Posted on 04/10/2018 7:56:20 AM PDT by SandRat
Friday the 13th. There was one in October, another this Friday, and yet another coming in July.
According to How Stuff Works, 13 is unlucky for being connected to the 13 men at the Last Supper — Judas was the last one to arrive.
Friday has more unlucky connections: Jesus was crucified, the forbidden fruit eaten, and the Great Flood began. In Roman times, Friday was the day of Venus, the love goddess. The Norse named the day for Frigg or Freya, also of love and sex.
Christians were not amused, and attached the “bad luck.”
It looks like Bisbee is superstition-free. The town is having what could be called an accidental neighborhood pub crawl this Friday.
Starting at 7 p.m., Friends of Open Live Stage (yes, F.O.O.L.S.) presents an Open Stage Night at Central School Project, 43 Howell Ave.
Signups go from 6:15 to 6:45 p.m. Almost all performing arts are welcome. No equestrians or fire acts, please.
There will be drama: a teaser from the play “Sherlock Holmes, Crime of the Century,” and the debut of a very short one-act work. Admission is $2 to play or watch, and CSP will have drinks to sell.
Just a block or so away on Subway Street, new coffee shop 31 Beaux is having a dance party with St. Cinder and Unexploded Phonographs. Lively music is guaranteed. Proceeds go toward starting a woodworking/makerspace in Bisbee. The fun starts at 8 p.m., and the suggested donation is $10 to $20. A couple of doors down from 31 Beaux is a “Pop-Up Dance Concert” at Club Kilimanjahro, at 33 Subway St. Their bash starts at 7 p.m., and includes Melissa Reaves and Julio De La Rosa.
So it would appear Bisbee is feeling quite lucky.
Sierra Vistans are ignoring the unluckiness with less-alcoholic activities.
Adults are invited to the Socrates Cafe, a regular discussion group at the Sierra Vista Public Library on Tacoma. The group’s goal is to “build a more inclusive world and to gain a better understanding of human nature. They avoid politics and religion. No advance reading is required. The meeting runs from 10:30 a.m. to noon.
I never knew there was a subway in Bisbee but then the feds will give out money for just about any public works project these days. Infrastructure.
I've only been to Bisbee once, many years ago - to bail a second cousin out of the Cochise County Jail following some disagreement in a drinking establishment. His own mom wouldn't bail him out, neither would his grandmother. (which should have given me a clue.) I was his last resort so I drove down and bonded him out. I dropped him off at his car that was parked off Main Street and that was the last anyone ever saw of him. He jumped bail and just vanished. $200 bucks was worth a lot more in 1978 than it is today. 40 year later and I'm still p!$$ed.
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