Now, back to your regularly scheduled disgraceful programming…. I made my first trip to the newly remodeled IP54 and it was as soulful as in its former lives. The purpose of my visit was to see K-Ci and JoJo “whoo-yeah” the stage down, but I got a healthy serving of Café Soul while I was at it. Regulars like Katrina Reece, Tasha B, Trunesia Combs, Wildman and Tiorah graced the stage. Tru’s take on “Somebody Else’s Guy,” and Tasha B’s version of Milyra’s “Go Outside in the Rain” had the 70s babies in their zone. It’s a shame that the headliners ended up being the designated hot mess. I mean, I love K-Ci and Jo Jo from their Jodeci days and it stretched into their duet incarnation. But I was more saddened than underwhelmed as K-Ci scratched his head and sweated through the show. Then, when the microphone stopped working so K-Ci threw a fit and snatched the microphone from in front of JoJo’s mouth while he was singing. How you gonna strong arm the mic from your harmony? Oh, but it gets worse. He essentially decided that he would just mime his way through mime his way through the songs until the mic got right. Actually K-Ci taking the mic from JoJo helped more than it hindered, because his harmonies were full of struggle. I left that show thinking “were they even as wonderful as I remember them? Because I just can’t believe somebody this bad was ever that good.” I’m just hoping that they can regroup before they head back to town.