Concerts and Theater

Friday night I went to the House of Blues for the first time. The food is good but the restaurant is a little loud for my taste. The concert venue very intimate but nice. It is really a good place to see a show. We saw Queensryche, the first time I have ever seen them. If you remember they had one album that got really big around 1990, EMPIRE. They played for about 2 1/2 hours so it was a good show. Of course they didn't play a single song off the empire album for the first hour and a half. Over all it was a good show, I wouldn't say that they would break into my top 5 concert events but it was worth seeing them. 

Saturday night we went to the Alley Theater to see a Tom Stoppard play called "Rock N Roll". It was in the lower theater and done in a theater in the round style. The stage was actually the floor and then the seats rose up around the stage. It was a story about Communist occupation in Prague from 1968 - 1990. It was very thought provoking, especially since you could see a lot of similarities between what the communist and socialist characters were talking about and what our current administration is trying to put in place.  Oops, I didn't mean to get political. 

Well, that was the beginning of the weekend, now I've got some ribs on the grill and family coming over. I think that family and entertainment are good ways to celebrate our freedoms on this Memorial Weekend.