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 Jinah Kim is the December East Meets Words Open Mic feature. Sponsored by the Boston Progress Arts Collective, this all ages show is going to go down at the East Meets West Bookstore.

If you were to take a look at Jinah’s passport, it would look absolutely ridiculous. The mileage on her car is even more ridiculous. In the past year, she has traveled through nine different countries and driven across the U.S. three times. This might account for why she is both exhausted and yet so frickin’ PUMPED to finally be…. stationary… at least for the next eight months before Tufts University, where she is a senior, thrusts her into the throes of life.

Apparently, she hates writing about herself in the third person.

Come see Jinah. Bring $3 and your friends.

Tags: Boston Progress, Open Mic.

Anyone who can make playing a cello hot is cool in my book. (Seriously. I’ve seen them twice back in the day at UCR. Hawt.)

Check out the Ken Oak Band live on the east coast at BU on Tuesday, November 6 in CAS Room B12. The event is free, but donations will be accepted. More info here (of course, facebook).

Tags: Cello, Concert, Hot.

Cynthia Lin, a singer-songwriter from New York City, is coming to Boston. Her new CD, “Doppelgänger”, has been recorded and printed and is ready to be heard by all the world. We recently added her music into our play list. She will be featuring at the East Meets Words Open Mic on January 11, 2008 at the East Meets West Bookstore at 934 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA. Cover is $3 and she tells me she’s going to have CDs for sale.

Tags: Open Mic.

Come check out Kevin So at Club Passim, 47 Palmer St., Cambridge. $15/$13 for Club Passim members.

Kevin So performing solo acoustic. With special guest The Maybelles. All ages welcome. Reservations required. (617) 492-7679 or visit the website: http://www.passimcenter.org

We’re having a special open mic for Exit Clov. As you may recall, they were going to come up to Boston a few months ago to do a special show. But alas, due to unforeseen circumstances, they had to cancel. But, they are going to be back on November 4. They will probably be playing at the Cambridge Community for Adult Education or just CCAE for short. Show time and exact address will be announced soon.

Tags: Boston Progress, Concert.

The Beats, Rhymes, and Rice Tour will be coming through Northeastern University. Sponsored by the Asian Student Union, Korean American Student Association, Vietnamese Student Association and the Asian American Center, the Beats, Rhymes and Rice tour features two well-loved spoken word poets and one dope emcee. You’ve heard about them here before: Bao Phi, Giles Li, and Kiwi (of the Native Guns). Funny how their names are all two syllables and rhyme.

The show will be preceded by a thirty minute open mic. I hear a rumor that our very own Long is going to be hosting. Bring your rotten tomatoes (just kidding). Show starts at 8pm at the Curry Student Center at Northeastern University.

Tags: Concert.

Please come out to the October East Meets Words Open Mic sponsored by the Boston Progress Arts Collective on October 12, 2007 at the East Meets West Bookstore at 934 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA. Justine Ok of Xtacy Xport is featuring. Cover charge is $3. Please bring your writing and your poems to share too. This is and always will be an open mic.

Also, stop by and check out the new art by Wen-ti Tsen and Tri Quach that will be up at the East Meets West Bookstore.

Tags: Open Mic.

F. Omar Telan is a spoken word poet, an activist, a performance artist. I don’t know what to say about him. But he does some crazy stuff. His piece at the 2007 APIA Spoken Word Summit was insane, mindboggling, groundmoving, earthshaking. Crazy. He’s going to be at the East Meets Words Open Mic (sponsored by Boston Progress Arts Collective) at the East Meets West Bookstore at 934 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, 02140. Cover is $3. Check him out on myspace too.

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