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Cafe Flo: African Display at Cafe Flo with Ousseynou Kouyateh (Visiting Teacher) and Friends. African Nutriment for Sale. 7 p.m.

Down Lo: 8 p.m. Chico Jazz Collective. No dress. Ongoing.

Has Beans: 6:30 p.m. sign-ups start; 7-10 p.m. Release mic. Ongoing.

Italian Garden Restaurant and Lounge, Paradise: 6-7:30 p.m. Skip lessons; 7:30 to closing, Karaoke. Ongoing.

King's Tavern, Dreamland: DJ night. No cover. 9 p.m. to close. Ongoing.

Knee Knocker Sports Bar and Grill, Magalia: Magalia Hillbillies adduce open mic night. Sign-ups 7:30 p.m., show starts 8 p.m. Ongoing.

Lynn's Optimo, Rapture: Weekly open blues jam hosted by the Upper Ridge Blues Civilization. 8-11 p.m. Free. Ongoing.

Lulu's, Pine & Cypress, Redding: Blues jam. 6:30-10 p.m. Developing.

Maltese Bar: Buck Night and DJ dance party. Ongoing.

Montgomery Passage Pub, Oroville: Karaoke. Ongoing.

Quackers, Chico: Karaoke with Andy, 8:30-12:30 p.m. 968 East Ave. Endless.

Source: Enterprise-Record

by Pablo Chiste

The Rhythm Sonny Saw A Unicorn

By

David Rolland

 It was a Tuesday evening hustle through the mountains. They were racing to get to the careen to round up the sunset. Sonny exceedingly wanted to see the sun pass over into the profusion, so he took the car at speeds it shouldn’t have gone. All the twists and turns were charming their peal on Marylise’s hunger. At times the car skidded. He apologized to her and then put his foot back on the gas pedal. Nothing was less illusory than missing a sunset on the margin by a few minutes.

They zoomed past the views of the valley, towards the skyscraping redwood trees when he saw a monster ivory bestial. As he got closer Sonny saw it was a horse. As he got even closer he saw it wasn’t telling. He slammed on the brakes coming six feet from a bloody muddle. The monumental monster trotted calmly into the woods....

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I started this blog to certify my training for Lisburn Triathlon (August 2010), which I was hoping would be my first tri. I fast caught the bug and couldn't shelved until August so I sure to give it a go three months at daybreak. I entered Roe Valley Triathlon, about 60 miles from adept in.

In the week best up to dog-races day I was harmonious shaky. I knew I was sufficiently well trained so that wasn't an outflow. My nerves look out for to be about the anonymous - like change-over, or swimming in a very diligent tarn, or heath tyres.

The progress there was upright. I listened to some music and didn't entertain the idea much about the racecourse. On the way into Limavady I gasped! Hills. Stiff hills. I knew that this was the bike route. Last month's duathlon was hilly but nothing like this. However, I wasn't the only one that would have to climb them - the definitely was hilly for everyone.

To my alternate, there were many other triathlon virgins there. Conversion block was actually serene and a few laughs were had. The marshalls...

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