Burning Karma Kabaret!

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You Black Kettle will be playing a very small set at the Chicago Zen Buddhist Temple on May 18th, located at 1710 W. Cornelia Avenue Chicago, IL 60657

We recommend buying tickets in advance as there is a limited amount available and they may sell out fast, see details below

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4:30pm – 5:30pm Buddhist Social Forum: Buddhism and Feminism. Panel presentation and discussion

6:00pm – 9:30pm Vegetarian Feast and Burning Karma Kabaret. A celebration of Earth’s beautiful vegetables and an evening of music and performance. $20 advance, $25 at the door. E-mail chicago@zenbuddhisttemple.org and they’ll call you back to arrange reservations.

Two Thirds is a Majority…

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Go to this place to see two thirds of You Black Kettle play two thirds of their songs:

Saturday, July 28, 2012 From 2:00pm until 7:00pm @ 1039 West Lake Street Chicago, IL 60622

RSVP @ thesoundofsmoke@gmail.comThe Sound Of Smoke Music Series, Vol 1

presented by TESA Cigar Co.
in part with 18th Street Brewery & Powell Brew House Presents:

This is a private event, so an RSVP is required to reserve a spot (space is limited)
…and here’s what will be in store for you

- 4 Bands
– Cigar Specials/Pairings
– Food provided by Chef Andrew Dering
– Home Brew and BYOB friendly
– All the samples your gullet can handle

TESA Cigar Co. is located at:
1039 West Lake Street Chicago, IL 60622
Which is just steps from the Morgan green Line stop
(for more info on TESA Cigar Co, click here: http://www.tesacigars.com/)

Don’t be late, music will start promptly at 2:15pm!

Band Schedule:

You Black Kettle @ 2:15 (http://www.youblackkettle.org/)
Poor Elvis @ 3:15 (http://www.poorelvis.com/)
The Brothers Goforth @ 4:15 (http://www.reverbnation.com/thebrothersgoforth)
The Jordan Years @ 5:15 (http://thejordanyears.com/)

Questions? @ powellbrewhouse@gmail.com

Busy Beaver Buttons. Make friends with buttons.

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Come out to one of our shows and we’ll give you a button. Then, you can put it on and listen to our music. When you leave the show, others will see the button and be like, “Wow. That’s a cool button. Where did you get it?”. And then you’ll be like, “You Black Kettle gave it to me because they love me… and buttons.”

Because we love you.

YBK opposes SOPA & PIPA…

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Rather than placing a blackout on our page, which quite frankly I don’t know how to do as nicely as many other sites, I’m going to list a few links you can go to and do something about it. …Okay, now we got a blackout page too.. Here’s some sites where you can petition, if you will:

Wikipedia Seems to have the best setup so far. You can go there type in you zip code and get direct access to you local representative: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Reddit hasn’t gone black yet, but I’m sure they’ll have something interesting: http://www.reddit.com/

Then there’s this site: http://americancensorship.org/ where you can do pretty much everything.

Here’s why:

SOPA and PIPA put the burden on website owners to police user-contributed material and call for the unnecessary blocking of entire sites. Small sites won’t have sufficient resources to defend themselves. Big media companies may seek to cut off funding sources for their foreign competitors, even if copyright isn’t being infringed. Foreign sites will be blacklisted, which means they won’t show up in major search engines. SOPA and PIPA build a framework for future restrictions and suppression.

In a world in which politicians regulate the Internet based on the influence of big money, Wikipedia — and sites like it — cannot survive.

Congress says it’s trying to protect the rights of copyright owners, but the “cure” that SOPA and PIPA represent is worse than the disease. SOPA and PIPA are not the answer: they will fatally damage the free and open Internet.

Thank you,
YBK