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Storytelling is a practiced tradition throughout all cultures. When combined with theatrics and improvisation a storyteller can paint picture through words and movement.  Talking Dirty after dark is a live storytelling event that combines the art of storytelling with performance and music. The stories performed by the artist are firsthand accounts and completely true. This is an open content event and some colorful language may be used during the telling of these stories, sensitive listeners please advise.

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Join us for a night of cocktails and pretty lettering! Whether you’re a stationery nerd, DIY Bride-to-be, or just a crafty individual, in this workshop you’ll be learning an introduction to modern calligraphy with a pointed dip pen and ink. We will cover all the basics and get you ready to add those special lettered details to your snail mail, wedding paper goods, home decor and more! The perfect crafty night out!

Class includes 1.5 hours of instruction and demonstration, our beginner’s calligraphy kit (two nibs, black ink pot, 2 letter guides, tracing paper and straight pen holder), and all materials to write on. Everything is yours to keep at the end of the night!

Feel free to come early to check in, grab your seat, and order any food (food and drinks available to order throughout class too!). Class will start promptly at 5:30pm

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Welcome back to the Six Foot Love series at The Wild Detectives. A series of live outdoor performances with numbered seats and limited capacity.

Tickets: $10/person

Little Beards are celebrating their forthcoming release The Legend of Spectacular Living by performing in our backyard! For this special occasion, they’ve invited the Fort Worth experimental electronic duo Kitbashes.

What do you do when the world is ending? Laugh.

At least that’s what is suggested by Little Beards, the Dallas, TX synth-rock duo of Nan Kirkpatrick and Sean Kirkpatrick on their second album. The group’s previous release, 2017’s Midnight in the Garden of Chaotic Neutral, took listeners through the sleek world of mid-century America to reveal the emptiness underneath. The Legend of Spectacular Living is set three decades later and we’re in the heart of the crumbling empire. No one else is getting in on the ground floor. The golden days are over, and “remember when” is the lowest form of conversation.

From the doom-inspired bass on “What’s The Point (It’s Funny)” to the machine-gun beats on “Acts of Violence”, The Legend of Spectacular Living tells the story of the end of empire through the world of The Sopranos. The music can be lush, melodic, and danceable, but will often coalesce into claustrophobia or disorder. Nan and Sean’s alternating vocals hover over synths, organs and pianos, looped exotica and string samples, distorted bass guitar, and drum machines. The six-song album revels in the feeling that underneath the expensive exterior, there’s no promise of a better future and the search for meaning always comes up empty. Everyone is haunted, chased by a past that promised so much more than what they’re getting in the end.

On “Long Term Parking,” Nan’s pretty, echoing voice warns a former lover from an unmarked grave in the woods that they’ll never escape. (Ir)Regardless of whether you recognize the song title’s reference, you’ll feel haunted all the same.

While it is true the members of Little Beards share the same last name and are married, they reject the overused descriptor “husband-wife duo”. For one matter, Nan is non-binary. Secondly, Little Beards eschews the personal in favor of themes of existentialism, moral ambiguity, and immobility. Writing songs through the lens of these fictional antiheroes and complicit heroines liberates them to explore modern angst without over-sentimentality.

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Join us for the Caftan EP release “Where you lead you”. Caftan, a folk rock psychedelia band based in Dallas will be joined by St. Yuma. An evening of local folk rock at our backyard!

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Tusing grew up whistling and humming along the creek beds and treetops of Texas. Music and nature have been two of his greatest loves for as long as he can remember, and he’s been recording music since he was 14. His first band released EPs throughout Tusing’s high school years, and the artist has released solo work on Bandcamp since 2011.

Tusing’s songs are often buoyed by his time as an avid traveler and hiker. “I think I’m better at creating when I give myself space for personal growth, and that’s a big part of what my outdoor life and my music are about: reflection, and bringing something back into the world.”

In celebration of his upcoming album Driving to the Game, Tusing will be playing a special set with unreleased songs with Bobby Orozco as the opening act. Join us for a fun night full of music and surprises!

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“His voice takes on a deep vibration, conjuring a sense of forlorn solitude not unlike Orville Peck’s lonesome cowboy or The National’s dust-swept Americana.”

Anthony Kozlowski, Atwood Magazine

“Tusing is proof that an outdoor lifestyle and music lifestyle do not have to be mutually exclusive, and in some ways, might even be complementary.”

Karyna Micaela, Dallas Observer

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Infinite Arts Movement and The Wild Detectives Presents: P.O.P Kulture (Poetry on the Patio)

An all new poetry open mic in the Bishop Arts District.

Hosted by National Spoken Word Artist Verb Kulture (from TV One Verses and Flow)

Music by International DJ Frances Jaye

Visual Art Display and  Poetry Open Mic…Come out and witness some of the best poetry in town, view the amazing artwork for local artists and enjoy drinks, networking, and supporting the arts.

For tickets visit http://www.verbkultureevents.com  Call or text 972 815 3724 for more info or to sign up for Open Mic

Early Arrival Strongly Suggested.

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Our next book club selection is Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder. In this blazingly smart and voracious debut, an artist turned stay-at-home mom becomes convinced she’s turning into a dog.

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Find this book in our bookstore or get it delivered to your home from our online store

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Let’s meet up and talk Literature!

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Bienvenido al nuevo book club bilingüe en The Wild Detectives, creado para unir lectores de inglés y español de distintos niveles a través de historias contadas por autores Latinoamericanos y Españoles. Cada mes leeremos dos cuentos publicados en inglés y español de dos escritores de la lista Granta, que reúne los 22 mejores narradores en Español del panorama actual.

Nuestro próximo encuentro será el Jueves 2 de Septiembre, y leeremos los textos El Niño Dengue de Michel Nieva y Capsula de Mateo Garcia Elizondo.

Durante la primera hora del encuentro (6.30p to 7.30p) la conversación será en inglés y durante la segunda hora en inglés (7.30 to 8.30p). Puedes unirte en cualquier momento.

No es necesario un nivel fluido en ninguno de los dos idiomas, se trata de unir las dos lenguas, disfrutar de historias maravillosas y practicar cualquiera de los dos idiomas mientras leemos, hablamos y bebemos.

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Puedes comprar el libro en cualquiera de los dos idiomas en nuestra librería o pedirlo en nuestra tienda virtual con un 10% de descuento.

Edición en español

Edición en inglés

Join us for our first ever meeting of the Wild Detectives Bilingual Book Club, created to bring together Spanish and English-speakers of varying levels who share a love for language, literature and culture. Each month we will discuss a selection of short stories from the new Granta selection, which showcases the best contemporary fiction writers in Spanish.

Our next meeting will take place on September 2nd, and we´ll read the stories Dengue Boy by Michel Nieva y Capsula by Mateo Garcia Elizondo.

We´ll talk in English during the first hour of the meeting (6.30p to 7.30p) and in Spanish during the second hour (7.30p to 8.30p)

Fluency in either language is not necessary! It’s the perfect opportunity to not only discuss great stories, but also to practice whichever of the two languages you most want to grow in!

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The book can be bought in Spanish and/or English at The Wild Detectives and also only with a 10% discount.

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Spanish edition

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Welcome back to the Six Foot Love series at The Wild Detectives. A series of live outdoor performances with numbered seats and limited capacity.

Tickets: $10/person

Baptist Generals is an experimental folk project led by singer/songwriter C*Flemmons.

Originally formed in Denton, Texas as a 2-piece drum and guitar street act, the band has evolved to a 5 and sometimes 6-member lineup with Flemmons regularly performing solo shows under the same name. They have toured with and backed Daniel Johnston, toured and performed with Mountain Goats, Vic Chesnutt, Damien Jurado, John Vanderslice, Crooked Fingers, Smog, Shearwater, among others.

Though most often defined as a folk act, the catalogue the band has built defies the tropes of that genre with aggressive arrangements and lush orchestrations, sometimes borrowing from Latin, African and other world rhythms, along with a regular seasoning of small electronics and psychoacoustic accidents.

Flemmons’ songwriting can be an intense emotional experience for some, as live shows at points dig into some of the darkest corners of the human experience. He wants the audience to return to places in their damaged psyches because “the world is rigged for you to not feel anything.”

Bosque Brown

Mara Lee Miller’s songs have been fiercely protected and quietly celebrated since 2005. Bosque Brown Plays Mara Lee Miller found listeners already warm to the plains-hearted music everywhere in the mid-aughts. Bosque Brown’s first release transcended those old-country and freak-folk trends, evoking a greater reason these sounds were popular: Miller’s songs evoked starlit roads and churches of rural Texas where she grew up just as they brushed a desire for healing common among those who associate those places with spiritual injury. This dichotomy was not resolved in Bosque Brown’s music. The bones of each hymn were strong enough to withstand trembling — the kind brought by fear, and the kind brought by wonder. Miller’s inner world was dark. It was only hers, and with the songs she kept the truth.

When the four-tracked demo that prefaced Bosque Brown Plays Mara Lee Miller caught the attention of Burnt Toast Vinyl, performance was not Miller’s focus. Neither is it her focus now. It is heartrending and special to hear Bosque Brown live. Those who did at the beginning remember the awe inspired by Miller’s voice and her talent for silence. She is an artist devoted to privacy and process, so a band formed around her in service to the first record in the safest way possible: her husband, her sister, and two friends played. One of them was Jeremy Buller, then an unknown guitarist whose reverence for Miller’s songs could be felt in the room.  He went on to play with Sarah Jaffe, OK Sweetheart, Sophia Duccini and other artists whose work was clarified in his gentle, careful ear as a producer and sought-after multi-instrumentalist.

Bosque Brown had one more release on Burnt Toast Vinyl, Baby, and the self-released Us and Little Sea crystallized a partnership between Buller and Miller that continues to grow. With fall 2021 comes an opportunity to witness the pair live for the first time since 2013. During this hiatus from shows, Miller’s voice has been heard by new audiences via soundtracks to films like David Lowery’s The Old Man and the Gun. The possibilities of Bosque Brown always begin with the song itself, and with Buller standing alongside Miller as a mirror to the listener’s awe, every song will continue to be treasured.

Bosque Brown text written by Lyndsay Knecht

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“Hycha Wy” in the Muisca language, means “I am” in past or present tense depending on the context. This is the name of Nemegata’s debut LP, recorded by Beto Martinez (Prince / Brownout / Grupo Fantasma), and by longtime collaborator and colleague Juan Alvarez “El Mono”, out on Chicago’s indie label Sonorama Discos. The album puts into context a far-reaching exploration into the many channels of influence this band possesses. Synthesizing tradition with elements of South American and African psychedelia through imaginary landscapes inviting the listener into what is without a doubt a sonic trip towards resignified roots and ancestry.

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Senior Editor at Rolling Stone Magazine David Fricke gave Hycha Wy a 4-star review on UK’s MOJO Magazine calling it “ Rhythmic ambition and spiritual verve, this power-trance trio is a genuine pan-American thrill, fusing shamanistic pulse, cumbia-via-New Order, garage blues minimalism, and Bay Area- ‘60s psychedelia as if the were all native tongues.”

To cope with being an immigrant preteen growing up in the late 90’s USA, Victor-Andres Cruz “El Guámbito” obsessed over Colombian traditional music and instruments as a defense mechanism. He found refuge and a profound sense of identity rooted in these sounds. Raised as an amalgamation between the Colombian Andean countryside, Florida, New England, and New York City, Victor created a voice and a place where all worlds converge.

In 2018 Casa del Indio Discos recorded and released Nemegata’s first 7” single using a 4-track cassette recorder. The tracks were produced in collaboration by “Niño Lento” and played on drums by “Dilemastronauta”, two of the masterminds behind the emblematic Combo Chimbita.

Among Austin Chronicle’s top 10 new local acts of 2019 along with Black Pumas, and Austin’s top 100 albums of 2020, this band has risen from the inseparable strong bond between César Valencia “I Nova”(Bass), Fabian Rincón (Drums) and Victor. An essential combination that makes Nemegata a mystical power trio

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