Yid Vicious

Art in the cafe...

Laurel Statz


"The Spectator"


December 2025



Laurel Statz is a painter and Madison area native. Her work, while figurative, is influenced by abstraction and minimalism. The paintings often have a quick and instinctual nature, capturing just what’s needed. While she often times herself to eliminate extra details and over-precision, she has ventured into more detailed works as well. Laurel does not attach narrative to her pieces. Rather, she thinks of them like a journaling process for her scatter-brained psyche. The figures in the pieces are meant to be processing tools for the artist and the viewer. She hopes that seeing these figures helps the...
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Ruth Comfort


"The Metaphysical Affect"


January 2026



A diverse collection of mixed mediums, extensively encapsulating my heart and soul concerning the dreams of the human condition. ARTISAN RUTH COMFORT My given name is Ruth Comfort. Named after the amazing artist Louis Comfort Tiffany. I hail from a very long line of artisans and musicians. Even dating back to the great German philosopher...
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Friday, January 22, 2016
8:00 pm

Twenty years old. It's an awkward stage, what some societies call a 'quarter-life crisis.' At loose ends, it's hard to decide whether to stay in school pursuing a major in environmental geology, move to the organic anarcho-syndicalist turnip farm in Vermont that your eleventh grade girlfriend told you about, or move back into your parents' place and do Minecraft stuff while you write your novel about angst and Minecraft.

It's a tough time for Yid Vicious.

BUT, it's also almost Groundhog Day, and Yid Vicious never misses a Groundhog Day!

As per usual, this will occur at Mother Fool's, the birthplace of the Annual Yid Vicious Groundhog Day Midwinter Kleztacular, at which present and former and occasional members of the Yid Vicious Team team up for an evening of playing, singing, klezmering, and remembering.

Also, coffee. Really good coffee.

Join us, won't you? We really need help to, you know, work it out.

6$ adults! Kids free! Cheap!

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