Panhandles and Crockpots: Cooking Up New Ideas About the Community We Share @ 4-1-1 Collective
Damian Scott, 19, panhandles for change from the downtown lunch crowd Nov. 6, 2008, on Massachusetts Street near the Ninth Street intersection.
Community potluck, discussion, and brainstorming session regarding panhandling and public space.
Feel free to bring fun snacks, warm drinks, strange foods, and stimulating ideas. The group will be discussing the downtown panhandling ban and its effects on our community. Some questions for debate:
-Who will be effected by the panhandling ban: homeless, fundraisers, musicians, petitioners, street artists, pedestrians?
-What is public space, and who has a right to it?
-Why is it important to defend everyone's right to free speech?
Bring your tired, your poor, your covered dishes.
Bassnectar @ Liberty Hall
Bassnectar is an amalgamation of every sound Lorin Ashton has ever heard, mixed with ultra wicked basslines and generally falling within the electronica realms of breakbeat, big beat, drum-and-bass and dub. Ashton has earned a tribal following by touring with rumpshaking acts like STS9 and FreQ Nasty and remixing songs for Michael Franti and KRS One.
The Mad Caddies @ The Bottleneck
The Mad Caddies are a third-wave ska band that combines elements of rock and roots-reggae that evoke The Clash, The Police, and Sublime. The group's talents reach beyond the boundaries of ska and punk to also include dixie, jazz, surf, rockabilly, country and swing.
Samuel Locke Ward / The Ants @ Replay
Samuel Locke Ward is a humorous songwriter, singer, and multi-instrumentalist from Iowa City. Eclectic? Yes! Prolific? Way! Lo-fi? Sometimes. RIYL: Roky Erickson, The Frogs, Daniel Johnston, Eugene Chadbourne, et al.
Lawrence's The Ants play American music rigged against massive mainstream acceptance or insular indie rock success. Their status as veterans of bible-belt strip mall culture enables them to feel at home in dilapidated drinking spots, all-ages house parties, or busking on downtown streets. They have traveled the country many times winning the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people. The Ants are not easily labeled and revel in their contradictions.
RedLefty / Shawn Bruce and the Horsebite Tears @ Jazzhaus
RedLefty
Influenced mostly by older blues and New Orleans jazz, RedLefty has also been known to throw in some western swing, ragtime and even a bit o' klezmer. Their set list ranges from dirty blues-harp boogies to swingin' horn pieces, all done with RedLefty's unique twist.
Shawn Bruce and the Horsebite Tears play a unique amalgam of genres that they call TWANGO! = Legendary acoustic, country, hillbilly, alternative, '80s college-rock nonband.
Farmer's Ball Finals @ Jackpot
The four finalists in KJHK's Farmers Ball vie for recording time and free merch. Cheer your favorite on to v-i-c-t-o-r-y. This year's finalists are: THE CALIFORNIA CRAISINS, CLOUD DOG, DUTCH NEWMAN, and KATLYN CONROY.
The winner will receive paid recording time at Black Lodge Studio and free shirts and buttons from Blue Collar Press.
Gold Label Soul with Sadie Soul
DJs BSears (left), Sadie Soul and Scenebooster with their stax of wax.
Gold Label Soul is your source for rare and beautiful 45rpm soul sides blasted on loudspeakers for the dancin' crowd. Check out our podcast interview with host Sadie Soul.
The Get Up Kids in Kansas City
Lawrence's The Get Up Kids return for two area shows — albeit in KC — following their three-month reunion tour in support of the 10 Year Anniversary release of their fan-favorite album "Something to Write Home About" (which comes with a DVD and seven previously unreleased demos). The 18+ and older crowd at these shows should feature plenty of attendees who came of age to the tune of the band's energetic pop rock. Doors at 8pm.
Electric Six in Kansas City
The Motor City disco/dance/garage/funk/absurdist rockers who brought us "Gay Bar" and "Danger High Voltage" return to the area in support of their new album, simply titled "Kill."
Check out their last stop in Lawrence on the Turnpike!
We can't post the extremely NSFW video for their latest single, "Bodyshot," but whatever you do with this link is your own business.
In its stead, here's the only slightly NSFW video for "Gay Bar."
See the full calendar for tonight
And new in movies...
An Education
This disarming and unexpectedly poignant story set in 1961 follows a dreamy, Oxford-bound 16-year-old (enchanting Carey Mulligan) who takes up with a sophisticated older man (Peter Sarsgaard). Pungently realized by filmmaker Lone Scherfig from the memoir by Lynn Barber, it's a timeless story about life choices.
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
The "Twilight" soap opera continues with a lighter, goofier and less erotically charged sequel. The threat of sex is gone in this golden-hued virginity metaphor. But it's a funny film, a movie in on the joke that the most luscious girl in rural Forks, Wash., might be fought over by pale vampires and buff Native-American werewolves.
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