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Positively State Street

DO THE PIGEON: So, you couldn’t make it to Pigeon John‘s Summertime Pool Party? Well, you need to check out the underground rap veteran himself when he appears at SOhO (1221 State St.) on Saturday, December 29. After making a name for himself in the mid ’90s at the Good Life Cafe-rapping alongside such venerable underground legends as Kurupt and Jurassic 5-John has amassed quite a following of fellow “street geeks” enamored of his affable, self-deprecating style and flows as snug-fit as his trademark fedora.

The Day the Music Stopped

Last week, the fine folks at the Lompoc Record broke a story that saddened my little, music-lovin’ heart: Lompoc’s Morninglory Music-the sister store to our very own State Street music emporium-is being forced to close up shop.

Galerie 707

The distinctive historical building and patio dedicated to Galerie 707 set the scene for an eclectic mixture of artwork that spans multiple media. Pieces range from dreamlike, abstract oil paintings to colorful silk pillows and scarves to striking and contemporary glass-on-concrete mosaic sculptures, which are displayed at the gallery’s front entrance.

Popovich Comedy Pet Theater

The excitement was palpable as calliope-esque circus music filled the theater and kids wiggled in their seats in anticipation of the show. The entertainment for the evening was the Popovich Comedy Pet Theater, starring Gregory Popovich and his performing dogs and cats.

Gilles Apap and Friends.

A notably large, grinning, and wriggling crowd filled the Marjorie Luke Theatre on Friday night when the tri-counties’ resident virtuoso violinist/fiddler Gilles Apap returned to the scene of a good time.

The Poetry of Peace (and War)

December’s darkness leads us inward. We light candles and turn our thoughts to peace, taking a small break from all the chaos. Almost everyone becomes a poet, reaching out to others with words. “Poetry is an act of peace,” wrote Pablo Neruda, a statement David Krieger quotes in his preface to The Poetry of Peace (Capra Press, 2003), a collection of the winning poems from the first seven years of the Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Awards, sponsored by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation of Santa Barbara.

Tori Amos

While stocking my arsenal of available online information in preparation for Thursday’s concert at the Arlington Theatre, I couldn’t help but think, as my subject does, in grand and relatively obscure allusion. In the case of Tori Amos and her American Doll Posse tour, art, in many new and revisited forms, reveals itself while the artist quite visibly peacocks on stage.

Rolling Stone’s Top 10 Songs of the Year

As 2007 comes to a close, there’s no better time to make a sonic time capsule in the form of a mix-tape. Use this list as a jumping-off point when creating your tape, CD, or MP3 playlist of fun, and wait for good times to roll as you recall the last 365 days in total clarity when you listen to it a few years from now.

KT Tunstall

Each December invariably brings, along with candy canes and fruitcake, Christmas albumsfor better or worse. This year, Scottish songstress KT Tunstall has cut a six-song holiday EP that is definitely better.

I Am Legend

Not to put too flippant a spin on it, but beneath its hyperbolic, apocalyptic, kitschy sci-fi dread, I Am Legend taps into some basic fears we have as Americans and earthlings. First of all, we suspect that New York City may harbor rabid zombies in its darkest recesses, and-more globally-that if the terrorists don’t get us, then the environmental/bio-mishaps will.

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