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Eva X North Eastern US (and Toronto) mini-tour May 2024
May 18 - Handlebar - Toronto, ON
May 21 - TBC - Cincinnati, OH
May 22 - Fallen Log - Chicago, IL
May 23 - Small's - Detroit, MI
May 24 - Cattivo - Pittsburgh, PA
May 25 - Little Mutants - Lancaster, PA
Volla really needs to hire/assign some staff for their support forum The large pile of unanswered questions there does not inspire confidence in their product.
Maybe it's better in the German-language forums.

Johnny Dynamite & The Bloodsuckers tour
Not very familiar with this band, but sounds interesting
Johnny Dynamite and the Bloodsuckers
March 29 New York, NY @ TV Eye
April 07 Roanoke, VA @ The Spot on Kirk
April 08 Asheville, NC @ Different Wrld
April 11 Miami, FL @ Gramps
April 13 Tampa, FL @ Hooch and Hive
April 16 New Orleans, LA @ Siberia
April 17 Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall
April 18 Dallas, TX @ Ruins
April 19 San Antonio, TX @ Vice Versa Coffee & Vinyl Records
April 23 Denver, CO @ Hi-Dive
April 25 Las Vegas, NV @ The Griffin
April 26 San Diego, CA @ Whistle Stop
April 27 Los Angeles, CA @ Permanent Records Roadhouse
April 29 San Francisco, CA @ Kilowatt Bar
May 02 Sacramento, CA @ Cafe Colonial
May 03 Reno, NV @ Lo-Bar Social
May 10 Chicago, IL @ Burlington Bar
May 13 Toronto, ON @ The Lounge at the Drake Hotel
May 15 Montréal, QC @ Casa Del Popolo
May 16 Portsmouth, NH @ Press Room
May 17 New Haven, CT @ Cafe Nine
May

CD Ghost tour
Apr 11 El Paso, TX, US @ Rosewood Bar
Apr 12 San Antonio, TX, US @ Paper Tiger
Apr 13 Austin, TX, US @ Elysium
Apr 14 Dallas, TX, US @ Cheap Steaks
Apr 15 Memphis, TN, US @ Growlers
Apr 16 Nashville, TN, US @ The Cobra Nashville
Apr 17 Charlotte, NC, US @ Snug Harbor
Apr 18 Baltimore, MD, US @ Metro Baltimore
Apr 19 Brooklyn, NY, US @ Saint Vitus Bar
Apr 20 Philadelphia, PA, US @ Kung Fu Necktie
Apr 23 Montreal, QC, Canada @ Casa Del Popolo
Apr 24 Toronto, ON, Canada @ The Baby G
Apr 25 Detroit, MI, US @ Lager House
Apr 26 Chicago, IL, US @ Subterranean
Apr 27 Lawrence, KS, US @ Replay Lounge
Apr 28 Denver, CO, US @ The HQ
Apr 30 Salt Lake City, UT, US @ The DLC (Quarters Arcade Bar)
May 2 Spokane, WA, US @ The Big Dipper
May 3 Seattle, WA, US @ Fun House
May 4 Portland, OR, US @ Mano Oculta
May 6 San Francisco, CA, US @ Kilowatt
1998 isn't "originally" when Lycos started in 1994. That 1998 snapshot would be their "portal" era, I'd imagine.
And the page where you submitted your website to Lycos -- that's no different than what Google used to have. It just submitted your website to the spider. There's no indication in that snapshot that suggests that it would get your site added to a curated web-directory.
Those late 90's web-portal sites were a pale imitation of the web indices that Yahoo, and later DMoz/ODP were at their peak. I imagine that the Lycos portal, for example, was only managed/edited by a small handful of Lycos employees, and they were moving as fast as they could in the direction of charging websites for being listed in their portal/directory. The portal fad may have died out before they got many companies to pony up for listings.
I think in the Lycos and AltaVista cases, they were both search engines originally (mid 90s) and than jumped on the "portal" bandwagon in the late 90s with half-assed efforts that don't deserve to be held up as examples of something we might want to recreate.
Yahoo and DMoz/ODP are the only two instances I am aware of that had a significant (like, numbered in the thousands) number of websites listed, and a good level of depth.
Lycos, Excite, AltaVista, and of course Yahoo all were originally web directories of this sort.
Both Wikipedia and my own memory disagree with you about Lycos and AltaVista. I'm pretty sure they both started as search engines. Maybe they briefly dabbled in being "portals".

Riki tour
(I'm not a promoter) This is coming to a city near me. Will probably be there.
Riki profile (not directly linked on that tour page, for some stupid reason): https://groundcontroltouring.com/artists/riki
Discuss.
Do Wangs count? Not sure if they were designed for office/business tasks, but I think they were marketed for office/business tasks.
I saw the "electrek.co" in the overview and thought "that sounds the website of an electric bike manufacturer/seller", but I clicked it anyways, not realizing what I should expect.
I should have known it would be a lame "Bet you didn't know all these wonderful benefits to this product we're selling" article.
(Apparently they're technically not a manufacturer/seller, but it's definitely a shill article)
This is SB-799. If I read that bill-tracker page correctly, it passed (?).