Inqlings | Taking lunch to the Navy

Reporters usually carry notepads and tape recorders. KYW Newsradio's

Michelle Durham

this weekend also will bear cheesesteaks and Tastykakes when she visits the USS Enterprise, which will be in the Atlantic off Norfolk, Va.

Durham is laying the groundwork for a fall series that will embed her on an aircraft carrier in an undisclosed location.

Joey Vento of Geno's Steaks will join Durham, supervising the prep of the cheesesteaks for 6,000 sailors. Dietz & Watson is providing a refrigerated trailer to tote the fixings south. Sponsors will provide all the food, so "the Navy just has to chop 500 pounds of onions," Durham says.

In a rare move, Durham says, the Navy has given sailors on the Enterprise permission to wear Philly-themed T-shirts over their uniforms Monday. Mayor Street has declared all hands Philadelphians for a Day. (Great. Their car insurance goes up.)

Durham says the idea grew out of "A Firefighter's Journey," her award-winning series last year in which she trained at the Philadelphia Fire Academy. When this series airs, she hopes that local schoolchildren will be able to ask questions about such topics as geography and naval service.

As for any suggestion that Durham might be buttering up her subjects with her movable feast: "I can say in all honesty that these people are not my sources for the series airing in the fall," she says.

When 76ers rookie

Jason Smith

pulled up to the Wachovia Center on Saturday to meet the media, he heard that

Tim McGraw

and

Faith Hill

would concertize that night. So he begged tickets for himself and his girlfriend. Same night, clothier Mitchell & Ness opened after hours for Sixers pick

Thaddeus Young

.

"Alex Scott: A Stand for Hope," the short film directed and written by CBS3's

Larry Mendte

about the Main Line girl who inspired Alex's Lemonade Stand, just won a spot in this fall's FirstGlance at the Adrienne Theater in Center City. Its world premiere was in May at the Seattle International Film Festival.

Frank Cerami

of WISX (106.1) - who runs his own Center City recording studio, Cerami Creative Strategies - recently had singer-actress

Jill Scott

in front of his mike. She recorded dialogue for the Lionsgate film

Why Did I Get Married?

, which stars

Janet Jackson

and is due out this fall.

CN8's Lynn Doyle served "Pink Flamingo-tinis" at Beach Haven's Terrace Tavern on Sunday. Tips are destined for breast-cancer charities.

Brian Carothers later this month bows out as John DeBella's morning producer on WMGK (102.9) after two years. He's just landed his own morning show in Atlanta.

Democrat

Michael Nutter

and Republican

Al Taubenberger

are running

against

each other for mayor. Right? These two are awfully chummy. They've agreed to work side by side, judging the Bellevue's second Sandwich Make-Off on July 18. And Friday night, Taubenberger not only accepted Nutter's invitation to his 50th birthday party at Patou restaurant in Old City, but spoke glowingly of Nutter.