Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Fight cabin fever! We've got the cure.

Time to take off the fuzzy slippers and get OUT, everyone!

Start with a healthy dose of the blues. Jordan Lunardini is playing right down the street at the Stagecoach Barn at the Blackhawk Grill, M-89 and C Avenue, this Saturday, January 26, starting at 9 p.m.

Then head downtown to hear Combat Corduroy play Thursdays, February 7 and 14 at Rugger's Up and Under and Friday, February 8, at Harvey's on the Mall.

There are two exciting openings on Friday, February 8: First, it's the grand opening of the new Blue Water Gallery, 8860 N. 32nd Street, in the equally new Clocktower Green. Come between 5 and 9 p.m. and commune with artworks of all kinds--sculpture, jewelry, photography, ceramics, wood, fiber--by Kathy Kreager, Maryellen Hains, Gretchen Huggett, Michael Dunn, and many other great Michigan artists.

Also opening Friday, February 8, and continuing through Saturday, February 23, is Shakespeare in Hollywood at the Civic Theatre in downtown Kalamazoo. This fast-paced comedy, in which Oberon and Puck materialize on a Warner Brothers' 1934 film production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, is our chance to spot Mary Teutsch on stage again.

Wee folks in need of an outing should head for the Richland Community Library. Preschool story hour happens at 1 p.m. Tuesdays and 10:15 a.m. Fridays; toddlers love Wednesday Wigglers at 10:15 a.m. Wednesdays, of course.

And finally: Could this be the end of house concerts at Chicken House Concerts in Halifax, Nova Scotia? The concerts may go on, but Louise Hanavan's chickens must go, apparently. Check the CBC News for the latest!

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