Mixed Notes
Matt Meshbane, late of www.bookmyband.com, has somehow convinced his new roommates to let him and some friends he met at the Kerrville Folk Festival host a series of Friday-afternoon house parties at 201 La Vista St., off South Congress. This week’s “Hoedown on South Congress” will feature Ethan Azarian, possibly Mike Nicolai, and definitely two kegs of Real Ale. “We tap the kegs at 4:20pm, and the music starts at 7,” says Meshbane, who insists parking is available at El Gallo restaurant… Two benefits have been set up Friday for Stanley Smith of the Asylum Street Spankers, who recently suffered kidney failure and has had to go on dialysis: 6:30pm at Cafe Mundi and 10pm at the Flamingo Cantina… Tim Kerr will spin rare Sixties soul and R&B Friday night at Beerland to raise money for Atomic City owner Jim “Prince” Hughes, who was hospitalized last year with “a variety of life-threatening ailments”… Black Lipstick has canceled their upcoming summer tour due to a family emergency, but labelmates the Octopus Project soldier on as scheduled… Finally, “TCB” is proud to introduce a new recurring feature this week, Killer Lifestyle, by local cartoonist Aaron Miller. Named, of course, after the bitchin’ Pong album, this week’s twofer addresses themes near and dear to all of our hearts: posers and the smoking ban.
This article appears in June 27 • 2003.