Hey Everybody! I hope that you are enjoying life as best as you can. Well, the Twins are done at the Dome, and The Vikings are hot. The snow has started to fall in the Fargo-Moorhead area, and I am SOOO not ready for it yet. I am going to start doing two blogs a week. One that tells you all about what is coming up this week (as far as entertainment arount the area), and one on Friday that spotlights the weekend happenings. Be sure to check it out, and heck, print it out if you would like, so you don’t forget! So, here we go…
MONDAY
The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later (An Epilogue)
One Night Only
Acclaimed local theatre company Theatre B will premiere a compelling and groundbreaking epilogue to THE LARAMIE PROJECT: TEN YEARS LATER (AN EPILOGUE) at 7:00pm on October 12 at the Historic Fargo Theatre. In conjunction with Theatre B, the North Dakota Human Rights Coalition and the Pride Collective & Community Center will be facilitating a community-wide conversation about the effects Hate and Hate Crime on communities. The presentation will include a live webcast with the authors of The Laramie Project as well as nationwide Question and Answer session following the performance. The Pride Collective & Community Center will also be presenting their F-M Area National Coming Out Day Awards to an individual and organization that have worked to make Fargo-Moorhead a more inclusive and safe community for all people.
The epilogue focuses on the long term effect of the murder of Matthew Shepard on the town of Laramie. It explores how the town has changed and how the murder continues to reverberate in the community. The play also includes follow-up interviews with many of the individuals from the original piece, as well as new interviews with Matthew’s mother Judy Shepard and Matthew’s murderer Aaron McKinney, who is serving dual life sentences.
The Fargo performance of the Worldwide Premiere will be free and open to the public; members of the audience and community-at-large are welcomed and encouraged to make a free will offering which will benefit local efforts to end violence and to heal the damage caused by hate crime and violent intolerance.
In tandem with the Premiere, an online interactive community will be launched where participants can blog, upload video and photos, and share their stories about the play, their experiences in preparing and presenting the Epilogue in their communities. That online community will be open to the public at www.laramieproject.org.
“We are thrilled to bring this epilogue to The Laramie Project to Fargo,” said Theatre B Ensemble Member Carrie Wintersteen. “This important piece of American theater tells a universal human story and has been a transformative experience for the cast and audience,” continued Wintersteen. “Our hope is that the epilogue helps us better understand the impact of Matthew’s death, as well as provide truth and context as this piece of American history is retold to a new generations,” concluded Wintersteen.
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FRY BREAD TACO DINNER
A fry bread taco dinner will be at Plymouth Church, located at 901 Broadway, in Fargo, from 3pm to 7:30 p.m. Fry-bread tacos, tacos-in-a-bag, softshell tacos, beverages and dessert; dine-in, drive-through and take-out options. For more information call (701) 235-9226.
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TUESDAY
RAISE THE RED LANTERN & GOD’S REVOLVER
Music for fans of Whiskey, Long Hair, Bongs, PBR Pounders, Loud Tube Amps, Emperor Cabs, No Idea Records, High on Fire, Planes Mistaken for Stars and Danzig!
Tuesday October 13th @ The Aquarium
$5 | 10pm | 21+
$4 if you ride your bike
-RAISE THE RED LANTERN (Chicago, on At A Loss Rec)
-GOD’S REVOLVER (Salt Lake, on Translation Loss Rec)
-BLACKEYES/DOLLSEYES (Local Metal Stories)
-TINY MOVING PARTS (This band just moved to Fargo, awesome sounding old screamo, like Saetia era)
ABOUT THE TOURING BANDS:
RAISE THE RED LANTERN
Hometown: Chicago Label: At A Loss Recordings
“These guys have the sort of no-bullshit ethic that punk and metal were built on, and I’m going to have to say it doesn’t get much better than this. Think Harkonen playing out of High on Fire’s equipment after listening to No Idea’s catalog. Ugly, drunk, staggering, and pissed.”-SEAN LOISELLE, LAMBgoat Magazine
“While at times snippets of songs garner comparisons to Coliseum and Converge, the end product to me seems to be what Planes Mistaken for Stars would sound like if they were actually good. For all you Planes Mistaken for Stars fans out there, Raise the Red Lantern is what you should be listening to. For all those who hate Planes Mistaken for Stars, don’t worry, you’ll probably like this album just as much” -Punknews.org
“It’s hard for me to really get at the heart of what makes everything Raise the Red Lantern does – but I promise you haven’t heard it before. They have a punk ethos and the brass balls of a seasoned stoner band AND they rock the fuck out. To me the closest reference point would be Planes Mistaken for Stars, which always radiate that aloof, grungy, strangely beautiful sound. Raise the Red Lantern certainly doesn’t ape the same sound, but more of a similar foundation to build up a monumental wall-of-sound from. Plain and simple, these guys rock.” -Scenepointblack.com
GOD’S REVOLVER
Hometown: Salt Lake City/Provo Label: Translation Loss Records
“These whiskey-guzzling malcontents from Provo, Utah, deliver an ugly, profanity-laced Western epic in the guise of wild-eyed rock ‘n’ roll, with guitars firing like well-oiled six shooters and story narration provided by a singer who conjures a steroid raging Glenn Danzig with a nasty cigarette rasp. Down, dirty, drunk and unhinged, this is the way rock is meant to be played.” -Magnet Magazine Best of 2008: Hard Rock, Matt Ryan
“Say you stumble into a biker bar somewhere near Macon, Ga., and the air is so thick with smoke you can barely make out the figures performing onstage. You order a pitcher of whatever’s on tap and try to determine who the hell is absolutely destroying the room with monster jams. Judging by the powerful screams, the group could easily be fronted by either Dr. Teeth (with The Electric Mayhem—look it up) or Bobcat Goldthwait on mescaline. Turns out it’s God’s Revolver, an honest-to-goodness Southern-blues-metal band out of … Provo? Well, Happy Valley can be a font for rage on the verge. Good news for Utahns who needn’t travel far to get their asses kicked.” -Salt Lake City Weekly.
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WEDNESDAY
Captured! By Robots return to the Aquarium Wednesday
Prepare to get motivated by rockin robots!
Captured! By Robots (San Fran robots capture human and rock the world)
Fup (TV themes tribute act)
October 14th, 2009
The Aquarium (Dempsey’s Upstairs)
9:30 Doors 10:30 Show 21+
$10 cover adv tix at Orange Records, the Red Raven and www.ticketweb.com
drink special: $3 Pounders
Longtime Aquarium goers know the magic that is Captured! By Robots. For the unintiated, the story goes like this JBot has been captured by robots, literally. But these arent just any kind of robots. These robots rock and play their own instruments. And they force the lowly human JBot to play with them and tour the world. So not only do you get to witness a live kidnapping but you get to rock out at the same time. Its been awhile since they’ve been to town, JBot and crew havent been here for a year and half. They arent touring as much as they used to. Of course as always, Captured! By Robots has brought a theme to this tour (previous visits included the Dubya tour, the Ten Commandments tour, the Greatest Hits tour, the Get Fit tour and get married tour), this time around its the Motivational tour! Yes CBR! are gonna get you pumped up and in the mood and motivated to do whatever you want to do. So get ready to get motivated. Start by going to the show. Always an entertaining good time and trust me these amazing robots actually play their instruments. Its quite an interesting spectacle. Check it out this Wednesday at the Aquarium.
So what’s the deal with C!BR?? Let me (DRMBOT 0110) tell you. JBOT played in a couple of ska bands, Skankin’ Pickle and the Blue Meanies for years and was very unlikable. Everybody got sick of him (I don’t blame them). JBOT thought that if he made a band of robots to play with everything would be okay. HE WAS WRONG! He built GTRBOT666 and myself and the idiotic Ape Which Hath No Name. After he built us, I decided that he was the antibot and must be punished. We installed a Biocerebral Chip in his CPU and now force him to humiliate himself in front of his peers. It makes me so happy to see him suffer. So after the takeover, he secretly made the Ape. The stupid ape robot loves everyone and everything; HOW REVOLTING! Unfortunately, I cannot do anything to rid my circuits of that ape. For it states in the ROBOTIC RESISTANCE handbook, “Thee bot shall never harm another bot.” So what choice do I have? The rare joy I can receive is when GTRBOT666 and myself humiliate JBOT all over the country. The other happiness I have is to see my self-replication “AUTOMATOM” humiliate jbutt to tears. You will come to witness! Coast to coast, his humiliation will be legendary. Keep checking in for updates. These bots have done a lot! C!BR has been through a lot since the human JBOT’s capture back in 1996. We have taken the human on ten national tours and have been received as one would expect. The term “Holy shit” seems to be the most commom expletive uttered. Do you not believe? Oh, you will! C!BR has played with Public Enemy and Flock Of Seaguls (at G-Phoria video Game award show in LA), Motorhead, Servotron, Man…or Astroman and many more. C!BR has been featured on UPN’s “Strange Universe” and on the discovery channel’s “Beyond Bizarre”, Tech TV, ABC 7 6 oclock news, and more.. We have also humiliated JBOT at the Art Institute of San Francisco and at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. C!BR has had articles in The New York Times, Spin Magazine, The New Yorker Magazine Gene Simmons Tongue Magazine, Rocktober (where we were voted the .1 robot rock band), Bikini Magazine, Heeb Magazine, Churn, and many more.
Captured! By Robots play the Aquarium Wednesday.
LINKS:
http://www.myspace.com/capturedbyrobots
http://www.myspace.com/fupster
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BAKED POTATO BUFFET
A baked potato buffet will be at The Masonic Center, located at 1405, 3rd Street North, in Fargo from 5 to 7 p.m. For more information, call (701) 364-0335.
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FRIDAY
ValleyCon 35
The Fargo Entertainment Expo returns!
ValleyCon 35 returns for a 3-day weekend of escape! Featuring world-renowned author, screenwriter and producer GEORGE R.R. MARTIN, Incredibly talented actor PETER JURASIK (Best known for Babylon 5’s Londo or Sid the Snitch on Hill St. Blues) and versatile artist JOEL “MOJO” MOEN of comic and graphic novel fame! ValleyCon is for everyone-from the die-hard fans to the casual aficionado of everything “fun”! Featuring a large vendor/dealer room selling everything related (and sometimes more!), your Christmas shopping could be the coolest ever! ValleyCon 35 also features Gaming Tournaments with fantastic prizes from our sponsors (see the website!), Art show and Auction, Panels and Workshops, The Fargo Fantastic Film Festival 7, Parties!!! and much more! Check out www.valleycon.com for updates!
