New Word Document is celebrating the sunshine with feature Jay Scholtes at the Public House.
Sign up starts @ 7pm.
Open mic starts @ 8pm.
Feature starts @ 9pm.
Hosted by Adam Asher (www.adamasher.com).
Posters by Sandra Boskamp (www.sandraboskamp.com).
Local Artists Gallery TBA
About the Feature:
Our stools are all messed up. We got ‘em cheap when we were first putting the space together with very little money. Now that we’ve been open for a couple of years, and your butts have pushed them to the brink, they’re the number one thing we get complaints about.
We get it. We spend time on that side of the bar, too. These old mismatched stools have got to go. They’ve worn out their welcome. And some of them quite literally feel like they don’t want to be sat on anymore either (I’m looking at you, stool that tips toward the bar).
But we want to do this right, so it’s gonna cost us. Starting next Thursday (June 20th), we’re going to unveil a summer-long fundraiser for new stools. Donations are of course welcome at any time for this project, but we’re going at it a bit more strategically than that. Also, June 20th just so happens to be the same day as our Members Only Seasonal Cocktail Tasting (6-8pm), so you’d better show up. We’ll see you there.
This Monday night (June 3 at 7pm), join us for dinner with bicycle stories, bicycle books, and a little film about the growing bicycling movement!
Thanks to our sponsors:
Milwaukee Bicycle Collective (http://bikecollective.org/)
and
Truly Spoken Cycles (http://trulyspokencycles.net/)
All the way from Portland, Oregon, Joshua Ploeg will delight with a vegan and gluten free buffet dinner, Elly Blue will present about transportation equity, and Joe Biel will show a near-complete excerpt from Aftermass, his forthcoming documentary about the history of bicycle activism in Portland.
The annual Dinner and Bikes Tour, a multimedia roadshow of food and bicycle activism, will be putting on events in 27 cities in eleven states in the midwestern and northeast U.S. during National Bike Month in May. The tour is a call to action for communities around the U.S. to take the lead in growing the national bicycle movement.
The tour is coming to Milwaukee on June 3, 2013 from 7 pm to 10 pm and costs $10-20 (sliding scale) at the door. More information can be found atwww.dinnerandbikes.com
The tour features writer Elly Blue, filmmaker Joe Biel, and chef Joshua Ploeg.
Attendees will enjoy a gourmet vegan and gluten-free buffet by Ploeg while participating in an interactive presentation about transportation equity by Blue and watching a near-complete excerpt from Biel’s forthcoming documentary Aftermass, a history of bicycle activism in Portland. The tour is traveling with a food- and bicycle-themed pop-up bookstore. Authors will be available to chat and sign books after the event.
Joshua Ploeg is the traveling vegan chef. When not touring the world, he is a personal chef and delighter of secret cafe goers in Los Angeles. His adventure cookbook In Search of the Lost Taste is a smash hit, as is his controversial raw food cookbook, So Raw It’s Downright Filthy.
Joe Biel is the author of brand new book Beyond the Music. founded Microcosm Publishing in his bedroom closet 17 years ago and now publishes nonfiction books, zines, and movies through Microcosm and Cantankerous Titles. In his “spare time” he makes documentaries on empowering topics from punk to bicycling. On this tour, he’ll be showing selections from Aftermass, a feature documentary about bicycle activism in Portland.
Elly Blue is the author of the newly released Everyday Bicycling: How to Ride a Bicycle for Transportation (Whatever your Lifestyle). She is the founder of Taking the Lane, a publisher of empowering books about unique aspects of cycling. Her writing has appeared in Grist, Bitch, BikePortland, Momentum, and the Portland Mercury, and her own blog. Her second book, Bikenomics, will come out in early 2014.
Past Dinner and Bikes tours have covered the west coast, the mountain states, and the southeastern U.S.
Midwest Poetry March
Poetry Jam Crashed by the Detroit Party Marching Band
This Sunday (mother’s day) at 7pm!
Poets:
Jack Schleicher from Brawler Lit
Keith Gaustad from Burdock
Cynthia Spencer from Midwest Small Press Fest
Adam Asher from New Word Document
DETROIT PARTY MARCHING BAND:::
When was the last time you saw 20 people covered in glitter and sequins performing marching band tunes at the Public House? (probably the last time Molotov Marchers played, but here’s something different!)
A feature in French documentary Detroit Je T’aime:
A feature in series American Hipster:
$3-5 suggested donation at the door (it helps out the touring marching band & poets)
STATEMENT FROM THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND WORKERS COLLECTIVE
Regarding incidents on April 30, 2013.
As a neighborhood minded organization, we know what a tight-knit community Riverwest is. We live here, we work here, we play here – and we know how word travels. Some of you saw, many have heard and many more will learn about things that went down at the Public House last night. We want to tell the story as we experienced it.
Tuesday evening was turning into a great night at the public house. Regulars from our LGBTuesday crowd were gathering as folks from the Riverwest 24 started camping out in garden park for today’s registration. There were folks new to the bar, too. Overall, it was a great night.
But towards the end of the night a couple of individuals got violent. Fights broke out outside the bar. As our staff made moves to get things under control, some of these fights escalated. Any time our community is torn down like this we see it as more than just an incident at a bar – we take it personally.
Even in the midst of this, great things came through: our staff responded quickly and made decisions to keep our community safe. We had really positive interactions with the police. And we’re learning from last night too.
Let us be clear: the Public House exists as the crossroads of culture where our diverse community gathers. Anything that threatens this is not tolerated. We do not tolerate violent words or violent actions. We do not tolerate our patrons being disrespectful to our neighbors. And we do not believe the negative actions of a few individuals should tear down the great things we experience through the Public House.
Cooperatively yours,
The Board and Workers Collective
It’s that time again. Kentucky Derby Time. Yeah!
This Saturday:
Drink discounts on Mint Juleps and Fleur de Lis cocktails if you wear a derby hat or bring a horse.
We’ll be projecting the derby on stage.
Casual Potluck during the day. Here’s some recipes, because we like to make it easy for you.
http://www.kentuckyderby.com/party/food-and-entertainment/recipes
DONT KNOW WHAT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT??
The Kentucky Derby is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds, held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. The race is one and a quarter miles (2 km) at Churchill Downs. Colts and geldings carry 126 pounds (57 kilograms) and fillies 121 pounds (55 kilograms).[1] The race is known in the United States as “The Most Exciting Two Minutes In Sports” or “The Fastest Two Minutes in Sports” for its approximate duration, and is also called “The Run for the Roses” for the blanket of roses draped over the winner. It is the first leg of the US Triple Crown and is followed by the Preakness Stakes, then the Belmont Stakes. Unlike the Preakness and Belmont Stakes, which took hiatuses in 1891-1893 and 1911-1912 respectively, the Kentucky Derby has been run every consecutive year since 1875. A horse must win all three races to win the Triple Crown. The attendance at the Kentucky Derby ranks first in North America and usually surpasses the attendance of all other stakes races including the Preakness Stakes, Belmont Stakes and the Breeders’ Cup.[2]
Sunday April 28
6pm
$3-5 suggested donation
[no one turned away for lack of funds]
http://www.blairpathways.com/
Blair Pathways is a multi-media project which uses music and narrative to tell the story of the West Virginia Mine Wars (1900-1921). The story is told through a series of historic music pieces, covered by contemporary musicians, which take the listener step-by-step through the main events and themes of these wars. The CD features 20 tracks along with a fold-out map, which coordinates track numbers to the geographic sites of each historic moment. On our website, this same map links to short essays which detail each historic moment, and explain the thematic connection to the musical piece.
The West Virginia Mine Wars were, undoubtedly, some of the largest and longest-lasting labor battles in the history of the United States. Between 1900 and 1921, three major periods of conflict arose: the Fayette/Kanawha strikes of 1902, the Paint Creek/Cabin Creek Strikes of 1912-1913 and the Mingo-Logan Wars of 1919-1921. These conflicts were spread across southern West Virginia, which was the nation’s preeminent producer of bituminous coal in the early 20th century. These conflicts culminated with a week-long militant uprising in August of 1921, involving over 10,000 men and women. Much of the fighting was focused at Blair Mountain in Logan County. Blair Mountain currently meets standards to qualify as a national historic battle site, but sadly faces threats from mountain-top removal mining. Money from sales of the CD will go to benefit Friends of Blair Mountain (FOBM), a non-profit working to save the Blair Mountain battlefield site.
