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Benefit Show for Louffa Press at Cultiva Coffee June 26

Support local publishing company Louffa Press at a benefit show featuring public readings and performances by local musicians on Saturday, June 26th at Cultiva Coffee (11th and G) from 7-10 p.m. Featured musicians include Ember Schrag, No One Conquered Wyoming and Tiny Tiny Tongues

The mission behind Louffa Press is to introduce new and innovative micro-fiction and non-fiction that bends genres, blurs lines between the arts and to disturb and contort readers with a very vigorous scrub. New offerings in print from Louffa Press this year are chapbooks by Steve Katz (author of Moving Parts, Stolen Stories, Creamy and Delicious), Munter Jack, David Moscovich and forthcoming by New York flash fictionist Mike Topp.

Alaadeen Book Combines Instruction, History

By Tom Ineck
 
Ahmad Alaadeen’s skill as an educator has been acknowledged by the Berman Music Foundation at least since December 1998, when the BMF brought the renowned saxophonist from his home in Kansas City to conduct a series of workshops at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln School of Music.
 
Noting that “jazz has been elevated to America's classical music,” Alaadeen told students of his own less dignified introduction to the music. He said his parents and their generation thought you would go to hell if you listened to jazz.
 
"Well, welcome to hell," Alaadeen deadpanned.