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Raspberry Brothers Bad Movie Night
Fri, Aug 14, 9pm (The Karate Kid) & 11:30pm (Footloose) at 941 Theater: 941 N Front St, between Girard & Poplar; Northern Liberties; 215.235.1385

Further live MST3K-age comes from the Raspberry Brothers (pedigree: The Onion & SNL writers, Upright Citizens Brigade), who’ll plop down in the front row at 941 Theater this Friday to provide snarky commentary and inject ad-libbed overdubs into a double-feature screening of 1984’s The Karate Kid & Footloose. Best of all, the whole thing’s BYOB, so go ahead and sweep the keg, Johnny.

$10 per film or $15 for the double feature — check out a sneak peek of the Brothers’ expert lampoonery at YouTube.com

Raspberry Brothers Official Website
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About the 941 Show:
On Friday, August 14th, the 941 Theater presents a very special tribute to the year 1984, featuring NYC’s #1 movie commentary comedy group, the Raspberry Brothers. Like a live take on Mystery Science Theater 3000, this team of top NYC comics sit front row center at the movies, mocking films as they play. The Raspberry Brothers, who perform weekly at Chelsea Cinemas, one of Manhattan’s premiere art-house film theaters, includes a cast of comedy writers and performers who contribute to SNL and the Onion. They have received numerous awards, garnering critic’s picks from the New York Times, Time Out, and the Decider.

1984 was to be an infamous year, due to writer George Orwell, who envisioned a dark time for civilization. He imagined a 1984 populace dominated by an omnipotent and ubiquitous government, one that closely monitored and interfered with people’s lives.

In America, President Ronald Reagan was encouraging such fears with the nuclear arms race, strict anti-obscenity laws, and domestic policies that seemed to invade personal freedoms. So what was the response of our American motion picture artists? Footloose and Karate Kid!

These two films, released in 1984, were a reaction to the oppression that Americans were experiencing. They feature protagonists who fight the powers that be…with their feet. Let the foot set you free! Kick off your Sunday shoes and beat back those bullies with a roundhouse kick…or get those feet dancing and enlighten the narrow-minded members of the town council by throwing a prom!

On August 14th the Raspberry Brothers will be lampooning Karate Kid and Footloose in a double feature sure to enlighten viewers into the social psychology of the year 1984. Karate Kid begins at 9:00 and Footloose at 11:30.

KARATE KID: You’ll recognize the setup: the new kid in town is having trouble fitting in. Does he turn the town upside-down with dancing? No. Does he befriend an outer space alien? No. But he does learn the ancient art of Karate by performing a series of household chores for an aging Asian janitor. This movie birthed the Karate craze that swept the nation in the mid 1980s. It also put Ralph Macchio on the map…and left him there. Put on your robe, tie on that black belt, and come join the Raspberry boys as they journey back to a simpler decade when teenage angst could be mellowed by learning to “Wax On, Wax Off.”

FOOTLOOSE: Jack, get back, ’cause it’s Footloose, the sweet 80’s story about a big-city, thin-tie wearing rebel trapped in a rural Midwestern town, who dances his way into the hearts of the local hicks, and into the pants of the local chicks. See Kevin Bacon compete in a deadly slow game of “chicken” using tractors…see Sarah Jessica Parker talk about diaphrams…see Sean Penn’s little brother breakdance…and see a whole lot of Coca-Cola product placement. So let’s hear it for the boys, Jerm Pollet, Johnny McNulty, and Scott Rogowsky, as they promise to fry a lot of Bacon with this one!

Footloose and the Karate Kid

Fri, Dec 5th – Village Green and Glass Grenade Productions Presents:

DrFameus (featuring Allen Aucoin of The Disco Biscuits)
“Dr. Fameus, a guru of sound, began natural melody and TBM (Traditional Beat Medicine) in 2001. While surgery and healing beats have been given on a more personal level the doctor is looking forward to treating the masses with his delectable ear candies. Give the doctor a visit.”

Random Movement
“The sound of Random Movement is a bit difficult to describe. Samples stand out from a wide variety of old soul/funk/dub/jazz albums, and the overall style of production, writing and orchestration definitely reflects that. The music feels like a hot beach at sunset, like that small club you used to go to back in the day that has long since shut its doors, like the good memories of how things used to be. Deep rolling basslines, good swingin breaks, and 10 tons of soul–Definitely a source of that feel-good vibe. One word seems to get tossed around alot to describe the Random Movement drum and bass sound, and that word is…Deep.”

with DJ Ross D and Chris Crompton

All Ages to Enter, 21 to Drink
BYOB
Tickets $15
Show 9 p.m. to 2 a.m.

villagegreenproductions.net
myspace.com/villagegreenshows

Saturday, Dec 6th- The Philadelphia Independent Craft Market
11am to 6pm – FREE @ 941 Theater
941 N. Front Street Philadelphia, PA (Northern Liberties)
40 Vendors + Music and More
FREE PABST BLUE RIBBON!!!

The last craft event of the Winter Season! Come get some!!
Featuring Live Bands:
ON THE WATER
THE NORTH LAWRENCE MIDNIGHT SINGERS
AN AMERICAN CHINESE
THE PLUCKIN GRASSHOLES

The Philadelphia Independent Craft Market offers a venue for local crafters, artists, vintage clothing dealers, and all other sorts of cool peddlers to come out and sell their wares. There will be music, food and assorted surprises!

If you are interested in being a vendor please check out and contact through myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/randomsquirrellab

This Friday, October 24th from 9pm-1am it’s a giant Halloween Beef-and-beer costume party to benefit the Philadelphia Outrigger Canoe Club! There will be food, music, beer, wine and non-alcoholic beverages!

There will be prizes for best costumes, and we will be raffling off a outrigger canoe rack, Kialoa gift certificates, and other fabulous (and non-paddling oriented) items, yet to be announced.

Advance tickets on the website are $25 and $30 dollars at the door.

More info on www.philadelphiaoutrigger.com

Then on Saturday, October 25th we are celebrating World Zombie Day in Philly with a Horror Double Feature as well as a Zombie Crawl!

5-6pm – Northern Liberties Zombie Pub Crawl – FREE – starts at North Bowl (909 N 2nd St)
6pm – 7:45pm Zombies will crawl down 2nd St; hitting all the bars along the way
8pm – Horror Double Feature at 941 Theater (941 N Front St., Phila PA 19123) – $12
‘Slumber Party Slaughterhouse’ (8pm) and ‘Isle of the Damned’ (10pm) featuring a LIVE preview of the Living Dead Girlz performing their hit song ‘Brains’ for the zombie masses!

Then on Sunday the zombie action goes to NYC for the NYC Zombie Crawl and Living Dead Girlz Zombie Nation Tour at the Knitting Factory!

Hey check out pictures from the Big Art Show!

Check out the discussion here!

The 941 Theater is an independent theater space; the main use is for movie screenings augmented by occasional live theater and music performances. There are not many places in Philadelphia like this and we are certainly the only Movie Theater serving the Northern Liberties, Fishtown, Kensington and Port Richmond areas. We plan to breathe new life into the neighborhood and film community with our theater space.

The bulk of our programming will be first run independent feature films. In addition we will have the ability to host community based events, screenings from local university students and filmmakers and other events that would bring culture to Northern Liberties.
Outside of the regular screening schedule, we are working with local production companies and artists to bring a diverse blend of programming to the 941 Theater. Our first non-film event will be the Big Art Show on Saturday, April 26th, an all day art celebration featuring over 40 artists from all over Philadelphia. We will also be hosting established film programmers both local and national to bring the finest screening selections from around the world.

For the film production industry, the 941 Theater will be available for Film/Video Dailies Screenings with space for full crew and catering, cast and crew screenings, press screenings, Film, video & arts instructional seminars, Ongoing Art or Video Gallery/Installations.

We all agree that film production is good for the economy and the culture of the city. We picture a Philadelphia where film productions of all sizes can be self sustaining: reinforcing the production industry and labor pool. Additionally we picture the 941 Theater as a national destination for first run screenings for the dynamic new cinema of the twenty first century.

The 941 Theater will provide access for the people of Northern Liberties and all of Philadelphia to a broader variety of films by programming films that are not available here because there is no venue for them. Thousands of independent films are released to American and International theaters every year, but unfortunately only a small percentage of those films are screened in Philly.

The 941 Theater has received written support from the Greater Philadelphia Film Office, 1st District Councilman Frank DiCicco, State Representative Mike O’Brien, The Northern Liberties Neighborhood Association as well as several local businesses and artists.

About the 941 Theater Founders:
For the last six years the 941 Theater partners have been producing the Backseat Film Festival with semi-annual events in Philadelphia (Roxy Theater, Triangle Theater), New York (Pioneer Theater) and Baltimore (Creative Alliance Performance Space). Additionally, Backseat Conceptions has been doing business in Philadelphia as a production company for five years and have a good reputation with local film fans as well as vendors who would benefit from a new independent theater in Northern Liberties.

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