{"id":259,"date":"2014-01-01T21:47:23","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T21:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.welcometomilton.com\/congratulations\/?p=259"},"modified":"2024-02-27T16:58:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T16:58:53","slug":"beatnik-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welcometomilton.com\/congratulations\/beatnik-cafe\/","title":{"rendered":"Beatnik Caf\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">The popular Beatnik Caf\u00e9\u2014an evening of live entertainment, for and by the students\u2014has grown since \u00a01996. Eagerly anticipated by students, and fondly remembered by \u00a0grads, Beatnik always draws a full house.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Three times a year, students pack Straus Library, lounging on couches and beanbag chairs, feet dangling between rails of the second floor balcony, to see their classmates\u2019 artistic talents. Music of all kinds\u2014classic guitar, rap, rock, hip hop, acoustic\u2014along with original poetry readings and improv comedy round out the night\u2019s performances. Though most of the acts are by students, faculty members occasionally get in on the action, delighting with skills on the guitar, the piano or vocals.<\/p>\n<p>Beatnik shares the music and mood of a coffee house; it&#8217;s hosted \u00a0by the board of <em>Magus\/Mabus<\/em>, Milton\u2019s literary magazine. One former <em>Magus<\/em> board member says, \u201cAny event that taps into the vast supply of talent among Milton&#8217;s students \u00a0is going to be great, but Beatnik is unique because of its relaxed atmosphere. The emphasis is on having a good time, not putting on the best performance. There is always plenty of food, couches and friends to go around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smugmug.com\/gallery\/n-w7VPL6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View photos from the Beatnik Caf\u00e9<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1003\" src=\"http:\/\/www.welcometomilton.com\/congratulations\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/beatnik-cafe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.welcometomilton.com\/congratulations\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/beatnik-cafe.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.welcometomilton.com\/congratulations\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/beatnik-cafe-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.welcometomilton.com\/congratulations\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/beatnik-cafe-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The popular Beatnik Caf\u00e9\u2014an evening of live entertainment, for and by the students\u2014has grown since \u00a01996. Eagerly anticipated by students, and fondly remembered by \u00a0grads, Beatnik always draws a full house. Three times a year, students pack Straus Library, lounging on couches and beanbag chairs, feet dangling between rails of the second floor balcony, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welcometomilton.com\/congratulations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welcometomilton.com\/congratulations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welcometomilton.com\/congratulations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welcometomilton.com\/congratulations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welcometomilton.com\/congratulations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.welcometomilton.com\/congratulations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1443,"href":"https:\/\/www.welcometomilton.com\/congratulations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions\/1443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welcometomilton.com\/congratulations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welcometomilton.com\/congratulations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welcometomilton.com\/congratulations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}