Sunday, January 29
Free Candy, with Amanda & Julia
Hartford Coffee Company, 3974 Hartford
Free, not so much for kids, 7 p.m., 314-772-5947, www.freecandy.net
Attendance: 65
Brand new year, same old made-up talk show! Except that it's new every time, dig? So, the drill, as you'll recall from shows past: Amanda & Julia sit on tall chairs at Hartford Coffee, everyone drinks yummy coffee drinks and smoothies and whatnot, the guest band rocks our socks off and fascinating guests come up and regale our audience with tales of delight and horror! Yep, that's pretty much what we're expecting at this month's non-broadcast episode, which features Julia (on a visit back from her academic sabbatical), Diane Hurwitz (who runs a nursing home for cats) and Graham Griffith (who is senior producer for a public radio show called "On Point"). And the City Folk return as our musical guest, by popular demand. But we can't spell "uproarious fun" without "U"! (Actually, without three "U"s...)