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Then there are coffee houses with music. Reflections on Mt. Auburn St., Passims on Palmer St., and the Idler on Mt. Auburn under the Blue Parrot all have folk music several nights a week. Reflections serves African food, the Idler serves food and liquor, and Passims has the best music (if the highest cover charge...
...Japanese sculptors, painters and poets. Their party game consisted of decorating unglazed raku (stoneware pottery), which could be painted, glazed and fired within an hour. The foreigner was handed a plate. He was nonplused. "What on earth does one put on a pot? . . . I made a drawing of a parrot. They plunged it into some glaze and it turned quite white; I thought they didn't like my drawing, but then I saw everyone's plate went through this process. The kiln was opened with tongs. The pots were put into a red-hot chamber...
...Back Room at the Idler (354-9489), beneath the Blue Parrot (lest you think me unimaginative, I mean a depressed bird), Robin Walsh is "soft and gutsy at the same time" when she sings and plays acoustic guitar tonight. Friday it's Lenny Solomon, who is still trying to remove the ham in last week's Idler Special from his teeth, followed by Reeve Little on Saturday and Sunday. Monday, Chris Rhodes and Koko Dee do whatever they did last Monday, only crunchy, and Tuesday the Brattle Streetband performs humorous British Isles folk music. Wednesday, Jon McAuliffe "does...
...believe in orderly change. Nothing is static in this world. All the changes that have been brought about in South Africa were brought about by this government, by my predecessors and myself. But "change" is just a parrot cry -change to where and to what? Nobody can tell you, as evidenced by the fact that [South Africa's parliamentary opposition] can't find an alternative to the policy of the government...
Back Room at the Idler, which is not surprisingly connected to the Idler, which is in turn connected to the Blue Parrot, and then to the hip bone and so on, is open seven days a week. Three-set shows begin at 9 pm. No cover, no minimum. Beer, wine and light food available. New acts every week, call 491-1551 for info. Little also plays every Tuesday and Thursday at the Casablanca Downstairs in the Truc complex at 40 Brattle St. 876-0999 for details...