Perpetual Motion Roadshow #23 April 20, 2005

The indy press tour circuit masterminded by former Adbusters managing editor Jim Munroe sees hot underground cultural producers from all over North America touring "the new shit" up and down both coasts, to a different city each night, under one central guiding mandate: NO BORING READINGS. Maybe you'll get a short film, or a sing-along, or an audience-participation dress-up. Every month's tour sees a new crop of participants circling the continent on a wish and a dream, coming direct to you to give it to you straight. All that plus a local opening act!

This month featuring at 9 pm "southern dandy scribe" TODD DILLS (Chicago, www.the2ndhand.com/), "sign language poetess" LIISA LADOUCEUR (Toronto, www.spiderrecords.com/liisa/), "slow ticking timebomb musician" RYAN KAMSTRA (Thunder Bay, www.ryankamstra.com/) and swank spoken word hipster T.PAUL STE.MARIE (Vancouver).

Tonight only, following "the '80s at 8" -- an hour of esoteric re-interpretations of the top pop hits of a quarter-century ago, nineteen-eighty.

By donation / Pay-what-you-can. Contact Rowan at 604-877-1829.