"He was drinking straight from a bottle of Grey Goose, and when the deejay started playing M.I.A.'s 'Paper Planes,' he got up, started dancing like a loon and kept on yelling, 'Shots!' " the paper reports.
Phelps was at the club with Pal. The Mother for All Seasons was nowhere in sight.
Turns out she was in New York, too. That's because bright and early the next morning, mother and son had a date, on the Today show, to promote the book.
Gussying up the Hon Bar
The Hon Bar is getting a makeover, but not to worry. The lounge area of Cafe Hon, epicenter of Hampden kitsch, isn't going all Harbor East on us.
"We're not going to bring in new shiny marble glass tables and all that," designer Steve Appel of Nouveau Contemporary Goods assured me.
Expect leopard fabric on one wall. Some new, leopard-upholstered seating. Lots of hot pink and fuchsia accents.
The idea is to make the area more comfy and inviting for dining, because more and more people are eating in the bar, Appel said. It will look more pulled together and more upscale, but not too upscale, he promises.
Hon owner Denise Whiting said it will be "kind of like the grown-up version of Hon."
Connect the dots ...
My column about the upside-down-and-backward apostrophe in the Orioles' logo prompted this from reader Larry Eubanks: "Look closely: it's not an apostrophe, it's a tear drop for all the seasons of futility." ... Just as I get up on my grammatical high horse about that apostrophe, I'm forced to dismount. In a recent column, I wrote, "one in the same." A reader set me straight: it's "one and the same." Don't you love it when the grammar scold and the grammar goof-up turn out to be one and the same? ... Spotted Thursday night at Red Star in Fells Point: the aforementioned Mr. Phelps and Ms. Pal. Though The Daily News had the pair partying hard and making out at Marquee, they were low-key two nights later in the hometown bar. "They weren't quite canoodling, but they were holding hands as they left," a spy tells me. Both were said to be friendly , chatting up members of an adult kickball team who happened to be there. ... MSNBC's Rachel Maddow had Martin O'Malley on the other day to talk about his attempt to ban the death penalty. She introduced him as the frontman for O'Malley's March. "As far as I know ... he is the only sitting governor who's also been the lead singer of a band this cool." Has she heard the new CD?
