{"id":44873,"date":"2018-02-26T12:48:01","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T18:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=44873"},"modified":"2018-02-27T10:19:51","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T16:19:51","slug":"rafael-alvarez-and-matthew-zediker-perform-march-9-in-water-valley-mississippi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/rafael-alvarez-and-matthew-zediker-perform-march-9-in-water-valley-mississippi\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Alvarez and Matthew Zediker Perform March 9 in Water Valley, Mississippi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gmail_default\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><b>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/new-Alvarez-fiction-collection.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-44884\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/new-Alvarez-fiction-collection.jpg?resize=550%2C736\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"736\" \/><\/a>What:<\/b>\u00a0A parlor reading by <strong>Baltimore<\/strong> author and screenwriter <strong>Rafael Alvarez<\/strong> sharing stories from his new book,\u00a0<i><strong>Basilio Boullosa Stars in the Fountain of Highlandtown<\/strong>.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><b>When:<\/b>\u00a0\u200b<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1815446896\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Friday, March 9, 2018 at 7 pm<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><b>Where:<\/b>\u00a0 The home of artists <strong>Pati D&#8217;Amico<\/strong> and <strong>Bill Warren<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/?q=200+Panola+Street,+Water+Valley,+MS.+38965&amp;entry=gmail&amp;source=g\">200 Panola Street, Water Valley, Mississippi 38965<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><b>Who:<\/b>\u00a0Alvarez is a former staff writer for the HBO drama <strong><em>The Wire<\/em><\/strong> and the author of four books of literary fiction. He will be joined by <strong>Matthew Zediker<\/strong>, a multi-instrumentalist majoring in music and mathematics at Ole Miss.\u00a0 Among Zediker&#8217;s many inspirations\u2014from the blues to &#8217;60s psychedelia\u2014he is enamored of the music of <strong>Don Van Vliet<\/strong>\u00a0 (1941\u20132010) , a visionary better known as <strong>Captain Beefheart<\/strong>. Alvarez interviewed Van Vliet in Philadelphia in the early 1980s. The show will be emceed by <strong>Tyrone Crawley<\/strong>, scholar of American soul music.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><b>Why:<\/b>\u00a0The 30th anniversary of Alvarez&#8217;s pilgrimage to Mississippi when he and Crawley criss-crossed the Magnolia State to raise awareness for literacy programs and interviewed river tow-boat captains about the great drought of 1988.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><b>Info:<\/b>\u00a0Contact Pati D&#8217;Amico via\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:puppetcode2@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">puppetcode2@gmail.com<\/a>\u00a0or Rafael Alvarez at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:orlo.leini@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">orlo.leini@gmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bWhat:\u00a0A parlor reading by Baltimore author and screenwriter Rafael Alvarez sharing stories from his new book,\u00a0Basilio Boullosa Stars<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":44874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4934,1],"tags":[3113,11783,3119,11787,11786,1487,3915,7067,3118,3819,11785,11788,11784],"class_list":["post-44873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-uncategorized","tag-baltimore","tag-basilio-boullosa-stars-in-the-fountain-of-highlandtown","tag-bill-warren","tag-captain-beefheart","tag-don-van-vliet","tag-hbo","tag-matthew-zediker","tag-ole-miss","tag-pati-damico","tag-rafael-alvarez","tag-the-wire","tag-tyrone-crawley","tag-water-valley-mississippi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Rafael-Alvarez-water-valley-reading-march-9.jpg?fit=1000%2C667&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}