direct you lovely Myspacers to the RnR Facebook page? Whatever... be our friend/fan on Facebook! All the cool kids are doing it!

Whee! It IS happening! Break in those costumes and bring the whole family for tricks, treats, and awesome music! 

Wow. That was a long winter! But now spring is upon us, and we are ready to rock and romp with our friends again! There will be two awesome bands and fun for everyone!

May 9, 1pm to 3pm
XMC
We Were Pirates
McGinty's Public House in Downtown Silver Spring
Just $7 for adults, kids always FREE.
 
This is a special romp benefitting Spring Knolls Cooperative Early Learning Center.
 

Hope to see you there!
xo debbie
 
 

....at Craft Mutiny's 3rd Annual Holiday Booty Market!

Saturday, December 6, 2008 – 12:00pm – 6:00pm
Hilda's Gift Shop at the National City Christian Church
5 Thomas Circle, NW
Washington, DC

'Tis the season to buy handmade and at this event you can find the best of this region's handmade gifts, sold to you directly by the local artists and artisans who make them. Located just a block north of Logan Circle on 14th Street, Hilda's is easily reached by taking metro to McPherson Square or Dupont Circle, or by taking the 54 bus.

At this annual event, that DCist.com deems the "winter version of Crafty Bastards", you can peruse aisles of craft vendors (indoors!) while enjoying refreshments and music.

This year's vendors bring you a wide array of gift options at affordable prices. Featured items include cute hand-stitched coasters and placemat sets by This Chickadee , homemade soaps made with wintery ingredients like pine and wintergreen by 8th Street Soap Kitchen , and recycled leather cuffs made from vintage belts by Fisticuffs. You can also find hand-printed items by Bookish Lady and shirts and posters by Tina Seamonster and El Jefe Design . Denada Design will be showcasing some of her famous bags and 60bugs will have awesome hand-printed and -embroidered shirts and accessories for the hip little ones on your list.

Some new additions to the event include a section of the market sponsored by local boutique DEKKA that will feature local designers, a 'show and tell what you bought' station by the new craft collective, Hello Craft , and a charity gift-wrapping table with the proceeds benefiting the a local food bank program.

The Holiday Booty Market is organized by Craft Mutiny , a DC-based arts & crafts collective of established in 2006. We don't just make things. We buy handmade and think you should, too! Shopping at the malls and big box stores can be torture, especially this time of year. The mass-produced selection of goods is often lame and increasingly toxic. Get into the spirit by supporting local artists and finding one-of-a-kind, eco-friendly gifts for your friends and loved ones (yourself included!).


This event is free, open to the public and handicapped accessible

Yes! Woohoo! Yay! Are you excited yet? :)

Join us for tricks, treats and awesome music! We're extending the madness this year and partying the day AFTER Halloween, so keep that sticky costume out and let the kids dance off their sugar highs!

Saturday, November 1st, 3:30 pm to 5:30ish pm

CANDY COATED PAIN PILLS [one of the lovely Sarah Azzara's projects]
FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY

McGinty's Public House
911 Ellsworth Drive
Downtown Silver Spring

Awesome music + halloweeny crafts + balloons + goodies = FUN for the whole rockin' family!
[crafts, balloons and goodies available while supplies last! come early so you don't miss out!]

$7 for adults, kids under 12 always FREE
Adults must be accompanied by a child for admission.

Sounds fun, yes? It will be! Hope to see you there!

My introduction to Taffety Punk's awesomeness was their performance of Damaged Goods: The New Vaudeville at the Black Cat a couple of years back. The show was brilliant and funny and edgy; they call themselves "DC's distorted classical theatre company" and they ain't lyin'. Since then, I've kept in touch with founder Marcus Kyd [formerly of DC band Most Secret Method] trying to figure out a way to support the group/share their brilliance, and we've finally done it! The Taffety Punks will kick off the excellent entertainment in the Performance Pit at Crafty Bastards on September 28, hitting the stage at 10:30 am.



Explain your group's name and how you formed.

Taffety Punk is from Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well and means a "well dressed whore." Sounded like a good description of an actor to us.

What are your influences and worst equipment experiences?

We are all classically trained actors and dancers, and aging punk rockers, so the influences include everything from the Ramones to Pina Bausch.

During the Bootleg Cymbeline, we had a prepared dummie to represent the dead body of Cloten ready to go for an entrance. But the actors didn't know which door the body was at. In a pinch someone collected clothes backstage and stuffed it with anything – paper, cardboard, other clothes – and brought in possible the worst looking dead body anyone's ever seen.



What's your favorite local hangout and best stage you've played?

We started out at the Black Cat, and miss it terribly. We find ourselves at Jimmy T's on the Hill a lot for meetings and such. Best stage has definitely been Round House's Black Box Theatre in Silver Spring.

How do you feel about being a Crafty Bastard?

Fantastic.



Where can the adoring public see you next?

We're mid-run on an all-female production of Romeo and Juliet at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, 545 7th Street SE WDC 20003 (near Eastern Market Metro) Shows are 7:30 pm on September 19, 20, 22, 25, 26, 27, October 2, 3, 4 with Saturday Matinees at 3:00 pm on September 20, 27, and October 4. It's only $10. This is an answer to the Shakespeare Theatre Company's all-male version. Ours is an hour shorter, a fraction of the cost, and has 100% more women. We will totally crush them! For tickets call 202-261-6612, or email tix@taffetypunk.com.

Whee! Check it out on the Crafty Bastards blog!