'Abby's Ultimate Dance Competition' S1, Ep3 Recap: Get into Character

Brianna was the featured dancer in this week's group number

By GLAMOROSI

On Abby's Ultimate Dance Competition, teacher Abby Lee Miller (of Dance Moms fame) leads the show along with judges Robin Antin and Richy Jackson. Young dancers ages 6 through 13 compete for a $100,000 cash prize and a scholarship to the Young Dancer Program at the Joffrey Ballet School in New York. This weeks season 1, episode 3 is titled "Get into Character", and the remaining ten dancers perform duets based on “American Extremes”.
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'X Factor' Season 2, Episode 11 Recap: Simon Cowell Group Choices Revealed

X Factor contestants Emblem3 get the good news from judge Simon Cowell

By GLAMOROSI

Last week’s season 2, episode 11 of The X Factor – the one in which we all expected to find out who the lucky Top 16 would be – was pre-empted by a rain delayed baseball game. Since parts of that episode did air here in the United States, and all but ten minutes were broadcast on Canada’s CTV, most fans already knew who judges L.A. Reid, Britney Spears and Demi Lovato picked to move on to the live shows. Last night in a re-edited version of episode 11 (cut from two hours to one), we finally got to see all four groups Simon Cowell chose for his team.
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Philly Area Businesses Celebrate Halloween with Parties, Costume Contests, Concerts

By A.D. AMOROSI

Halloween is a favorite holiday here at Glamorosi Magazine. We love dressing up, dig the taste of pumpkin and don’t mind the color combo of orange and black one bit. Oh, and there’s the parties. Day and night, from now through October 31, trick or treaters are loading up on witch wear, devil horns and Mitt Romney masks, the latter two items not to be confused with each other.
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'X Factor' Roundup: Show Renewed, Top 16 Spoilers, Britney Spears' Wedding Gossip

X Factor Judges L.A. Reid, Demi Lovato, Britney Spears, Simon Cowell

By GLAMOROSI

Yesterday afternoon (Oct. 22) X Factor creator and judge Simon Cowell Tweeted, “I wanted you guys to be the first to know that FOX have confirmed that @TheXFactorUSA will be back next year for its third season.” It wasn’t unexpected news, but it was still a welcome update for fans of the televised singing competition.
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Philadelphia Museum of Art Celebrates the Avant-garde with 'Dancing around the Bride'

John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and Robert Rauschenberg, 1964

By A.D. AMOROSI

Marcel Duchamp (28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) is one of the most crucial artists of the 20th Century, a father of the Dadaist and Surrealist movements, a spiritual godfather to the Pop Art revolution, an adviser to some of the most important museums, curators and collectors in America before his passing in 1968. That this avant-garde avatar’s most notorious works reside in a wing of the Philadelphia Museum of Art has forever made this city magnetic north for any experimental artist worth his salt. Pre-Pop painters Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg visited Philly’s Art Museum often throughout the 50s, intersected with composer John Cage and choreographer Merce Cunningham and together – whether by accident or on purpose – formed a perfect union of where the American avant-garde would go. Starting October 30 (and running through January 2013), a Philadelphia Art Museum (PMA) exhibition Dancing around the Bride: Cage, Cunningham, Johns, Rauschenberg, and Duchamp, celebrates that union.
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Link Roundup - Celebrations: Justin & Jessica, Bruno Mars, David Correy, Dmitry Sholokhov

By GLAMOROSI

This week in entertainment news there were weddings, winnings, and wishes come true. Celebrities including Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel, Amber Tamblyn and David Cross, Bruno Mars, X Factor’s David Correy and Project Runway’s Dmitry Sholokhov had reasons to celebrate.
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Philadelphia Film Festival Opens, Directors M. Night Shyamalan and Robert Zemekis to Attend

The 21st Philadelphia Film Festival runs October 18-28, 2012

By A.D. AMOROSI

Now that the 21st Philadelphia Film Festival (PFF) has commenced with a screening of David O. Russell’s Philly-filmed Silver Linings Playbook starring Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, and Robert DeNiro, it’s time to explore the fest’s offerings beyond its opening night.
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X Factor Top 16 Revealed, Almost: Simon Cowell Calls Botched Broadcast 'A Total F Up'

Judge Simon Cowell called the botched X Factor broadcast 'A total f up'

By GLAMOROSI

Last night’s X Factor viewers expected to see the most important episode of the singing competition to date: the one in which the judges would reveal the Top 16 contestants for season 2. Instead of being the X Factor cliffhanger episode it was intended to be (the live shows don’t begin until November), it was, as Simon Cowell Tweeted, “A total f up.”
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'Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition' S1, Ep2 Recap: Unleash the Monsters aka Momsters

The contestants and moms from Abby's Ultimate Dance Competition

By GLAMOROSI

On Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition season 1, episode 2, the remaining eleven dancers move one step closer to the big prize: $100,000 and a full scholarship to the Joffrey Ballet.  This week the young dancers, ages 6 through 13, work with the theme “Monsters of the Night”, but it could have just as easily been “MOMsters of the Night” given the way the some of the parents behaved.  At the end of this episode, judges Abby Lee Miller, Robin Antin and Richy Jackson will eliminate one dancer.
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Pete Townshend Talks About Life and Music in New Book 'Who I Am: A Memoir'

The Who's Pete Townshend in Philadelphia, PA

By A.D. AMOROSI

Pete Townshend has penned his share of autobiographical works as a member of The Who, as a solo artist, and as an opera librettist. To write it down in long book form (544 pages) should have been a piece of cake. Instead, Who I Am: A Memoir, Townshend’s epic, linear story (less scatological than Bob Dylan’s autobiography, less blog-like than Neil Young's) took nearly two decades to complete.
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Jose Garces Releases 'The Latin Road Home' Cookbook, Launches Garces Family Foundation

Jose Garces signing copies of his new book, The Latin Road Home

By A.D. AMOROSI

Iron Chef and restaurateur Jose Garces is having a great week. Last Tuesday, the Philadelphian (by way of Chicago) threw a party for his new cookbook The Latin Road Home. The next night, he and his wife Dr. Beatriz Garces hosted a fundraiser for their brand new nonprofit organization, The Garces Family Foundation, at the Kimmel Center. Tonight, Monday October 15, Garces will read from his new book at the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Parkway Central Branch.
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Link Roundup - Partnerships: Snoop & Hot Pockets, Kim & Kanye, L.A. Reid & Jason Brock

By GLAMOROSI

This week in entertainment news we noticed lots of partnerships: some that make us happy, some that make us sad, and some that just give us the munchies.
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'X Factor' S2, Ep10 - Contestants Perform for Mentors Britney Spears and L.A. Reid

X Factor contestant Beatrice Miller performs at Britney Spears' house

By GLAMOROSI

On episode 9 of X Factor season 2 we saw two of the categories sing at the judges homes: the Groups auditioned for Simon Cowell and Marc Anthony in Miami, FL, and the Young Adults did their thing for Demi Lovato and Nick Jonas in Los Angeles, CA. For episode 10, the Over 25 contestants perform for L.A. Reid and guest mentors Justin Bieber and his manager Scooter Braun in Beverly Hills, CA, and for Britney Spears and her guest Will.i.am in Malibu, CA.
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'X Factor' Season 2, Episode 9 - Top 24 Contestants and Mentors Revealed

Lyric 145 performs at Simon Cowell's house on X Factor

By GLAMOROSI

During X Factor season 2, episode 9, the top 24 contestants were revealed - six in each category (Young Adults, Over 25, Teens and Groups) - and we found out who judges Simon Cowell, L.A. Reid, Britney Spears and Demi Lovato will be mentoring. We also met guest mentors Marc Anthony, Justin Bieber, Scooter Braun, Nick Jonas and Will.i.am. In each category the mentors will cut from six acts to four for the live shows.
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Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition – Casting Special and Episode 1 Recap

Judges Robin Antin, Richy Jackson and Abby Lee Miller

By GLAMOROSI

Abby Lee Miller, the dance teacher made famous on the Lifetime hit show Dance Moms, is everything people say: she is loud and occasionally obnoxious, she is hard on her dancers and rude to their parents, she plays favorites, and she puts too much pressure on everyone around her.  She is also a beloved coach who turns out winning dancers.  As someone who studied dance and competed in national talent shows as a kid, I find that Dance Moms is nearly identical to my experience, and I can say wholeheartedly that if I were still in the game I’d want Miss Abby as my teacher.
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Barbra Streisand Sublime in Concert at Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center

Barbra Streisand in concert at Philadelphia's Well Fargo Center

By A.D. AMOROSI

When Barbra Streisand opened her "Back to Brooklyn" concert tour in Philadelphia on Monday night at the Wells Fargo Center, it was both a celebration of her past and a reach forward into her future. Not just because she said she refused to call this run of dates a goodbye to live events (she liked Philly so much she said that she might like to “start all of her farewell tours here”), but rather because she lent a large portion of the show’s three hour time to her son Jason Gould’s singing debut as well as to the young Italian pop-era trio, Il Volo.
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Neil Young Releases 'Waging Heavy Peace' Autobiography and 'Psychedelic Pill' Album

Neil Young has written his autobiography, Waging Heavy Peace

By A.D. AMOROSI

If rust never sleeps, Neil Young is positively an insomniac from the looks of his restless, busy year. The always idiosyncratic Young, age 66, just released his autobiography Waging Heavy Peace, just weeks before he and his long-time band Crazy Horse drop the double album Psychedelic Pill -  their first release of original material since 2003 - and heads out on a tour that brings them to Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center on November 29.
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Link Roundup - The Diva Edition: Mariah Carey, Nicki Minaj, Teresa Giudice, Barbra Streisand

By GLAMOROSI

In this week’s entertainment news, we read a lot of articles about divas. American Idol judges Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey are feuding on the set, The Real Housewives of New Jersey are bashing their show's star - Teresa Giudice - in person and in print, and X Factor contestants are going head-to-head in the singing competition.
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Bradley Cooper, Christian Bale and Amy Adams to Shoot David O. Russell Film in Philadelphia

While onstage at The Words premiere, Bradley Cooper (left) talked about director David O. Russell shooting their Abscam movie in Philadelphia

By A.D. AMOROSI

Long rumored to be the next Philly-filmed collaboration between director David O. Russell and actor Bradley Cooper after this November’s release of their other work together - Silver Linings Playbook - several entertainment trade papers including The Hollywood Reporter announced on Friday, October 5, what Cooper said aloud during the August premiere of The Words in Philadelphia: “…we’ll be back filming in Philly before spring 2013.”
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Philadelphia's Sbraga Named One of America's Best New Restaurants by Esquire

Chef Kevin Sbraga

By GLAMOROSI

Philadelphia chef and restaurateur Kevin Sbraga must have a fantastic five-year plan. After becoming the Bravo network’s Top Chef season seven victor in 2010, he opened his eponomously named restaurant in Philly in October 2011. Now, a year later, Sbraga has been named one of America’s best new restaurants by Esquire magazine.
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Recap - 'X Factor' Boot Camp Second Round: Contestants Perform in Pairs

X Factor season 2 contestants

By GLAMOROSI

For the second round of X Factor season 2 boot camp the remaining contestants performed in pairs, so they were competing directly with each other. As judge Simon Cowell explained, “one could make it, both could make it, neither could make it” to the final 24.
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Philadelphia's Midtown Village Hosts Fall Festival

The Midtown Village Fall Festival takes place in Philadelphia Oct. 6

By A.D. AMOROSI

Maybe it doesn’t have a song written about it like “Downtown” or “Uptown” does, but don’t count Midtown out. Philadelphia’s Midtown Village (formerly, affectionately known as the “Gayborhood") is an entity unto itself stretching from 13th St. between Locust & Chestnut; Sansom St. between Juniper & 12th; Locust St. between 12th & 13th; 12th St. between Locust & Walnut; and Drury Lane.
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