Inqlings: Fete looks ahead to Clinton-Mezvinsky wedding

The impending nuptials of

Chelsea Clinton

and

Marc Mezvinsky

were feted last weekend at the Washington Square aerie of

Norman

and

Suzanne Cohn

. Mothers of the bride (Secretary of State

Hillary Rodham Clinton

) and groom (former U.S. Rep.

Marjorie Margolies Mezvinsky

) were among 100 guests who enjoyed cocktails (including sashimi, a taco station, and an entire four-foot-long wild striped bass). Thirty stayed for dinner (beef short ribs) prepared by

Tony Clark

, the Cohns' chef, and

Bruce Lim

, private chef for

Michael

and

Debbie Coslov

of Gladwyne.

"They're great kids," said Norman Cohn, a businessman. He and his wife have known both families for decades.

The wedding will be in July.

Fox29 has eliminated sports reporter/fill-in anchor

Joe Staszak

's position, so he will leave at the end of his contract in August. The Berwyn native has been full time since September 2008. It's not clear how the station will handle sports on the eve of the Eagles' regular season.

Phillies manager Charlie Manuel has upped with WIP-AM (610) for six shows starting Tuesday. He will join midday hosts Anthony Gargano and Glen Macnow from noon to 1 p.m. at a live remote from Ponzio's Diner in Cherry Hill. Gargano and Macnow will be there from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The other dates are May 18, June 22, July 27, Aug. 24, and Sept. 21.

Philly thespian

Pete Pryor

has been honored as one of America's top actors. He's one of only nine named as a Lunt-Fontanne Fellow. Pryor, nominated by the Wilma Theater, will join actress

Lynn Redgrave

for a weeklong master class and retreat in July at Ten Chimneys, the estate of Broadway legends

Alfred Lunt

and

Lynn Fontanne

, in Genesee Depot, Wis.

For the third year,

Chase

and

Jennifer Utley

hosted their annual casino night to benefit the Pennsylvania SPCA, which drew 450 attendees to the Electric Factory Thursday night. Among them was a gaggle of Phillies, including

Ryan Howard

,

Shane Victorino

,

Jayson Werth

,

Cole Hamels

,

Raul Ibanez

,

Kyle Kendrick

,

Danys Baez

,

Juan Castro

,

Ben Francisco

,

Roy Halladay

,

Jimmy Rollins

, and

Brian Schneider

.

The hit of the night: an auction item of batting lessons from Utley for eight people, which sold for $13,500. As for animal talk, the Phillie with the largest menagerie is Halladay, who told me that his family has three dogs, two cats, five guinea pigs, a parrot, and four horses. Ibanez chuckled as he and wife Teryvette ran down their herd: dogs Lola and Oprah, cat Oscar, a guinea pig named Polly, and a tarantula named Harry - though the shaved-pated leftfielder said it could be spelled "H-a-i-r-y."

Hamels attended stag, as his wife, Heidi, was attending a benefit in San Francisco. Before, he met lawyer Justin Wineburgh for a snack at Parc on Rittenhouse Square and pined for his old high-rise neighborhood. He's now a suburban squire in Newtown Square.

Injured calf aside, Rollins - attending with fitness-trainer wife Johari, who sported a diamond necklace spelling out "Eleven" - is off to a good spring. Chanel Nicole, a singer on his record label, just got out of the studio with her first single, "Fire." Rollins' lawyer Chris Cabott says Nicole (http://chanelnicolemusic.com) will perform after an early-summer Phillies game.

TV's

Rachael Ray

is expected to deliver some sort of additional surprise to famed Frankford High culinary teacher

Wilma Stephenson

on Monday's show (10 a.m., 6ABC). Last month, Ray showed up to announce a makeover for Room 325.

Carrie Bourgo, women's volleyball coach at Harcum College, and her black Lab, Jami, will turn up on NBC's Today Monday in the final round of the show's Top Dog contest. Jami has become quite the mother's helper for Bourgo's baby son, Owen; he and Bourgo's husband, Ryan, a doctoral candidate and cancer researcher at Thomas Jefferson University, will join her and Jami on the air. See video at http://go.philly.com/jami

It will be wall-to-wall Susan G. Komen Philadelphia Race for the Cure on Tuesday from 3 to 8 p.m. as CBS Philly's TV and radio stations host Call for the Cure, an on-air fund-raiser for breast cancer outreach. The race is next Sunday.

If the halls at Northeast High seem quieter, it's because A&E has pulled the full-time camera crews following English teacher

Tony Danza

for his reality series. A&E says producers have enough footage but will return for key moments. The show still has no official title, but is supposed to premiere this year.

Seated at nearby tables Thursday at Sampan at 13th and Sansom Streets: Flyers captain Mike Richards with wing men Dan Carcillo and Riley Cote (loved the satay), and rapper/thespian Ludacris with two female friends (no drinks, paid cash, tipped well). Richards has been sporting a playoff beard, as have 20 execs of parent company Comcast-Spectacor, including president Peter Luukko, senior vice president Shawn Tilger, and Global Spectrum COO John Page. The hair-raising stunt has become a somewhat itchy fund-raiser.