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Cover is going to be $8 or $15 with a CD

can't pass that deal up!

The bands drum/guitar tech isn't able to cross into Canada and so the band is looking for someone local.

The show is Sept. 2 at Lee's Palace

please e mail leah@vanderpark.com if interested

Thanks

Great Idea!

Vanderpark would be happy to help out as well, with organizing and playing

How much is the show and when does it start??

Doors open at 8pm, show starts at 9pm

its $34.50 in advance and $40.00 at the door

Tickets are available at: Rotate This, Sonic Temple, Shanti Baba

Good times

the show is still on, and its going to be a good one!!

don't miss out

I missed the last two shows, but I've been waiting forever for Michelle to get set home.. Im just glad she is gone

tonight!! whose excited?

great thanks, I sent you an e mail!

I'm looking to get in touch with the Sanzwill band, do they have a website, or are there members that post here? The weblink on jambands only takes me to some pictures.

Thanks for your help

Vanderpark hits the stage at 11pm, and after their set wer are giving away a brand new guitar... and you are entered just for showing up.. no cover, just bring a can of food

tomorrow night!

only two more days to buy your non-perishable food items

only one week away!

Palestinian President Yasser Arafat has died, top official says

26 minutes ago

RAVI NESSMAN

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - Yasser Arafat (news - web sites), who triumphantly forced his people's plight into the world spotlight but failed to achieve his lifelong quest for Palestinian statehood, died Thursday at age 75. He was to the end a man of many mysteries and paradoxes - terrorist, statesman, autocrat and peacemaker.

Canadian Press Photo

Palestinian cabinet member Saeb Erekat confirmed to The Associated Press that Arafat had died. The Palestinian leader spent his final days in a coma at a French military hospital outside Paris. Arafat died in intensive care at 3:30 a.m. local time, a French military hospital spokesman confirmed Thursday.

"Mr. Yasser Arafat, president of the Palestinian Authority (news - web sites), has died at the Percy Military Training Hospital in Clamart on Nov. 11, 2004 at 3:30," hospital spokesman Gen. Christian Estripeau told reporters.

Arafat, 75, was flown to Paris on Oct. 29 for treatment of an undisclosed illness. He fell into a coma a week later and was put on a life support machine.

Arafat's last days were as murky and dramatic as his life. Flown to France on Oct. 29 after nearly three years of being penned in his West Bank headquarters by Israeli tanks, he initially improved but then sharply deteriorated as rumours swirled about his illness.

Top Palestinian officials flew in to check on their leader while Arafat's 41-year-old wife, Suha, publicly accused them of trying to usurp his powers. Ordinary Palestinians prayed for his well being, but expressed deep frustration over his failure to improve their lives.

Arafat's failure to groom a successor complicated his passing, raising the danger of factional conflict among Palestinians.

A visual constant in his checkered keffiyeh headdress, Arafat kept the Palestinians' cause at the centre of the Arab-Israeli conflict. But he fell short of creating a Palestinian state, and, along with other secular Arab leaders of his generation, he saw his influence weakened by the rise of radical Islam in recent years.

Revered by his own people, Arafat was reviled by others. He was accused of secretly fomenting attacks on Israelis while proclaiming brotherhood and claiming to have put terrorism aside. Many Israelis felt the paunchy 5-foot-2 Palestinian's real goal remained the destruction of the Jewish state.

Arafat became one of the world's most familiar faces after addressing the United Nations (news - web sites) General Assembly in New York in 1974, when he entered the chamber wearing a holster and carrying a sprig. "Today I have come bearing an olive branch and a freedom fighter's gun," he said. "Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand."

Two decades later, he shook hand at the White House with Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin (news - web sites) on a peace deal that formally recognized Israel's right to exist while granting the Palestinians limited self-rule in the West Bank and Gaza Strip (news - web sites). The pact led to the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize for Arafat, Rabin and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres.

But the accord quickly unravelled amid mutual suspicions and accusations of treaty violations, and a new round of violence that erupted in the fall of 2000 has killed some 4,000 people, three-quarters of them Palestinian.

The Israeli and U.S. governments said Arafat deserved much of the blame for the derailing of the peace process. Even many of his own people began whispering against Arafat, expressing disgruntlement over corruption, lawlessness and a bad economy in the Palestinian areas.

A resilient survivor of war with Israel, assassination attempts and even a plane crash, Arafat was born Rahman Abdel-Raouf Arafat Al-Qudwa on Aug. 4, 1929, the fifth of seven children of a Palestinian merchant killed in the 1948 war over Israel's creation. There is disagreement whether he was born in Gaza or in Cairo, Egypt.

Educated as an engineer in Egypt, Arafat served in the Egyptian army and then started a contracting firm in Kuwait. It was there that he founded the Fatah (news - web sites) movement, which became the core of the Palestine Liberation Organization (news - web sites).

After the Arabs' humbling defeat by Israel in the six-day war of 1967, the PLO thrust itself on the world's front pages by sending its gunmen out to hijack airplanes, machine-gun airports and seize Israeli athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics (news - web sites).

"As long as the world saw Palestinians as no more than refugees standing in line for UN rations, it was not likely to respect them. Now that the Palestinians carry rifles the situation has changed," Arafat explained.

Vanderpark presents: Funk for Food, a food drive for the Daily Bread Food Bank

Come out on Nov. 19th, 2004 and show your support for those in need of food during the holiday season in Toronto

Funk for Food details:

feat. Vanderpark, Sweet F.A. , Mark Feldman Band and Ted's Trio

Friday, November 19th, 2004 Doors: 8pm

Clinton's Tavern, 693 Bloor St. W

Cover: non-perishable food items

this event features great music and great prizes including a brand new Gibson Epiphone Acoustic Guitar

For more information, please e-mail theband@vanderpark.com

Hope to see you all there!

this is just a test...

if you think he is a dreamboat on an everyday basis, you should see him as wonder woman!

don't miss out, great times!

cheap drink, games, prizes and GREAT music!

I went t BC last Feb and loved it... that is where my heart is... the place is just amazing, and the people are also great.

COME TO HOLY JOES

651 Queen St. E, Queen and Bathurst

3rd floor of the big bop

FREE SHOW FREE SHOW FREE SHOW

Feat. VANDERPARK 10:30

Tricia Soltys and Lauren Sweetman 9:30

Dave Mansell 9pm

I think someone who shows determination is very attactive.

... as far as looks.. I like the preppy look..

Hey everyone!

I'm putting together a food drive concert, we are calling it 'FUNK FOR FOOD'. Instead of cover people will donate non-perishable food items. We will also be running food drives throughout the week to go along with the food drive, but the concert is the main event.

Anyhow, I am looking for one more band to be on the bill for this show. Its at Clinton's Tavern on Friday, November 19th, 2004

if you are interested, please e mail me at leah@vanderpark.com and I can give you more details.

Thanks,

Leah

Whats everyone gonna be for halloween?

Great, thanks so much!!! ::