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Sundown Lounge is a laid back (and often explicit) weekly podzine of music, spoken word, progressive politics, weird science, and occasional vignettes from the west coast open mic scene, etc.
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Sundown Lounge #205

2 hours 29 min ago
"Arrest Karl Rove!" - MinnesotaChange, "A Man for Our Times" - The Heavenly States; Geeknotes: Saint Patty Day Poetry Cram, Bloodlines - Tales From The African Diaspora, Finishing the Book - This Month...; Open Mic Stage: "Consumer Whore" - Team Smile and Nod, "Michael Moore on Karl Rove" - Liberal Viewer, "The Biggest Asshole In the World" - Cartographer, "The Moon Represents my Heart" - Emar, "My Voice Is Gone" - Tom Howie, "Zeit Heilt" - sect23/Vanessa Devinie, "Stay" - burjcris, "Forget the Naughts" - Rival Dickens, "EVIL HEAD" - Hell Fire Club; Map Room: Tata Nano EV – World’s Cheapest Electric Car, Forget Fingerprints – Supersleuths Develops Software to Analyze the Nose, Physicist Discovers How to Teleport Energy, ‘Brain Washing’ Technique Could Reduce Disability In Newborn Babies; Venue Verite: The Young Turks Check Out What Karl Rove Did To Don Siegelman, "Don’t Praise the Machine" - We’re Gonna Fight the Eskimos Next; "Yves Klein Blue" - Acrilic Colors

Sundown Lounge #204

Fri, 03/05/2010 - 07:45
"Prarie Venus in Chicago" - Effie Mihopoulos; Geeknotes: Band Pluggers, Effie's Life Celebrations; Open Mic Stage: "Daylight" - Carey Ott, "Trip to Phrygia" - A n a k a t a, "Pass It Around" - Treologic, "Garden" - Richard Fox, "Echo of the Night" - Alex Papadiamantis, "Smiles That Go Ding" - Charly "The City Mouse" Fasano, "No Compromise (Remix1)" - Clip, "The Chill of Night" - Reflection. "The Bell" - Byrock; Map Room: Pesticide Turns Male Frogs into Females, An Unintended Consequence of Mass Layoffs: Fewer Boys Being Born, NASA Project M Could Put Humanoids on the Moon in 1000 Days, ‘Smart Salad Dressing’ Could Keep Venice from Sinking; Venue Verite: James Mesple and Effie Mihopoulos-Words and Pictures; Music Bed: Ambient sounds from Emmanuel Liossis, AKA Grammophone

Sundown Lounge #203

Fri, 02/26/2010 - 06:35
"Fed Up" - Unspoken; Geeknotes: Chicago Poetry Items, Read An Ebook Week, Whispers In The Dark; Open Mic Stage: "Scar" - Team Smile and Nod, "Aldo Kapi" - Okapi, "Diary Of A Madman 1" - Disjecta Membra, "Stigmata" - Omega Lithium, "Erdelezi" - EMAR, "Didji Call" - Dov, "Vaccination Nation" - Guitorb, "Ships With Holes Will Sink" - We Were Promised Jetpacks; Map Room: United Nations Identifies e-waste as an Urgent And Growing Problem, Chronic Health Problems in Children Have Doubled in 12 Years, EDUIT Announces $50 Million eSingularity Prize for Global Education, Cloning Neanderthals; Venue Verite: "Malcom X" - Jay Denton; Music Bed: "Auxiliary Tracks" - Url

Sundown Lounge #202

Fri, 02/19/2010 - 08:25
"Yakiimo" - Simone White; Geeknotes: Lucille Clifton, Sunset Boulevard Lit Crawl; Open Mic Stage: "Scribbledown" - Zach Madden, "Blind" - Lucid Fly, "when your a stranger" - Mandrake,"Raised by wolves" - Gary Carpenter, "Poem" - Nommesen, "New Waltz" - Remido, "Brave New World" - Ariel S. Lee, "Sons and Daughters of War" - Your Horrible Smile, "Undercarriage" - Drist; Map Room: Scientists Fear Lightning Deaths Will Increase Due to Global Warming, Hubless Zigzain Bicycle Concept Powered by Simple Driveshaft, Baking Garden Rhubarb Dramatically Increases Anti-Cancer Chemicals; Venue Verite: "The Beginning" - Seth Leonard; Music Bed: "37 Ways" - Polaski

Sundown Lounge #201

Fri, 02/12/2010 - 22:55
"Black Rook" - Manko Eponymous; Geeknotes: Black Comic Book Day, Festival of Writing; Open Mic Stage: "Black Sheep" - The Doughboys, "Fly King Funky" - Black Velvet Elvis, "All On Black" - Alkaline Trio, "Black Leather" - The Hartes, "Black Satin" - All India Radio, "Heart So Black" - Rex Rambler, "Black Tuesday" - warrenpeace, "Black Metal Case" - The Twilight Showdown, "Black Sea" - The Ax; Map Room: Bioactive Nanomaterial Promotes Growth of New Cartilage, UN To Discuss International Air Traffic Control For Outer Space, Your Baby’s DNA Is Being Stored In A Government Lab, 1 in 5 Have Inherited the ‘Unfitness Gene’; Venue Verite: "Black Stacey" - Saul Williams; Music Bed: "Black Blood" - Travesties and Transgressions, "Fire Night" - Black Adam, "Black Coffee" - Ibrahim Reevy

Sundown Lounge #200

Fri, 02/05/2010 - 17:41
Drew Brees in the Huddle, "Remind Me Who I'm Talking To" - Laolga; Geeknotes: New Guide from CD Baby, 2010 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award; Open Mic Stage: "Ya Ya" - Buckwheat Zydeco, "Bad Mouth" - Rockin' Jake Band, "Highland Road" - Section 8 (USA), "Brandi" - Le Poisson Rouge, "I am Deep" - Watyr, "Demon" - Jeremiah's Kind, "Mechanical Heart" - The Mechanical Heart, "Everything You Do is Enough" - TASCO; Map Room: Forests Are Growing Faster, Spray-On Liquid Glass Can Protect Almost Any Surface From Damage, Tobacco Plants Used To Grow Cheap Biodegradable Solar Cells, 2010 Tapping World Summit; Venue Verite: Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong - Farewell to Storyville; Music Bed: Mardi Gras Music

Sundown Lounge #199

Fri, 01/29/2010 - 08:20
"Partialy Perfect Pretenders," "Overdosile f" - Pilgrim Speakeasy, "Zebra" - Bone Gunn; Geeknotes: Chicago Poetry Items, MUSIC Domain name, Quinta Do Agrinho; Open Mic Stage: "Faked It" - Ten Year Vamp, "Dance In The Middle" - Rusted Root, "Rauðilækur" - Mammút, "Paris to Cuba" - Mario Grigorov, "Voce Me Da" - Clarisse Albrecht, "Fantasy (Dont Wait Animate Remix)" - The XX, "Dolls House" - Matt Stevens, "Love Divine" - Astronauts Of Antiquity; Map Room: Evidence of the Afterlife, The Puffin: A Personal Aircraft, Venus Flytrap for Nuclear Waste; Venue Verite: "Alazka - America" - Alazka, "Chicago Walk" - Charly "the city mouse" Fasano; Music Bed: "The Blue Enigma" - Coax

Sundown Lounge #198

Fri, 01/22/2010 - 08:32
"Catually" - The Jackass-Penguin Show; Geeknotes: Chicago Poetry Items, Whispers Radio New Community Site, Black Science Fiction Society Items; Open Mic Stage: "Moths" - Sect23, "Alone" - I Am Not Lefthanded, "Oh Well 2.0" - Arms Up, "Teenage Drag Queen" - The Erotics, "Wedding" - Vulture Club, "Alison Eastwood" - ted stevens, "Vicarious" - Ed Drury, Colors of Air - Ichiro Nakagawa, "Pine Box Rottin" - Crankshaft, Make My Day" - Autopilot Club, "The Lie" - Police Bastard; Map Room: The Future of Work, Dell Froot Concept Design Does Away with Keyboard, Monitor, Haiti Earthquake Relief – Solar Panels To Help Light The Night, Solution for Haiti – HydroWell Village – Produces Clean Water From Virtually Any Water Source; Venue Verite: Haiti's history of hardship; Music Bed: "Fourth Quadrant of the Mandala" - Abyssal Plains

Sundown Lounge #197

Fri, 01/15/2010 - 07:25
"Lovers Bleed (Internally)" - Like Clockwork; Geeknotes: Act on CO2 Anthology, Band Pluggers, 2010 Indie Bible Music Directory, Chicago Poetry Events, Jacqui Naylor Benefit for San Francisco Domestic Violence Consortium; Open Mic Stage: "Bound" - VETTE, "Say What You Will" - Chance, "Turn Around" - Meghan Toohey, "I Will Love You" - Fisher, "Love Survives" - Lovespirals, "Everyone Lies" - The Bragging Lads, "Ghetto Rock" - Detroit Mutant Radio, "Tsunami" - we should run; Map Room: Anti-Alzheimer’s Milkshake Boosts Memory, Our Brains Have a Distorted Concept of Time, The Transparent House, ‘Swelling Glass’ can pick and choose pollutants from water; Venue Verite: "for Jeff Buckley" - Lizzie Wann, "Helen" - Jeanne Spicuzza, "I'll Stop Calling You Niggers" - Watts Prophets; Music Bed: "Hanging Masses" - Cell