Bartenders @ M.O.I.
KEVIN (LIL' KEV)
BILL DREADZ
DAVE
KRISTY
ADAM
CHRIS
and for you olde city heads go to SKINNERS 2nd and market .......it's our sister bar
Music
M.O.I.'s jukebox=
journey, motorhead, the clash, the stone roses, sunny day real estate, prince, michael jackson, love and rockets, the cult, tomwaits, david bowie,bad brains, tool,foreiner, helmet, foo fighters,jeff buckley, cydi lauper,steviewonder,queen, johnny cash,the cramps, fischerspooner, beck, the beatles, the ramones, cinderella, jimmy hendricks,miles davis,the sex pistols,belly,badly drawn boy,the libertines, kiss, quicksand, black keys, the toasters, erasure, the beastie boys, adam ant, marvine gay, smashing pumpkins,the darkness, the gogo's, dirtbombs, iggy pop, spinal tap, massive attack, bob mould, uncle tuppelo, nirvana, joe strummer, girls against boys, liz phair, thievery corporation, lou reed, fishbone, fugazi, elliot smith, the decendants, sugar
==philly's finest==the fence bells, ar duvall, royalty, plastic little, v.i.p., persona, mazarin, the capitol years, adam acuragi & royalty, fury, the northern hues, joey sweeney, the northen arms, the united givers of themes, persona, this radiant boy, the lilys, the major bees, laguardia, psy-ops, the cobbs, weston, cordova,
To quote Kurt of Plastic Little, "I want to lick, lick, lick your Love Entrance"
Now I Hollar
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About me:
The AOL cityguide has awarded The Ministry Of Information the 2005 City's Best Awards for Best Jukebox and Cheap Drinks (our second).
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Ministry of Information
449 Poplar St
Philadelphia, PA 19123
215-925-0999
Features
• Billiards/pool
• Select menu
• Happy Hour 5-7 everyday $1 off all drinks
Hours
• Mon.-Sat. 5PM-2AM
Cross Street
• 5th Street and poplar
Who I'd like to meet: Alcoholics...
No you can't have a "surfer on acid" a "red headed slut" or a coors light so dont ask!
She Bangs The Drums
MARK YOUR CALENDAR...RIGHT NOW!!! You are officially invited to the Philly DJ Day Afterparty, September 24th at G Lounge (111 S. 17th Street). The line up is RIDICULOUS everyone from Jazzy Jeff, Cash$, SchoollyD to Aktive, Excel and Sammy Slice. Come out for a night full of eargasms!!!!! Its only $10, but DAMN…it’ll be worth MILLIONS!!!! See ya there.
FYI, Teams Signups for our Project Twenty1 Filmmaking Competition have just opened, so if you think you can make a film or animation in three weeks, sign up before the registration period is over!
Also, we are now accepting short films for our Philly Film-A-Thon, so send us your film ASAP so we can put them on the big screen!
You don't need to be local to participate, so visit www. ProjectTwenty1. com for more info. Remember, THIS could be you:
Have a great day!
Your Friends, Matt, Stephanie & Quang Project Twenty1 Producers
Go to our myspace to to stream our 7.11.07 show at World Cafe Live featuring Fred Adams of the Sun Ra Arkestra on Trumpet. Or go here to download it. Enjoy!
thank you to everyone who has been a part of the ministry dysfunctional family. this has been always more than a bar to a lot of people, especially us and we defiantly found this out this week. we will miss you all. and personaly i am sorry it had to happen. i think we all are. thank you again for the love over the past few days (and years ) we all needed it and appreciate it so much.
it's just a fucking bar ......
well now we all know it's not,
it's our lives, it's our friends, it (was) northern liberties
i guess i'll see you in fishtown. until another GLAM opens there
The end of the line for Ministry Of Information
Deathbird (N. : bird which sings at ungodly early hour after last call but before dawn; bird whose song means you're inevitably going to regret something - or manifold things - after the booze wears off)
Usage:
The end of an era dawns as the deathbirds sing exiting the bar. Ministry Of Information is no more. A dive bar of some local legend, MOI etched its' smoky antihipster conciousness into the minds and community of this Philadelphian early in the seven year tenure it graced (?) the corner of 5th and Poplar.
I'll miss the crappy random decor, the kickass jukebox (play L7 again before shutting the lights out, dammit) and the tendency of staff to unceremoniously boot out rude shitheads using cellphones at the bar. No, you can't have a Sex On The Beach or a Coors light, don't fucking ask. Here's a shot of Old Crow....
I won't miss the smoke so thick you couldn't see above shoulder level after 11 on a weekend night.
Most of all I'll miss the bizarre and wonderful group of people who frequented the place, both staff and clientele, from opening to about 2003 in particular.
"One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, too rare to die."
