06:30 PM : The Back Room @ Podkrepa Hall

Party (Launch/B-Day/Etc.) Flyered by kmikeym

On Monday, July 16, the back room closes this season with a big book launch. We've just published a 500-page anthology that collects all the original essays and art work commissioned by the back room over the last two years and adds a little more from other back room guests. It's published by Clear Cut Press (and designed by Tae Won Yu, who designs all the Clear Cut books).

The launch party is at Podkrepa Hall, 2116 North Killingsworth, 6:30 pm and on. Curtis Knapp and Marriage Records will showcase live music all night (he's got a Marriage compilation that he's launching that week, and might have for sale at the party) there will be a "back room open mic," at which anyone in the room can interview anyone else for five minutes; great food and drink, plus the book. Admission is $8, or free if you buy a book ($15).

One other note: the book is dedicated as follows: "This book is dedicated to all the investors in ripe—those who invested money and those who invested their time and skills, often at considerable cost—in the hope that they will get to enjoy some of the tremendous cultural capital (still growing) that their investment set in motion."

So, anyone who ever worked at ripe, or invested their money in it, gets a free copy of the anthology, and free admission to the party.