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A joint Placebo and Set the Stage production!

• Don the Reader
• Athens
• Black Sheep Wall
• TBA

When: Sunday, June 29. Doors at 5:30pm, sound off at 10pm sharp!
Where: The Ink People, 411 12th St, Eureka

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This intense metal show is a benefit to help pay McKinleyville show-goer Stuart Christopher’s medical bills.

• Antarctica
• Emilia’s Rose
• Tidal Decay
• Unmask

When: 5:30 pm, Friday May 30, 3008
Where: The Ink People, 411 12th St in Eureka (next to the Muni)
Cost: $5, annual membership is always required and can be purchased at the door for 2 bucks

All Placebo shows are ALL AGES and Drug and Alcohol Free

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• Fleas and Lice (netherlands) Crusty Hardcore Punk
• Mouth Sewn Shut (boston) Hardcore Punk / Reggae — with members of Toxic Narcotic
• Inhaste (seattle) — thrashy, heavy, brutalizing hardcore

When: Tuesday, May 13th, doors at 6:30pm
Where: The Ink People, 411 12th St
Cost: $7.00 (annual membership always required and available at the door)

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This will be an informal conversation for local activists and other interested people.

When: 5:30pm, Friday May 9th
Where: The Ink People, 411 12th St, next to the Eureka Muni
Cost: Donations are appreciated

About the speaker: Andrew Flood is an active anarchist organizer and writer, with twenty years experience in Ireland, most of that time as a member of the Workers Solidarity Movement. More recently, he has been become a member of NEFAC and is a founder member of Common Cause, Ontario.

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• The Martyr Index (calgary) - Politically-aware Canadian Rock They have a violin! But you could tell that from the album cover, right?
• Social Concern (chico) - Distillers meets Bad religion, meets the Ramones, meets your daddy! they were snowed-in last time, but come May the passes will be clear
• The Fortyhands - all polished up from playing Punk Prom

When: Wednesday, May 7. Doors at 6:30 / amps off at 10pm
Where: The Ink People 411 12th St, Eureka
Cost: $5, annual membership is required! Get one at the door for 2 bucks if you don’t have yours.

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This is where the shows get made. You don’t have to talk if you don’t want to, but come by and check it out. It’s free and everybody is welcome!

When: 5:30 pm, Sunday May 4th
Where: The Ink People, 411 12th St (ring the bell if the door is locked)

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Big thanks to everyone who came out for Punk Prom 2008. We’d like to especially thank all our volunteers: without you, the show(s) could not go on!

If you got your prom photo taken, you can see it at the
Invasion of the PromBots gallery.

Courtney and Gary of the Monster Women

And don’t forget to support those awesome Prom bands:

* Blancatron * The Fortyhands * The Monster Women * La Plebe * The Psycho Nubs * The Social Ills

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It’s PUNK PROM!
In alphabetical order:

• Blancatron/FemiNasti Productions - DJ Extraordinaire
• The Fortyhands Brand Spanking New, local punk
• The Monster Women Hip shakin’ electro girl group pop
• La Plebe (sf) Bilingual punk with horns n’ vomit - note: I’ve seen the horns but if there was vomit, they were awfully discreet about it
• The Psycho Nubs (indiana/nevada) - garage punk with a silly sense of humor
• The Social Ills - Straight-up Hardcore Punk

Costume Contest! Door Prizes! General Silliness!

When: Friday, April 25th, 7pm-midnight
Where: Bayside Grange, just outside of Arcata [map]
Cost: $5 if in costume (robot and/or prom drag) / $7 if you are boring. Two-buck annual membership always required

Leave yer Drugs/Alcohol at home

When we say ALL AGES we mean it: Everybody Welcome!

Thank you to all the local businesses and organizations who have generously provided prizes, including:

• Booklegger
• The Coffee Break
• DUHC
• Fabric Temptations
• Figueiredos Video Movies
• The Ink People
• NorthCoast RolePlaying
• Northtown Books
• Smug’s Pizza
• Sushi A Go Go
• Wildwood Music
• The Works

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Sunday, April 20th, 5:30 pm
Jacoby Storehouse off the Arcata Plaza

Everybody Welcome

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Confirmed Events for April and May. Details are on the calendar, as we get them

• April 20th: Volunteers Meeting, Arcata, 5:30 @ the Jacoby Storehouse
• April 25: PUNK PROM, 7pm @ the Bayside Grange
• May 4th: Volunteers Meeting, Eureka, 5:30 @ The Ink People
• May 7th: Martyr Index, Social Concern, The Fortyhands, and TBA
• May 9th: Discussion with Irish anarchist Andrew Flood, 5:30 @ The Ink People
• May 13th: Fleas & Lice, Mouth Sewn Shut, Inhaste, 6:30 @ The Ink People
• POSTPONED May 24th: CopWatch benefit w. Kill the Switch and more, 6:30 at The Ink People
• May 30th: Benefit for Stuart Christopher w. Antarctia, Emilia’s Rose, Tidal Decay and Unmask

MORE TO COME

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At the Ink People, 5:30 pm. Ring the bell if you get there later and someone will be down to let you in.

This meeting will focus on Punk Prom and our shows in May and June, including Punk BBQ.

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Review by Jasmine Loucks

Finding the Open Road by Mike Marriner, Brian McAllister, and Nathan Gebhard [ISBN: 1580087213]

As I can personally testify to, coming of age these days can sometimes feel like a struggle between your dreams and the shared dreams that your parents have for you. For the first 18 years of life (and on into college for many people) we’re stuck in a rigid system designed to send us on the “road to success,” but it can often feel like we’re not the one driving. In what can often feel like mere moments we’re off to college studying for a career picked for us by parents, teachers, or others, but not ourselves. This is where Finding the Open Road begins: three friends who felt like they were moving too fast to a life they weren’t sure if they really wanted.

Mike Marriner, Brian McAllister, and Nathan Gebhard were seniors in college who felt like they had been taken out of the driver’s seat. To rediscover where they might be headed they decided to ask people of different professions how they got where they were. The friends planned a road-trip across the country to ask questions like “How do you find a career that you love?”, “How did successful people get where they are today?”, and “How can you shut out the noise of what other people want you to be?”. They took a summer off and set up interviews with people of all sorts of careers from CEOs to lobster fishermen. What they found would change their lives, and give birth to Roadtrip Nation, which would in turn begin to change the lives of many other young people.

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A night of excellent female-fronted local rock

• Steel Toed Slippers — danceable funk-rock
• This Dying Wish — post-punk rock
• Kill the Switch — feminist punk
• Palo Verde (portland) — metal improv

When: Saturday, March 22nd, doors at 6:30, amps off at 10pm
Where: The Ink People, 411 12th St, Eureka (next to the Muni)
Cost: $5 (annual membership required)

Placebo shows are always ALL AGES and DRUG AND ALCOHOL FREE

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Attn all Bots!

Every Wednesday from March 19th to April 23rd (2 days before the Invasion of the PromBots begins!) we’re going to be meeting at The Ink People to plan the goofy details of this year’s Punk Prom. We’ll also be making t-shirts, decorations, banners and, possibly, a prombot or two. Drop on by.

When: Wednesdays, 3:30-7:30pm
Where: The Ink People, 411 12th St, next to the Eureka Muni

Everybody Welcome

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Agender:

• how our recent shows went down
• getting more people to help out after the show
• location brainstorming
• PUNK PROM - April 25th at the Bayside Grange
• upcoming shows in May and beyond
• How-to-do-sound workshop
• whatever you want to talk about

When: 5:30pm, Sunday March 16
Where: The Jacoby Storehouse, off the Arcata Plaza

Everybody Welcome - It’s Your Scene, Take Care Of It

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Four female-fronted and all-female bands

All Ages, Of Course

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You like those METAL shows, don’t ya?

• Slaughterbox (red bluff)
• Antarctica
• Noctocide
• Emilia’s Rose

When: Friday, March 7th. Doors at 6:30, amps off at 10pm
Where: The Ink People, 411 12th St, next to the Eureka Muni
Cost: $5 (two dollar annual membership is required)

All Placebo shows are ALL-AGES and DRUG AND ALCOHOL FREE
~~ breaking the rulez gets venues shut down ~~

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Volunteers’ Meeting

It’s the first Sunday of the month, so we’ll be meeting in Eureka.

Psst: If you want to book a show you must come to a meeting; no exceptions.

When: Sunday, March 2nd 5:30pm
Where: The Ink People Come to 47W 3rd [map] for this one since we’ll already be in the neighborhood.

Everybody is Welcome

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Yes, it’s a glamorous job, but someone has to do it:

The Placebo is moving just a few yards down the alley between 3rd and 4th but we have heavy gear and more than a few boxes so the more people help out, the better. We will feed you if you show up and work!

Where: 47 W 3rd, Eureka [map]
When: 2pm, Sunday March 2nd

Stick around for the Volunteers’ meeting directly afterwards and help plan the shows for April and beyond.