The week of April 23, 2012

Posted on April 23, 2012 by

Your weekly breakdown of the live entertainment spots in DC this week.

The Upper Room at Club 12

This is the last night the Upper Room will be hosted downstairs in the lounge at Twelve Restaurant & Lounge. I will be the final feature before we literally take it to The Upper Room.  Join me and Mark “The Professor” Hatcher and Wanda McDonald and we do a guitar and vocals set of some of my favorite joints on the Circumlocution Vol II project.  This is where you go to experience the upper echelon of food, drink and entertainment in Washington DC. Located in the historic H Street corridor, The Upper is is the perfect evening out with guests for fine dining and a tasty helping of DC’s finest artist. This week is our last occupying the downstairs bar area with DJ Live Wyah and special guest every night.  Shout out to Juno Brown, Patrick Washington and Javier Starks for being our guests artists the last few weeks.

MAY 1st WE MOVE UPSTAIRS AND ON TO TUESDAY!!

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The week of April 16, 2012

Posted on April 16, 2012 by

Your weekly breakdown of the live entertainment spots in DC this week.

The Upper Room at Club 12

Welcome to the Upper Room Tuesdays at Club XII. This is where you go to experience the upper echelon of food, drink and entertainment in Washington DC. Located in the historic H Street corridor, The Upper is is the perfect evening out with guests for fine dining and a tasty helping of DC’s finest artist. This week is our last occupying the downstairs bar area with DJ Live Wyah and special guest every night.  Shout out to Juno Brown, Patrick Washington and Javier Starks for being our guests artists the last few weeks.

MAY 1st WE MOVE UPSTAIRS AND ON TO TUESDAY!!

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Chocolate's Child Slaves

Posted on April 11, 2012 by

Reblogged from The CNN Freedom Project: Ending Modern-Day Slavery:

Everyone loves chocolate. But for thousands of people, chocolate is the reason for their enslavement.

The chocolate bar you snack on likely starts at a plant in a West African cocoa plantation, and often the people who harvest it are children. Many are slaves to a system that produces something almost all of us consume and enjoy.

The CNN Freedom Project sent correspondent David McKenzie into the heart of the Ivory Coast — the world’s largest cocoa producer — to investigate what’s happening to children working in the fields.

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In order to completely cut yourself off from slave or inhumane labor in this world, you might have to move to a farm. I'm not completely opposed to that. Thanks Tatiana for putting me onto this documentary.
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Where to be in the (sigh) DMV

Posted on April 9, 2012 by

Get ready for another exciting week of live entertainment in Washington DC.  Here’s what we’ve got planned for you!  Sorry I missed last week, but we are gonna keep this going.  Still no clever name for this post yet, because I damn sure ain’t gonna keep saying “DMV”.  Mattafact, all the gigs on here are strictly in “D” of the DMV.  But whateva, let’s see what we’ve got cookin!

Chill Out DC, Steve A Burch & notarapper.com present
The Upper Room Wednesdays at Club 12

This is not an open mic, but a showcase of the upper echelon in poetry, singer songwriters, hip-hop, stand up etc. come to Club 12 to see the best of the best.  hosted by Bomani Armah .  The first 4 weeks will be absolutely FREE!  That’s right, no cover at one of the most posh spots in DC.  They will feature DJ Live Wyah and one feature performer every night.  Starting April 26th we will have Bomani & Immaletchufinish as the feature performer, and 3 featured acts every Wednesday After that.  The cover will be only $7, still a great price for this level of high quality entertainment.  This weeks feature, Javier Starks aka Midas!  An amazing and humble MC with otherwordly talent!

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Was Jesus the Only One to Rise from the Dead on Easter Weekend?

Posted on April 7, 2012 by

Reblogged from Prometheus Unbound:

Not if you believe Matthew 27:51-53.

Have you ever noticed what it says?

Immediately after Jesus’s death, Matthew has this very, very strange Night of the Living Dead story that he includes in his gospel. Matthew says that there was, immediately following Jesus’s death, an earthquake, and this earthquake was accompanied by an astonishing mass resurrection in which “many bodies of the saints which slept arose.” And not only did they arise from the dead, Matthew claims that they entered the very city of Jerusalem, appearing “unto many.” It’s so wild a passage that I’ll quote it in full (from the King James version of the Bible):

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went searching for these bible verses about all the other people who rose from the dead with Jesus and stumbled over this...
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