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I heard during Community Design Collaborative’s 7th Annual Bowling Ball that developer/attorney Larry Kagan is set to make the old Woolworth’s spot at Broad and Chestnut Center City’s first bowling alley/bar in some time. Kagan says he hopes he can open his basement bowling bar, Frame, with Andrew Gavrin (Center City Bowling, LP) in summer ’04.… As John Stango once said, we’re on the way-back machine. For Cramps freaks who didn’t get enough of Hot Club stalwarts the Sickidz, Mick Cancer, Tim Trauma and Rich Lustre’s cranky psycho-billyists are back at the Troc June 28 with their second LP in 25 years, Now and Then (Steel Cage). The CD not only contains "now" tunes, but "then," with lost live tracks of the trio with original, late guitarist Alison (The) End, recorded at Starlite Ballroom in 1980. Joining Sic is Cancer’s ex-Pink Slip Daddy mama Palmyra del Ran (with her new band, Booty Olympics), Young Werewolves and The Flyzzz. So stay Sic.… Philly Gumbo -- the N’awlins-style R&B act who were South Street mainstays in the early ’80s -- celebrate their 20th anniversary at NXNW June 27 with reggae label magnate Randall Grass and a tribute to erstwhile South Street club Bacchanal. Expect poets, musicians, painters, bikers and whoever else wants to pay tribute.… Philly’s first sons of caucasoid ska, Ruder Than You, host their first show since 2000 on June 28 at The North Star with hardcore cads McRad. The horn-driven band has had some bad (the death of baritone saxophonist Trish Johnson) and some good (the return of once-incarcerated singer/leader Freddie Weaver). Get Rude.… Jason Elder (who portrayed me once long ago on Halloween at Revival, so blame him for everything) teamed with Tom Maris and Love Revolution’s Joe Lam to become The 12th Station. They’ll make their debut at Big Nick’s, 6238 Bustleton Ave., June 27.… Fractal Ark’s Jolah and DJs Koji, 99 and Argo have formed the group 4 Headed Hydra, a dream of a sound hitting Fluid June 27.… Collingswood, N.J.’s Chris Slemmer is to the touring staff of the Dead and Rusted Root (and to the Electric Factory) what I am to journalism: an indispensible legend. OK, fine, but the point is those people like him. When Slemmer was diagnosed with lung cancer, they decided to hook him up with a benefit, June 27 at the Factory.… Julia Othmer will get her pals in Santana to aid her in playing The Point June 26.… See Sonic Youth and Wilco debut EFC’s Festival Pier June 28, wouldja? They put those tents and amps up so you don’t have to go to Jersey.… Quote of the week: When asked to give an A.D. impersonation, Village Voice fave Joey Sweeney (not getting out of the news biz, as he told folks, and possibly doing some work for CP in the future) came up with stuff like, "Huzzah, manizzle!" and said he could do this for a living. Hey, isn’t that what he spent years at the Weekly doing? Welcome!… WhoWhatWhere: Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick supped at Alma de Cuba at the close of the shoot on Lee Daniels’ The Woodsman. TLA Releasing’s The Trip had a Ritz 5 premiere/Lamberti’s visit from writer/director Miles Swain and stars Larry Sullivan and Steve Braun. It already opened in L.A., and so far Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston, Nathan Lane, Lesley Anne Warren and Christopher Lloyd have all paid to get Trip-ed. The other night, Frankie Avalon joined Jerry Blavat’s Sound Spectacular on stage at the Kimmel before he got Grease-y at The Academy of Music. While the Rittenhouse Square Ball was being filmed for a documentary by STRUT!’s producer/director Max L. Raab, producer Eric Chung and collaborator Robert Downey Sr. , Les Savy Fav attacked a packed PUMA bash (thrown by Gyro, Sailor Jerry and Nicole “Handle the Scandal” Cashman), singing in their skivvies. That was Elizabeth Fiend on Al Roker’s Food Network show, On the Road. And architect Robert Venturi joins Friends of the Boyd June 27 at International House to raise cash to save the Sameric.… Attorney Bernie Resnick, who handles producer Timbaland’s productions as well as Tim’s Blue Bell, Pa., discovery, Raje Shwari, ran through the U.K. with BBC1 DJ Nihal, who makes Tim/Raje tunes a habit in Britain.… Patrick Rodgers’ Dancing Ferret label has put out the post-Noir night-club CD DJ Ferret Presents Noir: Smooth Female Trip Hop, starring Philly’s dark groove-y Daughter Darling and Ms. Noir. The reception? ABC World News has aired bits during broadcasts.… Touch of Jazz aide de camp/pianist/soulful songstress Jessy Kyle, forced to move from digs at Avenue B (Neil Stein, blah blah blah), hits the piano lounge at Loews Hotel, Tuesdays through Thursdays.… A fearful promise and not just a threat: the Camden County Park ad that reads "Delaware Valley’s funniest radio personalities, Big Daddy Graham and Joe Conklin, tackle the roles of Felix Ungar and Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple." (I know, Graham gets nice points for his newly published, short and sweet book, Last Call: Remembering My Dad.)

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