4/3/2023 0 Comments Medusa nightclub![]() ![]() This was not your run-of-the-mill bathroom hook-up, where a couple with sufficiently drowned inhibitions can’t wait to get home and takes advantage of a stall instead. ![]() Incredulous, I checked for myself, and immediately learned a vivid lesson on believing your girlfriend. “There are two men fornicating in the bathroom,” she said, only using a different F-word instead of “fornicating”. Before the bartender had a chance to open a pair of PBR cans, my girlfriend returned. ![]() On another visit with my then girlfriend, a tattooed art-dealer originally from outside Minneapolis with a penchant for cursing that somehow made her Minnesota Nice that much sweeter, I went to the bar to order two beers while she went to use the bathroom. On past visits, I saw white haired men in bespoke suits accompanied by leggy, six-foot blondes half their age, crusty gutter punks, tripped-out ravers, and guys in tall tees and flat brim caps, all there for the same thing: the mesmerizing beats booming in an intimate space. While a handful of dives remain - and some would argue that Medusa’s, opened in 2005, was never old enough to be considered a dive bar - none of the survivors can say that things get so truly weird as they could be at Medusa’s. It joins a sad graveyard of lost Center City haunts like Tritone, Sugar Mom’s, Mako’s, Robert’s Twilight, and Tangier. With the passing of Medusa’s, Center City may have lost its last truly unusual bar. to stay afloat tend to open earlier and on more nights. Even clubs that rely heavily on the after-hours crowd between 2 and 3 a.m. In this Greek tragedy, Medusa’s fatal flaw may have been its hours: the bar was open only three nights a week Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and only between 10 p.m. No one picked up the phone number for Medusa Lounge and the bar was closed on Thursday night. The bar’s landlord filed for eviction last week, alleging it hasn’t fully paid rent since May. In the end, Perseus wielded a lawsuit, rather than a sword. Medusa’s decor was literally crowdsourced, a product of years of individual drawings and musings sketched onto its walls. In a neighborhood where new bars spend hundreds of thousands on interior design, Medusa’s walls were covered in graffiti, and not the meticulously crafted, artist painted kind that gives places like Graffiti bar their faux edge. It helped that the bar was in an actual basement - a sub-level bar accessible by an entrance stairway on 21st Street. ![]() Just blocks from Rittenhouse Square, and around the corner from the office towers lining Market Street, Medusa’s, as it was commonly (if incorrectly) known, felt more like a West Philly basement party than a Center City drinking establishment. The dive bar on the corner of Chestnut and 21st Street, best known for hosting some of Philadelphia’s best up-and-coming DJs, appears to be closed and facing eviction. WHYY thanks our sponsors - become a WHYY sponsor The bar was hit with seven code violations from Licenses & Inspections in April, and according to the L&I website, some of the violations remain open and in non-compliance.Ī reporter did confirm that the bar was open for business on Saturday night. Neither Ginsburg nor his attorney have confirmed that they have accepted rent and dropped the eviction. The Club” On social media, the bar’s latest postings were dated June 21st. Belief that the bar had closed was further compounded by an event held on August 6th at Medusa Lounge called “ Work the Box, One last time… then it’s Dead! R.I.P. Morales told NewsWorks that there was confusion about the bar’s status due to a Yelp listing stating that Medusa Lounge was closed, and a lapse in the bar’s website domain name registration. However, according to Morales, the bar is not closing. Portia Morales, manager of Medusa Lounge, called NewsWorks Saturday night to say that the dispute with landlord Marc Ginsburg had been resolved as of Monday, but due to a miscommunication the eviction notice was still posted on Thursday. UPDATE: Reports of Medusa Lounge’s demise may have been premature. Reports of Medusa Lounge’s demise may have been premature. ![]()
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