FRIDAY OCTOBER 30, 9pm – MUSIC – $10 cover,
$5 with student ID – BYOB
THE DOUG HAWK PROPOSITION
THE MIKE LORENZ TRIO
The Doug Hawk Proposition is a three-piece ensemble that hails from Easton, PA. Fronted by vocalist, keyboardist and principal composer Doug Hawk, the group presents a unique, cerebral sound, which can be described as at once historically soulful yet progressively hip. Seasoned drummer Rian Carr and Nicholas Krolak, an emerging, young upright bass player make up the rest of the group.
The Mike Lorenz Trio featuring Mike Lorenz, guitarist/composer/bandleader, is an up-and-coming musician centered in the music scene of the Lehigh Valley. He leads the Mike Lorenz Quartet, which features some of the most in-demand musicians in the Philadelphia area. The group merges influences from within the whole scope of the jazz idiom with outside influences of rock, hip-hop and classical music. Mike has led performances in such venues as Smalls Jazz Club in New York City, Chris’ Jazz Cafe, the Tritone and the Sci Fi Philly/Ars Nova Workshop series in Philadelphia, Puck Live in Doylestown and numerous venues in other parts of the Philadelphia region.
“Guitarist Mike Lorenz operates out of the Lehigh Valley and mixes it up regularly in Philly, bringing a focused and fluent vocabulary to music of original construction. Working within the melodically edgy orbit of such role models as Ben Monder and Kurt Rosenwinkel, he can float by on chordal clouds or stun you with quick flashes of linear brilliance, as on a nifty MySpace track called “3 Step.” Lorenz’s quartet comes at the material with a sense of whimsy and seasoned trust. ” David Adler – Philly Weekly
10/30 – 9pm – The Doug Hawk Proposition, The Mike Lorenz Trio – $10, $5 w/ Student ID – BYO
Friday, October 30th, 200910/28 – 7pm – Richard Becker author of Palestine, Israel and the US Empire
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 28, 7pm – NON-FICTION
RICHARD BECKER
Author of Palestine, Israel and the US Empire ($17.95)
Palestine, Israel and the U.S. Empire provides a sharp analysis of the historic and current events in the struggle for Palestine – from the division of the Middle East by Western powers and the Zionist settler movement, to the founding of Israel and its regional role as a watchdog for U.S. interests, to present-day conflicts and the prospects for a just resolution.
“A must-read for anyone seeking to understand the Palestinian cause.” – Samera Sood, executive board, Palestinian American Women’s Association
“Becker foregrounds what others usually set aside: the integral role of U.S. imperialism, with the Zionist state as an essential partner. His approach connects the Palestinian struggle with a universal perspective, which gives the people dignity and strength.” – Joel Kovel, author, Overcoming Zionism
“This book is a clarion call to end the last vestiges of colonialism in the 21st century.” – Imam Mahdi Bray, executive director, Muslim American Society Freedom
10/27 – Moonstone Poetry Series presents Jeanne Murray Walker and David Moolten
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009TUESDAY OCTOBER 27, 7pm – POETRY
Moonstone Poetry Series Presents
JEANNE MURRAY WALKER & DAVID MOOLTEN
author of New Tracks, Night Falling ($16.00 Eerdmans)
“Anyone who can get through a newspaper,” Jeanne Murray Walker says, “will find this book a piece of cake.” Indeed, the poems in this book are strong but unpretentious pieces rich in meaning and feeling. The poems in New Tracks, Night Falling acknowledge that we are people driven and divided by fear. They talk about racism, war, loss, greed, alienation, our disregard of the earth, and our disregard of each other. Sometimes we feel like night is falling in the bright light of day. Yet we get glimpses of hope, of what could be:
In this dark time I want to make light bigger,
to toss it in the air like a pizza chef,
to stick my fists in, stretching it
till I can get both arms into radiance above the elbow
and spin it above us.
Hope continually threads its way through these poems. We hear its voice as Walker writes about choices — both those we make and those beyond our making. And we feel hope rising like bread when Walker focuses on the gifts of potential, resolution, mercy, joy — the new tracks that we can make in fresh snow, on old paths, along the roads more or less traveled. These are stays against the falling night. With a keen eye for both physical and emotional detail, Walker explores a journey that all of us are on, and she does so in a way that speaks to our deep fears and deeper joys, that engages and inspires. Tempering somber notes with more joyful ones, she reminds us of the good things, great and small, that are still possible in this world.
David Moolten is the author of Plums & Ashes, which won the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize, Especially Then, and Primitive Moood, which won the 2009 T.S. Eliot Prize from Truman State University Press, and has just been published.
10/25 – 7pm – Lucky Old Souls presents Truth or Consequence Trio, Jason Stein, and Jack Wright Trio
Saturday, October 24th, 2009SUNDAY OCTOBER 25, 7pm – MUSIC – $15 (admission & dinner) – BYOB
Lucky Old Souls Presents a special dinner show with
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCE TRIO
JASON STEIN
JACK WRIGHT TRIO
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCE TRIO – Dan Peterson (reeds), Matt Stein (bass), Doug Hirlinger (drums)
JASON STEIN – solo bass clarinet
JACK WRIGHT TRIO Jack Wright (sax), Damon Smith (bass), Mike Szekely (drums)
and for dinner…
DAN’S SOUTHWESTERN 3 X 5 CHILI
made with the best organic ingredients, including 3 kinds of beans & 5 types of peppers available vegetarian or with local grass-fed beef served with Dan’s amazingly moist corn bread.
DAN PETERSON a composer & woodwind player from Philadelphia, is best known for his leadership roles in his groups Truth & Consequence and The Bottomfeeders, his 2 CDs “The Mythic Belief” and “5 Simple Worlds…”, and as one of he presenters behind the 2000-2004 Collective Voices Festival. He has had long-standing sideman gigs with Odean Pope and Bobby Zankel’s Warriors of the Wonderful Sound and collaborated or performed with Leah Stein, Toshi Makihara, EgoPo Theater Company, Billy Harper, Dave Burrell, Dave Liebman, Marty Erhlich and Ravi Coltrane. His recent release “5 Simple Worlds…” received a Subito grant for performance and has generated excitement among local writers. Writing in the Philadelphia Weekly, Katharine Silkaitis called the album “joyous, engaging, and inspiring… able to be appreciated by the master artist and lay fan alike.” In addition to his life as a musician and music educator, Dan is also a talented chef. Before moving to Philadelphia, he worked in restaurants in Massachusetts, New Mexico, and Louisiana, including the critically acclaimed Bistro at Maison de Ville in New Orleans’s French Quarter. From 2004-2006, Dan worked at the legendary South Philly brunch spot Carman’s Country Kitchen. Joining Dan for tonight’s performance are drummer DOUG HIRLINGER www.myspace.com/doughirlinger and bassist MATT STEIN.
JASON STEIN is one of the few musicians to make the bass clarinet his primary instrument. Born in 1976 and originally from Long Island, New York., he studied at Bennington College with Charles Gayle and Milford Graves, and at the University of Michigan with Donald Walden and Ed Sarath. In 2005, Stein relocated to Chicago and has since recorded for such labels as Delmark, Atavistic, 482 Music and Clean Feed. Stein has performed throughout the US and Europe and has had the opportunity to perform with a number of exciting local and international musicians including: Michael Moore, Jeff Parker, Rudi Mahall, Ken Vandermark, Rob Mazurek, Jeb Bishop, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Nate McBride, Jack Wright, and Peter Brotzman.
JACK WRIGHT is one of a very small group of musicians in North America that has played improvised music exclusively since the 1970s. After teaching at Temple University in the 1960s and leaving academia in the early 1970s to engage in radical politics and community organizing, by the late 1970s Wright was directing his energies into music. Through years of near constant touring, often performing for audiences in cities and towns where improvised music had never before been heard, he came to be regarded as something of an underground legend. He has deliberately eschewed the conventions and socio-aesthetic limitations of musical careerism to pursue his own vision. Although his de-professionalized approach sets him apart from most musicians at his level of accomplishment, his art has always grown, expanded, and synthesized new information. He is unquestionably an original and virtuosic saxophonist, a master improviser who is deeply lyrical, with humor never far away. For more on Wright, visit www.springgardenmusic.com. Wright will be joined tonight by bassist DAMON SMITH www.balancepointacoustics.com/damon.php and drummer MIKE SZEKELY http://www.myspace.com/michaelszekely.
Matthew Feldman (aka “Feldie”)
www.luckyoldsouls.com
www.twitter.com/luckyoldsouls
10/23 – 9pm – Diego and Hugo Manuschevich + Sassafras Spine Trio
Friday, October 23rd, 2009FRIDAY OCTOBER 23, 9pm – MUSIC
DIEGO and HUGO MANUSCHEVICH
THE SASSAFRAS SPINE TRIO
Diego Manuschevich is a highly regarded multi-reedist/composer working in Santiago, Chile. He has led and composed for numerous ensembles ranging from trios to octets – including “Los Ogros del Swing” and “Diego Manuschevich Quinteto” – comprised of some of the most talented and creative young musicians in the local scene, and performed in all the main jazz (and non-jazz) venues in the city, in addition to performances outside of Santiago. He has also performed and recorded with large ensembles such as the highly regarded “quintessence” and the more classicaly oriented “14 gatos del eclipse”, both of which were awarded government arts grants. Outside of Chile he has performed extensively and recorded with bassist Rolando Alvarado and Drummer Mark Ettingoff as well as NY-based avant-garde guitarist Thomas Reuben and bassist Francois Grillot.
Sassafras Spine Trio is a newly formed band consisting of Max Carmichael, guitarist from Red Bank, NJ; Bassist Rolando Alvarado from Middletown, NJ; and Philadelphia drummer, Mark Ettingoff. The trio’s performances range from free improvisation and original compositions, to their own unique interactions with jazz standards. Max has studied under guitarist Gary Wright, and makes yearly trips to India to study the Chaturangui under his guru, the world famous Debashish Bhattacharya. Rolando has studied with Slovenian composer Jerica Obla and NYC bassist Trevor Dunn, and was an original member of the controversial Los Ogros Del Swing (Santiago, Chile). Mark has studied with NYC drummer Tony Moreno and pianist Connie Crothers, and was also an original member of Los Ogros. All three members are currently active in a variety of musical projects throughout the tri-state area. Together they have developed a sound, which they continue to share with all kinds of audiences.
10/23 – 7:30pm – Philly Fantastic presents Jonathan Maberry
Friday, October 23rd, 2009FRIDAY OCTOBER 23, 7:30pm – SCI-FI
Philadelphia Fantastic Presents:
JONATHAN MABERRY
Jonathan Mayberry is a multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author, magazine feature writer, playwright, content creator and writing teacher/lecturer. His novels include Ghost Road Blues (winner of the Stoker Award for Best First Novel in 2006), Dead Man’s Song, Bad Moon Rising, and Patient Zero. His nonfiction works include Vampire Universe, and The Cryptopedia – winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction; and Zombie CSU: The Forensics of the Living Dead (Winner of the Heinzman and Black Quill Awards and nominated for a Stoker Award). He writes the Black Panther comic for Marvel, as well as a variety of projects involving Wolverine, Spider-Man, the Punisher and other heroes. In September 2009, Marvel Comics will present Marvel Zombies Return, a limited series with installments written by Jonathan Mayberry, David Wellington (author of Monster Island) and Seth Grahame-Smith (author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies). Jonathan is a Contributing Editor for The Big Thrill (the newsletter of the International Thriller Writers), and is a member of SFWA, MWA, SCBWI, and HWA. He is a frequent guest at genre cons and writers conferences, including ThrillerFest, Sisters in Crime, Backspace, PennWriters, DragonCon, PhilCon, HorrorFind, Monster Mania, Philadelphia Writers Conference, Balticon, The Write Stuff, Hypericon, LunaCon, and many others. Jonathan is a founding member of The Liars Club, a group of networking publishing professionals that includes bestsellers William Lashner, L.A. Banks, Merry Jones, Gregory Frost, Jon McGoran, Ed Pettit, Dennis Tafoya, Keith Strunk, Don Lafferty, Kelly Simmons, Laura Schrock and Marie Lamba. Jonathan has been a writing teacher and career counselor for writers for the last two decades. Many of his students have gone on to publish in short and novel-length fiction, magazine feature writing, nonfiction books, TV, film, and comics.
10/23 – 6pm – Thulani Davis and Robert F. Engs
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009FRIDAY OCTOBER 23, 6pm – NON-FICTION
Pennsylvania Quest for Freedom – Philadelphia Live & Learn Weekend Presents
THULANI DAVIS
author of My Confederate Kinfolk: A Twenty-First Century Freedwoman Discovers Her Roots
with a discussion led by distinguished historian R. Robert F. Engs.
Join us for an evening of discussion about self discovery and identity with author Thulani Davis, as she speaks about her gripping memoir My Confederate Kinfolk. Davis’ story chronicles her family’s lineage, ties to slavery, and the making of ‘race’ in America. At 7pm the conversation will continue with drinks and hors d’oeurves at Time’s Bohemian Lounge on Sansom Street. The first 15 people to register will receive a free copy of Davis’ memoir! To register visit www.gophila.com/questforfreedom or email quest@gptmc.com
CANCELLED DUE TO PHILLIES GAME – 10/21 – 7pm – Open Mic
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 21, 7pm – OPEN MIC
GO PHILS!!!
10/16 – 9pm – The Weekly Revue
Friday, October 16th, 2009FRIDAY OCTOBER 16, 9pm – MUSIC – $3 – $5 – BYO
MUSIC REVUE featuring
INFINITE POSSIBILITIES
A HISTORY LESSON
MUSIC w/ LADY SINGERS
+ MORE
10/13 – 7pm – Moonstone Poetry Series presents Thomas Fucaloro, Christian Georgescu, Sarah Sarai
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009TUESDAY OCTOBER 13, 7pm – POETRY
Moonstone Poetry Series Presents
THOMAS FUCALORO, CHRISTIAN GEORGESCU, SARAH SARAI (from you say. say. – $15 Uphook Press)
Rhythm, risk, reach… A sensitivity to words that sparkle on the page and in performance spark off it…
Uphook Press is a New York City-based publisher specializing in work by poets and spoken words artists who love both the ink and the mike. you say. say. is the first of an annual anthology taken from open submission. Twenty-nine poets—from San Francisco, Dagsboro, Nashville, Denver, Long Island, elsewhere, and New York—write the gamut from Starbucks to whale walkers, chalk outlines to honeymooning, cranky operettas to the ping of a microwave signaling the end. They come from backgrounds as diverse as truck driving, opera singing, bongo-pounding, Def Jam slammin’, and jazz. Featuring: Judith Arcana, Samantha Barrow, Paul Belanger, Alex O. Bleecker, Tony Burfield, Patrick Cahill, Malaika Favorite, Thomas Fucaloro, Christian Georgescu, Thomas Gibney, Gary Hanna, Robert Harris, Suzanne Heagy, Aimee Herman, Kit Kennedy, Joan Payne Kincaid, Laura LeHew, Richard Loranger, G.L. Pettigrew, Sarah Sarai, Thandiwe Shiphrah, Michael Shorb, Mary McLaughlin Slechta, Karin Spitfire, Charles F. Thielman, Geoffrey Jason Kagan Trenchard, Joanna Valente, Stefanie Wielkopolan, Laura Madeline Wiseman.
Thomas Fucaloro was born in Brooklyn, raised in Staten Island, and now resides in Harlem. He says “This is what I want to do with my life. Mom and dad are not happy.” Thomas has read all over New York City, including a recent feature at The Cornelia Street Café.
Christian Georgescu was born in Bucharest, Romania, and raised in New York City where he has appeared on stage and in film, most recently in Pussyfoot. He has performed his poetry in a variety of venues in New York, Los Angeles, and elsewhere.
Sarah Sarai’s poems appear in The Mississippi Review, The Threepenny Review, BigCityLit, Ghoti, Fogged Clarity, The Minnesota Review and other journals. Her first collection, The Future Is Happy, was published in 2009 by BlazeVOX Press.
