Back to school and the accompanying germs. I'm down with the flu. Not, that I agree with flu, but rather I'm ill with it...
Newmen play Seneca's
Brother Bean on Saturday at 7pm. No cover. It's going to be a fantasic show, and you will regret it if you don't make it.
Kathryn Kuhlman was a was a 20th Century American
faith healer. who was based in Franklin, PA around 1948. Now she has
her own Myspace page. And, from the comments, people aren't sure if she's alive or dead. Strange.
From the online
Derrick:
Photo by Heather Leskanic - Mark Weaver pauses at the door of his family's barn Wednesday along Stoney Lonesome Road just south of Clarion. The pastoral mural was painted over the course of several years by Oil City artist Jill Mattson... Mattson will be hosting a workshop on how music can positively affect your personal aura from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27.
Sometimes, with so many chain stores, it's easy for us outsiders to forget that Pittsburgh has a
thriving indie bookstore scene.
The first show of the Slippery Rock University theater department’s 2007-2008 season is “Tallgrass Gothic,” a haunting story of obsessive love.
Tallgrass Gothic is intended for mature audiences. Curtains are at 8 p.m. Sept. 28-29 and Oct. 1-3, with a 2 p.m. matinee Sept. 30 in Miller Auditorium. Tickets are $5 for SRU students and $10 for the general public. Reservations for the 90-minute show may be made in person from 1-2 p.m. weekdays beginning Sept. 17 at the Miller Auditorium Box Office, or by calling 724.738.2645.
Takoma Park MD
has a poet lauraeate, but Venango County doesn't?! C'mon!
The
Slippery Rock Rocket t
akes on...poetry?
There's a reason a lot of people hate "poetry". . . and it all comes down to this: it can be boring.But poetry doesn't have to be that way. We don't have to groan every time a copy of "The Waste Land" by T.S. Eliot graces our presence. That poem has to be one of the most elitist things ever written.Because it consists of so many allusions to other things, it was almost as if Elliot was just trying to prove his poetical superiority...Indeed.
The Great Lakes Independent Film Festival starts today and runs through Sunday September 30 at The Roadhouse Theatre (145 West 11th Street Erie PA 16501).
NPR
streams a live Okkervill River show on Septemeber 30th. catch
live Iron and Wine the night before.
Some free and legal downloads for you. First the latest from Pittsburgh's Karl Hendricks Rock Band (If you're old like me, you remember The Karl Hendrick's Trio). Check out the cover art from Mike Budai (who still owes me a signed print)
The Karl Hendricks Rock Band
"Mediocre Advice" (mp3)
from "The World Says"
(Comedy Minus One)
More On This AlbumNext, something from Sonic Youth's frontman
Thurston "Frozen Gtr" (mp3)
"Fri/End" (mp3)
from "Trees Outside the Academy"
Vampire Weekend - Morning Becomes Eclectic, Village Recording Studios; Los Angeles, CA on February 2, 2008
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