Ferndale Library Recommends: Kerrie's Ferndale Findings

Kerrie Patterson is our newest staffer on the Circulation Desk - and each of her suggestions is something (book/movie/album) that she picked up in her first five months in Ferndale.

Kerrie Patterson comes to us from Waterford where she had experience serving the circulation staff of that area's larger, bustling public library. Coming on six-months into the job here at FPL, she still digs our town's laid-back atmosphere and how much of a role the library plays in the community... "Such as," Patterson says, "conducting the Ferndale Reads group reading event, with the 'flash-mob' style launch at Rust Belt. There's also the Metro Times Blowout coming through here," (with the Library featured as one of many venues for said-local music festival). Another awesome event, Patterson noted, is our First Stop Fridays - the monthly local music showcase. (We're hoping someday soon to feature the Ferndale-based quartet who produced …

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Distortion Comes Clean as Local Band Finds What Fits Best

Release show for FUR's 'Image on the Reverse' to be held Dec. 15 at the Loving Touch in Ferndale.

-------------- -------------- When I say that local band FUR is in-tune, I don’t mean something tonal - I mean a kind of creative conscientiousness. The truth comes out rather quickly with this band.  [Listen here.] That they’re so aware of how they operate, what works best for them; that they’re keen to have kept sifting different sounds, textures and styles to employ in their experimental, new-wave pop-style and, particularly, that in being such down-to-earth fans of music, they’re thus wary of the pitfalls, clichés or impeding illusions typical of every musician's first big band. “Every band says this, but…” Ryan O’Rourke, singer/guitarist prefaces one of his answers with that with self-depreciating satire towards music culture. “…

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Ferndale Bands Summoned for Epic Halloween Party

Tickets available at the Rust Belt Market and Detroit Comics for Theatre Bizarre Oct. 20 at the Masonic Temple in Detroit.

Last year it was a “... grand experiment that may only happen once." But behold... Another full moon, another resurrecting-lightning-bolt, the unstoppable undead-themed Halloween party, Theatre Bizarre - an enveloping evening of incredible scale, nightmare-never-neverland vision and inter-dimensional proportions - is returning to the Masonic Temple on October 20. The legendary (yes legendary, go Google it, oh ye uninitiated...) “dusk till dawn” outdoor masquerade /freak/goth- rock-n-roll carnival was started a dozen years ago by multifaceted graphic artist (and exceptional on-the-fly carpenter) John Dunivant, in the backyard of collaborator Ken Poirer, beside the original Michigan State Fair Grounds. In 2010, they were shut down by the …

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