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Published: Jan 19, 2011

Since getting announced in November, it's been a quiet stroll toward publishing for Jump, journalist/teacher George Miller's volunteer-based music mag. Until now. The glossy has deadlines soon and it's due out in March. The first issue is tentatively set to feature tales like "24 Hours at The Ox" (duck!) and stories on West Philly hardcore Hennessy Youngman and Santigold's brother, Ali White. "I teach at Temple and one of my classes is entrepreneurial journalism," says Miller. "I've had publishers and indie media folks come through. We build journalism products and talk about business models. I got tired of talking about it. That's where Jump stems from."

Hard to believe it's four years ago that the Khyber/Royal Tavern guys went south of the border, literally and figuratively, by opening a Mexican restaurant on East Passyunk. They celebrate Cantina Los Caballitos' anniversary Jan. 20 with homemade lucha libre mask-making and DJ Luis Angel Cancel. Olé.

As far as long-awaited Philly coffee-table books go (OK, this is the only one, really), Larry Magid 's My Soul's Been Psychedelicized: Electric Factory: Four Decades in Posters and Photographs is a doozy. The Temple Publishing release date is May 2011 and the book — with Philly Mag 's Robert Huber compiling stuff from Magid's original Electric Factory, Bijou Café, Spectrum, Tower and the modern-era Electric Factory — features photos from Icepack's Scott Weiner, Hooters ' Eric Bazilian and a cover snap by Bobby Startup. "They sent me the galleys — it's a wild shot I did of Pink Floyd at the Spectrum during the Dark Side of the Moon tour," says a surprised Startup, who has several other photos in the tome, too. Go to Critical Mass this week for more on Startup, including his hookup with Philly-Brit designer/fellow former Stray Cats manager Tony Bidgood as well as that Jan. 31 East Side Club reunion bash. Talking about reunions: I'll co-host a Goth-god David E. Williams roast/goodbye party for GERM Books at National Mechanics Jan. 24, with stained-glass genie Judith Schaechter, the Nikola Tesla Inventors Club and more.

"Doom wop" is not my nickname. It's what Sub Pop 's calling Mister Heavenly, the new act featuring Honus Honus of Man Man and some cats from Modest Mouse and Islands.

That Mitchell & Ness shop at UBIQ on 15th and Walnut that had a quiet holiday opening gets a louder one Jan. 21 with Prince Paul and Rich Medina spinning.

Michelle Williams may've lost a Golden Globe, but at least she's getting some local cred. One of her sex scenes (with Ryan Gosling ) in the stirring Blue Valentine was lensed at the Valley Forge Radisson 's Star Gazer suite.

More celebs, gossip, food, blabbing and such at citypaper.net/criticalmass.

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