The loong forecast for a looong weekend. Well, I’ll be at the Florida Folk Festival, a nice (and cheap!) vacation but if you’re hanging out around town, this is what I’ve dug up, and if you would like to add your event please contact me.
- Propaganda
Friday: Guerrilleros de Nadie, Belt Buckle Death Sentence, Asspiss and Baker Acted
Saturday: Stonefox, The Freakin’ Hott and Zombies! Organize!!
HUGE Sunday: 5:30 – 9:30: Ray’s Downtown Blues presents JP Soars
9:30 – 2am: Dead Beats Writers Lab, Seamstar, Jello Jam, Dee Dubbs and Rob Riggs
- Southshores
Friday – Blackfinger 8pm to midnight.
Saturday – Invisible Music by John Ralston and Friends 8pm to midnight.
Sunday – Illumination 5pm to 9pm.
All shows are no cover.
- The Lake Worth Rum Shack has Trip Don’t Fall Friday at 8:30pm
- The Lake Worth Playhouse Stonezek Theater this week is showing The Good, The Bad, The Weird and Phyllis and Harold through next Thursday. Special screening this week is the fourth of a weekly series of Kurosawa films, arguably his most well known, Seven Samurai, Sunday at 6pm. Gen admission tickets are $8, first show daily is $6 and Film Society members pay $5.
Enjoy your weekend and be safe everyone!
There have been a couple of audio broadcasts this week that really hit me, regarding the oil spill in the Gulf.
First up, this is a very small excerpt from The Story with Dick Gordon that aired on Wednesday. It’s an Exxon oil rep, speaking shortly after the Valdez spill. Notice how similar it sounds to the rhetoric we’re hearing from BP today.
The Story excerpt
To hear the entire broadcast including the interview with the marine biologist, Riki Ott who represented the fishermen of Alaska during the Exxon Valdez spill (she’s also working on the Gulf spill now) please go to The Story website or check out:
The Story full version 05/26/2010
Under the Sun also had a great audio postcard from a woman in Key West, Nancy Klingener, talking about the differences between an oil spill and hurricanes.
Letter from Key West: Waiting for the Oil
To my friends and family who aren’t in the area- I can’t tell you how much this event has impacted the people who live around the Gulf Coast, you’ve seen a lot of that on TV already and it’s heartbreaking. In Florida, we are in a state of general anxiety about the whole event because while it hasn’t touched our shores yet, it probably will. I can’t say that it will be as bad as it has been so far in Louisiana… in reality it probably won’t be. But it’s already having an impact in terms of cancelled vacations and tourism is one pillar of our economy we can’t afford to lose down here. Please, if you were considering coming down for vacation, don’t cancel those plans. I live roughly 1.5 miles from the beach and I can tell you that from here to Key West, they’re still in great shape.
This is a reminder that on Tuesday, May 25th at 8pm there will be a garden concert at the Kabana (my house), 618 N K St, Lake Worth. Florida native Ariana Hall, will be stopping by to share her amazing talent with voice and guitar. The following weekend she will be performing at the Florida Folk Festival.
The setting is my backyard, so please bring a lawn chair and your favorite beverage.
If you plan to attend, please RSVP at the facebook site: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=120935367934470#!/event.php?eid=120935367934470 or let me know through my contact form.
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