Micah Salkind

The Dreamer: The Sound Session 08 Previews #3

SIMULBLOGGED AT RIPEYAMS.COM Jazz is one of those idioms that doesn’t come easily to everyone. I’m not a Jazz head by any means, but I’ve certainly come around to a little bit of equanimity in my appreciation for Jazz. Where once the ambling solos, indirect melodic focus, rambling uneven tonal patterns and blue note syncopation,

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Providence’s Biggest Pride Flag

Everybody knows that just before you get to New Haven proper on I95, there is this giant American flag. Its all tattered and brown, and it can’t always appear majestic because of its shear weight. RISD prof and local smartist Liz Collins will be bringing 8 knitters and thousands of queers together to reimagine the original pride

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We don’t need no grey skies let this mutherfucker burn

I’m getting pretty amp’d for The Steelyard is Burning tonight. I know because I woke up jittery and anxious at like 6:30 this morning and began compulsively adding my favorite jammies to my already ample playlist. Just imagine the vibes and wonderful people at a normal Providence is Burning (the next installment of which is coming on May 31, 2008

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Metropolis’ final performance

Metropolis, aka Providence’s singular “Psycho-Electro-Acoustic-Islamo-Judaic-Hindu-Afro-Dance-Surf-FreeJazz-Metal-Groove Music” superstars, are playing their final performance EVER tonight at Tazza on Westminster St. Some of the band will be departing for the summer so if the concept lives on, it will at least have to be constituted from a different lineup. This is can’t miss shit.

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Stuff you learned from TV

Tonight from 6:30 to 8:30 don’t miss the opening of “Beyond the Birds and the Bees” – a public exhibit revealing the history of sex education in America over the last 100 years produced by the Public Humanities grad students at Brown. By looking at the military, schools and the ways that parents have explained

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Get yo’ RSVP in: Providence Is Burning, Saturday March 29, 10pm

Did y’all see the amazing PVD is Burning Poster by Ms. Michaela Colette? If not, here you go. Big respect for her meticulous use of color fades, badazz fonts and what appears to be a fire breathing wolf-dragon. Micky is one of so many amazing designers/printers/ruff-necks at the AS220 community print studio. Micky also printed

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