Hi everyone,

Here's the latest gig news re the Rouge Records stable of artists!

THE JEWS BROTHERS BAND: 3 GIGS

1- GREY LYNN PARK FESTIVAL, AUCKLAND

Where : Grey Lynn Park, Manuka Stage ( middle field, opposite Rugby Club rooms )

When : Saturday November 17th, 4pm - 5pm
Featuring : the dazzling violin playing of James Sneyd!
Free Entry

2- FUEL FESTIVAL OF NZ MUSIC, HAMILTON

(part of a series of 3 cabaret concerts, The JBB/ The Lady Killers / Don McGlashan)

Where: Clarence St Theatre
When: JBB are Friday 30 Nov, Show begins at 8:15pm
Featuring :"Sid's Gonna Make you Big" and other JBB cabaret goodies!

Admission: $35 (table seating), $28 (balcony seating)

bookings 07-828-1111
counter sales - city libraries & WEL trust academy
www.ticketdirect.co.nz

3- SPECIAL CHANUKA CONCERT AUCKLAND

Where: One 2 One Cafe, 121 Ponsonby Rd
When : Wednesday December 5th, 8pm
Featuring: Chanuka! ( Jewish Chrismas! )

Door Sales : $15

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FRENCH TOAST : 2 GIGS

1. GREY LYNN PARK FESTIVAL

Where : Grey Lynn Park, Fiesta Stage ( by Williamson Ave.) When : Saturday November 17th, 9.30 am!

Featuring: An early start to the Grey Lynn festival! Grab a coffee from one of the coffee carts, catch us and then do the rounds ( it's good to get there early to avoid the crowds)

2. BEAUJOLAIS NOUVEAU 2007 CELEBRATION

(Be one of the first in the world to taste tthis year's Beaujolais Nouveau. 56 million bottles are air freighted all over the world!)

Where : PASTIS, corner Nelson and Victoria Streets

When : Thursday, November 15th, music starts 6.30pm and finishes 8.30pm ish

Featuring : A complimentary glass of the new Beaujolais.*! With your Prix Fixe 3 course dinner of "spécialités lyonnaises" , including coq au vin and bouchées a la reine! $49.95.

Dinner bookings essential (309-4264) or just come to the bar and get sloshed on beaujolais!

Remember the FRENCH TOAST trio is at PASTIS Bar & Bistro, providing great ambience, every Thursday 6.30 -8.30PM

* Note from a wine expert ( laurent bonamy): The Beaujolais Nouveau is the wine to celebrate the end of harvest.

The gamay grapes have been hand picked and undergone a carbonic fermentation process, which keeps the freshness and gives characters of blackcurrant, and lively on-the-nose banana and raspberry, suiting the great party mood.

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and last but not least.....

TWO KIWIANA SHOWS BY THE KIWIANA SHOW BAND

( That's Linn, Hershal and Anna Rugis)

1. TITIRANGI FOLK CLUB

Where : Titirangi Beach Hall. Beach Road, Titirangi
When : Saturday November 17th, Show starts 7.30pm

Featuring: The 25th performance of the Kiwiana cabaret show! (We're REALLY good at it now!)

And of course featuring Linn's Kiwi numbers.

More details : tricialee@xtra.co.nz

2. KIWIANA AT SHANGHAI LIL'S - an iconic show in a plush, rococo setting )-

Where : Shanghai Lil's , 133 Franklin Rd. Freemans Bay

When : Sunday November 25th, 6.30pm

Featuring : the grand piano! the sun frocks! the cardies! the three-part harmonies! Shanghai Lil's! ( see flyer below for a photo of the trio, Hersh is the one NOT in a sun-frock)

Door Sales : $20

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and now....drum roll..................

THE JEWS NEWS JEWISH JOKE SECTION

JEWISH HAIKU:

In case you've forgotten, Haiku is a Japanese poem of three lines:

line one contains 5 syllables;
line 2 -7 syllables,
line 3 - 5 syllables

Lacking fins or tail
the gefilte fish swims with
great difficulty.

Beyond Valium,
peace is knowing one's child
is an internist.

On Passover we
opened the door for Elijah.
Now our cat is gone.

After the warm rain
the sweet smell of camellias.
Did you wipe your feet?

Her lips near my ear,
Aunt Sadie whispers the name
of her friend's disease.

Today I am a man.
Tomorrow I will return
to the seventh grade.

Testing the warm milk
on her wrist, she sighs softly.
But her son is forty.

The sparkling blue sea
reminds me to wait an hour
after my sandwich.

Like a bonsai tree,
is your terrible posture
at my dinner table.

Jews on safari --
map, compass, elephant gun,
hard sucking candies

The same kimono
the top geishas are wearing:
I got it at Loehmann's.

The shivah visit:
so sorry about your loss.
Now back to my problems.

Mom, please! There is no
need to put that dinner roll
in your pocketbook.

Seven-foot Jews in
the NBA slam-dunking!
My alarm clock rings.

Sorry I'm not home
to take your call. At the tone
please state your bad news

Is one Nobel Prize
so much to ask from a child
after all I've done?

Today, mild shvitzing.
Tomorrow, so hot you'll plotz.
Five-day forecast: feh

Yenta. Shmeer. Gevalt.
Shlemiel. Shlimazl. Meshuganah
Oy! To be fluent!

Quietly murmured
at Saturday Synagogue services,
Yanks 5, Red Sox 3.

A lovely nose ring,
excuse me while I put my
head in the oven.

Hard to tell under the lights.
White Yarmulke or
male-pattern baldness.

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And since we're in an Eastern mode, here's some Jewish Buddhism for you:

If there is no self, whose arthritis is this?

Be here now.
Be someplace else later.
Is that so complicated?

Drink tea and nourish life;
with the first sip, joy;
with the second sip, satisfaction;
with the third sip, peace;
with the fourth, a Danish.

Wherever you go, there you are.
Your luggage is another story.

Accept misfortune as a blessing.
Do not wish for perfect health, or a life without problems.
What would you talk about?

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single Oy.

There is no escaping karma.
In a previous life,
you never called,
you never wrote,
you never visited.
And whose fault was that?

Zen is not easy.
It takes effort to attain nothingness.
And then what do you have?
Bupkis.

The Tao does not speak.
The Tao does not blame.
The Tao does not take sides.
The Tao has no expectations.
TheTao demands nothing of others.
The Tao is not Jewish.

Breathe in.
Breathe out.
Breathe in.
Breathe out.
Forget this and attaining Enlightenment will be the least of your problems.

Let your mind be as a floating cloud.
Let your stillness be as a wooded glen.
And sit up straight.
You'll never meet the Buddha with such rounded shoulders.

Deep inside you are ten thousand flowers.
Each flower blossoms ten thousand times.
Each blossom has ten thousand petals.
You might want to see a specialist.

Be aware of your body.
Be aware of your perceptions.
Keep in mind that not every physical sensation is a symptom of a terminal illness.

The Torah says,
Love your neighbor as yourself.
The Buddha says,
There is no self.
So, maybe we're off the hook.

SHALOM ALREADY

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