Soccer and sushi star

By Mark Shanahan & Paysha Rhone  |  September 11, 2008

Turns out soccer stud Taylor Twellman works with his feet and his hands. The Revolution player popped into Skipjack's in the Back Bay the other day and got a maki-making tutorial from master sushi chef Otto. Next time Twellman has a taste for sashimi, he won't have to travel so far.

A double play for Remy
Red Sox Nation prez Jerry Remy is moving up - from hawking hotdogs at RemDawg's on Yawkey Way to crab cakes at Logan. The NESN broadcaster opened Jerry Remy's Sports Bar & Grille yesterday; the joint features classic New England fare along with photos of the top 10 Sox of all time. "Of course, Ted Williams is number one, Bobby Doerr, Carlton Fisk," Remy said. "I'm not up there, though." Remy, joined by Massport CEO Tom Kinton and Sox mascot Wally the Green Monster, said his fave is the haddock sandwich, which he noshed on between photo opps. "I'm really impressed with the place," he said, on his way to Fenway yesterday. "It's a new venture for me and I'm pretty excited about it."

Focus on photographers
Celebrated shutterbug Henry Horenstein was among the guests at this week's shindig celebrating the new exhibit at the Photographic Resource Center. Called "The PRC Portfolio," the show features the work of several famous photogs with connections to the center, Horenstein, Patti Smith, Abelardo Morell, Laura McPhee, Olivia Parker, and Arno Rafael Minkkinen. The exhibition is on view through Sunday at the PRC Gallery.

A meaningful evening
Christy Scott Cashman and Debbie DiMasi, hosts of NECN's "Open Book Club," were all geared up for "Wine and Define" last night, a fund-raiser for Grub Street and First Literacy. Participants teamed up with celebrity wordsmiths to define tough words; editors, literary agents, and authors Yael Goldstein, Christopher Castellani, Bret Anthony Johnston, Pagan Kennedy, and Heidi Pitlor played in the define-a-thon, along with poet Regie Gibson.

Delp's Beetle on the block
A former girlfriend of the late Boston singer Brad Delp is selling the frontman's beloved Beetle on eBay. Patricia Komor, who dated Delp from 1992 to 1998, started soliciting bids for the 2003 VW this morning, and will donate the proceeds to charities endorsed by Delp. "The fact that the car had the same name as the band he adored is something he enjoyed," Komor told us yesterday. (In addition to Boston, Delp fronted the popular Beatles cover band Beatlejuice.) "Brad was also amused that the car got more attention than he did." Delp, who committed suicide last year, left the car as well as his house in Atkinson, N.H., to Komor, now married and living in Colorado. Komor kept the car, but eventually sold the house to Pamela Sullivan, Delp's fiancee at the time of his death. "I feel this is the best way to honor Brad's memory," said Komor, adding that she and the singer remained close long after their breakup and exhanged e-mails just two days before his death. "Brad would like it if one of his fans got to own the car." Komor hasn't decided what charities will receive the money, but said a portion of the proceeds will be donated to the DTS Charitable Foundation, which was created by Boston guitarist Tom Scholz to support animal rights and related causes. "I hope people appreciate that I'm doing something good in Brad's name."

But how do you really feel, Mr. Damon? In an interview this week with the Associated Press, Matt Damon called John McCain's running mate a "disaster" and says the prospect of a Sarah Palin presidency is "a really terrifying possibility." ("You do the actuary tables and there's a one out of three chance that McCain doesn't survive his first term and it'll be President Palin," he says.) The actor, who was raised in the People's Republic of Cambridge, likens the Palin pick to a "really bad Disney movie," and says the hockey mom shtick doesn't play on the international stage with the likes of Vladimir Putin. "I need to know if she really thinks dinosaurs were here 4,000 years ago," he says in the interview, which is posted on YouTube. "I want to know that because she's going to have the nuclear codes." Palin's spokeswoman wasted no time in responding. "It's not surprising that Barack Obama and his celebrity supporters continue to tear down Governor Palin with little more than blatant name calling," Maria Comella wrote in an e-mail to us. "It's clear they're threatened by a candidate who actually has a record of achieving reform and change, while Barack Obama just talks about it."

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales can't vouch for the accuracy of the information on the site, not even on his own page. "I don't like my entry at all, but I stay out of it," says Wales, who'll be at Suffolk University's C. Walsh Theatre tonight to speak at the Ford Hall Forum. "It makes me out to be far more controversial than I am, but I gotta walk the walk. I'm not going to change it." (Wales didn't say what he objects to, but it may be the bit about his onetime romance with conservative commentator Rachel Marsden.) Wales, the latest in a long line of free thinkers to address the historic Forum, says Wikipedia continues to do more good than harm. "People assume I'm a relativist about truth," he said. "But I'm not. I'm very intent on good facts and sources."

The revival of "Hair" directed by new ART artistic director Diane Paulus is headed to Broadway. The Public Theater production, which has been a critical and popular success at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park, closes Sept. 14 and moves to the Great White Way after the first of the year.

Dublin actor Shay Duffin, who wrote and starred in the one-man show "Brendan Behan: Confessions of an Irish Rebel" in Boston, was spotted talking show biz with local comedian and buddy Dick Doherty at Remington's yesterday. Duffin says fellow Dubliner Colin Farrell will play his character, the boozy poet Brendan Behan, in the film version of the show. Duffin will swill the Guinness Stout when he performs this weekend at the ICONS Irish Music and Arts Festival in Canton.

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