Strings and sealing wax...

Perfect soup weather. Check our website or our twitter account for daily soup of the day announcements.

For those that like to be organized, we have Slingshot 2019 calendars available. Available in a wide variety of colors and two handy sizes.

November's art show will be "Near and far" by Nassybah Touriño. It will be viewable November 1 - 30, 2018.
https://www.motherfools.com/art/2018-11/nassybah-tourino/near-and-far

--- This Weekend ---

** James the Magician
Friday, November 9
8:00 pm - $7

Come one, come all to enjoy an evening of comedy magic with James the Magician. James is a recent recipient of multiple awards within the magic community. Do you like to laugh? Do you like to suspend your dis-belief? Do you want to escape the "day to day"?

Tickets are available at the door.

Magic makes good medicine.

** Vegetarian Alcoholic Press Showcase: Pekarske, Tadeyeske and Zorko
Saturday, November 10
8:00 pm - $6

Milwaukee meets Madison in an evening of stellar poetry that bends your mind till you break.

Performing:
Sam Pekarske (Milwaukee)
Chelsea Tadeyeske (MIlwaukee)
Greg Zorko (Madison)
Special Secret TBA Guest

Sam Pekarske was born / razed in Milwaukee and won’t shut up about it. Tends to a small graveyard of musical instruments and runs a few reading series on the side. No MFA, no PhD, no gods, no masters, xoxo.

Chelsea Tadeyeske is a poet, performer, and bookmaker from and currently living in Milwaukee, WI. She is the founding editor of pitymilk press (pitymilkpress.wordpress.com) where she publishes short-run chapbooks and edits both online and print journals. Her work is interested in investigating the Venn diagrams made of the shame, trauma and desire that is rooted in femininity in ways that highlight hurtful societal expectations and perspectives. Two of her chapbooks, ‘if you bend it backwards nothing really happens’ and ‘we were are born with the right to be angry’ were recently released from Rabbit Catastrophe Press and bathmatics, respectively. Poems of hers can be found online at Pretty Owl Poetry, Delirious Hem, Smoking Glue Gun, Leopardskin & Limes, among others. She is a seasoned performer having performed extensively in the United States as well as in Europe. She is a Virgo sun/Aquarius moon/Libra rising born in the year of the snake.

Greg Zorko was born in 1990 in upstate New York. He currently lives in Madison, Wisconsin. He is the author of "Ghost in the Club" (Metatron Press, 2016) and "Chirp" (Ursus Americanus Press, 2018).

This event is all ages with a $6 door charge that goes to the performers. Come party down.

---- Next Weekend ----

** Ritt Deitz - CD Release Party
Saturday, November 17
8:00 pm
$10

Ritt will have his band with him for this special show celebrating his latest recording, Horses and Smoke, which he will have available for sale.

Ritt Deitz - guitar, vocals
Wilder Deitz - piano, electric piano, back vocals, percussion
Dave Foss - hammered dulcimer, rub board, back vocals
Joe Meisel - bass

Horses and Smoke, Ritt Deitz’ new album, his sixth on Uvulittle, was recorded live to open-reel tape last winter in Oregon, Wisconsin. Engineered and mixed by Bruce Kasprzyk, the album breathes with the authenticity that comes from years and years of playing with friends and family. Indeed, he's joined by his son Wilder on piano and his two core band members, Joe Meisel and Dave Foss. Madison fiddle wizard, Biff Blumfumgagnge sits in on two tracks (and mastered the album.)

Throughout, Ritt's rich, Johnny Cash-like voice, is the thread that holds everything together as the band transports the listener to an older, seemingly more honest era.

http://rittdeitz.com

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Madison, WI 53703

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