Don’t miss this Friday’s fundraiser for Downtown Emergency Service Center.

Performers:
The Dusty 45s
The Maldives
Lazy Susan
The Young Evils
Betsy Olson
Davidson Hart Kingsbery
The Purrs

More info about the show.

Billy Joe’s family has been touched with mental illness, as his brother has been ill for a number of years. You can read the families incredible tale in this story by Cydney Gillis in Real Change. With Downtown Emergency Service Center’s assistance in getting his brother off the street, he now has his own apartment and is safe and has a chance of healing.

More info about Downtown Emergency Service Center

While January brings Seattle a 26% chance of sun and rain turning to showers with a chance of drizzle later in the day, Susan Robb, Sierra Stinson and Jim Demetre are creating and curating ONN/OF an art exhibition and “light festival” that forecasts a weekend needed light.

Housed in The Sweater Factory, an 11,000 Sq Ft warehouse in Ballard, ONN/OF was born from 2011’s isolation-inducing, La Niña-drenched winter weather. This year, instead of hiding away on what has been scientifically proven to be the worst, most depressing day of the year, Susan, Sierra, and Jim invite you to engage with a weekend of visual art, performance, installation, projection, music, food and drink, and workshops that in some way use “light”.

This event takes place Saturday and Sunday, January 28th and 29th at The Sweater Factory located at 1415 NW 52st, Ballard, directly across from the Bardahl Oil sign (enter through the back alley).

There are dozens of artists and a variety of arts, events, exhibits and opportunities

Onn/Of Website

Mini-Rex plays tonight at Cafe Racer starting at 9pm.

Friday at noon at the Copacabana terrace. Hope it doesn’t rain!

Nectar Lounge in Fremont, on Wednesday, Feb. 8.

Soul Jelly starts at 8:30 and will play for an hour, followed by Beet Oven and Luau Cinder playung some funky grooves.  And, it is free!

]]> http://seattletwist.com/2012/01/26/free-funk-night-soul-jelly-at-nectar/feed/ 0 http://seattletwist.com/2012/01/22/listen-whitey-celebrate-black-history-month-on-february-4-at-fantagraphics-bookstore-with-two-new-books-on-the-civil-rights-movement/ http://seattletwist.com/2012/01/22/listen-whitey-celebrate-black-history-month-on-february-4-at-fantagraphics-bookstore-with-two-new-books-on-the-civil-rights-movement/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:19:36 +0000 larryreid http://seattletwist.com/?p=11212
Fantagraphics Bookstore kicks off Black History Month on Saturday, February 4 with the debut of two diverse books. Seattle-based music scholar Pat Thomas, author of Listen, Whitey!: The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965 – 1975, will be joined by Seattle authors Mark Long and Jim Demonakos, who together with cartoonist Nate Powell created the graphic novel The Silence of Our Friends.

While researching this book project in Oakland, archivist Pat Thomas discovered rare recordings of speeches, interviews, and music by noted activists Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Elaine Brown, and others that form the framework of this definitive retrospective. Listen, Whitey! also chronicles the forgotten history of Motown Records’ Black Power subsidiary label, Black Forum, which released politically charged albums by Stokely Carmichael, Langston Hughes, Bill Cosby and Ossie Davis, among others. Obscure records produced by African-American sociopolitical organizations of the period are examined, along with the Isley Brothers, Nina Simone, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Watts Prophets, Roland Kirk, Horace Silver, Angela Davis, H. Rap Brown, Stanley Crouch, and others that spoke out against oppression. Thomas will give a slide and music presentation, and limited number of advance copies of the book will be available to the public. Also making its debut is a companion CD of the same title from Seattle-based Light in the Attic records. The album features rare tracks from African-American activists like Dick Gregory, Eldridge Cleaver, Last Poets, and others, with protest music by Bob Dylan, John and Yoko Ono, Gil Scott-Heron, Roy Harper, and more.

The Silence of Our Friends is the semi-autobiographical tale of Mark Long. Set in 1967 Texas against the backdrop of the civil rights struggle, a white family from a notoriously racist suburb and a black family from its poorest ward cross Houston’s color line, overcoming fear and violence to win the freedom of five black college students unjustly charged with the murder of a policeman. Co-authored by Jim Demonakos (founder of Seattle’s Emerald City Comicon), and drawn by award-winning cartoonist Nate Powell, The Silence of Our Friends is a new and important entry in the body of civil rights literature.

Join these remarkable authors on Saturday, February 4 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery, located at 1201 S. Vale St. (at Airport Way S.) in Seattle’s colorful Georgetown neighborhood. Phone 206.658.0110.

Seattle and the entire Pacific Northwest was hit by a major snow storm starting the week of January 15th with major snow fall seen on the 18th. By 1/20, it was already melting, but we went through some of the photos and found this great old song by Sherwood “Snowing in Seattle” and put them together in a little video.

“Janet in a Snow Yoni” by Ed

“Trader Pup and Hula” by Elicia

“Home” by Tamitha

“Snow Fro” by Yo Jo

“Hello Snow Kitty” by Cole

“The Hood” by Marlow

“Snow Peace” by Darcy

A New Solo Play Written & Performed by David Schmader
Directed by Matthew Richter

Fridays and Saturdays, Jan. 20-Feb. 4, 8 p.m.

A comedy about unfunny things, “A Short-Term Solution to a Long-Term Problem,” commissioned by Richard Hugo House, is writer/performer David Schmader’s solo play about the dramatic life upheaval that drove him to spend a decade “living every day like it’s your last!”—a profoundly ridiculous adventure that finds Schmader aiming his pointy-headed, fall-off-your-seat wit at marriage, Mormons and the type of relaxation that comes from watching a baby get a spray tan.

GET YOUR TICKETS TODAY!

Tickets are $20/$15 for students and are available online, by calling (206) 322-7030 or at Hugo House during normal business hours.

Doors open at 7 p.m., and the bar will be open prior to and following performances.

Written and performed by David Schmader

Directed by Matt Richter

Vito’s 927 9th Ave (at Madison) Seattle

Friday, Jan 27th from 9pm-midnight – never a cover !

Lushy at Vito’s Jan 27th  -  Facebook event page link