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You squeeze behind the wheel before noticing that someone’s slipped a flyer beneath one of the wipers. Especially in North Park.
For the last month or so, the nearby sidewalk’s been increasingly splattered with postcards announcing various performances. Apparently my neighbors don’t appreciate the free ads and are impatiently yanking them from their windshields and letting them fall… wherever. One of the most persistent is for “Walter Segundo y su Orquesta Rumbaney – Live Salsa Dance Music!”
Since salsa is indubitably hot, and the postcards-under-windshields approach tends to be taken by relatively grassroots enterprises, the first such finding is exciting: Maybe an amazing, conga-smacking conjunto is playing at a nearby rec room or church for next-to-nothing! A closer inspection reveals that the latest “Latin dance party” is on July 1, at 4th and B.
Well, pooh - nothing extraordinary here. Curiosity drives me to 4thandbevents.com, where I see that a general admission, “standing” ticket would run me $25 with online processing fees, which throw an additional five bucks into the total. This is frustrating. My appetite for Cuban-based rhythm has been seriously whetted.
On the other hand, on a jaunt to the mailbox tonight I stumbled upon another postcard that someone had extricated from their car window. This one looks like an angry puppy got to it before I did. It’s not too chewed-up for me to read, “Diamond is Forever! The Neil Diamond Experience – July 15, 2011 – 7:30 P.M. – North Park – Queen Bee’s Art & Cultural Center.” There’s a photograph of a man with an incredibly thick head of dark hair. He’s holding a guitar and pointing at the camera. Behind him, in a glow of light, wearing red and black clothing, is group of seven musicians and singers.
Well, this could be a hoot. Again, there’s no price on the card. On the back are two dense paragraphs of small print about “charismatic showman David J. Sherry,” along with Queen Bee’s web address and phone number.
You squeeze behind the wheel before noticing that someone’s slipped a flyer beneath one of the wipers. Especially in North Park.
For the last month or so, the nearby sidewalk’s been increasingly splattered with postcards announcing various performances. Apparently my neighbors don’t appreciate the free ads and are impatiently yanking them from their windshields and letting them fall… wherever. One of the most persistent is for “Walter Segundo y su Orquesta Rumbaney – Live Salsa Dance Music!”
Since salsa is indubitably hot, and the postcards-under-windshields approach tends to be taken by relatively grassroots enterprises, the first such finding is exciting: Maybe an amazing, conga-smacking conjunto is playing at a nearby rec room or church for next-to-nothing! A closer inspection reveals that the latest “Latin dance party” is on July 1, at 4th and B.
Well, pooh - nothing extraordinary here. Curiosity drives me to 4thandbevents.com, where I see that a general admission, “standing” ticket would run me $25 with online processing fees, which throw an additional five bucks into the total. This is frustrating. My appetite for Cuban-based rhythm has been seriously whetted.
On the other hand, on a jaunt to the mailbox tonight I stumbled upon another postcard that someone had extricated from their car window. This one looks like an angry puppy got to it before I did. It’s not too chewed-up for me to read, “Diamond is Forever! The Neil Diamond Experience – July 15, 2011 – 7:30 P.M. – North Park – Queen Bee’s Art & Cultural Center.” There’s a photograph of a man with an incredibly thick head of dark hair. He’s holding a guitar and pointing at the camera. Behind him, in a glow of light, wearing red and black clothing, is group of seven musicians and singers.
Well, this could be a hoot. Again, there’s no price on the card. On the back are two dense paragraphs of small print about “charismatic showman David J. Sherry,” along with Queen Bee’s web address and phone number.