Ross House (239 Arch) Tuesday night and will be shooting around town this week.
Grant Wilson, Steve Gonsalves and others from the program were among those taping at the historic landmark.
* Local Bench Warrant Unit of-
ficer Mark Fusetti was seen on a recent episode of "Ghost Hunters." It will be rebroadcast at 11 p.m. on Christmas Eve.
New Guns record, new dog
West Philly's Ben Morgan, who books bands at the Mill Creek Tavern (4200 Chester), didn't want a dog, but his live-in girlfriend, Allison Paul, did. In March, Morgan, who also plays in the Rare Birds and occasionally performs as a German rapper, MC Digga, told Paul they could get a dog when "Chinese Democracy" came out. Morgan assumed the long-awaited Guns N' Roses record, 17 years in the making, would never come out. He was wrong. The record was released Nov. 23, days after he agreed to take care of his mother's 3-year-old Chihuahua, Rizza.
"I like the dog a lot more than the record," says Morgan, who's still getting used to the new project by Axl Rose and an army of musicians he brought in over the lengthy recording.
Germantown Ave. block party
Phillies ballgirls will distribute rally towels and baseball cards from noon to 2 Saturday afternoon at the Trolley Car Diner (7619 Germantown), celebrating the reopening of Germantown Avenue after extensive road re-construction. The Germantown Avenue Block Party runs until 3. Tomorrow morning, state Sen. Leanna Washington, state Rep. Cherelle Parker, Councilman Bill Greenlee, Councilwoman Donna Reed Miller and Redevelopment Authority head Terry Gillen will attend a ribbon-cutting on the street. *
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