Sea of Coffee Open Mic

03/04/2024

CHATHAM, NH—During a long-planned excursion with his family through the White Mountain National Forest, 12-year-old Austin Tanden is said to have spent an entire hiking trip Tuesday fantasizing about exactly which video games he would play when he got home. “First, I’m going to boot up Fortnit...

02/21/2024

Beyoncé’s song is country but the racist side of country refuses to play it

An Oklahoma country station made news this week when it briefly refused to play a Beyoncé song. It's a resonant tale for the Black and women musicians who have tried to crack the format for decades.

02/11/2024

Grocery Store Not Fooling Anybody By Marketing Cantaloupe As Fun Super Bowl Snack

12/31/2023

NEXT EVENT is MARCH 24

12/11/2023

I’ll be a dictator Day 1.
Oh but then the Constitution can be revoked on Day 1.
If I see the need then yes.

12/11/2023

NEW YORK—After testing all the most popular woods, irons, and putters from top manufacturers, the editors of Golf Magazine announced Monday that they had officially named Taylor Swift their club of the year. “Taylor Swift has quickly become a favorite putter of both professionals and amateurs, w...

12/11/2023

SAN DIEGO—Staring directly at the speaker so it knew he was onto it, local white man Sam Vance told reporters Monday he felt like the Spanish-language music playing in a Macy’s department store was talking about him. “I can’t make out what he’s saying, exactly, but I’m getting the naggin...

12/11/2023

Friday we saw the amazing new Hayao Miyazaki film, Boy and the Heron. Mahito, a young 12-year-old boy, struggles to settle in a new town after his mother's death. However, when a talking heron informs Mahito that his mother is still alive, he enters an abandoned tower in search of her, which takes him to another world.

THE BOY AND THE HERONFrom Hayao Miyazaki and Studio GhibliSpecial preview engagements in NYC & LA begin November 22In theatres nationwide and IMAX December 8...

02/28/2023

We are starting up affinity on Sunday March 26.

11/29/2022

WTF! ? ? ?

Police say they discovered "what appeared to be a human fetus or infant" and additional remains at an apartment in South Boston. An autopsy has revealed four infants: two female and two male.

09/14/2022

09/13/2022

One of my inspirations has died. Yes “In Crowd” was in my repertoire. RIP Ramsey Lewis

Ramsey Lewis was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Ramsey Lewis Sr. and Pauline Lewis. Lewis began taking piano lessons at the age of four. At 15 he joined his f...

05/26/2022

02/22/2022

Cancel March.
Our first event this year is Sunday April 24 1pm to 3pm. Open mic sign up is 12:30. open mic folk eillhsve 5 minutes each. There will be two featured readers.

02/12/2022

Keep watch, we hope to open live in March. If will clear with The Dalai Java Cafe, it will happen.

01/24/2022

We are postponing shows at the Dalai Java until we feel a little more calm about the Covid. At this point we’ve canceled January and February 2022.

11/16/2021

Sunday 11/21 at 1pm

09/22/2021

September 19, 2921 photos curtesy of George Grace.

09/05/2021

Sarcasm, don’t do this.

05/27/2021

05/16/2021

Stephen Lewandowski and I are preparing for an outdoors poetry event maybe Sunday June 20.

10/03/2020

Friends, though our last Thursday inside distancing experiment worked well, Stephen Lewandowski and I have, for now, ended our poetry series in Canandaigua. So the first Thursdays are open (and my doctors are pleased I won’t keep skipping the adjacent Friday dialysis).

06/25/2020

Thursday August 6 featuring Mina Hatami and Steven Huff OUTSIDE in the pavilion park will be our next open mic. Here across Main St from our usual meeting place, The Dalai Java at 157 S. Main St Canandaigua. You can park in the street or behind the pavilion. Here are pictures

03/23/2020

The april event is cancelled

03/15/2020

At present the April 2 event with Mina Hatami is expected to go on. Concerned readers and listeners should consider wearing a mask.

02/29/2020

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Found on Google from tenor.com

12/16/2019

Sea of Coffee open mic is on vacation till February. But meanwhile at Books, Etc., 78 West Main Street, Macedon, NY (near Rochester) at 2 PM on Saturday, December 21st! Four engaging authors, Reilly Hirst, Jennifer Maloney, Gary Earl Ross and Scott W. Williams will read from their works of short fiction at this fun event. Listeners will have the opportunity to discuss each work with the writers, and each other.

10/05/2019

35 present October 3 2019 for the open mic and Celeste Lawson feature

09/06/2019

Tonight’s inaugural 9/5/19 session of The Dalai Java Open Mic was a success. 45 people attended 12+1 open mic performances buttressing Bill Pruitt’s incredible reading.