Optometri w/ Yid Vicious - $6

Art in the cafe...

Laurel Statz


"The Spectator"


December 2025



Laurel Statz is a painter and Madison area native. Her work, while figurative, is influenced by abstraction and minimalism. The paintings often have a quick and instinctual nature, capturing just what’s needed. While she often times herself to eliminate extra details and over-precision, she has ventured into more detailed works as well. Laurel does not attach narrative to her pieces. Rather, she thinks of them like a journaling process for her scatter-brained psyche. The figures in the pieces are meant to be processing tools for the artist and the viewer. She hopes that seeing these figures helps the...
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Friday, October 26, 2007

In a baffling sleight of hand, the American klezmer ensemble Yid Vicious will be performing the old-style music of Eastern Europe and the Ukraine, while Ukrainian entertainment legends Optometri* will THRILL AND DELIGHT with their unique brand of American rock and roll.

SEE: The guys and gals of Yid Vicious whip the crowd into a frenzy of dancing and DELIRIOUS EXCITEMENT with their rapid-fire bulgar beats!!

HEAR: Heavily accented Optometri frontman YURI MYSHKIN castigate his band members for failing to meet his high artistic standards of ROCKING!!!

SEE: Optometri's stylish and intriguing "look"!!

FEEL: The AMAZEMENT as such hits as Yid Vicious' "The Seventh Schlemiel" and "Hogar '07", and Optometri's "(I've Got a) Five Year Plan" and "My Sweet Estonia" are unleashed onto an ecstatic public!!!!

THIS IS AN EVENT OUTSTANDING IN ITS UNUSUALNESS, AND AS SUCH WILL NOT BE REPEATED AT ANY TIME OR PLACE, NOT EVER! Indeed, it is a ONE TIME EVENT.

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