Striking the Anvil
Actually, that would be, "striking the mess that will become the Anvil."
This is Andrew Dudek. He and Green Bean coffeeshop owner, Pete Schroth, are starting a huge music club in downtown Greensboro, at the end of Lewis St, a block down from Elm. The club will be called The Flying Anvil and the guys have set April as a finishing date. Perhaps there will be a release party for Cat Power's newest album if everything is ready. The club will have a large bar area, a larger performance area with a stage, a V.I.P. nest and a record store. The club will host all sorts of bands, says Dudek, who owned and operated Tate Street's Gate City Noise.
Construction is definitely underway - today I spent several hours hauling old ceiling tiles and pieces of former wall out of the V.I.P. parlor-to-be with Andrew as the third muskateer chipped away at the cement. For now the guys are working Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays starting at 9 A.M. and eagerly accepting any volunteers who want to help out. The space is amazing and amazingly huge. I highly recommend stopping by.
This is the third muskateer in the future V.I.P. lounge. Notice the mask he's wearing. I had to wear one too so as not to inhale too much dust.
This is Andrew Dudek. He and Green Bean coffeeshop owner, Pete Schroth, are starting a huge music club in downtown Greensboro, at the end of Lewis St, a block down from Elm. The club will be called The Flying Anvil and the guys have set April as a finishing date. Perhaps there will be a release party for Cat Power's newest album if everything is ready. The club will have a large bar area, a larger performance area with a stage, a V.I.P. nest and a record store. The club will host all sorts of bands, says Dudek, who owned and operated Tate Street's Gate City Noise.
Construction is definitely underway - today I spent several hours hauling old ceiling tiles and pieces of former wall out of the V.I.P. parlor-to-be with Andrew as the third muskateer chipped away at the cement. For now the guys are working Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays starting at 9 A.M. and eagerly accepting any volunteers who want to help out. The space is amazing and amazingly huge. I highly recommend stopping by.
This is the third muskateer in the future V.I.P. lounge. Notice the mask he's wearing. I had to wear one too so as not to inhale too much dust.
Since that mini-article was first published, the Anvil has risen and fallen. Now it's a hip-hop club.
The time of the Anvil was a wonderful and very brief time. I saw: The Jews and the Catholics, The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus and I was supposed to see Johanna Newsom but didn't make it because I was trapped with some people at a Sushi bar. Clay's math-rock band, Hi-Rollers, played with Man Man and the Tiny Meteors.Puppies.
I feel traumatized by the puppy fiasco. Please someone, found a support center about this.
Claire Zulkey has this to say - "surgically stitching anything into a puppy, even if it's the cutest wootest widdle thing ever, is still animal abuse."
For some reason I had the idea that one of the surviving puppies being trained to become a drug-sniffing dog is kind of like a former slave or prisoner becoming a human rights lawyer. But that would only really be true if he were sniffing out drugs that involved puppy-torture.
Saturday, January 28, 2006
Works by Gregory D. Ivy and his students
A painting by Gregory D. Ivy
Since November UNC-G's Weatherspoon Art Gallery has displayed a collection of works by Gregory D. Ivy, the founder of both the art department and the museum itself.
On Friday, January 27, the Cultural Art Center's Green Hill Gallery opened an exhibit that displays works by students of Ivy.
Since November UNC-G's Weatherspoon Art Gallery has displayed a collection of works by Gregory D. Ivy, the founder of both the art department and the museum itself.
On Friday, January 27, the Cultural Art Center's Green Hill Gallery opened an exhibit that displays works by students of Ivy.
