Monday night at Danny’s. Help Alex celebrate his birthday! Jams of all stripes all night…

The return of thee Lock-in Monster!  This is how it works: We open the studios to everyone and anyone beginning at 6pm on Friday the 19th and shut down Saturday the 20th at 6pm.  In between, we print like mad.  Come armed with ideas and a few dollars for materials, pizza, beer etc.  No experience necessary!  Prizes will be given, including the coveted GOLDEN SQUEEGEE!

Ryan Duggan, Carrie Vinarsky, and Alex Valentine show some new work at Roots and Culture this month.

It’s been a busy few weeks here! Thanks to everyone who came to see the performances by Tiny Music, Andru Bemis, Neon Sea, Gay Beast, Dewayne Sleightweight, Edie Fake, Owen Brightman, Scott Tankersley, Silky Shoemaker and Learned Helplessness.

We’ve got your Monday night settled. Awesome weirdo performance good times from Chicago/Baltimore/Austin/Gay Utopia, followed by a benefit at Danny’s for our friends at the Unlympic Planning Committee. Get to it!

TONIGHT! 7:30 PM @ NO COAST: FINGERS
1500 w. 17th ST, 1st FL.

ANXIOUS TO TAKE YOU TO THE BACK ROOM GAY VAUDEVILLE OF YESTERYEAR, A VISION OF CAVES AND PARADISES WE HAVE IMAGINED INTO REALITY. WE BRING YOU A NIGHT OF PERFORMANCES IN THE STRUGGLE AND THE SPLENDOR OF QUEERTRANSFEMINIST BODIES, A RAINBOW OF HALLUCINATED AHISTORICAL REENACTMENT. OUR FINGERS ACT DEFTLY, SLIGHT OF HAND AND SLIGHT OF WEIGHT, SHADOW GAMES, PALMISTRY AND CARPAL FEELINGS. WE PRESENT A WHOLE SORDID SMORGASBORD OF INTUITIVE MAGICAL PRACTICE:

Dewayne Slightweight’s The Kinship Structure of Ferns, a 30-minute psychedelic solo opera with projected drawings, is a hermit’s inquiry into the nature of kinship and it’s collective hope and despair.

Edie Fake rises up for The Count, vampiric gay tales from the crypt. A recounting of what his unearthly life has been below. An account of the ghost rivers that run beneath us. A 20-minute countdown of our times together until all the night candlelight is burnt. Tabulation. Reiteration. Reincarnation.

Silky Shoemaker’s Arranging the Object is a gladhanded play (with video) about the terrible weight of loving, knowing, and holding it in your arms,with inspiration drawn from late night radio, ecstatic camp, and Lily Tomlin(!)

Owen Brightman does double duty, traveling lightly with two short pieces. Sado-Magical stages bondage escapism and rope tricks the finesse into knotty suspense. If your right leg should cause you to stumble is an harlequinade of stilted vignettes and gentle balance.

Scott Tankersley delves deep in Hark the Haunted Hallways!, a 20-minute sonic excursion into the glorious, hungry catacombs of the (butt)hole.

Joined at the wrist to the musical accompaniment of Jail, Vanessa and Megan, together as Learned Helplessness, a band, twangy and morose, out of tune. Pancake makeup.

TO YOU, FROM THESE FINGERS, A GIFT:
DIVINE EXTRAVAGANCE, SCENIC OVERLOOKING, FARCE, FANTASY, FANCY FACADE, CABARETS OF DECADENCE, CABINETS OF CURIOSITY, PASTICHE, REVELRY, OASIS, MIRAGE.
METOPIA, YOUTOPIA, WETOPIA.
YOU ARE IN GOOD HANDS!

AFTERWARDS @ DANNY’S - UNLYMPICS PEACE PARTY

Sports Fans,

The Summer Unlympic Games are almost upon us—and the 2016 Games
October 2 host city decision right behind. So Monday night at Danny’s
we’re hosting a Peace Party, so we’d love for you to come out and play
some drinking games of your own while we start to plan our summer
program. (Not a bad time to send along interested sponsors for the
early August games either, so if you know any southside sopcial
justice orgs who have a stake in the host city decision and want to
work with us to highlight them, do send along!)

Summer 2009 Unlympiad Peace Party
Monday June 8, 2009
9 p.m. to 2 a.m.
Danny’s Tavern - 1951 W. Dickens

Danny’s is the official sponsor of the Summer 2009 Drinking Games.

to whet your appetite, some stills from “Live Action Role Playing Family Dinner” and “Shameless Karaoke” at the 2009 Winter Unlympiad:

The Unlympics: http://www.unlympics.wordpress.com
The Unlympics in the Sunday Style Section of the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/fashion/17games.html?_r=2&emc=eta1

Thank you everyone who made it out to see us at NFO XPO and NEXT fair. We will be posting some pictures on our Flickr and here very soon. In celebration we have a lot of new and amazing things coming into the store this month as well as some restocked items. Here’s a quick look at some of the new music we got this week.

New from Not Not Fun:
U.S. Girls “Me + Yoko” 7″

Megan Remy’s brief, brave re-imaginings of guitar/voice pop rapture done under the U.S. Girls flag, the 45 RPM 7 inch single is the absolute dream medium for transporting said sounds to the interested earhole. Short and sweet (and chemical) like a sugar rush, Me + Yoko is her latest reverb-gaze drug nugget in a string of strong singles. A Top 40 single for a universe of ghosts. Yes!

Raccoo-oo-oon 2x lp edition of 500

Mythical Beast- Scales lp edition of 500

New from Gilgongo Records
Gilgongo is one of our favorites. Formed in late 2004 in Tempe, AZ / USA, Gilgongo is a one human being operation that operates in one bedroom of a duplex house.

WOODS 7” $5
RACCOO-OO-OON 7″$5
FOOT VILLAGE - “Fuck the Future 2″ CD $10
TENT/CITY - “Stinkweeds” CD $6
FOOT VILLAGE - “Friendship Nation” LP $12
SOFT SHOULDER - 2 song 7″ $5
SHEARING PINX - “Poison Hands” CD $10
TENT CITY - “Drought” LP. $12
STEPHEN STEINBRINK (formerly French Quarter) - “Ugly Unknowns” CD. $10
ZS - “Arms” LP.$12
LITTLE WOMEN - “Teeth” LP.$11

Plus new stuff from Lazer Crystal, RXart, Magic is Kuntmaster, Thee Oh Sees (colored vinyl), Gallery Diet ( Miami), West Gallery (Den Haag), Mark Price / Space 1026, Thrill Jockey, Ryan Duggan / Drug Factory, Nihilist, Sip magazine, Seth Scriver, Mudboy, OMS/B (Portland, Or.), and a lot more. Also upcoming performances by Tiny Music, Dewayne Slightweight / Edie Fake, and Gay Beast. Can’t wait…

No Coast will be steppin out twice this month onto the Chicago art fair circuit. Next weekend we will be in Bridgeport for the NFO XPO. The following week we will be participating in the Goffo section of NEXT fair on the 7th floor of the Merchandise Mart. Here’s more info on both:

The NFO XPO, Shelter Corps, & Free University + MORE @ Version

SATURDAY APRIL 25, 2009
part of Version 09 Immodest Proposals
The NFO XPO, Shelter Corps, & Free University + MORE
The Benton House complex, 3052 S Gratten Avenue (Map)
1pm to 8pm • $7 adults / $3 Children ($10/$5 for 2 day pass)

Off a small public park in Bridgeport is a 100-year-old community center complex named the Benton House. It is there on Saturday and Sunday that Version kicks off an ambitious program that includes our annual art fair platform; the NFO XPO; a temporary structures project called Shelter Corps; The Free University; guided tours; and a guest exhibition curated by Jeriah Hildwine.

Today’s program is massive. It opens early at the The Benton House complex and Gymnasium and ends late at the Co-Prosperity Sphere. In between and during these times and places is a fantastic parallel program coordinated and presented by Material Exchange at the Experimental Station and Back Story Cafe. NFO XPO
Benton House Gymnasium

The NFO XPO (pronounced “info expo”) brings art groups and community orgs together to exchange information and ideas as well as provide a public platform for each group to present themselves. It’s a trade show for experimental art, emerging spaces, and radical exchange. It’s our version of what an art fair should be. It is a fantastic opportunity to view emerging art, to network and make shit happen.

NEXT:
The Invitational Exhibition of Emerging Art

More than an art fair, NEXT is a showcase for the world’s talents and an adventure in cutting-edge culture. An opportunity to redefine the relationship between art and its public, NEXT is a portal to seeing contemporary art in new, innovative, eye-opening ways. NEXT will include works from both commercial and non-commercial arts organizations–galleries, project spaces, art publications and key private contemporary collections from around the world.

NEXT will be located at:
The Merchandise Mart
222 Merchandise Mart Plaza, 7th Floor
Chicago, IL 60654

NEXT 2009 Opening Preview takes place Thursday, April 30

Show Hours:
Friday, May 1, 11am - 7pm
Saturday, May 2, 11am - 7pm
Sunday, May 3, 11am - 6pm
Monday, May 4, 11am - 4pm

GOFFO, a special section that debuted at NEXT 2008, will focus on multiples, editions, artist books, prints and handmade objects. GOFFO returns to NEXT 2009 with an exceptional curated selection of presses, artist collectives and small galleries. The future of emerging art is on the 7th floor of the Merchandise Mart.

This Monday No Coast Studios will be a part of Danny’s monthly Peace Party series. We will be presenting 12 months of Peace Party posters printed and designed here at No Coast by Alex Valentine. Proceeds from the bar will benefit public programming and other activities here at the space. Please come dance and listen to amazing music from DJ’s Jeff Parker, Jocelyn Brown, Naomi Walker, and Josh Abrams.
Monday, April 13 @ Danny’s
1951 W. Dickens (near corner of Damen, one block north of Armitage.)
10pm-2am FREE