Check into The Asylum – Guest blogger dishes on this Friday’s dopeness

Heads up, this week’s DOPE BOMB is launching straight off the editor’s desk, because, well, The Asylum.

Here’s what I know:

This Friday night (9 p.m.-1 a.m.) Elevator Projects, a crazy-creative arts collective co-founded by the supreme Raina Wirta (read her 225 profile here), will host The Asylum, a series of interactive art installations themed perfectly dark and demented for the Halloween season.

Creating one of these installations are LSU artists Hannah Dorsett and Emily Pontiff, who, despite being proud members of Team Dope, have been tight-lipped on the spooky shenanigans they are sure to unleash on us this Friday. Dorsett’s been using the #SisterMe hashtag when promoting the event, and those two words shouldn’t send chills down the spine, but I’ll be honest with you, my dopesters, they really do. This is TRUTH. And I can’t wait. Plus, I have the sneaking suspicion that your regular host Adrienne Connelly is involved in some secretly trill capacity—she always is—so there’s that. Not knowing exactly what’s in store at The Asylum is a huge part of the thrill for me, and should be for you too. Don’t ask too many questions on this one, brothers and sisters, just experience it. Add a dose of art to your Halloween vibe.

I do know that the Arts Council, including new executive director and current 225 cover boy Eric Holowacz has collaborated with Elevator Projects on this event, and local experimental rock band Moon Honey will provide a trippy soundtrack for the night’s frightful festivities by spinning the vinyl edition of its just-released album Hand-Painted Dream Photographs. Tin Roof is offering free brew, and the Taco de Paco truck will be cooking up its usual menu of dank late-night eats. BOOM.

Rarely have so many entities united for a single purpose, so The Asylum is not an event to miss. Adrienne would insert a well-placed “Obvi” right here. Tickets are $10, and the event is located at 1010 Nicholson Drive (Map it!). See all you gorgeous readers there. Dope editor, out!
—JEFF ROEDEL