Inqlings: Pan-to-pan combat for Philly chef

Eleven months after he battled

Bobby Flay

on the Food Network show

Iron Chef America

, Philly chef

Jose Garces

' hour in Kitchen Stadium will finally see the light of TV tonight at 9.

The outcome and the secret ingredient common to all five dishes have been kept quiet. The battle had an added challenge. Each dish had something frozen, befitting the episode's title, "Brain Freeze."

The low-key Garces, 36, who owns Amada, Tinto and Distrito here, came off cool under fire, earning praise from announcer Alton Brown for his use of an offset bread knife to peel melon. Garces got help from sous chefs Will Zuchman and Chad Williams. Reality has intervened since the taping: Zuchman split from Garces to join Parc on Rittenhouse Square. Williams is still chef de cuisine at Amada, Garces' Old City flagship.

Garces will host a screening tonight at Distrito in University City.

NBC10 on Friday removed

Vince DeMentri's

bio from its Web site. The 4 p.m. anchor, who also anchored its MYPHL17 newscasts, was last seen on the air early last month, just after a mysterious off-air incident involving anchor

Lori Delgado

. DeMentri retained lawyer

Paul Rosen

. The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, the union representing many TV newsies, filed a grievance against NBC10 last week.

Fox29 will move its 11 a.m. newscast to noon effective Sept. 1. The midday schedule will shuffle: Episodes of Divorce Court will start at 11 and 11:30, followed by news (Shawnette Wilson as anchor, Sue Serio with weather) and, at 12:30, the gossip show TMZ. The ax falls on Judge Hatchett.

The Fox29 online bio of traffic anchor Dorothy Krysiuk no longer carries the line that "she lives in Montgomery County with her husband," which may address long-standing questions that she has declined to answer about her missing rings. (She wants privacy. Imagine that.) She married Anthony Marasa three years ago.

NBC10's hiring of CNN/Extra alumna Mina Sabet as executive producer of the 10! show has a side effect. Sabet has moved from L.A. with her husband, songwriter-producer Christopher Faizi, who has two songs in the Rainn Wilson comedy The Rocker. Opens Wednesday.

Suzanne Siegel was an adviser to Philly police bigwigs including John Timoney. She now wants to be the right hand of mega-mogul Sean Combs. She's one of 13 contestants on the Monday night VH1 series I Want to Work for Diddy. Why? "The guy is just amazing," says Siegel, a New York-bred former crime reporter who left Philly in 2004; she sold everything and backpacked around the world. On the third of 10 episodes (9 p.m. tomorrow), the contestants go to Paris bearing only the photo of a model they must find and ship back to the States to pose.

Have another dumpling:

Stephen Starr

, whose Old City pan-Asian eatery, Buddakan, will mark its 10th anniversary Aug. 26, will donate a cut of profits generated between Aug. 25 and 28 to Project HOME. Starr projects a gift of $10,000. Buddakan, at 325 Chestnut St., has spawned outposts in New York, Atlantic City and, if a deal goes through, Miami.

Smarter cops: Philanthropist Kal Rudman will donate about $75,000 to pay for 30-plus Philly police officers to study at Community College. Official announcement will be later this month.

You can buy anything online - even a sketch by a serial killer. At MurderAuction.com, the macabre memorabilia last week included the usual (

Charles Manson

and

John Gotti

autographs) as well as a pencil drawing of a bird by

Harrison "Marty" Graham

, doing life at the state prison in Coal Township, Pa., for strangling seven women and keeping their corpses in his North Philly apartment two decades ago. Minimum bid: $29.97.

The seller, who would tell me only that his name is Alex, said that he had been corresponding with Graham, and that Graham had mailed it to him. Murderabilia is "just a weird hobby," Alex said, adding that Graham will not be compensated. But he's profiting off a lifer. "It falls in freedom of speech," Alex said. "I find it no different than selling a picture that, say, my brother drew."

Other artwork and jailhouse photos appear on Graham's MySpace page, which on Friday described his mood as "artistic" and informed readers that he's a nonjudgmental person who's looking for friendship and "hopefully romance. . . . I'm an extremely sensitive man, falsely accused and serving a life sentence behind these prison walls." MySpace? A prisons spokeswoman said inmates did not have Web access and surmised that someone posted on his behalf.

Giving it a shot: The Sixers Dancers are increasing their exposure. In a first, they're doing a calendar, being shot this weekend at the swank Waterfront Square condominiums and spa along the Delaware. No release date yet.

Too much information: Eagles QB Donovan McNabb credits "cucumber melon body wash" for his sexiness, as he tells the new Comcast SportsNet series Full Contact, for which the Eagles assented to extensive behind-the-scenes access. The first of four Neil Hartman-hosted episodes begins at 11 p.m. today.

Pennsauken High student Danielle Meng didn't like WIP host Ike Reese's recent comments about the wimpiness of girls' softball, so she called him out. At noon Tuesday at Campbell's Field in Camden, recent Pennsauken grad Katie Stutz, 18, a pitcher, will throw 10 to Reese. For every ball he fails to hit fair, the Red Thunder, Meng's tournament team, will receive $100 in equipment from the Sports Outlet. Meng and Stutz also will get Phillies tickets and a suite for a Camden Riversharks game.

Make it a knight: Archbishop Wood 1979 grad

Tim Connell

plays Sir Bedevere/Mrs. Galahad in

Monty Python's Spamalot

, at the Academy of Music. Tickets for the run's end (Aug. 26 through 31) have been discounted 50 percent.

More British are coming: Charles, the ninth Earl Spencer - Diana's brother - is due in town with former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on Sept. 12 for a gala at the Union League that's tied to an exhibition of Diana-themed art from Philly's Studio Incamminati and portraitist Nelson Shanks.