Yid Vicious - $7

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Dottie and Josie Brand (Two Peas in a Pod)


"Summer Magic"


June 2026



We are self-taught artists who create work inspired by healing, nature, travel, and personal experiences. Growing up, art became a way for us to process emotions, express ourselves, and create spaces that felt meaningful and comforting. Our first “gallery” was our college apartment, which we transformed with our own artwork and nature-inspired design and the power of the feminine. Sharing our space and work with others encouraged us to continue creating and exploring art more seriously. Inspired by our Latin culture, color, emotion, and everyday moments, our work reflects themes of connection, growth,...
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Saturday, February 1, 2014

Seven dollars for adults, free for kids
Benefiting the Adam Greene memorial fund at www.directrelief.org

The Polar Vortex returns!

Here-s how it happens in January 2014, according to the National Weather Service:

\"The coldest temperatures in almost two decades will spread into the northern and central U.S. today behind an arctic cold front. Combined with gusty winds, these temperatures will result in life-threatening wind chill values as low as 60 degrees below zero. Also, heavy snow will develop from the eastern Plains to the Great Lakes today, with up to a foot of accumulation possible. -

So it is now. Brrrrrrrr! And so it was-then.

In 1996, the intrepid Yid Vicious ventured out into the cold bleak gusty life-threatening darkness of the last polar vortex to bring exciting Klezmer to the freezing masses. On that frozen Groundhog Day a tradition was born, a tradition that lives today, eighteen years later.

Eighteen. Yid Vicious is eighteen. They-re eighteen and we don-t know what they want. They don-t always know what they-re talking about and it feels like they-re living in a world of doubt. But they-re eighteen and they like it, like it, love it, love it.

And maybe you will, too! If you attend the annual Yid Vicious Groundhog Day Kleztravaganza! There will be music, cheer, jamming, remembering, and paying tribute to a dear departed friend. All for a nominal cover fee and in close proximity to the best coffee that will ever meet your cold, parched lips.

If you-re feeling eighteen again, or are eighteen, or are under eighteen and wonder what it feels like (see above), please feel free to join us. Let-s get together and burn this polar vortex down, yo!