CLUB BUZZ

Still swinging

Marty and Elayne Roberts celebrate 25 years of rocking the Dresden Room, and BlackSteel brings French-Japanese cuisine to the heart of Hollywood.

March 30, 2006

A swinging time for a jazzy couple

Local lounge legends Marty and Elayne Roberts celebrate 25 years of rocking the Dresden Room on Saturday. The jazz duo, who shot to fame in the movie "Swingers," have performed at the Los Feliz nightclub night after night without skipping a beat. "It went too fast," Elayne says of her silver anniversary. "Time flies when you're having fun." Hubby Marty adds the punch line: "I think of it like a sentence, a prison sentence." Actor Kiefer Sutherland was so smitten with Marty and Elayne that he brought them to his home studio, where they recorded a few songs.... Pamela Anderson hosted a preview party last Thursday for her pal Jason Harley (aka Chef J) at BlackSteel, which is Harley and Gonzalo Nieto's new French-Japanese restaurant-bar at the hot corner of Las Palmas and Hollywood Boulevard. BlackSteel, which is sandwiched by Bella and L Scorpion, opens to the public Monday....Prince continues to wow Hollywood with private performances. On Friday, Jack Nicholson, Drew Barrymore, Justin Timberlake, Cameron Diaz, Marilyn Manson, Dita Von Teese, Jessica Alba, Paris Hilton and Christina Aguilera were among those who caught a set in the Blossom Room at the Roosevelt Hotel.

Seen on the scene

Matt Damon holed up at the Well on Saturday. And on Sunday, Philip Seymour Hoffman took a load off at the Hollywood bar after viewing a screening of his brother Gordy Hoffman's film "A Coast of Snow," which played at the ArcLight across the street.... Tattoo artist Chris Garver checked out the Hellacopters and Nebula at El Rey on Saturday.... The Black Eyed Peas' Fergie celebrated her 31st birthday Tuesday at Citizen Smith.... My Chemical Romance got jiggy at Ivan Kane's Forty Deuce on Wednesday. And Kane confirmed he is indeed partnering with Sting to open a New York Forty Deuce in late 2006. Next up: San Diego and London, he says.... Cher checked out a preview of Donovan Leitch's "Hedwig and the Angry Inch: The Musical" at the Roxy on Sunday.

Coming right up

Hollywood illustrator Gris Grimly is signing his latest book, "Wicked Nursery Rhymes II," at LACMA tonight. And artist Mattia Biagi kicks off his "House of Tar" exhibition tonight at Twentieth on Beverly Boulevard. Inspired by the La Brea Tar Pits, Biagi gooed up household items. And wait, there's more: The photo exhibition "Dolls to the Walls," featuring female photogs and skaters who shred, makes its debut April 13 at Project in Venice....Supergroup the Johns performs tonight at the Punk Rock Social at Molly Malone's.... And the scene's favorite headbanging horror burlesque show, Heavy Metal Happy Hour, hits McMurphy's Tavern in Pasadena on April 7.

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