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  • From: DJ Golf <djgolf AT mindspring.com>
  • To: ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: The *real* end of an era
  • Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:31:18 -0800 (PST)

Saber the moment while you can.

On Feb 20, 10:09=A0am, dvmurr... AT nc.rr.com (Duncan Murrell) wrote:
> Foiled again!
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> d
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> You get what you epee for.
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> On Feb 20, 2008, at 9:29 AM, James Hepler wrote:
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> > Finally a place to parry!
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> > On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 7:56 AM, grady <gr... AT ibiblio.org> wrote:
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> >> For a brief period after I moved here, the best place to see shows in
> >> Durham was a weird narrow downstairs room (with the stage on the long
> >> side) called Under the Street. No, I wasn't there for the fabled =A0
> >> Sun Ra
> >> show, but I saw a lot of the Triangle's bright lights there.
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> >> Needless to say, Durham being Durham, UTS closed just as the =A0
> >> early-90s
> >> "next Seattle" hypestorm was peaking.
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> >> Cut forward a few years (to ~2002), and for a time the space =A0
> >> experienced
> >> a renaissance as Bully's Basement/The Basement. It was probably most
> >> notorious (among women, anyway) as the bar where they'd connected the
> >> hot-water line to the toilet, but it also anchored the emergence of =A0=

> >> the
> >> newly-visible (always present, but often more underground) Durham =A0
> >> Scene
> >> (whatever that is). Saw a bunch of great Sames shows there, an =A0
> >> amazing
> >> show by the pre-Wigg Report band Rosa Begosa, one of the few Triangle
> >> appearances of Asheville's Piedmont Charisma, etc.
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> >> So of course it had to die after a year or two (this still being =A0
> >> Durham).
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> >> Today I learned via blog that following a long fallow period, the =A0
> >> room
> >> is now the MidSouth Fencer's Club:
> >>http://archerpelican.typepad.com/tap/2008/02/mid-south-fence.html
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> >>http://midsouthfencersclub.org/
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> >> (Fencing being that thing you do in the white suits and the mesh
> >> face-masks and the long skinny sword-like things)
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> >> Which is actually probably an excellent use for such a long skinny =A0
> >> room.
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