NIGHT & DAY

Sunday, March 28: Using a slide projector instead of a guitar and a monologue rather than songs, bar performer Andy Friedman tours as relentlessly as any band. He hopes, he wrote in a recent e-mail, "to bring a live, poetic forum to the visual arts." While that kind of talk belies the man's lumberjack whiskers and baseball cap, he's serious, or at least he's seriously been winning over audiences with his slideshow for two solid years. The projected images are of Friedman's drawings, Polaroids of places he's been, and the occasional semi-artistic naked lady: perfect for luring barstool warmers into the art world. Friedman takes the stage as part of the "Songbird Series" at 6PM at the Bazaar Cafe, 5927 California St.

--Joyce Slaton