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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Erin Go Blog

Ah Green. One of my favorite flavors. Happy St. Patricks to all of you in the extended Irish Family ! May your pot at end of Rainbow not be a toilet bowl you puke in.

We have two events going on at 58 this week. Tonight, Thomas J Carlson, who's current exhibit, Ides of March, is sharing some new sketches as well as his culinary skills with a Tempeh Taco Tuesday Dinner Party. I am going to whip up some green guacamole, and that's about as Irish as this one gets folks. If you want to come enjoy artwork and tacos come by and bring a beverage. Things start at four and we are done at eight. Come sober, save your shenanigans for the Lucky Sevens St. Patricks Day Party or The White Star - Green Star Party God (referring to Catholic for this Racial Tinge) who isn't having a St. Patrick Day's Party ?

Well, that of course would be Melissa Surach's Babyhole. She's canning the Bagpipes and killing leprechauns with a Limerick Contest and Sausagefest Contest (the first female stand-up to sign-up gets a bottle of champagne) . Musical Guests, Crazy and the Brains play first. For those of you who attended last week's benefit Melissa congrats on Raising almost $200. On further congrats to WFMU for Raising over $1million during this years fundraising marathon.

On Wednesday Night, DJ Sup Babes, who alternate Wednesday Nights at Luckys with Lucha DJ will be spinning. Steff and Claudia are joined by an all ladies DJ troupe Tanner and Hooch ?

On Thursday Night, we are hosting an artist reception for Jersey City Artist, Ron English and West Coast Artist, Bigfoot. Starting this Tuesday, these two artist's will be painting a mural on the side of the Hudson County Art Supply Store, which is on the corner of 1st and Coles. Keep on the look out for more murals, Dylan Evans, who staged the Prime Surreal Estate exhibit at Canco is working with the City's Department of Cultural Affairs get the city carpeted Wall to Wall. The reception starts at 8. Afterwards you can follow me over to the Lamp Post for my alternating Thursday Night Gig. And mark your calenders for April 2nd Karaoke Dance Party.

Artists, of you are looking for a exhibition gig, Art House Productions is looking for an artist for the Cosi Restaurant near Pavonia Newport. Submit 5 images to art@arthouseproductions.org if you are interested, the deadline is March 23rd at 5pm. In addition, _gaia, is holding auditions for this years V-Day project the reading of MMRP on Wednesday March 18th (yes as in tomorrow) . (see below) the link is for the facebook listing.

A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant & A PrayerJersey City 2009_gaia Studio in association with Art House Productions are holding auditions for A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant & A Prayer for V-Day Jersey City 2009, part of a worldwide campaign to stop violence against women. This year marks a very special year for us! We are celebrating 6 years of fighting violence against women and girls in New Jersey, New York City and beyond. I personally invite you to join us this year by auditioning, volunteering, or supporting us in your own community.

Opposite my Thursday Night DJ at the LP, Leonard Smalls will be spinning Ladies Night at Luckys Seven's. To make things easier on everyone. Leonard Smalls and I will be mixing media for the Vernal Equinox, and the start of Spring this Saturday Night at Luckys. I'll clear some tables for a dance floor.

Also on Thursday, Bryan Bennighove's Hangmen and Lux Capacitor ? Shakedown the Downtown with some avante-jazz sounds. The are at the IMAC , it's next door to the Iron Monkey. Jam starts at 9 pm. $5. Rock-it I am out for now.

New Location - Just Behind City Hall : 6th Borough Market

FIRST THURSDAY TIKI PARTY AT DC"s TAVERN

03-06 8 pm Put some Class in your Grass Skirts 8pm DC's Tavern Hoboken : So the crew behind D.C.’s Taverns First Thursdays has decided to go to Hawaii. We’re having a Tiki Party! With a very special guest, the one and only Rum Queen, Natalie Jacob of Papa's Pilar Rum! John Ernst and Joe Donohue are donning Grass Skirts while shaking their coconuts behind the bar. Zoey Ramone will be back in her little tattoo shack and of course I’ll be spinning all things Hawaii, Surf, Skate, Lounge and anything else that reminds you of Summer. So catch a wave, walk don’t run or ski or use the Light Railbut get to D.C.’s Tavern this First Thursday because it is TIKI TIME!

PATHS THAT CROSS : Photography Show at 313 Gallery

03/01 & JCF 5 to 9 pm : Paths That Cross is a visual art experience comprised of works both in photography and video. The work reflects the artists finding their own space in this song to create and reflect. Faet artists : Allana Clarke, Cristine Posner, Gabriella Chavez, Cathleen Marie Thérèse Parra, Kelly Schirmer, Fredrick Macaraeg, Amanda Unger, Rita Jimenez, Roxana Zavala Marroquin, Melissa Büsing, Dakota Santiago, Albamaria Escalante, Kathleen Odenthal, Grace Morchel, and Leona Strassberg Steiner.

17 Year Cicada - New Works by Kayt Hester

SAT 08/24 @ 9pm Port-o- Lounge he 17 Year Cicada – New Art Work by Kayt Hester – opens August 24th at Port- O Lounge, one of the handful of downtown Jersey City restaurants/art galleries that, by presenting to new audiences, up & coming and established local artists, are transforming the New York Metropolitan area Art World. As the title of the exhibition suggests, this edition of the yearly Hester Summer Showcase coalesces around the theme of Magicada Cicadas – the species of cicadas that only appear every 17 years. Her more recent work also expands her use of texture and color. Augmenting her black masking tape are new, extraordinary details made of brightly colored, metallic tape. She also has incorporated embroidery to canvases, essentially embedding 21st century needlepoint within her tape illustrations.

21st Annual Pagan Thanksgiving Dinner

MONDAY Nov 21st 7 pm @ Halcyon [Montclair, NJ] Bring you best side dish, cash bar, donations accepteed for the Human Needs Food Pantry. The 21st Annual Pagan Thanksgiving Feast Where: Halcyon, 114 Walnut Street, Montclair (Next door to Egan's. Parking in back or at the train station) When: The Monday Before Thanksgiving - November 21, 2011 Why: Libations - 7 PM, Dinner - 8:30 (we promise multiple food stations this year!) Who: Everyone, and anyone you want to bring, all are welcome. How: Remember to bring a side dish or homemade dessert Bonus!: Get your muscles primed for the Annual Wishbone Grudge Match! The 21st Pagan Thanksgiving Feast is upon us and from every nook and cranny the weird and wonderful will gather for an evening of full throated frivolity! We will gorge and devour! We will cackle and hoot! Glasses will empty, plates will be licked clean! In the end we will be emerge with bursting bellies, fizzy heads and murky memories. This year we are back at HALCYON in Montclair (next door to Egan's). Feel free to invite any demons you desire: friends and neighbors, families and co-workers, the more the merrier. We'll cook up the turkeys, the ham, the potatoes and the stuffing. All you need to bring is your momma's best side dish or a homemade dessert. No need to bring booze - the bar will be open all night. Every year, we pass the hat to benefit the Human Needs Food Pantry, which has enriched the lives of Montclair residents since 1982.

We Come in Peace | Annual House Party

click for pictures || Four different music rooms with Two different dance floors If you aren't familiar with our house parties: This is an all inclusive deal[ there plenty of cheep free beer and wine [but we also have a premium cash bar] Come in costume [alien, indian, UN peacekeeper, hippie] make an effort. People like to tlak to people in costume, and you want to talk with them. Come in mixed company [if we wanted to have a sausage party I'd go to the Italian Deli] Have fun be safe and be respectful of people [you are in my apartment] +++++If you think that you are that special that you don't need to pay or don't want to pay at least $5 to come, then take your $5 and see how far it gets somewhere else ++++++

3rd annual dj leonard smalls birthday bash

Sat. Dec 4th at Lucky Sevens | Live music by TFTHC, In Musth, Aminial | DJ's Leonard Smalls, Dancing TOny , Caligula | please note, the annual dj leonard smalls drive for the York St. project will also kick-off on december 4th. like last year, please try and bring something to help the single mother's of jersey city this holiday season and each donation gets you a 1/2 priced draft or well drink (one per visit). plenty of items are needed, such as diapers, wipes, bottles, cleaning supplies, bathing supplies, unopened toys, school supplies, non-perishable food, etc. please help make this holiday season a little brighter for those less fortunate

58 Gallery Reunion Show

Opening F 6 to 9 pm Mary Benson Galleryey everybody, there once was this place called 58 gallery in dtjc showed some of the best art around by some of the best emerging artist around, it coupled the shows with sounds and visuals "that would create an atmosphere unlike any in nyc" holland cotter ny times...and it did a bunch of other things to strengthen the artist community between 2002-2012. it closed in 2012. some of the pioneers and trendsetters of that time are gathering for the start of this amazing series of shows. stay tuned for more info. www.fifty8.com

The Attic Ensemble Presents

Nov 7 to 18h @ Barrow Mansion | August, 1949. A fascinatingly realistic picture of routine cases brought into a bustling metropolitan police station in the course of an evening. Out of the welter of human misery, vice and foolishness there emerges the moving case of a decent young man who has stolen money from his employer; a hardened criminal dragging his young friend down with him; a lawless NJ "gardener" with a corrupt lawyer; and others. In the throes of the tumult is Detective McLeod -- a man whose black & white vision of justice will be challenged by the woman he loves most: his wife. A cast of 22 men and women will bring this drama of truth and consequences to life on the stage.

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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

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