Greetings Emporium e-listers! Quite a few updates this time around as we ring in the New Year and enjoy the snow:

New T-SHIRTS and MUGS are in! Check out pics.

VICK “THE BEER BUY” MICKUNAS began blogging again. Read his posts.

Check out a VIDEO from Susan Gartner of the HomeTown Holiday Presbyterian fundraiser on Dec. 5.

HOLIDAY HOURS are normal hours EXCEPT: December 24: 7 a.m.-6 p.m.; CLOSED December 25 and January 1.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Wednesday, December 30, 1-3 p.m.
Heartstrings, local Celtic group, performs

FRIDAY WINE TASTING LINE-UP (7-10 p.m.)
Due to the holidays, there will be no wine tastings on 12/25 and 1/1.
1/8: Eric Loy
1/15: Gary Arnold
1/22: Slipstream with Jeanne Ulrich
1/29: Wildwater

Monday, January 4, 2010
Antioch School art show up!

Thursday, January 7, 2010, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
After Hours Writers’ Club
The open mic night has been morphed into the Writers’ Club. Read your writings in an informal setting, get feedback, get ideas, network with other writers, give and get prompts, participate in writing exercises. Open to writers of all sorts–prose and poetry, scripts, nonfiction, anything. Bringing something to read is not required–come for the inspiration and camaraderie!

Saturday, January 9, 2010, 1-4 p.m.
Really Really Free Market
A Really Really Free Market is like a mixed-bag potluck, or a free flea market. Stuff, fun, entertainment—whatever we as a community can come together & share. Bring usable items, food, & talents—to give for the sake of giving. Don’t have anything on-hand? Come & see what others are sharing. No barter or trade: You don’t have to give to get or get to give. (FYI: The Underdog Café is merely host to our RRFM. You still have to pay for stuff from the store!)

Saturday, January 9, 2010, 4-6 p.m.
Robert Wexler and Brady Burkett: fiction reading with guitar accompaniment.

Saturday, January 16, 2010, 5 p.m.-midnight
Shelly Colbert fundraiser – Live Music!
Join local bands to help raise money for Shelly Colbert and her recent bout with cancer. Free shows–donations encouraged. Featuring the music of The Carl Schumacher Band (beginning around 5 p.m.), Dawn Cooksey & Route 68 (beginning around 8 p.m.), and The UnderCovered (beginning around 9:30 p.m.).

Wednesday, January 27, 2010, 5-7 p.m.
Cribbage Club
Come and play cribbage with us! All are welcome. Lessons available. (New day: the 4th Wednesday of every month.)

Sunday, January 31, 2010, TIME TBA
Buckeye Forest Council presentation

Greetings all! Welcome to the Emporium Wines/Underdog Cafe e-newsletter for November 2009.

A few updates, before we begin:

- Check out our new Flickr gallery, of our friends’ Emporium-related photos – http://www.flickr.com/photos/emporiumwines/galleries/72157622571867383/ – if you’re on Flickr, let us know about your photos and we’ll add them to the gallery!

- New photos of Friday music by Iris Maria Heller – http://www.flickr.com/photos/emporiumwines/tags/irismariaheller/

- An updated bread and fall muffin schedules are now online – http://emporiumwines.com/menu.htm

- We were mentioned in the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s now-famous article on YS, woo hoo! – http://www.cleveland.com/travel/index.ssf/2009/09/from_nature_to_nurture_yellow.html

an update on the ART SHOW:
November-December’s art show by Kathleen McMillan will not be up until Wed., Nov. 11. Jeff Sutherland’s show will remain in the interim.

Without further ado…

NOVEMBER 2009 EVENTS

Friday evening wine-tasting line-up
Wine tasting begins at around 6:30; music begins around 7; everything ends around 10.

11/6 – YS’s own Honkytonk Boys with Carl Schumacher
11/13 – YS’s own Wildwater
11/20 – YS’s own The Hoppers perform 50s and 60s rock, pop, & dance
11/27 – Anna & Milovan Beljin from Cincinnati perform acoustic pop/folk/blues – http://www.annaandmilovan.com

Every Sunday in November
4:30-6pm
Writing Dreams Workshop
Explore your dreams in a creative writing class with Iris at the Emporium. Iris Maria Heller is a media teacher from Germany. Her special field is the affinity between dream and film. She will inspire and guide you through writing down, exploring, and inventing dreams in a playful, filmic and creative way. There will be myths, criminal stories, comics, thrillers, and who knows what more! All you need to bring is paper, a pen, and a dream image, landscape or fragment. For registration call Iris at 937-831-2976 or just show up. Classes are offered for free; donations are welcome.

Sunday, November 1
2-4pm
Your last chance: Meet & greet Benji Maruyama, Dave Turner, and Anne Erickson
Discuss education and School District issues with select School Board candidates.

Sunday, November 1
6:30pm
Valerie Blackwell-Truitt Farewell Party
Valerie, a 30-year resident of Yellow Springs, is moving to Colorado in November. Come and say goodbye!

Thursday, November 5
6-8pm
Wham Bam (Thank You Slam) Spoken Arts Revue/Open Mic
theme: stuff you wrote when you were a kid. Short stories, poems, diary entries, letters, and more from childhood and adolescence. Poignancy, honesty, and embarrassing laughter for our inner children and ourselves! To sign up, show up early or e-mail vanessa@emporiumwines.com.

Saturday, November 14
1-4pm
Really Really Free Market
A Really Really Free Market is like a mixed-bag potluck, or a free flea market. Stuff, fun, entertainment—whatever we as a community can come together & share. Bring usable items, food, & talents—to give for the sake of giving. Don’t have anything on-hand? Come & see what others are sharing. No barter or trade: You don’t have to give to get or get to give. (FYI: The Underdog Café is merely host to our RRFM. You still have to pay for stuff from the store!) More info: http://www.emporiumwines.com/rrfm & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Really_Really_Free_Market

Saturday, November 14
5-8pm
Save Energy – Save Money
Reception and wine tasting for a Free Seminar on Energy Efficient on Energy Efficient Building and Retrofit. Cosponsored by Community Solutions and net0home Inc.

The last Monday of every month (November 30)
5-7pm
Cribbage Club
Come and play cribbage with us! All are welcome. Lessons available.

Greetings! And welcome to the February 2009 Emporium Wines and Underdog Cafe e-newsletter!

Some quick web sites notes before I get started with the events schedule. I just made a guestbook for the shop’s web site. Here you can post your thoughts about us for all to share–Want a particular muffin every day? Love a particular wine? How did you like a particular event? Etc.!
- Sign guestbook: http://us.1.p7.webhosting.yahoo.com/gb/sign?member=emporiumwines
- View guestbook: http://us.1.p7.webhosting.yahoo.com/gb/view?member=emporiumwines
- Find these links on the community page: http://www.emporiumwines.com/community.htm

Also, our pictures page has seen some recent updates (namely the inauguration party and the Really Really Free Market) – http://www.emporiumwines.com/media.htm or http://www.flickr.com/photos/emporiumwines

Be sure to keep tabs on our Twitter page for short updates and fun things like these: http://twitter.com/EmpoUnder

Okey dokey! Without further ado: events for February!

WEEKLY FRIDAY WINE-TASTINGS
Wine-tastings begin at 6:30pm; music begins generally at 7:00.

2/6 – Dawn Cooksey and 68 South
2/13 – Chris & Patricia Berg
2/20 – G. Scott Jones
2/27 – Eric Loy

OTHER EVENTS

Sunday, 2/1 – 3:00pm
Nonstop Presents reading: Aurelia Blake & Jeanne Lemkau
Aurelia A. Blake has taught in the Yellow Springs schools since 1996 and been on the board of Antioch Writers’ Workshop since 2004. She’s a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel and has a master’s degree from Antioch University McGregor and a bachelor’s from the University of Colorado. Jeanne Lemkau is a psychologist, writer, and Professor Emerita of Family Medicine at Wright State University. She divides her time between her psychotherapy practice and political activism and creative non-fiction writing related to Cuba and Cuban Americans. She will read from her manuscript Risking Cuba: A Tale of Sabbatical Rebellion.

Monday, 2/2 – 5:00pm
ProAct Poetry

Wednesday, 2/4 – 7:00pm
Opera Overtures Lecture: “Elixir Of Love”

Thursday, 2/5 – 6:00pm
New Open Mic Night
Open to all the spoken arts! Fiction and Poetry, Performance/Slam, Theatrical readings, Anecdotes/Diary entries, Short films, Comedy, sketches, Found art. That’s right. If you can say it, you can spray it. Performers may sign up by emailing vanessa@emporiumwines.com or show up on the 5th (please come early if you plan on performing). Films must be submitted in advance so they can be tested on the projector. *10-minute limit. Please, no instruments or elaborate props.

Sunday, 2/15 – 3:00pm
Nonstop Presents reading: Kai Cooley & Ken Simon
Kai Cooley is an Antioch College alumna from 2001. She loves cats, wildflowers, birdcalls, dirt roads, blue-collar men, fitness training and cooking without a recipe. She is on her 16th job (math teacher) and splits her time between Yellow Springs and Lynx, Ohio. Ken Simon has been a philosophy professor, a urine bottle washer, a restaurant owner, a vacuum cleaner salesman, a picture framer and a waiter, among other occupations. He has been part of a “Zen writing group” that met every week for 12 or 13 years.

Every Sunday – 2:00pm
Pat Siemer’s Knit-In

That’s all for now! See you around!

As 2008 comes to a close, the Emporium remains as open and inviting as ever! Celebrate the season with art, wine, events, and of course, lots and lots of coffee and chai and soup and mmm…

DECEMBER ART

Drawings by Pierre Nagley

WEEKLY FRIDAY WINE-TASTINGS

December 5 – Dr. Skillet
December 12 – Swing Shift
December 19 – David Schumacher
December 26 – Nerak Roth Patterson
January 2, 2009 – **WINE TASTING IS CANCELLED

OTHER EVENTS

Every Sunday: Pat Seimer’s Knit-In

Saturday, December 6, 7:00pm
An Enchanted Evening: A Village Variety Show (fundraiser for the First Presbyterian Church)

Saturday, December 13, 7:00pm
Celebrate Nonstop Institute
Come join Nonstop Institute supporters as we celebrate the completion of its first term, and Nonstop as an ongoing liberal arts educational project in Yellow Springs and bridge to a future independent Antioch College. More information: http://nonstopinstitute.org/

ANNOUNCEMENTS

11/5/08 IN YELLOW SPRINGS, OHIO

A montage video created by yours truly at the post-election party at the Emporium. Featuring music by local band Pauls Apartment.

THE KISS – A Performance Art Piece

Saturday, Dec. 6, 3:07 p.m.
Eighty couples wanted to kiss at 3:07 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 6 under one of the 80 mistletoes that will be hung inside and outside in downtown Yellow Springs for the month of December. What a way to start the Christmas season! If you would like to join us in this short Performance Art Piece, please contact Nancy Mellon at 767-1366. It will take a half an hour to meet together, synchronize our watches, get your assigned kiss station, find it, and be ready to kiss at exactly 3:07 p.m.

SHOP LOCAL PLEDGE

Turn $100 into $300! How? It’s easy. Just shop local.

In these tough economic times, it’s more important than ever to shop local. And shopping local makes your money grow: economists say that you can multiply your shopping dollars by three to gauge its overall effect on the local economy.

In less than a week, almost 100 villages have pledged to shop local during this holiday season. You can, too: Just sign up on pledge sheets at local stores, including Tom’s Market, Emporium Wines and the Underdog Cafe, Current Cuisine, and Town Drug, or email the Yellow Springs News at ysnews@ysnews.com. The News will publish the names in the 12/18 issue.

Greetings everyone! Long time no see, for many of you. (For our new members: a great big welcome!) This is Vanessa at your service once again. I have recently returned to Yellow Springs and the Emporium/Underdog Cafe to help run events and pick up the web site again and all that good stuff.

Yes, that means the calendar of events will be updated and sent out to this mailing list regularly again. Yay!

So. The web site is back and newly updated! Check out our new design: http://www.emporiumwines.com
Tell us what you think, send along any additions you’ve got, and let us know what you’d like to see on the web site in the future. Feel free to email me here or stop by the shop. If you see a bespectacled redhead either at the counter or with her head buried in a Macbook, you can be sure that’s me.

And here’s our events calendar for the rest of September and October. Check out the latest at http://www.emporiumwines.com/events.htm

Friday, September 19 – 6:30pm
Wine Tasting & Live Music: Slipstream with Jeanne Ulrich

Saturday, September 20 – 6:00pm
“Community Childbirth Jam” – a panel discussion following the film “Orgasmic Birth” (4pm at the Little Art)

Thursday, September 25 – 8:00pm
Reception following Local Knowledge lecture by Prof. Robert Brecha, Physicist and Climate Specialist, University of Dayton

Friday, September 26 – 6:30pm
(Mostly organic!) Wine Tasting & Live Music: Jazz with Swingshift

Friday, October 3 – 6:30pm
Wine Tasting & Live Music: House Band with Carl Shumacher

Saturday, October 4 – 4:00pm
Art Opening/Reception for Mary Peirano’s “Against The Walls” – watercolors, acrylics, and collage

Monday, October 6 – 5:00pm
ProAct Poetry Open Mike

Wednesday, October 8 – 7:00pm
Opera Overtures Lecture: “Turandot” with Dayton Opera’s Luke Dennis

Friday, October 10 – 6:30pm
Wine Tasting & Live Music: Michael Stewart on acoustic guitar

Friday, October 17 – 6:30pm
Wine Tasting & Live Music: David Schumacher

Friday, October 24 – 6:30pm
Wine Tasting & Live Music: Slipstream with Jeanne Ulrich

Friday, October 31 – 6:30pm
Wine Tasting & Live Music: Halloween Party with Ryan Judy

The past few weeks at the Emporium have seen quite a bit of change. If you haven’t been in lately, come and check out our newly-painted floor! and new track-lighting! I can frankly say that the Emporium looks like a different (and better!) place. If you liked our calming ambiance before, you’ll love it even more now. Here’s a wee photo for a tease:
If you can’t view the image, go to http://static.flickr.com/70/215077837_b667a86bb8_o.jpg
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While I’m showing you pictures… Last weekend’s art show opening was quite successful: In addition to drawing quite the crowd, we made it on the news! A photo from the event:

If you can’t view the image, go to http://static.flickr.com/65/215077836_29604aa635_o.jpg

The art display—“Love, Loss, and Longing: The Impact of U.S. Travel Policy on Cuban-American Families; An exhibit in photographs and words”—will remain gracing our walls until August 30. Come see it.

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And now, a reminder of our upcoming events…

FRI, AUG 18, 6:30-10P
Our weekly Friday wine-tasting. Deb Stallard, Patrick Drews, and Bruce Niccolini return to play us some jazz! Also, Yellow Springs’ own Michael Brown will be pouring his wines.

MON, AUG 21, 7-10P
The Neighborhood Poetry Night: Open mic and live jazz by the G. Scott Jones Freedom Ensemble. Visit their web site for more information: http://www.neighborhoodpoetry.org

FRI, AUG 25, 6:30-10P
Our weekly Friday wine tasting with live music by Dayton’s own guitar virtuoso Eric Loy.

The Emporium's gone high-tech.
Check out a short video interview by me with Vick "the beer guy" Mickunas and Kurt "the owner" Miyazaki. Apologies for the quality.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KHZ1DSUOAk

Got a question for one of us?
Email it to me and maybe it'll make it to video!

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And now, a friendly reminder of some very upcoming events that you should really come to!

*TONIGHT!* Monday, June 19, 7-10pm
NEIGHBORHOOD POETRY NIGHT! hosted by JOHN BOOTH and JOHN PAUL DAVIS, and featuring the music of the G. SCOTT JONES FREEDOM ENSEMBLE; http://www.neighborhoodpoetry.org/

Friday, June 23, 6:30-10pm
our weekly Friday WINE TASTING! with LIVE MUSIC from folk singer-songwriter KRISTEN LARSEN. Plus! JULIA REICHERT and STEVE BOGNAR will be reading from their newly-published companion to their film, A LION IN THE HOUSE.

Friday, June 30, 6:30-10pm
our weekly Friday WINE TASTING! with LIVE MUSIC from SWING SHIFT. Plus! Antioch School alumni will be there—come say hi.