✦Weekender✦ Karaoke royalty | Astro hangout | Emo line dancing | Lemonade wars | CHUD book sale | 700 BPM music?! | Chef 'n' roll 👨🍳
FROM A LITERAL underground book sale to soft rock in a grimy punk grotto to line dancing with emo cowgirls, here's what made The List this weekend. Cheers! – Andrew Kiraly 🤍
🤓 Friday September 12
- This tantalizing line from the event description for the Big Basement Book Sale will make many a biblio-freak's heart somersault with anticipatory delight for the giddy promise of "hidden treasures": "Hidden Treasures are books of Hidden value, signed copies, first editions, rare books, etc. They are priced by title and book condition." (Through Sunday) 10a, Boulder City Library
- Fairly sure my amygdala's inbox is 90 percent full of desert landscape paintings, so I'm good on that score. However, I'll happily make room for Michael Moats' placid but poppingly whimsical logo-like micro-portraits in "A Day in the Desert." 6p, MAD Gallery
- If you've long harbored a distant fascination with the Double Down Saloon but have frozen at the prospect of walking in only to get a grapeshot faceful of scouring punk rock exfoliating your skull, this is your chance to sip from the mythical plasma spring of world-famous Ass Juice without risking your sanity: super-chill '70s soft-rock cover band Bear Supply is playing tonight. 10p, Double Down Saloon
Also Friday ➤
You'll be seeing red at Astronomy in the Park's "Mars & Meteorites" at Red Rock Canyon ✦ Shake, stir, and sip at this Ketel One Cocktail Class at Fergusons Downtown ✦ The beats battle for your feet at Klub Nocturno: Rock en Español vs. Cumbia at Area 15 ✦ Writer-performers propel poems and prose in the Beverly Theatre breezeway at Neon Lit.
👉 ICYMI, here's a sack of bad Bacardi beeyatches, eyeliner hex teens, contorto-tastic acrobats, and jars of thrilling ick:
Andrew Kiraly
🍳 Saturday September 13
- It's a multi-market Saturday at Fergusons Downtown fortified with vitamin C: Holoholo Market features AAPI vendors, Retro Hex offers spirited sales, and citrus-savvy capitalist kiddies square off in Lemonade Wars. 10a, Fergusons Downtown
- I can state with confidence that the trend of outrageously themed brunches has definitively reached a vertiginous critical inflection point with the sangria-soaked B*tch ATE my Brunch!, hosted by aptly named keyboardist-personality-person Leo Bagel. 1130a, Taverna Costera
- Freeform, unsupervised karaoke is fine, but sometimes you want the expert ministrations of a dedicated wingman (singman? 🙄) who can talk you through your jangling nerves at the prospect of finally tackling the eight-minute album version of "Paradise by the Dashboard Light." Joshua Baron aka the Karaoke Baron is that person. 8p, Taverna Costera
- When he's not slathering sauce on meat with erotically attentive focus, SoulBelly BBQ's Bruce Kalman likes to slather sweet guitar licks on your ears. He's rounded up a band of fellow chef-musicians who call themselves – wait for it – Foie Grock. 8p, SoulBelly BBQ
- Just across the street from SoulBelly, this newbie-friendly Line Dancing Night is taught by none other than Hilary Kaye Braeger, whose suitability as host and instructor is perfectly affirmed in her tagline: "THE emo city cowgirl." 9p, Horse Trailer Hideout
Also Saturday ➤
So am I like the only one who remembers seamlessly sunny '80s popstress Debbie Gibson? She chats up her memoir at The Beverly Theater ✦ The artistic visions are doubled as Slonina ARTSpace's Second Saturday and East Fremont Festival of Arts team up ✦ Marooned on Lonesome Island? You might get lei'd at Little Avalon's Singles Luau ✦ If I wasn't so stupidly overbooked I'd definitely be rolling with Tokyo Groove Jyoshi at Maxan Jazz ✦ Aspiring citizen scientist? Create a buzz at Parks for Pollinators BioBlitz at Floyd Lamb Park.
