The Weekend: The Sounds, Free Comic Book Day and The Blogaversary
Oh it's a big, big weekend around these parts. The Derby, the Celtics in Game 7, the Sounds, and oh, wait...THE BLOGAVERSARY!
FRIDAY
The Port City Music Hall continues to quietly put itself on the local music scene map, and they're firing another shot tonight as The Sounds come to town. That famous Swede pop sound (if anything, you've probably heard them in the Geico commercial) are getting a little help from Hey Champ and and local DJ tandem H++L. The show starts at 8 p.m. and tickets are $15 in advance and $18 at the door.
Also this evening... Alternative Routes and Roy Davis and the Dregs play the Big Easy at 9 p.m. It's $10... Down at Empire the kings (or princes? maybe dukes?) of local Latin flavor, Groupo Esperanza are playing to what will likely be a big First Friday Art Walk crowd. Show starts 9 p.m. It's an $8 entry.
SATURDAY
So it should go without saying what the biggest event on the NXT Desk's radar is this weekend: The Blogaversary. What more is there to be said? There's gonna be sweet giveaways from Griffin, as well as Leonardo's Pizza, and, if you are lucky, some extra special Press Herald schwag. It's one-of-a-kind stuff here, people. Did I also mention eyepatches? Because that's how we get down around here. The fun starts at the White Heart at 6 p.m. I'll be the guy dancing on a table with a mint julep in one hand and a t-shirt cannon in the other. Why would you miss that?
Also this Saturday... Free Comic Book day is going down. That means, well, free comic books, people! Check out this week's podcast to find out more and hear what Casablanca Comics has in the works...In other early afternoon action the Maine Roller Derby's Calamity Janes have their final bout of the season at the Expo at 6 p.m. You can catch the derby dames at Bubba's Sulky Lounge for afterparty shenanigans....Over at Geno's it's Sasquatch and the Sick-a-billys and Hatchetface and the Vipers play at 9 p.m. It's $8
Finally, since we're all caught up in the deadly grip of Swine Flu hysteria (and precaution), let's get a few laughs out of these Swine Flu vaccination ads from the 1970s.
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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