Birthday Bash

 Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (better known to most as Arts Magnet High School) will host a 25th birthday party for itself May 26 at Gypsy Tea Room. It's the curtain-closing event of a Memorial Day weekend that will reunite every Booker T. Washington graduating class--or attempt to, at any rate. Among those graduates are Grammy winners Erykah Badu, trumpet player Roy Hargrove and gospel group God's Property. These acts will perform at the Tea Room along with The Munchpuppies featuring New Bohemians, Patrice Pike and the Black Box Rebellion, Shackleford Brown, Clumsy, The Burden Brothers, Flipside and Kristi Kruger, all of whom feature Arts Magnet alumni. The show kicks off at 4 p.m. and tickets are $35; call 1-888-597-7827 or head to www.startickets.com. It's steep, sure, but how often do you get to see three Grammy winners on the same bill? Exactly. Plus, most of the money goes toward building a new school, so it's worth the cash no matter if you're in for a good show or a good cause. (There will also be another, lower-profile Arts Magnet alumni show the night before at the Arts District Theater on Flora Street, with former students performing dance, music and theater pieces; tickets are $20 and available at the door.) The most remarkable thing about all this is that the show at the Tea Room features only a handful of the talent that's made its way through Booker T. Washington; they could have assembled a dozen different lineups without any of the same acts. It's only too bad Norah Jones couldn't make it...

Adventures of Jet and Darlington bassist Omar Yeefoon and a friend of his (who call themselves GoFast Promotion) have put together a shindig at the Red Blood Club on May 25 called, simply, the Rockabilly Revival, an all-day show with performances by Poison Okies, Mack Stevens, The Bop Kings, The Fabulous Harmonaires (Yeefoon's doo-wop vocal group), The Hotrod Hillbillies, The Susans, EO11 and Atomic Hillbilly. It's all part of GoFast's aim to support rockabilly, roots and punk rock in the area, genres (well, rockabilly, at least) that tend to get pushed to the margins around here. Yeefoon says there's going to be a barbecue in the afternoon, and they also plan to line Commerce Street with classic cars and hot rods for the duration. So if you're not into the bands playing, you can look at some purty cars. Or something like that. Not sure how much all this costs, but we bet you can afford it. If not, don't complain to us, because we're broke...

Lot of spots have weekly or monthly hip-hop nights--Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studio's every other Thursday get-together, hosted by Necessary Essentials; Evolutions Wednesdays at Inferno Lounge with DJs KP and VJ Smooth; Liquid Lounge's Final Friday and plenty more--and now you can add Milkbar to the list. The Lower Greenville bar joins the fray on May 30 with a night hosted by MYK (who's also performing with his group, the Burn Unit) that features Baby G, the Austin-based former DJ for locals Mad Flava and winner of the DMC World DJ Championships in 1990. Sounds like a good start; come early and stay late...

Hand stamps: Doosu performs at Good Records on May 25 at 4 p.m., followed by Secret Machines the next day, also at 4 p.m.; The Rocket Summer plays a rare show on May 24 at The Door; Warsaw, the Joy Division tribute band featuring members of the Toadies and Baboon, is at Liquid Lounge on May 23, with Fauxfox and DJ Kinetix; Macavity and Bee perform May 29 at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios; The Burden Brothers and Dead Sexy open for the Supersuckers on May 27 at the Ridglea Theater...