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► A schtar is born: We're happy Churchville director Tom Quinn's The New Year Parade got a Grand Jury prize at Slamdance. But look at li'l Greg Lyons' of ye old Laguardia and ye young Eastern Conference Champions (say it like Jon Lovitz) aaaacting alongside the South Philadelphia String Band. The flick hits NYC's IFC Center in Feb. Flick. Hitting. That reminds me: Philly's Combat Zone Wrestling at the New Alhambra hosts Mickey Rourke and director Darren Aronofsky Feb. 8 and 9, lensing bits of The Wrestler for 2009 release. Rourke was at CZW's Cage of Death IX last month, suggested it to the Pi guy and ba-da-boom. Yeah, they need extras (3 p.m., Feb. 8, New Alhambra, line up), but you gotta buy tix for the wrastling match on Feb. 9. No word if you'll have to wrestle David Johansen when New York Dolls are there Feb. 14.

► Stripping 'n' teasing: Before you call the old Wizzards at 38th by its new nom-de-boob (Atlantis), we hear that the old Gold Club at 13th and Locust got J.D. Coleates as its tenant for what I'm hearing will be a supper club, Evolve. That's the guy who got arrested in Hawaii in 2000 for illegally taking money from his Boy-lesque drag show. Why he's not calling his restaubar Boy-lesque in the Gayborhood is beyond me.

► Really? Chris Booker has radio 'n' TV execs in NYC clamoring for his employ when his Q102 deal runs out in '09? Consider this a long pause while we mull.

► Yo Majesty, Tampa's alterna-rap-snap DJ outfit, make the Barbary their First Friday home starting Feb. 1 with the 4 am DJs Jay Yo and Dirty.

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► Sadly, we hear Perry Milou's eponymous Walnut Street gallery is outta here Feb. 1 and that he's selling some stuff to lighten his move-out.

► What's this? "The Fall of the House of Usher." (Not the guy who sings "Yeah!") There's psych-electro mister Andrew Ryan's Ravens:and:Vultures Keep Your Kill EP. There's author Tom Devaney's "The Empty House" — about "a tour I gave of the Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site," says TD — published in The Sienese Shredder. There's the spooky notion that Scott Daly's echo-flexing Aunt Dracula will release Face Peel (Relay’s Jeff Zeigler produced)in mere days. There's Feb. 3's Manayunk Art Center art show literary forum on Poe with CP contrib Ed Pettit and Poe House rep Helen McKenna-Uff who we hear does a mean Poe impersonation. Then there's Cloverfield king/meister of morass/Germ Books-er David E. Williams who has an album out in tribute to Poe (The Appeal of Discarded Orthodoxy) and'll play its release event at the Balcony Feb. 4 with the twitchy electro trio The Model and the dark Dead Girl History. "It's my first CD release party since 1994 and, technically, this isn't even my CD," laughs Williams about participants like David Talento and Ethel Mermaid doing Dave tunes. Joining DEW is longtime guitarist Jerome Deppe, who lives in Baltimore. "It's our first time playing together in Philly since the HMV stage, 1998 Rittenhouse Row Festival." THAT was a crowd-baiting bloodbath. Boo.

► Rumor: What's cozy and being called a "boutique social experience" and nestled between Olive Garden and the Scientologist Center on 13th and Chestnut? Supposedly, an intimate basement boite from the branders/sports agents from Premiere Marketing (Justin Fine, Mike Steinberg) and Anthony Sembello due in September.

► Painters/graphic artists Kevin Kernan, Nicole Koenitzer, Matthew Bednarik and a slew of Rutgers U./Media Bureau dropouts take it to the Glam Gallery with me, A.D. , as their happy hour host First Friday Feb. 1. It won't hurt.

► WHOWHATWHERE: Jerry Blavat and his yon teens (some Spinners, Harvey Fuqua, Peaches & Herb, Candi Staton) flooded Mercato after selling out the Geator's Kimmel show Saturday. That was indeed Philly's Mad Dragon label's Redwalls on Letterman. My fave line from the Academy of Music's Academy Ball concert: Philly-born host Chris Matthews — after reading the "news" of Barack's battering of Hillary and St. Joe's b-ball attack — mentioned that AoM's 5,000-pound crystal chandelier was in Palm Beach for repairs. "And like everything else that winds up there, it'll come back looking like new" come September. That was ex-Drummer writer/Rolling Stone scribe David Fricke shopping at AKA, staying at the Alexander and visiting his family. "He still looks like a healthy Joey Ramone," says AKA's Mike Hoffman, noting Fricke dropped a C-note. Ex-Gyro PR director/Pink Skull gal pal Carrie Estok just got the gig as local community manager for yelp.com and will get wack at Paige Wolf's Hacks and Flacks party Feb. 1 to celebrate.

► I got glittered when I opened Philly's dancey/Stooges-y/Stones-y Dark Horse and the Carousels' eponymous debut CD package. Buy it at their CD release jam at Dave Pianka's/Adam Sparkles' Making Time Feb. 1 at Pure and play "Por La Roca" as soon as you get home Sunday.

(a_amorosi@citypaper.net)