The Wednesdays News

Agenda 399 S. First St., San Jose, 408.287.3991 Though Agenda is mainly a nightclub, the downtown San Jose venue occasionally brings in major-label rock and hip-hop acts and also hosts popular reggae and salsa ...

Student superheroes inspect a local washing machine to assure nothing is amiss. Consider this your sampler coupon book.

Another fest. Another record shattered. The unstoppable growth of the annual festivals presented by the Palm Springs International Film Society trampled yet another attendance record.

The 317 short films selected for the 2008 Palm Springs International ShortFest include movies directed by Kate Hudson , Kirsten Dunst and Matthew Modine and films narrated by Whoopi Goldberg and Robert Redford ...

Those who crave the sounds of the 1980s have another reason to celebrate in the middle of the work week.

Harold On Wednesdays, iO's signature long-form improv show is free. Not only that, but they cart out the big guns, in the form of venerable team Carl and the Passions.

Pegasus Records and Tapes owner Eli Flippen holds the vinyl recordings in his store.

“It took me four years to meet anyone remotely like me”

For 10 years, listeners to WECS out of Connecticut State University tuned into Dark Etiquette , a radio program hosted by Miss Gothic Manners -- the on-air name for Herb Nowell. via Theeagle.com

“Ma, Mata, Mahila: the spiritual, the emotional and the physical mother”

In honor of Asian Heritage Month, the Detroit Institute of Arts is offering a selection of themed activities, including lectures, storytelling, music and a family performance. via Grosse Pointe News Online

Empty Bottle Robert Murphy Music Betty's Blue Star Lounge A welcome source of excitement in an otherwise dreary part of the neighborhood, this retro-stylish 4 AM bar books a fair number of quality DJs . via Chicago Reader Online

“Hawaii's been very good to me ... (and) if I don't get a chance to come back regularly, at least I have this to leave behind as my legacy”

Read Jason's blog, "So Necessary" online at sonecessary.tv . Vegas Mike's 'Acid' party washes over Sin City IF YOU didn't get a chance to say goodbye to Mike Licata last month at NextDoor, you'll have to board ... via Honolulu Star-Bulletin

“Playing (here) is like a rite of passage”

Now in its fifth decade as a live music venue, Alvin's is once more on the list of must-plays for Metro Detroit bands. via The Detroit News

“It kind of clashed with the people who were performing, because they would bring their quiet group who wanted to listen to the music, and then we'd have a bunch of cocktailers”

The Red Door celebrates four years of its Monday night music series It's easy to walk past The Red Door without even noticing that it exists. via The Wire

“Hm. Blood on the Wall . Is that a band, or just...?”

There's blood on the wall, and then there's Blood on the Wall. Photo from Fiddle While You Burn . via Denver Post

“I want to give people the opportunity to dance like they would at the bar. They can get as ridiculous as they want, as long as they're moving and getting their heart rate up.”

Photo by Karen Neal Julie Hecker of Royal Oak teaches her Punk Fitness Detroit classes in Ferndale, Huntington Woods, Detroit and Hamtramck. via C & G Newspapers

“Don't trust 'em because all this 'peace and love' and 'free love,' that was really just to turn the women into whores. ... They could be very greedy people, the hippies.”

Released: A new crime anthology edited by Detroit native Megan Abbott. The anthology, "A Hell of a Woman: An Anthology of Female Noir," was just hailed by Bust magazine as "smart, unsentimental and ... via Detroit Free Press

“A Concert Tribute to Rodgers & Hart”

"Fiddler on the Roof," now through Dec. 30, Olney Tradition! Olney Theatre Center, 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road. via Carroll County Online