LeRoi Moore was injured in an ATV accident on his farm outside Charlottesville, Virginia.  LeRoi was immediately transported to the University of Virginia Health System for treatment where he remains in serious condition.

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Beginning tomorrow in Charlotte, NC, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones saxophonist, Jeff Coffin, will be sitting in with Dave Matthews Band while LeRoi recovers.

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As, always go to cvilleMUSE for your arts and music preview.

Friday

DJ ESC @ Rapture (X-Lounge, Saturday).

Wine tasting Friday afternoon - Market Street Wine Shop, Crush, Beer Run.

Friday’s After Five hosts The Johnstone Band (reggae) with Acoustic Groove Trio opening.

Saturday

Straight Punch to the Crotch CD Release Party @ Zinc.  11PM.

Summer solstice weekend starts for Club 2:16 with a performance of the famous Lady Bunny midnight cabaret.  You can even continue your weekend with a brunch at Fellini’s on Sunday and a 3PM afternoon performance at the Tea Bazaar.

Belmont Block Party! - Not sure if this one is open or not, but Mardi Graves will have its five year anniversary starting at 6ish.

What did we miss?

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Inspired by parlie’s curmudgeonly diss on the current iPhone buzz, I decided to compile this list of “things that used to be cool in cville but are no longer because too many people do them.” Please, discuss, argue, and add your own 5 cents in the comments! (Why 5 cents instead of just 2? Because we live in Charlottesville. Even our opinions are overpriced!)

So here’s my take on a bunch of things that matter almost as much as my opinion about them! </toungecheek>

#10. Pretending not to care what people think of you - The only thing less painful than being judged by how you look and what you do is being judged for how you don’t look and what you don’t do. Too many folks wearing Birkenstocks? Get yourself some Crocs. That’ll show ‘em. Is everyone listening to that new band on the radio? Go find some “indy” group to proclaim as your FAVORITE. And OMFG people are getting excited about a new product from a popular electronics company? You better not get sucked in, or it will just look like you’re following the crowd! You don’t want to do stuff that other people do, do you?

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Yay for Friday! What a week! We told you how to donate some organs, a fire broke out, echo died, while finding new iphones we met some newbies, we discussed some teaching woes, and apparently here and there some of us worked at our places of employment.

No more work. Time to play! Get your red panties on, sit out in the sun, call your neighbors to come play, and have yourself a firecrotch:

Check out Art/Music over at MUSE.

Fridays After Five-Tonight!

All American Bluegrass Jam-Thursday, Friday. Saturday in Orange

First Colony Winery Pig Roast-Saturday a 11:00 a.m. in celebration of Dad. Jimmy O will be playing.

The Moses, Raquellos, The Vamanos-These bands will be tearing it up at Saxx Lounge on Saturday. Doors at 8pm/Music 9pm - $5 (this is my last music steal from MUSE-promise)

Here are links to the band pages:

The Moses Band
Raquellos
The Vamanos

Eighties Prom Party-Saturday Night beginning at 8:00 p.m.

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The weather is getting warmer, and this weekend is hotter. This should keep you busy this weekend:

• Fridays After Five: The Charlottesville Funk All Stars open for the Lee Boys performance at 5:30PM . From their website “The Lee Boys are one of America’s finest African-American sacred steel ensembles. This family group consists of three brothers, Alvin Lee (guitar), Derrick Lee and Keith Lee (vocals) along with their three nephews, Roosevelt Collier (pedal steel guitar), Alvin Cordy Jr. (7-string bass) and Earl Walker (drums). Each member began making music at the ages of 7 and 8 in the House of God church they attended in Perrine, FL. Here they underwent a rigorous course of training in a variety of musical instruments, including lap and pedal steel guitars. Born and raised in Miami, each of The Lee Boys grew up in the church where their father and grandfather, Rev. Robert E. Lee, was the pastor and a steel player himself.” They are also playing at the Outback Lodge at 10PM for $10.
• Sex And The City Party: For all of you wannabe New-yorkers still living in cville, you can almost live vicariously through the show’s best music at 216 on Friday night.
• Sex And The City Movie Premiere: This movie is only playing in one theater in all of Cville, Carmike 6 on Garden Blvd. You can watch this all weekend at 1:00, 1:30, 4:00, 7:00, 7:30, 10:00, 10:30. The Girl’s Night Out is organizing a move night for all you women out there.
• Bent Theatre Comedy Group: Performing in Lovingston, VA, at Rapunzel’s Coffee and Books from 8pm-10pm on Friday night.
• String of Pearls: Live Art’s new performance opens tonight at 8PM. Buy tickets here for $12 -$14. Catch the next show on Saturday night at 8PM as well
• Farmer’s Market: Saturday from 7AM-12PM you can catch the freshest produce, meat and poultry this side of the Mason Dixon.
• Crabtree Falls Hike: a moderate hike with 7 people attending so far
• Handgun Shooting: Saturday 2PM at Rivanna Rifle and Pistol Club. This will come in handy when you run for President and claim that you were born with an NRA license in your mouth.

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A couple of friends of mine will be setting the mood at Cassis tonight. Here’s their blurb:

Jerome and the Thunder Progeny are reviving the sound of Motown tonight (Thursday) at 9:30 at Cassis. No Cover! As always, we’ll be playing Motown and Afro Pop, but NEW this week, will be the sounds of the 80s and 90s, the ones that we all loved growing up.

Definitely swing by and check it out.

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From a little birdie:

Hi all! I’m sure by now we’ve all heard about Plan 9 closing, I just
wanted to give everyone a heads up that their closing sale has
started, so it’s a good time to take advantage of that and show them
some love. Everything in the store is 20% off now through Friday,
and this Saturday only, it’s 30% off all new items, and 50% off all
used items–they’ll be open until Midnight, and if you spend $25.00
or more, you get a ticket to Satellite Ballroom’s last show for
$5.00! It’s a little sad to see these two staples go, so if you have
a chance to get over there this week I know both Satellite and Plan 9
would appreciate it!

For a list of this week’s shows: visit the Satellite Ballroom

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I jacked the weekend preview to get revenge on Thor for stealing my Washington Post story. What’s the line? The Early bird gets the worm? Uck worms…which are certain to be out in full force after all this rain. Unfortunately, according to the weather forecast, this is not the last of it. Today is supposed to be rain with thunder and lightning (geee, thanks Thor). Tomorrow is calling for partly sunny with some rain. Sunday calls for rain, rain, and more rain. Don’t let the weather keep you in (unless there are tornado warnings, in which case only weather women should be out)…put on your red panties and check out some of what is lined up for the weekend:

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1.  They are giving away 2 free box seats and free parking for the Sons of Bill/Gary Allan/James Otto show on Thursday.

2.  Shaun broke the Modest Mouse show a full 10 days before it reached the other local publications.   They are playing on June 29th, in case anyone was wondering.

3.   They have a new cvilleMUSE category.. coming soon… LITERATURE.

4.  They are launching a calendar.. yummy.  It is going to rock the Charlottesville music, arts and entertainment world later this week (well, maybe not that cool).  Oh, and you know that really difficult to navigate format?  They’ve solved that.  Oh, and you know that really difficult to get updated events into your calendar? They’ve solved that too.

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This weekend is going to rock the shazbot… why?

Music

Um, I can never beat Shaun to the punch.  You are going to miss a lot of sweet stuff if you don’t read his preview over at cvilleMUSE.  How do you like these apples? Van Halen (please don’t be canceled), Ryan Shaw, Birdlips and Friday’s After Five (with Eli Cook).

First Friday’s 

How could you overlook Pinkie’s amazing preview on cvilleMUSE. She covers every single venue and every single artist, with links to boot!  Apparently, there will be MUSE special ops walking around handing out business cards.  Try to find them and tell them Thor sent you.

Off the Cusp

If MUSE always kicks my butt on real events at least I can find stuff off the beaten track. If you are a techno-mac-loving-uber-nerd, you should go to BeCamp, which is a part communist, part hippy part electronic festival of computers and crazy ideas like “FOAF,” “Grails,” “Parallel Computing,” “Selenium -web tier testing” and a bunch of other things that scare me.

Enjoy your weekends! What did we miss? 

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