Hi everyone! We made it through Mardi Gras, and only a week later, we've gotten
> it together enough to send out our February email!
> 
> -Movie Nights
> -New Blog
> -Robbery
> -Expansion
> -Iron Rail Benefit Events
> -LP Crates
> 
> MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES
> All Movies Begin on Tuesdays at 8pm and are FREE and entertaining.
> TUESDAY FEB 12
> BUBBA HO-TEP (2003)
> Elvis Presley is an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home; seems he
> switched identities with an impersonator years before his "death" and then
> missed his chance to switch back. The King teams up with Jack, a fellow nursing
> home resident who thinks he's John F. Kennedy, and the two old codgers prepare
> to battle an evil Egyptian entity that's chosen their long-term care facility
> as its happy hunting grounds.
> TUES FEB 19
> HARLAN COUNTY, USA (1976)
> Director Barbara Kopple's film about the 1973 coal miners' strike in Harlan
> County, Ky., won a Best Documentary Oscar and was selected for the National
> Film Registry. Highlighting the struggles of families living in shacks with no
> indoor plumbing and enduring hazardous working conditions, the film details the
> conflict between the Eastover Mining Co. and the laborers determined to join
> the United Mine Workers of America.
> THUES FEB 26
> KOYAANISQATSI: Life Out of Balance (1983)
> Koyaanisqatsi, which marks Godfrey Reggio's (a New Orleanian) debut as a film
> director and producer, is the first installment of the Qatsi trilogy. The title
> is a Hopi Indian word meaning "life out of balance." Created between 1975 and
> 1982, the film is an apocalyptic vision of the collision of two different
> worlds -- urban life and technology versus the environment, with no dialog or
> plot whatsoever. Philip Glass composed the film's hypnotic musical score.
> 
> BLOG BLOG BLOG BLOG BLOG BLOG BLOG BLOG BLOG BLOG BLOG BLOG BLOG BLOG
> You can see inside the melted, irradiated brains of Iron Rail collective
> members by looking at our new blog about the store:
> http://ironrail.blogspot.com
> The Blog can also be accessed through a link on the frontpage of our website,
> www.ironrail.org
> 
> ROBBED ROBBED ROBBED ROBBED ROBBED ROBBED ROBBED ROBBED ROBBED ROBBED
> We were also recently ROBBED at night while the store was closed. It wasn't
> devastating, but it does really suck to loose money when we are running on such
> a tight budget. Does anyone want to help us out by giving us a safe or
> something? A drop box? I don't know. What do you think? Also, please let us
> know if you know who did this, and please tell people not to rob volunteer-run
> spaces dedicated to serving the community. What's wrong with people sometimes?
> Thanks!
> 
> EXPAND EXPAND EXPAND EXPAND EXPAND EXPAND EXPAND EXPAND EXPAND EXPAND
> We're working on a pretty massive expansion of the store that will almost
> double our size, give us a whole new, comfortable reading room and we will have
> a computer lab with TEN computers. We need money! And lumber! And sheet rock!
> Can anyone help out? We will also have a building party to build new the new
> room within a couple of months.
> 
> BENEFITS and EVENTS BENEFITS and EVENTS BENEFITS and EVENTS BENEFITS and EVENTS
> We're throwing a benefit on February 22nd at the Dragon's Den to help raise a
> little cash. There will be live sets from THE SILENT GAME, PARTY TIME, and
> MAGIC LEGS (Lafayette). The doors open at 5pm, the show starts at 6 or 6:30pm,
> and the music ends to make way for the Nomadic Bellydancers at 8pm! Come out
> early. Let's have some lentil soup and a falafel together for 4pm.
> MARCH EVENTS
> March 01 - BLAIR + CROCKER acoustic show, Iron Rail benefit, at the store
> March 10 - MADELINE + NANA GRIZOL (ex-NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL) acoustic Iron Rail
> benefit at the store
> March 17 - Peter Young afternoon lecture at Iron Rail ()
> March 26 - CAPTAIN CHAOS (Chris Clavin) acoustic Iron Rail benefit at the store
> 
> LP CRATES LP CRATES LP CRATES LP CRATES LP CRATES LP CRATES LP CRATES
> We need some crates or some kind of sturdy boxes to bring out the Iron Rail
> stock of vinyl to some shows. Being able to sell stuff at more shows will help
> us make up for the robbery losses, so if anyone can help out, please get in
> touch with us at nolabookcollective@hotmail.com
> 
> Bring back your overdue books PLEASE! We won't hate you, or fine you into the
> poor house, we just like getting our books back so others can enjoy them as
> well.
> 
> Thanks everyone!
> We are a radical library, bookstore, reading room and record rack serving New Orleans, Louisiana. We are an all-volunteer collective supporting radical and alternative discourse and action. This list will serve as our annoucements newsletter. Visit us at Decatur & Marigny: 511 Marigny New Orleans, LA 70117 http://www.ironrail.org http://www.myspace.com/ironrail