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St. Patrick's Day @ Midcity Cafe : 03.15.08
*It appears that the Roman Catholic Church has changed the date of St. Patrick's Day this year to avoid conflict with Holy Monday that falls on 3/17. Like god can't see you getting trashed two days early...whatever! At least we won't have to go to work the next morning like usual!
Saturday, March 15 2008
10pm - 3am
Midcity Cafe
845 Spring Street
Atlanta, GA 30308
with music by:
Chris Meadows
Fher Rivera
John Michaels
with live art by:
Pieter VanderMeer
$6 Irish Car Bombs! oh yeah!
Yeah I totally can't wait for this. 
i didn't know the catholics had such power and i was raised catholic LOL! either way it still says st patty's day on the domo kun calendar so i'll go by that.
you suck for having this the weekend i have finals. my last final is on the 17th and i will be drinking after that.
And after that I'll start seeing you at shows? 
pretty much.. until i get loaded up again with school work. i start classes again for spring quarter march 26th and end june 6th i think.
omgah c'moooooooon
Heck yeah! Sounds like a great after party for [this comment has been modified due to a copyright claim by the Church Of Scientology International]
more info on the Catholic's fight to keep the festivities out of their "holy week..."
I don't really understand what the big deal is, let the ******s move the day to Saturday...more time to get hammered and more time to recover!
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http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayo...t.ap/index.html
For the first time since 1940, St. Patrick's Day will fall during Holy Week, the sacred seven days preceding Easter.
Because of the overlap, liturgical rules dictate that no Mass in honor of the saint can be celebrated on Monday, March 17, according to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
But a few Roman Catholic leaders are asking for even more moderation in their dioceses: They want parades and other festivities kept out of Holy Week as well.
Bishop J. Kevin Boland of the Diocese of Savannah, Georgia, wrote to practically every agency in his city, from the Chamber of Commerce to the Board of Education, saying the diocese was changing the date of its celebration this year. In response, the citywide Irish festival was moved to Friday, March 14, when schools will close and bagpipe-driven parties will carry into the streets.
More than half a million people stream into the Southern city for the festival, one of the nation's largest St. Patrick's Day affairs, said Bret Bell, Savannah's public information director. Savannah bars will be open March 17, but no organized events will be held that day, he said.
"The city has a very strong Irish Catholic community, a very traditional Irish Catholic community," Bell said. "They attend Mass regularly. And the last thing they want to do is get in the bad graces of the Catholic Church."
Philadelphia has also moved its parade date to avoid giving offense, and Milwaukee is hitting the streets sooner than usual, too.
But in Columbus, the Shamrock Club is going ahead with its March 17 parade, drawing protests from the local bishop. A handful of Irish-American politicians have lined up behind church leaders, breaking with tradition by refusing to march in the parade.
In a letter last fall, the Catholic Diocese of Columbus told the Shamrock Club, the group that organizes the parade, that Bishop Frederick Campbell wanted "all observances honoring St. Patrick" -- religious or otherwise -- removed from Holy Week.
"It's not a sin to celebrate your Irish culture," countered Mark Dempsey, the club's president.
"Actually, you're born Irish first," he said, "and then you're baptized Catholic."
Not all Columbus Irish groups agree. Members of the local chapter of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, a national Irish Catholic organization, will skip the parade and will instead join the March 15 parade in Dublin, a Columbus suburb.
In New York and Boston, with legendary St. Patrick's events planned by the cities' large Irish communities, bishops are taking a hands-off approach, saying the church has no part in planning civic celebrations.
The Archdiocese of New York, which has St. Patrick as a patron saint, will hold the liturgical celebration for St. Patrick on March 14. Cardinal Edward Egan will then say Mass on Monday, the same day as the parade, and will review the procession from the steps of St. Patrick's Cathedral, archdiocesan spokesman Joseph Zwilling said.
Boston's parade remains set for Sunday, March 16, which is Palm Sunday and the first day of Holy Week.
Other public dustups over St. Patrick's Day have erupted in past years, including a protracted fight between gay Irish groups and city leaders in New York and Boston over the right to march in the parades, which the Catholic Church has steadfastly opposed.
But a calendar conflict is a rare event: Holy Week won't clash with St. Patrick's Day again until 2160. This year's peculiar schedule also sees the feast day of St. Joseph -- honored by Catholics as the husband of the Virgin Mary -- celebrated March 15, four days early.
Italian enclaves in many U.S. cities mark St. Joseph's with their own parades, but not on the level inspired by his Irish counterpart, so that shift hasn't produced any public grousing.
The St. Patrick's Day clash has a touch of the Christmas commercialism debate, about a holiday whose religious roots are tangled up in decidedly secular traditions. In most St. Patrick's traditions, parades are intertwined with Mass.
"It's kind of a test of clerical power, in a way," said Mike Cronin, co-author of "The Wearing of the Green: History of St. Patrick's Day." "I think there's a real issue then around organizing committees saying, 'Do we need the church, or do we not?"'
The U.S. remains one of the few countries in the world to retain any religious traces of St. Patrick's Day, Cronin said. In Ireland, where the government sponsors the Dublin parade, the holiday has morphed into an arts festival that draws millions of people, he said.
Recognizing that, bishops there have moved the feast of the nation's patron saint to March 15 this year. March 17 will remain an official Irish day off work and the Dublin parade will go on as scheduled.
Had Ireland's bishops shown the same insistence as some of their American counterparts, Cronin said, their comments almost certainly would have been ignored.
"It'd be like the (American) bishops arguing to move Super Bowl Sunday," he said.
The conflict is uncomfortable for some Irish-American Catholics. Franklin County Treasurer Ed Leonard bowed out of the Columbus parade but hopes a resolution might be reached.
"We wouldn't be celebrating St. Patrick's Day," he said, "were it not for the religious component of it."
omg lame. well fine let's celebrate two days! the "fake" day and the real day.
btw i might luck out. my last final might be the 13th. i'll keep you updated.
yoyoyo! coming up this weekend!
I shall be thurrrrrrrrrrr + Tomski
I'm so there.
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| Originally posted by CyclonesWorld I'm so there. |
I might make a cameo appearance.
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And we're off!
I got stuck at work until 1am. And the person I was trying to switch with wasn't there to ask. Even though I switched with her for her own personal reasons twice this week. The fucking cunt.
What did I tell you about PAPERWORK!!!! 
man i had a really good time at this! it was awesome seeing some familiar faces at midcity cafe! can't wait for the 19th... ohh and peter said we could bring extra sound if we wanted too.
i want my ears to bleed and my heart palpitations to be in sync with the bass b/c its so loud.
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| Originally posted by iWantMoreJavier ohh and peter said we could bring extra sound if we wanted too. i want my ears to bleed and my heart palpitations to be in sync with the bass b/c its so loud. |
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| Originally posted by Ted Promo I got stuck at work until 1am. And the person I was trying to switch with wasn't there to ask. Even though I switched with her for her own personal reasons twice this week. The fucking cunt. |
You're horrible, Donny. 
SERIOUSLY packed in there on saturday, thanks for coming out everybody!
Javier, we can bring a little extra sound definitely, what did you have in mind? Oh, and of course we're going to need Alok's mixer ;-) hehe
oh em gee an 800 it be
Sam post up dem vids!
Here are some pics in no particular order.
<3 <3 <3
Not a lie!
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