Places to Go and People to See
The Riverboat Gamblers are in town tomorrow, opening for Flogging Molly at Spirit Performance Center. As opening gigs sometimes go, their set starts promptly at 8pm, so stop trying to be cool and just get there.

If you aren't in NYC, maybe you can catch the rest of the tour. Oh, and someone please send an email to Mike Wiebe who is suffering from an on-the-road email drought. He wants you to tell him all about your dirtiest Tyra Banks dream.

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East Bound and Down
Playing "Smokey" to the Gamblers' "Bandit" is Centro-matic, hot on their trail with The Baptist Generals, and coming to NYC's Mercury Lounge this Saturday. I don't want to build up your expectations, but this show should rule the Earth as a 2-for-1 awesome fest of mind-blowing proportions.

I'm just saying...

So meet me there, or see them in your town.

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I'm asking you the name of the movie...!
Finally, one week from today marks the start of the New York Underground Film Festival, featuring, among other things, flicks about student nurses and velvet vampires. Possibly the most-anticipated will be the closing night film, Crispin Glover's WHAT IS IT? to be followed by a semi-secret after-party with Glover himself.

"The film flows between controversial imagery and story lines: a minstrel in blackface who aspires to be an invertebrate by injecting snail enzymes into his cheek; a Shirley Temple dictator in Nazi garb; a naked man with cerebral palsy lying on a giant seashell, being fondled by a naked woman wearing a monkey mask; talking snails getting repeatedly salted; and watching over all, an enthroned Glover in a full-length fur coat..."

Yes, please.

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