Where does a 6-foot-7 offensive tackle fit into the restaurant business?
We may find out. Chef
Matt Levin
hung up his apron last week at Lacroix, the posh spot at the Rittenhouse Hotel, and he said he was planning a restaurant.
Levin identifies
Jon Runyan
, the Eagles' iron man, as an investor in his bistro, to open next year. Runyan's agent
Craig Kaplan
confirms the talks.
Levin and Runyan, who met in April when both judged
Glen Macnow's
Ultimate Cheesesteak Challenge on WIP-AM, are scouting locations and seem to favor a spot in Northern Liberties. No name has been selected.
Says Levin, who plays on Runyan's charity softball team and in his golf tournament: "He's vicious on the field, but probably one of the nicest guys I've ever met."
But how will he be when you call him for a last-minute table on Saturday night?
Fox29's
Dawn Stensland
sat for an interview with
Vicki Glembocki
for January's Philadelphia Magazine. Topic: How Stensland kept it together while the feds were probing and prosecuting her husband,
Larry Mendte
, and as her own station was among those covering the story. Headline: "Dawn's Dark Days." Gutsy move: Stensland, who spoke on her husband's behalf at his sentencing last month, could be called as a witness in
Alycia Lane'
s civil suit against Mendte and CBS3, their former station.
Mayor Nutter
will host tomorrow's screening of "Free the River Park,"
Rob Stuart
and
Tara Nurin
's documentary about the grassroots movement to get pedestrian access to the Schuylkill River Park over the objections of CSX railroad.
The Great Unknown
, which performed on the film, will entertain at the screening, which will start at 5:30 p.m. in the Mayor's Reception Room in City Hall.
What if 9/11 conspiracy theorists were right? Lower Merion native
Dave Herman
- working under the pseudonym Paul Krik - muses on this point in his noir drama
Able Danger
, which will screen at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute and at 5, 7 and 9:11 p.m. Thursday at the Wayne Theater.
Sander Hicks
, whose book
The Big Wedding: 9/11, The Whistle-Blowers & The Cover Up
is seen in the film, will join a Q&A after Thursday's last screening. The film gets its title from a secret program of the same name that destroyed 2.5 terabytes of intelligence data in March 2001.
The Kimmel Center will sell tickets to nine Kimmel Center Presents and Broadway Series shows at half-price through the end of the month. Details at
.
I referred to NBC10's
Jamison Uhler
as an anchor in Thursday's column. He's properly a reporter and fill-in anchor.