From Tom_Roche at pobox.com Wed Aug 4 15:51:27 2010 From: Tom_Roche at pobox.com (Tom Roche) Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:51:27 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] resources for converting shell scripts to python? Message-ID: <874ofacwps.fsf@pobox.com> Apologies if I've previously asked this, but: I'd appreciate pointers to tutorials, howtos, etc that folks have found useful for migrating shell scripts (esp bash, esp those that heavily use coreutils, awk, grep, sed) to python. TIA, Tom Roche From josh_johnson at unc.edu Wed Aug 4 18:08:43 2010 From: josh_johnson at unc.edu (Josh Johnson) Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 12:08:43 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] resources for converting shell scripts to python? In-Reply-To: <874ofacwps.fsf@pobox.com> References: <874ofacwps.fsf@pobox.com> Message-ID: <000601cb33ef$4fd4d660$ef7e8320$@edu> The subprocess module will help a lot. Beyond that I think you may want to try to find some shell scripts and command line utils written in python. Last year I wrote an article on my blog about writing LSB-compliant start up scripts (e.g. /etc/rc.d/blah restart style, or service blah restart via chkconfig in redhat variants), that may be helpful but might be somewhat out of scope for what you're doing. http://lionfacelemonface.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/python-init-scripts/ Let us know if you find anything else useful... JJ -----Original Message----- From: trizpug-bounces+josh_johnson=unc.edu at python.org [mailto:trizpug-bounces+josh_johnson=unc.edu at python.org] On Behalf Of Tom Roche Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 9:51 AM To: trizpug at python.org Subject: [TriZPUG] resources for converting shell scripts to python? Apologies if I've previously asked this, but: I'd appreciate pointers to tutorials, howtos, etc that folks have found useful for migrating shell scripts (esp bash, esp those that heavily use coreutils, awk, grep, sed) to python. TIA, Tom Roche _______________________________________________ TriZPUG mailing list TriZPUG at python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug http://trizpug.org is the Triangle Zope and Python Users Group From cbc at unc.edu Tue Aug 24 20:28:53 2010 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:28:53 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] The not-a-meeting meeting this Thursday Message-ID: <4C740F65.3020400@unc.edu> This Thursday is the 4th Thursday of the month. And I haven't seen anybody from Raleigh call shotgun on having a meeting. So I'm just saying, if you want, I'll be at Milltown (in Carrboro) at 7pm on Thursday. Heck, I may even be there by 6pm. Who knows? If you want to come by, I'll be there awhile. If you want to talk about Python, I'll be there awhile. If you want to talk about how doggone good the beer at Milltown is, I'll be there awhile. If you want to just stare off into space while listening to the bartender's awesome taste in tuneage, I'll be there awhile doing the same. I've been out of commission for a few months. So I'd be glad to see anybody who drops by. If I don't recognize you right away, don't take it personally. There's a reason. I can't see too damn good anymore. I won't be arranging any speakers. I won't be giving any lightning talks. There won't be a laptop projector. (Although there is free Wifi at Milltown). But I did write some Python somehow this week. And I'll be checking to make sure that Gulden Draak is still a good substitute for St. Bernardus. -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway office: 332 Chapman Hall phone: (919) 599-3530 mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 From FDimauro at unch.unc.edu Wed Aug 25 14:02:00 2010 From: FDimauro at unch.unc.edu (Dimauro, Frank) Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:02:00 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] milltown thursday References: Message-ID: +1 Frank DiMauro -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The function being called is in the same module and has an explicit parameter signature. With doctests. And passes pep8 and pyflakes. Please discuss amongst yourselves for my edification. -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway office: 332 Chapman Hall phone: (919) 599-3530 mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 From chris at archimedeanco.com Wed Aug 25 21:43:13 2010 From: chris at archimedeanco.com (Chris Rossi) Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:43:13 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] pylint magic In-Reply-To: <4C756FF0.9030302@unc.edu> References: <4C756FF0.9030302@unc.edu> Message-ID: Screw pylint, man. Passing in star args is not "magic". Chris On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Chris Calloway wrote: > I have some code, a function invocation, which looks like: > > expand(*_config) > > pylint flags that statement with the message: > > "Used * or ** magic" > > Is using tuple or dict expansion in a function argument really considered > "magic" in a community sense? > > Is this a PEP violation which got by me? Or just a pylint bias? > > To me, the statement is just Pythonic elegance. If I already have a tuple > appropriately ordered to match a function's parameter signature, why would I > want to go through tuple unpacking into a bunch of new identifiers just to > satisfy some overreaching meta-explicitness. This seems to me like a > hobgoblin of little minds rather than enhanced readability. > > What am I blind to here? The function being called is in the same module > and has an explicit parameter signature. With doctests. And passes pep8 and > pyflakes. > > Please discuss amongst yourselves for my edification. > > -- > Sincerely, > > Chris Calloway > office: 332 Chapman Hall phone: (919) 599-3530 > mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 > _______________________________________________ > TriZPUG mailing list > TriZPUG at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug > http://trizpug.org is the Triangle Zope and Python Users Group > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brad.crittenden at gmail.com Wed Aug 25 21:45:04 2010 From: brad.crittenden at gmail.com (Bradley A. Crittenden) Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:45:04 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] pylint magic In-Reply-To: <4C756FF0.9030302@unc.edu> References: <4C756FF0.9030302@unc.edu> Message-ID: <39FAA8DF-6567-45AA-B280-0239DF2569B1@gmail.com> On Aug 25, 2010, at 15:33 , Chris Calloway wrote: > I have some code, a function invocation, which looks like: > > expand(*_config) > > pylint flags that statement with the message: > > "Used * or ** magic" > > Is using tuple or dict expansion in a function argument really considered "magic" in a community sense? > > Is this a PEP violation which got by me? Or just a pylint bias? I found this description: """ W0142: Used * or * magic* Used when a function or method is called using *args or **kwargs to dispatch arguments. This doesn't improve readility and should be used with care. """ If it bugs you add a disable-msg. # pylint: disable-msg=W0142 From cbc at unc.edu Wed Aug 25 23:26:41 2010 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:26:41 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] pylint magic In-Reply-To: <39FAA8DF-6567-45AA-B280-0239DF2569B1@gmail.com> References: <4C756FF0.9030302@unc.edu> <39FAA8DF-6567-45AA-B280-0239DF2569B1@gmail.com> Message-ID: <4C758A91.3010007@unc.edu> On 8/25/2010 3:45 PM, Bradley A. Crittenden wrote: > """ > W0142: Used * or * magic* > Used when a function or method is called using *args or **kwargs to > dispatch arguments. This doesn't improve readility and should be used > with care. > """ If this were a thread about politics, I might be tempted to snark something like: "You know who else didn't improve readability, don't you?" -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway office: 332 Chapman Hall phone: (919) 599-3530 mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 From tobias at caktusgroup.com Fri Aug 27 00:52:17 2010 From: tobias at caktusgroup.com (Tobias McNulty) Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:52:17 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] DjangoCon 2010 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi all, It may be a little late, but DjangoCon is just around the corner and I encourage you all to check it out: Http://djangocon.us Registration is waitlist-only at this point, but if you do happen to get in, the discount code "caktus2010" will get the next 2 people to use it 20% off the registration fees. Drop me an email offlist if you're interested in going and don't have a ticket yet. Hope to see you there! Tobias Sent from my mobile device -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chris at archimedeanco.com Tue Aug 31 15:38:33 2010 From: chris at archimedeanco.com (Chris Rossi) Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:38:33 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] Fwd: New Nightlight Hours! Plus, Binary Marketing Show / Old Time Jam / 919 Noise / Peter Pendergrass / DJ Steph Russ / Crooked Cabaret In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: The nightlight is now opening at 5pm with coffee and free wifi. They say they're open to meetings, so maybe we could try a TriZPUG there sometime, if we have trouble finding a venue some month. Chris ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: NIGHTLIGHT Date: Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:16 AM Subject: New Nightlight Hours! Plus, Binary Marketing Show / Old Time Jam / 919 Noise / Peter Pendergrass / DJ Steph Russ / Crooked Cabaret To: cr at spacelabstudio.com Whooh! We have had a whirlwind of activity at the Nightlight these days.. We are sad to say goodbye to this year's incarnation of Sunsations (the outer banks beach scene) at Nightlight.. We do have a NEW art show opening this Friday with local artist, Peter Pendergrass showcasing his recent art with DJ's Steph Russ, Breniecia Reuben and Ben Pittard to get the party started! Also, starting tomorrow, *WEDNESDAY, September 1st,* Nightlight will be open Monday through Saturday starting at* 5pm.* . Join us for the opening party tomorrow with an open Old-time Jam (either to play or listen), which will now be the *1st Wednesday of every month.* We will be serving coffee from the Carrboro Coffee Company (local roasterie at Open Eye) in addition to our selection of local beer and wine. Nightlight now accommodates casual and professional meetings, offers free WI-FI internet access, an outdoor smoking patio, ping pong gaming and a free lending library. If things go as planned, we will continue to expand into a day-time cafe serving food! fingers crossed. Thanks again for supporting the Nightlight. Hope to see you soon! Spread the Word! *Tues 08/31** Binary Marketing Show/ Cracker Creeptacular / Deluxe Handcuffs- 9:30 PM $5 * NY space-glitch new weirders Binary Marketing Show stop by the Nightlight on their southern tour, working their psyched rhythmic take on American songform with rolling keys, synth stabs, Balkan brass, and sampled drums. Local prog/fusion trio Cracker Creeptacular and Alcazar Hotel side-project Deluxe Handcuffs open. * ++++++++++++++SEPTIEMBRE++++++++++++SEPTEMBER+++++++++++++SEPTEMBRE++++++++++++++SEPTIEMBRE++++ * *STARTING SEPTEMBER 1ST: NOW OPEN FROM 5 PM ONWARD AS A CAFE AND PERFORMANCE SPACE! * *Wed 09/01 EARLY OPENING Celebration :: OLD TIME JAM :: All are invited: 5pm onward:: Bring your own Instruments! * *Thurs 09/02 *919 Noise Showcase : presenting... *Khristian Weeks / Sooty Foots / Tonos / The Fox Sister / Conspicous Convulsion (new improv group ofJason Alyward (Valient Thorr), Crowmeat Bob and Drew Roberston)* *9:30 PM $5 * We're nigh-on ecstatic to see the 919 ers have wrangled the venerable Mr. Weeks, Durham sound artist and break-out star of WXYC's Locally Produced Digital Music Showcase (seriously, go to www.wxyc.org/showcase/ and listen to "Perfect" and see if you don't get a li'l moist around the eyes when you hear the electronic approximation of a slowly-melting brass gamelan ascend through your consciousness while a toddler recites Whitman. Perfect.). Huntersville hissy cassette tape hero Sooty Foots gets weird and wild, doing Inspector 22-style oddball folk that passes into Hasil Adkins thrash. Local guitar tone texturist Tonos and Morehead City dark ambient/drone artist the Fox Sister open. *Fri 09/03** ART SHOW RECEPTION AND PARTY with local artist, Peter Pendergrass: 6pm onward: FREE* Peter pendergrass is a senior at UNC-Chapel Hill majoring in studio art and performance studies. Peter works in a variety of media, including 2D graphic arts, mixed media, sculpture, sound, video and performance. His recent projects include an internship with Rock Paper Scissors collective in Oakland, California, continued work with the Performance Collective in Chapel Hill, and new releases on his d.i.y. label for local experimental artists, Pool Party Records. DJ's Breniecia Reuben, DJ Steph Russ and DJ Ben Pittard CRANK it up!! *Sat 09/04 CROOKED CABARET ! 9 PM * Talent Show and Benefit for the Prison Books Collective - $4 Still taking submissions.. Contact prisonbookscollective at gmail.com to register. ++++++++++++++++++++ *Coming up! * *Tues 09/07 Skylar Gudasz and the Ugly Girls/ Arlo and the Otter (folk/punk rock) / * *Supreme Fiction : 9:30 PM :$5 * Tonight ex-Harmute keyboardist Skylar Gudasz comes out front for beautiful songs with the Ugly Girls and their smart piano-pop. Columbus, OH!O's Arlo & the Otter is a fourtet of southwestern troubadours traveling between snotty acousti-punk scorchers and whirling peyote dirges. Supreme Fiction open up the night! *Wed 09/08 The Toddlers / Sin Ropas / Father Murphy (Italy)/ Kellie Ann Grubbs :9:30 PM $5 * The Toddlers return to the NL with their travel-stained country'n'blues-flavored ruminations delivered in Nathan's Chris Isaak croon. Last time we sd: "Those of you looking for a gentle easing into the world of noise should come out tonight to hear Sin Ropas, the long-running experimental/post"alt-" country duo of Tim Hurley and Danni Iosello, veterans of Chicago's excellent Red Red Meat and Califone. Now living in the 828, Sin Ropas will bring Waitsean dirges, feedback, and enough electronics to please the 919ers." Still apt. On tour with Sin Ropas is the awe-inspiring Italian guitar/organ/drums trio Father Murphy. There are enough bouncy high-pitched bubblers in their repertoire to warrant comparisons to future tourmates Deerhoof, but the tunes that get me the most are the hypnotic organ droners that bring back memories of Religious Knives, some Current 93 stuff, maybe a nod to several PSF bands. Whatever, come early and see them. *Thurs 09/09 Dark Water Rising / Lizzy Ross / Aden Darity of Language Arts* *: 9:30 PM : $5 * "Dark Water Rising" album available online: www.cdbaby.com Robeson Co. soul-rock sextet Dark Water Rising gathers around the master voice of Charly Lowry and the floating Staples-style three-part harmonies created with Ciera Dial and Brittany Jacobs. Local folk-country songbird Lizzy Ross opens. *Fri 09/10 ** D-Town Brass (Durham) / JazzHandzz (Brooklyn) / The Hem of His Garment - $5 * * *Though its name conjures images of the Bull City and the brass krewes of New Orleans, the D-Town Brass brings a wink-eyed big-band soul bossa nova lounge shuffle shake squall reminiscent of some of the large ensembles working in Chicago today. Running in the same pranksterish spazz-jazz circles as our favorites Talibam! and Peeesseye, JazzHandzz is a trio of Andres Marino, David Moss, and Nick Lesley tackling freedom a la early Sun City, NNCK, etc. but with a definite jazz mindset. Local drone experimenters The Hem of His Garment will heal you with just a touch. *Sat 09/11 GUYBrarian NIGHT! :: FREE :: 9 PM onward... * UNC Library of Sciences Men turn it out.. for another dance party round! :: FREE :: 9 PM onward.. DJ order to be determined... STOKES (Neale Stokes) Boomshackalack Soundsystem (David Parisi) DJ Scrubbin Bubbles (Mike Nutt) Spurious Tuples (Adam Rogers) *Wed 09/15 Elf Power / Let's Wrestle(Merge Records) ... * ...plus special video screening before live acts of *Major Organ and the Adding Machine* Doors at 8 PM , movie at 9 PM , music to follow... $10 / more details on advance ticket sales tba.. *Thurs 09/16 **Cats Cradle Presents...Sea Wolf/ Patrick Park / Sera Cahoone- * *$12/$10 advance * *Tickets can be purchased from the Cats Cradle and CD Alley in Chapel Hill * *Fri 09/17 ** LE WEEKEND / Decoration Ghost / On The Take- 10 PM $ 5 * *Sat 09/18** The Moaners (Record Release Party on Holidays for Quince Records) / Ryan Gustafson * *+ DJ STEPH RUSS - Doors at 9 PM, Party to Follow! * *Mon 09/20 Amps for Christ (CA/ Ex- Man is the Bastard) / CLANG QUARTET/ NUSS/ Tiny Concept (France) / Ca$h $lave Clique * *Wed 09/22 Phantascist / Rat Babies / HOG- 9:30 PM * *Thurs 09/23 Caleb Caudle and the Bayonets/ Soft Spot (NYC) / Tripp(Elvis Costello band) - 9:30 PM * *Fri 09/24** Signal Fest - The Southeast Electronics Music Festival - Dub Night and DANCE PARTY! 9 PM: $10 * *Jubilee / TALK/ DJ One Duran (WXYC & 1200 Problems ) / DJ Steph Russ (WXYC DJ) * * Serious bass pressure at Nightlight to kick off the weekend portion of this year's Signalfest. We're pleased to present the following lineup, with headliners from the mighty Nightshifters label:* Jubilee [Brooklyn, NY]: When she?s not ?regularly whipping dance floors into a frenzy with her rambunctious combination of bass-heavy electro, upfront house, UK funky, and tropical flavor? (XLR8R), Jubilee is Publicity Director of the N...ightshifters label with Jason Forrest (aka DJ Donna Summer). Jubilee holds down a monthly residence at the infamous ?Flashing Lights' parties at 88 Palace in NYC, with fellow residents DJ Ayres (The Rub) and Nick Catchdubs (Fools Gold Records). Jubilee has spread her sparks across the globe in far away lands such as Bucharest, Berlin, London and Reykvavik. In New York, she has played along side heavy hitters like Drop The Lime, The Juan Maclean, Simian Mobile Disco, Digitalism, Jokers of the Scene and Green Velvet. Talk [Atlanta, GA]: One of the newest additions to the Nightshifters label, Talk helps hold down the Night Moves monthly in Atlanta. His debut EP "Holy Mountain" will be out in October, and you can expect he'll be ready to present it to Signal in a fine fashion. *Sat 09/25** Signal Fest - Second Evening of Southeastern Electronics Music Festival - 9PM : $10 * Rapoon (Robin Storey, ex Zoviet France member, Newcastle, UK) / Illusion of Safety (Dan Burke, Chicago) Ethan Clauset / Steve Burnett / Khristian Weeks / Bicameral Mind *Mon 09/27 Spider Bags / Strapping Field Hands (Philadelphia) - 9:30 PM $5* O.G. Siltbreeze lo-fi rockers Strapping Fieldhands recently got the justly-deserved reissue treatment of their first LP and are now rolling through the Nightlight. Right as rain blooz-garage locals Spider Bags headline. Don't sleep on this one-- Monday night, it'll start early *Tues 09/28 Solo Performance by Asimina Chremos (Dance ARTIST) * *lightspace* is a 45-minute solo dance by Asimina Chremos. Think: Perceptual artist James Turrell attends a Japanese tea ceremony and the host ends up serving an unknown form of extraterrestrial, aquatic tai chi. The site-sensitive dance takes into account the character of the performance area, in this case, the interior of the Nightlight club. A resident of Chicago for the last decade or so, Chremos recently made Durham her home base. *Wed 09/29 Boyzone / Tinsel Teeth (Load Records) / Unstoppable Death Machine - 9:30 PM * *Thurs 09/30 Gmish Klezmer Band with more tba! * * ^^^^^^^^^^^^OCTOBRE<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>OCTOBER<<<<<<<<<<<<<< * *Fri 10/01 Radar's Clown of Sedation (Pete Pawsey's band) / Eno Mountain Boys / The Ethnographers/ Michael and His Garden / Chris Jones - 9:30 PM $5 * *Sun 10/03 NIGHTLIGHT BENEFIT! After Party for Festi-fall* In The Year of the Pig / Savage Knights / Systems -more bands tba! *Wed 10/06 Pairdown (Pittsburgh) - more bands tba- 9:30 PM * *Thurs 10/07 Neill Prewitt (Yuxtapongo Episodes) / Alexis Gideon (Portland, video artist) - 9:30 PM * *Fri 10/08 Odessa Record Release for WILD WILD GEESE/ Drunk Tigers / Bad Cop * (Nashville) - 9:30 PM *Sat 10/09 Scout Niblett (Drag City) / HOLY SONS / Michael Holland with Peas and Collards - 9:30 PM* *Tues 10/12 CLANG QUARTET/ Ehnahre / Wolverspent/ Mountains Named for Murderers - 9:30 PM * Ehnahre : Boston, MA crucial blast records, avant/death metal, ex-kayo dot Wolverspent : Boise, ID 20 buck spin records, formerly known as PussyGutt *Wed 10/13 Wagner Logic (Alaska) * *Mon 10/18 Closed for Private Party ! * *Tues 10/19 Fan Tan / The Lovetones / The Morning After Rock - 9:30 PM * *Thurs 10/21 Doug McCombs from Tortoise / more bands tba - 9:30 PM * *Fri 10/22 CALTROP / FIN FANG FOOM/ Ritual (Asheville) - 10 PM * *Sun 10/24** Comparative Anatomy / Cheezface / The Letdowns / Nuss - 9:30 PM $5 * *Fri 10/29** Record Release for LE WEEKEND * *Sat 10/30 Halloween Party and Benefit for the Nightlight! * with.. Auxiliary House (Reunion Show!) *Sun 10/31 Halloween PARTY / SHOW / HAUNTED HOUSE!!! : more details tba.*.. *>>>>>>>>>>>>>>NOVEMBRE<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>NOVEMBER FUN! <<<< * *Sat 11/06** Carrboro / Chapel HIll Home Brew FEST! 4- 8:45 PM : details tba * *Fri 11/12 Holidays for Quince Record Release for MONSONIA! -more details tba * *Sat 11/13 Carrboro / Chapel Hill Anarchist Book Fair - day-time event! * Calling all North Carolina anarchists, autonomists, and anti-authoritarians! Are you part of a radical bookshop, community organizing group, or publishing project? You should reserve a table! Are you a book lover, activist, firebrand, or just plain curious? Come check out what other people in North Carolina are doing and thinking! Email carrborobookfair at gmail.com to reserve a table, volunteer, or suggest activities. The deadline for reserving tables is November 1; we are asking groups to pay a small tabling fee, but it?s important to us that tabling be accessible to groups that do not expect to make any money. -- Nightlight Bar & Club 405 1/2 W. Rosemary St. Chapel Hill, NC 27516 (919) 960.6101 http://www.nightlightclub.com Sign up on Facebook! _______________________________________________ Nightlight http://nightlightclub.com 405 1/2 W Rosemary St Chapel Hill, NC 27516 919-960-6101 This message was sent to: cr at spacelabstudio.com To unsubscribe, please email nightlight-unsubscribe at lists.ibiblio.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dragonstrider at gmail.com Tue Aug 31 20:03:50 2010 From: dragonstrider at gmail.com (Joseph Tate) Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:03:50 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] Fwd: New Nightlight Hours! Plus, Binary Marketing Show / Old Time Jam / 919 Noise / Peter Pendergrass / DJ Steph Russ / Crooked Cabaret In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: The new Durham South West Regional also offers wifi, and they have meeting rooms that can be reserved for free as long as we don't restrict the attendees list. They're open until 9:00PM on Thursdays, though they do charge $25 if you have "refreshments". On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Chris Rossi wrote: > The nightlight is now opening at 5pm with coffee and free wifi. ?They say > they're open to meetings, so maybe we could try a TriZPUG there sometime, if > we have trouble finding a venue some month. > Chris > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: NIGHTLIGHT > Date: Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:16 AM > Subject: New Nightlight Hours! Plus, Binary Marketing Show / Old Time Jam / > 919 Noise / Peter Pendergrass / DJ Steph Russ / Crooked Cabaret > To: cr at spacelabstudio.com > > > Whooh! > > ???? We have had a whirlwind of activity at the Nightlight these days.. We > are sad to say goodbye to this year's incarnation of Sunsations (the outer > banks beach scene) at Nightlight.. We do have a NEW art show opening this > Friday with local artist, Peter Pendergrass showcasing his recent art with > DJ's Steph Russ, Breniecia Reuben and Ben Pittard to get the party started! > > ??? Also, starting tomorrow, WEDNESDAY, September 1st, Nightlight will be > open Monday through Saturday starting at 5pm. . Join us for the opening > party tomorrow with an open Old-time Jam (either to play or listen),? which > will now be the 1st Wednesday of every month. > > ?? We will be serving coffee from the Carrboro Coffee Company (local > roasterie at Open Eye) in addition to our selection of local beer and wine. > Nightlight now accommodates casual and professional meetings, offers free > WI-FI internet access, an outdoor smoking patio, ping pong gaming and a free > lending library. > > If things go as planned, we will continue to expand into a day-time cafe > serving food! > > fingers crossed. > > Thanks again for supporting the Nightlight. Hope to see you soon! Spread the > Word! > > Tues 08/31 Binary Marketing Show / Cracker Creeptacular / Deluxe Handcuffs- > 9:30 PM $5 > > NY space-glitch new weirders Binary Marketing Show stop by the Nightlight on > their southern tour, working their psyched rhythmic take on American > songform with rolling keys, synth stabs, Balkan brass, and sampled drums. > Local prog/fusion trio Cracker Creeptacular and Alcazar Hotel side-project > Deluxe Handcuffs open. > > ++++++++++++++SEPTIEMBRE++++++++++++SEPTEMBER+++++++++++++SEPTEMBRE++++++++++++++SEPTIEMBRE++++ > > STARTING SEPTEMBER 1ST: NOW OPEN FROM 5 PM ONWARD AS A CAFE AND PERFORMANCE > SPACE! > > Wed 09/01 EARLY OPENING Celebration :: OLD TIME JAM :: All are invited: 5pm > onward:: Bring your own Instruments! > > Thurs 09/02 919 Noise Showcase : presenting... > > Khristian Weeks / Sooty Foots / Tonos / The Fox Sister / Conspicous > Convulsion (new improv group ofJason Alyward (Valient Thorr), Crowmeat Bob > and Drew Roberston) > > 9:30 PM $5 > > We're nigh-on ecstatic to see the 919 ers have wrangled the venerable Mr. > Weeks, Durham sound artist and break-out star of WXYC's Locally Produced > Digital Music Showcase (seriously, go to www.wxyc.org/showcase/ and listen > to "Perfect" and see if you don't get a li'l moist around the eyes when you > hear the electronic approximation of a slowly-melting brass gamelan ascend > through your consciousness while a toddler recites Whitman. Perfect.). > Huntersville hissy cassette tape hero Sooty Foots gets weird and wild, doing > Inspector 22-style oddball folk that passes into Hasil Adkins thrash. Local > guitar tone texturist Tonos and Morehead City dark ambient/drone artist the > Fox Sister open. > > Fri 09/03 ART SHOW RECEPTION AND PARTY with local artist, Peter Pendergrass: > 6pm onward: FREE > > Peter pendergrass is a senior at UNC-Chapel Hill majoring in studio art and > performance studies. Peter works in a variety of media, including 2D graphic > arts, mixed media, sculpture, sound, video and performance. His recent > projects include an internship with Rock Paper Scissors collective in > Oakland, California, continued work with the Performance Collective in > Chapel Hill, and new releases on his d.i.y. label for local experimental > artists, Pool Party Records. > > DJ's Breniecia Reuben, DJ Steph Russ and DJ Ben Pittard CRANK it up!! > > Sat 09/04 CROOKED CABARET ! 9 PM > > Talent Show and Benefit for the Prison Books Collective - $4 > > Still taking submissions.. Contact? prisonbookscollective at gmail.com to > register. > > ++++++++++++++++++++ > > Coming up! > > Tues 09/07 Skylar Gudasz and the Ugly Girls / Arlo and the Otter (folk/punk > rock) / > > Supreme Fiction : 9:30 PM :$5 > > Tonight ex-Harmute keyboardist Skylar Gudasz comes out front for beautiful > songs with the Ugly Girls and their smart piano-pop. Columbus, OH!O's Arlo & > the Otter is a fourtet of southwestern troubadours traveling between snotty > acousti-punk scorchers and whirling peyote dirges. Supreme Fiction open up > the night! > > Wed 09/08 The Toddlers / Sin Ropas / Father Murphy (Italy) / Kellie Ann > Grubbs :9:30 PM $5 > > The Toddlers return to the NL with their travel-stained > country'n'blues-flavored ruminations delivered in Nathan's Chris Isaak > croon. Last time we sd: "Those of you looking for a gentle easing into the > world of noise should come out tonight to hear Sin Ropas, the long-running > experimental/post"alt-" country duo of Tim Hurley and Danni Iosello, > veterans of Chicago's excellent Red Red Meat and Califone. Now living in the > 828, Sin Ropas will bring Waitsean dirges, feedback, and enough electronics > to please the 919ers." Still apt. On tour with Sin Ropas is the > awe-inspiring Italian guitar/organ/drums trio Father Murphy. There are > enough bouncy high-pitched bubblers in their repertoire to warrant > comparisons to future tourmates Deerhoof, but the tunes that get me the most > are the hypnotic organ droners that bring back memories of Religious Knives, > some Current 93 stuff, maybe a nod to several PSF bands. Whatever, come > early and see them. > > Thurs 09/09 Dark Water Rising / Lizzy Ross / Aden Darity of Language Arts > > : 9:30 PM : $5 > > "Dark Water Rising" album available online: www.cdbaby.com > > Robeson Co. soul-rock sextet Dark Water Rising gathers around the master > voice of Charly Lowry and the floating Staples-style three-part harmonies > created with Ciera Dial and Brittany Jacobs. Local folk-country songbird > Lizzy Ross opens. > > Fri 09/10 D-Town Brass (Durham) / JazzHandzz (Brooklyn) / The Hem of His > Garment - $5 > > Though its name conjures images of the Bull City and the brass krewes of New > Orleans, the D-Town Brass brings a wink-eyed big-band soul bossa nova lounge > shuffle shake squall reminiscent of some of the large ensembles working in > Chicago today. Running in the same pranksterish spazz-jazz circles as our > favorites Talibam! and Peeesseye, JazzHandzz is a trio of Andres Marino, > David Moss, and Nick Lesley tackling freedom a la early Sun City, NNCK, etc. > but with a definite jazz mindset. Local drone experimenters The Hem of His > Garment will heal you with just a touch. > > Sat 09/11 GUYBrarian NIGHT! :: FREE :: 9 PM onward... > > UNC Library of Sciences Men turn it out.. for another dance party round! :: > FREE :: 9 PM onward.. > > DJ order to be determined... > > STOKES (Neale Stokes) > Boomshackalack Soundsystem (David Parisi) > DJ Scrubbin Bubbles (Mike Nutt) > Spurious Tuples (Adam Rogers) > > Wed 09/15 Elf Power / Let's Wrestle (Merge Records) ... > > ...plus special video screening before live acts of Major Organ and the > Adding Machine > > Doors at 8 PM , movie at 9 PM , music to follow... $10 / more details on > advance ticket sales tba.. > > Thurs 09/16 Cats Cradle Presents...Sea Wolf / Patrick Park / Sera Cahoone - > > $12/$10 advance > > Tickets can be purchased from the Cats Cradle and CD Alley in Chapel Hill > > Fri 09/17 LE WEEKEND / Decoration Ghost / On The Take - 10 PM $ 5 > > Sat 09/18 The Moaners (Record Release Party on Holidays for Quince Records) > / Ryan Gustafson > > + DJ STEPH RUSS - Doors at 9 PM, Party to Follow! > > Mon 09/20 Amps for Christ (CA/ Ex- Man is the Bastard) / CLANG QUARTET / > NUSS / Tiny Concept (France) / Ca$h $lave Clique > > Wed 09/22 Phantascist / Rat Babies / HOG - 9:30 PM > > Thurs 09/23 Caleb Caudle and the Bayonets / Soft Spot (NYC) / Tripp (Elvis > Costello band) - 9:30 PM > > Fri 09/24 Signal Fest - The Southeast Electronics Music Festival - Dub Night > and DANCE PARTY! 9 PM: $10 > > Jubilee / TALK / DJ One Duran (WXYC & 1200 Problems ) / DJ Steph Russ (WXYC > DJ) > > Serious bass pressure at Nightlight to kick off the weekend portion of this > year's Signalfest. We're pleased to present the following lineup, with > headliners from the mighty Nightshifters label: > > Jubilee [Brooklyn, NY]: When she?s not ?regularly whipping dance floors into > a frenzy with her rambunctious combination of bass-heavy electro, upfront > house, UK funky, and tropical flavor? (XLR8R), Jubilee is Publicity Director > of the N...ightshifters label with Jason Forrest (aka DJ Donna Summer). > Jubilee holds down a monthly residence at the infamous ?Flashing Lights' > parties at 88 Palace in NYC, with fellow residents DJ Ayres (The Rub) and > Nick Catchdubs (Fools Gold Records). Jubilee has spread her sparks across > the globe in far away lands such as Bucharest, Berlin, London and Reykvavik. > In New York, she has played along side heavy hitters like Drop The Lime, The > Juan Maclean, Simian Mobile Disco, Digitalism, Jokers of the Scene and Green > Velvet. > > Talk [Atlanta, GA]: One of the newest additions to the Nightshifters label, > Talk helps hold down the Night Moves monthly in Atlanta. His debut EP "Holy > Mountain" will be out in October, and you can expect he'll be ready to > present it to Signal in a fine fashion. > > Sat 09/25 Signal Fest - Second Evening of Southeastern Electronics Music > Festival - 9PM : $10 > > Rapoon (Robin Storey, ex Zoviet France member, Newcastle, UK) / Illusion of > Safety (Dan Burke, Chicago) > Ethan Clauset / Steve Burnett / Khristian Weeks / Bicameral Mind > > Mon 09/27 Spider Bags / Strapping Field Hands (Philadelphia) - 9:30 PM $5 > > O.G. Siltbreeze lo-fi rockers Strapping Fieldhands recently got the > justly-deserved reissue treatment of their first LP and are now rolling > through the Nightlight. Right as rain blooz-garage locals Spider Bags > headline. Don't sleep on this one-- Monday night, it'll start early > > Tues 09/28 Solo Performance by Asimina Chremos (Dance ARTIST) > > lightspace is a 45-minute solo dance by Asimina Chremos. Think: Perceptual > artist James Turrell attends a Japanese tea ceremony and the host ends up > serving an unknown form of extraterrestrial, aquatic tai chi. The > site-sensitive dance takes into account the character of the performance > area, in this case, the interior of the Nightlight club. A resident of > Chicago for the last decade or so, Chremos recently made Durham her home > base. > > Wed 09/29 Boyzone / Tinsel Teeth (Load Records) / Unstoppable Death Machine > - 9:30 PM > > Thurs 09/30 Gmish Klezmer Band with more tba! > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^OCTOBRE<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>OCTOBER<<<<<<<<<<<<<< > > Fri 10/01 Radar's Clown of Sedation (Pete Pawsey's band) / Eno Mountain Boys > / The Ethnographers / Michael and His Garden / Chris Jones - 9:30 PM $5 > > Sun 10/03 NIGHTLIGHT BENEFIT! After Party for Festi-fall > > In The Year of the Pig / Savage Knights / Systems -more bands tba! > > Wed 10/06 Pairdown (Pittsburgh) - more bands tba- 9:30 PM > > Thurs 10/07 Neill Prewitt (Yuxtapongo Episodes) / Alexis Gideon (Portland, > video artist) - 9:30 PM > > Fri 10/08 Odessa Record Release for WILD WILD GEESE / Drunk Tigers / Bad Cop > (Nashville) - 9:30 PM > > Sat 10/09 Scout Niblett (Drag City) / HOLY SONS / Michael Holland with Peas > and Collards - 9:30 PM > > Tues 10/12 CLANG QUARTET / Ehnahre / Wolverspent / Mountains Named for > Murderers - 9:30 PM > > Ehnahre: Boston, MA crucial blast records, avant/death metal, ex-kayo dot > > Wolverspent: Boise, ID 20 buck spin records, formerly known as PussyGutt > > Wed 10/13 Wagner Logic (Alaska) > > Mon 10/18 Closed for Private Party ! > > Tues 10/19 Fan Tan / The Lovetones / The Morning After Rock - 9:30 PM > > Thurs 10/21 Doug McCombs from Tortoise / more bands tba - 9:30 PM > > Fri 10/22 CALTROP / FIN FANG FOOM / Ritual (Asheville) - 10 PM > > > > Sun 10/24 Comparative Anatomy / Cheezface / The Letdowns / Nuss - 9:30 PM $5 > > Fri 10/29 Record Release for LE WEEKEND > > Sat 10/30 Halloween Party and Benefit for the Nightlight! > > with.. Auxiliary House (Reunion Show!) > > Sun 10/31 Halloween PARTY / SHOW / HAUNTED HOUSE!!! : more details tba... > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>NOVEMBRE<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>NOVEMBER FUN! <<<< > > Sat 11/06 Carrboro / Chapel HIll Home Brew FEST! 4- 8:45 PM : details tba > > Fri 11/12 Holidays for Quince Record Release for MONSONIA! -more details tba > > Sat 11/13 Carrboro / Chapel Hill Anarchist Book Fair - day-time event! > > Calling all North Carolina anarchists, autonomists, and anti-authoritarians! > Are you part of a radical bookshop, community organizing group, or > publishing project? You should reserve a table! Are you a book lover, > activist, firebrand, or just plain curious? Come check out what other people > in North Carolina are doing and thinking! > > Email carrborobookfair at gmail.com to reserve a table, volunteer, or suggest > activities. The deadline for reserving tables is November 1; we are asking > groups to pay a small tabling fee, but it?s important to us that tabling be > accessible to groups that do not expect to make any money. > > -- > Nightlight Bar & Club > 405 1/2 W. Rosemary St. > Chapel Hill, NC 27516 > (919) 960.6101 > http://www.nightlightclub.com > Sign up on Facebook! > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Nightlight > http://nightlightclub.com > 405 1/2 W Rosemary St > Chapel Hill, NC ?27516 > 919-960-6101 > > This message was sent to: cr at spacelabstudio.com > To unsubscribe, please email nightlight-unsubscribe at lists.ibiblio.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > TriZPUG mailing list > TriZPUG at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug > http://trizpug.org is the Triangle Zope and Python Users Group > -- Joseph Tate Personal e-mail: jtate AT dragonstrider DOT com Web: http://www.dragonstrider.com From cbc at unc.edu Tue Aug 31 22:08:48 2010 From: cbc at unc.edu (Chris Calloway) Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:08:48 -0400 Subject: [TriZPUG] Fwd: New Nightlight Hours! Plus, Binary Marketing Show / Old Time Jam / 919 Noise / Peter Pendergrass / DJ Steph Russ / Crooked Cabaret In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4C7D6150.6060002@unc.edu> On 8/31/2010 9:38 AM, Chris Rossi wrote: > The nightlight is now opening at 5pm with coffee and free wifi. They say > they're open to meetings, so maybe we could try a TriZPUG there sometime, if > we have trouble finding a venue some month. Do they have parking? A video projector? I don't think we'll ever have a hard time finding a place to meet in Chapel Hill. We've been meeting at CCC lately, even though the meeting room is tiny for the number of people who show up, because they have plenty of parking and Brad called shotgun to have it there. If he hadn't called shotgun, I would have as I have plenty of high tech meeting rooms at my immediate disposal and we were meeting in them before Brad called shotgun. I don't think there's a lack of places to meet in Durham or Raleigh, either. We just haven't had anyone calling shotgun soon enough in Raleigh lately and one case where shotgun was called in Durham but abandoned right before the meeting. It's more of a people/expectation problem that a meeting place problem. There are probably at least 20 people on this list with the ability to reserve a suitable room at NCSU if they wish. It was suggested at our Milltown social last week that maybe we should fish around for interest at Red Hat HQ, since that is on a campus with plenty of parking, lots of high tech goodness, a history of hosting TriLUG meetings, and is right next to where TriZPUG met for years. But it's still a matter of someone calling shotgun on that in a timely manner and sticking with it. WIth the shotgun rules, you don't wait to be served. You do the serving. You want to call shotgun a least a month in advance. You want to call it on an appropriate venue because restaurants aren't set up for it, places that kick you out at a certain time aren't it, and places without wifi or video projection aren't it. Universities are ideal if you can get the parking thing worked out. And if you've called shotgun and later find you can't make it, it really is up to you to find a replacement host to carry on with an already publicized meeting. It's also ideal and cuts down on confusion to do the same rotation of places. So calling shotgun can imply some long term responsibilities. There's still a reservation for the September meeting at Duke North Pavillion. Announcements just haven't been posted yet. There are several people returning from DjangoCon in September who should have plenty to tell. However, I'll get together with you at Nightlight anytime you ask. :) -- Sincerely, Chris Calloway office: 332 Chapman Hall phone: (919) 599-3530 mail: Campus Box #3300, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599