Dan Gross: Flo Rida to the rescue!
FLO RIDA planned on chillin' at the Pool After Dark at Harrah's Atlantic City Friday night following a concert at Stockton College, but he ended up doing another show. R&B artist Iyaz was scheduled to perform at Harrah's, but his flight from the Bahamas was canceled.
F
LO RIDA
planned on chillin' at the Pool After Dark at Harrah's Atlantic City Friday night following a concert at Stockton College, but he ended up doing another show. R&B artist
Iyaz
was scheduled to perform at Harrah's, but his flight from the Bahamas was canceled.
When Flo Rida arrived and heard what happened, the rapper hopped on stage and played four songs, then dove into the pool as DJ Louie DeVito kept the music going. Flo Rida sipped Moet Rose champagne and Grey Goose in his VIP cabana.
Elsewhere in AC . . .
Tennis great Venus Williams hosted the Caesars Tennis Classic after-party at Dusk inside Caesars, where Andy Roddick took the microphone and led the crowd in singing "Happy Birthday" to a fan. Roddick and Williams danced to DJ Sat-One's tunes.
* "American Idol" judge Kara DioGuardi, husband Mike McCuddy and friends partied at mur.mur inside the Borgata after her performance Saturday night at the hotel's Music Box theater. DioGuardi joined DJ Sky Nellor in the booth, where Nellor spun dance hits of songs DioGuardi helped write by artists Jason Derülo, Iyaz, Jim Jones, and Cobra Starship.
Local guy on 'Bachelorette'
Craig Robinson didn't go on "The Bachelorette" to fall in love, though he says he was open to the possibility.
The Langhorne native just got back from Los Angeles, where the ABC series, which debuts May 24, was taped. Robinson, a personal-injury lawyer with Weinstein, Schleifer and Kupersmith, says he just wanted "the experience of it. To have a good time."
He says that a friend of his applied for him online and that he was surprised to get the call from the casting agents.
"The hardest part was being out of contact, no cell phones, nothing," said Robinson, who was allowed to call his parents on April 5, his 27th birthday. Robinson, a 2001 Neshaminy High graduate, later went to Penn State and then Villanova Law School. "I'm excited to get back to work. I'm pretty happy with my regular life," he said.
"The Bachelorette," Ali Fedotowsky, was a finalist on last season's "Bachelor." Robinson said she is a really cool girl, but he couldn't reveal how far he got in the competition for fear of being sued by producers.
LaBelle is a doc
Soulful songbird Patti LaBelle will receive an honorary doctorate of humane letters at Temple University's 123rd commencement May 13 at the Liacouras Center. Temple President Ann Weaver Hart announced Miss Patti's honor.
Philly stars dance Sunday
Only 70 tickets remain for Sunday's Dancing with the Philadelphia Stars event benefiting the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America, Philadelphia/Delaware Valley chapter.
Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown, a former Philadanco dancer; Wired 96.5's G-N Kang; Dorothy Johnson Speight, founder of Mothers in Charge; musician Maxx Stoyanoff-Williams, of The Goats and Black Landlord, and former Philadelphia Style owner Dana Spain are among contestants in the event, which starts with a 5 p.m. cocktail hour.
Last year's winner, lawyer Erin Elmore, will also perform. Tickets are $90 and available online at dancingwiththe philadelphiastars.com
or by calling 215-471-8686.
* Speaking of Kang, she emceed the
weekend's Uniquely You Summit at the Springside School. Broadway "Dreamgirl" Sheryl Lee Ralph and Pauletta Washington, wife of Denzel Washington, addressed the leadership seminar.
Music in Manayunk Saturday
Exit Clov, Roadside Graves, James Maddock and Blood Feathers will perform starting at 1 p.m. Saturday at Main Street Music (4444 Main) for owner Pat Feeney's celebration of International Record Store Day.
The store will provide food and refreshments, and Y-Rock, in partnership with 88.5 WXPN, will distribute prizes and gifts.
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