SCREEN/SOUNDS/SPORT: Southern-ish Events in NYC 11/14 – 11/18

Lots out southern-ish things to do, hear and see this weekend and spilling into next week:

NOVEMBER 14 – 20 @ Film Forum: My good friend Harrod has a dad who has been touted by the NY Times as “one of our most original filmmakers…A master of movies about the American idiom.” Many of his documentaries were shot in, around or about Southern stuff: the blues, a Texas sharecropper, Louisiana Cajuns, cultural roots, old time tales, an Appalachian fiddler, backwoods characters, good whisky, native folkways. Film Forum is running a retrospective of Les Blank films 11/14 – 20.

SATURDAY 11/15 @ 3:30PM: The South Carolina Alumni Club of NYC invites you to watch the Gamecocks peck the snout outta the Gators…or something like that. Anyway, they’ll all be watching the game at Cooper Door Tavern.

SATURDAY 11/15: Oxford, MS Americana band Blue Mountain has reunited and hits NYC for 2 shows today: 7PM @ Lakeside Lounge in the East Village and 11:45PM @ Hank’s Saloon in Bklyn.

SUNDAY 11/16 @ 12noon: Allen Toussaint: New Orleans Benefit Brunch @ Joe’s Pub. I don’t see this listed on the Joe’s Pub site but Time Out NY says it’s on & poppin’.

SUNDAY 11/16 @ 4:15PM: Join the Tennessee Titans Meetup group at Sidebar to watch the undefeated ballers try to hold onto the top spot. Rory & Dan say: “In case you forgot to check today's power ranking, Yes, We are still #1!”

MONDAY 11/17 @ 7:30PM: We don’t really count TX as part of the South but these bands are too cool to leave out. Centro-Matic + One Baptist General + South San Gabriel @ Mercury Lounge. Also, playing the following night (11/18) @ The Bell House in Bklyn.

MONDAY 11/17 @ 7:30PM: New Yorker Josh Joplin + Nashvillian Garrison Starr = Among The Oak & Ash. They play “Appalachian murder ballads” tonight @ Joe’s Pub.

TUESDAY 11/18: C-A-T-S!!!! CATS!!! CATS!!! CATS!!!
Darin Sergent, GM of Mercury Bar and UK Alum, is rallying the b-ball troops: “We have a HUGE basketball game against UNC (11/18) and a big season ahead of us Cat Fans so come on by Mercury Bar (493 3rd Ave, bet. 33rd & 34th St) for all the NCAA action going on with Billy ‘Clyde’ Gillespie and his team led by big man Patrick Patterson. We will be showing all games through the ESPN FullCourt Package throughout the season so you don’t have to miss a game here in the big city…being so far away from home!!!”

SPORT: SEC IN THE CITY: Football Game Watching Parties

Because No Dawg/Gator/Tiger Should Bark/Chomp/Roar Alone!

ALABAMA Crimson Tide @ the new Brother Jimmy's location in Murray Hill at the corner of Lexington Avenue & 31st Street.

ARKANSAS Razorbacks @ The Mad Hatter Saloon 360 Third Avenue at 26th Street.

AUBURN Tigers @ Meet at Bar 515 515 3rd Ave, between 34th & 35th

FLORIDA Gators @ The Gin Mill 442 Amsterdam Avenue at 81st St. AND Sidebar 120 East 15th Street at the corner of Irving Place AND Town Tavern 134 West Third Street.

GEORGIA Bulldogs @ Firefly Bar 54 Spring Street (Between Lafayette and Mulberry Streets)

KENTUCKY Wildcats @ Mercury Bar at 33rd and 3rd

LSU Tigers @ Legends 6 West 33rd Street, bet. 5th & 6th Ave (212)967-7792

OLE MISS Rebels @ XII Bar 206 East 34th Street (@ 3rd Ave)

MISSISSIPPI STATE Bulldogs @ Mercury Bar 493 3rd Avenue

SOUTH CAROLINA Gamecocks @ Copper Door Tavern 272 3rd Avenue (between 21st and 22nd Streets)

TENNESSEE Volunteers @ The Wharf Bar 587 Third Avenue

VANDERBILT Commodores @ Village Pourhouse 64 3rd Ave (at 11th St) AND Southern Hospitality 1460 2nd Ave (at 76th St) - please check the Vanderbilt Alumni website to see which bar each game will be playing at!

SPORT: TGIF - Thank God It’s Fall

UGA Alum Julie Camp Gears Up For A

Time Honored Southern Tradition

It’s a beautiful, crisp fall day in north Georgia. Every good Southern girl worth her salt is putting on her finest red and black dress for the day’s main event. Pearls and heels are followed by perfecting those blonde locks before stepping out of the house. To a regular ‘ol person this Southern belle might look ready for church – and in a way she is. But church is on Saturday afternoons and the cathedral is Sanford Stadium…after all, Georgia football is a religion!

To a Dawg there is nothing finer in the land than a Saturday in Athens, GA surrounded by friends and family watching the greatest football team play the greatest sport on Earth. Everyone dresses their best to salute their boys, but no one is afraid to get a little dirty during the tailgate.

As a Dawg myself, I begin counting down the days till football season in June. And even though I now call New York City my home, I’m not the least bit ashamed to dress in full red and black to support my boys come fall!

So as we prepare for Georgia’s first game this Saturday against GA Southern, I’d like to ask everyone – no matter your “religion” – to join me in the time honored tradition of calling the Dawgs.

Goooo….Dawgs! Sic’em! Woof, woof, woof!