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NYE is fast approaching and let's face it, if it's this late and you don't have plans, you are staring down a bleak avenue of options - but have hope! National Mechanics is celebrating New Years Eve spinning the music we're known for spinning at the kind of party we're known for throwing. Here is the breakdown: 60 gets you in, fed, and drunk from 8-12. 75 gets you the same deal plus table service and a free bottle of bubbly to cap off 2009. Sound good? OK. See you here, to see the year out.

NSFW...sort of.

Philly's own adult film superstar Stoya waxes for 30 seconds about where she recommends coming in the city...Ok, forget the innuendo, I think I'll take Philebrity's cue and just call 'em as they see 'em.

National Mechanics; The only place in town where bloggers can hang in close proximity to porn stars without having to stock up on ones, fives and twenties first.

A toast to the future and a nod to a tumultuous recent past is DEFINITELY in order. All day happy hour, our president elect on the projection screen and a hopefully dejected looking Bush kicking a can down Pennsylvania Ave.

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A weekly clusterfuck of local bands, solo musicians, comedians, thespians, photographers, painters, monologists, linguists, performance artists, authors, DJs, jammers, scammers, filmmakers, and films experimenting in different-than-usual norms on an in-the-biz night with you as judge, jury, victim, viewer, but not executioner. Sorry, we reserve that right.

It's going down every Monday from 9 till close and trust me, this is going to be something you'll want to see.

"I don't know if I understand what's really taken place here," said Jamie Moyer, the only member of this team who actually attended the parade of the one World Series championship in Phillies history. "I don't know if it's really sunk in. I know we're going to the World Series, but it hasn't sunk in."

With eyes watering, Moyer began to tell the story of what it was like to be a kid in high school in October 1980, skipping school to watch the champs parade down Broad Street.

"I remember people hanging from the street lights and the trees, and toilet paper all over," Moyer said. "And everybody was your friend. A half a million people were all friends."

And then somehow, in 2006, the world spun and brought him back to his hometown, to a team that was still trying to figure out how to win these kinds of games. And a couple of weeks later, he found himself in the middle of a team meeting, telling his new friends about that parade -- and laying out a dream for all of them, to reach a parade of their own someday.

"And now we're one series away from being on the floats in that parade," Moyer said. "It's amazing."

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While you were getting busy in your "Marriage Bed" at the compound or being bitter and shooting guns, we were having a blast with Quizzo. I mean, sure the pope gets to wear an awesome cap and gets carted around in a fancy bullet proof thing, but is seeing an ex-Nazi in a mu mu chit-chat at a stadium worth getting worked up over? My hungover blahg after the jump...

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This New Years you can celebrate in one of two ways. You can go to a bar that will charge an enormous cover, feed you well drinks and shrimp cocktails to make you forget you dropped $50 to get into a bar that is normally free, give you a glass of champagne at midnight and send you home to cry yourself to sleep, or, you can come to National Mechanics where there is no cover, our great everyday deals and all your friends. So ring in the New Year with us, your friends and no stupid cover. We'll be setting trends all night.

So our First Friday fest this month is a totally interactive exhibit featuring real alcohol consumption combined with music which, if you choose to realize the artist’s vision, will lead to dancing, sweating and maybe even more, depending on the level of crowd participation. So bring your dancing shoes and prepare to commit a faux pas.

Saturday, September 8th, National Mechanics is once again proud to host FAUX PAS! The last time we had this event, the house was packed with models and dancy goodness. This time your friends, Jonny Balls, Dj Dave J, Oh-My-Todd and Diamond Girl bring the indie-danse-rock-electro-music-to get awesome to even more than last time. Plenty of surprises in store but we wont tell. See you Saturday. By the by, it is pronounced "fo pa" folks, although fox paws may make the menu if the term sticks.

From the minds that brought you Hands and Knees at the M Room comes Faux Pas; a First Friday party with Dave J. (Hands&Knees/Fort Awesome) and Diamond Girl (Hands&Knees/Click) spinning indie, rock, electro and dance music for your auditory delight while Johnny Sorber (Hands&Knees) provides pictures for your visual consumption. To complete the sensory overload; for your gustatory enjoyment the drink specials are $2 PBR cans and $5 well drinks from 10-2 and $3 Three Olive Vodka drinks and Cherry bombs from 10-12. $5 cover. Come get awesome.

Saturday July, 28th, Flying Monkey Extravaganza presents: Clown Carnival III! Starting at 10 pm, a FREE circus and costume party complete with a cotton candy machine, tarot readings, games of skill and chance, rickshaw rides, firebreathing, a human pony-girl and a contest to determine the best dressed will go down at National Mechanics. Music will be provided by DJ's Alex Smith and Mighty Mike Saga spinning d n' b, electro, indie, house, new wave and intergalactic beats all night. 21+ with ID.

All around good guy "Mike" deserves a round of applause, he stole two of our infamous pint glasses, but, wait, that's not why he deserves it.

Details after the jump.

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National Mechanics has a new claim to fame! No longer are we just a great place to fill up on beverages, but a great place to relieve yourself of them too! City Paper has rated National Mechanics as the 4th best bathroom in the city, we shit you not.

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The real acclaim lies with artist Kate Swan’s “organic art” sinks which City Paper called an “intricate, rootlike network of exposed copper piping.” Combining form and function she made an absolutely amazing, and now award winning, space. Take that Steven Starr.

The Beach Balls sound is unlike anything you’ve ever heard, but strangely, it speaks to you. It sounds like dim rooms with dusty shag carpeting and old family photos on wood paneled walls; but also bright ballrooms with mirrored walls and gaudy chandeliers. It's as if Frank Sinatra and David Byrne birthed an acoustic trio.

Friday, March 23 at 9PM at National Mechanics.