The Weekend: Birthdays, anniversaries and breakdancing
Another week in the rear view, and I feel like we're all a bit better for it. We're on the verge of one of those pseudo-holiday weekends, since St. Pat's is on Monday. Exercise caution...or not. It's really your call. Just don't look for any sympathy when you're found cold, naked, muttering and green in the Alley of Shame Sunday morning.
Once again, I encourage everyone to sign up for the NXT Hoops Challenge and Bracket-stravaganza. I'll see what we have in the NXT Desk's budget for prizes. I'm sure we can come up with something worthwhile. Maybe a little Photoshop work and visit to Cafepress is in order.
Conference tournaments are wrapping up this weekend and the Bracket Selection Show is Sunday night. Sign up already people. And remember, you can find me at Dock Fore this weekend.
There are some changes in store coming up next week, and we'll be back to talk about it on Monday.
Tonight Geno's celebrates 25 years of good times, cheap beer and music. The anniversary show features Covered in Bees, The Vipers, Hatchetface and The Pontiffs beginning at 9. Entry is $6. In my column this week I got a chance to talk with Geno Jr. and Kip Brown of the Pontiffs about what makes Geno's so special. I posed the question to Brown whether or not Geno's is an institution and he said, "If it's an institution, it's in the best sense of the word." If you've been there, old or new location, you can decide for yourself. Stop by to pay respects tonight.
This week As Fast As released its latest effort, "Destroy the Plastique Man" and signs are apparently strong that the band has another hot record on its hands. While enjoying drinks at Local 188 last Friday night some friends and I were treated to some impromptu freestyling and riffing from the AFA gang. Good stuff just for messing around, but something tells me the full-price show will be even better. Tonight they play with Dominic and the Lucid and A Murder of Crows beginning at 9. Tickets are $10.
SATURDAY
It's another birthday party for a local bar as The White Heart turns two tonight. Sigh. They grow so fast! Maybe it's all the PBR and champagne cocktails. Tonight's festivities feature The Hamilton County and the DJ duo H++L spinning all the dancables they can find. Fun starts at 9 p.m. and as always, there is no cover.
Angry chicks on roller skates threatening to beat people up, all to '90s music? I feel like this is how they make B movies. Someone contact Russ Meyer. Actually it's the second annual Maine Roller Derby Lucky Lass Throwdown at Bubba's Sulky Lounge. They promise surprises and leg wrestling, not to mention all the dance-inducing atmosphere of Bubba's. Rocket One will be providing '90s tunes for the night. I think House of Pain will be in the mix. Mayhem begins at 9 p.m.; it's a $5 entry.
Boombazi is on the move and playing The Big Easy tonight at 10. The peddlers of dirty funk and soul are playing along with MC Spose and Red Rooster. If you find yourself missing the big, nasty full orchestra sound of old school Philly soul, or perhaps some hip-hop with deep funk influences, or even all of that with a touch of rock, then this is the show for you. It's a $5 entry.
Finally, this week's video is instructional. Say kids, do you ever find yourself wishing you knew how to do the back spins or The Centipede? Now you TOO can breakdance! Learn from the BEST. I'm talking about Alfonso "call me Carlton" Ribeiro! This was pre-"Fresh Prince" days, probably more like the "Silver Spoons" era, but still, what does it say when you're doing infomercials at that early stage in your career?
Justin is a former newspaper intern and has the scar tissue to prove
it. Justin has been a staff writer for the Portland Press Herald/Maine
Sunday Telegram since 2003, and in 2004 began writing a weekly column in the
Monday Magazine.
If he had to pick a label, the column would fall under "youth culture,"
covering everything from high school dance etiquette, dealing with college
debt, the resurgence of Roller Derby and Portland's one-of-a-kind music
scene. This of course has not stopped him from answering letters to Santa
Claus or writing about his experience riding shotgun in a drift car.
Justin is an export from the Midwest. He is a graduate of the University of
Missouri and is originally from Minnesota. He enjoys bacon, cheap beer,
redheads, Burt Reynolds jokes and wondering what the soundtrack to his life
would sound like.
When he grows up he wants to be an international art thief. Or Captain
America.
Until then he'll be bringing you dispatches about "the young people" and
what they do.
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