Here’s a story about a guy who was dealt lemons.  Rather than make lemonade,  he made a Company:  http://www.houstonpress.com/2011-12-08/culture/poster-boy/

SugarHill is celebrating the release of Hits from the Hill with a bash at Continental Club on Sunday, December 4.  The lineup, including Allen Oldies Band, Roy Head, Don Sanders, Champion Sisters, Chet Daniels, Kenny Cordray‘s Love Street, John Evans, Glenna Bell and Row Zero is sure to make for a fun filled afternoon.  Admission is free, but all proceeds from CD sales go to benefit the Musicians’ Benevolent Society of Houston.  Doors @ 1PM!

Spend $20 or more at Sig’s and get a wristband for the 2011 Katz Coffee Porter Party.  What does the wristband get you???  Lots of Real Ale Coffee Porter….talk about a PARTY!

Candid wedding photography – wedding photojournalism – what’s in a name?  One suggests the snapshots taken by friends or family mostly after the blessed event.   These might be informally posed – but usually not at all.  Photojournalism, wedding or otherwise, makes one think of a documentary…maybe even artistically crafted.  But still it’s usually a succinct report – too brief and typically edited to reveal what may be, in fact, the true essence of the day.

From the sweetness of the Traditional under-nose kiss to pain and frustration as seen in Trouble in Tragus, this collection of photographs informs us about thoughts, ideas and emotions that were entwined around the different but always nuptially skewed occasions.  There’s the wry humor seen in pictures like I thought we were wearing white or I’m so happy for you where the photograph seems to speak to what must be going through the subjects’ minds.  Rounding out the day’s story is the erotic intrigue that can be imagined in Victoria’s Secret or possibly even It is happening. 

All of these photographs are chosen because they capture those private moments in public settings that tighten the aperture providing more depth, and a finer focus, and thus more fidelity to the record of the occasions told here in the brides, and the lies, and the beers.

FIRST THURSDAY – November 3rd, 2011-  6 – 10PM:  Opening of “the Brides and the Lies and the Beers” photo exibit by Jason Meade.  Sponsored by our pals at Real Ale Brewing……that means your thirst will be quenched on us!

Jon Langford (the Mekons, Waco Brothers, Pine Valley Cosmonauts) visits Sig’s Lagoon for a reading/signing of his books, Skull Orchard Revisted & Nashville Radio:  Art, Words, & Music.

The starting point was his long unobtainable album Skull Orchard. For the CD available exclusively with this book, Langford returned to those lost recordings and radically revised them, enlisting as his accomplices the Burlington Welsh Male Chorus, who contribute a unique warmth to the material.

Jon illustrated his lyrics for Skull Orchard, at once autobiographical and fanciful, in a set of “song paintings” created especially for this book, which also includes much more artwork, an A to Z of South Walian culture and history (both personal and general) by Jon’s brother, and acclaimed SF writer David Langford, photographs by their father, Denis Langford, and Jon’s first published story, a witty, dystopian tale about a whale and a dolphin.

“Lyrically, he creates a picture of a town of physical people who’ve lost their place in a technological world, but his punk background shows up in his love of the hard-charging song, which adds a rebellious (and therefore hopeful) voice to the songs. In fact, it’s only when you break the songs down to the lyrics that the darkness is evident; on a casual listen, it’s one of his most consistently hard-driving, entertaining albums.”–Offbeat New Orleans

Nashville Radio is the first collection of his acclaimed art. It reproduces 215 paintings and etchings, alongs with song lyrics and autobiographical writings.   The book also comes with a specially recorded exclusive CD of Langford performing 18 of the printed songs. 

                         ********Complimentary Real Ale at the event********

Two announcements stem from this swell photograph of Dave Alvin:

1.  First Thursday Event:  The Continental Club through the eyes of the Bald Heretic:  Photo show of Jay Lee’s pics at the Continental Club:   June 2nd 7 – 9PM!

2.  Dave Alvin & the Guilty Men appear at the Continental Club (Houston) on July 15th.  Tickets go on sale May 7th!