Hallelujah, Athens Ear Buds is back in a new online format, focusing on music videos that promote CDs and songs that Ear Bud contributors want to turn our readers on to.
A couple weeks after I decided to discontinue the weekly print edition of this local community music feature, a light bulb went off in my noggin: Restart AEB as a purely online feature, utilizing recommended videos.
• Open acoustic jam night. Thursdays at the Nelsonville Eagles Lodge bar. • Open stage at Donkey Coffee. • Open Stage at Donkey Coffee. 9-11 p.m. • Wind Ensemble Concert. 7:30 p.m. Memorial Auditorium, OU. • The Ragbirds and Izzy and the Kesstronics. Jackie O’s Public House. • DJ Ace hosts a dance party. The Union.
Having been graciously employed by an uptown kitchen recently has done wonderful things for me. More than just having a bit more of the green stuff, it has been good to rediscover the fun I have as a cook and baker, a vocation I grew weary of some years back; that’s akin to my current feelings toward life in the entertainment industry (read: burned out).
It’s been great reawakening my relationship with food. I know exactly what They mean when They say “Soup is good for the soul.” I start my day by going to the walk-in cooler and asking the vegetables, “Who’s ready for soup?” There are always a variety of volunteers and we go clean and wash ourselves in preparation and anticipation.
This connection with the food has provoked a kind of spiritual response in me, helping me to see the interconnectedness of all things, the continuity of Life. As a result, my slip-proof shoes have a new spring in their step, a new edge to the chef’s knife of my brain. Umm.
• Open acoustic jam night. Thursdays at the Nelsonville Eagles Lodge bar. • Open stage at Donkey Coffee and Espresso with Troy Gregorino. • Open Stage at Donkey Coffee and Espresso. 9-11 p.m. • The Sundresses (two sets) and The Hairy Hearts. Casa Cantina. • The Rumpke Mountain Boys with Colin Gawel of Watershed. Jackie O’s Public House. • The Hip-Hop Shop. The Union.
Photo Alternatives 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Seigfred Hall 536 Join us for this national juried photography exhibition juried by Kelli Connell.
Saturday & Sunday
2010 School of Art Faculty Exhibition Noon – 5 p.m. Kennedy Museum, Lin Hall This biennial exhibition of original works by Ohio University School of Art faculty presents artwork from a wide range of mediums including painting, sculpture, ceramics, prints, photography, graphic design, drawing, and new media like video and installation art.
The Necessary Friction of the Machine by Dan Price, sculptor Noon – 5 p.m. Kennedy Museum, Lin Hall Installed in Edwin Gallery, Hamtramck, Michigan where Dan Price worked with a group of unemployed, union affiliated autoworkers from Detroit and the surrounding area. The sculptural work was created over the course of the exhibition. The installation points to the dignity of shared labor and highlights the problematic nature of the labor/management relationship.
All Weekend
Circle of Cottonwoods: Selected Teec Nos Pos Weavings (Education Gallery) Fri.: Noon – 5 p.m. Sat.–Sun. 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. Kennedy Museum, Lin Hall Kennedy Museum of Art exhibits a limited number of its magnificent Navajo weavings from the Edwin L. and Ruth E. Kennedy Southwest Native American Collection.
Friday
Open Stage with Bruce Dalzell 8 p.m. – Midnight The Front Room at Baker University Center An Ohio University tradition of over 20 years. Sign up, stop by, and grab a cup of your favorite caffeinated beverage while Bruce Dalzell hosts the longest running Open Stage in Athens.
Saturday
UPC Presents Rudy Ruettiger! 6:00 p.m. Baker University Center Ballroom The Ohio University Program Council presents Rudy Ruettiger! Come see the former Notre Dame football player who inspired the movie “Rudy!” Daniel “Rudy” Ruettiger achieved his dream of playing football for Notre Dame and in the only quarter of his only game in his college football career, he sacked the quarterback with 27 seconds left in the game and became the only player in Notre Dame history to be carried off the field by his teammates. Rudy has become a national motivational speaker and will be speaking at Ohio University about his experiences both on and off the field. There will be a showing of the movie, “Rudy,” the movie made in 1993 about his life, after he speaks. Refreshments will be provided.
Ohio Men’s Basketball v. Buffalo 2:00 p.m. The Convocation Center Come see the Ohio Bobcats take on the Buffalo Bulls in this exciting MAC match up! Halftime will be sure to be entertaining with an all star Hypnotist!
Dads Who Love to Sing 10:30 a.m. – Noon Glidden Hall 101 Dads who love to sing should join the Singing Men of Ohio for a morning singing workshop!
UPC Cinema: The Informant, starring Matt Damon 9 p.m. Baker University Center Theatre
Kennedy Museum Tours Kennedy Museum, Lin Hall Kennedy Museum of Art will be hosting gallery tours. The museum opens at 10 a.m. and gallery tours will begin in the museum lobby at 11 a.m., 1 p.m., and 3 p.m., each lasting approximately 30 minutes. No reservations are required. Current exhibitions are: Selections from the Permanent Collections, 2010 Ohio University School of Art Faculty exhibition, and Dan Price’s The Necessary Friction of the Machine. Kennedy Museum of Art is located in Lin Hall on The Ridges.
Dads Weekend Jazz Concert 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. The Front Room at Baker University Center Join the Black Student Communication Caucus for a great night of jazz in The Front Room!
Sunday
School of Music Faculty Recital 4 p.m. School of Music Recital Hall, Glidden Hall Join School of Music faculty Stephen Miahly, violin, and Gail Berenson, piano, for a wonderful afternoon of music.
• Open acoustic jam night. Thursdays at the Nelsonville Eagles Lodge bar. • Open stage at Donkey Coffee and Espresso with Troy Gregorino. • Faculty Recital: Matthew James, saxophone, and Chris Hayes, trombone. 7:30 p.m. at School of Music Recital Hall, OU. • Tribe of the Mountain, Graveyard Shift, and Fodder Beets. Casa Cantina. • Karaoke at Lakeview Tavern. 8 p.m. to midnight. • The Werks. Jackie O’s Public House. • Manor Animals, Seascapes and Whale Zombie. The Union.
This is the final weekly Athens Ear Buds. It ran out of gas after a 14-month run (not counting summer). I just got tired of nagging people to contribute. And those “people” include myself and my news staff here at The Athens NEWS.
While AEB was going strong, I think it was a unique and amazing community musical undertaking. But the dang thing pert near wore me out.
We should never be afraid to experiment. Getting set in your ways is dangerous. The fear of experimentation stems from a fear to fail. This is one of those Big Crimes that I believe gets foisted on a large percentage of individuals as we grow up.
Perhaps it’s endemic in our language. The phrase “grow up!” can be a soul-killer, a built-in limiter in itself. “Growing up” embodies the notion that one must eventually be fully grown, with no more left to do. That at some point you have finished your life of changes and hit upon stasis and can enjoy all of the lovely gifts that must benefit that station of life, if such a thing should exist (it shouldn’t).
Even a very large tree continues to move oh-so-gently toward the sun, the light, ever reaching, ever growing closer incrementally, until the time to return to the earth comes to call. “Go into the Light!”
• Open acoustic jam night. Thursdays at the Nelsonville Eagles Lodge bar. • Open stage at Donkey Coffee and Espresso with Troy Gregorino. • Emipirian and Abbadon at the Smiling Skull 10 p.m. • Lucky (Spaulding) and the Magic with Duke Junior. Free show. Casa Cantina. • Midwest Hype. Jackie O’s Public House. • Backdrop Magazine party with bands to be announced (or else listed on the fliers that are probably all over the place). The Union.
Music is love: Musical explorations and adventures with Vetiver
Written by Josh Antonuccio
Thursday, 14 January 2010 00:44
Since the early 2000s, songwriter Andy Cabic has been relentlessly pursuing the beauty and sensibilities of his folk idols. This journey has led him in and out of many musical outfits, but most notably it has resulted in the gentle and shadowy folk world of his most enduring incarnation, Vetiver.
Athens Ear Buds has returned in force from a slow winter break and holiday season. I came real close to shutting her down. But we’ve gotten a new blood transfusion, and for now anyway, AEB is the picture of health.
One thing, some of the contributors are starting to get a little longwinded. I understand your enthusiasm, but please try to keep the blurbs to under 150 words. Seriously. I’d really rather you cut them than me. If you submitted your Bud after Monday afternoon and don’t see it here, that’s because I’m holding it for next time. I’m finally learning that in order for this thing to work, some of the blurbs need to be held over every week.
As usual, Haffa’s on West Union is still the best (and pretty much only) place to buy this stuff in Athens. — Terry Smith, Athens Ear Buds’ ringmaster
Joe Rollino was 104 years old. He was a lifelong vegetarian, didn’t smoke, didn’t drink, and in the end, he was killed by a mini-van. A mini-van. He was the last of a dying breed, an honest to goodness carnie. At Coney Island he dubbed himself the “Strongest Man in the World,” and his acts of strength gained a Paul Bunyan-like hugeness to them, including lifting 450 pounds with his teeth, and 3,200 pounds with other unspecified body parts.
He was a decorated WWII veteran, boxed under the name Kid Dundee, could bend quarters with his fingers, had a bit part with Marlon Brando in “On the Waterfront,” and died because he got hit by a mini-van. A mini-van. Not a truck or a train — which he might more likely have bent to his will, like the quarters he bent with his fingers at the age of 104.
Music Stuart's Opera House is hosting its first-ever Ohio Winter Folk Festival this Saturday. Headlining the evening of music in the Opera House will be San Francisco psychedelic folk outfit Vetiver (Sub Pop Records).
Other performers will include The Black Swans, Super Desserts and Moon High, all from Columbus, and Athens' own Adam Torres, according to a news release. In addition to the music in the theater, which starts at 6 p.m., Stuart's and Aquabear Legion are hosting another Music Swap Meet in the lobby starting at 1 p.m., featuring records, CDs, instruments and more. A DIY Art Fair also will take place in the lobby starting at 1 p.m., featuring local art vendors and their handmade work.
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