the empire strikes back
Tonight is the monthly variety show Empire Revue at AS220. Music, burlesque, performance art, nouveau-vaudeville… and did I mention burlesque? 8:00PM/AS220/115 Empire Street/$8.
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Tonight: Rainbro, Joe Grimm
Sooth your synapses with some decidedly non-traditional music of the electronic/experimental/just plain weird variety tonight at AS220. Joseph Grimm (aka Wind-Up Bird) creates lengthy sonic landscapes of blips and droning pulses, imagine a strobe light as the slowly setting sun. On the beautiful “Voice And Sine Wave” the meditative, resonant frequencies seem to exist in …
Death Vessel, Callers at AS220 Tonight
Joel Thibodeau was a Providence person but now he’s out in the Pacific Northwest somewhere, making cool music though. His thing, Death Vessel, with its twisting and turning eclectic prog-folk, features various assorted guest musicians of the local and non-local variety. DV have put out stuff on Sub Pop and Kill Rock Stars, so you …
AS220 Community Print Shop – MARCH Schedule
Well! Classes for February filled up so fast I didn’t really have time to post the schedule, but March is well on it’s way and there’s still room in most of the classes!! I’m only going to post the classes that have space left, but you can see what you’re missing out on in the …
Live Tonight: Black Clouds
Primitive, brutal, and relentless, Providence’s Black Clouds bring their grinding stomp-blues to AS220 tonight. They exist somewhere between an adolescent Jon Spencer in a wind tunnel and Nirvana’s Bleach, what with the screaminess and all. Absolutely glorious in their sheer volume alone, and after the jump some live footage that pretty much sums it up. …
Geek Dinner tonite
Providence Geeks are meeting tonight at AS220. 5:30-9pm+ Andrew Schiller, founder of Woonsocket-based Location Inc./NeighborhoodScout.com, a nationwide neighborhood search engine for home buyers and movers with 1.8 million unique visitors last year, will be talking about their patented search technology that answers the first question most home buyers have: “Where should I focus my house …
Post Holiday Craft Party Party Redux
join us TODAY january 26th, from 5pm-9pm at the AS220 Community Print Shop for our POST HOLIDAY CRAFT PARTY PARTY REDUX (a wholesome crafty get-together). Make some post-holiday presents and cards or tigers or whatever using pom-poms and glitter and pipe cleaner ’cause you haven’t since shortly after you were a fetus!!! “F” ART LETS …
Daily Dose Galleries Update
Daily Dose reader Fern Kay sent us some awesome pics from last months Space Rock show at AS220. Do you have some cool photos to share with our readers? Send them in.
Goings-on tonight:
A very special holiday Geek Night at AS220: Please join us at the last get together of Providence Geeks in 2007 and celebrate Rhode Island’s future Geeks! In the spirit of the holiday season and giving back to the community, Providence Geeks is a proud sponsor of Rhode Island’s 2008 FIRST FTC Robotics Challenge. The …
Thank god for as220
This week’s highlights: Geek Dinner Rhode Island’s digital innovators connect, collaborate, swap stories and spit in this casual monthly forum. Infoprenuers are the future, kid – get with it. Wednesday, 12/19 5:30-9pm FREE 12-Hour 2007 Winter Solstice Celebration featuring The United Space Rock Coalition The all-local-all-star band that recently backed up Damo Suzuki rings in …
Live Tonight: Major Stars, Sightings, The Body
Presented by B Sharp, the greatest music gear shop in the universe, tonight Boston’s Major Stars release their 6th (!) album, Mirror/Messenger (Drag City). Also on the bill, Brooklyn’s Sightings, whose newest Through The Panama (Load) was produced by Andrew WK. And that’s some cred, people. Hear a stream of the awesome track “Perforated” here. …
Wintertime Farmers Market Opening This Saturday!
Providence Wintertime Farmers Market Opening This Saturday! AS220 – 115 Empire Street Every Saturday 12-3 pm As the winter months begin, Farm Fresh Rhode Island is thrilled to announce the opening of a new indoor farmer’s market, happening every Saturday from 12 pm to 3 pm at AS220. This weekly market will begin this Saturday …
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AS220 Community Print Shop’s 1st annual Holiday Craft/Print Party!
You should come to AS220 Community Print Shop’s FIRST annual HOLIDAY CRAFT PRINT AFTERNOON WEEKEND PARTY PARTY!!!!!!! It’s this SATURDAY November 17th, 1-5pm at the DREYFUS Building (95 Mathewson St. #210, Providence, RI 02903). There’s a $5 cover/donation (baby, we’re a non-profit), but it’s WICKED well worth it ’cause you MIGHT JUST LEARN SOMETHING! Like, …
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